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Heyo
BENNY!
And without ANY of the Jets!
One jet.
B-B-B-Benny. Benny. Benny Benny Benny and the piiiiiixelated spaceshiiiiiip.
Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
Hiyo.
Good Morning TAY!
edit: I was looking at getting this https://www.humblebundle.com/
It is an extra 50 cents at the moment to get a 3 pack as well as the game, so I was wondering if any one would want any of the 3 pack?
Morning new Xeno-buddy! You gotta let us know what you think about the game 😀 (only good thoughts though >:( :P)
But be honest in your thoughts! Tell us your full experience: both the good AND the very good!
Mandatory Monday viewing.
(Not really, but check it out if you want. My latest book trailer, for my latest book.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiPtW77vNl4
Also, there’s some news of a new baby in last week’s TAY (congrats to @andy)
Congrats @andy ! He likes Xenoblade so he’s pretty cool.
Oh of course I posted it into last weeks TAY. Yeah 5am this morning beautiful Maya Rose came into the world screaming her little lungs out. First time parent \o/
Congrats and best wishes to all involved.
I’m coming up to 2 months from the due date so really focused on this sort of news
Way to go, Andy! 🙂
Love your art style, great atmosphere!
Impressive trailer man.
So you found another publisher rather than self-publish?
I might be the sole owner and proprietor of Deeper Meanings Publishing.
cufcfan616 is one happy chappy today because CUFC have done him proud and won the playoff finals. Back into the football league we go XD
Alas, this has come at a price. I picked up my missus’ trousers before heading off for work and have to sit at work in my workout gear instead. I regret nothing
I don’t know, that cut of pants could really highlight your assets
Morning all!
I’ve fallen back down the Monster Hunter rabbit hole. Makes the train trip go really fast at least.
MH4U is gonna be soooo good!
Launching will be beneficial! No underwater!
Probably still 12 months away…
Ugh, Underwater Battles…(ius?)
By the way Bargainius, any good way to get another copy of MH3U on 3DS at the moment? I’m not the only one playing in our house now 🙂
hmm not that I know of, but it’s frequently been in 3DS free game promotions and I think there was a recent sale on the eShop version (so that could happen again). But if you’re playing at home couldn’t you do Wii U and 3DS co-op play?
We have been, and it’s workable for the time being. Given that 2x MH4 is inevitable, that’s encouraged a second MH3 copy for when we travel, etc.
Especially how initially it was all Wii U for her until Sunday, when she switched to 3DS while I was derping around online. A second copy will make the save sync thing a lot less fiddly, and remove the risk of one getting wiped (which nearly happened first time we tried)
Edit: plus, we could both visit and co-op with others if we both had it on 3DS.
I’ll be sure to let you know if I see any deals 🙂
Thank you!
We should hunt sometime too, now that I’m somewhere remotely close to your level. (Only low G rank at this stage) – made the full brachy armour set on the weekend and got to level 7.
Sure, if I remember how to play :P. I’m still tempted just to pass HR7 so I can see what HR rank I end up at (if I recall it jumps after 7 depending on how many quests you’ve completed)
Finished Dark Souls 2 on Saturday. Now I never have to play that game again.
Went back to Dark Souls 1 instead and finished the DLC portion.
I should do the DLC at some stage, but I only have it on PC while I’ve got 2 characters on PS3.
I lost my PS3 completed save file when I had to replace a broken console (and didn’t have PS+ to back it up) then rebought the game on PC with the DLC and only played the main game up until the DLC area unlocked.
I still need to finish the full game on PC but knowing my luck when GFWL shuts down soon the game will be shifted to Steamworks or something and I’ll lose my save file again.
I realised I don’t care if I ever finish or play Dark Souls 2 again, so next time I have time to play a game I’m going back to Dark Souls to try and finish that instead.
In light of this morning’s YouTube buys Twitch announcement, it’s got me thinking about the timings – all major announcements seem to be in the morning for us – this and Facebook buying Oculus at 0830, Microsoft dropping always online requirement around 0630-0700, Diablo 3 dropping RMAH around 0700 (from memory).
Interesting that news for the end of the day in the US turns into interesting starts to the day over here.
It’s probably so the US stock market doesn’t have a knee-jerk reaction. Instead, they have a whole night to sleep on it, which will dull out any ‘waves’..
Figured it’d be something like that. I’m not complaining how the timing works out for us – interesting news to start the day.
On the bright side.. maybe now they’ll fix the shitty Twitch VODs 😛
Fix them up real good with copyright content matching?
More just the horrible buffering time… but yeah not looking forward to that bit though.
And all those companies you mentioned are based in California too, which makes it early to mid afternoon there, kinda makes sense I guess.
Good morning everyone!
I’ve been making an isometric adventure game for about a year now, here’s some screenshots of the environments so far: http://imgur.com/a/5FZ0v
Blog is : http://lucernalgames.tumblr.com/
I’d love to know what you think!
Oh wow, beautiful stuff man. I love isometric games, but I love isometric adventure games even more. This is awesome. Keep us posted on the game. Screenshots are so pretty. Haven’t played a great isometric adventure game since Sanitarium but now there’s this and Stasis on the way!
Indeed. WE NEED MORE ISOMETRIC GAMES! 😀
I love the look of the lighting in the environment, well done human!
Wow, just assuming they’re human. How rude! 😛
Very anthrocentric.
Pretty much… for now anyway 😉
How about “Well done Turing test capable sentience of no specific classification pending further data”
HAHAHA well played
Assumes sentience. Fails.
Whoa! Very nice 😀
That looks very cool. How far along are you, if you don’t mind me asking? Also what sort of vibe are you going for with it? I could imagine that outdoor shot appearing in a Noir-ish game (though it would probably need more rain), the school one reminds me of Corpse Party and the piano room I’m not sure.
I’ve been at it for about a year and it’s gaining momentum but I’m still pretty early on really.
I’m going for a Noir-ish feel, I’m making story, exploration and atmosphere the main focus – there’ll be no combat so I’m hoping to nail those areas. There’s a mystery that needs solving that’ll be at the centre of the story.
Sounds right up my alley. Keep the updates coming!
Oooooh, this is real purdy. The atmosphere is amazing.
I like the styling and crispness of the environment! If you don’t mind me asking, how have you been making the arts? Is it all 2d stuff, or 3d, then rendered out? What have you been using to do it?
Thanks! I model it all in Sketchup and 3DS Max and render in vray. So all the backgrounds will be 2D but the characters will be 3D. I’m using depth masks to give the illusion of 3D space – for instance if you walk behind a chair it looks like the character is behind it.
Max ftw! I’m a max user myself! All looking pretty spiffy!
How about that gojira? anyone seen it yet?
trying to spoiler something but IT WONT WORK
I think spoiler tags have been broken for a while but we’ve just been using http://rot13.com/
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Heh, sorry! I haven’t seen the movie so I can’t discuss it, but just thought I’d share the rot13 goodness!
That bit was pretty funny.
Personally:
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Fb: Jbhyq frr ntnva? Znlor ba QIQ. Erpbzzraq sbe bguref? Znlor sbe snaf bs gur bevtvanyf.
Pbapyhfvba: Nalguvat vf orggre guna Ebynaq Rzzrevpu’f irefvba :C
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Was about to say the only Gojira I know of is a metal band from France… Then I realised you were talking about Godzilla, heh.
from mars to sirius is still one of me fave metal albums tbh
@elranadiablo: You’ve mentioned adventure games, now you’ve got to tell me your favourites! 😀
you’ll be saddenned to know i just sold off a bunch more…
Why do you hurt me so?
Grim Fandango would be my all-time favourite, but I grew up playing King’s Quest and Police Quest pretty solidly! Especially King’s Quest 3.
Gabriel Knight, Laura Bow, Monkey Island, Broken Sword, the Dig – the list goes on…
Now let’s hear yours 🙂
Dude! We’re pals now! The best of pals!
Gabriel Knight is easily my favourite adventure game of all time. Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Game is my personal favourite but I can see that Sins of the Fathers has aged a lot better. 🙂 Full Throttle. Tex: Murphy: The Pandora Directive. Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars. Day of the Tentacle. Heavy Rain. Grim Fandango. The Longest Journey.
I’ve got a very special place in my heart for Laura Bow too. I love those games so much.
I was more of a Space Quest fan over King’s Quest but I loved me some Police Quest too.
As for newer adventure games I really loved Night of the Rabbit.
That’s the first I’ve heard of Night of the Rabbit – it looks amazing! I’ll get to playing that some time this week I think.
Don’t know how I forgot to mention Day of the Tentacle, or numerous other LucasArts games for that matter. I loved the Indiana Jones games very much.
More recently I played the first half of the new Broken Sword which didn’t impress me greatly, I’m hoping it picks up though. Broken Age is also pretty good but I get a little frustrated with games getting released in installments. Once I lose momentum in a game I struggle to go back to it!
I thought Broken Age was split into half a lot better than Broken Sword though. There’s atleast a self-contained story there where Broken Sword just leaves you wanting more. (And not in the satisfying way.) Haven’t gotten around to part two yet, like you said though — that sense of momentum has been lost. 🙁
Most of the puzzles weren’t overly gratifying. The cockroach? Renaming that guy’s shop? Felt like they were really struggling for ideas.
Morning folks!
So in case anyone is interested, or has been following the Kotaku articles on Death Cargo, I can confirm its real.
This is footage I captured myself over the weekend from a version that was sitting on an old HDD that was laying around, left behind by a friend of mine who has permanently moved overseas.
https://mega.co.nz/#!m9Ym2ZIJ!706azRG9zXprb1DwpZADCt8YWsV8zu4ao-YbnnEuBMI
Its a very old alpha/beta from 2012 which looks like it is a character test for “Leech”. The game goes literally from the start screen straight into the fight then back to the start screen.
If they sorted out the bullshit activation system, id probably consider grabbing it as it has that old school Mortal Kombat/Killer Instinct feel.
@weresmurf
Interesting. However, the problem at this point I believe, is not so much is the initial beta real as much as ‘is the finished version real’ as they claim. Claims of ‘the server is causing the compressed files to miss files so you cannot get background files, moves etc’ reeks of BS to me. Their authentication process is simply unheard of. 5 days for *what* exactly? A code? Then there’s the way they’re treating legitimate customers which is simply the worst any company ever has. They do themselves no favours. There’s no defending these assclowns in any way, shape or form. I mean they were threatening facebook posters *and* Kotaku with jail when I was reading their facebook site over the weekend lmfao. Not that they’d be able to do that, but it was hilarious reading it nonetheless.
I think it is more of a case of “worst game launch ever”. The five day activation system i believe has more to do with sending request codes from one timezone, and getting a delayed response from the other. It seems that they are generating all the activation codes manually for every user, which is unheard off. The beta i have at least proves that they have the resources and ability to pool this off. Apparently one of the guys that worked on fatalities for MK9 was hired to make some really gory finishing moves… I wonder if he has commented on the game at all…
It’s got to be the worst situation for a game ever. If you check out what’s been happening from the company alone on their FB, they deserve for this game to fail *hard* based on that alone. People have been quite reasonable on the FB page with their comments, only to have PR people and staff scream and rant at them for literally no reason. It’s disgusting beyond belief. It makes me feel like it’s a game entirely developed by 4chan.
What have you got against Katawa Shoujo 🙁
Are you dissing Katawa Shoujo? >:(
My waifu will hear about this!
Not really, no idea wtf that is lol. More likely to the point is the stirring pot of abhorrent behaviour and lowlife scum that 4chan breeds that this company is pretty much reflecting lol.
Oh dear. You seem to have unleashed the knowledge demon. Prepare for a 500-word essay about how Katawa Shoujo is the best thing ever.
@Phlanispo I write 2-3000 essays regularly and grade others. lol. Have at it and I’ll grade it 😛
Hai.
Weekend plans went to poop – rain again meant we’re on 5+months waiting to go mountain biking… Luckily we had lots of work to do and backups, so not all bad.
Also I finally have the Swift Sail in WW lol. Wii U tells me I have 20+hrs in it, but that counts idle time I think.
So last Friday I emailed my mom and got an auto-reply saying that she’s not at work. With one of those typical ‘if the matter is urgent, please contact blah’.
So I emailed ‘blah’ with my typical humorous emails, which told a tale of how I had to undertake the treacherous journey from the train station to my home. Where there’s been reports of stabbings, assaults and… fire breathing dragons.
Unbeknownst to me, that lady turned out to be my mom’s arch nemesis at work. So I get an angry phone call from my mom this morning asking why the fuck I emailed that lady because she’s gone around telling people about the ‘bizarre’ email she got.
I feel so bad now. But at the same time, stunned that some people just don’t have a sense of humour. And office politics… Jesus, forgot all about that because I don’t personally work with dickheads.
But what do I do now? Send flowers?
I’m such a bad child. 🙁
Hearing about office politics from my mum makes me think that women of a certain age and generation cannot be in the same room as each other without stupid drama like this. XD
You’re okay, Mikey. Don’t change your humourous e-mails.
That certain age would be from 0-200.
#Sexist
…it’s not confined to women.
You and @shane are on the List now. 😛
I’m pretty sure I was on that list already. But now I can have underlines! UNDERLINES!
I think we all know I’m too lazy to even bother with underlines. Stabbing with a pen takes way less effort and is way more satisfying. 😛
But if you use a pen to stab him it will probably break and then how will you write your shopping list (which is an essential part of your duties as a woman)? /joke
See! ALL THE DRAMA!
😛
Yeah, totes not confined to women.
I work in an engineering consultant firm (ie. mostly males) and the amount of politics you play is boggling. If you’re a nice guy (which some are not), when things hit the fan, you have to be able to cover your own arse, without throwing someone else under the bus. Or having to deal with someone trying to pin the blame on you. That stuff is stressful. But it’s also business.
Send a charred foot.
There’s just no pleasing some people. Forget flowers, keep your head down, grow a beard, change your name, move to the wastelands of Alaska. Or, y’know, just do the first part. Actually, grow a beard as well. No harm in doing so.
Done! The beard sounds like a great solution.
I’m sure it was funny, but I actually can’t see a way that it’d go down well. :\ Unless you personally knew the ’emergency contact’.
I’ve sent a stack of these sorts of emails to people in the past and nobody ever complained. They always thought it was funny and quirky. I think the issue was more who the person was and their relationship with mom. Anyone else in that place would have found it funny.
Apparently this lady is a real bitch.
No doubt she is, but that’s the risk you always take with something like this. 😛
Send another email to the same place saying the courts have ordered you back to rehab and your teen sister is having another abortion and your mum has to pick her up from the clinic tonight. Also that 14 year old Thai girl your dad left you guys for is too old now so he got a new girl.
That should clear up matters.
Hahaha, oh man I’m so tempted to do that… but that’ll only piss my mom off even more.
You could always try romancing your mum’s arch, that’d be a good story twist. At first it’ll look like you’ve betrayed your own mother but then right at a crucial moment, bam, turn around and stab the arch in the back! Then you and your mum can stand over her laughing how this was your plan all along.
Pot twist: He genuinely falls in love… :O
Freeze you’re my new favourite TAY person!
Send porn. Send much porn. Much disgusting, degrading dirty as hell porn.
I’m going to do what @freezespreston said. 😀
How did that work out, anyway? Week in review, as it were.
Well, mom and I are besties again. I called her up and the conversation went like this (near verbatim):
Me: “So how long are you going to stay mad at me for?”
Her: “I don’t know.”
Me: “I need a time frame please.”
Her: “OK, fine, this evening.”
… later that evening
Me: “Are you still mad at me?”
Her: “Yes.”
Me: “But you said you were going to stop being mad at me this evening.”
Her: “Oh yeah, I guess in that case I’m not mad at you any more.”
I think the fact that everyone in her office found the email amusing helped a lot. And maybe in a weird twist, it made it less tense between her and that lady. Main thing is her and I are back to normal.
Morning, TAY!
My weekend was super eventful. I definitely have fun weekends, yup. Oh, so many things to talk about. Where to begin?
I… er… I managed to buy some cauliflower at the third shop I tried? That’s interesting, right?
…carry on.
Did you roast the cauliflower? I did that for the first time the other week (with some garlic, olive oil, smoked paprika and salt) and my kids actually loved it. So I roasted broccoli next time and they loved that too. \o/
I made cauliflower and bacon soup in the slow cooker! Not the best, but not the worst 😛 (I think I put too much bacon in it)
I’ve got some leftover so I’ll roast it tonight maybe!
Too much… bacon…?
I don’t think I understand the sentence.
These words… I’m an english teacher now and I can confirm that:
Too…. much…. bacon.
Are words that make no sense when combined. These are not words that can be used in the english language!!!
Woo kids! I never understood the whole “everyone hates broccoli” stereotype, I’ve always loved it.
We used to have both cauliflower and broccoli baked in the oven… with three kinds of cheese? I know there was cream cheese and just the grated whatever that was in the fridge, but can’t think what the third would have been. I don’t know why we stopped having it that way, but I kinda miss it.
There used to be something about the way my Nanna did the cauliflower that was so good. No idea what it was, but it was completely unlike Mum’s and it was great.
When my Nana made it, it was a bit crunchy and I loved it. It had texture, it had taste, it was great.
Mum boils the shit out of it, its soft, slimy and gross. Ugh.
We had roast last night and because I bought her some more fresh beetroot this week, mum tried roasting one and said that turned out really nicely. Might be worth a go if you’re into disgusting stuff like that.
Never! Cauliflower is best raw!
Cauliflower is always interesting.
Expendables 3 going for PG-13 rating? C’mon son 🙁
That would translate to an M rating here. Pretty stupid seeing the other two were rated MA15+. Obviously they wanted to make it more accessible to younger people so they could make more money.
They know they have a huge untapped market in testosterone-fuelled early teens who love to see this stuff, and they’re trying to access that market before the DVD gets released. I would’ve gone ape for these films when I was thirteen (doesn’t mean I should have had access to it, though!).
Morning fellow TAYbies, how was your weekend?
Mine was pretty average, work followed by more work, had 10 minutes with The Walking Dead S1 before it froze on me and more work.
Ah, really sorry you’re having so much trouble with The Walking Dead. 🙁
I imagine it gets less fun every damn time it crashes.
Pretty much.
Like I’ve said in previous posts, I’ve already finished S1 on PS3, but because I bought S2 on 360 I want to play it again so my save (choices) carry over. Gonna give it another shot in a few minutes.
I managed to stick to my weekend plans! After my token levels of socializing on Friday and Saturday I hid myself from all forms of sunlight and got in some solid Persona 4 time =D Managed to hit level 30 so I know I’ve still got heaps more to go.
Have you thought about getting The Walking Dead on your phone or tablet? I know its not ideal but you might actually be able to play it through without any issues =\
Yeah, wanna stick with 360 (see my above post).
If worst comes to worst, I’ll just have to buy S2 again on PS3.
Watch_Dogs and Wolfenstein and Last Of Us PS4 on Xbone/PS4 is $65 at DSE, as long as you pre-order it ($75 minus a “put $10 down on pre-order, get $10 off total price”).
The risk is that DSE pulls another inFamous and reduces the official price to $65 a couple days before release, making it $55.You’re putting down $10 only, so you’re safe if price drops.Are they not obliged to pass on reduced pre-release prices to all pre-orders? That’s disappointing…
Ah yes, good point. So you’re safe to put down $10, because if price drops it’ll be lower … my mistake. 🙂
Yeah, it’s pretty sweet, and a damn sight better than EB.
Think I might go down a bit later and put a tenner on Wolfenstein for tomorrow.
Interesting… The catalogue states $65 with 10 down, but the website says 100 bucks.
http://search.dicksmith.com.au/search#w=Wolfenstein
Yep, no idea on the website. In-store it was $65.
Also DSE catalogue says Wolf releases 22nd, but website says 20th. Wtf
Interesting, didn’t notice that.
What’s happened to dickhead smiths lately, have they suffered a corporate blow to the head? Several decent deals in relatively quick succession… I’m uncertain if I should take advantage of their vulnerable condition or insist they go to a doctor.
You know how they got purchased by someone, so they aren’t owned by Woolworths group any more? I’ve spoken to some employees and done my own research, and this is my conclusion:
– DSE is doing a fuckton of ‘deals’, esp. on gaming side. It’s undercutting pretty much everyone.
– They went on the stock market end 2013, and are looking to boost share value.
– Amateurs will be pleased by a “boosted sales by xxx% since buyout!!” announcement, no matter what the net profic for that section is.
– DSE are heavily reducing staffing costs in various ways, and coming out with alternatives to generate revenue. E.g. have a massive sale on games, require in-store physical presence, perhaps make additional sales in-store from the increased traffic.
In any case, buy from them or price-match everywhere. Everyone needs a wake-up call about the price of games, and apart from DSE + BiGW + Target on selected items, no one is doing good deals.
Yeah well if I can get watch dogs on PS4 for $65, I’m damn sure going there. JB is more conveniently located but tacking $20 onto the cost of the PS4 version of a game is one of those things that does rather stick in my side (and wallet) a bit too deeply for comfort.
If only my local DSE had a games section at all these days! They replaced it with an entire wall of 42 dollar DSE branded HDMI cables, the same thing wich is 6 dollars across the way at Kmart…
Lol, damn. 🙁 I feel for you.
They do have a PS4/Xbone selection I should say, but they got rid of the PS3, 360, Wii, Wii U, 3DS & Vita stuff it appears, and them selling brand new PS4/Xbone games at 65 bucks, to me is just devaluing a product which is not favoured by the supplier or publisher, but DSE probably do it because they’re happy to take a loss and make it up on their over priced other stuff.
Saying that, I don’t like to buy from my local DSE, especially since they aren’t very nice there… Once when handing a resume in, I was told to go away and apply online like he had to.. This bloke was a manager of some sort, they’re fucking dicks.
Personally I prefer to pay a little more and buy at EB cause I love their customer service, and are happy to price match for me, I wish I could say the same about JB’s game section with service, which is only good when my mate is working in it heh.
Good morning everybody! 🙂
Hope you all had a good week!
Mine was pretty uneventful and boring, so pretty much like usual.
Highlights include throwing away near to $100 cause I am retarded and shrunk two wool tops, that I tried to but can’t fix. I’d only worn one once and the other twice, and they were really pretty :'(
I also almost finished two of my assignments, so I’m a lot less stressed then last week which is good.
I got peer pressured into watching Orange is the New Black, which is really good and you should all watch too. There was accidental flirting with both the girls working at Sanity when I bought it, simultaneously :S
I’d probably make a good straight guy if I actually noticed flirting other than in hindsight, and you know, liked girls :S
And last but not least, I went on what one could consider a date on Saturday :3
Overall I had a pretty good week. Still haven’t played much games, but I promise I will when I get the last of my assignments polished off! 😀
Hope everyone’s week is / was good!
Don’t forget I peer pressured you to get Girls too. *decisive nod*
😀
Yeah, but I haven’t watched any of it yet 😛
Looks good from the cover though! 😀
I’ll watch some tonight! 😀
Lol’d thanks for the monday morning laughs. 😀
Good stuff on the date.
Details on the date are a bit vague, was it good at least?
People often want what they know they can’t have. I mean, my frankly creepy obsession with Aisling Bea is proof of that. As are my obsessions with Josie Long and Rachel Riley…
The date was good 🙂
It was pretty relaxed, just had dinner and watched a movie really. Relaxed dates are the best kinda dates I reckon 🙂
And it’s not like girls just look at me and know I’m unavailable, hahaha! I think it’s just cause I can talk to girls without getting flustered and be natural, which comes across as flirting, and my obliviousness results in flirting back :S
I’ll admit I’m a mess at talking to guys though, haha :S
A relaxed date sounds like fun. Then again, any kind of date would be a step up for me
Google Rubik’s Cube solved! 49 minutes and almost 600 moves, though. Ugh.
12 mins and like 120 moves for me. I messed up half way and had to restart :P. I forgot the moves, so I struggled to do it on the computer and had to solve a physical one at the same time to jolt my memory.
I messed up a few times. Yeah, I used a physical one as well. Confused myself big time because I’m familiar with using a bottom-up view, not a top-down one.
Down to 170 moves in 12 minutes – success!
I tried a second time in the afternoon but gave up 😀
…this is hard to figure out. Like, controls-wise. Also I can’t seem to figure out how to get it (the whole thing) to rotate around the y-axis, which is super annoying.
Oh hey there’s a handy little Help thing.
…Swipes?
Htu.
Upvote for htu!
Ok yeah no fuck this, completely can’t remember this one move without feeling it and every god damn click sends the things the wrong direction.
Yeah thats why I stopped, if I had better controls I might well have spent a bit more time pissing about with it but it was just awful, especially on a shitty touchpad (which is something of a tautology, I know)
Works well on the mobile site on a smartphone.
Maybe but who even does that.
(Also phone screens totally hate my fingers. My friend is convinced my fingers are haunted :P)
Hola Tay
Just been in a bloody car accident. Me and the other guy are OK and all that, not much damage to either vehicle, but the money and the insurance and the… aargh.
I had a pretty quiet weekend, went on a date sat and then pretty much played GTA V on Sun.
A monday morning question: Favourite video game location to drive around in?
Aw man, hope you’re feeling okay. 🙁 Glad you’re not hurt!
I loved driving around Los Angeles in L.A. Noire! If horse counts as driving? RED DEAD REDEMPTION!
Sorry to hear about your accident, man. That stinks. Hope there’s no issue sorting out culpability for insurance purposes, because that can really hold things up.
Re MMQ:
MAFIA II
…that’s not a location, but it’s my answer.
Empire City, I think it was… maybe?
Mafia. Two.
Bugger. As long as no one got hurt, that’s the important thing. Paperwork pain is the lesser evil.
Favourite driving location would be all of grand theft horse – driving a horse in RDR.
DID SOMEONE SAY…
Damn, fingers crossed for a successful repair.
Yikes!
By “bloody” you’re just swearing and not being literal, right? Right?!
*hugasaurus*
Certainly not literal, just annoyed. Mainly at myself for hitting the guy.
Were you checking TAY while driving?
Sucks to have to go through the whole insurance claim/repair process, but at least everyone’s alright, I’m guessing that the cars are still drivable, so that’s something.
Since no one was hurt and it was your fault I will proceed to laugh at you and make some jokes:
When people first heard of the ABS, it was braking news.
Drivers who speed in the snow often find themselves adrift.
You could not pull out of your parking space, so you used your back up plan.
You couldn’t figure out how to fasten your seatbelt. Then it clicked.
You tried to learn how to drive a stick shift but couldn’t locate the manual.
Sorry to hear, Red. Hopefully you took some photos of the collision.
To post on TAY? YOU MONSTER! 😛
Haha, no – for insurance purposes of course.
MONSTER!
And for arse-covering.
WHAT A MONSTER! STOP BEING SO MONSTROUS, YOU MONSTER!
Yeah, got the photo evidence.
A date eyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?
-raises eyebrow so far that I scalp myself-
Yeah, went OK. Still working it out- think she’s into me, not sure how into her I am.
If porn has taught me anything, it’s traditionally all the way in and then most of the way out and then repeat
Instructions too vague, dick stuck in blender.
Perfect time to film the most extreme episode of “Will it blend?”
You smooth operator, you.
That’s all a histrionic copywriter needs to pad out a slow news day
Panau from Just cause 2
You drove in that game? 😛
Panau was pretty though
DARK SOULS TWO UPDATE.
Only 1.3m souls to go. In half an hour last night in the early stages of NG++, I gathered around 370,000 souls. That’s gonna increase rapidly in some of the areas further on, especially if I find some good places to co-op. This won’t be a problem.
ALL ACHIEVEMENT RUN
PRAISE THE SUN
Why are you trying to gather so many souls?
To fill the hole where his used to be 😛
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Gb bcra gur Fuevar bs Jvagre jvgubhg gur sbhe Terng Fbhyf, lbh arrq gb unir nppehrq n pregnva ahzore bs fbhyf va gung cynlguebhtu:
AT: 1z
AT+: 2z
AT++: 3z
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Holy crap! That’s an insane amount of souls in such a short time.
You are so close to getting all achievements, and I’m so far (still only up to The Lost Bastille).
Well done man, that’s an epic effort.
This is one of those games that gets faster the more you play it. My playthrough cracked 80 hours yesterday (now around 82), but the first 10-15 of those were spent in the Forest of the Giants and Heide’s Tower.
Early Monday morning RPG bombardment. This week with 40K Only War:
So it turns out we got played. A heretek who we killed weeks ago in in-game time turned out to have been manipulating things quite a lot and now we only have a short time to prepare a shattered hive city to repel a Khorne-worshipping horde of barbarians. That have managed to acquire a barely-functional Baneblade on our lovely little ruined Forge World. To make things worse, our Commisar and Psyker planted the idea numerous sessions ago among the inhabitants of this hive city that humanity are the greatest race in the galaxy and everyone else is inferior. While this is good Imperial dogma, it doesn’t really help in a situation where the city is about 50% ordinary humans and 50% mutants or Greenskins on a planet where the Imperial Guard and the Imperium itself is a minority. So in our absence from the city, there have been revolts and mass segregation and the ruler of this city, a Rogue Trader who crashed on the planet, is mightily pissed by our group now and is obstructing our attempts to prepare a defence. Meanwhile we recovered scraps of intelligence from the data files of the heretek which indicated a number of traitors in the city who plan to open the gates and disable the city’s defences when the barbarian horde rocks up. And we have barely any idea who those traitors that might be.
In short, we are proper grimdark screwed.
Yikes, that’s quite the pickle you guys are in.
I got invited to a potential Rogue Trader RPG this weekend, but it’s still really up in the air at the moment whether or not we’ll be starting it.
Depending on what rulebooks you guys are using, there is the option to play as an Ork Freeboota or a Kroot mercenary. I personally consider Rogue Trader to be the weakest of the 40K RPG systems because it’s the least defined in terms of your purpose. “Go and explore and make money” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as “Purge the heretics” or “Destroy the xenos filth”.
Well this was along the lines of “Your isolated-from-the-imperium world is 100 years away from running out of resources and you’re the last hope of saving it or destroying it by delivering it to chaos”. You can sorta guess what I’m planning to do if it does go ahead 😉
Go “fuck this shit” and leave the planet to its fate? Because that’s what I would do. 😛
If you’re looking to play the distinctly evil bent on the story, maybe recommend Black Crusade as that game is hella fun and actually encourages party infighting. Oh the good times when someone became a Champion of Slaanesh and there was a Nurgle-aligned character who proceeded to try and kill him every chance he got. 😀
G’mornin’
Very uneventful weekend, on Saturday night out of boredom / curiosity I had a look at the PS4s streaming videos of random people, all I can say is people are weird, some of the weirder ones I found :
1 skinny white guy dressed up in a purple suit calling himself “moneymaker” trying to convince people he was a pimp, the insults he got were actually really creative and funny.
1 Fat hairy guy in a leotard doing aerobics. O_O
A party of American dick heads acting like dick heads smoking weed & 1 guy tried to do a back flip and kicked his friend in the head, I laughed so hard I peed a little.
A girl trying to stream a playthrough of Outlast but had a million guys telling her to show her bewbs, so that wasn’t fun.
A kid playing a game of monopoly by himself,
A guy showing off his wittling creations, which were really impressive but he looked like he was straight out of Deliverance.
A guy that looked like Steve Urkel playing some really beautiful melodic acoustic guitar
PS4 streaming is a weird place.
Oh and I watched Robocop 2014, I pretended it was “Future Cop: Inspired by Robocop” and didn’t mind it, could have been worse, some pretty rad special effects.
I don’t understand all the hate for Robocop and the way that people are all IT RUINS EVERYTHING and stuff.
Robocop 3 already ruined Robocop.
haha, I realized recently that I’d never seen Robocop 3 (some how) and decided to watch it, it really is pretty pretty bad isn’t it. I find it hard to say I like a remake cause something in me says “it shouldn’t exist don’t like it” but with this one I’ll just pretend it’s another movie and like it.
I once saw @dkzeitgeist playing Trials Fusion! SUCH A WEIRD PLACE! 😛
That’s using the word “playing” pretty loosely.
Kill yourself.
Unnecessary.
nah not really
I can’t believe I had to downvote a DAN! comment. Am I just getting old? 😛
Strange downvotes destroys lives. :'(
Getting?
That’s why http://dankarlszeitgeist.com doesn’t have a downvote system.
NEXT GEN
Thought you were talking about Far Cry 4 for a moment before going back and reading properly.
Mario Kart 8 next week! Can’t wait!
Who’s getting it on launch. We all pals on MiiVerse, etc? My Wii U details are on TAYnames!
Ooh! Ooh! Me! I am! Me!
Gotta get stuck in to the single player ASAP so that I can experiment with an optimal kart setup before we start racing online 😛
Yeah, but at the same time everyone being equally as sucky could be amusing for the first few days. 😀
Other than the natural advantage of playing as Toad, that’s true.
I remember how tough some of the races in Mario Kart Wii were at first and then one week later I had all these crazy skills and shortcut knowledge and wheelie precision. XD
Yep! It’s all about track knowledge! Knowing safe areas to get hit by the blue shell, etc.
Ugh you’re the worst!
Most likely and probably not.
It’s gonna be fun, but just remember Nintendo’s friend system is batshit crazy and it’s easier to do through MiiVerse than it is through the friends screen. (Cause MiiVerse sends invitations.)
I need to see if the Wii U even turns on. It’s been a while.
Hopefully I am, I really want to, but I’m not sure if I’m gonna be able to afford the console bundle.
Launch? i wish 😛
Maybe 6 months down the track i’ll be able to
You should get it while that free game promotion is going on! Could always do a dodgy and EB/return/resell after using the code 😛
Me me meeee. I shall have to find your Nintendo ID.
Do you know if it supports split-screen online multiplayer?
Not sure! :S
edit: I didn’t read that properly so response is invalid
It does! I think it might be limited to two players, though.
EDIT: Hm… I can’t seem to find any confirmation on this. I swear I read it somewhere, though.
That’s all I need! Gf and I drifting along with some other internet friends. 😛
I believe I heard the confirmation in a GameXplain video? (@powalen)
I plan to do 2 player online as well, but I think you can also do 2 player for the Gran Prix stuff.
Add me when you can, I’m Greenius.
Getting it on launch, then having a nice big meetup with a bunch of friends and Wii Us and TVs to play it all day long. ‘Sgonna be great.
can I swap some friends with you 😛
Are we Nintendo buds? Let’s be buds.
I’m assuming Gooky on Wii U? I’m Greenius.
Hi I’m Daisy
You assumed wrong 😛
I assume that’s a joke and your Nintendo ID isn’t really Daisy? 😛
Don’t you wanna race with TAYbies? :'(
It isn’t Daisy, no 😛
Although I just realised that I’ve been kind of keeping TAY separate from everything else, and now am not sure how to proceed for whatever reason.
I mean in all likelihood in the end it’ll just go through and nothing will happen, but for now things just don’t line up in my brain and it’s weird.
It’s cool, I’ve still kept TAY separate from things too, but I came here for games and gaming buddies so I don’t mind adding TAYbies on gaming platforms. I just assumed you’d be joining in on the MK8 TAY multi, but if you’re not then it’s fine, no need to add you then 🙂
Bro, it’s all about the Watch Dogs.. Mario Kart, there’s now 8 of them, surely you don’t need more of them, just saviour what’s already there!
That Interstellar trailer is really giving me the feels. It’s the music. I blame Hans Zimmer.
Ah, really loved the trailer too. Way more than Godzilla it was attached with. 😀
I’m sure it’ll be great because Nolan and McConaughey, but that trailer feels super generic and super bland.
I think the thing I liked about the trailer is it was clearly restraining itself to the non-space parts. Trying not to be overly spoilery while setting the scene.
Yeah, like I said, I’m sure it’ll be great, but that’s because I have faith in the people involved. I’d find it very hard to be excited from that trailer if it weren’t a Christopher Nolan film.
I’m wondering if the trailer consists of nothing but the first 15-20mins of the film.
Hoping so, personally.
Twist, the whole movie is preparation and when he goes through that wormhole or whatever it is it cuts to black and credits roll.
Needs to be ROT13’d for when it comes true. :p
I’m absolutely sick of seeing trailers for movies and going ‘welp, looks like I can skip that one because the trailer just showed me all the best parts and summarized the whole plot for me’ so I hope that’s the case too.
Yeah, saw a trailer for some upcoming “comedy” piece of crap, Bad Neighbours and I swear they pretty much covered every possible joke angle and plot line. I have absolutely no desire to see the movie, but if I did I daresay I’d know everything that was going to happen.
I remember watching the first half hour of some movie starring Owen Wilson as a scam artist/drifter pretending to be a bodyguard or some crap, which I’d been lured into viewing because of an amusing trailer. I am damn sure the trailer showed the ONLY funny parts of the entire movie. Like… literally the only funny parts, no hyperbole ON MY PART THANKS BOB
It was an Owen Wilson movie, fitting the only funny parts in to a trailer requires no hyperbole. 😛
(I kid, I kid.)
Fixed, credited. 🙂
😀
But that music! Hans has always been a powerhouse. Gladiator and Man of Steel just wouldn’t be the same without their brilliant soundtracks.
You mean Man of Steel could’ve been worse?
😛
Superman Returns-worse. Definitely.
I’m wondering how much, if anything, it draws from some of the books I’ve read by Stephen Baxter. I got a definite “Manifold Trilogy” vibe from it. Enough to make me want to watch it.
I watched the trailer, and was like “I’ve read this book already.”
Can’t actually remember the name of the book, and the spaceship mission was to colonise other planets rather than find resources or whatever, but it felt hewn from a pretty similar stone to whatever that book was (even the use of the theoretical warp drive, though from memory the book used nuclear explosions as propellant until they were at interplanetary distances).
Was the spaceship mission called “Bootstrap” by any chance? See my above comment about the Manifold Trilogy, most specifically “Manifold: Space” (the second book) – extremely similar to what you’re describing.
You reminded me of Baxter’s name, so I went and looked it up, and the book was Ark (which was sequel to Flood, I think, though I never read the first book).
Lots of differences, but also lots of similarities there.
Ahhh, yeah Baxter’s work tends to share a lot of similarities between them at least thematically. I should probably get around to reading Ark.
Finally picked up 3D World over the weekend. Damn this game is both gorgeous and just so much fun to play. I don’t see how any other developer would be able to put a game like this together with such perfection – Nintendo are gods.
Let’s not go nuts!
(I thought NSMBU was better :P)
…I should probably play it so I can figure out whether I should be calling you wrong again or not.
He’s probably wrong :P.
I do prefer 3D Mario though (so I’m totally biased) but while 3D World was good, I’d still rank 64, Sunshine and Galaxies ahead of it. I like my singleplayer experiences!
Probably on par/better than 3D Land though since it took what made that great, and made it better! (minus some challenges and whatnot)
*waits for another proper 3D Mario game with a hub world)
I think if you got a chance to play 3D world with local multiplayer you might embrace this game more!
I did :). Played through most of the game with a friend but I prefer my singleplayer Marios 😛
You’re not alone in liking NSMBU at least. I haven’t played 3d World, but I loved NSMBU! Was a good throwback to the days of old, but with lots of extra pretty!
Yah, I picked it up too, because I was forced into sitting around, pointing at the TV, while my cousin played Mario Galaxy, and I was like “oh yeah, I like Mario games.”
It’s no Mario Galaxy though.
It took me a while to realise you were talking about the Mario. I thought 3D World was some obscure 1992 PC game that boasted 3D, yet everything constantly faces you.
I had precious little time for games and there was nothing I could play without potentially spoiling the story for my wife, so I decided to play Journey which my wife has already seen youtubers do Let’s Plays of.
Wow that game is… that’s something else man. Beautiful experience. I might play it again tonight.
God I love Journey. I really hope they hurry up with the PS4 version, so I can get back into it.
My wife made fun of me when I met my first buddy and discovered we could recharge each others flight power by singing. I guess I sounded so awed by it that she thought it was a bit adorable.
If you have the time, I’d recommend looking up Jenova Chen’s DICE talk from… last year? It’s about Journey, and it’s pretty interesting.
I also want to rewatch the Extra Credits series on it as well. I watched it when they first did a few videos following the game’s release but I had no context for them and don’t remember the details I remember them discussing it in the context of it being a direct allegory for the stage’s of the Hero’s Journey, even down to the player experimenting with escaping the boundaries of the game world and being pushed back by winds as the initial “refusal of the call”.
Surely this happened while you were watching Roosterteeth’s 24 hour livestream though…right?
After the stream ended… probably. I missed part of it after it went down and I didn’t go back.
Journey is a pretty good game.
Music is actually from the V for Vendetta soundtrack, so you can thank Dario Marianelli.
About halfway:
Reply fail to @benny
I like that film, too. A pleasant surprise as I wasn’t expecting it to be so good.
Take some average quality sausage rolls and throw a handful of cheese on them while they’re in the oven.
It’s like alchemy.
You end up with average quality sausage rolls with cheese on them.
Just like Shane’s patented cheese hash browns?
Yeah. But I can recommend those.
These? Not so much. :\
*Hash brown melts
Sorry, my apologies ;D
I’ll forgive you.
This time.
Bespoke sausage rolls are the best, get some top quality lean sausage mince (made from actual identifiable animal parts! That’s how good it is), mix in your favourite herbs, roll them in pastry & bake. Best things ever aside from the stuff that’s even better.
Mrs Tigs made sausage rolls the other day that we took to a board game day. They were far, far from average. So tasty
Got door knocked by some ABS clown on Sunday wanting to arrange a time for us to do a mandatory income and housing survey. Very invasive on private information.
Anyone dealt with one of these before?
Tell ’em to fuck off because it’s none of their business?
Unfortunately looks like the legislation says it is their business. Trying to work out what I do and don’t have to provide.
Just looked it up. I guess I can understand why it’s mandatory to complete the survey for statistical purposes but I think it’s bullshit that it’s an offence to fail to comply. Jerks.
It’d be so much easier if they just paid people for their time – even jury duty does that.
Edit:
testI don’t even fill out the census forms properly. Totally bullshit on every question, last census form I filled out I told them I was Greek Orthodox, might put that I’m Jewish on the next one just to fuck with them.
As far as I’m concerned my personal information is none of their fucking business.
Exactly what I’d do.
I always find that it’s good to plead the Seventh.
I’ll admit, I’m not sure what use the right to a Jury trial in certain civil cases is, particularly when it’s part of the American Constitution, but it tends to get people away from me.
Though that could be the screaming and nakedness that does that.
Funnily enough, ‘answer the door naked’ seems to be the best way to get out of it that I’ve found so far.
Keep some alka-seltzer tablets near the door. Palm one and pop it in while talking to them.
Once the frothing at the mouth commences, carry on like nothing’s wrong.
Use red’s idea below but combine it with holding a shovel. Nothing can go wrong.
Creepy clown mask + a large cleaver of some sorts all whilst only wearing a bloody apron, should set things straight and not be bothered again..
It’s funny you mention cleavers. I embarrassed polite company at mother’s place when she put out a little glass-handled cleaver-blade-shaped thing for cutting cheese. I enthused, “Ooh! It’s a little cleaver! Only instead of for cutting people, it’s for cutting cheese!”
Hahaha, love it.
“Alright, but I’m suffering from explosive diarrhea, so if we’re going to do this, you’ll need to grab a chair and bring it into the toilet with me. Let’s do this.”
http://www.privacy.org.au/Resources/ABSSurvAdvStmt-2012.html
So from what I can tell, legally they can ask questions and get forms filled out. They can get fucked if they want any supporting documents like bank statements or payslips.
Also, doesn’t look like I have to let them on the premises. Maybe I’ll elect to do it out the front. C’mon rain, don’t let me down shitty Melbourne weather.
My mum got hit by the Health survey a while back and basically picked any questions that she didn’t want to answer and refused to provide information for them. But that health survey was insanely invasive – they wanted blood and urine samples and tried to make out that those were mandatory. We told them to fuck right off on that.
ABS are a pack of dicks, as an aside.
Blood and urine samples, now that IS invasive.
Have to wonder how many people then proceeded to try and pee on them.
Not as many as should.
That sort of shit can’t be legally mandatory or they’d have the power to just get it straight from doctors.
Answering the survey is mandatory. Giving samples is absolutely not, but they make it out like they’ll prosecute you if you don’t.
We sent letters of complaint to multiple people (local federal and state MPs, douchebag that runs the ABS) and refused to provide samples. Didn’t hear back from any of the people we complained to IIRC but it was right before the elections so they probably had other things on their minds.
It’s always ‘right before an election’ these days, or it at least feels like it.
Legislation says fill out a form or answer verbal questions. That’s all they get.
Man, I remember the 2006 onwards surveys. They were okay up until that point, but holy shit did they go into detail after that.
For what it’s worth, the ABS has extremely strict privacy measures in place that will prevent your details from being viewed in isolation. The aggregate statistics are used for a variety of factors, including academic research and government budget forecasts, all of which have the potential to be used in submissions that could influence government policy (which of course can impact upon your own life).
My advice: you’re bound by legislation to provide information, so just do it and move on. And don’t be too mean to the poor shmuck doing the interview – you probably earn more than they do.
I’m happy to provide raw data for what they need to create the aggregated statistics from. I’m not happy letting randoms into our private premises, or providing enough personal information to make a one stop shop identity fraud data set. If they’re going to destroy the data that identifies individuals, then they don’t need it, because I sure as hell don’t trust them to have sufficient security in place.
Just insist that they identify themselves properly. This means 100 points of ID and a supporting letter from an ABS high-up saying John Smith is authorised representative to do xyz actions on Mr Beavwa. This’ll take some time for them to organise.
Next up, you don’t have to give the answers in Australian English. Rot13 your answers, or use a cypher. You gave them the information they requested – it’s their problem to work out how to enforce you to give up the cypher key. Legally, this is fine, from the stuff I looked at.
I am glad I can speak another language. I can fuck with people to no end. PROVE I am proficient in English reading/writing as step 1, fuckers.
Edit: literally, just drag out the process. There’s no end to the amount of steps you can take:
1. Get them to prove that Mr Beavwa actually lives at the residence. Haha, good 2. Get them to prove that you are Mr Beavwa when they come to your door. Haha, good luck, only a police arrest warrant or similar can get you to voluntarily provide your ID in your own home.
3. If they attempt to mail the stuff to you to get around step #2, “you never got it”. They never send stuff registered mail, so you’re fine. If they attempt to hand-deliver to ensure you got it, how can they prove Mr Beavwa received the package, as per step #2.
As long as you don’t utter the words “I refuse to participate” you’re fine. Just troll the shit out of ABS.
I’ve seen threats where dragging the process out will get your household enrolled for more surveys. That’s fine by me, since we’ll be moving soon anyway.
(Edit: not personal threats, just forum conversations with other people being surveyed)
They can threaten all they like, but as long as you’re following their processes (no matter how slowly) they don’t have shit on you. 🙂
Better go find the size of your underpants, just so you’re prepared.
‘Mandatory’ and they’re door-knocking? Git farked.
TAY Pathfinder tonight at 8pm AEST.
Will Tech_Knight suffer another grievous injury? One can only hope (I kid, I kid). 😛
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
Hope you all can make it although if you can’t make it just message me.
Well… being at 1 HP, I’m hoping not even a light breeze hits me… but it probably will due to my shitty AC :P.
Will definitely be there though.
Edit: Also I’m getting convinced that both you and Red are currently having a bet as to who kills my PC in their RPG first.
I won’t kill you.
Leave you horribly mutated and begging for death, perhaps 🙂
Can you attack your own party members because say another one was paying you under the table to be rid of a rival?
Hypothetically of course…
I sure hope so or else things are about to get awkward.
Hypothetically of course…
There will be repercussions for those actions but there is nothing really preventing you from killing other party members.
Oh god, at this right I won’t even have to kill anyone, you guys will do it all for me.
Man, if this descends into intraparty fighting, I’m running back out the door and resetting all of the traps on my way out.
I have a feeling if we all just get into a physical confrontation with eachother @popdart5 will say something like “All the fighting caused the tomb to collapse, you all die. GG”
I’ll just bide my time until Level 18 and then literally bore you all to death with Pedantic Lecture. 😛
That won’t help us with Hobgoblins…
@redartifice Well, since it’s for party infighting there’s only one hobgoblin I’m considering.
However if there were hobgoblins at the time, it could help against them. I could put a whole group of them to sleep…
…And then shoot them with an arrow to wake them up again.
Let’s just say that I have multiple horses in this race and I’m not afraid to replace horse whips with cattle prods.
or stronger hobgoblins. =P
I’ll be there! For more stabbin’ fools!
If he doesn’t I’m sure Drewan can figure out some way to screw up and make it happen. 😛
We’ve got a hobgoblin to “extract information” from.
I’m betting that the one person in the group that actually speaks goblin will have a negative intimidate skill though, based on how things have gone so far. 😛 I hope it understands common.
That one person will be then relegated to “good cop”
I speak Goblin with an Intimidate +4! “Ok you bastard, who do you work for!?”
HOW THE HELL DID @tech_knight DIE FROM ME YELLING AT THE HOBGOBLIN!? :'(
Heart attack.
Weak tree huggers are so fragile.
My prediction: He dies each session and comes back the next time. “Oh my God, you killed Dem’my! You bastard!”
And grows more demonic each time, losing his soul.
That’d be a cool character
Hell yes, that would actually make a fricking awesome character to play.
Well… who knows, I might go down that way, I might not. He’s already changing his path of magic due to that near-death experience. Now I just need to actually be able to last more than one turn of being attacked…
I can’t remember what RPG it was and it might have even been a board game since I’m pretty sure one of the Cthulhu board games had this mechanic, but in something I played there was a setup where if your HP hit death point, you weren’t killed but instead gained a permanent wound that you couldn’t ever recover from, like lost an eye or gained a limp or missing fingers / hand / arm or the like.
Balance of skill. Taking all of your rolls together, you guys were not effective enough to cow the hobgoblins into submission.
For the record, trying to intimidate a martial and warlike race into just surrendering without fighting is extremely difficult.
Hobgoblins don’t like magic very much right? Is that considered common knowledge that we should all be aware of?
That’s pretty much common knowledge. Hence why Karvurk is extremely rare among Hobgoblins. Most people see them as nothing more than savage brutes but they are extremely cunning.
And yeah, they really don’t like Elves either as they believe they are the source of magic. So trying to intimidate Hobgoblins with two Elves, multiple magic users, and what they would deem a traitor Hobgoblin was always going to be very tough.
See! Elvish magic! I’m so right on this point!
If you roll a natural 20 I actually might…
No reason why I won’t be there, but if this changes I’ll let you know. I should probably plan out what I’m going to be doing when I re-enter from rear guard. *snicker*
Are we still in combat?
No, we left it at reviving @tech_knight from death and have just tied up one of the Hobgoblins.
Found a 9gag post about Kotaku.
http://9gag.com/gag/a75gDrA?ref=mobile.s.cp
Fake article.
I remember reading that article…
Are you sure?
This post on reddit suggests it was never actually posted on Kotaku and was simply made to parody Patricia during a period of drama around E3 last year.
It also recently recirculated on Facebook with some additional commentary from a would-be satirist from /v/ on 4chan.
Hmm, Maybe a friend linked to it on Facebook and I didn’t notice it was fake…
Silly me :3
I probably saw the Patricia bit and just thought it was her being crazy again, haha! :3
I think I saw that headline posted on some bullshit on tumblr (that was probably a parody to begin with), no surprise someone would make it look like a real article to stir up shit. And attributing it to Patricia Hernandez to boot!
There’s a whole bunch of them from 4chan.
It’s the fact that it’s completely believable and what people have come to expect from the site. The American one at least. And even as a joke it’s still not as bad as her Blood Dragon article.
was that the one implying they’re homophobic?
it’s a shitty “satire” based on a failure to even engage with the issues Hernandez raises.
Do I agree with her all of the time? Gods no, I think some of her work is very reactionary and facile. Despite that, I think she is striving to highlight some interesting and thought provoking issues. T is
When she started inventing them to have something to shriek about I stopped caring. She used to be good. Got worse and worse as time went on. Everyone in the comments went from agreeing with her and discussing it to just facepalming and not caring. Yes there’s issues but she actually damages any progression that can be made by making people stop caring.
She’s attempting to discuss issues which certainly should be discussed, she just happens to be the worst possible mouthpiece for it.
As I said- I find some of her work reactionary and fairly shallow. Stuff like that fake article up top, and the additional fake ones generated in her name do absolutely nothing to advance discussion and speak, frankly, of a lot of people who don’t even understand that they’re part of the problem.
It’s people playing the man, not the ball.
I didn’t know of the existence of this article so i had to look it up…
I regret everything!
What the fuck, how can I take her seriously. “There’s a couple homophobic comments” and she leads on with one example where she was proven wrong right off the bat. Her logic is fucking bullshit, her own argument stands only on the basis of her poor understanding of logic.
Fuck me I’m not reading the 2nd half or the article, it’ll ruin my day too much. FFS.
My sister is constantly sneezing and blowing her nose and for some reason it’s becoming one of those things that is just grating and getting highly irritating like I just want to yell at her to shut up and I don’t even know why but I think I’ll just blame that stupid rubik’s cube.
That’s another reason why winter sucks – the near-constant runny and/or blocked nose all the time. Thankfully haven’t hit that point yet, but it’ll come.
Unless it’s just a cold, get her some telfast
She’s got like half a dozen different allergy meds like that. Got a whole system where one of them stops working after a while, so she moves on to another, then that stops working so she goes onto the next, etc.
Me on the other hand, none of them ever seem to do anything most of the time 😛
Winter doesn’t suck.
Winter is an ice season.
#mondaypunday
Winter is… coming.
More proof that it isn’t sucking!
#PracticeForPage18
No, just doing it wrong. No reason everyone can’t go home happy. 🙂
What? No way…
Spring on the other hand with all that pollen… oh my god… !
Hawhaw. That’s actually one of the entries on my list of ‘minor curses’.
The kinds of curses you’d go see a witch-doctor or old gypsy woman to inflict on those who have wronged you, but not far enough to warrant personal injury etc. Just, y’know… dooming them to continually suffer through listening to coworkers/family irritating dry coughing.
I like to shout them at my brothers every now and then by way of punishment. “MAY ALL YOUR TEA-TOWELS LEAVE LITTLE BITS OF FLUFF ON ANY DISHES YOU TRY TO DRY WITH THEM!”
OH GOD I HATE THOSE TEATOWELS THAT DO THAT WHY DO WE HAVE SO MANY OF THEM AND WHY DID WE GET RID OF THE GOOD ONES THESE ONE’S DON’T EVEN LIKE TO ABSORB WATER WHAT EVEN IS THE POINT
Right? Other curses on the list:
May you be awoken in the night by the sound of unattractive neighbours having noisy sex.
May your lunch leave you feeling bloated and uncomfortable, but also hungry half an hour later.
May you experience random hiccups which taste of vomit.
May you be forced to endure the sound of constant dry coughing from co-workers or clients.
May your tea-towels leave bits of fluff on your crockery and not effectively dry it.
May your pencil snap its lead off in the pencil-sharpener and get stuck.
May the pull-tab on your softdrink can snap off without opening the can.
May the designer of your newspaper crossword make mistakes leaving you unable to solve it.
May you be cursed to an ulcer on the tip of your tongue.
May someone spoil the endings to movies you’ve not yet seen.
May someone steal the last coke from your fridge.
May your pen be borrowed and never returned.
May you stub your toe when you get up in the morning.
May your tissues pulled from the box fail to prime the one behind them.
May large cars in front of you turning right block your vision so you don’t know when it’s safe to turn left.
May your coffee burn your tongue so you cannot enjoy the rest of it.
May you receive paper-cuts on the skin between your fingers or under your fingernails or the folds of your knuckles.
*uses a pacer* :coolface:
…which is full of tiny little broken pieces of lead thanks to being dropped all the time /o\
May the smell of a thousand camels infest your armpits.
Damn, that last one made me cringe hard.
You fucking bastard, that was your fault?! >:(
Really, it was your own fault. You should not have mildly irritated me. *waves hexing ju-ju stick*
Run! He’s gone mad with power!
Irritable with minor powers. 🙂
Of course he has. You ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring. No one listens to you!
The worst are when you get a towel and it doesn’t actually hold the water in it and just makes it feel like you’re moving the water around instead of drying.
Someone needs to get ThatGameCompany to port Journey to PS4. I still haven’t played it and I feel like it’d be really nice on the new hardware and I don’t want to have to go back to PS3 for it, I want to play on my couch.
I’m sure it was one of the accidentally confirmed things that were on the cards for if you owned it on PS3 you got it on PS4, though I’m too lazy to check my sources.
I’d expect an announcement at E3 in a big ol’ Indie video.
Finally hit upon the really interesting part of the Virtual Boy doco – the part that describes just how many CPU cycles each assembly instruction takes to execute. I had no idea that some of the operations could be so intensive, especially floating point maths. Sure gives a lot to think about in terms of efficiency and stuff. Really looking forward to trying to do stuff with it, I think it’ll be good to try and work on such a limited system for a change.
*nods*
Yep, that’s certainly the case
(I have no idea what you just wrote)
It sounds pretty intelligent, though! I upvoted for smart people talking about smart things.
If only I could learn smart things… without taking several years that I desperately need to remainin the workforce earning as much as I can for my inevitable retirement-poverty.
NOW I FEEL OLD.
The good news is that you’ll probably never experience retirement-poverty because you’ll die of old age first. #AusPol
I’m not sure I do either.
Don’t tell @transientmind 😛
Man, CPU queuing theory. It gets really interesting when you look up, and you realise you’re studying the ‘code’ that tells a CPU how exactly to process some binary stuff.
Oh, and maybe you’ll work out a fix for that infamous problem which I forget the name of and Google isn’t helping. 🙁
P = NP? How many roads must a man walk down? What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
The only problems I’m ever gonna solve are “how could I make a costume that looks like [blank]?” 😛
That Second Son was too short?
ZING
Lunchtaku!
I’ve never cooked potatoes before (*gasp* …I know!) or used an oven (*double gasp!*) but I decided to roast some earlier.
The taters ended up crispy and amazing on the outside and tasted like chippies (Kettle ones!) while remaining fluffy and soft on the inside. Mmmmm
cookin iz fun (time consuming though :P)
How can you have never used an oven?
How old are you?
It’s funny because he’s actually 37.
We haven’t had an oven for about two years, because we’re renovating. I miss it sooooo much.
Pretty close to getting the new kitchen put in though. Can’t wait.
It’s weird how some people have never done basic stuff like that
True story: I didn’t know how to properly mop a floor until after school.
How could you not know how to mop a floor?!
That’s worse then never using an oven 😛
I’d never had to do it, we had a cleaner.
After I realised it I learned quickly.
True story: I still don’t. My floors are gross.
I bought a Steam mop which I use now, much easier.
I have one of those too! It’s a retro pastel green colour and makes me feel like I need to be wearing swing-dresses and curlers under a kerchief so I don’t use it that often. 😛
It’s a hell of a lot more convenient I find.
Well I use an air fryer for my oven needs. It’s basically the same 😛
https://www.google.com.au/search?es_sm=93&biw=1920&bih=955&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=philips+air+fryer&oq=philips+air+fryer&gs_l=img.3…587.1511.0.1623.8.6.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0….0…1c.1.43.img..8.0.0.c98O5v6-Z5A
KICKSTARTER UPDATES
1. Don’t forget to back Meraki! Why this project isn’t reaching stratospheric levels of success bewilders me. There’s insane talent behind this project (and in addition, I will be involved with the accompanying graphic novel).
The Stargazers album is legitimately one of my favourite albums of all time. I listen to it almost every day. I want Meraki to get up. Also, solidarity for an ex-TAYbie.
2. I finished reading Metro 7 by TAYbie @beardymcmuttonchops! Very cool book. Even though I backed the Kickstarter as a friend, I walked away a fan. And that’s a pretty good outcome.
I won’t pretend it’s a perfect book, but I respect that it wears its influences proudly on its sleeve instead of trying to bury them, the characters were simple but very effective, the world building was thorough, consistent and convincing, and (most importantly) the bits that were meant to be scary were scary. Total “oh Rocketman” moment, too, for the in-crowd to appreciate. At $2.99 for the Kindle version, it’s a no-brainer. Very solid 8/10, mostly for sheer atmosphere (for context, I also give A Tale of Two Cities 8/10).
Bring on Carnifex!
I’m waiting by the mailbox for my copy of Metro 7.
Kicktraq suggests that Meraki will scrape by, but only just. Fingers crossed.
I try not to go to Kickstarter too often because I always end up backing more projects. Backed 2-3 more over the weekend. 🙁
I was quite happy to see that two I backed hit goal over the weekend – first Exogenesis, the Zero Escape-inspired Adventure Game / Visual Novel-ish thing with really nice art and lots of Post Apocalyptic Urban Decay (@dc) got over the line with a few days to spare, and now the project to fund the first part of the restoration of that Beaufort for the Australian National Aviation Museum is over goal as well, and have confirmed that any spill-over from this point will go into the second section which is the turret.
I don’t kickstart things either these days, if only because Kickstarter REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE MY DAMN CREDIT CARD. No matter how much money I keep putting on there! *shakes fist*
That’s an odd problem. Have you considered talking to them about it?
I’ve recently gotten into the habit of browsing Kickstarter every week or two, looking through all the projects in Tabletop and Video games and backing 1-2 at a maximum of $10-15, high enough to get a copy of a game if I like the look of it. I don’t back much in Tabletop because you generally need a lot more investment to get a proper copy, I’m mainly keeping an eye out for anything really cool that might pop up so I don’t miss out.
Try Rise to Power- Aussie game get a copy for $25 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chaoticpattern/rise-to-power-a-city-building-card-game-for-2-4-pl?ref=dash
I’ll give it a look later. Had a quick glance and it looks like the bastard lovechild of Machi Koro and Power Grid.
Look, I’d love for Meraki to get funded, because it’s making music and I’m all about that. But realistically, $5000 is a pretty high target for an unknown artist. I mean, it could definitely happen, for sure, but it’s going to be tough to get to that target.
Edit: Ehhhh, I feel kind of shitty about this comment now. It’s already here though, so it’s staying.
I hope he gets there.
Not sure how much of a tail the campaign has though.
Yeah that’s my worry as well.
Even though you’re probably right, I’ve still got all my bits crossed.
OH GAWSH
Oh yeah, I was GM for a D&D session the other week. Two dudes with 2 weeks prep time each said they weren’t ready (we play sunday, they said this Saturday afternoon), so I said “fuck it I’ll make impromptu session”. So I had 15 mins and some driving time (was out of town) to prepare. It went pretty okay I thought.
Storyline was pretty bland, but I made it have interesting combat. Instead of the usual damage-sponge enemies, I tried to force the team into playing very differently than what they were used to. Things like:
– A maze, where they could fall through tiles etc.
– Spawning 2x massive dragons, then warriors, etc. They had huge HP (unkillable), and progressively dealt more damage and had less HP. The trick was to get them to come into contact with each other, which made them disappear and spawn the next wave.
– A super-stealth-ninja-bastard level, where there was a rogue shooting arrows through thick fog.
I thought it went pretty okay, for my first ever GM session. And with <1hr prep time lol.
@popdart5 I was looking through the Pathfinder Adventure Paths. Have you ever looked at these? Some of them are fucking weird. One of them has a sequence where you travel to another dimension and end up in Tzarist Russia in the early 1900s and have to assassinate Rasputin. I did a spit-take reading that summary. What the hell?
Ra-Ra-Rasputin, roll initiative to kill him. Stand back, Boney M, there’s a new historical disco in town.
Depending on how many barbarians are in the party, the cover by Turisas might be more appropriate. 😛
I haven’t looked at any of them because I’ve had enough glimpses of the established settings to know that they’re just weird. Like the one where apparently a certain group of Elves actually came from space. o.O
Some of the paths seem kind of cool. The classic Runelords campaign is pretty normal from what I can see (aside from that Pathfinder’s official setting has some weird monsters and their goblins are really fucking creepy) and there’s a few others that are a bit more grounded like that. But then there’s others that you start to wonder why they’re in the main setting. Like Carrion Crown, which is some kind of Cthulhu-esque horror-themed path. That’s cool and everything, but rather than try and put it into the main setting wouldn’t it be better to build out a separate setting more appropriate to that sort of game (something like Pathfinder’s take on Ravenloft?).
Their setting really is a broken hodge-podge of random crap. Such a shame. I guess that the good D&D settings spoiled me.
I always view settings as a guideline anyway.
If I had time and a bit of experience I’d totally build a proper setting and campaign out, I’ve done it before but back then I had a lot more spare time and it wasn’t as comprehensive as I think I could do now. But time is the enemy of all of us 🙁
I always take the tack that the setting looks like nothing until it’s brought up in game.
Yeah but some of that stuff informs things like character creation. Your clerics need to know the deities of the world and stuff.
Sure. It’s more that I don’t want to be hidebound by what’s on the page.
@redartifice: makes sense. I think I’d probably put together some kind of bible or something with brief details though. And take lots of notes. Fuck what the official stuff says, GM fiat always wins, but got to at least be internally consistent.
Yeah, you can sketch it out, like “we’re at war with the north” or whatever, it’s just sticking to canon that irks a bit.
Probably why I never got into forgotten realms- it never felt “forgotten” enough.
@redartifice: I played a fair bit in FR stuff in AD&D and at one point it *was* ‘forgotten’ enough, but then they realized how popular it was and that they could make a shitton of money by issuing novels in the setting and stuff, and I think it went nutty there.
I always felt like it wasn’t that interesting a setting anyway. Dark Sun struck me as the most interesting of the traditional AD&D ‘official’ settings.
@negativezero Dark Sun and Planescape out of the old ones. Eberron is a fun newer one I’ve messed about in a bit
@redartifice: Eberron is the vanilla setting for 3 and 4 right? I didn’t get the feeling that the setting was much of anything at all from what I played. But maybe that’s okay.
@negativezero Nah, the vanilla setting is the “Points of light” in 4e.
Eberron is the one with the trains, airships, halflings riding dinosaurs and gnomish secret police.
@redartifice: I definitely haven’t done Eberron then. Halflings riding dinosaurs sounds epic.
Speaking of, I was going through the available Familiars list in Pathfinder and apparently you can have a Compsognathus as a familiar. It’s in the 2nd bestiary…
@negativezero Eberron’s cool because it’s a setting that’s post-war- basically the main continent used to be one kingdom, but it schismed 100 years ago into a succession war that only ended when one of the provinces (the one that had basically been the punching bag for all of the others) got magically nuked by…someone?
Also, the aforementioned halflings, gnomes, undead-ancestor worshipping elves, tribal jungle drow and Warforged (Construct PCs that are basically liberated slaves).
It’s very cool.
I tend to think if we ever brought Dinosaurs back compsognathi would be basically housepets.
@redartifice: that actually sounds really interesting, I need to look into this more.
The concept of Jungle Drow amuses me greatly.
Also you know that if the world still had compsognathi or any other theropod dinosaurs around, we’d probably farm the fuckers to eat them. I mean, Chickens are basically theropods that evolved to be a bit more delicious. Maybe in some fantasy settings they celebrate the winter solstice by feasting on roast Velociraptor instead of Turkey.
@negativezero Oh man, we need that.
Hey @popdart5, can roast velociraptor be a thing in Xondol?
As a delicacy if that. Dinosaurs are pretty rare in Idris but elsewhere, they are far more common.
Edit: Meant as a reply to roast velociraptor question above.
To be honest, I like the setting that we’re running in at the moment. It’s very bare bones but the structural supports are there and I have a pretty firm idea on how the campaign will play out so it should be good.
But yeah, I’ve discovered that if you start GMing without an end goal in sight, things get off track and muddled very quickly (like how a series of one-shot sessions turns into an actual storyline tends to be a rather abrupt gear shift).
I’m scared. I am actually starting to enjoy exercise. I walked into town this morning because I had a couple of appointments, which were at the same place thankfully. 3.17 km done in 53 minutes. I got a good sweat going, which was excellent. The upshot of those appointments is that I will be starting an exercise program next Wednesday that goes for the next 12 weeks, so hopefully by the end of that, I will be a lot fitter.
Exercise literally makes you feel good. You get a flood of chemicals in your brain after doing it, to the point that it’s possible for people to get addicted to it.
Having just come off a 12-week challenge I have to say, go for it! And good luck as well. Does it come with an eating plan? I found that the biggest thing that helped with the one I just finished was that they had an eating plan for the whole period with a bunch of really good, healthy and portion-controlled meals. Just stuck to that for dinner and it worked really well. If I was living on my own I’d probably have followed it for breakfasts and lunches as well but often the lunches involved the second half of the previous night’s dinners and that got tricky since it would have meant doubling or tripling the amount of food we cooked.
I’m actually doing the Tony Ferguson weightloss program at the moment. Shakes for breakfast and lunch, decent meal for tea. Wednesdays are going to be a really active day for me as I’ll be walking to the place where the exercise program is, doing the exercise program and also playing basketball at night.
Great to hear you’re moving along, man.
Let us know if you want me to kick of Red’s Running Rampage Redux!
I still generally think of myself as someone who doesn’t exercise, and finds the idea of it to be awful. Even though I’ve been climbing weekly for over four years now 😛 I think to me that’s more separated out as puzzle solving or something.
But then one of the things I’m most looking forward to at my friends’ Mario Kart meetup in a couple of weeks is actually the sport bit – we usually end up having a game of soccer in the carpark. End up completely wrecked by the end of it, and always seem to end up having a spectacular fall in the match (last time fell backwards with so much momentum I rolled straight up onto my head and over again, the time before that I fell forward and in an effort to prevent faceplanting inadvertently did an awesome breakdance handstand with massive hangtime)… but still is lots of fun. And I find it hard to reconcile these opposing states in my mind 😛
I hate myself for having enough discipline to go to the gym on a regular basis.
I love myself for having the discipline to avoid the gym.
#gonnadiebefore40
#I’mtryingtoavoiddyingbefore40
you’re a better man than I.
I don’t have kids so it wouldn’t be too tragic.
Good on you for bettering yourself though
Once you start exercising you find it easier and easier to keep doing. Adrenaline is a great motivator.
Having some issues with a report at work. Just sent this email.
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for analysts like you. If you let my data go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will mess up your spreadsheets.
Last week saw the 20th anniversary of ‘The Crow’
Feeling old yet guys? 😉
I’ve never heard of “The Crow” before.
#helping
Well I wasn’t feeling too old until this comment
I’m feeling more “experienced”.
It’s still at least 4 more years until the possibility of working with a graduate younger than my first email address.
It’s my job as a young person to take any and every opportunity I can get to make everybody else feel as old as possible.
Bruce Lee’s kid beats up people that need it.
Go watch it.
also some impressive CGI for 1994 considering he was dead for the last scenes.
Edit: and a decent sound track, it’s what made me get into Nine Inch Nails (who didn’t release a new album recently LALALALA not listening)
And dies on set.
That was the primary reason for watching it and loving it, according to a couple goth-wannabes I knew who were all into the Tori Amos and The Smiths and Nirvana and NIN and reading Anne Rice and playing WoD and dying hair black and wearing chains on everything. Which got me really annoyed because I really liked half those things and felt they were tainting it with their death-worshiping broodiness.
I liked The Crow and WoD and read like one Anne Rice thing but I never really liked any of that for the grimdark gothickness, never wore excessive black or anything. I just liked the stories. Maybe some of the style appealed because I was in my introverted awkward teenage years, but I feel like that’s more coincidental than anything else.
Don’t listen to @rize – You’re not missing anything. 😛 Teh Crow is terribad 90s grimdark emoposing.
Aussie director too, though his high point is definitely Dark City.
Sleep……Sleep
Edit: The first time I watched Dark City was at schoolies, They showed it on the beach, I made friends with a random named Snowy (who was really pale so I’m guessing nickname). We built amazing 3 seater sofas out of sand complete with cup holders and got really wasted on cooking alcohol mixed with Hungry Jacks’s coke (those refills saved us money and the cops didn’ty wise up that we had boozemahol in them). Good times.
Teenage me thought it was the greatest thing ever.
teenage me agrees, adult me found a couple moments cringe worthy (fire it up, fire it up) but as a whole still don’t mind it.
If liking shit from the 90s is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.
*watches Hackers on VHS while wearing inline skates and compiling a list of radical slang words, starting with radical*
Brandon Lee’s ghost is going to haunt the shit out of you for that.
I was mostly expecting TAYbies to, but sure! Why not.
I don’t think there are too many dead TAYbies yet… and although haunting you in life sounds kind of fun, I’m not quite at the stage where I’m willing to throw myself off a bridge for the privilege.
Well, I am now…
😐
Haven’t seen it. Last year was the 20th anniversary of the Super Mario Bros movie though, that made me feel nice and old.
yeah it was the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death this year too, that made me feel old. If he didn’t do it he’d almost be 50 now.
Oh yeah? Well how’s this.
9/11 is now closer to the fall of the Berlin Wall than the present day.
My work here is done.
*flies way, breaks hip, wheels away with walker*
In three years time, Han will have shot second for longer than he shot first…
That’s my go-to WTF-time-passes-fast thing.
I don’t have a WTF-time-passes-fast thing cause I’m still young 😛
*kickflips on skateboard and rides off*
Get offa mah lawn.
He never shot second. Never. It was a fucking lie. Also, Vader never screamed ‘nooooooo’. Also a godamn lie by a brain-damaged old man.
Someone’s living in denial.
Maybe you can solve this @redartifice pyramids conspiracy for us. #MondayPunday
I’m sure he’ll sort it out, @Transientmind’s pretty sharp for an old Giza.
You and @redartifice… You boys are on fire.
I don’t have any puns, just never stop being awesome.
If I needed to compromise I’ll take Han shooting second over Vader’s ridiculous “NOOOO” scream. I would also very much like to take out Hayden Christensen’s force-ghost next to Obi-Wan and Yoda from the final shot of ROTJ because LUKE REDEEMED VADER GOD DAMN IT. THE ANAKIN SKYWALKER WHO DIED ON THE DECK OF THE DEATH STAR WAS A GOOD MAN. THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to us than to those who built the pyramids.
Yeah sure, if you factor in the time dilation effect caused when flying those pyramids across the galaxy, that’s kind of obvious 😛
Hold on, all the conspiracy talk was on twitter, I’ve left my pins and thread there
In two years time i’ll be 20 years since Slash left Guns N’ Roses… Time flies, eh.
@popdart5: do I need to update my character sheet with the stuff we discussed over the weekend? I might not have a lot of time between getting back from work, dinner and then starting the next session to do the updates…
It doesn’t really affect you too much at level 1 so you should be right until you level up.
OIOSET)PB$OTWURD
MILO GRAINS
CAUGHT ON THROAT
CHOKING
SEND HELP
POLICEMANS! HELP GOOKY! HE’S OBVIOUSLY IN DISTRESS! SO MUCH HE’S IN ALL CAPS!
AND IT’S CONTAGIOUS!
really I feel perfectly norMAL! OH GOD! I JUST GOT IT!
DAMMIT GOOKY
WHATEVER IT IS, IT’S SPREADING
Edit: DAMMIT, GOOKY.
WE’RE DOOMED
AND NOW IT’S BOLD TOO
000, what is your emergency?
Someone on my screen is choking. Send help.
Where shall we send it?
Well, the screen is in Canberra. Come quickly!
Somebody get this man some milk!
Dragonfall improves on Shadowrun in so many ways although I’ve already restarted as the character I made inadvertently had zero skills bar shoot out of situation which failed a bunch of optional missions.
My character in default mode’s only abilities relate to hacking computer systems. I’m a bloody wizard at that though (I can also hit people with a stick fairly well). I was considering going all out guns for Dragonfall, though I guess that might prove problematic given what you’ve now said.
I went Pistol and Charisma for the Dead Man Switch. Pretty much restarted as the same for Dragonfall but threw a touch of decking in there to broaden my options.
I went melee / chi casting character in DMS. I was extremely tanky and breezed through it. In Dragonfall I went for a Decker and Rigger, also had a couple of levels is using rifles. It was very different to my original character and probably enjoyed it more.
Hey people, @negativezero might know.
Short Peace: Ranko Tsukigime’s Longest Day
Wot is it? Never heard of it, got an e-mail from Bandai, it looks cool and is SUDA51 that’s all I know.
Anyone played it? Any good? Looks really pretty.
Edit: Reviews do not like it :/
Got pretty middling reviews, I think. I think it’s a combination of Anime and a sort of level based endless-runner-like sidescroller? Also, the Anime parts change visual style, and I think the gameplay parts do as well to match.
It’s four anime movies produced by Sunrise:
– Posessions (EDIT: This apparently was nominated for an oscar, best short animated feature)
– Combustible (directed by Katsuhiro Otomo of Akira fame) (EDIT: won a few prestigious awards in Japan, including grand prize at the Media Arts Festival)
– Gambo
– A Farewell to Weapons (directed by Hajime Katoki who is the designer of shittons of Gundams, and the film’s adapted from one of Otomo’s manga).
Also the Bluray is Ranko Tsugimine’s Longest Day, which is a really simple but flashy 2d platformer directed by the guy who did Tokyo Jungle and written by Suda51.
I haven’t picked it up yet and don’t know if the movies are any good. I asked Bandai UK on twitter about it a while back and they confirmed the BD is unregioned though, at least in the UK, so I can probably buy it (I have a JP PS3). From the sound of it the movies are really the big thing, the game is the sort of thing that on its own would have been a $10-15 downloadable. Also personally I don’t like Suda51’s games very much, have never gotten into them.
I really liked Tokyo Jungle and find I always really like Suda games but lose interest in them really quickly, the gameplay always relies on simple repetitive mechanics that get old fast, I really like the humor in them though (mostly). I’m interested in the movies though. It’s $80 at eb & jb though so not sure. Thanks for the info, knew you’d be informative 😀
You could import it I guess? Might get it cheaper. It’s really a $15 game and a $35 Bluray package, I wouldn’t pay more than $50 AUD for it personally and I haven’t played the game or seen the films. The value proposition isn’t good enough.
I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve done this so…
BOARD GAMES!!!
BOARD GAMES!
I haven’t played for a few weeks (other than Magic) but I’m going to a board game cafe this weekend
It turns out that there is a new Magic set coming out called Conspiracy that is made specifically for drafting. Look it up, it’s exactly the level of silliness I’d expect. Plus, Swords to Plowshares and Fact or Fiction are being reprinted in that set, so I might just have to do a draft or seven of it.
Me and some friends are thinking of grabbing a box and making a Cube out of it
Do trading cards count? Because based off the mention of TCGs last week I ended up spending entirely too much money on a bunch of TCGs on Ebay and now I’m regretting it and I need to find a FNSLGS (Friendly Not-So-Local Game Store – I don’t have a FLGS unfortunately) to buy some nice card sleeves from. Thinking I want to get some colored ones, Dragon Shield probably but they seem to be harder to find in AU at the moment.
I also ordered a big ton of Pathfinder books so I will soon have the entire collection aside from Ultimate Campaign and the upcoming Advanced Class Guide. I regret nothing but my wallet has other ideas.
XENOBLADE!!!!
Uh I don’t really have one of these things for myself but…
MYSTERY DUNGEON: EXPLORERS OF DARKNESS AND TIME AND SOMETIMES SKY!!!
Yeah, no. It doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Mouth: “Nope, it’s pretty much impossible.”
Client & Boss: “Damn.”
Brain: “Well. Almost, anyway. With a frickin’ huge amount of work we could probab–”
Mouth: “Although… we could do a work-around.”
Client & boss: “Excellent! Let’s do it!”
Brain: “JESUS CHRIST MOUTH WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? I WAS NOT TALKING TO YOU!”
Mouth looks pensive.
*later…*
Brain: “Oh my god finally. Jesus. Now we can put that to bed.”
Mouth: “All done!”
Brain: “Ugh, now there’s a horrible thought… if the name and permissions were screwed up, I’m betting that all the auth–”
Mouth: “We should probably give all the other properties of the service a look-over, too. Oh. Yup. All that other stuff is wrong too. They’d notice that in a couple months.”
Brain: “I WILL KILL YOU, MOUTH. I WILL KILL YOU IN YOUR GODAMN SLEEP. I DO NOT KNOW HOW BUT I WILL THINK OF A WAY WITH GOD AS MY WITNESS MOUTH I WILL MURDER Y…”
Mouth: “Oh yes indeed. I appear to hate myself very much. Glutton for punishment.”
Hey all!
Mum has pleurisy in her left lung. Had to go to the doctor and get anti-biotics.
Also, My brother bought a TV and now Mum doesn’t want me to get one because she’s worried about electricity use. =/ It’s unfair. I pay on time, I pay a lot and I do housework which is more than what my brother does.
Tl:DR
Mum’s sick, brother’s a dick.
In theory with my TV if I used it 10 hours a day 365 days a year to achieve it 201kWh usage (like the sticker said) it’d cost in power usage a whole $67.80 to run for one whole year based on 32 cents per kilowatt hour.. Which is what I believed we are charged here in NSW. Saying that my previous TV only used 116kWh a year based at 10 hours of use per day..
TV’s are so energy efficient you would not notice the impact on the bill at all, if you added one extra TV to your household. Even two it would be minimal to nil.
I’m sure if you explained it to your mum and found out the TV’s suggested usage from it’s energy star sticker you could show her the numbers and and show her it would add maybe 20 dollars extra per electricity bill.
She’s not too annoyed with me, but rather my brother. He uses shit tons of resources and doesn’t pay a lot. $100 a week is cheap considering the median rental rate is $350pw.
He should be paying at least 150, and imo contributing to net & power separately!
Doesn’t use my net. Won’t let him use my computer
Fair enough then.
Give her some pills, hit him with a stick.
Advice should rhyme shouldn’t it?
If you get an LED LCD they draw not much power.
That was the plan =P
Do you have an email that I can converse with you at?
that would be scree[at]y7mail[dot]com
Saw Frozen for the first time on the weekend. While I felt that the art and music was great, I felt that the story, even though it was based on a classic fairy tale, was lacking, almost like the story was an afterthought after they made the songs.
Also, I’ll probably be getting a GBA soon, any good games you guys would reccomend? I’m thinking Yoshi’s Island, Mario Kart + Golf + Tennis, Advance Wars/Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy Tactics, Zelda (classic + Minish Cap) and the Mario RPG (Superstar Saga?). I keep hearing Golden Sun as well, but I don ‘t play many JRPG’s, should I still look into it?
The story wasn’t an afterthought, exactly. The original script was wildly different to what ended up on screen. Elsa was the actual villain (though I believe still more unwilling than say, Maleficent), so they needed to compensate for that, and Elsa and Anna weren’t separated while young in early versions (I think they got far enough for storyboarding and voice recording with them together before it changed), which has a huge impact on their dynamics. And yeah, it shows that the changes were made. Hardly ruins the film, but it certainly irked me on my first viewing. I was less bothered by it on my second time through though.
The biggest sign of the changes is that Elsa is the villain for most of the movie. A lot of what she does is standard Disney villain fare except she’s sympathetic.
The prince dude guy feels like a complete afterthought and the other dude they set up as a potential villain doesn’t feel like he fits in whatsoever.
Which is why I maintain that Elsa is the best Disney villain in a long, long while. She definitely has the best villain song.
Which other guy? The one Ana teams up with?
I think he means Alan Tudyk’s character, the lord of We(a)selton.
Oh that guy. Completely forgot about him. Seems to prove @trjn’s point though.
By the end he basically just seemed to exist so that marketing could make him look like the villain. :/
Yeah, it justs irks rather than ruins.
The end result was good, but I barely think about the story, whereas if something has a good story I’ll think about it for days afterwards.
Metroid Fusion, Metroid Zero,Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Golden Sun was pretty good, I only played the first one though.
I’m worried that I’ll have too many platformers then 😛
I might look into one though. I hear good things, but I’ve never played a Metroid game before – it just doesn’t appeal for some reason. Maybe I’ll change my mind after further research…
ha, too many platformers… I just edited in Castlevanias, yeah try fusion, it’s really good.
Man I need to get Circle of the Moon.
Pretty rad list. I’d add Warioware to it (both the original and Twisted if you can find it). There’s three F-Zero games, Maximum Velocity as well as GP Legend (which was released everywhere but here, goes pretty cheap because it got meh reviews I guess but really it’s only the story mode that’s crap) as well as Climax (Japan-only, very highly regarded and hard to find/not that cheap). If you haven’t played Link to the Past you could get that too. Also cool is Astro Boy: Omega Factor.
My personal favourite is Super Mario Advance 4, a port of SMB3 with a whole bunch of extra stuff. Which unfortunately requires an e-reader, link cable and second GBA along with a set of the cards to take full advantage of. But I’m an absolute whore for e-reader stuff so that works for me 😛
I think Luke over at Gizmodo is tripping balls.. Was reading his Xperia Z2 review cause I am trying to decide whether the Z2 is a phone i’d like, cause I keep reading how awesome it is, and I wouldn’t mind switching to Android if there was a phone that grabbed my attention. Which it does, then I read this which grabbed my attention even more;
So I went to see how much the phone was, cheapest was about $750 bucks outright, where as the Galaxy S5 & One M8 were about $650 outright.. I’d love to see where he found a Z2 for so cheap…
Telstra.
http://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/73633/22712/img_20140513_114028.jpg
Hmm, really? I only see it available on a contract on their site :/ and recently they’ve gone back to all flagship phones being contract only from what I was told at the local Telstra store..
Sales rep lied to you. Getting mine from the nearest Telstra shop soon. Already checked that they can do it.
Oh cool, probably only said that cause I was inquiring about an iPhone at the time..
Out of curiosity how much is it out right?
I’m not sure where you’re checking your S5 and M8 prices, but I know the M8 is about $840 locally (I just bought one a couple of weeks ago during a sale) and maybe $750 for a grey import? (I’m not too sure on the imported price). But it’s definitely not $650. His comment is accurate.
The M8 is my first Android device (moved from iOS) and I’m loving it. The customisation and ease is pretty awesome. I doubt I’d go back any time soon 🙂
Went to google and they show a list of prices from various online retailers in Aus, and they started at around 620 bucks with an Australian warranty with HTC, likwise the S5 as cheap as $580 with a 1 year Australian warranty with Samsung.. These are online Australian websites from what I can tell. So I dunno!
But I can’t find anywhere that lists the Xperia for the price Luke is claiming.. As I said about the cheapest I could find was $750, but for the most part they were all $800+ Found a store based in Victoria selling it for $670, but there’s no mention if warranty is based here with Sony or not, but they do offer their own extended warranty so I assume it’s an import :/
Most of those are grey imports (which generally have 1 year warranty instead of 2) that are just shipped online. I reckon it’s safer to just get it locally/in-person at a reputable store so it’s easy to sort out any issues.
If you’re referring to that Telstra deal Freeze posted I think that’ll be nationwide? You’d be pretty safe with Telstra though if anything were to go wrong.
Z2, S5 and M8 at the top of your list? I’ve been looking up phone reviews for a while so I know they’re all fine but have you heard of the OnePlus One? Insane specs for the price but who knows how we’ll be able to get one in Australia. It’s something like $350 in the US but has specs that are equal to those other 3 phones.
Not interested in the S5 or One M8, Luke was mentioning them in the review, bit I quoted.
I’m actually at a stalemate between the Lumia 1020, Xperia Z2 & an iPhone 5S. They all have properties I am after. Thought saying that when I think about it, I should really rule out the Windows phone unless there is an actual Steam, Soundwave, PS4, XBMC & Google Hangouts apps for it already
So then the choice is between a stale iOS device with small screen or a flagship Android device. And Z2 is outright @ Telstra for $672 as Freeze said, which is a damn good price for Australia AND Telstra.
Plus dat water-resistance.
Yeah basically. I like the iPhone cause iMessage, but i’d end up getting an iPad Mini any how so i’d still have iMessage for friends that live over seas, I think that is the only thing keeping me with my iPhone currently tbh, and the fact I can’t afford a new phone just yet 😛
I’ve got an Xperia Z, so I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on the Z2 if you get one.
Will do! I’d like one I think. Hopefully if this job thing happens next month i’ll look at buying one!
I just came to the sad realisation that I’m pretty sure I’m the most effeminate person on TAY :\
I should probably work on that… :\
Nah. There are taybies far more effeminate than you (says the guy using a Disney Princess avatar).
You drive lions around, that could only be more manly if you did it while wrapped in bacon!
Side note: I’d watch that show.
I’m just going to go with the obvious “….and?”
Just idle musings.
It’s what happens when I’m bored out of my mind at uni 😛
You know there are women on here, right?
Haha, I know that 😛
Effeminate is when a guy acts girly (well, at least that’s how I intended) :S
Otherwise I’d say “I’m the most feminine…”, Which I severly hope I’m not :S
I can live with being effeminate though 😀
@rocketman is 12 so…
I, urrr, don’t understand what this means :3
Blame my frazzled uni brain! :’O
He looks and sounds young. It’s a long running joke that Rocketman is 12
And 12 year old boys are basically girls? 😛
Means you can’t hit on him, you pedo!
I dunno, with these hips of mine, I could totally a rock the shit out of a summer dress…
But hmmm, ‘should work on that’? Naahh. Nothing wrong with effeminate. (Also, moreso than our ladies? Fightin’ words!) Way I see it, the only things one ‘should’ do which don’t feel natural are the things that involve bettering oneself, such as improving assertiveness or confidence to get what you really deserve in life and to feel better about yourself. I’ve met more than a few women who’d argue that masculinity’s got nothing to do with that.
Couldn’t exactly advise you as to the how, given that my brain and psyche’s wired to think in masculine terms about most things and assign masculine values, but the human, academic part’s bright enough to recognize a few examples from the past where the feminine grace, poise, and dignity of certain individuals was either powerful enough to command respect, or belied an understated but unwavering strength, or sense of belonging in one’s own body. And that’s just thinking in terms of how others think of you – if you care about that. Otherwise you simply ‘should’ do what feels comfortable.
I know a guy who’s friends with my brother – only ever seen him at a couple parties. Totally flaming. We’re talking, like… we were playing Geometry Wars, back when the 360 came out, and it was the best game on the platform? Guy played it for about thirty seconds, most of which were spent screaming and struggling to get his in-game avatar away from all the nasties pursuing him, without ever actually trying to shoot them. And when caught, a defeaning shriek, jumping a few feet, and dropping the gamepad like it was covered in bugs.
Of course we had a laugh and an eyeroll, but he owned it. No excuses, just enthusiasm. Fun as hell to play charades with, and a real nice guy, generous with friends etc, and it’s difficult to imagine him any other way, seeing that level of happiness and comfort in how he handles himself. I dunno if that’s an affectation or how he behaved growing up, but it’s his style, now.
It takes all sorts. I wouldn’t recommend measuring yourself by the personal preferences of TAYbies for themselves. I don’t question myself when people place value on Trials, Pokeymans, Animal Crossing, and all the other crap these (otherwise) wonderful people are into, nor do I worry much that I’m just not into musicals or the latest TV shows enough. We all just got different ways, and that’s neat to read about. Vive la difference, and all that.
tl;dr: I dunno about “sad” realization. 🙂
Haha, sad probably wasn’t the right use of words.
I tend to use words a little differently then how they are meant, which I forget doesn’t translate online pretty much at all, haha!.
I meant sad as in like, “Haha, awww, oh well! :D”, rather than like, “Awww :'(“, if that makes sense, haha!
And I’m in no way flaming, just to clarify! 😛
I just like “girly” activities, like shopping, and getting haircuts, and looking nice, etc.
Depressingly I’d not be surprised if I had the biggest tits in TAY
Pics from you AND @transientmind are required.
Dude, you are who you are. There’s nothing that needs changing.
Hahaha, I never meant I’m gonna change myself!
(though in hindsight I can see how it may have been unintentionally implied :S)
I love myself!
I’m seriously my favourite person, as vain as that sounds, and it sounds very vain, haha!
I was just thinking about it and thought it was funny 😛
Thanks for the support though, haha! 😀
Cool. One of the best things I’ve done is stopped worrying about how masculine I am and accepting myself for who I am. This guy has problems but he’s okay and I think he can do great things! 🙂
I know you can do great things 🙂
Just had my first taste of pvp in Dark Souls 2. Got invaded by two spirits in the bell tower. Managed to take them both down, then got the hell out of there because I’m a scaredy cat. It was fun, but there was a slight lag that I could see being annoying in any future pvp encounters.
BEGINNER BADASS. *brofist* Noice.
I have never defeated anyone in a fair fight in PvP. My only victories have been with 2 other people. :'(
Also, I found a great way to accidentally cheese my way through the bell area. I dropped my summoning sign, which stops me from being invaded, then something went wrong when trying to connect to another world, so I could just stroll about without fear of invasion and death. Glorious victory.
Fair fights are for daft people, or people with some kind of belief in honour-amongst-bastards, which is the same thing as daft. 😉
Difficult to reach places with loads of death-traps, anti-magic shield, greatbow/poison arrows, summons… whatever it takes to be low-down dirty cheap – almost as cheap as their mothers.
My issue is that the only times I’ve lost in PvP have been against the Bell dudes, where I basically didn’t have a chance to be as unfair as possible.
The first fight was against Little Mac, who just punched me a lot until I died (just as a second BellBro appeared). The second time was against a dude who just ran up, and stabbed me twice through my shield, killing me. Can’t remember the third, just that it was a horrifyingly shameful death, I assume.
Fighting fair just means your tactics didn’t work
It’s so quiet in here with the machines off for collecting updates, and the air-con off due to, well, lateness.
I can hear the second-hands moving on the battery-powered clocks at four different places on the floor. Every single one of them is slicing a second away from my life while I watch. It’s horrifying.
Ugh, if that was me my tinnitus would be driving me crazy about now..
mup!
DAMN YOU TINNITUS YOU’RE A CRUEL MISTRESS!
I can do this all all day! It sounds like bubble wrap to me.
Haha.
Ah Archer, so many brilliant lines, so hard to pick one…
Who’s a son of a bitch? Who’s a son of a bitch? You are! Hey! Hey Lana! He thinks he’s people!
And your shoes! Because how hard is it to poach a goddamn egg properly? Seriously, that’s like Eggs 101, Woodhouse.
Are you people just saying random words?
Your authority is not recognized in Fort Kickass.
Wait. Fort Kickass. What’s the reference. Cos the reference I’m picking up could very well be a reference to your reference, but I’m pretty sure my reference isn’t what you’re talking about. 😮
TAY Pathfinder just about to start. You guys still in for tonight?
@freezespreston @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @rize
Also, I learnt that the actress that voices Anna in Frozen plays a character in the modern day part of the early Assassin Creed games.
So I think we should have a Frozen/Assassin Creed videogame where Anna is the assassin – who’s with me?
SHe’s also Veronica Mars
And Kristen Bell. A Well known actress. XD
I know her as Elle from Heroes.
Not that she appeared until the bad seasons. That being all that weren’t the first.
And Sarah Marshall from Forgetting Sarah Marshall! 😀
And Veronica Mars. bears repeating.
SASSSSSSSS!
And Gossip Girl!
I mean.. Something else. Something manly.
A hot bitch. *Grunts and grabs testicles*
amidoinitrite?
(The first season was pretty bad too)
Do you wanna kill a Templar?
Let’s go outside and play
A quick sha-lack
And a knife’s in their back,
Then we jump into some hay
We should really do some killin’
Not sitting on this bench,
That’s what I’ve gotta say!
Do you want to kill a templar?
It doesn’t have to be a templar,
(There’s an assassin!) Into the hay!
(I have never played assassins creed)
Nailed it.
I just completed Child of Light and it was alright for a $15 downloadable game.
Everything in it is really streamlined and simple, but it still worked well and was enjoyable as a whole. Art is pretty but some inconsistencies stuck out like sore thumbs (Aurora having a 3D model while everything else is in 2D). Music was good and got me humming along :D. The exploration and stuff outside of battle isn’t really interesting but it’s nice just cruising around looking at the art since they made enemy encounters really easy to avoid.
The only real downside I have with the game is its writing. It’s just absolutely terrible. I don’t have an issue with the whole “rhyming thing”, but it could’ve been implemented and written a hell of a lot better. It just made me not care about any of the characters or story, which is a shame because they could’ve done something great with it.
I’d say it’s worth checking out for any JRPG fan, or anyone who wants to get into them. One of those “better than the sum of its parts” games.
Next up! Night of the Rabbit and I’ve still got about half of Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright to play.
NIGHT OF THE RABBIT
I played 5 minutes the other day! It was pretty kewl
Well, you’re pretty kewl too then. *decisive nod*
I went into spotlight on Sunday hoping to get all the Jersey material I need. They only had 4.10 metres instead of the 6.65 that I needed AND someone had hidden it so I had to get a worker to help me find it.
I had a voucher to get $40 off if you spend $100, however, the material was on special and without the full amount, it ended up being only about $55. So, not a complete win, but at least it’s my next two cosplays sorted out!
Can we be sure that the Michael Jackson hologram isn’t MJ’s ghost? D:
*assembles Mystery Inc for some mystery solving.*
It’s really Miku Hatsune
It actually is. Same tech they used for several Miku concerts. Also Tupac.
I know, that was the joke.
But if we get Mystery Inc., then they’ll just prove that it was Old Man Jenkins, and it was a scheme to rip people off out of money.
What we need is the “Scooby Gang”, to show that it’s really his ghost, and that we can find him peace by breaking lots of scenery.
Or Scooby Gang and Mystery Inc together in one of those awkward crossovers that never quite works. 😛
Maybe Archie can join them to round out the good times.
I think it needs a little bit of Batman and Johnny Bravo, and maybe some Sandy Duncan to balance it out. (This actually happened)
Jinkies!
This..
Dammit virus, what the hell is that
Apparently not working on the mobile platform 😛
I mean this 😛
TAY marketing squad, assemble!
Do I want to get Need For Speed Most Wanted for Wii U? I feel like I saw a few guys around here saying it was pretty good, saw today Target’s got it on clearance for $29 which is the cheapest I’ve seen it anywhere.
Also Paper Mario Sticker Star which is… not so great apparently. But then it’s Paper Mario and unlikely to get much cheaper if at all.
It’s pretty solid. Less good than Burnout Paradise, but the closest you’re going to get.
It’s a pretty good game, I got it on PS3 and loved it. Wish they’d bring a HD remake of the original to either PS3/360 or PS4/Xbone.
It’s pretty fun but feels more like a Burnout game (and not as good). It’s been cheaper on other platforms but I guess $29 ain’t bad. You’ll definitely need some Wii U buddies though if you plan on doing some multiplayer. I tried a few times with Dan, Masha and BDKIAF but it was only okay with just the few of us, it’s way more fun with more people!
I did hear likening to Burnout. Which makes me think rad. But I only liked Burnout 1 and 2, and hated what I played of 3 and 4 at my friend’s place on his PS2, and haven’t played Paradise. So I don’t know what to think 😛
It’s most like Paradise than any of the other games (when I said it was like Burnout I just meant Paradise :P) Open world racing I guess!
Yeah, like blaghs said, it’s good, but it’s no Burnout Paradise.
Not for $29. It’s $10-20 on clearance at a lot of places.
Also it has a lot of paywalls. The game mechanic is thus: you complete a set of races/events with a car to get ‘points’. You challenge a ‘rival’ and win, ranking up. In order to get more points, you can either spend 1000 hours replaying tracks, or you can get another car and do the next car events. Considering there’s like 15 ranks of car you need to beat, that’s a lot of events. The problem is that they repeat themselves – a good 60%+ are just repeats.
Then you hit the paywalls, where you find an awesome car or an area on the map, and it asks you to purchase DLC.
I had fun with it cos I could eventually outrun the cops (and subsequently not smash my TV into pieces) and I had fun cruising around blasting the music. But I got it ‘free’ on PS+. I personally wouldn’t pay more than $15, even not knowing what I know.
10-20 for other platforms, everywhere else still has the Wii U copy for 50+ 😛
Harvey Norman etc has clearance sales, it’s store-specific though so I can’t help you.
Hmm, really? Last I checked most Harvey Normans around me seemed to have cleared out all their gaming stuff. Although I’m not sure I remember even seeing any Wii U stuff in a Harvey Norman at all so I’m not even sure if I’ve been to one since that came out. Guess I’ll have to take a look around.
Paper Mario Sticker Star is one of the very few games I would call legitimately “terrible” 😛 The only positive is the music.
“But then it’s Paper Mario” – It barely is, that’s the problem!
EDIT: Buy it if you want it though! Just don’t pay full price.
Haha, god no. Never full price, unless it’s something awesome. And even then there’s likely a deal to get it cheaper.
Being $29 made me consider it though.
Note to self: make sure mic is on when talking. 🙁
Haha, there’s a big Izumi free zone at the start in my notes as a result. Will have to make something up for her.
Cheers to everybody else for a classic session, thanks for the many laughs. Can’t wait to start writing this one up!
(Ping @popdart5 @freezespreston @redartifice @rize @sernobulus @tech_knight )
One of the most frustrating sessions I’ve had. Suddenly getting ignored, no idea why. Then it’s zombies and I’ve got exactly 0 spells that affect a zombie and a weapon which can’t hurt them so basically being a flanking bonus dummy.
I might try and work some of that frustration in to my write-up, any specific dialogue notes that Izumi would give? I.e. stuff not to say, stuff to absolutely say, etc.
More toward the black humor, not actually frustrated. I as a player was, but it was mainly because I stupidly muted my mic without realizing.
GM Summary of TAY Pathfinder:
Poor, poor buttmonkey that is @tech_knight.
Dat triple critical by @rize.
@freezespreston spending the better part of a minute sledgehammering through a stone coffin, then setting it on fire.
@redartifice almost setting himself on fire.
And everyone else doing well to not get hit. @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb
Good, good fun.
Note to self: Make Drewan more notable. In hindsight he shouldn’t have known (i.e. too much meta/personal getting in the way) the coin was in any way dangerous, and after inspecting the coffins he should have just said “Well, there’s nothing of harm here. Why don’t we just get the coin?” and picked it up without thinking.
Note to self: next time don’t roll a character that’s not actually useful in any situation you’re going to get into in a normal game so you end up sitting around contributing nothing. I feel like I’m not really adding anything by being there right now. Need to find a useful skill area that isn’t being covered by someone else.
So out of curiosity, and only if it doesn’t give away what you were aiming for, what drew you to Izumi? How did you see her playing out, what was it about the Kitsune you wanted to explore?
I actually can’t answer that without giving away entire backstory, and that backstory was kind of cool and everything. The problem is I’m just butting up against the reality that a level 1 sorcerer doesn’t really have many options available, and I built a character around support & control-type spells and dialogue, and we’ve had not much chance to use either yet, plus the large group size means that everyone has the bulk of the skills and areas covered so there’s really no niche to fit into.
For all that it’s an uncommon race and seems very cool at a glance, the Kitsune is actually kind of underpowered. -2 to strength really hurts any melee characters especially because Paizo has a very limited set of weapons available for Finesse, you don’t get any stat bonuses that are hugely useful for pure casters (and the aforementioned strength penalty makes combat casters Oracle or Cleric equally hard). The racial traits are very situational – you’re not going to get to disguise yourself or the like in a dungeon.
There’s a lot of extra details around backstory etc. that I’m keeping a secret and that’s probably acting as an extra shackle as well. But last couple of sessions I feel like I’m really not bringing anything useful or particularly enabling any extra fun for the group and I’m not sure that’s going to change.
But I’m also super tired today (have felt wiped out for over a week actually) so maybe not thinking straight.
EDIT: Just so we’re clear as well, I’m not that worried if I can’t do much in a session and it was my own stupid mistake for turning off my mic – maybe need to get a webcam so people can see I’m talking and no sound is happening – but I *am* worried that I’ve built a character that’s not actually fun to be in a party with.
If you’d rembered your bonus in the first session, your char would have saved us a whole battle, so don’t be too down.
Maybe jag a straight boring damage spell ASAP, or maybe @popdart5 could sweeten a loot thing with a wand of magic missile or something.
I can do that sleep spell two more times. Once we all hit level 2 it’ll become half as useful assuming that the enemies also start getting 2HD, and once we’re getting into 3-4 HD enemies, sleep is a waste of a spell slot (it affects up to 4 HD worth of monsters, weakest first). So enjoy it while it works.
If it becomes too useless you can switch it out for a more useful spell at level 4 anyway.
@tech_knight: problem is you can only do that once, and both my starter spells have the same issue. Sleep is more useful IMO than Color Spray so I’ll be swapping spray out first.
My interpretation of this is that at any given level where you can exchange an old spell for a different one (ie. 4th, 6th, 8th, etc), you can only swap a single spell with another spell of that spell level. It doesn’t sound like it’s restricting you in that you can only change one 1st level spell and that’s it. Therefore, for each even-numbered sorcerer level that you take, you can swap one spell with an equivalent spell of that spell level, even if you have already exchanged spells of the spell level previously.
I should apologise for bringing in character counters in the very first dungeon. I know an illusionist is one of the trickier builds to fully realise considering there are a lot of the standard monsters that are heavily resistant to mind-affecting effects but I suppose that’s what happens. It will be the same issue when people start encountering monsters with damage reduction or immunity to sneak attacks.
Your character is much, much better dealing with living enemies and you are a more socially oriented character. Where you are gifted with people skills, someone else’s character such as perhaps @sernobulus or @rize might have a bit more trouble as they’re going to have issues due to their race and the fact that Charisma is not a necessary characteristic for them. If you also end up speccing your character and taking true advantage of a Kitsune, you can simply waltz into an enemy stronghold and steal the macguffin without even fighting anyone.
Everyone has their own strengths as a character. As everyone saw, @freezespreston hits really, really hard but god forbid if he ever comes up against a monster that forces him to make a will save. Likewise with @redartifice where he can put out serious damage but only really if he can get a flanking bonus or a surprise attack on someone and there are some enemies who you don’t want to get that close to.
I try and make sure that everyone has the opportunity to feel useful and you have proven that when fighting the Hobgoblins (except for that one who was rolling stupidly well and the one that @beeawwb shot). Ensuring that the party is a well-rounded group that can respond to the various challenges is crucial and everyone fills their own niche. Unfortunately last night was when your niche was rendered rather ineffective, and for that I apologise.
I was pretty exhausted last night and got a bit frustrated, so I wasn’t really seeing things that clearly. We’ll see how things start to pan out later.
EDIT: Perhaps later on I’ll grab Threnodic Spell, though I noticed they errataed the prerequisites to be Spell Focus (Necromancy) instead of Spell Focus (Enchantment) so it’s a while away for me.
Just beware that metamagic feats apply only to a certain spell that you designate and this is mostly fixed. What I like to allow is that you select the spell to apply the metamagic to and then you keep the effect of the metamagic for as long as you like. You are only able to change the application of metamagic to different spells when you level, similar to how you can change spells when you level to a certain point. I find that metamagic feats can be a bit too restrictive and you can get boxed in unnecessarily so this enables you to change things when you start getting bigger and better stuff.
Tagging @tech_knight as this is likely to be important for you too.
Cool thanks, never looked at metamagic yet :P. We’ll see if I can pick something to make better later on
Is that how it works? That’s quite different to the way they describe it. And useless. 😐
Actually I’m pretty sure that’s wrong. Once you have the feat it should be possible to choose whether to apply it to a spell you cast at cast time, and it’s not fixed to just one spell it can be applied to.
And then look at say Heighten Spell:
Notice it doesn’t say anything about selecting a specific spell when you take it, and being able to take it multiple times to apply to a different spell. Compare to weapon proficiency:
Or compare to spell focus:
Note how they explicitly say you choose something when you take it. The metamagic ones don’t.
Yeah that’s my bad. Thinking back to old 3.5 again where metamagic was inherently specific to certain spells. I keep overlooking the stuff that Pathfinder did to make it fairer and more enjoyable. Also a bit weird that the weapon proficiency feats are selective and the metamagic ones are more general but oh wel.. RAW all the way then.
@popdart5: Yeah, Pathfinder basically swings the balance around, possibly too far in caster’s favour because some of the metamagic stuff you can do is brutal. Like putting the Dazing Spell MM feat onto an AoE spell like exploding rune – it makes everything that the spell hits also get dazed for a number of rounds equal to the original level of the spell
Due to my low wisdom I was really tempted to just run up and grab the coin. I think I will do that next time. =P
Yeah, that’s exactly it! I’ve got negative wisdom so I shouldn’t be rationalising these thoughts. I nailed it (pun intended for @tech_knight ;D) second session but I was too in my own head tonight.
Well I planned ahead and took cover so that the zombies would have to shamble around a sarcophagus before getting to me then just move to the next if one gets close. Served me quite well in staying alive with 1HP 😛
Haha, yeah but that’s a good example of a character acting in accordance with what they should. Self preservation trumps most things, generally.
That was the idea yeah. Also just didn’t want to be knocked out with something just stupid like a flaming zombie flailing at me randomly and an ember hits me for 1 dmg 😛
Or a lopped off head flying through the air and randomly hitting you.
I spent like 5 minutes trying to carefully look the pedestal over for magical traps since the whole room seemed suspicious, but I was on mute 🙁
Serves me right for trying to be clever and burn the zombies.
After I saw the first one go up I thought ignition would be the best weapon we had against them.
You know I was thinking of learning Ray of Frost for level 2 after that xD
I’m thinking of grabbing acid splash personally. Frost is nice but cold resistance is common, where acid is useful if we encounter anything that regenerates (trolls) as like fire it can seal off the damage.
We’ll both have our uses if you get that spell… but on a character level I’m getting Ray of Frost cuz it’s more for putting Abelas out next time he tries to set himself on fire than basic damage 😉
Frost spells won’t put out fires, just make people really cold…
EDIT: Ray of Frost being a Ray spell can crit though, where acid splash can’t.
Create Water is pretty much the best option to put out fires but Ray of Frost can be effective in its own way, just takes a bit more effort.
Out of interest, what would happen if you cast grease underneath a guy that was on fire?
Asking for a friend. 😛
Oh well, would’ve been funny if I could. The crit would be useful though so I think I should take it regardless.
Hi, TAY.
Mlep.
https://24.media.tumblr.com/a1fc87004c72c50247d31938d56940d1/tumblr_n4k5ctf4Qc1qb61kpo1_400.gif
OK, so Wolfenstein: The New Order is due out tomorrow (the 20th) right?
Went into Dick Smith and put $10 down on an Xbone copy to get it for $65. They then proceeded to tell me that they already had it in stock out the back, but they weren’t aloud to release it for sale until Thursday the 22nd. Seriously WTF’s up with that. Even their website says that it releases on the 20th.
http://www.dicksmith.com.au/xbox-one/wolfenstein-the-new-order-xb1-dsau-yg10468
Reckon I’ll go in there tomorrow, and see if I can get them to give it to me
Let me know how you go I’m hoping to grab that today.
Sorry man, not gonna be able to do it today, just checked my account and there’s way less in there than I thought. It’s gonna have to wait till Thursday or Friday.
Oh well, at least I’ll get it before the weekend I s’pose.
Lol, I knew that’d bite us in the ass. wtf -_-
My favourite club could be having a video game / cosplay themed party!
I need ideas!
Sexy ideas!
Sexy cheap ideas!
Soooo pumped! 😀
Cho Aniki if it’s at The Court. Thank me later.
I don’t mention the Court that often, do I?
I think that’s a little out of my scope unfortunately anyway, without hitting the gym 24/7 for the next 6 months anyway :S
Thanks for the suggestion though! 😀
No, you don’t, I was just making an educated guess
Gabriella’s baby shower will be invaded by terrorists, with sexy results.
Sorry, couldn’t help throwing in a Simpsons reference.
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/159/5/4/sexy_mario_by_jayextee-d52pame.png
If that’s what you find sexy, then you go for it man. More power to you…
http://i.imgur.com/DBP7gwu.jpg
A ditto doing a poor Machamp impersonation?
Wait, no! It’s Kerby after swallowing a ditto doing a Machamp impersonation!
This make it clearer?
Onsokumaru?!
http://i.imgur.com/9ReZEJz.jpg
No, but now I WISH THAT IT WAS!
Obscure old anime 2×2=Shinobuden, localized in the US as Ninja Nonsense. Dunno how well its aged but at the time it was incredibly funny.
Was….. was that your revenge picture of me?
I HAVE JUST THE THING!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtTSGxVxplo&t=1m1s
Caution: could be considered mildly nsfw 😛
I could probably pull off a scrawny white boy version of Sagat…
Hmm…
Thanks! 😀
Is that hair on Gooky’s head? 😛
EDIT: Ha ha, at the end it seems like the camera guy was zooming in closer and closer to your butt. You’re very brave to pull off that cosplay.
I had to go back and see which persons butt the camera man zoomed in on to pick out who Gooky is (no homo).
Awesome cosplay, haha! Very brave indeed!
Nah, brave was when I took it for its first outing, taking pictures in a park to enter into a competition. And asking the girl I had a crush on to do it for me, since she knew photography 😛
That night though, totally smart move. It was sweltering in there, but I was perfectly dressed to conditions, I was comfortable all night. Can’t imagine how bad it must’ve been for Honda in that sumo suit.
Nathan Drake maybe?
I was thinking of him, but thought it might be a common / popular one, so don’t wanna be just another Drake kinda thing.
Thanks anyway! 😀
Guybrush Threepwood? You can spend all night using insult swordfighting quotes
Raiden from MGS2 would be pretty easy & cheap
Sexy
Question about Game Of Thrones.
Is it better to watch the series, or read the books first?
I’ve got Season 1-3 sitting here, watched episode 1 so far. I’ve also got all the books in the series (so far), just looking at all the books sitting there with all those thousands of pages is a bit daunting. I kind of want to get up to speed with the books before the next one comes out, which rumour has it is a mammoth 1500 pages. But thankfully the publisher has confirmed that it’s not coming out till at least 2015, so it gives me a bit of time to catch up.
One of the other staff members at work told me I should read the books first, but what do you guys recommend?
I say books first. There’s a whole bunch of stuff that makes more sense with the book background.
That said, I know a few people who don’t think it’s worth the time.
I like the books as well though I admit they do get harder to read as they go on. I know a few people who couldn’t even finish the first.
I wouldn’t believe that particular rumour. The fourth book and the first half of the fifth book were originally planned to be a single volume, but were split due to length. Still, they’re weighty tomes, even if they aren’t 1500 pages.
The books are pretty good. I haven’t seen the show yet. It’s certainly cheaper to obtain the books (assuming you intend to take a legit path).
Wasn’t that much of a difference in cost, granted I’ve been told the tv show hasn’t caught up to the books yet. I got season 1 and 2 for $50 and 3 for $40, so $90 all up, and from memory the books cost me $70.
Thanks heaps for your input @blaghman, @gorzilla, @shane, @brutaltoad and @greenius, I think I’ll read the books first.
I have read through the first 2 and a half books so far. Books are great. I read the first book and most of the second before hitting up the series. I think reading the books help clear up any slight confusion in the first series. In saying that maybe watch the first couple of episodes then start on the book. The TV show does shock value really well, they always have something to leave your mouth agape.
I’d say books first, just to help avoid weekly spoilers from the show.
I don’t read often but I found myself motivated to find out what happens next and got through all 5 books surprisingly fast (for me). I think it helped that I have already seen 3 seasons of the show before I started reading and I was just getting too impatient waiting for the next season to air to find out more 😛
While watching the show I had absolutely no idea who 80% of the characters were or what was going on, but the books help made things a bit easier now that I could associate the names with faces and I think I enjoyed the books more.
Actually, yeah, that spoiler thing is a really good reason to read the books.
I’d watched 2 seasons before dipping into the books. Having seen the show helped in the beginning because I had a rough Idea on what was going on, spent less time imagining characters and locations and ploughed through it.
Why not do both? \o/
The only problem with doing both at the same time is that it might be hard to read/watch the exact same thing again just after watching/reading it.
This happened when I tried reading the first book soon after watching the first season. It was hard to continue reading since the show followed the book so closely and I felt like I knew exactly what was happening and wasn’t getting anything out of reading it, so I gave up reading after 100 pages :P. I went back a few years later when I forgot everything that happened in season/book 1 and 2 though and thankfully the show and books have enough differences later on to justify both :).
@evilmonkey
So whatever you pick, I recommend you just do all of it first before doing the other! (watch until the show is current/read all the available books)
Good point, listen to Greenius 😉
So my home keyboard has decided it’s going to be a pain and stop working properly (I’ve had it for about 8 years so I’m not too upset) but now I have to decide what keyboard to buy in it’s place.
Anyone have any recommendations? I’d like something wireless as I do all my computing from my couch. I generally prefer light key-presses with short travel distance as I did most of my typing on a laptop in a previous life.
I also like having media keys and blue backlight is nice but probably my lowest priority as I will probably have backlights switched off most of the time anyway.
The most promising one I’ve found so far is this: http://www.logitech.com/en-au/product/wireless-illuminated-keyboard-k800?crid=26
I’ve always wanted to try the Razer Mice and Keyboards, but my PC is barely good enough to play Plants Vs. Zombies (tower defense), so I never bothered.
Edit: Sorry, I know that didn’t help much, but ever since I’ve heard of Razer I don’t know why, but I’ve just had the impression that they’re the best you can get.
I paid a small fortune for the razer Mamba which is supposed to be a fantastic wireless gaming mouse. It seems pretty good but probably not worth the money. My biggest problem with it is that it starts off with roughly 8hrs worth of battery life which for me isn’t quite enough for a full day of gaming and of cause as it gets older that only gets shorter. I just leave it plugged in all the time now.
Razer are certainly NOT the best you can get. The only good Razer product is the Blackwidow Ultimate.
I say this as someone with a Razer Megalodon headset that constantly disconnects, has broken buttons after a week of use and makes horrible beeping noises all the time. And has a horrible mic. And a Razer Naga Epic that just decides it’s time to stop responding to mouse clicks and disconnects daily due to the battery being flat while it’s plugged in.
My Blackwidow Ultimate, however, is great.
Join TS sometime for some good ol’ honest Razer bashing!
I beg to differ, the Death Adder is the only mouse i’ve ever liked, and it’s always been decent!
Yeah, I’d go with that one.
$129 at JB,
I’m using a Corsair K90, which is giant (18 macro keys, and numberpad) but I absolutely love it. A joy to type on, great for gaming. However it’s wired and I note you posted a wireless model. So just added as food for thought.
I have the K60 *high five*
Alright, I plan, to finish writing this by midnight, so I’ll try to keep this brief.
@weresmurf, you did not know what Katawa Shoujo is. It is my mission to educate you.
The concept of Katawa Shoujo was first created in 2007 by a 4chan user named RAITA. The man’s vision was to have a romantic visual novel where the objects of your affection has physical disabilities. The concept arose a lot of discussion amongst the 4chan boards. People wanted this to be a thing. Many 4chan members rallied together and created their own studio; Four Leaf Studios. Act One of the game was released in 2009, and the full game was released in 2012.
Story Overview: Hisao Nikai is a normal high school student living his life until he suffers a heart attack. Hisao is diagnosed with an incurable heart defect.
After several months in hospital, he is finally deemed healthy enough to leave. However, his heart defect will forever tower over him. He is determined to be too ill to ever return to normal schooling, so he is entered into Yamaku High School, a school tailored to disabled students.
At Yamaku, Hisao struggles to adjust to the terms of his heart defect. He knows that he will never live past 40. However, he receives help from his friends. Depending on your decisions, that friendship may eventually blossom into love, or further deteriorate Hisao’s mental state.
The writing is brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant. I don’t mean to hype it up, but this game has some of the best written characters I have ever seen. The character’s personalities are multi-faceted, and deep intricacies to their character. Through the game, you discover snippets of their backstory, how their disability affects their life, how they live. It’s all superb. Although RAITA’s concept was possibly the result of some really weird fetishes, this is not the case for the final game. This game has sex, yes, but it is all justified and does not feel perverted.
I can’t talk about how good the characterisation is if I don’t provide at least basic character bios
Emi Ibarazaki: She has had her legs amputated to the knee due to events I do not wish to spoil. She has to wear prosthetic legs to walk. Despite this, she is the track champion. She views her prothetic legs as an asset, not a liability. I don’t know how to describe her character without major spoilers. Her characterisation is just so damn good. The sort of character you can appreciate on multiple levels.
Rin Tezuka: Due to a birth defect, she was born with no arms. She has since learnt to do everything using her feet. This includes painting. She is an extremely competent painter, despite being forced to use her feet. The crux of her character is around painting. The sad thing about her character is that she clearly has an undiagnosed mental disorder that affects her. I will say no more.
Shizune Hakamich: Shizune is a deaf mute. I haven’t completed her story arc, but I suspect her character is pretty deep.
Hanako: Hanako bears the horrific scars from a fire. She has severe social anxiety. As with Shizune, I have not played her story arc. Give me a break, they are 8 hours each and I need months between story arcs so I can recover from the emotions. From all the other stories, I can tell that her story arc is going to be something special.
Lilly Satou: Lilly Goddamm Satou, the bringer of emotions, the nicest person to never exist. (sadly) Blind since birth. Just the best waifu. I will try to keep this brief to prevent all the happy memories I have with her to poison my thinking, but Lilly is the best.
Aside from brilliant characterisation, the game also is jam-packed with emotions. Happiness, sadness, euphoria, self-reflection, and genuine fear over the well-being of a character.
Hisao is a brilliant protagonist. Although romantic stories tend to fall into the trap of not developing the main character, Katawa Shoujo is not among them.
The music is also pretty good.
Despite my best efforts, this essay comes across as a confusing mess of hyperbole. But it’s really good. Don’t write this off just because it’s a romantic story. I didn’t think I liked romantic stories before Katawa Shoujo; now I don’t know what to think.
I am not using hyperbole when I say that this game has bettered me as a person. I am dead serious.
I hope this essay has enlightened you. You can get the game for FREE here.
At the very least, I hope this convinces negative zero. I doubt it. I think I’d have to play Clannad before he will play my game.
Haha, technically finished it before midnight in Perth.
He’s not going to read this, is he?
@negativezero READ IT AND THEN PLAY IT!
@phlanispo: hey, I was already convinced. It’s on my list. My problem is that my laptop is on the fritz right now and running anything on it kind of sucks. Also I have two other VNs in motion which I want to polish off first, Aiyoku no Eustia and the ‘Unlimited’ story from Muv-Luv.
Katawa Shoujo is on my backlog alongside a couple of others that I really want to get to (Muv-Luv Alternative, Shikkoku no Sharnoth, couple of others) and it’s high on my priority list, but I also don’t feel like getting depressed right now.
@phlansipo: I have a reply to you and gorzilla explaining why I haven’t gotten to it yet but it’s in moderation due to too many links. 🙁
I may…. or I may not… did I? Or didn’t I? This is gonna frustrate you all day isn’t it… lol
I did read it I promise lol. I appreciate people taking the time to educate others properly on things in a decent manner. Ta for that 🙂
It actually sounds very interesting, how they’ve taken a lot of steps that bigger companies would never touch, such as birth defects etc.
Haha, oh man. You’re having much the same reaction as me. After finishing the first playthrough and then the next couple of characters I just had to talk about it so much.
You are right. Lilly is best waifu. I think every time someone mentions her a little voice in the back of my head says “why can’t I meet someone like her?” then another voice says “come on, a girl like that wouldn’t even waste the time to look at you” then another voice says “lol, you sick bastard. Though seriously. If you met Lilly and she wasn’t blind, she would gouge her eyes out before she’d consider looking at you!”
“DON’T YOU TRASH TALK MY WAIFU!” I scream at the voices, “Lilly is a kind and gentle sole. She would never be that cruel!” Then I cry and make another appointment with my therapist*
If you haven’t seen Rtil’s youtube/deviantart yet I highly recommend looking.
This is my favourite one –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6rhYiCfjoU
I also highly recommend looking at all the insta feels – little animated sumerizations of all the storylines
*may or may not be based on actual events.
I have to second this excellent summary. I’m a fan of the genre and what they were able to put together as a community is absolutely fantastic. Do yourself a favour and play it. (directed at anybody who hasn’t.)
Well, I’m game to give it a shot, given the seemingly uniform praise.
I haven’t played many of those, if only because I got frustrated by the endless clicking-reading without ever being asked to make a decision or have any input, to the point I usually begin wondering why I’m not just watching an anime or something. I played Analogue, the Korean-based one, which was a fun mystery solve thing, and I’m always meaning to go back to Shira Oka when I have the effort to take all the notes I should be taking to not keep missing things. (Also, apparently dividing your attention amongst as many of the girls is weirdly counter-productive, it seems to want you to laser-focus one per lifetime and get only mildly chummy with her immediate friends. Which, y’know… that’s not how RL works dammit!)
And now for me to assess your essay as promised! lol
Structure: Not bad, you delve into the identity of the topic, the origin, the game itself then the characters. It loses its structure a little at the end but all up it’s a very good effort. Mark: A-
Grammar: It’s the internet. The fact you managed to avoid common internet tropes gives you an A+ automatically. Impressive. Mark: A+
Knowledge: You have an impressive knowledge of the source material, your level of knowledge about the characters and their situations shows someone very passionate about the material at hand, however can also indicate someone carrying potential bias towards the source material. Be wary of that when it comes to potentially critiquing the source material. The best fans are the ones who can equally praise and critique at the same time. Mark: A+
Referencing: You provided a link to the game! Superb! Well done! A+ We aren’t using Harvard, APA or MLA, so you get top marks! Mark: A+
Overall mark: A+! Top effort lad!
lol. This was only done for fun, but I do appreciate the effort you went to 🙂 I did read it and enjoy it and will likely check it out when Uni is out for the semester, I bookmarked the URL I promise 🙂
Man you talk a lot 😛
Great game though, couldn’t not play through every possible path. Well except I never got around to doing the “cleanup” on Lily’s route, getting all the paths I missed. But hey, maybe some day.
*freaks out*
Like this?
…..runs around in underwear…..
Le Freak, c’est Chic.
You’re gonna do awesome, Gooks.
Morning TAYbies! Is anyone else as annoyed by the FCC ruling on net neutrality as I am? Or am I getting worked up over nothing ><
I can’t hear you over the the sound of these illegal downloads flying by. What?
I’ll get angry if I think about it. But I have meetings. So, not a great time to be simmering with latent aggression.
This would be the “We stayed completely out of it and let monopolies do whatever the fuck they liked. That’s neutrality about the net, isn’t it?” ruling? Yeah that’s going to be extra fun when ISPs here figure out they can get away with the same shit because they’ll split data caps per service as well as peak & off peak. You’ll get 1tb a month but have 150gb available during the day and only 5gb of that will be available for youtube
I bought ZombieU on the weekend because it was only $10
Crazy fun game. Flawed, sure. Still fun. 😀
I saw it that cheap and had to fight the urge to buy it even though I already have it.
Really? Twice?
I just like it that much 😛
Every time Deus Ex or Sleeping Dogs is on sale I’m like “I should get that” even though I already own and have finished both.
whoa, where from, I should be getting a Wii U soon, good time to stock up on games for it.
Target
I’ll have to try get to one of them, for some reason they don’t seem to have it on their web site. thanks
Good deal! Great game (that I STILL haven’t finished >:[ )
Neither. Save’s sitting there at the marked point of no return, I’m not sure about what to take with me or whatever 😛
Queen are touring XD I’ve waited basically my entire life to see them (well, half of them) since the age of 6 or 7. First memory I have of them is Freddie’s memorial concert. I’ll finally be able to tick off the one band I’d thought I’d never get to see live
Will there be a Freddie hologram?!
If that was the case I’d be there in a flash, it’ll probably be with Adam Lambert, so that’s a nope from me.
Yeah, seeing someone like Queen without Mercury feels like just a tribute band. Haha.
Adam Lambert fits the band well though, a lot better than Paul Rodgers ever did. Great singer in the same sort of range as Freddie and the flamboyance and theatrics to front the band as well. Anyways, I’m not going to see him, I’m off to see my favourite guitarist in the world and my first ever hero in Roger Taylor. The downside for me is no John Deacon. Fantastically under-rated bassist. Pick up a bass and try to play a few songs and you realise he was busy doing his own stuff that’s bloody hard to pull off sometimes
Man, that would be awesome. I dread to think what the tickets are gonna cost, though, so I’m going to try to avoid seeing any futher news.
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I care not about ticket prices. Money is only money, this is something I’ll probably never get to see again. I feel a bicycle race with lots of naked women should be organised to herald this tour
Kill The Queen
Hey @mrtaco, this just came in the mail.
Also my copy of Damage Inc with the Flight Stick just arrived. If anyone’s interested it’s also compatible with Birds Of Steel, Brids Of Prey, H.A.W.X. 1 (woohoo, I have that), H.A.W.X. 2, Ace Combat 6, Apache Air Assault, Heroes Over Europe, and Blazing Angels 1 and 2.
Haha, I went to leave this morning and found them both sitting there at the front door. Stupid jerk postman not even knocking.
Dark Souls 2.
Zhfg unir orra fbzrguvat nobhg ynfg avtug orpnhfr V tbg vainqrq gur penc bhg bs. V dhvpxyl qrpvqrq gung gelvat gb gnxr ba gur Yhan Orysel juvyr orvat nggnpxrq ol Oebja Oebf jnf n onq vqrn. Gura V tbg abezny vainqrq juvyr jnaqrevat gur Onfgvyyr naq trggvat xvyyrq.
V gura qrpvqrq gb tb gb Uhagre’f Pbcfr naq nyfb tbg vainqrq naq xvyyrq gurer. Jura V svanyyl tbg hc gb gur ACP Uhagre Cunagbz guvat V bayl orng vg jvgu fbzr uryc. Naq gura V tbg fgbzcrq ol gur Punevbg (nxn Xrryf ba Jurryf).
V unir lrg gb npghnyyl fheivir orvat vainqrq juvpu vf xvaqn qrcerffvat. Vg qbrfa’g uryc gung zl znva fheiviny fgengrtl vf oybpxvat jvgu n gbjre fuvryq naq zbfg bs gur vainqref ner hfvat rapunagrq jrncbaf sbe rkgen qnzntr naq rssrpgf. V xabj V arrq gb hc zl cbvfr fb gung V qba’g trg xabpxrq nebhaq nf zhpu ohg V guvax V’z uvggvat n cbvag jurer V arrq gb fbhy tevaq sbe n ovg.
I got invaded a whole bunch of times last night as well. More last night than the entirety of my 84 hour playthrough before that. Died every time. /o\
What level are you?
Currently hovering around 62-ish. I’ve probably buggered up my build as I went a bit of an everyman approach in stats as I can cast magic, do the basic heal, and am wielding a tower shield and greatsword with the Drangleic armour IIRC.
My rolling is equivalent to a flopping fish but I get decent-ish damage reduction with armour and shield blocking.
even though i’m no PVP pro, I’ve been invaded a fair bit & this is what I’ve gathered :
Qba’g oybpx nyy gur gvzr. bayl jura lbh’er orvat nggnpxrq. bgurejvfr lbh yrnir lbhefrys bcra gb fuvryq oernx nggnpxf & gung cerggl zhpu erfhygf va LBH QVRQ.
Qenatyvp Fuvryq vf nznmvat. 100% Culf erfvfg & ernyyl ybj jrvtug. fb lbh pna qbqtr vapbzvat zntvp nggnpxf, be whfg gnax nalguvat culfvpny.
Tlez Terngfuvryq vf n cerggl ornfgyl guvat. 100% culf & sver erfvfg & terng fgnovyvgl. Clebf jbag or noyr gb gbhpu lbh. ohg vgf cerggl urnil (15 jrvtug)
Univy’f Terngfuvryq vf gur bgure bar lbh zvtug jnaan tb ybbxvat sbe. 98% culf erfvfg & 100% erfvfg bs jungrire ryrzrag lbh vashfr vg jvgu. fb vs lvbh’er univat gebhoyr jvgu zntvp hfref, vashfr Univy’f jvgu zntvp & lbhe ceboyrzf ner fbegrq.
Zntvp Fuvryq. ernyyl uvtu zntvp qrsrapr, ehoovfu culf qrsrapr. ohg vgf fb yvtug, lbh pna nssbeq gb unir vg rdhvccrq nf n frpbaq fuvryq & fjvgpu gb vg onfrq ba lbhe fvghngvba.
V zrna, abar bs gung vf tbaan or 100% rssrpgvir. fbzr jrncbaf unir nggnpxf gung pvephzirag fuvryqf ragveryl.
nf sbe lbhe jrncbaf…. V’ir sbhaq n Rfgbp vf terng. nyfb n yvtugavat znpr. obgu unir ernyyl uvtu cbvfr qnzntr, fb rira vs gurl oybpx, gurl’yy or fghaarq orsber gbb ybat tvivat lbh na bcravat.
Jung ryfr……?
Hfr gur raivebazrag. uvqr oruvaq pbearef & urny. gel & onpxfgno. qba’g cneel hayrff lbh’er qnza tbbq ng vg. zbfgyl, or cngvrag. jnvg sbe na bcravat. vgf orggre gb zvff na bcravat guna tb sbe n uvg & trg pbhagrerq. naljnl…….. tbbq yhpx.
A bit unrelated to what you said but…
how did my “tip” about Belfry Luna go? Did you enjoy it more when the servers were up and you were online?
haha yeah. I think I was a tad underlevelled for the boss (still haven’t beat em), but the PCs were great.
PCs?
Zl gvc jnf whfg va ersrerapr gb gur enaqbz cynlre vainfvbaf. V qvqa’g xabj vg pbhyq unccra naq orvat bssyvar zrnaf lbh jbhyq’ir zvffrq nyy gung :). Frrzf yvxr lbh’er rawblvat CiC gubhtu!
(Other) Player(‘s) Characters.
I’m feeling very lazy at the moment.
Edit : yeah, I’m sorta digging PVP. I’ve not invaded anyone, but when I do get hit, it’s a bit of fun.
So I’m planning on grabbing Dark Souls when it goes free on Xbox Live next month. Since Xbox Live requires a paid subscription for multiplayer and I don’t currently have gold on my account (only my wife does, to keep us rolling in dem free games and so I can leech off her for Titanfall on Xbone), I’ll still be able to play right? Just without being able to summon/get invaded? I really don’t want any of that, but for some reason I see it as an itegral part of the game (probably because PS3 multiplayer is free so everyone has it and Demon’s/Dark Souls was always more of a Playstation game than an Xbox game).
As a game, you can play it offline. I didn’t have Gold for 95% of my Dark Souls playthrough, and played through the entire game solo. I even got all the achievements, though some of them are considerably harder w/o multiplayer.
I don’t know if you’ll be able to play it with the Games With Gold free promotion – that’s another issue.
Will messages still show up on non-Gold accounts?
From memory, no. I didn’t have a net connection for most of my playthrough, but even after I got one for my 360, I don’t think messages came through. Pretty sure that’s all contained behind the Gold wall.
As far as I know as long as both your account and her account (the account that downloaded it) are on the same console, you should be all good. But yeah, no online stuff.
Are you making this assumption because you’re experiences this before? AccountX buys Game On Demand, AccountY logs in and plays the game. Cos that’s not working for me, and apparently it’s supposed to?
Pretty sure my son has played XBLA games purchased on my account on a separate account that I set up for him.
Hmmm, I shall have to test this.
I buy The Walking Dead on a US account, and play them on both my AU account and my wife’s AU account. No issues.
But it might be a different system with these free Games For Gold.
My friend has a bunch of purchased games to his name, and his account on my console. I could log in as him and download some games, but when I try to launch them from my account it tries to load then exits (without even opening the game) with “error, try again” or something generic. I know for certain that he wasn’t online at the time. Hmm :\
Ahhh. I think it works like this.
I think the first console those games are purchased from (presumably your friend’s console) can access games on all accounts on that console.
Any subsequent consoles can only access the games using the purchasing account.
Edit: It’s basically set up to allow households to share games, but to prevent people from doing exactly what you’re trying to do: play games without paying for them.
What matters is if the account that “owns” the game is associated with that console as their home console.
Scenario 1: Andy buys a game to Xbox1. His roomie-bros Brad and Charlie have their accounts on Xbox1 as well, and can play the games freely.
Scenario 2: Andy moves out with Xbox1 so Brad and Charlie buy Xbox2 to fill the gaping void in their lives. Andy can visit and access his account via Xbox2, and download games he owns, and play them freely. However, as Xbox2 is not his home console that the purchases are tied to, he must be logged into Xbox Live (gold not required). Brad and Charlie cannot access the games Andy owns, even though he has downloaded them to Xbox2 which is sitting in front of them. I think for multipalyer games Brad and charlie can play WITH Andy, as long as Andy is logged in.
As far as Games with gold goes, my wife can download the games to our Xbox and I can access them because that’s the deignated “home” console her account is tied to. But as a non-gold subscriber, I cannot access any XBL features such as online multiplayer.
Thankfully on Xbox One, that restriction is removed and I can share my wife’s gold subscription and enjoy all the features of gold – which is part of why I can’t be bothered reupping my gold sub even though I still have plenty of games left to play on Xbox 360.
Thanks for the clarification. I was close, though “Home console” instead of “First console” would have been correct.
@stickman, this is what’s going on.
Sweet, makes sense really. Thanks to @shane too.
Now the question is – can you change your ‘primary’ console? There has to be a way, because if not that’s pretty bullshit.
@stickman, IIRC you can do it, but I think there’s a limit to how often.
@stickman Yep, you can assign your account to a new console (it used to be limited to once a year to prevent abuse but I think they’ve eased that restriction). We’re on our third 360 and we’ve migrated our accounts each time. There’s a license transfer tool on the Xbox site that mill migrate all your purchases so when you get a new console you’re not locked out of using DLC/games etc you previously purchased fair and square.
Xbox also did this for you automatically if your console died (for instance due to RROD) and they have to send you a replacement.
Hmmm, that’s interesting. I just tested it out with Bully: Scholarship Edition (which I purchased with my account), and Hitman: Absolution (which I got with Games With Gold) and they both work fine on my sons account (which doesn’t have gold), so I don’t know why you’re having problems.
Don’t know, it’s just a theory, but maybe it’s because your friends account isn’t the main account on the console (but I don’t think that should matter).
I can definitely play the games my wife hasdownloaded on her gold account, that’s not an issue. I’m just wondering how much of the game is walled off behind the gold wall – if all I’m missing is summons/invasions but I can play the game without them, that’s fine. Not receiving the messages either… that’s more of a concern.
Granted I haven’t even finished the game, but as far as I know the only thing that gold will effect is invasions, summons and messages. You will still be able to play and complete the entire game to 100% and get all achievements if you so wish.
Fair enough. I can live without messages. As far as I am aware they’re only stuff like “Don’t go this way” which I will probably learn for myself.
Dark Souls is free on Game With Gold?
Siiiigh, time for me to trawl through all my game cases to find a long lost 48 hour pass so i can grab it XD
Not till next month, it’s Saints Row: The Third till the end of May.
By the way, if you can’t find one I’ve got one here that I got with Titanfall you can have, pretty sure I’ve got a two month one too if you want it.
Thanks man, i’ll have a hunt around first and see if i can’t find it…
When does Games With Gold roll over? 16th of each month or something isn’t it?
There’s two games each month usually changing over on the 1st and the 16th I think.
In June it’s going to be three games on 360 instead of two, I don’t know how they plan to space them out because it’s unprecedented. The other two games they plan to offer are Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition and Charlie Murder as well. What i’m hoping is that they offer the arcade titles in the first/second halves of the month respectively, and the retail title (Dark Souls) for the whole month. But that might make slightly too much sense.
I think the Games With Gold games only work as long as your Gold account is active, and might not activate at all on a short-term membership like that. I could be wrong about EVERYTHING, though.
PS: If you want to borrow my copy, you can. As long as I get it back one day, it’s fine.
Thanks for the offer, but i technically do already have it on PC… i just had dreams of slouching on the couch beating the living crap out of Ornstein and Smough with a blanket over me, instead of being perched in front of the PC 😛
I do mean to pick up another gold membership, if only for the Games With Gold
Lol on the one day conidition.
I’m pretty sure that only applies to the Xbone Games With Gold that starts next month. As far as I know ALL Games With Gold games for 360 stay on your account permanently, even when your gold subscription expires.
Prime example is all the Games With Gold games I’ve downloaded on my account work on my sons silver account.
That sounds like definitive evidence to me. Sorry. I guess I just assumed they worked like the PS+ games.
But then again, maybe they won’t work anymore if the purchasing account’s Gold membership lapses… TO THE LABORATORY!
For the record though, a 48-hour pass isn’t considered a “real” subscription, and only gives limited access to multiplayer, so a 48-hour pass might not enable you to score free games. So even though any games you download free under GWG stay yours forever (on 360), they might not be able to be downloaded unless you’re paying for a real subscription in the first place.
On XBone the system is mimicking the PS+ system, where you lose access if you let your subscription lapse. This is the more economically viable system in the long term, so I hope Microsoft try and make it more competitive because the free offers and various deals PS+ users completely spank the benefits of XBL Gold at the moment.
Correct, you can’t claim Games With Gold games with a ‘trial’ pass. Needs to be 1month or higher.
I started reading the The Stormlight Archive last night after a friend kept recommending it to me. The start was a little weird. Maybe I’ve just played too many video games, but it read exactly like a tutorial level. I could practically see the button prompts.
From the official Dark Souls page:
So no risk of Dark Souls save files being encrypted and lost in a move away from GFWL in the near future. Good.
Not sure I’d go that far. GFWL doesn’t have much of a foreseeable future, does it? Bandai Namco still haven’t stated that they’ll be able to liberate save files from that sinking ship.
GFWL apparently is being withdrawn and scrapped come the first of July. Hopefully that doesn’t create too many headaches then again the removal of Gamespy servers have been a major issue for older games.
I’m having trouble figuring out exactly what Bandai Namco are promising then… is it really just another six weeks of support, with other options being ‘explored’? No official statements regarding save files?
Wow. Go them….
According to a Microsoft Rep the GFWL shutdown has been postponed for the time being:
Ahhh, thanks! I totally missed that news.
I think most people have which is understanable… apparently the post about GFWL being shutdown was on Microsoft website for round about 24 hours before being pulled again, but is now stuck on numerous news websites so that’s what people know 😛
Developers are still moving away from GFWL but it won’t get shut down… yet…
I define the near future as the next week or so. 6 weeks should be time enough to get a playthrough finished. But yeah, still a lack of definite detail there.
One does not simply finish Dark Souls…
I did! I tweeted a picture and stuff!
Yeah, but it wasn’t simple, was it? 😛
Well, that depends on who’s asking and if I want to make myself look like a Big Man. 😉
Pros : it’ll still work.
Cons : GFWL
I’ve never been able to get it working with GFWL 🙁
I can’t get GFWL to work at all. It says an error, I click on troubleshoot, it takes me to a web page which tells me I don’t have the Internet connected :/
pretty much what I’m experiencing.
so I can either play Dark Souls offline & not save my progress, or I can go online & not be able to play it at all.
gg GFWL.
Install latest GFWL direct from Microsoft. One included with the game is broken and doesn’t work.
THE MONOTONY DRAGS ME SLOWLY INTO OBLIVION
im just really bored.
Hi Hotross!
Has anyone picked up Wolfenstein?? How’s it play/feel? Also is it worth getting straight away or waiting for a few months and grabbing it on discount? (no spoilers please!)
I have gaming rigs, so I’ll pick it up for PC at <$15 one day. It's a 15-20hr cross-platform campaign with no multiplayer, they aren't even getting DSE's $65 deal from me.
But I'm different, and don't really see the appeal of bandwagoning on the latest releases for insane amounts of money and no real point. :\ Unless it's multiplayer ..
My copy arrived yesterday. I’m enjoying it, been mostly playing a bit sneaky, but it’s always fun to pull out the big guns! Pretty responsive, but I can’t compare it to previous games as I’ve never really played any.
Graphics are pretty great.
Also, took me a few hours just to do the first 2 levels.
Playing on XBone FYI.
RPG talk
They’ve released the full product line for the next version of D&D:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/134601-Dungeons-Dragons-Unveils-Full-Product-Line-Release-Dates-and-Details-Update
They look snazzy, but I was kinda hoping they’d condense some of it back down to a player book and a DM book. the fact that it’s 4 months between the player’s guide and the DM book is annoying too- means that you’re stuck to the pregenerated adventures if you want to jump in ASAP.
Also, $150 (US) for the corebooks is pretty steep.
Ok, I can get releasing a “starter set” a few months before the core books, but how the hell do you not release the DM Guide and Player Handbook at the same time? I get that the majority of gameplay can be worked from the Player’s Handbook, I do, but there’s detail and stuff that actually makes the game interesting and fundamentally “work” in the DM guide. The two need to be used in conjunction, not separately. Oh well, good thing we’re playing Pathfinder! 😛
I’ve seen posts that suggest that the DMG is a bunch of modular extra stuff and that most of the GM resources will be in the PHB. Still, seems weird.
Yeah, I suppose if it’s not essential then that would explain it. Maybe something like the Pathfinder GM Guide which seems to have rules for fast ship combat, chases disasters, drugs & addiction, sanity & madness, and a bunch of other cool stuff.
Or the Ultimate Campaign which includes a bunch of stuff for world-building and “between adventure” stuff.
I can’t really comment due to work internet blocking the site but this is pretty standard WotC practice and it just seems to continue the excessive quarantining of content they did with 4e. I’m interested in how the mechanics and new rules will work out but I’m willing to sit out and see what other books they release later down the track.
Is this the successor to 4E? Does it still suck? Really don’t like how 4E plays. Too videogamey.
It is the successor, yeah.
I started roleplaying with 4e, so there’s a lot of stuff I like- it’s very approachable, each character feels like they have something to do all the time.
I don’t like how long chargen took, and as someone who more often than not ends up as GM there’s too much bookkeeping for my current taste. That said, if someone said to me “Red, come GM D&D for a session” I’d do it.
My experience was only as a player. I guess it was okay but it felt really soulless to me. Too much stuff where you basically could build out a deck of cards and a couple of stacks of counters and play the game off that, barely ever looking at the character sheet. My introduction to D&D was with AD&D so it just didn’t feel right, it felt like I was playing an MMO and watching ability cooldowns. I guess that might be the appeal to other people though.
Of my original 4e group, only one was an MMO player, so that helped. Most people we ever tried to initiate got the system pretty easily, even people who’d never been near an RPG or cRPG before, which was good.
I probably won’t pick up 5e unless I’m definitely going into a campaign. I might grab the starter set for a one-shot though.
Even though it doesn’t yet have a website, and hasn’t even yet released any books, Deeper Meanings Publishing has already received its first partnership offer.
From my old publisher.
I’m gonna make them work for it, because I’m feeling cocky (and cautious).
Nice logo
Thanks. Full disclosure: I paid $5 for it.
It is pretty nice actually!
Dammit @liondrive now I have the image of Ahri cosplay from PAX in my mind
BRB need to pour bleach on my brain
That cosplay was well done
I need to start working on my PAX costume!
Need to find a place to buy green pants first.
…@greenius ?
I got a pair of green chinos from ASOS for like $15 during some clearance sale. I just had a look and they’re all like $40+ now :(.
I still haven’t worn mine though and I doubt I ever will 😀
Oh you actually knew! haha I was just joking 😛
Damn, I literally ordered from ASOS on the weekend! Why didn’t you read my mind and tell me this before I knew I wanted it? Come on.
;D
EDIT: Shane’s loving it!
Easily entertained. Or maybe I just felt like surrounding your avatars in green.
here you go
Oh and to actually answer your question
Lara Croft – crossplay
League of legends – Pantheon or Tryndamere (Or if your figure different maybe Gragas)
Splicer
Razputin – Obligitory Psychonauts reference
Pipboy
I want to see you go with option 1
I could pull off a Lara Croft crossplay I reckon 😉
I’d recommend leaving it on while in public, or you might get arrested for exposure.
Getting a haircut somewhere where you arent a regular is an awkward experience…
The only thing i know about how i want my hair is I want it to stop looking the way it did when i walk in…. otherwise, theyre the professionals, why are they making it so difficult!?
DUDE YES SOOO MUCH
trhere is like a club of us who hate haircuts.
YOU ARE THE HAIRDRESSER, GIVE ME OPTIONS I DONT KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH IT THAT IS WHY I CAME TO YOU
To be fair, if I was a hairdresser and someone came in and said “YOU’RE THE HAIR DRESSER! YOU DECIDE! NOW CUT MY HAIR!” I would probably give them a mullet or a bowl-cut or something equally shit. =P
Shave a curse word in the back of their head, trim half of the remaining hair and do a huge combover with the other half. Then close your eyes and start snipping randomly for thirty-four seconds. The hairstyle is whatever’s left at the end.
Just give them basic direction. “Short back and sides, cut with scissors on top.” Otherwise go with their opinion when they ask you details.
haven’t been to a hair cutting type person since 1997 , my sister sometimes cuts the end of my hair off cause it gets ratty.
are you a labrador or retriever
either way you are a dog, why are you getting your fur cut
just shed everywhere
I only get haircuts once every six months or so because I’m lazy and a tightarse. Even though I go to the same Korean place in Town Hall station every time, I’m pretty sure there’s no chance of them remembering me between visits.
“How much do you charge for a number two/one all over?”
***
“Under fifteen? Great. Got time to slot me in?” OR “Over fifteen? Good to know. Enjoy your day!”
Nope nope, couldn’t leave that there…
So you like buzzcuts huh?
Huh? What would you get at a brothel if you asked for a number two all o– eeeeeeeeeeeeeww
I’m hoping in that case that Number One and Number Two refer to ‘menu’ items (or maybe girls), rather than bodily functions /o\
What can i say, my mind works in mysterious (and sometimes very poor) ways 😛
You missed one possibility – I paid $15 for my haircut this morning.
I paid $33 a couple times because fuck you resident we’re a mining town in a semi-fancy salon or some shit. Meh, the girls were nice and we chatted with my gf too, so now they all know us.
What’s the prevailing local stance on that horrific inflation? If you aren’t a miner and you aren’t a local who’s in a position to gouge a miner, why are you in a mining town? Should set up some kind of ‘non-mining-industry local’ discount card scheme.
I scored a pretty good job here. Also I have a very good accommodation arrangement, so I am doing pretty okay on net income. But for an average Joe, this city is bullshit lol.
I go to a place where none of the staff seem to speak English very well.
It works out somehow.
promised a friend I’d bring this to your attention :
Zero Latency – a project based in Melbourne using a heap of PS-Eye cameras, an Occulus Rift & some funky motion tracking gear to make a fully immersive Zombie FPS. It also has multiplayer.
the raddest bit is that the guy who’s made this designed the system, built, modified & programmed all the hardware himself. that’s pretty impressive.
They’ve got a Pozible campaign. if you know anyone who’d be interested in that sorta thing, let em know.
Edit : DISCLAIMER – the guy who’s running this is a co-worker of a friend of mine. Said friend is creating some in-game maps for it.
That’s looking pretty cool. However, I am not likely to be heading Melbourne side in the near future, so won’t be contributing, sorry.
no need to apologise. it being a Melbourne-only thing is really limiting the exposure its gonna get.
I’m just throwing it out there.
Very cool project, looking forward to seeing how this one turns out.
whoooa that’s like Laser tag of the future… only with VR… and zombies… and 1000% increase in awesome!
Thanks for the nice feedback! I’m the developer for the project and we’ve been working hard to make it as awesome as possible. The results have made it very worthwhile.
I’m really hoping we can get this off the ground so we can start spreading it further than just Melbourne. It is very limiting being stuck to one small state!
So I normallyy dont tell you all to go buy things… But I’m really pumped about something on kickstarter, Who here remembers Amplitude and Frequency for PS2?
Because it’s being redone for current/next gen consoles (PS4/PS3)
Anyone interested?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/harmonix/amplitude
If I thought it would get $300K in 3 days I’d back it, but it won’t so I won’t.
Hate to be cynical, but I don’t like the way the whole thing is set up.
What’s the point of a kickstarter for something that Sony will own the IP rights to? How much of the money will be lost just in licencing fees?
It’s a once off project – it won’t help the studio add to their stable of IP to help them become more independent. Not only that, but given that it’s going to be Sony platform exclusive, how many sales can they expect outside the people that back the project?
They’ve freely admitted on their blog that the 800k target is less than half of the expected project costs – that rings some big alarm bells. The numbers aren’t stacking up.
They shot themselves in the foot with this project completely:
1. Big big amount of money they’re asking for a niche game
2. It’s PS3 and PS4-only. Sony owns the Amplitude name. Rather than making a game that’s basically Amplitude but with another name, they stuck to the brand. If that’s all they need and it’s Sony-specific why can’t Sony fund it is what people are naturally asking
3. Last game was on PS2. A lot of people on Kickstarter now would have been less than ten years old back then. And it was a niche game even then – I’ve never played it and I like music games.
4. 18-day funding period instead of the usual 30 days means that they have nearly two weeks less to gather a really high level of funding.
It’s going to fail and I feel sorry for them but it’s a problem they cooked up on their own unfortunately. Textbook case of how not to do a Kickstarter campaign as an established developer.
A question from their blog – why don’t they just use the fat stacks of cash from rock band / dance central / 300 million court ruling in their favour? The answer – the investors that sold the company got the rock band and court money… No mention of the dance central revenue streams.
For a company that (supposedly) had $100 million of revenue in 2011 thanks to dance central, I haven’t been able to dig up a reason why they need this crowd sourced money. I’d love to find one, but no luck so far.
Yeah, it seems a bit odd that a publisher with their track record isn’t able to get this project done through other sources.
Hm. It’s probably been about a month since I last read the Real World news. Let’s take a look at the headlines, see what’s occupying the minds of all the normal peop–NOOOOPE.
“Never be normal” is the message I keep giving myself and others.
Apparently Thailand has just been put under martial law
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/news/a/23668629/thailand-martial-law-live-report/
Potentially the most disturbing thing, the pro-government supporters call themselves Redshirts. Redshirts! Have they not seen Star Trek??
I hope it’s cleared up by November.
Ditto!
My Father in law flew in yesterday and a friend is also there :S
My Dad’s still there. Thinking it might be time to get him out. :\
‘Country declared martial law’ would definitely be on my bullet-point list of ‘reasons to get the fuck out of dodge’.
I’m currently hovering over the Pre-order button for the DA:I – Inquisitor’s Edition … send help!
*presses Nob’s finger down firmly*
#helping
Crazy fancy edition?
I was looking at the regular pre-order bonus stuff and hoo-boy, do they all seem like worthless poop.
Was hoping for a $10 cheaper not-fancy edition.
Worthless poop is best poop! \o/
Dark Souls seems to be crashing after the “Press Start” screen.
Would this have anything to do with DSfix?
It’s a very difficult game.
Being a chaperone for a school excursion was a mistake.
*shoots self*
http://i.imgur.com/MdWbzkI.png
Instead of the box factory we should have gone to the…. box factory.
Stupid TV killing Freeze’s imagination.
I’ll give @freezespreston $20 if he turns one of the kids in to a box.
MY BOY’S A BOX… DAMN YOU, A BOX!
I’ll give @freezespreston $20 if he turns one of the kids in to a box…
Hmmm, I’ve already said that. I shouldn’t let this bother me. I’m in TAY now. It’s my job to be repetitive. My job. My job. Repetitiveness is my job.
As the human cannon ball was loaded, he thought to himself “there aren’t many men of my caliber”
#page6 (sorry, bored)
Well, you lot have all gone quiet.
A Tuesday arvo question: We hear all the times about grittier and darker reboots- what property would you like rebooted the opposite way? What IP would be better if it took itself less self-seriously, or focused on the fun more than the drama?
Grand Theft Auto. Remember how Vice City was kind of nutty? Yeah.
The whole reason why Saints Row got a foot in the door is that GTA decided to start crawling up its own arse and going all gritty and serious and realistic and IMO forgot about being fun at some point along the way.
(But personally I’ve never been a huge fan of any of the games in the series)
Most of DC’s IPs.
I agree. @dc’s stories need more light heartedness.
All those apocalypses and the urban decay they cause get a bit dark after a while.
And the fact that they all petered out halfway through into a diatribe against buildings was strange.
Batman. Seriously, it’s a rich guy who dresses up as a bat.
*cough* Batman Forever
Well, that was a bad attempt to lighten it up. I would rather see a good attempt.
well the old tv series was sorta like that with surfing Batman and Shark repellent and such.
Exactly what I mean. They need to return to that kind of thing, where the idea of a bat man is so inherently ridiculous that it couldn’t be anything but a comedy show.
That’s why I liked Batman: Brave and the Bold. It was pretty much a homage to the Silver Age and it was pretty ridiculous at times (the Aquaman episodes were, dare I say, outrageous).
Talking Nazi tyrannosaurus rex voiced by Johnny Bravo that had its brain transplanted with an evil scientist that seeks to mind-control all the dinosaurs so the Axis can win WWII. Yeah, pretty outrageous.
http://braveandbold.wikia.com/wiki/Ultra-Humanite
The first episode of Batman: Brave and the Bold that I saw. I must say, it was a good first impression.
My only experience of Brave and the Bold was the Wii game (because WayForward fanboy) and it was awesome. Very good impression left 😛
I really liked what I saw of that Batman ’66 that got shown in a story on here a while back.
The were rumors going around of a ‘silver age’ Batman game by Rocksteady but I don’t think it eventuated. Personally I think it would suck terribly.
Some of the military shooters. Something like bulletstorm was just stupid fun and that is the sort of thing I play shooters for. Either stupid fun or a decent story.
BatmanHitmanAssassin’s CreedThe Walking DeadGears of WarCall of DutyKillzoneNah… I got nothing.
They all exist. COD has a version where you play for 360 quick/no-scopes. But it would be good to get official version of this kinda fun.
The Elder Scrolls where pretty much the entire game is written and acted as if it was from “The Lusty Argonian Maid.”
Hammerfight. That game that was in one of the earlier Humble Bundles.
It was a cool game, but story-wise whoever made it was way too caught up in their own shit. All the story was this overloaded pile of wank that just went on and on and on and really made me want to stop playing.
For a game that is about a bunch of helicopters that swing heavy things around to smash each other to pieces, I would have more expected something about a bunch of… uh… kind of “woodpunk” vikings, I guess you’d call them, with a thrashing heavy metal soundtrack.
Dark Souls
EDIT: I basically just want Dark Souls x Zelda Skyward Sword 😛
Oh! Saboteur.
Man, that game was beautiful, but the story was way too serious for how ridiculous the game was 😛
Dat aesthetic tho. GORGEOUS.
It was almost a shame to clear the Nazis out of each area, because that black and white was just amazing.
Yeah, if anything, they could’ve jazzed-up and exaggerated the cleared zones so that there was some benefit to trekking around that area without feeling like you were basically playing an inferior AC/GTA in low-res France. In which case, the ‘silliness’ treatment would work pretty well.
Sin City as a family fun time classic.
Kill Bill as a Saturday morning cartoon.
Maus. Turn it into an action-adventure movie about kicking nazi ass, and watch the money roll in. Get rid of all that feelings bullshit, it detracts from the action.
I propose that Vladek be played by the Dwayne Johnson, Anja be played by Gal Gidot, and Richieu to be played by Rico Rodriguez.
Art Spiegelman will be portrayed by Pauly Shore as a man trying to write a story about his father’s exploits and wacky adventures in WWII.
Boooooooooo.
So OzGameShop now offers faster delivery for extra monies, but only to ‘Metropolitan Areas’.
Apparently the suburb I live in is not metropolitan Melbourne. Which is news to me.
Can you get deliveries at work?
If there was a rush you could always get it delivered to my office and pick it up as it’s just down the road
I get stuff sent to work sometimes but I try not to do it too often because I don’t want to be annoying. Couriered packages, mainly. Also stuff I can transport home easily.
Normal mail and any figure deliveries (which are EMS – delivered by AusPost so they card if you’re not home) I get sent to home at the moment but I will probably move them to work at some point when I move out. Currently there’s a high probability one of my mum or my sister is home to sign for packages.
Holy crapballs, I both love and hate deadline crunches. About to roll out a new standardised document to senior management, one we’ve had a lot of difficulty with in the past and this is pretty much make or break time, we either get it right in this meeting (in 30 minutes) or not at all.
30 minutes ago discover a feature that was overlooked. Critical that it be added. CRUNCHCRUNCHCRUNCH. Added.
15 minutes ago discover a major calculation error which meant the entire thing was wrong. CRUNCHCRUNCHCRUNCH. Fixed.
Send fixed doc for proofing / final draft. Find I accidentally deleted the calculations I’d just fixed. Swear. Restore backup.
Adrenaline is great and all, but it would be good if I was able to keep some energy in check for actually, you know, presenting the thing?
Nailed it. 😀
Alrighty, my current top candidates for my cheap / sexy cosplay (if it happens) are:
– Sagat (Street Fighter)
– Kazuya (Tekken)
– Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil)
– Nathan Drake (Uncharted 3), or
– Joel (The Last of Us)
My crossplay candidates are:
– Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)
– Jill Valentine (Resident Evil), or
– Chell (Portal)
I’m leaning towards either Sagat or any of the crossplay candidates, cause it’d be funny (I could rock the Jill look 😉 ) :3
If you want to drop a suggestion, remember, the easier to make, the better (also either sexy and/or funny) 😉
Joel from The Last of Us might just make people think you haven’t showered in a while. Haha!
Yeah, but he wears a lumberjack shirt DC. A lumberjack shirt!
And he’s stylishly dirty rather than just plain dirty 😛
I really dig Joel’s look and would cosplay if I had 15-20kg more muscle on me, but there’s no way in hell I could pull off the hair without using a wig.
Yeah, man. I agree. If I grow up to look like Joel that won’t be a bad thing. Haha.
I’m a big fan of all Resident Evil stuff so the Leon and Jill stuff would be pretty cool. I reckon Wesker or adult Sherry might be an idea to look at as well.
I think you’d make a great Chell. Go Chell.
Rufus from SFIV.
The idea of Fat Princess crossed my mind :3
Gurls got curves 😉
I stand by my earlier suggestion
I could wear skin coloured undies and probably get away with it :3
I’ll stick by my previous suggestion of Lara Croft
Although another option that might be going a bit far is Juliet Starling
Haha! If I didn’t mind looking like a hooker I’d give it a go! Or if it wasn’t at a club :S
That might be a little too slutty, haha!
Male Zero Suit Samus 😛
That’s a good one actually.
I might add that to the list!
Thanks! 😀
Oh god!
What, haha!
It’s got the cheap, easy, and sexy factors down!
I’m not afraid to wear a blue spandex suit 😛
I once dressed up as a chick for a party (denim mini skirt, tube top, denim jacket, blonde wig, etc), so Zero Suit Samus is nothing 😉
Now you’ve got me thinking whether Male Samus would still wear the glowing yellow high heels 😛 You’d think no, but they ARE meant to be rocket boots… So you do need some sort of heel…
It’s your job to answer these pressing questions.
If I was shorter (I’m 6 foot 4), I’d wear mid heels, not high heels. I’d personally wear yellow rimmed flats if I go as ZSS though.
Gotta stay as true to the source material as possible 😀
How about a Dark Souls deprived character? A stick and underpants, hard to get cheaper than that
Wait…there’s girl Nerf now?
Why is it all bow and crossbow styled stuff?
If you have to ask, I’m not going to tell you! *throws dinner plate*
Cashing in on The Hunger Games popularity?
Reminds me of a plan my mates and I had. Re-enacting pivotal war scenes from movies, with nerf guns. And being loopy and possibly pissed at the same time.
Granted, we thought it up while pissed, so it sounded like a good idea at the time. In soberness, not so much.
Because girls don’t use guns. Jeez, do we really need to explain this to you? *rolls eyes*
Because according to Nerf, girls can’t use guns and only manly men can use guns.
And because it’s for GIRLS it’s all PINK and PURPLE because GIRLS.
My niece is dangerous with the dual wield pistols
Damn Serrels and his listing of game sales and it being pay day and all.
On a related note, I now own about 7 more games then I did 5 minutes ago.
Towerfall is awesome. Played it for the first time at a friends on Friday. If it was on Xbone and had added online compatibility…I would lap that shit up on the reg.
Just got a letter about my debit card having infrequent or no PIN usage over the last six months. Maybe because I use it only for online stuff and nothing else so there’s never been need for it 😛
But they’ve got the little holographic foil thingie there for covering up the PIN they send out and I thought I’d see if I could read the number without removing the foil, using my phone’s LED flashlight. And I’m pretty sure I can.
Worrying.
We walk past a tanning salon and my daughter asks what it is. I tell her it’s where you sit in a machine so you get brown skin. She looks at me like I’m an idiot and said “that’s stupid”.
Next time you’ll think twice about inventing them, Freeze! 😛
Now you just have to hope that thought sticks. Did you buy her an ice-cream or something. Need the subconscious conditioning in place
“White is much better,” she followed. The surrounding crowd shocked.
It’s the Gold Coast. SHe probably would’ve gotten applause. 😛
Bless her heart. Meanwhile, a few of the paler girls in the office get their tans re-sprayed in various shades of orange every couple weeks. All while one of the browner girls laughs at the crazy white people.
White people ARE crazy.
It’s kinda funny, that same girl mentioned something about red dots on my head, and I explained that those were actually moles. She looked puzzled and said she thought those were always brown. I shook my head and showed some other moles on my arm which are red, and she was like, “Huh. It must be because you’re white.”
Which was a very weird moment of being considered ‘other’.
I very, very, very, very briefly wondered if maybe that odd feeling of being considered ‘other’ is how the rest of the world feels all the time when presented with mega-masculine stubbled, white, space marines.
And then the moment passed and I continued about my business as usual, thinking about how to get some visceral, bullet-chewing, man-shooty gunplay on when I got home. (Then played a whimsical game as a red-headed child princess with my brother controlling her firefly companion. MAN FAILURE.)
:’O
Or do as I did and not wear sun screen and come out red, like a blister
Wolfenstein: Yay or nay dear TAY?
P.S. I’m totally making ‘yay or nay dear TAY’ a thing whenever I need to decide if I want to get or do something.
according to early reviews, its not as shit as I’d expected.
maybe try the EB rental?
I think I did that with a game already this year. Don’t want to be a dick so will have to buy. I could always return it and get $30 back or whatever they give nowadays.
Yay!
Only played the first 2 levels, but I’ve been enjoying it. Some of the art direction has a Gears of War vibe. (which if I recall correctly, is because Epic wanted the COG to seem like a war machine, similar to the Germans)
Done. Given that there’s no nay votes yet, I’ll have to get it. 😛
So I win by default?
Excellent!
I only played the first 2 odd and I really enjoyed it so far. Good call!
I forgot that Drakengard 3 releases tomorrow. Along with Transistor. TOO MANY GAMES.
Transistor!
*twitch*
SO HYPED FOR TRANSISTOR.
Bastion was one of my favourite games of the year it released. I hope they hit the same sort of feels twice. Possibly won’t, but I think it’ll still be a rad game.
I need to polish of Tales of Xillia before I allow myself to touch it though.
MARIO KART 8! NEXT WEEK! BUT IT’S SO GOOD THAT THE SHOCKWAVES OF AWESOME ARE GOING BACK IN TIME CREATING A GREATER SENSE OF HYPE THAN EVER BEFORE!
…
Mario Kart 8.
Mario: Pipes of Future Past.
Join Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Toad as they realise Bowser has enacted a vicious plot to kidnap Princess Peach – in the PAST! Featuring levels from all the classic Mario games including Super Mario Bros, Mario 64, Luigi’s Mansion, Paper Mario and more, team up with 4 player co-op and jump through those warp pipes, chasing Bowser and his nefarious crew through the Mario-verse.
BAM! NINTENDO I JUST FIXED ALL YOUR PROBLEMS.
Well juggling that in my busy schedule is definitely not a problem. Glad I don’t own a Wii U. Not that I’d buy Mario Kart for it even if I did, mind you.
Is Drakengard getting a local release? I couldn’t find a pre-order anywhere when I looked a while ago.
You might be too late, my preorder was charged this morning, but yes! PSN had it for Preorder for $73 incl. JP voice DLC for free with it.
Ah. Thanks for the info!
It’s a digital-only release for all of Europe. US got a physical edition but it was very hard to get hold of – limited retailers. Both areas got a Collector’s Edition which I actually really wanted, but it was a Squenix Store exclusive so the US one was unobtainable and then when they finally put the EU one up, it was for the swag + a digital copy, was super expensive, and wasn’t shippable to Australia because we’re not in Europe (make up your fucking minds, Square).
So digital was the only option and I preordered thru PSN because I wanted the JP voice DLC (I fully expect the dub to be all kinds of terrible) and wasn’t sure how much they’d charge for it and whether it’d be available at launch or not.
Hey thanks for the heads up, checked my card and no payment was taken so I checked my email and got a insufficient funds on account email from PSN, my guess was I didn’t have a linked card =/ may of saved me a forced cancellation.
Is Drakengard worth picking up? I was kinda interested in grabbing it.
I four am interested in thees. I watched a let’s play that seemed pretty servicable.
Interested, but not preorder/launch interested. More like…. 2yrs later 50-75% off sale interested.
It’s $58ish from Ozgameshop for an NTSC version.
I dunno, maybe? Depends how much you want to be an angry albino lady with a flower growing out of her eye and an intense desire to repeatedly commit sororicide?
The first two games were weird (really, really weird) but I enjoyed them despite them being janky.
Polygon Review:
http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/20/5676062/drakengard-3-review-personality-conflict
Highlights:
“It hits the ground running with dirty humor and liberal use of swear words.”
“Every line of dialogue is either a shallow threat or blatant innuendo.”
“One bit of combat dialogue consisted of a companion explaining how he maintained a lengthy erection.”
“I struggled to hold back laughter during one boss fight against giant dick knights — literally huge knights shaped like penises — but the game was dead serious.”
Sure sounds like a Drakengard game…
I have no more space for consoles so my PS3 has to sit in a box =[ Dammit I’m wishing I hadn’t gotten a PS4 so quickly now! =@
Whoa I completely forgot about that (Drakengard). The first was alright but I’ll wait for some reviews before I check out 3. Definitely interested in it though because of Nierness!
Apparently it’s not that much like Nier aside from being weird. It’s a Drakengard game so it’s more actiony than RPG and stuff. Solid 8/10 from what I’ve heard.
I’ve bought the American collector’s edition, it’s still on it’s way here. Can’t wait till it comes 😀
My eyes are burny. Stupid shitty sleep.
Good morning!
Goodnight actually.
Only just got up again a little while ago 😛
Let it be known throughout the land that @dc ‘s full and legal name shall henceforth and forthwith be known as “Dudley Chesterson”
For some reason, when I think of Dudley Chesterson, I think of a shirtless, bearded tough man, fists at the ready to wallop him some grizzly bears.
(Disclaimer: I need to stop drinking so much coffee)
So basically you think of @dc
It should be “Chestersone”. He loves to add unnecessary e’s to things.
Yeah, Powalene is right.
My female version from an alternate universe!
We have done genderswap TAY pages before…
I’d do me.
No offense but the name of your alternate universe genderswap sounds like something black and tarry you’d pour into your car’s engine to keep it running cleanly.
Powalene: Keeps your motor running, I guarantee.
So hey, more details have been leaked about FarCry 4.
“Hidden in the majestic Himalayas lies Kyrat, a country steeped in tradition and violence. You are Ajay Ghale. Traveling to Kyrat to fulfill your mother’s dying wish, you find yourself caught up in a civil war to overthrow the oppressive regime of dictator Pagan Min.
Explore and navigate this vast open world, where danger and unpredictability lurk around every corner. Here, every decision counts, and every second is a story. Welcome to Kyrat.”
Everything sounds very Tibetan/Nepalese/Central Asian (apologies to anybody who knows the difference in those cultures, as I’m not very well versed in the subtleties between them).
What gets me interested? The player character sounds like he comes from the area. I.e. not a white dude from ‘murica spreading some freedom bullets around.
Colour me intrigued.
My initial gut reaction was that Ajay Ghale sounds like a boganized version of AJ Gale which would be a pretty western name, but turns out that Ghale is actually the name of one of the indigenous people of Nepal and Ajay can be an Indian name. So maybe. That would actually be pretty cool.
Actually Ubisoft seems to be one of the more progressive publishers when it comes to cultural diversity in games.
This game was produced by a multicultural team of varous faiths and beliefs.
Hi @dc !
HEY!
WOO! REFRESHING!
It is refreshing to see you back on TAY more regularly!
Too much free time sucks!
Rock Smith 2014
@cakesmith 2014?
I dunno, 2012 Cakesmith gave me games!
Oh god, what have I done.
Box of TCG cards arrived today. First of several. I don’t even have someone to play this with, what the hell was I thinking. 🙁
Which game?
Weiss Schwarz. Japanese TCG with anime/game theme.
It’s actually pretty cool in that you can basically stick to one theme and build competitive decks out of the cards from just that set, since they often re-print the same mechanics in multiple sets. It’s also pretty quick and the cards have a really nice feel to them, thicker and sturdier and with a better finish than M:TG.
Trouble is finding people to play with. And also that the English-translated sets are limited and even harder to obtain than the JP ones (which can be equally painful, but also require paste-ups if you don’t speak moon language)
I think they play that at one of the FLGS’ here- surely in Melbourne they’d have a store that runs it?
With Magic I tend only to draft rather than buy boxes as that’s a good way to limit my expenses- I have friends who buy lots of cards and don’t really get a chance to play in a store or anything.
They probably do, but I work about 10-15 mins walk away from any FLGS and I live about 20+ minutes away from any game stores that even might play them.
The only place I know definitely has players is Nekocards in the CBD but last time I went past there they seemed more focused toward Cardfight Vanguard. And also it’s pretty daunting going to a place like that on your own as a socially inept nerdhermit. 😛
Also also, one of the big stopping points for W-S I think is that it doesn’t have a viable drafting mode. Well, maybe it does, but you’d probably need to buy a prohibitively expensive number of packs. M:TG has 15 cards per booster but WS has 8, so you’d probably need to have maximum 4 people per draft group so you get two picks at each pack, and a lot more packs since there’s no basic cards like lands that can be added in from outside, everything needs to come from a pack.
Yeah, that’d make it harder.
Thing about magic is, I have little desire to collect cards, just to play with them. If you’re buying into Weiss Schwarz to collect, go for it.
A bit of both. Getting some nice playable decks for occasions where they’re appropriate is nice too.
Apparently there *are* drafting rules that people have put together and they work okay but require you to know how to play and build a deck well, but M:TG is no different really.
So I bought a Charlie’s Juice pouch because I felt like juice. I didn’t realise it’s a kids drink. I also didn’t see the “With water” on the front. So it tastes like watered down apple and blackcurrant juice. It’s absolutely disgusting. I’d rather drink plain water.
2/10 Will not drink again
Totally pointless fact: I prefer to drink watered down juice cause I usually find it too sweet otherwise.
This was brought you by totally pointless facts, inc.
Spoiler tag edit (if they work) cos this is big 😐 Damn it.. still not working.. oh wells.
I am forever being blown away by the lack of respect or courtesy I get at work. As some of you may know, I had to give up use of the company car a week or two ago, due to a new staff member starting. I totally understand the reasoning, and don’t object to it at all. What I did object to, was being given 1 days notice that I had to hand it over. They knew my car wasn’t registered, thus why I was driving the company vehicle (to allow me to save the money to register my own again.)
I had a doctors appointment in the afternoon of the day the handover was due to be done, and since I was having half a day off, I figured it would be easier to leave the car there, and get a lift home with a co-worker, rather than come to work, and have someone drive me home half way through the day. So after I got the notice, I never drove it again. This left me in the shitty position of having to sell a bunch of shit to cash converters to pay my rego. Not only this, but due to what I had that I could sell not being worth much, my mum also sold some stuff of hers that she was trying to sell through Gumtree. Obviously she didn’t get at much as she would have through a private sale, so that really stabbed me in the heart a bit. I didn’t bitch at work about it though.
Yesterday, the co-worker who is driving the car, reported that it was still dirty (from the guy who was driving it prior to me,) and the GM advised him to get it washed, and told him they would pay for it via the motorpass card they use for fuel.
So today, I get an email from our HQ, with an invoice attached, for the cost of the cleaning!
That REALLY pissed me off. For 2 reasons. Firstly, had they told me I needed to wash/clean it before handing it back, then I would have done my best to do it myself, or had I not been able to, I would have told them I couldn’t do it, and offered to pay for them to do it.
Secondly, had they actually told me I needed to do it, a little more than 1 days notice would have been nice. Given that I never even had an opportunity to drive it after I got the email about the handover, logically means that I didn’t have a chance to even try cleaning it. If they hadn’t have been cunts and instead of giving me 1 days notice, perhaps given me a week to sort something out, no objection would be made.
Also, another factor that shits me to tears, is that the vehicle sat in our work carpark for an entire week after I handed it over, doing NOTHING, cos the new guy didn’t start til the Friday of the week after.. GRRRRR
Unbelievably, on top of all that, the invoice, is made out to someone named Ken, who lives in Victoria. 😐
Seriously?! Do they really think I’m just gonna pay that? Legally, it’s not my problem, as it’s not my name or address on the invoice, but even if/when they make the changes, if they think I’m gonna pay for it, they’ll be waiting til hell freezes over. Perhaps when they learn to treat their senior employees with a bit of respect and common courtesy, I’ll consider it, but when they fail to tell me it needs to be done, and also don’t give me a chance to even tend to it myself, they wont get a single cent out of me. If they don’t like it, they can sue me for all I care. Somehow, I don’t think their case will hold up in a court of law.
Don’t pay it, They’re screwing you over.
“Sorry, looks like you forwarded this email to the wrong recipient.”
Well only reason I know it’s for me, was cos my name was in the subject of the email. There wasn’t even text in the body saying Hi or anything. Not even an explanation as to why I was being sent the invoice. It’s only due to me working alongside the tech who is now driving the car, that I even knew about it at all.
Considering they are the reason I am earning $300 a fortnight less than I used to, I’m pretty damn mad! It’s like they don’t even acknowledge my existence. My 1 yr anniversary of starting with them passed by last week, or the week before, and the usual email we get from HQ congratulating everyone on things like that, failed to mention me at all! :\ Really hope some of the job hunting I’m doing pays off soon.
Bullshit situation dude. But still email back saying “wrong recipient”.
I was denied a pay increase today. I can relate to your pain of feeling insignificant.
I’m not even talking pay rise. That’s a whole different issue 😉 If everything was out on the table from the word go, and I was in this job at this pay rate due to me knowing all the details, and agreeing to them, I wouldn’t be pissed.
Woo, picked up Killzone and Knack for $25ea! Ex-EB dude had promo copies, bargain. 😀
Pax meat people! I bought Disney’s Sing It today for the meat.
101 Dalmations: Cruella de ville
Aladdin: A whole new world
Beauty and the Beast: Be our guest
Cars: Our town
Cinderella: Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
Cinderella: So this is love
The Jungle book: The Bare necessities
The Jungle book: I wan’na Be like you
Lady and the tramp: He’s a Tramp
The lion King: Hakuna matata
The lion king: Can you feel the love tonight
The lion king: I just can’t wait to be king
The little mermaid: Under the sea
Monsters, Inc.: If I didn’t have you
Mary poppins: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
The Princess and the frog: Almost There
The princess and the frog: Dig a little deeper
Ratatouille: Le feastin
Toy story: You’re got a friend in me
Peter pan: and You can fly! You can fly! You can fly!
I can’t believe they didn’t use this for Monsters, Inc.
I haven’t clicked the link, but if I do and it’s not “put that thing back where it came from” then so help me…….
..so help me.
So help me!
Aaaaand, CUT!
Knew what that was goingt o be, and was not disappointed.
If I didn’t have you is actually professional though, unfortunately.
No Hercules!?
Sorry Pow. I can see if there is an online shop.
Haha, no that’s alright scree! I was just messing around.
I will see!
Not entirely sure what to think about Amazing Spiderman 2. When it was good it was fantastic but when it wasn’t it was a painful drag that had me watching the clock. Not sure if the good parts were enough to outweigh the bad.
Spoilery thoughts
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Non spoilery thought
Sound mix was awful. Whoever was in charge of that just pushed all the levels to max, dusted his hands off and went home. It’s a horrid cacophony with nothing that particularly stands out from the din which is a shame because some of the sound design is brilliant especially with Electro. I actually felt like Garfield and Stone turned in a decent performance.
I think the movie was a collection of great ideas that would have made a great movie let down by them stuffing it full of dead weight and extraneous elements. Sony need to just give up and give it back to Disney to fold into the rest of the Marvelverse.
Maybe as nerds we can kick in and get something nice for Sony for doing the dumb-but-right thing. I dunno… like buy a bunch of playstations or stop pirating their movies or something.
Which console you play on? inFamous has shitty sound too. Considering it has Linear PCM output availability, lol, everything should be pristine.
Uh, Event Cinemas?
Blegh, throat has been feeling slightly burny since this morning. 🙁
THAT’S HOW IT STARTED FOR ME!!!! Don’t ‘soldier on’, get bed-rest, vitamins, zinc, shitloads of water, a bit of tea with honey and lemon, and loads more sleep.
Best. I can be a mother fucking pirate and sale the high seas robbin’ unsuspecting (or in my case totally suspecting) ships of the Kings Naval Fleet.. Assassin’s Creed IV is really win. If all the Creed games are like this sorta fun I reckon i’d enjoy them all, but Pirates are just awesome..
I bought it a few weeks back using some GMG credit I had, but I still haven’t started it as yet, as Mass Effect 3 is sitting higher up the list of shame. Though with the trouble I’m having with ME3 atm, I’m likely to dump it and fire up AC4.
Do it. It’s fun and pretty! and you play a badass character 😛
Oh noes we forgot to play Mario Kart 7 🙁
@powalen @sughly @benny
You dudes wanna play it again sometime soon?
These Tuesdays sure do come around quickly.
They do!
I love me some Louie Tuesdays 😀
Going to just wait until Mario Kart 8 at this point 😛
Okay 🙁
I’ve been reading TAY from 2011. You guys have changed so much. Proud of you all. :’)
Changed?! HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST SUCH A THING!
I mean, uh yeah, we’re all like growed up n stuf now, cool hey..?
I haven’t. Don’t you go spreading lies.
LIES! You’ve changed! You met a bunch of us Brisbane TAYbies! Nobody’s quite the same after that! 😉
Can’t disagree. I am now infinity percent more present.
Remember the great LoL fallout of 2011. I had posted once in TAY by that point but I remember reading all that thinking GUYS WE SHOULDN’T FIGHT like I was part of the group. XD
Also, I was convinced that @Strange hated me for a good six months.
Remember how you were all “I’m never going to a meat!” but then you did and loved it 😀
Haha! Funny story, I had been so entrenched in hermit mode that I thought you all would be repulsed by me and that I wasn’t fit for society. 😀
Then when I rock up last… I dunno. July? Sep? August? Whatever, I see a cluster of people with a DC leader. 🙂 He’s the man with all the numbers, he knows what’s what.
And then you became leader and all was well. 😀 (While @strange secretly pulls the strings from the periphery.)
You had a dog as a gravatar!
A BioShock Boozehound! Good memory! You guys all ruined it by saying it looked like a dog with balls on its chin! :'( I HAD USED THAT BOOZE HOUND FOR AGES ON OTHER SITES!
Hey! Don’t group me in with those monsters!
Necrothreading like a champ!
Good thing I was around then huh.
Actually, I think I first popped by around mid 2013, if I had to guess.
I’m proud you exist now! New characters done right are essential to a long running storyline!
I like twists in my stories. Maybe I can be Anton?
Ginger Chris’ boyfriend?
Who dat?
Want a fun story? (it’s not fun, and hardly a story)
When I first saw your Kotaku posts I briefly wondered if you were my friend Ben from real life since your Mii gravatar kinda looked like him (long brown hair and a mole :P) …but I guess that’s a pretty standard look 😀
White people all look the same to you? RACIST!
Though I’ve got long brown hair and a mole. :\
I thought you had short blondeish hair from that MS Paint portrait you sent @strange for the TAY quilt! (do you still have that pic? :D)
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/245825108495695872
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/245825108495695872
(TAY retweet!)
I’d actually be really interested to see how you would do a self portrait now….
I can still be your real life friend. I mean, I am real. I think?
no u fake
(bt we c an b frends)
I’m too old to change. 😛
You were all monstrous and scary then, but now you’re all…
Oh right. No change. 😛
Stalk.C. replying to one of my first “I wanna get in on this – seriously this time” TAY posts.
Stop living in the past, man!
You can’t prove I’ve changed since then, I only started posting here last year
Opened my box & trial deck Weiss Schwarz Kantai Collection cards that arrived today. Didn’t get anything hugely special in the trial deck – apparently there’s chances for foils and stuff beyond the Akagi foil you always get with the pack. But whatever.
These are the first packs I’ve owned and I’m just going from what I can google up so this might not be accurate for the set (which appears to be larger than normal in terms of the number of cards) Apparently rarity is controlled at the pack, box and carton level (8 cards per pack – 1 climax card, 7 normal cards. Climax may be rare or common (apparently you get 1 set of climax rares per box), normals are 5 common, 2 uncommon, 1 rare). 20 packs per box, 16 boxes per carton. Rare in each pack can be RR (4 per box apparently), SR (holo foil, 10 per carton) or RRR (holo foil, some with alternate art, 4 per carton) or SP (holo foil, signed, 2 per carton). Every box is guaranteed 1 SR, RRR or SP. Additionally the KanColle set adds a RR+ rarity, which I don’t know the distribution of. They seem to have a different foil effect to the other rares (I don’t know if this is special for the set or not, but all the rares had some kind of foil effect which is nice)
First pack I open, I realize that the Random Number Goddess from the actual game is still trolling me even though I haven’t played in a while. Shokaku, who I spent months hunting for before finally getting in a lucky build attempt, is the first card I pull. RR.
Two standard R next, Ooi Kai-2 and Chiyoda Carrier Kai-2, then second RR for the pack, Haruna. Kiso Kai-2 (R) came next as if to taunt me, as when I stopped playing the game recently I was a hair’s breadth away from finally leveling Kiso to her Kai-2 remodel at 65. Then Ise, another R, and the trolling continued with the arrival of I-8 (R). I-8 had become my white whale recently, I spent several days hunting for her in the new sub map but never saw her drop, and I spent hundreds of thousands of resources over a month or two trying to build her and never got her. Fucking game.
Suzuya Kai (R) next, again taunting me, since I had been working on getting her up to that point too. Then I pulled the first RR+, Yamato-class Battleship Musashi. I always kind of wanted Musashi in the game, but at least in her case she’s unobtainable. The RR+ finish is interesting. The foil finish you get with the Akagi in the trial deck is a solid shine, same as the foil I got in other trial decks I grabbed last year on a whim to test the game. All the KanColle rares have a foil finish that’s just on the background, and it’s basically triangles going up and down and on diagonals, different directions visible depending on the angle of the light. RR+ finish is like starbursts which is quite nice (and actually in this case is appropriate because Yamato and Musashi in the game have a different special ‘foil’ finish too).
Zuihou next, another R. Then another RR, again Suzuya. Oddly, Suzuya in her unimproved cruiser form is RR, but in her improved aviation cruiser form is only R. Maikaze R followed, then the RNG went into full troll mode on me. I pulled the high-rarity card from the box, and it’s SR Kumano. There were three specific ships I had spent ages and ages trying to get, two via building, one via questing, and all three I spent about a week running the event maps over Christmas hoping for a drop. No success, ever. Those three were I-8, Kumano and Mikuma. So the rarest card in my box happens to be one of the ones I couldn’t get, and already I’ve gotten 2 of the three.
Of course if you’re thinking that the best way to troll me would be to draw Mikuma in the next pack, you’d be right. And I did. 🙁 Fucking game. And then, as if to kick a man when he’s down, the next card I pull is another damned Kumano. Again, like with Suzuya, apparently the upgraded Aviation Cruiser variant is lower rarity than the base version.
At this point I looked up the card rarity distribution and realized that the Kumano SR probably meant no signed cards or anything. Rest should be RR or R. Next one out is Kaga, appropriately an RR. Everyone loves Kaga. Then I got an unexpected break. The rare is a Climax Rare, but in the actual rare spot. Which seemed strange. Then I noticed that it has a special foil pattern that actually has texture to it, all silvery. And it’s a RRR. So I managed to get a SR and RRR in the same box, which seems like it should be pretty improbable (5/8 chance for SR, 1/4 chance for RRR, and only guaranteed 1 high-rarity pack in the box). So that’s nice. I suspect the actual card isn’t that great but whatever. Final two were Yukikaze R. Interestingly, all the character cards to this point used their in-game art, but the art used for Yukikaze is new, haven’t seen it before. Much nicer than her standard art (the beaver). Assume it’s unused art. Same art appeared on one of the two extra cards that were in the trial deck (the other was Shigure Kai-2, one of my favourites as well).
Final two pull in the pack was another RR+, Akagi, and then rounding it out, a final R, Hibiki’s final upgrade form, Soviet Destroyer Verniy.
Final tally:
R: 12
RR: 4
RR+: 2
SR: 1
RRR: 1
EDIT: Apparently this is the normal distribution for the set, it’s just much bigger than normal so they put more of the higher-rarity cards in each box.
So the 4 RR per box thing was true, but I actually think that the overall proportions here might have been slightly higher rarity than expected for a box. There’s only 6 unique RR+ cards in the set, so to get two of them in one box seems high. Additionally to get a RRR and a SR together seems less likely too. So overall pretty happy.
Now to figure out what all these things do so I can try and build a deck or two. And also, now I want to buy a second box. 🙁 I’ve got another 3 coming but they’re different set (English Sword Art Online stuff)
Why are you people so nice to me? What did I do to deserve it? D=
I’ve never been nice to you! NOT EVEN ONCE! *decisive nod*
😛
I’m sorry for flinging baseless accusations your way?
I forgive you. THIS TIME. >:|
Sorry
Cause it’s the human thing to do, unless you’ve done wrong to us, then I see no reason as to why we should be nice to you.
But seriously, it’s the normal thing to be nice to one another 😛
Says Krieger.
Why’re you always mean to, Krieger? :'(
Because you are a clone of Hitler?
Pfft, like that makes all us clones evil.. So rude.
You wore green once, so you’re pretty cool in my books!
You also wore green once.
Because we’re jerks.
Biggest Jerks. =P
You saved my puppy in a previous incarnation.
Karma.
I do like puppies. And dogs. And puppy dogs. =P
You lent me games! \o/
That gets you in with everyone.
I have a collection that sits there not really being used, so I like lending games to people
It’s cos we’re a community. We care for all people who frequent this place! Hell, even infrequent visitors like Towelie care! He pops in occasionally to gently remind us to remember to bring towels to places! What a guy!
You were nice to me first, you started it!
Oh god, I’m sorry /o\
I’ll accept your apology but only if you say something horrible about me
I’m sorry?
Amazing. Found an entire season of Deadliest Warrior I didn’t know existed.
So very very bad. I’m excited.
Did they ever do a pirates vs ninjas episode?
Final ever episode of Warehouse 13? Disappointing. Oh well, at least I’m glad it’s over instead of sad, now. 😛
Started reading A Game Of Thrones tonight, haven’t read a book in ages, only got through the Prologue and the first chapter. Up to the part where,
gurl unir whfg sbhaq gur Qverjbys chcf.
Haven’t got too far to go to catch up to the end of the first episode (that I’ve already watched).
The plan is to have the first novel finished within a week, then move straight on to the second one.
One really weird thing I noticed, is that I can’t read the name Stark without thinking of Iron Man, that happen to anyone else?
Kudos if you get through it in a week, It took me about 9 months to read them all.
I just started reading The Hedge Knight, set about 90 years before A Game of Thrones. Its worth a read, I’m finding it an interesting perspective of somebody living in Westeros who isn’t of noble birth or a Lord.
Cheers, will give it a look when I’ve finished reading all the books up to the end of the current one.
I’m planning to have it read in a week, we’ll see how I go. Got a 3 day weekend coming up, so I’ll be able to make a fair dent in it at least.
Good stuff, enjoy!
Tonight on What The Hell Is Wrong With My Facebook Feed?
http://www.neonnettle.com/news/211-ex-cia-pilot-gives-sworn-testimony-that-no-planes-hit-the-twin-towers
Then what the fuck was this
Apparently a figment of your imagination. There were no planes because an Afghani couldn’t possibly fly a plane with enough skill to crash it because… uh… It’s an Afghani is the only reason I can see from what he’s saying. I guess. I struggle to follow these guy’s thinking at the best of times.
Oh! Also planes don’t fit inside highrises. Duh.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/WFCIsOver.jpg
Goodnight, sweet prince :'(
Multiplayer was discontinued? Damn, I should have played it recently or something.
Eh, I never liked Conduit 2’s multiplayer anyway. Too much lag.
All multiplayer. Nintendo WFC was shutting down on the 20th, now it’s all gone.
Got a few games in before it went out though. I had loads of fun with both the first and second (though really didn’t like the loadout thing in 2’s MP, 1’s GoldenEye-style system was better).
To be honest, I thought Wii online services were shut down in June.
EDIT: Shut down, not shit down. It only took 18 hours for me to spot the mistake.
You mean last June? That was like the messaging system and the various channel online stuff. This was the WiFi Connection, which handled all the online multiplayer for Wii and DS games. They gave notice of it shutting down a month or two ago, I think.
There are replacement servers people are putting up, and there was a profile migration tool that they had going where you could submit your friend codes to get your stats carried across, but obviously that’s all closed now 😛 You can still use them, but gotta create a new profile for each game that you want to connect. Apparently, anyway. Haven’t tested it out myself at all.
My sympathies to the Indigenous Australians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIl5bOAkz8
Digiridoo dubstep, ladies and gentlemen.
Didgeridon’t!
Didgeridoo drum’n’bass has been out for years, this is just an evolution. 😛
This Foxtel ad is so lacking in self-awareness it’s incredibly funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=trueview-instream&v=zsR__SePdUk
Foxtel. For when you want freedom.
Fuckin hell…
I’m spoiled for choice, my master lets me choose the stick I’m beaten with and even if my beating is morning or night! I’m so freeee!!!!!
2nd run-through watching Archer, because lil’ bro hasn’t seen it.
Archer is my hero and role-model. If only I had that thick, luxurious hair.
I’ve got plenty to spare!
And all those black turtle necks
And nearly black turtlenecks
The Tactalneck!
I went dun made a website.
The logo is a sex thing right?
Also, Is the publisher you?
Absolutely a sex thing. And yep, it’s a-me.
Oh good. I have a submission then.
It the letter Q printed repeatedly over 1200 pages and printed entirely with a mix of all my bodily fluids. Titled “The Quintessential Brooding Questions On The Existence Of Existential Questions Of Brooding Quintessentialiality”
It’s a very bold avant-garde (@dc) production that not many publishers have the stones to touch but I think we could get a good thing going here.
Freeze is doing you a favour, @shane. Your first rejected submission! The hardest part of the job, eased into so smoothly.
If he wants to pass on the future of literature than that’s his prerogative to be left behind as the world moves forward.
@transientmind is right Freeze, that doesn’t go to a publisher, that goes to an art gallery. You’ve clearly got the line of bullshit down, if you can just keep a straight face while delivering it you can rake in the cash.
Art? ART? YOU *froths* PILLOCK!
Art is something you look at and move on. This is future classical literature. Generations of high school students will be pretending to have read it as they write a bullshit essay purely based on the inevitable movie that will be made based on it.
The query The Quintessential Brooding Questions On The Existence Of Existential Questions Of Brooding Quintessentialiality raises is qurious indeed. To quote the authour…
As a politician.
There might be a… deeper meaning to it than that.
Oh come on guys, no upvotes for a pun of this quality on Page Six? 🙁
Nicely played, player! 😀
Not bad!
If I may offer a single small constructive criticism that you didn’t ask for but I’ll give it to you anyway: perhaps remove the text from your home page background image (or at least make sure that the homepage text and the background image text never overlap) – just looks a tad messy is all!
Good job! 😀
Looks a’ight. Thoughts:
– You have the logo, then you have the main title (bottom-right), then you have the words uttered again in your slogan. Too much “Deeper Meanings” IMO.
– You’ve set the pic to scale with the browser size. That means that a smaller window will have the bottom-right heading/slogal overlap the logo. I’d reduce logo size and separate it from the background image, so it stays roughly the same size.
– The nav menu on left changes location if you click on anything. Not a big deal, but it’s nice to have it static sometimes.
Good job!
Hey, anyone got a spare 35 mil? anyone… dammit!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/05/take-a-neat-virtual-tour-of-the-real-scarface-mansion/
If I did I’d buy it and fill it with weird shit like in Scarface: The World is Yours, mostly Pelican (flamingo) statues. And every time people came over I’d yell it’s a fucking Pelican man.
Edit: really, no one gets the reference….. for shame
Seems me and @virus got it. Love that movie.
Ermergerd. Best mansion ever. I loved how Rockstar used the mansion in Vice City, so awesome. I once tried to recreate it in Minecraft, it turned out alright 😛
oh nice, it better have had mountains of cocaine, for authenticity,
I didn’t even get to finish it before my mate nuked the server 🙁
Getting leg cramps at 5 in the morning… fricken worst D’:
Man, they suck, and then you have a sore leg all day long.
Yep! I was limping all morning, still am too. I also lost sleep due to the pain, which is hitting me now -.- so tired
I get that a lot at absurd hours of the morning with my calf muscles. They’re crazy tight. (Which apparently explains a kind of bounce in my step.)
The worst is when you wake up just in time to know that it’s about to happen in the next second or two and you academically KNOW that you need to very quickly stretch the muscle out as long as you can to keep it from pulling itself tight, but you don’t quite make it in time and you end up pulling against the cramp.
All while you’re bolting upright and grabbing the muscle and yelling, “NononononoAAHFUCKOWGODDAMMITOWOWOWOW” and sometimes getting a DISTINCTLY unimpressed look from your partner who is completely lacking in sympathy.
Exactly like that, though replace “Partner” with “Parents” 😛
That or she just bursts into laughter, so not cool.
Eat some Bananas (or even better, Avocados).
Night Cramps are most likely caused by a lack of potassium.
Any of you guys having problems signing in on your 360’s? I’m getting the 8015B00E error, which as far as I know is a profile error. I signed in ok yesterday, and I can sign in fine on my Xbone, so I’m not sure what’s going on there.
Enforced obsolescence error?
But I already have an Xbone.
I do have my 360 hooked up via HDMI through my Xbone though because there’s only one HDMI port in the back of my monitor. But that shouldn’t have anything to do with it, been able to sign into both at the same time since the Xbone launch.
360 noticed you’re attempting to dump it for a new model and has gone crazy vindictive on you.
Just signed into my 360 and seems to be running fine.
Don’t know but fuck Xbox. Gf and I were on GTA5 a couple nights ago and constant console freezes. I legit don’t know how anyone can praise XBL over PS3.
Through fanboyism and “if it’s not cod why are you even” references
Haven’t tried today, but i have had that issue before… last time it turned out that the XBL (360 only for some reason) had fallen over, and it took them a few hours to sort out
EDIT – I’ve also had another issue where i had to actually remove the local profile cache, assign a new email to the account and then re-sign in on the Xbox… that was a pain in the arse :\
I’m working from home today, so of course I was just playing Dark Souls 2 on the 360, and had no issues with online.
Used my 360 fine on Sunday though I only logged in to pin some digital titles I haven’t gotten to yet because my pile of shame wasn’t big enough already. No issue transitioning between 360/Xbone (unless you count the fact that when I sign into my 360 the login seems to take about a fortnight to go through).
Must be following suit after the WFC servers closed down.
So yeah, mucho story ideas after reading some more RPG books. I’m kinda tempted to plan out a poor-man campaign to take advantage of Pathfinder’s trading system and not be as heroic as usual but it would be pretty tricky (also the players probably wouldn’t like it either). All of these ideas buzzing around in my head just waiting to get out must be similar to how writers or artists feel.
Also, I went and made a Critical Failure chart for combat rolls. I’m yet to fully flesh out the Critical Failures for spells but I think I can make something work. I’m taking some inspiration from the Warhammer RPGs so they’re pretty out there but definitely not as lethal. >:D
It’ll be more hilarious (Directly proportional I might add) the more possible outcomes you can make to critical failures xD. There really should always be a save vs that happening though, so they don’t get completely screwed over on a 1 roll, like a normal d20 DC roll or something, the DC being dependant on mastery with weapon used.
I’ve broadly grouped the failures under “Danger to Self”, “Danger to Weapon”, and “Danger to Others”. Danger to Others allows those threatened to make rolls to avoid the critical failure however the other ones simply occur. I’ve written it this way so that we don’t get stuck rolling too many dice on the one aspect of one player’s turn.
I’m likely to flesh it out further but it’s currently based on a d6 so there are six possible outcomes if you critically fail an attack.
You could do the same for a critical hit chart, rather than the roll and choose to double or roll again thing, maybe add extra effects like a chance that the crit takes off a limb or that the hit is so shockingly gruesome that the nearby enemies want to try and avoid engaging that character in combat or similar.
I’ll look into it and see what I can do. The main issue I see with trying to make the system work is trying to convert the critical damage multipliers across to a separate set of critical hit effects. Also the issue is that critical hits inherently speed up combat due to insane damage in one hit. If I change that modifier, combat gets slower and monsters get tougher.
I might change it to an option then. You can either take the extra damage and run or apply a special effect depending on what weapon/spell you are wielding.
I might look at incorporating these into TAY Pathfinder but I will want to get the nuts and bolts sorted out first. Might introduce the changes when you guys get out of the tomb.
@dc must be wondering why we’re rolling all these dice at him.
You are not the hero, you were not born a chosen one or trained for years to wield a weapon with finesse and aggression. You are but a man trying to make it day by day selling wares and doing odd jobs In a Kingdom where magic and death are common place. The most combat you’ve seen is when you got into a fist fight with the local bully 12 years ago.
I think you could run with that
The idea certainly has merit but trying to make the system work with it is a bit tricky. Most RPGs eventually make your characters become badass and well-renowned and the only way I can really see keeping the feel of a “everyman” character is to go down the slow levelling path, which is pretty boring for the player.
One of the few RPGs that I can think of that does this well is Call of Cthulu where you have to win with only your wits and science (and maybe some occult magic if you feel like losing your soul). You don’t inherently become stronger or better, you are just you against the horrors of the world.
Yeah I was going to point out Cthulhu as well, the whole idea there is that you’re an everyday person who encounters unimaginable horror, the game is deliberately stacked against you and you are most likely going to go insane or die horribly or both.
Maybe have it as a group of every men who dream of being adventures and then, fate knocks on the tavern door, you are the target over a trinket you sold to a shady traveller which has appeared to be fake, stunned by the claims, the shady traveller advances and you feel a brawl will ensue, what do you do
What the hell did I just watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHGfSBr2FrY
Someone please explain.
o_O
It’s a cop… with an axe… Axe Cop…
yeeeeeeeeeeaaaah…
Explains quite a lot 😛
Apparently he’s ten now. Whether it’s better or not I don’t know
It gets weirder with age, like that wine no one buys and they keep in the back incase the world ends
my mate showed me those a while back, pretty good for a 5 year old I thought.
That sounds like the kind of thing I was writing when I was a kid.
Once in year 1 I was told to write a short story, it went “Mother duck went out one day, a fox ate her. The End”
I was a very literal child
I’m pretty sure it’s a documentary.
Oh man, it’s animated now?
Awesome.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand goodbye however long it takes to watch all of them. Thanks @scree 😛
I’m sorry /o\ They’re only like a 1 minute 30 though
Axe Cop, huh? I thought that was a graphic novel. I guess they paid someone to make it into an animated webseries.
Well Knack is pretty okay. Played an hour and a bit. I think even @dc checked out my stream! It’s quite pretty and damn challenging. I haven’t gotten up to the PS4-demo-stand level yet, but it’s a lot harder than that even now. I’m scared.
Also you sent a real name request and I agreed and your real name is apparently Stick Man. That seems a little shifty you know my real name but didn’t share yours! *shakes fist* 😛
Your stream was lagging like crazy for me, alas. 🙁 Didn’t stick around for very long!
What do you mean? My name is Stick Man. :\ This is awkward.
Anyway, I realised real name request won’t help me. I did it because some people had a different PSN than TAY name and it was confusing for me. But then I later realised that people would have FB linked and their real name will be their actual real name.. which won’t help me. 🙁
Edit: stream lag huh. I uploaded in 1080p so it’s either my upload or your download. I’ll go with my upload (even though that shouldn’t be the case).
Ah, my TAY user name is just my initials any way if that helps, so just ignore the rest of the letters in my full name. 😀 I’ve watched @dkzeitgeist’s streams before and they were fine, but my connection is screwy at the best of times so who knows.
Knack certainly was way prettier than I expected though.
I checked out the broadcast. I see some visual artifacts from me lagging while uploading. But I also can’t actually play the video, because Twitch keeps buffering. Considering I have Internet speed that makes ‘NBN’ look like dialup, I’m gonna go with:
Twitch is a piece of shit software, and you will only ever get acceptable 1080p performance if you pay.
When it comes to Twitch, I can only view streams without issues on “Low”, any higher and it’s like watching a slide show. But that doesn’t come close to the VODs. How bad are Twitch VODs for me? Here’s a comparison, 2 hours leaving it buffering, got 15 minutes of footage before it started buffering again.
My cable broadband sucks, plus I’m on a monthly cap so I’m terrified of how much bandwidth I use for higher quality stream watching.
Twitch VODs seem to be broken into blocks up to 30min long, and the player won’t buffer outside the block you’re on.
It really looks like only paid streams get good uploads and viewers get good downloads. I’ll do more testing this week.
I grabbed Don’t Starve a little while back because it was cheap so why the hell not…
That game is actually pretty damn brilliant, and i really dig the art style…
I only last a few days at the time in game due to dying repeatedly because i suck, but setting things on fire is still good fun.
Ended up playing it for waaay too long when i should have been sleeping last night…
Anyone else playing or played it? they’re planning on bringing in Multiplayer soon i believe so it could be damn good fun to team up and set more stuff on fire
Also noticed that my mood for reasons i can’t explain has been getting better over the last few days… Financial situation is still shit (got $10 to last till payday \o/) but i still manage to feel pretty damn perky, and the missus and i have been spending some pretty damn valuable quality time together… I don’t want to jinx myself, but things (mentally at least) are looking up :D…
Yay for happy Pixel!
I had heard of Don’t Starve before but never played it, may have to give it a look.
It’s “yet another” of those survival type games, with minimal instructions on how to play, so you really rely on learning the mechanics the hard way (which means dying… a lot :P) but i find it really entertaining… and the whimsical but dark art style is just perfect in my opinion, getting a sort of Tim Burton (but not quite) vibe…
If you like that sort of game, i’d definitely say give it a go… maybe wait around until a sale (i picked it up for $5 i think) and is totally worth it 😛
I’m guessing you got it on PC, i played a fair bit of it on my PS4,
Yeah, was on a steam sale the other week… I could imagine that game being pretty brilliant with a controller as well… it get’s really addicting to constantly just try to last that little bit longer 😛
Hooray for being perky again \o/
I played don’t starve I reckon multi would be fun, I had no idea what I was doing but and ultimately have up on te game to be honest
Multi should be a free update, so once it hits (i’ll have to find out later when that actually is) i might have to organise a Don’t Starve night, just to mess around 😛
I am too damn stubborn to leave it 😛 i HAVE to get better at it… Didn’t help that last night when i played, the new world it created had almost none of the vital starter resources i needed, so i had to traverse a good chunk of the world (which ultimately resulted in my death) to just find the most rudimentary items 😛 still good fun though, and it’s a good time filler game that runs splendidly on my aging laptop
the Multi update will be free to all those that own the game already. The price of the game will increase however once the DLC has been released.
I got Don’t Starve when it just appeared on Steam. It’s a pretty cool game and the only thing that stopped me from playing it more then 38hours is the lack of multiplayer. The news of a free multiplayer DLC does make me want to play it again however.
Don’t Starve is great. Have played a bunch, though I still suck at it.
Will definitely be down for multiplayer at some point.
Good guy HumbeBundle. Bought Crusader Kings 2 Collection on the store yesterday, and they upgraded to the bundle that is up for the daily sale today. Yeah I end up overpaying but they are pretty good with stuff like this. Just need to buy parts and build a pc so I can play!
Saving for parts is lame. I’ve been meaning to get around to replacing my GPU but after running some diagnostics to make sure my board/CPU wouldn’t kill the new one, I found I probably need a new CPU/board, too. And will probably upgrade the cooling system while I’m at it, so just round it all up to about a grand.
Maaaasterrr rraaaadammit.
That’s why i end up building a brand spanking new machine… Never upgrade, and when i finally start considering it, everything is so obsolete that i may as well build a new ‘puter 😛
Cost effective? naaaah… but pretty new machine \o/
Yeah, I’d consider it, but my 1200 PSU ain’t turning obsolete any time this decade, my enormous case is RIDICULOUSLY HUGE and stacked with fans, and I recently upgraded the RAM. Bonus is that the new board will take better advantage of its speed. The HDs and peripherals are all fine, so not much point turning a thousand-dollar upgrade into a 2-3k one. 😛
So you’re technically building a new machine using existing structure? XD i see what you’re saying… i have re-used PSU before, but my issue with that was that while it was a powerful as shit-house PSU, it burned out 3 months after upgrading because of age :\
so it became a staggered approach to building a new machine instead 😛
I have the same tactic.
Year 1: Build awesome gaming rig.
Year 3: Notice that AAA new releases aren’t on ultra setting anymore.
Year 4: Notice that almost no new release is on ultra anymore.
Year 5: Start saving.
Year 6/7: Build monster gaming rig, regulate previous rig to shed.
Rinse, repeat.
Well I have no gaming pc at the moment. Getting one soon I hope. Just got to bite the bullet and buy the parts.
I still give zero fucks about having an i5 + 7970GHz in a home theatre case inside my TV cabinet. Cost an extra $310 for the card, I have graphics that smush PS4.
MASTER RAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
That’s normally what I do, but last time I started to run into issues with a box I couldn’t afford to fully upgrade, so I just upgraded the GPU and RAM to what I would have put into a new system, then waited 9 months and upgraded the CPU & motherboard, and that actually worked out pretty well.
EDIT: Reply fail, should have been to @pixel_the_ferret_viking below you.
Gonna start doing that myself soon.
Crusader Kings!
I love that game
I am so tempted to create a Kickstarter project for The Quintessential Brooding Questions On The Existence Of Existential Questions Of Brooding Quintessentialiality just out of morbid curiousity.
Stream of consciousness… The bodily fluids would be a real hurdle. I mean one book’s worth of fluids isn’t that much, but how many copies are you going to produce? And are we going to have a little leeway for bodily… solids with your fluids, given that contrast isn’t easily readable with your most heavily-produced fluids? You can always produce more blood too, maybe that could be a stretch goal – regular blood-taking with a high-replacement-encouraging diet or something, plus compensation for not drinking as much. Blood would be a good darkener, added to the pee. Not before it leaves your body, of course, then you’d need to see a doctor.
Intriguing.
Various stuff :
HAPPY TRANSISTOR DAY.
Trials Fusion was really pissing me off last night. Slows down to a crawl in certain spots which makes it stupidly difficult to judge whats happening. & your ghosts (Especially Q-bo’s & Aleph’s) make me realise how rubbish I am at that game.
so for something a bit less frustrating / difficult, I played Dark Souls 2.
Dark Souls 2 Stuff :
Bire gur ynfg srj qnlf….
Qentbaevqre Gjvaf = Qrnq
Zveebe Xavtug = Qrnq
Znevnu Pnerl (Qrzba bs Fbat) = Qrnq
Pheeragyl tbvat guebhtu gur Haqrnq Pelcg… pbafvfgragyl trggvat hc gb bar cbvag gura trggvat xvyyrq. (qebc qbja n ubyr, trg fheebhaqrq ol tubfg guvatf, fbzr wrex evatf n oryy, LBH QVRQ.)
Ernyyl yvxrq gur Qrzba bs Fbat, ol gur jnl. vgf tbbq gb frr nabgure obff gung vfa’g n inevngvba bs ovt-qhqr-va-nezbhe. cbvfba neebjf ner enq.
That bit might well be the toughest in the entire game. I really dislike that bit, and have never succeeded at it without at least one summon in tow.
oh good, so it’s not just me being rubbish. its legitimately tricky. that’s reassuring 🙂
The good news is that tombstones stay smashed if you die (I’m pretty sure), so each attempt, if you can knock out one of those, you’ll get there eventually.
V guvax vs lbh tb naq fznfu gur oryy vg erznvaf fznfurq. Be fbzrguvat.
V erzrzore V qvq fbzrguvat gung fgbccrq gur wrexontf sebz pbzvat.
Znlor V whfg fznfurq nyy gur gbzofgbarf? Pna’g erzrzore.
lrnu, vs lbh fznfu gur gbzofgbarf, gur tubfgf fgbc fcnjavat.
ohg guvf vf bar ovg va cnegvphyne, jurer lbh qebc qbja n ubyr & ynaq pybfr gb gjb gbzofgbarf juvpu fcnjaf gjb fcrpgerf fgenvtug njnl.
guraf gurerf gung haqrnq thl ba gur bgure fvqr bs gur ebbz. vs ur evatf gung oryy, vg fcnjaf n tubfg sebz rirel fgnghr ng gur fnzr gvzr. vgf…. gevpxl.
GEBYY!
Vs lbh uvg gur oryy, vg evatf.
Jubbcf.
Nyy V xabj vf gung V qvrq zl svefg gvzr gurer, naq jnf svar jura V tbg gurer gur frpbaq gvzr. Fb V nffhzr V whfg fznfurq guvatf.
Maybe because smashed tombstones stay smashed.
Aww, my Trials ghost has been demoted 😛
Dark Souls 2:
I never really struggled with that bit because I never stuck around. I just kinda ran into each exit to explore/grab items and if I died, I just tried again :P. It’s a terrible method but it only took a couple of attempts to work out the path forward.
aww…. don’t worry, your ghost still makes me sad.
:’)
Was your ghost demoted by me? I seem to be mainly racing against my last best time nowdays although now that @fatshadylive has been playing the PC version, I imagine some of my records won’t stand
No idea, I meant @35 used to say “Greenius’ ghosts make me realise how rubbish I am at that game” but now he’s saying Q and Aleph 😛
Started Wolfenstein the New Order last night. Pretty solid game so far, though I’m only on the third chapter.
Not-really spoilers:
Nccneragyl gurer’f gjb “gvzryvarf” nsgre gur svefg puncgre jurer lbh znxr n qrpvfvba. Zl jvsr jrag gur bccbfvgr jnl gb zr naq gryyf zr gung fb sne, onfrq ba jurer jr’er hc gb, gur bayl qvssrerapr vf gung fur pna unpx ryrpgebavp xrlcnqf naq V pna cvpx ybpxf. V’z fher gur fgbel jvyy cynl bhg qvssreragyl nf jr cebterff gb tvir vg fbzr npghny ercynl inyhr, gubhtu V cyna gb cynl vg guebhtu zhygvcyr gvzrf naljnlf.
End not-really spoilers.
The shooting mechanics feel alright though I’m spoiled my modern battleshoot wargun games where you get pretty generous snap-aiming when using ironsighting, and really good ironsights and scopes that enable you to see your target. With these older-styled weapons you can barely see your target when you’ve gone into ironsights so that’s taking some getting used to.
I love the setting so far and that’s elevated my expectations. I’m really excited to get into the meat of the story and see how things really play out. I love that there’s secrets and exploration is encouraged too. There are some puzzles you don’t even really know are puzzles unless you’re really hunting for them, which I feel is true to the spirit of Wolfenstein 3D with it’s hidden treasure rooms and rambling secret passages.
Dark Souls 2. The countdown is on. 1 million souls (8-10 more bosses) and that’s it. GAME OVER.
Until you play it again.
Now 680,000. Iron Keep is an amazing farming area. Haven’t even made it to the Old Iron King yet.
Had some spare time today and picked it up to knock out all but the last three achievements – sorceries, miracles, pyromancies. I need to get access to whatsisface who sells the last ones I need. 😛 NG++ eww.
I’m going to start NG+ when my brother is around so he can watch a very-nearly full run.
Good luck, man!
And yeah, NG++. Imagine my distress when I realised that I’d used a few too many ascetics, and was suddenly facing NG 8+ bosses to grind souls 😛
Bwuaha. I don’t think I’ve done any more than once. Keenly aware of how hard they’d make it later, but also, I hate moving from an area til I’ve depleted it.
I guess it’s no big deal. Old Iron King one-shots you from NG++ onwards anyway. Each ascetic just gives him a little more health.
Dammit! Bloody computer won’t load any websites. Tried rebooting, and that didn’t do anything. Woke up the other morning to it having rebooted all by itself during the night too.
Think its about time to upgrade, but money.
Fuck, I hate posting on my phone.
Well it’s only a few more weeks till you can cash in on your tax return?
True, but the bosses accountant usually doesn’t get our group certificates to us till the end of July.
Ok that sucks then! I was actually planning on building a new rig in July with my Tax Money =D
Edit: I have no idea why I Caps’d tax money >.<
Me too, I even priced it up yesterday on PCPartPicker, and it should total out around 1750 for CPU, Mobo, RAM, Case, GPU, SSD and Windows 8.1 Pro
It’s only been a month since Easter and I already want another holiday =\ anyone else feeling burnt out at work?!
yes
Yeah, though I didn’t take any leave over Easter.
I have a busy first half of June then I’m tempted to take some leave but it’s getting to the point that even one week off just doesn’t feel like enough anymore.
It’s only been a month since Easter and I already want another holiday =\ anyone else feeling burnt out at work?!
no
It’s only been a month since Easter and I already want another holiday =\ anyone else feeling burnt out at work?!
You REALLY want a holiday don’t you. =P
It’s the stupid comments section! I’ve got to click submit like a 100 times in 10 seconds or retype =,=
Is this to avoid the “Posting too fast” error? Because I’m fairly sure that’s fixed, so one press of ‘Submit’ should be okay now. Or is this a completely new demon terrorising the comments?
That seems really weird that they went through though. Usually there’s a catch for duplicate comments.
So obviously you broke the site 😛
…maybe
Damnnit @35, you had the exact same idea that I did and you beat me to it.
Anyone playing transistor? I’ve played about and hour of it so far. SO.DAMN.GOOD! Although I have to force myself to stop so I don’t finish it all in one sitting. D=
How long is the game supposed to be?
I’m not sure, but it’s one of those games that I could just keep playing without a break.
ive heard report that one playthrough will take about 8hrs.
I’m seeing 5-10, and REALLY good reviews.
Would be insta buy if I owned a PS4.
PEE SEE! (Something something master race)
It’s also on PC so you don’t have any excuse.
Well, you do have one excuse which is that on PS4 the narrator’s voice comes out of the controller. Which is rad.
Plus, can get the soundtrack on PC!
(Shut up brain, stop trying to talk me into buying it)
Is it on disc, or download only do you know?
As far as I know, digital download only.
uuuurrrrrrrrAaaaRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!
I’ve been hell looking forward to this game, but still don’t have the goddamn internet!!! >:(
I HATE download only >:(
Download only better not be “the future”.
Sadly it will be, and our aussie internet is still in this state. I hate it too, with my horrid speeds and small monthly caps.
I keep hearing about it and I don’t have a clue what it is.
There’s a review of it here on Kotaku. Looks kind of Bastion-y.
Edit: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/05/transistor-the-kotaku-review/
Made by the same people.
Well it is made by the same people that made Bastion.
It is the second game by the Bastion team. Cyberpunk. Chick in cyber-world loses her voice and gains a talking sword voiced by the same guy that did the narrator in Bastion. Same people did the soundtrack. Same artists did the art.
If you liked Bastion at all you know you already want this. If you didn’t then you have a lump of coal for a heart and we may never truly be able to be friends.
EDIT: And if you haven’t played Bastion you’re doing everything wrong and should go fix that.
I’m really tempted to get it but trying to remember that I shouldn’t buy shit all the time.
Oh yeah, Trials Fusion has a demo on PS4. Like 5 tracks. Gf was using TV so I used Vita remote play to check it out. Somehow beat Mike Tarno (whoever that is) or another dude on a track. 😛
@miketarno
Pretty cool guy!
The coolest of guys! Some call him Mikey T too!
from a GameSpot review of Transistor:
and with that sentence alone, I am beyond goddamn sold.
Ohh yeaaaaah.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/20/5735912/wasteland-2-release-date-august
YESSSSSS.
A friend of mine broke up with her bf on a train once. It was a real shame, they were going places #youthoughti’dforgottenpagesix
Ok, I’ve heard it told that the various endings to Mass Effect 3 are rubbish, but I’m trying to wipe ME3 off my pile of shame before I start Assassins Creed 4 or Watch Dogs, but I’m beginning to think the game has become sentient and is actively preventing me from finishing it off, due to a repeatable game crash in one mission.
For reference, I’m stuck on “Priority: Horizon” and the game crashes at the doorway they walk through in this clip at 26:00 – http://youtu.be/j3Y2-tFqV-0?t=25m50s
So… yay or nay dear TAY, should I bother troubleshooting Mass Effect 3 on PC in an attempt to finish it properly?
Have you taken your Shepard across all the games? If yes, then finish it.
Actually, just finish the thing for closure. In my opinion the furor over the ending was overblown. It’s not a brilliant ending, but it’s not roasting-babies-on-a-stick-for-breakfast evil that the Internet tried to paint it as.
Nope, fresh character for this one. I did take a Shep through 1 & 2 but AFAIK I’ve lost that save.
Yes. Mass Effect 3 is an amazing game, controversial finish or not. Literally the controversial stuff is one minute at the very end. If you’re enjoying it now you’ll enjoy it either way, save for that last minute. (Your mileage will vary there.)
if you’ve played through 1 & 2, its worth finishing the series. coz it is pretty damn good.
just make sure you’ve got the ‘directors cut’ or extended ending DLC stuff. the vanilla ending is fine, but the added stuff adds more & is better.
Man, they really need to drop the price of Mass Effect dlc on PSN so I can finish my femshep playthrough.
damn straight. same goes for PC. I’m planning on doing another run of the trilogy soon & I wanna get all the ME3 DLC this time.
It’s pretty annoying that it’s still $20 a pop
I was thinking that if the rumoured next-gen remasters are actually a thing, it’d be cool if the PC versions got the graphical overhaul as well. coz ME1 is starting to look a tad dated.
The journey is fantastic even if the destination sucks. Also apparently the expanded ending stuff they put out makes it suck less, and there’s an extra DLC missions (Leviathan) that if you’ve played it will add a bit of the necessary foreshadowing and stuff that makes it feel ‘right’. I’m annoyed they weren’t in the game and I’d already finished the game and felt done with everything before they came out so haven’t played, just going off what I’ve heard.
I can say that yes, the Leviathan is a needed DLC (it should have been part of the game). I played through with no DLC, as we decided to play through with Mrs in tow, we’ve got ALL the story DLC. It’s high quality, it makes the story make much more sense…and it should have been in the damn game from the start.
From Ashes shouldn’t have been gated away either – the companion you get from it is one of the most interesting characters in the whole game IMO.
I’m less upset about the Citadel one (the Star Wars Holiday Special – Mass Effect edition DLC) as it is fine as an extra download, and I’m not that upset about Omega being DLC, but Leviathan and From Ashes feel like cut content.
Yeah if you’ve already sunk time into Mass Effect 1&2 or even just 2 you should see the 3rd one through, like most people have already said it’s not the worlds greatest ending to a trilogy but it wasn’t so bad it warranted the reaction it received.
That said EA kind of screwed us over by making some pretty important plotlines as DLC.
I’ve played 1 & 2, but not carried the save across.
Ah… well that leaves a little less incentive to finish it but still worth sticking it through for the closure.
Taro Yoko, creator of Nier and Drakengard, is an odd person. But also very interesting:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=822583
Apparently he doesn’t like doing interviews or being shown on camera or something because the video linked there, he’s talking through a sock puppet. But he has some really interesting things to say IMO.
Transistor is just lovely. I’m enjoying it all- the music, the looks, and the combat is far more than I anticipated, but the only thing that detracts from it all is the sense of pacing at the beginning. It’s a fair difference from Bastion- Heck, even Logan Cunningham’s constant commentary seems to be said at a quicker pace.
Juice review no. 2
Charlie’s Mango whole fruit juice smoothie.
Apparently it had 2 fruit portions in it. I don’t really believe that, but it tastes great.
10/10 Will drink again
Where are you getting these juice smoothies?
Local supermarket
I’M JUST GONNA LEAVE THIS HERE
*spikes controller to the ground, moonwalks out*
Shouldn’t you be working?
That was work, man. And lots of it.
And yes, I probably should be. I’m doing it now, dad. Gawwwwd.
Note to self: when I become Australia’s Glorious Leader,
execute,fire Shaneinto the sunfrom public service.JEALOUS.
The public sector! Now all of Shane’s free time and comments make perfect sense. This whole time I thought you were some secret millionaire just twiddling his thumbs on Kotaku and Dark Souls 2!
Hmm, sounds like you need a crash course in Shane
Pretty cool! I might grab a copy of The Lesser Evil next month when I’ve got a bit more spare change floating around!
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd!
Congratz man, that’s more commitment then i have ever showed to any game 😛
Wasn’t nearly as tough as the Dark Souls 1 plat! But it took a little longer to get.
Was he blocking or did he simply just DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODGE?
SENZU BEAN!
…
Crap now i want a mod for Dark Souls that every time you drink an Estus you exclaim SENZU BEAN!
Or every time you get hit you hear Piccolo in the far distance yelling “DOOOOOOODGE!”
And every spell has a 3 day wind up with your character screaming the whole time.
And Levels are renamed to “Raditz”
“You are now 15 Raditz”
What…you think I’m giving these things away?
Cos I’m not.
Any TAY meetups going on this weekend in Sydney? Just realized I’ve got an empty Saturday 0,0
I don’t think there’s anything already planned.
Are you visiting? (or perhaps you live here and I’ve forgotten? :P)
The last option in brackets =D
I think I saw somewhere that spoilers are working again. Let’s see!
Edit: Baw.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/05/x-men-days-of-future-past-australian-review/#comments
Luke must be a wizard.
Wizard or guy with admin privileges.
So same thing.
He also edited someone’s comment to add spoiler tags on a spoiler.
Wizard AND hero.
Giant Bomb just announced that Vinny is moving back to New York to start working with Alex in their new Giant Bomb East office.
This makes me sad. Vinny has consistently been the one to lift a lot a of the video content lately. Without him in the studio, it’s going to be pretty damned meh. On the other hand, he’ll hopefully be making a lot of content on his own and that’d be rad.
The podcast will be really different without him. I understand why they don’t like using Skype though. On the bright side, I’m sure his call-ins will be hilarious.
I felt like there was something I was going to do with my day but now I’ve completely forgotten what it is.
…
*sits and does nothing*
Sleep?
But I already did that.
*GASP*
You work in IT too?
Given this is Gooky, I’m guessing it was install games on Steam and continue to slag Nintendo.
And be forthcoming with girls he likes!
Harem? But I hardly know ’em!
Boop.
This isn’t a forum, threads don’t need bumping!
Bump for responses to a question never asked
Dota 2’s compendium reached the 13th stretch goal. The one that required the prize pool to reach $6 million dollars. Now Valve has thrown in a few more stretch goals with the last one requiring the prize pool to reach $10 million.
It’s going to happen. People are going to keep throwing moneys at Valve and because of that, we’re going to see a video of the International after party featuring Darude.
Dududududududu.
Da rude still exists? He made that one song and that’s it
That song is somewhat infamous among DIGITAL SPORTS fans. He performed live at Dreamhack while the Dota finals were going on.
Note the reaction.
This time 8 weeks ago, I was at my heaviest weight ever (167.9 kilos). 8 weeks later and I’m down to 157.5 kilos. I still have a long way to go, but it’s a start.
Congratulations man! That’s great progress!
Almost 10 kilos in 2 months is pretty damn good! Keep it up man, the results are totally worth the effort!
Looks like your *puts on shades* on target YEAAAHHHHHH
*brofist*
I don’t know where I started when I jumped into Keto back in November because the scales I had at the time only went up to 150. After a few weeks on keto my doctor’s scales said 153.
From there I’ve gotten down to 134. I’ve been hovering around the mid-130s for about two months though so I’ve decided to up my walking and drop my calorie target. I haven’t been under 130 since I was about 21 (and doing tae kwon do) so I’d like to remember what it looks like.
My target is 95 but I’ll be happy to be anywhere south of 100. I last weighed 100kg when I was 16. :/
I’ve actually been wondering/considering trying keto for the last push to get under 100kg… how have you found it?
I only stayed on it about 6 weeks or so, lost at least 10kg during that time.
Pros: all the bacon and eggs you want, throw in some green salad and cheese here and there.
Cons: no sugar or bread whatsoever, some vegetables are surprisingly high-carb. I love Tomatoes, for instance, couldn’t have them. You also smell pretty bad and you’ll probably get pretty sick around the one week mark: they call it “keto flu”.
Really make sure you know the carb content on anything you put in your mouth because you’re constantly at risk of dropping out of ketosis at which point all that bacon and cheese you’ve been linefeeding into your face is going nowhere.
Yeah that sounds about what I’ve heard, I quite like breakfasts like eggs, bacon, spinach and mushrooms, and having a quick check on MyFitnessPal, that would come out at about 3g of carbs, and I seem to understand that most people stick to around 20g of net carbs (that’s carbs minus fibre or something, right?) per day…
Honestly I didn’t really do the research. My wife and I were trying keto together and I just basically ate what she ate. When she decided she hated it I pretty much just had bacon and egg for most of my meals with the occasional bunless burger from McDonald’s.
Another con: a lot of the foods you’ll eat a lot of on keto are kind of expensive. It’s not a cheap diet.
Huge work man, I was in almost the exact same boat in Feb last year, I weighed in at 153kg when I started, and I’m now hovering around 115kg, with an appointment this friday to go see a dietitian and hopefully power on through the 100kg barrier by summer.
Oooooh. Found out at lunch time that part of the refurbishments at EB swanston will include a 3rd level being added downstairs. Dedicated to loot/swag, including high end collectibles.
There used to be a secondary EB at Bankstown that had just shirts/toys etc and it was great. I guess it was a temporary overflow store or something while they offloaded their excess crap though because it’s gone now. Interestingly, the centre replaced it with an extra set of escalators to the car park, which is retrospect is actually really good because there used to only be like one way to get to the rooftop parking and it was kind of a bitch.
Wait what? I have no memory of there ever being a second EB there, just the one down halfway between the newsagents and Dick Smith there. Where (and when) was this second one?
I know they used to have two at Parramatta back in the day…
If you walked up the stairs opposite Dick Smith and turn right, it was there. Next to the café on the corner.
It wasn’t there long, like I said it was probably a temporary measure last year I’m guessing because they were doing stocktake and there was an empty tenancy. They had a handful of games but mostly it was filled with Skylanders sets, those POP figurines, t-shirts and plushies of Yoshi, Mario etc. It was sometime in the brief window when my wife and I had our first car in February-June. Right where the escalators to the car park are now, near the stairs down to the main food court.
Ah, must’ve missed it entirely.
Also I totally can’t think of any escalators near there at all 😛 Guess I’ll have to take a closer look next time I head over.
This off-the-cuff familiarity with Bankstown shops has made me realise there’s a lot more TAYbies in my area than I thought…
I remember seeing that store and thought, hey cool. The next time i was there it was closed.
I nearly have an aneurysm each time I’m in Bankstowns car park. The amount of people who walk out willy nilly in front of my car is well…retarded.
I find the car traffic is worse than the human traffic. It seems 50% of people in car parks forget about the road rules because apparently they no longer apply. Stop sign? Whatever! Right of way? MORE LIKE RITE OF GAY LOLOL. SUCK MY DIIIICK I’M A DRIVER. Then the other 50% drive like retards to get away from the first 50% ASAP.
In Bankstown the split is more like 90%/10%.
As in the old carpark, alongside the railroad? I used to stop going there in favour of the rooftop part near Kmart because it was always packed, now I just go in to the one on Big W’s side. It usually seems to be ok.
Bankstown club represent 😛
They put in new escalators to the rooftop car park above the main part of the centre, like in the last few months. You’ve got the food court downstairs, which is also where the Angus & Robertson and Dick Smith are. Say you come up those stairs and you’re walking towards the JB Hi-Fi or Lowes. Immediately to your right, there’s the new escalators & lift. The temporary EB used to be in that corner.
Oh, you mean like where the music store used to be? Or the Bulldogs shop? Or at least somewhere along that line anyway, near the Shaver Shop now I think.
There might have been a Bulldogs or music shop there once but I don’t remember that very well, or where the shaver shop is…
TBH the only place I regularly visit at Bankstown is JB. I used to go down to A&R a lot but I don’t buy that many books these days.
Going from left to right, from memory it goes Bulldogs store, shaver shop, athletes foot, jewellery store, café on the corner, then where EB used to be.
Ugh, I’ve spent way too much time in that centre. Lucky JB HI FI is right near the exit, in and out \o/
Yeah that one, utter nightmare. The new car park is the way to go. Plus, Dan Murphys is right there!
…Not-Bankstown-but-on-the-same-train-line Club? 😀
You brave, brave individual.
I always wondered why they bothered with a second EB store dedicated in Bankstown, the few times I went there it always empty. Even over weekends. Just the wrong crowd in that suburb for two game stores in one place =\
I always wondered why they bothered with a second EB store dedicated in Bankstown, the few times I went there it always empty. Even over weekends. Just the wrong crowd in that suburb for two game stores in one place =\
For those who are interested, I’ve finalised the weapon attack critical failure chart that is likely to be used in TAY Pathfinder. I’ve even added descriptions for the type of failure that you suffer:
– Rookie Error
– Masochism
– Butter Fingers
– That’s Going to Cost You
– Not the Face
– Friendly Fire
– Pushed to Far
– “Quality” Weapon
– Muscle Strain
– Fall from Grace
I’ve also got a pretty good idea of how to incorporate @negativezero’s suggestion of bonus effects on critical damage. This is likely to require using some of the variant rules rather than the standard ruleset for Pathfinder. Obviously I would only incorporate these things into the game if people want them but I think it might make the game feel a bit more cinematic and tense. Let me know what you guys think and if everyone wants to, I can start laying the groundwork for changing some of the rules over when we complete the tomb dungeon.
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
I think you only needed to tag Red “Sneak attack with a punch to my own face then attempt to set my clothes on fire” Artifice in there.
I never sneak attack myself, I assume if I’m throwing the punch I know it’s coming.
I like the idea 🙂 makes for more hilarious outcomes.
Paizo have a critical hits card deck. Different stuff depending on the type of damage (bludgeoning, piercing, slashing, magic) and 52 different outcomes. Could use that as a basis?
I was unaware of this. I shall have to investigate further. Thanks Neg.
Edit: Having briefly looked at it, it seems to me that it is a bit too random. The critical fumble deck has a similar sort of feeling and I’m not too sure if the system would work with what I’m thinking. The critical multiplier stuff in particular seems a bit of an odd way to use the mechanic. I’ll try and work something myself and draw some inspiration from what is available.
One of the critical hits should a devastating groin injury that makes everyone nearby wince.
You get bonus points if you manage to crit with a bite attack and get that effect.
Having looked through the critical fumble deck I totally agree it’s far too random. It’s a fine line between what is interesting but not overpowered or too severe. And at the same time an element of randomness helps as well.
Am sure whatever you come up with will work out with trials.
After reading this I need to know – What is Pathfinder and who do I pay to play =O
It’s basically 3rd edition Dungeons and Dragons with a few different rules. A bunch of us are currently playing at the moment but we’ve got a pretty full group so we can’t really squeeze anyone else in Puppet. Sorry about that.
That said, your FLGS might have people asking around if they want to play or maybe people you know in real life might want to play a tabletop RPG. It’s a bit of an expensive hobby but if you enjoy it then money is (mostly) irrelevant.
Only expensive to start, once you’ve got the material it amortises pretty readily
You really only need the core rulebook as a player, assuming your GM has access to the other books. Maybe some of the other books if you really want to dig into a specific class or race or something, but most of that info is online for free.
The 3 (well, 5) things you need for most RPGs
1. The system (so the book/s/pamhplet/onepager)
2. The resolution method (dice/cards/coins/whatever your system uses)
3. Paper
4. People
5. Imagination
Beyond that, it’s gravy.
The dice aren’t expensive unless you go nuts with them (or you’re playing FFG’s new Star Wars RPG which seems to use an insane pile of custom dice) and most of the time once you’ve got a d20, d100 and 2-3 d4, d6, d8, d10 and d12 (maybe 4 of the d6 and d8s) you’re set for everything you could need and you can use them in just about everything.
Apparently the Star Wars RPG’s dice work pretty well, but yeah, a basic die sit is pretty cheap.
@redartifice: I believe the Star Wars RPG from Fantasy Flight is based off the same system they used for the Warhammer one that @popdart5 is playing? It seems interesting but not a fan of the way they’ve split it over multiple books and are selling beta versions then expect people to fix their game so they can sell them another version. Just want a proper sourcebook. Also the crazy amount of custom dice and all the pre-programmed outcomes seem like they’d be a pain in the ass to GM sometimes.
@negativezero one of the interesting things about the SW RPG is how cinematic it is- it’s a very narrativist system, which is cool.
The Firefly RPG is similar, very much based on telling a story rather than hit points and combat swings and the like, but it uses conventional polyhedral dice. Neat system.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Ok I’m done being dramatic so I can now ask what’s FLGS? =\ I’ve always wanted to play D&D but I’m probably the only geeky/nerdy dude in my social circles to the point where my love for all things game-related is practically a close kept secret because no one else I know is really interested =@
Friendly Local Gaming Store.
And the great thing about the game currently being run is that it’s all done online via Google Hangout / Roll20 so you don’t need to be in your local social circle. Hoorah!
Get $20 credit when you trade in your PS2 console? Go home, EB, you’re drunk.
It’s only the best selling video gaming console for about 155 million reasons. Chances are, you’d prefer the unit over the measly twenty dollars. I know I do.
Anyone care to share their greatest PS2 moments?
The day I received my Futuretronics wireless controller for PS2 I was amazed. Almost as amazed as the day I bought my Gamecube Wavebird. Suddenly it was the future – no more wired controllers! This was significant to me because it happened before wireless controllers had become mainstream with the introduction of the PS3/X360. It was incredible.
Sorry, my mistake it was a Joytech Neo X – not Futuretronics.
When it was being used as a DVD player at a friend’s birthday and we were all watching Driven, making fun of how stupid it was the whole time. Way more enjoyable than anything involving that movie has any right to be.
…literally the only PS2-related memory I have of any significance or greatness 😛
LOL, EB here don’t even take PS2 consoles, games OR accessories, so yeah.. There’s very few stores here that will trade the stuff in cause they do sell it in store.
Also it’s about all they’re worth. Cashies sell them for $10-$20.. Also given some PS3’s only attract like $60 trade in, $20 trade in for a 15 year old console for a company like EB Games is actually pretty decent lol.
Edit: Vice City, what I loved about it, best game released for the platform. Though the GTA series as it stands on the PS2 was awesome anyway…
Yeah the pricing is about right – I’m just in denial. I don’t want to accept that the console I have some great gaming memories with is near-worthless.
I wouldn’t trade it in anyway! Never got why people traded in consoles, it’s just not worth it. You’re better off selling it on eBay or something, y’know?
The time I finally got more than 40 takedowns in Burnout 3: Takedown.
Apart from that, not a whole lot…
METAL GEAR SOLID 2
METAL GEAR SOLID 3
What more do you need?
That’s plenty. 😀
The PS2 is my favourite console so far. It was the first console I bought with my own money and it had great games as well.
Shadow of the colossus tops my best games’ list and even better is that I was able to find my PS2 copy in a pile at an EB store after the guy at the counter told me they didn’t have a copy. They only had a box but they couldn’t find the disc in the drawers. Luckily i decide to open the box just in case and the game was in there. I was so happy.
Playing local co-op with my cousin’s kids on various PS2 games is a great memory as well.
You were heaps lucky!
Hello TAY!
I have just bought myself a ticket to Supanova Sydney (yay!) and I need some help, because I’ve never been before.
1. What is the attitude to cosplay like? Do people dress up just to go or is it only if you’re serious about the competition?
2. Would it be considered weird if I was dressed up considering I’m over 30 and not exactly a skinny stick girl (I will be avoiding anything involving lycra).
3. Any cool cosplay suggestions? An obvious one is to go as my namesake, but it’s not the most interesting costume!
People dress up for fun as well as for competition. All ages. Nobody would judge you for being over 30, even if they could tell.
I think you’d make a good Alice from Alice: Madness Returns. Swishy dresses! Although the best cosplay ideas are characters from something you love.
Alice is a good suggestion. I’m still a bit in love with sewing circle skirts, and my petticoat is in need of another outing, so I’m definitely thinking along those lines. I just found this, and I love the idea of rockabilly Poison Ivy: http://www.geekxgirls.com/images/batman/rockabilly_batman_cosplay_01.jpg
Stick girl? Hello, I’m Stick Man.
A friend bought the Adventure Time Card Wars card game a few months ago and we tried it out today. It’s the best!
Floop the pig!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ae8gk_adventure-time-card-wars_shortfilms (the episode)
That was the best episode of Impy and Chimpy I’ve ever seen.
That episode reminded me so much of my childhood. All those times I tried to get my sister to play Yu-Gi-Oh with me.
Scored a Telstra 3G WiFi portable modem today, works and all! Just need a Telstra sim now, apparently Aldi sims don’t work with it, rude.
If you get prepaid I have that $90 voucher.
Ooh, might take you up on that offer then 😛
Sure. It’s gotta be a prepaid Telstra service. I have $50 and $40. Send email to adr1k000 @ googly mailz.
Just emailed you, i’m a bit slow 😛
Dear TAY,
Bring back #LetterWritingPageSeven.
Sincerely,
Phlanispo
Was just thinking about this the other night, actually. Possibly in Adam West’s voice.
Dear Phlan,
If you insist.
Scree
Dear Scree,
I believe I received some misdirected mail from you recently. I will forward it on to @phlanispo though.
Gook
Dear Gooky,
I’m sorry. I am slightly retarded. Thank you.
Scree
Dear Mr Taco,
Hang on, you were the guy who tried to turn page 7 into something else, weren’t you?
Strange Page Seven or something, you called it?
Sincerely,
Phlanispo
#LetterWritingPageSeven
Dear Phlanapan Man,
All I recall is Weird Page 8, which was someone else’s creation though I did contribute. I have no idea what @strange tried to do to page 7.
Gook
Per your request I shall write the following letter:
L
Dear Aliasalpha,
M
Scree
S
O
R
R
Y
Lots of love,
Aliasalpha
Dear Phlanispo,
Hemingway once told me that there is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. You wish for a return to the letter writing days of past, yet you begin with a papercut, nary a drop of blood to be seen. When attacking an enemy, a commander will gain far more respect for leading the charge than requesting from the rear.
So lead with a worthy letter, and trust that those who can will follow. Do not dally about with two word sentences and Hash Tags for Harli. Write letters to inspire others, and demand that they follow you through your actions.
Blaghs.
Dear Blaghs,
I have been planning to restore letter writing page seven to it’s former glory for quite some time now. Sadly, I am consistently several pages behind on TAY. When I finally reach the fabled seventh page, TAY has already moved on to greener pastures, somewhere around pages eleven and twelve. Rallying for the cause is very difficult under these conditions. This was not enough to deter me , and today I finally planted the seeds of social change.
Sincerely,
Phlanispo
To Phlanispo STOP
Consider replacing Letter Writing Page Seven with Telegram Writing Page Seven STOP
Sincerely, Crazyguy1990
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http://www.onlineconversion.com/morse_code.htm
Oh god @crazyguy1990 this should be a thing!
…
…Not on page seven though. That is holy ground. TelegramPageTwelve?
Dear Phlan
we’ve degenerated into telegrams here before.
dot dot dot,
Red.
Dear Phlan
I hope this letter finds you. the wolves are at my back, and the bitter cold of this Alaskan weather is making it difficult to put pen to paper.
I buried Carmine yesterday, the last survivor other than me. He made a valiant effort, but the sepsis got to him
I think i’ll die out here. if this letter makes it to you, tell my family I loved them.
Yours
Re-
(the rest of the letter is stained in blood)
Ugh, stuck in bed all day, nose still sore. 🙁
Only upside is that I’m waiting for Wolfenstein to finish downloading its 40GB of goodness…
Actually, that’s not an upside… 🙁
Has a serious shopping addiction for someone who doesn’t have a job at the moment.
Looking at a pc gaming rig.
Looking at some Air Jordans (have a shoe addiction)
Looking at video games. Retro and new.
Cannot stop myself. Must buy everything.
Have you considered looking for a computer game about shoes? It’d kind of tick most of the boxes
That’s what credit cards and crippling debt are for 😀
Oh man, I’m in on the sneakers too, I picked up a pair of Foamposites and KD6s last week… my wallet doesn’t like me much…
Had a chance to buy the Jordan GMP 6/7 pack in a half size under my normal size. Had to tie myself down so I didn’t pull the pin.
Yeah, I’m relatively lucky in that regard because I typically wear size 13/14, so a lot of stuff I want (AJ1 DMP pack etc) is pretty hard to find in my size.
Yeah I am 11.5/12 usually. 11 is usually a bit tight width wise. Still find it hard to find stuff, I always see size 9 and 10s of everything.
Hang on, I just saw a 6/7 GMP pack in sz11 on a facebook group I’m an admin for… that wouldn’t happen to be what you’re looking at, would it?
Haha, sure is. Didn’t bite the bullet. These groups are dangerous. The gaming ones aswell.
So, frozen spoilers here:
Jung jnf Ryfn’f cyna rknpgyl?
Eha njnl naq puvyy va n zbhagnva pnfgyr jvgu ab sbbq naq jngre hagvy…jung, rknpgyl?
Fur’f n Qvfarl cevaprff. Fur pna fvat naq unir navznyf nccrne (guhf tvivat ure sbbq), naq fvapr fur pna chyy gur jngre bhg bs gur nve, fur unf rnfl npprff gb jngre.
Fair enough. I don’t know what I was thinking, but everything is so obvious now!
Ow, fuck my sinuses right now.
I think that may make them hurt a bit more. I’m no doctor though, even if the title makes you believe otherwise, so I don’t recommend taking any of my medical advice.
Don’t worry, even with lube, nothing that big could fit up there…
Phrasing!
Even with lube, nothing that big could fit up there…
Better?
It’s an Archer reference 😛
Ah.
I don’t watch it.
Heard of the show, caught glimpses, but I don’t watch it.
Should, it’s awesome!
@scree would agree!
Dude, the art style is amazing. That’s what originally drew me to it.
why are we not using phrasing anymore…..
2 hours in Transistor is already the man, and so is it’s music… Love that music.
Oh and the Tab button makes Red hum to the songs 😀
So, It’s been like a two weeks since I started doing WiiFit. I’ve lost over a kilogram, but considering I haven’t changed my diet much, I’d say that’s a pretty good result
Nah bruu, you want to gain weight. Get mad gains all up in this. Pump the eye-ron. Not sure how Ron feels about it, but that’s what he gets for being in the wars.
That’s what we call it when he drinks, bee tee dubya.
I have never hated myself as much as I do right now, and that is really saying a lot.
I;m sorry /o\
Yes, because it’s your fault that I’m an idiot.
Why did you drop me as a baby so many times, Scree? Why?
Not everyone can get juggling right the first time they try it
If anyone is interested in Watch_Dogs on PC, GreenManGaming has the Deluxe Edition (base game plus about 5 DLC packs) for $45 with this code;
PT7ELX-1WPWNT-7UAGQZ (25% off)
That does make it even harder to get it on PS4, even with dickhead smiths doing it for $65 with a preorder…
Still feels like a lounge & TV game to me though
In light of the formation to Deeper Meanings Publishing, I would like to make a submission.
Harold Holt was just your everyday Australian Prime Minister. Against the wishes of his friends, he chose to go swimming in Cheviot Beach, a beach known for strong currents, deadly rip tides, and merpeople. Harold Holt was caught in a rip tide, and drowned in the open sea.
Eventually, his body sunk to the bottom and hit an undersea powerline that belonged to the merpeople. Harold Holt was reborn… as Harold Volt. He had the power to control electricity, breathe underwater, and fly for whatever reason. At first the merpeople were resistant to Harold Volt’s presence. But they eventually worshiped him as their god.
Harold Volt grew in power over the next 50 years. Soon, he had enough power to return to the surface and conquer humanity. Except one zombie stood against him… Undad.
That’ll be $50 000, thanks. @shane
EDIT: I have fixed the glitch in the space-time continuum, and Howard Holt has been renamed to Harold Holt to avoid confusion for the Timeline XGW-6 audience.
Damn XGW-6 people, always demanding we change events to line up with their history.
I want to play the game, it sounds like a cross between Infamous, Ecco The Dolphin & Stubbs The Zombie
It’s called Aquaman: The Game, it’s on GameCube.
That’ll be a $25 consulting fee please 😛
So a game about the world’s least popular superhero on a system I’ve never even seen much less owned, eh?
Good thing that was unsolicited advice and I don’t have to pay for it…
I thought it was Harold Holt.
#nitpicking
Alternate universe. Or just careless typing.
Fixed. Damn XGW-6’ers.
I was with you all the way up until you decided to appropriate someone else’s creative work. Sorry, man. Better luck next time.
What are you talking about? Harold Holt got picked up by a submarine and went back to his true homeland in Communist China. Everyone knows that.
Got home from work and booted up my PC, and all of a sudden it decides to load websites again, must have been an internet issue. Still can’t sign in on my 360 though.
In other news, I happened to see the first 5 minutes of X-Men: Days Of Future Past tonight, and it looks pretty awesome, so I’ma watch First Class right now, because I haven’t seen it yet, and want to watch it before I watch DoFP (in full) tomorrow.
I might hit the hay and try to make these sinuses feel better.
See you all tomorrow!
o/
\o
Wolfenstein is freaking rad. I love the whole super serious but not in the slightest tone it has and I have a weak spot for alternate history Nazi war tech stuff.
Reminds me of a movie called Frankenstein’s Army which I’m pretty sure no one has seen. One of the only found footage movies I’ve ever liked, probably because the camera man was a professional with a proper camera in the story not some dickhead with Parkinson’s, about a group of soldiers stumbling into a secret Nazi research/experimentation lab. A bit more to it than that but really cool body horror flick with the same sort of atmosphere.
It’s sounding like the kind of FPS we haven’t really had for years. Hearing good things.
Has anyone actually played the 2009 Wolfenstein? That game was amazing, but I’ve never heard anyone talk about it.
I heard someone mentioning it the other day, saying that Return to Castle Wolfenstein was awesome but Wolfenstein 09 was bad.
I didn’t even know there was a Wolfenstein 09 😛
It was awesome. Almost RPG-like with the weapon upgrades etc. Yet another awesome game that I postponed uni assignments/study for. 😛
Huh? Advertising has gotten weird. It seems to follow similar logic to Axe Cop.
Space Jam 2!
Fargo is one of the best pieces of storytelling on TV atm. Holy Shit. might be my favourite show this year.
I’m not even close to up to date, but I really loved the first two episodes.
Finally finished off the last of Dexter.
I think I need to go find something more cheerful for a while 😛
Or something with a better last season/ending 😛
(so disappointing)
I honestly didn’t see what was so terrible about the last few seasons that everyone hated so much. I mean there were a few awkward parts here and there that gave a bit of cringe or whatever, but nothing that made me want to stop watching at all.
Apparently External Hard Drive support is coming in the June Xbone update, the drive has to be at least 256GB and USB 3.0, and here’s the kicker, it will be able to support two drives at once. So potentially you could have two of these, making a total of 8.5 Terabytes (including the internal 500GB drive).
There’s other stuff included in the update, like the ability to use real names (apparently you can choose whether or not to share that info). But I think the external drive support is definitely the best new feature.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-18167-Xbox-One-June-Update-Detailed–External-Storage–Real-Names-and-Other-Stuff.html
Played a few games of Dota tonight with some other TAYbies on TeamSpeak.
The first game, there was only four of us and we were paired with a random. I was forced to support while the random spent a good chunk of the game either AFKing or feeding.
The next game, he was on the other team and I played as a carry. Things were rather one sided. I got my revenge on that dude for wasting our time.
In the last game that I played, I went the same carry again. It was a bloodbath. My favourite bit was at the end where I got a rampage (killed all of the other team) by just using my ultimate on them in their fountain. We were that far ahead. It was silly.
I should play carry more often. Normally I play support because I can do a lot of work as support. Turns out killing people also counts as work.
“just using my ultimate on them in their fountain” That doesn’t surprise me. My understanding of DOTA2 is that any player other then me can instantly kill anyone my moving their mouse pointer in that persons general direction.
There is some bug though that means when I move my mouse pointer in the general direction of the opposing team my character instantly dies instead.
“You know what’s a good British Sitcom? My Family! It’s been a while since I watched the first season.”
*gets out DVD, puts DVD in computer*
“Alright! This is awesome! I’m almost at the end of the pilot!”
*DVD stops working*
*Attempt to watch the last 2 minutes of the pilot over the course of 5 minutes*
*Give up, try to watch the second episode*
“Heh, this is pretty funny.”
*DVD stops working 3 minutes in*
*Give up, watches WTFIWWY webshow instead*
DVDs suck. Why can’t shows be put on cartridges instead?
Friend lent us the entire new series of Doctor Who DVDs. Every time there’s a disc reading error, we switch to [REDACTED] and forget to go back to discs for the rest of the season.
No, people who don’t look after DVDs suck. 🙁
Yeah, they really do.
I just died for the first time in my playthrough of FFX – remastered. It was all Tidus’ fault of cause.
Silly guy got himself confused then 1 shot my healer, the other party member, then hit himself out of confusion just long enough for the enemy to confuse him again and let him kill himself.
I kind of wonder if it’s because he worked out he’s just a video game character having to do things at the whim of some random person that gets to actually exist (as far as I know) and on top of that he apparently has no idea what he’s doing. “Well fuck you buddy, I’ll ruin this for as all!” then the murder-suicide.
Yeah confusion really sucked in that game, since you deal the same amount of damage you usually do to monsters on your allies as well and that’s when you realise that you don’t have over 9999 HP on any of your characters… not even close 😛
It’s like when you go to run your lowbie buddies through some dungeons/raids in MMOs with your ultra-powered character and realize the worst way possible that this particular boss has a mind-control.
Haha! Oh man been there. “Run away, run away!”
Anyone know if there are any good 24hr gyms in the Parramatta area cheaper then anytime fitness?
I’ve been umming and arring about singing up to anytime since the start of the year but I belive it’s about $60 a month and I find it kinda hard to justify that when there isn’t really a whole lot I could do in a gym that I can’t do at home with my body weight and a set of dumbbells.
Though at least it would get me out of the house for something other then work or food. I might even talk to someone.
Jett’s don’t have any contracts and are 24/7, supposed to be pretty good. It’s a basic gym though without the crazy elaborate classes or facilities, though.
Anytime can be good because you can walk into any anytime using your membership. I fortunately signed up to my gym for $400 for a full year. Which is crazy cheap. Even if you skip a few weeks at a time.
Update: Sinuses still feeling terrible.
Downing Green Tea & Codral has some benefits.
Wolfenstein. Me likey
Repost from @cookingmama as it was buried on the last page due to moderation woes:
“Hello TAY!
I have just bought myself a ticket to Supanova Sydney (yay!) and I need some help, because I’ve never been before.
1. What is the attitude to cosplay like? Do people dress up just to go or is it only if you’re serious about the competition?
2. Would it be considered weird if I was dressed up considering I’m over 30 and not exactly a skinny stick girl (I will be avoiding anything involving lycra).
3. Any cool cosplay suggestions? An obvious one is to go as my namesake, but it’s not the most interesting costume!”
Cooking Mama is awesome! *decisive nod*
It’s definitely a costume I’d like to have in my stash.
Thanks Strange.
@cookingmama The whole aim of cosplay is to have fun. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise. Some people are nit picky about costumes. I am one of them, but it is a habit I am trying to break. Age, body shape, gender, none of it matters because all you want to do is have fun. You can dress up even if you’re not going in the competition.
As for character…I would say dress up as something you like and something you know you will have fun with.
Thanks scree! If it turns out ok I might go in the comp next year. This year it’ll just be me and a little girl dressing up to have fun.
Just don’t get jealous if the little girl steals the limelight =P
I wish you the best of luck and I hope you have fun
I’m sure she will. She’s 7 years old and already a nut about star wars so she’ll probably dress up as Vader, a Jedi or a girl Han Solo.
Oh, the convention will love her. I’m not great with young kids but even I think they’re adorable when they cosplay.
@cookingmama
1. Cosplaying is encouraged. You get some great costumes around. Last year there was an amazing looking Joffrey. If you do cosplay though people might want pictures with you, this is completely normal and just go with it. It’s one of the main things about the whole event really.
2. It would be weird if I turned up in my mankini with a Borat ‘tache and haircut. That’s about the only thing that would be considered weird, and even then people would probably love it (as long as my ‘bits’ didn’t fall out of it).
3. Dark Souls knight 😛 you get a fair few Doctors and Deadpool seems to a favourite atm. I can imagine at Sydney there’s gonna be a shedload of Spidermans given that Stan Lee’s attending and with John Barrowman there as well there’ll be more than the normal amount of Doctors going.
List things that you like and get a list of possibilities 😛
Every year I’ve been planning to do a head-crabbed Freeman costume (also handy for the zombie walk) but don’t have the time/effort to do it. A Team Fortress 2 character would also be one I’d want to do but think it would be better if I got a few other people to do it as well to go as a whole team.
Because everyone would be saying “I thought cufcfan said he was dressing up but he’s just wearing the same stuff he always wears, I don’t get it“
Thanks! I think this year will be limited by time – it’s only 3 weeks to Supanova and that’s not a lot of time to make a complicated costume, but I have plenty of inspiration, and I think group cosplays are amazing. So I’m looking at Supanova as a test run, and then I have time to come up with something even better for PAX.
So now that I’m over the moderation woes, I’m thinking that I’d like to capitalise on my circle skirt sewing abilities and make a rockabilly-inspired costume. I love the costumes in this group, but seeing as I love Marvel more than DC (and of course, Stan Lee will be there OMG) then I was thinking maybe a Rockabilly Madame Hydra might be fun.
http://www.geekxgirls.com/images/batman/rockabilly_batman_cosplay_01.jpg
Ooh, awesome idea!
I think that looks great. I’m doing a circle skirt for my cosplay this year too.
They are such fun to wear. I have a big puffy petticoat and not enough occasions to wear it 🙂
I think any occasion is a good enough reason to wear it. Mind you, I would probably go to the shops in it
I got that email from EB about $20 for your PS2, and it’s for dead or alive ones. I have two busted ones hanging around so I might take them in. Shame it’s store credit only though, I have no upcoming games I’m excited for, and I’ve got more than enough unfinished games going at the moment.
Or do I have upcoming games I’m excited for? I can’t remember. If anyone remembers for me, let me know. 😀
Is it like when you trade in a damaged note, you only need 2/3 of the note? So get chopping and make $60 from 2 PS2s?
I know Mario Kart might not be your kind of game, but there’s going to be lots of TAYbies playing multiplayer which will be all kinds of fun. Your kids will love it too. 😀
Eww, not even for ‘free’. #chocoboracing4lyfe!
Haha, the mental image of Strange playing Mario Kart was a good one, though. :'(
😀
Xenoblade again!
(but more seriously, there’s lots of Tales stuff! Xillia 1/2, Symphonia Chronicles, Hearts R, that Z one!)
I just bought Xillia on PSN though, which is my current go-to game.
Sweet :D. I think @negativezero is playing it again too so you can be buds and I’m always up for a game discuss sesh!
I’ve noticed Tales/Bandai Namco games go really cheap on PSN really quickly. Just a couple of months after its release, US PSN had Tales of Symphonia Chronicles for $20! ($10 for US PS+), that’s insanity! INSANITY! I had just imported a PAL disc version of it a week before the sale too, oops! (still unplayed as well :P)
I almost bought Xillia when I was in the US earlier this year for US$40, just because I had US$ cash I wanted to get rid of before coming home. I ended up getting it on PSN for AU$19.76. Happy with that. 😀
Oh, and I still have US$20 in my wallet. It mocks me whenever I’m out and want to buy something but don’t have enough AU$. So I guess I didn’t really save anything after all. 😛
I am indeed playing Xillia again, picking up from where I left it about 8 months ago. I think I’m close to the end though.
Dragon Age: Stupid Dope Funky Fresh edition.
Aha! I knew there was a game I was forgetting! That’s actually a good idea, Freeze. Couldn’t justify the extra real money for that edition, but money I can only spend at EB would certainly do the trick.
Last night I ate some Sushi and watched Godzilla
Sushi was awesome, Godzilla was decent but not as good as I had hoped, too much stuff about humans I didn’t care about, not enough monster bashing things but that seems to be the way with a lot of monster/ alien / creature movies they seem to like to follow around characters that are never developed enough to care about. I’m always reminded of the first Alien vs Predator movie in these instances, so much potential but they ruined it by following around boring jerks, remember the movie’s tag line “whoever wins, we lose” LIES!!!
I think I dug Clovefrield so much because I actually liked this group of people that humanized the story. Couldn’t say the same for Godzilla. :'(
Gur fba arrqrq gb qvr ng gur fgneg naq Oelna Penafgba arrqrq gb or gur prageny punenpgre.
Agreeeed!
Gur jubyr snzvyl qenzn jvgu gur fba jnfa’g arpprffnel. Whfg na rfgenatrq sngure naq fba erpbaarpgvat yvxr ng gur fgneg jbhyq’ir orra rabhtu qenzn. Qvqa’g arrq gur Fna Sena fghss. Fubhyq’ir nyy gbbx cynpr va Gbxlb gbb.
Lrnu, jnf xvaq bs cvffrq bss jura rirelguvat whfg fuvsgrq gb Nzrevpn. jul pbhyqa’g gurl unir unq gur svany onggyr frg va Wncna? gung jbhyq’ir orra fb zhpu orggre.
I concur.
I agree, but in a way I was kind of happy that they took that route, because it was something you didn’t expect, and so many movies are just too predictable these days.
I think that’s why I liked Godzilla so much, because it was just completely different from what I expected it to be.
It sounds like you’re disappointed that Godzilla the monster didn’t humanize anything 😛
I did enjoy the monster and how humans were insignificant to it. There really didn’t need to be any humanizing. XD
yeah I would have been happy with 2 hours of monsters bashing each other and things, he’s big and terrifying, I don’t need to see other people reacting to how big and terrifying he is, I have eyes you know 😛
So… just got a late birthday gift from my father (MONEY!) which means all of the sudden i can now afford to get Mario Kart 8 \o/
Where is the best place to get it from?
Looks like Big W will have it for a very similar price as Ozgameshop so no real benefit there…
Where is everyone else getting it from?
Probably Big W or JB for me. Wooo. I look forward to racing you! 😀 (And hearing your crazy accent if you participate in voice chat. :D)
I reckon he’ll jump on voice chat if you do.
I’ll be voice chatting too (if D.C. does)
It’s like a voice chatting miracle!
I’ll voice chat, for suuuuure!
Okay, Wii U noobness time for me… How does Voice Chat work? is it built into the Wii U Pad, or do i need to get a headset type dealie?
Either or.
The Pad works well enough, but headsets are better.
Fair enough, i may have to look at acquiring a headset at some point 😛
Wii U Pad, but it’s not very good :P.
I played through MH3U with it turned off because the voice output (of other players) came out of the gamepad speakers, which are pretty terrible. Although… it made me think @thecracks and @Hindenlagen were ignoring me but they were just speaking to me through voice chat 😀
As far as I’m aware the voice chat is only in lobbies with friends (not during races). It’s pretty limited though so I guess we’d probably just end up using TeamSpeak anyway?
Can I use iPhone earbuds as a headset?
But with teamspeak i need to have a computer nearby wouldn’t I? or is there a App for that? 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking There’s a paid teamspeak app on iOS/Android (heaps cheaper on Android for some reason :P)
@dc
If you’re talking about TeamSpeak, I think so. I tried it but it didn’t work for me but I think other people used theirs :P. If you’re taking about Wii U I think you need one of those proper gaming headsets :(. Might as well just use the gamepad for it.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
I’m pretty sure there’s a mobile App. I’ll have to look into that too, or just bring my laptop over 😛
@greenius, @powalen
Yeah i suspect i’ll have to get TS on the laptop in that case XD
Windows Phone doesn’t seem to have a Teamspeak app at all so that’s that idea out the windows 😛
Watch out behind you Greenius! oh wait he’s dead 🙁
Nah, we were ignoring you. 😛
Man, MH4U should hurry its ass up and release already.
So for you, @powalen, @pixel_the_ferret_viking and other voice chatty types, how does teamspeak compare quality wise to Skype group calls? I’ve not really used it much and the only time I did recently I wasn’t too impressed but then I’ve never used anything but a one to one on Skype so for all I know it gets progressively more shit as it adds participants.
I’m hoping to enrol a new mate in my GTA Online shenanigans and after using Skype for communications, there’s no fucking way I’m ever going back to xbox live party chat, even if it means buying this mate a cheap mixer to hook everything up with.
I’m literally the worst person to ask this heh, I never talk on TeamSpeak/Skype/Anything 😛
@blaghman @trjn @scree @sernobulus (other TS regulars?) might know!
I don’t use TS anymore because it hats me
Knowing me and Mario Kart, if we voice chat it’ll be me shouting profanities, directed at no one in particular except for my lack of abilities, into the headset XD
directed at Powalen*
Big W most likely. Can’t argue with $68 for a local release!
My local Big Dub better have a copy for me! >:[
Buy it online/do a “click and collect” – that’ll surely guarantee a copy!
If not, you can try an EB pricematch. I’ve done it before (even though there wasn’t a Big W in the same shopping center) but it depends on the person serving you.
I tried Click and Collect last night but it seemed to want to make me wait until 10th of June though?Might try again tonight.
(And no EB/JB near my local Big W :P)
Nononononononooo. Don’t do that, @powalen! Big W’s Click And Collect doesn’t guarantee you a release day collect. They order it in for you, just the same as if you’d bought it online normally, only it gets posted to them, not you. I found this out the hard way on Dark Souls 2 release day.
Ah, that would be why they wanted me to wait until 10th of June! 😛 Lucky I read it before I confirmed.
Thanks for clarifying!
My plot to delay you time to get good has been foiled!
(I didn’t know it meant that :P)
Nobody would know until it was too late. It’s all a bit ridiculous. I would have got Dark Souls 2 from them even quicker by just buying it online to be delivered. Another example of old bricks and mortar-based companies not really knowing how to do online right.
trying to decide whether to just get the Mario Kart Wii U bundle or if I should take advantage of Big Ws online only deal ($378 for the premium black with New SMB U & New SLB U) if I do that I’ll have 4 games for the Wii straight away after redeeming Pikmin. After glancing back over that I think I should go for Big W deal, it’ll only be like $18 more for 2 more games.
Seems worth it to me on all honesty 😛
I keep thinking about picking up Mario Kart 8 on release, but then I’m reminded that Watch Dogs is out in 5 days.
So… Mario Kart 8 yeah?
I mean… who needs a game about dogs watching things anyway?
I’m going to hold off in Watch Dogs I think. Too many warning signs going off with it.
Every concern I’ve been seeing has been talking about the console releases. Unsure if this means that’s where the concern lies or they’re just writing these articles for (what I assume is) the larger group.
Regardless, I’m getting it on PC and hyped as hell.
They released PC specs and it was weird as fuck. I’m more concerned about PC release than console actually. Or am I confusing it with another game?
Yeah, I’d like to get both, but don’t have enough money, so it’s a choice of the Mario Kart 8 console bundle or Wolfenstein and Watch Dogs Dedsec Edition.
I’ll still get MK8, but it’ll just have to wait for a few more weeks.
The way I see it is that Watch Dogs will probably drop significantly in price over the next few months (as most PC games do) and will be mainly a singleplayer experience for me. So I’m not missing out on anything by getting it later.
Whereas Mario Kart 8 will be mainly multiplayer for me, so it’ll be good to get it within that launch hype period when multi is going to be most active :D. It’s also a first party Nintendo game (so it’ll be years before a price drop :P). Just make sure you get it and register the Club Ninty code before the end of July to get a free game 😀
http://gamesites.nintendo.com.au/mk8_bonus/
Yep, definitely getting Mario Kart in time for the bonus. I’ll be playing a lot of local co op and solo so I’m in no rush.
Also, Watch Dogs is $59.95 preorder on Steam, so I had no qualms about getting it early.
I think it was like $80 when they first put it up, but it’s good to see that they’ve lowered it to a more reasonable price :D. If you haven’t pre-ordered it already GMG have the deluxe edition for $45ish (Uplay code)
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/05/talk-amongst-yourselves-277/comment-page-7/#comment-2664066
I made the decision to not get any of the DLC cause it’s the kind I hate: stuff that feels unbalanced or makes existing in game stuff mostly pointless. Plus, I prefer Steam copies, even though it’s going to run through Uplay as well.
No problemo! Just trying to help 🙂
Most of Ubisoft’s extra DLC is pretty useless anyway 😛
Is there any way to turn off gifs on the mobile site? Either on here or through the phone? They make browsing Kotaku a very expensive process.
Expensive and Crash-tastic…
My phone bums out most the time when there’s more then 1 GIF in an article :\
I am not aware of any plug-ins or anything that could stop this however
There’s extensions for pc based browsers, but for some reason I’ve never heard of phone ones. You’d think they’d be top of the list.
Gizmodo is even worse =/
You can block images entirely, but I don’t know of a way to block only GIF.
Depending on the browser there may be the equivalent of the ‘disable animations in webpages’ setting that desktop browsers have. It’s the only way browsing kotaku articles (well since we’re talking about animated gifs, I should probably say “articles”) is pleasant for me
Great, so after downloading 25gb then redownloading the 10gb voice DLC because it didn’t seem to work, it seems that the version of Drakengard 3 that Squenix shat out in PAL areas (where they didn’t even bother to offer us a non-digital version) has a bug that prevents the JP voice DLC from appearing in the game so you can’t turn it on. It was the whole incentive for me for actually buying it on preorder as a digital release rather than importing the US standard edition.
Squenix hates Europe 🙁
Stupid round eyes!
https://www.facebook.com/spawnpointbar?fref=nf
Went from 44 likes yesterday to 444 likes since the Kotaku/Gizmodo feature. Awesome!
Who has TAYlist requests for me today?
Eve of Destruction – Barry McGuire
Is BDKIAF still requesting Chainsaw Gutsfuck?
Not since Red put it in one of the Spotify playlists. It was just unpleasant for everyone involved.
Helping!
Paperback writer – the Beatles
Something Leonard Cohen that’s not Hallelujah.
Error: Not found. Must not exist.
Hallelujah.
RETURN OF THE HIPSTER REQUEST :
Love Outside Andromeda – Something White and Sigmund
SERIOUS REQUEST :
Something by Pearl Jam. Betterman or Go or whatever.
I’m gonna go with a classic.
Good Golly Miss Molly – Little Richard
That or
Constipation Blues – “Screamin’” Jay Hawkins.
Erasure’s version of ‘Take A Chance On Me’.
or
Guns N’ Roses – ‘You Could Be Mine’
Please. 🙂
Miss Independent – Ne-yo
Hi TAY!
I got a message overnight from my bank saying my card had been suspended due to fraud. They took all the money on my card (which thankfully wasn’t much because it’s not attached to my main account), it’s more the hassle of having to get a new one/file a claim that’s annoying 😛
Just thought I’d let you all know on the off chance this is at all related to the whole eBay hacking thing that’s happening. Might be worth checking your recent transactions just in case!
🙁 Sorry to hear this, Pow.
Don’t worry, could’ve been a lot worse! They said I’m almost guarantee’d to get the money back because it’s a very unusual payment.
I’d hate to see people with a lot more at stake than me get hit is all!
Hope it gets sorted soon, man.
Thanks for the warning. Checked my bank, all seems well so far.
Yeah, hope it’s not too much of a hassle to get sorted. I thought somebody had made fraudulent purchases on my card earlier in the week, but it turned out that I just forgot about the direct debits for my car insurance and phone/internet bill.
One of my co-workers recently had her info stolen, had $5k pulled out of her savings in one hit and the cheeky prick set up recurring payments of $5k every week or something (not that she was even likely to have multiples of $5,000 sitting arounf anyway). Fortunately she noticed right away and the bank reinstated it within like a week but still.
Mine seems fine for now… I’ll have to look into my ebay account and see what I’ve got… pretty sure all my details are out of date anyway since i haven’t bought anything on ebay for well over two years now I think…
Did they say what the fraud was? A mate of mine had the same happen to his card last month and they detected it because he used it in a supermarket in wagga and then a few hours later tried to use it in a hotel in america
Anyone going to watch X-Men: Days Of Future Past today/tonight? Think I might have to do a “test run” before we run our opening screening tonight, you know, to make sure it works.
Edit: Pretty ironic that my copy of X-Men: Destiny just arrived in the mail on the release day for the new movie.
Tough day, man.
I may go watch on Saturday night solo as my gf is away. Pretty excited, it looks great.
Lol, Gonna have to squeeze it in this afternoon between shifts. Watched the first five minutes yesterday, it looks pretty good.
You better make sure the popcorn machine works as well.
Always, and better “test” a choc-top while I’m at it, make sure those girls in the candy bar are doing their job properly 😉
Is “choc-top” a sex euphemism?
Erm, no.
I have to catch up on the other X-Men movies first so I know what’s going on. I’m not sure if I’ve missed one or two,so I might just watch them all right from the start over the weekend.
I’ve seen them all so far, you only need to have seen First Class I reckon. No need to watch the others, If you know who Professor X, Magneto, Beast, and Mystique are then you’re good.
Okay, I definitely haven’t seen First Class. Thanks for the info!
Colleague of mine brought in the Original BBC radio show of Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy… My drive to and from work just improved by 10,000%… WHO CARES ABOUT TRAFFIC JAMS? THAT JUST GIVES ME MORE TIME TO LISTEN TO AWESOME!
EDIT – Hitch-Hiker’s Guide GET \o/ Don’t Panic!
BBC Radio is the best radio ever, just browsing the list of stuff on Radio4 reveals a list of stuff dramatically better than anything Australia has ever put on TV
Edited because it’s no longer page 8.
Does anyone know of any mods to make Dragon Age: Origins look a little nicer? It was obviously designed for smaller screens, so now that I’m playing it on a larger screen everything is stretched yet the writing (not the subtitles) are tiny.
I find that older games look a lot prettier when I take my glasses off? Though I’m told that you need the “Far-sighted” out of game skill to pull that mod off.
Goats are like mushrooms. If you shoot a duck, I’m scared of toasters.
Damn you and your edits @quiz_b!
Yes exactly!
Oh dear, looks like I’ve edited this yet again.
*shakes fist*
Search for “dragon age UI scaling”. There’s some results.
Found it – nexusmods. Why the heck didn’t I think to look there first.
SUCCINCT REPOST!
I got a message overnight from my bank saying my card had been suspended due to fraud. Just thought I’d let you all know on the off chance this is at all related to the whole eBay hacking thing that’s happening. Might be worth checking your recent transactions just in case!
The picture in the Wolfenstein review with “Saddest BJ Ever” made me giggle like the immature twit I am.
Dark Souls 2
I seem to have contracted Alt-itis on Dark Souls 2 which is probably the worst idea imaginable. The furthest I’ve gone with a single character is the Lost Bastille and I’ve somehow already sunk 30 hours into the game. Dang it all to heck.
This time I’m trying out a Dex/spear character. It’s going alright so far and here’s hoping I don’t get bored with it.
There’s not much reason to create alts in Dark Souls 2 unless you like making different character names and appearances.
Reason [ROT13’d]: Lbh pna er-fcrp nyy lbhe rkvfgvat yriryf naq fgngf ol oevatvat n fbhy irffry onpx gb gur byq sverxrrcref va Guvatf Orgjvkg.
Response to Reason: V guvax gur zbfg fbhy irffryf gung V’ir sbhaq va rnpu cynlguebhtu vf nobhg 2 be 3. V svtherq gung V’z bayl n eryngviryl fubeg qvfgnapr vagb rnpu punenpgre fb vg jbhyqa’g gnxr gbb zhpu gvzr gb trg onpx gb jurer V jnf.
There are places later on where you can pretty much get an infinite number.
Vg vaibyirf oheavat na nfprgvp ng n yngr-tnzr obasver gung pbiref na nern gung unf n fbhy irffry naq na nfprgvp va vg.
Are there any really experienced Warhammer 40k painters out there? I’ve been trying to teach myself but I’m fairly certain I’m missing some essential advice =\
@chuloopa might have a few hints for you… i hear that he may have a little bit to do with Warhammer 40k
@chuloopa may have recently spawned a minion that will some day do all his painting for him.
A clever and devious plan indeed 😛
I’m not experienced at all but I know my friends like to get a spray can of a neutral colour (mostly white or gray) and use that as a baseline coat before going into the specific colours for the model. I can’t remember the reasoning behind that so don’t quote me on that.
Undercoats are good, but one of the problems with spray-canning it is they can coat very unevenly and if sprayed at the wrong distance may even end up being too liquidy, with clumps forming in fine-detail gaps, obscuring the details.
Yeah I’ve been told to use spray-cans for undercoating when I first started but I prefer painting the undercoat on, gives me a chance to warm up and get a feel for the brushes and paint especially if I’ve taken a long break between projects.
Spray cans miss a lot of stuff, too, like in between legs and such.
Middle brother and I used to do it a lot back in the day. We’d paint our friends’ armies on commission in high school, did some really nice work. Wish we’d had digital cameras in those days to capture some snaps and post online… of course, we didn’t even really have the Internet in those days either. So whatever.
Anyway…
There’s a fair bit to the subject, most of which we learned through trial and error and attempting to emulate the gorgeous Games Workshop monthly magazine pictures, as painted by the ‘Eavy Metal’ team.
The main things I can think of are:
1) We used acrylics because they’re dirt cheap to buy in bulk, easy to mix, easy to remove if you make a mistake without totally screwing the miniature, and can still produce good results without resorting to buying GW’s 800% marked-up pots.
(Edit: You WILL need to experiment a bit to get similar results, and the metallic paints are the hardest to get right for gunmetal grey. Sometimes it’s worth buying the official pot JUST for that colour alone.)
(Edit 2: The chipping problem with acrylics is pretty intense. You can solve some of that with a lacquer/sealant when you’re really happy with the job. Unfortunately, this usually results in a gloss/sheen effect unless you can find a high-quality matte one. I used to know where to get these, but they were by far one of the more expensive components, tricky to use, and really did signify that the job was FINISHED, so many of our models never got that treatment. I have no idea what’s available these days and would recommend going into an art supply shop like Eckersley’s and asking the staff – most of them will be artists themselves.)
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2) If you want to work fast with acrylics, get a cheap shitty hair-dryer and keep it handy – blow-dry from a distance. Too close or too hot and you’ll melt the plastic/get weird drying effects. Air-drying is best over time for an even finish, but if you’re in a hurry, blow-drying works well.
(Edit: Also, maybe have a pair of pliers or something to hold the miniatures with, because blow-drying them where they stand is a recipe for blown-away disaster that doesn’t allow you to turn the model around for better exposure, and holding them up with your fingers will quickly result in burned fingers, plus the risk of finger-print-smudge.)
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3) Apply a very thin undercoat, but not so thin that it’s a pure wash. This is the one coat that I would recommend maybe using poster paints instead of acrylic, as acrylic can easily be peeled off or chipped off by accident if too thick, and has no traction for subsequent layers if too thin. You may need to apply several layers, which will take a while to air-dry – this is part of the reason people with larger armies prefer to spray-paint their undercoat, but I don’t recommend it unless you’re very practiced, because most of them aren’t acrylic and easy to fix, and the distance you spray at can greatly affect how much fine detail you lose.
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4) You want to give everything a white undercoat so that the colours you put over the top are more vibrant and ‘pop’. Painting a colour directly to the metal/plastic can give it a duller hue, if that’s the effect you’re going for, which isn’t too bad when applying things like blood-stains. If you want a really dulled effect, rather than mixing a darker paint, you can use a black/grey undercoat instead. Different colours will yield different results. Worth playing with on mass-produced shitty models.
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4.1) On the subject of blood, red looks pretty crazy contrasting, but don’t be afraid to mix in a tiny bit of green to brown your blood for an ageing effect on things like well-used, uncleaned blades, or spatters on greaves and pauldrons. If you want it to look like it’s been poured on, let an acrylic red stand for a little while til it’s thickening. Add no water, then apply it liberally while it’s in the process of almost-hardening. It’ll give some extra texture to the effect.
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5) To make things look well-worn and to provide a little contrast, use a high-water-percentage black/brown/darker-colour-of-whatever-you’re-painting wash. For example, if you’re painting an ultramarine (shame on you) and you have the signature blue pauldron and yellow trim, you can create a high-contrast depth effect by mixing a little black or purple into your ultramarine blue, adding plenty of water, then with a tiny, tiny brush pushing that wash into the nooks and crannies bordering the trim to add almost shadow-type effects to the blue part.
Some folks even like to make the base part of the pauldron pad the darker colour, then add incrementally-lightened coats on top of it, smaller in size. I usually just had more success with a base colour, dark wash, and a thinner, fresher bright coat over the main patch. This technique can be used on almost any part of a model to give it a real depth, but space marine pauldrons are a really noticable place to practice this with two-tone colour separation.
You can see this effect also on the knee-pads of their greaves, where there would otherwise be really flat, solid colour. The wash will seep into those cracks and make them visibly darker. It really highlights the crevices and fine line details of the miniatures, and is an excellent reason to keep your undercoats from being too thick – they’ll hide all that detail if they are too thick.
If you’re an ultra-fine-work pro like the ‘Eavy Metal team, you can even add a very, very, very, very, very razor-thin 2-shades-lighter highlight stroke to raised parts on the edges of cracks to make the contrast even more stark. But that’s advanced mode and tricky to pull off, requiring same-shade+2 colour-mixing.
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6) If the work is too fine for your brushes, use a pin, like from a sewing kit. Also, it seems cruel to me because I’m not sure they grow back, but I’ve met one artist who actually plucked a whisker from his cat every couple months. He reckoned they grow back, I’m not sure. Either way, that’s the sort of bent you want to be thinking alone when it comes to fine materials – brushes are not the only tool in your kit. Pins can also be used to scratch off dried acrylic mistakes, but beware of scratching and damaging the plastic/pewter. If scratch marks are an effect you want to have on battle-worn surfaces, score the surface with a pin a few times.
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7) Don’t underestimate the beautifying power of a good base. They’ll really make your miniatures ‘pop’ and partially-disguise dodgy paint-jobs with their uniformity. Pick a colour and stick with it so make your army look uniform in their bases. A great thing to do is a black or white undercoat, then apply some glue to the surface and coat the unpainted base with some very coarse sand. The coarser the better. If you then apply green paint over the top of the sand-stuck base, you can get an effect very similar to the ultra-expensive felt-grass bases that GW sell. You can use fine gravel/coarse sand stuck on top of the painted stuff to really bulk up the texture of the base, and use bits and pieces of discarded models as skulls/helmets/weapons littering the battlefield, with the odd blood-stain.
Advanced mode is to add a thin layer of moulding clay/putty to the base and score into it some pock-marks for bullets/impact craters or earthen grouge-marks, and paint over the top of them. Play with it, have some fun – bases are really important to a good-looking army, go look at any display army and you can tell.
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8) Go to stores and check out armies and analyze individual components of a model which have an effect you like. Every piece. Whether it’s the tiny little square+two-lines vents that mark the inner of a space marine pauldron, to a multi-layered-washes painted effect on a blade, ask the owner how they got that very specific effect in that very specific spot. They WILL remember. Everyone remembers every milimetre of a well-painted model.
(Edit: And the REASON everyone remembers every milimetre of a well-painted model is because I will guarantee you that for every kickass-looking effect you see on a miniature, there were at least half a dozen frustrating failed attempts at creating that effect. Which, you should be warned, even after being told about, reading about, or even shown, you will also probably fuck up a couple times as well.)
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9) Look up the Eavy Metal team’s stuff. They have guides and more, and I wouldn’t be surprised if much of it has been digitized for the internet viewer. These guys wrote the book – literally.
Or if you’re a real badass, do what I used to do; use real blood.
Back when I was heavily into painting miniatures (still would be if I could ever use them), it was also when I had reasonably regular occurrences of a bleeding nose, there was an ork warboss mini with a big arse Morningstar that I literally plugged my nose with until the bleeding stopped and then lacquered over the resulting clot. Most of it fell off sadly (should have waited a bit longer to seal it) and had to be re-lacquered but the bits that remained looked awesome, he had that real “I jus pounded yer zoggin flash gen’ral an tha rest o yer gitz iz next!” look to him. I miss that miniature damnit!
Oh shit, I forgot about sealing. I gotta add that.
Yeah don’t be too vigorous when painting or you’ll get spots of paint all over the ceiling.
Okay homonym jokes don’t work as well in text where you can see the different spelling…
Scotch tape can also be good for sharp edges when painting but it really needs to be on paint that’s been left overnight or sealed. Checkerboard patterns can be a bastard to do with it but probably just a bit harder to do without it
Also, painting Space Orks was GREAT practice for refining your fine-work technique. The black-and-white chequer effect? Crazy to learn. My best work was on Ghazghkull Thraka for my best mate at the time. Spent HEAPS of time on that.
Wow! Ok I was hoping for a few people who knew what they were talking about but didn’t expect something so comprehensive! Thanks for taking the time and effort to type this up @transientmind
With acrylics I’ve heard of a lot of people using it (I’ve tried reading up on the subject online) but I’ve never really seen it action so been hesistant to use them for much. I’ve been using black paint for undercoats since I’ve been trying to put together a midnight purple/white/dark blue themed Tau army. I know this is going to get some flak but I hate the ultramarines >.<
Edit : What the hell?! half my comment didn’t register!!!
I don’t think you will get any flak in here due to hating on the ultrasmurfs
There is a reason I said ‘shame on you’ if you’re painting Ultramarines. 😉
They’re like the obstructionist chief in a cop movie
“For the emperor, but in my precinct we do things by the book!“
Hahaha well this might cop a bit more hate, I don’t much like the Space Marines either >.< and lets not even talk about the Sisters…. Guess I've always been drawn to more unorthodox tactics than what they employ.
Not enough detail.
Fine detail IS usually the problem in hand-painting miniatures…
as the others have stated, Chuloopa and I think f4ction? If you have facebook, I can link you with a few miniature painters who you might be interested in
@pupp3tmast3r Oh, I forgot to mention yesterday: If you’re interested in coming to Sydney meet-ups, I can add you to the Tags list. That way you’ll get tagged whenever someone is planning something.
EDIT: Heh, I just noticed the website says “increased” instead of “interested”. Who put that there? 😛
Yes please! =D the mrs works most weekends so defs interested in meets up =]
@weresmurf is Melbourne? (I thought QLD?) Did you mean Smurfydog? 😛
I just copied and pasted what people gave me.
I could be wrong though :P. I just recall him talking to some Bris TAYbes about meating so who knows!
I’m Queensland lol. Brisbane.
GOSH @powalen ! It’s like you don’t even check your information file on every TAYbie before posting!
Just had to set up a new supplier for one of our manufacturing labs and i couldn’t help but giggle at the name: Zhejiang etc.etc…
Made me giggle more then it should have…
On a completely related note we should probably do some JC2MP very very soon!
@rize, @cakesmith, @sernobulus, @rocketman, @blaghman
JC2 MP hrnnnngh *passes out from jelousy*
Something something STEEEEEAAAAAM
something something MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASTER RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
*mouth froths*
Ergh, I need to get a new comp that can run all these things.
Stupid car accidents and bills and all that other shit that my non-play money gets eaten by.
ha, that’s exactly how I feel, stupid car accidents ruining our finances,
Good thing is that JC2 is now considered an “Old Game”(2010 i think) so it should run on most ‘puters… wait for a good sale and you can pick it up for $2 \o/
But yes, car accidents suck and trust me i understand the whole “non-play” money issue…
It’s more that “new computer to play games” (which is really a luxury item) keeps getting pushed back in the queue behind other things.
Still, I’m going to Cambodia later in the year, so i can’t complain 🙂
Oh nice… yeah priorities and all that, is fully understandable… also Cambodia sounds pretty rad!
I had planned 2013 get car & licence
2014 get gaming PC and Wii U
Turned into 2013 get car, crash car
2014 repeat (hopefully without the crash car part)
JC2 was 2010 for consoles.
… it said 2010 all along, i don’t know what you’re talking about ahahahahahahahaha*slowly backs away*
Uh, I was just confirming it. Yes, that’s it! \o/
*slowly backs away, also, frowning confusedly*
Dude. Duuuude. I have a PC I’ve been trying to dispose of but it’s too good to just trash. Take it! It’ll save you some costs at least. Pull it apart and keep the good stuff.
Minimalistic case, Quad core CPU, XP pro. It’s fine as it is, but spend like $140 on a new GTX750 and $120 for an upgrade to Win8, it’ll be near perfect!
It was previously a crappy dual core but I swapped that.
I can email you full specs and pics – just say yes!
Or no. That works too I guess.
Singtaku’s probably the most unpopular game yet. :S Number of comment dropping by the day! D:
I think it boils down to (at least in my case) i browse Kotaku at work, and can’t fetch out earbuds or anything to actually listen to it… It was easier when it was screenshots… that’s obviously just my case, but i can imagine some people being in similar situations.
Yeah I can’t listen to stuff at work either, pictures and visual clues sure but sound nope =\
I’ve just been randomly throwing names of games out there when I’m bored =D
It seemed like a fun idea, but I feel the novelty of it wore off really quickly.
I can’t see the videos when I’m at work. Kind of kills the buzz for me.
This. I haven’t participated in a single one because I check Kotaku at work during the day and seldom if at all in the evening when the daily singtaku is but a distant memory. I commend Mark for thinking up a cool game, but visual/literary games are best suited to the audience, I think.
I’m not surprised. Every problem mentioned above was also mentioned when we got a small list of options to choose from, yet the literal worst option was picked. Que?
Well, I don’t think it’s too bad if Mark cycles between them when the novelty wears off. Scribbletaku will probably be fun again!
I occasionally open it to read the comments, but that’s about it. Mobile browser, broken headphones, deaf, eh.
I turn game music off so that’s me out.
I suppose I could try to help by transcribing the videos for people who can’t see them but it’d be “Do do dooo do de do de do de do do do do do do dooo” and that wouldn’t really help much (though in this case it’s obviously the Bubble Bobble theme)
… when you said that, i now have that god damn theme stuck in my head…. AGAIN! 😛
EDIT – Thank you to whoever posted This! at some point 😛
Yeah, it’s a lot more simple than haikus, but I’m not a fan of it.
I only know Nintendo stuff so I usually don’t have any idea what the song is. But that leaves me in the same place as most of the other guessing games, so I still like it all the same 😛
The Police recruiters just called me to provide feedback on why I was not recommended. The reason was in their words “you were not recommended”. Then they wished me well and hung up.
Wow. Good job guys. Glad that’s straightened out. I can see why it took months to tell me that.
****s. **** ’em.Grunt. They were probably satisfying some legal requirement and running by supervisors just how much/little they could get away with saying.As in like you had a bad reference or simply “you weren’t selected because we didn’t select you”.
The latter.
That’s helpful. Sorry, man.
Keep chasing them up. Escalate it. Hell, put in official complaint.
Yeah, what bad can come from aggravating the police? 😛
Asking for feedback isn’t exactly aggravating.
It’s probably one of the better things to do.
Nothing the police would bother holding a grudge over anyway.
I was just joking (hence the :P)
Oh, early morning, lack of coffee, yadda yadda, I’m stoopid :3
1pm is early morning?! Can I have your life?
1pm = 11am in past dweller time (Perth :P)
Anything before my first coffee is considered early morning to me :3
Nothing. They are a department of the state. They have an obligation to provide an explanation.
I’m pretty sure I know exactly why I got knocked back and it’s nothing I’ve done. They shouldn’t be doing it but it is what it is and there’s not really much I can do about it.
To be honest, the more I deal with them the more I’m kind of glad I didn’t get in.
That reference? As I said above: dept of state and you’re obligated to an explanation.
No, my father.
Long story.
Dark lord of the sith?
Are you calling StickMan your father, or is there a longer story here?
PS: No need to tell the story. It’s more fun guessing anyway.
A little bit insensitive considering the subject matter. Apologies.
What do you think it is, age? Slightly foreign sounding name? Have you mentioned on the internet somewhere that you think people should actually be prosecuted for rape rather than let of with “ahh well boys will be boys and she was probably asking for it anyway”?
In fact it’s in your best interests to find out why. As a state dept. they can share your recruitment details with other state depts. Chances are high that the thing preventing you from progressing here will cause you problems if you ever apply to anywhere else gov related. Even if you dont get into the police force now, you need to sort this shit out.
It’s kind of like they’re parents;
“No”
“But why?”
“Because I said NO”
Oh well, with a rejection from the police you’re probably right in with a chance for joining a biker gang! When they arrest you for drug smuggling or gun running and ask you why you were doing it you can say you wanted to be near the police, you were rejected and this was the next best way to get close
Sounds like it’s time to take the law into your own hands.
Look, it’s not parents killed in an alleyway or bitten by radioactive spider, but it’s an origin story.
http://imdb.com/title/tt1114740/
See? One day you could be Kevin James!
Don’t you cut keys amongst your duties at work? That’d be a handy skill to have in that situation, you’d be like a shopping centre ninja with a masterkey
Bit harsh. Usually they give you some sort of constructive feedback at least. Fuck the police!
We’re all laughing in the office at an icon set we’ve bought for use in infographics work. They’re all stick-figure people doing things. Basically every scenario you can think of.
There’s a section called “Harassment” which includes cute little icons of stick figures punching each other, slapping female figures on the bum and laughing at disabled/fat people.
Hahaha.
PS: Is there a stick-figure lightsaber fight? It’s not a complete set without one of those.
Aww being bought stuff you can’t post pics can you? I want to see them
Yeah, I wasn’t sure so I didn’t post them just in case 😛
Hello? How did you get my self-portaits????
What does a fat stick figure look like?
Well… when I say ‘stick figure’ I actually meant the kind of figure you would see on a toilet sign.
Think that, but rounder 😛
Transistor has a dedicated hum button. That’s just neat.
The soundtrack, however, has no humming. It is very, very disappointing.
I found a video that had it! Just search ‘transistor humming’. 🙂
Yeah, I’ve been listening to it for a while now. However, it’s one track and there is just so much humming that accompanies.. pretty much every other track.
It’s rebindable as well I think! 😛
This is amazing ;D
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/05/clever-gamer-dresses-up-as-an-enemy-in-dark-souls-ii-confuses-everyone/
(reposting in TAY because not everyone watches article vids – I know I usually don’t :P)
I saw that on Facebook this morning. It’s pretty amazing how well it works!
IIRC he tried this in the original Dark Souls as a Silver Knight, but got found out a few times because of the height difference 😛
Question: aren’t blue spirits meant to be on your side and invade to help you fight red spirits?
I didn’t get all that into the covenants of 2 bit in the first Blades of the Darkmoon came in as blue Spirits of Vengeance.
Blue spirits have two purposes:
1. To defend hosts against invading red phantoms
2. To invade the worlds of chronic sinners and mete out justice.
Edit: actually, I might go join that covenant now. Meting out justice sounds like it could be fun.
I legitimately freaked out when I heard the Kill la Kill soundtrack at the beginning.
Ping pong circulate
Ping pong circulate
Ping pong circulate
Ping pong circulate
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
Ping pong
Ping pong
Ping pong
Ping pong
Ping pong
Ping pong circulate
In my quest to do up a Critical Effect system and a Critical Failure system for spellcasting, I am leaning fairly heavily on the ideas available in the Warhammer 40K RPGs. That’s right, spellcasting critical failure will result in a few things that are straight out of perils of the Warp (don’t worry, you won’t summon a daemon to devour your soul, just other things will happen that aren’t very pleasant).
The Critical Effect system also ties in to a variation of the Wounds system that Pathfinder has. Let’s just say that it’s going to be harder to die but there is a greater possibility of lasting injury. Especially when I’m looking at a Critical Effect system that goes all the way up to 15 Critical Damage. This necessitates a change to how negative HP works currently but I’m reasonably confident that it will be an easy transition.
I’m also thinking that I might introduce the Armour as Damage Reduction rules as well. Basically, the change will mean that you’re easier to hit but if you’re wearing armour, you will take less damage. This is going to use the rules as written by Paizo for the most part as they’re pretty well balanced and thought out but there are a few things that I’m going to change/not incorporate. This means that you guys will be less likely to die even though you are getting hit more often.
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
Lasting injury- so a chance to have our characters maimed?
My pref would probably be at this point to keep it cinematic.
I haven’t yet finalised the effects yet but a critical effect will only be limited to a certain range of possible outcomes. Critical damage is when you start taking damage to wounds (ie. what would normally be classed as negative HP) and that is when there is greater potential to suffer from maiming or grievous injuries.
The effects that can occur when you critically hit or you are critically hit will not confer any lasting penalties aside from very temporary ones (by that I mean, maximum 5 rounds of combat sort of thing).
Would need more detail before I was reasonably able to comment.
I’ll try and get something together and put it up early next week so that everything has time to peruse it and check it out. And again, if there are issues and people prefer the standard system, I am totally fine with that.
Cool; I just love me some numbers to look at. Mmmmm, numbers.
Suddenly my choice of crappy armour to keep my dex bonus high seems like a bad decision 😛
It can pay out in the end. I like to equate the armour/DR rules with what’s used in Dark Souls, that is, armour is most effective when fighting enemies that are the same size as you. Anything bigger than you (ie. trolls, ogres, etc) will ignore part of your damage reduction simply due to their size. Enchanted armour or armour of better quality (eg. mithril, ogrehide) is more effective at resisting damage dealt by large creatures.
In short, less armour but more dodge in the form of AC can actually save your life.
Dodging and not taking any damage is better than being hit and taking less damage.
Also, related (esp to @tech_knight)
It’s not just us! http://imgur.com/Vfa6BYY
If only that bloody hobgoblin had my luck, I wouldn’t be in such a near-death state so early in the campaign 😛
Edit: I’m actually going to put a new character sheet together cuz if it were that easy to knock me out, imagine if I got hit with a critical. I’m thinking a straight-up fighter, monk is too squishy and being a cleric would put too much pressure on me to heal everybody, then I’d feel guilty cuz I’d plan on being a dark magic cleric if I ever went cleric, and Wizards I find annoying having to plan out what spells I memorise per day, then the situation is different to the spells you have planned out, yet you know that spell… it sits in your book, taunting you 😛
I’ve actually half filled out a character sheet for a Life Oracle. I actually really want to try it out in game. =P
And that whole “haunted by the ghost of your past PCs” idea would play out so awesome.
Basically everyone that he has tried to save but didn’t succeed comes back to haunt him. =P
Nice! Loving the backstory already. I think Karvurk is going to get stabbed in the face. :p
after this quest for the ring maybe Karvurk will be done with this group and want to proceed on his own journey?
I haven’t because Lundgredolph makes things die, he doesn’t do the dying.
I’m sticking with playing non-human. I might try Tengu, who knows…
Yeah, silly Humans with their +2 bonus to one attribute instead of the more fun variations of some races. :p
Tengu = Birdman! Like the Tengu from Guild Wars, they were badass, holding swords inwards when they fought 😀
So why not leave a spell slot blank? Prepare X spells you know you are going to use but leave slots blank and then prepare them as required. The analogy I saw was think of a blackboard that has notes written on it and gets wiped clean at the end of the day. You can always add more notes until the blackboard is full.
Edited thought: Actually that was in relation to Clerics. I have no idea if it holds true for Wizards.
Also depending on what kind of cleric you are you CAN swap out your memorised spells for a cure spell. So I think you could have a full page of non-cure spells but if it’s necessary you can switch some out for healing spells.
EDIT: From the Paizo online rulebooks:
Yeah, I’m just going of an optimisation guide I was reading – ” Tark’s Big Holy Book of Clerical Optimization”
For anybody interested here’s a giant list of character build guides. Very informative reading, even if you’re just doing it to see how other classes work (as I am) http://zenithgames.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/the-comprehensive-pathfinder-guides.html
Or play an Oracle instead of a Cleric. You get to choose between cure and inflict spells and get all of that set when they’re available for free. And then you can pick something like Dark Tapestry and get various extra skills that suggest you’re basically a minion of Cthulhu:
So then when you offer to heal people with cure spells they’re too busy being creeped out to accept. \o/
(Oracle is a cool class)
EDIT: The Heavens Oracle has an ability which will totally not make the GM want you to die:
“Wow, yeah that’s a nice series of traps you’ve built around that item there Mr. GM. I bet you put a lot of thought into that. I’m just going to make a bridge over it all.”
“This bottomless pit is blocking our way, forcing us to take the long torturous route around, and that route is what you’ve planned the next 3 sessions worth of content for? Well maybe you should do what I’m going to do, build a bridge and get over it.”
To which I say “Well played, well played.”
Note to self: anti-magic/anti-supernatural bottomless pits. That’ll get him.
So just make sure you go last and don’t drop all your companions in to the bottomless pit. 😉
All bottomless pits suddenly become 15 feet wide.
15 feet wide *per level of the Oracle in the party who has Moonlight Bridge.
I remember when playing multiplayer Baldur’s Gate 2 and I was a Wild Mage. While taking on a group of wolves I tried to cast a spell which critically failed and summoned a super powerful demon lord thing which proceeded to tear the wolves to shreds, then it turned around and preceded to tear our party to shreds … good times. =P
It won’t be quite that bad thankfully. Sure there are things like “Catastrophic Backlash” and “Wild Magic” that can be quite dangerous but nothing of the sort where you summon daemons to munch on your bones.
Honestly I think the odds of getting a critical spell failure is something low and to get that particular failure was something like 1%. REALLY low chance but I just couldn’t stop laughing when it happened.
Yeah, it’s less than a one percent chance, but that’s half the fun of wild magic: when I try to cast this magic missile, will I accidentally Gate in a Balor?
Haha, that was the spell name. I remember once getting that spell on my cleric just being able to kill anyone.
“Oh what’s that you have an army and there is only me? That’s okay”
*casts protection from evil*
*casts Gate*
*Army instantly disintegrates*
Protection from Evil will help a crazy amount with that 😀
Too bad no one in our group is a cleric / padaling / holy spellcaster.
DR from armor won’t make the squishies less squishy though since we don’t wear any.
You do get a free bonus to AC though. It’s free. 🙂
For the record, I can’t find where it was written but it’s an optional rule with 3.5 DnD. Basically, when using armour as DR, all player characters receive a +2 + 1/2 Base Attack Bonus (rounding down) to their AC. That means if you don’t wear any armour, you get a free +2 to AC.
IIRC the way they worked it was that your AC doesn’t include your armor value any more as well right? Just its enhancement bonus if it’s enchanted. So your AC becomes your ability to dodge, and your armor is for reducing the damage?
That’s right. Straight conversion of armour into DR. AC only incorporated deflection bonuses, shield bonus, Dexterity bonus, and other things that added to AC (eg. Monk + Wisdom modifier to AC [EDIT: and the +2 starting AC and scaling bonus from BAB]). There is also a straight conversion of any natural armour into DR as well, hence Druids once they wild shape can be pretty hard to take down.
Would the Armor as Damage Reduction also apply to monsters? I felt like everything so far was surprisingly resilient already, if we’re getting 2-3 damage skimmed off our hits it’d really suck. I guess it would depend how it shook out in the end, would really need to see the rules.
I do like the idea of getting lasting injuries instead of dying, since our group hasn’t got a proper healer. How permanent would they be though? Also wondering how that sort of thing works with a shapeshifting character.
Armour as DR would also apply to monsters. While some monsters and creatures are resilient due to inherent toughness such as thick hide or having a strange physiology, monsters that wear armour are where armour as DR will come into greater effect. Called shots, such as when @rize specifically aimed for the head of that zombie, will be more useful as you start aiming for missing patches in armour or hitting them in the joints ala Lord of the Rings: Two Towers or Ned Kelly behind his kneecaps. Those type of attacks will negate any DR bonus granted by armour. Sundering armour or even sundering natural armour (via the Sunder combat manoeuvre) will also render the armour on that part of the creature less effective, allowing you to more effectively deal damage.
These injuries will be last for a while but they won’t be permanent. The most severe ones will result in some pretty vicious scars and potentially losing a finger or two but nothing that would impose constant penalties as a result. I’m yet to finalise them but I’ll reduce the other sorts of lethality that I’ve come across. These sorts of injuries will require good Heal checks to treat the injuries or go and pay money to a magical healer, alchemist, or trained healer to fix you up.
Shapeshifters won’t be affected too greatly as the damage will appear mostly on your shapeshifted persona. You can shapeshift away to give the impression that everything is fine but it won’t change the fact that you’ve taken some serious damage. Kind of like how ugly creatures can shapeshift to something else but it doesn’t change the fact that they are ugly underneath the facade.
DR doesn’t seem too bad to me, since you can’t DR your way around being asleep 😛
But you can “Drewan’s arrow to the shoulder” your way around being asleep. Right @tech_knight?
Your bow hits haven’t been exactly like taking a ballista bolt to the chest at 10 paces so far in terms of damage output. I wonder if a sleeping enemy wakes up if their armor absorbs all the damage of the attack?
That’s a rather interesting point. The sleep spell mentions Slapping or wounding awakens an affected creature, but normal noise does not. so I’d suggest a 0 damage attack would be equivalent to slapping. You’ve hit them, they wake up.
Is this the wounds system you mean:
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateCombat/variants/woundsandvigor.html
?
It looks strikingly similar to the HP system I remember from Star Wars d20, and I always thought it was a lot more realistic and interesting than just raw HP, since that gets incredibly janky later on. With base rules if you were a level 20 or so monk and you were assaulted unexpectedly by a level 1 dude with a 1d4 knife, they couldn’t kill you. Even if they manage to land a hit, they can do maybe 4 damage, maybe they’ll crit and sneak attack you for 12 or so maximum.
Yet in reality, if a dude with a knife was to unexpectedly stab his knife into the throat of even the most seasoned veteran ever, they’re going to die unless they happened to be stabbed while in an operating theater surrounded by surgeons. And even then, it’s touch and go.
Similar but with a few changes. I’m still finalising the details but there is no “direct to wounds” sort of damage that anyone can deal. Instead, the system that I’m thinking of when someone critically strikes is to give them an option: do you take the bonus damage and try and roll again for another critical or do you instead apply ordinary damage and a separate effect that may heavily hinder the enemy.
I’ve played the Star Wars d20 and actually found it annoying how a lucky shot can completely wipe your character in one turn. Sure it’s more realistic but it also cheapens the fact that you can’t do anything to protect yourself from a potential death. The Star Wars system was also kind of weird where you had Vitality, Wounds, and then negative Wounds whereas I’m aiming for a more general Vitality and Wounds system, where once you start taking a certain amount of Wounds damage you start suffering more grievous effects.
I can’t remember the specifics of the system from Star Wars d20 as I only played it twice and it was ages ago, but the Pathfinder system there is that you basically have your normal HP sans CON modifier, then a second wound pool beyond that that’s 2xCON, so for a 12 CON character at level 2, say a Sorcerer, your Vigor points are 6 + 1d6 (always maximum on 1st hit die), your wound points are 24. Damage goes off Vigor first, then off wounds. If you fall below half your wound points (i.e. below 12 CON) you are badly wounded and take 1 wound damage on your turn if you take a move, and have to beat a CON 10 skill check to avoid falling unconscious. So basically in this case assuming average roll at level up, a level 2 sorcerer with 12 CON would have 24 wound points and 9 vigor points, meaning to instantly kill them with a crit from full health they’d need to take 33 damage in one attack which should be very hard, as from what I’m reading it sounds like crits do normal damage, but also deal a number of wounds equal to the crit multiplier.
So taking the L2 sorcerer example, if a dude with an axe hit them with a x2 crit on a d12, they’d still only do 1d12 damage, but also 2 wounds, so worst case the character takes 9 vigor, 3 wounds, 2 wounds. They’re badly hurt but they’re not even below their wound threshold and have a chance to move away and recover or clonk the bastard back.
With HP, worst case that enemy is hitting them for 24 HP, which at 9 HP puts them at -15. Instantly killed and probably cut into multiple pieces.
Still unwell, eating tomato soup, whilst waiting for Wolfenstein.
I give it 2/5.
The soup?
Is that in shiggys or shishes or biggies or bishes?
What do you get when you cross a Shish and a Biggy?
Pretty sure that was the basis of the New Testament.
Hacked up bits of phlegm.
Is the rating for the unwellness, the tomato soup or the wait?
The Unwellness and the wait.
The soup got a 2.5/5.
🙁
Get well soon, pal!
I’ll try to. 🙂
So the soup isn’t much better than phlegmy discharge? What brand is it? :\
Some ALDI brand.
Also, I don’t think I cooked it long enough. 🙁
Oh yeah, Steam Family Sharing.
I work during the day, and I hardly play Steam other times. Anyone wanna grab mah games? Here’s my game list: http://steamcommunity.com/id/tehst1ckm4n/games/?tab=all
You have as many games with 0 hours of play time as I do
Woo, backlog. 😛
@benwhite, has anyone tossed any kudos your way for fixing up the comments? They’re working very nicely at the moment (for me anyway)!
Thanks.
*tosses kudos*
*giggles as it sounds a little bit dirty*
Gotta thank him somehow…
And kudos for being an all round good guy too, @benwhite!
True! I haven’t had any failures all week as far as I am aware.
Good point, I’ve only noticed one problem and that was very probably a legitimate situation where I was posting too fast. All we need now is working spoiler tags and it’ll be back to normal
I called him a HERO <3 on Twitter.
…I'm hoping he didn't think I was being sarcastic.
I don't think so. Yeah. Probably not. Surely someone would've said something. Or maybe they were just silently criticizing… oh godwhatifsomethingIsaidmadesomeonethinktheireffortswereunappreciatedohgodthat'sthelastthingiwanted!
*bops own head to reboot*
Mark favourited it, I'm sure he knows it's legit.
I jumped straight to Golden God.
Hey thanks! It’s been a crazy few months, thanks for holding on 🙂
BATMAN VS SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE!
…
Could they have picked a more cringeworthy name?
I’m surprised it’s not actually Man of Steel 2.
Man of Steel 2: Batman Returns.
The Dark of Steel: Knight Man Rises
Batman vs Superman: We All Now Know the End Result aka W.A.N.K.E.R.
Agents of W.A.N.K.E.R.
This is much cleverer than I feel the upvotes suggest.
Thanks, Trans.
I feel I’ve been editing comments far too much today though. Signs of indecisiveness.
Do what I do! Unmentioned edits for typos, parentheses/italics edits for after-thoughts/reconsidering, strike-through for replacements. 🙂
I don’t give a fig what it’s called, I care about what it’s going to be like.
I’m optimistic.
I’m keen too. I actually enjoyed Man of Steel.
I did too, but I’m kinda glad I watched the HISHE ripping on it first so I knew what I was getting into.
I tend to do this with a LOT of movies that get bad reactions, and it usually makes me enjoy them more. I strongly suspect some of the negative reactions come from people experiencing subverted expectations.
Yes. Just look at Rise of the Dark Spark.
Makes me shudder every time.
Also, “Days of Future Past” sans context is awful.
Even knowing what it is I’m still not sure what it means. 😛
Agreed. Subtitles in movies are the worst. So unnecessary in this case especially.
What really gets me irrationally – like OCD – annoyed is when all these movies come out with subtitles instead of sequel numbers (because apparently a sequel number
is less trashydisguises the tackiness), then whenever you look them up in any kind of database that lists them by alphabetical order, the viewing order gets all screwed up because SOMEONE didn’t think to choose subtitles that would allow chronologically-correct viewing when also arranged alphabetically! THE FIENDS.Actually thinking about the whole reluctance to use sequel numbers in case they’re SEEN to be making sequels might tie in to Hollywood’s current fascination with rebooting things. “We want to revisit the same property, but sequels are shitty and make people think we’re flogging a dead horse while we flog this dead horse! How can we make it look like we’re not doing what we’re doing?”
I’m surprised they kept in the Batman vs Superman part of the title. As a working title it’s fine, but it’s always sounded a bit lame to me as an actual title.
BATMAN VS SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE OR WE DON’T HAVE TIME FOR SUBTLETY, JUSTICE LEAGUE IS THE NEXT MOVIE
So Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice League?
Definitely nailed the art of subtlety they have.
My new VB games got here already 😮
I can’t even remember when I ordered them but it seems really fast.
Everytime I see you mention VB I keep thinking you mean Visual Basic.
Well at least it’s much closer than beer 😛
I think of terrible beer and wonder who would make games about paying money to have someone piss in their mouth, then I remember this is a thing humans actually do and really people enjoying crappy beer is amongst the least of our sins.
VB has actually improved a lot since the recipe change a year or so ago. So much better.
The last time I had VB was on a work friend’s bachelor party booze cruise where it was the only beer available at the open bar, so naturally I quaffed 13 tinnies in a 2 1/2 hour period. I’m not completely sure how I got home.
Strangely I haven’t had much of a tolerance for the flavour since.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/05/premature-ejaculation-anything-under-three-minutes/
🙁
Does that include time waiting for that whole sex thing to happen? If so I’m doing well at 39 years…
Stamina!
Yeah, that sounds so much nicer than being deeply unattractive, moderately antisocial, strongly introverted and coming into more contact each year with spiders than I do with women (though I don’t poison the latter if I do ever see one so at least I’m doing that right)
Tell me you haven’t really gone 39 years.. If so, the church needs people like you.
Oh well then no. If you must know it’s not been 39 hours…
Brilliant. Still works well with my edit – just a little more subtle.
The church does need someone like me, I’d be a fantastic pope I reckon. Find and arrest all the paedophiles and those who sheltered them, liquidise all the assets and divert the funds into medical research and equality charities, use my papal infallibility to officially declare that there’s no god and shut down the whole enterprise.
These kinds of articles never cease to amaze me.
Ironically, the women in the story ceased to be amazed after a couple of minutes.
Hard to quantify. Males just wanna bang something and implant their seed. Therefore when banging people, we just wanna blow. Therefore it takes a lot of our will to actually last longer for the pleasurable benefit of the receiving partner.
Basically it’s actually sexism. It’s all well and good for everyone to aim for giving females multiple orgasms, but nooo, if a male has an early one it’s ‘premature’ and frowned upon.
That’s just what someone with preamture ejaculation WOULD say
😛
Not to mention the stress of being a man who takes a while and may or may not even be able to ‘finish’ being mocked and dismissed with the same sort of eye-rolling, “Ugh, I WISH I had YOUR problems,” attitude as is doled out on scrawny guys who can’t gain weight no matter how much they eat or lift, thanks to ridiculous metabolisms.
It might be a different KIND of self-image problem, but it’s often no less humiliating and if anything has even less support due to the relative rarity of their problem along with a massive contingent who refuse to accept that it IS a problem, out of jealousy.
THIS.
I wasn’t going to comment, but I’m glad you said that. Because I’m totally in that boat. And it is really humiliating. For everyone involved.
I think that’s a little silly.
I’d classify premature as anything less then a minute, personally (from the point of where the thing goes in the other thing, not from kissing / contact or anything).
Just sitting down to watch X-Men: DoFP.
Jelly.
Oh, you are so jelly.
No spoilers!
SPOILER
Wolverine cuts a dude.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Dammit Red! Wolverine has never cut anyone! Stabbed maybe but never cut! You just spoilt Wolverine’s first cut for me =[
The first cut is the deepest?
I’ve got a bit more respect for you guys than to do something like that.
How was it? Was going to watch this Sunday!
I enjoyed it, thought it was better than First Class.
Oh, and by the way, make sure you stay right till the end of the credits for the extra scene.
A rather entertaining video on Solar Roadways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTA3rnpgzU
I’d love for this to happen, especially for the Tron vibe, but…ain’t gonna happen.
But for once I’m tempted to back something on the Internet that isn’t game related in some way.
The whole ‘LED street dividing lines’ thing worries me. It’s a shame it will never get funded.
Okaaay… I just got a random reply to a tweet I sent to someone else 2 months ago. Who does that?
Oh then again, a few months ago I did get a forum reply to a post I did 8 years ago.
Could be what happens to me sometimes. You don’t open the twitter application on your phone for six months, then when you do the first thing you see on the screen is ACTUALLY something that happened months ago the last time the thing auto-updated, and it’s pretty funny and you respond to it BEFORE you realize that you’re committing necromancy, then every eyes you funny trying to figure out what’s going on.
(On that note, apologies for random multi-month-old favourites whenever I open twitter, @dc.)
A rare Transientmind interaction on twitter is always a highlight!
I fear I may have become friends with one of the neighbours. What do?
Yesterday, one of my neighbours flagged me down because I came in the wrong gate (we’re in a group of villas). The gate on my side was broken for a while and they replaced the mechanism, meaning my little dongle doodad didn’t work on it anymore. Nobody told us and it was only after a bit of faffing around yesterday afternoon that we got the new dongle doodad.
Now today, when I went to grab the mail, she hunted me down again and had to tell me about Dr Bruce Shepherd’s dead and dumb children.
I’m not used to all of this social contact. Can’t I just go back to people calling me a feeder in Dota?
I’m heading over to the neighbour’s for poker this Friday night. Can’t wait. I guess if you’re close in age to your neighbour though you tend to get along better. Are you two similar in age? From the sounds of it, I’m guessing not.
She was talking about how she personally knew L.J. Hooker. He died in 1976.
Was he really the best?
I can’t believe I missed that opportunity!
Maybe the song wasn’t talking about real estate. 😉
Feeder!
Helping?
I should have specified, it has to be in Chinese.
Man these list articles of Mark’s are the worst.
I have way too many things to go through to try and compile one of my own 😛
This list comes easy for me except for the Sega consoles. I had two of them and I honestly can’t pinpoint any favourites other than this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunting_(video_game)
Rocket Knight Adventures and Wonderboy in Monster World were the best Mega Drive games and still play great today.
You should check out Steam Greenlight, it’s full of titles that look (and apparently play) exactly the same.
Except they don’t. I’ve tried a few and they’re not the same. Those two games just had that special something.
Rocket Knight is on Steam, not sure if ‘new-gen’ version of the old game.
He said Trauma Center was the best game on the DS. I’m okay with any article that says that.
Phlanispo’s Random Opinion Poll of the Unspecified Timeframe
Question: What is the most epic piece of music to grace a game that had a completely different tone? I’m talking 02’s theme from Kirby 64 – The Crystal Shards.
However, since everybody will probably vote for 02, I vote for Elder Princess Shroob battle – Mario and Luigi Partners in Time
EDIT: Wow, I messed up the phrasing of this question. See my response to Gooky below if you do not understand.
EDIT EDIT: Now that I think about it, this question makes no sense.
FFX’s Otherworld.
I’m not sure I understand the question?
What’s the best track of music in a game that did not fit the ‘style’ of the game.
I poorly phrased it, but I was asking for the most epic music from an otherwise cheery game. Granted, Mario and Luigi Partners in Time isn’t really a cheery game, so I suppose the question was more related to music which you heard and thought ‘Hang on, this music is wayyy too epic for this game.’
So basically a piece of music that is really epic to the point that it stands out against the rest of the game’s soundtrack?
Uhh… kinda? I’m really bad at this.
That’s a tough one. When I think of really awesome game music, it’s usually really awesome partly because it fit perfectly.
I guess maybe… The cheesy J/K-pop title music on Dragon’s Dogma before they patched it out in embarrassment?
EDIT: UNLESS you’re talking about music that didn’t match the feel/tone of the rest of the music, but still fit – in which case undoubtedly ‘Far Away’ by Jose Gonzales as featured in Red Dead Redemption.
Weird question.
I’d have to say the opening songs of both Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2 (Simple and Clean, and Sanctuary). They fit the opening cinematic really well (two of my favourite opening cinematics), but not really the themes or tones of the games (excluding the instrumental versions of those songs, which did fit really well).
Sanctuary <3
I'd say Silver Wings from FFX-2, but… it's more that that entire game didn’t fit, rather than just that song 😛
Wait, Silver Wings?
Try 1000 Words, idiot.
The ending of MGS1 and the first ride into Mexico in RDR are the first two that come to mind.
Hmm. Not exactly an answer to the question, but the first thing that comes to mind is Meteos. If you’re unfamiliar with it, it’s a puzzle game for DS that has coloured blocks falling down from the top of the screen, and you have to rearrange them (vertically only) to match three or more in a row, at which point they’ll ignite and fly upwards, pushing other blocks off the screen.
So I found it hilarious and awesome when I started up the game and was met with this as the opening movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4zHQJMCDs
@welbot I added you on Wii U!
@gutsoup and @phlanispo I searched your handles (got from TAYnames) but couldn’t find ya
@saturday I found you but couldn’t send a friend request :(… I see how it is…
I’m Greenius so add me for potential MK8 funsies! To anyone else that doesn’t have me please add me too, or tell me your name and I’ll add ya
I think I am scree06
Added!
I don’t have a Wii U. I have a 3DS with no multiplayer games, if that counts! (Or single-player games)
I uh
I don’t own a Wii U
That’s ok, I think that comment means that @greenius is buying one for you. Top guy that greenius
Well you had a MiiVerse thing and it’s on TAYnames 😛
EDIT: Oooooh. I guess Ninty fused them together when they added it for 3DS. I forgot about that… (@phlanispo)
ooo coolies! I shall tend to it shortly! 🙂
You’ve got about 29 days before it expires, so no rush! 😀 (@scree)
Accepted last night!
Sorry I was feeling unwell last night so I didn’t use it.
I’ll accept it today
make sure the G in Gutsoup is upper case, should work though.
I forgot Nintendo ID came to 3DS, so I think that’s why I was having problems adding you. I was just adding Wii U friends for MK8 multi but ill wait until you get a Wii U before trying again 🙂
Coles are selling fresh Ghost Chillies.
Of course I got some.
Coworker dared me to take a big bite from one. I did.
I’ve made a terrible mistake.
A net friend works at a pizza shop in the blue mountains, keeps telling us how they’ve got trinidad scorpion tails there and would give us a pizza with them on it for free if we could finish it or something. No one’s taken up him on the offer yet, but nobody lives anywhere near him either 😛
More like an awesome mistake.
How was it? Is it still going?
My lips are still numb but the heat is gone. Very gradual build with the heat.
I now think I realise why they’re called ghost chilli. They have no smell or flavour. Just a heat that comes from nowhere.
How’s it compare to other chillies? Did it last long?
I remember the one time I tried some habanero paste, it had a gradual rise to it, and where something like the bird’s eye chillies would peak and cool off after a minute or two, it felt like the habanero was still getting stronger and stronger a good 15 minutes later. A long and soaring burn arc, and got really strong too. Don’t think I’ve had anything stronger than that though.
Habanero isn’t as hot. Same sort of heat but keeps escalating past habaneros peak. Lips lose all feeling. I actually grow my own habaneros and use them quite a lot but don’t think I could regularly use these ghost chillis.
Aren’t those things meant to kill people =p It seems your namesake might’ve saved you…
Bumped into an ex tonight, [edit: so let’s mask up that mopey shit]
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Ugh. Defintely whisky o’clock.
🙁 Sorry to hear that, buddy.
*glass-clink* Ta.
Oh well. The ol’ ego could probably do with a good popping now and then.
By the description, I’d guess embarrassed is more likely than scared
That would be an incredible waste. :/
Maybe but if she acted like a dick and never explained it, it could be something that she feels ashamed of now that she’s had ample time to think about it
Also, I miss spoiler tags. And hate ROT13
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@transientmind Transient I’m here to tell you I’m in a somewhat similar boat and it’s crazy the kind of hold the past can have on you. Been speaking to an ex I once believed was “the one” myself and goddamn it’s been digging up feelings I thought were long buried and dealt with >.< TGIF? =\
Your last 4 words. Read em again.
Oh god. That musolist ad, with the girls looking for a clarinet player for a jazz band… it was a while ago, but they responded.
Halp what do 😛
Go play in the Treme!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux_Zxn6FCic
??
You know what to do. Go be you. 🙂
Stick that long cylindrical thing in your mouth and blow for all you’re worth!
*cue porn jazz*
Would @mrtaco be in a band that played anything else?
Wolfenstein doesn’t want to launch for some reason…
MASTAH RAAAAAAAAACCCCEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Dammit Freeze, ur doin it rong!
Plot twist, Crazyguy bought it digitally on Xbox or PlayStation..
Nope.
Check my Steam profile.
Shh, you’re meant to go along with me and make Freeze feel silly 😛
MMMMAAASSSSSSTTTTAAAARGH RAAAAYYYYCCCEEEE!!!!
Downloading new drivers as I type this.
Nothing wrong with console, just yeah not everything is suited to it, like FPS 😛
FPS & consoles are like fast food and fine dining.
Two things that just don’t go together.
I actually prefer to play FPS games with a controller.
Sounds crazy but here me out.
I’ve been playing Dark Forces and it sctually plays better for me when I’m using a controller compared to a keyboard and mouse. It’s a lot more fluent, and there’s no handicap.
Would I do it in singleplayer? Yeah. Multiplayer? No way.
Oh hey, @shane. Someone probably hasn’t told you yet. New heist!
Yesssssssss. Thanks, man!
@powalen @sughly @masha2932 @phoenix @mrtaco
SURVIVOR FINALE AND REUNION SPOILERS:
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PS: @strange oh mannnn! I really hate your Tivo(?) because you genuinely missed out on one of the best seasons of Survivor :(. I’m guessing there’s probably no chance you’ll catch up on it now but it think it’ll be top 5 for me!
But once again thanks to everyone for watching and discussing :D. I hope to see y’all (and some new people) next season!
You’re welcome!
I like our non-Survivor discussions!
Haha, the moment I see the notification and click through to it I hear mum say to my sister “What do you want to watch? Survivor?”
Then knew exactly what I was clicking through to 😛
@sughly @masha2932 @phoenix @mrtaco
SURVIVOR SPOILERS
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V’z fcrrpuyrff. V pna bayl ynhtu. Gung jnf gur fvatyr fghcvqrfg guvat V guvax V unir rire frra ba Fheivibe.
V… V pna’g. Zl tbq. Jbj. Jbb, lbh’er qhzo.
V jvyy fnl gubhtu, V ernyyl qvfyvxr n “svany gjb”. Svany guerr vf zhpu, zhpu orggre. V ubcr gurl tb onpx gb gung arkg gvzr. Univat bar crefba qrpvqr ba jub gb oevat jvgu gurz gb gur svany vf whfg fvyyl.
Nf zhpu nf V ungr gb nqzvg vg, Gbal jnf sne naq njnl gur orfg pbagrfgnag guvf frnfba. Ur qrfreirq gb jva, rira vs ur jnf unaqrq zbfg bs uvf jvaf guebhtu cher yhpx :C Vs Jbb jba, gung jbhyq’ir orra greevoyr. Ur yvgrenyyl qvq abguvat.
Lrnu, V jnf guvaxvat nobhg gur svany 2 guvat gbb, ohg rvgure jnl V guvax Gbal jbhyq’ir jba, vg whfg jbhyq’ir orra shaavre frrvat Xnff’ Whel D&N :C. Ab vqrn jul gurl obhtug vg onpx naq V qvq fbzr Tbbtyva’ rneyvre naq sbhaq na negvpyr jvgu Wrss Cebofg nqqerffvat gung dhrfgvba. Ur onfvpnyyl fnvq “V pna’g erzrzore” naq “V cersre n svany 3 zlfrys” …fb jub xabjf! Svany 3 whfg znxrf zber frafr gou
Jung? Ab erfcrpg sbe Jbb orvat na Nfvna Pbyol? Vg jbhyq’ir znqr gur frnfba n ovg bs ohzzre vs ur jba ohg abj ur’f n pbby qhqr, naq V tbg gb frr Xnff ernpu Cbaqrebfn!
Nu lbhq or fhecevfrq, vg jnf qhzo ohg V’ir qrsvavgryl frra qhzore. V’ir frra onfvpnyyl gur fnzr guvat unccra ng yrnfg gjvpr orsber, naq V’ir nyfb frra n pyrne jvaare va gur svany vzzhavgl vagragvbanyyl ybfr orpnhfr guvf bgure thl jbhyqag fuhghc nobhg ubj uvf srryvatf jrer uheg va n cerivbhf ibgr (fb gur thl jub jbhyqir jba, ur whzcrq bss jvgu gur cebzvfr gurlq or sevraqf ntnva nsgre gur fubj… uzzz). V guvax gung jnf gur jbefg. Thl jub unq uvf srryvatf uheg jura ba gb ibgr gur bgure thl bss naq gura jva.
Ian and Tom 😛
Pretty sure Erik giving away his immunity necklace, or Jason playing a fake idol (that’s clearly a stick with a face on it) were dumber 😛
@powalen
Cebcf gb Jbb sbe qbvat jung ur gubhtug jnf evtug sbe uvf tnzr. Va grezf bs gur Fheivibe tnzr gubhtu, vg jnf n zvfgnxr. Gbal pnzr gb jva. Ur cynlrq gur tnzr FB uneq, naq V’z tynq gur whel qvqa’g ubyq vg ntnvafg uvz.
Vg znqr sbe n fbzrjung qhyy erhavba gubhtu. Ubj vf rirelbar srryvat? Svar, vg jnf whfg n tnzr. Bx gura…
Ybbxvat sbejneq gb OifJ ntnva npghnyyl. V guvax vg jbexrq jryy. Naq vs vg n jubyr arj pnfg gura rira orggre.
V qvqa’g pbzzrag zhpu urer ohg V jnf jngpuvat vg rirel jrrx naq qnza vg guvf frnfba jnf tbbq. V jnf ebbgvat sbe Fcrapre fb uneq, naq ur pnzr fb pybfr. Ubcr ur pbzrf onpx ng fbzr cbvag.
Haha, I wasn’t sure if you were still watching/reading so I stopped tagging you D: (sorry!)
All good 🙂
FB PYBFR!!
Pbhyq ABG oryvrir Xnff pnzr sebz fb sne oruvaq gb gnxr gung vzzhavgl. Rfcrpvnyyl nsgre Fcrapre pnzr sebz oruvaq ba gung fyvqr chmmyr gb fgrny vg sebz Gbal orsber, V gubhtug vg jnf tbvat gb or gur fnzr ntnva urer.
Jr zvffrq gur punyyratr Jbb jba nsgre orpnhfr bs n erpbeqvat fperjhc, ohg pnzr onpx va ng gur gevony nsgre vg fb gunaxshyyl qvqa’g ernyyl zvff nalguvat vzcbegnag.
Qng Gbal. Penml yvxr n sbk :C Fb tynq ur jba. Nyfb uvynevbhf jura ur erirnyrq gung gur fcrpvny vqby jnf hfryrff, naq Fcrapre’f zbzrag bs ernyvfngvba gung sbyybjrq. Nyfb Fcrapre’f ernpgvba gb Jbb cvpxvat Gbal.
Fb lrnu. Gung jnf sha. Rira vs V cerggl zhpu bayl fnj gur ynfg unys, vs gung.
Reply to Gooky’s post above:
Lrnu Fcrapre’f ernpgvba nsgre Gbal erirnyrq gur snxr vqby jnf terng. V guvax guvf fubj unf orra n ybg nobhg Fcrapre’f ernpgvbaf. V yvxrq jura gurl rqvgrq nyy uvf uvtuf naq ybjf qhevat gur erhavba rcvfbqr.
My thoughts:
@greenius @powalen @sughly @phoenix
I had notepad open as I watched the show so I’ll just repost what I wrote here.
V nyjnlf yvxr gur cbfvgvir rcf naq vg jnf avpr gb frr gur thlf zrrg gurve snzvyl naq sevraqf.
Jung n pbzronpx sebz xnff gb jva gur vzzhavgl. fhpxf gb frr Fcrapre tb,
ur jnf zl frpbaq pubvpr gb jva nsgre Gbal. V yvxr gung ur jnf tenpvbhf gb gur raq, ur jnf n pbby qhqr.
Bu zna, gbal ernyyl fhpxf ng chmmyrf gubhtu, guvf jnf gur frpbaq gvzr ur oyrj n yrnq.
Nf fbba nf jbb jba svany vzzhavgl v xarj Gbal jnf bhg 🙁 Ng yrnfg ur tbg gb gur svany 3 ur cynlrq n zbfgyl fpnerq ohg tbbq tnzr.
Wrss Cebofg vf n tbbq ubfg, uvf ibvpr vf vagevafvpnyyl gvrq jvgu fheivibe
lrfffffffff!!! BZT gunaxf jbb, Gbal unf n punapr!!
Jbb jnf arire n pbafvqrengvba sbe zr ohg v tnvarq n ybg bs erfcrpg sbe uvz nf ur gnyxrq nobhg uvzfrys novqvat ol gur cevapvcyrf bs gnrxjbaqb. ur’f n tbbq thl ohg gung jnf n fvyyl cynl.
Shpx guvf whel’f ner oehgny. V pna’g gryy jung jvyy unccra
Qnza Gbal ybbxf zrffrq hc, ur zvtug ybfr
Ru, gevfurf fcrrpu vf OF. vs fur jnf ba gung frng fur jbhyq guebj njnl ure qrnq oebf va n frpbaq
Qnza, Fcrapre frrzf irel cnffvbangr nobhg gur tnzr. Gbal jnf yhpxl n ybg ohg urnevat Fcrapre gnyx nobhg Gbal V nyfb erfcrpg ubj ur cynlrq. Ur jnf gur BHGJVG, BHGYNFG naq CNENABVQ va gur fheivibe ybtb 🙂
Fcrapre zhfg ernyyl or n fhcresna. Ur frrzrq gb or irel engvbany gbb nethvat sbe Gbal gb gur Whel.
BZT QBHOYR JBB ONPXSYVC, WHZCVAT HC NAQ QBJA. NNNNNNNNN
GBAL JVAF!!!!!!!!!!!! LRF!!!!!!!!
GRNZ YYNZN ONOL!!!!!!!!!!!
ZE. V FJRNE BA ZL JVSR NAQ QNHTUGRE!!!!!!!!1
LRFFFFFFFFF \b/
Zl gbal oeb Tbbxl, *uvtu svir* b/ @mrtaco
V nyzbfg ybfg ubcr ohg vg qbrfa’g znggre abj.
GBAL GBAL GBAL
V Fgvyy erfcrpg lbh jbb, qba’g yvfgra gb xenccl xnff
Curj, ng yrnfg gur erhavba vf bayl 27zva. vg’f 12.50nz urer naq V arrq gb fyrrc
un un grnz yynzn ergheaf
jbnu, fcrapre pyrnaf hc avpr. unaqfbzr sryybj
Zna, V srry yvxr v fubhyq gnxr gnrxjbaqb. ernyyl avpr frrvat jbb fgvpx gb uvf cevapvcyrf
Guvf thl unf ab rzbgvbaf gubhtu, v pna’g ernq uvz. Ner lbh fnq Jbb? V qba’g xabj
Jbnu, oybbq if jngre fbhaqf vagrerfgvat. pna v jngpu nabgure frnfba gubhtu? v qba’g xabj.
V erfcrpg lbh Jbb
ohg gbqnl vg’f nobhg n qvssrerag jbb…
JBBBBBBB GBAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
\b/ \b/
pna v obeebj n srj qbyynef? 😉
htu, guvf yrggre guvat vf abafrafr
Erhavba rc bire vg’f 1.20nz v arrq gb fyrrc.
*high five*
A rollercoaster of emotions!
WOO ANDROID! 😛
And yes, you can AND WILL watch another season! The season just before this one was Blood vs. Water and we all enjoyed it for its strategic changes. Should be interesting as long as the cast are good :D!
I enjoyed the running commentary 🙂
Haha, what a writeup!
Bu zna, Fcrapre tbg fb pybfr! FB PYBFR! G_G V *gbyq* lbh thlf Fcrapre unq n fubr va gb jva (pnag erzrzore vs vg jnf lbh be cbj fnlvat ur cebonoyl pbhyqag orng Gbal)… V erpxba nsgre frrvat gung whel Fcrapre jbhyqir jba sbe fher. Fvtuuuu. V qb guvax urf yvxryl gb pbzr onpx gubhtu, rira whfg onfrq bss nyy gur purref, gur yrggre guvat, gur jnl Wrss jbhyqag fuhghc nobhg uvz orvat cbchyne. Fb gungf tbbq! V jnf whfg guvaxvat… jbhyq or pbby vs (naq gurl jbhyqag orpnhfr vg cebonoyl jbhyqag jbex), ohg vg pbhyq or xvaqn arng gb unir byq nyyvnaprf oebhtug onpx? Fb yvxr, Gnfun naq Fcrapre sbe bar. Bx znlor V whfg jnag gb frr Gnfun naq Fcrapre onpx FB JUNG.
Tbbq frnfba thlf, tbbq frnfba. V’z fhcre ybbxvat sbejneq gb oybbq if jngre 2. Nf zhpu nf V yvxrq guvf frnfba, V guvax vg unq zber gb qb jvgu gur crbcyr ba engure guna gur frghc. V guvax oij vf n fgebatre frghc sbe fher – vg znqr fgengrtl n zvyyvba gvzrf zber pbzcyrk, jung jvgu gnyxf bs guebjvat punyyratrf, naq ibgvat bss onfrq ba jub gurler eryngrq gb gb znxr gur bgure crefba fjnc cnyprf naq fhpu. Tba or tbbbbbq! V xvaq bs qbag jnag vg gb or nyy arj crbcyr 🙁
Forgot tag :'(
@powalen @masha2932 @phoenix @mrtaco
I think it was Pooalen who said that 😛
Va fbzr vagreivrj V ernq, Wrss fnvq gung Gbal, Fcrapre naq Xnff jrer zbfg yvxryl gb erghea… fb jub xabjf!
Tasha :'(
This was before the Live reunion so his thoughts may change! They did show that “Bring back Tasha” tweet from a random though so who knows!
Tch. Transientmind is not an entertaining drunk.
Bed. *thud*
Is that your way of saying little transientmind isn’t performing?
Too coherent. Needs more @liondrive style incoherence!
I don’t think my incoherence is replicable.
I reckon I could give you a run for your money.
I’d welcome the challenge! 😀
Any reason to drink excessively and I’m there!
Funny. Sober ‘Leph isn’t very entertaining either.
(I hope you’re OK)
*fistbump* Yup. Thanks.
Just like @dc said – far too coherent/laconic to be Liondrive/Lep drunk-posting. 😛
Went and played Magic!
Drafted Blue-Black control and went… OK.
Screwed up against my first opponent, lost 2-1
Beat my second, a mate, 2-0
Really close 0-2 on my third, he pulled a nice move and saved his own arse at the last second
Switched to a different FLGS, it’s much nicer. think I’ll stick with this one.
Off to bed.
Goodnight, TAY.
@gutsoup (and anyone else interested in buying a Wii U)
didya see this? https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/145269
Eww, white.
That’s cheap. Really cheap.
*checks wallet*
*moth flies out*
Ah well.
cheers but I think I’ll have to get a 32gb one or I’ll have too many problems with space,
You can use an external HDD (maybe even a USB)
I’m really surprised not many places aren’t doing better deals, you’d think with MK8 on the way they’d all be trying to sweeten their packages (hehehe). I was going to go for Big W ‘s deal but it reckons it won’t be delivered until like the 6th of June even if I pick up in store, I’m impatient and indecisive.
I’m so glad I got my elite for $214.
Still enjoying Xillia very much. Wonder what was wrong with me the first time at it. I’m so into it I’m tempted to re-play it from Milla’s side once I finish Jude’s path.
Fairly late in the game now I think.
Svavfurq bss gur riragf ba gur obng, naq jung V rkcrpgrq pnzr gehr. Zhmrg jnf pyrneyl na hauvatrq cflpubcngu, vg jnf cerggl boivbhf sebz gur cbvag fur nccrnerq. Jnfa’g rkcrpgvat gurz gb xvyy bss Zvyyn yvxr gung – ernyyl phevbhf gb cynl guebhtu ure ebhgr. Vf gurer whfg n ovt gvzr fxvc be vf fur hc gb fghss fbzrubj? Thrff vg’yy qrcraq ba ubj gur cybg erfbyirf sebz guvf cbvag.
Naljnl, V’z pheeragyl trggvat gb gur cbvag gung V’ir haybpxrq gur bhgrezbfg evat bs gur 2aq nqinaprzrag tevq guvatf sbe nyy punenpgref naq gur engr gurl’er tnvavat arj cbvagf gb hfr unf qebccrq qbja gb 3 cre yriry, juvpu ernyyl fhpxf. V nffhzr V’yy or tevaqvat sbe n ybat gvzr vs V jnag gb znk gurz bhg, ohg orpnhfr gur tnzr qbrfa’g unir n cbfgtnzr qhatrba be nalguvat gurer’f abg n jubyr ybg bs vapragvir. Jvyy or phevbhf gb frr vs nal bs vg pbagvahrf bire gb arj tnzr cyhf.
Erhavgrq jvgu Ryvmr, Ebjra naq Yrvn cbfg-Zvyyn naq unir orra ehaavat nebhaq gur jbeyq qbvat fvqrdhrfgf. Jrag onpx gb Yrebaqr gb svavfu bss bar V unq unq fvggvat gurer sbe ntrf, pyrnevat bhg gur onaqvgf va gur byq zvar. Frg bar sbbg va gurer vavgvnyyl naq tbg ohz-ehfurq ol n fhcre uneq rarzl. Abj gurl’er ba gur rnfl fvqr. Ybir jura gung unccraf. Nyfb nppvqragnyyl nggnpxrq bar bs gur 6 fhcre-fgebat bcgvbany obff guvatf va gurer naq vg jnf n uneq svtug ohg riraghnyyl orng uvz naq tbg n fgnss hctenqr sbe Yrvn. Vavgvnyyl V gubhtu vg zhfg or na hygvzngr jrncba be fbzrguvat, fb rzobyqrarq ol orngvat vg V jrag vagb gur pnalba nern arne Funevygba naq snprq bss jvgu gur sylvat obff bar gung unf gur rdhvinyrag jrncba sbe Whqr, fvapr V’q frra vg gurer rneyl va gur tnzr naq znexrq vg sbe pbzvat onpx gb. Irel uneq svtug qhr gb gur snpg gung ng 20% urnygu vg fgnegf fhzzbavat nqqf NAQ pna qebc pbashfvba ba lbhe cnegl juvpu pnhfrf gurz gb nggnpx rnpu bgure, juvpu vf irel onq jura vg unccraf. Fbzrubj fheivirq gung gubhtu naq orng vg… naq vg gheaf bhg gur jrncba vg qebccrq jnf n fyvtug qbjatenqr va culfvpny nggnpx sebz jung V jnf hfvat. Ab ryrzrag gubhtu fb cebonoyl zber hfrshy. N enaqbz qhqr gbyq zr gurer’f n guveq bar va Knyvra jbbqf fb znl tb gurer arkg naq frr vs V pna orng vg gbb.
Fgvyy ybbxvat sbe n Cvax Rzrenyq sbe nabgure dhrfg, ohg gur fvqrdhrfgf ner fgnegvat gb guva qbja abj. Znl pbafhyg n thvqr sbe gur erznvaqre. Naq vs V pna’g orng gur Knyvra Jbbqf obff V jvyy pbagvahr va gur fgbel n ovg.
In unrelated news, playing through this has gotten me much more hyped for Xillia 2 which I was actually considering skipping before now. Also Zestiria is looking pretty cool – apparently the amazing combat system from Graces F is coming back for it \o/
Graces f combat \o/
Not Graces f story \o/
The Graces f story was fine really, I enjoyed it. It had some ploddy bits. The lack of character development and stuff weren’t a failure of the plot.
But I would have to say that Xillia’s plot so far has been vastly better. And neither of the games have a cast that holds a candle to Vesperia (IMO the peak Tales game overall)
Vesperia is indeed my favourite.
Vesperia has the best overall cast. They all mesh together really well, and even the most annoying character (Karol) isn’t that bad. Yuri is the best protagonist in the franchise. They all get proper character development and actually change through the game (unlike Graces). The villains are solid, the plot isn’t silly and eases you in really well. The dub is extremely good – Namco outsourced to a group that hired mainly stage actors IIRC, rather than the people that handled everything after that who just hire terrible anime dub people, It has lots of content and decent post-game stuff. The core gameplay is solid as well – Graces has a better combat system, Xillia is probably about par but made the controls too complicated IMO.
It just still really sits badly with me that they released it on X360, then did a vastly better release on PS3 with a character that they clearly cut out of the game last minute (and Patty is pretty awesome to boot) and a bunch of extra content and everything, then steadfastly refused to release the PS3 version in English and even started acting like they were done with Tales for the west entirely, because the 360 version didn’t meet their crazy high expectations. Also that 9 month or so localization wait for PAL sucked too. But even despite those problems, Vesperia is the best of the franchise.
I’m hopeful for Zestiria but I’m also a bit worried. They were talking about stuff like open world RPGs and comparing themselves with Skyrim and stuff and that’s not a direction I want Tales to go. It’s the last good, consistent traditional-style JRPG series now that Final Fantasy crawled up its own asshole and everyone else went to crap. Bad enough that Xillia 2 apparently has a silent protagonist where you choose his responses to everything. I don’t want to end up with a game with Mass Effect dialogue wheels or something.
Zesty Dragons is looking a little xenoblade-ish ala open world. Could be good, could be bad.
Agreed with you on every point there – to date it also stands as the only preorder I’ve ever done that was actually necessary because of the limited local release.
The proper completely professional localisation might also be the reason PS3 didn’t get localised – the higher / minimum cost of rehiring that mob couldn’t be justified by expected sales. Contract shenanigans of some sort most likely.
Now you’re making me want to go replay it again once I’m done with Symphonia HD and Xillia.
I suspect that the whole song and dance around Zesty Tales is going to be exactly that: no transition between world exploration and combat, moving seamlessly from one mode to the other in the style of Xenoblade or FF 12. If that’s the case I’m curious and will give them the benefit of the doubt. I’m liking the character designs I’m seeing and everything and it seems they’re doing the dual-protagonist thing from Xillia again too, but it might not be the case, hard to tell at this point. It also sounded like maybe the Human characters in the game fight with a TP system like Xillia, Vesperia etc. but the non-Human characters fight with AP like in Graces. Which would also be cool. I just feel like the Graces system (which IIRC is also in Destiny and Destiny 2) worked far better than the standard old TP system.
Side note: Tales of Hearts on DS had Graces-style combat, but the Vita remake took it out in favor of the TP system they’d already developed for the Innocence port. 🙁
Anyway, as long as Zesty has a good set of characters and a solid plot and actually feels like a Tales game I’m happy for them to innovate however they want to.
Woo! I assume there won’t be a time skip but I’m not motivated enough to see for myself.
I still haven’t played Graces f and I’ve had a US (and EU) launch copy 😛
Graces F upsides:
– The combat system is easily the best Tales combat
– It’s long (the bonus F chapter adds like 15-20 hours IIRC) and has shittons of content that Xillia is lacking (like cooking, endgame dungeon with cameo characters from other games etc.)
– Lots of Costumes and stuff that you’re not expected to fork over cash for
– Sophie and Pascal are great characters
Downsides:
– Plot is a bit juvenile
– Visuals aren’t amazing (they’re serviceable) and the areas are kind of limited due to having started life as a Wii game
– The dub is horribly inconsistent. Some of the characters (Sophie, Malik, Pascal) are great, some (Cheria, Hubert) are serviceable, but Asbell (more like Assbell) is fairly bad in a lot of the main scenes as he sounds like he’s reading a script, and Richard is absolutely fucking terrible, sounds like he’s the villain in a 12 year old’s school production.
– The first chapter of the game you play as the main cast (sans Malik) as children, and it gets a bit tedious.
– While the characters undergo some development, their relationships with each other never really changes throughout the game. It’s frustrating in a lot of places how static and safe everything stays. There’s no one in the party with questionable motives or anything either (something I really like in Xillia and which made Yuri in Vesperia the best Tales protagonist ever)
It’s a really solid game. I enjoyed it greatly, but it came out at a perfect time for me. There was nothing else out, and I was able to roll into it straight off Mass Effect 3 IIRC. I just sat down, ignored everything else and absorbed it. I think I need to do that more often.
Ha! I see what you did there.
Good summary. Also, while I didn’t like it as much as any other Tales game, I did still finish it. So, that’s something.
I enjoyed it more than Eternia (couldn’t get into the old 2D combat and the lack of skits shitted me, so never got into it) and vastly more than Tales of Legendia (which is a big fat steaming log of shit) and Tales of Symphonia 2. The juvenile thing is literally that I feel like the plot was aimed at a younger audience and doesn’t hit as hard with some of the content as the mainline console series. Symphonia is largely the same thing – I think because Namco were targeting them at Nintendo platforms (GC and Wii) they deliberately made them able to appeal to a younger audience.
Of the games I’ve played, I’d rank them personally:
Vesperia* > Abyss > Xillia* > Symphonia > Graces > Phantasia > Eternia* > Destiny* > Legendia*.
I have heard that Rebirth was very bad, Destiny 2 was really good but we never got it, Innocence is supposed to be pretty average and Hearts is meant to be pretty good. Tales of the Tempest was apparently so terrible they had to introduce the idea of ‘Mothership’ and ‘Escort’ titles so they could sweep it under the rug and pretend it was never a proper Tales game, and Symphonia 2 is considered an Escort game so it doesn’t get into the ranking above, but if it did I’d put it either above or below Legendia, probably above since I lasted twice as long with it. Ones marked with * are ones I haven’t actually finished (yes, seriously I haven’t finished Vesperia. I was right at the end and then I got distracted for a bit and then Namco announced the PS3 version and I was upset and hoping we’d get it and by the time I realized it wasn’t happening it was too late to go back)
You haven’t finished Vesperia?
Dead. To. Me.
:p
(It’s the journey, not the destination. My favourite part is probably still the Zagi sequences)
Random trivia time – English voice for Zagi is Ezio, Chris Redfield and Arkham Origins Batman. Oh, and Sonic.
You weren’t kidding about them doing a proper job on the VA.
Some of the Vesperia cast were big-name anime people, looking at it. Maybe it was just that they put some effort in. 😐 Might have been Abyss where they had basically an acting troupe and it turned out pretty good (though the Japanese dub was better)
Hey, it’s like when I found out Sheena was Jennifer Hale.
And now I’ve kept looking – Yuri VA is also Booker DeWitt, Joel (Last of Us), Delsin Rowe, and Arkham City two Face / Robin, and Arkham Origins Joker.
@beavwa: Pretty sure that Yuri was one of Troy Baker’s first major game roles. He’s very good (and was really good in the role). I wish they got people of that caliber more often.
It was Abyss that used more obscure people, looking at it again. Most of the main cast in Vesperia are just generally pretty good. I’d still take the Japanese cast instead though. I guess since Namco hadn’t seen the light about doing dual audio until recently, had they done the PS3 release it would have probably annoyed me greatly because they’d have dubbed Patty. Chiwa Saito is a personal favourite of mine and is one of those people that any dub actress trying to reprise her work is always going to come off second best. There’s a few cases like that in Tales, because they pick such high-end Japanese talent to voice characters and even really talented english actors are going to struggle to meet that standard.
So I was going through some old uni stuff just then and came across an old student newsletter. I kept it because it features a classic interview that I absolutely love re-reading, I have to share it here with everyone – it’s hilariously brilliant. Unfortunately there is no author listed so I cannot give credit where it is clearly due. [sic] ahead.
Bad boys, bad boys.. whacha’ gonna do?
Cops eh? always running around with their twin berettas blazing, leaping across rooftops, slapping cuffs on perps and smacking people around in interrogation rooms. But is it all really dunkin donuts and nickel plated Desert Eagles? I thought I’d get on the hook with a real cop, turn the tables on him and sweat ‘im out with a few questions to see just how realistic the lies are. I got a hold of Richie (the name has been changed to protect the corrupt) who’s a cop in Alaska and made him sit down and let me play good cop, bad cop.
Okay let’s smash some lies then. Is it possible to take a bullet to the arm, look at your partner and say it’s only a flesh wound and continue taking out crims?
No.
Is it possible to fire two sub machine guns, one in each hand at the same time?
Not accurately.
Have you ever kicked in a door?
Many times. It’s harder than it looks.
Have you ever put a knife into a package of cocaine, licked the tip and been able to tell if it’s pure?
Never have, never will. We have chemical tests for that sort of thing.
Is the show Cops really what it’s like? Like really?
Kind of, they only show the highlights.
Ever thought of becoming a late night vigilante?
Why would I? I get to dispense justice by law.
Ever busted through some innocent citizen’s house while chasing a crim only to find her in the shower? (the owner not the crim)
No, but not for lack of effort.
Have you ever heard anyone say any of the following – ‘That man killed my partner’
No.
‘Goddamit, the feds are calling the shots. My hands are tied.’
Never.
‘Diplomatic immunity,’ to which someone replies, ‘just been revoked’
Nope.
‘You’re a psycho, no one wants to partner with you’
Actually, yes.
‘We got a warrant for your arrest’
As often as possible.
Tell Diego I’ve got a bullet with his name on it.
End of interview got eaten?
Nah, that’s where it ends – unless I’m missing pages.
@freezepreston
This one was for you, mate. A sort of pick me up. Just a realisation that the real deal doesn’t appear to be as fun or as crash hot at the movies make it out to be.
@freezespreston god damn tags.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/levelup/sabertron-foam-swords-with-electronic-scoring
This looks kind of stupid and kind of awesome in equal measure. I think I want some.
Not cheap.
What the fuck.
I load up Titanfall, and I discover the Capture the Flag playlist is gone. I know the playlist wasn’t super popular, but it was by far the best mode. I noticed that there are two new playlists, DLC Attrition and DLC Variety Pack. Great. Two playlists for a set of maps that not that many people are going to buy. I suppose there’s a chance I might get to play Capture the Flag again if I select the Variety Pack playlist.
And of course, when you load up the game, there is a store icon on the main menu.
It seems Respawn are rooted in their CoD past.
CoD never did that. That’s a Battlefield thing ie: EA.
Huh. New show on National Geographic called Science of Stupid.
Could be interesting. Grabbed the first episode to see what it’s like.
You had me at “Science of Stupid”, but lost me at “Richard Hammond”.
I can’t stand that guy.
Alone he is a pain in the arse.
When Jeremy Clarkson and James May is there to thump him into submission i quite enjoy his gimmicks 😛
Let it be known: This is the first time since the last school holidays were I caught up to TAY before the weekend. It’s a lot of reloading and waiting for someone to say something interesting. How does everyone else cope?
By going off and reading other websites 😛
Wait, there are other websites now?
Surely you’ve been told about the “old days”? We once had 1500 comments ON Monday and we were consistently reaching 6000+ comments! Keeping up was madness D:
Dear brain,
Will you please shut the hell up? I’m trying to get to sleep here.
Never! Fuck you and fuck yo’
couchsleep!*jumps on couch and starts yelling*
lol… was trying to be funny but I think I just sent several copies of the same message through to moderation instead, and just didn’t realise because of mobile browser not showing the notification. Oops :p
So, turns out that sitting up playing games until 12am when you start work at 5:30am is NOT recommended…
Who would have thought?
*head desk*
You derp =P
Ain’t got no one to blame but myself XD
But yes… That’s what happens when you play something addictive and go “ooohhh i just have enough time to do this” and then “OOOOHHHH i’m just going to do this” etc.etc.etc.
On the plus side, it’s friday and i got freshly brewed coffee!
Yeah, I’m like that with Harvest moon. ALL THE TIME SINK!
I hope that desk is made of mahogany…
I feel like shit this morning cuz I got destroyed in LoL ranked last night, serves me right for not playing for a few days 😛
Ma-hog-a-ny!
not just any mahogany! But mahogany from the planet, Malchior 7, where the trees are three-hundred feet tall and breathe fire. From these trees this desk was forged 2,000 years ago using ancient blood-rituals of the Malchior people!
Not only does this make my desk nigh indestructible, but it can bend the fabric of the universe itself. Also, it’s a very fine material… veeeeerrrry expensive.
Morning all! Here’s some more concept art for the project that saw its genesis when Rocketman was bored and put out a call for random ideas.
—
UNDAD
Newly undead Brett Buckley attempts to hide his status from family, friends and co-workers, all the while trying to figure out his place in the world, coach his kids’ soccer team, and reconcile his vegetarian morals with his insatiable hunger for living flesh.
Previous concept art
Morning peeps! Friday at last! Any exciting plans this weekend?
Myself I’ll be engaging in more Persona 4 and watching X-Men! Not to mention being fairly drunk tonight ^^
Well make sure you stop in here tonight, @liondrive needs some competition on incoherent drunk talk.
As for the weekend, I’ll be playing Wolfenstein mainly, and continuing reading A Game Of Thrones.
Enjoy X-Men man, I said it on the previous page, but I’ll say it again for anyone that’s going to watch it. Make sure you stay for the extra scene at the end.
Lol I can’t I have no internet at home =[ Just moved and TPG was supposed to have setup the connection yesterday but apparently there were some complications so they need to have a tech in today again to check it out =@ Hence me being on Kotaku only during working hours =p
Oooooo someone who enjoys GoT to actually bother reading it, I feel like we are far and few between =\ Also with X-Men does Wolverine cut someone in the extra scene? Because if he doesn’t it’ll be a let down.
Lol, I won’t spoil it for ya.
Hope they can get your home internet up and running today.
As for GoT, I’ve watched the first episode, and have decided to stop watching and read the books first (under the recommendation of multiple TAYbies). Enjoying it so far, but I’m only three chapters in. Got the whole series of books sitting here so I can read them one after the other.
Take your time since the last book ends in the mother of all cliffhangers and I don’t think George is releasing the next book any time soon =,=
From what I’ve read, the publisher has stated that the next book WILL NOT be published, before 2015. And as I said the other day apparently it, and the last book are going to be around a mammoth 1500 pages each. That’s manuscript pages though, so what that translates to for the book version I have no idea, maybe @shane, or @beardymcmuttonchops could shed some light on that seeing as they’re both writers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winds_of_Winter
Depends. A typical Word document page in single spaced Times New Roman at default size has between 500-600 words. A typical paperback page has around 300 words. What this means that a 1500 page manuscript might be a 3000 page book. As I said before, I don’t believe they’ll be this big.
But if he double-spaces or uses a bigger typeset or narrower margins, it could be anything. I’d be very surprised if they’re much over 1000 pages, or even if they exceed 800 pages.
As I mentioned last time, most of book 5 was meant to be in book 4, but the two were split (to their detriment) for reasons of length. If the last manuscripts are legitimately this long (after editing, and god knows that no manuscript should be that long after editing), they will probably be similarly split by the publisher, and the series will run out to 8/9/10 books.
Thanks for the info man. Time will tell I guess.
Duuuude, if you ever want to geek out over GoT books, I’m your amigo!
Have you read any of the novellas?
No!? What’re the novellas??
Been finishing up a SWTOR book – Fatal Alliance and was going to jump back in to the Malazan series after that!
There are two different stories.
The Hedge Knight/ The Sworn Sword/ The Mystery Knight – Set about 100 years before asoiaf. I’m reading the first one now and really enjoying it. Interesting perspective from a character who is of low birth during a time when the Targs were ruling.
Dangerous Woman/ The She Wolves – I don’t know too much about this one but I THINK its set during the Dance of Dragons ( Not the 5th book but the Targ civil war)
As far as I know they’re all apart of books made up of different fantasy writers, which isn’t bad. Once I finish GRRM’s novella there are about 7 others from different authors. My copy of The Hedge Knight is in a book called Legends.
Get on it!
Whoa whoa whoa, I need to give my body a week long pre detox before I get drunk (aka I’m broke). next Saturday I’ll be drinking (hopefully) 😛
My plans:
– see X-Men with friends tonight
– Play more of (maybe finish) Xillia and if that happens start Transistor
– Whinge on the internet about how Squenix EU are a bunch of hateful assholes who don’t care about their customers and not play Drakengard 3. 🙁
– Get a haircut.
So went for a run yesterday for the first time in a long time. yesterday was also a year since I had a knee reconstruction. Add to that some torn ligaments in my ankle only a few months ago. It is safe to say it was a very short endeavour. Made 2km, with some walking and a few stops for stretching. It took around 14 or so minutes. Going to go again today and try and beat that time.
As far as I’m concerned that’s a good time. I remember in year 8 we had to run a mile, and I came in last at about 45 minutes with some running, but mostly walking, and I was actually skinny back then. Fitness has never been one of my strong points.
Good effort man.
Be careful not to exert that knee too much! The knee’s one of those joints where if it’s fucked you can’t do much of anything =\
Yeah, and from what I’ve heard you can only have three knee reconstructions before it’s completely screwed. So take care of it.
It has been a full year, in spring last year I was doing a ton of riding and its awesome. It feels fine, unlike the ankle. The only problem with my knee is that I can feel the bolt just through my skin so when I kneel on that leg it sometimes hurts.
If history has taught me anything, it’s that when you only have 3 goes at something and run out, you just have to insert coins to continue
Tickets bought. Travelling planned. I’m car tripping from Hobart to Brisbane!
The only night I know I’m free is the 8th of June, the Sunday night before Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday. That night, I’m in Brisbane, so…
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
I would love to catch up with all or any one of you. For further planning, I shall now hand over to Dudley Chesterson.
Whereabouts are you starting the road part of the journey? I assume you’re taking the ferry (Spirit Of Tasmania) to Melbourne.
Starting from my driveway in Hobart, up to the ferry in one day, overnight sailing. Melbourne the following day (possible time to catch up on that day, but I have to plan a bit more before committing to that). Up to Canberra to catch up with Bro-in-law who has just come back from his o/seas posting, couple days there, New England highway up to Brisbane for dad’s 60th.
Couple days up there and then drive it back, this time via Sydney.
All in all, I estimated approximately two kidney’s worth of petrol and more miles than The Proclaimers.
Shame you’re not coming up from Adelaide way, you would’ve come through the town I live in.
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2011/09/29/hugo_chavez_caption_contest/Proclaimers_500miles_map.png.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.png
I might be available. My D&D DM is planning a long weekend of adventuring for my group on that weekend but depends what your plans are 🙂
Hmmmm, that night is a Fremantle home game but the game should finish by 7:00 or so, so I can be free that evening. Tentative yes from me.
Just give us a reminder closer to the day! If it’s a public holiday weekend, I may be able to pull it off. Depends on where in my pay cycle it falls though!
Hit me up, see what I can dooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Hey does anyone know when the Doom Beta starts, I can’t seem to find any details.
Also got Wolfenstein, so far it’s pretty fun, nothing like therapeutic Nazi slaughter to wash away the troubles of the day.
I was wondering the same thing. I’ll guess it won’t be for a little while yet. Bethesda won’t release Wolfie and then the Doom beta immediately afterwards as it might draw people away from buying Wolfenstein. That or it might not be in Beta yet 😛
is there any indication of a release date for Doom yet? Beta would be about 6 months-ish from then I’d guess
If anything wouldn’t it drive people to buy Wolfenstein? As far as I know the only way to get in the Beta is by buying Wolfenstein.
You’d think so but I was going by Bethesda logic 😛
BOARD GAMES!
Played some stuff last night with a few people. My Smash Up plan went reasonably well (Ghosts and Plants) but not as well as the person who won with Aliens/Time Travellers and just stomped with crop circles for days. We then played DC Comics deck building game and that was also fun although someone managed to get some fantastic synergy with the Flash and just milled deck for the win. We followed that up with a game of Chronology which is basically a card game where you have to determine if something came before or after the cards you have in front of you. That was actually really fun and particularly when you started getting a lot of cards and had to narrow things down even further (who knew 7-Up was invented in the 1930s?). We finished the night with Seven Wonders where I got absolutely toasted and the winner got 75 points. Serves me right for not building any cultural guards or guilds. All in all though, good fun.
Man Smash Up is great fun… I rolled everyone with my steampunk/bear cavalry combo… so much awesome! 😛
Further tag for Brisbane peoples, I know some of you were looking forward to Trivia @ Cobbler on Monday, but I’m going to have to withdraw my attendance due to personal life issues cropping up. Feel free to go anyway, you’ll be welcomed with open arms and delectable cocktails.
@beardymcmuttonchops @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
I gave Sword and Sworcery a run last night, pretty cool game. Awesome to look at, easy on the ears, simple to play. Great game for a tablet.
I only got my iPad yesterday, does anyone know of games to recommend? So far I’ve downloaded Sword and Sworcery, The Room and Chess.
Suburbia.
Oh cool, sort’ve looks like a Sim City/Civ mash up. I’ll check it out!
Then buy the board game.
Simogo stuff is pretty cool and mostly iOS only (Year Walk is on Steam now though)
Ohh they did Beat Sneak Bandit, I was reading about that recently. I’m checking out some Year Walk screens now, I don’t know what I’m looking at but I like it.
I’ve only played Device 6 and Beat Sneak Bandit but I enjoyed them and they were the first gaming Apps I got for my iPad. If you haven’t already played them, the Ace Attorney games are worth checking out too 😀
I haven’t played any Ace Attorney (don’t own a working Nintendo console) but I’ve read plenty about them on here *cough* @shane
I didn’t know they were on iPad! Will definitely check them out, thank you 🙂
Blame @scree (and to a lesser extent @greenius). It’s their fault I played them at all.
I’m sorry /o\
Rayman Jungle and Fiesta Run are a must!
I was pretty happy to play Plants vs Zombies on it all over again. Also, I’m not sure if you’re a fan of the swipe-combat games but Infinity Blade 1 & 2 are periodically free on the app store and were groundbreaking in introducing the idea of gorgeous visuals on a tablet. I get a very Dark Souls vibe from the atmosphere and theme. Endless deaths in the desolate ruins of a crumbling empire, populated only by monstrous, deformed, and brutal giants.
FTL
Shadowrun Returns is a pretty freaking cool guy… I picked it up while it was $6.50 and it’s worth every cent!
Ahh of course, how did I forget this one!?
Same with @kermitron and @transientmind suggestions, thanks guys.
Ooooh, and X-COM apparently runs pretty OK, thinking of AAA converted to the ‘pad.
Republique might be good. I don’t know because while I kickstarted it, I wasn’t actually able to get my copy for free like I should have been because AU store, and then when I purchased it I found my old iPad 1 was no longer supported (it was literally the only iPad model on the market when they did the kickstarter).
I hear it’s good though.
EDIT: Hearthstone!
Also there’s a number of great board game adaptions for iOS that are great on iPad.
Oh yeah Hearthstone! I’ve been playing that on the PC recently. Nice!
Hearthstone is better on tablet than it is on PC.
Super Hexagon!
HAVE YOU
CALLED NINTENDOFINISHED THE GAME YET?!No I am still suck at it and also don’t really revisit it that often.
Advertising: http://thegamesland.wordpress.com/tag/mobile-week-2013/
Also, Bastion if you haven’t played that, any of Halfbrick’s stuff, GTA, Lego Star Wars.
That’s all I can think of right now.
Cool man I’ll have a read through those reviews, thanks. Loved Bastion, but from what I read the tablet version just has the kid dodging and drinking potions and that combat is automatic, which turned me off a tad.
I liked it, but I haven’t played the computer version.
It does have alternate controls, but that’s an analogue stick and something like 6 on-screen buttons. Even if you’re not a fan, it goes on sale for $0.99 every now and again, and it might be worth picking it up just for a mobile copy?
Also, there’s emulators that don’t require a jailbreak, the best of which was GBA4iOS, but that got taken off due to a DMCA. The creator’s going to bring it back though.
At the moment, there’s retroarch, available from emu4ios.net, but that doesn’t work with some games I tried (worked fine with GBA games though).
Sure if its that cheap its definitely worth a look at, its a great game.
Oh nice, I’d love to get a few GBA games on my iPad, thanks for the heads up!
So Hyrule Warriors is looking pretty cool, huh? http://www.gamecity.ne.jp/zelda/index.html
Really looking forward to it! Hopefully doesn’t take too long to come out here.
Huh… so there’s a third playable character? I’m assuming blue haired person/Zelda (from that GameXplain trailer analysis)
Don’t Warriors games always have lots of characters? There will probably be more.
I hope they keep it pretty small. I would prefer a big expansive unique stories for a small selection of characters rather then the usual warriors game style.
I hope the game is non-canon so they can just go crazy with what people we get to play as (instead of worrying about timeline stuff). Bring in Goron, Zora and Gerudo armies!
Being able to play as both sides would be cool!
I’m hoping for a smaller selection though. Seems like Link can change weapons/items so that’ll add variation in his combos (whereas Dynasty Warriors would just throw in 10 extra characters for that)
I just hope we get to play as at least one character from each race + Link and Zelda (surely they’ll let us play as her after she is rescued. Surely! …please?).
Does look pretty damn awesome… And there’s multi in this yeah?
No idea 😛
Well Kotaku says
so that’s at least local co-op confirmed 😛
Cool! I’ll play as Link and you can play as Tingle.
@dc waits for news of Diddy Kong…
Kalooh-Limpah!
Tingle Tingle Kooloo Limpah!
Local Coop according to the Kotaku article.
I’m really, really keen on giving it a try.
Turns out Knack has local co-op mode. It’s pretty damn fun, so I got a friend to play with. We had a blast.
Also booked tickets to Melb for PAX. Tiget airways had 2-for-1 special, so with 1x 25kg check-in it’s like $72ea one way from central/north-QLD. Pretty damn good.
Nice, I booked mine a couple of weeks ago – thought I was doing good for $200 return. Still gotta organise accommodation though – maybe I can cosplay as a hobo and sleep outside the venue?
We’ll send you details on our hotel. Monica stayed there a couple months ago, and it was cheap and very good. ‘Tune’, I think. It’s close to tram stop too.
Oh, Tiger Airways … good luck getting there. =P
Thanks. 😛
I went Tiger both to and from PAXAU13 and it was nothin’ but smooth. 🙂
(Also, comfier seats than Jetstar.)
I’ve had my flights cancelled with no warning / refund from Tiger airways so I always try to avoid them.
Cancelled without refund? Isn’t that… y’know. Illegal?
Yes.
Possibly, I couldn’t really justify spending days demanding my money back and making threats to report them for $60.
Days of Future Past is a pretty cool guy.
He kills aliens and doesn’t afraid of anything?
I just finished Transistor, oh man that game was great! Possibly the best game I have played this year.
I’ve started writing a to-do list of games I need to make sure I play this year. Transistor is at the top.
Rabbit time? 😀
The Amplitude Kickstarter hit its goal- raised like 500k in the last 4 days
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/harmonix/amplitude
How in god’s name did they manage that?
Well, I don’t want to claim all the credit, but I did back it yesterday.
I backed it and then within 5 minutes John Drake was tweeting at me so clearly it was just a coincidence that you backed on the same day as me.
I’m guessing at Angel investors or a huge aggregator/blog posting an appeal. Kotaku and similar have a huge impact.
They had some big names really push it in the last few days. Both Notch and Felicia Day requested people back it which would have driven a big groundswell. That and then the follow on twitter / facebook “I just backed” messages. Then once it looked like they could make it people who didn’t bother because they were not going to make it jump on board. The last couple of days can be huge.
The little melb dev doing Armello raised $100,000 in the last 2 days. And that was from a base of $200,000
They also were featured on the Playstation blogs I think, some people at Sony must have gotten behind it a bit in the marketing push.
Oh. There we go. Tycho from Penny Arcade mentioned it, too. You know, that site with multi-million unique hits every day.
(Edit: No, really. These days whenever they link to a site, they send a courtesy warning in advance so that the linked site’s servers don’t melt from the increased traffic.)
Man… why couldn’t one of these guys pushed All The King’s Men? Just one of them! 😛
I sent links to a few people! Sure it wasn’t many but you might have got a few more eyes on it…
And while I do appreciate it (and I really do), neither you nor anyone else I know has the pulling power of a Tycho.
Pfft, you just don’t love me because I’m not as famous, I get it…
Ok, streamed Knack in ‘Best’ quality instead of “Best HD”. I assume that’s 720p instead of 1080p? Anyway, looks like Twitch could handle that.
http://www.twitch.tv/tehst1ckm4n/b/531073946
Just a FYI for other PS4 streamers with free Twitch accounts.
What sort of connection do you have to be able to stream at 720?
25+Mbps upload. 😛
Thats so awesome, my current uploads are 0.83 mbps. Its disgusting how poor they are. Damn NBN going away it doesn’t look like that will improve any time soon.
Upload speeds were always ignored on the ‘NBN’, but it should be around 5Mbps at the least.
Yeah, I would of probably gone the full package on NBN if it ever came here, the $99 a month 100-40 500gb off peak, 500gb on peak plan by iiNet.
That’s why it’s not an NBN. The upload is piss-poor, and there’s on/off-peak times. What the actual fuck lol.
So, I’ve been
‘playing’reading Kawata Shoujo. ‘Playing’ is definitely not the right word for it. I may or may not have had, I dunno… like five opportunities to make choices, half of which appeared to make absolutely no difference after saving/loading. Is that normal for this type of thing?Anyway. While it’s a nice place to escape to with decent writing and interesting experiences I hadn’t thought about with relation to dealing with disabilities, I’m a little miffed. Because I strongly suspect that I’ve somehow been railroaded without warning or turn-back points into reading a particular romance arc based purely on taking care of the character’s health by exercising, and being polite. Because what sort of person ever chooses ‘no I can’t do it’ for their physical therapy in recovery? Jesus. What, you wanna just lie down and die? FINE. GO BE A VEGETABLE FOREVER. Bah.
When this thing is over I’m going to have to go look up a walkthrough or something and see which of my butterfly-wing-flapping decisions led me here. Because honestly, I really wanted to see more of Hanako and Lilly. 😛
You have been railroaded.
From what I can tell the romance arc that you will be following is determined by the time you get to the carnival thing early on.
Dangit. Oh well. She’s alright. Has some spark, which is good.
I had briefly considered that this ‘deciding he’s in love’ might be part of a much, much deeper story which tackles falling in love with multiple people and learning about the different types and ways one can feel in love, and how to handle break-ups and exploring the realizations of the grass being greener on the other side, etc… but that would probably be a bit too involved. Single-target laser focus is what I was expecting.
High replayability could be a good thing.
I downloaded that game yeas ago out of curiosity and finally gave it a go like 2 days ago. It’s way, way better than I thought it would be.
Still feels a little odd playing a game like that, but I can’t say it was bad.
Yeah. I wouldn’t say the writing is stellar, but it sucked me in regardless with the subject matter and avoiding some of the more overused tropes I’ve seen in anime.
A lot of the stuff that happened in that game (specifically with the arc I believe you’re on) reminded so much of a lot of my experiences in high school, albeit with less disabilities.
Visual novel stuff can have lots of choices or have hardly any. I’ve played some that were really good that had no choices at all, but I think ‘played’ is the wrong word entirely there.
Also what you choose may not be immediately obvious, like it might simply seem that if you pick either option it just changes a few dialogue lines and then the two options converge together. However what may have happened in that choice is you set a flag on that character. Most galge like Katawa Shoujo have an initial bit that plays out the same, but subtly behind the scenes those choices you’re making are going to put you onto one character’s route later on, assuming you set enough flags to enable that path. So it will probably diverge later.
Depending on the game, a flag-based one might cause you to get to a bad ending where you’re forever alone if you don’t get the right flags to end up on a character route, or one character may be the ‘default’ for the game.
Sometimes also, there is a forced sequence that you need to play through. Usually this is because some of the girls’ routes will ruin the story of others if you play them out of order. One of my personal favourites, Aoishiro, had a setup where IIRC initially there were only two routes, and upon finishing both those, extra choices would appear in some spots where you could access another two routes, and then once you’d done all of those the final story path (often referred to in these sorts of games as the ‘true’ path or the ‘grand route’) was available.
I think I’ve encountered something like this ‘routes in order’ thing in a western-made (I think) one called ‘Shira Oka: Second Chances’ which operates under the premise of a kind of time-loop that the character is actually aware of, allowing them to take foreknowledge from their previous run-through and use it to their advantage in subsequent playthroughs. Some of it’s guided, some of it you’d have to take down RL notes so that you’d know to be in a certain place at a certain time for events that you otherwise discover only by chance.
It seems like an overly complex rabbit-hole for me personally, especially given that my personal favourite ‘route’ was apparently one of the first/easiest ones and I’d then have to play multiple times to [SPOILER REDACTED – A VIRTUOUS ACTIONS] for a character I honestly didn’t have much interest in as the grand finale.
Haha, that’s the Emi path isn’t it? I think me and a good portion of my friends ended up with her first.
After the first run I just used a decision map to work my way through it. Heard people saying that Rin’s path was kinda heavy and to save for last. Can’t actually remember how I sorted them in the middle, but I definitely recommend saving Lily til last 😛
Emi was the first choice for my waifu anyway so I didn’t mind that it worked out like that
*freaks out*
Does this have anything to do with the gigantic review thing I wrote for Weresmurf a few days ago.?Holy shit, this may be the first time I’ve ever had an effect on someone’s decisions. It’s a weird feeling.
On the Emi path thing, I’m surprised you avoided Kenji’s ending. Most players tend to mess up their decisions, and get paired up with Kenji.
When I first played Katawa Shoujo, I messed up all my decisions, and got the Kenji ending three hours in. I loaded my previous save, which was an hour earlier. At that point, the only person I hadn’t alienated was Rin, so I hung out with her. I did a bit of save-scumming, but that doesn’t work in this game, as the consequences of your actions aren’t immediately apparent.
I messed up and got Rin’s bad ending. I loaded a save, and three hours later I got the neutral ending, which I assumed was the true ending. I didn’t touch the game for a good week, but I eventually loaded a save and picked a different option. Good ending time!
For the rest of my playthroughs, I endeavoured to use a walkthrough, because screw making hard decisions, I have GameFAQs. Emi’s decisions are really obvious though, you win by simply being a good person. Hisao makes all the hard decisions, not you. With the other routes, it is psychological warfare of seemingly insignificant dialogue options totally screwing up your relationship.
Good luck with Katawa Shoujo, Transientmind. I hope I haven’t hyped it too much.
So my Steam seriously crapped itself last night… Decided to completely erase about 400gb worth of installed games… Checked the steamapps folders, and all the data is completely gone. WTF.
not happy :/
Hm, that happened to a friend of mine recently too …
not fun having to redownload all that data on crappy australian internet…
Look at my list of games, I may have it installed. I can copy to USB and ship to you? 😛
tehst1ckm4n at the steam profile page
Thats AWESOME of you to offer man, but im overexagerating about my crappy internet. I have a steady 20mbps connection so im redownloading everything at about 2.3mb per sec 🙂
still its a big chunk of my 1TB download allowance.
added you on steam anyway!
Yay. 😀
Went to a debate last night amongst Liberal clubs. About 50 protesters turned up yelling and screaming all night. The first speaker debating against university fee deregulation was drowned out by the protesters against fee deregulation, lol.
Was that the debate that Christopher Pine attended? I saw it on the news this morning that apparently he adjudicated a university debate or something of that sort.
Yeah that’s the one. George Brandis was there as well.
News was saying that no one was arrested but I heard there were at least 3 arrests. They left a huge mess as well.
you were in the same room as George Brandis & you didn’t punch him?
that man is evil.
I’m actually deciding between stupid as an imbecile or evil at the moment, quite possibly both.
I think you’re going a little overboard.
Calling him a man is offensive to men.
I disagree.
he’s short-sighted.
he’s cut funding for disadvantaged people’s access to legal representation.
he’s leagalised racial discrimination on a hypocritical platform (sex discrimination laws are a-ok in his book, it would seem. as are defamation laws which are far more ‘restrictive of free speech’ than anything 18C could ever do.)
he instigated potentially illegal raids by ASIO on the lawyers representing refugees that claimed they were mistreated by Australian personnel.
he abuses rule of law when it suits him (ACTs same-sex marriage ruling) and ignores it when it suits him (the shameful abuses of the QLD legal system by the Newman govt).
he designates his puppet Tim Watson as ‘freedom comissioner’ Watson is only in favour of ‘freedom’ when it suits him & his mates. he is a joke.
Bradis is either an evil hypocrite, or a ignorant twat. either way, he should not be the position he’s in.
“he’s cut funding for disadvantaged people’s access to legal representation.”
It’s true that he has reduced funding to legal representation but he has also directed legal community services to focus on individual cases rather than lobbying the government – of which apparently takes up a large amount of their resources. I don’t think individuals will suffer.
“he’s leagalised racial discrimination on a hypocritical platform (sex discrimination laws are a-ok in his book, it would seem. as are defamation laws which are far more ‘restrictive of free speech’ than anything 18C could ever do.)”
He has not done this. He wants to amend 18C to remove general terms such as “insult” or “offend” and wants to replace this with “vilify”.
“he instigated potentially illegal raids by ASIO on the lawyers representing refugees that claimed hey were mistreated by Australian personnel.”
I’m not sure what case you are referring to. Unless you are talking about Bernard Collaery and that was specifically around the East Timor oil deal and ICJ ruled that what ASIO did was legal.
“he abuses rule of law when it suits him (ACTs same-sex marriage ruling) ”
That was not an abuse of the law. That was a clear cut case of ACT being in the wrong for trying to introduce what should be a Federal law and not a state law. He is the Attorney-General, this is the exact sort of thing he needs to address. FYI, Brandis has come out in support for same-sex relationships numerous times before.
“and ignores it when it suits him (the shameful abuses of the QLD legal system by the Newman govt).”
Are you talking about Newman and his attacks on judges? This is really a state issue but I’d expect Brandis has already spoken to Newman.
“he designates his puppet Tim Watson as ‘freedom comissioner’”
I don’t really see how he is a “puppet” unless you are simply referring to his support of amendments to 18C.
Even if you disagree with Brandis’ actions, there is absolutely no reason to believe any of them are “evil” or come from an evil place. They are simply coming from a different ideology than you. Brandis is a QC who has gone to Oxford and was a board member for UNICEF for 10 years. I understand Socialists. I don’t think any of them are evil and I wouldn’t suggest that any that have been elected are particularly stupid . Also suggesting violence on a democratically elected politician is a pretty poor attitude.
on the 18C thing, he has proposed to change ‘insult’ to ‘vilify’ as you said, but then he has also proposed to add the clause that “words, sounds, images or writing spoken, broadcast, published or otherwise communicated in the course of participating in the public discussion of any political, social, cultural, religious, artistic, academic or scientific matter” would be exempt from 18C.
now, that pretty much covers every context ever, therefore, he as in effect proposed legalising racial vilification.
his call on the ACT same sex bill, as you say, was technically correct. but if he was, as you say, in favour of same sex marriage, a better course of action may have been to publicly suggest to the Federal Govt that the Marriage Act be amended to allow states & territories to legislate their own Marriage laws, rather than just piss on the ACT laws?
evil might be the wrong word. morally bankrupt might be more accurate.
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18C – True but remember that this has to be kept to public discussion. I feel like this is at the core of this issue – racism or similar acts have no place in our society. But people should be allowed to discuss voice their extreme ideas just like the public are allowed to react in whatever (legal) way they wish. I’m no fan of Andrew Bolt. I think that he’s an idiot. But the way he approached the issue of light-skinned Aboriginals is just a case of poor journalism, I don’t think that the law should be intervening.
Gay Marriage – I’d imagine that allowing states to decide on gay marriage laws is likely even more difficult and time consuming than just bringing in gay marriage. I personally don’t like how places like the US have a mish-mash of laws state to state. A Federal approach has always made the most sense. Obviously I support same-sex marriage (a lot of Liberals do) but proposing the Bill now based on the current representatives across the board would likely be unsuccessful. You also have to understand that most politicians just don’t see it as a huge priority. Civil unions are available. Economic issues are always going to take precedence over social issues. Same sex marriage will happen, just not today.
I dunno about evil.
I’d go with ignorant. People tend to think that what they’re earning is reasonably average, mostly because they chiefly associate with people who also earn similar to what they do, giving a false impression of the state of things. That’s why you get the CEO of Village Roadshow claiming that a night out at the movies is cheaper than the average date-night dinner of $240 for two. That’s why you get people asserting that six-figure incomes don’t count as ‘wealthy’, despite being several times the median income, right in the upper percentile.
We idiotically use the ‘average’ income for too much of our analysis, which is stupid because it doesn’t rule out the outlier billionaires. If Bill Gates walks into a bar, if you analyze the average income of the people in the bar afterwards, the other patrons of the bar didn’t suddenly become millionaires, and can’t afford it if the bar adjusts their prices to the new average income. It’s the stupidest method of financial analysis to use, but using the median would expose the dire situation and make it much more difficult to put the burden of the nation on those who can’t afford it, thus protecting the interests of everyone the politicians know and care about. When you have a hammer, all you see are nails.
These are not necessarily all evil men as much as they have firm beliefs about the best way to run the nation, who (perhaps idiotically) believe in ‘trickle down effects’ provided by shoring up and running strong business interests, with much more faith in the benefits of ‘the market’ to the public than is warranted, given that the market is exploited and manipulated by the wealthy as a matter of course. The opposition isn’t much better, in that their soft-hearted approach to spending money where it’s ‘needed’ results in writing cheques they can’t clear, setting up future generations for disaster when the piper has to be paid.
They may not be GOOD reasons, but there are reasons for the status quo. It’s complex with a lot of interlocked moving parts, a lot of huge consequences from minor adjustments, unforeseen consequences, and very little ‘science’ to it.
Much like the human body and medical ‘science’ – you might think you’ve got something pegged by its underlying mechanics, but then something will go and prove it wrong in ways that can’t be explained because there’s still so much we don’t understand. The economy is pretty similar. We know the broad strokes, but can’t anticipate all the minor spanners in the works that might cause adverse reactions to otherwise sound principles.
Things get muddier when you have people in power who AREN’T looking out for the majority of the country, but only the special interests who are going to look after them and make sure they ‘get theirs’, and short of wiretapping and hacking, there is no actual way to separate that from the philosophically-opposed.
It’s complex. With no magic-bullet solutions. Certainly not switching between the two same governments every few years. But that’s what we do.
Not surprised by the mess. I’m honestly surprised more things haven’t been set on fire. (God, the networks would love that, though.) It’s a testament to the laziness and (obviously easily-exploited) amiable nature of the average Australian.
Class divisions are clearer and clearer, more wealth is more heavily-concentrated in the hands of fewer individuals, negatively affecting more households, and the increasingly poorer demographic is obviously still OK with that. Or, if not, not doing anything about it except for idiotic decisions made with bad information every few years. Which we’ve all seen is such an effective exercise in freedom of choice.
REALLY surprised more protests haven’t sparked by the disenfranchised frustrated who are looking at the budget, their outlook for the next couple years til the next election, and deciding they don’t have another two years to pretend they have some semblance of control, the way things are going.
I share all of your sentiments on the topic but speaking as one of the poorer demographic I can’t afford to take a stand against these actions alone, too many existing responsibilities in my life that usually warrant immediate attention. Sadly we live in a day and age where the only way to be noticed and to have a voice is to have a multi-million dollar wallet.
The average Australian needs to resign themselves to whatever crap the government chooses to feed them because in reality we don’t have the luxury of any other options. Personally while I’d love to push back on a lot of the policies under the new budget there isn’t anything that can be done and it’s not offensive enough to push people to do something short term. If you take people’s freedoms and rights away all at once you incite a riot, but if you do it one freedom at a time over decades you’ll find them to be as passive as sheep in a pasture. It’s why the Americans didn’t rise up in arms shortly after Snowden’s revelations and it’s why we’ll continue to twiddle our thumbs thinking it’s not as bad as it could be.
I’ll reiterate what I have said numerous times around here in the past. If you have a concern about a political policy, write to your local member. They actually do read it and you’re more likely to have an influence when you are a politicians local constituent.
So many people forget this. They rant and rant on the internet but how does a politician weigh this against what they think the people who voted for them actually want?
By the same token, you don’t have to search very long to find quotes that strongly indicate that politicians – sitting members – really don’t give a fuck about the opinions of people who didn’t vote for them. Nor do they have any reason to, or really – ideally – should they care. They are essentially only there to represent the opinions of the people who elected them as a representative.
“What’re you gonna do? Not vote for me again?”
I’m not really going to comment on the budget – I’ve spent hours writing and discussing with a wide spectrum of ideologies and I’m not really interested in bringing that here.
I’m just relating a significant experience I had last night. People of various factions are trying to have a civil debate in a private function. Attempting to disrupt a discussion of ideas is poor show.
To play devil’s advocate, what do you think is the appropriate venue to engage with the opposite faction, who isn’t interested in engaging? An election every three years?
Sniper rifle. Bell tower.
A bit extreme, but the fact is: if you need to engage with someone who has no incentive or interest in engaging with you, someone is going to be put out. You or them. There’s not really any getting around that.
It might be civil to politely wait for the invitation to discourse, but it’s not fair to put the power of deciding when (and IF) to engage in the hands of those who do not want to. In the hands of those who see no advantage whatsoever in engaging, civilly or not.
And I’d choose fairness over civility, most days. Both is obviously preferable, but if one has to win, I choose fairness. Hurt feelings be damned.
@transientmind Obviously, I was joking. I don’t (necessarily) advocate assassinating political figures… mainly because there’s an outside chance that one day someone will shoot a good leader (unlikely though it might be that we ever see one).
In terms of engaging with a genuinely disinterested party, there’s almost no way to do it without risking a trespassing charge, Chaser-style.
Somebody should build a large building where people who represent portions of the population ask one another questions. It’d be nice if they were civil.
Nice. I like.
Would that it were so simple.
But the people who didn’t get any representation don’t get a voice in that building, so they don’t have a voice anywhere? Doesn’t seem fair. Especially if you determine who gets a voice by carefully sectioning up portions of the populace and only letting the people who agree with each other enough get a representative.
Because the roots of democracy are that someone stands for something, and if enough people agree with that something, they get represented. Only that’s not how it works, anymore. If it ever did.
Because to achieve what you want to have happen, you had to have all the other representatives want that, too. And if enough didn’t want it, you had to agree to something you didn’t mind, which they wanted. And compromise. In large numbers.
So obviously gangs formed (preferring to be called ‘parties’) and changed what they SAY they stand for, purely to get the representative role, because it was a pretty expedient way of getting what they actually want instead of what they say they want. Which leads to them doing things they said they wouldn’t, and representing the interests of foreign bodies and organizations who paid for the advertising which heavily influenced their chances of success.
We end up with a purely philosophical hypothetical, “Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone was nice,” instead of dealing with the hard, raw, complicated reality which isn’t very nice at all. The problem with cynicism is that while it may not be pretty, it’s all too often damnably right.
I’ve decided that I need to lose 70 kilos, which will get me under triple figures. So, I’m breaking that goal into 7 separate sets of 10 kilos, at which point I will reward myself. This week, I’ve reached my first goal of 10 kilos, so I’m going to reward myself. I don’t know what with yet, but I’ll think of something. Any ideas?
The greatest gift you can give yourself, is a gift to me.
I gave you that already. The gift of validation. 😛
Mario Kart 8 Wii U bundle \o/
#doingitright
Can’t afford that, sorry.
It’s okay, i forgive you XD
Seriously congratz man, it’s awesome that you have found a way to motivate and incentivise yourself enough to do it!
Something gaming related is a pretty simple system. For example, you’re allowed to buy a new game each milestone you hit.
Something you can build on each time- something that’s cool along the way but becomes mega cool at the end.
Yeah, I was thinking of getting something small this time. Thinking a new hoodie. But I might buy myself some blurays when I reach 20 kilos, and a game when I reach 30.
Any figures or books or something you want to collect?
Say FF8 figures or something? Buy one figure after each goal.
Hadn’t thought of figures. One of my local shops has a decent selection, so I might have to look at stuff that interests me.
Clothing is a cool idea, because it’s concrete and tangible proof of progress! \o/
Voltron?
If I could find a Voltron figure in decent condition, that would be freaking awesome. I loved Voltron as a kid, and I think it holds up reasonably well twenty to thirty years later.
Hmmm, I only have five books out, but I’ll work hard to get the last two out in time for your final milestones!
I have three of them already. I bought the omnibus of The Lesser Evil, if you remember.
I definitely remember, but I fail to see why that should be a disincentive to buying another copy 😛
PS: Congrats, man. You’re doing really well by the sound of things.
I think to think that the PS was due to owning 3 of your books
Obviously 🙂
Giant KFC feast!
Wait…
Then he can lose the 10 kg he just put on and the cycle repeats.
Constant KFC feasts!
Cake.
In all honesty, the self-satisfaction of staring at the scales will be a pretty huge reward.
Either that or CHEESECAKE
@popdart5 Can we get our sessions looking like this? kthx. :p
https://twitter.com/roll20app/status/469650830044708864/photo/1
Speaking of, I’m working on the write-up, just taking a while. @freezespreston has just cracked the coffin.
I haven’t been home since Monday, haven’t even had a minute to think about doing mine. History has shown it only takes me a couple evenings of actual effort though so I should be ok for a Monday post.
Kinda hilarious for me right now with the potential writing differences, one side hates Dem’nion, the other is hugely apologetic to Dem’nion for almost getting him killed 😛
I’d take it as read that both narrators are unreliable, and what actually happened is somewhere inbetween
To me that’s what makes it the most fun! I’ve been conscious to write diametrically opposed to Abelas where possible for the sake of amusement. There’s 3 sides to the story. Yours, Mine, and The Truth.
And Dem’nion doesn’t have a journal to fill in for his own protection.
But that requires tonnes of effort and I am totally lost on how to even go about creating an overlay, mapping it over the existing Google Hangout or Roll20 format. I would love to do something like that but I have no idea where to start.
If someone was to hypothetically get you Roll20 subscription access as the GM do you think you would hypothetically use the extra features?
Asking for a friend.
I am also asking for a friend because I have considered that a friend might be interested in that.
There’s plenty of stuff in the basic features that neither I or Popdart are using- you can get pretty damn elaborate with combat and line of sights and all that.
@beeawwb as well. Considering the price, I would probably get it myself but I haven’t really checked out the bonus features. I’ll look into it and see what’s what and I might subscribe to it.
The Rollplay stuff is on another level as I’m pretty certain that doesn’t actually modify or dress up Roll20 itself and it merely provides a nice background as a stream overlay.
Yeah, I asked the Roll20 Twitter account and they have advised that Rollplay are “using a separate program for streaming, with a custom overlay.”
Plus JP mixes it up with Skype video with the players and xSplit (I think) so he can switch from all cams to all cams and roll20 board at will.
To show the roll20 board on our stream I have to set it to screenshare
To show that sort of thing the best way to do it would be to stream things separately with a different video capture program. That does require a fairly solid upload speed so it’s pretty unfeasible.
If my internet wasn’t so horrible I’d actually have a crack at it.
My upload speed is pretty solid, want me to have a crack at it?
@beeawwb If you want to B-ob. I’ve looked at streaming software before and it isn’t exactly the cheapest stuff out there. Also if you did end up straight streaming or recording a session, depending on how you compress it that can be a couple of gigabytes per video and I don’t know what your internet plan is like but mine can’t really handle that (also it would take me a few hours to even upload the darn thing).
I’m not saying don’t but if you want to try it out, by all means. I was going to bandy around the idea in the future of streaming sessions similar to how Red does Numenera but that’s all pie in the sky stuff. I want to see if I can get these house rules finished and see what people think of them before considering other technical wizardry.
I’ll have a look around at what’s out there, maybe have a chat with @redartifice as well. I get 300GB a month and I don’t even come close to using it. Could prove fun streaming out stuff. 🙂
Just had a thought. As much as I like what JP has done with production and things like that, I really dislike the number of ads that he’s embedding in his videos. I don’t run Adblock but ads every 15-20 minutes really tempts me to turn it on.
I really only skip if they’re longer than a minute myself. I personally don’t mind them, however he should only put them in when JP says they’re going on a break (He sometimes did that mid episode) but I’ve seen where it’s put right in the middle of a player saying something, really rude 😛
Edit: I’ve been watching his old first RollPlay series he did, with DM Neal, Livinpink, InControl, JP and MLGRyan.
That reminds me, I watched up to Week 2, episode 8 of the Warhammer Dark Heresy RollPlay, but didn’t watch any videos past that.
I love that series, pity that they haven’t got as many weeks as others due to player availability.
I haven’t really watched many of the other Rollplay stuff aside from Dark Heresy but Geoff strikes me as a bit of a bad sport. Spoilers incoming if you haven’t watched up to I think episode 4 or 5.
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I’m not much better myself, I was kinda pissed about getting one shotted at first 😛
That’s legitimate though. Completely different kettle of fish than complaining about how the rules won’t let you be a badass. A near death experience is completely justified for getting annoyed.
To be perfectly honest, that Hobgoblin charge was not a smart play. Taking an attack of opportunity from Nob and leaving himself exposed on the charge was risky and it just happened to deal enough damage to one-shot you (it was near max damage). They don’t call you guys squishy magic users for nothing. 😛
Hey it could’ve been worse, he could’ve critted and killed me outright.
Wow, that new Lord of the Rings game (the one that molests canon such that if you could attach a turbine to JRR the speed at which he’s spinning in his grave could power the planet) is going to have Troy Baker AND Nolan North in it? At the same time? How does that not cause a rip in the fabric of spacetime?
Well, a certain big blockbuster game or two last year did.
Really?
I must not have played those games.
Well, they were both in Batman: Arkham Origins.
EDIT: And Saints Row IV they were both voices of player character
They were also both in another big blockbuster game, but revealing how they interact is a bit of a spoiler (cypher the first sentence before the second) :Gurl jrer obgu va Gurynfgbshf.Onxre va snpg xvyyf Abegu
Oh right, Batman. I forgot that Baker did the Joker in that (and did a really good job actually – shame the game was boring)
Reading old love letters really brings up some powerful feelings, god damn. It’s better than keeping and re-reading old bank statements, I guess.
Frick yeah, earning interest on my savings accounts!
Unless you love money.
If I loved money reading my old bank statements wouldn’t be a good thing
Hooray, I can finally use Kotaku on my tablet! \o/
Still sick, dog on bed, downing green tea & Codral to try and get better.
Is the phlegm still 2/5?
It’ll be better than the soup in no time!
3/5 now.
BETTER THAN SOUP! Your lunch is sorted \o/
ewwwwwwwwwwwwww
Get to sleep by 4am, don’t get up til after 2:30pm.
Get to sleep after 6:30am, out of bed before midday.
????????
That’s our Gooky! *canned laughter* *toilet flushes*
via @cakesmith :
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/the-elder-scrolls-online-game-pc-code-by-email
Elder Scrolls Online for $33 for the next 9 hours, if anyone is interested.
I’m still keen on playing it but still put off by a purchase and then a subscription.
Mother of god…
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=823267
Sega filed a trademark in Japan (a *new* trademark, not a renewal) for Shenmue.
Shenmue mobile. Pay to win.
New system. Pay to not lose.
So Kickstarter?
Press x to not die taken to its logical solution?
Pay x to not die
$0.99 to play lucky hit.
$5.99 to win lucky hit.
Absolutely. But there’s still a minor, minor chance that Sega will restore balance to the force by offsetting their dickish behavior with Yakuza recently by throwing us a Shenmue-shaped bone.
But also there’s the fact we can sit back and watch all of those people in that thread get irrationally excited then get incredibly disappointed. There should be a German word for describing that.
Schadenfreude?
I must be getting old and slow because honest-to-god you totally got me for like… 1.5 seconds with the last line. 🙂
(Edit: Heh. Glad I’m not the only one.)
I was actually going to try to make up a new German word by translating various similar words but they all either looked like schadenfreude or were way too long and not obviously jokes. After a few minutes of that I was no longer even sure there was a joke to be made.
UndJetztIstZeitUmDieUrinbrilleAnziehen.
I was going for strudel but yeah, sure.
Over the weekend, my sister disassembled her non-functioning Mac and baked the logic board in the oven. Not only did it spring back to life after that, but her application of thermal paste seems to be far more effective than the stock stuff – previously it would get so hot it threatened to actually burn her legs, making her go and get a USB fan board thing to sit it on, but now it runs lukewarm.
But anyway, it meant she could finish off the near-complete project that was stuck on there. After my Nanna passed, we had lots of people come up and ask about various things that she cooked and the recipes for them, so someone came up with the idea of compiling them all into a recipe book and getting it all printed up and everything. She was up all night Monday to get it done in time to send off to the printers on Tuesday morning so we could get at least two copies here before the weekend, so we can give them to family we’re seeing then as birthday presents. But they ended up getting the whole lot done and send up, now we’ve got thirty of them sitting here in a stack. And they turned out pretty great!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/RecipeFront.jpg
Left is the original tome. She decided to model it after that, and scanned in the cover to use for our one.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/RecipeInside.jpg
Luckily it had a whole bunch of empty pages, so those were scanned in too to use as the background for all the pages. Even managed to find a handwriting font that was readable and not terrible.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/RecipeBack.jpg
…we decided not to use the back cover 😛
My sister is the best.
I hope there’s a recipe for logic boards in that book.
It’s DLC.
Damn it, I missed a perfect opportunity to make a “mac n cheese” joke. FUCK. >:(
I’ve been thinking of doing something along those lines with my sister’s old handwritten & scrapbook recipe books. I really must get on with it one day but I’ll do it all electronically because paper is for suckers.
Overheard:
“Who did this? Why is this wrong?”
“Uhm. It could’ve been me… I don’t remember doing that one, but I have been doing some.”
“Or it could’ve been me. I’ve done the same.”
“Or me…”
So I stand up and say, “No, I’M Spartacus!” and only ONE person laughs, and the others look at me funny. The one who laughed said, “Dude, you are so old. No-one else is going to get that.”
We then spend the next five minutes explaining the joke. 🙁
Huh? How young are your co-workers? :\
In their 20s, the ones who didn’t twig. 🙁
On one hand: the movie came out in 1960. It’s 54 years old. Why would they know?
On the other hand: the movie came out over 20yrs before I was born. Why do I know? Because people have been riffing on it for ages – so anyone my age or similar should ALSO know from those imitators/jokes homages.
Kids these days.
Oh christ. And just now:
“I’m too sexy for my shirt… too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts!”
“Man, I was standing in a fast food place and saw that clip on the TV the other day. They were showing dodgy old clips. The one before it was ‘Boom boom boom (let’s go back to my room)’.”
“Oh my god, Vengaboys! So oldschool!”
“N… no, the… the original.”
“What original? The was a version before the Vengaboys one?”
“Yeah. From the 80s.”
“Wow, trippy! I probably wasn’t even BORN then!”
Just surprised myself with one of my answers on the Wii U impressions thing.
Sad and a little negative, but not unfounded.
“Sad and a little negative, but not unfounded.” Basically just sums up Nintendos current market share. =p
Shitload of comments on the Watch Dogs Steam price hike claiming it’s justification for pirating. I’m not going to say do or don’t pirate it but really:
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/action/watch-dogs/
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/watch-dogs-code-by-email-game-pc
$49.99
Don’t use Steam prices as justification when it isn’t.
I wonder if Valve should be held somewhat accountable for Steam pricing, and region discrepancies in general.
Everyone blames the publishers, and rightly so, but surely Valve could just scrap the whole different regions thing on steam entirely and level the digital playing field in one swoop.
They’re about the only online retailer established enough to do it and say fuck the consequences. Things have changed a fuck of a lot in the last decade, it used to be a stink kicked up if a game was tied to steam, now there’s a stink kicked up if it’s not
Man, I remember that… God knows there were few people more pissed off than me when my pre-ordered physical collector’s edition of HL2 turned up and couldn’t be activated for a day after launch because the Steam servers were getting smashed. Crazy to think of.
A mate of mine got it on launch day, he had profoundly unreliable 56k and the patches were in the multiple hundred meg range. Between server hammering, steam being unreliable junk back then, his connection crapping out regularly and patches not resuming in those days, it took quite a while for him to play it.
When I got it, it was a few years later and as a gift when he got that pack that had the expansion and portal as well (orange box was it?), you could gift the code for the main game if you already owned it, he gave it to me and I had to download it. I’m damned glad that steam was fixed by then, I had broadband by then and also that I didn’t have to pay for it because the game was pretty forgettable really.
If anyone is looking for Watch Dogs for PC for cheaper than Steam now has it:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/05/watch-dogs-australian-price-hike-is-unjustifiable-at-least-ubisoft-tried-to-justify-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2670994
GMG code for getting a uplay key for the game for $37.50.
Book spoilers for late Song of Ice and Fire events re: future Game of Thrones TV events:
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It’s like everyone forgot what show they’re watching.
Apparently I passed 10,000 comments today.
Hooray for procrastination!
Postcrastination?
It’s a nation of Pro Crast people, we don’t know what their end goal is but I hear the US is watching them carefully
I started playing Transistor. It isn’t grabbing me in the same way that Bastion did and I think the main reason for it is Dota.
I’ve been using the Bastion announcer pack in Dota for a long, long while. It’s very hard to hear that voice and not be pulled out of the little world that they’ve created.
@beeawwb the Google hangout streams work pretty well, your real complicating factors are putting up the play map and any other visual wizardry you want to do.
Yeah, I know watching your stream of Numenera during the week it can be difficult to see the playmap / dice rolling screen via the YouTube stream. I think that’d be one of the key factors I’d be looking for (and probably why I liked the overlay thingy earlier) would be keeping the playfield and people equally important.
Will have a think.
I think you can just use your screen with the roll20 board up and split up the webcams like in an overlay, like RollPlay does it. With the smaller webcams that google hangouts does, you should be able to fit us all in without it being too intrusive.
Yeah, will have to look / play when I’m at home. At the end of the day my screen is 2560×1600 so I’ve got plenty of real estate to broadcast should it come to that.
I meant more for the stream itself, not everybody will be watching at 1080p 😉
Yes they will! Everybody is on the NBN; that’s what I was told and promised. 😛
questions words thoughts stuff:
I’ve been waiting all week to hear back from a company about my reference check. Because it’s the end of the week and I still haven’t heard back from them, I asked my referees if either of them have been contacted by the company and one of them just told me that they were just told that they’ll do it on Tuesday. Is arranging a time in advance normal for a reference check? Are they usually short chats or tend to be longer ones? It’s all out of my hands at this point, so I’ll just have to have faith in my peeps!
But… I progressed further in another application and have an assessment centre for it on Wednesday. Now I assume it’s not a big deal but since my phone will be turned off during it, if I were to miss a “you’ve got the job!” call, would that affect my chances of getting the job? I know it sounds stupid and is probably highly unlikely but I’m assuming they’re not just going to give it to the next guy if I don’t answer the phone :/ (I really hope not).
The problem with this is I’m definitely more interested in the former job and I’m not a fan of assessment centres. I just wish they’d sorted this out earlier 😛
*waits*
Just make sure that your messagebank is set up professionally. if it’s a missed connection and they’ve already decided to offer it it shouldn’t make much difference.
Green if you’ve been chosen for the job it’s very very very unlikely they’ll pass it on to someone else just because they weren’t able to reach you on your phone. They’ll either leave a message to ring them back or contact you via e-mail if you’ve provided them with your e-mail address.
Alternatively if you don’t hear from them by the anticipated timeframe there’s no harm in giving them a call and chasing them up for an answer. At times I’ve even hinted I’ve got another job offer on the table and would like an answer before making a decision (but you’ve really got to be able to pull that one off lol).
Hah, you just described exactly what happened to me.
During an interview my phone rang (silently of course :P) and my now boss left me a voicemail saying I got the job and to call her back.
If they got as far as specifically choosing you for the job, they’re not going to be phased about you not answering your phone once (as long as you get back to them fairly quickly).
Cool your beans, champ.
Get zen and go with the flow.
FYI companies never get back to you by the time they say they will. Never.
Unless they want money.
In which case they are 3 days early
So Disney is releasing a new animated feature, in conjunction with Marvel (apparently). It’s a new superhero movie, Big Hero 6.
It looks…actually, it looks promising and might be…oh gods, I’m worried now I’m going to say this…funny. It may actually be funny.
That actually looks pretty good.
Ok now I’ve got to see that!
It would be funnier if it didn’t sting so much as that’s how I get dressed in the morning lately :/
I laughed, but only because I was thinking the same thing. Sans the lately bit.
It’s hard to admit, really, but you know, Disney tend to make pretty good animated films.
😛
Now I just want a new 2D animated one. Like The Princess and the Frog, but great rather than good. God that was a pretty movie.
Yes! Glad I’m not the only one who misses classic 2D Disney. Isn’t 3D easier/cheaper to make though? If so, I don’t blame ’em for changing 😛
I don’t blame them for changing, I just wish they hadn’t. With Lasseter at the helm though there’s a chance we might get an occasional 2D movie.
Of course, because it’s Disney it’ll be delayed by three months here because fuck you Australian plebs, you’re going to give us your money anyway, dickhead.
That is fricken adorable lol xD
I like it!
Omg! Eve really let herself go since Wall-e! :p
Oh damn, I cracked up laughing hard at that.
A new challenger approaches:
MANLY IKE!
Ike is the best character in SSB:B.
Sure. After ROB.
Who is after Captain Falcon, of course.
Ike again? Instead of one of the characters from a Fire Emblem that was actually good and released in English during this century? 🙁
It’s not Ike again. He’s HOT! NEW! MANLY!
Scammers are so cute when they try hard.
Just had a cold call from “Nancy William” (which is a very common name in India, I’m sure) representing “Microsoft windows service department” (who never cold call) asking me to boot my computer (which was already on) to see if it was running slow (and it’s blazing fast, baby!) because there’s been malware coming from it causing trouble in California…
Being a network engineer and smartarse, I decided to have a bit of fun with her and got her to tell me the IP address the “malware” was originating from, apparently it was 10.0.0.1. So my basic home router is giving me a class A private IP address over the internet… Also one that doesn’t match the public address my ISP has given me…
Adorable really, also reported to the ACCC.
On a related note, has anyone else gotten calls from the number 07 3638 2112 recently? I got one this morning on my mobile that hung up as soon a they heard my voice and I’m pretty sure the background noise matched the noise in this scam call. It’s also tried 4 times to call my mum’s mobile and it has a 2 week old SIM that even I don’t remember the number to (and I was the one who set it up, I must write it down somewhere other than a text file on my desktop)
http://www.australianphonesearch.com.au/0736382112-phone-number
Weird, I was sure that was the site I tried a number lookup on and it said there was no results. Must have been a different one with a similar name. Good to know it’s definitely a scam number, makes it even more likely it’s these tragic fools who I would totally pity if I was a bit more like Mr T
I had them ring my mum up with that scam once. We had a good laugh about it afterward.
Haven’t had that one, but if I did I’d tell them what I tell every other cold caller I get “FUCK OFF!”
I I had that same call two days ago, when they said it was causing trouble In California I responded with “Good, and I’m going to keep causing them trouble until they leave 1 million dollars in a duffle bag behind the old well, an for every day the money is not behind the old well I’ll turn on another computer” they actually ended up hanging up on me..had a whole Scorpio scene coming up too SCORPIO
Hahahaha nice!
Bought myself a plain black hoodie from Kmart as my reward for reaching 10 kg lost. My next reward will be some blurays (either movies or a tv series) at 20 kg lost. At 30 kg lost, I’ll buy myself a game for my PS4. At 40 kg lost, I’ll buy myself a figure or statue that I choose. At 50 kg lost, I’ll treat myself to a weekend in Melbourne. At 60 kg lost, I’ll buy myself an iPad. At 70 kg lost, I’ll be having a longer holiday. Does that sound like a decent series of rewards?
If it pushes you to keep this up, then of course it’s a good series of rewards.
@powalen is in Sydney, not Melbourne.
Melbourne’s cheaper for me to get to than Sydney. He can meet me half way.
Well that’s hardly a gift!
When you’ve lost 40kg, you could decide to get the statue in Melbourne and walk there, by the time you get there you may well have lost the extra 10kg and will be able to stay the weekend. Mostly wishing your feet didn’t hurt so much but that’s hardly the point.
I’m trying to lose weight, not become Jesus. Also walking across Bass Strait would be a lot harder than the Sea of Galilee.
walk around on a boat then!
I’ve actually just done that recently. Both ways.
I need to lose 4 kilos. I’m not really getting that far =P
The less weight you need to lose, the harder it gets. Also, it is harder for women to lose weight.
I don’t mind so much. I am enjoying the Yoga and muscle strengthening exercises though.
I wish my muscle strengthening exercises didn’t make me hurt so much the next day, my whole body aches just enough to annoy today.
It hurt like the first time, but now I don’t really feel it the next day
Woop! Some sucker just bought a Steam trading card from me for $10. I was curious and decided to look through my past transactions and I’ve apparently made around $26 Steambucks from selling Steam cards. Not bad!
Maybe it was a super-ultra-rare card and you got ripped off?
Well previous ones sold for around $7 so I was happy with $10.
I put some random card up for $100 for giggles.
No one has purchased it yet.
I’ll take it.
I can give you… two and a half giggles.
I’d take his offer, @freezespreston
I’ve managed to sell one for $17 or something. I think it was Agarest or one of the other anime’ish type games that uses girls on the cards as their selling point and which never really drop in price.
Melbourne TAY + visiting interstaters
Having a bit of a get together to celebrate our imminent arrival.
Rapidly approaching parenthood celebration
http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/baby-on-board_zpse9cc9e79.png
14th of June in South Melbourne from around 2pm – 6pm
Friends and family welcome so obviously you guys are invited.
Finger food will be provided, the venue will also be available to order food and drink
Kids, Babies and Bumps welcome
Venue?
Warhammer 40k is currently on sale. I want to buy dawn of war II Retribution. It’s currently $20 but I’m not sure if I’m better off getting the bundle that includes DLC and Chaos Rising for $40
Anyone know if Chaos Rising is worth $20?
I rather liked it, decent length, good story, fairly tough. The DLC always looked like a bit of a rip to me, then again I don’t play multiplayer
I don’t know why I always take forever to get around to replying to anything. Well, most things. Generally those of greater importance.
I have this great fear, where whenever I send off an email or text or whatever that’s important, I’ll just refuse to look at my phone for weeks at a time so as to avoid having to deal with the response. I’m an adult.
I do the same. Often with the initial one too, especially letters. They’ll sit there at least for a couple of days before I’ll open them. And even then I’ll usually chuck them on the pile and do nothing about them for a few more.
Like calling Nintendo! 😛
WHY MUST YOU CONTINUALLY REMIND ME
*curls up and rocks back and forth*
Has anyone done any controller modding on here?
I modded the HotD Overkill hand cannons to carry the batteries in the grip instead of the Wii remote so that it would be more balanced instead of front-heavy and stop causing hand fatigue with extensive use.
I don’t know if that counts towards what you’re asking about though.
I wanted to make a wii remote to match my Zelda Wii U. I was wondering what paint to use
Well if I were doing that I’d probably jump on TAY and ask @scree if she knows what kin-
Oh.
Yeah. All I’ve seen is spray paint. I need something I can hand paint with. Unless I cut the stencil out of tape or something.
Heh, as I was reading through that sentence I was about to suggest a stencil 😛
You’d be making it to match the Gamepad, right? Which iirc has some kind of intricate border pattern following the edge of it. Then I think the crest was down near the home button? Which I guess you’d be putting near the home button of the remote. The only thing about doing it with tape is that you need to cut it out on a fairly stable surface, and it’d be most stable when it’s completely stuck down… but then that means you’d want it stuck to the remote and you don’t want to be cutting into that with a knife. Hmm.
Uh… not sure if helping there or just mindlessly trailing off. Likely the latter.
I was also thinking that, which is why I’d rather do it by hand. If you’re wondering why I am bothering with this at all, it’s because my Red wii is in my room but I’m using the wii remote for my WiiU. So I wanted to customise a black one but I’m a complete newb.
But then doing by hand is a lot easier to get messy while a stencil can keep things nice and neat and sharp-edged. Depending on your skill as a painter I guess, maybe painting could actually be easier.
Also would you need to give it some kind of clear coat afterwards to protect it maybe? Wouldn’t want all that hard work to just get rubbed or chipped off. And also wouldn’t want such a coat to dissolve or smudge it either.
I was going to put a clear coat on top. As for how steady my hand is…
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/20130808_204449.jpg
Completely painted by hand
You’re a wizard aren’t you?
Nope, just a perfectionist =P
Thanks to DOA4 I modded my controller to be part of my wall.
Yeah, I guess. Swapped out the original Xbox 360 controller’s d-pad for one of the transformable ones found in newer models.
My Xbox 360’s d-pad fell off. Does that count?
HELP!
I vaguely remember someone on TAY sharing a website which suggested what food to eat/cook. I remember it having a really simple design where it just suggested the meal and not much else.
I did some Googlin’ while writing this comment and I think this might be it? http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/index.php If there’s any other similar websites please lemme know!
http://www.taste.com.au/
Keep clicking around, and make sure your printer has a lot of ink.
That reminds me, anyone know any good recipes for a slowcooker? Preferably something that I can just throw in before I go to bed and can be frozen and reheated (being single pretty much every meal gets frozen and reheated.)
I just fired up Kingdom Hearts 1.5HD again and thought I might play 358/2 days. Apparently the “HD Remastered” game isn’t actually the game but it’s just all the cut-scenes in the game played one after another.
…
I was looking forward to playing it, =(
Haha don’t be silly Nob!
(it’s not worth watching :P)
I’m pretty sure KH2.5 will also have a cutscene version of Re:coded
Why did they HD remaster the terrible card game and not the actual good spin-off?
I liked Chain of Memories :(. But I guess it’s easier to prettify a PS2 game than it is a DS one, although I would’ve preferred all 3 games!
Chain of memories was originally a DS game so it’s been done before. In fact, didn’t 358/2 have the exact same combat system as the original? Seems like it would be simple to port it over if they were willing to actually put in the effort.
Chain of Memories was a 2D GBA game. They did a remake for it on PS2 (which was never released locally) and is the one in the HD collection. I assume it’s a lot easier to give it a shiny new coat of paint than to re-do all the models for a DS game.
The combat took a while to get used to but once I figured out some awesome sleights and combos (3 Cloud cards) it became fun.
It sucks that we were given cutscenes rather than the game itself but they made it clear from the start that it was just remastered cutscenes and not the game. So I justified the price based on Kingdom Hearts Final Mix and Chain of Memories. The cutscenes were just a (unwanted) bonus.
Also, in regards to Chain of Memories it was a mix of a card game and fast paced action game. These two things just do not work together, at the best of times it played just like Kingdom Hearts, at the worst of times you would have OP enemies that just continuously break your combo with their insane reaction speed.
Also, Also I feel that I shouldn’t have to pay to watch cutscenes when I can watch it on Youtube for free.
Want me to lend to you?
Nah, My sister has a copy so I can borrow it off her. I have actually played a little bit of it but I wasn’t really a fan of it on the DS, was hoping to play it on the big screen.
Sorry to hear that =( Hopefully the next one is better
I got so desperate for some JRPG action that I am now grinding mobs in FFX.
SO.DAMN.DESPERATE! =P
COMPLETE THAT SPHERE GRID!!!
I was stuck on a boss so I rage quitted. Gotta grind to beat the boss.
BUT GRINDING IS THE BEST PART!
Oh teenage me, who thought that grinding in games was great because it meant it would be easy if you sucked at the game. Now it just means you have to spend all your time on a game for one year to unlock everything or all your money for one month.
Back then I even had time to spend.
Just found out that Lynyrd Skynyrd toured Aus back in Feb and I had no idea, which is a real shame so would’ve gone..
Ordered one of Pizza Capers new Inferno range pizza. Went for the Chipotle Pulled Pork. Came with some neat mini bottles of Tobasco which I proceeded to pour all over the pizza.
I’m a bit underwhelmed. Packaging indicates “EXTREME HEAT!” and it even comes with a scoring card to see who can “survive” the most slices. There’s not much heat. Enough to make the nose run but nothing much.
Pizza tastes alright though let down by the kind of bland bases they always seem to use.
4 Shiggys out of Bishpocalypse
Thanks for the pre-warning. Was thinking of having this one tomorrow night, might have to get out the “real” hot sauces. Show ’em how it’s done.
1.Get Inferno Pizza.
2. Pour Nando’s Extra Hot Peri-Peri all over it.
3. Enjoy the burning sensation on your lips.
Also, since you’re Freeze, if you have really hot stuff, will you melt?
Nando’s sauce?
You have a lot to learn young pup.
Dammit everyone seems to be out or afk or otherwise engaged.
WINGMAN WHERE ARE YOU I NEED A PROOFREADER
Does she post on TAY? You might be looking in the wrong place
She doesn’t post anywhere.
Well, she posts on tumblr. And DA. And facebook. And probably others.
But nowhere that I go at all 😛
A friend of mine asked me to proofread something for him today, my favourite part was
“My code for Huffman, and LZW is correct according to the specifications of the
assignment, as it produced exactly the results intended, and performed precisely the
operations intended. ”
While the prompt was “was your code correct according to the specifications?”
So much sass in that boy.
Then again, he also tried to implement a lossy text compression strategy that removed vowels from inside words, so it may be stupidity rather than sass.
Haha, Huffman. That was fun 😛
The lossy compression seems sound. Unless it erases words like “I” and “a” from existence.
It was specifically for vowels in the middle of words, but so far as I can tell it wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between… I dunno, words and wards? For lack of a better example.
And he specifically added it as a silly little addendum to the assignment. He’s a very bright fellow, it’s just that he’s also an idiot.
Yh bt y nly rly nd cntxt t tll wrds prt. Y cn stll knd rd wht thy sy wtht thm. Mstly.
Not sure if I’ve just hit the over cynical part of my life and lost all sense of joy but I have nearly no urge to buy Watch Dogs and the more I see and hear the closer it gets the less that inclination gets. Something about it is making me want to steer right the hell away and I can’t even say what.
People seem pretty hype for it though.
WOO HYPE!!!!!!
I’m with you: old and jaded.
Definitely waiting for reviews to hit before I even bother paying attention.
I’m semi with you: young and jaded.
A games gotta work for my money, and with all the drama around this game (constant delays, alleged graphics drop, etc), I kinda just can’t be bothered with it. Even if it does review well, I probably won’t pick it up for a couple of months, at least.
I think it’s all the push backs. I was rather excited for it at the beginning, but now I just can’t be bothered.
Triple A release treadmill – buy it fuckers, we spent a lot of money on marketing!
Oh, you bought that? Buy our next game too. We need a good ROI for our investors!
…How’s the game? We’ll promise anything to get your money. Kinda like politicians with votes.
Errr… You’re not the only cynical one here. :p
Edit: Speeling typoos
It has never interested me in the slightest.
Just seems like the same stuff that gamers have done a million times before, but now with “hacking” to make things easier and give a false sense of choice and depth.
Honestly I know nothing about the game apart from it’s open world and utilises hacking of things.. Which is keeping my minimal hype for it 😛 I’ve done this with a few games Infamous Second Son & a few others i’ve bought recently on PS4, it’s let me enjoy them without any high expectations..
I’ve got it preordered but feel quite similar to you. But I felt that way about it from the outset.
Man… all I’ve been doing is watching Youtube videos all night…
Mostly LGR & Classic Game Room.
I have to catch a flight at 6AM.
I should really be in bed, but I think I’ve resigned myself to my (very tired) fate.
Hahaha. What is sleep? I have transcended your pathetic mortal ideas. I am now a being powered purely by sugar and caffeine! Look upon me and tremble about half as much as I’m trembling!
*trembles*
It is pretty chilly.
Dude, it’s nearly 12 here. That’s pretty friggin’ warm for this time of year.
It’s nearly 20 here. That’s cold any time of year 😛
23 degrees here. But I am inside an air-conditioned office.
http://www.overclockers.com.au/images/newspics/23may14/17.jpg
Bedtime.
Goodnight, TAY.
o/
Happy Birthday @chuloopa!
Thanks, buddy! 😀
Wooo birthday, Loops is going to be up all night partying*
*may involve dirty nappies**
**Since this is Loops we are discussing I should clarify I was referring to bubs
No – it was both of us.
My life is now complete.
http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/05/22/morgan-freeman-on-helium/
So much Theatrhythm Curtain Call hype! It’s great that it has 100+ new tracks AND the originals AND most of its DLC included 😀
I don’t even know what else is coming out this year, but it just became my most anticipated release*
*until I remember something else coming out and swap hype trains :P, or sneaky E3 announcements
Just remembered MK8 in a week, Pokemon and potentially XenUblade 😛
Haha oops… Smash Bros, Arkham Knight and potentially MGSV and Zelda ;D
Bayonetta 2!
If there’s a solid release frame!
Pretty sure it’s meant to be this year.
Just bought Super Time Force on the Xbone store, and it won’t install. It gets to 99% and then comes up “Installation stopped”. Anyone else having this problem?
Woke up yesterday with what appeared to be a throat infection, runny nose, blocked ears & lots of sneezing etc.. So dosed myself up on a concoction of panadeine forte, allergy tablets, soothers & vitamin c.. Today I feel fine apart from the chesty cough, and sore throat when I cough.
GBA4iOS 2.0 is back up online again!
http://gba4iosapp.com/
@vonsack this is what I was telling you about the other day. It has an in-app downloader, and shouldn’t overwrite any other apps (like retroarch).
Oh sweet, thanks mate i’ll check it out this afternoon!
It’s the weirdest thing when you get up and realise you were running through rational thought processes in your sleep.
At some point in my dream it suddenly occurred to me (for god know whatever reason) that a 360 controller has a 2.5mm jack on it, and so does the fight stick as well as the flight stick, and that my old Nokia headset for my 8250 has a 2.5mm plug on it, so I could see if it works with any of them.
I have no idea why this was of any relevance or importance but there you go.
So did it work? 😛
I like how the PS4 controller has a standard 3.5mm connector, makes my late night gaming so much better with headphones.
Well, it fits. I have no idea what I would use to make sound come out of it though, so I guess I’ll get back to you on that one 😛
Haha, damn.
Survivor stuff! Jeff Probst’s cast assessment and predictions before the season started.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu1bRoLy4WM
This is cool to watch after the season is over so we can see how his predictions held up. And whoaaa Tasha was almost 40?! You go gurllll!
@powalen @sughly @masha2932 @mrtaco @phoenix
Hey look, it’s that asshole Jeff Probst!
Don’t think we really heard about Trish’s story until the finale…
Bahaha at David. He was right, you can lose the game in the first week.
So THAT’S what Jeff had to apologise for! At the reunion I was all like, “what the hell is he apologising for?”
Because random questions are the go lately, and cause its slow and I’m bored, here’s another random question!
If your life was a TV show, what would be the song that plays during each episodes opening?
Mine would probably be Material Girl by Madonna.
Maple Leaf Rag.
I Don’t Like Monday by Bob Geldof… I joke…
I reckon something like Freak Like Me by Halestorm. Seems suitable.
World’s Fuckedest Cunt – Frenzal Rhomb
Sybreed’s From Zero To Nothing
Well Hex already took Garbage’s #1Crush, so I guess I’d have to settle for Sex is Not the Enemy.
The Beatles – Paperback Writer
Guys, guys, guys: Hannibal.
Hannibal.
Watching it tonight.. It hasn’t stopped being fucking amazing o.o
Buress?
Ugh bought more things. Stupid sales.
I should probably be trying to look for work before I run out of moneys.
Every time I see something on the internet about Transistor I just end up with the Korn song stuck in my head.
Whoa. Someone on GBAtemp wants to pay me to make another NAND backup board, for their 3DS. Apparently they were impressed with my work.
I dunno if I can be bothered though 😛
Actually, even if I wanted to it would be too hard. Mine was made from parts I just so happened to have give to me by my uncle after searches turned up nothing, I wouldn’t have a clue where to get more.
Jaycar? Only a few of them, but they’re somehow still alive.
First place I looked 😛
And don’t seem to have anything I need.
Hyrule Warriors things: http://i.imgur.com/Ktk0m0l.jpg
A friend pointed out the last one, but those other two are some nice pickups.
I’m guessing the odds of this (prior to Wii-u emulation being a thing) are not good? I’ve very little interest in buying any more consoles. Wii-u least of all.
Er… odds of what exactly?
The game is happening if that’s what you’re asking 😛
Haha, I’m an idiot. I meant to put Odds of this coming to PC!
Which I’m pretty sure is never going to happen. Have Nintendo ever done anything with PC? Dynastay warriors does make it on occasion though.
I think the only Nintendo stuff they’ve put on other platforms was a paid Pokedex app on mobile devices.
Well there was that time where Donkey Kong got put on an Atari.
I meant in recent times, not old man Taco times! 😛
Not that I can really blame them. If they first party games be ported to other consoles there would be almost no reason for anyone to buy a non-portable Nintendo any more.
I assume he meant what’s the chances of it being a multi-platform release. Seeing as the game is a Nintendo game you literally have a 0% chance of that happening.
I think if I held a gun to Mario’s head and demanded they make some of their games multi-platform they’d just say “Fuck it, Century of Luigi.”
Still haven’t sent the band thing. Probably never will. Just gonna sit and read it over and over again until it’s too late to do anything about it 😛
Send the band thing!
Quiet you.
What’s this about?
Saw this a couple of weeks ago, and decided to respond. A couple of days ago I finally heard back from them, and now I’m scared of scaring them off because I’m old 😛
Ended up just [Homer hesitating going into hospital before just screaming and running in]ing it and hit Submit.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2014/05/24/15/49/creationist-claims-proof-dinosaurs-lived-alongside-humans
*sigh*
Well, I’m convinced.
But…but Mesopotamia…
Wait, what? Its existence somehow simultaneously proves young earth creationism, the flood, and that they co-existed with humans?
Well, a fair bit of stuff happened today.
From the moment I woke up, my mother reminded me that I needed a haircut. I haven’t hadn’t had a haircut for several months, and my hair was probably the longest it’s ever been. I’m sure I could have modelled it into an afro if I really wanted to. Before I go on, I suppose I should recite the entire history of my relationship with haircuts.
Back when I was a kid, my mother cut my hair. She had previously aspired to be a hairdresser, until she became an assistant instead. Things were going great until I was about 6, when my mother almost cut my ear off. From then, I had a fear of haircuts. Mum started sending me to a hairdresser, but stopped when my hairdresser had a baby or something. Mum bought some clippers, and said she would start cutting my hair again. Things continued like this for about 9 years. My dad eventually learned to use the clippers.
Then my mother couldn’t be bothered doing it anymore, and started getting my dad to do it. She knew if I went to my dad’s place with shitty hair, he’d instantly cut it. Then eventually dad couldn’t cut my hair anymore because he’d lost some equipment. My hair continued to grow.
Mum heard a fabled tale of a hairdressing salon that cut hair for $10, provided you were a student. For three weeks, she went on a crusade to find the fabled salon. Then she found out that it was within a kilometre of her house. I had a bit of a chuckle at that.
Fast track to today. My mum decided out of nowhere that we were going to my grandparents after the haircut. This angered my sister, as she already had plans to meet friends. Three minutes into my sister and mother shouting at each other, I decided to play Mario Kart Wii. That game is still as ‘okay’ as it was 5 years ago. Track design is still meh.
So I was dropped of at the salon at noon today. I went in and noticed that the salon used a big machine thing to process orders. I was having a few problems with the machine, and had to convince one of the hairdressers that I was a student before I could get the student fee. The process was made all the more difficult because the hairdresser had a poor grasp of English. I eventually convinced her by flashing my Student I.D. like some kind of private investigator.
When I sat down, I realised the chairs had mini TVs with Disney’s Mulan playing on it. That seemed pretty neat. Then the hairdresser started asking confusing questions about what kind of haircut I wanted. I dunno, shorter? The hairdresser’s lack of English speaking skills did not help the process. After getting my hairdressing ticket from the glorified re-purposed parking machine, the actual cutting of hair started. It was at this point that I realised why the place is called QuickCuts. They cut your hair fast. I am used to the people cutting my hair taking slow, calculated cuts. This hairdresser would shove the comb in my hair and cut it about 4 times in the span of 3 seconds. The hairdresser was cutting my hair so fast that I couldn’t process it all fast enough to have a panic attack. Every 30 seconds, the hairdresser would ask a confusing question about my future plans for the haircut.
Before I knew it, the hairdresser had finished cutting my hair. The plan was that I would ring my mum as soon as I was done so she could pick me up. Except something was missing….
Oh, right, the phone. Where is my phone? I checked the hairdressing chair to see if it was there. Nope. I could have sworn that I took the phone with me. My brain decided that the only logical solution was that an employee had pickpocketed the phone whilst I was pre-occupied with the haircut. I mean, if they are offering haircuts for $10, they’ve got to make their money somehow.
Eventually, rationality took over, and my brain decided the phone must have fallen out of my pocket in the car. The only option was to walk home. This wouldn’t have been worrying if it weren’t for a few factors: It was incredibly cloudy, and rain could fall at any time. Second, my mum might notice that I had left my phone in the car, and arrive at the hairdressers to pick me up whilst I was in the process of walking home. I didn’t have my keys, so I would be locked out if my mum left the house.
I arrived home just as the first rain drops fell from the sky. Luckily, my mum was still at home. By some miracle bestowed by Malacath himself, my shirt had some chance of not being condemned to the pile of ‘haircut shirts that are too itchy to ever wear, yet you still hang on to anyway.’
After having one of those stupid post-haircut showers that take about half an hour because HOLY SHIT THERE’S HAIR EVERYWHERE, I clambered in the car to go to my grandparents.
At my grandparents, I stayed extra long due to unforseen events. What was supposed to be a two-hour visit lasted about six hours. This gave me extra time to play PS1 games. A while back, I left my PS1 at my grandparents just so I would have something to do there.
I played a bit of Toy Story Racers. Good game overall. I felt it would have been a bit better with an extra month in the cooker, as the game is missing established genre conventions such as being able to look behind you, and having anything more that the bare minimum of a HUD. However, I noticed that some of the music was ripped straight from the underrated Stuart Little 2 video game. Eh, they were both made by Activison, so I guess music wasn’t stolen or anything.
Then I played a game I haven’t touched for years; Rugrats: Studio Tour. I played it once as a kid and never again. Was it as bad as the child version of me thought it was? I replayed Rugrats: Search for Reptar last year and enjoyed it for what it was, so my expectations weren’t that low.
Holy shit is this game a stinker. Hoo boy, I this is the kind of game that would make the fellows at NormalBoots and HiddenBlock very happy.
And now I’m here. Hi TAY!
tl;dr Haircuts suck, and so do some games.
This sequence of events consumed 1,000 words and went into unnecessary detail on the most inane of things. A typical Phlanispo post, then.
*TAYbie hug*
Sucks to hear that, man.
Go to Salon Express. They do $15 haircuts, speak English, and may do student discounts aswell, and don’t chop hair crazy fast.
Also, Toy Story Racers is the bomb. I completely forgot about it, but I basically stole that game from the video store in my childhood :3
Aaaaaaaaaaand now I’m concious of my ears. Good think I got my hair cut this week. Hopefully I’ll forget about them before my next haircut is due.
As for walking home I would recommend walking the path that your mum is most likely to drive should the situation arise again. Then she would hopefully see you if she drove down to pick you up.
But did you find your phone?!
Did I forget to mention that? Yes, I did find my phone.
Panties!!!
http://www.winningwindows.com.au/uploads/images/inverted_pleat_curtains/Harlow_inverted_pleat_curtain.jpg
I’m confused. Is this like a Where’s Wallly for perverts? because I could get behind that. And then breath heavily.
I get jokes.
What did this comment say before?
I was fairly drunk last night
It had errors, that’s all you need to know 😛
Oh yeah, stopped by Big W today to see what was what. Turns out they’d rearranged their store and. Uh.
http://imgur.com/JAcPFsU
Well I guess it’s pretty clear how they feel about Wii U 😛
Very clever Big W, using mirrors to make the Wii u appear to have more games than it actually does
😛
You just made being awake at this time of the morning worth it.
Masha makes everything better!
Aww, don’t make me cry Welbot 😛
It’s funny cause your Big W actually has a Wii U section 😛
But for how long?
This is a good point, who knows lol.
I got a phone call from my sister yesterday. Apparently my nephew was dying to come round and see me, and she asked if he could sleep over. Unfortunately, my house isn’t really equipped to deal with 5yr old kids at the best of times, let alone to sleep over for the night. I said he could come round for the afternoon, but due to work I have to do, probably wouldn’t be a good idea to stay the night.
Of course, I knew exactly why he wanted to come around. Cos I’m the cool uncle with all teh vidya games! 😉
Sure enough, when he got here, first thing he did was ask if he could play, so I put on Mario on wiiu for him, as that’s what he’s played on previous visits. He actually managed to finish the first level all by himself yesterday for the first time ever! What a champ! He started asking about all these other games that were in my box, and of course, every game he asked about, was stuff like Mortal Kombat, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, and a myriad of other either way too gorey or complex games that he would never be able to play. So I dug through my box looking for something suitable, when I stumbled across Lego Batman! Perfect! He’s played one of those Marvel action hero games on wii before, so he should be fine with that. I didn’t even know I had it! :p
So put it in, boot it up, and drops you in the level, but only gives very vague instructions. No problems! That’s what manuals are for!
Ooop! It’s a second hand game from EB, and there’s no manual! Blarg! His dad was trying to figure out how to play it, and do things like grapple up climbing points etc. I never realized just how dumb he is before today! for 20 mins, he stood on a grapple point and pressed B as instructed, climbed up the rope, but then couldn’t figure out how to actually get up on to the ledge…..
After 20 mins of watching him go up and down, drop off, and try again, I grabbed the control, grappled, climbed and jumped up on to the ledge in about 2 seconds! I mean, there’s not that many buttons on an xbox360 controller… you’d think in 20 mins, he would have figured out that one makes you jump up from the top of the rope! looooool
Having taken that long to figure it out, my nephew was understandably bored, and began asking about the drums I had sitting in my living room at my old house, and if he could play them. Sooooooo glad I managed to figure out enough in Batman to get him to be able to play it, cos I’ll be damned if I was gonna start trying to explain how to play Rock Band to a 5yr old! Especially the drums!
Best part of my day though, was my god-son came with them. (he’s the younger of the twin brothers of my 5yr old nephew). He’s only 2, but now he’s starting to talk! He’s 100% obsessed with my stairs for some stupid reason. He’ll stand at the bottom, and get your attention, then climb half way up, and call for you to look up at him, then he’ll crack up laughing, and continue on his way! Absolute nutter! But oh so cute! Worst thing I ever did though, was let him in to my bedroom. I have a doona cover on my bed atm, that has cartoony animals (pigs, penguins, lions etc) wearing space suits. When he saw it, it was like a hype bomb went off in his head! “OCNAUTS! OCNAUTS!” He thought my doona cover had Octonauts on it, and every few mins, he’d come down stairs, stand at the bottom, point up to the top and say “OCNAUTS!” then scurry back up stairs, run in to my bedroom, stand next to my bed, and burst out laughing! So glad he’s easily entertained, but my god… after the 30th time… gets a bit much!
Ok this time in my sleep I found myself explaining stuff that I’d heard about what it takes to be a character performer at Disney World. But I kind of caught myself wondering how I knew what I knew, and then reasoning back to the person I thought I got it from but then thinking it couldn’t be her because I got it from somewhere else (can’t remember now if I reasoned at the time that she was a part of the dream and not real) and then thinking back to some other pair I was talking to earlier. But now can’t remember if they were part of the dream too. And now I don’t know what is real at all.
I think it actually stems from a brief conversation my friends had with the girl playing Mary Poppins at Disney Land in Japan, when she hopped in some photos with us. My brain is bothering me.
Finished Tales of Xillia last night. Final boss felt kind of easy but I might have been marginally overleveled (average character level around 68). Really enjoyed how it played out and I can see now how a sequel would slot in, so I’m really interested to play that now.
Began a New Game+ run with Milla’s route but I’m not sure if I’ll keep with it or not. I didn’t have enough Grade earned to be able to carry over everyone’s full levels and lost all the gear except the devil’s arms (which I unlocked all of) however I was able to throw down a double-XP bonus for the second go through so I shouldn’t need to grind as much, and since I have a full set of fairly high-end weapons for everyone the gear aspect is already taken care of too. Still, assuming I go full completionist for this round and play with a guide so i can get everything I missed first time, I’m thinking that’s another 35-40 hours.
On the other hand, if I stop here I probably won’t have the momentum to re-play it again at all. So the question is basically whether to stick with it, start playing one of my other recent acquisitions (have Transistor installed on my PC ready for me, and could stop waiting for Squenix to fix Drakengard 3 and just play it dubbed too) or dig into the Pile of Shame again.
Man, I couldn’t find the drive to stick with it (though I did eventually complete it), let alone New Game +.
I dunno, I guess I didn’t find it interesting or involving or fun enough to consider it.
All thing considered it’s not a long RPG , but even the first playthrough felt like it dragged on. Whenever you felt like you hit a major point, it was just “AND NOW, AN EVEN BIGGER THREAT”. And not in a exciting way like Gurren Lagann did.
I feel like spending your time on other things would be time better spent. I played Milla’s story, and it didn’t diverge much. The few times you do split, you kind filled in the blanks anyway.
I felt similarly when I started my playthrough back in August last year, I was really not feeling it and eventually just lost interest and stopped.
Picked up from where I was up to and was right into it almost immediately, to the point that I’m not sure what the heck was wrong with me, because it’s not like the game changed.
I’m thinking I’ll shelve it though, play some other stuff. But I’m kind of in the mood for another good JRPG still. Don’t want to do Tales of Symphonia and don’t really have anything on the same tier. Lots of niche stuff. Hopefully this feeling persists long enough to get to Xillia 2, though I have strong suspicions that that will be a poorer game, especially since the main character is a silent protagonist.
You’ve probably already seen him, but this guy never fails to impress with his live-weapons demonstrations.
Also, I watched Lego Movie yesterday, obligatory EVERYTHING IS AWESOME. It was great. Benny features as retro space dude mini fig! Spaceship! Spaceship! Spaceship!
Just came across thisserves them right for pirating a game before release honestly, if you ask me..,
You see this @gutsoup ?
http://nintendoau.cmail1.com/t/ViewEmail/j/605B36BD20182737/D4470E0B1BC32C82C68C6A341B5D209E
yeah, that helped tip my decision to buy. Getting Pikmin 3
That’s right, you like Pikmin.
Make sure you check out Wonderful 101 though too. Meant to be goodsome
I’m interested in it, I’ll just wait to find it cheap somewhere. Wanna come play Mario Karts at my place this weekend?
I already said yes, didn’t I?
What day?
Oh, and look at my list on new TAY and buy my stuff >:-O
Saturday I’m free all day and night, also free on friday night, Sunday is probably not good
Cool, just needed to know, will fit it in.
(Don’t forget to check the #getjimuaPS4 fund and SPEND SPEND SPEND)
Guys. We’ve all been looking at this whole Wii U thing from a terribly pessimistic perspective.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Boa7RXoCEAAFSDS.png:large
Miiverse solves everything.
WHY CAN’T METROID CRAWL!?
Because they are flying creatures, duh.
…did any of the log entries explain how they fly?
So by this logic almost everyone owns a PS4 as well 😛
Some people just can’t be happy with what they’ve got.
I got a gameboy (micro) and bought super cicuit today…
but it’s not running. It shows the gameboy logo then goes blank.
It works with the other game I have, so any ideas?
Do the contacts on the cartridge look clean?
Cartridge issue. I had a dead Pokemon Mystery Dungeon cart once – should have guessed it was a dud by the $5 price tag JB had slapped on it.
TIL that the band Muse ripped off Sharkboy and Lavagirl’s OST.
Don’t believe me?
Sharkboy and Lavagirl
Muse -Resistance
Not familiar with either of them, so it makes it harder to compare. But I can kinda see what you mean.
Also wtf is TIL?
Today I Learned
Get off my lawn.
nah.. that’s GOML!
Well. I have experienced the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5FOq93R29A&index=81&list=WL
@tech_knight
Hullo.
The apartment next to me got set on fire. Nothing crazy, minor little flame, sweet old lady living alone. The water damage is, uh, slightly more damning, though. As I type this firefighters are shuffling in and out of said apartment outside my door.
So there’s a fuckton of water that I’m cleaning up on the floor with my roomie at the moment at the cost of sleep that I’d really like to get in before work at 4 in the morning. Also, everything smells of smoke. In the end, though, I’m happy nothing serious happened.
Me and the roommate are still proper annoyed about it, though. You know what they say- Where there’s smoke, there’s ire.
Hah! See? I thought of that on the fly. Amazing what you think of when you’re sleep-deprived and grumpy.
Chuffed is a positive term not a negative one by the way.
Maybe he just really likes cleaning up water?
I got the Mario Kart cart checked out, and the lady blowed on the cartridge and it worked.
I felt like an idiot afterwards.
You shouldn’t blow on them. You should clean them with alcohol. In fact, the most common reason for them not working is that the pins haven’t entered the slot correctly
Mario Kart 8!
$58 at Big W!
WOWIES!
$58 for 2 Wii U games ‘aint bad
Wonderful 101 hype!
Legend of Zelda: Wind WakerWonderful 101Pikmin 3Monster Hunter 3 UltimateSuper Mario Bros. UNintendo LandSonic Lost World hype?
That’s the exact situation I’m in.
And yet I haven’t played any of those games…
You played Monster Hunter and hated it 🙁
Wow! It’s slightly less than the price we should be paying!
Just watched two more episodes of Falling Skies after stopping on Season 1, Episode 5 back when it started. I remember why I didn’t really want to continue with it, now. Everyone is stupid. Like “Hey, we’re on the run and hiding in this house, let’s play the piano” stupid. And that was probably the least stupid thing anyone did in either of those two episodes. 😛
..but Noah Wyle!
Two games finished in one weekend. Transistor’s pretty short. Didn’t like it as much as Bastion, the Transistor itself gets a bit annoying after a while due to the flat tone he speaks with and I liked the more narration-based approach they used last time more. Also didn’t enjoy the combat as much, got quite frustrating in parts and I basically gave up on the challenges toward the end because of how unfun they get. Losing abilities randomly can absolutely screw you as well as having everything go on cooldown once you’ve done a time stop thing just makes everything feel frantic. Needed a dodge button or something.
But still, overall I think it’s a really good game. Not amazing like Bastion, but very good, and it was always going to be tricky for them to follow up on the previous game anyway.
I prefer Transistor over Bastion (maybe). The combat in Transistor much more interesting then Bastion. It was much more customisable and it was fun whereas combat in Bastion got stale extremely fast. Also I disliked the flat voice at first but it grew on me (story wise it makes sense too).
With Tales of Xillia and Transistor dealt with I don’t know what I should start next. Have Watch Dogs ordered but not really in a rush for it so I’d rather dig into the pile of shame a bit deeper. But no idea what to do next. Don’t think I want to do something on a handheld, so PS3 or PC is the go (PS4 I only have Infamous and I lost interest in it halfway in plus it’s tricky to get TV time).
I’m kind of feeling like a JRPG but nothing really stands out in the pile as something I feel compelled to get to. I’ve got the Agarest games, which I like, but progress in them is very slow going due to the amount of time it takes to do each battle. I’ve got Ar Tonelico 3 but I don’t think I’ve played since around 2010 and can’t remember much beyond the battle system being all kinds of fucked, so I’d probably have to start over and not sure I’m feeling it. Bunch of Atelier games, but I don’t want to do them on PS3 since the Vita versions are better, and I’m waiting for Atelier Rorona Plus before tackling the Arland trilogy and holding out for a localization of Atelier Ayesha’s Vita port in the hope it’ll get dual audio since Koei went stupid with its release and made it dub-only. I’ve got FF XIII and XIII-2 but I’ve tried to get into XIII several times and just haven’t enjoyed it. Kind of want to get through it before doing XIII-2 but even then the XIII games have got a bit of a stink to them now. Resonance of Fate I never got far in, but perhaps I should give it another go. Ditto Star Ocean 4, maybe it’ll make me feel less like bashing my head against a wall without the dub (played on 360 as well, and it’s dub-only there). And I have Time & Eternity but the general consensus is its terribad. Outside of the JRPG arena I have The Witch and the Hundred Knight, as well as Yakuza 3 and 4 (and 1 and 2 in a box somewhere, never played any of them 🙁 ) and also have El Shaddai somewhere. And I have Drakengard 3 sitting there unplayed because of the issues with the PAL version’s JP voice DLC not working, if it weren’t for that the choice would be pretty clear.
Nothing’s really jumping out on me on PC either. Have a lot of stuff on Steam but I’ve been through the list twice and there’s nothing that jumps out and says “play me next”. I considered one of the visual novels I’ve got in my stack, but I like to read them in bed generally rather than sitting at my desktop (attention tends to wander) and my laptop is pretty much hosed at the moment due to a faulty battery that Apple want me to pay to replace causing the machine to run in an incredibly degraded mode due to lack of power coming through to it.
What do I do? 🙁 At this rate I’ll just end up doing something foolish like wasting my life on Kantai Collection or starting to play an MMO or something
I vote Yakuza!
But which one?!
3, then 4 😛
I really liked this.
Game of Thrones characters as Pokemon trainers.
http://imgur.com/gallery/xVaff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzk3oViSCI&feature=youtu.be
Dude plays a tutorial for how to solve a petaminx. Takes 8 hours.
A small piece of me wants to watch all of this.
If you are reading this, you are in the wrong TAY.