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Good morning everybody! 🙂
Hope you’re all having a good Monday!
In my quest to be a more active member (and to post sober more often), I’ll continue conforming and update you all on my, admittedly boring, week! 😀
I spent a large amount of this past week pants less as my sister is off gallivanting around Europe for 2 weeks, leavibg me home alone quite a bit.
I re-evaluated my life plan also, deciding to move to Melbourne once I finish uni in the hopes of getting a job at the EA office’s there(don’t judge me!), seeing as how there is little to no viable positions in the gaming industry in Perth, let alone most of Australia. This won’t be till the end of next year however.
I watched Frozen for the first time on Saturday. Overall I really enjoyed it. Easily in my top 10 movies, but not good enough to crack the top 5. All the songs were really good, the detailing was amazing, and the characters and voice acting were spot on too. Olaf was kinda annoying though. I also realised that I was practically in a man date with my sisters boyfriend while watching it :S
Shame too, it would have been a good date with someone else (home made pizza, good movie, home made desert) 😉
Lastly I decided to buy myself a Wii U since I’ve been in the Nintendo mood lately. Being a good little uni boy though I’m waiting till after my exams to buy it.
And that’s my week! I’ll be the first to point out that I am not interesting 😛
Hope everyone has / had a good week! 😀
Sounds like a good weekend. BUY MARIO KART 8 for imminent fun times!
I probably will 😀
Now all I need is internet so I can actually play with others :S
Says he doesn’t have internet.
On the internet.
3G from my phone 😛
I’m burning through credit like nobodies business :S
I haven’t had internet internet for almost 2 months now :S
You poor, poor man.
nice, I’m with DC get Mario Kart for all the fun. I’m getting a Wii U too, probably the Kart bundle and I’ll redeem Pikmin 3. Keep an eye out for good Wii U deals and I’ll do the same 😀
Pikmin 3 remains my favourite game on the Wii U by far, followed by Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze! Zombi U is pretty damn cool as a concept too!
I’m gonna get that bundle too, still haven’t decided which free game I want yet though.
Favourite song from Frozen?
Fixer-Upper is mine. Let It Go is about fifth on my list.
Easily For the First Time in Forever (Reprise) for me!
Mines probably The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway one (don’t know if that’s it’s name).
It would be the Let’s Build a Snowman one, but that’s far too sad and made me feel sad :'(
That would be Let It Go.
Sounds similar to my Saturday. Mrs Tigs and I did date night on Saturday so I grabbed some take away chinese food and we watched Frozen.
Sunday was baby classes and then out to the in-laws for mothers day family get together, Got given a bunch more baby stuff, a number of really cute blankets. Basic dinner and i watched Criken’s fun house and Titan dropouts before cleaning and doing some work
Wii U club! \o/
I thought your life plan was to move to Hollywood and rule over us all? Drunk posts don’t lie, Liondrive.
When the hell did I mention Hollywood, hahaha!?!?!
I must’ve been drinking something strooooooong 😉
You’ll find out all about heavy drinking first hand come March next year 😉
Gutsoup completed Child Of Light
though the writing was a tad shite
He rather enjoyed Aurora’s plight
If there were a sequel he’d continue the fight.
NO.MORE.RHYMING. >=(
Hahaha, by the end of the game I was skim reading the writing and the rhyming didn’t even jump out any more.
Hey, you should totally write for the sequel, coz that’s better than anything in the game, up to where I’m at at least (I’m assuming it doesn’t get any better).
I swear it gets worse, :/
Worse than… the intro? I watched that after installing it and was a bit thin-lipped. (Haven’t played any further than that, saving it for the weeknights.)
Master race needs to mod that game so the writing isn’t so terrible.
Gooood Morning everyone! How was your weekend?
Mine wasn’t too bad, didn’t do much Saturday, Sunday did the whole Mother’s Day thing, got the missus breakfast in bed, went for a drive, played some Mini-Golf and went out for tea.
Didn’t get much gaming in though, but I’ve got another day off today, so I’m gonna do as much of that as possible today.
What about you guys?
My weekend was full of dishes.
But it was also full of Mothers’ Day loot so on balance I guess it was good. 😀
Weekend was good! Played a lot of Hearthstone, charming little game. Its tempting me into falling off the WoW bandwagon..
I didn’t have any gaming planned, but the humble bundle sale with Saints Row, Dead Island, Metro 33 etc. for pay-what-you-want has ensured the rest of my week is now eaten up.
I missed all these the first time round.
I finished Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect on the weekend. Now I’m anxious for Tex Murphy 7. Luckily they decided not to end on a cliff hanger this time, though. They’re learning! THEY’RE LEARNING!
Not perfect game, but amazing for what it was and the budget it was made on!
I just looked at how much they raised and I must say they did pretty well with only about half a million of Kickstarter funding.
I’ve completed the first day. Took me nearly two hours as I’m an idiot.
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Freeze, this will either reassure you or confirm I’m an idiot too…
I GOT STUCK AT EXACTLY THE SAME PLACE FOR EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME. XD
I also watched Saving Mr. Banks last night and totally cried, man. Amazing movie. :’)
How much did the trailer spoil?
MONDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY *shakes fist*
Had a nice day yesterday! On Friday, my four year old finished reading/listening to her first really ‘big’ book: Roald Dahl’s Matilda, so we decided to celebrate by buying her a copy of the movie, and we watched it as a family yesterday afternoon.
In less good news, my publisher has decided not to publish The Game, so it looks like I’ll be self-publishing that one. That’s a big disappoint, and feels like a huge step backwards, which is particularly upsetting because I think it’s my best work.
I really do love that Matilda movie. You did good, Shane.
Sorry to hear about the publisher, though. 🙁
The movie was pretty good, but I definitely prefer the book. Though the book has subtleties that wouldn’t have worked in the fast-paced visual medium of film.
Did your daughter like it, buddy?
I follow Mara Wilson on twitter. It’s kind of surreal. XD
She loved it. \o/
Well done on the reading, my son’s almost 6 and struggles with basic books, he reads them by looking at the pictures.
I’ve never watched (or read) Matilda, I’ve seen ads for it when it’s been on TV and that girl shits me to tears, she just makes me want to punch her in the face. That said, I’d probably like the book, loved every Roald Dahl book I’ve ever read particularly Revolting Rhymes. I also remember actually going to listen to him read from one of his books at the Festival Theatre in Adelaide when I was in primary school. Can’t for the life of me remember which book he read though.
Sucks about the publisher man, if/when you decide to try and get some funding for it, just say the word and I’ll put in as much as I can, which probably won’t be a hell of a lot, but hey every little bit helps.
Thanks – it’ll only cost between $200-300 to get it published, and then it’ll be available to purchase from the usual places: Book Depository, Amazon, etc.
I dunno if you’re considering this or not given the recent experience, but I wonder if it’s worth kickstarting? You wouldn’t need to have a big goal from the sound of it…
I am considering it, but honestly, it just seems easier to take it upon myself, and try to make the money back through sales.
Fair enough, it seems like the initial outlay isn’t too big at least.
Damn man, you’re not having the best run of literary luck lately. Can you not shop the game around to other potential publishers?
Given that it’s book 4 in an ongoing series, I strongly suspect it would be a waste of time 🙂
Games have done okay jumping publishers, wouldn’t hurt to ask would it?
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Games with large devoted audiences, sure. With no undue self-deprecation or anything, my active fanbase is almost entirely comprised of a subsection of TAY.
Roald Dahl is the business.
Good morning all. My weekend was pretty good as I went to a wedding of two good friends of mine. They are huge Star Wars fans so there’s was lots of in-jokes among the decorations and the cake and what not. They even managed to get two guys from the 501st Redback Legion to attend the wedding in full stormtrooper armour. It was pretty dorky awesome.
Aside from that, not much else. Mother’s day was good and relaxed even though I didn’t get her a present. Thankfully she didn’t bite my head off as I made her a nice lunch. I played some Payday 2 after that to try out the sniper DLC and that’s pretty fun although I think I’ve now spent more on DLC than what I paid for the original game. :S
And I see Kotaku still has the posting errors. Le sigh.
Hey guys, trying to get more involved after just lurking around.
Not much happened this week, did mothers day stuff, researched build parts for a gaming PC. I have never had a PC good enough to game with and would love to build one. May post the build list latter to fetch a few final details of help.
Played a lot of FIFA 14 this week, after losing to my 14 year old cousin the other day. Challenged my manhood and I didn’t like it.
How is everyone else doing?
Want some rye? Course ya do!
Welcome to TAY man.
One of us.
Can I ask why you are a brutal toad? Is it a pop-culture reference I don’t get or is it more a story unique to you?
My bet is on a reference to the difficulty of battletoads
I would totally play the shit out of a spiritual successor called Brutaltoads.
@brutaltoad should totally do an AMA.
I couldn’t get my xbox gamertag username on a steam account, so I thought of two of my favourite games, Halo and Mario. Originally came up with toad the brute (cause lets be honest toad is a brute look at the size of him) then decided that brutal toad sounded better. Was one of those, I need a username now moments and I also don’t like numbers in usernames of my own.
With you on the no numbers thing! I went out of my way to make up a stupid gamertag so nobody else would want it and I could have no numbers.
I don’t really like my Gamertag, but every time I think of something to change it to it’s friggin’ taken.
…aww 🙁
I was almost going to apologise to you and Numbers, but I didn’t. 😛
D:
I hear you on that one. To avoid the numbers thing, I took upon the alias of ‘Saucepan of Life.’ I realised that was dumb, and changed it to something stupider.
TIP: Use as few vowels as possible.
Hola Tay
I had a busy weekend- went to the football on Saturday at Adelaide Oval, which is a great, great venue for it, and up to Tanunda for a 2nd birthday party on Sunday (trying to get the kid on Duplo, because I’m a
badawesome influence. Manged to escape doing most of the Mother’s day stuff as my mother is currently in Ireland.A Monday morning Question: Best Videogame mothers?
Crono’s mother… I swear that world would’ve been doomed if she didn’t persistently wake up Crono that first day!
Depends what you mean by “best”, most badass for me would have to be Flemeth.
Adelaide Oval looks to have come up really good from what I have seen from here in Melbourne. Much needed improvement over Aami.
AAMI was OK, but Adelaide Oval is pretty damn special
Damn you brigands and your Portress.
Kinda tricking the system but Fire Emblem. Everyone is a good mother.
Honestly, the only one I can think of is Crono’s mother. She’s nice to his friends, and gives him all the freedom he could possibly want. But she doesn’t come to his trial, so maybe she just doesn’t give a fuck… which would make her a not particularly good mother.
Well to be fair, wouldn’t she have to have gone through a monster-infested forest to attend? Seems like a dick move to not have patrols keeping traffic routes safe, a sure sign of a corrupt government. Apart from y’know… the whole secretly being monsters thing.
Earthbound – Eat some steak and scoot up to bed!
Not sure what is going on here though.
Pokemom! The creepy old guy next door wants to send her son to see another creepy old guy in the next town and wants him to go all alone and she’s such a rad mother she’s totally cool with it.
Hang on a second….
Not to mention the mother from Pokemon gold and silver would constantly steal your money and spend it on shiny things. And the mother from Sapphire/Ruby/Emerald forced you to remain inside the moving van alongside the furniture. And the mother from Red/Blue/Green/Yellow kicked you out of the house at 10 because she saw it on TV. But hey, the mother from Gold/Silver makes great Cinnibar Volcano Burgers, apparently.
I dunno about best. Normally they’re side characters.
One interesting one I thought of is Miranda in Grandia III. She’s a playable character, one of the strongest party members early on, and she’s the protagonist’s mother.
That one is easy. The best video game mother is clearly mine.
I know that’s not what you meant, but it’s the right answer anyway.
Samus is the best mum.
Elaine Yesterday from the point and click adventure game Yesterday.
http://youtu.be/HK3pewaxXcQ?t=2m25s
(2:225 – 4:10)
Man, I missed out on the whole Fifa revolution, due to a lack of interest in football and massive interest in basketball.
I have gotten so in to it lately and been having so much fun playing seasons mode online. The big plus it has over NBA2K online is that it is actually playable due to manageable (if any) lag. Plus, the ecstasy from scoring a goal (when you’re pretty amateur like me) is just great.
Also, wondering if anyone shares this problem with their Xbone…
Sometimes when I go to turn it on now, I tap the on button on the console and it makes the noise, lights up then immediately turns off. If I try turn it on with the controller it just does nothing. I have to disconnect and reconnect the power brick cords and then it usually works. Once it’s on, I’ve had no problems at all with it.
Hope y’all had nice weekends!
I know what you mean, I used to be massively into basketball, haven’t watched since around Michael Jordan retired (for the second time), so I probably wouldn’t know most of the players these days.
Got FIFA 14 on my Xbone, but am still yet to play it.
Can’t say I’ve had that problem with my Xbone, a few times I’ve pressed the button on the controller and the console hasn’t turned on and I have to press the power button on the console itself, but that’s about it.
Damn. If it persists I think I will just send it off for inspection/repair before all these good looking games come out in spring.
I’m still a huge bball fan, watch every game of the playoffs on League Pass, etc. But the joy in NBA2K for me was playing against a mate, sat in the same room. I moved from NZ to AU 3 years ago and now don’t have too many friends here who are big on both NBA and gaming so I’ve moved on.
I guess I also like Fifa, because although I’m not a big football fan, I grew up in the UK and have been a lifelong Manchester United fan, so I can appreciate the sport. Honestly, has been so enjoyable at times (and also rage inciting – which is great.)
I shaved yesterday. I hate shaving. being clean shaven is the worst.
So I bought myself an electric beard trimmer dealy. *decisive nod*
Here’s hoping clean shaven is something for the history books now. 😛
And now you have a whizzbang electrical thing to take care of your beard for you, you’ll have more time to write long Year Of The Hermit updates, right? 😛
I was thinking of relaunching in June. Mentally focus on writing things of substance.
Don’t hold me to that, though. 😛
Oh, I will.
DC WRITE! WRITE LIKE THE WIND!
So … relaunch party at @dc’s place?
Don’t take this as advice as such, just I read this the other day and what you said reminded me.
A thing by Scott Adams:
“The other day I put on my workout clothes and drove to the gym. But when I arrived I didn’t feel like working out. This was not a huge surprise, since I didn’t feel peppy before I even laced up my running shoes. Perhaps I hadn’t gotten enough sleep that week. I wasn’t sure what the problem was. I ate lunch in the snack bar then drove home and took a nap.
Question: Did I fail at my exercise goal?
Your answer will say a lot about you. But I’ll warn you that it’s a trick question. The trick is that I didn’t have an exercise goal in the first place, so I couldn’t have failed to reach it. What I do have is an exercise system, and I was completely successful at the system. My philosophy is that losers have goals and winners have systems.
In this case, my system is that I attempt to exercise five times a week around lunchtime. And I always allow myself the option of driving to the gym then turning around and going home. What I’ve discovered is that the routine of preparing to exercise usually inspires me to go through with it even if I didn’t start out in the mood. This particular day, my body wasn’t going to cooperate. No problem. The system of attempting to exercise worked as planned. I didn’t have a trace of guilt about driving home. I’ve used this system for my entire adult life. I see exercise as a lifestyle, not an objective.
If I had a goal instead of a system, I would have failed that day. And I would have felt like a loser. That can’t be good for motivation. That failure might be enough to prevent me from going to the gym the next time I don’t feel 100%, just to avoid the risk of another failure.”
— Scott Adams, Author of Dilbert
I share that feeling. I think I’ve been clean shaven 3, maybe 4 times in the last 11 years. Once for a girl (didn’t have the desired effect), once because I was bored and once more because I thought it might’ve been a good idea at the time. Each time I felt like a pre-pubescent boy.
I use my hair clippers though to keep my beard under control. One of the best investments I’ve made
Trailer for the Constantine TV series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPE2oBnzROY
Yep, I’m in.
Can’t watch at the moment but Constantine as in Hellblazer?
Yup.
And this time, he’s British and looks a bit like Sting, as it should be!
Above trailer is a little tell, don’t show, but I’d expect that from a pilot
Wow, never been interested in it up until now. That trailer looks awesome.
Dark Souls 2.
Where I actually progress but am still a noob.
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Hardcore!
http://i.imgur.com/Gq7yjeZ.gif
Yikes! You’re a brave one for choosing Deprived.
Don’t forget that upgrading your weapons is usually way more effective than leveling up if you already have the stats required for the gear you like.
See I was considering doing that but I horde materials like you wouldn’t believe. I didn’t even consume any random souls until after the first boss and that was about 4,000 right there. So yeah, I need to get out of my “store everything because you might need it later” mentality.
I mainly chose Deprived because I liked starting from level 1 and allocating stats that way. It gave me more options to allocate points as I needed rather than being locked into a set base level of stuff.
I didn’t consume any random souls until after the final boss… Nothing wrong with hoarding.
EDIT : Meant to be reply to Red Dragon (Kotaku still a bit screwy for comments)
Yeah Adelaide Oval is awesome isn’t it, really well set out, easy to get in and out of, bloody good viewing and lots of bars. I spent my first game under the old scoreboard on the hill the other weekend and it was nearly as good as it used to be for watching cricket from (not nearly as many drunks though)!!
Tanunda is my neck of the woods mate, I lived there for 8 years (just moved to a new place about 6km away recently).
Hmmmmmm, video game mothers hey…………must be Monday because I am really struggling to think of a good one not already mentioned…..(let me get back to you on that one)
6km away? Nuri?
Nah to Greenock mate, I work in Nuri though.
I see you are familiar with the Barossa layout, are you from these parts ?
Kapunda.
Aunt lives in Greenock, I used to work at the community store 🙂
Ha, nice mate, small world and all that.
if only split screen coop was still a thing then we could hook up for some couch coop !! (lol)
Heh. I’ve moved to Adelaide, but I still have a couple friends up there.
All good, most of my mates moved on from Barossa to either Adelaide or interstate as well, just not enough opportunities here for them. But as a bonus I’ve got plenty of places to stay whenever I need though so that’s a good thing.
I want to get in as much gaming as possible today, I pulled a bunch of games out of my 360 collection at random, but I’m not sure what to play, help me.
South Park: TSoT (almost finished)
Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 (about halfway through)
Red Faction: Armageddon (didn’t finish Gorilla)
Ride To Hell: Retribution
Hellboy: The Science Of Evil
Deadly Premonition and
Onechanbara: Binkini Samurai Squad
What should I play first?
Deadly Premonition.
Finish South Park, buddy!
I … I thought you made up that game until I googled it just now. Not really surprised though because Japan.
There’s a movie too! It’s…. something.
Oh I must see this. I rented the game for a joke that didn’t pan out (it’s not a great game).
Edit: Like… I think I returned the game early.
Come to the next soon to be organised as soon as I get my shot together Freeze meat. I have it here.
I bought that game for Mr. Strange. It was fun but nothing great.
It’s not just a game, it’s a whole series!
They’re all pretty bad but that’s kind of to be expected since they were part of the Simple series. D3 Publisher did a whole long series of games in the PS1 through current eras where they made cheap games on a shoestring budget and sold them at a low price (eg the original Simple series was Simple 1500 because the games were 1500 yen which is about $15-20 – most new release games are 5000+ there).
Most of them were complete crap but a few stood out. In particular, those were the Onechanbara games (which are still terrible) and more importantly, The Chikyuu Boueigun, a.k.a. Earth Defense Force, which are the best bad games ever.
Side note: another company, Success, did a similar thing to Simple Series with their SuperLite low-budget games. Their output was a lot less hit & miss though since they published some excellent visual novels under that label, including Remember11 and Ever17 by the Zero Escape guy, and Akai Ito and Aoishiro, the latter of which I think is still my favorite of all of the VNs I’ve played.
I’m enjoying Splinter Cell atm.
Ride to Hell: Retribution. No wait, don’t play that. KILL IT WITH FIRE.
I would say finish Stick of Truth. I am curious about that last option though but I will definitely not google that while at work.
OK, I think I’m gonna finish South Park (should only take a few hours), and then move straight onto Deadly Premonition.
Thanks for the help guys.
I played a demo of Red Faction: Guerilla and it seemed really fun but I never tried the full game. I got Armageddon in the Volition Humble Bundle/fire sale and grew extremely bored with it after an hour. I tried pushing through and probably got 4 hours or so in, but it didn’t really get more interesting.
You know what? I’ve never seen Frozen and I hope I never do. I may have watched it eventually but now just seeing the words “Frozen” or “Let It Go”are enough to make me cringe due to over-exposure.
Also, that tilting window over the side here on the “Recently On Gizmodo…” box is all kinds of NOPE.
Things only get over exposed cause they resonate with people though.
But I hate people! 😛
Me too, atleast we can bond over that! 😛
That’s exactly how I feel about game of thrones. It’s the only thing I’ve gotten utterly sick of despite never having seen it
This is probably what a lot of non Dark Souls players feel whenever the Dark Souls hype kicks into gear.
Journey had the same effect around it for quite a while too, made it hard to convince others to share the experience.
Fun random Souls series trivia – Sony own the rights to the Demon’s Souls name as part of their exclusive publishing deal.
Oh, Dark Souls is a pretty great example. I understand where Strange is coming from now even though I’m a Frozen true believer. Haha. (Then again, I loved Titanic and Avatar as well, two movies that had that over exposed thing going on too.)
I liked both those movies, but the more I hear about Frozen the more I’m certain I’ll hate it.
Good chance you would’ve hated it anyways. Haha! I remember when it first came out and I was hyping it you didn’t seem interested even then. 😀
I usually don’t mind but recently I’ve had too many bad experiences when trying things everyone’s been raving about forever. Like ‘The Walking Dead’ game. I was bored by it, and found its emotional manipulation too obvious to make me feel anything. And people were just “Oh, it gets better by the end, Episode 3 is where it really picks up.” but these same people had been raving about it since the very first episode so I trusted their assurances even less. 😛
It probably goes back to why I always prefer to go in to games and other entertainment mediums completely fresh, knowing nothing. So I have no expectations, and my experience isn’t coloured by everyone else’s opinions.
Yeah I don’t want to know any thing about the games I’m about to play. I don’t want reviews good or bad. I don’t want word of mouth. I don’t want advice. I want a clean slate. 😀
Going in blind is the best way I’ve found for experiencing entertainment media as well. Also why I don’t like seeing trailers for movies I’m going to see.
Especially these days, the trailers tend to spell out the entire plot.
It’s my experience with The Last of Us all over again. /o\
WHY DO YOU HURT ME SO? :'(
😛
I’ll wait until Naughty Dogs’ next game comes out so that the hype shifts over before playing it 😛
I played the Last of Us and really didn’t like it. In fact I disliked it so much I think I gave it away to someone.
Thanks for the anti-hype, Nob! 😀 You’re such a good wet blanket! 😀
Ser Wetblanketulus
Nob gave it to me. I liked it, but it made me feel quite ill.
Because of the big feels or the simulation sickness?
@aliasalpha
Sim sickness. Far too much shooting too.
That’s a lot of the reason why I never wanted to try Dark Souls and look how that went once I did 😛
EDIT: Haha, Beavwa reading my mind.
My wife and son have seen it twice, I haven’t seen it once, but working at a cinema I’ve heard that song “Let It Go” probably about a hundred times or more, after a while it starts to grate. Not only that, but every time I hear it I think in my head that the next line should go “Can’t hold it back any mo’” like they’d do in a Hip-Hop song, because “Go” and “More” don’t rhyme.
Everyone raved about Frozen for some reason saying it’s the best Disney film since forever, but I didn’t think it was much cop and think Tangled’s a much better film in general. You’re not missing much really except for Disney trying to make pop songs
Yes! Tangled was brilliant. Although no CGI Disney movie has half the soul of the 90’s traditional animation ones.
Nothing has yet to beat Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Lion King for me.
But that might be because I’m a slightly older fart than the target demographic.
My go-to Disney films are Aladdin and A Goofy Movie. Even though I was seven when I first saw AGM, I think it taught me how to be a parent.
This. It’s a decent film, above-average for kids’ fare, and very pretty, but there isn’t a whole lot to it beyond the obvious marketing opportunities.
I disagree. I think if it was animated in traditional cell animation and released in the ’90s it would be every bit Aladdin and The Lion King’s equal. *decisive nod*
What’s missing is an attached nostalgia. (In my opinion of course. :P)
I didn’t like The Lion King, either. 😛
Yeah, but you were exposed to the monster gene in that lab accident, remember? 😛
Monster! 😛
I found the writing in Frozen to be very hit and miss. There are some great moments, Disney at its best for sure, and there are some that just don’t make any kind of sense.
And Let It Go is just such a confused jumble of mixed metaphors and failed poignancy at a totally random point in the movie that I can only conclude that they just didn’t care about whether it fitted or not, as long as it would sell records.
Yep, Tangled is probably one of the better CGI flicks I’ve seen.
Though I didn’t mind Brave. I really dug seeing the mother/daughter dynamic, with the mother as an actual human with strengths, flaws, hopes and fears, instead of a cardboard cut-out filling a foil role for the protagonist to play off. More stories need to do that – humanize parents.
It can’t be the best Disney film because its not The Black Hole
My wife feels like that about Frozen which is a shame because I watched about half of it while she was napping and she interrupted halfway through. She was interested then and I didn’t want to finish it without her, but now she’s sick of hearing about it.
I feel like maybe if I sit her down and we watch it she might just like it and we can just move on, but I have a feeling this is going to be one of those *things*.
By *things* I mean where she shows me a new show or movie or something and gets really disappointed if I don’t like it so I’ve taken to feigning more interest so it doesn’t seem like I’m ignoring her. But at the same time, she openly derides things I like to watch. For instance, there was an episode of Chuck a few years back where some goofy shit happened and I had to pause the TV while she made fun of the show for 10 minutes. When I unpaused the shit got even goofier and that set her off again. Yes it was a dumb corny over the top scene but it kind of made sense if you were a fan of the show. It happens with various TV shows, stupid old movies I grew up with, and even youtube channels.
Now whenever she starts up I just turn it off and to go back to later. It’s extremely passive-aggressive but I’ve gotten fed up with having to justify everything I like that she doesn’t, especially when me watching it has no effect on her whatsoever.
So, I will probably never see the end of Frozen because I don’t want to have already seen it if my wife ever feels like it, but I’ll also never raise the question of “should we watch Frozen” ever again because I just really don’t want to have that conversation.
Edit: Too many typos to ignore.
Spouses are weird.
Mr. Strange gets cranky if I watch stuff without him, but I like to mainline shows and he just likes to watch one episode at a time, and then he forgets about it and we never finish the show. Drives me nuts.
He also makes fun of me if he walks in or is around while I’m watching things like Vampire Diaries or Teen Wolf, yet he made us watch the entirety of Bitten which was just trash. 😛
My wife likes to consume some shows one episode at a time and marathon others. I had to wait until season 5 of Archer was finished before we finally watched it, but wild horses couldn’t keep her from the new episode of Game of Thrones.
I think we’ve basically conditioned each other. I ask her once if she wants to watch something and if she says no, that’s the bottom line. If I ever ask her again, even if she concedes and watches it, there’s maybe a 10% chance she’ll actually admit to liking it and even if she does her experience will be tainted by her resentment about being forced to watch it. I think we’re the same in that respect, but I an more open about watching things so I don’t butt up against that wall as often.
At the same time, she is gradually learning to keep the majority of her comments to herself. I mean, I don’t expect silence, sometimes goofy things happen and riffing on it is fun – True Blood for instance long ago became a parody of itself and we enjoy making fun of it as much as we like watching it – but not during tense dramatic scenes or important character moments even if those scenes seem hackneyed out of context to a casual observer.
Yeah, me and my wife are the same. I like to marathon shows, and she likes to watch them one or two episodes at a time. The last one was Breaking Bad, I was about 2 seasons ahead of her, and then she said some idiot on one of those morning shows (Kochie I think) spoiled the end of the series, and she didn’t want to watch anymore now that she knew the ending, so I just marathoned the last few seasons alone.
Spend an entire weekend playing Secret of the Magic Crystals. Everything else you like will become more tolerable. If you don’t go mad during the process, that is.
I intend to see it at some point.
Somehow I’ve managed to avoid hearing Let It Go so far. Would rather hear it for the first time within the film.
I had intended to see it at some point, which is why it was good I’d also managed to avoid hearing ‘Let It Go’, but I think it would have to be fairly far into the future now.
Unpopular opinion. I think it’s not my taste, I really couldn’t stand any songs by the main woman, my girlfriend made me turn it off, I watched the end later, didn’t mind the storyline (a bit predictable) but that music did not agree with me was too pop diva for me not enough quirky musical style. I really liked the intro and thought I was gonna like the whole thing too.
Well, turns out my 6 weeks of planning ideas for mum’s food when she was in hospital having a leg op has turned out well. Technically it was a bit disrupted by her only having to stay overnight since they didn’t need to do a skin graft after all but it seems she was quietly impressed by the stuff I’ve been doing and by ‘quietly impressed’ I mean telling everyone she’s talked to on the phone just how spoiled she’s been.
She’s one of those martyr-mothers who’ll not buy herself anything nice in the shopping but then spend twice as much buying me stuff I could easily do without and probably shouldn’t have in the first place so since I was doing the shopping this week, I turned the tables. Basically nothing for me and everything I know she liked and a few things I suspected she might, it turned out I was right on the money each time. Even stuff I have no experience in like choosing an avocado tuned out to be perfect and experimental things like making potato salad with half the potato replaced by pumpkin turned out really well so I’m pretty chuffed.
Add that to the fact that I was playing Trials Fusion’s Balancing Act skill game and am now (or was last night) world #9 and I’d say my weekend went fairly well.
REPLY FAIL TO JUMPMAN
Big NBA fan, loved NBA 2k games, did get over some of the bugs. I remember doing a full season in My player only to make the finals and in game 2 get a corrupt save. Was so annoyed.
Also just got in to FIFA but have only been playing offline, have never had great fun with online sports games. Also have never had a problem with the Xbox One doing that.
You, me and @jackunit13 should have a session of FIFA 14 one night (after I get a bit of practice in of course). What are your Gamertags?
Anyone else want in?
Yeah im trying to get into Fifa (got it with XBone) as I’ve never really been into it, I’m more a BBall guy.
may username/gamertag is Steed1080 for all consoles and steam (except Xbox its St33d1080)
Xbox Gamertag is FoxRiver (yep, prison break season 1 was hitting its straps when I got xbox live)
Steam Username is toadthebrute
Cool, i’ll send you a request mate (or send me one in case I forget, I can be a bit forgetful sometimes).
No need to apologize, Prison break was the bomb in its first season or two then it totally went off the rails, come to think of it did it ever have a proper ending or did it just get canned?? I cant recall seeing one.
Nah it ended, with a pretty ordinary movie. I watched it through to the end. Season 1 was one of the best television series I had ever watched, still is. It went down hill quick though.
Sweet! I’ll add both you and @venophaze at some point today.
Hey TAY, happy Monday! Nice weekend for me and I hope it was for all of you.
I watched all of Eurovision on the weekend. Mrs and I love it, because it’s so bad it’s awesome and then it’s so awesome it’s just damn awesome. I have beard envy of the winner. I ate too much cheese, and was up in the middle of the night for three hours not sleeping due to cheese. I fell asleep…for 10 minutes, until Quiz jr. decided that would be a good time to wake up because 4am why not wake up and stay awake. So, I really need my bodyweight in coffee to function today.
Also, I’ve put in a bit of leave and it looks like I’ll be road trekking up to QLD for a week or so at the start of next month. Being a Tassie Taybie, I’ve never gone to one of these mythological meats, but I can rock One Week by the Barenaked ladies on karaoke so perhaps I may be up for it if everybody* else is?
*anybody?
*strokes patchy chin stubble*
You’re one of my favourite TAYbies so I find myself oddly intimidated at the thought of meeting you. It’s like meeting Shane all over again. D:
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @rocketman @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Is Godzilla meat tasty? 0,0
We’ll keep you posted! I suspect it might be radioactive! I little radioactivity never hurt any one, though!
Godzilla-man, Godzilla-man, does what ever Godzilla can.
Swipes his arms, city’s razed.
Welp, we’re fucked, let’s go get blazed.
Whoa, it’s like, Godzilla, man!
If it makes you feel any better: her beard is painted on! 😛
It makes it worse. I can’t do biologically what she can do with makeup.
Her skill > my biological functions.
That was an odd sentence to write.
Rescind the TAYSignal!
Did this have my name before?
It did, but as @dc and I did all the tags at the same time (well, a minute apart) I just edited them out of my post. Originally it was “Send out the TAYSignal – [tags tags tags]”
Yes! We’re overdue for a Karaoke Meat and I’d love to meet you.
I’ve never met any TAYbies in real life either. Makes me feel a bit nervous just thinking about it.
Took me months to work up the nerve. Then I went to Movie World with them. And then we killed that drifter and became the best of friends. 😛
You should come to PAX! Then you could meet me! ME!
That drifter had it coming
Recent Eurovision convert of last year. Watched it all this year. Some thoughts. Would put in spoiler tags if they existed. Sorry everyone that doesn’t care about Eurovision.
Personal Top 5:
1. Not Alone (Armenia)
2. Silent Storm (Norway)
3. Rise Like A Phoenix (Austria)
4. Undo (Sweden)
5. Running (Hungary)
Best support act: Ukraine
Most disappointing non delivery – Romania. I expected a magic trick, not the crappy fake piano ring thing.
Favourite silly act: France
Best of big 5: Spain. Might have had a chance if it came through the semis.
Also a little disappointed that parachute drummer guy was the silliest it got.
Wasn’t feeling the Armenian entry. Was surprised it was so popular.
Personal Top 5:
1. No Prejudice (Iceland)
2. Rise Like A Phoenix (Austria)
3. Calm After The Storm (Netherlands)
4. Undo (Sweden)
5. Miracle (Romania)
Also thought Malta, Finland, Russia and Norway were pretty good
Best cultural demonstration: Poland
Iceland was pretty awesome and I was happy to see them make it through to the final.
Keen.
Keep me updated as to the dates and I’ll try my best to be there!
I’ll certainly do what I can! Always happy to meet new TAYbies, but I also have a lot of issues that tend to stop me from being able to attend things. I also have a lot of other issues unrelated to any of that, but that’s a story for another time! 😉
Will try my best to meat thee, goodser.
I’m in Tassie then 😛
OH what??!? That is just bad timing on our parts, man.
Haha, yeah going down 5th-10th June for a friends birthday, never been to Tassie so thought why not! Also gonna be in Melbourne 2nd-5th of June lol.
Hang on… who tried to write this comment? http://imgur.com/fYpV9LS
All I did was refresh the page but somehow the comment system thought I was posting a comment that I never wrote! haha
it did something similar to @beeawwb the other day
Yeah, and it was just as weird when it happened to me! Doubly so because I then ended up actually posting @dc’s comment.
Like, seriously, how does a comment box download text from somebody else attempting to post somewhere else on the internet? That doesn’t compute to me.
Wizards.
It’s probably the same set of crossed wires that could be making the “Posting too fast” error a global check instead of local to a user.
It’s a message from the beyond warning you not to play Ride to Hell.
To be fair, if I was an all knowing deity, I’d warn people not to play that either.
Not me, but I’ll need to remember to not leave something in the comment box I decided not to post at the last minute! 😛
Note to self: Don’t paste my “list” in the comment box for safekeeping.
awesome
@mythamphetamine @popdart5 @novacascade @blaghman @mawt @tech_knight
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
I think my internet is working now. Nevertheless, I may accelerate the next encounter so we can get to the rest of the bloody plot
WEDNESDAY 7:30 SA TIME
will you be streaming again?
Pretty easy to set up, so should be, yeah!
Hopefully I will be able to finish one of the recaps that I’ve had in the backlog before Wednesday night. Hopefully.
Note to self: Don’t double-dare Kotaku to eat your comment again for the fifth time. It has no remorse and no pity.
Well the router reboot seemed to hit the nail on the head during pathfinder and you were almost 100% fine, so you should be good to go for Wednesday!
Uh oh, you said the A word, we’ll never get it working now.
I’ll be there, but this will be my last session for a while, heading off overseas for 3 weeks next week 😀
I have a meeting with a tattoo artist guy thingo (tattooist?) on thursday.
I am so primed.
Whatcha gettin’? And which artist?
A local guy, friend of a friend. Seen some things he’s done and theyre amazing.
Im gonna get a snake weaving in and out of my body around my spine and my other tattoo on my chest. Its gonna be pretty full on.
Edit: -_- this took too many attempts to make happen….
Sounds like there’s going to be a lot of hours put into that one. Good luck!
Headche, shitty throaty cough, manflu is upon me. The first year I’ve ever gotten a flu jab and I’m now getting sick when I usually don’t. At least I got a lollipop out of it.
Started Skyrim…again…already found areas I have never visited before, for some reason literally right next to Whiterun. The road out past the stables and over the river, I’ve never gone down the road on the left just before that bridge. I want to kill Cicero
One week til Wolfenstein XD
Seems legit. My understanding of the flu shot is that they grab the most hip and happening strains popping on the scene right now, tan them to death, pack them into a syringe and inject the corpses into your body, where your immune cells think they’re being attacked by the living dead and get to work on fighting them. So, they issue loads of immune system war bonds and start conscripting like mad. Only all that drain fighting the not-actually-living-dead leaves them exposed to the REAL enemies, who run rampant while the boys are working on the imaginary zombie scourge.
Bound by Flame
I don’t think I ever want to read a review again, most seem to have given tis game 1.5/5 4/10 which is completely unwarranted and also suggested to play on recruit since apparently they thought the game was to hard, neither were true.
This game has a Witcher feel to it, clanky movement, extremely limited health/mana, crafting its basically like playing Witcher 2 without Quen 🙁 but I like the game the double edge demon powers and choices make it a very welcome RPG in my books.
Edit: Spoiler tags don’t work?
On the spoiler thingy, nope – we’re using Rot13 in the meantime (http://rot13.com/index.php)
I was looking at the promo case in EB and everything about it screams mediocre.
It’s definitely mediocre, I just disapprove of reviewers bombing an average RPG it just feels unwarranted. give it a 6/10 7/10 and move on imo.
Probably taking out all their frustration on a no-name publisher/developer who they’re actually ALLOWED to pan with the Forbidden Numbers, as opposed to all the shitty ‘AAA’ titles they have grit their teeth and try to find something nice to say about to make sure the advertisers don’t black-mark them.
I’ve played about 2 hours of it, I did get a Witcher 2 vibe from it at first, However, The Witcher 2 is leagues ahead of Bound by Flame. The voice acting is abysmal, the story is just boring, the combat system is very average at the best of times and finally the main character is a total ass-hat whom I just wish would have died at the start of the game.
I think more people would’ve been better served not watching the trailers and instead reading up on/watching Let’s Plays of Mars: War Logs, and realizing it was by the same developer. That would set expectations more realistically.
I actually quite enjoyed Mars: War Logs, though. It definitely wasn’t AAA, but it had some fun mechanics and a bit of heart. Just… non-AAA implementation in every single aspect left it feeling pretty low-rent. If every aspect of the game had a team of a dozen people on it instead of the 1 or 2 they actually had, it probably could’ve really competed.
I heard about it the day it was released. I knew almost nothing about it except it was done by a small (non AAA) team so I wasn’t expecting it to be a AAA big hit game. The game is just so … bland. There really isn’t anything I can point at and say “wow, that is really interesting” or “I wish more AAA devs would do that”. It just feels like it was a small team that tried to make a AAA sword and sorcery game a little to hard. Sure, it may tick some boxes and come across as mediocre but it has no soul or character.
The Witcher 2 is leagues ahead of just about every RPG out there so that’s kind of an unfair comparison.
Bound by Flame looks like the definition of a mediocre mid-budget Eastern European-developed fantasy game though, along the lines of Gothic or Risen.
From what I saw, the combat was fundamentally broken since enemies would not stagger if you hit them, and would just keep attacking. Seems like it warrants a 4/10.
EDIT: I accidentally a word that changed the entire direction of what I was saying.
Played a little Titanfall on Friday night, really the only time I had for gaming since I had friends over on the weekend and spent most of Saturday cleaning in time for that, then inadvertantly spent an entire day doing Mother’s Day stuff. After doing my friend a favour and driving around an 80 minute round trip to drop him at his mum’s place to save him an even longer train journey, my wife and I went over to my grandmother’s place expecting to just stop in briefly and say hi.
I’d spoken with my mother earlier in the morning and she had let me know that maybe my eldest female cousin (Cathy) would be there with her son as well. To the best of my knowledge, nothing was “planned” for mother’s day.
So you’ll fully appreciate what happened next, I guess I have to explain my family tree on my mother’s side.
My grandmother (my grandfather sadly passed away two years ago) has three daughters (of which my mother is the youngest) and one son: Gail, Vicky, Sharon and Stephen.
Gail is married to Gary and has three daughters, Cathy, Tracy, and Jenny.
Cathy is married to Phil, and they have a son, Joshua.
Tracey is engaged to Brad and has three children: Jayden, Sierra and newly-born Harrison.
Vicky is married to Robert and has three sons, Christopher, Scott and Adam.
Christopher is married to Amanda.
Stephen was already there when we arrived. About fifteen minutes later Gail and Gary arrived with Jennifer, and Tracey with her three kids. So not to seem rude, I could hardly leave after the 20 minutes or so as I had planned, so I stuck around a little longer.
Ten minutes later, Cathy and Phil arrived with Josh.
Ten minutes later, Vicky and Robert arrived with Adam.
Ten minutes later, Scott arrived.
It was suddenly extremely crowded. I have always felt slightly outcast by my family (since my mother divorced and I was her only child, I guess she didn’t live up to the standard set by her older sisters or something?) so on one hand I was suddenly uncomfortable around the 16 people occupying the house, and also slightly miffed that my uncles/aunts/cousins had planned a gathering for Mother’s Day and not thought to include me. Again. I think the most annoying part was everyone else came bearing gifts and my wife and I had not thought to. That’s probably on me, I mean why wouldn’t I have brought a gift for my grandmother? But it wouldn’t have stood out so sorely if we hadn’t been ambushed by my entire family who were much better prepared for this than I was.
After letting another twenty minutes go by my wife and I made our excuses to leave (in all honesty it was getting on and we had other things to do that afternoon) and stepped outside, engaging the now-arriving Chris and Amanda in a polite but brief conversation before getting in our car.
*tears hair out*
*hugasaurus*
Aw thanks. Though it suddenly feels like my rant was a bit… well… it’s not like anything bad happened. I just somehow felt overwhelmed and excluded at the same time.
Doesn’t sound pleasant but reading it all I can think off is that it read like one of those real world math problems.
“If Cathy arrived at at 11:10 pm at what time was there less than 3 generations present in the room?”
You arrive at your grandmother’s house at 1:30pm and have 18 relatives who arrive after you at ten minute intervals in average groups of three. At what time are there four generations in the room. Are Jayden your second cousins or cousins once-removed? How does that even work?
If your sense of courtesy dictates that you speak with each relative and should not leave within 20 minutes of the last person arriving, will you make it to your other engagement at 3pm? If it is 10km away, how fast will you have to drive to get there on time? Why is it the only relatives you like are the two uncles that married into this family, the only people not actually connected by blood?
I feel my claustrophobia rising just reading the list of people in one place…
EDIT: Comment system weirdness. Why can’t it be back the way it was before easter!
I find it weird that they haven’t spoken about it at all. It’s been going on for far too long, and they haven’t given a proper heads-up to people. We did get one little “sorry, but we’re working on it and it should be fixed soon” comment here in TAY from Ben just after Easter, but only TAYbies would see that. The larger community must be wondering what’s going on as well.
Agree, it’s been long enough that it would be nice to see an update from people or something. Even just some acknowledgements that it’s being worked on and maybe a tentative timeline.
Honestly I could live without most of the other nice features that are broken (like spoiler tags) if we got rid of the goddamned posting too fast error.
Yeah, everyone is raging in every main article. The only think I’ve seen is the above “we’re on it” when it was actually down for a couple days, and Serrels mentioned that the CMS was being screwy on some article. It’s pretty concerning really. :\
I remember now why buying games on PC is a double edged sword. I spent the weekend modding Fallout NV which lead to about 97% of the time modding/fixing mods and 3% actually playing. 😐
But man oh man does it look nice now.
Yeah but soo worth it once you get it going though!
For sure. I mean WOW:
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/fallout-3-never-looked-this-good-new-screenshots-with-enbseries-mod/
Unfortunately I can’t find that particular modder’s settings. Mine isn’t quite as nice as that but getting close.
I’ve been modding FTL with with something called “Better backgrounds”, which makes the backgrounds behind your ships look so much more beautiful, and apparently there’s something called “Captains Edition”, cuz FTL wasn’t hard enough as it was apparently! 🙂
Dude.
Captain’s Edition is amazing. There are so many grammatical/spelling errors and balancing can be a issue, but so much is added that it makes up for it. It is however skewered to be more difficult than anything else.
I modded Fallout 3 & New Vegas but now feel like I need a big upgrade to my graphics card (9600GT) and monitor. I’m planning on using my 42″ tv as a monitor when I upgrade to a bigger tv so a beefier gfx card is definitely on the list.
Unfortunately I think I’m with you though. When I sit down and start modding I spend more time looking up mods and what would be good to play then actually playing. At least the Bethesda games are easy to mod
I managed to play for about 10 minutes last night. 😛
TV as monitor is a terrible choice BTW, and I seriously recommend against it.
Well I was thinking about having the TV as a second monitor for when I want to sit back on the couch and play from a distance, but my main monitor I want to upgrade to a 27″ monitor. I definitely won’t be sitting at a desk 30 cm away from an HDTV looking at Facebook XD
I see. Couch and PC desk closeby? Then it’s an okay option, for gaming/movies only.
Yeah, my PC desk is right next to my couch atm. Am usually sat on my couch using my PC though atm and as a result mainly playing strategy games while the consoles are for everything else hence the want to hook up my PC to the tv so I can mod on the big screen. It’d take some creative cabling though. I need an upgrade in basically my whole living room atm
Well, better write my weekend recap!
Morning, TAY!
My weekend was pretty cool. Had a friend’s birthday on Saturday night. Went to a fancy schmancy restaurant on Darling Harbour. Very nice restaurant (and not as expensive as I expected). Cyren (Cryen?), I think it was called if anybody is interested. The only downside was that the waiter kept literally breathing down my neck as he talked. Made my skin crawl 😛
Afterwards we went to a bar around that area, which was decent. After a while there we moved to a club, which is… not really my scene 😛 There’s nothing to like about them in my book! /old
And then on Sunday I went down and had lunch with Mum. Made me feel bad when she jokingly mentioned it was her first Mother’s Day where she didn’t get a tea/breakfast in bed because there’s no kids around anymore D: Was a good lunch though. Dropped by to visit my Grandparents while I was down that way too.
Then on the way home the entire train was filled with crying babies.
Hope you all had a good weekend!
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…oh, wait! Eurovision! Was pretty cool this year I think. A shame that Russia kept getting booed though. I get why people aren’t happy with the country at the moment but those girls aren’t to blame for anything. Anyway, I’m happy with the winner. She had by far the best song I thought.
My other two picks were Montenegro and Switzerland, who surprised me by not getting higher. Oh well.
Unlucky to France though, they only got like 2 or 3 points overall haha I liked the Australian interlude too. A lot of people are complaining that it was embarrassing for playing up all the Australian stereotypes, but I thought it was just a bit of fun. Jessica Mauboy though was a little disappointing if I’m honest. She must’ve been really nervous.
Jess got the tune going eventually. The first three or four lines of the first verse were horribly out of tune.
Also, I want to go to whatever club the Norwegian bouncer is guarding, simply because I thought that guy was awesome.
My favourite song didn’t win but I’m happy with the country and western song being beaten.
Big problem with the Jessica Mauboy thing is that every European song there made it through competition to be selected, whereas the Australian presentation was just a hastily compiled song by someone preselected to sing – no chance to select the best from a set of options. England turned up with only half a song and it was still better.
Yeah, pity the Russian entry had to deal with the boos, but it was a pretty clear message.
I thought Montenegro performed better during the Semis.
France was a dud.
I went and looked up the video clip for France’s entry to see if it was better than the live performance (in the very next ad break) and YouTube thought it would be a good idea to put the final winner result in a pop up banner. No internet next year!
That blows…
European friends dropped the bomb on Facebook. ABC News announced it early too.
Media blackout is on the cards.
I got the winner spoiled by the SBS news while waiting for Eurovision to start 😛
Now that’s just silly.
That’s rough.
I totally don’t get why people are pissed at Russia. 😛
Even after reviewing all the news, objective fact write-ups, and background history on the whole Crimean thing. Have they been up to something else now, too? Or are they just threatening to cut off Europe’s oil again, after Europe’s threatened sanctions for some reason again?
(which, y’know… Eyeroll at everyone.)
“We’re calling you out, Russia! In front of the whole world! Do what we say or we’ll cut you off!”
“Fine. Cut us off, and we cut YOU off.”
“Woahwoahwoah, let’s not get hasty now…”
“Indeed.” *flexes military* “Yeah, you BETTER walk away.” *hipthrust-grunt*
*aside* “Oh my god, can you believe what a bitch Russia is? Calling us out like that and making us look bad in front of all our friends? Show some respect, jeez!”
It’s not just the Crimean shenanigans.
Large part of the reaction was due to Russia’s treatment of homosexuals.
Put Russia in front of a stadium full of gay dudes and you’re gonna hear some booing.
Wait, they didn’t backpedal on that? I thought there was a release of prisoners or something who had been arrested on those laws, and some kind of response to Olympians…
*research* I see. Sanity did not prevail. ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ on a national scale.
Sigh.
Pretty sure Russia also criminalised being gay….
Edit: wow, there were posting too fast Errors and Database Errors and I didn’t think this comment had gone through, yet here it is. Wizards.
Being gay and now swearing…
…
Yup…
Damnit PES2014! I just wanted to have a quick bash and see what you were like not wade through 20 minutes of menus. I don’t know anything about soccer and I told you that when you asked at the start. Then you want me to pick my favourite side and player. Ummmm, I hear a lot of people whinging about Manchester United. I’ve heard of them. They’ll do. Player? Er, Clarkson talks about Rooney and his Land Rover on Top Gear a lot. He’ll do. Next up, 40 million questions about what level of (insert sportsball terminology here) do I want? Full assist please! Now create some use…AAAARRRGGHHH! Just let me load up a quick match before I delete you stupid game!
Strong suspicion that they automatically assume that everyone in the world knows the basics of soccer (“FOOTBALL DAMMIT” “whatever, limey”) because it’s apparently ‘the world’s game’ or some crap like that.
Took nearly 30 mins to finally get everything set up and running (including a million updates on what’s available. Did you know the new official ball is a slightly different shade of white and you can purchase it for use in the game for $1.50?), played a game, thought that was fun and deleted the game.
I love football. I’m football mad. I downloaded PES2014 on PS Plus, I’ve played 2 matches since then and have not touched it. Asides from the endless menus, the game itself seems to want to be ultra-realistic, it isn’t and as a result the game is nowhere near fun to play.
I much prefer footie games when it was more arcadey, fast flowing and you didn’t have to worry about how hard to pass the ball to another player in which time you’ve realised your player has knocked the ball ten yards ahead of him and is now running in a different direction
oh man, exact reason I own Fifa 14 but haven’t played a single match. Started it up and it was just wall of text after wall of text, what ever happened to Quick match or exhibition or something. Keep meaning to go back to it but even thinking about it is draining. Good to now PES is the same.
My Weekend…
I Honestly don’t remember what I did on friday….
….
OH YEAH – I watched House of cards, and Introduced anton to it.
Saturday was helping housemate look for a new house. then went to the city and came home. I was cranky and tired so I rested.
Then went to the comedy festival. Saw Joel Creasy and Titty Bar Ha Ha!
Both were good, I really liked Titty Bar though, quick intelligent humour with great delivery.
Then yesterday we went to IKEA then helped housemate pack for his trip. Played Star trek attack wing (I was picked on almost immediately by all parties)
Then Eurovision. I was designated driver so it was awful. plus shyness . plus super hungry and tired and cranky…
I shouldnt be at work I should be sleeping 🙁
BTW, you bastard, I’ve finally completed 2048 and broken its hold on me.
I had a massive geekout session this weekend with a Marvel movie marathon and also jumped back into Persona 4 on the Vita. Decided to restart my save cos I completely screwed up how I spent my time the last time around and found it harder and harder to deal with each subsequent tower >< Stupid social links =@
Dark Souls 2 stuff :
progress was made yesterday.
Eblny Eng Nhgubevgl = Qrnq
Rkrphgvbare Punevbg = Qrnq
Fzrygre Qrzba = Qrnq
Byq Veba Xvat = Qrnq
Fpbecvbarff Anwxn = Qrnq
Finally settled on a gear setup that seems to be working for me – Club, Estoc, Large Club, Longbow. covers almost every situation. the only thing i’m lacking is crowd control. but the large club’s sweep attack does ok….
trying to farm titanate at the moment so that I can get them all levelled to at least +5
also, I had something I was gonna ask those in the know, but I cant remember what it was…….
You should be able to buy unlimited titanite shards from Chloanne by that point, right?
you can buy unlimited shards? oh. here I am working for em like a sucker.
also, I remember what I was gonna ask – is there any reason to hang onto the boss souls if I’m not looking to trade them for anything? or should I nom on them & level up more? cc @shane @blaghman etc
Also unlimited large shards from the blacksmith in the Lost Bastille! \o/
And once you beat Drangelic, I think, Chloanne starts to sell unlimited large shards too. And when you beat the final boss, she sells unlimited chunks!
Re: boss souls. Interesting question. If you plan to barrel through NG+ afterwards, it might end up being better to hold onto them and use them then. (You can open the Shrine of Winter either with the Four Great Souls, or with a high enough Soul Memory for that playthrough).
Aside from that, the only souls you don’t want to consume are the special non-boss Souls of a Giant which will come up later on in the game, because having them in your inventory makes an optional boss much easier to defeat.
PS: If you’re going for the all spells/all miracles/ etc achievements, you will need some boss souls for trading. I’m reasonably sure that Straid is the only one who trades for spells, so if there’s nothing in the spell section of the trade menu that interests you, feel free to consume.
Mr. Strange completed his NG+ sorcerer runthrough yesterday and the one he had the most trouble with was that optional guy, even though he had the max amount of Giant Souls required. He even used a Soul Vessel a couple of times to respec to see if it would help him. So many deaths. D:
Edited because suddenly illiterate.
I think it’s great that different people are finding different challenges. That particular optional boss, the old iron king, the gargoyles, and the scorpioness are ones that I have little difficulty with playing solo, but I really struggle against some other bosses that others claim to breeze through.
Aww man, planned on having beef ribs for dinner last night for Mother’s Day because they’re my favourite but they weren’t defrosted in time so I was going to make them today instead.
My method requires foil to wrap them in and my daughter had put the empty foil container back in the cupboard without telling me it was empty. Can’t go out and get foil because my son is home sick and by the time I caught a bus there and back it would be too late to begin cooking the ribs anyway. I don’t like today. >:(
Tomorrow is going to be awesome though, because I’ll be having ribs for dinner! 😛
I forgot to say that I finally bought a Slow Cooker on the weekend! How could I forget such an important thing?
Yay! Did you use it yet?
Not yet. I stupidly bought it after doing my groceries…
I got a little stick blender too so it’ll be soups galore at my place next week!
Can you not use bake paper instead of foil?
Baking paper is very different from foil in what it does in the oven. After cooking the ribs for 5 hours the paper would probably have disintegrated. 😛
that just means there’s an extra 24 horus for your ribs to marinade. That’s gotta be a winner
RIIIIIIIIIISE LIKE A PHOENIX!
*sets self on fire*
You’ve got the hair but not the beard.
Once I’m transformed… Once I’m reborn!
You know I will RIIIIIIIIIISE LIKE A PHOENIX!
It has a sound that makes me hope it will somehow become the theme for the next Bond film.
San Merino had the crap Bond theme coverage too.
The death-and-rebirth/rising-from-the-ashes themes could have worked for Skyfall.
Come one, come all, to the second TAY Pathfinder Write-Up. Danger! Mystery! Intrigue! Alliteration!
How long will I be able to continue making up titles that have TAY Acronyms!? Find out, in the next thrilling installment of Drewan’s Letters Home: The Arrow’s Yaw.
http://taypathfinder.tumblr.com/post/85483674558/drewans-letters-home-part-2-the-arrows-yaw
Starring:
@popdart5 as GM
@beeawwb as Drewan the Bard
@negativezero as Izumi the Sorcerer
@redartifice as Abelas the Rogue
@sernobulus as Karvurk the Magus
@tech_knight as Dem’Nion the Sorcerer
In Absentia:
@steve-o_the_deve-o as Beorn the Druid
@freezespreston as Lundgredolph the Barbarian
@rize as Narshak the Ranger
Ok guys, here is my planned master race build? Please let me know if I need anything else?
CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($385.00 @ PCCaseGear)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($39.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($189.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($195.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5″ Solid State Disk ($179.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB 3.5″ 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($135.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 770 4GB Dual Superclocked ACX Video Card ($489.00 @ CPL Online)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($155.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Optical Drive: LG BH16NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer ($89.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Monitor: Asus VX238H 23.0″ Monitor ($189.00 @ PLE Computers)
Monitor: Asus VX238H 23.0″ Monitor ($189.00 @ PLE Computers)
Total: $2233.00
However, I am reconsidering the graphics card as I found a sale on PC Case gear.
The one above, EVGA GTX 770 4GB Dual Superclocked for $499
or
Gigabyte Geforce GTX 780 OC 3GB for $579.
Is the upgrade to a 780 with 3gb worth the $80 extra?
Are you planning on overclocking?
It’s my belief (and i could be wrong with this) that every Intel CPU with “K” at the end is meant for overclocking and has a higher price tag… so essentially, if you’re not planning on touching OC, then it’s money out the windows (and honestly, once you reach those types of speeds in CPUs it’s not necessary to overclock)
On top of that, I don’t know if an i7 is really necessary for most use. Maybe if @brutaltoad is doing video recording/editing otherwise I can’t think of many common uses for that much power.
Will be editing GoPro videos, and using things like AutoCAD. May change the cpu down to one that doesn’t over clock, as I am not too sure if i will go down that track.
In saying that, its only $30 and it gives me the option to later down the track.
In that case, definitely go with the i7. The overclocking tools are very simple and easy to use, so it might be fun to tinker with.
Are you going to be gaming across both monitors, adding those 2 to an existing 1 monitor (i.e. 3 in total) or just gaming on a single monitor and the second is for productivity?
The higher the overall resolution, I’d generally say the more VRAM you want. So perhaps the 770. Then again, it’s only a 1GB difference, so the 780.
Majority will be gaming on 1, using the second for productivity. May introudce a third screen down the track if gaming gets crazy.
780 in that instance. 🙂
Go for a Radeon R9 295X2. Get 2 of them if you can.
780 OC will outperform a 770 base (780 OC is factory overclocked). I’m running a 670 OC personally, with the 6xx and 7xx basically being rebranded versions of the same thing – the factory-overclocked 670s are within a hair of the performance of the base 680s, however when I got the card, the difference between them was more like $200. At $80 I’d go for the 780 personally.
Bear in mind before you make any huge choices that nvidia’s new Maxwell GPUs (800-series) are due very soon.
Build looks good, though personally when it comes to power supplies I prefer to go for specific brands (Seasonic or Corsair) and I don’t know what EVGA’s part reliability is like.
Thanks, I was looking at a corsair power supply, but I couldn’t get it from pccasegear, will look into it some more. Also thanks for the knowledge on graphics card, probably will pick up the 780.
Which Corsair were you looking at? PCCG seem to have a pretty full selection.
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=15_354&zenid=1512d08084d54c33bd69802baead618d
It was a 750, but it was out of stock I believe, now it looks back in stock. So I will probably get the 750 gold corsair.
Good stuff. I’ve got a Corsair myself, very happy with it overall.
Those sure are some nice letters and numbers. I’m so lucky all these people can translate for me 🙂
The only thing I’d suggest would be larger monitors if you have the real estate on your desk for it. I have a 22″ monitor and these days being used to an HDTV it’s hard to focus on such a small screen even from close up. I’m looking for a couple of new monitors and 27″ would be my minimum. Size is everything (said the bishop to the actress)
In reply to you – 27 inch monitors are cool and all, but if it’s still 1080p you get no benefit. You just get bigger pixels (i.e. bigger aliasing) and bigger gaps between pixels. 23-24inch is the sweet spot for 1080p, and 27inch is only good if you get a 2560×1440 monitor which will give you more real-estate.
You can get 2GB GTX 770 OC’s for $380. 2GB VRAM is enough for 1080p (unless you mod) single-screen for now, but I’d be inclined to go with the 3GB 780 if you can. Or an AMD R9 290 for $449. Depending on which software you use for editing.
WD Caviar Green is a slow drive. Get a 1TB WD Black for video editing or you’ll be crying. If you’re really serious about video editing and AutoCAD performance, it might be worthwhile to even get 2x 120GB SSDs.
You’re picking up stuff from different retailers. You’re paying freight costs 3x. Try getting them all from PCCG and see what the price difference in the end is.
I don’t see a case? Bluray writer has no use until you give it one. It’s basically a waste of money unless you have a really pressing need to burn blurays ….. (which you probably dont).
Thanks Stickman, I do have a case, its an Aerocool Strike X Black. I was thinking similar things about the blu ray drive, the price difference is $20 between the writer blu ray drive and the read only blu ray drive. Its $20 that can be used on the 3GB 780 I suppose.
Thanks for the information on the caviar green. I will have a 250gb SSD so thats where most things will go. The hard drive will be used for storage of crap really. Everything will be picked up through PCCG, this is just the way I got the information from pcpartpicker.com.
I will also be picking everything up as I am only 30 mins away from the factory. So no shipping fees.
I built a HTPC without a drive at all, and I’m still rocking a $20 DVD writer in my main rig. Bluray isn’t worth the hassle if you have a cheap player or even a console in the house.
Sounds good, I might cut it then, and stick with DVD, if I ever need one can always buy one later.
To finish Skyward Sword or Dragon’s Dogma? Decisions, decisions…
Dragon’s Dogma.
I say this as an embittered person whose never-used disc of Skyward Sword is faulty.
I didn’t discover this until it was too late to do anything about it because I didn’t even unwrap the plastic and put the disc in until almost a year after I bought it.
Ahh man, that’s the worst! I’ve been looking through my backlog of games after purchasing Hyrule Historia, and felt compelled to finish Skyward Sword. I’ve also been scouring my old ps3 hdd which had my previous Dragon’s Dogma save on it. It’s only taken me an hour and a half (after upgrading the old OS) to finally find the save and transfer it over to the new hdd!
I’m actually quite enjoying Dragon’s Dogma, it was a good recommendation.
Even if I did attempt the DLC at WWAAAAAAYYYY too early a level and ended up having to cheese the fights. (No really. I let an undead dragon chase me into a room with a giant chained-up cyclops and then I danced around until the two hit each other then I ran and hid in a corner and let them murder each other. It took over half an hour of sitting in a corner watching the entire building shake and explosions of dust and my idiotic pawns occasionally running out to get murdered then dragged back by me.)
This is why I will ALWAYS put the disc in and test it as soon as I get home, even if I’ve got no intentions of playing it right away, just to make sure it works.
You could always go to EB and buy another copy, get the game guarantee, take it home and swap discs, bring back the faulty one the next day and swap it for a working one giving you two copies, then take it back again within the seven days because you “didn’t like it”.
It’s a bit of faffing about, but it should work.
Haha! I see where the “evil” in your name comes from, now. 😛
Cunning plan but way too much effort required.
Well in that case, I’ve got a copy here that I’m not using, because my Wii’s broken.
And nah, I’m not really evil, I just like Family Guy.
Skyward Sword!
I’m replaying that now on Hero mode. Love that game.
Is it better than previous installments? I remember I only played a few hours, but I’ll have to get back into it!
It’s incredibly divisive. The people that like it really like it, the people that hate it really hate it.
Personally it’s my favourite of the Zelda series!
I’ve got a copy, but my Wii is broken 🙁 I think it’ll have a hard time making me like it more than Link to the Past though.
So I just had a comment posting error and it seems that wizardry (or sorcery or indeed Warp-taint) has replaced my draft comment with someone else’s. Sorry for stealing it.
Even weirder, I just saw that comment in Singtaku.
Edit during PTF Error: I’m finding the whole thing really creepy. It was bad enough thinking my draft might end up in someone else’s TAY comment, but the thought of it ending up on a stranger’s comment on a different article is not good.
I’m guessing it only appears if you try to submit it and it fails – the code probably gets mixed up if two people are trying to post simultaneously.
I don’t think you have anything to fear as long as you haven’t clicked submit yet.
That one’s been an error for ages, but it’s very uncommon. I’ve had it happen three times (might only be two) in my time at Kotaku. Bit odd. Well, very odd, actually.
What up TAYbies, long time no SKYRIM!
Been very slack not chatting on TAY, so busy doing nothing I just haven’t been able to find time… best excuse ever.
Well at least after all this time I should have many interesting things to talk about…
Soooo… how have you been?
Hmm I think my lack of anything even remotely noteworthy to discuss may be due to Diablo 3. Finally gotten around to playing that rather obsessively, got it when it first came out on the 360 but never really played it that much, I wonder what else came out around then.
Anywho, been caught up in that now, just can’t put the damn thing down. Every time I finish it I think good, time to take a break, but the damn game just keeps pulling back in, either by tempting me with the higher modes or reminding me of the fact that while my barbarian may be on Inferno, my puny monk is only on nightmare therefore I MUST PLAY MORE.
Oh, I did actually venture outside for possibly the first time in months to go and see a production of Pirates of Penzance. They did a pretty good job to especially for a small group, though nothing will ever compete with the Simon Gallaher and John English productions of Pirates, Mikado and Pinafore. Ah my first musicals lo those many, many, many years ago.
Hmm, got the taste for it now, may have to find out what else may be playing soon.
Easily the most barbaric thing I have ever said.
HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
*crash tackle*
Place is not the same without you mang!
PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
*barbarian bear hug*
We need to RDR again sometime!
Riding horses off cliffs, getting blown up by giant boomsticks and gunned down by the Mexican army every 30 seconds, good times!
YES… BOOMSTICKS \o/… still have a gripe with the alleged “Mexican Army” though (@cakesmith) 😛
I’m totally up for doing this… have you got your interweb issues sorted?
I have a hankering for riding off into the sunset, singing “Cradled in Love” with ma buddies before my horse gets blown up Michael Bay style 😛
2 and a half weeks until the servers shut down at the end of the month. Better get organised.
Had me worried for a while there, but then i found this:
Ah, I forgot that was one of the few that will survive the GameSpy cull. Pay no heed to my fear mongering ways then.
Yep internet all fixed now, thank Jeebus, so definitely up for some wild west shenanigans.
w00t, i’ll have to renew my Live membership at some point, so i will have to wait for a bit of money to roll in, but then i will be super keen 😀
Damn Live, bloody nuisance that.
i concur but i should be able to obtain a 3 month membership pretty cheaply somewhere
Niiiice!
I should probably start looking into Master Race online gaming, just so set in my console ways.
I have managed to get SKYRIM! running rather nicely on my non-xbox machine, so that may lead to more monitor-keyboard-mouse-thingy action going.
Still, change is scary.
*starts a nice game of pong*
@hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian
You can always buy a Xbox 360 wireless receiver for PC which allow you to use your Xbox controllers… that’ll make the transition a bit easier 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Yeah I purchased one the other week, probably why I am finding SKYRIM! running better 😛
Ozgameshop have got 12 months for $55, and the code gets e-mailed to you.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/xbox-360-points-and-subscriptions/xbox-live-gold-12-months-membership-card-email-code-only-xbox-360
I’d argue that Gilbert & Sullivan are more Operetta than Musical. Even if it’s a matter of very minor semantics.
That would probably be why I enjoy G & S way more than most musicals.
CAN I FINALLY POST A POST?
CHANCES ARE NO.
OH FANTASTIC
SERIOUSLY AFTER 10+ TIMES THE JOKE POST GOT IN
EDIT: AND I EVEN GET TO POST RIGHT AFTER I’M BUYING A LOTTERY TICKET
Had three days in a row where I had time with the house to myself. Lots of music playing!
Also having broken out the Virtual Boy again, and gotten back into reading up on the forums and such, I have a bit of an itch to attempt to make something for it. Which would be good, since I haven’t done any programming at all since December, and it seems like there’s been a whole load of developments on that scene over the last year and a half or so since I was last hanging around the joint. At the very least I’ve started reading through a bunch of documentation, so far I’m halfway through the official Nintendo dev guide. It’s kinda funny reading such old info 😛
Have you got your guide dog all trained up for when you go blind next week?
Haven’t got up to that chapter yet.
Double post!
Considering the amount of money I spend on RPG books, it’s a good thing I’m not into Magic or one of those other CCGs otherwise I think my bank account would uproot itself and run away.
I got a supplement book last week and I’m aiming to pick up Black Crusade sometime this week, possibly even today. That’s about $100 for two books but it is so worth it. DICE FOR THE DICE GOD! 😀
I used to be into CCGs like that and they are a massive money sink, it’s true.
Luckily I no longer have anyone to play the TCGs/CCGs I’m interested in with so that kills my interest!
🙁
That’s the only reason I haven’t emptied my wallet into Games Workshop’s vault.
Time’s another thing for me. Assembling and painting miniatures takes way too much time and effort so I just stopped. Also it doesn’t help that GW keeps upping the prices so it’s rather effective at keeping me away.
I’ll play with you! That said I’ve kind of supplemented my CCG fix by jumping on to Hearthstone… This way I don’t have to risk exposure to sunlight =p
Used to sink a whole lot of money into Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh! and even WoW TCG at one stage 0,0
I’ve tried several times but I can’t get into Hearthstone at all. Find it completely unengaging and don’t like how much of the game is gated away from you and how quickly you feel like you hit the paywall.
I sank a fair bit of money into Magic as a teenager, started around about Revised Edition and I think I played through to about when Weatherlight released, so 1994-1998 or so? I also sank probably thousands of dollars and many years of my life into the Star Wars CCG, played from the original release through all the expansions until they started incorporating Episode I stuff and then Lucas took the license away from them so he could give it to Wizards of the Coast because he owned them via Hasbro 🙁
Subsequently I moved to Australia and no one I knew played any CCGs so I put them aside. Dabbled briefly with a few others along the way – tried Spellfire for a bit, but the game was hard to find. I got into Battletech briefly (guy who ran the tournaments for the Star Wars CCG offered me an entire box of Battletech boosters as trade for a spare Yoda I had, thought ‘why not?’) and also dabbled a couple of times with Legend of the Five Rings. Attempted to get into the Wheel of Time card game but again it was really hard to get hold of and also wasn’t hugely well balanced, plus the art was shit. More recently played the WoW TCG, mainly because the Raid Deck stuff intrigued me – I’m a sucker for asymmetrical co-op games like that – but as no one else I knew played it, I didn’t want to have to maintain all the necessary decks to have an enjoyable game.
Most recently I attempted to get into Weiss Schwarz as the structure of the game (they do heaps of sets, but you can basically stick to one series set and be competitive with any others because they usually re-print the same mechanics and so on) plus the content was a really good fit for me. Got a demo at PAX last year and picked up some cards, but it turns out the English translated stuff is expensive, infrequently released and hard to find, and the JP stuff really needs pasteups which ruin the appeal of the artwork on the cards. And also, again, no one to play with 🙁
BLAAERRRHGHGHGHHGHG The comments system is driving me crazy!!!! ><
To summarize what I said – Basically I had the same issues getting into CCG, even though I was really into it, it was pretty hard trying to find others who had the same level of interest hence everytime I got into it I'd end up dropping it after a few months =\
Tip, at least for chrome: if it fails, hit ‘back’, then click reply again and your reply will still be there 🙂
What state are you in, out of interest?
I’m in Syd (figure it’d be easier giving you the city than just the state xD) what about you?
Melbourne 🙁
I have a stack of RPG sourcebooks about 3 feet high from the three years I spent involved World of Darkness games. Thankfully I hopped on that bandwagon at the start of one iteration (3rd edition of Vampire: the Masquerade/Werewolf: the Apocalypse + clanbooks/tribebooks, Kindred of the East, Demon: the Fallen, Hunter: the Reckoning, Mummy: the Ressurection and Orpheus) then lost interest right when they phased out the old world and reinvented everything with the “New World of Darkness”, so I stopped before I had to buy everything all over again.
The World of Darkness stuff always interested me but my background is in DnD and stuff so moving into that territory is completely alien for me. Ditto with the Call of Cthulu RPG. My group mostly sticks to Pathfinder and the 40K RPGs at the moment so I doubt we’d jump ship to a completely different system.
I just draft.
$15-20 every month or so is pretty reasonable.
Yeah, for M:TG drafting is heaps of fun and the game’s basically designed around it now too.
They certainly take limited play as a key consideration.
If you ever want to here someone talk really intelligently about game design, Mark Rosewater’s podcast and column are both really interesting.
Living card games are pretty good. A $60ish investment for the base set and then $15/mth for each expansion that comes out. In terms of money spent, that’s pretty good. Especially because the expansions aren’t necessary unless you’re getting competitive.
Yeah, it’s great if you like the games you can get that way. But it still falls apart with the whole needs-other-players issue. 🙁
Also the only decent one seems to be Netrunner and the theme and everything doesn’t excite me hugely.
So they made another Mega Shark sequel. Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark. The acting and story is still as ridiculous as ever but it actually looks pretty good visually.
Which is worrying. They’re making a killing off these horribly made movies that gain cult status but it’s because of their crappy quality. Now it looks like they are throwing a lot more money at them and they risk crossing that line into just a standard bland B-movie territory.
Then they fail, they have a lower budget next time, and look like crap again.
The system works!
I am way overdue for a haircut. There’s like a whole centimetre of growth. A CENTIMETRE! What a hippie.
Also, 60 days until Redeemer of Souls! \o/
“Let it Grow”?
Because everyone looooooooves Frozen right? RIGHT?
*runs and hides*
*flurry of assorted rotten produce*
Am kind of considering just leaving it. Partly because I’m not going anywhere so don’t really care how I look, and also for some level of insulation against the cold.
Rad.
Honestly, I was expecting a man getting hit in the crotch with a football.
Oscar bait.
So I never got around to talking about Strictly Ballroom, so:
“Blaghs has some things to say,
about the early parts of May.”
As mentioned, I saw the stage version of Strictly Ballroom last weekend (as well as doing some other stuff). It’s definitely not the sort of thing where you want to tale someone to it as their first musical. Or if they don’t like Strictly Ballroom. Then again, I think the majority of fans of Strictly Ballroom are gay males, so it’s probably pandering to the right audience (though most of the audience seemed to be women over 50).
Its choreography was good, the jukebox elements of it were more or less the same as the movie, but its original songs had some issues. A lot of the songs had 2 parts singing different things and harmonising, but it was mostly chorus stuff, so everything ended up indistinct and hard to tell what was being said. And the songs themselves weren’t all that interesting to begin with. :/ It was also ridiculously camp. Like, possibly the campiest show I’ve ever seen, and I saw Priscilla on stage. So much glitter, and sequins, and a giant disco ball. So, I had fun, probably wouldn’t recommend it to most people though.
I also met my uncle’s new cat. Which is just an amazing little thing. It’s a rescue kitty (was living out on the tip), but it’s super duper fluffy, and really friendly, and it has A TASTE FOR HUMAN FLESH. Well, actually it just likes to lick your hand, which is a little odd. But I really wanted to steal it.
Speaking of cats I want to steal, I went to a Eurovision thing at a friend’s house last night, and they have this tiny little cat (it’s fully grown but just really small, though it’s not a dwarf (can’t remember the term for cat dwarves)). And I wanted to steal it so much. She has mad derp face, and you can pick her up, and she’s called Cersei and it’s just the best wrong name for her. Oh, and she’ll happily sit on your shoulder, and walk around up there, and I am really sad about the fact that I haven’t had a pet for five months.
Speaking of sad (that’s a miserable segue, Sean, but ROT13’d since I don’t want people accidentally reading this):
Zl Tenaqcn raqrq hc va ubfcvgny ba Sevqnl. Ur sryy vyy, naq gurl jrag gb ercynpr uvf fgrag be fbzrguvat, naq gurl pna’g orpnhfr uvf pnapre’f ohvyg hc gbb zhpu, naq fb ur cebonoyl bayl unf n pbhcyr bs jrrxf, znlor yrff fvapr zl Zhz frrzf gb guvax ur’f whfg fbeg bs tvira hc (ur’f orra qrnyvat jvgu guvf sbe lrnef, naq vs V’z gb or ubarfg V rkcrpgrq guvf n ybg fbbare). Fb zl cneragf syrj qbja gb Gnffvr ba Fngheqnl zbeavat, naq abj Qnq’f univat vffhrf orpnhfr ur’f fhccbfrq gb tb gb n pbasrerapr va gur H.F. guvf jrrx, naq ur qbrfa’g jnag gb yrnir, ohg Tenaqcn guvaxf ur fubhyq, naq vg’f nyy irel zrffl. Naq juvyr V’z svar sebz na rzbgvbany fgnaqcbvag, V nz n yvggyr jbeevrq nobhg zl sngure naq uvf oebgure, fvapr gurl (Hapyr Ebff rfcrpvnyyl) ernyyl jrer irel pybfr gb gurve sngure.
Bloody hell. Conferences come and go, man.
Rough times ahead… sorry to hear it.
*hugs*
Very small cat breed = Singapura, possibly? They’re very small. Also kind of nutty.
@Phlanispo – I dug around a bit and recommend starting here: http://youthlegalserviceinc.com.au/legal-assistance/ (edit: oops, fix link.)
There’s a good chance they may not be able to advise in your specific situation because it would technically be covered by Department of Child Protection, but if they need to refer you there, they should be able to offer the specific wording you’ll need to find who you need to talk to fastest. Who you have to talk to will probably depend on how you want to tackle the problem, because you do have a few options.
@phlanispo
Make this call when you get a chance. You are covered by all sorts of confidentially clauses so you have nothing to lose. They can either help or direct you to somebody else who can.
I agree with the previous comments and think that you should get your Dad involved as well. You are getting very close to a nuclear strike that could forever damage your family relationship and you need to do whatever you can before that happens.
I’ll make one more offer to you as well in case it all does get turned on you and you are bullied into this. I am Melbourne based so if you want me to act as a 3rd party in your dealings with the good doctor I can try. I have no qualification or rights in the situation but having somebody on your side for support can help give you what you need to stand up for yourself. Might not help at all as they sound like I would be pushed out and the appointment would be cancelled and held at your hotel room unexpectedly but the offer is there.
Whilst all this legal advice everyone is giving me is appreciated, I do not want to go down the legal path. I do not know how to approach the situation, but I do not think this is the correct way. The problem is, I don’t if any my other options would work.
I can’t tell my doctor, because there is no way I can get my mother to leave the doctor’s office. During my visits to the doctor, I don’t get to participate at all. I sit down, and my mother tells the doctor everything, somethimes I pipe up and tell my mother that the information she is giving is wrong or misses the point. Most of the time I silently sit and try not to scowl at the whole situation. My mother doesn’t let me accept any responsibility. The annoying thing is that I try to take on responsibilities not because I think I could do it better than my mother, but because I know that I need to learn.
Telling Dad seems to be the only option, although I can’t tell whether the results will be favourable. I can’t be sure whether he will react rationally, or he will get angry and yell at my mother over the phone, and for my mother to over-react and file for another pointless restraining order. Those seem to be the only two potential scenarios that will arise from telling him. If I remember correctly, the court chucked out the restraining order after a year because they deemed it frivolous. So maybe a court order will not happen after all. Wishful thinking. I think I remember my mother mentioning that she may re-apply for a court order a few months ago, now that I think about it.
The thing is, the events of the divorce have morphed my father in a being of pure resentment and bitterness. My mother kicked him out of his house, destroyed his business, and sold his possessions that he had spent his whole life working for. Some of the possessions where hand-me-downs from his family. My dad swears to this day that my mother threw out his father’s ashes when my mother sold all his stuff. Every time I go there he tells the story of how he lost everything he worked for. Every time he picks up a drill, he reminisces about how my mother sold his old drills. I can’t rely on my dad to act rationally. But do I have a choice?
Freaking hell, I don’t need this right now. I have a maths test tomorrow, exams are coming, I have an interview with a TAFE tomorrow, I have another English assignment to panic about, I have a doctor’s appointment on Wednesday, I have a career expo I have to go to on Friday, and I have been sick since March. Just today, I was reminded of the fact that I may be going down the wrong career path, and how I gave up on pursuing my dream job last year since it wasn’t viable and god damn it all it’s just too hard.
I should stop typing. The tears are making it too hard to see properly.
I don’t want you to go the thermonuclear point-of-no-return route which would utterly alienate your family – emancipation. It sounds like they’d not forgive that easily.
But it can’t hurt to know what the rules are about whether you can refuse treatment as a minor, and override your legal guardian’s wishes. If the law says your mother can make decisions for you, then that’s what you deal with. But if the law says you don’t have to obey? Having the knowledge of that is a good power to have. To know there’s actually something more behind, “No, I don’t want this,” than just wishful thinking.
All the discussions you have to get advice can be anonymous. I’ve never known having more knowledge to be much of a bad thing.
But yeah. Some space and quiet never hurt either. Stress has an impact on… well. Everything. And while you can’t really avoid much of it as a teen because… well. That’s what being a teenager IS, with all the hormones shifting gears for you, a safe space is a good thing. Remember how you felt after your first counseling? That could be a good space to revisit. Even if only in your memory.
Telling your dad would be perfect, from a chaotic standpoint, which seems the best route to go currently >:)
He’s already bitter, so he’d do anything to spite your mother, including stopping you from going to see this lunatic.
It would be better if you were able to tell your doctor privately, and ask them to explain it to your father, that way you could deny involvement in getting your father into it >:)
Seriously, even just slip the doctor a note or something explaining the situation with your dad’s number on it, or call them, or email them.
When your mum and dad start going at it (which sounds inevitable), just drop off the radar for a bit while they hash it out. When they do finally ask for your opinion, say the whole ordeal has made you more stressed and that you don’t want to choose, instead leaving it up to the doctor to decide (who will pick your father’s side, obviously).
From there, just lay low while they go at it again, cause this’ll reignite old wounds between them, but should hopefully put your dilemma out of sight and out of mind 😉
That’s just my suggestion. It mightn’t be everyone’s style, but I choose to fight my battles sneakily 😉
Hmm, the situation with your dad makes things even more complicated then. The only thing I can think of is when you’re in the doctor’s office, tell your mother to leave. The doctor is required to abide by the wishes of the patient and even if it pisses your mum off (which sounds about as hard a making things fall to the ground by picking them up then letting go of them), you absolutely require separation to get some independent advice.
Recording some conversations might be a useful thing for future use.
I tried the whole ‘ask mum to leave the room’ strategy 2 months ago. She was very offended. She thought I was deliberately withholding information. (Which I was) The doctor recommended she only stay for a bit, and she never left. I never even got a word in edgewise.
There’s no way I can speak to the doctor on my own, as I would have no real option to get there. I have been too sick the last couple of months for taking public transport to work, even though the doctor’s office is 2km away. I wouldn’t even be able to get a good enough excuse to leave the house.
The strategy @liondrive suggested is too malicious for me to be able to pull it off in good conscience.
Haha, yeah, I tend to fight my battles a bit dirty 😉 Like I said, not everyone’s style.
My moral conscience is a bit, askew, when it comes to things like this.
I still think that emailing your doctor is probably a good idea.
Best way to talk to them privately by yourself. Definitely get your dad involved though, you need someone on your side in person.
I fear the point may have come where the phrase “Look get the hell out of the room right now because I’m about to talk about how you’re driving me to the point of suicide” has to be uttered. Even if not strictly true the shock value would help cement things in the doctors head that your mum is a major problem. Asking isn’t enough, issuing a demand as the patient has to happen.
Hmm, either that or take the diametric opposite approach. The next time she starts talking instead of letting you get a word in, simply get up and leave. When they ask where you’re going, say that its obvious that you presence is unnecessary and your opinions have no value so you might as well go and get some fresh air or perhaps a yoghurt…
Hey, I was about to mention something similar. Basically tell mother to STFU – the shock may give her a wake up call.
Anyway, that’s all I can say as I don’t know wtf is going on. Legal advice??? What. Just tell mother to go away, man up and do it. For your health.
TAYbies have offered to give you lifts to the doctor too. You have options – take them.
Options:
– Tell mother to STFU, leave the room. Go for shock factor, like @aliasalpha said.
– Tell doctor while she’s in the room. Refuse to do what mother says, and take the meds/treatments/etc that the doctor prescribes.
– Get a lift with a TAYbie to doctor.
– If you’re so scared that your mother will kick you out, then either go live with father or wait until you’re financially secure to move out. The latter may not ever happen, so for your health it’s probably best to take one of the above options.
Pick one. Doing nothing isn’t helping you.
Getting your mum out of the room shouldnt be too hard… Just tell the doc you have something peculiar near a private area, and ask your mum to wait outside while the doctor examines it, as you find it embarassing for her to be present through it.. It will give you a quick few minutes to explain to the doctor what the hell is going on.
I’m going to put this out here because it is something you need to consider and keep front of mind. We are just a bunch of random people from the internet and you should take any of our advice with as much skepticism as you give Dr yogurt-lamp. We are all well meaning but don’t know your situation.
Some of the advice you will be getting is directed at somebody much older than you. Much of it is the same advice the techie got for his family issues, but he is done with schooling, has a good job and the maturity to be able to go on his own. You need to listen to the advice and then work out what works for you and your situation.
Living on your own is tough and you want to stay with your family until YOU are ready to leave. For the love of dog finish school before you go thermo-nuclear. Besides the fact you need to do this for yourself the impression I get is that your family is important to you and creating a chasm between you and them is going to cause you a huge amount of stress.
As for the phone calls and the legal advice we are not telling you that you need to sue your family or try and charge them with anything. You are telling us that you are being bullied into choices you don’t want and we are providing somebody to talk to. As transient said getting information is not a bad thing. Also if you get any time to yourself making a call to headspace can never be a bad thing. It’s like venting to TAY but with trained professionals to give you advice.
I’ll float another idea here and it is likely to upset a bunch of people on TAY but is it worth considering just going to see the doctor. Have a look at his site and work out which of his treatments are pure snake oil. Find something that is right in the realms of Homeopathy. If you have to see him tell him that you saw this and somebody on the internet reviewed it and they had the same symptoms as you and it cured/helped them. Guide the conversation to that and let him sell that treatment to you and your mother.
At the end of the day your family will feel better and are “doing their best for you” and you need to drink some water. It is wasting money but it sounds like that could be the only way to get them off your case. If it makes you feel better then consider it an investment in your mental health, it is going to cost your family a lot more if this carries on and you have a full mental breakdown.
And a little piece of advice or wisdom in regard to the career expo and the comments you made up above. There is no dream job, there is no wrong career path. You take whatever job you can get early on and you career twist and winds from there as you gain experience. There is no set path that you are on based on the job you take.
I’m actually curious to hear why @phlanispo is so against it. And why most of TAY is against him. TBH it kinda almost sounds like TAYbies encouraged Planispo’s thoughts on the matter and convinced him that Dr Yoghurt is terrible..
As long as you don’t take any medication or be hypnotised or something, the Dr can’t hurt or hinder your health. More importantly, the whole “it’s probably a placebo” argument can’t be used against him. Placebo is actually a valid professional medical technique.
The main reason he is against it was that the proposed treatment involved hooking him up to a car battery and giving him electro shock therapy kinda stuff. But without the qualified psychiatrist managing it.
Also just the fact he is a quack and giving him money is bad. There is also the issue of this escalating if the ‘magic therapy’ doesn’t work
Ah, I see. Car battery. Welp, that kinda more extreme ‘treatments’ kinda goes hand-in-hand with ‘alternative medicine’. I still think if he doesn’t allow car batteries/hypno/weird-drugs, then he’ll be fine. Ideally he wouldnt visit at all, though.
I don’t know that is was a car battery exactly but it was a form of electro shock therapy which was first proposed and that was why there is the major push back.
Also just the natural TAY reaction to want to help when somebody is feel stress and saying they don’t know what to do and that they are being pushed against there will to do something.
Also with a large number of analytical minds about charlatans are really a pet hate
http://www.majesticresonance.com/Pynergy_Energized_Pyramid.html read the list of things at the bottom of the page that the lamp is claimed to be able to do. About the only things they left of were “gets your whites whiter than white” and “makes you more attractive to the opposite sex”.
Even the video is narrated by a text to speech engine, presumably because no human could keep a straight face while spouting such obvious bullshit.
The real danger of scam artists is that they exist by manipulating people, they’re not mildly annoying bullshit artists in a pub, they’re not fishermen with tales of the one that got away, these are hardcore criminals (lets not mince words, they know full well they’re not helping people) who’s entire existence is predicated on manipulation and deception and if they last more than a few years, its usually an indication that they’re very good at it. “It can’t hurt to try something small”, give something away for free like a drug dealer hooking someone with the first free dose, they can talk their way around a lot of objections unless you’re exceptionally sharp and when someone is in a vulnerable state and especially when under pressure from trusted people as @phlanispo is at the moment, that’s prime manipulation material.
It’s exactly the way cults operate and it’s what makes criminals like this syphilitic cockweasel so dangerous. Imagine for a minute that Phlanispo fell for it (he’s clearly a smart guy so I can’t imagine he would but this is a hypothetical), he may well be lured away from legitimately helpful psychological assistance in favour of giving a charlatan increasingly large amounts of money for obvious junk and then, because of the sunk cost fallacy, feel obligated to keep going because everyone else is saying it worked for them and the charlatan is saying it’s not working for him because he’s not believing enough. When that whole edifice comes crashing down in a shower of cognitive dissonance debris, the results can be psychologically devastating, even to the point of suicide. Sounds extreme but it’s been seen a lot with cults and the framework in play is basically identical. Putting someone vulnerable in the presence of an experienced con artist is much the same as putting a lion on babysitting duty for a kid goat and assuming the goat will be okay because he’s quick on his feet and the lion has already had his lunch.
If Phlanispo ever decided to talk to his guy just to shut everyone up (which I would still strongly recommend against, a blazing row would be better), I’d suggest half-duplex communication, email only so there’s plenty of time to re-read what he said and research & compose an answer.
Lol, I now see where Dr Yoghurt Lamp comes from.
Maybe @phlanispo can point out this disclaimer to his family. Say that he fundamentally believes against everything that is mentioned on the website, and the fact that the Dr included this disclaimer means it should be acceptable to his family.
found a course I’d like to study. Dip of Laws via Sydney Uni.
downside is I don’t have the 10 years it’d take to do part time… seriously… I don’t wanna be 40 & only just starting in a new career. if only I’d had the foresight to not be an academic jerk.
Start it part time then finish it full time?
possibly. just wondering if’ id be able to do more than 2 subjects a year.
dunno how I’d go doing night lectures & all the reading & stuff on top of work for 10 years :p
Well, Law is pretty wordy, you need to devote a lot of time to readings (ex-GF was a law student.)
ah, having looked into it a bit more, if you do 2 subjects a semester, it’d be 2 night lectures at about 3 hours each, plus about 20 hours extra reading & stuff per week.
or you can do the weekend school. which I guess is about the same.
30 hours of study + 40 hours of work a week. oh god. its doable, but forget free time.
It’s doable. I started an Aeronautical Engineering degree and got a bit into it while working full time. I had the birth of a new baby piled on top of that though and ended up stopping before the stress killed me.
I reckon when you get to 40 you’re gonna feel like it’s not such a big deal to change careers and wish you’d laid in the groundwork when you were 30.
i like the way you think.
Confirmed: Post patch Smelter Demon is a joke. Again, didn’t get hit once. Lucatiel only got down to half health. His attacks do far less damage and don’t come as often. Considering he was one of the hardest bosses of the game and an optional one at that it’s pretty disappointing.
I kept getting stuck in the walls in that fight.
🙁
They seem to have stripped out his AoE attack as well. Or at least dropped the instance of it significantly. Didn’t see him use it.
It’s sad that they get so patch happy with stuff like this. They should have that sort of balance nailed down before release.
Hope everyone is well and had a happy fun filled weekend!
Mine was half relaxing.
The bosses were up from ADE on Friday, and got me to have a little chat with them at the cafe near work. As I expected, they did so to inform me that I would not be getting any kind of raise due to not meeting the KPI’s outlined in my contract. Now, I can’t argue with that. I certainly did not meet the KPI’s according to the contract. However, that contract was drawn up at a time when we had 3 full time staff in the workshop. For the past 5-6 months, we’ve only had 2, and at times, 1 person working there. So yeah. I mulled it over in my head for a while, and on Sunday, I just started to list said KPI’s and then proceed to explain in detail, why meeting these were unachievable. 6140 words later…
I totally get that by not meeting the contract, legally they don’t owe me squat, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit back and let them blame me for it, and accuse me of poor time management!
I doubt many of you are all that interested in the details, as to be honest, it bores me to tears too, but mostly since I’ve been complaining about the issues I addressed since I started in this position, and I’m kind of sick of talking about it, and seeing no action take place to fix the issues.
Just wanted to vent a little, and even though I had possibly the most dull and uninteresting Sunday of my year, when I finished writing all that, I felt damn good!
I skipped visiting my mum yesterday as I wanted to get it all down while it was fresh in my mind, and mum understood luckily. She asked me to send her a copy when I finished so she could read it. This afternoon I arrived home to a msg saying “*applause* *applause* That was extremely well written, and I hope they feel terrible for what you’ve been put through!”
so lol. Mum’s are the greatest!
Reassessment of the goals is pretty reasonable when key factors (such as losing a third of your resourcing) change.
Not only did I lose a full time staff member, but we’ve also been without a working WDS server, and spare 2Tb of storage for many months now. That plays a HUGE part in our efficiency.
At this stage, as much as it sucks, I don’t care so much about the raise (I do care, but I get why, so I’ll suck it up,) but what I do object to, is holding me responsible for factors that are totally outside of my control. I just want them to acknowledge, that with what I had to work with, I did the best that was humanly possible. Fingers crossed I gave them enough details to fully understand where the issues are, and fingers double crossed, they’ll finally get off their asses and do something about it.
Double rainbow in the valley.
What does it mean?
(I’ll tell you what it means. Heavy downpour and people were still getting blinded by sun glare. God dammit, Queensland. Why can’t you be more like other places who know how to dark and gloomy properly?)
To be fair, it was dark and gloomy in spots. At lunch time, there was a rather ominous looking cloud hanging over my work, and even though there was blue sky to be seen, it was actually overcast. Same thing on my way home. Once I got a few km from work, it got darker. Most annoying thing is, that due to the light sprinkle that was coming down, some fuckwits on the gateway decided to bring traffic to a complete stand still for about 2 mins. After that, it just cleared up and I drove 100km/h all the rest of the way. Dumb bloody Brisbane drivers. 😐
It rained?
VERY briefly. 🙁
missed it
@popdart5: your mention of CCGs made me look up Weiss Schwarz again to see if they had released any new sets in English since I last check (spoilers: yes, but only one from the look of it) and I discovered that they released a Kantai Collection set. So tempted. This is all your fault 🙁
I haven’t played the game in weeks and yet its siren call still lures me in. 🙁
I take no responsibility for any impulse buying on your part. 😛
Just as well the cards are so hard to get hold of.
Dammit 🙁
I hat something *shakes kit phisto*
My daughter started talking to me in the drive home from school. She told me none of her friends believed her when she told them stars are really planets. I told her they weren’t and they’re suns with their own planets. I’ve never seen someone so mortified in my life.
And that’s a segue to get her to watch Cosmos with you in HD. 😀
Some of them are the size of planets though!
In fact, Cosmos two weeks ago explained the different types of stars. You should totally watch Cosmos with her.
I have it sitting here so I probably will. She loves space stuff. And dinosaurs. And Superhero movies.
Wait, I’ve forgotten if I have a daughter or a son…
I think this is just an indication that you’re doing your parenting job correctly.
Cosmos is required viewing for kids IMO. And adults. But kids also.
Perhaps she was confused by the fact that some planets are visible, and look practically identical to a star, to the naked eye.
I should have realised that it was outside of my scope of ability to plan a meat at the moment. As some of you might be aware, it’s been a big couple of weeks. Devastatingly emotionally draining. Haven’t been sleeping.
A death, a marriage, a book launch, terminal illness & health deterioration of someone I love dearly, trying to get all these Metro 7 books out to backers and watching funds slowly dwindle to the point where I can no longer afford to hold a Brisbane launch without dipping into my own money…
I thought organising a movie meat would be easy. Here’s what we’re seeing, here’s the location, here’s the time, come along, have fun! Also dinner!
I forgot that just going and seeing a movie isn’t as easy as it once was. There’s 2D vs 3D, allocated seating, people have their own preferences and opinions on venues/prices etc.
To be honest, today I felt like I was being made out to be a fool. I know that wasn’t anyone’s intent, but… argh. If you want to plan something and decide the details, you plan it. My plan was to go see Godzilla in 2D in the city after work. If you want to come, come. If not, don’t. That sounds far more blunt than it is intended to be, but I’m throwing my hands up in the air. I can’t plan a meat right now. Someone take over.
Forgot tags. Bleh. @beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @rocketman @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__ @strange
Blunt response to bluntness?
Here’s the thing, man. No one was demanding any thing of you. No one was belittling you. You just had a dismissive and argumentative tone for no reason that was jarring. It’s fine if you had a plan and you stuck to it, there just seemed to be an assumption in your responses that we were all against you. We’re supposed to be your friends, though. We aren’t the enemy, man. Every meat known to existence has detail wrangling. It goes with the territory. It can be frustrating, sure, but it ain’t uncharted territory. It’s good to have firm and decisive plan too like you had, some of the best meats are ones where every thing is planned out. (I’m thinking Strange’s Brat Haus meat.) I personally pulled out of this not because of money or 3D or allocated seating, but because you treated us like jerks and there was an aggressiveness and a sense of over reaction in your posts that reminded me of the way my dad speaks to my mother. I wanted no part of that.
Dude, I only say this cause I feel like we’re friends. I’m not looking to burn bridges or make you feel bad or any thing. I just honestly feel like there was a hostility aimed at us for no reason.
I’m sorry about the horrible stuff going on at the moment, man. It sucks. You sincerely have my sympathy. I know you’re a damn good guy too. Just trying to get across how I saw things today.
I get a real feeling there was misunderstanding on both sides today and I apologize for my part in it. Since there’s been lots of talk of Frozen today I think this quote sums it up:
“People make bad choices if they’re mad or scared or stressed…”
I feel like there might be some of this on both sides?
me thinks I missed something. Possibly for the best by the sounds of it?!
Arrrgh, worried you won’t like me after this but just felt I needed to speak my mind here. 🙁
And people wonder why we don’t Adelaide meat 😛
In all fairness, I didn’t say a thing about Godzilla today before you said “I didn’t wanna be the cheap guy, but Sughly’s saying what we’re thinking.” re: ticket prices.
To me, that implied that you thought I was an idiot for even suggesting we go to Event Cinemas, and that everyone else should as well. It implied that I inherently should have known that was a shitty choice.
I was thinking somewhere central, somewhere close to public transport, and somewhere close to chow. I thought it was a given that going to the movies was an expensive exercise, but I thought, bugger it, it’d be worth twenty bucks to see you guys again.
Anyway, I don’t want to get into anything with anyone. You’re all rad. It was a dumb miscommunication. But yeah, not going to attempt to plan anything in future.
I never thought you were an idiot.
I’ve seen many a movie at that cinema at my own suggestion.
Star Trek Into Darkness with you guys!
Elysium with you guys!
Riddick and RoboCop with Freeze!
White House Down with Transientmind!
Someone indirectly suggested somewhere cheaper, I agreed in the chance you were open to that. Wasn’t trying to force your hand. You said you weren’t and that was cool If it was a consensus thing I just wanted to put my preference out there, is all. Certainly never crossed my mind you would have taken it any other way.
You clearly have a different opinion of what I think of you. I don’t know where you got that from. When have I ever given you an impression I thought you were an idiot?
I’ve always prided myself on being adaptable with these meat things cause I just want to see you guys. I don’t want to stress any one out. I don’t want to cause problems.
Meats to me are all about seeing you guys, any thing else is secondary. I don’t care about where we see it. I don’t care about 3D. And to think so little of me that I would think of you as an idiot because of this goes in the face of every interaction I have ever had with you. I’ve got to say I legitimately feel offended.
Any way, TAY doesn’t need this drama so I’ll leave it at that.
You’re right. I’ll keep my nose out of TAY from now on. Later taters.
Ah, don’t do that man.
I escalated things right there when it didn’t need to be escalated. Let’s go back to the miscommunication thing and then hug it out? Sorry man!
I got nothing but respect for you.
Pals sometimes don’t see eye to eye and pals can fight and pals can call each other out on stuff. We’ll still be pals afterwards. 🙂
looks like both these sheilas are on their rags, am I roit, boys hehe heh
*seedy dribbling*
Subtle.
*farts*
I don’t know all the ins and outs of this situation, and I’m not gonna take sides, but clearly you are stressed. It sounds like you’ve been going through a hell of a lot lately, a death is enough to deal with, let alone the terminal illness of another loved one, and you need to take time to grieve and process it all, you don’t need to add to the stress by trying to plan a meat.
Relax, take it easy, and just remember, We’re all friends here.
Sometimes it just has to be that way. Do what you want, and join if you can! I’d love to, but chances are pretty grim atm. One day.. one day I’ll be able to say yes any time I like! *shakes fist*
Still can’t make it
Keen to hook up to book though 😉
Tomorrow arv was good, yeah? 4:15ish?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVJInwekSl4 pops into my head whenever I consider that film.
Okay, this whole thing is making my heart heavy.
I understand the stress that possibly made you feel like you had to go on the defensive, but I do think there was over-reaction on your part and that nobody intended for anything to be hurtful or personal. Planning Meats is always a frustrating compromise of differing preferences even at the best of times.
With everything in your life right now, it’s a wonder you can even breathe so yes, it’s no surprise that things kind of exploded. I’m extremely sorry that you interpreted events today in such a way that you really felt like you were being attacked, or belittled and I’m positive that nobody intended for that to happen, so you have my heartfelt apologies for my part in giving you that impression. I hope you can manage a good sleep and it restores your equilibrium somewhat.
*hugasaurus*
“Planning Meats is always a frustrating compromise of differing preferences even at the best of times.”
If you try to make everybody happy you can’t make anybody happy. Or summin’ like that.
<3
The couch gag from latest Simpsons episode had me in stitches. I can relate.
D:
What?
No Twitter?
How am I meant to spread the poison that is my crappy ideas?
By making your ideas a reality and travelling around Australia swindilling your crappy ideas to unknowing individuals, becoming rich in the process while leaving each town briskly with money in hand before they realise what they bought was indeed crap?
I’m just spitballin’ here.
Just finished my first extreme track on Trials: Fusion, Eye Of The Storm 204 faults and 13:23:941
Take that @fatshadylive.
Extreme track? That’s how I finished the first track.
Should be, yeah
@BEARDYMCMUTTONCHOPS
Cool. Outside Dymocks?
sure
Gah! I wanna rip my hair out. The pattern still is not right. It’s still a little off for my liking. So a few more adjustments and hopefully it will be done!
Have you considered the possibility that its reality that’s slightly the wrong shape? It would explain an awful lot…
Nah, it’s just off a little. Make sit difficult not having a dressmaking mannequin
What a horrible 2.5 hours. Lost power in our immediate area, everywhere else surrounding had power, on the other side of the old pacific highway. So rude.
Apparently was a accident at a local sub station, want to know more dang it.
Posting too quick? Ha! I haven’t even posted today, silly server.
Don’t Lose Your Way!
I don’t know how that has anything to do with what Virus said, but I approve.
@crazyguy1990 If you lead me down the rabbit hole of listening to the entire Kill la Kill soundtrack, I will get very angry.
>:(
Ping pong circulate
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Single circle to a wave
Single circle to a wave
Ping pong circulate
Ping pong circulate
Swing your partner round and round
Swing your corner
Bow to your partner
Dixie style to an ocean wave
Ping pong circulate
Ping pong circulate
Ping pong circulate
Dixie style to an ocean wave
Ping pong
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Bagpipe rock needs to be a genre.
Nonon Jakazure’s theme is still the best. Face-punchingly awesome, in fact.
Mwahahahaha!
😀
Wait, you were the one that led me down the mario paint song rabbit hole. You bastard!
*maniacal laugh*
*evil plotting*
Ha!
Oh. My. God.
Joe Madureira (Darksiders designer) posted some stuff on his Facebook. This is the most important bit:
DARKSIDERS 3?!
I absolutely fucking loved the first two games and was super sad to see the developer shut down and all the talent dispersed and everything in the wake of the THQ collapse.
Hmm, hopefully they keep the concept art of Strife, and use him as the protagonist of Darksiders 3. He definitely looked the coolest of the 4 horsemen based off his concept.
Hopefully it’s better than 2 anyway (I liked 2, but it was missing a bit of depth I feel).
2 was clearly pushed out before it was fully formed, it fell apart a bit at the end and felt rushed. Needed another 3-6 months in the oven but THQ was in meltdown by then 🙁
There was talk about the next one actually being all four of the horsemen and having co-op, I think. Which would have been rad. But mainly I just really liked the mix of action and platforming puzzles. Hardly anything does that any more, it’s just cover shooters. 🙁 I especially liked how the first one was basically Legend of Zelda.
Darksiders 2 was the last time I remember being super excited for a game, having it come out, grabbing it immediately and basically playing through the entire game in the space of two days or so, getting to the end and feeling really satisfied with it but wishing there was more. Some elements of it I didn’t like as much but I would be preordering with the fury of a thousand suns if they announced a third one.
I remember pre-ordering the collector’s edition for the artbook and the Mask a full year in advance, I think THQ just mismanaged the hell out of that IP and it was sad to see them go. Had a look at Nordic games shortly after they bought the IP as well and found they only did small-medium releases for games so kind of lost all hope of seeing DS3. Here’s hoping they do release it though!
Yes please, was sad when THQ and Vigil shut down, always wanted to see what they would do with the quadrilogy, and possibly even a fifth game involving all four horsemen.
Never really sat well with me though how they were gonna change the last two horsemen from Famine and Pestilence to Fury and Strife, but I can see how it might not have translated well into a game.
But yeah, so keen for the next installment of the franchise.
To be fair, Fury and Strife as the final two was established right from the outset of the game. Famine and Pestilence would have been pretty hard to work into the game IMO. A dude that throws cockroaches and rats? Or a guy that gives people AIDS or something?
I’m sure Pestilence would have worked if they re-tooled the combat. Pestilence could be a ranged, damage-over-time character that relies on dodging the enemies long enough for them to die on their own.
Hype.
Not so hype about Nordic handling it. Never been much of a fan of their stuff. Would have been nice if Crytek had gotten a hold of it but I’ll reserve judgement until I see more.
Nordic is just a small holdings company, they couldn’t afford to develop the game on their own. Their CEO recently was saying they were hoping to shop it around and hinted that they were talking to Crytek USA (which is where most of Vigil ended up).
That would be great news if that comes to pass
Groovy.
Evening, TAY.
Came home feeling tired and shitty and worn out.
Currently feeling less shitty and worn out.
Progress!
Scored this today, came with a preamp and all, pretty sweet deal for 10 bucks! Now all I have to do is figure out how to change the strings on it, since i’ve never changed acoustic guitar strings 🙁
Gaming luminary Garnett Lee on his personal podcast (Garnett on Games) last week had an interesting discussion about the elements that he thinks make up a good JRPG. I encourage people to go listen but I think I’ve summarized the main points here:
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What makes a great JRPG (according to Garnett Lee)
1. They are Hero Stories
– Aim to be ‘epic’ and the core of the story is a hero, who the player is projected into the world through.
– Much like a good TV show, the hero becomes the lens through which you take in the whole play
2. The hero is not alone
– It is primarily the hero’s story, but it is not *only* the hero’s story. Rich companion characters add to the story and make the entire experience better.
– Those characters develop, and contribute to the relationships and become a really big part of the game. There are deep, important interpersonal relationships that go on between the characters. The characters feed each other and contribute to the development of one another.
– The party is a Team. You get the real sense that the characters that comprise the party are united together in pursuit of some goal.
– This is important because once you are familiar with the characters and their relationships with each other games will often add side conversations, possibly character affinity systems, sidequests and so on.
– The relationship focus between the characters in the team adds a certain levity to the bigger-picture story. The plot can be grandiose, but the characters and their relationship with each other in the team helps ground the story with the way they interact.
– The character focus also usually results in a lot of side-stories that occur as a natural consequence of the characters interpersonal drama with each other.
3. JRPGs are Fantastical by nature
– There is a sense of completely unrestrained imagination in JRPGs. Magic crossed with technology, monsters and machines, pretty much anything blended together works.
– You’re usually fighting a bunch of bosses, but those bosses often develop a great deal of character and factor into the same interpersonal relationship drama that the party characters do. This often results in twists and turns designed to play up the spectacle of the game.
– There needs to be a flair for the dramatic. Enormous spells, big summons, crazy-looking top-tier skills. There needs to be a sensory spectacle to go with the story and characters.
4. The player must be able to guide the characters progress
– There needs to be some manner of experience or leveling system. This becomes a large part of the bond that the player forms with those characters.
– Those choices need to translate into meaning something in combat.
– This is often why turn-based systems feel better. You’re able to make tactical decisions while playing and see how the choices you made in character progression affected what you can do in a more tangible way.
– There is an expectation that each new JRPG should have some new variation on the progression system. Some new wrinkle on the theme, or at the very least executes at a high level of polish for that sort of system.
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I think he’s pretty much on the money with everything. It’s pretty telling that FFXIII fails the very first point, too – who even is the hero in that story? It’s kind of maybe sort of Lightning, but maybe it’s Snow? Or is it Hope? Who the fuck knows?
I think FFXIII cops a bit too much flak. It was a good game. There were a few minor gripes with it, like any game, but it’s a good game. So it was linear. Most games are.
The only thing FFXIII needed I think was a stronger, more defined, antagonist. Someone who could help carry the story. Bathandelus wasn’t it. He wasn’t menacing enough. He didn’t command enough of a presence. If FFXIII had a bad guy more like Caius from FFXIII-2 it would have been far better.
Oh, and Lightning was definitely the hero, with supporting cast relevance going (most to least):
– Fang
– Vanille
– Snow
– Sazh
– Hope
I really enjoyed the gameplay of XIII. The linearity bothered me exactly not at all, and I really enjoyed the fast-paced combat. And it sure was a purdy game.
But the story, oh man… I played it right through, and just never got interested in it.
I think you’re right, though. It’s kind of unfairly hated on.
I liked the story to be honest. The only thing I didn’t like was the villain, that was the only let down for me. It had a surprisingly deep lore behind it, which was interesting to delve into.
With a stronger villain it would have been an amazing game I feel. Final Fantasy is known for iconic villains (Sephiroth, Kefka, Ultimacia), which this was lacking. Jill Nabat and Yaag Roasch could’ve been interesting, but they kinda took a back seat which was lame, cause I was hoping Jill would become the big baddie.
The pacing was a little off too at times, but overall I really enjoyed it.
I really didn’t like the core gameplay of FF13. Time and experience has shown that I will cheerfully grind the fuck out of things past the point of any reasonable adult’s tolerance for tedium, but only if I’m enjoying the moment-to-moment gameplay. Since I wasn’t, with 13, it was VERY difficut to push myself through.
Worse than that, I wasn’t even getting the payoff of a good story or development of characters I felt anything for except mild irritation or outright loathing.
When those two key parts of enjoying a JRPG are absent, all the other flaws inherent to the genre and that particular title (linearity in both game path and stat progression) just compound the problem.
I think a lot of people may have panned it because it didn’t live up to their expectations of the Final Fantasy pedigree, but to be honest, for me that pedigree actually bought it twenty more hours of ‘giving it a chance’ than any other title I would’ve been chucked in the bin MUCH faster.
But yeah, Lightning was definitely the hero and the only character I really liked, though I thought Fang could quite possibly overtake her if I wasn’t so distrustful of her part in the story.
I’m off to bed.
Goodnight, TAY.
DARK SOULS 2 – ALL ACHIEVEMENTS UPDATE
The only thing I have to do now is finish NG+ and get halfway through NG++ to buy the PvP-Covenant spells
That’s it. Piece a cake.
I usually don’t recommend let’s play videos,* but Jesse Cox’s playthrough of the point-and-click adventure game Yesterday was fantastic. A real fun, crazy ride.
This game features:
-Tsampa
-Katanas
-Satanic cults
-Amnesia
-Truth Flowers
-Tsampa
-Obscure adventure game logic
-Flashback sequences
-Frenchmen
-The greatest love story ever told
-The Inquisition
-Plot twists
-Bad lip-synching
I love let’s plays and will sometimes download playlists off youtube to listen to at work, not even watching half the time because I am actually watching. For some reason it’s sometimes more soothing than music to listen to someone talk about a game as they’re playing. I’ve never been a massive fan of point & click games though
Methinks I should get a few audio books as I clearly have the temperament to listen to them 😀
Heh, so of course when I’m getting scraggy and unkempt, there’s some kind of global change of schedule that results in a whoooole load of people that I haven’t seen at climbing in ages to suddenly reappear. Including a couple of cute ones…
No Climbey though 😛 Although someone else she used to chat with asked me if I’d seen her at all, and mentioned having talked with her a couple of times. So who knows, could see a return before long.
It was weird, I totally burnt myself out on a hard climb I’d done before. Couldn’t really do any of the harder ones any more and felt tired as hell on every single thing, yet went on to cover more panels than I’ve ever done before.
ThE THOUGHT OF HER SMILE KEPT YOU GOING. MAYBE JUST MAYBE YOUVE GOT WHAT IT TAKES TO GO THE DISTANCE WITH HER
Gooky starring in the heartfelt romantic comedy.
On the Rocks
directed by Adam Sandler
If you’re going to call it that then Gooky has to be played by Dwayne Johnson.
Dude, in Japan we saw a rock-climbing wall on the side of a 30+ storey building. Only it wasn’t on the side – the building was a rough 8/hourglass shape and the climbing thing was hanging in the middle. Shit was pretty cash.
Oh yeah, we saw that too – and the actual wall itself moves up and down I think. So you can climb while you climb 😛
alright guys i go away for a day and strange isn’t here to keep the peace and war escalates.
@beardymcmuttonchops and @DC
you guys are friends stop being douchebags. Hug it out or i will fly to Brisbane and make you. I love you both but i think you anxieties make you believe that everyone hates you no matter what. Nobody hates anyone, this is a place of love and acceptance.
https://twitter.com/MJHellscream/status/465801851741278208
Hey Peeps. I uploaded some Fallout NV pics to my Twitter if anyone (who doesn’t have me on there) wants to check out the modding results. It’s amazing what you can still get out of a relatively old game engine.
http://t.co/PdkPJ2vMTf
http://t.co/Rxk5w05hL9
http://t.co/m5aDCa1ay4
http://t.co/2HZ4ICF3s1
http://t.co/HLWtNH15ym
http://t.co/cy0TDAXXky
So purdy.
Wow those are gorgeous, though the daytime light seems a little too strong outside, could barely see a thing in those first few screenshots lol
Yeah it does make it a little darker. However it’s also the situation. One was done looking straight into sunlight (hence the brightness) the other with a different mood. Normally it’s different to that, yet certainly way more gritty than vanilla.
Oooh, that does look very nice indeed. I’d love to build myself a kick-ass PC so I could have graphics like that, but you know, money. That, and I wouldn’t have a clue on what to do to get it looking that good.
It’s not the best rig. 2 years old or so and it doesn’t quite run it at a constant 60fps (in fact it dips a fair bit sometimes) but it does the job.
If you ever get it, hit me up and I’ll tell you what the best graphical mods are. 🙂
Sweet! Thanks man, will do. I’ll hopefully have enough cash by the end of the year. it would be sooner if I wasn’t buying a WiiU and a PS4 as well.
My priorities are PC, then moving onto a Wii U and PS4. Probably pick up a PS4 when the new uncharted comes out to be honest, but at the moment, nothing to really push for in getting another next gen console besides the xbox one.
Looks good. I need to play NV for the first time, sometime. What’s your specs? I gotta maintain playable frames on 2560×1600 :\
Last night I finished off Shadow Warrior, I’ve forgotten what it was like to play an FPS of that calibre. And the swordplay… by the machine spirit… that swordplay! Every weapon I had, I had a use for in the fights. None of my weapons ended up neglected in the end, though I was partial to the crossbow more, charging up shots and firing never felt so satisfying when they hit and you just see them either go flying or stick to the wall.
Sticky bomb like you!
I never got that, just charged up bolts all day, worked really darn well on certain enemies and bosses too xD
I haven’t played the new one, I just remember laughing uncontrollably the first time I stuck a guy with one. Good to hear the new one is good and not another Duke Nukem.
Yep, no two weapon only bullshit, very satisfying combat (Probably the best first person swordplay I’ve ever seen), pretty darn funny at times, and lots of demon shredding. The best part is the sword, your slices with the sword are accurately shown on the enemy. If it looked like you took off the arm, you will take off the arm and they will react accordingly. Story is ‘meh’ but the combat and exploration for secrets makes up for it in spades. Well worth the purchase
Original or the recent remake?
Recent remake
Did you play the original back in the day? If so how does it stack up? I remember really enjoying the original game but I was a dumb teenager at the time and it appealed primarily because of that I think.
I still think the Monty Python & the Holy Grail reference in it is one of the best game easter eggs ever though.
I’ve sorta seen the original in action over youtube one day, but I haven’t actually played it no. Was it the same era as Duke Nukem 3D was? If it was, I’d say it certainly looks better and sword fighting would be more fluid. There’s key combos you learn to do certain charged up moves. The remake has easter eggs in it as well, some referring to the original as well if I recall.
Same era, same engine. 3D Realms made it on the Duke3D engine after finishing Duke3D and it has the same puerile sense of humor, plus a lot more asian racial stereotyping and ‘homage’ to hong kong films and anime and stuff.
It also had some rad weapons like the quad-barrel shotgun and the portable mini-nuke launcher.
There’s an easter egg in one level where if you hunt around enough there’s an area off to the side with a small cave. At the entrance is ammo for the nuke gun. When you enter the area a rabbit appears and starts jumping at you and trying to eat your face and will quickly kill you. 😛
It also had other stupid shit like if there was a white rabbit and a brown rabbit together they would eventually start humping each other and then a new rabbit would pop out. Also there was a small chance that one of the male rabbits would be gay.
All sorts of dumb shit like that. It was a fun game. I assume a lot of that stuff got toned down in the remake? It seems like it just wouldn’t fly in today’s gaming climate.
Edit: Duplicated
Uhhh actually that’s all still in it xD, even the dark rabbit that tries to kill you. The quad barrel shotgun is an upgrade you can buy with the money you collect from chests and stuff in-game.
Mario Kart 7 tonight, anyone? @greenius
This is gonna be lost in the previous page void!
I have an interview tomorrow so it depends on how I’m feeling tonight 🙂
ERRYBODY WAS KUNGFU FIGHTING!
HA! HOOCHA!
something something fast as lightning!
I have a question. With the Elsa cosplay, should I make it as accurate as possible or should I make it more as people would expect it to be?
I know it’s a weird question, but the reason I ask is that most people see the cape as looking like this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/Elsa/Elsacape.jpg
However, I found an image where the cape lays flat and has no folds
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/cape_back.jpg
like this
The cape actually changes during the movie. There is no “right” option they set it to what will work in the scene. I would be going with the first option just from a practical perspective, you don’t want a huge island a flat material around you if you plan to be able to move anywhere.
It seems to me that the cape is folded over itself when it’s thrown back over her shoulders, but flatter when it’s spread out… like any normal cape.
So if that’s the case, it would depend more on how it’s worn than how it’s made.
MORNING ALL!
Learning all about self-publishing. There’s a lot of work, but I’m quite enjoying it.
The Game will come out in early June, if all goes well. In related news, James Flamestar will finally get a print edition. I hope to be flogging both books, along with the existing books, at my next convention: Sydney Oz Comic-Con in September.
It’s funny, because when you mentioned your publisher and The Game, my next shower-time thought-exercise session (the shower is for thinking), contemplating what’s involved in being a publisher, how you’d get started, what your priorities would be… It’d be pretty cool to see you blog about the topic sometime, what you’ve learned. Things I’m curious about are the particular benefits to authors in having a Publisher, as opposed to self-publishing. I’m assuming it’s that they have relationships built with stockists/retailers/marketers to provide a greater audience for the work. The counter-point to that being that the retailer isn’t a charity, and would only be dealing with publishers who can convince them that the stock will actually move, rather than be bought and sit on the shelves forever… Advertising, arranging for reviews, shelf-space, then the particulars of production/materials, having a regular lawyer and boiler-plate contracts to sign for each new author/title, making sure they don’t conflict with each other… plus double the workload and assign that to ‘shit people don’t even know has to be done’. It seems Involved.
I’ll consider writing that blog. I think that’s a good idea. In the meantime:
Some pros of having a publisher, rather than self-publishing:
* Outsourcing all the file creation work
* Someone else pays to design the cover and book
* No financial risk for the author
* Personal prestige that just doesn’t come with self-publishing (a bigger deal than it seems. Even though most small publishers can’t get their books into stores, passersby at conventions are more likely to take a look at my work if I tell them I was published ‘traditionally’)
* Access to additional expertise, and partial automatic construction of networks
* My publisher doesn’t do a whole lot of editing (or any, actually), but access to a decent editor is a definite pro of some/most publishers
* CV padding
* More likely to attract movie/TV deals, etc, where the REAL money is. Probably won’t happen with my miniscule publisher, but it almost never happens in the self-published market.
Some cons
* Loss of control – design, timeframes, prices.
* Dividing royalties
* Signing away (or sharing) subsidiary rights
* More difficult to run promotions, etc under your own steam, as everything needs to go through the publisher.
* Kind of an obligation thing to sell the publisher as much as the work itself, especially if you want to tap into that prestige thing.
One of the reasons people consider traditional publishing more prestigious than self-publishing is because the barrier to entry for self-publishing these days is very low. If you’ve got a publisher, it means someone (who presumably knows what they’re doing) has vouched for your work.
Not always correct but that’s the thought process.
That’s pretty much it. Publishers and agents are often referred to as “gatekeepers” by the various writing blogs. Generally, getting in with one of them means that your book has either enough quality that it impressed them, or a strong commercial appeal that made their eyes glint.
Um yeah,… that’s what shower-time is for… thinking.
Not everyone has the requisite 45min to complete the… ‘other activities’ you might be thinking of. 😛
Hey Shane, I’ve got a favor to ask, and it’s 100% okay if you say no. I’m applying for a writing and editing course (it’s nothing fancy, just a Diploma at a TAFE) and I’ve got to fill out an application to get in. If you remember a while back, about two years ago I think (god that makes me feel old), I sort of reviewed the first issue of one of your comics and that letter you were going to send into Darkhorse? Would you mind if I mention that in my application?
Again, 100% okay if you say no. The course strongly suggests a cert 4 in writing and editing, which I don’t have, and I think I can get in either way, but adding that I helped out an indie comic writer one time would probably help my chances.
Yeah, man. Totally happy for you to do that – you really didn’t even have to ask! 🙂
Do you want some sort of letter from me confirming that this took place?
Yeah, that’d be great. Email is donutcabage@hotmail.com
Don’t feel you have to rush out and do it right away. I’ve got to the 28th to submit everything, so just drop it to me sometime before then.
If I don’t do it now, I’ll forget. Email inbound!
Received. Big thanks.
Things I love: Good whisky, good company, and good trivia.
Last night, I got to combine all 3 of those because my favourite bar in the whole wide world held their first trivia night. Unnnnnnfortunately for them it was their first time doing it, and it was a Monday in West End which essentially means there was nobody there. So my friends and I had trivia against each-other. Everybody wins! Well, not really. But FUN! It was the most personal, quiet, weird, awesome, hilarious pub (not really pub) trivia I’ve every been part of.
SO, it got me thinking. They’re going to try and do this every Monday to drum up interest. I’m only available alternate Mondays (as are most of my trivia buddies) so wouldn’t it be great if TAY Brisbane peoples went all trivia-tastic and had a great time?
Assuming they do Trivia again in a fortnight, what say we get a bunch of people along to Cobbler on Monday the 26th of May, 7pm.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @rocketman @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Keen.
My office is around the corner so I’ve kinda got no excuse.
Don’t worry, you’ll figure something out.
Me and my mates used to go to the Kettle & Tin in Paddington for trivia every Tuesday but that dried up. Was good fun though. What sort of trivia was it though? Music and/or picture rounds or just general trivia? Being a pom I’m also lacking in the Australian historical fact area.
Have also not heard of Cobbler. Just say the word when there’s a spot maybe in a couple of weeks when monetary situation allows for fun and I’ll trundle down
It’s funny you mention Kettle & Tin because Cobbler have an association with them (I think one of the part owners is part owner there too? Something like that?) and the trivia is run by the same guy who runs trivia at Kettle & Tin. So it will be exactly the same style you’re used to.
oh sweet 🙂 which guy was hosting it though? There was two at Kettle & Tin for a little bit. One skinny lad, beardy, laid back, salmon pink pants and another larger built guy with no beard. Both great but the first guy was class
Skinny, completely laid back, wouldn’t look out of place at all in salmon pink pants. Sebastian was his name.
That’s the guy. Sweet, I’m there whenever.
GUYS I DONT LIVE IN BRISBANE STOP WITH ADDING MY NAME I CANT COME 🙁
@powalen to the editing room, STAT!
I’ll take you off the list if you want, Rockets.
I don’t live in Brisbane either D= But I guess you do live whatever 1000km away though so fairs fair 😛
The lists were originally more meant for “people who want to be tagged for Meats in these locations”, not “I live here” lists. I guess I should try and make that clearer on the website 😛
Haha, I guess maybe..
I’m game.
So’s trivia!
Always wanted to do something like that but Monday nights are a bit problematic for me considering the distance.
Totally fair! Not that it changes this event but if you’ve always wanted to do something like that (assuming you mean TAY Trivia) are there nights that work better for you? Archive does trivia on Tuesday (tough questions, well attended), The Boundary does trivia on Wednesday (much easier questions, moderately attended, we tend to win 90% of the time), and we’re still looking for Thursday and Friday trivia events that are enjoyable. 😛
Didn’t the Mana Bar do trivia at one point or were those one off things? I remember the missus saying they had a Simpsons themed one which I would’ve loved to’ve done but didn’t but am not sure about any other trivia nights?
One of the guys at the Brat Haus meat that @dkzeitgeist knows actually ran those things for a time!
I can’t remember which, but either Black Bear Lodge or Southside Tea Room (or maybe both) have done a number of themed trivia nights. One of them had a Tarantino trivia night a while back, I know there was a Simpsons one, etc etc. (Edit: Looks like those were run by ManVsBear Trivia. http://www.manvsbeartrivia.com/)
I actually know the Mana bar trivia guy AND the Man VS Bear Trivia guy.
Man VS Bear is good but a bit loose. The problem with specific trivia is you get mega fans who will question the questions and it kinda ruins the fun when people are arguing whether Luke’s lightsaber is white, blue or green in the Millenium Falcon training droid scene in a New Hope.
Old Mana Bar trivia was tight, though. We ended up going quite a few times.
I’d be real keen to start another regular hang out thing with my buds.
Nice! I know what you mean about the super specialised stuff though. A few times we’d planned on going to a “specialised” night, and then said “should probably watch a few things to refresh our memories on specifics” and then that was too much effort and we just want trivia to be fun, not work.
I’d probably be willing to give it a go at some point! West End is good for me as parking is easy and free! Not sure which week I’ll be able to give it a go at this point, but it ticks all the right boxes for me so far!
Can’t do Mondays 🙁
So I see Kotaku is still acting up. Fun. I finished VTM:B on the weekend. I enjoyed the ending. Also played through the entirety of Alpha Protocol. I’ve owned it for years and now I’ve finally played it, and it’s pretty damn good. It surprises me that it reviewed poorly and didn’t sell well.
I think people now generally understand that there’s gold in Alpha Protocol if you dig deep enough; you just have to break through a really solid crust of Obsidianism to get to it.
More due to the glitches and bugs than anything else from what I heard.
When I first tried to play the game (in 2011 I think) I gave up because I couldn’t make it past the first cutscene, the game just kept on crashing. No problems this time, ‘cept for Thornton having the wrong hair in a few conversations.
I think part of the Alpha Protocol reviewing problem was that its pre-release hype had it pegged as having a lot more freedom. Like… deus-ex style and more. In the end, though, all the complexities of your dialogue choices and skills ended up with the same missions regardless, just different bonuses going into it. It was disappointing.
Also, buggy as hell. REALLY buggy. It had an impact. I liked the meta-game/conversation stuff plenty, wasn’t really enamoured of the missions. I really should give it another go though, because I honestly only did three of them.
Game of Thrones ep 6 review!
I liked it.
I really liked it.
Happy Tuesday!
They’ve pretty well portioned some of the events from the book through this season, that’s for sure. I was worried it’d be the big event at the start then episodes of nothing.
http://www.rot13.com/index.php
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V qb jbeel gung arkg frnfba vg’yy uvg n ovg bs n jnyy gubhtu.
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QBEAR
ZNEGRYYF GRNEVAT FUVG HC
Nyy V jnag sebz shgher TbG.
about Locke
Dhrfgvba nobhg Ybpxr, zl fvfgre gryyf zr gung va gur obbx Oenaf qbrfa’g trg pncgherq naq gnxra gb Xenfgn’f xrrc naq fur pna’g erzrzore Ybpxr sebz gur obbxf. Jub jnf ur jbexvat sbe? Ur boivbhfyl jnagrq gb gnxr Oenaf gb cebsvg va fbzr jnl ohg gurer ner irel srj crbcyr jub npghnyyl xabj Oenaf vfa’g qrnq jnf ur jbexvat sbe gur Obygbaf?
Ybpxr vf n perngvba bs gur frevrf- ur’f na nznytnz bs n ohapu bs punenpgref, vapyhqvat Inetb Ubng (jub phg bss Wnvzr’f unaq). Ybpxr jnf jbexvat sbe Ebbfr Obygba, naq jnf hc gurer cerggl zhpu gb gel naq gnxr bhg Wba Fabj, jub jnf gur bayl erny pynvznag gb gur Fgnex anzr yrsg (gung gurl xabj nobhg, tvira Obygba guvaxf gung Gurba xvyyrq Oena naq Evpxba)
Va gur obbx, Oena vfa’g arne Penfgre’f xrrc. Ur pebffrf gur jnyy jvgu gur nffvfgnapr bs Pbyqunaqf (jub V qba’g guvax jr’yy frr). Pbyqunaqf xvyyf gur zhgvarref.
And @redartifice
Ebbfr Obygba xabjf nobhg Evpxba naq Oena orvat nyvir. Va gur fprar jurer Enzfnl trgf Gurba gb tvir uvz n funir gurl nyfb gryy uvz nobhg gur xvqf fheivivat, fb ur bssref tbyq naq cebcregl gb Ybpxr vs ur svaqf gurz.
@blaghman
V’q sbetbggra gung. Bs pbhefr, guvf ragver cybg vf whfg yrnqvat hc gb Jlzna Znaqreyl naq Serl cvrf
Ybpxr jnf znvayl onfrq bss n zrna oybxr jvgu n yvfc, Inetb Ubng, yrnqre bs n tebhc bs fjbeqf sbe uver pnyyrq gur Oenir Pbzcnavbaf. Gurl jrer uverq ol Gljva qhevat gur jne bs gur 5 xvatf gb pnhfr unibp va gur Evireynaqf. Jura Ebbfr Obygba gbbx Uneerauny gurl whzcrq fuvc gb Obygbaf freivpr.
I like the fact I’m now up to date with it and don’t have to hide from conversations 😀 Next week is going to be fun
Nice! I think I’ve successfully hidden everyone of facebook who gasms each week over the eps..which is essentially what I’ve done above.
Shit.
*hides self*
4:30 am to 8:00pm work day
15 hours of work yesterday.
Last night i got home and fell onto bed, i did not move for 10 hours. My body is probably going to start rejecting my weird work/sleep/play schedule.
It’s a lot easier when you have no life like I do!
Arent you like 396 next month? Is the secret to long life to just work and sleep and have no life??
Funny you should mention that, because I read this the other day, which I think is worth investigating:
https://medium.com/p/38cdcd2a8034
Which is partly why they say time speeds up for us as we age. The older we get the less “new” experiences we have and so subjectively it feels like the days are passing by much quicker than they did when we were young and the world was new.
It’s also a very good reason to do things you wouldn’t usually.
That’s what I told your Mum, actually. 😛
DOROTHY MANTOOTH IS A SAINT
@transientmind
Let’s leave the mother’s out of this.
So cool! I floated a theory to Mrs Shane a year or so ago that perception of time is entirely based upon the acquisition of new knowledge/experience (which is why even a minute lasts forever as a kid, because everything is a learning experience; but as a rut-bound adult, years fly by).
It’s good to see I wasn’t too far off the mark.
Then you have the situation where you’re really looking forward to something in a years time, the weeks are disappearing in the fog of monotony but the date isn’t approaching any faster, slower if anything.
It’s 187 days until I fly to Bangkok, and 171 till PAX.
COUNTING!
311 days until I fly out to Japan.
This commenting system is being pretty anti-social. I think I might stay away. I’ll report him to his supervisors (tech support) and I’ll return if they have any useful advice/ETA …
Sat down and had a real look at the figures for franchising my shop. I’d end up working 60 hour weeks for an extra $200. So basically they want me to pay $25000 for a chance to work more for less. I’d be better off financially if I worked the extra hours for the company.
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That’s… not a good arrangement.
Man, nothing you say here is really endearing me to that company.
In this case it’s nothing being forced on me. I finally get to say hell no to them without problems.
If you’re not going to franchise with them, is one of the rival chains offering a better deal?
Yeah but you could call people names
Wow that is a shit arrangement
That’s pretty stark. Maybe you should put those numbers out in front of them, send it to them and ask if they can sweeten the deal for you.
Rumour has it that’s how various other professionals respond to being presented with boilerplate contracts to get actual good deals.
Like Beavwa!
Probably not in this case. The people they hire in general aren’t very bright (says something about me I guess) and only see the dollars the shop makes without every other considerations. If I don’t they’ll pretty easily find someone who will.
Fuck that shit, dude.
Speaking of franchising, I assume the Mister Minit near me is now franchised to that bloke you were telling me was looking at taking it over? Cause I noticed he was still there at like 7:30pm Sat night finishing up work?!
Dark Souls 2 Stuff :
Spider lady = Dead.
She caused me a bit of trouble. 3 times got her down to within one hit of winning, & then… SPIDERS IN MY BACK.
Tried summoning someone to help, but they were a bit of a jerk & didn’t even go through the fog gate into the arena.
anyway…. in the end, I prevailed.
went down the Majula Well & explored The Gutter. man…. its a bit dark down there. couldn’t find a bonfire & then died & I couldn’t be bothered finding my way back.
The only bosses I’ve skipped so far are Sly & the Family Stone (gargoyles) and Dean Martin & the Rat Pack (Royal Rat Vanguard). both of which I might get onto tonight, before re-trying The Gutter. after that…… I don’t know where I’m supposed to go.
Question – When you summon someone, what’s the difference between summoning a Phantom & summoning a Shade?
Shades only last a certain amount of time which drops with every enemy killed.
ahh. thanks. using a small soapstone, as opposed to the large one, yeah?
Yup.
After you take on The Gutter, there’s a path to follow:
Erzrzore gur sbttl ovg bs gur jbbqf? Ubj whfg orsber gung ovg, ng gur obasver, gurer jnf npghnyyl n pubvpr bs guerr qverpgvbaf? Bar bs gur bgure cnguf yrnqf gb gur Fuevar bs Jvagre, juvpu lbh pna haybpx jura lbh unir nyy sbhe Terng Fbhyf (be vs lbh unir n Fbhy Zrzbel bs ng yrnfg 1 zvyyvba), juvpu va ghea yrnqf gb Qenatyrvp Pnfgyr, naq gur arkg cngu gb sbyybj.
You’ve skipped two of my favourite boss battles (EDIT: actually, I was thinking of the Royal Rat Authority). I’ve decided that the Gargoyles fight is my favourite part of Dark Souls 2.
Shades don’t last as long as phantoms, and every kill they get reduces the time they’re gonna spend with you. Phantoms are on a time limit, too, but it seems more generous.
Yeah, I’ve had my Phantom timer run out twice while Sunbroing, both of those times in No Man’s Wharf (which is very long when you don’t have the shortcut), and one of them was because the host spent a good few minutes wheeling and dealing with Gavlan.
I always run ahead when that happens, start blasting fools. Did you know you can uvg gur Ab Zna’f Junes oryy jvgu n enatrq nggnpx gb pnyy gur fuvc? Znxrf gur yriry nobhg 1/3 fubegre.
😀 Great tip, really don’t like that level.
The Royal Rat Vanguard was the easiest fight in the whole game for me. Went in, blasted a couple of things, “You win!”. I don’t even know what I did but I didn’t complain 😛
There’s one spiky looking rat in the middle of the pack. He doesn’t have a whole lot of health, but he hits pretty hard if you let him. It’s a pretty basic fight, that one, though. I think the first boss battle in Brightstone is probably easier (the congregation in the chapel), but not by much.
I happened to have a strong hits-everything-surrounding-you pyromancy equipped for that area. Roasted everything in the room in one hit 😛 Very lucky I didn’t get rid of it before the boss fight because I was finding it useless in that area!
That fight took me godamn forever, I was slaying rats left, right, and centre, never really figuring out that there was any one particular rat to kill – I thought I just had to kill enough of them, and was puzzled by the health bar only going down every now and then by seeming coincidence as I fought my way free of clusters to get some breathing room again.
Gargoyles were really tough the one time I tried em.
My character isn’t suited to tackling mobs. decided I’d come back after levelling up a bit. not sure, but I might be a bit more successful tonight.
I took them down as a melee character the first time I tried. It was really intense and required a lot of lucky dodging. In the end I had five of the fucking things surrounding my guy, but he prevailed somehow! I’m not that good at the game, but felt like a goddamned rockstar after this victory.
In NG+, I had my cleric build in force, and it was a lot simpler, even though my chap was a lot squishier.
It’s funny how people struggle with different bosses. Nobody seemed to have as much trouble with the Ruin Sentinels as I did (must’ve attempted it at least 20 times…) but I beat the Gargoyles on the first try too! (Lightning Spear is amazing)
The Chariot, Giant Lord and Lost Sinner were my roadblocks.
Which is so weird, because those were some of the easiest for me, but I remember being envious at some of the ones you mentioned were a joke.
(Pursuer stands out in my mind. Dude murdered me so much when I hadn’t explored anywhere other than Forest of Giants.)
Yeah, had no problems with The Ruin Sentinels or Giant Lord and found Smelter and Pursuer not a huge problem.
But the first Dragonrider smashed me since I went that way first and I struggled against the Congregation and Freya.
Also died like 50 times against NG+ Chariot till I remembered alluring skulls.
Well, that meeting with a lawyer went a lot better once I threatened to leave.
??? You doing okay?
Contract ‘negotiation’. They opened by saying they wouldn’t change anything, so I got to use the line “Well, I think we’re done here then.”
Went to leave but gave them an opening to save it, I rolled on a minor point once they gave a real explanation, then they agreed to all other changes.
Fun and games, but never want to go through this again.
Edit: the joys of building a house
That sucks buddy. Hugs to you and Pip
Glad you got it sorted though. Stress will be all worth it when you open the door to your new house.
Walking is a great, great negotiation tool.
Knocked $1000 off the price of my car by beginning a walkout.
You totally rose like a phoenix, bro.
Let it Go.
You are a constant thorn in my side, Pow.
Yeah, so I think I may have some kind of hormone imbalance or something. Maybe the body’s really over-compensating in recovering from being sick, producing too much testosterone or similar, because MAN have I been antsy lately. Shackled to a desk when all I want to do is just… I dunno. Explode out, crash through an obstacle course, then hunt and kill my food with my hands. A power-walk around the block every couple hours just isn’t cutting it for working off the aggression during the workday. I’m not angry about anything, it’s just the whole body is just… primed. Might need to shuffle work hours to see if I can squeeze in a mid-day workout or something to get rid of that fire in the blood. Maybe some energizing effect from the onset of glorious winter and the long-desired chill, but whatever it is, it’s really distracting.
I hear there’s some websites with *whisper* pictures of naked ladies out there which can help a man release some pent up energy.
Don’t ask me where though. I’ve never seen one.
Just have a fap, man.
The tribe has spoken. You are hereby exiled to RedTube.
Edit: Reply fail to @transientmind
I love that this is where the guys first went with it.
Although:
1) I don’t think I get the famous ‘sedative’ effect that some seem to.
2) There is a time and a place for all things, and for these things I don’t think the time or place is ‘multiple times a day at work’. 😛
Though I do probably need to get laid. But with my girlfriend in the state she’s in, that’s… complicated. So.
I’m thinking eating lots of food will do the trick.
Don’t you have a government job? I thought that’s all government employees do?
*rimshot*
(NO, NOT A DOUBLE ENTENDRE)
Only in a circle.
Thought about signing up for tough mudder?
That is the best and worst feeling. If you can get down to the gym and just take it out on the punching bags. Work up a big sweat until you are exhausted.
I was getting that sort of thing a few years back when I was ultra stressed at work (various issues) and it would get almost panicy at night, sometimes actually going into anxiety attacks. But a lot of the time just felt like I couldn’t relax, couldn’t stand still or lie down, wanted to constantly go out and run around or punch a wall or something.
Changed a few things, also stopped having any caffeine after midday and that helped a bit. Then changed jobs and it went away completely. Dunno if this is the same thing you’ve got.
But maybe you should go punch some stuff? Get a membership at a gym that has a boxing room or something – a lot of them do – and get some training gloves and go beat the shit out of a sandbag?
I’ve got both a boxing bag and focus pads, you’re more than welcome to come around to my place and do some boxing training if you want to work the aggression out. Warm up with a jog down to wagga…
The big, shiny Dota 2 championships are coming up soon and Valve has released a $10 virtual book thingy that gives in game rewards. Here’s the kicker, 25% of the sales for the compendium go towards the prize pool and there are stretch goals.
The prize pool started at $1.6m. In just a few short days, the prize pool is now sitting at $4m. FOUR MILLION DOLLAREEDOOS! That’s a lot of hats. The final stretch goal is if the prize pool hits $6m. I think they’re going to need more stretch goals because there’s two months before this madness ends.
Also more people are playing Dota now because of it.
In other news, I’ve finally started playing ranked matchmaking in Dota. Turns out that I’m a terrible Storm Spirit but hot damn is Ancient Apparition fun, even when you’re forced to mid after the team composition ends up pretty wonky.
MINI PUDGEEEEE
We are going to smash that 6m goal, but after customizable buildings I’m not sure how any additional stretch goals could get any more diverse/crazy. A taunt, maybe?
All heroes are now Pudge.
We’ll have the entire cash economy of Russia and the CIS nations in Valve’s pockets by the end of the week.
When i first started playing Harli was like “storm spirit is amazing”
i died 21 times in a bot match
HARLI IS A LIAR
@Harli
#4harli
edit: That took 18 attempts to post.
ಠ_ಠ
Anyone following Clerks III news? There’s not a whole lot out there that’s up-to-date, but this is only a few days old and right from the horse’s mouth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zGTp28Zofk
Hoping to premiere at Sundance in Jan next year apparently.
I did not even know a Clerks III was in the making, this should be fairly interesting
I really liked how excited he was when he first announced it,spoke of waking up in the middle of the night and writing for hours giggling to himself, I hope it turns out well.
edit: thank you, only took like 10 tries to reply.
Yeah, I’m powerful excited for this film, and it’s pretty much entirely because he’s excited for it! 😀
super late reply. I’m pretty excited too, been a big fan for ages, have all the movies and Clerks cartoon. I even foolishly bought Jay & Silent Bob do degrassi junior high, it is terrible, it’s like Kevin Smith had a crush on one of the actresses and wrote a script just so he could make out with her or something. Can’t wait.
Let me just say that Australian-based online stores are absolutely clueless and cannot compete internationally if they continue what they’re doing. I went to buy books from Angus & Robertson and despite being required to pay Australian prices all of their online orders are shipped from the UK so you have to wait for a couple of weeks anyway. I cut $20 off my order by buying from overseas and having a similar shipping timeframe even with the exorbitant postage cost.
Australian retail, get your act together.
Bookworld and Boomerang Books are both half-decent aussie online booksellers.
I couldn’t access Bookworld from work but Boomerang Books are just as expensive as buying it from my FLGS and still take about 10 days to actually ship stuff out, which is comparable to a lot of international sellers.
I think online book retailers are probably worse than other sellers in Australia because I have a huge number of female friends who swear by Black Milk prices and services. Books seem to just get hyperinflated compared to everywhere else and the service is not improved to compensate for that.
I bought an eletric razor from The Shaver Shop’s online store yesterday. It arrived already. Also a beanie and hobo gloves from City Beach’s online store, shipped already. They’re not all bad. 😀
I have a package waiting at the post office.
It’s either something I ordered from EB two days ago or it’s Metro 7.
Aw man, Metro 7 is being sent out?
That means the delivery guy I didn’t answer the door for this morning was probably for me! 😛
@beardymcmuttonchops has been putting pics up on his instagram of piles of packages.
It’s either Metro 7 or he’s being a really, really dumb drug dealer.
IT’S SOCIAL MEDIA RED HOW IS ANYONE GOING TO KNOW I HAVE THE STUFF IF I DON’T SHOW IT OFF
A shaved face and a beanie/hobo gloves seem like conflicting things to have.
It was a beard trimmer.
He’s going for the Derelicte look.
The best shipping I’ve ever seen was from the Logitech Shop, ordered myself a driving force gt wheel around 2pm one day, arrived at my door (several hundred km away from the source) the next morning. Which was christmas eve.
I’ve had a couple products turn up a couple days earlier than expected with jb hi-fi, and at prices that I am pretty confident were computer errors (digital collector’s edition for less than regular edition? Sign me up, son), but otherwise I wouldn’t know. My last book-ordering experience a year back was pretty bad. (Long delay, TERRIBLE prices. Dymocks.)
Books is a curious issue. The problem is that grey import restriction laws which allow retailers to buy from non-Australian suppliers are still in place for books. The Rudd government evaluated this very early into their term and the Australian book publishing industry chucked a hissy fit and so the restrictions were not removed.
The net result is that it is illegal for an Australian bookseller to source books from cheaper suppliers and publishers. The thought was that this would help prop up the publishing industry. Instead, the price differential is such that Australians just buy books online. And the result of that is that all the book retailers in Australia fell apart and all those retailers closed down and stuff.
I know when I was at uni there was also talk that there was apparently a certain quota of books that needed to have been written by Australian authors. I can’t recall if that was the case with a lot of retailers or I was just mishearing and the situation is as you describe.
In any case, the publishing industry for books is a lot like the publishing for movies and (to a lesser extent) games. I think there are some pretty hefty restrictions on being a foreign publisher and publishing something in Australia no matter the medium, hence why a lot of the larger entities (EA, Village Roadshow, etc) have local branches to handle local publishing. All of that probably contributes to why everything is so gosh-darn expensive for any form of entertainment.
Edit because typos.
I get that they feel like they didn’t have any other options than ‘lose money/be wiped out due to being unable to compete’ and that unknown territory and innovating to survive is scary and unfair, but I kind of feel like anyone who tries to fight the advance of technology with protectionist bullshit pretending it doesn’t exist and that you can wall off your country, kind of deserve what they get.
100% agree. What was designed to prop up the publishing industry ended up nearly killing the retail industry. And without retail to sell the books the publishers took a hit anyway!
Looking through that article about the Watch Dogs collectors insanity no one had mentioned the craziest thing. This is a game that is the first of its IP. There’s every chance the game could be terrible. Which being an open world Ubisoft game probably means it will look nice and have an interesting premise ruined by bland, repetitive gameplay.
I shudder to think of the number at the end of the marketing bill…
It will be a zero, preceded by many other zeroes and another digit.
However – and this could be beneficial, or the measuring stick that people will use to beat Watch Dogs to death – Ubisoft + Open World in many peoples minds = Assassins Creed, a bankable IP (that hasn’t necessarily hit the mark, but certainly did with the last game).
While I haven’t seen any marketing centered around “From the people who brought you AC”, I know it won’t be far from people’s minds.
Having said that, like I said above, people may use the AC angle to beat it to death if it doesn’t live up to expectations.
If I were to put my cynic hat on right now, I’d suggest that Ubi will be comparing the game to the AC franchise, critics will compare it to GTA (which isn’t entirely fair, since it seems like Watch Dogs will be very goal-oriented, whereas GTA was a lot more directionless life-simulator if you wanted it to be), and fanboys will be comparing it to AC or possibly even LA Noire, to compare more favourably against Rockstar.
Primary criticisms to be leveled against it will be:
* multiplayer annoyances (too much/not enough/awkwardly-implemented)
* graphics/porting differences (“AC runs much nicer than this on the same hardware” / “why does the PC look so much better, this was an opportunity to show off next-gen!”)
* gunplay making the game easier/more rewarding than the much-vaunted hacking does.
* players will object to feeling rail-roaded into ‘tutorial’ missions or having their options limited in order to showcase a particular problem-solution required to fit the upcoming cinematic.
* complaining about some topic handled ‘insensitively’ in the story, mistaking the presence of a subject for endorsement of it due to hypersensitive reading-in.
* unlikeable 2-dimensional characters who lack the nuanced and self-aware charm of GTA’s protagonists and foils.
* decent game but doesn’t surpass GTA5, wasn’t worth the wait.
At a guess, anyway.
I rather hope it surpasses GTA5, I felt that was something of a fizzer in the final analysis. Lots of good stuff but too much that felt like bland filler (like franklin)
It won’t be as much as Activision are apparently spending on marketing for Destiny though!
500 million.
EDIT: And yet despite that, right now there are only 4 editions of that game you can preorder: the Xbox 360 one, the PS3 one, the PS4 one or the version for Xbox One.
I thought that was 340 mil marketing, 160 mil for development and distribution.
That may be the case. I just saw the 500 mil number thrown around.
Still a fuckton of marketing money.
I haven’t even heard of Destiny if it wasn’t for the random Kotaku comments. I have no idea where that money is going.
It was one of the big PS4 announcement games shown off and was also at Sony’s E3 press conference last year. And I don’t think the hype machine has really started yet. I think they’re expecting to start it in earnest at E3 next month and then they have the beta starting in July (presumably on the Seventh annual Bungie Day, July 7th) and I think they’re going to rely a lot on positive word of mouth for it from that beta. But it’s releasing pretty soon too – 9th September – so I agree they seem to be slacking on the marketing a bit.
I expect nothing but mediocrity at this stage. I also expect it to get 8.5/10+ in reviews. And I expect half the city to be walled off by DLC.
There’s no comments!
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Except yours! You are the Omega Commenter.
I got that too. My user profile had 0 comments against my name. Terrifying
Hah. While the Australian Socceroos slogan is pretty corny, I reckon it’s not that bad in comparison to some of the other countries. Mind you, the Netherlands one is pretty great.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/soccer/hopping-mad-socceroos-bus-slogan-unveiled-20140513-zraz0.html
“Impossible is not a French word” heh not bad.
Australia’s could be better, hopping into what history? Getting our arses handed to us in the 1st round again.
Well, it says it was done by an online poll… maybe people don’t know spelling and thought it was “hoping”?
“Eh, here’s hoping we do alright, fingers crossed!’
Why don’t England just keep their old slogan “We won once, it might happen again”
“England: We usually do OK!”
“England: You know, we invented the bloody game, it’d be nice if you could let us win it once in a while.”
Nah that’s their slogan for cricket
I WAS going to put in parentheses, ‘It’s bad enough with the bloody Australians in cricket…’ 🙂
I got a lot of feelings Bethesda, and you hurt damn near everyone of them.
But the writing for Game of Thrones isn’t bland enough for Bethesda. 😛
Yeah… was gonna say Game of Thrones has way too much depth for them to be able to take on 😛
they were too busy making a gigantic world to worry about something as trivial as a plot 😛
Harsh… but fair.
On the other hand, Bethesda’s perfectly happy with murdering any story character at all, so they at least have that in common.
and yet, no other open world game comes close to Bethesda open world games. =P
They do the world fine, just not the writing. XD
Yeah, it’s why Bethesda wouldn’t do a GoT game justice. The biggest appeal to me is the story / characters not the world. A Bioware GoT game though …
EDIT: actually, a GoT game by The Witcher guys would be fantastic.
Eh, why work on someone else’s IP when you’ve got your own mega one in a similar setting?
Hell, Skyrim had a lot of GoT-esque touches.
Why? So Red could’ve created a Martell and harried his way through the Reach to lay claim to Highgarden.
So I could’ve created an Arryn and jumped off the Eyrie \o/
Oh the possibilities..
But yeah, the closest we can get to exploring the North is through Skyrim 😉
MARTELLS REPRESENT
I don’t think we’ll see an open world AsoIaF until after the series has finished.
I’d say so, I’d rather see nothing than get hyped and heartbroken. I’m dying to see Telltales take though.
Speaking of Martells.
V’q fnl va nobhg 2 rcvfbqrf zl tenivgne jvyy svanyyl or vzzbegnyvfrq ba gryrivfvba.
http://www.rot13.com/index.php
BOOK 4 DON’T LOOK OUTSIDERS
Zl snibhevgr cneg nobhg NSSP vf gur ernyvfngvba gung gur Znegryyf ner cynlvat gur tnzr ng n uvture yriry guna zbfg bs gur bgure snzvyvrf.
Qbena vf bar bs gur xrl
purffplinffrznfgref bs gur jubyr guvatV’z phevbhf gb frr ubj Qbena jvyy ernpg jvgu Dhragla trggvat Xraghpxl sevrq. Zl zrzbevrf unml ohg V guvax Dhragla gevrq gb uver gur Tbyqra Pbzcnal ng fbzr cbvag, jub vf abj jvgu Nrtba, jub vf nccneragyl Gnetnelra. Vs Qbear onpxf Nrtba’f pynvz vg jbhyq znxr guvatf vagrerfgvat.
V jvfu V pbhyq erzrzore Qbena’f ynfg puncgre orpnhfr V guvax fbzr bs uvf cynaf pbzr gb yvtug, yvxr fraqvat Nevnaar gb Xvatf Ynaqvat.
Qbena, Yvggyrsvatre, Inelf/Vyylevb zhfg or cnvashy gb cynl pelinffr ntnvafg..
Qbena vf qrsvavgryl znxvat uvf cynl, rira zber guna Yvggyrsvatre.
Fcrnxvat bs cynlf, v qb yvxr gur gurbel gung gur jubyr frevrf vf nobhg gnxvat n tbbq snzvyl (Fgnexf) naq gjvfgvat gurz nyy vagb ivyynvaf.
Png tbrf sebz ybivat zbgure gb gjvfgrq haqrnq sbphfrq ba iratrnapr
Fnafn tbrf sebz qhgvshy qnhtugre gb znfgre frre
Oena tbrf sebz cyhpxl xvq gb qnex zlfgvp
Evpxba tbrf sreny naq fnintr
Neln tbrf sebz fjrrg gbzobl gb haercragnag xvyyre
naq Wba Fabj orpbzrf n guerng sebz gur abegu, cbffvoyl nyfb haqrnq.
I’m glad really imagine if we got a half arsed Skyrim and a half arsed GoT game, Skyrim was already filled with bugs, imagine if they hadn’t focused on it, probably for the best I reckon. Not that it wouldn’t have been awesome
Or a buggy GoT game, a less buggy Skyrim game, and TESO never being born.
#optimism
All the Game of Thrones games so far have been half assed.
Telltale will save us!
yeah sorry, worded that poorly, I mainly just meant Skyrim would have suffered.
Also, the snark comment
A proper GoT game will never be made until you can eat food in games. #trenchersofsoup
I’ve never wanted to eat stale bread and oily stew more then when reading those books.
Also, honeywine….maybe even dog sausages….never locusts.
Speaking of that I found this the other day http://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/31520141821186.jpg
Skyrim entered development back when Game of Thrones was only the title of the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire. They had no way of knowing it would be the most over-exposed show ever.
Oh really.. i thought A Game of Thrones was first released in ’96.. A few books wouldve been out by then.
Eh.
I was meaning that back when Skyrim started development, the TV series hadn’t taken shape yet. ‘A Game of Thrones’ was the name of the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire, not a name for the whole series the way the TV series has basically retconned it into.
WALKING DEAD GAME. Apparently the next chapter is dropping today for PC folks who can’t control their impulses, and tomorrow for the patient well-adjusted console users.
…might be American dates, in which case we might need to add a day to it.
Imma play tonight and post spoilers all over here, twitter and Facebook and tag you in every one.
#masterrace
Whaaaaaat?
These releases always creep up on me. Will check when I get home! (and if they are the American dates I’ll be very upset at you, Shane)
Not on Steam yet. Will be tomorrow for us, alas.
FUCK YOU KOTAKU, I’M NOT POSTING TOO FAST! >:|
YEAH, KOTAKU, YOU AND YOUR ERROR MESSAGES AND YOUR NECROCOMMENTS AND YOUR BEING IN A BUILDING
Speaking of buildings… @dc you should totally check out this photo-set of buildings getting what’s coming to them. (ie: Post-apocalyptic urban decay.)
http://thingsforcam.tumblr.com/post/84108714624
…I should really finish 400 days.
… you just reminded me I finished season 1 and own 400 days and never played it :/
You’re not missing much. It really felt like they had come up with a bunch of TERRIBLE HEARTBREAKING DECISIONS©®™ they couldn’t fit in the story so just made a bunch of one shots to use them.
From memory I played it the one time and completed half of it, i’d probably restart to get the fresh experience again. I couldn’t tell you who the characters are and what decisions I made if I tried.
Pretty sure XBox Live updates on a Wednesday, so I think that’s pretty accurate. Man, I need to pull my finger out and start playing this and The Wolf Among Us, got the season pass for both and I’ve only played ep 1 of TWAU so far.
#toomanygames
Too long sleep. Too many dreams. Too much dead. Ugh.
Edit: Was trying to post a picture of my Ghostbusters watch that came in the mail today, but stupid fucking imgur won’t let me upload the photo, it gets to 90% and stops every time. Tried using a different website, and I can’t get that to work either.
Man, I feel dumb.
Bad link?
Also, Tinypic seems awful.
See my edit above.
I use http://minus.com/ when Imgur poos itself.
Cheers, I’ll try that.
Edit: Ok, let’s try this again.
Edit 2: Yay! It worked thanks @powalen.
’tis a fine arm clock indeed
Chemtrails have become the hot topic on Facebook at the moment. Apparently the UN have irrefutable proof about weather manipulation to advance first world interests somehow.
Fun fact: my phone autocorrects chemtrails to CJ entrails. @cj
Actually irrefutable proof or what facebook people claim as irrefutable proof?
You tell me.
http://truththeory.com/2014/04/20/chemtrails-discussed-at-united-nations-must-watch-for-all-non-belivers/
I would, but my internal bullshit protections wouldn’t allow me to visit a link with ‘truththeory’ or ‘must-watch-for-all-non-believers’ (criminally mis-spelled). 🙁
Oh well. I’ll assume weather manipulation is in effect and that the illuminati have our best interests at heart.
Chemtrails is how they got people to believe the moon landings were real and that 9/11 was done by terrorists instead of the US government right?
I hear it’s actually the concentrated urine of the reptile men that wear human skin so they can secretly rule the planet. They shoot it out of their flying saucers as they reach high altitudes after they fly out of the hidden entrances into the hollow at the center of the earth that are in antarctica. Once it’s up there it condenseses around airliner exhaust and it forms trails and that’s how those of us that know the Truth are aware of what they’re up to.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuude…
http://a.pomf.se/ibbldr.webm
So New Yoshi’s Island is pretty great, huh?
Apparently Posting Too Fast is fixed:
https://twitter.com/d3v1an7/status/466114522655096832
EDIT: But spoilers are still broken 🙁
I just got the “you are posting comments too quickly” bug so … it’s not fixed.
🙁 Are you sure you weren’t actually posting too fast?
@benwhite
Well it was a reply to @freezespreston which was at 6:06pm and my last post was at 4:06pm so I don’t think I was posting too fast. Maybe it was a one off thing?
Drinking game: Go through tonight’s budget and take a shot for every broken election promise.
*reads first paragraph*
*passes out surrounded by bottles of beer*
MY LIVER CAN’T TAKE IT.
Mine can… The hangover however, bleh.
I’d want to get drunk *before* listening to the budget even if I wasn’t anticipating a clusterfuck. It’s like porn for accountants.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/Alien_creator_H.R._Giger_is_dead.html?cid=38569780
Well this sucks if it’s true. No-one else is reporting on it atm though
D: D: D:
Damn, that’s a shame. They don’t describe the injuries from the fall, it wasn’t a wound in his chest was it?
Impaled on something phallic and mildly disturbing?
Possibly happening near a weird leathery object that looks a bit like an egg
🙁 He was an inspiration to me drawing things as a kid!
(Eg: this tattoo someone wanted: http://urbanstray.com/images/bust.jpg)
I’m fairly sure that every single ranked game of Dota that I’ve played has been while playing as Ancient Apparition.
Seriously, that dude is one of the most fun heroes. Die at the start of a team fight? That’s okay, by the time you respawn, if the fight is still going you can kill every single person on the other team from the other side of the map.
I will need to play someone else though. I can’t just play one hero the entire time. That’s a little odd.
Nothing odd about playing to your strengths
Dear TAY
It can’t be a Duplicate Comment if you didn’t let me post it the first time
F U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37k_AOpEVXw&t=1m15s
Still swooning.
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/05/09/list-of-renewed-and-cancelled-broadcast-shows-for-the-2013-14-broadcast-season/261970/
Raising Hope got cancelled.
Good god, is Grey’s Anatomy still running?
And Castle and Sleepy Hollow being renewed again. Guess I should actually watch them.
Urk. NCIS: New Orleans and CSI: Cyber to be debuted very soon.
Exclusively whipping up a GUI in Visual Basic!
I’d watch NCIS: Norleans
I kind of enjoyed Raising Hope season 1. Didn’t really watch past that, though. Guess its cancellation is my fault, then. Sorry about that.
I though Almost Human and Intelligence were well received? How’d they get cancelled?
I think a few people on here may enjoy this
http://www.avasdemon.com/
Are you a fan of webcomics in general? Have you read Gunnerkrigg Court?
Yeah. I read Earthsong and I was reading another one the other day but didn’t save it because they didn’t update regularly.
I haven’t read Gunnerkrigg court, no.
I highly recommend checking out gunnerkrigg.com – awesome comic.
I read others but dunno what is your thing. thepunchlineismachismo.com is always great – video game humour.
nm
I’m sorry. I didn’t know what to say, so I didn’t want to post. You should feel free to vent though.
Nah, it’s not the right place. There is no right place 🙁
Of course it’s the right place.
We’re all friends here 🙂
I demand ye vent! Or I will give your book a 1 star and write a review saying “One star as writer would not vent, kept holding back which arguably holds everything back”
No holding back!
i7, 8G, HD7850. Dated and with mods it goes between 45 – 60fps. Good enough.
Reply to @stickman – Site still be broken. 🙁
At least you know you have a computer better than the Kotaku server(s?)
ZING!
I see, thanks! What resolution? 1920×1080? I should be okay then. If you don’t mind emailing me links to the mods, that’d be neat. adr1k000@ googly mailz.
Ah only 1680×1050. Close enough I guess. Here’s the mods (for other people’s reference):
ENB The ENB of the Apocalypse
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/50782/
(I’ve tried others but this one I liked the best so far. There’s other god ENBs worth checking out too).
Weather Project Reality
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/42180/
(Adds nice weather effects. Doesn’t play nice with ENBs especially because it makes night time super dark, so need to tweak the ENB settings – using SHIFT+ENTER).
Other Weather Nevada Skies
http://www.moddb.com/mods/nevada-skies-urwl/downloads/nevada-skies-urwlified-v715
(Can only use one weather mod at a time so I swap between these.)
Interior Lights Interior Lighting Overhaul
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/35794/
(Better lights inside + switches).
More Lights: ELECTRO-CITY
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/37908
(Adds nice lights to the desert).
Film Grain/Effects: DYNAVISION3
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/51577/
(Adds some extra effects like film grain. Much of the stuff doesn’t work with the ENB switched on though – like brightness or color controls).
Better Character Models: Fallout Character Overhaul
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/54460/
(Makes characters better and less generic looking).
Better Weapon Textures: Weapon Retexture Project
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/38285/
(Makes weapons much better looking, but keeps the base weapons).
Texture Overhaul: NMC’s Texture Pack
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/43135/
(Overhauls textures and makes them much better. I use the medium pack for performance sake.)
There’s also mods to check out for better sands, smoothing objects in the distance, more grass, better trees, etc.
Most can be installed with the tool via nexusmods. You’ll also need ArchiveInvalidation Invalidated and New Vegas Script Extender (NVSE). Also grab the Mod Configuration Menu and iHud. The first allows you to manage some mods via the menu, including iHud which can be used to hide the hud intelligently.
That’s what I remember off the top of my head.
I replied with a huge post below, but it’s awaiting moderation. 😛
New dbz abridged is up on the tfs website.
http://teamfourstar.com/video/2488/
Hooray will watch when I get home
So… counting down the years until retirement just got a bit depressing. Guess all that’s left to hope for is an early death.
Joke’s on them, I don’t have to retire if I have nothing to retire from!
Might I suggest a new career as a freelance assassin? I have just the starting job for you…
Aliasalpha’s The Black List
Chin up.. but yes, I too often ponder about an early death over the frailty of being old and a burden to others.
Oh yeah, I know. It’s just kind of dispiriting to have worked for six years, and only be one year closer to retirement after that :\
Work for he next five years extra lazily? I think I’ve witnessed the official retirement age increase 2 maybe 3 times since I turned 18. I’m almost certain it will be increased again before I retire and I’ll be working until I’m 75-80. It’s ok though, pension benefits will be next to zero by them as well. I wonder how much money the country would save by not giving retiring mps a full pensions for the rest of their lives.
Ah well, exercise your right to protest this budget and you’ll be labelled as un-Australian
Mum’s worried she’ll be sent back to work. Not the best of ideas with her severe osteoporosis =/
Surely not?
Abbott would make a toddler work in a coal mine if he could.
Hey all! Haven’t been posting too much as of late, but still been lurking around the joint!
I’ve got a question. I just finished watching Frozen for the first time, and I enjoyed it. Thing is though, I don’t know what makes everyone love it to have received such universal praise?
I’m not knocking the film at all, just looking to see what made it such a hit with those of you who have seen it.
It resonates with those of us who suffer depression and social anxiety.
Thanks 🙂
I think it’s all right, but it’s not Aladdin-classic.
I liked it from an enjoyment standpoint because it had a good, driven story, made a strong emotional connection (to me anyway), had great pacing, and had a great overall tone, theme, and feel to it.
I liked it from a technical standpoint because it was amazingly detailed, had spot on voice acting, good writing, and was really well put together.
Overall that’s why I really enjoyed it 🙂
People love to overplayed songs more than the movie I feel. The movie itself is a bit bland and doesn’t feature any memorable scenes that I could name on the fly. As said previously in TAY I feel that Tangled is a much stronger film and when I first watched that I was thinking “wow, this has the feel of old school Disney films and it works as well”. Maybe it was because of the massive hype, most likely it was becauae of the massive hype, but I never once got that feeling watching Frozen.
Not to say that every decent Disney film has to be like the old films, but Frozen didn’t do anything for me full stop. The characters are exaggerated to the point where they don’t work. I think the hype around it was more to an overexcited marketing team than the film makers
During Disney’s Golden Age their movies were unpredictable, easy to relate to and created music for the movies that were an absolute delight to listen to even by themselves and never pulled away from the story (like Hercules or The Lion King).
More recently though their movies have been predictable and personally it felt like they were rehashing old stories, Frozen was a welcome break from that trend and hopefully is a sign of better things to come =] That’s what hyped me up the most about Frozen, I could never really place a finger on how the story was going to progress and the music for the most part melded into the movie.
It’s pretty good, not super-awesome-great. But then again, I’ve always preferred Pixar and Dreamworks.
It looks amazing, has a pretty good soundtrack, and a lot of heart. I feel it is let down by the fact that the script was completely re-written late into development, and it shows.
In the original script:
Ryfn jnf zrnag gb or gur znva ivyynva, naq Naan jnf zrnag gb qrsrng ure. Nsgre ‘Yrg vg Tb’ jnf jevggra naq fhat ol gur fvatre, gur jevgref unq n punatr bs urneg nf vg jbhyq or zrna gb znxr Ryfn n ivyynva nsgre fhpu n urnegsryg fbat. Be fbzrguvat yvxr gung.
Gurl unq gb unfgvyl perngr n ivyynva, fb gur cevapr thl gbbx gur ebyr. Gurl qvqa’g rira tvir cevapr thl n ubeevoyr qrngu! (Fpne znhyrq ol n cnpx bs ulranf, gur onq thl sebz Byvire naq Pbzcnal trggvat uvg ol n genva, Pynlgba sebz Gnemna univat uvf arpx fanccrq, naq Tnfgba sryy vagb n cvg bs fcvxrf)
Shadowrun Returns is such a rad game.
Love the use of wiz. Totally gonna start using that.
Wiz.
I bought that last sale but haven’t got around to trying it out.
Cyberpunk Fallout 1 and 2 with XCOM combat basically. So brilliant in other words.
I kickstarted it but haven’t got around to trying it out.
It’s incredible, and the DLC is better.
I guess one good consequence of the Budget is that Mr. Strange (who was fed his political leanings by his father) is now finally not a Liberal party voter anymore. “The good thing about voting for them this time is that I’ll get supreme satisfaction from NOT voting for them next time.”
And I got to say “I told you so” when everything I warned him about before the election that would suck for us, happened in the budget. Somehow I don’t feel like I had a win, though. :S
Think of the win as a long term one, it’s not a win today, it’s a win when there’s not really any arguments when explaining politics to the kids
The longterm loss for me (and I’m assuming many others on here)is the NBN. Yeah Labor couldn’t organise a pissup in a brewery but they had the right ideas. Someone acting on a personal agenda shouldn’t be in power and that’s what we have with Abbott and in QLD, Campbell Newman.
Yeah, the NBN as proposed by labor was an amazing piece of infrastructure on par with the US Interstate project or our own original copper wire network. It would have given us decades of use and enabled all sorts of possibilities which we would never have expected it to be capable of. One look at the sort of things that are being set up in places like Kansas City where Google Fiber is rolled out suggests it could have been an amazing asset for the country and probably enabled us to become an information-based economy once the mining boom wanes.
Now it’s a mockery of its former self – it’s basically exactly what we have now, except more people will get access to Telstra High-Frequency Cable.
It doesn’t feel like a win because in the end, you still lose. =(
It’s Two Decades of Dignity all over again.
You don’t win you just do a little better next time.
I find it had to blame people for how they vote. It seems to me that you get to choose between one party that only exceeds their corruption in incompetence and another who only exceeds their incompetence in their corruption.
That’s why everyone should just install me as dictator for the entire world. I promise to be corrupt and incompetent in equal measure May be zero, may not be.
Pushed a little too hard today and now everything’s a bit sore, but I had to laugh. I went to have a long hot-soaking shower before hitting the sack for a good 6hr session sleep, and being tired, I didn’t think much. But what I did think was an echo of something from earlier in the week.
One of the coworkers I’d overheard talking to another one was saying with a sort of bitter cheerfulness, “Every day when I get home, and finish pottering around and review the day, I always end up sighing and telling myself, ‘Well… Tomorrow I’ll do better.’”
I laughed and she looked up, seeming perhaps a bit embarrassed and annoyed. Seeing her expression I shook my head and chuckled, raising a hand with a sad smile and saying, “No… I laugh because I do exactly the same thing.” This apparently was surprising to them.
But getting ready and looking forward to letting the scalding-hot shower do its work at melting away those aches in tired muscles, sure I enough… the same thought.
Tomorrow, I’ll do better.
Tomorrow is always a new day. I try not to carry the baggage from yesterday into today but sometimes it just happens. I try not to judge my day by what I’ve achieved but by the effort I put into it.
Hahah. Part of the review consists on evaluating self-effort and realizing that fell short, too. But y’know. *fistbump for sentiment*
TODAY! 🙂
I can’t fault today yet. Left the house on time, realised I had kiwi fruit in the fridge so extra fruit for breakfast, payday today (ignoring my schedule of payments for however much debt I have for the moment), stuck on my walk behind a girl with a sweet ass for a couple of minutes so the pervert in me is happy. Today is good but that can all change as I haven’t gotten to work yet XD
I usually just say that tomorrow I’ll tell myself I need to do better tomorrow. But then I’ve always tried to be a realist. Probably why I tend to be depressed.
It’s late, so I’m off to bed.
Goodnight, TAY.
Ah-oh, my sisters bf now follows me on Twitter, hahaha!
I don’t know if he knows I’m gay :S
I did tell him when we were both exceedingly drunk, but I don’t think he was paying attention or really remembered :S
(plus he’s super oblivious)
Well, he knows now, hahaha!
Gonna be awkward when he gets home, hahaha! :S
Well if your drunk speech is like your drunk typing, only every third word would have been comprehensible so he might not have known…
Man, I had no idea. Good luck with him. I hope he’s not scared of gay people. =/
Edit: I am a retard
Liondrive is pretty scary.
As if I’m scary 😛
Fabulous maybe, but not scary 😛
*sisters bf kicks your door in* “your gay? Since when? I just thought you had fabulous fashion sense!”
I’ve watched way to much TV. Reading this just lead me to the conclusion that you and your sister are going to start fighting over him only for him to run of with a Mexican movie star.
The first thing she asked me when I came out was if I thought her bf was hot, hahaha!
I kinda accidentally choked a bit and said ewww :S
PHLANISPO DID SOME STUFF
Dark Souls – The
DiaryJournal of SkailorusI got up to the Bell Gargoyles, fought them once, took a break because I was bored, and didn’t return for a month and a half. I only got back into it because my friend was bragging about how he completed twice as much content as I have in 2/3 of the time I took me to get to where I am now.
(How did he get to Anor Londo in 14 hours when it took me 19 hours to get to the Bell Gargoyles. HOW?)
I remembered that my friend had told me that there was a blacksmith that I walked by several times. I found the blacksmith, and upgraded my scimitar to +5, adding 50% more damage. This pleased me. The blacksmith’s bonfire only let me have 5 estus flasks for some reason.
I defeated the three-legged-lightning-staff-guy-with-a-stone-tablet-for-a-face monster because he was already there. I then went back to Firelink Shrine and killed all those skeletons that had given me such a hard time earlier. I found a Fire Keeper Soul, remember that it had something to do with kindling, I went to Firelink Shrine to kindle the bonfire. It said I needed to be human, so I used a humanity item. I tried to kindle the bonfire again. It didn’t do anything because I didn’t know the secret rite. Shit.
I left and killed the Bell Gargoyles. They dropped tail-axes and helmets for some reason. Yay stuff! I turned back because HOLY SHIT I HAVE 20,000 SOULS NOW. GET RID OF IT GET RID OF IT GET RID OF IT YOU’LL ONLY LOSE IT.
The Great Friends List Massacre of 2014
After that chapter, I did something I have been meaning to do for months; conduct a Xbox Live friends list culling. I made sure to send an apology message to families of the victims.
The 21 friends became 3. Of those that remained, 1 is a second account for the console, 1 is a school friend that I haven’t talked to in years yet I don’t want to remove him from my friends list because it would be rude, and the last 1 is a seven-year old that I met in some random multiplayer match and only agreed to be friends with because he asked and I did not want to be rude. Not to mention he is a constant source of entertainment, as he just sent a Message To All Friends telling me to play with him in the newest smash hit, ‘Attack On Titon.’ Not to mention all his voice messages are in an adorable ‘new jersey kid trying to act gangsta’ voice.
I don’t feel especially bad for instigating the massacre, as my friends list was comprised entirely of people I played a single match of Call of Duty with 3 years ago and sent a friend request because I thought their gamertag was funny, only to never interact with them ever again.
My friends list on the PSN contains 4 friends and that’s it. I find it amusing though that my missus plays the same games online as me but when she does and people see her username as being female they can’t get to the friend request button quick enough.
The only way this effects me though is that it’s a lot harder for me to get multiplayer trophies so I don’t bother with them
Do I have you on the PSN? I can’t remember unfortunately
Most likely not. Gamertag is the same as on here. Same with Steam 🙂
The only non-TAYbie/RL friends I’ve added are from accepting friend requests after co-oping in Dark Souls.
Re: Dark Souls. The first kindling to get to 10 flasks you can do from day one. 15+ you gotta find teh thingey. And your friend probably just wasn’t dicking around with grinding like I did. I think I was pretty close to 20’ish hours before killing Bell Gargoyles too, because I’d heard they were hard (Hmph!) and wanted to face them at my strongest. Also, had just discovered blacksmith, and upgrading ain’t cheap at that level son!
Until taybie requests, my PSN friends list consisted of 1 person.
Haha! I had zero PSN friends before I put my details in TAYnames. *puts on uncool guy glasses*
I’ve got 104 on my psn friends list, mostly from people friending me in Battlefield cause I go all John Rambo in Battlefield and people want to be my friend :D. Also have a fair few people I know in real life on there.
The only reason I had one was because it was my best friend who also had a PS3. We never once played anything.
PS4 though, that’ll change. I want The Division damnit!
The upside to going tobed at 8pm is that I wake up at 5am. The downside to that though is that you seemingly have no extra time to do anything in the morning. I guess I’ve checked up on the news at TAY already today but I have the feeling I’m still going to leave for work ten minutes later than I should do. Ho hum. At least my cat looks happy that I’m awake early.
Day ahead; walk to work and wonder when I should start thinking about running to work.
Taybies, I need shopping help!
Audiophiles: Earphones
My in-ear headphones are breaking One of the has a wire that worked its way loose or something and the sounds seem to drop in and out. After help from taybies I went with Klipsh S4i rugged ones which I was pretty happy with but they only lasted about a year which seems way too short for > $100 but then I did use the shit out of them so I am considering getting them again but I’ve no idea if there are better options out there in the $100 to $150 range. Preferably with a remote on it compatible with android phones.
Tech people: Mobile Phone.
I currently have an iPhone 4s. My contract has expired and the phone is starting to annoy me. Ever since I did the update for the 5s came out it’s been laggy when using apps and sometimes I miss calls because it doesn’t register swipes. I’m thinking I’ll go to android.
At the moment I’m trying to decide between the HTC one (m8), or something a bit older like a Galaxy s4 or maybe even s3. I primarily used them as a phone (shock) and an mp3 player so I don’t really need the fanciest one out there.
People who wear clothes: T-shirts
After some good websites to buy shirts. I asked the same thing a while back and got a bunch of shirts I was happy with but I was stupid and didn’t bookmark the page. Now they are starting to wear out and I need more.
Shirts
http://www.redbubble.com/people/luckydog?ref=account-nav-dropdown =P
Shameless self promotion.
I’m so proud of you right now.
@scree is the new @shane
Does that mean we need a new Scree?
Sorry, that was terrible.
Sorry.
I’m just… so sorry.
I’ll give it 6 out of 10.
You didn’t make me believe you were sorry.
I’d have thought someone who watches as much theater as you would do better.
Sorry.
Blaghs is the new @scree
So Scree is the new @shane, who’s shane going to be the new one of? This cabinet re-shuffle is getting confusing.
@aliasalpha, is @transientmind’s job open? I wouldn’t mind being interesting for a while.
Or @dc’s hermitage and free time might appeal too.
Much better =P
@shane: The hermitage lifestyle and mental illness go hand-in-hand.
I already have both the hermit lifestyle and metal illness so either I’m your understudy or you’re mine. It might be easier if we just swap
@aliasalpha, @shane, and DC…
My job’s always open. You’ll all three soon receive secret signals which you’ll need to decipher into an address. You’ll receive further instructions if you say the 3rd line’s code-words to the parrot. You may need to brush up on your Spanish. Or Vietnamese, depending on what happens at sea.
(A cheating bit of advice: Tip the waiter heavily.)
@transientmind, Aha, finally my lifelong good relationship with parrots will prove to be an advantage.
It’s because you told me last time not to link my shirts =P You didn’t say it this time, so I did it
Re earphones I’d like to know this as well. I’ve always used in-ear headphones and am happy enough with cheapo $20 ones that have a bit of bass to them. Recently I’ve been using the stock ones that came with my S3 and they’re good but can sometimes fall out of ears. I’m reluctant to spend $100+ on in-ear headphones without knowing which ones are more sturdy and won’t break the first time you accidently step on them when they inevitably trail on the floor
Re phone, possibly a Note 3? With the Note 4 likely to come out in September that’s what I’m waiting for before upgrading but was considering the Note 3 over the S5. As above I have the S3 and while it was great when it first came out the 1Gb of RAM (about 800Mb of that is actually available to the phone) is really restricting multitasking atm. You may not think you do much multitasking but this is stuff like listening to music and being on the internet at the same time. When the background apps and latest Android version use up about 500Mb of RAM you’re not left with much which leads to music stopping and starting occassionally. The S4 is basically a faster version of the S3 but I think has 2Gb of RAM as I think the 4G version of the S3 does as well. I was tempted by the HTC One last year and the One m8 this year, but something’s put me off and I’m definitely holding off for the Note 4 myself now
Re shirts, what sort of shirts are you after? ‘Geeky’ ones? I usually go on the daily t-shirt websites like teefury.com or riptapparel.com and if there’s something I like it’s $10 + delivery. If I miss something I think Teefury now does a graveyard sale or redbubble.com has a lot of shirts but a bit pricier than the daily shirts. Still, $30 is a lot cheaper than shirts in Australia.
Probably geeky shirts but stuff that can still be worn in public. I’m about to check out the sites you mentioned. Freaked out a little bit googingling the first one. Worried I might accidentally end up at teenfurry.com
http://qwertee.com
http://dayoftheshirt.com/
http://www.teefury.com/
They do cool shirts n stuff..
Shirt
http://harleyquinnau.bigcartel.com/product/crest-shirt
Edit: Serious answer though, anything I’ve bought from Threadless has been pretty tops. Anything printed on AS Color or Gildan soft style is a pretty safe bet.
I got laid and then went to Disneyworld when I wore this t-shirt.
Headphones: Get some Beats. They are so amazingly awesome bro! Lolololloloolol *kills self*
OK, I ordered 5 of them just to be sure.
I think Gizmodo did a good couple articles on earphones, but I can’t find it. Anyway, the gist of it was: they’re always going to break. Always. The best you’ll be able to do is get them to break within a month or two of warranty expiry (should always be about a year), and get a 2nd pair that lasts almost as long. Otherwise, don’t pay anything you’re not prepared to pay again in 2yrs time when the 2nd set breaks too. There’s only so high a level of quality difference you can get between a $20 set and a $200 set, so just bear that in mind.
Tips for extending life: keep in protective case, don’t pull out by the cord, get one with a ruggardized cord, get one with a hook/l-shaped connector to reduce connection-point wiggle-wear, don’t wrap too tightly.
Earbud headphones are one of the starker signs of our incredibly disposable society.
Sooner or later every society is disposable.
That’s what you meant… right?
That was probably the subtext that my much-smarter-than-I-am subconscious was delivering to literary scholars and the like. Well. It WAS subtext until you turned it into text. Thanks for ruining it!
I’m sorry I broke it. Please don’t dispose of me!
Nice.
I still use my in-ear earphones that I’ve had for four years. Still work perfectly! Some cheap Kicker things. THESE http://www.kicker.co.nz/index.php/kicker-products/2013-10-01-04-04-63/noise-isolation-in-ear-monitor-white-detail
I paid $20 at JB at the time.
I used them every weekday for three years. Now I use them infrequently but they’ve been torn out many times (including while riding my motorbike) and aside from being a bit less white they’re as great now as ever.
Phone (serious answer): I’m looking at a Sony Xperia Z2 as I’m getting a bit bored of the iPhones. Haven’t heard anything bad about the Z1 and the only negative I’ve heard about the Z2 is people bemoaning the fact it doesn’t have some ridiculous gimmick you’ll never use, which I’m 100% fine with. Don’t want a Samsung as the majority of people I’ve spoke to with Samsungs tend to be insufferable dicks about owning a Samsung. Usually paired with snide remarks about people owning an iPhone.
Typical non-Samsung user. *rolls eyes*
Samsung is awful, un-optimised dreck, everyone knows that stock Android is the best.
*scoffs*
*Adjusts pocket protector*
It’s actually true. TouchWiz lags on a brand new out-of-the-box S4. Everything runs fine on the Google Play Ed.
Whut. TouchWiz runs fine on my S3!
That’s possible, or it could be to your eyes. But TouchWiz does run slower – it’s got a whole lot of extra stuff to do. There’s a lot of reviews to back it up.
*leers from the shadows*
*returns to arcane rituals attempting to resurrect Symbian*
Lesser-than-three.
As if I’d pay attention to non-iPhone owners. *rolls money* At Apple*
Outright @ Telstr for $614 or so.
I’m sorry =( I only got a Note because I wanted a portable drawing thingy.
The S3 was so flimsy imo. It was like “Lolwhat structural integrity?”
Going on clothes websites makes me sad because each time I re-realise how unfashionable I am.
It usually reminds me of how fat I am. Then I decide to commit myself to losing weight. Then I go eat some chocolate to celebrate my new commitment.
I’m pretty sure I’m unfashionable and damn proud of it too. Fightthesystem!!
Earphones – at a minimum, get ones with the little rubber nubs that provide some passive noise cancelling. Then your music doesn’t have to be as loud to be heard and you won’t go deaf as fast. Seriously.
Gf has HTC M8, so ask any q’s you want.
It’s a solid phone, impressive battery life, and she’s very happy with it. Fuck iPhones – my 4S does the same with not registering swipes.
Re shirts:
If you’re after nice shirts you should always go in store to try them on first! >:(
Otherwise I’d see which stores do online trading, particularly .yd, Roger David, and David Jones (they have good stuff in at the moment).
Avoid Myer, Jeanswest, and Just Jeans, cause they’re midway through seasonal change, and don’t have anything particularly nice 😛
Jay-Jays is getting better! A lot less hipster now, and getting back to why they where cool.
Geek shirts you could try ThinkGeek or the Chive (websites) maybe. I dunno, I don’t really do geeky shirts to be honest 😛
Earbuds generally have shit sound and are so easily broken that they last maybe 3-4 months for me before I ruin a pair, so I never spend good money on them. Instead I go down to Officeworks and they usually will have some in a bargain bin for like $5. Often quite reasonable quality for the price. I’ll grab 3-4 packs of them and that’s me done for a year.
For actual use when I’m sitting in a fixed location etc. I have some decent quality full-sized headphones. For stuff like watching videos on my laptop in bed or playing vita games on the shitter, I use the crappy officeworks earbuds. Works out well.
I’m rocking a pair of Bose in ear noise canceling headphones. Mine are for iOS but they come in android flavour too (only effects the buttons). Great sound. Comfy. Work even when battery is dead. Unlike my last NC headphones.
Well since you said clothes not pants I like
http://www.teefury.com (Single shirt per day so harder to do a mass stockup)
http://www.threadless.com
http://www.thinkgeek.com
redbubble has some nice shirts but rather expensive
http://www.splitreason.com (I haven’t bought from them but they have some cool shirts)
shirt.woot.com
SPEC OPS: THE LINE!
*looks at calender*
Oh, it ain’t 2012 any more. Never mind.
(Though it’s $7.50 on Steam today and a damn good game!)
BEYOND: TWO SOULS!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/50300/
Also, The Walking Dead 2×03 is available on Steam. *decisive nod*
Dammit, I said I would have dinner with my Dad tonight. Do you think he’d be mad if I cancelled to play a video game instead?
If he’s any thing like my dad he’s a jerk, so go play Walking Dead instead. 😛
That’ll show him for trying to give me a free dinner! *starts download*
Spoilers working yet? No
I don’t want to be too political about things but I just can’t be as annoyed/angry/worried about the budget as other people, despite my head potentially falling on the chopping block due to the public service cuts. I just can’t seem to care about it which is weird even though I know it will affect me quite a lot. Maybe it’s a coping mechanism or some deeply buried stress but yeah, I don’t really know what to think at the moment.
The part I don’t get is people are actually shocked and surprised.
Considering pretty much everything about the budget was leaked or heavily hinted at during the past couple of weeks, I was surprised that other people were actually surprised by what was in the budget. Slashing and burning is what the Liberals always do.
I call their weapon of choice “The Liberaxe”, passed down from liberal leader to liberal leader. I may not get affected by much, but I know lots of other people will 🙁
Liberaxe sounds like it should be flamboyantly dressed and playing a piano
But definitely not gay, not at all…
Yeah but it contains literally zero details. There’s some rough dates and figures floating around, but that’s it. E.g. fuel excise. It’s got 13 years of indexation to catch up on, and will be ‘indexed every 6 months’. Meaning what? We’ll jump up to $2/L immediately?
Actually I believe the plan is to spread that 13 years across the 6 months, so it’ll go up a LOT every six months until it “catches up” and then it will go up by a smaller increment.
So $2/L by about the end of next year, I reckon. In theory.
Driving by the service stations on the way to work this morning the bastards have already upped the petrol by about 5c a litre overnight here in Tas because everybody is expecting more expensive fuel, why not give it to them and we can profit.
Hilarious, cos it comes into effect in August 1 I think? I also think all vegetables/fruit in stores will be $1/kg more expensive immediately.
Those fuel assholes must know where a LOT of bodies were buried.
The ACCC investigation around 2007 into their consumer-unfriendly practices (of changing prices daily by demand) actually bought the excuse that prices were adjusted in relation to the international prices of oil by the barrel, daily, which is complete bullshit given that purchasing doesn’t occur daily, and that the prices charged to retailers by refineries wasn’t adjusted daily either.
(Edit: Not to mention that even if the excuse were TRUE, there was absolutely zero relation to the price by barrel and the daily-pricing cycle.)
But they bought it, and handed down no rulings or penalties.
The most transparent lie which falls apart with even amateur-level investigation by UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, and the ACCC didn’t do dick about it.
Those fuckers have powerful people by the balls.
Isn’t that just the government in general? Regardless of party? I’ll list some bullshit, which resulted in extra free tax money for those assholes.
– Any natural disaster whatsoever. Price of groceries, fuel, insurance goes up. Bam, extra taxes.
– Carbon tax – 90%+ of people have no idea what this is. It’s literally an extra 3-4+ streams of tax coming in for no reason at all. Oh, and fuel went up massively.
– Australian dollar – is it down? is it up? No matter, fuel goes up, taxes are raised.
– Alcopops tax – remember that shit? It made a carton of Cruisers go to $90. It also got reversed. Guess how much carton of cruisers is currently?
– There was another shady law brought in last year, that pretty much said “if you don’t touch the money in your bank for a certain time (it was like 18 months or so), we can take it wholly”.
End result, a fuckton of extra taxes that are unaccounted for. All they wanna do is ‘surprise’ people with some extra money they saved over their term, in order to have the best chance of getting back in at the next election.
Well, the carbon tax is a nice idea in theory.
The PLAN was:
1. Energy producers have an option of producing loads of carbon or going green.
2. When you tax the carbon-producers, they’ll either absorb the costs (HAH) or pass them on to consumers.
3. When faced with higher prices from polluters, consumers will naturally migrate to the green producers who otherwise couldn’t compete on price.
4. Polluters start losing customers to the point that it eventually becomes cheaper to invest in reducing their carbon output to get customers back.
5. Earth is saved.
The problem with the plan is that there are no cheaper producers for consumers to switch to. So step three, four, and five never happened. So instead of taxing polluters, the government is taxing consumers who use power. So… everyone. Polluters are laughing because they aren’t being taxed any higher and pass the cost along. Carbon tax scrapped? Let’s keep the same tax-inflated prices and hope no-one notices while we pocket the difference.
Pretty simple. Pretty predictable. Pretty disgusting.
$65.00 currently for a case of 24
But in theory since they’re not 285ml instead of 330ml you’re paying a lot more than 65 bucks a carton.
Fuel excise is going up 1 cent per year. It won’t make any difference to standard motorists unless you own a truck company or something similar.
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/china-miner-found-alive-after-17-years-underground/
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/gollums-transvestite-dance-show-a-great-success/
HA! http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/man-loses-his-teeth-after-eating-a-tampon/
I should have known… My teeth are fine.
Nah, don’t be so hard on yourself. You’re a jerk at most. 😛
That’s my other face.
Wow, that’s nuts, poor guy.
Hem hem.
Doh!
I survived!
I just sat there laughing hysterically every time he entered the room till he got so weirded out that he ended up giving me a cupcake just to shut me up :3
Good outcome I feel 😀
Best outcome =D
I wish I got cupcakes for being creepy.
*Gives you a cupcake*
I would eventually hit the point where I could no longer fit through my front door, and then I’d stop getting cupcakes for a while.
If I got a cupcake based on my creepiness, the world would be out of cupcakes.
Cupcakes make everything better!
If your sister knows he probably knew ages ago, man.
Nah, I asked her and she surprisingly hasn’t told anyone!
If any normal person lived with me they’d guess after a couple of days (I got asked if I was gay by three different people on my second week of work, haha!), but he is incredibly oblivious to pretty much everything :S
If he read my Twitter he definitely knows though, hahaha!
FFS I’m sick of getting automatically put on moderate queue for every Lifehacker/Gizmodo article. This proves that the different sites can have split permissions and checks, which Allure Support didn’t say. It also means that they probably had the ability to just turn off “posting too fast” for TAY only, so we don’t all go insane.
I just went to the post office and had a normal human conversation. The lady behind the counter would think I’m a normal person after that. This is a big accomplishment for me. I have no people skills. Feeeeeling happy. XD
Well Done DC! That’s awesome 🙂
You’re in!
You say you have no people skills, but you clearly do have people skills 😛
You’ve never met me in person. I’m extra strength nervous for the first 30 minutes. My hands WILL be shaking. I won’t be making eye contact. I’ll be intimidated like craaaazy.
Silly DC, I hope you don’t feel intimidated when you eventually meet me, cause I still plan on taking you out to a club one of these days 😉
Oh, I’ll be intimidated. We’ll have variations of the same conversation four times!
But we didn’t do that, D.C.! Are you saying that I’m so insignificant that you weren’t intimidated by me?
That’s actually kind of reassuring really.
I wasn’t sitting next to you by design cause you were so scary. Haha!
Blaghs isn’t that horrible!
That’s alrighty, I’d carry the conversation! 😀
Besides, I’m sure you’re plenty interesting enough to have a good conversation with anyway 😉
But normal people don’t converse with post office staff.
Insert Watamote reference here.
Always intend to play The Walking Dead in the dark but get too impatient and play straight away. Saving this new episode. Hoping I can make it through the day without spoilers. D:
Worst spoiler offender last night was Telltale themselves tweeting new screenshots every five seconds.
*shakes fist*
Just watched Godzilla, was pretty good. They took it in a different direction to what I thought they would. I can’t look at Bryan Cranston without thinking of Walter White though.
I told a friend that most accidents happen within two kilometres of your home.
He then told me he was going to move.
#dadjokepagesix #arespoilertagsback?
#dadjokepagesix is the place for jokes, not rants, so I’m deleting this one and replacing it with:
A dad is taking his daughter shopping. She saw this nice button up, dressy sort of shirt . He said “why don’t you get that?” and she said “It’s nice but I cant pull shirts like that off.”
To which the dad replied “You don’t need to, this one’s got buttons.”
Channing Tatum as Gambit?
Doesn’t seem right.
Yeah, I agree…something a little off about that. Kind of “Close but no cigar” casting.
Someone on Comics Alliance mentioned Josh Holloway, who seems like a pretty good match.
A better choice. Though Taylor Kitsch in Origins was pretty good, too.
Agreed.
Ugh what? Really?!
Interesting. Not an all out awful choice, but certainly not the best. Alexander Skarsgard’s name keeps being mentioned, he’d be a pretty great Gambit I think.
Yeah, not awful. Tatum’s just a bit meatier than I’d expect Gambit to be. Skarsgard would be a good one.
@redartifice Finally have a Numenera recap that I’ll put up tonight before the session. It’s the one before last ie. when we were on the airship and flying around to the various towns (session was on the 26th of March). I’m going to start the next one and get that out sometime next week and have tonight’s recap hopefully done by the next session so that I’m back up to date.
Also, just in case you were curious, here are the stats on our first two major plots arcs:
– the Beale of Boregal storyline: four sessions of game time (8 hours); 11,457 words for the recaps.
– the Raller Kay Conspiracy storyline: seven sessions of game time (14 hours); 21,558 words for the recaps.
P.S. Sorry about the massive delay on getting these out.
Thanks man, I always enjoy reading them.
I tweeted a picture a while back, but FWIW the Raller Kay conspiracy was based on about 4 pages of notes
That’s pretty cool. I know I’ve done other stuff like that before but nothing that really lasted as long as the Raller Kay storyline. Flying by the seat of my pants is pretty much my MO when I’m GM. 😛
Dang it. I completely missed the opportunity to say that I was accelerating my writing schedule. 😛
Two hats are hanging on a rack.
One says to the other “You stay here, I’ll go on a head.”
#dadjokepagesix
So our mower has decided to die on us while I was halfway through mowing the back yard. Hoping that putting some more oil in it might make it better, or else finding out where the spark plug is.
Not having a good day, pretty much.
on the bright side, no more mowing \o/ (for a little while at least)
if you have some sandpaper you can sand the the gap between the two terminals on the plug. If that isnt the issue check that the air filter isnt clogged with shit. two stroke engines can usually be fixed by checking
spark plug, fuel or the air filter.
good luck
I left it to sit for an hour and then it worked.
I have no idea why
The heat made it expand which stopped it working. Probably a good idea to do an oil change and spark plug service if you’ve never done it. Also clean out air filters. The mower still probably works fine but needs maintenance.
A man walks into a bar. He then proceeds to slowly destroy his family with his alcohol abuse problems.
#jokedadpagesix
@mythamphetamine @popdart5 @novacascade @blaghman @mawt @tech_knight
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
I think my internet is working now. Nevertheless, I may accelerate the next encounter so we can get to the rest of the bloody plot
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME
STREAMING ALSO
I’ll tweet and post the links here.
The more you say that word, the more I’ll get worried you’ll jinx it 😛 on the night
Just got back from a breakfast with various economists presenting on the budget. Overwhelming support.
Seriously why would anyone not support it overwhelmingly. They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
I bet there were hashbrowns. *drools*
NO HASHBROWNS. Had to go to McDonalds after.
The breakfast honestly wasn’t that great. Some weird scrambled egg thing with some mushrooms and tomato. There were some okay pastries though!
Depends on the philosophy economists subscribe to.
The Lassizz-faire small government types would love this budget.
Subscribers to Thatcherism all had wet dreams last night.
I BET HITLER WOULD HAVE LOVED IT!
#godwinsbudget2014
Hitler increased old age pensions.
Are you implying Hitler was more humane and had more compassion than Abbott and Hockey?
No, I’m saying that the tenets of German national socialism emphasised a very different relationship with the economy than modern economic thought.
So Hitler would not have loved this budget.
And you don’t like this budget. So you’re a Nazi. Tell us Red, why do you hate
AmericaAustralia? Why do you hate freedom?Because, Comrade, not enough money is going to my communazi handlers.
I love the hashtag, though.
Well they supported the 2% deficit tax and stated their only disappointment is lack of investment into NBN that wouldn’t really sit well with a Libertarian. They also talked about a rise in GST to 12.5% and are completely supportive of it (and brought up graphs showing how low our GST rate actually is). Raising taxes doesn’t really fit with small government.
But the termination of many industry assistance schemes and the sacking of public servants certainly does.
Well, yes. But the fact that there are compromises indicates rationality rather than ideology.
Monster Hunter hijinks: something unexpected.
Spent a bit of the weekend derping around online in MH3U. At one point, was in the lobby for a L1 player to help out with some low level hunts.
Hunting a Rathian and Rathalos, deserted island. Myself and another player made short work of the Rathian in about a minute, then ran up to area 8 to help out the low level guy.
I got a little careless with a swing of my axe, sent poor low level guy flying. Off the edge. All the way down to area 5.
Needless to say, he had a long walk back. I didn’t think it was possible, but it was pretty funny at the time. He took it in good humour at least.
@greenius I’ll be a real G rank hunter one of these days, you’ll see!
I still haven’t completed my HR7 quests :'(
I’m nearly done on the HR6 key quests. 1 plus urgent left.
We were talking about how kids these days have things better off (budget 2014 notwithstanding) and I was saying how when I was young we didn’t even have any slides or swings to play on. We just had to play on words.
Page 6 Fun Fact: This was my 1337th Kotaku Post. I used it wisely.
Dang we have a similar number of posts. I’m on 1398 as of this post.
Alrighty, too crude.
I’ll save it for page 18 next time, haha!
I’m bad at dad jokes, ok?!?!
At least now I vaguely know where the line is! 😀
🙁
I laughed, then threw up a little, then laughed again, haha!
I didn’t come up with the joke! :O
You awful man. YOURE WORSE THAN HITLER!
#godwinjokepagesix
I’m sorry, I’ll delete it if it’s too crude, haha!
Ha! I dig it.
Ha..
Another games night with gf and our best friends.
It is pretty decent fun, Lots of laughs and stuff. Haven’t hung out in a small group of people since highschool. I keep forgetting how nice it is.
Im not game to suggest anything harder than trivia games because i dont want it to be overly confusing and the girlfriends, friend is super competitive as it is and i dont want to be the one that tells hershe is interpreting the rules wrong. Because my fucking god is she both a sore loser and a bad winner.
Super competitive and anti competitive can be dealt with by getting some co-op games. Although a good bridge for group dynamic stuff can be Resistance, aka talk shit the game.
Those sorts of people are some of the worst people you can play board games with 🙁
If you want to try something really accessible with simple rules that aren’t open to interpretation but still has a bit of depth and strategy beyond general knowledge you could try Ticket To Ride
Are zombies too out there for them? If not, try Zombicide – Co-op zombie survival, at least until someone runs you over with the pimp mobile…
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, @sernobulus! I’M COOKING HASHBROWNS! >:|
You and your breakfast segues.
I’ll have two, please.
I’m making six. AND THEY’RE ALL MINE.
I never save any hashbrowns for the swim back.
Why would you take hashbrowns swimming? They’d get soggy.
Six! You monster. How can you do this to your own brother?
Last night’s grocery delivery included hash browns. So many hash browns. They were on a 2 bags for $5 special.
…I wonder if delivery prices will go up to match fuel prices. Hm.
Grocery delivery! FUTURISTIC!
The hermits dream!
You have to talk with the delivery person, still 😛
Yeah but we all know you wouldn’t answer the door.
PUT DOWN THE BAGS OF GROCERIES AND STEP AWAY FROM THE WELCOME HOME MAT
Shout that out over a megaphone and you should be fine, though. 😀
He’d still need to give his address to strangers 😛
I’M SLIDING THE CASH UNDER THE DOOR TAKE IT AND RUN
KEEP THE CHANGE YA FILTHY ANIMAL
Coles is free on Wednesdays for orders over a hundred dollars.
But… they also have the worst commercials known to man. I can’t give them my business.
Coles does commercials? Huh. I guess I’ve just been lucky and never seen the youtube clips that they advertise on. 🙂
I don’t believe you. Send some over to my house.
So, uh, yeah, somebody has dug up a bit of evidence that shows Red Dead Redemption may be making it’s way to PC:
http://www.ausgamers.com/news/read/3438969
If that’s the case, and it’s coming out shortly, it might mean those of you who played it on console MAY be able to get multiplayer back (after the shut down of the Gamespy servers).
Or, at least, pick it up on PC and get multiplayer that way. Because I’m assuming this won’t launch on the PC without multiplayer.
OH YES PLEASE
Actually, I’d prefer everything on PC.
*moseys about prairie looking for treasure as thunder storm rolls in*
4 years too late.
Hasn’t this rumour being floating around for a while.
I mean, I would be super hyped for Red Dead on PC but, I don’t know if I can take the crushing disappointment again. ='(
Rockstar apparently also have a next-gen game unannounced as of yet scheduled for Q1 2015. Would be weird if it was RDR and not GTA5 though.
I’d rather get a new Red Dead than a port of the old one at this point.
Nah I hope it’s L.A. Noire, i’d play that again & again on Next Gen…
Considering R* and their history, I’ll believe it when I see it. The fact that GTAV still isn’t out on PC (or even given an indication when it might come out) despite the series having one of the strongest modding communities is just baffling. RDR is now a few years old so to decide to bring it across now is a little odd as well.
Was chatting to the regional manager for EB on the Gold Coast here a while back and the word he’s been told is don’t hold your breath for anything PC or Next Gen related to GTA V, which kinda sucks if what he’s been told is true..
Game soundtracks I would totally buy if they were still in print:
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
Ace Attorney Orchestral specials
Not that it’s specifically the Chrono Trigger soundtrack but if you’re interested in some “symphonic re-imaginings” and haven’t already (it’s fairly old), check out Chrono Symphonic.
http://www.vizzed.com/chrono/
Mushroom Men
F-Zero X Guitar Arrange Edition
de Blob 3 *chokes up*
So, just played through Episode 3 of the walking dead, season 2. So let’s talk some Walking Dead. ROT13 because I believe spoiler tags aren’t working.
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Naljnl.
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Game or TV Show or what? 😛
Ah, the game. I always find a way to potentially spoil something for someone. 😛
The erotic audiobook.
@popdart5: got the Pathfinder GM book today and it’s very nice in print. Thinking after this I should grab the Advanced Player’s Guide and maybe Ultimate Magic & Combat.
Beyond that, I know I’ve asked this before, but which of the books is worth it and which is skippable? Of the worth it ones, any that you could get away with just getting PDFs for? I’m thinking that a tablet or laptop with PDFs on it would be an in-person GM’s best friend nowadays (the last time I played Pen & Paper RPGs in the flesh was probably AD&D and well before tablets were a thing so I don’t know if this is stating the obvious or not)
You can definitely get away with the Bestiaries as PDFs as you don’t really need the books for them (unless you particularly want them). Ultimate Campaign is kinda unnecessary unless you plan/want to have a large scale campaign ie. kingdoms fighting kingdoms. Mythic Adventures is in the same boat as it’s a very particular type of campaign.
I would say Ultimate Equipment is worth it as it bundles a huge stack of stuff together for you to rely on and the loot generation tables are pretty snazzy. Aside from that, that’s pretty much all of the core Paizo-created Pathfinder stuff. There are all of the other books but that’s more dependent on different settings and themes and stuff like that and those books are all 3rd-party created but given permission by Paizo for the mechanics and new stuff.. So if you’re looking at those books, take them with a grain of salt as the mechanics and new rules can start getting a bit wonky (to say nothing of the individual races and classes).
If I end up deciding to run one of their adventure paths rather than build my own campaign I’d probably need their campaign settings and everything as well, I guess. Though again, maybe that’s a case for PDF.
All this Red Dead talk makes me think we should play Liar’s Dice at the next Brisbane meat. JUST LIKE IN THEIVES LANDING!
YOURE A GOD DAMNED LIAR DC! *shoots DC in the face*
*checks his dice*
Oops. My mistake.
You have it on PS3, yes?
although I’ve heard the MP is screwy as of late…
Nah, 360!
Ahhh fuck off with your youtube fanfest! I don’t know any of those people and I don’t care to, at least let me skip the ads!
It’s just to sucker in the people who think they’re cool by watching YouTube. I can’t imagine going to a live show with any of those YouTubers would be fun, let alone the probably hundreds of people who are going to be trying to “network” the crap out of their own channels.
http://couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/queensland-pensioner-vilma-gets-riled-up-talking-to-prime-minister-tony-abbott-on-the-budget/story-fnihsrf2-1226917230944
“Not having enough ammunition to shoot his other surviving foot, the Prime Minister decided to chew it to death.”
I was wondering today how long will it be before some nut job actually tries to remove Abbott & or Hockey from the population…
So, uh. I just got a wakeup call from my friend, the one at the ABC who got me to send my resume and portfolio through to that guy. I guess he must have liked 4D Snake because apparently he wants to give me an interview??
I don’t understand.
Scrub yourself up! Slap on a suit! Brush that… hair…
And good luck!
*actually has hair to brush atm*
But not for long I guess!
If it’s a TV interview, he should practice his Serrels stare!
I did end up on TV once, for… a show I forget the name of. They did a story on AIE, and it was towards the end of November so I had a big dirty horseshoe moustache at the time.
Also I was completely retarded at the time so nothing I said actually made it to air at all, and the entire thing was just of my friend talking 😛
One of us.. one of us.
Aah, nothing like a bit of George Carlin to reaffirm that it is in fact the world that is fucked and not me.
But… The Little Mermaid!
UP WHERE THEY WALK
UP WHERE THEY RUN
UP WHERE THEY STAY ALL DAY IN THE SUN!
WANDERING FREEEEEE
WISH I COULD BEEEEEE
PART OF THAT WOOOOOORLD
Check mate!
Under the sea
Under the sea
Darling it’s better
Down where it’s wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin’
Full time to floatin’
Under the sea
I put a lot of thought into it and still have no idea how to respond to this, check mate indeed :/
Who here’s watching Fargo?
Haven’t seen the movie, thinking of watching the series!
Both really good, I’m digging the series a lot so far.
You can definitely watch the series without having seen the film. But see the film anyway
Every time anyone mentions it I think of the similarly-named Ben Affleck movie.
I’ve decided to wait for the first season to finish and then go for it all at once.
This was also my decision.
Yah.
You Betcha
@freezespreston
1) you say away from my entrails.
2) I missed the budget but have been playing a different drinking game called being in China. 我的很好.
How about the Oscar Pistorious drinking game? Every time someone goes to the toilet you take four shots…
That’s both awful and hilarious
Ha! Topical.
So Hearthstone got an update on iPad the other day and now I can’t play it. Cause my iPad won’t connect to the AppStore no more. Even though I’ve downloaded several apps including hearthstone since being in china.
I have no idea what the problem is. But god am I bored now. Drinking has increased over the past week. Cause of it.
How’s it play on the iPad? I’m getting one tomorrow and just recently started playing Hearthstone, there’s no offline practise mode, right?
It was designed for the iPad and the iPad version implements everything the PC version does, it’s just that a touch interface is better than mouse.
Oh nice, thanks for the info!
The Game and JFlamestar files are now undergoing checking for publication. The waiting game… she begins now.
Without wanting to descend into insincere self-promotional rhetoric (ha!), I’ll just say this and depart: The Game is, by quite a long way, the best book I’ve ever made. It’s next-level. Really hope it does well.
http://www.shanewsmith.com
Oh man, I’m slipping! That’s embarrassing.
You’re doing it wrong. Need to be subtle about it.
(buy) The Game is, by quite a long way, (buy) the best book I’ve ever made. It’s next-level (buy). Really hope (buy) it does well.
Real subtle. *scribbles notes furiously*
Huh. I kinda wanna buy those books now.
OH. THAT REMINDS ME.
@Shane, check email.
Grrrr, you didn’t have to do that! >:(
Maybe not, but it is congruent with my alignment and belief systems. 🙂
Well, thanks. I appreciate it.
Don’t heighten my expectations like that!
Okay. It’s shit, but you should buy it anyway. Does that work as a marketing tactic?
Who am I kidding? *coughTwilightchokegag*
It will help me with the ladies, right?
Guaranteed.
I’ll take five!
… Then I’ll decide how many books I want.
Have read, can confirm.
Awesome.
Basking in validation.
I’ve got to say, I spent waaaaay too much time listening to this yesterday. :\
https://soundcloud.com/blaghman/top-of-the-blaghs
And now I’m listening to the Christmas songs again. Fatshaaaaady.
Oh dear.
https://soundcloud.com/jamesflamestar/baconweave
Whatever happened to The Baconettes? Broken apart by in fighting? Bacon induced heart attacks? WHO CAN SAY!
*cue Behind the Music opening credits*
No one has definitively linked bacon with diseases of the heart. Our position is that bacon may have prolonged and enriched the lives of heart attack victims who had pre-existing symptoms.
-Baron Bacon McHamsquatch, Pigs4Lyf Pty Ltd
I left when people weren’t paying enough attention to me. You can read all about it in my scathing tell-all book, Not Without My Pants.
It’s what Jesus would eat \o/
You know I realize this is a long shot but is anyone on Kotaku AU looking to jump on to Wildstar and get into an Aussie based raiding guild? I just can’t believe how hard its been to find anyone else I know who’s interested in that game =\
I want to play it, but I don’t wan’t to pay for a subscription. I’ve heard good things, but I wasted too many hours in WoW to ever want to touch a subscription based game again. :/
I enjoyed what I played during a beta weekend I got into, however not too keen on the subbing to it.
@sernobulus@blaghman
Are the subs really that much of a barrier? I mean I’ve tried my fair share of F2P MMO’s but in general I feel as though the quality of the sub based games are usually a lot higher than the F2P’s. Heck when I was a broke as a student I remember playing WoW by farming gold doing dailies and buying my game time 2 months at a time =\
It’s not really an issue of money, but I guess of perceived money? So back in my WoW days I would play it because I had a sub active, and so I should be getting my money’s worth.
Then I’d log into WoW and just run in circles for hours at a time, flipping between different Druid forms.
For comparison, what I do with Guild Wars 2 is every few months I think “hey, that was a cool game” so I update it, and get bored by the time it’s done, so I don’t play it again for another 2 months. And that’s okay, because there’s no money put into it.
This has become how I play ALL MMOs.
biggest appeal to MMO’s for me is how many friends are playing it. As fun as Wildstar was, I honestly don’t see myself playing it more then a month after release unless I have a few people to play with.
@sernobulus
I hear you, which was why I looking to put together an Aussie guild, already 2 other irl friends who are willing to jump in but that’s hardly enough to even attempt raiding content for Wildstar. If you do change your mind though and are looking to give it a try give me a shout =]
@transientmind
Will do! I just want to get into an MMO at launch and see it through, I wasn’t able to get into WoW until after BC at which point all the challenge in the game evaporated =,= Wildstar looks like it’s planning on resurrecting that old school hard as nails vibe for MMO’s.
Sorry to say man, I’m interested, but probably not ‘launch interested’.
Also, not so much with raiding, either. I got burned out on it in WoW.
My youngest brother tends to go pro in anything he plays, so if he’s going to pick it up, I’ll look for any articles around the time and see if you’re posting, or friend me on Steam (same user ID as here) and check back with me. 🙂
Sounds interesting – the main reason I don’t play MMO’s is the lack of people to play with and the original WoW raiding was kinda fun
However the other reason is I find the gameplay invariably boring and repetitive and the little of the beta I played did not give me high hopes on that front.
If you want to start a Guild Wars 2 raiding guild I think peeps might be interested tho.
*touch wood*
Comments appear to be going well today.
…
*massive explosion*
So we’re all thinking that wood Shane touched was a pressure pad connected to a detonator, right?
Tch, should have rolled for trapfinding and used an 11-foot pole.
What an idiot.
Probably used a ten foot pole like a chump.
That bumbling oaf!
When are we going to get you into an RPG DC?
Like that TV show in the early ’90s where that guy is sucked into his NES and has adventures?
@dc Hmm, I could probably run that in The Strange (@strange?) when it comes out later this year
@redartifice Oh yeah, completely forgot that was the end of this year. Nice. Can’t wait to play around with alternative universes and stuff, timey-wimey-wibbly-wobbly stuff be damned.
Ew.
I’m working from home today I CAN DO WHAT I WANT
That took me WAY too long to get. It must be home ti– oh. Nope, not for hours yet.
*gets back to busywork*
Telstra have the iPhone 4S for A$399 outright prepaid; if anyone is interested in an older gen Apple smartphone, that is.
In addition, couple that with a new contract on a virtual carrier (Telechoice uses Telstra lines, in the case that the phone is carrier locked) and you can save yourself hundreds of dollars.
What’s internet like on pre-paid stuff? I imagine a good part of what makes the iPhone so good would suck without internet. 😀
See my additional – essentially you throw away the prepaid SIM.
Oooooh, that makes sense! Very cool!
I’m on Amaysim because no one could match their unlimited plan.
It’s 4gb of data for $49 a month (pre or post paid) no contract using the Optus Network.
It’s hashtag dope.
I recently swapped over to one of Telstra’s prepaid offerings and it’s pretty good.
I’m paying $30 for 200MB and call credit (which I never use up), but you also get $30 in “additional credit” which you can spend on other things like additional data packs ($20 for 700MB I think?), music subscriptions, Foxtel and Google Play Store purchases. I don’t use too much data but 1GB (or more) is enough for general browsing.
I love the extra credit thing because you pay $30 but I can still use $30 to buy things from the Google Play Store. The extra credit carries over too so you can buy plenty of data whenever you need it!
I think $30 is the lowest level for my offering so there’s plenty of other options :D. Not bad!
I’m still rocking my iPhone 4S. I stil like it. I get abused for having it though. D:
I got an iPhone 5s. I love the thing, but I”m not going to go bragging about it. Like all iPhones they’ll be out of date soonish and it’ll take a special kind of idiot to be smug about something like this. 😀
Yeah I’m the same, I usually end up upgrading my iPhones once every 2 years, usually after this point they get sluggish and battery starts to die out a lot faster anyways!
Abused? Is that a China thing? Or in Oz? Never copped any flack for mine, here.
I get
Comments about it from apple fanboys cause it’s old. And from droid users who think I’m an apple git.
🙁 @ progress.
That’s like… a third of the price I paid for mine.
It’s a pretty sweet deal for an iPhone. I’m even tempted to get one for myself though I don’t really need it.
4S is the oldest version that Apple still support. In 3-4 months when the iPhone 6 comes out, the 4S will probably be dropped from support.
True, though that might not matter to some.
Err, how’s that so when my iPhone 4 is still supported, just not sold..
Oh, the 4 is still supported? I know my 4S really struggles with iOS 7, I’d imagine that the 4 runs pretty awful?
Actually runs pretty well for my liking, better than iOS 6 did towards the end of its life. Boot up times could be better though in my opinion.
Really? Because it runs like shit on my 4S. 😐
Yeah I find iOS 7 isn’t overly shit on it lol, it’s not super amazing, but it’s nothing like what my 3G was on iOS 4.2 haha.
I guess I’m coming to it off my Win8 Lumia and that was significantly a more powerful phone that had a lot less stuff running on it.
Okay, okay, I know a lot of people want to avoid discussion regarding the budget, but I want to approach this from the point of view of ethics rather than politics.
The government is dedicating $89.9M to the search for flight MH370 over the next two years.
Am I a bad person for thinking that’s somewhat a waste of money?
There are plenty of arguments for and against.
It depends if the search leads them to a tear in the fabric of space that gives us access to alternate dimensions!
Exactly. So yeah it’s only a waste if it yields no positive results.
I read that as alternative dinosaurs.
That’s like a third of a chaplaincy program.
Honestly, considering it’s not our plane, coupled with these two facts: they’ve cut billions from other kinds of (arguably more useful) foreign aid; and the plane has already been missing for way too long for there to be any survivors…
It seems like an odd decision (to say the least).
My guess: ASIO operation.
My guess – they already signed the contracts with the private agencies it’s been handed over to. A decision made based on popularist tactics at the time that they can’t get out of now without looking worse.
I’m just going to copy/paste myself here:
Firstly, it is $60M. $28M has been put towards the defence force for their part. Secondly, this is something that has been budgeted for and includes backdating for expenses already incurred and is spread over a 2 year span. Thirdly, why are we budgeting for it? Australia has responsibility for SAR actions within our Search and Rescue Region. This is specified in our international aviation agreement with ICAO. If a QANTAS plane crashed in Malaysia, they would have to do the exact same thing. Fourthly do you really think that Australia is the only country putting money into this search effort? This is estimated to cost more than $100M (some are saying $200M), Australia is just budgeting for the worst case scenario and setting aside $60M for their own efforts.
Fair enough. Just seems an odd choice of international responsibilities to accept, when so many others are being ignored/pared back/violated.
Cheers for the insight, buddy.
Ethically speaking, I don’t think that your viewpoint of it being a waste of money makes you a bad person – realistically, it’s not going to save any lives like some of the other cut funding might have.
Perhaps national security is an argument for?
(‘Cause if there is a doorway into an alternate dimension…)
Some one posted a coloured version of that Batman reveal showing more detail and you can see that Batman has an impressive gadget…
http://i.imgur.com/jnIq59p.jpg
It’s all I can see now looking at that photo :/
Goddamn, I pity the women.
Question is if it is costume or pure Affleck.
In that case, I may pity Jennifer Garner too.
When the Salkinds were making the original Superman, the director apparently had a conversation about whether Superman should be like a Ken doll or like Battfleck up there..
Well then
O_o
This was also brought up as an issue for the reboot that happened before Man of Steel.
I suspect it’s his Batcup.
The West Knight Returns!
Is it just me or does it look like he’s wearing a suit one-two sizes too small? I mean, he’s half slumped over at the neck and shoulders. 😛
I think it’s to do with the colour enhancement, makes his muscles look a bit bigger than the original shot: http://io9.com/here-is-the-first-image-of-ben-affleck-as-batman-1575696206
He looks so sad about life 🙁
Redacted. Tried a joke. Didn’t work within the context.
HIS PARENTS ARE DEAAAAAAAD
Interview is Tuesday. 10:30am.
Will probably be tired and wrecked from climbing. Awesome 😛 Ugh now I need to learn how to get up in the mornings again…
Skip the climbing, this is one seriously important date methinks.
NO SKIPPING
Hey, it’s your unemployment I guess.
My comfort zone 😛
It’ll be fine though. Just gotta make sure I leave early enough to not get home so late that I end up not getting to bed til the early morning. 10:30 is awesome too, means I only have to be up for a ~9:30 train.
The best part is I’m at an engagement party on Saturday night where the friend who got me this interview will also be, so plenty of chance to talk about it with him then.
I can’t seem to tell whether you really want it or not but either way best of luck. In succeeding or failing or whatever. 😛
A little from column A, a little from column B.
Also I have no expectations of it actually going anywhere at all either, since I don’t think I’m what they seem to be looking for, but I guess we’ll see. At the very least I suppose I could end up bumbling around for a few weeks before they get sick of me and tell me to go home 😛
You realise a lot of niche jobs are obtained because the applicant applied for a position that wasn’t 100% what they were looking for?
@stickman Nothing is 100% what I’m looking for because I don’t know what I’m looking for 😛
I have a bit of an idea of what I’m not looking for though.
Welp, all I can suggest is to get into the general industry and make sideways movements from there. 😛
Good luck! I had an interview today :O
JOB SEEKING CLUB IS MAKING PROGRESS! 😀
Job Seeking Club cracks me up. Assemble!
ASSEMBLE!
*logo appears on screen and theme song plays*
I’m picturing superhero suits made of one dollar bills – if only we still had one dollar bills here.
If they had those, they wouldn’t need to be seeking jobs.
Okay so now I’m picturing superhero suits made of hobo clothes.
Well that’s more accurate
My favourite part was where I didn’t seek the job but the job sought me.
Just as planned.
That’s the dream, man.
Did you follow all my useful tips?
Whoa Mr. Copycat, I followed The Onion’s tips, not yours!
I did a job for a friend today? Does that count as job seeking?
That’s uhh… job-doing?
We don’t like your kind around here >:(
WOOOOOOOO!
If it’s a lady just unleash the Gooky patented charm.*
*not a penis euphemism.
Thomas is a girl’s name, right?
I assume that’s the last name! Like in 30 Rock season one when Liz went on a date with…
Ah, you don’t wanna hear about 30 Rock season one. How ’bout the weather instead?
What’s wrong with season one?
It’s all down hill from there. 😛
Shark farts.
No it’s not you AWEFUL LIAR!
30 Rock is my life! It only gets better, and BETTER!
…
Until season 06, which is still great though! 😀
Did you do research on the company? The department? The person? Their upcoming projects? What they actually do? You can’t beat preparation.
No, the whole thing’s been kind of nebulous. My friend could only kind of vaguely tell me what the thing was about, it’s something to do with this Active Memory thing that they run on a website. Brain training kind of games where the results get used by Melbourne University or something. And I think they just want someone who can make more games for it? I don’t know.
Actually, don’t underestimate the impact of this. Last thing I applied for: majority of my military recruiters were female and every step went through incredibly smoothly, despite my concerns about the psyche eval (“Nope, you seem like you’ve lived through some shit and come to terms with it; that’s a good thing,”) or about age being a factor. (Apparently they like their officers to have a few years under the belt instead of being, y’know… school-leaving teenagers going directly into management.)
In the final interview before the invite to the review board, I had a pretty great chat with the (actually very attractive) female interviewer. I was the last interview of the day, so we took some time to really chop it up, shoot the shit. She was doing doing real well to impress me with some pretty crazy war stories you wouldn’t expect for a [REDACTED] role in the [REDACTED] branch of service. (Final interview isn’t with recruitment officers, they pull in service personnel to do a stint. At least, that was the process at the time. Got a buddy doing it now, seems some things have changed. Like TWO aptitude tests.)
We were chummy enough that she outright told me on the spot that I’d be advancing to the next stage. And if experience has taught me anything, if I’d asked for her number for a date before it becomes official fraternization, I’d have got it.
Definitely do not rule out the impact of some charm in interviews.
But remember that you’re not being interviewed on The Casting Couch.
MARIO KARTTTTTTTTTTTTTT !!!!!!!!!
If anyone feels like playing 7 again just lemme know! Did you guys end up playing yesterday? @benny
I’ve never played Double Dash but a friend gave me his old copy a while ago. Hopefully it’ll help make the wait for 8 a bit easier. I don’t know why I’ve got all this Mario Kart hype 😀
Double Dash is the best.
I can play as two Toads at once!
Super Circuit is the best.
But you can’t play as two Toads at once.
Exactly.
UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean
Htuuuuuu
I played with myself.
Too much information, Benny.
You’re reading it wrong.
Still friends? Let’s shake on it. *wipes hand on pants first*
Actually, after my hour of rage I went back and played for a bit on my own. Knocked off all cups in the 100cc event and unlocked my Mii as a playable character. That was pretty cool.
I think ‘lil Pow-wow got Gold on all 150cc and Mirror. What a hack!
…what, you don’t?
I know right. It’s not difficult 😛
Three stars club! *flex*
*flex*
The AI cheat 🙁 (I recall it being more luck than skill but I just never bothered for it again after an initial attempt :P)
Nah. You just have to learn to be completely ruthless.
UNLEASH THE BRUTALITY!
Trying to make my blog look pretty, and like it’s mine. But there are obstacles every step of the way because I have no idea what I’m doing. 😛
For instance, the background picture:
How does one accomplish this? Even my crappy phone pictures are way too large.
Do you want a full background? depending on how your blog is laid out, maybe a texture?
If you have Photoshop, you can do “Save for Web” to hugely reduce the file size.
(If you want, send me the images and I’ll help you out!)
@strange You don’t need to use Photoshop for this for JPEG, just something that can crunch the quality a bit. Even something like Paint.NET probably would be adequate.
Even MSPaint does a very decent job of resizing then converting to PNG.
Its JPG compression is very lossy, though. Like… noticeably bad.
PNG can’t do 1800×1600 in less than 300k without going 8-bit though, and that’s very lossy.
Urrrrgh. PNGs can be shrunk down pretty well and still retain fair quality, but in general the best way to reduce file sizes is to reduce complexity, which usually means dropping a few colours. Honestly without knowing anything about the site specifically, it sounds like the 300k image will be tiled. Full background 1800×1600 shouldn’t be too hard. If you’re ONLY working from your phone and not from a PC, there are apps which will let you edit the size of phone camera images, but I’d need to look ’em up.
Otherwise, anything on this list (http://gizmodo.com/5974500/10-photoshop-alternatives-that-are-totally-free) should do the trick at image compression/re-scaling/cropping.
You can download Photoshop CS2 for free (legitimately) from the adobe website too, if I remember correctly.
EDIT: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=cs2_downloads (you need to sign up for an Adobe account though)
Gawd demmit, why’d I spend all that money on photoshop if they were just gonna GIVE it away?!
No, that was a mistake. The thing was that they disabled the online activation servers for CS2 so they issued complete patched versions of everything that had no activation, plus new volume-license serials for them. They didn’t intend people to be able to download those for free, it was supposed to be limited to registered owners and they’ve tightened it up, but not before the internet snapped them up.
They probably aren’t going to care if you pirate something as old as CS2, but it’s still piracy. 🙁
Actually, you can still download them. I downloaded InDesign CS2 just a few days ago. I don’t think they tightened up at all.
Really? They must have reneged on things again. How did you get it exactly? I always came up blank when I tried it.
I saved the DL links in an email when it was first released. The links are still valid.
Orly? Hmm. I can’t remember what version my sister had, but I think it was somewhere around that old. Her Macbook stopped working the other day, and there’s a near-finished project on there that was done in InDesign I think. Don’t suppose you could forward that e-mail to me? thatdude7654 at the yahoo australia.
Sent! Let me know if/when you get it. Good luck!
Thanks for the help, guys. You’ve given me enough info to help me get my head around what exactly I need to learn. 🙂
Well, at least now I understand that if the image is less than 1800×1600 it will tile automatically, and it will go full-page automatically if it’s larger than that.
Think I’ll take a few pictures of some detail in my quilts and experiment in Paint. NET.
Thank-you again @redartifice, @powalen, @negativezero and @transientmind. You’ve all been very helpful.
Do you have a favourite quilt pattern? It might be better to have that repeat as a background over and over rather than have a big photo sitting there
I was thinking some of the detail from one of the lighter-coloured fabrics I’ve quilted (and where my stitchlengths were even :P) tiled would work nicely, or even the right selection of a single quilt-block tiled to repeat.
Edit: I’ve actually currently got on there as an experiment a close-up of the hammer section of the quilt for Gloryhammer, which was a randomly pieced section so it works really well tiled because it’s not immediately obvious it’s tiled. Definitely close to the look I’m wanting.
Anyone know the best way to get video from a DV Tape to a video file on a PC?
When we were going through old tapes to find stuff of my Nanna, we had the old video camera hooked up to the TV card in my sister’s computer and recorded it through that. Although then the camera was playing them back screwed up and we tried to clean it but that made it even worse and we were panicking but thankfully my uncle’s camera was still working properly…
Otherwise could maybe use a DVD or HDD recorder I guess, and use one of the inputs on those.
Only way I can think would be using a video camera and a firewire cable and the appropriate video editing software.
Found a 3m HDMI cable for $10, now I can play Skullgirls through my tv! 😀
Looking for good examples of cases where people have taken game music and re-arranged them, re-recorded with better instruments etc. and completely changed them and made the music much more awesome.
Starting example:
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNEKaPfZq4s
Arranged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn5Rjbw-e2o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGgvHDnTg84
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vluIbgQyQM4
Like this?
Yeah except the second one’s not really that much different beyond having better instrumentation due to being newer.
Take this Megaman 2 arcade piece for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFKtYCcMWT4
It spawned a bunch of remixes and re-arrangenets over the years, then someone set lyrics to it and that became a meme, then JAM project re-arranged that and made this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AudrUrPVBmo
So I’m meaning more taking game music and really re-arranging it, adding lyrics or whatever to make it quite different.
I haven’t listened to it in ages, I just remember when I first heard it I thought “holy crap, THAT’S what it was meant to be!” The original just seemed really weird with its kind of off timing. But then when I played Zero Mission it suddenly seemed like a real song, and I finally “understood” it, I guess.
Well your example’s also cool in that it’s a piece of music that’s a callback to the same piece from an earlier game. A lot of the time when they do a sequel / remake of a game a long time after the original they don’t bother to similarly re-think the music and that’s often a shame IMO.
Some awesome stuff on OCRemix. The Doom stuff in particular is brilliant.
Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGJglX2t5YM
Arranged: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkS2jDs59ho
Took the original and baroque it over their knee #everypageispage6
There’s a good acoustic cover of the MGS theme on YouTube. Filthy YouTube. Not like glorious.
Uh, I don’t remember what it’s called here. Bidu tube?
Here.
http://doom2.ocremix.org/tracks/
Try Red Waltz and The Countdown at the bottom for something completely different from the originals.
I don’t know if I remember the Doom 2 music well enough to make a comparison but I think these are good.
I assume you are not thinking things like malufenix’s skyrim covers that are awesome.
The London philharmonic have done a bunch of video game themed shows
Yeah but when the orchestras and stuff do things they’re not usually putting an enormous amount of extra work into it beyond re-working the music for an orchestra. They don’t add things of their own or change the tone of the piece or anything, at least not usually. I guess there’s more of an argument that they might do that sometimes with 8-bit re-arrangements since there was often so little in the original music that you really have to put a lot of work in to fill in the blanks, so to speak.
The only examples I really know of where people have taken game stuff and completely changed tone, added their own lyrics and so on is the vast Touhou music scene, and a lot of other similar one-off examples I’ve heard are also Japanese so I’m wondering if this is something that’s more specific to the way that Japanese fans engage with stuff or if it’s just that it’s all I’ve been exposed to.
http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01518
Something you might be more familiar with?
Oh wait, you’re a massive Okami fan, right?
http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02791
http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01700
Just curious, what are people’s favourite Eeveelutions?
Mine is Eevee and Flareon.
Edit: I originally said Vaporeon, because while I thought Flareon, my fingers typed Vaporeon. When I looked it over JUST NOW I realised it was wrong.
Charizard!
That’s a ditto!
Every Pokemon is a Ditto. It’s the big secret of the Pokemon world.
That explains why ditto can bread with everything. IT’S JUST BREEDING WITH OTHER DITTOS!
*Scree has just informed me that Dittos can’t breed with other dittos. I’m just going to assume they can only get sufficiently excited if the other ditto is pretending to be something else. Dittos have weird fetishes. I blame the internet. They should never have installed PCs at day care.
I don’t know. Maybe one of the original 3, though Umbreon and Espeon are pretty cool. The only Eeveelution I don’t really like is the fairy one.
Umbreon cause I didn’t know he existed when I first got one (living in PNG) and had no idea how I got it.
Flareon also, cause fluffy.
My order from best to worst goes:
– Umbreon
– Glaceon
– Jolteon
– Flareon
– Espeon
– Leafeon
– Vaporeon
– Sylveon
Saying that, I’d happily use all except for Vaporeon (UGLY!) and Sylveon (EXTRA FUGLY!)
I don’t understand how you can’t love Vaporeon.
http://i.imgur.com/KKVAM3i.gif
I don’t know any of these words.
Jolteon, cuz I find it the most adorable 🙂
It changes all the time! At the moment it’s Vaporeon, just because I bred a cool one for my 3v3 team.
Overall… I’d probably say either Espeon or Glaceon.
Don’t you just love those days when you’re sitting there fine and then 5 minutes later with no catalyst you’re in tears and wishing you were dead?
Then I decide, fuck this and go have a nap. I like to think of it as rebooting the day. Almost like trying again.
I like to call that “bedtime”.
No intended relation to @scree’s post 😛
Except mine is a nap, not a “let’s try again with a new day” More like, wake up, pretend the last 8 hours never happened
Pick yourself up. Grabs some headphones and listen to something happy
may i suggest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAud5O7Qqk&feature=kp
and after you’ve calmed down a bit, go talk to a friend or a family member. doesn’t have to be about anything just talk. It helps me realize my life is pretty okay. You’ll get through this buddy. Chin up and keep marching
xoxo rocketman
I’m doing this wrong. When this happens to me I always end up listening to moby – why does my heart feel so bad.
Ah, musical melancholy. Perhaps try something more along the lines of We Are All Made of Stars – it’s a better pick-me-up.
Oh, that reminds me, I haven’t watched the latest cosmos yet. Thank you.
I hope you’re ok mate.
Be safe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_65ox0nniKA
But my surname isn’t Nichols. That’s it, the suicide is back on!!
Moody and atmospheric though, I kinda like it. I went right from that into this for a bit of genre whiplash. To make matters worse, I’m now listening to Periphery.
Also, I WAS okay again until I loaded Trials Fusion & got something like 8 messages that you’ve beaten my times you bastard… I’ll get you yet.
Yup. Stoopid hormones. 😛
Seriously, though. *hugasaurus*
I like hanging out with you around here so don’t give in to it. Hopefully it doesn’t last too long and you go back to sitting there fine again.
P.S. I’m now imagining you sitting there and somebody calling you “Gurrl” and saying you’re looking “fine!”. “MmmHMMMM!”.
Yeah it seems I’m back to normal again, whether or not this is a good thing is debateable… It seems every half hour of consciousness I have to make a save vs depression and this time I rolled a 1 but the next time I rolled a 20. Dice are weird.
Also, even if I was still depressed, I think that mental image would probably have confused me enough to snap me out of it. I’m not sure if I should thank you or curse you for ruining my sleep tonight…
Ye… no.
A deep-rooted and utterly unwarranted conviction that your dominion is wherever the fuck you happen to be standing may not be the most endearing character trait, but there are times when I really wish I could impart some of my darker qualities to my friends who could really use a touch of narcissism.
If it helps, I reckon you’re pretty ace.
Hehe thanks man, I love you too. When I’m not down in the darkness I do tend to be something of an arrogant opinionated smartarse with a rampaging superiority complex so I have the narcissism angle covered most of the time
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Twelfth Session Recap (26th March 2014) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places,
– Phetys aka @mythamphetamine the mechanical Nano who fuses flesh and steel,
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness.
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders,
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
And bidding farewell too:
– Beltigron aka @tigerion the mystical Nano who crafts illusions.
Following the party’s hasty escape from the mobs of scoundrels and Orange Cloak supporters in Charmonde, Beltigron bade farewell as the party boarded the Sky Steed airship to make their way south. He aimed to head west and to the sea where he had friends who could shelter him from the brewing tempest. While it pained him to leave the group of adventurers that he had journeyed so far with, he knew that he could not risk his life any more in these endeavours. Beltigron waved goodbye as the Sky Steed ascended from the airport and began its ponderous voyage south.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
I miss the guy already. WHO WILL CRAFT THE ILLUSIONS NOW? :'(
@Blaghman, he’ll just do it with ventriloquism and hand puppets.
Can’t forget the flexing though, that’s like 80% of the illusion.
Well DC, there’s always a spot open, if you catch my drift. 😛
Nova’s jacking what in the dark. (Crude easy joke is terrible)
The dark place he’s exploring is your mother.
Meanwhile it’s starting to look like the engagement I had on Wednesdays that made me drop out after our first session may be moving to Thursday mornings. Hmm…
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
STARTS AT 7:30 SA TIME
STREAM HERE ON GOOGLE+ https://plus.google.com/events/c8lqqtcov76mr4if0239u6ip600
OR HERE ON YOUTUBE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH_kODQvhUs
RPGS!
Rot13 website is in my most visited thumbnails when I open a new tab, again. Just like old times! 😛
I’ll start to understand 2 dozen words of it to be just like old times again. :/
Evil Genius is 80% off on GOG.com!
http://www.gog.com/game/evil_genius
Hurry, it’s being snapped up quickly!
WALKING DEAD S02E03 at 83%. No, 84%. Now 85%.
Gotta run. See you in a few hours!
\o/
sigh…
I have friends (don’t feel like calling them that currently) that think it’s hilarious how pissed off people are at the government for this budget. Just because they don’t fall into any immediate category doesn’t mean they’ll escape unscathed.
I for one am fucking scared if I have to stay on Newstart, i’ll face only being allowed it 6 months of the year, that’s a fucking joke when it’s not even enough to live on as it is even living at home & on top of that they believe you should be doing almost 2x as many hours for work for the dole than is required now, yes lets work for LESS than minimum wage. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone attempts to assassinate Tony Abbott or even succeeds, because of what he & his scummy gov’t are doing to this country.
I, for one, wouldn’t object.
Hell, make it a work for the dole activity and I’ll happily put in double hours
Hahaha, oh man.. That’s a good idea. Just you wait maybe a disabled vet from Iraq or Afghanistan that relies on welfare might snap because they’ve said he wasn’t fit to accept “bludger money”
What they’ve just done is disgusting, and I can’t believe those who run this country which is not a third world rate country or whatever, yet they think this is perfectly acceptable to run it like one. Well we can tell who was born with a silver spoon up their arse and given what they needed to have their multi millions they have now :/
I know people say money doesn’t bring you happiness, but it sure fucking does when it’s just about impossible to make ends meet.
It’s a budget that would have made thatcher cum, ’nuff said
Ha.. Yeah true that.
I would have shipped myself off to another country a while ago if I had a marketable qualification.
And if most other countries/governments were not even more shite.
Such is life.
The cold hard reality is that as bad as it may ever get in Australia, for a straight white male like me without rare skills or training, this is and will probably always be the best place in the world for me to be.
PSA: EB Games have that crazy expensive Dragon Age: Inquisition CE up for preorder now. Console copies set you back about what you’d pay for a Vita, PC is a bit cheaper.
I’m glad I’ve moved on from CEs with stupid nicknacks in them because I’d totally have bought this when I was younger. 🙁
As a young(ish) person who loves stupid nicknacks: “AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH, MUST RESIST!”
LOCKPICKS. IT HAS A SET OF FUCKING LOCKPICKS YOU CAN USE TO OPEN A HIDDEN COMPARTMENT IN THE BOX.
AND THE BOX EXTERIOR IS MADE WITH 100% FAKE REPTILE SKIN.
AND IT HAS METAL COINS. ORLESIAN COINS. SO YOU CAN GO INTO A BAR AND PUT ONE DOWN AND BUY A ROUND OF MEAD FOR EVERYONE.
HOW CAN YOU RESIST?!
*Throws wallet at screen*
THEY’RE SO POINTLESS, I HAVE TO HAVE THEM!
I think I’m just dumb enough to get that, I’m a total chump for gaming nicknacks that I usually look at once put back in the box for safe keeping and leave to gather dust for years at a time.
72 Card Tarot deck with Dragon Age Characters
Inkpot & Quill
tooo many nicknacks to resist……
It does look very spiffy indeed though.
Picked up Assassins Creed IV on PS4 for 62 bucks today, I feel like that was a darn good bargain.
I still haven’t finished it. Must spin up my PS4 again soon
Never played an Assassins Creed title, but it looks good to me!
I swear I just saw @effluvium-boy driving a Chinese taxi down the road.
How’s my driving?
Well unlike my last taxi you were atleast on te correct side of the road.
Decided I’d better pull my finger out and make a start on The Walking Dead S2 (game).
Downloading ep 2 and 3 now, it won’t effect the game if I play ep 1 while downloading the other 2 eps will it?
Edit: Screw it, I’m actually gonna play through season 1 instead (again), coz I completed season 1 on PS3, but I’ve since bought it again as well as season 2 on 360 and I want my save (choices) to carry over into S2.
Edit 2: WHAT THE HELL! Started Season 1 Ep. 1, got to just after where you shoot the first guy, paused it for a few seconds and got an error message saying that the device (hard drive) containing the game had been removed, so it was taking me back to the dashboard.
I wonder if my hard drive being dangerously close to being completely full has got anything to do with it.
Hope you get it sorted, man. It’s worth playing for sure! 🙂
Yeah, as I said I’ve already played through it once on PS3, I’m just playing it again because I bought Season 2 on 360 and I want my choices to carry over.
I deleted a couple of games off my hard drive last night, and it seemed to work ok. Started it up today though to play through Ep. 2 before work and it didn’t even detect my save from last night. Dashboarded out and started again, and there it was, weird.
Can’t get a good look at the lockpicks in that set to see if they’re real or not. I know in Victoria and NSW you can get charged for possessing them without proper licensing as a housebreaking tool. Qld means it’s reasonable cause for police to search your everything. Not sure on other states.Curious as to how it will go. Can see media headlines.
Edit: Nevermind. Finally found a decent picture. They’re a useless novelty.
Urk. Reply fail to @negativezero.
Just because they’re a useless novelty doesn’t mean there won’t be headlines on a slow news day.
Some kid at uni bought a $30 set on eBay. Opened every single door at the dorms in a couple seconds, and opened the pool table so we had free games of pool. Hilarious.
They’re not useless.
You can use them to open the HIDDEN COMPARTMENT in the FAKE REPTILE SKIN BOX. :O
EDIT: I find it amusing to think you’d have a hidden locked compartment in a box but have to pick the lock to open it…
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Sweet tats, guys.
Also, apparently @Mythamphetamine has an iron gullet.
Replay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH_kODQvhUs&feature=share&t=9m29s
Thanks for playing! and thanks to our viewers (including @dc @sernobulus and @beeawwb)
cc @mawt @popdart5 @blaghman @novacascade @tech_knight
Das boot.
Least impressive intraparty fight ever.
I have a feeling that @novacascade isn’t going to be following any more of @mythamphetamine suggestions during combat. =P
You got that right!!
Just finished watching all of season 17 of South Park.
I must say, I’m pretty disappointed. It wasn’t exactly funny. At all.
It kinda resorted to celebrity bashing on a regular basis, and the ideas for episodes were just, stupid. Not funny stupid, just stupid stupid. The one time I actually laughed properly was at the ginger cow, but then that started taking itself too seriously.
I liked it when Cartman was evil, but not an arsehole, where Kenny died each episode, and where celebrity bashing was a rare occurrence, and was actually funny.
It needs to get back to being random plots next season I feel, back to what the early seasons were like.
More stuff like Creme Fraiche b
Cat Orgy is my favourite episode, hahaha!
My favourite moment though is in the one where they join “Getting Gay with Kids”, and get lost in the forest and Eric just went around smacking forest animals with a stick yelling “That’s a bad sloth! No! Bad Mr Sloth!”, hahaha!
I haven’t watched since season ten. Really want to get back into it though.
The eps where you need to understand what they’re parodying are hit and miss for obvious reasons. Stuff like the Buck Rogers one with Cartman in the future was great even if you’ve never seen Buck Rogers or the one when the internet cuts out. I think most of season 14 onwards was when every epsode basically was based on bashing a celebrity or cultural thing. Granted that’s what the show is kind of based on, but now it’s more focused on a specific thing and as said, if you don’t get what they’re referencing it’s not funny
THE WALKING DEAD 2-3: IN HARM’S WAY
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Zl pubvprf:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m1cjai9vdjyqtgx/2014-05-14%2023.34.15.jpg
– V urycrq Fnenu jvgu ure puberf. V svtherq Pyrz jbhyq or vaihyarenoyr gb ercrephffvbaf, ohg V jnfa’g fher nobhg Fnenu. Va ergebfcrpg, V jbaqre vs V’ir pbqqyrq ure n yvggyr zhpu. Znlor fur jbhyqa’g unir juvzcrerq ng gur puncgre’f raq, naq Pneybf zvtug unir yvirq…? Nalbar tbg na raqvat va juvpu gung unccrarq?
– V gbyq Obaavr nobhg Yhxr. V jnagrq gb gnxr vg onpx gur vafgnag V qvq, rira gubhtu V jnf ernfbanoyl fher V pbhyq gehfg ure. Rira gubhtu vg ghearq bhg bxnl, va gur zbzrag, V fubhyq unir fnvq “V jnag gb frr Xraal” vafgrnq.
– V gevrq gb nqzvg gb fgrnyvat gur jnyxvr gnyxvr. Sbe dhvgr fbzr gvzr, V gubhtug gung pubvpr jnf tbvat gb trg Xraal xvyyrq. Bu zl Tbq, V xvyyrq Xraal! V’z n onfgneq rgp, ohg V’z nffhzvat gung guvatf cynlrq bhg ebhtuyl gur fnzr ertneqyrff.
– V jngpurq Xraal xvyy Pneire. V guvax Pneire jnf evtug nobhg Pyrz. Zl Pyrz ng yrnfg vf orpbzvat n erny uneq-nff, jvgu yvggyr gbyrenapr sbe ohyyvrf. Fur’f abg dhvgr ehguyrff lrg, naq jvyy fgvyy gel gb fnir gur jrnxrfg yvax, ohg sebz abj ba, fur jba’g urfvgngr gb qrny jvgu ceboyrzf urnq-ba vs gung’f gur bayl jnl.
– Ybirq gung gurer jnf na bcgvba gb pubc Fnevgn’f nez ng gur raq. Qrsvavgryl ynvq gur tebhaqjbex sbe gung bar jvgu bar-nezrq-tneqrare ng gur fgneg. Bs pbhefr V gbbx ure nez. Gur fpernz fynzzrq vagb gur raq perqvgf, naq V fnvq “Shpx lbh!” gb gur GI. Gehr fgbel.
Coming soon: Mrs Shane vs The Walking Dead. Season Two. Chapter Three.
Just finished!
Walking Dead Game Season 2 Episode 3 Discussion (major spoilers, obviously!)
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Pubvprf:
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– Gbyq Obaavr nobhg Yhxr. Obaavr jnf zl snibhevgr QYP punenpgre, fb V’z tynq fur vf trggvat zber fperra gvzr. V’z cerggl fher V pna gehfg ure ng guvf cbvag, fur trahvaryl qvqa’g frrz gb xabj gur fvghngvba fur jnf va jvgu Pneire.
– Nqzvggrq gb fgrnyvat gur jnyxvr gnyxvr. Fghcvq Xraal phg zr bss gubhtu. V gura erfgenvarq Frevgn (guvaxvat gung vs fur jnyxrq va fur’q or zber yvxryl gb or xvyyrq guna Xraal)
– Jngpurq Xraal xvyy Pneire. Jbj… V ernyyl fubhyqa’g unir. Gung jnf OEHGNY. V whfg jnagrq gb znxr fher ur jnfa’g tbvat gb pbzr onpx gubhtu.
– Pubccrq Frevgn’f nez bss. Vg’f rfgnoyvfurq gung vs lbh pubc bss yvzof rneyl rabhtu, lbh fheivir. Gur ybbx ba ure snpr naq gur fpernz jnf vagrafr gubhtu Q: Zna, V qvq abg yvxr gung…
Vg jnf ernyyl pbby frrvat nyy gur crbcyr V fnirq va gur QYP gubhtu. Xvaqn qvfnccbvagrq abar bs gurz unq n ovttre ebyr! (gubhtu V thrff gurl unq gb nppbzzbqngr sbe gur cynlref jub qvqa’g znantr gb trg nal bs gurz gb pbzr. Obaavr tbrf jvgu Gnivn ertneqyrff va gur QYP, evtug?)
Nf sbe Fnenu’f sngr, V guvax fur’yy pbzr onpx orsber gur raq… ohg V ernyyl pna’g cerqvpg jung vf tbvat gb unccra gb ure. Nsgre nyy gung gvzr vairfgrq va ure gb gel naq gbhtura ure hc, gbb! (Qvq jr rire trg nal gurbevrf nf gb jung vf npghnyyl hc jvgu Fnenu, naljnl? Fur’f arire frrzrq dhvgr evtug)
Nyfb, jrer gurl frevbhfyl gelvat gb grnfr n Yvyyl hairvy guebhtubhg guvf? V qhaab… V whfg pna’g frr vg unccravat. Gurl fher unq n ybg bs yvatrevat fubgf ba n jbzna jvgu ybat oebja unve jvgu na nyjnlf bofpherq snpr… V guvax vg’f whfg n erq ureevat gubhtu. Rfcrpvnyyl abj gung jr yvxryl jba’g or frrvat zbfg bs gung tebhc nalzber.
Night, TAY.
/O\
DAY TAAAAAAAAAY! \O/
So I think I slept for all of 2.5 hours, had some kind of dream about cooking and rearranging a fridge while arguing with some sentient items in there or something and then woke up. Then couldn’t get back to sleep, I think I’m kinda hungry. Then I got thinking about the Virtual Boy tech docs I’ve been reading and how everything is V this and V that. There’s the VIP and the VSU, its code is VUE, the processor is the V810. Then that made me think of Viewtiful Joe, and how everything’s V for him. And when it’s not V, it’s red. And… holy shit a Viewtiful Joe Virtual Boy game would be perfect. And awesome. There’s got to be some way that 3D could be incorporated as a useful power for a side-scrolling beat-’em-up.
Joe: Virtual Boy. A game about a boy whose girlfriend is taken by videogame villains come to life, and he is dragged into their world where he learns to become Virtual Joe: videogame hero. Close enough to be familiar, but different enough to escape the wrath of Capcom? 😛 Man I wish I could just snap my fingers and make it happen, rather than take hours upon years – if it’s even possible at all in the first place.
Ok yeah. Definitely hungry. Time for another weird body clock reset!
Woke up this morning to a security alert that someone in China was attempting to log on to my crappy old hotmail address. I’ve had it since 1997, and never changed the password (would have failed a basic dictionary hack).
Guess I’m surprised it took 17 years for that password to fail.
I got one of those a couple of weeks ago…
Don’t worry, that’s automated. It gets sent out when people fail your password multiple times from another countries IP range. Doesn’t mean they got in.
When I confirmed it wasn’t me, the system then stepped me through changing my password. All logging seemed to indicate they got in, but were blocked by additional verification due to being outside the normal access pattern.
Edit:
Posting Too Fast Error really thinned out TAY. I usually catch up over breakfast but these days I’m finished before the pan for my bacon has even heated up.
I guess everyone’s out of the posting habit because it was too annoying for way too long.
for some reason the mobile site seems to be posting normally, or it might be the fact that i’m using ie at work.
Bacon. Bring me
It’s apparently sorted now, I just meant that people are out of the habit of posting because it was like that for so long.
I’d have to put pants on to bring you bacon, so no. Sorry. 😛
Yeah, I cut down heavily. Seems to be fine today/yesterday.
Do you eat eggplant? I bought a jar of the char grilled slices in oil for mum in the shopping last week and did a bit of an experiment panfrying them, surprisingly they turned out kind of crispy like bacon (presumably they soak up a lot of oil being porous and that helps fry it nicely). For me they’d still be inedible what with being eggplant and all but if you like that kind of thing it might be worth a try.
Guten morgen!
Edging ever closer to my 1000G in Dark Souls 2. Heading into NG+ Shrine of Amana now. This should be interesting.
In bad news: my beloved dog has a heart murmur. We don’t have the hundreds of dollars it will cost to get him checked out, and it’s most likely the congenital heart disease that plagues his breed anyway. Guess we’ll just have to enjoy what little time we still have with him 🙁
I just got Dark Souls 2 on PC. Downloading now. I still haven’t finished the first game, but since I moved my PS3 out of my bedroom and downstairs I doubt I ever will now. Any Dark Souls 2 tips?
Also sucks about your dog. What breed was he and how old?
I was just gonna say, if you’re on 360, Dark Souls 1 is gonna be one of the free Games With Gold next month, but then I read PS3. Oh well.
If anyone else is interested, here’s the info.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-18095-Games-With-Gold-on-Xbox-360-in-June–Dark-Souls–Charlie-Murder—Super-Street-Fighter-IV–Arcade-Edition.html
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Almost six years old.
Re: Dark Souls 2… so much advice. Gur pynff gung fgnegf jvgu n fuvryq znxrf guvatf fyvtugyl rnfvre. Zhygvcynlre vf irel npgvir va guvf tnzr, ohg lbh pna bayl haybpx fhzzbavat bapr lbh unir cebterffrq nobhg 2/3 jnl guebhtu gur Sberfg bs Snyyra Tvnagf naq trg gur “Juvgr Fbncfgbar”. Znxr gung lbhe svefg fgbc.
Ernq gur jvxvf. Zntvp vf BC, nf rire, ohg lbh’q or orggre bss fgnegvat nf n zryrr punenpgre naq erfcrppvat yngre vs lbh qrpvqr gb ohvyq n zntr. Bu lrnu, lbh pna erfcrp va guvf tnzr vs lbh svaq n Fbhy Irffry!
Vs lbh’er npuvrirzrag uhagvat, gurer’f npghnyyl abg nyy gung zhpu cynaavat gb qb. Gur bayl guvatf gung pna ernyyl or zvffrq ner gur Orauneg naq gur Yhpngvry dhrfgyvarf. Ybbx gurz hc vs lbh’er xrra. Erprag cngpurf unir znqr vg rnfvre gb pbzcyrgr gurve fgbevrf (gurl arrq gb or fhzzbarq sbe, naq fheivir, n ahzore bs obff svtugf).
Erfgbevat uhznavgl: gur vgrzf gung erfgber uhznavgl (uhzna rssvtvrf) ner irel yvzvgrq va rneyl tnzr, naq ner abg vasvavgr rire. Qba’g ohea gurz ng obasverf – lbh whfg hfr gurz yvxr vgrzf. Vs lbh jnag gb fgnl uhzna (sbe fhzzbavat, rgp), nf fbba nf lbh pna, svaq n Evat bs Yvsr Cebgrpgvba. Vg xrrcf lbh uhzna vs lbh qvr, ohg jvyy oernx va gur cebprff. Ab jbeevrf – gnxr vg gb n oynpxfzvgu naq trg vg ercnverq. Be trg fhzzbarq nf n cunagbz gb fbzrbar ryfr’f tnzr naq uryc gurz gnxr qbja n obff – gung bsgra erfgberf uhznavgl.
Tbvat guebhtu nernf nf n cunagbz vf n tbbq evfx-serr jnl gb yrnea ubj nernf ner fgehpgherq. Whfg or njner gung n ubfg jvyy cebonoyl rkcrpg lbh gb qb fbzr/zbfg bs gur evfxl jbex, fb orvat n gbgny arjovr gb na nern zvtug jryy naabl gurz. Svar yvar gurer. Bsgra, vs lbh pna fhzzba fbzrbar ryfr gb yrnq lbh guebhtu, gung pna uryc.
Uh… yeah. That’ll do, for now. Good luck!
I’ve got one of those dogs, she’s about 4. Such an awesome breed. It’s a shame they’ve got such bad hearts. I was actually worried about mine since she coughed up some blood a while back, but the vet said her heart was perfectly okay. Still worried it’s something I’m going to have to face one day though.
It’s definitely happening a lot earlier than I thought it would. Have no idea how the kids are going to handle it 🙁
You can find a shield easily without even having to engage any enemies, though.
Also “nernf” made me giggle. What an awesome word. Almost makes the effort required for rot13 worth it. 😛
🙁 I’ve been seeing lots of posts about sick animals recently and it just makes me wanna go home and give my cats lots of love. The problem with cats is they never seem to understand that and try to run away XD Hopefully your dog can still enjoy himself and have fun though
http://mobile.news.com.au/lifestyle/home/watch-video-cat-saves-boy-from-vicious-dog-attack/story-fngwib2y-1226918237526
awesome cat, but it’s over the top for the dog to be put down I think. At 8 months old, there’s years to train it to be well behaved. If we don’t put down people for randomly attacking people, or animals for that matter, why’s it the first reaction to put down a dog when it goes for someone?
It has a taste for human flesh now. It cannot be tamed.
More seriously, though, I’m in two minds about it. If the dog hasn’t been trained yet, what chance do you think there is that the owners will bother? It’s desperately unfair for the dog, but ultimately you have to think about the next kid the dog would have come across.
If the dog was older then I could maybe understand it, old dog new tricks and all but considering this is still a puppy I think there’s still the opportunity for a family to properly take care of it and train it and it would have the chance to change its behaviour.
Ultimately though it depends on the family it belongs to and whether they feel it can be changed and whether they feel they can put the effort into it. From the age it seems like it’s a puppy for Christmas that has gotten too much to handle and they’ve taken the easy option but that’s a lot of assumption on my part. Maybe the dog has shown previous violent behaviour which would go more towards the decision to put it down
I agree with everything you’ve said.
Sorry to hear about your pup Shane 🙁
Played through The Walking Dead season 2 ep 3 last night. So spoilers for The Walking Dead season 1 and 2 (game):
V yvxrq vg. V yvxr ubj gurl’er znantvat gb unir fbzr ernyyl vagrafr zbzragf jvgubhg ergernqvat byq tebhaq sebz gur ynfg frnfba. Jura gurl svefg naabhaprq vg, V jnf n yvggyr hafher nobhg Pyrz pbzvat onpx. V gubhtug V jbhyq unir cersrerq na ragver arj pnfg jvgu na arj, cerivbhfyl haxabja cebgntbavfg, ohg abj V’z ernyyl tynq gurl oebhtug ure onpx. Abg bayl vf vg ernyyl vagrerfgvat frrvat guvatf sebz gur crefcrpgvir bs n puvyq, ohg orpnhfr vg’f Pyrz fcrpvsvpnyyl lbh xabj nyy ure onpxtebhaq naq vg’f terng frrvat jung fbeg bs crefba fur’f orpbzvat.
Zl pubvprf:
V urycrq Fnenu, orpnhfr rira gubhtu V’z crefbanyyl abg n sna bs ure V srry vg’f jung Pyrz jbhyq qb.
V gbyq Obaavr nobhg Yhxr, orpnhfr jul abg. Nyfb V’z fbeg bs ovnfrq jura vg pbzrf gb uvz orpnhfr jr funer n anzr.
Gevrq gb nqzvg gb fgrnyvat gur Jnyxvr Gnyxvr. Gura V gevrq gb uryc Xraal vafgrnq bs erfgenvavat jungf ure snpr. V guvax vg’f pbby gung gurl’er jvyyvat gb fubj n yvggyr tvey trggvat uvg va gur snpr ol n tebja zna. V ybir gung gurl’er abg fulvat njnl sebz gung fbeg bs fghss.
V qvqa’g jngpu Xraal xvyy Pneire. V ernyyl jnagrq gb, ohg V qvqa’g. Vg jnf yrff orpnhfr V gubhtug Pyrz jbhyqa’g jnag gb frr vg (zl Pyrz jbhyq nf fur’f orpbzr cerggl uneqrarq. Fgvyy jnagf gb uryc crbcyr, ohg xabjf gung fbzrgvzrf lbh arrq gb chyy gur gevttre naq gung fbzr crbcyr qba’g qrfreir frpbaq punaprf), ohg orpnhfr ur jnagrq ure gb jngpu, fb vg jnf zber bs n “shpx lbh” gb uvz guna nalguvat ryfr.
V jrag fgenvtug sbe ure nez. Qvqa’g rira unir gb guvax nobhg vg. V’z ernyyl ubcvat gur arkg rcvfbqr jvyy yrg Pyrz gnyx nobhg Yrr naq ubj V unq uvz pubc bss uvf nez va gur svefg frnfba.
Ybbxvat sbejneq gb gur arkg rcvfbqr, ohg nyfb xvaqn qernqvat vg pnhfr fghcvq xvqf ehaavat bss naq pnhfvat ceboyrzf sbe rirelbar ryfr vf bar bs zl zbfg ungrq guvatf va fgbelgryyvat.
V nterr. V jnf fb qhovbhf nobhg fgvpxvat jvgu gur fnzr pnfg, ohg gurl’ir anvyrq vg. Pyrz vf na njrfbzr punenpgre gb pbageby. V pbhyqa’g or qvttvat guvf zber – ab fbcubzber fyhzc sbe guvf tnzr.
Lbh naq V znqr nyzbfg nyy gur fnzr pubvprf, rkprcg sbe gur jngpuvat Pneire qvr guvat. Vs gur bcgvba unq cerfragrq vgfrys, V guvax zl Pyrz jbhyq unir rira qbar gur qrrq urefrys.
Fur’f punatrq n ybg fvapr gur qnl jura fur pbhyqa’g fubbg Yrr.
More spoilers for all of Season 2!
V ernyyl yvxr gung guvf rcvfbqr fbeg bs frg frrqf sbe Pyrz orpbzvat… abg n ivyynva, ohg fbeg bs n ivyynva? unun Ng gur irel yrnfg n irel tbbq yrnqre. Pneire’f fcrrpu cneg jnl guebhtu ernyyl znqr zr ernyvfr ubj zhpu V’q orra cynlvat Pyrz nf nyzbfg n ivyynva ng cbvagf :C Fur vf npghnyyl irel fvzvyne gb Pneire, zvahf gur jubyr vzcevfba-rirelbar-naq-xvyy-vaabpragf guvat.
YES.
Nygubhtu V’z abg guvaxvat fur’f n ivyynva fb zhpu nf V’z guvaxvat fur’f orpbzvat uneqrarq. Xvaq bs ehguyrff va n frafr. Na nygreangr jnl gb ivrj vg vf gung fur znl or ybfvat ure uhznavgl. Naq tvira gur zhful angher bs cbchyne svpgvba, guvf vf nccneragyl n onq guvat.
http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/lauren-shuler-donner-deadpool/
They’re still interested in making it. Could possibly be a lower budget R rated production ala Dredd. If so, keen.
SELF-PROMOTION:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Game-Shane-W-Smith-ebook/dp/B00KC61YLQ/
http://www.amazon.com/James-Flamestar-Stargazers-Shane-Smith-ebook/dp/B00KC61YQQ/
Pre-order now, or wait until the print editions become available. It’s up to you. Personally, I think you should do both.
How convenient, I’ve just been updating my Amazon Wishlist for my birthday…. 😀
Whee, rego inspection done. Baw, busted brake light.
Back in bed now. My eyes feel burny.
QLD is so ghetto that there is no inspection. Only if you transfer ownership.
VIC is so lazy that it does it the same way
What’s everyone upto today? I’ve got another boring day at work filled in with the odd 5-10min of Kotaku keeping me entertained =p
I’ve got another day on Kotaku with the odd 5-10 minutes of work keeping me employed.
I’m glad that at least someone out there gets to live the life!
I’m quilting flowers, swirls and organic lines on a quilt this morning(if I ever get dressed), and doing the grocery shopping this afternoon followed by back to doing Mum things again when my kids get home from school. Sorry, my day will not be very useful at providing entertainment for you. 😛
Hahaha that’s ok, I can always count on Mark to meet my minimum entertainment requirements with the Daily Singtaku xD And take it from me your day sounds a lot more fun than sitting in front of a computer all day ><
We’re not so different, you and I.
Working mainly, and also later today
teaching the team about deploying firewalls in the new producttry to teach the team about firewall deployment when they’ll end up forgetting in less than 24 hours…One of the main reasons I hate offshoring 🙁
Just cleaned my house and put on slow cooking chicken soup. Will play The Walking Dead 2×03 later!
Walking Dead ( game) Season 1 Ep. 2, then work, then more Walking Dead when my son goes to bed.
What about you?
I have been desperately trying and failing this week to get in some solid Persona 4 time (never completed the game) but every time I sit down to put some into it something pulls me off. Quite literally haven’t been able to turn my Vita on all week! :'(
Working until I can get home and clear the familial responsibilities and get back to Shadowrun.
Ah, how good is Shadowrun. I love that kind of isometric style. Amazing atmosphere.
The only thing I found annoying is how you have to recruit most of your team from scratch before every fight? Kind of killed the sense of progression I’ve come to enjoy in RPG’s =\
Great atmosphere and turn based gameplay though!
I just recruited the same runners each time unless there was a burning need for someone different, they felt like part of the team towards the end.
The only thing I found annoying is how you have to recruit most of your team from scratch before every fight? Kind of killed the sense of progression I’ve come to enjoy in RPG’s =\
Great atmosphere and turn based gameplay though!
I’m still kind of happy I’m now an associate professor at the university of trials
Dark Souls 2 trolling.
I haven’t come across too much of this in my 80-ish hours playing, but there are a couple of examples:
V unq n fhzzba jnxr hc nyy gur fgbar thlf va gur Qenatyrvp Pnfgyr, naq V guvax ur jnf nobhg gb fgneg xvyyvat gurz, bcravat hc nyy gur Ehva Fragvary qbbef ng bapr. V Oynpx Pelfgnyyrq uvf nff orsber ur unq n punapr. Gung jbhyq unir chg n frevbhf pevzc va zl cynaf gb xrrc cebterffvat va gur tnzr
And here’s one from April Fool’s Day. SO MEAN.
http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkSouls2/comments/21x8wx/tip_for_those_having_trouble_with_the_shrine_of/
http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/14/5716668/ninja-theory-gdc-europe
Oh man, this will make me sad if Enslaved 2 is included. I’m hoping after last years surprise PC release there’s still a chance we can see more of this series.
Finished South Park SoT last night. Had to say it kind of fell a tiny-weeny bit flat right at the end, although the second to last boss fight with the zombie was funny and also nostalgic.
Best line of the entire damn game: “When I explain something complex, I earn a freckle.”
So, with sis-in-law and wife arguing loudly in the other room and me feeling really uncomfortable, I thought I would quickly start up another game in my pile of shame. Something I wouldn’t get addicted to.
So I booted up Dragon Age: Origins, which I’ve always been meaning to play.
I’ve made a huge mistake.
Best game! 😀
I dreamed about it last night. I barely ever do that.
This is a very bad sign for my family, my hygiene and my nutrition.
This is a very good sign for Coca-Cola and Doritos.
Attempted to finish South Park on Monday, got to the final battle, and it just felt like it was taking forever, then I died and went I don’t really feel like going through all that again and turned it off.
Ha! I understand. But just when I thought “well, this is going to take forever” it ended, almost like the creators knew that one more round would have been too many.
Don’t do what I did in my first DA:O playthrough and not enter the bar in the first town you go to. It’s actually skippable – I never saw the door – and as a result I missed out on one of the more interesting companions in the game.
I’ve had Mary Poppins songs stuck in my head since I saw Saving Mr. Banks on Sunday… AND I HAVEN’T EVEN SEEN MARY POPPINS. D:
You haven’t seen Mary Poppins?! What kind of a monster are you
I’ve seen Sherry Bobbins!
Do yourself a favour and leave it at that. I’ve seen Mary Poppins way more times than I’d care to remember. All those old musicals were pretty much forced on us by our father when we were kids, so I kinda hate them. I like a lot of the newer ones though, especially anything that parodies the old ones.
Played my Dad (who doesn’t watch The Simpsons) that episode, and he wasn’t impressed, was pretty funny.
Not him. His parents. They responsibilities to their children and they failed.
Let’s go fly a kite
Nah.
Funny.
I saw it on Saturday, had the songs stuck in my head on Monday, and also haven’t seen Mary Poppins (well, I have, but I was young and fell asleep during it and had a nightmare so I associated Mary Poppins with nightmars from that point on :P). I want to see it now, though.
Warhammer 40k digital games seem to be coming thick and fast now…
Ladies and gentlemen – Warhammer 40K Chess:
http://www.warhammer40kchess.com/
Urgh. Still waiting on DoW3 or Space Marine 2.
Or the world’s first 11-faction MMO. IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FUTURE… THERE IS ONLY COMPLAINING ABOUT BALANCE ISSUES.
OMG IMBA IMBA IMBWAAAAAAAGH!
Wait, is it basically battle chess. I’m confused. Chess with a campaign mode. Wah!
Sid just had his bath and smells nice! I expect it to last a week. Also, house will be hair free for about 2 days if we’re lucky
do you bath him yourself? My girlfriend does mobile dog washing for a living so we have an awesome trailer filled with all kinds of dog grooming things, makes cleaning our dogs so easy, it’s great.
No, someone comes and washes him monthly. It’s a treat for him, but you wouldn’t think it. He’ll retreat into the house unless he knows the dog wash person has treats. It’s like a form of blackmail.
haha, yeah my girlfriend has some funny “customers” some of them howl and get crazy excited when she arrives and leaves while others run away terrified and she has to bribe them with treats . One yesterday somehow dug a hole into the customers garage to hide,
How? How did it dig through concrete? I’m so confused! /o\
I know right, it was a really old place and half falling apart, the concrete had caved into the hole and he kept on digging, that’s determination for you.
My wife just takes him in the shower on occasion. He’s not a fan. More a fan than the cat though which is always hilarious. Also sad. Sad that it doesn’t drown while in there. Effin cat.
Cats are awesome, Freeze.
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/home/watch-video-cat-saves-boy-from-vicious-dog-attack/story-fngwib2y-1226918237526
The cat probably told the dog the boy killed its family, watched until it climaxed and then scared off the dog to take hero credit.
sounds like a cat (i.e. jerk) thing to do.
That doesn’t make the cat any less awesome.
our old house mate did that with his dog and he never cleaned up after, used to block up the shower, I hope your wife is more considerate.
We have a staffy so no fur mess and wife is a mental clean freak.
aaah, nice. We have 2 German Shepherds I could probably make a jacket daily from all the hair they lose, they’re outside dog so not much hair inside, outside though there are like tumblehairs hooked up in trees and shrubs everywhere and we clean up pretty regularly.
A week! That’s pretty good. My dog had a bath yesterday, and he’s already starting to smell again. And we don’t get five minutes reprieve from hair at any time.
You know you can get doggy cologne, right? It’s what makes them smell nice for a week =P
He used coconut over summer, so Sid often smelt of coconuts.
that stuff is great, if ours get smelly between baths I give them a squirt with some cologne, works a treat, there are varieties with bug repellent in them too, I usually give them that one cause we often get plagued with mosquitoes.
He gets whatever the portable dog wash folks give him. It smells really good, but he rubs it all off as quick as he can 😛
YOU HAVE A DOG? D:
DOGE*
See above for post re: heart murmur. I may not have a dog for much longer, so don’t give up entirely on me just yet.
🙁
EverQuest Next Landmark (or whatever it’s called) has appeared on steam … I am really tempted to pick it up.
Bloody hell. You and probably ten million others… that’s a great way to get a sudden cash injection.
Yeah, haven’t got it yet. I’m (kinda) holding out.
So can someone answer something for me regarding Watch Dogs?
How much difference is there between 900p and 792p? Would it be super noticeable on a 46 inch full HD TV? I’d prefer Xbox one for the controller, but if it’s gonna look heaps better on PS4 I’ll deal with the slightly less comfortable controller. Thanks ^_^
Probably not much but that won’t stop the Internet screaming they can tell the difference between 1p and half a frame per second.
Side by side you may occasionally notice, but when you’re at home playing a standalone version you wouldn’t notice it. You will always notice which controller you are using though…
From my understanding there really isn’t a large noticeable difference between even 720p and 1080p at least for the naked human eye. I’d assume the only way you’d be able to pick apart the differences is if you were seated incredibly close to your TV.
So following that logic there really shouldn’t be a noticeable difference between 792p and 900p so you should probably stick with the more comfortable controller especially if Watch Dogs is anything like AC games where you can count on there being 100’s of hours of little side quests to run into.
Im gonna pop in here and say that your understanding is flawed at step 1, so I’ll explain. There is a big difference between 720 and 1080p, actually.
720p refers to the vertical pixel count, and is usually 1280×720 resolution. 1080p is normally 1920×1080. That means that 1920×1080 actually has over twice as many pixels as 1280×720.
If you have a 1080p TV, you want 1080p content, full stop. Since you’re dealing with half the pixels, everything will be blocky as it just doesn’t have the pixels to make it nice and detailed.
Where you are wrong is: “I’d assume the only way you’d be able to pick apart the differences is if you were seated incredibly close to your TV.” The average TV size that people purchase today is 55in, and even people with older TVs have 42in usually, so that’s sitting around the bottom of the range. a 55in TV at a normal (yes, even manufacturer defined ‘normal’ distance) distance can most-definitely tell apart 720p and 1080p content. It’s like watching an upscaled DVD your whole life, then popping in a 1080p bluray – everything is so obvious now. Like putting on glasses (if you need them) :P.
Anyways, I said it in the post below – both consoles will output 1080p and the difference will be very minor.
I dunno, I think saying that there’s twice as many pixels is a bit disingenuous (I don’t even know if that’s the right word to use, but it kind of feels right). I mean it might be strictly true, sure, but it’s not like the pixels of a 720p image going to be twice the dimensions as a 1080p image on the same sized screen. Not like a 480p image would, which I’d be more inclined to think of as an example of blockiness. And there’d be even less of a difference between 720 and 900.
Also regarding your DVD/Blu Ray thing – I had a friend do just that. When The Dark Knight came out, he had both versions and this big-arse TV to watch them on. He showed us the DVD version, then put on the Blu Ray to show how much better it was. Honestly could not tell the difference 😛
Not that I’m saying there isn’t a difference. Just that I don’t think it’s necessarily all that obvious of one, not unless you’re specifically looking for it.
Yah, it’s twice the pixels, for 4x, so the blockiness is a lot less than 480p vs 1080p.
Regarding DVD/Bluray – either your friend doesn’t have it all set up correctly via HDMI, or everyone needs glasses or there’s nothing to talk about. :\
Well, he proclaimed he could see the amazing difference, so as long as he’s happy 😛
We still use DVDs on our 55″ via component, and don’t get any blockiness at all. Must just have a decent upscaler?
nopenopenopenopenope, I’m done here. 😛
The JB Hifi that’s like <2.5 yrs old fitted out the entire shop with component, so it has 40-80 inch TVs running shit via component. It's a calculated risk for me to walk into the TV section because there's always a chance I'll break down and start ripping up the joint.
Wait, component is the one with five cables, right? And composite just three?
I’ve suddenly realised I haven’t actually talked about them in so long that I’ve forgotten which one is which.
@mrtaco component has the 3 cables for video, composite is 1. So 5 & 3. 😛
Wait, since when did 55 inch become standard?
IMO like a year ago. Manufacturers have settled on that size as the sweet spot. They target 50 inch, then have 55in as the biggest model… perhaps jumping up to 70inch. *shrugs*
I’m no expert, but 792p – 900p doesn’t sound like much of a difference, and personally I’d take controller comfortability over a slight improvement in graphics any day.
Besides, apparently Microsoft is working with certain publishers on boosting the graphical quality of games that don’t use the Kinect seeing as the console wouldn’t have to use any processing power on it. So it’s possible that the Xbone version could have an update down the track to boost the quality of the graphics.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-18107-Xbox-One-Graphical-Performance-Boost-May-be-Incoming–Following-Kinect-Policy-Change.html
This puts an interesting spin on the kinect-less version console coming out.
Microsoft probably didn’t like that the current conventional wisdom is that with any cross-platform game, you know it will run better/prettier on the PS4 than the XBone so if you don’t care about XBone’s specific distinguishing features/friend list, you automatically go with PS4.
They’re still fucked. Just like Apple with their Retina screens, they’ve cornered themselves.
MS can give the console some of that reserved power, but then it’s officially saying that Kinect is a (very) optional accessory. No one will put Kinect features into games any more, with only stand-alone titles using it (or the UI when not in a game). In any case, they fucked over early adopters.
From a technical standpoint, they may be able to push to 1080p with that extra power, but PS4 is still going to dominate. Unless devs pull a miracle out of their ass with the embedded eSRAM to put it on par with PS4.
Probably. Though they do have that DirectX wild-card they could pull, deliberately customizing it to take best advantage of xbone’s hardware.
Honestly, I’d wait for reviews. They’ve capped resolution and frame rate to these settings on each console for what they deem to be acceptable performance. One of them may tank even with these restrictions, but something like that won’t be known until after release.
More than likely though, the difference will be negligible.
That’s the render resolution. Output resolution will be 1080p most likely (there’s pretty much 98% chance of this). The upscalers built into consoles are pretty damn good, so it will be hard to tell the difference. But, there will be a difference in certain things, like far away objects etc. If you sit more than 2-3M away from that TV, it’ll be hard to notice any difference.
Consistency of framerate is going to be much more noticeable than the resolution will be. Also stuff like lighting quality, textures, shadows, density of the stuff in the world, draw distance… all that is way more important than resolution.
You can easily find cases where a game looks far better at 720p with a consistent framerate and more features than it does at 1080 but stuttering at 20fps periodically and missing a bunch of lighting effects.
EDIT: I would wait for reviews not just because one version may look better than the other, but because I’m getting a strong suspicion that Watch Dogs may not be a good game at all.
Going out for lunch tomorrow with my office for my one year workiversary, which is really nice of them.
I got sent the restaurant’s menu today and did a spit-take. The entrees start at 30 dollars. The entrees!
Boy I’m glad I’m not paying.
WHAT. You get paid lunches for workiversaries? Man, fuck the public sector.
PS: Congrats.
Well it’s a small company and I’m the only “employee” working here (the other three joint-own the company), so I suppose I get a little special treatment when it comes to milestones 😛
How do you find working for such a small company? I’ve often thought it would suit me more, but then again the grass is always greener.
It’s fantastic for me. Exactly the sort of job that I wanted after Uni (I kinda left Uni feeling like I’d wasted four years – even though that wasn’t really true. Was just panicky that I didn’t feel like I’d learnt much).
It’s so useful to have a sort of “mentor” boss who literally sits right next to me. I learnt more about my field in the first few months than I felt like I’d learnt through all of Uni.
I work in a small company.
I’ve worked here for going on six years. We’ve had 1.5 Christmas parties. The most my existence has been celebrated has been when away on site during my birthday and the client’s staff have given me cupcakes with candles in them.
It’s got nothing to do with the number of staff, just better company culture.
(Edit: There have been other benefits/bonuses/perks over the years, but they’re somewhat spread out. It’s not the worst place in the world, but there are plenty of small improvements which would improve things immensely)
Aw, Flu. If we worked together I would give you a polite acknowledgement nod every morning.
I’d rise like a phoenix every morning.
I got a cake for my birthday. That I couldn’t eat.
But everyone else enjoyed it.
That’s your own fault for being a genetic reject.
I got a framed award for 5 years at my job this year, put right on top of my framed COO award I got last year 🙂
I didn’t get anything for my 5th year but technically I did get something for my sixth year.
But flexi-time, right?
I’d trade flex-time in for free lunches.
Edit: I really like eating food.
Nah
*puts on tie to go to CEO lunch today*
I get probably 3 or 4 paid lunches a year from law firms schmoozing us. Always fancy places I’d never eat at on my own dime, and I’ve never been to the same place twice because apparently if Sydney has one thing it’s a shitload of expensive restaurants that are only ever paid for on an expense account.
I finally got some Ray Bans yesterday. 😀
Been wanting to get some for a while, but ideally I’d want my prescription in them to see the best. The problem is, that the trademark ‘Ray Ban’ while logo would be gone from the lenses. 🙁 But alas! OPSM can do ‘official’ Ray Ban lenses! So I got me some New Wayfarers with the G15 polarised lenses, and it all looks the part. 😀
Bloody expensive though. 🙁
Dark Souls 2 stuff :
spent last night derping around, mainly in The Gutter, not really making any effort to progress, just trying out new weapons I’d picked up.
Dual wielding shields is ridiculously fun. & dumb.
I wish the Claws were more powerful. Dual-wielding them would’ve been so cool.
the claws have good DEX scaling, so it might just be a matter of getting your DEX up really high?
also, the cestus looks to have A/A STR/DEX scaling & higher base damage. 2x cestus might be viable?
That does sound kind of fun. I’ll have to try that tonight.
was using a Gyrm Greatshield & some medium-sized one with high magic block.
figured I’d be able to block most damage with em & still be able to fight back with shield bashes.
worked surprisingly well. though I’d have to upgrade the Gyrm to get an extra bit of damage going…
sometimes I derp around in the gutter too, but I don’t have Dark Souls 2.
Obscene Dragon Age collectors edition ordered.
D:
nice. as much as I’m tempted, i’m not gonna fork out for the ultra-mega-super-on-crack-with-a-cherry-on-top ed., but i’ll definitely grab the less super expensive ed.
It’s not out until October so I can just drop a $10 or $20 on it every now and then and won’t notice it. Same way I paid for the PS4.
I love Dragon Age so much, but I couldn’t justify paying that much even if I had that much in my bank account. (Which I don’t. :P)
I only got maybe half of the way through the first one, and like 3 hours into the second one, but I’m seriously considering buying the stupid edition for Inquisition.
What’s the point, though? If you’re not a fan why do you need these things? 😛
They’re really pretty. I was tempted for that reason. Shiny stuff
Just give me the game, I don’t need the other stuff. 😀
No one needs it.
BECAUSE THEY’RE THERE!
That’s still like… 35 hours? Ish?
Oh god I just started playing it last night. Don’t tell me that.
It’s a good problem to have though, buddy. You won’t need another game for the rest of the year if you space it out properly. (Until Inquisition comes out, atleast.)
I sunk a stupid amount of time into Origins, did a carefree playthrough making whatever decisions I wanted, played a second playthrough doing every evil thing I could but juggled my companions in such a way that they all stayed (cause certain evil actions caused certain folks to leave), it was a really fun playthrough, deceiving everyone along the way. Such fond memories. What’s this talk of DAII there was no such thing, never existed *puts fingers in ears* “LALALALALALALA!!”
I wish EA weren’t such jerks. I’d totally buy the game on Steam if they put it there like I did with the first one and the expansion. Don’t like being fragmented over multiple download systems.
Terrible admission: I actually bought DA2 digitally through EA back before Origin was called Origin. They gave me Mass Effect 2 as an apology for DA2 being shit, I think.
Played all the DA’s on PC, but tempted to get new one on PS4 especially if this save game keep thing works like it has been described.
Save game keep thing?
EDIT: I should mention I have utterly avoided all Dragon Age related stuff because I’ve found Bioware’s games are better to go into with low expectations and no prior knowledge.
It’s how they’re handlings the ports since the game’s going to be cross gen (not to mention some of the flags were screwed up going into DA2). Basically a website where you can pick all the options you want for DA:O, DA2 and the DLC and then port it into DA:I.
Oh.
Surely that will be PC as well?
Yeah, all systems. I don’t think you’ll actually be able to port a DA2 save into DA:I. You have to use the Keep.
A website where you pick it manually or a website that can scan your saves? I’d sooner have the latter so I don’t know all the little things that will be relevant
You pick manually. I think I read something about importing DA saves into the Keep and then from there into DA:I, but I can’t be sure.
bank account… more like blank account! right? right?! this bot gets it!
*high five*
Wicked. Hope you enjoy it !
I’m tempted, but I think I’ll go with the standard collectors edition instead of the super expensive one.
I feel I need to have a shower after that team meeting. So. Much. Bullshit.
When shaving your own head, what’s the trick to doing the neckline/nape?
Vodka.
Your tumblr suggests you don’t actually shave your head.
Not any more. Attempting to grow it long but it’s looking like shit. Been tempted to just shave it all off and beanie it up. XD
I find that I prefer to hide my hair when growing it, as when I shave it looks way better/tidy.
Also I’ve noticed you have the same smile everyday. How do you even do that!
When it’s a fake smile it’s easy to replicate. Hahaha!
hair does look poop when it’s at the in between lengths. I went from shaving my head to wearing a cap for a year then one day I took the cap off to reveal long hair, whoop.
I’ve heard a guillotine is fantastic for those tricky bits at the back of the neck.
how short? coz if you go to a zero (like all the cool people / violent skinheads do), then it really doesn’t matter.
I’m too scared to go shorter than four all over.
Get your wife to help if you’re not comfortable! 🙂
Yeah I usually do. But she is hair-phobic.
isn’t that a good case for having a zero?
I like hair. Problem is, I don’t know if I prefer my hair long or short.
Here’s me with the shortest I’ve had and here’s me with the longest I’ve had.
Opinions?
Long.
I wish I had hair like that.
*swoon*
long.
Pretty handsome either way. #nohomo
😀
That’s kind of the length I wanna get my hair, btw! How long did it take you to grow it that long?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bia4iIJCMAABmrA.jpg:large
This is as long as my hair has ever been!
Be a MAN – buzz it down to a 1 or 2. And grow a beard. Then everyone will think you are a skinhead/criminal/thug/whatever and ask you where you hide your tattoos and how many people you’ve killed.
OK, yeah, you know what… don’t do that. Grow your hair ultra-long until you have to face the grim reality of a receding hairline.
@shane @35 @dc
Wow. Overwhelming support for long. Unexpected. It’s very Sam Winchester, mind you. Thanks guys, suddenly I’m about to see the boss and ask if it’s breaking any policies at work if I decide to grow my hair.
DC, the only advice I have for you in regards to growing is: DON’T CUT! NO MATTER WHAT! I did find maintenance with long hair very annoying though.
@transientmind
Funnily, I would love to have Max Payne 3 style. Everyone around me would be shocked. I just can’t really grow a thick mustache.
Yeah, just bought some beanies so I might just hide hair for duration of winter and re-access after that.
But seriously, man. Long hair suits you!
Hm, yes. The rugged good looks of a Ben, indeed.
@greenius
Where’s that Mii mole!?
I feel deceived.
@greenius
Lying! The other well known trait amongst Bens!
@greenius
It’s there but faint. Seen in the short hair photo.
Bens love having Mii’s as their gravatars!
Pfft, call that LONG hair?
Though it does suit your face shape better
I swear to god, if I can gain 10-15 kilos of muscle, I will cosplay Max Payne 3. I’m just way too tiny for him at the moment.
(Not even joking about the killer/tattoos thing either. Comments from coworkers yeterday and today. >.< I just wanna go bald with some dignity, dammit.)
(Edit 2.0: Oh, and when I said go ‘ultra-long’ I meant METAL long, not ‘corporate long’. And still have a beard. VIKING GOD.)
But people thinking you might be a psycho thug is half the fun of having a shaved head.
Bald with dignity?
Is such a thing possible?
I’LL SHOW YOU DIGNITY *raises fist thuggishly*
@transientmind http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnrf6r9gCp1qeyj2to1_500.jpg
long like mine!
I’m about ready to go bald again. Clippers and a razor blade do the trick for me, all over. Back of the head often needs wifely assistance, though.
Embarassingly, one time whilst shaving my own head with a four clip, it fell off and I pushed the clippers without clip into the top of my head.
Rather than trim it all down, I wore a cap for a while.
That moment of dread as I held the clippers pressed to the top of my head and as the four clip fell past my eyes in slow motion.
The horror.
Wax.
I don’t have the balls to go shorter than four, let alone try something like this. 😀
Sorry to talk again about RPGs (seriously that’s kinda my jam) but I bought the Black Crusade RPG book a couple of days ago. Now I just need to play the waiting game while it ships.
On the bright side though, I am devilishly excited about playing a game of this. I know a friend of mine is super keen to play as a Thousand Sons Sorcerer so that will be fun to play with. Also the fact that the system actively encourages backstabbing, intra-party rivalry, and schemes galore will be a nice change from being a goody two shoes.
RPGS!
System crashes are an excellent time to take stock of that clusterfuck of open windows and file things away where they need to be. In the process: Drive-by quote I got sent.
Oh, and:
A Day In the Life of a TV Antihero
http://the-toast.net/2013/08/22/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-troubled-male-antihero/
He woke up ambiguously. “Hmm,” he seemed to say as he looked warily around him. Time for another day of swords or drugs or making business, whatever his job was.
He lit seventeen cigarettes, because who the fuck cared. “I’m a man,” he announced to the room. “I’m a goddamn man and sometimes I have to make the tough decisions that no one asked me to make and my jaw looks like a shovel and I have an important job, so fuck you,” just in case someone was listening.
He got out of bed.
It’s time for another instalment of…
Powalen’s Fun Times with Clients at Work *jingle*
We got sent another batch of pictures to use as part of a (new) school’s website theme today. Professional photos, really well shot. The school’s motto is all about how diverse their students are, so they’ve made sure to get a variety of different coloured kids in every shot.
Except in the bulk of the photos, they’ve used the same (very dark skinned) girl in several different group shots, with her displaying many different hairstyles in different settings.
C’mon, school. It’s pretty obvious you’ve only got one black kid.
*wince*
/o\
No. You’re just racist and think they all look the same.
Is it possible to be drifting pointlessly when you have a promising career. I just need a point, a goal, a something. Unfortunately i need to find it and I cant just Google it.
options are near endless.
I feel like I’m just treading water because i cant see a island near me and its easier just to stay and wait for help then go and find it myself.
Save up for, and purchase, a blimp.
Once you’ve done that your next goal is to get your blimp licence.
After that I’m not so sure, but you’ll be flying a goddamn blimp and probably won’t give a damn.
Then pick up your buddy Pants with the blimp, so we can party.
Upgrade to an airship!
Do you want to go to Japan with a bunch of awesome people who are part of this cult called Taybies? They sound weird but I think it’ll be safe enough 😛
Do it @rocketman.
Join us @rocketman.
HOW MUCH
HOW LONG
WHEN
i know you went over this before but that was quite some time ago.
Saturday, March 21, 2015 to Friday, April 03, 2015
Osaka -> Hiroshima -> Kyoto -> Takayama -> Hakone -> Tokyo
$4331 twin share, $4905 single, not including airfare to & from Japan.
March 21 – Apr 3 next year (plus probably a day either side for flights).
Land arrangements are $4331 for a twin share room, or $4905 for a private room.
On top of that would be $195 for travel insurance.
Flights are only just released so no specials yet, but hopefully around the $1000-1200 mark.
Whats your email and I’ll send you the full itinerary 🙂
rossfear(at)msn.com
Sent 🙂
This reminds me – can you mail my brother the new bank details for the deposit? I was asking him about this the other night and he said he’d sent the form, but for some reason I don’t know why, hadn’t sent the deposit. I told him not to do that until we confirm those deets now that your guys have a funky new name. If he needs to re-send the form to better match it, I’ll get that done too.
I haven’t got any forms from him, so he probably have sent it to my old email address, which I don’t have access to any more. If you can get him to resend it to peter(at)weknowtravel(dot)com(dot)au, I’ll definitely get it there. I’ll send him the new bank details once I’ve got it 🙂
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3112
Ugh so bored…. About to go on 3 weeks leave and I’ve already finished all my work. All my files are up to date, payments have been made, documents are handed out, Japan Group flights are only just released but no specials are out yet.
I’m so lacking in things to do, my boos got me to do the first major clean out of our database in 8 years. There were originally over 8000 client files set up and by getting rid of duplicated names and obviously incomplete files (surname only, no contact details etc) I deleted over 1200 in a day and half. But now even that is done.
Someone entertain me
If I was a far crueler man, I would link you to cookie clicker.
Well, I am a far crueller man.
MONSTER!!
Your attempt to ensnare me has failed \o/ because I’m using an outdated browser! /o\
Find me a place to stay in Melbourne for PAX! Ta da! Work.
(I really should get onto this before it’s too late…)
Ibis Kingsgate is where I stayed last year. It was pretty good, nice and close to the station. Its about a 15 min walk from the convention centre. If you stay by yourself you’re looking at around $140 a night over PAX, though you’ll probably be able to find cheaper rates somewhere, or if you share with someone
I’m probably going to go for a couple of days either side of PAX so I might have to look into solo accommodation (unless someone else wants to go for a bit longer too).
Note to self: Plan it this weekend!
Let’s all go to Tig’s house again and watch you build some weird elaborate LEGO thing (which turned out to be a dragon) that no one could guess for ages…
Good times!
NOT MY PLACE!
But.. but… Xenobuddies 🙁
Why would I want to stay somewhere that has photographic evidence of alien invasions?
I like that you remembered that!
*strums guitar*
Starry, starry night..
When do you head out? I need to send thru my insurance thingy.
Oh yeah. Whoops. Forgot about that.
Last day at work is tomorrow, I’ll be back on the 11th June
CC @negativezero
What’s your experience with 1 Travel Insurance. They always seem to be a quarter of the cost of everywhere else with only minimal concessions. We’ve used them but never had to claim with them so don’t actually know what they’re like besides cheap.
My Dad’s insurance company had a really good policy that was extremely close to Covermore’s at a much lower price, but you could only get a policy at a maximum of 3 months out from the travel time so that kind of doesn’t work. 🙁
Covermore have a really good reputation and most of the travel agencies use them.
We really only sell Covermore so I don’t know much about the other companies. I can say that every time we’ve needed to make a claim with them, or need their help with anything they have been fantastic. Granted they do usually cost a bit more, but if you do need their help, they’ll bend over backwards to help you
@novacascade I actually needed some assistance in filling it out – Covermore requires you to pick between 15 and 30 days, and given that the actual trip is 13 days assuming I’m counting correctly, I’m thinking that the air travel to and from will end up putting us a smidgen over the 15-day period and into the 30. Does that affect the quoted cost? Also was the quoted cost assuming $0 excess and Unlimited cancellation cover?
The 15/30 day is only for an annual policy, we’ll only be doing a single trip (the line above). I’ve quoted on the dates being from the 20/3 to 4/4 to cover a days flying.
And yes, nil excess and Unlimited cancellations
Awesome. I’m going to go print off the form then.
Sent you the form.
After a week on the big island, I’m really glad to be home. I can catch up on Game of Thrones, have some time to myself and generally sloth about. Holidays are great, but getting home is too.
Er. Reply fail.
QUESTION:
If a company is doing a reference check JUST before offering the position, does that mean it’s nearly there? What kind of questions will they ask the referees? Has anyone been a referee for someone?
Thanksss
(so closee!)
@sughly was an official reference for my police application. It’s all his fault!
I mean, he might be able to tell you.
Don’t know if @dc or @shane were contacted.
I think Hotross was a reference for Saturday but I think that was before they even met 😛
I wasn’t contacted, alas. Probably would’ve done more harm than good anyways. 😛
Nope. Sorry man, I never heard from them.
Edit: I did get a bunch of calls from a number I didn’t recognise, but I always duck those. It occurs to me now that it may have been the Qld police… (I’m kidding)
ANSWER:
In my experience, a company will usually pick the person they want & only call their referees.
I sent them details of two referees, will they be more likely to contact one, or both?
(I know one of mine better so I’m assuming she can help out more than the other)
pretty sure if they ask for two, they’ll call two.
get hype, Green Man. I think you’ve got a really good chance here.
They didn’t ask for any amount I just sent two 😛
I’d say you’ve been shortlisted (they wouldn’t bother calling if they weren’t interested). I’ve been a referee once, for someone I worked with they basically just made sure they they did in fact work with me, the rest was just them asking if they were reliable or if we had any problems with them. Are your referees previous co workers? If not I dunno what they’d ask.
This is a graduate program so I’ve already done a phone interview, assessment center and face to face interview so I assume I’ve been shortlisted :P. My listed referees are my team leader at the marketing company I worked for (kind of like a manager), and the person who was manager at the retail store I worked at for one of the campaigns I did (she’s not the usual store manager but took the manager position while he was on holiday).
I’ve contacted both of them and they seem happy to help so… oooooo! SO CLOSE 😀
Good luck! Definitely sounds like you’re on the home stretch now =]
Good luck
*flings sloppy hunks of positive energy at you*
Down to 1-3 people and they’re ringing around to do some final checks and make sure you’re not an axe murderer or a fraud or something.
Not going to say you’ve got it in the bag but that’s definitely shortlist.
So you’re saying that @greenius definitely got the job.
WAY TO GO GREENIUS! \o/
If I don’t get it I’m blaming you!
Why? I only decided it was my civic duty to call the company and tell them you’re a rabid evangelist (for Xenoblade) and a raging Xenobladder. I think they may have heard xenophobe, though.
So don’t blame me. I’m only #HELPING
Most common question for referees is “ARE YOU BLIND!?”
Nice. 🙂
It can mean that you’re the candidate they’ve decided on, pending references, but I’ve also been rejected at that stage.
I had a coworker who had a job pending references but they got rejected at the last hurdle because our current company has a policy not to give personal references. You basically have to get them to call HR to verify your employment, and that’s it. Apparently that wasn’t good enough for them, but they might have thought him being unable to get a reference was indicative of a poor work history. :/
I’ve been contacted as a referee before for a friend with whom I used to work. I was his boss when we worked together, and they called to ask if he had a good work ethic, and tried to get a better idea of his skill level etc. They’ll usually only call shortlisted people after the interview phase if they thought the interview went well. Depends on the person/company conducting the interview though. Some don’t call referees at all. Usually, they’ll do it if they like more than one applicant, just to try and confirm that there is a valid reason for them being impressed. You know, so if one person says they work well, and are skilled, but had some health issues or something that required a greater than average period of time off work, then they might re-think things. Most referees will only say good things about the person in question, but it’s really down to who you nominate to use as a reference. If you get along well with them, and consider yourselves to be friends, you will likely get a better reference as opposed to nominating a boss you once worked for, but only really spoke to on occasion. In that case, they may be a little more objective, and mention some areas that need improvement, but if you’ve asked them to be a referee for you (and you always should ask first,) generally they’ll put in a good word for you.
All this job talk makes me long for a job. I want one so bad. Yet I don’t do any thing about it.
Ah, I suck. :'(
It’s a predicament of my own making. Don’t mind me. XD
WHAT”S NEW WITH YOU GUYS?
*dances*
Let’s Dance!
This song is pretty excellent!
Well I tried to get us motivated with the Job Seeking Club (ASSEMBLE!).
But you don’t suck (except for the “no Survivor” thing), you said it yourself though, just gotta do something about it first. I only got my first job at 19 or so, but I just applied to plenty of places until I got lucky.
YOU DA MAN!
Not much. Just work.
(I’m sorry :P)
I nearly bought Crackdown 2 for $4.80 at JB at lunchtime.
Then I remembered that I didn’t have $4.80.
TRUE STORY
Tear jerker. It almost makes me want to shout you again. 😀
I went to a lunch
I’m now back at the office.
Umm…
I’m going to buy a new suit tonight?
Also, I’ve said before, I’m happy to review your resume or proof any cover letters at any point.
Oh, right. That’s a good offer. @dc, I’m also happy to do this.
THUNDER STOLEN
I appreciate the offer guys, but no amount of smooth talking can fix my resume problems. 😛
Stop worrying about your bloody perceived resume problems and just submit the bloody thing
+1. Not submitting (end therefore not getting employment) is a resume problem in itself.
wanna start a company with me?
Okay!
Hermit & Hotross Pty Ltd
What will this business do, @rocketman?
One-man habitats in space which you can only reach via one-way rocket trip?
http://parksandrecreation.wikia.com/wiki/Entertainment_720
we could do this???
or we could do social media consultation work. I have like 32 thousand tweets so i have a fair bit of experience.
I’ve got 16.5 K, but at least 15.7 of those are Arcade Fire related.
We can be the social media team for arcade fire????
or start a fan club for them and maybe they will let us go on the road with them???
15.7 tweets out of 16500?
Better
Hermross Productions
Can I do your IT?
Unless its some sort of freelance assassin business, in that case I’d like to call bagsises on being the sniper
I’m Hermit-in-Chief!
Trying to compile a list of entry level jobs where you need no qualifications at all.
GO:
– Hermit
Anything supermarket.
Basic admin.
a lot of retail.
Call centres.
Some security.
Pretty sure all security requires you at least hold a license, which involves a gruelling 3 day course a blind monkey with head injuries can complete, and a senior first aid certificate. Also the police will fingerprint you in case you are secretly a terrorist and you get paid less than waiters since waiters can at least get tips.
I’m talking more the watch monitors/ sit in a U-park than bouncer type, I just remember it being one of the jobs on offer when I was jobseeking after uni.
I used to do that kind of security work back around 2002-2003, and I needed a licence for it. I think it was the 1ABC. I don’t remember what the classifications, but you needed that for any static (including watching monitors), bodyguarding, bouncing and patrols.
I think the 1D (or 1ABCD) classification was needed if you wanted to work installing alarms and CCTV cameras and stuff like that. It’s been 12 years and the system is probably waaay different now, but I’m pretty sure you still need a license. It’s not hard to get the license or anything, no harder than getting an RSA if you wanted to do bartending, really.
I’ll defer to your expertise.
Monitor-watching and late-night gate-rattling/torch-shining actually pays fairly OK. Especially if you have a PC/laptop to pass the time. Not as decently as it should, given the absurd hours, but just like the hospitality industry they have industry awards designed to let them get out of being held to the same standards are regular human beings.
Working in an isolated gatehouse is pretty alright as long as you’re allowed to watch TV/surf the net and have a car to get there. That was part of the attraction for me really, I figure I was usually up til 6 in the morning surfing the net anyway, why not get paid for it? Unfortunately I didn’t have car though, and getting to these places on public transport at midnight or 5am is a bitch.
If you’re NOT allowed to surf the net (I worked in a bank once where the computers only had access to a corporate intranet and this was before the days of affordable mobile broadband) the seconds tick by like hours.
-my job
*cries*
But don’t you do fancy engravings and all that. Surely you need skills for that, man? Your stuff is craaaazy good!
It’s all on the job training. Anyone can learn it. Not everyone is any good at it. I only consider myself slightly above average. Some of the guy’s work is insane.
Even if you do a supermarket stint for 6 months to a year, just to get “current retail experience” on your resume.
That’s a good starting point.
Also, use character references for the lack of work references (I’d recommend at least 5, minimum).
And make up an excuse as to why you haven’t been working, like “medical reasons”, “had enough savings to live comfortably”, “travelling”, or “Time off for creative endeveours”.
Don’t forget your qualifications either! A degree is a degree, doesn’t matter how long ago you got it!
Also, and I’ve said it before to you a couple of times, but DON’T BE YOUR OWN WORST ENEMY!
On a side-note, I’d suggest a nice professional *gasp* haircut, cause looks do count at an interview stage. People can lie and say looks aren’t important, but they play a part of a good first impression, so a haircut is recommended.
Nice haircut and neat facial hair is a must.
I feel like both this and @liondrive’s comments are a dig at my Year of the Hermit appearance. 😛
Don’t worry. I realize my current shabbiness is not something I’d take to an interview. XD
It totally isn’t, or at least wasn’t meant to be! :’O
It’ll probably come back to bite me at some stage, but the shaggy hair is kinda cute :3
Buuuut, from a professional standpoint, trimmed hair is the way to go, thus a haircut is recommended.
Are you a well-presented young Sydneysider with strong phone , computer and organisational skills? If so, you could be an office co-ordinator on a 12 month contract with AN INSURANCE COMPANY.
Well-presented? No. Young? No. Sydneysider? No. Strong phone, computer and organisational skills? No.
😛
Well shit. I get a bonus if I refer someone and they pass probation.
…does your insurer start with a W, by any chance?
Nope. I work for Chubb. Not the Australian security company, the American company most people outside the insurance industry have never heard of.
Ah, k, friend of mine works for WFI and they have a similar referral scheme.
I think Westpac had a similar scheme when I worked there as well. I think since most people in the insurance industry all tend to know each other anyway, why bother with normal recruiters?
I tried to hire you as a photographer and you turned me down. You didn’t even tell me you had a fancy camera and knew how to use it and you still turned me down! 😛
I WAS EVEN OFFERING FREE LUNCH!
Maybe you should try for some night shelf-stacking type jobs so you can limit your forced interaction with people. Do some research on some other solitary-type jobs as well?
Also, is there a trade you’re even remotely interested in?
Here’s a secret, Strange. I kind of long to be around other people. I’m so lonely and isolated. I want to be part of the wooooorld. XD
I get that. So trade it is, then. Choose something that would make it even more handy for me to know you, like mechanic or plumber or something. 😛
Assassin?
Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap… The company names itself
http://www.australianapprenticeships.gov.au/program/support-adult-australian-apprentices-initiative
I notice that linked to the National Skills Needs List which is handy. But it’s only accurate as of 2012. Not so handy. 😛
But anyway, @dc here’s a list of occupations to consider: http://www.australianapprenticeships.gov.au/national-skills-needs-list
It’s actually really hard to land an adult apprenticeship fyi. Most places don’t want to take them because they cost more, are less malleable and are less likely to be willing to put up with the BS of being an apprentice.
Did an aptitude test last year at the MTA and despite getting top marks they flat out said I was wasting my time – no-one is taking adult apprentices.
The world’s overrated. So are people.
Why doesn’t this have a billion upvotes? I know it’s pretty depressing, but it’s the truth. WAKE UP SHEEPLE. (both a joke and not a joke)
It’s also OK to vascillate between wanting/not wanting that. 🙂 Humans are mercurial creatures.
But unless you’re in something mega customer facing you can usually get away from people.
Up where they work, up where they lunch,
Up where they earn money a whole bunch!
Motivation is key – wish I could be,
Part of that woooooorlllllldddd.
Not much is new. I am still chasing work, it keeps escaping though 🙁
NOVA I HAVE SOME BUSINESS RELATED QUESTIONS FOR YOU WHAT IS YOUR EMAIL????
Just sent you the itinerary for Japan from it, you can reply from that 🙂
What’s the go with that anyway? Has flight schedules come out yet?
Also, how many peeps are going at this stage?
Currently 8 people booked, including Transientmind’s brother once he deposits. The flights have just been released (literally about 2 days ago), but there are no specials attached to them yet. Most likely candidate at this point is Singapore Airlines, as I can get everyone from Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane direct to Singapore, and then we can all be on the same flight to Osaka, and the same setup on the way home. Just hoping that Singapore release a good price. Currently they are sitting at around $1500 per person, but I know for earlier this year, it wasn’t uncommon to see prices around the $1000-1100 mark. Thats what I’m hoping for anyway.
CC @freezespreston @negativezero @transientmind
We should all get some tacky matching T-shirts printed up. 😛
Wait, fuck that. Jetstar does flights to Osaka directly from Melb, Gold Coast, perhaps Sydney. It’s like $250 one way on special from Melb. :\ $1500 and $500-600 is a HUGE difference.
I’d strongly suggest the following, since I did it a couple weeks ago and my parents have now done it 2-3 times: everyone take the cheap flights, fly to Osaka, then catch the train (I’ll give more details if you guys go with this) to either Osaka or directly to Kyoto, the choice is yours. Everyone book into hotel and you can all meet up at night or for breakfast.
Today I had two breakfasts.
Each one better than the last? Were there hashbrowns involved?
I like your fondness of hashbrowns. Pointless story time! I once ordered hashbrowns at a fancy pants café. They served me sweet potato hashbrowns, which where not up to par. I sat there eating them looking across the road at the McDonalds, with a single tear rolling down my face.
Another story.
I used to run a kitchen at a fancy pants cafe where I had unlimited access to as many hashbrowns as I could eat, for free!
But I didn’t wanna get fat, so I never took advantage of it 😉
I used to work as a fry-cook for a Canberran-specific KFC competitor, which gave me (relatively) unlimited access to grease and grease-related products.
My point is I once ate the skin off 6 roast chooks, because everyone knows that the skin is the best bit.
I don’t recommend it.
Oh man, you have stronger will power than I sir.
No, just toast. And orange juice.
If it’s not before 10:30am it’s not breakfast. So reads the Gospel of Ronald.
I went to Maccas for breakfast the other week. I got there at about 10:20 and there was a massive crowd of people surrounding the counter, but no one lining up to be served.
Then when 10:30 ticked over they all took a step forward in unison to order off the regular menu.
I really wanna know what else is in that gospel, now.
Phantom vibration syndrome! I felt it in my leg!
Except my phone’s on charge in front of me on the desk.
Maybe it’s the subdermal implant on your leg activating!
Am I a cylon or a sleeper Hybrid/T-H?
Shadow Runner.
Hoi, chummer.
Wiz.
I’m using mine in my hand and it keeps going off. BUT it isn’t.
Nendoroid Kaga finally available for preorder. This time I didn’t fuck up and preordered her from GSC directly so I can get the snazzy extra slipcase they’re putting on their KanColle Nendoroids where they’be basically taken the paintings from the boxes of ship models and photoshopped the nendoroid in instead. I stupidly ordered Shimakaze, Akagi and Kongo from other places not knowing they were doing that 🙁
Wondering who they’ll do next after Akagi. I think I remembered seeing photos of one of the torpedo cruisers, probably Kitakami, but you’d also think that given that they mainly have the same clothing and equipment it’d be very easy to do the other three Kongo sisters, it would just involve doing their heads and a slightly different paint job.
SURVIVOR!
@powalen @sughly @masha2932 @mrtaco
Great ep, don’t miss it!
JJBJBJBJBJBJBJBJBJJJ! Guvf rc jnf penml. Svefg vg jnf nyy HTU XNFF ohg fur fbzrubj znqr ure tnzr jbefr naq Fcrapre’f orggre, fb… lnl Xnff? Fb unccl Fcrapre jba gur punyyratr gbb :Q. Ohg Gevfu jrag ahgf! Ubyl uryy! Vs vg’f Xnff, Fcrapre naq Jbb gnyxvat nobhg jub gb ibgr bhg, naq Gbal unf na vqby, jub qbrf fur guvax vf tbvat gb or gurve gnetrg? Gbal’f oyhss jnf bxnl, ohg vg’f whfg n oyhss. Vs ur jnf fzneg ur’q cynl gur vqby ba Gevfu naq xrrc gur fcrpvny bar sbe uvzfrys. Ur pbhyq’ir nyjnlf hfrq vg nsgre gur ibgrf unir orra ernq naq V qbhog nalbar jbhyq’ir pnfg nal ibgrf sbe uvz fvapr ur’f synhagvat uvf vqby va rirelbar’f snpr. Gevony Pbhapvy jnf bqqyl uvynevbhf jvgu gurve pngglarff naq puvyqvfu orunivbhe. Tbfu Xnff vf naablvat…
V qb yvxr Gbal ohg V fgvyy jnag Fcrapr gb jva fb V’z ubcvat gur guerr whfg fgenvtug hc ibgr sbe Gbal naq gung’f gung. Vs abg vg’yy or avpr vs Gbal naq Fcrapr jrer obgu va gur svany 3 naq vg jnf pybfr, ohg V’z whfg fb tynq gur svany 3 jvyy abg or Jbb, Xnff naq Gevfu (lhpxl!)
@sughly @sughly
😛
I know what this means T_T
@powalen @greenius @masha2932 @mrtaco
Lrnu, vgf orra nnnntrf fvapr gurerf orra n pybfr pnyy sbe jvaare, nyjnlf vf n ynaqfyvqr one bar be gjb. Ohg BUZLTBFU!! Gung vzzhavgl punyyratr jnf nznmvat! Jura Gbal fgnegrq senagvpnyyl fyvqvat gurz nebhaq V xarj gung jnf Fcrapre’f punapr. Nyy zl gvzr qbvat gur fyvqr chmmyrf va Jvaq Jnxre gubhtu, V jnf jngpuvat gung guvaxvat… V pbhyq xvyy guvf punyyratr ^^ ohg nu, jnf purrevat fb zhpu unun!
Nyfb V guvax Gbal’f oyhss jvgu gur vqby? Travhf! V ernyyl guvax vg vf. Bs pbhefr, ur qbrf ybfr bhg ba Gevfu’f fhccbeg abj (naq jul qvq ur rira guebj uvf ibgr ba ure? Jul abg gnxr n punapr ba Jbb naq ibgr sbe Xnff? Pbashfrq. Znlor urf guvaxvat ybat grez, gnxvat Jbb naq Xnff gb gur raq nf n orngnoyr cnve?). Ohg frevbhfyl, vs jr jnyxf nebhaq pbzcyrgryl pbasvqrag arkg ibgr, naq gurl snyy sbe vg, urf va gur gbc 3. Gbc 4 vf nyjnlf fhpu na htyl fpenzoyr naq tnzoyr gb trg va gur gbc 3, V guvax vgf n cerggl pyrire jnl bs tbvat nobhg vg. Jr’yy frr vs vg cnlf bss. V qb nyfb guvax gurlq or n ovg qhzo gb oryvrir gung ur unf na vqby gb uvz fgenvtug guebhtu gb svany 3, ohg gura ntnva, gurl qbag xabj jul vgf fcrpvny. UZZZZZZ! Tbaan or n tbbq svany. Fcrapre be Gbal jvyy jva, fb vg jbhyq or fb vagrerfgvat gb frr obgu ng gur raq.
Unun V gubhtug nobhg zl Jvaq Jnxre fyvqrl chmmyr qnlf gbb :Q
:Q
:Q is probably the next best thing next to “htu”
@greenius @mrtaco @masha2932
SURVIVORTIME DISCUSSIONTIME
Terng rcvfbqr!
Zna, Jbb vf qhzo gubhtu unun V pna’g trg bire vg. Vg’f whfg fb shaal. Nyfb: ununununununun Gbal gnyxvat Yynzn ng Xnff. Guvf vf gur svefg gvzr V’ir npghnyyl yvxrq Gbal. Gung znqr zr ynhtu fb ybhqyl.
Ohg lrnu, Fcrapre jvaavat gung vzzhavgl jnf nznmvat! Svir frpbaqf vagb gung chmmyr V abgvprq ur’q nyernql pbzcyrgrq n pbyhza naq whfg gubhtug “ur’f tbg guvf. Ur xabjf jung ur’f qbvat” – nyfb nccylvat zl xabjyrqtr sebz Jvaq Jnxre gurer! :C
Naq jbj, Gevfu pnzr bhg bs ab jurer jvgu gung gvenqr! “Bu url terng wbo Fcrap-NNNEEETTTUUU XNNNNFFFFF”. Xnff nyfb unq fbzr uvynevbhf yvarf guvf rcvfbqr jvgu ure qrfpevcgvbaf bs Gevfu. Shaavrf nyy nebhaq!
Ohg lrnu, Gbal qrsvavgryl fubhyq’ir tvira uvf vzzhavgl gb Gevfu. Gurer jnf ab jnl nalobql jbhyq ibgr sbe uvz nsgre erirnyvat uvf vqbyf naq Gevfu jbhyq’ir orra terng sbe uvz va gur svany (AB BAR jbhyq’ir ibgrq sbe Gevfu). V whfg qba’g haqrefgnaq jurer ur’f pbzvat sebz ol ibgvat bhg Gevfu! Boivbhfyl ur jnf whfg gelvat gb pbire uvzfrys, ohg fheryl vg jbhyq’ir orra orggre gb gel naq fnir ure. Jbefg pbzrf gb jbefr, gurl ibgr Gbal, ur unf gb hfr uvf fcrpvny vqby, Xnff tbrf ubzr. Gura vg’f Gbal/Gevfu if Fcrapre naq V guvax Gbal pbhyq cebonoyl jva bire Jbb.
V qhaab. Vg’yy cebonoyl jbex bhg sbe uvz orpnhfr ur’f fghcvqyl yhpxl :C
Jubn qhqrf, V qvqa’g rira ernyvfr Gbal ibgrq sbe Gevfu :C. Jnuu? Jul? Bqq…
V pbzcyrgryl ybfg zl fuvg jura Gbal qvq gur yynzn guvat ntnva ng Gevony!
V nffhzrq sebz cerggl rneyl ba ur’q or ragregnvavat fb V xvaqn ubcr gurl oevat uvz onpx ntnva (nygubhtu V qbhog ur’q qb irel jryy fvapr rirelbar xabjf ur’f farnxl abj :C). V qba’g zvaq uvz gubhtu fb V’q or nyevtug vs ur jvaf. V fgvyy jnag gung pybfr svany jvgu uvz naq Fcrapr!
@sughly @sughly
Tony is awesome 😛
Also, Wind Waker skills? I don’t even remember there being slide puzzles in that, let alone learning anything from them >_>
its in that island with house and the butler on the door. Need to buy the deeds at the auction house. Then, slide puzzles ahoy!
*total blank*
Maybe I completely never bothered with the deeds and the auction house…? Hmm.
Worst Nintendo fan.
Sif. I bet you don’t even have a Virtual Boy.
@mrtaco
I’m not old.
(just kidding) 😀
You were actually old this whole entire time?? 😮
Baw, hesitated too much on that poseable Mario figurine. Sold out now.
Oh hey another e-mail about that interview…
OK SCARED NOW GONNA GO HIDE
Sounds to me like they want you to make poker machine games/software
Ha, I inquired about some merch on Jason Newsteds website back around Soundwave and they got back to me same day saying they had no idea when it’d be in again, they emailed me today saying they have a shipment coming in 2 weeks, that’s some good customer service…
Also anyone who be after some cheapish games JB has 20% off all games until Sunday, there’s some alright bargains it seems.
and today was a good day, got home and my package from the states arrived, very happy with my purchase, I can see why Dickies is known for their good quality work wear, and it cost me a little more than one pair of their work trousers go for here for 7 items :S
The world is a better place for this existing.
https://youtube.com/watch?feature=kp&v=FwG5j9KdHWk
@dc, this seems right up your alley.
This is pretty amazing.
EDIT: It’s kind of cool that this sort of really late 80s music is kind of popular again.
ha, had a bad start to the day and that just turned my frown upside down, thanks freeze :D.
That’s right up there with this
I….er….Our Glorious Leaders!
O_o
http://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=5TsNL3uBw1g
Edit: He’s claiming he said grub. Not sure if my hearing is coloured by preconception but in struggling to hear that.
It takes one to know one.
Would people be interested in Eeveelution beanies?
Ooooh… sounds interesting.
Finished The Walking Dead, structurally I thought it was kind of weak but I liked the story direction. Felt like just a constant stream of dialogue options without any gameplay variety though. (Not unlike episode two of The Wolf Among Us.)
2×03 spoilers:
V urycrq Fnenu.
V gbyq Obaavr nobhg Yhxr.
V gevrq gb fcrnx hc nobhg jnyxvr gnyxvr
V yrsg jvgu Fnevgn vafgrnq bs jngpuvat Xraal.
Pubccrq bss Fnevgn’f nez. Fur’f rvgure tbvat gb qvr naljnl ol gheavat be unf n fubg bs yvivat jvgu nez pubccrq bss. Pyrz znqr n pnyy.
Ubcr gubfr fvfgref sebz 400 Qnlf qba’g qvr. :'(
@powalen:
V gubhtug gung ybat unve jbzna zvtug unir orra Puevfgn!
V urycrq Fnenu (ohg fur’f orpbzvat gur arj “Ora”)
Qvqa’g gryy Obaavr (ohg xvaq bs jnagrq gb)
Qvqa’g fcrnx hc
Yrsg jvgu Fnevgn (gevrq gb gryy Xraal gb fgbc/jr qba’g unir gur gvzr sbe vg)
Pubccrq bs Fnevgn’f nez (ohg vzzrqvngryl erterggrq gung qrpvfvba naq sryg greevoyr nsgrejneqf – ng yrnfg gur znwbevgl gubhtug gur fnzr :C. Svtherq fur’q cebonoyl or jbefr bss/qrnq jvgubhg uryc naq gur Erttvr guvat znqr zr ubcrshy)
V xvaq bs nterr gung vg jnf gbb zhpu phgfprarf ohg vg’f abg yvxr gur tnzrcynl jnf nalguvat fcrpgnphyne va gur svefg cynpr naq fvapr V’z znvayl va vg sbe gur fgbel, V qvqa’g zvaq gbb zhpu. V jnf xvaq bs naablrq gubhtu fvapr V nppvqragnyyl gnyxrq gb/qvq n pregnva npgvba juvpu cebterffrq gur fgbel sbejneq naq V qvqa’g trg gb shyyl rkcyber gur raivebazrag lrg 🙁 (guvf unccrarq va gur ynfg rc gbb). V xabj vg’f abg n znwbe guvat V whfg yvxr frrvat rirelguvat orsber zbivat sbejneq :C
Vg jnf pbby frrvat 400 Qnlf punenpgref ohg zbfg bs gurz ner whfg xvaqn zvabe naq qba’g qb nalguvat (lrg). V whfg ernyvfrq gung V qba’g guvax zl Nfvna thl (sbetbg uvf anzr) jrag gb gur frggyrzrag ng gur raq bs gur QYP, juvpu vf jul V arire fnj uvz. Jubnnnnn! V nyfb jbaqre vs nalguvat jvyy or qenfgvpnyyl qvssrerag vs pregnva punenpgref qvqa’g qvr va gur cerivbhf rcvfbqrf :/ (V nffhzr abg)
Vg’yy or vagrerfgvat gb frr jung qevirf gur nep sbe gur erfg bs gur frnfba (abg gung V’ir jngpurq gur arkg gvzr guvat…), guvf pbzzhavgl V gubhtug jbhyq or gur znwbe nep ohg V thrff jr zvtug or tbvat gb Jryyvatgba yvxr Puevfgn jnagrq gb qb bevtvanyyl!
Have you seen the title screens for the other eps? I (stupidly) glanced through them all as soon as Episode 1 was out but I think they reveal too much 🙁
Oh! I haven’t, but I’ll be sure not to! 😀
Really liking this season. Even though I thought this ep was the weakest out of the entire series so far, I still enjoyed the story and that’s all that matters I guess. Like the cast of characters too.
Walking Dead Game Season 2 Episode 3 spoilers
Ab jnl! Fur jnfa’g qnex rabhtu! V thrff vg jbexf bhg sbe rirelbar gubhtu, rirelobql trgf n erq ureevat! unun V fgvyy qba’g guvax nalguvat jvyy pbzr bs vg.
Nyfb, jura Erttvr jnf frggvat Pyrz/Fnenu hc ng gur cynag cehavat fgngvbaf, V gbgnyyl gubhtug gung jr jrer va sbe n obevat yrns-favccvat zvavtnzr :C V’z xvaqn tynq gurl qvqa’g qb gung, ohg nyfb xvaqn qvfnccbvagrq…
HAHAHA! I thought the same thing!
Jnf rkcrpgvat n frdhrapr yvxr va gur cuneznpl va frnfba bar jurer lbh unq gb trg guvatf ernyyl dhvpx. KQ
Haha I put my hand over the mouse… but nope 🙁
how do i comic? !
I’ve never properly read comics or graphic novels before but since my pre-paid offer gets me free Google Play credit, I figured I might as well buy something every now and then.
After a real quick “best comics” search I decided to get Maus. Unfortunately it’s not on the Play Store so I ended up giving Marvels a quick looksee and it sounds like an interesting idea and I really like the art style so I guess I’ll buy that.
Any other recommendations? I’m thinking of just standalone things. I’m not too sure how comics work but I’ve always assumed they’re a multi-issue thing but I guess they’ll combine them together.
Digital probably isn’t as good as the real thing but it’s technically free, so whatevs! 😀
Maus is very good.
What are you buying through? Comixology? Play books?
Marvels is pretty good. A lot of the big batman arcs stand alone pretty well- I’d recommend “Hush” as a good starter batman.
Marvel arcs that work well alone? Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X Men, Ultimates 1, Hawkeye Vol 1
Yeah, just through Play books
Pity comixology just pulled their google wallet option.
Saga is the bee’s pyjamas atm.
I think comixology has the 1st volume free at the moment
The Killing Joke
Knightfall
House of M
The Dark Judges
Civil War
Give Sex Criminals a try.
It’s about a guy who finds out he can freeze time after he orgasms, so he gets with a chick and they decide to rob banks together.
It’s awesome.
It is pretty good
I open TAY & randomly scroll down the page, this is the first thing I see…
I’ve heard so many incredibly positive things about this, I’m gonna have to give it a look, I think.
The Dark Knight Returns
The Death of Superman
Lone Wolf and Cub
Samurai Executioner
Wolverine by Miller and Claremont
Fist of the Blue Sky
100 Bullets: First Shot, Last Call
Strain
These are my favourite comics/manga.
..and of course, The Lesser Evil.
Of course.
Ooh, I forgot about 100 Bullets.
PREORDER
The very best of the best. Some of these might appeal, and there’s quite a range here, so research these, and see what you think you might like.
Non-superheroes:
– Y: The Last Man (60 issues/ 10 trades) – Brian K Vaughan!
– Ex Machina (50 issues/ 10 trades) – Brian K Vaughan!
– Saga (currently going, has done 20ish issues/3 trades) – Brian K Vaughan!
– Maus (you already have this)
– Sandman (10 trades) – Neil Gaiman fantasy
– Preacher (9 trades) – Garth Ennis hyper-violent comedy religious conflagration
– Black Hole – supernatural character study, metaphor for STDs
– The Silence – fictional Australian graphic novel about the nature of art.
– Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth – this is just amazing. Words can’t describe.
Superheroes:
– The Dark Knight Returns (pretty seminal for the reinvention of Batman in the last few decades)
– Watchmen (the only superhero story I’ve ever read that is genuinely literature)
* (trade means collection of issues, usually in a complete contained story arc, usually around 4-6 issues)
I pretty much agree with everyhing here.
also @greenius, if you’d prefer, Y : The Last Man & Preacher both got Hardcover collections. 6 vols. each.
I’d prefer physical editions but since I get free Google Play Store credit I’ll stick to digital for now. It’s not as good though 🙁
Maus is fantastic, but not a humourous romp by any means. I have read several issues of Ultimate Spider-Man, which is pretty good for what it is. I have read the first issue of Ultimate X-Men, and thought it was really good. That’s pretty much all I’ve read, though.
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htu
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Why’d you delete it? I like comparing notes. 🙁
What’s the difference between the coalition and a snail?
Snails have only 5 arseholes.
I think you just made my mother’s night
This is such a great comment to have stand out at you while scrolling down the page.
not in that way, ew =P
Snails are also less slimy
And more human
http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/05/2-undecillion-dollar-demand.html
Guy is suing a bakery for $2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00
That’s a lot of dough.
htu
The things some people do for a crust, hey?
I used to work in a bakery as a Pilot.
I used to take the bread from one corner and pilot in the other.
Eventually I had to quit my job at that bakery.
I got sick of the dough, and thought I’d go on the loaf.
At yeast the plaintiff has realistic expectations
Some people just really like to go against the grain.
Awesome article.
Lowering the Bar and Popehat are two of my favourite websites these days, I don’t know if it’s because they’re genuinely good, I’m getting old, or because I work in liability claims.
Two octillion gigadollars, huh?
Any unemployed taybies got Summit as their job network lot?
Noop, Employment Plus here..
Are they useless disrespectful scum too?
Just useless.. Been with them 14 months, they have not bothered to point me in a direction to obtain employment, I do better on my own at finding jobs and obtaining interviews apparently.
Sounds similar in effectiveness at least.
I got a mistaken email this afternoon showing that they were literally laughing over my request for flight training. Admittedly it was improbable and I said as such but there was no hint of my case manager asking if it was even remotely possible, just saying “thought you might like a giggle” when forwarding the email to what I assume was supposed to be her manager but instead it came to me (followed by 3 attempts at reversing the email which thankfully gmail doesn’t support). Tomorrow is going to be a good fighty day…
Wow.
Oh wow! I for one, have never had a “job agency” assist me in any way in finding work. They are altogether useless, unless you are a secretary or do any kind of admin/retail work really. I would be taking that email to a higher power and showing it to them. As much as I can’t stand the show, you might try telling a current affair about this. They loooooove this kind of shit, and you never know, they might just pay you for bringing it to their attention!
Especially because joblessness is a very sexy story right now, given the budget. This story would be worth a bit…
I’ve only ever had great results with job agencies, but NOT the centrelink-mandated JobNetwork ones. They’re pretty shit. You gotta go with other ones like Skilled, Select, Randstadt, etc.
yeah there are agencies that you have to go through to get certain jobs. A few of the rollout contracts I landed were done via agencies, but as you said, the centrelink ones are just rubbish. When I first went on newstart (many aeons ago,) I was appointed Sarina Russo as my job agency. Back then you couldn’t choose one.. you were just allocated one based on their locality to the centrelink office you attended. I was registered with them for about a year and a half. In that whole time, they never even called me once. Absolutely pointless. I went in for my obligatory appointment after getting registered, and they asked what work experience I had, asked to look at my resume, then pushed me out the door, never to be heard from again.
Woah. What a bunch of dipshits.
But hey, at least you’ve got some pretty good leverage now.
Arrogant Dickheads, make sure you take this as far as you can and teach them a lesson. Maybe they won’t find it so funny when they’re on the unemployment line themselves.
https://www.welfarerights.org.au/factsheets/2012/9/13/your-rights-when-dealing-with-your-provider
Scroll down to ‘My provider isn’t treating me with respect’ and the immediately subsequent ‘Complaints about providers’ list.
I’d recommend following (and documenting) those steps to the letter.
The name of the Dept of Employment is wrong, but the number is still right. 1800805260 – Option 2, then ask to be referred to the National Customer Service Line to lodge a complaint about the inappropriate behaviour of a job network provider.
There is a number on that page for the commonwealth ombudsman, but I don’t recommend it until MUCH later after you have an official complaint with DET and haven’t been able to reach a resolution.
That’s the ‘official’ route. You can lodge a complaint with Summit directly to allow them to handle it internally, and instead of digging in their heels to defend themselves, they might instead choose to place you on a priority list for recommending you just to make you happy. Feeling vindictive, I’d rather they got a black mark against their name with the Dept of Employement, but you may want results over satisfaction, so…
Either way, I recommend no contact for at least a few hours until you’ve had a chance to cool down, relax, reflect, and act with cold, ruthless objectivity.
Rookie mistake
Not to be insensitive but if I am right you were asking about help getting a commercial pilots license and if they could pay for that? From what I see that is tens of thousands of dollars. I know you said it was a long shot but to me it is outside the realms of possibility.
I would probably have shown people in the office and have had a laugh at that.
Although I would also have sent an email to you telling you that it wasn’t viable. If I did screw up like that then an apology would be forth coming and probably some extra help to try and get you work.
It’s one thing to have a giggle with your co-workers, but to share it around by email, and leave a documented record of their disrespect is just all kinds of wrong. They should have simply replied with a statement explaining that it’s outside the scope of the assistance they offer due to the costs involved, and if they really did give a shit about helping anyone, spent 5 mins to google a phone number or website where he could go to find out about the requirements for getting the licence.
You don’t know if you don’t ask. For all he/we know, there might be a program that falls under a category covered by Austudy for gaining a pilots licence, or at least the study required to be undertaken before going down that path.
This is what shits me about centrelink/job agencies, or any government dept. for that matter. You don’t know if you don’t ask, and half the time, when you take the time to ask, you’re met with dead ends because it’s too time consuming, or not directly addressed in their job description as something they should be taking the initiative to investigate. It’s not just govt that’s guilty of this though. Corporations are equally as guilty. At least the corporations have a somewhat valid excuse in that the employees may not be aware of the grants/assistance programs that exist due to not being trained to deal with it, and that it would cost money if they had to spend the time investigating. They should however, at least be able to provide information about which hotline or govt department to call to find out the info.
Take my battle with AGL for instance. I’ve been fighting with them over obscenely high bills for several years now, and it was only earlier this year, that I managed to speak to someone on their staff, who informed me of a govt grant that I could apply for, to get assistance with my bills. This program has apparently existed since long before I even had this issue, and should really have been common knowledge to anyone in their customer service/resolutions teams. Surely I’m not the only person who’s complained about their bills before. Rather than watch their customers spiral in to massive debt, they should be giving out this information as an option on the first call if a customer rings up saying they are having trouble paying their bills. There’s no certainty that you will get the grant as it’s means tested, but giving a customer options at least gives the impression that they care, and since the money for the grant doesn’t come out of their pockets, it’d make sense if they did push the idea.
Govt departments have no excuse though. I contacted centrelink, the ombudsman, and a few other govt departments, and not a single one of them knew about it, or did know and just didn’t tell me. Surely the govt has internal help systems where if the staff don’t know the answer, can find out about the grants and assistance programs that are available. Especially when you’re dealing with centrelink in my opinion. I mean, centrelink exists solely to provide assistance to those in need. If you’re receiving a benefit from them, and you have a problem with something like your electricity bills, they should be aware of all the grants that can be applied for in times of need. If not, at least have a help line or somewhere you can contact to ask what is available. They are supposed to be there to provide support, not just give you a fortnightly payment.
/end rant
tldr: Centrelink and Job agencies suck wrinkly cheese encrusted balls!
P.S. I hope this didn’t come across as me having a go at you @tigerion. I’m not mad at you in any sense. Just happened to be the most appropriate comment to reply to 😉
Welbot hats me *tears*
No, all good. To me people calling for the person to be sacked was going to far. The reason I called it a rookie mistake is you soon learn not to put that sort of thing in an email to anybody.
I’m not excusing the agencies, they are worthless when dealing at a government level in my experience. I’ve had one good one over the years but that is it. My only concern was going too hard at the person for sharing what they thought was an outlandish request with what they thought was a colleague.
Yeah there’s definitely a right and wrong way to deal with this kind of situation. Just walking in and demanding they be sacked wouldn’t get you far 😉 Have to play the game in a more diplomatic way. Inform them of the issue, and ask what they are going to do about it. If they don’t do something about it, let them know you’ll make a complaint etc.
I had one that got tasked with the job of finding a job for a Bachelor of I.T. in a town of 9000 hahahahhaa.
Well I got a reply from my case manager this morning which was a grovelling apology explaining in detail the way she was actually giggling at the cost of the training and how they’d never have the budget for it, pretty much following my predicted script word for word. Didn’t address the fact she didn’t mention the price anywhere in the email, didn’t make mention of the way she didn’t even vaguely ask if there’s even the slightest possibility of it happening, no asking for suggestions for alternatives… just explaining the giggle. Ultimately the email was plausible enough that any third party would take her word over that of an unemployed scum so formal complaints would simply be a waste of my time.
I went in and had a chat to the manager and the end result is that I’m leaving. It’s rather a shame in a way since the manager is the woman who used to be my case manager and was the one and only case manager I’ve ever had who not only liked me but actually gave a fuck if her actions had results beyond ticking the ‘put in minimum required effort’ box. At least she knows how dissatisfied I was with this current (or I should now say former) case manager and wasn’t too happy to hear it so hopefully she’ll at least be informally dragged across hot coals.
It’s still unprofessional and still definitely falls under treating you with disrespect. I’d pop a formal complaint in to DET and move on.
MQFT:
AT
AW
D
DG
W
X
D
DG because it makes me think of dog
X!
enoblade!
Is actually not what it is but I should totally play Xenoblade again some time.
Also Xenogears and Xenosaga since I own them all and never played any of them.
AT
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X
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That’s now 3 X’s, pornographic viewing it is!
AT.
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Results:
– AT (Ar Tonelico 3): 2
– AW (Agarest War): 0
– D (Danganronpa): 1
– DG (Demon Gaze): 1
– W (Witch & The Hundred Knight): 2
– X (Tales of Xillia): 4
Looks like that’ll be what I get back to playing until the 20th when Transistor comes out.
This is pretty rad:
https://soundcloud.com/starforce/starforce-dynatron-cyborg
Haha, found this AMA over on Reddit.. The replies from the OP, are just awesome. She’s damn witty, I can see why she is in marketing for a porn company..
I just lost two hours to reading comments on a reddit post. You beautiful bastard.
Genius marketing. How much do you think traffic on her website increased by?
So Dave Grohl is getting his own HBO show.. Apparently it could be expanding on his Sound City documentary. I have mixed feelings about this, mostly because I felt Sound City focused too much on Dave and how he thinks he was the greatest man on earth for saving the analogue sound desk and didn’t focus enough in depth on the artists who recorded there and made some of musics best there. Either way i’ll watch it, and hope for the best.
@dc @shane @powalen @greenius
Walking Dead 2×03
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MONSTER!
Caution, NSFW below:
http://s2.favim.com/orig/28/animal-beaver-deer-eagle-simpsons-Favim.com-233786.gif
Dammit. Noticed that I missed out on the Mario figurine thing, and then took a look at the Wind Waker nendoroid and saw that it had appeared on the site and closed preorders a couple of days ago. I thought ok missed out, oh well. But then a friend linked another site that still has them available and ugh. Now I feel like I’m gonna actually spend money.
Why did I start down this horrible merchandising path. FIGMAAAAAAAAAAAA! *shakes fist*
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10270558 Nendoroid Link, still up for preorder. I use HobbySearch for most of my figure buying since about 2008 or so so I can guarantee you they’re reputable.
@shane Turns out she was using CS3, so the files would be unusable. Thanks though!
JEEZ >:(
Yeah, the nerve of some people.
I did some stuff in Dark Souls.
I went by Darkroot Forest, and got my ass handed to me by the giant knights that shoot immobolising spells at you. I have this weird problem though.
There is a weird greyish circular aura enemating from my character, and I have no idea what’s causing it and what is actually does. There is a weird grey status sybmol near my health, but it’s too small to figure out what it is. It’s either an an armour breastplate, or a Cyberman. It’s worrying me.
There’s a ring that when you get on low health it boosts your defence, and it sort of has the visual effect you described. Could be that?
The good news about those knights: with a halfway decent weapon, you can kill them even before they stand up. Just wail on them.
Oh also, @phlanispo, if they DO manage to get the slow spell off, DON’T ROLL. It’ll fuck you up. Shield-wall til you’re moving normally again.
It will not let me hit them until they stand up for some reason.
Most of the time those symbols are buffs (like when you have a ring equipped that gives bonus phys defense), unless you’re cursed or your armour’s broken. The stealth ring, extra souls ring and others have some weird symbols.
And THEN I checked in on the Virtual Boy repros and one of them had disappeared (thankfully not one of the ones I was interested in) so that set off the trigger on getting another two that I did want. Had to happen sooner or later I guess.
I started at 5 yesterday to go and do a 10 minute job that was 2 hours away.
Before i went to go home at 5 i got a call asking me to drive from one side of town to the other far side of town to pick up some signs that could of been picked up at any time during the day. When i objected that i had been up since 5 and i in fact had dinner plans i was met with the response of
“fuck ross we are all working hard stop being a baby”
I went and did all that i was asked, when i got to the location was was promptly called a “cry baby’ and was told to go suck on my Mums boobs’
I arrive home at 7 to a phone call from my boss asking me to come in at 6;30 which i agree too.
This morning i arrived at work and was ushered back outside to tell me
“you were being a disrespectful jerk yesterday, We are going to have a discussion about your attitude towards work on monday”
I don’t know how to handle this situation, on one hand i was probably a little blunt, not rude but a bit blunt, on the other this environment is getting the better of me, i cant come here everyday and be mentally abused. Im trying to think about the situation rationally, but it is hard to not take stuff personally.
Isn’t that a form of bullying? Fairly certain it is. You can refuse to do something without being ridiculed. The fact that they are calling you out on it means that they have their priorities skewed.
It’s absolutely bullying. It’s straight-up textbook workplace harrassment. It’s bad enough when it occurs between workers of equivalent rank. But coming from his boss, that’s truly bullshit.
Extremely unprofessional of him to call ahead to bitch about yoiu, if anything I’d say that he’s the one acting like a baby.
How you handle this all depends on how much you like/want/need your job. You can either put up with his abuse and say “yes sir, I’m sorry sir.” Or you can call him on it and tell him that he’s the one with the attitude, and he better lay off, or you’ll report him. which could result in you losing your job.
If you lose your job due to reporting it’s unfair dismissal and the employer has to give you a payout to cover expenses while you look for a job that ISN’T in a hostile environment.
Exactly.
I don’t think you thought you were being disrespectful, but even if you were? Maybe the boss should ask himself why that might be. Respect’s a two-way street, chum. Don’t show any, don’t get any. And it’s pretty hard to see what’s worthy of respect about someone who doesn’t respect your time and – potentially – the fucking law. A 12hr work day is something you VOLUNTEER for, not get pressured into.
They want to treat you unprofessionally and then complain if you don’t act professionally… Yeah.
Weekend coming up, hope it doesn’t get to you too much. Work to live, not live to work 🙂
Did you get overtime for that extra work or did you get like extra money to cover petrol as you drove across town to pick up stuff? If not, screw him. Unpaid overtime is massive burden and there is no reason why he feels that he can get away with not paying you for extra work and being rude to you about it, despite you actually doing the work.
If you did get paid for it, well I guess it comes down to is the money worth it to keep working there? It sounds like the work environment is pretty hostile and to me it sounds like the business is a family & friends affair and those sorts generally don’t take well to outsiders. I’ve had enough experiences with small business owners who think they’re god because they control a business and they don’t like being called out on their mistakes.
From what I can gather from the glimpses I get everytime he starts thinking about leaving the bosses suddenly get nice and start helping him and he ends up staying.
Stab them in the throat.
Finally some constructive advice.
No but seriously, reign that shit in right now. Refuse to deal with anything unless it’s written down, and if they decide to push it you will threaten with a formal complaint against the company. If you don’t keep it in check they will fuck up your future employment chances.
Can’t give you feedback on yesterday’s situation, since there’s not enough detail to go on.
As for Monday, just be as objective as possible. Explain the situation from your point of view, calmly and without any direct accusations. Accept that how you behaved could have been interpreted as out of line, whether or not that was your intention. Take a little criticism, give a little criticism. Saying you don’t appreciate being called a crybaby, or told to suck on you mum’s boobs, is okay. It’s all about delivery.
Hurrah for diplomacy! Woo!
I think the correct response to that was “Sorry, my mouth’s too full of your mum’s boobs”
Arrrrrrrgh, the eproof for one of my new books is ready to review, but try as I might, I can’t access the file at work. Stupid torturous long day just got a lot longer… 😛
Aw bitch. Someone stole all the Holden caps out of the centre of the wheels of my car. The car’s not even 2 years old and nearly everything outside is damaged and I haven’t caused a bit of it 🙁
I’m never buying a new car again. People are shit.
Damn! Sounds like you either need to move, and/or invest in a lockable Carport/Garage.
Totally agree, people are shit.
That sux dude, people are shit, I agree.
I didnt even notice till you said but i went and checked mine. Yep they have been gone for a while. I hate people
I haven’t even got any on mine, I’ve got Interceptor/Pursuit rims on mine, been looking at getting a set of centre caps for them for a while. They’re not that expensive, 90 bucks including shipping from Ebay, think I might hold off until my shed’s up though so I know they’re safe.
It’s not at home they’re getting stolen or any damage is being done.
Where is all this happening then?
Shopping centres, parking lots, schools etc.
Pretty shitty if you can’t even park at a shopping centre or a school without having your centre caps stolen.
Welcome to the GC!
This is what stops me from buying my dream car one day, it’s not that I might damage it, it’s that the chance that others will carelessly damage it is much much higher. 🙁
Every time I wash my car I find new dents and scratches.
My new(used but very low km clicked) car, within weeks I got doored, there’s this white mark on the side, some paint that got scratched off from the door of the other human’s car. Not enough to dent, but enough to scratch
I find chip marks from shitty road surfaces. -_- So now I slow down to 1/2 walking speed at any sign of ‘loose gravel’.
People will damage it purposely because it’s a nice car.
That sucks man =\ Cardinal rule of life – you don’t screw with a person’s ride. Ever. Just wrong.
Or fart on a man’s balls.
..How?
Clearly you haven’t played South Park: TSoT.
Nup, not yet. 🙁
Most flogged thing on any Holden, those centre caps. Went to buy some for the Commodore, yeah no not at a starting price of 25 bucks each.
I actually think that’s a fairly reasonable price, unless they keep getting stolen all the time
That was not from Holden, but some dodgy ass eBay seller. They went UP TO 400 bucks a piece, for what appeared to be the 50th anniversary logo ones, for chromed plastic that’s a wrought.
That dodgy ebay seller probably pulled them off someone’s car :\
They were brand new in the plastic packaging. But I had a feeling many more were exactly that…
edit, stupid kotaku..
:'( I know dat feel, only luckily (touch wood) I don’t personally know dat feel.
It’s like people talking about how they got hit in the balls, you know? Every other normal male will have an impulse to grab their balls because they started softly hurting, just from the words.
Brb I need to find a photo of my car and have a private moment with it. :'(
So Far Cry 4 eh, I’m keen. Had so much fun wingsuiting everywhere in 3. I hope they bring the wing suit back or I’ll cry……. far.
Yeah, 3 was a lot of fun, definitely be picking up 4 at launch.
Considering it’s based in the Himalayas I’m pretty sure it would be criminal not to bring back the wingsuit.
I’m gonna plough into so many trees/ rocks. It’s gonna be great
I would put money on you getting to fly helicopters. I’d then also put money on a mission where you wingsuit into one and hijack it!
Oh man so cool, wing suit flying through the Himalayas!
Morning peeps! Friday at last! Any exciting plans for the weekend?
I’m cutting myself off from all sources of daylight until I get some solid Persona time in! Then gym and swim and maybe head out for a few drinks tomorrow night.
I get to go and blast Orks and Mutants in my imagination. #rpgs4lyfe
Work, Walking Dead, Work Walking Dead.
That is all.
We have something in common at work I’m like the Walking Dead =]
Know that feeling, and instead of brains we crave coffee.
Going to have dinner/see friends tonight, staying at a friends house tomorrow…
year of the hermit huh, you’re doing it wrong. Seriously though good to see you getting out and doing stuff, I should learn from you. My girlfriend is working all weekend so I’ll be hermitting properly :P.
I feel your pain gutsoup, mrs is working all day tomorrow. We should create a TAY meetup for peeps who’ve been ditched by their partners =p
she works every Saturday so we usually only get Sunday together. Sucks too cause I really want to go watch Godzilla but promised her I’d watch it with her. Maybe we should have a secret Godzilla meat 😛
@dc @gutsoup Yessssss secret Godzilla meat! lol according to DC it’s quite tasty too!
Godzilla is huge, how do you keep something that size a secret?
was trying to keep it clean but can’t resist…. I’ll hide him the only place he’ll fit, it’s where i store another enormous thing………. in my pants.
*shows self out door*
I’ve been asked to write some articles on the budget so I’ll be spending most of my weekend pushing out as many of those as I can.
How many times are you allowed to use variants of the word ‘Fuck’?
Despite media spin, it’s actually a great budget.
I’ve got to get up early to sell someone my old Fridge. 🙁
Mario Kart 8 is reviewing excellently.
9/10 on Polygon
9.25/10 on Game Informer
I CALL KOOPA TROOPA
I call who ever hasn’t been called yet since my beloved Diddy was taken from me. :'(
…
I ain’t bitter. 😛
Daisy is essentially Diddy!
>:|
pretty annoying they’ve gone with 7 different bowser juniors type dudes, a baby version of a bunch of them, plus 3 versions of Peach and Mario (including baby forms) but have left out Diddy and Dry Bones as well as others, they’ll probably make them DLC and make us pay for them 😐
I ain’t ever buying Nintendo DLC, so I’ve come to accept Diddy’s gone. :'(
There’s a cool Dry Bones-esque track though. Like very, very cooool.
That’ll just make me sad cause he’ll probably be on the track and I’ll just want to pull over and hope he hijacks my kart.
Diddy had his own racing game, so I for one never expected he’d be in it to begin with. Here’s hoping that they make a new Diddy Kong Racing though! PLAAAAAAAAANES!
It’s Mario Kart. It’s a bit hard to screw it up. Be more surprised if it didn’t review well.
Many think Nintendo screwed up with the Wii version! (Mainly @sughly! XD)
I haven’t really enjoyed Mario Kart since Mario Kart 64.
@sughly is just a grump! Wii wasn’t that bad!
I liked it, but it was the first Mario Kart game I played since SNES so had nothing to compare it with apart from that.
Yeah I’d actually argue it’s quite easy to screw it up, actually. Needs to feel a very particular way to be at its best, which Wii missed. 8 is looking so promising though!
Grump.
@sughly is on the money. MKWii is flat out the worst in the series.
Gamespot gave it a 8/10. I’m only surprised that they didn’t give it a 3/10.
Ontargett’s Holiday Write Up:
For the past week, I’ve been on the big island (for the first time since January last year). I thought I’d do a write up about what I did.
Wednesday, May 7: Not much happened as we went over to Melbourne on the Spirit of Tasmania. They showed two movies: Muppets Most Wanted and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. I had troubles sleeping (technically on Thursday May 8, as I didn’t go to bed until after midnight).
Thursday, May 8: Long day of driving from Melbourne to Sydney. Get to the motel to find out that our room is on the top floor, accessible only via stairs. Both Mum and I aren’t happy, but there’s not a lot we can do about it. My sister arrives from the airport and she, Dad and I decide to go into the city on the train. We end up going to Circular Quay and wandering around the Rocks. My sister shouts me a scoop of Royal Copenhagen Ferrero ice cream. Amazing.
Friday, May 9: Mum and I are doing the Tony Ferguson Weight Loss program, and we’ve run out of shakes. We find out that the nearest chemist that stocks them is in Strathfield and we drive out to get some and have a weigh in. Mum’s lost over a kilo, I’ve lost 2. Friday afternoon is the main reason for our trip: my Godmother’s eldest daughter is getting married.
My Dad and my Godmother have been friends for longer than my parents have known each other, and my sister and I are treated as cousins. The wedding is in Gladesville, and we get to the church just as the bride is going in. Lovely ceremony, officiated by the bride’s father (my Godfather). After the ceremony, photos are taken at Newington Armory. Really beautiful area, for those who haven’t been there.
Reception’s at the Oatlands Golf Club and we arrive there early so we can relax and have a coffee. The bride’s nephews are fascinated by the golfers. It’s soon time for the reception to begin so while waiting for the room to be opened, we mingle and have drinks and canapes. The meal is great, three courses and I’m seated next to a pretty girl. Unfortunately, she’s 5. After the speeches comes the dancing, and I get dragged out on the dance floor. I loathe dancing, and have slightly less moves than a statue. We then form a guard of honour for the Bride and Groom as they head to their hotel and head back to ours shortly after.
Saturday, May 10: As my sister has to head home on Sunday morning, we take Mum out to breakfast at Envy Deli in Summer Hill, not far from where we’re staying. It’s nice sitting outside as a family and enjoying breakfast together. We then have to head to Epping to have lunch with the wedding party at the Epping Hotel. I have half a rack of pork spare ribs. They are seriously tasty, and for $20, pretty good value. After lunch, we head to the bride’s sister’s house, where my godparents are staying. The two boys drag me to their playroom to watch WallE with them. It’s interesting having a commentary on the movie from someone who wasn’t even born when it came out.
Sunday, May 11: Mother’s Day, and I had already given Mum her present, a new handbag. Dad takes my sister out to the airport for her flight home. I head into the city for some time to myself. I go to Kinokuniya. Man that place is awesome and I see why you Sydney people like to meat there a lot. I pick up a bargain at JB Hi-Fi: Metal Evolution on Blu Ray for $10.40. It was mispriced, and there was a 20% off sale. Score!!!!!
Then it’s time to head out to ANZ Stadium to watch the Dragons play the Bulldogs. I have an awesome seat on the 30 metre line and am sitting behind a decent bunch of people. Unfortunately, the game is onesided and the Bulldogs win 38-6. Still, fun to watch and only my second NRL game. After the game, I head back to the motel.
End of Part 1. Part 2 will come later today.
Sound like you’ve had a great time overall!
Man, I miss the Epping Club. I haven’t been there in years. Fanciest RSL club ever.
@rocketman: Far North Queensland sounds terrible for any one who ain’t a bogan. Get out of there, man. 🙁
It’s not so bad…wait a sec…
I didn’t mind the weather, personally. Train ride to Kuranda was nice, too.
I wanna go to Kuranda and hang out with Zennith, they’re awesome dudes.
Dark Souls 2.
Where I die most often by accidentally rolling off cliffs.
Gbbx qbja gur Chefhre va Sberfg bs gur Tvnagf bapr V svtherq bhg V jnf qbqtvat gur jebat jnl. Qvqa’g hfr gur onyyvfgnf ng nyy. Cebzcgyl tbg zl nefr unaqrq gb zr jura V jrag naq rkcyberq gur Ybfg Onfgvyyr naq rapbhagrerq gur Ehva Fragvaryf. Rkcybfvir oneeryf nyfb znl unir xvyyrq zr bapr be gjvpr.
Jrag gur bgure jnl naq rkcyberq Ab-Zna’f Junes. Vg orpnzr frevbhfyl rnfl jura V npgvingrq gur yvtugubhfr ohg gung qvqa’g fgbc gur gevc gb gur zrepunag orvat n ovg gevpxl. Rfcrpvnyyl jura bar bs gur qnza perngherf sryy guebhtu gur ebbs ba gbc bs zr. V guvax V’z n ovg bireyriryrq ng guvf cbvag nf V’ir qhzcrq cerggl zhpu nyy bs zl fbhyf vagb fgngf (pheeragyl nobhg yriry 43).
Dhrfgvba: nf n zryrr punenpgre, vf vg jbegu gelvat gb trg gur zntr ACP va gur Junes gb or avpr be whfg vtaber uvz?
Gur thl jba’g qb nalguvat hayrff lbh yriry hc lbhe vagryyvtrapr (naq znlor snvgu). Vs lbhe vag vf uvtu rabhtu, ur’yy fryy lbh fbzr fcryyf naq zbir gb Znwhyn. Vs lbh’er nsgre gur npuvrirzragf, guvf vf znaqngbel sbe gjb bs gurz (Tngurevat bs Rkvyrf naq Nyy Fbeprevrf). V guvax ur jvyy nyfb or noyr gb hctenqr n clebznapl synzr (znlor ur’f rira gur bar gb tvir vg gb lbh, V qba’g erzrzore).
Ru, ab cbvag gura ng guvf fgntr. Zvtug whfg yrnir vg sbe n AT+. Gunaxf sbe gur urnqf hc.
Went to a breastfeeding class the other night. I’m pretty sure I was the only person there under the age of 30, and definitely the only person there with a mental age under 20.
*watching a video about proper breastfeeding techniques*
“Look at the size of them titties!” (To be fair, I wasn’t even really aware I said this aloud)
*everyone goes silent and stares at me*
“Sorry – Look at the size of those mammary glands?”
never figured you for the breast feeding type, Steve.
It was a bit of a mix-up – The ‘d’ on the “Breast Feeding Class” sign out the front had faded and looked like an ‘l’.
Also inappropriate – on the subject of baby’s first poo, which is black and tar-like:
Nurse: We call the first one, “Dads Poo”, as Mum is normally recovering. You may be put off by the blackness but you better get used to it.
Me: I should be right – I’ve cleaned up much worst than that after some heavy nights drinking Guiness!
*more stares from the group, fiance shakes her head*
I’m going to be the best Dad.
Discomfitting prudes is the most noble vocation.
Come to think of it, those classes were pretty awkward anyway.
We just had that class. The slow motion lunge and face smoosh is weird. .
We also had Dad’s poo be described as pretty much like vegemite
I only ever went to one class (see my post below), so I missed the class on the Dad’s poo. So imagine my surprise when I went to change his first nappy. That was exactly my reaction “it’s like Vegemite.”
I didn’t get that at all. My kids’ first shits looked like huge black-green blood clots in the nappy.
I started going to those classes, to, you know be a supportive husband, after the first class it was recommended to me by the woman running it that I not be there. Considering I was the only male there I thought fair enough, maybe I’m making the ladies feel uncomfortable, so I didn’t go to the next one. After my wife got home from the next class I asked her how it went, and she proceeded to tell me that it was on breast feeding and that ALL the other women’s husbands and boyfriends were there.
What did you do to get kicked out?
Absolutely nothing,, that’s what was so confusing about it. I just assumed that because I was the only male there that my presence was making the other women feel uncomfortable
We only had a couple of them and it was all couples the whole way through.
Did our hospital tour yesterday, I swear the widwife was looking at me when she told us that the computer in the room isn’t for dads to play games on
Maybe she’s a time traveler!
Watched ‘The Bogan Hunters’ last night, to sum it up it is both hilarious and sad..
Sad because these people are proud to be dole bludgers, smoke dope all day every day, drink from sun up til sun up next day, have more kids than they can count because they never got an education or cared for one, they’re proud of having poor dental hygiene, and think their criminal records are something to be proud of :/
But it’s also hilarious how they just don’t care what people think about them, so good for them for that at least.
Gonna have mixed feelings if they air footage they shot in my town..
Read this and assumed it was a show about hunting and killing bogans. Kept reading… was disappointed.
It’s the lot from Houso’s that host it too, or Fat Pizza whichever show you recognise them from really lol.
Or Swift & Shift
Loved that show, I wish there was more of it.
I have the same reaction when watching anything done by Paul Fenech. It’s hilarious but saddening at the same time, as I know so many people who are the same, if not worse as those on the show.
Yeah, he does good stuff, but yeah agreed. Some of the stereotypes he is making fun of in his other shows are so spot on it’s sad.
Oh what, really.. The Tassie bogans were just feral I thought.
I feel the same way about Chris Lilley’s stuff. Yes it’s parody but some of the stuff is scarily accurate, particularly the Summer Heights High stuff.
Ugh.. He’s just awful, though…
From what I’ve seen of his mimicry, it was insightful, but a tad cringe-worthy if only for the potential ‘blackface’ aspect (see: Jonah from Tonga, a poster I saw recently).
I can’t stand Chris Lilley in the slightest. Total dross of “isn’t this stupid, laugh now”
I think there’s more to his work than that. I actually thought Angry Boys was quite profound. Barely funny at all, but a really great show to watch. But that’s me.
It’s ‘funny’ because he’s basically mimicking the behaviours and phrasing used so commonly in the school system that the ‘humour’ comes from recognition. Similar to why impersonators are apparently funny. If you’ve spent much time in the school system, you’ll be all too keenly and uncomfortably aware at how spot on some of this mimicry is. Unfortunately, being aware of that, some of us end up somewhat saddened by just how prevalent and predictably recurring those self-unaware stereotypes are that they can be so accurately lampooned like that. So yeah. While I don’t find it very funny, that’s probably because I also don’t find impersonations very funny, either. But I can appreciate the insight.
Yep. The Tassie bogans are feral. I think you’re coming to Launceston soon? Stay away from Ravenswood if you can.
Why is it like Ravenholm from HL2? 😛
Don’t know. Haven’t played HL2. However Ravenswood is Bogan central.
Oh, then the reference “We don’t go to Ravenholm” doesn’t mean much to you 😛
No, but having googled it, I think the reference almost works for Ravenswood, except with bogans rather than zombies and a different type of crabs …
Saw the ads, looks awesome. I appreciate their self-deprecating humour.
I suggest it, if you can get a copy to torrent, for an hour slot show it runs at about 36 minutes which is not something I want to endure on TV, fuck that amount of advertising.
Our Minister is currently addressing our department via streaming media.
*switch off, listen to Zeitgeist instead*
It’s almost as funny, and almost as offensive.
Speaking of which, where’s the weekly promotion from Dan the man, himself?
See below, smang-a-rang.
I’m confused you have a Minister where you work? Religious or political (either way just as bad).
^ Public servant.
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The problem is i dont know what i would do if i quit. I have savings to last me over a few years of unemployment but The boredom would kill me before lack of money.
I just am a little scared that i am this big ball of drama. If you smell shit everywhere you go it means your the one who stepped on it
What happened to that other opportunity for a job in the city?
Oh yeah, Sydney wasn’t it? Bustling in the big city!
I dont want that type of work any more. Its too stressful and i don’t like it. I might be okay at it but the people in the industry are horrible and demanding and it is long hours away from loved ones. I want a 8-5 job fixing stuff. Thats where i excel and am happiest.
You don’t seem happy right now. If you have the skill and capital, maybe try to start your own business?
Can you fix other electronics like appliances? If money isn’t such an issue – Could you try opening your own repair service? To save on setting up an office, do call-outs – So people don’t have to lug their tv’s, washing machines etc around. There’s probably more to it than that but it’s an idea :/
I could but the main thing stopping that is lack of parts and supply of them alot of companies will only sell parts to dealers and having a big enough supply of parts for most makes and models of things would be difficult on a limit budget.
Sure, it’s possible that you’re a factor in this (anything is possible), but your boss still sounds like a world-class fucktard who’s creating a hostile work environment. I couldn’t handle that. Not sure how anyone could.
And I honestly haven’t heard people talk like your co-workers have since primary school, Rockets. They honestly seem like they haven’t progressed since then in the slightest. :\
Tradies. Tradie culture is a different beast.
(NB: Not having a go at tradies. Just pointing out that their culture is quite unlike other industries. I work alongside tradies regularly, and have plenty of respect for them, but I do have to alter my behaviour around them (sometimes drastically) to keep the peace.)
Oi. Dickhead. Get the fuck out of there. Those people are horrible and they’re making you miserable. It’s time to move. Go to Brisbane or Sydney or something. Somewhere where your colleagues aren’t disrespectful pricks.
Can you look for similar jobs in the same area? Or is your girlfriend happy to move elsewhere with you?
As for boredom, if you can’t think of any hobbies, try joining a community group like Rotary. Or see if there is a ‘Man-Shed’ group in Townsville. I can’t remember exactly what they are called but I remember seeing these groups where they do woodworking and stuff. Old blokes join to pass on knowledge and have someone to talk to – Would be pretty cool to have friends from a different demographic and learn some shit too?
Are you a secret old man.
I would love to take a course on auto repair because that knowledge is always handy.
Try this?
http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspace_Townsville
ALright i just went on Seek and looked up random electronics tech jobs around the country. So we shall see how it goes. At the very worst i can be without work for a while. PRO-ACTIVE
Just be careful when unemployed rocket it’s easy to fall into this kind of haze of laziness, I recently quit a job I was absolutely miserable in and I had to put everything I could into motivating myself everyday to find more work.
That said it sounds like you really need to get out of that job! I know its hard to find a job that fits you but once you do its like a breath of fresh air after years of inhaling smoke.
Thanks buddy.
Acne problems?
Good luck man, I hope it works out for you, and your next boss is not a massive dick.
Rocketman, I wish you the best of luck. you do not deserve to be treated, the way they are treating you. Some people are just arseholes for the sake of being arseholes.
I know that there’s a job doing what I do (fixing Telstra payphones, networking pokies and It for banks/supermarkets etc) going at the moment. Downside is that this is in the Moree area, which is not exactly a great place to live imo.
Payphones still exist???
Oh yeah! ~8000 just in NSW, half of which are in Sydney/suburbs.
So, Dark Souls 2. Played it a few hours this morning (after spending an hour mucking around trying to get my dualshock 3 to work with it). It’s pretty good. I ended up making a sorcerer since I played a melee character last two Souls games and felt like trying something different.
From what I hear, sorcerer is hard mode for the mid-part of the game, before you unlock the seriously OP stuff.
I played as melee until that point and respecced as a faith-lightning-spear cleric.
They also nerfed the most overpowered sorcery to hell and back (dropped its damage by half).
Which, since it could 3 shot most bosses, is probably fair.
I found my pure caster build a lot easier than my pure melee but I think it’s mainly because I now had ranged options and I knew the game better (did my caster one on a second playthrough).
@dire_wolf just make sure you have plenty of spells so you don’t run out when fighting the usual enemies. Although this will be easier if you’re going for a hybrid build since you can just attack them as normal and save the spells for when they’re really needed.
Make sure you get the binoculars as well (for first person spell aiming!)
My adventures in first person spell aiming have been bad. Since the only thing I bother trying to snipe are crystal lizards, I have this tiny little target on the ground, and I’ve succeeded once, and failed like six times, where I’ll hit the ground right next to the lizard with lightning, which will damage it, but nowhere near enough to kill it, and then it will do its little death charge.
Ooo it’s so much fun! I’ve been headshotting enemies from across the screen for most of my run.
But why namsy pamsy around with spells when you can charge in with a mace?
Says the guy who changed his build yesterday to have 50 odd charges of spells. >.>
I have 90 casts of Lightning Spear, 24 of Great Lightning Spear, and 5 of Sunlight Spear.
Demolishes any area. My chime will break before I can cast all the spells 😛
I’m just derping about, so I’ve got 12 Lightning Spears, 20-something dark orbs, and some number of… one of the soul spear variants. I also still have heal so that I can try and keep the health of people up. Not that it’s much use given the majority of the time my world owners die it’s in a boss fight where I can’t heal them, or because they’re run off into a corner or something.
I shouldn’t criticise them too loudly, since I had a moment the other day where I was summoned for the Lost Sinner, and the first thing I did was roll straight off the edge to my death. I mean, it was just impressive.
@blaghman I got summoned for the Old Iron King battle, and my host fell into the lava long before we got anywhere near the boss gate /o\
For fear of looking stupid as a host, I’ve only ever summoned a real person once, and that was against the Covetous Demon, and just because I wanted another Sunlight Medallion.
The number of times I’ve died stupidly while Sunbroing is… well, considerably less than the number of times I’ve seen others die stupidly, but still far too high.
Dark Souls 2 stuff :
Gur Ebggra = qrnq.
Fb gung’f vg. V’ir tbg nyy sbhe byq fbhyf abj. tbaan urnq bss gb gur pnfgyr bire gur jrrxraq…
bu, nyfb… vashfvat jrncbaf… vf gurer n ‘orfg’ ryrzrag gb vashfr jvgu? vr: bar gung zber glcrf bs rarzvrf ner nssrpgrq ol guna bguref?
V’z ybivat zl pyho +10, ohg svtugvat Gur Ebggra, V jnf qbvat jnl zber qnzntr nsgre hfvat gur zntvp thax ba vg. Fb V’z guvaxvat v’yy ohl nabgure pyho & znxr vg na vashfrq bar. whfg n znggre bs juvpu ryrzrag….
Edit :
bu nyfb, V jnf ehaavat nebhaq Qbbef bs Cnuebf ynfg avtug, ybbxvat sbe n frpbaq Tlez Terngfuvryq & tbg chyyrq vagb fbzrbar’f tnzr sbe gur svefg gvzr.
vg jnf na njrfbzryl grafr svtug.
V jba (juvpu vz fbegn unccl nobhg), & gung thneq oernx grpuavdhr vf fhcre BC.
In terms of infusing, there are a few things to consider:
Zbfg rarzvrf frrz gb unir irel yvggyr yvtugavat erfvfgnapr, ohg nal xvaq bs vashfvba vf ernyyl bayl inyhnoyr vs lbh unir gur fgngf gb onpx vg hc. Vs lbh’er cher zryrr, gurer’f abg n jubyr ybg bs inyhr va erqhpvat gur culfvpny qnzntr gb ercynpr vg jvgu fbzrguvat zntvpny.
Zbfg bs gur qnzntrf va dhrfgvba fpnyr jvgu vagryyvtrapr naq snvgu, naq freir nf n jnl gb znxr zryrr pbzong ivnoyr sbe zntvp ohvyqf. Zhaqnar fgbarf, juvpu bqqyl fpnyr jvgu lbhe ybjrfg fgng, ner sbe nyy-ebhaqref naq ner zbfg cbjreshy vs rirel fgng vf rdhvinyrag (nccneragyl vg fgnegf gb orpbzr BC jura RIREL fgng vf ng 20).
EDIT: Vashfvat n jrncba gung nyernql unf fpnyvat pna nssrpg fpnyvat. Rnpu jrncba ernpgf qvssreragyl, fb vairfgvtngr ol fpebyyvat guebhtu lbhe vairagbel gb frr jung’f jung. N pyho unf rkpryyrag FGE fpnyvat, ohg gung jbhyq cebonoyl qrpernfr fvtavsvpnagyl vs lbh vashfrq vg.
cc @blaghman
V jnf guvaxvat bs rapunagvat n znpr whfg nf n onpxhc sbe rarzvrf jub ner cnegvphyneyl jrnx gb zntvp.
Frrzf gung n +10 znpr unf 240 qzt jvgu N/R fpnyvat.
zntvp vashfrq znpr unf 168+168 jvgu O/R.
V guvax gung’f n cerggl ernfbanoyr genqr bss. guvax v’yy tb sbe gung.
cheers guys.
Fb sne nf V’z njner, gurer’f n ernfbanoyl tbbq zvk.
Vg’f jbegu abgvat gung lbh cebonoyl fubhyqa’g hfr gur… Zntvp Fgbar? hctenqr hayrff lbh unir n ybg bs Vagryyvtrapr, fvapr vg nygref vg gb VAG fpnyvat ba culfvpny qnzntr (nyfb Zhaqnar naq Enj orpnhfr gurl’er fgvyy obgu culf). Jung gur erfg bs gurz qb vf qebc gur culfvpny qnzntr gb 70% bs vgf inyhr, naq gura zveebe gung ahzore npebff gb jungrire glcr bs qnzntr lbh’ir vashfrq. Hayrff vg nyernql unf na ryrzragny qnzntr glcr, va juvpu pnfr vg whfg trgf ernyyl ernyyl pbashfvat.
Story time cause I’m bored *lights camp fire and passes out marshmallows*
A couple of year ago while I was at a week long camping music festival I got sick, really sick, most painful sore throat I’ve ever had, felt like I’d sliced the sides of my throat open, I assumed I had a throat infection so I began consuming vast amounts of straight spirits to “disinfect” my throat and numb the pain. I stuck it out for the rest of the week but when I went home it kept getting worse. Decided to drag myself in to my local physician who told me I had tonsilitis, I informed him that I had them removed as a kid because I went through a couple of years where I’d get tonsilitis every 2 months or so. He then informed me that I had in fact grown them back …..O_O, ok that’s pretty annoying, getting them removed as an adult is more trouble than it’s worth and since then have had tonsilitis a couple of times. Another peculiar regenerative story, I grew two adult teeth in the same spot as a kid but they pushed eachother into weird positions and both ended up just sorta falling out, my dentist told me it was bad luck and I’d have a gap in my teeth forever, about a year later though a third adult tooth popped out and filled the gap, my dentist was pretty astonished. Now I wonder how extensive my regenerative abilities are, maybe I should remove a kidney and sell it on the black market, if it grows back I’ll be set for life 😀
TLDR: who wants a kidney? 😀
…are you secretly Wolverine?
Instead of bone claws he gets teeth!!!
picturing some sorta hideous Baraka like beast.
That would explain how he survived the car crash…
… maybe I could make a career as a human crash test dummy. hmmmm
That’s as cool as it is a little unnerving. 😀
F*ck tonsillitis, f*ck its face too.
I think its safe to say youre a Namekian Mr Soup. Congratz.
Depends how much it’s going for.
how much you got? 😛
Not bad, you must have had a supernumerary tooth that emerged once it had room. I’ve had a few of those, hell, I had 7 wisdom teeth…
If you can re-grow a kidney, sell your genome to a biology lab. You could be the holy grail of surgery, injectable regenerative tissue replacement would be the best medical thing ever created
Soooo last few days have been fun.
Been home with a stomach bug,
On top of that, on tuesday my Sister-In-Law (who was 32 weeks pregnant)
Complained about some abdominal pain that she had had for a while.
We convinced her to finally go to hospital just to check it out, and off her and her partner went….
An hour later we got a message from her partner stating that she has just been wheeled away for an emergency delivery.
Apparently the baby’s heart rate was dropping because the placenta had ripped away from the wall…
Thank fucking christ we convinced her to go, otherwise her and the baby could have died :\
In other news, i got to play heaps of The Old Republic \o/
EDIT – oh god, didn’t notice all the pregnancy talk up top… erhm… eeerrrhmm… Well let it be a lesson to anyone that you shouldn’t hesitate rushing your partner to the hospital if there’s pains?
Better to be safe than sorry!
Oh damn, that’s really serious O_O
Hope everyone is doing all right.
Yeah everyone is fine now…
The mother is getting out of hospital tomorrow, they’ll have to keep the baby for a while though.
He was initially on a respirator due to the lungs not being fully developed, but he is now breathing unassisted…
Was a bit scary though, and i feel for her and the partner… lucky everything turned out the way it did, but they initially just thought it was normal discomfort… The hospital reckoned that if they had waited another hour, the baby would not have lived.
Holy shit man, now that’s what I call a close call. Glad they’re all doing well.
I think it was a bit of a reality check for all parties!
We’re just very lucky everyone is OK, and that baby is healthy…
But yes, very scary, i think everyone held their breath when we got the initial message.
My mother-in-law (her mum) promptly jumped on a plane and flew to melbourne, and the rest of the family is arriving this weekend…
It’s been a crazy week to say the least 😛
My god, old republic is the bomb
also that was super lucky. Hope you are okay buddy. I send my well wishes
Thanks man…
On the plus side, i’m now a Level 2 Uncle! \o/
Level 4 lets you cast fireballs FYI
man, i gotta convince her to have at least 2 more children in that case… Dat AOE man!
Pssst, go for Level 6 if you can. You can summon 6 minions at once to do your bidding via the power of chocolate.
Shit, glad things seems to be ok now, good on you guys for convincing her to go.
Oh wow, that was a close one. Glad everything is alright. Congrats on the uncle thing! 😀
Wow. Elevated heart rate right here. Even READING the words, “her and the baby could have died,” gives me a damn near panic attack. 😛
Yes. Better safe than sorry. Much better.
Mine is still racing. Certainly since we had a really quite day with Tiglet the other day and starting to really worry. Was feeling kicking again last night so it was just a lazy day for the little one but bloody hell it freaks you out.
Glad it all worked out for every one involved Pixel
It has certainly flared up the Hypochandriac in me. I fear for the day that Mrs. Pixel becomes pregnant because i will be the most paranoid person… ever! 😛
It’s the one thing you don’t screw with, that’s for sure.
Having so many problems with The Walking Dead Season 1.
After deleting a few of my other games off the hard drive it actually worked, finished Ep. 1. Then yesterday, I had a bit of trouble getting it to recognize my save, but eventually got it to work.
Today it seems no matter how many times I dashboard out and restart or sign out then back in again it just won’t recognize my save. I even tried clearing the cache and it still won’t recognize it.
Does anyone know a fix for this problem? I’m on 360 by the way. I have heard that moving your save to the cloud fixes it, but I’d rather not do that if I can avoid it, because it wouldn’t it continue to save to the cloud for the rest of the game? Or would I be able to move that save back to the hard drive?
Edit: Tried the cloud save thing and it seems to have fixed it.
It’s the triumphant return of the innernette’s favourite (but it’s like how when you had that cousin who was a little slow and you were all “Nah Patrick, you’re my favourite! I promise!” just so he wouldn’t cry and tell his Mum that you wouldn’t let him have nexts on Mortal Kombat.) podcast
DAN AND KARL’S ZEITGEIST!
This week, Karl uses talk of change room embarrassment to retell (from memory) the story of Adam & Eve, Dan pitches his Captain America storyline and finally what it feels like to finger Karl’s belly.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.com
That’s right, we’ve got a website now. Soooooooooooooo…
I like when you and Karl do impromptu sketches that usually involve bro speak for religious characters. NEVER CHANGE.
O_O that pic of you……… Nightmare fuel for life
That’s why he covers up his arms with sweaters at meats.
Great ep, guys.
“I’ve never seen Pretty Woman” made me laugh aloud. Everyone else was still streaming the minister’s speech, so THANKS FOR THAT >:(
Though I have a JAP and US PSN accounts, ive never bought anything on them…. I mainly have them for a quick browse or to download some F2P exclusives… (I have NO idea what im doing on a couple of JAP PS4 MMO’s).
As time goes on though, Im considering it more and more…. I just dont want the hassle of having to manage multiple accounts with paid content on it.
Some comparisons ive come across yesterday:
Trials Fusion – AU$29.95 US$19.95
Wolfenstein New Order AU$89.99 or $99.95? US: $49.95
If i change the region on my PSN account to US to buy some stuff, then switch back to AU, is that possible???
Yes. I got Saints Row IV from US PSN and played in my normal Australian account.
Call me cheap, but how in the hell is that game still at EB for $89.95
O_o
I know right? I thought I’d pick it up last night, but no way.
Probably spoiled though, I picked 3 up for $18 in the great GAME collapse.
PS3/4 allows you to buy the stuff via US PSN acccount, and have other PSN accounts on the console access to the content.
Other people seem to have confirmed for PSN, and I am here to make an irrelevant comment that this tactic works for 360 as well. I bought TWD Seasons 1 and 2 on my US account, and have only played them on my AU account.
Yeah, I downloaded Aegis Wing because it was only on the US store, but as with the PS3/PS4 if you delete the accouint that downloaded it you will lose access to those games.
How do you go about getting credit these days, with the PS3 I just used to get pre-paid Mastercards from Westpac. I know you can just use your Aussie credit card for the Xbone store, but what about 360 and PS4?
I bought MSP cards from Amazon.
Long answer: Bought Amazon gift cards with real AU address for credit card. Then redeemed those gift cards to buy MSP using a fake US address. This gets around credit card fraud issues (if those were going to come up).
As I recall the system they use on the 360, the content you buy is tied to the account you buy it with or the console id of the machine you first download it on so any account on the machine you first download it on can use it and the purchasing account can use it on any machine.
If we’re talking about just PS3/4 then yes. Purchased content can be accessed by any other user on the system (so your AU account will be able to play games purchased by your US account).
However, since the Vita only allows one account on the system at the time, you can’t do it on that unless you swap your account over. So if you bought a Vita game on your US Account, you’ll have to sign on as your US account to play it (which involves reformatting the memory card if I recall)
As for buying US PSN credit, I’ve found Amazon to be good for it. You just need to enter a (fake) US address to be able to purchase it and they’ll give you a digital code almost immediately (one time took a few hours).
Sweet! This pretty much answers my above question. Now I can finally download Manhunt on my PS3.
i know i can do that using a second account, but can i do it with just my AU account, by switching its region to US, making the purchase, then switching it back to AU?
I don’t think you can change regions on existing accounts.
damn… :/
It’s easy, you just need to buy point cards for the cash. Amazon is the best place, but you need a CC that you haven’t used with them before that you can associate to a fake US address. Anywhere else you’ll be charged a markup, Amazon is $50 for $50.
Vita is locked to one account, but PS3 and PS4 can have any account from any region. On PS3, every account can access the downloaded content of every other account regardless of the region, provided that the account that owns the content stays active on the system.
PS4 is the same, but the system needs to be activated as that person’s ‘primary system’ for other accounts to access the content.
I ended up migrating to my US account for the Vita because the PSP and Vita selection is cheaper and better, and now I’m using my US one as primary on my PS4 too. My PS3 has four accounts – JP, US, HK, AU, and I’ve got content from all of them that is accessible by whatever account I feel like using (mainly my US one now).
Sony implemented this shit just right IMO. Aside from not being able to have multiple accounts on Vita, that’s a pain.
another question for the Vita Bros….
just bought Cell Damage HD on the PSN which is a cross platform purchase, buy once play on PS3/PS4/Vita, and am trying to find it on the Vita PSN store but it isnt there….
Any ideas?
Are you searching for it on the store?
Usually if you just buy it, the Vita (and other) versions should appear on your “Download List”. I haven’t bought anything recently but when whenever I tried purchasing some PS+ games, it would come up with an error if I tried adding the Vita version to my cart when I already had the PS3 one in there. But once I purchased the PS3 version, both versions were added to my download list and I could download one, or both of them.
If you’re searching through the Vita itself maybe you can try the web store and see if it shows up there. The web one has content for all 3 platforms rather than separating purchases for each platform’s store. You can also tell it to download to your desired platform (or download it to PC to manually transfer to Vita) through the web store.
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-au/games/cel-damage-hd/cid=EP2119-NPEJ00330_00-B000000000001117
Completely quit out of the store app and then reopen it. It should be in your download list.
Pre-ordered The Last of Us: Remastered today \o/ gonna trade the original toward since I never even unwrapped the cellophane from it 😛
Where’d you pre-order it from? I dunno if you know, but it’s $65 at Dick Smith if you pre-order it, so hopefully that’s a helpful deal!
EB, i’ll use staff discount and get it for a little under or around 80 (without trading in) around 60 with trade in! Works well for me 😛
Edit: cheers for that though, I am sure someone else can put that to good use!
You won’t get a hell of a lot for it. Their pre-owned price is $72, and they usually give about 25% – 35% of what they sell it for, so that would give you between $16 and $23 (if my calculations are correct).
https://www.ebgames.com.au/ps3-156573-The-Last-Of-Us-preowned-PlayStation-3
I really need to get another copy, I bought the season pass, finished the game and then stupid me traded it in before they released any extra content for it. How much would you take for it?
I picked it up 45 brand new on boxing day so the fact i’ll get around $30 trade in (already asked this mornin’) works for me 😛
Fair enough. That’s actually not too bad considering what you paid.
Yeah, got Beyond Two Souls for around the same price too, which I have played some of 😛 I had all intentions of playing The Last of Us, but with a PS4 version on the horizon, may as well upgrade!
Hey @dc ! I just remembered that you played Dark Souls II a couple of times. I was just wondering what ever happened to your shenanigans?
I found the game a lot friendlier for newcommers and one of my friends who got sick of the original was enjoying their time in DS2. Opinions on it change, or still not really the game for you?
Not really the game for me. Found it a bit boring and repetitive, actually. :S
My sister loved it/finished it though.
What about Child of Light?
I try to make myself play it but I just can’t 🙁
I enjoy it visually. I love the music. I dig the combat. Just always groan when it comes time for a conversation scene. XD
I enjoyed the gameplay, but the writing is just terribad.
Just had to spend the last day and a half in training learning how to do communication real good! \o/
@quiz_b: Know any specific dates when you’re in Brisbane, yet?
I only know I will have to be there on the 8th June, as that’s my dads 60th. We’re driving up from Hobart, so probably will land on the 7th.
I’m free the 9th if anybody is up for a meat – Monday (10th) is Queens Birthday, a Public Holiday!
EDIT: Dates were wrong, shite. Ok, so up on the 6th, dad’s b’day on the 7th (sorry @blaghman) Sunday the 8th I should be free.
Your Dad has the best birthday. *Nods head sagely*
I arrive back on the 10th lol. But the 10th is a Tuesday not a Monday btw 😛
Aw crud. I meant the 9th is a public holiday.
Haha.
Also, should point out I’m nervous/super psyched to get up and talk rubbish and games with some fellow TAYbies.
Mostly nervous.
And killing drifters, where do you fall on that?
If it gets me my gang colours, I’m all for it.
Made the mistake of opening up Animal Crossing the other day…
ALL THE WEEDS! maaan my town had gone to shithouse 😛
Got all the hate from the villagers as well because apparently i had been gone for 7 months…
Honestly don’t know why, but i’m enjoying just puttering around in my town for 5 minutes at a time again… such a quaint little game
sooo… Turnip Prices? XD
I imagine that if I were to load up AC on the Cube then I would be greeted by a gigantic weed monster that has destroyed the entire town and would instantly devour my villager.
Maybe that’s the secret ending to Animal Crossing? XD
I have no intention of going back to Animal Crossing, but I’m 90% sure I set my town perk to “beautiful town” before I left so if I ever do they’ll probably be mad but I shouldn’t have any trash or weeds to attend to.
Yeeeaaah neither did i… XD
EDIT – Okay i think i have nailed why i have gone back and liking it, without getting into a sook-fest…
Lately my life has been less then stellar, it’s very stress full, lots of shit going wrong etc…
This game has no consequences, i can’t do wrong… it’s a “feel good” game,everyone is cheerful and life is just generally pleasant…
Sometimes when my wife is in a bad mood cause her family is pissing her off, she announces it’s “time to kill some bitches” and that’s when we jump into Call of Duty (or more recently, Titanfall).
Bahahaha that’s excellent, i like it 😛
Good wife selection skills.
I set that the last play session before I left it alone for a few months.
Came back, weeds and rubbish everywhere, dead flowers, all trashed.
Turns out any town planning thing kicks in the next day you log on after paying for it, not on the spot.
Ouch! I’m pretty sure I set mine up a few days before I stopped, but that’s an interesting point.
Haha, oh the turnip prices days…
;D
Any of you guys played Damage Inc? If so, is it any good?
JB’s got a bundle with the game and a joystick for $39.20. Was thinking about maybe picking it up.
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/xbox-360/damage-inc-pacific-squadron-wwii-joystick-bundle/672988
Is the song Damage, Inc by Metallica in the soundtrack? If not it’s not worth the $$ 😛
Heh, I was wondering about that back in the day. Forgot it was a thing, but now with the sale. Hmm.
Also wondering about AC4 on Wii U, it comes to 40 with the sale too. But not sure. Oh yeah still gotta pick up Killer Is Dead too… damn, 50. MONEY!
http://www.gamefaqs.com/xbox360/651837-damage-inc-pacific-squadron-wwii/reviews/review-151768
Well there’s that 😛
Stick does seem to be compatible with PC games though, so still pondering.
Screw it, I think I’ma buy it, Killer Is Dead Fan Edition is looking pretty good too.
Dammit if I end up clicking Add To Cart I’m blaming you :p
Lol I can’t really afford it either, s’posed to be saving for the Mario Kart 8 console bundle, but what the hell. Ordered both Damage Inc and Killer Is Dead as well as Ben 10 Omniverse, at 10 bucks it was cheap enough, and my son loves Ben 10, so I couldn’t resist.
Played it for a bit when it came out because I’m secretly a huge sucker for arcadey dogfighting games (one of my Dream Games would be Ace Combat but with jets from the 1950s through late 60s when they were making crazy stuff like the Starfighter or the Thunderchief) but I found it wasn’t very good. Too simmy but too arcadey at the same time, controls were bad and it required you to be an insanely good pilot or repeat the stuff over and over until you memorized attack patterns and stuff in order to beat even the first level.
The question is whether you need a joystick. Because if you do, $40 for a decent one isn’t too bad. Once you’ve got the Joystick you should go get one of the IL-2 games (Cliffs of Dover is the most recent iteration, focused on the Battle of Britain so the Russians can’t fuck it up by making their shitty-ass planes the best in the game) or War Thunder instead
If the stick is compatible with other flight games, as well as PC I think it makes it worth it.
That was mainly my thinking with it, yeah. Most likely an average game but a cheapish stick to have there for use with other things. Particularly with the Rift looking to be rather heavy on the cockpit-based games.
Ace Combat 6 had me giggling with glee. So arcadey but so great.
Re: Assassins Creed IV
I’ve played through the first little bit where you end up in the navy (I assume) uniform, and I have to find ‘Havana’ yet there’s dick all on my map of WHERE to go :/ What do I do..?
Also I just realised last night I can have the PS4 game sound come from the controller headphone jack, that is awesome. I expect battery life to be even less now.
Like the starting zone? You should be in the schooner, and just sail out of the little bay, then it’ll fast travel you there.
Okay then, so I shall look for this I guess 😛
Sorry man, I’m a little hazy on the details since its been so long haha
S’all good, wasn’t sure what was going on honestly 😛
I think it took me a little bit to find too. Try zooming out and in on the map. You’ll always have the marked location somewhere.
Hmm okay, should be a little green dot right? If so I got nothing 😛
Green dot surrounded by gold. Yeah I’m pretty sure I raged and wtf’d at this step too. :\ Did you sail out to ocean like people above said? That dot doesn’t show if you zoom out too far IIRC.
Haven’t sailed anywhere yet, killed the assassin, told to go to Havanna, nothing indicating where or what to do after that D=
Ah right .. did you get dressed in his clothes, meet the dude, he said to go Havanna? Pretty sure you need to hop on the ship at this point.
Yep – from an IGN guide:
“FIND A WAY TO HAVANA/FREE THE MERCHANT: After the cutscene, leave the area and use TWO Eagle Dives to the beach below. At the beachside you’ll see several British soldiers harassing a merchant.”
Then you will have access to a boat.
Yeah I figured out what I had to do in the end, go into the red zone which I thought was gonna port me out like another zone did hahaha.
Started replaying MGS2 last night.
Man, I have forgotten so much about that game. Esp how it controls.
I was hungry and didn’t want to spend a lot of money today so I went and got lunch from the local IGA.
Spied some new-fangled fresh-in-foil thing that Heinz is doing. Two separate pouches, rice and curry. I grabbed the Massaman Chicken variety.
Overall impression: 5/10. Curry didn’t have the usual depth of flavour you expect from that sort of curry, clearly didn’t have the star anise that brings it all together. Rice was okay for microwaved rice. Also it said all over it that it was a BIG MEAL but it wasn’t that big.
Probably would not have again, but I would consider trying their other flavours as it’s possible that I just chose something which is simply not possible to do to the standard I would be happy with out of a packet.
My go to there is the sun rice meals. Either a curry or a Chinese style meal with rice. The noodle variety out now is pretty good too.
LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
I’ve become obsessed with Love Never Felt So Good, the new Michael Jackson/Justin Timberlake song. Been on loop for the better part of a day. So catchy and happy.
The National- I need my girl
I am gooood, I am grounded…
Bien Bien – Control Machete
Threshold – Sex Bob-omb
Dj Isosine – Remember the Voodoo People.
http://isosine.bandcamp.com/track/remember-the-voodoo-people
Prodigy, Limp Bizkit, Daft Punk, Jay-Z all mashed up together.
I gotta stop listening to so many mashups.
Manowar – Kings of Metal
The Amity Affliction – Don’t Lean On Me
Russian Circles – Melee
its my chillout track at the moment. freaking love it.
Deadmau5 – Hi Friend
Oh god, no one tell Lambomann. D:
Hey, it’s ‘last played’, not ‘last liked!’
…Although I do sort of like it. It’s not too bad.
I saw that. New MJ album. How is it new? I thought all his unreleased stuff was gathered and released a while ago.
Nah, he had tonnes and tonnes of unreleased stuff. Enough for a lot of albums. Last one wasn’t well received but this new one is apparently a lot better.
Ah, okay. Cool stuffs, I’ll have to grab it one day. MJ is one of the few dudes who I respect highly because pretty much every song is listen-able.
Same thing as Tupac, I think they’ve released more Tupac albums since he died than they did when he was alive.
Metallica self-titled on loop.
Cloak of feathers – The sword
Dota 2 peoples with compendiums, I’ve made a fantasy league thingy.
Anyone who wants in is free to join, so that they can get their compendium points and whatnot. We’ll do the draft once more people are involved and we know exactly what’s going on. Most likely it’ll be on a weekend afternoon when people are all free to get on and do this.
Anyhow, the league is called TAY, league number is 74337 and the password is NoPants.
There is exactly one rule for this league: all teams must be called The Wildcats.
You should also make another rule, no pants to be worn while playing.
That’s already heavily implied.
Come to think of it, kind of a pointless rule…. I mean, who plays with pants on anyway?
I understood one of those terms.
For some reason, Valve has made a fantasy football thing for Dota.
You get points for participating. Points give you shiny things. Shiny things are shiny.
I think i uninstalled Dota a little while back.
I uninstalled aaaaages ago. Could never find a match under 30min queue time, always had to go away and do something else for 20min, only to get fucked up and cussed out in a training match for a game I didn’t know how to play.
Didn’t take many times of that to uninstall, flip the bird and ignore anything and everything to do with it ever. Nevermind my queries as to when the best times to NOT spend half an hour queued were overwhelmingly, “If you’re a scrub you’re supposed to be watching, not playing, anyway! Get on board with supporting e-sports and helping some teenage-cyborg on speed live your dream!”
Combined with LOL, I pretty much shrug and tune out whenever anyone talks anything MOBA-related, and consider it a waste when talented developers/promising IPs get involved with the genre. 🙂
Yeah, I never felt the game grabbed me enough to want to put in anywhee near the hours you need to become fluent, let alone competent or good.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/05/what-the-human-body-looks-like-at-100-years-old/
This is pretty interesting stuff.
*Sigh*
Things have run their course with my French lady. Distance and conflicting schedules made it too hard to see each other. It’s for the best. I always had in the back of my mind “dude you’re moving to Canada soon” which kept us from getting too close.
Still, I use to cry at the end of Homeward Bound every damn time, I suck at goodbyes.
🙁 Sorry to hear this, man. Sounds like it was pretty great while it lasted and that does count for something.
Thanks D.C. 🙂
It was a very interesting experience that I feel lucky for it not only happening but that it ended on good terms.
Tomorrow’s a new day!
Anybody know any Germans…?
Are you brainstorming pet names already?
German Muffin, maybe?
If she has a bad attitude she could be my little sauerkraut 😀
Strudel!
Always like the word “Sprudelwasser” sounds funny and angry at the same time… it might only mean Sparkling Water (bubbly water, soda water) but SPRUDELWASSER
Ach nein, mein little Bratwurst!
That’s fantastic and I must steal it at some point.
just dial 1800 – Du wirdest einen krankenschwester brauchen…
Bless google translate haha.
Lol, well technically i got that one from Family Guy, but due to my (somewhat limited) ability to speak german i knew what it meant 😛
I feel for you buddy, Have a hug
goodbyes suck.
I still miss @alexpants everyday i dont get to hug him 🙁
Thanks Rocket 🙂
It’s linked over on Gizmodo, but the Flash trailer looks really neat.
It looks not rubbish
I havent watched any of arrow except maybe 5 minutes here and there but this looks similar but different.
I like how they’ve depicted the super-speed
Colour me interested
*Looks at assortment of crayons*
Uh… Hm.
Ummm… Indigo… No, uh… This one’s i-no, no…
Hm.
Was that a trailer, or a short movie with a beginning, middle and an end? Other than that, it looks like it would be good.
Considering it’s Friday, I’ve been writing up materials for my next game I’m GMing (not TAY Pathfinder sorry, that’s set for a while). As the campaign is set in an alternative version of the Ancient Roman Empire, it makes it incredibly easy to source things and create environments. Also I find it hilarious that when I research things a little to ground the game, I find stuff that would not be out of place in a traditional fantasy RPG. Seriously, my players will end up going to ‘The palace that illuminates the world of life” which is protected by the Iron Gates. This is after speaking with an ancient order of wizards called the Solomonari. Plus the fact that I can throw in all of the ancient religions for shenanigans is heaps of fun, particularly when I’m combining ancient Roman, Christian, and German/Nordic mythology.
In short, ancient and medieval history was basically one big fantasy RPG where they all imagined that the creatures and gods actually existed.
I genuinely admire how enthusiastic you are about GMing. It’s really cool, man.
I guess it’s just storytelling and world building in a different form. 🙂
C’mooooon
play an RPG with us!
Nah, but the GM side does interest me. 😀
It’s a fun skill to develop.
HE IS TOOO LAME
i wanted to make a sitcom with him and he was all like
“im a broody loner who does broody work, I hate funny things and people and you”
thats a direct quote 😛
Sounds like something I’d say. So much hate.
THE OFFER FOR US TO MAKE A HIT SITCOM TO PITCH TO ABC IS STILL THERE.
we could make the next Librarians
I totally misread that as ‘shitcom’.
Though it sounds like a cool idea… cheaply-produced crap to sell as filler in dead hours.
Isn’t that all TV nowdays?
Thanks DC. I did a writing course at uni and I kinda maintained that creativity aspect for RPGs rather than actually writing books. It is exactly as you said as it’s just world-building and setting the stage so that the players can act out their roles.
Plus it helps that I can occasionally be an heartless bastard and force some really perilous situations on the players. Any good story has highs and lows although my lows seem to be near-death experiences a lot of the time. 😛
I take it you can’t kill the players off, cause then they won’t be able to play. :'(
No Joss Whedon-esque shock deaths? (I guess that could go to NPCs instead?)
You can certainly kill PCs.
players then either get resurrected or reroll a new char.
I almost killed @tech_knight the other night and I wasn’t even trying.
Oh, this sounds awesome! 😀
Sacrificing a party member for the good of the group. Group has to decide who dies.
*strokes patchy chin stubble*
The noble sacrifice for the party is certainly an RPG mainstay.
that said, I usually encourage players to figure out another way.
I say we sacrifice @mawt. He’s always sleeping on the job 😛
Though considering I’m going to miss the next session or two, maybe talking about sacrifice isn’t the best idea right now
As did I the other TAY Pathfinder session. Must be a trend, hey @tech_knight? 😛
If either of us kill him he’s rerolling as a heavily armoured wall.
The funny thing is, I can just imagine him in Numenera doing that with cybernetics and just getting massive tank treads instead of legs.
@popdart5 I could see @mythamphetamine adding treads.
Or ingesting mutagens to decrease his squishiness.
After our first combat experience I fully expect one of the squishies ending up forced to reroll before we make it out of the current dungeon.
@negativezero We may have to work out some tactics as a party beyond “everyone go try stab a that guy”
@negativezero That’s possible although distinctly unlikely. Statistically the fight with the Hobgoblins was only challenging but I have been known to play my monster NPCs with a fair amount of cunning when appropriate (not as bad as Tucker’s Kobolds but along those lines). Every fight that you guys will encounter will be along the same lines.
Also, technically that fight would have been a whitewash normally but the party was just unfortunate you didn’t have three of your bruisers and that we didn’t apply the correct modifier to your charm spells throughout the fight so you would have just put all three of those Hobgoblins to sleep off the bat.
@popdart5: I actually did apply the +DC correctly during the fight, just not on that initial Sleep spell. I didn’t want to butt in with it at the time because it was my mistake for not applying it, I just added it properly from the point I realized the error. Also that leader dude rolled will saves like a motherfucker.
But they also seemed quite resilient. Seemed like a fair bit of HP.
@negativezero They’re the equivalent of a level 1 fighter with a high Consitution who also took the Toughness feat. They were just hardened fighters whereas everyone except for Nob or the three absentees had no real experience or training in fighting. Hence why it was probably more difficult than I expected.
@redartifice Along with trophies, I like to think that ‘ingests things’ is the best descriptor for me.
It’ll obviously be the death of me, but I’m digging it 😀
I hate both of you :'(
That’s what rerolls are for. 😀
Honestly though, I don’t actually kill many players off unless: a) they were stupid, b) they tried to do something way out of their league, or c) trying to use the doomy artefact of doom. In any case, badass death sequences where characters go down in a blaze of glory, like the time when a character got eaten by dragon so that he could stab the inside of its stomach where it didn’t have any armour. He didn’t live as the dragon digested/roasted him while inside him but he did take the dragon down with him.
That, in my opinion, is a worthy death.
Oh actually, that reminds me I need to email you about a character ability request. I’ll do that now.
Dibs on playing Brutus!
Wheeeere’s Friday’s Singtaku???
It didn’t have a video, and it disappeared some time after I pinged Mark on twitter about it, so I can only assume that his downward spiral has left him in a pit of despair, where he’s simply rocking in the corner howling at his phone, while convincing himself that he’s fulfilled his Singtaku duty.
Hmm. Well, that got me thinking, maybe it just wasn’t posted properly, maybe he still recorded one.
Gave it a quick google and sure enough…
Hey Blaghs ol’ buddy ol’ pal, fancy a SNEAK PEEK?
Man, this game would be so much easier if I had ever actually played any games. :/
Faaaark I know that one somehow.
Can’t name it.
My brain will kick it into my bleary eyes at 2am.
Dammit I feel like I know that. Bu then it keeps slipping into another tune, but I don’t think it’s that one.
I’ve already put some money down for Mario Kart 8 – and I’m definitely gonna get it – but upon browsing my emails I’ve realised we’re swamped with karting titles already.
Sonic & All Stars, Sonic & All Stars Transformed, Little Big Planet Karting, F1 Race Stars, Modnation Racers … what else?
The Sonic ones look pretty damn neat on promo pics, and the F1 and LBP games are some great fun (LBP especially). Is Mario & friends really enough? :\
Sonic & All Stars Transformed is pretty damn great in my opinion, but i can never get anyone to play it with me ;_;
That’s a fun game but just a little bit bullshit.
Oh, you want to unlock Dr Eggman? Okay then, if you could just finish every single event on the hardest difficulty setting, we’ll get right on that.
Haha wow, brutal.
I like it back when games had hard to unlock characters!
I remember in Crash Nitro Kart. To unlock Pura, you had to do something like 50 consecutive boosts in a row (so you couldn’t stop power sliding the entire time). So amazing when I finally unlocked him (and by the end of it, I was unbeatable on the track that I unlocked him on haha)
Fuck trying to unlock TT in DKR.
Fuck that so hard.
One of my personal gaming achievements.
I would later go back and try to beat DKR, only to get stuck on the first Wizpig race. I don’t know how I did it, but young me must’ve been a hell of a racer.
Hahaha, yes! I did the exact same thing, slaughtered by Wizpig with absolutely no clue how I ever managed it.
Used to love DKR so much, definitely one of my favourite N64 games, I’d love to bust out my N64 and give it a bash, but my analog stick’s broken 🙁
Edit: Hey @dc, I’ve figured out why they dropped Diddy Kong from Mario Kart 8. Isn’t it obvious, they’re making Diddy Kong Racing U.
I can dream can’t I.
did you ask Jimu? he was super keen for a while there,
I have it on Vita and PC, I could play sometime?
naaaw i have it on the WiiU XD
Damn. 🙁
I really liked Modnation Racers but spent 90% of the time making dudes and Karts and not actually racing. LBP wasn’t too bad but feels like it’s missing something, might just be lazy track design, but I guess the best tracks are probably user made as is the LBP way. Sonic All Star Racing transformed is really good, lots of variety in the race modes (even boss battles with massive enemies), really good track design, and some cool moments when you transorm between vehicle types and realise that the background is actually raceable but as a plane or hovercraft but for the life of me I just can’t seem to get good at it, tried F1 Race Stars, got bored in like 5 minutes and never went back. Really looking forward to some Mario Kart, hopefully the original will be the best.
Modnation Racers was an odd game. It was meant to be the next Little Big Planet, building on the whole play, create, share thing Sony was doing at the time. The problem was that it completely lacked the charm of LBP and it didn’t take long for Sony to give up on it and just make LBP Racers instead.
Also, the loading screens. Oh boy, so many goddamned loading screens.
I tried 2 races, spent what felt like more time looking at loading screens than racing, and never wanted to play again.
I do not understand the mario kart ting as a ‘system seller’. But apparently Nintendo are banking on it selling like… another 20% of the existing install-base, and some pundits are claiming it’ll be closer to 40%.
My question: fucking HOW? I mean, you play one Mario Kart, you’ve basically played them all, haven’t you? Sure there’s leaps between Mario Kart Wii vs Super Mario Kart of twenty years prior, but from 2nd latest to latest, where’s the system-selling revolution/innovation? And it’s not like the wiiU was some crazy revolutionary graphical breakthrough over the wii…
I mean it’s clearly an obvious purchase if you already have one of the consoles because no duh it’s going to be a great game, and it’s nice to have the latest thing… but if you were into that sort of thing wouldn’t you have already bought a wiiU for all the other mario/zelda/whatever games? What’s so revolutionary about this one that it’ll be that one true game-changer that makes the console competitive and saves them from insolvency, inspiring dozens of, “Will Mario Kart save the U” articles on the webs, and Nintendo to make millions-of-system-sales forecasts?
I think I read that Mario Kart Wii was one of the most successful multiplayer games of all time. Hoping that’ll translate, I’m guessing.
Skewed results because of bundled game.
MK8 will be a bundled game too.
All the more relevant on the expectation the new one will drive hardware sales.
It won’t save them. But it’s obvious they have nothing up their sleeve, so they are banking on MK (plus bonus game) to at least stop the downward spiral.
And that’s what I’m saying, too. If you were itching for an HD version of Mario Kart, there’s plenty of alternatives now.
Second highest selling Wii title, over 35 million copies. One could argue that the later distributions of the hardware including the game propelled these numbers, but that still makes it relevant to the lack of hardware sales (and immediately available MK8 bundles) for the Wii U.
It’s certainly possible it could drive (heh, geddit) a few hardware sales.
Reality check from looking this up – the game that dominated the charts for average user play time on Wii – Monster Hunter Tri – only sold 1.9 million copies.
As much as I love some games like Monster Hunter and the Tales series, sometimes I have to realise that they don’t command the biggest of market shares.
A friend was saying just last night that Double Dash managed to sell 7 million copies, pretty impressive for a GameCube game.
Mario Kart is a very popular franchise that people want to play. If anything gets the label ‘system seller’, wouldn’t it be a game that you would describe in that way? 😛
The problem is when the only people using the term are the ones who already own the system.
It’s not one of those, ‘Am I the only same person in the world?’ kinds of questions, I was genuinely curious as to what it is about MK8 that is going to make people buy a wiiU if nothing else on the platform could’ve convinced them, as opposed to being a high quality title that fans who own a U are looking forward to.
If it’s a shinier MK7, I’d be very skeptical as to its system-selling power. Were there really that many wii owners who were curious about the U but didn’t want to upgrade til it had karts? I’m actually surprised the system launched without a Mario kart game. Seems like there’s a kind of IP checklist you’d kind of expect a new Nintendo console to have: traditional Mario, party Mario, sports titles, Zelda, metroid, Mario Kart, smash bros as a kind of given, then whatever. Are there U customers who are just waiting for all the boxes to be ticked, still?
From reading these te few things I have, it’s hard to separate the solid reasoning from the wishing and hoping.
Oh okay, I see where you’re coming from a bit better now.
I don’t know because I never usually buy a console for a single game personally. I kind of more see Mario Kart 8 as ‘the straw that broke the camel’s back’ 😛 (if you can imagine that as meaning a positive thing haha).
The WiiU has had a handful of pretty good games so it might only take one big game to get someone to commit to a purchase (plus that bundle + free game deal is great value right now)
That’s the way I see it.
Windwaker HD is neat, but I wouldn’t buy a Wii U just for it.
Super Mario 3D World is neat, but I wouldn’t buy a Wii U just for it.
Pikmin 3 is neat, but I wouldn’t buy a Wii U just for it.
Wonderful 101 is neat, but I wouldn’t buy a Wii U just for it.
Mario Kart 8 is neat, but I wouldn’t buy a just for it but there are all those other games too…
Nintendo desperately needs third party support. Right now, they’re just selling to people who are waiting for there to be the right amount of the standard Nintendo fare to get them on board. That’s not enough. It wasn’t enough for the Wii, which was driven by mass casual purchases. Now they don’t even have that going for them.
I know I’ve seen a lot of comments around the place where people would say that they were holding off until Mario Kart and/or Smash Bros was released. And I think part of the appeal would be in that whole “you’ve played one you’ve played them all” thing – it’s kind of a guaranteed experience. You know what you’re going to get, and you know it’s something you enjoy. They’re those “essential” multiplayer experiences that people like to whip out with friends. Like when that GoldenEye remake was announced and everyone started getting excited, because in people’s minds Friends + GoldenEye/Mario Kart/Smash Bros = fun.
Not that I really get it at all, I seem to operate in a completely different way to everyone else, but hey 😛 Seems to be the closest explanation I can figure.
You can drive on the ceiling.
Can’t argue with that.
I don’t get it either. It’s never seemed like something worth the money to me. On any other platform it’d be a $20 downloadable thing. I’d never pay full retail price for it even if I owned a Wii U.
And I also utterly doubt its system-seller status. The target audience who are going to give a shit about it probably mainly already own the Wii U.
Oh, I rate it pretty highly as a ‘must have’ if you’re going to have the system, along with some mario-based platformer and a zelda game.
This is the part that’s confusing me the most. But Nintendo seem pretty confident it’s going to move units. Like… a lot of them. That’s why I’m wondering what’s special about this iteration of what I would otherwise have expected to be the same game.
Maybe it’s per @powalen’s suggestion of it being the critical mass of expected/required titles that people have been holding out for. None of the anticipation material I’d read actually mentioned anything specific or special about this iteration itself.
Nintendo fans are seriously their own worst enemy. They whinge about the lack of titles and the way they want something new from Nintendo etc. but then their most anticipated games list includes another iteration of Mario Kart. :\
So many of them too seem to never venture outside of Nintendo’s own games, like all they care about is their Mario, Zelda and Metroid and that’s basically it. I don’t get it.
holy shit. just found the perfect flat. affordable, good location, looks really nice.
now I’m wondering what the catch is…
still… inspection tomorrow. you have no idea how hyped I am for potentially getting out of my current place.
Hope it all goes your way, man!
Perhaps it’s haunted! D:
thanks DC.
id be willing to put up with a haunting if that’s all that’s wrong with it.
What if it was the ghost of a Lib supporter and you guys fought constantly.
…
I would watch that sitcom.
It’ll be just like that episode of Angel!
Bahaha my thoughts exactly!
Mine too. *three way high five*
…
Actually maybe we shouldn’t.
*blood spatters*
OH GOD @DC HOW DID THAT EVEN HAPPEN FROM A SINGLE HIGH FIVE
Best of luck mate.
Indian burial ground?
Methlab downstairs means if you smoke the place will blow up. Or turn on the oven. Or the heater, Or fail to properly ground yourself before touching something conductive.
I bet it was a call girls flat, do not turn a black light on if that’s the case.
Dark Soul 2:
V gbbx qbja gur Chefhre. Grnzrq hc jvgu fbzr thl gb qb vg. Nsgrejneqf ur jnf purrevat ng zr naq objvat naq V jnagrq gb obj onpx va gunaxf ohg V sbetbg ubj gb trg gb gur rzbgrf, V jnf gelvat gb svaq gur bcgvba haqre gur fgneg zrah bcgvbaf, naq gura ur yrsg naq gura V ernyvfrq gung V unq gb cerff fryrpg gb trg gb gur rzbgrf naq gura V sryg onq sbe abg rzbgvat gb gunax uvz sbe uvf uryc.
yeah, I was summoned by some guy to co-op the smelter demon. he waved at me, my finger slipped, I did the ‘im-gonna-cut-your-head-off’ gesture. I got banished.
I’ve totally done that, but we both just rolled with it. By which I mean I then rolled off a cliff out of embarrassment…
Hahahaha
This is my 10000th Comment
TAY is like my home away from home, i have done so many more things than i thought possible because of you lovely people. I have grown and changed into someone who can look in the mirror and be happy with himself. I have met so many friends that i am lucky to have. Some of you i see as more like family then friends. I know its silly but i dont think i would be here without you.
I love you all
LAST ONE TO POST THE CHANG GAAAAAY .GIF is a rotten egg
It ruins all the fun if you ask me to do it.
— John Green (introduction to This Star Won’t Go Out)
Never change Rocketman, you’re one of the people i have always respected deeply!
I know that i am not the most active or contributing member to this community, but i always consider myself fortunate to be able to engage with great characters such as yourself!
All the hugs man! This place wouldn’t be the same without you! You’re all a bit like an extended family to me as well, even the ones I’ve never met!
Aww man, why am I always the rotten egg? 😛
Is it the smell?
You’re not the man you think you are at home…
SNACKTAKU: Workiversary Lunch Edition
I was complaining about the prices yesterday, but that was seriously one of the best meals I’ve ever had! I was a bit worried because it’s a seafood restaurant (bit hit or miss for me), but it was amazing. Extremely expensive, and I probably wouldn’t go there again without a significant payrise, but great.
Had fried Mahi Mahi (some sort of fish? Or something) with seared calamari and a few other things. So good! Literally the best piece of fish I’ve ever eaten.
Dessert was pistachio cannoli with rhubarb ice cream and salted caramel. *exaggerated drooling noises*
Restaurant was super fancy too. Oh, how the other half live… 😛
I award it 9.67 out of 11 half-Bish/half-Shiggy creatures.
That sounds incredible. I thought I’d eaten some good food recently, but yours beats mine hands down.
Where can one find a Bishiggytaur, pray tell?
…asking for a friend.
Depends which configuration you want. Shiggy-top/Bish-bottom is very popular right now.
This took an unexpected, yet unsurprising turn.
Shishes
Oh my god, Mahi Mahi is the tits. So good. The resort we stayed at for our honeymoon did the best one with a great paw paw sort of relish.
So. damn. good.
20 minutes away from 3.5 weeks holidays!!!
Take me with youuuu
My luggage is fulllllllllll
Edit – Or at least it will be once Ash gets her hands on it 😛
Take Xenoblade with youuuu**
One day Nova will finish Xenoblade, and that’ll be a good day!
I’m Xenoblade!?
No wonder I love myself so much!
TMI!
I’m really close to the end, was just about to Fhzzba gur qentba orsber urnqvat gb gnxr ba mnamn ba cevfba vfynaq.
Decided to go back and finish up some side quests and didn’t realise how many I hadn’t even started yet. And now that I’m level 95/96 I kinda want to get everyone to 99 before I finish
If you didn’t already know, you can finish the game first then go back to complete the rest of the stuff you missed. You can’t actually save past the point of no return, but just make sure you have time to spare (it can be pretty lengthy). But your level is higher than usual so you’ll be fine!
Did my insurance dorras arrive in the end?
Didn’t hear from the manager, but I issued it anyway. I’ll call her on Monday but I don’t imagine there will be any problems. If there are, there’s a cooling off period for the policy that we can get a full refund on it so all good. Sent you an email with your policy certificate
This may be the best description of a board game I’ve ever read.
Saw that and immediately thought “Shut up and sit down”
Googles
Yup.
Quinns has a rather distinctive writing style. The raw enthusiasm of a toddler combined with the mind of someone that grew up immersed in Douglas Adams-esque writing.
I’m looking at getting a flat screen TV in my room eventually. I only need a small one for playing wii and my old consoles. Anyone have any brands they would recommend?
I have an LG and a Panasonic. I like them both for different reasons, but I’ve never had a single issue with either.
I’ll also add, that I work around guy’s who repair and refurb tv’s, and it’s rare that I ever see them with a Panasonic. All other brands, some more than others, but I do see their benches filled with LG, Sony, Sharp, Palsonic and other not so popular brands. I might have just got lucky with my LG, but I also have a monitor from them, and it’s never given be trouble either. I just thought I’d tell you what I see a lot of, that need repairs.
I was thinking dick smith or Samsung
I can’t really speak for the Dick Smith (dse) branded stuff, as I only know one person who’s ever had one, but Samsung stuff is quite good. I do see a few come through where I work for repairs, but probably not as much as the brands I listed.
Thanks for the help
I don’t know if there’s small ones in the inlcuded range, but Sony have a promotion going on where if you buy one of their TVs you can get a free PS4. Look into it and maybe there’s a model under the promotion that fits the bill 😀
And you can always sell the PS4 for $400ish to help offset the cost (or keep it for funsies)!
But…I don’t want a PS4. I want a TV to play my N64 and stuff
I was thinking $200 tvs =P
😛 I just looked further into the promotion and the cheapest ones would be like $2000. Oh well!
If you want Dick Smith or Samsung, Dick Smith regularly have 10-12% off site-wide sales so it may be cheaper if you don’t mind waiting (although sometimes they exclude products from the sales)
I’m fine with waiting
(see below)
They’ve got one of those sales going on right now :P. Ends Sunday
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/144532
lol turns out they’ve got a 12% off code going on right now. Just search “tv” and you’ll find a bunch of them around $200 (even cheaper with 12% off)
It’s only for online and delivered. Would rather get it at brick and mortar store
Wait until the next cleanup and see if anyone is throwing out one that works. If it’s only for the n64 you don’t even have to worry if it’s hi definition or not.
And wii
n64 has higher resolution. =D
I guess it depends how much you wish to spend and if you require 1080p
I had one of these before I got my Sony and they’re a solid brand and for the money I felt it was the hands down best TV I could’ve got. Only 720p but the picture was awesome and all.. Other than that Samsung is really good in the similar price range.
Edit: if 32 inch is too big they also do stuff smaller for a cheaper price.
I’d rather not get anything from Harvey Norman. Kind of still annoyed at them about our gas oven.
I did look at dealsdirect or Kogan as an alternative as it’s not something that’s going to be used reguarly
Oh I was just linking them because I wanted to link the brand, i’d never send anyone to Harvey Norman 😛 I bought mine from the local Bi-Rite when they were sadly going out of business due to arseholes like The Good Guys & Harvey Norman, making it hard for them to compete..
I almost got a Kogan TV until I read copious amounts of negative things about them on Whirlpool :/ They seemed so good on paper ugh!
Really? I haven’t look into it too much as I would rather get a dress form first
Yeah, I have read great things about their TV’s but I just didn’t feel comfortable knowing I could end up with a dud and be given the run around by their customer service mob like I kept reading about.
Can’t be any worse then Allied delivery company
Oh, bad experiences with them personally? :/
I would recommend 32 inches for the bedroom, anything smaller is too small and my 42 feels a bit too big. Big W has a low end Viano for $198; Good Guys have a mid range clearance Teac for $274, else there’s LG, Samsung and Panasonic around the $450 mark. All 32 inch models. Also, if you do decide on a smaller model than 32 inches, you won’t find them a whole lot cheaper than $198 either.
What are you thinking of?
Personally I love my Panasonics but having said that – I paid about $1600 each (42 inch and a 47 inch). I’m curious to even buy one of those Vianos just to inspect because at that price it’s an absolute steal. Televisions have never been cheaper.
The biggest bargain I have seen recently was a 60 inch LG plasma for $900. Cannot remember where that was though.
Harvey Norman have a 32″ Panasonic for about $470 atm. Highly recommended if you can afford that little bit extra.
I paid $1200 for my 55″ Panasonic 3d Plasma. Absolutely no regrets! You can even get them with 12+ months interest free from HN at times, which generally makes the decision much easier when it comes to spending that little bit more. I think you may have to spend $500 or more to get the interest free period, but I’d just ask what deals they have available, as they may change at different times through the year.
I don’t think I need a TV that big. As I said, it’s for occasional play. I was thinking 60cm
If you want, I have a 23.5″ LG tv/monitor combo that I don’t use anymore. I’d be happy to sell it to you. It’s 1080p, has HDMI, VGA, DVI, Component and Composite inputs. It’s in perfect condition, and I’d be willing to part with it for $150
Thing on the news before about a massive ivory haul getting seized and destroyed… am I the only one that feels a bit uncomfortable by that?
I mean yeah, elephants being killed or mutilated for their tusks is horrible and absolutely should not happen. But at the same time it kind of feels like a waste for it to just get incinerated like that, making it more like they were harmed for nothing in the end. I don’t know, it’s a tough situation. I get that you can’t really let it exist because then it has value applied to it which encourages further poaching and such. Oh the other hand it doesn’t seem right to treat ivory’s existence as inherently bad – a couple of years ago, some family friends of a friend were clearing out some old stuff from their house, and amongst it all was a piano that’s about a hundred years old now. My friend told me that she got it for free off them because they couldn’t sell it, simply because it had ivory keys. That just doesn’t make sense to me, paying money for that isn’t killing any more elephants nor is it making any difference to the ones that already died, and you’re achieving nothing by destroying it either. Wouldn’t have any problem if it was from an elephant that had already died of natural causes, but obviously that’s not all that convenient for those wanting to produce things on a regular basis. People are silly.
Mindless ponderings.
Bakelite has replaced ivory for all practical purposes. People who want ivory are not going to go for a legitimate source of ivory because I think the illicit aspect of it is part of the appeal. That piano is a perfect example, people don’t want ivory products.
*imagines every house with a ivory telephone*
The piano they just didn’t want because nobody played it and it was taking up space 😛 My friend was pretty happy to take it off their hands. Still got a decent sound to it for something so old, though a couple of the strings keep untuning themselves.
I have a knife with an ivory handle that my father gave to my uncle when he was first dating my mother back in the 70s. Somewhere along the line I sort of inherited it.
I wonder if it’s illegal to own it.
I’m pretty confident it’s not. My bagpipes have Ivory on them and I know my dad declared them at least once when travelling overseas and they never said anything about it.
Unlikely. It probably predates that time period by a bit too I would assume.
It’s like we have a bunch of rare sea shells & (somewhere) a giant turtle shell, all legal because they were sourced before they were declared illegal to take from the wild. My father & his family gathered them when they lived in Port Moresby in the 60’s.
Why… why did your Grandfather give your father a knife when he started dating your mother?
“Well done, son. You’re on the road to being a MAN. Now… if things go wrong… take this.”
Um. What? My father, while dating my mother, gave the knife to my uncle as a gift. At some point my uncle gave it to me, probably while throwing some shit away.
I don’t know where my grandfather even enters into this equation.
Oh, I totally misread as the other way around, and in headcanon replaced brother with father in the gifting – as being in relation to the dating as opposed ‘coincidentally around the same time.’
Aaaaah.
“It’s dangerous to go alone…”
Quick Dark Souls 2 question:
Is it possible to “ruin” your game by using too many Bonfire Ascetics?
Let’s say I used Ascetics to reach Intensity 10 to farm some boss. If I entered NG+, wouldn’t it make that area Intensity 11 while everything else would be significantly lower? (Intensity 2 – assuming I only used Ascetics on that one area).
If that’s the case then wouldn’t it be possible to screw yourself by increasing the intensity too much to the point where you can’t defeat a necessary boss, or clear an area? Scary D: …
The only stumbling block is your own skill!
Which is a big stumbling block in my case.
But it’s not too bad, I believe it has a cap at around 8, and after that it doesn’t become more difficult, though for someone as awful as me, I think I’d probably hit a wall with one area at about NG+3.
Err, and yes, your second paragraph is correct.
As Blaghs says, caps at 8 I believe.
So if you could beat the boss/area after using Ascetics to up it to 8 then NG+ won’t make it any more difficult.
Possible but unlikely. The biggest difficulty jump is from intensity 1 to intensity 2. If you can handle that, you’ll be right.
Everything from then on is only like an 8% increase in damage/health/etc, up to intensity 8 or thereabouts.
I was just looking at the tags for Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme legends complete edition!!!!!!! on steam and laughing loud enough for my collogues to ask what the hell is up.
Tags include:
Lu Bu
Do not pursue
Chinese genocide simulator
It also mentions no online co-op which greatly reduces my interest in owning it. I don’t know why, I’m pretty sure the non-pc version of it included online co-op.
** One of the reviews off steam:
“I Pursued Lu Bu and died 10/10
Would pursue again”
Nothing better than getting a random skype call from a friend to brighten the evening ^-^
Though I supposed a random surprise visit would be better, but that would be hard for her to do 😛
@beardymcmuttonchops
Sorry to hear of your grans passing. Remember that you can rant on here. It’s what we’re for.
TAY is technically a counselling service now, right?
I don’t get it…
Saw a lot of people talking about how Sunset Overdrive is like Jet Set Radio so I looked it up and… huh?
So it’s Jet Set Radio. Except it’s not cel shaded. And doesn’t have a soundtrack like JSR. And you don’t have skates. No graffiti. Also you’re carrying bunches of crazy guns. And there’s zombies everywhere.
Yep, sounds exactly like it. Surprised Sega aren’t suing them for stealing the idea.
I think people are saying it’s like JSR because it has a certain quirkiness.
I think it’s just the vibe.
Every time I hear JSR being mentioned, it reminds me that I really want a sequel.
Who doesn’t? Aside from Sega.
I think there are people at Sega who would love to do JSR again. Trouble is that the developer (Smilebit) was folded back into Sega after they did Panzer Dragoon Orta and then the people involved all moved around different places.
The chief writer and graphic designer for JSR left Sega last month after 19 years working there. Hideki Naganuma left Sega a while back too. A lot of the guys that worked on smilebit stuff went on to be involved with Yakuza, and they’ve then been moved around different parts. I don’t think that Sega is actually capable of doing another JSR game which is a massive shame. 🙁
BTW if you want more music along the lines of JSR/JSRF, look up the soundtrack for the anime Air Gear, and the stuff from the Yakuza games. Both are composed by ‘skankfunk’ which is Hideki Naganuma’s pesudonym for when he was working on stuff freelance while still at Sega. The skankfunk stuff is a bit harder edged and more aggressive than his JSRF stuff, but some of it is his absolutely vintage JSR sound:
I follow Hideki Naganuma on twitter and he still seems very keen on JSR, but yeah the original team are all over the place.
Pity they couldn’t take time out from their jobs to make a new one. =(
I read that wrong and was wondering why JSR would make you want a pet squirrel.
haha well JSR is awesome and I reckon having a pet squirrel would be awesome too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ZBoEXoEXA
@powalen @sughly @masha2932 @mrtaco @phoenix @strange
Still hilarious.
oh dearie
Man, I just can’t seem to catch a break with The Walking Dead. After all the problems I’ve had over the last day or so trying to get it to recognize my save, I actually finally get to play and the stupid thing freezes after 10 minutes.
It’s really starting to piss me off.
In Dota 2, if you buy the compendium there is a 10 hero challenge. I got a really good group of 10: Ancient Apparition (my current favourite/best hero), Bane, Axe, Nightstalker, Tusk, Razor, Disruptor, Gyrocopter, Sand King and Earthshaker.
Things were going well until I tried to win with Axe. I’ve lost at least five games as Axe since this started. The last game, my team picked Tiny, Earthshaker, Phantom Assassin and Legion Commander after I picked Axe. Apparently I was retarded because I was the one that made them all pick melee heroes. Suffice to say, that game was yet another loss.
Luckily, you can re-roll the heroes and it lets you keep the ones you’ve already won with. I had seven done, rerolled Axe, Nightstalker and Tusk and got Venomancer, Nyx Assassin and Treant Protector.
Fuck yeah. No more roaming strength douches, time for some support. And nyx nyx nyxing.
Already finished off the Venomancer game.
It’s getting late, so I’ll head to bed.
Goodnight, all!
Through the Sloane Steel reddit page @virus__ linked, I discovered the majesty of Dancing Bear. It is a thing of beauty. Watch the video, then read the video’s backstory. Then watch it again. It makes the video all the more hilarious. It’s fantastic.
Godammit, I’ve watched the video at least seventeen times, and it at one point sent me into a laughing fit that took three minutes to recover from. The end credits card gets me every time.
Just played some MKWii with friends. FOR THE LAST TIME!
And I hate them for it. I forgot how awful that thing is, yuck.
Yay! More haters! I disliked mario kart Wii as well. =/
I disliked Double Dash *hipster hair flick*
Mario Kart 64 all the way!
But I felt that one of the crappy things about MK Wii was the controls, and I’ve seen a lack of mention about how the different controls stack up in MK8 reviews. Not that I’ve read that many.
@mrtaco
I never played double dash /o\ It’s like the only one I don’t own
Wiimote/nunchuk and using a Bike was the best control scheme.
Flick to wheelie!
Ew. MK64 is about as bad as Wii 😛
Double Dash had some cool stuff, like the ability to actually dodge red shells. But then they also gave us the stupid flying blue shell, so that’s a mark against it too.
Naturally, we’ve discussed your exquisite gaming tastes before 😛
I’m sorry /o\
But yeah, my cousin liked it and I was like ‘I really don’t like this…’
Haha, well it was just the DS games that came up, not MKWii at all. Just meant that it made sense that you would continue to be rad, etc 😛
I didn’t even bother unlocking the last few characters in it, or even getting any star rankings like I did in MKDS and 7. The whole thing felt even more bad luck heavy than any of the other ones. Also, Plastic DK. Yuck.
I’d totally forgotten until last night, but a few years back I went on a trip to Brisbane with a few friends. One of the group went off to go to someone’s engagement party or something one afternoon, the rest of us started an all-cups MKWii grand prix a little before she left. Totally don’t remember the timeframe but it was still going by the time she got back. And when she did, we all hated each other, and life, and everything. I especially hated Roslalina. It was the worst thing I’ve ever done to myself.
Or we have similar tastes in games or something. I tend to like odd games too
Like disaster day of crisis
Blergh. Boss turned up this morning to spend the day auditing my shop and me.
and you’re on your phone whilst he’s there? Oh noes D=
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/lets_try_this_a_fucking_gain_02.jpg
So I thought I had come close to finishing last night and then I noticed that the 3rd panel was completely different from the first two. So, back again, adjusting and moving. However, I think now it’s finally done. Just got to test it out and see.
I can totally see you bursting into song when you finally get it just right
When she’s done she will finally be able to Let it Go.
Upvote downvote.
Side vote? I’ll take it!
Welp, car rego paid. What else can I rape my bank account with now.
http://www.toysrus.com/buy/ride-ons/super-mario-kart-ride-on-vehicle-70051-30884326
No rego, no insurance, no fuel.
You make a persuasive argument, Freeze.
I could totally fit in that.
I could probably wear them as shoes
I don’t have an xbox one yet…
Good, I shall keep you safe from the horrors by not purchasing you one 😛
So today I brought a Fitbit Flex in the quest to be healthier..I then ate a large chips and gravy, 5 onion rings, a dimsim and half a potato cake. FITNESS! \o/
Keeping with the tradition of putting an absurd amount of effort when not needed, observe my review of a movie poster for English. I’m supposed to talk about the poster’s use of colour, composition and target demographic.
The speech is meant to last five minutes, and I timed myself in a 9 minutes and twenty-two seconds. There isn’t really anything in my speech that I am willing to cut, so I hope my class is prepared. Sometimes I wonder why I’m in the stage 1 English class.
Yay ego boost! I don’t get these very often. Now to play Dark Souls and crush that ego into the ground.
If the assignment says 5 minutes, I’d do 5 minutes.
Brevity is wit, man.
I agree.
I think the usual standard is 10% leniency either way of the limit, so going close to 100% over the time limit is more likely to get you marked down, or even cut off entirely at the 5 minute mark. It’s better to be as close to 5 minutes as possible.
@phlanispo, yeah this is sensible advice, if not for now then at least for uni. At my uni they did do the +/-10% thing, marking down the more you deviate from the word target regardless of how good the content is.
As someone who marked assignments for a while, it did get a bit annoying when people had just decided to add an extra half of the word limit. Then again I was usually feeling generous when it came to content and if it was good, I let the extra length slide (I seem to have double entendre disease again) but I did remind them they went over the limit.
When it comes to presentations, it’s important to be able to stick to a time limit even if only for scheduling and there is a lot of value placed on clarity & efficiency of communication to the point where the presentation content may not matter. This may well be one of those cases, you’re doing an artistic presentation for an English class so chances are you’re being graded a lot less on thoroughness of content and more on presentation of information. One of the things they taught me in uni level creative writing was that you have to learn to be ruthless, especially with your favourite bits, if it doesn’t essentially contribute to the story you should cut it. It can be hard to cut your favourite line from a script or story but when it’s not helping the story it’s just fluff, there’s sometimes room for them if they don’t feel like padding but you’ve got to finish the story first and see if there’s space for it at the end of the process.
Also, in some speech things, such as debating, the adjucator will not take anything you say into account after a certain point – so if the limit’s 5 minutes 30 (Debating usually has an extra half a minute stuck on for some reason), and you speak for 9 minutes, anything past the 5:30 mark will not be counted.
Cool Hand Luke was on again last night. Such a great film that gives me the feels. Every time.
Nnnggghh….
Would it be better to get a boxed copy of Wolfenstein from JB, or get it from Green Man Gaming instead?
To clarify:
GMG would get me a digital download of the game, access to the Doom 4 beta, and a copy of Return to Castle Wolfenstein for US$60.
JB would get me a boxed copy of the game and access to the DOOM 4 beta for AU$74.
Digital revolution.
Viva la revolution! \o/
Depends on whether you want the extra game or a physical copy. Usually I’d go for a physical copy but digital is generally cheaper and I don’t have to leave the house :P.
Digital revolution.
Snap.
Pokemon.
How do you get a Pikachu on a bus?
poke him on
Jimu combo breaker 🙁
Well I was going to say “tell him to get on the bus”, but that works too.
You can buy online from JB, I don’t see the issue here..
It’s mainly a price thing but also convenience to an extent.
The price difference is only $14 in Crazy’s case, but Dark Souls II cost me around $40 from GMG whereas a physical retail release is $80. I was also able to pre-load it a few days before its release and got more pre-order bonuses than the retail release would’ve got me. Most physical copies on PC are kinda pointless to me too since the games are tied to other accounts anyway (Steamworks, Uplay etc.) so there’s really no reason for me to go physical over digital in some cases.
JB version didn’t have a copy of Return to Castle Wolfenstein with the game.
:3
I like boxes because I’m a grumpy old man who can’t let go of the past.
Digital Whippersnappers.
Ugh
Htu
Ikr
Dpl
gnr
Yay! I finally caught up to the front page on TAY! Now begins the waiting game!
Eh, the waiting game has terrible graphics, the gameplay is bland, and don’t get me started on the loading times…
That ‘s because you need to use this mod to make it look better, and this one to make it more fun. As for the loading times, I would suggest upgrading your processor.
It’s just really poorly optimised.
Here, have a new post to catch up on.
I have several tabs open for several universities and seriously considering a Bachelor of Science.
Also freaking out and trying to talk myself out of it :/
Do it! What are you planning on studying?
I’m looking at humanities/arts myself. Because I need useless skills, or something.
That’s how the joke goes, right?
Zoology looks extremely interesting and something I’d like but probably Chemistry or Computational Science and Mathematics since they suit how my brain works better.
Neeeeeerd.
Go into politics, you can’t possibly do worse than the current lot. At least without running on an “exterminate the jew rat menace” platform and even then it may well be a tie depending on the rest of your policies.
He’s too honest & nice to be a scummy politician.
Better get to it before 2016, when something as simple as a Nursing degree which currently costs $18,000 (at Griffith I assume, since that’s where my friend in Nursing got hers) will be around $90,000 :/ That’s Bond Uni prices right there..
Say what? 5 times more expensive? Please tell me that you were exaggerating.
Well if my friend was serious sadly no :/ She also mentioned a $26,000 engineering degree would end up being around $106,000 & on average it would take 43 years to pay off HECS with interest than the current 10 years it apparently takes. She did link a source which referenced a bunch of pollies or the like, but I didn’t venture that far,
Maybe you can get a job at the CSIRO!
…
… too soon? 🙁
I could always work at Abbott’s new School for Science.
I don’t believe it, since he would never have anything with the word science tacked on it..
Their chief weapon is surprise!
That’s awesome, man. I think you should do it!
I used to like the tank level in Star Fox 🙁
Do a barrel roll!
I certainly did 😉
Macbeth? Or Titania?
Nobody likes Titania. But The Forever Train is Forever Awesome.
Yeah Macbeth, I used to like it 🙁
Booooooo!
Does anyone want to buy any of my stuff?
I have a barely played Xenoblade.
Funds will be deposited into the getjimuaps4 fund
@sughly @dc @miketarno – PLAY XENOBLADE
___
I dunno if you’re looking for a new TV but Sony has a promotion where if you buy a certain one, you’ll get a free PS4!
I think he’d rather spend $500 on a console than $2000 on a TV :/
can you get staff discount?
Not on hardware sadly, only games & pre owned.. I so wish it was on hardware I may have bought an Xbone by now lol..
That is a nuts plan!
Dick Smith regularly have 10-12% off sales so PS4s are like $483 delivered from them (got one on right now).
that plan makes far more sense!
@virus__ @sughly @dc
I bought the Sony W800A and it was arguably the best gaming TV around. Not sure what the prices are like now, but at the end of last year they were $850 odd for the 42″. I assume it’s the 55″ that must come with the PS4.
Get a separate TV/PS4 I reckon, unless you’re dead set on that particular TV and it’s worth the price.
I quite like my tv (which is a Sony Bravia anyhoo), but thanks anyway guys ^^
I think Sony TV’s are great for the PlayStation, I picked up a 40 inch R45 Bravia, and it’s great for gaming. Was about 750 RRP but got it for a little over 500, thanks to the boxing day sales!
My previous TV, a TCL, whilst an awesome panel, it just didn’t cut it, where as the Sony is great.
Indeed. Best game mode too apparently. Lowest input lag of the lot from Sony sets.
Solution: pre order Watch Dogs at EB, enter their comp to win either a PS4, PS Vita or a Toyota 86!
If I cancel the pre-order will I remain in the comp?
I was wondering that myself.. I would like to think so, but I some how doubt it 🙁
You’re expecting Xenoblade to pay off your PS4? Got anything else?
all sorts
Any good sorts?
Yes!
Let’s see…
Xenoblade Wii
Tales of Graces F Day 1 edition PS3
The Witcher 2 Enhanced (in a slip with a crap book) 360
Persona 4 Arena PS3
New Super Mario Bros 2 3DS
Tekken 3d 3DS
Tales of Abyss 3DS
Sonic Racing Transformed PS3 (used the free dlc code)
Gravity Rush Vita
Virtua Tennis Vita (In an Uncharted Golden Abyss case)
Then, lots of comics if anyone’s interested
Didn’t you try to give the comics away for free at one point? Are any of those fine to read standalone, or from this list http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/05/talk-amongst-yourselves-276/comment-page-10/#comment-2634968 (any of the suggested ones)? I may be interested then!
I’m not a huge 2D Mario fan but I guess I could buy/play NSMB2 if the price is right and you can’t find another seller 🙂
Dammit I was going to say nearly the exact same thing 😛
You’re probably more likely to play it though! @jimu give this Taco a deal!
@greenius My backlog says otherwise!
…although I guess I am at backlog zero for 3DS.
I’m still playing Layon vs. PW but I’ve got Layton 5 and 6, AA5, Star Fox, Shinobi(? although kinda can’t be bothered :P), Mario & WeeGee, Virtue’s Last Reward, Crimson Shroud and LEGO Harry Potter (which was a freebie and I’ll probably never play…)
And that’s only on 3DS!
@greenius I haven’t bought Dream Team or Virtue’s Last Reward… feel like I should play their predecessors first >_>
But I still need to finish Partners in Time before I can even start Bowser’s Inside Story 😛
I started all the Mario and WeeGee games but never finished’em 😛 (naughty copies on emulators)
I haven’t finished 999 either 😀
(finish Xenoblade pls)
Have yet to play Xenoblade, am interested in this fund? Maybe we can come to an agreement.
Sure, sure!
You’re the best ;D
Hmm does any one know if it’s okay to wear steel capped boots on a flight or would security say no at the bag check/metal detector part…?
Generally they’re a pain. You can actually buy “Airport Safe” boots with hard plastic caps in them.
Bleh, sounds like it isn’t worth it. I’ll just stick them in my checked luggage then. Cheers dude.
I have done so before, have to put them through the thingo with the rest of the metal stuff but they did not have a problem with it.
Hmm, cheers!
Scanners work by total metal content – I used to have boots with a steel rod in the soles. After a few trips I worked out that I only had to take one off to avoid setting off the scanner.
Half the security guys knew exactly what I was doing, the other half would just stare at me like I was a crazy person when I walked through security with one boot on.
Hahaha, clever.
I just realised that a someone I went to school with (a mate I guess) totally looks like Michael Cera but with blonde hair…
Tell the dog to go to bed, so she goes to mum & dad’s room, proceed to tell her to go to bed, then she goes to my room and sits on my bed.. It’s a bit like that episode of The Simpsons where Lisa babysits Bart and she tells him to go to bed and he’s all “You never said WHICH bed” damn dog out smarted me..
You need to point at the bed too. =P
But that wasn’t in view. She usually does when I tell her it’s bed time 😛
Ran out of Cracked after Hours to watch 🙁
DARK SOULS TWO IN PURSUIT OF ALL ACHIEVEMENTS UPDATE AGAIN
Amana and Undead Crypt in NG+ have been defeated. I never need to return to these places ever again, unless I decide I want to engage in some jolly co-op or farm some boss souls or something.
Now all that’s left is the Aldia’s Keep/Aerie sections, and then on to the fun of the giants’ memories, and then the final boss. Then off to NG++ to gather Soul Memory for unlocking Drangleic.
Getting closer!
Which cheevos do you have left? I was considering it but when I realised I had to get to NG++ (I think?) just to buy two spells, I gave up :P.
It probably wouldn’t have been too bad if I stuck to my original character rather than making a new one for my second playthrough.
Trophy/Achievement whoring \o/!
JUST THE NG++ ACHIEVEMENTS.
PS: It’s three spells, not two. #MAKESALLTHEDIFFERENCE
In other news, I just unlocked NG++
All I have to do now is grind 3 million souls (most of which will come from the boss souls I have stored in my inventory, and get to Drangleic. The end is within reach.
Feeling a lot better about the interview after having talked with my friend now.
Also a little tipsy.
I forgot how awesome The Simpsons Hit and Run soundtrack was. Never again.
The comments are reminding me of the great quotes the game had.
“Breaker-Breaker! This is Bart Simpson requesting one pimp-ride, ASAP.”
“This is a sad day for generic characters everywhere.”
“If you give me a ride, I’ll pay you a million dollars in the next life I promise.”
“Ohhh, I hope ‘Do Not Press’ means ‘Press Right Away’…”
“If you’re so smart, how come I broke you?”
Aww man, I forgot Radical Entertainment was shut down a few years back.
I was quite a fan of Simpsons Road Rage. Had a whooooooole load of fun with that. Especially multiplayer, it got pretty intense at times.
This one is special.
“I’m a lean mean, speed thingy!”
“Almost done! Now where did I leave Rod’s stupid inhaler…DUH! On top of the Duff truck!”
“Outta my way! Every second may be my last!”
Got back into Tales of Xillia. Took me a while to remember how to play, haven’t touched it since mid-August last year. I should probably finish it.
After taking a break from it, I came back 2 months later and put it on easy and mashed all the buttons.
And then I won!
That story is weird.
Why does every JRPG go crazy towards the end? 🙁
Really considering firing up a game to play on my TV,,, but it’s nearly 2am,,,
I think bed would be a better option.
Goodnight.
I’m babbysitting and and oh my god I am so clucky right now babbies are amazing.
Babysitting at 2am?
Baby woke up for a feed.
I could go for a feed. Prolly gonna be street food off a bike or KFC.
For some reason, this drums up images in my brain, of you stressed out, rocking in a chair, trying to breast feed the baby. “Shhhhh why wont you calm down? This is how feeding time works right?!”
It does lose its novelty 3am every night for six months straight. Worth it though! 😀
6 months straight? And only at 3am? Wow. I wish I’d been that lucky. My youngest was every 2 hours for almost 2 years. And Mr. Strange used to pretend to be super asleep so it was always me. I still haven’t caught up on that sleep deficit. 😛
Yes we were very lucky with Josh it seems. He fell into a routine pretty quickly, he’s fourteen months now, goes down about 8pm and sleeps through to 6 or 7am.
Must stop reading things. Also browsing eBay.
Read as *must stop reading minds*
>_>
<_<
Andrew O’keefe is tearing strips off Joe Hockey. I’m loving it. =P
Always thought he was a cannibal. Finally Joey Hockey has a use, as jerky!
hockey bacon?
I think that’s an insult to bacon products 😛
After two weeks of getting 700ms and 0.03Mbps internet, I finally have reasonable internet speeds! I can finally play multiplayer games! It doesn’t take me 3 hours to watch a 45-minute YouTube video anymore! I can finally live my life!
…until it rains again.
EDIT: Woo! Two-star internet!
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/467845543691943936
If you think you can inspire jealousy, you are mistaken. The object of my envy is @benj and his 80Mbps internet.
Not jealousy. The text of it pointing out my mobile Internet is far far faster than my home Internet.
If it makes you feel any better/worse I can get up to the full 100Mbps connected directly to the router 🙂
Interesting thought though, am I the only one on here with NBN?
Dafuq? Upload speed 3 times higher than download? If it had unmetered uploads it’d be good for youtube uploads.
Just under a month before I get internet back!
\o/
…
Wait…
…
/o\
At least you’re getting it back so it could be worse…
It’s almost been 2 months since I had internet.
No Wi-Fi for three months makes Liondrive go something something…
You can’t even look up synonyms on an online thesaurus, you poor boy!
Up for some multiplayer tonight?
Sure, which game? Titanfall or Skullgirls?
I’ll go with Skullgirlfall.
I can hook my headset up! 😀
I saw this earlier, makes me wish the NBN was still going ahead as originally designed or Google would come to Australia and help us :/
So, carrot cake in the oven. Didn’t have enough walnuts, not quite enough carrots and I’m not sure the sultanas I added will work but damnit, I’ll have cake in an hour
Sounds like it’ll be great. Carrot cake is awesome. Especially with cream cheese icing. Please tell me you’re doing cream cheese icing!
Naturally, I’m not a barbarian!
It came out of the tin quite nicely and smells pretty damn good so I’m hoping it’ll be good.
I made carrot cake last night with cream cheese frosting, It was so light & moist and awesome.. 😀
DARK SOULS 2
Have made it to NG++, whenever I want it. I think I might ascetic-farm a couple of the simpler late-game bosses for a while, given I’ll never need to fight them again. Collecting boss souls now will accelerate the 3 million soul requirement for NG++ Shrine of Winter (the other option is collecting all four of the major souls, but I’d rather avoid doing that again :P).
Gur Tvnag Ybeq, sbe rknzcyr – gung thl vf penml jrnx gb yvtugavat. Be Byq Veba Xvat, orpnhfr bs gur obahf obff fbhy ur qebcf sebz AT+ bajneqf! Be Anfunaqen naq gur Guebar Qrsraqre/Jngpure gevybtl, orpnhfr gurer’f gbaarf bs fhzzbaf nebhaq gurer.
So bored…
I’ll leave this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmDkye6IwPE
Woo-get! \o/
Also I ended up buying the things from JB last night.
The @evilmonkey made me do it.
Man I love JB, I wish I worked there..
Disappointed to see that Jim Root was forced out of Stone Sour (from how things appear from statements released) a band he was a founding member of with Corey Taylor 20 something years ago :/ But more so disappointed at the fans attacking and harassing the other members on social media, I feel sorry for them having to put up with that.
Urgh. Gotta work on my second website for my web programming class. This one is significantly harder than the last one. I have to make a login system with different user levels and everything. I have a bit over a week! I don’t expect to get 95% on this one 😛 I might manage a pass.
It odd to find comfort in te frot passenger seat of a Chinese taxi only occasionally following any sort of road rules, while having the rain comming in on you and drinking terrible coffee.
I don’t know.
Do they still use their horns all the time? Beep beep beep
If you have a car horn, you can do as you wish.
Assuming they’re the same in the rest of China as they are in Beijing, they’re also comforting because they are just so damn cheap!
the comics I try to give away aren’t worth much.
I have a whole bunch Id be willing to part with for the right price.
The only reason I am, is because Ive doubled up over the years.
reply fail to @greenius
@mrtaco @brutaltoad
Name your prices, let us discuss 🙂
Xenoblade is priceless <3
Got no idea what a slightly used copy of it would be worth to be honest.
New one is 57.99 on Ozgame
Sooo, $30 without shipping?
Maybe $35 shipped to melbourne???
DONE!
Shoot me a male @ mij 69 _ 96 jim @ yahoodotcom
Dude, friggen bargain!
D:
😛
A buck!
Or. I don’t know. Defs not $69.95 😛
49.49 on Ozgame
$25 without shipping?
Welp, can’t argue with that 😛
Oh actually wait. AU or EU copy? If it’s EU then I’ll throw to @greenius, because I’m weird about things.
It’s okay, I don’t wanna pay $25 for it 🙂 (not that keen on it). I still haven’t started Super Luigi U D:
I hope I got the right game on the right person…
@greenius I have sets of single issue stories that I have rebought in HC. i have stuff you can pick up & read without knowing history.
Like I’ve said before, I’ve never read proper comics so I’d be willing to give them a try (a lot of peeps seem to like’em!). I read a couple of pages of Marvels on my phone the other day but it’s not really convenient to go digital on such a small screen, but it was pretty cool though!
I’ll have a dig, see what I have doubles of or wanna get rid of that’s new-reader friendly (or should that be new reader-friendly?) and get back to you?
Off the top of my head, I know I have the Jeph Loeb (Heroes, Teen Wolf, Commando) & Tim Sale’s :
Hulk Grey
Daredevil Yellow
Spider-Man Blue
Catwoman: When in Rome
These are all written so anyone can just pick em up and read, while at the same time, fitting somewhere in comic continuity.
Apart from story, I think the art style would be most important thing for me. If you can throw together some recommended ones maybe we can work something out? 🙂
Tim Sale is pretty rad:
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=tim+sale&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=R4d4U6e7OMefkgXNgIG4Bw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=679
I feel like you need to make a full post with all your wanted items of disposal! Could be like a fire sale.
Yep, agreed.
Need to sort the massive comic collection first though.
Left it too late this weekend.
I like greenius want to get into comics, but have no idea where to start. As someone who likes playing games from game 1 its really hard to not want to read comics from the start.
Depends on the comics, with super hero stuff, you can just read the origin and then pick and choose from there. It would be pointless to read all of Spider-Man’s comics from the 60s until now.
You could though, read Ultimate Spider-Man from issue one, that was originally a reimagining of the story in a contemporary setting. Now it’s totally different though.
You’re best off just grabbing some of the classic, well thought of stories from whoever it is you like.
Really digging Assassin’s Creed IV.. Mostly because Pirates are awesome, and it’s set in some really beautiful tropical places.
@strange @freeze (or @freezespreston?) and @dkzeitgeist – I have copies of Metro 7 for you. I also have a car for the next two days to use – would it be cool for me to drop Metro 7 off at your addresses as per the Kickstarter campaign? It’ll be cheaper for me to drive them around the place than post then through Auspost 😛
Sure. I’ll usually be home between 10am and 2pm, and then from 4pm onwards. 🙂
(Edit: I say when I’ll be home, not to make you feel pressured to come in, just because I don’t like leaving special things in the mailbox/outside the front door for too long.)
(Edit edit: Not that you’re not welcome to come in…. 😀 )
Also…*hugasaurus rex*
Awesome! I don’t plan on being up before 10am tomorrow anyway. I need to catch up on sleep.
I’ve nearly finished the book. Short review: very much digging it. \o/
PS: Hope you’re doing okay right now, man.
Coping. Thanks man.
So, Wolfenstein unlocks in 36 hours…
I’m so sick of waiting…
Sigh. Anyone here follow Polaris? You’ll most likely have heard about the Guns of Icarus Online Battle Royale. Last year, 8 youtubers (Jesse Cox, Dodger, Markiplier, Cry, TotalBiscuit, AngryJoe, PeanutButterGamer, and Criken) from TGS (Now Polaris Network) fought a series of multiplayer matches in Guns of Icarus. There were two teams, each with their own voice groups. In a video from Jesse Cox’s team you would only hear the voices of Jesse’s team, and vice versa for TotalBiscuit’s team.
Each youtuber uploaded their own unedited gameplay footage. This meant you would watch a match from TotalBiscuit’s perspective, and rewatch the same match from Jesse Cox’s team’s perspective. Despite being the same match, the videos were completely different.
Then, a year later, Polaris announced that there would be another Guns of Icarus Battle Royale. I was pretty hyped. I even watched 50 minutes of the teams selecting their loadouts, it was really interesting stuff.
However, the Battle Royale video I got was not the unedited videos of the past. Instead, the video we got was hyper-edited. All the footage and audio from both teams was smooshed together, and it only showed the battles. Because the video randomly switched between both teams, the video was impossible for me to follow. Because of the editing, there was no banter. Considering that people came to see the personalites interact with each other, the video was a real letdown.
I only got 9 minutes into the video before I had to turn it off. I checked to see the comments, to see whether people agreed with me. Apparently, one of the youtubers had messed up their audio, so videos for each youtuber was out of the question. TotalBiscuit himself took to the comments to defend the video. He claimed that this format was better, as it was constant non-stop action, and was shorter to watch. Ignoring the fact that TotalBiscuit has built his entire career on long-form, unedited content, the comments were really bizarre.
I’m more disappointed than anything. I do not like the format, and I think the best way to let Polaris know is to dislike the video. I never dislike videos.
I think I’ll rewatch the old Battle Royale later to wash the bad taste out of my mouth.
TB loves talking numbers in his VLOGs, and he’s often pointed out that his career has been built on watching the numbers to tweak the formula based on what gets a stronger response.
I haven’t watched the latest GoI video, but I know in the past that there’s been the kind of hyper edit version you describe, as well as individual personalities putting up their feeds of the event. Any argument of ‘better’ would likely stem from a much stronger response in viewer numbers to that edited version.
Thanks for the reminder – I’ll have a look at the latest one some time this week.
Okay, I’m off to bed.
Goodnight, all of you. 🙂
Turns out I stopped playing Tales of Xillia right when it was about to get interesting. Gotten a bit further in and just past what I assume is the mid-game twist.
Strangely, the dub isn’t annoying me that much any more. Aside from some of the side characters pausing their… sentences… in awkward… spots sometimes which is probably because they’re mainly terribad anime dub people. Still wish it was dual audio but too late for that now and it seems like Namco heard the message on that finally as well, since Tales of Zesty will be dual audio (I wonder about Tales of Hearts?)
Anyway I was initially just looking to have something to play until Transistor releases on the 21st but I don’t think that’ll be enough time to polish this off since it is a JRPG after all, I’ve probably got another 20-30 hours to go. Since I already shelved it once for some stupid reason (I don’t even remember why I stopped playing aside from that it started really slow and I wasn’t really feeling it at the time – strangely I was straight into it when I restarted) I think I should probably aim to finish it off before starting anything new.
If you’re talking about a big crazy twist then you don’t have too long left. I’m not sure what your play time is now but I think I finished the whole game (with a few side quests) at around 37 hours. I think the twist was 3/5 of the way?
I’m at 30 hours so maybe I don’t have that far to go.
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Maybe more 10 hours? Definitely not 30 though.
I was getting a bit tired of it towards the end and tried to avoid sidequests/battles which probably made it a bit quicker for me.
So I’ve got maybe 10-12 hours depending on sidequests then. As far as I know Xillia doesn’t really have a huge amount of sidequests anyway, it was rushed to get it out for Tales 15th Anniversary.
I ended up getting so annoyed with Milla’s terrible costume that accentuates her distractingly tiny waist that looks too thin to stop her snapping in half in a stiff breeze, so I picked up the Dhaos costume with the big cape and everything. And now she randomly spouts his lines at the end of combat which is kind of cool but since no one got to play Phantasia I bet it’s lost on people 🙁
I realize I’m late to the party…. but how do I translate gibberish into words?!?!?
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Just fired up Conduit 2 to do a quick Friend Code exchange to put my profile in for transfer to the WFC replacement servers, then figured hey let’s see what happens if I search for a match.
Lo and behold, I got thrown in a match with seven other players. And got slaughtered, could barely remember how to play the game 😛 Still had loads of fun though. Walking was much slower than I remember.
Excuse the interruption.
My first child was born this morning at 5am and both mum and daughter, Maya Rose, are doing great. Yay me!
Carry on.
Wow, that’s a pretty awesome way to interrupt.
Congratulations, dude!