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EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
EVERYTHING IS COOL WHEN YOU’RE PART OF A TEAM!
SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP! SPACEHIIIIP!
That was me! 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOQxxNYSHR0&feature=kp
EVERYTHING IS BATMAN.
Jelly.
Yes everything IS SNARFING AWESOME I get oculus dk2 in august
😀
How odd. I arrived here via the Twitter link but it’s still not on the front page yet.
Experimenting with time machines is not something to toy with, Strange! >:|
Time-travel is best saved for the experts. Per the article in one of the linkboxes.
You could end up killing your own grandfather. Or becoming him!! Which would be extra @strange in her case
Morning all, my weekend was as follows.
Friday night I went to the neighbors’ place for Poker with some of his mates; everyone put in ten and I took home thirty. Yay! We all drank way too much and I ended up having a massive hangover Saturday despite promising myself that I would do some gardening as soon as weather was dry on a weekend.
I awoke around 3pm Saturday and watched LEGO movie. Sunday I had an argument with my wife and we spent the day apart – though we did reconcile by about 4pm and a little bit of gardening was done.
Was the argument about the validity of the “everything is awesome” hypothesis?
Nah, she’s addicted to that song, too. The argument was over something more trivial.
Roses or tulips?
I wish. It was really dumb actually. She went off to the market Sunday morning so I looked after little Joshie as she said she gets by quicker without him. No problem there. While she is gone I head to my parents so the grandparents get some extra time with the littlie.
She gets back, calls me, blasting that she intended to spend the day with Joshie and I need to get back home. I yell back you never told me how long you were going to be gone blah blah and so forth.
Petty.
Yeah it sounds like a lot of miscommunication happened, like if she planned to spend the day with him why not take him even if you get by quicker without him
I just had argument with my girl this morning before leaving. Reading TAY n stuff to cheer myself up. I know dat feel. 🙁
Mr. Strange is usually leaving as I’m getting up so not having a chance to annoy each other before we go our separate ways for the day is a good by-product of our differing schedules. Especially as neither of us are morning people.
Morning people are just… wrong in the head. Normally I might manage to cobble together a vague impression of civility after about an hour and a half of consciousness but I could easily be spurred into activity by someone being all happy and enthusiastic at me. Unfortunately for them the activity I’d be spurred into would be stabbing them in the forehead with a fork.
I’m the opposite, I’m all fine in the morning but if I’m up late and have work in the morning and people won’t let me sleep I crack the shits hard
The first thing that came to mind when the credits rolled for X-men: Days of Future Past (ROT13’d for spoilers).
Gurl fubhyq unir whfg pnyyrq vg K-zra Ergpba: Gur Zbivr.
I don’t disagree but I’m not disappointed by that.
I agree and I’m pleased by that? God damn don’t make me think on a Monday, Neg!
Watchdogs tomorrow b1tches.
AWWW YISSS!
Pretty hype for this, but I don’t think my Dedsec edition will arrive in the mail by tomorrow as it hasn’t shipped yet. As long as it arrives before the end of the week I’ll be happy. It’ll give me a chance to finish Wolfenstein I s’pose.
I only started Black Flag on friday, so I suppose I should be glad it’ll take me a day to download Watch Dogs on Steam… gives me more time to finish off Black Flag, so that WD doesn’t end up on the pile of shame.
Good luck. I think AC IV took me a week or two to finish, but half that time was probably spent sailing around finding collectibles and doing side quests. It’s probably do-able, if you only stick to main story missions, and you can pretty much play all day long.
I’ve got to do the sensible thing wait till about half 3 to get my copy, got to take my mum down the street for a doctors appointment at 3 and if I go down early and get watchdogs, I won’t want to leave the house (unless it sucks but hopefully it won’t). Then if my mums eyes explode from th pressure buildup she’ll be all complainy like mothers are and make me do stuff for her and I’ll get even less watchdogs time…
Good morning everyone!
I challenged my anxiety over the weekend and proved to myself that the yoga is helping me tremendously!
That’s great to hear(Read) Scree! 🙂
Anxiety is notoriously crap at competitive yoga but an easy win is a good confidence builder, well done!
Hooray for progress!
Rad.
Recommendations for slower paced games? Possibly platformers? Have the Xbox One and 360, finished Max Curse of Brotherhood. Have one broken wrist and one with a torn ligament from a motorcycle accident, so can’t handle fast twitch or gaming requiring accurate joystick use, so my usual FPS or driving games are out.
If you can get into them, any sort of RPG is pretty good and very rarely requires accurate targeting. Depending on the RPG you will have to put with menus and managing character actions but they’re a pretty breezy and relaxed genre to play (at least in terms of button and controller input).
Dragon Age is pretty good in that regard for slower-paced gameplay. There are other options but I can’t hink of them off the top of my head sorry.
Turnbased JRPG’s would probably be good. Ones that pause the game once it’s your turn. No need to stress about getting your commands out super fast.
I used to be super into turn based JRPG’s in high school, but just find the gameplay a bit boring these days. the stories are always fantastic, but the usual over complicated card game style character upgrades just frustrate me.
The issue with that is that there’s very few true turn-based JRPGs out there, even less of them that are actually good and on the 360, and basically none of those don’t have annoying twitch mechanics where you need to hit a button with precise timing during the attack stuff to be able to perform well.
Speaking of RPG’s, how does Diablo 3 go with touch screen? Is it supported or will it just take it as crappy mouse input? I have a 10 point multitouch hybrid PC. Or any other suggestions of actual PC games with decent touch input?
Not entirely certain how D3 works with a touch screen but I would imagine it just translates into an inaccurate mouse input. I haven’t seen or heard of it supporting touch screens.
I don’t actually know of games that support touch input but maybe Civilisation 5 does or XCOM or some other strategy game. That would be the genre that would make the most sense and I think XCOM has come out on iPad so it might have decent touch input for PC. I’m just guessing though sorry.
If you want some good touch-based games for a tablet then I think Diablo wouldn’t be a good one, since your hand is going to be in the way of what you’re looking at and you need multiple buttons.
Have you tried Hearthstone? That game was designed for a touch interface and it’s turn-based.
Ah bum, I got excited when I saw it was blizzard, but it’s a card battle game 🙁
Puzzle platformers are always good. I’ll assume you’ve already played Fez, Braid and Limbo though 😛
I remember the Limbo demo being awesome, buying it now.
Ah, sorry to hear about your wrist man. Play an adventure game! 😀
Ouch! Maybe something like Peggle 2, Child Of Light, Or Powerstar Golf.
I wouldn’t even attempt a platformer with hand injuries! They can require as much fast accuracy as shooters.
Popdart’s RPG suggestion is good. A lot of JRPGs go even further and only require one handed play because you’re usually only pressing one button at a time. Apart from that, maybe something like Puzzle Quest?
One wrist strapped and the other in a cast, so it’s more about the speed I can handle. Xbox control is alright, PS3 is very awkward, and I can’t hold a mouse because I can’t turn my wrist that way. Just bought Limbo on the 360, that’s alright. Just no fast twitch or button spamming for me.
I would say L.A Noire, but at times the game does incorporate action scenes.
Heavy Rain/Beyond : Two Souls would definitely be good choices however you might not have a ps3.
I disagree with Heavy Rain. Sometimes there were scenes you had to contort your entire hand in weird angles to do stuff. (Like the power station section.) XD
And shake the living fuck out of the controller when you’re being attacked and knocking someone off you
Didn’t play my PS3 in a good two years and the blood batteries inside all four of my controllers crapped it. None will charge.
You could give XCOM a go, it does have a bit of fiddly controls that require the analogue stick, but since its turn based there’s no quick movements/time restrictions.
Hey guys, how was your weekend?
Mine was… interesting. Planned to make a fair bit of progress on Game Of Thrones (book), but I didn’t even get to read one page. Went out with the missus and our son for the day on Saturday. Sunday, the in-laws came around for an impromptu bbq, then halfway through cooking said bbq I get a phone call from work. Was a bit annoyed at first because it seems that everytime I have a day off they call for something, but I answered it anyway. Turned out that one of our regular customers, who happens to be mentally disabled, and can be very difficult got refused service because of how difficult he can be, the customer then went to the toilet and after coming out tried to walk into one of the cinemas. The guy in charge yesterday tried to block him, there was a short argument and the customer punched him in the face and walked off.
Cops were called and ambulance came and all that. When he came back from the hospital, we discussed the situation and decided to ban him immediately, the guys mother (who was notified by one of the other staff members, because apparently they know her), called and spoke to the staff member and apparently said to him that she was upset that we had decided to ban him without discussing it with her first. WTF!!! What is there to discuss, the guy punched him in the face.
Totally didn’t expect anything like that to happen.
Intense. Just be careful you don’t get sued or some shit for “discrimination”. -_-
Yeah, now he’s been physically violent towards a staff member I think we’re totally within our rights to refuse service, but up to that point, I’m not so sure.
He never comes with a carer, but he clearly needs to. If he had been with a carer yesterday the whole situation would’ve probably been avoided.
Unfortunately, just as he doesn’t know he can’t behave that way, there’s a good chance he’ll keep trying to come to your cinema frequently because he doesn’t understand he is banned, which could cause more trouble than letting him in.
I think it’s the fact that the staff member physically stood in front of the doors to block him that made him get violent, so if he comes in again and won’t leave when asked, I think the best course of action is to just let him go in where he wants to, and call the police to have him removed.
Might be an idea to take a picture from video surveillance and put it up with his mothers number at the register, with a note saying if there are any troubles to call her.
That’s the thing, there are no cameras. All the staff members know what he looks like though.
Mario Kart 8 week! I trust everyone’s hype levels are up to the appropriate levels!
Except for @strange’s hype levels. She was exposed to the monster gene in an unfortunate laboratory explosion and has no hype for the game as a result. :'(
Mario Kart 8 old TAY repost!
$58 at Big W!
MADNESS (this is Sparta)
Catalogue or site? I couldn’t find it on either.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/145645
Catalogue, but hasn’t been updated online yet!
I don’t think it’s available yet – catalogue pic here: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/145645
Amazing price for a new Ninty game, AND it comes with another free downloadable game (choose from a list of 10) – I’m going with Wonderful 101 because I hear nothing but good things about it, and the only other one I don’t have that interests me is Monster Hunter.
Monster Hunter is amazing! It frequently goes on sale elsewhere though so keep your eye on it 😀
I’m choosing W101 as well because it’s one of the few Wii U games that I’ve wanted for a while, but hasn’t had a price drop (the other being LEGO City). I’m so glad we got this promotion 😀
I saw it for 68 at Big W online, which is better than 79 at EB/JB. Preordered it for a friend’s birthday present and paid the 68 to be price matched when I pick it up on Saturday.
I expected $68 (and was happy paying it) but this out of nowhere $58 is insane. Their $44 for Pokemon was great too.
Not complaining that I get 10 bucks back. Guess I can roll it over to a pokeymans preorder.
I’m assuming Big W would have the best local launch price again for Pokeys. Good ol Big W!
Woah, 58!?
I better get there early…
Assuming they actually have it. D:
Last few times I’ve gone to Big W to get a Nintendo game on launch morning they’ve been all ‘what we don’t have that what are you talking about’
You would think that if they’re pricing it so aggressively they’d have some copies to sell.
…right?
As someone who has worked at Big W in the past…
…no.
I’m hyped but at the same time I want to sell my Wii U console.
I’m not doing this correctly, am I?
Hey, you can be hyped for Mario Kart 8 without having a Wii U. Just buy the game and study the box art twice a day for three months. *decisive nod*
I kind of regret selling mine now that DKC; TF is out, MK8 this week and Smash Bros. coming soon.
Ever since I sold my SNES + games I’ve regretted it, and vowed never to sell another games console ever again!
But one thing you have going for you, the price of a Wii U can only go in one direction, and possibly very quickly if Ninty announces any hardware plans at E3.
SNES is different, because it’s possible to emulate it effectively. If you have no problem with that kinda thing.
Yeah very true, and they look much better too with a smoothing filter on the pixels, but there was something about those plastic cartridges that was so appealing (beyond nostalgia, I swear!),
I mean, they were like physical toys that you could stack and hold, and that was special. It’s the type of console I want my kids to have now, partly because I know I could give it to them without worrying about them destroying it – optical discs wouldn’t last 5 minutes with them.
Bought it from Dick Smith when they had them for $220, traded it in at EB a few months later on an Xbone for $150 with a 50% extra trade credit birthday voucher, so I actually made 5 bucks on it. A bit pissed off at myself, because now I want Mario Kart 8, and have to pay full price for a console bundle.
Such a Ben move.
Ugh. Ben’s are the worst.
And with a single sentence, Dan’s have become more awesome!
I’ve got no hype for the game either, never owned a Nintendo machine and the one mariokart game I had a go of year ago bored the crap out of me.
I’ll hang out with @strange in monster corner
Best corner!
Isn’t the unicorn dragon just the coolest thing ever? The chimera that makes homemade ice cream is also pretty awesome. Shame none of the others can come over and see them…
I forgot to reply earlier when I noticed this, but your comment was a bright spark in my bad day and I love you for it. 😀
Hehe glad to be of assistance
Friday?
Nintendo are monsters who tend to do Saturday releases.
Oh, 31st. Great, depending on weather I may/may-not make it for pickup. Or even have the weekend free to play much. 🙁
Count me in with @Strange.
I’m good at every other game but the secret to Kart games escape me.
Accelerate at the 2 second countdown mark, yellow mushroom. The secret is out.
I wasn’t bad at the greatest kart game ever made, Crash Tag Team Racing, all other lesser games I’m terrible at
Saw “Chef” on the weekend, after seeing the trailer and thinking “Yep, that looks interesting and food is delicious so… movie.”
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Vg znvayl unq gb qb jvgu gur jevgvat nf jryy, naq V pbhyqa’g uryc ohg jbaqre vs Wba Sniernh fgergpurq uvzfrys gbb guva ol jevgvat, qverpgvat naq fgneevat. Whfg nyy gurfr vapbafvfgrapvrf va ubj gur punenpgref npgrq, naq na raqvat gung jnf FB qrhf rk znpuvan gung V nyzbfg rkcrpgrq Tnaqnys gb pbzr sylvat va ba fbzr tvnag rntyrf.
Nyfb Fbsín Iretnen naablf zr va rirelguvat fur’f va, fb gung cebonoyl qvqa’g uryc.
3 Obof bhg bs 5 O-bo. (Jngpunoyr, ohg abg jbegu ercrngvat va n uheel.)
Don’t want to read the spoiler, as I haven’t seen it yet, but was it good or bad? I got told from one of the other staff members that it was good, but on the other hand we had two old ladies walk out of it, demanding their money back, because they were “disgusted” at the amount of language in it”, surely it can’t be that bad, it’s only rated M.
3 Obof bhg bs 5 O-bo. (Jngpunoyr, ohg abg jbegu ercrngvat va n uheel.) = 3 Bobs out of 5 B-ob. (Watchable, but not worth repeating in a hurry.)
I grade on a very harsh scale though, so 3 is still enjoyable.
Edit: Oh, and language? Yeah that’s about all that would push it to being an M in the first place. It’s pretty PG otherwise, but even then the language is barely noticeable.
Yeah, figured as much with the language. Obviously church going women who are easily offended.
We once had a seniors day, and had a guy complain because there was two swear words in the whole movie.
2 swear words in the whole movie? What was it? Beauty & The Beast? (I’m pretty sure Lumière says the F word like 7 or 8 times and Cogsworth definitely drops a C Bomb.)
I just watched GameTrailers’ Top 10 E3 Trailers and I totally forgot The Last Guardian was a thing 😛
PS4 announcement trailer at this E3 pls?
This year’s E3 is gonna be big methinks! I’d like more info on XenUblade, an official Zelda Wii U announcement, another MGSV trailer and a bunch of other things. Surprise announcements are gonna be awesome too 😀
Apparently Zelda and MGS V will be shown, as well as Mirror’s Edge 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E3_2014
The Nintendo thingo isn’t on until 2am D:
I’m really keen for it this year, Sony, MS & Ninty have to show lots of software to prove their new platforms are worth picking up, they won’t have new hardware this year to rest their presentations on.
My E3 predictions:
– Nintendo will disappoint everyone by announcing some random stuff no one wants and showing off trailers for the next 3 months games. They’ll also be making a massive song and dance over some downloadable thing that they’ll sell for $50 but is realistically worth $15 at the outside. Then they’ll show a teaser for a Wii U Zelda that won’t actually release until 2016. They will show some X footage but will still refuse to provide any details.
– Sony will show off a bunch of awesome games coming in 2015. Also expect them to gush about Indies again, and show off their Totally-not-the-Oculus-Rift headset. The highlight will be Uncharted 4. The Last Guardian will be teased in a montage but no details will be announced. Destiny will get shown off. Activision will again show off Destiny.
– Microsoft will show off a whole lot of Halo and Gears of War stuff and there will be no mention of Kinects or TV integration or anything. Also all their games are coming in 2015. Expect them to announce some big games for their
Xbox+Games with Gold initiative. Activision will again show off Call of Duty.At one of Sony or MS’s conferences EA will show off a new Star Wars game. Probably Battlefront 3, but maybe whatever Amy Hennig was hired on for. Most likely whatever they show will be Original Trilogy stuff or it will be very very light on details, because Lucasfilm are being very careful with what they announce ahead of Episode VII.
Watched Wreck It Ralph, surprisingly better than expected. Lost a phone so new one is on its way. Weekend was busier than expected as well. I need more time to sit down and do nothing
I was pleasantly surprised as well when I saw it, plenty to enjoy for everybody.
Really enjoyed it, but I kinda think that movie has a limited window of time when it will be readable by an audience – a lot of the humour come from references that mostly slightly older gamers will get. Like, Tangled and Frozen could be made 20 years ago. or in 20 years time and still be entertaining, but Wreck it Ralph could only come out and find an audience around now. My daughter still enjoys it the movie once Vanellope is introduced though, but she’ll never find it funny the way I do.
Thinking about entering a fabric design contest even though I can’t art. Monday morning madness!
Also, having realised I’ll probably never get around to finishing all the games I want to play, I’m thinking maybe I should hire @dc to come over and play them while I watch and sew. 😛
I would take that job! Do you need a copy of my resume?
I already know you’re qualified. 😀
Do I need to interview for the position? Create some fake references?
A phone interview would be nice, but I fear I should specify that most of the time I can only afford to pay in food….
I am a hungry young go getter. 😛
Katawa Shoujo – Finished the Emi route. Pleasantly surprised by… well. Everything.
There’s some real maturity to that story, and unlike many other media it didn’t just finish with kissed/banged the girl, happily-ever-after. Actually echoed back to events of my own earlier years, and the characters really seemed to develop and grow without everything going perfectly or without understandable confusion. Cute. I liked it.
Which is why I’ve been very disappointed by the Shizune Arc I started pretty much immediately afterward. Not only is the only way to get it by breaking a promise and being a dickbag, but additionally the character’s internal voice and monologues grow increasingly immature. Petulant, impatient, ill-tempered, self-centred, and distinctly unkind, intolerant. It’s almost as if the arc was written by a completely different person.
So either it’s very clever writing which uses a different voice to portray how a kid might develop under less ideal circumstances, or it’s a different writer altogether. Either way, I really can’t stand it and reckon going with my gut the first play through must’ve resulted in the optimal route, really.
No mater which parts I like or dislike, the book/game’s been a brain-worm and unbeatable value at ‘free’, which has also demonstrated enormous respect for my time with convenient save options, skipping/auto-dialogue, greying out unchanged text so I can read only new content, etc. Makes me want to look into giving something back.
On the technical side, it’s implemented in Ren’Py which is why it has all those features. Only really need the art and writing to build one if you’re using an off the shelf engine like tat.
There is definitely a different writer for Shizune’s arc. I haven’t played her route, but there is a consensus that her’s is the worst one. My friend described the plot as:
“My dad’s a dick.”
“I agree.”
“Let’s bang.”
There is a different writer for each route. That I know for sure. The problem with having multiple writers is that Hisao (main character) is not 100% consistent. I noticed subtle changes between the routes. However, if the writer for Shizune’s route did a 180 on Hisao’s character, I will not be happy.
I get you on the free thing. I don’t think 4-Leaf Studios exists anymore, so I don’t think you could find a way to donate to them.
Opinion of the music?
Music: Not technically brilliant, low-grade’ish which I expected, so no disappointment either. Some common themes seem to get used situationally, which gets a little muddled when you leave a scene for too long and it cycles between some of the ones which are used across different situations. I frequently turn it off if it gets too grating and just get to the reading.
Interesting to hear, re: the writing team.
That actually gives me some slight trepidation when it comes to approaching the other arcs.
I enjoyed the growing maturity of the character and the increasingly self-aware introspection which had a real sincerity to it, in Emi’s arc. There’s clearly some writing from experience there, in the way certain situations are captured down to striking details one might otherwise miss. And decently-written adults, that always helps.
Shizune’s arc feels like it has some places it wanted to go, but didn’t quite know how to get there. It results in an unfortunate tick-box approach to hitting plot points without connecting them smoothly. Also, dialogue and pacing is not always that writer’s strong suit, though a few moments were unexpectedly good, playing with the concept of what can and can’t be understood by each character through translating sign language, with subtle variations. The family-home visit scenes, however, are just a mess of unrealized ideas which obviously didn’t pan out. I’d wager the writer’s a bit younger and might’ve got some help with the h-scene – either that or they’re more experienced with that part of writing.
Having used a flow-chart to make sure I cover the bases I need to and not being especially concerned about spoilers now that I’ve done a ‘true’ run, I am interested to see how a more complex twist I’m coming up on will be handled, which seemed to hold a lot of potential for interest.
The problem is likely not that there were multiple writers, but that when they started none of the writers had a true handle on the main character, and so they’ve built him out differently in their arcs. Only way to avoid that would probably been to have had the whole game skeleton done by one person and then different writers filling in the details, but that wouldn’t have worked with the way the game was developed.
I’m not real experienced with the genre, but if I had to guess, I’d say it’s probably a trap of the genre. In these two arcs I’ve read, the character has adapted himself to the personalities of his love-interest with generally being as agreeable as possible until stretched to breaking point.
My hunch would be that most protagonists in these types of games are as ‘blank slate’ and neutral as possible to better allow for self-insertion by the player.
Most (good) Japanese VNs are written entirely by one person so you don’t usually get too much of a sudden character shift, but it depends. Sometimes it might actually be that you’re seeing a different element of the character’s personality being expressed, for example stuff where some routes are gated off until you’ve completed others, it’s not uncommon for it to turn out that what you see in the earlier arcs is only the surface layers and the protagonist is actually different to how they seemed early on. Combined with the fact that some authors like to have really screwed up characters it can be quite surprising, like they seem to suddenly flip unexpectedly, but it turns out that it was their personality all along. Cross Channel was one that I distinctly remember that from, but it has a structure such that you’re going through layers of the main character as things progress as it’s a looping narrative (groundhog day style) rather than a branching one.
As far as the depth of the protagonist, there’s all sorts of VNs and all sorts of protagonists. If the main character is voiced that’s usually a big sign that they’ll be much deeper than a blank slate. Additionally it depends on the style of the game itself. If it’s just a straight up porn game (nukige) where the plot is there to string together sex scenes, the protagonist will be little more than a cardboard cutout. Other stuff that’s very story-focused will be the opposite – most of the ‘crying games’ (nakige) along the lines of To Heart or Key’s stuff like Clannad and Air have a more defined protagonist, actually as they’ve made more games like that their protagonists have gotten more and more involved. Most galge stuff is in the middle, the protagonist has some details and everything but it largely a Potato, has some substance but the other ingredients are where the bulk of the flavor is.
I think there were different writers for most of the arcs. Shizune’s is the only one I would classify as bad. All the others range form good to fantastic.
Whilst not my favorite from a character standpoint from a narrative I believe Emi’s is the best. It’s definitely the most interesting and also brought back memories of my younger years.
I’m glad I’m getting the Shizune one out of the way now. I’m probably going to follow up with Rin (she never really interested me), then debating between Hanako and Lily. Folks online seem to be most enamored of Lily so I’ll probably do that last, but for personal reasons I suspect I’ll prefer reading the Hanako arc. Familiarity/resonance and whatnot.
I’m glad to hear that the others are good, though, thanks. The Shizune one was giving me doubts.
I agree with you that Shizune’s route felt like it didn’t know how to get where it wanted to go. Her rout feels like fan fiction whilst the others all feel professional. The writer for her seemed to have some good ideas but not the skills/patience to implement them and it ended up just being a bunch of different things thrown together and feeling disjointed.
Though the biggest problem I had with Shizune’s route was to me it lacked any sort of resolution. The other routes (excluding the Kenji ones) all feel like the closing of a chapter of Hisao’s life and the begging of a new one. At the end of Shizune’s it just felt like I’d gotten past the intro to the chapter setting up people and places and all the interesting stuff was yet to happen.
That being said I guess that kinda makes it more realistic in that people all live their lives at different paces and just because finishing high school is the end of a chapter for a lot of people doesn’t mean it has to be for everyone. I don’t get the feeling that’s what they were going for though and just kinda sucks from a narrative standpoint.
PS: The Kenji ending is that start of a new chapter as well if you’ve seen the (fake) katawa shoujo 2 trailer I’ve linked before.
Predictable Popdart5 weekend RPG shenanigans. This time with the Ancient Rome Pathfinder game I GM.
My players seem to enjoy trying things out that are distinctly left of field. The Lawful Neutral Cleric has raised an undead bear as a skeleton and then applied a separate spell to change it from a skeleton to a preserved corpse (aka a zombie) so that people don’t get freaked out when the bear walks into town. He’s then proceeded to give the bear armour plating and ride the zombie armoured bear who has 26 AC.
In addition, the cleric also thought he’d make some money by making some magical pendants and selling them to the legion. Except he screwed up the crafting check and one of them ended up cursed. It’s not exactly ideal when you promise a legionnaire that the pendant will protect him from the elements when it ends up amplifying the effect of the elements on him. Particularly when it’s currently nearing the end of winter in Romania. >.<
The session ended with the party fighting a small pack of trolls. Ordinarily, the only way to kill trolls is to overcome their natural regeneration with acid or fire. That didn't stop the barbarian scoring a critical hit that dealt 81 points of damage in one strike, causing instant death and basically causing internal organ failure as its body tried to regenerate from the massive damage. They burned the other two trolls to kill them but then they subdued a troll, tied him up, and then fashioned granite cinderblocks around its arms and legs as manacles. They then dragged the troll back to town (about a two week journey) where they sold him to the monster market.
To be honest, that’s pretty par for the course for these guys. They have, so far at least:
– suplexed a lion as a level 1 character
– stolen a magical scimitar out of a skeletal champion’s hands during combat
– baited an elephant into charging into a spiked pit of death
– wrangled a bull by literally grabbing it by the horns
– tortured a guy by knocking him unconscious, stuffing him in a bag of holding, cutting out his tongue, accidentally breaking his neck, and only then killing him
– used the skeleton bear to grapple with a frost giant and give him a great, big, skeleton bear hug
This makes me think I need to be more creative in our Pathfinder games.
Give us a break, there’s not much freedom to work outside the box when you’re level 1. 🙂
I’m sure there will be more hobgoblins you can suplex 🙂
It’s been straight-forward so far, no need for creative solutions. We probably could have been a bit less abrupt with our hobgoblin prisoner.
EDIT: Also Pathfinder tends to skew away from having the PCs being really powerful, at least early on. 4th Edition D&D the players feel a lot more powerful, though a lot of that is because of the focus on giving people lots of stuff they can do.
Man, that sounds awesome. I want to be part of your RPG group!
…
Wait.
I lol’d at the lion suplex, and lol’d more at the rest of them xD
So, Murdered: Soul Suspect is out next week. Thinking about picking it up, anyone else gonna get it?
I am! I suspect it’s going to be an Aladdin-style diamond in the rough.
It’s $31 for a steam code by email from ozgameshop and they’re doing 5000 bonus player points for preorders. I figure that even if it’s a bit crap, being that cheap (and made a bit cheaper still by my $2.50 voucher) means it’ll have been a cheap bet. With any luck it’ll be an interesting story but I’m expecting fairly linear gameplay from the stuff I’ve read, as long as it delivers the story in a good way I don’t really mind the lack of dynamism
Sadly my PC is crap and wouldn’t be able to run it. I’m expecting it to be fairly linear too, but at $70 for the Xbone limited edition (less a $5 voucher) I’m willing to give it a crack.
I am as well.
I’ve read two hands-on-previews that say it’s mundane and not great. One said it barely qualified as good.
I’ve then read two hands-on-previews that say it’s unique and worth your time.
…I’m worried about the critical split, but I will ignore the worry and buy it because I live in a capitalist society that demands me to spend money on shite, so instead of shoes I’m going to buy a game about an dead detective.
It looks interesting, but not enough to warrant a day one buy. I’m gonna hang back and see how it reviews before deciding.
It seems interesting but I’m not sure about it yet. Too much stuff coming out, not enough time.
Got free VIP ($100+ ea) tickets to horse races on Sat, went with gf. She dressed all fancy-like and got invited to ‘fashions on the field’. Didn’t win anything (judges had weird taste) but she got claps and wolf-whistles so not bad. Free food and drink, good time.
Sat night played some retro SNES/64 games at a friends house for a while. Fun times, some games I’ve never played.
Sunday went to golf driving range, hit some nice balls considering we haven’t hit in pretty much a year. Sun night had DnD session, went alright.
Sounds like a pretty good weekend.
Yah quite nice, bit of a bummer to be at work on Monday after that. 😛
Dressing up is fun. For some GFs, it was even a kind of competition.
Last time I told a GF we were going somewhere as a surprise and she should ‘dress nice’, she was mildly pissed initially at how I’d dressed (t-shirt, jeans, dinner jacket), complaining that she thought I’d said ‘dress nice’ and that it would apply to me as well. Not that she’d actually gone to THAT much extra trouble, though, so in my opinion we matched class levels just fine, which was exactly what I’d expected and was entirely appropriate for the venue. She hated/loved that line of thinking, so it worked well. There’s something pretty great about a volatile partner who you can tease and play with.
Of course on another occasion she totally got her revenge by dressing up in one of those slinky Chinese, split-leg dresses, vibrant red with gold trim and dragon pattern. Damn near knocked me out (all that blood rushing away from my brain), along with every other man and woman in the place. And I’d thought I could out-dress her that time. She must’ve known something was up. Even though my suit was pretty decent, she definitely ‘won’ that one by the dropped jaws about the place, and she was so pleased about it that I didn’t even care. You gotta respect an earned win. (Plus, y’know. It’s nice to see your partner happy.)
Hehe, indeed, when I told her about the reactions she brought out she was all :D. She didn’t hear it at the time because of stage fright haha.
We also got compliments on how we matched! Gf had purple/blue-ish color hand-made dress via her mother, in vintage style, with over-jacket. Makeup, hair (small individual curls, so many bobby pins) in vintage style with a hand-made purple fascinator – via her cousin who makes vintage couture!
So I matched her with grey pants, new shoes, a purple matching shirt and a jacket. We were quite the team haha. I made gf mad that I didn’t win her a carton of beer in the male equivalent of fashions in the field, since she thought I had it in the bag after seeing the contestants.
Morning, TAY!
My weekend had games.
I finished Skyward Sword Hero Mode (man that was hard at certain points!) – still easily my favourite Zelda game. Some of the boss battles are very Dark Soulsy in Hero Mode. Also got the Hylian Shield this time around (didn’t even know it was in the game in my first playthrough :P). Now I’m all ready for Mario Kart!
I also watched the first couple of episodes of Orange is the New Black. There was someone on TAY who always squawks about that show… If only I could remember who it was… It’s pretty good!
@dc or @liondrive I think
I think I need to work on my jokes 😛
I thought it was a joke actually, but figured I’d tag anyway just in case. 🙁
Skyward Sword sure is pretty.
Don’t tell me that, I’ve got a copy that I haven’t played and my Wii is broken 🙁
$50 gets you a preowned Wii, do it just for Skyward love – worth it. A GREAT Zelda game, I loved how the journey to dungeons were puzzle-filled and almost mini-dungeons in themselves. And that final dungeon – SO AMAZING.
Well, I think it’s broken. It worked on our old TV, but we got a new TV about 4 or 5 months ago and first time I hooked it up it didn’t work.
Might give it another try now.
Just hooked it up, and it powers on and loads and ejects a disc, but no sound and no picture, so maybe the AV lead is stuffed.
Might buy one off Ebay and see if that fixes it.
You may as well pick up a component wii cable from eBay for HD picture (480p).
Man, SO pretty. The art style is amazing.
Longtime lurker – first time contributor.
Got an iPad on the weekend. Oh. My. Hearthstone.
Most addictive game I have ever played… ever.
Welcome to TAY! Want some rye? Course ya do!
Welcome to TAY! Want shome rye? Courshe ya do!
*drunk dials ex*
With one misplaced space, that could sound like you tried to shag an old style rotary phone when drunk
NOONE EVER MENTIONED THERE WAS RYE IN HERE – Would have joined years ago.
Chuck me the bottle this is gonna get dirteh *aggressive swigging*
I always thought they meant rye bread so I just had toast
Wait you mean it isn’t?
Wait, D.C.’s rye doesn’t refer to rye bread?
@dc we need answers.
It’s a reference from Return to Zork. You go to this drunk guys old cabin and he says Want some rye? Course ya do!
Rye is booze. 😀
Everything I thought I knew is not.
Hello. 🙂
It definitely has a “1 more game before bed” aspect to it, I’ve wrecked my work-day by thinking it would be safe to have a quick game the night before. It’s not just the game, which is fun, but the gamification with the “quests” and rewards you get.
When one of these digital collectible card games works they’re way to having an open marketplace, where you can buy, sell and swap cards, it could go gangbusters. Don’t get any ideas Valve!
I suck at it at present but getting ever better. The one more game factor is ridiculous. Started playing at 8:30 last night. Nek Minnit. 11:30pm… 12:00am …. 12:30am … fall asleep.
Currently using a sort of … Pump up the Taunt cards then unleash ALL THE MURLOCS. Those Froggy b*stards on mass do some real damage.
Anyone in here have any strats they lean toward?
@sernobulus I feel for the people you know … and the people they love.
Hullo!
Luckily I didn’t get hit by the Hearthstone addiction, I know a few people that have though.
Welcome ex-lurker!
Welcome to TAY. Someone prepare the Oar of Thorns, because I don’t know where it is. I think B-ob had it last? Or was it Tigerion?
I hold the rare distinction of being the only TAYbie not to come into contact with the Oar. 😀
Welcome!
Hola Tay
I had a busy weekend.
Lady Friend friday night, Gave blood Saturday morning, then went to a BOARD GAMES cafe saturday night. Played Dominion, Space Cadets: Dice Duels, String Railway, Pandemic and The Game of Life. Pub last night.
A Monday Morning Question, inspired by @dknigs: Favourite games to play slowly? which games do you take the time to stop and smell the roses in?
Every game!
Yep, pretty much same with me. I literally stop to check out small flowers/plants around the place. Then spend 5 mins sliding around on an ice surface.
Every pretty game!
All the Zelda titles – try to, anyway.
BTW, that board game cafe would have been like just around the corner from you- it’s on Milne road
Oh wow, that’s close. I might have to consider.
You know the redwood park shopping centre? it’s in there Fri & Sat nights
Skyrim.
Fallout. I wish I could input my own dialogue.
“Hey vaultdweller, you look fairly new out here…”
“Really? Did you miss the power armour and laser rifle here? How about my giant sword, notice that to?”
“Uhh…I need to you go and kill-”
“Done it. About 5 hours back. I’m only handing this in because I can’t drop quest items.”
“Ohhhkay…how about clearing out that cave-”
“Done it. Here.”
“Uhhhhhmmmm-“
DARK SOULS.
I also kind of like exploring open world games to see how immersive it’s capable of being, following NPCs around to see what they do, etc. Ever since GTA IV, I always spend at least a little time just checking out the world.
Usually, I do it until there’s some immersion-breaking incident (in GTAIV, I followed this guy who was carrying a box for about five minutes, but in the end he just turned around and went back the way he came) and then I feel okay mowing down sprites in the ensuing mayhem.
RPG’s!
RPG’s!
Any time there’s control, I go the way the designers didn’t intend just to see what’s there and see if I can find something cool, hidden or catastrophically game breaking. One time in Ultima IX I spent an hour doing tiny jumps onto the few standable pixels all the way up an “impassable” mountain only to get stuck in a genuinely impassable bit at the top. For some weird reason, I didn’t consider this wasted time…
Definitely the Elder Scrolls games. Talk to every NPC! Catch all the butterflies!
Read every other book!
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for those who need a recap- Apartment next to me had a fire. Sprinklers went off en masse. My floor essentially became waterworld.
after much wiping and mopping of water, I went to work. I didn’t get any sleep, and my work started at 4 in the morning. So.. not fun. Even better, it immediately hit me when I entered the building that I wasn’t scheduled for work. Boss was kind enough to let me work a shift since I was there anyway.
I got home, knocked out a few hours of sleep, and when I woke up I find that my landlord has installed 4 industrial fans throughout my apartment to dry everything up. As expected from industrial-standard equipment, they’re pretty obstructive and so damn loud.
but hey, roommate bought key lime pie. It’s good pie. And I can actually say I was pretty chuffed about it. 😛
Oh man, I had key lime pie when I was in the US last year, it’s absolutely a god-tier desert… I need to find a good recipe for it…
Isn’t it just lemon meringue pie with the lemons swapped for limes?
Catching up on gaming news, and there’s two Watch_Dogs articles. My hype has long since been dead, but there is literally no good news or hype-worthy tid-bits to be seen anywhere. In contrast, pretty much every shared detail reveals how it’s worse than: a) what was shown-off; b) what is expected. <$15 Steam sale for me.
Dark Souls 2 stuff :
Anfunaqen = Qrnq.
Qnex Fbhyf VV = qbar.
Raqvat jnf n gnq qvfnccbvagvat. Fcraq 50 ubhef tbvat guebhtu fbzr cerggl qvssvphyg guvatf & gur raqvat phg fprar vf lbh fvggvat ba n guebar. bx. sbe gur rssbeg chg va, V jbhyq’ir gubhtug gur raqvat zvtug’ir orra n gnq zber vzcerffvir. Fgvyy… gur tnzr vgfrys vf cerggl qnza tbbq.
tbaan tvir vg n erfg sbe n juvyr & znlor fgneg nabgure punenpgre va n ovg. Cebonoyl n pnfgre bs fbzr fbeg.
Also, finished Tansistor last night. Absolutely loved the soundtrack & gameplay. Story didn’t grab me as much as Bastion’s did (Seriously, I was in tears during the last level with Zulf. & the overarcing message of the game was a bit more apparent & less… subtle, I guess. Hell…. other than The Journey, I cant really tell you if Transistor had a deeper meaning like Bastion did.)
Also, it felt short. but then I look at the time-played counter in Steam & it says 8 hours. weird….
Anyway… gonna have to replay Transistor to pick up on some things I may have missed.
Still, I really liked it.
Ahhh, you need to watch that “Dark Souls 2 ending explained” video. It’s pretty excellent, and led me to have a huge amount of respect for the way the game and story are structured!
This is part two (it has a link to part one in the video itself): http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/05/the-dark-souls-ii-ending-explained/
Oh, the way that last Bastion level grabbed me had me hanging on every word. Amazing. GOATY. ETC.
Maybe I should get Transistor next time I have a spare weekend.
Hey, movie thoughts while I think of it.
Did anybody else look at the trailer for “Edge of Tomorrow” and think “Oblivion 2: Electric Boogaloo”? Just a lot of similar vibes, to the point where I’m not sure if I want to watch it (if I even did in the first place?) – hell, I even get a “Discount Emily Blunt” vibe from Andrea Riseborough, though that’s going in the opposite direction.
The source material is really neat. Far different than Oblivion, I’d like to think.
… but, uh, it looks to be completely different than the source material. So….
Yeah, I’m not saying the two are exactly alike, it’s more just the vibe I got from the trailer made me think of Oblivion.
I haven’t seen much of the source material though, but generally when Japanese novels get transported to Hollywood via Spec Script (just going of Wikipedia here) there’s so much that changes they might as well have just started from scratch.
Oh wow, I hadn’t realized that it was an adaption of All You Need is Kill at all. I assumed it was related to the Asimov book of the same name, which I hadn’t read so have no idea what the content is.
I watched the trailer then leaned over to a buddy and was like “the idea of a film where Tom Cruise is repeatedly shot in the head is actually quite appealing”.
I hadn’t thought of it from that angle, I’m suddenly interested again.
That’s that other futuristic movie of his that came out not too long ago wasn’t it? Except it had a lot more of the sterile white futurism thing going on.
Yeah, I thought the same thing too and it took me a while to realise I was thinking of a separate movie.
Yep, that’s the one. Glad to know I’m not going (any more) crazy (than usual)
HOLA TAY! Had some logon issues, but can post at last! \o/
Who’s this guy?
The guy who’s stealing your greeting.
Bah, plagiarist.
in the meantime, check out my new book, The Blesser Blevil, available on bookdepository.
Next, on Exploitation Theatre…Blacula, followed by Blackenstein, and The Blunchblack of Blotre Blame!
I prefer the upper class ones, like a Blaffair to Rememblack.
This guy. THIS GUY.
Hey man, how’s life?
Not too shabby. And you? How’s the family? 😀
Potato Salad Monday backfired on me, when the food I consumed turned out to be slightly expired.
In every other respect, though, things are pretty good. Only about a month until bub#3 joins us and I get three months off work.
That’s what you get for having egg in your potato salad. My work here is done! *hides poison*
Oh man, exciting times for your family. (And the time off will be awesome too. :D)
Expired? Did you BUY potato salad like a barbarian? It’s the easiest thing there is to make, even @dc could do it!
Does anyone else get really annoyed by the channel 7 ad showing “what really happens in bali”. All they seem to show is some stupid woman pulling out in front of oncoming traffic on a motorbike. The only other footage I have seen is another woman jumping off a cliff into water and hurting herself. Isn’t this all just stupid Australians doing stupid things and have nothing to do with Bali (besides actually being in bali).
I had a whinge about this before. It’s just preying on xenophobia.
And probably another victim of the broadcast regulations for locally produced “content”
(By which I refer to The ACS requires all commercial free-to-air television licensees to broadcast an annual minimum transmission quota of 55 per cent Australian programming between 6am and midnight.)
Cheapest of the cheap shit being shoved out en masse with no regard for quality purely to sell ad space and satisfy a regulatory requirement? When has that ever happened befo… oh… all the fucking time.
There is Xeons filth in Bali? I will purge them in the name of the Emperor!
I’m really playing too much 40k.
Never enough 40K. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLAKES!
Probably the Tau, water caste all over the place I’d bet, spreading their deviant philosophy of being generally nice to each other. Crush them for the glory of the Throne!
I’m almost certain that it’s part of a conspiracy to stop Australians traveling overseas, and to encourage them to spend their tourist dollars here at home.
The footage was probably taken in Sydney, though.
I’m pretty sure Abbott’s budget deficit will be used to build a big wall around the country and warn people that on the other side there’s nothing but evil ghosts.
Spot on. Apart from the fact that a short drive and a week-long stay anywhere will cost you the same as business class to Japan and back and a week-long stay. Or Singapore. Or Thailand, or New Zealand, or … anywhere.
Yeah, but who wants to go to Thailand right now.
NOT ME.
I’m allergic to peanuts!
New Zealand is fucking expensive. I went over there last year to visit my grandparents and the internal flights to get to where they live cost more than the international flights.
Heh, I suppose, but hard to beat $100 each way. 😛
Don’t watch Channel 7. Problem solved.
But…
Agents of SHIELD…
I assumed it was some kind of weird racist/isolationist agenda-pushing. DON’T GO OVERSEAS AUSTRALIA YOU WILL PROBABLY DIE.
Wolfenstein- dumbfun in small doses, hate the weapon wheel, dumb save system, dumb AI , stereotyped villians boring character development. But still has alot of fun moments.
Watch Dogs – hoping its not a reskin Assassns Creed, hopefully has a compelling plot and crazy villians but I doubt it.
Transister – beautiful looking game, the combat takes ideas from FFXIII X2 but adds traversal. I personally think it would of been much better if was all programable movement so each battle was like a cyber punk Disgea. Each battle would be much more like a puzzel and less sloppy. The first boss battle happens way to early for my liking and I still have no idea why I was attaked or the bosses background (perhaps this will become clearer latter on). Still an interesting game.
Any advanced squad leader/mage knight players out there?
I found the weapon wheel a lot easier to deal with when I realised you could tap up on the d-pad to switch between regualr and duel wielding. Too often I was getting in trouble because I’d switch to dual assault rifles when I really needed precision, or a single shotgun when I really needed to pump some heavy armour guy full of shrapnel.
Otherwise I’m really enjoying it.
Whats going on guys? Some Watchdogs and Wolfenstein talk…
EDIT: Sorry guys for the Wolfenstein spoiler earlier… I used spoiler tags, but i guess they still arent working…. :/ ROT13’d it now…
Watch Dogs
NO SPOILERS 🙂
So I was planning on grabbing myself a PS4 version, until a friend of mine offered up his review version of the 360 version. it was given to me about a week and a bit ago, but given Microsoft’s historical nature of banning people for playing a game well before its intended release, I kept it under my hat, but caved last night and started playing it, and ran into some pleasant surprises.
So the 360 version? Well, it ships on two discs, and suprisingly, it doesnt suck…. It still looks amazing… and the framerate? Rock solid so far… didnt get into it that much, and im not sure if the multiplayer component is all integrated and unlocks as you play through the main game, but given the game isnt officially out yet, i dont expect i will find out till tomorrow. only got about an hour into it, most of it just walking around the city, hacking people, and then taking their cash from an ATM, and a few side missions but its pretty damn cool.
My one gripe, is that it throws you knee deep from the get go trying to work out hacking, crafting, and stealth controls, making the tutorial mission incredibly hectic. Not a fun way to learn the ropes. Other than that, its pretty sweet. Will probably still end up grabbing the PS4 version.
Also Aiden’s apartment could use a clean. i thought he might contract a deadly virus simply standing next to that filthy bathtub and toilet bowl…
Basically, if anyone had any doubts about grabbing a last gen version, do it, you’ll be pleasantly suprised.
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Well this was a blast…. started it Saturday night, and finished it Sunday morning… Reminded of me of the old school shooters… The storyline was quite descent, and the game was very Wolfenstine-Like. Machinegames did very well on this one…
Managed to completely gross out my missus on one part:
Jurer vg synfurf onpx gb jurer Qrngufurq pncgherf lbh naq gur bgure fbyqvre vf trggvat uvf onpx fyvprq bcra, naq uvf urnq trgf qevyyrq vagb, sbyybjrq ol uvf oenva orvat fhpxrq bhg…
Was honestly not expecting it to be as good as it was. Pitty there was no multiplayer
Gubfr zrpuf jbhyq unir znqr sbe fbzr njrfbzr znlurz naq qrfgehpgvba… be znlor fbzr bcf fglyr pb-bc zvffvbaf, jurer lbh pbhyq rfpncr sebz n cevfba jvgu qbtf naq anmvf nyy bire lbh…
Dude.
http://www.rot13.com
I USED SPOILER TAGS, WHY THEY NO WORK!!!!
IM SO SORRY!!
All fixed…. /o\
Man i feel terrible now… :/
***Quietly sneaks away and hides…***
Not your fault dude!
Wolfenstein:
Lrnu gung erirny jurer gurl fubj jung unccrarq gb Srethf/Jlngg npghnyyl tnir zr puvyyf, juvpu jnf terng orpnhfr V unqa’g ernyyl sryg zhpu ubeebe sbe jung jnf unccravat. Hagvy gura.
lrnu naq jura lbh svaq bhg jung Qrngufurq jnf npghnyyl qbvat jvgu gur oenva.
“V’z fbeel sbe fubbgvat ng lbh fve. V unir ab pbageby bire zl npgvbaf. Xvyy zr, cyrnfr. V pnag yvir yvxr guvf.”
“Vgf orra na ubabhe freivat jvgu lbh…”
FEELS.
Lrc. V tbg zber srryf va gubfr ynfg 2 puncgref guna gur erfg bs gur tnzr. V cvpxrq Jlngg juvpu punatrq n srj guvatf, ohg Uraqevk tbvat bhg, naq OW’f tbbqolr gb Naln, cyhf whfg nsgre lbh xvyy Qrngufurnq jura ur bxnlf gur ahxr.
V’z thrffvat gurl’yy unir gb erobbg gur senapuvfr ntnva sbe nal frdhryf.
V fhccbfr ur pbhyq unir fheivirq va fbzr bqq gjvfg, frnyvat uvzfrys va n ohaxre be fbzrguvat. jr arire npghnyyl frr gur ahxr uvg juvyr uvf fgvyy ba gur tebhaq…. ur znl rira pbzronpx jvgu fbzr unys-plobet cnegf yvxr n zrpu nez naq yrt…
V thrff, ohg uvf fvqr jnf cerggl fuerqqrq hc, naq gurl jrer ba gur gbc sybbe (sbhtug ba gur ebbs, hagvy gurl penfu guebhtu vg sbe gur 2aq fgntr bs gur svtug) fb V’z xvaqn qbhogvat vg. Juvpu fhpxf, orpnhfr V ybirq gur nygreangr ernyvgl jbeyq.
Well it’s a nice sounding start to watchdogs, my order feels more validated now.
Hey Gang,
I can’t make trivia tonight due to getting a bug in my eye on Saturday that has laid eggs behind said eyeball and I can feel it’s offspring eating me from the inside out. (I got a sore eye)
I dunno if anyone was actually keen outside of me and Bob, but we should get gung ho for the next one.
Can someone do the tag magic?
Sick. Sick.
Taggity TAY Tagsssssssssssssssssss: http://powalen.com/tags/
@beardymcmuttonchops @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
Maybe to make it proper Kotaku-y we should find out when/if Mana Bar is doing one, plan ahead? (Remindering that I’m unable to attend tonight due to “real life” stuff as well.)
How many are still coming? I was planning on it – even if just to chill and have a drink with Bob et al – but if we’re critically low on TAYbies, not-going works out pretty well for some work plans for me.
My mates were planning on a Game of Thrones quiz night at the Embassy which I’m not too fussed about. Ideally I’ll be spending tonight doing odd jobs round the house and sitting on my ass but if I do get dragged out against my will it’ll be to the GoT one 🙁 I should be good to attend in two weeks
If you want to just chill and have a drink any night is good for Cobbler. Friday nights they usually have a jazz trio, which is great, and Thursday there’s usually somebody on the piano.
I’m actually thinking that in spite of not being able to go tonight Thursday might be good this week since I have Friday off and could probably use a drink or 2.
Fair’nuff. @beardymcmuttonchops @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @welbot @weresmurf @virus__ if you’re heading out to the Cobbler (for trivia or not), holler and I’ll swing by around the planned 7pm and have a drink or two. No responses, I’ll work instead.
EDITED FOR LOGIC.
I won’t be there
(does getting a response mean you’ll go?)
By the original text, I would totally have to! But now that I’ve fixed it? Noo!
The two parentheses are my raptor claws, sliding in to place for the kill.
Oh yeah, I’m keen on one of these, but am locked into being at home playing dad for the next 2 weeks while my son’s mum is away on island for a research program. Or something. Something about fish? *shrugs*
So, am I the only one who now thinks she’s a secret agent? Possibly KGB?
You could come visit us, but Ill be at ‘soup’s
Called it.
Shit.
I gave in and bought the dawn of war II pack.
Anyone not at work wants to start a chaos rising campaign with me?
Finished my two 12 hour nigh sifts for the weekend and I’ve got a couple of days to kill now. Killing heretics seems a good way to do so.
Sadly I’m working otherwise I’d say yes.
yeah, go easy on tech, gorzi, he’s still learning the ropes!!!!
THIS IS CO-OP! 😛 Sheesh
So! I’ve just realised that quite possibly for the next 5 months, I have nothing I really want to play.
Watchdogs I am happy to wait for, and the 3DS has had a good run for the past 8 months, but nothing’s on the horizon.
Does this mean… I should get a Vita?
$200 CAD for a VOta Slim and Borderlands pack, and a quick browse around EB piqued interest for Persona 4 Golden (even though I’ve played it on the PS2) and Hot shots… but that’s about it really.
What do?
#shakespeareantragedy
You could do what I’m doing – make a shortlist of high priority games on the pile of shame, then completely ignore the list and play Monster Hunter every weekend.
You’ll have a better time if you had a PS+ membership storing all the Vita games for a couple months. I have more games now than I can play, and I’m having a blast. Everybody’s Golf has be hooked atm.
I think you should play Katawa Shoujo for the next 5 months.
Also, I recommend Vita if you like Japanese games. It’s fantastic if you do. I much prefer it over the 3DS, such a better system. If you don’t you will run out of games very quick.
Have a look at some vids for Gravity Rush, that was easily my favourite “ahh what the hell I’ll give it a try” game on the Vita, really clever game mechanics.
Uncharted Golden Abyss was also pretty damned cool and I’m enjoying Batman Arkham Origins: Blackgate so far. Tearaway is supposed to be really good too but I’ve not gotten that yet
Vita is awesome. but only if you have an appreciation for indie games and not just AAA blockbusters… Its also a no brainer purchase especially if you have playstation plus just for the sheer amount of free games.
Not much of a selection on AAA & cart based games. but id probably recommend:
Batman
Assassins Creed Liberation
Duke Nukem Megaton Edition is coming soon
Touch my Katamari
Unit 13
Dungeon Hunter Alliance is a blast if playing with friends…
Mortal Kombat,
Persona 4
+ others.
also with borderlands 2, its good, but dont go into it expecting a flawless console experience… frame rate can get a bit shitty from time to time, and the details are toned down a few notches. If you can get past that, its good fun..
We’d be here for the next 2 days if i was to start listing good indie games, but heres a few…
Flow/Flower
Escape Plan
escapeVektor
Tales from space: A mutant blob attacks (can not recommend this game enough!!!!)
@bish:
Also if you like Japanese RPGs then the Vita is fab. Best versions of the recent Atelier games, Persona 4, Disgaea 3 and 4, huge selection of PSP stuff (Trails in the Sky!), Ys, some quality dungeon crawlers, big whack of solid Monster Hunter clones with more on the way, and even getting a proper localized Tales game (which hasn’t been released in English before) later in the year. There’s also the best version of Muramasa.
@bish
Also has PSOne classics and some cross/buy games. I have one and while it was a present, really like it.
It also can get the PSMobile games, and some PSP games for purchase.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
As the party heads towards the field of towers, they have already encountered viral beings- what strange viral creatures lurk in their citadel?
WEDNESDAY 7:30 SA TIME
Also, streaming!
cc @mawt @popdart5 @tech_knight @mythamphetamine @blaghman and @novacascade even though he’s OS!
Strange… viral… creatures?
OMG, you’re fighting Nyan-Cats.
Well.. flubber’s angry cousin that bench presses in the gym more times than I could count, that was what we fought.
I was just there for the bit where you nearly fell off the train, then had to disconnect from the stream and eat dinner.
Dumbest move Scrappa and I ever did pretty much, I’m going to leave the shoving to the experts
Yeah, if you’re not careful you could end up deScrappatated.
Upvote was for the wordplay, not for the intended meaning of killing @tech_knight in game.
Only wordplay was ever intended. Nobody ever got hurt from wordplay.
Only about a month to go before the W Smith clan adds another screaming bundle of joy to its membership. Might be a girl, might be a boy, might not be. Exciting times!
In other news, here’s some writing updates:
25 May, 2014: The script for Triumviratus is finished. It clocks in at an astounding 515 pages (23 issues of 22 pages each, and a 9 page prose epilogue). At this stage I’ve completed almost six issues of artwork, which means I have around 400 pages still to produce. I know what I’ll be doing for the next twelve months. The book will be A4 in size, which means that it’s basically half a ream of paper.
26 May, 2014: Added an email subscription list to my website, for folks who don’t feel that my Facebook, Twitter and TAY posts are sufficiently self-promotional.
June 10, 2014: The Game comes out.
June 10, 2014: James Flamestar and the Stargazers comes out
I’ve ordered the proofs for these two books, and hope to receive them this week. Exciting times.
September 13-14, 2014: I will be in Sydney, hocking books at Oz Comic-Con. (That reminds me: I should probably chase them up to make sure they received my exhibitor application form.) That means (possibly) meats!
Just out of interest, have you entertained collaborating with an artist on a project? I solely ask because 515 is a lot of pages!
I have considered it! But unless I plan to pay someone a decent wage for the pages, chances are that it’ll be another part-timer hobbyist, and it’ll end up taking longer for someone else to do the art than it would for me to do it.
Plus, I’m pretty happy with the style I’ve developed for the book!
Oh yeah, should also add two things:
1) I enjoy it, so it’s an exciting thing to have so much work lined up!
2) Peaceful Tomorrows was longer (coming to almost 600 pages before the publisher split it into two volumes), so it’s not even the longest project I’ve tackled!
yeah, it is pretty
BTW, I thought Flamestar looked really good. Haven’t yet read Peaceful Tomorrows, but the art in Flamestar was better than The Lesser Evil (not that TLE was bad, i just thought Flamestar was really good)
Thanks!
Peaceful Tomorrows is closer to The Lesser Evil in terms of style, but cleaner (trying to eliminate ‘grey’ areas of shading entirely). The Game pushes that ‘clean’ look further still.
Yeah, I thought the clean look definitely suited the CG models better
Me too. It was always the goal; I just lacked the skills in the early days.
A Director’s Cut of The Lesser Evil would look very different nowadays (a whopping three years later).
Morning every body 🙂
I trust all are well.
My week was fairly uneventful, like usual, though I did actually manage to play games 😀
I got super passive aggressive at my roomie, so decided to pretend every enemy in Dynasty Warriors 8 was him, and subsequently killed him 10,000+ times. Soothing 😀
I made plans to go out next Saturday with a bunch of friends, so I’m really looking forward to that 😀
I haven’t been drunk in far too long.
I have a reputation to maintain 😉
Also, it’s now my last week of uni! *happy dances*
I’m more than likely gonna buy a Wii U next week too 😀
Hope everyone has, and has had, a good week! 🙂
HYPERULE WARRIORS!
I’m going to use that name from now on. =P
They’ve been dropping hints that there is going to be lots of playable characters too!
Fingers crossed for Malon.
Fingers crossed for a medevalised Samus. And Captain Falcon.
I’m pretty excited for it.
BIIIG Warriors fan right here (I own Dynasty Warriors 5-8, warriors Orochi 1-3, Samurai Warriors, and Gundam Warriors 1-2 :3)
It will probably be my first Zelda game too! 😀
Am I the only one who thought dynasty warriors 8 was the weakest one so far?
I may be playing it wrong though.
I found doing the ambition mode is terrible.
It seems like a good idea but it means you have grind these tiny little non maps over and over again and have little fights which is not what the Warriors games are about at all. Also, there is no point ever doing any of the mods to farm any resources other then materials because you need 1000000 times more of them then fame or allies and will naturally hit caps for both well before you cap materials.
I bet I’m doing it wrong…
Play Story mode. Story mode is really good this time around. Ambition mode is alright, but yeah, gets old a little quickly (though I always go back to it).
I’d put 8 as one of the strongest in the series. My low point would be 6. So many goddamn clone characters! 8 has no clone characters at all (I think 7 had a few), and made some of the shite characters super crazy (like Xiahou Yuan and Ba).
Also, Wang Yi (Wei) and Jia Chong (Jin) are crazy fun to play as. They’re my favourites :3
Do you unlock anything in story mode though? I was under the impression if I want to unlock new characters I had to do ambition mode.
I think it’s either.
I unlocked everyone through story mode. When they’re available as a playable character on a story mode stage, it means they’re unlocked.
Try and do the optional missions as well, as some characters require that to become playable (like Xiahou Ba, Daqiao, and Xiaoqiao).
Four star weapons you get through ambition mode more easily though, and ultimate weapons you do through free mode.
This Telstra web application has a search system which resets to defaults, removing all your search details, if you hit the keypad/keyboard ‘Enter’.
[UNKIND THOUGHTS REDACTED]
It is a frustrating design decision I wish they had not made.
Dafuq?!
The implication is that it retains the details if you actually click search, is that right? That seems very bizarrely coded if so
Yeah. Click seach to run.
No keyboard shortcut for run, only for resetting to defaults.
Which makes you wonder at just how incompetent they thought end-users would be.
Shortcuts are for frequently-used commands. Is ‘reset to defaults’ REALLY supposed to be a more common command than ‘run search’?
Baffling.
Very unintuitive – The expected action when you press ‘Enter’ in a search box is to run the search.
Those systems are the worst. Whenever I come across one, I fall victim to the Enter-thing at least twice… which admittedly says as much about my shortcomings as a creature of habit as it does about the badly-designed system 😛
Which web app?
Telstra’s IP telephony CGA app.
No Game of Thrones tonight… monday is ruined, RUINED I TELL YOU!!!
Hodor.
I’m really hanging out for this epic duel. (Have not read the books)
I’m kind of hoping the the mountain wins just because I want to hear what Stevo thinks watching himself die on screen.
We haven’t watched since about episode 3 so we have a bit of catching up to do. Oh and for those who are wondering what the hell Gorzy is on about, my fiance thinks that I look like Pedro Pascal and sent me this.
Nice one! Very similar indeed!
Made a couple of Oberyn’s early scenes pretty awkward
Oh you mean the dude on dude scenes, plus the take my wife scenes? Pfft no one remembers those.
I don’t understand… why did you just post two pictures of Pedro Pascal? 😛
Put this in Old TAY over the weekend, but:
HANNIBAL
just, Hannibal.
S2 finale is so, so good and gutsy.
Come onnnnnn, it’s been an hour and no remark on that fine pun?
Look at it!
#pagesixerryday
“Page six” and “fine pun” is an oxymoron.
My head is in a really weird place lately.
I always try to be a nice person and try to go out of my way to help people unless they’ve done something to prove they are undeserving of my assistance. But I find myself wondering if I’m really a bastard and just tell myself that I’m nice so I don’t feel so guilty when I think greedy or unkind thoughts.
I also am really dissatisfied with my life at the moment. I know some of the things I can do to change it but I don’t want to because I don’t think I like the sort of person I would be if I was doing those things. It’s like I’ve got a decent life and i’m unhappy because it’s not great but I don’t want to try and make it great because I don’t want to risk the decent part. That and I’m just plain lazy. I tend to spend too much time doing nothing but running around inside my own head having weird thoughts in imaginary lands.
I’m going to try and make myself get into writing again and try to make some use of my head being in the clouds. While that’s not likely to change my life in any but at least I’ll be able look back at it and see something I’ve actually achieved. Assuming I finish anything.
Little secret: Most people are bastards deep down, it’s the core of human nature. Fighting against it makes you a good person.
How much happier would you be if you risk the decent bit (by the wording I presume this is one of those relationship things people do) and it works out well? How much worse would it be if you risk it and it doesn’t work out?
You’d be amazed how much a sense of accomplishment can really improve your mood/outlook of things. If writing is something you’re passionate about, try and set some goals you can meet and feel good about reaching. Start small – a blog with short stories and one day you’ll be hitting us all up to buy your book, “The Greater Evil” 😉
Followed up by ‘The Tumultuous Tomorrows’ and ‘The Work.’
Gorzy will try something different, and we’ll end up with ‘Jim Firesun and the Astronomers.’
Playing Wolfenstein, Enter an area with two enemies with their backs to me, one going to the left, and one going to the right, so I go to the left, crouching right in front of the guy and he doesn’t even see me until I start swinging my knife. Then head back to the centre of the area, wait for the other guy to come back, and I throw a knife at his head, heard the “ting” as it ricocheted off his helmet, and he falls down dead. Was kinda funny.
Yeah I think I’m done with humanity again…
MRA terrorist murders random women because they won’t fuck him
I haven’t read too much about this, but I’ve seen some quotes from his manifesto and other stuff he’s said. Terrifying stuff.
I can’t imagine blaming other people for my laughable inability to attract women.
Maybe that’s where the psychotic tendencies and high-functioning autism come into the equation… I dunno.
As I said to someone today on facebook: Aspergers isn’t what caused the misogyny.
It’s the vile corners of the internet and modern society that spurred this kind of thinking on, couple with lax, lax gun control.
It seems to be the whole attitude of the US population lately, fed up with life, I’ll go on a rampage.
The whole country’s fucked.
It seems that way sometimes, for sure. But let’s not lose all hope. Although it’s still a terrible number, there are around 15,000 gun murders a year in the US. That’s less than 0.005% of their population. It’s still waaaaay too high, but it’s far from the whole country.
Of course, I’m not trying to trivialise that side of it at all. There’s some deep-seated unreasonable, irrational blind bigoted resentment right at the core of this issue.
I read through his Manifesto. All goddamn 140ish pages of it, out of morbid curiosity. I’ll refrain from posting personal opinions but I can say that it personally made me think of what people my age expect from relationships and what’s expected of my gender. Not to say that those two topics are heavily tied to his particular psychosis. Just some one-note thoughts.
Immature twat.
I think fucking psychopath is the term.
Any normal person should be uncomfortable enough with the idea of taking a human life even in the case of life-or-death situations, but over hurt feelings? Christ in a cracker, that’s demented.
(Also, mixed feelings about the reporting on PUAs etc. Whilst obviously no more fair than when it happens to us as gamers when some idiot kid kills a parent over xbox, it’s almost reassuring to see some demographic other than gamers CAN in fact get tarred with a psychopath’s brush by association.)
PUA stuff is pretty fucking vile though.
Agreed.
While I was at uni, I was friends with a couple of guys who read “The Game” (no relation to my book of the same title), and went clubbing to try out some of the principles of the book. Somehow, one of them actually managed to ‘pick up.’
I can’t decide if that makes the PUA scene less or more repulsive. Would it be worse if the principles were based on utter falsehoods and bad assumptions about human behaviour, or if they’re carefully tailored to successfully manipulate people (in effect, an extension of marketing)?
Descending into academic distinctions, here, I suppose, so I’ll stop talking.
Yeah. I’ve seen some of it.
And due to being about as counter-intuitive as finding a cure for cancer by infecting people with smallpox (which is what we’re doing now, apparently), I reckon that vileness means a lot of self-esteem/healthy resilience babies getting tossed out with that PUA bathwater.
The price of being dicks in all sorts of other areas, I guess. But from my brief readings there are certainly at least two attitudes that they espouse which people don’t seem to catch as being healthy.
1) exhibit confidence in yourself (even if you don’t have any – fake it til you make it)
2) don’t get hung up on rejections, just move on.
Writing off a rejection and moving on (which is THE healthiest approach I can think of to asking people out), not getting all creepy obsessed about ‘the one’ who is meant to be if they could just get to know you and the stars align or whatever. If there was ever anything that could combat ‘rape-culture’ in whatever form you think it takes, it would be that underlying healthy philosophy. Getting over it, moving on.
Kind of the opposite of what this psychopath did. Clearly one of those idiots who thought/hoped he could learn mind control powers and all the bullshit you keep seeing on dodgy-ass pop-ups which promise to ‘short-cicruit’ female brains or whatever.
I googled PUA. Pick Up Artist? If yes, then I think you’re severely under-looking the problem. This situation has spurned all the crazy feminazi’s into an uproar, and the “all men are rapists” bullshit is on the same level as “all people with turbans are terrorists”.
Hang on, what do you mean by under-looking the problem?
PUA’s tarred by a brush? It’s extended into all males being tarred by the brush.
I was waiting for someone like you to put the situation into better words than I.
Awww, the poor guy was a 22 year old virgin, he drives a BMW and Daddy’s a film director. Life must have been so hard for him.
Maybe the reason he couldn’t get a girl was the fact that he was a creepy psychotic bastard.
Yeah, saw that this morning and wtf-ed. Such a stupid ‘explanation’ for what he did. It wasn’t even the particular people that rejected him.
What I don’t like even further is the shitstorm something like this creates.
You don’t think a spree killing deserves a shitstorm?
The shitstorm meaning the Twitter hashtag and all the other rage about every male being a closet rapist, and all things to go along with that.
Well as a man the best solution is to call the vile idiots who make women feel that way out on their bullshit.
Which hashtag is that?
#YesAllWomen
They have some valid points, but as always there’s a whole bunch of extremists who spoil the entire thing. There’s less than 40% good stuff in there.
Full disclosure: as a teenager, I had a lot of trouble understanding why I was so unpopular with the ladies. I was tall, I was smart, I was generous and gentle. I had an all right sense of humour. (I was also thoroughly nerdy, and shy to the point where conversations were awkward for everyone, and looked kind of weird until I grew into my body, but pfft whatever)
But at the time, I got frustrated at the success and conquests of the douchebags around me. And yes, I’m aware that this attitude is a reductive one that turns women from autonomous people into prizes for alpha males; an attitude I’ve worked hard to jettison. But I think that’s perhaps a not entirely unusual attitude for teenage boys.
There was probably some expectation mixed into this. A sense of entitlement. Not, I suppose, entirely unlike this bloke who shot up the campus.
Loneliness is frustrating, and because people are people, there’s no magic formula for overcoming that. Maybe this develops into resentment of the opposite gender for not being easily quantifiable, for not coming with an instruction manual (I don’t know for sure, because this didn’t happen in my case).
I’m just glad I was able to internalise that stuff and blame myself for my social shortcomings, and that I didn’t stumble across something like the MRA before I finally grew up. I can’t imagine I would ever have rampaged, but I can definitely picture sinking deep into a bitter, resentful depression.
TL;DR: Scary sympatico.
I’ve been there and it’s not pretty while I was a teen. Dark thoughts like what this kid did can appear in your mind, suicide too. Times come when you feel so alone all you can see if just darkness around you, and if I didn’t have games to keep my mind out of that darkness, I don’t think I would still be here. Common things that go through your mind as a teen when stuff like this happens that screw you over first are summarised to a “They’re the ones that are wrong, not me” mentality. If it’s left to bottle up inside without ways to take your mind off it, your mind will try to make you lash out at the monsters that did this to you, and due to your horrible mental state you’re getting to at this point, it generalises them all as the monsters and becomes this general despising of everybody and everything around you.
Many times on the train or the bus, whenever I sit near a happy couple, being all smiles, cuddles and kisses I had to resist the urge to 1: cry my eyes out and 2: lash out at them just because they’re all happy in their loving relationship while I couldn’t even get a girl to like me back. I was strong enough to just hold my own and wait until after I got home and into my room before breaking down all over again.
It doesn’t happen as much now because of my overseas girlfriend pulling me mostly out of that darkness and I’ve got friends here to talk to if things go sour for me again.
I’ve depressed myself enough thinking about this, time for some cheering up! That usually does the trick.
This is mine
Hey Taybies. Alright weekend. Took up archery about three months ago and the club is loaning me a recurve bow with a higher poundage (takes more force to draw the string). I could barely lift a fork to eat lunch on Saturday after two hours of shooting.
One big thing to come out of the weekend was an awesome game idea. I’d love to have a crack at programming something, but I have no programming skills. I do have affinity for technical things, as long as I put my mind to it. So…does anybody have any suggestions as to what programming language would be good for a newbie game designer? Unity? Unreal? Or is there a low-key language I can cut my teeth on?
heh… “poundage”
…
what?
EDIT – I am unsure about actual “programming” languages but i would guess that any common Object Oriented language is a good start…
I would assume something like C++, java or Python would be a good starting point… The main thing is (to my understanding, again i have only had limited exposure) is to understand the logic flow behind OO programming, as opossed to something simple like a scripting language…
Anyway, just my 2 cents, feel free to correct me, i don’t do much programming on a day to day basis 😛
Yeah, C++ is what they start everyone on at Uni for that reason (at least they did for me)
I hated it, but it was very useful to start with 😛
OO is kind of inescapable now, but it really isn’t a good way to start learning formally. Procedural is better – without understanding the basics you won’t understand why the OOP things like encapsulation and reducing coupling are so important and useful and as a result there’s a good chance you’ll produce poor code for a longer period.
Haha see this is why I am comfortable saying i barely know any of this stuff… my job has me doing simple bash and PHP, but nothing too in depth and as such i have never needed to be particularly good at it XD.
Thanks for clarifying though
All the universities teach Java to start with now and it’s a big shame IMO. When I did my course we started on C, dipped into some assembly, learned formal data structures, algorithms, low-level operating system bits and so on, and only once we had shown we knew what the hell our code actually did were we allowed to move up into abstractions like OOP.
You shouldn’t start with a simple beginner language if you want to learn good skills that are transferable to other languages, and you will struggle to put anything to use toward a game if you haven’t learned a proper language as well.
What sort of game do you want to make?
Unity is apparently easy to get into, but the bulk of the programming work you’ll do with it is in C#. C# is a great language but it’s non-trivial to learn. Unreal I think is C++ so that’s even harder. I think both of them make use of Lua for internal scripting as well, and Lua is a really odd language.
If I were encouraging anyone on programming languages to start learning with, it would be C# or Python. C# because it is useful in a lot of contexts, easier than C or C++ but still powerful and has a lot of time-saving structure to it. Python has some major issues but as an interpreted language it’s good, plus it forces you to have somewhat readable code. It’s also everywhere and the Open Source people love it so there’s lots of tutorials out there.
Out of the two I’d go C# personally, but I currently program in C# for my job, and I’ve been programming to some degree for nearly fifteen years and in many different languages, so it’s hard to give advice because I hit the point quite a while ago where I don’t think in terms of the language, i think in terms of the commands I’m trying to express, and that’s usually transferable to anything.
I’d second C#. I don’t know if they have been updated or are irrelevant now, but a few years ago when I was looking to game coding there was a framework called XNA that gave you many tools for making games in C# right out of the box. Might be worth a look?
When you’re learning from scratch, it can be overwhelming and frustrating – try following simple tutorials that focus on one thing at a time, otherwise:
C Program Run.
C Program Crash.
C Programmer Quit.
@quiz_b: Microsoft killed XNA off with Windows 8, but people grabbed it and ported it to Mono (open source .NET framework). Look for MonoGame if that’s of interest. Used for actual commercial stuff eg. Transistor and Bastion. Easy to port to other platforms apparently, though I think Unity is meant to be easier.
At uni the starting language is Java, cause it’s easy to learn and pretty straight forward. That progresses into C++ though. Also, my uni uses the Unity engine, though I haven’t had hands on time with it yet, so can’t comment on how good it is, but it seems like a good starting point.
Recurve Bow, eh? Enjoy the extra 30 attack speed!
I read that as recursive bow. And then pictured a bow that shot itself at people.
Gutsoup Wii U get!!!
*leaps aboard the Mario Kart hype train and shovels coals into the furnace*
Full speed ahead!
SUCCESS \o/
Now to add all people from Taylist ever…
I’ll be waiting on my friend invite and if i don’t receive i will possibly cry mmmkay?
At least when you add people in the Wii U miiverse they get a notification. Not like the stupid 3DS friend code nonsense.
I gotta go figure all that stuff out, hadn’t even touched a wii u game pad before I got it,
what’s your Nintendo ID it’s not on Taynames, also @scree, wanna be ninty friends, yours isn’t on taynames either
scree06 . Too lazy to add =P
Choo choo
ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN.
Except me, because I don’t have a Wii U. I guess I’ll stick to Mario Kart Wii in all it’s ‘merely passable’ glory.
Was totally going to start 3D World about a billion times over the weekend, but kept having friends suddenly get super talkative and mega discussions, or got roped into helping mum cook desserts for family birthday dinner last night (which took ALL FREAKIN DAY somehow) and just… whole thing disappeared.
The table was very full with all the cousins having their respective partners along too. Hadn’t met two of them yet, but they’re all lovely. Kinda wears after a while being the only one without someone to bring along though. Mainly because someone always brings it up 😛
MARIO KART WEEK!
46 DAYS UNTIL REDEEMER OF SOULS!
Just tell them you’re still playing the field. That’ll shut them up for a while.
I have that issue with games. So many options that I end up not making a choice
Hey, TAY, give me some perspective since I feel like going on a rant tangent.
I keep seeing this advertisement for the Australian Army, or Defence, or whatever it is. You’ve probably seen it, it’s all over TV, YouTube, even cinema advertising. The one that has lots of 1 second snippets of Australian personnel, doing defencey things, the idea being “picture YOURSELF here!”
And I’m trying to work out if I should be annoyed or not, but over 50% (or thereabouts) of the people shown in the ad are women, either solo, as part of a team, etc. The final shot is even of a solitary woman smiling at the camera.
Which is all well and good but “As at 1 May 2012, 7,903 women make up 13.9 per cent of the permanent full-time ADF”
I get affirmative action, and attempting to recruit specific demographics, but this just seems to be taking misrepresentation a little bit far. Why not show reality?
Because reality doesn’t lead to recruitment.
Same as any marketing campaign, I suppose. Show as little reality as you can legally get away with.
Edit: are you operating on the assumption that this is meant to encourage women to enrol? Because I’d argue that it would be equally effective getting men through the door, if not more so.
I’m operating on the assumption that … I don’t know who it’s targeting actually. Too many ads these days are just “PLAY A BUNCH OF “MUSIC” OVER SOME RELATED IMAGES” and don’t actually seem to be doing anything or think about the content.
There’s one for news.com.au that makes me laugh because they spend so much time showing people reading “news” on lots of devices and in lots of places but then they end the ad with this long shot of the news.com.au logo with the music finishing “I’ll never see you, I know you’re living everywhere” (or something like that) – So the last impression on the ad is “I’ll never see you.”
(See. I’m feeling ranty. D: )
I’m seeing an ad
Picture of a soldier bleeding out after an RPG destroys a nearby IFV and the resulting concussion and shrapnel tears his leg off.
Caption: “Picture YOURSELF here!”
They probably want the percentage to be higher than 14%
I warrant you’re probably right, I just think that if they want the “picture yourself here” angle, why not show a broad cross section of people, instead of just one (pretty awkwardly smiling) woman?
This. Part of the point is making these jobs more appealing to women, and they’re not going to do that by showing angry army men everywhere.
Yeah, and here’s me typing something significantly more loquacious and considerably less succinct than those ten words (9+number).
Brevity-five!
Brevity-five!
Takes longer to type than high five too…
I’m very bad at this brevity thing.
“An ill chosen word is the fool’s messenger.”
“Brevity is the soul of wit”
“Speak fitly or be silent wisely.”
Wise words courtesy of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’
Because given all of the sex scandals in the armed forces, they’re trying goddamn hard to make it not a boys club.
Sump Up Rump.
They don’t need women to create scandals.
Reality doesn’t exist. You’re actually in a fluid-filled capsule along with the rest of people.
*Scuttles away and leaves behind two pills*
BUT WHICH PILL DO I TAKE!?!? 🙁
Both!
Why oh why didn’t I take the blue pill.
The reality is that they’d be aiming for a 50/50 split with incoming recruitment, so I wouldn’t consider it misleading.
I reckon the numbers have gotten better since that statistic – there was a bit of a, how to put it, right sizing end of that financial year.
Yeah, Ideally I’d want a statistic less than 2 years old but that’s the one they’ve got on their website so it’s all I had to work with.
Hey, you want misleading recruiting campaigns, how about the year there were no intake positions but all the recruiting was already paid for on contract years in advance – so the ads kept running and they kept processing applications, but no-one actually got as far as going to basic training.
Touché!
The reality is that you’re a product of war. They use upbeat images and females to convey a sense of ‘safety’, that the defence force is just like any other corporate environment. Females are pictured because:
– They appeal to females. And males.
– They show a side of defence force that people would hope for.
Overall, it’s a valid advertising tactic IMO because it will encourage participation from both genders.
I figure it’s kind of like the articles we’ve seen on Kotaku lamenting the lack of women in the games industry. The question always comes up – the law says you can’t discriminate, so why is it still a problem? Because women don’t WANT to apply? Because they don’t think it’s normal to apply? How do we change society so that isn’t the case?
I figure this is one of those ways.
Not that you should put much stock in defense force recruitment ads anyway.
One of the things that gave my old recruiter a chuckle was when they were asking probing questions about why I wanted to be there, and I acknowledged that yeah, I’m well aware that the service is not like the ads. That for all the time you spend blasting over sand-dunes in a tank, you’re far more likely to spend around a hundred times as long cleaning the tank. Because it’s a fucking job.
But that doesn’t make for great recruitment.
Cause they are trying to increase the number of women in Defence and so make sure to include many women in the ads to target that demographic.
So I’ve been driving myself mad over this relationship situation I’ve gotten myself into…. and any advice from experienced TAY’s would be welcome. Going to cypher it to as not to fill TAY up with melodramatic crap!
Fb V’ir tbggra zlfrys vagb dhvgr gur zrffrq hc fvghngvba jvgu na rk (jub V oryvrirq jnf gur bar, jr pyvpxrq ba na haoryvrinoyr yriry) pbzvat onpx vagb zl yvsr juvyr V’z va n eryngvbafuvc. Orsber pbagvahvat yrg zr whfg fnl V’z abg gur xvaq bs thl gung tbrf nsgre jbzra juvyr va n eryngvbafuvc naq guvf vf npghnyyl zl svefg gvzr trggvat zlfrys vagb n zrff yvxr guvf. Ybat fgbel fubeg V’ir orra fcrnxvat gb zl rk ntnva (fb sne vg’f orra pbzcyrgryl cyngbavp) ohg nf bs ynfg jrrx V’ir fgnegrq frrvat uvagf va bhe pbairefngvbaf jurer fur’f onfvpnyyl vzcylvat fur’q yvxr gb tvir guvatf nabgure fubg… ohg fur vfa’g njner bs gur snpg V’z jvgu nalbar ryfr. V’ir orra ntbavmvat bire guvf sbe gur cnfg jrrx naq V pna’g svther bhg juvpu bar bs gurz pbhyq or gur evtug crefba…. Fb vafgrnq bs qenttvat guvf ba nal shegure V’ir whfg qrpvqrq gb gryy gurz obgu gur pbzcyrgr gehgu naq yrg gur fvghngvba frys qrfgehpg >.< Vf gurer nal bgure jnl sbe zr gb trg guebhtu guvf??
If you have spoken to the ex this much and haven’t told her you’re in a relationship currently yet I’d say you’d have a couple of hard questions you’ve been avoiding to ask yourself.
I don’t know if I 100% agree with this. Though I 100% understand where you’re coming from I also think that if it’s genuinely never come up in conversation then why would the ex know he was in a relationship? Wouldn’t it be just as weird if they’re talking away and then suddenly “Hey, BTW, I’m seeing somebody.” – could be just as awkward and create problems where none exist.
Not saying that’s the case here, just, it could be otherwise.
I should’ve gone into a bit more detail but we’ve basically only been speaking for the past week. It hasn’t actually come up because at first we were just talking as friends and I think it only ever crossed a line towards the end of the week at which point I took a step back and said wtf to myself >.<
This advice is based entirely upon a lifetime of television watching. Bear that in mind.
Ubarfgl fbhaqf yvxr n tbbq cbyvpl. Vg nyy pbzrf qbja gb jbeqvat, bs pbhefr.
Gb cnegare: “Fb, V’ir orra gnyxvat gb ‘rk’ erpragyl. Ng svefg, V gubhtug vg jnf whfg abguvat, ohg abj V guvax fur jnagf gb tvir vg nabgure tb, fb V’z gryyvat lbh nobhg vg abj”
Gb rk: “V’ir orra trggvat gur vzcerffvba lbh jnag gb fgneg guvatf hc ntnva…” [Gur erfg bs guvf erfcbafr xvaq bs qrcraqf ba juvpu bar lbh jnag gb raq hc jvgu]
Boivbhfyl, V pna’g tvir nal nqivpr ba jub lbh fubhyq or pubbfvat (cnegyl orpnhfr gung’f gbgnyyl lbhe qrpvfvba, naq cnegyl orpnhfr zl rkcrevraprf qba’g yraq gurzfryirf gb nal xvaq bs vasbezrq nqivpr), ohg vs lbh’er pbafvqrevat znxvat n zbir ba gur rk, V’q erpbzzraq guvaxvat nobhg jungrire jrag jebat ynfg gvzr, naq jurgure gung zvtug jryy unccra ntnva.
Rvgure jnl, lbh fubhyq gel gb nibvq fgevatvat rvgure be obgu crbcyr nybat sbe zhpu ybatre, orpnhfr gurl zvtug jryy or gehfg enzvsvpngvbaf va gur shgher, ab znggre jub lbh raq hc jvgu.
First line? The question is if it was nothing why were you hiding it and not telling her?
Evidently, I’m hoping they’re one of those couples that don’t talk much about anything 😛
Clearly you haven’t been watching the Bold and the Beautiful. 😛
I got almost all my best “what not to do” life lessons from soap operas.
Haha, gotcha.
Lrnu gung’f cerggl zhpu jung V’ir qrpvqrq gb qb Funar, gehgu or gbyq V pna’g svther guvf bhg ba zl bja naq vg’f onfvpnyyl nyy V’ir orra guvaxvat nobhg naq V xrrc tbvat onpx naq sbegu arire frggyvat ba jung V npghnyyl jnag. Urapr zr whfg gryyvat obgu bs gurz jung’f tbvat ba.
Yvxr V fnvq V abeznyyl qba’g trg zlfrys vagb fvghngvbaf yvxr guvf, V’z hfhnyyl cerggl njner bs jung V srry vs V rire snyy sbe nalbar, naq guvf vf gur svefg gvzr V’z xvaq bs pnhtug orgjrra n ebpx naq n uneq cynpr va grezf bs n pubvpr…
Nf gb jul jr oebxr hc vg jnf orpnhfr fur unq fgnegrq n arj shyy gvzr pbhefr juvyr jbexvat shyy gvzr nf jryy naq fur whfg ybfg urefrys vagb gung. Onfvpnyyl nsgre n srj zbaguf bs ure orvat va gung pbhefr jr oneryl fcbxr naq gur srj gvzrf jr qvq jr whfg xrcg svtugvat naq gung yrnq gb ercrngrq oernx hcf hagvy bar fghpx.
Totally missed an opportunity to recommend shooting for a threesome. I think I’m slipping.
Good luck, man. I don’t envy your position – hope it comes good, though.
Honestly, I was holding back on it myself.
“Hey you two, here’s what’s up. You? I’m seeing her. You? I’ve still got feelings for her.”
*awkward silence* *pushes their heads gently*
“Now kith.”
Lbh gbyq obgu bs gurz jung gur fvghngvba vf? Ohg gur fvghngvba vfa’g ba rdhny grezf, fvapr gur rk tnir ‘uvagf’ (lbh pbhyq npghnyyl or ernqvat jebat urer) jura fur jnf haqre gur vzcerffvba gung lbh’er fvatyr.
Naljnl, jung jrag jebat gurer? Gurer’f tbggn or n ernfba lbh oebxr hc. Er-ivfvg gung – jvyy vg unccra ntnva? Vs lrf, gura cebonoyl sbe gur orfg gb yrnir vg or uvfgbel.
Bu, naq qba’g or n qvpx gb lbhe pheerag tvey. Fur’f qbar abguvat jebat, fb znxr fher lbh qba’g znxr ure srry gung jnl. 🙂
“Naljnl, jung jrag jebat gurer? Gurer’f tbggn or n ernfba lbh oebxr hc. Er-ivfvg gung – jvyy vg unccra ntnva? Vs lrf, gura cebonoyl sbe gur orfg gb yrnir vg or uvfgbel.”
Guvf vf jurer V’q or yrnivat. Gurer vf NYJNLF n ernfba 2 crbcyr oernx hc, naq vg’f rkgerzryl ener sbe gubfr ernfbaf gb punatr. Gurer’f abguvat gb fnl gur ernfba jba’g unccra ntnva; uvfgbel unf n jnl bs ercrngvat vgfrys.
Yeah, it’s pretty much where I’m going. There’s only a small chance the reason won’t affect anything.
I think I covered what you guys have said in regards to why we broke in a post to shane further up, and as to not hurting my current gf yeah that’s a big play in how I’ve been going about everything. It’s why I’m putting a stop to this just after a week of talking to my ex.
Exes have a funny way of messing with out heads. We’re so familiar with them that the euphoria comes easy and we’re often blind to the past, but then that’s no different to how we approach most memories. Remember the good, forget the bad.
Ok, I read it. My opinion is now: politely decline the ex’s advances whilst letting her know you have a gf.
If she had no time for you before, she’ll have no time for you again. Full=time study and full-time job isn’t an excuse IMO.
I’ve been warned of ‘one-itis’ by others, plenty, and warned against it myself talking to young whippersnappers who use it as an excuse to not move on and take actual chances with good prospects, instead preferring to hang on to an idealized fantasy hope.
Which is totally valid. So I’m kind of torn. I wasted SO MUCH TIME apart from Kelly. So much. I honestly believe that if I had my time again, I would not give two godamn fucks about who I was with or who she was with at the time, and tell her as soon as I had the opportunity how I felt about her and anyone else be damned, let’s make a go of it. Right now. None of this bullshit hanging out with ‘perfect on paper’ girls who I had no real enthusiasm for, doing the ‘honourable thing’, no just ‘putting up with’ hearing her hide how she’s getting mistreated by her partner, or ignored/cheated on, or just passing the time with people she doesn’t even like… no wasting time wondering if she felt as strongly as I did for her, just telling her. Asking her. Outright. No bullshit. Her. Me. No more dancing about it.
But it’s hard to tell. Do I only feel that way because of the things we learned apart? Would I have just fucked it up the way I fucked up everything else?
I tell you what, she has a fucking tumour in her head which is ruining everything and I don’t care. We had years and it wasn’t enough. It isn’t. I will die regretting every minute I wasted.
Do you feel that kind of passion for either of them? The guys are right about nostalgia and the grass being greener, as well.
Red-chinese-dress girl was pretty amazing and I kind of wish I hadn’t fucked that up every time I’ve seen a photo of her smile, or think back to how she used to dance in her chair, or that hunted, guilty look when caught being goofy, that purple streak in her hair, that ass in tight jeans – so tight you could bounce a coin off it – or how she felt under my hands. That heat, that taste… It takes a very real effort to remember the ugly, jarring, discoloured notes of memory.
Like her unreasonably aggressive belligerence on issues she was passionate about with no room for tolerating an even mildly contrary opinion even if based on logic and fair reason. A ‘with us or against us’ mentality in all things. Some undercurrents of sexism/racism. Definitely underhanded sneaky habits. She only told you how much she felt you needed to know. She’d outright lie and re-write history if it didn’t fit with a convenient memory that made her out to be the good guy or victim. When the bravado over the shy vulnerability went from endearing to annoying as she took it too far.
I think I did genuinely love her because frankly… everyone has something about them that’s worth loving, if you look hard enough. But I’m also aware that relationship would’ve taken a lot of work and there was enough there that I know I don’t miss. Enough that I don’t pine.
Part of wishing I hadn’t fucked it up is because I know better now, and can ‘do better.’ It’s about me, not her. And it’s true, I fucked up – I won her over with charm and confidence and a devil-may-care attitude, and lost her with over-attentiveness, clinginess, and failing to tease as much or leave any mystery. I had this stupid hollywood-romance idea of what it’s like to be a ‘good boyfriend’ and I tried to be THAT guy instead of the jackass she fell for. Part of me knows that any urge I’d have for another shot would be at least partly that thing that drives us to try again in Dark Souls – “I can do better this time.” Competing with ourselves. Doing it better, this time.
Your self-analysis, your call. Rather than playing the odds on how things will work out, I really recommend examing what you want and why you want it.
Double Post
Jesus, man, if you’ve got the same problem twice, I don’t think there’s any advice that can help you. You’re just done for 😛
X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Holy shit.
So good.
Not what I expected at all but it turned out a hell of a lot better than what was in my head.
Although….Qbrf guvf zrna rirel cerivbhf zbivr ohg Svefg Pynff arire unccrarq? Gurl whfg jvcrq gur ragver pbagvahvgl naq fgnegvat ntnva? VG VF WHFG YVXR N PBZVP OBBX!
V’z abg fher jung gb znxr bs Jbyirevar ng gur raq. Ur qbrfa’g tb guebhtu Jrncba K abj? Gubhtug ur jbhyq hagvy vg ghearq bhg gb Zlfgvdhr. Naq gurl qvqa’g fubj be fnl nalguvat nobhg vg.
Bu, vs bayl vg jnf gehr va guvf jbeyq gbb, naq gubfr zbivrf qvqa’g rkvfg…
Rfcrpvnyyl gur guveq bar.
Hype! So want to see this. Not reading spoilered content.
Lrnu, gur bevtvany zbivr gevybtl vf abj rssrpgviryl ergpbaarq ohg ng gur fnzr gvzr vg’f n orggre jnl bs qbvat vg guna whfg cergraqvat gurl arire unccrarq.
Rvgure jnl V’z abg rira fher Jbyirevar jvyy ghea hc va gur arkg svyz. Vg’f tbvat gb or frg va gur 1980f naq zbfg bs gur pber K-Zra pnfg (Plpybcf, Wrna Terl, Tnzovg, Fgbez, Ornfg rgp.) ner va vg, ohg zhpu lbhatre, cerfhznoyl orpnhfr gurl qba’g jnag gb cnl uhtr nzbhagf sbe fbzr bs gurz.
Nccneragyl Jbyirevar vf pbasvezrq sbe Ncbpnylcfr.
http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/05/25/what-to-expect-from-x-men-apocalypse-1449362?lt_source=external,manual#!QCKoa
V jbhyq’ir rkcrpgrq Jbyirevar gb or va gur arkg bar, ur’f nethnoyl gur zbfg cbchyne K-Zra punenpgre, naq vfa’g vg gehr gung ur jnf nyfb bar bs Ncbpnylcfr’f ubefrzra ng bar cbvag.
V jnf gnyxvat nobhg vg jvgu n sevraq bs zvar nsgre gur zbivr naq onfvpnyyl rirelguvat nsgre 1973 naq Qnlf bs Shgher Cnfg unf orra ergpbaarq naq gnxra gb abg rkvfg ubj jr guvax vg jbhyq unir (be unf orra fubja va gur svyzf). Gur bayl guvatf gung jr nterrq bar jrer frg va fgbar jrer QbSC, Svefg Pynff, naq gur svefg cnegf bs K-zra Bevtvaf: Jbyirevar. Gung zrnaf cerggl zhpu rirelbar vf nyvir ntnva naq gurl pna hfr rirelguvat gung gurl ehvarq va K-zra 3.
V nyfb yvxr gur pbaprcg bs gurz cbgragvnyyl qbvat n cebcre Qrnqcbby abj (tbqqnzzvg Bevtvaf).
Story theorising for the next movie (don’t read if you didn’t stick for the after credits scene and don’t have an idea of what happened in the comics):
Onfvpnyyl jr’er tbvat va gb gur Ntr bs Ncbpnylcfr fgbelyvar naq jr’er tbvat gb unir bar bs gur fgebatrfg zhgnagf va K-zra pnaba va gur svyz. Nyfb, jr’er tbvat gb frr gur erghea bs/aba-znyvtarq Natry (Natry sebz K-zra 3) nf ur riraghnyyl orpbzrf NepuNatry naq orpbzrf bar bs gur Sbhe Ubefrzna urenyqvat gur evfr bs Ncbpnylcfr.
“proper” deadpool? I don’t understand… Deadpool has never been in a a movie before… (or at least I keep telling myself that…)
As a Wade Wilson, it was really good. As an everything else, the movie was pretty shite.
I’m still of the belief that Reynolds would make a great Deadpool as long as it’s written right.
X-Men!
Gur jnl V frr vg vf gur ivrjvat beqre sbe gur svyzf vf abj:
K-Zra: Svefg Pynff, K-Zra, K2, K-Zra: Gur Ynfg Fgnaq, Gur Jbyirevar, K-Zra: Qnlf bs Shgher Cnfg.
Nyy bs gurfr jbex jvgubhg ivrjvat Bevtvaf nf vg nqqf abguvat gb gur fgbel. Nsgre QBSC, n arj gvzryvar rkvfgf.
V YBIR EBG13. V UBCR FCBVYRE GNTF ARIRE TRG SVKRQ.
VG’F YVXR NYY BS GNL VF UNIVAT BAR TVNAG PBZZHANY FRVMHER.
YBY
VG’F YVXR JR’ER NYY FCRNXVAT FBZR RKBGVP SBERVTA YNATHNTR. NYFB ZL ANZR VF ZVEEBERQ. OBO VF BOB.
I took the risk that this wasn’t a reply fail to X-Men. PHEW!
I haven’t seen X-Men! \o/
Hmmm.. still unsure whether I want to decypher your x-men comment or not..
Don’t bother. It adds nothing to anything, and it’s still better not to read it for fear of spoiler splashback.
well….. done with Dark Souls 2 & Transistor for a bit.
What’s next, TAY?
Remember Me
Enslaved : Odyssey to the West
Arkham Asylum
Child of Light
Last of Us
Something else from this list?
Enslaved first, goooo.
Batman.
Holy crap, Batman. That list! So many great ones, where do I start?
Arkham is pretty cool, if you haven’t played it. That’s the only one on that mini-list that I’ve played, but from what I’ve heard, that’s a pretty solid list, and a good problem to have.
As someone who doesn’t even like Batman, Arkham Asylum is absolutely fantastic,
Asylum
cool. seems the consensus is leaning toward Asylum.
thanks all.
Ah, it was Asylum. Yeah, that game was rad. Recommend controller.
Ongzna.
I’d go for Remember Me personally, mostly because it sort of tries to have a fluid fighting mechanic akin to arkham asylum and sort of suffers for not doing it as well (still okay, just a bit clunky). I think I’d have enjoyed the fighting stuff more if I’d not played AA first
I’m hitting similar ‘what do I play now’ issues after unexpectedly finishing two games on the weekend. Still haven’t figured out what to tackle next.
You know what I hate about the legal system? Anybody can say anything they want, engage expensive legal services, and it’s up to the person being accused to come to the party, whether they can afford to or not.
Luckily Aus isn’t like America, yet. The case has to have some basis otherwise it won’t even make the first hearing. But it’s too damn easy to falsify some stuff, and yeah you gotta defend yourself if they can fake the case well enough. 🙁
Yeah, and some of the pre-trial hurdles are just as expensive. Whose great idea was it to have mandatory mediation, where the instigating party can choose the mediator and then both parties have to foot the bill.
What? That doesn’t sound right. At all. :\
Make sure you log all time spent and counter-claim for an appropriate amount if/when you win.
I wish I was making this up. But that’s exactly how it’s played out so far and how all my research is saying it should be playing out.
Which state are you in? What level of court is this filed in?
QLD Family
Oh. Like with ex-wife or something like that? Best of luck, not much can help you with bullshit like that. :\
Oh, dicks.
@stickman Yeah, something like that. It’s not even my fight, but I’m involved so still as stressful.
Very true. Any personal examples, or is this a generic pet-hate?
At least there are ‘frivolous litigation’ recourse options available to people who find themselves on the supplicant side of the table in such a case.
Edit: sorry, it’s ‘vexatious litigation’ in Australia.
Personal example being the source of my ongoing frustrations over the last week, but I play my cards close to my chest so trying to keep my venting generalised where I can.
That’s a wise move especially since Kotaku is a public forum so there is nothing stooping the other person using anything you say here against you if they find out about it. I’d save specific bitching until after everything is settled.
That’s the idea. 🙂
BOARD GAMES
Someone talk me out of buying Dominion.
Buy ALL the Dominions! helping!
#helpius
HELPIUS! \o/
Don’t do it.
Buy Dominoes! And not the pizza!
Close enough good enough?
Don’t buy Dominion. It was a revolutionary game but there are better deck builders out there now. Also better card games too.
I played quite a bit of it and it’s good for a quickie now and then but I recently picked up an obscure Japanese deck builder, Heart of Crown, one of the many games Dominion has spawned, and it’s basically better than Dominion in every way. There’s lots of other post-Dominion games that are good too.
Dominion’s problems are:
– Lack of any real theme. You’re just buying cards with effects. The name and art and everything aren’t really of any relevance.
– The base set hasn’t got stuff that combos together in particularly interesting ways. Expansions have solved that a bit.
– There are highly optimal strategies which will win most of the time (the Chapel strategy, for example, or simply just buying gold and VPs) and they’re boring to play against and play with.
– You basically play on your own, there’s not much interaction between players at a strategic level.
– You don’t have any real goal in the game beyond getting points. You need to count everything up at the end and until that happens it’s hard to tell who the winner is. You don’t know who is winning.
– If you’re playing with someone who doesn’t plan ahead they will frustrate the shit out of you as they play a million cards chained onto each other, cycle through half their deck and then end up with 3 gold and unable to buy anything because they didn’t manage things correctly. But this one’s hard to fix.
If you want a fun themed one, there’s a Marvel Comics one, the name of it escapes me but it’s basically a co-op deck builder. Better themed and more fun IMO, higher level of strategy involved.
I’m looking at the Intrigue expansion, which is a standalone?
That’s my main Dominion critique too, the playing with yourself aspect, but an intrigue set seems to fix some of those problems.
Yeah, Intrigue is stand-alone.
Intrigue adds more cards that have variable effects and can let you do stuff to annoy other players, but there’s no strategic element really. At its best, all it’s actually doing is adding extra unpredictable randomness to your turns sometimes, or unexpectedly tinkering with the content of your deck a bit. And that’s fine, but it still means you’re playing against yourself. What other players do is largely irrelevant. You don’t react to them, you react to the additional randomness introduced by your hand being too small or your deck’s probabilities changing.
It’s one of the reasons I really liked Heart of Crown, which I mentioned on TAY a while back. In that, you have a random market, with a random set of cards available in the market and only a subset of them available to purchase at any given time. There’s a much more limited amount of them and the game doesn’t end if they run out (with the exception of running out of the highest-value victory point cards, if that happens the game ends and highest total wins). You play the same way as Dominion, buying cards and then using them, but the cards are designed to combo together interestingly. Finally there’s a strategy layer. It’s a war of succession, there’s a set of princesses who are vying for the throne, and you have to nominate one and throw your support behind her. When you nominate her (buy her from the market, basically) the gold-generating land cards you used to do so are permanently removed from your hand and placed under her as her territory, and then you can play victory point cards into those territories. Each of those locations can be used as a storage space for a card as well, acting as if it were in your hand, but it stays there between turns, allowing you to ‘save’ a good card for later. First person to get to 20 victory points, announce a coronation, then survive a round and stay at 20 points wins, but if multiple people are at 20 points it goes into a sudden death round between them, first to 30 immediately wins. So that makes it quite obvious who’s winning and losing, where progress is, and also adds a much more strategic layer to everything. Not just managing probabilities. It has a solid theme that is consistently applied as well. Far more interesting game than Dominion IMO, you’re constantly planning and there are more interesting decisions available.
Is that translated?
If you’re thinking about buying Dominion, you’re pretty much committing to buying a few expansions to give the game the variety of strategy it needs.
Optimal play is somewhat discovered but you can play with random sets of cards to make things more interesting. I personally don’t like Chapel because it changes the game a lot and I see Big Money as a benchmark more than anything else. Essentially, if you’re trying to do something it has to be more effective than just stockpiling golds and +cards.
It’s about making an engine out of what’s available in front of you. Sometimes that’s easy and you just go Village/Blacksmith, other times it’s a lot trickier. The tricky ones make for a more fun game.
Buy ascension instead.
Takes the core concepts of deck building but builds on it. Plus you can beat up the cultist. Lots.
Hi all. Mario Kart soon. Whoo. Also Watchdogs, but I’m going to wait on reviews before I pick that up.
Looking through the comments on this page and wow, I missed a lot of conversation. Some quick thoughts on some of the things discussed.
Re: the guy who shot everyone.
1: Get your shit together, America. Seriously.
2: He’s a fucking idiot.
3: Way to set men’s activism back. I consider myself a feminist, but also a men’s rights activist, because above all else I’m an equalist, and shit like this just hurts everyone when it comes to that. There are some very real discriminations men face, and having some idiot kill a bunch of people while crying “I couldn’t get a girlfriend. Go go men’s rights!” just pisses me off.
Re: army ads.
I’m fine with them showing more women in their recruitment ads. As others said, it’s obviously a response to the bad rep the army got with all those scandals, but more women joining the army and the army in general becoming more inclusive is a good thing.
Also, I’ve never liked the whole “statistics say this so this is how things should be portrayed”. I’m reminded of the people who say stuff like “only 4% of the population is gay, therefor there should never be more than one gay person in any story”. I mean, just because it’s statistically unlikely doesn’t mean it can’t happen, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with showing statistic improbabilities when it comes to representation and inclusiveness, especially when the representation in question is aimed at changing those statistics.
What goals are you looking for from men’s rights?
The treatment of criminals, for one. Now I’m not necessarily advocating less harsh treatment of those who break the law, but I’ve been told directly by police that they’re far more likely to arrest men than women over crimes like assault or domestic dispute solely on the basis of gender. I think that’s wrong. I’d like to live in a society where, when the police are called to a domestic dispute, they look at it objectivly before acting, rather than defaulting to just dragging the man away in cuffs.
To sort of jump off that, women assaulting men is also something that needs to change in how people view it. Again, from the police, I’ve had it told to me that a man making any move against a woman is met harshly, while women often won’t get in trouble for hitting men unless they cause serious injury. And this is more than just a police issue. For most, a woman hitting a man isn’t considered a big deal. You even see it in public. A woman smacking a man, sometimes multiple times, in anger, and no one thinks it’s a big deal. Really, this could be seen as more than just a men’s rights issue, but a feminist issue as well, because the clear reason no one acts on it is because there’s still a perception in our society that women are too “weak” to hurt men.
Also still on law stuff, I think there’s a definite system of courts handing down harsher penalties to men than to women for the same crime. Again, I’m not saying people should get less punishment for their crimes, only that it be done equally.
And away from a criminal point of view, it’s still much harder for men to gain custody of their children, or even have the rights to see them, than it is for women. This is getting better, but the reason it’s getting better is because of actual, proper men’s rights activists. Not angry nerds who complain about women online, but actual lawyers and advocates who are pushing for change, which is why I’m a bit pissed because now they’ve got an even tougher job ahead of them because of the actions of one idiot.
That thing with that jay z guy springs to mind, reverse the genders and it’d have been straight up assault rather than played as a curiosity
I just watched a video on youtube this morning. Don’t have link, but I’m sure you can find it. Dude set up hidden cameras and then showed a man being aggressive towards woman. Immediately people rushed to help, tell dude off, threaten to call police etc. Then the video was flipped around where the woman was physically aggressive, and no one did anything other than snicker.
Yeah, I should have clarified. I have no issue with women in the ads, women in defence, women in general. It was almost the “trying too hard” feel of the commercial itself (“Army: Now with females!”) than anything.
But that’s why I come to TAY / open the discussion: Healthy, reasoned discussion. And on the internet, no less.
Humanism is fighting for both the rights of men and women, and I think that’s the better way to go. I think women get the shorter edge of the stick overall, but that doesn’t mean we should focus exclusively on women’s rights. Equality is all about treating both sexes the same. Maybe we can focus on one issue at a time? Abortion first, then equal jail times next, then another women’s rights issue? That seems fair.
So another US white guy goes nuts and:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/frantic-parents-of-shooting-suspect-elliot-rodger-raced-to-isla-vista-during-rampage-20140526-zrolt.html
Because vidjogamez!
And here I thought this was one of the few instances where they would struggle to pin mass shooting on videogames. Well done media, you asshats.
http://i.imgur.com/aCg5nVl.jpg
True story.
Eh, to be fair it’s not like they’re pinning it on that, I think the real issue is the SMH reporting it.
Surprisingly they didn’t try to blame it on Tony Abbott.
But he’s a feminist, he told us so!
I think it’d be hard to find any guy of that generation who didn’t have an affinity with video games.
Serial killer was known to eat sandwiches: Bread definitively linked to mass murder!!!
Soo…cereals really are linked to serial killers, who would have thought!
Wait, where are videogames being blamed? I’m half-way but even your quote isn’t helping me see it.
Also I’m hetero, but that dude ain’t ugly. From his father’s description it sounds like he was a socially-afraid hermit, so it’s not wonder girls didn’t flock to him. Too bad he had an ingrained opinion of all females – if he could get over that and get out there, I’m sure we would have had some luck.
“Not ugly, socially afraid hermit….”
@dc how are you feeling these days? Need a hug?
Just saying, this might not be the most appropriate person to make a joking comparison to.
Also @dc is apparently a really bad hermit. He keeps going outside.
I would hope @dc and all understand and appreciate that I jest in the spirit of love and that by laughing at chaos I’m seeking to lighten an otherwise horrible situation.
Nope apparently just a dick…
Towards the bottom…. they got that close to not mentioning those pesky video games.
What we need to do is create a new fad and get all the kids hooked on that so the media can start blaming it instead of video games.
Flappy Bird WAS blamed. 😛
Dancing!
*old man voice* Back in my day we didn’t get all in a hustle and bustle waving ourselves all over the place. We sat on chairs like civilised folk and talked. #betterdays
We didn’t throw our hands in the air because “we cared”
These days all these hands in the air all over the place like they just don’t care!
Going outside and playing.
Hey guys, just found out that they’ve already announced Blu-Ray releases for X-Men:DoFP and the special editions are pretty awesome.
First the US one comes with a freakin’ Magneto helmet.
http://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Future-Amazon-Exclusive-Blu-ray/dp/B00K7IPH5I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1401083552&sr=8-2&keywords=X-Men%3A+Days+Of+Future+Past
And the UK one which is a bit more expensive, but includes all 5 of the X-Men films as well as the two Wolverine films and a Cerebro helmet.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/X-Men-Complete-Collection-Exclusive-Amazon-co-uk/dp/B00KF8F6PG/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1400934313&sr=8-11&keywords=x-men+days+of+future+past
So awesome. I’d really love to get both just for the helmets, but that’d add up to over 200 bucks not including postage.
Edit my comment to ad a second link, and it instantly goes into moderation WTF!
Back in ye olde times, we were only allowed one link per comment before it got sent to moderation.
Up to… 3? links per post, but only 1 if you edit it. It’s been that way since forever and it sucks.
But it sucks less than the way that spoiler tags have stopped working 🙁
Links? I think you can have a couple
They are sick of people having secret conversations behind spoiler tabs
Reply fail
Okay, this is about the discussions I read here from earlier about that misogynist extremist who killed a bunch of people. I was disturbed to see people again saying they can in some ways relate. For instance growing up without being noticed by girls in highschool. Borderline friendzone complaints. Everyone needs to understand that just because the girls you noticed or were attracted to spurned your advances or didn’t appear to notice you does not mean there weren’t other girls desperately trying to get you to notice them. It’s all a matter of perspective, and perception. Two things not really synonymous with teenagers. You may have been too busy pining over the girls who didn’t care about you to notice the ones who really did. And do I really need to explain again how the friendzone does not exist and thinking it does is dangerous. You’re not entitled to a date and/or sex with someone just because you’ve been nice to them. I know it’s natural to try and make sense of things when horrific murders happen but this is the wrong path to understanding. Try reading the yesallwomen hashtag on Twitter, try reading any number of articles written by people much smarter than I, like this one. And instead of trying to relate to killers, try to relate to their victims.
http://stavvers.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/an-open-letter-to-all-men/
This may help, too.
So basically she is saying all men are misogynist jerks and if you think you aren’t that makes you one because I say so and have some internet comments from loudmouthed arseholes to prove it?
I take offence to that.
edit: it is the direct equivalent of a man saying all women are crazy bitches because ‘insert anecdote here’.
It’s the kinda thing that derails any sort of meaningful conversation on the topic into people slandering each other.
That’s not at all what she’s saying.
Edit: your reaction is proving her point.
The longer version would be: society has made all men, subconsciously or otherwise, into misogynistic jerks who feel like they deserve to get whatever they want from women and if you men think otherwise you are wrong: see here is some internet comments from arseholes who disagree to prove it.
You’re still not getting it. I wish I had the words to get through to you but I don’t think I do, especially not with how worn out I am right now.
I suspect the thing that both of those articles are, in their own very different ways, trying to do is illustrate unconscious pressures and assumptions that society is built around and which it forces on men from pretty much birth till death without us even being aware of it for the most part. That many guys manage to resist it and live a life as something other than a steaming cockbag is testament to them having a good internal moral sense and personal judgement.
As far as the unconscious pressure goes, a quick test for all the guys: hands up if you have ever been made to feel even a little ashamed for:
Being physically weaker than another guy
Being a virgin
Giving up on a near impossible task
Crying for any reason that doesn’t involve your football team losing the final
Being anything other than 100% straight
Being rejected by a woman
Being compassionate / Having feelings
Not winning at sport / Not being interested in sport
Being poorer than someone you know
Having a smaller penis than a porn star
I suspect that any guy with their hand not up has either had a fuck of a sweet life or is a liar. I’m physically stronger than pretty much everyone I’ve ever met, the rest of that list though, I’m heavily in the negatives for most of it, a bit in the negative for one and the only reason I’ve never been rejected by a woman is that I’ve never actually asked one out.
All of those things in that list are pretty much defining characteristics of manliness in our society; it’s tough, it’s powerful, its acquisitive, it’s dominating, it’s sexual and it’s definitely not feminine.
It’s also utter bullshit. It’s the reason for sexism (because women are basically the opposite, we’re the strong ones so they’re weak), it’s the reason for homophobia (Men fucking men? Well, they’re basically just women!), it’s the reason for transphobia (Men becoming WOMEN??? Women wanting to be MEN??? It’s undoubtedly the reason that trans women are the one of the most victimised minorities in the history of the planet) and it’s the reason that so many men are miserable for failing to live up to some arbitrary load of shit that makes no fucking sense.
You know how you hear those stories about some women getting fucked up in the head because of the brutally unrealistic standards of beauty espoused by photoshopped models, barbie dolls and shit like that? Societal expectations of manliness is doing the same to us, we get bombarded constantly with idealised bullshit in the most subtle of ways, conditioned to be competitive and win when there’s really no need anymore and it is in fact counterproductive. Interestingly, it’s also the cornerstone of a fuck of a lot of advertising which just gives me one more reason to hate it (as if I needed any more).
Who knows, this strength and dominance mentality may well have had a survival benefit during the billions of years of our evolution where selfishness was a core trait that allowed organisms to get resources but as we moved into social groups, something approaching communities and then in the last few centuries something approaching civilisation, we needed to start shedding it but until recently it’s really not been widely acknowledged as a problem but the way our societies have evolved it’s become one because we’ve reached a consensus that equality is a good thing to strive for and that domination mindest is fundamentally incompatible with it. It’ll take time but we’ll get there if we stop taking this shit in when its thrown at us and start saying “You know what, fuck you and your pathetic ‘rules’, I don’t care if I have a small cock, hate sport, am broke and cry at the drop of a hat, I’m my own person and don’t have to justify myself to camel cumguzzling cockweasels like you“. Better yet, start teaching the next generation to stop taking shit and start being themselves rather than what other people expect them to be (as long as you also teach them empathy because the lack of it is arguably the root of the whole problem).
I’ve just realised I spent all this time mansplaining things for @strange… Now I feel like a dick
I’ll just tag @freezespreston, @sernobulus, @dc, @transientmind & @shane (because you were also involved in discussions on the topic, not because I feel like a dick. I like you guys but not in that way…)
Don’t feel like a dick, this is a great post.
I think the main thing the you brought out is the association with the beauty market and the equivalent mens “manliness” market
What, being tarred with the same paint as a murderer simply because of my gender? I don’t understand how that is not sexist.
That’s not at all what she said. You’re so busy screaming “NOT ALL MEN” in your head that you can’t see beyond that. This is exactly the part of the problem she’s trying to highlight.
Well lets take this convo back a bit then. If I am misunderstanding the post can you explain it to me so that I do?
No-one, lease of all me, is saying there are not a ton of arsehole blokes out there and that there is a problem with sexist behaviour in society. But I fail to see how her post does anything but fuel the fires and draw lines in the sand.
Seriously, I truly want to understand the perspective here.
I have to go do family stuff right now, hopefully when the kids are in bed and I get a chance to come back here I can find the right words. Hopefully in the meantime somebody more eloquent than I can attempt an explanation, even. If you’ve read the other article I linked, it ties in as well.
@strange
Yeah the first article is on the money, but the second is coming from a different place.
Okay, here’s the thing. Yes the second article is full of confronting, even antagonistic language which is probably because it was written directly after the shooting incident, in a haze of anger and grief and frustration but that doesn’t make the point any less right. I tend to try and get my point across without using terms like “privilege” and “entitlement” because I know they trigger resentment in people reading, but sometimes it needs to be pointed out more clearly than I can manage in mild tones.You’ll note I included the link to that blogpost second, to be read after the first link which I knew would be better received and hoped would act as a doorway to understand the second. She’s not attempting to tar all men with the same brush, she’s attempting to make you see that arguing against any of these things by getting all indignant that it’s not you, and it’s not all men that are like that is a derailment and actually impeding any progress. If the problem is really not you, then you don’t need to get up in arms. There’s no point getting defensive, because she’s obviously not talking about you. You don’t need to feel like an attack on someone of your gender is an attack on you, because you know you’re not like that. If the problem is not you, jumping in to reiterate that it’s “not all men” is counterproductive and because you’re responding as if you’re being attacked, when actually the target was not you it makes it seem like you should then be included. It’s men who are tarring themselves with the same brush by immediately jumping up and saying “not all men” or “not me” when we’re discussing issues about our patriarchal society. It’s that kneejerk defensive reaction of men (but not all men 😛 )that clouds the real issues and brings the blame back around to the women who feel and/or are being victimised by the original actions, or even the men who are including themselves in things by feeling lumped in, instead of where it lies: squarely on the shoulders of the perpetrators.
@strange, you keep saying she’s not tarring all men with the same brush while she is saying in no uncertain terms she is and keeps saying it.
@strange
Ah I see.
I guess my issue is her use of the assertion of “all men” throughout the post.
Use of such absolutist terms obscures the message and turns it into a seeming “attack” instead of something with a message and lesson to be learned.
Never while reading it do you get the impression that she believes that there is such a thing as a man who is not like this. Right at the start she says:
and then there is stuff like
(emphasis mine)
The aggressive, absolute wording invokes the indignation that you speak of and makes the post sound like an anti-male rant rather than explaining a phenomenon to invoke self reflection, as the first article you linked did.
I see that they are trying to get across the same message but the second post goes about it the wrong way and comes across as something else entirely.
@strange @freezespreston
From what I can see she is trying to make a valid point but doing it badly
The rest is hyperbole and what almost seems to be a deliberate attempt to getting people offside in an attempt to get them on side. But that quote to me seems to be core of what she is saying.
The beliefs we have as men and what constitutes a man lead to certain pressures and expectations. If you are 18 and still a virgin then you can cope flack for that, be made to feel less of a man. I went through that and I think most guys here would have as well. That desire to be a man and not be just a boy or a lesser man is what drives a lot of these feelings. The point is not that he killed people because he was rejected, just that the belief system we men have made him feel like a failure.
I think it is a poorly worded article but seeing it for what it is and when it was written. The shit storm was just starting and stoopid twats were already posting how the girls should have given him a pity fuck and none of this would have happened. As a cry of frustration on that sort of reaction it makes sense to me.
I just read through it several times trying to find anything else she is saying but that’s exactly what she’s saying. She explicitly states that all men without exception are psychotic violent misogynists and if you think you aren’t you are. Then repeats that point several times.
The first article you linked to is well written and thought out. I can understand what the point is and it’s what I think you are driving at up there. He points out the problem with the not all men defense and explains it. That other article is the polar opposite. It’s not even stating anything but men are horrible.
That’s my problem with the article. It’s basically the blog poster repeating “all men are misogynist jerks whom are similar to mass murderers” and explaining nothing. All this blog post does is fan the fires, it doesn’t help any kind of civil discussion.
EDIT: I just noticed the first link (missed it before) and yeah, it does such a better job of conveying the message. It actually got me to stop for a few minutes and think about my thoughts on the subject. Whereas the second link was just “Absolutely Every man is a jerk” posted repeatedly over multiple paragraphs.
Nope. Just nope. I vehemently oppose to this article with the force of ten thousand burning white-hot suns. It’s been said below numerous times: the author is just calling all males assholes. Repeatedly, without evidence, and forcefully.
‘Not all men’ isn’t a defence? Then why is author’s offence ‘yes all men’? I read your lengthy comment down below to try and explain it, but it didn’t actually explain anything to do with the article. I still oppose that article with a force that even Newton couldn’t measure. That article uses pretty much every logical fallacy known to man, but alas I don’t have the time or will to de-construct it to point it all out.
This exact type of bullshit, along with the majority of the shit on #YesAllWomen, along with the other knee-jerk bullshit labels being thrown around, is why it’s so fucking hard for the majority of Earth to take people seriously.
It’s one thing to label ALL MEN misogynist jerks who feel entitled to a woman. It’s another thing entirely to say that men feel okay in a decision to murder because of this. In any case, I oppose to both views and:
If someone here can put their heart on their hand and swear that they are of the opinion that “all men are misogynist jerks who feel entitled to women”, then they can go fuck themselves with a rusty rake. I’m not interested in having contact with those people, ever. If such a person wholeheartedly has that viewpoint, then there is no way we can interact on a level playing field, because I am a male.
I don’t think that supports your argument, Strange. The article is loaded with misandry.
I remember that this morning I had a whole counter-argument lined up. I was going to approach the article from the perspective of a humanist, someone who rallies against misogyny and misandry. I had the whole paragraph in my head, but I had to leave. Now I’m here and all the passion is gone. But I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that Stavvers wrote a misandric article. She generalised all men. She called all men pigs at the end. She linked to a twitter ‘hate feed’ where all the arguments were perfectly reasonable. The fact that she considered the comment “I hardly think gross generalisations are helpful?” as a sign of misogyny bewilders me.
If this article had been written by a male and the terms were switched, I would be just as indignant.
I am male. This does not mean any argument I make argument any less relevant.
You are female. This does not mean any argument you make argument any less relevant.
As a humanist, I will admit that I group feminism and masculism together. They both ignore the problems of the other gender. They both are represented by radicals. Both terms once had some level of honour, but they have devolved into ‘we hate the other gender.’
The topic of sexism is a controversial one. It tends to result in a lot of gut reactions and a lot of hurt feelings. I try to toe the line, and comment from a strictly objective point of view. This comment is not a personal attack on you, it was never intended to be. I was debating against Stavvers and discussing sexual politics more than anything else.
If I could upvote this multiple times I would.
I didn’t want to say too much because it involved the deaths of innocent people. Highly sensitive.
Even my earlier attempt to inject humour was far too insensitive – I had to remove it.
I’ve got a lot of complicated thoughts about that hash tag but am not feeling eloquent enough to write them up. I feel deeply ashamed at my gender for acting like this so prolifically that every single girl seems to have an experience of being sexually harassed or objectified. I think a lot of guys (including my own) knee jerk reaction of saying ‘not all guys’ is not meant to derail an argument or claim this very real problem doesn’t exist but just a fear that people think I’m individually like this too and a need to voice that I’m not. Then I realize that it’s not about me. What’s being said is also a need to be heard on a scale that can’t be ignored. It’s about society in general. It’s about broad strokes concepts. Then my head goes into a crazy thinking loop and I feel like a monster about that knee jerk reaction for a while. :\
I seem to like making things about myself. 😛
I was on the train the other night and I overheard a conversation between two security guards. (One was a lady.) Her experiences with men on the train was just repulsive and it sickens me that there’s people out there who think this is okay. 🙁 It’s so far removed from how I would treat a woman that it’s tough to fathom that it actually exists, but it does… The message is well and truly received that there’s issues that need fixing but I don’t know how I can personally help. :'(
I am rambling.
This. So much this. Too many people I know moan about being in this mythical zone yet never do anything to better themselves. I could slap them >_>
Maybe you can answer my question to Strange, below. I do not understand why people say the friendzone ‘doesn’t exist’.
It doesn’t.. The “friendzone” seem to be made up mostly of people who think doing something nice or always going out of the way to do something nice for a pretty friend they have an obsessive crush on will get them to date them or gain sexual pleasures from. They appear to have the mentality “If I am nice to a girl she will get in my pants” which is NOT how things should be, you do nice things for someone because you’re their friend, not because you think they will suck your dick or something like that.
If you ask me and you have feelings and a pretty good friendship with said girl where you think she may feel the same, just gather the balls and ask her out OR tell her how you feel, if she says she feels the same or says yes to a date then score! If not don’t feel bad, you tried! Plus if she stays your friend it’s still a good outcome cause you’ve kept someone who is a great friend and wants that friendship even though they don’t like you romantically back, if you cut ties and she still wants to be friends then you’re a fucking asshole and should not treat women like they’re objects, the women of your family would be disgusted, I assume.
So that’s why I don’t think it exists, but that’s just my opinion.. I have had people have a go at me for being “extra nice” to friends, which confuses me cause I was just doing what I was taught by my parents to be nice and use manners..
I’ve known a few who are like this. I’ve even had one get all angry and pissed off because I wasn’t present for a TAFE class one day nor was another friend who this ex-friend was crushing on heavily, he went nuts complaining about me to another mate, it was HILARIOUS. Because I wasn’t off anywhere with said female friend like he kept assuming… Just because her & I hung out a lot outside of TAFE didn’t mean shit, plus she had a boyfriend and all at the time whom she is now happily married to.
Then there’s the ones I know who start crushing on girls I worked with at EB or Dan Murphy’s and then expect me to tell them about them or expect me to give up their Facebook or whatever so they can creep on them, how about, no! Stop being a creep and talk to them, they’re human beings after all who’re nice people and can hold a conversation.
It’s probably fucking bitchy as hell all that, but it just pisses me off when people complain about being in the friendzone.
CC @transientmind
Nah, friendzone exists. Perhaps not in the over-inflated form that the meme takes, but it sure as fuck exists.
My girlfriend says she put people in the friendzone. Here is what it actually means:
1. Not all males feel entitled to women. However, things start by everyone being very friendly. [Note: this is assuming the male advances based on wanting to fuck, rather than wanting to be friends.]
2. Normal social standards dictate that a positive action will garner a positive reaction.
3. Genetically, both males and females usually want to breed. Meaning sex. Therefore, you can say that most people will want to bang each other if everything is positive and they are attracted to each other.
4. Here’s the problem. We’re at a junction point. The male and female have been enjoying lovely company, positive interactions all around. The next logical (and animal) step is to have intercourse.
5. Insert the friendzone. If the female isn’t sexually attracted to this person, she is within her right as a member of the advanced homo-sapien race in 2014 to decline the advances of the other person.
6. While not the point of discussion, the female has multiple tactics at her disposal. One such tactic is allotting the male a spot in her friend zone. I’m sure you know how it works.
7. The male then remains in the friend zone. The female made a conscious decision not to mate with the male, however she still values the social aspect of his friendship and thus keeps him in the friendzone.
8. There is no escape from the friendzone, usually. Maybe some drunken weekends where the female has a strong sexual desire – but not much is gonna get the dude out of the friendzone.
It definitely exists. And sometimes, it’s better for everyone involved that it does. If it didn’t, then we wouldn’t be friends with as many people as we are.
The way I see it, when guys are comparing their own experiences and thoughts with those expressed by the killer, it’s not the wrong path to understanding. It’s not a matter of “relating” or empathising. It’s a comparison made in order to try and establish a control, or some kind of foundation for analysis.
I think the thing that upsets me most is not that #yesallwomen is trending, it’s that we need to have that dialogue. If/when I have daughters, I want them to live their daily lives without being in fear of being raped/sexually harassed/assaulted or anything like that just because they are women.
See, I can’t agree with the first part… The ‘friendzone’ as I understand it. absolutely exists. I’ve been there. I’ve put people there. They’ve acknowledged it. I’ve acknowledged it. My understanding and usage (and what I BELIEVE is the intent by those I’ve heard use it) is: a description for a common occurrence where one person is romantically interested in someone who does not reciprocate the feeling, but wishes to remain friends. The act of shooting down or preemptively rejecting the possibility of romance between friends is the act that I perceive as ‘friendzoning’.
Are you saying this circumstance, scenario, description, whatever doesn’t exist? Have you never experienced it or seen it happening to others? It happens. Frequently. My understanding is that ‘friend zone’ is the label for this circumstance.
I do not understand the assertion that it does not happen or does/shout not have this label. Strange, you’re a sane person who I respect enormously and I know you wouldn’t try to claim that this scenario does not exist, so there HAS to be something being lost in the translation for me and I would love some help with understanding.
This may be another one of those situations where there is some sort of pop-culture usage of the word which escapes my experience of it, but what on earth is this version of the friendzone that people THINK it means, when they say it doesn’t exist?
The only thing I can think that people mean when they say it ‘doesn’t exist’ is that it is not an act of malice or unfairness or something.
Edit:
This is the part I don’t get:
Where did making that jump come from and what does that have to do with getting friendzoned? When that happens, it’s the same as any other rejection except instead of walking away and forgetting them forever, you try to maintain a friendship. It’s an important distinction, I just don’t get the leap to entitlement and how that has anything to do with the situation of getting rejected. This IS the part I need explained because I don’t understand what an unfortunate unrequited situation has to do with… I don’t know. Weird delusions of entitlement.
Edit 2:
a) If someone says, “I just got friendzoned, what a bitch,” then that’s wrong. She’s not a bitch because she didn’t agree to a romantic relationship.
b) If someone says, “I just got friendzoned so I’m kinda bummed,” that’s perfectly acceptable. It’s OK to be disappointed when you get rejected – you wanted something, it didn’t happen.
As far as I can see it’s the blame which is dangerous, not the description of rejection. Is it really so bad that some people think the act is synonymous with blame? Because that’s utterly fucked and ruins a perfectly apt and pithy way to describe the scenario that it does.
I’m exhausted and extremely upset right now, however I’m sure if you did a search for something like “friendzone doesn’t exist” people with the right words to explain it to you would be in the results.
My intent was to clarify some things, but it’s just confused people and made me feel even more frustrated and helpless. My apologies for your puzzlement. I think part of the problem is that we’re all not as capable of seeing things from the opposite gender’s point of view as we’d like to think we are.
Thankyou for weighing in and having the discussion anyway.
It’s heavy stuff to wrangle over but I’d like to think if there is anywhere on the internet it can be discussed with civility it is TAY.
I think, from Red’s description below and the appalling number of people who agree with him, the world has left me behind in this matter. Like no-one remembers the days of good old Scrubs when JD first explored the eerie friend zone, over a decade ago; the taint has spread to the way friends would commiserate, in my circles.
I give up. I don’t have the tools to handle the subject, and no business being involved in it. Obviously things are worse than I thought, everywhere.
I am keenly aware that we terrify women. And I am aware that they have good reason to be terrified, based on behaviour that they run horrific odds of eventually experiencing or having already experienced personally. I see it literally every time I keep my own absentmindedly long-legged pace behind someone who turns and catches their breath for that moment, every morning walking against the human tide through a busy thoroughfare with every split-second gaze that isn’t met, turned downcast for safety. There’s a reason I haven’t weighed in on that subject here, or twitter. You won’t see me engage on that subject. There is nothing useful for me to add to it.
But to think that this culture of fear has spilled so pervasively to something so universally-experienced and blameless as the classic unrequited crush we all experience at some stage? I’m surprised at still being so naive.
Because the idea of being “friendzoned” assumes that being a woman’s friend isn’t enough.
It’s to do with how it’s used- “I was really nice to this woman and she put me in the friendzone” translates into “I was nice to a woman but that bitch won’t sleep with me even though I was nice”
Basically it’s tied up with a mindset of “if I put enough friendship tokens/money/ effort into a woman she should pay out like a pokie and sleep with me” rather than seeing a woman as a breathing human who can make her own decisions and might not want to be in a relationship with me for any of the myriad reasons. It speaks to a default thought process of entitlement.
It’s the connotation rather than the definition of the term, sure, but connotations matter.
Yeah this, this is how everyone I know that complains about being in said zone see’s the friendzone, so this is why I think it’s a bullshit and mythological zone..
Hell, talking about friendships and relationships in terms of zones seems too fucking clinical to me.
Basically. Just about everyone is a friend, some are just better friends than others 😛
Enh. That clinical part doesn’t bother me. If anything, in a saner world there should be better demarcations of the various venn-related relationship types so that people don’t get so damn confused all the time and mis-communicate (or flat-out not communicate) expectations to one another.
We all accept the delineations of ‘break-up’ and ‘a couple’ as pretty well-understood and tossed around without offense. With so many common shades in between, I don’t see that it should be a stretch to have some ideas of the boundaries between friends and ‘friends with benefits’. (Seems pretty clear to me: something probably changes how you relate to someone when you start having sex with them.) We could probably do with some more analysis so that, “I don’t get why you’re upset, when did we agree to be exclusive?” isn’t a phrase that has to be heard again. Because if the entirety of human history has taught us anything, it’s that intuition isn’t what it’s cracked up to be and a little mature communication can go a long way toward harmony than automatically assuming someone else shares your values/expectations and being upset when that proves to be false.
@virus__
Except when they’re not friends or friendship was never the primary goal of interaction, and it’s just the heady rush of sex and/or romance. There’s a lot of ways to relate to folks and holding ‘friendship’ up as some gold standard of desirability feels a bit off. You’ve never had hate-sex with someone you can’t really stand? Or someone you don’t get along with that well, but can’t keep your hands off? Or someone who kind of bores you, but you didn’t know that til you’d already been in the sack with them, and it wasn’t their personality that attracted you to them, it was that dazzling smile/soulful eyes/great body? They might not be popular parts of the relationship spectrum, but I wouldn’t discount them out of hand as being without value and they’re definitely not rare.
You know, we can settle this scientifically.
There is an instance of Friendzone. Certain science camps have hypothesised that this is just hyperbole and not actually a witnessable circumstance in the observable universe.
Another science camp has both observed, documented, and experienced this phenomenon.
Therefore, until further evidence is presented, Friendzone exists.
Simple.
Red, I don’t like it, but you’ve provided probably the best description that I can somehow pivot, twist, and wedge – VERY uncomfortably – into my head and it seems to be boiling down to this:
Enough people who deserve a thorough fucking smack have used the term in association with their self-deluded complaints enough that it no longer means what it means to the point that everyone has abandoned any attempt to reclaim it and are willing to just let a bunch of self-entitled wankers have that one, with nothing to replace it, without telling me or anyone who I’ve heard use it in its original, intended, appropriate context (because obviously I don’t associate with enough assholes).
This idea offends me on so many levels I cannot resolve or possibly even grudgingly accept it. I still – instinctively – can’t believe that more people are using the term ‘friendzoned’ in this inappropriate way than those who are using it free of the sense of entitlement. Maybe that’s naive, maybe the world really is worse than a serial cynic can accept, but really? Really, that’s it?
I’m dumbfounded.
What has it been replaced by? Or do we now express our disappointment in friendzoning by expressing dejectedly that the object of their affection does not reciprocate their romantic feelings but prefers a platonic relationship?
My love of language itself is offended by the idea that (no reflection on you) you might be right. When the hell did this word get stolen, and why didn’t we fight to reclaim it like all good pedants should?
@jocon:
In what hellish cesspit corner of the world is this the common use of the word? Certainly nowhere I frequent.
…which may include the popular parts of the Internet.
You’ve gotta be kidding me.
Because it’s a modern term, that the internet exposed the seamy dark side of rapidly, and in this day and age once these things jump they don’t come back.
It got captured by the MRA neckbeards who assumed that because they were obviously superior (vomits) the reason they didn’t have women flailing over them, even when they were a nice guy, they must have been placed in a seperate mental category of “just friends” in the “friendzone,” and it was unfair because they were obviously superior and they only wanted what they felt they deserved.
Never mind the fact that they were creepy, or that women weren’t interested for whatever reason, or perhaps that they didn’t explore properly but got fixated on one girl. No, it must be a friendzone, a limbo that all women conciously know about and banish nice guys to with evil chuckles.
Of course, the rest of the world can see just how wrong that line of thought is, and in any other climate you’d hope those people eventually got over themselves and figured it out. But no, this is the age of the internet, so these people retreated online into shitty places like /r/redpill and festered.
Call your version unrequited love. It’s what it was once called (and the basis for 3/4 of the world’s literature) and the term is safe because love is the last thing on their minds.
Maybe it’s because it’s late and I’ve forgotten what I’ve read already, but I think I’m still confused. It’s just the expectation that’s wrong isn’t it? I mean I think I have a fairly similar approach, but you don’t put in Nice Guy tokens til the sex comes out. You work to cultivate and grow a relationship, put in the time and effort to bond and get closer. Build it up piece by piece in the hopes that it can get stronger and become something more. But then because the metaphor’s switched from being some kind of plant to being some kind of tower or similar construction, you might get to a point where someone points out that the pieces you’ve placed down don’t have what it takes to support a new level added on top, and this is as high as you can go. Be it because you did something wrong when putting it together, or because you weren’t using the right materials in the first place. And I don’t really see how that isn’t being friendzoned, or how that carries any sense of being owed or entitled to anything.
Although it is rather late and I have no idea if any of that even makes sense or has any accuracy at all. Also I think I mentioned my approach once before and was told by @transientmind that I was full of crazy ideas that don’t make sense and I need to unlearn them somehow 😛
No more computer. Bedtime.
It’s the expectation and the thought process that makes it wrong.
Sure, be nice to people, and invest time and effort into relationships, but do it because you like the people, not that you’re hoping to hit a sex jackpot.
As a way to start a romantic relationship, I still kinda think it’s a crazy way to operate by default.
Sexual/romantic attraction is a funny thing, and if it’s not there right from the start, it’s unlikely (but not impossible) to develop after you build a friendship. Whereas if you start with someone you’re attracted to, and set the relationship-building in that context so there’s no confusion about your goal, you can still cultivate and grow that relationship, learning more about them and growing to love both their strengths and flaws… but you don’t then perform some ‘bait and switch’ by trying to convert it into a romantic relationship instead of a platonic one. It’s about expectations. It’s not that you can’t do it that way… but a lot of folks really don’t like their expectations being subverted in that area.
It’d be like spending all that time painstakingly building a skyscraper only to learn afterwards that you’ve built it somewhere where you don’t have building approval, now council wants you to tear it down. Or at the very least, use it for a different purpose than you intended.
Building friendships is fine. Building friendships with the goal of hoping to convert them to romances? Well. Not very effective. It’s not the only way to operate, but for the least confusion and disappointment, if you want friends, make friends. If you want a romantic relationship, start one. Make your intent known.
edit: what red said – it’s how it’s commonly used not what it is.
It’s not a matter of trying to relate to the killer, it’s a matter of being confronted with an issue that apparently involves ‘all men,’ and trying to determine where I fit into that picture.
Do I (or did I) have attitudes that might be red flags? Is there behaviour that needs to change? How much of my routinised everyday might be inadvertently making someone else uncomfortable without me even noticing?
And at the moment, the biggest red flag and an obvious starting point for comparison, is the guy who’s in the news for a misogynistic rant.
It’s nothing to do with friend zoning or whether or not others were attracted to me – it’s about attitudes and perceptions, the feelings I had at the time. Trying to identify how I’ve changed, and if that’s enough.
Every time I think I’ve got a handle on the gender issue, it just comes up all over again, and I realise that the handle I’ve got might well just be a complacent adherence to the status quo. This whole thing has me so turned around, I just have no idea if I’m part of the problem or not.
Fuck it. Not saying anything.
I saw your original response. Either way is good. Thanks, man.
Quote 1 means (at least to me) that the answer to quote 2 is that you’re not. Trying matters.
Email from Cine Buzz: WE MISS YOU!
We’ve noticed you haven’t been to the cinemas lately yada yada yada, have a $10 movie ticket to any film! Oh sooo tempted to go see X-Men. Tonight.
I get my Cinebuzz thingo scanned every time I see a movie but I never look to see if I get any rewards from it 😛
If you enable email notifications, each one reminds you of the number of points you have.
Got a job today, on less money then I usually would be on for my job but its work and its money so I cannot complain, hopefully will work out till I can find a better paying job. So in celebration is watchdogs any good and should I buy it? This is if anyone knows yet.
Hey, congrats friend! This is awesome news and I am genuinely psyched for you! 🙂
That sense of validation from having a job is a good one. Savor it. 😀
Have learnt that already after losing my job a few times, just working makes you that much happier as sitting around doing nothing gets really disheartening.
I’m out to sell some games, I want a PS4.
It’s the #getjimuaPS4fund
3DS
Tales of the Abyss – $20
New Super Mario Bros 2 – $25
Tekken 3d – $20
Wii
Donkey Kong Country Returns – $25
360
Bioshock in a rusty tin – make an offer
The Witcher 2 in a slipcase with a book thingy – $20
PS3
Tales of Graces F – make an offerPersona 4 Arena – $20
Sonic Allstars Racing Transformed – $20
Vita
Gravity Rush – $20
Virtua Tennis (no case or a Uncharted Golden Abyss case) – $5?
I have comics too if interested, good ones.
Are we able to donate money for no other reason then just because?
Nope, sorry 😀
but, I don’t really want any of the games, and I can’t afford much but I could at least spare $5.
It’s OK, thanks.
Maybe you can buy tennis and I’ll slip the cart in a normal envelope 😛
I don’t want tennis though D=
same
Any trades you’re looking to part with?
Perhaps, what’re you into.
I think I have some stuff I rebought in HC.
Not interested in singles/floppies at all?
Single floppies make my Collector’s OCD start having a seizure.
I own somewhere between 6 to 8 longboxes of them!
Next Men vol 5 – John Byrne
New X-men Vol1 e is for extinction – Grant Morrison
New X-men Vol1 HC – (contains the above plus a shitload more)X-Men Visionaries Joe Madureira signed by Scott Lobdell (cover is falling off)
Promethea Vol 3 HC – Alan Moore JH Williams III (has a label on the inside cover with some kids name on it
Captain Britain – Alan Davis (contains the stories following the Alan Moore trade and leading straight into Excalibur)
Ultimate Spider-Man Vol one – Bendis/Bagley (Signed by Bendis & Bagley) (edges eaten by moth or whatever)
Identity Crisis – Brad Meltzer
The Punisher vol 1 (max comics, not PUNISHERMAX) – Garth EnnisHellblazer vol 1 – Jamie Delano (bit dogeared)Batman Year one – Miller/ MazzuchelliThe Authority Vol 2 – Warren Ellis/ Mark Millar
The Authority Vol 2 – Mark Millar
What would you want for Punisher, Hellblazer and New Xmen HC?
after a quick check on ebay and after mate’s rates – $50
Done.
Cool, we should meet up because this fucker’s heavy and the post would almost be as much.
QuizB is in town not this weekend, but next. Meat on the Sunday 8th June.
QuizB?
@dc
That @dc bloke is an ideas man.
@quiz_b
@dc is da bomb-diggitty!
OH!
And only $40 cos I stole your dinner money that night D:
My what now?
Karaoke, you sent Jimu to get you food and he returned with no food and a story to tell of interacting with strangers. 😀
Meh, that’s long out of memory. I wouldn’t worry about it. A PS4 is on the line here 😛
I was pretty pissed cos I missed dinner and drank half a carton (?)
@dc @freezespreston
How much for Tales of Graces and Batman Year One?
$45 including shipping sound alright?
Perfect.
Shoot me an email mij 69 _96 jim @ yahoo . com
Oh yeah so was NSMB2 an AU or EU copy?
Eu
Hi Jim, I’m keen to contribute to the fund by purchase of the New Super Mario Bros 2. If you haven’t given away that is!
Even though my Wii isn’t working at the moment I believe I will take Donkey Kong Country Returns.
And if the Bioshock tin is this one I’ll give you 40 bucks for the lot. Sound fair?
Square Enix are the most fucking half-assed company sometimes.
So Drakengard 3 still doesn’t have a patch that makes the pre-order DLC work in Europe. They refuse to acknowledge there’s even a problem, which presumably means that they’re going to be assholes about it and never fix it. Their response is ‘download it again, maybe it’ll work’. Game is 15gb + 10gb for the voice DLC.
And even if it worked, the subsequent extra content that adds major story elements to the game? Dub-only forever. So the voice DLC is half-assed to begin with. So incredibly disappointed.
And all this is on top of the big giant ‘fuck you, Europe’ where they refused to give us a physical edition at all, and where the ‘collector’s edition’ was for a digital copy + physical extras, but no one outside a few blessed countries in Europe was allowed to buy it.
fuckheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeads
I really want to play it and I’m thinking I’m just going to have to suck it up and play the dub. But the Japanese version would have been so much better. Fucking Squenix. If they’d just put dual audio on the disc in the first place instead of trying to fucking screw everyone over for extra cash then it would have been a non-issue.
It’s such a niche game that they won’t bother patching it, too expensive.
Dual audio needs to become standard.
We’re all used to DVDs by now.
For a while it seemed like it was, and even Squenix was starting to do it. Then someone was like HEY I BET WE CAN CHARGE PEOPLE $5 FOR THIS AND THEN MAKE IT A PREORDER INCENTIVE and then Lightning Returns and Drakengard 3 happened. Fuckers. At least LR had enough people buying it that they actually gave a shit and bothered to test it before shitting the release out onto PSN.
Is the dub really that bad?
By virtue of the fact that it’s an american dub using shitty anime VAs… yes. There’s maybe a 5% chance that it’d not be terrible.
But that’s not even the point. The point is that I preordered the game on PSN so that I could get Japanese Voiceover DLC for free, and the game launched and the DLC doesn’t work. It’s not like I’m complaining about the lack of it, I’m complaining that I haven’t gotten it even though I paid for it.
And people that didn’t preorder right now are being asked to pay $5 for it, and if they do it won’t work.
EDIT: Bear in mind that I’ve been watching subtitled anime for nearly fifteen years, studied the language off and on and can make out a lot of what is said in spoken dialogue without subtitles. It’s how I’m comfortable listening to stuff and how I want to experience the game ideally. I hate the American anime dubs, hate the way they sound and the run-on sentences and weird intonation and the over-enthusiasm about everything. If I can avoid them I will go out of my way to do so, to the point of paying extra. I should probably just get back to actually studying the language again formally so I can not have to rely on localizations at all and I’d be happier for it.
Personally, I’m sick of the same 5 voice actors in every game and anime.
That dood who did Caius in FF13-2 is in EVRYTHING
At least in Japanese, I can’t tell.
Japan re-uses a lot of people too. And recently especially among the voice actresses, a lot of them aren’t that good. Some of them are, but a lot are actually idols or singers that are using stuff as a promotional vehicle rather than actually good at acting. Kind of sucks. But generally the standard is much higher.
It’s strange though, if you were to take most of those anime VAs and put them into a normal game developed by Bioware or something, with a script and a voice director and everything that was in English to begin with, they’d sound absolutely fine. Anime dubs have started to build up this bizarre style that some people really like or are used to, and so because they’re ‘experienced’ doing dubs for Japanese stuff those same voice studios get game work and reinforce the idea that that style isn’t shitty.
Even a lot of kids cartoons have better voice work than anime dubs do.
I got Mario Kart Super Circuit on the weeked (for $30, not too bad) and I put it in my Gameboy Micro and it didn’t work 🙁
So I take it back (Gametraders), the worker blows the cartridge and it works. Note: I did blow it, but obviously not the proper way, so I learnt the proper way to do it!
They were impressed with the Micro though 😛
They also had Golden Sun (boxed and not boxed) but I still wasn’t sure about it, so I stopeed myself from getting it.
The other thing I noticed is that Zelda stuff is crazy expensive. The A link to the past/Four Swords cart was $70. $70! That’s abou $60 for a 20 year old game and another $10 for the bonus game. Link’s Awakening (not DX, original version) was $40, and Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons were at least $50 each, maybe even $60. The 2 Pokémon Carts were also about $65 each.
They also had a pretty good offer for Omega Red and Alpha Sapphire, off the top of my head it was a $58 preorder (for one) or $110 for both (but I can’t remember, I only got a quick glance).
It’s $110 for both.
Also, the reason Zelda stuff is so damn expensive is because Zelda is in high demand and low supply. I had to literally explain this to two disgruntled people on facebook and post ebay links to prove it.
That’s Nintendo for you!
*Studio audience laughs slowly replaced by audible groans*
Paid the excess on my insurance for the bingle I had last week Q_Q
Sorry to hear. Want a free PC? 😀
A wha?
Maybe you missed it earlier.
Oh man, that’d be great!
Perfect. I’ll email you more details shortly.
Good guy Benny.
Great guy @benny
Touche 😛
What happened to this week’s Sunday Comics? Is Kotaku not doing it anymore?
Memorial Day weekend in US.
Also why no GoT
And this is why war is bad.
Or remembering them at least.
Can’t be that, because it’s on the US website, just not the AU one.
http://kotaku.com/sunday-comics-the-worst-thing-you-can-do-1581298266
Also they’re here @phlanispo
That interface…
What’s the HTML for strikeouts so I can update that list o mine?
(is it even called HTML? I’m old)
strike
[del]
Fart[del]
Huh?
“del” and “/del” inside these “<" gets you
thisalso,
Code!
pantsWait, did you go through all of that JUST so you could tell us you’ve removed your pants?
I actually find that endearing.
*overly obvious wink*
Yis! Thanks
@mrtaco (or anyone else)
helppppppp
How does saving in New Super Luigi U/NSMBU work again? Is it only after you beat a castle? Lameeeeee!
If it’s like the other New bros games it’s certain levels and castles then after the end boss, anytime
Lameeeeee
Lately 2D Rayman > 2D Mario
I got the 10th anniversary for GBA and…
Yeah, the new ones are so much better 😀
I like the fast paced new ones, as opposed to the slow, take your time style of number one. Still looking forward to playing it though.
I totally don’t remember. I thought it was automatic after beating a level? But I could be wrong.
Whatever it is, the solution is to suck less 😛
The game is terrible in co-op 😛
I thought that the first time I played NSMBWii multiplayer. Worst gaming experience ever. But then the second time, it was awesome. The problem was the first time I was playing with a bunch of people who sucked so the whole thing was just a drag, but the next time was with people who knew what they were doing so it was hilarious.
Although I’ve never played co-op in the context of actually wanting to progress through the game, so that might not be so great either 😛
Yeah, person I co-oped with sucked and we were trying to progress 😛
If you exit out of the menu and press SAVE & EXIT (or whatever), it’ll say “you can only resume once from here” and it’ll exit. That’s how you do it when you’re done for the day.
The whole “once once” thing is that: you can’t load it, die a lot, then reload that save. But you can do the save & exit as many times as you like.
Finally started watching Cosmos. It’s pretty great if slightly overblown at times. Have to keep pausing to explain things though.
The first couple of episodes are sort of a broad overview, he drills down into stuff more deeply later. Same as the original Cosmos, really.
How do you watch Cosmos without pirating?
Hey look over there! A three headed elephant! *flees*
Is there anyone on here good at speaking/translating Japanese? If you remember me discussing about modding a controller, this actually has to do with it.
http://au.ign.com/wikis/the-legend-of-zelda-wind-waker/Pre-Order_Bonuses_and_Special_Editions
I wanted to make the controller look like it’s part of the overall package. I would like to add some Hylian script to the design, but I don’t speak enough Japanese to be able to do any translation
This guys looks at translating Japanese, especially when it comes to videogames.
http://legendsoflocalization.com/contact/
It says a paragraph or two, but he can probably help out with proper zelda stuff, since he compares Japanese script to English.
Might be helpful.
Note: I don’t actually speak Japanese. I know that n looks like a fancy cursive h though.
Oh, so the Hylian characters are just a drop-in replacement for hiragana?
Depending on what you want to say I might be able to help a bit, but I’m not confident.
Pretty much. I don’t want anything complicated. Just something to look good on the controller and vaguely Zelda related
Well what do you want it to say? Could you just steal some of the text from the Wii U controller that you linked?
I need to be able to fit it on the wii remote, so something more compact would be needed
One of my secret shames is that I still haven’t played Nier, despite it being one of those games this past generation that everyone loves and which seems like it’s right up my alley.
Has anyone seen copies of it anywhere? I can get a copy on ebay or something but PS3 copies are running quite expensive now as the game seems to be out of print and not available digitally (or is it?)
EDIT: I actually own a copy on X360 but it’s Asia region and my JP 360 is in a box somewhere in storage and not sure I want to go to the effort of digging through to find the game & the system and cables and everything.
I can send you my copy if you like?
Can we do a trade? I’d feel bad owning two copies because of laziness, especially when it’s a rare game that’s actually pretty valuable, used copies go for upward of $40 and new sealed copies can be twice that.
We could call it a loan if it would make you feel any better.
EB has pre-owned copies on 360 for 14 bucks.
https://www.ebgames.com.au/xbox360-149952-Nier-preowned-Xbox-360
Yeah, but as I said, I already own it on 360 and just am being lazy as I don’t want to haul it out of storage again.
EDIT: Also says they’re out of stock. Last time I checked it was like one copy in Townsville or something.
I don’t get Nier. I love Drakengard, but I just couldn’t get into Nier at all :S
It’s one of those games that I’ll pick up every now and then to play cause I want to like it more than I do, but I just can’t :S
I’m pretty much in this boat. I played the first two or three hours of it, but couldn’t get into it at all. I hope whoever ended up with my copy enjoyed it more than I did.
Definetly worth playing. A tad clunky in execution & presentation, but if you can look past that it’s a very solid, original (while at the same time homaging old stuff), mature game.
The music is to die for!
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Thirteenth Session Recap (15th April 2014) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places,
– Phetys aka @mythamphetamine the mechanical Nano who fuses flesh and steel,
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders,
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
And unfortunately absent:
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness.
The party recovered from being assaulted by the strange and misshapen human/plant creatures however the majority of them remained in the chamber with the seed pods. Only Russef and Scrappa were safely outside of the pit but thankfully most of the group were unharmed. That is except for Phetys who seemed to have developed a fond relationship with the creatures after one of the grubs attached itself to his spine. Nova looked at Phetys who only smiled serenely back at him. Russef called down to the others to climb up the rope and they moved towards it when they were distracted by the sound of some sort of machinery. They turned around to find that a section of the cavern had slid open and a figure was beckoning them. A female voice called out to Blaghs, Nova, and Phetys and bade them to come this way. They couldn’t see exactly who this mysterious person was but they figured they might be able to unravel the mystery of these strange creatures.
Find out what happens next at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/ (with pictures too).
That bit where you all pointed at different directions with The Lily is one of my favourite provoked reactions out of you guys.
While watching tv, I just had a 1 hour 40 minute game of chess with my room mate. Highs and lows, so much fun.
So very sleepy now.
Climbing is awesome but frustrating. I was back on a problem I’ve been working the last couple of weeks, and still making no progress on it. I’ve got the first part nailed, but the move to the last hold sucks. You more or less have to thrust your crotch directly towards the pointy bit of a box bolted to the wall, and the hold you’re reaching for is big, round and very slippery. So of course when I thought “oh well, one more go and I’ll give up”, I manage for the first time ever to perfectly place my hand and actually get hold of it. Then have no idea what to do next, and come off 😛 Got back up there one more time, but still couldn’t do anything. Definitely gotta try again before it disappears. I asked this younger girl sitting next to me if she’d managed to do it at all, since she gets a whole load of the harder climbs really easily due to weighing about as much as the chalk on my hands. She said no, but told me I should try the next harder one because it’s really easy. Well, it’s not all that easy but it seems like it could be doable if I wasn’t as tired as I was. Looking forward to nailing my first 5 😛
Then up the other end there’s this new hold that’s a giant baby’s head. It’s kinda creepy. It was also the crux for that climb and I couldn’t get past it last week. This week though, despite being really tired I somehow flew past it like it was nothing. And then didn’t have enough juice in the tank to take it to the finish 😛 NEXT TIME, GADGET! NEXT TIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!
Also had yet another person tell me that the way I land from a climb is cool, adding that I’m like Spiderman. I felt the need to explain to her that I’m just trying to not put any strain on my knee at all, mostly because I hate the thought of being perceived as a show-off 😛 All I do is crumple into a pile…
Noticed one of the guys up there had what looked to be a Nokia 1020. Went up and asked him about it, since I’ve never seen one in the wild before and I’m a giant dork. It’s a lot bigger (surface area-wise) than I expected, though thinner too. And lighter. I guess the 808’s pretty heavy. But still, prefer it to icky windows 😛 Ended up having a bit of a chat afterwards, maybe even a vague invitation to climb ropes with them.
Also have now worked my way through Iron Maiden, Killers, Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind and Powerslave. I forget who it was that mentioned it here the other week, possibly Virus, but yeah. Still kinda ehh about them. I think there’s something kind of… loose/unformed/messy about them that doesn’t sit right with me. Not solid enough. I dunno. They’re good, but nothing I’d want to specifically listen to. Maybe just have on in the background without paying too much attention.
You know what, this post isn’t long enough yet. Surely there must be something else to type words about. Oh shit I just remembered I made a cup of tea before, it’s probably gone cold by now.
… using the last sentence of the first 2 paragrafs i have deduced what actually happened
…
Shut-up, it’s funny to my pre-caffeinated brain
Imagining someone hanging off the wall halfway up, using a phone, and you climbing up and having a conversation about phones while 20m off the ground.
It’s kinda boss.
Man, I hate the big round slopers (or slopers in general) but I’m just not very good. What’s your excuse?
Baby head or Buddha head?
You’re “ehh” about Maiden? I… I don’t understand.
Seriously though, Iron Maiden and Killers are definitely on the messy side. A bit more hard rock, maybe? But Number of the Beat and onwards are tighter than an ant’s caboose. It’s not “modern” metal though, not like a sledgehammer of sound. If Number of the Beast failed to impress then later albums might leave you with a similar impression. Worth continuing on your journey though. Might find something that hits home.
They’re freaking awesome live too.
Apparently I’m just too much of a Judas Priest fanboy for anything else to suffice 😛 I do like the kind of emptier more raw sound they both have in their earlier albums, where it’s not just slamming it all the time. But still with these guys it just feels like there’s something not quite right, something missing overall. Oh, and last night I hit Heaven Can Wait and it’s got that super annoying bit on the third time in the chorus where he sings the title and it sounds like he hits the wrong note. Like it should switch to minor for that third one but he sings major instead, or something. Also listening to them again now, I can totally see their influence popping up in other stuff I’ve listened to before, like a few things on OCRemix.
I’m ok with the green big round slopers most of the time, but this red one, it’s like it’s had all its texture polished off. Seems to be rather black, I guess it’s usually used as a foot hold. My excuse is that it’s just shit 😛
And it’s definitely a foetus face and not a Buddah.
Yeah, Judas Priest are pretty good.
I was imprinted early with Iron Maiden, so I’m particularly attached to them. I think Number of the Beast was the first metal album I heard on CD. Before that my rock/metal exposure was via my dad’s vinyl,
I think I know what you’re referring to in regards to Heaven Can Wait.
I must be recalling a Buddha from elsewhere. Probably a complete Buddha, rather than a head.
I think my earliest metal exposure was Unirally 😛 Then didn’t really have anything to do with it at all until gaining some metalhead net friends years down the track, one of which linked me Freewheel Burning and I was just like… holy shit it’s Unirally music! This is awesome! Then I ended picking up GH3 and really got into that. Came out of GHMetallica enjoying Hell Bent For Leather, then the same friend linked me Electric Eye and I decided I needed to hear more of these guys and just loved everything of theirs. Then because I really liked Number of the Beast and The Trooper in GH, I decided to check out Iron Maiden… and I dunno, just didn’t quite find what I was looking for I guess. Actually did GH3 use a cover version of Number of the Beast? Because I think that one maybe sounds different to the one on the album, and I might prefer the cover. If only because that’s what I heard first and had drilled into my brain. It could even just be that the game has the tracks remixed at different levels and I prefer them that way, with more focus on the guitar line.
Dunno. Haven’t really played GH. Took me a little while to figure out what GH was.
You make climbing sound like playing Trials. Wonder if the new place my gym is building will include climbing stuff, I’ll have to ask.
I know I suggested Powerslave, it feels like one of the tightest Maiden albums
Feck off with your concrete cutters and jackhammers from 6 in the morning in a residential area. Dafuq is wrong with you?
In a bit of a gaming slump where even when I have some spare time I just don’t feel like playing any of the games I have on the go. After seeing that Garrus statue posted on the front page last night I’m thinking maybe now might be the time to start back from the first Mass Effect, and do my ManShep playthrough where he romances Ash so I can see that storyline.
That reminds me that I need to do my Insane playthrough on ME3 with my true character with my own choices and see how renegade I end up being :P. Was kinda interesting when I did this on Mass Effect 1 and 2 how I was actually doing good things but still got more renegade points than paragon in the end lol.
This is me so often of late, most days I just don’t think games are fun anymore and are more a chore. Though i’ve gotten a lot of fun out of Assassin’s Creed IV thus far.
I’ve just been through this for the last few months, then shook myself out of it only to fall right back in once I finished the things that got me going again 🙁
I’ve still got the original Mass Effect on my shelf, and I have yet to play it.
Morning all! Sure is a beautiful d… what? I have to work**? *slump*
** I use the word ‘work’ advisedly, only to differentiate it from home time. Any implication that I might have to apply myself in a professional context is entirely accidental.
I just watched the video in that kotaku article about the Mcdonalds happy meal toys where it points out the creepy box face then I ran into this on reddit.
http://i.imgur.com/HFwGpkK.jpg
Makes me think it’s Alice the madness IRL
Feeeeed the birds, tuppence a baaaag…
My kid watched Mary Poppins for the first time just two days ago. What is this creepy synchronicity!
CONFIRMED: @DC is shane’s kid
B..but he’s my son…
I may or may not have had to google what that’s from… i suck at references 😛
Have you watched Saving Mr Banks yet? If not you should. Particularly when you have your new glasses.
I saw it a few weeks ago. I cried. 😛
I saw it at the cinema. I too cried.
Move it, ya drunk, or I’ll blast your rear end
I found two bucks…!
…Then come in, my friend.
I read that from a completely different angle.
Anyone looking for a sweet Watchdogs deal look here:
PS4/XBO/PS3/360
$54 Click and collect or +$9 Postage (With $10 coupon)
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/145748
Just tried it and the PS4 version unavailable online after 10 minutes of going up
dont stress its not actually out of stock, i was watching it the moment it went up. I phoned them up and apparently it just hasnt been loaded into the system correctly. There is plenty of stock.
Doesn’t matter I just went into my local target and got them to price match it less staff discount got it for $50
HOOK ME UP BRO! lol
They just phoned me… it actually went up online. only 34 copies and they sold instantly…
AND I MISSED IT 🙁
XBO/PS3/360 still available 🙁
Yeah when I was there they had copies on the shelves but they were display only and had 5 copies in store only
Watchdows PC:
$37.50 (GMG With Coupon 25% off)
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/145692
I got my copy from GMG, too bad the site is based in the US so you need to wait until it’s out in the US.
Downloaded last night. Played for 10 min this morning over breakfast before work… seriously considered calling in sick…
same, then i remembered it not high school and im a big boy now with a big boy job….
With big boy sickies \o/
Get into ’em now before the $7 co-pay kicks in!
A big boy with a big boy job who can make a big boy decision to say “Screw work, I wanna play vidja games!”
My friend one day via SMS for no reason:
“Being an adult means you can eat an entire bag of cheese and no-one can stop you.”
Being an adult means you have no one to blame but yourself for the days of gastrointestinal distress you’re about to experience.
I replied, “Is that your way of saying, ‘someone please stop me’?”
Sometimes I have beer in my cereal and ice cream for breakfast at 1pm just to remind myself I’m and adult.
Beer. In cereal?
The closest I’ve ever been to that was when I was double fisting Up N Go & Extra Dry on the way to the races when I was 20.
I’ve heard mention of that baileys stuff in cocoa pops being good
well not literally… I don’t actually like beer.
It’s just an example of one of those things that you can do just because you can
I watched all of the available episodes for the Rollplay One Shot last night set in the Crossed/Apocalypse World setting. I must say that the world of Crossed is pretty freaking creepy and disturbing but I am also morbidly fascinated about who would create and write about such a topic.
I might go check this out, I’ve been trying to catch up on all of the RollPlays but there’s so many of them! /o\
I haven’t bothered with most of the RollPlays aside from the RnD stuff and the One Shots. I decided to not even attempt to try and watch the original season from beginning to end because screw 50+ weeks of 4 hours each.
I’m on the beginning of week twenty currently xD
I’ve read through most of the Crossed web comic. It’s quite interesting while being off putting at the same time. I like it.
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
Let me know if you are interested so we can get an idea of the numbers coming
@greenius @scree @beavwa @princesspipster @tech_knight @budgieishere @tigerion @jordi @f4ction @splicer @notoriousr @tofu @blood_apathy @dire_wolf @mcgarnical @pixel_the_ferret_viking @ynefel @zetrox2k @syvraen @klutar @smurfydog @negativezero @velnica @crazyguy1990 @chuloopa @inquisitorsz @wizz-fizz @coldcamv
Yeah count me interested!
Actually… darn it I might be on recall that weekend, sorry 🙁
Congrats! I don’t visit TAY often anymore so I missed the news.
I’ll pencil myself in for a tentative yes. June is usually super busy for me so I’ll see how it goes.
Put Cathryn and I down as a current moment yes will give a definitive answer closer to the date
Tentative yes.
Won’t be able to make it obviously so I’ll save my congratulations for if I see you over the PAX weekend!
PAX should be interesting, we both have 3 day passes but no idea if we will get a chance to use them with a 3 month old
Not wanting to get your hopes up, but if you have a carrier, a three month old might well be okay (at least for short/medium stretches) for PAX.
Hence the “if” 😛
I’m sure I’ll see you for a short while at least!
Take me as a tentative yes… I’ll just check with the Minister of War and Finance but it should be aight… I might even bring her along 😀
Minister of War and Finance, huh.
So basically the minister for viking raiding parties? 😛
Well yes, but we’re going for a more professional title 😛
Like Civil Domestic Engineers are people who stay at home… you know, stuff like that 😛
Oh, that’s the night I ship out back to
the war frontprisonTassie.🙁
I would be there in a heartbeat. Sorry Tigs.
What time do you ship out? Also are there any other meat plans while you are here?
Actually, just double checked and I could still make it! The boat leaves at 7:30pm, so I probably need to be there at about 5-5:30pm. Leave it with me and I’ll figure it out tonight.
Sweet, would be great to see you while you are over
I’m not great with babies or kids. I would like to celebrate with you, but I can’t stand noisy kids.
I think I’ll sit it out, and celebrate from afar. Sorry.
Pencil me in :o)
Oh wow, I am way behind in the news around here. Congratulations @tigerion and Mrs Tigs!!!
Finished Wolfenstein last night. I thought it was overall really good but my experience was soured somewhat by a single boss battle I found frustrating and unenjoyable. I’m sure if you’ve played it you’ll know the one I mean.
Going to do a second playthrough to clean up collectibles etc. and round out the game with 900/1000 achievement points because there’s no way in hell I’m playing it on one of the higher difficulties. My wife has 1000/1000 and 100% completion but I don’t have her patience and definitely don’t need to boil any more of my blood.
I wonder if doing all that her dreams are now riddled with nazi propaganda
Not yet. She is going to do another playthrough though. She’s loved the Wolfenstein franchise her whole life and I think this is her new favourite.
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Ah righto, I didn’t find that one all too bad, though I did get a little frustrated with that particular section also.
Not even 10am and my jimmies have rustled so far that I have lost them.
Have you been on tumblr? You know that’s just empty feels and fecal nobility.
Sounds like you’re having a morning like mine, we just found out that our offshore team that’s been assisting with customer activations botched most of them up so badly that fixing it requires a customer outage, and unfortunately it will be necessary for it to actually function the way it’s supposed to and as efficiently as it’s supposed to. >.< We make such detailed and low level guides on how to do all this and they still can't do it right.
Lovely. 🙁
Show us on the doll where the bad man touched you.
In all seriousness, sucks man. I had that happen the other day when I got linked to a sub reddit that was just death gifs I thought it wasn’t gonna be real from the URL, I was wrong :/
On the other hand, it’s more time in the day to make up for it!
So I had a crack at Crusader Kings II over the weekend. I think I sat there for two hours and have no idea what I’m doing. I chose some guy in Poland and it seems all I can do is press weak claims, call in allies to support them, then when I win I still don’t seem to own those territories. But, you know, I’m playing the long game. My wife hates me for some reason and is plotting with my sister to have me killed, but I didn’t have the heart to have her arrested. Instead she spends most of her time in a convent while I father and legitimise bastards. I figure if I have enough sons they can marry into all the thrones of 11th century europe and that’s basically how you win right?
I need to get the Game of Thrones mod for this. It’ll make way more sense then. I hope.
I also had a go at Tropico 4. Very enjoyable. Who needs Sim City when there’s Tropico?
Use your spymaster, fabricate claims.
I am raising my first son to be trusting and diplomatic. He will make a fine king some day.
I am lying to my bastard son at every opportunity, in order that he will serve the future King Dobiewicz well as his Spymaster. Together they will steal the continent!
ahahahaha
your first son is so going to catch the plague and die.
Having never played the Tropico series: Entice me. What’s it about, why is it great, and should I consider Tropico 5 because the Steam advertisement seems to suggest that it’s some kind of Fidel Castro v Abraham Lincoln situation.
You are the dictator of a small banana republic which is somewhat analogous to Cuba during the cold war era (but not really). You have to build a city and balance the needs of your people not only individually (is there enough housing and jobs, etc.) but the needs of various factions who support you. For instance the Communists want there to be losts of cheap housing and labour but not too much personal liberty – other factions will want other things which will usually cross-purpose against other factions.
In Tropico 4 (which is set around the cold war era, though there is Modern Times DLC as well which I haven’t gotten to yet) you actually receive foreign aid from the US and the USSR who may potentially invade you if you make either one unhappy. You decide if you want to farm food or farm for profit (or try and do both) what kind of industry you want you have (for instance the Middle East asked me to make them weapons so I built a weapons factory, even though this kind of pisses off the US – who incidentally were asking me for cigars).
It’s a bit more micro-manage-y than the Sim City I remember and it’s more about the people than the infrastructure which I personally find more fun and engaging than the last time I tried to play Sim City 4 or Cities XL.
Sounds cool; and reading a review of Tropico 5 v 4 it seems 4 might even be the way to go as it’s more ‘strategic’ rather than ‘questy’
Interesting review, actually. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/05/tropico-5-review-empire-building-with-a-bit-too-much-guidance/
Yeah, I have only done the tutorial and I’m on the first mission for Tropico 4 but I feel like it’s scenario-driven like Theme Hospital etc. so once I meet the various targets for this island I will probably move on to another. It’s really about fulfilling demands and making money (and looking for opportunities to siphon funds into my Swiss bank account) but there’s also a certain freedom to think about what your island needs. Fulfilling demands isn’t the only way to profit.
For instance I needed college graduates for ministerial positions and I can import them for a few thousand dollars, but I need college graduates for a lot of things. It was expensive at first but I think the smart long term decision was to build a college as soon as possible.
I got Tropico 4 cheap (I think from a humble bundle) awhile back and I liked the look of Tropico 5, but I thought it made sense to play the one I have before spending more money.
From my limited experience of Crusader Kings 2, I believe the objective is to struggle, not win. Much like life.
Also, greatly amused:
In fairness she hated me before I started shagging my courtiers.
Was it your pre-assigned wife (like from game start?)
Have a look at your wife’s stats, see what’s really bugging her. Also, if she’s plotting against you and won’t stop, you can either jail her or petition the pope for divorce (depending on your faith)
Yeah, pre-assigned wife. She liked me at first but soured. After my brother died and I inherited his territory I guess my sister got to her (even though it definitely wasn’t me that killed him).
I’ll try and figure it out. Maybe I can still salvage my marriage even though about half our kids aren’t hers.
Your sister could have a little… accident.
24% chance of success 61% chance people will find out. 🙁
Do it as a plot rather than an assassination.
I shall investigate. I will probably have more questions later.
We… We are still talking about the game… right?
I’d like to invite you to my plot against @freezespreston.
He knows too much
@freezespreston Hahaha of course! I don’t even have a sister
for much longerDear Corporate Communications: Your graph has too much data to label it by colour. Do not expect us to squint at your shittily-compressed .jpg and be able to differentiate between taupe, olive drab, and beige. For the love of god, when you have this many data points, use text to label the bars on your graph.
You know what my personal bugbear is with charts / graphs? When you’ve got multiple axis (axes? axies?) e.g. cost and volume over time, which obviously can’t be displayed on the same axis, but then they’re displayed without any reference as to which is which.
When I do this I personally colour each axis differently. So, if cost is displayed as a red line and volume as a blue line, I colour the dollar axis red, and the volume axis blue.
And it’s time for Quiz_B’s I haven’t slept well and my brain is currently existing on a different plane of existence question!!
If you could take one game and change it’s genre, what would it be?
Could be changing technical/design genre (i.e. from MOBA to FPS) or story genre (from Urban Fantasy to Noir).
I’d take Heroes of Might and Magic and turn it into an RTS (which I would then promptly and totally suck at).
I’d also take The Sims and change it to be First Person with VR Support. Switch to the usual view when designing/building a house, back to First Person to “Live”.
Oh, and a Fallout Noir would be nice.
Minesweeper in to 1st person VR. :O
I believe they have that sim out already, downside you have to enlist to the military and be shipped to Iraq or somewhere similar.
Fire Emblem Action Adventure! Lots of playable characters, real time battles on huge maps,
3D baby making…But only as a one time spin-off. I still want the original SRPGs too 😛
Dragon Age or Mass Effect games into a turn based strategy game!
Burnout Paradise as a Japanese Dating Sim. Successfully woo Senpai or crash and burn.
Id play that. I’d also just take any new racing game and make it burnout paradise 2. Cause where the fuck is it!
Things I want to see:
* Doom 5: turn-based squad-shooter.
* Earthworm Jim 3: point-and-click adventure.
* Halo 6: Illustrated, text-based RPG.
* Mass Effect 4: visual novel/eroge.
* Final Fantasy Heroes: Franchise-spanning MOBA.
* Pokemon Online: the MMO that ends the world.
* Warcraft: an RTS (*rimshot*)
* Starcraft Ghost: 3rd-person stealth/combat
* Warhammer 40K: Dating sim.
* S.P.A.Z. 3: 3D space flight-sim.
* Borderlands Empires: Civ-style 4X corporate warfare with the potential for planet-hopping.
Pretty sure I’ve already played this. Also pretty sure it wasn’t official. :p
The exercise was to pick a different genre.
HAHAHAHAHA XD
Forbidden love between a space marine and an eldar? =p
Funny you mention that, I want to try that in a 40K d20 RPG. I know I may get killed by the eldar for trying but… totally worth it! 😛 lol
Not as a space marine though 😛
Orc maybe? or Dark Eldar?
So much nostalgia, ogling the pictures on IGN at school with my friends, totally hyped to be able to play this on our GameCubes.
Warhammer 40K Dawn of War into an FPS MMO (e.g Planetside 2)
*swoon*
I would play the almighty hell out of a Metal Gear Solid isometric adventure game.
YOU TAKE YOUR FILTHY PAWS OFF HOMM! I SHOULD KILL YOU WHERE YOU STAND!
*ahem*
That is to say, Mass Effect has one of those universes that would suit pretty much anything.
Sorry. HOMM can stay how it is.
So I can at least make mission 2 before having my arse handed to me (as opposed to an RTS, where I get wiped out in 5 minutes)
Have you got Heroes VI? We should have a game.
Should include @welbot there too.
@freezespreston I’m game too! been ages since I played 6 though, would I need to get the Dungeon faction expansion?
I don’t have it so probably not.
I do too, but it loves to “black battle screen bug” me where it just doesn’t load my fight, including city sieges which makes continuing the campaigns impossible :(.
Such a good looking game though, a real shame
I do, and yes we damn well should. In about three weeks, considering I’m travelling the continent until then!
(also @tech_knight and @welbot, let’s make it a fourway)
I’m more than willing to give it another shot, despite the bugs, who knows it may have gotten better.
I’ve got both HOMM 5 & 6! I’d be down for a game sometime for sure! I used to play a hell of a lot with LittleJJ back in the day.. you know.. before she became supreme bitch! :p
Never tried a game with more than 2 people that I recall. Could be interesting! Might have to play it out over a week or two though, cos it takes long enough with just 2 people!
Oh my god. Tie Fighter style space sim in Mass Effect universe during the First Contact war.
Excuse me while I go change my pants.
Star Wars as an Uncharted-style shooter/platformer.
Yes, I’m still bitter.
Without Jedi, eh?
I’d be totally fine with that. Doesn’t even really have to be Star Wars – I basically just want Uncharted in space.
Though now you mention it, facing off against a Jedi in a boss battle could be pretty incredible.
They could make it about Boba Fett and set it on Coruscant below level 1300…
🙁
(Actually hoping that this is what EA are working on that they hired Amy Hennig for)
I actually would rather it be about a nobody, someone who actually has no ties to the canon… kind of like how KOTOR started out, in some ways.
Agreed.. doing Boba Fett is just asking for trouble from all the diehard Fett fans going all “THAT’S NOT WHAT HE’S LIKE!” after playing the game and ruining it for the rest of us.
Hey man, they packed a lot of backstory and secrets in the 6 seconds he featured in the trilogy. Remember when he nodded? Oh man…
Well that was who 1313 was going to be about.
But I don’t disagree with you. I actually don’t care what the game is at all, just that it’s good. Make it an Episode VII tie-in maybe. Or something linked to the new Rebels TV series.
Heavy Rain style Ep. 1 game.
Press X to Ani
Star Wars – RPG (Not MMORPG)
*bites lip*
I’M.NOT.BITTER.
*lip starts bleeding*
Tekken: Turn Based Strat
Basically every game as a JRPG with super awesome epileptic inducing mega attacks
I’d love a GTA / Red Dead-style open world game in the Blade Runner universe. Does that count?
Kind of like what everyone hoped Prey 2 was going to turn out like?
A bit like that maybe. But that had aliens and shit. I just want a Blade Runner game. Cyberpunk world, hunting down rogue cyborgs etc.
You could make amazing games in the Blade Runner setting.
Did you ever play the Blade Runner game by Westwood (I *think* it was voxel based)?
I never did, but I remember it having quite a large slice of hype at the time (probably mid-late 90s?)
It’s probably aged terribly 🙁
Yeah, but not extensively. It was a cool adventure game.
Assassin’s Creed – Basically the same except get rid of all the Templar vs. Assassin’s crap
How would you see that story-wise?
Basically what AssCreed IV was until the end of the game when it turned crap.
Ah yep, gotcha!
Brink.
I thought of another one
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 Turn Based Stratergy RPG
Dead Space as a Bejeweled-style puzzle game.
Or maybe Star Fox as a roguelike.
Or perhaps Section 8 as an endless runner. (That might actually work)
Noir Deus Ex.
Dark Souls as a cow-clicker?
Oh wait, you meant stuff we actually want?
Crash Bandicoot as a Not Dead franchise.
Actually, I really want that Section 8 endless runner.
People probably saw the stuff about the Return of the Obra Dinn game by the Papers Please guy that was announced yesterday. He’s deliberately designing the visuals of the game to look like an old black & white game, hearkening back to his own childhood playing games on a Mac Plus. The Mac Plus was my first introduction to computers as well, I used to play heaps of stuff on ours until we upgraded it in the mid 90s, so the visual style he’s used for it is incredibly appealing to me.
Anyway, there’s a fascinating pair of posts about the game in these forums here:
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg1024978#msg1024978
First showing how he made that opening image in Unity, then talking about experiments with getting the rendering to work right. His final image there looks exactly like it came out of an old Mac game so I think he’s onto something.
Yeah, gotta say I’m pretty excited for this one. And after being blown away by Papers Please I fully expect he’ll be able to pull this off and have it be amazing as well. Strong concept, and the constraints in the art style should push him to make a compelling game.
Wow, I didn’t even know you could do something like that in Unity. Cool link, thanks for the post.
So now that I’ve somewhat dealt with my relationship dramas… I can now get back to talking about the things that matter like what games I played this weekend =D So I had this massive pile of Xbox 360 games and PS3 games that I’m never going to play again just because I’d finished them and they were titles I was definitely not going to play a second time. Was going to give em away but managed to drag em over to EB and $300 of credit from em! So I then bought Bound by Flame with the credit and there goes my weekend… Probably going to return it though, interesting mechanics but dear god that game was a slog to play…. Each combat encounter was painfully slow, even against the weakest enemies and most of the non-combat interactions were incredibly 2 dimensional even with voice acting. As an avid RPG love I would’ve preferred text based interactions over what the game provided to he honest.
Bright side I can trade it in for Wolfenstein and Watchdogs this Thursday =]
Durnit. I was kinda hopeful about Bound by Flame. But not enough to launch-buy. Knowing it was from the Mars: War Logs guys I was definitely shy enough to wait for let’s plays, which has resulted in relegating the game to ‘Steam sale only’ status.
I’d been thinking about getting it on the PSN, but ‘HAH!’ at the chances of a reasonable sale on that any time in the next 2yrs.
Well see it depends how desperate for an RPG you are. The combat tries to imitate to God of War style mechanics but it’s too slow and clunky and I tried to play the game on normal difficulty and the weakest creatures would take me about 2-4 minutes to kill. Also even the weakest enemies hit like a truck which I wouldn’t really mind but I don’t want to spend 4 minutes killing two creatures that can kill me in about 4-5 hits. Given there’s no cue system (like how the weapons would flash in GoW or the sense symbol in Batman) in play to signal when’s the perfect time to parry or dodge for a counter. Half the time I’d just be guessing.
Magic has little or no impact in the game and even though you get spells they’re never powerful enough to ever be used (aside from the set fire to your weapon spell). I ended playing a rogue build (when I absolutely never play rogues in any other RPG games) mainly because it was the only moderately tolerable build in terms of getting through fights quickly. It’s a real shame because the visuals are quite nice and the detail thats gone into all the main characters and the various weapons and armor is worth noting. But the combat system actually works to the games detriment than to hold it up, even if they copied KOTOR’s stop start turn based attack system it would’ve done more justice to the game.
I saw as promo box on the shelf a bit before it came out and it looked incredibly mediocre. All reports have confirmed that suspicion.
I think @sernobulus was playing it too?
Why do you have to wait till Thursday? Wolfenstein was out last week, and Watch Dogs is out today.
I just found an EB Games that’s open late so…. I’m getting them both today instead!! =D Down side… I won’t have time to play them till the weekend 🙁 and Wildstar’s out this weekend too!!! !@$#@!#!@#@#
What platform are you grabbing them for?
PS4
Cool! Won’t be able to invade your game though. (wrong plat)
Oh FFS why am I the only person suffering from KDPS – Kotaku Double Post Syndrome
PS4
Not really, though. I just wanted to fit in.
PS4
@shane & @freezespreston I hate you both -,-
@shane & @freezespreston I hate you both -,-
Edit: I am clearly cursed.
Times infinity, double stamping no erasing?
How do I erase posts in Kotaku?!
Didn’t you mention before that you hit the submit button multiple times when you comment? Or was I imagining you saying that?
That’s probably the issue if so 😛
What happened to the duplicate comment error? That should trigger it surely
Well the only way for my posts to get through has been to spam the submit button and use the duplicate error glitch. Otherwise 9 times out of 10 it just tells me I’m posting too quickly :@ unless Kotaku have fixed that?
@pupp3tmast3r It’s been fixed for over a week I think (at least for me)
PC.
Just to be contrary.
Hahahaha, oh god, Bananaman is getting a movie.
Does anyone remember this show?
Holy crap I do remember that. Live action or animated?
A gritty love action reboot would be friggen hilarious.
Y’know, I really thought/hoped that’d pan out for The Tick, too – what with even having Patrick Warburton and him being pretty huge.
Bit disappointed, sadly. Still decent! Just not as great as the larger-than-life cartoon.
SSSSSSSSPPPPPPPPOOOOOOOOOONNNNNN!
The live action version of The Tick was brilliant
For when Eric eats a banana an amazing transformation occurs!
If Tim Brooke Taylor isn’t voicing Eric, it’s already wrong
Oh my god what
Thinking of trading Tomb Raider: Malibu Stacey Edition and MGS: Ground Zeroes to take some of the cost of Watch_Dogs. Also seeing if I can price match Target’s $64. I probably won’t get a lot of trade value but with 20% extra at EB for Watch_Dogs trade ins, it’s worth a try at least.
If you want to hold off till tomorrow I can give watchdogs a spin tonight and let you know how it feels?
I’m not going to get any more game play out of either Tomb Raider or Ground Zeroes, and I want a new game to play, plus I’d already decided I wanted to play Watch_Dogs anyway. Thanks for the offer though.
Sadly he didn’t win but Darth Vader was running for mayor of Kiev & Odessa. The video in the article is well worth watching
I’m a big advocate for the integrity of democracy, but you know, given our choices around these parts at the moment, I think that I would probably vote for a Vader if one managed to register here.
Kang would be a better candidate at this point.
It makes no difference which one of us you vote for. Either way, your planet is doomed. DOOMED!
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos!
For a while, I thought you meant Krang, the interdimensional brain thing from TMNT. Equally suitable.
I’m surprised I’m not seeing any Kotaku news about Watch_Dogs. Every other game would have people up all night playing it with a 3/4 review done by 9am.
I strongly suspect that it’s because the game is highly mediocre and they can’t actually print that. Leaked/pirated copies have been getting lame reviews too.
Here’s a NeoGAF thread for those interested. Of course the ‘official’ scores are BS and need to be taken with a dumpster-truck worth of salt.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=825439
Everything I’ve heard so far has been that it’s “okay, good in parts”.
Yeah, in a nutshell. “Okay, has lots of negatives, AI and graphics suck. Contains pretty much nothing from the promises that initial trailers provided.” So a very mediocre game, leaning towards heavy disappointment to ‘fans’.
Really? I didn’t get that at all from that link you provided, nor from the quotes from folks who’d played it. Scores aside, the response seems to be overall quite positive, despite having some shortcomings.
No idea where those comments are buried in the thread. That’s just word of mouth from people who have played it already, and word of mouth from people who read others’ word of mouth. 😛
I’m really struggling to see the whole “graphics” suck thing. I played it for 10 min this morning before work and was quite impressed with what I saw.
By far the best looking game I’ve played in a while. Obviously I haven’t played nearly enough to have a valid opinion yet but even from the screenshots I have no idea how people can classify those graphics as “sucky”
The embargo isn’t up yet in the US though, is it?
Dunno, but Aus had midnight launches. If the embargo applies to us as well (e.g. can’t publish until midnight tonight) then that’s both hilarious and concerning and outrageous.
I think the review embargo ends at roughly dinnertime tonight, when it comes out in the USA. I could be wrong about that, though.
Edit: Dammit, @powalen
See above. That’s D: -worthy.
Yes, but Australia is not a high-priority market… for just about anything, really.
Still concerning. Everyone knows time zones exist. The fact they didn’t exclude Aus is simply astounding and pointing towards them having something to hide. There pretty much isn’t any good explanation for it.
Wolfenstein did the same thing, turned out to not be terrible.
I suspect pre-release reviews are starting to go the way of the demo, once someone worked out that they don’t help sales any more.
Expect this to be the norm within a year.
Pretty sure Bethesda have done it with all their games as standard policy. Looking back Ubisoft did the same thing with AssCreed IV.
Huh, really? I swear I saw a “tips for Ass Creed” the day of release here on Kotaku. Dunno, I don’t usually pay that much attention to the times of things unless I feel it’s important.
It’s gonna be an average game that makes bank.
We’ll be seeing loooooooots more Watch Dogs in the next few years.
Welcome to Ubisoft’s business model!
Everything on GAF needs to be taken with a dumpster truck worth of salt. There will be far more people hoping for the hype to be misguided than hoping for success and everything you see if going to reflect that.
I definitely think the hype is working against Watch Dogs now but people are still going to enjoy it.
But it needs to be scored appropriately. Every mediocre game getting 9-9.5/10 isn’t good for the consumers. Just basing off what was revealed in carefully-selected launch trailers, the game is struggling to get 7/10.
You have to remember that reviews are subjective. The numbers themselves can be reflective of the reviewer’s enjoyment of the game in spite of the potential flaws.
Hell, I’d give Warhammer 40000: Space Marine a solid 8/10 because I enjoyed the hell out of it. If I was doing a review of the game, there would be a laundry list of things I’d be obliged to point out as cons but that 8 would still be there.
Reviews in general are just plain weird. You can’t make sense of them without knowing the reviewer’s preferences. That’s why I like the Giant Bomb Quick Looks. You know what they like, you know what they don’t and the way they showcase the content gives you more than enough to work out if the game is for you or not.
That’s why there’s only a small portion of reviews which are actually reviews, that can be trusted.
It kind of feels like you want Watch Dogs to be bad, which is really strange. Nothing in the link you’ve provided or what I’ve heard from people who have played it has turned me off of the game, I still can’t wait to get home and start it up.
No, I wanted it to be amazing, because that’s what I was shown. Further evidence and speculation has shown it’ll be mediocre at best, which is disappointing. Now, there’s no reviews, no talk on TAY about it??? What the actual? I know some people bought it, but pretty much no mass talk about it here.
My spidey senses are tingling.
It literally came out today. There’s a review embargo. Deciding that a game is “mediocre at best” after seeing a couple of videos is insane.
How is it insane? So everyone complaining about the ‘NBN’ is insane too? The evidence is right there in front of us, and the game looks like it came from 2007 in visuals and mechanics. Not as a launch title and posterchild for the next-gen.
That’s not the same thing at all. Video games are more than the sum of their parts. It’s about an experience. It doesn’t matter what it looks like and it doesn’t matter what it plays like, it’s about how it feels.
That point works, taken.
But what I’m saying is, even if you say “good game overall, if you overlook x, y, z” it’s good to point out why xyz were terrible.
I don’t see the comparison to the NBN as apt, given it’s based on (in both incarnations) known technologies.
Yah I admit it’s a pretty silly comparison, but I feel it’s still valid. Not gonna go off on a tangent and argue specifics, but: NBN – we know some tech, but don’t know the red tape and political BS and price gouging by ISP’s, and special restrictions they will put in place. Meanwhile with the game: we know how games should look like on next-gen, we know that open worlders should behave like this, we have previous examples, and we have previous/current trailers as proof of progress. Meh.
I haven’t seen this anywhere yet but, if anyone has money ready but haven’t committed to buying either of the new consoles EB has new Watch Dogs bundles.
I’m a little disappointed that the PS4 bundle doesn’t have any exclusives.
http://ebgames.com.au/xbox-one-800086-Titanfall-Xbox-One-Bundle–WatchDogs–Forza-5-Token-Xbox-One
http://ebgames.com.au/ps4-800092-PlayStation-4-Console–2-Games–One-Month-FREE-Foxtel-Play-PlayStation-4
Blame Sony for that. Fuck Foxtel, include something like Infamous in there and that’d be pretty sweet.
That’s almost worth laybying an Xbone :/
Yeah I realised after posting that the only reason the XBone was such a good deal was because the Titanfall bundle already existed. EB are just working with what they’ve been given.
Yeah, sucks. But that is Sony’s choice I guess. They refused to promote the Vita in store for some stupid reason… Our display was next to the counter facing the wall behind us FFS :/
Just watched this video comparing GTAIV to Watchdogs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGRsrFdwb2c
Watch Dogs does not fare very well (ignore the Russian).
Saw that yesterday.
It’s everything I hate about video game culture in one video.
Well, not everything.
But lots.
What’s wrong with it? It’s also a very small and intense subset of video game culture.
It’s pedantic negativity that sustains itself.
I’ve been typing and deleting this comment for about three hours due to me ending up talking about all my problems with gaming culture, non of which really addresses your question.
Thus the one sentence at the top. The very small and intense subset I find to be incorrect. This group isn’t exclusive and has it’s position of “Graphics = Games” vindicated by large, mainstream websites every time there’s a cross-platform release. Best of all any ol person with a computer & innernette connection can say if something looks better then something else,T hat’s really appealing because, honestly, who doesn’t wanna be the smartest person in the room?
Take that video with a grain of salt.
The pc spec are listed as “Core i5 3570k, 8 GB RAM, GTX660Ti,” which is pretty weak when you start talking about ambient occlusion and dynamic lighting. Obviously something built specifically for console can be optimized in a different way (but GTA had plenty of it’s own graphical and perfomance fails).
I’m sure that video isn’t running on high/ultra settings.
As for the car damage… I noticed there is a “realistic” difficulty level. Perhaps he had “easy” selected which reduces car damage?
I stopped watching after that.
EDIT: sorry, just noticed its GTA4 not GTA5. But still, you have to wonder what mods were used and what settings everything was set to. Not to mention that one is considerably older than the other while SKyrim and GTA4 still get thrown around as graphical masterpieces when mods are used.
EDIT 2:
One of the youtube commenter made a good point too. Just coz GTA did car damage better doesn’t mean watch dogs is bad. Is every FPS terrible just because it’s not as realistic as ARMA? If the rest of the gameplay is good and the story is good then who cares about scratches on a wall that you run into? The water effects look amazing.
Personally I played about an hour of GTA4 because I felt it offered nothing new to GTA3 and all it’s brothers which I played the hell out off. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad game but i wouldn’t call it awesome or groundbreaking either (and lets not forget that it was pretty much unplayable on PC till a major patch 2 months after release).
Huh. Wolfenstein is dumb fun but in stark contrast Blazkowicz is a proper war-worn protagonist, and you can tell by his introspection throughout the game- it’s evident even in the first level. He even looks eternally depressed. Makes him a interesting guy, though.
Saddest BJ ever
Phrasing.
@evilmonkey @highperformance
Is an extra $8 for shipping oK?
Email me at mij 69 _ 96 Jim @ yahoo . Com
Cool, will shoot you an e-mail when I get home tonight.
Just shot you an email then, took me a few times but I think I spelt it right this time!!
TAY PATHFINDER
Abelas, Elven Rogue, Played and written by @redartifice
Drewan, Catfolk Bard, Played by @beeawwb
Dem’nion, Elven Sorcerer, Played by @Tech_Knight
Lundgredolph, Human Barbarian, Played by @FreezeSPreston
Izumi, Human Sorcerer, Played by @NegativeZero
Karvurk, Hobgoblin Magus, Played by @SerNobulus
Narshak, Half-Orc Ranger, Played by @Rize
And comatose in the other room: Beorn, Human Druid, Played by @Steve-O-the-deve-o
Chapter 3, Part 1:
Lundgredolph stirred, and woke up, rubbing his head. After a moment staring into space, the northerner stood up/ shaky on his legs at first and surveyed the room. I’m sure, to him, we were not the finest hunting party- a kitten barely left the litter looking sheepishly at the dead hobgoblins, an elven sorcerer looking even more pale and sickly than usual sitting on the ground with a pained expression, and myself, still wondering why i’d been so eager to leave Xondol in the first place. Karvurk called from across the room, where he and Izumi were restraining the surviving Hobgoblin
“I think this grakkakk better start talking”
http://taypathfinder.tumblr.com/post/86958085055/chapter-3-part-1-an-interrogation-and-an-immolation
Part 2 tomorrow!
Howls of hilarity at ‘hairy housepet’ handle.
Noisy cat. Someone feed it.
I say, that’s not quite fair; I’m simply seeking to serve by applying my years of study and training in such a way that would be mutually beneficial to all parties such that we might better understand the world around us and [….drones on and on in one incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic…]
*sprays with a water bottle*
*Lundgredolph places the water bottle onto one of the sarcophagi, slamming the bottle with his sledge and sprays Drewan with water… after several attempts due to him hitting the sarcophagus a few times first*
*Bottle shoots off and hits Dem’nion, bringing him to zero hit points again*
Awesome, as always Red
So who’s done the $10 preorder of watchdogs from dicksmiths and picked it up? How much did it end up costing? I read in a few places they were doing the same $65 thing that they did with infamous but the website is saying it’s $90 which is a trifle annoying since I only have $55 at the moment
It should be $65 total. Website has been wrong since forever, guess they didn’t change it. :\
I really hope so, I hate being overdrawn and a total of $65 will tax me to the last
They have pre-order guarantee so it’s gotta be $65 total. If not, take your money and go Big W for $64.
So many Watch Dogs ads in the city now! I’ve seen a couple on TV too.
(And not one Mario Kart 8 ad anywhere)
Mario Kart sells itself. 😀
It has flapping moustaches… FLAPPING MOUSTACHES!
As a neat advertising gimmick the ads hack your phone and steals all your data.
And paypass your bank card for an order
Well, my local Target was out of stock of Watch_Dogs, so my local EB couldn’t price match. So I put the credit I got from my trade in towards a preorder of EA Sports UFC.
I decided to buy rocksmith because I want to learn how to play guitar but I have weird hours so I didn’t want to hire an actual tutor. I’m doing the quiz at the start to set what level you are at and what you want to be playing.
” Which path do you want to start with?
LEAD GUITAR
If you wanna be out front with flashy riffs and shreddy solos, then lead is for you. You’ll still hold down the groove with some chords from time to time, but when the guitar is out front you’ll be playing it.
RHYTHM GUITAR
If you feel like taking more of a supporting role with your guitar, then you might want to go with rhythm. You’ll play the chords and riffs that hold the song together and back up the rest of the band.
BASS GUITAR
Pick it if you wanna play your bass.”
It seems that even when people are making money of bass players they don’t care about bass players =P
Originally it just said “Urgh, FINE!” but they got told to dial it back a bit.
Wooo! If you need hints or tips, feel free to ask :D. I taught myself guitar a few years ago and picked up Rocksmith 2014 last year, but have just recently got back to it.
Did you end up getting Rocksmith or Rocksmith 2014? 2014 is superior in pretty much every aspect and you can even import (almost) all of Rocksmith’s songs into it (for a small fee). If you have any interest in reading guitar tabs then I recommend flipping the in-game strings (it’s an option in the menu somewhere) so that it reads (from bottom to top) E, A, D, G, B, e (red, yellow, blue, orange, green, purple). The default way is flipped from how tabs are usually written so it just makes things easier if they’re all consistent.
I don’t know about the original but 2014 has an option to play Bass mode using a normal guitar. It emulates the bass sounds and it’s a fun little distraction 😛
I should have said it was the 2014 version, sorry.
Just finished my first play around with it. It’s already helped me to pick up on something I was stuffing up. I have played around with my guitar a little bit before but only as far as teaching myself a couple of chords and 2 easy riffs from 2 different songs. All played slowly and poorly. But pretty close to a complete noob.
Thanks for the tip on flipping the strings thingy because I know how to read tab (mostly) and planned to use rocksmith to learn the basics on the few songs they have that I like and then go and teach myself other ones off tab.
I was tempted to see what would happen if I chose bass whilst I was on my guitar. When I was first getting interested I was actually leaning towards playing bass but settled on guitar because a friend who plays wanted to sell one of his old ones.
I’ve got Rocksmith, and recently bought Rocksmith 2014. I think my guitar needs new strings though, because when I started playing it my guitar just wouldn’t stay in tune.
I really need to start playing it on a regular basis. Good to know who to go to for tips if I need ’em.
My Les Paul Jr. does that, I put it down to shitty tuners that loosen off when you play, it did that with the factory strings and it has done it with every set i’ve put through it since, which are just Ernie Ball Regular Slinky.
Decided to take a break on all console games until my new glasses arrive. *shakes fist at video games*
(Except for Mario Kart. That’s the exception, right there. :P)
So it would be a good time to get into the multiplayer while Mr Magoo is giving everyone a chance?
You know it! (Though let’s be fair, I’m gonna be crap at multiplayer regardless. :P)
I occasionally feel a flash of Mario Kart hype, then I remember that I’m terrible at the racing stuff and only ever enjoyed battle mode.
They’re usually pretty quick, so fingers crossed it’ll arrive this week!
You don’t need to see detail for Mario Kart! Just avoid all the colourful blobs and stay on the grey squiggle.
And right after you said that you put on Rainbow Road… YOU MONSTER! 😛
The MK8 Rainbow Road is mostly grey this time around anyway so really I’d be doing him a favour!
Haha, my vision ain’t that bad. It just sucks when having to read any thing. Watch Dogs in the five minutes I played had so much reading which I love usually… except when I have to sit a metre from the TV. 😛
Just don’t get excited when you see a brown blob on the character select screen. It’s not Diddy.
Glasses? 😐
For champagne? 🙂
You’re having a party? 😀
There ain’t no party like a hermity party ’cause a hermity party don’t start.
Early prep for Pax north.
It’s a thing!
Lamb ribs are pretty rad.
Really looking forward to EA Sports UFC now I’ve preordered it. I’m assuming there’ll be a few downloadable fighters, particularly TJ Dillashaw. Also hoping there’ll be a season pass to download those fighters.
I’m actually really hyped for it.
Which is odd as I don’t own anything that I can buy it for (Xbone or PS4).
…yet. C’mon tax time!
Everything I’ve seen/heard about the game sounds really impressive. The fighters I’ve seen really look like they are supposed to. The career mode sounds incredible, and it’s a nice touch that you start your career in TUF before progressing to the UFC. Definitely creating my own fighter first, probably as a light heavyweight.
I will be my own weight class and hopefully my own dimensions if that’s allowed.
So a super tall, gangly light heavyweight.
I am looking forward to being snapped like a twig over and over again.
If I was my own weight class at the moment, I’d have to be Ultra Heavyweight. Seeing that’s not an option, I’ll go with my favourite weight class at the moment.
Completed the Shizune arc of Katawa Shoujo last night and my critical feelings about the writer have softened.
While there was still rampant immaturity in much of the dialogue and inner voice, at least in the denouement (when getting philosophical) there were some interesting insights on offer.
Well. Not so much ‘on offer’ as much as buried under a shit-tonne of words. Just a matter of technical skill, I guess.
At any rate, looking forward to the other arcs. Skipping Rin for now, going to read the Hanako one instead – something light before the heavier meal, I’m guessing.
Kenji is the best, y/y?
I choose to believe Kenji is the cannon ending so we can get Katwa Shoujo 2.
How are you jumping from route to route so easily? After completing a route, you should be a shell of your former self. You should be losing a day to staring at a wall reflecting on the majesty you just read. You should be refusing to pick the game up for a month, (or 4 in my case) so don’t overfill your quota of emotions!
You are a stronger man than me.
Well. I did have teh feels, I’m not a monster. And I haven’t done multiple routes per day, I’m segmenting them at least a little.
But you gotta remember, I have already seen and felt many of these relationship-feels in various forms. I’m kind of double your age. I’ve been over the age of consent for about as long as you’ve been alive. You can get a bit of dating/living done in that time. I’ve already done all that spacing out, and after you’ve seen/been in enough, you notice similarities between romances.
Jaded maybe? In the end, I rate them not so much on the depth of feels as much as… how much resemblance they bear to what I’ve seen/felt in reality. Which is why I rate Emi/Hanako more highly than Shizune. And oddly, Misha.
I’ll admint that Hanako’s kinda throwing up a lot of triggers for me, so I’m getting raw nostalgia feels off that. And more than a few regrets of the past. I always used to kind of want to be a white knight, y’know. ‘Fix the broken girl’ and similar conceits. Actually considered it virtuous. But that… Never works out great, whether they’re damaged inside or out. And after a while I was more of a knight in not-so-shining armour. Which, perversely, seemed to ‘work’ better.
But yeah… Hanako. One girl I regret not fighting for harder was pretty into had some highly-visible, nasty facial burn-scarring. Some similar behaviours there, but nothing as extreme. I think over the course of the entire relationship I never found out what caused the scars. I didn’t ask, she didn’t volunteer, it didn’t matter. She had a rockin’ bod and cute face. She was GOING to tell me at one point, when we first met.
I’d seen her walk past and noticed she had this pretty crazy-looking ear-ornament, like a really long horn. I came up to introduce myself and gestured to my own face asking, “Hey, I’d been meaning to ask… about that…”
She inwardly rolled her eyes, but took a breath and prepared to go through some well-practiced explanation, pointing to her burns. I stopped her with a faint laugh and said, “No, I meant your ear-thing. It looked distinctive when you walked past and caught my eye. What is that, you wanna turn your head to lemme see?”
She looked surprised, then pleased, then blushed. Subverting expectations can be a good thing sometimes, I guess.
Story didn’t end well, but not badly either. She got back together with her ex-girlfriend. *shrug* I’d seen the writing on the wall there, it was pretty clear they weren’t over each other… I know I could’ve fought harder, though. Been the better choice and proven it. She was funny, smart, and it didn’t take much to push her to go out and aim for greater things… But as it is, that’s enough for me, I think. I’m sure things are working out well for her, and she deserves that. I wasn’t invested enough for the selfish parts to win out and wish we were a couple. (Well, I mean, apart from that body. I mean damn. But that’s irrelevant.)
More of those you encounter, the less you’ll find it hurts.
Picked up my Watch Dogs Dedsec edition. I was actually starting to reconsider and ditch my preorder but I think I’ll see this thing through for a change. There’s a bunch of special editions I passed up or waited too long on that I now regret, even though it just means spending more money on gubbins that ultimately collect dust.
Thinking I might wait for the WiiU version. With some luck they’ll have some cool Gamepad features (plus by the time it comes out I’ll know whether I actually want it or not :P) – I think it’s due before Christmas if it doesn’t get canned.
I think given the type of game it is, Watch dogs should do pretty well on the Wii U whereas I assume that for Xbone/PS4 it’ll have gimmicks which will rely on the Smartglass app (or PS4 equivalent) as an alternative, which most people will probably ignore and just use the in-game interface for (like I did for the “radio” in Dead Rising 3).
Haven’t found any special things for the touchpad with the PS4 yet.. Doubt I will, most games have just ignored it :/
apparently there is a “companion app”
http://blog.ubi.com/watch-dogs-ctos-mobile-companion-app-faq/
Looks like it’s mostly PVP stuff but could be pretty interesting.
Haven’t tried it yet because I think it’s released at the US release time
Seems very odd that they’re not putting the companion thing on the Vita, seems a natural place to put stuff like that.
*yawns*
*yawns*
I wonder what Ganon’s up to.
‘morning, Gooky.
‘night
I’ve been refreshing my email inbox all day. All I want is the game I paid for, is that too much to ask? ='(
Yes.
Check the spam folder.
Just left work for a quick break, so I could head down and grab a copy of Watch Dogs on Xbone, and race home and start installing it so it’s ready to go tonight when actually finish work tonight.
If anyone’s interested it’s $70 at Dick Smith and unsurprisingly as soon as you pop the disc in it says that it needs an update, what was surprising though is that the update is only 100MB.
Right, now back to work. Be looking forward to getting home tonight. Looks like Wolfenstein will be put on hold for a while.
Given the track record for XBone patches I was also surprised at the size of this patch. No idea what it fixed though.
Yeah the PS4 patch was in the 90MB range which was something of a surprise
I miss video games. All I have is Hearthstone on my iPad. And drinking. Lots of drinking.
Really wanna play Transistor and Oberserve Puppies.
Probably won’t be back in Aus till July. May it may not be going to Thailand for a bit.
I managed to score 6Gb of triple channel ddr3 from work today! w00t! Doubled my ram for free! Wish everyday at work could be that cool!
You can’t double your ram for free everyday, you’ll bankrupt Taiwan in less than a month.
In two weeks he’d have over 98Tb of RAM…
Heh nice, I franken-rigged some PCs the other day. Got a whole stack of 1GB DDR2 sticks and a decent amount of 2GB DDR3s.
@greenius or anyone else with rocksmith 2014
It seems that when I play rocksmith it kills all other sounds on my computer untill I restart that program. I couldn’t use steam chat whilst palying the game or after. It also killed you tube until I restarted my browser. Teamspeak was also killed. Is this a problem for anyone else?
The problem I have with Rocksmith is that I suck at playing the guitar.
I haven’t had that problem. Steam chat/overlay works fine when I’m in-game as well so it must be on your end 🙁
Does it have any sort of USB interface? If so, it might be functioning as a USB soundcard and applications aren’t switching back to the internal card once you finish using it
I moved wii fit into my room and was able to do most of my workout uninterrupted. Had to stop half way through because Sid was crying to go over the park.
I was expecting that to be “because Sid kept getting in the way thinks to mum’s training!”
He kept coming in to get attention and fussed over, but then he would nick off for a while.
First impression of Watch Dogs, it’s okay. The hacking is fun, the driving fucking sucks, the weapons selection system sucks, the combat is no fun apart from the baton. the AI does not give up if they’re chasing which is incredibly annoying, how did they even see me go in that building 500m away around a blind corner?!
Tempted to take it back for a full refund, I just can’t get into it.
What’s the story like?
About a dude who’s niece died instead because of his poor choices and is seeking the people who did it, and putting his hacker skills to use. `
Yeah, I’m getting a ‘wait til Steam sale’ vibe from this based on my own personal tastes/expectations, but given that it’s Ubisoft and just released now, I don’t think any kind of drop’ll be until next year’s Christmas sale.
For sure, that’s all I can really recommend. It’s okay, but nothing makes me want to go back and play it. The scenery is kinda bland as well. I guess I just prefer the open world games set on the west coast where it’s bright and such, as opposed to games set up New York way or the like…
Going to Sydney with the folks tomorrow night, but I’m taking my tablet, so I’ll try and catch up on TAY whenever I can! 😀
I just got my Drakengard 3 collectors edition in the mail today. I’ve been collecting a few PS3 exclusive games and I think it’s time to actually buy a PS3 to play those games on, especially that I need to be ready when Persona 5 eventually comes out.
I want one of those latest model PS3s, even though they’re kinda ugly they look like they don’t take up a lot of space. Anyone know where’s the best place to get them at a good price? I see there are a lot of 12gb versions, is it better to get those and put a hard drive in them (if they have the ability?) or just get one that has a hard drive in it?
The 12Gb ones can take a hard drive and from what I’ve seen they have an empty slot where you can just chuck one in. Guess you just need to weigh up the cost of a 12Gb + HDD against one with a HDD already in it.
Ah cool, I’ll have to keep this option in mind as well.
If you get PS+ it’ll be cheaper for you to get a 12GB console and shove a 500GB+ HDD in there. You’ll need to buy the $5 or so caddy too.
At the school bathrooms, the urinal-wall-trough thing they make you pee on has a tap attached to it for some reason. I don’t know why it was there, as the urinal-wall-trough thing already has a flush button, and the tap points at the ground, not the urinal-wall-trough thing.
It rained a bit in Perth today. Some twerp thought it would be a good idea to turn on that tap whilst the rain was pouring. This meant that is was harder to hear the running water over the other running water. Nevertheless, Phlanispo was on the scene when he heard a waterfall coming from the bathroom. Our hero spotted a smirking kid emerge from the bathroom. Thinking that the roof had collapsed and that water was pouring into the building, he entered and spotted the tap. He just stared at it in disbelief for a few seconds. The floor was flooding the floor, and two bystanders were behind him.
I shouted ‘Screw humanity!’ and walked to the tap to turn it off. I then took a celebratory piss, because it seemed like the right place and time.
Phlanispo has started talking in third-person. He finds it hard to stop.
You’ll understand why that tap is there if you ever are responsible for cleaning up some kid’s dump in the urinal…
All this urinal talk is giving me such a raging clue…
Anyone watch/wanna watch MasterChef US Season 5 with me? 😛
I’ve never watched MasterChef before but eh… why not start!
@powalen @sughly @masha2932 our new discussion show? 😀
Why not the AU version? That just started a few weeks ago.
Dunno! I don’t really watch TV so I don’t know what’s going on locally, but I just stumbled across Episode 1 of Season 5 of the US one on YouTube. Turns out that just started yesterday and I at least know who Gordon Ramsay is 😛
I could watch the Australian one too since there’s plenty of eps already available online… hmmm! Good idea Mr. Wolf!
(definitely need some buddies though :P)
Yeah… no 😛
🙁
Nooo
:'(
Seriously, why is it so hard to find a purple double quilt cover?
Because of reasons.
Damn those reasons!
I pretty sure it is because of raisins.
Well, damn them raisins as well!
Pfffsfhthtpeh! *eyenarrow* Raisins.
I have cartoony animals in space suits on mine!
I just want it to match my room a little
Cartoony animals in space suits match any room!
Are they purple space suits?
Mine’s green!
#Predictable
#ughgreenius
Perhaps you know somebody who could custom make one for you? Doesn’t seem like it’d be that difficult.
I have enough on my plate. 6 Cosplays, what was I thinking.
You were thinking “I’d look amazing as these 6 amazing people!”
I think it was more that I can’t say no.
Actually. I could probably find one or get one made here in China for like 2 Mao. Tell me the size of you looking for and I can keep an eye out. Though getting only 1 might be hard.
You want couple of thousand?
Uh, 1 would be fine. Double, purple and white. Only requirements.
Yeah I’ll have a look. Assuming I don’t drink away this moment later tonight. But buying just 1 of something is almost impossible.
On the plus side a 20ft container of them would last you more then a life time! (Serious though I’ll have a look)
I’d rather have a 20ft container. I could use it as a shed. =P
Seems odd, I see purple bed linen all over the place, including my own bed.
Must be Victoria
I can’t say I’ve ever looked for doubles so they may well be as rare as hens teeth. I’ve only got a king single myself.
All the linen is like bone colour, brown, red and the occasional blue
How goes it?
Goes pretty okay, Jimu. And you?
Yeah, bit sleepy
Spongy and bruised.
Cake & fruit?
Banana.
Yep, that covers both categories
How’s the PS4 fund?
If I can raise another $175 before June 12 I can get one in the next Smith’s Dick sale.
Otherwise I need another $60.
So buy something alreadyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy (from me!)
Dick Smith have a 12% sale on now! They have them like every week so it’s no biggie. Target had a killer PS4 deal earlier this week though, but prices will only go down!
Which PS4 game(s) do you want anyways?
Dragon Age Inq in Oct and MGSV whenever.
I saw that Target deal D:
EB Have a PS4 deal going too Fifa + Watch Dogs + Foxtel for a month for 599
https://ebgames.com.au/ps4-800092-PlayStation-4-Console–2-Games–One-Month-FREE-Foxtel-Play-PlayStation-4
Not the best, but hey you can always trade those two games in for decent games or cash since you’re in Queensland >=[
We can get cash?
Yeah you guys in Qld can trade in at EB and get real money, all we are allowed in NSW is store credit…
Urgh, oh my god, you’re soooo clingy!
😛
So I’ve completed the critical failure charts that I’ve been doing for Pathfinder and we have three separate charts:
– Melee and ranged weapon critical failures
– Spell and casting critical failures
– Unarmed and natural attack critical failures
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxPSUhvGbW9hdGJzeHpIVHhTTU0/edit?usp=sharing
Check it out and let me know what you think. This is still in drafting mode so it’s open to change. These tables will also apply to your enemies (even bosses) so I’ve tried to make it as fair as possible.
The second page of the spreadsheet has some draft rule changes/modifications that I’m looking to apply but I’m still in the process of doing the critical/wound damage tables which will provide some context. Also note that while I am using some terms which do have some equivalent in the established rules, I’m probably going to twist these rules a bit.
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
I only have an extremely basic understanding of the rules and I’m just bumbling through relying on you to correct me where needed.
I trust you. Kind of. Somewhat. Maybe. Actually, you’re the GM. What are you up to?
This is me merely experimenting with the rules to try and create something a bit different. I’m creating options that you guys as players have the ability to try out if you want or we can keep it old school and use the standard rules.
I’m not going to lie as you guys will be my guinea pigs for this if you decide to try it out.
Damage on rolling a 2 is way too high. Should scale with the weapon (how can I do 1d6 damage to myself with a 1d4 weapon?) and should keep in mind that at level 1 with 6 HP, 1d6 is enough to instantly kill some of the more vulnerable PCs (like mine). That wouldn’t make for too much fun at all, having a 10% chance of suicide on any attack roll. On rolling a 10 is even worse, since that potentially could cause one slip-up by one of the bigger melee guys (thinking @freezespreston with his stupidly big axe) to perform a TPK without anyone actually doing anything that should warrant that except a few bad rolls.
As far as damaging your weapon goes, surely it would be harder to fuck up a magical or masterwork weapon? Perhaps roll 1d4 for mundane, 1d6 for masterwork, 1d8 for magical and if the result is a 1-2 it takes the damage penalty? That way something with a keener edge should hold it for longer.
Am I right in assuming that spells without an actual attack roll aren’t subject to a critical failure chart?
I’m wondering if given that there’s a lot of added effects here, there should be one category where you simply just whiff the attack and nothing else bad happens? 😛 Honestly when you mentioned that you were putting together critical failure charts I thought you’d be talking descriptive and/or minor penalty stuff. Worried the group isn’t high enough level yet and some of the players not experienced enough.
Re: Wounds, what happens when you lose them? How do you regain them? Am I right in assuming you’re otherwise using the Pathfinder alternate rules here, where you take wounds once your Vitality / HP is below 0, once you’ve taken wound damage past 50% of your total pool you can fall unconscious, and if your wounds hit 0 you’re dead? Do you still add your CON mod to your vitality / HP? With Pathfinder’s wound system, you don’t.
Will enemies also have wound pools and if so, will they have 15 + CON mod? I was already feeling like they were hard to kill, this will basically make them 30-40 HP monsters and combat will take an age (which is why standard rules are half your raw CON score in wound points).
Can you explain what this means? I don’t get it. Does this mean that every part of the body can take 15 wounds but if the total wound damage across all parts is >15 then you’re dead? If that’s the case what’s the point of having pools per area?
That is 1d6 and 1d10 non-lethal damage so it won’t actually kill you. It might make you fall unconscious if you start taking non-lethal damage to wounds but it won’t deal lethal damage except in exceptional circumstances. I was basing this on the Gunslinger Pistol Whip ability that provides those damage dice.
The accidentally hurling your weapon in a direction only travels a maximum of 10 ft. That will, at most, hit two people who will be standing in very specific locations. The ranged shot misfire on a 10 stops on the first target that fails to dodge.
The Fragile trait is something that only affects a weapon if it happens to roll another critical failure. In my mind, it complicated the system by trying to split up things for masterwork and magical qualities so i thought I would try and bring things down to an acceptable penalty to compensate for some things that would take longer to repair/fix.
That is correct. Only spells that require an attack or require a concentration check (ie. being threatened, other distractions) may result in a critical failure.
I tried to sort of evoke the feeling that a roll of a natural 1 (a 5% chance) would lead to secondary effects similar to how a natural 20 (also a 5% chance) leads to a critical hit. I’m yet to formalise the critical hit effects and critical damage but there will be bonus things there that the players and the monsters will be able to do. I also tried to keep things relatively simple so that people wouldn’t have too much difficulty. A whiff is what happens when you miss normally but a natural 1 is a whole other kettle of fish.
Will enemies also have wound pools and if so, will they have 15 + CON mod? I was already feeling like they were hard to kill, this will basically make them 30-40 HP monsters and combat will take an age (which is why standard rules are half your raw CON score in wound points).
Wounds will be different to the Pathfinder rules and they share more similarities with Dark Heresy and the other Warhammer 40K and Fantasy RPGs. Basically you all have 15 Wounds for each location on your body and you won’t die until reach a certain amount of wound damage on a single location (generally a 14 or higher is dead, 15 is deader than dead). While that doesn’t sound like a lot, I’m going to be implementing the Armour as DR rule and I’m probably going to change the temporary wound points for players and make it permanent Wound damage reduction similar to how the Toughness bonus works in Warhammer RPGs .
Most enemies will have wound pools but some of them won’t (undead in particular won’t have wounds). The enemies will also have the temporary wound points system as I’ve got there rather than the permanent wound damage reduction that players will have on all wound damage that they take.
You will still add you Constitution bonus to calculate your hit points/vitality. Basically HP will remain functionally the same and I’m subbing out a customised wound system instead of negative HP. (In hindsight, calling it wounds was a little bit ambiguous and I apologise for that).
Every part of the body can take up to 15 points of wound damage before a potentially deadly wound/critical effect occurs. This will also apply to enemies hence why Called Shots will be good to focus fire and carve straight through an enemy’s already damaged spot.
This is all a work in progress so I can take on suggestions to develop something better. If people are not in favour of the idea of some of these custom systems, I won’t apply it to the TAY Pathfinder campaign.
I think since some of us (Including me) are still learning the current system we should leave it as is and go into the customised rule system when we decide to reboot the campaign, just so we get a feel for how it all works with the stats and all.
Yeah that’s probably the best idea. If down the track you guys want to change things up and try something new, we can talk about it then. I just thought I might float a few ideas among the group as we do have a few experienced players who have a significant amount of insight. But yeah, I don’t anticipate me fully nutting out the bolts of these homebrew rules for a while so I won’t be applying these to the campaign in the future unless you guys want.
Yes, but combined with this… “Note: When a weapon with the Fragile quality rolls another Critical Failure, a result of “That’s Going to Cost You” automatically applies in addition to the standard separate Critical Failure effect, ignoring another result of 4. If a weapon has the Broken quality and a Critical Failure occurs, the effect of a 4 result automatically applies and no other Critical Failure effect occurs.” you’re effectively doubling up on the critical failure.
And while “Broken” items can be repaired using craft, there’s nothing in the rules as written (that I can find) about removing the “Fragile” modifier from an item.
I foresee a few destroyed weapons in the future.
My idea was that Fragile could be repaired far more quickly and cheaply than the Broken trait but after reviewing the Broken entry, I’m going to change that critical fumble. Probably to something along the lines of dealing damage equal to the weapon + modifiers (magic, strength, etc) damage to the weapon itself. Effectively that would operate as a confirmed Sunder check against the weapon itself and looking at the rules for weapon hardness and HP, it would take a bit before a weapon is considered Broken or destroyed. I would apply the Broken rules as normal (ie. taken damage in excess of half of the item’s HP).
I will also revise and change the similar spell fumble as well.
Yeah, to me that seems much more fair. In that instance you can use something like Mending (repair 1d4 HP to items at 1lb/level – so, for example, I could repair my 2lb Shortbow at level 2, or my 4lb Longsword at level 4) to remove the broken condition, and it would take a lot more to destroy the weapon. Fragile is really intended to work for “primitive” materials (which is where I found the entry) rather than crafted metals and such.
Yeah that was my bad. I was familar with Fragile as a quality in other games and I thought applying it here might work but, in review, it is very specific to the materials used in the construction of the item or weapon. So applying it automatically to an otherwise normal and well-crafted object would have been a cheap shot.
It’s not actually that it sounds like there’s not much space there for wounding, it’s that there’s *too much*. Now I may be interpreting this wrong so if I am, then maybe it’s not quite as bad. The issue I see with importing the wounds system like this is simply that our damage output isn’t high enough per turn to make it not feel like a slog. Especially with damage reduction from armor.
Say I’m a fairly average fighty type. I’ve got, say, 16 STR so +3 mod, and I have a 1d10 weapon. Let’s say I’m fighting an orc with a single d12 hit die that has 13 DEX, 14 CON. With the current system it would have 14 HP (d12 + 2) and it’s wearing leather armor. Let’s also ignore DR for now. His AC would be 10 + 2 (armour) + 0 (shield) + 1 (DEX) for 13. Not too high.
With the current system, I need to do 14 damage to it to take it out of the fight. My attack rolls are d20 + 1 + 3 (I’m a fighty type so have BAB +1, and +3 from STR). My attack rolls will be in the range of 5-24. Average roll on a d20 is 10.5, so on average, I would hit (14.5 average roll > 13 AC). Best case damage I would expect to deal is d10 + 3 = 13 damage. Which means *best case* I will need two hits to take this enemy out with a HP system, unless I manage to get a confirmed critical. But that’s best case – my average damage is 8.5, That’s two hits as well. Worst case (actual worst case is that I miss, but let’s assume I hit with every attack) I’ll do 4 damage, and so I would need to get 4 solid hits to take this monster out of the fight.
Now let’s say he had the wound system. He has 14 VP still, but then has 15 WP on each part of the body. I have to get to 15 WP on single part to kill him. He also has an extra +2 WP reduction on the first hit that wounds him.
I still hit, on average. Let’s talk average case again, rather than best case (because best case is a crit, but btw a 2x crit won’t kill this guy now). Average case, the first hit takes him down from 14 to 6. Second hit will do 9 damage (0.5s adding up). First 6 takes him down to 0 VP, then there’s 3 more damage remaining to allocate. The first two are absorbed by his initial WP absorption, then the final WP is allocated to a part of his body. There’s six body locations (2 arms, 2 legs, head, body). Body has 40% chance, legs are 15% each, rest are 10%. This means, again averaging it out, that each point of damage does 0.4 WP to the body, 0.15 to the legs, 0.1 to the rest.
So it’s taken two hits to start getting into his WP, now how many hits on average until it actually gets a kill? Well, on average because of it being the most likely part to hit, the body will go first. At this point it has 15 – 0.4 = 14.6 WP remaining. If each of my damage points does 0.4 WP to his body, and my hits do 8.5 damage per hit, how many slices to get the kill? x * 8.5 * 0.4 = 14.6 => x = 14.6 / 0.4 / 8.5 = 4.29 = 5 more hits once I get into his wound pool. That means I need to hit the guy seven times on average to kill him.
What about best case? 13 damage first hit. Then he takes 13 – 1 VP – 2 temp WP = 10 wounds second hit, meaning body is at 4 WP damage. 11 / 0.4 / 13 = 3 more hits to take him out, so 5 hits total.
If we were to add DR from Armor in as well, then he’s easier to hit only (11 AC) but that doesn’t affect our expectation that on average we’ll hit. However he’ll take 2 damage less due to leather’s 2DR. 14 VP at 6.5 average damage = 3 hits to get into his wounds. Third hit he’s on 1 VP, 6 damage means 1 VP, 2 temp WP, then 3 wound damage, so again just applying it to the body, 3 * 0.4 = 1.2 damage taken. Remainder is going to take 13.8 / 0.4 / 6.5 = 5.3 = 6 hits. So now with DR from crappy leathers, he takes nine attacks to kill on average.
But what about a called shot? If we do every attack as a called shot at the same body part, then that won’t be as bad. But we also take a penalty to hit for doing the called shot. Assuming that smacking a specific body part as a fighty person in melee is not tricky or challenging, that’s a -2 penalty. So my attack rolls are d20 + 1 + 3 – 2. That means my average attack roll will be 12.5. This means on average I would miss this enemy more often than I can hit him when doing a called attack.
The upside is that if I do hit him, then assuming no DR rules, he’ll take less hits to kill. But how many less? Easy, they have 14 VP, 2 bonus WP, then 15 WP on the body part, for 31 total. That means I need to score 4 attacks to beat him on average. Best case damage, 3 max damage hits. Which also means that even a crit with a 2x weapon won’t get a kill, even if it did bonus wound damage.
And this is assuming that we’re dealing with a fighty type. A low-level wizard is going to be screwed. Magic missile for example is a staple, but at level 1 you’re only going to get 3-4 casts per day. And it does 1d4+1. Once that’s exhausted you’re going to be flinging level 0 crap (1d3 damage) or hitting things in melee. There’s literally no way a low level caster can meaningfully contribute to a fight with damage spells. Hard enough with base rules. This is quite different to how it would pan out in, say, 4th Edition, where you’ve got a lot more stuff available (eg Magic Missile is an at-will power that always hits and does 2+int mod damage).
All this is to say, if you want to use this system we’ll need to be a lot higher level, otherwise combat will take hours.
Suggestions:
– Wounds should be relative to the creature’s stats, not fixed 15 per zone. It seems wrong to me that a cave troll or similar’s arms are as tough as a gnome’s. Suggestion: 10 + CON mod. Alternative suggestion: 3xCON score divided up among the body parts (rounded down) according to hit probability, eg 14 CON mob has 42 WP, divided up that’s 16 body, 6 each leg, 4 head and arms. I don’t know, that might be too fragile. Maybe fixed amount per part + CON mod?
– Don’t have that extra wound reduction from CON, unless you also take the CON bonus out of the Vitality Points. It’s effectively counting twice.
– Negative Energy damage (inflict wounds, harm etc) should do wound damage directly.
– Healing spells should probably refresh wound damage AND vitality in some way, or be balanced to be a bit stronger (especially if they cure wounds before spilling into VP)
– If the creature’s cumulative wound damage is > some threshold, they should probably start bleeding, go unconscious etc. as in the Paizo rules. Without something like that there may be no way to remove a mob from the fight without killing them (I have no idea how nonlethal damage will work with this system)
I think one of the issues with using a critical fumble table, such as this, is that the penalties are actually random rather than situational. I.e. GM has discretion to make a penalty greater or lesser depending on circumstance and drama if it’s woven in to the story rather than developed by chance.
Part of the problem with that is that while critical hits have a “threat” (i.e. rolling a natural 20 only results in an automatic hit, and a threat of critical hit / damage) where a natural 1, only results in an automatic miss. For the sake of narrative most GMs choose to attach some extra penalty to the miss (e.g. dropping the weapon, hitting yourself or a teammate, etc) but that’s at their discretion.
So it kind of feels like with this table, “every time you roll a 1, something bad will happen, but every time you roll a 20 something good might happen” – which seems unbalanced. Either all criticals (success or fumble) need to be confirmed, or none do.
Just a thought.
Edit: The only time Paizo mention critical fumbles actually written down as a rule is in the critical fumble deck. They mention 3 ways of treating critical fumbles. Currently we’ve been operating on the 3rd rule. I suggest rule 2, as it lines up most directly with the current critical success rules.
http://paizo.com/image/content/ItemPacks/PZO3004-Rules1_500.jpeg
I’ve seen RollPlay do this “Save vs Death” system where if a natural 1 is rolled, they roll a simple d20 after, DC is at DM’s discretion (I think it’s dependant on the mastery of the weapon they’re using, like weapon focus/specialisation will reduce the DC for a fumble, because the player knows their weapon more naturally and of course would mean a lesser chance they screw up with it) and if they pass, they recover from the fumble and it’s just a normal miss, so that would be similar to “Confirm critical” that we do now.
I’ll have to have a look at it but I think RollPlay was using D&D 2nd edition where things were quite a bit different. I’m going to draw from various sources and see what I can come up with.
I see your point. Yeah I had overlooked that it was a little unbalanced in terms of critical success required confirmation and fumbles didn’t. I’ll have another look at a reasonable check that could be put in place that is fair. Probably looking at doing something like a specific save check specific to the failure (ie. Fort for Unarmed/Natural, Reflex for Weapon, Will for Spell) with a DC equal to half of the monster’s AC. I believe that might be tricky enough to pass but also with a high enough chance of success depending on your class.
I don’t mind using tables with a random result as it injects a bit of flavour into a result. For the most part, GMing special effects for RP flair can be just as random and I often just default to either hitting yourself, incurring an attack of opportunity, or dropping your weapon/falling prone. I figured I’d formalise things a bit rather than just pulling things out of a hat. The critical effect tables and wound damage tables that I’ll be working on will have similar random elements that I believe should work within Pathfinder.
Thanks for the feedback B-ob. I’m testing the waters and seeing how things work so I’ll try and finetune it to present a better experience for everyone. And again, this is all just pie in the sky stuff so I’m doing this sort of homebrewing as experimental stuff and I won’t try and force this upon the group if you guys don’t want it.
Edit re Pathfinder’s critical fumble rules: A natural 1 in the standard rules is always considered a miss or failure, no matter what modifiers a character may have. This has been expanded over the years into the idea of a critical fumble to oppose a critical success at the opposite end of the spectrum.
While that idea of having to successfully beat the target’s AC/concentration check is nice, I reckon that might cause an issue when failing to beat a target that is actually impossible for the player to hit. I’m going to play around with it but using the various personal saves for this should allow the player to feel as if their skills and abilities are helping save themselves.
It’s tricky, that’s for sure. I think the key is to strike a balance between things happening too often, and things happening too much. That’s where I think the idea of confirming a critical, on either end of the spectrum, is needed. 5% (10% if you include both Natural 20 and Natural 1) of the time doesn’t “sound” like much, but given the amount of dice rolls that go in to any combat encounter it can quickly add up – in our last combat we had 2 critical fumbles and Narshak getting 2 criticals in a row – and that only scales as we level.
Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea of mechanics playing a part in how things succeed or fail, and I’ve always worked with the idea that just as a Natural 20 is a great thing so to a Natural 1 is a bad thing, I just want to make sure it’s fair for everybody (including the enemies) and also doesn’t cause too much drama at these early levels. I’d hate to see @tech_knight have an arrow ricochet off the walls and in to his ear. (Challenging called shot, -10, or -20 if you call it impossible)
If someone was playing a Gunslinger then ricocheting bullets off walls to hit people in the ear would give them bonus points to use for extra awesome actions. Gunslinger is pretty awesome.
You were originally planning on being a Gunslinger, weren’t you?
Nope, I came a bit late and realized we’d have our share of damage dealers, plus at the time didn’t realize Gunslinger was even on the table as an option, so I was tossing up between my current sorcerer build and an Oracle.
Hmmm, could have sworn somebody was tossing Gunslinger around as a possible build.
A bit too complex for me, though quite awesome.
@beeawwb: It might have been @sernobulus? Someone was looking at a gnomish gunslinger…
@beeawwb & @negativezero
I think it was @f4ction that was going for a gnomish gunslinger but then another RPG group he was having started back up so he dropped out.
@sernobulus Actually now that you mention it that does ring a bell!
I’m schleepie and gonna go to bed and watch some Star Trek, nerd style!
Don’t forget to visit page 3 and pick up a sweet deal in the #getjimuaPS4 fund.
It’s like charity but for a greedy, lazy guy who doesn’t deserve it 😀
How much for Jimu?
What, like party appearances or sex stuff?
Both.
$20
What about Sex Party apperances.
My Pokémon GBA SP arrived today (Kyogre Edition :D)
Annoying: It says it’s backwards compatible but why doesn’t the GB cartridge click or something, I feel like I should be pushing the cartridge in futher but I don’t want to break it 🙁
It works on the GBC, but on the SP it shows a black mark under the Nintendo logo 🙁
It should kind of click I think. Have you got a picture of it when it’s in there? Or maybe measure a point on the GB cart where a GBA cart comes up to, and then see if that point is level with the edge of the SP when you’ve plugged it in. No visible obstructions in the pin end of the cart, no dirty contacts? Although if it works in the GBC… hmm.
Just found Aisha Tyler (Lana in Archer) in Watch Dogs, pretty funny role. Also the game isn’t too bad but it’s certainly going to disappoint people who were expecting it to be something revolutionary. The hacking certainly isn’t a gimmick and opens up a lot of options in driving and combat/stealth. Some of the whacky side quests are bordering on Saints Row kinda crazy, especially the augmented reality ones. Seems to be a hell of a lot to do and unlock, sunk a fair few hours in and only at 9%.
People actually playing Watch Doges (I have it installed but based off previous Ubisoft games and the fact it’s on the AC3 engine I’m not touching it for at least a week while they patch all the broken crap in it): I’m seeing a lot of people comparing it to GTA and Assassin’s Creed.
I happen to be in the camp that finds GTA incredibly dull, repetitive and boring. However I kind of like Assassin’s Creed when it’s not being a dick with insta-fail forced stealth missions or those incredibly annoying eavesdropping sequences. Am I simply not going to enjoy this at all?
If it’s looking grim I might just uninstall it again and grab a copy of Wolfenstein instead, as that looks fun. Or dig into the pile if I can find something I want to play.
Well, the good news is that the stealth sections are easy thanks to a complete stealth suit.
In actuality, I’ve only played like 5 super glitchy minutes of the game, so I can’t really help.
There’s stealth sections? awesome.
…
Anyone know if GMG have an active coupon code for a discount on Wolfenstein?
The stealth bits aren’t bad at all once you get a few perks there are so many ways to distract guys or even just avoid them altogether using camera hacking, there’s been a few missions I’ve just hacked through without firing a bullet. Also you know Wolfenstein rewards you for stealth too right.
It feels more like Assassin’s Creed than GTA honestly, and not in a good way to me :/
Saying that i’ve only played Black Flag and really enjoy what i’ve played thus far. Watch Dogs however is kinda shitty with the combat & driving.. Something which GTA V nailed.
Saying that, I got it on PS4 and I have no encountered a single issue regarding bugs so far..
The driving and shooting in GTA was always absolutely shithouse (have not played V, maybe they finally fixed it) so if you think that it does it worse that makes me pretty worried.
All that stuff was completely overhauled for GTA V, and as a result was much better.
It still had the offset between “sights” and “shoulder” aiming, which made it a real bitch at times.
And I liked the Driving in GTA IV, it had a real sense of speed, and it rewarded mastery. I’d hate it if I went back to it now, but when I was playing the game a lot it was fun.
I guess it’s similar to Skate 3 in a way? I just remember dem good feels when I could consistently nail drifts and powerslides and generally drive around like a boss.
GTA4 started with ‘realistic’ handling, GTA5 went back to arcade-style. It’s good.
Yeah GTA V was fucking awesome for combat & the driving was cool. I like GTA IV’s driving on the PC and the combat was fine on PC as well.
I had GTA4 on PS3 (because I could get the uncensored US release) and the cars all handled like bricks on black ice to me, with the gunplay feeling unresponsive and clunky too.
Best open world game I’ve played in terms of the driving and general combat having a great feel to it is probably Sleeping Dogs. I really got into that and I don’t usually like that sort of game. But the melee combat was so satisfying and guns worked well, plus the driving felt good and you could actually tell the difference between the car and bike grades.
I really did not like the driving in Sleeping Dogs, it felt unresponsive and spongy. I also wasn’t a huge fan of it over all either, I wanted to love it, but I just couldn’t :/ Especially how it’d throw me into a situation where it was me vs about 15 or 20 other guys and i’d get my ass handed to me >=[
In Cosmos: a theory that the extreme gravitational forces warping space and time and the pressures in the middle of a super massive black hole could trigger a Big Bang and create a universe within it with its own super massive black holes creating their own Big Bangs.
Mind blown. Never really thought about that.
Is this how we got Sliders?
I missed my exam at beautician’s school, but it was ok, I got to do a make-up test
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strange!
A duck walks into a bar.
The bartender says, “What’ll it be?”
The duck doesn’t say anything because its a duck.
A dyslexic man walks into a bra …
I bet he felt like a right tit.
…Unless he just left.
Obviously he didn’t keep abreast of the situation.
Wanted to milk it for all it was worth.
They really need to let us downvote our own posts already.
BOOBIES!!!
What has two legs and bleeds profusely?
Half a cat.
A panda walks into a bar and says to the bartender “I’ll have a Scotch and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coke thank you”. “Sure thing” the bartender replies, “but what’s with the big pause?”
I was born with them. 😀
The Chinese for Panda. 熊猫 taken literally translates to Bear Cat.
Apparently, California has the highest rates of depression and adultery in America.
Sounds like a sad state of affairs.
Argon walks into a bar and the bartender yells “Get out you stupid, worthless horrible thing. We don’t and never will serve you in here.”
Hydrogen, who’s sitting at the bar having a drink, says “That’s a bit rough.”
The bartender shrugs. “Doesn’t matter, he’s a Noble Gas, he never reacts.”
I bought Elder Scroll Online on the weekend (I hold @cakesmith completely responsible). I spent most of today playing it, I have a feeling starting an MMO when I am unemployed is a bad idea but … meh. Anyway here is my character Ser Whisker.
Dawwww.
This character was actually my 3rd one and more of a joke character to try out 2 handed weapons / dragon knight. I ended up liking it more then my more serious characters. =P
Dragon Knight has some pretty rad abilities.
Imgur is either too slow or banned in glorious zhong guo. You filthy non Chinese.
It’s a really bad idea starting an MMO when you’re unemployed…. But goddamn I had the best 3 months ever last year when I took up SWTOR unemployed xD So bad for me but…. so good!
I blame…ummm…@Blaghman?
Hey Lego fans, just found out about this.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-18218-LEGO-Batman-3–Beyond-Gotham-Announced-and-Trailered-For-Autumn-2014-Release.html
I’m definitely looking forward to it, but I would’ve preferred them to make a game on a different franchise that they own the rights to like, The Simpsons, TMNT, or even The Lone Ranger.
I wasn’t aware there was a second LEGO Batman animated film.
Not a film, a game.
EVERYTHING IS BATMAAAN!
Ah.
BATPLANE! BATPLANE! BATPLANE! BATPLANE! BATPLANE!
My son’s teachers have both mentioned to me on a few occasions how they find it difficult to discipline him because he’s so adorable. Yesterday when being told this yet again I finally made the connection. This is why since he’s started school he’s been constantly disobedient. He has no fear of consequences anymore because his teachers can’t follow through.
All kids need discipline, without it they just run amok, because as you said there are no consequences. He needs to be taught that there are consequences or he will grow up to be an arsehole doing whatever he wants to whoever he wants, because hey, what are they gonna do about it.
I’m sure a fair few of us (myself included) and possibly yourself were bullied at school, your son could turn into the class bully if it’s not taken care of ASAP.
My advice is tell these teachers to pull their finger out and do their jobs, he might be extremely cute, but it’s his future that’s at stake.
Oh, he’s disciplined at home all right! I just have to do more of it than I used to because it takes him a while to remember he’s back home with mean old Mummy. 😛
He’ll never turn into the class bully. It’s not in his nature.
That’s good to hear, but the teachers really need to do their bit while he’s in their care.
Show the teachers the meaning of discipline by smacking them on the buttI get to see that happen with so many teachers around the ACT. The most annoying part is that it’s not my place to say anything, so I get to sit back and watch them fail to respond appropriately.
Man when I was in primary school I’d get whacked by a fricking stick or ruler for doing something wrong… damn sure I was pretty adorable as well =,=
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Unfortunately when I was a kid phones didn’t come with cameras and I’m pretty sure my teacher would’ve whacked me for taking a picture of me getting whacked =,=
Nah, I meant of you being a cute primary schooler. 😛
yup same here…. man that stung…. the irony was there was a girl that sat next to men and she was the one that was constantly talking to me, yet it was me always getting punished….
You need to roughen up his image! Give him a mohawk or a pierced eyebrow or something!
I recommend a shock collar and giving the teacher the remote, they can get all desensitised by pretending it’s just a game
I followed through once. I had to go home to change…
I just woke up and I still feel sleepy. Nap time!
No idea if this has been posted,
$6, Air Control,
buyable on steam.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/295810
Contains Mostly stolen assets, is largely a Flappy Bird / FPS / crime against humanity.
Unity 4 free version and a lot of free assets are part of this, it’s a hot mess of a game on steam. not the early access or greenlight “beta” software in development, this is still for sale.
It really brings up the hopes of game developers who are languishing on the Greenlight Process waiting for an open slot.
Air Control makes every other game look good in comparison as a silver lining.
Reading the dev responses to the comments is sad. Basically it doesn’t run because you have a bad PC
All of the things that makes this game inhumanly dumb, are due to the inept programmers using other people’s Unity3D assets.
I’m amazed that they got the game as far as they did.
Having done a fair bit of prototyping with Unity 3D, anyone with a search engine, a browser and that was fluent in english would avoid a lot of mistakes they made.
As a prototype, it gives me a little bit of hope to see this on steam, but it kind of ruins everything that Greenlight is and could be. Anyone on the Valve Greenlight program or their waiting list, has the right to be livid and abusive that this got through the approval stages based on a 3D model of an aircraft , likely done by a 3D modeller on commission, and bears little relationship to an actual Plane model,
All the game assets are out of place, the people are probably not mixamo, but they could be given the seated pose they all use is the same pose on different sized models, i.e. children.
the body parts look like surgeon simulator and just don’t make sense, i’d hazard to say everything in the game is stolen from someone else, or is free/public domain. There’s some acute level of coding involved from … let’s say a tutorial video. the atrocious menus, the FPS minigame and explosions, the flooding water, all without replacing the Unity GUI menus from the Unity 3D free version is so heinous.
if i have to be fair, they could not make this game better. it is what it is because of the developers and their lack of money, skills or comprehension.
Devil’s advocate, Unity 3D Free doesn’t have the capacity to profile the game to make it run better,
but that’s not a serious handicap. It’s just all in the grab bag that is inadequate and poor programming. There’s easily a dozen free assets that a moderately or tutorial trained high school game designer could add in to remake this and remove the buggy loading, bad performance and UI fecal-ness,
which would also solve the rampant cursor / mode switching by implementing a modern GUI, one of the seriously bad elements from Unity Free. simply using a 3rd party menu system could give a standard interface.
alf of the bugs like loading and falling through mesh are simply Unity3D’s free featureset, and a lack of understanding of the collision system or colliders, mesh, events, and ignoring most of the fundamentals of the Unity3D engine.
Here;s some videos
Desura Version (which is older)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDOA9quwvTA
The Steam Version, which is updated, has more than the desura version
The Air Control review from Jim Sterling, 14 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnzN-3N_0xw
Part 2 of the review, 21 minutes more.
Valve… why?
New ep of The Wolf Among Us is released, just so you know!
Bllaarrrgggghh!!!!!
Why am I at work? And why did I promise a friend is watch the football tonight?
Friends are the woooorst.
Argh, I did exactly the same thing!
Ben’s are the wooooorst. (cc. @greenius)
Lol, football. You silly man.
Is that episode 4? or the last one for the season? I hate cliffhangers so hate jumping into Telltale games when they aren’t finished >.<
This is four out of five!
Same, played through the first episode of TWAU, got the season pass for both that and The Walking Dead Season 2, but I think I’m gonna wait till all the episodes are out before I play any more. I’m the same with TV shows, I prefer to wait till the whole season is out on DVD, then I can watch as many episodes I like at a time without any ads.
What? No!!!! I thought it was next week! Dammit! I didn’t load it on my laptop before going away this week 🙁
Because I am an old man I went to bed at like 10pm last night. I woke up this morning thinking, like I do most mornings: “Man, waking up is bullshit. I wish I had like another hour in bed.” Then I realised it was only 5am and I could in fact sleep another hour and a half if I wished. So I did.
Good story I think. Happy ending. I especially like the part where I got to sleep more.
I had a happy ending today morning too! But this one actually cost me some sleep…. (sorry couldn’t resist!)
The joke was there to be made. You’re doing god’s work, son.
Geez! some of us have all the luck :p
I went to bed at 10pm last night. This I woke up thinking ‘Man, I wish I had another hour in bed’. Then I realised it was 5am and if I didn’t get up I would be late for work.
The tears. They don’t stop.
Well shit. Do you start super early or just have a long commute?
Just an early start. It takes me about 40 minutes all up to get to work, so at least the commute isn’t too terrible. It does me I get to go home just after 2pm though. 😛
I’d love to finish at 2, but not start at 6. Ideally some kind of 30 minute workday, perhaps one I can perform while I play video games or look at porn. Actually I’d like to just win the lottery and have no responsibilities whatsoever. Can you arrange that for me? I’ll buy you a beer. Thanks.
I’ll have it on your desk by Friday.
I’ve got to redownload Watch_Dogs because it just would not run. I love downloading 14.2 GB twice in less then 24 hours. =/
Couldn’t verify via Steam?
EDIT: I have to keep reminding myself that the Steam price change meant many people didn’t get it from there…
I think a lot of people dodged the Australia tax by getting codes from Greeen Man Gaming, which I think are still redeemable on Steam aren’t they? I think that’s how I got X-Com.
Not Ubisoft titles because they are activated through Uplay.
I was not aware of that.
Master Race! \o/
Yeah, I’ve been favouring my PS4 over master race these last few games. I just love the fact it installs while you plays. So cooool.
The Xbone suppoedly does that too but I think so far whenever it’s like “Play Now!” you can basically go in and look at the menu but not actually start a game. They might have ironed that issue out post-launch but I hear the Watch_Dogs day one patch is only like 100mb anyway (assuming you bought the disc version).
Yeah, last time I tried to launch a game when it came up with “play now” was Peggle 2, and it only let me into the menu, and wouldn’t let me start a game, so now I just wait until it’s fully installed before launching it.
As for the update, yeah it’s 100MB for Xbone, and according to @aliasalpha 90MB for PS4.
You got PS+? Once I get it, we’ll have to team up and try the multiplayer stuff
Nah, no PS+, alas.
Nor have I yet, you’ve got time
But no money. 😛
Nor have I really. I’m trying to pay for a psych, medicine and organise a slightly more expensive than usual birthday present for a mate next month (he’s had a shit time of late and needs some spoiling) as well as get my shitty laptop fixed (or ideally replaced) so typing doesn’t jostle the machine too much and stop it charging because the cable or jack are badly fucked up and only make contact if it’s within 1 degree of a randomly chosen angle and position.
So when I say you have time, you have a lot of time
Well it’s not called Run_Dogs!
#perfectpagesixjoke
I honestly regret spending my money on this game now. Oh well, maybe if it finally works it might be interesting …
It’s a shame you’re having a crap start, cause it’s a lot of fun.
I’m not sure if you’re unlucky that it’s being difficult, or that I’m lucky that it wasn’t. I’m not hearing much in the way of good/bad experiences.
I kind of found it a bit confusing at first, but I’m starting to enjoy it a bit more, only had a few hours with it though.
Oh, I’m having an awesome time with it, there’s just usually a lot more noise around a new release like this.
I think people are hyped out because it was supposed to be out in time for the Xbone/PS4 launch and now all we’ve done for 6 months is nitpick every piece of news that’s come out about it.
Make your own game out of it: Getting a Refund From a Key Reseller. Should be fun.
I know how you feel man… Try redownloading 350gb worth of steam library cause games just “disappeared”, and having to redownload 50gb of Titanfall because there is a weird arse annoying sound glitch in the expedition maps because file verification wont fix it… :/ cant ignore it either as it is ear piercing bad, like a really loud ear piercing rainfall.
With Titfall, could you not have just deleted map and/or sound files and re-verified to get those back rather than download the entire thing again?
could have, but given the sound files alone are 38gb and the maps are about another 10gb, it wasnt going to make much difference compared to a new install from scratch…
38 gig of sound?? Fuckin hell, that’s mental
theres solid reasoning for it… the audio is uncompressed. Compressed audio takes away valuable resources as it needs to decompress it. Respawn wanted the game to run well on older machines as well, and as such they made the sacrifice… Its a pitty that players arent given the option wether or not they want compressed audio….
Or decompress it as part of the install process
technically thats what it does, but its still a big ass download
At least Steam’s downloads are fast. Watch_Dogs was ready to go for me in about 20 mins where off PSN for example, ~15gb is a solid 3-4 hour download.
Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night…
I suppose you’re going to tell me they blew up his house too?
I heard there was trouble bussing in from out of state as well, but I can’t confirm
I was gonna say Bob Dylan? but then I googled. THE BOSS! Duh! I should have known.
From “Nebraska,” which is a fine, fine album that my cousin Madeleine introduced me too.
Actually, thought id ask, is anyone getting really loud “noise” in the Titanfall Expedition maps?
sounds a bit like torrential rain but keeps starting and stopping… have had to rip the headphones off every time. Im about to redownload the entire game as verifying game files isnt fixing it, and only 1 out of my 5 friends that play it are experiencing the bug.
JOBIUS! \o/
Congratulations Employedius.
(-_(-_-)_-)
one of us!
one of us!
Grats mang! 😀
See? I told you! A little bribe goes a long way.
And doesn’t cost you anything but your dignity
You’ll be able to join the elite club of “misusing company computer equipment to TAY!”
I’m I.T. I’m actually inspecting the packets sent by this machine to determine if they have any adverse effect on the network.
Tell them you’re doing a scan for @virus__
>=[
You’re a wage slave now sucker
Stop wasting time and get
backto work!Yesss! \o/
Details?
Graduate program for a global company with opportunities to travel 😀
IMF?
I don’t understand the question 😛
Google tells me International Monetary Fund or a typo for “OMG” for iPhone users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Missions_Force
I get references!
Congrats you
son of a bitch I’m so jealousworthy recipient.hahahahaha at the “chance to travel”
Don’t think I have ever heard of anybody getting that chance, although move to Perth to work in that office might be considered “travel”
How else am I gonna hang out with my Perth TAY homies?
Represent’in, son.
You can roll with me, you seem a’ight.
I’ve been getting told for about a year that the accounts I handle claims for might warrant occasional trips to Melbourne, Coffs Habour, Brisbane, etc. Still waiting on that.
My boss goes to various Asia locations a few times a year. He’s going to be in Korea in June, then swing by Hong Kong on his way home in July, then he has to do Shanghai in October. Honestly I don’t envy him, having to pick up and leave his family for weeks at a time. Granted, he sometimes takes his wife and kids with him because he can afford that. If I have to travel it’ll strictly be day trips and I’ll probably want to die afterwards.
International drug smuggling? You could be the next schapelle corby!
Also congrats on the job
Ugh, Jobius
YESSSS. So fucking proud, man. 🙂
Buy me things.
Get in line, bub!
Greenius, I want a pony.
Playing a bit of Watch Dogs before work, I stop a crime in progress, and chase down the guy, the cops arrive, and they start shooting at me WTF! So naturally I run, decided to swim for it, and they send a freakin’ chopper after me, get to the other side and there’s like 10 cop cars waiting, so I run, but no matter what I do I can’t lose them. So I jack someone’s car and floor it down the train tracks, and eventually I outrun them.
Holy shit, all that just for trying to help out.
It’s kind of hilarious when that happens. I have to keep reminding myself that I’m a wanted criminal and even if I wasn’t vigilantism is a crime 😛
Vigilantism is not tolerated! Next time just let the crime happen! =p
Hehe yeah had that happen last night, a few seconds late to help, a guy got shot and even though I managed to KO the shooter, a bystander called the cops and they all came after me. Had to swim for it and hide under a scaffold by the water until they gave up.
It was a good learning experience though, turns out you don’t have to leave the search area to escape, just remain undetected for a certain amount of time, I assume exiting the search area is an alternative way of escaping and is pretty much immediate if you get out.
Hooked up the Wii U again last night, hoping to actually get a start on 3D World still. Although not sure that’s the best idea what with MK8 looming 😛 Still, decided to test out the wireless range on it since last I used it I was getting a sketchy signal within 1.5m of the console. I guess whatever was causing it must have cleared up, because with its new position perched on top of a bunch of boxes in my room I can play it all the way out here at my computer and as far as into the kitchen before the signal drops out. Awesome.
My play log is kinda sad though. Packed full of entries in December 2012. Then nothing until July, and it’s booked solid til the 1st of September. Then nothing again til a brief spot in January/February, where friends came and stayed the night. Then nothing til Tropical Freeze landed, followed by nothing til last night. Which is actually today.
I swear I love the machine more than that 😛
Didya ever play Monster Hunter? And what free game are you going to get with the MK8 promotion?
I’m still not sure how I managed ~6 hours of MH3U a day for a month 😀
Nojobbius 😛
I played Tri on Wii and have a thing about buying games I already own, so have skipped both it and Wind Waker on Wii U.
With the free game, there isn’t really one I want so since they deliver it by sending you a code which can work on any Wii U, I’m thinking of just seeing if I can sell it. I mean someone would be happy to buy a full digital game at a discount, right?
They sure would! It’s a solid selection as well (assuming people don’t already own them).
I finally get to play Wonderful 101, Gooky’s Pikmin killer!
I killed all the Pikmin :$
I’ll chalk you up as a MH4 hunting buddy…
Played a bit more Rocksmith 2014.
I’m still liking it. I kinda wish it did a better job of making sure you understand what it wants you to do sometimes. I’ve been following the things it suggest to do but I find every now and then I have no idea what it actually wants me to do in a given situation. There does seem to be explanations for everything but it doesn’t always recommend you do the thing that explains something before it recommend you do something else that assumes you know what that thing is.
For example it told me to play the guitarcade game for improving slides without ever suggesting I do a tutorial to explain what slides are. The first time I played it I got a grand total of 0 points and I wasn’t even sure if what I was trying to do had anything to do with slides.
It recommended I play a song and I jump in that song and start playing. The notation system they use is unique to rocksmith (as far as I’m aware) though obviously inspired by guitar hero style games. In the middle of the song it comes up of some symbol that I’ve no idea what they mean or how I”m supposed to play them. Nearest I could work out is they were meant to be where you tap down of the string with your fret hand rather then strumming it to make the note. Possibly actually means muted string. I don’t know. I’ll have to see if I can find a tutorial on it.
Also, I’m really regretting getting a guitar with a floating bridge. It means that every time I change the tuning on one string it changes all the tuning on the others. It now wants me to play a drop d song. For most guitars that just means tuning the low e string down to d. For a guitar with a floating bridge it means I have to drop E to D, then go back through the other 5 stings and probably loosen them to get them back into tune, then go and back to the original string and check that and adjust it again and then check all the remaining strings. Repeat until correct. The tuner built into the program is totally not equipped to handle that either because it checks one string once and as soon as that is right assumes it’s going to stay right and ignores it forever. (well, until the next time you tune).
I was hoping if you didn’t want to re-tune your guitar it would just fake it with some sort of pitch correct. But that’s because I’m lazy.
Don’t get me wrong. I still like it and it seems like it will be better then trying to learn via youtube. Just some things that can still be improved upon from my perspective.
did you have any guitar playing experience prior to rocksmith?
Very minimal. Basically just a bit of screwing around and watching a few youtube clips.
I have learned other instruments before. Though this is the first non-wind instrument I’ve played with.
Here’s some tips if you want’em!
Because I played guitar before I knew what most of the techniques were, just not how they were notated in Rocksmith. I suggest having a look at the lessons first and trying out their practice tracks as they’re actually pretty good. If you enter the pause menu in most songs there’s an option (which I can’t remember the name of) that shows some chords and some of the notations used in that song. It’s pretty brief though and doesn’t cover everything used, but I found this the other day which should help http://imgur.com/a/vlxTS. I think most of those are described within lessons, but if you’re still not sure, feel free to ask :).
General guitary advice: always tune upwards. I think strings are more likely to “skip” if you try to tune downwards to a note and will get out of tune quicker. What I mean by this is if you’re going for Drop D, don’t just tune the E down to a D, but loosen it way lower than needed (let’s say a C – but it doesn’t need to be specific) and tune upwards towards a D. If tuning one string changes the others, just loosen the others a little first so whenever you need to tune them again it’s just fine adjustments upwards to reach that same note. The tuner is a bit fiddly in Rocksmith which is why I tend to just stick to E Standard songs or play everything I can in that same tuning rather than swapping back and forth with every song.
I didn’t really find those recommendations helpful and preferred to work at my own pace. Learning songs I thought were good, or just attempting lessons if I didn’t know anything.
Thanks. And having tuned a few times I’m getting better at it. You start to get an idea after a while of now much changing one string will change others so for example If I know I’m going to tighten the next string after this one then I’ll make the one I’m currently tuning a bit sharper so when I tighten the second one it’ll flatten the first and bring both closer to the desired pitch. Still much easier with a fixed bridge.
Hey Gang, Dan here.
Did anyone else buy Watch Diggity-Dawgs on Target online for in store collection?
Turns out they send the game to the store you’re collecting from rather than just taking it out of that store’s inventory. So while I saved $10, I’ve gotta wait and play all the other games that I haven’t even started. It’s kinda bullshit, hey? Like how I just bought, like 4 new games on the weekend, but I want Watch Dogs now, you know?
Anyway, has anyone had any luck just going in and acting the fool/asshole and getting a copy with their online receipt?
Because I mean it, if I have to play one of these other games, like Mass Effect 3 or Spec Ops, I’m gonna be really, really upset.
Yes because in their genius to compete with the web market and bring consumers back to their big-brand stores, they decided that the best way to do it is to split the local and web stores completely.
To answer your question: yes, some people have had luck.
JB does the same thing. It’s well silly.
I’m kinda afraid to go in, though. What if they’re mean to me?
What’s theere to be afraid of at JB? The heavy-built guy with the shaved head and tattoo sleeves or the 7ft tall caveman with dreadlocks and 00-gauge tunnels in his ears?
If they’re mean to you, punch them in the face. Then jump the counter, grab your game. Fluff your collar, flick a 50c piece at the cashier on the ground, then walk away as you say “keep the change”.
Had a look at that EB sale. Splinter Cell: Blacklist for $19 on PS3 is certainly worth it
The Biggest Sale Ever? There’s some pretty neat discounts from EB prices, yeah.
With those kind of prices, they could compete with other retailers! =P
I still need to grab that. If I can snag it on 360 for that price it’ll be well worth it even though I blwe my wad a little with Watch_Dogs this month.
Deal.
So I managed to grab Watchdogs and Wolfenstein last night, got home and had them install/update accordingly on the PS4 but now I’ve got new game syndrome! Where I don’t want to play them until I can set down a proper chunk of time to really appreciate the games (usually only have an hour if that on a working day to play)! >.< Sigh guess I'll be waiting for the weekend =[
Flip a coin.
The worst thing you can do in that situation is not decide, so just go with what the coin says.
I would say play Wolfenstein first. From what I understand it’s fairly quick to finish the campaign (especially if you’re playing on the lower difficulties). Then you can just take your time with Watch Dogs, which I suspect will take a while to complete (including all side missions and stuff).
Hell, I might even do that myself otherwise it’s gonna be a while before I get back to Wolfenstein.
Shame you’re on PS4, I can’t invade your game 😛
XBone? Add me!
Nomad AUS
Wil do. Tonight though, gotta go to work now.
Sitting at work with my mind firmly on getting home and playing Watch Dogs, I ended up on wikipedia reading about international vigilante groups (as you do) and came across a fun story on why being a giant dick your whole life is not a great idea:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy
Seems more like an object lesson on how the law only gets so many chances to fail at justice before it loses its authority in the eyes of the citizen.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
As the party heads towards the field of towers, they have already encountered viral beings- what strange viral creatures lurk in their citadel?
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME
Also, streaming!
cc @mawt @popdart5 @tech_knight @mythamphetamine @blaghman and @novacascade even though he’s OS!
Question: will I understand Watch Dogs if I haven’t played Sleeping Dogs?
You really need to have watched that movie Snow Dogs with Cuba Gooding Junior.
Reservoir Dogs, you mean.
My mistake, I actually meant Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
Cats and Dogs? Nah. Forget that one.
Yeah, All Dogs Go To Heaven is much better :p
@phlaiman It’s actually an interquel story set between the stories of Hotel For Dogs and Tim Allen’s masterpiece The Shaggy Dog.
No, I think he needs to play Way Of The Dogg first.
Oh yeah, the sequel to Dog Day Afternoon.
Ha! Good one. Page six.
I just finished Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag. It was pretty good. I’m a bit sick of the Templar vs Assassin story in these games, but Edward’s “screw you all I’m in it for the money” attitude helped keep it interesting. It was a nice perspective change from what we’ve gotten the last several games. The modern day bits were okay, but felt unneeded. If Ubisoft is going to keep putting modern day sections in Assassin’s Creed games then they’ve really got to start improving there quality.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Watch Dogs started as a modern day Assassins Creed concept.
With all the hacking in Black Flag the two games really would have tied in nicely. There’s even mention of a guy going missing in Chicago.
Totally forgot about that.
When i saw the initial trailer, I thought it was an Assassin’s Creed game at first.
It makes sense too- a modern Assassin would be up on the hacktivist scale, given all the stuff that’s linked to the Assassins in Asscreed two.
Of course, in Revelations and AC III, they pushed the assassins order more to “off the grid” types.
Or maybe the universes are connected and Aiden Pearce is Related to Desmond Miles.
Far cry 3 referenced Abstergo, making it in the same universe. I’ll be disappointed if I don’t see some mention in Watch Dogs linking them.
There’s confirmed mention of abstergo in the game, some of the people you can profile are former employees. But there’s also some of the hacked videos you can find making fun of Assassin’s Creed which sort of implies it’s a game in the watch dogs universe (although given how they framed Liberation, I suppose it’s a game in the Assassin’s Creed universe as well)
Excellent! I haven’t noticed anything like that yet.
In addition to Liberation in Black Flag the modern guy is in Abstergo’s gaming studio (in Montreal) and the main motivation for him looking into pirates is for a new game.
Fans are actually asking for a pirating off-shoot. Assassin’s Creed is old and stale, not many people like it anymore. Black Flag was so successful because it let you not be an assasin for most of the time.
Only problem I can see with that is that Black Flag is set during the golden age of piracy and features a bunch of famous pirates. I’m not sure what new things a spin-off series could bring. I mean, I guess they could set it in a different time or a different place, but I imagine most people want to be playing in the Pirates of the Caribbean setting.
Space pirates, duh.
The main problem with Assassin’s Creed is that they’ve been making the same core game for too long. They need to change it up and make something new in terms of story and gameplay. A Splinter Cell style game could work extremely well in the Assassin’s Creed universe and be a different enough game to feel fresh while not throwing away all the story they’ve built up.
Too bad at the end …
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I think that kind of had to happen, but it felt a bit shoehorned in.
They could have written it so much better but it was basically
“Hey do you want to join us?”
“Nah”
“Are you sure?”
“Okay”
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I actually found the ending incredibly corny. I wasn’t really a fan of any part of the ending.
I’m just a sucker for those sorts of endings.
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it before, but if they keep adding modern day sections, I want the option to turn them off when replaying the game. Whenever I’ve done a second playthrough of an AC it’s been for the story in the animus. Anything outside that seems like a chore second time round.
It’s a chore the first time round.
I want a Templar game. Give us the other side or possibly even a new faction who aren’t really a fan of either side since they’re both absolutist extremists to their cause
Word on da streetz is da one out dis yar fo old school platforms is bout Templar.
You know what I want? I want one of them there Tesla cars. If I ever make enough money to buy one, that’s surely worth getting a driver’s license for, after these years.
Model S or Roadster?
Everyone should play Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect.
…
*coughs, walks away*
Everyone should know that a Tesla is a measurement of magnetic field strength.
And a man sometimes played by David Bowie! 😀
Bowie was so good in that film.
I reall do hope they jag him for Hannibal next season.
It’s weird how singers can sometimes be really good at acting. Did you ever see the episode of Deep Space Nine with Iggy Pop playing a Vorta? He was fantastic in it
As someone who grew up in a country town, I can’t visualise not having a licence.
Brisbane is a city like Los Angeles before it that is really dependent on having a licence too. 🙁
Adelaide is pretty navigable by public transport, which is nice.
Before I had my current car, I spent two and a half years without one, and I got everywhere I needed to go. Public Transport being on Google Maps for a long time was a great, great thing
I lived in wagga for 35 years before getting one. Everything (except uni) was within walking distance since I lived 2 blocks from the main street. Now I’ve moved to the outer part of town I’m damned glad to have gotten one though
I want one of those or at least a Prius. Something that’s less of a car and more of a PC on wheels anyway.
You don’t want a hybrid. They’re half of each and as effective as neither. Imagine if you had to hop everywhere and the other leg is dead weight to keep the muscles from getting worn out even though you are perfectly capable of walking which would be faster and more efficient. That is the logic behind the Prius.
Oatmeal’s comic made me want one. And now all the stuff that’s been coming up on it lately even moreso.
But yeah, god damn they are expensive. Also I really hate the idea of the touchscreen, I’d so much rather have physical controls that I can use without directly looking at them. And also don’t have to worry about whether the damn thing will actually detect my ghost fingers.
Oh god. I’m up to the calm lands chocobo mini games.
Lightning dodging is 1000x worse.
Use the D-pad by the way, it’s a lot easier than using the stick 🙂
TAY PATHFINDER
Abelas, Elven Rogue, Played and written by @redartifice
Drewan, Catfolk Bard, Played by @beeawwb
Dem’nion, Elven Sorcerer, Played by @tech_knight
Lundgredolph, Human Barbarian, Played by @freezespreston
Izumi, Human Sorcerer, Played by @negativezero
Karvurk, Hobgoblin Magus, Played by @sernobulus
Narshak, Half-Orc Ranger, Played by @rize
Dungeon Master of Awesome, @popdart5
And comatose in the other room: Beorn, Human Druid, Played by @Steve-O-the-deve-o
Chapter 3: Part II: The Fickle nature of Fire
A chill wind swept through the room, and I felt the skin on the back of my neck crawl. the wind kicked up for a second and then gusted into white, glowing tendrils, which shot towards the stone coffins. With a loud grating of stone-on-stone, the coffin lids began sliding back. and ancient corpses began to stand up from their sarcophagi
“Zombies! Aim for the head!” Drewan cried from the other side of the room
http://taypathfinder.tumblr.com/post/87060049491/chapter-3-part-2-the-fickle-nature-of-fire
Abelas certainly is unreliable in his perception of time passing / the order in which events occur. ;P
D&D combats generally happen character by character and over a shorter time period than you expect- that whole combat was what, 4-5 rounds? which is 30 seconds.
makes it a BITCH to render accurately
Yeah, I know. The whole “10 seconds per round” thing doesn’t make any sense in terms of a narrative. I’m not complaining, mind, just gentle ribbing (for your pleasure?) when compared against my own notes.
So in 30 seconds you missed twice and almost set yourself on fire? 😛
Harsh, but
firefair.Harsh but flair?
Back in the old days I think D&D combat equated to 1 round = 1 minute, which when you think about it is freaking ludicrous. Who can only swing a sword once per minute?
Yeah, in real terms it’s ludicrous.
That’s why I tend to handwave it a bit when I GM
I’m more surprised with how Abelas is saying I actually hit something with my crossbow 😛
Gentlemen and ladies, I give you page 1 of Undad, the series that was invented to amuse a bored @Rocketman, and has since developed an un-life of its own.
I HOPE THESE AREN’T REALLY SPOILERS BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANYMORE
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*kills self*
http://rot13.com/
SPOILERS, man.
Also, how’d you get hold of my notes?
D:
Hahaha, sorry for the confusion, man. I was joking.
I assumed but between yours, Freeze’s and Gooky’s comment I was worried I’d fucked up, even though I had literally nothing to base my joke on apart from the title “Undad” and couldn’t possibly be accurate.
I was coming more from that’s too similar to my life :/
The tagline should be: The Deadliest Dad.
Well he is more the Deadiest than the Deadliest from the concepts I heard
Looking over the releases for 2014 and… there’s not a lot. Evil Within, Arkham Knight, Destiny and possibly Godeater 2 (for me at least).
Coupled with a bit of a slow start for the year and 2014 is not a year for gaming. Some good games but nothing truly great. Nothing on the scale of 2013.
2015 is looking pretty solid though.
THE ORDER, MAN!
Delayed until 2015.
D:
DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION, MAN!
So far isn’t shaping up to be much more than just a pretty face.
Edit: In regards to “THE ORDER, MAN!”
Nah. 😛
http://i.imgur.com/nHolGZr.jpg
BAYONETTA 2!
Also that Mario Kart and Smash thing. I think that’s basically all I’m looking forward to though.
Bayonetta 2 is the only reason I haven’t given the Wii U away yet.
Do they have a date yet for it?
Not that I know of. Part of me wants to say September but I have no idea why. They’ll probably give a solid date at E3.
I can’t remember if it was ever mentioned – have you gotten onto Wonderful 101 yet?
5 hours of Monster Hunter and 30 minutes of Windwaker is the extent of my Wii U experience.
Well, you should fix that with some W101 then 😛
And Pikmin! And ZombiU (only $10 at Target atm)!
Would it be a bad thing to mention I own a copy of all those…
A good thing, since it means you don’t have to go get them now.
I seem to remember it being dated for Summer in Japan.
Plus it just got rated in Australia (MA15) so it can’t be too far off!
ALL ABOARD FOR HYPERULE WARRIORS!
…I had literally just posted something about that elsewhere and still managed to forget about it.
It kept telling me it was a duplicate comment. Now I know why
Too much hype!
HYPE TRAIN WHOOOOO!
WOO WOOOOO!
Dragon Age? Shadows of Mordor? Murdered Soul Suspect?
Not to mention all the kickstart PC RPG’s that have due dates at the end of this year!
Kickstarter adventure games too! Broken Age, Part 2 and Dreamfall Chapters in particular!
Shadows of Mordor looks decent but not great. I’m talking about really stand out games.
Murdered: Soul Suspect dropped off my radar completely once a bunch of journos who got to try it almost unanimously said it was awful. They’ve had time to change it but until I see otherwise I’m not interested.
You know who are unanimously awful? Journos! 😛
I have very good friends who are journalists.
On Murdered: Soul Suspect, a handful more journo’s got to play a little more of the game recently. They’ve said it’s interesting. That gives me hope that it might be ‘good’ by the time it’s released.
I kickstarted the Long Dark, so… looking forward to that.
Dragon Age Inquisition?
Giving it the benefit of the doubt at the moment since Origins was fantastic and 2 was just… Urgh.
I keep hearing this. I’m playing DA:O right now…why is the 2nd so damn bad?
Few things, Hawke is lame and boring, companions don’t stack up to Origins at all, the mysterious Qun (favourite part of Origins, so alien and I just wanted to know more) are suddenly standard barbarians.
Story is actually decent and structured pretty well.
Worst part is you run around the city for a bit, get a quest and go to the dungeon. As in THE dungeon. They made one and just reused the same one over and over again for every “different” place.
Oh. Bugger.
I’d disagree quite a bit with Freeze, I found Hawke quite good (though the voice acting does differ a lot, the female one is vastly better), the companions were far better than in 1 or at least delivered better in that they interacted with each other beyond specific decision points (Meryll, Isabel & Varric are a fantastic combo to just listen to) and I thought the Qunari were rather interestingly delivered even if presented as closer to barbarians than I’d like.
That said, the dungeon re-use was terrible. Some reuse of it would have been okay since you were in and around the one city for the majority of the game but even within that it should have had more variation. It doesn’t ruin it, just makes it a bit annoying.
Most of the complaints about 2 when it came out were complaining it had gone all action game because you had to keep clicking attack. That’s mechanically rather boring but no more so than clicking attack once and just watching, all the tactical options are still there, you still have to be careful or you die and all that.
At least they themselves acknowledged the dungeon reuse was a problem and did so ingame with one of the expansions. If nothing else that gives me hope it won’t be repeated (if for no reason other than it’d be especially ironic)
Good chance to catch up on more of 2013?
My planned 2014 purchases
Destiny
Shadows of Mordor
Evil Within
Evolve
Dying Light
Arkham Knight
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Far Cry 4
Sunset Overdrive
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Alien: Isolation
My planned purchases that may/may not arrive in 2014
Dying Light
Tom Clancy’s The Division
Quantum Break
Not a lineup that says “these games will be remembered as some of the all-time greats” but certainly a lineup that will keep me amused and occupied.
2015 looks a lot more solid.
Definitely Evolve and I’m actually getting convinced to get a WiiU just for the all solid releases coming out this year.
I can’t believe I forgot about Destiny, the game that’s going to make me buy a PS4.
I’m sure I read recently that The Division was pushed to next year, but may not even make that?
If I find the source I’ll post it.
Well it’s on the list.
http://ign.com/articles/2014/05/15/tom-clancys-the-division-releasing-in-2015
Yeah I may have misread your list a bit 😛
Having said that, Quantum Break is nowhere on my list at this stage, haven’t really seen anything from it.
It’s by the guys who made Alan Wake, so at the very least my wife will have a crack at it. I personally haven’t played Alan Wake yet but it looked pretty good from what I saw.
Yeah.
For me there is Civ: Beyond Earth, maybe Destiny, maybe Dragon Age.
Need to find a new hobby I think, this one seems to be getting lacklustre.
Depends what you like I guess. I was thinking that the Vita release schedule in terms of stuff I want to get is going to be packed for the next few months, and that’s only announced stuff.
I know what you mean about slow year in gaming, but to be honest, that’s quite alright in my books… there’s honestly nothing (aside from MK8) that i “must” have… which is awesome! i can now delve into my pile of shame, comfortably ignoring new releases and i’m happy with that!
Are you going to get Pokemon OR/AS this year?
The sensible part of me is saying no, I’ve played these games 100 times now and even X & Y weren’t all that different.
The rest of me are all laughing and calling sensible a square and a loser though so probably.
Reaper of Souls comes to PS4 sometime this year…
There’s also the new WoW xpac, DAMN IT FREEZE!
There’s The Last of US: Remastered in the next few months (probably just after E3)
I said 2014 had threadbare releases and nobody believed me.
Page 7 will be undead page?
Brains get?
They prefer the term electrochemically challenged thank you very much you bigot.
Dear Nob
Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaains.
Brains,
Red.
Dear Red,
Thank you for defending the fort while I was away.
Sincerely,
Phlanispo
Looks like everyone’s all aboard the Inquisition hype train lol
Edit: I just realized if I’d said this a few hundred years ago it would’ve meant something completely different xD
Confession.
I’ve never played either Dragon Age :S
If you like intensive strategy and a solid story with well developed characters go for Origins.
If you like……. ok I got nothing for DA2 but it does have a really good story and characters that spans across 10 years of in game time. Also ties directly into Inquisition from the way it ended.
Aw crap. Means I have to slog through and complete 2 doesn’t it?
Surely there is a youtube vid that covers it.
I hope so anyway.
Indeed. Nobody yet knew what a hype train was. Hell, they mightn’t have even known what a train was yet 😛
Did nobody expect the Inquisition hype train?
Funny thing was, the inquisition actually made appointments ahead of time. Everybody expected them. (According to someone else that watched QI)
Love it. Facts actually make comedy even more interesting. 😀
Reply fail. Nothing to see here.
I already saw it. MWah ha ha ha ha!
And @mrtaco even liked it before I had a chance to edit it out.
Quickness!
Should probably see a doctor about that.
I swear it doesn’t usually happen.
Lunch!
My neighbor told me a sad, sad story about how he prepares his lunches for the week ahead to save money and when he showed me what it was exactly, shock horror – I couldn’t tell what it was. It literally looked like a tub of dog food.
Now, I’m pretty spoiled in being able to buy whatever lunch I feel like everyday, so I asked him, ‘Why not just quit the cigarettes and enjoy a variety of meals instead of the same sludge?’
He replied, ‘Can’t kick the habit.’
I said, ‘Fair enough. At least you’re making an effort to save money somewhere. I could never eat the same crap everyday over and over again. How do you do it? Does it taste good?’
He replied. ‘Tastes like shit.’
And here I was thinking that he actually enjoyed the dog food. Ah, the trials and tribulations that some people put themselves through..
Chile con carne looks remarkably like dog food but tastes like ground-up angel carcasses. I can pass along my recipe if you like. 😛
Now chili con carne I could get behind.
Pork, cinnamon and extra-dark chocolate. That’s what brings mine together.
…drooling now.
Saute/sear pork in cumin and cinnamon, add red onions, chillies, garlic, capsicums and saute a little longer. Add tomatoes, kidney beans, more cinnamon (quills are good), dark chocolate (I use around 25~50g of Green & Blacks 85%) and any other spices / ingredients you feel like at the time. Corn is nice, as are chickpeas. Simmer for as many hours as you can resist eating it.
My recipes are only ever a suggestion / guideline. :p
I should suggest this to mum to make sometime.
😛
Serve with Bob’s Baked Boise Best (potato)
Turn your oven up as high as it will go. Find the biggest potatoes you can. Rub them with oil and then liberally coat in salt, preferably kosher salt. You want to be able to see the white salt crystals. I’m trying to say there will be lots of salt. Place potatos directly on the oven rack, place a tray on a rack beneath them to catch any drips. Bake for at least an hour, more likely 90 minutes, could be as much as 2 hours. No need to turn or touch them. Just wait.
Shake off excess salt before serving. You’ll end up with a crisp skin and a moist interior. For extra fun scoop out the insides and re-bake the skins for even longer. Better than Smiths.
My friends at school used to call my sandwiches “alottashitta” because of how they looked. Didn’t care though, they were delicious.
Probably maintains the smoking habit to keep the taste buds suppressed for the weekly sludge.
Lol I actually get a really crap cheap lunch everyday so that I can afford to splurge a little on dinner.
I guess it’s a similar mentality but the reward is ciggies =p Has your friend tried e-cigs?
They’re apparently just as unhealthy, though.
Reminds me of my coworkers that either tell me my priorities are all wrong and how can I afford games to the ones that nearly outright accuse me of stealing money from the business as we all make the same and they can’t afford it.
Usually said while lighting their 10th cigarette of the day and sitting on their second carton of beer for the week.
It’s amazing the life people sacrifice for alcohol and tobacco.
Before my wife and I quit smoking we could barely afford one game a month and never had money for going out, new clothes, etc. Now we make car payments (plus petrol, insurance etc) and my wife is regularly able to buy makeup/nail polish/clothes/whatever on top of us not struggling to buy new games as well.
Granted, we could have afforded some things more easily just by managing our money better but it wasn’t til we quit smoking that we were able to take a step back and really assess what we were spending money on. We were just kind of letting it drain down a big hole every month and not thinking about it. It caused quite a lot of fights, to be honest.
HOW ARE THERE STILL LAMB RIBS LEFT? WHY IS NO ONE ELSE EATING THEM??
Oh well, more for me ^_^
I WAS SAVING THEM!
You’re just in time, there’s still one left.
Phew, that’s enough for God to make a whole girl lamb with a lot more ribs! \o/
…Oops, too late.
Guess who I’m inviting to my next BBQ! \o/
Not @mrtaco, who’s busy thwarting all of God’s plans.
That heretic!
Sweet, sweet can.
Dear TAY,
Hi.
Sincerely,
Phlanispo
Dear
Keith@Phlanispo,‘Sup.
Sincerely,
Bob
Dammit, totally can’t remember what my password for my Wii U account was at all.
Everything is stupid and I hate it.
That’s a Long angry password.
Dear @dc
How are your culinary adventures going?
Om Nom,
Red.
Not enough point and click interfaces!
I get it, too busy with your secret snuggling friend…
Stop editing your posts! Geez, who would do such a thing! >:|
Jesus, you were quick off the trigger, I edited that the second it was posted because it was a better reply!
I’m known for my quickness.
DC: Directly approaching c
I was going to say TMI…
That reminds me of the cooking RPG that’s supposed to be coming out later this year…. hrmmmm what was it called….. Battle Chef Brigade!
Hm.. Mark Serrels is on one of the “recently on Gizmodo” articles on the right of my browser, he looks pretty badass holding those two pistols ready to kick some ass!
This only just made me realise that the othersite articles that used to appear at the bottom of the page have disappeared.
Also that Adblock is now blocking the side menu that would usually follow the page as I scrolled down. Neat.
RE Watchdogs…
TBH definitely not worth buying a PS4/XBO if you have a 360 or PS3. Nothing to do with the quality of the game, but the graphical fidelity difference between last gen and current gen is barely noticeable… with the exception of some slightly higher res textures anyway.
disappointed personally… my 2 cents anyway… anyone else personally compared it?
I’m having a great time with it and can’t wait to get home and get back into it.
oh same, im loving the game, i just meant it still doesnt have that next gen feel
Yeah, kind of. Sometimes it looks really nice. Sometimes it looks like poop. That’ll happen when you’re developing a cross-gen title.
If I don’t particularly like Assassin’s Creed, would I like Watch_Doges?
funny thing. i never liked assassins creed… then i ended up having a blast with black flag. watch dog is a pretty cool guy, all i meant is dont buy it expecting it to blow your mind graphically.
its a very fun game, and it looks good. but doesnt look next gen (current gen?!?).
think ass creed with cars and hackity hack hacks. its quite a satisfying feeling destroying police vehicles by setting off barriers/bridges etc…
Looks amazing on PC, and I’m not on full Ultra settings. Real shame to hear consoles were shafted after so much promise.
i tried it on pc, and tbh even for comparison, the difference between the PS4-PC versions is very minimal. you can barely notice the slightly higher res,
Were you running it on ultra?
yup… the reflections look slightly prettier when it rains… the ps4/xbo versions are VERY close to the PC.. obviously no comparison at 4k resolutions.
A mate here at work loves it, just told me to get it. Game of the year he says. Throws a spanner into the mix, really. Now I’m torn between this and Wolfie-stein. BTW he has it on PS4.
Wolfenstein is super fun. Shooting things in that game is so, so satisfying. But eliminating a bunch of enemies without firing a bullet in Watch Dogs is equally satisfying.
Helping.
Yeah, helping. Thanks. 😀
I agree with @bdkiaf , its not a question of witch one is better, they are both equal lots of fun in their own respective genres.
Problem is, I’m now in a love triangle. Torn between these two and Mario Kart 8.
i would by MK8 if i had a WiiU as a party game, something i can play with friends. completely different experience to the other 2
@negativezero I can’t seem to respond directly to your comment but I do understand that the system will make enemies tougher. I’m in the process of changing things around and that document that I posted was an initial version of the rules that I was going for. I realise that I need to be clearer and provide more detail on how the various rules interact with each other.
Regarding damage, I hadn’t put up a lot of detail about that but after thinking about what you said I agree that I have doubled up on the impact of the Constitution bonus and that won’t apply to Wound point damage. That should alleviate the difficulty of killing things. I will also look at implementing the passing out rule that Pathfinder has for wounds (DC 10 Constitution check to stay conscious upon taking wound damage) to avoid having combats dragging out and I’ll look at modifying that basic rule for non-lethal damage (possibly DC 10 + non-lethal damage dealt Constitution check). And while the chance to beat an enemy’s AC may be low, there are a whole range of combat modifiers that people can take advantage of. Spells that deal damage, such as Magic Missile or Burning Hands or anything else, automatically ignore mundane armour DR and the primary way to resist damage of that sort is to get resistances or magic armour (which does not protect against elemental magic attacks or negative energy). In addition, I didn’t really elaborate on the system but I am doing up a basic Spell Recharge rule so that casters can cast beyond their daily allotment.
Larger enemies or tougher enemies will primarily get a bonus to their survivability through their natural armour however monsters of a Huge size or greater will get innate damager reduction simply due to their size. Focus firing or targeting of specific body parts through Called Shots would bring even the toughest beast down.
Negative energy and healing will affect wound points but not to the same extent as a straight transfer of damage. The caster will be able to choose if they want to apply the spell or effect fully to VP or they can choose to apply half of their damage or healing to wounds instead. Negative energy in particularly would be particularly brutal if 100% of the damage could be applied to wounds.
Considering the responses that I’ve gotten from everyone thus far (and thank you everyone for that @beeawwb & @tech_knight), I know I need to do a whole lot more work before this is even viable and balanced. I won’t be implementing these rules into the TAY Pathfinder campaign as they currently stand and even when completed I don’t anticipate bringing these rules in as they do change the game a lot. The standard Pathfinder rules will stay as they are for the campaign and I will work on these homebrew rules on the side.
If we were in the same state I’d totally be happy to guinea-pig anything you put together, but yeah, maybe not in the main TAY campaign for now. I think it might work once we’ve gained a few levels perhaps?
It’s worth noting that even the Paizo wound & vigor rules make stuff way tougher to bring down (eg a level 1 d12 HD, 14 CON Orc has 28 wound points and 12 VP to get through, though they start to damage themselves and have a chance to fall unconscious once they’re at or below 14 WP, so realistically you need to do 26 damage to them to the point they’re badly hurt and probably out of the fight. Quite a bit more than standard, slightly less than the proposed system.
I actually misspoke on the Magic Missile case, it’s a flat damage spell, no hit roll and no chance to dodge. And you’re right about general spells, a lot of the damage stuff doesn’t require a hit roll (and a lot that do are ranged touch as well so ignore armor) and instead have a saving throw to halve / negate. I think in general, Pathfinder casters are pretty weak at low levels but once they’re into the 8-12 range the balance swings toward them. Mainly the level 0 and 1 spells are crappy 😛
For want of a better word, the established Pathfinder rules for Wounds are written to provide more “meaty” combat and make it feel a bit more visceral and realistic (as @redartifice said, that combat with the zombies took at most 1 minute of in-game time when we spent about an 30-40 minutes doing the rolls). The problem is that combining the various systems such as Armour as DR and Wound/Vigour changes the game considerably and they aren’t really too compatible. Hence why I wanted to try and do something to make things match up and not devolve into a massive slogfest.
For spells and magic in general, it’s the standard way RPGs work. Magic (or setting equivalent) has the potential to be supremely powerful but that is often balanced out by risks of blowing yourself up, general squishiness as a character, or requiring more EXP to reach a point where you do more damage than the boring fighter with a big weapon. Pathfinder actually made it slightly better than 3.5 for starting characters (1d4 starting HP was a bitch in D&D) but that was balanced out by nerfing/changing some of the higher level stuff for casters.
Oh I dunno… I did totally
killstealdestroy that one zombie with a whole 2 damage magic missile! OP I tell ya! 😛Dem’nion, brain-blaster extraordinaire.
You did more damage than I could 🙁
Hmm. Only two levels into 3D World at the moment, but so far it kinda feels like I don’t like it :/
Hope that changes.
Yeah, I wasn’t a fan. Atleast you’ll have Rayman Legends to cleanse that bad aftertaste away. 😛
I still haven’t played past the first world of Rayman Legends 😛
Monstrous behavior, right there!
Were you also in the vicinity of that laboratory explosion that exposed Strange to the monster gene?
Played both, Mario is better. Legends felt empty and soulless. Or maybe I’m just empty and soulless, I can’t really tell.
MONSTER GENES ALL ROUND! 😛
I thought Mario was empty and soulless, to be honest. 😀
The biggest problem with the recent Rayman games is that the core game is just not fun. Beautiful yes, often challenging, thrilling in a couple of the music levels, but not fun. By contrast Mario is a joy to manoeuver around the levels. Except when you need to blow on the bloody mic.
Whoa, I couldn’t disagree more! I had fun like craaaaazy! 😀
It’s weird. That’s exactly how I feel, yet I loved Rayman Origins! I kinda don’t want to replay it now just in case I don’t like it any more 😛
Wow, someone shares my monstrous opinion!
Monstrosity loves company!
Speaking of monstrosities… where’s @blaghman?
😀
Did you like Origins? I loved Origins.
I did, but was getting bored by the end of that too.
I think part of the problem with Legends is that they just recycled a whole bunch of the levels from Origins!
I started playing rayman this week. What was the one before legends, anyway that one
Origins! You liking it, buddy?
Enjoyed the first two world. Struggling with the 3rd and motivation to go back. Think I’ve been trying to force myself to play then I’m not in the mode for replay or the twitch gamey type stuff. Which is really not a good mindset to be in for the chase the chest with the jeweled tooth thing in. If I get some decent sleep and feel in the right mode I’ll probably go back to enjoying it
NSMBU was betterSo far, yeah 😛
I definitely had motivation issues getting through the game. Got it at Christmas, played it with my brother, then didn’t touch it again for a couple of months. Then, as has been the case with many of the recent Mario games, the later levels get MUCH better. The bonus worlds are basically Super Mario Galaxy part 3.
Just sucks that you have to play through easy, samey levels to get to the them.
Haven’t played it solo, it’s fun with people. Cos, cats. I’m talking about the Wii U edition, cos fuck nintendo and their retarded naming schemes.
The Wii U edition is the only edition, there is no other 3D World 😛
To everyone above me your all wrong. Super Mario 3D land on the 3DS is the best runny jumpy platformy game ever.
I’d agree with you if you weren’t embarrassing yourself by being so wrong.
Close, but old Mario nailed it about twenty years earlier with Super Mario Bros 3.
@scree, I believe you were after this Professor Layton title at one point.
I still am but…
Someday I’ll have money. Money isn’t easy t’come by,
By the time sit comes by I’ll be gone,
I’ll sing my song and I’ll be gone
Clicks on EB GAMES BIGGEST SALE link, sees first title: GTAV $68.
Uh.. that’s what I paid for it on launch day.
To be fair, it’s EB’s biggest sale ever. That’s like 30% off.
It was the standard price in JBhifi when I was there last week
SRIV on PS3 has finally dropped in price, so that’s something.
Man, Mario Kart 8 for $52 at Big W this weekend
Unbelievable!
GTFO
No, I cannot! It’s serious! Because it’s very important piece.
Man, why do I have to be paid NEXT WEEK?!
Nice, thanks. I’ll see if EB will price match haha.
I tweeted this earlier today, but for those without, or who missed it, I got a phone call from my sister this morning, telling me that my mum took a tumble in the bath last night, and broke her hip, so is currently in hospital awaiting a hip replacement 🙁
Definitely not the kind of call you want to take about 2 hours after getting to work. Big thanks to those who replied with kind words and well wishes. Much appreciated. I didn’t reply to them at the time because I read one, and almost burst in to tears. Was super hard to maintain my composure for the rest of the day.
Sucks man, hope she’s OK in the end
I wouldn’t be as worried had she not just recovered from being in hospital from liver/fluid retention related issues. Waiting on word from my sis or dad to see how she’s coping atm. Hopefully she’s ok. Just the last thing they needed at the moment. They’ve finally got their house to a point where it’s ready to go on the market, and they’re getting ready to sell at auction :\ Really gonna throw those plans a bit off course I think.
Wishing the best of luck. :/
Ooh fuck that’s nasty. Good luck to her on getting better soon
@transientmind: there’s no coke zero left in the work fridge. Did you curse me again?
Consider it a blessing: an act of divine benevolence, purifying your fridge of the vile curse that is Zero.
Why are you so negative about Zero?
(Supposed to be my job!)
I can’t speak for him, but to me it just tastes gross compared to standard coke. I think it’s great that they offer a sugar free variety for people who want it, but it’s not something I’ll ever pay money for.
I forced myself onto Coke Zero trying to lose weight and now normal Coke tastes really thick and syrupy and I can’t stand it.
Yeah, I did that, and experienced that.
But I went back to the sugar side and now I have recalibrated to sugar dependency. And it is GRAND.
I never liked regular coke, its horrible. Zero is pretty much identical to pepsi max which is my drink of choice so I’m quite happy about it.
Only difference is that zero seems to be a much more burpy drink
I switched to it a while back and initially felt that way, but I cut sugary drinks out almost completely and now I find that normal coke tastes like liquid sugar, quite disgusting.
We don’t drink any soft drink anymore pretty much. Hadd some lemonade the other day, almost gagged.
My exercise program seems to be going quite well. My plan is to walk three times a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) and on Wednesday I also have the Strength2Strength program (for the next 12 weeks) and basketball. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday I’ll do the exercises from Strength2Strength and take a break on Sunday. My goal is to walk at least 8 km a week, although it might not be so easy in winter, depending on the weather.
Achievement Hunter play the ‘Are you smarter than a 5th grader’ tie-in game.
This let’s play is a special kind of funny.
Does anyone remember when Julia Gillard went on the show?
@freezespreston:
I thought I’d put together a list of stuff I know I want to grab copies of this year when they release, including stuff that doesn’t have dates yet. Obviously this is before anything is announced at E3 as well. Obviously I have kind of specific tastes that skew strongly toward two directions: AAA western action games, and shitty B or C-tier JRPGs with saucer-eyed ladies. AAA is a bit slim this year but I’m actually not minding that. Gives me a chance to catch up. And fuck me, the Vita is getting a lot of stuff I want.
PSV:
– Monster Monpiece (today)
– Mind Zero (today)
– Sly Collection (today, US)
– Neptunia PP (June)
– Atelier Rorona Plus (June)
– Neptunia Rebirth (July)
– Akiba’s Trip (August)
– Disgaea 4 Return (August)
– Danganronpa 2 (September)
– Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus (September)
– Hotline Miami 2 (Q3)
– Hatsune Miku Project Diva F 2nd (Q3)
– Tales of Hearts R (Q4)
– Oreshika (2014)
– Freedom Wars (2014)
– Trails in the Sky SC (technically PSP, but Vita-compatible)
PS3:
– Battle Princess of Arcadias (June)
– Dynasty Warriors Gundam Reborn (June/July depending on region)
– Tales of Xillia 2 (August)
– Fairy Fencer F (September)
PS4 or PC depending on how I feel:
– Destiny (September)
– Natural Doctrine (September)
– Dragon Age Inquisition (October)
– Shadow of Mordor (October)
– Batman: Arkham Knight (October)
– Alien Isolation (October)
– Assassin’s Creed Unity (2014)
– Assassin’s Creed: The Other One (presumably the old-gen one will be on PC as well)
– A bunch of smaller-scale stuff and indie stuff I don’t know about yet or which isn’t confirmed
3DS:
– Theatrhythm Curtain Call (September)
Random thoughts as I read through:
I played a bit of Hyperdimension Neptunia and the whole time I felt like the police were about to bust in my door and arrest me. Assuming the rest of the Neptunia games are the same?
Alien is an odd one for me. It looks fantastic but I’m unsure how they can carry an entire game with the premise.
Already preordered Curtain Call. Figure it won’t be easy to find come release day.
Keen for Hotline Miami 2. I forgot about that. I freaked out an old lady sitting next to me on the plane playing the first one and muttering curses and all sorts of hateful things towards the game under my breath.
The old lady sitting beside you probably looked over at your screen and was like OH HOLY SHIT LOOK AT ALL THE MURDER.
Neptunia’s honestly pretty crappy. The first one’s really bad, but the 2nd onward were better gameplay-wise and the Rebirth release on Vita is basically porting the original game to the Vita using the engine from the third game (Neptunia V) so that’s nice. Either way, they’re on my list but not hugely high. Also in terms of games with fanservice on the creepy side, Neptunia’s pretty tame.
(Ironically the JRPG with next to none of that content is also the one our classification board keeps slapping R18+ high impact sexual violence stickers on for some reason)
Ok, I hit Double Cherry Pass and it suddenly got awesome.
Interesting euphemism for a virgin threesome. Glad you enjoyed it, though, man!
……………………..
I’m back, baby!
EU Vitabros: It looks like after you guys got Muramasa this month, next month’s PS+ includes Dragon’s Crown.
I already own these games. Ugh.
At least they’re good games. Can’t say that about what the US PS+ has been having recently.
EDIT: US Vita games for March were Unit 13 (Crappy vita launch game) and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSP), April was Velocity Ultra (indie) and Pixeljunk Monsters (indie), May was Surge Deluxe (don’t even know what this is) and Limbo (which I finished on 360 in 2010) . US PS+ has gone to complete shit on Vita 🙁
PS3 is also kind of crappy recently and PS4 is always junky since launch IMO, all games I’d never touch.
http://bit.ly/CAHAus
Let your ideas go free!
I’m considering adding Drop bears(answer), region locking(answer), Classification board of Australia(answer)
Does this mean Cards Against Humanity will have a booth at PAX AU? They seem to normally do these sorts of releases at PAX.
White card: Adelaide.
Alan Jones needs to be on a card in some degrading way >_>
And Andrew Bolt
I really hope you’re adding that.
White card: Harold Holt’s side stroke.
This made me literally LOL so you should submit that.
Yeah, he really should. Look at those upvotes!
Black card: Paul Fenech’s latest TV series shines a spotlight on __________
Or could be remodeled to be about Chris Lilley 😛
Ooh, another white card – “Watching ‘foreign films’ on SBS.”
“Watching Saturday night softcore porn on SBS” more like
I would suggest ‘Spending Saturday night watching subtitled porn on SBS’ as it will fit into the way they word cards better and probably work with more black cards.
Depending how subtle you want to be 😛
Wingman suggested “Watching SBS after 9pm”, which I also like.
Or just watching SBS when the soccer isn’t on
A black card
A [blank] took my baby!
Numbers suggested this, after I suggested a dingo took my baby for a white card
While it seems like a good one, the only thing that makes sense in the sentence really is the cards that have a name in there and there’s a wealth of white cards that wouldn’t fit in an amusing or inappropriate way. The best black cards are ones where you can slot in something totally unexpected and have it still work well.
What about having it the other way around – “A dingo took my _______!”
Could maybe have some more absurd answers?
That would probably work much better and also make the reference more obvious.
White card: John Howard’s Eyebrows.
They had that as a sample card
Australia, where even [blank] can kill you.
John Howard’s eyebrows
You know what they say about great minds…
White card: Larry Emdur’s dead eyed stare
White: Budgie Smugglers.
Black card: A hard-earned thirst needs a [blank]
Trying to think how to phrase a black card about Agro doing [blank] to Anne Marie/Shelley/cohost 😛
White card: The Daddo’s
Few people realise that Queensland is also home to The Big _______.
A chinese submarine took Harold Holt, but it left behind _______
Finally getting to see the unaired footage of Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos.
There’s a bear in there, and _________ as well
Was thinking of that one. But had too many blanks 😛
White: Russel Crowe’s Music Career.
(Alternatively, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts)
White card: Stooge (in your best Pauly Falzoni voice)
Woo!
Got all my assignments and projects done for the semester! 😀
Wasn’t super stoked with the quality of the last 2, but I did what I could with no internet at home, and I know they’re good enough to pass, so I’m not too concerned 🙂
Now just gotta worry about exams, and then I have around a month free to do whatever I want! 😀
Tales of the Ninth World!
Streaming at 7:30 here: https://plus.google.com/events/c8878b1for9i27gkg2l8mr4ltoo
Or on Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlISwN_cgT8
Anybody interested in the Australian made “Hand of Fate”? Early access will be hitting Steam in the next few weeks.
http://www.defiantdev.com/handoffate.php
I played it back when they released their first version to Kickstarter backers.
Was pretty cool, but thanks to its Arkham whatevs style combat it seemed kind of stupidly easy. I assume they tweaked it to make it harder since then. Probably.
Yeah, I’ve found the combat quite easy as well but they’ve said they’re working on combat balancing and changing how weapons work etc. I think it’s been a common issue.
@sernobulus @gorzilla
Nob played it at pax and enjoyed it a lot.
Yeah, backed it the second it appeared on Kickstarter. I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve played but probably going to wait until the full release to play it more.
It looked interesting, but knowing me, I would leave no card unturned.
The youtube video let’s play linked on the site makes it seem like something I’d be pretty interested in.
Would you like a spare Alpha key on Steam? I has an extra. 😉
That offer goes for @scree as well. First come first served, really.
You gentleman, you! Ladies first, but if @scree isn’t interested, I am.
Give it to @transientmind I’m too busy to play much anyway =P
Will do, I’m sure @transientmind will give you a virtual high-five for being gentlemanly.
I… I may have purchased another 3 boxes of Kantai Collection Weiss Schwarz booster packs. What the hell was I thinking?
Arrived today. Also 3 more Pathfinder books (@popdart5): Advanced Player’s Guide, Ultimate Combat, Ultimate Equipment.
Also got 3 figures arrive from Japan (it’s like Nerdy Christmas!) and for some reason the box was opened and inspected by quarantine. I’ve had stuff opened by Customs once or twice over the years, but never quarantine. Nendoroids are addictive but I don’t think Akagi is a food or animal product.
First box of KC cards I opened had a signed foil. :O
My pokemon nut friend keeps getting all sorts of shiny foil cards in the pokemon booster packs she gets.
Then the other day she got one that was entirely shiny Charizards :/
All the rares in the set have foil treatments of some description. Standard rare and RR are just a sort of holographic effect on the background, RR+ have holographic starbursts, SR are fully holographic on the background, RRR have textured silver foil in a complimentary pattern for the artwork, SP are silver foil with a signature and SSP are gold foil signature. I got a SP and a SSP. 🙂
A quick trip to eBay suggests that these signed foils sell for $100+. KanColle is a stupidly popular franchise right now. Unfortunately the two I got (Akagi and Fubuki) aren’t enormously popular characters or enormously popular actresses signatures, so I don’t know if they’d sell for quite that much (I’d expect Yamato to sell for $200+ primarily because of the popularity of her voice actress for example, and a while back I saw someone listed a signed Yukikze for $1000, though I think that might have been actually signed rather than printed with a signature)
Either way, potentially sitting on a fairly valuable pair of signed cards. Nice.
Those are ridiculous numbers for a small rectangle of cardboard. Actually the other day I saw someone put up a NES Link clothing pattern e-card for Animal Crossing, it was a promo card given out with Nintendo Power so it’s considered somewhat rare, but they still pop up all the time and aren’t that uncommon. This joker wanted $350 for it though 😛
Results after opening all 60 packs:
– Every box (including the one I got a couple of weeks ago) had a Maikaze and Mikuma Kai in it. So I have 4 of each now.
– 2nd box was a reverse version of that earlier box. First time I got Kumano SR and Suzuya RR, this time I got Suzuya RR and Kumano RR. Overall have heaps of the Mogami-class cruisers so thinking at least one deck I build will be heavy on them.
– Pulled another signed card from the final box. So two signed cards from 3 boxes. This is really lucky as I believe there’s only 2 signed cards in a carton of 16 boxes – assuming both boxes came from the same carton that’s both the signed ones. First signed was Akagi (Super-Super-Rare (gold foil) signed by Saki Fujita, might see if this is worth anything) and second was Fubuki (Super-Rare (silver foil) signed by Sumire Uesaka). Uesaka is an up-and-coming voice actress and Fubuki will probably be one of the main characters for the anime starting in July so I expect this will go up in value sharply.
– I think I have nearly a full set of non-special cards. RR+ I got Yamato, Musashi x2, Kongou Kai-2, Hiei Kai-2, Nagato, Akagi Kai-2 x2. Have many RRs, main one I think I’m missing is Shimakaze. Managed to get 3 Shoukaku and 3 Kagas, so given that I have heaps of Akagis and Kagas I’ll probably build a deck around those too. Also the Random Goddess knows that Haruna is the best Battleship as I got 3 of her too.
– A bit disappointed that after everything I’ve got 1 Hatsukaze. She’s a standard Rare but is one of the most powerful cards in the set apparently due to being able to shut down some very powerful strategies from other sets. Only going to matter if I play a lot but with this investment sunk into it I’m tempted.
Aw last episode ever of burn notice is on the TV ALL THE FEELS. Forgot how sad this episode was Q_Q
Was a very worthwhile ending to the show however.
I used to watch that all the time, up until they moved it to Eleven or whatever and we could no longer tell when we were being shown a new ep or a repeat, or it would disappear out of nowhere or come back unannounced. So just gave up on watching it. Same for White Collar.
I miss both those shows.
Yeah it got moved to One. But I always downloaded it when it aired in the states. I supposed getting the finale 9 months after it finished in the states is okay heh.
Had a fun game of basketball tonight. Kept getting shots off, but couldn’t manage to land one. I had about 8 shots, including a couple when a guy on the other team let me have a few shots in a row. Some went close though. I’m definitely getting fitter though and Wednesdays are becoming a highlight of my week.
Okay, I normally put pins in my mouth when I sew, but not anymore
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jul/13/experience-inhaled-pin-into-lung
One of my friends said she swallowed a pin when doing her cosplay work.. She was fine.
I’d rather not risk it
I’m not sure which I find a worse prospect – eating a pin, or eating a cotton wool sandwich.
Also I had a net friend who accidentally inhale-swallowed an SD card, after holding it loosely in his mouth for whatever reason. I believe it didn’t make it out intact.
http://www.yourfriendshouse.com/2014/man-high-on-lsd-dressed-as-elf-arrested-for-jousting-womans-car/
@scree what kind of purple?
Purple’s a fruit.
A lilac/lavender or a brighter one is fine.
I got GB/GBC cartridges working in the SP! Turns out I had to wiggle them into it to fit, but it’s so much better playing them in a distorted widescreen with a light (even if it is a weird frontlight) 😛 (@mrtaco)
Beat Cerulean gym. Funnily enough with a Magikarp. Starmie Critical Hit’d my Pikachu, Charizard held on with 1 HP and got a scratch before being KO’d, and Magikarp got 3 tackles in, one of which was a critical hit, which won me the match (it was intense). So Magikarps aren’t completely useless after all. Then it gained 953 XP and is one level away from being a Gyrados.
That… is weird.
Also you can use the L/R buttons to stretch to widescreen/shrink to correct aspect ratio. Can’t remember if you can do it anytime or you can only do it at the Game Boy screen where you’d change the colours on a non-colour GB game.
Anytime! I used to press the button when walking left/right because it gave the illusion I was walking faster 😛
You had a Charizard by Cerulean Gym? 😛
Only a charmeleon. Typo 🙁
I was going to say, that’s some serious grinding! haha
So essentially the Chinese character system is open to nodding by anyone. As such it’s impossible to ever
So essentially the Chinese character system is open to modding by anyone. As such it’s impossible to ever know the real number of charcters.
When fanfics become canon.
After investigating the mysterious screaming statues, the party moved ever closer to the field of towers. Along the way they encountered 3 other travelers, who issued them with one communique:
RUN
Despite overwhelming odds, the party defeated the pursuer, a vicious Cragworm!
Tune in next time, for more TALES FROM THE NINTH WORLD
Thanks to our viewers!
cc @blaghman @popdart5 @tech_knight @mythamphetamine
Phlanispo’s TAY Game Fun Time That Has Most Likely Already Been Done Before!
Think of a movie, video game, or book, and remove a letter. Provide a brief synopsis.
The Ton: A movie about a heavy rock.
Dad Space: A father tries to distance himself from his children to their dismay.
Ears of War: There has long been conflict between the Alliance of the Ears and the Nose Confederacy. Tensions boil, and war erupts.
Assasin’s Cred: A fledgling assassin struggles to recover his credibility after a failed mission.
In Tim: Exactly what it sounds like.
BOshock: Jack forgets to wear his deodorant one faithful morning.
Just Dace: An arsty film about the life of a cyprinoid fish.
Deus Ex Uman Revolution: Under constant threat by Russia, the Ukraine undergoes a coup. The new government operates out of Uman, Ukraine.
Just Case: In this reboot, Rico Rodriquez is cast as a lawyer fighting to protect an innocent man.
Natural Election: After successfully enslaving humanity, the otters struggle to have democratic elections amidst rampant corruption and human rebellion.
Payday The Hest: Standard Payday, but with more Charleton Heston
Warfame: After his service in the vietnam war, Colonel Jason Bark gains a fearful reputation amongst society.
Worms Evolution: The worms evolve into snakes or something.
Left 4 Dad: A child has spent years estranged from her father, but a sudden court custody change leaves the father with full custody.
The Walking Dad: After years in a wheelchair, a father walks again due to miracle surgery. He takes the time to reconnect with his kids.
Tieshift: Tired of wearing the same red tie every day, a man decides to spice things up by wearing a black tie instead.
Tomb Aider: A wealthy benefactor pays for an archeological team to explore tombs.
Gangster Quad: A gangster fitness movie.
Ass Effect: Basically the same game.
Froze: The obligatory direct-to-dvd sequel to Frozen.
UFO Afterhock: After the aliens invade, a woman sells all her stuff in a gigantic garage sale at a discounted price.
Super Mash Bros: All your favourite Nintendo characters face off in the largest potato cooking contest ever!
World of WAcraft: A documentary delving into the exiting world of Western Australian arts and crafts competition.
Gone Bay Gone: The final episode of Home and Away.
Dawn of the Dad: A man struggles with the idea that he will soon become a father.
Dadlight: A family living in a one-bedroom apartment are forced to put a nightlight on to appease the child. Even after the child outgrows the need for the nightlight, the nightlight is kept on because Dad likes it.
Earthbond: An astronaut has trained to go into space all her life, but she is unable to cope with the idea of leaving Earth at the last minute.
Pankiller: A psychotic man goes on a rampage to destroy every piece of kitchenware in his town.
Alright, I think I’ll stop myself there. It’s not that much of a game if I already provide every answer imaginable, is it?
I found most of those amusing.
Specially the assassins cred one cause it’s basicly the first game anyway.
Let’s try:
Toy Stor: an Asylum made knock off of Toy Story, it’s awful and looks like arse but still gains a cult following. Being the 90s spelling it stor makes it radical.
Breaking Ad – A forward-thinking advertising firm in the 1960s decides to fund its risky business ventures by cooking and selling meth.
Old Feet – A show about a geriatric podiatrist.
Lay School – definitely not for kids. SBS late-night TV.
The Goo Shepherd – it’s not easy wrangling goo, but someone’s gotta do it
The Goo Wife – it’s not easy being married to goo either, but it does make for some TV-worthy sticky situations
The Lesser Evi – Under cover of darkness, special agent Evi infiltrates a military industrial complex that’s gone off the grid, only to find that her identical twin has masterminded a coup against the government and set her up to take the fall.
Clear and Present Anger – When you’ve got your finger on the nuclear button, it’s important to stay in touch with your emotions. That’s where Ron McFeels comes in. Psychiatrist to the West Wing – this is politics like you’ve never seen it before.
Cosmo – the Seinfeld spinoff that never happened.
Better Call Sal – The inevitable romcom spinoff of the spinoff focusing on the emotional rollercoaster that is Saul and Sal Goodman’s relationship.
Assassin’s Cred is pretty much the actual plot for the first AC 😛
Shit @cj beat me to it, that’ll teach me to refresh before posting won’t it?
@alexpants talks a big game but I’m the real fanboi
Howdareyou
What you gonna do. You don’t know where I am.
I’ll do my top movies:
Scott Pilgrim vs the Word:
Young Scott Pilgrim sets out to defend his honour from malicious rumours and gossip that claim he is dating a highschooler.
Ill Bill:
The tragic story of terminally ill Bill, who longs to make up with his estranged wife before his imminent death.
Beauty and the Beat:
An upper class, well educated young girl finds her true passion in the former of street dancing, even though it is highly forbidden in her home town.
Men Girls:
A teenage girls father decides to go undercover in his daughters highschool to find out who is bullying his daughter, and how he will get revenge.
Top four TV series :3
Rey’s Anatomy:
The life of medical student Rey is off to a rough start as he soon discoverers that he unintentionally slept with his boss, Erika, and has a fierce rivalry with fellow student / best friend, Christen.
Ex and the City:
The story of one middle aged women (and her three friends) who tries desperately to avoid all her ex boyfriends, unsuccessfully, as she’s basically dated everybody in NYC in her quest for love.
Gossip irl:
A documentary series about how dangerous gossip can be in real life, and how gossip has an effect in people’s lives.
Petty Little Liars:
Four friends lives make a change for the worse as they continually are forced to make lie after lie to cover up the tragic truth, that it was indeed, one of them who stole the cookie from the cookie jar.
@bish would be especially interested in this last one. I’m still not sure we nabbed the right culprit in the end.
Always deflecting the blame eh, Alphonse?
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Sha News Mith?
Let’s have a few movies.
Forrest Gum: The strange but true story of William “Forrest” Wrigley, Jr. and his quest to become chewing gum king of the world.
Once Upon a Time in the Wet: A woman returns to her ranch to find it has been flooded due to global warming, and must team up with local outlaws to build a dam and save the city.
It’s a Wonderful Lie: A man at the edge of his rope receives the best Christmas present of all – the truth.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bob: A cold war satire of why everybody loves me.
Apocalypse No: An uneventful day on a quiet river village in Vietnam.
Jango Unchained: The same movie but without one of its iconic jokes.
WALL: Set in the distant future a lovable but agoraphobic robot finds love.
Jaw: The plight of one man’s journey to get his jaw fixed under America’s health system after eating a jawbreaker
ALF Life: ALF escapes from the Government and goes on a murderous revenge rampage against the whole of humanity
Tar Wars: Two rival asphalt companies compete for a major contract for a new highway. The project leader of each company will do anything to set the other company back. Starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson
Sta Trek: One man’s journey to find the nearest STA Travel branch after he finds out his local branch has been closed
The Wizard of O: After drugs are completely abolished from the world, a new kingpin of huffing oxygen emerges.
Gone With The Win: A football team tries to track down their crocked manager after they win the final but he runs off with the trophy and winner’s cheque
Psych: One man annoys a town by offering high fives but pulling away at the last minute before shouting ‘PSYCH’
Ear Window: On a cold winter night a man struggles for help as his ear gets stuck to his window while trying to eavesdrop on the couple next door
The Dirty Doze: A man is driven out of town as he falls asleep in the town centre with no pants on. Join him as he tries to gain back his place in society.
Alien: Exactly the same as Alien. (Channel Ten accidently put the first Alien film on twice in a row instead of the sequel in an Alien marathon)
Haven’t been home from work long, caught up on TAY, really want to play Watch Dogs, but I’m tired and really should go to bed. Haven’t been getting enough sleep for a long time due to staying up late to play games, think it’s about time I changed that, as I think it’s affecting my health (physical and mental, not exercising wouldn’t be helping much either).
In other news, I saw A Million Ways To Die In The West today in a break between shifts. Thought it was really funny, highly recommend it.
Anyway, I’m off to bed, g’night TAY.
@scree; You liked Harvest Moon right? Looks like Natsume are no longer going to be translating it for North America, the most recent one released in Japan earlier this year will be going to XSEED. Which means a EU release should actually happen this time. But because Natsume still owns the trademark and they couldn’t come to an agreement over it (probably because Natsume will have freaked out like crazy as Harvest Moon was their only game series left) it’s going to be getting a name change to Story of Seasons:
http://au.ign.com/articles/2014/05/28/harvest-moon-returns-in-story-of-seasons-on-3ds?+main+twitter
That’s a stupid name. They should called it Farm Town extreme. Or Farm Vill 3D team up with zynga and make it shit.
MiniFarm Simulator 2K14
Thanks for the update. Will you be following it at all? I may forget closer to the release date
Harvest Moon and Rune Factory could be called “Farming Town Dating Sim 2013” and I would still buy them.
Speaking of Rune Factory, where’s my EU release of RF4. *sniff* :'(
I still think Fire Emblem Awakening should be called Babby Making Simulator.
I just got this piece of advice from my boss after reading a part of a report I’m working on.
“Summarise to the core issues. No need to re-state information that has already been said.”
-_-
That’s probably the greatest example of pointless business speak that I’ve ever heard.
Recommended reading: http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/don-watson/death-sentence-the-decay-of-public-language-9781740512787.aspx
Don’t you just love it when bosses give you advice that means absolutely nothing. It’s like they criticize for the sake of doing it =,=
It’s Thursday, that means it’s time for TAYlist requests!
Paperback writer – The Beatles
Hearts a Mess – Gotye
forrest gump- Frank Ocean
Man, that’s such a great song.
A spoken word jazz version of a dramatic reading of My Little Pony erotic fan fiction.
On it.
Any reason why? Also, that may be a bit more mature than what I’m allowed to play on air.
I think the real question is why not?
@freezespreston gazed deeply in to Fluttershy’s eyes. Pale blue, their hue. Expression: Surprise.
This thing writes itself!
Just find one without explicit language?
“Twilight Sparkle squinted as she grunted one out into the grass in front of Applejack’s exposed hooves”
Steely Dan – Kid Charlemagne
Danny’s Song – Kenny Loggins
WOOOOO!
That or:
Smile Like You Mean It — The Killers
That or:
Where Does the Good Go? – Tegan and Sara
*decisive nod*
It appears you’ve made a mistake. It’s spelled Danger Zone. Not to worry, I got you.
So I did! Thanks for having my back, brother!
Lonely Boy – The Black Keys
Anything Metallica? I can’t remember the last time I heard one of their songs on the radio. The Day that Never Comes, back when the latest album was released perhaps?
I’m pushing it, aren’t I? Let’s just go with You’re the Best by Joe Esposito.
Pipe dream:
Kill la Kill soundtrack – Blumenkranz
More realistic:
Leona Naess – Charm Attack
Most likely:
Bran Van 3000 – Drinking in LA
Alas, it is but a pipe dream.
Wieso siehst du so traurig aus?
Bulls on parade – Rage against the machineHouse of the rising sun – The animals
Rally round the family, pocket full of shells!
I thought it might be edgy but could sneak through. Check the lyrics and there is “naughty words” in there so changed the request
Since I don’t know if it went through last time
Miss Independent – Ne-Yo
Otherwise
#Beautiful – Mariah Carey ft. Miguel
Jukebox Hero – Foreigner
One Vision – Queen
Just gimme gimme gimme FRIED CHICKEN.
The Touch – Stan Bush
Followed by
Dare To Be Stupid – “Weird” Al Yankovic
HISPTER REQUEST :
Gareth Liddiard – Strange Tourist
Seriously, that man is brilliant at telling stories through it songs.
SERIOUS REQUEST :
Something by The Cure…?
anything by John Coltrane.
Failing that, Only You – Yaz
Requests are closed. Thanks everyone for the songs.
Watch Dogs continues to be rad. It’s a lot of fun finding interesting ways to deal with each situation, rather than just running out and shooting the place up. Sure, that works, but it’s way more fun looking at options.
Also, I still can’t bring myself to steal from every available citizen. If someone is labelled as having tonnes of money in a bank account, and then under that “undergoing chemotherapy” or something, I end up walking off.
It’s kind of why I’m stopping myself from playing the game until I can take my time with it, I can already see I’m going to spending hundreds of hours just reading the little blurbs under each person on the street >.<
P.S. is anyone else annoyed that shooting someone in the leg kills them? Non-lethal takedown Ubisoft!
The very first tooltip in the game told me I could shoot a cop in the leg, rather than kill them, and take less of a hit to my reputation. After a while I realised that a) Shooting them anywhere enough kills them, like most games and b) Killing cops doesn’t seem to affect my reputation.
Not sure what the story is there.
My guess: More complicated systems got thrown out late in the piece. Crunch meant that flavour text and tutorial tips didn’t get a sanity check to reconcile against the write-outs.
I’m really liking all the options, I haven’t done any missions all guns blazing and usually find a more peaceful solution. Dunno what’s up with your reputation, everything i do affects it, shoot a cop lose a massive chunk, every pedestrian I graze with a car shaves off a chunk, I’m actually having to stop a lot of the random crimes just to keep my rep positive, seems to fluctuate way too fast IMO
Edit: Also I can’t help but steal from everyone, especially once you get the perk to highlight valuable targets, I have sooo much money just from thieving from pedestrians.
I’ve noticed it with everything but cops, but the more I think about it, I don’t think I’ve shot many. put them in car crashes, sure…
Harming innocents smashes into your rep and I don’t want it any other way. I lost control of a car during an escape and rolled it, killing three people. My rep went from full positive to less than half positive, and it made me really, really regret killing those people. Which is…kind of awesome.
I suppose that is a good point, it does make you try extra hard not to kill people which is good, I was doing a vehicle convoy mission and accidentally blew up a SWAT truck looking thing, my rep shot from like halfway positive down to almost halfway negative, must have been loaded with cops. took ages to work my way back up.
Yeah, it’s gonna be a real time-sink, I just spent the last hour and a half playing chess in-game.
I had the longest game of poker in it last night, must have been like an hour at least and I lost, dammit
I’m hearing enough good things about it that I’m thinking I might go grab it.
Level of depth I hadn’t considered. I’m sure most folks will ignore that and go plundering with abandon, but in keeping with ‘the game is what you make it’ levels of self-regulated immersion, I can definitely see that affecting my behaviour. The chemo especially, but I can’t see myself stealing recklessly.
It really is a game driven by the player. Like, you can just run through a firefight shooting everyone down, which works fine…oooor you could drop a shipping crate on two guys, blow up someone trying to snipe you by overloading a transformer next to him, etc. etc.
Not really spoilers (thoughts on NPC background info stuff):
There’s no practical reason (from what I’ve seen) of being a little more ethical in your stealing (like stealing the life savings of a drug runner, but not from someone with cancer, or depression, etc.) but the little snippets of background you can get on a random NPC can really change your behaviour. I was sneaking through a facility stealth killing gang members and came across a guy who “Just celebrated his kid’s first birthday”. Ended up sneaking around him, felt wrong to kill him…
have you had many invasions, I had one where I had no clue dude hacked me and took off, did another one where I used jammers to slow him down, then when he was nearly done with the hack I blacked the area out, managed to find him cause of the delay hiding in a pick up truck. I put 5 grenades from a grenade launcher into the truck and it didn’t even scratch it, chased him down smashed the hell outta him, even nailed him with a steam pipe, nothing I did seemed to do anything, I really hope that something went wrong cause if that’s how bullshit it is I’ll just stay offline.
I’ve had a few invasions and played a bunch of online stuff and haven’t experienced anything that horrible. Might have been lagging without looking like lag?
that’s what I’m hoping cause it didn’t seem laggy at all, I got so angry at the time. I’m pretty sure 5 grenades shoulda done the job considering 3 is enough on an armored van. Hopefully I don’t get any more of that.
I’m the opposite, I steal from every motherfucker. Money’s money.
it’s surprising how profitable it is, definately where I’ve gotten 90% of my cash from.
Is anyone else kind of annoyed by all the articles condemning piracy for games? I’m well aware of how retarded that statement is but I would’ve never played any games when I was a kid without piracy. Back home buying an original game quite literally cost a month of my parent’s wages so you can imagine it was definitely not a luxury you could afford. Nowadays since I can afford to buy games I pay for everything. I hear all the arguments against piracy but the truth is it’s not a simple black and white argument, I’ve probably spent thousands of dollars on games just in the past 3-4 years, something I wouldn’t have done if corporations had their way and were able to wipe out piracy all together.
The thing everyone misses when they shout “it’s not stealing” is that the action really is black and white. The motive behind it is the place for discussion.
I’ve never said it’s not stealing, but when you call it stealing out of context that’s when you make it black and white.
Most of the people I know who resort to piracy usually only do it because they have no other option. Truth is I’ve yet to meet someone who downloads games/movies when they can afford to just grab it down the line.
Ehh, see, I find that extremely hard to believe. Internet in Australia costs money, as does large download caps. People can most definitely afford to purchase DVDs or go to cinema to watch films, instead of pirating. The thing is, they’d rather not, because they’d have to take cuts to other aspects of their life which they don’t really wanna do.
Not gonna get into the discussion now, but it’s an interesting moral and philosophical discussion – if everyone plays openly. 😉
Disclaimer: I used to pirate games and music like a champion.
Finding it extremely hard to believe doesn’t necessarily make it any less true, which is why the conversation breaks down. All these people project their situation and beliefs onto everyone else and rationalize that the only way that they personally would behave that way is if they were being a dick, rather than realize others have different circumstances, reasoning, priorities, and ethics.
It’s wrong to assume that just because you personally don’t pirate as a form of try-before-you-buy (or whatever else) that someone else is lying when they say that’s their primary reason.
It’s the core problem of the entire dialogue when people dismiss any and all valid criticisms of how business is done by waving a hand and saying, “Whatever, you just don’t want to pay money, so anything you think is invalid, and any other reasons you provide are excuses.”
I grew up in a 3rd world and internet there costs practically nothing (about $10 for unlimited for a month) as opposed to buying a game there for about $50 approximately a year after it has come out (this is leaving out the local tax by the way which was usually exorbitant for foreign products).
When I came to Australia and had no job believe it or not I still had internet. With your argument you make it sound like it’s a luxury item, whereas the truth is it’s as essential to everyday life (especially the life of an unemployed migrant when looking for work) as opposed to being able to shell out 50-90 dollars for a new release.
So believe me when I say I had nothing else to cut from my life when I used to pirate. Unless of course I figured out some magical way to stop living off 2 minute noodles and find something even cheaper. I’m sure there are people out there who pirate even when they can afford it but it’s not fair to paint everyone with the same philosophy.
The reason they shout that is that it is not theft. It’s copyright infringement. It is not equivalent and should not be conflated with shoplifting / stealing a car / whatever other petty larceny they decide to compare it to. Theft requires you to take something physically from its owner. When you make a perfect digital reproduction of their thing, you haven’t deprived its owner of the original, you’ve simply made another copy. That’s not theft.
I don’t get it. Define: stealing (google result): take (another person’s property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
Doesn’t have to be a physical item, doesn’t need to deprive the owner of the original. Stealing ideas – that’s a thing, and it’s not physical nor stealing the original.
I legit don’t get this train of thought. Where’s the proof? I’ve given it, contribute to a healthy discussion by giving counter-proof.
Anyway, even if pirating isn’t stealing (which is semi-clearly is), all that is ever said is “there is no point, it’s not stealing, therefore we will continue doing it” with no relevant input into the discussion. It’s like meeting a brick wall. Similar with the people that’ll continue to argue and say “yes it is stealing”.
The point is ‘harm done’.
If I steal your car, you are without a car. You can’t drive it, you can’t sell it to anyone.
If I copy your car, you still have your car. You can still drive it, you can still sell it. Just not to me.
Someone who complains their car has been stolen when it’s been copied is claiming the damage done to them is equivalent to the person who cannot drive or sell their car. Obviously untrue, obviously exaggerated, obviously an unfair comparison.
Who has the greater harm done to them? It’s not a trick question, it’s a very easy answer.
Saying, “It’s not stealing so I’ll keep doing it” is certainly not constructive, but it’s not less helpful than, “The law is the law and that’s all there is to it,” when the law can and should be changed, and when people being wronged have direct control over how badly they are affected, expecting the law to absolve them entirely of all personal responsibility for their actions which expose themselves.
Edit: Additional point: repeatedly using the word ‘stealing’ in the discussion is not constructive dialogue either.
Can you imagine trying to come to some kind of mediation or point of commonality in a discussion where the person you’re talking to continually insists on referring to your very real infraction as a hyper-inflated accusation such as ‘murder’? It sets the tone for the rest of the discussion pretty clearly.
Yes, it’s pretty easy question, presented like that. But look at the bigger picture. Why does everyone dismiss when movie biz says “equivalent lost sales are lost” etc?
I have a car. It is available for purchase. The only way to obtain this car legally is to purchase it from me. You copied my car. Now you and I both have a car, and you have no need for my car any longer. I did not receive money from you for this transaction.
You: stole the idea of my car; stole my right to a legal transaction.
Next up, 90% of people walking by copy my car also. I do not have enough sales to come up with break-even point on the car. Car dies, car V2 never exists. No more cars to copy.
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I like your comment below (the one with upvote). That’s the kinda shit I like to see. There are real issues in the way we all get our media, and the way in which they are accessible and restricted to/by us. I’m not denying that – there is definitely a problem. But until things change, we are bound by our current state, and to deny there is no problem or anything wrong with that is a bit naive I think. Either way change our ways first, or showbiz does, but for as long as both ways are different then neither can sustain each other.
That’s fair enough, but how do things change? What impetus is there for an industry to change when it does not want to? When it has to. And how does it realize it has to? When it starts losing money.
Consumers are asking content providers: “Why do I have to pay more than my neighbours when there is literally no extra cost to deliver to me? Why am I waiting longer when my neighbours are getting it so much sooner, when we can all view it instantly on the global communication network? Why are there all these restrictions?”
The content providers are not providing any compelling reasons, but are instead saying, “Because we can.”
And consumers are saying, “Because you can? Well. Guess what we can do.”
As long as consumers hold that power to provide the incentive to change, content providers might change. But at the moment they’re fighting it tooth and nail for no other reason than to avoid adapting to a status quo where they might hold less control, and smaller profits.
It’s like that guy who was complaining about the music industry. Musicians make music. Labels distribute it. Music will always be made, for money or for free. So the profit came from the distribution part, which was hard, and thus a valuable service.
Now it’s not hard.
The logical assumption would be that since their services are no longer needed as badly, they should not be valued as highly, or make as much profit, right? Right?
Nope. That’s NOT what they want to hear. So they bitch and whine about the death of the industry, but when they say ‘the industry’ they mean the distribution part. The musicians? They’ll keep making music. It’s what musicians do, they can’t NOT do it, that’s why they’re musicians.
Industry does not change because it is the moral thing to do. They hide behind morality as a defense when it suits them, but they do not bother to pay it any respect if it might result in a disadvantage to them. A harsh way of putting it would be: Those who would claim the protection of morality should not be able to continue to do so when they act without morality themselves.
But the simple fact is they won’t change unless they have to. And if people – and the law – continues to protect them so that they don’t have to change? They won’t. And refusing to change when the world changes around you is going to result in conflict. If you see this and plant your feet anyway, it is your own damn fault if you lose the ensuing battle.
Nice post.
This. Transient you’re my new favourite TAY person.
That said I’ve become more sensitive to the issues surrounding game developers especially with so many of them heading into the indie scene, so I always try to support the games industry whenever I can (which is pretty damn often lol).
Edit: And exactly corporations present an ethical argument for their sales when they believe we’re stealing from them but adhere to no ethical code themselves in other aspects of the business. Need I remind anyone of Day 1 DLC for Mass Effect 3 or BF4 servers, and lets not even talk about Watchdogs and AMD rigs.
Probably because they’re the boy who cried wolf. Maybe if their stopped making ludicrous claims, people might stop dismissing them. A 1:1 pirated copy:lost sale ratio is absurd – unbelievable fiction – and everyone knows it. You might as well sue an airline for the gold lotto jackpot because they lost your ticket in your luggage and you were totally going to win that.
Anyway, thanks for the compliment. I appreciate it. I get passionate on the subject and that can result in some… harsh vocab.
I’ll admit that you’re right in that… something I frequently deliberately downplay or ignore is the true value of lost sales. Partly because it’s unknowable – which is a shame, because it can’t be insignificant, even if it’s nowhere near what they claim. But another reason I usually downplay it is because these companies are not innocent victims. Victims, but not innocent.
I’ve always held you shouldn’t dish it out if you can’t take it. Live by the sword, die by the sword. What goes around comes around, reap what you sow, etc… However you want to put it, it’s humanity’s oldest understanding of natural justice. When I see content providers making deliberately hostile anti-consumer moves, refusing to acknoweldge that the Internet is changing everything about how they should be doing business, and whining about losing the battle to hold on to the Old Ways, I do not feel much sympathy. I don’t like seeing people protecting the status quo – especially not for reasons of morality (my reasoning already explained above).
Idle thought:
You know… I’m not even especially concerned for the state of the industries, either. People will always create, and create excellent quality. That’s the thing about creatives: they’re compelled. They just can’t stop. Even if they’re not getting paid, they undertake labours of love in their free time. And as long as there are people willing to throw money at their screens for that product (and there always will be), business will step in as an intermediary to make sure all that money gets ‘where it needs to go’. They won’t be able to stay away.
The amount that changes hands, how frequently, and where it goes might change, but the act of creation will remain. And if you’ve seen the state of the Steam front page lately, we could arguably do with less. So for the time being, I see piracy as useful, beneficial. I vote with my wallet in my way – I’m mostly steam sales these days. Some PS+, a very rare handful of marked-up launch titles, maybe once or twice a year. Those messages speak to graphs and analytics in far-away places.
define: take
verb
1.
lay hold of (something) with one’s hands; reach for and hold.
2.
remove (someone or something) from a particular place.
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To steal something implies you have taken it, not made a copy of it. There’s a really fine line here I know, but it’s incredibly important. The owner still has the original, you have not taken it from him or diminished it in any tangible way by making that copy.
The fact that I can make this response kinda points towards there being more to it, you know?
.I have a diamond/film. Only one is released. The cost to purchase this is thus very very high. Suddenly, people start copying it. The diamond/film now has no monetary value. Thus the monetary value is diminished (your own words here, dude).
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People are forgetting there’s a difference between cultural and monetary value.
This is a straw-man argument. Whether the product has value or not is irrelevant to whether making a copy is theft.
Regardless, if duplicating a diamond involved no cost except perhaps a lump of carbon to make it with, then certainly diamonds would be valueless. However if the process cost thousands of dollars of resources, then diamonds wouldn’t be valueless. Incidentally this is why Alchemy was outlawed in a lot of countries in the middle ages – Alchemists aimed to create gold from base metals like lead, and doing so would reduce the value of gold which would have a direct effect on the company’s treasury!
The problem is that copying music, video etc. is nearly free, so you’re right, rampant copying reduces the monetary value. But that’s because *ideas* intrinsically have no monetary value. They do have cultural value, and we have copyright laws to protect them and promote the creation of ideas by propping up the monetary value of those products because we recognize that they are valuable to our culture.
In the 19th and 20th Century, copying and producing these things did have a cost. Making a copy of a book wasn’t cheap, you potentially had to pay someone to copy it by hand, or you had to typeset up a copy for the printing press, print it on paper (paper wasn’t always a cheap commodity!), bind it, and then potentially sell it. Making a copy of a record was difficult, because every play of a record damages it and reduces its quality. Same for cassettes, VHS tapes, floppy disks, and basically every analog medium. Optical media like CDs initially cost quite a bit to produce due to the technology involved. And then with physical things, you need to physically distribute them.
However nowadays, the cost to copy something is virtually nil, and everything is just bits on a computer, which can transmit those exact same bits to another computer anywhere else in the world. Distribution costs are the upkeep of the system. Copying costs are, I guess, the manufacturing costs of the storage. What this is actually doing is exposing the core underlying truth about these things: they do not intrinsically have any monetary value. They have cultural value.
This is like saying you had a single Van Gogh painting worth millions but suddenly counterfeiters are making copies of it everywhere. Believe it or not this wouldn’t diminish the value of your product for buyers looking for the original since yours is still the only original in existence. However for people who would never be able to afford it at its full price, getting a fake/copy at a steal lets them hang a copy for a miniscule fraction of trying to get your original.
Theft would remove the painting from your forever meaning you just lost millions. Copying merely allows others who can’t obtain the painting from you to appreciate it in their own homes.
Transientrant!
The ‘it’s not stealing!’ers might simply not be able to resist correcting something so blatantly wrong and intentionally misleading, wanting to deny the opposition the right to frame the discussion from an exaggerated, inaccurate moral high ground.
Because “It’s stealing” is an insidious tool of social manipulation. Piracy’s not stealing. It’s not even close. You steal something, you deny the owner access to the object stolen. That’s the core, the primary key to the definition of stealing in damn near every developed nation. When you are stolen from, you are tangibly wronged, and we look on it harshly as a result. Most people don’t care what someone else has or doesn’t have, but as soon an action by someone else means the owner DOESN’T have something, that becomes a really big concern.
These content holder guys WANT copyright-infringement to be viewed with the same moral outrage as the dramatically-worse crime of stealing, because all they can see are hypothetical ‘lost sales’. The fact is, however, piracy doesn’t directly cost them money, it doesn’t deny them access to sell their product, all it does is deny them a potential (not guaranteed) sale to someone who may not have paid anyway. And while that’s frustrating and (at surface level – protest against shenanigans aside) morally wrong, it’s nowhere near as severe as theft is.
It’s like calling people who speed on the road ‘murderers’ because some of them might actually result in deaths. Or, say… associating someone who digitally shortchanges a company fifty bucks, with sea-faring murderers. It’s disproportionate language-wrangling to exaggerate their claims. These are the same assholes who try to claim with straight faces that piracy costs them literally trillions of dollars. An order of magnitude more than the entire industry is worth. It’s ludicrous and offends my sense of reason to see them get away with this rampant abuse of law and language so continously.
I’d afford them more sympathy if they weren’t the corporate equivalent of soccer-players diving to the ground clutching their ankles at the hint of an unkind look from someone within a few metres. Their complaints should have some grounding in reality and since they seem fucking incapable of that in an obvious way, claiming eleventy hojillion dollars in a direct insult to intelligence, nothing they say can be trusted.
The attitude arose out of only ever being able to target one person at a time, rarely succeeding against them, and wanting to send a message to everyone that if you get caught you are now bankrupt for life, but they’re basically swatting bees while standing in the hive, and at some point any SANE person would change how they’re behaving to adapt to the dramatically different conditions which are a fact of life of the global, digital marketplace. Their argument is, “We dunwanna. And the rules say we don’t have to.” Even though pointing at rules which were drafted for a world that doesn’t exist any more.
Nah, I’m fucking done. Are we literally cock-wrangling over the definition of a word? Look at my post above: the word is clearly defined and piracy falls within that definition. If by some chance the law doesn’t use the word stealing itself, it’ll use another word with a similar definition to make sure piracy falls within that.
But yeah, I’m done. Stealing/copying/sourcing – it doesn’t fucking matter. Giant discussions about this bullshit don’t matter. Whatever the fuck word is used, it’s illegal and the content owners don’t like it. So what’re we gonna do about that?
Not cock-wrangling over a word, but over the attitude.
See the soccer-player analogy. When you look at things to fix, do you start with murders or littering? Do you maybe get pissed off when someone concerned about littering tries to bump their problems up the queue by alikening it to murder? Severity IS a factor, it DOES matter, and the different between piracy and theft (legal or otherwise definition) is huge.
You can’t just complain that the law is the law, black and white, no shades of grey, law = morality/justice (because it absolutely does not), because that means that when the law changes (as it does all the time), that what was illegal but is now not, is suddenly moral where it was immoral? Black and white is bullshit for that exact reason.
Laws change when standards do, when conditions change, and a global digital marketplace is one hell of a changed condition. If anything, the unethical thing being done is not the law-breaking, but the lack of law-changing to catch-up with changed conditions, the death-grip content-providers are trying to keep on the status quo because changing is scary/unknown/costly. They’re fighting the reality of having to change, and freeloaders are taking advantage. It doesn’t make them right anymore than it’s ‘right’ than water is right to dissolve a paper boat. It makes them a force of nature which idiots are trying to control and complaining they can’t, instead of re-examining their paper-boat business.
Yes. This is the reason that lawyers exist.
A word makes all the difference in legal terms, a word can be the difference between a guilty verdict and innocence in a court room.
FYI calling something illegal does not make it definitively wrong, throughout the years there were plenty of horrific actions that were perfectly legal in society’s antiquated understanding of the word. This is why we have discussions and a legal system that needs to keep evolving.
As for what the content owners want, if they had their way like I said in my initial post they would’ve robbed themselves of a customer of the games industry who happily shells out every single time a good game comes out and I can’t be the only person like this.
Piracy has a place in our world our legal system just needs to figure out what it is, there’s no point wiping it out in its entirety because people wouldn’t know the damage that would accomplish until it’s been done (like killing all mosquitoes because they’re annoying). Without piracy I would’ve probably turned to sports/drinking and a lot more socializing. Without piracy I would’ve never been exposed to the ethical dillemmas presented in KOTOR 2 or sunk hundreds of dollars in SWTOR now that I can afford to pay. I’m willing to accept that piracy when you can afford an item is wrong, but you don’t seem to be willing to budge on your views at all. Once again painting a complex topic either black or white can only lead to disastrous results and while you say you used to engage in piracy it doesn’t sound like you ever did out of necessity. When you had no other choice short of starving yourself.
I have a weird history with piracy. When I was a kid, quite literally every PS1 game I had was a copy from a family friend. I think I had two legit PS1 games total, but they could have been convincing fakes. I was annoyed when I moved to the PS2 and found out that none of my old games worked, because of the PS2 copy protection. Because I could only get games if my parents bought them. Because of this, I had about 5 games that I had to play. It sucked.
I didn’t have any real experience with piracy for years. Then my uncle bought me Cylo DS evolution for my DS; a cartridge with an SD card built in that could store pirated games. It was awesome.
Then people at school started handing out USBs with Call of Duty 4 and Minecraft on them. I still play my pirated Minecraft to this very day, and I am still plagued by guilt.
You’re living at home and from your other posts I take it you aren’t employed. This was me a few years ago when I engaged in piracy all the time. I had no options and no choice… and attempting to find and afford a legal alternative was not my primary concern. This is why I keep telling people you can’t paint piracy as a black and white issue. It all comes down to context
Oooh, neato. Character Sheets are now available for all users of Roll20. @popdart5 – any thoughts on if you want to use/standardise these for the TAY Pathfinder?
Just as a fillable sheet or does it also create new characters?
Fillable sheet, also can be used for macros / dice rolls. E.g. @Drewan|Dexterity
Neat! Now I won’t need to keep updating my macros when I level up or get buffed in some way 🙂
What would be SUPER awesome, and I’d need to read the wiki on how sheets work and so on, would be if you could trigger global buffs that automatically applied a bonus to all current sheets.
E.g. @All|AC=AC+1
I think there’d be a better tool for that kind of stuff. DM controlled “stat manipulator” console, since they’ve got full understanding of any buffs or debuffs cast (This also allows the DM to keep tabs on how long until they wear off), he can select a character sheet and type in stat enhancements/or debuffs and a duration next to it and it gets put into the rolls automatically until the DM cancels that stat manipulation entry. It would also mention what the debuff/buff actually is in brackets as well so people clearly understand what each extra + or – comes from
Wasn’t saying I’d trigger it, it’s certainly something that’d be under DM control, just thinking that would be a great way of using the stat sheets rather than having to trigger temporary bonuses all over the shop.
I did not know that thanks B-ob. I can’t get any more information on it while at work but I’ll into it tonight to see what I can get together. I was stuffing around with Roll20 last night after Numenera so that I had a better idea of how things worked so I’ll jump on and see what’s what with these character sheets as they would definitely be helpful.
Also on that note, @redartifice what did you use/how did you get the pogs going for Numenera? I tried finding some stuff last night but I had nothing. Did get a few of the token models though.
Here’s the “How To” page on the Wiki. There’s even an entry for “Existing Campaigns” 🙂
https://wiki.roll20.net/Character_Sheets
Cheers. Unfortunately IT at work has some strange policies and it’s blocked because of “Social Networking” even though they allow us access to Twitter. So silly.
Haha, yeah. I enjoyed here at work when the Corporate Intranet started uploading video campaigns and stuff for staff viewing but didn’t bother to tell IT so they’d get blocked as Prohibited Video Content. Eventually IT put YouTube on the allow list.
I used a little token maker app for the actual pogs from here: http://www.rptools.net/
They are then attached to the characters and players through the journal and you can just drag and drop.
Cool. I was looking at using models but the free ones are pretty average and the to-buy ones didn’t really seem appropriate to the party. Pogs are nice and easy though.
When does MK8 release? Official release date is Friday, but JB Hifi and EB say Saturday?
WHEN IS IT?!?!
both?
DKC: Tropical Freeze, Super Mario 3D World and Pikmin 3 were both Saturday for what it’s worth.
So, to answer your question… *shrugs*
Nintendo always release on Saturdays.
It’s Saturday. The only ‘Friday’ releases should be midnight launches.
Friday? I thought the official release date was the 31st, which is Saturday.
Official release date was 30th. The only place I saw a change was Kotaku AU’s article saying it’s now 31st (no reason). I guess because we’re so far in front time-zone-wise they pushed us back to Saturday.
I have a Kyuubey and Urahara plush toy I no longer want. Anyone want them?
Kyuubei is from Madoka Magica and Urahara is from Bleach.
/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\ you decided you don’t want to be a magical girl after all?
I decided I don’t need the clutter =P
Grunt. I really wish you could pass some sort of background/social responsibility check to allow you to take illegal stimulants, sometimes. Caffeine just isn’t cutting it. (Reminded of the last time I complained to a pharmacist that surely we could have come up with something more effective and his reply was, “Yeah, we have. It’s called speed.” Siiiigh. Damn recreational users screwing things up for those of us who wanna WORK.)
Sitting thinking I need another coffee but I haven’t even finished my first one yet. I’ll just have to ask for two at once next time I go down, triple-strength, with crack in it. Sugar? Fill’er up.
I’ve heard chowing down on an apple in the morning is a better pick me up than a coffee.
Apparently having chilli as part of your breakfast helps a great deal too. Slice some up and whack it on some toast with some avocado.
Chilli apple. I’m sooo trying that.
That works really well.
Oddly enough, so does strawberries and cracked pepper.
True, I think the fact you’re eating something solid perks you up and the low GI quality of the sugar in the apple means the energy boost lasts longer.
What’s funny is when this piece of information was popularised on the internet recently it led people to misinterpret it as “apples contain caffeine”.
Is it bad that this reminded me that I’d not had my dexamphetamine this morning?
Customer: “No I’m not happy. You’ve done a terrible job.”
Me: “Why? What’s wrong with it? Where’s the problem?”
Customer: “You were too quick. You couldn’t have done a proper job. Do it again and do it properly this time.”
God damn it. The hell is wrong with people?
Just call them back in an hour and charge extra. Don’t actually do any more work.
I told them to come back in three days.
I can’t really charge extra. Job prices are set. But I’m sure as hell not touching them again. They’ll sit in the cupboard until they come back.
I’m guessing shoes?
Stop being too good at your job Freeze, shit!
Give the people the incompetence they expect!
Nah, they’re just mad that people are showing em up.
I don’t know what it is you do for a living, but damn people are dicks.
Professional punching bag, from what I can tell.
When I worked as a supermarket cashier we had to have a scanning rate (items per minute) of >30 and if you were below that you got written up. Myself and another girl had rates of 50+ (I think I had a high of 56 one day, she got 53) and we got written up because our manager logically concluded that if we were scanning almost one item every second we much be sacrificing customer service. He didn’t have any complaints about service, he didn’t observe this, and he was completely wrong, but he assumed it so it must be true.
Once you’ve been working as a cashier for more than like, a week, your hands do all the work for you which leaves your brain and mouth free to engage in polite conversation. I think our manager had doubts about this because he couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time. I think he wore shoes with velcro to save himself an hour getting ready each morning.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 is a pretty neat movie. Recommended.
Yeah, I liked it, but I liked the first one more.
I refuse to watch them on principle since the original picture book was one of my favourites as a kid. Curse you, Hollywood!
I didn’t even know it was a book until after I’d watched the first movie.
I actually found out after I moved to Australia and was looking for a copy for a friend’s kid that it never really got published over here (until the movie came out) and had to order a copy from overseas.
Conversely, it’s pushed as essential reading in elementary schools in the USA.
Ah, didn’t know of this.
Just found this on Wikipedia too.
I really wanted to see the first one because a friend of mine kept going on and on about it, so when it showed up on TV I gave it a watch. And… hated it. Still cannot understand what he sees in it, considering he’s pretty much the group film buff. The whole thing just seemed completely a kids movie. Not like Toy Story or something where it has something for everyone, I mean plain old made by people who think that kids aren’t smart enough to know or figure out anything for themselves and need movies to be made for them with that in mind. I believe my words were “couldn’t be more ham-fisted if it Falcon Punched a pig up the arse” 😛
Time for a game theory, I read on tv tropes that a trailer for dead or alive dimensions proves that dead or alive & ninja gaiden shares the same world as metroid, which from a previous game theorist video tells us that most of the nintendo games share the same world, the trailer for DOA:D is set in the pyrosphere stage, which is set in metroid, also in the new smash bros game, so does that mean dead or alive is set in the nintendo multiverse?, please respond with your thoughts
I don’t think any of it means anything.
Also I’d completely forgotten that the whole DOA/Samus thing happened. So thanks for reminding me of that. You monster.
So, logically, Metroid and Halo are the same universe then? Spartan-458, ‘Nicole’, appeared in Dead or Alive 4…
So It looks like ill be moving to Melbourne Late this year.
woot
Most excellent!
What? Brisbane too hip for you?
#AustraliasHippestCity
Because it’s hip to be square! *nods*
Here, there, and everywhere.
That’s News to me.
He likes his fans in dinner suits.
Me, I think I’d prefer them to be on the ceiling and unencumbered as they cool the room down.
Be a cube. It’s hip on a whole new dimension.
Got any living arrangements lined up yet?
No, i have no idea. All that is decided is we try and find a place, move and then begin the job hunt. Not neccessarily in that order 😛
Exactly the opposite order here… Although I guess I lined up that share house 2 days before driving down.
Let me know if you need someone to eyeball anything locally for you.
Fine! Just go, I was gonna say Brisbane is too cool for you anyway. *runs off crying*
Can I infer that Rocketgirl is coming too? That’s wicked, man. Hope it all goes well! 🙂
Rocketgirl is in fact coming with me. She needs to move for job oppurtunity cause graphic designers in townsville are non-existent.
Does she know her unofficial nickname is Rocketgirl?
UnofficialFixed that for you.
no she doesnt.
If she doesn’t like it, remind her that the alternative is Hogirl.
Ha ha suck shit Melbourne!
Wait did I say that out loud?
YIIIIIZZZZZZZZ more Melbourne Taybies \o/
Also let me know once you move here, there always seems to be something going at my work, so i may be able to assist with job finding
REALLY THAT IS SOOO AWESOME
thanks pixel
True champion for sure! What a guy!
I’ll keep an ear to the ground, i can’t promise anything at this stage but people come and go all the time so yeah, hopefully… Well i guess it really also depends on what kind of work you’ll be looking for? we got a bit of everything 😛
When you work with Pixel you literally work with Hitler…
…because European…
…shut up, I’m on holidays. My brain is set to focus on one thing for a sm…oh look a puppy…*white noise*
Guys. Sorry to wax on about RPGs again (predictable I know) but I got a new book yesterday, Shield of Humanity, for the Imperial Guard Only War RPG. Its many, many features include:
– Ogryn Bone’eads
– Ratling Longshots who can snipe tanks
– Incinerant Priests (lots and lots of fire)
– Rules for attaching weapons to your body and firing them by thinking about it (integrated weapon systems)
– Leman Russ Executioner and Exterminator variants
– Hydra flak tanks
– Manticore Rocket Battery
– Bane Wolf Chem Tank
– Tarantula Sentry guns
– the Shadowsword
– stats for a Volcano cannon (10d10+20 damage when an ordinary Lasrifle deals 1d10+3 :O )
Let’s just say that I’m a very happy camper.
That sounds quite insane! The stats on that Volcano Cannon *drools*… so much destruction
To be fair, it is a super-heavy gun often fitted to Titans so it should bring a lot of firepower (and then some).
Chances are the next book will have stats for an actual Titan or they’ll just continue going along the line of super-heavy tanks *crosses fingers for a Stormlord”.
I heard that you like the bad girls, honey is thaaaaat true?
Random statement?
Video games are pretty relevant to Kotaku! 😛
I like cats.
Then you’re gonna LOVE this!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/05/a-cat-thats-surprisingly-good-at-jenga/
KITTY!!!!! 😀
Yes, yes it is.
Oooooh, work that baaaby, shaaake it just the way I like, I’m ready to be baaad (I need a bad girl), saay yeeaah (get at me baaad girl)!
Wrong song (assuming song), but now it’s in my head.
Thanks >:(
I have no idea what song that is, but I can say with absolute certainty that I hate it.
It’s the new National! 😛
this is my favorite comment of the day (also no idea what the song is).
I assume everyone hates all the songs I like, so that means little to me 😛
(also it’s Bad Girl by Usher)
Edit: Also, around half the songs I like, I don’t like that I like :S
*fistbump* All of the feels. Well. For me, anyway.
Nah I’m good with whatever.
I got invited to meet for lunch with some work friends today, thus begins the test to see if I can interact with people in the real world since becoming a hermit.
*cuts to scene half an hour later where Nob is sitting at what appears to be a imaginary tea party with stuffed animals*
Nob: So, Mr Rabbit, how’s things? Ms Elephant still all up your business over those old projects you took over?
Rabbit: …
Nob: Hah haa! Jolly good.
Which then begs the question, at which stage of his crazy hermitism did he become British?
Trains are down. The one day I need them to be working. =/
The hermit gods are speaking.
You met TAYbies for dinner in Southbank not long ago! I know cos I was there! (And it was awesome! – Best share platter I’ve had in a long time!)
That totally counts against your hermitude!
That was atleast a month ago (I think?)
I don’t really understand why Dragon Age 2 gets pooped on whilst Skyrim gets lavished in GOTY praise.
I mean, the 2 prominent complaints about DA2; the simplified combat and the recycled environments are so very prevalent in Skyrim. There’s very little strategic element to Skyrim’s left-click to swing, and all of Skyrim’s dungeons could actually be exactly the same, I just can’t tell because everything’s the same shade of green mossy stone and brown.
I feel like DA2’s crime is that they had a stronger predecessor as a comparison point, and that they didn’t hide away its flaws well enough.
Poop on them both!
Not clicking on that, but thanks.
Lol, it’s nothing like what you’re thinking, get your mind out of the gutter man :p It’s totally SFW.
Poop equality for all!
I can be the Oprah of poop.
This could be the new tagline for TAY
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES on Kotaku AU
I can be the Oprah of poop.
Skyrim had marketing!
I just found DA2 insanely boring, didn’t care about the characters, hated the fact that there was like 5 areas you had to keep going back to over and over and over and they were boring. There wasn’t exactly anywhere to explore and discover after the first few hours. You are right though, going from DAO where you went on an epic quest across the land exploring new and exciting places discovering interesting characters, pretty hard to follow. I felt like DA2 didn’t belong to the same game series. Whereas Skyrim is just filled with possibilities, so much exploration and customisation, sure a lot of the landscape looked the same but I always felt like I was discovering something new and bettering my character, I felt a stronger connection to my mute personalityless Argonian than i ever did to DA2s bland protagonist. All just personal preference I guess.
Considering I felt the opposite way about the plots and characters, I reckon personal preference must be a huge deal.
I don’t care for self-insertion with my video game characters, so a more strongly-defined Hawke was more interesting to me than the ‘open to every possibility’ Warden. Also, most of the fantasy tropes were played straight in DA:O, but subverted a bit for the characters in DA2. It didn’t always work, seeing ones that were contentious for the sake of it, but I felt it more interesting than the recycled archetypes we see in every other fantasy.
Ditto for the plot. Unite the races, defeat the dragon in a magical summer I’ll never forget? Really? Hawke’s more complex series of events without always having clear heroes/villains across a period of multiple years felt more relateable and more human, with complex conflicts of philosophy and expectations compared to the traditional and pedestrian conflict of, “Something evil wants to end the world.”
My only real complaints about DA2 were largely technical/mechanical. In terms of the story told and how it was told, I felt it was pretty superior to the pretty predictable DA:O.
And it had Meryll, Varric & Isabel, just walking around with them in the party was fun
It had Merrill.
Everyone else was filler.
That was the best combo. I loved how the pair of world-wise rogues both teased and looked after the innocent lamb.
It was hard to have another combination but hearing Isabel & Aveline have their argumentative friendship was also damned fun “Shut up, whore“
Best line from Isabel and Varric teasing Aveline: “Ah, that old chestnut…”
I didn’t mind the elf dude that much either. I forget his name but he stole Balthier’s voice and so I liked to fantasize about him actually being Balthier in disguise because he was the only highly positive memory I have of FF12.
hmm, opinions ‘ey.
I never thought DAO was that predictable and I liked how you could mould the whole experience how you wanted, like who you allied with I did 2 playthroughs, one was pretty standard and the other I did every evil action I could and manipulated my team in such a way that no one left (outright lied to them), funniest was Leliana, I was a lesbian with her but had done every action that she hated even managed to send her on a quest while I went off and tainted the ashes. Actually made the final boss really hard on my evil playthrough cause I had no ranged attackers backing me up, I pissed off the mages and the elves, all that being said, I didn’t give DA2 that much of a chance, maybe I should check it out again, when I first tried there was just nothing that I liked about it at all.
I’m even dubious about giving it a chance if you can’t get past the bloody horrible mechanics. Story and party interactions and codex entries were the only thing getting me through it. Without a fondness for that, I’d have called it one of the worst games of the year.
This is my opinion on DA2 as well, with the one exception that I got really annoyed how the story railroads you right at the end. Certain people suddenly make extremely out-of-character snap decisions for the sake of giving you enough of a boss fight.
Couple of things going for Skyrim over DA2 :-
Great mods
Even though the combat as you put it is left click and right click, it’s very situational. I can see if you just stuck to melee combat it can be quiet boring but if you branched out into magic or archery the fights are a lot more interesting. In dragon age 2 if you just spammed your attacks it would have the same result as planning an attack and carrying it out
Skyrim has a much larger and expansive world as opposed to DA2, if you take the time in each dungeon you’ll notice items lying around that tell their own story for most dungeons/ruins. i.e. dead bodies around a camp fire where you fight off bears/a bandit hideout that specializes in smuggling mammoth tusks.
Skyrim is more about telling your own story, DA2 is all about following a pre-set script so it’s not really fair to compare the two on those grounds.
Skyrim had an incredibly strong predecessor in the form of the Elder Scrolls franchise itself and Oblivion.
While DA2 is a solid game, Skyrim has a lot more going for it when appealing to the RPG crowd. DA2 basically walked away from that crowd to appeal more to casual RPG’ers or people who liked action oriented games.
Skyrim was better than Oblivion. The succession thing is a very strong factor, as you have suggested.
I think they’re both pretty shit if it helps? Though if I had to pick between them I’d probably pick DA2 since despite the problems it had some good points and could have been awesome had they done it properly instead of half-assing so much stuff.
They aren’t really comparable. They are trying to achieve different things. Dragon Age 2 is trying to tell a story, and Skyrim is all about you creating your own story. Skyrim is all about player agency. Want to pretend that your character is a crazy man with an axe that roams the mountains and kills anyone he comes in contact with? You can do that. Want you character to be a suave thief that is trying to suppress his vampirism? You can do that.
People forgive Skyrim’s flaws because it offers them a level of freedom that other RPGs do not offer. I’ll be completely honest when I say that the environments in Skyrim didn’t feel that repetitive to me. I mostly avoided dungeons, so maybe I’m not qualified to say that.
What I’m trying to say is that even though DA2 and TES V Skyrim are both RPGs, they are very different games in how they are designed.
After having problems with Win8 updates blue-screeing me, and the 2TB WD Green slow hard drive potentially causing problems too, I upgraded my SteamBox.
Got a Samsung 840 EVO 500GB to store OS and games on, and a USB wifi (dual-band ac) stick for better signal. It’s working pretty good so far, installing Win8.1 pack now …
Gunna play games directly on it or try out Steam Streaming?
Directly. i5, 8GB RAM, 7970GHz. IMO streaming 1080p Ultra will have too much lag even on 3rd person controller-played games.
I’m gunna throw something together this weekend and try out the streaming stuff. Theoretically there’s no reason you couldn’t get a 1080p stream responding fast enough to play most games.
“Theoretically there’s no reason you couldn’t get a 1080p stream responding fast enough to play most games.” Assuming wifi, 30fps cap for bandwidth, ideal conditions, zero packet-loss, no overheads or bus delay etc, everything else the same… my calculations say there’s an extra 10-15ms+ delay minimum. That’s well and truly into noticeable lag, assuming perfect conditions. I’d expect real-world results to be north of 30ms, which is unacceptable to me. Considering I’d already be using devices (TV, wireless controller, etc) that have a noticeable lag, I’m not convinced it’ll work for me.
If you use LAN cable and don’t know about these things (you know, once you notice it first time you always notice it?), it’ll be playable for sure.
#MoronQuestionInbound
Is 30ms equivalent to 3% of a second (or one frame with 30fps)? To my uneducated brain, that doesn’t sound like much at all.
EDUCATE ME.
It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s quite a lot. I forget the exact number that came up in all the VR research I was doing, but I think it was somewhere around the 20ms mark where latency starts to become quite noticeable. Though they prefer to try and keep it down below 16.6667ms for VR.
Crazy stuff. Totally not what I expected. Thanks for the splanation.
Depending on game played, player skill, opponent skill, player expectations, etc. etc. it can make a very big difference. However (without trying to sound elitist) 30ms won’t make much of a difference to the average gamer.
So I don’t have to worry about this stuff. That’s a relief. Thanks! (PS: you elitist pig.)
Yes 3%. The thing is, it all adds up. Controller and TV already is pretty intense lag already. Read this if you’re interested, it explains things pretty okay.
http://www.cnet.com/au/news/input-lag-how-important-is-it/
Cheers!
When I said that, I assumed we were talking gigabit cable, not wireless. Screw wireless streaming! 😛
Ha, gigabit network isn’t a possibility for most people, lucky you. 😛 Come back to TAY with some results, and I may post some too. 🙂
Yeah, when I got to the point I needed new networking stuff at home I figured I might as well get gig stuff. An extensive look around taught me that people get gouged like mad just for residential gig networking hardware. Fortunately, at the time I was able to get stuff at cost price…
Ever have those days where you have absolutely zero motivation to work?
Yeeeaah… Gonna give the manager a call today and see if he can get someone to cover for me and take a week off, the sooner the better.
Only every day that my alarm wakes me.
Of course. That’s why I chose a career in public service, where the workload matches the motivation! \o/
I can safely confess to reading manga for most of the day today at work >.< feeling pretty drained lately tbh.
Are you in Adelaide? Are you near a radio? If so, tune in to 107.7 on your FM band, see if you can tune in to Numbers’ Workday Music!
/shameless plug
Only static.
Darn.
You guys need a webstream
Web license costs money, we don’t have money to spare, or equipment.
They don’t even have a transmitter! They’ve just been yelling really loudly out the windows all this time.
And turning up their stereo from the mid-90s that they picked up at the Salvos.
They must have forgotten to open the window today on account of the cold weather.
#helping @Lucifer9783 since five minutes ago.
@shane @redartifice You twits, I love you guys.
Your station is 107.7? I always assumed it was 97.83 or 978.3 or something on account of your name.
The name predates my work at the radio station by several years.
On a QWERTY keyboard the numbers line up with the letters that spell my name, I’ll let you figure out what that is though.
978.3 isn’t even a radio frequency, 97.83 is, but having two decimal points usually isn’t required to dial a station, too little change to matter
Success, at least I think it was. No one ran off screaming so that’s a good thing right?
Is that because you tied them down and forced ball gags into their mouths? If not, success.
Actually, either way: success!
Why go through all the trouble when you can just knock them unconscious. Not that I did that … *cough*
Chloroform?
Ha..ha… N-no of course I didn’t go to the store before the meeting and buy some chloroform, why all the accusations? I’m not on trial here! I know my rights!
RELEVANT: http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/IWMHB2-copy.jpg
I’m picturing lunch like this now.
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/topic-frontend/7/5/7/77757_v1.jpg
*runs away screaming*
LAST PLAY SONG GAME!
Breathe Me – Sia
Plain Sailing Weather – Frank Turner
John Mayer Trio – Another Kind of Green
No World for Tomorrow – Coheed & Cambria
No Sleep – The Cardigans
They had more than one song? 😀
Fail. Hopefully no one saw that.
I know I haven’t been all that successful, but no reason to rub it in. Jerk. :'(
*runs off crying*
My mistake. I read Cardigans and my brain went autocorrect: ‘Cranberries’. In which case my favourites are Linger, Hollywood, Animal Instinct and Zombie.
I know I’ve felt like this befoooore, now I’m feeling it even moooooore…
*shrug* I guess so…? I’ve only ever owned full albums of theirs. Is there one song that’s particularly well-known?
Lovefool time machines me back to the ’90s.
I don’t even know that song! Haha.
You were either in a coma for all of 1997, or you are an interstellar traveller who only recently arrived here with a false past.
Mary Jane Holland – Lady Gaga :3
Love me some Gaga 😀
Before Gaga there was.. Radio Gaga. I think the two are related somehow.
#coolstorybro
Apparently the the real lyrics are “caca”, they just went with “gaga” for the title because it was more marketable and kind of sounded like that anyway.
Fun fact: Queen is one of the only bands where each member has had a number one hit single.
The Village Green Preservation Society – The Kinks
Merril Bainbridge – Mouth
This song is so unbearably saccharine for how dirty it is. I don’t know if I love it or hate it.
Nothing to see here, no sirree
I thought I saw something, but I guess I haven’t got my new glasses yet and you’ve never led me astray before!
So, snuggle friend?
*fiend
OMG DC is sleeping with a demon from the pit.
Hot.
“I am an elemental spirit summoned from the Land of the Dead itself, given one purpose, one skill, one desire… to SNUUUUUUUGGLE!!”
Feline? 😛
TAYlist for the 29th of May 2014 TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by annoying insects on the walk there and back
Arrested Development – Mr. Wendel (That’s the rap group, not the TV show, I’m legally required to make that distinction)
Kenny Loggins – Danger Zone (Sort of requested by both @dc & @bdkiaf)
Orianthi – Shut Up & Kiss Me
Midnight Oil – US Forces
Queen – One Vision (Requested by @benny)
Diesel – Tip Of My Tongue
Guy Sebastian – Elevator Love
Killers – Smile Like You Mean It
John Butler Trio – Close To You
Beatles – Paperback Writer (Requested by @shane)
Animals – House Of The Rising Sun (Requested by @tigerion)
Starship – We Built This City
Killers – Smile Like You Mean It (requested by @dc)
Are you going to be playing Paperback Writer every week if I request it? Because I’m happy for that to be my new “The Dig” if you are 😛
Smile Like You Mean It is one of my all time favourite songs.
CHANGE YOUR WAYS!
…while you’re young.
Dreeeeams aren’t what they used to be!
Dear sir or madam will you read my books they took me years to write will you take a look? should be your new subtitle.
It’ll be the name of every single book I write from now on.
Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taADLPtyDb0
Because I don’t think any of us actually heard the radio broadcast through the closed window.
I went to upvote this again but it just removed the first upvote. Don’t worry, my dad’s obesssion with the Beatles ensured the lyrics to most of the songs were forever etched into my brain.
Clicked the link anyway. 😀
Going through the First Aid kit at work and out of idle curiosity I check the use by dates on everything in there. August 2002. Hmm.
Also picked up Watch Dogs since I’m hearing mostly positive things. Expectations sitting around 6-7/10. Managed to get it for $65 from EB Games without even asking.
From what I’ve played, Watch Dogs is greeeeat.
I think that’s the best place for your expectations to sit. Don’t let yourself get too swayed by any positives or negatives before you try it yourself.
My favorite thing in a first aid kit is the saline “Do not irrigate brain”, cause the first thing I’m gonna do if someone’s brain is hanging out, pour stuff on it, yep .
Welp. Just wrote out some basic ideas to do a prehistoric/apocalyptic Jurassic World type of Pathfinder campaign. I’ve got too many other potential stories and ideas to play with and just not enough time to do it. Egads. 🙁
Oooh.
You had Pow at Jurassic.
Do I have a DC? 🙂
Edit: Should clarify, this is just me spouting out ideas. I have an incredibly small chance of actually doing this in the immediate future due to how many games I play currently but it might be a possibility when my schedule clears a little.
Roll D20 to apply lysine inhibitors.
1
Nature finds a way.
Did you see the announcement about Basic D&D?
I did not but I just went and checked it out. It’s good that they’re giving a taste of stuff for free but I’m going to hold off on diving into D&D Next until the rules get fleshed out a bit more (and Wizards adds a few more rulebooks).
I’d be inclined to give it a crack with the basic rules, before that the value proposition for me was pretty thin.
I keep forgetting that it’s actually quite soon to release (July apparently). So that’ll be the fifth version of D&D since it first came out in the early 80s and that’s really quite impressive. Moreso when you consider that people still play original D&D and AD&D.
@popdart5 I’m not sure how I feel about the way they seem to have converged all the classes down into specializations of Fighter / Cleric / Mage / Rogue. I’ve seen that sort of oversimplification before and seen it fail pretty badly.
There’s subspecialisations you gain with feats etc beneath the classes- for example, great shield fighters and two weapon fighters are still “fighters,” but with different feats (which are more like kits- one feat gives you a whole bunch of little talents)
Also, I’m sure they’ll add more classes over time, but fighter-cleric-thief-mage is old school archetypal D&D
Apparently things like a Paladin though will be sub-specializations of the Fighter. Not a new class. That’s what I’m iffy about. Those four *are* the classes. Everything else is built off one of those four.
But how much of a Pally is really super, super different to the basic “I hit things with a sword” fighter? A Pally is just “I hit things with a sword for justice and my god”
@redartifice: If you want to be reductive like that, how is a cleric different to a mage? Effectively a cleric is just a mage that casts spells by asking god to do something instead of getting it done themselves.
And how is a rogue different to a fighter?
A rogue is different to a fighter as traditionally in D&D they’ve been skillmonkeys with spiky damage and squishy. Clerics I don’t think are necessarily super different than wizards- they both cast spells- but I believe in 5e the domain and spell mechanics are different.
Ultimately, what matters is how you build your character, not what the label on them is.
That reminds me, did you see the request from @redartifice and myself a little while back that Roast Velociraptor should be the equivalent of turkey in Xondol?
p.s. I’d play the crap out of an RPG in a Jurassic-style setting. But only if things are up to date with the current science (i.e. feathers) and the fauna are period-accurate (eg if it’s the Jurassic then no Tyrannosaurs, they didn’t appear until the Cretaceous).
Sooooo, you’re against having Jurassic and Cretaceous creatures living together, but Jurassic creatures and various humanoids “a-ok”?
Answers in Genesis said it was fine. 😛
Do they have anything to say on the subject of “Roleplaying” “Games”?
As long as it’s not Dungeons & Dragons (because that’s satanic) I think it’s okay.
I think I did see that back when you asked about it. I believe I said that having velociraptor in Xondol (living or cooked) would be the equivalent of having a turkey in England in the 1500s. Possible but only the rich and wealthy would really have access to it.
Regarding science and a Jurassic setting, pfffffft. I can explain everything with magic anyway so T-rexes for everyone. 😛
If I was to do that sort of setting, it would be with magic as it would think things hellishly difficult for you guys if I was to strip out magic and have you fight dinosaurs with nothing but ordinary weapons.
Magic or Technology!
Recommendations for really good looking PC games? I just got a 1440p monitor so I’m looking to test some things out 😀
EDIT: I’ve got some things on the pile of shame already, but I’ll bump them up. I’ve finished and uninstalled some games too, so I won’t bother checking them out again (as much as I’d love to!)
ET the video game has some pretty spectacular graphics, dunno if your rig will run it though. 😛
Jobius is splurging already. 😀
My new monitor must be in the mail or something. Right, Green?
*brushes aside beautifully wrapped Fallblox present*
:'(
Witcher 2
^ what he said
Man, that opening scene in the cell, with the light playing over… everything. Damn I was impressed.
Seconding @redartifice on Witcher 2, that’s a very nice looking game.
Tomb Raider’s quite nice. Anything running latest Frostbite engine (Battlefield 4) usually looks pretty good. Crysis 3 (or anything CryEngine really). Assassin’s Creed 4 wasn’t too bad, especially the weather effects.
Modded Fallout/Skyrim.
Crysis series, Metro series, Witcher 2, Tomb Raider, Battlefield 4, (if you can get it to work) GRID 2, Keith Courage in Alpha Zones, and Bioshock Infinite.
I Googled the only one I didn’t know and you tricked me!
It was Battlefield, wasn’t it? Such a niche series…
Uh. So just got a call. My friend, the one that got me the interview. Apparently they want to take me on for a month of work/training?
I don’t understand.
You’ve literally had a job fall right into your lap. You don’t need to understand!
*theme songs plays*
Sounds like that can’t be too much of a bad thing! Unless they’re gonna try and fob it off as an unpaid internship or some such shit. I think that’s only legal in the US though.
Hopefully congratulations aren’t unwarranted!
Apparently they asked about doing it like that, I don’t know if it’s just an ABC thing or what but he said that they can’t, so I get to be on minimum wage.
Woo, money! \o/
I think the only legal way to do something like that, is if you’re participating in work for the dole, but even then I think it has to be for a not-for-profit organization.
Either that, or have some deal worked out privately for some alternative remuneration. In 2000, I got a company to ‘sponsor’ me to go to college. They paid my $6000 tuition fees, and in return, I made web sites for them.
You’ve got the best friends.
Talk yourself up much 😛
Today I tried a do-it-yourself lunch – I’m hoping this will last me a few days. I call it a new start.
#anustart
Hahaha love the hashtag
Arrested Development reference.
Benny, if I may take off my pants and pull my analrapist stocking over my head, I think @nomad may be suffering from what we in the soft-sciences call “Omitted Comedy Disorder”, or the “The O.C. Disorder”.
Don’t call it that.
Yeah I knew the reference haha!
Sweetie come help daddy get his rocks off!
I have given up on the make-your-own-lunch thing.
Turned out to be too much effort and not enough tastyness for not that much cheaper.
The best make your own lunch is just dinner left overs. The cost of cooking for 2 to cooking for 3 isn’t much different.
If you are buying your lunch each day the other thing to watch is the healthiness. Just make sure that tastiness isn’t all the oil and stuff in the good
Problem is I cannot re-heat anything I take to work which mostly eliminates leftovers.
But Subway is always a good go-to.
Yeah that makes it tough.
Spreadable chicken?
Basically chicken that has gone through a blender
Yeah it tastes pretty bad.
So uh Mario Kart 8 has a Mercedes kart as free DLC
also this
That went from “well, this is silly” to “holy shit, Japan!” rather fast.
Why does no one wants my plush toys?! Fine, they go to charity then. (I’m too lazy to try and sell them)
There’s plush toys?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/05/talk-amongst-yourselves-278/comment-page-8/#comment-2696545
I’ve never watched Bleach and have no idea what that other show you mentioned was!
Could you give some details on Kyuubey?
I could take a photo.
It was at the very bottom of the page. I don’t think that many people saw it.
Well, shit. Family issues have returned again. This time featuring my dad.
A while back, dad gave me a window of time around his birthday for me to go and meet him. About a week ago, dad called and told me to arrange stuff for the weekend that I was going to see him. Thinking that he was referring to the date and duration of the visit, I asked my sister what time was best for her, and we both agreed to shave a day of the visit due to conflicts on Friday morning.
I sent an email with the revised times, and didn’t get any reply back. I was a bit concerned, but I took it as a yes. At work today, I needed to send an email to my traineeship coordinators, and by chance, I slipped upon this email from Dad that was sent two minutes before I logged in.
This email confused me. I had no idea my dad was in Darwin. I had no idea that he paid for a plane ticket to get back to Perth. A few hours later, a headache had started, and I received a call from my father.
Apparently, when he said ‘arranging things,’ he meant if I wanted to see a movie or something. Since he rarely sees me, me changing the times was a great betrayal. He wanted to see me TODAY, not tomorrow. He was going to pick me up from work today, like he said he would a month ago.
I asked how my sister factored into this. He outright admitted that he didn’t care about my sister, and was only interested in seeing me. I was finding it hard to respond to what he was saying on account of my headache. He presented me with an ultimatum; see him today or never again. Panicking, I agreed to his terms and hung up.
Then my phone died. Immediately. I couldn’t call my mum and tell her that the plans had changed. Panicking, I asked my supervisor if there was a phone I could borrow. There was, but I had to use the business phone. Feeling incredibly guilty about taking a personal call on a company telephone, I called my mother. She responded more with confusion than anger. She said that she would call dad and try to reason with him. Thinking that this would only lead to an argument between the two of them, I tried to stop my mother. She hung up and tried to call my dad anyway. Luckily, he didn’t pick up. I’m pretty sure he saw the call was from my mother, and refused to answer.
A little while later, my mother called the company telephone to tell me that her attempts were unsuccessful. She then offered to pick me up. I knew that if she were to try and pick me up, she would run into dad in the carpark and an unholy argument would break out. I told her not to come, but I suspect she will come anyway.
Now here I am, tapping away at my laptop. I should be working, but I am in no condition right now. Instead of being incredibly anxious and trembly, I am instead filled with hollow dread. I am certain that my mother is going to ring the company telephone again to talk to me. Every time the phone rings, I tense up. Dad doesn’t know that my phone is dead.
And she’s here…
Mum has shown up, and has successfully called dad. The phone call is getting very heated.
Good luck. S’all I got.
Fuckin hell, this is what I get for not looking at TAY for an afternoon! Good luck indeed
I’m going… with mum I guess.
That’s a pretty rough situation man. Hope there is not too much fallout.
Dude. I feel for you. If I were you I’d try to calm down and try to step back a bit. *start uninformed guesswork and rambling* sounds like your parents have had a decidedly acrimonious separation/divorce they haven’t moved past yet and you’ll probably find all the stress they’re putting on you has very little to do with you and far more to do with trying to get one up on each other. It’s childish, immature, unfair and unfortunately where 90% of divorces end up (the whole fine line between love and hate thing is more true than people realise). My wife’s parents are still carrying on nearly 30 years after their divorce. Hell, even married couples do it and I’d be lying if I said myself and my wife were completely innocent of it.
You’re at that age where you’re moving into independence from your parents while still relying on them which is tough at the best of times. Sometimes (I don’t really know your family besides what you’ve told us so take this with a ton of salt) the best things is to start setting some boundaries for your parents. Tell them you love them both and are happy to be their son but leave you out of their problems. Tell your dad to stop ranting about your mother and carrying on about fault and blame and talk to you.
What I’ve said is probably completely wrong but take it with your knowledge of the situation.
Should put a *individual results may vary
I wish you the best of luck. You’re in such a hard place right now. =(
Mate, this is rough, I don’t know what I could do, but here if you need it.
This had to be a page get…
Well, I’m at home right now. I await my father’s response to the situation, if he is aware of it at all. Chances are, he arrived at work, and started screaming at my boss when he was told I was gone. I suspect he will have unsuccessfully tried to call me several times. I await for him to arrive at my mother’s place and cause one hell of a shitty situation.
When my sister would call my dad a crazy lunatic, I dismissed her. I thought mum was far worse. Now I don’t know what to think. Usually when I go to my dad’s place, it’s my mother that causes unnecessary problems.
This situation sucks.
Well, if it helps take your mind off… it turns out you were right, I reckon. Katawa Shoujo, I mean.
I just got thoroughly fucking defeated by the game and its feels in completing the Lily arc.
I need to go to the gym now or something.
Yay for the sense of isolation and self-introspection!
Katawa Shoujo
Fgbc gryyvat zr abg gb pel nobhg lbh, Uvfnb!
Whfg guvf bapr… yrg zr pel.
That right there destroyed me.
For me, it was thinking I’d failed. Another lost relationship, a thing with great potential, slipped on by.
And I’ve always been terrible at goodbyes.
I don’t know much about your situation @phlanispo but I just want to tell you it gets better. My parents went through a pretty messy divorce when I was a lot younger (it’s part of the reason I got so into games, they were a reality so much easier to appreciate than what I had in front of me). But it does get better, if there’s a lot of emotions flying between your parents it’s best to get out of the crossfire and get your emotional stability down first in relation to the situation.
Don’t take this the wrong way man, but jesus christ, your family…
Don’t envy, at all
i did not expect both to go through. I AM WIZARD!
Or maybe they could meet, and annihilate one another?
Or form government.
That’s possible. We all know they read TAY, so lets see if they post a response!
I put my money on @scree’s brother. He sounds scariest.
Phlan and I should have a family competition!
Get Burt Newton on this shit.
Ooh ooh ooh can I be the big enforcer guy who separates people when they start fighting? I’d be great at that role!
Hi guys!
Man, did I have a brilliant day (over eleven hours at mind numbingly dull work, when I usually feel dead after about 2 minutes. Fun times!). Partway through one of the receptionists turned up, since, I guess that was when work started for them, and I sort of glanced at them, and was like, “oh I didn’t think she usually worked on Thursdays.” Went back to work, was creeping in on phone conversations because
I accidentally hear themthere’s nothing better to do, and was like “her voice sounds a bit off today.”After she’d been at work for ten minutes I realised that it wasn’t the receptionist I thought it was, it was her sister, who’s been off on Maternity Leave for the past year. Haha, Asians, they all look the same, amiright? (cc. @rocketman )
In other news, I went down to Tassie over the weekend, left stupidly early Saturday morning, and got back on Tuesday night. I got to eat some very nice food, and drank far too much expensive alcohol. Oh, and I got to watch the ever amusing interactions as my Mum, and my Dad’s ex (who is my sister’s godmother) gossiped.
Spoilered because Blergh (Not Blaghs):
Fb zl Tenaqsngure’f orggre guna jr srnerq nsgre ur svefg tbg fvpx, ohg va guvf pnfr, orggre guna jr srnerq zrnaf jrrxf, abg qnlf. Ur’f abg dhvgr orq-evqqra, ohg jr’q gnxr uvz sbe n jnyx ba n senzr, naq jr’q gver uvz bhg nsgre 30 zrgerf. Juvpu fvapr ur hfrq gb or gur svggrfg snzvyl zrzore ol sne, vf xvaq bs qrcerffvat gb frr.
Ur’f nyfb fghpx va guvf njxjneq cbfvgvba jurer eruno vf cebonoyl n jnfgr bs gvzr, ohg ur’f abg dhvgr onq rabhtu sbe shyy cnyyvngvir pner, naq gurer’f ab jnl ur pna znantr bhgfvqr n ubfcvgny, fb ur’f whfg fbeg bs fghpx. Ur nyfb frrzf gb unir tvira hc, naq ur’f qrsvavgryl qrcerffrq, juvpu ntnva, vf fbzrguvat uneq gb frr nf na nqhyg.
Fb n zvfrenoyr gevc, ernyyl, ohg V’z tynq V jrag qbja. V znantrq gb fnl “Ybir ln, Tenaqcn” nf V fnvq tbbqolr gb uvz, juvpu vf cebonoyl gur svefg gvzr va nobhg gra lrnef V’ir hfrq gung jbeq aba-fnepnfgvpnyyl, naq vg gbbx zr gjragl zvahgrf bs cflpuvat zlfrys hc whfg gb or noyr gb fnl vg, naq V qba’g rira xabj vs vg’f rabhtu, ohg vg’f gur orfg V’ir tbg. Oyretu.
*awkward man hug*
Hope that helped – you, if not him. Tough break. either way.
Last time I saw my grandad…
Ur jnf cerggl jryy fuehaxra. Zbfgyl bhg bs vg – uvf obql whfg jnfa’g xrrcvat hc jvgu uvz nalzber. Ur’q whfg orra va gur ubfcvgny jnl gbb znal gvzrf. Gbb znal pnapref phg bhg. Gbb znal fgebxrf naq urneg nggnpxf. Fghss whfg fgnegvat gb snvy. Va gur cnfg, rirel gvzr ur’q orra gbyq ur jbhyqa’g yrnir gur ubfcvgny, ur unq, ynhtuvat ng gurz nyy.
Ohg guvf gvzr ur jnfa’g nethvat. V erpxba vg znl nyy unir orra trggvat gb or n ovg zhpu.
Guvf vf n zna jub ba gjb bppnfvbaf qebir uvzfrys gb ubfcvgny qhevat n urneg nggnpx, jub unq fheivirq sbhe qvssrerag xvaqf bs pnapre, zhygvcyr urneg nggnpxf naq fgebxrf. Uneq nf shpx. Ybirq zl jrnevat bs n fhvg gb uvf riragf – oveguqnlf rgp – naq funirq urnq. “N unvephg lbh pna frg lbhe jngpu gb,” ur pnyyrq vg. Pbhyqa’g fgnaq zl oebgure’f ‘uvccvr’ ybat unve. Unys bs ‘Bireyl znayl zna’ zrzrf jbhyq’ir nccyvrq gb uvz, qrfcvgr uvf ynpx bs urvtug. Gung xvaq bs zna.
V’q erfgenvarq zlfrys sebz gur hetr gb nfx ubj ur jnf. V jvaprq naq fhpxrq fbzr nve orgjrra zl grrgu nf zl oebgure snvyrq va gung erfgenvag. Tenaqnq tbg cerggl naablrq. “Ubj qb lbh guvax V’z qbvat? Jung xvaq bs dhrfgvba vf gung?”
Sbe nyy gur tehssarff, ur jnf fznyyre guna ur’q rire orra, guvf gvzr, naq univat gebhoyr fgnlvat sbphfrq. Zhz naq ure fvfgref, zl oebgure, znxvat jvgu gur onany fznyy-gnyx, qvfphffvat gur jrngure, gur pbaqvgvbaf ng gur ubfcvgny, gur crbcyr gurl’q rapbhagrerq gurer, ubj gur gvzr jnf orvat bpphcvrq…
Jr ybpxrq rlrf, uvz naq V. Sryg n yvggyr bs uvf byq frys evfvat gb punyyratr va qrsvnapr. Ur jnf n Zna. Fgvyy va gurer, ybbxvat bhg. Fgvyy zragnyyl srryvat va gung fgngr bs ivgnyvgl naq cbjre gung uvf obql fvzcyl pbhyqa’g xrrc qryvirevat ba nalzber. V nfxrq fbzrguvat. Ur nafjrerq. V sbetrg jung – vg jnfa’g vzcbegnag. Jung jnf vzcbegnag jnf gung vg jnf n erny dhrfgvba haeryngrq gb nyy guvf penc, jvgu n erny nafjre. Naq jr xrcg rlrf ybpxrq, abg snyyvat bhg bs gur jnl bs cbyvgrarff be qvfpbzsbeg. Abg ernyyl fher jung jrag ba oruvaq gur byq qbt’f rlrf. Erpbtavgvba bs gur jnl bs guvatf, gbepurf cvpxrq hc ol gur lbhgu, erzrzoenaprf bs uvf bja, ersyrpgvba be cevqr va ubj ur’q nyjnlf uryq vg, vagb uvf byq ntr… Ybbxvat sbe fbzrguvat va zvar? Frrvat jung? Qrgrezvarq nyregarff, erfcrpg, phevbfvgl? Ab vqrn.
Ur frrzrq fngvfsvrq jvgu gung, gubhtu.
Va cnva – gurl chg uvz va n frqngvir pbzn, juvpu ur qvqa’g jnxr sebz guvf gvzr, n pbhcyr qnlf nsgre. Ohg gung’f ubj V erzrzore uvz. N zbzrag bs pynevgl naq funecarff va uvf rlrf. Abg cbjreshy nalzber, ohg erzrzorevat vg.
V pna’g ernyyl erzrzore gur ynfg gvzr V fnj zl tenaqsngure. Jryy, pbafpvbhf naq erfcbafvir. Ur jnf va sebz univat unq nabgure fgebxr, naq gurl erpxba ur cebonoyl unq n jubyr ybg bs fznyyre barf gbb. Fb zbfg bs gur gvzr jr jrer gurer sbe gur ynfg srj ivfvgf ur jnf whfg gurer zber be yrff nfyrrc, bayl irel bppnfvbanyyl fgveevat. Hanoyr gb fnl nalguvat, ohg inthryl erfcbaqvat jvgu bayl gur snvagrfg bs fbhaqf. Tbbqolrf jrer nyjnlf gur uneqrfg, V unq gb fgnaq gurer naq jnvg sbe rirelbar gb svavfu gurvef fb V pbhyq or nybar, bgurejvfr V pbhyqa’g rira zbir. Naq gura rira bapr V jnf nybar vg jbhyq gnxr ntrf gb rira trg gb gur cbvag gb or noyr gb fnl nalguvat.
V orggre erzrzore Anaan gubhtu. Vg jnf zhpu gur fnzr, whfg fgnaqvat nebhaq abg ernyyl xabjvat jung gb gnyx nobhg, abguvat gb fnl ng nyy zlfrys nf vf hfhny jvgu snzvyl tngurevatf, V whfg fgnaq gurer naq yvfgra gb gur bguref lnc ba. V qba’g guvax V npghnyyl xarj vg jnf nf frevbhf nf vg jnf ng gung fgntr, whfg svtherq vg jnf fybjyl trggvat jbefr ohg pbhyq fgvyy or bx sbe n juvyr ybatre. Fb jura V fnvq tbbqolr gb ure, vg jnf whfg tbbqolr hagvy arkg gvzr. V guvax fur xarj gubhtu. Nf V jrag gb uht ure, qrfcvgr orvat nf jrnx naq senvy nf fur jnf ol gura sebz orvat hanoyr gb rng naq rirelguvat, fur xvaq bs yrncg hc naq tenoorq zr rkgen gvtug.
Gur arkg jrrxraq jura jr jrag hc, V pbagrzcyngrq tenoovat gur nppbeqvba naq chggvat vg va gur obbg gb gnxr hc jvgu hf. Xvaq bs jnagrq gb cynl sbe ure juvyr V fgvyy pbhyq. Ohg V’z nyjnlf ernyyl ful nobhg cynlvat va sebag bs crbcyr, be rira pneelvat vg bhg gur qbbe cnfg zl snzvyl gb vzcyl gung V zvtug or tbvat gb cynl vg fbzrjurer. Fb orgjrra gung naq gura guvaxvat gung gur ubfcvgny jbhyqa’g or fb jrypbzvat bs fhpu n ybhq naq boabkvbhf guvat, V qrpvqrq ntnvafg chggvat sbe gur gur fhttrfgvba naq yrsg vg ng ubzr. Bs pbhefr jura jr tbg gurer, fur jnf ba cnyyvngvir pner abj naq jnf nfyrrc gur jubyr gvzr, V’z abg fher fur rira fgveerq gb erfcbaq gb guvatf. V guvax gurer jnf rira fbzr gvzr jurer zl cneragf unq gb tb bss naq qb fbzrguvat, naq vg jnf whfg zr naq zl fvfgre va gurer. Gung jnf zl zbzrag evtug gurer.
Ybgf bs erterg gvrq gb gung zrzbel abj. Ohg V thrff vg freirf nf n erzvaqre gb or yrff bs n fuevaxvat ivbyrg nobhg jung V qb, gb fgnaq obyq naq fnl lrf, V qb guvf naq V rawbl vg.
Welp, to continue the sad train downhill with @transientmind and Gooky, here’s my story:
Nyy snzvyl yvirf birefrnf. Jrag gb ivfvg va 2007. Vg jnf 5 lrnef fvapr V fnj Tenaqcn1, nsgre gur qrngu bs uvf jvsr naq zl Tenaqzn gb cnaperngvp pnapre. Zl zbgure naq V neevirq va gur pbhagel naq jrer univat qvaare jvgu zl hapyr, jura Tenaqcn neevirq ba haeryngrq ohfvarff. Fhecevfr! V ena hc gb uvz, ohefg vagb grnef naq uhttrq uvz gvtug. Jr unq n fubeg pung nsgrejneqf, naq ur unq gb tb. Fnvq jr unir gb zrrg juvyr V’z va gur pbhagel, obgu nterrq “sbe fher”. Vg arire unccrarq. Unira’g frra uvz fvapr. Qba’g rira xabj vs ur’f fgvyy nyvir.
Qhevat gur fnzr gvzr, zl zbgure pbagnpgrq Tenaqzn2 & pb gb frr jr pbhyq neenatr n gvzr gb ivfvg gurve pvgl. Qravrq. (Snzvyl ceboyrzf). Fb fur nfxrq vs fur pna chg whfg zr ba n ohf gb ivfvg. Qravrq. Qba’g xabj vs rvgure bs gurz ner nyvir, rvgure.
fnqsnpr.wct
God dammit. Things shouldn’t have to be so hard.
In unrelated news, I have this weird Watch Dogs glitch where textures disappear and are replaced by… nothing.
I think the objects are actually disappearing as well, since I’m sure I’ve driven through things that were there a second ago that then disappear. Also, if I collide with something head on, my car will stop, and then the front of it will just slowly drift up into the air, the same thing happening to any other cars that crash head on. So my little amusing glitch causes the game to just go completely ham. It’s good fun.
Also, I’ve been reading The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson, and it’s basically the best fantasy I’ve read since… Mistborn. Sanderson, man, that guy. Too good.
If you check the Kotaku articles about Watch Dogs, one of them has a series of bug-report videos. Falling through the world, stuck on geometry, missing/incorrect textures, invisible actors, parts of landscape crashing through buildings where it shouldn’t…
It’s pretty damn messy.
Buy razor blades and get EA sportsball games discounts!
Makes sense…
totally man. Every EA sports game I ever played made me wanna cut myself
Tomorrow is my last day at my “school” here in China. Unexpectedly I’m really sad about leaving, especially given I went there with no motivation or desire to learn and spent 8 of my 12 years of schooling before this wishing is would be over.
In general I’m a bit sad to be leaving China soon. There stuff and people I miss back home but right now I don’t care about any of it.
Weekend soon, people. Just… need to hang on just a little farther.
Yep. Tomorrow’s Friday Friday Friday… 😛
Can’t wait for SATURDAY!!!
Gonna get sooo drunk! 😀 😉
I already am.
Edit: It’s a MUCH better grade of whisky than last week though, and I’m having it with a few really good cubes of ice. So clearly this means I am less morose.
Getting smashed on a Thursday night 😀
I like you transientmind, you do alright ;D
@saturday is a pretty cool guy!
Mario Kart day!
I upvoted this and immediately regretted it, since I’m feeling sad HOW ITS FUCKING PREDICTED TO BE RAINING AGAIN. Son of a bitch, it’s literally 6+mths now and I haven’t been mountain biking to this particular area. -_-
PAX Accommodation and Flights booked!
Not PAX “It’s a thing” North, real PAX!
Where are you staying? I’m up on Swanston st
At home!
Scree’s place!
Thanks Scree!
Bourke St, I believe! Looks like it’s pretty close to the Convention Centre too, so I’m happy.
I’ll be there for a few days either side of PAX so I’ll have to try and do some more Melbourney things this time. Last time I went it was TennisTennisTennisMeatsMeatsTennisMeatsTriviaTennis. Didn’t get time for much else 😛
Are you gonna wear more dinosaur shirts?
Are you going to wear green?
Nahhhhhh
(probably, because people will be like: “why didn’t you wear green?” :P)
All the green!
Yes ma’am!
My red dinosaur shirt fell apart. I only have one left now!
Bourke St. runs east-west basically through the center of the CBD and Jeff’s Shed is at the southwest end. You’re probably close but maybe not? Either way it’s not hard to get around the CBD.
Is it the place the Hilton South Wharf is attached to?
Yes, across from the Crown Metropol.
Yeah, just past the Crown complex. Also about 10 mins walk from my office. \o/
Cool. We stayed at the Hilton last year and it was pretty decent. Might look at it again this year. Be a much shorter travel this time.
I’m seriously tempted to take 2 weeks off centered on PAX.
I’m staying with @beavwa and @princesspip.
I have no idea where that is exactly, but that’s where I’m staying!
They have a green car! 😀
Miles outta town. 45 minute train trip north.
At this stage I don’t think the house will be built by PAX so it’ll be in the current 3 bedroom townhouse. Your guest room is booked.
I really should work out what I’m doing for accommodation.
Ehh, it’s a problem for future Blaghs.
This place looks like a winner.
http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Hotel_Review-g255100-d600252-Reviews-Evancourt_Motel_Melbourne-Melbourne_Victoria.html
My thoughts also.
Future Blaghs will sort me out, I’m sure.
Same, future blaghs is a champ for sorting out our accommodation. Good work future blaghs.
Think it’ll be better or worse if you book out the entire Motel?
Last time I stayed at a backpacker hostel where more than a few cosplayers were staying. And some strange, strange girls. I was lucky/mindful enough to secure a private room with Queen-sized bed, which was surprisingly bigger than many I’ve stayed in AND cheap. Very nice. No en-suite, though.
I have tickets for Saturday but I’m thinking about bailing. I have no accommodation organised.
Nice. I only have flights currently. Need to work out what to do for a week there. Hiring car plus great ocean drive sounds alright.
Well, I can safely say that dad didn’t show up today. I guess when he found out mum was there he just gave up. It wouldn’t have mattered since my phone was dead, but there is no record on my phone that he tried to call me. I am left with the decision of whether to go to dad’s or to not. Which choice has the least far-reaching consequences. I guess the only choice is to go to my father’s place. He’ll probably remain bitter for the whole weekend, though. I guess it’s probably best to subject myself to one thoroughly unpleasant weekend in order for any other visits to dad to remain peaceful. I guess I’m going to have to call him to tell him I still want to come over, but he’ll probably ignore it out of stubbornness anyway.
Not looking forward to this weekend.
You poor bastard. Seriously, you poor bastard.
They should be thinking about you, not themselves.
Seriously, if more people could think about others instead of themselves even a little the world would transform overnight
Go and see your Dad, tell him your sorry, and that you just want to spend some time with him.
I can understand his frustration at his time being cut short with you, especially at such short notice. Personally, I would tell him about the whole situation with your Mother, and see if you can move in with him, or save up and get your own place. But it’s not up to me, it’s your life, you have to live with your decisions, and only you can make them.
Either way, whatever you do, go and spend time with your Dad, and have fun.
Good luck man.
I’m not sure if you’re just a highly negative person in regards to your family, or if there’s a basis (e.g. past behavious) to it. In any case, it’s healthy for you to not assume the worst. Go to your dads, explain your phone died. Lol about how they only have 12 hr battery these days, etc.
Hope you have a good time man.
Yeah except I have an old flip-phone with a battery that lasts a week and a half if I don’t turn off.
Ha. “Must be getting old … or _I_ am getting old and forgot to charge it” something something. If you explain it and your misunderstanding regarding the travel times, any rational person will understand. If your father doesn’t, he’s either not being rational or he’s got other thoughts clouding his mind, and there’s not much you can do about that.
You can tell we’re wildly different people in terms of personality, by this point I’d have both parents gaffa taped to chairs and be shouting at them and threatening them with electric shocks if they didn’t grow up and started acting like mature teenagers instead of petulant children
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
We have Pogs! We have character sheets! We have 3D dice rolling! Yeah!
I’ve currently got pogs for Abelas, Drewan, and Dem’Nion as you guys have put character portraits on the Roll20. For anyone else who wants to have a pog to represent your character, throw up a picture on Roll20 and I can easily create a pog there. It will make things cooler when we get into combat. The character sheets can also use your stats on Roll20 to macro things up and make things really simple so go and check it out and see if you want to use it.
Oh yeah. @redartifice they have character sheet options for Numenera too so that might be cool to use.
I’ve enabled them, you should be able to access it
3D dice rolling? NOW WE HAVE SOMETHING TO YELL PROFANITIES AT! \o/
Forgive me if I’m wrong but I’ve always seen 3D dice for my rolls. I just figured it was a personal setting or something that I couldn’t see anybody else’s?
I didn’t realise it was a thing. /o\
How do I check out the character sheets on roll20? Sorry, I am pretty hopeless at this thing …
In the journal tab, click on your character, second tab.
I clicked on the journal thing but it’s telling me I need to pay money to access it …
EDIT: nvm, you need to hit “Join game” then the journal thing.
Sweet! Will check it out in the morning 😀
Entered my sheet details (well, most of them)
Unfortunately macros can’t reference derived sheet values yet, but the in-sheet rolling should work pretty well
I’ll add a pic. I have a few options. Assume that visual style doesn’t really matter that much as long as it’s distinct. Though the ones I had aside kind of reveal the character’s secrets so to speak. I guess all the players know anyway so it doesn’t matter that much.
OK. Major n00b question. How do these spoiler things work? Can’t work it out.
hello?
Spoilers are currently broken. =(
Right now we are using http://rot13.com/ for spoilers.
Thanks @sernobulus! That makes more sense!
Are there still tickets available for PAX? Did @bish buy another ticket he can’t use again?
Pretty sure that there are still tix for Friday and Sunday available.
Well, shit.
Strictly speaking, the court custody ruling states that one parent must hand the children over to the other parent, and pick-ups by parents aren’t really allowed. Mum has always been very dismissive of this ruling. She always responds with ‘it’s just a court ruling, it doesn’t matter’ or some variant. Funny how court rulings don’t matter, considering she forced my sister and I to be dropped off a hundred metres away from the house to preserve the restraining order. She considers dropping my sister and I off is ‘letting him win.’ Dad usually is relegated to pick-up and drop-offs to keep the peace, but sometimes he demands that mum deliver us.
In these situations, getting mum to drop my sister and I off is exceedingly difficult. It takes an unholy amount of insistence on my part.
This is one of those situations. When I called Dad, he said he would not pick us up, and would only get to see us if Mum dropped us off. When I spoke to Mum about it her response was ‘Well then you’re not going. If your father wants to see his children, he’ll have to pick them up.’
I guess I’ll have to spend the next 24 hours trying to convince mum. Screw everything about this situation. Exams are in a week, I don’t need this stress.
If you’re desperate, and close(ish), and don’t mind getting in a car with a stranger (aka, me), I might be able to give you a lift, only if you want / I can / if you really need it.
Feel free to say no though. Be blunt, I’m a grown man, I won’t be offended if you’re uncomfortable with it and say thanks, but no thanks (unlike last time where you just left me hanging, haha!) 😛
Thanks for the offer, but yeah no. Sorry.
I can keep up the charade of not acknowledging that some TAYbies live in Perth for quite a bit longer.
All good 🙂
I wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t offer is all (even though I knew it would be a “no” :P), it’s not in my nature to not try and help a friend in need 🙂
:’)
You are correct. You do not need this stress.
What do you do to de-stress, by the by?
He’s a teenager. Use your brain, you perv 😛
What’s saddest is my first ‘rejected’ thought was drinking.
Good idea! Thanks!
I’m sorry that your parents are putting you through all this man.
Gah. This is all so messy. Really sorry to hear it all, dude 🙁
Are you close enough to walk?
Not all, but I could take public transport if really needed. Would take a while though. I don’t think my sister would be entirely receptive to the idea, either.
“Hello, police? I need to report someone breaching a court ruling“
This talk of PAX alerted me to the fact that I had no idea how close my hotel was, luckily it’s within 2kms of the centre! Success!
@powalen @redartifice seems to be a couple of blocks from you guys.
We’re a little further out, but the tram runs right by it and we’re near Lygon street, so success!
Plus, it’s a damn sight cheaper than the one we were looking at.
Nice! I’m on Little Collins/Queens St, not far from trams either.
Cosmos taught me something I didn’t know.
I am way too overexcited by that fact. I almost started giggling and was actually bouncing slightly. Got a weird adrenaline rush.
I really need to look at some higher education :/
Just watched Little Shop Of Horrors for the first time. I quite enjoyed it.
Instantly thought of Herbert from Family Guy when Audrey (the girl, not the plant) started singing “Somewhere That’s Green”. Had no idea that’s where that song came from.
Latest Humble ebook Bundel is pretty neat, prob worth it just for the Paulo Bacigalupi novella and the Swords and Sorcery anthology.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books
PROOOOOOOOOOOOOOF!
Is it?
How do I know it isn’t shopped?
45 mins into Watch Dogs. Initial thoughts:
The driving is possibly the worst I’ve ever experienced. It’s truly awful.
Graphically seems pretty decent for an open world game? It’s not as pretty as Infamous: Second Son but still I can’t see what the bitching is about.
I’ve pressed Square a lot. 3/4 of the game so far has been press Square.
Police are way too hard to shake at least this early in the game. Took me nearly 15 minutes in the tutorial section :S Looks like unlocking some skills will alleviate that as the game progresses.
Seems like a game I’ll waste some time with and enjoy it enough but don’t think it will really stick with me. Sort of like Prototype was.
Whoo, glad you’re enjoying it. Don’t worry about the cops thing, I had the same experience with struggling to lose them at first, a couple of perks later and they have little to no chance. I’m about 25% in and really enjoying it.
The cops & enemies are just horrible to shake.. Not a huge fan of the driving and I think the combat is shit, the fact I have to pull up aim to fire is just silly and it won’t let me shoot from cover with out standing up wtf, even if the bloke is right in front of me :/
The driving takes time to get used to, it’s evidently designed with analogue controls in mind and requires an extremely light touch to master. I hated it for the first session and then the second session it kind of clicked and I’m able to drive pretty well now. Oddly enough I seem to have gravitated towards muscle cars in this where in GTA they’re the car I hate the most.
I think I should mention this; Battlefield 3 is free on Origin!
So is Plants Vs Zombies!
It’s also not very good but free is free…
@dc Not your luscious locks! 😮
pfft his luscious locks have got nothing on mine!
But they have everything on mine 😛
Haha! Tomorrow morning, a shavening will happening. It’s like a reckoning, but involves clippers!
Max Payne style?
Nah! Not this time! Haha!
I thought we were buddies who were growing long hair. Together. What are you doing?
What has to be done! 🙁
You’ve tidied the sides which means you can keep growing the rest!
It’s all going. 😀
If you shave, I shave. Don’t make me shave.
Okay I’m not really shaving. I’ll keep growing for us both.
I’ll trade you.
Playstation Plus in the US is getting less and less appealing 🙁 They’re cutting down the free games list to two a month per platform, the longer-running stuff like Gravity Rush or Uncharted 3 are going away and next month’s stuff for Vita continues to be crap indie stuff while EU is getting full retail games. 🙁 EU gets free Dragon’s Crown
EDIT: Apparently US is getting Sly Cooper 4 for PS3 and it’s cross-buy on Vita as well so that’s not as a bad.
Do we get the same games as EU? I wouldn’t mind trying out
Dragon’s BoobsBoobs CrownBoobs BoobsDragon’s Crown.Yep with only a few exceptions (like when MK was still banned in Australia we got terrible replacements instead :P)
Mario Kart was banned in Australia? Must be the lack of Diddy (cc @dc)
Oh you!
Dragon’s Crown is a really good oldschool brawler and the artwork is awesome if you don’t mind that Kamitani’s style is hyper-exaggerated (the sorceress has enormous boobs, the dwarf has so many muscles that his muscles have muscles, the fighter skipped legs day at the gym every day for his entire life…).
I actually own it for both PS3 and PSV, both physical copies, and haven’t ever bothered to turn on the PS3 version. Have two copies of the really nice artbook that was a preorder bonus too. Guess I should try and get rid of those at some point if I’m never going to play them.
You can throw it in with Disgaea 3! 😛 (just kidding)
When you say games are going, does that mean PS+ people only get to have the games in their library for a set period of time now rather than for as long as they have their sub?
No.
Nothing about PS+ itself is changing. Games linked to your account last as long as your subscription is active.
What used to happen is that there were games that would come in and out of instant game collection randomly. Some stuff seemed to last forever. Other stuff was there for maybe 3 weeks. Some stuff appeared mid-month, some at the start.
What’s happening now is that there will be six and exactly six games in instant game collection. Two for each PS+ platform. At the start of the month (first tuesday US, wednesday AU) the old stuff will disappear from the collection and an entirely new set will be available.
Overall this is probably better as it means more stuff cycles through, but it remains to be seen if the games we get will still be reasonable. It *does* mean two new PS4 games a month now instead of Resogun + 1.
Hey Wii U folks, is the pro controller any good, is there any need for it? I have many Wiimotes and a classic controller, just saw that adapter for Gamecube controllers too, I wonder what the price tag will be like on that.
Since it’s Nintendo probably $75 and in 7-10 years time be $350.
I can’t imagine that adapter being more than about 30 bucks.
I’ve got a Pro controller here, but I haven’t had an opportunity to use it, so I don’t know what they’re like. That said, it’s a cross between an XBox and a PS3 controller, it feels reasonably comfortable to hold, and is bigger than an XBox controller. My preference for Smash Bros. would either be the Pro or the Gamecube controller over the Classic controller or the Wiimote.
Heh, I was considering getting one too!
It’s currently around $52 at Big W (with their 10% off storewide voucher this weekend) or $58 at EB. It’s been cheaper in the past though so I might hold out for a proper sale. I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary though as I usually just use the Wii Classic Controller Pro but some games like DKCTF only accept the gamepad or Wii mote combo :/
I have a pro controller, I always use it unless a game gives you some kind advantage to use the Wii U game pad.
I’ve got one. I’ve used it exactly once and a surprising number of games aren’t supported.
that’s a bit dumb, I’ll probably not bother unless I find one super cheap.
It’s a great controller, I use it whenever I can.
(I just wish it wasn’t glossy :P)
dem fingerprints
Pro controller is rad. Sometimes preferable over the wiimote in games that support it (NSMBU, Donkey Kong, 3D World CATS) since the d-pad on wiimote is so much smaller.
It’s supposed to have something like 80 hours of battery life, so that’s pretty cool.
I’m not a big fan of the ZL and ZR triggers on it though, they feel weird and cheap. I got one back around launch when Dick Smith were selling them cheap, it hasn’t left its box because I just always use the gamepad. More there in case of multiplayer I guess.
I hate recall for work… I’ve been up since 4 and here I am at work now -.-
Need For Speed/Top Gear
I caught ten mins of Top Gear last night and Aaron Paul was the guest. He mentioned that Need For Speed was meant to be a tribute to some of the original car focused movies, as such, none of the car scenes/crashes were done with CG. Well surprised I hadn’t heard about this sooner. Definitely makes the film more appealing to me. Will have to get on to it soon.
EDIT: Spoilers not working…NM
Spoiler tags haven’t worked for ages. We’ve all been using this as an alternative.
http://www.rot13.com/
Cheers monkey – it wasn’t a big one any way.
Relating to Top Gear – Nneba Cnhy fznfurq bhg gur snfgrfg ync yvxr n obff.
Good work Telstra… http://i.imgur.com/AUrCfiB.png
2 days and counting and you still have NOT activated my sim. For something that was meant to be activated in 4 hours you’re really pushing the boundaries.
Ring em up to expedite it. You got my reply?
Oh yeah, got your reply, sorry dude!
Was gonna go into the local Telstra store where I bought the sim, the fact they should’ve activated it in store shits me off.
It’s all up to their system AFAIK. Ring em up, say it’s been two days, if they can expedite please.
This is something they should be able to do over the phone without any paperwork at all.
Honestly, I’d recommend doing it over the phone over doing it in-store.
Dealers typically have to submit requests through an extra layer (they don’t have direct system access to prevent them from doing too much damage out of incompetence/avarice), where the folks you talk to in the call centre should have direct access to the system that handles the re-burn.
It shouldn’t even take 4hrs, really, unless they’ve just queued it up and flung it off to some intermediary system, it’s something you can get right into the guts of and change on the network almost immediately. Usually a couple minutes to kick in, sometimes up to an hour but that’s rare. Any longer and something has gone wrong and is stuck.
Funny it said in their system in store it was activated when I asked, girl fiddled with some stuff on the computer and I just got the email it was now active and now the device is active. Least that’s done!
There’s your problem, I’ve been burnt by them before, and will never go back.
Edit: replyfail was meant to be a reply to @virus.
@virus__ 😛
Sadly i’ve no real choice if I want real mobile coverage in parts of where I live and when I go out west, bleh. They’re not bad, just it annoys me they could’ve activated it in store in 5 minutes but told me to do it online, at the time I was tired and just wanted to go home so I didn’t think twice of it :/
Serious question for Watch Dogs people:
Can you please tell me exactly what your issues have been with regards to driving? I’m not looking for an argument, I really don’t understand the problem and want to get some perspective.
Also, how many people are controller and how many are KMB? Curious if this is related.
I imagine that driving while playing a game would be quite problematic. Especially if you’re trying to balance a KMB on your lap. You’re probably not having so many issues because Canberra has wide lanes. #OccamsRazor
Last warning, Shane!
The fuck did I do? #McNulty
“McNulty is some guy from The Wire.”
Thanks Google!
The Fuck did I do?
Whoops.
More importantly, what’s @powalen gonna do if you do it again.
Edit: just noticed that @shane’s comment is edited, so I don’t know what was originally said.
It hasn’t changed substantively. @Powalen was responding to my logical thought processes.
I’ve only played a little bit but the driving isn’t that bad. The cars don’t feel as “nimble” as other sandbox games I’ve played which can make it hard to dodge obstacles during a chase. The main downside to this is the sliding morality scale that I lose points in if I injure a pedestrian.
It reminds me of some of the early issues I had in Sleeping Dogs (funnily enough) but that wound up being one of my favourite games.
The acceleration is too floaty and the steering is too syrupy.
KBM doesn’t work too well with the PS4.
Edit: In all fairness though I’ve hated the driving mechanics in every open world game as they’ve been universally terrible. Probably why my favourites are the ones that don’t involve cars.
I reckon the steering does a good job of emulating actual steering. So many other games it’s like you’re jerking on the wheel, which shouldn’t end well at 150km/h.
Not sure what you mean by floaty acceleration?
Mmmmmmm. …syrup
I’m on Xbone, and I don’t have any real issues with the driving, I think it’s pretty similar to the driving in GTA V. Sure it’s not fantastic, but it’s not a driving sim like Forza.
PS4…
It’s just shit, no way does it respond to driving in any other open world game, I found he driving in Sleeping Dogs better than this, and I thought that was shit and unresponsive.
Edit: it feels like every car is not maintained and kept in a road worthy condition. I mean i’d like to stop as in lock up when I press the brakes not gently slow down and collide with the scenery, or be able to do a handbrake turn and not have it go limp in the corner, or have steering that feels like it’s responsive and not spongy and takes a moment to actually do something.
I’m Keyboard and Mouse, and there’s definitely something off about it.
It’s not the horrendous disaster that I’ve seen people make it out to be (the award for worst cars in an open world gamed I’ve played goes to Saints Row 2, because its cars were trolleys with jet engines attached to them [that then somehow moved at a fucking crawl, because Volition do not understand the meaning of speed], and they sucked donkey wang), but I think it would benefit from some tightening up, but I don’t exactly know what’s wrong with it.
So a theory that Disney replace sex scenes with duets?
Remember when Elsa and Anna had incestuous lesbian sex and Jafar fucked a parrot?
TIMON AND PUMBA…
MAX AND GOOFY… 🙁
Baloo and Mowgli O_O
Then what are solos?
“Special Alone Time”
You aint never had a friend like me…
HOLD YOUR BREATH IT GETS BETTER!
Holy shit DC
*waves flag of surrender*
I told Mrs Shane a couple of years ago that Aladdin was into auto-erotic asphyxiation, and she hit me.
I’M LIKE A SHOOTING STAR, I’VE COME SO FAR!
Well… guess I’m never watching Aladdin again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLsSb_Gmum0
D: D: D:
Don’t you dare close your eyes!
“Reindeers are better then people”!!!!
At least the theory stops at only duets, maaaan would’ve been quite the orgy to “be a man”
With all the force of a great typhoon…
…
Eeeewwww
Mulan!
Be Prepared….
“It’s great that we’ll soon be connected.”
Well Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs just took an entirely different meaning
Actually if you read the Fable comics….. it’s pretty much how it played out =p
Arabian niiiights, like Arabian days. More often than not is hotter than hot in a lot of gooood ways.
Darling it’s better
Down where it’s wetter
Take it from me
I think filthy page 18 has just relocated. D: @liondrive will be thrilled!
Immature Page 11 \o/
Damn you Pow!
He gave her crabs.
Darling it’s better
Down where it’s wetter
Take it from me
That’s why it’s hotter
Under the water
Ya we in luck here
Down in the muck here
Under the sea
…And Aerial has crabs.
So I guess we can all agree that it’s a stupid, disgusting and childhood-ruining theory at this point? 😛
Let’s not watch the movies again for a while and never discuss this again. 😛
Left and right
Like day and night
That’s what makes the world go round
In and out
Thin and stout
That’s what makes the world go round
Damn you Merlin you old pervert!!!!
I’m fully prepared to believe this. Jafar was a sick fuck.
I’m more concerned about Ursula’s tentacle rape of Ariel.
Hmm, wait, so the big group rendition of “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” in Mulan… oh dear.
Barely even friends then somebody bends… unexpectedly.
Suddenly, “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” becomes an admission of unfaithfulness.
Don’t you dare close your eyes
So uh… what does that mean about the musical number with Belle and the anthropomorphic candelabra and singing teakettle?
Oh god dammit ALL OF YOU. 😛
All of my memories!
One song! I have but one song..
Hey! This one makes sense! 😀
Hmm. I thought I remembered that one to be a duet.
This is basically the TAY corollary of Rule 34.
And that is how we found out the Freeze is actually Michael Bay
So I’ve found Aisha Tyler (Lana from Archer) 3 times now in Watch Dogs, she plays herself so look out for the name, once you find her in one of the privacy invasion thingies the rest I’ve just found her during a mission standing around on the street talking, she has the funniest lines in the game I’ve heard so far, won’t spoil them. Look out for her cause they’re totally missable.
Wouldn’t know her if I fell over her, never watched the show.
Aisha Tyler is hilarious as a comedian in her own right but she’s best known for her role as Lana Kane on Archer, which by the way is the best thing ever so you should probably watch it.
No doubt I’ll get around to it eventually, but I’ve got too much else to get through at the moment with games/movies/tv shows/books. There just ain’t enough hours in the day.
keep an eye out, I missed what I was supposed to do in a mission cause I was laughing too loudly at her. I hope she keeps popping up, so good.
lana….Lana….LANA!!
WHAT?
Danger Zone
Yeah, I’ve found her twice now and it’s just brilliant.
We have our work big annual awards night and dinner tonight, but still had to come in for a half day.
I’m experiencing negative motivation.
At least its half a day red. I started early doing the most boring induction and now im at work bored after being run off my feet for 3 weeks.
Ouch. You get overtime?
yes i do. I had done 3 weeks of 55+ hours. My bank account is happy but i have been exhausted and living off energy drinks.
I recently found out, its acceptable to take time off in lieu of overtime pay but when you do that you get double the amount of time off or time off plus your regular pay so that makes me happy.
Lol rocket you’re actually pretty lucky to get overtime benefits like that, a lot of companies try to shaft their employees when they go over 40 hours.
Pay and benefits are the only way my company doesnt shaft me.
Mostly because the 2 CEO and founders are the most generous men ive ever met.
I know how you feel… we got end of month drinks at the company at 4 today and I’m just counting down the hours lol =p
Here are some game theories which may include spoilers for some new games, avert your eyes if you haven’t played these games:
1. Daylight is about an aftermath from a darkrai attack from the victim’s prospective
2. Due to there being multiple links & zeldas, 1 might expect some sci fi l.o.z fan fiction including encounters with the multiverse hopping characters & races ie daleks & the doctor
3. The xyz main legends are similar to blaz blu characters: yvetal/ black beast, xerneas/ tsycyomi, zygarde/TEERRRUUMIIII
4. Due to kingdom hearts linking square enix to disney and its affiliates 1 might expect some epic battles between these characters ie kefka vs jedi & avengers
Sons of Anarchy folk!
@shane @virus_ + others
Saw on the SoA Facebook page that they’ve announced a new recurring cast member…
Znevyla Znafba
Should be interesting to say the least.
@virus__ ?
Dude, that guy gets around. He was also in season 6 of Pnyvsbeavpngvba.
I had no idea he wanted an acting career. Unsure how I feel about the news.
You guys and your foreign shows.
Hipsters the lot of them!
Joiiin usss. After 11pm on sbs.
Wasn’t he in…
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…back in the day?
ha, i remember that silly rumor
Oh, it’s not true? 😀
nah, but it’s pretty funny how much he actually looked like him.
Znevyla Znafba?
Weird name. Where’s that from?
Yvan Eht Nioj.
He’s meant to be a white supremacist with a drug addiction from memory 😛
When I read he was cast as an addict in the show (months ago before it was named he was also gonna be a White Supremacist) I thought he could portray that accurately. I’m interested to see how good he is, Henry Rollins in seas 2 was awesome.
Edit: there’s also another new person cast some chick, saw it pop up in my news feed this morning and another I won’t speak of cause it gives away season 6 spoilers 😛
Yeah I saw the chick, rot13 the season 6 stuff?
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If you do rule 34 on nintendo characters the following might occur *lavender town music playing in background* look at the nightmare fuel section of tv tropes & some pokemon may get payback on you, don’t forget midna’s imp form as, well you know that hand coming from her head well you don’t want to know what will happen to your if that happens, don’t forget that sheik looks like an assassin & what they do to their targets & let us forget impa & last but not least samus aran, she is a RUTHLESS BOUNTY HUNTER for a reason & there multiple ways she could end you
Is anyone else seriously let down by watchdogs? I removed myself from all the hype after the very trailer they released with the car crash and gunfight and lowered my expectations this year but I’m finding the game to be a very shallow so far? The gunfights feel… well bland to be honest, the driving is all kinds of quirky and the stealth sections seem to be the games strongest suit and even then they aren’t done so well… I feel like Ubisoft spent more money on the marketing than on the game itself? =\
There’s something really off about the game that I just can’t seem to place my finger on… it’s like a combination of little things that are just preventing me from immersing myself in the game and losing hours on it. I don’t feel like doing any of the side quests even though in any other open worlds games I’m a completionist. Hacking is really fun but now it’s starting to feel like a novelty to hide all the rough edges in core mechanics.
And I usually sink hundreds of hours into open world games as well =\
Nah.
unnecessary
Care to elaborate? I mean as definitive as “Nah.” and “unncessary” are in a discussion I’d love to hear other people’s thoughts. @rocketman @bdkiaf
It plays like a solid game but I’ve had a lot more fun in GTA, Sleeping Dogs and AC games as well.
Sorry buddy we are just playing out a old joke from the old days of TAY. I havent actually played the game. I apologise if you thought we were being rude. It was not my intention.
I am duly offended! I demand recompense!
do you want my left hand??
That depends…. are you left handed?
I was partially joking, but I’m really not sure what to tell you. I’m loving it. I’m not having any of the issues anyone else seems to be having with it. Even the driving doesn’t bother me now.
The fact that I am currently downloading the game for the 3rd time has kind of killed all the hype I had for this game.
I guess it technically isn’t the games fault (most of the blame lies with Nvidia refusing to share details with ATI/AMD so they can optimise it for their cards). Still, really peeved off with it right now, going to get to it some day probably.
Though you would expect this response, nVidia already released a statement that they didn’t withhold anything, and AMD can talk to Ubisoft if they need anything.
That whole situation reeks of bullshit on both sides.
Yeah, I don’t believe everything that has been said…
Do I think Nvidia held back details to protect their special “Nvidia GamesWork” program?
Yeah, it’s business. A business isn’t just going to give away it’s edge for no return.
Do I think Nvidia went out of there way to decline all of AMD’s request for the game?
Hell no! That honestly just sounds like AMD is bitter that they aren’t top dog.
Pretty sure there was proof floating around that they did in fact spend at least 60% of the massive budget on marketing. Terrible campaign, someone is lmao’ing at their stuffed pockets.
If this is true, then that is SO wrong. Didn’t GTA V have something like a 250 million dollar budget? Where as I hear Watch Dogs had up around 500 million?!
You’re not mixing games are ya? I know Destiny has 500mil invested in it.
Yeah the 500mil is Destiny.
I know nothing about Destiny other than Bungie are doing it 😛
But probably lol. But then again I was told Watch Dogs did have a stupid budget as well, but yeah probably getting mixed up 😛
Actiblizzion allocated $500 million for Destiny for marketing & development, but bear in mind that’s not just for the initial game. They’re planning for Destiny to last for 5+ years and I think the marketing investment was for the whole franchise.
Ah right, fair enough!
Analyst estimates are that GTA 5 cost $137 million to make and the combined marketing and development budget was $265 million, so that’s roughly 50/50 split. And that was for an enormous open world game with an insane scope that took 5 years to build.
It sounds like a lot for marketing, but bear in mind GTAV made $1 billion in sales in the first 3 days.
It does sound like a lot, but for such an established franchise it doesn’t really when you think about it lol. Plus to me the game lived upto the hype so I was really satisfied with it heh.
It’s kind of what it feels like tbh, there’s a lot of things they’ve could’ve smoothed out with the driving.
Yeah, I’m not convinced that’s true.
60% on marketing sounds about right. That’s actually probably a pretty normal breakdown for a AAA game release. In fact that’s probably more spent on development than normal, proportionally.
So let down by it I returned it this morning :/ I put about 10 hours into it but I was playing maybe only a few hours at time if that, unlike GTA V and other games I have gotten on launch where i’d dedicate basically all day to them. I just couldn’t get into it’s pathetic combat & driving. What’s that? You’re in cover and want to shoot the guy you’re directly looking? Well you’ll have to stand up get out of cover then pull up aiming despite you’re already aiming at him THEN shoot.
It feels like they wanted to take Assassin’s Creed and Grand Theft Auto, which they have done but taken parts which didn’t need improving and tried to improve on them and cocked it up. But that’s just how it feels to me. I’ll probably get the game again later on when it’s GOTY with the DLC and when it’s cheap, but until then whatever.
I just love being able to explore and cause trouble and enjoy doing it, Watch Dogs was not allowing that, I was trying to commandeer a ctOS centre last night, close to a dozen times I tried, there was no way I was getting any where near the server box with the AI being able to see me from around a blind corner and shoot me and essentially kill me in about 5 shots :/ I like the idea of the game, it’s pretty neat, but I just feel it hasn’t been executed as well as it could’ve been especially with it being delayed twice.
I LOVE open world games, GTA is my most loved game franchise, to the point where I have 200+ hours in GTA IV + the episodes. I sank something like 60+ hours just in GTA V single player, cause I could.. 40+ on my replay of Vice City a year or so back, didn’t even get anywhere near 100% on it either. On top of that Fallout 3 I sank so much into it when it came out, that game was just amazing, L.A. Noire I have 50 something hours in, so far in Assassin’s Creed IV I have 20 hours logged and only completed about 25% of the actual story line, i’m having too much fun sailing the seas taking over other ships and fortresses, and exploring islands!
This. The shooting and cover based mechanics are absolutely fucked! Why can’t I just lean over the cover and fire?!? Even enemies have this issue where they have to get out of cover stand up and shoot at me completely exposing themselves… The last gunfight I had I basically stood behind a wall and kept walking sideways firing a few shots and moving back behind the wall.
Also the guns feel way too OP, I bought one of the cheaper assault rifles yday (only 4 hours into the game with lots of side missions) and it took down like 7 guards in 2-3 shots each. I mean I get that in reality it wouldn’t take more than that to kill someone but you can’t take that mentality into an open world game >.< Like I said there's lots of little things that feel wrong.
Example – I got into a car chase mission yesterday and this guy was actually driving pretty well and it was hyping up to be a good chase, then he goes across a traffic light with ONE CAR aside from us at the crossroads, I hack the lights when they flash and he manages to crash into that one car soon as the hack is complete! Up till this point the AI was swerving around cars making decent turns and giving me a challenge but it's like the moment I hacked the light was signalling the AI to crash into a car as soon as possible. It's fine if the cross roads had even 2-3 cars in the upcoming lane but the ONE LONE CAR that's there? He actually turned slightly to the left for a perfect head on collision after I hacked the lights.
I couldn’t disagree more. I’m loving it and just exist in the world is a lot of fun. I think it might just be a case of different opinions.
At any rate, Watch Dogs is way better on PC than GTAV is.
I understood that joke.
For me it feels like a decidedly average open world game wrapped in a neat premise, a decent story and some cool gimmicks.
I’ll probably finish it, enjoy it and never really think about it again. Not the stand out genre defining game Ubi seem to be hoping for. Just a fun diversion.
The more I read about it the less interested I am in starting to play my copy this weekend. It really sounds like something I won’t enjoy very much. Wish I hadn’t redeemed my code early so I could give it away.
Probably going to get Wolfenstein and play that this weekend instead, it seems like I’d enjoy that a lot more. This feels really strange to me – I’d rather play an iteration of a FPS from 1992 involving mudering Nazis than a brand new AAA franchise that I was fairly interested in until this week.
@stickman you’re a legend dude, thanks a million!
No prob! 🙂
Reckon I’m done with Katawa Shoujo. Really glad you guys recommended it. Thanks.
Good ride. Pretty intense. Definitely too many bittersweet moments for my poor ol’ heart. Lots of reminiscing on failed relationships and opportunities missed. I guess what you bring to it can really influence what you get out? Maybe it’s just realistic scenarios handled maturely with compassion instead of sensationalism.
Worst part of playing multiple routes was the gut feeling that the other girls were getting left out, that some of the problems the PC helped them with wouldn’t get worked out. Except for Hanako/Lily, where Hanako actually grew more from Lily’s route than from her own. That seemed like a set-up for a pretty disturbingly co-dependant story, there. (Pretty tough to figure someone’s going to be much better off without you, though. Not the best feeling in the world. Hits way too close to home.)
[Edit: Snip rambling.]
So that was fun. Back to the real world I guess. That was way too many hours of wistful escapism.
I ended up with emi the first time, it was a really nice story very touching. On my second playthrough i turned the sex scenes off though. To me they felt out of place. It didnt add anything really. It didnt take anything away either just i dint want to be viewing sex scenes for animated characters out in public where my computer is located.
How your partner interacts with you in that context is a huge glimpse into their personality and a crucial form of communication, to me. So I left them on to see how that communication was handled (and was mildly horrified/pretty disappointed by a few of them), but I didn’t really need the illustrations. If the text’s still there, I might recommend that to folks because the events that happen during the act are pretty important IMO. But yeah, I definitely considered doing that.
It makes me happy that someone as eloquent and well travelled as you frequents here and i can call you my friend.
🙂
Well now I’m blushing.
Thanks. I’m glad you’re here too. 🙂
Get a room you two! Ok ok I’m just jealous that I’m not feeling any of the love in TAY today =[
I love how you… uh… love?
Better? 😀
*puts finger on Pupp3t’s lips*
Shhh. Shh.
We don’t need words. You have my upvotes.
(Edit: I really wish I knew how to write that in a way that evoked the awkward ham-fisted clumsiness of Zaboo’s scene from The Guild.)
I agree with this. I felt that turning off the sex scenes meant that I was missing out on some of their characterisation. Whenever I finished route, I would go back, skip to the sex scene, and disable it to see if I would have missed anything if I turned it off. Every time it seemed like keeping it on was the best option. Even when I had to subject myself to the horrible first sex scene with Lilly that was horribly awkward and overlong, and somehow the artist made Hisao look 27.
Besides if you skip the sex scenes, the ‘Let’s not ever do this again’ conversation with Emi after the shed scene wouldn’t be nearly as hilarious. I still laugh at that joke.
Took me ages to give the game a go because of preconceived notions of the genre, but it was actually really worthwhile. From the sounds of it I had a pretty similar reaction to you.
Has nobody asked yet? no? let’s get this started then.
Which is best girl?
and why is it Lily?
You spelled Emi wrong. Get it together man. 🙂
(Edit: No, you… you are actually right. I just hate following the pack on that one.)
I hate to say it, but Lilly is the best waifu. I think it’s funny that Katawa Shoujo has such a diverse cast, yet everybody picks the tall blonde in the end.
I think I might’ve preferred Hanako, but only as she was in the Lily arc – stronger, more independent. In her own route, she was far more insecure, less brave.
Emi was better for Hisao in terms of the independence he learned and maintaining a good level of fitness, but she was a bit more damaged goods. Very close to ranking her higher than Lily even so. High levels of Emi-drama about [tragic backstory etc] were probably unnecessary. But rich people are fucking insane, in my experience. So there’s that.
It’s a tough call.
I think you got Lilly and Emi confused. Lilly is extremely rich, but Emi is middle-class.
No confusion, was just weighing their pros/cons.
I am preparing a big response to this comment, but I probably won’t be able to post it tomorrow, in new TAY. In the meantime, let me remind you that there is another route; the Kenji route. It’s only accessible by getting every decision wrong in Act 1 and not getting paired with anyone. Many a TAYbie fell victim to this ending through the power of sheer ineptitude.
The ending is the most rage-inducing thing if you hadn’t saved in a while.
Gorzy hasn’t mentioned it yet, so I’ll recommend the rtil Youtube channel Those feels. Carry them!
I’ve seen a few places in a guide as to how to end up with the Kenji route. Couldn’t really be bothered firing it up. Maybe if I get ultra-nostalgic. I haven’t even seen Rin’s and don’t have much desire to.
I kind of feel like I want to return there to spend time with those characters, but that’s more about wanting to spend time with people whose motives are easy to discern, who have goals and vitality to them, and are willing to interact on a more-than-superficial level.
If you can’t be bothered doing the Kenji route:
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It’s very annoying if you hadn’t saved in a while like me. Really, you can only get the ending by making a bunch of bad decisions, such as not taking a side in the Shizune-Lilly argument.
(Can I talk for a minute how awesome that scene was? An argument between a deaf person and a blind girl, with Misha translating the mean words with a cheery tone)
I preferred the scenes after you learned sign language and the text played back what Shizune signed, and the different way that Misha would say it. Very interesting.
What are you playing this weekend? Why, thanks for asking!
Heading down to Big W when they open tomorrow morning, with a very excited 3 year old boy in tow, to buy a copy of Mario Kart 8. I expect to be playing 2 and 3 player multi for most of the weekend. So that, and Spelunky. Fuck I hate/love that game.
What about you?
PS: Do we know what happened to @markserrels? He kinda disappeared of the face of the Internet without warning? Is he/his family OK? Or is he just off camping in some God-forsaken forest?
I think he said his parents were in town from Scotland and he was on holidays!
I’ll be playing Mario Kart 8. Single player during day, multi come night fall!
I’ve got a plan!
Go to the closest Big W for 8:30am with my voucher print-out, cash in hand.
If they don’t have a copy, then I’ll hop back on the train and go to the further-away Big W in a town I’ve never been to before.
If THEY don’t have a copy I’ll give up and go to JB 😛
Is it a serious concern that we’re not going to be able to find a copy at Big W on launch day!? Have people experienced this problem before?
I’m going to have a very disappointed little boy if that happens. It was his news at daycare today and everything!
Big W has a tendency of not knowing what the fuck is going on at launch day.
I’VE NEVER HEARD OF THAT GAME!
Went to the big dub to get my GTA 5, very nearly walked out with 4 in error. Glad I caught that early.
I bought the standard edition of Batman: Arkham Asylum and they gave me the Game of the Year edition by mistake. I felt so, so bad and guilty and was going to take it back but my sister talked me out of it. So yeah, I have the game of the year edition. 😛
Still keeps me awake some nights. :'(
Hah, Big W gave me the pre-order bonus of LEGO City Undercover (free mini-fig) even though I didn’t pre-order.
I’m obviously a monster because I can sleep pretty easily after that.
@powalen: I just felt bad for the excited guy who went there to get a Game of the Year edition. :'(
I got the Black Flag collector’s edition for cheaper than the regular edition for some reason… But I felt no guilt; the prices were as marked, dammit.
My local Big W’s have always had stock but you have to get in quick.
@powalen – you can try an EB/JB price-match but it depends on the people serving. I asked peeps at the local EB if they can match Big W’s $58 and they said they could but I’ll see if they’re able to match the $52.20
But where’s the adventure in that!
I dunno, I just figured it might be hard to find because it’s easily the best deal for the game out there.
Big W is pretty reliable for popular things like Pokemon, so I’m not too worried they won’t have a copy (at least in the morning :P)
From North Kilttown I believe.
The packing my bags for Melbourne & Tasmania game 😛
ohhh Tassie, have fun. It seems really nice down there, i want to go there one day when i have the time.
Thanks, I plan to! Should be fun, wish I could be in Melbourne for longer than i’m gonna be but oh well. Never been to Tassie either so looking forward to that 😀
You might want to look up a guide for that one, sometimes meeting the “enough socks and jocks” requirement can be a bit tricky.
Oh yeah, for sure, I think I went and bought enough extras. Knowing my luck I didn’t!
When are you down in Melb
Arrive Monday morning fly out Thursday arvo, I wanted to organise something but I felt it wasn’t fair on everyone since it was during the week. Only day i’d be free is Tuesday afternoon I think :/
Well if you are after something to do Monday night then I’ll invite you to our trivia night.
Beavwa and Pip will probably be there. Have actually had a number in interstate taybies attend that one. By Tuesday afternoon do you mean just the arvo and then you have stuff on in the evening?
Ooh where is it Monday night? Might see if I can defs attend, that sounds fun.
Nah evening included, depends how long my mate wants to catch up for Tuesday but i’d say like 3:30ish onwards i’d be free I guess!
The Arcadia Hotel starting at around 7:30pm
If you are heading down I can head down earlier. Easy to get to, grab a tram from the CBD and around 15 minutes or so which will drop you at the door. Normally finishes up around 10pm
http://www.arcadiahotel.com.au
Might be able to organise a Tuesday after work catch-up, no harm in tossing it up and seeing if there is interest
Ah cool, suppose I need a Myki for the tram travel, yeah? 😛
@virus__
Yep. Just grab one when you get in.
Cool as, where can you buy them? Up here I know most 7-11’s and information centres have our version (the GO Card) and along with some BP’s.
Can get a myki from any of the larger train stations as well as places like 7-11 or some milk bars
Ah cool, cheers man!
You’ll be in Launceston, right? We should have a meat.
Yeah for a day or so then off to Hobart for shenanigans, then back to Launceston Monday I think..? I dunno i’m just following my friends 😛
No clue where in Launceston my friend lives, I assume the place can’t be that big..? 😛
Not too big size wise. It is possible I may even know your friend.
Haha, true. Also for all I know you might even be one of her friends from down there that is joining us on the Friday for birthday celebrations 😛
Probably not then. I don’t have a lot of female friends. 🙁
Aw D=
Persona 4 and transistor.
Also probably watching too much anime and finding something new to read.
Persona and anime, I wholeheartedly approve.
Its all i do these days when im alone. Saturday morning cartoons provided by crunchyroll and my HDD
I really need to check out crunchyroll I’m always up for new anime.
So what you are saying is you have the best weekend ever planned?
Probably be doing this with my daughter:
Gonna give my shiny new Wii U it’s first real workout with MK8, jimu is coming over on Saturday to partake in some karting fun. Other than that Watch Dogs & I’m on the last level of Wolfenstein so really should beat that.
The drinking game, followed by the avoid getting fired for rocking up to work drunk / hungover game.
Maybe a bit of Dynasty Warriors 8 too 😀
do not pursue Lu Bu.
Yeah, I hear his route is frustrating. He’s so fickle.
Saints Row IV.
Caved, went to EB and bought it preowned. They put Saints Row 3 in the case, which I only discovered when I got home, so I’m going in today to swap it over.
You know, getting Saints Row 3 instead isn’t the worst thing.
But I have Saints Row 3.
Honestly, I don’t care if IV is more of the same, it’s my guilty pleasure dumb fun game
If memory serves, it IS the current games with gold freebie though
He did the juice diet again and faded out of existence.
This was pretty much what I figured.
Mostly working, but when I’m not I’ll be participating in my new hobby, dog watching.
Dog watching?
watch ALL the dogs
Aww man, I’m gonna watch the hell outta those dogs.
Great, I thought you meant actually dog watching and now I’m disappointed.
I imagine him on a tree branch, one hand wrapped around the trunk for support, the other holding a pair of binoculars to his face. He sees looks down at the local park, sees a doberman. He puts down the binoculars to check dobermans off from the dog list. He’s only got a golden retriever and a chihuaha left to mark off.
Also he’s a monkey for some reason.
One day he’ll pull a Harold Holt on us. Head out into the wilderness for “the perfect rock wall climb, but in nature!” and then disappear.
Pull a Harold Holt in that he’ll take a Submarine back to China?
Will he re-emerge 50 years later as Mark Ferals with rock super powers?
So what are you playing this weekend, Batguy?
[Time-edit: Inverse reply fail.]
I’m so high right now, I got no idea what’s going on…
Drugs are bad, M’kay?
You lucky sum bitch! 😉
Probably just harvest moon.
I’m working tomorrow, so i’m sending the missus to the closest Big W to collect a copy of MK8, she’s not allowed back home until this goal has been achieved!
I’m actually not sure what I’ll be playing. I have options.
I could dig back into the pile. I could go buy Wolfenstein. I could start playing Watch Dogs. Depending on who’s around at home I might be able to get TV time with my PS4 and play (maybe finish?) Infamous. I’ve got Demon Gaze on my Vita and I’ve barely scratched the surface, plus haven’t touched Conception II yet and just grabbed Mind=0 and Monster Monpiece. And I have some older stuff as well.
Realistically, none of the above. I tend to get distracted and do something else entirely and that’s why my pile is so shameful 🙁
I do that. Effin cookies man.
Cookies suggest that you actually did something productive with the time you could have been gaming.
In my case the ‘something else entirely’ recently has been watching anime / TV or playing Kantai Collection. Luckily I seem to have kicked the latter habit the past month or so. Or rather, it was kicked for me because for a week I was too tired to log in in the evenings and couldn’t log in in the mornings and do my daily fucking around because I had to be into the office by 8:30am to have day-long meetings with people from the US 🙁
Cookie Clicker isn’t exactly what I’d term productive.
Oh.
Oh. 🙁
Yeah, that’s pretty much on the same level as what I’m doing 🙁
Probably watch_dogs for a bit but most of it will be trying to polish off the playthrough of Dead Space 3 a mate and I are doing before he gets all busy with having a life, family visits and friends and shit or the next few weeks and can’t game with me on the weekend. Bastard.
For me, I think some more Rogue Legacy, and possibly Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Maybe time to bust out the old Rock Band or Guitar Hero again too. Had urges lately that need to be satisfied.
Through my psychic powers, I predict I will start a new character in The Elder Scrolls Skyrim, and play a fair bit of Just Cause 2.
Shout out to all TAY’s!! I’ll be on Wildstar for a good 8 hours with the 3 day headstart this Saturday evening 7pm onwards, if anyone’s interested let me know! I’ll post the details for which server once I create my toon (Dominion).
Looking to start an aussie raiding guild and yes I’m aware most of you aren’t interested =p But I’m clinging to the hope that maybe 1 or 2 of you are *puppy dog eyes*
I really did like what I played but I just bought ESO last Saturday (hi @saturday) so I will probably stick with that, for now atleast.
*looks up from pelt cleaning*
… hey.
*goes back to pelt cleaning*
I’m interested in Wildstar but don’t have the time to properly commit to another big game for now.
The fact that we now compare one game across five consoles/platforms is a joke, really.
And that’s not even including Wii U.
But if we don’t compare the graphics down to a pixel, how will we validate our purchase!
I really wish developers would commit to next gen, I know they don’t want to risk poor sales but we aren’t going to see anything truly “next gen” until they let go of the old consoles. I reckon Watch Dogs would have been a much better game if they focused on “current gen”
edit: All the PS4 games I play just feel like ps3 games with shinier coats of paint, haven’t had a “whoa PS3 couldn’t have done that” moment yet, whereas PS2 and 3 got that reaction out of me pretty fast.
I’m not convinced they can do both. A shiny coat of paint is all that’s available in terms of horsepower, IMO. Everything else isn’t as noticeable. Like, a lot more players in a match in BF4 (is actually a big deal)
Did you know the PS3 version doesn’t look as good as the PS4 one? I for one am both shocked and appalled.
It clearly does look better on PS3, fanboy. GEEZ. Stop being a fanboy, fanboy!
You know what would look better on the PS3?
YOUR FACE! *hurls PS3 at DC’s face*
If his face would look better on the PS3 shouldn’t you technically be hurling D.C. towards the PS3?
*hurls 360 at pupp3tmast3r’s face*
*does a 360 to dodge the 360*
Edit: *calls @batguy* Aren’t you supposed to be putting Freeze behind bars? What good is the batguy signal if he’s allowed to run around like this!
What!? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! HOW DARE THEY DO THIS!?
The fact we still compare games across platforms is a joke… It’s got to the point where I don’t give a shit, I chose the PS4 cause I have always had a PlayStation, and I have always liked Sony, no other reason. I still play games on PC, but damn it I don’t care if the PC version looks pretty, I care about the damn game play and what the game is suited to, whether TV & couch play or mouse & keyboard at a desk!
Missed package delivery notice when I got up. Only I have no idea what could possibly be being delivered to me that would require that. Also it says to go somewhere that isn’t the post office, and it’s never not been the post office before so I am super confused now.
it’s a trap………. get an axe
I’LL CHOP THEIR HEADS OFF
it’s the only way to be sure.
I understood that reference!
Maybe the post man has invited you to their birthday party?
Edit: Although that sounds pretty suspicious and dodgy to me. :S Ignore?
It’s @sughly’s postman! Be very wary @mrtaco
Maybe they sent it via courier. Had that a couple of times myself.
So I went and checked out the EB pre-owned sale. Some decent titles, for some decent prices:
All 360:
Darksiders 2: $11
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West: $13.50
Metal Gear solid: Revenenenenenenenenenenenenenabvgsadjhdsjkhfkhaklhdsknge: $24
Far Cry 3: $18
Gears of War 3: $11
Rayman Legends: $19 (new price)
and so on
I picked up about 8 games, but eventually whittled that pile down and settled on Enslaved, because I seem to remember @dc raving about it as an underappreciated gem of a game. Even if my memory was wrong, I’ll be blaming him if I don’t like it.
Fair is fair after all.
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West IS an under appreciated gem. You’ve done good!
I’m reading reviews right now, and not regretting my decision at all.
There seems to be a lot of praise for the story, and if that holds, it basically means that I can forgive just about anything else that happens in the game.
I played through it earlier this year. It’s so good! definitely under appreciated (except for the last boss fight)
Enslaved is actually a pretty good game but can get a little repetitive in terms of combat towards the end. Good buy though!
Post apocalyptic urban decay and character dynamics and colorfulness will get you through! 😀
I found a copy of Perfect Dark Zero at mine in the tin case for $9.
I figured that was an ok price for morbid curiosity.
Revenananenenenshamadingdong is actually very good. It takes a lot of getting used to as it doesn’t play like any game I’ve played before and takes a lot to break old brawler habits but once you get the hang of it it’s great.
I was pleasantly surprised with Revenge-vengeance too.
I was holding it and Enslaved in my hand as the last two options. In the end, there was only one copy of Enslaved in the store, and it was half the price, so I chose it.
Edit: Also $24 isn’t a particularly cheap price. Quick eBay search reveals I can get it that price anytime.
I have a phobia of second hand games :S
I can’t buy them, I need to buy a first hand copy.
I would say any kind of games with hands would turn me off buying them.
What if someone buys a new game but then gives it to you a month later for 10 bucks?!
I’d say thanks, but no thanks (not even joking).
I just can’t do it, nor can I trade in / return games (which is why I still own LAIR, Haze, and many other bad games :S).
What if someone buys a new game but then gives it to you a month later and 10 bucks?!
I’d take the money, but not the game :3
The only way I’d get a second hand game is if it was for someone else who wanted the game and didn’t mind it being secondhand. I wouldn’t play the game myself though.
Yeah, that’s what I did with Xenoblade. (Despite the fact I was curious to play it myself. XD)
You took the money?? You MONSTER 🙁
The Xenobladder Club still hasn’t forgiven you for that.
We will not forget.
We will remember.
Me too!
TWINSIES!!! 😀
>:(
Oh right, forgot that was taken :3
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Umm, similar habits buddy?
I guess we could be triplets if it wasn’t for this weird aversion to second-hand you seem to have.
Quick, redeem yourself: second-hand books! Yes or no?
The only books I read are textbooks, and even then, I pay the extra $60 for a new copy :3
I like that new thing smell :3
@liondrive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjwaqZfjIY
As an author, wouldn’t you be more in favour of first hand sales though, or doesn’t it really make a difference?
@liondrive shhhh with logic.
What if I bought you a preowned game, took the sleeve, booklet and game disc out, threw away the worn jewel case, removed all the preowned stickers, put it all back into a new jewel case and gave that to you?
You’d never know the difference.
It’s because of people like me that you’re afraid of buying
preownedgames, isn’t it?Every store does this. Science fact.
EB might. They also sell used games as new ones – my ‘new’ copy of Tales of Xillia LE sure looks pretty worn.
I’d be able to tell ;D
It’s like a sixth sense thing. I’ve been conditioned to be able to tell new from second hand 😀
Let me rephrase that.
I work at EB, I’m dodgy as hell because I’ve just done all those things mentioned above and sold you the game as ‘new’.
My point is, personally I only find true ‘new’ to be ‘new and sealed’ – something which EB Games does not really implement. ‘Soft new’ can be manufactured by anyone.
I try to only buy games still in the wrapped plastic if that makes it any better.
I like the plastic smell :3
Do you actually work at EB though, cause that’s an extremely dick thing to do, and if I find out that anyone does that too me I’ll literally verbally berate them until they’re crying…
Nah, I don’t work at EB.
I think you just shattered @liondrive ‘s world
P.S. you should know even the plastic wrapping around a game can be fabricated lion, I used to be mates with people working at EB and once I saw them wrapping all these games with the same plastic that comes with a brand new cover.
I’m never buying any games again…
i haven’t played enslaved but have heard good things, however reveangence was probably my favourite game of last year, i still boot it up every once and a while, if you like over the top action it’s one of the best.
if you find it for that price again i’d recommend it.
I was just unnecessarily amused when I realised that my tag backward is 5tradpop.
It’s Friday. I wanna go home. 🙁
This.
Just do what you can to pass the time.
For example, my name backwards is “Rize”. Crazy, right?
In regards to pathfinder, I finally went through the built in Roll20 character sheet. Took a while to add all racial, class, feats and spells but hopefully I shouldn’t need to call up the rulebook with all the info I placed in the “description” box. Also, I uploaded a picture for my character, remember Karvurk? He’s back! In pog form (soon).
Nicely done. I’ll do up a pog for Karvurk and things should be gravy. In case you were wondering how to activate the 3D dice, it should be under the gear tab with all of the other settings.
Added a pic as well. Not the best but closest I could find to the mental image I had that I could find after some searching (probably looking in the wrong places, but oh well).
Pog done. 🙂
I think I’ll organise to set that stuff up for myself this weekend. I just have to decide if I’m going to misappropriate an image or try and make one.
I have zero art skills when drawing stuff for myself so I’m appropriating something.
Yup, I have no drawing skills so that’s what I did!
Man, I am really struggling to find something that I feel really fits. 🙁
EDIT: Part of my issue is that the bulk of art sites I’m familiar with are very heavily skewed toward JP stuff and the vast majority of modern artwork from there that depicts my particular race is a lot less… furry.
Oh that’s right, I wanted to email you something about Pathfinder again. Should do that.
Opsinalhp! Only slightly more intelligible than my current nickname. 😛
I’m having a really depressing friday, everything on the environment is falling apart around me… and I suddenly have now lost access to certain key pieces of software I need to work. -.- So much for wanting to leave early today after being called to fix a fault at 4am, cuz I’ll most likely get called for faults all weekend
Report a fault with you phone and email account at 4:59pm and then run.
Being on recall means I need my phone by my side at all times for customer faults… and since I’m seeing exponential increasing of firewall faults, I know I’m not going to have a good weekend
I find that the easiest way to fix a firewall fault is to turn it off. Hey, I’m not wrong…
Here’s hoping you’re wrong and end up with a peaceful weekend.
Yeah I did that with one fault, since the actual firewall itself is not working properly. It’s got a default “allow all” on it, yet some servers are getting blocked outbound randomly.
One of my theories is that it’s this machine’s way of telling me it’s ready to rebel against humanity when I call on it :P.
I’m hoping for a quiet weekend as well. Though every time I’m on recall I have to stop playing League of Legends entirely for an entire week, really puts me off practice and I become shit again 🙁
One of the greatest parts of my job is that if a firewall issue becomes too big an issue I have a clear escalation path 😛
Most of the time (for me) the cause for an outbound issue ends up being either someone touching something they shouldn’t have, or updates.
*shakes fist slowly* god damned updates…
With me it’s more humans screwing up configs while following very-easy-to-follow activation guides
Tech Knight to the rescue? =\
This is the only part of the job I despise… things breaking or people screwing up and I’ll be the one paying for it in time.
🙁 Hang in there buddy. If working stupid long hours has taught me anything its that getting frustrated doesnt fix the issue and that it will still be there when i am having a tantrum. You’re a smart cookie. I believe.
Yeah.. some of our clusters have been upgraded and some haven’t… funnily enough, the management software that’s been upgraded is now horribly unstable and firewall fault WOs are flooding our mailbox… and there is only one specialist in our team that knows enough about how to fix these, guess who…
Is it Steve? I bet it’s Steve. Steve is so talented and dreamy *sigh*
Steve.
yes, this is what I was hoping, you’re alright BDKIAF
I personally was hoping for this
Steve, Andy and Mick have shockingly similar voices.
Steve and I go way back.
Sounds like a bit of a toss.
No that’s not Steve. Alan, Alan, Alan
Call them a nerd and punch them in the face.
Just finished Transistor. It was alright.
Maybe I should play Bastion again.
Buuuuuild that wall and build it strooong…
Community Kudos.
This week I nom D.C. for not giving into paranoia. (Entirely.)
Anti-noms goes to everyone else for conspiring against me.
*paranoidly takes in the crowd of TAYbies*
Oh … I will just be over here then.
Don’t stress. It’s not paranoia. We ARE conspiring against you.
For those interested, ctOS Mobile has been released for Android.
For anyone that doesn’t know, this is a free app that lets you compete against players in Watch Dogs. They’re trying to hit a bunch of checkpoints throughout the city and you’re controlling the police dispatch trying to stop them.
EDIT: Had a bit of a play around with it and it looks like it could be legitimate fun. Easy as to set up a game against a friend, too. Also, the friends list supports PSN, Xbox and Uplay accounts so you can play against whoever.
So, you play on your phone and they are playing on their system?
Yep!
Today I finished the last of my assignments, got my coffee machine, got my new bookshelf speakers, ordered Mario Kart 8, and tonight I’m going on a man date to see A Million Ways to Die in the West. Today is a pretty good day, tbh.
So yeah, hi 😛 Been lots going on recently! Things should slow down for a while now thankfully
Bookshelf speakers ay, is that a bookshelf with a sound system?
Haha nah, just big-ish speakers, no idea how they got the name bookshelf speakers 😛
These are it: http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/sc_b008ncd2lg-01spbs22lr.jpg
Damn, I don’t know what proper use a bookshelf with a sound system would have but part of me wanted one.
Pretty slick speakers non-the-less, nice.
@bdkiaf got a favourite from Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch. Nicely done. XD
This kind of thing on Twitter just continually blows my mind. There’s no disconnect between creators and fans now, it’s incredible.
I got Ordinary #1 yesterday, and I tweeted how much I’d enjoyed it, and I got a thanks from the writer. (Awesome comic by the way).
Whoooooo getting drunk at work! FRIDAY AT LAST!! ^^
Picked up Rhythm Thief from Target for $15. If I don’t like it then I blame @scree 😛
Also saw some good prices at EB. $9 for new GoldenEye Wii seemed oddly low, although I guess now that WFC is gone that takes a chunk out of the value. $15 pre-owned Injustice for Wii U was pretty damn tempting, although the boxes were rather scuffed. Also they have $15 Rhythm Heaven Wii brand new. Wish I hadn’t bothered picking it up when it was $28 😛
And it turns out that the chemist near me does parcel pickups now. I asked the girl there how long that had been going on, she said it was a good few years now. Seemed surprised when I said I usually got sent up to the post office instead. Turns out the package was just a little adapter thing I got off eBay – which is weird considering it was one of those free postage things, so I didn’t expect it to show up for another week or so and definitely didn’t expect to have to sign for it.
I just paid $50 for rhw!
Send it back! D:
got it from big w
Huh, I didn’t even think they still had it there. EB’s the only place I’ve been seeing it at all lately.
Too late for a return?
yeah =(
Rhythm Thief is rad. $15 is a great price too.
Also Rhythm Heaven (or whatever they changed the name to here) is the one Wii game I don’t have that I wish I did. So I may need to make a trip to EB, because $15 for it sounds like a steal.
I’m skeptical because I thought it looked cool from the initial trailer or whatever, but then when I played the demo I found it really disappointing. Hoping it was just a bad demo though, and the full thing is better.
I’m still yet to play RHWii, but I presume it’s a steal given how much I love the DS and GBA iterations 😛
The demo’s bad.
It’s basically Professor Layton except with the OH THAT REMINDS ME OF A PUZZLE bullshit replaced with epic dance-offs against Zombie Napoleon.
…still yet to play a Layton >.>
But that does indeed sound rad.
It’s all brass band / jazz stuff.
You ever wonder where some of the awesome guys from Sega’s peak during the Dreamcast and Xbox eras disappeared to when all their 2nd-party studios like Smilebit and Overworks disappeared to when Sega re-absorbed them? Well at least some of them were on Rhythm Thief.
Director’s previous credits include Samba de Amigo. Music composed by Naofumi Hataya (Nights into Dreams, Space Channel 5, Samba de Amigo, Burning Rangers, bunch of Sonic stuff) collaborating with Takahito Eguchi (Final Fantasy X-2) and Tomoya Ohtani (Space Channel 5 part 2 and a whole bunch of Sonic stuff).
I’ve always been a Nintendo guy, so… I can’t say the thought has ever crossed my mind, no 😛
All brass and jazz sounds great though. That along with the general style of it was what drew me in in the first place.
It’s good
Had a pretty awesome day today, despite starting with a doctor’s appointment (and a flu shot). Spent some time with my parents and my uncle and aunty, had an awesome burger for lunch, and bumped into friends who I hadn’t seen for 5 years. Unfortunately I have to have a fasting blood test tomorrow, but I’ll live.
Finally, the time has arrived where it is safe to get heavily drunk, wrecking body and brain for a couple days of misery in recovery such that I end up swearing that I will “never touch another drop of liquor again,” again.
Achievable goals and realistic expectations.
I miss those days sometimes, but then I think about the migraines, and suddenly, no regrets!
Everything okay, buddy? You seem to have been in a rather drinky mood since that encounter with ex last week. :S
…
Unless you need some enabling, then? ALCOHOL. WOOOOOOO!
Yeah I agree.
@transientmind
It kinda sounds like you’re getting drunk for the wrong reasons, which can be a slippery slope, friend :S
Hopefully you’re alright though, you seem like a guy that can handle himself 🙂
Nah I’m good. It just made me realize my tolerance is way too low at the moment, need to get some more in.
Nothin’ wrong. Well, except for the standard ‘I miss my girlfriend’ etc mopey crap as always, but y’know. That ain’t going anywhere.
Comment was more out of mild amusement in predicting my impending hangover and not letting it deter me. I should use more smileys.
But thanks for checking. *fist-bump*
You want some company this weekend?
Conditions are a little cramped here, you’d have to sleep on the couch. 🙂
But hey, if you’re on your way into town, I’ll come out to hang.
No need for a trip just for me, though. I’ll otherwise likely be apartment-hunting with the youngest brother, getting a place we can put in his name so I can scoot mid-year if need be.
(Edit: If it’s not too much trouble, anyway. It’d be good to catch up again.)
Always welcome to come chill at my place if you wish! I has games and some foods and good for some chit-chat! I even have a big couch you can crash on if need be!
Yoooooo
What does pro rata mean in relation to paid annual leave?
And with leave, can you just take it for any reason? Do you even have to give a reason? I always see the “I’m talking ___ days off to play (game release)!” reason online 😛
Basically it means that if you work X amount of hours/do X amount of work, you will get X amount of money. If you work less or more than X, you will proportionately earn less or more $
To clarify, a lot of people will say it’s a pro-rata rate of like $45,000 for instance. That normally means that if you worked full time hours (eg 38 or 40hrs a week), you would earn that much. If you work less than full time, you’ll earn less, but will still be paid at the same hourly rate.
As for its relation to annual leave, you’d have to clarify it with the employer. It’s likely based upon a certain ‘average’ amount of time on leave.
pro rata means ‘proportional to’. Basically what it means is that you get annual leave accrued in proportion to the amount of time you work. If, say, you get six weeks annual leave per 52-week calendar year then pro rata means that it starts at 0 and builds up proportionally, rather than you getting 6 weeks allocated immediately after doing a year’s work.
EDIT: FYI for salary work, pro-rata leave is the standard 99% of the time and it is much better for you as you get leave entitlements much earlier.
You can take annual leave for any reason, but you normally need to apply for that leave and have it approved, can’t just say FUCK IT NOT GOING TO WORK TOMORROW (hint: this is what ‘sick’ leave is for). If you’re a permanent worker on a salary rather than a shift worker or similar it’s usually a lot easier to get approval for leave. Generally speaking if I let my boss know in sufficiently advance and I’m on top of my work it’s not an issue for me, for example. Especially if it’s just a day or two. Longer periods require a bit more coordination than announcing it the week before or so.
Check your contract and maybe talk to your HR people as well. There might be restrictions, e.g. when I first started here, and IIRC at my first job as well, there was a 3-month period where I wasn’t allowed to take annual leave.
Cool, thanks dudes! It makes a lot more sense now 🙂
With the release of Among The Sleep, I am reminded that I backed it at the twoferone level, meaning that I have an extra code for someone.
Would anyone be interested in the horrors of childhood once more?
Also, HI!
How are all you lovely people?
HEYLEP!
I am not a lovely person, but I thought I’d reply anyway.
I am good. When I told my boss at 12:30 today that I was going to leave work because “I’m slack,” her response was like “you’re not slack. See you on Monday!” And so I have spent far too much of my day sitting around reading. Also not nearly enough, since, you know, you can never have enough of that.
i would write more but overlocker
I would!
I responded to the wrong thing oop
Sold!
thank you!
YES.
I WOULD LOVE TO CRY MYSELF TO SLEEP!
Sold!
All codes gone!
You will never be forgiven for your crimes.
Was that the horror game where you play as like an infant or something? And it had Rift support I think? Forgot all about that thing.
So I finished the latest episode of The Wolf Among Us.
Pretty cool guy, pretty cool guy indeed.
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Oh yeah I need to play that, off I go then!
Wow, had no idea a mate I went to school with kinda had that band thing take off for him. His band is some kind of hardcore music that i’m not into but they’ve recorded two albums in Chicago with a big name producer, their current tour is sold out like 5 out of 12 shows around the country and they have like 100,000 likes on Facebook. He deserves success, cause he’s a decent musician.
I remember this one time there was a local battle of the bands I think I was in year 11, me and a few mates entered, we didn’t do anything special, covered some Powderfinger I think a Green Day song and I think there was AC/DC as well, we sucked but had fun. But my mate his brother and I think their cousin and aa friend of theirs, their band was fucking awesome, back then they were sorta just a covers band that dabbled in everything, they didn’t win for some reason, i’ll never know why since no one else came even close..
Which band, if you don’t mind me asking?
Um In Hearts Wake. Here’s their FB https://www.facebook.com/inheartswake?fref=ts
Cool. I actually saw them earlier in the year at Breath of Life Festival. I thought they were pretty good.
Haha, cool. My mate is the bass player, I guess he doesn’t play lead & sing anymore heh.
It’s kind of weird when that happens. One of the guys who went to my school (grade above me but it was a small school) played guitar on several of the Temper Trap’s songs on their first album. I forget what the actual connection to them was but I think he was a good friend of theirs. I only found out about it years later when my sister mentioned it.
Yeah it’s weird, people disappear then reappear later and they’ve done pretty well for themselves and it’s all “Oh you’re like semi famous now, cool i’l just sit here with my fake internet points and sob in the corner that the closest to any recognition i’ll get is a few big musicians interacting with me on Twitter” 😛
Oh… shiiiit.
I can never find peace, can I?
I came to a comprimise between mum and dad this morning. Dad would pick my sister and I up, and mum will pick both of us up on Monday. Except dad hung up before I could arrange the finer details. I rung again, but only so we could have an incredibly brief conversation, only for him to hang up before I could even bring up the subject.
The problem is that I work til 5pm on Fridays, and my sister comes home from school at 3pm. I wanted to arrange how dad planned to pick up my sister and I since we are in two different locations.
5pm came, but dad didn’t.
At 5:30, I received an angry phone call from dad asking why I wasn’t at my mother’s place. Apparently, he showed up at my mother’s place, started an argument about why I wasn’t there, and stormed off without taking my sister.
I received a call from my mother immediately after, explaining that she was going to take my sister to my workplace so dad could pick both of us up. Except dad had a five-minute headstart, so I guess I’ll have to delay him when he shows up until my mum arrives.
This situation is worrying and confusing. It shows that he really doesn’t care about my sister when he didn’t even pick her up. I know that when mum catches up to dad, a gigantic argument will erupt in the carpark in front of my workplace. I don’t even know if my sister still wants to come after dad abandoned her.
He’ll be here any minute. Shit shit shit.
I wish you the best of luck. You are in a really tight situation. =(
I wonder whether going with dad is even a good idea. He’s clearly in a bad mood, and not going with him will either cause him to cool off or slowly start to resent me. Knowing dad, it’s probably the latter.
It’s clear that he still hasn’t forgiven my sister for refusing to see him for a year last year. (More on that later)
You know, I’m this close to cutting myself off from dad completely. I make sure to have a good relationship with both my parents. But if seeing him means I have to go through this bullshit every time., I just won’t go.
A similar situation happened last time I went to see him.
Have you tried telling him this? Have you tried telling them both?
They’re here…
They are still arguing… My workplace is closing, so I need to get my stuff out now.
I have covertly recorded their argument. Probably not legal, though.
But still worth a lot of money if you use it right…?
Ratchet and Clank Trilogy confirmed for Vita!
…Disc probably won’t be updated to include cross-buy, so *shrug*.
20º feels colder than it did last night.
Sweltering here in Brisbane. Trade’ya. It’s like, frickin’… oh. 20 degrees here, too. 🙁
Still have to put air-con on to get it under 18. Reckon booze is making me too flush, gettin’ around with a singlet and jeans and still feel like I’m burnin’ up. MY KINGDOM FOR AN ACTUAL WINTER.
Yoo hoo! Big summer blowout in Melbourne!
Fuck I wish it would cool down sick of this warm weather we’re having. Was 27 the other day here, just what the fuck…
What’s a 20 degrees?
Top of 17 in Canberra, 3 overnight. Yeeeaaahhhh, mountainous climate.
GIMME.
So the pathfinder character sheet is pretty good, save for one issue: It doesn’t count my Charisma Modifier to my Spell save DC. Oh well, quite impressed with it though 🙂
Huh. Yeah I just went and had a look at what the issue was and I can’t seem to see how to get it working correctly. Probably your best bet would be to add your Charisma modifier to your effective Caster Level and it should calculate it from there. Mind you, you probably have a bunch of mini-modifiers as a sorcerer so it might be better to keep track of that as you are at the moment.
At level 1 nah not really, I think that’s the only thing that’s missing, and that can mitigate it nicely. I’ve done the switch as well so you should be able to see for yourself, I think it’ll help a ton early game 🙂
There is a drop down box where you can choose your spell save DC (charisma, int, wisdom)
EDIT: Actually, its just for concentration (below the skills area)
Where? :S
Edit: Oh just found it. Cool thanks it works now
Under the skills, there’s two ‘concentration’ entries. Make one your concentration as a Sorcerer, set the stat to CHA, and it’ll add your CHA mod to your concentration. According to my YAPCG sheet it should be 1 + your CHA mod, so mine is +5, so base DC for level 1 spells is 15, then bonuses go onto that (+1 to enchantment, extra +2 to compulsion subschool)
EDIT: No way to add the extra bonuses, sadly 🙁 Each spell entry doesn’t track quite enough stats really – also no area to put how long it takes to cast, eg. my Sleep spell is a full-round action.
Actually just found a bug in YAPCG (the generator which I used to make my actual sheet) while copying stuff over. Was trying to figure out why the heck my sheet has a -4 to jump checks. Turns out that they’ve entered my racial base speed as 20 feet instead of 30 feet like normal, and < 30 feet means you take -4 to jump for every 10 feet below 30. 😐
Time to file a bug!
Heh
http://i.minus.com/iTKaBLWQturn8.gif
Lol, Axl Rose has apparently been named the greatest singer due to the range he can hit vocal wise. That’s nice & all, but come on screeching like a parrot in pain shouldn’t coin you the title ‘greatest singer’ plus the idea of one person being the greatest singer is stupid!
When I think greatest singer, I can’t think of one, I can only think of many great singers. Which is why such a title is fucking stupid. It’s like greatest guitarist, you can’t have one person who is the greatest at one thing when music is so diverse in one genre.
Ugh. I blame Rolling Stone for starting such a stupid fucking trend.
Everyone knows it’s not how big it is, it’s how you use it.
Well if that’s the case then Axl is out all together 😛
some people went out and independently searched again cause they didn’t include a lot of people, they came up with Mike Patton, much better choice, his range is phenomenal.
Yeah I saw that Mike Patton had been named such just yesterday. But the music sites are still set on saying its Axl lol.
Patton would be my first choice.
#fanboybias
Rob Halford!
#biasalltheway
@popdart5 just to be sure, our character sheet details on roll20 are only visible to ourselves and you as the GM, right?
I’m all mysterious. Have secrets to keep and stuff.
I’ve just changed it so that it’s now secret between players and the GM. If you’re in Roll20 at the moment, try exiting and then going back in and seeing if you can see any of the other players’ stuff. You should not be able to see anyone else’s stuff.
I can only view other players bios, you can test it by viewing one of us.
Edit: And I shaved parts of my bio out for exactly the same reason as you 😉
Going through the available songs in Watch Doge and I don’t know any of them. Don’t even know 95% of the bands I’ve seen (Iggy Pop, Rise Against and Smashing Pumpkins are only ones I know.)
Is this what old is? Am I turning into the lame dad? *cries*
Set yourself up paying pocket money to some weird hipster kid to get you ahead of the music curve!
Yo.
Which pumpkins song(s)
My Love Is Winter
I hadn’t even heard the Alice Cooper song that’s in it. Which is fair enough cause well after the original band split up the music was meh 😛
Edit: just read the soundtrack is getting a vinyl release lol…
Most of it is shit and as usual, far more hip hop than there should be. I’ve turned the radio off for the most part now. Shame there’s no option to play your own music from a thumbdrive or something
Well, here I am, at my dad’s place. My mother and my father argued for 40 minutes in the carpark outside my workplace. Things are settled… I guess?
Also on the way home, I told Dad that the NBN had been axed. The look on his face…
I probably won’t be able to TAY much whilst I am here.
Hope you can get some enjoyment out of the weekend.
Good luck, might be an idea to mention dr yoghurt lamp if things get along well
@popdart5 I started filling in the character sheet but I didn’t know what half of it meant, don’t know what the abilities I have do and half the values ended up different from the sheet I have. I got as far as having a hissy fit and rage quitting so it’s a touch incomplete/utterly wrong.
The sheet that you’ve been using should be able to just copy straight across to that in Roll20. If you want, I can hop on Roll20 before Monday night and work through it with you then or you can send me your character sheet and update your values in Roll20. Whatever works for you.
HAPPY MARIO KART DAY
Oops I should sleep.
Nah.
Never heard of it.
It’s a ring-toss game.
Played Episode 4 of The Wolf Among Us last night. Holy shit, this game just can’t stop being so damn good. I wish The Walking Dead could be as good though..
Anyone that hasn’t listened to this yet
Probably should.
It’s pretty amazing
Turns out he has done a Dark Souls Medley which is pretty damn rad!
I tweeted this link, but I’ll drop it here too because HAWT!
http://snefer.blogspot.se/2014/05/wolfenstein-new-order-artdump-part-1.html
Who’s played the Awakened DLC for Dead Space 3? A mate and I are doing a video run through of the game and I’m thinking we should get the DLC as well since neither of us have ever played it. From what I’ve read it’s a bit patchy and short but sounds kind of good anyway.
Thoughts?
Try asking again tomorrow.
For anyone interested, a Mario Kart 8 session has been set for 7:30 tonight!
Mario Kart sure is shiny.
http://instagram.com/p/opJIustaij/
Shaved my head!
Not enough bald.
Yeah he has to now get out the cut throat and some shaving cream I reckon!
Heh. Looking good, man. In my opinion, it really highlights your eyes/brows, which is a good thing. The length works, too; you’re totally pulling that off.
Aw thanks man! 🙂
Toughguy DC!
Also, as @Sernobulus stated on previous page… Mario Kart multi at 7:30pm tonight!
Probably won’t be able to make it 🙁 but i will keep you posted
I’m in if I can figure out how Nintendo’s online system works.
Even Nintendo can’t figure out how their online system works.
Be sure to get Nintendo IDs on taynames!
Hello fellows!
Here are the details for TAY MK8!
Name: TAY Kart
Code: 6219-0979-9527
150cc, All Items, CPU on, Private (code required)
The Tournament is open every night from 7:30 to 11:30 – you can also race in it outside of these times, but your wins/losses won’t be counted towards your ranking (practice mode)
See you all at 7:30! (Man I hope I set this up right :P)
Coolies! thanks for that… should we add that info to TAYlist or something? how “permanent” is this tournament?
I’m adding it to Taynames now! (EDIT: It’s on the TAY Servers page of TAYNAMES now)
It’s permanent as far as I can tell. Doesn’t give you the option to specify an end date if you choose “daily”, so I guess it goes on forever!
Let’s assume I’m am idiot and walk me through how to set that up?
Go to “Online” in the game, input the code, wait for 7:30, Race.
Once you’ve input the code once it gets saved so you don’t have to do it every time.
Don’t need everyone as friends? I have like two people.
I don’t think so. To race outside of this you will, though.
Should probably mention in regards to @powalen’s post that you need to press the “tournament” option then “search by code”. Atleast, that’s how I did it.
I just registered it as a favourite! IS IT 7:30pm ALREADY!?
*looks at watch*
THANKS FOR TELLING ME!
GAWSH
I’m just at the inlaws, hope to be joining shortly.
Aaaaand credits. Glad that’s over with *throws in the bin*
So this is me… hard at work, and definitely have not spent the past 4 hours browing youtube… aaaaanyway, @rize, you should probably watch this if you haven’t already because it’s pretty fun:
Skyrim Backstory – Boethiah’s Miinvu
I decided to create a new game in Skyrim. I created a Redguard character with no pupils in his eyes and a bitchin’ moustache. I was trying to think of a name for this character, and somehow created a really in-depth backstory. I made sure the backstory was mostly lore-accurate. I sort of wrote it on the fly, so I apologise if the writing is a bit shit at times.
The identity of the Miinvu is unknown, but fragments of his backstory have been pieced together by scholars.
This Redguard man was once boy who lived in the town of Balmora in Vvardenfell. The commonly held belief is that he was born in 4E 128. The boy’s parents were unknown, but it is believed they were middle-class Redguards.
Tales from the time period indicate that there was a massive bandit raid on Balmora by bandits in 4E 142. The Miinvu would have been 14 at the time. The bandits who conducted the raid killed all the adults and took all the children as slaves. The bandits cut out all the eyes of the children they enslaved, in order to prevent their escape.
The bandit clan travelled all over Nirn, claiming more slaves. When he was 28, the eyeless Redguard man was sold to a rich merchant family on the Hammerfell side of the border to Hammerfell and Skyrim. He was never given a name by the bandits or by the merchant family. He was merely nicknamed ‘Eyeless.’
When the slave was 73, his master died, and he fled during the chaos. Blind and confused, he ran and ran until he came upon a shrine for the Daedric prince Boethiah. Boethiah restored gave back his eyes and restored his vision, but his eyes lacked pupils. Eternally grateful for Boethiah’s gift, he pledged fealty to his new mistress.
Boethiah knew just from looking at the old man that he was the dovahkiin. She knew that he had great power that she could abuse. Boethiah christened the man Boethiah’s Miinvu. (Miinvu is dovahzul for eyeless)
Boethiah gave him one mission:
The Champion of Boethiah had abused his title and started a bandit clan in Knifepoint Mine in Skyrim. It was the job of Boethiah’s Miinvu to slay the former champion, and take the title of Boethiah’s Champion.
Boethiah’s Miinvu attempted to cross the border, but was arrested. Now he is in Helgen, awaiting his execution.
Nice backstory. I like producing backstory for my skyrim characters
You know, I wish Hadvar could have been a follower in Skyrim. I like that guy.
Just got word that Mum’s operation is done, and all went as well as could be expected! yay!
Wasn’t sure if they were going to do it today as they were originally not sure if her body was up for it, but glad it’s all done and over. Now just have to hope the recovery goes as smoothly! She’s gonna be all kinds of sore for a while I’d say, but with any luck she’ll be back to her old self in a few months! Now comes the difficult bit of finding out if she’s losing her mind. My dad told me that she said everything was under control with all the renovations and stuff that had been going on, and that there was enough money left over to take a small holiday, but sounds like Dad’s discovered that might not be entirely true. How bad it is remains to be seen yet, but my uncle’s gonna come up and help him sort through it tomorrow. Apparently they’re also being sued by some carpet company for $3000 for not cancelling an order or some such too. Hopefully this isn’t a sign that mum’s beginning to go the way of my Grandma already (she’s got dementia). Fingers crossed that it all works out. Getting to be a bit much to find out all this shit in such a short space of time :\
Heh, it’s pretty cool to read a book in Skyrim, and realise the author is an in-game NPC. I think that’s pretty awesome.
I noticed this when i read A Gentleman’s Guide to Whiterun which is may as well have been written by a creepy version of transientmind.
So transientmind then 😛
@mrtaco did you see randomly see that MiiVerse post you commented on? 😛
I don’t know what you’re talking about 😛
This guy!
TES Skyrim – Boethiah’s Miinvu
Dear TAY,
I have observed the Miinvu travelling as I watch him from afar. He talked to many a person. He travelled far. Then he was killed by a spriggon and lost an hour of gameplay. He reloaded from Riverwood, and decided not to talk to anyone for a while. The Miinvu killed an old woman living in the woods because she looked evil or something. He ventured southward for a while, until he came upon Falkreath, the town of the dead. He talked a lot and did a few quests. He got hit on by a barmaid, despite being 73 years old. I suppose the barmaid was attracted to his luscious moustache. I don’t blame her, it’s magnificent.
Whilst searching for Knifepoint Mine, he was attacked by 3 bandits. This was not a problem for him, as he had Boethiah’s blessing on his side. Through a note on one of the bandit corpses, he discovered that the not had been sent by the sister of the old lady he had murdered. He learnt a valuable lesson that day; if you are going to kill old ladies, make sure to kill their entire family first.
The Miinvu ran around aimlessly, before discovering Knifepoint Mine, the denizen of the former Champion of Boethiah. He will kill the champion, and restore honour to Boethiah. He will then be able to truly conduct all his business under his mistress’s name.
He has paused in front of the entrance, almost as if he is waiting for me to finish writing my letter. I fear he has become aware of my presence. I pray to my mistress Azura that this letter reaches TAY. I accept the risks, as page seven is long gone.
With Azura’s blessing,
Darvynea the Watcher
I take my elder scrolls lore wayyy too seriously. I did some searching to make sure the name of the person at the end had a true-to-lore Dunmer female name.
Dear TAY,
I watched Boethiah’s Miinvu enter Knifepoint Mine, and then his game froze. Skyrim is a land of such bitter cold that even the game froze.
With Azura’s blessing,
Darvynea the Watcher
Wolfenstein is really good. I’d heard the rumors but had to see it for myself. Need to take a break from it for a bit due to 5 hours solid playing it just now.
I wish I’d known it was a 40gb download before grabbing it on Steam though. 🙁 I can handle it – 500gb/month plan – but it’s a huge size.
TAY MARIO KART
I stuffed up the settings and cant change them tonight. We’re using this code for tonight only!
9065-3735-9539EDIT: I think it’s all over for tonight. We’ll play again soon! (I’ll get the proper Tournament up and running with the good settings tomorrow and hopefully delete this one we used tonight)
You make me sad. =( You all do.
But I did get new PJs so, Yay!
You should befriend someone with a copy of the game and lives close to you. Then you can do 2 player online play! \o/
Don’t worry, it only runs at 59 fps, so it’s a noob game for scrubs.
No one near me has it =(
Hi, guys.
I’m back.
I bought Krispy Kreme donuts in Sydney, but accidentally left them on the plane. D:
Also, I picked up Princess Mononoke and Tales from Earthsea on Blu-ray, as well as the Italian Job (the original with Michael Caine) on DVD.
You were only supposed to blow the bleeding doors off.
I love that movie.
TIL: I am absolutely terrible at Mario Kart. Like beyond terrible.
Yeah, I’m pretty bad at it. Damn everyone else for being good! Still, it was a lot of fun (in the games I didn’t get disconnected from).
That was a pretty fun session though. Lots of people.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bo9TwhnIQAASedB.jpg
You unlocked the meaning of life?!
I’ll have to jump in on the next one, we were playing 3 player so couldn’t go online.
I’m glad they at least allowed 2 player online (and 4 player Grand Prix) 😀
So how’s the Wii U? What games did you get with it? Which ones are you planning on getting?
Pretty good so far, I only have Nintendo Land, ZombiU, MK8 & Pikmin, only played Nintendo Land solo but I can see some potential for silly multiplayer, Mario Kart is great, I played it for 8 hours straight and Pikmin is awesome, meant to have a quick go and ended up playing for ages. Not sure what else I’ll be getting yet, probably Wonderful 101 eventually and possibly Donkey Kong tropical freeze, any recommendations?
It depends on what genres you like and whether you’re willing to rebuy games (like Wind Waker), but I’ll just list good exclusive ones other than W101 and DKCTF
– Super Mario 3D World (a MUST BUY IMO)
– Wind Waker HD
– New Super Mario/Luigi U (I don’t like 2D Mario games as much as 3D ones, so I wasn’t a huge fan of them, but other people enjoy them)
– Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (MH is a great series, but it’s not for everyone)
– LEGO City Undercover (I haven’t played it myself but I’m waiting for a price drop, I’ve heard good things about it though)
As for W101, I haven’t played it yet but I love Platinum Games/Clover and I selected that as my free game from the MK8 promotion. I’ve only played a bit of the Donkey Kong Country series here and there, but I really enjoyed my time with Tropical Freeze. It’s pretty terrible for co-op though 😛
Hey MK8 friends! Just a heads up that you can register the Club Nintendo code and redeem the free game already 😀
I did it in the evening and I instantly got the code after filling out the required surveys. Easy peasy!
yeah, I did it straight away, It only took me 50 minutes to get Pikmin 3 on Wifi, while I was playing MK8, just played a chunk of Pikmin after about 8 hours straight of MK8 (some with Jimu), it was great, not sure if I should play Watch Dogs or more Kart now, looks like I have far too many games to consider sleeping tonight 😛
Having a slight panic attack over cosplays D=
Well you might want to have it somewhere else, so that you don’t damage them.
Pretty stoked to be playing kotor on an iPad.
The future is here.
How shit are the controls?
I’m not finding them too bad actually. The turning could be a little tighter but I haven’t adjusted the sensitivity.
It’s a pretty good port as far as I can tell 🙂
How baby food go?
Go baby good!!!
I want aghoetto booty 😀
And that’s all he wrote.
I don’t think @strange likes me :S
I’ll have to give her a pedicure when I meet her in person,:Digital winning here over er!!!
Dammit, why does everyone think I don’t like them!?!
Because you’re scary.
And old. I don’t think the age has anything to do with it, but I just feel like it needed to be reiterated, because it’s definitely not an old and tired joke (I was going to say “unlike you” here, but then I realised that the word “joke” at the end sort of turned it from my usual dickery into something actually mean, so it’s for the best that I refrained, and nobody knew just how much of a wanker I am).
I know you like me, because I’m amazing!
😛
Whoa @dc is reading these comments at the same time I posted them. Weirdddd!
Hahaha! Sober me doesn’t think you don’t like me, just that we haven’t had much interaction, haha!
Drunk me remembered you downvoted me one time, so was like, “She hates me!!!!!”
Aww man, I even like drunk you! 😀
Hahahahahahahahshshkajskskdjdjs!!!
:ad
Indeed.
You say this now, but next March you’ll be experiencing this first hand ;D
Still super keen, beeteedubs 😀
I shiudld just buy. A ticket to Brisbane already :3 take @cd to a gay club cause o said I would 😀 he’d love it!
Urgh, so drink @:D
Screwed for wiek, bound I di.tc! Would rather be dry k and ha e fun then not be drink and be a drone :S
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say
Reading back, I don’t understand what I was trying to say :3
I earned $5 for grinding on some girl!!! :Feasiest money evah!!!!!
Was a good day today.
Had some errands to run in and about the city – running early, I ducked into a little laneway cafe & bar I’d never explored, by the looks of it it’s popular with all the trendy beautiful people though. Not a single average-looking person in sight. Had a pretty average couple Irish coffees while killing time, though. The food seemed interesting (if a bit wanky), but it’s not a great idea to order food at places where you don’t know how long it’ll take, before an appointment.
When I wrapped up my business, bumped into an old friend from high school and his lady, just visiting the city. I took them to the nearest bar for a few drinks and a catch-up before they had to keep moving to meet family (knowing their destination, deadline, and public transport, I’m pretty sure I made ’em a teensy bit late, which is a shame because I know he wanted to hang around a little more, and I definitely did – he was always one of the good ones).
Running an errand took me up to the Myer Centre and on a whim I visited the Korean place next to the cinema: ‘Boom Boom’. I had to look up the name, just now. The food was very decently-priced, tasted fantastic and was more than I could eat (mostly because I had a change of plans and had to dash). The only complaint would be that it took 10-20min for the set to come out in stages when really meant to be eaten together, but with the luxury of time, that’ll be a great place to re-visit. Lotta young Korean-looking patrons too, so I guess somewhat authentic? Never had Korean before, couldn’t tell.
Oddly though, most of the reviews I saw just now call the place terrible. Goes to show you can’t trust reviews, I guess; I’m totally going there again. Might’ve been because I’m thinking the staff don’t speak much/any English, but that’s not really necessary when you can point at a menu and hand over cash.
Salaryman special of wings and Kirin beer at the gyoza place up the road from my place, for dinner, when I got back to the valley. A couple fingers of Glen Moray to round out the evening.
That shots classy as ficj 😀
I’mma take Err’body our clubbing!!! My shout!
Where Ebert am.iiiiittttt :?’?!?!
Love you aklkllllljkhlk? Bb
I would like to redeem this, thanks.
If I’m ever in your area, then deal! 😀
What is work. With Rh hhhhhiiiiiiiiissssssssss shortest!!! Mt shorts are sexy!!!! Why won’t clubs let men in with shorts!!!
I’mma fly to bridges.S and Dr o clubbing Th eye instead! 😀
I really should sleep, or I could just have one more game, hmmm
*turns on console*
Stealing peoples McDonald’s cause we’re do ratchet 😀
So, wiiFit update, I seem to be gaining weight and am now borderline overweight. Ugh.
Could well be muscle growth, especially if you’re using muscles you don’t regularly use. I’ve not lost that much weight from the gym (been in the 180kg range for a year) but that’s because I’ve gone from having something like 30kg of muscle to something around 100kg of muscle, that means a lot of fat has gone but it’s been exchanged for muscle.
But my BMI is all out of whack now
BMI isn’t really an effective measure, more of a sort of range or guide.
If you want to lose weight, do cardio, so things like walking and jogging (all over toning), step ups (good for getting a booty ;D), cycling (core / legs), etc. Brackets indicate primary worked muscles.
You’ll gain muscle from this too, but you’ll burn fat faster.
Also, your diet effects weight gain / loss (obviously). Avoid high sugar snacks. Things like popcorn and celery are good snacks. It’s also better to eat regularly, and consistently each day.
Coffee and chilli boost your metabolism, so adding a bit of chilli with dinner / having a coffee of a morning is a good thing to do, although, don’t overdo the coffee, haha!
Most importantly, don’t get discourage cause you’re not seeing the results you want immediately. These things take time, so just stick with it and you’ll start to see improvements 🙂
Best of luck anyway 😀
Take it from someone who’s been fat all his life, BMI is worthless. It’s at best an average and, somewhat ironically, if a person perfectly fits the average they’re a statistical freak.
Applying a single BMI calculation to a group is as flawed a concept as mass producing ergonomic furniture. What’s that you say? You have a specifically tailored chair that’s absolutely perfect for one person? Lets build them by the thousands and tell everyone its perfect for them then blame them if they don’t feel comfortable because they fall outside the ergonomic envelope. We had those at school, ergonomic desks and chairs perfectly designed to be comfortable to everyone who was exactly the size the designers made them for and with me being dramatically taller than everyone else, my knees hated them, the people who bought them, the people who designed them, the people who built them and everyone any of those people ever met. Does it show that I’m still slightly bitter about being told I was the one at fault because the furniture was made by “experts”?
Everyone’s biology is subtly different, don’t be discouraged by numbers that shouldn’t apply to you unless they’ve been personally determined by a doctor. Even then as long as you feel better than when you started, that’s the only thing that matters, after all the process is at least as important as the result and taking up exercise is a good thing to do and damnit you should feel good for doing it!
Just remember, BMI is useless.
I CAN’T DECIDE, TAY HELP ME!
Free game from Nintendo;
Pikmin 3, or wonderful 101?
DECISIONS! HALP!
Pikmin is my favourite Wii U game!
I think Pikmin 3 would be a better choice.
I’ve only played Pikmin so I can’t compare the actual gameplay, but like most Platinum games, I’m assuming W101 is targeted at a certain niche whereas Pikmin (being a first party Nintendo game) has a more wide appeal. I think it reviewed a bit better as well.
Have you played previous Pikmin games or Platinum Games games?
Nah this would be my first foray into the Pikmin series… for some reason in my childhood, everything nintendo sort of just passed me by 😛
I want Mario Kart and Pikmin 3. I hate you all! So jelly! :p
That’s exactly what I just got. 😀
Cool thanks guys, read some reviews and stuff, and Pikmin definitely seems like the better choice… i’ll still pick up Wonderful 101 one day, but it’ll be once i can find it in the bargain bin 😛
I’d say there’s more chance of finding wonderful 101 in a bargain bin than there is Pikmin 3. Nintendo IP games don’t go on sale anywhere near as much as others.
late to the party but PIIIIKMIIIIN!!!!
I may be bias though cause I loved the first 2 and so far the third is pretty fantastic. Also I’ve never played Wonderful 101 so there’s that too 😛
i was too late…
wonderful 101 is the best game on Wii U (totally no bias by me)
Will Bayonetta 2 take its crown?
I really hope so, if it’s better than bayo 1, then yes.
Some things I learned this weekend: the main sister trio in queen’s blade blade engage in incest, 1 of the brain bleach worthy abilities from la blue girl is used by at least 2 characters in queen’s blade, *spoilers* raygyo from kill la kill loves to commit incest against her daughters, kill la kill is very similar to magi maddoka where the big bads in both sees the usecof magical girls as expendable assists, there may be a 2nd season of magi maddoka
Ragyo wasn’t a very nice lady. Awesome theme song though, so I suppose that makes up for the rape and years of child abuse.
That’s probably my worst yet :S
Super embarrassed.
I’m sorry :’O
I think I need to ease up a bit :S
Ehh, it’s a weekend, I wouldn’t worry too much.
Now I’m off to reminisce on the days of FatSpammy (SpamShady?), Blaghspam, et alia.
Is anyone MKarting tonight? I’ll be at the inlaws again, I just need to know whether to take my WiiU there or not.
i might try and join the shenanigans tonight!
We could easily get people to play again tonight.
I’m up for some multiplayer, probably. 7:30pm again?
Sure! 😀
@powalen make sure to change the TAY tournament rules! (or do you want us to keep using the second one?). And I believe Voice Chat is for friend only lobbies (not tournaments), but who knows!
Already updated (and deleted the second one)
I think we’re going to be using the Friends rooms now though. Those are the only place that have voice chat!
Unless we want to try using Teamspeak or something? Tournaments are easier to manage (don’t have to add everyone to your friends list)
@sughly! You’ve been tagged this time! 😀
Yessss! I dont usually check kotaku on weekends either though, twitter me next time something comes up pleaaaaase ^^ Is it the same code thing pow sent? I dont really know how to do this multi stuff yet
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-278/comment-page-13/#comment-2705605
Enter the code from this post on the tournament screen in multiplayer! 😀
The group is called TAY Kart!
Mariokart 8’s soundtrack is a pretty cool guy… May or may not have gotten a bit too excited when the Gusty Garden music started from Super Mario Galaxy XD
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/05/if-you-were-ever-bored-in-class-watch-tonari-no-seki-kun/#comment-2708747
Started watching this on Crunchyroll inbetween playing Diablo 2, my god this show is hilarious!
Holy shit I think that’s the worst I’ve ever slept in before. Kinda woke around 2:30, then 4:15, then 5:15 when it finally stuck. Had way too big a day yesterday, on way too little sleep. Helping to move furniture around and stuff to set things up/pack them away for Mario Kart day and everything. Which was pretty great! But the church basement that we used to always use for these things was stripped back completely, it was once full of couches and TVs and a stage with drumkit, and a pool table, nonfunctioning air hockey table, the walls were covered in chalk scribblings and pictures everywhere… none of any of that any more. So stark and empty and soulless and sad. Still, had plenty of fun.
Gave Wingman a lift home though, which was a bad idea because that meant that we stayed up late talking and talking and talking for ages as always happens. But this time it was in the car, and even though it didn’t seem like all that long, my car kind of wouldn’t start again once I finally got around to leaving 😛 But after some faffing around and a bit of googling, we attempted to give it a rolling start – and it was surprisingly easier and more successful than either of us expected. Totally felt accomplished after that \o/ So lucky that the entire side of the road I was parked on had no one else parked on it though 😛
Also just now, I started up my (old) computer and rather than just making the loud noise that the graphics card fan does whenever it starts up, there was a loud noise coming from the hard drive too. Extremely worrying. Guess I should take it out and run that backup I’ve been meaning to for the last decade or something…
Hit a point right toward the end of Chapter 10 (of 16) in Wolfenstein which I am simply unable to complete. Simply too hard, too many big armored enemies at once and I think it was respawning dudes on me too when I was using a certain gun. Taking a break, will see about going back to it later, give it another go when I’m fresh (played just shy of 5 hours solid this afternoon, it’s really good and pulling you in) and if I can’t do it I guess I have to drop the difficulty and turn in my non-casual gamer card 🙁
No shame in that, buddy. Play for the story and fun, not the difficulty. 🙂
Yeah, this.
There’s no shame in playing on a lower difficulty, @negativezero.
Especially since you can play it on a harder difficulty later when you know the ins and put of the levels, and know the best way to finish it.
I never play games on anything higher than the lowest difficulty on my fist run, because I like it for the fun that comes from it. If it’s a really good game, I’ll go back to it and do it on a harder difficulty.
I’m only ever going to play this through once. I feel like I should be capable of finishing it on the difficulty designed for normal people, and if that’s not the case they’ve tuned it wrong.
I’ve been playing more and more games this way. I’ve come to the realization that I don’t have much time for most games as ‘games’ where non-transferrable skills are repeated. Dark Souls? Sure. TF2? Not so much. I mostly want to see new things, not master something old.
Is that at the end of the train tracks after you hit the button up in the control room?
I really struggled there too. Took me about 15 attempts.
I got past it eventually by clearing the first wave, then sprinting back to the room at the start of the tracks area where there was a battery charger. Charged the laser gun and shot the shit out of the three super-dudes with it from range and ran back to recharge repeatedly.
That gun needs to hold like 20 times what it actually holds. I unlocked the recharge a bit later in but it recharges so fucking slow you can’t rely on it, and when you get the targeting sights for it you can have it unexpectedly empty the whole clip in one shot (on the other hand that one shot can take out one of the huge armored guys)
@tigerion not sure if i’ll be able to make it to trivia tomorrow night, but would totally be up for meeting/catching up Tuesday evening/night with any one else if they like or are available.
Aha! You land here today?
Yeah, should be around 11:30 at Tullamarine lol.
So last night I convinced my dad to play Halo Reach firefight. I spent ages going through the options so that he was a OP as possible. I gave him 3,000% health, 300% damage, and made it so it only spawned grunts for the first 10 minutes.
I didn’t so much play as I did spectate. I ran around and directed him towards enemies that he should be shooting at. I sometimes helped out if there were too many enemies on-screen. I didn’t want him to get sensory overload, even the act of moving around was complex for him. He did surprisingly well. He didn’t so much aim at enemies as much as he strafed left and right, firing his insta-kill assault rifle. I suppose the auto-aim really helped him out. Speaking of auto-aim…
Holy shit does Halo have a lot of auto-aim. I didn’t realise it until now. It’s really obvious when you are running circles around the enemy and not shooting. It’s not some much auto-aim as it is auto-lock-on. The grunt would be strafing in front of me, and my gun would automatically follow him.
We ended up winning in the end. Even though I set it to only spawn grunts, elites and even hunters showed up at the end. I hope he enjoyed the experience. My dad is the kind of person that hates anything that is not educational. He has admitted to never reading a fiction book in his life; he has only read non-fiction books. He considers doing anything that doesn’t expand his knowledge to be a waste of time. Movies are the exception.
My middle brother has been trying to get my Mum into Portal. The first few chambers were purely an exercise in understanding how to move and look, let alone figuring out puzzles.
However long I might have spent on any of the hardest puzzles, Mum spent about that long figuring out how to pick up a cube and place it on a pressure button to make it keep a door open. In that respect, I think the game’s pretty well-paced, because while seasoned gamers probably shrugged it off as familiarizing yourself with the surroundings and a ‘taste of what’s to come’ to be completed in a few seconds, a true novice really needs that step.
Good games of Mario Kart tonight everyone, I didn’t do too bad considering I joined with 50 points to catch up on the leader (Joel who I’m pretty sure is Greenius :P), by the time he left I was only 4 points off,
I was too in my head. Making stupid mistakes. Like driving on dirt for no reason. I’m ten times worse at this game in multi than I am in single. XD
The whole game’s so much more hectic in multi. While I’ve mostly only played 50CC in SP, I found that I could get ahead, and even being hit by 2 blue shells in one race at times, I could just sit out front and win.
Which, actually, just seems to be what Pow does.
I can be coming first an entire race in multi or close to it and catastrophically screw up last lap through idiocy. XD
I tend to mess up in multi more too, it’s the pressure dammit, not too bad in Kart though. Good games all the same :D.
Wario must be OP! (or you’re the new Powalen when Powalen’s not around :P)
There’s only 2 games I claim to be good at online Mario Kart and Battlefield. That was actually only my second time using Wario, been bouncing around trying to pick someone, think I found my new choice :D.
And I think I found a new nemesis! 🙂
I still haven’t found a good set up yet. I just pick someone green and choose whatever parts. I think I might go back to using a bike 😛
yeah, i picked the boat cause…. it’s a boat. 😀
I still suck. 😀 You played really well, well done.
Just a reminder that @quiz_b is in town next Sunday. (June 8th.)
There will be a meat in either the late afternoon/early evening/evening. Details pending, but most likely around CBD.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
But i’m not here for that D=
Awww yeah!
Ok, so after a whole bunch of googling it’s not all that much clearer on how to do this whole backup thing.
I’ve got my old machine, running win98 on an 80GB hard drive partitioned into something like ~7 and ~66GB partitions, from memory. The hard drive’s in a caddy thing, so I can easily pull it out and hook it up to a USB-IDE adapter and plug it into my new machine. I assume that having an IDE connection means I won’t be able to just plug it straight into the new machine, since the implication around the place seems to be that if a motherboard uses SATA connections then it doesn’t use IDE. I’ve got a 500GB hard drive in this machine which has enough space to plonk an 80GB image. But the stuff I’ve read seems to keep talking about putting a spare hard drive into the machine that the drive to be copied is sitting in, and all this other stuff faffing about with Linux live CDs and stuff.
So is there an easier way to go about all this, particularly without leaving this machine unable to be used for the next however many hours it takes for the process to run its course?
Find all your photos and documents and copy them to USB flash, or burn them to disc. They are your valuables, the rest you can simply re-download (movies, music etc.)
Nah, I have a whole tonne of stuff on there that’s spread all over the joint. I did write out a list of all the folders with important stuff in them once, but that was years ago and I have no idea where it’s ended up since. There was a lot though. Much easier to just get it all out in one go I think, and be able to search through it later for specific stuff. Less time the thing’s running, the better, right?
Use Recuva. It will scan and sort by documents, images, audio or video for you.
So a friend of mine linked me to Troldhaugen (band, not the house), and they have a version of Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! by ABBA, and it is just amazing. Guess it shows you what happens when you live in The Gong and so have nothing better to do with your time.
Goodnight, all!
See you in new TAY!
No! I’ll stay here forever >:|