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Morning all!
I’ve been playing Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. @dc’s reputation is on the line. I’m up to Chapter Nine now, and so far, it’s a solid game. Nothing particularly exceptional (though I do like the setting) at this stage, but nothing that’s bugging me either. Though reading reviews may have built up my expectations of the story a little too much, I’m enjoying it. Trip is real purdy.
I was going to warn you that the story on its own isn’t any thing mind blowing. It’s the sum of all parts and the charm and character and character dynamic and all that. The sense of place with the world, etc.
Ah well. I’m still enjoying it.
It’s one of those games I always meant to get around to one day, feels like it’d fit into my ‘solid 70 percenter’ bracket where it’d be okay if it wasn’t spectacular as long as it had enough redeeming features to keep me entertained for a day or 2.
Character dynamic is a good selling point though, that was one of the things I liked the most about Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time (well that and everything else about the game since it was pretty much perfection and style incarnate at the time)
Good morning, TAYshine. The Earth says ‘Hello’
I read that and then heard it in Leonard Nimoy’s voice.
Keep watching the skis.
http://www.exoticskis.com/ExoticSkis/Images/skis/Storm/ExoticSkisInfernoLab1_500.jpg
Great, now I can’t look away. There goes all productivity.
You twinkle above us, we twinkle below
Guten Morgen TAYbies. How vas your veekend?
Mine vasn’t too exciting. Lots of vork, und a little bit of ze Vatch Hunds.
Also, found out zis morning zat I am an uncle again. Wunderbar!
Congratulations! \o/
Been playing Wolfenstein?
That would be the one game above all others that I would expect to discourage people from putting on a German accent.
Nein! Zis is what happens ven I only have 5 hours sleep.
Although, I need to get back into zat.
Wunderbar! Vhen is the little schmootsnbraugh due?
My veekend was good I picked up a nintendo Vii U, have yet to do anything vith it.
All W’s are now V’s
But you just said “Wunderbar” and not “Vunderbar.”
German is tough 🙁
My new niece vaz born zis morning.
Huzzah! Ve must celebrate!
I’m imagining it would have been a good week for the Wii U ( I hope), I picked one up too and so far it’s pretty great, played the hell outta Mario Kart and Pikmin 3. I hope you get some quality time in with your new toy soon 😀
I has the terrible vifi zats vhy I’ve had no time to play games on it
and good old Nintendo won’t let you use a regular ethernet cable, no you gotta fork out for a special nintendo one 🙁
There is such a thing?! Tell me more
not 100%, need to research, there’s only a usb port, I’ve read that you can’t just use any adapter,
@gutsoup what is Pikmin 3 like? I had it in my hands at JB yesterday but chickened out 🙁
have you played any of the others? It’s pretty much more of the same but that is fine by me, it’s a very beautiful game too. Very good game. Also if you don’t know already you can get a free game when you buy Mario Kart, so you could get it free 😀
I’ve not played any of the others before, I purchased a wii u last week and the concept of the game sounds really cool so thought I should have a go. I’m tossing up between Pikmin 3 and the new Zelda with the free game, decisions!!!
hmm, tough call, I’d played through the Wind Waker already so it was always going to be my choice. Pikmin is pretty unique though, if it clicks with you you’ll get your moneys worth though.
I, uh, might’ve woke up with a plate of food next to me.
I might or might’ve not proceeded to eat said food immediately upon waking up.
I’m an adult.
Morning all
Hopefully this is the week where finances get under control. Also I’ve kicked myself up the ass with exercise and diet after the bathroom scales were mean to me so running every night. 4km done last night in intervals. Hopefully by next month I can be running the whole thing.
Gaming, making progress with 100%ing inFamous, just have the evil playthrough to do and I’ll’ve platinumed my first game. Slow but steady progress with Wolfenstein as well. Medieval 2 playthrough, the English have almost wiped the French off the map, next target is the Milanese.
Finally, less than 2 weeks until the World Cup XD my sleeping pattern is going to be non-existent throughout it all
Nice work, I’d have just thrown the scales away. 😛
Oh, also have you booked 70K yet? Are you still planning on going? We’ve decided to try and make it again so we’re crossing our fingers taxtime is good to us. But yeah, if you haven’t booked yet don’t forget to use my promo code (GHQGBOQOKM) to get us some onboard credit to buy you drinks with. 😉
tbh it’s not been in my mind. On a mission to clear all of my debt by year’s end so have put off Bloodstock this year 🙁 70,000 could be a possibility though and likewise, if tax return is kind then I don’t see why we can’t go. There’s already more than enough bands that I love playing so it’s just the money side of things. Plus if we go to Florida a trip to Disneyworld would have to be factored into it 😀 After today/tomorrow when we find out how much of a payout the missus gets from her old job then I’ll be in a much better position to say yay or nay
On a sidenote, we’ve been tempted to get on the roof of the Tempo and cut down the Gloryhammer flag poster that’s still up. Apparently the company who ran the Tempo has gone into receivership so no idea what’s happening with it
It’s probably somehow illegal so I can’t condone grabbing it, but GRAB IT! 😛
Oh man, I’ve lost count of how many people after the tour was over said to me they’d finally listed to Gloryhammer and loved them. They sure missed out on something special with that tour. Oh well, maybe everyone will listen to me more often, now. 😛
I only got into them cos you mentioned them from last year’s cruise and then Liz got a bit obsessive with them 😀 hahaha People never listen to me about bands though 🙁
Had a quick squiz at the tickets and a lot of the cheaper cruise tickets have gone. I think we’d be waiting for tax time as well though. There’s 4 person room for $999 each that seems to be the cheapest atm but it’d be a month or two before we can think about booking anyway. Hopefully not too long that it sells out
Yeah, we’re hoping there’s no more band announcements before mid-July just in case it drives sales up. 😛
Got some solid knitting in over the weekend. Still got a lot to go. Hoping to also start on armour too.
It’s June, starting to feel the panic rise.
Genetically engineer 2 more arms, then you can knit both ends of a thing at once and meet in the middle!
Of course you’d need to change all your shirts first to accommodate the extra arms. Perhaps cloning would be more practical
cloning sounds like a good option
You could start a Scree Cosplay Warehouse, providing cloned cosplay artisans for a reasonable price
Oh man, all the mental breakdowns!
In the distance people will hear an anguished chorus shouting “I can’t find the exact wool!!”
I can’t find the exact shade of turquoise!
I’m terrible at this responsible finances thing.
Bought Mario Kart on the weekend (couldn’t pass up the $52 Big Dubya deal), even though I’m terrible at racing and will only enjoy it if there’s some decent battle arena DLC.
I then proceeded to play Monster Hunter instead of Mario Kart. Finished the G rank key quests, got uncapped and now I’m level 44!
Good job!
Good job!
You have surpassed me now D: (I still want to know what my uncapped rank will be!).
Any weekend you want to knock over those key quests, I’ll happily join in and smash some monsters.
Probably struggled the most with randoms dying on the deviljho. Stygian zingore was pretty nasty as well. Final urgent quest boss was … interesting.
Looking forward to some of the 8+ stuff now like making the gold rathian set.
Good morning all. Hope you all had a good weekend. I did some stuff on the weekend and it was pretty good. Except for Dark Souls 2.
Shpx lbh Fzrygre Qrzba.
Hop online for a bit and grab the latest patch for that guy. Apparently he got nerfed a fair bit.
Understatement.
I have the patch downloaded. Still got my arse handed to me because of a Dex build that didn’t provide me many options against him and the fact that I was getting stupid and frustrated as I kept dying to him. Also getting invaded and killed as I was going back to fight him, losing about 70 K souls was a kick in the nads.
Ew, invasion lost is a kick in the nads alright. I highly recommend running around with the ring of life protection, whatever it’s called. When you die it breaks and costs 3k to repair, but you keep your stuff. Invaluable when you’re running around with tens of thousands of souls.
This. I pretty much didn’t take it off for my entire playthrough (except for when I was co-opping as a phantom in someone else’s world, because there’s no penalty for dying there). There are also several of them strewn around the world, which means you don’t have to go back to Majula after every death; just equip the next ring. By the time I reached NG++, I had four of them, which was more than enough to get me through any area.
That last sentence is exactly why I haven’t bothered to touch my copy of Dark Souls II. That’s basically exactly what killed the previous game for me too.
There are 3 anime that changed the lives of characters via transport accidents with ghostly consequence: magi madoka a character who lay dying due to crash organised by KYYYUUUBBBEEEYY turned her into a magical girl lich, ghost in the shell has major kusanagi BARELY surviving an aircraft accident before being remade into a cyborg & last off is the kastle siblings in yugioh zexal who DIED in a car crash which killed their entire family then the BODIES of the kastle siblings got PERMENTLY POSSESED by 2 powerful barian siblings which are actually dark matter enrgy beings, ah it is just the morning & I managed put a nightmare fuel post
Also Gantz crbcyr trg orurnqrq ol n genva, erfhygf va tnvavat cbjref, fbegn
I read SO MUCH of that manga and gave up after a long time of it going nowhere. What the heck happened in that? I got up to the bit where…
gurl jrer svtugvat gurfr uhtr uhtr fgnghrf ng n xvaq bs ohqquvfg fuevar cynpr, naq n snve nzbhag bs znva punenpgref jrer trggvat xvyyrq bss. Juvpu V thrff cebonoyl qrfpevorf n ybg bs fprarf ohg naljnlf… nyfb gurer jrer qvabfnhef ng fbzr cbvag va guvf puncgre? Naq ur ebqr n pvepyr ovxr nebhaq n ovg? *fuehtf*
I’m not that far into it, so sorry not sure,
Holy mother of run-on sentences! Hi. 🙂 When we’re posting spoilers here, we’re converting it with a cypher at rot13.com, usually.
I second Gutsoup on the Gantz horror. If you really want to develop a fear of being in front of the yellow line on train platforms, go watch Gantz.
Hmm, sorry Monday brain doesn’t work so well, didn’t consider the spoiler cause it’s like the opening scene but regardless is still spoilery, Edited and apologies.
Oh, no, I meant @dinoking with his list of backstory stuff, not you with Gantz, man.
Yeah, far as I’m concerned anything that happens in the start of a series’ first episode is NOT spoiler territory.
A Monday morning exercise to prepare the week and put everything in perspective:
Take note of the current time and date. Memorise it. Now, swear to dedicate the rest of your life to uncovering the secret of time travel with a promise to come back to this moment to tell yourself you succeeded.
Did you turn up? No? Good job wasting your entire life you failure.
Aw man, I get fat in the future 🙁
This is a good thing. You’re obviously well-fed so it probably means you’re all successful and stuff.
Well, I suppose time travel does make it possible to scam the lottery…
But it’s the opposite! The more overweight people are generally a result of eating inexpensive unhealthy junk food. So if anything, he’s poor!
Future me would come back a day late just to mess with me/her. 😛
I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten this date in the future >.<
Great way to make my morning even more shit, jerk 😛
I’ve always had a terrible memory, though.
Had a pretty great weekend, Such a good week for games, Wolfenstein, Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8 & Pikmin 3 (new to me). Haven’t been so spoiled for choice in a while, it was tough deciding which one to dedicate my time to. Got plenty of gaming in and even played some Kart with TAYbies, successful weekend 😀
Saw disco legend Giorgio Moroder last night at the Opera House. So good, so groovy.
Going to work today was a horrible, horrible mistake. I’m so hung over my face is stinging.
Game of Thrones tonight!
Ryvn Znegryy! Lbh encrq ure, zheqrerq ure. Lbh xvyyrq ure puvyqera. Lbh jvyy fnl ure anzr!
So hyped.
So a few Christmasses ago some of you may remember I was making a quilt for my Nan but rushed the quilting to try and finish in time and ended up ruining it. I was devastated, as she’s the one who bought me my sewing machine and I wanted to make her something awesome to thank her.
A year and a half of unpicking later and I’ve finally finished it off properly. I even did a little “I’ve finished!” dance. And while I had it laid out on the pool table before wrapping it up for Nan, every single time my daughter went past it she couldn’t resist and had to touch it, running her hands over the texture. Which is pretty much the best reaction, and highest compliment a quilter could wish for. 😀
Always the best feeling when your work is appreciated. 🙂
success! I need to see some of your quilts, I hear they are rather legendary.
My profile on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/Strangist ) features the one I made for Gloryhammer.
I’d actually love to make one like that with Guts’ sword from Berserk. If I ever get around to making it, I’ll give it to you. 😀
I’ll buy it from you for all the moneys, that would be amazing.
I’m sure I’d be able to give it to you for the low, low price of a Meat attendance. 😀
haha, I’d die of guilt, I’d have to at least buy everything for you at that meat.
Morning, TAY!
Thanks to all my buddies that played Mario Kart 8 multiplayer on the weekend. It was a lot of fun! I think a couple of us are playing again tonight if you’re interested (usual time and place!) I keep seeing people with these amazing looking cars/bikes online. It makes me want to grind to unlock everything 😛
The rest of the weekend was pretty quiet. Made some slow-cooker chicken burritos on Sunday which were actually amazing even though I substituted a bunch of ingredients with stuff I didn’t have to go out and buy.
Also briefly picked up Pokemon X again to see if I can try and create a competitive Bug-type team for the PAX Gym Leader applications. Gave up after a little while because I figured I don’t want to be tied down to a “job” at my first PAX. Maybe next year! (Also it’s super hard to make a competitive mono-type team :P)
Mario Kart 8 multi! WOOOO!
I second this WOOOO! So much fun.
Hooray. Hoooray.
https://i.imgur.com/I5aR4yX.gif
So good that multiplayer coins count, I was playing 3 player for a while on the weekend we were unlocking 1 to 2 customization bits every grand prix. Also discovered that characters seem to unlock in random order, I got Lakitu as the second last dude but when my girlfriend played he was the first one to unlock. Also thanks for setting up Kart stuff it was a lot of fun, the connection seemed awesome too, didn’t have a single issue with lag at all,
I can hardly take credit for setting up the tournament (seriously it takes like 5 seconds :P) but thanks for playing! Once it’s set up properly it’s really easy to just jump into a race with friends, it’s great.
awesome, I hear you’re the one to beat at it, I look forward to racing 😀
Watch out for @sughly more 😛
Y’all are some tough competiton – @gutsoup even joined in after quite a few games and still dominated the score! Had a rough start but upped my game towards the end. Excited for some more toniiight, woop woop! Love this game
man that was a lot of fun, looking forward to more races. those last few races were all so damn close, can’t believe I stole first in a couple of them.
Oh it’s alright, just don’t mention me
:'(
You left so early! Thats your come uppance. What happened?
@sughly not feeling good atm so I didn’t want to stay too long
🙁
Hooray!
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Can’t be too competitive, or no one would get badges…
Well nothing TOO bad, but I couldn’t find a combination I liked that fit my “gimmick” 😛
Maybe I should give it another go, it would be pretty fun to do.
I think you’d be a great fit. There will be typed / themed leaders, and suitability for different skill levels, not just an expectation to have a serious battling team and to beat all challengers – if a gym leader beats everyone, then the elite four and champion get very bored since no one can challenge them.
Stop being so damn inspirational! 😛
Alright, I’ll apply!
Wooooooo!
Are you going to show up this time? 😛
If you’re nice to me.
Especially with Bug’s as the theme! While there are some solid contenders most Bug types can’t hold their own without other types backing them up.
There’s no defensive and speedy Reflect-carrying Bug type either, which sucks. It’s either slow and bulky (Forretress) or fast and frail (Leavanny).
EDIT: It would be great if the Custap Berry was available in XY. Then I could take advantage of Forretress’ Sturdy and get dual-screens up fairly easily.
Hola Tay
Busy weekend. Had our big work diner Friday, some of you saw the penguin suit shot on fb. Friend’s birthday saturday night, as always a fun night. Had a spontaneous visit from Lady Friend sunday and things… progressed.
Played a chunk of Saints Row IV, my god is the movement and running in that game fun. Superpowers, so good!
A Monday Morning Question: If you could have a superpower what would you pick, with the condition that your nemesis has the exact power to counter yours?
Self-esteem! 😀
Also, way to go with the lady friend/snuggle friend! 😀 You deserve good things, Red!
You and your snuggle friend, DC.
DC’s GOT A GIIIIIIIRL- FRIEND
Nice deflection there, Red. But you’ve mentioned dates and lady friends way more than I’ve mentioned snuggling. 😛 HEY EVERYONE, RED IS A PLAYER!
Hah, I can’t claim to be a player, statistically it just doesn’t work.
Video games?
That just means you need to rework the statistics red! Haven’t you heard of the rule of 3???
If I choose Immortality does my nemesis die on the spot?
My understanding is he would have the ability to beat your immoratlity =p But well trolled sir. xD
maybe it’d be like Highlander and I’d have 1 weakness and he’d know what it was.
I think it would be really good for my writing if I had the ability to read minds at will. Because it wouldn’t particularly bother me if my nemesis had a lead-lined brain.
Haven’t you seen the Buffy episode Earshot. Reading minds isn’t something you’d want, Shane.
Unless you want to find out what your parents did twice. On top of a cop car.
“At will” is the catch there. 😛
Of course if your Nemisis’ ability was not to take your mind reading powers away, but to make them active passively, all the time, at the worst moments…
Super speed… definitely super speed. Would make commuting to work so much fricking easier =,=
Plus, your nemesis would be slow as fuck.
Or like the reverse Flash and run backwards
Or he’d be like this immovable blob so that my speed wouldn’t affect him?
I would like the power to fly. This would mean my nemesis has the power to walk.
Or the power of an Anti-Air platform. 😛
Telekinesis, what would counter that though, other than more telekinesis?
The ability to become an immovable object at will?
So I couldn’t play Watch Dogs on the weekend because my wife hasn’t started it yet (having abandoned ACIII as a lost cause she wants to move onto Stick of Truth). so I decided to go back and play Lego Star Wars to 100% it because I originally 100%’d Parts 1 & 2 on PS2 before buying the Complete Saga on 360. I need more games with 1000/1000 achievement points!
Unfortunately, not only have they added the challenge mode to each level (where you have to speedrun and find 10 hidden canisters in 10 minutes) there’s also a 10 point achievement to play an entire level over Xbox Live. I don’t even have XBL Gold anymore and I doubt anyone is playing it.
I’m still enjoying the game but I did not realise this damn thing had multiplayer achievements when I started my quest to 100% completion. >:(
I’ve been playing Mario Kart multi on Wii U controller because my wifi doesn’t extend to the room with HDTV properly. (For the Wii U, it does for every other damn console. *shakes fist*) Still very playable though, but I miss the HD goodness. :'(
the Wii Us pad is surprisingly comfortable, I’ve been using it for everything except Pikmin, those controls are not good, worse if you’re left handed (didn’t check to see if switchable for leftys)
Pikmin plays best with Wiimotes, weirdly.
yeah being able to point at where you wanna throw your guys is pretty helpful, I tried for a while with the pad, it did not go so well 😛
What up TAY?
A little late to the party but I have just started playing Ass Cred 4, SHIVER ME TIMBERS! this game is awesome!
After the crapfest that was revelations and 3 I had given up on AC series, even after all the praise I had heard of 4 I had no interest in checking it out, man am I glad for specials and impulse buying.
Now, as most of the praise points out, the sailing and whaling on the moon are certainly highlights of the game, but I also just seem to enjoy the setting, characters and mission structures more this time around as well.
Not sure if it beats 2 or Brotherhood, but as I seem to still be unlocking upgrades and events, still can’t buy the diving bell, this may just make the best Ass Creed yet.
Given the opportunity I would have never purchased the diving bell. God I hated the underwater stuff.
I found just about everything else in the game fun, except for (funnily enough) the assassassassass parts of the story.
I was keen on diving cause it got all the best upgrades for the ships, didn’t get annoyed by it for some reason.
Mmm well this should be interesting. The only time I have seen the diving section was at the EB Expo and I remember thinking it would be cool to get the game just for that.
Now I wait in piqued interest to see how I will find it while actually playing… the suspense is suspenseful!
Whaling on the moon? You played a far more awesome version of Assassin’s Creed than I did. 🙁
We’re whalers on the moon
we carry a harpoon
but there aint no whales
so we tell tall tales
an sing a wailing tune
I may have been singing that while harpooning my first whale… and pretty much every one after as well 🙂
Nothing to say except “HUGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” *crashtackle hugs* 😀
STRAAAAAAAAANGE! *hides behind Clubby*
That reminds me, was out with a group of people I barely knew when someone finished a comment with “I found it strange”
I of course then had to shout out “HI STRANGE” while smiling and waving… I got some very strange, Hi Strange \o :D, looks… was a good night.
I also found ten dollars in my wallet.
Hehehe, awesome. I miss you, Mr. Hungarian Barbarian!
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/5413052160/hFC20D1BC/
Hi Hugo
I haven’t played asscred 4 (or 3) yet but I did spend the weekend playing Skyrim!!
SKYRIM!
TIGERION!
SKYRIM!
Wouldn’t waste time with 3, but definitely find 4 fun.
Murdered: Soul Suspect week.
I am going to ignore every single review and make up my own damn mind.
Looks like just my kind of game.
I don’t know anything about the game except the title and I will check it out, but in a couple of months. Too many games I am actively working on to justify another one at launch that will just gather dust. I wouldn’t have even picked up Watch dogs if I hadn’t preordered the Dedsec edition.
I just like the whole Heavy Rain/L.A. Noire adventure game hybrid aspects to it. I can forgive the flaws if this stuff is cool.
Looks like it has more of a creepy vibe going on as well as opposed to Heavy Rain and L.A. Noir which were more purely detective based games.
Oh yeah, for sure. I just mean in how it plays with adventure game hybrid stuff. 🙂
I thought it looked like an absolutely rad modern Noir detective mystery adventure game thing.
Then I watched a gameplay demo and there was combat sequences straight out of a bad Resident Evil game and interest levels, which had been at 0 at the start of the footage and were sky high by about 5-10 mins in came crashing to the ground completely.
Skipping. Will get in a Steam sale when it’s $20.
I’ll let you know how it is for the long haul though. 🙂
This week? I thought it was next week. Oh cool, new stuff then. Best polish off Observe_Puppies today then and get on with the video editing I’ve been putting off for weeks so I’m not distracted
TAY Pathfinder tonight at 8pm AEST. Same tomb place, same tomb time.
Will our valiant heroes find the heirloom and escape the tomb with their lives? One can only hope. 😛
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
Will Dem’nion trip and fall over causing him to knock himself out? 😛
How many hits would Dem’nion take if Dem’nion could take hits?
Only one… and that knocked me out (Actually half killed me)!
Hey @popdart5 – how do you handle levelling up? I think Dem’nion is going to be very sad if he rolls a 1 on his HD.
If I die first in this campaign then so be it, luck is usually against me anyway.
I might introduce Avitius or Seth, the warrior twins, one with katana and shield, the other with a scythe, one dressed in red, the other in blue.
I got LOTS of characters I could bring in that I’ve run in other RPGs 🙂
Edit: Or maybe I should bite the bullet and make a dedicated healer
“Edit: Or maybe I should bite the bullet and make a dedicated healer”
Just saw this and wanted to say “Screw that, man” – don’t feel obligated to make a character, doubly so if you don’t think you’d have fun playing them. We’ll stumble along just fine without a dedicated healer. Adds to the fun!
I’m a bit generous for levelling so players can reroll 1s when rolling new hit points. I know the pain as I had a level 7 fighter (d10 HD) who had a +3 Constitution bonus and only had 45 HP. So in the course of six level ups from my base HP of 13, I rolled 6d10+18 and only rolled 14. D:
I hear that! I had a Dwarf fighter who was remarkably similar. Could never seem to roll anything higher than a 4 for his HD.
Personally speaking (and I’m not saying we should be doing this!) I like the idea of standardised ranges for HD. E.g. on d10 HD minimum 4 maximum 7. Or even 1/2HD+1 or something. Keep the mystery out of it. :p
The toughness feat, high Con, and favoured class bonuses are the best way to guarantee decent HP scaling. Unfortunately a bad die roll is a bad die roll but it also makes things interesting. It’s kinda also the reason why I prefer rolling for characteristics rather than point-buying as it can make characters a little more than just stat blocks.
You’re right on a lot of that @popdart5 – and in fact I really like how Pathfinder offers the options for Favoured Classes to give you that little extra leg up if needed.
I’m having tech issues, but I think I’ll be able to hook in- bought a 1-month sub for roll20 so I’ll try and hook in via mobile devices
Is your router accelerating again?
It’s a computer problem, power supply is acting screwy. I’m not going to bother fiddling too much with it as I’m getting that comp off Benny this week.
Hopefully things work out but it will be interesting to see how roll20 works on mobile.
Looking forward to it! 😀
This time I’ll remember not to turn my microphone off!
Good morning all.
Finally off recall for a while so back to League of Legends! \o/
After a week of not playing it at all, meaning my skills need to be practiced again /o\
Also played some Torchlight 2 over the weekend, and BLOODY HELL BESERKER YOU’RE SQUISHY NOW! I’m having to switch to cannons more and more with how easily I get bashed down. My death count is over 60 now I think 🙁
I won’t tag everyone again just yet cause I did yesterday, but @quiz_b meat on Sunday 8th in Brisbane CBD! (Afternoon/evening/unspecified time.)
ooo, Sunday or Saturday? Was sure you said Saturday yesterday? 😛 Sunday would be a no go for me
Pretty sure I said Sunday, but I don’t know what to believe any more!
I’m tentatively in. Depends on the timing and how badly I want to watch the footy.
I’m currently writing the script for Undad, and I’m realising that I just cannot write funny. Sadly, it seems to be turning out as serious as all my other books so far… which is kind of upsetting and totally against the design brief.
Will keep trying for now, but ultimately might have to shelve this project… or Abrams it to another writer, perhaps.
It’s good to know your limits, though. I suck at comedy too!
So I won’t be sending the script to you for suggestions, then 😛
HOLY CRAP I FORGOT TO REPLY TO THAT E-MAIL. D:
Sorry Shane. 🙁
Huh? I thought you did…?
You just need to tickle your funny bone! Ah I got no idea what I’m saying it’s a Monday >.<
I just feel all dead inside when I try to write funny zombie stuff. I think my braaaaaaaaaain is rebelling against me.
Just go back and re-read Page Sixes for inspiration.
don’t have comedic chops? just stick a dad joke in there every other sentence and you’re good.
… Oh wait, you’re trying to be funny.
But maybe watch some stand-up or such before writing beforehand.There’s a certain flow to some types of humor that I think can only be obtained once you’re in a jovial mood.
For this project, I kind of need to be channelling sitcom funny (I’d be all good if it was a dad jokes thing). I don’t think stand-up is funny anyway, because I’m a soulless monster 😛
perhaps you just have a type of humor that doesnt translate to what you’re trying to do?
the funniest stuff, in my opinion, falls into two categories – things that arent inherently funny, but are ridiculous in the given context, & things that cross the line twice.
in the context of UnDad, it could be a scene where Dad is depserately trying to hide his living-inpared condition during a job interview, and the interviewers are completely oblivious & super OTT PC etc & just assume he’s got a skin condition & is a bit ‘special’ & go out of their way to hire him, whilst going out of their way to frame his brain eating urges is an affirmative-action, ‘we’re all totally open mideded and accepting of things, coz were so PC & stuff’ way.
crossing the line stuff can be harder to pull off, but can be the best.
eg: dad is fighting the zombie urge, and just snaps. grabs a dog & starts eating it – frame it as a dramatic scene where his vulnerability is shown & his willpower is tested… then the dogs owner happens by… for best effect, its a cute kid. the kid is horrified & scared & dad scared coz he’s coming to realise that he might not be in total control & might be a threat to his family & is also panicking coz the kid will no doubt blow his cover… dramatic stand-off, right?
cut to the next page / panel & dad is happily walking off, chewing on what is obviously a kid’s arm. problem solved.
I’ve already got a plan for issue 1 where:
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It’s the kind of thing that is so easy to write an amusing summary for, but I think I’m going to struggle when it comes to dialogue, pacing, framing. I fear it’s going to come out as straight dramatic. Which might be okay in a sort of Leslie-Nielsen-deadpan-straight-man kind of way, I guess, but that isn’t what I hoped it would be.
What do you need? I’m hilarious.
see @shane? ^this^ is what I meant by “ridiculous in the given context”
(sorry Kermy :p)
Don’t apologise for getting the joke, this is why Shane needs us.
What kind of humour do you envision it needing?
See, I don’t know exactly, but I’m writing conflict between family members, and it’s just conflict. I feel like it should be funny as well. Not even real funny, just sitcom funny would do.
Can’t stop playing Hearthstone. When I stop playing all I think about is Hearthstone. Hearthstone.
Handle it!
@beeawwb I…. I can’t take anymore of it captain bewb…. I … IM FALLING APART.
Taz’dingo! 😛
Hi TAY. I need your help. Not desperately, but it’d be very much appreciated (more than you know). Girl problems ahead, serious business, etc etc..
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I have been with her for 1yr 6mtnhs+ already. We’re pretty close – we essentially live together and I most definitely classify her as my best friend. She keeps jokingly teasing saying I should marry her, etc. For reference, she could be classified as an Aries in a way – tough-headed, doesn’t back down, classifies herself as bitchy if the other person deserved it? I’m an actual Aries myself and I have these traits myself.
There’s this dude, called Wayne. My gf is good friends with him. Their friendship origins are full of WTF (which I wont go into), so I’m always wary of this any time I hear his name pop up. My gf is currently job-searching, so has a lot of time on her hands. She goes to gym with Wayne pretty regularly. Naturally, as the bf of a sexy girl, I am naturally jealous. At first I thought it was Wayne who was interested in my gf, but as time went on I’m pretty much convinced that IF there is anything, it’d be my gf interested in him. Of course, I have no proof, and there really aren’t any glaringly obvious signs she’s fooling around. Sometimes when we used to go out with friends she’d pay more attention to him/others than me, which sucks major balls (I don’t consider myself to be going overboard in the ‘attachment’ factor here. It’s just how it was). Like she’d constantly make small talk with eveyrone but me, play pool with Wayne on her team or against her rather than me (or anyone else). Bad feels man, and it’s pretty weird in general, but I was happy that nothing is going on.
One time she went with Wayne to his work Xmas party. .Apparently his friend couldn’t come, so he invited my gf. To me, this is weird/inappropriate as fuck – I didn’t invite her (going out for a good 2-3 months) to my xmas party, so why is he inviting her to his. Apparently it wasn’t weird to him, or to her, and so they went. 10:30pm passes, which’d be the end time of a work party usually, doubly so if it’s friends going. SMS’s from her stop. Fast forward to 3am or so, and she’s home. Tries to stop me checking the time. Apparently Wayne’s female colleagues invited her out to town, she lost track of time (note this) and her phone died. I wasn’t happy, this was a flag for me, but what do I do?
Friday night. 4:45pm I’m SMS’ing her, all is fine. That morning (and THursday night) we agreed that my gf will pick up some meat etc from store so we can cook/eat dinner and watch a movie that night. I get home 5:15p. 6:30pm I send SMS asking where she is. “sorry playing magic [card game] with Wayne, lost track of time” That’s it. I flare up a bit and say I dont fucking accept that. No calls from her, no SMS from her, nothing saying when she’ll be home. 8:45pm, I SMS her asking why still no calls. I then see she’s been on FB and liked some picture about “I thought it you this morning, ruined my day” or something. So I screenshot and send to her, asking if it’s about me. “No not about you”. So I ring her straight away. She lets every call ring out, thenstarts declining. SMS why she didn’t pick up “Im eating is that okay”. I say no it isn’t okay, to see me before lunchtime the next day because we have a lot to discuss. Apparently she didnt think so: “discuss what? That you dont want me hanging out with my friends?”
The next morning, I see her online on FB at 8am. I decide to get up, and drive past her parents place in town (she either sleeps at mine, or very occasionally on couch at mothers). Heh, nope, car not there. I talk with her parents who are at home, (im on good terms with them) and they say she didn’t sleep over. They both WTF, her father rings her up to ask where the fuck she is. Apparently having breakfast and will be over.
Eventually, we meet at my house. I ask if there’s anything to talk about. “No?” Fuck me, okay .. So I ask if she’s OK to come for drive, there is indeed things to talk about. She’s OK with going to a nearby beach. At the beach we start discussing things:
– Even though at 4:45pm she would have been at shops getting groceries, she was probably at Wayne’s playing magic. She had no explanation.
– 6:30pm SMS response – apparently lost track of time.
– No response/call to say when she’d be home. Apparently she couldnt come home cos she had 4 beers, lost track of that too. Also she “didnt wanna deal with it” (e.g. me?)
– Where did she sleep? “At Wayne’s”. Where, he has 1 bedroom apt “He has sofa you know”
Major question #1: does this sound okay? At this point none of this made any sense whatsoever, it’s all bullshit and tbh sounds like lies.
My gf has been very obsessive and protective of her phone a lot, and for a long time. Doesn’t say who call is from, hides screen when I look over at who she SMSing. I’m actually interested, in a nice way, because we share a lot of friends. Nope, denied.
So, I ask to see her phone, especially considering what happened Fri night. Nope, denied. It’s her phone, her business, nothing to do with me. Denied.
Now, I’m a nice guy sometimes. I count myself as very nice to my gf. But I have my limits, you don’t fuck with me and expect nothing in return. I muster up the courage and say: either you show me phone or we’re done. You should have nothing to hide – relationship and trust is a two way street. Nope, denied, and she storms off towards the car.
Demands to get driven home. So I do. Along the way I have to pull over because I’m tearing up so much. Along the way I was telling her things, but as mentioned at the start she is very tough headed and didn’t want to budge. I then say she either shows me phone so I’m convined what she said was true, or we’re done, or we go see a councellor or something (hoping they could help her see why I need this, and why what she did wasn’t okay.) Because all along the only thing she thought she did wrong was “I guess I should have called you to pick me up”.
We kinda reconcile, but it’s still playing on my mind. Sunday she has a shower, I contemplate checking her phon (no PIN). She has unusually short shower and gets out right after me. I still can’t explain to myself WTF happened, and how it’s okay for my gf to stay the night at a dude (regardless if friend) house. At the beach she said her other bf’s had no problem with this. Well fuck that, that’s their prerogative not mine.
This morning, once again, It’s playing on my mind. She has a shower, I check her phone. As expected, all SMS from Wayne are deleted. All FB messages deleted. I check call log – 4:25pm Fri afternoon call from him. My thought process: 4:25 should be getting ready to go to groceries, so I guess she got the call from him to go his house and play – a direct ‘fuck you StickMan’ and ditching of me and our plans.
I walk into bathroom, she gives me kiss and says something cute about my nose being red etc. I show her phone with call log, ask her to explain. Nope. Gets angry, grabs phone, locks bathroom, s generally angry (short version).
I’ve had enough. Why would she delete the ‘evidence’ if there’s nothing to hide? I tell her “you will explain all of this to me, or we’re done”. She doesn’t like that, is still angry, takes one of my comments the wrong way and says she’ll have her stuff out by today. I say again that I need an explanation, there’s no way this is it.
20 mins later I start work, I’m talking to someone trying to work out email problem. I feel physically ill (still do as Im typing), and I could barely contain the tears in eye sockets. I don’t cry often, only with relation to my gf.
I love her. She’s been my best friend for over 1.5 yrs. I trust her. I contemplate marrying her in the future. But I can’t accept this total lack of respect for me, the “fuck you” attitude I see, the total lack of explanation for events, and the deleting of SMS, and the refusal to show me in the first place. How do I actually know she wasn’t fucking him? If I didn’t go to her parents, would she tell me she slept the night at her parents?
I actually messaged Wayne via FB. He’s seen the message. I wasn’t threatening – I asked him for his help to understand what happened, said my GF may walk out on us. Asked him, to please have honest talk with me, if he’s really her friend. (I don’t know, but at this stage I kind of trust him. He’s made some whack decisions, but I do, I think)
I don’t know what to do anymore. On the Saturday when we’re reconciling, she tells me she definitely still loves me and doesnt’ want us to end. I still love her too. She’s my everything. I don’t know what to do. She told me near our start to “never let her walk away”. Do I do that? Or do I let her make the choice – explanation or done?
Please help. I’m very very afraid of the responses, but I need as many as I can get. I need some validation that I’m not a creepy motherfucker who is obsessive and controlling of his GF. I need reassurance that what I’ve done so far is the right thing. Any comments will probably help, please. I’m actually scared for my life.
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Man, there’s obviously a missing channel of communication here somewhere, but honestly? That list of behaviour up there is really, really controlling. I’m not defending her, I know neither of you, but if a friend of mine’s boyfriend was doing that to her I’d be encouraging her to drop him.
I see. My understanding is: we had plans that were well-known to both of us. Then she goes and gets drunk with a dude. Doesn’t come home (my place or parents). Doesn’t let me know anything. Hides explanation, and doesn’t give much of one.
Is me having a major problem with that, still being controlling? :\
I can see why alarm bells are going of, but I don’t think you’ve reacted well to it. Bottom line is if you don’t trust her that’s reason enough to break up. She doesn’t have to show you her phone and she’s her own person who doesn’t have to prove any thing to you, but you don’t have to keep dating if you don’t believe her. Just don’t get controlling.
It’s not the plan thing, it’s the response.
I agree, it’s pretty lousy that you had plans and she skipped out on them for whatever reason, but snooping on her phone and all that is a bit weird. I understand you’re upset, and it does suck, but it just seems pretty weird.
OK, understandable. IMO though, there’s a time and a place for everything. I don’t like getting fucked around, so I’ll use every available means to figure out if I am or not.
Here’s the thing, using every means available just shows that you don’t trust her.
If things are that rocky you need to have a talk with her, work out where you stand. If things need to end then they need to end.
The problem was doing things like phone snooping and the like is that if nothing is going on then you are saying you don’t trust her and she will react to that. Either assuming that you think she is messing around because you are and that is the reason that’s you first thought.
It might just be something as simple as she still likes going out and being out to 3 in the morning but you don’t so she goes off because she doesn’t want to inconvenience you. Or if you don’t want to be there and stay you drag the night down.
It can be pretty easy for us to sit back and say you could have done things better and the like, but having come out of a relatively similar issue like this myself I can say that if I had my time again I would have done many things a lot better in my situation.
When you put trust and love and care into cultivating something as a special as a relationship it really hurts when things turn pear shaped. My advice from this point here forth that you handle things in the manner of the ‘light of day’ approach, if you were happy for people to know how you handled a certain situation in public than you can sleep well at night.
Otherwise, I hope your day gets better.
Either you trust her, or you don’t. It all comes down to that. There is exactly 1 person that you can control in life, and that’s yourself. You can’t control other people, or their actions. So either you’re ok with her and her actions, or you aren’t.
Sounds to me like you aren’t.
Trust is relative. I do trust her. But it’s hard to trust her version of events, considering the version of events is consistent with cheating bar the actual evidence being missing. Anyways, thanks for the response. Maybe I am a fuckhead after all!
Generally speaking anything followed by a “but” is irrelevant. “I do trust her, but”
I’m not saying you’re a fuckhead, what I am getting at is that when you’re inside of the situation sometimes it can be difficult to see clearly because of your vested interest. I see a lot of dependant statements and a lot of bargaining with yourself for justification. E.g. “I’m still with her, plan to marry her.” What’s that got to do with anything? Marriage isn’t some catch-all fix everything bandaid – take it from the guy whose marriage fell to pieces. On that same vein, I had a relationship last probably a year longer than it should have because we kept saying that we’d get married in the future, I kept planning ahead, looking forward with some rosy coloured glasses. In the end our problems didn’t go away, as I always knew they wouldn’t, and things ended. If we’d faced our problems head on instead of skirting around them we could have saved ourselves a lot of time.
Face your problems head on.
Sorry to hear about the marriage, Bob.
Loooong time ago in the grand scheme of things – that relationship died in 2008. Even the other relationship I mentioned has been old news for 24ish months (but at least in that one we’re still close friends!) – I don’t see relationships splitting as “bad” things, they make us who we are so long as we choose to learn from them.
Speaking as someone who has no secrets from his wife (and vice versa), this post is just littered with red flags. The biggest, most obvious one is the deleted history on the phone. To be honest (and I’m sorry to have to say this), I’d be extremely surprised if there was nothing going on between them.
If it’s all happened the way you said, I don’t think you have to worry too much about your behaviour here – it’s not like you launched straight to Defcon 4, and your default position until things started piling up was one of trust. Things escalated quickly, though, by the sound of things, and that’s probably what the defensive anger is (at least partially) about from her.
It sounds to me like she is the one abusing that trust… and that sucks 🙁
Ultimately, if she decides to explain and says she wants to give it another go, the choice will be yours to make. Would you forgive infidelity if she comes clean about that? Would you demand to impose more open lines of communication in the future? Cut Wayne out of the picture entirely? Would you be able to trust her again (this, to my mind is the most crucial question)?
PS: Infidelity is more than sex, in my mind. Everyone has a different threshold of what they consider cheating. Tinfoil hat: Even if she hasn’t slept with him, the deleted phone data suggests there’s still a chance that she knows that she’s crossed some sort of line, and her rigid policy of denial suggests that she has no intention of stopping.
Thanks. Interesting how this response is so varied to the two above!
Yes, there are a lot of red flags. I still actually think no cheating happened. I know my gf, I can see this version of events happening (she makes weird choices sometimes) and no cheating happening.
I am a logical man. What I can’t explain to myself, is WHY that behaviour, and WHY not have a good explanation for it and WHY delete the SMS? Even if I believe no cheating occured, if I let this behavious continue it’d be hard to detect cheating if it did happen in the future.
Never.
Even though she keeps saying “you dont like wayne, you don’t want me hanging around him or other friends” and other similar stuff, that’s not actually the case. I’m cautious about him, but I’m not going to stop her being friends with him without a very good reason (such a reason would be cheating, but then I won’t be around to stop her), because then that’s descending into ‘controlling’ territory IMO.
Anyway, thanks.
Dude, you are being creepy and obsessive and controlling. You seem to have blown a friendship out of proportion in your own mind until you can’t trust her anymore. If something did happen with the friend it would most likely be your obsessive behavior that drove her to it. This is your issue, not hers.
It doesn’t sound like you guys are good for each other, at all. If your feelings for her are driving you to extremes like checking her phone and expecting her to check with you before any action she takes then she’s not good for you, and you sure as hell aren’t good for her.
A healthy relationship involves trust. If you can’t trust that she’s faithful, and she can’t trust that her privacy and autonomy won’t be invaded by you, then I can’t see it working out well.
Yeah, I agree. :S
I should also say that my best friend at uni was with a girl who was dating someone. We were the closest friends, too. Shared every thing. There was absolutely nothing going on there between us, though. Guys and girls are capable of having friendships without having sex.
Deleted messages could just mean they’ve been talking honestly about you too.
Cannot upvote your last sentence enough. So shocked at @shane and @pupp3tmast3r ‘s responses implying that because she’s spending so much time with a male friend that regardless of if they’re having sex or not it’s a level of infidelity.
Yeah… Just the other night I spent three hours out the front of Wingman’s house in the car with her, just talking endlessly. Well, up until the part where it ended.
I don’t think her boyfriend’s ever been suspicious of anything, but there’s nothing for him to be suspicious of anyway. We’re just really good friends. In fact I think she’s brought up with him some concerns over whether maybe she’s too close to me and he’s been the one reassuring her 😛
Me and my friend used to talk about things her boyfriend probably wouldn’t like ‘outsiders’ to know too. She needed to talk and I was her friend who was happy to listen, offer advice and discreetly kept secret the things she told me. Later on I become good pals with the boyfriend too, so… *shrugs*
I think we all know where this is heading… ;D
When I read that I assumed that you and Wingman got it on in the car. Who actually talks for three hours in a car? 😀
Well we closed out the night by getting the car on. The battery was too flat to start the engine, so we had to figure out how to push-start it.
But yeah. I guess I’m just an unconventional guy like that 😛
(Though that said, once I did repeatedly spend hours upon hours talking in the car with a friend I was dropping home, and that one did kind of end up going somewhere… but that’s probably a mess of a story for another time)
Like @mrtaco I’ve killed a car battery with a girl that way, too. Twice.
Things definitely went places the second time.
I was super confused because it seemed like such a short time to have drained the battery that much. I swear in the Laser we’d sometimes be in there for 4-5 hours (once I think I didn’t even leave til 8am >_>) and I was still good to go, but this was under 3 and it was done. Guess the Civic must just be more power hungry. Or it’s just part of the Laser’s eternal reliability.
Infidelity isn’t something you can confine to the physical realm though… I’d be more hurt and offended if a girl I was dating laughed harder at another guy’s jokes or kissed him passionately as opposed to having sex with him. It comes down to each individual person to define what matters most to them in terms of relationship loyalty. And the situation here isn’t just her spending time with him, it’s one thing to go to the gym together but it’s another to ditch plans for dinner with your bf of 1.5 years, lose track of time and then spend that whole night with another guy and not communicate with your BF at all. If you guys think that’s acceptable in a serious relationship… well damn I’ve never had a serious relationship then.
Nowhere did I say that was acceptable behavior, in my opinion neither of them behaved acceptably, I was responding more to the relationship as a whole than its culmination in last night’s incident.
Fair enough, I hear you and D.C. on that then. I don’t think stick was being creepy and obsessive though but rather he let his emotions and insecurities get the better of him in the situation and lets face it I’m sure everyone here can admit to that happening to them at least once in their lives.
We are but the sum of our experiences. And in my experience, that scenario as described is textbook illicit behaviour. It might not always be right, but it’s certainly been right for a majority of my experience, which I’d suspect is more varied than most.
It’s not about spending time with a male friend.
It’s about spending time with an ex who she still behaves as if she is attracted to. (And those ARE signs of attraction described there.)
Completely different ball-game to just ‘having male friends’.
Making ultimatums and demanding access to private communication is going to get anyone justifiably defensive, but the reaction is kind of irrelevant to any guesses about infidelity. Me, I’d have been out the door by now, what with having made it pretty clear early on that I’m not down with that level of dishonesty and evasion, or happy with someone I’m seeing being in regular contact with an ex they’re still attracted to.
And THAT’S not an ultimatum or controlling, it’s just an incompatibility. Some people can’t be with someone who pees in the shower, I can’t be with someone who’s that close to their ex and willing to blow me off to get drunk with them and sleep at their place and make it known there are interactions between the two of them that she doesn’t want me to know about, regardless of prying or not. Especially if they know it bothers me, but they don’t care. I’m just funny like that, but I make that very clear very early on, and if that’s something they need to have in their life, then I guess that we’re not right for each other. No ‘fault’, just incompatibility.
So yeah, it might not be the right assumption to jump to, but I really don’t think it’d be unusual for most folks to jump to that assumption. You only need to look at what we show on our soaps and movies and books to know that as far as social mores go, there are some contributing factors toward what’s ‘normal’, and that degree of contact with an ex? Not part of that general culture, the basis for many drama plotlines. And not being ‘normal’, it should’ve been discussed and resolved a long time ago.
CC @strange
But wouldn’t that be a good thing, for me to see? As I said beore, it’s a two-way street. If I trust her, then why wouldn’t she be honest with me? WHy wouldn’t she let me find out that she’s speaking honestly to her friend about it?
That’s hiding something, is it not? Even if it’d hurt me emotionally to see, it’s still hiding.
I truly believe people deserve a certain amount of privacy even if they’re dating someone. I would also probably instantly break up with someone if they insisted to check my phone every time they didn’t believe me about something.
What if I said this?
She is highly jealous in regards to me, too. I don’t have many females friends any more, but even texting or facebook commenting on their stuff yields “who is that?? Show me”.
What if I said that she once said “I think you’re cheating or planning to cheat, show me your phone”, and looked at every single thing on my phone with a female name attached.
What if I said, that upon asking her “what would happen if I did the same thing as you did Friday night?” she replied with “heh, well you wouldn’t have a girlfriend”.
I don’t understand how I can be all that is bad in the relationship, when the above has happened. It’s a two-way street. If it’s fine for her to be asking the questions, why can’t she reply to them when I am the one asking?
If you can, please explain.
Complete bluntness? It sounds like you two shouldn’t be dating if there’s a lack of trust on both sides.
Based on this, it sounds like she’s well aware that her behaviour is inappropriate and bothers you but has no plans to apologise for it. Someone basically accusing you of cheating either has to have good evidence for it, or is suspicious-minded because they’re the ones with something to hide. Either way, there’s clearly trust issues in both directions. I guess the question you need to ask is, if she is cheating is this something you can let go? Secondly, do you want to spend your life with someone you can’t trust?
Like I said…seems like you’re bad for each other.
I know from experience that loving each other with all your hearts and souls isn’t enough, you also need to be good for each other, being able to be the best versions of yourself around each other, or your relationship is going to fail. If you guys are the worst versions of yourselves when with each other, then if you love each other and can’t seem to fix it, the best thing you can do for each other is to end it.
I’m not judging anyone, or saying one of you is more in the wrong than the other, I’m just trying to make you see that your relationship is not good for you.
I think where stick crossed the line was by going into her a phone. That’s a massive red flag for the relationship in general, when you reach a point where you feel you need invade your partners privacy as opposed to trusting their word.
That said it doesn’t sound like she’s engaging stick with his insecurities and putting them to rest, but rather taking actions that actually exacerbate his worries. It’s normal for people to get jealous in relationships, it’s how they both deal with it that’s important. In this scenario it sounds like a failing on both parties, Stick should’ve known when to walk away from the situation and his GF shouldn’t have written it off with “other BF’s let me do it”.
Whoa, intense read for a Monday morning. To be honest, I’d probably feel the same way were I in your situation. My situation would be a little different though as I’m married. Also we have a kid together which would make things even more difficult. FFS This is making me realise my situation would be nothing like yours. Ugh, Mondays.
Why didn’t I just call in sick and play video games instead?
Holy crap stickman…. Ok first of you are not a “creepy motherfucker” who is being obsessive in any way. The reason you find yourself going crazy over this issue is because of how your GF is reacting to the whole situation. When I first started dating I was very self conscious of how possessive I could be, a few relationships later I realized my possessiveness didn’t just stem from my attitude and trust but also how the girl I was dating at the time reacted to situations that would raise red flags in my head.
From everything you’ve typed up there are a lot of red flags there, the biggest one being she basically forgot an evening both you had planned together to spend time with a friend who she then spent the night with. If this was you guys just starting out and this guy was her best friend that’s an understandable situation but you’re already 1.5 years into a relationship with her and pulling a stunt like that even with a completely valid explanation is fucked up. You’re the guy she’s dating plans with you should take priority over any other male friends she has, the fact that they don’t and the fact she lost track of time is a massive red flag and you really shouldn’t down play it to yourself. The key question to ask here is whether you’re happy with the situation you’re in and if you aren’t is there anything that YOU can do to fix it. Personally this seems like the issues stem from how your GF is handling this situation and her unwillingness to see your side of the story.
Next up you shouldn’t have checked your GF’s phone for messages or call logs, that crosses a massive line that you can’t uncross once done. It basically signals the fact that both of you have some massive issues that you haven’t properly dealt with and shows a complete break down of trust between both of you, this should tell you that both of you are standing on your last legs for the relationship since you no longer trust what she tells you. However your suspicions are validated in the fact she has cleared all her texts and call logs to Wayne, this isn’t something people normally do unless they are aware they’re doing they don’t want anyone else to find out about. I know this is a brash generalization but there’s rarely a reason to make sure your call logs or msgs are always wiped (unless that’s a habit she has with her phone).
Finally there’s no point jumping to assumptions with what she might’ve or could’ve done the night she slept over. This only serves to destabilize your emotional level and will only exacerbate an already ugly situation. If you trust your gut and it believes the worst the best thing for you to do would be to walk away from her and see what happens. If she doesn’t chase after you, provide acceptable explanations and takes the effort to fix things that have been broken you know there’s something wrong.
Stick I know next to nothing about your situation apart from this paragraph, but I can tell you this is a bad situation to be in. It sets off a lot of alarm bells and right now you need to do the right thing by yourself, you need to give your relationship space and back away from it. Once you have and both of you still want to try to work things out you need to tell her all your problems with Wayne, it does sound like she spends an inappropriate amount of time with him and it doesnt matter if her other BF’s were fine with it, what matters is that the person she’s chosen to be with right now hasn’t. Don’t let yourself get emotional and make the situation worse, she is going to be defensive with the topic but if she can’t cut back on Wayne to put your mind at ease… well then in my experience it never ends well.
Edit: Please keep in mind I only engage in serious long term relationships in which there are no secrets between us or insecurities that we don’t voice. I personally hate mind-games and if I was in your situation I’d pull my GF up on it and if I even felt for a second she wasn’t being completely forthcoming I’d take a break from the relationship.
There might be something between StickGirl and Wayne, there might not, but you’re not going to find out by snopping in her phone. It is a concern that she’s apparently hiding anything that might constitute evidence and hiding the amount of time she’s spending with him, but this controlling behaviour you’ve exhibited is not going to make her want to be around you more. Maybe she slept with Wayne, or wants to. That’s actually pretty normal, as much as it hurts when we’re mentally monogamous.
I’m personally of the “everybody gets one” school of thought when it comes to infidelity, as in: sometimes we, as people, make mistakes. I’ve never cheated and I’m sure I never will. I also hope my wife never cheats on me. But if she does, and is honest about it, I am prepared to forgive her because she’s more important to me than that. I adopted this viewpoint early on when I had self-esteem issues and wasn’t sure how to deal with the fact she spent time with male friends (including an ex) while I wasn’t around. Consequently, I stopped worrying about it. If I act like I can be trusting and supportive, then she’ll trust me to be supportive should anything have ever happened.
I honestly think that this approach has allowed us both to be honest about our thoughts and feelings and the resulting trust meant that neither of us has ever wanted to see how mcuh greener the grass is on the other side.
My recommendation is that you let it go. Back off. Stop snooping her phone. Apologise and tell HER that you had a crisis of confidence and it won’t happen again. Don’t be defensive about your motivations of delve into why you were suspicious because you’ll focus on justifying each others’ behaviour instead of addressing the actual issues. Encourage her to spend time with whoever she wants. Be HONEST about this. with yourself. You’re not getting her trust back so she’ll slip up and you can get the dirt – you’re getting her trust back because you love her and you deserve to be able to trust each other.
I don’t think I really have any advice to offer at all. I mean at first glance you maybe sound a little paranoid and distrusting, but given the same situation and having pored over all those events I imagine I’d be sounding like that too. Also I could totally picture myself doing what she did. I’m terrible with letting people know where I am or what’s happening, spending inappropriately long times at people’s places, going off somewhere on a whim, etc. But then I’ve never really been in a relationship like that either, I only have to let mum know if I won’t be home for dinner or something 😛
Gotta say though – that is one seriously close page get miss.
NO. BAD STICKMAN. *Bops nose with rolled-up newspaper*
you either trust her, or you don’t.
sounds like you don’t.
here’s hoping you can get through this, but seriously…. don’t be a paranoid dick. have a bit of faith, man. if you trust her, then her word should be enough.
if you don’t trust her, then why bother trying to work it out? coz this’ll happen every time she hangs out with a male friend.
Should say I hope everything works out, man. You deserve to be happy. 🙂
@stickman Stick when in doubt resort to song! I have the perfect one for this situation :-
Let it go – Idina Menzel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVVTZgwYwVo)
This may or may not be a rehashed version of what’s been said, but:
I’m going to be brutally honest – I see large faults on both sides of the relationship. Based on your account you’re both throwing out some pretty wild trust issues.
The best advice I can offer is that you need to both sit down and talk about it. Can’t stress this enough. If you both want it to work, communicate with each other, not you to us or her to her friends. No bargaining, no ultimatums, just talk about how you’re feeling as calmly as possible. If it ends up that you can’t find a way to make it work, it’s gunna suck…but you’ll get some closure and be able to move on.
I hope laying it out like this doesn’t offend you, it’s not my intention.
No, didn’t offend, thanks for your post.
Ask yourself the question ‘If she constantly kept me appraised of her in/outgoings would that of stymied my distrust?’ if the answer is no chances are you have serious trust issues, if you truly love her allow her to have a private life she is human after all and entitled to one if you’re not capable of that this relationship is doomed to fall to pieces.
Chances are a private person will not change just because you asked pleadingly, don’t forget its a lifestyle preference that’s unlikely to change.
I also won’t go into detail but I think looking at her phone and appealing to Wayne for information shows weak mental fiber, those are certain relationship lines you don’t cross chances are if you do resume this relationship those type of things will blow up in your face later on in the relationship.
Not trying to be a d*ck here but shes cheating on you with Wayne and you know it. She knows it. She knows you know it, and she is just being pathetic by not breaking up with you and instead leaving you in this state.
Walk away buddy – and never go backwards.
I won’t pretend to know you, but are you afraid of letting go? As has been said multiple times above, there’s a clear lack of trust from both of you but seeing you saying that you’ve been in a great relationship for a considerable amount of time now with what you consider to be your bestie, is there the element that you don’t want to admit that this relationship isn’t going to go the way you want it because you’re afraid that if it does end (and on a sour note at that) that you won’t be anywhere near as close to each other?
There’s two things I see that need to be resolved:
1. What’s her relationship with Wayne? Is it sexual? Is it not? If it is, is it a serious thing that she’s wanting to pursue a relationship or is it something that she’s doing because it’s exciting? If it isn’t, again, as has been said above, sometimes a bloke and a lass can become really close friends to the point where it may look like they’re doing stuff but not really. In my life, I’ve largely related a lot more and communicated a lot better with women. Sometimes that has led to feelings developing (sometimes feelings that went nowhere), sometimes it’s just been pure friendship.
You need to find out what’s the deal, but you need to do it in a non-confrontational way. From the sounds of it you’ve been demanding to know what’s going on and that’s not the best way to approach this
2. Trust. I’m sorry to say but you’ve shown that you don’t trust her. She has shown signs of not trusting you but is that because she’s hiding something because of her doing sexual stuff with Wayne or is it because (for whatever reason) she doesn’t think you’d understand their friendship? It kind of depends on the answer to number 1 really.
Couples can work through this sort of problem, sometimes they don’t. If worst comes to worst and she’s wanting a relationship with Wayne then you need to be able to let go because at the end of the day the only person you’ll hurt by trying to hang on to a relationship that has no future is yourself. As much as it’ll hurt, and it’ll hurt, it’s better to have that resolution about the whole thing. If it’s a good outcome and nothing’s happened and you believe that then you’ll need to work on gaining back her trust.
The only other thing that really comes into my mind is that if she continues to deflect (calmly asked) questions about Wayne then can you really trust her? Yeah couples should have their secrets from each other but not over something like this where it’s obviously causing the other person (you) so much anguish. You say you want to trust her and want to take the relationship onwards but is that going back to my first point of the fear of breaking up?
There’s a lot here from a lot of people offering you advise and it’s a lot to take in. Go over each piece of advise and go over it again. Do not act rashly on the first piece of advise saying ‘totally log into here phone and facebook again’. That’s not the answer and to be blunt, it’s never the answer to have to go behind your partner’s back to get the answers you want. Think about what you really want. If she’s saying she still wants to move your relationship forward then see how serious she is. Maybe she’s afraid of breaking up as well or maybe doesn’t want to hurt you?
It’s never an easy situation but don’t follow what you heart wants to believe. You might get the result you want, you might not. Sometimes it happens unfortunately.
Rough situation. My sympathies.
I’m going to hold back a bit on the trust situation because my experiences colour my perceptions.
What I’d consider universal: go with your gut and have the courage to follow-through with conviction and faith in yourself. Don’t try to change her, and treat yourself with respect. Any time you want to do something or react to something, ask yourself if it is the act of a man with dignity. At a bare minimum (without complaining – just stating) let her know that the trust has been broken and you need some time alone and you don’t want to hear from her for a while. And try to stay strong on that.
I strongly recommend getting some distance, ASAP. Set a project for yourself to consume your thoughts that will otherwise only run in circles. Learn a skill, or better: a language – something that will challenge your mind and requires active involvement and considerable time when you mentally go to dark places, unlike brain-disengaged activities like hitting the gym every day, or running/swimming/cycling. Do those too when it’s safe for your mind, though. The endorphins are great. Do the gym ‘junk food’, not whatever you reckon you should be doing for a well-balanced program. Test your limits, but only with the sets that you really like and are most comfortable with. You’re after endorphins, not gains. Something that will let you be surprised and reassured by your power.
Do whatever you think is best with your relationship, take or discard advice from TAYbies or professionals, but I strongly recommend you start treating your relationship as an adjunct to a life which may need to involve being alone if the relationship isn’t enhancing your life.
So, turns out i’m terrible at anything in Mario Kart above 50cc… still having a blast but maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan i suck!…
Went to jump on Taykart last night, but you guys had already finished up… determined to attempt some multi i jumped into “Regional”…
Only one guy in there called “Nibbles”… Judging by how i lapped him, i found at least 1 guy worse then me \o/
EDIT – Mario Kart PAGE GET \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/
We’re having another TAY Kart tonight! 7:30 pm! SAME PLACE!
My couch? Yaaaaaaaaaay \o/
Just gotta learn your drifting and the best racing lines for your cart/bike!
i’m currently experimenting with different bikes/karts… really digging the Yoshi bike :P… i’m doing OK in 100cc, but often feel that the CPU is just screwing me over 😛
EDIT – also never really considered Mario Kart to have “Racing Lines” as much as STAY THE HELL OF THE DIRT 😛
Well racing lines are only really usable when you’re not in the pack getting pummelled by items 😛 But it’s good to learn anyway! You can throw off some people by placing bananas on the good lines! (the interior of turns is generally pretty good)
Why am I giving tips!?
Comparing to MK7 since from what I’ve played so far the two seem quite similar – they’ve really notched up the difficulty lately. 50cc is a cakewalk, but 150 has you really properly fighting for victory. I found that to get that three-star rating I just had to get relentlessly brutal in how I played, taking down anyone I could at any chance I got, leaving almost no item wasted, to the point that once I got back to racing with friends they were complaining about how violent I was being 😛 But yeah, just takes a little training.
yeah I tend to be ruthless, it’s those damn blue shells they boil my blood and I take it out on the world 😛
Yeah i found that too! and the amount of rage-inducing times where i am literally 5 meters from the finish line and then get hit by a red/green/blue shell and someone else zooms across the lines as i recover XD
I didn’t realise Mario Kart could be compared to Mortal Kombat 7 in any meaningful way!
Play an All Cups grand prix of MKWii and you’ll want to tear your friends’ spine out too!
I’ve done it before but I’ma do it again, here is a relevant point of comparison between Mortal Kombat 7 and Mario Kart 8 Motor Kombat!
Game of Thrones today \o/
It’s the only show my husband has ever said “What, it’s finished already?!!” to at the end of episodes. I think half of my enjoyment of the show is watching his reactions, actually.
Well I did kinda lose it at the end of the last ep myself 😛
@transientmind I’m glad that you played Katawa Shoujo and enjoyed it. I hope my hyperbole-ridden essay didn’t affect your enjoyment at all. It was interesting reading about your experiences with the game as we both played them from completely different perspective.
Just a quick question. HOW THE HELL DID YOU FINISH IT SO FAST?
The game’s about 40 hours long if you do all the routes, and 50 if you try and get all the endings and see all the content.
I get you on the multiple routes thing. I didn’t feel any remorse when I left out Rin because LBH EHVARQ URE SHPXVAT PNERRE NAQ YRSG URE JVGU AB WBO CEBFCRPGF. But when I left out Emi…
Fur pevrf va ure fyrrc naq jvyy pbagvahr gb pel va ure fyrrc. Fur jvyy cebonoyl erznva qrgnpurq gb ure qnq’f qrngu sbe gur erfg bs ure yvsr. Orphnfr bs Uvfnb, Rzv svanyyl yrg urefrys pner nobhg crbcyr. Vg jnf zragvbarq gung ure cerivbhf ybiref nonaqbarq ure orpnhfr fur ershfrq gb unir na rzbgvbany eryngvbafuvc jvgu gurz. Fur rira ershfrq gb unir nal fbeg bs rzbgvbany pbaarpgvba jvgu ure sevraqf.
Guvax nobhg gung sbe n zvahgr. Vs Uvfnb unqa’g fubja hc, Rzv znl unir yvirq gur erfg bs ure yvsr jvgu gur nggvghqr bs ‘qba’g trg rzbgvbanyyl nggnpurq gb crbcyr.’ Nygubhtu Uvfnb naq Rzv zvtug abg or gbtrgure sberire, gurve eryngvbafuvc cercnerq Rzv sbe nyy gur eryngvbafuvcf gung jbhyq pbzr nsgre.
Hayrff Rzv raqrq hc jvgu n ernyyl qbhpurl thl gung bayl jnagrq frk, gurer vf ab jnl fur pbhyq znvagnva n eryngvbafuvc.
However, maybe I should look at it from a different perspective. Perhaps Kenji’s ending is the best ending. No matter what, Hisao is going to die before he hits 40. He has an incurable heart condition. Maybe he might live a little longer due to the exercise in Emi’s route. But really, by getting yourself into a long-term relationship with any of these girls, you are condemning them to a widow’s death. Unless you break up with them shortly after high school, you will die with them by your side.
Will Emi revert to her old ways? I mean, Emi YVGRENYYL UNQ FRK JVGU UVFNB VA N SNVEYL CHOYVP CYNPR WHFG GB PUNATR GUR GBCVP NJNL SEBZ URE CEBOYRZF. That’s some pretty serious problems right there.
Think of how torn up Lilly was at the end of her route when Uvfnb unq n snveyl frebhf urneg nggnpx. Do you really want to subject her to that kind of emotional torment?
Perhaps it would be best for everyone if Hisao fell off the roof in a drunken stupor. Perhaps it’s best if he dies before he really got to know anyone.
Hmm, I am a bit too cynical for my own good.
Happiness shouldn’t be avoided just because of the pain you may experience down the road.
I don’t know the context of that statement but true-er words were never spoken =D
After 4 pet deaths in the space of 3 years, it’s hard not to think this way.
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I believe this is the new Rocketman
It’s not really Rocketman – the grammar is perfect.
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THERE HE IS
@ontargett @quiz_b
EA UFC demo this week!
Will depend on the size of the demo as to whether I download it or not. I’m buying the game anyway.
Oh, yeah, I’ll be buying the game either way, but after two years of waiting I won’t be missing the chance to finally get my hands on it.
I didn’t play UFC Undisputed 3 or EA Sports MMA for that matter. I’m really looking forward to see how EA evolve the MMA genre. One of my most anticipated games for the year.
UFC Undisputed 3 is one of two games I kept when I traded in my PS3 collection, I’ve probably sunk more time into that game than any other. From what I’ve seen so far, EA UFC looks to be better in every way, it’s probably the game I’m looking forward to the most this year.
Who are you looking forward to fighting as and/or against? I’m looking forward to creating my own light heavyweight fighter and having him up against the champ. Also want to give Ronda Rousey a go.
Oh man, that’s a big question.
Fighting as: Jones, Anderson, Pettis, Aldo, Condit, Hunt.
Against: Same as you, I’ll probably start with a LHW career. I’ll end up doing what I do with every UFC game and run through a career then start a new one in a different weight class with a different fighting style. LHW muay thai fighter to start with probably.
Nice selections there. It would be awesome to do a rematch between Hunt and Bigfoot. That was one of the best fights in years.
@ontargett So great, probably the best HW fight I’ve ever seen. Shame that Bigfoot got done for elevated testosterone post-fight. Officially a no contest now.
TAY is being weird for me, so this will probably be a reply fail (to @strange and @stickman).
If I was blowing off plans with my wife (with no announcement) to spend time with another woman, and had impromptu sleepovers at their house, and was ducking calls the entire time and being defensive about the whole thing, I would absolutely expect to be treated with suspicion. I don’t see why @stickman’s behaviour is being seen as unreasonable.
(But as I said, it may be different, as my wife and I have never had any privacy from each other).
I think the guy is entitled to feel those alarm bells. I’m feeling them too. I think like Strange says, it’s his reaction to it. Messaging Wayne, going to in-laws and talking about private issues, violating girlfriends privacy by looking at phone, etc.
This.
As I said in the post last page, I’m not defending her, but the reaction isn’t a very mature one.
My wife would absolutely do all those things if I was putting up these kind of flags, and I would totally and completely expect her to do them.
PS: I’ve never understood the ‘phone as deeply private property’ thing though… 😛
The in-laws thing is probably the thing that made me twitch the most. Can you picture how humiliating that would be for her? And uncomfortable it would be with the parents? Messing with a parent/daughter relationship like that is not cool, in my opinion. And there’s got to be a line drawn in the sand about paranoia. If you’re feeling this paranoid, is it something worth saving?
I agree, but I still see that as a grey area, myself, and it really depends on intentions. If he genuinely expected to find her there and wanted to talk, then it’s merely a little overbearing, brought on by the stress of not knowing where she was all night. If he knew she wasn’t going to be there and was trying to get the parents on his side, then it’s a lot more problematic.
But yeah, I agree with you: I think the trust thing is way too broken here.
Look, each relationship is different, sure, but she’s obviously not comfortable with her looking at his phone- if that’s an established boundary, it’s an established boundary.
Yeah same with me Shane, I don’t really care if people go through my phone. It’s password locked but half my friends know how to get in. Heck I even got my GF’s fingerprints scanned into it once I’d swapped to the 5S.
Edit: Each to their own though, everyone has personal boundaries. Mine are don’t fuck with my gaming setup :@ with fuck translating to do not lay a hand on it =,=
For me it’s my computer, not my phone that I feel is “deeply private property”. It’s not that I actually have anything private or hide-worthy, but it’s more that I spend so much time on it that it’s almost an extension of my brain. And I’d like the option to write bad poetry and feel comfortable knowing nobody but me will ever see it. 😛
I think the metaphor of “it’s an extension of my brain” is perfect.
Oddly enough I also don’t have anything personal or secret hidden on the PC and as such I am completely unprotective of it, but my wife doesn’t like using it for extended periods when I’m around because she feels like it’s my “domain” and I’m going to be constantly hovering. In reality I would cherish her using the PC more because it means I get more access to the Xbox and TV!
Haha, so much this. In fact I’ve been using my computer as an extension of my brain for the last decade – all those chat logs, all those files and images, whenever I can only vaguely remember something that happened or was mentioned, I windows+F and search for what I’m trying to remember so I can remind myself 😛
And now the hard drive’s making weird noises and I’m scared.
Take it to a psychiatrist immediately.
Nip down to JBhifi or officeworks, grab a 2TB external drive on the cheap & copy everything onto it. I’ve lost way too much data to let people ignore odd drive noises. As the old IT saying goes, it’s not a matter of if a hard drive fails but when.
It’s only 80GB, so that’d be overkill 😛 And yeah, I’ve been pretty lucky with this one. It’s been going since June 2003, so it’s had a pretty good run. I’ve been meaning to copy it over to my new machine’s 500GB drive and just mount the image whenever I need to go and look through old stuff, but still haven’t gotten around to it at all. Even now I’m still kind of putting it off, figuring out what to do/how to go about it exactly. Got a good dozen tabs on it open right now that I keep going back to.
But… But… the NSA would have read it! =p
She’s probably had to read through your writing work at some point in time, so she knows what an awful, depraved, soulless person you are, and it’s nice that she’s accepted it.
This kind of thing is only possible to read properly in the context of the relationship in question. For instance, if my husband had forgotten about plans with me and went to a friend’s place instead and stayed the night I’d just assume he’d been drinking and be all kinds of mad at him, but not suspicious. If I’d been constantly paranoidly calling and texting him after having already been told he’d got sidetracked doing something else I wouldn’t blame him for ducking my calls. There’s only so many times you can say something to someone, or demand answers they’ve already given before they get annoyed. And if I was the one who’d forgotten our plans and he kept pestering me with calls and texts after I’d already explained to him, I’d probably stay out at least very late if not overnight because I’d be upset with him and wouldn’t feel like spending time with him like we originally planned.
So yeah, it’s all relative to the people involved. Like I said on the previous page, both of them didn’t behave their best and they need to think about whether they are good for each other or not.
This is the most difficult thing with giving relationship advice: it’s so very, very relative.
@stickman: Ah, sorry man. I feel like I’m coming across as a bit judgmental and I don’t mean to at all. Hope it doesn’t come across that way but if it does it wasn’t my intention. You’re a cool guy and I genuinely don’t want to see you get hurt, I just think it won’t be the end of the world if this is prelude to a break up though.
*goes to play Mario Kart instead of meddling with other peoples affairs*
Dammit D.C. you got to give him a song suggestion before running off to play Mario Kart!
Yeah, that one’s a bit more appropriate than Gattaca’s The Departure, this time around.
:O Mario Kart, all the jellies, I’m struggling to motivate to do any actual work today cause I wanna play games.
Sooooo…
Video Games?
but I came here for relationship advice.
I played a bit more of Kirby Triple Deluxe last night.
Such an adorable game! (and a fantastic title for a Kirby game)
Oh my glob, it has so much colour.
All the bright, vibrant pastel colours and I am all “Nooooo, the past 8 years have trained me to only see gritty, realistic shades of brown, I can’t handle all this variety my eyes they bleeeeed”
Bell Kirby is the best.
How is it, game-wise?
I still don’t really get Kirby games. Playing Squeak Squad, I found I was just kind of accidentally tumbling through levels more than actually playing them. Can’t remember how I felt about Superstar Ultra though, but possibly similar. Epic Yarn was cool though, still haven’t gotten to
Kirby’s Stupid Shitty RenameReturn to DreamlandKirby’s Adventure Wii.I’ve never really played much Kirby besides Epic Yarn (which was good, if easy). Triple Deluxe is much more fun in my opinion just because of all the different powers and things. Looks great in 3D too.
3D is really nice. Playing through 3D World, I’ve found myself thinking on multiple occasions “man I wish this was in 3D, it would look so cool”. Screw the haters, 3D Always On 😛
3D. 3D3D3D3D.
3D
We should play a game where we list our top 3 (or 5 or whatever) game and our most hated 3 (or 5 or whatever) games, without marking which is which and then people guess what we love and hate!
The then once that’s sorted out, we judge them silently on their choice of games.
Also judge them loudly!
Very, very loudly and vocally.
Top 3?
ummmmm
Wait, wait, come back to me, I’ll think of some.
Or, if you’re Ruffleberg or similarly inclined, you can post the worst games you have ever played in your life! Which is all of the games you’ve ever played!
Gawd, that Half Life 2, so bad.
I’m in a fantastic mood today and I can only credit it to playing good games all weekend, so yes, Video Games (it had a question mark so I felt it needed an answer :P)
What did you play?
Watch Dogs, Mario Kart & Pikmin 3, all great games, really struggled to pick every time I had time to play.
@virus__
No stress about tonight if you can’t make it, offer is open and no need to RVSP of you want to drop by. Do you have twitter, I don’t think I have you on there.
Melb TAY
Anybody interested in a meat tomorrow night. Drinks after work and the potential for dinner (and dancing if you play your cards right) if things continue on. I’ll propose the usual beer deluxe meeting place, although probably inside this time.
I’m staying in the city later than usual for a meeting, can stick around for further activities, pending logistics.
Depends on what time ‘after work’ is. I tend to work late. But I’d be up for it probably.
I’ll come tomorrow night sounds fun! My plans have been changed on me slightly lol and I’m apparently seeing another mate tonight lol. My twitter is @virus__ or of you prefer you can email me at marc.c (at) live (dot) com (dot) au
Over the weekend, I was jumping between games & couldn’t settle on one.
Arkham Asylum – Never been much of a Batman fan, but I sorta dig this game. Scarecrow is the best villian.
The Last of Us – Good. Stealth is nice & tense…. but then I realised that clickers follow patrol routs & that just makes no sense in the context of the story. also predictable.
Human enemies are better. I dig the interactions between Joel & Ellie. & the supporting characters add a nice touch. only up to Chapter 4 at the moment. still got a while to go.
Dark Souls 2 – Started a new character. Sorcerer. getting pulped frequently. gonna take some time to get used to being squishy after playing a strength / high HP / high stability build.
Dragon’s Dogma – Still prefer this to Dark Souls 2. getting near the end of the main story again & getting keen on doing the DLC stuff….
I figure what’s left of a clicker’s brain has them follow paths they walked in life.
(I already posted a response to this and it disappeared. Odd. )
Just wanted to say thanks for reminding me of Dragon’s Dogma. I’ve been trying to find the right game for my current gaming mood but nothing’s been working. I think going back to Dragon’s Dogma may be just the thing I needed. I’ve barely even scratched the surface of the game but loved what I played of it before getting sidetracked. Except for the Pawns’ chatter. So damned annoying! I’ve never found myself talking back snarkily to a game as much as this one. 😀
The main problem I had with The Last Of Us’ stealth was how it was only the player that mattered. Once I literally had an enemy bump into and have to pathfind around Ellie who stupidly decided to shift cover in full view of everyone. She ran out in front of him, he registered something in his path and stopped to work out a path around it and continue, stealth wasn’t compromised because it wasn’t Joel who was spotted.
It’s one way to make sure the AI isn’t going to piss you off by breaking stealth through no fault of your own and I did only get that once through the entire game (which makes me think her pathing was a glitch or something really unusual because of my movements) but it still felt really false when it happened.
In RPG news, I worked some more on wound damage/critical effect tables this weekend. I’ve almost completed the slashing damage stuff and it’s pretty brutal at times (disembowelling, losing limbs, decapitation, and other fun stuff). I’ve got it that once you reach 15 wound damage, there is no chance of saving you and you just instantly die. Every point above about 10 wound damage has a chance of death however there are saves and other actions that can be taken to prevent that happening. I’ve also incorporated the Pathfinder wounds rule that if you take any wound damage (a critical effect is different and does not actually deal wound damage), you have to pass a DC 10 Constitution save to stay conscious otherwise you pass out. That should help alleviate the chance to take further damage and lower the risk of death similar to how negative HP currently works.
Just to reiterate, I am not looking to incorporate this into TAY Pathfinder as I’m mostly doing these rules for my own benefit for potential use in a more visceral game in the future. I’m posting my progress up because I think a few people are interested and you guys give good feedback.
Edit: Misquoting the rules. I r da bestest.
Spoiler alert info coming, now calculating the risk of having incubators in the multiverse ….. OOOHHHH MMYYY GOOOODNESS , now here is my top 10 female characters who would be absolute MONSTERS due to interference from incubators:
10. Zelda from legend of zelda from the death of the hero path, not only would kyubey delight turning her into a magical girl, but the despair from her would make whitch form’s power EXCEED that of GANON HIMSELF
9. Note to self trying to make kill la kill a spiritual antithisis of magica madoka is a bad idea considering if kyubey came into contact with the sisters, the despair from both added with their sentient armour would equal 2 whitches powerful enough that could spread the despair filled life fibers across the universe making more planets suffer
8. Lucy from elfen lied, contact by kyubey would mean …. a whitch that has psychic powers on equal to the pheonix force, also consider this which pokemon may be a shout to elfen lied & filled enough with despair could turn into a monster: espurr
7, akiza from yugioh 5d, omg if she had kyubey contact her then with enough despair her whitch form would be used by the psychic baddies of that series to be scary enough that the signers, ylialister & dark signers have to work together to beat her
6. Multiple kyubey + multiple depowerd elizabeths = multiple monsters
5. If kyubey came into contact with samus aran before the chozo adopted her after ridley killed her mother in front of her then it would mean ridley would face an even more despair filled monster after his extermination
4. If kyubey rescued kisara from yugioh before priest seto then guess what a despair filled girl turning a monsterous dragon whitch, now remember what dragon she turns into thats right blue eyes white dragon, now add the whitch part, thats right a dragon whitch that would be a cthulluised blue eyes white dragon
3. Skye from agents of shield, turns out she is an actual monster, now add kyubey and bingo an even more horrific monster
2. The murakumo unit girls from blaz blue, made on the orders of the death godess inuzami herself, imagine if you substitute terumi with kyubey & OMG you get 1 of thee worst 1 winged angel combinations EVER
1. Gwen from ben 10, as stated by the dagun himself an anodite is 1 of thee most powerful races EVER, now add this if ben tennison was killed by vilgax when he is young, add grief stricken gwen & kyubey and the despair from fighting the following villians: vilgax, malware, kevin levin, zombozzo, dr animo, forever knights, spellcaster and ghostfreak & you’ll a very powerfull whitch capable of using SPIRIT BOMB like attacks
Thus end of spoiler section
I have no idea what’s happening here, but I enjoy how passionate you seem to be about whatever Kyubey is.
Its a little cute thing from a popular anime called puella magi madoka magica
Shhh.. Don’t ruin the magic.
Kyubey: the cute looking counterpart to terumi himself, somesay a creature that organisation 13 and the sith would like in their company it is because of turning a trolling a vulnerable young girl into becoming a monster, possibly a reason for the metroids existing and why there is some media with girls being part dragon & possibly why some girls in media want a friendly monsters to protect them from the influence of this cat like fiend
/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
Going to rot13.com and typing your comment in, pressing “Cypher” and cutting and pasting it back to the comment box here is way more effective at preventing people from being spoilerised than just the words “Spoiler alert” at the top of your text.
People can inadvertently be spoiled even when scrolling past you comment because the wrong words may jump out at them on the way past.
It’s annoying to do the rot13 thing, I know. But unfortunately seeing as Kotaku’s spoiler tags aren’t working right now, it’s the best thing to do.
Edit: Oh, and it’s also superhandy to mention what the spoilers are for. 🙂
I read it, and in this case, I’m honestly not sure what – if anything – is actually being spoiled 😛
A bunch of anime, is kind of half spoilered. nothing too bad though.
It’s just that @dinoking posted anime spoilers on the front page as well and @transientmind politely pointed out the uses of rot13, but DinoKing didn’t seem to notice.
And somewhat less-politely joked about punctuation and grammar. Not that we’re sticklers for that to any extreme, and knowing full well that I’m not exactly one to point fingers. 😛
(There’s a reason my English Major friends called me ‘Dangling Participle Man’. Really need to study the language properly at some point.)
Thank god we aren’t sticklers, I might not be allowed to post any more.
You know what, Rockets? Some of the people who complained the loudest about your grammar have themselves made some of the most grammatically indecent posts. 😛
Partly why I don’t usually bother correcting people’s grammar anymore. The whole ‘people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones’ thing. Plus it’s kind of rude, and if I think it about properly does someone’s spelling and grammar matter more than their feelings?
True, but I try not to take it personally. Whining about not actually being able to read things is fine by me. If I can spend enough time writing a long post, I should spend a bit of time checking that other people can understand my point.
Thanks though mum, you got my back.
@rocketman
If you are referring to your mum specifically without a prefacing “my” it’s a pronoun and should be capitalised.
😛
Uh I did notice & that is why I said spoiler alert at the begining of 1st post that I did on this page
Upvote for the edit
So many people just rot13 the whole post and you look and think, I shouldn’t do this but I want to know what they are talking about
Speaking of Mario Kart 8: Red Shells are easily the most fearful items in the game now to the person in first. Blue Shells are barely a problem any more (at least in my experience). First place is more defenceless than ever this time due to not being able to hold two items at once and the abundance of coin items. The best change they’ve made, I think!
They’ve handled the balance nicely this game. If there was one thing I’d change, it’s that red shells shouldn’t be able to follow/hit you while you’re gliding.
My worst enemy when I’m in first place is myself. I suddenly get ten times more stressed and make stupid decisions. Being second is when I’m in my element. 😛
With Mario kart you know that being in first is temporary.
For permanence and security, choose LAST and drive backwards around the tracks! \o/
I’ve heard from a friend of mine that 8s are unbalanced but that could just be him being a sourpuss. What do you reckon?
I think it’s the most balanced yet, but that’s just my opinion. The previous games were way too far in first’s favour. Once someone got a lead it was very difficult to get them back (if they weren’t terrible).
This one gives the people in the back a bit more of a chance now, which I think is good overall. The better players will still win most of the time, but it isn’t as easy for them to stay there.
Haha, this is like the opposite of anything I’ve heard anyone ever say since MKDS 😛 It’s always been about how there’s absolutely no reason to try to be in 1st because it just makes you the target of everything, and that it’s all balanced in favour of everyone at the back. Not that I really have any particular opinion on it either way, other than commenting on what seemed to be forced item restrictions eg in MKDS I never once got a star in first place to be able to avoid a blue shell, whereas it used to occasionally happen in MK64.
I’ve never understood why people say that. I suppose they’re coming from the position of being in first by a short distance. (And yet I don’t want to just respond by saying “get good” :P) But yeah, I’ve always found in past games that if you can get a decent lead from the pack it’s pretty easy to stay there.
This guy.
haha Oh that guy.
at first I thought the abundance of coin items would irritate me but they do seem to have fine tuned the balance that I don’t feel like I’m getting ripped off, the flying red shells are a bit annoying too. I also discovered that you can get the boost from sitting behind someone when you are flying way above them, which is weird.
Yeah, I seemed to be getting pummeled by red shells quite a bit. I kind of wish they were more DD-like, that was really cool how they paused for a moment behind you before making their final lunge, and you could evade them if you turned just right. Also I think were a little easier to guide into walls. Actually that’s one thing I wish they had in this one – an alternate camera view. In MK64 I always used to race with the camera zoomed out, because it gave you a greater field of view. Playing this one, it often feels like the character takes up too much of the screen and obstructs your view. Particularly when you’re gliding and have the parachute out.
It’s good to see that items in first place aren’t all that bad. Although so far I think I’ve only really seen bananas, green shells, coins, red shells and the horn. But it’s nice to at least have some red shells thrown in there, and I even got two horns in a row once (and one of them saved me from a blue shell. But yeah, it really changes the strategy to be unable to drag an item and pick up a second one.
ALSO WHAT’S REALLY GREAT IS THAT YOU DON’T DROP YOUR ITEMS AT THE SLIGHTEST FLAP OF A BUTTERFLY’S WING ANY MORE. I hated that so much in MKDS, how if you got hit by a blue shell or fell off the edge or had just about anything happen to you, your item was gone. Be it in the item box, or held behind you, or set to rotate around you. You got left helpless, every time.
I really like how the skidmarks on the track are persistent across the entire duration of a race. It’s a neat little touch. Actually, one thing that bugs me is the tweak to the boost start. It used to be hitting the acceleration after 2 triggers the boost, but waiting longer would increase how much boost you got making you had to count out to something like two thirds through the second to get max boost… but this time it seems like they’ve flipped it around. If you hold off on boosting, you get less boost whereas if you go right after the counter hits 2, you get the most. Kinda makes it too easy.
Does anyone know if you can get a boost start after being dropped back on the track after falling off? I can’t seem to figure out the timing of it, if it’s even possible. Though it seems Lakitu is pretty quick off the mark to come get you, and gets you back on track pretty swiftly too. So that’s nice.
They removed the boost from Lakitu-drop, but they also sped up how fast Lakitu will fetch and drop you, so it kinda evens out.
And yet somehow you still win every bloody race.
Good morning TAY.
Hope all are swell 🙂
I had a great week! 😀
Finished off uni for the semester and am now half way through my degree! Can’t wait to get it over with and actually start living my life how I want to be 🙂
Decided to start being healthier, so have started eating breakfast and going to the gym. Gotta cut out all them MnMs though :S I have an addiction :S
Had an incredibly fun night on Saturday 😀
(remembered) highlights include:
– dancing on stage and grinding with a girl to earn $5
– flirting with the cute barman ;D
– walking through the city drunk for half an hour trying to find a place with free entry, and
– getting called promiscuous by strangers 😀
A Monday morning question. If you were a pokemon gym leader, what type of pokemon would you use?
I’d be a poison gym, and use Gengar, Crobat, Nidoking, Toxicroak, Vileplume, and Dragalgea.
Hope you all have a good week 😀
Edit: damn autocorrect, changing pokemon to polemic!
My team would be Hawlucha, Hawlucha, Hawlucha, Hawlucha, Hawlucha and Hawlucha because Hawlucha is literally the best Pokemon ever.
Fuck that guy. Any team with a hawlucha on it nearly wiped me no matter what the level difference. Fuck that shitty Mexican wrestling fuck.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlJd6ELCYAAff38.jpg
I’m going to be dancing around to that song all day now 😀
I thought you didn’t like songs like this anyway, hmmm 😉
Listened to a lot of radio music in ’06/’07/’08. A LOT. All these songs are stuck in my head forever. 😛
They play lots of songs like this at clubs DC *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge* ;D
I never said I wanted to listen to them. 😛
Also clubs are the worst!
Something tells me D.C. has had some interesting experiences in clubs =p Much like Tequila extended exposure to clubbing results in a bad after taste xD
I like the quiet and being able to talk to my friends and not being judged on the clothes I wear.
Yeah, I’m old. 😛
Why do you have to hurt me so? :'(
😛
I’mma find a club / pub that I think you’d like, then I’mma take you there, someday ;D
That’s awesome you’ve finished semester, I manage a University gym and with exams starting today I have a feeling we’re going to be dead until August. Support your local Uni gym!!
Awesome question, I think I’d be a Fighting type gym using Hitmonlee, Hitmonchamp, Machoke, Throh, Hawlucha and Lucario. I think this list might be a little OP though, am happy to change it to be a little more realistic lol
My uni gym is a little baron, to be honest (not much equipment, not well maintained, etc.) :S
Thanks anyway man! I find a study best when I stay active and don’t stress, so working out is part of my exam prep 😀
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vLgnVNJvyf8/TnTG_um5eGI/AAAAAAAAANQ/02jvqiDtZ_c/s1600/JGredBaron1024x768.jpg
I now have the image of you bench pressing midget royalty 😀
My autocorrect is running rampant today! I swear I wrote barren! :'(
I’ll leave it un-edited to preserve your comment anyway 😛
I hope you don’t secretly go to my uni and hate the gym, it’s only a newish sort of gym in Victoria so here’s hoping your not a Victorian!!
I’m Victorian born, but I’m in WA, so it’s not your gym that I don’t like.
I’m sure you have a lovely gym 😀
Eeveelution gym type!
Then which eeveelutions wouldn’t you use?
I wouldn’t use Umbreon and Sylveon, Umbreon cause of bad movepool, and Sylveon cause it’s butt ugly 😛
Umm I had an eeveelution team in X and Y but I can’t recall what it was.
EDIT: From memory it was: Jolteon, Flareon, Sylveon, Vaporeon, Espeon and …. Glaceon I think.
BUG
Yeah, but which bug pokemon ;P
ALL
I’d totally be fighting. And I’d have five Hawluchas. Then a shiny Hawlucha.
Me and a friend spent around 5 hours researching Shuckle so that we could have a team of 6 Shuckles designed to sand attack and baton pass their way to victory!
We tried to use it in that pokemon online battle game, but you weren’t allowed to have duplicate pokemon on your team :'(
Hmm, interesting question. Let’s be honest, I’ll never be the 8th gym leader, I’d probably hover between 2nd and 3rd. I suppose the best option is ALL MILTANK ALL THE TIME.
You could be a farm-type gym and use Miltank, Tauros, Bouffalant, Stantler and Sawsbuck!
I impress myself with my genius sometimes 😀
Water
6 Shiny (GOLD!) Level 100 Magikarps with all the moges they can possibly get.
Mario Kart 8 is a pretty cool guy. Damn whoever thought to make A the acceleration though. I get that it works well with a Wiimote, but I’ve only got a gamepad and my thumb feels like it’s broken after an hour of play. I wish there was a way to switch accelerate to one of the bumpers.
Have you joined us on TAY Kart yet?
I don’t have anyone added on my friendlist. I really need to get around to doing that.
You don’t need to, just need the TAY Kart code (which I don’t have on me right now, otherwise I would link…)
*cough* 6219-0979-9527 *cough*
You’re alright, Pixel. You’re alright.
I race, therefore I am.
What’s even weirder is that they also have Y to accelerate. I prefer to use that, it’s much comfier than A and it’s pretty easy to roll onto X from there to look back or B to slow down for whatever reason. The only thing that bugs me about that is that it doesn’t operate the same way on the menus, so you still have to switch over to A for those.
OH YEAH AND I DON’T WANT TO VIEW HIGHLIGHTS AFTER EVERY MATCH I JUST WANT TO MASH A UNTIL THE NEXT RACE STARTS DAMMIT
Using Y sounds much better.
oh man this, I’ve started so many highlight reels accidentally cause I’m spamming A to get to the next track quick.
I finally added my Miiverse information to Taynames… my goal for tonight is to trawl through and add EVERYONE \o/
But yeah, TAY kart can be joined without friends… just go to “Tournaments” under multi and select “join by code” (i think) and plunk in:
6219-0979-9527
And you’re set!
Thanks.
Spoiler alert for everything
It is said that of what kyubey has done to make little girls into monsters that the order of the silence has secretly put a hidden suggestion for everyone to kill on sight an incubator or offered an award for bounty hunter to kill on sight kyubey, it is also said that countless incubator bodies have been found in the decaying remains of dead tardis’ plus there is a rumour that petrified remains of them surround the caves of the sinnoh lake trio
Guvf vf ubj gur cbfg fubhyq ybbx.
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Qba’g fgbc cbfgvat urer, qhqr. V’z whfg jbeevrq fbzrbar vf tbaan trg naablrq ng lbh, gung’f nyy.
http://rot13.com/ ?
Also, I have no idea what the spoilers are for! D:
Tardis, Sinnoh, other words that I’m not familiar with? I don’t think they’re spoilers for anything. Just random ramblings.
I think.
Doctor Who? Pokemon? Random words?
Could it be our old pal Sandy, wiser and subtler, come back for round two? 😛
Based on my dealings with my teenaged daughter, I’m going with teenager. 😛
Dino dude says what spoilers are for in the very first line – everything! 😀
I was in the incubator for a while earlier this year.
But then I decided it wasn’t for me and dropped out.
I was in an incubator once. It got me a little hot under the collar, but eventually I hatched an eggcelent scheme.
Wolf Among Us just keeps getting radder and knowing the next one is the last one makes me all kind of sad.
Xrcg Pbyva nebhaq orpnhfr ur’f n qnzarq cvt. V’ir nyjnlf jnagrq n cvt.
Qvq abg nggrzcg gb erzbir gur evooba. Xvaq bs svtherq vg jbhyq or fbzrguvat yvxr gung.
Yhpxl Cnja frrzrq yvxr gur cynpr gb tb. Qvq abg qvfnccbvag.
Gbyq Gbnq ur pbhyq fgnl. V yvxr gur fyvzl fyrnmronyy. V trg gur srryvat Ovtol qbrf nf jryy.
Ovtol vf n onqnff. Bs pbhefr ur yvg n pvtnerggr svefg. Fb tynq V qvq orpnhfr gung jnf n cresrpg jnl gb raq gur rcvfbqr. Jul qvq bayl 15% bs crbcyr qb gung? “Fvg qbja”? Trg fbzr vzntvangvba crbcyr!
Xrcg Pbyva nebhaq orpnhfr envfvaf.
Qvq abg nggrzcg gb erzbir gur evooba orpnhfr envfvaf.
Jrag gb gur ohgpure svefg orpnhfr envfvaf.
Tnir Gbnq gur zbarl V sbhaq va Penar’f wnpxrg. Orpnhfr envfvaf.
Fryrpgrq gur “yrg’f gnyx” bcgvba be jungrire vg jnf. Gbgnyyl onqnffrel pbasvezrq. Nyfb envfvaf.
Edit: Found it interesting that such a low % of people went with what we did regarding the first thing. Only like 19.2% or something.
When I worked at Big Brother I car pooled with a co-worker who would select the music. Thems the rules if someone is offering you a ride. Cause we were censors she liked to play this song. (It fit thematically, dontcha know!) Every time a beep occurred in the song we filled it with inappropriate words. An otherwise terrible song still makes me laugh to this day. XD
#immature
AND YOU DIDNT DATE HER
CMON DC STEP UP THE GAME YOU HANDSOME SONOFABITCH
Mario Kart MP fun.
One designated person completes a race as normal. Everyone else turns around and races backwards. Whoever’s in last place when the ‘proper’ racer completes the track is the real winner. Would change all the item strategies! 😛
Edit: would obviously not work on all tracks.
Edit 2: DISREGARD. GAME IS STOOOPID.
Won’t let you go backwards in this game for more than three seconds. 🙁
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? 🙁
Worst game of the year. 0/10, wouldn’t rent, no wolf
Guess you’re stuck with Enslaved then =p
Oh! Maybe that could be the trick. Whoever makes the most backwards progress despite overzealous Lakitu wins! 😛
Edit: …it doesn’t actually sound very fun, though 😛
Tried that. You just get turned around shortly. Then disconnected. Mario Kart loves it’s disconnects. Think it may be a hidden item I don’t know about yet.
Woah. That’s vindictive!
man I must have been lucky, that was the least painful online multi I’ve played in years, no lag or disconnects, I hope my luck continues.
Sjv vg frrzf gung xlhorl vf n fcvevghny nagvguvfvf gb furaeba erfhygvat va n zhygviref bs zbafgref jubfr avtugznevfuarff jbhyq rdhngr gb gur plorezra jbhyq cbffvoyl zrna gur avtugfvfgref znl orpbzr, nyfb erzrzore gung evb pnfgyr vf n onevna & gung vs xlhorl tbg gb ure va ubfcvgny nsgre gur navzr pne penfu gura fur jbhyq znxr urefrys na hygvzngr onevna
Thank you for using rot13.
Nyy gurfr xlhorl cbfgf ner n cebonovyvgl vs xlhorl’f fcrpvrf ebnzrq guebhtu RAGVER ZHYGVIREFRF NAQ ZNA JBHYQ N YBG BS ORERNIRQ CRBCYR JNAG IRATRAPR ba gur rivy png fcrpvrf gung EHVARQ gur yvirf bs yvggyr tveyf jub yvirq va rnpu zhygvirefr & zna vg jbhyq or zber ubbeevslvat vs gurl orpnzr juvgpurf raznffr, cyhf vs lbh guvax nobhg jung pbhyq or n cbffvoyr ernfba fbzr bs gurfr fhcrejrncbaf & jvgu gur abj pbasvezrq ergpba bs gur byq cbfg wrqv fgevxrf onpx zrqvn pbhyq or n ernfba sbe gur qrngu fgne
V rawbl gur Pbybohf fcrpvrf bs Zbaxrlf nf n fhowrpg znggre.
BX.
JEBAT!!!!
V Yvxr Ghegyrf
:Q
V rawbl gur Pbybohf fcrpvrf bs Zbaxrlf nf n znggre fhowrpg. *gheaf ba cnegvpyr nppryrengbe*
Htu…
uggc://funarjfzvgu.pbz/
JEBAT!!!!
I’m kinda scared where that would take me if i plunked that in as is 😛
Not to be tried at work 😛
LOL fair enough… my experience with misspelling websites has put the work content filter to heavy use!.
Although Adult Friend Finder does seem like a legit service, i do need some friends that are adults!
uggc://jjj.snprobbx.pbz/UneyrlDhvaaUP
Erzrzore gung gvzr lbh cbfgrq gung naq gur crefba qvqa’g trg gur ersrerapr/wbxr naq vg jnf njxjneq nf? Tbbq gvzrf…
Mum keeps asking me if the guy has e-mailed me about the job yet.
I knew I shouldn’t have said anything about it, and just pretended I had to go to the city to buy porn or deal drugs or something.
Stop avoiding things!
You don’t want to end up a bitter old lady like me. 😛
I’m not avoiding anything! I wish I was though. I want to be avoiding her incessant pestering about something I have no control over 😛
Or a bitter old man like me!
Or a bitter old man like me!
You can’t be all that bitter if you like Promiscuous and Beep =p
Pretended?
Do I need to write you another email?
Mr. Strange has a dentist’s appointment to get some fillings today. At 2:30….
He’s so amused by that, I don’t think he’ll even need gas or whatever they usually use to dull the pain. 😛
…That took me far too long.
This is a good thing. It means you haven’t been corrupted by Page Six yet!
Uh. Have you SEEN some of the crap I’ve posted there?
I had to Google it and I’ve never seen that used anywhere before 😛
Also, he didn’t tell me this until yesterday so now I need to come up with something more appropriate for dinner than my previously planned crispy fried chicken.
Although the ads for that Chunky soup come to mind.
A bag of Kettle Chips?
Strange, I am so proud of you, you’ve come so far
#pagesix
Strange, I am so disappointed in you, you’ve slipped so far
#pagesix
I have to admit, I’m loving imagining the look on Mr. Strange’s face when he tells the dentist’s receptionist he has “an appointment for two thirty”. 😀
Apparently they get it all the damn time.
If I was a dentist I’d make the time 2:31.
I’d hope I could go after them, for my 2:32.
ohhhhhhh. Jokes.
Mr. Strange should hang out on TAY.
I don’t get it!! Someone explain this to me 0,0
Two-thirty sounds like ‘tooth hurty’. 🙂
No seriously someone explain it to me!…. is that really it?
Unfold your mind and let the multi-layered incandescence of linguistic perfection envelop your consciousness, transporting it to a state of transcendent humour – the glorious serendipity of the real world Dad Joke.
http://rt.com/news/161760-internet-broadband-space-moon/
Now the moon has faster and more stable Internet than Australia….
http://rt.com/news/161760-internet-broadband-space-moon/
Now the moon has faster and more stable Internet than Australia….
Edit: Double post page get! \o/
..
/o\
622mb per second *faints*
I shall move my hermit cave… to the moon! *points dramatically*
Who will you snuggle then?
that idea is just the …………… BEST EVER!!! *frantically starts packing bags*
https://twitter.com/a_sharples/status/393231219908825088
Well yeah, but the infrastructure costs must be astronomical.
Lunarcy.
I’m not sure that’s a fair comparison. Australia’s international links are pretty decent. There’s a 50gbps link from Sydney to Hong Kong and Tokyo for example, and there’s at least 100gbps to the western US. And that’s just looking at Internode’s maps, other companies eg. Telstra probably have their own pipes.
If you were to consider the Moon to be a continent or a country and this linkage being the international pipe, then Australia is miles ahead of the moon in bandwidth and speed. It’s just that our *internal* infrastructure is shithouse and getting worse by the day.
Never bring a reasonable argument to a political discussion.
Happy birthday @powalen!
Moon belongs America right?
Just like the Internet does.
They sent a dude or two up and put their flag there so I guess it does.
I’m pretty sure that’s what the British used to do.
Makes me think of this:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3052
Been listening to this album all day. So good. Would’ve loved to have seen them in their prime
Was just about to bitch about not being able to log onto Xbox Live, all full of righteous indignation!
Then I turned my xbox off then on again and it is now working fine… so…
How about that local sports team!?!
Which one? One’s on top of the AFL ladder, but it’s the wrong one.
Crows are just outside the 8.
The trouble with Microsoft is that they always try to walk it in.
I watched my first game of football in ten years a couple weeks ago. Titans vs. Warriors. Pretty good game. I don’t remember who won.
Vote 1 @powalen for PAX AU Pokémon League Bug Gym Leader!
…What? Don’t ask me how to vote, or even if we can vote. I’m too busy being hype over here \o/
Edit: me tag gud
@powalen Not sure if you had the correct tag before the edit.
Yeah, should have said me manual markup gud. Broke the italics first time around. Fiddly things on a phone with auto suggest.
Now that you’ve got me considering this again, I really want to find a way of getting a Butterfree into my team. Just because I can 😛
@mawt: Did you ever apply? I think you said you were going to? Or did you just mean you wanted to take the challenge?
If you seriously go through with this, I could probably get you a shiny butterfree for your cheesy line final reveal.
Shiny Butterfree is mega ugly 😛 Thanks but no thanks!
Do it Pow!
Believe in the heart of the
cardspokemon. That you tear still beating from the chest of your opponents team as spoils of warah, no. I was trying to sign up to the PPT forums, but the account creation kept failing. I meant to try again at home, but it skipped my mind.
I think that I’d like to take part, and that I might as well sign up for a Gym Leader type role – the worst they can say is I don’t make the cut and then I’ll just compete.
Set up range extender for wifi and now can play Mario Kart multiplayer on HDTV. WOOOOO!
oh no, there goes our advantage 😛
Don’t worry, he’s still blind!
Exactly! It’s trading one thing for another. 😛
but when those glasses arrive we’re in trouble 😀
But these excuses are all I have to justify terribleness. WHAT IF I’M STILL TERRIBLE. 😛
Just explain that it is hard to play while you are snuggling
More snuggles. More of the time.
Gotta love those HD blurs 😛
I (finally) got Watch Dogs to work thanks to @cakesmith.
I’ve played a couple of hours so far and not sure what to think. I can’t find anything wrong with the game but can’t really find anything amazing about the game. It’s just (as stupid as it sounds) a game. I will probably keep going with it but that’s mostly due to spending about a week trying to get it to work.
If i was you i would of burned down my house and a EB games in rage already. Kudos to you for taking the non crazy option.
I’M A WIZARD
I AM A WIZARD!
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Wait, but don’t people eat pokemon? Therefore is people are pokemon then people (or pokemon) are cannibals.
I thought about it. I still hate Fairy types.
But they’re so fabulous.
I dunno, I see myself more as a Digimon.
Repost reminder
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
Wood n Chimney on Clarendon St
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
How imminent is your imminent arrival, if you don’t mind me asking?
We are due 21st of July
We figured that any less than a month before the due date to have a celebration was asking for trouble
I think I missed the beginnings of this @dc and snuggling thing but I do like it muchly anyway.
DC let it slip that he’d watched the season final of Hannibal while snuggling and then failed to provide more details.
As nature abhors a vacuum, it’s our solemn duty to speculate wildly on what exactly that meant.
Teddy bears.
If nature abhors a vacuum, why is the universe expanding?
Shit diffuses then coalesces.
That’s pretty much the galaxy.
Shame that the natural order of things couldn’t hold its own plan in greater esteem then… :\
It runs out of energy, so it’s more like it cbf.
3 laws of Thermodynamics:
1. You can’t win
2. You can’t break even
3. You can’t get out of the game.
I liked the part where this conversation went from being about snuggling, to being about the thermodynamics of the universe.
That’s obviously where that conversation was heading. Obviously.
Matter runs away and then comes back for a snuggle.
Happy?
Welcome to TAY?
Well the second law of Thermodynamics holds that “Heat cannot spontaneously flow from a colder location to a hotter location” and that’s why we need snuggling.
Serious answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-CDM_model
The best theory is that the energy and matter visible in the universe is actually not the entirety of it, and that there is ‘dark’ matter and energy which we cannot directly observe but which exists and causes this interaction. Our models taking these unseen particles and unseen energy sources into account precisely match observations of the rate of expansion of the universe so they’re generally accepted as being the truth, or at least the closest we have gotten to it.
It’s trying to get away from the vacuum, dingus.
Off to see a psych for the very first time. *kills self*
Maybe you should tell them about those urges? D:
…
In all seriousness, you’ve done good man. Proud of you. 🙂
Good luck, man!
With the psych part… not the *kills self* part.
*kills self*
Best of luck. If all goes well, you’ll want to kill the shrink, not yourself, at the end of the session.
Eek! A scary rottweiler is loose and apparently chased my daughter home, growling and barking.
When I went outside to check I saw it terrorising a poor little kid on a bike, nearly making him veer onto the road. D:
I hope its owners realise it’s gone soon and take it home before it gets itself or some poor kid hurt.
Lure it into your backyard with food and adopt it as your own. It’s the only responsible thing to do 😀
Hell no. I’m not owning no ugly dog! 😛
There is no such thing as an ugly dog, Strange, only judgemental people >:(
That poor puppy can’t help his looks!
It’s unfair to compare him to the standards or purebreed Labradors and German Shepards.
Those dogs set an unrealistic standard of (dog) beauty!
*sobs hysterically*
To be honest, I think most dogs are ugly but especially purebreeds and those silly deliberate crossbreeds like labradoodles. Mongrels ftw.
Why do YOU hurt me so Strange :'(
I really thought that we could be friends Strange, I really did :'(
😛
Tell me that this is ugly https://twitter.com/SP74656/status/472876505102417920
or this https://twitter.com/SP74656/status/472667295613849600
😛
I need those puppies in my life :’D
Super cuuuuuuuuute! :3
I just died a little inside…
MY PUPPIES ARE NOT UGLY
…
are they?
*whimpers*
Your puppies are adorable.
Laced, drugged, or poisoned food, presumably.
Uh.. isn’t there a hotline to call somebody for that? Like a snake catcher or something but for wild, raging dogs?
Like a dog catcher?
That’s the one. Thanks, I couldn’t think of it.
Ring the RSPCA or something? If the dog is attacking people on the street then it needs to be controlled properly. I don’t know about the laws up there, but here if a dog chases someone in a threatening manner like that then it is considered a dangerous animal and its owners have to put up signs and have a certain amount of fencing etc. to make sure it doesn’t escape and hurt someone.
Yeah, I’m keeping my eye on it. Kind of a tough situation though. Don’t want it to hurt anyone, but don’t want it to be taken by the RSPCA who regularly put down dogs, either.
If the dog has an owner then the RSPCA won’t put it down unless they fail to claim it in reasonable time. Meanwhile if the dog doesn’t have an owner it’s not going to go away and it will probably hurt someone, and if that happens it will have to be put down.
As @negativezero said, if the dog does have an owner, it won’t be put down, unless said owner doesn’t claim it. The longer that dog is allowed to roam the streets, the more people it could hurt/terrorize.
I know it sounds harsh, but I’d rather the dog be put down than it kill/severely injure an innocent child.
My heart breaks in regards to those attacks on toddlers just the other week.
It’s a bit late but the local council are the people to call about dogs like this. They should be able to capture the dog, return it to the owner and force the owner to do something about the dog.
shit, yeah probably call someone before it actually attacks a kid,
Playing a bit of Watch Dogs, and stop a crime in progress. I’m chasing the guy down, and he decides to run over a pallet on a forklift, straight away I thought “I’ll hack the forklift and lift the pallet up”. The guy gets lifted up, which slows him down enough for me to catch him. I take him down, and he just happens to be lying underneath the pallet. I’m about to run off, and a thought pops into my head, “hang on, I’ll have some fun with this guy, and lower the pallet on top of him.”
What happened next was pretty funny.
ahaha, I did a similar thing but he wasn’t that contorted.
Gameplay question for you. Does time stop when you choose to hack something? From your description that sounds like the only way it would make sense to do that
From all the let’s play footage I’ve seen, it’s more like pulling the trigger on any number of context-sensitive icons which your phone pre-emptively highlights as possibilities for you.
Effectively the hacking equivalent of video game red barrels. Move cursor to environment, blow up(/hack) environment.
Nope, surely you’ve heard the whole “press X (or Square in the case of Playstation) to hack thing.
A “takedown” is basically a knock out, so he was lying there motionless.
I haven’t looked at anything watchdogs related for a long time. The whole game has pretty much passed me by
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You may be my favourite TAY thing since “Unnecessary.”
Oh, I’m thinking about it alright.
We’re through the looking glass here, people.
I’d like to hear more about Judaisy.
Guys there’s something wrong with rot13….. I’m decoding dino’s post but it still doesn’t make any sense… >,<
Just realized next Monday is a public holiday here. \o/
Yep, it’s the only thing the Queen’s good for.
Damn Queen. If she’d made that holiday six days earlier I’d get a public holiday for my birthday. She’s so selfish.
does that mean its your birthday tomorrow?
Edit : even if its not, I’m gonna use this as an excuse to shout happy birthday stuff at you all tomorrow.
We should start now as a rehearsal, I’m going to spawn camp @powalen ‘s posts with Happy Birthday!
I have so many pictures of dachsunds in party hats ready to go for just such an occasion.
So conquer the country and declare yourself as Queen Powalena and get the holiday moved. Problem solved.
If all else fails, Tony will at least be able to make me a Dame.
Remember that time I jokingly said “Happy Birthday Powalen” and people said it too, but it wasn’t your birthday? Good times…
(I think that happened…? :P)
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Neither do I.
Ahaha! I knew I wasn’t completely crazy…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-260/comment-page-13/#comment-2373686
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-260/comment-page-13/#comment-2373838
It’s almost home time, which means game time, but which one, it’s the best problem having multiple games I really want to play and can’t decide between, as apposed to the usual “I guess I’ll beat that” feeling I’ve had with a lot of games lately.
All going accordingly I’ll be on board for more Kart tonight :D.
I spent all day meaning to play something but ended up clicking cookies instead for most of it.
I regret everything.
One. more. hour. Then I can run home and play some Wildstar =]
Edit: I miss Mark Serrels’s daily articles, he shouldn’t be allowed to go on holiday =,=
That game’s been completely off my radar. All I know is that it’s an MMO and might be a bit more cartoony in style than most. What makes it interesting? Genuinely curious. I try out most MMOs but they didn’t seem to have an accessible trial that I saw and I’m a bit iffy on it as I understand it to be a Full Retail + Ongoing Subscription release model?
Well that’s just it, Wildstar isn’t trying to do anything particularly interesting. So far it feels and plays a lot like WoW but with a fresh coat of paint and a new setting. Also I would negligent in not mentioning the telegraph combat system, very similar to guild wars except that your average mobs actually require to pay attention while you fight. I guess what’s standing out most for me in Wildstar is the fact it feels so polished, head start launch was flawless for me aside from the odd hotfixes. And the latency is actually surprisingly good….
For those of you interested in joining in I’m in the oceanic Myrcalus server playing Dominion. Character name – Chyrone.
Edit: Forgot to mention the ingame CREDD system which is basically an auction house that only sells subscription time. Ideal for people who have no money but a lot of free time to trade with peeps who have money but little time to farm gold.
“Plays like WoW” so basically it’s your usual hotkey and cooldown stuff?
The last time I played an MMO where mobs actually required you to pay attention to them and each one was a difficult fight was SWTOR, and that got awful toward the end because of the amount of grinding and how much work it was to burn through each pack of trash.
But maybe you’re describing something a bit more like TERA? That was a cool game, if the latency hadn’t been so shit (and maybe if I had felt slightly less creepy playing it) I’d really have gotten into it.
EDIT: Also IMO in this day and age, having a MMO launch without a certain level of polish is suicide. WoW changed the playing field and if you don’t have an equivalent of almost all its basic features at launch, you’re going to fail. The only sort of launch issues that are acceptable are the sort that FFXIV 2.0 had, where the game was too popular and they hadn’t anticipated the level of interest and didn’t have enough servers up.
More dynamic gameplay than WoW for sure, you need to move around dodge and aim your spells. So basically every spell has this AoE shape that it effects and they need to be aimed. Some mobs require you to pay attention while others you can get away with spamming, depends on the zone and quest really but so far I’ve had a nice mix where some I can just kind of close my eyes and get through and others where I’ve got to aim and dodge pro-actively or die a whole lot >.<
I can throw you a 7 day friend invite tomorrow if you want?
Nah, I don’t have time at the moment.
It sounds a lot like TERA. That had mobs which would charge you and stuff, had to keep an eye on what they were doing. Tank classes needed to dodge or block the right attacks, Ranged DPS was all about AoEs with small attack zones a fixed distance from you so you needed to move around to keep enemies in the right spot. I played a Priest for quite a bit and they were absolutely insane fighting groups, you could just circle around and use cone AoE attacks and big overhand smashes. Most of the classes also had combo setups where using one attack would allow you to then make one of a set of other attacks which would lead into other attacks and so on. Found that quite exciting.
The only issue I had was that the US server lag was always 400-500ms+ and that made the game unpredictable. Also I would have strange issues where the game didn’t feel like it was running at a consistent speed. Sometimes it would feel about right, sometimes it felt like time was passing slower or faster than normal. I think this was actually server-side lag with it not being able to keep up with computations fast enough but maybe it was my old PC running slow. Dunno.
Also the game was super pretty but some of the character models and a lot of the clothes were a bit too sexualized.
My beta period with Wildstar put it somewhere in-between TERA and WoW in terms of action combat dodging vs standing still and hotbar-mashing.
@pupp3tmast3r
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES on Kotaku Australia
That’s obviously where that conversation was heading. Obviously.
That one’s more bi-weekly than daily. 😛
something something royalties something something.
Though I do like that as the tag. Short, specific, and accurately describes 99% of all TAY conversations.
YO!
I have some questions about cleaning the dust from the inside of a computer:
Can dust badly affect the performance of the computer? I kinda get that a lot of it clogging up vents will make stuff heat up more but will a tiny layer of dust do much?
How to clean it? I’ve gathered compressed air is the way to go and that I should stop the fans from spinning while cleaning them with it. Anything else that’s worth using? I’ve seen stuff about paintbrushes and Q-tips, are they safe?
I’ve never really cleaned my computers but I wanted to use compressed air to clean my old one a few years back, however, my dad was adamant on using a vacuum cleaner, which I’m pretty sure is a giant no-no because of the static (but he went ahead and did it anyway). That old computer suddenly became extremely slow but will cleaning the dust actually make it quicker? I’m sure cleaning it will ultimately help out anyway so I’ll go ahead and do that but I’m also thinking of just doing a clean install of Windows as well. But I think my issues with that old computer are hardware problems (maybe caused by him using a vacuum cleaner).
I’m considering getting one of these as well http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/747381-REG/METRO_DataVac_ED_500_220V_DataVac_Electric_Duster_500.html but who knows! I do plan on properly cleaning and taking care of my new (and current) PC.
Thankssss
@ynefel – I recall you doing a mighty fine job of keeping your fancy system clean, so any tips would be greatly appreciated 😀
Use a straw. Kidding! I use a pressurised air gun – works a treat.
don’t use a vacuum cleaner.
Dust can slow down/reduce the air flow from fans, reduce the effectiveness of heat sinks, and add extra resistance to exposed circuitry (so basically, everything), as well as trapping heat. You really don’t want dust.
One route is to try and leave a case open for maximum air-flow and heat-dissipation, but unfortunately that usually leads to more dust. So your best bet is usually a well-contained case with good air-flow and regular cleaning.
There are many ways of cleaning, but my preferred every couple months (and it probably should be more often, or I wouldn’t have fried my parts) is a static-free cloth and a toothbrush. Compressed air similar to keyboard-cleaners is probably also a good idea, but I’ve never bothered with it.
You’ve got a job now. You can pay a chump to do that for you.
@greenius, I’m very disappointed in you. I just set you up perfectly for a “Hey Pow, wanna clean out my computer?” and you didn’t take the bait.
Think of all the upvotes you would’ve gotten. Think of all the green.
You don’t know how many times I drafted that comment!
I just didn’t want to play favourites and only reply to your comment 😉 (which I ended up doing anyway, WITHOUT all the green)
Dust can cause short circuits and also stops cool air getting into the heat sinks and radiators that your fans are trying to cool. Heat is bad. Used to be that a CPU could cook itself if it got too hot, but modern CPUs and GPUs will instead progressively underclock themselves to stay in healthy heat ranges – to a point, at least.
Don’t use a vacuum. In addition to static issues, you can damage delicate parts with too much suction. Compressed air cans are good but you’ll want 2-3 of them, because the reaction that powers them causes the outside of the can to get really really cold and when that happens it can start to drip condensation, gets less suction and sometimes spits liquid. The other thing that works well is if you have an electric compressor used for an airbrush or for pumping up balls like basketballs, but they run the risk of static electricity buildup too.
I often clean the dust out of mine and my customers machines. I often see cpu heatsinks with fans on top, that are unable to get air through the fins due to a thick layer of dust.
I do my home pc about 2-3 times a year. Remove the heatsink from your cpu, remove the fan from the heatsink, and take it and hold over a bin. Either brush it out with a toothbrush, small paint brush, or air compressor if you have one. To clean the dust out of other parts can be tricky, especially if you’ve got a lot on the motherboard, but a lint/static free cloth and a toothbrush should do a fairly good job. If you clean it out inside your case, push the dust in to a pile at the bottom of the tower, and then you can use a vacuum to suck it up from there, but I wouldn’t go using a vac all over it. If it’s really super grubby, and a brush alone wont get the gunk off, get some isopropyl alcohol and dip the brush in it. Always make sure you have everything unplugged from the power outlet though, and give your pc a chance to discharge for a minute before you go doing anything though.
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Wait, so is Batman also a Pokemon?
wow. this is like if someone discovered the joys of rot13, google translate & modal realism all in one afternoon.
Interestingly, rotting (^_^) turns it into.. (^_^)
We have to tell the peoples! Everywhere! All worlds!
. o O (I’ve created a monster?)
(Edit: By which I mean, I’m digging the rapid adoption of constructive criticism. But rot13 probably doesn’t need to be applied to everything. 🙂 )
GAME OF THRONES (don’t worry, no spoilers!)
To the people who are up to date on the show and have:
– Read the books before watching the show
– Never read the books
I’m just curious as to how you’re finding Season 4 so far?
Season 4 is the only season where I’ve read the book before watching the show, which means it’s the only season where I know what’s going to happen. I don’t know whether this has affected my enjoyment of the show, or whether Season 4 just hasn’t been as good as the others.
Just wanted to compare notes and get some general thoughts 😀 (I <3 note comparing)
Read all books.
It’s a bit more languid in pace, but I think that’s what it’ll be like from now on.
Pedro Pascal is killing it though.
Uh.. is it just me or.. something not quite..
Anyway, I’ve never read the books and I’ve always maintained that season one is the by far the best season. I must clearly be getting drained because it’s been downhill every season thereafter. Yet for some reason I keep watching.
Was that in regards to your quote of me? It’s supposed to be a “from column (dot point) A, or column B” kind of thing. So someone who has either read all the books before watching the show (i.e. they know everything that’s going to happen), OR someone who hasn’t read the books and is experiencing the series through the show only.
It’s because a big part of my enjoyment of the show came from not knowing what would happen. Even if the execution was a little bit off, just seeing the plot unfold was good enough for me. However, since I know what’s going to happen this time, I’m losing some of that surprise factor. So far it seems like you two haven’t liked S4 as much as the others (like me), but who knows!
Yeah it was. Just messing around really. You made it sound a bit redundant having both pointers there – like it’s referring to everyone watching the show, really. No offense intended.
It’s cool, none taken. Just wasn’t sure if I was clear enough 😛
I’m not up to date on the show but we’re at the point where the books start to drag, so I wouldn’t be shocked if the show is starting to drag too.
Read all the books. Don’t find the show appealing and haven’t watched past the first few episodes of the first season. Too dark and horrible. Even find the books hard going now.
Never read the books, this season is my favorite so far.
I started reading the books after season 3 and I’ve only just finished reading book 3 (I was sort of trying not to get ahead of the TV show but threw that out the window after the cliffhanger two weeks ago). This season has been very filler-y but I guess they’re sort of smoothing over character relationships to sort out the places where they dropped certain characters. I think the show vs. the books is in a pretty good place right now and I can see where it’ll all basically tie together by the end of the season.
My wife hasn’t finished the book yet so it was really hard to not give anything away about this week’s episode ahead of time. I don’t want to be one of those smug pricks that gets their kicks seeing how non-readers react to the unexpected when it happens on TV. I kind of wish I didn’t know what was going to happen in the next two episodes but I’m also glad I’m not in suspense. It’s weird.
I plan to start on the 4th book after I’ve gotten paid and the car rego is out of the way but I’m kind of torn because while I want to know what happens next I also don’t want to be spoiled for the next season which is still a year away.
Pretty similar to me then! If you didn’t already know, book 4 and 5 take place at the same time. So I’m assuming that season 5 will have the events chronologically, rather than doing book 4 first.
Part of the reason I read the books was to avoid weekly spoilers. It kinda sucks how easy it is to get spoiled nowadays 🙁
Contacted my sister when I got home to get an update on mum. Had me a little worried cos I told her not to call me at work with bad news (I didn’t exactly wanna break down in tears at work…)
Apparently there’s been no change in her condition, so while it’s not good news, at least it wasn’t bad news as such. Just keeping our fingers crossed she’s got some fight left in her to pull through!
Weeeell shit!
Just got a call from wifey, her pop has been very old and very frail for a while.
Now she informs me, that he has been put in hospital, they found fluid in his lungs and has given him 3 hours to live… All they can do now is make him comfortable…
this is on top of the scare about my premi-nephew and everything else going…
LIFE IS GREAT… right? 😛
Faaaaaark man, sorry to hear that.
*super awkward man hug*
We knew that he hadn’t been healthy for a while, and knew he was declining… but he always seemed like one of those people that just keeps going despite the frail exterior…
He’s had a good life, and hopefully he will go peacefully, but it’s still not exactly nice…
Death is never a nice thing to be confronted with
Fark, three hours? I send my regards.
That’s bad news. Just be there for wifey.
Planning on it…
Have already told her that if i need to take time off work to go to Wagga or whatever i can do, i will… I can imagine she at least wants to be there with her family, but it’s up to her
As long as she knows you’re there for her.
Fuck man, sorry to hear that. If you come to wagga and need anything done, let me know and I’ll get on it ASAP
So sorry, man. 🙁
My condolences pixel… it’s never easy losing a family member…
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1y1ez7_tony-abbott-last-week-tonight_news
John Oliver’s piece on Tony Abbott.
I lol’d.
I’m really enjoying his new show. Been watching it when it comes up on Foxtel.
Well, crunchyroll free trial is over today for yet another 3-6 months or however long until they give me another one and hope I won’t cancel it before it expires and have to wear the automatic re-billing set up during the trial-acceptance process.
It’s a decent enough service for streaming if you actually care about sourcing things legally. Not really worth the actual price in my opinion, though. Especially when even as a premium member you’ll still stumble across region restrictions like dog turds in a kid’s sand-pit.
I’ve been a paying member since its inception, back before they even had a regular membership and the only things they had legit were that you could pay to download episodes of The Tower of Druaga and… uh… Strike Witches? Or some other Gonzo show. I don’t even remember what it was.
The region locks are an absolute pain in the shitter and the quality of their subs can be very hit and miss, though overall they’re much better now. I hate watching streamed stuff on the site though, as well as fucking with the region locks, so despite being a paying member, I download rips of their releases instead. I consider this to be semi-legit since it’s not like I’m not accessing anything I’m not paying for, I’m just pre-caching things so I don’t need to stream and use a proxy to get around geoblocks. 😛
Some seasons the blocking is worse than others. Usually the season starting April or so is really bad because all the big US companies pre-license a bunch of stuff so they can announce the licenses at conventions in the first half of the year and pretend they’re still relevant in the business.
Madman are setting up a local streaming site in competition with CR. If they price that similarly and actually give us access to stuff it might end up being the best legit approach for AU.
EDIT: Also if you would like a 48h CR trial (this goes for anyone else) I have always got some, I get a new one every month and they take 3-4 months to expire.
Thanks for the offer, but I think I’ve seen all I really needed to. I like how they lay out their selection sometimes, and it got me to look at things I normally wouldn’t have (often to only find out – blocked), but the ‘referred by a friend’ method is serving well enough at the moment.
Mostly only really following at the moment: Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou (one of my favourites), Mahouka (irregular at Magic High – also really enjoying), Tonari no Seki-kun (glee!), Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to, Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizoukin, Soredemo Sekai wa Utskukushii (don’t judge me, I think it’s adawwable), and No Game No Life (another of my favourites).
Been going back through some older stuff too – just finished Log Horizon and found it to be well worthy of recommendation, and most of the way through Strike The Blood, which has been fun enough. Almost done with Golden Time, only it’s getting really painful to watch the characters making such terrible, terrible choices.
Watchable but not enthusiastic about: Broken Blade, Yuushibu, Unbreakable Machine Doll, Sekai Seifuku – Bouryaku no Zvezda, Seikoku no Dragonar, Mekakucity Actors, M3 – Sono Kuroki Hagane, Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san, Inari Konkon Koi Iroha, Hitsugi no Chaika, Captain Earth, Brynhildr in the Darkness, Blade & Soul, Black Bullet, Akuma no Riddle, Nobunaga the Fool.
Sjv arj znff rssrpg raqvat: vs lbh pubfr abar bs gur nobir, gur erncref jvyy jvcr bhg rirelguvat & gur nyyvnpr jvaf va nobhg 25 lrnef nsgre lbh qba’g znxr lbhe pubvpr, gung znxrf 4 raqvatf gung jvyy pnhfr pbagenirefl, guhf rirelguvat lbh znl unir qbar gung vf cbfvgvir bayl trgf fperjrq 4 gvzrf bire abj
Dearest @strange,
I am both so proud, and so disappointed in you. But also, so disappointed in myself.
Upon reading your splendiferous joke on the previous page I was stumped. I did not understand it. Maybe I refused to understand it, who can really say? I stared at it for a minute, certain that there was a joke there, due to the phrasing, but unable to parse it correctly.
I read further down, and noticed that some other people had been a little slow, but that they had understood it in the end. Feeling vindicated – if only momentarily – I returned to staring gormlessly at your post. Eventually, when the frustration had finally managed to worm its way into my brain, I cracked. Knowing Jeeves to be a pale imitation of his former self, I went to he who professes to be a Professor of all knowledge, and asked Google.
Even with the aid of my omniscient friend it took a moment. A moment of staring, not entirely sure of what I saw. My brain bubbling along like a dog’s droppings on a hot day. But I grasped it eventually. I finally understood.
Oh how I laughed.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman, the second of his name.
#LetterWritingEveryPage #HashTagsForHarli #HashishHashsHashHarshHabitats
And that’s the tooth.
Dearest Tay,
I would like to extend, at this late hour (in a figurative sense), an invitation. Since my birthday is this weekend, and since this weekend is long, I would like to invite you to come to my house, consume items of questionable nutritional value, and play video games of some sort. Obviously, I understand that many of you are incapable of coming, due to monetary reasons, timing reasons, or through the whole damn inconvenience of it all.
But I could still use you help. For this isn’t about me. This is about bullying @cakesmith into coming down to Canberra for a night or two, where he can drink to excess in the completely unsafe confines of my home.
So please, bully Cakesmith, for his own good.
Trours Yuly,
Blaghs.
On the weekend I contemplated how sad it was that my Vita had a thin layer of dust on the screen.
So I picked it up and started playing through Killzone again. Got past the insanely difficult level I was having trouble with, and then the next few levels have been really easy. Weird difficulty, but I like it. The easier levels were also pretty intense at times. Like, edge-of-seat intense.
Also, after seeing how many Final Fantasy games are available for the Vita, and remembering that I have the first one on my iPad, I’m considering playing through every single one.
Every single one? That’s Ike 10 games…
I know 🙁
Isn’t it 14, with 11 and 14 being MMO’s?
So 12, then.
Then any spin-offs.
Like I said, contemplating 😛
There’s 10. >:(
So I’m guessing 13 and something else don’t count?
Maybe wait a bit, you can sometimes get them half price during sales.
Hey all you Game Of Thrones people.
It’s starting to look like we’ll be getting even more books than what we expected, and with the pace that GRRM writes at, he’ll probably end up dying before he finishes the saga.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/06/reader-alert-game-of-thrones-might-blow-out-to-eight-books/
It’s cool, we can just get Brandon Sanderson to finish the series.
In fact, why doesn’t he just take over now?
He can take over everything, quite frankly.
Wait, no, we need to clone him, then get him to take over everything.
I am definitely a fanboy.
Mistborn was pretty cool, very cinematic fights
I’m 2/3rds of the way through the second book in his epic fantasy series. It’s so good. Not quite Mistborn good, but second place to Mistborn ain’t a bad position.
Mistborn was great. I haven’t finished Wheel of Time yet though. I’ve been meaning to start again from the beginning so I can read from start to end but haven’t gotten round to it. Massive shame on me
Also, he’s got a good sebse of humour, when he was at Supanova a couple of years ago I wanted to get my books signed by him but J didn’t have any of his books but I did have one of Steven Erikson’s books so he signed that instead with “I didn’t write this book”. The next day my missus went and took my books with him and he put in one of them “I did write this book”. Loved it that he remembered me 😀
HA! I called this last week. I called it! \o/
I was hoping for another book!
My only concern is now the show will definitely catch up to the books, I’ll be on a complete media blackout for years
O.o
OK, TAY!
I’m applying for this PAX gym leader thing and I need to come up with a punny name for my Bug-type gym leader. Which do you prefer:
– Anton
– Buzz
– Chrys (as in Chrysalis)
– Priam (my favourite!)
Anything else you can come up with?
@freezespreston suggested “Formicos” which I can’t find any reference to anywhere :P)
John, Paul, George or Ringo?
Ringo is kinda good actually!
My friend Adi has used “Adibug” for a long time.
Buzz is too obvious, Anton and Chrys are slightly too subtle.
If Anton is subtle, they’re not going to get Priam!
I like the way that name fits with my theme though 😛
Anton is better than Chrys.
Mothrey?
Formicos!
I DON’T UNDERSTAND
Bitey.
Only the big one though.
That’s more of a normal gym leader’s name.
Chrys is my favourite of the names above.
Coming up with bug names is hard :S
a couple could be (with explanation):
-Tomo (like enTOMOlogy)
-Ike (kinda like ick or yike, which is the noise you make when you see a bug)
-Archie (kinda like Monarch butterfly)
-Atlas or Attacus (type of moth)
Chrys is still my favourite though.
I like Chrys too… And Ike actually!
ARGH
So now it’s between:
– Chrys
– Priam
– Formicos, and
– Ike
I’m glad that we’re all helping to narrow down your options, as a community.
We’re a helpful bunch.
ATTACUS! Yes, that one!
(V znl be znl abg rawbl Gb Xvyy N Zbpxvatoveq)
Pow.
I really should’ve done a fighting gym 😛
It’s a thing.
So it does have a name!
Seems to be the relevant part. Gotta get that battle edge over your opponent.
Yes… that bit…
I shouldn’t have clicked on that.
Is this something that you kinda just already knew about.
Or did you look it up previously?
I’m not sure I want to know how you know about this actually.
Dammit Freeze! >.< Now I know something about something that I never wanted to know anything about…
I just went with Priam. It was the only one I didn’t overthink and then start to dislike (I always hated “Buzz”. I was never going to pick that :P) Priam I like, though! My gimmick is “leader of the swarm” (all out attackers in triple battle format), so it kinda fits.
Priam, leader of the swarm = Priam’s Butterfly (my favourite bug) = Priam, King of Troy during the Trojan War (war is a swarm! Or something!).
No one will get it but me but I like it 😛
Thanks for the thoughts!
I was going to suggest Amber (because it’s petrified tree sap and contains insects) but it looks like I’m too late.
Glad you chose something you like though!
Whenever I hear Buzz I think of the rival from Ape Escape, and then my mind goes to Spike, the protagonist from said game and that stupid fucking voice when you enter a level and he says “Do Your Best!”
True Story
Whenever I hear Buzz I think of the mean brother from Home Alone.
Whenever I hear Buzz, I think, To infinity and beyond!
Good luck Priam!
Buzz!
I was going to suggest Nat. (gnat)
EDIT: I suppose that’s more of a female name…
https://au.news.yahoo.com/video/watch/23957880/eight-brothers-in-arms/
Apparently this was on the news a few days ago. It features my Father-in-law and some others talking about my husband’s granddad’s family. It’s a pretty cool story.
I also think it would make a cool Sabaton song. Was going to add a “:P” there but then I realised I’m not even joking. For those who don’t know, Sabaton are a power metal band who write songs about wars. They do a song called “Cliffs Of Gallipoli” and their latest album has a song about Bull Allen. My husband would probably burst with joy if they did one on the “Fighting Handcocks”.
Second link fail. 🙁
http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/pushingback/bullallen.html
Dear TAY. I am still alive. I went on a lovely big boat. I stayed in a big city, Melbourne. I saw the wrong side of 6am, and not due to partying. We drove out of Melbourne. I saw a dog sitting on a lunchbox. It was poxxy. I am now in Canberra. I will love catching up with you all Sunday evening somewhere in the CBD in Brisbane. If that’s ok with you all. With love, your transient bum friend, quiz b.
WELCOME TO THE BUSH CAPITAL!
We call it that thanks to the prostitution laws.
After todays GoT episode I just can’t hold off reading the books now. I need to know but I have 4 seasons of book to read through before I get to stuff I haven’t seen yet. Bah. Stupid first world problems. I’m also full of adrenaline from watching it today
I haven’t finished A Dance With Dragons (the most recent book) yet. I wanted to reread the other books first, but couldn’t be bothered so I skipped to A Feast For Crows which has some overlaps with this season but mostly starts where this Season will finish.
This is the first episode I’ve seen since rereading Feast, where I can remember what happens in detail and I’d actually recommend holding off for longer if you can. It’s really weird watching it while your brain is screaming at you that it’s all wrong.
Lots of filler but the duel was pretty accurate.
Good TAY kart tonight everyone, there sure was some fierce competition, we’re all gonna become monsters if we keep playing against eachother, @sughly got me some good ones tonight, sniped me from like 1000klms away with a green shell and stole first, well played sir, another he gently placed a bobomb on my head resulting in calamitous failure from me. SO MUCH FUNSSS!!!!
The overall skill level of everybody seems to have gone up from launch day! A good sign! (Probably not for me though :P)
yeah some rounds were nuts, we’re all legends.
Now I need to friend everybody that isn’t on TAY names like freeze & other people not on there.
=( I’m sorry I’m poor!
huh, oh no, I didn’t mean to offend. 🙁 I wish everybody could join in. I’ll still friend you for DS games 😀
You didn’t offend. I’m just sad I can’t afford it. =P
It was super fun when it wasn’t disconnecting me!
Having finally beaten Pow in one race, I can retire happy.
Don’t need a follow up Race you can retire as the best
Ah, good times had by all. I feel like I can’t compete on the same level as you guys though. XD
nonsense, you were giving us all a good challenge, weren’t you like 3rd overall tonight when you left?
Hahaha, yeah super tough races, love it! Some serious competition. May there be many MK8 multis to come!
It’d be nice to be able to do every track back-to-back. We’ve been repeating a few and not playing a few at all. Great fun though. First time I’ve ever played multiplayer for more than five minutes. 🙂
Yeah agreed, sometimes that choice of three come up and I’m like… but we just did all of those. Twice!
Game Of Thrones’ latest episode:
V jnf ybbxvat sbejneq gb gur Erq Ivcre/Zbhagnva svtug ohg ubyl fuvg V qvq abg rkcrpg gb unir gb ybbx njnl. :C Gung jnf fb tebff.
Was a great, great episode. The main talking point wasn’t even my favourite thing that happened. Amazing season.
HOLY FUCK THAT ENDING
Please excuse my over-reaction but I did not see that coming.
Neln’f ynhtuvat orngf gur raqvat nal qnl. Nyfb Fnafn trggvat ure ‘cbjre’ onpx naq pbagebyyvat ure qrfgval sbe gur svefg gvzr fvapr fur gubhtug vg jbhyq or n tbbq vqrn gb tb gb Xvat’f Ynaqvat jvgu Wbsserl.
Jung jnf gur fvtavsvpnapr bs Neln’f ynhtuvat?
Gur nofheqvgl bs gur fvghngvba. Nabgure Fgnex qrngu. Ubhaqf’ cynaf orvat gujnegrq. Gur shgvyvgl bs ure cerqvpnzrag. Gur fybj ebnq vagb onq nffrel fur’f jnyxvat. Jub pna fnl? (Cebonoyl fbzrbar jub ernq gur obbx naq vf srryvat zber negvphyngr guna zr.)
Nu, V gubhtug V zvffrq fbzrguvat.
Maybe my interpretation is off though. WHO CAN SAY, BENNY? 😀
@dc, nah I agree with you.
Gur ynhtu jnf gur orfg ovg, gur ybbx ba gur Ubhaq’f snpr jnf cevpryrff, V nterr, V guvax gur ynhtu jnf nvzrq ng uvz n ovg, ur’f orra gelvat fvapr ur yrsg Xvat’f ynaqvat gb znxr n ohpx sebz fryyvat Neln naq vg’f ernyyl abg jbexvat bhg sbe uvz.
Gung fprar arire unccrarq va gur obbxf fb V’q fnl lbh’er cerggl zhpu fcbg ba 😉
Fubj fnafn vf zhpu orggre guna obbx fnafn.
My wife was SCREAMING. I had just read the end of the book so I knew what was coming but it was intense as shit.
Finally saw my gravatar come to life on t.v
Loved it.
V ungr srryvat yvxr n cnegl cbbcre ohg jnf gung svtug n ovg bs n yrgqbja sbe nalbar ryfr? Rire fvapr frrvat gur genvyre sbe guvf frnfba naq frrvat n tyvzcfr bs vg V jnf zbfgyl jnvgvat sbe guvf… znlor gungf gur ceboyrz, V unq jnl uvtu rkcrpgngvbaf. Znlor vg jnf whfg orpnhfr V jnf ernqvat gur rirag sbe gur svefg gvzr, ohg vg sryg jnl zber nyvir naq rkpvgvat ba cncre :/
Vg frrzrq gb qent bhg ybatre ba cncre ohg V guvax vg jnf nf npphengr nf vg pna or. Znlor guebj va zber bs gur Zbhagnva’f ntvgngvba, unir Borela rkcynva uvf fcrnef jrer cbvfbarq rgp, ohg V guvax gurl pncgherq vg cresrpgyl.
I agree, I thought they did a great job recreating that scene.
Anuuuu, gurer jnf ab grafvba. Gurer jnf uneqyl nal srryvat bs bar crefba birecbjrevat gur bgure, whfg n ohapu bs yhatrf gung snibherq bar crefba be gur bgure. Ab frafr bs jurgure bar crefba jnf birecbjrevat gur bgure one n srj fubgf bs fbzrbar fghzoyvat n ovg naq crbcyr tnfcvat. Rira gubfr pebjq ernpgvbaf jrer haqrecynlrq. Vg arire ernyyl frrzrq yvxr Borela jnf va nal erny qnatre. Naq rira gur zbzrag uvf tybngvat orpnzr uvf qbjasnyy, Borela jnf tvira ab gvzr gb fubj uvf fhecevfr, gurl whfg jrag fgenvtug va sbe tber. Gurl arrqrq gung zbzrag jurer Borela xarj ur’q fghssrq hc, n ybbx bs fhecevfr naq srne. Bayl tbbq guvat nobhg vg jnf uvf fcrne gjveyvat, gjveyl gjvey gjvey! Gung jnf pbby.
Ru, nterr gb qvfnterr. V guvax gur bayl guvax V jbhyq unir punatrq vf chggvat gur Zbhgnva va shyy cyngr naq univat n srj bs Borela’f nggnpxf fxvggre bss vg orsber ur svanyyl svaqf n jrnx cbvag. V guvax gung gur fcyvg-frpbaq lbh frr Borela’f snpr orsber gur Zbhagnva fgnegf tbhtvat uvf rlr fbpxrgf jnf rabhtu, naq qrzbafgengrf gur qvssrerapr orgjrra gur Zbhagnva’f nccebnpu gb xvyyvat irefhf Borela’f tenaqfgnaqvat. Uvf qrngu jnf fhccbfrq gb or fubpxvat fb vg ernyyl unq gb unccra snfg jura gur genafvgvba sebz cncre gb fperra bppheerq.
V jnf whfg natel nsgre gung, pbzcyrgryl nibvqnoyr. Ur ernyyl fubhyq’ir xrcg fgnoovat ivgny nernf fb gung ur pbhyqa’g svtug onpx nsgre ur jnf qbja… frevbhfyl vg’f yvxr ur sbetbggra jung ur jnf npghnyyl qrnyvat jvgu. N thl jvgu rabhtu fgeratgu gb pehfu n zna’f fxhyy vf nyjnlf n guerng rira jvgubhg uvf jrncba -.-
Uvf ragver checbfr va pbzvat gb Xvat’f Ynaqvat jnf gb trg eriratr sbe uvf fvfgre gubhtu, vg jnf nyy pbafhzvat naq whfg xvyyvat gur Zbhagnva fvzcyl jbhyq abg fngvfsl uvz. Nf zhpu bs na njrfbzr punenpgre ur vf naq gur terng wbo Crqeb Cnfpny qvq cynlvat uvz, uvf pbpxvarff naq qvfertneq sbe uvf bja yvsr jrer cerggl ovt synjf va uvf crefbany punenpgre.
Lrnu, V thrff V jnf whfg qrinfgngrq gb frr uvz tb fb fbba.
Bu zr gbb. Ur jnf gur arj snibhevgr. Vg jnf ab rnfl guvat gb frr uvz qvr va gur obbx naq gura unir gb frr vg ntnva va gur fubj.
Naq uvf svtugvat fglyr V nofbyhgryl ybirq naq gung’f jung V’yy erzrzore uvz sbe zbfg. Tbg urnil nezbhe? Cssg V’yy whfg qnapr pvepyrf nebhaq lbh naq shpx lbh hc! :C
V ernyyl yvxrq gung Fnafn vf svanyyl fbeg bs “jnxvat hc”. Ure pbasrffvba gb gur ybeqf bs gur Inyr frrzrq ernyyl jryy cynprq, yvxr fur unq ernyyl orra pbafgenvarq ol ure vzcevfbazrag naq vf tengrshy gb Onryvfu sbe fnivat ure… ohg ng gur fnzr gvzr fur xabjf jung xvaq bs cbjre fur unf bire uvz naq vagraqf gb hfr vg. Ernyyl terng fghss.
Lrnu V ybirq Fnafn’f cneg va guvf rcvfbqr, fur’f svanyyl tbg gur punapr gb evfr hc vafgrnq bs nyjnlf orvat haqre fbzrbar’f sbbg, naq gung pbasrffvba jnf jryy cynlrq ol ure V guvax, fbeg bs n “Lbh abj bjr zr” xvaq bs fvghngvba fur oerjrq gurer.
V rkcrpgrq gb frr cbbe Borela’f snpr va onq funcr ohg jbj, chycl chyc chyc.
Gung svtug jnf rirelguvat V jnagrq vg gb or 🙂
Evening, TAY.
Well, I just watched the Lego Movie.
It lived up to the hype.
That is all.
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Aww, I can’t help it… EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
-Fantastic animation. Byotiful!
-I was told it was a 3D movie but I didn’t see no 3rd dimensions. Yay! I freaking hate 3D, it ruins the picture quality, makes everything 10 times darker, forces you to wear uncomfortable glasses, and doesn’t add anything. Yay for the 2nd dimension!
-If I have once complaint, it’s that the movie goes by to fast. Stuff happens quickly, and it’s easy to blink and miss a lot
-It turns out UniKitty isn’t voiced by Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Dammit, I was wrong.
-The story arc with Bad Cop was as fantastic as it was ridiculous. Oh, and it also it turns out he was voiced by Qui-Gon Jinn.
-I love how they mis-pronounced items in the real world. I should start referring to bandaids as Ban-Dayiids from now on.
The soundtrack was surprisingly epic. I went in expecting it to be a musical, what with the whole ‘Everything is Awesome’ thing. But they were sending in orchestras with full choirs and shit. I suppose there was also Batman’s song.
-The movie was really quite funny. It uses the same style of humour that the Lego brand has been using since Lego Island.
-Middle Zealand! Took me a bit to get that joke, but once I did, I really loved it.
I also had Yaki Soba. (food) Pretty nice meal.
Unikitty was Alison Brie, from community! (and also Mad Men)
AAAH THE KRAGLE!
It’s easily my favourite movie of the year. Admittedly the only other one I’ve watched was muppets most wanted and that came a close second but it was still damn good.
It’s only Monday. Why does it feel like a Thursday?!
If it already feels like it’s been a long week, I’m not sure I’m ready for how I’ll feel on real Thursday. 😛
You know what I just realised? It’s only Monday, and we’re on page 4.
We’re totally getting to page 18 at this rate! 😀
It’s now Tuesday. Does that mean it’s Friday? 😀 … no… D:
No, it’s Taco Tuesday!
@negativezero: The hero of the day!
He healed it to death. \o/
I only finished it off. You did most of the work.
Only because you healed me enough to do so.
Just found out that Forza: Horizon 2 has been confirmed for release this year (like there was any doubt).
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-18267-Forza-Horizon-2-Announced-For-Xbox-One-and-Xbox-360.html
Also, Mortal Kombat X is Koming (sorry) in 2015.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-18268-Mortal-Kombat-X-Announced-and-Trailered-For-2015-Release.html
No Wii U? Booooo!
So tired last night I went to make my bed but just fell asleep on it instead.
And left my computer on all night. Oops.
I do that every night. Leave my computer on, not make my bed.
Holy shit Mortal Kombat X looks amazing
*froths at the mouth, throws money at screen, has aneurysm*
Seems cinematic gameplay is the future.
as long as it plays like Mortal Kombat I’ll be very happy,
Edit: Like MK 1-3, UMK, trilogy or 9, 4-8 can go away.
As long as they don’t throw in an undead Liu Kang I think I’ll be happy…
Yeah, it looks friggin’ awesome, but like I said in the article, I reckon it’ll get banned here, or they’ll just release an edited version, so I’m just gonna import again.
Edit: Looks like I’ll have to get myself a fight stick for the ol’ Xbone. Also I don’t like the fact that it’s an online only thing.
yeah I did that with the last one too, couldn’t wait, imported straight away, either way Get Over Here Mortal Kombat *throws scorpion spear attack*
So… Does everyone know that it’s @Powalen ‘s Birthday today??!??
Time to spam @powalen ‘s notifications?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY @powalen !
YES!
in that case, happy birthday @powalen XD
Happy birthday @powalen , hope your day is filled with all the things you want to do 😀
I wished him a happy birthday 129 days ago. I think I’m covered for the next few years
🙂
I may not be the best at maths but that doesn’t make any sense! =p
@powalen! \o/
HAAAAAAAAAAAAPPY BIIIIIIIIIIRTHDAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY @powalen!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, POW.
HAPPY OLD DAY @POWALEN
Old man @powalen!
Holy moley, 15 notifications 😛
I should say it’s my birthday every day! Then I’ll finally be popular.
(Thanks everyone)
ps. @shane thinks he’s funny but he’s not.
(he is)
@shane doesn’t think he’s funny, but he’s not
(he’s not)
#FixedThatForYou #You’reWelcome
What did @Shane do?
Happy birthday @powalen!
From what I gather, you do alright 🙂
congrats on not being dead for a whole year!
Happy old @powalen day!
Bappy Hirthday Priam
Happy birthday @powalen
@freezespreston @dc @phlanispo @anyone else who needs it.
http://9gag.com/gag/a2NXEze
I think this link may help. It is the best way of seeing it.
@freezespreston because I really think you need to see it
Well.. that made me tear up a bit. It is a good way of seeing it, thanks for showing this Scree 🙂
No problem. I thought that seeing as a few people on here are having some issues, they need to stop looking at it in such a negative light.
Thanks for that Scree.
I did nothing but pass it on. No thanking required
That’s pretty damn great. Appeals to survivor instincts.
It IS a good one
WHOA!
If you own a Deluxe Wii U, the Mario Kart 8 free game download counts as a paid purchase. This means you can earn some credit from the Deluxe Digital Promotion (earn back around 10% of the purchase price). So although Wonderful 101 was free for me, I’ve got $7 in eShop credit for doing nothing! 😀
https://p.nintendo.net/premium/
Sweet!
Huh, so did I.
$52 for two games and $7 eshop credit. This deal keeps getting better.
Now I might use some of that credit for Pokémon Bank on the 3DS thanks to the shared balance thing.
Pullblox and Fallblox are currently on sale at $6.50 each (I recommend Pullblox!)
Just sayin’ 🙂
(@sughly @powalen)
But… Pokémon Bank… Space to store an entire Pokédex (and finish the dex straight away in the next set of games)
awesome, me too. Does this only apply to digital purchases?
Yup. My 50 cent Super Metroid purchase gave me 1 point 😛
hmm, there’s some incentive to go digital, for some reason I always get physical copies of Nintendo stuff, probably cause of their crazy accounts.
“Accounts” :P. You’re better off going physical though. The 10% back promotion will end at the end of 2014.
Me too? 😮 That means I just bought FallBlox for free! Kinda.
And that’s my birthday gift to you!
Wait…………. what is a deluxe digital promotion?!? Is the site right by saying you have to register your digital purchase within 24 hours? I bought so much!! D:
The Deluxe Digital Promotion is when you get about 10% back of the purchase price on digital Wii U eShop purchases. This only applies to owners of the (black) Deluxe Wii U and started when then Wii U launched and will end on Dec 31 2014.
https://p.nintendo.net/premium/static.do
I don’t think you have to register any digital purchases within 24 hours, so I assume no? I’ve only previously purchased Super Metroid and I’ve never been to that Digital site until now. But Super Metroid and Wonderful 101 both appeared there when I logged on.
Ohhhhh I see I see. Hmmm… I dont have so many points after all, only 100 before the free game promo. I thought maybe it was connected with the 3DS account, in which case I would have loads. Sadly no :'(
Ok I need to know….. How do I change my Kotaku icon into a picture?!?!
GRAVATAR! (dotcom)
FYI: It might take a little while to come up
Yeah, I think mine took about an hour.
but it has to be G rated, the picture I tried to put up of me as a zombie was rejected cause it got a PG rating.
As far as I know this, or something similar was @stev-o-the-devo’s (think I got that right) Gravatar not too long ago, so I don’t see what the problem is with a zombie.
Edit: Dammit, got it wrong.
yeah it’s weird, I tried 2 different ones too, I must be a scary zombie 😀
I wanted mine to be of a puppet on strings =[
You can choose the rating of the picture. Atleast I could when I set mine up.
really, when I put my pic in it said “rating pending” and then after like 3 days it said PG and I couldn’t use it, I’unno maybe I did it wrong.
IMPORTANT CDC ANNOUNCEMENT
Virus discovered in Melbourne
Recommended treatment is the internal application of drinks. Beer Deluxe from 6pm
@Virus__ should be free earlier if that works for you, just let him know and work it out. Sorry for the late notice, only found out he had time free on the weekend.
@greenius @scree @beavwa @tech_knight @budgieishere @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
Also might as well chuck a reminder for my baby celebration at wood n chimney, South Melbourne on the 14th June
6 works for me! Where’s this place just so I know where I am roughly going? Lol
Up the back of Fed Square
Oh yeah where I met you guys last time I was down from memory.
If you don’t know where fed square is it is opposite flinders st station
http://www.beerdeluxe.com.au/fed-square/contact
If you don’t know where Flinders St Station is it is in Melbourne.
If you don’t know where Melbourne in then I’m sorry to say you are lost
I know the place!
Is that near where we did @scree’s cake meat?
Yep
I don’t think it was exactly the same place but right in the same area
Sorry I can’t make it. Mainly because the public transport here is crap.
I can’t make either of them, sorry! Been feeling terrible this past week and I’m trying not to do too much before my surgery. Have fun though and …BABBY! \o/
No worries. Hope the surgery goes well, we are all excited to meet Greenette
*seductive pose*
Would love to come and meat with a bunch of TAYbies (although the thought of it makes me nervous), but I only get every second weekend off, and that weekend is my weekend on 🙁
How about tonight? After work drinks.
Haha! Love to man, but I live about 3 and a half hours drive from Melbourne 🙁
Wait for a meat on neutral ground. Eye them up from a distance first. Wear running shoes just in case.
Or easily recognisable dino-shirts!
Or do what I did and stand awkwardly until the courage is built up to say hello
I’ll try my hardest to make it for the 14th, but in light of recent events, i may or may not be out of town :\
I’ll keep you posted
No worries Pixel, don’t let my request for rsvp add any stress. You are welcome to turn up on the day without warning if you have the chance.
I’ll be there, possibly a little bit after 6 though. Also it’s rainy at the moment so fair to assume we’ll meet inside the place rather than outside?
Yeah meet inside. I’m starrtign to struggle at work and hasn’t been a good day so I’ll probably get there by 6.
Think the plan is for some drinks there and then whoever wants can grab some food there or wander elsewhere to eat. I’ll probably be eating there (although with Mrs Tigs I’m not sure) and I’m pretty sure Virus is planning on dinner
Was the plan just for drinks, or food as well? Need to let people know at home if I’m eating out or not. 🙂
Ill (+1) be there on the 14th
2pm yeah?
Yeah from 2pm onwards. Is the plus one a big person or a little person?
The +1 may bear a little person in the, as yet undefined, future
So that would make them a big person :o)
Thanks for the invites, buddy, but unfortunately i can’t make it 🙁
So, uh, you guys wanna play Mario Kart again tonight? XD
My answer is going to be the same as always… I WILL TRY 😛
Safe to say last night i couldn’t exactly just up and leave the missus, so no wii’ing was done 😛
My condolonces to Mrs. Ferret and her family.
🙁 for the no Wii’ing, I hope there was weeing though, it’s bad for you to hold it 😉
I like that the Tournament scores get reset every night. It’s like a fresh slate!
I might swing by for a while.
I dunno if it was just me, but as soon as Powalen joined last night I got a “Disconnected” message when the race started and no one else who was in that race was online except for you and Gutsoup who was in another race with Mawt. Weirddddddd!
I’m assuming we all got disconnected and you two joined Mawt? I DUNNO, MAN
EDIT: Oh and to answer your question… I’ll try to be there!
>:]
That is such an Iggy face.
I’ll try for the first time but my internet wifi is absolutely terrible
Ybbxvat ng svany snagnfl 7’f cerdhryf, frcuvebgu vf whfg 1 bar jvatrq natry orpnhfr gurer 2 bguref natrny bevtvany jrvyqre bs gur ohfgre fjbeq & gura gurer vf trarfvf, n 1 jvatrq natry gung freirf tnvn urefrys, bzt fb qbrf gung zrna jr pbhyq frr gurz va xvatqbz urnegf freivat tnvn & univat n onggyr jvgu fvyire fhesre nf xvatqbz urnegf abj vapbecnengrf fgne jnef & zneiry, bzt
You should change your avatar to a dinosaur with a crown.
for some reason I pictured one in an Elvis suit.
And change his profile name to qvabxvat
holy crap It hadn’t even occurred to me that Star Wars and Marvel could end up in Kingdom Hearts,
Blind Mown. :O
Fnj gur natel wbr erivrj bs fbavp serr evqref & abj V xabj jul tbbq tnzr fcnja cbvag jnagrq gb evq gurve zvaqf bs gung tnzr, vg jnf a00ovfuyl znqr & urer ner n pbhcyr zber tnzrf gb nibvq: zvaqwnpx: fbb onq gung lbh jnag qnexenv gb chg lbh va na raqyrff avtugzner, onggyrfuvc gur ivqrb tnzr: gur qnl lbh jvfurq gung tbqmvyyn unq qrsrngrq gur nyvraf vafgrnq, evqr gb uryy: gur tnzr lbh jvfurq fbzr pregnva obhagl uhagref qrsrngrq gur rarzl vafgrnq bs tbvat guebhtu guvf nobzvangvba, fgne gerx gur ivqrb tnzr, gur tnzr lbh jvfurq jnagrq qrfgeblrq ol gur plore obet, n uloevq bs plorezra & gur obet
Look, I know we said rot13 when talking about spoilers, but that didn’t mean every post.
I DON’T GET IT! is this like 2.30 and the dentists again?!
Don’t forget to put a title on whatever you’re rot13-ing or people won’t know what the spoiler is for.
I nearly got actually spoiled on a game!
Dammit! Been meaning to play Watch Dogs all morning, but instead I’ve been faffing about on here, and now I’ve only got an hour left before I have to get ready for work. Stupid Kotaku.
You love us! To be fair we’re probably more entertainment value than watch dogs is =p
Fb guebhtu ongzna, jr pbhyq trg n terra ubearg/whqtr qernq pebffbire, juvpu pbhyq or n irel onq vqrn sbe gur terra ubearg nf, jryy ur vf n pevzvany gung yvxrf n ureb & whqtr qernq orvat whqtr qernq jvyy abg gnxr n yvtug urnegrq ybbx ng jung gur terra ubearg qbrf
I’d prefer Batman and Kato.
So I just spent like the last hour and 140 odd lives on Champion Road in 3D World.
It’s partly down to the fact that I’m kind of rushing through, since I found a really good line and am now kind of speedrunning it. Those double steps just before the first green star are killing me.
Ugh. I hate teenage me so damn much. Because that dickhead dropped out of physics at the end of year 11 to do Ancient History because all his friends were in it, I have to do a Chemistry bridging course to be eligible to apply for the Bachelor of Science. More money, time and effort. Why couldn’t that wiener have just applied himself to school and gone to Uni and have it done already instead of being more interested in getting drunk with friends?
If i have learned anything, it’s that Past Me is an absolute twat that always screws me over… i hate that guy! 😛
Think about how the Jewish population feels about past you.
Without the stress and teenager stuff of HS, year 12 chem is a doddle.
It’s good to hear that you’re following up on something you seem to be passionate about though 🙂
Having to do a bridging course, while annoying, isn’t that bad.
Good luck 🙂
It’ll be worth it, man. I had to do a TAFE diploma to boost my OP to get into film. Was worth the effort. (At the time, atleast. :P)
Doing a bridging course isn’t bad though. You should get credits that count towards your degree and such!
How was past you supposed to know what the future held? Past you didn’t know that the economy would go to shit and who would have a dick boss stopping him from becoming a police officer. Past you didn’t know there was anything more important than getting drunk and hanging with friends.
Present you knows this. Hindsight is 20-20, especially because you know what the future is for past you, but in the past, you didn’t know.
It’s not too late to do stuff about it and you are wiser from your experience.
Sorry, man. I wish I could give you my Chemistry credits, because I totally do not and never will need them. Stupid studious teenage Shane.
But Chemistry is good… If Breaking Bad has taught me anything, you have a bright future ahead of you!
… did you even watch that show? 😛
… yes… well… I READ ABOUT IT
*shifty eyes*
Oh I know that feeling, I’d love to go back and chose different subjects. I’d keep English (compulsory) and Modern History but would bin Visual Arts, Business Studies, Maths and PDHPE for Cooking, Ancient History, Biology and possibly another English subject.
I had to do a bridging course when going through the motions of my application for the Police. It wasn’t too difficult but that particular course proved to be utterly useless for me in the long run as its not considered as a ‘study post highschool’ course.
Well at least you know all about past you due to studying Ancient History
It’s probably a good thing. A little refresher doesn’t hurt. I’d been out of school for maybe six or seven years when I went back to do a medical imaging degree at uni.
First day, first lecture:
The professor started with, “As you already know from the last couple years,” rattled off a re-cap of the entirety of year 10, 11, and 12 physics, and finished with, “…duh.”
Which got a laugh from all the students there.
And while all the other students laughed at the assumed knowledge, my head was filled with a voice screaming, “OH MY GOD I HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING HERE I AM A FRAUD AND DOOMED TO FAIL OH MY GOD I SHOULD NOT BE HERE.”
And sure enough, boy they definitely took all that previous learning as assumed and built on it from there. Man did I fucking cram catch-up before the next week’s lecture. I was behind and struggling for a fair while. So yeah, a little refresher is probably very useful.
Haha, totally weird. I too dropped out of Physics to do Ancient History.
But that was because I was no good at physics.
If past me had done his goddamn Maths homework he might not have let his struggle in that area affect his schoolwork and gotten into a better university course. Then again, my entire life would be different and I think my life is ok now. There was a shitty stretch of a few years but fuck it I’ll be dead in a few decades and none of this will have mattered anyway.
No doubt you’ll be double kicking yourself that you didn’t get it over and done with before the whole HECS scheme went to shit too :\
Good on you for going after your passion though! Even if there was something I wanted to do earlier in life that I never got around to, I don’t think I could apply myself fully at this stage in life. Certainly not being a single person anyway. No way I’d be able to go on living my life on a student income :\ Hope it all works out for you in the end! Would be one hell of an achievement!
I wish that after year 10 I carried on with Italian rather than doing Music, which I then went on to drop after half-yearlies in year 12. In hindsight I would have much preferred to learn more of the language even if I would’ve just ended up failing/dropping the subject in the end anyway. At least could have gotten some kind of side benefit that way, unlike with Music.
Don’t beat yourself up over it.
Sang Froid is currently on sale on steam for $1.50
Well worth it at that price, this is my recommendation from steam
So you you are interested in a strategy game set in a far different location then it is well worth it
http://store.steampowered.com/app/227220
That looks pretty amazing. Similar to Orcs Must Die, but bigger levels.
Looks like it’d do co-op well, shame it doesn’t have it.
The planning phase is much more in-depth in sang-froid, You only have one chance to lay out all your traps and then go through the night and fight all the waves with whatever you have setup. Also the full description of what is coming each wave is shown (much smaller number than OMD as well)
You can almost play it as a pure tower defense game, in fact the hard mode is designed for that (Combat skills are much lower with the other brother)
You also have money the runs between levels and weapons are kept once you buy them.
Also music \o/
I mostly enjoyed what I played of it, but it was still way too early days to get the proper experience, as at that point the resolution was hard-coded/locked to 1024×780, which really hurt the visual appeal. I’ve heard it’s gone through many updates since then, so it’s on my list of things to re-visit.
Edit: My take on the gameplay from the first 3-4 missions was that combat is the primary focus, but that traps and tools laid out in the planning phase are vital because the combat is balls-out crazy hard. The traps aren’t so much the killers as much as they give you an edge you desperately need to complete the mission with your combat abilities.
Well crap. I think I’ve just gotten hype for E3. So many good games on show this year. \o/
What got me extra hyped was all the “Unannounced Title”s :O
I really hope they don’t get leaked/spoiled before their official announcements, just takes out the fun!
PROJECT BEAST.
more like PROJECT BEST
…I hope
aaaaaaaaaand spoiler tags don’t work.
It’s weird how much stuff is being announced before E3 starts though. Whole bunch of new stuff formally announced overnight. Wonder what they’re saving, if anything, if they’re happy to announce stuff like Mortal Kombat X or Forza Horizon 2 before the event.
Fuck relationships man.
V jnf va n irel onq cynpr nebhaq Puevfgznf ynfg lrne, jnf frireryl qrcerffrq, gura va gur ynfg guerr zbaguf be fb guvatf whfg fgnegrq gb cvpx hc. V tbg n cnl evfr, bar bs gur bgure fgnss zrzoref gung V ungrq naq jnf na nyy-ebhaq ynml shpx jnyxrq bhg, zl jvsr naq V jrer znxvat cebterff jvgu gur erabingvbaf gb gur ubhfr. Abj, V’z fgvyy trarenyyl unccl, ohg zl eryngvbafuvc jvgu zl jvsr vf irel ebpxl.
Jr’ir orra nethvat n ybg yngryl, va gur zbfg erprag nethzrag ynfg avtug, V fnvq gb ure gung V jnf gverq bs ure znxvat nyy gur qrpvfvbaf va ertneqf gb erabingvbaf, yvxr beqrevat fghss jvgubhg rira pbafhygvat zr, yrg nybar oevatvat zr nybat gb unir fbzr vachg naq gura rkcrpgvat zr gb cnl sbe vg jura vg’f abg jung V jnag, naq trarenyyl pbagebyyvat rirelguvat va gur ubhfr. Fur onfvpnyyl ercyvrq gung lrnu, fur xabjf fur’f tbg nyy gur pbageby va gur eryngvbafuvc, naq gung nva’g tbaan punatr. V’z fvpx bs vg.
V’ir nyfb unq gur farnxvat fhfcvpvba gung fur’f snyyra bhg bs ybir jvgu zr, naq bayl jnagf gb xrrc zr nebhaq gb trg gur ubhfr svavfurq, naq gura gel naq xvpx zr bhg naq xrrc vg sbe urefrys.
Jr’ir orra gbtrgure sbe nobhg 18 lrnef, fur jnf zl svefg erny tveysevraq, V bayl nfxrq ure bhg orpnhfr V gubhtug fur jnf tbbq ybbxvat, naq V sbeprq zlfrys gb nfx ure bhg ba gur bss punapr fur’q fnl lrf, ohg abj vg srryf yvxr gur ybir vf tbar, naq jr’er whfg tbvat guebhtu gur zbgvbaf. V qba’g xabj ubj jr ynfgrq guvf ybat, jr ner fb qvssrerag.
V terj hc va Nqrynvqr, naq nobhg 5 lrnef ntb jr jrer univat eryngvbafuvc gebhoyr (ntnva), naq V fhttrfgrq gung jr zbir gb ure ubzr gbja, orpnhfr sbe fbzr fghcvq ernfba V gubhtug vg jbhyq fnir gur eryngvbafuvc, nsgre nobhg 6 zbaguf V jnagrq gb zbir onpx, ohg fur jbhyqa’g (naq fgvyy jba’g) unir n one bs vg. V ungr gur pbhagel, ohg V srry yvxr V’z fghpx urer.
V srry yvxr V fubhyq yrnir, ohg V qba’g jnag gb yrnir bhe fba, V ybir uvz gb orgfl naq V qba’g jnag gb qb nalguvat gb uheg uvz, be or ncneg sebz uvz. Nyfb, V unir ab zbarl fnirq, fur’f nyjnlf orra tbbq jvgu zbarl, naq V’z gur bccbfvgr, fb V’ir tbg ab zbarl gb ohl zl bja fghss, yrg nybar n obaq sbe n eragny cebcregl be jungrire.
V qba’g xabj jung gb qb.
*hugs*
Have you thought of going to a counsellor first?
We tried that a few years ago, about 12 months after we moved here, and even the counsellor said that he thought we wouldn’t last, not long after that I left and went back to Adelaide, after two weeks I came back to see my son, and somehow we got back together. He was only two then, and I could see how much it hurt him that I had gone, he just sat on my lap for ages getting cuddles from Dad.
Without prying, how country are we talking? (sure I’ve asked this but it’s slipped my mind)
Not country country, we have a fair range of shops for the size of the town, like Target, Kmart, Dick Smith, Harvey Norman, EB Games etc, I think it’s more the fact that Adelaide has so much more, and I left all my friends there (not that I had many).
Gambier?
Abcr, Ubefunz Ivpgbevn.
Ah, that’s a bit of a hike, so I can see how that makes it even trickier with the possibility of splitting
Nyfb, jura V zbirq onpx gb Nqrynvqr V jnf yvivat jvgu zl Qnq, naq ur jnf qevivat zr penml. Nalbar gung’f fgnlrq jvgu uvz sbe zber guna bar avtug jvyy gryy lbh gung.
Bu zna, gung’f ebhtu. Ernyyl fbeel gb urne nyy gung.
Hayrff lbh’ir fvtarq fbzr fbeg bs pbagenpg fcrpvslvat bgurejvfr, gubhtu, zl haqrefgnaqvat bs qvibepr vf gung lbh ner ragvgyrq gb qvivqr lbhe nffrgf evtug qbja gur zvqqyr. Lbh zvtug abg ynaq ba lbhe srrg, ohg lbh cebonoyl jba’g raq hc va gur fgerrg.
Also, *hugs*
Anu, gur ubhfr vf va obgu anzrf, jura guvatf jrer onq nebhaq Puevfgznf fur jnf guerngravat gb xvpx zr bhg naq punatr gur ybpxf.
Shit man, that’s a tough situation
As with all relationship advice communication is the key. If things are done then it is probably best that you get that out in the open and work from there. You aren’t sure on how she is feeling and some of the things you have mentioned are standard long term relationship things.
She might have a similar list of how you don’t trust her to make decisions about the house and how you don’t go out of your way to tell her she is beautiful or how you used to be a different person.
Honesty is the best policy here, keeping these thoughts inside will fester and make you more likely to push her away due to you treating her with suspicion
V guvax gur snpg gung V zbirq urer sbe ure, naq fur jba’g rira pbafvqre zbivat onpx sbe zr unf pnhfrq fbzr erfragzrag gbjneqf ure.
Gung’f haqrefgnaqnoyr. V thrff gur cbvag V jnf znxvat vf gung qvfphffvat gung naq yrggvat ure xabj ubj lbh srry vf vzcbegnag. Bgurejvfr gurer vf erfragzrag naq fur zvtug guvax gurer vf ab ernfba sbe gung.
Va ure zvaq fur pbhyq guvax gung lbh znqr gur qrpvfvba gbtrgure naq abj gung fur vf unccl lbh jnag gb gnxr gung njnl sebz ure. Abg fnlvat vg vf gur pnfr whfg fnlvat gung vf gur vzcbegnapr bs pbzzhavpngvba.
Bu naq yrg zr xabj vs lbh jbhyq cersre zr gb ebg13 zl bgure ercyl
Paintball.
Hugs buddy,
I hope it all works out for you and your family so you can be happy once more.
Ubarfgyl, V qba’g rira xabj vs bhe eryngvbafuvc pna or fnirq, be vs V rira jnag gb fnir vg. Zl znva pbaprea vf zl fba.
Sorry to hear that things are quite rough man, best of luck on your pursuit for happiness.
That sucks man *hugs* just know we here if you ever need anything alright
Ernyyl fbeel gb urne nobhg lbhe fvghngvba zna =\ Univat n puvyq va gur cvpgher znxrf nyy gur bgure qrpvfvbaf vasvavgryl uneqre. Juvyr V qba’g xabj nalguvat nobhg lbhe fvghngvba va qrgnvy pna V whfg fnl nf n xvq jub terj hc va n ubzr jurer zl zbz naq qnq jrer gbtrgure orpnhfr gurl jrer obgu jbeevrq nobhg ubj vg’q nssrpg zr, vg ernyyl fhpxrq. Jura V jnf 12 V unq gb npghnyyl chyy zl zbz nfvqr naq yrpgher ure naq pbaivapr ure gb svyr sbe n qvibepr (juvpu vf na nofbyhgryl fuvggl fvghngvba gb chg lbhe xvq va). Zl cneragf nethvat znqr pbzvat ubzr n ernyyl ubfgvyr raivebazrag naq nsgre V jnf byq rabhtu gb tenfc gur fvghngvba V xarj V unq gb fgrc va.
V pna haqrefgnaq jnagvat gb fgvpx nebhaq sbe lbhe fba ohg sbe jung vg’f jbegu, rira vs guvatf oernx qbja jvgu lbhe jvsr gurer vf nofbyhgryl ab ernfba sbe lbh gb ybfr lbhe fba va gur cebprff. Fur jbhyq unir gb or vaperqvoyl ivaqvpgvir gb gel naq chyy fbzrguvat yvxr gung naq va gung fpranevb lbhe fba vf gur crefba jub trgf uheg gur zbfg.
Also *hugs*
Zl Zhz naq Qnq qvibeprq nf jryy, ohg V jnf na nqhyg naq unq zbirq bhg bs ubzr ol gura, fb vg qvqa’g ernyyl nssrpg zr fb zhpu.
V’ir urneq znal gvzrf gung fgnlvat gbtrgure sbe gur xvqf znxrf vg jbefr. V ernyyl qba’g jnag gb uheg zl fba, ohg vs vgf hanibvqnoyr V’q engure gnxr gur ebhgr gung jbhyq or yrnfg qnzntvat gb uvz.
Unsolicited advice ROT13’d. Otherwise, just have some sympathies.
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Zl Zhz sryy bhg bs ybir jvgu zl Qnq. Gurl fcyvg. Qvqa’g unez hf xvqf nal, sne nf V pna gryy. Zvaq lbh, jr jrer rvgure bhg bs fpubby be va gur ynfg lrnef bs vg, naq qvqa’g gnxr vg nf n ersyrpgvba ba bhefryirf. “Lbhe ohfvarff,” jr gbyq gurz. Gur hacyrnfnagarff pnzr jura Zhz tbg n erny shpxvat funex bs n ynjlre jub ernyyl gbbx Qnq sbe n evqr. Xvaq bs shpxrq hc uvf ergverzrag cynaf n ovg. Yvsr cynaf. Rirel cyna.
Gur ‘snyyvat bhg bs ybir’ fuvg vf gbhtu. Fbzrgvzrf, jura n jbzna pbafvqref n eryngvbafuvc bire, vg’f cebonoyl orra ‘bire’ sbe n juvyr. Gur bayl jnlf V’ir frra nalbar chyy vg gbtrgure naq fnyintr guvatf ner gb… jryy. Qngr ure, onfvpnyyl. Frqhpr ure, grnfr ure/cynl jvgu ure yvxr lbh hfrq gb jura qngvat, znxr ure srry yvxr n tvey ntnva, tb onpx gb orvat gur punezvat ebthr fur sryy sbe.
Qbar vg zlfrys. Orra qvfgnaprq naq ‘snyyra bhg’ sbe, gung vf. Naq bapr, erpbirerq sebz vg. V jnf envfrq fheebharq ol ‘fgebat, vaqrcraqrag jbzra’ naq unq n ybg bs ernyyl onq nqivpr vatenvarq nobhg jung jbzra guvax gurl jnag va n thl, jvgu gur jubyr frafvgvivgl, freivyvgl, chggvat ba n crqrfgny, rgp. Vg gbbx zl tvey Xryyl gb npghnyyl cbvag bhg gb zr jung V’q orra qbvat jebat, naq jung V arrqrq gb qb, naq fur ybirq vg nf V gbbx punetr naq jrag onpx gb orvat n zna vafgrnq bs n crg/fhofgvghgr tveysevraq sebz gura ba.
Ohg V yrnearq gur uneq jnl, znxvat gur reebe n srj gvzrf, naq zngrf unir yrnearq rira uneqre jnlf va zrffl qvibeprf/ybfvat npprff gb xvqf. Or njner gung snzvyl pbheg vf pbzcyrgr ohyyfuvg gb Qnqf gurfr qnlf – vg’f oehgnyyl hasnve; gur birejuryzvat znwbevgl bs fcyvgf erfhyg va zngreany phfgbql naq yvzvgrq cngreany npprff. Vs lbh guvax guvatf ner urnqvat gung jnl rira erzbgryl, trg gur orfg qnza ynjlre lbh pna naq svtug sbe lbhe evtug gb or zber guna n cneg-gvzr sngure. Shpx ‘whfg jrrxraqf’ be rira ‘rirel bgure jrrxraq’ cyhf ‘jungrire jrrxqnl fhvgf Zhz orfg’ ohyyfuvg; V’ir frra gung fuvg OERNX tbbq zra jub qrfreir zber gvzr jvgu gur xvqf gurl ybir).
Nal gvzr V tbg qhzcrq be purngrq ba jnf hfhnyyl orpnhfr nsgre V’q qbar gur frqhpvat cneg bs gur eryngvbafuvc, V jbexrq ba gheavat vagb ‘gur cresrpg oblsevraq’, pbnfgvat ol jvgu gur jubyr pnevat/nggragvirarff/borqvrag guvat ercynpvat nyy gur grnfvat/sha/uhatre/gnxvat-gur-yrnq. Gbbx zr n ybat gvzr gb svther bhg gung onvg-naq-fjvgpu punatr va zl crefbanyvgl nppbeqvat gb zl eryngvbafuvc fgnghf jnf jung jnf gheavat gurz bss, znxvat gurz tehzcl naq grfgvat zr, qvfgnapvat gurzfryirf, ybbxvat sbe qenzn naq zvffvat rkpvgrzrag, naq nyy gur erfg.
Vs lbh ybir lbhe jvsr, frqhpr ure. Or gur cbjreshy, vzcerffvir zna fur sryy sbe. Vs lbh’er abg va ybir nalzber, trg jbexvat ba qnzntr pbageby. Erfrnepu ubj gb cebgrpg lbhefrys, ubj gb cebgrpg lbhe npprff gb lbhe fba. Fcyvg ba lbhe grezf naq pbzr bhg nurnq. Orpnhfr vs V’ir yrnearq NALGUVAT sebz frrvat zl zngrf’ naq pbjbexref qvibeprf, vg’f gung jura vg pbzrf gvzr gb fvta cncref, nyy orgf ner bss, naq lbhe fragvzragnyvgl jvyy trg lbh shpxrq. Lbhe jryy-zrnavat nggrzcgf ng orvat ernfbanoyr naq snve gb nyy cnegvrf jvyy or chfurq ntnvafg jvgu enovq frys-vagrerfg. Rirel qnza qvibepr V’ir frra sevraqf be snzvyl rkcrevrapr, jvgubhg rkprcgvba.
Vs nalguvat, gur ovggrearff naq fnqarff zl sevraqf rkcrevraprq nsgrejneqf jnf hfhnyyl srryvatf bs uheg naq orgenlny sebz ubj pbyqyl naq ehguyrffyl gurl’q orra gerngrq ol gurve rkrf va gur zrqvngvba/pbheg cebprff, jura gurl’q ubcrq sbe fbzr ‘fcvevg bs snve cynl’ sbe byq gvzr’f fnxr. Yvxr n erwrpgvba bs rirelguvat tbbq gung jnf, yvxr nyy gubfr lrnef zrnag abguvat.
It’s off-topic, but I love that you took the time to italicise some of your post, despite the fact that no one will ever be able to tell which bit you’re emphasising.
The actual content was deeply upsetting, though. Reality sucks.
Yeah, I have no idea why I did that and knew it was daft while doing it.
Daft, maybe, but not entirely useless. Even if it’s not immediately obvious which bits are italicised, the fact that it’s been done at all (as with your non-ROT13 posts) lends this air of authority to your words.
Kind of this “Listen up, this is the important part” confidence in your own opinion that just adds all kinds of credibility. You’d make an effective evangelist, I suppose, in a way, because you have a way of making your belief infectious and convincing.
Re: evangelism – I have a theory on that.
I think persuasive power comes down to belief. I’ve been told by people before that I have ‘a way with words’ but I don’t think that’s right. I know plenty, and use more than I should, and not always in the correct order. But the only times I’ve seen a speech or text really move someone was when I’d somehow wrangled those words together in a way that – to the best of my ability – captured a genuine, sincere feeling or thought. Something I believed in, with passion, with a spotlight as best as I could angle on why I felt it.
I think that this is why the friends, family, lovers of lost causes keep standing by past the point of sanity, even though it hurts them.
Domestic abuse, drug addiction, whatever… They know their loved one well enough to know when they are being sincere, and when they see that person pleading or promising or apologizing with the deepest, most remorseful sincerity that they know they can do better this time, they CAN stay clean… That belief, that sincerity, that conviction is what sways them. Even though it’s never going to happen, it’s not because they didn’t believe they could. It’s because they weren’t strong enough to follow through on their belief. They were weaker than they hoped, wanted to be, believed they could be.
But that desperate, passionate belief is what is so convincing, so the friends/family/lovers stand by and get ‘fooled’ again while on-lookers ask, “How can you keep falling for that?”
I couldn’t agree more. It’s why politics puts me to sleep these days, because I just don’t (or at least, exceedingly rarely) get the feeling that any of them are speaking from any kind of deeply-held ideological or moral belief.
It’s what pisses me off, as well. A bunch of parties who only want power to advance specific goals and workshopping and market-researching the rest, with group discussions, “What do you want us to believe in, so we can say we believe in that when it comes time for us to go up against the other team on the election-sports field?”
Makes me sick to the gut with anger that THIS is what people fought, bled, died for. The right to one of two teams of assholes to get paid disgusting wages to not believe in anything but looking out for themselves and feeling smug and sanctimonious about it, like being the slightly less-despised of two terrible options is something to be proud of.
And every time these insouciant bastards just waltz through the motions of their semi-daily work, knowing that all they have to do is attack that guy, and one day ‘their turn will come’, it enrages me almost to the point of almost daring to wade into that filthy morass that is politics, screaming my frustration to see who’ll join the chorus. Which I would do, if it weren’t a) futile, b) actively destructive to my sanity and reputation, c) attached to the terrifying possibility of becoming like the monsters I’d seek to depose.
It’s funny, I only came back to read this post after I got the plugin to translate the text in place, so the italicised parts were still there for me. And I probably wouldn’t have even realised that if you hadn’t pointed it out while I was busy screwing around with settings 😛
Gur ceboyrz vf, fur’f nyjnlf orra gur bar gnxvat pbageby. V npghnyyl fnvq gb ure ynfg avtug gung V fubhyq unir gnxra pbageby bs gur eryngvbafuvc evtug sebz gur fgneg, naq fur whfg fnvq fur jbhyq’ir yrsg vs V’q qbar gung.
Fur pna’g fgnaq abg orvat va pbageby.
Pbhyq or frznagvpf. N qvssrerapr orgjrra pbageby naq gnxvat gur vavgvngvir. “Guvf vf jung V’Z qbvat, lbh’er jrypbzr gb pbzr nybat.” Yrnqvat qbrfa’g arrq gb zrna pbzznaqvat. Vg zrnaf frggvat gur cnpr, pubbfvat gur cngu, sbe bguref gb sbyybj. Gehr yrnqref jvyy or pubbfvat gurve bja cngu naljnl, naq or fb vafcvevat va gurve zvffvba gung gurl nggenpg sbyybjref.
Naq ba gur bgure unaq… vtaber jung crbcyr fnl. Gnyx vf purnc naq gvrq hc va frys-vzntr. Cnl nggragvba gb jung gurl qb.
Bgure guna gung? V qba’g guvax nalbar xabjf jung jvyy naq jba’g jbex. Lbh’er va n ovaq, vg uhegf, naq V srry sbe lbh.
Gur bayl nqivpr V’z rire pbzsbegnoyr bssrevat serryl ner jneavatf bs jung V’ir frra ehva gbb znal, naq rapbhentrzrag gb gnxr cnguf gung orarsvg, vairfg va, be fubj snvgu va lbhefrys naq lbhe vaqrcraqrapr.
I don’t ROT13, but based on what I’ve gathered, you need all teh hugs man. Hope everything works out ok.
How old is your little guy?
Almost six.
I can’t pretend to know your relationship with your partner so I can’t give any useful advice, though I will say this: it would absolutely break my heart if I had to cut back on the amount of time that I get to see my little guy.
Zl ubcrf sbe hcpbzvat tnzrf
Fhcre fznfu oebf 4: CYRNFR UNIR EVQYRL
cbxrzba nycun fncuver & bzrtn ehol: jrngure gevb univat irefvba rkpyhfvir zrtn ribyhgvbaf
Xvatqbz urnegf 3: CYM UNIR FGNE JNEF & ZNEIRY JBEYQF
unyb 5: rcvp arj rarzvrf naq iruvpyrf
I severely doubt Ridley will be in, what with featuring as part of the Metroid level. Also don’t really care for having him in, as much as I love Metroid.
What NEEDS to happen though is Pac Man. But really, it can’t not.
JGS ABBBBB, N ARBA TRARFVF RINATRYVBA PEBFFBIRE JVGU GENAFSBEZREF, BU FU%=%==^==G, GUNG ZRNAF N PLOREGEBA FVMRQ AVTUGZNER OBZO ZVTUG RATHYS OBZO JVYY OBGU NAQ JRYY GUR GENAFSBEZREF JVYY OR FPERJRQ GB URYY, ZVTUG NF JRYY UBCR VG VF TBBQ
Okay I’m going to try and help a bit.
1. You don’t need to ROT13 everything, just stuff that pertains to spoilers.
2. If your goal is to have a discussion about these things you are posting, maybe posing a question within your posts might help a tad.
3.Introduce yourself to us, take part in a conversation. Be friendly and people will probably want to respond to your posts.
Also in case nobody has welcomed you, welcome to TAY man 🙂
Nice to have you here !
Edit: also A crossover between EVA and Transformers seems destined for failure.
I honestly would probably stay well clear of it.
Someone fetch the PADDLE!
@shane had it last If I remember correctly
What? No, wasn’t me! I’m a pacifist. I only hit people if they really really deserve it. Like if they wear different coloured shoes to make a fashion statement.
Here’s an amusing story. I’ve been on an online dating site for like the past month and ever since I shaved my head and posted a new photo there was a crazy spike in the amount of people checking out my profile. Too many. I felt like I was deceiving them cause I’m not fit to date any one at the moment. I deleted the profile this morning. Some day, I got to fix my life and become dateable. XD
I should shave my head.
STOP DELETING YOUR SHIT
Honestly man, it’s up to them to judge if you’re dateable or not.
… What this man said XD
IT’S AN AMUSING STORY! 😀
NO IT AINT
Although, something obviously works, if you were getting snuggles.
AMUSING. STORY. >:|
Why don’t you let any prospective partner decide if you’re “dateable”?
Dude, if i let if i was “Dateable” or not stop me, i’d still live in denmark, in my mum’s basement and think digital watches are a good idea!
Let the ladehs decide for themselves!
…
Sorrry if i come off sounding like a jerk
Hmmm, maybe I should move into that basement in Denmark! Sounds pretty exotic!
No that’s not-… But i don’t even-… DAMMIT @DC 😛
Thanks Pixel! You’re the beeeest! 😛
DENMARK
lol where is that Scotland????
It’s the little pimple on top of Germany’s face
That’s why Germany can’t get laid.
You sire are a dickhead.
I respect the fuck out of you though.
Fistbump.
Dearest D.C.,
I write you today to inform you that I think you’d make a wonderful partner for my daughter, and that if she existed, and were somehow slightly older than me, I would organise a betrothal on the spot.
As it is, I still consider online dating from time to time, however the harsh reality of my soul-crushing, life-destroying presence (which causes those women who do not run away at my proximity to faint, eventually falling into a very deep sleep from which they never wake) rather puts a dampener on the whole thing.
Chin Up, it could be worse.
You devilishly handsome man, you.
Blaghs.
You should sign up, man! SIGN UP! 😀
Dear D.C.,
Nah.
Blaghs.
Why don’t you let the other people decide if you’re datable or not?
Because he uses self improvement as a stalling tactic, because he, like everyone is scared of rejection and would rather accept loneliness than face his anxiety. Or at least that was my excuse.
znlor ur vf fpnerq bs uvf znffvir travgnyf xvyyvat gur tveyf ur qngrf???
Edit: That was probably way too much information. XD
So? date some rich chick and be a gold digger… works for some!
EDIT- (-_-)/SARCASM/ <— that right there is my sarcasm sign
EDIT EDIT – DAMMIT @DC
I ain’t saying he a goldigger
Ah man trust me if rejection was the reason I would’ve never got a girl ever. To date without fail every single girl I have ever dated has rejected me =,= I’m not kidding, the last girl I fell for and asked her out she said she wasn’t interested and I responded by saying “that’s cool, but you’re going to be going out with me in 3 months”. And what do you think happened? =p
Jokes aside though, dating someone can also lead to self-improvement. There are many aspects of my personality and my own interests that I only discovered after being influenced by the people I dated. I would’ve never known how much I loved animals, or gotten over my insecurities, or learned to straighten my hair without dating! =p
Edit: @dc
Jesus, that’s chutzpah
Haha well I realized very early on I’d always fall for a girl first because I can pick on mutual sparks very early on. So yep =p Turned it to my advantage xD
If you’re honest with a person and they still want to date you then I get the impression your perspective of self is a little awry.
You know what this sounds like?
AN INTERESTING STORY FOR YOUR BLOG! 😀
I recall somebody said they were gonna start writing long stories again come June 😉
Also. Silly DC. Silly silly DC. You seem very dateable to me ;D
Well then ask him out already. Geez…
I like my prospective dates to live within a 50km radius of me 😛
If we lived closer however… 😉
Such a diva…
OMG Effluvium Boy, you can’t just call a gay guy a diva! :’O
😛
I get it.
I’m not saying I agree, but I get it.
No judgement. Case dismissed.
When I was in high school I didn’t ask girls out because I didn’t have money or a car, both things I felt were essential to the “dating scene”.
I guess this is like that, but for emotions.
From what I can tell, guys do lose “points” for not having a car.
Depends on the city though. In London owning a car is almost unusual and girls couldn’t care less, but Sydney folk struggle to comprehend that some people don’t own a vehicle.
“Oh, you don’t own a car? Um… I think I left the stove on…”
Basically you won’t start dating till your pecs are chiselled and your abs ripped.
But aside you are a very date able man who I’m sure a lot of woman would throw themselves at. You just gotta be self confident and not doubt yourself my friend.
You know what would be scary but liberating? Just let the contacts come in, and responding with disarming honesty.
Be up-front: “I’m nervous and not sure about any of this, but if you want to hang out, I’d appreciate the meeting and talking to new people.” See how many are looking for exactly that or if they’re looking for some super-you they’ve created in their imaginations and laid over your picture.
Practically no risk at all. No ‘gaming’, no pretense, no desperation to hide perceived faults or flaws, no sense of obligation to be somehow better than you are so you don’t ‘waste their time’, none of that. Just… letting people contact you and being the real you. Liberatin’.
Right on.
Psh, come on. I don’t think I’m fit to be employed, but apparently someone else thinks otherwise 😛
+1 to all the “let THEM decide that”s.
This. Self-evaluation is often incredibly difficult. I always feel like I’m doing an average job at work and then it turns out that I’m not, for example.
Though I’m the last person to think they can offer life advice about relationships. 😐
If I weren’t married, I don’t think I could date someone who gives off vibes of not wanting to be dated. That’s about the only hard-and-fast criterion, though.
You know what, screw this part too. If you keep putting off things because you “just have to do this other thing first”, then all you end up with is a gigantic pile of stuff that you haven’t done yet. Because every time something comes along, you can’t do it because you haven’t done X yet, but you can’t do X yet because you haven’t done Y yet, and now’s not really a good time to do Y at all so it can just sit to the side there for later. Then in the meantime Z comes along, but oh I guess that would have to wait til after X…
I think there was probably a lifehacker thing that talked about it, but I can’t really remember it exactly. Other than it stood out to me because that’s exactly what I do all the time, and it’s exactly why I have a whole arseload of stuff that I’ll never get around to doing now. And I’m not just talking about a gaming backlog either (though it much works the same way – picked up Bowser’s Inside Story, oh can’t play that yet because I haven’t finished Partners In Time, oh look at that now Dream Team is out and I still gotta finish BIS…)
So yeah. Another vote, this time going into the “don’t put stuff off for no real reason” basket”. Because I am a hypocrite 😛
Orange is the New Black season two… three days! Murdered Soul Suspect… two days! Hanging out with you fine folks? One day? *shrugs*
Woah, three days? I finished just in time!
Spoilers for season one
V ubcr gurl gel naq syrfu bhg gur genpx fgne tvey n ovg zber. Fur jnf cebonoyl zl snibhevgr fvqr punenpgre ohg gurl ernyyl qvqa’g tb gbb sne vagb jul fur punatrq fb zhpu sebz ure synfuonpxf! Vg jnf nyy tbbq-tvey ‘V’z tbvat gb pbyyrtr jvgu n ehaavat fpubynefuvc’ unccvarff gura fhqqrayl eboovat-onaxf, fjrnevat naq ivbyrag fbzrubj! Fur arrqrq gjb sbphf rcvfbqrf!
Also, all the plastic bits in the inside of the DVD case I bought were totally broken D:
Yeah, she was an awesome character! Definitely keen to learn more!
In case people have forgotten…. Happy Birthday @powalen
(and you thought I wouldn’t spawn camp you! =p)
Oh my god, I should be getting internet on Friday! \o/
But so much study to do! /o\
But I wanna watch it!!!
Life’s not fair :'(
Watch an ep as a reward after every time you study!
You and I both know that the only outcome of that is that I’ll binge watch it all in one sitting. Let’s not kid ourselves.
Also, people should probably be avoiding this troll in TAY! Don’t feed it!
Are you the troll??
Not everyone who is strange and replies in weird ways is a troll.
Some people are a bit ignorant to social norms, which is why they try and communicate in writing and not face to face.
Pretty sure they’re a troll. Ignoring every reply to them. Obliviously starting new non-nonsensical threads continuously disregarding the old one. My troll detector is going off. 😀
Yeah I’m not sure, but I would rather give people the benefit of the doubt. Especially if they aren’t being hurtful or mean. I’m pretty sure my first few posts on TAY were just random comments about stuff i was playing and not replying and we both know my grammar would of been worse. 😛
ALSO IM LISTENING TO THE SUBURBS ON REPEAT TODAY 🙂
Ah, I love that album. Favourite song? Mine would be Suburban War. 😀
Sprawl 2or The suburbs are my favourite 🙂
Ah, Sprawl 2. <3
Yeah I’ve been kind of wondering if they’re a troll or not as well lol =p Time will tell!
Edit: He did start using rot13 after a lot of us asked him to… now we’re asking him to stop using it >.<
I miss troll dolls. They were the bomb.
What troll?
Exactly! 😀
I don’t think it’s a troll, so much as just like a 12 year old or something.
Same thing!
You stuck your troll where now?
Even if you cover this up, you’re going to be completely aware that I saw you reply-fail.
I think my message can stand on it’s own and i regret nothing!
This isn’t a reply fail. Its a statement about Pixels maturity level.
Maturity levels have reached a new low!
Maturity levels will be restored to normal as soon as i’ve determined what normality is anyway
The least mature thing in the world is repeating someone.
The most mature thing is accepting that other people have knowledge and experiences that you should learn from. Basically copying them.
So maturity is pretty relative.
Gur gurzrf bs gur raqvatf bs gur raq zbivrf sbe rinatryvba & frnfba 1 bs zntvpn znqbxn ner gur fnzr: gurve zrzbevrf bs gur riragf cevbe gb gur zbivr unir orra jvcrq pyrna fb eung gurl fpg nf abguvat unccrarq, gur yngre orpnhfr bs NXHZN ubzhaen jvcrf gurve zrzbel pyrna fb gung gurl pna’g erory ntnvafg ure, zna gurer vf fbzr fhccerfrq avtugznerf
Sorry man, but what are you really going for with these posts? I’m happy to have a discussion, but given you’re not replying to people and not even indicating what they’re about transcoding them is getting tedious.
It’s kind of hilarious that the people I keep seeing getting the most worked up about Game of Thrones spoilers are the ones who usually are putting the most spoilers out there.
It’s clearly not a spoiler if they’ve seen it though. 😛
I try to avoid putting up spoilers after what happened last time.
SPOILER!
Guvf vf abg n fcbvyre!
Diablo 3 for 360: $28 as part of EB’s ongoing sale.
Win? I DON’T KNOW YET. I have seven days to find out before returns become unpossibled.
Mirrored mode in Mario Kart feels wrong. D=
Ooooh, there’s a mirror mode? Cooool! I will have to play more of the 150cc thing I guess. 😀
it always feels off the first few times, I think it’s because you’ve only just learned them all the right way. How’s the AI in mirror? It was insane on the Cube they were so damn ruthless.
Yeah, they’re jerks.
Don’t play too much Mirror Mode or you’ll screw yourself over for multiplayer 😛
Also, I just found out if you use your horn during the countdown it makes all the AI jump in a Mexican wave kind of pattern thing.
…really? that’s awesome XD
is that what does that, I kept seeing that and wondering why.
So it turns out my missus grandfather is a hardy bastard that won’t give up just like that…
They said first he had at most 3 hours to live,
then that he wouldn’t make it through the night,
Then that he was too weak to organise treatment to remove the fluid from his lungs,
Now he’s recovering enough that they are organising to have the fluid from the lungs….
He’s a tough ol’ SOB that guy is!
Does that mean recovery is a possibility, man? If so, that’s great news!
Hope that whatever happens, this protracted scenario doesn’t take too much of a toll on everyone.
I… guess so? in all honesty I am not fully aware of what happens from here, but it sure sounds positive!
I may or may not have spent the morning drafting Pathfinder rules for scavenging and skinning wild creatures.
Yeah, I have the RPG fever.
I should really set a goal to actually finish off my PC’s story for TAY Pathfinder
Does that mean when Dem’nion stubs his toe and dies we can skin him and make a Dem’nipuppet?
Hey, he didn’t get hit once yesterday.
You watch, he’ll take a single level in Barbarian and have bags of hp.
Dem’nion uses Barbarian Rage! Now he can cast spells while looking menacing.
Actually when raging you can’t use abilities which require ‘patience or concentration’ and it’s fair to assume that means no spells.
ಠ_ಠ
Or if your character dies we can use him as a puppet to block all attacks. The problem is that you would need to die first which I have a feeling if you get impaled by a magical sword and survive it, you aren’t going to die.
Wait til Freeze works out how and when to RAGE.
Then he’ll be unstoppable.
Basically you can buff str and con for so many rounds, but while doing it you can’t use int, dex or cha skills.
😉
Yeah while I got knocked out by a simple hobgoblin 😛
Isn’t skinning a mechanic in normal D&D?
Skinning is very loosely defined in the current rules and it doesn’t really allow for skinning of any and all monsters and creatures.
I’ve got my own mechanics I’ve been thinking up regarding my own spells that I’ll be getting in the future. Don’t worry, nothing that makes me more powerful artificially, just something I’ve been thinking about regarding Dem’nion’s bloodline and history.
For RPG Fevers lasting longer than 4 hours, please consult with your local medical practitioner.
Take two cure light wounds and call me in the morning?
I’ve got Banditos by The Refreshments stuck in my head.
Heard it 3 hours ago on the radio, and I can’t get it out.
We can all make suggestions of horrible ear worms to see if we can get it replaced with something else?
It’s a world of laughter, a world of tears,
It’s a world of hopes, and a world of fear,
There’s so much that we share,
That it’s time we’re aware,
It’s a small world after all.
It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small, small world.
*Vietnam War style flashback to It’s a Small World*
D:
My parents made a bet with my sister that she couldn’t get out of that ride without humming, singing, or otherwise vocalising the song. She won, and got a creepy-arse porcelain doll as her reward (it wasn’t inherently creepy, I just don’t like dolls).
Oh, I’m not complaining at all, I love this song!
Installed LeetKey to Firefox.
Set up a keyboard shortcut to rot13 any highlighted text. TAY just became a whole lot easier.
Also, just a test to check it works on input text: Guvf vf abg n fcbvyre
Wonder if there’s a similar plugin that works on an administrator-nerfed IE8.
Success – there are thirty to choose from \o/
/fnepnfz
Hey, thanks.
My copy of Eclipse finally arrived. Box is enormous and incredibly heavy. Too much awesome inside!
Oh good, so much time
Also, I’ve spent a good three hours and maybe 350 lives on Champion Road now. Can still only barely get up to the first green star, although have gotten up to the section with the fuzzies a couple of times now. need to try and actually get to that piranha pot next time, and not the gap in front of it.
I’m watching a video of it now. It looks pretty darn brutal. Are there checkpoints?
If there is one, I haven’t hit it yet 😛
*skim reads page*
Hey guys, how great are video games?
I prefer the term Interactive Fiction!
You. Me. Parking lot. NOW.
Again with the violence?
We’ve talked about this man.
Unless it’s a sexy parking lot encounter, in which case *drops pants*
*shows badge*
I’m an undercover cop and you’re busted, sicko!
Hey, what has @alexpants ever done to you huh? He’s no sicko. Or is this because you’re jealous that he’s as handsome as you?
I think DC takes the handsome lead with his new shaved look though.
I thought you were about to win more of my affection by saying you. me. carpark. now. in reference to the smudge album. hopes dashed!
Pretty dope.
Never heard of them.
Ehh, they got boring. I’m really into this cup and ball now. Whoa! Wow! Man, you neverknow which way this crazy ball’s going to go!
The have games in video form now?
Are there plans for Sunday, gang?
If not, I suggest meeting at The Burrow in West End for food, drinks and chatting.
http://theburrowwestend.com.au/
Delicious food and beers and a nice part of town that’s easy to get to.
Someone tag that cool dude who’s gonna be in town, I can’t ‘member (lol) his name.
@beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
This Sunday I’m possibly going to be in Hervey Bay – what time are we looking at. Evening?
Yeah, Quiz said evening works for him!
I think it was dependent on @quiz_b and his availability.
But arvo morphing into evening would be a safe assumption.
@quiz_b!
You rang?
Sorry I was late. I was too busy eyeing off the big marino, the big clam and the big banana. But enough about my love life.
Wakka wakka wakka.
This sounds fantastic to me. See you guys there!
Burrow sounds good to me! Mmmm, those pizzas.
I need to bring my son, have no other way.
Is this burrow kid friendly?
Could he even come in?
Yeah man, it’s kid friendly.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet
Genuinely I WOULD come to this I swear, but I’m on Uni prac at the moment teaching, plus assignments. In 2 weeks time though, consider me there if we do one?
For sure, daaaaaaaaaaaaaawg.
LAST PLAYED SONG GAME
I’m In Here (Piano Version) – Sia
R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
Giorgio by Moroder – Daft Punk \o/
Top Song.
I usually skip over Giorgio talking though, get sick of hearing the same thing after a while 😛
I listen to it because I enjoy talking with a thick accent, makes me laugh 🙂 “why don’t I use the synthesizer” especially.
I saw him DJ in Sydney Sunday night, not bad for a 74 year old. I’ve seen a video of him attempting to do that song live too, he messes it up a bit, but hey, he’s 74!
Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Ray (Cedric Gervais remix)
Although now this is playing
Cannibal – Ke$ha
Mondo Canne – Senza Fine
Frozen tears of the silent princess
The Refreshments – Banditos
Zelda OoT OST – Sounds like miniboss muzak
Josef Bulva – Sinding, Frühlingsrauschen, Op. 32
*classy person flex*
Oh Watch_Dogs, just like that you are on the pile of games I don’t want to play. Forced stealth sections are the worst.
Yep.
Spending all my time on Wolfenstein and Wildstar now ^^
Hi, long time reader first time poster.. thought I should say that as it’s been a million years since I ventured into TAY… but i have a question and I would really love some feedback from a reasonable bunch such as this.
Yes it’s about Trials but just think about this as a question about competitions in general..
I’m talking to some people about running a monthly Trials competition, specifically for AUS and NZ Trials is a tricky game because while competition is awesome, most people don’t get the chance to be the best. Even the comps around here, I suspect that many of you didn’t participate because of Batguy and Sughly and a few others around here that you already suspected would win. I want to avoid that and I want to give everyone a chance to win.
I will have prizes each month to give away and I will alternate between PS4, X1 and PC. Ideally if successful the comp will run for 12 months.
Here is what I am planning at the moment.
Limited to AUS/NZ participants. Must subscribe to Uni of Trials channel just because thats where I’ll be running the comps from.
What I’d like to do is pick a platform and track, then to make a uni of trials video teaching people how to ride the track fast, providing tips about the best way to compete and generally trying to level the playing field. Then what I want to do is invite all people to participate and you have to register your gamertag/PSNID Uplay name in the comments of the first video. I however only want 10 people who are eligible for prizes. The 10 people will be announced at the end of the competition period (1 week). I will draw their names from a hat then the prizes will be awarded to the top rider from that subgroup.
What I am trying to do it ensure that the competition is fair, everyone puts in their best effort and everyone could potentially win something. I hope that this drives the maximum number of people to participate and avoids the issue of the top riders taking all the swag. If I could arrange anything extra then maybe some other giveaways??
Oh I just had an idea, what about if the comp was open to all platform each month. You announce your platform and ID and you are in the running??? this way all people can participate and the more people that enter of lower rankings the better everyone’s chances are of winning.
I’d do my best to explain all of this to encourage participation but you get the idea..
What do you think, would it work, any issues I have not seen, would that format make you lot want to compete? Do you see it as a negative or a positive to have it monthly. I find myself burn out with weekly comps so I think it’ll work?
Open to suggestions/thoughts etc. I may not listen but I am very interested to hear back.
Thanks guys.
PS, still over the moon that a vid I made managed to get over 100,000 views in 48 hours. the next one i released had 300 lol but still amazing what a front page post can do on reddit!
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW-aAmUFFTo
It’s about the Trials riddle and the article I’m still working on for this very site!
@blaghman’s Christmas wish came true! Fatshaaaaaady!
needs more ooohhhhhh
Sounds like a great idea, man, especially the open to all platforms part. I’d be real keen to participate.
Only suggestion is to look at the legality of running a giveaway Australia Wide. I think if it’s skill based you don’t need a permit but if it’s chance based, the drawing names out of a hat might be classified as a chance based portion, there’s all kinds of legal things you need to do and it varies state to state.
fair point, it’s certainly skill based, just chance to be in the draw so I think we’re fine. I’ll check that out though.
So it’s along the lines of: “This challenge is ‘The Greater Crater’, you need to get a gold or better to qualify” and then if you do, regardless of your actual time, you go into a random draw to win something?
Gold or better? I’m out
see comment below, thats why I don’t want to make any rules that push people away. it’s entirely possible that silver medals are enough, it’s luck of the draw to see who you are up against.
Nope, this is the track this week, here is how to do it.. have at it adn you may win something… end of the week..
Here is a video of me picking random names from a hat… here is the list of 10 guys,, here is the winner and here is his replay with me maybe telling everyone what he/she did gud?
Well gold on that track was just for the example, I was originally going to say platinum but then realised a lot of people wouldn’t get it but I can also see people may well not get gold on it either. I keep forgetting that I’ve somehow gotten good at the game and can no longer assume my level of ability is consistent with the baseline…
Sounds fun. Let me get back to aus and buy the game first.
Silicon Valley got good. Hooray!
It’s a TV show about a tech startup by Mike Judge (Office Space, Beavis and Butthead). It starts off being just alright with the occasional bit or subplot that brings up a laugh. Now we’ve had a couple of episodes in a row that are just consistently good.
Oh and the characters have lengthy arguments about things like the optimal way to jerk off a room full of dudes. Quality.
EDIT: Turns out that was the season finale. Dang. Guess we’ll have to wait a bit for more.
It’s a little touchy and too soon considering current events so I’ll disclose that I don’t intend to offend, but I will ask; what would you do if you found out you had just three hours to live? I’m not sure that’s even enough time to gather family for final goodbyes, really.
Personally, I’d get in the car and drive to my wife and kid for one last, big bear hug.
Refresh TAY!
That’s just depressing.
That’s me! 😀
Depressing answer to a depressing question?
I can’t even say cuz what I would want to do is impossible if i only had 3 hours 🙁
Watch LOTR: Extended Edition! \o/
But you wouldn’t get to watch the end!!!!!!!
IT’SPAGESIXPIXEL
Let’s hunt some orc? 😛
Better to rewatch Gladiator, I think, as it only clocks in at two hours forty.
You’d actually see the ending. 😀
IT’SPAGESIXBENNY
AM I NOT MERCIFUL?
Oh right. Forgot about that. Dentist appointment for 2:30?
3 hours? I struggle to think of the calamity that would render such a specifically short diagnosis.
But what would I do? I dunno. I’m comfortable with my own mortality / that I’m going to kick it eventually. Anything I did would be more for those left behind than for myself.
I’d call my parents to ask them to come and see me, then Skype my sister in WA while I waited. When my parents arrived, I’d ask them to take me out for a big meal, and I’d gorge myself.
Probably sin like hell, then spend my last moments with my wife and kids.
I’d grab a pen and paper, and start writing. I have so many ideas bubbling away in my mind, and if just one of them could act as a starting point for the creation of something real, then I’d consider my time worthwhile.
Could maybe squeeze in a Metroid run…
Super Metroid or Fusion? 😀 Either way, I like it.
ZERO MISSION
While I’d like to say go on a looting / drinking bender (cause my family is longer than 3 hours away), realistically I’d probably just cry for three hours.
Just get it over with already and go on my own terms.
Such a Schwarzenegger thing to say.
IT’S NOT A TUMOR FUCK YOU ASSHOLE 😀
Hrmmm probably resign myself to my fate? Couple of days ago I would’ve said tell my ex exactly how I feel about her, now I have no regrets or things to set closure to =]
probably something really reckless, like attempting to make rocket powered couch from household goods and a bbq gas bottle, which knowing me would basically be an enormous pipe bomb and I’d blow up.
Exploding gas bottle? Metal up your arse? Metallica! I like it!
I’d demand a second opinion, no matter how long it took!
Right now, at work? Tell my boss, who I’m sure will understand I have no time to waste, then get on the train home. Call my mum and dad, have some embarassing, tearful and probably loud conversations, then spend the rest of the time with my wife. After the initial shock wore off I’d ask her to share all the video game spoilers she’s been holding in for games she’s finished that I haven’t. Then I would probably cry a whole bunch as it really sunk in what I was leaving behind.
Man, just as I was preparing to go back in time and watch the construction of Big Ben I find that some idiot has put a wheel clamp on my DeLorean.
What a cop lock clock block.
#Page6 #WhySoSerious
I have a crow.
He looks like Mike Rowe so he’s my Mike Rowe Crow.
He’s also tiny so he’s my Micro Mike Rowe Crow.
He likes to sing with multiple microphones so I have to deal with my Micro Mike Rowe Crow’s Mic Row.
He also has a rowing robot attached to the mics so the Micro Mike Rowe Crow’s Mic Row Rows My Micro Mike Rowe Crow.
That fair, reminds me of my LOTR Lego set. I love my Lego Legolas. But I lost his lower appendages so now I’m stuck with a Legless Lego Legolas. But at least I was able to find him a girlfriend. It’s important that a Legless Lego Legolas has a Lego Lass. She’s quite adept with ropes as well, I should check about getting Legless Lego Legolas’ Lego Lass a Lego Lasso.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
SPACESHIP!
There’s a thing in Dota where you can get imaginary internet points by winning a game with a hero that gets picked for you at random.
Blaghs and I played a game earlier where my magic points dude was Lion and his was Lina. For those that don’t know, both of them have an ultimate that is essentially “target enemy hero gets zapped for a whole shitload of damage”.
Our team got rather ahead at the start. Things got a bit silly when we were double nuking people.
SO MUCH FINGERING! (of death)
In hindsight, I missed out on an opportunity to sing this in all chat.
Man… Game of Thrones
Fgvyy n ovg va fubpx bire ynfg avtugf rcvfbqr…
V zrna, lbh xarj fbzrguvat onq jnf tbvat gb unccra va gur svtug jvgu Tertbe Pyrtnar, ohg va gur fnzr irva jnf vg gbb zhpu gb nfx sbe gung whfg bar guvat tbrf evtug sbe bapr?
V trg gung vg’f n tevggl fgbel rgp. Ohg fbzrgvzrf yvsr guebjf lbh n obar lbh xabj?
V’z trggvat n yvggyr ovg bire gung vg’f whfg n qbjajneqf fcveny nyy gur gvzr (be ng yrnfg gung’f jung vg srryf yvxr) naq v’z fgnegvat gb guvax gung vs vg xrrcf qbvat gung, v nz BX abg tbvat onpx gb vg.
V qba’g jngpu GI fubjf gb srry zbegvsvrq naq fnq, jvgubhg nal xvaq bs “srry tbbq” zbzragf…
Starting to feel that that show is less and less for me :\
Too similar to your daily home life back in Finland?
… well… It’s not not like life back home 😛
Yeah, you’re expecting the wrong things, for sure.
I figured as much… i think i’ve just been a very jaded mood lately
Edit – Borela’f qrngu whfg frrzrq bireyl rynobengr naq haarprffnel gb zr, naq frrzrq pyhzfvyl jevggra va…
As i said, jaded 😛
V’ir xvaqn sryg gung jnl rire fvapr Arq unq uvf urnq ybccrq.
Lrnu fnzr, ohg v pbhyq fbeg bs qrny jvgu gung… ohg gura Erq Jrqqvat… naq gura Borela…
V’z abg rkcrpgvat zvenpyr “Ynfg zvahgr” ubyyljbbq fnirf, pnhfr v qba’g jnag/yvxr gung… ohg fbzrgvzrf vg whfg srryf yvxr gur tbbq by’ Trbetr E.E. Znegva vf tbvat bhg bs uvf jnl gb znxr uvf ernqref/ivrjref srry yvxr penc
😛
Interestingly, rotting 😛 turns it into.. :C
Lol yeah i noticed that when I rotted the stuff above, but felt the need to edit it so i don’t look completely sulky about the situation :C
Gurer jvyy or fyviref bs unccvarff zl sevraq.
Cyhf Wbsserl jnf zheqrerq guvf frnfba. Gung’f n tbbq guvat 🙂
Guvf vf pbzcyrgryl gehr, gurer jnf n pregnva fngvfsnpgvba sebz gung…
V nz jvapuvat abj, ohg ab qbhog v jvyy xrrc jngpuvat, orpnhfr v’z yvxr gung :C
whfg jnagrq gb trg vg bss zl purfg gung ynfg avtugf “Cybg Gjvfg” sryg… haarprffnel gb zr
Vg qrsvavgryl uvgf gur srryf qrcnegzrag. Vg qbrfa’g uryc gung Crqeb Cnfpny cynlrq gur ebyr jvgu fhpu punevfzn, ol gur 3eq rc rirelbar unq sbetbggra gur urnegnpur jngpuvat cbbe Eboo qvr.
V guvax gur snpg ur jnf bayl nebhaq sbe bar obbx vf cnegyl jul ur unf fhpu n phyg sbyybjvat. Ur jnf n erserfuvatyl fcvprl punenpgre va n jbeyq bs zvfrel naq qrfcnve. Fubeg naq fjrrg.
V’z fnq gb frr uvz yrnir gur frevrf, ohg V’ir rawblrq hfvat gur grez “Borela Chyc” n ybg gbqnl :C
“Borela Chyc”?
….
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj :C
You know how it is in the Game of Thrones Pixel…. Sometimes you win sometimes you lose…
Need I remind you of :-
Wbsserl’f qrngu
Also (while we’re on the topic and because I think its cool) I have a friend who he and I quote Shaun of the Dead lines insanely often.
When he sent me a text out of the blue saying.
“Lbh frr uvf urnq tb?”
I knew what he’d just watched 😛
Rira guvaxvat nobhg gung fprar znxrf zl fgbznpu ghea :C
V pbafvqre zlfrys cerggl qrfrafvgvfrq gb ivbyrapr va zrqvn (tnzrf/gi rgp) ohg tbq qnza, vg npghnyyl znqr zr srry vyy :C
V gbgnyyl trg jurer lbh’er pbzvat sebz gubhtu, vg jnf harkcrpgrq naq na harkcrpgrqyl tehrfbzr raq gb n terng punenpgre.
V unir n sevraq jub unq vafnar avtugznerf nsgre jngpuvat Gurba’f vasnzbhf gbegher fprar.
I was at an atm, and the old lady in front of me was taking forever. I told her to hurry up, and she said she just needed to check her balance, so I shoved her.
#dadjokepagesix #@strange isdadjokequeen
Man, when did I get so dumb? I decided to learn Japanese. Got a basic set of vocabulary memorized (days of the week, some joining words, introductions, colours, numbers etc) and am starting on memorizing some kana so that written stuff makes more sense without having to be in romaji – starting with the base vowels. Five symbols should be pretty easy to memorize, right? Think of the letter, remember and draw the symbol. Easy, right? But right now they might as well be in another language. I’ve got a, e, i down. Just not o and u. FIVE CHARACTERS, DUMMY.
(Cheer up, other Barry. There’s only another 50 or so to learn. Hooray.)
私はあなたを信じて!
WHAT?! My mother was a saint!
Key word: was
Yeah. Sorry about that.
At least there’s an o in there. You’re actually helping. It’s just the wrong o.
Watashi wa anata o shinji te.
Watashi is the first kanji, you’ll learn that plenty fast. ‘Ha’ is the second character, but when used as a joining particle it’s pronounced ‘wa’. ‘A’ ‘na’ ‘ta’ are the next three hiragana meaning “you”. ‘O’ which you recognised is a joining particle to indicate a verb, which leads us to the next kanji ‘shin’ meaning faith or believe. The next hiragana is ‘ji’ which is a common suffix for ‘shin’ which sort of makes ‘shin’ into a more active verb rather than a passive state of being. The ‘te’ on the end is unclear. ‘Te’ as a word by itself means hand so the use of te usually indicates usage of something.
So I think he said “I believe in you”.
My Japanese is very poor.
Actually, your Japanese is better than mine. You remember Kanji!
Watashi is the most easily recognisable kanji there is after ‘jin’ (meaning ‘man’ or ‘person’), and uh… I have ‘shin’ tattooed on the back of my left leg, because I was 21 once and kanji look pretty cool.
I can also recognise the kanji for death (which can be pronounced ‘shin’ or ‘shi’ – shi is also one of the pronounciations for the number four, which is why the number four is considered unlucky), temple, and samurai which is literally the kanji for man and the kanji for temple right next to each other.
Don’t forget fire! Literally a man on fire: 火
o looks like a mini golf course and u looks like a bent old woman getting hit with a stick. Or so I was taught. (Hiragana)
Memory is hard. Every time I feel like going and learning a new piano piece (ie actually learn from one of the MIDI recordings I have, rather than just bang out some vidya song as I figure it out by ear) it feels like it’s all just bouncing off and none of it is actually being absorbed. Sometimes wonder if rather than being in the wrong mood to be able to do it, I’m just getting too old for new tricks 😛
Definitely too old.
You’re the old one now, birthday boy!
That is exactly how I’m feeling as I try to ram those last two letters into my brain and find that its response is to make me sleepy.
Sleepy! That *is* exactly it.
About one hundred to learn for hiragana and katakana.
Kanji? Forget it. I don’t even remember them – there’s far too many.
CRIPES. So much for my idle dream of being a secret government agent/cryptographer in ALL OTHER LANGUAGES EVAR.
Itchy knee tai chi?
Helping?
Ichi ni san shi or yon. 😀
Related.
Did anyone else learn Indonesian in primary / highschool, and did anyone else have to learn those stupid songs?
I have like, 5 Indonesian chants stuck in my head, permanently reminding me how to count to 10 in Indonesian, and the names of the months and so on >:(
That shits going to be engraved into my brain till the day I die >:(
Satu, Dua, Tigah, Empat, Lima, Enam, Tujuh, Delapan, Sembilan, Sepuluh.
That is all I remember from a few years of high school Indonesian. We had a tiny little Malaysian/Indonesian woman as a teacher and she took us through a bunch of the songs as well so maybe it’s just a foreign language thing they like to do.
Oh that song. When my niece was learning to talk she would switch between those and Katy Perry songs. I had no idea what she was saying
That’s pretty impressive that your niece was learning Indonesian at such an early age. Was that an early schooling sort of thing or was a close relative a native speaker?
Her big sister was learning it and doing very well. High acclaim from her teachers. She sang the songs with her and she picked it up
I did German. Which came in handy when I met Pixel
NEIN! Das ist meinen Hamburger ;_;
EDIT – god damn german;
Ich bin, du bist, er/sie/est ist, wir sind, irh seid, sie/sie sind
we recited that… repeatedly…
and that’s pretty much as far as i got 😛
I rot13’d but to no avail.
I started Indonesian at school and then changed to German in year 8. Haha, I was taught at my school by Frau Rogan who authored the Feuherwork books who coined the term ‘NEIN! Das ist meinen hamburger!’
Guten morgen meine freund, wie gehts?! Mein Deutsche is nicht so gut, aber ich mag Deutsche gelernen!
I know some Zulu, which comes in handy …………….. never. also Afrikaans I know really well, also completely useless outside of the country I learned it in, although enemies in Far Cry 2 yelled in afrikaans and actually said what they were doing so I could trick em. And Jackie Chan’s Who Am I has a bit in it.
I would think that Indonesian would be one of the more useful languages for Australian schools to be teaching, given their proximity. As it was, in my day the public schools were given their choice of one ‘LOTE’; Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Spanish.
My high school actually cut Indonesian when I was in grade 10. Which, to be fair, was reasonable as they only had thirty people across 10, 11, and 12 who actually took the subject. I later learned they also cut German a few years after for the same reason so the only languages they teach are Japanese and Chinese.
At primary school we had Japanese and French and our French teacher was from Canada and he was awesome.
It’s useful, to an extent. I never plan on going anywhere near Indonesia to be honest. I would much rather have learnt Japanese, but my schools didn’t give you an option >:|
I’d imagine that the locals in most touristy places in Indonesia would have a basic grasp of english anyway, for business reasons. Japanese and French are far more useful to learn, I think anyway.
Who doesn’t like someone who can speak French? *swoons*
On my school’s HSC booklet that described all the subjects you could choose from, all of those languages were crossed out except for Spanish because they didn’t want to have to employ a new teacher.
I did learn a little Indonesian in year 7. The only phrase I remember is “selamat pagi, buu”. I have no idea what it means. It could be “Good morning, teacher” or “Apple sauce, bitch”.
I think it translates to “Good morning, elder woman who is in charge.” I remember my Indonesian teacher asked us to refer to herself as Ibu which is the default way of referring to an older woman in the same way that Mrs is. Ibu also means mother so there is a bit of overlap there.
I learned Japanese in school in New Zealand and when I moved to Australia we were forced to do Indonesian and that was an absolute waste in comparison 🙁
I’m honestly tempted to just go look up a bunch of kids educational shows and early-reading books. Pfft. How hard can learning Japanese be? CHILDREN can do it, for chrissake! I’m MUCH smarter than a child! Just don’t ask me to remember the quadratic equation or how it works. Or, honestly, even the pythagorean theorem. GOD I DUNNNO A^2 + B^2 = C^2? I’VE NEVER USED IT! NOT ONCE! GOOGLE TELLS ME EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW. *table-flip*
I would recommend learning Japanese, definitely. It’s a walk in the park. *cough* Actually, I’ve heard it’s one of the hardest languages to learn, sorry! Gomennesai!
I strongly suspect you might be right. I started suspecting this when – at the mention of numbers – I looked up a list of numbers to see if I’d memorized them correctly, only to find out that there are actually three or four fucking different versions of every number.
*eyenarrow* Dammit, Japan.
There are alternate words for numbers that only really get used when counting. Fun fact: ‘mitsu’ is the word you use for ‘three’ when counting machines, which is easy because it’s like “Mitsubishi” whose company logo is three diamonds!
\o/
This is because most Kanji have two types of reading, a Japanese one and a Chinese one. And both types of readings can have multiple actual readings! Extra complexity for the sake of it.
@transientmind what will really cook your head later on is that the language has a stupid thing where if you’re counting a quantity of anything there is a specific character and word for counting that type of thing. So you need to know that when counting pencils you need to use the one for long cylinders and stuff. There’s literally dozens of them. 🙁
If you’d like, I could fish out my old high school exams + answers, scan them to pdf and email them to you. They could be a good starting point. It would be no trouble.
Honestly? I’d really appreciate that. Thanks.
Email’s a google one at my username. I just started last night, but I do want to take this seriously, and I’m going with a sort of shotgun-scatter approach of trying anything that I’m getting a feeling might stick. Kids books, TV shows, online ‘programs’, and actually a Nintendo DS ‘game’ from Ubisoft. Variety will probably help with the motivation which is to put in at least a certain number of hours per day, and leaving the more directed goals (such as learning certain clusters of vocab, or being able to engage in certain discussions – such as introductions/buying food/getting directions) as various regular milestones. From what I’ve read, ‘Immersion’ doesn’t have to mean being there. 🙂
No problem. I’ll try and email you my year 8 one first as that was my first Jap year and as such should have all the basics in learning written Japanese.
Also, I believe memorising hiragana should be your first step. Followed by Katakana, later.
So far I’m following the steps in the ubisoft learning game and building on vocab separately. But lesson plan ideas are always good.
Apologies, that’s easier said than done. Let me see if I can find some additional learning material to assist you in memorising hiragana and katakana.
Japanese is apparently relatively simple compared to other languages. Quite a lot of the elements that some languages have to confuse English speakers are missing.
It’s weird because, aside from a few loan words, there’s nothing to latch on to as “oh thats the same” at the most basic level.
As for counting words changing on context: pair, trio, quad…
Just wait until they make a Google Translate brain stem implant like the rest of us.
I translated that into Japanese and back to English and got:
“They just wait until that Google translate brain stem implant like the rest of us.”
Close enough.
All I can say is I have actually used trigonometry for the purposes of making sure that a couch will fit through my front door. I have also attempted to use quadratics and compound interest formulas for other stuff as well so it’s only mostly irrelevant knowledge.
I remember:
x= (-b+/-(sqr(b^2-4ac))/2a
Jesus that’s hard to write here. Format would be completely wrong.
OOH QUADRATICS
I always tried to run through factoring too quickly and usually borked it up.
Numbers are awesome. There’s only ten of them but you can break the universe if you arrange them right.
Ten?
Base-ten fascist.
You sir can take your senary and binary perversions and walk right on out of here.
Hell, all the cool kids don’t use numbers anyway, why pollute the mathematics?
Imaginary numbers are pretty cool. Maths 2 was pretty cool.
Literally the only thing I remember about them is i^2= … Uh, 1? -1? Or something? Why I couldn’t tell you or anything else. Never even looked at one since high school.
It’s funny because a good mate of mine a couple years older than me doesn’t even remember that much, and is now having to refresh himself on it because he’s applying to join the ADF.
He knew I’d done an application back a few years ago and wanted to know what was on the aptitude test. Was horrified to hear about pythagorean theory, quadratics, and even matrices.
He did a bit of a double-take at that one (I did, too, when I saw them on the test). Hell if I even had any kind of grasp on what matrices were when I was studying them. Let alone 7yrs later.
In the end I’m pretty sure you don’t need to be able to do much with those things. Just demonstrate that you know what they are and what they’re for, the rest is basic algebra. The ‘aptitude test’ doesn’t exactly measure your strengths and weaknesses. All it does is throw up red flags for which roles you can’t apply for. Even with my pathetic memory of year 10-12 maths, I was told that I’d ‘passed’ the aptitude test such that I could apply for any role I wanted.
I have the feeling they’re pretty generous with their requirements, too.
Matrices never came up at school for me, hell we didn’t even do anything with them at uni. The first I learnt of them was in the start of the gameprog course, two years ago. Actually I remember back in year 12 chemistry, something came up about logarithms. None of us had any idea what they were at all, our teacher couldn’t believe it. Said it was something we should have learnt in year 10. I still don’t really know what they are, other than some weird curve on a graph 😛
Geometry is pretty rad though. It makes making things fun!
Matrices were a Maths C thing which I didn’t do. Maths B was enough for teenage me to not care about.
This is one reason why I get frustrated with language textbooks that want to treat me like a child and force me to learn sentences by rote or whatever and not explain to me the rules. I’m an adult and I’m fluent in a language. I understand what things like adjectives and verbs are. Tell me the rules, don’t tell me how to say specific sentences. I want to know what the structure of this sentence is and how I can adapt it to say something else, I don’t want to have to learn that other sentence.
Man if you find a good method of learning it, let me know?
I have been meaning to learn a bit for a while but have not got around to it because hard.
Perhaps look up the rhyming mnemonics they use in school to teach it – I recall them being fairly effective.
I did a lot of reading of blogs and similar about what the ‘best way’ would be, before I got started… the main things I could see repeated were:
1) Do it all the time – more time per day the better. At LEAST daily, no less.
2) Set specific goals, such as ‘be able to order pizza’, or ‘be able to tell someone what the weather is or will be’, or ‘read a certain book’ with concrete times. Something to actually work towards in specific, small steps as opposed to, “Be conversationally-fluent within 3 months,” which is horribly vague.
(Let’s hope those folks all know what they’re talking about.)
I tried teaching myself Chinese once. It went poorly.
The problem with self-directed language learning is that your teacher knows absolutely fuck all about the language.
That being said, it’s all about practice and structure. I found flash cards to be quite good for building vocabulary. Just have a pack of them and cycle through them until you are able to easily identify your set. Then you can build on it by taking some low level reading material (probably some young adult fiction or some manga) and highlighting every word in the first chapter that you don’t recognise. Make flashcards for those words and add them to the mix.
Once you can read that chapter without hassle, move on to the next one and repeat.
Audio based lessons are also nifty. I’ve heard good things about the Pimsleur system (although don’t try it while driving, I almost crashed because I got distracted).
Supplement that with media in your chosen language (music, movies and TV shows) and just build some sort of system around folding all of this into your daily life.
I’m thinking flashcards are probably the bomb. I’ve been doing it to myself with the first 5 letters of kana through the day to try lock them into memory (and been frustrated by u and o). I noticed in the edu-tainment game I’ve been using, the games go:
whack-a-mole with words: bad. Only ever gives 2 options of words, and it’s kind of a give-away.
multiple choice from 4 words: good. Enough hint nearby to get it, I test myself by trying to remember it before the options turn up. Self-testing, in a way.
find-a-word letter jumble: good. You highlight words hidden in a jumble. The test is to do them in order, so that you know which word you’re looking for BEFORE you find it, rather than just recognizing something familiar in the jumble then finding out what it means. Self-discipline required.
writing test: too hard! Flash the word up and get me to write it? I don’t remember it enough yet!
Look into Anki SRS for flashcards. Spaced Repetition is a proven method and Anki is awesome for it (and free on PC).
http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Kana-Reading-Japanese-Syllabaries/dp/0824831640
Heisig’s stuff is awesome for learning characters. I used a similar set that was written by my teacher at the time – she had turned each one into a picture of something where the word started with the same sound it makes, and it made learning the stuff super easy.
So like, ‘o’ was a picture of a putting green with a flag, and the ball was ‘o’n the green. I’ve actually forgotten a lot of the memory mnemonics now because I just read them, but I still use some of them because certain characters are less common. Also they’re more important for Katakana because that set of characters have sets that look extremely similar, eg シツソンノ,
I’ve learnt 40 Chinese charcters. There’s only atleast 30,000 to go.
I’m currently watching my determined girlfriend try and learn the characters… she try’s to teach me so that she learns better herself, I don’t know a single character lol.
我的朋友对不起。I know pingyin or what ever they call it. My phone does the rest. I know bout half in that sentence though.
I learned Japanese from Year 3 to Year 8. I did pretty well in it from Year 3-6,but in Year 8 they actually made us do stuff. WHAT IS KATAKANA WHAT IS KANJI WHAT IS WORDS?
I may have forgotten almost everything I learned. But hey, I know enough to pretend to sound somewhat knowledgeable. When I was getting Japanese food from the food court last night, I made myself appear to be knowledgeable through my effortless sounds-like-I’m-pronouncing-stuff-correctly-even-though-I’m-probably-not-correct pronunciation of Japanese foodstuffs.
Also, why are you starting with katakana? Wouldn’t it make sense to start with hiragana?
I am starting with hiragana. The guide is just calling it ‘kana’. Which both katakana and hiragana are subclasses of, as opposed to kanji.
Of course, I didn’t know this until I just went and did a little more research in my attempt to break my 5-syllable stumbling block. I’m pretty confident with around 20, now, but we’ll see how much of that sticks when I wake up in the morning.
Cool, I was thinking kana was some slick, urban Japanese slang for katakana. I thought you were jiggy with it.
For some reason I’ve always used Italian pronunciation to read Japanese words. Not even sure why exactly, but it seems to work 😛
They’re really not that different.
I successfully replaced the digitizer/screen assembly for an iPhone 4s today. And there were only 4 screws left over when I put it back together!
And it worked \o/
Those screws were clearly not necessary if they were left over
I handed them back, stating they were spares.
Finally hit the second green star of Champion Road. I’m on 416 lives… so I guess that means I’ve had somewhere around 860 attempts at it now 😛
ONWARD! Wait no my eyes feel funny.
All right TAY peoples. Who is going to Supanova Sydney on the 15th (Sunday)?
I am starting to panic that it’s only a week and a bit away and I still have a dress to sew, and a wig to style…I hope it’s all worth the effort! 😀
I wana come! Might hit up my photographer mate he gets free tickets to these events!
A free ticket is always a good thing.
As an expo newcomer is Supanova all about cosplay? I’m more invested in games stuff than comics as well =\
I’m a newbie too! I think the main focus is comics, the special guests and the exhibition floor. There will be the cosplay competition but it’s not the main attraction (that would be Mr Stan Lee!). I’m not competeing, just dressing up for fun.
I was contemplating going, but some friends have organised a thing in Wollongong that weekend. Seems kinda strange, I would’ve thought that a bunch of nerds like us would have been aware of such a clash, but there you go 😛
I’m going! Stan the man Lee, Jaime Lannister and Captain Jack!
So good.
Mario Kart. 7:30pm. TAY KART. 6219-0979-9527
Not sure on numbers yet, but I’ll be there even if no one else is. XD
Make me.
Nah!
I thought you cared! *cries*
Make me.
😛
*prepares dungeon*
SPOILER WARNING ON KOTAKU ARTICLE
New Game of Thrones article has a picture spoiler. I contemplated about putting a warning because people are unlikely to know it’s a spoiler, however, by warning them of the spoiler they’re now aware of it… :/ (but people may wonder who it is anyway).
If you hover over the image (I suggest you don’t) it has the file name. Don’t look it up because it’s a spoiler.
All of this could’ve been easily avoided as well :/
EDIT: It’s been changed. Don’t read the comments 😛
You have now effectively defeated the purpose of your post =,= I had a feeling that picture was a spoiler but now I know for sure! Damn you Green!
I’m putting you in the naughty box with Freeze.
Wait, what did I do?
That link to that thing about the thing I didn’t want to know anything about.
Formico!
Funny enough the Gizmodo article doesn’t have it, just a more inflammatory url:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/06/how-lazy-is-game-of-thrones-author-george-r-r-martin/
According to the comments I think it did have it but they swapped it out.
So I bought the Professor Layton game. I don’t know when it will be cheap again, so I figured I should grab it, however, several of the games I paid about $50 were now $30 there so I was a little peeved.
Also I paid $17 for more wool because my specific wool I needed wasn’t on special. Everything else was. Blegh
Can someone please explain how the hell this tournament system in MK8 works? It says 8 people online but when i join I’m all alone, doesn’t even try to spectate or anything
Yeah, it seems to have some issues. Try joining off someone on your friend’s list, seems to work way better.
Here I am imagining Toad ripping Luigi’s spine out….
I’m pretty sure we used to draw that kind of thing in school notebooks when we were kids.
Also, I may have serialized, ‘Nutty the Nuclear Warhead,’ a French-speaking cooky nuke with a penchant for pulverizing and polluting the Pacific.
(Edit: The French were bombing Mururoa Atoll at the time. It was topical, dammit!)
I think it tries to make “rooms” when there is a lot of people in the same tournament so that if it goes over 12 participants, nobody is left out. There’s a setting that shuffles these rooms periodically (which we have turned off) – so yeah, best way is to join via the friendslist if you can’t get in.
Question: I thought I’d finally start Assassins Creed Black Flag after having it sitting here for a few months. I’ve gotten a bit of the way through it and it’s awesome, but should I go back and play 3 first, just for the story? It kinda feels like I’ve missed some important stuff (mostly regarding Desmond) so I’m not sure. I’ve had 3 sitting here for well over a year in its shrink wrap, so… 😛
POSSIBLY more trouble than it’s worth. It’s very, very, very difficult to go back to 3 after 4, but playing out all of the future-game story makes the references to familiar faces much more enjoyable and the ‘non-pirate’ parts of the game more tolerable. But they all don’t have terribly much bearing on each other. If you dig into the future stuff at your leisure in 4, you’ll uncover bits and pieces about Desmond & co anyway, but in the same way as you do a bunch of other characters that have never been referenced before, which makes the whole apocalyptic scenario of 1-3 just another alluded-to mystery.
Me, personally? I’d go hunt down some cinematics/story-only videos on YouTube to get past some of the more torturous parts of 3.
Man my head is all kind of screwed. Needed a rest at around 5 or something, but nope. Way more than just a nap.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. I screwed up Bravely Default. I’m probably going to have to restart.
Spoilers because ending stuff.
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Gur ceboyrz vf gur punenpgref jrer ersrerapvat riragf gung V jnf pbzcyrgryl hanjner bs. Ol qrqhpvat gur cybg gjvfg nf n cynlre, V raqrq hc fxvccvat n cbegvba bs gur tnzr naq V nz abj haqreyriryyrq naq urnqvat gb gur svany obff. Naq V pna’g tb onpx gb zl byq fnir orpnhfr bs gur tbqqnza nhgbfnir flfgrz. Qnat vg nyy.
V guvax lbh pna tb onpx gb gur cbvag orsber lbh oebxr vg? Ohg gung’f bayl nsgre qrsrngvat gur svany obff :/
Been a while since I finished it. @jimu and @distantdrop might be able to shed some light?
Send me a DM on twitter, I cant remember the name of the site that translates that.
(cos going to work now and no Kotaku for me!)
“Things you can say about ___ but not your girlfriend”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r3Dn_Gy7GI
Never gets old.
Classic. Although many of them are wrong. 🙂
Many of them?
You are a braver man than me
I dunno that I could spend a shitload of time or the frequent awkwardness that is sex with someone who didn’t feel comfortable taking the piss out of me or vice-versa. 😉 A sense of humour and healthy teasing is a wonderful thing. But maybe that’s just me.
@scree I’ve found a store that appears to be selling purple flavour quilts. Haven’t actually been in. I’ll check it out tomorrow and take some photos. I just don’t know how to send then to you given twitter is blocked and stuff.
How much are they?
Idk. Only seen them in the window. I’ll check this afternoon.
Had an awesome night catching up with @Beavwa & @NegativeZero and meeting @tigerion and briefly @jordi. Dumplings in a dodgy restaurant in Chinatown were consume and were awesome. Good times.
I also saw some people selling “Fuck Tony Abbott” shirts today didn’t buy one though, went up Eureka tower today that was neat. Also managed to score some sweet vans high tops for a bargain so I am happy.
Today was a good day, yep!
Who the hell would want to fuck Tony Abbott? That’s just not sanitary.
@shane @dc in regards to Enslaved. COLOURS AD ANDY SERKIS!
That is all. Also I’m a sucker for…. Shane might not off finish game so I shut up.
It’s a pretty cool guy, but I haven’t finished it yet! 🙂
Hey guys, looks like The Lego Movie is coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray on the 3rd of July.
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/dvd/dvd-genres/kids-family/lego-movie-the-3d-blu-ray-blu-ray-ultraviolet/703256
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
I guess that’s one advantage about being the last in the world to get a theatrical release: it drastically shortens the wait for the DVD release!
So Crytek have announced another game, a 4 player zombie hunting thing… which is described as being “Games-as-a-Service” which sounds suspiciously like subscription fees for a regular game to me.
http://www.crytek.com/news/-fight-together-or-die-alone-in-crytek-s-thrilling-new-ip–hunt-horrors-of-the-gilded-age
It may still be fun and I’ll probably apply for the beta but I suspect it’d have to be fucking impressive (or my interpretation of the phrase “Games-as-a-Service” being wildly inaccurate) for me to end up playing it long term
Made by Vigil, huh? (Crytek USA) I suppose if it’s a third-person action game, they’ve got that locked down.
I think ‘games-as-a-service’ implies microtransactions, honestly.
I would have thought microtransactions would have had it labelled as the standard free to play thing rather than inventing a new and ominous sounding term for it
I have no idea when I developed such an intolerance for the cold. I swear 18.5º never used to feel so terrible.
Also leaving this thermometer here was probably a bad idea.
It’s called age.
Maybe he should buy a shawl.
Shawly you jest!
*blocked*
You’re really gonna play that cardigan?
…okay, that one made me laugh.
Probably when you shaved your head, cue ball.
Gah, some days you should just crawl back into bed, had a weird bad night and morning (nothing serious just stupid crap) and couldn’t sleep, come into work, sat down with a cup of coffee and thought, put it all behind, get on with the day, popped a headphone in for some motivational music to get me going *sploosh* headphone falls into coffee.
*head desk*
I hope your days started off well, I’m determined to make this a good day.
Love it, your story has put a smile on my face! =D
And here’s the resident TAY sadist taking pleasure in others’ misfortune 😛
perfectly Ok, if someone can benefit it makes it just a little bit better. if it wasn’t me that it happened to I would have laughed so hard. Still determined to make the best outta this day. *punches all the problems in the face*
A positive attitude is the best way to make positive things happen… and if they don’t then there’s still murderous rage to take out in a Falling Down kind of way 😀
Exactly, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Not so much the suffering that gutsoup has gone through but rather the means by which it happened =p truly you can’t fault a man for laughing at someone dropping their headphones into their coffee!
Bad morning buddies! *fistbump* *misses* *fists in each others faces*
Zero sleep. By the time I figured to take drugs, it was too late and I know I would’ve been out 10hrs.
Bus late, heavy smoker sitting behind me just RADIATING fumes from every pore, entire management team is out today right when one of the guys comes up with some VIP demanding immediate resolution of something and to raise issues with management, everyone’s screeching at each other I’m totally not getting involved, sit down and tune out to finish work which I now discover didn’t fucking register from yesterday, punch in full list to get a back-and-forth flow going…
Hit enter. Clear search.
I SWEAR TO GOD. TEN MINUTES WITH THE FUCKER WHO CAME UP WITH THAT. JUST TEN MINUTES AND NO WITNESSES IS ALL I ASK.
damn, I hope it improves, good luck man.
Heh. Ta. It’s not really so bad, I just have crankypants on.
I aim to improve this situation with caffeine. Shitloads of caffeine. 🙂
That’s what I do, I swear my blood must be like 30% coffee.
holy crap, further to this discussion I think I’ve reached my limit of coffee for today, I’m at the point where my skin feels like it’s moving and I’m developing a twitch. I really do drink far too much of it. I might actually try and do a calculation to work out roughly how much, the result will probably terrify me into cutting down, it’s highly unlikely though cause I’m mega addicted.
Edit: Also I hope your day has improved 😀
It did! Ta. 🙂 Had a great phone conversation with my lady, who is having a good day, which is very infectious to me.
I’ve started trying to stop the caffeine before like… 3pm. Because yeah, I haven’t slept in two days. 😛
5 Minutes Alone?
Or evenIs that something I need to look up NOT on a work PC? 🙂
(Edit: Yay, smartphones. 5 minutes, eh? Some people don’t take the time to savour things.)
is the page that does the ‘enter’ thing public-facing?
Yup. Though not exactly ‘public’ as much as corporate – government & enterprise.
(Edit: But as far as they’re concerned, we’re ‘customers’, not internal end-users. It’s a product we pay for.)
What I’m getting at is that it (the bizarre enter=clear behaviour) might be something that you can use browser userscripts to disable. Sounds like it’s caused you way too many annoyances 🙁
I’ll have to look into it. They’re very plugin-unfriendly here, but I’m sure I can sneak something on.
I watched The Black Cauldron last night. Absolutely brilliant movie. Apparently Disney had problems when releasing it because of its dark subject matter. Definitely worth watching, and now I want to read The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, which the movie is based on.
I’d never even heard of it, might have to have a watch.
If you can find it, it’s worth a look. It also has John Hurt voicing the main villain. Elmer Bernstein does the music, which is brilliant.
Here, 16 bucks.
@gutsoup
thanks buddy, I’ll have to grab it next time in in a JB 😀
It’s my missus’ favourite Disney film because it’s so dark. Disney still put it to one side pretty much because it doesn’t really fit into their look
I don’t think I’d ever seen it, although I had a Golden Book based on it. It is dark, particularly the scenes around the Horned King’s castle. I will be watching it again at some stage though.
hmm, i pretty intrigued now, I’ll have to track it down.
Disney had a few moderately dark things in the 70s & 80s before going all sanitised and aggressively saccharine happy again. The Black Hole was probably the best movie they ever made and it had some rather dark moments (as well as excellent music)
That was the first movie I ever saw at the cinema
I had actually never heard of the film until just now (not a big Disney buff) and it sounds really interesting. Quite intrigued. Bet it’s impossible to find in good quality?
DVD. Probably won’t be re-released again till it comes put of the vault in many years time.
Random morning TAY rant.
So my mission to replace all women/relationship based drama with gymming and swimming is going well! Downside by the end of the day I’m too exhausted to play anything >..<
Nice one! I find swimming quite cathartic and a nice way to get some aerobic exercise in, especially if you are doing some weight training. I tried to play Mario Kart after the pool on Monday night but couldn’t keep my eyes open long enough!
Well I used to jog a lot (i.e. minimum of 2km a day just to warm up and cool down before a heavy work out) but my knees are kind of screwed now so swimming is perfect! Focuses more on your thighs and being in the water takes pressure off your knees as well. Also its a lot more fun than just jogging!
I enjoy jogging but it’s hell on my knees / ankles. The last time I took it up I badly hurt myself after a month and have been too gunshy to get back in to it. While I like the idea of swimming I don’t think I have the lung capacity for it (severely reduced, part of why I was doing jogging)
Also swimming in winter just seems like suicide.
Indoor heated pool =p For some reason no one else in the entire building uses it!
And I used to smoke a lot so my lung capacity isn’t at its greatest either! But I’d rather work out my lungs than fuck my knees >.< had a really painful start to the year because of them… Swimming's really helped strengthen the muscles around there so its taken a lot of pressure off.
Yeah, my apartment building’s pool is outside. It may or may not be heated (can’t say I’ve swum much in winter to find out!)
My lung capacity isn’t from smoking (never ever) it’s more likely throwbacks from childhood asthma. I remember once I was doing a lung function test at the doctor and the nurse made me re-do it 3 times because she thought I wasn’t letting all the air out from my lungs. I had to explain that no, the results were right, there was just nothing in there.
We’ll see. I’ve been feeling pretty good these days, maybe I’ll jump back in to jogging and see if I can take it a little slower this time and not kill my legs. If I do, I’ll give it up for good.
Even though I don’t do it anymore, I cannot recommend swimming enough to ANYONE who wants to get in some great cardio and general conditioning. Like @beeawwb said, running is great for your heart, shit for your joints. Swimming is hands-down the best lung-capacity-expander, and no impact on joints.
Back when I was swimming with the Aussie Masters, a bunch of utter lunatics were training for triathlon. (Triathletes are insane. All of them. No exceptions.) A bunch of the guys became regulars after they’d first turned up at a friend’s urging and spent a month in the pool then utterly blitzed the competition – not only in the swimming stage, but also running and cycling. The conditioning they got from swimming was just better for all their cardio/respiratory in general to the point that it made them better at everything else they did. They called it their secret weapon.
GO TEAM SWIMMING WOO!
Except I don’t do it anymore for some reason… Dunno why. Probably an aversion to the time investment, the fairly aggressive nature of the wannabe-pros who dominate the lanes at my two nearest venues, and the fact that the temperature shocks play utter hell with my calves now. Cramps for DAYS. I need to get back into it though. Transientmind affected by subtle group intimidation? THIS CANNOT BE.
Why do I get the feeling that the only reason you’ve not written an autobiography is that you can’t pick an opening line from the thousands you seem to have?
‘Aussie Masters’ sounds more glamorous/prestigious than it is. It’s a national swimming club that caters heavily toward older folks so that they can compete in age brackets instead of against the best-of-the-best, can be as casual as you like. The benefits are largely just having times to compare against for goal-setting and a loose organization of folks who’ll do group exercises for funsies.
Because swimming is pretty fucking boring without doing something to change it up. Just hours of staring at a black line on the bottom of a pool. Does your head in. I’m amazed the professionals don’t go off the rails more often, you have to have a particular kind of damage to persist with that for several hours every morning and night.
Good morning, ladies and gents!! 😀
How are we all?
I think i’m almost adjusting to this whole baby life thing now – which is great.
She is a little princess – until she starts screaming. Then she stops and she is a princess again. It’s amazing and confusing.
Also – news – I FINALLY GOTS A NEW JOB!!
I’ll be leaving the old digs behind and finally going into the corporate world working for Telstra Phonewords as a Customer Relations Manager. I get my own key accounts to take care of and keep happy. They will hear ALL my dad jokes.
ALL OF THEM!
So I can shout at you when we get a Phonewords bill to pay? 😛
Only if i have your account. Otherwise you’ll just be shouting at someone else.
I’d like you to shout nice things at me too. Those calls would make my day.
YOUR HAIR LOOKS LOVELY TODAY!
YOU HAVE A REALLY ICE VOICE!
I FIND THAT THING YOU JUST SAID INCREADIBLY HELPFUL AND INSIGHTFUL!!
If you could yell all of those things in a German accent as well, it would be great.
An ice voice? *puts on my best German accent* ICE TO SEE YOU
*facepalm*
Awesome, corporate job and new baby, you’re officially an adult 😛
Sounds like things are going well, good to hear 😀
Thanks buddy! 😀
1300 EMPEROR!
The number that protects!
Ah a fellow Telstra employee 😛
Which part of Telstra are you working for?!
Cloud Operations
So your job involves playing Final Fantasy VII all day? Awesome!!!!!
😛
Dear Sydney TAYbies (I’m not really sure who you are but I’ll assume you are out there),
Since there is a long weekend coming up are there any plans for a geek up (my witting merging of meet ups with a geeky undertone)?
Edit: @35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty
Meat.
http://powalen.com/tags/
TAG AWAY! 🙂
Looking at that list I’m thinking I should move to Brisbane lol
Edit : Or Melbourne
You don’t like the Sydney crowd? They’re not that bad…
Yeah, they’re veritable gods amongst men compared to the Canberrans.
Hahah no not that, it’s just I feel like I’ve engaged in TAY discussions more with peeps from Brisbane and Melbourne! I don’t know half the names in the Sydney TAY groups! =p
Most of them used to be old guard types who now post only on Twitter, alas. They founded the whole idea of Meats, though.
I think I end up talking with Sydney and Brisbane people more than Melbourne :P. There’s also one Kenyan buddy!
(@masha2932 🙂 )
Who are you again?
I AM GOD!
we’re pretty shit.
You should totally move to Perth and keep me company! 😀
Yes because Perth isn’t on the other side of the country at all! =p
Are you saying I’m not worth the effort? :'(
</3
Isn’t it only you and @phlanispo who are in perth? It sounds like it’d be more cost effective for you two to move over to the east coast
There’s about 5 or so!
Apparently there’s a couple of others (that I don’t actually think exist, to be honest).
I plan on moving over east at the end of 2015, if all goes to plan.
In the meantime everyone should just move over here and keep me company though ;D
It’s not!
The only people in Perth are people that don’t want to be in Perth.
Except my brother. He went there voluntarily for some reason…
Voluntarily going to Perth isn’t a thing, your brother must have brain slugs or something ,:\
His reasons involved a girl.
Yeah, like I said, a brain slug
*badum-tish*
Hey! There are cool things in Perth! Like… the Bell Tower… (Which is really a museum dedicated to the history of bells) and… uh.. the prison? The train stations a pretty lively place…
…
Hey wait! We have Han’s Cafe and you don’t! Have your fancy schmancy landmarks and tourist hotspots, @liondrive and I will be sitting in the corner eating $10 phad thai!
Shoosh little Phlanispo, you’re only making it worse :'(
If you edit in tags, they don’t give out notifications!
Dammit! So no one knows?! Any meat ups happening this weekend? (Green if this is a troll comment ima find you!! =@)
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty
Dunno.
I haven’t been on Tay all week, so I would have missed the info even if it was being organised 🙁
Well we do need to celebrate @powalen’s birthday sometime…
And @blaghman’s is coming up in a few days!
But unless we do something on Monday, I won’t be free this weekend.
Do eeeett! Though I might be pretty hungover come Monday….
Guys, I need you all to give me a ten second head start for every race (at least) when we play Mario Kart 8 because I suck arse.
Though it is still a lot of fun.
You should try to wait until after the race before indulging in such debauchery.
nah, you don’t suck, the competition is just crazy good. I was on the phone through all last nights games, I should have left, I was bouncing off walls everywhere, but I’m too addicted even losing hideously is fun :P.
@gutsoup is my new Mario Kart Rival. @sughly promoted to Senior Rival with wildcard @greenius Junior Rival coming out of nowhere with some skills last night.
And everyone else is my rival too because I need to win.
hooray, I’m good at something,
Even trying to catch up to you was invain though XD
Doesn’t help when you’re the target of every god damn red shell on track 😛
@gutsoup is on @powalen level now, but I need to know who’s better out of you two so I can have an Ultimate Nemesis. You two are the only two beating me >:( (by a decent amount too)
@sernobulus came outta nowhere last night! So he’s been promoted to Junior Rival with @sughly ;D.
But it’s not about which one of us is beating the other! It’s about which one is beating you by the most!
Shhh, don’t be rational. 😛
But I think it’s about even anyway. Deep down you’ll always be my nemesis…
Whaa junior now? I am getting demotions all over the place T_T
I’m beating you in MK7 so if anything you got semi-promoted to a Junior Rival! Pow promoted you too, so I don’t know what you’re talking about 😀
Yeah I had a bad night last night, bouhou :'(
Genuine query though – is anyone against Ash playing? I figured as long as the room didnt fill up it would be fine, since I didnt want tay people missing out from me hogging two spots. If that happens I’ll probably duck out the room and come back in one player. And, I dunno, send Ash to bed early
Ash is awesome. And more than welcome.
I’ve been trying to get my sister to play too, but I think she’s intimidated by you folks. XD
She should totally join. Thing is we do always have at least 2-3 comp players, so an actual person taking the spot is always better
No way man! It’s all good :). The only “issue” that I could see is what you already mentioned. There may be someone else wanting that spot, but we’ve never had that many numbers as people come and go throughout the night. As long as he doesn’t beat me, he’s fine ;D
what was up with last night, I was having a really hard time, came 8th and 10th a couple of times, just couldn’t seem to get into my rhythm.
Everyone’s getting better D:
I came 12th twice last night. And then quit.
oh man, I was banging around at the back there with you, just wasn’t our night.
yeah, I think it was a combination of that, being on the phone and being in a bit of a crap mood, I don’t Kart well when I’m annoyed :P, still no excuses I was beaten fair and square, I’ll get you next time *shakes fist*
Maybe it’s time I joined the battle for the ‘losing hideously’ crown…
I’ll join in again soon then you won’t have to worry. Last is my home.
I need a Wii U and Mario Kart asap. Amusing how the best multiplayer game of the year so far seems to be on the worst performing console. Basically confirms that Nintendo’s still the best place for good old fashioned multiplayer fun
yeah, my girlfriend hardly ever plays games and she keeps hassling me to play it, she even set up her own profile so she can unlock all the stuff, had Jimu over on the weekend to play and had a mate I haven’t spoken to in like a year call me and say “do you have the new Mario Kart, can I come over and play it?” good old nintendo, bringing folks together.
3/4 of the way through first season of Arrow. It’s very uneven. Every time it builds up a good thing and starts getting great it drops into stupidity and pointlessness again. There’s more good than bad though. Just the bad is spaced through enough to make it feel a bit disjointed.
I’m enjoying it enough to stick with it. Deathstroke’s character is a badass.
I really wanted to like Arrow and SHIELD but I just can’t seem to get into either of those shows =\ I think Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead have spoilt me….
The way you described the plotline so far is how I felt for the first six episodes for Arrow (as much as I could stomach), it kept showing promise and then it somehow wiped it away.
Completely missed the first episode of Agents Of SHIELD, so I’m waiting for the DVD/Blu-Ray release, also been meaning to grab Arrow Season 1, but haven’t got around to it, it’s been described to me by a co-worker as “one of those shows that’s so bad it’s good.”
I think it’s legitimately good for what it sets out to do- tell pulpy comic book stories with pretty people.
SHIELD… SHIELD does improve, but the curve is a lot slower and it has further to go. They really needed a certain tie-in to Captain America: The Winter Soldier to go off about 4 eps earlier.
It has tightened up, so I want to see where they take it in S2.
Very well I shall try out SHIELD again next season =p
SHIELD’s great. It’s slow to start off, but that’s because they’re giving you a backstory and a chance to know all the characters, which makes the show all that much better when it starts to take off (around the Winter Soldier tie-in).
Only problem is that it kept getting delayed in Australia first because of the tennis, and second because of the Winter Soldier showing way later over here.
@evilmonkey as well, I guess?
I gave up about six episodes in originally but Red started posting stuff about it on Twitter that piqued my interest again and it really is that old cliche of it gets better.
A badass Australian secret intelligence agent! (even though the actor is a Kiwi)
How awesome is Felicity?
Awesome? Yes.
Under-utilised? Also yes.
Also :-
http://www.pcgamer.com/au/2014/06/03/wildstar-review-in-progress/
On the off chance it convinces some of you TAY’s to join in =p
I will, if you buy me a new PC :p
It’s not so much that I don’t like the game, it’s more that I can’t justify spending $60ish + sub fee.
The adventures of Hugo the Hungarian Barbarian Pirate.
After watching two ships duke it out, I decided to do the honourable thing and board the loser.
Wanting to make a dashing Errol Flynn like entrance, I wanted to cross to the other ship by swinging on a rope.
I misjudged the distance and fell into the ocean.
The adventures of Hugo the Hungarian Barbarian Survivor in The Forrest.
Having setup camp for the night I decided to chase after a rabbit for dinner.
Having been outwitted by the wascally wabbit, I looked up to find a group of half naked people.
This was either going to end very well or very badly.
It didn’t end well.
The adventures of Hugo the Hungarian Barbarian Cowboy.
Having just woken up, I decided to do a little hunting and flower picking.
Five seconds later I was eaten by a Cougar.
… If/when they are releasing multiplayer for the Forest, i’m pretty sure we should team up… We can do very badly, together \o/
Wooo, running around together in a panic \o/
If you can catch butterflies like in Skyrim (SKYRIM!) then i know what i’m doing for the first 5 hours
You can run around catching sparrows type thingies, they’re kinda like feathered butterflies!
Oh and SKYRIM!
Wow, I can’t believe I went a couple of posts without having done that… weird.
I know, i was getting concerned for a while 😛
And bird catching hey? this game just jumped to the top of my wish list now 😛
Well more like bird slaughtering and feather catching, still SKYRIM! had you tearing the wings off butterflies, so I still count it as similar 😛
Bird Slaughter, Butterfly catching… all done with a Club right? so it’s the same thing!
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Well one of the first things I did once a got my hands on a big stick was to chase after some birds, so yes you’re right, it is the same thing 🙂
@hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian
You and me, we will get along famously! 😛
Survival rate probably won’t be too high, but WHO CARES?
We’ll bonk stuff over the top of their heads while belching out POTF
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
The true way to play the game 🙂
Besides, survival is highly overrated 😛
As I recall it, they’ve said multiplayer is definitely on the list for the forest, it’s one of the reasons the game is still on my radar.
Oooo I’ve just realised Wasteland 2’s out in a couple of months. The only game so far I’ve crowdfunded. Still need to put money down for Star Citizen. $45 million is their next target now. Not too bad. Might put that down today
Woooo. Star Citizen. Keep an eye out on that Alpha
dogfighting moduleArena Commander which should be out any day now.Yeah hopefully they’ll sort out the last major bugs and get it out in the next week or 3, I’ve been looking forward to blowing my mates up and if I can do it in a game instead it’ll result in fewer legal complications
Today’s daily update is quite delayed. Makes me wonder if it’s a “HERE IT IS!” kind of update which is waiting for the servers to spool up with the correct version etc. Otherwise they’d have had the update / words out hours ago.
IT’S OUT!!!
Word is there’s multiplayer for some people but I don’t know how to tell if you have access to it, I assume it’s probably a higher level backer reward or something
Nah, it goes by backer number. So, for example, if they did the first 50000 then I’d just miss out since I’m backer 58740. No idea what numbers are currently active for multiplayer though.
Where does it show your backer number?
Click your alias in the My RSI menu when logged in. It’ll take you to your dossier.
Alternatively replace my alias with yours.
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/citizens/B-ob
@beeawwb
Ahh must be about the only page I didn’t open, #39378 for me.
Nice! I’m personally a contradiction. I backed on Oct 19th 2012, but I didn’t register on the RSI site until Nov 15th. So my citizen number is based on the Nov 15th date, not my backing date. I wonder if that’ll make a difference for multiplayer actually (my backer date has been set by the RSI support staff)
I’ve been playing around with the bloodline editor for Massive Chalice.
Still haven’t got the offical email but the demo editor is fun. Think that is likely the next crowdfunded game release for me, although it sounds like road redemption is getting close as well.
Really really looking forward to that game!
Me too.
Haven’t really watched many of the team stream or delved into the forums. I’m just waiting until it is done and then will play it and hope it is good
@sughly and I caught up on all the TeamStreams recently. Really interesting stuff in the early-mid ones 😀
Anthony (the producer) sent out a tweet earlier saying that all Bloodline Backers should’ve received their codes by now and if you haven’t you should email support. Hopefully that helps!
Ahhhh thanks for the heads up. Was junk mailed
#Helpius
FYI for @beavwa @negativeZero
No email since May 30, no junk. Guess I’m going to have to chase this one up.
Just in case it was a different email address and subject to normal
Subject: Kickstarter Reward: MASSIVE CHALICE Bloodline Editor Code
From noreply@doublefine.com
Submissions need to be in by the 31st July
Glad to see I’m not the only one who hasn’t played The Witcher 2
http://www.avclub.com/article/president-obama-informs-poland-he-bad-polands-vide-205343?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default
Seems an excellent game, though. I played for about half hour earlier this year and it was all kinds of fun. But too much reading for a guy with no glasses so I put it off. :'(
It’s more that my old comp couldn’t run it.
I got it in my drawer, I really should make a start on it…
I played it very briefly, but couldn’t get past the difficult 360 controls. I think someone on TAY ended up with my copy.
It’s not the controls, it’s the insane difficulty. The game starts out crazily hard and gets progressively easier.
Because of stuff, today is the only day I get off for the exam break. I shall spend it by playing Timeshift. I have been eyeing this game for about three years, and I picked it up in a sale last month. So I may as well play it.
Gamespy Comrade? Jeez, it’s making me install all this DRM stuff.
And the DRM is made by IGN I think?
Gamespy? isn’t that closed down?
That’s what confused me about all this.
Whoa, this game has an impressive options menu. Nice.
However, Comrade wants me to set up an account with them. I assume it’s for multiplayer? Considering that this game’s multiplayer is dead, I don’t see why I’d do that.
So is Tay Kart on again tonight?
I huuuuuugely enjoyed myself, once i figured out how to join the damned Tournament XD
‘Twas fun, i actually even won a race \o/
suspect that was a complete fluke, but i won! 😛
Everybody else disconnected. Doesn’t matter, still won 😀
sssshhh don’t tell them that XD
The tournament is set up for every night, so you can play whenever! I suspect they’ll be at least a few people playing every night for a little while yet.
Once the hype starts to cool down I might set the Tournament to once a week so that we can concentrate the numbers a bit.
As somebody who sucks at fighting games, isn’t interested in training with characters to be able to enjoy the game, is it worth getting either Injustice or Mortal combat.
I enjoy fighting games at times I’m just not good at them. I haven’t bought one in many many a year so wondering if they are enjoyable for a casual player?
Pro and cons of each game based on that
Are you looking for a single player fix or multiplayer?
It’s going to be more of a single player I think. Would jump in if a taybie want a game (and easy victory) but not planning on playing a lot of online multi
Injustice like everyone else has said. It’s also a solid drinking game if youve got friends over =D
Well, Injustice is cheap on PSN atm.
Both are on sale on steam as their midweek promo which is the reason for the question
I would consider getting Injustice on Steam if i had a disposable income XD…
And if I didn’t already have it on Xbox
Injustice is far more casual friendly. MK9 can get a bit obtuse at times with how everything works whereas a lot of Injustice is 1-3 button combos.
To be fair though you see a lot of the MK movesets in Injustice as well, but it’s a much more polished game.
Injustice for sure. I’m a very casual player of fighting games, and I was able to pick it up quite quickly. The campaign lets you play as a bunch of characters, so you can decide on a fave (mine is Nightwing). Some of the mechanics elude me, but you can get by on heavy attacks and light attacks.
AQUAMAN XD
but yes, Nightwing is pretty rad…
…
DIPS!
Come on guys, we could use whales! WHAAAAAAALES!
I literally watched that last night. Bravo!
No 😛 needed. They did the impossible and made Aquaman a legit badass.
I know right? it wasn’t just me? he was actually… not useless!
I’m the same as you, despite owning a fair amount of Tekken games etc.etc.
I would suspect that Injustice is probably the better choice… It is one of the most accessable fightings games i’ve played, and it’s very easy to pick up and play…
but how will he remove spines, heads, organs etc from his foes if he gets Injustice?
(I’m hugely biased towards MK, but I love me some gore, first time I played the new MK I was like a kid, giggling and yelling out in celebration)
… DOWN, FORWARD, X, BANG!… @rize, @tech_knight
Haven’t played either of those games in ages, but from memory, Injustice is more polished. Both have challenge modes that can be sooo frustrating, but it’s cool to be able to play as some of your favourite heroes and villains.
Think I know what I’ll be playing this weekend now, anyone else got Injustice on 360?
I do! but i don’t have Live Gold 😛
I’ve got two 2 day codes, thought one of them was two months, but went searching for them and found that was not the case, if you want them they’re yours.
I’ll see what i’m up to this weekend as i am still not sure, but it’s definitely a possibility 😀
Haha! I thought about posting this exact same thing earlier, so I’ll keep my eye on the responses 🙂
Well I just bought injustice as that seemed to be the more casual game of the 2. I’ll blame TAY as not one person suggested that I save my money and purchase neither game.
Damnit Tigs! I guess I just bought it too…
On the plus side you now have a way to beat me up for forcing you to buy it
FWIW I’m in pretty much the same boat as you, and I absolutely loved what I played of MK9 at a friend’s place. Did a bit of the single player which was really really cool and managed to kick arse at it despite it constantly switching characters, and even got to the point where I was pummeling him too.
I also think Injustice is really cool, and am pissed that the Complete version or whatever they call it isn’t on Wii U.
Skullgirls!
But between MK9 and Injustice, reviews claim that MK9 is a better game with more content and a longer campaign. I know that MK9 had a better a PC port than Injustice, if that’s the platform you want.
@Freezespreston @dc @ Other Wolf Among Us Players
CHAPTER 4 Choices
Qvqa’g fraq Pbyva gb gur Snez
Qvq abg gel gb erzbir gur evooba (cvpxrq GUNG sebz gur snvel gnyr va rcvfbqr bar)
Jrag gb gur Phg Nobir svefg
Qrpvqrq abg gb fraq Gbnq gb gur snez
Erfcbaqrq gb gur Pebbxrq Zna ol yvtugvat n pvtnerggr
Tbbq Puncgre.
Qvqa’g fraq Pbyva gb gur Snez.
Qvq abg gel gb erzbir gur evooba.
Jrag gb gur Phg Nobir svefg.
Frag Gbnq gb gur snez.
Yvg n pvtnerggr.
Ohg Gbnq jnf whfg gelvat gb qb evtug ol uvf snzvyl! Lbh zbafgre!
Va sbhe rcf V’ir arire frra Gbnq hfr gur tynzbhe. Rire.
Nyfb, gbgnyyl qvqa’g fgrny zbarl sebz pbng juvpu V jbhyq’ir tvira gb Gbnq vs V qvq. KQ
Gbnq qbrfa’g hfr n tynzbhe orpnhfr ur pna’g nssbeq bar, gung fuvg nvag purnc
Lrnu, jryy V nppvqragnyyl frag uvz gb gur snez vs lbh jnag zr gb or ubarfg. V fnvq Vg’f abg sberire naq qvqa’g ernyvmr gung jbhyq fraq uvz gurer. :Q
STOP JUDGING ME! 😛
MONSTER
Actually, the farm is in one of the early arcs of the comic. (general tone spoiler, not actual plot spoilers)
Onfvpnyyl gurl erunfu Navzny Snez. Qbrfa’g raq jryy sbe fbzr punenpgref
Bu. Q:
V qvq abg xabj gung. V gubhtug vg jnf whfg n qvfperrg frggyrzrag njnl sebz crbcyr.
Seems I am an accidental monster then. 😛
@dc Vg bayl tbrf fbhgu va gur pbzvp- hagvy gura vg’q orra eha ol n uhzna snoyr (Jrlynaq Fzvgu)va eryngvir crnpr. Onfvpnyyl gur bgure gjb cvtf gung nera’g Pbyva, onpxrq ol Tbyqvybpxf, trg nyy eribyhgvbanel.
Dammit! I’m trying so hard not to play it until all the episodes are out, because I know it’s gonna leave me hanging.
Edit: also, in case you guys don’t know, apparently they’re gonna be releasing this, as well as The Walking Dead Season 2 on disc for PS3, PS4, XBox360 and Xbone. Apparently there’s also a disc version of TWD season 1 coming to PS4 and Xbone.
Wolf Among Us Episode 4 spoilers
Qvqa’g fraq Pbyva
Gevrq gb erzbir gur evooba (V xarj vg jbhyqa’g qb nalguvat tbbq, ohg V fgvyy jnagrq gb frr jung jbhyq unccra naljnl :C – qvqa’g rira pbaarpg gur qbgf hagvy abj gung erzbivat gur evooba pubcf gurve urnqf bss! Xvaqn whfg svtherq gung jnf fbzr trarevp zheqre guvat)
Jrag gb gur Cnja Fubc svefg
Qvqa’g fraq Gbnq gb gur snez (naq tnir uvz gur zbarl V sbhaq va gur wnpxrg)
V pubfr ‘Yrgf Gnyx’ be fbzrguvat, ohg nyy bcgvbaf sbe guvf yrnq gb yvtugvat n pvtnerggr naljnl.
V jbhyq’ir qvfphffrq guvf rneyvre ohg vg sryg yvxr n ovg bs n frghc rcvfbqr yrnqvat hc gur svany. Abg zl snibhevgr. Ubcr gur svany vf tbbq!
My glasses are ready to pick up. Wooo! Will get them tomorrow and Murdered: Soul Suspect at the same time and celebrate by playing Murdered: Soul Suspect in HD. (I keep writing Murdered: Two Souls… my fingers are mentally conditioned after Beyond: Two Souls to follow a “:” with Two Souls. Souls.)
Let me know how Soul Suspect is, so far the reviews haven’t been too favorable =\
Wasted potential seems to be the key phrase.
Isn’t Beyond: Murdered Dark Soul Sacrifice Suspect out on Friday? It’s what ozgameshop are telling me anyway.
Everywhere else is saying 5th which is in line with usual Thursday release schedule.
Oh well, shall just have to keep checking my email for a code then. It’ll arrive when it arrives I guess, the price you pay for it only costing 30 bucks…
Dark Souls 2, Beyond: Two Souls, Murdered: Soul Suspect. So many soul games!
I feel like our posts are best pals! 😀
Haha, it was a reply fail. Although it does kind of stand on it’s own.
Oh, I thought it was one of those awesomely weird occurrences that often happens with Shane and me where we post similar things at the same time. XD
You could say they’re… soul mates.
My first reply fail in a while.
I just want to thank the academy, and my family who helped me through this whole thing.
SOUL CALIBUR
Because that’s their target!
C&C: Sole Survivor!
No?
Okay…
SURVIVOR!? WHERE!
SOUL SACRIFICE
Damn! Doc Neeson died. In case you aren’t aware, he was the lead singer of The Angels, one of Australia’s best ever bands. I remember seeing him at Launceston Airport a few years ago, one of my few brushes with fame.
So we’re never gonna see his face again?
Apparently not. 🙁
No way, get f*cked – f*ck off!
*sheds a tear*
Nope, he finally got out of this place. 🙁
Last night I decided to start watching DBZ abridged again from the beginning while awaiting the new episode. Oh man I forgot how many good jokes they had.
Fbyvq Fanxr nf Cevaprff Fanxr, fb tbbq.
Yeah that was pretty funny.
Ohg abguvat pbzcnerf gb jung gurl qvq jvgu Ze Cbcb 🙂
Ze Cbcb orvat gur hygvzngr onqnff vf uvynevbhf!
“Nyy gurfr fdhnerf znxr n pvepyr! Nyy gurfr fdhnerf znxr n pvepyr! Nyy gurfr fdhnerf znxr n pvepyr!”
“Nyevtug lbh yvggyr znttbgf, yvfgra hc! Cbcb’f nobhg gb tvir lbh gur Crpxvat Beqre. Vg tbrf lbh, gur qveg, gur jbezf vafvqr bs gur qveg, Cbcb’f fgbby, Xnzr.. naq Cbcb. Nal dhrfgvbaf?”
“Hu… jryy V”
*FZNPX*
“NEEEEEEEEEEEEEETU”
“Rawbl gur pyvzo onpx hc, OVGPU!”
“Wlak Wlak!”
“Fuhg hc ovgpu! lbh ybir vg!”
“V cercnerq guvf jvgu zl oner unaqf, rira gur ORNE unaqf… VG’F N CHA!”
“Bu zl guvf zbhagnva vf fb uvtu”
*Va gur qvfgnapr* “PYVZO QBJA!”
“Ubj nz V fhccbfrq gb trg qbja sebz urer?”
*Va gur qvfgnapr* “PYVZO QBJA!”
“Qbbbbbbbbbbbbbqtr!”
CLOTHES BEAM!
You can skip the first 10 episodes and just watch Dragonball Z Kai Abridged instead XD
“V nz uvynevbhf naq lbh jvyy dhbgr rirelguvat gung v fnl”
I think The Forest may well become my new obsession.
Even in its half finished state, the game is just so damn addictive.
The whole survival/horror thing they have going is awesome.
Now I just have to remember to look for food… for that whole survival part of the game thing…
It’s on my ever increasing Wish List 😛 i’ll get it one day… does look pretty damned amazing
I liked the bit where you said ‘addictive’ and not ‘addicting’.
Is anyone else’s profile page all broken to crap again?
yep, has been for about 2 days for me.
Mine came good yesterday briefly, but it’s back to dodge.
So if anyone is interested (I feel like an echo) I just got my Wildstar guest codes if anyone wants to try the game out!
Guest codes, hey. That might be enough to interest me in trying it out. But I’ve never played an MMO. I’ve always been very anti-“OtherPeople” in my games.
Let me know and I’ll e-mail them to you or something?
Hit “Robs ginger snaps” (but as all one word) at that googley mail. 🙂
Just sent it (assuming I got the e-mail right!) let me know if you’ve got it! @beeawwb
Yep, that came through. I’ll be home on my normal PC on Friday, will let you know how it goes. 🙂
And, thank you!
nps! I’ll be on Friday night most prob with a couple of drinks by my side =p
So now that’s over 1970 lives spent on Champion Road… >_>
The end’s in sight though! That shockwave-filled running pad area is the worst deathtrap. Also not sure what’s the best pattern of approach for it to collect all the keys.
…. I’d like to see your lives spent overall, that sounds crazy, was that in 3d World did you say?
Yeah, the final level. I think I only had something like 147 when I last fired it up, though I can’t remember how far from the end I was when that happened. Might have had the last three Flower levels to go, including that stupid boss one that killed me a lot. So say somewhere around 200.
I’m sorta kinda trying to speedrun this final level though, because it has a really cool flow to it and I can’t leave it alone. It’s friggen hard though, especially with no powerups to help correct your jumps and stuff.
Why do I have the song from City Hunter stuck in my head, not that it’s a bad thing, in fact images of Jackie Chan dressed as Chun Li & E. Honda going through my head are amusing me a lot., I think I might watch that tonight, it’s been a while 😀
Hmm trying to find the name I discovered there is a South Korean series “City Hunter” came out in 2011
First impressions of the Wii U and MK 8.
So far the Wii U is a very impressive piece of hardware 🙂
I definitely should have picked one up sooner, but I am glad I got around to finally getting one. I haven’t had much time with it, and am still offline, so haven’t explored it fully, but so far I am very happy with it. It seems a lot more “console-y” then the PS4 I think, which is a good thing.
The only thing that I’m still getting used to is the game pad, which is quite cumbersome :\
I’d imagine it would be quite difficult to use if you had smaller hands :S
Luckily I have big hands though 😀
Mario Kart 8 is also very fun so far 😀
I’ve only run through the first 3 Grand Prix’s on 50cc, but I’m really enjoying it so far 🙂
It’s a lot prettier than I thought it would be too, and it so far seems like a very polished game.
The baby characters freak me out a bit though to be honest, haha! :S
Waluigi is a speed demon 😉
When I’m online again (hopefully Friday), I’d love to play with you guys who are playing, after I’ve practised a bit more of course, and if I’m invited / allowed to? :S
I’m really looking forward to trying out Monster Hunter :3
It’s always intrigued me, but I’ve never played one :O
Anyway, I’d highly recommend picking up a Wii U if you haven’t already. It’s a very good games console, and is definitely “next gen” 🙂
You’re only allowed to join if you don’t beat me. That’s the rule.
(The tournament details are on the Servers page of TAYNAMES!)
I’ll do my best, haha!
If my WA internet slows you guys down (cause you’re all relatively close), just let me know and I’ll jump off 🙂
I’m no authority on things but I’m sure you’re more than welcome to join any of the Karting sessions, the more the merrier. Also glad you’re liking your Wii U, I got mine last week, totally worth it. Don’t forget to claim your free game too.
I don’t like interjecting myself into other people’s fun without knowing that it’s okay, haha! I’ve gotta ask permission if I can join in first rather than just assume I can :3
I don’t like to be rude (even if it isn’t), haha 😀
So far it’s great! The only thing that is kinda pissing me off is that I don’t think I can change my Mii’s pants colour >:S
Those pants don’t go with my Mii, at all >:(
maybe I should have asked before I joined * shrugs* it’s TAY Kart and you’re a TAYbie, I think you have an open invitation to TAY related things (again though, I’m no authority on stuff, I just kinda assume things, for all I know people are like “f$*% off gutsoup get outta my business” but are too polite to say anything).
I’m still hesitant about considering myself a TAYbie, to be honest :S
I don’t exactly interact with others heaps (never met anyone, never played a game with anyone, hardly have actual discussions with people, etc.).
Also I never asked permission from anyone if I could be a TAYbie, and like I said, I don’t like to assume things, haha! :3
Probably doubly why I feel the need to ask permission first to make sure rather than just assume 😀
It’s because you didn’t get The Oar.
That must’ve been a clerical oversight 😛
I kinda snuck in under the radar ;D
pssst, *whispers* neither did i, please don’t tell @harli
Ahem. 🙂
The Oar of Thorns!
Forged at the exact point of Magnetic North, by orphaned Eskimo daemons! It’s shaft; fashioned from the bones of a white orca! It’s spike-d paddle; crafted from the mystic metals of an ancient meteorite!
To paddle a kayak with the sacred Oar, is to travel across seas at ungodly speeds, unfathomable by common man!
A buttocks, when struck by The Oar of Thorns, is said to erupt with blue flame! Bleed for eight years! Disrupt electrical signals and attract small metal objects, such as paperclips and safety-pins!
Those who handle The Oar are forever changed! Their tormented minds; scarred by the horrors they have known! Horrors that go untold for eternity! For a mere mumbling of such dreadful tales explodes the minds of those who hear them!
Beware The Oar of Thorns!
THE GODS, THEMSELVES, FEAR IT!
Some say The Oar of Thorns was delivered to the offices of NineMSN, without any accompanying letter or return address. The bomb squad was called.
Everyone died.
f$*% off gutsoup get outta my business
@liondrive
SEE!!! you’re right, ask permission or suffer the wrath of Pow 😛
(just to be clear, I am joking :P)
yeah that’s why i stuck a 😛 on the there
Yes. Yeeeeeeeeeeees *tents fingers*
Monster Hunter starts slow and has some very padded tutorials, then it ramps up pretty fast. One of the good things about this Ultimate version is that you start with one of each weapon type, so don’t be afraid to try them all out before you settle on what you’ll mainly use.
I’m tempted to try it but I think I’ll love it and vanish for a while.
Hold out for Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate! Of course there’s nothing stopping you from trying out the Wii U one (MH3U) but part of what kept me playing it was having everyone else playing it too. So it’ll be much easier to keep motivated when MH4U has that launch hype and activity!
Yeah. I might just do that, I have the biggest backlog of games to get through that I ever have before, I shouldn’t be looking to add to it.
YES! Monster Hunter :D!
+1 awesome point for you.
YAY! 😀
I’m really hoping that I’ll enjoy it 🙂
It looks like my kind of game 🙂
I’ve been thinking about getting my Monster Hunter on again… Considering i’ve put 35 hours into it, but haven’t even touched the multiplayer portion of it at all, i’d be keen to team up if you are 😀
Yesssss, multi hunt.
I’ve got about 220 hours logged now, the missus started playing recently so she’s about 15 hours in. I’ve been jumping on with the 3DS for a bit of local multi with the Wii U so we can bump up her HR or do a bit of farming on things she’s taken down in single player. Good fun.
Watching me derp around online with the multi was what finally convinced her to give it another go.
Baby Luigi all the way! Creepiest kid on the block!
I don’t understand the baby characters!
They’re not cute, they’re just creepy as f***!!!
Yep, nothing like being sniped by a creepy one toothed baby with a green hat! XD
(Mario and Luigi Partners in Time, i think is where they made their actual appearance)
Picked up a Wii U on the weekend as well, and perhaps the greatest find i had was the virtual console part of it. I didn’t have a wii, so I know I am a bit behind on this, but the fact that I can buy the Snes version of Harvest Moon and play it sitting on my couch is awesome. That in itself has justified the Wii U’s purchase.
So I decided to register a bunch of stuff on Club Nintendo, I haven’t in ages, got like 3400 points now, has anyone redeemed points for things? I’m trying to decide what to get, tempted by the Mario/ Luigi hat 3ds cases and maybe the Mario Themed playing cards, has anyone got them and think they’re crap for any reason?
Save them, man. Occasionally there’s cool stuff like Luigi statues.
oh cool, do you know how long they last before expiring? I had a bunch from years ago that seem to have disappeared now.
I *think* it used to only be one year, but now it’s three? And the PINs themselves expire five years after the release date of the game, so you have to register within that timeframe.
So my Mario Kart Wii codes have well expired now 😛
Don’t you DARE buy anything off the regular menu!
Wait for the limited edition stuff!
I didn’t know there was limited stuff, how often do they have those?
There’s no set time frame, just whenever they pop up. Sometimes coincide with big game releases. Things like Pikmin bags, Luigi’s Mansion statues, Mario Kart 7 Grand Prix trophies, gold nunchuk for Zelda Skyward Sword, etc.
gold nunchuck, I need one of them to go with the Wiimote
We spent 3200 points on 4 folder sets.
So far I’ve got the game & watch collection vol 1, and the super mario 3d world CD soundtrack.
I gave all my points to @sughly to the point he said no more as he has enough points to buy everything.
good man,
Between your points and mine, not only could I order the 5000 point Luigi statue, but I have a remaining 6500 (and counting, what with my dutiful Ninty collecting)
I’m sure me and others would be happy to take em ;D
Urgh, Greedius
Of course!
I have the Skyward Sword poster set and the Super Mario 3D World soundtrack.
All of these things sound better than what’s on there at the moment, definitely gonna hold out. Glad I asked the question 😀
A *checks calendar* Wednesday arvo game:
The Pseudoscience SciFi Faux Technology game.
*puts submission hat on* In the future technology has harnessed the power of potential energy and engines are now powered by lumps of lead.
http://tomorrowsdispatches.tumblr.com/
Gestalt intelligence wins dance performance award
KOLKATA, INDIAN FREE ZONE: the gestalt dance group known as the Ravana collective has won the prestigious National Dance award for their performance of a modern piece.
The group, consisting of ten members sharing a group mind, were formed three years ago by the uplift of the final three intelligences. Ravana quickly rose to prominence in India’s contemporary dance scene, leading to their current award. Critics have been divided, however, over whether a gestalt intelligence should be eligible for choreography awards given they share one intelligence, instead arguing that they should be considered in solo performance categories.
The performance, based on West Bengal history and titled Siraj, has been previously awarded for its performance from the Indian Telegraph and has toured major international festivals including the Adelaide Arts Festival and the Cape Town Bienniale.
Accepting the award at the ceremony on Sunday, Gestalt spokesbody Ravana-8 thanked the audience for their patronage
“as an entity devoted to artistic endeavours we thank you for your patronage and support”
“As this entity continues to evolve and optimise I look forward to bringing you many more performances”
Ravana’s current tour will finish August 8th.
So would the tour bus be an orgy or masturbation?
What the shit is going on with Harvest Moon?
So Natsume used to handle it in the US, despite it being developed by Marvelous AQL. The most recent game in the series was released in Japan on 3DS in February. MAQL also would publish in Europe but using Natsume’s translations, so it was a bit weird to begin with.
Last week, XSEED (who are owned by Marvelous AQL and are basically their western localization group) announced they’re translating that Harvest Moon game. But Natsume still owns the Harvest Moon name, so they’ve changed the title for the US release.
Now I’m seeing that Natsume are also releasing a Harvest Moon game on 3DS but it’s a different thing, some kind of port of a smartphone game or something? So they are still handling Harvest Moon?
THIS SITUATION IS SO CONFUSING.
My Diablo 3 disc doesn’t even work. The 360 just cannot read it, and asks me politely to open the tray whenever it’s done failing.
I was probably going to get a refund anyway, but it would have been nice to try the game first 😛
Have you tried turning if off and on again?
Had that issue with my Xbone the other day, turned it off, pulled out the power cord, plugged it back in, and it worked.
So, what you’re saying it, you turned it off and on again?
Not merely turning it off and on, but a complete power cycle by yanking the power transportation device from the power receptacle and the rejoining it so that the happy little electricity can run from the power grid into the device…
…
okay yes, he turned it off and on again
Ah, the old unexpected reboot solution.
Well you don’t want to end up in the middle of invalid memory…
… hello?
Anyone played Wildstar?
I want to but don’t know if I can justify the initial purchase + sub for an unproven MMO…
Talk to @pupp3tmast3r 🙂
Meeeeee but I’m not ready to make a verdict on the game yet. I believe MMO’s are defined by their end-game content as opposed to the journey. That said I’m level 15 in Wildstar and enjoying it quite a bit so far =] Probably try and get a lot more levelling done this Friday and Sat morning.
I can give you a guest code if you’re interested?
I wouldn’t be opposed to said guest pass…
Anywhere I can post the details? @cakesmith
Alternatively I can post it here as well if you want!
a_sharples at the hot males should work
Just sent it through cake, let me know if you get it =]
Got it.
thank you sir.
Hellscream is, but I can’t remember his tag.
Woohoo, Eagles tickets GET. *anxiously starts counting down to concert*
Went looking for this clip a second after my post
& @freezespreston – I was waiting for it. 😉
I hate the fucking Eagles, man.
Don’t get anxious. Take it easy.
One of these nights!
Didn’t they have a farewell tour a few years back? I don’t mind a few of their songs but the rest are a bit too ‘country’ for me.
Nah, not farewell. There was the “Hell Freezes Over” reuniting tour, and then about 4 years ago they came to Australia doing what was probably a similar setlist (3 hour solo show) as this one is going to be.
Doesn’t matter to me if it’s exactly the same setlist, I had a blast at the last show and can’t wait to see them again.
Holy crap on a cracker, I just realised that when they last came (The Long Road Out of Eden Tour) it was Dec 2010. Seems like it was so much more recent. Wow.
Great, so Squenix US just released $30 worth of extra story DLC for Drakengard 3 (story DLC that was free for the first month in Japan 🙁 ) and yet the EU version still doesn’t even have the patch that makes the existing JP voice DLC work, 3 weeks after the game released.
Squenix appears to hate Europe with a fury that rivals late-90s/early-00s Namco.
At least the newly announced Theatrhythm stuff isn’t that appealing 😛
4 hour trip to sit in the car for 5 minutes and being told to go home.
in other news
@negativezero @saturday
I’m really liking “No game No life.”
Super pretty and very clever. The weird nudity stuff isn’t great but its the only flaw in a really great anime.
I really like it as well. Really fun show.
Also anything where beating someone at a game by being better at science knowledge gets a thumbs up in my book.
I would swear shows derived from Light Novels are more perverted than their non-converted counterparts.
And yeah, it’s a good ride. The color palette doesn’t sit that well with me but otherwise a nice watch.
Best infographic ever.
http://9gag.com/gag/ay5KnPM?ref=mobile.s.cp
BURN IT.
The daddy longlegs hanging out in my bathroom disappeared a couple of weeks ago. His buddy was still hanging around and relocated to the ceiling, but now he’s missing too 🙁
Maybe I didn’t feed them enough.
Dear TAY,
I hope this day finds you well?
Lately I’ve been feeling this horrible panicky feeling rising to the surface with every waking hour of the day. I don’t like it. I feel like I need to vent but can’t find the appropriate outlet. I don’t want to be all emo on twitter. I don’t want to be all emo on TAY. I don’t want to burden my friends with my problems. I feel like I need to vent in the truest sense though. It’s hard to describe but it feels like the anxiety is building and something has gotta give real soon.
Also, how fun is Mario Kart? I’m really enjoying it!
Your pal,
D.C.
You can shoot me an email anytime. Or, you’ve got my number if you prefer to phoneconversate. We’re not really friends when we’re more than 200km distant, so it’s okay.
Me too! I give great advice as well! (jokes aside though I’m here for a talk whenever you need man)
You guys have been there for me through the crap I was going through as well!
Dear DC,
You know i had the same talk with my lady friend the other day. I told her
“I don’t want to dump all my problems on you, you have your own life and issues you have to work on and i dont want you worrying about me too”
she said what i will say to you
You aren’t dumping or being depressing, i want to know. How else can we work on it.
I want to know your problems man, we are friends, i care about you and dont want you to feel shitty. How can we work on it if we dont know???
I love you man.
hugasauraus
🙂
A+ Would advise again.
You’re new lady friend sounds like the tits, and not just a pair of them. Glad it’s working out for you rocket-buddy.
If you need to talk, about anything, you can twitter me, or I can give you my email / number if you want (no character limits)?
It might be easier to vent to someone you’ve never technically met before.
Also, all your friends are here for you 🙂
If you need to vent, then vent. It’s healthier to vent rather than let it all build up to the inevitable breaking point.
I hope you feel better soon man. You’re a great guy, and deserve to be happy 🙂
It’s cos you shaved your head isn’t it?!?!
His hair was the source of his power. Or the kryptonite that stopped his emo powers from emerging.
Doesn’t matter, the important thing is that DC clearly needs to have a great big bushy head of hair.
Like Samson and Delilah?
*hugs* if you wanna vent, vent. We’re here for ya man.
Come round, we’ll watch Gattaca.
Dude, twatter- email- Skype- Steam- Miiverse message- me if you feel the need to talk… the worst part is feeling you don’t have anyone to talk to… I consider you a friend, and i hope you consider me one as well :)… Of course there’s no pressure and if you don’t feel we’re close enough for that i understand, but the offer is there!
EDIT – I’ll have some bloody rye if you want me to as well XD
Also a chirpy song to get your spirits up – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-M1AtrxztU
Recently, a good friend told me, “You are not your mind”. It might sound a bit silly, but now when I think negatively I try to separate who I am from that thought.
I’ll probably wind up with a split personality, but at least one of me will be happy 😀
P.S. Despite loving the beginning of TLJ I haven’t played it since we last spoke of it /o\ I’ve been distracted by Vampire the Masquerade and tablet games. I plan on venturing to Venice this weekend though ^^
Needing to vent in the truest sense would imply one is feeling gassy.
This fuckin’ guy.
I’m here to help.
I posted on Twitter asking people if they wanted more Shameless Gaming stuff this year. People said yes so … shit.
Does anyone have any ideas for content aside from me just playing games and writing a thousand word blog post every week about it? Because to be honest, that’s pretty dull stuff. A games club where people all play a certain game and discuss it in chunks (one quarter of the game per week probably)? I don’t know. Just something co-operative, not competitive.
If its not competitive sure.
Im sure i can find a way to lose to @blaghman at it.
I don’t know about that. Every year, he just splurges on the Steam sales and doesn’t play anything during July.
Maybe you could shift focus a little bit. I personally vote to see a weekly focus on a single game, and what you learned from it that you totally weren’t expecting (perhaps a personal lesson, or something broader). Put a more human face on the pineapple of shame!
That way, there’s no real pressure upon people to play a certain game that they might not own (which, if it encourages them to buy that game, kind of defeats the purpose of PoS gaming July!)
Spongebobs face.
I learned something today…
Most of my past stuff has had at least some attempt at spelling out what I got out of finishing a certain game.
Co-op D3 hardcore told each week by a different person? Or variation of something similar, maybe even DOTA after-match replay in the theme of football world cup commentator (tis topical after all).
The problem with D3 is that the campaign is the worst part and Dota doesn’t really fit into all this (although the International really is smack bang in the middle of SGM).
I guess I’m late to the party but what’s Shameless Gaming?
Spend a month making an effort to finish off the games in your pile of shame. It’s been going on for a few years now.
I’d need more than a year to even put a dent in my pile of shame…. *sigh*
Follow Serrels: Start polyphasic sleeping and finish every game in your pile within the month. Video document your descent into insanity.
Then start recording short videos of yourself humming incoherently and try to pass it off as a guessing game on a major gaming website…
Just a tip: It’s unwise to have Shameless Gaming Month the same month as the Steam Summer Sale.
That kind of just happened and then tradition or something.
Timeshift is a pretty great game. The time-travel mechanics are pretty well implemented. On normal difficulty, you have roughly the same health as your enemies. The cool thing is that using the slow-motion, time-stop, and time-reverse mechanics are required for your survival. You won’t live if you don’t use them wisely.
Sadly, the time-reverse mechanic is completely underutilised. It takes too much energy to use, to you may as well just use time-stop. The game also prevents you from using it most of the time, because time reverse causes paradoxes or something.
I both love and hate the story. You are thrusted into an alt-history setting with little context, and you have to listen to the propaganda loudspeakers to figure out where you are in the timeline. At the beginning you are transported to an area where you shoot stuff, before time-travel glitch stuff happens and you are transported to another area where you shoot stuff. When you are transported to the second area, you have no idea where you are in the timeline. In the previous area, the loudspeakers announced that all prisoners of war had been executed due to the rebels refusing to surrender. When you are transported to the second area, the loudspeakers proclaim that the evil goverment has war prisoners, and ask the rebels to stand down. It’s entirely possible that you could miss that. I think that’s pretty cool. I think I did a good job of explaining that. I think.
Voice acting horrible. I could do better. The PC port is great; the options menu is extensive and actually has tooltips explaining what the hell ansitropic filtering actually is.
I think it’s cool how your comrades have no idea that you have time-travel abilities. You can activate slow-motion, run up to an enemy, steal their weapon from them and beat them over the head with it, and your comrade will yell “Wow, you’re fast!”
Level design so far has been a mixed bag. You sometimes have awesome arenas to fight in that take full advantage of your powers, but you get forced into situations where you are backed into a corner and have to survive waves of enemies too often.
So far, I like. Oh, and you can do this in it.
Thoughts on Mario Kart 8:
Played some online with people last night, reckon I did OK for my first game. I had to double check the controls after the first match…probably should have done that first.
Ultimately: it’s Mario Kart. It’s good fun, but they certainly didn’t try to reinvent the series.
Trying to get used to the steering and sliding took a bit. It feels like it the N64 version again, which is great, but means I’m now used to the newer stuff.
ANTI-GRAV WHEELS
Oh like Crash Nitro Kart on PS2!
Edit: Well.. more using magnetic wheels 🙂
Don’t spoil it for them (was my first thought when I saw it too)
Well i don’t know the actual name they use in game, but being they work like they do, your name for them is probably more accurate 😛
http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2013/08/20/4521/
@scree can you send me an email so I can send you a picture of the quilt I looked at today.
I’m C_Svenon @ hotmail .com
I emailed you but yahoo was all like “wtf is this, it’s not a real address.”
My Mobile phone number is 0479108349. IS that easier?
I think he dun goof’d his own name 😛
EVERYONE CALL SCREE!
Do and I will swear at you.
Greenius is right I spell my name wrong. Svenson. But I can try text. (Email prolly best)
Sent an email!
Got email! Did you get mine?
Yup, replied!
Seeing all these comments about Mario Kart is making me wish Sony would bring back Crash Team Racing!
Seeing all these comments about Mario Kart is making me wish i was at home to play Mario Kart 😛
Seeeing all these comments about Mario Kart is making me wish I had a WiiU
Seeing all these comments about Mario Kart is making me wish I could stop dying in 3D World.
I’m trying to preserve my copies of crash team racing and crash nitro kart for when I bring my girlfriend over because she decided to challenge me to that long ago and i haven’t forgotten that challenge!
Those power slides. Loved that game.
OMG Yes! Just you mentioning it brought back vivid memories of it 0,0 Hahaha I actually made the sound in my head! the screeching tires and then the sudden boom for the boost! Man its crazy what memories your childhood holds on to!
Edit: Holy crap I owe you for this one I’m actually getting back so many memories just from you saying power slide 0,0 It’s like something just clicked!
Hitting L1 and R1 to jump into a turbo boosted power slide round a corner, so good!
WOW! I was just googling stuff about CTR, then the track Tiny’s Arena came up…Tiny…Tiny…Oh that massive feline creature!
I now remember I had an AWESOME Tiny Tiger toy as a kid, massive spikes on his shoulders and a cloth tunic around his waist. Aww man, stupid teenage Riley pretending to grow up, giving all his toys away, jerk >:(
Tiny was my go to character in CTR XD
coolest guy around, just saying
Just going to leave this here…
http://us.playstation.com/games/crash-team-racing-psp-ps3.html
GAH why isn’t it on the PS4 or Vita?!
You can definitely get it on vita as well, don’t know about ps4 though.
Does it support PSOnline multi on PS3?
Doesn’t look like it 🙁
“Max online players: 0 ”
If there was I could see a Crash TAYm Racing session coming about.
That feeling when you can keep that up the entire race and even get bullseyes with bombs as you do it 🙂
This I would like. Except Activision owns the IP… Sony should buy the IP and remake the Crash games!
I think it’s on the PSN?
Did I just miss this news a few days ago?
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/leaked-star-wars-7-photos-show-millennium-falcon-in-construction-9479669.html
*GASP*
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
*thump*
EDIT – aw man, totally missed my chance to say: “SPACESHIP!”
I’m mostly excited that it looks dingy, boxy, grimy and low tech like the original series and not all shiny reflective sleekness of the prequels. I will be a happy happy man if they go for that aesthetic.
Definitely! Still reckon the most bad arse ship is the B-Wing but the Millenium Falcon (Or YT-1300 if you’re a nerd like me) comes close second
That said its J.*lens flare*ms directing so I’m not holding my breath.
PS: It’s the TIE Interceptor.
Yeeeaaah i don’t know… i didn’t hate Star Trek, but… yeeaaah…
I’m yet to see a movie of his I actually loved
EDIT – PS: i can respect that! actually any TIE craft… except for the bomber… anyone that can fly those things, going up against shielded fighters is damn hardcore and deserves respect!
V-wing!
… Which one? 😛
This one?
Or This one?
@pixel_the_ferret_viking Burnout on cannon 1!
Burnout on cannon 2!
Hold on, my blasters are still cooling!
*touches ground slightly, explodes*
@mrtaco… i love you!
@pixel_the_ferret_viking: unfortunately only one of those is canon. Guess which one. 🙁
On the upside, the official one is very clearly a precursor to the A-Wing so at least there’s some technological continuity.
I was a kick arse murdermachine in a TIE Bomber in all of the star wars sims, slow and clunky it may have been but I could make the bastard dance and blow the hell out of anything I could train lasers onto
I know this isn’t related to games but man just reading it pissed me off so much.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/06/a-bleak-look-at-the-life-of-migrant-workers-building-qatars-world-cup/
The Olympics aren’t much better and this year in Brazil for the World Cup is supposed to have a massively detrimental impact on the nations population.
Oh, @shane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiDUjIbyV_Y
I thought I’d send you a notification.
Yesssss! Much appreciated, my friend! 🙂
@crazymonkey
Whats goin’ on? Still keen??
@evilmonkey?
or @evilmonkey
Sorry man, I’ve been a bad monkey. I’m still keen, but I’ve been pretty busy at work. I’ll get the money to you tomorrow.
cooooool
@badmonkey?
@wickedmonkey?
@hurtfulmonkey?
@corruptedmonkey?
@villainousmonkey?
You forgot @colobusmonkey. 😛
Oh wow. I swear it was only a week or two ago that I was saying it was a bit over a year until the TAY invasion of Japan but there’s only 9 months now.
WHERE THE HECK DID THE LAST 3 MONTHS GO?! WHAT HAPPENED TO 2014?!
@negativezero @transientmind @jocon
I know right, when I first signed up I was all “I’m gonna learn me some Japanese for the trip!” And still have done nothing about that.
But yeah, time sure seems to be flying by faster. Must be getting old.
I figure I’ll just learn the basic phrases and questions so I can stare dumbly back when I have no idea what the answer is.
You can just Gaijin Smash everything. You’re a stupid foreigner who doesn’t understand the language or how anything works, they expect you to do crazy things and be a horrible rude sweary bastard so you can get away with just about everything that’s not illegal. 😛
Yet another reinforcement that I am a terrible person, because my first, horrific, guilty thought was, “That sounds freakin’ awesome.”
I started doing that and then failed spectacularly when I lost momentum. Again. I’ve gotten 1000-1200 characters into Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji about six times now only to falter. Upside is that I’ve actually memorized a lot of them.
Keep saying to myself that I need to find a tutor and take some private lessons or something but so hard to find time, and I live so far away from civilization right now that it’s doubly painful to try and take lessons.
Yeah, that’s the thing with anything you learn – unless you actually use it regularly you will forget asap.
Tis why they say the best way to learn a language is to live for a year in the relevant country.
I reckon I will just learn a few useful phrases rather than study the language itself.
I watch enough anime that I’m at least listening to it a fair bit. I try and read stuff sometimes too, but I simply don’t have enough basic kanji to get far enough to read anything useful yet 🙁
Dearest TAY,
My head feels like tar. Slow, unfocused, and whittling away at my life. The treacle between my ears blocks what little function I originally had. My head droops down. AND ADRENALINE KICKS IN YEAH! YEAH, YOU GO EVERYONE! SCAN THOSE FILES LIKE A- syrup. My head starts to fall again, my eyes lose focus, struggling to compare the sheet in front of me to something on screen. Finally, something pierces through the swamp of my mind.
“Sean, can I speak with you for a minute.”
“Sure,” I respond, hopping up, I stumble slightly, balance gone. Fear over what my boss might wish to say pumping through me. My eyes focus, my brain sharpens. Have I done anything recently that was bad? I don’t think so. But those words, they haunt me as I walk the eternal few metres to my boss’s room.
She turns to me.
“We got something in the mail for you from head office yesterday, so I meant to ask. Is it your birthday soon?”
My sleep deprived brain struggles for a moment, before the firmest of answers leaves my lips.
“Yes?”
So it seems that the company I work for has started sending out birthday cards. But of course, because I only had one hour of sleep last night (stayed up reading. YEAH. INTELLIGENT!), my brain failed to deal with well, working. And also being at work.
Hahaha.
I’m funny,
Blaghs.
A-
SO MUCH HAT FROM YOU POW!
Aw. I was hoping for a sordid tale of illicit affairs, confusing power struggles and fiery office politics.
I work by myself Blaghs! I need some office drama!
You really, really don’t
I’m afraid I avoid the fiery office politics like the plague that they are.
I did overhear the receptionists complaining about the casual receptionist we have. Saying he spoke too quietly on the phone, or something?
I don’t know, I think I was too busy sleeping in the corner to notice. >.>
Needs a better ending. An M. Night. Shyamalan twist, preferably.
She actually murdered Blaghs in her office because she couldn’t live with his heart belonging to another any more. Now she is taking to sending messages, tweets and forum posts to keep up the charade until he leaves leading suspicion away from the office. His heart is now in the top drawer, eternally hers.
Aside from, well, basically everything, that’s pretty spot on.
Ha ha ha.
Hey Freeze, want to come down for another Can-ber-ra Meet?
I considered it but I can’t afford the flights at the moment and I am never doing that Sydney-Canberra drive ever again.
Sydney to Canberra is only the best stretch of road in the entire country 😛
There’s no distractions like civilization, turns or even life! \o/
Is that because it is the quickest route out of Canberra?
Oh. Then I guess I’ll have to hire a hitman to kill you, rather than doing it myself.
I’ll drive. It will be the most amazing road trip. Now who else can fill out the party.
I’m not sure if I should back this
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nogoblin/men-of-game-development-2015
Does anybody know is @sughly or @lambomann007 will be featured?
Aww what… I must have missed the email. Yeah, that’s probably what happened.
…would have said yes.
Don’t worry. Eventually you’ll finish and can be featured in the 2021 edition. 😛
Let’s just make our own 😛
I am not, therefore it is not worth backing 😛
http://www.eat8bit.com.au/
This place opened up near me! I CAN’T WAIT TO GO!
I can’t even tell if it’s anything beyond food but I am jealous.
All food. Delicious food.
Next time I’m in Melbourne, I have to go to there.
AAAAAARRRGHHHH MY EYES!!!!
So it’s a Burger Joint with game related names for their food?
Yes.
I was hoping for arcade that also sells food.
Greasy controllers
Mmm… communal grease.
Burger Joint would be a good name for a burger and weed establishment.
There’s a plan for you. Don’t look for a job, make your own!
Well after a little #helpius and some junkbox diving I’m editing my offical bloodline page now
Not sure on if my submission will be accepted, My toad hall battlecry of “Poop poop!” might cause an issue
Might have to think up an alternative battlecry
I should probably watch The Princess Bride shouldn’t I?
Edit: That had to be a page get didn’t it /o\
You haven’t watched it?
http://onemansblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/inconceivable.jpg
I haven’t seen it either.
I think this just broke my brain.
Neither have I.
@shane @freezespreston you should probably fix this problem.
Nor I.
You have my copy there to watch currently I think. So you you should fix this problem at some stage
I thought this was some cheesy girls flick with Anne Hathaway but then I Googled. Hmm Cary Elwes, interesting.
Such a great film. Highly recommended. Bonus points if you get it for the missus as a “film for her” that you are willing to watch with her
I’ve seen it!
I hated it.
I hate you.
That’s the usual response.
Want me to loan you the book instead?
Well I had no idea it was the Tianimen square aniversary today. So good job Chinese government your succeeding in what your doing.
Still worse then that I’ve been driven to using Bing, as google only works 30% of the time 50% of the time.
Can you search for today’s date? If not, Tiananmen Square anniversary (A little bit over the top, but you get that with some governments).
If I start accepting more cosplays and projects, slap me.
*slap*
You can only wear one thing at a time you know.
It’s commissions.
1 for me. 5 for others.
How much do you charge for them? People sometimes suggest that I sell mine/make things for people, but I feel like whatever would be reasonable for the amount of hours and work that goes into one of them would be way too much for anyone to bother paying.
I don’t value my time an effort, plus I kind of have a system. Pay what you think it’s worth.
Sernobulus paid me in Pax tickets. Gorzilla bought me playstation plus. Nova, I am not sure. And my other friend, we’ll probably come to a price when it’s finished
You are extremely kind and/or generous 😛
Eh, I’d say stupid. Mostly stupid.
Wow, the US and Australian MasterChef format is really different. US one seems so intense and formal and the Australian one is just yeah whatevs just cook shit. I think the Australian one airs on nearly every day of the week, so I’ve got plenty more episodes ahead of me 😀 (thanks again for randomly mentioning it @dire_wolf!)
Speaking of which… @dire_wolf what’s your Nintendo ID? Have you added TAYbies (me) yet? (same with @liondrive and any other peeps I don’t have). If not, I’m Greenius 😀
Remember to add people through MiiVerse AND NOT through the friend’s list. The former sends the other person a notification and they can accept it for both of you to become friends, but the latter acts like the 3DS’ friend’s list and there’s no notification and both people have to add each other.
Another friendly reminder that if you own a Deluxe Wii U, your Mario Kart 8 free game download counts towards some free eShop credit ;D
https://p.nintendo.net/premium/
I’ll add people however I want!
*starts sending MySpace requests*
But nah, thanks! I’ll hopefully get around to it on Friday / the weekend 🙂
Can someone link to the TAY names page for me?
http://www.tinyurl.com/taynames
Thanks buddy! 😀
ID is Direwolf029
I haven’t added anyone yet. I’ll be sure to add though the Miiverse.
I rather like Master Chef Australia. The judges are pretty cool guys and there’s a much more laid back and friendly attitude than you see in a lot of other reality/contest shows.
WHAT!? You watch it but didn’t mention it last time? It’s like you hate comparing notes with me :'(
I like Masterchef.
Favourite series was The Professionals though.
Worst was the kids.
So demoralising 😛
I’ve only seen this current season.
All the ads at bus stops: watch Master chef, these people are fantastic at cooking.
Weekly
advertisingheadlines: raw food served, fail fail fail.I just randomly decided to watch it. I don’t go out or watch TV (I stream it) so I don’t see all that crap 😀
I just wanted to see some fancy food tbh
Apparently you need to link your console with your club Nintendo thing before purchasing an e-shop copy to have it count, so I don’t get a free game. Goddammit terms & conditions.
We could’ve been Pullblox buddies…
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @steve-o_the_deve-o @beeawwb @rize
I figured out what that weirdo thing in the roll20 rolls with the “floor( (15 + 0 + 0 + 0) / 2) – 5” was all about. That’s actually your ability modifier being mathematically derived from the raw score + bonuses.
floor( (your ability score + enhancement bonus + misc bonus + temp bonus) / 2) – 5.
So for example if I have 17 dex, my bonus in that is floor( (17 + 0 + 0 + 0) / 2) – 5 = 17/2 – 5 = 8 – 5 = +3, which is correct. So it looks kind of nuts but it is actually doing the right thing.
Also, fair warning: after trying to figure out a balanced custom sorcerer bloodline for a while (@popdart5 and I have been going back and forward on one) I’ve ended up throwing it away and going with the standard Fey bloodline.
This means I now have the ability to tickle any creature. The tickling is so merciless that they cannot stop laughing for an entire round and lose an action. Additionally the description makes no distinction on what it can target, any creature will do. Anything from a mouse to a dragon and anything in between. None shall be spared. Consider yourselves warned.
I may just have to take this as a Level 1 spell then. Back up your tickling. :p
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/spells/hideousLaughter.html#_hideous-laughter
Must be a pretty funny joke.
We shall be protected by the chanting of sombre laments by the other members of the party.
Haha, if you cast that spell I am going to start chanting that. =P
SUDDEN VIOLENT COMEDY.
Guess what my bonus spell at level 5 is…
Kind of weird that it’s a Bard 1 / Sorcerer 2 spell. Must be one of the few instances that Bard’s get a spell earlier than other magic classes.
Pathfinder obviously thinks bards are a joke, so you get earlier access to spells that make people laugh uncontrollably at you.
That would hurt my feelings if it weren’t true. :p
Level 1 Bard spells that are Level 2 “Other Magic User” spells:
Adoration: Everybody loves you.
Hideous Laughter: “So what’s the deal with Lizardfolk?”
Jitterbugs: Get these bugs off of me! (Gnome spell)
Magic Mouth: That sword you love can tell you how much it loves you back.
Obscure Object: Treasure? What treasure?
Share Language: Bardle Translate™
Undedtectable Alignment: Evil? I’m not evil.
Unnatural Lust: Everybody REALLY loves you.
Unnatural Lust is an amusing spell.
@benny
Hello World 🙂
Win 7 all installed, graphics card firing up!
Thanks once again man
Hello World indeed! You’re welcome. Fingers crossed that the machine gives you hours of entertainment in whatever you decide to use it for.
And by hours, I mean like thousands, not just a couple. 😀
Freya did a quiz thingy to do with English dialects. Check the box for what words/sentences were “correct”. I did it too.
It thought that I learned English in either New Zealand, USA ebonics or Singapore.
As we all know, internet quizzes are unquestionably accurate. Therefore, I must admit that I spent my childhood in Singapore before spending a few years in the ghetto before settling down in Hobbiton.
I speak Jive.
How on earth did you not include a link to this?
Quit jivin’ me Turkey. You got to sass it.
Bun it said my first language was SWEDISH or ROMANIAN or MANDARIN (which it probably was but I no longer speak it).
Also it thought I’d learnt English in WALES. FUCKING WALES.
You going to provide a link to this quiz?
@lucifer9783 actually the whole year is banned from all media and textbooks. Only those in Hong Kong an Macau know of it.
“Why does the calendar skip from 1988 to 1990 but my friend’s brother was born in 1989?”
“Well, you see, I .. err… Excuse me a moment.” The teacher picks up their phone, “Hello, secret police? I have another inquisitive student.”
Serious? That’s messed up.
Wooooaaahhhh. Amazing.
@nomad serious
Thanks @jimu for my new Super Mario Bros 2, you sir are a gentleman and a scholar for not taking my money over the interweb and disappearing into the night!
oh yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah
How far off are you from a PS4 now?
He’s not really getting a PS4.
Yes, I’m starting a rape company or something as horrible
How long’s a piece of string? 😛
I have around $300, so about halfway
Bitch please, the PS4 has a set price 😛
You’ll be looking at around $480, so you’re closer than you think!
It was 430 last week D:
Birthday July, gun demand cash munny
@greenius Monster Hunter talk
So I read that some elder dragon fight opens up once you finish all the village missions. Sleepwalked through the last few on the train (high rank multi monsters go down fast), arena mission opens up. I think, eh, I’ll give it a go, it’s only high rank / offline.
OK, Lagi hits hard. OK, Lagi hits REALLY hard. I soon realise it’s expecting me to solo a G rank monster. Took ages to even get the tail off.
15 minutes in, and a few more potions than I’d be comfortable with, Lagi is down.
Now you know what happens next.
OH SHIT. TWO? Maybe they’re only high rank since they’re both present at the same time. First major explosive hit: nope, looks like they’re both G rank too. No way I can do this.
Ah well, I’ll give it a go and see how far it gets.
Brachy slime drops the occasional potion, so I focussed on rathy first. Had a few close calls, rathy down, had another very close call, then brachy went down just after the ’10 to go’ message.
Damn that was a close fight. I think the only thing that got me there is the fact that these are the 3 monsters I’ve farmed the most online, so I was very familiar with what they can do.
I put that fight up there with, but just below the 1-4 Demon’s Souls boss fight.
Now the fact that they threw all that at me before giving me the last solo mission makes me wonder how hard that last dragon will be…
It’s hard! I attempted it like twice and died instantly. Never tried again :P. It’s apparently not too bad with a hammer but I’m a switcher 😀 (you were too the last time I checked)
Yup. Switch axe all the way. All the launching.
I really want to get back into MH3U now… hmm
What times do you usually play?
(@thecracks @hindenlagen @wilbur @platinum-urchin)
On the weekend if I’m home.
Did a bit of non regular mid week multi last night, but that was just to unwind from the big arena by smashing some monsters for level 2 guys.
That’s really strange, I’ve been playing again recently. Due to time-zone differences I can only really play with you Aussies on Saturday/Sunday evenings.
I’ve always wanted to break that HR cap just to see what level I’d end up on. I’ve been too busy helping others towards the end so if I do get back into it, it’ll just be for my HR7 key quests 😛 #Greedius
I just like to hunt, doesn’t really matter what I do 🙂
I’m busy the next two weekends though 🙁
No idea when I’ll hop back into it (it might not even happen). I haven’t played since I randomly joined with you and Cracks that one time, so I’m even terribler than I was then 😛
I start full time work soon so who knows when the next time I’ll be free is! :D… D:
That’s awesome man! Good luck with your job!
DARK SOULS II DLC has been announced. It’s coming in three parts, apparently – one per month starting on 23rd July.
Argh, I honestly don’t know how I feel about this. I’ve got my 1000/1000G playthrough, and I’ve ascetic’d my game world so much that I’ll probably need to start a new character to play this new content. And that just seems like so much work :\
I look forward to playing it on the PS4 ‘Complete Edition’…
Also, the $25 season pass is currently $27 in the AU steam store. Not the worst mark up we’ve ever had.
That’s not too bad, given that the AotA expansion cost $25 here.
Sadly, Xbox doesn’t even get a season pass by the look of things. It’s not clear what each chapter will cost on the XBL store, but I wouldn’t expect the whole lot to cost less than $36.
http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Dark+souls+compared+to+skyrim_a269ef_4797060.jpg
New DLC has dropped! NOW DO IT AGAIN.
Don’t ascetics only affect the area around a bonfire?
If they introduce entirely new maps for the DLC, you should be fine.
Unless you have to trek through those areas to unlock the new ones, like you did for DS1!
Star Citizen backers:
In case you haven’t heard, a pre-alpha dogfighting module was released yesterday.
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/13909-Arena-Commander-Launched
I’ll be on it tonight.
Physically.
And I just learned that the term “Bitching Betty” exists as a nickname for warning system voices.
At my partner’s place. Slow internet. Started download at 6pm. Woke up at 6:45 to get ready for work. Download has 45 minutes remaining. I leave the house 30 minutes later, softly weeping.
I may be coming down with a case of ebola. Need to leave work.
It’s all that jogging you’ve been doing! Didn’t you notice it raining last night?!
Oh no, I’ve just tripped on a chair that somebody left pushed out from a vacant desk and broken my leg temporarily. It’ll probably be fine next week but I should go home now just in case.
The best cure for a temporarily broken leg is exercising it on rudder pedals
Word.
Hey Mario Kartists, is anyone else finding the items online to be random and crazy? Single player seems fine and nicely balanced but online I’ve had the weirdest stuff happen, for example, whilst in second I got 2 stars in a row followed by a golden mushroom, last night I was in 10th place and got 7 coins in a row and 1 bullet bill right at the end, I was racing terribly last night, driving off the coarse into walls etc seemed to be sitting around 7th to 8th place and the most common item i got was single mushrooms. Just feels really random online.
No idea about single player, but yes, items were confusingly random playing online the other day. Frequent coins when in 8th or worse, got a couple of stars in 3rd, and I would estimate 65% of all items I got were triple boosts.
yeah it’s odd, I’ve played a lot of single player and it seems totally different,
I haven’t really noticed too much difference to be honest.
But I’ll double check the item settings on the Tournament tonight anyway.
pretty sure the settings looked right, just weird I seem to get worse items the further back I am and really good ones when up front,
Last night I discovered the secret to MK8 success hahar!
Is it swearing at Powalen? I do better if I do that.
I’ll never tell! Okay, I’ll talk. Personally, it was the switch from stupid motion controls to the Wii Classic Controller Pro.
dear god, you did bloody well keeping up with motion controls,
Haha, I didn’t keep up. I was last every time. 😀
you can blame motion controls, in this instance you have a legitimate excuse , I used them for a little while in the Wii version cause they gave me the wheel, I learned very quickly that was a bad choice.
It turns out that Dark Souls 2 speedrunning has kind of completely broken the game into tiny little pieces. An any% run (beat the game by any means possible) now takes about 20 minutes. The world record is 20:14. [Warning: possible spoilers]
It’s amazing how every single time a speedrun that involves glitches gets attention, a whole hoard of people come out and say that it doesn’t count because of the glitches. I just don’t get it. Speedrunning is a very specific thing. It is taking the game, exactly as it is, and seeing just how far you can go.
I can understand not being interested in that. I cannot understand people not getting that. Watching a speedrun and complaining about glitches is like watching rugby and complaining that it isn’t soccer.
I gotta admit, if I sat down to watch sportsball and it wasn’t sportsball, I would not be pleased.
I think it’s more like seeing something advertised as, “How fast can a human being run? FIND OUT!” then seeing that they’ve got robo-servos strapped to their legs. You’re like, “Oh. So you mean, how fast can a robot run with a human in it. Yeah, I wanted to see how fast a human could run.”
It’s more like watching someone do the Fosbury flop after a lifetime of seeing people do scissors jumps. Nothing new has been introduced, it’s just a matter of using a different technique.
Pretty much the only consistent rule of speedruns is that you are limited to what can be done within the game. If you see a runner do something then that’s something you can also do, with practice.
It’s more like chucking in cricket. It’ll get there faster, and it’s technically possible within the laws of physics, it’s just against the agreed rules of the game. You won’t find glitching in the game’s manual or ‘how to play’ guides, because it’s not actually meant to be part of the game – it’s just technically possible.
If you’re impressed with doing cheaty things the game allows, sure there’s going to be some kind of difference between how quickly you can type the ‘win the campaign’ code in Warcraft based on your typing speed, and typing-speed enthusiasts are going to be interested in that maybe, but someone who wants to see how quickly you can beat the game when following its rules are going to be utterly unimpressed. And it wouldn’t be so bad, if the cheaters weren’t measuring themselves against people who play within the rules so that they seem a lot more impressive than they actually are.
So yeah, I totally get being dismissive of glitched speedruns. Because they’re creating a very tiny niche for themselves, “People who glitch” and comparing themselves to everyone else, to make their achievements seem greater. Which is almost as try-hard as telling people to call you by a cool nickname you came up with.
Warcraft speedrun bought to you by CTRL_C-CTRL_V_MASTA87! 😛
The rules of a sport are defined by the governing body.
The rules of a video game are defined by the engine.
Nobody counts entering a cheat code as speed running and runners are comparing themselves against what is possible to achieve within the limitations of the game. Everyone has access to the same game so it is a fair comparison.
If you see something and think “you can’t do that”, just wonder why you’re saying that it can’t be done. What defines one thing as allowable and another as not?
Heh. I see them as exactly the same. Cheat-codes are allowed by the engine, they’re built into the game! They’re not hex-editing or anything, it’s a system implemented by the developers, freely accessible through the console. What’s not to be impressed by about it? It’s obviously super challenging!
You see, the difference is the degree of challenge. Also, what’s intended. Glitches are very obviously not intended. Cheat codes ARE intended. So they’re actually MORE legit.
I’m not concerned about any kind of pro-counter-culture, “You’re just tied to the system MAN!” thing here, I’m just saying that what they do is really, really unimpressive because they’ve eliminated all the known challenge through use of a glitch.
Finishing a game in two minutes SOUNDS very impressive to the layman who isn’t mentally substituting the norm with the niche, when you by default associate ‘time finished’ with how you’d do it in the developer intended conditions. If you (as many people will) associate that time with that level of challenge, a short time is a LOT more impressive than that same short time with NO level of challenge.
People get disappointed that it’s less impressive, and they express that.
If you think that speed running is not challenging because they use glitches, feel free to try to replicate the glitches that they use.
As for developer intentions, just look at rocket jumping. That wasn’t intentional and now it’s a core mechanic of many FPS games. Same with skiing in Tribes and a whole host of other mechanics that started as glitches. Clearly there is some grey area about what is and isn’t an acceptable glitch.
There are also cheesy strategies in a lot of games that are completely glitch free but disliked by the broader player base. Where do those fit in the grand scheme of things?
Hiding behind developer intent makes a lot of assumptions.
In Amnesia, the developers patched in a sign saying “hello” at the first point in the game where you can go out of bounds.
It’s okay not to like speed runs but complaining about the use of glitches is missing the point.
Challenge is relative.
Try to beat that game without glitching in the same amount of time as a glitcher/cheater and compare the degree of challenge. You might find that there is a significant difference in challenge.
THAT’S what people are talking about.
OK, here’s my example – the shittiest ‘speed run’ I ever saw was a Minecraft one – using a specific version to be able to exploit an item duplication bug through quitting the game and reloading, and using a specific map seed so that they started already standing on everything they’d need.
That’s not skill. That’s not a challenge within the run.
It wasn’t doable with 99.999999999999% of the start states of the game out there. And I’d also argue that anything that involves completely terminating the game invalidates the run – might as well just open the save file and edit it.
There are definitely some really shitty runs out there. On the other hand, there are also things like this four player Super Metroid race.
Most runs that require something from outside of the game (like a specific seed) don’t get much traction because they’re not really showcasing anything other than “hey look at this crazy pre-determined thing!”.
Generally, a speedruns involves a new save state of an original copy of the game specifically so that it’s something anyone can do should they try it. Annoyingly, there are preferred versions for games but these are the types of people that will play in Japanese to save 30 seconds over the course of two hours.
That four player race is still one of the most awesome speed run events I’ve ever seen.
It sounds like there’s 2 different definitions of speed run that you and @trjn are working on, his being ‘how fast can you get from the start screen to the end screen by any means necessary’ and yours being ‘how fast can you legitimately complete all the content in the game’. Those would be incompatible categories and should really be viewed as separate things even if they’re trying to accomplish what is broadly the same objective
I’ve not watched the video since speedruns bore the arse off me one way regardless of the approach so I may well be misunderstanding the glitch based approach, as I understand it it’s stuff like boss/area bypasses and the like, is that right?
Yeah. And I don’t especially hold much enthusiasm for either really, but I definitely consider a speedy legit run more impressive than a glitch run.
My ‘argument’ has mostly been that I don’t get why @Trjn doesn’t ‘get it’. It’s pretty obvious to me: glitchruns for speed are a small, under-exposed niche hobby, and when the average punter goes into it expecting a ‘legit’ run and getting something different, they express that disappointment in how less impressive the run is than they thought it would be, from the time which was probably advertised and the reason they checked it out.
Unless he does get it, and is just complaining about it. Which is cool, too. 🙂
I thought they were broken down into separate categories – glitch runs, legit runs, 100% runs… then of course you could have any of those as tool-assisted too. I generally find the TAS runs the most shrug-worthy, although I can appreciate the work that would go into making a machine play the game as precisely as possible. Still not as impressive as watching someone actually play the game though.
Like I said from the start, don’t complain that soccer isn’t rugby. Or that rugby isn’t soccer. I probably should have picked something that was easier to consistently repeat.
And what I’M consistently repeating is that soccer and rugby have centuries of distinct history and are culturally embedded to the point that no idiot could mistake the two.
But speedrunning is new, small, underexposed, so it’s absolutely to be expected for there to be some confusion about what to expect when looking at it.
It’s normal to know the difference between rugby and soccer.
It’s not normal to know the difference between speedrunning as the speedrunning community knows it, and a really fast run of a game played normally.
Expectations are important. Context is important. How do you not get that?
@transientmind Because the response to being told that something is not what you expected should not be “well that’s wrong!”
Look how vehemently you’ve argued that speedruns should not include glitches. Not understanding what something is does not mean that what that thing is should be changed to meet your expectations.
Expectations and context are important, as is accepting that you came in with wrong assumptions.
Read again, though. I haven’t argued that they shouldn’t glitch. In my language I’ve consciously shown no respect for glitching, but if that’s what a bunch of people want to call what they do, that’s their business.
What I’m arguing is that a tiny community shouldn’t be surprised when other people don’t get what they do or why they’re calling it that, just because it’s all so obvious to them in their little echo chamber, that they project that ‘obvious’ familiarity and acceptance of terms onto the rest of the world. See how everything I’ve said is about, “in everyone else’s minds”? I’m not talking about how the community refers to itself. I’m talking about why outsiders visit the community and don’t get it.
(EDIT: I’m not saying it’s right. I’m saying why it is. There’s a difference between supporting the status quo and knowing why it exists.)
(And I would argue that ‘speedrunning’ isn’t a very good description for what they do if it leaves the idea in the layman’s mind that it was done without exploits, that it would be more fair to leave that term for folks who can do impressively fast runs without exploits… but that’s just arguing on behalf of a demographic that probably doesn’t exist.)
@transientmind
There was a very interesting article about speed running a week or so back. The glitching doesn’t matter because the game they are playing isn’t the same game as you are playing.
It is a problem solving exercise, a method of looking at something that does odd things and trying to figure how that fits into their run. The game itself ceases to matter, the game is the time that is the game, the actual game is merely a environment to play the game.
Actually as I scan more responses it seems like you are mostly on the same page, the debate is more a matter of semantics and terminology
@transientmind The rugby/soccer thing is an interesting point, we know there’s centuries of distinct history but if you had a kid who was somehow fortunate enough to grow up with no exposure to the tedium that is sportsball and then sat him down and said “We have 5 channels of football on TV”, 1 AFL, 1 soccer, 1 gridiron, 1 rugby league & 1 rugby union the kid would be understandably confused all to fuck. At most they’d think league & union were the same and end up more confused when berated endlessly over the way they’re TOTALLY different games which somehow seem nearly indistinguishable unless you’re interested in them.
Separating speedrun stuff into categories is the best approach so at least people know from the start what they’re getting.
I think a better comparison would be a runner who realised he could just run across the track in the 400m, rather than around it.
There’s a place for glitch runs as a separate thing, though.
Track events have explicit rules about staying within the boundaries of the course.
But this runner found a loophole in the rules that lets him do it.
No.
400m sprint has explicit rules about where you can and cannot run.
Finishing a video game has implicit rules. There is a world of difference and that’s why the NFL has to add rules constantly to get around new tactics that take advantage of implicit rules without violating the explicit rules.
See, this is where you’re not getting it.
You’re claiming in the face of everyone else’s convention and instinct that the ‘rules’ are set by the engine. They’re not, in everyone else’s minds. The rules are the agreed-upon terms for playing the game. And this is what everyone tells you when they express examples of shortcuts that are allowed by the rules of physics in real life.
Here’s how the rest of the world thinks when they poo-poo ‘speedruns’:
The rules of physics = the game engine of life.
The rules of the game (adhering to boundaries) = the developer’s intention for how you play.
When you claim that the rules of the game = everything allowable within the rules of physics, people rebel against the idea.
@transientmind For there to be agreed upon terms for something, people have to do the whole agree upon thing. Speedrunners have done that. They say “I am beating the game under these conditions” and then other runners agree to try to beat their time under the same conditions.
When an ordinary person plays a game, they don’t do that. They just pick up the controller and go.
That’s another thing. You don’t seem to realise that we aren’t competing with speedrunners. They’re competing amongst themselves.
That’s because there isn’t an international governing body of speedrunners. And you’ll find that many of the earliest speed-run videos were in fact glitch-free.
The point isn’t what ‘speedrun’ fans are saying, but what the layman is saying who hasn’t heard of speedrunning and isn’t familiar with that niche community’s little rule-set for itself, and is expecting something they aren’t getting. Something that in any other spectator sport they would be well within reason to expect.
Because in terms of entertainment value, it’s actually very normal for us to celebrate and spectate people who compete within the spirit of the game who don’t win because of exploits they found but because they were simply better at playing within the standard scope of the game – we want to see people who are impressive because they play the game the same way everyone else does, just better, harder, faster. The best of the best. That’s the precedent for impressing, that’s the precedent for what people view. When people exploit in these games, they get derided – like the underarm bowl.
That’s the average punter’s perspective, and that’s why people who aren’t party to the internally-agreed-upon rules of the ‘speedrunning community’ come in with these expectations that aren’t met. They see article titles touting times that would be amazingly impressive if played normally, then get something that’s only mildly impressive or not even impressive as much as ‘interesting’.
You’d have to be pretty naive to think that the rules imposed by some youtubers on themselves in a niche community could somehow override centuries of ‘fair play’ conditioning, assumptions about what ‘speed run’ means, and the context of greater spectator culture.
Edit:
You forgot the part where others have to agree to recognize it. I can get some mates together and we can all agree to found a country, or business or world-record-breakers, or whatever, and that might make sense and mean something to us, but it means nothing when we discuss it with someone else unless it’s recognized. I guess what glitch-speedrunners want is some kind of recognition for their adoption of that name?
@transientmind
Actually, the earliest speedruns were of games like Doom and Quake. They used rocket jumping (a glitch) extensively.
Yeah, I was there for it. And if you check the wikipedia links to the demo runs archives, speedruns were actually around before rocketjumping, it kind of changed the game. 🙂
Hahaha, oh man that glitch at 5:00 was so Morrowindy.
How do people even find these things? Seriously. They must have spent thousands of hours just hurling themselves at the walls in the map to see what happened.
Pretty much, one guy I watch, who runs PS1 games (Spyro mainly) does just that. It’s kind of his schtick to break games like that.
For Example. One enemy in one level has a damage box which extends upward, far past the model itself, by damage boosting he can get out of bounds and then glide out of the level onto the scenery in the background which happens to be solid.
This has no practical application in a speedrun, it’s just something that can be done in the game.
The glitch is called pairywalking (should be parry walking but oh well).
If you parry an enemy and then roll over them and riposte at just the right moment, your height gets locked in. Essentially, you get to walk on air. Jumping on ramps seems to let you manipulate your height and then it’s just a matter of working out where the boundaries of the game are.
Once you get out of bounds in most games, clipping through anything is trivial because the developers want you to be in bounds. More importantly, getting out of bounds can be trivial if you can get to areas the developers didn’t expect you to get to.
I see using glitches in a speedrun more like a qualifiers in a rally event where there’s a number of concealed shortcuts on a track that some drivers know and try to use that to artificially improve their times substantially. The exception to this, is that using that tactic in the video game does not cause a “game over” sort of disqualification to appear so it doesn’t stop them from using that. It just doesn’t feel as amazing to me personally when they boast about such short times of finishing a game and they went through walls and floors (Literally) to get that “amazing” finish time.
But how is it artificial? All drivers can access those concealed shortcuts. Having sufficient knowledge of what you can and cannot do is a pre-requisite of all professional sports and games.
It’s a bit like complaining about throws in Street Fighter because you don’t know how to tech. There is a base level of skill required to compete, either get good or don’t complain that other people are better at that particular thing.
but theres different categories.
all bosses, any % no glitches, any % with glitches & novelty runs like ladle or one bro…
if someones getting shitty about a glitch run, then go watch a non glitch run. might take longer, but its the better achievement.
Quite frequently they’re not advertised as glitched or not, in my experience.
I’m guessing if the video goes for ~20mins, its not likely to be a legit run :p
Speed runs rarely point out if they use glitches or not because the use of glitches is implicit.
Speed runs are a specific thing, triggering the end game by any means possible as fast as possible. Different categories of speed runs obviously trigger the end game by different means.
Complaining about speed runs using glitches is missing the point.
Like I said, I can understand not being interested in them. I cannot understand complaining about them being exactly what they are.
I want to see someone pick up a game and beat the shit out of it, and show me how amazing they are, and how much room for growth there is for my skills. Watching someone pick up something like a side-scrolling Mario game and flawlessly full-pace through a level is friggin’ amazing.
I don’t want to see someone backflip in the corner of a room just right so he’s beaten a level.
There’s room for both of those things. Segregating them is not a bad thing, at all.
For the record, labelling an alternate view of this situation as “complaining” is not the best of decisions.
What you want is called a Let’s Play.
And yes, I am using the word complaining here because it’s the same as watching a game of rugby and complaining it’s not soccer.
More like switching to a channel advertising ‘football’ and getting aussie rules instead of soccer, and complaining about all these weird sports who call themselves football.
Just because the word ‘speedrun’ has been adopted by glitchers doesn’t mean it’s universal.
Not everyone else accepts the glitcher adoption of the word when it very clearly doesn’t reference glitching, but references speed. Sure there’s speed and there’s running, just like ‘football’ has a ball and people using their feet, but in soccer, you’re not allowed to use your hands, so someone expecting to watch some ‘football’ might get annoyed to see all these blokes punting a ball around.
A Let’s Play is someone/a group playing a game, not beating the shit out of it via awesome ability.
The reason I worded my issue with calling it “complaining” as I did was because I was trying to find a polite way to explain to you that passive-aggressive insults by way of demeaning a person’s opinion is exactly that: an insult. Don’t do it.
@transientmind
As I have said repeatedly, speedrunning is a specific thing. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it isn’t what it is.
Yeah, that was my point with the football analogy.
Soccer doesn’t use hands.
AFL does.
Both are called football.
Folks who only care about soccer are routinely annoyed to hear AFL referred to as ‘football’ because they call soccer ‘football’, and routinely argue that soccer has a better claim to the name, even though it’s not called ‘foot-no-hand-ball’.
You’d have to expect the same thing from glitch speedruns and no-glitch speedruns, even though ‘speedrun’ doesn’t say anything about being ‘no-glitch-speedrun’.
Saying, “But ALL speedrunning is glitch speedrunning, that’s what the speedrunning community knows!” is very No True Scotsmanny, and ignores the fact that laymen who aren’t familiar with the eccentricities of the speedrunning community are still going to be disappointed when they come to visit and discover that the act isn’t as impressive as the layman thought it would be based on the name.
@transientmind Find me something else called a speedrun and the football analogy makes sense.
EDIT: As for the whole “all speedrunning is glitch speedrunning”. The exception that proves the rule applies here. Speedruns that don’t use glitches explicitly mention it. The need to point out that glitches aren’t used means the norm is that glitches can and are being used.
@Rize
Beating the shit out of a game via awesome ability falls under the broader scope of a Let’s Play. It’s also what people do during speedruns but the point of a speedrun is to get to the end as fast as possible. The point of a Let’s Play is to showcase the game in some way (as a platform for comedy, to show off the plot or just to show off how rad you are at it).
As for the whole complaining thing, people need to separate their personality from their opinions. It’s not an insult to say that an opinion is wrong or that a complaint is unfounded.
It’s pretty clear you’re not interested in understanding my (and others) points of view, so I’m going to give up trying. On both accounts.
@rize That’s because from the outset my point has been “don’t watch X and complain it isn’t Y” while you’re saying “I don’t want X, I want Y”.
I get that you don’t like glitches. I understand that.
If you watch something like a Super Metroid speed run, you’ll see that the people playing have completely mastered the game and could do what you’re after. They don’t because that’s not what they want to do. What they want to do is what is called speedrunning, which means beating the game as fast as possible (I’m reiterating this again because people are still missing it). In the case of Super Metroid, that means doing things like pump walking to go a couple of frames faster and shine sparking to zoom across rooms (which requires pixel perfect precision in some cases).
It’s not showcasing the skills that you want to watch but it is showcasing skills. I don’t like rugby, that’s why I watch AFL.
Haven’t seen a DS2 run yet, might take a look, been hearing about how broken it is in speedrun circles.
@shane, the morrowind-y thing, yeah, that’s pretty good
I’m watching the one Trjn linked to. It’s really broken. The guy’s pretty close to endgame, and hasn’t even defeated a single enemy or boss yet…
From what I’ve seen, the route only has three bosses and skips the rest.
The same reason people get cranky when soccer players take a theatrical dive to force a penalty. It’s bending the rules and technically not cheating but it feels against the spirit of the game.
I guess it all depends on how you view games. I like playing within the boundaries of the set rules and challenging myself inside them. Others enjoy the challenge in breaking them
And that right there is the crux of the matter. This is what runners are doing and they make no claims to the contrary.
“It doesn’t count because it’s not how I would do it” is a very odd mentality.
Not saying it doesn’t count, I just don’t find it impressive in the least. There’s plenty of games where you can input a button combination to take you straight to the end credits which in essence is no different.
A lot of people do say it doesn’t count. Several people right here in fact.
As for inputting a button combination to take you to the end, that’s pretty much what playing a video game is :p
That’s where the butt-hurt comes in. In a lot of folks’ minds, the words, “It doesn’t count,” is actually short-hand for, “It doesn’t count as impressive.”
Who is saying it doesn’t count?
The people he was complaining about, who post on articles/videos of speed-runs. There’s quite a few of them. I would yawn and post, “That’s really unimpressive, come back when you beat it in a really short time without glitching and I’ll be impressed,” and probably still stir people up who think they’re being impressive by glitching.
except, diving in football is breaking the rules. its called ‘simulation’ in the rulebook & a player can be carded for doing it. though that doesn’t happen nearly often enough.
To be honest I really couldn’t give a shit what some random I really don’t care about has to say about how they view how a game should be completed. I’m just going to keep watching both types of speedruns because I can appreciate how much skill it takes to do either which in my mind is the biggest problem. People don’t appreciate the time, effort and skills that are put into an any% speed run. Both are very different categories.
and there are also people out there that are just going to complain and try and ruin everyone’s fun. Nothing will ever change that, it’s sad but true.
Well, on the plus side, after seeing the discussion here, maybe now you get why?
To summarize I would say that the reason for this behaviour seems to be because (perhaps due to lack of exposure) the term ‘speedrunning’ means something different to laymen and the general public than it does to speedrunners.
And the difference between reality and expectation is disappointment, which people usually vent about.
I disagree, well I disagree in part atleast. I think part of the problem is that people don’t appreciate the amount of work done “behind the scenes” of a any% speedrun. There are days/weeks/months/years of practice and perfecting a route that if they don’t get perfect (sometimes they have 1 frame to get the right position) they are basically screwed.
That is part of the problem. People who only see the record run don’t see the hours upon hours of failed runs that lead up to that point. When a run goes right, it looks easy. Gary Ablett makes playing AFL look easy but that’s basically because he’s an inhuman footballing machine, not because the game is actually easy.
Good point.
Thing is, context. Frames of reference. If someone completes a game in 10min that should normally take hours, and someone watches that and says, “Oh. Well yeah, you spent two thirds of the fucking game floating through the air, no wonder you did it in 10 minutes, that’s not very impressive.”
Because they’re comparing it to a multi-hour run. They’re not comparing it to the less-pixel-perfect 12min run a fellow speed-runner did it in. That extra 2 minutes might be really impressive but unless the average punter knows about the 12min run, he’s not going to find the 10min run particularly impressive because he’s comparing it to the multi-hour run.
@beeawwb @cakesmith
You guys interested in a Wildstar sesh on Friday or Sat? Start from scratch and try to get some PvE in at level 15?
Edit: Been hearing really good things about the dungeons at level 20, supposed to be like mini-raids for how tough the bosses are!
@beardymcmuttonchops has it too.
I’m getting tempted to get it. Overall response has been pretty damned positive, which is pretty amazing for a first-week MMO.
I’m surprised I haven’t heard any news about server loads or other congestion problems which seem to plague all other newly released MMOs. Wildstar must be doing something right.
They tested the crap out of their servers with their beta invites (lots of open beta weekends that have been going on since the start of this year), not to mention all pre-orders got a 3 day head start which effectively divided their possible server overload.
YEESSSSS!! My MMO instinct that I’ve nurtured for 10 years is paying off =p @rize @beardymcmuttonchops Myrkalus server dominion side! Oh rize I’ve got one guest pass left if you wana try it out over the weekend?
Quick note for people jumping into Wildstar – Do not take the settler path, due to the large number of people in starting areas you’re going to have a tough time collecting resources to build stuff (and collecting resources is like 90% of the settler path).
I’m probably going to be too busy this weekend to give it a good go then, unfortunately.
You should probably do it anyway.
I’m on Myrkalus… EXILES!!! 😛
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
*ahem* I mean surely you can see the reason behind joining the Dominion yes?
The Dominion are cunts. Rebel lyfe!
Sorry did you say Rabbit Lyfe? 😛 that’d be more accurate =p
Saturday would work for me at this stage, could be a good intro.
Morning possible? Might not be home after 5!
As long as I wake up, yes. :p
I’m very tempted to join you guys too. Been hearing a lot of good things.
Okay I bought a copy. Found a 20% off coupon code on GMG (UK3A0U-YOVK88-88EMC8 for anyone else who’s interested).
Signing up now and the game won’t let me use the username NegativeZero because it contains an ‘inflammatory’ word. 😛
Myrkalus server dominion side! Unless you love cuddly bunnies and hugging trees in which case you can join the exiles =p
Can you have characters from opposing factions on one server?
Yeah I believe so! I can understand your temptation to wanting to see how the other side lives but I should warn you… Only the dominion gets a choice of 2 completely different starting zones. The exiles are stuck with one =O
I don’t see how that’s an issue.
SHHHH I’m trying to convince people to join the Dominion =p
Edit: Have you been able to log on?
I’m at work, so no.
I have been known to enjoy the odd rabbit or two. I’ve shot a few when I was younger too so I guess I don’t like them that much.
Your reputation precedes you. 🙂
I thought so as well. Actually it’s an NCSoft game so it’s entirely possible I have an account under that name already and it was just failing because of that.
That’s what you get for trying to put negative words in your name.
Deja vu. I swear to god we’ve had this conversation before. @negativezero have you had this issue on other games before?
Nope. Never.
I actually checked back and found I had an NCSoft account from ages ago when I played Aion. I also have a Guild Wars 2 account but I think that that’s a different account system. I’m thinking maybe it was a clash on that. Though you’d think it would reject my email…
@negativezero have you tried “positivezero” ?
Hey Sydney TAY!
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @morkai @mrtaco @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty
Free this public holiday Monday (9th)? It’s been a while since we’ve had a bit of a Meat, so let’s do that.
Meet at Kino, as usual, at say 12:00? We’ll have lunch and then do whatever. Maybe go to Galaxy World or something? Movies? Lean against things? I dunno! Whatever tickles our fancy.
What do you think?
Hasn’t Galaxy World shutdown? I think there’s Timezone in Events Cinema though!
Will there be drinks?! There has to be drinks! =p Jokes aside I’m game but will confirm a 100% by Friday evening.
It’s called City Amusements now. Dreadful name.
Sounds like it should belong at Kings Cross…
Generic Enjoyment Vestibule
Hey, I just realised that @mawt isn’t in the tag list.
ah. I’ll be busy on Monday 🙁
At the same time, we should go plan to see things sometime in between June 20 – 30.
I haven’t seen Days of Future Past yet. Anyone wanna do that with a nice lunch or dinner?
Does this mean what I think it means?
Another scramble to see who can pay for dinner without the group knowing? I’m in.
I nearly broke my neck but it was worth it! Suckerrrrssssss
*eyes widen*
Potentially free dinner?
I’ll put on my tutu.
I would like to point out that you’re not wearing a beanie in your picture and therefore a liar.
I would like to point out that I HATE YOU
hugs
I’ve seen it twice already but I’d watch it again!
Yeah, maybe.
Public holiday? Man, that means the climbing gym closes early.
I won’t be able to come unfortunately, I have a bunch of TAFE assignments due next week so gotta make sure they’re all done.
Let’s get some TAYlist request going, shall we?
What is Love – That Singer Guy Person (Haddaway, I think)
Baby don’t hurt me don’t hurt me no mooorrree!!
..and now I must watch Night at Roxbury again.
Batdance – Prince
Chicago – 25 or 6 to 4.
Paperback Writer – The Beatles
Nope, not happening, I played that last week
But you had the window closed, so no one heard it 🙁
Oh well, I’ll ask again next week \o/
Kashmir – Led Zeppelin
What about the next best thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxuodY-c0yU&feature=kp
I’ll just downvote myself (or I would if I could).
That’s an 8 minute song, it’s probably not gonna happen, sorry mang.
Never Ending Story – Limahl
I only recently discovered that song is sung by a bloke.
I found that out this morning when googling the artist 🙂
…. what. childhood shattered ….
Any Bad Company tracks? Feel Like Makin Love? Ready For Love?
HIPSTER REQUEST :
D-Force – Run Squirrel
SERIOUS REQUEST :
Rolling in the Deep – Adele
I listen to Rolling in the Deep and think it has such great potential to be an awesome rock song. The existing percussion and piano sucks – it’s not overpowering enough.
I’m thinking get Brad Wilk, Tom Morello and Tim Commerford to perform the music to the song whilst Adele sings and OMG it could be amazing. Loud drums, loud guitars, fat bass. It would be totally bitchin’.
..aaand end of rant.
I think it’s a great track. I think the music is deliberately subdued, like with most of her tracks, coz her voice is the star.
the drumming / piano in Rolling is there to contrast it’s relentless, almost military sounding, quarter-note timing with the ‘soaring’ parts of the vocal melody. especially in the chorus. the bass line has a little bit of variation to link em together though…
Or we could axe Adele and bring in Chris Cornell for vocals too?
Haha, I was just about to say Rage/Audioslave would make any song sound better, really.
The Refreshments – Banditos
Failing that, The Offspring – One Fine Day
Help is on the way – Rise Against
Watch Dogs influence? 😀
It’s the only song I already heard on that game! I was more influenced by the new album announcement though. July 15!
Unlikely request:
Lost at Sea – Zedd ft. Matthew Koma
More likely request:
Hella Good – No Doubt
FREE GAME!
Sniper Elite V2 is free on Steam for a day.
Seems okay.
Free! Greenius’ favourite word.
Next to ugh!
Htu! Serr!
UNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUN
Thanks!
Seems like the hype train is a rollin’ for Sniper Elite v3. I’m going to explode all of the heads.
Fun fact: I ripped the leg of my work pants on the bus this morning. Now I enjoy going the hole (see what I did there?) day with stapled pants. Woo staples.
Sounds like that’s a reason for you to head home and check out Star Citizen =p
I already have a (joking) reputation for being creepy at work. Having no pants will only enhance that.
Wisdom teeth are stupid. The person who named them is stupid.
Ouuuuch 🙁
But picking at the stitches with your tongue can be fun! \o/
Hope you feel better soon, man.
O.o … That sounds like no fun!
Thanks man ^^
Soup & custard are your friends after wisdom tooth extraction. Bread is the worst enemy you can have
Soup and custard, pretty sweet deal 😀
It sounds it but when you’re on it for 3 weeks straight it gets old. I used to be referred to in my family as the custard mite of glut (after a character in a Danger Mouse episode) but after 2 sets of tooth extractions and a diet consisting of mostly custard and soup, I’ve kind of gone off them both except on rare occasions. Probably good for the diet but less fun.
3 weeks! Oh man, I didn’t realise it was such a long time for recovery. Luckily mine have started to heal. Doc gave me some antibiotics and oil to numb the pain (clove oil is amazing, while poisonous) and it feels a lot better than yesterday.
But they are getting more painful each time around, I’ll have to get them out soon 🙁
I had some seriously weird teeth, I used to have 7 wisdom teeth rather than the standard 4 so things took a bit longer with me.
:Q @dc
I feel like you were trying to saying something here…
True believers can read every word. Y U NO BELIEVE?
He’s at it again!
Ugh, ” ius”
Ok, people. I bought Trials Fusion in the EB sale for $36 (including season pass). Anyone who hasn’t added me on PSN should add me. carnhawks is my PSN name. Be gentle with me, it’s my first Trials game.
Took back my non-functioning pre-owned copy of Diablo 3 to EB this morning. The girl offered to upsell me to a ‘new’ version for a difference of eight dollars. I explained to her that even the $28 I’d paid for this one was at the upper end of my budget, and she looked at me like I was speaking Martian.
Guess the budget-conscious tend not to shop at EB. #OnlyLogicalConclusion
I love the idea that the response to “I want my money back” is “ok, but have you considered spending more money?”
They are sneaky those EB salesmen people! I’ve noticed in the past couple of years there’s been a trend of moving away from game savvy clerks to prettier sales savvy clerks who sound like they’re just reciting their knowledge of games from an EB handbook.
I always love it when they ask me if I would like to insurance for my game!
The girls at Albert St in Bris are pretty cool. Seem savvy, up for a casual conversation – like figuring out what the hell people are protesting about in King George Square.
(Seriously, every weekend there’s something causing noise over there. Parades, protests, whatever.)
Is Limitless worth watching?
http://www.telstra.com.au/latest_offers/loyalty/movies.html?detectmob=no
It’s free (@powalen :P) from this so I guess if it gets the TAY approval, I’ll check it out!
Great film. De Niro. Watch it.
Bradley Coopers acting was better than De Niros, but he was still great.
@greenius
8/10, would recommend.
Is there any other free movies to choose from though?
You pick from 3 every week.
Oh, yeah, after following your link (dur, prolly shoulda done that first :\), I’d go Limitless.
Good movie.
Yeah it was a pretty solid flick, definitely worth watching =]
I liked it.
Number of Marios claimed by Champion Road: over 3550 and rising.
Edit: Fixed because I calculator good. Don’t know what I did but that was like half the total number.
I feel like we’re missing a few people on TAY today… where have dc and freeze gone?!
Conspiracy theories anyone?
well today is Murdered: Soul Suspect day so we wont hear from @dc for a few weeks. =P
Considering the game apparently takes 7.5hrs to finish the story and all extra content it will probably be a lot sooner than that.
I’ve only just logged on, if you were missing me, or not, it’s OK, I get it
*awkwardly moves into corner*
Without going into specifics, DC’s a little out of sorts atm.
Can you let him know there are few things in the world that these two things can’t solve :-
A good woman and a cold bottle of American Honey =D I’m sure he can get his hands on at least one!
Edit: I knew someone else was missing! RED! (feel better?)
A little…
😛
Try him on the twitters.
*creates a cross sign with fingers* BLEARHG social media is the devil =,=
Holy hell, Mario Kart on the Wii sold 35 million copies worldwide?
That’s insane…and awesome if true.
It’s true, the numbers came straight from Nintendo when they announced the Wii U version’s moved 1.2 million. They wanted to trumpet it because it puts lifetime sales for the whole franchise past 100 million copies.
Super Mario Kart (SNES – 1992): 8.76 million
Mario Kart 64 (N64 – 1996): 9.87 million
Mario Kart: Super Circuit (GBA – 2001): 5.91 million
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (GameCube – 2003): 6.88 million
Mario Kart DS (DS – 2005): 23.56 million
Mario Kart Wii (Wii – 2008): 35.53 million
Mario Kart 7 (3DS – 2011): 9.62 million
They must make insane cash off those sorts of sales. No wonder they were like “oh, we’re losing money? Don’t worry, Mario Kart will rescue us.” I’d imagine that at 1.2 million the Wii U release has already turned a profit for them, you’ve got to think those games aren’t hugely expensive to make.
I imagine a game like Mario Kart would cost less than $50 million to develop so they’re already doing nicely. The increased exposure from Luigi’s death stare will net them more sales and it will be interesting to see how many Wii U consoles actually get sold as part of a bundle or just because MK8 is now available and Smash Bros is coming soon.
I think $50 million is probably way too high. $15-20 including marketing would be my guess. The games largely sell themselves
What I’m really interested in seeing is how MK8 balloons the WiiU install base.
The stuff I was reading and commenting on week or two back was indicating they expected a 20% increase, with pundits guessing higher because OMG MK8. It made no sense to me because I’m not their target market, but it’ll be fascinating to see happen.
And I’m sort of rooting for it, just a little. I mean… Bad news for Nintendo finances lately and while I’m not a fan of Nintendo’s attitude toward Australia, their inability to get with the digital age, or their reluctance to let me experience their legendary properties on any other platforms (for so long that I now have no idea what the hell is going on Hyrule or who all these bloody characters are that people keep talking about) I still have a fondness for Ninty.
I fought in the console wars, I drew Mario inflicting all sorts of horrors on Sonic and Tails, I’ve got a soft spot for that little bastard.
You and I were brothers in arms in those console wars. I thought the artwork in the Fat Boy section of Nintendo Magazine System was the greatest thing ever.
(Though now, thinking back on it, it’s really quite disturbing.)
Man, his writing got a little dark toward the end, there, though.
I don’t think teen me was ready for existential angst and lamentations of ennui from a beloved editor.
I was… a bit younger than that, and don’t really remember it. It’s possible that my parents let my subscription lapse before ‘the end’ 😛
It was a bundled item for ages IIRC.
Criminy, for a moment there I thought you meant MK8 on the U.
Same, took me a couple of re-reads 😛
Almost finished S1 of Arrow. More thoughts:
It has this weird dissonance in his morality that’s starting to bug me. He’ll kill 20-30 guys getting to his target then he’ll have a moral crisis over whether killing his target is right or wrong and he’ll do everything to not kill him.
Also considering most of his targets are 1%ers and the guys he does kill are generally just workers while being a 1%er himself just makes it all the more irritating. Conveys this message that rich people are the only real people. I get why they do it for reasons of flow and entertainment but it seems kind of off.
Also also every single person is impossibly beautiful except for Detective Lance. Somehow he drew the short straw in this universe.
FWIW, they directly address that moral area before too long.
I can only assume he starts using his arsenal of trick arrows?
Please, at least pick his big leagues
I had to pick a non-lethal one. Going from killing mooks with arrows to killing mooks with nukes seems like the opposite of addressing that moral area :p
I call it the Mass Effect syndrome. It may not be fair, but neither was the ‘morality’ in that game 😛
Yeah, I was trying to think of other examples, but I’m pretty sure EVERY video game that’s let you spare someone as a morality choice has kind of forced you to gun down hordes of mooks.
Maybe it’s a self-defence angle. You have a moral crisis about shooting someone who has surrendered or is unarmed/otherwise obviously defeated, but when a mook’s blazing away at you for no other reason than they can see you, all bets are off, free moral pass.
I can think of one in Skyrim although it’s not really a morality choice. It’s one of the quests in Whiterun with the Redguards.
Spoilered for the few people who haven’t completed it.
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Everybody’s beautiful?
Sounds like I’m going to have to watch this show 😀
Stephen Amell is fucking ripped.
I’m straight, but damn Kinsey would ask me about that one.
Him and Brad Pitt in Snatch…. Just the right amount of muscle and size. I knew there was a reason I was replacing women for gym!
Reds got a MAAAAAN – CRUSH!
On an unrelated note, I’m going to go have a cold shower now, cause its really warm here, ahaha, haha, haaaaaa…
Colton Haynes is no slouch either.
@liondrive
You guys should link me to attractive / ripped actors more often :* 😀 :*
I’m loving the tone of TAY today by the way, it’s like everyone’s gone bi-curious :3
Man crush
Best. Day. Ever.
That picture leaves very little to the imagination! 😀 😉 :* :*
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lid065EXqI1qh0xml.jpg
I’m completely straight but I can recognise a good looking guy when I see one.
Also jealousy. So much jealousy.
You would’ve loved it back when we used to hit Erotic Page Eighteen every week.
I love page 18, but I’ve only been there three times and people weren’t acting any different :'(
#EveryPageIsPage
Six#EveryPageIsPage
Sex#EveryPageIsPageEIGHTEEN
Arrow is pretty cool. Except for Laurel. Laurel is the worst.
@blaghman When were you planning on doing stuff this weekend? I just realised that I have two separate groups of people visiting from interstate across the whole weekend, but think I’m free Sunday.
Wait, there’s something on this weekend? Was I invited? *panics*
Play it cool, Shane.
That’s okay. I probably couldn’t have made it anyway.
Real cool…
It may or may not be Blagh’s birthday.
We may or may not have come to this realisation late last Saturday night on TeamSpeak.
I didn’t really make plans, at all.
Or remember to invite people properly (I just tried to peer pressure Cake).
But my birthday’s Sunday. So, uhh, then? Maybe.
Is Steam crawling because of everyone downloading Sniper Elite V2 for free?
They just pushed a CS:GO update.
Definite possibility, it happened with L4D2.
I’M GONNA MAKE 10 ACCOUNTS ON STEAM SO I HAVE 10 COPIES OF A FREE GAME! \o/
Didn’t Sniper Elite V2 get kinda critically panned? I wouldn’t have thought it’d be as big a draw as some of the free weekends they’ve been offering lately.
I think Sniper Elite V2’s major cirticism was that it was basically a remake of Sniper elite so while technically competent it did nothing new or interesting.
I’m going completely off memory for reviews of a game I don’t really care about though, so I could be wrong.
I laughed. Been there.
Doesn’t seem like a scathing indictment I guess. I may only be thinking of the nazi zombie one though… memory’s a funny thing like that.
This isn’t a free day/weekend. It’s free to buy, as in click on it today and you own it for free.
Free.
Free.
It’s a damned good game even if a trifle clunky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTDtSiPtzk
That’s a mate and I playing through one of the early levels in coop, should give you an idea of the kind of game it is (even if we kind of still suck at it at this stage).
Must get on with editing my own footage of our run through, it’s been sitting on my HDD for weeks now
ooooh co-op sniper game? I might have a partner in crime interested in that.
It does have limitations that I hope #3 will eliminate, namely that both players have to be relatively close so one player can’t provide overwatch while the other moves up but it’s still quite a good chunk of fun, especially for the price!
Fun little DIGITAL SPORTS thing.
There’s a minor Dota tournament starting either today or tomorrow. The teams have flown in to LA and need a place to practice before the tournament. Here’s a clip of one of the casters showing off the LAN cafe they’re training in.
What I love is that you have a room full of some of the best Dota players on the planet. There are people there who have earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money sitting there.
Opposite? A couple of kids playing League of Legends.
I don’t know about you but if I was a LoL player and I had Dendi sitting in my eye line, I’d probably give Dota a go.
Sure, they might not know who they’re in the same room as but I’d imagine the staff are telling everyone.
That would be pretty cool.
Trigger pulled. Enrolled in the Chemistry course. Starts in 3 weeks.
Engage panicky self doubt.
Engage \o/
Good luck.
I’m about to sign up for a Cert 3 in Accounts Admin. Boring as fuck but it fills out a gap in my resume and hopefully addresses some skills gaps I’ve got as well.
You can have one as well: \o/
\o/ for self-improvement! (None of that for me, though.)
Says the guy starting his own publishing company.
At the moment, it’s self-publishing rejected books. It’s more mitigating setbacks than it is an outright attempt to improve my self 😛
Mitigating setbacks, minimizing risks, making the enemy pay more than you for every inch of ground they take… that’s how wars are won, son!
Go for it!
I’m currently in a Cert III in Technical Production (Music), and even though I joined two weeks late (they had spaces available), I’m really enjoying it.
Best of luck with it, mang! 😀
\o/ for you!
NiCe
ClAsSiC PoW
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H He
Li Be B CNOF Ne
Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar
K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr
Amazing what years of doing chemistry imprints on the brain. I can break it down by shell too.
Oddly enough I’ve never done chemistry but I actually know what you’re talking about.
Makes me realise I won’t have any trouble with the actual content and should breeze through it, just more worried about actually applying myself and getting it done. I have a terrible history for that side of things.
Well, hit us up if you need assistance. I’m a little rusty, but I did demonstrate first year chem so I’m reasonably au fait with it.
Thanks man. Appreciate it.
I can help too! I know that Coke can remove crud off a coin, and it’s possible to overanalyse it \o/ #Year11Chem
Hopefully you’ll grok it even better as an adult.
Did a road trip with my brothers the other weekend (I think it overlapped with a meat – sads) and the middle brother was asking us, “OK, so how good is your Van Der Waals Forces knowledge? Because I have exciting things to talk about, but no-one in the office could share it with me.”
He then had to give us a run-down of V.D.W forces so we could keep up and engage in conversation, and part of his enthusiasm was that the stuff he’d been reading about actually explained it in a way that Yr 10 chemistry didn’t/couldn’t.
That word, grok changed everything in terms of my perceptions of language and meaning.
Oh? How so? The fact that the word itself – like all words – is inherently meaningless with no special properties of its own and gains meaning only by the shared understanding of its purpose?
Sort of. But more to do with the way that meaning and language development differs between cultures, and that one word can mean many things (and in such a way that it connects concepts that in English are quite incongruous).
I think the nearest equivalent in English is the word ‘fuck’ which has ever-increasingly versatility, though not the linguistic subtlety of grok 😛
I first encountered Stranger when I was in my teens, so that was also no doubt part of it.
Awesome!
If one of your female classmates accidently throws chemicals in your eyes, remember to sing this
So how long til we start calling you Walter “white” Winters? 😉
Winters is coming.
Year 12 Chemistry was one of my best subjects. The way it was taught for me was pure science – have something, form a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, analyze the results and then see whether it was confirmed or not. Stuff like figuring out the amount of some chemical in a substance by doing a titration or the like. Really enjoyable.
Limitless was coooool, thanks dudes!
The stream wasn’t in HD though D’:
That was quick! Geez. I thought you were going to watch it tonight or something. I didn’t expect to come back from lunch and read this.
I’m known for my quickness! 😀
(@dc WHERE ARE YOU!)
Investigating his own murder, I suspect.
I miss old Giant Bomb.
It sounds like you’re talking about a car you used to drive.
It was a Mitsubishi Lancer coupe. “Giant” is entirely the wrong term for it.
Bomb… well, that I can’t argue with too much.
Nissan Pulsar ’88 model, here. That bomb was pretty giant. Kitted out with a V6… and a replaced alternator that didn’t fully charge the battery properly.
Got to be on a first-name basis with the local RACQ guy before we figured it out.
I think that’d be “I miss ol’ Giant Bomb”
By old Giant Bomb you mean back when Ryan Davis was alive? Jeff kind of doesn’t work on his own without Ryan to play off of, and I think a lot of that was Ryan’s inherent comedic ability being reflected back.
I was super disappointed when Vinny announced he’s going to New York recently too. The bombcast was already kind of a drag compared to the way it used to be, but the fact that sometimes Jeff went away and let Vinny out of the doghouse so to speak meant that you could at least have those periodic installments where everything went off the rails with mood music and random special guests and stuff.
Mostly when Ryan was alive but as the core guys keep splintering off, the content just seems to be getting worse.
The best thing about Giant Bomb was the mix of personalities that shouldn’t really work together but did because of Ryan. It’s hard to articulate it all but without Patrick and Vinny in the main office, I don’t think any of the video content is going to be any good. Patrick because he’s going to have a position and be forced to defend it, and he will. Vinny because he’s just a rad dude.
Brad and Jeff have really been dragging things down this last year. I totally get it but it’s just hard to watch or listen to them anymore without someone else to bring some life into things. That Mario Kart Quick Look was just bad.
Ok. Trials Fusion is great. It’s got that one more go feel to it. Started playing, three hours later, I’m like ‘Oh, I’d better have lunch’. Awesome game.
Very much so, once or twice I’ve looked at the clock after “one more go” and it was 5am…
Be sure to watch @fatshadylive’s University of Trials stuff on youtube for some hints. I’ll link you to one of the tutorials that I selected totally at random and certainly not because it’s the one I did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rEaJruZWDQ
Ahnok fahdon, Mindin transientmind gonah tol tinvaak do Japanese, Zu’u lor Zu’u uld gaav rigir kotin nii. Ruz Zu’u realised nii lost buruk. Wah doj tinvok, I’d lost wah lahney ko Japan fah fiid. Tol fund cost rem pogaan yuld. Ruz zaak struck zey. Fahvos don’t Zu’u doj dovahzul sinon? Zu’u nalkun lost Keizaal. Zu’u dreh ni lost wah kuz nahrz wah Japan, Zu’u nunon lost wah straag nau dii Xbox! vozahkel dreh ni med dovahzul tol pogaas, ful Zu’u lost wah nuft Taazokaan maldeykel, med Sifahliil!
NO U
Nid hi!
The important thing is you tried.
Rot13 and Google translate have no idea what you’re on about.
PHLANISPO IS DRUNK! 😀
I’m so proud :’)
finest do Black-Briar geikaal!
Yer wot?
Zu’u tovok vir lingrah nii fen kuz joriin wah suz tir Zu’u tinvaak dovahzul?
Dovahzul siith 10!
Zu’u los lost rem pogaas moor voth daar.
I see that @transientmind was mentioned and something something realised lost and then phlan lost something and something something Japan something something Xbox and then I lose track!
I think he’s speaking the language of dragons! Someone get a dragon priest.
FUS RO …
FAH RO DUS!
FUS RO MS:DOS!
Ja.
You’re not allowed to edit to what you think might be a better response!
Sure I can.
Drunk TAYing in the arvo. That’s a new one.
Under-age, at that!
*wipes tear*
I’m so proud.
Haha, crap I totally forgot about that underage part.
Zu’u nis korah nimun lost suz nii tir gah.
SEIZURE SOMEONE GET THIS MAN AN EPIPEN
sunu
Dinoking, is that you?
I’m a little disappointed more people didn’t immediately recognise this language.
EDIT: I should also mention I have several hundred hours in Skyrim…
Same here. I would have used full dragon letters if Kotaku let me.
..but I’m stupid. I still don’t know. Is it Klingon?
Dragon language, from Skyrim.
I only recognised it after seeing dovah several times.
I intentionally re-worded a bunch of stuff to make sure ‘dovahzul’ stood out.
TAY, I am disappoint.
Friends are trying to tempt me back to WoW in preparation for WoL and I honestly can’t see myself going back. I only really tried to get into WoW last year for a bit but then I lost interest around level 30. It’s a bit hard to try and get into a game that was made nearly 10 years ago when I lost my MMO virginity to one of the WoW clones which, in my opinion, was better than WoW.
For the record, my first MMO was Warhammer Online and my next serious MMO was The Old Republic. My first reaction when I tried WoW for the first time was that it looked, felt, and played like it was painfully outdated. I know WoL is supposed to rejuvenate and refresh the graphics and gameplay but I don’t think I’ll try it again.
Tell them to get Wildstar, seems to be what all the cool kids are playing these days.
They are WoW players going back as far as Vanilla so I don’t think they’d be tempted to go across to Wildstar. I don’t think they’ve ever actually unsubscribed from WoW.
Tell them Wildstar’s bringing back 20 and 40 man raiding and is being by a lot of the vanilla WoW team =p
Did someone say Wildstar?!
Did you end up giving away all your 7 day passes?
Nah still got one left! Interested?
Yeah! Send it over to my TAY name at the googles and the dot coms!
I played WoW for ages but wouldn’t go back either. I dabbled with a bunch of stuff and one of them was TERA. After that found even going to SWTOR and FFXIV (both of which I really liked) was incredibly hard. TERA’s combat broke all the other MMOs for me. I ended up finding FFXIV tolerable by playing a Monk, which requires a lot of handling of different rotations and positioning so at least I felt like I was fairly active, but even that didn’t hold me long.
Wildstar looks interesting in that regard but we’ll see. I suspect the next ‘MMO’ to really grab me will be Destiny.
Back to English. That was fun.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
The rat the cat the dog chased killed ate the malt.
This exceeding trifling witling, considering ranting criticizing concerning adopting fitting wording being exhibiting transcending learning, was displaying, notwithstanding ridiculing, surpassing boasting swelling reasoning, respecting correcting erring writing, and touching detecting deceiving arguing during debating.
ENGLISH \o/
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī.
Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī.
Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì.
Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì.
Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shìshì.
Shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shíshì.
Shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shíshì.
Shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī.
Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī shī, shí shí shí shī shī.
Shì shì shì shì.
CHINESE!
TAYlist for the 5th of June 2014 TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by incredibly delicious spearmint humbugs
Bloodhound Gang – The Bad Touch (How is this safe for radio broadcast? I mean really?)
Haddaway – What Is Love? (Requested by @phlanispo)
Lihmal – Never Ending Story (Requested by @vonsack)
Tim & Jean – I Can Show You
Noiseworks – In My Youth
Prince – Batdance (Requested by @bdkiaf, 6 minutes is pushing it on song length, next time I get a 6 minute song request, I’m not playing it)
Newton – Sometimes When We Touch
Five – Keep On Moving
Bad Company – Dance With The Devil (@benny wanted me to play some Bad Company)
Queen – Under Pressure
Adele – Rolling In The Deep (Requested by @35)
No Doubt – Hella Good (Requested by @liondrive)
INXS – New Sensation
Chicago – 25 or 6 to 4 (Requested by @beeawwb)
Rise Against – Help Is On The Way (Requested by @nomad)
I was going to ask for the Silent Hill theme, but I went for something more realistic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2cK8mOG4Q8
=D
I can’t believe you played Batdance. Incredible.
I had that soundtrack on cassette. Old school.
Go with a smile.
I actually got a song in!!! \o/
I’d like to thank No Doubt, for being amazing, and also Lucifer9783, for taking a chance on me and my music tastes :’)
I like No doubt
At a glance your gravatars are so similar I thought @liondrive was replying to himself “I like No Doubt” to drum up his own support.
I was a little sad when that wasn’t the case.
That’s the first time I’ve noticed similarities in our gravatars :\
I thought I was unique! :’O
Eh, I love my cute little evil kitty face :3
You think all black gravatars look the same?
DAT’S RACIST!
Aaaaahh first day off in 10 days \o/
So far i’ve had a coffee and breakfast, played some Mario Kart 8, eaten lunch and played some Mario Kart 8 \o/
I like having days off
You don’t get weekends off?
I didn’t get last weekend off… i work on average 1 weekend a month, which ends up being 10 days on, then 4 off… the 10 days on suck! but the 4 days off is pretty great 😛
I think I need to clarify that I was not drunk. I was merely speaking dovahzul. An easy mistake to make, I guess. I am a bit disappointed nobody realised.
That was fun. I should do that again sometime.
*jams epipen into your leg*
Fos?
Vrah.
There are some angry angry people in that Watch Dogs review.
Haha I know right! Why can’t people just accept that everyone has an opinion and get on with their lives =,=
Something I’ve learned more and more frequently through life is that some people struggle to understand that they’re not always right.
Happens a shitload working in IT.
Heh. This has been my primary complaint about ‘IT people’ for ever since I stopped being one. (Before that, we were always right.)
Like pulling damn teeth to get someone to accept that something might be happening which is not on the script or ‘not supposed to happen’. (No shit, that’s why I’m calling.) I’ve never seen so much outright denial of reality – as it happens – as IT. Though to be fair, I haven’t had much to do with religion.
Still… Knew a guy who refused to believe that LCD monitors can experience CRT-style ‘burn in’ until I physically drove him to my youngest brother’s place and rubbed his face in one that was doing exactly that.
Shitty materials, unusual conditions, whatever qualifier you want. Is it an LCD screen? Yes. Are those desktop icons burned into the screen? Yes. Ergo: LCDs can burn-in.
So much wordless, red-faced spluttering, “BUT THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN.”
My first LCD TV had the Mass Effect HUD burned into it for months, it took forever to work out how to correct it and even afterwards it seemed more susceptible
THIS.
It wasn’t a favourable review, but (at least from my perspective of not having played the game) I thought the reviewer did a good job of backing up every point he made.
But what you’re missing is that he doesn’t agree with me, so he’s probably Hitler’s grandson, or something. Right?
Obviously. Should go without saying.
I didn’t realise what an astoundingly calm and patient person I am until I started frequenting the Internet.
Pow compared to the internet the Hulk is a calm and patient person =p
People can say and do irrationally stupid stuff when they think they won’t be held accountable. Similar to where our democracy is heading! =D
Edit: That said Kotaku AU has been the most tolerant and rational online community I’ve been a part of lol.
Random thought – what’s to stop me from taking Mario Kart back to EB for a full ‘within 7 days’ refund?
Nothing.
Well, it’s occurred to me that half the reason I jumped and bought it was the free extra game. Probably not that ethical to refund it now though.
I think you can go back in the next day and purchase a fresh copy and do it again!
Maybe go to a different EB
To expand – has redeeming the essentially irrevocable reward of a free game for making the purchase burdened me with some sort of moral responsibility not to get the game refunded? I … don’t know if taking it back would be a bad or dishonest thing.
Technically EB should be selling the game as used by that point. Onus would be on them.
They should be doing that for all 7 day returns. I don’t see how the free game greatly alters this equation.
They can’t sell it with an expectation of the code so that let’s you off the hook there.
As far as Nintendo goes I figure if you dislike the game enough to return it that’s their fault. 😛
Join us on TAY Kart!
Yeah!
If anyone is interested, I got my doona cover =D
Yay! Upvote for doonas!
Pictures or it didn’t happen.
but knitting D=
That gave me a wonderful/disturbing mental visual…
Do or Doona. there is no try
@markserrels doing Yoda impersonations again?
Dae ur dinnae. Thaur is nae try.
Are you hungry, too? 😛
The purple one you were asking about?
yup!
I’m trying to write an oral presentation for my music course, but my arms feel sore… 🙁
Wing it.
I don’t have any! 😛
That’s good! Start with a joke.
“I’ve flown all the way from “insert far away city here” and boy do my arms hurt”
I feel like there’s a dad joke in here somewhere….
I must’ve forgotten the part about fisting…
I was going to make a joke that this was an oral, not a wristie, but it seemed too puerile.
“I’ve fisted all the way from “insert far away city here” and boy do my arms hurt”
cc @sernobulus
ugh, terrible.
*upvotes*
For the love of Sheogorath! I am experiencing some really intense stomach pains right now. It just won’t stop. Whenver I get sick, it always seems to be at work. I can’t attribute this to stress, as my workplace is far less stressful than school. I assume it has something to do with the end of the week maybe?
Dur daar faaz voth nah do ton krein!
I hope it goes away. I have a panadol in my bag, but I don’t know if it will help with stomach pain.
Quick! Grab the nearest lamp and fill it with yogurt! It’s the only way!
Instructions were unclear. Dick now caught in ceiling fan.
No no. That’s supposed to happen.
I wouldn’t use panadol.
Panadol is gentle on the stomach. Much more so than ibuprofen. for quick relief though, I’d go aspirin though. being dissolved before ingesting will get it absorbed in to the blood stream quicker
Oh gods ibuprofen on an empty stomach. Did that once.
Honestly, depending on the type of pain, a successful bowel movement will do more than anything else.
Unless you’re a seagull.
Depends on the kind of pain. It’ll help with the pain part (paracetamol works on pain-receptors in ze brain, by my understanding), but not the queasiness/nausea/discomfort sensations. I belieeeeeeve it can actually worsen that. More than aspirin. Though not as much as codeine. (Edit: Or ibuprofen like the other guys said – yeah don’t do that.)
You seem to get sick quite frequently :\
Maybe you should try and find the underlying problem and fix that.
I still suspect that it’s stress to be honest. Hard to fix that though, but hopefully after your exams you’ll be a bit less stressed.
On a side note, you’re year 12, right? Or are you still year 11?
Year 12.
Interesting.
Very Interesting.
(not really, I just get curious about most things :3)
What are your plans for when you finish school, if I may ask?
(Sorry, I literally get curious about almost everything :3)
Did you tap your fingers together menacingly as you type that @liondrive
I should have, but I just do this little evil squint / glare thing with my eyes whenever I find something interesting :3
It weirds people out when they catch me doing it to them when I’m talking with them 😀
Also, I spent far too long trying to find why I had 2 notifications, till I realised one was cause you replied to me, the other cause you mentioned me, haha!
I’m doing Year 12 alongside a Cert II Information Technology traineeship. That’s why I work Thursdays and Fridays. I was doing Cert III IT last year, but the course was cancelled, and I had to pick a Cert II course instead. *grumble grumble*
After school finishes, I plan to go to TAFE full-time next year to study Information Technology Networking.
Interesting.
Very Interesting.
(for realsies this time too)
*taps fingers together menacingly*
A la Gendo?
http://x2.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/Exactly.+And+it+totally+won+t+cause+you+to+have+a+_e40901bd8a54f71a2378d27e4c447547.jpg
Maybe you’re just hungry?
Bit stupid-sounding, I know, but could it be possible?
Do you eat different food while at work than what you would normally? it could be that you have a minor food intolerance, especially if it manifests toward the end of the week (intolerances can build up).
Also some people are sensitive to things that are in perfectly healthy foods, eg if you have issues processing fructose then stuff like onion, garlic and apples can set you off.
Yeah, given the trouble that starchy/grainy foods give me (pasta, potato, bread), I’m pretty confident I’ve got some intolerances that I’m never going to get diagnosed in case some fruit-loops try to get me to stop eating things I like. 🙂
It might not even be those, it might be what you have with them. For example, people sensitive to glutemates for example will have issues with tomato, and tomato is everywhere (Glutemate sensitivity is where the whole health scares over MSG come from).
Could be, but over the years I reckon I’ve started to narrow it down through trial and error pretty well to those culprits. Also, milk. More’s the pity. I love that stuff.
Lactose tolerance goes down as you age…
If they try, you could always eat the fruit-loops!
That actually makes a lot of sense. On Monday-Wednesday, I eat sandwiches, but on Thursday and Friday I eat leftovers because my work has a microwave that I’m allowed to use.
I have contacted mum. I guess she’ll be picking me up early. I just can’t work like this.
Oh ha ha ha there is a dovahzul word for internet. It’s vozahkel
What’s the dovahzul for “Dr Yoghurt Lamp is a fraud”?
Since dovahzul doesn’t have a lot of words, I had to be creative with my wording. By entering ‘healer milk lamp is swindle’ I got ‘vahraniik liik kunfaad los skobov.’
Hehehe well that’s certainly close enough. Maybe use ‘spoiled milk’ since that’s what yoghurt basically is
Mmm, sleeping the afternoon away. Great way to spend the day.
Oh hey, missed call from job friend. Oops.
*shakes head*
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/87878578391/05-june-2014
Got glasses! And contact lenses! And prescription sunglasses!
Also playing Murdered: Soul Suspect, which I’m digging. JB gave me the limited edition for price of regular edition! Woooo!
I demand a review!
And tea?
No tea. Going to the city on Sunday. Miiiiight investigate Tea Centre.
I’m calling this good enough, for now.
Nice glasses 🙂 Don’t lose these ones 😛
The beard goes alot better with the shaved hair by the way.
Also, how did you go to a pet store and not take pictures of all the cute animals?!?!
Edit: Oh, and it’s really good to see that you seem to be feeling a bit better than yesterday 🙂
Thanks man! 🙂
My pet store has a sign asking not to take pictures of animals. 😛
Worst. Pet store. Ever.
Rules were made to be broken DC, or at least circumvented.
You coulda taken a video instead of pictures! 😀
And on a side note, are you gonna do the whole “These are all my selfies from May” update thing like you did last month? Cause you totally should! 😀
Maaaaaaaybe.
Such a tease DC ;P
I really need to do better at this whole studying thing :S
I have my exams in just under two weeks (first is on the 16th) and I just accidentally spent roughly an hour and a half at uni on the computers trying to find a better twitter header (to no avail) instead of studying :S
Between work and the lack of internet, I have not as much time to study as I would like, which is freaking me out a bit, but I also have very little motivation to study at the moment :S
I should be fine (hopefully), but I can’t help but freak out a bit :S
If worst comes to worst I’ll just bullshit my way through my exams, it hasn’t failed me yet 😀
On the plus side, I have around a month off after I finish my exams! 😀
I’m still deciding on how I should spend my new found time off.
I don’t really want to waste it as time off for me is a rare occurence (between work, uni, and other commitments), but I have almost no interests outside of wasting time, haha!
looks like a solid month of games time then :3
Shameless Gaming Month is coming up… but so are Steam sales, so they cancel each other out and you should totally just sit there doing nothing for a month.
Two things.
First: What is Shameless Gaming Month? (Don’t judge me for asking, I wasn’t around for it last year! D’: )
Second: I, uhhh, don’t like Steam *dodges tomatoes*. Or Gabe Newell for that fact *dodges chairs*. Or PC gaming in general that much (excluding Planetside 2) *dodges pianos*
I could totally just go to the gym 24/7 for a month I guess, but that’s not very fun (well, some things at the gym are fun to do, or watch I should say 😉 ) :S
Y’know, I was going to help you out with the Shameless Gaming Month thing by telling you what it is (A LIE – A MYTH PERPETRATED BY–ivesaidtoomuch) but you had to go and speak unutterable sins against Steam, Gaben, and even PC gaming. So now you just get to stew in your ignorance! STEW!
Hahahaha, stew in ignorance, that’s funny for reasons probably unbeknownst to you ;P
My hands are too large for keyboards to use them properly for gaming (without practice)! I end up hitting like, 4 keys at a time when I need to do things quickly! Also, I far prefer analog sticks for character movement as opposed to Keyboard and Mouse :S
And Gabe Newell has a smug little face >:(
Though saying that, I hate famous people quite regularly for no reason, so that could just be it 😀
Not liking Steam is a by-product of these two facts, and also because I far prefer to own physical copies of my games, so having a virtual library of games is unappealing to me :S
Anything I don’t understand or know I assume is pervy.
I assume I’m usually right in this, but again – I wouldn’t understand or know.
It’s not actually funny, more mildly amusing (to me, cause I’m on a study high at the moment and will find anything funny right now just to distract myself from studying).
My name is Stew(art) 😛
This DOES make the line hilarious! Very good. I am pleased.
Get a bigger keyboard?
An excuse to finish games you own but forgot about. Also you have to deal with me occasionally having a blog post of some form on this site.
There will also probably be talk of pineapples. Just go with it.
July is pineapple month right? I think for the first time in a few years there’s actually nothing I intend to buy during the month, so I might actually be able to reduce the pile for once (normally December is more of a pile month for me, the AAA stuff I cared about the last few years hit in October and first week of November)
July provides us with a month where the supply of new games runs short and the end of financial year sales have ended. That also means that we have a month where we can sit down and make a molehill out of the mountain that is our pile of shame.
There aren’t any particular rules to this endeavour, but the general idea is reasonably simple: play as many games to completion as you can in the month of July.
For the sake of simplicity, completing a game means playing it until you are satisfied that you’re done. That might mean getting a platinum trophy or 1000 gamerscore for it, playing out the single player campaign through to the end credits or simply playing the game up until the point that you want to hurl that disc into the centre of the sun never to be thought of again.
Let us know what games are in your pile of shame and what you’re trying to play as the month progresses. If many people are playing the same game, we can form something not entirely unlike a book club where we can discuss the fun being had by all and sundry.
founded by @trjn
Shit. I wrote that nonsense, didn’t I?
It was on the Kotaku article I found, so I’m pretty sure, yes. Yes you did.
Dang.
Oh. My pile of shame is huge, although truthfully there is only a few games in my pile of shame that I am ashamed that I haven’t finished (such as Portal, Ni No Kuni, and The Last of Us).
It would still take me a lot longer than a month to finish my core pile of shame though :S
I might try my best at it regardless 😀
Shhh! @dc may be listening!
I think we’re safe for a while, he’ll be too busy watching Orange is the New Black for a couple of hours / days 😛
Shameless gaming is a thing we have where, in July, we find any games we haven’t finished, and try to complete them.
It’s not a competition, more of an awareness raising thing.
Unfortunately, it is timed to coincide with Steam sales…
Because if there’s something I do well, it’s fuck up planning!
In the best way possible. 🙂
We should be friends.
I thought we were already friends?!?! :’O
DOUBLE FRIENDS!
I endorse this. Having you both in the same place will be easier, when the revolution comes/when I am king of everything.
Internship offer has been extended to 4 months instead of just one. That’s a good thing, right?
Yes. I know it’s scary but it’s all a life experience. Why let a little fear get in the way of something that could be really awesome?
…You read into things way too well.
I’m sorry?
Also, I know because I would be quite terricited in your situation
Hahaha, I’m going to steal that word.
For a minute there, I thought you’d somehow figured out how to upvote twice
Spoiler: I was secretly @shane all along.
Depends on the terms of the internship but generally speaking, more experience is more good.
ARE YOU GOING TO JOIN IN ON THE LIVE NINTENDO E3 HYPE?!
Not if it’s a twitter thing 😛
I like this.
I like this.
I like this.
I like … fish?
In the form of a mug
Purchased and currently downloading Murdered: Soul Suspect on steam on a whim for $50.
I already have so many regrets. Why didn’t I wait a few weeks until it went in the sales for like $10?
tell us what it’s like!
It comes with a free copy of Quantum Conundrum which is…. not so great. I already had it and got bored of it very quickly.
I have a feeling Freeze is gonna hate it. D:
I like it though. It’s fun and atmospheric and different.
Why you gotta be like that? :'(
I like some pretty terrible things. Something has to be pretty bad for me to actually hate it.
Ambivalence is my default state.
It’s just a very acquired taste that I think fits with my adventure gaming ways, is all.
Ooohh. I get it. It’s a hipster thing where you desperately need Me to hate it.
😛
EXACTLY. Is that too much to ask? *adjusts hipster glasses*
Well I won’t be telling you tonight. 8gb is a rather sizable download for the network of magnetized rats that comprises the internet infrastructure around here.
PLS LOVE XENOBLADE
I do. Just need more time to dedicate to it.
PLS LOVE W101
Assuming I’m remembering right that you were getting that from MK8 and aren’t just making up memories again 😛
@mrtaco considering that I love Platinum Games/Clover and I’ve wanted to get W101 for a while (but was waiting for a sale), nothing can beat getting it for free! 😀
The magnetized rats thing made me laugh a lot more than it probably should have.
Why didn’t you look on ozgameshop? It’s $31 for a code by email there.
I bought it too but I’m determined to get some of this damned video editing done this weekend (I’m currently working on vids from april 27th!) so I don’t know how long it’ll be before I play it
Sorry I haven’t been posting, I was too busy eyeing off the big marino, the big clam and the big banana. But enough about my love life.
Wakka wakka wakka.
I have just stolen a joke that I made a few pages back, but that’s because I’m lazy.
To those organising Sunday, the Burrows sounds great and I will be there. If you need to spot me (as I don’t know what anybody looks like aside from DC at one angle looking into a camera and Dan from his podcast paintings) I’ll be: Bearded, 2 metres tall and wearing my vintage 1970’s red plaid jacket.
…don’t run away from me, please. I don’t know anybody else in Brisbane.
Ah well, I’m here in Coffs Harbour and it seems nice. I’m sorry I didn’t get to see anybody on the way up (especially ol ‘wasshisname in Canberra!!!) but family is dictating the time we spend at certain places.
See peeps Sunday. I’ve resorted to playing iPhone games to keep me sane. Please send help before I end up downloading Candy Crush: The sue everybody then pretend we didn’t Saga.
What time works for you on Sunday, man? Once we nail that down I’ll tag everyone!
SUNDAY, JUNE 8th! EVENING!
I suggest meeting at The Burrow in West End for food, drinks and chatting.
http://theburrowwestend.com.au/
Delicious food and beers and a nice part of town that’s easy to get to.
Someone tag that cool dude who’s gonna be in town, I can’t ‘member (lol) his name.
@beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
My phooooonnnneee suuuuuucks.
Logged me out!
Alright, 6 pm sound nice for everyone? Can go 5 if trains and families demand people home earlier.
5 or 6 works for me. If I get into the city early, I’m sure @dc will be around to entertain me, anyway. 😀
may be in early too
bringin the boy
S’GONNA BE A STRANGE AFFAIR!!!
WHOOOOOOOP!!!
6pm can work for me, but it will mean missing out on a half of the footy. If we’re winning and then lose I’ll personally blame you. :p
You are talking to the wroooooooong people.
Or maybe the wrooooooooooooooong people are talking to me. Or maybe I’M the wroooooooooong people.
OH GOD. MY WHOLE LIFE IS A LIE.
Can’t make it currently in 1°C weather in Launceston, it’s err quite crisp..
its rail bus for us!
the wheels on the bus go round and round
more like the driver of the bus drives round and round.
Dood got fully lost last time I caught a rail bus, I was about two hrs late and missed dinner 🙁
I Wanna Marry “Harry”?
Really? Is that where we are at as a society?
REALLY?
This is why I don’t watch anything on TV except sport.
Would you judge me if I told you I watched an episode and found it funny?
Yes. Harshly.
…
🙂
Well then it’s a good thing I didn’t watch one, and have no intention of watching it again, ahaha, haha, urrrrrr…
Well, you can marry Harry but mess around with Ike.
AND. THAT’S. GOOD. Isn’t it grand, isn’t it GREAT. Isn’t it SWELL. Isn’t it FUN. Isn’t it…?
I think I’m happy that I have no idea what that is. Will endeavor to keep it that way 😛
I might watch it if they had Alan Carr narrating in the same style as playing it straight
Hey friends and foes, it’s time for another instalment of… Greenius asks lots of questions!
Is there an easy way to tell if a computer’s hardware has problems?
My old computer started getting slower and slower, games had loading issues and it eventually got so bad that out of nowhere it would take about 15 minutes to start up and 15 minutes to shut down.
I’m pretty sure it’s not a software problem and I’ve done plenty of scans using Microsoft Security Essentials (and later Norton) without finding any issues. I’ve always just assumed it’s something wrong with the hard drive and even some official WD software and Windows says it can find errors but can’t repair them because of some other issues.
Ideally I want to clean the dust from the inside (although it doesn’t seem like that alone would cause such severe slow down) and do a clean install of Windows. If I was to buy a new HDD and chuck it in, only to experience more issues, how would I be able to pinpoint what could be the underlying problems? It’s got some pretty decent specs too so I doubt it’s anything to do with dated hardware (built by my dad in about 2009), but he has done stupid shit to it like attempting to clean it with a vacuum (UGH!).
This is my old computer which was intended to be used by my parents to do basic stuff like browsing/word documents, but at this point in time, it’s too slow to be any use.
Thanks again for putting up with my ignorance 😛
So, if you completely remove your old hard drive (don’t even have it connected to your computer) does that speed it up at all? I’ve had an issue before were one of my secondary hard drives was slowing down my entire PC.
If it’s not that it is most likely the RAM sticks. Are they in correctly? Is your computer reading them all correctly?
It’s only got a single HDD, will removing it just cause it to not work?
No idea if the RAM is in correctly but all internal system stats show it correctly as 6GB so I’m assuming it should be fine.
6GB’s is pretty small these days so that may be your problem there. You can pick up ram sticks pretty cheap these days.
EDIT: Do you have any idea what kind of RAM sticks your PC can use? DDR1/2/3. If not do you know your motherboard model?
EDIT2: Also, what size HDD do you have and how much room do you have free?
My computer was fine early on but just started to get a little bit worse each year until it suddenly took ages for it to do anything. I’m assuming if it worked fine early on with 6GB, then it should be enough. It’s only going to be used for browsing and documents now anyway, so nothing too high end.
I’m not sure what kind of RAM the PC can use (but I can probably find out based on the motherboard), but the mobo is a Gigabyte EX58-UD5. Seems decent enough since this was my old (gaming) PC.
I’m trying not to spend anything on it (but it looks like I may have to at least get a new HDD) since both my parents have access to laptops. It was just a kind of “if it works we might as well still use it” kind of thing.
Thanks for your help though!
In response to your second edit: it’s a 1TB WD Green Drive (which I think is bad for an OS). Since it was my old PC I had a bunch of games and stuff on it but usually kept it around the half way point. In the past week I’ve uninstalled pretty much everything and there’s about 800GB free but it’s still really slow.
That’s not a bad motherboard for a internet / word processing PC. I have a feeling 6gb’s is pretty darn low for PC’s these days. You can pick up 8gb (or 2x4gb) sticks for around $80. By the sounds of it though you don’t really have a need for it so I wouldn’t worry about fix it unless you can find some super cheap RAM sticks.
Also, in regards to your PC, did you say that you have tried a new HDD and it didn’t do much (if anything)?
Yeah, it was my former gaming PC.
Nope, never got a new HDD. I wanted want for ages but just ended up getting a whole new computer when the slow down got too unbearable 😛
CC @greenius
He has triple channel 2GB DIMMS on an X58 mobo, meaning he’s likely got a first-gen i7 920 part which is still a beast. Can’t upgrade RAM unless you buy expensive triple-channel 4GB x3 kit. And then, if you want to keep your current RAM for 18GB total, you need Windows 7 Pro or higher to take advantage of more than 16GB RAM.
Don’t really know why you’d have bought a whole new PC, I have i7 920 in my rig and it still doesn’t bottleneck 98%+ of games (when overclocked). And you say you have no $$ for SSD, so, dunno?
Here’s your problem. Run a chkdsk and see if there’s errors. If yes and they are repaired, see if they come back within a week. If yes, HDD is dying. If no, it’s just Windows being corrupt and needing a reinstall.
Time to buy an SSD. Keep the existing HDD as a secondary. Clean install on an SSD will allow you to keep everything as-is on the secondary, and if things are still iffy, replace the secondary as well. It’s a cheap(ish) upgrade, say $100-200.
Else if you think everything is farked, you can always upgrade via the safe route and buy a completely new machine with warranty.
I’d like to but HDDs are still a bit cheaper for the space they offer. This is my old PC as it is, so I’m trying not to spend too much (time or money) to get it working and if I can’t, then there’s still other alternatives (parents already have their own PC and laptop :P). Like I said above, more of a “it’s there so we might as well use it” kind of situation.
Graphics card is a 560 Ti bought just a couple of years ago.
Yeah but the idea of the SSD is the speed. You’re trying to solve the issue of slowdowns remember.
I would be very surprised if you did not notice any speed increase by simply installing an SSD and reinstalling your OS onto that.
You can even pick one up for $75 at the cheapest.
I endorse an SSD as one of the most necessary PC upgrades.
Slow degradation over time could also just be the HDD / OS getting filled with kludge. Why reformat when you can just stick a new drive in? (Says the person that found three more HDDs than expected last time the case was cracked open to put the SSD in)
CC @greenius
A HDD can be wiped completely clean and still be slow. It’s a mechanical part, over time they will just end up going to shit.
I’m definitely on the team of SSD boot disk, HDD storage drive. It’s a good balance of performance and storage space and you can always dump more HDDs into a system (although after a certain point, just set up a NAS :p).
The Diagnostic Sledgehammer – problem is either hardware or software. Easiest way to narrow it down from there is to format the HDD.
I don’t mind reformatting and I’ve already uninstalled everything I could to see if deleting things made a difference. It’s more about just getting it to work as it did before, rather than improving it and ideally I would want a new SSD and HDD but $ 😛
If the HDD is faulty and I just got a new SSD to install the OS one, would there be any issues in using the HDD for actual storage? (for documents, downloads etc.). Although I guess it does run the risk of dying and losing everything on it :/
Also, what graphics card do you have?
He said in another comment that it’s a 560Ti. Outdated but still very serviceable.
And recommended by you! 😛
Back then, it was about as good value for money as you could get out of a mid-range card. Now it’s probably more of a quality low-end card but PC hardware doesn’t seem to be moving forward at a breakneck pace, so it’s still quite good.
Time to rack up another 900 lives.
I don’t think I’ve replayed a level so endlessly since I was trying to beat Lou/TTFAF on expert in GHIII.
I can’t tell if you’re going to crack it, or if you’ve tried too many times already and muscle memory will doom you to eternal failure.
Haha, interesting thought. Only one way to find out!
It feels tantalisingly close though. Got all my checkpoint times lined up, the hardest bits seem to be nailing the start properly, getting up the alternating stairway in section two, then getting all the keys at the end (which I still haven’t managed yet, but have been slowly chipping away at it). Let’s see if I can get it in under 4500 attempts 😛
By the way wayyyy, have you ever played Super Meat Boy, Trials, The Binding of Isaac or Spelunky?
I’ve played a bit of Super Meat Boy, a little while back after I was done with Guacamelee. Got through the first world I think, then not sure I finished the dark world. I had a go of Isaac, and didn’t like it 😛 And Trials, I have the 360 triple pack with that and two other things I forget but haven’t opened it yet. Unfamiliar with Spelunky.
Boo! Isaac is awesome :D. Those were some “difficult” games I’ve played in recent times so I thought you may like’em. I’ve got that Trials triple pack too (with Limbo and Splosion Man) and while it sparked my love for Trials, HD is the worst one 😛
Isaac was ok I guess, I just didn’t really get it or why everyone was raving so much about it at the time. Also it ran crappily a fair bit on the laptop I was using at the time so that didn’t help either.
Difficult games are bad for me. I get too easily caught up on things to the detriment of everything else. I really want to play Mario Kart.
Isaac gets better the more you play and unlock stuff. Isaac Rebirth will be coming out soon too.
What about La Mulana? That was a Wii exclusive for a while!
DARK SSSSSSSSSOULS
Souls games @mrtaco ?
Nah, too popular for my hipsterism to want to touch 😛 I think I saw someone playing one of them at the Canberra meet last year actually. Might have been Demon Souls or something? I dunno, it didn’t seem that great to watch. Thought about maybe grabbing Dark Souls for 360 if I saw it cheap, not sure I’ve seen it yet though.
La Mulana… that rings a bell, but I can’t think of it at all. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a copy of it though.
UGH DUDE! Dark Souls was literally free on Xbox a couple of days ago (through an error/mistake) >_>
La Mulana is an eShop remake of some indie PC game. It came out on PC though! Definitely worth checking out.
@greenius Oh, eShop. Yeah I don’t touch that any more 😛
And my 360 isn’t even hooked up to the net anyway, so no loss. Plus I can’t put that copy on the shelf with the rest!
But PC! 😀
@greenius Eh… I guess I’ll end up with it if it shows up in a Humble Bundle at some point, that’s basically the only way I end up with PC games at all 😛
I read that as ” trying to beat Last of Us/>something< on expert in Green Hill 3"
Finished Enslaved: An Odyssey to the West. Decent game. Solid. Not really a standout for me in any respect, I’m afraid – rather forgettable. I found Pigsy profoundly annoying. Still, overall, it was fun to play through once. Definitely won’t be doing any kind of achievement mop-up, though (especially as one of the achievements is the equivalent of collecting every coin in a Super Mario game). 7/10
Yeah, I had similar feelings. Glad I played it but don’t see a point ever replaying.
Wasn’t pigsy supposed to be annoying?
I liked the face at the end with the talky talks, wasn’t expecting it.
Hmmm, I don’t know. I think he was meant to be unlikeable, but I actually just ended up hating any part of the game he was involved in 😛
He’s the DLC too!
I think it out stood out for me when it came out because there was a bit of an adventure game shortage at the time!
Dearest Tay,
Went and saw XMen with my movie friend. It was pretty cool.
He pointed out something during the trailer for the next Planet of the Apes movie. Those Apes need clothes, man. Apes generally live in the Tropics, and that setting looks to be Sub-Tropic/Temperate ish. Come winter time those Apes are gonna be COLD.
It’s just Bananas that the writers didn’t realise this.
Blaghs.
Not to mention that after all that cold-induced shrinkage, they won’t be prime mates anymore!
#PageSixLivesInMyHeart
Went Magic Drafting at the FLGS tonight, really small pod of four players (two of my friends and another guy) and drafted white/red with a splash of blue. Because of the small pool, I had a couple of really powerful cards passed to me much later than you’d usually get, including Elspeth, which is a super powerful “planeswalker.”
Format we’re doing is rare draft, so you hand your rares out of the decks you make back at the end and you draft them again, the winning player picking first. I thought I’d be sunk after losing my first match-up, but I beat my other two opponents flat so ended up winning! Ended up reclaiming the Elspeth and a couple neat cards: http://instagram.com/p/o3T3RICb3z/#
I hate Elspeth so freaking much. Excuse me while I pump 3 soldiers out of my vagina for free each turn….
I’m still learning so I now know you need special spells to kill them (planeswalkers), but I lost horribly to an Esper control the other night which countered/removed all my stuff then kept pumping out tokens with Elspeth. Wasn’t a fun game.
It’s a great card if you own it though!
you can attack Planeswalkers as if they were a player- just send creatures at them!
Finished Wolfenstein. Had to drop the difficulty for the final part of the final boss, and it had some shockingly bad difficulty spikes (the bridge was terrible) but other than that, brilliant game start to finish. Highly recommended if you want a really high quality shooter with great presentation, great storytelling (!) and generally doing everything right.
Now I guess I’m free to start Wildstar. And maybe have a tilt at Watch Dogs eventually.
Went back to playing it a few hours ago, probably will sink some more time into it tomorrow, either that or Sniper Elite V2.
*looks up to see possible Wildstar mention for recruitment*
……….
*goes back to sleep* =p
Not to dredge up the speedrunning debate again (because good *god* did that spiral into one hell of a molehill mountain), but playing around with 3D World has made me think things. I get more now what Trjn was saying about the use of glitches being inseparable from the whole thing, even though I was more on the other side where glitching feels more like cheating. But it’s kind of hard to define, to draw a line exactly. I mean obviously doing a backflip in a particular way that makes you slip through a wall and reappear at the end skipping all the obstacles is a big unintended glitch that’s not in the spirit of the game… but then there’s the little things. Like right now with all my playthroughs, I’ve found that I can put off my long jumps til I’m slightly off the edge of a ledge and it’ll make me go a tiny bit further than usual, or if I line it up with one of the moving blocks and jump off of the empty space right next to it I’ll fly even faster and gain a tiny bit of time that way. Or there’s some blocks that I can jump straight over rather than going the long way around but only if I approach them at a particular speed and in a particular direction, and it only works if I cross the edge at particular places on them. They’re probably still glitches, but they feel more acceptable than something that I guess you’d call more game-breaking. Actually that’s probably what it comes down to, really. If it’s game-breaking then it’s less accepted, if it’s within the spirit of the game then it’s ok. Like sequence-breaking in Metroid, I know I figured out that there was a Super Missile upgrade available in Zero Mission as soon as you got the Boost Ball powerup. The only reason you wouldn’t get it normally is because (from memory) the natural progression of the game brings you to it from above, but the exit from that area is to the side can can be accessed using the environment on the opposite side of the shaft it connects to to set up the boost mechanic to get to it, it just takes the advance knowledge of what’s there to be able to figure it out. But it still operates within the rules of the game. Bending rules rather than breaking them. Or something. I dunno.
Mindthoughts.
I was thinking the same kind of thing. Some glitches are almost certainly outside the intentions of the developers (out-of-bounds glitches for example), but there’s no clear line to be drawn there.
In Dark Souls 2, there was an odd feature whereby some players recovered their humanity after co-opping in someone else’s world. The developers came right out and said that it was an unintended feature… and then promptly patched the game to make it a permanent part of the game. What that proves is that the ‘spirit of the game’ is very much up for grabs, especially with some of the line-ball feature/glitches.
In the original unpatched Dark Souls, it was possible to skip to the endgame section at about halfway through the game. This was patched out in later versions. Does this mean that a previously accepted technique has passed from ‘acceptable’ to ‘unacceptable’ because of the developers’ actions? Does that invalidate speedruns that exploited that feature? If the developers had elected to keep that feature, does that make it a legitimate technique for all speedruns?
I don’t know. They’re not questions for me to answer.
That said, it wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing for all speedruns to contain some upfront information about the particular techniques (rather than an explicit focus on glitches) utilised to achieve the time. I personally would prefer to see playthroughs that didn’t use out-of-bounds glitches, for example.
Edit: re Metroid example: deliberate sequence breaking is something that is very much part of Dark Souls. You can unlock shortcuts that bypass chunks of the game – some are very obviously deliberately part of the development (Chaos Servant, Master Key entrance to Blighttown), and some might be the result of particularly agile characters taking advantage of the oddities of the world’s geometry (Duke’s Archives).
This is where the Good Games Done Quick (or whatever it was called) charity marathon was so awesome – the players were explaining to viewers what was going on with various techniques, and a bit of history behind them if they had time, all very interesting stuff.
And that race. Wow.
The Kiln skip in Dark Souls is a fun one. People recognised the records set using it but nobody went for it for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, the main platform for DaS speedrunning was PC and the PC version was patched up from launch to not let you kiln skip. Secondly, people found the all bosses route more interesting (both as a challenge to route and to play) and all bosses required the DLC. To get the DLC, you had to patch up.
So they considered kiln skip acceptable but didn’t do it.
I shouldn’t get into this whole thing again but there are obviously degrees of glitches. Clearly, I’m of the mind that if any are acceptable, they’re all acceptable and because you’re competing against the game, there’s no reason not to unless it takes the fun out of things.
The community does have shorthand for how they’re approaching the game but you do have to remember from the outset that they’re going to do everything within their ability to go as fast as possible. You also have to learn the shorthand and be somewhat familiar with the game :p
Ocarina of Time uses a sequence break (early bottle) and a memory trick (wrong warp) to finish the game in 20 minutes. Mario 64 uses a lot of clipping (the first star you’ll see involves picking up a bob-omb and walking backwards into the chain chomp cage and then there’s “cannonless”).
EDIT: The next patch of Darks Souls 2 is going to take out the two main glitches that make the current route work. Some runners are going to stick with the current version because they enjoy the route, others are going to happily move on because they do not. Again, the DLC will force people to patch up for all bosses and I assume pairywalking routes will end up the same as kiln skips.
Oh hey, it’s a trailer for the new Sailor Moon anime.
Still unreasonably excited to watch this.
Witcher 3!
Witcher 3 Witcher 3.
Does this mean I’m finally going to have to upgrade the old core2duo?
Witcher 3! CE?
I really need to get my (gaming) shit together and finally play through Witcher 1 and 2!
@dc (and others that have played it)
How awesome is Pikmin 3? All the awesome, that’s how awesome. That is all
This guy! THIS GUY! You’re alright!
Those big creatures are amazing, V orng gur ovt jrveq ong guvatvr va gur pnir ynfg avtug, ybirq gur navzngvba gur jnl vg’f obql jbhyq pbaihyfr naq dhvire jura gur yvtug uvg vg naq gura vg qvq gur jrveq tybjl guvat, V qvqa’g jnag gb xvyy vg pnhfr vg jnf fb ornhgvshy.
Edit: can’t wait to get blue Pikmin, those water creatures look freakin cool, I got chased by a huuuuge crab last night, it was pretty terrifying.
When faced with a giant enemy crab I’m led to believe you attack its weakpoint for massive damage.
yeah, but I had no blue Pikmin, he grabs ’em an retreats to the water, I’ll get him once I go aquatic.
Sounds like you need a real-time weapon change.
I…. I don’t know what this means *sobs*
Oh man, fuck that game. Fuck that game so damned hard.
Freya played it constantly, so the house was full of chirps and whistles and that goddamned cheerfully twee soundtrack. It was like being stuck in an episode of Teletubbies with no escape.
I hear the game play itself is pretty rad but I’m never going to find out.
I had no idea it’s a space sci-fi game! I’ve played half an hour, was not disappointed.
yeah it’s a great little game, I loved the first 2 a lot, really enjoying this one so far, glad to hear you’re having fun with it, whoo Pikmin love 😀
Reading this again has convinced me to get it, but I am fearful of adding to my pile of shame especially after I bought the Star Wars bundle on steam last month that is still untouched 🙁
yep it jumped the queue on my pile of shame, couldn’t help it, glad I started it there’s something really charming about the whole experience. Have you played any of the earlier games? Not sure that the kind of gameplay is for everyone.
Apparently it recently got a big update to allow for full stylus controls, too! I’ve been curious to see how that plays.
I went with the wiimote straight away cause the controls didn’t work for left handed folk, I didn’t check if I could change it though.
I dunno. I think it’s a little more awesome than that.
Be sure to hit up challenge mode once you’re done with the main game. It’s something else, and VERY worthwhile. I think I spent at least as much time with it as I did with the campaign.
oh I intend to, I really want to play some of the co op stuff, now all I need is a friend…. or maybe I can convince my girlfriend to have a go, she did like the first one.
In the universe of Murdered you can spend your whole life in and out of prison and have been arrested for every crime there is and suddenly decide to be a cop and the cops are all like “Sure! Here’s a badge and a gun!” with the only caveat another cop will shake you by the collar and call you a criminal.
I played five minutes and saw more cliches than I thought possible to be shown in that time frame. I’m sure their intent was gravitas but I was too busy giggling at the sheer ridiculousness of it all.
It’s going to be one of those games…
Are you sure it’s not trying to tap into the Phoenix Wright school of deliberate lunacy where a convicted murderer on death row can get special dispensation to return to work as a prosecutor? 😛
@beeawwb @cakesmith and possibly @negativezero ?
If you guys are interested I’ll be on Wildstar tonight and tomorrow morning and it’s a lot easier to quest in that game with a friend let me know!
Did you ever end up sending me a pass?
Lol I asked you yesterday if you were interested and didn’t see a reply!
I can e-mail you my last pass?
=P
Sent! let me know if you got it!
Yeah I just got the email! Thanks!
What server / faction are we all on?
Myrkalus seems to be the “official” oceanic server and Dominion!
Mainly cos being a killer robot or a demonic lizard thing is cool. We try to ignore the fact we have squirrels on our side as well.
If you bag out the psychotic squirrel again I’m going to eat your face.
@rize
I should’ve known you’d be one of them =p
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ3l-P9IHVEfrJrYRJZm83URzCAU8mANI6J8813JT1WsSH5rTFq
I’ll be back at my place tonight, will let you know when I’ve got things set up although I may not start it until tomorrow morning. 🙂
The plan was to do something tomorrow (Saturday) right? What time?
I’ll probably give it a spin tonight to try out some classes, but play the other side because of NegativeZero’s MMO Character Creation Flowchart, so I’ll be starting fresh if we hook up in the game on Saturday.
Also I’ll probably have to zip out for an hour or so at some point in the morning to drop my mum to the mechanic to pick up my sister’s car from being repaired & serviced. Had to wait for a part to be shipped in from Sydney.
hello everybody
today i was just playing around on some next gen games and i have noticed something, what the hell happened to shadows? seriously in both infamous and watch dogs even the main character doesn’t cast shadows, it may not seem like much but it can be a fairly obvious immersion breaker.
i would like to know why you think devs are no longer giving games proper shadows? could it be that they have been sacrificed FOR THE GLORY OF GLORIOUS 1080p(can we stop that…please) or something else
(so far the only next gen game i have seen with good shadowing is surprisingly dead rising 3)
You’re right, we should stop that. 1440p has surpassed it as a resolution and 4k is around the corner.
Infamous: Second Son absolutely has dynamic shadows.
Edit: So does Watch Dogs, actually. I’m curious why you think they don’t.
try standing in front of a car (in game of course)
Watch_Dogs removed the lighting/shadow effects from lights.
I haven’t really noticed shadows to be honest =\ Watch dogs feels like a massive patch job because they needed the game to be compatible on the older platforms as well so I doubt it can be used as a benchmark..
Infamous on the other hand I thought seemed fine? Though truth be told I probably ignored all the shadows because of all the pretty lights instead =p I think it’s unrealistic to expect any truly next-gen games within a year from launch. In regards to 1080p and fps woes it seems pedantic for any developer to be worried about those things given people never really cared about them for the last few generations; I’d rather a really well made game at 720p and 30fps than one with poor optimization at 1080p and 60fps.
More fuel for my tinfoil hat theory that the next-gen consoles were only supposed to be launched at the end of this year, but industrial espionage chinese whispers convinced each party that the other was going to launch early, so they pushed to make it happen before fucking anyone was ready. Including developers and PR.
I’d support that. But it still wouldn’t change the specs of the machines by much. Every single tech authority knew that the specs of PS4 were barely enough to get by with 1080p Medium-High.
I reckon you’re right there. Though I’m not 100% convinced on that. Not if 12 months before launch someone like Ubi or EA had a word in the ear of Sony and said, “Yeah, we’re working on these titles for launch and we cannot get them to run nicely on those specs.” With enough wiggle room before launch, there might’ve been time to redo the numbers on that.
Guys…. that article on the Person 4 spoiler, is the picture for that article a spoiler?! Because if it is I’m going to be all kinds of fricking pissed off =@ I’ve yet to meet the bad guy in the game =@
No. The spoiler is in another picture in the article itself.
I was greatly amused that the article about a persona spoiler immediately followed the article about not spoiling persona…
Nah, it’s actually a screenshot for Persona Q (3DS persona game). The other persona article may be for Persona 4 Arena (the fighting game).
But that red haired guy in the article (persona 4 arena) picture… I haven’t seen him in Persona 4 yet! Tell me he’s from another persona game I haven’t heard of or is exclusive just to arena! =[
I think he is just an exclusive character to P4A but that being said, for the love of god, DO NOT OPEN THE ARTICLE!
I didnt I didnt! Avoiding it like the plague =[ *makes cross sign with fingers* *hisses like a cat*
Seriously Kotaku first Game of Thrones and now this =@
There were a lot more before that Game of Thrones one 🙁
TINA SALAMI! >:(
(although there has been a lot less than what there used to be)
Zaphod… he’s just zis guy, you know?
I’ve never seen him in P4G so I assume he’s from another game. The actual spoiler is inside that article (picture, and written), so don’t click on it.
Do not go into the article or if you do, do not scroll past the spoiler warning – there are pictures.
(Actually depending on your window size, you might see it anyway. Just best not to click.)
Not a spoiler, AFAIK that guy’s a Persona 4 Arena original character. The true spoiler is in the article. Suggest avoiding all mention of the game now because the spoiler is basically that they added a certain character and the identity of that character will spoil the whole plot of Persona 4.
I had that spoiled for me before playing the game (and I watched the anime adaption as well) and it severely hampered my ability to get into and enjoy P4.
Ah, really? Durn. I watched the anime before I even knew it was a game. 😛
There is a Starcraft 2 tournament called Homestory Cup. It’s basically a German dude inviting a whole bunch of pros to his apartment (which is conveniently located above a pub), where they stay for the weekend and play each other. Pros that aren’t playing will sit on the couch and run commentary.
It was one of the best tournaments in the SC2 scene when I followed it. Mostly because it showcased the players’ personalities instead of them just being dudes in booths who had a weird habit of capitalising the last letter of their name.
It turns out that the Dota 2 tournament, The Summit, is kind of following this same format. They have six pro teams from across the globe (who got there via online qualifiers), all crammed together in the Beyond the Summit (a casting group) house. I knew the tournament was going to be a bit more casual but I didn’t realise it was going to be the Dota Homestory Cup.
I’m happy because I woke up today and found out this was going on right now. Hooray!
Played Mario Kart 8 for the first time last night (Watch Dogs and laziness of setting up my Wii U again delayed this)
I adore the graphics, I also got 1st a few times looks like my drifting skills I picked up from Sonic Transformed shone through, I might need to practice my starting boost than again it is more fun racing in the power bracket of 2-5th places.
Friday funtime quiz! Because Friday!
If you could pick any one trope or cliche in storytelling, no matter if it’s books, movies, games, songs, comics, or anything else, what is your favourite to experience?
My favourite would probably be the Hollywood cliche that most explosions cause massive fireballs. I know in reality that they don’t but it doesn’t discount the fact that things exploding is pretty cool.
I love the cliche underdog story, where the main character starts at the bottom, trains gets way better and then kicks ass by the end of the movie! Used a hundred times sure but I’ll be damned if I don’t enjoy it ^^
Hollywood makeover.
Wait a second… wait, wait, wait. Take off your glasses. Oh… wait, wait. Let down your hair. No, glasses on, hair back up. Let’s just get that hair right back up.
I’ve made a huge mistake.
A story of vengeance against those that wronged the main character.
Another favourite of mine is “Bullets/arrows cause people to fly backwards”, hilarious to see
My all-time favourite thing in movies is where two characters just look at each other, and they have such unbelievable chemistry that sparks are practically flying. So many shows and movies try it, and so very, very few succeed.
Best: Enchanted
Honourable mention: Gilmore Girls
I saw this on the news this morning, and felt I had to share it with you all: http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/fabien-cousteau-embarks-on-living-31-days-underwater-as-part-of-mission-31/story-fnjwvztl-1226943009905
Andrew Ry-urrrrr, Fabien Cousteau will spend 31 days underwater to study sea life and effects of pollution among other things. Science, is there anything you can’t do?
Have you seen this from a few years ago?
http://gizmodo.com/5926433/this-is-how-you-live-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean
An article about an underwater research station. Really cool, interesting stuff.
Cheers Dan, that looks like an awesome read. Just scanned the first couple of sentences and saw a picture of Bioshock, this is exactly what I was hoping to see lol
https://ebgames.com.au/pc-202922-The-Witcher-3-Wild-Hunt-Collectors-Edition-PC
Yes please.
I want it so bad but I think I’ll need to upgrade my PC to play it in its glorious high quality. 🙁
My computer is going really well right now, but considering the game isn’t out till Feb next year I’m going to definitely need an upgrade.
So expensive. ='(
Yeah, but I’m probably going to justify it. Huge fan of the series, statue is awesome, and fer fark’s sake if I talk myself out of getting that medallion again I’m going to cry.
Is there an edition with that stuff that doesn’t have a fucking Steelbook and a trashy paperweight statue that’d be destined for the local landfill? I love me some cloth maps and if the artbook is anything like the one with the original Witcher CE then it’ll be worth it, but those two extras aren’t worth the $150 or so you’d pay to get it over just buying digitally through GoG…
EDIT: Looks like the Steelbook is an EB preorder disincentive so at least I’d not be paying extra for that trash. Also I’m hesitant about buying the game in Australia simply because The Witcher 2 was censored here.
EDIT EDIT: Wait, is that map just a printed piece of paper? 🙁
the last few collectors editions of things I’ve gotten lately have given me the steelbook plus a regular case, curious if they’re being considerate or if it’s just do do with logistics, as in they probably manufacture the CE somewhere different and just throw a copy of the game in after, I presume it’s the latter.
Yeah, and I’m fine with that approach because I can biff the shitty steelbook into the bin (hate hate hate steelbooks). There’s been a few games recently that they haven’t done that with though. For example it will be impossible to get Tales of Xillia 2 *without* a Steelbook as both the CE and the Day One Edition have one. Super disappointing. Actually will probably force me to buy it digitally to avoid the damned steelbook.
What is it specifically that makes you hate steelbooks so much, compared to normal cases?
They look terrible and they’re completely inconsistent in size and shape and general look from the spine with everything else on the platform. If all the games I had in my collection were Steelbooks I’d have no problem, but they’re not. If I’m buying a physical copy, it’s to add to the collection, and I have to put steelbook stuff in a different area. I sort my games alphabetically in each platform because I’m slightly OCD, and having random entries in there which look miles different and often don’t even attempt to replicate the look and feel of the rest of the platform annoys the crap out of me.
PS3 Steelbooks are the fucking worst. They’re normal DVD sized, so they’re about 2cm taller than all the other PS3 games in addition to being shitty.
EDIT: I’m actually probably less annoyed about a Steelbook for a PC version. The issue I have with this package is more the $10 statue and the fact that its presence drives the price of the set up by probably $50+. Really don’t like pack-in figures. Every one of them I’ve had in a CE has been incredibly poorly made and not something I’d ever even consider paying for, let alone displaying since doing so would require displacing one of my figures that was actually well made.
Agreed with the PS3 stuff. Having different sized stuff was just confusing…
Watch Dogs Dedsec edition came with a steelbook and a normal case. At first I was torn because no matter what I have a redundant case, but I’ve decided I’m going to use the normal case for my shelf because the steelbook is DVD case sized whereas the Xbone uses blu-ray height cases now. I don’t know what they were thinking. I’ve no idea what to do with the Steelbook now, tbh. :/
What was censored here in Witcher 2?
I got the dark edition on 360 when it came out & don’t remember hearing about anything dropped.
You could choose to accept sex as a reward for something. That’s all, if I’m remembering correctly.
Aw yep I remember it was the elvish girl from Flotsam. She’d turn up on Iorveths path in act 2.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/05/witcher-2-modified-for-australian-ma15-release/
It’s minor but I’m against censorship regardless of whether I have any intention to experience the uncensored content, and if there’s an uncensored version available I will always prefer to buy it instead. Bought it direct from GoG. Cheaper, money went straight to CD Projekt and I got a complete version.
Would CD Projekt see more of $72 on GOG or $200 at EB?
I know it’s probably the first, but shiny CE!
Honest opinion they’d probably see about the same. E.B. / GameStop would probably pay ~$50 and then mark it up to $200. Because “profit”?
By the time you factor out the EB markup, Namco Bandai AU’s cut, Namco Bandai US’s cut, production costs and so on I expect that GOG would make CDProject about $50-60 at a $72 price point, where the EB sale probably makes them $20 if they’re lucky.
Only difference between preordering normal or CE is the art book, statue and medallion.
Censorship wise, they put an FAQ topic about that, and it basically said ‘unno, since it isn’t rated yet.
I’d be okay preordering it (since I can always cancel in the case of censorship) if EB didn’t want to take a $50 deposit. Fuck that bullshit.
It’s so pretty…
NO STUART YOU NEED TO ACTUALLY PLAY WITCHER 2 FIRST
You really really do.
It is currently downloading on new comp, and I’m getting my XBOX controller back this weekend, so soon!
I would go as far as saying that The Witcher 2 is the best western RPG of the last generation, but it’s not really part of a console cycle being a PC game. Last ten years, maybe? It’s definitely up there, at least.
You know I’ve got both Witcher and Witcher 2 on my GOG account, and I only just realised that I HAVE A BLOODY 360 CONTROLLER I CAN USE NOW instead of when I attempted to play them on my laptop when they first came out. Thaaaaaaat did not work.
Yes, yes you do.
Already ordered my copy!
So psyched!
bye bye money….
Murdered: Soul Suspect is cool. Really, really like it. I can easily see why some might not, but it’s just a fun walk through a haunted house or a ghost tour. Amazing sights, spooky ghost stories, atmosphere a-plenty. Unlike any game I’ve played. It’s got a smallish open world like Bully with the investigation of L.A. Noire. Gameplay is incredibly basic but if it hooks with you? Good times!
I’m not game to recommend it cause I know it’s an acquired taste but easily one of the best games I’ve played this year and now my resolve not to put weight on reviews has only strengthened. 🙂
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/474527982493507584/photo/1
Like LA Noire, you say… Interesting…
If it was written by an 8 year old whose only contact with the outside world was TVTropes.
It’s actually kind of charming in its helmeted special kid approach. I can see myself sticking with it.
See, hate. I knew you would. 😛
No hate. Just wry amusement.
Take that back or @dc will get the prisoner-cop-man to arrest you. Or something like that. :p
Gah, stoopid brain.
Went into panic attack mode last night and wouldn’t let me sleep. Becasue I had to many things I needed to get sorted out today. Now I’m too tired to get things sorted out and heading towards another panic attack. Stoopid brain.
Also tried out injustice last night, I’m enjoying it. Figured I would give it a go and next thing i know Mrs Tigs was telling me it was time for bed. Story mode is cool. Although it always make me kinda sad when I’m not able to successfully complete the tutorial.
Ah, hope you feel better Tigs. 🙁
Thanks DC. I should be fine, just slightly sick as well so I’m having trouble being able to head down and power through.
Think I’m just feeling overwhelmed, and with everything having time pressure on I’m just having trouble coping. I’ll get some stuff done today and hopefully I’ll be able to shake this feeling.
Long weekend!
Now that I’m feeling better, I’m ready for some Mario Kartin’ tonight if anyone else is keen? 😀
@sughly @dc
Yeah, I’m game! Only Sughly, my sister and me played last night (until Sughly left and was replaced with Gutsoup)… we were outclassed by Sughly’s awesome. It was so unbalanced. Sughly constantly first and me and my sister in like sixth or seventh. XD
Yeah, that’s why I only tagged you two!
Although now it looks like I’m playing favourites! 😛
I didn’t want an invite anyway.
we can join anyway and team up to beat up greenius 😛
Team up with my rival!? Are times this dire!?
oh it’s like that is it.
Revs engine *luigi death stares straight forward*
You know what they say! My enemy’s enemy is my ally!
Pow you’re dead meat >:(
Frankly I shouldve stayed – I went on to build the dumbest cruddiest looking thing in minecraft and wasted the night doing so :'(
I joined just as you left :(, then a couple of others joined, never more than about 3 or so at a time though.
i missed out last night so i’m keen as sheet! count me in
I kinda maybe possibly forgot the past two nights.
Maybe.
yeah last night I was like, well… guess everyone’s over this already
I think it’s more along the lines of no one really said anything on TAY. I think it’s probably better to swap the tournament to a weekly thing (or just organise weekly events) (@powalen)
But I guess with smaller numbers we can play against randoms or in friends only rooms! (chat :O)
You’re all very pretty.
I just thought you should know that.
So damn pretty….
and witty and bright!
And I pity
Any girl who isn’t me tonight!
*in me
fixed
I feel charming!
Oh so charming!
It’s alarming how charming I feel!
I’m a regular prince f****** charming
8hrs sleep, exercise, testosterone, vitamin B, C, D, ginseng, garlic, zinc, magnesium, caffeine, guarana, powdered rhino horn, tiger’s blood, demonic pacts, immortal decapitations, fuck all‘a that shit. Nothing beats the energizing effect of a few hours conversation with the missus on a good day.
Bring it, world.
How is the missus?
[Cautious edit to remove too much personal info] Not good, but better. And that’s worth a lot.
Based on that comment, I’d say “satisfied”………yeah, how’s she going?
We had a conversation that approached normalcy.
To hear her actually laugh gives me the strength of ten men.
I think I missed the back story here, so I’m glad my tongue in cheek comment didn’t offend you…
Awesome to hear that things are looking on the up and up!
One day at a time, just savouring the moment. Backstory is basically: inoperable brain tumor. Body and mind all fucked up. Experimental treatments etc and other conditions meant her moving back in with her folks in the US. I don’t talk about it anywhere near as much as it’s present in my thoughts.
Just… the call was a good day.
dude! that’s heavy stuff!
There’s nothing really to say to that other then i wish you guys all the best!
I can’t even imagine what you guys are going through
Ah excellent, how would you like to help me move a piano? 😛
And now for my serious comment: I’m really happy that things are looking better for you this morning. 🙂
I’ve had a few hours conversation with the missus this morning and I kind of feel like crawling into a hole.
But it was mostly shouting, insults and accusations between us so I’m guessing it was different for you.
Unless that’s what you guys are into in which case no judgement.
Ick, that good?
Well I did tease her a bit, but in the way she likes. Sooo… yeah.
Sorry man. :/
Like I was trying to tell @dc earlier! There’s few things in this world that a good woman and a cold bottle of American Honey can’t fix…
Happy for you bro!
American Honey hey? @rize that brings back memories XD
I’m still in love with that hip flask because of it.
Sweet tasty moustache drink.
mmmm tasty moustache drink…
…
We should Mario Kart drinking game it up like that XD
I had a blood test yesterday. Then, last night I had a phone call from my doctor to tell me that the results showed my thyroid function is lower than it should be. So, apparently I have to wait two months and then have another blood test to see if there’s any improvement, and work out where to go from there. Obviously, I’m feeling worried now and hoping that there’s nothing serious causing it. I’ll try not to worry too much.
Hugs dude. Hope it isnt anything. But if your feeling whelmed You should talk to someone. 🙂
I know I’m always around on twitter or tay or teh emails.
Any thyroid issues very rarely spin off into something seriously (unless it’s a form of rare genetic mutation). The more common issues can usually be easily treated as well, if I’m recalling correctly lower thyroid function might just result in you having slower metabolism? Meaning you might be feeling more lethargic than usual!
Hope your next blood test goes well, the lower thyroid function might also be due to environmental stress factors!
Edit: @ontargett Also remembered another side effect of a wonky thyroid gland if it’s under-performing it can result in weight gain since your cells aren’t burning off as much energy via metabolic activity and if it’s over-performing it can result in you being ridiculously skinny. I used to eat like a machine and never put on any kind of weight in high school and my friends decided it was all thanks to my thyroid gland -,-
On the bright side, if the doctor thought it was anything serious than he wouldn’t make you wait 2 months. I’m sure it’s nothing 🙂
My mum has a wonky thyroid gland. Nothing causes it, it just kinda does what it wants, haha! She only just found out, and she’s on some pills, and she’s right as rain 🙂
I’m sure she’s a lot older than you too, so hers would have been wonky for ages since she only caught it this year.
I’m sure you’ll be fine, and that it’s nothing to worry about 🙂
It’s good to see you sticking with the exercise by the way! Good on you! 😀
One of the guys in my office came and screamed at me because there were tools all over my desk and I was disrespecting all of our office by keeping a untidy desk. I was away for 2 days so not only was the mess not mine, all my tools were missing.
I took the passive aggressive approach and “sarcastically” cleaned my desk. Removing all tools, books, paper and my computer stuff from my desk and hid them in another room. After i had my 10 minutes of smirking, I cleaned up properly by buying a lockable toolbox and storing all my stuff in there. Which then prompted the question:
“how can i use your tools if you aren’t here?”
“you don’t” was my response.
Passive aggression may not be the best response to assholes but it sure feels good.
I lock everything to my desk after I came into the office one morning while I was still a grad almost 5 years ago and my monitor and keyboard weren’t there. Turned out one of the other grads decided to “borrow” it without permission.
I had a hilarious thing happen while I was on leave one time: Someone was trying to use my equipment locked on the desk. Little did they know my docking station was in the locked state (Once you plug your laptop in, you can’t get it back out without my key), so they decided to call me telling me off. “Why the hell have you set your docking station locked?” to which I simply responded with “Why the hell are you trying to use my equipment that I am responsible for without my permission?”. I still had to come into work to unlock the laptop for them but yeah, I was laughing after I left cuz I caught the prick red handed.
I’ve just moved desks to a spot near some busy meeting rooms, so my chair keeps going missing. Now I have several reams of A4 paper to elevate the keyboard and mouse to just make it a standing desk until my chair comes back.
You should fill a condom with cornflour and water and just keep it on the chair. No one will touch it then.
“Cornflour and water”
Sure, Shane.
Sure.
Wait, what? In what circumstance would someone take your monitor and keyboard if you work in an office that, I presume, has one at almost every desk?
*shrugs* To this day I still don’t know why
We used to have an unofficial “if it’s not in use feel free to grab it policy” regarding monitors. See, our PC builds are all dual monitor compatible, and are due to have dual monitors rolled out to all PCs at some point, but until then people may be stuck with just 1 monitor. But monitors aren’t a leased asset (i.e. they’re paid in full with no recurring cost) so if you found an unattended / unused monitor and plugged it in to your workstation it was no skin off any cost centres.
There used to be a lot of monitor-less PCs around the office.
You should try an active aggression next time like follows :-
“how can i use your tools if you aren’t here?”
“you want to use my tools?” *throw hammer at guy*
“there let me know if you want another one”
Office politics D:
Yeah… good luck with that, jobius.
It sounds like your office is full of tools.
I thought the golden rule in any trade was not to fuck with someone else’s tools? I remember when doing baking we all had our own knives and whatnot that we were responsible for, and when I was living with a painter he had his own special paintbrushes and rollers. I also know that if anyone touched my dressmaking scissors or rotary cutter now(even if it was family) there’d be hell to pay. You don’t mess with the tools of the trade, it’s just not fucking done.
When I started for 8 months i had no tools. I waited until i got my tool allowance which was for $400 a year for 4 years
I got all the neccesities and some cool stuff that was really useful, or it would of been if i had kept it for more than 2 months. Being a apprentice my toolbox was the first one raided if anyone lost stuff. Locking resulted in a broken lock. After 3 years of stolen tools i just gave up and just used whatever i could find. It resulted in stuff taking hours longer because i had to find tools around the shop. When i left i still had $800 on my allowance because i had stopped replacing stuff.
When i started in townsville stuff went missing straight away. I keep all my stuff near my desk and it was pretty easy to grab. Honestly the lack of respect for my belongings is about halfway down the list of complaints i have about this company. I still love electronics repair and working with my hands, im just sick of never being able to do it properly.
So @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian is an absolute champion! i know you all know that but i felt it needed to be said.
He gifted me The Forest yesterday, spent most the night playing it, and jesus holy fark is it tense!
Okay yes, there’s bugs… but i’ve played full release bethesda games that were more buggy then this!
I thoroughly enjoyed me time with it, minus the part where i get chased through the forest by naked people… that was pretty scary…
That sounds pretty awesome, actually.
If this is truly an Alpha Release, i see this game going far! Seriously i was blown away by how pretty it manages to be… Plus chopping down trees was actually pretty well done XD
I think the only real bugs that i encountered was:
There’s currently no real “Swimming” you get in the water and your character still does the walk animation (judging by the shadow)
and birds, BIRDS EVERYWHERE XD… i started a fire next to my freshly built shelter and all of the sudden there was 20+ birds sitting on top of it, staring at me…
Oh and a lizard started climbing a tree i had just chopped down, so it was climbing on nothing 😛
That sounds more and more like “Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Video Game”
If I didn’t have so many other games going on (and now Project Zomboid have released Build 27 with a new shopping mall, trapping, and all sorts of new stuff, DAMN THEM!) I’d probably be interested in checking it out.
More updates for Project Zomboid? i’ll have to check that out!!!
Yeah in all seriousness, one of the first games i thought of when i played it was “Wow, it’s almost like a FPS Project Zomboid” 😛
Aside from there’s not nearly as many moods, the idea is still there that you can get sick and stuff… I don’t think it’s fully implemented yet, but for instance i was in a particularly messy encounter with some natives and I got covered in blood, the game then told me i should wash it off, to avoid infections…
Similarly, you can get wet and cold from the rain and stuff…
I think the only reason the “forest people” aren’t zombies, is that they didn’t want to be compared to other zombie games
Zomboid’s multiplayer is a part of the current build too, not the beta. Was talking with @f4ction about it a few days ago and sounds like it’s starting to come together nicely.
Build 27 enables publicly listed multiplayer servers, as well as client side mod checking. If you don’t have the same mods as the server you can’t connect. To prevent hacks and so forth.
Oooohh we should get on that… also once Multi is implemented in The Forest, everyone should get on that XD
Which is totally fair. There’s already plenty of zombie games, and plenty of FPS zombie games. A lot of what you’re describing seems pretty RUST like, but without the MMO elements. Is that a fair comparison as well (and I haven’t played RUST either)
And yeah, Zomboid build 27 dropped in to the “I Will Back Up My Save” branch on Steam earlier this morning. It’s really getting “survival” complete now that fishing and trapping are involved. I look back at some of the reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally old builds (I’m talking pre .015c) and it’s just amazing how far things have come. But I miss Baldspot and Kate.
Have any of you guys played the X-wing Miniatures game yet?
I got it for my Birthday (\o/) and it’s bloody awesome!!
I’v seen it played but I haven’t played it myself. Who’s your favourite character?
I haven’t been using the character cards yet, but the starter box does come with some really nice ones, including household names like Luke Skywalker and Biggs Darklighter.
When using just the starter ships you’re basically using nameless pilots until you start building points-based squads.
The game play is incredibly simple to grasp, yet can be incredibly deep at the same time. So much so that Bee has actually been playing the game with me too!
I also got given the Slave-1 (Firespray 31), which comes with Boba Fett, of course, along with a few other bounty hunters and nameless pilots – plus a whole bunch of goodies like bombs and missiles.
I have the base set, plus the Millenium Falcon, but still yet to find someone interested in playing it with me XD
hahaha that’s hilarious – as i mentioned above, i have the base plus the falcon.
It’s a sign!
We should play with each other!
*wink*
*Shuffles closer*
Well i’m… Keen… If you are
*Slams the Millenium Falcon on the table*
Well if you’re going to be Keen then I’ll be The Grand Intellect.
*Dons Packers Football Helmet*
Let’s do this
If I lived anywhere near you I would play but only if I get to make spaceship and laser noises the entire time.
SPACESHIP!
I’m pretty sure it’s in the rules that you have to!
While the 13 minute track “The Last Battle” (episode IV) plays in the background
I’d be angry if you didn’t make those noises.
Yep, it’s rad.
Fun fact: it’s really useful as a drinking game, especially cause matches get hilarious when drunk. Everyone tries to do the all or nothing manoeuvres and it gets dramatic fast.
That’s amazing.
Tell me more about how to use it as a drinking game??
If you drink every time damage gets canceled out, you would get drunk soooooo fast.
Everytime it’s another player’s turn, everyone drinks?
…
*5 minutes later*
Well that eschcalated qua-… qui… kvickly *hic*
I can’t remember the rules specifically, only done it once. It’s one of those things I just made up one night.
I believe part of it was drink on a hit, shot on a kill? Though I think this was adjusted after a hit-intensive match…
Adjusted to shot on a hit, bottle on a kill? 😛
I haven’t but I played Wings of Glory, which is the game they re-implemented the mechanics from. It’s pretty fun but the minis are expensive. Especially since they seem to be trying to get everything to proper scale. They released the Tantive IV recently and that thing’s fucking enormous.
I know – but how amazing does it look?!?!
Also, i wouldn’t say it’s expensive, personally. The smaller ships are around $20, and the large are $50… it’s only once you get int the massive ship territory it becomes stupid.
Add to this that they are all ready painted and come with everything you need (extra cards and tokens etc), i think it’s great value. Especially when you consider that most games run around 100 points, with the average ship costing around 20 points, unless your swarming academy pilot Tie Fighters.
Really, you can have a tournament level fleet for around $150 or less, i think. Which certainly beats the crap outta 40k.
Yeah, it looks awesome.
https://scontent-a-mad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1/q71/s720x720/1234142_587567458001852_1284338602_n.jpg
This seems like the kind of escalation i tend to experience sometimes…
Bless oil of cloves and its tooth numbing goodness. I can move my jaw again \o/
\o/
Explaining Australia tax to a coworker, after finishing up explaining it online. (On the GoG Steam article.)
“Wait… what?! That’s such bullshit! How do they get away with that?”
“Did you know about it before today?”
“No!”
“That’s how they get away with it.”
If I had millions of dollars to spare, I swear I would spend so much of it on advertising campaigns to call out assholes.
It’s the same reason people actually believe that Harvey Norman are the “tech xperts”. The companies profit on the general population’s lack of knowledge and sometimes willful ignorance.
Dick Smith are the Techxperts.
I guess it goes to show how much attention I pay to advertising then. My bad.
I only know because there’s one six feet in front of my shop that I spend all day facing 😛
Why try to find out more when what little you know is good enough right?
I’m going through my Numenera session notes as I’m in the process of writing the recap for the train fight. All is fine until I find this little doozy of a summary:
“One of the creatures runs up and pounds on Ranger’s prone form.”
@mawt I am so sorry.
Kinky
@powalen
Any word on Monday’s meat up? Can we go to the warhammer store near kino?! =p
Must. not. buy. more. models.
Edit: Grammar, I’m so fricking sleep deprived >.<
I brought my Nephilim with me so i could spray it during my lunch break…
#nerdlyf
Hm? We’re meeting at 12 in Kino on Monday, having lunch, then doing stuff.
I think you’re under the impression that Meats are more formal than they actually are haha
Ok so do not wear office attire to the meat. Got it =p Wait how will I know where to find peeps in Kino?
Grab some numbers or tweet people. Or just say something like “I’ll be the chump wearing green” and hopefully someone will recognise you 😛
White carnation is standard.
What is “toowheeet? I feel like there’s some kind of a demonic connotation to the word. *makes cross with fingers*
Got it I’ll be the brown guy wearing clothes! I’m sure to stand out!
Descriptions could backfire though, like when @masha2932 said he’s a big black guy and Pow thought he was joking 😛
Especially because I was planning to make that exact joke 😛
We’ll probably be clumped together in the comics section, if past experience is anything to go by.
You can either come up with a covert spy-speak passphrase so that we know who each other are… or wear something noticeable so that we can flag you down.
Can you (or someone with you) please ask them if they have any Shane W Smith books in stock, and then threaten to boycott the place when they say no. Kthx
I did tell you to leave some books on the shelf last time we were there!
Was that the time I went to Kino and no one was there? :'(
Granted it was the Singapore Kino, but you guys didn’t specify!
Ok ok ok passphrase… GOT IT!
I shall come to the comic section and discreetly whisper – KAKAW KAKAW KAW KAW KAKAW and if anyone turns their heads I’ll know its you guys!
I’m pretty sure anyone would turn their heads if someone started kakawing. You might expand your circle of friends even wider than you expected! \o/
Ok no more jokes! I shall be the brown guy in clothes in the comics section. I shall go about saying the phrase “TAYbie?” to everyone who walks by and hope I don’t get kicked out!
Hopefully girls walking by don’t mistake it for me saying “baby?” which could end up in me getting kicked out….
One time there was a dapper meat where a few people dressed extra fancy for no real reason.
We should do that again. It’s been a long time since I wore my highly fashionable sweater vest.
Very well then I shall wear my Deslin Rowe beanie and a hoodie! But if it’s not cold I’ll just be the brown guy in a hoodie!
No real reason?
NO REAL REASON!?
WE WERE RIDING THE MONORAIL, DAMNIT!
YOU WANT TO LOOK LIKE A PEASANT WHILE RIDING THE FUTURE, THEN BE MY GUEST!
Never mind, Bish covered it
I’ve had a bit of a Hype defecit for new games for a while, nothing has really pushed my BUY THIS buttons for a while.
That Witcher 3 trailer though. Holy shit.
http://i.imgur.com/nItOe9r.png
E3 is going to be my hype dealer. Putting all my hopes on a good reveal for Beast Souls. And hopefully a massive 60-70% price drop in PS4 consoles.
I am granting myself small allowances of hype for:
DA: Inquisition
Witcher 3
Lords of the Fallen
Shadows of Mordor
That unannounced Dark Souls’ish Beast Thingey game
Halo 5
MAYBE Destiny
Oh, and a tiny, tiny reserve for Dying Light.
It’s because so far, there doesn’t seem to be that many big releases this year. 2014’s big releases are Titanfall, Dark Souls 2, and Dragon Age Inquisition. Destiny doesn’t count because console.
I hope a bunch of stuff gets announced at E3.
Why doesn’t Destiny count?
Would Halo 5 or Uncharted 4 not count?
I was a little attack on Activision for the confusing idea to not release Destiny on PC, even though first-person shooters and loot-driven games are popular in the PC gaming market.
If they want to ‘make the next big thing’ why are they neglecting a third of the market almost arbitrarily? Activision would easily make a their money back if they chose to contract a third party developer.
What is everybody’s weekend plan?
IM going to visit my grandparents and maybe do some household chores that i have been putting off. I should make some lists of things that i should do.
I’m going to Kapunda for the weekend, to stay in my parents house with some friends.
There will be board games, there will be wine.
I plan on going to work (how I wish for weekends off), pretending to study while I actually just die inside with each minute spent reading stuff that I don’t understand, downloading the entirety of the internet when I get internet back (woo!), and maybe even try out some MK8 online if I am able to 🙂
*old man voice*
You’ve soldiered through great hardships, dear boy. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. And that light is the manifestation of multiplayer video games and youtube videos. Harness this reclaimed power, but use it wisely.
I plan to be horribly sick with a flu my son gave me. It wasn’t my original plan, but I think it’s wise that I change with the times…
Good philosophy shane! The dinosaurs couldn’t adapt and look where they ended up!
A side act on the wiggles?
Yes, just imagine if they’d let themselves get sick with the flu. They wouldn’t have had to wait for a meteor to wipe them off the face of the earth.
Cosplay stuff. All the cosplay stuff until I am broke
One lot of visitors today/tonight, another lot tomorrow/tomorrow night, maybe @blaghman stuff on Sunday, cry about how short the long weekend is on Monday.
3 day weekend here 🙂
Oh, I have it too, which is why I’ll be crying that Monday means I’m back at work the next day.
I’m heading down south to have dinner.
(That’s not a euphemism)
I am going to be gymming, playing lots of games, possibly drinking a lot and doing my best to avoid contact with my ex since that could lead to me losing my entire weekend to her =,=
Life’s too short. :/
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Oh, that’s the good kind! Well in that case, rebound.
Finish 3D World and get onto some Mario Kart.
I don’t like my chances.
Tending Bar at the local football club
Got my RSA cert yesterday, and looking forward to having a semi-regular job.
I once worked in the pokies room of a pub for 8 months with no RSA or gaming licence, gotta love lazy employers.
Drink, eat, paint, climb fake rocks, sleep.
Dunno what else.
So Gorzilla bought me two shirts from EBGames because I had to throw out my last one and they were $4 each!
Small shirts, giant box. o_o
Buying clothes for girls to put on??
WHAT’S GONE WRONG IN THE WORLD?!
they were gaming shirts.
I know.
The best kind of shirts.
Got a new laptop for work yesterday, it’s a bonus that it’s a lot better than my home PC, so now I should be able to play some of the more demanding games in my steam library.
It’s nothing flash though, 1.6/2.3Ghz core i5 processor, 4GB RAM and Nvidia Geforce 720M (doesn’t mean much to me). I’m no expert on models of graphics cards (or much to do with PC’s for that matter), how do I tell if it’s good enough to run a specific game?
Also, are there any steam games you guys can recommend that my laptop can run?
Speaking of Steam, I just had a look in my inventory, and noticed that I’ve still got a few games in there. I’ve got Serious Sam Classic: First Edition, and Serious Sam Classic: Second Edition, don’t know what the difference is, because they both appear to contain the same games, Serious Sam Claasic: First Encounter, Serious Sam Classic: Second Encounter, and Serious Sam Classics: Revolution. If anybody wants either of the two SS packs just let me know and I’ll gift them to you.
When in doubt :-
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri
Cheers for that. It looks like I can run Alan Wake and Darksiders II, but not AC: Black Flag, I’m pretty happy with those results, not bad for a pretty basic work laptop.
So I may not be coming to Sydney in September. It’s possible that, even though I sent my forms in months ago, Oz Comic-Con is all booked up. That’s a big ol’ kick in the balls.
*all of Sydney breathes a sigh of relief*
But you’ll be peddling your wares at PAX right?
Right?
Afraid not. This was going to be my one interstate anything this year.
Do they even do comics at PAX?
Not really.
Aw man, I could have really stood out there, then!
I’ll do a couple of local test runs at Farmers’ Markets and Baby+Kids Markets, and see if it’s worth the trip to PAX.
You should come dressed as a comic book stand… but one that only sells your work.
If they try to kick you out tell them you are cosplaying – that should do the trick.
If not, scream out that they are racist/hjomophobic/xenophobic/shaneophobic and attract mass media.
????
Profit.
I can just imagine struggling through baggage claim with that stand. That alone would make the trip worth it.
You might be able to get a foldable one from Ikea… you never know!
I wasn’t really expecting you to man, just hassling ya!
Man, I cleaned up and everything for nothing.
you should make people from Sydney, Melbourne and brisbane peddle your wares. So for example, I could go to Armageddon in your place to sell your comics
That’s a cool idea, but I could never ask someone to do that. To even sell one of these books, you have to get right up in people’s faces and make them take a look. Every sell is a hard sell.
I know how much I hate doing that, and I would never expect someone else to do it on my behalf.
Thanks, though!
I cosplay. I have done it for friends IN COSPLAY. If I am going to a convention, a traders pass isn’t much more and has loads of benefits.
It’s just something to consider =D
I’m sure I’m not the only one who would be willing to do it.
Supanova shane?!
Shaneanova
Shaneashane.
Nah, my wife is gonna drop our third child any minute now. I’m a homebody for a while – September was going to be my first breath of free air.
*AHEM* I’ll just leave this here…..
http://www.pcgamer.com/au/2014/06/05/wildstar-review-in-progress-part-two-shiphand-missions-housing-and-battlegrounds/
tch, leaving stuff like this just lying around, someone could trip and fall.
Reporting you to the WHS officer.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m weirded out by all the positivity surrounding this just-launched MMO.
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, nor suggesting there’s a conspiracy where all reviewers are being bribed, it’s just really not something I’m used to.
I’ll only pass my final verdict on it once I hit 50 and check out end-game content! If it’s up to scratch I’ll start investing time into making a casual 20-man raiding guild, if not I’ll just jump back into SWTOR or WoD whenever I’m looking scratch the MMO itch…
Always wanted to create or run a guild at the launch of an MMO (missed out on City of heroes and WoW all those years ago cos I was too young) and wildstar has been the most promising candidate so far. But I hear the skepticism around it, and I’m wading through it highly critical of anything I don’t like i.e. the settler path and crafting seems a bit messy to say the least but so far the core mmo experience seems solid and something I could get into again.
I saw a reviewer who was worried that after leaving the first zone (which was only 80-something percent complete), his ‘total completion’ for the world was 24%. In only a couple days.
I’m guessing they’re expecting endgame (or ‘elder game’)/PVP/housing knick-knack collection to tie up the majority of the gameplay.
Which is a shame, because end-game is typically where most MMOs lose me.
I don’t get how the reviewer left the first zone and managed 24%…. unless he was being an absolute since completionist there is an incredibly amount of optional crap to do in Wildstar.
I’ve played through the both Dominion starting zones 4 times to date and each time I find new crap that I didn’t before. Worth noting that explorers and scientist paths will unlock areas not available to the soldier and the settler creates little temporary bases with extra quests that the other 3 paths can’t unlock. There’s also bonus challenges and optional quests that I’ve just completely skipped over since I’d out leveled them…. A lot of the lore is hidden as well, you’ll probably only come across half the lore entries without trying to find them? This is based of my experience in the starting zones and the zones soon after spent about 12 hours in each choice of zone.
Looks like they really actually are going ahead with that free to play game involving moe anthropomorphisms of classic Japanese castles
It actually leaves me with a fair degree of morbid curiosity. I thought that Kantai Collection would be complete trash but it turned out that it was fully capable of sucking away hundreds of hours of my time over the last 9 months or so, so who knows? The concept seems really strange and hard to figure out how you could spin a game out of it though.
Is there nothing that they can’t turn into people?
politicians *ba-dum-tish*
It’s one of the rules of the internet. It’s like rule 34. If it exists, someone in Japan probably drew it as a cute girl. And the corollary is always that if you find something that hasn’t been you’re required to fix it.
From what I’ve seen the rule is pretty much correct. Everything from teabags to pancake stacks to operating systems.
I don’t know what you call that thing where the guy goes to say something, finger pointing and mouth agape, but then can’t find the words and closes his mouth (which is really annoying since so often it seems to be my reaction to things and I don’t know how to find it), but that is more or less what I did just now.
I knew of the OS thing, but teabags? Pancakes? Geez.
Relevant:
http://www.whatevo.com/media/posts/boneless-chicken.jpg
Yeah like that!
If you feel game (I don’t hugely recommend this at work) look up Lip-tan. It was a short 3-4 page manga thing by Eiji Komatsu (I only remember him being associated because I like his artwork) in which a dude at a cafe orders tea and then looks down and the Lipton teabag has become Lip-tan, a cute mini-girl.
The pancake one is slightly different. Bisuke-tan was an unofficial mascot character for a ‘biscuit’ thing that KFC sells in Japan, which is basically a stack of really thick pancake things with syrup and melted butter.
There’s heaps of other stuff too. There’s a whole series of 4-panel comics involving Habanero-tan who was made as an unofficial mascot for some kind of chilli-covered chip brand. Binchou-tan is an anthropomorphism of a piece of charcoal used in the preparation of rice. There’s a light novel series, Akikan, in which discarded soft drink cans turn into girls (it is fucking awful by the way). Another manga and corresponding anime adaption was Upotte, where the characters are all anthropomorphised assault rifles. That one was actually really entertaining, surprisingly.
According to Wikipedia, people have even done this with random shit like articles of the Japanese constitution. Ever wished you could play a game in which you could have sex with your washing machine? Japan’s got you covered. Unfortunately.
Upvote because you know lots about things.
Semi-relatedly, while I haven’t played in a few months I still keep abreast of Kantai Collection’s updates and it looks like they announced an event in July to commemorate the battle of Midway. I don’t know why the hell Japan would want to remember the battle that lost them WW2 but whatever.
Apparently they’re rolling out a the second upgrade for a fleet carrier for the first time and the image they’re teasing with at the moment looks like Hiryuu’s flight deck. I hope it’s the case because generally the Kai-2 upgrades for top-end ships require level 70+, and when I last played my Hiryuu (she was the first proper carrier I got!) was at level 79. So for the first time I may be able to leverage a new Kai-2 upgrade rolling through without grinding!
That’s assuming I play it again, of course. They changed a lot of systems since I played and I’m not sure where to start again.
To be fair, we put a lot of focus on that time we ran head-first into bullets and many people died.
Fair point. We don’t usually have Gallipoli re-enactment events in our games though.
If we did though, I would play the crap out of that.
Or really, any WWI or pre-Vietnam shooter just to get away from the MMS wank and now future shooter wank we seem to be indulging in these days.
hehe I’m an adult
Looking at the screenshots they characters don’t look anything like castles. So I’m not sure how that is meant to translate
I’m not sure either. I don’t even know why this thing exists. All I know is that I kind of want to try it.
EDIT: Actually, there’s details on their designs which line up to the castles. For example the one with the naginata and the cape with a design that has water ripples and raindrops on it is Kururi Castle, also known as the ‘Rain Castle’ because it rained on average once every 3 days during construction. The castle keep has fish tails on the peak of the roof, just like her hair ornaments.
Ok, so they are going for more of a “spirit of the castle” kinda look rather than a humanoid physical representation of the castle perhaps.
I kinda want to try it and Kantai cookie clicker but not enough to worry about translation and VPN stuffs
You only need the VPN once a month and Kantai Collection’s pretty playable without a translation, aside from the quests, but there’s a wiki for that.
It’s a lot more involved than cookie clicker. It looks a bit like a card battling game but it’s really more of a light RPG. One day if you want I’ll stream playing it for a few minutes or something.
sssshhhhhhhhh
I don’t have time and this is my way of stopping myself getting started. Based on the fact I still login to my ogame account weekly after god knows how many years means this could be bad for me.
And Mrs Tigs is already looking disapprovingly at me, who knows what looks I would get when she saw the images. And she didn’t read this bit just the first part, what a waste
*shrugs* I’ll put it in the “because Japan” basket for an explanation. The fact that they’ve actually turned Kantai Collection into a viable franchise is astounding, despite the game not making that much money.
The castle girl game might be trying too soon for the same thing but then again, it will probably succeed “because Japan”.
On paper, Kantai Collection at least has elements you can see working. The logical steps they went through are there and it’s not a concept without precedence – they’ve had ‘mecha musume’ stuff for a while, for example the Strike Witches stuff made a pretty lucrative franchise by turning various WW2 aces into pilots and strapping aircraft-derived parts to them. I think people behind that franchise success were involved in KC. Plus they were able to leverage the fact there’s a bit of a groundswell of nationalism in the country mainly because of the Japan/China saber rattling around the Senkaku Islands. There is a big overlap between anime otaku and military otaku, and if you’re into Navy stuff the IJN was pretty impressive, competing with a much larger force through superior technology etc. Also there’s the fact that any sailor will tell you that ships are always thought of as female and they each have their own personality and everything, so it’s not that much of a stretch to expand on that. And the gameplay concepts sort of largely writes themselves.
I can’t see any of those things being the case with castles. But I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.
So … the next one is going to be planets that turn into anime girls?
Sailor Moon? :V
One of our suppliers we use at work has a poorly worded name for a product, it’s supposed to be a glass cleaner, the description says “for a stunning reflective finish” but on our orders it shows up as “glass reflection cleaner”. So what do they send a vampire over to bite me? “there you go no more reflections”
I have a question for the 40K afficionados. In a battle where the primary way of disabling a renegade Baneblade is through the application of a variant-pattern Thunderbolt fighter bomber with a nose-mounted plasma cannon, who would win?
Asking because that’s pretty much what our squad must accomplish in our next Only War 40K RPG session.
Roll it up in a carpet and throw it off a bridge.
We’re gonna need a bigger carpet. 😛
I believe the answer is “yes”.
I know what a Baneblade is but I don’t think I know the capabilities of a Thunderbolt fighter bomber *goes and looks it up*
Wait does the Baneblade even have AA?
Technically no. But we have no idea of what modifications they may have made to the Baneblade since going renegade. They could have strapped twin-linked autocannons to it for all we know.
You don’t just strap twin-linked autocannons to a renegade Baneblade! Still two auto-cannons by themselves aren’t going to be able to take down a fighter bomber and they don’t even compare to the main cannon on that thing which would decimate a land assault.
Are you able to use weaker aircrafts for covering fire in case they do have AA?
No chance of supporting craft. Other craft have been reassigned to more important areas and we’re more of a “make do with what you have” squad and it’s a bit of an experiment by the commanders to see if it works out. The Thunderbolt was a lucky gift that the Mechanicus gave our Techpriest as it’s still experimental and prone to potential overheating and falling out of the sky (the power source for the cannon is the same one powering the aircraft and plasma is notoriously unreliable).
It is presumed (though unknown) that this renegage force may have a couple of converted Chimeras and other similar APCs that may have decent AA but no way to confirm that.
Overheat the cannon and crash the bomber into the Baneblade.
I know I know. I’m a tactical mastermind.
Wait. It’s Friday? Holy crap, I honestly thought it must only be Wednesday or something.
That’s what I get for staying up all night playing games instead of sleeping. Twice in a row >_>
It’s definitely Friday. I need a break desperately.
Drinks at the Three Monkeys red?
I’m going to go home and collapse onto my couch and suckle on the electronic teat of downloaded American television.
Question: I’ve been trying to convert video files for work with this software, I’m trying to convert .mov and mp4 files to mpeg2. It works, but every time it completes the conversion I go to play the converted file and the audio and video are out of sync. Anyone know how to fix this.
How out of sync is it?
Could be your machine not keeping up or you’ve accidentally changed the framerate. Maybe?
If you open the source videos in Quicktime, hit CTRL + I or CMD + I and note the framerate, you want 25 or 29.97. Just make sure they match when you output and it should be fine.
Why mpeg2? Is it for authoring a DVD? If so you should be going to an mpeg2 & AC3 files.
It’s about 2 seconds out. They are movie trailers, we can’t run the proper ones they send us, beause reasons, so we have to download them off the net and convert them. The boss said that they MUST be mpeg2 (have no idea why). That’s the program that the boss uses, but I can’t ask him anything about it because he’s gone overseas for a month, and we’ve got no trailers to run.
As in e-cinema mpeg2?
I haven’t got a lot of experience encoding to it but it uses a different colour space to normal MPEG2 and the only program that will play it back correctly is VLC outside of a server.
Yep, it’s e-cinema mpeg2.
I’m using VLC on my laptop and it plays the unconverted file fine, but when I try and play the converted file it’s all out of sync. I tried adjusting the frame rate and and audio quality to the same as the source file before converting, and it still ends up out of sync.
Hmmmm.
I just tried with a file here and it did the same thing. I think that program might be a bit shitty.
In the drop down advanced menu there’s no saved preset from your boss?
Do you have a budget you can work with?
The company I work for does this kind of thing but it’d need to be done through our main office in Sydney so there’d be a fee. And it’s not a small fee, I’m not gonna lie.
Let me know if you wanted to see what we can do and I can give you some numbers to call.
Hit me on twitter (at)dkzeitgeist or email dcrowd12(at)geemale
Nah, no saved preset because it’s not his computer. Thanks for the offer, but no, if he found out I’d paid someone to do it, he’d hit the roof.
Have a go with handbrake, it’s not the fastest thing in the world but it seems to do a good job converting mp4/xvid avi to mpg2 so they’ll play on my mum’s crappy old set top box
Cheers. I’ll give it a go.
One weird quirk of handbrake, you have to select a preset from the dropdown list before it’ll let you load a video. No idea why the order matters so much but it’s how it’s made.
Fair enough. Thanks for the heads up.
Scene: The Offices of Spotify in California or whatever, 3am.
A junior service consultant furrows his brow, poring over data on one of the 37 screens surrounding his otherwise dark cubicle.
A senior consultant approaches, drawn by the smell of fear.
SC: What’s up son? I haven’t seen you this pale since karaoke night at the Johnson residence.
JC: Sir, this customer in Australia he… he thumbs-downed a Foo Fighters song but he’s listening to the rock station. What did we do wrong?
SC: Must be a mistake. Did you send him another one to make sure?
JC: Yes sir, he declined that too. I’ve sent him some Twisted Sister and he upvoted that, so he seems to have at least a rudimentary understanding of how to use the application.
SC: Strange, strange. How many other Foo Fighters songs are in the queue?
JC: About fourteen thousand sir.
SC: What?! Are you including duplicates from albums released in different regions?
JC: Sorry sir. *click* I meant to say forty thousand.
SC: I thought so. Well he can’t possibly downvote all of them.
JC: But… but what if he does?
SC: That will never happen, the Foo Fighters are excellent.
JC: But what if he does?
SC: Then God help us all.
Do they have some kind of forum this could be posted on? Because I’d really love to send this in. It did make me laugh. Quite a bit.
Ha, I honestly have no idea. I was just trying to visualise the process behind me repeatedly getting songs for bands I’m consistently downvoting. I have nothing against the Foo Fighters, I just don’t know why I had a run of them when I wasn’t really in the mood to listen to them and kept rejecting them from my “rock” station.
At work now. Stomach pains are manageable. Mum’s car stopped working yesterday, and it had to be towed to a mechanic place. Mum got a rental car so she could drop me off at work and go to work herself, but it will only last until 3pm. I dunno how Mum and I are going to get home. I suppose I’ll probably have to leave early or something.
On another note, part of my traineeship requires me to do TAFE units while at work. One of these units is OSH. (or OHS, or WHS, or YMCA) One of the questions was ‘what are the safety rules of your workplace.’
I didn’t know them, (which is a bad thing in and of itself) so I asked my supervisor. His response?
“I don’t know either.”
I have the sneaking suspicion that my workplace isn’t 100% OSH compliant, and that might make it hard to do these TAFE units.
Phlan I’ve done enough of OH&S inductions and forms and all sorts of crap to have a rudimentary understanding of it. Ask away and I shall advise.
For the one you just asked – outline any possible situations that could be hazardous to you and BS a system that would keep you safe from injury or psychological harm.
I was on the OHS Committee at one workplace which made me review their ‘Material Safety Datasheets’ – the ‘by the book’ rules for safely handling equipment and substances. We had to do them for everything.
The one that really killed me was that according to the MSDs: the OHS guidelines for safe use of hand-soap required the user to wear gloves.
Just saw my death counter in 3D World for the first time since before I finished off Flower world (…which means I had my Wii U on for like two days straight :/). The last I saw it, it read 147. It now reads 4275.
Excellent, the genocide is proceeding as planned
I like how the advertising for the new UFC game says “feel the fight”, is it coming with a peripheral arm that punches and strangles you? Or they’ve ramped up the vibration setting on the controllers to the point that they shatter the bones in your hands.
#boredsorry
Every purchase of UFC 2014 comes with a coupon for a free punch in the mouth. All you have to to is go to the nearest biker bar wearing your favourite “Tapout” shirt and ask “which one of you queers wants to read my ballsack tattoo?”
Punch in the mouth DLC is free
Dentist and rehabilitation DLC costs $10,000
Hey @jimu, what bank are you with? I’m heading down to put the money in your account now, and I’d rather just go to the right bank than do a transfer, because I think they charge for that.
If your bank charges for a bank-bank transfer, you should totally get a new bank. Most banks will only charge a fee for international transfers/conversions.
Usually the only benefit to doing a deposit in the branch of the bank you want the money to go in to, is that it’s quicker. Some banks take 2-3 working days to do transfers to different banks. Which is why I’m guessing, they don’t charge for it, cos they hold on to your money for a few days to make extra interest for their coffers!
Went to my bank, and they said it’d be 30 bucks to transfer. They told me what bank the account was with, so I just took the cash and walked down to the right bank.
30 bucks?
What.
ANZ
They told me which bank when I went into mine, so I just walked down to an ANZ and put it in. So the money should’ve been in your account since Friday, I made it an even 50 too.
Cool.
Sorry cant see TAY at work, will throw it in the post tomorrow 😀
Cool.
Interesting. From the Dark souls 2 official Facebook page
So the chest is something they can keep changing and dropping one offs into? Neat.
I’d laugh if they made it a Mimic.
Hahaha. That would be amazing.
One of the Facebook comments suggested they should do this for April Fools Day.
But there’s a scary skeleton down there.
It’s an actual title update, apparently. But yeah, looking forward to seeing what’s in there!
The KFC Double Double article has got me craving one, but (correct me if I’m wrong) that’s about $15 worth of fast food in just that one amalgamated burger. For that price, I can buy a T-bone steak, two kilos of potatoes to roast in their jackets, four litres of ice cream and an apple pie for dessert.
Edit: In other news, I wasted my 27,000th comment
God damn it, I’m hungry now.
I just had one for lunch – the standard Double, that is. Guilty pleasure.
Fast food ‘I can’t help myself’ is the $2 mini-wrap thing from Red Rooster. It’s basically a chicken strip with cheese and BBQ sauce in a wrap. I nom that thing as I walk home from work and it gives me the feelgoods.
So are you going to double down on your waste and get a Double Double? 😛
Thought that would be a quadruple double.
You’re catching up to me! D:
Sony Xperia Z2 ordered. Should have it mid next week.
So long Crapple! You iSheeple can keep your slavery boxes while I free my mi…oh god. What have I become? *kills self*
Better than other people 😛
*HISSSSSSSSSS* Sidevote. Because I laughed.
Haha, Sony? More like, NOny. Non pure Android scrub. *Adjusts pocket protector*
Wait, didn’t you get an android phone before and hate it?
That was a Windows phone.
Oh, you poor thing. Show me on this doll where the bad phone touched you.
Jealous!
Sitting here with my lowly Z1 >:'(
You think the Z1 is lowly? You should try the E.
Finished Murdered: Soul Suspect. Loved it. Filled with personality and charm.
…
But now I’m second guessing playing Watch Dogs next in case it feels soulless. D:
There’s one sure-fire way to find out what your opinion will be.
(I have played a bit and actually loved it. :D)
Coincidentally, I just realised you’re a pretty cool guy.
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/474737378653790208
What is the bottom picture actually from?
I’ll never tell you.
Because I don’t actually know.
Nah man, it has tonnes of soul, check out this Rayman reference that definitely isn’t a glitch: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/3316086302974592677/6D7CF86FEAC094A1D5F1BA6CA7359ABB6858F548/
It looks like someone hacked him!
Get PS+ in a month or two when I do and we can team up to do the online decryption stuff
Resignation handed in. All Canadian work placement forms submitted. Tooth getting better.
Happy Friday \o/
Ugh I’m bored.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hWvORNC6U08
Side note: I’d love to know how high they were when they recorded that.
I kinda really wish the Wii U still had octagonal gates on its control sticks. It was handy being able to easily lock into those cardinal directions.
When I get home tonight I’m inevitably going to jump back into StarCitizen and just gaze longingly at my Freelancer (starship) for like an hour.
…I think I’m developing some sort of issue here, but far be it from me to try and stop it from happening.
I used to do that. Now I stare lovingly at my Banu Merchantman concept art for ever.
HHHHNNNNGH.
PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW
Dont you have a baby to stare at instead???
Yes. A baby Freelancer. In Star Citizen.
Also some fish probably.
Shit, I forgot to check if I can fit the capsule in the ship…
Not that I backed or am signed up or anything, but all the talk about the dog fighting module being released has me really wanting to try it out (Rift-wise). Although I did see a few comments saying that it wasn’t actually all that fun, and that Elite: Dangerous is much better on that front. Still I probably want to try out Eve Valkyrie the most.
I should probably get around to buy that sometime
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYQHAAABAACNUKEjQYHG8A
I dislike that comments on random posts don’t seem to show up in your activity feed and such. How am I supposed to irritate my friends who hate my awful jokes!
#MiiverseIsPageSix
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EXT0gOk1Ogw
The Big Lebowski reduced purely to its F-bombs.
Good lord it’s over 2 minutes long.
Good times.
This is what you get when you find a stranger in the alps.
Riddle me this.
How many working days out from a careers event would you contact an industry organisation to assist with actually getting, y’know, industry to the event?
More than, like, four?
Heeeeey, that’s not a riddle. That’s rhetorical! You lied to us through discourse!
I hate when people do that.
Me? Yeah, probably about four.
Hours.
Definitely more than four. Probably six, maybe seven.
This message is proudly bought to you from a home internet connection.
After almost three months I’m back on the net without restriction!
Time to download all the things 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
(porn)
That’s what was using up all the credit on my phone ;S
Free porn!
JUST IN TIME FOR TOMORROW’S ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK SEASON TWO!
I even have the morning free to watch some 😀
I mean study.
I have the morning free to study :S
Get Arrow. Previous discussions point to you liking it very much. 😛
I plan on “legally” “purchasing” many shows 😀
That is definitely on the list! 😀
For story reasons of course, not cause Green Arrow is a hunk or anything…
Kingdom Hearts is coming on the 5th December!
2.5D* 😛
So long away D:
Any protips or uses for dual screen monitors? (on Windows 8)
So far I found some program that forces windowed mode to go borderless so that’s good for games 😀
Win + Arrow keys is a quick way to move screens around with the keyboard
Dude, yes! I was looking for something like this earlier 😀
One thing that often annoys me about dual/multi screen setups, (and it varies between each depending on the type/size of monitor being used,) is the mouse cursor slipping on to the next screen when you’re trying to hit a close button, or the start button. If you are like me, and end up accidentally clicking other stuff, in the display properties in windows, you can shift one of your screens up or down a little, so that when you put your cursor in that area, it will hit a wall and stop moving. You can still get your mouse over when you need to, but just do it closer to the middle of the screen.
Might not apply to you, but I’m not sure how many people are aware that you can drag the screens around in there to align them however you like. (Can do it in earlier versions of windows too, but still useful for some people who are unaware!)
Mucking about with the alignment is probably the biggest thing you can do in terms of effort to effect. The bottom of left monitor is about ten centimetres above the bottom of my right monitor (too lazy to set up a stand for both, my main monitor is just sitting on a pile of books). having it set up just right so I can flick the mouse over and deal with something just makes life so much easier.
When I had the tops at the same height, I did the same trick you’re talking about. Although I had a pretty small catching area, only about half the height of the X.
I’m pretty mouse orientated. Most of my behaviour is based around just hitting the right spot.
That’s pretty much exactly how I have mine at the moment. Main screen in front, second on left. Left is just one notch up from being perfectly aligned just to catch my mouse when I want to hit something in the corners!
Mario Kart. 7:30pm. TAY KART. 6219-0979-9527. Not sure on numbers yet, but I’ll be there even if no one else is for a while at least. XD
I’ll b there <3
Hey, in friends rooms are the spare spots taken up by NPCs?
No idea! Probably depends on your room settings, maybe?
I’ll be there in spirit if that counts for anything! I dun have MK8 yet, so I just have to stare at my blank control pad screen and make my own sound effects while I imagine what fun it would be!
Why you gotta do it so early? :'(
Hey, Pow set up the group. I’m just the messenger. 😛
Are you going to get Super Smash Brothers?
Nope!
Aww :(. Not a fan of the others?
I need to know my next D.C. multi game! 😀
My laptop died before I could put all my Cert II unit work onto a flash drive, so I’ll be TAYing for a while. There is never much work for me to do on Fridays, so I usually do Cert II Units.
died how exactly?
Theoretically, the battery’s charge ran out. However, the laptop was on 15% charge. When I came home, put it on charge, and turned it on, I got a message on the battery icon saying ‘service battery.’ When I tried to do stuff, the laptop was extra slow. I’m unsure if those two problems are related.
HOLY CRAP I MADE IT TO THE END OF CHAMPION ROAD!
….but way too slow, especially in the new section that I hadn’t seen yet, so no time to quit yet 😛
Huh. Just realised that now that I have all the green stars I can go even faster, since the third one requires some backtracking to pick up. On the one hand, that’s handy. On the other, it feels like it takes a bit of the challenge out of it to not have to grab them all.
Aww yis, new technique for the bug wall jumps.
Ugh, I spent 2 hours over the park. 1 with the dog, 1 without.
Was the dogless hour the first hour and you were just wandering around the park thinking to yourself “I can’t shake the nagging feeling that I’ve forgotten to bring something”?
Nope, first hour was with the dog, took him home while chatting to a dog owner and then more dog owners appeared with dogs.
You know one of the things I’m looking forward to at E3? The next Assassin’s Creed game trailer. Not because I’m excited for the game(s) but because I have discovered or rediscovered some awesome music because of them. Assassin’s Creed 1 had some awesome Unkle stuff and Massive Attack’s ‘Teardrop’, AC2 had some Justice in it from memory, Brotherhood also had some Unkle, but also Royksopp’s ‘Royksopp Forever’ which is pretty badass. Everyone should remember the incredible trailer that AC Revelations had with Iron by Woodkid. AC3’s trailers had some reasonable stuff – the Imagine Dragons piece the used for one trailer’s kind of gotten overplayed since then, but the Skylar Grey piece is reasonable and they had another trailer with music by The Superhuman who is a trailer music specialist and that’s pretty impressive. Then AC4 had Sigur Rós with Brennisteinn which is an amazing piece. So they’ve got a really solid track record. Someone at Ubisoft’s marketing department knows what they’re doing.
Definitely. I recall my brother asking once, “How do they FIND this music? I mean, it blows up on iTunes after the trailer drops, but is there seriously some guy whose job at Ubi is to hunt down music no-one’s heard of yet?”
Well to be fair some of it isn’t new – the Unkle stuff from AC1 was from the late 90s, Teardrop was pretty famously used as the intro to House, and it’s not like Sigur Ros are an unknown if you like that sort of post-rock music (plus the album it’s off released before the trailer IIRC) but they really hit it out of the park with Iron. I think the thing with Iron is that it’s by a French guy that worked as a movie producer before moving into music, so perhaps their trailer agency had connections to him?
But yeah, they have an amazing ability to pick awesome artists and pieces for their trailers. Strangely I don’t remember this happening with any of Ubi’s other big franchises?
Well yeah, I mean Mezzanine was a top-10 album when it landed. (AND RIGHTLY SO SEZ I.)
Mezzanine is a classic. If I were building a CD collection up again that’s one I’d add to it without hesitation.
Okay so these communication errors in MK8 are fucking infuriating. That’s three games that I’ve hit the lead only to be kicked out of the race with a communication error. They only started tonight. What the fuck?
that’s… really bizarre… i didn’t have any issues, but i did notice you left the tournament a lot so I gathered there was issues… Don’t have anything else running on the network that could slow down your connection or anything?
Nothing else hogging the network. The only thing I can think of is that latest 5.0.0 system update, the only thing is – I did that two days ago and still had a session with you guys then hassle-free.
yeah that’s very weird indeed… hopefully it was just a once off?
I think it was a TAY tournament issue. I just played five random online games and placed first every time – no errors. I blame Powalen! 😀
If there’s anything I’ve learnt in life, it’s that it’s always Powalen’s fault!
I got disconnected twice, it seems really random because another night I disconnected at the start of 3 races in a row.
Jeez! @Sughly pulling these wins out of nowhere. I’m still beating you though, so whatevs ;D! But I like it better when Ash is playing with you (because you somehow do worse :P)
@gutsoup I’m catching up to wins against you >:)
You guys arent cool enough for Ash any more, the newness wore off and hes back to playing LoL with his friends 🙁
But ohmygosh, the amount of times I got hit by a shell followed by @gutsoup flying past… >:(
There was plenty of brutal attacks tonight D: (given, received and witnessed)
don’t worry man, I was just repeatedly brutalized all night, didn’t manage a single win, not one :'( . So many damned blue and red shells >:|. got a bit frustrated and started racing terribly. Then I cried and ran away. 😛
Oh man it was brutal tonight…
The amount of times i was like: “OMG, i’m first, I’M FIR-” *Red Shell**Red Shell**Green Shell**Star Power* “I’M 8th… i’m 8th ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)”
At least you have the game! *runs off crying*
Man if I had the money i’d buy it for you!
Such an excellent game…
We should crowd fund it! “Scree needs Mario Kart 8 ASAP” we could call it!
then Mum will have to play while I knit and cry into the knitting and nob would be like “why does my chainmail smell funny?” and I would respond “It’s my tears…”
Hahahaha! Yes, we all knew that pain.
Well, everyone except @powalen (why does this never happen to you? Life’s eternal mystery)
Cheatalen >:(
What! It happens to me all the time. Most notably on my last race tonight 😛
Good races tonight though. Other than racing on Mt. Wario a hundred million times, that is.
Oh god i suck so hard at that track! 😛
Is it worse than Rainbow road?
I actually find that the new versions of Rainbow Road is not that bad… i don’t know if it’s because i’m better then what i have been, but i have no issues on those tracks…
Mt. Wario on the other hand *shakes fist*
– Fall of the ledge in the beginning
– Fall of the second ledge
– Go too wide in a corner and ram the barriers
– Miss the speedboosty thingies in the cave
– ram every tree on the way down
– get hit by another god damn red shell just as i’m about to start gliding
– hit the finish line, oh look i came 8th… again… 😛
I like it when I don’t get destroyed by items at the start and then lose all chance of catching up 😛 (my only real problem with those single long track levels).
Still can’t nail that end shortcut in DK :D. I didn’t want to risk it at the end so I took the long way and @sughly overtook me :'(
:3
😀
(I totally stuffed up that shortcut on the second lap though and was very relieved the last succeeded)
@sughly
I know! I was behind you 😛 (Lakitu dropped you right infront of me :/)
Oh man! On Rainbow road you bump me off… then I immediately bumped you off… then item barrage… and then you’re somehow 2nd and I end up like 10th :P?! Wah? 😀
Yeah i don’t know how that happened… but when i nudged you off and then immediately went off myself i was laughing so damn hard 😛
Guh. Thought hey, maybe I should set up one of the old machines to record what I’m doing just in case something cool happens. Then go to plug in the composite cable and… No Signal. Oh, must be because it’s still set to output at a higher resolution, I’ll just plug in the component cables then use the TV’s composite out to get it… nope. Nothing still. Huh. Maybe it’s set to only use HDMI? Plug that in… DAMMIT NOTHING STILL. Ohhhh wait. It’d still be set to do 1080p, this set can only take 1080i max. Guess I have to go out and manually change settings, such a pai-
SUDDEN UPDATE ATTACK, CONSOLE IS NOW RENDERED USELESS UNTIL DONE.
At least on the 3DS you could decline it, now the only option you have is “Ok”. Fuck you, Nintendo.
75% and counting… *twiddles thumbs*
Press and hold the power to turn on, for an extended period. This used to reset the display back to composite for some older consoles I forget exactly.
@shane
I checked the chest in Majula.
That was… disappointing.
I can’t log on, so I gave up. What was it?
A hibernating colobus monkey infested with parasites!
Disappointment? Must have been a copy of The Last of Us. =P
That… would be something to see in Dark Souls!
3x Petrified Somethings.
Well, that’s indeed very disappointing.
I was hoping for a neat weapon or armour set.
Probably foolishly.
I didn’t know what chest you were talking about but Google led me to this list of future chest items.
http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkSouls2/comments/27dslp/i_just_found_3x_petrified_something_in_the_majula/
Interesting…
Finished Killzone Mercenary, which was pretty good. Last Boss was confusing and difficult though.
Then I downloaded Guacamelee, and it’s pretty cool. Really like the music + Art Style.
Well shit. This new game from the Darksiders guys was sounding kind of interesting even if I’m a bit iffy about the whole four-player co-op angle (I don’t have friends, I want to play by myself, and co-op games like L4D are shitty playing alone) but then it turns out the game’s free. “If we made this game anywhere else we would sell it for $60. We’re just making the game as if we were making a retail boxed product. In our head, our goal is people see it and go, I would totally buy that game for $60. That looks amazing. That looks like any other game on the shelf, but, you get it for free” is what they say, but that’s absolutely 100% not what goes through my mind when I see a free to play game. I immediately and usually correctly assume that the game will be built with low production values, be boring, or be incredibly heavily monetized and immediately go for my wallet if I even look at it. The more technically competent it is the more I assume it’ll screw me over.
So no thanks 🙁
TAY friends aren’t friends? 🙁 😛
But I had no idea this was a thing so I just looked it up. Seems alright, but free to play… :/
Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of everything is shit.
For all the terrible free to play/pay to win games, there are games out there like Dota with actual production values.
Coming from a AAA studio makes me think that it will probably be decent. Maybe not good but that won’t be the fault of the pricing model.
Old video machine set up, now recording to tape. Haven’t used one of those things in a while 😛
Last thing I recorded to VHS was a compilation of PS2 demos.
That was nearly ten years ago.
Minor disaster – just went in to see how it was doing for time and found it had stopped. Tape chewed! D:
Had to take it out and manually wind forward past the bad part, because the machine refused to. Never even knew you could do that 😛
If you’re not joking about it being VHS, firstly you really need help throwing out ancient junk, secondly save up a bit and buy an avermedia live gamer portable, best little cap device in texa… er on the market. Lagless passthrough, component & HDMI capture, USB powered and does all the encoding internally so you only need a PC powerful enough to write data to a reasonably fast HDD
100% not a joke. And if I had thrown out this so-called “ancient junk” then I would have had nothing on hand at all to throw together on a whim and do this! 😛 Oh jesus I’m starting to sound like Dad, any time some of his old accrued garbage saves the day he makes the same comment to Mum…
There is an absolute piece of fucking garbage Dick Smith brand HDD recorder which we used to use but has since just… I don’t even know. Decided it doesn’t want to work properly any more. But it could have potentially been pulled out of place and used to record stuff, but it’s a gigantic pain in the arse to get to/remove from where it is, especially for something that mightn’t even work. And then the transfer via USB is slow as balls.
Honestly, hooking up the VHS is the best and most easiest option. Also I would be hesitating to even spend $20 on recording gear, it’s not really something I’m at all in the habit of doing. Just in this case I realised that the ghost data for this game isn’t particularly usable or viewable at all in any practical way, so having this running in my room while I’m out here on the gamepad is an easy option to have for something to go back and check on after it happens.
Did I mention that the LGP fits in your pocket, records as MP4 and can even record onto an SD card instead of a PC? Still all better than a VCR…
Wait you’re telling me I have to go and get myself an SD card too? 😛
You don’t HAVE to, the quality is better using it with a PC anyway, SD card is maxed at 720p whereas PC is up to 1080p
Still better than winding chewed magnetic tapes by hand!
Well that’s just even more inconvenient. I gotta either move my PC to my room where the console is, or bring the console out to the PC but then be unable to play from my room. VCR still wins \o/
Then if I want to digitise it I can either move the VCR to the PC in my sister’s room that has a TV card that can be used for capture, assuming the PC doesn’t blow up like it apparently usually does. But much easier is the other option – use my phone to film the 576i playback on the TV. I could even do that in 1080p!
Yes but if you film a TV with a cellphone and then put it anywhere on the internet, I’ll be legally obliged to kill you with a teaspoon
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/o4x6t9/monster-hunter-4-ultimate-e3-2014–debut-trailer
Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
3DS only?
Yeah. I’d love a super HD Monster Hunter though! (PC or consoles)
Oooo it’ll be great to have a PC one, or or or one like MH3U but on Vita and PS4… ooo! Won’t happen though :(. That Chinese MMO looked kinda cool too!
There was a “clone” being made for PC wasn’t there?
Canto or something?
EDIT – hah, found it
Dev hasn’t updated their website for quite a while though, don’t know how likely it is to actually see it released :\
Oh I forgot about that one! Probably dead like you said though 🙁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzVqdrxGUEQ
:'(
My favourite part is how you can now play online multiplayer WITHOUT the need for a Wii U with a wired connection. That’s innovation right there.
REVOLUTIONARY!
Crapcom are being super weird about keeping it with Nintendo at the moment. Presumably someone over there is receiving money and/or sexual favours from Iwata, because 3DS 100% does not make sense as a platform choice otherwise. Additionally the decision to do that probably scuttled the Vita forever despite it being a vastly superior piece of hardware.
Ohhh greenman, i’m so excited you don’t even know.
The new Insect rod weapon looks so awesome, can’t wait to try them and jump on monsters 😀
This doesn’t seem right. I thought Monster Hunter was like Street Fighter, they stick with one version number for as long as possible. There were still years left of Monster Hunter 3!
Also, for some reason seeing someone firing a 50 cal from the hip seemed more ridiculous to me than all of the absurd fantasy weapons.
Whooo at last! Just managed to save up enough and create my Wildstar Guild – The Iron Brigade (Myrkalus server Dominion faction).
For those of you who are interested planning on making it a close knit casual raiding guild for 20man content! Got to set up the TS/Vent/Mumble this weekend (Whichevers free and easy to setup =p). Let me know if anyone’s interested!
Being a long weekend, if you have any free trial codes lying around it’s possible I might become interested… 😀
So apparently triple-starring every Grand Prix in Mario Kart 8 gets you nothing. Past games it gave you a special icon next to your name online.
Spent all that time in single player! I want my bragging rights! 😛
Whaaaaaaaat. Even 3D World seems to turn your name gold if you do something or other (at least from what I gather seeing a couple of my friends’ ghosts running around on-screen).
That’s the thing that bugs me most with Mario Kart. For all the cool new things they add, they keep taking away other things each time for no damn good reason. GIVE ME BACK MY GRID TIMES YOU JERKS!
SPOILERS MAN!!!
I wanted that disappointment for myself, but now I’m pre-disappointed :'(
The fact that I got gold medal on all maps is enough for me. =P
Goodnight.
Okay, after nearly an hour I’m pretty sure I’ve finally added everyone off taynames to my friends list on the Wii U through the Miiverse, not the friends list. I also updated my taynames info while I was there.
This kinda got me thinking. I was serious in one of my older posts about asking permission before I assume things (I don’t like to assume, I need confirmation), so I would like to say that I would love to be considered a TAYbie, if that’s alright with you guys?
Nah.
</3
I don't think we can be double friends any more, just friends :'(
It’s funny, I feel the same way as Pixel down there. Yet I just clicked through to look at post count comparisons and somehow seem to have even more than him, even though to me he seems like old guard 😛 I still don’t really consider myself one either, more like an outsider that just happens to hang around here too much. Couldn’t say why.
So many doofuses around here today!
If you didn’t at some level consider yourself one of us, you’d never have attended a Meat. The only “outsider” is someone we don’t know yet. And we know you.
*swoon*
Attending meats means nothing, I go places I’m not wanted all the time! 😛
(I know you’re right, it’s just one of those dumb logic vs feelings type deals)
I’ve had a drink with you. Twice now. That constitutes the inner circle don’t you know?
Wait, which was the second? I can only think of Cake’s thing. With the nice bartender.
Blagh’s place in Canberra. I have footage on my phone of you on the piano.
I’ll be honest, i’ve considered you a TAYbie for quite a while XD
more then i am anyway
No one is more of a taybie or less of a taybie. There is only taybie.
Isn’t a non-taybie technically less of one than a taybie? 😛
Yeah, but let’s not worry about that
Don’t you be a doofus either. You’re even part of this mythical “Old Guard” I hear people whispering about. 😀
Pixel, Service Number 1138 of the Old Guard, bringer of awkward silences and inappropriate jokes since 2011 o7
Since 2011 and you thought I was more of a TAYbie than you?!
I’ve only been here since 2013! Not even a whole year yet, haha!
Silly, silly Pixel 😛
I was measuring it on that you’re a more active member then me :P, i may have been around for a while but sometimes I’m gone for months and don’t contribute to the community at all
Hence the old guard remark, you appear, ramble something to impart wisdom then leave forever a legend
I think if you’ve posted for two weeks, you’re a Taybie.
You need at least 10k posts over a minimum of 4 years with an average post score of 3.
Then you can apply to be a TAYbie.
No, I haven’t got the average score required! I can change! I can do better! *Guards start dragging me away*
HELP ME BE A BETTER ME! *Door swings shut on me, all you hear is muffled screaming*
“Failure will be met harshly” explained the Dean of TAY to the waiting applicants as Blagh’s screaming was abruptly cut off by the crack of a gunshot.
I don’t meet that criteria then. =( My whole life is a lie!
You gained a scholarship to TAY under the creatives degree
Anyone who’s posted in here and joined in. ie: not just spammed with stuff and ignored the responses is a TAYbie. There is no mandatory time period. So @liondrive has been a TAYbie for ages.
Don’t be a doofus. You’ve been a TAYbie for a very long time. You even joined in on a mass namechange occasion, how could you not know you’re a TAYbie? You’re as bad as @dc. 😛
I knew it! Strange hates me! Just look at that emoticon she used! D:
<3
I joined in because of the mass name change occasion 😛
And I just don’t like to assume things, haha!
I can be a little weird like that :S
Edit: my first Strange doofus :’)
Now I really am a TAYbie :’D
Look in your heart! YOU WERE A TAYBIE ALL ALONG!
*orchestra begins to play stirring music*
*looks in heart*
*dies of bloodloss*
Good advice DC, way to think these things through 😛
But thanks 🙂
Shotgun not cleaning up the mess
I can’t imagine it would, probably just make it worse if anything.
*scoops up with barrel*
Wildstar impressions: don’t like it. 🙁
I’m enjoying it so far.
I’m just about to log in for the first time.
I’ve joined as Beeawwb – tried to add @pupp3tmast3r (Chyrone?) to my friends list but it gave an unknown error?
@beeawwb I’m logging on!
It’s not terrible but I’ve played many better ones. I don’t want to shit on something that people like, it’s just IMO it’s not nearly good enough to pay a subscription for.
All good! What didn’t you like from it so far?
And I get it, it’s like me and GW2, heaps of people loved it but I can’t go back to it since I’m really PvE focussed.
I’m not a PVP guy either.
It’s no one single thing, but it’s just the combination as a whole wasn’t setting things on fire for me. The combat is the main issue I have. It simply doesn’t feel, for lack of a better word, crunchy enough. I’ve had this issue in other MMOs too, but it’s basically that you feel like you’re just hammering buttons and throwing out skills that soft of go pffft and then stuff happens and the enemies take damage but it feels like there’s a disconnect there. I don’t know if it’s sound, animation or what, but it just doesn’t have enough punch. Just doesn’t feel good. It’s possible that it’s exacerbated by the class I was playing (Spellslinger) but I don’t think anything would be better.
I’m not hugely enamored by the art style. It’s okay but it kind of feels like they took World of Warcraft and then loaded Ratchet & Clank into a cannon and fired it into the world at high speed. It’s okay I guess but I’m not excited to be one of those characters. Their world might be interesting if they were a bit better at getting me engaged into it, but that’s the other big issue I had: their interface sucks.
I had heaps of problems with the interface. The text boxes for NPC dialogue and your responses are in completely different places, making you have to move your vision around to even see them. They’re really small and hard to read, and feel incredibly disconnected. You’re talking to someone who would read all the text in quests in most games, but because of the way the UI is all over the place so that they could try and make it look like speech bubbles or something it killed my attention completely. Additionally it renders UI elements over the top of it.
The game also throws you right in without explaining its systems properly. They’ll tell you the what, but not the why or how. I’m an MMO veteran and have played RPGs for about a quarter of a century so it’s not like a lot of this stuff comes at me from nowhere, but it’s kind of death by a million cuts here. Their quest tracking system is awful, because of the poor text and the bad UI presentation I often couldn’t figure out where to go or what it expected me to do. Simple things like breadcrumbing aren’t there even in the newbie areas. It gave me gear as I was playing that wasn’t usable by my class, and several times offered me a choice between multiple bits of gear but hasn’t actually told me what stats I should be looking for. Didn’t explain the combat system, doesn’t let me know how my class mechanics work, what my resources are, what I should be doing in combat to be effective etc. Started giving me ‘AMP’ bonuses but still hasn’t told me what I should be going for with them. I shouldn’t need to look up a guide for this stuff!
It just all feels unfocused. It reminds me of Rift a lot.
The last MMO I played extensively before this was FFXIV 2.0 and it is head and shoulders better at everything I described. Attacks feel weighty, visuals are stunning, UI is good, systems are properly explained, gear choices are fairly well optimized and everything.
Phew quite the dialog negative! With the combat Spellslingers are actually meant to be lots of little dps really quickly which is probably why you didn’t feel the oomph (My main during the beta was a spellslinger and I got bored of him after I hit 20). I think they only get one heavy hitting spell for their rotation as well which is the one they charge up and let loose! If you’re willing to give it another shot I highly reccommend playing as a Stalker for that oomp combat feel or if you want a ranged dps that feels like that try the Esper.
With the art style I think that comes down to personal preference and I know WIldstar’s art has been quite divisive in the MMO community! But I do agree with you on the Quest UI it’s incredibly cluttered and I feel like I have to go out of my way to actually find out why I’m doing a quest and what the story behind it is.
With the stats and AMP’s once again a valid issue but it’s actually a lot simpler than stat systems other MMO’s use. Basically DPS need Moxie (Like Assault Power in WoW) and Finnese (Crit Rating).
Grit is for HP and Defence rating. Insight is for support classes so only medics need that and I believe tech is also another tanking trait. I’ve yet to figure what AMP’s are good for though =p
On that note I just did my first Adventure and damn I enjoyed the boss fights, the last boss had all of us running around constantly moving and paying attention. The tank died halfway through so I was kiting the boss dodging artillery strikes and we managed to kill him with one person left standing. I haven’t had close calls like that in boss fights in a very long time…. Will post an update once I hit 20 and start doing dungeons!
See, that sort of explanation regarding the stats is really easy but it’s not anywhere in the game. It probably tells you at some point that the stats boost whatever, but doesn’t explain what stats you actually want.
I’ll give a different class a spin.
Yeah I agree that info should’ve been more readily available for the stats. Just double checked and to summarize Finesse and Moxie are dps stats and Brutality depending on your class. Grit and Tech and defs tanking and Insight is needed in some amounts for tanking as well. Heals use lots of Insight and the crit stats like Finesse.
You can tell the stats needed for your class since as you level up you’ll have an abundance of your primary attribute. That said I really do prefer SWTOR’s stat system where each class has one stat that works for them and lots of little stats that can be micromanaged.
@pupp3tmast3r: had a go with the stalker, blasted through the opening areas again. Still finding it extremely average and I think I’ve given it a fair shake and it’s not for me.
Better hope @pupp3tmast3r doesn’t find out.
Edit: Crap! That’ll teach me to refresh before I post.
I’ve been playing a bit of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow recently. I’m not usually one to put much effort in to games once I hit a series of QTE’s, especially when it comes to boss fights. I’m glad I pushed through with this one though.
I got to the Ogre boss last night, and omg! Soooo goood! Possibly one of the best boss fights I’ve had to endure in a long time. Seemed really hard to begin with, almost annoyingly so, but once I got the feel of it, I really began to enjoy it. I dunno quite what it was about it, but the whole presentation of the Ogre was just amazing! So massively huge, and rather terrifying, but the expressions on his face and the way he moves throughout the fight was just really well done! I really thought the whole game would just be a bit of a linear trek of boredom, but I’m almost tempted to say that that boss fight alone, makes that whole game worth playing just by itself! Just wow!
I love Lords of Shadow :D. A bit under appreciated I think!
Not a fan of the terrible Shadow of the Colossus sections though :/
I’ve never played that, but I assume you mean those stone giants near the beginning? If so, I almost gave up at that point a few times 😉 Glad I pushed through though. The rest of the battles have been surprisingly good 🙂 Even the secrets and puzzles are just so good! Complex puzzles within a simple system! It’s strange how in so many ways it still feels a bit like a true platformer, and they clearly used the mindset of it being a platformer in building it. Using the camera angles to hide stuff has been really well done in this game!
I enjoyed it until I came to the second ‘Penumbra of the Titan’ boss fight. Gods that boss battle was terrible with Keyboard + Mouse. It had a QTE that was impossible to do on a keyboard. I tried it for 50 minutes, and I only successfully did the QTE about 3 times. I quit the game there and then, and I don’t have the passion to go back, even though I now have a controller.
Is that the one where you had to fling the rocks back?
Yep.
I’m using keyboard and mouse, and I never found it that difficult after discovering you had to do two circles before letting go!
Worth pushing through. I’ve only come across one other boss you need to fling stuff at, and it was easier as you only had to do one circle. Great stuff waiting after that shitty boss though!
I’m watching a Dota tournament and one of the teams picked Meepo.
Meepo is a hero that splits into multiple, weaker copies that are all individually controlled. In the right hands, he can be incredibly strong but doesn’t see much professional play because there are a lot of things that can shut him down.
They picked Meepo after the other team had already picked one of the easiest ways to shut him down.
A huge part of professional Dota is the draft, where heroes are picked and banned to form a strategy. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a professional game where the draft was so completely one-sided.
For the record, the line-ups were: Doom, Shadow Shaman, Undying, Enchantress and Meepo vs Lycan, Puck, Bristleback, Treant Protector and Visage.
Bristleback and Treant Protector is an insanely strong combination. Bristleback, Visage and Lycan deal with Undying well. Both Bristleback and Visage destroy Meepo. Puck deals well with that whole team.
The bit that bugs me here is that Undying and Meepo were picked after the other team had picked Bristleback.
So, in summary, D I G I T A L S P O R T S!
WORDS!
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I love sportsclick!
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Hey @rize – you know that Freelancer you love? There’s 3 more variants available now.
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/13926-Introducing-The-Freelancer-Line-Up
Man I sorta wish I had the disposable income to spend on expensive digital spaceships in games that don’t yet exist. Cause the Freelancer is awesome and I want a Cutlass.
Alas, I will sit in my 315p and dream…
That sucks!
Unless they’re going to let existing Freelancer people choose a variant for free…
EDIT: Oh wait, you can……carry on!
I’m personally tempted by the MIS variant. None of my ships are really “combat” oriented, and knowing me I’ll probably prefer missiles to lasers anyway. Missile Lock > Free Aim. I like the thought of a floating barge of missiles, and it’s not like I’ll miss the cargo space with my other ships.
I’m currently looking at either extra cargo or the explorer. Trying to remove myself from the hype and think about which play style I might prefer more and I’m honestly not sure.
EDIT: Plus, the MAX is just damned pretty. Not just the blue, loving the shape of it.
My play styles in order of preference: Exploring (running around finding stuff), Shipping (for maximum profit), racing (gotta go fast), shooting with big guns. I’ve got the other bases covered so far. Only “big guns” left.
Brisbane Meat:
When: 6pm Sunday, 8th June 2014.
Where: The Burrow, 37 Mollison St, West End.
Why: @quiz_b’s in town!
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot
There’s no TAY classic “What: A Scottish doctor” part 🙁
9/10
Too close to a dad joke for my liking!
I hope this sore throat has fucked off by then. I don’t want to show up and get all of you guys sick!
Beardy, I totally have a sore throat right now as well. XD
Ok so that just means only you and @beardymcmuttonchops are allowed to make out with each-other.
I’m cool with that.
@sernobulus @beeawwb – What’re your toon names?
SerNobulus =P
EDIT: Can we add people to our friends list? I’ve noticed a couple of things I can’t do while on a guest pass. (Can’t use any chat options besides the normal chat)
You need to get out of the spaceship first, then you unlock the other chat options!
“Unknown Friendship Result: 38”
I’m Beeawwb, currently in Levian Bay.
There was an Ask Reddit thread about parents that regretted the names they chose for their kids. Oddly enough, kids’ names are a surprisingly common thing that Freya and I talk about. Mostly because it’s an interesting topic but I’m sure everyone else will draw other conclusions.
Anyhow, I’m one of those pesky traditionalists that think that alternate spellings of common names is a bit daft. You’re picking something that is going to stick with someone for the rest of their life. Do you really want to condemn them to saying “but with a ‘y’ and an extra ‘n’” all the damned time?
I’m also not a fan of misappropriating things as names. Duke is a title or a dog, not a six year old.
I’m also a fan of Biblical names. Rebecca, Daniel, David… there are a lot of god ones in there. Cain and Abel are also good names but there are some rather unfortunate implications.
Pop culture references as names could be a little iffy. I’m leaning towards the argument that they should be from a classic or a staple of pop culture as opposed to something that’s only “trendy”. That means Walter is probably a bad idea and Khaleesi is just daft.
Then again, I’ve been going with a nickname for so long that Freya has to actively think “who is that?” when she sees my name pop up on her phone.
What irrationally bugs me about the surge of children being named “Khaleesi” is that it’s her title, not her name.
Also the books aren’t over.
For all we know, she goes crazy and uses her dragons to commit global genocide.
If you’re going to go with biblical names, you need to go with something like Nebushazban, Tubal-Cain, Puah or Uz. 1st Chronicles is like the best book of baby names ever 😛
Hebrew bible names are way better. Says Benjamin.
I agree, and I also highly regard traditional names. Okay I guess I’ll be the one that draws the other conclusion then – are you two? I’m just making sure nothing is overlooked here.
I don’t know what you’re asking.
Oh god the nostalgia… how could i have forgotten about Babar?
Yes!
Ooh, related video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjhJSD8RU4k
Phoenix Wright Trilogy on 3DS is coming to the West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5cYfMGGrFo
At first I was all yeahhhhh, but then it doesn’t look that much different, it’s still missing Apollo Justice and it’s eShop only :(. So I’ll probably give this one a miss. I’ll still have the trilogy on iPad if I ever need to replay them 😀
Since I’ve never played them, and I don’t have an iOS device, this pleases me.
I’ve also never played them but didn’t want to play it on the iPhone as I assumed it would ruin the experience for me.
How so?
Tiny screen, getting frustrated at touchscreen controls.
It works surprisingly well. Remember the DS screen wasn’t much bigger and the game has always been entirely touch controlled.
except you had 2 screens to work with.
Bottom screen was only ever really used to display a next button to tap. It was usually blank.
At first I was all like ooh yeah, now I can grab T&T but then you were all like eShop only. Ew.
Blegh.
Morning, TAY.
The need for caffeine is mighty.
Coffee and Saturday Morning cartoons… today is going to be a good day 😛
So the laptop I got two days ago crapped itself yesterday afternoon. It worked fine Thursday night, and yesterday morning, shut it down properly both times. When I tried to boot it up at work yesterday afternoon it let me put my password in and got to the Home screen (Windows 8) fine, but as soon as I try and actually do anything I get a flashing blue screen.
Looks like I’m heading back to the shop, it was a display one, so I’m gonna see if I can get them to give me a slightly better one.
Community notice board near work has someone selling One Direction tickets for $600 each. No band in existence is worth that much but someone will buy them :/
That’s one of those band that I’d like to buy tickets for a massive concert that gets sold out, and then burn them in front of the “fans”.
I’m an evil human being.
I would probably pay that if Led Zeppelin ever have a reunion concert in Australia. Then again, they’d probably sell out again like in 2007 before I had the chance to buy.
That’s about it though, $600 is quite ludicrously priced.
Downloaded an update for my Game Capture HD PRO, hopefully now I’ll be able to do gameplay videos off of my PS3 again! \o/
If it doesn’t work, you could always do VHS 😛
Don’t think we have the VCR any more. 🙁
Dark Souls!
So I got out of the Asylum to reach Lordran, am learning to hate dudes with firebombs. Thoughts so far: interesting, I don’t think it’ll really consume me like it has others here. Just sort of getting to grips with how it plays for now. I’m tempted to look up info on what I should be doing with humanity and souls and whatnot but I don’t want to inadvertently spoil anything for myself.
I’m playing as a Knight, incidentally.
That’s where it starts. You think “Oh this is okay” then you just check something quickly online and next thing you know it’s 8 months later, work has fired you as all you did was read wikis, wife left months ago without you realising and you haven’t even bathed.
Oh yeah, I forgot that game existed. I should get back into it.
Give it a bit longer. It didn’t sink its hooks into me until I was past the Undead Burg, and that was even after I’d played through, and become consumed by Demon’s Souls.
Been looking forward to this weekend. Going out for dinner to a fancy-schmancy place for my Dad’s birthday tonight, hanging out with awesome people tomorrow night…and a day of staying in bed all day on Monday. 😀
I’ve been looking forward to it because of Orange is the New Black season two mostly.
Meeting @quiz_b terrifies me! D: D: D:
It’s okay, I’m fairly sure he won’t spring a pop quiz on us! 😛
He’ll still be two metres tall, possibly with an axe!
I hope so! 😀
Seeing us and awesome people? Busy day.
Doofus. 😛
Well, I just deleted my facebook account. I hadn’t used it since September of 2012, and the last post I made was was a threat to a friend to fix their grammar or I would block them.
Facebook let me connect to all my friends from primary school. Then I discovered they were all Gen Z vain douchebags that kept taking sepia photos of their food.
I never deleted my facebook account sooner because some websites required facebook to comment or some bollocks. Today, I decided I would just delete everyone from my friends list and remove all personal information. Except that was hard and Facebook’s UI is terrible. It was just easier to delete everything.
The annoying thing is that I have to leave my facebook account idle for 14 days, or the deletion will be reset. That means if I leave a comment or even ‘like’ a comment on the Escapist, it will all be reset.
I have no regrets. If I want to leave a comment on the Escapist or anywhere else, I’ll just set up an account with the website itself rather than facebook.
It’s cute that you think the account will ever be deleted.
His account will, but his personal info may not.
I set one up to enter a competition a while back, and deleted it when it was all over. I kept a folder full of bookmarked links to all the stuff I’d put up there, just to see what stayed and what went, also manually deleting some stuff to see what it did too. I think the pictures I manually deleted stopped working straight away, but the ones I left up took a year or so to stop working. Last I checked, a couple of years on, the profile picture and thumbnail version were still up on there though.
Did you request a permanent deletion?
The info might be there unless you go nuclear on it.
One of the best things I ever did was quit Facebook.
As much as I dislike it and have never actually posted anything, it is useful because near everyone else uses it – especially now everyone is getting older and catch up irl less frequently/ live further away.
It’s good for organising social events or keeping track of relatives interstate/overseas, stuff like that.
But I have indeed deleted pretty much everyone who spams pics of their food and the like.
I feel like my right arm has fallen asleep…
Also, GMG seems to have some deals on at the moment…
http://www.greenmangaming.com/hot-deals/
Brisbane TAY peeps!
I probably won’t be able to make the meat tomorrow. My brother called and is finally having a housewarming party tomorrow (he moved like 2 months ago).
It’ll be your understudy’s time to shine!
One would need to be a very sad person to by my understudy. =P
The role of ‘SerNobulus’ will be performed by Tom Cruise tonight.
I sad “sad person” not “bat-shit insane person”.
Keanu Reeves it is!
🙁
Started playing Payday 2 again after stopping a few months after launch and hitting level 55. My god they’ve added some new things, more weapons, upgrades, levels, grenades are now available. I brought all the DLC while it was cheap the other weekend and aside fr being rusty slowing trying To get into my old build, it’s actually more fun than I remembered. Also now your guns have actual stats and you can compare them..I can’t remember if that was already a thing or not but yeah…Games \o/
What platform? @rize and I have level 50ish characters on PC.
PC, I’m 58 now but I think my laptops gonna cark it soon. If I’m lucky I’ll get 2 full games in before it crashes the game or kills all sound. Need to look into getting a new computer
Dark Souls is not the game for me. I died against the Taurus demon which is fine and to be expected, but then on the way back there I glitched through a wall off a cliff and died again which caused me to turn off my xbox and dropkick my controller across the room.
I had been doing driving lessons for a year, and had about 35-40 hours of supervised driving in my logbook. I had become quite proficient, I just needed to polish up my parallel and reverse parking before I did my test. Then it just stopped. Back in March, my father started offering to take me for driving lessons. I had a few problems with my dad’s teaching style, and I worried that the lesson he was giving me were having a negative affect on account of the stress he was putting me under. My mother’s solution to the problem was to ban my father from doing driving lessons with me. She said that she was already paying for driving lessons with an instructor, and that I should continue to do that.
But then I stopped having driving lessons entirely. I don’t know if the fault lies with my mother or my driving instructor, but nothing got done.
Today I had my first driving lesson since April. I did pretty terribly. I have completely forgotten everything I learned in a year of driving. My steering is jerky. My braking is terrible. My acceleration is either too slow or too fast, and is not smooth at all. I kept forgetting to check my mirrors. I’m either going slightly over or way below the speed limit.
Basically I’m at the skill level I was when I first started driving. A year of practice has gone completely out the window due to two months of inactivity. I’m not completely surprised, I expected to be a little rusty, but not this bad.
Sigh.
The tip is to not really think about it.
It all becomes second nature sooner or later.
You’ll start instinctively checking your mirrors, you’ll be able to gauge your speed (roughly) just from the feel of the car, you’ll learn how much pressure to put on the accelerator / brake so that it’s smooth, and so on.
Obviously still practice, but don’t worry if you’re not doing everything perfect, that’s what practice is for (and no one is a perfect driver anyway :P).
Good luck with the lessons man 🙂
You should be going for your second phase soon, right?
That’s the thing. I was good at it. Now I’m not. It’s the loss of skill that irks me.
Rule #1 of driving lessons: Never ever EVER under any circumstance get driving lessons from your parents. It never ends well.
Also don’t stress. Driving is the application of a whole bunch of skills simultaneously and it takes some practice to get used to it.
What do you mean it never ends well? I’ve only broken the car once! 😛
Depends on the parent. The one time my dad took my sister out for a lesson, she broke his car. Took a tooth right out of the reverse gear 😛
I think that was the only lesson Dad gave, the rest all came from Mum. Only thing we had to worry about with her was a sudden loud gasp that would make us shit ourselves and momentarily almost crash the car. Sometimes for added bonus, we’d get grabbed by the arm too for extra shock value.
Other than that it worked out pretty ok I think.
Edit: Took a TOOTH. Not took a took. That doesn’t make sense, stupid fingers.
35 HOURS? I think I only ever did like 5 sessions at half hour each for logbook and passed.
Didn’t mean for that to come off as condescending. Just that I agree with what Lioncat said, once you pick it up and do it over and over, every day, it becomes like everything else that you do. In fact, it doesn’t take long to dislike doing it all the god damn time.
Man, I totally don’t get how so many people talk about doing only a few hours then fudging the rest. Both me and my sister took about a year to rack up our 50 hours on Mum’s auto, then got a lesson from an instructor on manual and did another six months or so of that before going for our Ps. Think I had something like 83 hours by then, and still didn’t feel all that confident about it 😛 That said, major pity on the kids now who have to do a hundred hours plus twenty of night driving.
25 hours and 6 months are the required criteria in order to do the Learner Stage 2 tests. I hear they might increase that.
When I did mine there were no log books or anything official. Get your learners then 6 months later do a 15min driving test and you have your P’s. 3 years later they automatically became Opens.
cc @mrtaco @benny
It’s like the wild west!
Reminds me of what my Nonno said. “Just had to go down to the police station, say ‘I want my driver’s licence’ and give ’em fifty cents.”
At least having already acquired the skill means you’ll pick it up fast enough… the hardest thing about driving is not the driving part afterall, it’s judgement.
the ability to make quick decisions and predict that everyone else is going to be arseholes in traffic 😛
Same.
I haven’t had lessons in ages, though I do a bit of driving occasionally.
Keep at it man. It’s hard to start but having the freedom of your own wheels will completely change your life.
Assuming you have the income to support it 😛
@mrtaco
In Canberra at @blaghman’s house was the first time. I still have footage of you on the piano.
Ohriiiiiiight. “Drinking” had me totally thinking of bars, that one didn’t even cross my mind.
Also damn that terrible video 😛
ARE MY MEATS THAT FORGETTABLE?
*Waddles off crying*
The jelly shots were pretty strong.
So I went into the City with Mum today and checked out the two new clothing stores that had opened up
H&M
The clothing left a lot to be desired. It was impossible to find anything suitable for winter wear. There were so many people and we pretty much ended up leaving. They claim to be affordable but $60 for skinny jeans that you can get in literally any other clothing store? No thanks.
Uniqlo
The first thing I noticed is that they had a huge variety of colours in any of their selections. Also that they tended to use wool and wool blends and cotton over acrylic. Their sizes are a little on the small side, which was disappointing but had a much bigger range of stuff as well. Uniqlo was about the same price range as H&M but were using higher quality materials.
I expected a Pokemon joke. I am disappointed, Scree. I guess I’ll have to make one.
Um… uh… They should really HM01 their prices?
Well that was terrible.
Sorry
I TM28 it.
Well I feel I should TM09 it. But the opinions of TAYbies TM33 that I should keep it up. If I keep it up, I might get a veritable TM16 of upvotes.
Okay, okay, I’m done with the TM jokes. I’ll give it a TM44.
Indeed!
I used Generation 1 TMs, since that what I thought most people would be familiar with. (Even though I am most familiar with Gen 3 TMs)
Since I guess I’m forced to ruin the joke:
TM09 – Take Down
TM33 – Reflect
TM16 – Pay Day
TM44 – Rest
I’m not familiar with any of them, so had to look them up to see what they were. Then found that they had alternatives, so decided to dick around with it. Don’t worry, I ruined it first 😛
http://sharkrobot.com/products/ill-hmo1-you
They’re good overseas. Haven’t been to their stores in Australia but their online prices are kinda ehhh
It seems Rooster Teeth have an IndieGoGo thing. That has raised 630,000 in less than a day. Well.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lazer-team-by-rooster-teeth
Going to upgrade my terrible quality PC headset tomorrow. Any suggestions for the $100 – $150 mark?
Sennheiser!!! \o/
That’s always my response for headsets 😛 i guess it really depends on what features you want
I have one of those. It picks up Mum more then me
I really only have the normal headphones, without a mic, and just use a cheap $20 usb mic 😛
and in terms of comfort and sound without too heavy a price tag, i’ve never been able to find anything better
http://www.jbhifi.com.au/games/accessories/plantronics/gamecomm-780-surround-sound-headset-sku-296851/
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=116_998&products_id=25591
If you don’t mind ordering online, these are on sale and if they’re even a quarter as good as my PC360 set they’ll be fantastic. This mic on that bastard is the best thing I’ve ever used, for the first time ever in recordings I actually sound like ME! It certainly looks like a very similar mic on this set so that should be good
Everything I’ve tried has been pretty shit honestly. Especially the ‘gaming’ stuff. They take crap audio gear and put shitty plastic on it and then sell it at a massive markup.
It really depends on what you want to do but my personal plan when I get around to updating is to grab a good quality desk mic and a separate high-end headphone set, or possibly get an Audio Technica ATH-ADG1 but the fact the microphone doesn’t roll back out of your line of sight so it’s always floating just there kind of puts me off a bit.
The Corsair Vengeance 1500 headset that I use is pretty good. Incredibly comfortable.
Went to the restaurant with two kids, left with one! D:
(pretend spoilertags)My parents took my daughter home with them for the night.
Also, my daughter is now taller than me as well as borrowing my clothes. So weird.
Some news, weekend peeps.
I know you’ve all been waiting on the edges of your seats for the better part of a year for news of the Peaceful Tomorrows ebook editions (actually, I suspect that only @strange and @coldcamv are waiting, and they may have even forgotten why they were waiting [because they wrote reviews for The Lesser Evil in a bid to win a free copy of PT1 ebook]).
Well, I finally snapped the other day and wrote an email to my publisher offering to make the ebooks myself. It was one of those “Dear Mr Burns, I’m so glad you enjoyed my son’s blood” emails, but I refrained from outright confessing that I was being snarky.
Long story short, I’m making the files and they’ll (hopefully) be published soon. FINALLY.
I’m also (having gotten similarly sick of waiting) fixing all the blurry page issues that got through into Volume One’s print edition. Soon, those imperfect copies you have on your shelves will be collector’s items. You’re welcome.
Also, I got my head shaved today… because that’s the obvious course of action once you’ve gotten a cold, right? (Actually, it was because my daughter has rocked up with nits – filthy things – and I just want to keep things simple for myself) It’s shorter than @dc’s hair. I like it like this. With my beard, I look like a total wannabe bruiser.
Shane’s known for his shortness!
Buzz cut club! \o/
Bzzz bzzz
Bee cool, honey. Bee cool.
I might be joining soon! 😀
Pics or it didn’t happen :p
Shaved head is the only way to go man.
Oh, maybe it didn’t happen. All that grief I took from my mother was for nothing, then. Fantastic.
It was all a dream… dream… dream.
I agree with this.
@shane
I demand pictures
to ogle atas proof 😛https://www.dropbox.com/s/tu3fzb40k6yppnd/2014-06-07%2022.24.24.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmx9ujnm77unmn4/2014-06-07%2022.24.18.jpg
Suits you, man!
You weren’t kidding!
Looks great short! 😉
pls dun hurt me
Don’t worry, Shane’s too busy cooking up some meth!
No one suspects a man with a beard
SAY MY NAME
I was only kidding man.
Looks good though.
Buzz cut club! \o/Tough guy club! \o/
Max Payne!
You know nits like beards too, right?
Edit: P.S. Is that why we wrote reviews?! You are correct, I’d completely forgotten. I thought we just wrote reviews because we love you. 😀
And eye brows!
The beard stays >:(
So the eyebrows don’t?
What about the eyebrows?
TWINS
TWINS
Wise decision.
MQFT
P
F
M
A
C
L
R
MK
I’m having trouble figuring out which one is Dark Souls, so I’ll refrain from answering.
I’ll pick C, cause I’m hoping they are types of animals that you’re deciding to get as a pet, and that C stands for Cat :3
Puma
Ferret
Moose
Antelope
Cat
Lemur
Rhinoceros
MeerKat
and… you pick cat? 😛
Cougar!
I love cats! They’re my favourite animal :3
(super boring, I know :P)
I’ll put you all out of your misery, seeing as all the votes are for C.
It was to pick a movie to watch (boring, I know, I liked your list better). So I’ll be watching Carlito’s Way.
That’s the name of a pizza at my local pizza place. It’s also the best!
…haven’t eaten from there in a while actually. And now I’m hungry.
The C is for Colobus.
You wish buddy 😛
C is always for Cat 😉
Colobus Monkey holding a cat, maybe!
Cat eating a Colobus Monkey.
Compromise, I like it! 😀
@evilmonkey has to get a Colobus Monkey holding a Cat as his pet now.
It’s TAY law! 😀
Hey, rules are rules. But what happens if I don’t.
Edit: I’ll totally get (according to Wikipedia), a black colobus (Colobus satanas) or Satanic black colobus, so basically, an evil colobus.
Then I’ll cut you 🙂
@liondrive, no need to go to extremes, now I have found out there’s an evil Colobus, I am happy to comply.
@liondrive: The ‘:)’ just makes your post all the more ominous. D:
@dc
I’m confused, what’s not to smile about?
Catbus?
C.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1895055879/meraki-a-progressive-gaming-streaming-soundtrack
EIGHT HOURS TO GO. You have a spare $2000 lying around, yes?
Gutted that this probably won’t get up.
Can an TAYbies who own Dark Souls (The original, not 2) on PC give me some help.
I’m stuck on the Press Start, and it keeps crashing to desktop.
I’ve tried several options (Removing the game and re-installing, updating drivers, Updating GFWL), but nothing seems to work.
I’ll post the crash info here:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: DATA.exe
Application Version: 1.0.2.0
Application Timestamp: 51f7b5da
Fault Module Name: vsfilter.dll
Fault Module Version: 3.0.0.211
Fault Module Timestamp: 50ca2f91
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000b3907
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 3081
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
are you playing it with DSFix?
EDIT – I think i had similar issues, and remember trying some of these steps…
http://upwardgaming.com/windows-8-fix-dark-souls-crashing-on-startup-and-non-windows-8-fixes/
I can’t remember which ones actually worked, but a few things to try
I think I might’ve figured it out.
I had to re-install the GFWL Marketplace so I could install an update.
EDIT: Didn’t work. 🙁
Navigate to your dark souls folder, most likely at this default path – C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition OR in steam right click your game and select Properties then in the right tab select View Local Game Files.
2. Once in the game files click DATA
3. Right click the first .exe (DARKSOULS.exe), select Properties > Compatibility.
4. Check the box “Run this program in compatibility mode for:” drop down the selection box to Windows XP (Service Pack 3), also check the box “Run this program as an administrator”
5 Click OK then repeat 3 and 4 for the second .exe (DATA.exe) in your DATA folder.
If that doesn’t work, check here. http://upwardgaming.com/windows-8-fix-dark-souls-crashing-on-startup-and-non-windows-8-fixes/
Already tried it beforehand, didn’t work. 🙁
bummer man 🙁
Gaming plans for the weekend in complete disarray. I finished Wolfenstein already, have Watch Dogs here but don’t want to play it, played enough of Wildstar to not want to play any more Wildstar… and nothing else on my pile of shame starts with ‘w’! 🙁
You should play some Wonderful 101!
I don’t own a Wii U and probably won’t ever unless Xenublade blows my mind, but I’m more worried than excited about that game.
And even if I did own a Wii U I wouldn’t bother with Wonderful 101.
I figured as much, but I started trying to think of W games and saw an opportunity to pimp that one again 😛
…hmm. Warioware!
Wait, no. The best one of all: Waterworld!
W101 looks like a cool game but the fact it’s Platinum is like a death sentence for me. I can count the number of their games I’ve enjoyed on one hand and not use any fingers.
Considering the exorbitant price the Virtual Boy game goes for along with how limited the gameplay is, it’s a pretty accurate portrayal.
Wacky Wheels.
Oh man, I haven’t played that in decades. Is that actually playable on modern hardware?
http://www.classicdosgames.com/online/1wacky.html
Apparently Trails in the Sky S2 is only few months away from being completely translated, then it’ll just be editing and testing and maybe it’ll be out this year \o/
(Joke about new TitS being even bigger goes here)
Engrish Musical Interlude. Go Fight!.
To follow up, Epic Sax Interlude. I’ve never played a Megaman game but stuff like this makes me tempted.
Gave up & deleted Dark Souls.
Now I am sadface. 🙁
aaww /o\
That sucks man!
While going through The Collection I may have just stumbled upon the soundtrack from Popful Mail for the Sega CD.
EDIT: OMG and Ecco Songs of Time. BRB going to go zen out for a bit.
@aliasalpha In that case I’d better film it in portrait. Just to be sure 😛
*strums guitar* ..happy birthday to me.. TvT
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
You look like a monkey
And you smell like one too
ಠ_ಠ
Happy birthfay @bernyy!
Wow! two TAYbie b’days today! Hope you have a good day sire!
Happy birthday @benny AND @blaghman!
Twinsies.
Happy bday Benny, now go chug a random beverage and throw it down in superiority because its your birthday like “Bitch I earned this!”
I have discovered exactly why the Harry Potter movies are terrible book adaptions:
The Harry Potter movies typically suffer from bad acting and changing too much content. However, I have discovered the crux of the issues with the Harry Potter movies, and it is forced whimsy.
The books were rather whimsical, but they were written in a way where the whimsy wasn’t shoved in your face. The whimsy was written in such a way that the whimsy feels perfectly natural. The movies force whimsy by using sound effects or cutting out the normal parts to save on time. The books also had a much better balance of whimsy and dark stuff. The world of Harry Potter had the appearance of carefree whimsy, but it was all housed in a rather dark package.
Just my two cents.
HAPPY BIRSHTADAYT !BALGENAB!
jeeeeesus let’s not let ne mear te ebottle again ok ok
Hope the canbeneraa folk had a gerat night
Cc !baglhamna
happy drunkday
Happy Birthday @blaghman!
Yeah, Hippo Birdy 2 ewe. @benny, and @blaghman.
Tomodachi Life demo codes. Who wants em? Mind you, I’m not sure they’re redeemable as, y’know, I live in Canada.
I just wanna buy it!
Ugh, I hate being poor when all the awesome games come out.
So do you want the code? 😛
No thank you. Australian account, it won’t work.
I’ve got one if you want an Australian code, scree.
That would be awesome, Pow.
@liondrive
In regards to your seeming enjoyment at the thought of cutting @shane
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piquerism
dammit freeze!!!
It was actually directed at me I believe.
Lends a whole new meaning to the phrase “pique your interest”
It was directed at you 🙂
Gahhh, I’ll stop being creepy now, haha! 😀
Happy birthday @blaghman now you need to party like it was 1980, which i guess means roller disco..have a party at a roller disco *decisive nod*
Look, @rize – More Freelancer marketing materials. 😉
Skullgirls is $5 on GMG!
http://www.greenmangaming.com/search/?q=skullgirls&price=0-10
Ooh, work starting on a new Virtual Boy emulator. Kinda wanna help… but also don’t want to be a hindrance 😛 Would probably be a great opportunity to learn a whole load of stuff.
Call Nintendo!
Call the band!
Work on Virtual Boy emulator!
Or don’t 😀
I don’t need to call Nintendo! Well, mostly.
Both of the band things have gone silent 🙁
Will probably post in the guy’s thread.
Still gotta run a backup of my old hard drive too. Should probably get onto that one.
YAY!
Ended up getting a pair of Steelseries D3 Reaper of Souls edition headset. Because I’m shallow as fuck and these looked completely rad. The Plantronic ones that were similar price were ugly as sin and the guy trying to sell them to me had just finished telling a customer the XBone was five times more powerful than the PS4 so I was a bit disinclined to listen.
They didn’t have the Sennheisers since apparently they’re online only and I was kind of trapped by the use of a gift card.
Happily on some research the ones I’ve got have reviewed very solidly (they’re just Syberia V2’s with a fancy skin) so they should be fine.
Should have got Logitech, they are pretty great. Although I think I am logitech fanboi (keyboard, mouse, headset)
I’ve had very mixed experiences with Logitech. The mouse and speakers I’ve had were freaking amazing. I don’t think I’ll ever buy another brand mouse honestly. The gamepad and current headset I have are abysmal.
Completely agree, used to have a wireless Logitech Keyboard and Mouse and a set of 5.1 speakers, absolutely awesome.
I’ve got a G510 keyboard, G35 headset and a G500s mouse. They are the best PC peripherals I have used before.
EDIT: Before this I used Razor products. Take my word for it, just do not use any razor products. Unless you want to spend alot of money on something that breaks within a month.
Hory sheet I just realised the lights all over these headphones pulse in synch to the sound they’re playing.
The Syberia V2s are pretty reasonable. My current set. The only issue I have is the headband is a bit flimsy.
They’re the most comfortable headset I’ve come across so far. I’ll probably replace them with the exact same set once these die.
Admittedly, one of the first things I did was disable the lights. I just don’t understand why “gaming” gear has so many goddamned lights. Why?
Hey, anyone heard of/played Lifeless Planet? Was just browsing Steam and came across it, looks intriguing.
Edit: Downloading now, will let you guys know what I think. Also, got a coupon after purchasing that and Toki Tori 2 for 50% off SpaceChem, which apparently I already own, so if anyone wants to trade, let me know.
EB actually has some decent sales on now. I picked up Gates to Infinity for $47, even though it was pre-owned.
Also, today I found out that the actor that plays Agent May on Agents of Shield is also the voice of Mulan in Mulan.
Mulan/Agents of Shield crossover confirmed…?
Steam is no longer linked with my Paypal account.
Happy?
DANGER DANGER DANGER
ABORT ABORT
That sounds like a terrible idea.
I’m not happy, Jan!
LINK IT BACK >:|
But you all said not to!
>:|
Just made a trip to my storage locker. Some games I won’t get around to playing / am done with deposited, some figures and board games that were taking up space since I never play them placed into storage… and I grabbed my JP 360 out of storage. Now I can finally get around to playing Nier \o/
So should I be playing Nier with a guide? I don’t know how much longer this 360 is going to last, it’s already giving me some weird problems (video brightness dropping out a few times then fading back up to full again). Is it worth dropping difficulty to get through faster as well?
Nah, I don’t recall ever needing to use one on my first playthrough.
I think it’s fine on the default difficulty but you may as well drop it down to get through it quicker. The gameplay is a bit choppy and it was all about the story/characters/music/”experience” for me
No guide should be necessary. Except maybe when you get to the one stupid mandatory fishing thing. In which case, vg’f ng gur bgure ornpu!
To get the most out of the game, you’ll need to play through at least twice, so dropping the difficulty may be a good idea, but honestly I’m crap at games and I’m pretty sure I did it on default so it may make it too easy for you
Nier! \o/.
Oh man I forgot about the fishing thing! Hah!
Oh god that fucking fishing. Fuck that so much. When I realized that I was in the wrong place and the actual spot is easy I was super annoyed 🙁
Liking the game so far though it’s kind of hard sometimes due to getting stun-locked by enemies. World is interesting, dub is surprisingly good, music is great though a bit repetitive… I’m 4 hours in, about to start the Junk Heap. How long is 1 play through approx? 15-20 hours or less?
Ogawd. Haven’t touched Linux in… I dunno, maybe seven or eight years. Can’t remember how to do anything. This is the worst. Computers are stupid.
Is Red worth watching?
http://www.telstra.com.au/latest_offers/loyalty/movies.html?detectmob=no
I’ve never even heard of the other two but Red seems okay.
@redartifice is a shifty fellow. Wouldn’t let my eyes off him if I were you.
Hey, I resemble that-
Wait, no, fair enough, carry on.
Yes.
Green should watch Red.
Red is good, A Few Best Men is supposed to be pretty funny, but I haven’t seen it.
Hey does anyone know how one can get in contact with Pax Australia?
E-mail info@paxaustralia.com.au?
I wanted to ask them if they’ll have a hanabee maid cafe
HANABI!
😛
Hanabee the anime company, not the japanese word for fireworks
HA-NA-BI >:|
Hanabee. I won’t be buying you any crepes at the maid cafe then!
I’m not going to PAX so I would’ve missed out anyway 😛
Although PAX did open my eyes to the wonders of… HANABI!
@greenius
How could you miss pax? D=
Because I didn’t really like it last year so I didn’t see a point in going again :P. It’s just not my kind of thing!
Meeting and hanging out with TAYbies was great though, so I can still do that 😀
@greenius
I love conventions so I don’t understand, but I can respect your decision
It was the first gaming convention type thing I went to. Bit expensive and didn’t really offer me much. It wasn’t really organised well either so there were plenty of lines errywhere and it was hard to get into those panels (which would’ve been great to watch).
Technically they’ve derived their name from Hanabi though.
I didn’t even know they existed. But now I do. It looks like they’re republishing some of the Aniplex USA stuff in Australia? Maybe this is why TRSI wouldn’t sell me the *monogatari BD sets when they came out. 🙁
Yes but it’s not spelt the same.
Smoke signals? 😛
So Mr. Strange is sick which meant I couldn’t go to the meat and meet the Quiz-man. All the sads. 🙁
So instead of just moping around, I’m being productive with my time and did a blog post, and then leapt over the cliff of “publishing” my blog. Eep!
http://strangestitches.blogspot.com.au/
It’s not perfect, but it’s mine so I’m okay with that, as I’m far from perfect. 😛 But yeah, obviously I’ll fine-tune it as I get to know what I’m doing.
Looks good! Much better than my single-post effort 😛
Looks good and the site seems pretty well laid-out.
And The Night of the Rabbit makes 40 games I’ve completed this year!
@dc – it was alright! Had to use a guide a lot though because I’m terrible. I just like the fact that I got a rare trading card out of it so the game literally paid for itself 😀
I still haven’t played much passed the start. Really have no drive to go back to it.
I think I liked Deponia more 😀
Yeah, Deponia felt more like a classic Lucas Arts game.
@hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian NO ONE TOLD ME THOSE FETHING FOREST PEOPLE COULD SCALE TREES!!! here i was, thinking i had set up camp in a nice secluded area, no one around to see… found a bunny and chased it, because food and then 5 people drop down on me… WTF! i nearly wet myself…
Top notch game though, except i think i’ll forever be scared of trees now
Ha yeah, I had found a nice corner spot with plenty of trees perfect spot TO BE AMBUSHED!
Now, I like wide open plains.
I just saw a dinoking post that wasn’t in rot13 and it kind of made sense.
MY LIFE IS A LIE
MY LIE IS A LIFE
Everything is stupid and too much effort and doesn’t work and I hate it.
*flips table*
DARKNESS
I’m off to bed…
Night, folks.
Bahhhh so fricking drunk! @powalen if I don’t make it tomorrow I’m sorry its cos I’m hungover!
Wildstar adventures are so haaaaaaard
come back online! lets do one! I promise I’ll top dps!!
Haha, did one just before. I came 3rd in DPS as a tank. >.>
Might be a sign you aren’t meant to tank? Alternatively it could also mean you had a shit group xD
Hmmm to have another shot or to not, that is the question.
That is never a question!
Do it!
If there’s a shot to be had, you have to have that shot!
Never leave a shot undrunk!
Unless it’s a shot from a gun. You shouldn’t drink those.
OH GOD I DON’T KNOW WHAT JUST HAPPENED I WENT TO INSTALL VIRTUALBOX THEN SUDDENLY D DRIVE DISAPPEARED WHAT IS THIS SOMEBODY HELP I AM DYING FUCK FUCK FUCK
Not dead yet?
Nevermind, nothing to see here, ONWARD AND UPWARD to new TAY
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-280/
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @thecracks @greenius
Alright, here’s my number. It was just easier to put this on a very old TAY then do it any other way.
04 59 48 50 60I’d rather you didn’t share this share this with the world, please.
I just texted!
Due to the cost and inconvenience of texting, (you’ll understand when you see my phone) I’ll just put all my answers here.
I expect to get there between 5:30 and 6:00. I don’t know where “there” is, though.
No one does :P. I’m at the Travelodge Perth so somewhere near there.
I think @fled has something in mind so well wait until 7ish for him (it’ll probably help if he also gave us the details first so it can be a meeting point)
I think @phoenix finishes uni at 5 but I’m not sure how far away that is. If us 3 were to meet earlier I’d prefer if it was around my hotel (since I can’t really travel anywhere) so we can always just meet early and wait for fled.