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Good morning TAY. 🙂
Also, this has @dc written all over it. http://www.gog.com/promo/summer_tex_murphy_bundle_150614
I have all the Tex Murphy games. 😛
WELL NOW YOU CAN HAVE THEM AGAIN.
They’d have you again, if you were on sale.
I already own them twice. Boxed copies AND GOG copies. 😛
Stop ruining all of GOG’s fun. :p
Hola TAY
Busy all day, so VIDEO GAEMS!
Monday morning question- which fantasy series needs a Witcher-style adaptation?
Magician. They’d wreck it, but I’d be hype until I saw proof of it. Although the Belgariad could make an interesting game as well.
I always saw magician as closer to a total war style game. Although that might be because I have read the empire series about 3 times as often as the original.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Yes, yes, it already takes place in “medieval” times which is standard fantasy setting, but I’d be interested to see it play out.
Oooh, oooh, oooh, either that or “Magic Kingdom:
For SaleSOLD!” which is again already fantasy but could be awesome as a Witcher-style game.The Black Magician Trilogy.
Seriously, read it! It’s by Trudi Canavan.
I was looking up this series to try and find the name of it. I’m not sure if I ever really knew the series name as I got them as a set.
Great story and could work well as a story based RPG
Somewhat related note: There was no mention of the new Cyberpunk game by CDPR at E3. 🙁
One of their guys was on the GIant Bomb live stuff after the show and they asked him about it, and basically the whole studio is flat out on The Witcher 3 with just a few people still prototyping stuff for Cyberpunk, so it’s simply a case of they have nothing concrete to show yet because they’re busy with the more immediate game.
Which is odd because I’m pretty sure they teased Cyberpunk before they teased Witcher 3. Granted, Witcher is the established franchise and everyone expected a sequel but it’s disheartening to know Cyberpunk is still probably a few years away because they won’t get the real work on it done til after Witcher 3 is out.
I say we let them take their sweet time. That’s one game I’m hoping they’ll really nail.
Oh absolutely, I just assumed we’d see Cyberpunk before Witcher 3 so that I have to wait longer is disappointing!
They were both announced within a month or two of each other, but The Witcher 3 was always coming first.
Oh, I didn’t realise that. It seems like Cyberpunk teaser was forever ago whereas the Wild Hunt stuff was much more recent.
I don’t know about a Witcher-style adaption, but I still find it quite odd that there was only ever one game in the Wheel of Time universe and that it completely ignored most of everything and didn’t remotely fit into the setting.
I think most of Brandon Sanderson’s books could work in action RPG form as well, but they’re not high profile enough to get a decent enough budget to do them justice.
“In March 2012, a video game prequel called Mistborn: Birthright was announced slated for a fall 2013 release. The game has been delayed until 2015 to take advantage of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Developed by Little Orbit, Brandon Sanderson had written the story of the game.”
Yeah and if you look it up it looks to be a crappy browser / free to play thing, thus my “enough budget to do them justice” mention.
nooooooooo!!!!
Look at all the amazing games the developer has made:
http://www.littleorbit.com/games.html
🙁
Son of a Beesting
Would love to see an RPG of Kingkiller Chronicle, not sure how it would work though.
Anything from the Discworld series as kind of like a parody game. It would be all sorts of glorious.
Have you played the Discworld adventure games?
I have not and I didn’t even know such a thing existed. I’ll see if GOG has them available.
They. Are. Hard.
Read a couple of books before playing, so you can get your mind into the warped logic of the books.
Yeah, even by 90s adventure game standards the logic behind some of the puzzles is truly deranged.
Rincewind is voiced by Eric Idle!
I know this sounds trite because if it’s current popularity, but cast my vote for Game of Thrones.
Not an adaptation of the main story, but other stories set in the universe like the one Cyanide Studios made a few years ago. That property in the hands of CD Projekt… ermagherd.
A Song of Ice and Fire was going to be developed by Bethesda, but they abandoned the project to work on TES Skyrim.
Interesting. I’m not sure I’d like an ASOIAF game in the style of Skyrim/TES, but I guess it might work. I just feel like for all their good storytelling the TES games are ultimately always going to be combat-heavy whereas the Cyanide-made GoTRPG had more investigation, exploration and conversation than combat. Which is probably for the best because the combat system was pretty tough to get to grips with.
Triumviratus, please.
Morning all. How was your weekend?
Mine was filled with work, and obtaining a Wii U console, had enough time to play through the first 50cc cup yesterday, can’t wait to get into TAYKart tonight.
Question: I bought a Wii U last year, when Dick Smith was clearing them out. Stupid me traded it in a few months later to get an Xbone. Now that I’ve bought a new one, I tried to link my Nintendo ID to my Club Nintendo account, and it says that I can only link one Nintendo ID (which I’d done on the previous console). Is there any way to retrieve that me, or do I have to reset the console and make a Mii with the old Nintendo ID?
Oh, and by the way,
2,000 KOTAKU POSTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nintendo are Internet newfriends, so they have no idea how this stuff works. Apparently it’s a good idea for your ID to be joined to the console. You’ll have to contact them and get them to release it. But, I actually think since you lost the serial# of old console, they can’t do this, and you may have to create a new one.
Ask @gooky or someone to confirm.
@mrtaco
Shit! I hope not.
Had the exact same situation myself last week – sold my launch WiiU last year, purchased a new one for Mario Kart and tried to add my original NNID. Can’t be done. NNIDs are locked to the console, period. I even called and checked. Think there’s exceptions if your WiiU is being repaired, they can transfer it to a new console – but apart from that, it’s new NNID time.
Well that’s fucked, just went to miiverse.nintendo.net, clicked on forgot password, they sent me a temporary password, tried adding an existing user, and it said exactly that, “this user is locked to another Wii U console” or something to that effect.
So now I won’t get that bonus $7 credit for the free game, and I’ll lose about 800 stars.
HELLDAMNFART!
Ring Nintendo, their support is pretty good about this sort of thing.
I’m back.
Expect a big write up at lunch time.
I have 2 weeks of TAY to catch up on and a nagging feeling I should have applied for one more day of annual leave, so I could have had today off.
I got back early yesterday afternoon, and after washing and cleaning (somebody forgot to run the dishwasher through before leaving, and by somebody I mean me, so we had rotten chicken and foodstuffs smell throughout the entire house) I collapsed in bed at 11 last night.
And here I am at work.
*cries*
Welcome back man \o/
STAN! *waves arms around, punches in sternum*
*expects write-up*
To be fair, you never specified what year the write up would appear in!
Hahahaha…ha…I forget how busy you get when you go on holidays and come back to work.
Tomorrow! I promise tomorrow!
‘Morning. Weekend was ‘meh’ once again. For like the 6th month in a row it’s raining on a weekend, so I couldn’t go mountain biking. But on Sunday, weather held up enough for short ride so I get bike out after 2+ months not touching it. Not going anywhere – rear brake seized up completely.
Played DnD on Sunday, and I could choose a Feat. Contemplated picking up some spells as a Rogue, but they were all nasty lvl 1 spells so I passed on that. Picked up some ‘Field Tactics’ or similar.
@powalen and other Mario Kart 8 folk: any chance we could change to 3 days per week in TAY kart? 7 to 1 day is pretty harsh, and I’d personally prefer a Mon-Wed-Sat or something arrangement if possible. I’ve only just completed 50cc cups and I’m getting into it, so one day is pretty sad. 🙁 Also, tonight …
Apparently Destiny Alpha is finishing soon, but Bungie is throwing a last mission tonight at 6pm. Everyone is told to gather at the social centre, so I guess they stress testing servers too. (My friend told me all this). Destiny is alright, nothing special standing out atm (if you overlook the whole seamless multiplayer thing), and a friend already finished it.
I’ll be on Mario Kart tonight. I’m up for it just about any night I’m not at work, and if the missus will let me have the TV.
I’ll have to see if I added you … my details are on TAY list. I’ll try to get on after Destiny stuff, but we have The Hobbit to watch too … 😛
Yeah, don’t add me just yet, I made a new Nintendo Network ID, and now I’m trying to add my old one, and I can’t remember the password, as soon as I get it sorted I’ll put the correct one up on TAYnames.
Edit: Don’t worry about waiting to add me, stupid Nintendo won’t let me link my old Nintendo ID, so whoever wants to add me can go right ahead. My NNID is evilmonk3y
Which Hobbit, 1st or 2nd?
First, I haven’t seen any. 😀
You’ve got a while to catch up, the last one isn’t out till boxing day. Extended Edition, or vanilla?
I’m not sure. 🙁 It’s from Civic Video heh.
“a friend already finished it.”
There’s only one story mission and some free-roam stuff. You can ‘finish’ it in about 25 minutes.
Seems you can keep repeating it. He actually got a message up saying “thanks for finishing apha, love bungie”. Dunno! He’s over level 10 and got some sweet gear too he said. I’ll check it out tonight.
I couldn’t level past 8 it said I’d hit the Alpha cap and gave me a message saying thanks for playing
Yeah, the level cap is 8. I got the same message after completing the strike mission.
CC @gutsoup ah, he must be lvl 8 then. I didn’t watch him play this so not sure.
See above regarding the 6pm tonight thing
People can still play every night if they want. It’s just the Tournament score-counting that is set up for Mondays. You can still freely play in it at any time. Just tell people you want to play and those who want to will.
@stickman
And tournament score counting is pretty pointless anyway since those who have stuck around longer generally end up with more points.
You’re probably better off making a private friend room (for chat) or joining in on a global race and getting friends to join in on your game. But like Powie said, there’s no reason stopping you playing the tournament on a non-tournament day.
I thought the tournament ‘room’ itself was closed outside of those times? So it isn’t?
Nope :)! You can still enter and “practice” with NPCs and I believe there’s still a score tally. But since it’s weekly at least everyone will know it’s on that day and will be more likely to join. Activity has definitely died down but it’s easy enough to just ask people on TAY/Twitter if they’re keen on playing and then starting your own session.
I gave the Alpha a go. Got to level 8 with a Titan. I quite enjoyed it. Early days, but I think I’ll give the retail version a shot.
Tonight at 6 pm? Hmm….that would be cool to check out, but I’ll be at the gym.
Morning errbody,
How’s every little thing? My weekend was filled of children’s birthdays and babysitting after arguably one of the longest and energy sapping days I’ve had in years being on Friday, my body still aches from it.
Played a bit of Watchdogs Saturday night while babysitting and then played some more Payday 2 on Sunday afternoon while, again, babysitting. I’m the best babysitter 😀
Last night I played some Mario kart then left the room for a while and when I came back Cathryn was playing it for the first time ever and watching her was hilarious especially when she’d get red shelled 😛
A morning question in the style of Red – what series would you like to see a compilation of in the vein of Mario kart style or the like of super smash?
Sounds like a tiring weekend haha!
LBP Karting, Sonic Karting 1&2, F1 Race Stars, Modnation Racers, PS All Stars … it’s mostly all been done before. 😛
Game of Thrones Kart. When you win, you get beheaded.
Even though the series is pretty dead now, Crash Team Racing needs a remake something fierce.
Unkarted
Tekken Kart. Tekkart?
The Elder Karts. Tiber Septim versus Pelagius the Mad and Boethiah!
I was going to name series from Michael Crichton books, (Jurassic Park, PREY, Airframe, NEXT) but why not mash them all together?
Crichton Kart! The PREDPREY nanomachines versus a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The Transpacific Airlines Flight 545 plane versus Gerard the talking bird!
Oh my god someone make this game.
Hey guys. How was everyone’s weekends. I ended up watching all of the e3 conferences and most of the world cup. Didn’t achieve much else. Was very much ready for a weekend of rest.
E3 – really happy with everyone’s turnout except ea. They had little prepared but I am excited for a lot of their games. Ubisoft has a bunch of must buys in the pipeline. Microsoft did good enough to keep my support of the xbone. I can’t wait for master chief collection plus looking forward to sunset overdrive and a couple of indie games. Sony got my interest for a ps4 a lot earlier than expected with games like uncharted 4 and again some indie titles like no mans skys. Multiplatform looked the goods with destiny looking pretty and intriguing. Also games like the Witcher and lord of the rings plus a few others looked awesome. Nintendo killed it with yoshi and toad games. That will be a hit with me and the Mrs.
Overall very excited for future gaming. World cup was actually quite entertaining even though I never watch soccer. A few awesome goals already and some really good games.
This week hoping my order of watch dogs and wolfenstein come in from Oz game shop. Plus another pair of shoes. These collecting addictions are sending me broke. Thankfully I still live at home.
Also. I weighed myself last night and now weigh 107 kg. The heaviest I have been. Considering I was going to the gym but stopped due to being sick for the past 3 weeks this makes me feel crap. I have decided I need to start runni by again and riding my bike plus gym work outs. I also need to watch what I eat. Something I have never really done and I have a shit diet. Plan on dropping 12 kg by end of the year.
TL: Dr
Liked e3. Very excited. Bought more shoes and games. Getting fatter need to lose weight.
How was your weekend?
Hi! Go download MyFitnessPal for your phone and do a bit of calorie counting, You’ll work out really quickly what things to not eat or eat less of, and you can track your exercise too. It’s a great app, you can even scan packet barcodes.
And if you have a parkrun near you, I recommend it heartily – I missed this week’s run because my ankle is still sore after rolling it last weekend 🙁
Aww man, I love the idea of those Parkruns, but there’s not one near me in Sydney… I might start scouting locations and see if I can get one together in the area though…
I use strata for riding an running. It works a treat
I think you can now connect Strava to MFP and it will sync exercises to your daily diary.
Good Morning TAY
Nothing really new to share here, study taking up most of what used to be my gaming time but I did have my first run of an “Adventure” (instance) in Wildstar
I gotta say, it was actually really cool but I can also see how raiding and/or PvP is going to be that extra bit harder with the latency that most Aussies are getting
Got a cold and spent a fair bit of time sitting around feeling sick. Then I played some Destiny while coughing a lot, felt like I’ve gotten everything I can out of the Alpha. Completely sold on the game now, though it was already a must-buy since Bungie.
Also played some Nier yesterday. It’s such a strange game. Suddenly it’s a visual novel! Now it’s channelling Resident Evil! Now it’s a terrible slog with an isometric perspective! Seriously all over the place. It’s not bad by any means, but I’m into the second half of my first playthrough and honestly I’m not enormously into it. It’s just okay, not some revelatory experience or anything. I’m also starting to get bored with the sidequesting in it. I ended up not doing quite a few in the first act and now I’ve got more and I’m not really feeling like doing them either. Hope this doesn’t mean I miss out.
Whats got you sold on the game? I’m still not 80% let alone 100% sure. Seems like a nice-looking version of Borderlands in the format of semi-MMORPG. Nothing is grabbing me, shaking me, and yelling at me to buy it (yet).
It’s nothing like Borderlands. I don’t even understand why people make that comparison.
If you played the Alpha and didn’t like it then maybe it’s not a game for you? For me, it’s basically the combination of Halo and Phantasy Star Online that I didn’t know I always wanted to play.
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:'(
You fucked up assessment? 🙁
First exam today :S
Knew the stress would hit today.
Should have studied more :’O
Edit: ha, unintentional haiku cheered me up a bit.
Now back to stressing :3
Quit stressing man, you did prepare. Go in there and use that preparation to nail it. GL.
If you don’t know the subject by the week before the exam, cramming the day before won’t help. You pass or fail based on how well you do doing the year, not the last week.
I REALLY hope that changes your opening paragraph…
Wow, remind me to never ask you for a peptalk.
I’m already stressed buddy and feeling pretty down, I don’t need to feel more stressed, which you have succeeded in doing by the way.
Dude, you’ll do good. You’re clearly a smart guy and during tests stuff comes back.
Hell I test fucking abysmally and I’ve only ever failed one test in all my uni time and that was because of the test being a nightmarish piece of shit designed by an idiot who thought that a 3 hour test should be made up of 3 hours of writing. You know, who needs time to read, think or any of that shit?
If all else fails, just stand up and storm out while shouting “I don’t need this shit, I CAN DRIVE LIONS!”
I see someone played Dark Souls on the weekend.
I would like to say a few words in memory of lion. He was a brave soul who died fighting for what he believed in…. Let us take this moment of silence to remember him as he was but not as he is.
Edit: Ok so apparently’s he’s not dead just stressing over an exam. Way to kill my eulogy!
Morning TAYs! How was everyone’s weekend??
I had a fairly non-productive one with lots of Wildstar and also spent a bit of time on the F2P Ubisoft game, Rainbow Six something something Tom Clancy something (I’ve probably gotten that horribly wrong). Anyways I shot people with guns and topped the scoreboard =D I then spent Sunday evening painting my Warhammer 40k shield drone and soldier for RPG! Ok fine I suppose that was just me procratinating reading Rogue Trader >.<
I think i spent about 10gold on buying things for my house in Wildstar last night. OH GOD IT’S AN EXPENSIVE HABIT!
Hahah I warned you =p Also try and do challenges whenever you can, the rewards are usually a bigger bag or in place of that a decor item!
Like I said I’ve just been using my renown to buy housing items, it’s too expensive to buy stuff with gold ><
I’ve been getting into wildstar during the last week.
It has potential. Had a bit of lag last night though.
I think i need to hit up the mods a bit because the interface and quest log is starting to annoy me
Keep me posted if you come across any particularly good mods, I don’t have any major problems with the UI as is, but I’m always keen to try something new.
I think there’s a lot of articles about it. Most of the mods go through the curse interface which is nice.
I think the main thing I want to fix is the quest log/ tracking and inventory. Would be nice to get some screen real estate back too. It’s a bit cluttered atm I think. Having the scanner things and challenges overlap the quest log is just bad design.
Yeah the Quest log is really bugged as well, if you’re in a dungeon group that doesn’t finish the run you have to relog to get your Quest UI back. Would definitely be useful getting a mod for it and selling junk from the inventory as well. Has anyone else noticed the Auction house is kind of dead?
@morkai @inquisitorsz you guys in Myrkalus?
I think so… is that the only one that’s marked as oceanic?
I’m on the Exiles side. lvl 14 medic.
Happy to add some TAYs. Is that TAYNAMES doc still around?
I haven’t looked at the AH yet. I like that the crafting one is kind of automatic. it’s run through the game rather than other players. So its more like a shop with fluctuating prices rather than an auction house.
Why are all the TAY’s exiles! =p Me and nobulus got a Dominion PvE guild going, you should come join us =D Keeping it small and casual.
If you make a Dominion toon add me – Chyrone.
Yeah I’m on Myrcalus and Exile too, I might jump on Dominion at some stage, but I want to make more progress on my current toon for the moment.
@morkai
I’m only exiles because one mate who introduced me (and gave me a guest pass) was exile. And I think that was because furries….
Personally I would have picked Dominion too. If I make another character or get into some serious end game stuff I’ll reconsider.
They already have realm transfers… perhaps they’ll introduce faction change too. It’s all just $$$ for them anyway, same with level boosts, name changes etc…
Finished Saint’s Row IV over the weekend – well, all the sidequests/loyalty/story. I’m not going to go for 100% completion because I don’t plan on buying the DLC and there’s no “platinum trophy” equivalent on Xbox. I might jump back in to get a few extra achievements but then again I might not. I finished it in just udner 20 hours and I have to admit it was dragging a little by the end despite how much fun it was.
Also the game froze my Xbox on the last mission and I lost about a half hour of progress. Then after I replayed it it did a “joke” freeze which actually annoyed me. It was obviously a joke and had the game not ACTUALLY frozen on me I would have found it amusing, but because it did, I couldn’t.
All in all though, fun game. It was actually way more fun and interesting to me than SR3 was which felt a bit flat and “by the numbers” after the unexpected brilliance of SR2. SRIV cashed in on the nostalgia not only of past SR games but games and pop culture in general and never got tiresome in spite of this. Well done to Deep Silver for completely recycling game assets and still making something fresh and interesting and fun.
I’m not saying you should go and buy the DLC, but you should go and buy the DLC. Steam sales are coming up soon so you might be able to grab it on the cheap and it is definitely worth it for the sheer craziness that it contains.
I might consider that if I can get it super cheap with DLC but i’m not sure if I want to plough through the story again since I just finished it on Xbox. Even if I get it for 5 bucks or something, that’s 5 bucks wasted if I never play it.
I’m hearing rumblings that the steam sale will start next week.
The 19th, apparently. Not that I have any disposable income this month anyway, thanks to car rego.
I’ve been holding out for this for quite a while, I traded in my 360 and all the games for steam credit about 2 months ago, so I’ve been sitting on $170USD in steam credit since then.
My wishlist is getting longer, and my buyin’ finger is gettin’ itchy!
I recently fleshed out my wishlist with a series of adventure games all in the $5-$10 range but I doubt any of them will be on sale. If they are, I’ll grab them. If not, I plan to buy them in the next couple of months anyway, one at a time as I finish them.
Morning all.
Took the dive with the EB bonus credit offer on the weekend, and traded in a bunch of games that were never going to be played anyway. The total value for 11 games?
$240.
Quite shocked they did that good a deal (nice to be looked after by the local store), so now our Witcher 3 CE is fully paid off, there’s 50 on the new Bayonetta, and a bit was left over to spread on the pokeymans.
Can’t really complain for:
6x games that were $10 from the good guys
A bundled game that was later free on PS+
A trilogy I burned a $50 JB voucher on one time since I couldn’t find anything better
A Wii game now missing half the content since the servers shut down, plus we have 3 other copies on Wii U / 3DS.
Quite pleased with that outcome. Now to keep saving for the ps4 – should be happening either with a decent Christmas time bundle or once Bloodborne comes out.
Standard CE or Ridonkulous Edition?
Ridonkulous
\o/ I’m not the only one who got suckered into that!
It’s so pretty…
Shiny medallion…
Yeah, couldn’t resist. It has even been approved at home, although I might not be the one that gets to play it first.
Statue *drools*
I had an interesting weekend. Good, but with a shadow hanging over it. I’ll ROT13 the shadow so it doesn’t bring everyone down:
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My condolences man…. =\
Yeesh, sorry to hear man,,, While I haven’t been through anything quite like that myself, I can only imagine how tough it would be for close friends, let alone how his wife is going to take it. Having said that, I was in the US last year on a 6 week holiday, and only found out when we got back that my pop had been admitted to hospital with lymphoma (which he eventually succumbed to, 2 days before my sisters wedding…) , which my family made a deliberate decision not to tell me until we got back… I was of two minds about that… One, I want to know when bad shit happens to the ones I love, but I can appreciate that they didn’t want to ruin my holiday…
Upvote is thanks for sharing, not for your pop dying. Apparently my land lady is coping. She’s had to go to Queensland to take care of stuff. I posted what happened, because it’s easier to talk about it, even in written form, rather than let it fester.
Absolutely. One thing I found as well was getting together with people who knew the deceased, and reminiscing, at least once… Maybe get together for lunch/coffee/tea with his wife and any mutual friends/neighbours and look over photos and tell stories etc… Maybe not right now, but whenever you’re all over the initial shock.
What an awful thing to happen =/
Sorry to hear that, man. 🙁
Good morning TAY!
I had a fun weekend – I went to Supanova and I saw taybies and did this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U75xY9GWwHw
And now want to start planning for PAX and next year’s Supanova!
Impressive how still everyone stayed while the cameraman was moving around!
Oh, that’s so so awesome! 😀 Cosplay is great too!
Thanks! The 360 camera made everyone look awesome.
ooohhhh it turned out really well, great pose as well
What else is there to do with a circle skirt than give it a twirl? 🙂
So I’m lazy and I can’t be bothered writing ebay listings. Are any of you fancy TAYfolk interested in buying either a good condition NVidia GTX480 (with manual & cables) or an as new condition Steelseries 7h headset (only 6 months old and even in the original box), $80 plus postage for either?
Help me Obi-Wan TAYnobi, you’re my only hope *ksssht*
@scree might.
I’m interested in the headset, actually. I’m personally getting a little tired of my Turtle Beach XP7 (hey, anybody want to buy some Turtle Beach XP7s?) and want to downgrade to something a bit more simple. My needs just aren’t that great.
How do you find the 7H after an extended wear? Any discomfort?
how much were you looking for for the XP7? Just looked em up on their site, they are expensive O_0
Any reasonable offer considered. 🙂
These are around a year or so old, mainly used on PC / PS3, but not for any significant amount of time. I’m 99% sure I’ve got all the cables still around, including fiddly bits like the control-box-to-phone cable, and I’m certain I still have the box.
The headset is pretty comfortable overall, the top is well padded and its nice and light so there’s not a lot of weight to it, the only time it gets a bit uncomfortable is when I’m wearing my glasses and using the leather ear pads* since they’re a little stiffer and compress my giant ears a bit more and even then that’s after a good 4-5 hours of use. If you don’t wear glasses or have a comically gigantic head even that shouldn’t be a problem.
*it’s got both leather and cloth ear pads that you can swap out, the leather block sound far better but the cloth is softer.
Hmm, come to think of it, I only remember being a bit uncomfortable on one side, it may well be the fault of my TrackIR’s Track Clip Pro now that I think of it, that would press down on the arm of my glasses from where it mounts on the headphones… Okay, maybe there’s no discomfort issue with the phones at all!
Haha, sounds good for my glasses-wearing-not-overly-gigantic-head then. 😛
Final question, how’s the microphone? Any issues picking up extra background noise, distortion, etc? I only ask for the sake of the TAYPathfinder fellows. Gotta make sure my whining comes through clearly.
It’s not bad, it does tend to be a bit on the quiet side so you need to use mic boost but as long as you point it the right way you’re grand. Rather embarrassingly for a few days I didn’t realise I had it aimed away from my mouth (it’s on a bendy snake like arm thing that can twist all the way around)
This video is probably a good example of the mic quality, it’s from when my mate and I had started using Skype for game chat so the transmission quality was as good as it’s ever gotten (mine’s the first voice)
Ahhhhh, shaddup. 😛
Sounds good to me! Ok so all obstacles cleared, I reckon, let’s get things happening. If you want to shoot me an email on “Robs ginger snaps” (but as all one word) at that googley mail with details and whatnot. 🙂
I have the worst luck when trying to meet either of the Lannister brothers. Peter Dinklage cancelled coming out with G.R.R.M last year and on Sunday, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau was called back to set and had to leave Supernova. I was so close to the front of the line too!
Didn’t have any luck meeting Stan Lee either. The organisers put about 100 people in a line for 45 minutes to take a number to come back later. By the time we got to the front of the line we were told “Sorry we’re not taking numbers anymore, you’ll have to wait here for another two hours for Stan to come back or you’ll lose your spot. But first the VIP and 300 people who took a number need to go before you”. Eh, shit happens I guess.
On a plus I beat Mortal Kombat’s story mode over the weekend (F*ck Shao Khan and his BS hammer). Shadows of the Damned is next on my pile, it looks…quirky.
How did the weekend treat you guys?
Given how much the true believer tickets were, I think they had to make sure all the VIPs got their moment with Stan. I didn’t even try for a photo this year, my little companion was getting tired/bored after a couple of hours. But next year I think there will be a much bigger group and such things might be possible.
Yeah I don’t have a problem with the VIPS or other people, more annoyed that I waited in a line for no reason. Twice.
Not to worry though 🙂 Your little one must’ve had an exciting day! My friends son was so excited he fell asleep atop daddies shoulders.
I can understand that. Waiting in line sucks.
It was my friend’s daughter. I think she had fun, but it was a little bit overwhelming. She was too shy to pose with anyone for a photo, even though she LOVES star wars and was fascinated by all the cosplayers.
I was in Adelaide for the weekend, it was Nos’ 18th birthday, there was family, friends of family, and drinking, plenty of drinking.
TAY Pathfinder on tonight at 8pm AEST. What next for our brave
tomb robbersadventurers?@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
Probably worth noting, if you guys haven’t leveled up your character now is the time!
I don’t know how /o\
I’ll jump on a little early tonight in case you want me to help you through it. That goes for anyone else who wants assistance.
What are you using to manage your character sheet? If you’re using something like YAPCG it should be as simple as putting in your new XP, entering your hit dice roll, and then…. you’re a Barbarian so you won’t have to choose spells but you may need to choose a RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE power.
That’s about it.
Barbarian is relatively easy compared to other classes. At least you’re not a wizard/cleric, those are difficult to manage even when not levelling up 🙂
Freaking “memorized spells” *grumble* *grumble*
Cleric is a little less of a “damn it the spell when I needed it and I don’t have enough memorised!” problem than Wizards thankfully. Apparently they can sub any of their memorised spells for a healing spell (If good) or harm spell (If evil).
Yeah, the class I am (Magus) is basically a battle mage. So I have to plan out each of my spells perfectly. Also, on top of that the Arch-type I am gives up 1 memorized spells per day for bonus martial / combat abilities.
Do Magus spells have chances to fail if you’re wearing armour like Arcane magic or are they they’re own class that don’t have that restriction?
@tech_knight Magus removes the Arcane spell failure chance while wearing light armour. Anything heavier than that will cop the full penalty although there are feats to reduce it (I think it can be brought down to a 20% failure chance while in heavy armour).
@tech_knight
@popdart5 is right. Right now I can wear light armour and suffer no arcane spell failure (still suffer arcane spell failure for shields). However, at level 7 I can wear medium armour and suffer no arcane spell failure and at level 13 I can wear heavy armour and suffer no arcane spell failure.
Just gonna retag @tech_knight because I failed in my post above. =P
@popdart5
Sounds pretty neat! I was contemplating between that class and Sorcerer, however being an advanced class I thought I’d leave that for my next character roll.
Roll die *3*
Tell GM you rolled a 6
??????
Profit
Reroll 1s repeatedly and then get a 2 instead \o/
/o\
Assuming you’re going to level up to level 2 as a Barbarian and not multi-class:
– Roll a d12, add that many hit points to your total (reroll if it’s a 1)
– Your base attack bonus goes up by 1 to +2, your fortitude saves go up by 1 to +3
– You gain the Uncanny Dodge class feature, which basically is that you can never be caught flat-footed, which is basically that if you’re attacked before you have made an action in combat, you don’t get your Dexterity bonus to your AC. Now you will, always, unless immobilized
– You gain a rage power of your choice. Look at the list here:
http://paizo.com/prd/classes/barbarian.html
Looking forward to it.
On a personal note, life is slowly getting back to some semblance of normality again so I’m hoping to be in a mental space where I can catch up on the backlog of letters home Drewan has to write. Hooray.
All good B-ob. I took a month and a bit hiatus on TAY Numenera recaps so I understand when other things in life are more pressing. Don’t feel obliged to continue doing the letters if it’s interfering with other life stuff.
Nah, the “letters” themselves aren’t interfering, it’s that I’ve been too stressed to even think about doing them. Now that stress is bleeding off my mind is starting to get back to normal thoughts so I can put some time in to writing. I don’t feel obligated, it’s something I do want to continue doing, just haven’t been capable of for the last month or so. 🙂
Looking forward to it. My level up’s been done, looking forward to zapping with ice beams when I’m out of magic missile ammo 🙂
ICE to see you.
Stop spoiling my future one liners!I’m going to go nuts with freeze puns on kills with that spell, but I’ll only be using it when firing into melee and/or I can’t use my crossbow.You’re such an Ice, Ice, TAYbie. (Too cold, too cold.)
I wish there were more damage options in the level 0 spell set than Ice and Acid.
Yes me too. I would’ve gotten like a Spark spell which did low lightning damage instead of ice as that matches my guy’s preferred element. At least we got both of them covered so one of us at least can hurt all enemies we come across. Again, still got my crossbow if my enemy is open and not being attacked as that has a chance of missing but it also does more damage. At later levels I will sell it or give it away though once I get more damaging spells/summons.
Then again, maybe the idea is to limit the amount of “free-1d3-damage” cantrips?
You still can only cast one at a time though… it’s annoying to have only two element choices but I’m not going to go ape over it.
I also don’t understand why crossbows are ‘simple’ weapons but bows are ‘martial’. Seems backward.
There *is* an electricity cantrip (called ‘jolt’), but it’s not ‘official’ in that it wasn’t published in any of the Paizo books. There were a few cantrips that they were intending originally to put in Ultimate Magic but they left them out for various reasons. Published here:
http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lc7e
But because they’re not official, whether we could use them is up to @popdart5.
EDIT: This bit is important:
“Spellcasters that gain access to all 0-level spells at 1st level do not gain access to rare cantrips. A spellcaster gains access to rare cantrips only by uncovering their secrets in some other way. Some are guarded by jealous mages, while others are lost in missing libraries or molder on forgotten scrolls.”
Possible character development thing later on?
Well with bows you’re using your arms to both pull the string and aim, with crossbows you’re just steadying the aim and pulling a trigger, pushing a bolt in after pulling the string to reload it. Sounds like a simpler weapon to me. :/
Edit: Oooo so spells to find in the world *rubs hands together* my kind of character quest! 😀
That’s how I understood it. It’s the action taken to “use” the weapon, not the mechanical complexity of the weapon itself. Anybody can wind back a winch and pull a trigger. Not everybody can draw back a bowstring with enough power to fire it.
In that case in a pathfinder campaign using firearms, would they also be simple weapons? (hint: they’re not)
@negativezero Totally fair point, but in Pathfinder world the firearms themselves are not widely used or understood and have some level of mysticism around them. It’s not just the weapon, in that case, it’s the care, use, understanding, fashioning of powder, ammo, etc.
At least that’s what I’m telling myself so that my point remains consistent in the narrative. :p
@negativezero Depending on the type of campaign and the time period when it takes place, firearms can be treated as Simple weapons. This assumes that guns are pretty widespread and commonplace so that would place it at around the late 18th century mark. Pathfinder has rules depending on the ubiquity of firearms so they can range from no firearms at all to exotic and mysterious weapons to specialist arquebusiers to everyday stuff.
That said, firearms in our campaign are moreso in the time period where you need martial weapon training to fire and operate a gun, as they are advanced as flintlock muskets. In my opinion, this is mostly a case of knowing how to deal with things like recoil, the amount of powder and correct loading procedure, and the case of maintaining a consistent rate of fire. Sure any average person could pick one up and use it but they would suffer the non-proficient penalties for it.
Going back to the bow vs crossbow discussion, there was a reason that crossbows were given to average militia while specialist bowmen were trained/levied. While a bow is less complex, it places greater reliance on the user’s individual skill than the weapon itself to work correctly. A crossbow is pretty easy to pick up and use appropriately whereas a bow takes more than a little while to adjust and become adept at.
LET’S GO SPURS!!!
NO.
Only team I hate more than Heat are Spurs -_-
My ranking is pretty much this;
Bulls (have been a fan since MJ in the 90s)
Clippers (CP is my 2nd fav PG and I love Blake’s dunks)
Knicks (Only team I’ve seen twice live, both at MSG, once in 2009, and once last year)
*insert every other team*
…
…
…
Heat
Clippers are my #1 for the reasons you posted. Really keen to see what happens with trades next season!
So I moved in with my boyfriend over the weekend. Moved out of the house I’ve spent the last 6 years in. it was a very overwhelming weekend. Trying to find my place and how I fit inside the house. it’s a weird feeling.
Rest of the weekend. I found a copy of the very out of print StarCraft Board game. Trying to work out whether I open it(and diminish it’s value) or put it straight up on Ebay… I should just use it as an investment. But I would love to know how it played.
Also played more star trek attack wing. Seriously, if anyone is remotely interested you should try it. It’s a game I did not expect to get into as I have. It’s a lot of fun. Almost destroyed Voyager as a Borg Sphere.
Started playing Rise of Nations Extended edition. I’m liking it alot. its always been a favourite of mine. If anyone wants to play let me know 🙂
Add to that the moving things into a house and putting together a shelf and a bed, a migraine and my awful back and you have my weekend
How is everyone else?
Hope you get settled in soon. You’ll find your place in no time.
Thanks 🙂
When I moved in with my girlfriend back in 2005 it was right after a house move. My mtoher and I lived in one place for over 14 years when the rent suddenly skyrocketed after being stable for most of that time. We moved into a smaller place that, actually, I liked a LOT more. Then two months later my girlfriend had a big fight with her parents so they gave her til the end of the month to move out, so we found a place together, which crushed my mother who wasn’t ready for me to move out despite me being nearly 23.
It was a time of emotional upheaveal for the both of us and I think we took a really long time to settle in.
Moving is classified as one of the most stressful things someone can go through, along with Breakups, Death, and Job Change. To have other emotions added to it can be pretty intense.
There’s an Extended Edition of RON? I used to love RON back in the day, still have the CD sitting around somewhere. What’s different in the Extended?
It’s just been updated for steam, Online multiplayer through steam, Twitch Integration. They said updated graphics, which yeah maybe just a little but still its nice to play. Also has Thrones and Patriots thrown in too. Basically Gold Edition updated for modern times.
Nice, I could probably get behind that. “Updated Graphics” could just mean support for higher resolutions. 😛
Out of interest, did you move into a new place together, or did you move in to his place?
Little bit of column A and a little bit of column B.
We found the place together and looked at it as somewhere for both of us to move in to. He moved in first and I moved in 3 months later.
OK, so not super-established for him, it’s still both your space. Exciting times, but yeah, it takes a little while to settle into somewhere as ‘home’.
oooooooohhhhhhhhhhh Somebody is getting serious
Hope it all went well, now to find out about all those annoying habits that have been kept hidden until now.
Lets put it this way, I Can look forward to plenty of Dad Jokes
You moved in with @shane?
It’s Page 6 every day!!!!
OMG Chris is pregnant!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS
Now it makes sense why you are moving in together
You know you’re doing it wrong when you get injured while playing laser tag.
It’s not my fault, I swear. The floor tripped me. >.>
Just tell people you got it while doing some fully sick tricks like running up walls and dive rolling.
The people I was playing with said it looked I was attempting a Superman impression. On the floor. At speed.
Titanfall is a corrupting influence on the youth of today!!
It was the Tau’s cloaked drone 😛
I’ve had sore leg muscles last time I did laser tag
I disagree. It’s not true laser tag unless you’re going hard enough at it that a flat floor is a tripping hazard.
‘Sup TAY?
weekend involved parent’s place, puppy & playing games. pretty decent all round.
My puppy has just had an operation for a bladder problem. poor thing. she was all happy & stuff when I saw her, but she was still a bit sore I think…. but with any luck, she’s gonna be fine now.
Dragon Age 2 isn’t as horrifically bad as I was led to believe. In fact, I’m quite liking it. DA:O is better, but DA2 is different, and fun in its own way. so damn hype for DA:I
been getting back into practicing music again. goddamn I’ve missed that. playing Rocksmith 2014.
anyway…. Monday morning question for you:
What game Achievement / Trophy etc were you happiest with getting?
For me, I think the one that I was most happy with was getting the Trophy in Rocksmith 2014 for successfully playing 15 tracks on master mode (that’s 100% speed & 100% difficulty with no on-screen notes to follow) according to steam, only 0.13% of people have gotten that one. so that’s pretty cool.
Mile High Club, CoD4 on 360. Period. One of the hardest achievements I’ve ever done.
One of my proudest was for finishing Demon’s Souls way back when.
Monument to all Your Sins – Halo Reach solo legendary. \o/
Proudest: Dark Souls platinum!
Most fun: Test of Faith in Mirror’s Edge.
Yeah I know a lot of people were disappointed with DA2 and truth be told it is a much shallower game especially when compared to DA:O. I get that areas needed to be reused to emphasize the whole action and consequence theme to the game but the combat was overly simplified as well. That said while it wasn’t on the same par as DA:O it was a solid game in its own right =]
Big Brass Balls from Bioshock 2 was a nice surprise, finish the game without using a Vita-Chamber. It wasn’t until I looked up what the achievement was that I realised I never died.
I never finished Bioshock 2, got bored with it a couple of hours in. Was that any difficulty or hardest difficulty?
I’m guessing it was any difficulty, I only really play games on normal. I enjoyed the game but only recently I was playing it at a friends house and it wasn’t as fun as I’d remembered :\
The first is still my top choice.
Mine was probably the 100% in Mark of the ninja
Wasn’t overly difficult to do, lots of trial and error, but loved that game so was really happy when I got that 100%
007 Mode in GoldenEye, although particularly getting the Invincibility Cheat as a step towards that. I must have played Facility about 500 times.
Oh God, I’d forgotten about that. I unlocked all the cheats, and the invincibility one almost broke me.
The only time I’ve felt cool about trophies / achievements was when they re-released Marathon 2 on XBLA. I grabbed it right when it came out and since that game is basically a big chunk of my childhood, I knew the game inside-out so I churned through the single player pretty fast, basically marathonned it (lol) and after a few hours I had some achievements that less than 10-15 people had at that point so I was getting messages from random people asking how to unlock stuff. I think the one I got the most messages about was Bob-b-q, apparently people didn’t know about the final clause of the Vidmaster’s Oath. They drop useful ammo, you can’t let them live.
Do trophies we’re working towards count? If so, I’d like to nominate the Social Lubricant trophy in Watch_Dogs, exclusively because once I have it it’ll mean I’ll never again have to play that stupid fucking minigame ever again! What on earth were they thinking making it so you had to beat every opponent? Why not just one? 5 rounds per level, 10 levels per opponent, 3 opponents… Hell if they’d been creative and made it like a variant of insult swordfighting and instead of just pressing X, Square, Circle or Triangle to not fail, you pressed X, Square, Circle or Triangle to give the appropriate insult reply that would be incentivising and fun rather than an exercise in tedium.
In any other circumstance I’d write it off but it’ll definitely get to the point where it’ll be the only trophy standing between me and the platinum.
Arkham Asylum platinum maybe?
Felt good nailing some of those final combat challenges and combo trophies (Freeflow Perfection, etc.)
for me it was the pacifist trophy on deus ex human revolution. I put a lot of effort into it. and even though it might not have awarded it to me. I still maintain that I did what it asked of me!!!
Reply fail
WOO!!! GC broke TAY.
First time for everything 😀
So I read somewhere that the next skyrim game is going to be 17 times bigger…
Which raises the question: Can a game be too big? And if so, how big is too big?
There’s probably very few people who have experienced every little bit of skyrim, there’s no way any sane person will experience all of it.
So … if a game is so big that 98% of players will never experience all of it, is it worth putting effort into it. Is it not better to focus on a smaller area or a smaller world but improve the immersion or gameplay or story?
EDIT: it was in reference to Project Flare as posted by @bdkiaf below. i did mean skyrim exactly… just as an example of a large game
There’s a next Skyrim game? I didn’t think Bethesda or Zenimax mentioned anything about a new Elder Scrolls game….
Edit: In fact I think the next in the series is meant to be a Fallout game, they always do one Fallout then one TES.
I think it might be a mix-up of stories. I read this one this morning, which might be it.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/13/5795778/project-flare-square-enix-e3-skyrim
I think the issue with the TES games is that there are a few areas that almost everyone will experience. I would bet that close to 100% of Skyrim players made it to Whiterun at least and explored around there pretty fully while ignoring some of the other, more remote stuff. Or even the not remote stuff (I personally never got around to Markarth and the Reach until my second playthrough).
Maybe if they made the world bigger at the same time as having different starting zones then it would make sense. Otherwise they would be better served making a smaller area feel denser and more jam-packed with content rather than just padding places out with scenery.
I agree!
Make it half the size and give it double the content. Most of the terrain in Skyrim felt pointless.
I’d rather they put in some storyline content that I actually gave a damn about. But that would probably require hiring some writers and more than 2 voice actors.
wherever you read that, I’m pretty sure its just rumour & speculation.
Based on their previous dev cycle, BethSoft probably wont even be entering the planning phase of TESVI until Fallout 4 is done. which, I guess, would be around the middle of 2015. (guessing / hoping for a QuakeCon / Spike VGA announcement for FO4 with a late 2015 release)
Apparently ARMA 3 has a ridiculous sized map that’s really, super awful to travel around on by foot.
Even ARMA 2 was pushing it when you were running from one side of the map to the other. Especially when you spent an hour running to your friends in DayZ just to get shot by a random.
Yeah but that’s a military simulator. You can still fly across it pretty quickly in a helicopter.
I’m talking about quantity vs quality in general. Is a massive world worth the effort if its all just open plains, or mountains with no real content?
Arma isn’t really a good comparison because the map is large to provide variety for missions rather that to be viewed as a single experience.
That said, I have and it is a hell of a hike and a good long drive across Altis. Hell, even Stratis takes ages to traverse on foot and its comparatively tiny
Just Cause 2’s map was and is a fine example of someone going for the Big Map award without realising a lot of it is pointless, and getting around without quicktravel was a huge waste of time.
This has changed somewhat with the multiplayer mod. Suddenly all that space is pretty useful.
I always had fun just letting loose on the world. It’s mimicking RL – there’s tons of empty space IRL. It’s fun to just be able to cruise around and do what you want, without there being a city/army/civilians/mission in the way. I like breathing room.
Well in the case of Skyrim it really helps the modding community as there is plenty of space to build things and add new content. If if you had a massive world and good mod tools that could be kinda cool.
Personally I think that is getting too big for a solo game, although with fast travel or some form of rapid movement then it could work. I like the big distances in skyrim, random things in between but it makes it feel like a much more lived in world, having multiple cities within bow shot of each other makes no sense.
Probably my best experience in terms of a lived-in world was Gothic 2. The game was absolutely tiny in comparison to something like Skyrim but it was absolutely packed with stuff to explore and it never felt cramped or anything like that. Yes it was inherently linear but I liked it like that.
Morning, TAY.
Still a bit tired from watching Le Mans.
Finishing a music assignment at the moment.
How’s everyone doing?
Played a bit of Nintendo Land with my sister on the weekend, some of the mini games are really good fun, the highlight was the Pikmin mini game, it’s just like Pikmin, one of you plays as the leader (Olimar type role) and the others are Pikmin, we were in fits of tear inducing laughter nearly the whole time, it’s great because your pikmin can choose to ignore you and go off doing their own thing, my sister is a very disobedient Pikmin which resulted in hilarious consequences. Would recommend to anyone that enjoyed Pikmin.
Can recommend too – played with gf as pikmin and lulz ensued. I kept warping her to my head lololol.
did she realize if she shakes her Wiimote that they ignore your whistle? Once my sister realized that we were in trouble. I wish Nintendo took inspiration from that for future multiplayer in Pikmin, it’d be awesome to have your buddies play as Pikmin.
Ha, no, good to know!
that’s what I meant by disobedient, I’d try to call her to throw at enemies only to have her stubbornly go off and do her own thing, that’s where a lot of the laughter happened as I mashed whistle to try get her over to me and she waggled the wiimote crazilly disobendiantly. Good fun.
Despite the shadow hanging over my weekend, I’ve actually had a pretty good one. Friday night I had a function at church, free pizza for tea and hearing a couple of missionaries talk about their work. Saturday I watched the Socceroos play Chile, also X Men: First Class. Saturday night I had another function at church. An annual thing called the Winter Warmer. Really good 3 course Italian meal: Minestrone Soup with Foccacia, 4 different types of homemade pasta and 4 different sauces, and tiramisu and panna cotta for dessert. $10 was all it cost. Sunday morning I had church, and Sunday night I went and watched X Men: Days of Future Past with a mate. Awesome movie, probably the best of the X Men movies.
Sydney folks! My wife and I are going to be in your fair city on the 25th and 26th next week before we fly out to Canada on the 27th. We should get some food or something somewhere nice Wednesday or Thursday night. Can someone do the tag thing please? 😀
@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
Thanks DC!
I’m free either night!
Around 6-6:30pm would be ideal for me so I can come straight from work, but any time is fine!
I work 10 minutes from the city, so I can absolutely be there.
Hey, I can be there!
HOLY SHIT!
For reals!?
Sounds like fun! I’m finished up at 5.30 so should be able to be in the city anytime after that!
I should be available 🙂
I’m happy to come say hi either night!
@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
Guys, where is a good place to eat?
Mary’s in Newtown.
Or Frankies in the city.
Good pizza.
It’s probably easiest for most people if you stick to the CBD (well, it is for me anyway :P)
Can’t offer many suggestions for restaurants though… Other than places we’ve been with TAY before: Bavarian Bier Cafe and Din Tai Fung (dumplings!). Can’t remember anywhere else 😛
Um. Excuse me Pow, but I think you and I had a lovely man date at Wagamama the other day.
OR I GUESS I JUST DON’T MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU DO I BOOHOOHOO
*runs off crying*
@beardymcmuttonchops We can’t go to Wagamama, it holds bad memories for me.
(We can go there :P)
@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
ok ok ok – Apparently family demands that we spend time with them out in Penrith… And from what I can see, getting in and out of the city to Penrith is going to be a mission in the two days we’re there. We’re also going to be in Sydney on 19th, 20 and 21st of July – so maybe we can catch up on our way back?
Would that work for peeps?
Hey I can’t be there!
It’s okay, we can just hang out at the Tim Hortons in Canada.
You got our hopes up for nothing!
Whoa just saw this. Should be able to do something those days!
I live in Penrith! It’s actually easier for me 😛
Man, this sequel to Die Hard With A Vengeance where John McClane gets into a train accident is really boring. But at least Zeus is doing well for himself, upgrading from shop keeper to weird art gallery/comics book guy.
took me so long to get this, I was all “huh” then finally I was all like “oooooooh, ahehehe”
I like the one in that series where Zeus is a hitman and had a religious experience, and John McClane was a boxer who killed a guy in the ring, while wearing his Dad’s butt-watch
Morning, TAY!
I had a pretty cool weekend. Finally had a birthday dinner with a couple of friends from high school. We barely see each other any more so it was good to catch up. I took them to the Bavarian which was a huge hit (none of them are from Sydney, so I get to pretend that I know a lot more than I do…) – followed, of course, by Mojos afterwards. Successful night!
It was basically a TAY Meat without the TAY – it was perfect! 😛
Then on Sunday I went to Supanova with a couple of TAYfolk. So many nerds! It was good though. I bought a Xerneas figure and a Doctor Who Tardis mug. Also managed to run into another friend from high school who I haven’t seen in many years.
All around good weekend!
Ok, disregard earlier post, I’m feeling happy now 🙂
Gonna be fiiiine.
That exam ain’t got nothing on Ol’Liondrive.
And just a heads up, expect crazy mood swings from me all week, so apologies for that in advance :S
I found that my exams went a lot better when I stopped caring 😛
That sounds like terrible advice but once I realised that it’s not like I’d die if I failed one subject, my stress levels evened out haha
I try not to care, but I do, haha!
My emotions peek out to the max also, so either I’m not stressed at all, or I’m super stressed, there is no middle ground :S
At the moment I don’t care, but give it 10 minutes and I’ll be a wreck again though, haha! 😀
Wait…
:'(
Well I’m glad to hear you’re feeling a bit less stressed, sorry if I was a bit annoying earlier
Picturing this at the moment:
http://idrankthecfkoolaid.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/tumblr_lvn7pycasi1r212eho1_500.png
*Sends Hugs in advance*
Hello all, my weekend was full of ups and downs.
Found a pattern making program. Good
Couldn’t [redacted] it. Bad
30 day free trial. Good
Can’t print or save. Bad
Want to buy program. Good
Cost of program $150. Bad
Using illustrator instead. Good
Sleeve pattern too small. Bad
Realization that the print screen is out of sync. Good.
Extra work. Bad.
What?
I didn’t fix anything!
WHY ALL THE QUESTIONS!?
JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!
YOU’RE ALL CRAZY!
*jumps out window*
She meant to sat “Pilates”.
*shifty eyes*
Was my MiiVerse picture a highlight of your weekend?
Oh yeah, I like sent it on Saturday, didn’t I?
But did your frogurt have potassium benzoate?
Oh god, I don’t know! /o\
How was that Tomodachi Life demo, Scree? Did you like it?
I only got to play it for a little while, but I think Mum would actually like it too.
How do I go about showing you guys my progress on my Warhammer painting =D Also possible critiques on how I could do it better >.<
DO BETTER! >:|
OR ELSE! >:|
Get a photo online and paste a link for us to see (Not more than one per post otherwise you go into moderation)
@popdart5 all these suggestions involve me creating an account on a site that I don’t want to >.< And pop how could you even suggest social media =@
Well then I guess you’re going to have to suffer without putting up a photo for us to see. Sacrifices must be made. 😛
D=
You have an ISP, all ISPs give you at least 10MB of space to use and have tutorials on their site on how to put stuff there.
Take photos, upload to imgur. Make sure they’re in an album, post album link. One link so no moderation. =D
Otherwise, photobucket also allows for albums too. It’s really personal preference.
Dropbox or Google Drive are decent ways to share stuff. Take a picture and upload it.
Or Facebook or Twitter it if you feel like being mainstream. *hipster hair flick*
I usually use imgur for any screenshots / photo’s I want to upload to the internets.
I had a pretty great weekend, went to see a interactive version of Rocky Horror, The last time i saw it was when i was a child and i completely hated it, it creeped me out. However because i remember every song I’ve ever listed to,, i knew all the songs. A lot of people dressed up and the interactive part was funnish. Also a old overweight lady sitting next to me, hit on me in front of my girlfriend who then laughed and said:
“you can have him”
On Saturday i had Gyoza and Kaarage at a amazing Japanese place in Townsville. Its honestly the best place to eat in the city. I then watched “the fault in our stars”. Having read the book and thinking it was amazing i knew how sad it was going to be but… I cried like 3 times in the cinema. The kept playing M83 songs during the sad stuff and i couldn’t help it.
was a really fun weekend. having friends is pretty cool.
Ehhhh, I was with you up until the last line, then I was all “Nah.”
I know right.
My issue with The Fault in Our Stars movie is that as a 23 year old male, there is no way I’m going to go and see it by myself, and I have nobody to see it with.
Gyoza is the shit. We ate so many in Japan.
So did she have you?
yes
Groovy.
Saw A Million Ways To Die In The West.
That movie is way way way waaaayyyyy too long.
You can’t expect them to try and cram all one million ways into an hour and a half though.
Soooo, wait til it’s on DVD then?
This is pretty much why I don’t want to see it. I read a few reviews and most said that they took 80 minutes of content (some even disputed there was 80 minutes of content) and stretched it out for 2 hours…
It’s an overly long movie but I really liked it a lot more then I liked other movies such as The Other Woman and Bad Neighbours.
Tomodachi Life is.. something. It occupies a good little chunk of my time every day. Shigeru Miyamoto attempted to court Emma Stone, but moved on to woo Chie Satonaka. He is worst enemies with Harry Potter.
Do you understand what I just said? I don’t even understand what I said. It’s goddamn mad-libs the game.
This thrilling recap is just about as truthful, meaningful and accurate as a report on Entertainment Tonight!
I do love that in the eShop, Tomodachi Life has an ad saying that you can have in your game (with his #27 or whatever jersey) then has a disclaimer saying something like “Promotional image does not reflect game content… the jerseys are actually #10.”
I have a problem with my Mii’s having relationships with each other. Because all of my islanders are TAYbies, so it’s like…
@shane: “I have feelings for @strange. What should I do?”
And I mash the “don’t do it” button because no, that’s not supposed to happen!
Just like in real life!
Once seen can’t be unseen
Whoa, whoa, whoa, you have a Tay House and you’re not updating us daily?
Because, you know, you should keep us updated for a bit before the entire apartment inevitably burns down.
You should get on Twitter more often 😛
You simply mean get on twitter. Because more often implies I go on at all. 😛
Mmm.. Lychee Bubble Milk Tea with jelly..
I spent about 90 minutes in a line at Supanova hoping to meet some peeps from Roosterteeth (and sadly failed) and the people in that line were full on crazy. Couldn’t say anything without quoting something RT related, living under the delusion that they were legit friends with these people because they saw them at the signing the day before, it’s kind of hard to describe how nutso some of them were.
TL;DR I hate the girls in front of me who had already seen them twice and screwed me out of my chance at seeing them.
Also I got a Catbug plush.
What’s a Roosterteeth?
Oooh, DC! *shakes fist*
Roosterteeth fans are fucking nuts.
Didn’t even know they were there, shows how much I know, I also wasn’t there so this comment holds no merit
Have an upvote anyway. 😛
The vocal lot of RT fans are very obnoxious, it kind of makes me apprehensive for PAX, all I want is one thing signed and to buy some shit, is that too much?
This, I’d like to meet them, just to say to my friends “Yeah I met some of the RT guys” but unfortunately too many are mouth-frothing the queues for me to bother putting up with them.
It’s a darn shame too because the RT gang are all really nice people if you get the chance to talk to them. Shiggy and I met Gavin and Burnie a few years back and they couldn’t have been any nicer. It’s just hard to get near them.
Taybies should look out for each other. We had a plan. Numbers and I would leave Gorzy in the line, look at other stuff at pax, then return. Numbers and gorzy would then go and then a final swap =D
As hipsterish as it sounds, some RT fans are the worst. Watching their live podcasts/panels is terrible because of people quoting shit and then they get up for the questions part and everyone is trying hard to impress them like they’ll say something so amazing that Geoff will teleport in, wrap them up in his moustache and say “Yes, random idiot, you are what Achievement hunter has been missing. Come with me.”
I will say though, the time Jack was here (right before he stole Caiti away to the US) a group of fans from the “Roo Teeth” community met up with him for drinks. Maybe it was because it was a smaller crowd in an informal setting or maybe because it was Jack instead of (say) Michael or Gavin, but those people seemed a lot more sensible.
Maybe it’s for the best that I couldn’t make it, though I reckon if I’d had the cash available I’d much rather have gone on the cruise that Roo Teeth/Hanabee organised for Michael and Lindsay than go to Supanova. I think I last went to a Supanova in 2003 and that was because I volunteered.
The cruise might not have been very good, considering the crazy lot in front of me were apparently on that, and from the sounds of it basically stalked Michael and Lindsay everywhere they went. 😛
Bullet dodged then!
I remember the good old days when Roosterteeth was just a couple of drunk Texans making videos with Halo.
What the hell are they even doing these days? I stopped paying attention after RvB became more about the convoluted plot instead of the funnies.
They’ve branched out a lot, lots of Let’s Plays and the like, podcasts, random live action series, some weird anime thing. Enough that they have their own massive convention these days.
RvB has a pretty darn good plot and plenty of funny if you ask me.
They changed it so now it sucks.
I hope you’re ironically invoking TVTropes, sir, or we are in a fight.
A little bit of both, to be honest. The shift from a gag focused comedy to a plot focused comedy required some serious retcons while shifting the focus away from the bits I liked the most.
Retcon my ass! Everything is explained in the context of the show!
I personally like the story and it’s still funny enough for my interests. I understand what you’re saying but I’m just on the side of the coin that embraced and enjoyed the changes. You’re not alone in having sort of bailed on it after Blood Gulch chronicles ended though. There are plenty of hardcore ex-fans who didn’t know RvB was even still going.
Rooster Teeth has it’s fingers in a lot of pies. They’ve got RvB Season 12, (Season 11 started to go downhill so I can’t be bothered to watch the new season) the anime RWBY, (Don’t talk ill of RWBY in front of Lucifer9783) the live-action Immmersion series, several seasons of sketch comedy shorts, a very successful game news program, The Gauntlet survivor-esque show with video games, and the super successful Achievement Hunter videos.
Rooster Teeth has two podcasts; The Rooster Teeth Podcast, (aka The Dicks and Science Podcast) one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes, and The Patch gaming podcast.
Rooster Teeth is pretty much divided into three categories these days; Rooster Teeth, Achievement Hunter, and the recently formed The Know, which is news and The Patch. They recently crowdfunded on IndieGoGo to make a full 90-minute movie. They raised $650,000 in less than a day.
Rooster Teeth employs over 50 people, and recently moved into their fifth office building. They are a pretty big independent company.
Monday question for you all:
Favourite type of weapon to use in a game in any genre, be it swords or shotguns or lasers?
I have to go with the old trustworthy spear. Extra jab distance to work with plus you can throw it at your enemies.
Words! I love being able to talk my way out of predicaments in RPGs! 😀
Ice-type weapons. E.g. Duke 3D’s Freeze-Ray. Anything that slows people down and/or completely freezes them. I like getting more actions in, I like shattering ice. Anything along those lines.
Well I was playing Mount and blade again over the weekend. Using a lance is so much fun so there is that.
Otherwise I often go the battle axe route. Either that or ranged sniper, rifle or bow.
tldr:All of them 😉
Arm blasters like in Megaman, uses energy that can sustain itself almost indefinitely. Plus you can charge up for a harder shot 🙂
Glaives and sniper rifles!
There’s too many to whittle down!
Gun: Sniper Rifle
Love stalking people and picking them off from a distance without them realising what is about to hit them >:)
Melee: Lance
I just love the look of a lance :3
It looks so badass, and it automatically makes the character holding it look 1000x cooler.
Power: Ice
Ice powers,are better than all other powers 😛
I spent so long playing around with the ice powers in inFamous 2. Best (well, most fun) super power 😀
Especially when the ice powers make your character slice around like they’re wearing ice skates.
Depends, I like swords, specifically katana’s but if i have to go range I prefer pistols, just something about them makes me giddy
I dunno, some type of machine gun that shoots explosive plasma rounds, or something. Can’t think of an example. Basically a I’m-gonna-fuck-shit-up gun.
I like using the unique options whenever I can. Like wielding Bells or something.
Shotguns, especially when they aren’t piles of shit
Depends vastly on the game and on the way the weapons are implemented.
Axe. Always an axe.
Does a railgun count as a laser?
Bows. Most FPS games have hitscan weapons, where the projectiles don’t travel. Bows are the one weapon you can expect to have a real projectile with an arc. I enjoy that far more than I should.
Shooters with projectile based weapons are pretty rad. I used to snipe people with the flare gun in TF2. Always fun to piss off a Sniper by setting him on fire from the other side of the map.
I had a great weekend.
We had our babby shower thingy on Saturday night . Was really cool to catch up with everybody, had a good turn out. The food and venue was great.
We god a whole bunch of really cool stuff, cute stuff, practical stuff, helpful stuff. Still sorting it all out but everybody was very generous. Ended up staying there for dinner with Mum and Dad and one of my uncles and aunts.
Sunday was more sorting out of the house and heading down to IKEA to get a new clothes rack. The I stayed up to watch the final stage of the Dauphiné which I’m very glad I did. Late night but worth it
Sorry I couldn’t get there man. Crazy long times to get onboard a god-tier (as in goddamn this sucks balls tier) boat.
Also, Google Maps lied to me and said the boat was forever from you. Turns out, it was about 10km from you. So I might have been able to run in, find you, shake your hand and then run straight back out.
Irreversibly changing Tig’s life forever!
I figured it might have been possible for you to based on the distance but with stuff like that better to be safe than sorry.
Sorry I wasn’t able to make it – was running a bit of a temperature and coughing all over the place and stuff, didn’t want to run the risk I might make Mrs Tigs sick this close to the time.
A pity you couldn’t make it but thanks
Step one of life-changing due to Brisbane meat completed.
I hope the image updates shortly to reflect my apparent video game doppleganger.
EDIT: Doesn’t look like it, sadly. Expect some check shortly. 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUawtbNDOoE
This music plays in my head whenever you post now!
@batguy Thanks for Inglourious Basterds. It arrived today.
Sweet. Make sure you watch it ASAP!
I’ll probably watch it tonight.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/12/5805566/night-in-the-woods-e3-mae
Adventure game about a cat dropping out of college and returning home? SOLD! XD
Press X to toke bong.
Press Y to pull 4 day old tuna pizza from under the couch.
Mash A to… do whatever it is that lonely single college dropouts do sitting alone at home do.
GOTY!
Mash A to do that…and then avoid pressing B, which then makes you stop mid doing that to question the validity of your existence and life choices.
Hoy all.
So I had a fantastic morning. Woke to my alarm, was like “ehh, I can get away with a snooze before showering” but I must have failed to actually hit snooze.
So I woke up to my mother yelling at me that it was time to go. Being a responsible adult I did the only smart thing. I decided to stay home from work today. Wooo, best adult.
Also, @novacascade, @powalen, @cakesmith, @whatevertheduckhugo’s@thingyis: Wicked tickets were purchased. We’re row S (in the stalls, rather than the Dress Circle like last time), which sounds way worse than it actually is. 8 were bought, so there’s two extras, though I think one is tentatively CJ’s. Or something, I dunno, I’m bad at planning. Also, apparently the price went up by like $2 a ticket when I wasn’t looking (or I misread >.>), but since Hugo had already sent me money I’m not going to ask for more, because that’d be stupid for like $14 total.
Also Also, I went on a little stroll around my area on Saturday, and took some photos of nature and jazz. Some of them turned out okay. Most of them were flipping awful though. Seems like the autofocus on my camera is obsessed with branches in the foreground, and is like “YES, THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT. LOVE ME. LOOOOOVVVVEEE MMMMEEEEEEEEEEE.”
I’m tempted to take you up on that spare ticket but wifey might think something is up if I keep abandoning her to see musicals with some dudes too much 😛
But you could fly high, defying gravity.
And then your plane would land and you could see a super manly musical.
Wicked’s coming to QPAC in February next year if you want to actually take wifey and be all romantic and then take her to a Brisbane Meat afterwards where we all talk video games! GOOD TIMES!
STOP TRYING TO TAKE PEOPLE AWAY FROM MY MUSICAL TIMES! YOU MONSTER!
😛
Who can say if your meat’s changed for the better?
I assume this means my contribution came through okay?
Because I totally sent it. Yup. Sure did…
Thus far I only have Hugo’s. But since you said at one point that you were maybe considering actually sending me money, you’re well ahead of either Cakejerk or The Driverborn.
(I did actually send it 😛 Let me know if it doesn’t come through soon!)
I’ll give it a coupla days.
Then I’ll forget about it and just assume that it worked.
If nobody else takes a spare, I’ll likely grab it.
Went to watch “The Guyver” anime on the weekend, I bought it from a shop in China Town while I was in Sydney earlier this year. D’oh it’s the 2006 series not the 1989 one like I thought, being from China Town every word on the case is in foreign languages other than “Guyver” , “650minutes” and “English Audio & Subtitles”, I thought it had to be the original for the $12 price tag. Oh well there’s a lot more episodes in the new series (original had about 3.5 hours worth, new one is 10.5 hours) so I guess I kinda scored. So far it seems pretty close to the original, the monsters even look a bit dodgy just like the original. Interesting fact David Hayter (Snake for those who might be wondering) starred in “Guyver: Dark Hero” the second live action Guyver movie
Um, cool story bro, I was going to ask what it had to do with video games but you got that Hayter bit tacked on the end,
I’m sorry? Talk Amongst Yourselves doesn’t have to be exclusively video game talk; most conversations aren’t.
I can’t work out whether Fallout:NV is awesome or terrifying.
Last time I played I came across a bunch of “Strange Meat Pies” and nearly killed the whole village in revenge, but on the other hand, I went to hack a computer and the password was “strange” which was kind of awesome.
Great, great game. I love exploring the wastelands at night with this song playing. ATMOSPHERIC.
@zetrox2k
Hi Mate, I think a while ago you were looking to source old consoles. making space for the new little Tiglet and I think I’m going to have to get rid of the Atari. Kinda sad but if it goes to somebody who will appreciate it that could be ok.
Let me know if you are interested, it’s an old darth vader model with a big selection of games
Also on the give away thing is anybody interested in a Call of Duty: World at War travel coffee mug thing. Has a car charger kinda dealio that I’ve never used, was a give away at the aussie launch
yeah definitely mate! hit me up on steam at some point!
Urrrrrr, exam soon :S
Not feeling bad, but not feeling good either.
It’s only 2hrs long, so hopefully it’s an easy one.
I don’t think there’s multiple choice though, so that’s a bummer :'(
Hopefully there’s multiple choice, I want to pad my marks a bit with easy marks, just in case :S
Just gotta get 50%, but I want 75% +…
Get off TAY man. Internet in general. Spend the last couple minutes just chilling and casually reading through textbook and practise stuff. It’ll subconsciously sink in.
Oh. Destiny is only on consoles. Guess I’ll pick it up for the co-op goodness. I have at least two friends who are 90% getting a PS4 for it.
Anyone know if it’ll support cross-platform?
Pretty sure it won’t.
*Sigh* Woo, next-gen, huh? I blame MS for this, they are the only ones I know who block it.
Dear Help-Desk colleagues: Please trust that myself and others in similar positions may actually know what we’re talking about and read the emails where we explain in detail what the problem is, instead of telling us that the issue is on our end. Some of us, a precious few, but SOME of us, actually know what we’re talking about.
If you know what you are talking about why won’t you give me my AOL password?
That’s for your own good. 😛
heheh the mere fact he has an aol password should ring alarm bells!
Edited to cover my butt.
Were it not for the ‘D is not there’ part, I really wouldn’t give a shit. Funnily though, with it there, I sort of still don’t give a shit. Ugh.
I dunno, the curious part of me wonders why that’s happening. I don’t care that’s it’s happening but I still want to know why. :p
If I had to guess, it’d be that smallest file size prints first. But yeah, bad example.
…Dinoking? 😛
Haha, sort of. But it’s a reply to the topic of help desk colleagues, so there’s that.
@popdart5 Quick question, how are we generating characteristics? Via dice roll or pure allocation?
I plan to do that once I finish writing up the character advance schemes for everyone. I will run a character creation session that will take everyone through the process. Basically in Rogue Trader, characteristics are generated through rolling 2d10 and adding a certain modifier to the character for each characteristic (this will depend on the race). There are other rules that govern the character creation process such as limited swapping of characteristics and limited rerolls but I’ll take everyone through that when I get around to running the session.
I’ve already rolled my stats with one reroll like the players guide says, also done the Origin Path, for the most part but that’s as far as I’ve gotten so far, I can send over what I have tonight if you’d like.
All good. Your stuff is the easiest by far as it’s all written in the books so feel free to go through it. The main reason why I want to take the time to walk everyone through them is because the 40K RPGs are a little tricky to start with and the fact that I’m houseruling a whole bunch of stuff means it is better to take people through it so that there are no misconceptions.
Edit: Out of curiosity, what origin path did you choose? It will help me figure out how to slot you into the adventure and how you relate to everyone else.
I’ll put that down with the character sheet when I send my current version over to you tonight. I think it’ll be interesting for you to see what I’ve chosen too 😉
Cool so we’re doing the dice rolls (dammit I was hoping to craft a sniper character =p). I suppose the added randomness makes it more interesting though!
You can still make a sniper character as long as you swap the dice rolls over to have a high Ballistic Skill and Tau have an in-built predisposition for a better BS (+30 to characteristic score rather than standard Human +25).
Well from my understanding of reading Rogue Trader so far I get to re-roll ONE characteristic and I have to keep it even if it’s a shitty dice roll =[
I’ll check to see if it’s a written rule or not but I also allow you the ability to swap any one rolled score with another, on top of the option to re-roll. That should soften the blow of a few bad dice rolls.
Yay! So does that mean if I choose to re-roll my one stat I get to choose which dice roll to go with? Or does it mean we can swap the dice roll of two characteristics of our choosing?
My ballistics skill roll was a 4, so it was obvious what I had to reroll when I did it 😛
When you re-roll, take the better of the two options, even if the re-roll was worse. On top of that re-roll you will likely have the option to swap any single dice roll result with another result for a different characteristic. I need to double-check if that was a feature in Rogue Trader or if it was included in the later 40K RPGs so don’t use that feature yet.EDIT: I need to refresh on what exactly are the rules for generating characteristics. I’ll need to get back to you on that.
From my understanding you get to re-roll one single characteristic and like tech has mentioned you go through them one at a time with dice rolls being allocated as they come…. MAN I don’t want to be a Tau who thinks he can fight hand to hand >.< for crying out loud they have less muscle mass than all the other races =@
The standard Tau character doesn’t even come with a default melee weapon, that’s how much faith they have in close combat. 😛
From what I understood, you can’t pick where your rolls go either, you call the stats one by one and roll on it, what you roll is what you get.
Finding an Australian PAL copy of Xenoblade Chronicles is proving near-impossible. The Wii and Wii-U are region restricted, is that correct?
@greenius help me out here before I cave and [redacted] it.
Wii U is region-locked. You can use UK copies though.
PAL copies at one point weren’t that hard to get, it was the US ones that were rare as fuck and going for $100+. Now I think the situation flipped because they did another pressing in the US.
Ah, UK copies work. Thanks, makes sense.
Do you want to borrow mine. I honestly don’t mind. That way you play it while you’re looking for it
No, no. It’s fine. I’m in no real rush to play, many thanks for the offer.
Are you sure? Are you super sure? It’s just sitting there, not getting played.
Super sure 😀 Now that I know UK copies will work.. it’s all good.
Pls play
No, no. I think you are in a rush to play >:|
😀 😛
Like Neg said, you might just have to pray for a new print run if you want one for less than $75+
Try emailing Ozgameshop.
Honestly, it’d be nice if they pulled a Bayonetta 2 and threw it in with X.
Looking at some of the prices it’s going for now, I’m glad I bought in when I did. Ouch!
Yeouch! I imported mine for $40 at launch. It’s been around $50-60 on eBay for years but looking at the prices now, it’s in the $90 range :/
That’s why I keep telling you chumps to get the game when you can! (@sughly >:( ). @brutaltoad got lucky when he got @jimu’s (unloved) copy.
It sometimes comes back in stock at Ozgameshop but I wouldn’t bet on it. eBay is probably your best option or Amazon UK. It’s significantly increased in price since launch though 🙁
Ya’ll could just… YARGH it and buy Xenoblade Chronicles X at launch to make up for it :D? But everyone should own a Xenoblades <3
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Everyone agrees it plays and looks a lot better when emulated on PC that can handle it. I’ve never tried it myself but I’m all for supporting the developer so I assume most people would buy the game and then emulate it anyway. Nothing stopping you from emulating it anyway but just remember to buy the hell out of the new one! 😀
I think a replay is in order for me so I’ll probably try emulating it down the line. I’ll let you know how it goes, but it looks so much prettier when emulated :O
You need a >3ghz processor to emulate it. CPU is really the limiting factor, not GPU. It looks really nice on PC and with a gamepad you can get a pretty good experience. I think @novacascade was playing it emulated?
I did as well. When I did it had mad sound issues (really bad crackling, out of sync, so forth) , so you had to enable one of the other settings, which had a mad impact on framerate, and it was a bit of a pain initially. Once I got it running it was decent, but at 1080P on a 3.8(ish) Ghz i7 I was definitely getting some noticeable drops at times.
There’s also some higher res textures and stuff available for it via emulator, which are nice.
IIRC you needed to sync the framerate to the sound. The crackling and shit was caused by the sound struggling to keep up with the frames.
Xenoblade probably pushes the Wii further than any other game on the platform. One look at the insane draw distance and everything in areas like the Bionis Leg or the Eryth Sea tells you why it’s hard to emulate. How the fuck did they get all that to work with only 64mb RAM?!
Hey Melbourne people.
I need to practise driving but My brother won’t let me use his car.
Would anyone be willing to help me over the weekends? I can try and pay money towards petrol and stuff.
I think we could help with that. Are you looking to build up a particular number of hours or just experience?
Just experience
How would you roughly describe your current experience level?
I’ve had 10, 1 hour lessons. It was given to me by Carers Victoria. To buy another 10 it would cost $500.
It’s alright, don’t worry about it.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a genuine offer, I was just curious where you’re at. I have been a driving instructor before.
Although mostly trucks.
Off road trucks.
“Now for this lesson we will learn how to traverse islands.”
@scree can get her truckers license \o/
Honestly I would give you lessons but being a P plater for another month that’s kinda hard haha
If you could help me, Mum and I would seriously appreciate it. Like Super seriously.
What time of weekend suits? I think the calendar is fairly clear for a while (or at least my memory of it)
Whatever suits you. I should probably mention I’m learning Automatic.
Ah. That was going to be my next question.
My car is manual.
Edit: so how about some manual lessons then?
Any lessons are better then no lessons.
Careful, to all parties involved in anything.
If providing car: ensure that drivers not on your insurance are covered (3rd party included). Note the excess. Have Scree know this and perhaps get agreement in writing. Be aware that things like hitting kerbs and crunching gears are more likely with a novice driver.
Scree: be aware of the above. Things can happen that aren’t your fault.
We’re all friends here, but when you’re talking damages in the thousands of dollars shit starts hitting the fan.
and this is the reason why I refuse my sister offering me to drive her car, I’m not on the insurance and after my efforts earlier in the year I don’t think I’ll be driving an uninsured vehicle again. *remembers when I had a car and gazes off into the distance longingly*
a lot of policies these days offer an option to cover non-registered drivers. I’ve never looked in to how much extra it costs, but I’m sure if you shopped around you could find a good deal, or get it thrown in as a bonus
I’m with RACQ and I’m pretty sure any non-registered person just gets an extra $250 or so penalty excess. And then the rest is worked out according to their age as per normal.
I’ve been doing a crapload of reading regarding everything to do with Star Citizen the past few days. Some of their ideas are terrifying and potentially brilliant.
Also, the dogfighting module is amazing with a joystick. Tense as hell and a lot of fun.
What the dogfighting module has taught me is that I really really need some sort of missiles. Trying to take out other ships using just my crappy little cannons is proving challenging.
What ship do you have?
Umm, the Aurora MR, I believe.
It had something in slot 3 or 4 or something, that I think was some other sort of weapon, but for the life of me I couldn’t work out if there was a way to turn it on.
You can switch weapons between the trainer ship and yours, but I don’t think the MR comes with missiles.
I tried to swap the missiles on the 300i with the guns from my 315p and was very disappointed that I could not fire them for some reason.
Also swapping out for my uber thruster just breaks it unfortunately.
How do you go about switching things? I’m a bit noob at this whole thing. I had to go and look up how to activate the module because I was just sitting in my ship in the hangar. >.>
There is a holo console somewhere in the hangar that you can use to change loadouts.
Should be behind the Arena Commander ship.
Then it’s just drag and drop stuff on the holograms. You will need to press TAB to be able to use the mouse freely though and close the holo to save the changes.
You can also take the laser off the test range turret and fit that to your ship.
Cheers! I’ll hopefully look into it tonight… or something.
My first go at Vanduul Swarm I got to wave 9, but there were a couple of waves where I lost a fair bit of my ship. Nothing quite like finishing a couple of waves with one wing and no tail.
I got up to wave 3 no problems (except that it was taking like 5 minutes to take out the first ship in the wave), and then I quit because I’m a terrible person.
Okay so I think I might be very interested in this but have no idea where to start. Does purchasing any ship give me access to the game, is that how it works?
No, you will need to purchase a Game Package, which is game, ship, beta access and other stuff.
However it looks like they no longer come with alpha (aka the dogfighting module) access so you would need to grab that separately to try that out.
@benny I think they’re still selling specific access to the dogfighting module for $5, but I believe you still have to have a game package. Minimum for that is $30.
Have they smoothed out the inputs yet? From what I’ve seen of the videos so far (not gotten around to playing it myself yet) it looked pretty jerky. Also far more importantly, can you rebind controls?
Dunno, it is a bit janky and hard to control with a mouse.
Can’t rebind controls at this point though.
A bit janky? Mouse control is shiiiiiiiiit.
Apparently controller isn’t bad. Can’t remember who told me that.
I prefer mouse to the controller – controller is even less precise I found.
Turning comstab off actually helps but the main trick is judging the extent of the dead zone that just moves your guns.
I’ve preferred mouse in other space games but found it nigh unusable in Star Citizen.
With War Thunder’s control imbalance still fresh in my mind I’m fine with mouse being shit 😛
Curious: What kind of joystick are you using? I’ve been holding off on getting one until now-ish, figuring I’d wait until we could actually fly with them and then start teaching myself on one. Alternatively waiting until some “official” StarCitizen joystick comes out. Which may be cost prohibitive.
The Logitech Extreme 3D Pro. It’s cheap as and nothing fancy, but as far as first joysticks go…well, most people have owned one of them at some point 😛
I’ll be upgrading mine eventually into something better but I’m in no rush.
Most people? The E3DP is the official first joystick isn’t it?
Hell, before I got my G940, I was still using my 3D Pro even when I had a Saitek X45 because the stick was better and didn’t have a stupid hand guard thing made for people with one less finger than me so I had a Frankensteinian hodgepodge of the E3DP and the X45 Throttle. A bugger to set up in games but damned good to use
This was my first joystick. @rize – reckon it’ll work? I don’t think I have a serial port any more though.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HCD9GF7TL.gif
One way to find out!
Looks like a spiritual predecessor to the one I’m using, so you never know.
Heh well if we’re talking real first joysticks this was mine…
This was mine: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Sidewinder_3D_Pro.jpg
Loved that thing. Pity it stopped working…
Ha! I had the same one, good times.
Did you ever play Hellbender?
Out of all of mine from the C64 era, this was the only one I truly regretted losing when it finally died.
@jocon YES! Hellbender was awesome!
My first was a Gravis Mousestick II for the Mac, which I used for X-Wing and for Falcon (the original Falcon) until the floppies it came on got corrupted.
One thing that kinda bugs me is that it does not feel very… sim like?
Stuff like your ship slowing down after cutting the afterburner and being able to slow down (supposedly using front small thrusters) as fast as you accelerate with your main. They say they are going for realism but it does not feel like it.
Sure, gameplay balance etc but either go full sim or arcade fun – no-one likes too much compromise.
It’s a subsystem that does all that, and it’s specifically to make flying easier to process for the human brain. Same reason there’s a galactic plane you can align to to get your bearings.
If you really want to test yourself, turn the limiter subsystems off. Can’t remember the names, but one slows your turns to prevent black/red outs, and one controls the stuff you’re describing. You can do really awesome stuff with them off, including turn and move faster, but it’s much harder as everything is manual.
That’d be the “G-Safe” and “Command Level Stability” modes, as part of the “Coupled / DeCoupled” IFCS (Intelligent Flight Control System)
Yep, those ones!
Pretty sure turning Comstab off does not change those things but I’ll try turning G-safe off and see if I can accelerate till I blackout.
Opens launcher: 7gb patch ready to download!
Sonofa….
Gonna have to crack out my joystick, it seems.
If it’s as amazing as I hope it is, might have to look into getting a HOTAS on full release.
Brisbane people.
Y’all should totes come down on the 5th July and play games and watch movies and eat food and talk about stupid stuff.
Also I still have, like, all the beer in my garage.
And @beeawwb will be there.
Awwww maaaaaaaaaaaaaan, I’m in Perth on the 28th. :'(
21st? I just picked a date at random.
y u do this to me? Seeing The Audreys that night @ The Zoo.
I’m free on the 5th of July, if that helps. HEY EVERYBODY, CHECK WITH ME BEFORE SCHEDULING THINGS, OK? 😛
Stop being so damn social.
I must seek lessons from the master. O great @dc bestow upon me your wisdom.
You are? I guess I’ll have to come s- oh wait. Too scary. I’ll bid you good tidings. Have fun looking at the Perth landmarks. *snigger*
Having lived in Perth for 4 years I think I’ve seen enough of the landmarks. :p
I will totally be there.
But your place is like so far away D=
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
Lol. I tagged myself. What a knob.
@liondrive suggested he’d be around! 😛
I’ll do my best 😛
You leave me out of this! It was your mistake alone!
Sounds like a plan.
ParTAY at freeze’s place!
Professor Keenbean.
Is this a day time thing? I might be able to pull that off!
Yessssss
I will be away that weekend for Mrs @gutsoup ‘s Bday.
Sorry.
@popdart5 Whoooo just did my character rolls =] Got fricking 15 on Weapon Skill and 8 on Ballistics =@ Obviously I re-rolled that and got 14 =p I actually got solid rolls all around except on Intelligence 3 so my character is as dumb as he gets >.<
I used http://dicelog.com/dice for the rolls with one roll per stat + extra roll on Ballistics.
Sounds pretty good to me. And yeah, what @tech_knight was saying regarding only one reroll and nothing else was right so I don’t know what I was thinking of there.
Ignore me.
Hey @batguy, Katamari appeared today.
Thanks!
Naaaaa nanana nana nana na nana nana naaaaaaa.
Like this version better:
Sherlock Holmes arrived for me too. Thank you.
@batguy, I got Bioshock 2. Thanks, man! \o/
Yay! It’s like Christmas in June!
@popdart5 @ anyone else, wondering if anyone on TAY has tried the new FFG Star Wars RPG stuff. Wondering if it’s worth a look or not. Also how viable it would be to run a game of it online using existing tools (I’m assuming you’d need a special dice roller or something at least)
I believe they’ve implemented the SW dice into roll20 using Dice tables.
As for the game, I’ve not played it, but I hear good things.
It sounds pretty reasonable and I do like me some Star Wars. Dunno how things work out for them now that the whole expanded universe is now properly relegated to the trashbin though. Especially since the RPG’s set in the original trilogy timeline and that’s where the majority of cuts happened. We don’t know how extensive their cuts actually were, does every planet and species that never appeared in one of the films / Clone Wars now not exist? Must have played havoc for GMing.
Eh, if I’m GMing, I choose what’s canon.
Fair enough, but at the same time it’s going to get to the point soon that there will be contradictory information out there.
I haven’t played it but I’ve heard that the dice mechanic is hard to understand at first but it makes a lot of sense once you get into it. That and apparently the dice help provide a more “thematic” feel to combat and general rolls which suits Star Wars to a tee.
No idea about how dice tables function in roll20 but there might be something.
To all of those who told me you’re thinking of starting and/or finishing Xenoblade again…
😀 ily <3
And are people going to play Mario Kart 8 tonight? I don’t wanna be foreveralone
I would happily play mario kart, I just don’t have a wii u. Am getting very tempted though.
TAY PATHFINDER CHAPTER FOUR, PART ONE
The junction, and the tomb
http://taypathfinder.tumblr.com/post/88940564646/chapter-4-part-i-the-junction-and-the-tomb
Starring
@popdart5 as Dungeon Master
@redartifice as Abelas du Arsene
@tech_knight as Dem’nion
@beeawwb as Drewan
@freezespreston as Lundgredolph
@negativezero as Izumi
@sernobulus as Karvurk
@rize as Narshak
The party stood still for a moment, as the dust settled and the last zombie corpse stopped twitching. Lundgredolph nudged one with the toe of his boot, then grunted and placed his axe back in its holster, and we all took that as our cue and sheathed our weapons in a similar fashion.
Karvurk plucked the stone disk back off the pedestal and stowed it, before stridently marching out of the door. I shook the remaining cinders out of my clothes and inspected the damage. It was a nasty-looking burn, but superficial, so I wrapped it up in a scrap of fabric and put my arm bracer back on.
“Come on, you pinkskins,” Karvurk called, “that signet ring won’t find itself”
***
Crumpled over? CRUMPLED OVER?!
Excuuuuseee me. I believe I responded by interrupting his monologue with an axe. Crumpling over is something you fairy types do when a imp sneezes in your direction.
That was the worst thing ever.
All through the semester we’d never practised math. There were a couple of times where we brushed over some maths concepts, but we never actually did math.
So of course the exam is 100% math.
Awesome, that’s definitely not a dick move or anything.
*sigh*
Well, I think I got around the 50% mark anyway, maybe.
Hopefully everyone else did super shit too and that the scaling is in my favour, but I don’t think that’ll happen.
Oh well, now gotta study for my Wednesday exam.
Luckily that definitely has no math in it.
Are you sure your didn’t go to the maths class exam by mistake! D:
I’m sure you did well, man. P’s get degrees too!
That was the first thing I checked, haha!
I may have passed, hopefully.
You need to pass the exam to pass the unit though, so I’m hoping scaling is favourable.
I wouldn’t actually mind redoing that course to be honest anyway, except for that it requires another 6 months at uni, which I didn’t plan for / don’t want to do >:'(
Uni? There is no scaling. If you get 45-50% you can get like a ‘probationary pass’, I forget the term. So you pass the exam technically, but that percentage then counts towards course.
If I were you, I’d write down all you remember about the exam ASAP. Also write down what you can remember about your classes. Group it all together with lecture notes and powerpoint slides. Don’t worry about it, but do this just in case you need to make a case for yourself (it can be done if you’re close to 50% and they fuck with you).
My uni said that they do do scaling depending on the types or scores that are achieved :S
(called weighted score, or something).
So if everyone scores really well, then the scores are even out a bit, but if the majority score poorly, then the totals are boosted up to reflect the difficulty of the exam.
I’m 100% sure over half the class agrees with me about the difficulty anyway, and I don’t think many were expecting a math exam (maybe a little, but not an entire exam).
If worst comes to worst and I did fail, I would argue to retake the exam under the excuse of something or other. I always sort things out 😉
Anyway, I’m done dwelling 🙂
I’m feeling much better, and still have other exams to worry about 🙂
It’s actually put me in a slightly cheery mood, cause I’m pretty sure that’ll be my hardest exam, and I memorised all the stuff I did study pretty well 🙂
Enh, some of my courses did scaling to affect your GPA, but yeah, I don’t think it affected pass/fail. Kind of like what @dc said, though in my day the catchphrase was, “3s get degrees.” (Which if it’s ALL you got, then no – they didn’t. It was just a consolation phrase, I think.)
Hey @liondrive, how well do you get along with the lecturer? You can always try and see if they’re amenable to letting you re-sit the exam, though it’s a hell of an imposition to them and reflects poorly on their ability to provide adequate planning information – y’know, just casually mention that you really got blind-sided by the maths focus and asking if it’s bad enough that you should ask about options for re-taking.
(This is why it’s always a great idea to check and see if your lecturer does any of the prac/tut classes and sign yourself up for those, so they get to know you. You can definitely swing more consideration that way in terms of flexibility with your results, pre-evaluation of assignments, and asking for copies of past exams, etc. Lecturers really dig when they can tell you’re engaged with the course, bonus points if they offer to hang out and get a coffee after classes etc. Though that’s something I only really did as a mature-age student.)
He’s a nice enough guy, but I don’t hangout with him, haha! He’s like 20 years my senior, at least, and my teacher 😛
I went to all the lectures and the workshops (which he also ran), which is doubly why I wasn’t expecting math, since we’d never actually had to do math before :S
In hindsight I think I may have just passed (apparently a pass is now 40% or 45% – 50%, and I did attempt everything, and somethings I know I got right), but if I failed I’ll definitely try to resit it, or try to at least see what my options are. There definitely was not enough warning as to what the content was going to be, seeing as how most of the lectures were about programming concepts, then workshops and assignments were about programming itself.
Math was such an after thought for the whole unit that I didn’t even think that there was enough to make a whole exam out of :S
Fuck me drunk, what subject was it?
It was Computer Graphics Programming, so I studied the programming (which is what our previous assignments were) and the terminology / concepts, such as types of systems, display types, texturing and yadda yadda.
Yes, there was some maths slides in the lectures, but we never covered them in detail, nor was any of the work done in class about them, so I didn’t think that that was what the exam would be on since we never actually did that.
I thought it would be more written / pseudo coding, like the work done in class, but apparently I was wrong :S
Because you need to know about maths to do computers, EVERYONE knows that which is why they give the computer classes to the maths teachers (who know fuck all about computers) in high school…
In essence it’s like doing a statistics class and the exam saying “Statistics as a discipline is generally agreed to have had its origins in 1749; write 500 word essays about 6 other major events of that year
I’ll be able to get on for Mario Kart in about an hour and a half or so, sorry guys I’m sure people have asked before, but how does it work?
@dc @powalen etc.
Go to online multiplayer, then Tournament and then enter 6219-0979-9527 which should bring up the group TAY Kart!
Cheers man, sorry for being a noob.
We were all noobs once. (Two weeks ago, actually. :P)
Sorry to all the Mario Kart folk, looks like I won’t be playing tonight, or anytime in the forseeable future. The wife won’t let me use the TV, because “she doesn’t want to watch that crap”. So it looks like I’ll only be able to play during the day while she’s at work.
Sorry.
You can play on the controller without the TV if it’ll help?
Looks like I’ll have to.
You can connect any standard headphones or earbuds into the controller as well for sound.
Damnit.
Two suburbs north from me has the NBN.
My suburb however has no progress or dates whatsoever.
I really wish the goddamn rollout map was working when I was looking at houses to buy.
Bloody mother****ing government.
NBN is dead, we need a new term to refer to it. My friend has ‘NBN’, but he’s stuck on shitty plans that are barely better than ADSL2+. The only benefit is free ‘naked’ plans.
Negligible Broadband Network? Describes the current fibre system, the improvement the mickey mouse hodgepodge might deliver if it’s ever implemented and we don’t even need to change the acronym
Sucks man.
My friend is Tassie was in the next roll out, but the current gov’t thought her suburb did not need it.. Sucks esp when just about all the other surrounding suburbs have it :/
Heh could be worse, a mate of mine used to live across the road from ADSL2 access but he was too far away from the exchange
Hahaha.. Ouch. It’s like another friend who lives near me, the housing estate she lives in the lines can’t even support ADSL cause the exchange they’re hooked up to is too far away (something like 7km), yet the brand new housing estate she backs on to got its own exchange and surprise surprise can get ADSL2+. Telstra have told her there’s no “want” for ADSL in her area so they won’t be doing anything. So in the mean time 300+ houses utilise the 3G network and break it every night…
I could literally throw a rock and hit the boundary of one of the very sparse NBN zones in wagga, instead I’m stuck on an exchange where I have exactly one choice of ADSL2 provider (technically there’s 2 but one of them is Telstra and that’s not a choice)
Hey, I can’t even get ADSL2 – I am on a wimax thingo.
Which, admittedly, is better than any ADSL I have had at previous houses.
Craptastic!
Whereabouts are you? (you’re WA, iirc?)
I got lucky that my parents built a house in a new development that got NBN fibre, so I have a 100/40 connection. In the last house, our ‘ADSL2+’ would max out at about 1.5Mbps on a good day, typically 0.7-1.2Mbps though.
They really need to sort their shit out and provide high quality access for all (original NBN style).
I’m in Adelaide, suburb of Burton. No ports or something so no ADSL but I get 1-2Mbps generally with the Wimax, bit higher ping than ADSL though and is more expensive.
Though I have never had great internets at the places I have lived and had “ADSL2” – this is the first time I have had downloads at 1Mbps or higher, so can’t complain.
My sister, who is renting in a suburb closer to the CBD, cannot get internet at all. No land line net available, no wimax signal, has a 3G dongle but has terrible signal strength.
This in a long established suburb 20 mins drive away from the CBD of a fucking capital city.
Australia’s information infrastructure is utterly atrocious and all this BS with the NBN is so absurd I don’t even know what to feel about it anymore.
They’ve basically scuttled the NBN. They knew if they campaigned with a plan to just up and cancel it they’d struggle, so instead they’ve simply taken a sledgehammer to the supports and are letting it collapse in on itself. Basically ruined it to the point that it’s probably unsalvageable and made it political suicide to try and spend the money on fixing it. When they announced that they would consider existing high-frequency cable networks to be part of the NBN that was basically the end of it, what we have now is the status quo. It’s pretty depressing really.
At this stage they’d probably reclassify a musical group made up of fat guys as “broad band”
The stupid thing is that I live across the road from Wagga’s main Telstra exchange and NBN is a no-go for me right now. Of course I do at least get cheap, large quota ADSL2 unlike anyone south of the railway line.
Well… at least I can park a car in a garage and not on the street like some car-hobo
Then how can the birds shit on your car? You’re missing out on so much of life.
You forget, I have a rosella, bird shit is a part of my daily routine. He only gets away with it because he’s adorable. Same reason you get away with it
Thinking of sending the thirteen year old to bed early so we can watch Game Of Thrones. 😛
They usually do good season finales so I’m looking forward to this one.
Still haven’t gotten past the second chapter of the first book yet.
Talk about slack.
Skimmed through it before watching over dinner. Looks like it’ll be a beast. Extra long, as well (65 mins run time).
As a book reader, I wasn’t happy about one of the things I glimpsed, but I’m not going to go into any details (particularly as I haven’t actually watched it yet :P).
Just finished it. Spoilers ahead.
Lrnu, gurer jrer n srj wneevat qvssreraprf sebz gur obbxf ohg birenyy V rawblrq gur rcvfbqr.
Jura gur ubhaq naq gur znvq jrer svtugvat V jnf gbea. Ba bar unaq V jnf nyy “jgs?! Guvf vf fb jebat!” Ohg gura, vg jnf gur orfg svtug fprar gur fubj’f rire unq. Fb njrfbzr, ohg fb jebat. :C
Edit: Oops, I meant to comment on what you may have glimpsed.
V’z thrffvat gur wbwra guvat? Gung jnf n fubpx! Vg’f tbbq gb unir n fubpx rirel abj naq gura sebz gur fubj gubhtu.
V’z jvgu lbh ba Oevraar naq Fnaqbe’f svtug. Vavgvnyyl V gubhtug “jbj jung!?” Gura V jnf nyy “guvf vf njrfbzr!”
V gubhtug sbe fher jr jbhyq frr n tyvzcfr bs Ynql Fgbarurneg pbafvqrevat gur npgerff vafgntenzrq cubgb bs n urneg znqr bs fgbarf.
Neln ybbxf fb unhagrq, ybir vg.
Hello everyone!
I’m still alive!
Don’t really find much time to TAY thanks to gainful employment, but I still drop by and lurk every once in a while.
The Destiny alpha was amazing. Loved every minute I spent playing it. Bungie have a winner on their hands with this one I think.
Saw Edge Of Tomorrow yesterday. I rather enjoyed it. Was fun with the action parts, good cinematography, rather funny at parts. As much of an idiot as Tom Cruise is, I still enjoy many of the films he’s in.
we still love ya! only just though :p
Glad you’re alive. 😀
The best part of you not being around is that it means I get to make jokes about how we’re “Cracklelackin’.” It’s the small ray of light in a sea of darkness.
Bahaha!
I also dislike Cruise, but have enjoyed the last few films he’s been in. (Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, and uhm… War of the Worlds? There was a period of time I missed a lot of movies.)
@liondrive you’re pretty good at Mario Kart 8! NEW RIVAL >:|
Out of curiosity, how long have my fellow tourney buds played MK8 for? I checked on the weekend and it was only at like 18 hours. I swear it was more 😛
And is it just me or is the Wii U log thingy isn’t as good as it is on 3DS? I can’t seem to find a list of all software played and there doesn’t seem to be charts either :(.
:J
I try my hardest, even when I keep missing start boosts, run into walls (I still don’t know how that happend), and get trigger happy with the 8’s power and literally drive into everything 😀
Thanks for the games by the way 🙂
Edit: Oh, my log is 16 hours over 11 play sessions 😀
Jeez! I have a feeling everyone else has played more than me :P. Them with their 3 star cups and golden karts *shakes fist*
EDIT: And I totally saw you blow up your engine once! 😀
I did that three or four times, hahaha!!! 😀
I blame lag 😛
I died a little each time I did it :'(
Oh, and sorry for maybe playing a bit aggressive :S
*glare*
Hoping to get it soon, I will probably miss the free game promotion though. Stupid government gives me money in July instead of June
Trade-in/sell some games :P? …or do a dodgy EB buy/return for the code D:
The promotion ends at the end of July anyway so you still have time!
I thought it was the end of june
You thought wrong 😀
http://gamesites.nintendo.com.au/mk8_bonus/
WOO!
If it’s like the other mario karts. Hold down the accelerator button as the 2 starts to change. It usually gets bigger. So not when it appears, but when it changes.
I dunno how different it is compared to others, but it’s not that now. You have to press it as soon as the “2” appears, and the longer you press it when it’s displayed, the bigger the boost you’ll get (i.e. the biggest boost the second “2” appears and the smallest just when the 2 is disappearing)
Haha, I know how to do it, I just couldn’t get it tonight for some reason :S
I kept honking my horn though right before the start sign came to try and throw off others off, but I think it only threw me off instead, hahaha! 😀
I think only you can hear it since I’ve never seen anyone else (other than me) honk their horn in multi 🙁
Whaaaaaaaat!!!
All my hard work at distracting people was for nothing!?!?
*pouts* >:(
You can hear it in local multiplayer, I do it all the time for the scarez.
Is everyone still Karting, or am I doing it wrong? Stuck in the lobby “waiting for everyone to vote for a course”, and I don’t see anyone.
I left about 30 mins ago and there was like 4 people left :P. I think it might be over :(.
You’re better off doing online races with randoms when there’s not much TAY activity. It might also help to add everyone as a friend on MiiVerse so you can see who’s in-game and join them.
Add me!
I’m “theDrivenLion”
😀
I’ll play heaps next week probably 😀
Friend request sent, also requests sent to @dc, @batguy, @greenius, @powalen, @rize, @sernobulus, @stickman, and @sughly.
Anyone else feel free to send me a request, I’m evilmonk3y.
Ugh, I’ve been after Just Dance 4 for ages and was waiting for a price drop. It’s $9 at EBGames except they’ve sold out. No where else sells it anymore and the only choice I have is pre-owned. I wouldn’t mind except they’re charging $23 for pre-owned of the same game.
Tried EB’s website? Though you’ll have to chuck a coupla bucks on for shipping, it should still be a lot cheaper.
Sold out on there. It’s what I was looking at
Target have the Wii-U copy for $19. ?
I was looking for the xbox specifically.
Ugh, I’m so gassy…
*makes a note in crazyguy’s file*
Hope it’s not a brown note…
@tech_knight @freezespreston @beeawwb @popdart5 @negativezero @rize @sernobulus
The Angry Yuan-ti.
Yuan-ti being a traditional D&D snake monster: http://www.epicwords.com/attachments/5485
Or under the banner of The Amarillo Yeti (Yellow Yeti)
The Adventuring Yokels!
I vote for something that’s fantasy-ish and generic and not silly but otherwise am not really worried what it’s called.
I could really go with The Armadillo Yeti myself, mainly cuz Armadillo is my girlfriend’s favourite animal 😛
Also I think I really need to put some more thought into RP and into my character’s personal story etc. since I’m not sure it’s working. There was kind of a decent in-character reason for maybe disturbing an old crypt like we did beyond the money but going off to kill ogres, not so much. Even for that pay.
Oh don’t worry. I’ve got something planned to spice things up. 😀
That’s a good point, now I think about it. I guess from Drewan’s perspective he doesn’t know anything specific about Ogres, but he does know that it would be unusual for them to be raiding fertile farmland around a lake, what with most ogre territory being bleak and unforgiving. Drewan’s curious as to what’s got them venturing outside their natural habitat, and if it’s NOT ogres, then what is it?
I just made that up.
Lundgredolph likes to kill things.
Traumatising and Antagonistic Yelling.
That poor child … =P
If it helps, Rot13 of TAY is GNL…
I’m still really partial to “The Violent Saviors” mainly cuz I want to hear from towns “All hail the Violent Saviors!” as we do our mighty deeds
I’m Neutral Good, though perhaps that dichotomy between violent and saviour could be interesting. Still, Drewan doesn’t see himself as violent. He’s barely a fighter, as your wounds can attest to.
Yeah but so far we’ve been “Saving people/politics” by being “Violent” in the tomb! 😛
Hobgoblins attacked us, we defended ourselves. The tomb attendants / zombies attacked us, we defended ourselves. Tallone attacked us, I tried to reason with him, we defended ourselves (though, on reflection I think I could have talked him down with another couple tactics I hadn’t considered) – we then chose not to attack spiders once our job had been completed, and didn’t track down hobgoblins choosing instead to go home.
How is that violent? 😉
I said “violent” not “suicidal” 😛
Is this a reference to something?
Dragonball Z Abridged yeah 😛
I was trying to come up with something TAY-like, and I couldn’t think of a “Y” but I did think of “The Threadbare Alliance” – let’s face it, we all come from various backgrounds and it’s only these jobs that’s really keeping us together. Maybe a name to reflect that.
Hurrah, the gas appears to have dissipated! \o/
did you at least harness its power for evil purposes?
Man there’s a craptonne of internet to catch up on when you’re out of the house from Friday afternoon through to Monday night.
Dear TAY,
This is a community service warning. Please do not visit my website for a while. It has unfortunately been hacked.
Sincerely,
Me
that sucks dude, the positive side is that you attracted enough attention to get hacked, I guess. Hope it all gets sorted out promptly.
Shit dude, that sucks. Hope it all gets sorted out quickly.
Hope you have a backup!
It’s getting sorted. Just have no way of knowing whether any of the back-ups have also been compromised.
DDoS hacked or ‘credit card details stolen’ hacked?
Destiny Alpha people
Hi just curious about how people are finding it, I’m really enjoying everything except the PvP, played a few rounds last night and it just seems like a bit of a mess, spawn points seem pretty random and I kept spawning and getting shot in the back immediately, it started to remind me of recent CoDs (which is not a good thing). That’s pretty much my only complaint, also how fun is hover jumping?
I only played a little bit, but my friend has dominated the game. Explorered every nook and cranny, found ?-level monsters, found massive bosses, found rare guns etc. From my playing, it’s pretty cool. I like the dynamic nature – you’re chilling, dancing with someone, and then WHOOMP a ship warps outta nowhere and a random event starts. Pretty cool.
Friend said he tried PvP and it was shit. Too extreme for him, seemed unbalanced?
Yeah I’ve explored all over, last night I couldn’t find anything new. The PvP just seems like they haven’t put much time into it, didn’t like the level design, my main problem was spawning in to get shot in the back, makes me furious and there seemed to be no structure to any of it, I was on a team but sure didn’t feel like it. I don’t care too much, I’m mainly planning on playing single / co op,
PvP is I suspect a thing that’s there purely because they had to have it because it’s what they did well in Halo. It probably hasn’t had a lot of care put into the balancing etc. yet. In fact I think the whole game hasn’t had a proper balancing pass yet, that’s the sort of thing that happens toward the end of development.
I got the impression that it was just tacked on there because people expect it these days. I guess we’ll see closer to the time, Still enjoying the rest of it, just wondered if I had a particularly bad time or if others had similar problems.
Just reminding people, anyone who’s looking to pick up EA UFC you can currently preorder it at Dick Smiths in store for $65.00
Also a page get, for me? Wow I accept you
I was really keen, but playing the demo taught me I’m absolutely awful at it so I might just pass.
Didnt play the demo just gonna go in blind and try my luck
Not a game I’d go out of my way to get, can’t afford it anyway after purchasing a Wii U on the weekend.
Not having much luck with the Nexus 5.
First one lasted two months, then the handset speaker died. All manner of stuffing around to get it replaced since you can’t just walk into a Google shop.
Second one lasted two weeks, first drop (less than 1m) cracked the screen. Didn’t want to go without a phone for a week to send it off to LG, so got the screen replaced at a local repair place. New screen is now shorting out and crashing the phone, and I’m guessing any warranty is void now. Going to have to try to get a refund from the repair place and just wear the costs for LG to fix their damage…
It’s enough to make me consider an iPhone. At least it’s easy to get a fix.
Shitty luck man.
Eh, learning the hard lesson once. At least it’s a fairly cheap phone to learn a lesson that might bite as hard as the entire cost of the phone.
If the repair place has trashed your phone, they should definitely be your port of call. There might be some clause in the service contract that requires them to make reparations or restitution, or replace the phone. Worth looking into at any rate.
You’re a trusting person. But I think you’ll find that the clause in question would go against Beavwa. 😛
Depends on how big the company is. Anyone lower than official repair centre of manufacturer or a premium authorised company is gonna screw you over.
Probably. But it’s worth looking into. I don’t know Australian Consumer Law the way I should.
Ideally they should replace it, but that’s going to be fun. I’m going there first (when I can), but if I could trust them then they wouldn’t have trashed my phone in the first place. Just really frustrating since a working phone is essential for me – thus why I went for a same day repair instead of a week+ without a phone.
That’ll learn me.
Help me PC nerds!
My PC has decided to turn itself on and off rhythmically every 5 seconds when trying to power up. Tried unplugging it for.the night and tried again this morning but same thing. I is currently sad.
Boil the kettle, make yourself a nice relaxing cup of tea or coffee, go to your PC and pour the beverage all over it while screaming obscenities at it, then go and buy a new PC, fixed.
#helping
That was my first instinct.
I used to kick my old PC when it did that, used to fix it. Downside the case had a few dents in it before I retired the damn thing >.<
Have you tried turning it off and on ag… oh wait.
#HELPING
Edit: well, now that tag makes it look like I’m copying @evilmonkey *flips table* I’m going home
this happened to me, it was the PSU
Hmm.
@welbot would it still be under warranty?
Just letting you know, I also had other issues like the computer randomly restarted. It happened on and off for over a year before it finally died completely.
It does sound like a Power Supply issue… Given it’s just shutting within the first few seconds.
Edit: Even if it’s not under warranty power supplies usually aren’t that expensive! You’d be worse off it was your VGA card giving you issues >.<
If it’s the PSU you should be able to migrate your existing components to a new tower. find a little PC shop that does servicing ande they’ll probably sell you the tower and take care of the labour for under a hundred bucks.
Best to do it now before the constant booting/surging leaves bad boot sectors on your hard drive, which is what happened to me a couple of years ago. :/
PSU’s have the longest warranties of most components I’ve owned. The one that died from my tiny little God prior to the weekend was a 7yr warranty. And I’d totally have redeemed it if I still had any of the proof of purchase information.
when did you actually purchase it from me? I can’t get in to the system where my record of it is at the present moment.
/edit/ suggestion of unplugging removed after reading initial post more thoroughly 😉
I actually just found a pdf of the invoice on my HDD! Purchased on 16th of August, so should be in warranty for at least another month yet.
That darn Public Sector Union. Why can’t they leave us alooooone
PSU, motherboard, RAM …
Unplug it, take out the RAM sticks and plug them back in. Take out the button battery and press power button a few times, then put all back together.
Does it stay on? If not, try just one RAM stick at a time. If that doesn’t work, welcome to the world of eliminating possibilities in PC faults … 🙁
I’ll get home tonight and see if I can figure out what those words mean.
I have very little experience with PC repair beyond shoving it towards someone with a “You fix it”
You might also try plugging the power cable for the PC straight in to a power point if you currently run it off a powerboard or such. Even try a different power point if it’s currently directly plugged in to the wall. If it still does it then, it’s highly likely to be the PSU, but definitely worth trying reseating the ram and resetting the BIOS as stickman has suggested. Just gimme a call on my mobile if you run in to trouble, or have any questions while you’re at it.
Sounds like the power supply to me, but it might be a short circuit somewhere. Have you cleaned the dust out of it recently?
I. Uh. Er….
No.
It’s not that old.
I guess.
:/
Almost guaranteed to be a PSU problem. Part might still be under warranty if it’s a good brand.
Xigmatek?
… that’s not a brand I recognize at all. Which doesn’t bode that well.
Personally I always over-invest in power supplies because a good one will last you multiple builds. Still rocking a fantastic Seasonic one in my current PC that’s been in two builds previously, about six or seven years old now.
xigmatek have been around for a while. It’ll have 12 month warranty at minimum, but likely 2-3 yr manufacturer warranty.
We had a clients PC do this last week;
RAM (his had 4x 4GB sticks, so we tried booting with 2, same thing, booting with the other two, same thing, booting with 1 stick, same thing)
Graphics card (I had a spare in my car, swapped it out, same thing)
Then had to bring it back to the office to swap out the power supply, same thing happened.
In the end we had to order in a replacement motherboard, which when plugged back in, fired up fine first go.
http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/random-monday-26.jpg
Ok simple things first, make sure one of your girls hasn’t done anything to the power cable at the back. Make sure it is firmly plugged in.
Otherwise it does sound PSU related
If it’s not power supply, it MIGHT be the CPU fan. If the system isn’t detecting one, it could be powering off to protect the CPU from damage.
If you open the case, check that the fan is spinning up and while you have the case open push all the cables in firmly to make sure none of them have worked loose. Once that’s done, fire it up again. If it still does it, it’s PSU.
Obviously double check that it’s not something obvious like the power cable being half unplugged at the wall or power supply and plug it into another outlet if you can just to eliminate that.
The CPU fan wouldn’t result in a reset loop that quickly. Most motherboards will stay powered on and show a warning about the CPU fan, and it would take a good 5 mins or so before it would even get close to overheating to the point where it shuts down. It does sound to me a lot like a short circuit, but could be the PSU gone bad. Discharging it completely and trying again should help determine where the problem lies. (Turning the pc off without unplugging the power cable will not discharge the PSU properly)
The CPU fan wouldn’t result in a reset loop that quickly. Most motherboards will stay powered on and show a warning about the CPU fan, and it would take a good 5 mins or so before it would even get close to overheating to the point where it shuts down. It does sound to me a lot like a short circuit, but could be the PSU gone bad. Discharging it completely and trying again should help determine where the problem lies. (Turning the pc off without unplugging the power cable will not discharge the PSU properly)
Hehe what about a posting loop?
Most of the recent motherboards I’ve seen have a CPU fan activity sensor that powers up quickly and fires off an emergency shutdown signal if it doesn’t detect anything rather than it waiting for a thermal warning, that’s the kind of thing I was thinking about. I agree it definitely sounds like a short though, the fan was just the only other thing I could think of that might be causing the cycling and that wouldn’t cost anything to test.
Some motherboards have settings where you can change how long it will stay on for in erroneous situations, but usually the default setting is to pause the post so you can read the message. I mean, I’m not discounting it as a possibility, but it is unlikely to be the cause given the description he’s given I think.
Was totally playing with my Game of Thrones pop up book while watching the season finale last night.
#noregrets.
@tech_knight @freezespreston @beeawwb @popdart5 @negativezero @sernobulus
The Monday Knights.
I missed tagging @redartifice. Knew I’d missed someone…
This is probably the best one so far.
I like…
That is just awful.
I love it.
I don’t think I’m registered to vote on this, but this option is the best that’s been floated, and the best that will ever be floated.
Dude. DUDE!
PERFECT.
@popdart5 – give this man some bonus XP.
He already got some for not decapitating a child pickpocket, what more do you want from me man? 😛
HAHAHAHA!
The golfer brought a spare tire for his buggy, just in case he got a hole in one.
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Just heard on the TV about this new broom that’s sweeping the nation!
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Why did the picture go to jail? Because it had been framed.
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What do you give a seasick elephant? Lots of room.
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How do you drown a hipster? In the main stream.
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Yes, I called them pirates. Why? Because they arrrrrrrrr.
#PAGESIXREPRESENT
What’s a pirate’s favourite letter?
X for buried treasure.
#DeliberatelyMissTheJoke
I hate you but I love you but I hate you.
@popdart5 and other assorted 40k RPG team quick question in regards to characteristics. I’ve just been going over the Tau Character Guide and the Rogue Trader section for characteristics and I’ve got a few questions. I’ve noticed in Rogue Trader after the dice rolls there are a few bonus points that are allocated as well? Usually under 4 or 5.
Also is there a section that explains how wounds and fate points work? >.<
Yeah depending on your background there will be extra bonuses but as most of you are filthy Xenos you don’t get access to these bonuses. You guys get other perks such as special traits and abilities and often superior equipment.
Wounds and fate points are kinda buried in the character creation chapter of Rogue Trader however I need to go back to FFG’s website as apparently the Tau rules completely missed the inclusion of wound and fate points and that has been errata’d.
Edit: Just looked and yeah use the standard chart for rolling fate points in the character creation chapter of the RT core rulebook. Fate points are things that you can “spend” to give yourself one-time bonuses such as rerolls and, even if you’ve spent them, you can also “burn” fate points to save yourself from death.
According to the Tau Character Guide wounds are rolled with 1d5 + 2 and add twice their starting bonus of toughness to determine the starting number of wounds. This all seems like gibberish to me aside from the “1d5 + 2” >.< With fate points all Tau begin with one, I just don't understand what they're used for?
I’m still determining the rules specifically for fate points for Tau as it’s a little different to everyone else. Once I go through and set the groundwork down for everyone’s characters, I’ll host a session to better explain the mechanics of the game and ensure that characters are created correctly.
I believe the use of fate points are better explained in I think Chapter 9 of “Playing the Game” in the core rulebook however I might be wrong. See my edit above that gives the general gist of what fate points do.
Thanks pop =]
Your stat’s bonus is the 10s number of your toughness value. For example, if your toughness was 35, your toughness bonus would be 3, so then you would add 3×2=6 points as it says twice your toughness bonus.
So the tougher you are the more wounds you have? I think I’m just going write up my character’s story background and wait for pop to do a walkthrough before messing with stats, talents and all the other technical stuff. I’m just making myself more confused reading rogue trader since it seems specific to imperium factions and when I tried to read the Tau guide it seems to assume a certain level of base knowledge >.<
Yes your wounds are pretty much your HP. Toughness is like Constitution in normal D&D, having a higher Toughness however not only gives you more health but (This I know from Dark Heresy, not sure if it applies here) it also gives you damage reduction from normal attacks
I literally understood nothing in this entire post/reply/thread-thing. =D
@tech_knight cool, I just assumed that wounds were bad to have… So it didn’t make sense that the tougher you were the weaker you got lol. But if they’re basically HP I want more wounds xD I’ve noticed in the Tau Guide under the talents section there’s a huge list of possible talents with pre-requisites, etc. Do they work like the Baldurs Gate system where as you level up you can pick a certain number of talents to add to your character?
@sernobulus Wait till you get past page 50 of Rogue Trader… That’s when they hit you with heaps of crap you’ll never hope to understand 0,0 I’m using pop and tech as my translators =p
I’ll be going through everything so that we’re all on the same page but before I can do that I need to write up the rules for the Eldar (as there currently are none). Do as much that you are comfortable with and I’ll take everyone through the character creation process to ensure that there are no issues.
@pupp3tmast3r
I’m just gonna wait for @popdart5 to get everything ready. I have a feeling I am completely out of my depth and would screw it up if I didn’t have someone helping me every step of the way. Basically what I’m saying is I’m leaving all the work to @popdart5. =P
@sernobulus In this case it is wise to hold off as I’m still working on the ground rules for Eldar. They’ll be ready soon* hopefully.
* Definition of soon may differ from person to person. No guarantee that work will be completed in the immediate future.
And sorry to harass you again but I really want to know what you’ve decided on @rize.
Wait I’ve forgotten what everyone is… nob was a striking shadow correct? =p Freeze was eldar warrior turned warlock? And tech was a techpriest?
I’ll send another email out once I’ve got final confirmations but that’s pretty much it.
Seriously I have the most useless bunch of twats in my offshore team! A major firewall screwup last night and my day is completely gone due to their incompetence.
/rage
Key words tech – “offshore”
If you wanted competence hire someone within the range of your throwing arm =D
It seems companies will never learn that sending jobs offshore, because of cheaper labour is not a good thing.
Yeah I’ve mentioned it to people here with a simple quote that simplifies it all: “You get what you paid for”
Wheni was a locksmith we used to use a lot of Lockwood brand products which were fantastic. Later they stopped making them in Melbourne and got it all done in Taiwan. All of a sudden we were going out to 8-10 warranty jobs a day for their products charging the supplier $110 plus the cost of their new lock everytime. And that was just one company. I can’t imagine how that would be economically viable for them.
Yeah, I used to work at a place that painted and polished parts for Commodores (I was one of the polishers), one day the manager told me that one of the parts had to be anodized and it was cheaper to freight them to China, have it anodized, and then freight it back, than it was to just have it done locally, and there was an anodizer just down the street on the corner.
Massive bout of insomnia last night, monkey braining and couldn’t relax and I got fixated on the fact there’s some bright LEDs on chargers in my room so I disconnected one, then I noticed an odd, dim light under my bed.
Turns out it was my AU 3DS sitting there, untouched since December and covered in dust. “I wonder what that’s doing there?” I thought. Opened it up. Bravely Default. Where was I again? Doing some stuff in Florem, it turns out. I didn’t get very far in before getting frustrated with the game and putting it aside.
Then suddenly it’s 2am and I’ve clocked an extra 2 and a half hours in the game without realizing it. Now I’m utterly exhausted due to lack of sleep but I’m not sure I care. I enjoyed what I played immensely, and I’m not sure why I stopped now. I think maybe from mid last year to about April or so I must have been in some kind of depression or something because this is the second game I decided I wasn’t enjoying at all, stopped playing, came back to this year and have decided that younger me was an idiot.
Going to make it my next conquest after Nier I think.
Relatedly, something that’s really irritating the shit out of me whenever I play my 3DS: why the shit did Nintendo put the extremely sensitive volume knob right underneath where your hand sits when your thumb is on the analog pad? I am constantly knocking it and turning the sound up/down when I have it set at the perfect level for headphones so suddenly LOUD and then I have to adjust it only to knock it again and stuff. Does anyone else have this issue? Ideas for mitigating? I’m considering putting some tape in there or something.
I don’t really have the volume issue however that might be because I have the XL and it’s a little bit out of the way. Also I play on the bus a lot so I’ve gotten a bit of practice in keeping a steady grip.
Both of mine are XLs.
Wait, your 3DS was left on since December? 😮
I’ve never had that volume problem on my 3DS or XL.
It’s been sitting on the charger, lid closed.
I do that all the time, it’s in a pretty silly spot.
Glad to hear you went back to Bravely Default, hopefully you keep enjoying it.
I totally have no idea how your hand is moving the volume slider while you play the game. Weirdo 😛
It’s right under the pad of my hand. The base of my thumb touches it.
Do you work for Apple? 😛
Can’t tell if that’s meant to be a big hands or small hands thing 😛
When I hold my 3DS, the pad of my hand sits down next to the D-pad, well clear of the volume slider. Though I’m not sure it even makes all that much contact there, most of that seems to take place down at the lower corners.
Edit: wait, the base of your thumb touches it? I can’t even figure out how you could even do that…
I think it’s my thumb. I don’t even know how I bump it honestly. It’s very very sensitive though. Quite loose. Lightest touch will move it. But especially when holding it with a stylus in hand, I will hold it fairly high. My thumb rests on the analog stick naturally. It’s the location that feels comfortable to rest your thumb for me – it’s where the analog stick is on a Dreamcast controller, Xbox controller, Xbox 360 controller…
It’s also stupid that it’s a slider right there, it should be on the front of the device by the headphone jack where you’ll never bump it. Or even better, be a pair of small face buttons that control it in software like on the Vita (though this would probably require Nintendo to have some inkling on how to write an operating system for their platforms and I don’t think they know how to do that).
EDIT: Also the Apple reference was in regard to the classic faux pas they made with the iPhone 4 having a fucked up antenna due to the way they isolated it, where Steve Jobs basically accused people of ‘holding it wrong’
Ahrite.
Well for me I found that I bumped the DS’s volume slider way more than I ever did either of the 3DSes – and that one was on the front, by the headphone jack, and even protected a little bit by the lip of the silver plastic that stuck out 😛
Personally, I’d hate for them to have a software volume control. I’d rather be able to control the volume before there’s any sound being produced, not have it turn on in a quiet situation and then find out it’s been left on max. Also those kind of volume controls always seem to have discrete levels where one notch is a little too soft to hear properly, but the next up will be too loud to be comfortable.
@shane, and @jimu, the games you sent just arrived in the mail \o/
Noticed that the Club Nintendo pamphlet thing hadn’t been scratched to reveal the PIN code, sweet, then I looked down the bottom and noticed that the expiry was 3/6/2014, crap.
Thanks guys.
If it makes you feel better those scratchie type codes are for the UK region anyway and (mostly) don’t work in Australia’s Club Nintendo (first party Nintendo ones are guaranteed NOT to work).
So the expiry doesn’t matter anyway 😀
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/06/are-you-bad-at-taking-a-dump/
I choose to believe they’re offering tips on how to steal a landfill site from someone.
Covert landfill acquisition speciality services (CLASS) – it’s a growing industry.
Classy name.
It’s no Monday Knights though.
What a shitty article.
Time for one last go at AINACATSS. @rize @evilmonkey @kermitron your stuff is packed up and going in the mail today. @kermitron I received the movie, thanks! You need to take the cheap and dodgy option to mail it next time, though 😛
I’m surprised nobody wants Tomb Raider, but I guess it’s been given away on PS+ and upgraded by next-gen, so basically everybody who wants to play it has done so?
Also those GoW2 and Kinect games are codes I received from a friend ages ago. If you have even half an interest, you might as well take them off my hands.
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I’m channeling Shane here and giving away loads of pre-loved games and movies. There’s some good stuff in here! I’m only offloading it because I’ve played it to 100% and am unlikely to play it again, or have somehow ended up with multiple copies. I just want to see them going to good homes!
Easiest way is probably to say what you want in here, and send me an email your mailing details at batguy.kotaku@gmail.com, with your handle in the subject line?
Standard rules apply – first in best dressed, but only one thing per person (at least initially), don’t dare give me any money for them, etc. I’ll keep bumping it over the next few days.
PS3
– Deus Ex: HR
Xbox 360
– Assassin’s Creed II
– AC: Brotherhood
– Bully
– Gears of War
– Gears of War 2 (DL code that I can send you immediately, actually have a few available)
– The Gunstringer / Fruit Ninja Kinect (DL code that I can send you immediately, actually have a few available)
– Prince of Persia 2008
– Tomb Raider 2013
– Tomb Raider Legend
– Tomb Raider Anniversary
– Tomb Raider Underworld
DVD
– Enter the Dragon
– Kill Bill vol 2
– Rocky
– Sweeney Todd
Thanks!
Someone should really take Tomb Raider 2013. It’s fantastic.
Yep, it’s a pretty cool game. I don’t own it, but I’ve already played it to 100% completion, so I’d just be getting it for collection purposes
… which means I’d be trying to give it away next week 😛
And so end the explanation you never asked for.
EDIT: For my money, I can’t believe no one wants Bully. It’s amazing.
Dirty secret: I couldn’t be bothered going to the post office and all the normal envelopes in my office have company letterhead on them, so I went and borrowed an express post satchel from our stationery cupboard. 😛
So basically the cheap and dodgy option. All good then!
Cheers man, hopefully I’ll have time to stop in at the Post Office and send South Park on its way to you on my way to work, if not I should be able to do it at some point this afternoon.
Mine arrived yesterday, thanks batguy
I’ll trade one quilted item to be made before the end of the year for Tomb Raider 2013 and Enter The Dragon if nobody else ends up wanting them….
That could work… with or without the item in return.
Oh there’ll definitely be an item. It will be fun. Actually, you guys should set me a challenge. Give me two colours you guys like, and a descriptive word, and I’ll make something to try and fit it. 😀
Thoughts @cookingmama ?
Wow! A StrangeTM quilted item! How about…blue, black and…shark? Something for the boy’s room?
Ooh, exciting! One blue/black/shark related item it is then. 😀
Huh, an article about an Anita Sarkeesian video, surely that will provoke some reasoned and rational discussion in the comments.
surely.
It always does.
I usually don’t even bother reading any comments sections that even go near the subject material anymore. Kotaku AU’s better than US on that front (and many/most other places), but damn the subject feels like it has gotten nastier of late. On all sides.
THIS POST WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR GAME OF THRONES. BOTH SERIES AND UP TO THE END OF BOOK FIVE
You’ve been warned.
jung gur uryy? Ab Ynql Fgbarurneg?! gung jbhyq’ir orra gur CREPRSG pyvssunatre sbe gur frnfba. jbhyq’ir xrcg crbcyr gnyxvat sbe gur arkg 10 zbaguf. vafgrnq, Nelvn trgf ba n obng /raq.
yvxr fher, ure tbvat gb Oennibf vf n ovt qrny va ure punenpgre nep, ohg gurer jnf ab…. JUNZ vaibyirq. Fgbarurneg jbhyq’ir unq gung JUNZ & V’z ernyyl vagrerfgrq gb xabj jul gur fubjehaaref qrpvqrq gb yrnir ure bhg. vg jnf gbb cresrpg gb cnff hc.
naljnl…. V yvxrq gur rcvfbqr birenyy. gur jnl gurl yrsg Gur Ubhaq fbegn vzcyvrf, zber fb guna va gur obbxf, gung ur nvag qrnq. juvpu V guvax vf n enq guvat. pbm gur Ubhaq vf terng.
nyfb, Inelf. V yvxr ubj gurl’ir znqr uvz n ovg zber bs na boivbhf ‘tbbq thl’ ol zber jvyyvatyl urycvat Glevba rfpncr.
nyfb, gur jenvguf jrer cerggl tbbq, gbb.
Gung jnf zl ernpgvba gbb, V gubhtug sbe fher gur svany fprar jbhyq or Fgbar Urneg eryngrq.
Zna, jung n svtug orgjrra Oevraar naq Fnaqbe. V’yy unir gb jngpu vg ntnva gbavtug. V whfg erzrzore Oevraar syvpxvat n fjvgpu naq tbvat Ebpxl Onyobn ba uvz.
V jnf n yvggyr qvfnccbvagrq gurer jnf ab zragvba bs Glfun orgjrra Glevba naq Wnvzr/Gljva, ohg V pna frr jul gurl jrag gur natyr gurl qvq.
Tbbq svavfu 🙂
Gra zbaguf 🙁
V jnf zbfg qvfnccbvagrq gung gurer jnf ab zragvba bs Glevbaf (svefg) jvsr rvgure, znqr gur zbgvingvba gb xvyy Gljva gung zhpu zber boivbhf, yvxr guvf yngrfg orgenlny jnf whfg rabhtu gb gvc uvz bire gur rqtr…
Ab fgbarurneg? Gung’f JRVEQ. V unira’g orra xrrcvat jvgu gur fubj, ohg gung’f yvgrenyyl gur bar guvat V erzrzore sebz gur raq bs obbx 3 – vg jnf fhpu n terng zbzrag va gur obbx gung V whfg nffhzrq vg jbhyq frr bhg gur frnfba.
Ubarfgyl, V guvax gurl yrsg bhg fgbarurneg orpnhfr gurer’f abg n terng qrny bs fubpxvat guvatf yrsg fb gurl svtherq gljva’f qrzvfr jnf rabhtu onat sbe gur raq-vfu bs gur rcvfbqr naq gurl’er tbvat gb arrq ynql fgbarurneg’f fubpx inyhr gb orrs hc gur arkg frnfba.
Naq V guvax gung gurer unq orra rabhtu bs oena naq ubqbe gehqtvat guebhtu fabj gung oevatvat sbejneq uvf svaqvat bs gur 3-rlrq pebj jbhyq zrna orvat noyr gb trg ba jvgu gur fgbel va gur arkg frnfba. Zl zrzbel bs obbx 3 jnf gung gurer jnf sne gbb zhpu “fb-naq-fb gelvat gb trg sebz k gb l”. V trg gung jrfgrebf naq fheebhaqf vf ovt naq shyy bs qnatref, ohg JNYXVAT VF OBEVAT.
Naq V guvax gung yrnivat ynql fgbar urneg hagvy gur arkg frnfba vf n tbbq vqrn. Ntnva – tvirf n cebcre sbphf gb gur arkg frnfba. Gur obbxf unir greevoyr ceboyrzf jvgu cnpvat: obevat obevat obevat obevat BZT RIRELBAR VF QRNQ NAQ BE N MBZOVR GUR RAQ.
@shane
Morrowind arrived! \o/
Thanks again! 😀
THIS POST WILL CONTAIN D.C.
You’ve been warned.
Hey!
Hey buddy, how have you been?
Not too shabby, Rockets. Not too shabby. Hope you’re well?
Yes i am quite well. Im very happy these days. Work is always a bit shit but My home life is pretty awesome.
I’m happy for you, buddy! 😀
DAMMIT DC. SPOILERS >:(
ROT13 YOU ASSHOLE
It’s the new and self-improved DC! \o/
Pipe down, you!
I like the old DC 🙁
*runs off crying*
Dammit you spoiled it for me!
Lies! This post claims to contain DC yet he’s still spilling all over the page.
Thoughts of starting my own Laser servicing business keep moving around in my head. The tools i need arent expensive and all you really need is the know how. I could undercut my current employer by a shit load and still deliver the same quality of work.
But alas i do not have the attitude.
Bond villain origin story!
The cool eye-blinding things or Ford hatchbacks? 😀
D.C.’s TOP TEN MOST ANTICIPATED GAMES FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR:
01. THE VANISHING OF ETHAN CARTER
02. THE WITNESS
03. EVERYBODY’S GONE TO THE RAPTURE
04. DREAMFALL CHAPTERS
05. ALIEN ISOLATION
06. DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION
07. GRIM FANDANGO REMASTERED
08. BROKEN AGE
09. COSTUME QUEST 2
10. DESTINY
Also pretty interested in Tales from the Borderlands and Rime. (Assuming it’s out this year!)
Asylum too!
I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF ANY OF THEM
*flicks hair, hipster style*
DOUBLE FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!!!
My top ten anticipated games for the rest of the year:
1. [slot open]
2. [slot open]
3. [slot open]
4. [slot open]
5. [slot open]
6. [slot open]
7. [slot open]
8. [slot open]
9. [slot open]
10. [slot open]
Ten slots open and nothing to fill them with (Page 18 by invite only)
Edit: I guess I’m keen for the next The Walking Dead chapters, and my sphincter is puckering for Dark Souls 2 DLC… but I don’t consider them full games.
I reckon you’d dig Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.
Probably, but we’ll never know.
They’ll both be on PS4 eventually. You might know! YOU MIGHT!
I won’t be getting a PS4 in the foreseeable future, sadly. Feel like I’m constantly whinging about money, so I won’t do that again, but suffice to say there are no big purchases on the horizon for a while.
The games will still be there when you get them though.
I feel like I whinge about money too. :\
I was waiting for the ‘feel free to stick things in my slot’ joke but no go. Disappointed. 😀
I did make a “(Page 18 by invite only)” comment. Figured that would sufficiently cover the field 😛
Yeah but my words put Cameron Diaz into mind. So there’s that.
You’re right. That’s pretty hard to forgive.
Lol D.C. can you add in Shadow of Mordor? Also has Grim Fandango been confirmed for this year?
I hate Lord of the Rings with a passion. 😛
Grim Fandango has been confirmed in my heart. 😉
I’m sorry but I don’t have that particular console, I don’t believe “D.C.’s heart” has been announced for public purchase yet xD
I’m just taking everything in Shadows of Mordor outside the LOTR universe…. Lore wise that game makes absolutely no sense. Game wise I reall like the Nemesis system! Add it to your list damn you =@
The heart can’t be bought, only won over!
Oh right, Shadows of Mordor might be all right. Forgot about that one.
Also kind of liking the look of Lords of the Fallen. Like a Fisher Price My First Dark Souls. Basically what Kingdoms of Amalur was to WoW/Skyrim.
Liondrives top anticipated games for 2014:
– A Night in the Woods
– Super Smash Bros U
…
…
That’s all :3
There’s still a couple in my backlog to get though, like:
– Transistor
– Child of Light, and
– inFamous: Second Son
Night in the Woods, of course!
You’re okay, Liondriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!
The main character is a cat, how could that not be my most anticipated game, haha?!??
Also it looks stunning (from the art style).
There’s far more indie games on my radar than AAA games this year.
Me too, most of my anticipated games are slow burn walking simulator types. XD
GRIM FANDANGO
#ALLABOARD #THEHYPETRAIN
In no particular order :
1 Wasteland 2
2 Pillars of Eternity
3 Dragon Age 3
4 Valliant Hearts
5 Grim Dawn
6 Far Cry 4
7 Alien Isolation
8 Smash Bros 3DS
9 Civilisation : Beyond Earth
10 [I’ve run out of things] Edit : Dark Souls 2 DLC.
Oh! OOOOH! How could I forget Wasteland and Pillars of Eternity. Hmmm, this really needs to be a top twenty I think. XD
My most anticipated games:
1. Pokerman ORAS
2. Smash Bros 3DS/WiiU
3. Bayonetta 2
4. Hyrule Warriors
5. Fantasy Life
6. Captain Toad! (:D)
7. Devil’s Third
Plus a bunch of stuff on PS4/Xbone that I probably won’t get around to until I actually buy one of those platforms 😛
Fantasy life too low
You are.
Living a Fantasy Life?
1. Dragon Age: Inq
2. Pokeymuhnz
3. Fantasy Life
4. Psycho Break (The Evil Within)
5. I can’t remember
and @dc
I was checking out what’s coming for the rest of the year as well… I was considering buying a new PC with my tax refund, but I dunno now…
Anyway, here’s mine;
1: Shadow of Mordor
2: AC: Unity
3: The Crew
4: Dragon Age 3 (despite not finishing #1 and not owning #2)
5: Borderlands: The Pre-sequel
6: COD: Advance Warfare (tentative…)
I’m not sure about most anticipated or whatever but that’s basically a “list of 10 games that I intend to buy in the second half of 2014 assuming they don’t also get pushed to 2015” right?
01. Destiny
02. Trails in the Sky SC
03. Dragon Age: Inquisition
04. Tales of Hearts R
05. Valiant Hearts
06. Theatrhythm Curtain Call
07. Tales of Xillia 2
08. Fairy Fencer F
09. Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus
10. I dunno, AssUnity maybe? Maybe that Mordor one if it’s not shit?
Note: once you get below 4-5 here it’s not really anticipated very much. Just stuff that I might buy. I’ve instigated a semi-ban on buying new stuff until I work through some backlog games to the point that I want to play the newer game more than I want to play my backlog so I stop buying as much new stuff (hopefully). I also intend to grab New Atelier Rorona when it releases in a few days, but the Arland cycle is already on my backlog waiting for that so it’s basically not on my list.
PHLANISPO’S COMPLETE LIST OF GAMES HE’S EXCITED FOR THAT COME OUT IN 2014
1. Titanfall (oh wait)
2.
Brief explanation of why people want to watch shows like Game of Thrones as soon as they release.
Headline in the main news section of smh.com.au: “Game of Thrones: Dizzying finale Recap
Jryy, gurl whfg xvyyrq RIRELBAR, qvqa’g gurl?”. There was something similar even worse, with images, for the big events early in the season.
Screw you, Fairfax/Foxtel/Brandis/Flanders.
Stupid sexy Flanders!
It’s like we’re watching nothing at all. Nothing at ALL. NOTHING AT ALL.
Punish them by never going back and get your news from Buzzfeed instead. There will be 50% more cat related gif stories!
I actually like buzzfeed
(SPRINTS AWAY)
I don’t rely on it for news, but they occasionally have a neat column or a funny listicle
I just like the funny disney gifs 😛
Aurora is a bitch is the best one I’ve seen for a while
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/sassy-sleeping-beauty-is-the-queen-of-disney-princesses
Brilliant
Me too, Rockets.
I punish them by a) not clicking on those obvious clickbait stories (the 50+ comments indicator is a giveaway that ppl are indeed reading it) b) blocking their ads and c) using the digital version of my grandfather’s physical subscription to access the site.
They’re being hurt enough. I don’t need to punish myself with buzzfeed.
I first read that as ‘Dizzy Rascals recap’ and thought who in there right mind would give a sliver of a fuck about his opinion, on anything.
I need a coffee.
@mrtaco
I did the first mission thingy of Wonderful 101 and it’s pretty kewl! But… touch screen or right analog stick? They both seem a bit unresponsive 🙁
Analogue stick is way, way better. You get used to it.
…you can use the touch screen?
😛
I’m gonna say right analogue. It was so much easier for me to use.
Dear god. That statue in the Witcher 3 collectors edition.
I need it like I need oxygen.
Dammit Freeze. You’re paying the price of a new console for two games. Dafuq is wrong with you?
But collectibles. #Helping
Apparently a lack of cool statues
Affluenza.
(Not really, just wanted to pun)
I think you may need to see someone about your premature page sixedness….
Oh dear, I paged prematurely.
You don’t need oxygen?
Personally if I bought the Witcher 3 CE I would throw that statue away and keep the rest of the stuff. But I’m going to just buy it on GoG anyway.
I just realised it’s 8 weeks to the day since I saw the doctor about my sleeping problems. That’s 2 months straight of proper sleep (with a couple stress related misfires that I won’t count) – I can’t remember the last time I’ve slept this normally.
Celebrate! 😀
Let’s go out all night and party to celebrate
I concur. The most appropriate way to celebrate tackling a chronic insomnia issue is to stay out all night. 😀
You’ll definitely sleep well the night after the celebration =p
Volvo pls!
Yesterday, my daily hero challenge in Dota was Broodmother. Today it is Meepo. It’s like Valve got sick of me getting my daily hero challenge done in one game every day for a week and wants to punish me.
I said “never again” the last time I played Meepo. Do they want to make a liar out of me?
Four days of not seeing my wife and daughter and I finally get to see them again in a couple of hours \o/
Sorry to hear about this blow to your gaming time, man. 🙁
And what about us!? WHAT ABOUT OUR NEEDS!?
Didn’t we get enough Half orc goodness last night?
Hey, I partially ruined a marketplace last night by making a child cry. I need to make up for it by being nice to another kid.
Rize, I want you to listen to me very carefully.
Do not, under any circumstances, roll to see how your child should be punished. :p
Good thing I’m not like Narshak 😀
Rollplaying: Allowing parents to act out their frustrations in a safe and healthy manner. 😛
Realised I never followed up yesterday, so:
MY WEEKEND
Went to a christmas in June thingo on Saturday, took roast pork and Mulled wine, was fantastic and the wine was a hit
Played a bunch of Witcher 2, up to chapter two. It’s pretty great.
Sunday morning broke up with lady friend, wasn’t working out.
Then played a bunch of Crusader Kings 2
You can’t compare real women to Trish Merigold red! They’ll never measure up =p
Edit: I think I might’ve connected imaginary dots there…
Yennefer or GTFO.
Actually, it’s weird, I read the books before getting into Witcher 2, and there he and Yennefer are the big thing…and then he wakes up in bed with Triss at the start, where like her whole arc is that it’s an unrequited affection.
Sorry to hear about lady friend, Red. 🙁
Eh, don’t be, better this way. I wasn’t really feeling it.
Felt bad for doing it, sure, but it’s for the best.
Hopefully your next lady friend works out.
Hang around gyms to increase the odds.
Edit: sorry if inappropriate.
Ah, the old @mrtaco method.
I believe that’s the current @liondrive method as well.
No luck, I ain’t getting any dudes, only stinking muscles!
*pouts* >:(
Have you considered showering? It makes the muscles smell nicer and the lack of stink might attract more dudes
Ok, so weekend was good. Mostly. I think?
Sketchbook couldn’t make it after all, it turned out she’d actually gotten herself a booth at Supanova and was selling arts there. Hope it went well for her, her stuff’s really good. And that kind of made it good for me since I didn’t have to worry about being awkward so much 😛 Though still would have liked it if we could have done the whole thing back on the long weekend and then still go to Supanova. Failnerds.
There was some boardgames. Lords of Waterdeep, I think it was called? With some kind of expansion set too. Four of us were playing, with two new to the game and the other two having been shown earlier before we got there. I somehow managed to totally smash them all 😎 Otherwise games mostly consisted of vast quantities of Mario Kart.
One night though, we got shown this awful abomination of a movie called Foodfight. It… I don’t understand how it exists. The art is awful, the animations are awful, the script is awful, yet somehow it has a whole load of fairly big-name actors doing the voices. And watching it with a bunch of people who had done a game and film art course, it was mostly filled with them projectile vomiting about everything they were seeing on screen. Even first-year demo reels look better than this thing 😛
I think it might have broken my brain though. Because afterwards they put on Jon Tron’s review of it, and I… didn’t hate it? And then yesterday we watched a whole buttload of Community, and I didn’t hate that either. I don’t understand what is happening.
Oh also we saw Maleficent. I was sorta kinda hoping that the cinema would have a screening of Transformers or something I could slip into instead, but it turned out to be pretty good. I sat alone in the cinema because the others were all just standing around not sure where to sit, so I took charge and went and sat down. Then they all buggered off somewhere up the back, but I hate sitting miles away from the screen. Defeats the whole purpose of going to the movies imo.
Despite thinking that things with Pillowmaker had cooled off (after our group’s last outing a couple of months back), things were all back to snuggly cuddly again. So I guess that’s still a thing. Still yet to talk with each other about it at all.
And now today my Mario movie and Animal Crossing cards have all arrived. Yay! Turns out that there’s 328 cards, not 327 as included with this set. A second promo card was actually one that was included with the 5-card sample set bundled with e-reader – but only for the US ones, we didn’t get it with ours. Luckily in one of my earlier acquisitions I ended up with one of those, so I now have a proper full set. Woo! \o/
Lords of Waterdeep I’ve only played once, but it’s a pretty cool guy.
You and your stories. 😀
There you see her
Sitting there across the way
She don’t got a lot to say
But there’s something about her
And you don’t know why
But you’re dying to try
You wanna kiss the girl
Yes, you want her
Look at her, you know you do
It’s possible she wants you, too
There is one way to ask her
It don’t take a word
Not a single word
Go on and kiss the girl
Sing with me now !
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
My, oh, my
Look at the boy too shy
He ain’t gonna kiss the girl
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Ain’t that sad
Ain’t it a shame, too bad
You gonna miss the girl
Pretty sure that Foodfight was one of those movies where it never should have worked and yet they spent so much money trying to make it work (and failing miserably).
I agree with your friends assessment. It is a terrible, god-awful mess of a film and anyone associated with it should feel ashamed.
Arrghhhh the more I’m reading Rogue Trader the more I’m realizing how bad my characteristic rolls were =@ Almost all my starting skills a Tau Fire Warrior are Intelligence based and that was the only roll that was screwed up!! @popdart5 since you’re making house rules can I swap my WS for INT? :p Also managed to clean up my backstory a bit more but waiting on fleshing it out until you give us the setting for our little adventure 0,0…
I’m beginning to wonder if I’ve actually done any work today >.<
WH40K RPG is pretty much “We’re non-optimal people who are here to be slaughtered” from what I hear
It really is quite the downer of a universe >.<
GRIMDARK
Ever tried going into melee combat with an Tyranid?
I did. It did not end well. But them’s the rules if you build a melee character and fight a ravenous, devouring super bug.
Skills are generally only useful outside of combat. BS and WS are two pure combat oriented characteristics and everything else can be used both in and out of combat.
Considering the complexity of the system, perhaps it is wise to hold off on creating more of your character until I organise the character creation session. That way you can avoid potentially hurting your character any more.
:'( I hurt my character with a bad dice roll :'( I’m not really doing anything to him at this point just summarizing the default traits and talents for a Tau Fire Warrior. Keep in mind I’ve never played a tabletop RPG before so just getting the basics out of the way so I’m not a complete nob come character session time =p
Send me an email with your base rolls and final stats and I can tell you if you’ve buggered up massively. Chances are that you might have for the type of character that you want to play but that doesn’t prevent you from trying something a bit different.
Edit: I’m of the opinion in RPGs that trying to make a certain character in a system is much harder than using the system to make a character. It’s easier to come in with a general idea of what you want to play but you always need to be ready when the dice rolls don’t fall your way or the system doesn’t allow that type of character.
After a week with the Z2 and going back and picking up the iPhone 5, the iPhone just feels pathetically small.
I guess this is how my wife felt after leaving her ex and hooking up with me…
Thankyou, thankyou, I’ll be here all week, try the fish
At least you don’t require constant updates… 🙂
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Small is what I want in a phone! 😀
Too many things I have to cram into my pockets before going out. Wallet, phone, glasses…
My pockets are already jam packed with stuff as it is without having to worry about glasses (thank god my eyesight hasn’t deteriorated). I don’t want to have to carry around a man-bag for all of my crap.
Get a bag – a lovely leather satchel, or a cross-shoulder backpack. Stop cramming your pockets, ruining your pants and annoying the womenfolk in your life by asking them to carry stuff for you.
It’s bad enough that my handbag is full of toy cars and emergency crayons.
Good grief, this is a thing? What kind of man would do that?
But really, you can’t ruin the line of jeans. Bulges and crap? That’s what they’re there for. But if we’re talking a suit (because why would you ever wear any pants that weren’t jeans for casual or suit for formal/everyday?), then yeah… you gotta have your phone in one breast pocket of your jacket, wallet in the other, and practically nothing else. Wearing nice clothes means less utility. No man-bags/satchels with a nice suit either or you’ll screw up the shoulders and cause unsightly wrinkles.
Ugh. The number of guys I saw working near the Management Institute who worse the dodgiest, cheapest suits which they gleefully ruined with satchels and shoulder-bags, jackets which had never been pressed… what is even the point? And surely that’s something they would cover at the Institute?
Briefcase?
Oh, it’s a thing. It’s particularly likely if you have a big mummy handbag, which (like Mary Poppins’ or the TARDIS) holds pretty much everything. It’s so nice to go to a wedding or special occasion that only requires a tiny sparkly purse for lipstick!
Ah, remember when Cargo pants were it and a bit?
Ahhhh the glory days
My advice: invest in a bag or satchel. Or a trench coat. Both of those would make going out easier.
But I will remind you that hermits shouldn’t be trying to make going out easy. Good hermits, anyway. Worst hermits, I suppose, play by a whole different set of rules…
Trench coats are good except for the whole sex offender vibe you would be giving off.
That or the general assumption that you’re a Ninja Turtle trying to pass as human!
You gotta know what a crumpet is…
That’s such a Queensland attitude. Everyone’s got one in Canberra.
He lives on the Gold Coast, that’s the home base of sex offenders, man. Best to be cautious. 😛
That ones so obvious I’m not going to touch it
Unlike a CanberranDAMMIT I SAID I WASN’T GOING TO!
Sex offender? OK now I’m glad the coworkers accuse me of serial killer vibes for mine.
But like Popdart says, that’s one step away from a handbag. 😛
Atleast in winter we’ve got jackets with crazy amounts of pockets. 😀
Wonder what Mrs Shane was trying to tell me when she got me an artist satchel for a wedding present, then… :\
I bet it’s super handy for her to put things in. You’re a walking inventory, man. 😛 Actually satchel’s aren’t too bad. Just hate having to carry something extra around all day.
She has her own handbag. But I like being able to carry around my 3DS, a book, writing paraphenalia, my glasses, a scarf and beanie, lunch… and my towel, in case I need to hitchhike.
A bum bag, then.
Then you might as well be a tourist at the Disney World!
…
Actually that doesn’t sound bad at all.
My head’s been all over the place since Friday. Sometimes I’m feeling really good, others I just can’t get what happened out of my head, and I want to crawl back into bed and put the doona over my head. I went for a walk into town this morning just to get outside and try and take my mind of things and ended up having KFC for lunch (not great for my diet I know). I really hate feeling like this.
Sorry man, I missed this, what happened on friday?
It’s on page 1 of TAY if you want to read about it.
Aw man, that’s awful 🙁
Thanks man.
Sorry to hear that, man. All part of the grieving process though. It’ll get better in time.
*hugasaurus rex*
Don’t stress about the KFC thing, pretty sure you can give yourself a free pass for that one. 🙂
Heh, I’m enjoying seeing all of the different Google homepage art for the World Cup each day. It’s something nice to see that everyone is just buzzing about it.
In other news, I’m doing pretty terribly with my tips for the Cup. I’ve only gotten about two-thirds right in terms of who wins and I failed pretty spectacularly with the Spain v Netherlands match. Some pretty good matches and upsets so far so I’m pretty hyped for the next lot of matches. \o/
I think everyone got tripped up by the Spain v Netherlands one.
NOT ME.
(I predicted sportsball, and I assume I was right.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8y5EXFMD4s
hehe
I feel like I’m overly self-critical…
Probably.
Who isn’t?
Me! Because Im perfectly aware that I am the greatest example of humanity the world has ever seen!
You forgot an apostrophe, you worthless pile of muck! STUPID! STUPID!
*Starts self flagellating*
Ew.
Eeeeeew.
o.0
0.o
*ziiiiiiiiiip*
CATCH-22.
If you’re right, then you’re probably wrong, because you’re precisely critical enough.
But if you’re wrong about being overly-self-critical, then you’re probably right, because you just over-criticised yourself.
*head, universe both implode*
edit*
What did you edit out?! I’m gonna die of curiosity now! 😛
How’s the band going?
Edit: Oh never mind, I’m a doofus who only just read all of this page, and saw your other post.
I can see why Wednesday is referred to as ‘Hump Day,” but I think Tuesday is worse personally.
yep. Tuesday is the worst of all the days.
Tuesday is Louie day though…
Well not for another year :’/
YESS!
Aw 🙁
I have Tuesday off from work. Tuesday is fine as far as I’m concerned.
TAY therapy is now in session:
(sorry, just need to get some stuff off my chest and there’s nowhere else for me to do it)
I’ve been feeling super burnt out lately.
Not even just because of exams, but more because of uni, and work, and having more responsibilities these days now that I’m more independent.
I’m finding I have little motivation for anything these days. I literally just lay on my bed for around two hours the other day, not sleeping, not thinking, just laying there cause I didn’t want to do anything.
Every day when I get home from the gym I tend to sit in my car in the carport for half an hour just cause it’s cosy and warm, and there’s nothing I have to worry about.
I’ve been working since I was 13, and I’ve been at school since kindergarten to today, for all but my gap (which I spent working). The one year I didn’t work I spent at uni.
I’ve never had any real time off for myself.
I’ve never done anything for myself, and I’m getting tired of being under all this stress without seeing any results. I hate my job, I’ve lost motivation for uni. I want to start living, but I can’t do that until I’ve finished uni, and I need to work while I’m at uni, but don’t have the time for a good job.
Basically, my motivation is dwindling, and there isn’t an end in sight for it for another 1.5 – 2 years, but I can tell my motivation is going to hit rock bottom well before then.
I think I need a break or a change…
*hugs*
There’s a couch at my place if you want to get away from it all for a bit. A number of Taybies have availed themselves of it so far
‘Availed’… is that what you’re calling it. 😛
Also, I know a tool shed you can sleep in! (It’s not mine!)
I don’t think I want to know what you’ve been doing on my couch D:
Thanks man 🙂
I might take you up on that offer one of these days 🙂
DO IT!
reply faaaaail.
OKAY
because i was you, and i got out. I had a 4 year apprenticeship. My job was balls, not the work but the people. I was living in a tiny bedroom at my grans house and I was horribly depressed and overworked. The worst part is i never took a break to enjoy myself. I will be honest, i was just angry and sad all the time. What got me through was talking to my buddies on Teamspeak every night. It seems so obvious now but just talking to friends about random crap improves your mood and motivation. I had something to look forward to at the end of most days. I would get to talk to my friends.
Now i dont know your situation but it sounds like you just need a reason to keep marching. It gets better, you just have to help yourself a little first.
And now you’re better, and you have no use for us, so once every few weeks you’ll drop by for a few awkward hours, where you realise that with nothing to complain about you have no reason to spend time with those sad sacks on TS. *Waddles off crying*
Hahaa
Its actually a little bit off that and a little bit of I play no games. I dont really have the much to talk about…
YOU COULD TALK ABOUT YOUR DAY. YOU COULD TALK ABOUT ROCKETLASS. YOU COULD TALK ABOUT YOUR DOG. YOU COULD TALK ABOUT HOW BEAUTIFUL THE SKY IS AT NIGHT.
Almost as beautiful as my memories of our time together. *Emo tear runs down face*
😛
What’s your passion, man? What’s your ultimate goal in life? Are you working towards it now? If not, how come?
My goal in life was to become a character CG modeller at a gaming study in America, which I’m working very hard for, but these days I’m not too sure if that’s actually what I want any more.
These days I’d rather just be happy, I guess. So have a job that I enjoy and that I’m proud of, have a social life that doesn’t revolve around clubbing and drinking (sometimes I wanna just hangout, you know), have a home that’s my own (mortgage, obviously), and just be living kinda thing.
Yeah, those four things are definitely the cornerstones of a perfect life. (I think I’ve got one and a half of them.)
Concrete goals are key. My recommendation: every day, make sure that you do something that furthers one or more of these goals (this is how I survive the daily beangrind that is adult life).
Step one: set out those goals, identifying milestones and a clear path to progress upon.
1. Find job that you enjoy and be proud of
a) What is this mythical job?
b) Are you capable of doing it right now?
b) (i) Do you need to achieve qualifications or experience first?
2. Social life
I don’t know anything about these.
3. Home
a) Set a budget – use repayment calculators (all over the interwebs) to find out how big a mortgage you could afford. Give yourself a little leeway in case the economy changes or interest rates rise (they will rise eventually).
b) Investigate the approximate range of houses you could afford to buy, and ensure that you’d be happy living in one of these places. Investigate things like infrastructure, transport, and amenities too.
c) Save a few bucks every payday, or as much as you can spare. Clubbing is an expensive hobby, and if you’re not enjoying it, that’s money that could be going into a house deposit.
4. Just be living
a) What does this mean? How would you define a life of value? Does it mean being in a fulfilling relationship, or volunteering for charity, or being professionally successful, or…?
I’m doing my best.
Most of this stuff hinges on university though, so that’s the problem. My burnout on studying is throwing off my plans, and even though I desperately want to do well, without the motivation behind it I’m not handling it as well as I want to be.
I’m slightly considering deferring uni for a semester just so I can have a break from studying, then go back in 6 months refreshed and recharged with the motivation behind me to get it done.
Sometimes I think I’m older than I am to be honest. I keep forgetting that if I did defer uni, I’d be finished uni by 23, which is still young.
I have a fear of not accomplishing enough while I’m young, which gets to me at times.
I feel like I’m on a strict time limit to get things done :S
I think I’ve said it before, possibly even to you on here, it’s great to have a plan and direction, just be prepared to be flexible and adjust things as circumstances change. Don’t define your happiness on goals you set years ago, be happy because you are happy.
I had lots of plans when I was your age, goals I wanted to achieve, etc etc. Not a single one of them has worked out the way I intended, and I am in a vastly different place as I ever thought I’d be.
Am I unhappy? Far from it.
Life will always happen. When you step back, let go, and let it is when you can be at your most fulfilled. It’s just sometimes the letting go / letting things happen that can be the most scary. But also the most rewarding.
Lion take it from someone who’s colored within the lines for most of his life, there’s never a good time or reason to start living. If you’re feeling burnt out and from the sounds of things what you’re describing seem like the preliminary stages of depression I would say you need more than just taking a break. Find a way to bring more meaning into your life even if it means letting some of your responsibilities slide…
First up, I would say that seeing a counsellor or psychologist is always a good idea when you are starting to feel like things are getting too much. They can help you get things in perspective, evaluate your goals, and help you develop coping strategies to get you through really stressful times. Early 20s is usually a major transition from school to being a “grown up”, and getting some help with that is better than suffering and feeling like it’s all coming apart. I’m talking from personal experience here – I had a tough time getting work after 5 years of Engineering degree, and needed a bit of help to steer through it. Universities often have psychology services available for students at subsidised rates, and they’re very familiar with what students are going through.
Secondly, setting yourself goals can be really helpful in raising your levels of enthusiasm. It sounds like you’re a fit person, so how about signing up for a challenging run (C2S, Tough Mudder), or, joining a team – competitions are always fun to look forward to, they focus your training, and there can be great opportunities for interstate and overseas travel as well. If you’re bored with the usual football, how about baseball, paddling, ultimate frisbee or one of the martial arts?
I don’t particularly want to go to a psychologist to be honest :S
I’ll figure out what to do, I always do (I’m already planning things that I can do to be honest, even though it’s only been around an hour).
And while I would like to do something active for me, that’s also where the problem is. There’s plenty of things I would do if I could do, but I simply don’t have time for them.
I’m either at work, at uni, or doing assignments. I don’t have enough available time to fully commit to a third thing.
At the moment I’m going to the gym though, only cause I can squish it in of a morning before I have to do anything. It’s helping though, but then when I get home reality catches up and I have to get back to work :'(
Even one or two visits to a psychologist might help. Just having someone to talk to can help to lift the burden.
(forums are ok but a professional is much better)
And I think @aliasalpha has a good suggestion too of part-time uni. If working less is not an option (after all, you have to eat and pay rent), then dropping a subject or two might just make the difference, but only add a little extra time to the end of your degree. It might also mean you could find a better sort of job.
Which uni are you at, btw?
Edith Cowan University (ECU).
It’s hard to explain, but I feel like I’m on a time limit, so dropping down to part time study and adding an extra year to my course would eat me up inside, knowing that I’m not doing as much as I can, even if it’s better for me.
I feel like I need to get uni done as soon as possible.
Have you considered doing an exchange semester? You get to keep studying and travel.
http://www.ecu.edu.au/international/study-in-australia/study-abroad-and-exchange/how-to-apply
I’m actually thinking about deferring for a semester, moving over to Melbourne, exchanging universities, then picking up again over there at the start of next year.
It’s probably possible, I just need to think whether it is the right thing to do.
Thanks for the advice by the way 🙂
No worries 🙂
Exchanging degrees/universities is actually pretty straightforward if you already have an academic transcript showing that you’re capable of passing subjects. Finding a home in a new city is trickier, but I’m sure you’ll find plenty of helpers here.
Oh, you should do that! It would be an adventure and working to be independent would have a bigger impact if you were funding an adventure!
@cookingmama
@dc
My dad lives just outside of Melbourne, so I think I could probably crash there for a couple of months while I look at places and jobs in Melbourne. When I plan, I go all out, no half ass plans here, haha! 😉
But like I said, i’m still just contemplating it at this stage. A change would be good, it would be a break at the same time, and I want to move to Melbourne after uni anyway, so it could be an idea to just do it now rather than later.
I was at the MtL campus for a thing a few weeks ago!
That’s my campus, hahaha! I didn’t know there was such thing as other Perth TAYbies (appart from me and @phlanispo)! 😀
If you saw a fabulous looking, really tall guy, either scowling at everyone and / or dancing around then that was me! 😀
Didn’t take too much notice of people… I was trying my best to not get lost and find where I was trying to get to 🙁
…
Still managed to get lost trying to find my car afterwards.
FYI – they have a free service – FREE!
http://intranet.ecu.edu.au/student/support/counselling
(you have nothing to lose)
@liondrive Remember when you said your fitness goal was to get a rock-hard arse? Make that one of your goals!
That’s still my goal, haha!
Gyming 5 days a week for that 😉
Others are all giving you great advice so all I’ll do is give you a *hugasaurus*.
Oh, and tell you if you do end up having a break don’t forget you’ve promised to take @dc clubbing…. 😛
I’m thinking that that might happen sooner than he’s aware of at this rate, haha! ;D
-_-
Fine, no clubbing, but you’re not taking that shopping spree away from me.
I’m feeling down, and that would cheer me up, so you have to do it ;P
-_-
Monster. 😛
You’re the monster, monster! Quit being a monster, you monster!
All you have to do is stand there while I drag you around to shops and stand still while I hold clothes up against you to see if they look good on you. You may have to try things on OCCASIONALLY.
The thought is making me cheerier already, haha! 😀
I’m imagining you pouting during the whole process, which is making me the cheeriest >:)
I will fake my death!
@dc
You try and take this shopping spree away from me and your death wont be faked >:P
I’ve already saved for it and everything!
Hahaha, Mwahahaha, MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! >:D
-_-
@DC
You know what happens if you fake your death? Liondrive gets to choose the suit your buried in…
Does this mean the next time D.C. uploads selfies of himself he’ll be better dressed?!?! =P
I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay!
Look on the bright side, he might be talking about seals!
Can you transition to part time at uni? Even something like that would give you more time to yourself and take the edge off, you could play some games (which is totally research!) and sleep in occasionally. Chronologically speaking it’d mean more time at uni but with a less compressed workload, the only new challenge would be managing prerequisites to make sure you qualify for subjects in the right order.
Oh I suppose it might alter your perception if you actually like your classmates and want to stick with them. I had a weird uni experience where it was half an half with TAFE so I was just kind of in class with uni students who were also doing the same subjects as me rather than them being people that I went through uni with and were friends, they were as much scenery as anything else.
@cookingmama has the right idea about looking for a psych on campus. Hell, even just corralling a PhD student and asking if they want a free guinea pig might be worth a shot, if all else fails he might be cute and into guys!
I couldn’t care less about my classmates, haha! I never talk to them 😛 They never talk to anyone either though.
And I don’t want to drop down to part-time (see above replies for reasoning).
And Psychs freak me out, haha! Stop delving into my mind! That place sucks, and I try to stay out of there as much as possible :O
Looks like you need a Psychonaut!
*cue adventure*
<3
So what is it that makes you feel like you’re on a time limit for the degree? Do game devs only hire graphics programmers when they’re young and pretty?
3 days on & 2 days off could do wonders psychologically (oops, I used the p word…)
More just cause I’ve already studied so much, and because I’ve worked so much, I’d rather get all my study out of the way as soon as possible so I can start living how I want to be living.
Possibly extending uni isn’t a cheery though for me, cause I want to get out there and start living while I’m still young.
(And yes, I know I will still be young, but it’s a weird mentality I have :P)
Grinding yourself into the dirt in the service of an arbitrary timeline is a pretty poor reason to be so stressed man, if nothing else you’re doing the lazy uni student trope a serious disservice!
I’d suggest investigating what changing to part time might do with your course coordinator, it might well be worth it. It sounds like you need to de-stress pretty quickly, you don’t want to go bald or you’ll never get the ladies! Oh wait…
When I got up today I found a Wii sitting at my desk.
Apparently Dad just found it. Somewhere. Uh, great? 😛
Well at least now I have a donor for some spare USB ports for the unit that Mum dropped and mangled. Oh hey and some spare GCN ports too, wonder if they could be useful for something.
I turned on my wii for the first time in 2 years. It worked but the remotes had so much corrosion on the contacts i went through so much of mums nail polish remover cleaning them.
@sparhawk0,
It has come to my attention that you have a Gravity Falls avatar. Nicely done.
Your pal,
D.C.
I don’t know anything about that show other than that the guy who created it seems like a pretty rad dude.
The show’s pretty rad too. Best Disney cartoon since Ducktales and has that same multiple levels of humour as The Simpsons. Stuff adults will appreciate, stuff kids will appreciate.
This is just reminding me that I haven’t watched it in ages.
So there’s probably like, 3 new episodes.
New season starts in August!
And there’s also the Dipper’s Guide to the Unexplained and Mabel’s Guide to Life minisodes, if you haven’t caught them.
Thanks, @dc.
As a big fan of Beyond Good and Evil your compliment genuinely means a lot.
Hello everyone, It’s been a while but Boss Fight (Brisbane based video game theme cover band) have another gig!
We’re playing at the Sonic Masala Festival @Club Greenslopes on Saturday 21st June at 3pm. Please come along and support us. There are 22 different acts on throughout the day!
If you’d like to check us out, here’s a fresh video we’ve just made. It’s our take on Skyrim! Hope you guys like it!
http://youtu.be/SFZQAhP5Lso
Oooh, you guys are pretty damn good! Which one is you?
Thanks man. I’m the guitarist. Please come 🙂
If I end up going and there’s no epic helm action I’ll be disappointed. 😀
Sadly, we had to return the helmets and swords to their owner. 🙁
Aww, I’d lend you mine but I only have mini ones. 😀
What about if you don’t go, and there *is* epic helm action?!?!
ALL the disappointment!
If you guys feel like getting outraged by an article, click here:
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/end-internet-piracy-and-bring-google-to-heel-20140616-zs8l8.html
I actually don’t feel outraged by this. I’m a bit of a hypocrite for it, and I’m also aware that mine is a minority opinion around these parts, but I kind of straddle the fence on this piracy thing. I don’t agree with all the points in the article, but I don’t disagree with them all either.
What a Burke.
I stopped reading at #3.
I’m sure he has no vested interest there at all
This is, I think, the third article that Burke has written on the issue and every time he gets utterly slammed in the comments. Him and others like him in the industry must be supremely arrogant or sticking their heads in the sand to not realise how out of tune they are with people.
As someone said, when it is so easy to [REDACT] something nowadays and get it when the legal way is so much more time-consuming, then there is something seriously wrong. People are willing to pay a premium for a product if they deem it to have something that makes it objectively or subjectively better than the alternative. Considering the legal and more expensive option is, in a lot of cases, inferior means that it is much, much easier to justify the general populace’s approach to this issue.
It’s obvious even in a microcosm like Tay. 99% of us would pirate TV shows and movies while 1% of us would pirate easily obtained and reasonably priced games and music.
One question that was asked in the comments is who should be liable if copyright infringement is so important? Is it the end user who downloads the show or is it the person who originally uploads the show and makes it available? It reminds me of the situation where someone either mistakenly or knowingly purchases or accepts an item that has been stolen from someone else. Who is more guilty here, the thief or the person who gets the item? My understanding is that the thief is the one who gets hit with the harshest penalties while the end user might be taken in under facilitating crime or something like that.
Compare that to copyright and it seems to be that the harshest penalties are applied against the people who download. I very rarely hear about people complaining of the uploaders who make all of this stuff available. Surely they are the ones who are engaging in the most illegitimate conduct and more directly breaching a company’s T&C. Heck, I reckon you could even potentially avoid these extra regulations if you could prove that you were of the belief that what you had received was a legitimate copy. You might be able to avoid repercussions on the basis of plausible deniability or lack of knowledge.
Uploaders are a global problem for the content distributors and are hard to deal with. Downloaders are a local problem and that’s something they have a lot more influence over. Of course, the bit where content distributors can’t admit that they are a huge part of the problem makes most of this a moot point.
Also, when they catch an uploader they do like to string them up by their ankles in front of the Town Hall.
This, to me, is the most perverse aspect of the legal side of things. Far worse crimes getting off far more lightly makes the law very difficult to respect as any kind of unbiased authority.
The Law shoots itself in the foot by proving to be completely untrustworthy as a source of justice with any kind of sense of proportion, so they get bypassed or ignored.
The difference there is between civil and criminal
You know what place has fucked up piracy laws? Japan.
Downloading as well as uploading is a criminal offense. Not civil. Don’t pirate anything there or it’s off to jail.
It’s almost like the TV / Movie distributors aren’t even aware that’s the case. I mean, we all know that services like Steam and their huge sales / easy distribution platform contribute to us not pirating games, and similarly services like iTunes / Pandora / Whatnot give us cheaper and convenient access to music. It really boggles the mind that nobody in the video industries has worked out that, hey, giving people convenient and fairly priced access to content when and where they want it is a good thing.
Y’know, it’s funny you should say that, because just last night I was complaining about not being able to afford the impending Steam sale and thus having to do without games. Do without. When there is an option of piracy. Why did that not enter my mind?
There would be something pretty perverse about the hundreds/thousands of dollars I’ve spent on games I’ve not played, but pirating things I want to. It’s so divorced from the reality of any other market.
Also his line about movie like Red Dog wouldn’t exist without effective copyright control kind of cancels itself out by the implication that effective control is already in place as those movie exist.
So iTunes, which famously reduced prices, increased availability and decreased piracy, demonstrated conclusively that we don’t have an availability and pricing problem?
How does this guy eat with his head so far up his ass?
I feel like #4 was the clincher. The sleazy websites was a pretty hilarious point though. This guy obviously has no idea about what he’s talking about.
Also calling people who go to sleazy sites “children”. If it was just children, piracy wouldn’t be a problem at all.
This entire piece was about smearing everyone that disagreed with him, not about making a strong argument for his side.
https://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/watch/24255548/mutilated-cat-found-outside-of-home/
Gold Coast!
/o\
Not going to click on that link. :'(
They used the blood to write “whers my money” on a garage door like the classy people that inhabit this place
That’s simply disgusting.
What’s happened to spelling?? In my day, criminals had standards and at least minimal respect for language!
That’s the very detail I didn’t want to read about. 🙁
Oh. I was about to apply for a job on the Gold Coast.
Perhaps not.
The way they reported it on the radio today was pretty disgusting I must admit. It proved how much the scare tactics about certain minorities in Queensland by the gov’t have worked, that before anything they have to make it clear such were not involved… Personally I don’t care who WASN’T involved, i’d rather hear about who is more likely to act such an attack..
Also you hear about the bloke found dead last Friday in Murwillumbah who was the target of a home invasion? Turns out his flat was located above my mates dad’s workshop (he’s a mechanic) how lovely hey..
“Be prepared, we’re going to have a meeting at 5:30”
Prick.
At 6:30
“Okay, let’s get this done.” *takes long-winded phone call*
You shouldn’t be treated like this. Don’t they know you’re a hero?! >:(
This office is afraid of me…
I have seen its true face. The cubicles are extended desks and the desks are full of paperwork and when the waste bins finally overflow, all the workers will drown.
The accumulated filth of all their business jargon and shady ethics will foam up about their waists and all the middle management and executives will look up and shout “Save us!”
… and I’ll look down and whisper “No.”
(EDIT: That came out a little more foreboding and less silly than I was expecting… Oh well.)
I’m sure you’ll appreciate my hesitation when he just asked me to call a mother of two young boys, at home, at 8:15pm
Dammit Eff, this is not cool. He is not worthy of you and your awesomeness. 🙁
Although with your voice on the other end of the phone, I’m guessing she won’t mind so much. 😉
Aw schucks, you’ll make me blush.
http://www.thevine.com.au/life/news/10-things-why-youre-never-going-to-own-a-home-20140613-282635/
In cheerier news, I have now added “Arrow” to my backlog of shows to watch!
Uni break can’t come soon enough 😀
I’ll get around to it after Orange is the New Black ( Which I WILL be watching on Friday @dc 😉 )
Oh, and I’m feeling cheery again now, haha! 😀
Arrow is pretty great if you want to stare at really fit men exercising.
I gave up on the show after a bit though, John Barrowman couldn’t carry it for me.
Dude, the show absolutely takes off in Season 2. I was pretty over it by end of season 1 but I stuck with it and ended up a little obsessed
Have you met me?
I love staring at fit men exercising! 😀
You’ve got tiiiiiime!
I’ve got tiiiiiiiime…
on Friday 😛
You’ll ,eet everyone’s favourite character, the Salmon Ladder.
Right @freezespreston?
I bought 3 games at EBGames today while they were on special.
Nintendoland $19
Rayman legends $23
Wii Party U + black Wii Remote $34 \o/
Nice score! 😀
Hmm, pretty good deals. Preowned or something? That seems surprisingly cheap for a remote pack-in.
Almost feel inclined to look into it, but I probably have plenty of remotes as it is with all the other pack-in Wii games I got 😛
Pre-owned
I too have splurged this week at EB Games. Somebody stop me.
Link’s Crossbow Training, $2.50
Alone in the Dark, $5
DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 2 Wii, $11
Resident Evil 4 Wii edition, $15
Tenchu Shadow Assassins, $6
Ah! 😀
My site is still hacked. I don’t even have back-end access to it. My host seems to be trying to pretend there’s no problem. This fucking sucks 🙁
Who’s the host?
Jumpline, and I probably spoke a little hastily, because their service is usually excellent, and they are trying to help me now.
So we don’t need the pitchforks?
Keep them on standby.
Will do!
Rival author? Didn’t realise the literary world was so cut throat.
Chin up. You’re getting to them. Means things are getting serious.
Probably more random hackers hacking a vulnerable website.
Oh wait, you’re in the publishing game now right? Nevermind. You’ll probably have the Amazon assassins at your house later tonight.
It was a pleasure knowing you Shane and you will be missed.
The Amazon Assassins sounds like they bring a new meaning to the term Lady Killers!
Hooray! PC is not dead. A double adapter plugged into another power point that’s in series with the one the PC is in was somehow causing the problem.
@welbot
🙂 awesome! glad to hear it helped 🙂
Glad it’s all good! PSUs are quite cheap
This is how fires start Freeze 😛
or major power outages if you’re in The Simpsons…
EDIT: Reply fail :V
We’ve all been there 😛
I saw the original post and thought, how is this related to what I said? 😛
Got replacement PSU. Powered up PC! Success! Ohmigosh the new BIOS is sexy. So much monitoring and menus and slick GUI.
…Windows does not boot – BSOD flashes up faster than can be read or even photographed. Tested with spare windows hard drive from an old, still-functioning PC. Same error. So, it’s either the CPU or the motherboard at fault. Or both. No easy or cheap way to identify which, and warranty repair/replacement will take… weeks.
Mmmmasterrr…
….
*slumps onto floor, leaning against wall and stares into space indefinitely*
Windows doesn’t boot even in safe mode? Tried a Linux live CD? Might be more useful for error messages if they’re not configured to auto-restart.
If you’ve not already done so, pull the RAM out & test one stick at a time, that’s the most common culprit with BSODs
You likely wont be able to just transfer a harddrive like that and have windows work. If the computer doesn’t have the same motherboard etc as what you are trying to run it on, most of the time it’ll bluescreen due to not having correct drivers. It is repairable, but it’s not the easiest thing to try and relay via here 😉
Yeah this. I tried that back in the day with XP, ugh. Not recommended.
actually it was extremely easy with XP. Just run a repair on windows after booting from the cd. Doesn’t work the same in win7 though. Closest you can get is to perform an upgrade install over the top of what you have already. You wont lose data if you’re careful, but your profile may get screwy, so you might have to move some shit around.
This never worked for me, possibly cause going from AMD to Intel wasn’t recommended 😛
I never had any issues with going from AMD to Intel or vice-versa. Usually the only time the repair function I’m talking about would fail, is if the hdd had bad sectors. There was a trick with XP though, as it actually has 2 different repair menu’s when booting from the cd. The first one where it says press r to repair, just does the equivalent of windows 7’s startup repair (which does barely anything and 99 times out of 100, fails to fix anything), and there was another one if you continued through the menu’s like you were going to install a fresh copy, on one of the screens after, you could press r, and it would do something more like what sfc /scannow does in win 7. Basically replaced all the windows files with fresh copies from the disk, but without destroying anything else. That one worked 100% of the time for me, unless you tried to do it with the wrong windows or service pack version. Even then, sometimes the service pack differences didn’t matter, but there was some combo of service pack install/cd that wouldn’t allow it. Might have been that if you had service pack 1, you couldn’t repair using an SP2 or 3 disk, or perhaps the other way round. Can’t recall cos it’s been too long since I had to do it, but it sucks so hard that they left that out of win7. It was the BEST way to fix xp bluescreens and get your system up and running when you changed hardware!
Aw, you’re lucky 😛
Also that might be it, can’t remember if I had SP1 or 2 disk lol. Put it this way, at least it wasn’t Vista which totally broke once after I disassembled my PC for cleaning and refused to boot into windows all together once put back together lol. But still not as bad as one time a Windows update corrupted it’s registry, even MS seemed to know how bad Vista was lol.
Yeah, facepalm. I mean, I installed all the driver crap off the disc before I shut the machine down for the last time, but when it failed the first time, what do you think I did? System restore to a point before that. So yeah. This should have been obvious in retrospect.
lol d’oh! Well it would still be fixable, but you might have to shuffle your profile info around. If you’re like me, and don’t store pics/music in the Users folder, then it shouldn’t be too troublesome. Just gimme a holler if you want to give it a go and I can step you through it.
Just used another machine last night to back up anything important, then will go do a reinstall. 🙂
Nothing quite like a clean slate! I gut my windows every 6-12 months and re-install just to clear out all the BS!
Have you tried actually putting some windows installation media in there and seen if the installer will boot?
Yeah, that would’ve been the next step if I could find it. 😛
However, the others have given me an idea about the Linux boot disk I set up a few years back… Feh. Linux. FEH.
I shall collect more useful diagnostic tools from work and have at it again tomorrow.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/ACCards.jpg
SO MANY OF THEM!
SO MANY! (I tried looking for my 3DS Animal Crossing friends :P)
Also…
Bar uhaql qbyynef?! :b
Not sure if positive or negative disbelief 😛
It’s a pretty good price. 327 cards, all in sleeves and everything. Can’t remember how much the cards used to go for, but you’d get five random cards in a pack that was maybe US$5 back in the day. I’ve seen a few large sets of cards (complete or near-complete) starting at around 300/350+, and individual cards are available but for several dollars apiece. Then you have clowns like this whose price seems to be climbing by a hundred dollars each time I see it.
So yeah, total bargain!
Anyone successfully teach themselves another language? (or in the process of doing so?)
I’ve wanted to learn Japanese for years but I never really got around to it. I did a bit of Indonesian in primary school, and German and Mandarin in high school, but they were forced so were never really taken seriously and it was at a super basic level.
What’s better than learning a new language? Learning MORE new languages! I’m super greedy and definitely want to learn more and travel but my top 3 would probably be Mandarin, Japanese and probably some European language …but we’ll see 😛
Seems like a bunch of y’all have tried learning Japanese to some extent, how has that gone? I’m also a cheapo so I’m looking to spend as little as possible to get a basic understanding (i.e. no formal classes). I probably won’t be travelling or studying it full-on for a while, but it’s just something I’m considering.
Gotta get dem hobbies
Thankssss
Really kotaku? Ugh. Disregard
It seems there is a few people here who want to learn Japanese. Perhaps like the tabletop RPGs an Online lesson of sorts could be set up for one night a week?
Interesting. How would that work you reckon?
Well, say multiple people work at once and we can use each other for testing and such.
For example if we use a website and follow the modules. A little competition may help
Could work, do you know of any good online courses?
There’s Japanese pod. Also, the textbook I own has online resources too.
I don’t know that that would work. Self-paced learning needs to be self-paced. Also not sure about testing against each other, might be a blind-leading-the-blind situation.
That said I’m not completely against the idea. I suspect some of us are at different levels though so we might not find an online course that would work for everyone.
I find that when I’m trying to learn by myself, I slack off. However if I’m forced to work, then I’m more likely to learn.
People of similar levels could pair up. Also, if we find an online course, testing shouldn’t be too hard.
Fair enough, and yeah, being accountable to someone helps. Having some friendly competition also can help. The main issue I could see was the whole using each other for testing bit.
I mean for flash cards and such. For example the testee answers the question and the tester has the answers.
@scree: in that case it seems fine.
I think that’s a pretty great idea, Scree.
I will think more on this. Especially on how to tackle the obstacles @negativezero mentioned (and others I can think of), but I’m sure there are benefits to be gained from some group/class style activity – even if it’s only a scheduled, dedicated time period to be learning, and a peer-pressure incentive to do your homework prior to class, and some positive feedback/shared motivation (which can be more effective than relying purely on self-motivation in a vacuum).
I wanna learn Russian, but eh, it seems like a bitch to get a grasp of sadly D=
That was very helpful I am sure.
I was doing alright learning German with the Duolingo app (trying to use my 1 hour commute constructively) but I went through a period where I was tired all the time and constantly snoozed on the train so I didn’t keep up my lessons and forgot most of it.
Heh, that’s the app I just randomly stumbled across earlier 😛
It helped that I already knew some of the basics.
Hallo!
I’m getting there super-slowly I guess.
For Japanese, my attack plan has been:
1. Learn Hiragana and Katakana (mainly did in high school as a kid)
2. Learn some basic sounds and vocab (numbers, a few words, but mainly trying to learn all the sounds and the language’s cadence and so on)
3. Watch shittons of anime for a decade and pick up terrible habits
4. Start learning Kanji via the Heisig ‘Remembering the Kanji’ book. I’ve finished it once, gotten halfway again three times. Always get sidetracked around the 1200-1500 mark. The time I finished I changed jobs right after and so I didn’t keep the practice up. I was going well this time but had a big chunk of time where I didn’t keep my flashcards up so now I’ve got 500/1200 expired. 🙁 On the upside, I retain about 80% of them and I’ve been over them so often now I’ve actually memorized quite a few.
5a. Start learning actual readings and vocab for kanji. The way Heisig works is basically he teaches you to index the stuff in your brain so you have a convenient mental label for each one (in the form of a keyword, then a story describing the elements of the character) while learning it. Then you learn proper readings, and you get to the point your brain will simply delete the keyword in the middle and learn the readings and meanings. I find I’ve already been doing this a fair bit already, but it’s usually for things that are really concrete. Characters for ‘things’ basically, especially if it’s a word I already learned via osmosis from listening to stuff, if I also learn the character I often simply forget the keyword and so I can be slower on those flashcards simply because I have to translate the keyword from english to Japanese and then think of the character :P. My extended addiction to Kantai Collection helped a lot here, since I was looking at a ton of Kanji and learning what they mean. Utterly useless in the real world but I can pick out the characters for some places and people’s names from it as a result, and I know a bunch of characters for stuff like torpedoes and artillery. Anyway, my plan when I get to this stage in earnest is to basically jump into vocab. I’ll pick up readings as a side effect. Anki has Core 2000 and then Core 6000 flashcard sets for this (2000/6000 most used words).
5b. Grammar. Probably need to find a good book on this and eventually take lessons. Seems like Tae Kim’s website / book is reasonably well-regarded for this:
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar
6. …
7. Profit by playing Kiseki games without having to wait and pray XSeed will translate them.
For *any* memorization-based learning, spaced repetition is a very powerful method. I suggest using Anki for that. It’ll work for anything you want, not just Japanese, and it’s free:
http://ankisrs.net/
You gotta actually talk to native speakers in that language at some point, otherwise you’ll never cement it in and never fix your mistakes.
Also I taught myself English.
The more I see stuff about Watch Dogs and the graphical “problems” it has on PC and PC only gamers bashing console owners for apparently holding their version back makes me happy I don’t give a shit about graphics and determine how good a game is based on gameplay and it’s replayability.
The fact that people are dead set serious that consoles are the worst thing to ever exist makes me hope these people never breed and their stupidity dies out with them, cause I am sure if they have such a stupid opinion about a gaming system then I am sure they have equally moronic opinions about other things.
I also don’t get why games are such serious business for many people, games a leisure item! I sometimes go weeks without playing games, I can’t sit there for hours on end any more playing games like a lot of my mates do, then again I guess unlike them I want to progress further in life than being a lazy prick on government benefits and contribute somewhat to society..
Look, I think it’s fair to say that the game has some graphics problems on PC.
Oh man I lost it when I saw you post that yesterday? Also choice in music suits it well 😛
I wonder if you’re talking about me lol. IMO consoles aren’t the worst things ever, no. They help the gaming scene tremendously. But they also hold everyone back on the technical front a hell of a lot. Unfortunately some mastar raaaaace-ers just bandwagon on that last point and ignore everything else.
Nah man.. These deadshits on Reddit/Imgur, the way they worship Gabe Newell is disturbing honestly. Also a few of my mates here that I met when I was at TAFE, yet one of them worships Nintendo like you wouldn’t believe, but PlayStation or Xbox, nope they’re literally worse than Hitler to him..
Edit: didn’t even know you weren’t a huge fan of consoles lol.
Ah, they sound like every other hardcore fanboi. I know the type.
Consoles are okay. I never had one through my childhood/uni, so deep down I still consider myself mastarrr raaace. But I bought my first console a couple years ago, and I prefer them now. I spend all dday in front of a computer, so I’d rather chill on a couch with a TV further away. Turn on console, pop disc in, away I play. I prefer that, at the moment.
Only reason I piped up wondering if you’re talking about me, is cos I commented on the Watch_Dogs article here saying how it’s likely that the game was nerfed due to consoles. 😛
Yep, that’s how I feel toward consoles, it’s an escape from the PC..
Never saw that comment tbh.
Time for this week’s bit where I rant about how awesome Falcom games and their music is despite that no one else here cares.
So every now and then their JDK Band put out a ‘Zanmai’ album. These are basically arranged albums that are built around a theme and have various pieces from different games. For example they put out a ‘Boss Zanmai’ a while back that was arrangements of boss music from everything from Ys to Sorcerian. Side note: all this stuff is available on iTunes, amazingly enough. I had no idea until just now.
These things differ from their periodic ‘super arrange’ albums by virtue of the fact that the super arranges are basically definitive versions of game music, where the Zanmai stuff is re-recorded to sound different. Sometimes this involves de-making modern pieces to sound like retro PC-98 stuff which is pretty rad.
Anyway, in the process of getting myself immensely overhyped for the release of Trails in the Sky SC (despite it not being done yet, probably not going to be released for months) I pulled out the Sora no Kiseki Zanmai album. I didn’t find the Trails in the Sky FC music to be quite as memorable as stuff you’d hear in some other Falcom stuff (especially Ys) but it’s a lot more laid back and simple. Good melodies and stuff. The normal battle theme is basically smooth jazz. Zanmai isn’t like that. It’s a mixture of stuff from all three of the games in the trilogy and tends toward the key battle music. Which means it’s awesome. I don’t even know the stuff from SC or 3rd and it’s super listenable. This one in particular:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u18QBtx10c&index=5&list=PLT9b7BRyC-OfmEzURN8A0yT059k641WaE
Sounds like it missed its calling as a Ys opening theme. (Speaking of, I wonder what happened to the new Ys game they were teasing? Maybe next after they release Sen no Kiseki II and drive all the western fans even further toward despair as we get even further behind in that franchise)
Semi-Related Bonus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTSgjuX7z_8
Go Fight! From Star Trader on the Sharp X68000. That intro is still badass over two decades later. The game itself was a mediocre side-scrolling shooter (apparently the star trader engages in some extreme trade negotiations) but the music is awesome.
I like Ys 😛
(so one other person kinda cares! :D)
Just listened to John 5’s new song This Is My Rifle, never listened to his solo work before, only ever heard the stuff he’s recorded with Rob Zombie, but boy he’s a skilled player, a lot of guitar wank, but fancy guitar wank I must say!
All I can say is shame that talent is going to waste playing over distorted simple riffs in Rob Zombie songs :/
Without geometry, life is pointless.
#dadjokepagesix #@shane ourtimetoshine #hi@strange
Then before you know it, you’ve crossed the line.
Why was 6 sad?
Because of his chronic depression…
…
There’s no joke here…
So, TAY. Advice needed.
For my entire life, I have had a problems with nasal (nose) stuff. My nose randomly blocks itself, forcing me to breathe with my mouth. The annoying thing about that is that when i try and breathe in through my nose and fail, my brain thinks I’m suffocating to death before it remembers that I can breathe with my mouth. Whenever I sneeze, my nose either blocks or somewhat blocks itself and breathing is hard. I have the habit of ‘sniffing,’ where my nose is half blocked and the only way to get rid of it is wait it out. In order for me to breathe through my mouth, I have to manually do it. My brain doesn’t do that automatically most of the time.
Whenever I sniff and it annoys people, they demand that I blow my nose to unblock it. I always argue that blowing it makes it worse, but I eventually cave, blow my nose, and suffer for the next four hours.
That took a longer time to write than I thought it would. Anyway, my mother took me to a Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialist today after school. The specialist took pair of tongs and used them to look up my nostrils, which was a fun experience. The specialist determined that all my problems were determined by a swollen nose, and had two options:
-Take a series of sprays and tablets that don’t work.
-Burn it. Literally. He suggested an operation were I would be put under general anesthetic for thirty seconds, so he could burn off the swellings in my nostrils.
His descriptions of what would follow after the operation reeked of withholding information. Apparently, I would wake up from anesthetic with merely a ‘common cold nose.’ Yeah, I don’t buy it. My nostril had bits of it burnt off, I think I’d feel that. And for the next two weeks, I would sneeze blood, which seems like a much bigger idea than he made it seem. He then asked for his $200 fee for four minutes of work.
I don’t know about this. I’ve been having these problems my entire life, and I am pretty much used to them. I have gotten used to not having a sense of smell 97% of the time, (did I forget to mention that?) and this whole ordeal seems like it would be a lot of work and pain for little gain. Even if this procedure worked 100% as advertised, would it even be worth it? What are the costs? If this guy charges $200 for 4 minutes of consultation, what would he charge for something like this?
What if it the swellings return in a few years? Will I have to repeatedly go through with this operation? I don’t have a clear idea of what the end goal of this operation is.
My mother seems pretty set on this, and plans to do it during the July holidays. She asked whether I wanted to go through with this, and I had to convince her to let me sleep on it for a day. At least she gave me the option this time. This situation isn’t like the Yoghurt-Lamp one, fortunately.
What say you, TAY? Worth the hassle?
Is it cauterisation? I had that to counter chronic bleeding when I was 13 or so but mine was acid based and involved being conscious…
Coincidentally enough, it was done more than a quarter century ago by the same ENT who’s going to be doing my deviated septum operation next year sometime. It sort of sounds like a limited version of a deviated septum from the way you describe it, a lump getting in the way that can be cut off fairly easily but will take a while to heal up. The recovery sounds very similar to what was described to me for my op (though presumably it’ll take longer since it’ll be a bigger operation).
Your brain shouldn’t think it’s suffocating unless it is, probably worth the effort.
I had a cauterisation for chronic nosebleeds too. I think mine was like… silver nitrate or something? I don’t know why I want to say that. But the thing he used basically just looked like a match, a thin piece of wood with a darkened end which then got pressed up against the side of my nostril. Got told about the big huge nosebleed etc that would come, but it never happened. Was kinda disappointed 😛
I had that too. Mine was with dry ice.
Didn’t take after six or seven attempts over the years. I still get them at random times. I had to be taken to hospital from blood loss causing me to pass out once. Those big nosebleeds are not cool.
Acid ftw!
Maybe the difference in techniques between us & @mrtaco was a time thing, mine would have been in the late 80s & was probably just a spray bottle of strong vinegar (back when you could get it with flavour…)
Mine varied from 1989 to 1999 \o/
Helpless shrug? Specialists are always overpaid. Honestly wouldn’t even know where to check on getting a second opinion or any kind of medico ‘Yelp’ site, though I’m guessing that wouldn’t be a bad place to start. I do know someone who shopped around on ENT docs, and hers was mostly rating them by results. Which she couldn’t tell until actually seeing them. So… I know no cheap way to evaluate this. 🙁
If you were a horse they would have taken you out the back and shot you a long time ago, you know?
One positive is that if @phlanispo gets this fixed up and becomes a champion racer, it’ll be the next feel good underdog (well, underhorse) movie phenomenon and once his racing days are over he’ll be put out to stud *load pornjazz.mp3*
As a perpetual sniffler I feel your pain! Some of us just have dodgy sinuses 🙁
There’s a similar treatment for chronic snoring that uses laser therapy to reshape the soft palate, and as others have mentioned, cauterisation is often used in kids who have persistent nosebleeds. The idea is to 1) close off the surface blood vessels that are causing the inflammation and 2) create a some scar tissue that is a bit tougher than the normal sinus tissue, so it doesn’t swell up and cause you problems. You’d have a sore nose for a couple of days while it healed, but then it should get much better. No scarier than having a wisdom tooth out or a wart burned off.
I’m guessing the alternative is a steroid treatment like rhinocort that keeps the inflammation at bay. If the idea of the surgery freaks you out then you can always try the medication first to see if it works.
BUT 1) you will be committing to taking it every day, not just when you have symptoms (annoying) and 2) the ongoing cost of the medication will eventually overtake the cost of the procedure.
And I’m guessing if your mum’s still taking you to the doctor, then you are covered by her health insurance? The surgery fee would be covered by that, with only an excess to pay (usually around $250 depending on your policy).
Things to think about.
Speaking as someone who used to get stuffy noses a lot and I mean a lot as a kid you should go through with it. If you’re really hesitant maybe ask your mom to take you to a different specialist for a second opinion? I usually do that these days when I don’t get a good feeling from the doctor I’m dealing with, its really important to trust the medical professional you’re going to and it doesn’t sound like you trust this particular specialist. I’d recommend getting a second opinion (mostly in hopes you find a doctor who you are more comfortable with) and then go through with the treatment. It’ll make a huge difference long term =]
Edit: Also with any medical procedure it’s always better to estimate spending more than what they quote on the off chance there are possible complications!
Is there any possoibility of getting a second opinion? Your mother seems to like digging up quacks.
I had my adenoids out when I was a kid because I had chronic sinusitis and it was causing some pretty serious sleep apnoea. I don’t remember the sleep apnoea or ill health as a child, I actually had to ask my mother years later why I’d had my adenoids out because all I remembered was that I had. I’m no doctor or anything but I’d want to at least explore that as a possibility before we start just burning off swollen tissue. :/
I’ve been to a ENT specialist before for a whole range of things (tonsils, grommets, and other fun stuff). I too have chronic nasal blockages and a woeful sense of smell, along with occasional snoring problems. It was suggested at one stage that my situation might be an adenoid problem so it might be a similar situation with you. I didn’t have anything done about it.
Honestly, I know you are worried about cost but you shouldn’t be. There is something that is causing you rather serious problems and if a bit of money will fix it, even if temporary, it is worth it. You don’t want to turn into someone I know who put up with coughing for eight weeks thinking it was just a cold when it turned out to be bronchitis. Do it, fix it, smash it on the head so it goes away and doesn’t get worse.
Considering breathing is pretty critical to life and the whole “you’re now aware of your breathing” prank is horrible, I’d get this sorted out.
Nose operations aren’t new. My mother and a friend both had operations to drill out the nasal passage and remove cartilage etc.
Go for op, it’ll make life better.
Many of your questions you should take to the ENT surgeon and TAY can’t really advise you on them.
Whether or not the procedure is indicated is dependent on how disabling you find the lack of smell, the post nasal drip, the sniffing and your inability to breathe and whether the combination of these outweighs the risks of the procedure.
Your surgeon should go through
– what procedure he’s planning to do
– what the procedure is called (this is important because you can then look up further info)
– what the risks and benefits are
– if you are likely to require further operation etc
– what the costs of the whole palaver are/is.
From what you’ve described (but this could be wrong, I am not your doctor), I actually think you generally only need to go through these procedures once. A short period of post nasal drip and minor nose bleed is probably worth a lifetime of being able to smell things like (your baby’s head/your Valentine’s roses/your significant other’s perfume), which obviously also affects taste significantly.
Costs will include – the cost of the anaesthetic, the cost of the surgery itself. Specialists do charge a lot for consultation because it’s a highly specialised area and they’ve trained in excess of twelve years to get to where they are.
ENT patients generally don’t really seem to have much pain but obviously everybody is different and it depends what exactly they’re having done.
@freya is correct. Yes, specialists charge a lot, and don’t assume that a poor bedside manner means they are not a good doctor. I’d rather have a slightly grumpy (they are extremely busy), matter of fact specialist than a friendly quack.
If you are very unsure, write down ALL your questions and concerns on a piece of paper, and take it to your next appointment with your specialist. If you have questions for the anaesthetist, write those down too. That way you won’t forget if you’re feeling a bit nervous. Nerves are fine, and the doctors are used to nervous people asking them questions. If you want to talk to the specialist on your own, ask your mum to step outside for a few minutes. That’s ok too. And don’t feel like you have to rush – you have at least 15 minutes in an standard appointment.
Just don’t assume that doctors are simply trying to gouge money out of you by suggesting surgery. It’s often the most efficient and cost-effective solution, even with the risks.
I’ve had 2 wisdom teeth out, at least 10 day-surgery procedures and an emergency c-section . Surgery isn’t that bad if you ask questions and follow your recovery instructions to the letter.
I ,too, suspect sniffles and some blood (and virtually inconsequential expense) would be worth being able to smell.
Lock up your wallets me TAYbies, word is steam sales start the day after tomorrow
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-06-11-steam-summer-sale-2014-starts-19th-june
Hah! Jokes on Valve! With my expensive replacement parts and the costs of moving out of the valley, bond at the new place, cleaning the old one, and paying rent at both places for about a Monty’s overlap, I won’t be able to afford games! Bwuahahahahaawwwww. I made myself sad.
…
🙂
(Not really though. My pile of shame can’t be completed in my lifetime, soooo.)
It’s funny that you think you won’t buy anything
I believe in me! Mostly. Kinda. Or at least… I want to.
If oyu don’t buy yourself stuff, someone else probably will. It happens every year
I know what I’m buying.
All the Crusader Kings DLC I’m missing!
Is there any that your missing?
the last two major packs- the Sons of Abraham (Jewish rulers) and the Rajas of India (Indian rulers). The jewish one I can take or leave- very few jewish rulers in the time period- but the Indian one should be interesting.
it all usually goes on sale during the steam sales so im keeping an eye out.
Oh god.
Last few Steam sales I’ve bought very little due to picking up heaps a few years ago. I don’t think they’ll end up offering much that will tempt me even at crazy prices.
This. I’ve noticed that whenever a Steam sale rolls around it’s bundles of shit I bought years ago, or some of the rare few titles that were brand new and I got on the pre-Australia-tax preorder or their opening-week 20% off, which seemed worth it.
I spent a whole ton last Steam sale (Christmas) buying games as gifts for people, but not this time.
Same. Steam sales are awesome for the newcomers to pick up a whole pile for cheap. For Steam veterans, we’ll only pick up a handful of games if they are good price.
Stoopid cards and my need to get the shinies
My rule with Steam sales these days if if it’s over $5, don’t bother 😛 I don’t need any more games but a bargain is a bargain!
Immune.
@batguy The packages arrived this morning. Thank you thank you thank you. I planned to watch one of them tonight, but I was out of the house.
Just remember, I know your real name and address now. HAHAHAH- wait… You now know mine. And I’ve forgotten what your name and address was. Hmm. As you were.
I have a new “worst game of Dota” and we won.
I’m going to be suffering PTSD from this one.
Last night in my dream I shook @liondrive’s hand.
Careful strange, that is where babbies comes from. Or is that hugs, I’m never sure
Only if she doesn’t wear gloves!
No glove, no love.
Shaking hands is okay, it’s only if you hold hands for long enough.
That’s quite a random dream, haha!
I’m honoured to be present in your dream though! :3
Last night I dreamed I was in a contest that involved two teams standing on opposing train platforms, my team armed with fire extinguishers and the other side with chocolate sauce bottles. The competition involved spraying the other team, or something.
I can’t remember which team won.
Prophetic? 😀
Maybe, I did consider going to Brisbane yesterday 😉
Maybe even looked at pricing and err’thang :3
Three weeks later…
Peggle is free on Origin atm!
Sweet. Looking forward to a night of pegging.
Yes, pegging balls at those coloured gems. Pegging and balls, I mean that’s a great night right there.
I have gone from being afraid of energy drinks to having them as a coffee replacement if I am tired. I am still deadly afraid of a heart attack but I’m even more afraid of falling off a heavy piece of machinery because I was tired and not paying attention. These things aren’t that bad for you are they? I’m just overreacting right?
They have less caffeine than a large coffee from Gloria Jeans and about the same sugar content as Coke. All the other stuff the industry internally refers to as “pixie dust” as it doesn’t really do anything but sound impressive on the can.
They’re basically a coffee with 12 sugars. Have enough of them without exercise and a shitty diet you’ll get fat and yes, probably have a heart attack. But it would not be purely from the energy drinks.
Never drank them much, haven’t had one for about 7 years. Anything that makes you pee fluorescent yellow can’t be good for you.
B vitamins (berocca) do that. Just the excess vitamin being excreted. Which is why you need to take them daily – they don’t get stored.
Shh.
Shhhhhhhhhhhh.
If you’re really quiet you can hear your heart beating.
Feel any better?
AHHHHHHH THE HIGH PITCHED NOISES WHY WON’T THEY STOP
mawp
mawp
There is no replacement for good sleep, unfortunately. The main problem with the energy drinks is their serving sizes – the cans have been getting bigger and bigger, so check the serving size and make sure you’re not drinking the equivalent of 3 coffees with half a cup of sugar.
I find that Tea is a much better coffee replacement. Whenever I feel like I’m drinking too much coffee, I switch to tea. It still has some caffiene in it to give you a lift, but it also has much more water, so it’s more hydrating and refreshing and usually what you need.
I’ve never been able to stand energy drinks. All of them taste like shiet.
THIS – I can think of a dozen things I’d rather drink
Well obviously you haven’t tried Steven Seagal’s Lightning Bolt!
I hate energy drinks but I think I have to find some of that.
100% JUICE
Take your tips from the special forces. Abstain from caffeine during normal operation, and that way when you need it, it’ll actually work. (Also, apparently they take military-grade caffeine chewing gum!) Otherwise you build a tolerance (1-2 coffees a day will do that after a few days, depending on how strong you have ’em), and even more, a dependency.
Me, I don’t do that abstaining thing except by accident. Like that time I forgot to have a coke/coffee on Friday and the entire weekend then when I had my regular coffee on the Monday, it was like taking meth.
Yeah but special forces guys do also kill people, maybe not the best folks to emulate in civilian life…
Oh. Yes. Er… well, on the plus side, they don’t just kill people who upset them but rather, who they’re ordered to, under specific rules of engagement (or so you’d hope). Which, y’know, wouldn’t be tooooooo bad for civilians to emulate given that no-one’s going to order you to kill anyone, and your rules of engagement are… Don’t. 🙂
Heh yeah but if the wife says the contemporary equivalent of “who will rid me of this turbulent priest!?!“…
http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Abstract/2013/12001/1254___The_Real_Monster___Energy_drinks_may_cause.1204.aspx
https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2001/174/10/caffeine-induced-cardiac-arrhythmia-unrecognised-danger-healthfood-products
Depends on the quantity. Everything in moderation, Rocketbuddy. It’s possible to take a fatal dose of caffeine (and I can imagine doing it more easily with a sweet soft-drink type thing rather than hot coffee). Be careful.
ps anything that says it shouldn’t be consumed by pregnant women on the CAN is probably not good for normal people in excess amounts 😉
“If you have a history of heart problems, don’t drink this. If you don’t, let us help!”
Oh i dont drink more than one little can of the stuff and its only once every 2 weeks at most.
Why not just drink coffee then?
So since there’s no label discouraging use by pregnant women on this bag of crystal meth…
Only when mixed with vodka
MARIO KART EEEEIIIIGHT!!!
I might be up for a game tonight if you want, unless you wanna practice in single player first.
Been practicing in single player trying to get gold in all the grand prix (what is the plural for grand prix anyway?) as much as possible since Monday.
I’d love to, but unfortunately I’m gonna be at work till 10pm tonight. If I can get on tomorrow or Friday I’ll let you know, otherwise I should have a three day weekend (Sat-Mon) coming up this weekend, so if you or anyone else is up for it I should be available.
Also, why you not accept my friend request yet?
I haven’t been online yet since you sent it, I’m a little busy :3
I’ll accept it though, pipe down lassie! 😛
Who you callin’ lassie, lassie :p
Done.
I’ll see you on the racetrack >:)
So I finished painting all the individual parts to my Tau Gun Drone yesterday and then realized I’ve got no glue left =,= Gah! Putting it all together is the best part :'(
Sticky tape and bubblegum!
I just want to play some games tonight or something and need TS details, I guess. Probably some Company of Heroes.
How are YOU? Yes, you right there at that physical or onscreen keyboard!
I sent you TS details through twitter.
Also, Hullo!
Chilli snorting contest via TS tonight. Be there or be square.
I am tired. How are YOU?
I could complain about stuff but there’s no point!
Sleep more! Or less if you’re over-sleeping!
GLOR I OUS
Heh, show up at the place I do my work for the dole today (which is a Salvo’s store), turn up there’s meant to be 2 new people starting today (one community service another work for the dole) along with the other 8 of us that are there including the manager, 10 people for a store that gets dead boring when there’s only 5 people (manager incl) on.. So I said i’ll just go home and come back tomorrow. I was not keen on sitting around being bored out of my 2 days in a row :/
When we were a little down on volunteers/comm service/work for the dole people it was good cause it kept us busy, now it’s just shit. I can’t wait til I can find a job. I don’t go to work to stand around and do nothing, I can stay at home and do that..
Hi everyone. Looks like my website has been all fixed. All the content is about two weeks old, so I’ll need to update it all. But yay!
Hasn’t this happened a few times? Have you brought it up with your host?
Yeah, but I’m afraid it seems to be just part of the package with WordPress. It’s inherently vulnerable, no matter what security measures you have in place.
Consider having a read through http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
Particularly the “Disable File Editing” section. It’s a very simple thing to add that can help a lot.
EDIT: Unless you’re using WordPress.com? I can’t remember what you’re using. In any case, it’s not normal for this to happen multiple times.
Thanks, yep, I’ve done all that. I think I went a little overboard with security plugins last time this happened, and they started conflicting with each other and/or undoing some of these manual changes I’d made.
If you’ve done a lot of that stuff and still having issues then I’d definitely get into contact with your host. That shouldn’t be happening :\
Thanks, man. What sort of stuff should the host be doing, so I know what to ask for?
To be honest, I’m not exactly sure 😛 I’ve never really had many issues with WordPress security (I think I’ve only had a similar problem once a long time ago). Someone else might be able to give you better advice.
I’d just explain my issues, the fixes I’ve already tried and see what they say.
\o/
Myself and @quiz_b are going to kick off a game of Heroes VI sometime this weekend. I believe @welbot was interested as well? Anyone else keen?
I am.
*Looks at work PC*
Hmmm…
I’d be keen if it was over the weekend and if I can team up with someone else =p (bit of a HoMM multiplayer novice) though I’ve cleared half the campaign.
When I say soon I meant days not hours so yeah weekend sounds good.
Also I’ve been playing HOMM games since the first but never played online multi. Only hotseat.
Very well! Weekend it is! I’ve played all the HoMM’s as well from 3 onwards but never played online hotseat or otherwise. Ugh this means I have to remember my wretched UPlay login =@ So sick of every company creating their own client >.< I don't have any of the expansion packs for 6 will that matter? Although I might grab the one with the Dungeon faction if we're playing online…
This include expansions or just regular?
I have VI on steam, but I don’t have the pirates expansion or the other one afaik. Can’t recall for sure as a mate gifted it to me. I know I got some kind of extra content, but not sure exactly what it was or even how to find out!
I’ve been playing a bunch of Heroes V lately (turn based is easy to play right now). I think I uninstalled VI recently because I hated it.
You’re not getting confused with IV are you? Because IV is terrible. Only problem I had with VI was the increased focus on individual heroes. I kind of liked them as broad templates with my own stories and personalities for them.
VI is broken for me that I can’t even progress in campaigns with how many bugs I run into. I’d be willing to try it again though as that was almost a year ago
If it’s an open invite I’d be keen to play/get smashed by you guys. Do we need to have unlocked all the content and have all the DLC?
No problem. I’ll tag you into future posts.
I think most of us just have the base game so expansions wouldn’t be needed.
Cheers! – Boundless optimism ensuing until heartless defeat crushes me as I realise I’ve never really focussed on powering up characters 🙂
You can count me in for it as well, I’m willing to try it again to see if all the problems I had are still there. 🙂
Anyone got a TAY list going for this?
I am indeed keen! I dunno what my plans are for the weekend yet, but when you decide a time etc, let me know and I’ll see if I can fit it in! HYPE!
5 correct picks from 17 matches for the World Cup so far.
And this is why I don’t gamble.
You know there is a way you could tweak the odds, if you had picked the opposite of all your bets you’d have 12/17 =D
Sounds like good advice @popdart5, just pick the opposite team that you would normally pick, and you’ll be good as gold.
A co-worker mentioned to be yesterday he stayed up to watch the Portugal vs. Germany match and I responded “so did Germany get creamed then?” because my sportsball knowledge is so shallow that I just assume that anyone vs.a South American country are going to be the underdogs. He just looked at me confused and walked away without saying anything.
Hah yeah my sportsball knowledge is pretty out of date so I’m getting some pretty elementary stuff wrong. There have been a few upsets and draws so far but some matches I just clearly picked the inferior team.
Also, Portugal is actually in Europe but Brazil speaks Portuguese so you’re kind of half right there with the home field advantage.
God damn it, so I’m also a failure at Geography. I must have mixed it up with Peru or something.
GOB: Portugal? Going to live it up down ol’ South America, huh, Mikey?
Last time I was in a tipping contest for the world cup I did pretty well. Was leading for a while, and by the time we hit the final I was half a game behind the leader and a game ahead of a couple of people in third. I went for glory and picked France because I knew the leader was picking Italy, even though I thought Italy were going to win.
I ended up equal second 🙁
But I still won $200 🙂
REDS CONTINUED UPDATE ON THE RISE AND RISE OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE IN A GAME NO-ONE CARES ABOUT
I’ve been getting back into Crusader Kings II, and it has me suckered right back.
Started a game on Sunday as the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Turkey at game start in 1204) and things were going pretty sweet. This was at a time in history where the Orthodox empires has schismed, so some other bastard (the “Latin Empire”) had possession of Constantinople. I first used my status as an emperor to vassalise the Greek states and become king of Greece, before making the Latin Empire my punching bag for a good decade. I’d started to hear rumblings of a great Khan rising in the east, but fuck that guy, amirite?
So I continued to build and build my empire, the muslim parts of eastern Europe on my doorstep, and kept taking counties off the Sultanate of Rum and the Armenians and Cypriots. I was halfway through making my first big push against the massive Sultanate that extended from Jerusalem to Egypt to Morocco (and winning) when suddenly, MONGOLS!
All things considered, the mongol invasion could have gone worse. I essentially held them in a holding action until I could surrender, only losing 4 counties. Hopefully I can contain their westward expansion there and continue to build my empire to the south- I’d like to grab Antioch and eventually Jerusalem so I can control most of the Christian holy sites.
Also, last night, my ruler got assassinated out from under me and i ended up playing his aunt. A female ruler in a feudal society is playing on hard mode- except in Castille, pretty much every area in the game applies a penalty against you if you’re a female ruler.
How the heck are you finding time to play that between the full time job amount of time yourself and @transientmind have been playing of Europa Universalis IV?
When there’s a will there’s way…
I haven’t played EUIV for ages- I do have it, but I’ve only played about four hours of it.
CKII keeps calling me back
So that 100 hours in the past 2 weeks between you and @transientmind logged on Steam is all Transient?
O_o
Yup, probably. I left the machine running with it on for like… a week. This was on the dodgy build with the graphics card that was screwing up. Odds of getting it to run again were so bad that I just left it open rather than risk a reboot failure.
I’m going to get into it in earnest after I’ve played out my current CKII game and finished Witcher 2 and SR IV
Oh, if there’s a huge number of hours racked up on any games it’s probably because I left the game running while I was sleeping and at work. I tend to do that a lot, it really blows out my stats.
I want to get into that game but I’m finding it really difficult to make a start.
I wish I could condense it down to something easy, but I have learned all I know just from messing around with it.
If you want an easy start, start as the Earl of Munster and go from there. He’s pretty easy to leapfrog into being King of Ireland, and from there you can push across into scotland, wales or England through careful picking of spouses or fabricating claims. He also has minimal vassals to manage at the start.
That said, I learned most of the game through playing the King of Sweden and just messing around. I’m sure there’s stuff I don’t know about- I’m pretty awful at making super-offspring- but the journey is enjoyable enough. You quickly learn to hate characters- My empire up top has a grouchy old uncle or two that I’ve thrown in and out of jail at various times.
lol just make sure to keep ransoming prisoners. I rarely seem to make real money of my counties so just mooch off some poor vassal who I keep imprisoning then ransoming.
Ransoming is always the best option- do it quick.
Unless it’s someone up the chain a bit.
if you’re not making money off counties check your demesne size and your outgoings- can’t keep a big army if you’ve got no coin
True that, I’m just not sure if I really need to wait 2 lifetimes before I can afford a new holding? That said I’m also sure the game is pretty vindictive. Much like your story above everytime things are going well there seems to be some massive uprising that unseats me and I wind up owning an island of 10. All the same it’s damn addicitve.
You do need to keep an eye on the plots and factions, they’ll be the ones to unseat you.
New holdings aren’t the best initial investment- improve your current ones and use your treasurer guy to collect taxes or oversee construction to boost it more. Also check your tax settings- don’t jump up to HIGH TAXES but you can usually step it up a bit for only a little loss in diplomacy.
That assassination last night I may roll back, but I bet it’s because I pissed off the wrong lordling.
*dances*
Florence Welch is so, so amazing. Surely they’re due for a new album.
She’s really amazing, and super talented, and I love her, but she looks a lot older than she is :S
She looks early 40s while she’s actually only 27.
I want her to look young! :’O
Poor girl :'(
*headbangs*
Psh. Soft.
*headbangs*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amateur
*headbangs*
CIRCLE PIT!!!
Nah bro, WALL OF DEATH!
Watched Good Game for the second time ever last night and they had a nice look at old school FMV. Then they reviewed Tex Murphy and broke my heart, they hated every thing I loved about it. XD
Those monsters!
Given the audience they pander to, that’s probably a very good thing.
That’s a bit harsh …
I’ve never particularly thought of GG as pandering.
What audience do they pander to?
Gamers I thought.. But I guess I could be wrong and it could be the stereotypical sportsball high school girls and boys, not sure though..
I don’t see them as “pandering” any more than any games review outlet does.
I think they have Pokemon X a 7
I like Good Game.
Honestly, man, as someone who’s never played Tex Murphy it looks pretty naff.
The naff is the charm, Red. The naff is the charm. XD
Sure, but to someone who’s never played the series it holds no appeal to me to jump in.
It’s like Page six the game which makes it weird that @dc loves it so much.
Or does it?
And this is why you never take reviews too seriously, and why you always check out multiple sources first. It’s a point of view, no one gamer loves every genre and every style. For example, you absolutely love games like that, I wouldn’t even go near it cuz it looks boring to me. *shrugs*
Wait, you’re not saying art is subjective?
THIS IS THE INTERNET REVIEWS ARE GOD
“Games are art!”
Yes, but they’re art which makes a shitload of money, and we can’t have all that money sloshing around wasted on creatives. So instead, helpful business types step in to manage all that sloshing and channel it into more useful places, like investor dividends. But the whole art thing is pretty inconveniently fickle, so it’d be really great if we could find some way to quantify and qualify art, which we can totally do because you can do it with anything. At which point, y’know, it’s probably not really art anymore, but hey, it makes money!
It’s art that has a highly technical aspect.
And in turn things like League of Legends bore me, well said. 😀
Exactly! So why the hell do you care about what GG said?! They don’t like it, their loss! 😛
I wasn’t serious about them breaking my heart. I don’t even read reviews any more. I know what I like. I was just making conversation. 😛
Mario Kart 8 150cc grand prix, why you have to be so hard?
To prepare you for Pow. :'(
I’m no better than a lot of other TAYbies!
Except for @greenius. I’m better than him.
He says as he’s 2 laps ahead of everyone else.
:'(
:’)
I have to get in on this! When’s the next likely get-together?
I’ll be up for it on any night from Saturday to Monday, inclusive.
You have Twitter? Might be easier to organise than checking emails for me.
Nah, not on Twitter, sorry.
Alright, well I’d be up for MK. Give me a tag on here, I’ll keep eye on email notifs. 😛
Uh oh… now you done it, Batguy has been unleashed! You’re all screwed now 😛
#Trackmanianeverforget
The official playdate is Monday nights starting at 7:30pm (Sydney time), usually goes for 1-2 hours, but you can play whenever.
to prepare you for mirror mode,
Damn I hate football. I hate it because I love it.
I also hate you, Queensland. Though I may be willing to forgive you around 10pm tonight.
I was planning to watch Origin at home tonight, but then my Mum gave me a ticket… so now I’m going to Stadium Australia tonight to experience glory or misery first hand. Last time I was there was to watch my team lose a grand final. That was misery. Really hope it’s different this time.
In short, football sucks/rules.
Which NRL team do you support?
The team that actually make maroon look good. Makes it very difficult to wear the gear around this time of year, though.
Boo!!!!! I hate that team with a passion. Mainly because my sister supports them.
I say this with all the love but I hope you have the worst night of your life.
T~T
Carn’ Blues!
2 things :
– this game looks rad
– I am getting damn hyped for Dragon Age 3. like…. excessively so.
that is all.
Looking at changing up my exercise program today. My basketball team is playing two games tonight, so rather than walking into town, I’ll try and play in both games. Still have the exercise class I’m doing, just won’t be walking as far.
Just don’t get burnt out and hurt yourself over doing double duty!
Also remember to take a few days break from workouts every 5-6 weeks. Your body needs some downtime for results to appear. And change up your routine every 5-6 weeks, your body gets used to your routine at which point you’ll stop seeing results…
Hopefully I get my bike back this afternoon. Not a good feeling when your relatively new and not-ridden-much expensive bike has rear brake fully locked up. 🙁 No experience with hydraulic brakes, so I let bike shop fix ‘er up and give it yearly service at same time.
Just saw this in a news article
Why.. I thought it was bad enough Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue) married a 27 year old :/
Uh.. Because he’s Mick Jagger?
If I was Jagger’s age and was able to date a 27 year old dancer you bet your ass I would be.
Yeah and the morals that accompany that, pass.
I’m not sure I see the problem. If a 27yo is willing to have a relationship with someone twice (or more) their age (and vice versa) what sort of moral issue is involved?
What morals? 27 is well in the realm of make your own decisions.
Just seems inappropriate to be dating someone who is close in age to several of your own daughters :/
I would not date Mick Jagger, but I would go for Bowie and Morten Haarket, both of whom are older than my (adopted) father. This woman and Jagger are consenting adults…
Sorry guys (especially @dc) but still no time to write up my adventures due to work being heavier than anything I could have imagined. I’ve clocked 5 hours overtime in 2.5 days, so sorry. I promise to have a big write up done by the end of the week. 🙁
I guess I don’t need a write up, I was there for some of it! 😀
I was expecting you to threaten to punch me in the sternum and steal my shoes.
I will have to do a write up soon so I can explain that in-joke to the rest of TAY.
What’s to get? I’m a violent sociopath who threatens strangers at the drop of a hat!
You leave @strange alone you monster!
DC punching people in various places is an established character trait!
And then ranting about buildings and post apocalyptic urban decay because of EMOTIONS
Time for a new Gravatar (once it refreshes)
My scythe, I like to keep it next to where my heart used to be!
This deck of cards is a little frayed around the edges. So am I, but I have fewer suits!
These lines all seem very familiar…. hmmm.
Oh, Manny. It was an homage.
I am learning stuff \o/
Found the University of fashion to help me with my cosplay stuff
I learnt quite a lot about sewing on my supanova cosplay. Things like: I am terrible at sewing zippers; my hand stitiching has improved a lot; I actually don’t have too bad an eye for colours and textures; my ability to cut fabric still sucks. But I learned how to put a pocket into a skirt, and actually made a dress, so that’s progress.
Ugh, I hate zippers. I’ve been constantly learning, but I’m all kinds of fed up with not being about to find patterns that work for me, so I’m attempting to draft my own.
I used this technique on my dress, and it worked pretty well!
I’m drafting a Jersey funnel neck, flared sleeve shirt. Arms and underarms are a pain
I think it’s pretty rude when I ask a company a question regarding a competition they held which I won something in if the prizes were mailed out, and they reply with “wasn’t there enough information about that in the email” well no, there wasn’t since I got that email 8 months ago and it said things would be mailed out no later than May 31st…
Also found out this morning a CD/merch pack I bought back in January which had a early June release date was pushed back a month and they didn’t send out a mass email to anyone about it but simply a twitter update 2 weeks back :/
So for those who didnt see om twitter – I’ve unpacked the important stuff!
https://twitter.com/gingerchris86/status/479037512808034304
Which leads me to a question.
Those who were Boardgaming in sydney, did you want to start it back up again? I’m more than happy to host now I’m in an easy to get to location.
Thoughts?
Nice collection.
BOARD GAMES!
(Not in sydney, just generally BOARD GAMES!)
Nice Gravatar 🙂
I’ve been slowing down with my collection, but am probably going to get wiz-war.
If I decide to sell StarCraft I will probably get Twilight Imperium in its place 🙂
My next purchase will probably be a flavour of Dominion (or maybe an impulse buy of Love Letter), but I’ve got a couple of KS games and the Firefly RPG coming so I should be good.
Still haven’t got Fiasco to the table, which is annoying, becasue i want to give it a go.
I have a pdf of it somewhere if you need it 🙂
I have the book, it’s just getting willing players and the time
Does this include Magic? Does it? Does it???!!?
Edit: Also I approve of Red Label being considered part of your gaming collection.
Double Edit: I also notice unpainted W40K models… Painting sesh?!
I do have a Small collection of Magic Cards. I havent played in years!
I always wanted to play with peeps but felt too intimidated in those little card shops >.< If you guys are keen I'm up for creating a new deck =] Though I'll need to put aside a few hundred dollars for that =p
Draaaaaaaaaaaft.
Magic meat up? =D
Adelaide.
I’m down for magic – I’ll supply the beers and pizza, you just have to make your way to Mackay!
Blargh! =\
@pupp3tmast3r @steve-o_the_deve-o if you’re both PAXing, we should draft.
@pupp3tmast3r @redartifice I would be keen for that. I am also planning on bringing down some decks and maybe some Warmachine stuff.
@steve-o_the_deve-o @pupp3tmast3r last time I think they were doing drafts on demand, we’ll set it up
Jokes aside chris if you have a board game or magic sess in sydney let me know =]
Will Do 🙂
@redartifice @steve-o_the_deve-o Let’s do it! What’s involved in setting it up for PAX? Its been a while since I was in Magic but I’m guessing this means we’ll all need to grab the current decks in play?
I wouldn’t worry too much about “setup” for it for PAX. Last year they gave us promo packs of Magic cards to get us to play and then buy more…
I had been looking at this though
http://www.milsims.com.au/node/130552
I’m going to head to good games next week and grab a starter deck or something just to get a feel for the game again… But if they’re selling packs at PAX that sounds to be the best bet =D
I need to go drafting again
@freezespreston @rize @sernobulus
I’m making steady progress on Eldar rules for you guys and I expect to be done by the end of next week. I believe I can incorporate everything into the rules, including Reaper Launchers and Mandiblasters, but some things might be a little fiddly so I might ask you guys for your input if I get stuck for ideas. Other than that, stay tuned for more to come.
Will freeze ever get the ability to sacrifice himself and become an Avatar of Khaine? I mean if we’re losing a fight I think my character would be cool with him dying for the greater good and all….
Potentially is all I can say. It would be mechanically tricky but it could be done.
I was attempting to read up on how Eldar work within Rogue Trader and I’m not finding a lot of info.
Also, for the purposes or role playing, as fun as a harlequin would be in combat I think they’d be boring and difficult outside of it so I’ll be a Seer, because being better than everyone and everything sounds fun.
Yeah that’s the thing. Eldar don’t exist as a playable character option outside of the very limited Dark Eldar options (Kabalite Warrior and Wych) so I’m modifying some of the character choices to suit you guys. For instance, an Eldar Seer will be roughly equivalent to an Astropath Transcendant with a few extra stuff because you’re Eldar. Freeze will be a modified Arch Militant and Nob will be a modified Kabalite Warrior/Wych (I’m still yet to decide on that one).
I’m mostly basing stuff on the various NPC and enemy Eldar that are included in the books so it might be a little wonky at first but I hope to smooth things out as we come across problems.
I just need to study up on how to be a good Eldar 😀
Also, wasn’t Nob an Ork? I thought it catered for them somewhat.
EDIT: Just saw your post, never mind!
Striking shadow remember? or scorpion shadow or something something shadow!
I think Nob decided not to be a Nob because he was put off by the Weirdboy ‘eadsploding stuff. 😛
Aloof and better than everyone else.
I hope @tech_knight enjoys being called “mammal”. =P
Pfft! I’m not even a full mammal 😛
#mechanicalmammal
I’m actually really looking forward to how all these eldar will fit into the campaign, also hoping to get educated more about Eldar through this too 🙂
I’m kinda learning more about Eldar as I go to but I have a few good ideas on what will happen in the campaign. Suffice to say it will be suitably 40K and “Grimdark” as it were. 😀
Can’t wait! I should have my Tau Fire Warrior painted by then ^^ Also pop I’m happy to go with any changes you need to implement to my character, honestly the only thing I wanted him to be was a Tau Fire Warrior who likes to snipe stuff =D Oh and farsight enclave origins cos the ethereals can go *@#! themselves =p
Edit: I should probably read up on my Eldar lore since I’m pretty much caught up to Tau… is there any other reading material I should keep an eye on?
If you want to be genuine, don’t read up on Eldar lore. That makes it more interesting when your character discovers stuff at the same time you do. 😛
Yep, this. Not knowing stuff your character doesn’t know also makes avoiding metagaming waaay easier.
That’s my plan. Also my character is not very pro-Imperium either once you know his backstory, also he is a Void-born and never been planetside ever in his life :). Plenty for me and him to discover.
And in case anyone had forgotten:
Pupp3t as a Tau Fire Warrior.
Techie as a Human Techpriest
Freeze as an Eldar Dark Reaper
Nob as an Eldar Striking Scorpion
Rize as an Eldar Seer
I’m working on rules for Craftworld origins that should help give your characters a bit more flavour and personality.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/17/5818272/subject-13-adventure-game-flashback
New adventure game from Flashback developer and Syberia publisher.
Hi everyone,
In light of my earlier off-the-cuff intolerance ignorant comment re: Good Game, I offer you news of this deal as recompense.
http://www.kmart.com.au/catalogue#view=product&itemId=6647338&saleId=6647&preview=dbr6593h
Seems pretty good. A Wii-U for $179. Sale starts 26 June.
What’s the difference between Basic and Pro? Is it major?
I didn’t see your comment as intolerance, btw, I was just interested in what your reasoning was.
*shrug* I don’t really like the show is my reasoning 😛
hence intolerance
Holy shit that’s cheap.
See, that’s what I thought. I paid $250 for a second-hand Wii in 2009. I’m kind of getting mighty tempted by this kind of pricing. It seems INSANE.
It’s down to the 50% off territory. Pretty damn close actually, it was $175 at the time. Without Skylanders.
I think it was solely 16GB of space for the Basic versus 32GB for Pro but I might be wrong there.
I looked it up. I think it’s an 8GB vs 32GB difference. There’s also a 10% rebate perk for e-shop purchases, a charging dock for the controller and one or two other little things (like console colour, I think). Nothing to justify the price difference, especially because this bundle looks like it comes with Nintendo Land.
+ Nintendoland + stand for controller.
If Elite came down in price it’d be worthwhile spending more, but at $179 it’s silly.
The rebate only lasts until the end of this year. And it’s not a 10% discount, it’s that they give you 10% in bonus credit after you buy stuff.
The basic is fine to get. The eShop perk thing runs out soon anyway, if I remember correctly. Disk space is easy to get around too if you need more (supports external USB hard drives). I barely ever use the gamepad dock 😛
Plus that Mario Kart free game thing goes until the end of July, so you can jump on that too!
Oooooooooooooooh
@shane joining TAYKart! \o/
Probably not. It’s $200 I still don’t have. Very nice price though! 🙂
*jawdrop*
But… but I was gonna buy one NEXT year. First new console was going to be the PS4.
That was the PLAN, K-Mart! THE PLAN!
Man plans and K-Mart laughs.
This was my plan, too. Now I don’t know what to think!
No buts, you march right into K-Mart and pick up that console bundle and that’s final!
Looks pretty sweet, I’ve been looking to jump onto the Wii U bandwagon. Conveniently, the 26th also happens to be my birthday so I can justify spending money on myself.
Tax deduction for research/remedial-brain-stimulation.
Probably find each Kmart has like 3 available.
I can be there at 12:01am on the day the sale starts if I need to be 🙂
Edit: According to the T&C, 8am is when the sales start in 24-hour stores.
What, we can’t order and pay online in advance? What is this, the 90s?
This is the ’90s, girl friend! *sassy hand movement*
Hey have you heard about this new band, Blur?
OMG WE SHOULD DO 90s TAY
I mean
90s TAY would be radical.
I would, but I got to catch up on Blossom.
Hey, have you heard of this great new game called Grim Fandango? I’ve heard it has a revolutionary new control scheme for adventure games and has 3D graphics without FMVs!
Sounds amazing, but my computer won’t be able to play!
Will still buy on launch day, though. (Based on true events. Couldn’t play Grim for about six months. :P)
@dc we had a Pentium 166. It could run Age of Empires though, so whatevs.
*pushes glasses up on nose and tugs on own suspenders* Did I do thaaat?
I was a teenager in the 90s. The Internet was rubbish and only Important People had mobile phones.
I was… not a teenager till 2000.
Bloody hell, for that price I’d be almost tempted if I had the money and if there was more than one game I was even vaguely interested in
To any TAYbies who are known in the field of tablets. I’ve got a lot of reward and recognition points from work and I’m thinking of spending it on a gaming-style windows 8 tablet, specifically one that’ll allow me to play Civ V and maybe XCOM:EU on it as well. Anyone have any recommendations on brands? My budget I’m sticking to will be most likely $500 absolute max.
Ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiv.
No input, just Ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiv.
When you get it we’ll do MP again
Gaming-style.
Tablet.
Nope.
And especially at $500. Uh, Civ V and XCOM is on Win only right? So that’s tablet running Win8 full. And a non-Atom CPU. Which is about Surface Pro tablets only. I’d pick up a Surface Pro too and just get credited $500. No idea why you’d wanna play it on tablet though, you’d need to research touch-screen functionality in those games yourself.
Civ and XCOM are Win8 touch enabled.
Linky: http://venturebeat.com/2012/11/30/see-how-civilization-v-works-with-touch-controls/
Cool, thought so but wasn’t sure. It’s still a very luxury purchase to get a tablet mainly for those games. 😛
I dunno, fully DLCed Civ V amortises very quickly given how much of a time sink it is.
I’ve got all expansions on Steam, which can also run touchscreens as well so all I’d need to do is login with my account and download it right?
*shrugs* I assume so.
I think when you boot it up on PC it has the option for touchscreen. I know it’s native support programmed by Firaxis.
Yeah that’s where I got the idea from was seeing that and went “Holy shit I can use a touchscreen on this?! If only I had a powerful enough tablet”. The annoying thing is I can’t easily find out the specs required for playing it on a tablet, not sure if it’s the same as ordinary PC.
@tech_knight if worse comes to worse, you can bump the graphics down to the schematic view- that’s what I was doing on my last comp, and after about 15 min you don’t notice.
That’s my idea too. Graphics-wise I couldn’t care less for a portable device, as long as it can work smoothly and without issues. Besides even if it can handle the high graphics settings I wouldn’t use them anyway, it’d just waste battery.
Just Civ V alone and I’ll never be bored in public transport ever again 😛
Seriously though, if someone said “You’re going away for a year, pick one game and that’s all you can play” Civ V would be in my top three. (Others CK2 and probably something like Skyrim)
Also, XCOM works on basically every OS now.
I found some guy saying it runs okay on his Asus T100. So just look for a tablet with quad-core Atom CPU.
Another dude said his Surface Pro 1 was struggling, but that’s probably 3D mode.
I still personally wouldn’t spend $500 for 1-2 games on the go. Battery life will probably be pretty poor too.
I did a short search yesterday on tablets that can run Civ V, apparently a Dell Venue PRO 8″ Tablet can run it, saw it on youtube and that’s less than $500 at JB right now.
I’ve read two short stories today..
Another productive day at work! \o/ Anyone have a favourite short story they’ve read they’d like to share?
http://acroeng.adobe.com/Test_Files/browser_tests/special_characters/Stephen-King-Bullet.PDF
Riding the Bullet by Stephen King is pretty decent.
Awesome! I was hoping there would be a Stephen King suggestion.
Not a bad story, I feel compelled to give my mother a call. Thanks for recommendation D.C!
Any time, Rye-Rye. I’ve got King stories I prefer, but that’s the only one with a quickly accessible PDF. 😛
It reminded me of something from tales of the crypt keeper or one of those spooky kids shows on the ABC I used to watch 😉
I’ve got a question you might be able to answer. In the passage “She must have seen something on someone’s face—one of the other people waiting to ride the Bullet—because I remember her saying What are you looking at, beautiful? as she lead me away by the hand, me snivelling under the hot summer sun, rubbing the back of my neck”
Was is George she was talking to? He was described as being good looking.
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts
I…have no idea what I just read but I feel like I need an adult.
I am glad that I wasn’t the only one to think of Guts in response.
This is a thing!? I’m scared of going into a pool with the fear of coming out with an arse snake!
No late night skinny dipping for me..
damn was hoping for Berzerk
One of the first short stories that I ever read was Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Such a nicely contained story that is quite a good read.
Also anything by Roald Dahl if you don’t mind getting occasionally weirded out.
One of the stories I read today was Snows of Kilimanjaro by Mr Hemingway, I’ll check it out!
That reminds me, Costco were selling a Roald Dahl collection for $30 IIRC. Definitely need to go back and nab it.
Wait, Costco sell books?
And we’re getting one in Adelaide in November?
interesting
Heaps of books! I went there to help my room mate with the groceries and nearly walked out with $130 worth. A few good box sets and a lot of charming children’s books too.
Goddammit, I’m going to have no money.
Bookshops are awful for my wallet.
The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi
http://windupstories.com/books/pump-six-and-other-stories/people-of-sand-and-slag/
Diamond Dogs and Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds. One book with two short stories set in the Revelation Space universe.
Thank you 🙂
Palmer Luckey in a Nintendo On shirt.
What a cool guy.
Reply fail
Wait. Ok, so apparently that shirt was given to him by Pablo Belmonte, the guy who created the Nintendo On video way back when. There’s a picture of the two of them together, where Pablo is wearing a Majora’s Mask t-shirt. It turns out that he’s also the guy that also created that awesome Majora’s Mask HD teaser a year or two ago??
What an even cooler guy.
Mr Taco likes Xenoblade and Wonderful 101.
Pretty cool guy!
Sounds like a bit of a jerk.
There’s a running-joke in my office that a particularly aggro client is the possessed girl from The Exorcist all grown up. Every time she sends a nasty email my boss devolves into writhing around at his desk repeating her comments in a devil voice.
It’s hilarious.
No dinoking this week?
jung n funzr.
FUBGF SVERQ!
Well, I did spot him earlier today. So he may yet strike again 😛
Watch Dogs “E3 mod” review:
It blurred everything about 30 metres or more away from me and screwed my frame rate.
I’ll give it a 4/10, because it was easy to remove.
Win one of five copies of the newly-released The Game!
Details here: https://www.facebook.com/ShaneWSmith.Author
Pretty sure that even folks who don’t FB should be able to read the details. If not, let me know, and I’ll figure out a way to include everyone!
I can read it without logging in.
Argh, @strange, you’ve got me all paranoid now :S
What was I like in your dream?
Was I nice?
How did you imagine me acting and stuff?
Did I just shake your hand and walk off?
Why was I there, hahaha?!?!
I need to knoooooow!!!
I believe I was like this too, kinda normal reaction I think xD
It’s so weird knowing you were in someone else’s dream, hahaha!
More so when you’ve never actually met them! :S
Dream Liondrive’s a real jerk!
Or a dream boat? *wiiiiiiiink*
Also, I’m wondering what nefarious scheme you and Strange were shaking on! D:
OH!
We better have been collaborating on that shopping spree! That’s the best outcome of this dream! 😀
You know you guys should just go shopping together. You’ll be happier that way. 😛
No I wouldn’t!
Well, it would be doubly fun if Strange helped pick out clothes for you too know that I think about it 😉
I’ve set my mind on this though, so it’s gonna happen someday, you just have to accept it 😉
It is, inevitable >:)
In all honesty I can’t afford to buy new clothes. Especially fancy stuff.
There will be no shopping spree. *puts foot down* 😛
@dc
You forgot the part where I said I’VE ALREADY SAVED FOR IT >:)
I mentioned quite recently that I don’t make half-assed plans, didn’t I? 😉
This shopping spree will happen *puts foot down, but +1 harder than DC did*
Though I might downgrade it from “spree” to “trip”, if that makes you feel better 😛
Not acceptable! 😛
@dc
So hard to please! 😛
How about you just think of it as hanging out with a pal, who’ll occasionally drag you into a store when something pretty catches his eye?
It wouldn’t just be shopping anyway 😛
I’m prone to stopping at cafe’s too! 😀
Argh!!!!!
So many expectations to live up to now!!! :'(
Do what I did before my first meat… record a video before hand! An orientation of what to expect!
Hahaha, noooooo thank you! 😛
I’d rather go in blind 😛
Plus I don’t video / photo well (or at least I’M hardly ever happy with them) :S
I don’t appear normal in person well, so a video was necessary to prepare them! 😛
That’s what I’m afraid of!!! :’O
Don’t let dream me influence your opinion of me! :’O
That guys a jerk and a liar!
Congratulations! You are an NPC.
I have no idea about most of that stuff. It was just, there you were. I shook your hand, and the dream moved on.
So I’m basically just a background character…
Woooo, no expectations!!!! \o/
Let me tell you the tale of the worst fucking game of Dota that I have ever played. It’s a bit of a wall of text but spoiler tags don’t work and making it ROT13 doesn’t change the word count.
Last night, after a series of games ranging from decent to bad, Pyrean and I queued up for one last game. He played Visage, a very strong support, and I randomed Treant Protector, another very strong support. So far so good. Then the rest of our team picks: Disruptor, Nature’s Prophet and Riki.
Okay. This is workable. We have three supports but one of them can just go mid lane instead while the other two supports go with Riki and the Nature’s Prophet sits by himself.
We head to our lanes and I find a Double Damage rune along the way. For those that don’t know, Treant Protector has the highest base damage in the game, coupled with the slowest attack animation. A Double Damage rune at level 1 means that you can walk up to someone on the other team, hit them three times and they die. This is a fucking brilliant start.
Then Riki says the two dumbest words he can possibly say “I bot”.
Suddenly we got from having a strong lane with a guaranteed first blood and easy farm for the carry, to having our carry sitting in the most dangerous spot on the map while I’m working out how to hit creeps with Treant Protector.
We still got first blood but after that the lanes went downhill quickly.
The other team got a few easy kills on me and managed to take most of our towers very quickly. I had pretty much completely given up on the game 20 minutes in.
Things turns around as I started to farm up some items. A mask of madness so that I could attack at something resemble a normal pace and a blademail so that I could walk into the middle of the enemy team and make them suffer for it. We had some strong team fights that revolved entirely on me walking into the middle of their team, casting my ultimate (which roots them in place, unable to attack) and then letting the rest of our team get as much damage on top of them as fast as possible.
Even with a massive kill advantage our way (mostly due to that fucking Riki picking off weak heroes), the other team had complete map control for most of the game.
After more than 40 minutes, we started to take back the map. I would walk out along a lane, kill all the creeps and then teleport home as soon as the enemy team showed up. Our Nature’s Prophet did the same. In the meantime, Pyrean and the Disruptor sat at home, making sure the base didn’t explode.
While Nature’s Prophet and I were busy trying to win the game, Riki was constantly giving completely useless advice. Pinging me to get back when I was safe, telling Nature’s Prophet to buy items that weren’t that useful. Fuck that guy so fucking much.
Eventually we won a few team fights in a row, marched down the middle lane together and destroyed their barracks. Then we fucked up, died and had to defend. Finally, we won a few more team fights, marched down the middle lane together and destroyed their ancient.
I have never wanted to punch someone in the face as much as I wanted to punch that fucking Riki in the face. Carry Treant should not even be a thing and yet I somehow made it work. No doubt that fucker thinks that the victory was all his doing, when in reality it was everyone in the team except him that did all of the work.
I thought you played a lot? And you’ve only met incompetent fucktards now? Blessed?
Best games are when you play non-standard builds and wreck shop. Pretty much all my best memories of Dota-style games are where we did something crazy.
E.g. Heroes of Newerth has a fairy character who heals, has a stun attack, and teleports for ultimate ability. Pure support. I’ve played games where I completely disregarded that and made a battle fairy that couldn’t die. Good tiems.
Oh no, I’ve met plenty of incompetent fucktards and been an incompetent fucktard many a time.
This was a particularly bad case.
I probably should have mentioned that I was up against Sniper/Broodmother and the support Disruptor had to spend a lot of time at bot, leaving me in a pretty terrible position.
My entire approach thus far to DOTA has been incompetent fucktard.
I’ve just reinstalled it too.
You’ll be in good company. There’s a lot of us playing at the moment. The International has bought the hype and the random things you do to get points for the Compendium encourages people to try out a lot of things.
Might jump in tonight. Can you pm me TS deets, as I have to reinstall it? or do you use Steam chat?
We’re on TS.
I think I’d be able to sympathise more if I understood “bot” and “carry” in those contexts.
A carry is a dude that’s best at late game, as the rest of the team has to “carry” them until then.
I always interpreted carry as a hero who can carry the whole team late game >.< live and learn I guess =p
Bot is a lane. The map is split into three lanes: top, middle and bot(tom). Depending on what team you’re on, which lane you go to dictates how your going to play. We were on the Dire team (spawning in the top right), so top lane is considered the “safe” lane. It’s where the carry goes to kill creeps early and get a huge gold advantage so that they can get big items and do tonnes of damage. Bot lane is called the offlane or suicide lane. It’s much harder to kill creeps there and you’re often going to be in a bad position where the other team can kill you if you’re not careful.
A carry is the player that tends to farm (kill creeps) as much as possible while the other players try to make space for them to do this. They carry the team on their shoulders. Everyone wants to play the carry but if you all do it, then you fight for farm and nobody can do it effectively.
Some heroes are better suited to it than others. Riki is a hero that carries very well. They’re also a very squishy hero. Farming the safe lane as Riki would have given us a massive advantage at the start.
Add me on steam if you guys are playing, I should warn you I’m rusty as! My kotaku name with 007 at the end no spaces!
Do the Skylander Wii U bundles come with Nintendoland? It looks like they do in the pictures, because of the logo on the box, but I thought it only came with the premium Wii Us.
Basic Wii U does not come with Nintendoland. It has to be expressly mentioned in the game pack details.
Found the pack on Nintendo’s website:
So it does come with Nintendoland!
EDIT: Formatting
If you’re a member of the woolworths everyday rewards thing, BigW are having a sale tonight starting at 7pm for members only. Pre-store sale access to lots of half price or less goodies!
Not sure if video games are part of the online sale, but if they are, they have Mario Kart 8, Super Mario U, Donkey Kong and 3d Mario World for $58! The sale starts in stores next week or something as far as I can tell, but the details were slim as to whether all sale items will be online tonight or not. Might be worth a look though!
Details? I have no email.
This is the online sale page/holder?
http://busy.bigw.com.au/0072FC/content/media/gettingready.html
Cheers
This is the 130 page catalogue of the full sale that will be in stores.
http://catalogues.bigw.com.au/#view=catalogue2&saleId=6585&page=1
http://catalogues.bigw.com.au/#view=product&itemId=6585584&saleId=6585
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Yeah! Pretty amazing stuff! Retro TMNT Figures for $7.50!! Lots of transformer stuff, super hero stuff!! Quite a few dvd’s including tons of disney movies for less than $10!
Super tempting to right the wrong of my old TMNT toys being sold 😛
Also that half price Nerf Hailfire, because ridiculous.
ugh reply fail
We just got a new build system at work that handles our checkins in 15-20 mins. My previous checkin on Monday took 5 hours.
This is awesome. But this also means one less legit reason to be slacking off and viewing TAY all the time 🙁
That Wii my dad picked up seems to work. And even had a bonus copy of Sonic Allstars Racing in it! Seems pretty filthy though. And weirdly, according to the save data, it seems like it was never played?
What they did play though – MKWii, Go Diego Go Safari Rescue, Go Diego Go Great Dino Rescue, World of Zoo, Catz, Just Dance, Pitfall the Big Adventure, Hasbro Family Game Night 2, Big Beach Sports, Chicken Shoot, Where the Wild Things Are, Virtua Tennis 09, Cricket, Wii Sports, NSMBWii.
I think I need to go wash my hands now.
Went to a couple of those second hand shops today, ended up with a copy of Prey and Dogz 5 on PC, F1 98 on PS1, and Honey and Clover Collection 1 on DVD, all for under $20.
Oh wow, Dogz 5? Everyone said Dogz 4 was the pinnacle of the series, but 5, oh man, that twist at the end of the story? Whoa!
Did he turn out to be a cat all along?
shhh, dude, spoilers
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Ah yes, DogZ.
Pronounced in the same way as DayZ.
The way videogames are pronounced is confusing…
@popdart5 Hey, realised on my level up I took some points in linguistics, so I think I get another language, is that right? Also, I’d like to buy a longspear if that’s OK, to use in lieu of the stick I was carrying around that last tomb
PAGEGET GRIM FANDANGO QUOTE
I just locked an open door… strange, yet symbolically compelling.
According to Pathfinder online rule thing you can choose a new language to learn.
I have Draconic and Giant covered.
And you should buy some torches to fight with.
thinking Dwarven. figure Abelas could have picked it up in Xondol.
You get a like for the Pageget =D welcome to the TAY Empire =p
It’s red. He changes a lot. You’ll get used to it
Hey, this is only my third avatar since I’ve been here!
Username changes though 🙂
I know its red! I can tell from his “@redartifice” thingy! Wait did I already initiate him into the Empire? Hmmm fine red you get a promotion!
I am all kinds of confused now.
(I am too)
This might help:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-280/comment-page-7/#comment-2745110
Thanks strange =p
Yep linguistics is correct so you get an extra language. And you can easily buy a longspear so just note that down as part of your gear.
Coolo. I now speak Jive.
Dwarven sounds like Jive, yes?
Quit jiving me turkey.
Sure why not. In my mind a lot of Dwarves live on what is basically Hawaii/New Zealand/Japan so they sound kind of islander anyway. You just hung out with Dwarves that spoke a lot of Jive.
all the dwarves also wore tops with the first 6 buttons open to show off their chest
What can I say, Dwarven cleavage is hawt. And I’m not just talking about the women.
@popdart5: actually, assuming we’re going to embark on the next stage of our Epic Quest immediately next session, should we do any shopping / gear re-organization we need to do for basic items beforehand and just run it by you? I’m thinking of adding something pointier to replace the staff I have and maybe ditching some of the gear I was carrying since I significantly over-supplied myself with junk like torches and rope and a pot (I added everything that was in a standard adventuring kit according to the rulebook)
Pretty much yeah. I know we did a bit of shopping last session for some stuff but if you want to buy anything mundane or sell gear, you can easily do that. Selling is at half the purchase price of the item eg. bought for 10gp, sell for 5gp.
Edit: Early morning brain can’t type good.
The hilarious thing was that during that session I realised I haven’t answered the question of “What the hell do I buy with this gold I earn? I can’t get gear as a spellcaster, so I guess magical items?”, which was why I was looking for magic-centered shops for things like rings or special robes that give bonuses to either my power or defence without making it count as “armour”. Is it worth shopping for items like that or have I got a better chance of getting it from loot?
Kind of 50/50 on that last point. It’s possible to find things as loot but if you want something specific you can always pay an enchanter to make it. The only issue is that making enchanted items is expensive (talking like several thousand gold for anything decent).
You guys as a group only really have enough money for one low-level magic item at the moment. You’d be better served getting more gold or finding random loot than trying to buy or make it yourselves.
Thought as much on the pricing. Just worried I’ll keep getting screwed over by the party IC when it comes to us finding look in the future but meh 😛
I remember some TAY peeps possibly @rize being interested in Payday 2? Add me on steam if you guys are playing any matches! my Kotaku name with 007 at the end, no spaces!
I have Payday 2, I sent you a friend invite, I think.
Yeah, I could PayDay once I get the PC up and running. My username is my steam name. So far, the only one!
Not sure if youve got me added but ColdCamV if you havent, been playing Payday 2 on and off the last week or so
I’ll add you and transient tonight!
I’ve got the game, I don’t think I’ve touched it yet, and I’m not even sure I’ve got it installed…
Somehow I have managed to discover a few places that help with pattern making.
It’s not as hard as it seems
I SPOKE TOO SOON /,o,\
Keep reaching for the pattern rainbow!
Thank you, I will.
CHYYOYBK JBEYQ PBZRF BHG BA JVV H FBBA!
TRG ULCR!
/dinoking
I keep reading things about Elite: Dangerous. It sounds really really cool and I think I’m coming closer and closer to wanting to jump in on it. Which seems likely to be a terrible idea, I could see it stealing many hours from my life.
At least wait until it comes out to see how it handles when everyone can find the flaws in it
Haha yeah, definitely not throwing a hundred pounds at something 😛
And more likely probably waiting for the consumer Rift to come out too. But you know, eventually…
I’m just going to use TrackIR for both it & Star Citizen while I wait to see if any of the VR solutions ever turn out to be worth a damn. If they can’t do at least 1440p & get rid of the screen dooring effect, they’re not going to be any use for stuff like Arma or detailed flight sims (where seeing a dot move at a kilometre is a critical survival skill) which is the main type of game I want one for
How does TrackIR work, exactly? Is it just like a camera tilt in response to partial head movement, so like if you turn your nose to point off to the left of the screen, it might rotate the camera all the way to 90º to your left?
I’m pretty much already sold on VR. The screendoor doesn’t particularly bother me on DK1, in the same way that scanlines never bothered me while playing a game on a CRT. It’s something you can see, but it’s not something you pay attention to. If I were still working and had the money to splurge on DK2 I’d be right on it, reading about all the improvements they’ve made has me megahyped. But I’m happy to wait a little longer for the extra improvements that’ll come through in CV1.
The main concern I’m having with VR tech right now is the most recent change to STEM, where the trackers in the controllers are now non-removable. Kinda kills the whole idea that they presented in the first place of being modular and everything, I would’ve liked to be able to ditch them for a pair of Tactical Haptics controllers somewhere down the line. Or even just switch one out.
You’ve pretty much nailed TrackIR, yeah. The camera mounted on the monitor tracks the position of either reflectors mounted on a hat or IR LEDs on a small armature clipped onto your headphones. The software interprets that and translates it through a customisable envelope into ingame inputs.
You can alter the input envelope as much as you like, I tend to move my head a fair bit when I’m sitting still just to keep my neck from just seizing up so I have the software set to ignore a pretty wide range of motion before it recognises input and then gently increasing in sensitivity the more I turn my head, when I get to about 40-45 degrees to the screen the software has turned my ingame head the maximum amount.
This is a good video showing how it works with a heavy focus on Arma II
Let me know when you order CV1, I might buy DK1 off you if you don’t want to keep it so I can have a go on it & not rely on second hand reports (even if extremely detailed and tailored to my requirements)
It’s a mystery to me, the game commences
For the usual fee, plus expenses
Confidential information, it’s a diary
This is my investigation, it’s not a public inquiry
Hi TAY! how are things? have you lost weight? you’re looking great!
I had 6 pancakes on the weekend followed by Red Rooster..I feel ive gained weight /o\
Is Orange Is The New Black worth watching? I watched the pilot a while back at a friends since she had the first season sitting there but never paid much attention, seemed okay. My question is, does it get better then okay?
Haven’t watched it, but this was pretty much my initial reaction:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/10/14
XD
haha, yeah I remember hearing about that, then some pervert friend linked me the screenshots of said scene.
What? I need to check this.
For science.
Definitely recommend watching. The pilot is a bit slow (still great), but it really picks up with interesting characters, great stories, and outstanding acting.
9/10 would recommend.
And season 02 is out, so it’s a good time to give the first season a go 🙂
Awesome cheers.
Yeah I saw Blaghs mentioning something about it the other day lol. Which made me remember it existed 😛
worth it.
I know you only like quality shows, like Hannibal. So I feel your seal of approval gives me high hopes 😛
Oh god i’ve found myself listening to Limp Bizkit… I remember when it was cool to like them, when Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavoured Water came out, which seems like an eternity ago now :S I remember my mother hated it that I owned a CD with such vulgar language 😛
Looking back they were alright for what they were. I found them sorely disappointing live though heh.
Haha, I think I got given that CD by my aunt once. And thought it was awful. And mum thought it was awful too. Made her take it back 😛
I remember my friend at school being obsessed with it though.
Hahaha. I don’t think most or any parents approved of Limp Bizkit 😛
I was big into the Nu-Metal scene back then.. Only band I thought was worth anything from it was Slipknot cause they decided to step away from the Nu-Metal sound and do better 😛
I still maintain that Nu-Metal could have been a great album but as a genre…
Yeah I hear ya man, I hear ya 😛 It’s a reason why Korn, Limp Bizkit and also sort of as well Linkin Park are more of a nostalgia act already and the fans only seem to care about the hits that got them big lol.
I received Smashed Bros Melee today, thank you Shane. No, I’m not uncomfortable receiving the game if you’re happy to pass it on. Many thanks.
Also, FALLING SKIES SEASON FOUR EPISODE 1 AVAILABLE NOW! :O
@shane
Falling skies? YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY \o/ thanks man, didn’t realise that had started up again
It wasn’t supposed to be available until next week! 😀
Hey Pixel, I stuffed up your friend request, what is your Wii-U username again?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgFxIpTLAp-LdDNZbWVTNjhYNGE2bXpFTkxqV3BzM2c&hl=en_US#gid=0
Thanks mate.
No worries, don’t think I sent you or @pixel_the_ferret_viking a friend request the other night when I was sending FR’s to TAYbies for Mario Kart. I’ll send you guys one too if that’s cool, or you can send one to me if you like.
I haven’t checked yet, but send me ALL THE FRIEND REQUESTS!! \o/
I just this very minute finished watching the third last episode of the previous season. In a show that’s had far more than its fair share of idiocy, that one took the cake. Especially in a 10-episode season there’s no room for filler episodes like that one. So ridiculous.
We can no longer be friends. 😛
Hey, I’m still watching, aren’t I? I’ve seen from the last half of the first season up to tonight’s third last episode of last season over the past few weeks. The first season was full of everyone taking idiot pills(like “hey, we’re hiding from bad guys,let’s just play the piano for a while”) but it got much better, and I was going to post how it was a while since full-on stupidity happened, but was foiled by that bad episode. (Vg jnf gur bar jurer Gbz jnf pncgherq naq qernzvat ur jnf onpx va abezny yvsr jvgu uvf jvsr.) If you’re going to defend that episode, then yes, we can no longer be friends. 😛
Seriously, it was filler. NOTHING ACTUALLY HAPPENED!
Nah you’re right, I’m not defending that episode – it was a bit lame but I love the show.
I can’t even imagined how much it would have sucked waiting impatiently all week for the next episode only to have that wet blanket episode instead of the interesting, intense episodes that had been the norm for that season up until then. At least I only waited one day for it!
Life’s inconveniences sometimes keep you from keeping up every week. I’m not sure if I had to wait a week for episodes or not, often the weeks passed like seconds and suddenly I had three or so episodes to catch up on. Like for example the last two episodes of Game of Thrones! Life’s so hectic!
I actually was beginning to think that as a whole the ratio of idiocy to good moments was better than for instance The Walking Dead. But then that episode ruined the averages. 😛
No worries, man. Hope you enjoy it!
Sorry about the note: just got the impression that I was kind of pushing it on you…
Don’t sweat it. I needed to know that you acknowledged my suggestion that you could make some cashish from it, that’s all.
“cashish”, that sounds illegal. @shane you’re not really a drug runner are you? :p
If I was, I wouldn’t be on the fence about getting a Wii-U. #IrrefutableEvidence
DOTA REPORT
I’m awful and I don’t quite get it.
Also, I don’t think I was denying creeps properly.
You also weren’t attacking creeps properly.
The game takes some getting used to. I may have a few hundred more games under my belt than you do.
Ahh, I forgot to tell you.
The thing you were missing is tears. You need to be just, crying constantly. Like, tears streaming down your face, sort of thing.
And that’ll improve my game, right?
Uhhhhhhhh.
Well.
Hmmm.
You see…
I think that means you’re playing it right.
If you don’t have a 12 year old screaming at your insulting your heritage and your mother’s sexual activities, you’re doing it wrong.
Sitting here listening to Mum and my sister watching the Origin, criticising everyone’s bad playing and lack of tactics, etc. Meanwhile Dad’s gone to bed and I’m sitting here reading about a space game.
I have the best upside-down household 😛
That sounds normal for me. My Mum and Sister were the ones who watched the cricket (Mum watches Origin, Hannah never really bothered with it).
Admittedly, I’m the slugboy who spends all his time brooding in his room, so my family isn’t that unusual.
New South Wales! \o/
Psychic octopus! \o/
Hey guys, if any of you are planning on picking up one of those cheap Wii U Skylanders bundles and don’t want the Limited Edition Wash Buckler figure I’d be willing to trade you something/pay a reasonable price for it.
I will let you know. Mrs Shane has said okay to it, but I’m still concerned about our budget.
Now that it’s finished, I can honestly say Fargo is my favourite new series and possibly favourite full stop series this year.
Seven weeks annual leave staring me in the face I’m oh so tempted to take a week off and just marathon this show and play some games from my pile of shame.
SEVEN WEEKS ANUS LEAVE [slaps self] Wake up man! Take a break!
..mumble mumble drinking a bottle of Kizakura on a weeknight was definitely a mistake.. mumble
Hey @batguy, just FYI that TFU arrived today. 🙂
Sweet. Enjoy!
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is FREE on GOG for a limited time!
Also:
http://www.gog.com/promo/summer_sam_and_max_bundle_200614
I’m not sorry.
I am never going to play this game. Redeemed!
G’night TAY
I’ll raise you with this:
I call.
God, I love that movie!
Hey, I guess if @beardymcmuttonchops cant do a Sydney meat in June, anyone wanna grab food and gaytimes and gingerbeer in the city with me? I’m guessing Friday 27 June or Saturday 28 is probably most convenient for people.
I’m craving some great Japanese noodles (Ichi-Ban?) but I am open to suggestions.
@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
mmmmm ramen! *droool*
Saturday sounds good for me! Preferrably during lunchtime =D
Friday dinnertime or Saturday anytime is fine with me.
I could go for a noodle.
I am also in agreement for ramen, alas I’m due to be working that day at West Ryde 🙁
Wait… you like ginger beer?
Putting my vote in for Friday if possibleh.
I should be down with this 🙂
@shane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzVodKM9Emc
New Heist!
\o/ huzzah. Thanks man.
Edit: I liked this one. Very funny execution, and not too much mucking around beforehand (as well as a very handy “some time later” to cut out some intermediary stuff!)
This may be the last heist for a while. They’ve done a heist for each member of the main AH crew. The same person orchestrating the another heist could get stale. I suppose they could prolong the series with substitute members Lindsay (who you saw briefly in Michael’s heist) and Kerry.
@evilmonkey I have received ACIV. Thanks! I have already started plundering collectables without really knowing why.
What a nice guy! I’m going to get ACIV one day – Steam sales! 😀
Aw shucks, If there’s anything you’d like to borrow from my collection just let me know.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgFxIpTLAp-LdDNZbWVTNjhYNGE2bXpFTkxqV3BzM2c&hl=en_US#gid=9
No worries man, enjoy.
Also, sorry @batguy, still haven’t posted South Park to you yet, hopefully I’ll get to do it today.
No worries at all. Whenever you can.
The worst part of the game are the story missions =p
I haven’t done any story missions yet! \o/
You’ll want to do the first few to unlock certain things (some side missions are locked behind story missions). I think if you do the first 6-8 odd story missions you should’ve unlocked access to most of the extra stuff!
P.S. Gone shark/whale hunting yet?!
No. I just reached Uninan, naq urycrq gur zrepunag trg uvf tbbqf gb gur cynpr. Naq abj V’z whfg ehaavat nebhaq, flapuvat naq trggvat qbphzragf, sentzragf, funagvrf naq gernfher.
Then you just got to do a few more missions beyond that. Once you do the missions gung eryngr gb cynagngvbaf naq sbegerffrf lbh’yy unir haybpxrq nyy gur fvqr zvffvbaf!
Okie dokie!
I don’t know if I’ll stick with it, to be honest. I’m feeling the compulsion to collect just fine, and can tell that the quality of the game is good, but I’m just not feeling the fun yet – I think that I might very well just be AC’d out.
Just spent about 3 hours being an aspie neckbeard on board game geek. Stuff wasn’t described adequately and now it is.
You have joined the ranks of the heroes of our age.
What’s with the insurgence of overhead earphones? I need street style god dammit – neckband earphones! Suddenly they’re hard to come by, what gives? Ugh.
I bought UFO Aftermath in one of the GOG sales today. Here’s hoping I actually play it.
I also re-watched Batman Begins, courtesy of @batguy. Great movie. I just remembered that I never got around to watching The Dark Knight Rises, because I didn’t want to listen to Bane talk without subtitles. I should re-watch Dark Knight, then Dark Knight Rises.
It’s a shame, Nolan’s Batman was shaping up to be a great trilogy, but then the Dark Knight Rises kinda ruined it (in my opinion).
It’s nowhere near as good as the first two, and is even pretty average at best on its own merits.
I have a feeling you won’t enjoy it…
As much as I love Anne Hathaway, her role felt pretty damn contrived and more than just a little tacky. It felt kind of like the last act was busily trying to cram in everything they felt the batman universe could fit.
I think each movie in that trilogy is only about half as good as the one that came before it… Batman Begins was amazing, though.
Agreed, Batman Begins was definitely the best (I loved Scarecrow).
I still enjoyed The Dark Knight though,and can see why it is seen as the best, but give me Begins any day :3
In just pretending like the Dark Knight Rises doesn’t exist, haha!
I didn’t mind it, I thought Tom Hardy was pretty good as Bane, but Christian Bales’ Batman voice does tend to grate after a while.
Umm… Huh. I think Street Fighter 4 is free on Xbox Live gold.
I think it is, too.
Dammit soccer. The dark hours are supposed to be my refuge! but now I’ve got my mum and sister up again, watching TV.
That said, this is the first time I’ve looked over and the picture on the TV is noticeably improved over the usual non-HD picture. Even from all the way back here, like three metres away.
I wasn’t going to watch but the only TV in the house with reception happens to be in the bedroom and people kept tweeting…
SPORTS!
WINNING!
…DRAWING!
LOSING! /o\
@greenius M8 r u unaustralian or somethin? 😛
But it’s a downvote for us losing!
Upvote for drawing was supposed to be for us equalising them but I guess the order of events means it’s them equalising with us… UPVOTE RETRACTED!
Hmph. Whatever. There was nothing worth watching on TV last night anyway.
*folds arms and grumps*
Hmph! Rasserfrassin…
My son turns two today.
Can’t believe it’s been two years since this.
Awwww, Hippo Birdy to the little man. you’ll never forget that day as long as you live…. that is unless you get alzheimers or something.
Happy B’day mini-shane!
Happy birthday mini shane
May your day be filled with laughter and poop and cake, so much cake..ALL THE CAKE!!
Hopefully more cake than poop :p
Am I allowed to say your son looks kinda gross in that photo?
‘Cause… Your son looks kinda gross in that photo.
You are allowed, and you are correct.
Sigourney Weaver was great in that movie 😛
Bu, fb gur hzovyvpny pbeq ybbxf yvxr yvpbevpr…
I never knew that…
This World Cup-themed music video features a band whose members attended the same high school as I did. I cannot verify this though – my brother in law told me and I have to believe him. It features cool synchronised tricks and the inclusion of the infamous headbutt is a very nice touch.
Check it out and help push the views past one million.
@shane
D:
Don’t worry, man. I still haven’t decided whether or not I’ll be getting the Wii U.
I’ll give you the advice @pixel_the_ferret_viking gave me.
DOOOOOOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!
I’ll probably have to sell some stuff to be able to afford it. I suppose I’ve got a week to see how much I can raise.
Man that @pixel_the_ferret_viking dude sure sounds like a top notch guy!
He’s one of my favs!
Been reading “Tips for new Bloggers” from blogging quilters. It’s been horrifying.
Apparently if someone comments on your blog you’re supposed to respond to them…by email. Not reply to their comment on your blog,on your blog, just reply to their comment on your blog, with an email. Because apparently “who wants to go back to a blogpost they’ve already read just to read a reply”. I don’t like these people. 🙁
i wanna reply to this, but I cant coz I don’t have your email address.
man… communicating is hard
There’s this thing called a “no-reply blogger” who’s apparently a huge pain in the arse. I thought it was a blogger who didn’t reply to comments, but no, it’s a blogger who doesn’t have their email address in their profile, so you can’t reply because you can’t email them….
Er… that makes no sense to me. Isn’t that the whole point of a blog’s comments functionality?
Edit: if a blogger actually emailed me about a comment I’d left on their site, I’d stop following them immediately. Just saying.
Apparently a blog’s comment section is only for people to make a comment so they can enter a giveaway. 😛
Reply for your edit:
Me too! So creepy. It’s like those people on Twittter who instantly DM you when you follow back. Instant unfollow.
Seems that “Tips for new Bloggers” consist of:
Tip 1: Be a stalker.
Tip 2: Be creepy.
Tip 3: Not care about your Blog traffic.
It all comes back to the standard thing about Internet self-promotion: Content, Content, Content. If you don’t have anything to show to people, no one will come. Carve out your niche and you’ll find an audience.
Why indeed? *refreshes TAY*
That sounds fundamentally wrong. A blog or any form of social media stuff should be a community. If somebody asks a question then other people likely want to know as well.
That is my thoughts exactly. So yeah, I’m going to do things my own way so that then the only people in my little community are not ones I don’t understand. 😛
I’m not sure on how old that advice is or who is the target market. It sounds almost like old advice for somebody who is using their blog as lead generation for a direct sales model.
It’s widespread thinking in the quilt blogging community. A lot of them just want to find like-minded friends so emailing replies fits into that.
But that doesn’t make sense. If you have a conversation online other like minded friends could see what you are talking about and join that discussion. Making another friend.
Like I said, these are not my people. Doing things my way (the sensible way :P) will ensure I don’t have to deal with them. 😛
That’s… strange.
Very good pow and I’m rocketman
And I Am The Walrus.
Coo coo kachoo.
Ohmigod, the blogging community. Stay well clear. They are terrifying people. Mrs Shane went to a mummy bloggers’ conference a few years ago when she was trying to decide whether or not to take her family blog to the next level. I suspect that half the advice they post is trolling to disrupt competition.
There’s a giant section of the blogging universe where mummy bloggers and quilting bloggers overlap. These are not my people. They are scary. Thankfully there is also a section where down-to-earth people blog about their quilting and this is the section I need to reach without drawing too much attention from the former. 😛
Lest they band together to DESTROY this young upstart who threatens their
business modelway of life!…I like projecting hyper-exaggerated personalities onto hypothetical people.
(Edit: Only in my imagination and only for entertainment purposes, as opposed to as informing how to actually interact with another human.)
Hopefully your general themes of nerdiness and heavy metal should help to filter out the crunchier readers 😉
Dude, who wouldn’t want to run a Mummy blog? I mean, Brendan Fraser was such a dreamboat.
Wow – that must be a very specific subset of bloggers – I’ve never come across that. Most bloggers I read make an effort to reply in the comments and leave it at that.
I think it’s going to be a good way to make sure my readers are of the same mindset as myself. Ones who are offended I don’t reply via email won’t come back. 😛
Got back from the funeral yesterday,
Overall it was a very beatiful funeral, it was amazing to see how many people actually turned up… The ol’ guy certainly influenced a lot of people!
It was a very heartfelt service too, i think anyone that didn’t pinch a tear at some point during the service was not human!
Aaaanyway, back to the daily grind now /o\
Hope everyone is well? imma go grab another coffee
Funeral? 🙁
*hugasaurus*
Hope your feeling alright bud, whiskey for your coffee?
Haha ALL THE WHISKEY!!!
I’m OK… I was very touched by how many people were there, He was a very special person, very influential, and he had a proper send off, so it was very heart warming…
Both Wifey and I are doing OK, i was a bit worried how Mrs. Pixel would take it, but she was very mature about the whole thing… He will be remembered and deeply missed though
How about some Scotchy Scotch Scotch.
Seriously though, *all teh hugs*
… I’ve heard their periods attracts bears!
They can smell the menstruation!
That’s good to hear, I’m sure he would rather have you celebrating the good times and smiling instead of mourning his passing and crying. Sending all the feels to you two either way.
I had people commenting similar things at my grandfather’s service, like “it’s unusual to have so many people show up to an old bloke’s funeral”. Hadn’t been to many of them then, but having now had several more… yeah, in hindsight that one was *huge*. It’s a very heartening thing to see.
Thursday means TAYlist, TAYlist means TAYlist requests, TAYlist requests means give me the songs you want me to play
A no doubt song
Heavy horses – jethro tull
I want you to play your most favourite song ever.
Fuck, I can’t choose.
Uhhhh… Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al
I approve. 🙂
Let me join @strange in approval.
In fact, anything Paul Simon sang before 1987 would be an acceptable choice.
Common People – Pulp
Cocaine Blues – Hank Thompson
or
Bedrock Anthem – “Weird” Al Yankovic
or
Give It Away – Red Hot Chilli Peppers
“They’re dancing around in their underwear. That is so demeaning.”
Sia- Bring night
Oi, how good is Sia? Her voice is ridiculous.
I have only been listening to her for the last week. Shes so fucking talented. She is a pretty amazing pop song writer too. She writes for a lot of people.
Sia is excellent. YOU TWO ARE THE GREATEST.
Never Let Me Go – Florence + The Machine
I WAS GONNA SUGGEST A FLORENCE SONG.
she better put out a new album soon…
I am listening to Florence right now. You two are the greatest. :’)
The song I want you to play is
Royal blood – Little Monster
Paperback Writer – The Beatles
That’s our Shane
*canned laughter*
*toilet flushes*
*WOOOOOOO*
Get out of my house.
Tame Impala – Alter Ego.
love this song.
Why don’t you get a job – The Offspring
I have both :p
Hey, I have a job, two actually, I just don’t get paid for one of them, and I’ve only done one shift on the other (and still haven’t been paid).
hipster request –
Spirit Army – The Starlite Desperation
serious request –
Good Fortune – PJ Harvey.
Unlikely request:
Beam Me Up – Cazette
More likely request:
Bones – the Killers
Bones is a good song. You’re alright, LiDri!
Beam Me Up is better, but I think it’s far too pop to get played :'(
You should listen to it and tell me what you (honestly) think! 😀
READ MY MIND. BEST KILLER SONG. (ALSO, SMILE LIKE YOU MEAN IT!)
NOT A FAN OF THAT SONG, LIDRI!
Hahaha, I knew you wouldn’t be, it’s too pop to start someone off on 😛
I’ll have to slowly wean you onto pop songs until you like them 😉
Static X – Kill your Idols
Failing that,
Spacehog – In The Meantime
Failing that,
The Watchmen – Stereo
Thank you everybody for the requests, sounds like it’s gonna be a good show.
Requests are closed.
Jack White – Lazaretto
This is insane, just doing the Toad Harbor track in the Flower Cup in the 150cc Grand Prix, and I got a triple mushroom turbo power-up 4 times in a freakin’ row. Then I was just coming up to the downhill part in 6th place, had used all my mushrooms, and somehow between the top of the hill and the last corner I went from 6th to 1st \o/
Yup that sounds like Mario Kart 😛
Except you didn’t get hit by a blueshell 5 meters before the finish line and ended up coming 8th
I once got two stars in a row, once in third and then another straight away once I made it to first.
Why can’t that happen every race?
No >:|
Gotta go fast!
Wait…wrong game.
Must traverse rapidly!
On the weekend I had a few matches where I got several stars, and honest to god they weren’t giving me any kind of speed boost at all. I had another guy ahead of my just racing regularly, and didn’t gain any ground on them at all :/
Really feel like playing a game, but am putting it off cause I know as soon as the Steam sale starts (and I’ll be buying things for a change…), I’ll want to play all these new games. *waits*
Play something you can pick up and put down, like a strategy game!
I think Mario Kart will fill the void nicely.
What I’m saying, DC, is play Crusader Kings 2.
I assume the sale starts the 19th in North America so theoretically you have at least 7 hours before it starts, probably more cause I don’t think they usually start them at NA midnight.
Pick a short game!
I can make the shortest of games last 30 hours. MUST. LOOK. AT. PRETTY. GRAPHICS.
Text adventure.
Your move.
Ooh ooh, Secret Of Bastow Manor.
http://c64s.com/game/2107/secret_of_bastow_manor/
Sweeeeeeeeeeet!
The graphics in my imagination? Pretty beautiful! Also, scared of grues.
Witcher pls
That’s the opposite of what I need to play right now. 😛
I was expecting “XENOBLADE!
He doesn’t own it 🙁
(I think he owns Witcher?)
I bought Xenoblade and gave it to Freeze. TOTALLY COUNTS. 😛
I own both Witchers but am not looking for a sprawling RPG at the moment. 😀
Yesterday the small one and I caught a bus to the city to go check out the Winter festival thing in Darling Harbour (it was a bit meh, but will probably be bonkers once school hols start). He was VERY impressed when I pulled out my pink DS with mariokart to play on the bus (it has *squirtle* on it!)!, although he did comment that “It is an OLD one, because you are OLD mummy”
😐
Kids. Build you up one minute only to slam you right down, the next.
“And for that comment you just lost your turn” would be an appropriate response
HAHA! YOU’RE OLD!
Yesterday at work I was told that timed exclusives was nothing more than developer bribery.
Later on I was also told that exclusive titles was nothing more than discrimination against people who play games by pandering to one side over equality between.
What are your thoughts?
Reply fail to strange about what to put in email to people who comment on her blog?
Nope reply fail to cooking mama over being called old haha, instead I turned it into a question..covering \o/
They’re shit.
*bangs gavel*
Next.
All rise! Judge Rize presiding
All Rize.
Thanks judge judy.
Judge Rude-y
*bangs Pow…on the hand with the gavel*
How rude.
-y
Had to look up the word “gavel”… disappointed it wasn’t a dude’s name
I feel like exclusives in general are a fading relic of past generations… There’s a lot fewer console specific games this generation and I think that’s a good thing for gamers everywhere.
Developer bribery? Sure, they do pay developers for exclusivity, but it’s a marketing tool and a decent one at that- ONLY ON PLAYSTATION CAN YOU PLAY X
Calling it discrimination is fucking stupid. who is is discriminating against? It’s most certainly NOT an equality argument and you should punch whoever said that.
Yeah I basically just went “yep that escalated quickly” from discussing video games to claims that exclusives are a form of descrimination. I asked him to explain how that makes any sense and his response was and yes it is kinda racist he said “think of it like life say you have a group of white, a group of black and a group of yellow, now let’s say someone releases something and you can only use it of your in the black group and won’t let anyone else use it unless the join the black group. That would be descrimination against the white and yellow because they can’t use it unless they join black, and maybe they can’t afford to be black so they lose out on something because of Something they can’t control”
So yeah that was his words I just removed the swears.
It’s not fucking discrimination! Which console you buy is a consumer choice!
What a moron.
What if you can’t afford to be black?
That is my new favourite line.
What Red said
Timed exclusives are publisher bribery. Platform holder is like “we’ll put money into marketing your game and in return don’t release it for the other guys for a while”.
I don’t know about the exclusive thing though. Especially for first-party games. It does such ass when a game is exclusive to a platform that it ends up being worse on though. Case in point: Monster Hunter being on 3DS instead of Vita. Not only is 3DS a shit platform overall for those games, it actually probably killed the Vita as a platform when Crapcom went exclusive.
Played a lot of FTL Yesterday then some hearthstone before bed. Dream was revolving around some real life rouge like where card games are the main form of problem solving.
I would be shit at life if that was the case.
Been watching too much ‘No Game No Life’ huh?
Hey @pixel_the_ferret_viking, have you seen Anchorman 2 yet?
Yes, yes i have 😛
It was quite decent… definitely think that the original is best, but it was pretty great… Brick annoyed me a lot of the time though :\
he just seemed to yell alot compared to the first one where he just said non-sensical stuff calmly 😛
You gotta admit though, the scene in the RV was hilarious. I thought Kristen Wiigs character felt really forced.
I’ll have to get around to watching the alternate version soon.
Yeah i was laughing hard at the RV scene, it was a bit too well done!…
Kristen Wiigs got a few sniggers out of me, but yes, felt very forced…
There’s an alternate version?
Yeah, I think you can only get it with the Blu-Ray version. It’s apparently the same basic storyline and scenes, but with 763 new jokes (according to the cover)
You got a Blu-Ray player? I’ll lend it to you after I’ve watched it if you want. There was also a semi-sequel to the first one called Wake Up Ron Burgundy made with all extra footage they had left over, you seen that one?
Nah don’t have a Blu-ray unfortunately :\, but i’m guessing my brother in law will pick it up so i will get to watch it regardless XD thanks anyway.
I will have to look up Wake Up Ron Burgundy, any good?
LOUD NOISES!!!
“I’m Brick Tamland. People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks. Years later, a doctor will tell me that I have an I.Q. of 48 and am what some people call mentally retarded.”
So i’ve been playing this brand new game, don’t know if you guys have heard of it yet, but it’s called Far Cry 3… That game is actually pretty rad!
Had it since the last(ish) steam sale but never got around to playing because “Urgh! FPS fatigue”
I am really enjoying it despite Jason being an annoying idiot most the time 😛
So good, wingsuit FTW.
Better start saving for Far Cry 4.
Never heard of it, must be from some inidie developer.
The best part about that game was dying, because it meant that annoying little shit Jason went away, even if only temporarily.
Yeah he really does annoy me… but the gloriousness of the rest of the game overshadows that… although throwing him from a high cliff tumbling down multiple times to a bone crunching death is also pretty satisfying 😛
Yep, taking him out of the equation, the game was brilliant fun.
Especially that wingsuit…
I loved letting the tigers out of the cages in that game, watching the wreak havoc.
Taking down an entire camp without letting off a single shot (aside from opening the cage) is pretty damn satisfying 😛
Although i’m quite enjoying fire arrows at the moment… was a decent way of taking down a camp as well 😛
You’re all monsters! XD
I was giving the tiger its freedom, DC.
All caged things want to be free, man.
Press ‘X’ to Jason?
Jaaaaaaaaason!
I have 5-6 years experience in Laser repair and Calibration. So of course all the jobs i look at would need 10 years.
I dont want to toot my own horn but i think 5 years experience is plenty. Hell, two years experience is enough to know your shit.
Probably just there to ensure the applicants are over the age of ten! *decisive nod*
Im out then.
Honestly? apply anyway. You might be able to jag it.
Yeah i plan too anyway. I mean how many Laser Techs can their be in Australia anyway.
Put in your application “I may only have 5 years of experience, but in those years I’ve worked twice as hard as everyone else. Basic maths says you should hire me”.
My 10000 comments on TAY that i have made during my time at work is more than proof of that 😛
“I can work half as quickly as others and still get twice the work done. Basic maths says I’m amazing”
Before I forget, I’d like to give some Community Kudos to people.
Everyone’s been super nice this week, so you all get a shout-out, but there are four people in particular I’d like to acknowledge, who are:
@gingerchris86 – for cheering me up immensely on Monday
@cookingmama – for being incredibly helpful, and offering great advice
@dc – for being a great bloke, and cheering me up Monday too, and
@freezespreston – for being super nice. I like you too buddy 🙂
Enough being sappy now, I still got 2 exams to revise for 😛
*sends the D.C. decoy in to offer a hug on my behalf*
You offered a hug the other day!
Fine, your loss, I’ve been told I give good hugs, but I guess you won’t be finding out 😛
But we shook hands in my dream! Surely that’s special mention-worthy? 😛
We don’t get mentions strange =p
You’ll just have to think of things that you can do for me so that I’ll mention you next time.
Here’s a hint, I like money 😉
I think I should be getting Kudos for that.
I don’t make dream appearances often, so you should feel honoured that I graced your dream with my presence *toots own horn*
😛
Save it for page eighteen.
you fucking love hugs, asshole.
Reply fail to DC put honestly the comment stands on its own
You’re right, I really do.
yeah. I do. what of it?
Are you offering?
I’ll have a hug too 🙂
I predict I will lose quite a bit of money over the next week. Steam sales plus Eternal Crusade founders’ packs being made available will takeover my wallet. D:
When is Eternal Crusade out??
Founders’ packs are avable on the 25th IIRC and I think full release was due for this time next year. Alpha/beta weekends are promised for before Christmas if you buy a founders’ pack.
Cool… Man I hope they do the universe justice >.< A bit skeptical as they've been very hush hush on any gameplay footage…
Jayyyyysus! The Witcher 3 is more expensive on GOG than it is on Steam D: (but comes down to slightly less with a pre-order discount). It’s still $80 though!
I thought they weren’t doing the whole regional pricing thing? They’re still offering back $20 or so (the difference to the US price) in GOG credit, so kudos to them I guess, but I’m not sure what else I’d buy on there :/
Well, Neverwinter Nights, previous Witchers?
I figure the Steam price will get hit with Australia tax.
The Steam price was already hit with the Aus tax shortly after it went up. It used to be $60 but now it’s $84 ($75 if you own any of the previous games). On GOG it’s $90 but $80 with the discount… actually I just went to the site and now it’s around $75 on GOG too. They just reduced the price within minutes of me posting :p
They’re watching.
Hi GOG! How are you?
Powerfulius.
Doesn’t GOG have game credit as well for stuff on their store?
Yeah, they give you a couple vouchers as Australia Tax compensation.
Ooooh, i just see that Greenius has already mentioned this. READING COMPREHENSION FAIL. XD
Wait what? It was about $58 when I looked at it a few weeks ago.
EDIT: Almost never buy stuff from GoG so $20 in credit with them is useless to me. Can you still lie about where you live like you could with TW2?
@sernobulus Wildstar dungeon tonight 8.30pm onwards? I’ll try and recruit a healer and dps for the guild and we’ll practice Ruins of Kel’Voreth?
Sure!
EDIT: The website crashed when I tried to post, I think it’s trying to tell me something,
What level do dungeons open up? I think I’m level 13 now, and I’m kinda keen to get into something larger than fetch quests…
Dungeon’s are level 20 but adventures open up at level 15 which is basically a mini dungeon.
Come join the Dominion! =p Also be wary of both Dungeons and adventures. Carbine have set a really high bar for them. To date I’ve attempted the level 20 dungeon 5 times and only completed it successfully once. And these aren’t some cheap mechanics by bosses or mobs either, your team really needs to work together and every single person needs to be giving it their 100%. Also because your level scales to the dungeon level it won’t matter if you’re level 30 attempting a level 20 dungeon.
Oh damn, sounds like something you’d have to have voice comms for.
Steam Sales countdown clock!
http://steamdb.info/sales/
You’re all going to hate me for this, aren’t you?
No, I know exactly what I’m buying.
Sons of Abraham, Rajas of india, the EUIV expansions.
I never participate in Steam sales so am looking forward to it this year. Got $35 credit and I will be impulse buying stuff. XD
This is probably the only year that I won’t be participating in the sales.
I don’t really want anything, honestly.
I’m a bit the same- I have more than enough to play atm, I just want enhancements to the stuff I already play.
The best way to do it
Impulse buy all the things, use up your wallet credit, add more, use up all that, add a little more then with whatever is left in that at the end buy all the troll gifts
There’s this really good game called “Dinner Date” that @greenius liked.
clock watching simulator!
Man, I’ve been sitting on $165 in steam credit for months now, waiting for this sale 😀
IhateyouIloveyouIhateyouIloveyouIhateyou.
Check back in 5 days when my wallet is empty as to what one I end up on.
Nope, that is good info to know
Figured it was around then sometime but at least I know
Time for me to get brave new world once it goes on sale =D
SO GOOD
I don’t hate you! \o/
HAH!
Lack of disposable income means that
i am impervious to these saleswill be eating out of a dumpster for the next month!
You can always sustain yourself on the tears of those who bought too much. I doubt you’ll run out.
Well that’s depressing. Apparently Aliens: Colonial Marines is a top selling game. Clearly certain sections of humanity are the wisest and most intelligent of all mammals.
Well the sale hasn’t started yet so that is probably the only AAA game on sale.
Also right now it doesn’t take much to get into the top sellers list as everybody is holding back on purchases until the summer sale commences.
AAA might be a little generous there. 😛
You are right about the top sellers list. I think the list has been pretty firmly cemented for the last month with a bunch of survival simulators, couple of shooters, and then whatever is on sale. It’ll be interesting to see what goes flying off the virtual shelves.
Well I only have 60 odd titles on my wishlist so I shouldn’t be spending too much 😉
Almost no games I want, hooray!!
Only thing I specifically plan to buy is Dirt3 and even that’s just to piss about with in multiplayer with a mate since it’s got TrackIR support and should support my Driving Force GT so I hope to be ever so slightly less embarrassing than usual in a racing game. No way I could be worse than in my GTA Online fiasco…
Holy crapsticles booking flights online is a mission. We’ve pre-selected baggage for you, we’ve pre-selected insurance for you, we’ve pre-selected entertainment for you, we’ve pre-selected paid seat selection for you, I hope you don’t mind. Yes I damn well do mind. Grr.
Are you flying down to see me?
If only!
I’m planning a surprise for Mr. Strange for his birthday. My Mum even let me use her credit card so he wouldn’t notice anything.
Dirty weekend?
I hope not, he’s going by himself!
Really sad dirty weekend?
What airline are you booking through out of curiosity? My booking PAX tickets through Jetstar was surprisingly painless (unless they just didn’t give me the option to remove all of that stuff :P)
It was Jetstar.
Maybe I’ve gone insane and didn’t actually book through Jetstar 😛
Maybe you did, and the multiple pages of things you had to uncheck to avoid paying twice as much as the ticket price sent you insane. 😛
Wheeee! Get into work today and someone has broken into the display cabinet and stolen a couple of thousand dollars worth of stock.
Then I get yelled at by a woman for half an hour for refusing to sign her petition that has about 8000 signatures on it. They want to open a mosque in the industrial area in my suburb and everyone is freaking out because there’s schools in the area. Muslim people are all child devouring monsters who corrupt all they touch right? Why won’t I think of the children. They might actually overhear a Muslim prayer and it will be all my fault.
People suck.
You did the community a service by keeping her away from everyone else for half an hour.
I SALUTE YOU
I’m surprised that the “I’m working. P*#$ off.” rationale didn’t work. It takes a special sort of someone to try and pull that sort of crap when another person is busy earning money.
Should have said Allahu Akbar as she left.
No no, it’s spelt Admiral Ackbar.
Nah, should’ve said jihad, the whole suburb would’ve been in lockdown within minutes.
Also, on mosques: one opened not far from an old house of mine. Lovely building, marred by the fact that they had to put a giant fence around it to keep dickheads away.
Which one? If it was the one near arndale, I used to work for the guys that paid to have that built. They own all the On The Run stores amongst many many other things.
The one at Marion
You should’ve started playing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-nd1nQgOr8
Really loudly while she was talking to you =p
3 skinless hotdogs, salami, chorizo, salsa, bbq sauce, cheese, wrapped in pita bread.
That’s a great lunch.
Aren’t skinless hotdogs basically inferior devon?
Yes, until they’re cooked…
Then… it’s a warm processed taste.
Mmmm, processed pigeon heads and raccoon feet… tasty!
The joys of listening to an adult repeat the idea that “if you did something nice, it wasn’t you at all, God did it” is starting to wear on my nerves.
Contemplating an early mark.
EDIT: I should add that I’m not trying to spark a religious discussion, I’m just getting pissed off and venting in a far safer place than a catholic school…
What’s the point of even getting up in the morning if you can’t take ownership of doing stuff. XD
Chocolate.
But you’re not the one eating it!
And what’s the point of the opposite, where they say that when you do something bad it’s because you’re evil and wicked and you must repent for your sins? It’s all of the negative reinforcement and none of the positive.
But the obvious corollary of that is that if you do something bad, the devil did it.
Oddly, that doesn’t work as a legal defence, though.
#NoReligiousDebate
Who makes me sit on TAY all day doing nothing?
Clearly the Devil for TAY is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
<3 you all.
Hey, I resent that remark.
We’re less a hive and more a grotto, thankyou very much!
Sh….
….Shaft?
But what if you do something good for the devil?
Confirmed: God and the Devil are secret friends.
I thought it was well established that God and the devil were two sides of the same coin, the yin and yang of the spiritual world, and regularly got together for beer and poker.
I was raised Catholic and have no kind things to say about the church. *shakes fist*
A church lady gave me a block of chocolate once. Now I like the church.
That’s how they get you!
http://i.imgur.com/yH6Ri1h.gif
I love how being raised Catholic means you have no good things to say about the church =p It’s funny I consider myself a Christian but I would never step foot into a church… or any large religious institution. When you surround yourself with people who all echo your faith… well call it religious institution all you want, it’s still a cult =_= And it almost always leads to unhealthy levels of intolerance.
I prefer practicing my faith on my own.
I have nothing against the faiths behind religions, just the corrupt people who operate the churches for their own agenda.
Well this is what I hate about churches and other religious institutions, they reinforce intolerance. “Our faith is the only faith, no one else can be right, BS BS BS”. The fact that religious institutions still stand by that mentality aggravates me to no end. All it would take is for religious leaders to say its entirely possible that other religions are different takes on the same god/gods for people to stop being so bigoted. The problem is if they did they would in effect de-stabilize their centralization of power by alienating a fraction of their following. BAH I’m not going to get into it, long story short I don’t like religious institutions, even the ones I’m supposed to belong to =,= I think it’s unhealthy in any scenario for people to only be exposed to those that think like them, in order to truly grow you need to surround yourselves with disparaging points of view.
I have lots of things against faiths. They encourage muddy thinking, and other poor mental bollocks.
That said, I’m not going to stop people from worshipping whatever they want in their own time. Religion should be like knitting: an innocuous hobby, but a bit weird when people are obsessed with it.
See, you’re the kind of person that is doing religion right.
Lol in reality anyone can “do religion right” by being a decent human being. Go ahead stick whatever title you want on it but that’s the basic underlying principle for most religions out there. I can’t speak for scientology though cos I think that shit’s whacked =p
“I have to go”
“Why?”
“Baby things”
You have an excuse for everything now.
Funnily enough, that might be happening tomorrow because a nurse wants to stab my child with needles.
I told my wife we should just not do vaccinations so our daughter doesn’t get autism, but she beat me to death with a frying pan.
Women, am I right?
EDIT: I mean, HI MRS. RIZE!
*apparently I fail at hitting submit and therefore this running joke didn’t work…*
As well she should have. all the way to death.
This information about Watch Dogs is… interesting. And disturbing. Incompetence or malice? Considering it’s Ubisoft here, it’s probably incompetence.
Probably didn’t want there to be a massive disparity between their 500 versions of the game so their down-graded assets on the PC to bring it in line with consoles. This way console owners wouldnt whinge that they got shafted… Which in reality we kind of did =,=
TAYlist for the 19th of June 2014 TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by leftover pizza breakfast
No Doubt – Don’t Speak (Requested by @scree)
Crowded House – Fall At Your Feet
Boom Crash Opera – Onion Skin
Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al (Requested by @strange, uh… sort of)
Mental As Anything – Live It Up
Watchmen – Stereo (Requested by @crazyguy1990)
Avicii – Addicted To You (David Guetta Remix)
Killers – Bones (Requested by @liondrive)
Offspring – Why Don’t You Get A Job (Requested by @pupp3tmast3r)
360 ft. Pez – Just Got Started (Is that our Pez? Probably not.)
Florence & The Machine – Never Let Me Go (Requested by @bdkiaf)
Fall Out Boy – The Phoenix
Pulp – Common People (Requested by @redartifice)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Give It Away (Requested by @evilmonkey)
Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write – will you take a look?
Hahaha love it he’s trying it again =p
Have you seen how long he pushed The Dig?
I’m known for my inability to finish in a timely manner! \o/
Fuck you, Shane; sign my copy of your book?
You devil, you.
Nice list.
Sparked by a twitter discussion amongst Taybies, it’s time for Quiz_B’s question of absolutely no importance whatsoever that just happens to get you through the rest of the afternoon.
This weeks question: If you could have one dream casting of an actor in a role, what would it be?
(Could be games, movies, plays – you name it)
For me, I’ve always dreamed of Robson Green (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0338292/) as being Sir Samuel Vimes in Discworld.
Edit: Edit for obligatory page get edit.
Gilbert Gottfreid as Max Payne.
The monologues would be fantastic.
“I PAUSED at the entry to the stairWELL, WONDERING how many MEN would be in there WITH GUNS DRAWN AT MY FACE”
Since the weekend and my introduction to Community – Alison Brie as Princess Clara.
Oddly enough for all the flavour and description Pratchett puts into his characters there are very few I have visualised, and none of the visuals I have assembled have matched up with later TV adaptations. Except maybe Susan Sto Helit as she was later depicted in the TV movie Hogfather. I certainly never pictured Charles Dance as Lord Vetinari before Going Postal but after seeing him as Tywin Lannister for four years it makes a lot more sense. The woman they picked for Angua was waaaay off. She looked more like a vampire than a werewolf.
Discworld stuff aside, I’d like to cast Matthew Lillard in something. I think he’s a pretty good actor but he’s only ever had a chance to elevate shitty scripts in sub-par movies like Hackers and Wing Commander. I thought playing Shaggy in the Scooby-Doo movies would be his big break but he’s continued to struggle.
So what would I cast Matthew Lillard? I’d like to see an adaptation of Stranger in a Strange Land and give him the role of Ben Caxton. I feel like he’d do well in a journalist/observer/narrator role, an intermediary between the extremes of Michael Valentine Smith and Jubal Harshaw.
Brian Blessed as a horse whisperer, just because I think that’d be hilarious
I think he’d be less of a horse whisperer and more of a horse BOOMER. That man has a set of lungs on him to rival the gods themselves.
Brain Blessed: Horse Boomer, Polar Bear Puncher.
(look it up. He punched a polar bear in the face.)
CHISWICK! FRESH HORSES!
Brian Blessed is the best thing about Peppa Pig.
Actually years ago my sister mentioned something about a Jetsons movie. Dunno if it was just her ideas or something that was in the works, but Jim Carrey as George, Danny DeVito as Mr Spacely, one of the kids that was in Desperate Housewives at the time as Elroy… I forget what other ones there were.
Robson Green is amazing.
There’s a (quite small) chance I might even be related to him.
His middle name was one of his grandparents’ surnames, and also happens to be my surname (and it’s not all that common). And my parents are from the same part of England (only 20-30 miles out).
Would be cool if we actually were related.
In case you missed it, the TAYlist can be found on the back end of page 9, here.
They’re replacing the power lines in my street next Monday. No power for the entire day. D:
Might have to mosey to the city. This is potential foreshadowing for a makeshift Monday lunch meat for the Brisbane slacker types with no place to be… maybe… 😛
This would be where I tell you to prepare by charging your portable leisure computers but you don’t have any!
So, you’re saying I should steal one?
…
Say no more!
iPad!
But that’s not a leisure computer. That’s an entertainment phone.
Thanks @batguy, package arrived safely!
Something something batguy’s package hur dur hurr
Will I don’t want to talk behind his back, but I heard a lot of people got their hands of batguy’s package this week
It looks like the first season of Fargo has wrapped up. I should probably get my hands on a copy but before I do, can someone tell me if it is brilliant? Y/Y?
General consensus on Fargo from people I know is “this show is way better than it has any right to be” (whatever the fuck that means) and “omg dat ending”.
It’s great.
I’m a big fan of the film. The series nails the tone while being compelling in its own right, and I loved the ending.
Dammit @redartifice!
How dare you say anything remotely negative about Zelda even if it’s about yourself rather than the game.
*downvotes**
*not really
Everyone knows a downvote button is a “YOU ARE A CHILD MOLESTER DIE IN A FIRE” button
@greenius, say it isn’t so 🙁
NAH MAN U COOL
DON’T LIE TO MY FACE LIKE THAT
SOMEONE DOWNVOTED YOUR WARIO STADIUM MUSIC COMMENT!
Yeah but I deserved that. I had a differing opinion.
How dare you! That comment also made me look up the theme on YouTube 😀
So good!
Being sick sucks so much. I awoke to coughing fits. One coughing fit lasted 40-60 seconds and roughly 8 coughs. If that coughing fit had lasted about a minute longer, I would have passed out due to lack of oxygen. Mum told me to go back to bed. I had a restless sleep for several hours until I awoke at 11:55. I had massively overslept, so I drunk a coffee to make my day less shitty. Surprisingly, the cofee didn’t give me the uber-shits and sickness that it usually does.
I didn’t know what to eat, so I am currently ingesting unflavoured gluten free vege chips. Pray for me.
Mum has just arrived from work, and has given me a lozenge. Yay!
I get sick waayyy too often. I must have the immune system of your average squirrel.
It’s probably lupus.
I’d say this is worse than being sick, but that could just be me…
Just over 2 weeks of freedom left :'(
Lucky. 😀
Less than one. Maybe D:
Lucky. 😀
YOU ARE
In all seriousness, I would love a job. I’m proud of you guys. 🙂
Nothing to be proud of. I didn’t do anything 😛
With any luck you’ll be able to continue that, and still get paid!
D:
Until you turn yourself in for incarceration..? What happened, did you do a thing which resulted in a thing?
iOS people:
All of Halfbrick’s games (including Fruit Ninja and Colossatron and everything else) are currently free.
http://halfbrick.com/from-the-blog/all-halfbrick-games-free-on-ios/
(a conversation between me and my sister)
Me: “I’m thinking about going on a holiday one of these days”
Sister: “Where to?”
Me: “I’m thinking either Melbourne or Brisbane, I have a couple of friends there”
Sister: “These better not be twitter friends you’ve never met, cause that’s how people get killed. They get killed by random internet strangers”
Me: “they’re… Highschool… friends…?”
Sister: “…”
None of you are murderers, are you…?
We only kill drifters!
If any of you kill me, I’m not going to be very happy >:(
Mainly cause my sisters eulogy at my funeral will seriously just be “Told you so”.
And bandits who sneak up on our wagon circling
As far as I know I am not… But I can’t confirm if I do the whole sleep murdering thing..
If you’re meeting in a public place then it’s not much of a hassle
Or theme park. As long as it’s not abandoned or after hours or haunted.
Or a gateway to a parallel universe
It could be the gateway to an after hours, abandoned, haunted parallel universe!
I don’t know, if you go to a theme park you run the risk of being introduced as the wrong person.
*sniff* :'(
Pipe down, Freeze!
Lolol
Of course, you should definitely hop into a complete stranger’s car for the hour long drive to the theme park.
Just to humanise yourself you should be extra strength nervous and talk fast!
…I’m not in Brisbane or Melbourne…
Besides, how can you ever meet twitter friends if you can’t meet twitter friends you’ve never met because they’re murderers?
No friends in Sydney…
The Sydney TAYbies have disbanded.
We have?
Maybe. Probably. No.
Hahaha, (I think) I have friends in Sydney! 🙂
At the moment it’s just either Melbourne, cause I want to move to Melbourne so it would be good to scope it out first, or Brisbane, cause I interact with people (who are hopefully not murderers) from Brisbane the most 😛
I’ll get to Sydney someday, and Adelaide, and Hobart, and even Canberra 🙂
I plan on getting around 😉
Promiscuous.
You know it 😉
I’m not actually promiscuous, I swear!
DC’s just a jerk! :'(
Noooo…*hides the knife*
Stop hiding the knife. We need it to cut cake!
And drifters apparently…
Cake is what scree calls the drifters.
It’s a coping mechanism
Just make a cake each, no need for a knife and everyone gets more cake, problem solved!
LEAVE @cakesmith ALONE!
CAKE \o/
I’ve met all sorts of internet strangers all over the place, and I still haven’t been killed!
…
So I guess it stands to reason that it’s a good thing you’re not coming to Sydney then.
It just dawned on me that I’m an internet stranger too…
I promise I’m not a murderer!
That’s just what a murderer would say!
Also, no one accused @Liondrive of being a murderer which makes his sudden defence mighty suspicious if you ask me…
I’ve been to and met pretty much all the Taybies from Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne and I’m still here.
I’m guessing the reason I’m not floating in a barrel yet is because I haven’t been to Adelaide yet 😛
I may end up in Perth sometime soon as well. About time I went and visited my brother.
Freeze is scary though.
@freezespreston keeps visiting Sydney with
witnessesother TAYbies so we’ve never had the opportunity.You guys tried to poison @sughly.
Succeeded*
That’s not just a Sydney thing! There was that time I told him this pizza was not hot and spicy like the box said.. I think I gave Sughly trust issues 😛
And indigestion from the sound of it.
Your reputation necessitated some precautions.
A Perth meat would be weird, haha!
It’d just be like, me, I think, haha!
Unless little @phlanispo tagged along 🙂
Cracks! B-funk!
Don’t forget Crackalackleins.
@thecracks
Edit: Dang it. I started typing random variations into a user profile tryimng to remember his tag and he’s just down there..
‘Sup.
Also @fled and @grandmasterb-funk and Platinum Urchin (can’t remember his TAY tag).
And of course, the Maestro, Plainview.
(Also, @hindenlagen, but he doesn’t count since he totally bailed to live in Ireland).
Also, @blaghman will be pleased his fanciful name is catching on.
There are Perth TAYbies. We’ve just gone dark 😛
Perth TAYbies seem to be so inactive that I wasn’t actually sure who is and who isn’t from Perth, and who’s still around, haha!
I do recall you being a Perth TAYbie now, it just slipped my mind :S
Sorry, haha!
Pretty much like Perth in general. We’re here, but we don’t really try any more 😛
Even if joking, is a sad thing to read/imagine… Just read the other day that Perth/WA was the only major city to record an increase to what is already one of the nations’ highest suicide rates. :/
Jo is a murderer and his (Diablo 3) friends are the worst.
#datedTAYmeme
Perth FrozenMeat.
We can do what we did when @fatshadylive came over: walk down a few long streets, head back the way we came, then grab a meal in an Irish bar. Perth has so much to offer! We are the best place! Come, tourist!
I saw the Perth tourist add today (to try and get people to come over). It was just people dancing in the airport.
We have no places worth advertising to tourists in Perth :S
I like Freo better than Perth.
It’s all just Perth, Freeze 😛
Damn Freo, trying to be its own little city, thinking that it’s BETTER THAN US >:(
Freo has some damn fine fish&chips, an old prison and a bitchin’ maritime museum. \o/
If you go to an Irish bar, then at least I will be there in spirit…
I murdered a bowl of Cheerios earlier. Total cereal killer.
Weirdest sigh of relief ever…
The new Rainbow Six WILL have Single Player / Coop campaign…
Was it a sort of relieved crossed with a not caring sigh like uuughh
Well more a case of “There may well be a game in this I want after all rather than just deathmatchy bollocks”
I’ll stick to Vegas 2
Multiplayer of that looked crap too, with luck the campaign will at least be something decent or failing that, have a plot that doesn’t spend all the game saying “we work as a TEAM!” and end by saying “I gotta do this alone!”
IVE beaten the storyline for both, it kinda goes the same way always
And it was stupid, Bishop spends the entirety of Vegas 2 emphasising teamwork, chews out Gabriel for it when he screws up and hammers it home all through the game and what does she do when faced with a metric fucktonne of guys and what is basically an MI24? Tells her team to stay behind and walks out there alone to try and shoot down a heavily armed chopper with small arms…
I mean the games were great fun, no question. It’s why I’ve played them through 3-4 times each but that team thing and a group of terrorists sneaking a fully armed brigade sized force into las vegas were only a few of the problems. Good thing the gameplay is fantastic…
They snuck in overnight, down the strip and into a warehouse 2 blocks away, they now base themselves in a casino. If you know all this information why do they send single 3 man teams in
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Holden-VS-Commodore-Executive-full-authentic-1996-era-condition-/181438686271
I may need to buy this.
I don’t know. It looks like that car has been through the wars.
That is gold. At first I just looked at the pictures, and then when I got to the description I couldn’t hold my laughter anymore. 😀
He has pretty decent photoshopping skills tbh 😛
For anyone interested, I created a ‘group’ for Destiny for the TAYbies and wider Kotaku AU community.
You can find it here: http://www.bungie.net/en/Groups/Detail?groupId=100780
If anyone’s interested in helping to curate it, fell free to volunteer.
EDIT: Should also mention I’ll be playing on XBone.
I’m gonna need PS+ for this game on PS4 ain’t I to get any benefit out of it aren’t I? If so that sucks :/
I think so, but they haven’t really talked too much about what will/won’t require the subscriptions (PS+ or XBL Gold).
If it’s got online MP it’ll need PS+ since you can’t play online without it apparently.
Edit: I pre ordered Destiny with out a clue what it was other than it looked cool 😛 Gonna see if it’s worth keeping the pre order after the beta.
Very much worth it, based on my playtime with the alpha.
I’m not big into MP games honestly. I just like sitting back and enjoying a SP game and take it at my own pace 😛
Destiny seems to have that in spades. The multiplayer will be mostly you running around with the occasional other person happening to be in the same location (unless you opt for the Strikes [dungeons] or the competitive multi). Looks like there’s a tonne of content to just start exploring in every direction with complete abandon, disregarding everyone if that’s what you choose.
Sounds like it has potential! Beta in a 3 or so weeks anyway, so yay!
Sidevote. Upvote for taking the initiative and being awesome re: groups.
Downvote for inferior platform choice. 😉
Would have went PS4, but @hindenlagen only has an XBone, so that’s where I’ll be playing.
Fingers crossed guys!
I think I may have made the pattern work =D
Holy Hot fudge sundae with nuts on top, I really think this pattern may work =D
Is it a pattern for a hot fudge sundae with nuts? I’ve not had one of those in ages!
I’m keen for this!
No, because you don’t need a pattern for that!
Well as far as I can tell no one makes them in wagga. The closest I’ve seen is that vanilla clag with brown PVA on that mcdonalds sell
That’s like when Mum has been asking for a proper banana split. I keep telling her if she wants that, she’s got to make it at home.
So hungry…
Whoosh.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/a-game-that-takes-place-after-youve-killed-your-own-kid/comment-page-1/#comment-2765186
Haha, oh boy…
So i was playing some pokemon (a fan-game though) and because my computer has a bluetooth keyboard, it lost connection (briefly, although this is one of the issues).
The only way to reconnect it is by putting the computer to sleep and then wake it again (it’s a windows 8 tablet hybrid…thing), so I figure no biggie, and do this.
The game was running from a portable hard drive, and of course, unlike every toher time the computer’s briefly gone into sleep and stayed awake, this time the hard drive disconnects and I lose all my progress 🙁
I was doing so well as well…
Ah well. Lesson learnt I guess.
Today I learned that the term ‘gypped out’ is a racist stereotype for gypsies. I had no idea the term had any negative connotations. Somehow my mind never made the link.
Gypsies aren’t really a race though, so I’m not sure it’s classified as racist.
Classist, perhaps?
The Romani are a defined ethnicity so they totally are a race.
I thought being a Gypsy was more like a cultural thing…
I mean, you can be a Romani, but not necessarily a Gypsy, right?
‘Gypsy’ itself is a slur for the nomadic Romani.
Though there are various other cultures who hold the same lifestyle, gypsy was just used to refer to the stinking rootless foreigners who stole babies and cheated at cards. Then, of course, global awareness came about and the word spread like herpes.
Hmm, learn something new everyday.
I was under the impression that being a Gypsy was more of a culture thing, so not a race, but a way of living. Similar to how there’s a “Jewish Race”, how they’re not technically a race, just a way of living.
Yeah. ‘Nomads’ (or ‘urban nomads’) is more appropriate, given that there are numerous cultures who practice the lifestyle (and negative stereotypes) which are associated with the Romani, but thanks to the spread of English as the new Lingua Franca (IRONY), you can say ‘gypsy’ while referring to, say, Irish Travellers, and people will totally get what you mean. Language evolves, natch.
I didn’t even know gypped out was a term, let alone one that carried any kind of meaning. So there you go.
“Gypped out” kinda means like cheated out of, or robbed of something.
You know, cause Gypsies are typically thieves (not even being insensitive, gypsies ARE typically thieves).
Kids these days.
It’s an old saying!
You’d need to be, like, a hundred years old to not have heard of it 😛
And the Gypsy thing is truuuuuue *pouts* >:'(
They warn you about it and everything when you go over to where they live!
Oh I’ve heard plenty about gypsies. Just never the phrase “gypped out”. And therefore it must be something the damn kids (ie anyone who isn’t me) are doing these days 😛
Wait. Wait. I only just got it. “What a gyp!”, “you got gypped!”, etc.
I HAVE heard it. Just never the way @phlanispo used it.
…
My “kids these days” stands!
Related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhRBmek18uI
Same as ‘welshing on a bet’, took me a while to realise that was actually racist. Mostly because when I’d heard it pronounced it sounded more like “welching”
Four and a half hours until the sales begin…
:3
Clear your wishlists, folks.
No, seriously. O_O
😀
*slyly points to wishlist*
😛
Get. Out.
http://youtu.be/oq7qqldlNXA?t=1m44s
SO MANY EDITS! (D)Crazyguy1990!
Do you have any idea how long it took me last time someone told me to remove things from my wishlist? It was like 30 minutes before I even got to it and then trying to sort it out, sheesh
There should be a “Changed my mind, all of this stuff is junk and I don’t want any of it” button.
I think they do it on purpose.
I have 5 things on my wishlist.. Only 2 of them I would buy if they came on sale heh.
*grabs popcorn, watches everyone else become poor*
I’ve already bought two games from the first round of flash sales 🙁
Just had hickory smoked cashews, tasted like bacon, so much win.
…
That sounds amazing.
It is.. Aldi are currently selling all these American things they were one of them so good.
Finally gotten back to fighting with Champion Road in 3D World today.
And for the second time ever, I managed to nail the first section with 437 seconds left on the clock. And still have no idea where that extra second came from! Or how to get it again! Dammit 😛
Also gotten much better at nailing the fast path on the second section. And have found a possible fast path through the third section, although at the moment it requires getting hit once. Still playing around with it to try and see if I can make it through without.
Umm… uh… I think there is orange fog outside my house.
I looked out my window, and noticed that everything was blurry and brown-orange. The view from my window looked like it would if there was heavy rain. Except I couldn’t hear anything. I remembered the dust storm that hit one of the eastern state cities. The more rational part of my brain decided that it must be fog. Which is strange, because you don’t get fog in this part of Perth.
I went and looked through the large kitchen window. I noticed that the orange glow was on account of the orange streetlights. Okay, that makes sense. I thought I had solved the mystery, but the curious part of me ventured outside to have a look in person.
I noticed that there were particles in the air. It may have been dust, it may have been water particles from a really dense fog. When I clutched at the air, the particles flew around. Numerous theories whizzed through my brain. Chemical warfare. Fog. Dust. The PREDPREY nanomachines were coming. The metal dust-lookalike monster things from that one episode of David Tennant Dr Who.
I went inside and noticed that rather than feel colder, my face was burning hot. It still is. If I appear on TAY tomorrow and something about my behaviour is more odd than usual, you know that they got to me.
“Hm. Unexplained potentially unnatural phenomenon outside… better go breathe some of it in and touch it and stuff.”
WINNING AT EVOLUTION. 🙂
Someone overdosed on berocca and had the biggest fart ever?
90 minutes, people.
Hold steady… We can get through this with our wallets and bank balances unscathed…
So I’ve finally made it to Zanakand on Final fantasy X remake. Problem is I don’t want to progress any more. I just want to sit around and listen to the music.
Man starting work at 6am suuuuuuuuuuuuucks… although 2pm finishes are pretty rad…. ended up plunking myself on the couch last night to watch Falling Skies, aaaand i woke up at 2am \o/
although i’m still really enjoying Falling skies!
Sorry I didn’t say goodbye. I was tired and needed sleep.
Also, I am so sick of looking for sequins =P
All good, i zombied into bed, wasn’t even near the computer for the rest of the night… i was terribly company last night and i apologise 😛
It’s fine. I got to tease Sid by saying Lamb a lot. The downside was that he then wanted me to keep fussing over him
Falling Skies Season 4 episode 1 spoilers inbound
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I watched it last night. I agree with everything you said.
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Gung’f rknpgyl jung V jnf guvaxvat, vg’f yvxr n arj fubj, V jnf ybbxvat sbejneq gb guvf frnfba ohg abj V’z whfg abg fher.
Hmmm anyone played ORION: Dino Horde? currently 75% off on steam, and looks like there could be some fun Dino multi action if other people are up for it
Apparently it is absolutely terrible and is not worth it at all. If you want decent dino multiplayer, Primal Carnage is a good game and plays a bit similar to Natural Selection.
This video will tell you everything you need to know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCMRpia6K_o
Vg’f n synvyvat, onqyl grkgherq pbecfr.
apparently a lot of the issues stated in the clip has been ironed out in the year since the video was created… had a quick game last night and it seemed like a decent amount of stupid fun… nothing deep, and nothing i’m going to pour hours into… but now that it’s on flash sale, it’s well worth getting for the occasional multiplayer shenanigans
AAAAAAAAALLLL BYYY MYSEEEEEEEEEELF…
DON’T WANNA BE…
AAAAAAAAAAALLL BYYY MYSEEEEEEEEEELF…
i’m so terribly bored /o\
EDIT – HAHAaaaahh that had to be a page-get didn’t it? /o\
I’m here!
I’m not here!
Why not?
Too busy playing Bikinoblade!
Just so you know, I can’t not cry when I hear “It’s Reyn time!” D=
$2000 for my car to get repaired
$900 for rego
$300 for new tyres
I know when i got it, my grandad was like
“It will be a money pit, accept it”
BUT CMON, CMON
in other news im staying home for the next 400 weekends. 😛
Ouch that sucks! but yes, cars are indeed money pits… still love the shit out of mine though 😛
Aren’t all cars money pits though?
Yeah true. I wish i didnt need to have one. Stupid lack of public transport in townsville.
Trust me, it’s difficult to do anything without a car, trust me.
I JUST WANT ALL OF THE BENIFITS WITHOUT ANY OF THE COSTS
I told the missus that and she slapped me… don’t know why
#class-act
Doesn’t matter where you live, once you have a car you wonder how you ever lived with out one.
We downsized to one car about eighteen months ago. Can’t imagine being a two-car family again. I honestly didn’t think we could make it work, but it ended up being easy.
I guess my point is that it’s easy to convince ourselves that we ‘need’ certain things, but being without them doesn’t always make life all that much harder.
In our household wife and I work overlapping times hours apart in opposite directions. There is literally no way we could survive on one car.
I have to walk a couple k’s a day and it takes a little longer in transit, but I bus everywhere.
When I think about how much money we’re saving each year (around $1600 insurance + rego, $400 services, $xx repairs, and $2000 petrol… total of $4000 + unplanned repairs [which is around $11 per day every day] vs around $1000 in bus fare), it’s worth a little inconvenience.
I’ve tried to public transport on the Gold Coast before. It was hellish. There are more things than cocaine parties, corrupt cops, and washed out stars that the GC has in common with its idol, Hollywood. Shithouse public transport is one of them.
As someone who has only been driving for a year, I really think I left car ownership as long as I could. It was becoming too difficult to do my grocery shopping via public transport, my wife was too reliant on her aging grandparents to drive her to medical appointments etc. plus the crippling isolation she was feeling from being stuck at home alone most of the time. The alternative was to probably spend the equivalent to a monthly car payment on taxi expenses, and that would still limit our options.
I can say with absolute certainty that we need a car. Not need in the same scope as we “need” food, water, shelter, etc. but as in our life is so demonstrably better than it used to be (and we were on a downwards trend emotionally) that I will never go back to not having one.
Now a second car for us would be frivolous. There have been times where I have wanted to take the car to go somewhere and visit someone by myself for the day but my wife was anxious about being completely without it if she needed it, but the periodic convenience of having my own car (even if it were a cheap thing I paid cash for) would be far overshadowed by the additional upkeep/insurance/registration costs.
This. One car is plenty (for us in our situation). If we think about the money we’ve saved, we can safely catch 100x $30 taxis a year before we’ve come close to even.
Admittedly it might be different if I needed a car to get to work but I never have. Being carless, working and living near reliable public transport (by Sydney standards anyway) has always been a priority for me.
If my wife worked I still wouldn’t need a second car because she would just take the one car we have. Our fuel costs would probably double, but if she were working that wouldn’t be an issue!
In Freeze’s case I can see why two cars are more of a necessity, unless either of them is able to start taking public transport to work. Frankly there’s a point where I think public transport just becomes too bloody hard and that extra $3,000 seems worth it. For instance, my wife’s aunt and grandparents (which is who she visits most frequently) live a 15 minute drive away but it would take over 2 hours to get there on public transport. She’s also going to college at the moment and her driving 20 minutes then paying $12 for parking is way better than having to pay $10 in fares and still deal with three trains or a train and a bus in each direction.
Maybe you’ll be a better hermit than @dc.
What is it?
2005 Holden Commodore
There’s your problem.
I for some reason read that comment in Gir’s voice
It’s a car, not a burrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttoooooooooooooooo.
What is it?
But I NEED tacos! I need them or I will explode! That happens to me sometimes!
Just dropped $930 for rego/CTP. Even though I was saving, it killed my budget and there’s SO MANY things I wanted to spend money on this month, particularly stuff that’s limited like kickstarter/indiegogo stuff. 🙁
My boss regularly tells me I “need” to get a car.
So I ask him for a raise and the conversation ends.
When I worked as a security guard when I was 20/21 I was hired by a small company who I made it clear to I had no car and would have trouble getting to remote locations without public transport nearby. They were like “nah, fine, we have a lot of work for you”. Then they got confused when I turned down jobs to sit outside some building from 11pm – 6am in bad neighbourhoods.
“No, I can’t do that?”
“Why? Are you a pussy?”
“How can I conceivably sit around in the middle of the night outside some club in Cabramatta?”
“Sit in your car, call the police if something happens! Easy money!”
“Sit in my what now?”
“…oh. Well still, you up for it?”
“…no.”
Today’s reminder for the Destiny crowd:
Made an unofficial Kotaku AU group for the game. Join up here: http://www.bungie.net/en/Groups/Detail?groupId=100780
I will join once I buy a PS4!
Added myself. Also updated my profile and shit with them. As retro as they let you go. There doesn’t seem to be anything available pre-Marathon but I’m fairly okay with the Tycho logo and the Marathon 2 chapter 1 banner, though I wish they had some other Marathon art.
Stupid Steam sale, I told myself I wouldn’t spend any more money, the sale’s only just started and I’ve already spent about 20 bucks.
AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!
Bought Dead Island, Dead Island: Riptide, Mirror’s Edge and Hotline Miami.
I now have 3 gift passes for the Dead Island: Epidemic Beta, also still got Frozen Synapse and 2 Serious Sam: Classic packs to give away, first people to put their hands up get ’em.
I’m seriously eyeing off Dino Horde, but i don’t want to get it unless other people do so we can multi XD
Aside from that there hasn’t been much yet that i either don’t already own, or don’t care about 😛
I looked at it, laughed, then promptly forgot about it.
Dinos! DINOS! 😛
in some ways i hope dinosaurs will be the next zombies in games XD
Plus the idea of Killing Floor with Dinosaurs seems intriguing, but it needs to be something other people would want to play as well, otherwise what’s the point? 😛
I bought Primal Carnage ages ago hoping to get some TAYbies to buy it, but there was no interest 😛
It’s less than $5 on sale, people! I want to play it!
I will probably get it later today then, i’d be up for some more Dino shooty shooty bang bang!
You should in turn get ORION: Dino Horde so we can shoot all the dinosaurs XD
But I don’t want to kill the dinosaurs!
(okay – it’s cheap too!)
Then BE the dinosaur XD
or you can try hugging one… i don’t know if that’ll actually bring you any closer to being victorious in the game 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
I’ll try and find this hugasaurus that everybody keeps going on about.
Holy fuck, it’s got like 251 achievements!
Just bought the 4-pack, so I’ll gift it to you, got two more to give away, who wants ’em.
Edit: Gift sent.
Dude, you don’t have to do that! but thanks man! now we need to go shoot up some dinosaurs 😛
AAAAWWWW YEEEAH!!!
Hopefully my laptop will be able to run it. Who else wants a copy, come on don’t be shy.
ooohhhh shinies
I’ll be up for some dino shooty shooty if nobody else grabs it
No worries tigs, it’s all yours, I’ll gift it to you after you accept my friend request.
I gained 50 cents 😀
Morning peeps! Happy Friday! Another day where I pretend to work but lounge on TAY instead =p What has everyone got planned this weekend?
Hopefully meeting my next kid \o/
Is she overdue? If so, how many days?
He/she is due on Sunday. Though gestation due date is the equivalent of tossing darts while blindfolded – there’s an error tolerance so large that it might as well be a random guess.
I’m not telling you that you should name the kid Samson, but you should name the kid Samson!
Or Santino!
Or Scruffy Jnr!
Are you implying that I’m scruffy? >:(
Also, LOL at you thinking the father has a say in picking the names.
I’ve got it on good authority that @freezespreston named both his kids!
*rocking the naming boat just before birth, smoooooth* 😛
If it’s true that you had no say and you’re not just joking because it makes a better story that way, that would make you the only father I know (that I’m aware of ) who had no say. 🙁
Don’t worry: I do get a say – I was exaggerating for comic effect. Something I don’t usually do… 😛
Mrs Shane is the names enthusiast, and I’m easygoing about the whole thing. I get unlimited veto power, which I have used quite a bit. The names I’ve floated didn’t really get too far, but that’s fine, because I prefer the ones we’ve landed on.
How many do you have now? Would you describe any of them as being the greater evil because this one might just be the lesser…
Hopefully gonna play all teh gamez, and not spend money on the Steam sale, but I’m expecting to get called into work at some point because the guy that’s in charge when I’m not there is an incompetent fuck.
What about your good self?
Let’s see, get absolutely wasted after work tonight with work friends! Then if I’ve still retained some hand to eye co-ordination maybe drop in for some Wildstar or Dota matches! Rest of the weekend is meant to be a blur of wildstar/wolfenstein/painting my Tau soldier!
On the painting topic if anyone out there knows how to paint bullet scorch marks on a scout drone please share!
My best friend is in a production of
“The marriage of Figaro”
its meant to be a opera/dark comedy that im looking forward to seeing.
Also going to a dinner celebrating Papua New Guinea’s culture. My girlfriends family is from there and i was invited. Im not super looking forward to that because I really dont have any business being there. But new experiences that push us out of our comfort zone make us better people probably.
FUUUCK
WHY AM I ALWAYS DOING THINGS
Hahahaha good luck =p Some of my friends are from PNG and celebrating their culture usually meant drinking all night long =p
If they offer you any kava drink, only drink a little. Some friends bought some back from a cruise over there and I over-indulged. My mouth went completely numb and I was drooling for the rest of the night.
“I really dont have any business being there.”
You were invited.
I will be the odd duck.
I dont have any heritage links to PNG and i bet that i will be the second youngest person there.
Cool.
Have fun.
YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I PREFER WHINING OVER FUN FLU GOD
Working Saturday and Sunday
Overseeing the Cleaning of my old place, probably visiting a Chiropractor, and then probably just relaxing thanks to my back. What are you up to this weekend?
Initially it was what I’d replied to evilmonkey further up but now it might be drowning in games I shouldn’t be buying from the Steam sale -_-
Going to my grandfather’s 85th
I’m visiting Costco for the first time this weekend. Well, it’s my first time at the Brisbane one, my sister took me to the Canberra one last year.
I’m also going fabric shopping to get fabric for two more quilting projects, one of which has the instructions “blue”, “black” and “shark” which is the one I’m most excited about. 😀
Bedridden, most likely. I’m am ultra sick. I’ve had a few hours of reprieve, but I can feel my fever rising.
Also, my sister will be having a 50-person birthday party tomorrow, and I’ll probably be too sick to leave the house.
Eyeing off that Dead Rising 3 prepurchase on Steam. It’s not the greatest deal, but for a “new” game it’s not bad.
Anyone get it on Xbone? How is it compared to previous instalments?
I haven’t played a helluva lot of it, and haven’t picked it up for ages, but it seemed pretty decent. I think @kermitron spent a fair bit of time on it, maybe he can tell you more about it.
I’m no Dead Rising expert but I did spent some time with DR3. If you played DR2 you should have a pretty good handle on DR3 fairly quickly. It’s easier in some parts, harder in others. They now let you craft weapons on the fly instead of having to find a workbench, which is due compensation for the increased amount of zombies and heavier focus on combat. The world is bigger which is nicely balanced by giving you extra safehouses and vehicles (you can also combine vehicles!). The main difference is you HAVE to earn blueprints for your combinations, you can’t just go out there and start mixing stuff together at will. Some of the best weapons are actually multi-stage and even take divergent paths depending on the order you build them in (it’ll make more sense when you get there).
You can also spawn weapons you’ve discovered from your supply cache in your safehouses (which has a cooldown timer so you can’t just give yourself 10 of the best weapon and go nuts) and you can also recruit other survivors to fight with you by adding them to your party from the roster in your safehouse. The survivors don’t suffer permadeath once rescued, if they fall in combat you can still re-add them from the roster later.
There’s a lot of exploration involved, tons of replay value, and it’s generally quite fun. I didn’t even get halfway through the story myself but my wife finished it three times. I should really get back into it especially since we bought the DLC season pass and I haven’t touched any of it yet.
It’s locked to 30 fps. That is all you need to know about the state of the port.
It’s that time of year where I go through all of Steam, add a whole bunch of stuff to my wishlist as a reminder to buy it before the sales end, then forget and never buy anything!
The system works!
Subtle.
Hey Freeze, buy me games.
Also I got a bit of a taste of being part of the Master Race this morning. I saw that Far Cry 3 was pretty cheap: “Oh cool, I’ve been meaning to get that for ages!”
…I do?
Welcome to the club.
One hour left to vote for the community choice on Steam, so if you haven’t yet, now’s your chance.
Seems to be that we’ll be voting for different lots of four games this time around.
I looked at it, and i own all of the games bar 1 in each option 😛
so i went with the cheapest \o/
I’ve got my eye on the South Park game, but it’s a dollar more than my entire Steam sale budget.
*shakes fist* 😀
Thinking I should probably stick with indie games I’ve missed out on like Limbo and the like.
And Primal Carnage and/or Dino Horde!
Nah, dinosaurs are stupid.
😛
YOU TAKE THAT BACK! >:|
I was just messing with Pow. Dinosaurs are my life!
…
Not really, but they’re okay.
You’re okay @dc you’re okay 😀
Why do you make me cry, DC.
Mario. Kart.
I know that feel, bro.
:'(
@dc: Damn Cruel!
(also, Dinosaurs Crap!)
Sounds like you and @dc want the remaining two gift copies of Dino Horde I have. Unless you tell me you don’t want it in the next five minutes I’ll grab your steam ID’s off TAYnames and gift them to you.
I don’t want it! But thank you for the offer! YOU SO KIND! 😀
You sure now?
I’m sure, but thank you. You’re a class act. A CLASS ACT.
I’ll buy my own, that’s okay 😛
Give it to someone who wouldn’t buy it but would play it if they had it!
Arrgh! was just gonna send it to you, but it won’t let me until you accept my friend request. Why won’t you let me be nice to you?
I have to keep up my unapproachable demeanour somehow!
Hmmm… I may be interested in playing terrible multiplayer games online if other people are down to play 😛
I once played Left 4 Dead 2 with @powalen and he never played again. Worst.
@greenius, if @powalen doesn’t want it, it’s all yours.
Sell more trading cards
Already have. I’ve been tempted to reinstall games and keeping them idle in the background for more trading cards. 😛
I’ve gotten about five notifications in the last 10 hours that cards I listed on the marketplace months ago and forgot about have been sold. Maybe I can level up my Binding of Isaac badge again \o/
Ooooo hoping Van Helsing 2 goes on sale! and Divinity as well! OMG I’m going to drown in RPG’s 0,0
Dammit Witcher 2 on sale as well… I already have a hard copy but it isn’t linked to steam 0,0 $4.00 for convenience?…
Skullgirls is 50% off…
Luckily for me, I already own it. :3
Morning everyone! Only six days until the Wii-U goes on special at KMart.
*TAY sails into steam*
*tumbleweeds*
PULLBLOX WORLD HYPE!
YEAH CUZ
Back at work after 2 days off sick.
Bleah. (Both to being sick and being back at work.)
…
I hope I didn’t get you sick the other weekend. Cause I was crazy, crazy sick that day. D:
Haha, nah I don’t think a cold sits dormant for that long. Just came on strong Tuesday evening and was dead by Wednesday morning. Could barely swallow (that’s what she said!) and spent the next 2 days in bed (that’s also what she said!)
Yeah, I’m pretty sure I had the flu and not a cold. D:
Only just getting better now and had the sore throat thing. I really shouldn’t have been at that meat, but I wanted to meet @quiz_b! I REGRET NOTHING! XD
Hope you feel better soon!
Cheers, I’m mostly better now. Hooray for pseudoephedrine!
YOU MADE HIM SICK YOU ASSHOLE, FUCK DC
or you know its flu season and everybody gets sick this time of year.
But mostly the first thing!
YEAH MOSTLY THAT
I had $5, I was going to buy myself a game. Instead I found a game for mum and bought that instead.
Oh well.
So. Damn. Kind.
Kind. Damn. So.
Mad Kind, Son.
Sod mind, ank.
I TRIED DAMMIT
I had $5.00
then i bought a chicken and cheese toastie.
TRUE STORY
Which game?
Season of mystery. Mum loves hidden object games
My old housemate was into them. Never played one myself
I usually end up helping
What game were you looking at?
The ones on my wishlist and the under $5 games =P
Red, you didn’t have to but thank you.
😉
@batguy, Ricky Ponting Cricket 2007 arrived in the mail, thanks man.
My wife got it out of the letterbox, and when I told her that a guy off the internet sent it to me for free (because she was about to have a go at me for spending money) she launched into a tirade about how I don’t know you, and how she can’t believe that I would put her and our sons life at risk. Knew I should’ve checked the letterbox before she got home.
But we’re from the innernet, you can trust us!
Having met Batguy several times, I can confirm that he steals children and eats them. I know because he stole me and then threw me away when he found out i was 22.
Because parcel bombers always send bombs in the guise of cricket games, dammit!
I will now.
It’s not that she thinks it could’ve been a parcel bomb, she’s carrying on about how he knows where we live, and he could be a murderer or a paedophile or something.
Also, @tigerion sent you Dino Horde, come on @powalen, accept my FR so I can gift you the last copy.
Give it to @greenius!
Ok then, @greenius FR incoming.
Should have responded with “Honey, this is Batguy we’re talking about, not Rize. Jeez”
That’s the thing I don’t get. Any sort of eBay or other online shopping requires a postal address and yet people flip out when a friend/acquaintance/internet personage sends something to their letterbox.
This. eBay is at least an equivalent risk as far as things like this go. Gumtree more so. Newspaper classifieds even more so.
The thing is, you have an address regardless of whether you told it to some guy on the internet. Let’s assume that it’s not statistically improbable that @batguy is a dangerous lunatic, what exactly has fundamentally changed in this transaction? He knows you like 7 year old cricket games? What’s he going to do with that information that puts you in more danger than you already were from your usual neighbourhood psychos?
Not that I like cricket games, but I don’t have any (except Cricket Revolution on Steam, which I haven’t played), and I thought I would give it a try for something different.
If I do put my hand up for any games from you guys in the future I think I’ll give you my work address, either that or I’ll have to set up a secret P.O. Box.
Man it’s a sad sad world when you can’t trust people off the internet! Most of us are pretty harmless =p Besides I like to think being a gamer instills you with certain moral and ethical standards! Unless of course all you play is Call of Duty.
Ive met 3/4 of the people who have ever frequented this forum. All have been friendly, welcoming and nice.
http://i.imgur.com/fsuz1Ph.jpg
Shut up Rocketbuddy, no we haven’t.
WHEN CAN I COME TO CANBERRA TO SEE YOU AGAIN MY LOVE???
WHENEVER YOU WANT, MY DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN FOR YOU!
…
You free in August? I’m thinking I’ll have another meat in August. Long enough that people have forgotten all their regret from the last meat, or something.
Hmm….
yes i am.
🙂
IF YOU CAN GIVE ME A DATE FLIGHTS ARE ONLY LIKE $200 each way :)))
If I end up picking you up again, this time I’ll use the new car and actually pay attention to where I’m driving and not take several wrong turns.
I’m in*!
*might not be in.
I will secretly organise some sort of thing whereby your wife forces you to attend.
It’s in your best interest to just agree to attend.
@rize, some sort of wifely girldate w/kids might have to be on the cards.
PS: How’s dadhood going?
I’m sure that can be arranged!
All’s going well so far. Vaccinations today so I’m expecting some noise this weekend 😛
… oh god i want to attend so bad!
one day… one day i will attend one of these things again!
Unless they only play online FPS! right?!
Except for that Rocket man guy! What jerk!
I sometimes feel like im the worst person in a group of genuinely lovely people.
I bet @DC feels like that too despite it being baseless
Fucking anxiety man.
Nah. You’re pretty okay. Even if I’m yet to get a rockethug.
I do, man. I do. I can safely say you’re loved by all, my friend. 🙂
You’re the worst person? HAVE YOU MET ME? well yes you have but only for a short time, WHICH IS NOT NEARLY ENOUGH TO MAKE A JUDGEMENT 😛
Also you’re a cool guy, accept it!
You wouldn’t speak to me ya jerk. I had to state at you wistfully and wish I was cool enough to attract your attention!
😛
I’M SORRY I’M THE WORST PERSON EVER!
next time there’ll be hugs…
evenespecially if you don’t want them!Nah, you’re the promiscuous stud we all look up to.
Also, you’re all right.
Edit: besides, it was established long ago that someone else (Freeze, I think) is literally the worst, ever.
Wasn’t that McGarnical?
Yes, you’re right.
So it’s settled. McGarnical is worse than Rocketman.
It was. Interesting that @shane’s first thought went to myself.
Nice to know how you really think of me :'(
We have met remember.
Normally I’d roll my eyes and say it’s baseless but @batguy is totally coming to your house to bathe in the blood of your young at the next full moon.
Ah, so it was your personal details Batguy emailed to the rest of us.
Um, wow. If it improves the situation, you can tell her that you now have my return address, and I also have a son whose life I have apparently put at risk.
Or maybe it’s just best to shut up and await your inevitable doom.
Also, I now have the address of several other people, and have visited the houses of many people here. I’ve also been in @markserrels’ carpark.
Zero serious injuries so far.
I just don’t know when to stop, do I?
Don’t worry about it man, she’s just overreacting.
I’m not really. I just wanted to tell the Serrels carpark story. I was in Benny’s car, then we parked and walked out of the carpark. It’s a classic.
I would honestly trust most people I have spoken to on the internets more than most people in my neighbourhood.
Your average nutjob is too busy being a nutjob to frequent gaming forums.
Sorry man, I went to upvote your comment and I accidentally hit report comment, but then I hit cancel, I hope I don’t get you in trouble.
*punches Stan in the sternum*
Well that escalated quickly
*punches @dc in the Steam wishlist*
Thanks so much, man. This guy. THIS GUY.
So, it turns out that Summer sale voting isn’t for one game, but for a group of four games.
There’s two groups, each with their own category.
The two groups I’ve seen are “2D – Difficult” and “Couch Co-op”.
Better than picking between three games.
I just vote for the trading cards 😀
I just vote for OOOCCCTTTTOOOODDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDD.
Money so far spent on the Steam sale: $0
Winning \o/
2 new games, $0.22 profit 😉
#ZeroDollarClub \o/
Guys…. I’m sorry.. I gave in :'( I bought my first Steam Summer Sale game >.<
Van helsing 2 =[ Does anyone know if it has online co-op?
That’s ok.
I’ve spent $50 and it’s morning 1.
I need somebody to slap me whenever I think of buying a steam game from now on…
Ah well, toddlers don’t need to eat, do they?
I’ve spent about $30-$35 so far, haven’t spent anymore because I ran out of money and my pay hasn’t gone through yet, tried to buy Van Helsing II and it came up declined.
Yes yes join us!! Van Helsing weekend runs? =p
I’ll buy it as soon as my pay goes through, I’ll have to check if my laptop will run it.
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri
According to the store page it’s supports multi-player and co-op, doesn’t specify if it’s online co-op though.
I think it does because it’s in the ARPG genre like D3 and TL2. I’d be surprised if it didn’t.
I am currently looking at the game and really tempted to pick it up. =P
EDIT: Goddammit I just bought it, I blame everyone on TAY except me, especially YOU
*points to self*
Do eeeett! We’ll supplement Wildstar runs with Van Helsing =p
One of us, One of us, One of us, One of Us, One of us
@quiz_b gifted me South Park. D:
Ah man, what a guy! :’)
Oh oh ok, I see how it is, you’ll accept a game from @quiz_b, but not from me. No no don’t try to explain, it’s too late for that, the damage is done.
*runs off crying*
Fart based magic > Dinosaurs.
Just.
He ambushed me with a friend request! XD
And kindness.
South Park is a rad game too.
I’ve loved everything Obsidian has made! So, so grateful Stan!
Obsidian are one of the only remaining large independent developers out there. I love their stuff too.
Why won’t you take my gifts man? Why?
I have accepted your gift… of friendship!
*throws up*
I know right, @dc obviously doesn’t like us, He’s a monster.
You have to make it so that he’s guiltier about not taking the game than he would be accepting it. There’s an art to it.
Hahaha! Quiz’s message definitely had a touch of that! XD
I love making D.C. accept gifts!
He hats us all now that he’s joined the Stan Fan Band.
You rejected my attempt to put my hand in your pocket! :'( #nocontext
I didn’t reject it! I merely mocked you for it afterwards to offset my awkwardness 🙁
You can make it up to me by naming your third child Scruffy Jnr. (Appropriate for boys or girls.)
I’ll run it past the boss.
@transientmind, what should I do?
He’s’gone from Brisbane leader to TAY leader?
God dammit, how’s a CEO supposed to enjoy his golden perks with people bothering him with stuff all the time, insisting that he actually work?
Any kid named Scruffy Jnr is going to be a certified badass. Whether you want your kid to be a badass is up to you.
There. Now, @dc hold my calls, I have TAY-credit-funded luxuries to enjoy in the name of ‘fact-finding’.
@strange @greenius & other Nierfronds: I played more Nier last night.
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Presumably this puts me about 60-70% of the way through my first playthrough.
Getting kind of frustrated with how the enemies scale. The little dudes are impossible to hit with the 2H swords, but my best 1H sword (Beastbain) takes like ten hits to kill them but I can one-shot them with my current spear. So I’m using spears but the controls on the spears are shit, I want to use a 1H sword. 🙁
I think I need to level up Beastbain a few times and it’ll be fine, but getting the materials for doing that is an enormous pain and I’m honestly not really feeling the game that much. It’s good and it’s unconventional and has a lot of charm and one of the better English dubs of a Japanese game I’ve encountered, but the actual game itself is a 7/10 thing.
Should I be doing sidequests? They’re kind of a pain, lots of running around so I started ignoring them… Also at the point that I’m at, can I still upgrade my stuff? Also how important is it to do that second playthrough? Will I regret not doing it?
The second (third, and fourth) playthrough(s) add a whole lot to the game, though if you’re not enjoying it hugely then it may not be worth it. If it helps, the latter playthroughs only go through the second half of the game, so they should take less time.
But then, I stopped playing when I got up to where you are, so I don’t think I’m really in a position to talk that comprehensively about the game.
I did a bunch of the sidequests (except the flower growing, funk that) and felt like I would have missed a bit without doing then.
One of the reasons I gave up was the flower growing. I missed a day, killed my flowers, hadn’t done all the first act sidequests, and so had a pathetically small flower patch, and if I couldn’t have beautiful flowers, then the game wasn’t worth my time. >.>
I didn’t bother with all the side quests on my first play through. I tried some but they were pretty generic so I just stopped. If I recall correctly you need to complete 70% of them for something…? A trophy/achievement maybe?
I think the second playthrough lets you finish off some sidequests though, so don’t worry too much. (it’s been a while since I’ve played the game so if someone could clarify that, that’ll be groovy)
Looks like there’s achievements for 10, 20 and 30 done, and I got the 20 one last night.
On sidequests, do some but don’t worry about it too much. Some of them add more depth to the story, but others are just fetchy boringness.
I can’t remember too much about weapons apart from having to have a few different types of weapons to make sure I was prepared for all types of enemies. I do remember just running away from the enemies in that central plain area instead of fighting them more often than not, though as they were really annoying.
If you’ve got this far, you’re doing yourself a disservice to not do at least a second playthrough. The NG+’s go by much faster though. I remember it took me months to reach the end of my first playthrough, but I was done with all the NG+ playthroughs superfast, having seen all possible endings in a week or so.
:’) :’) :’)
>:( >:( >:(
=P=P=P
3= 3= 3=
He hats us all with a thirst that cannot be quenched.
:Q :Q :Q
htu
Gesundheit.
My copies of FF Type-0 and Valkyria Chronicles 3 for PSP arrived \o/ I can legit play the fan translations now! \o/ \o/ \o/
My PSP’s charger is still in my storage locker /o\
Oh God, I just realized that @batguy has been tagged multiple times today and he’s nowhere in sight. He must be on his way to my house to kill us all.
#sarcasm
He was, but I invited him in for a cuppa first. Hunting TAYbie is thirsty work
Oh he won’t kill you. You’ll wish he had. But he won’t.
I’ve been working hard, in between a couple of interviews. Should have some pretty cool news next week, actually.
@greenius FR sent, I’ll gift you that game as soon as you accept it. Thought it was funny that you’re on the blue team for the sale and I’m on the green team, nur nur :p
I accepted your friend request instantly like 10 minutes ago! :-). And yeah, I wanna be on the green team :(. Thanks! 😀
@powalen don’t forget to buy it too!
Cool, sent. Now everyone else buy it, don’t make me buy another 4-pack to share around.
Also, still got Frozen Synapse 2 Serious Sam: Classic Packs and 3 copies of the Dead Island: Epidemic Beta to give away, come on guys I want these gone from my inventory today.
Nah.
teams?
There’s teams and shit now. Apparently my team’s winning today. Go team. >.>
I’m on the blue team. I hate you and everything you have ever stood for. You are the worst, etc…
Am I “teaming” right
Purple is the greetest \o/
GOOOOOOO TEAM
NOOOOOOOOOOOO, Green is the best. Purple team sucks.
Boooo! Purple is the best for reasons i am not even entirely sure of, but definitely the best!
Nuh uh!
I’ve only checked Steam via the iPhone app because I slept in and didn’t have any time to sit in front of the PC while waking up like normal so I have no idea what this team stuff is. when I voted in the community choice my stuff was bordered with orange, so maybe I’m on the orange team? Or is that normal?
I did the same and experienced the same. I obviously need to log in via proper internet or go home and power up the new tiny humming machine-god which has deigned to enrich my home.
Tomorrow I am having lunch at a French restaurant then going to watch the Wallabies give the French a sound thrashing on the field of
battlefootball. After they’ve been humiliated physically and we’ve consumed their food, is the plundering strictly limited to gold and jewels or do we raze their homesteads as well?It is the 10th century, right?
I think the tradition is if we fail we have to close the wall up with our English dead. I hope you’ve been stocking up on English dead just in case.
If you weren’t going to already, it might be best to skip the upcoming TMNT movie.
There’s no link! D:
How odd, seems that when a link goes to a new page it breaks?
Memories of favourite childhood TV shows ruined page!
Now’s your chance to post some fanfics @freezespreston! =P
Don’t encourage him. >:(
Literarily the worst.
I know it’s going to be terrible and i know that i will still watch it XD
I was already going to. Calling Michael Bay out for making TMNT stupid when it’s already about mutant turtles taught ninjitsu by a rat so they can fight a bladed psychopath called “The Shredder” might seem illogical, but somehow he’s managed it.
Splinter looks pretty cool though.
… Maybe
I’m still going to see it.
And I have no idea why!
Don’t do it!
I… have to…!
Despite only really liking the first one, I’ve never missed a TMNT movie yet.
I’m not heavily invested in TMNT and that doesn’t look that terrible to me. But I understand the frustration as I am invested in Transformers and he’s fucked that over good and proper.
I didn’t watch much Transformers and even I felt sick after watching that “movie”. I loved TMNTs growing up and seeing that picture is just so painful. =(
villains.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Shredder
Is he supposed to look like that? because he certainly doesn’t from the picture!
Remember when they had a rap dance battle with Vanilla Ice?
Point is the Turtles were always retarded and people seem to keep forgetting that. I’ll happily watch Bay’s version because there really isn’t anything to ruin. Which is probably why I like the turtles so much.
I’m still confused, did kids who watched the original show aspire to be mutant turtles who lived in the sewers when they grew up?
Cause that’s kinda a weird aspiration :S
Like, I wanted to be a Power Ranger, but a mutant turtle?
C’mon!
I aspired to use as much gnarly language as they did.
RADICAL!
Bossanova!
Hey man, how about you go aspire to whatever the hell you want and leave us alone!
So much angst, it’s not my fault Power Rangers are 1000x better than Mutant Turtles ;P
You can’t stop me!
@tigerion
I appreciate the offer, but I’ll have to pass on it.
Thanks anyway. 🙂
What exactly did he offer you, it wasn’t sexual favours was it, because if it was, *shakes fist*
Also, FR accepted.
Well since you are curios……………
I graciously accept.
If TAY is an accurate microcosm of the worldwide gaming community, I cannot even imagine the sheer amount of money that must be flowing into Steam right now.
But it’s all discounted!!!!! Doesn’t that mean they’re losing money? :p
Exactly, if anything we are saving money. We are the responsible ones here.
*keeps buying things*
At this stage Gabe is Scrooge McDuck swimming through all the money!
One hell of a belly flop.
None of which is from me.
😀
Me neither!
#ZeroDollarsClub
Me too!
Though that’s cause I don’t Steam 😛
If it was a PlayStation sale on the other hand, then I’d be all over that like a rash on a hooker! 😀
You really should steam… does wonders for your skin! Clears them pores right up =D
…
I don’t Steam either! \o/
Not anymore! 😀
I suspect Aliens: Colonial Marines sale yesterday single handedly made it a smash hit. D:
And then there’s all the people buying trading cards to complete one set or another.
FREE MONEY
Well looking at the link that @crazyguy1990 posted yesterday, there is a number of games that you can actually make a profit on at the moment by buying and selling the trading cards
Okay guys, I have about $3.50 in my bank account.
Do I buy
Deponia, Runner 2, One way heroics (under a buck!),Fable the lost chapters (only fable game I haven’t played)or Hitsurugi Kamui Hikae?Tigerion just gifted me deponia.
And Pixel just gifted me Fable. In a way you’re helping but ina way not helping! /o\
EDIT: My bad, I thought The Lost Chapters was the one where you travel in the caravan or somesuch.
I remember playing the original Fable on Xbox. It was decent. If you’re a fan, it’d be nice to see where it all started…
The first Fable is great! Not sure about the other games but Fable is fun to play.
I have fable 1, 2 and 3. I enjoyed them all. I’m not very fussy.
Oh so you just haven’t played the Lost Chapter’s part?
Pretty much
Deponia is pretty rad.
Man the First Fable was the best Fable! All the others just kept messing with a winning equation =[
Tigs, man. Tigs. :’)
Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae looks cool but might not have that much substance? I’d go for Deponia personally.
it’s cheap and looks interesting
The Lost Chapters is just an expansion of the first game isn’t it? Still, the expansion was really good. Added a new island, weapons, armour and stuff.
I think The Lost Chapters was supposed to put back in content that got left on the cutting room floor when they realsied they couldn’t fulfil all the wild promises Molyneux made. TLC didn’t come close to bridging the gap between what was promised and what was delivered, but there were some improvements.
We can just keep gifting you things until there is only one choice.
#helping
Yup this!
@helping
Problem is, I still don’t know which one to buy
But we eliminated 2 of the options 😛
LESS CHOICES NOW \o/
AND I STILL DON”T KNOW WHAT TO BUY /o\
Okay to actually try to help Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae, looks like it could be a good bit of fun for $2.50… or, now that you have 2 games to play, save the money until something else hits flash sale and see if you’d rather that?
But I want to buy all the things. Plus it’s good to see what runs on my pc and what doesn’t. Might help me isolate the problem
There is no problem. You now have two of them so you don’t need to buy anything. \o/
@tigerion \o/
@pixel_the_ferret_viking \o/
If I had $3.50 in my bank account I’d go and buy a custardy donut. I’ve been craving one all day. If only it were as easy to gift donuts as it is to gift games. 😀
I could send one in the mail, although i question the quality of the product you’d receive
Mmmmmmmmmm Doooooonuts. *gurgle*
Save it.
While it’s sale time I’m looking for some recommendations. Rather than look at genres etc I’m just curious as to what games other Taybies have pumped the most hours into in a single game session in the last few years is?
I’ve certainly had double figures (in hours) sessions with CIV, HOMM, Football Manager, Skyrim, Tales of Graces, CKII and FFXIII-2.
Just curious as to whats grabbed some of you.
Edit: Actually anything on PC,PS3/4 would do.
I haven’t done a proper game marathon in years.
Last one I did was, I suppose, Starcraft: Brood Wars MP.
That said, if you’re looking for a game recommendation, I always recommend Dark Souls.
Most played game on Steam for me is Fallout: New Vegas. 123 hours of pure love. 🙂
Did you mean to say…. 1-3 hours of pure love? or is the 123 just a happy coincidence =P
Unhappy coincidence. You know how I feel about puns and word play. >:|
You love them, right? That’s why you love adventure games so much.
Skullgirls, PC version on Steam.
Get it, it’s $7.50, and you can get Squigly for $2.50, and Big Band for Free, as well as getting the endless Beta, which is getting work on it all the time.
So totally worth it.
In a single session? It’s probably FFXIV 2.0, I played several extremely long sessions during the opening weeks and also during the alpha and beta. Also MMOs kind of lend themselves toward poopsocking like that.
That aside, probably the last things I spent huge sessions on were maybe Tales of Xillia (I know I had a few long-ish sessions but we’re only talking maybe 5-6 hours in one go) and more likely Fire Emblem Awakening, because I was lying on a couch with broken toes, so I was playing it basically all day aside from breaks to eat – I could even take it with me to the toilet. It’s the last time I can recall dreaming about playing a game too, my subconscious was basically re-playing it all in my mind while I was sleeping.
Another one that happened was when I played through all of Ys I and Ys II in a weekend. Two very long sessions. But probably the last *true* Marathon session I had was the release for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Got in during the opening early access week, had taken time off work to play it, played with friends and pushed through from late afternoon through to midday, took a break to sleep a few hours, then played another super-long session.
EDIT: None of those are on Steam aside from Ys I & II though 😛
Thanks for the Tip, I recall playing a Y’s game once but it may have been on the Sega Master System? My vocabulary +1’s you for poopsocking I don’t want to probe too far into the etymology of that one. 🙂
Poopsocking is exactly what it sounds like.
Ys (‘eas’ as in ‘east’ or ‘ease’ – it’s French) was indeed released on the Master System, a localized port of the original game which was made for the PC-8801. It was ported basically everywhere. The one released on Master System was just Ys I. Ys I and Ys II together make a complete story, and the pair are usually bundled together now. Remade twice, once as ‘Ys I&II Eternal’ and then again as ‘Ys I&II Complete’ which is the version on Steam.
The Steam version basically has a graphic overhaul (redrawn sprites I think) and a soundtrack re-recorded by Falcom’s in-house band, but you can swap between the original, eternal and complete soundtrack versions in the options. And it plays exactly like the old Ys you might remember, where you bash into monsters to kill them. Ys I is okay but very retro. Ys II is better in literally every way.
XSEED also have some other more modern Ys games on Steam, but these are more third-person action games, all based off of the engine used for Ys VI (which isn’t on Steam yet 🙁 ). Origin is the backstory for the world, set centuries before Ys I and it’s probably the best of the Steam releases. The other one they have up is Oath in Felghana, which is a remake of Ys III (but chronologically is set after Ys IV). If you’ve got a Vita, then Ys IV is easily one of the best games on it, and IMO the best in the series, Ys Seven, is on PSP. The only one not officially in English is Ys V, which has a fan translation as of earlier this year.
(If you haven’t realized it already, I’m a massive fan of Ys)
CIV. Easily.
Civ IV. Easily.
Fallout 3 and NV easily.
WoW.
The last big one was Mass Effect 3.
My first true all nighter was Wrestlemania on the N64. That was a literal shock – mum opened my door and said it’s time for school, then told me off for getting up early to play my game.
Joke was on you mum. I never went to bed.
And then… the sternum incident happened.
CiV and Skyrim have taken the most of my time on the PC. Outside that it would have to be Hearthstone, Dota2, Payday 2, SWTOR and WoW. Mark of the Ninja is also a really solid buy, I haven’t spent hundreds of hours on it but definitely enjoyed the time I spent with it however short it was!
Upvote for mark of the ninja, amazing game
Single session? CiV and the new X-Com. Most hours overall accummulated in short bursts? Binding of Isaac.
I went in recently and had a few really long sessions of both Skyrim as well as Mount & Blade
I bought it for short bursts that I could play when I didn’t have much time but I smashed out the story missions on Injustice in a couple of sittings.
Civ is always good for that and recently I have been having trouble stopping from playing kingdoms of amalamdingdong: Reckoning when it is bed time
How’re you managing to playing Kingdoms on the PC? Got a controller setup?
Yeah, just a standard xbox360 plugged straight into the front.
I do that with most of my console ports that don’t require really accurate aiming. Playing the latest tomb raider the same way
I’ve put plenty of hours into The Binding Of Issac and Faster Than Light. Two relatively cheap rogue-like games that have heaps of re-playability.
They can be frustrating when you spend ages to get geared up and then die from a stupid mistake. but I still think they’re fun. I must hate myself.
130+ days (on my main character) in WoW, be probably 200+ days over all of my characters…
230+ hours in GTA IV including Episodes From Liberty City
100+ in Fallout 3
50+ in Vice City
60+ in L.A. Noire
50+ in GTA V
40+ in Assassins Creed IV (haven’t even completed 1/3 of the story)
60+ in Saints Row The Third
30+ in Driver San Francisco
It’s kind of obvious I prefer open world sandbox games to anything else 😛
Would you consider joining myself and sernobulus in Wildstar? =P
What’s Wildstar? 😛
Going back a few years now I had something like a twelve hour session of Gothic 3 when I was sick during final exams for uni. I would not recommend that game though as it is buggy as all hell (although apparently there are fan mods that make it better).
Other than that, most hours dedicated to a game in my Steam library is probably Blood Bowl, although I don’t think you’re masochistic like I am so you won’t enjoy it.
I actually own a copy but damn that commentary….
I turn it off all the time. I couldn’t stand it.
CK2!
o/
Longest play sessions? Probably Torchlight 2 & Dark Souls 2 & Skyrim & Dragon Age Origins.
Once a thing hooks me, I tend to marathon it.
Thats the kind of experience I’m after. Dark Souls is on the agenda, but after playing Skyrim I don’t really like the combat in the little I tried of dragon age. If I hit a shield I expect a sword to stop not slice innoccuously through multpile enemies.
I played Uncharted 2 from start to right before the finish (it crashed about 15-20min before the final boss) in one session a few years ago. Before that, I’ve played through the co-op of Resident Evil 5, Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Halo 3 and Army of Two overnight with friends before. Admittedly, that was more than a few years ago but it happened.
For more recent stuff, Civ 5 sessions cannot possibly be short and whole days have been sacrificed to it. More importantly, those sacrifices have been made with TAYbies so the total hours consumed by TAYbies is pretty large.
Finally, there’s Dota. I’m sure that some marathon sessions of that game have happened.
let me know next time you’re up for a Civ 5 session as I wouldn’t mind in. Mind you I’m hardly a power player at it. I miss unit stacking 🙂
Generally Civ sessions around here start with someone suggesting it, five people wanting to join in and then half an hour later there are eight players and Blaghs is bitching about librarians.
Ciiiiiiiiv.
Civ V and Mount & Blade Warband.
Would marathon those all day when I had the chance.
Without a doubt it’s either TES V Skyrim or CoD:MW2.
It seems the great tradition of joke steam sale gifts is on again: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mc5vqbhovdqta2m/tigerion-gift.jpg
Gave me a laugh! Thanks @tigerion
EwwRooGoo
Not nearly as bad as MooGoo
With each steam sale comes the troll gifts. =P
Gift ALL the terrible games \o/
Just lucky that I already own a copy of The Secret Of The Magic Crystals.
I’m thinking of ordering the Theatrhythm collectors edition from the Square Enix store, but I’ve got no use for a US 3DS game /o\
You could buy two copies of the game and sell the US one
I guess I would have to do that, I wonder how many people would have a US 3DS. I wished the 3DS wasn’t region locked ;_;
Yeah, we all do. I think a few people on here may have US 3DS’. Otherwise Ebay
Ynefel and Neg have a US 3DS if I recall.
Those exclusive editions are usually pretty tempting but thankfully I’m not interested in the Theatrhythm one. It’s just like a CD selection and case isn’t it?
SO MUCH THEATRHYTHM HYPE THOUGH!
THEATRHYTHM HYPE!! Yep, comes with 2 CDs and a pouch.
Buying Theatrhythm US was the worst decision though, since Squenix are dicks and made it so you can’t play multi with people from AU 🙁
I’m quite tempted by the Persona Q one since I don’t have a good carry case for my 3DS and it would match nicely with my Persona 4 one I have for the Vita. @nightflarer: what’s in the Curtain Call LE and what is your special secret for obtaining games from the Squenix store when they consider Australia to be a particularly nasty zit on the arse of their red-headed stepchild, Europe.
I use Shipito, it’s a mail forwarding service. They give you your own US address to send what ever you’re buying to.
When they receive a package they send it to you, it kinda gets expensive since your paying to shipping to a US address then you pay again for Shipito to send it to you.
I use Paypal on SE store because you can change the billing address but I haven’t tried to pay by credit card because I’m guessing they would reject my order if they found out.
The Square Enix store in Europe is worse, they don’t even let you browse their store.
This is the page for the CE: http://store.na.square-enix.com/store/sqenixus/en_US/pd/ThemeID.29853700/productID.304849200/categoryId.67843300/parentCategoryID.#.U6O47kBgHIY
Oh, the pouch is for a standard 3DS? Pass then. Both mine are XLs.
I’ve got the Persona Q XL pouch from Japan which is pretty much the same as the one they’re offering at Atlus US. It’s great! So you should probably get that one.
@nightflarer: probably will, just got to convince myself. The issue is that while I find the character designs for Q are awesome, I’m very unconvinced that the game will be any good since it seems to be chiefly trading on the whole HEY REMEMBER THESE CHARACTERS FROM THAT GAME YOU LIKED thing and I never played P3 past the first boss or so, and never finished P4 so that kind of doesn’t work on me.
@negativezero: yeah, it’s pretty much P3 & P4 fanservice so I’m not expecting anything deep, but the game should be pretty fun to play from what I’ve seen.
@nightflarer: it should be reasonable, but it seems to be just an Etrian Odyssey reskin in a lot of ways and I’ve never managed to finish any of those despite liking them.
Who cares about useful when it’s so pretty?!
You’re an enabling enabler who enables.
Enabler.
I get it! \o/
Haha, this is usually my reasoning for most purchases!
*smashes through the door, half-naked and covered in woad, wallet held aloft*
STEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAM SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALES!
AND I’M AT WORK, MISSING EVERYTHING.
And your computer is broken.
Master race.
NOT ANYMORE! BWUAHAHAHAHAHA!
THE POWER, IT FILLS ME. IT IS NEAT.
Steam App.
Re-post from previous page.
still got Frozen Synapse, 2 Serious Sam: Classic Packs and 3 copies of the Dead Island: Epidemic Beta to give away, come on guys I want these gone from my inventory today.
I think everybody has dead island:E so just check your list and send it to anybody who doesn’t have it
You
fantasticevil monkey.Thanks a bunch! 😀
I only accepted because I know you reallllllllllllllllllllllllllly want to get rid of it
Thanks man! you’re too generous for your own good XD
Thanks :P. I only accepted it too because I know you reallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly want to get rid of it!
Friends, friends, forget the Steam sales for the moment. This is The Game you need.
Seriously, though, I need your help.
If you’ve read (and preferably enjoyed) any of my other books, can you please write up a review of them for Amazon and/or Goodreads and/or elsewhere? All reviews go into the running to win a copy of The Game, and the first review that goes up is guaranteed to win. Details here: https://www.facebook.com/ShaneWSmith.Author/posts/728842717154999
Thanks. I now return you to your reckless spending. Enjoy.
Ouch
http://www.ausgamers.com/games/ea-sports-ufc/review/
AusGamers gave EA’s UFC game 4.7 out of 10.
I played it for about 6 hours last night and so much of that review is outright wrong.
I’d love to hear you or Mark S’s take on it, just because this review sounds wrong. I’m glad you’re saying it is wrong.
“everyone fighting on the ground loses stamina during actions, whether they’re the ones moving or not.”
Not true, you don’t lose stamina by blocking transitions or from making transitions, only from striking or having your transition blocked.
“there’s no real penalty for letting your stamina bar drain the entire way”
With no stamina you are unable to posture up to throw any real shots on the ground and shots on the feet are painfully slow.
“it seems no matter your position a player is able to hit L3 to stand-up”
You can only stand up from a dominant position, or from the bottom in side control and full guard.
” the game will only count a strike as a counter if the fighter does it following a successful dodge, slip or parry — hitting someone directly after they miss with their wild haymaker is no more efficient than at any other time.”
Not entirely sure on this one, but I don’t think this is the case as I got a flash KO from striking after they had missed.
“you can’t skip or auto-play your training”
You can, but you wouldn’t because that’s how you upgrade your attributes.
Seeing your corrections/clarifications of stuff they got wrong has made me a lot more interested in checking this game out than the passing curiousity I had a week ago.
Still low on the priority list though. Sadly my funds are mostly committed elsewhere for a month or two!
It’s certainly not perfect, but it’s not nearly as bad as that review makes it seem.
That seems like the reviewer fundamentally misunderstood how to play the game. Not quite on the level of my playing Madden and wondering where the handball option was, but close.
– You also lose stamina trying to standup, being blocked standing up and by getting punched in the body. And you do lose stamina when transitioning regardless of whether or not it’s blocked.
– Not a real penalty because throwing elbows while in downed posture while in full mount still does massive damage to your opponent.
– You can press L3 to standup while you are on the bottom in full mount. The only position I haven’t tested is on the bottom in a crucifix but I’m pretty sure it still works.
– I’ve tested it extensively, it’s not a counter.
– You get an insignificant amount of points from the challenges you do in training, and I’m pretty sure doing the same ones even has diminishing returns, but you don’t get to choose which challenges you do so eventually you just wind up earning sub 100 even with three black belts.
Okay, well in my time solely in career mode I either haven’t noticed or haven’t experienced the issues you’ve had. It’s possible you’re right, but in my experience with the game you’re not. But I’m also not playing it to review it, so there’s that.
That @crazyguy1990 is a gentleman and a scholar. Just gifted me Skyrim: Legendary Edition, Thanks so much man, I’ve played it a couple of times on Xbox, but never got very far, gonna make a real effort this time around.
Thanks again man, you’re a legend.
Crazybuy strikes again! what a guy!
Whenever Crazybuy visits I always imagine him as one of those hyper-excited warehouse salesmen.
“It’s the Steam sales, and I’ve got games coming out of every orifice!”
“Got bodily excretion stains on it? I’ll take 80% off the already discounted price!”
That’s a pretty awesome gift! That’s our CrazyBuy! 😀
Whoa, so generous!
Aw, shucks… you’re making me blush…
ヽ(=´▽`=)ノ
My right wrist has been screwy all week. Lots of pain, and so weak I can’t even lift a dinnerplate with it. I’ve been so bored because I haven’t been able to play games or do any sewing. Seriously bored. Like when you refresh a billion stupid internet pages constantly in hopes of new content bored.
So today, even though it hurts to use my rotary cutter and my iron I worked on my triangle quilt because I was so tired of being bored. And after a while, with power metal blasting and my sewing machine humming I didn’t even notice the pain anymore.
But now my right hand is swollen to nearly twice the size of my left one. Oops.
Edit: The swelling’s gone down since I’ve been just sitting around, it’s reduced to just kind of puffy-like now. 🙂
Put some ice on it to reduce the swelling
Do you have carpal tunnel or something? that sounds rather… bad
Last time I had something like this my doctor said it was tendonitis and to keep off it. She said she’d usually prescribe anti-inflammatories but as I was still feeding my son at the time that wasn’t possible and she told me to try dietary things with anti-inflammatories like turmeric. It went away eventually. I didn’t go to the doctor this time because I kind of couldn’t be bothered. 😛
I kept off it as much as could this time, but it started just before Mr. Strange had his wisdom teeth out so there was nobody around who could pick up the slack if I rested my right wrist. But he’s been better since Wednesday so I’ve been able to give it a bit more of a proper rest but yeah, probably shouldn’t have done any sewing today. I was just so damn bored!
I don’t know if you’re interested, but I’m happy to join in the spirit of gifting and announce you as a winner of The Game and send you a digital copy to read! \o/
Aww, thanks but it’s no donut. 😛
Seriously though, that would be awesome, as I haven’t gotten around to buying The Game yet. Thanks Mr. Writersaurus!
Haha, actually it was reading that kind of got my wrist in this state this time around, by the way. I’m pretty sure it’s because I was reading the small paperback of A Dance With Dragons which is almost as thick as it is wide. First time I’ve read a novel in novel form, not digital form for a very long time.
What’s your email pls?Nvm, found it!
Ice and Voltaren gel – rub in in twice a day and it will feel much better.
:S That doesn’t sound good.
Ahh, you experienced what experts call the “Blaghs peak of boredom.”
My solution to dealing with it is to just have a nap. Naps are the best.
*ahem* Firstly you put the lime in the coconut and… No wait that’s the remedy to a different problem..
Ok you should probably go to the doctor since I’ve run out of ideas! =p
One thing that I was shown to do for weak wrists was to get something like a squash ball or a stress ball and squeeze it for about 5-10 minutes per day. It helps to strengthen the muscles in your wrist.
Also I think you can get it at pharmacies or healthy living shops but see if you can track down a wrist support brace. You can wear them while you sleep and it helps prevent any strain or twisting.
Yeah, I’ve been strapping it up at night with some organic cotton jersey scraps from sewing because I couldn’t afford to go to the chemist for a proper brace. Works just as well and has the added bonus of being prettier colours. 😀
Some Tiger Balm or Deep Heat is pretty rad, although less colourful and more smelly.
Emu oil is also pretty good if you can grab some but that can be expensive.
@tigerion is winning at joke steam presents: https://twitter.com/redartifice/status/479833888118669312/photo/1
I laughed at that. I think I’ve seen too much page six and you guys have ruined my sense of humour. 😛
Then I have achieved in life. Joiiiiiin usssss
Fixed. Not ruined. Fixed.
I think you mean enhanced not ruined =p
http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/Trials_zps4e0ebb15.png
Thanks Crazybuy, I can finally checkout this game that @fatshadylive keeps going on about
The over the top dramatic-ness of Van Helsing II coupled with the below average voice overs would probably turn people off. I however have a grenade launcher and a flame-thrower so ….
Now all it needs is a grenade launcher that shoots grenades that explode into flame-throwers and I’m in.
Stupid personal issues time!
Why can’t I put spoiler tags in? It just removes them?
So my whole family now knows so I figured might as well not bother keeping it to myself. I’ve been avoiding people/TS the last few months after I had a mental breakdown on my way to work. I was taken to the medical clinic and put on suicide watch for a week. Now I’m on anti-depressants and routine check-ins from medical staff. I don’t think I’ve slept so much in my whole life, averaging 6 hours at night and 6 hours during the day. So tired now.
And oh man, been watching Dragon Ball from the start. I previously started at DBZ. I just want to get back to DBZ already, only 60 more episodes to go!
You can rot13 it (rot13.com)
Also, *hugs*.
Sincerely hope everything gets better for you.
Spoiler tags have been broken for quite a while, getting bloody annoying.
Nothing stupid out that, I’m glad you got the help you needed, just a pity that it took the major incident for it to happen.
Hope things are looking better. I’ve never watched DB, only DBZ, from what I have heard they actually aren’t that much different?
Pretty much the same thing. I just like the whole Goku being an adult thing. AND VEGGIE-EATER, he’s the best.
Dragonball is a lot more comedic/fun than DBZ! I prefer it!
Definitely worth a watch. No filler episodes, either!
Plus it has the best character in all of the franchise: Launch.
I find it really weird that she just vanised when DBZ started and noone ever spoke of her. It’s like that time that @dc killed that drift-uhhhh I mean, It’s not like that because that never happened.
So sad.
The reason was apparently they didn’t want people to confuse her for a Super Saiyan due to her hair changing colour. Damn reasons robbed me of my favourite character!
I’m still holding out hope that one day they’ll include her as a playable character in one of the fighting games 😛
That’s a terrible reason to not include a character. Why not just change her hair colour or something?
Oh well. She would’ve got pushed to the sidelines after the first saga anyway, just like all the other non-fighting Dragonball cast besides Bulma 😛
Seriously? That’s what I’ve been doing past few nights. I keep falling asleep after about 4 episodes though so progress is slow.
It’s a pretty messed up show though. Not really child friendly as I first thought.
So much sexual content. It’s crazy that they aired it as a kids morning show!
I recall there being an episode dedicated to Master Roshi using some shrinking device to shrink himself down so he could watch Bulma on the toilet.
…
They certainly cleaned it up for Dragon Ball Z. Maybe that’s what the “Z” stands for? “Zero sexual content”? =P
Hey man, I must have missed that. Sorry to hear it but I hope things have been improving.
I used to watch Dragonball on Cartoon Network back in the day but they only seemed to have the episodes up to the end if the first tournament, because I must have seen those episodes like three times. I read some episode recaps of the Red Ribbon/Andoird stuff and I don’t feel like I really missed out.
I never saw the Majin saga of DBZ either but I hear it all got a bit ridonkulous after Cell. I might let those memories stay back in the late 90s/early 00s.
Also you’re not on mirtazepine something like that? Doc put me on those and I had to stop taking them as I couldn’t stay awake at all.
Citalopram. One of the side effects I’ve been having are frequent nightmares. Which is crazy. Fell out of bed the other day. But they’re getting less frequent so that’s a plus.
Hey we can be citalopram buddies! In my experience most of the side effects of various psych drugs are just your body adapting to the new balance (not the brand of shoes, though if you put a pair of those in your head it would probably have side effects).
For me the side effect was an increase in lethargy but since that was one of the major problems I had before I started, it basically turned my brain off until the psych gave me dexamphetamines to help counter that effect. All I need to do now is fix the crippling social isolation and loneliness and I might well become a functional human!
On the plus side, once you get to DBZ you can use all that extra sleep time to get through the filler episodes and powering up.
Or just watch DBZ Kai which takes out or summarizes all the stupid filler.
Or just watch DBZ Kai Abridged which takes about two minutes
It’s not stupid personal issues time, it’s hugasaurus rex time! *hugasaurus rex*
Seriously though, not stupid at all. I’m glad you’re having help and I know you can get through this. Don’t ever forget that you’re awesome. <3
Mental health issues! \o/
No wait, the other one.
Hope things get better soon man.
There’s nothing wrong with getting help, or needing some medication to help you through a bout of mental illness. Would we mind if you said “I collapsed on the way to work and now I’m on blood pressure medication”? No. This is the same sort of thing, and in time, it will get better. Best wishes xx
Aw man 🙁
I hope Philly and Robbaz can help though!
There are no stupid personal issues, only stupid questions!…
…wait…think I messed that up…
Seriously though dude I’m glad that your family and friends know – I’ve seen mental issues break down a lot of people in my life, particularly my old man. I saw the biggest influence in my life and the man I admire most become a shadow of his former self. Whether it be pride, embarrassment or not wanting to be a burden on others, it seems that most people (men seem to be particularly bad) never reveal that they’re having problems and never seek help. He’s doing alright now, but the months he refused help were some pretty dark times for him and my family. I hope your family is as supportive as mine was to my dad, and that you’re getting all the assistance you need. Not to mention those random internet friends you have.
Seriously.. Seriously though – Dragon Ball? How bout’ that obsession with panties amiright?
That’s rough, man, but I’m glad you’re getting help for it. Hopefully you’ll level out with the sleeping thing,
Sorry to hear that you weren’t doing so great. Good to hear that you seem to be doing better now. At least, DBZ marathon makes me think so.
*hugs*
I just realised that the Far Cry 3 Daily Deal extends to ALL of the Far Cry series (not just number 3). In a completely unrelated note I now own Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon.
Didn’t they have the entire franchise pack for $15?
To be honest, I really don’t like the Far Cry’s before 3. So boring, I would prefer to spend less then $5 to get blood dragon and not waste my money on the other games.
Fair enough. I quite like the first one, couldn’t get into 2 at all and loved the first half of 3. It got a bit stupid in the second half. Blood Dragon is my favourite by far.
Wait, that note’s not unrelated at all
HE LIED TO US
Atleast it wasn’t through song.
I hate when people do that.
…through song. I HATE when people do that.
Edit: Dammit Shane, click refresh before you post your plagiaristic witticisms.
DCS: Black Shark….
60% off… *drools*
Phonecall from work friend, I don’t start til Tuesday! \o/
…
Oh god I start work on Tuesday! /o\
Better than monday.
Wish it was Sunday – that’s my funday.
Got home from the school run to an email with a gift of Shane W Smith’s The Game from the author himself. Way better than a donut. 😀
Was it signed? Doesn’t count if it wasn’t signed.
Highly debatable 😉
When you review the book, make sure to put that in.
So Torchlight 2 is a thing I have never bought, despite the sales and general sounds of approval.
Does anyone play it still? Be up for co-op?
I played a little bit but it didn’t run well on my PC. I’m putting a new on together this weekend, so time permitting,: Yes, yes I am up for co-op.
I know @tech_knight plays it fairly regularly, or used to at least.
Sure I’d be up for Co-op
I’d totally be up for co-op! \o/
Whoa.
I was really looking forward to the potential for the Beta Bar here in Melbourne to succeed where the Mana Bar failed. They just started a crowd funding campaign to get a portable kit to do events at existing bars until they have their own. Cool enough.
Look a bit deeper – part of the campaign involves 6 custom arcade cabinets.
From a new start up company – still in the R&D phase, with no proven products.
Owned by one of the beta bar founders.
Yeah… This has got conflict of interest stamped all over it. Without some seriously detailed disclosure, this just looks like a scheme to funnel money into their struggling startup.
Disappointing.
Man that sucks =\
That seems incredibly shifty, yeah. Definitely not putting money behind that.
May also be worth pointing this out to @markserrels since that campaign’s the sort of thing that Kotaku AU would probably run a story on.
I had a look through the Ts & Cs but couldn’t find anything against ‘being dodgy’. Ah well.
Just got a twitter response, they reckon only 3-4k of the funding for that. Slightly less dodgy if it’s only about 25-30%, but there’s still a conflict there.
It’s not even whether it’s dodgy or not. The rule of thumb with conflicts of interest is that if they might even possibly look suspicious, then either disclose them, or get out of the situation with the conflict completely.
It’s not about the reality of the conflict, it’s about the appearance of a conflict.
Agreed. Perception is key.
@quiz_b @welbot @pupp3rmast3r @tech_knight @masterfie
Tomorrow night at 8?
Assuming you need uplay friends to play. I’m MikeyW2009.
@pupp3tmast3r
I feel like I’m missing someone
Just confirming, we’re doing VI right?
If so, then yes I’m good for that
That’s the one.
Any deets on how we’re splitting up? Is it FFA cos if so I might as well forfeit =p
hey mate sorry had some family dramas today if you’re still playing let me know how to jump in.
Otherwise catch you next time.
Cheers mate,
I might be interested if there is a flash sale between now and tomorrow morning
I’ll have to double check my Uplay details but I’ll post them on TAY and tag you guys for it!
I should be ok with that. Just need to re-install the game from steam. Cheers for giving plenty of notice 🙂
Also my uplay nick is just welbot
7 Days to Die – Is on a community picked sale right now. Worth the 13$ or 21$ for a double pack? My issue is that there seem to be a thousand ‘Open World Survival Game Against Zombies With Crafting’ lately.
I heard that it was a bit shit, but then, I can’t remember who said that, where I heard it, or what sort of shit they were really talking about. I mean, there’s a difference between a Bristol Four in the toilet bowl, and a Six that’s been sprayed all over your kitchen, right?
Oh god. This is my favourite comment of the year.
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
I mean, there’s a difference between a Bristol Four in the toilet bowl, and a Six that’s been sprayed all over your kitchen, right?
I’m holding off on any of them until they get out of early access and seeing which of them has risen to the top. I know a few guys have been playing and enjoying The forest but to be honest they are all blurring and seems a lot of people are buying on the potential not the actual game.
Aye this, so many of these kinds of games are making promises but not actually getting out of early access…. Also this particular genre is exceptionally saturated >.<
Should not have watched this at work, trying to stifle giggling
Bowie and Jagger’s Dancing in the Street video sans music : http://www.avclub.com/article/david-bowie-and-mick-jagger-dancing-street-without-206009
Orion: Dino Horde is surprisingly not terrible
😮
I had a quick go and it seems like good stupid fun… AI was pretty meh, but overall i enjoyed myself… with a band of merry men i can imagine it being good fun!
Edit – i died! to a T-REX… that was throwing rocks… GOTY 10/10
Playing it without me, ugh.
Playing it without me, ugh.
hahahahhaha and it is now in the voting as a 90% off game
Should have listened to Aragorn
Aragorn didn’t say that we shouldn’t accept free gifts!
Playing it without me, ugh.
I believe it’s called Onion: Dino Horde.
All the onions!
You should have played it when it first came out…
I don’t know how a game that graphically horrible could run so terribly…. i don’t think i ever got over 15 frames, everyone says the games gotten so much better, but it’s hard to forget how terrible it was….
And on that note if anyone wants a copy I have 3 from last time it was stupidly discounted
Oh man, a bunch of people have it now. We could get some serious multi happening!
well if anyone shows interest and needs a copy you let them know I have 3 to give away
Some of my Briswegian friends have started playing Torchlight 2. They wanted me to join in and now it’s $5 on Steam.
This is making it incredibly hard to say no.
Jo was considering it. Continue the Diablo 3 shenanigans!
But Jo has the blurst friends!
I can make new ones!
Yaaaaaay!
The blurst!
Alright so @blaghman are you having a meat in August?
I’m toying with the idea of making the trip to Canberra because i haven’t been back since i moved 😛
Also putting the callout to any Melbourne Taybies, as (if this is to be a thing) i’m planning on driving and i’d be happy to have passengers, we could pool fuel money and get to canberra really cheaply 😛
Don’t be a fool, pool your fuel.
When are you going?
Depends on Blaghs, and when he is planning the meat 😛
So yeah at this stage its a TBA thing until blaghs locks in the details… Are you interested?
Maybe, not sure yet.
Righto well keep it in the back of your mind, i’ll try and keep organising stuff and hopefully it happens 😛
I guess so, yeah.
‘Rents are away, so the introverts go inside to play, and all that. I think they’re away all month, so I just need to choose a weekend.
excellent well keep me posted
Orrr…and hear me out on this…Month long party
@sernobulus Van Helsing co-op when I get back home in a few hours? Or Wildstar?
My goals for the weekend:
– Haircut
– Watch The Wind Rises
– Finish Nier.
– Maybe finish Nier again
– Maybe finish Nier again again
– Maybe finish Nier again again again
– Bravely Default?
– Do not look at Steam.
– DO NOT LOOK AT STEAM.
Steam….Steam….It calls you….
I like those goals.
– …look at Steam
– Cry in failure, then feel better because CHAEP GA-EMS
I will probably do what @powalen says but unlikely to do what you mention because I already own basically everything on Steam that I’d consider.
And I paid full price for a lot of it 🙁
May also consider playing the rest of Infamous Second Son if I can get some decent PS4 / TV time.
Finally finished exams!
*does happy dance*
Now I’ll actually have time for games and stuff!
Still toying with the idea of a holiday too.
There’s so much stuff I can all of a sudden do :3
If I do decide I want to travel though, I’ll need to book time off work pretty soon :S
I don’t know what to do! :S
Come and drink with Freeze?
Would you want to have a drink with me?
Why wouldn’t I?
That means a lot more to me than you realise 🙂
I’ll see if I can book some time off tomorrow then 🙂
Weekend of July 5 is Bum Around At My Place And Eat All My Food And Drink All My Alcohol, Break My Games And Lose Boardgame Pieces, Crash In The Lounge Room And Leave In The Morning Before Things Get Awkward Night Meat.
Or another BAAMPAEAMFADAMABMGALBPCITLRALITMBTGAN Meat (@shane’s acronyms have nothing on my witticisms)
They’re usually pretty great.
That might be a bit short notice for me to make unfortunately :S
Still need to plan stuff, and book stuff, and get time off, haha!
Well that drink is here whenever you want it.
So, I ended up buying Bit trip runner ^^;;
That’s not a donut! 😛
I can’t help thinking that a lot of the reason that No Man’s Sky has been so popular is that it seems to be a game that isn’t about grim, gritty, dark and full of people murdering each other.
Splatoon
Hardly a AAA game.
Neither is No Man’s Sky.
True.
Two words, SPACE DINOSAURS
I was gonna say because everyone doesnt want it to fail like Watch dogs over hype
@steve-o_the_deve-o @tech_knight @crazyguy1990 @trjn
Do you want to make a date for Torchlight 2 shenanigans or just wing it?
I was only really planning on playing with my Briswegian friends. Depending on how much I like the game, I might roll another character but that’s taking time away from precious things like Dota and more Dota.
Fair call.
I’ve already got it installed and wanted to check out the berserker class anyways, add me on steam when you play my kotaku name with 007 at the end!!
I’m free every night except Monday.
Any night should be fine with me with enough warning I can plan around it 🙂
Damn it @tigerion. I finally summon the will to close Cookie Clicker and break it’s hold and you go and do that to me? You horrible horrible man.
Thanks.
At 4:30 I let Mr. Strange know he had to be me tonight, and I had a little nap. Two hours later, he still hadn’t even decided what he was going to cook for dinner and he asked our son what we should have for dinner. So now he’s gone to buy McDonalds for dinner. I wish it was that easy to be me all the time. 😛
Maybe you’d let him be you all week just to see what happens 😉
That much McDonald’s isn’t healthy.
Precisely! Then they’ll appreciate the delicious dinners they normally get!
That makes perfect sense!
Tell him that I tell him to play Xenoblade! (as I would normally tell you :P)
Thanks @blaghman, i promise i will make the best most perfectly normal loving father!
I love perfectly normal fathers doing perfectly normal things!
Huh? Apparently Steam trading cards have full size artwork :O? I had no idea until now!
I still don’t know how to view it since I don’t have any trading cards at the moment, but good to know…
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Fifteenth Session Recap (28th May 2014) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Phetys aka @mythamphetamine the mechanical Nano who fuses flesh and steel,
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders,
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
And unfortunately absent:
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places, and
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness.
The tattoo merchant’s caravan rattled down the road and away from the party as the sound of screaming still emanated from the lake. The road east towards the Field of Towers rose in a gentle incline as the Black Riage mountain range that separated the Beyond and the Steadfast loomed in the distance. The party decided to delay heading towards the Aeon Priest enclave as they wanted to further investigate the curious case of the screaming statues.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Someone got Inked? whos rockin the sleeve?
@mythamphetamine, @blaghman and @novacascade all got tats, each of which can be activated to detect something or other
Jb Hi Fi staff is my guess
Aliens: Colonial Marines is….
Not great.
Who knew? 😀
Why hasn’t anyone ever said anything?
Guys…. I cracked….
I bought DCS: Black Shark, as well as Bioshock Infinite DLC…
D:
Welcome… To the brotherhood of destroyed wallets….
#ZeroDollarClub 🙁
Is Don’t Starve any good? $4 isn’t a lot of money but I don’t see the point if it’s shit.
I play that every day!
Question not yet answered…
I enjoyed what little I played of it. Never really got super into it though.
I love it, so do it 😛
I really enjoyed it, plus with the release of the multiplayer mod coming out sometime in the future it will get a huge re-surge.
EDIT: Probably worth noting, multiplayer mod will be free for those that own the game but the game’s price WILL increase for those that don’t already own it.
Yeah, I liked it! Klei are pretty cool 😀
Hooray! Me an ol @powalen are gonna do so much.. uh… do whatever it is that Orions do to hordes of dinosaurs..
make them cry?
Call them fat then tell them they’re adopted?
You could just chop yourselves, I imagine that’ll work, what with you guys being onions and all.
You sound just like my parents. :/
Yay we can shooty shooty bang bang Dinos together
WOOO!
@powalen it ain’t no Dinner Date…
I’d never spend that much on anybody else.
Adding everyone to my Wii U now
I was already added *hipster hair flick*
I would hipster flick but i have no hair and I dislike hipsters..damn hipsters
Did you add me? You haven’t added everyone till you’ve added MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Yes
Mines theDrivenLion, not Liondrive! 🙂
I know, I used taynames
Oh right, I forgot I updated my details on there the other day!
Never mind! :3
All good!
@evilmonkey Have you used the flight stick yet? I finally got mine out this afternoon, and it was going great for a while. But now it’s borked and the yaw keeps butting in on all sorts of other actions and it’s impossible to control :/
Nah, haven’t used it yet, I took it out of the box and that’s as far as I got. I’ll try and give it a go soon and let you know how it goes.
What flight stick do you have?
It’s the AV8R-02 that came with Damage Inc.
It seemed pretty cool while it worked 😛 Finally found the config utility and can actually see what’s going on now. The twist control for the z-axis keeps cutting out whenever I pull in any of the other directions. Lucky HES is like a 15min drive from here, so it’ll be easy to take in for repair/replacement.
Been tryna get Game Face to work in UFC for the past 2 hours, ughhh dodo internet is the worst internet, I think AOL was faster than this
Yeah, so I spend a couple months with a busted video card limiting what I can do, then a couple weeks with a straight-up busted PC unable to be used, then I get it fixed into a swirling nexus of godlike gaming potential, and what game do I play?
…The Steam Summer Sale game, where you load up all the games whose trading cards you haven’t yet unlocked so you can get booster packs for them with your insane Steam level, which you can then sell on the market or craft complete decks to get Steam Summer Sale Cards which you can craft for more points which will get you more cards which OH MY GOD WHAT AM I DOING?
TAY, I have a Logitech Attack 3 PC Joystick laying around.
Would anyone like to have it?
I better not, the missus would freak out, especially if she saw it was sent from someone called crazyguy.
Maybe… I would love to try playing space sims with a stick.
What do you want for it?
Nothing.
I’m giving it away, as it’s not getting any use.
Cheers man! I can throw shipping costs your way if you like.
What is your email? I shall send you my deets.
crazy(underscore)guy(underscore)199096(at)hotmail(dot)com
Replace what’s in the brackets with the actual symbols. 🙂
1. Checked with KMart. They won’t reserve those cheap Wii U consoles ahead of time. Gonna have to try my luck on Thursday morning if I decide to get one.
2. Has anyone ever seen a show called Teachers? Andrew Lincoln (better known to most of you, I suspect as Rick from The Walking Dead, or possibly the guy desperately in unrequited love with Keira Knightley in Love Actually) is the lead actor. I’ve watched almost all the first season. Really digging it – reminds me of Spaced and Scrubs in a lot of ways, and has a lot of character.
Off to bed.
Goodnight, TAY.
*glances at clock*
Nah, still not late enough yet.
It can never be late enough.
Agreed.
Don’t forget, if you’re looking to get rid of Steam cards because you don’t care, I’m more than willing to take them 😀
I didn’t care and was just giving them away until I discovered the magic of Steam Marketplace.
I’ve earned something like $25 from selling cards to chumps 😛
Cards are seen as a bit of a joke and time-wasting, but the fact is they usually go for 10-30 centrs per game (depending how popular the game) and you usually get 3-5 cards free just for having it installed and run for a few hours, after which point you randomly get booster packs which contain a further three, so even if you only sell the cards you get you’re looking at at least $0.30-$1.50 back per game, and that’s before you get foil cards. I’ve had foil cards drop from booster packs which have sold anywhere from a couple bucks to over twenty bucks.
That’s a lot of reward for little to no effort or money investment. But if you’re truly deranged, you can swap cards around (hi @tigerion!) and complete badges to increase your steam rank which increases your booster pack rate. At the maximum drop-rate increase, I’m getting around at least one pack a week. You’re eligible for more packs for each game you complete the free drops for, so I still have many more boosters to be eligible for!
IT’S A GAME IN ITSELF.
Whoa D:
I didn’t know a higher level meant a higher drop rate. All the lost opportunities D:
It makes no noticeable difference. I’m level 30 and think, since the intro of cards, I’ve received 5 booster packs. I’m eligible for at least 30 games, too…
Kinda bummed it’s all tied into your steam level.
I have never cared about badges so have a crap level and can barely participate in said game.
That’s why you start buying cards to boost your level.
Hmmm yea…
Nope. Not gonna get trapped in Transientmind’s steam spiral of doom.\
But maybe…
So let me get this straight, you can collect a set of cards and craft the badge as many times as you want, the more times you craft the badge the more frequent the cards drop.
Nah, it’s a two-parter thing. One is your steam level – that’s your drop chance for booster packs. The other is the free cards you get with simply owning a game. You always get those, just from playing.
So when you go to the ‘badges’ section of your profile, you’ll see how many are left per game. They just drop over time, the rate isn’t affected, it’s just a matter of hours with the game running. (Which is why I have a dozen hours logged on games I don’t care about, etc.)
The idea is that you’ll get doubles so you go to the trading forums, trade with your friends, or buy on the marketplace to get rid of your doubles and fill your gaps with other peoples’ doubles (or cards they simply don’t care about and want to sell for ten cents).
If you get all the ‘free’ cards for a game, you don’t get any more from playing it, only from trading or booster packs. Booster packs are assigned randomly across the Steam network anytime anyone in the world crafts a badge. A higher steam level increases your chance of getting one of those packs.
You can only get booster packs of cards for games you’ve already grabbed all the ‘free’ cards for.
That’s about as much as I know, @jocon, @greenius.
So the more badges you craft the more your rank increases, and the higher your rank the more frequently you get booster packs, correct?
My ‘yes’ down lower on the page was actually a reply-fail to this.
But I’m going to leave it because there’s just so much in life it could apply to.
Cheers man, just so I’m clear it makes the most sense to craft badges and keep collecting sets of cards to level up your badges to max to increase your rate of booster pack drops, and then start selling your doubles and anything you get in the booster packs, yeah?
Cheers for the info, sorry for asking so many questions.
Yes. You ‘play’ the Steam card game in order to… get better at the Steam card game. c.c
Ain’t no bovva guvna!
A standard badge can be crafted up to level 5. And as full set of cards is needed for each level. Each level has a different title and a different image. Normally they increase in “power” based on the game. S For example Skyrim badge starts at Iron, then the next level is steel. All the way up to Daedric at level 5.
The exception to this is the sale badges that have no limit, so you can craft them as many time as you get a full set of cards. So you can, and people have gone stupid with it. Some have gone well beyond stupid.
Each badge gives you XP towards your steam rank which unlocks different things on your steam profile, as well as a background and an emoticon.
If you really want to play the game you can technically get games for free. So far this sale there have been a number of games that you can purchase that will drop cards worth more than you pay for the game
Oh and the other part to this is buying cheap cards and reselling. It normally costs 2 or 3 cents to buy a card, money goes to value and the developer. So if you can buy something 5c below the average then you can resell at a average (or above) and make a profit.
The important thing is that I’m now going to stop giving Freya my spare cards and instead just sell them. I already made over TWO DOLLARS (awwwwww yisss) selling the random cards in my inventory.
Now to spend that money on hats in Dota.
Welp, I fucked up today, can we do it over?
My cousin has his fifth birthday party today, and my sister was supposed to pick me (and the presents) up from here, and we’d drive up and party.
Instead I slept through my alarm, had my phone on silent so I didn’t hear her ring, and she gave up waiting after like fifteen minutes and drove off.
Ballsacks.
People are meant to wake up before 8.30 on a weekend?….
Well, when there’s a party for small children at eleven, and it takes three hours to drive to Thirlmere, a pact is made with Satan and the unholy hours become real.
That’s why god smiled down upon thee and delivered unto you…skype!
Be where ever your meant to be without actually being there
But in this case I won’t be delivering the presents, which were kind of the important part here.
And then I have to explain to my parents why I wasn’t present to present the presents, and that ain’t gonna be fun.
What, she couldn’t knock on the door? Was she a courier in another life? 😉
Shit, she has a key, she could have walked in and yelled at me.
But meh, I didn’t get up, I’m not going to try and shift blame to her, as tempting as it is to try.
@quiz_b @welbot @pupp3tmast3r @tech_knight @masterfie
Tonight at 8. Six heroes play Heroes VI.
At this stage I’m still good to go! Waiting to hear from my dad/sis about my mum though. Should still be good even once I’m all caught up, but need to know their plans first.
Should be one rather epic battle though! You guys prepared for a long game? 6 players will no doubt take a while!
Timed turns yes?
Well I think we possibly should put a time limit on, but I think from memory, that players can simultaneously take turns in multi player now? Will have to double check, cos it’s been a while since I played, but I’m sure there’s an option for it somewhere.
Promote it like you mean it!
This Saturday, 6 heroes collide on the battlefield of glory glory GLORY! These titans go head to head at 8, 8, 8! At their homes and on the internetfor ONE. NIGHT. ONLY! BE THERE!!!
Tonight at 8, 5 heroes play HOMM.
Because mrs quiz is crook as a dog and I doubt I’ll get the chance to participate.
Very bummed about it to be honest.:(
Ask her why she hates me so much…
Dunno if I’m gonna make the game in time. My internet went a bit spastic before, and I’ve only just been able to start the download for Heroes again, and it estimates about 6 hours to download. 😐
Forgot how damn big the game is! 10Gb+!!! Crazy! Fingers crossed my internet will suck it down in time!
I was testing it yesterday so I’m up and ready to go
Bloody hell steam. Just because I own a game doesn’t mean I don’t want to buy a 4 pack to gift out to people.
$5 for a 4 pack of dino shooty shooty, looks like I might just have to buy some individual copies
I have 3 copies if you know anyone who wants em
YES.
I tried to do this as well last night. @freezespreston ruined my plan of buying the 4 pack to give out to other people because he gifted me the game first. What a jerk.
My plan worked perfectly *tents fingers*
I just had a similar thing. Bought a bundle that had 1 game I already owned, 2 I didn’t, expecting to get a second copy of the one I owned to give away. No extra copy. So I paid $2 or so extra for nothing 🙁
So that’ll be the last time I buy stuff from Steam for a while. >:(
Yep. I wanted to give Monaco to EVERYONE
@EvilMonkey should be renamed Generous Monkey! Thanks man… Does the game come with complimentary spare underwear?
Haha, It’s probably better if you sit on the toilet/put on an adult sized nappy while you play.
How does KOTOR play?
I’m thinking of downloading it on my laptop but it only has one usb port, which will be taken up by the hard drive.
Do I need an external mouse or would a trackpad be fine?
http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/m20ProductDisplayView?catalogId=10551&langId=&productId=87023&storeId=10151
Yeah, I’m planning on getting a 3.0 one (I have a 2.0 now and either the hard-drive or mouse/controller fails when I’m using it) but not *right* now 😛
Do you use your optical drive much? You can always pull it out and whack one of these in to mount the HDD internally, unless it’s a desktop sized one obviously…
KOTOR can pause pretty much any time you want so a trackpad should be tolerable. The only time pause & order isn’t possible is in the racing sections but those would be keyboard driven anyway
Just got the last Steam Summer Sale Trading Card and crafted the badge, WOOOOO!
Damn you Steam and your irresistible prices!
Just when I thought I was over PC gaming, Steam sales draw me back in.
…I should get a new PC.
This Steam Marketplace thing is great for people like me who don’t care 😛
Just made back a few dollars from selling some cards. I should buy more copies of Onion: Dino Horde!
Should’ve bought them earlier, it’s back up to $3.74 now.
Now it’s just a case of waiting to see if it is part of the encore sale
!!!!!!
http://gematsu.com/2014/06/nis-america-launch-european-online-store
“European fans will soon have the opportunity to purchase the same limited editions released in North America.
When the store launches next Tuesday, the following limited editions will be available for pre-order:
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (PS Vita)
Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited (PS Vita)
Fairy Fencer F (PS3)
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth ‘The Wild Cards’ Edition (3DS)“
*excludes Australian access
Considering their US store is happy to ship stuff to us (I’ve been ordering LEs of their releases since around 2006 from them) I don’t think they’ll be dicks about it.
Ohhh, Purse Owner. I’m looking forward to some more Purse Owners
I want the wilds cards edition so bad
I played a bit of the Hardline beta, and I’m not sure whether it’s my laptop, my internet, or a combination of the two (or something completely different) but it was the most laggy thing, even on the lowest graphics settings. Blegh.
It uses EA servers. That’s all you need to know.
Someone (who’s totally not me) should organise an Onion Dinosaurs playsesh!
I might even talk!*
*offer ends at the end of the weekend when I’ll be unable to use a headset for a while 😛
How about tonight 8:30pm, I ain’t talkin’ though.
I could do that! Depends if anyone else is keeeen
@transientmind, @pixel_the_ferret_viking, @Blaghman, @tigerion, @rize, @coldcamv, @powalen, @freezespreston
Could be a go, hit me up on steam if you want a game
Depends on Mrs Tigs and what time we are doing dinner
Can’t tonight as will be at Cathryn’s family house for the night
Maybe tomorrow night then (if I’m not on Mario Kart). There’s a whole bunch of us that just got the game so I think there’ll be many more opportunities to play coming up.
DINO SHOOTY BANG BANG
That’s it! The official name of this game is now Onion: Dino Shooty Bang Bang
I probably can’t at that time because I’ll be out at Sizzler with Dad, who’s visiting town today. (Or at Harujuku Gyoza if my brother can convince the others.)
My Steam profile, of course, will be declaring me as logged into and racking up hours on thirty different games I haven’t got the cards for yet. 🙂
Man, I haven’t been to Sizzler in such a long time. That’s cool man, as I said to coldcamv I’m sure there’ll be plenty more opportunities.
Guys, I found the DCS Black Shark Manual…
…it’s 534 pages…
…in English…
D:
Left lever to half extension full downward throttle
Step 1: Build a triple monitor, TrackIR equipped replica cockpit with heavy duty chair, mounted HOTAS and rudder pedals. That and months of training should get you through the preflight and takeoff
Step 2: Build a separate triple monitor, TrackIR equipped replica cockpit with heavy duty chair, mounted HOTAS and rudder pedals for the actual flight component…
Gonna apply for the 4th to the 14th off today, so I might be able to make @freezespreston ‘s get together if I’m successful.
I’ll make it a sob story excuse as to why I want the time off to increase my chances 😉
Get a doctors cert stating you require time off for reasons due to stress or something should work, right?
I’m just gonna say that my dad lives in Brisbane, and that he’s offered to fly me over for the uni holidays to catch up, and that I don’t get to see him often, and haven’t seen him in a couple of years, and that the best times for him are between those dates so it would be awesome if I could get them off.
🙂
I’m a pretty good liar ;D
Ah, good cover story! I’m sure it’ll fly.
Whoa, formidable liar, right here! XD
<3
Hurrah!
It’s really fucking depressing not finding any jobs to apply for… In the mean time I’m just clinging on with hope that the new financial year brings some jobs out, like my mate who works at JB was saying they just let a bunch go/some left and they should be looking come July sometime, so fingers crossed. Same with Dan Murphy’s here, since the new store should be opening in the next few weeks, it would be nice for the manager to say when i’m there next (gonna pop in Monday) saying he’s got hours for me, but yeah won’t happen.
I hate not working it’s also driving me insane :/ this volunteer job I have doesn’t help since for the most part it’s really slow of late and the place sets my allergies off 🙁
Bungie can be a surprisingly canny company. Take the most out there, hokey line from your game and turn it into a T-shirt. Sell hundreds of them and turn it into a meme. Brilliant.
I may or may not have just ordered a “That Wizard Came From The Moon” shirt.
I’m not convinced it was the best idea though. I mean… The line became famous because it’s utter shit, right? Do we know if that’s because of how it was delivered, or because the writing was awful? So what they’ve effectively done is say to the Internet, “Haha yeah, that was pretty terrible. God your acting’s bad Pete/your writing’s bad Steve, let’s take that fact and put it on hundreds and thousands of t-shirts while you smile thin-lipped and try to pretend it’s a compliment. How’s that nice hot bowl of shit, there Pete/Steve? Taste good?”
Is someone sitting in a corner thinking, “Man fuck you guys, I’m out?”
I personally don’t find Dinklage’s voiceover that bad. He’s supposed to be an AI. Also out of context the line sounds amusing, but in the game it’s a perfectly valid statement.
But I love Bungie’s stuff. They come up with dumb shit like this all the time but in context it’s fine.
Got an Asus laptop a couple of weeks ago, just tried booting up Orion: Dino Horde, and everytime it booted me out to the desktop and brought up the Asus live update window, which proceeded to state that my PC was up to date, what??
Uninstalled Asus live update and now I can play fine. Man I hate it when companies install software that I don’t want and serves no purpose other than to cause frustration.
Fuck you Asus.
well to be fair, for your average user, it makes it easy to find/be notified of driver/bios updates. Sure only a small percentage would actually do it, but at least it’s not as bloaty as some of the crap oem’s put in their machines! It’s also handy even for people who know what they’re doing sometimes. I don’t often check for BIOS updates, but if they do update it, I’d like to be notified of it, as it may lead to a solution for a problem. Same goes for drivers really. Would be nice if they didn’t make it a background startup app though.
Kinda weird that an app like that would cause that kind of issue with a game of all things! Can’t say I would have ever even contemplated an update checking up would interfere with something else.
If you do decide you’d like to use it to check for updates, you should be able to remove the app from the startup list, and manually run it every now and then so it can check for updates.
Cheers for posting this though. I’ll tell our tech’s at work to look out for it in the field, as they do come across a lot of Asus laptops, and often RoG models. Good trick to have up your sleeve!
I don’t recall having the Spice Girls as Steam friends…
😛
Stop right now.
Thank you very much.
seems they all like DOTA2 :0 Never would have picked them as gamers myself, let alone DOTA2 players! :p
Yes. 🙂
Yes what?
Whatever you want it to be.
Actually wait, no, people have terrible, terrible, ungodly imaginations, that’s inviting disaster.
It was a reply-fail to Evilmonkey and because I like it, I’m leaving it. 🙂 There is much to ‘Yes’ to, today.
haha fair enough! sounds like you’re having a ripper day!
Waiter! I’ll have what he’s having!
Indeed, the next community choice and flash sales are up on Steam in 54 minutes.
*high five*
So uhh… has anyone ever had Steam gifts in their inventory disappear?
I had at least two games in there but now one of them has disappeared :/. It’s not a huge deal since it was a Tigerion troll gift (:P) but it’s just odd to have it vanish. Just wondering if it’s just me or if anyone else here has had that happen before.
Google tells me it should reappear and it’s just Steam’s servers going nuts but I dunno…
If you haven’t actually accepted the gift, can the giver revoke the game to give it to someone else?
I’ve accepted the gift and added it to my inventory (rather than my game library). I was gifted it months ago but it only disappeared recently.
Welp, now I’m watching the latest DBZ movie and am probably going to download all of the original Dragonball and whatever is out so far of Kai.
I blame @f4ction. And the schools. But mostly @f4ction.
And maybe just a little blame for Team Fourstar.
Battle of Gods? I’m waiting for the English dub as I’ve watched the entire freaking series with Funimation’s dub everything else just sounds completely wrong.
Even some of Kai’s voices (cough, Vegeta’s) sounds off and throws me.
The Japanese Vegeta voice is definitely the most off-putting.
Oddly enough, high pitched hick Goku works just fine.
Putting the call out to all interested parties
TAY Onion: Dino Shooty Bang Bang in 2 hours.
@powalen bought it for me so I should probably play it or he will beat me up.
Ooh, Tokyo Drift on tonight. Haven’t actually seen that one yet.
Guess I know what I’m doing 😛
Watching a half hour Nutribullet ad on 15 – Spree TV?
Spoilers.
I really hated that movie when it came out. Re-watched it a few years ago it’s not as bad as I first thought, it’s not even the weakest Fast & Furious movie either that has to go to 4 or 5…
4 for sure. 5 though? You’re crazy. That was the best movie of whatever year it was released in.
Not even exaggerating, I can’t think of anything I saw around then that I enjoyed anywhere near as much as I did that.
2011 had waaaaaaay better movies than Fast Five, for example, Snowtown & Red Dog both came out in 2011 and they’re amazing movies. There was also Sherlock Holmes 2 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 😛
I liked Fast Five, but it was still missing the charm that the first 2 had. Saying that 2 Fast 2 Furious is a personal fave of mine 😛
Of all those I think I only saw Harry Potter then. Still rate it above any of them though 😛 14/10, at least!
I liked it because it just took ownership of the silliness, then cranked it all up to 11. Possibly even 12.
Later on, seeing ads for it on TV, I hated how they spoilt the safe scene. Glad I went into it knowing nothing at all, it made it so much better. Same goes for number 6 and the tank.
Aw man now this has all gone and reminded me of what happened to Paul Walker 🙁 7’s gonna be weird.
Fair point 😛 I suggest watching Red Dog, esp if you like ALL the feels haha…
TV spots are good at ruining the best bits sadly. Though that runway in 6 man what a runway.
They’re making a sequel to red dog called blue dog.
I’m gonna assume it’s about a Blue Heeler this time? 😛
Edit: nvm it’s just about the early days of Red Dog.. Wonder if I could get Chilli an acting gig, since people say she looks like Red Dog.
Jurassic Park is on 7mate right now…
Watching it on regular 7. Mate’s got AFL.
Doing Steam Sales right: Spending $35 on games when you don’t even have a proper PC to run them yet. But hey, now I have KOTOR, Paper’s Please, and Game Dev Tycoon to play!
Also, hopped onto my Vita and saw that Fez was $7.50 or something. I had $7.78 in my account. i figured it was fate and so I bought it.
Doing sales right…
I spent all my money yesterday and so was upset when I saw walking dead season 2 was on special. I am not smart
You’re better sinking your money into The Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead Season 2 has really disappointed me :/
Oh, that’s … disappointing.
Yeah I had high hopes for it given how the first was. But I can’t get as involved with it as I did the first :/ I still need to finish the third episode too lol…
The Wolf Among Us however is amazing. Can’t wait for the final episode, but then again I don’t want it to be over 😛
Alternately I’m actually really enjoying season 2. It’s much better written then season 1. Wolfie is still better however.
Oh no, conflicting opinions, which one do I take? =P
Probably Freeze 😛
Edit: I just expected more from it given how much I liked the wolf among us 😛
All those games are worth the money, I really enjoyed game dev tycoon
Game Dev Tycoon had me very much ‘just one more turn’ing until the wee hours every time I played it. It is an excellent game.
Finished The Stick of Truth. Thanks again, @quiz_b. 😀
I should also say I found it amazing. One of the funnest games I’ve experienced in some time. 🙂
Damn, you only got it the other day. I’ve had it since launch on 360 and I’m still stuck at the final battle 🙁
I found a good balance of equipment, skills and party members. 😀 Last stretch of the game was pretty easy compared to some tougher battles earlier on. I think you just need to work out a system that works for you. 🙂
What class did you end up going?
Fighter!
Flame sword!
@scree, was it you that was looking for an opinion on what to choose for adventure games?
Any of the Sam & Max games are more than worth it.
Had all 3 seasons sitting in my Steam library for ages, but haven’t got around to playing them.
I was looking at adventure games yes. But I may have to wait until I replace my graphics card
@powalen was interested too!
DEPONIA PLS
I already bought it geez
DEPONIA 2 AND 3 PLS
Did someone gift me Dino Horde or did I find $1.50 too irresistible? I honestly don’t remember.
Easy way to find out; click on your username in the top right of Steam browser where it says “users account” and then click go to account details it tells you which was a gift and which you purchased yourself.
Oh neat. Unfortunately there’s no record of me having purchased or received the game but it’s sitting installed in my inventory!
That is a very odd predicament then.. What about your email, does it have a record of it being a gift or a purchase? 😛
I have no records that indicate it was purchased or anything. I contemplated buying it then decided I’d probably never play it. Now I suddenly have it AND it’s installed.
It’s magics…
I think it was part of a humble bundle or similar thing at some stage
It’s definitely not in my Humble Bundle library and most of my humble bundle games are still listed as “retail”. Plus I still have no idea why it’s also installed as I have no recollection of doing that, either.
Mystery solved! I tried to run it and it’s actually my wife’s. It was free around the time she bought Among the Sleep on her own account so she grabbed it, and automatically appears in my library since it’s installed.
@scree
I hope you like adventure games…
Enjoy! 😀
Check your inbox. 🙂
Dammit Crazybuy!
Holy shit, @evilmonkey. Thank you for Metal Slug 3.
No worries dude, it was only a coupla bucks, enjoy.
Dude you been buying people games left right and centre
Yeah, I’ve probably spent a bit too much, but hey, it’s only money, I’ll get more next week.
I wish this sale was after tax time then I could be uber generous
So true.
evilmonkey? More like angelmoney.
Too much of a stretch? I’ll take my leave then.
A few of us have this too. multiplayer \o/
@phlanispo
Up for some King of Fighters?
I can’t tonight. I’d have to download it first. But thank you so much.
So @crazyguy1990 just gave me King of Fighters…what.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
Gracious June this summer sale has been, TAYbies be gifting everyone games by the bucketload
So amazing how generous everyone has been
I can’t be generous but I wish I could.
I know, I will make cake
You make awesome cake so this is approved \o/
If I didn’t already have a massive amount of stuff on my plat for Pax I would make video game themed cupcakes and biscuits
I think I need to employ your services, had a secret desire for quite a while now about opening a video game themed café. Can’t do it right now because I don’t have the money, but I’ve been seriously thinking about maybe doing a kickstarter for a couple of weeks now.
Do it scree makes a mean peppermint Bmo
I’d love to, but I’m not even in the planning stage, so much research and stuff to do so I can work out a ballpark figure that I’d need to get started.
You guys are the only people (besides my wife) that I’ve ever told about this.
I’m located in Melbourne, so that may be an issue.
I was going to make some Mario themed cupcakes for a friend. Star, Fire flower, Mushroom =D
That’s exactly the kinda stuff I had in mind, if this idea ever got off the ground. The only one I’d add to that would be a 1-up one.
That’s one reason why I haven’t done anything about it yet, because I don’t think it’d work in the town I live in, so if I was to do it, it would more than likely be in a major city, and Melbourne is the closest to me.
Probably different flavours for each one too but with a sponge base cake.
I think Pineapple pieces for Star. Raspberry for Fire flower. Mushroom, Strawberry. 1-Up mushroom peppermint.
Use icing instead of fondant. It will take longer and require more precision, but it will taste better.
@scree, I like the way you think.
I’m sorry?
@scree for what?
For…um….
I don’t need a reason!
@scree, stop saying sorry.
Don’t you dare say sorry for saying sorry.
B-but, what do I do if I can’t say sorry? Who would I be? Oh god I’m having an identity crisis /o\
If @scree said sorry for saying sorry, that’d be disobeying your instructions which would give her something to say sorry about…
@aliasalpha
Now, I am confused
@scree you are the matrix
@scree, You’re not the only one =s
@evilmonkey
Anyway, I’ll try to figure out the best way to add fruit without ruining the sponge recipe and give to you. How’s your cake decorating?
@scree, The only cake I’ve ever “decorated” was for my sons second birthday, all I did was buy some rectangular sponges from Safeway, cut them into the shape of a mining truck, smothered it with yellow icing, cut out wheels, and smothered them with black icing, and put licorice around the wheels for the tyres.
I did okay for a Dads first try, but I wouldn’t want to put anything I could make out for sale.
Okay, well, do you have an icing bag and royal icing? Cake decorating is not as hard as it seems. And the stuff like the cupcakes I’m talking about, the decoration can be done days in advance.
It’s all a matter of practise
@scree, nope, don’t have any of that. My mum used to do a fair bit of cake decorating though when I was a kid.
baking for PAX? I could be in for that. It would have to be cookies, cupcakes wouldn’t survive the flight down.
I’m still undecided if I’m gonna cosplay at PAX or not, dunno what I’d go as
Go as what you like, not what you look best as
Yeah I just dunno what I wanna go as haha
Pick some characters from your favourite games and make a short list.
The Cho Aniki guys.
Time to hit the gym
Do! Dressups are always fun!
Thanks! I’ve been wanting that game for a while 😀
It looked eerie, I was gonna find other games to gift but due to a lapse in my judgement I put the wrong age in on the Payday 2 page so now it won’t let me look at any games that have violence /o\
Resetting Steam/browser fixes that. I think you can buy through the app too.
I’ll give it a shot!
Or use a different browser, or switch to incognito mode
I’m on the iPad
I did that by accident yesterday. Put the day’s date as my date of birth.
Thanks for the gift, mang!
\o/
ONION DINO SHOOTY SHOOTY BANG \o/
@evilmonkey just gave me the walking dead /o\
Worst time for my graphics card fan to die
Sorry man, but at least you know it’s there ready to go when you get it fixed.
True.
Not to mention the fact that season two is worth waiting for. It’s awesome. So, so awesome. 😀
I am so confused and conflicted
I think it’s kinda average.. Then again The Wolf Among Us has blown it out of the water in every way possible 😛
Just such a shame my 480 wouldn’t do the trick
I’m sorry /o\
Six heroes playing Heroes VI was a bust. Going to replan. Make sure you have latest version patched and ready to go and we’ll try for another day soon. What suits people the best?
@tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @welbot @quiz_b @masterfie
I’d put my hand up to play but every weekend I’m at a house where Internet is not readily available
2.1.1 is the version you should be on 🙂
Any night that isn’t RPG night should be okay with me
sorry dude shoot me an email on anything at my username dot com with a date and I’m in. going to be free tomorrow lunch till evening if you want to resched
I’ll be all good to go for next weekend I guess. My download did eventually finish last night.. at around 10:40 or something ridiculous. At least I don’t have to go through that again though!
I reckon we should aim to start in the afternoon at some stage if possible. Like maybe 3-4pm. Starting at 8pm would likely mean we’ll be playing til well after midnight if we all get really in to it. Don’t forget I’m #oldmanwelbot! 😉
Next weekend is good for me, as long as Mrs shakes the flu that she seems to have gotten. Will patch up and be ready to necromance your arses next week.
That @freezespreston’s a pretty cool guy, bought me Harvester, I didn’t even know it was a thing.
Thanks so much man.
He bought me Harvester too. I didn’t know it was a thing either. XD
THANKS FREEZEY!
Harvester, as in the horrror/adventure game?
You know it!
hot damn! I didn’t know we could even get it here! I’ve wanted to play that game since it came out, but it was banned in aus from release!
My sister’s 50-person party has started. D=
Avoid!
Lock yourself in your room, put your headphones on and play Metal Slug 3. Everybody wins \o/
Go mingle little Phlanispo! 😀
I’m sick. I wouldn’t go out there anyway, because I have no interest in mingling with anyone of my generation, let alone screeching 14 year old girls.
I feel like the three responses to this post says a lot about the posters. XD
Avant garde!
Please, I would not like to associate with 50, 13 year old girls. I think even when I was 13 I didn’t want to associate with 13 year old girls
There’s little point trying to avoid 50 girls having a party in your house 😛
You may as well join in, that’s all I’m sayin’ 😀
Plus it might annoy your sister, little Phlanis-buddy 😉
I think they’re all right! Mingling is good, especially if you’re challenging yourself by mingling with folks you normally wouldn’t. How else will you learn new things? You might even be pleasantly surprised. But on the other hand, once you’ve made an appearance, it can be hard to extract yourself to safety when you know you e reached your limits, leaving you feeling less empowered and more traumatized by the experience, undoing the good work of getting out of a comfort zone.
On the plus side, with sound reasoning behind either approach, you can feel confident that either choice was valid, reducing guilt/self-doubt.
…Which is a whole lotta words to say, “It’s all good.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cklw-Yu3moE
:’) So beautiful.
It’s apparently a Metroidvania too, so I’m interested!
Also, Moon Studios’ logo is so great.
Agreeeed.
I saw that during the MS Press Conference
It looked amazing, although somehwat sad 🙁 (him shaking that mask thing D:)
I didn’t watch the MS press conference. Now I’m thinking I should!
Was actually really good!
@mawt’s praise was what got me to check it out 😀
I just didn’t want to tease myself. Haven’t got a Xbone, can’t afford an Xbone so even if it was great it would just make me sad. XD
I was looking for reasons to own one and now I have some :D. I’m just waiting until they launch to see if they’re worthwhile.
Quantum Breeeeeak! 😀
Decided to buy State of Decay because i’ve heard good things about it… That’s it, Steam Sales budget expended \o/
EDIT – also shoutout to @thecracks for gifting “Papers, Please”, he’s a pretty damn great guy!
Cracks gifted me Papers, Please too back in December. Whatta guy! 😛
On a semi-related note: *phew* the Steam sales happened before I start work! Dodged a gifting bullet!
There’s always the Christmas sale =p
Whatta guy! Indeed… Also yep, there’s always the next sale XD
I have no idea how much money I have left, but I do know that I’ve spent way more money than I planned.
@evilmonkey, the gifting machine!
Stop it man, you’re making me blush.
You buy the whole pack or just the base?
Just the base because i kinda figured that i have no idea how it really plays and i can always get the dlc at another sale :P… Plus something something money something boooooring 😛
Go big or go home!
*walks off, sad melancholic piano plays in the background*
EDIT – no WAIT THAT’S NOT WHAT I-… You’re awesome @coldcamv, thanks man!
I’m doing my best not to be boooooring :'(, thanks man 😀
The steam stores your new home, go therr
seriously, thank you 😀
Learn it, live it, love it! It’s an awesome game I really enjoyed, can get frustrating but
*Channels Mr. Spacely*
COOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLD CAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMM!!!!
Seriously though, thanks heaps man. You’re a legend.
The way I see it is if your gonna give a game a chance you gotta take it at its fullest then and there and the expansions add a lot of things that were nuisances in the base game
*sings*
You are not alone, I am here with you, because I bought the base game too.
Your not alone your surrounded by zombies, DODGE!
Sounds like the tagline for a porno…
Promote that man!
Stem Sals, Dae Too?
Gorzy bought me Deadly Premonition: DC! Thanks mang.
I have bought one game this sale, god help me, my wallet is already on it’s last legs
I’ve brought one game.
Six times…
You must really like onions
And shooty bang bang.
Okay @evilmonkey, what’s the deal? Are you going to change your username or have you done something genuinely evil and are gifting random people games all over the place to build up a list of character witnesses in advance of the trial?
Thank you, you generous loony.
Username changed as requested.
Edit: No worries dude, enjoy.
So…Steam seems to know me quite well
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/sorry.jpg
That’s… Amazing! 😛
I’m not even mad :p
You pooped in the refrigerator?
And you ate a whole wheel of cheese.
You even got on your favourite coloured team!
:'(
Purple team sucks, GOOOOOOO GREEN TEAM!!
GO TEAM PURPLE!
BOOOOOOOOOOUUUUURRRRNNNSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t even know how to see what team I am..
Looking at your profile, it seems you’re not on a team yet, so Just go here, and click “get started”.
Red team.
RAD team.
High five o/
Can we swap teams?
I wanna be on the blue team…
Deserter!
I’m more of a lunch man.
Look up team tokens. $10 though and $30 for purple ones :/
I know. Steam is being kind in this way. Horrible in others.
I sincerely hope that Casual-Simulation wins the community choice vote….
I own all of the fighting games offered in the pack. 🙁
Also, Caddyshack is possibly the second funniest movie I’ve ever seen, behind Flying High!
So let’s dance.
Me too dumb for adventure games.
I know that feeling!
Me too dumb for life, but I have adventures atleast. 😀
mm perhaps it’s best that I gave Sughly that adventure game yesterday then. I was hesitant to send to you cos you NEVER accept gifts, but by the sounds of it, this may have changed recently? Do you now accept steam sale gifts?
He wouldn’t take one from me, but then he accepted one from @quiz_b, must have something to do with Sternum punching and stealing of shoes.
STAN! *flails arms*
I guilted him into it.
It’s my policy that I don’t, but I’ve accepted three out of three offers this year. WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME? XD
Your heart grew three sizes that day…
I know I said so on twitter, but thanks again for Harvester! So didn’t expect that! Can’t wait to try it out 🙂
*punches @dc in the sternum*
Like @Blaghman said earlier in the week, the secret is to make him feel worse for not accepting it 😛
(we’re terrible people)
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/373939575279893152/
Don’t tell me your white girl wasted
OMG THE FAVICON HAS RETURNED!
Well, for my tabs. It’s still missing from the Profile button on the page.
Also, back on Champion Road again. I’m now consistently nailing the first section with 473 left on the clock. Also I’M THE STAIR MASTER! I’ve now perfected the alternating stairway and can fly through it and into the pipe at the end with 452 remaining, rather than 450. My only problem now is section 3 with the swinging bars. I can get through it faster, but only if I sacrifice a hit. Haven’t yet figured out a way to keep up that pace and avoid the wall of fuzzies. Not sure how I feel about that, and whether that’s acceptable or not. Also leaves me vulnerable for the end of the fourth section where I probably need it most.
@strange: Nier ending B achieved, 100% weapons get, about to do final dungeon again for C (and yes, I know to save at the last spot and then re-load that to choose the other option at the end to get D – and also know the stupid game deletes your saves after you get D)
Are you glad you continued?
Not enormously. Nothing really changed a lot yet.
Hey guys, got a couiple of guest passes for Killing Floor, who wants ’em?
So, Dragon Age 2 is not completely terrible.
I mean sure, the gameplay is largely a repetitive, lobotomized skinner-box with it’s gut’s torn out in an obvious display of a lazy IP cash grab. And half the voice acting is terrible and the visuals are kinda bad for it’s time.
But the writing is pretty solid, with some great characters and some good voice actors. And the DA lore is being fleshed out nicely.
Also all mage staves should come with blades on one end, that is cool.
Probably would have been upset to be playing it after throwing $80 down on week 1, but played for free years later when I am really bored? Having a blast.
Just bought Dragon Age: Origins this morning.
Origins is great.
As a fantasy buff I found the story/world to be pretty cliched but it has really solid everything else.
Cool, really looking forward to getting into it now.
I totally had a blast slamming down $80 on week 1.
I think the characters and the lore reinforcement are the stronger points of DA2.
I really enjoyed it, but then Cvengr ynql yrsg zr. Nyy gur fnqsnprf. 🙁 Fb V fgbccrq cynlvat orpnhfr V qvqa’g jnag gb cynl jvgubhg ure. V cnvq ure ybnqf bs nggragvba ohg V cebonoyl znqr n srj qrpvfvbaf fur qvqa’g yvxr fb V pbhyqa’g trg ure gb fgvpx nebhaq.
Guess I should finish it one day, before Inquisition.
Gung jbhyq or fnq, cvengr ynql vf cerggl pbby.
Gbgnyyl ebznapvat Zreevy gubhtu. Gung tvey vf fb ragregnvavat.
Yeah, impending Inquisition is what made me get around to playing it. Glad I did.
Aw man, @evilmonkey just gifted me Valiant Hearts! D: D: D:
Thank you so much, man! 😀
He’s finally cracked the D.C. gift accepting defence! He knows the secret :O
Yeah, I punched him in the sternum and threatened to steal his shoes.
South Park and Valiant Hearts are too expensive though! D: D: D:
People’s niceness is stressing me out. Haha!
That’s cool, but now you have agonizing 4 days wait before you can play it MWAHAHAHAHA!
And then the dog will probably die and I’ll be heartbroken for weeks! WEEKS!
…
Hmmm, maybe this monkey IS evil! D:
Just like when I gifted him Broken Age! Sucker had to wait for like 2 weeks ;D
@evilmonkey
Thank you so much, you legend! \o/
A monkey this generous must be a Colobus! 😀
An Evil Colobus.
Most them are, so you’re in line with the rest of them! 😀
Enjoy man, I just can’t believe you bought me Skyrim, when you had it on your wishlist, that was so kind of you. When I saw it discounted even further I couldn’t resist gifting it to you.
Have fun \o/
ORION: Dino Horde tonight at 8pm AEST! I’ve created a Steam event for it.
@mythamphetamine @blaghman @cakesmith @crazyguy1990 @evilmonkey @freezespreston @greenius @beardymcmuttonchops @35 @pixel_the_ferret_viking @powalen @sernobulus @tigerion @thecracks
…and anyone I missed.
I believe the game is 5 player co op so we can just split into groups.
EDIT: I should add, the game is only 3-ish GB so it’s not too big and easy to download for tonight.
FARK YEAH! i’m in! i’ll only be on for about 1.5 hours’ish because something something cars going around a track really fast that i need to watch something
Nascar?
F1 but close enough 😛
F1’s on a NASCAR track
Singapore vroomy cars meat! @benj
That’d be amazing! i’ve wanted to go to Singapore for grand prix for aaages, but never been able to afford it 😛
I’m there (if you’re paying) :p
SEE?! I’m not the only one who thinks it’s a good idea 😛
I should be good for tonight, sorry about last night, I got caught up with TAY and the Steam Sale. Already got it downloaded, so I’m good to go. Anyone up for Mario Kart afterwards.
@stickman, @dc, @greenius, @powalen, @liondrive etc.
I’ll be up for it, but I won’t be there till after 7pm (maybe 8pm) your time.
I’ll jump on and see if anyone’s playing though when I get home from work 🙂
All depends how long Dino Shooty Bang Bang goes for, I would guess that I’ll probably be ready for Mario Kart by about 9:30pm. Also, I’ve just been informed that we’re going around to the in-laws for tea, and we always tend to have a few drinks, so I may be a little drunk.
I’ll be on some time after 8:30 if you’re all still playing.
Ooh, I have that! Someone just gifted it to me this morning!
I have family birthdays but should be home by then
Edit: I think I still have a copy if anybody wants to join in and hasn’t get it yet
May or may not be home at that point. If I am, I’m in.
What’s an Orion?
Thank you so much, @welbot! The gift of adventure games! <3
Ah, people are so damn kind. SO. DAMN. KIND.
I am moved. :’)
ANSWER YOUR DAMN PHONE!
I answered a message like an hour ago. :S
What? Seriously?
I think my phone hats me…
Oh, wait. It says it sent through iMessage. That’s an Apple thing, right? Odd! Message acted like your iPhone got it. 😀
Anyways, my response was:
I was going to be in Brisbane Wednesday as my uni thing starts Wednesday night.
Monday is doable but I won’t be there for very long as I have to get back to pick up kids by 3.
Oh, uni thing! That’s so awesome, Freeze!
Alright, Wednesday sounds good. I might have a quiet Monday.
See a movie or something and then hang proper on Wednesday. 🙂
You should come down here and see a movie Monday. Train stops right near them.
Funny (pathetic) story. The Go Card money that would take is a sizable chunk of my bank account. 😛
It pleases me to know such a small gesture can bring the gift of happiness to your life! 🙂
Also, let me know if it’s any good! If it is, I might give it a try myself someday!
I hear it’s great! Next chapter coming out soon too! 😀
Hopefully the experience will live up to the hype!
ARRGGH, GREENIUS GIFTED ME STUFF. THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND. D:
THANK YOU BUDDY!
@stickman, check your inbox.
Is that for EPIC self portraits?
Nah, this.
Holy shit I didn’t expect that, LOL.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Swedish folklore is scary :'(
the only swedish thing that isn’t scary, is meatballs!
Unless horsemeat is found in them!
That’s a British thing! 😉
Yeah but the breath that comes AFTER those meatballs is scary…
What’s so scary about it? 😛
The game Year Walk :'(
Had to look it up, looks interesting enough!
It’s scary, Pixel 🙁
Wooo!!!! Finally finished Xenoblade last night. Now maybe @greenius will get off my back.
That means that I need a new game to play. Which means its time for everybody’s favourite – MQFT \o/
Your options are F, R, D, P and T
Have at it folks
F because F
P
D!
F
Ok looks like we have a winner. Next in the ring is Far Cry 3. Excellent choice
D
Xenoblade again!
THAT’S MY RESPONSE! >:|
I almost forgot this masterpiece existed. Many of you have probably already seen it, but here it is again.
The Legend of JonTron, the greatest music video ever to grace the intertubes. SupDawg444, you shall forever live in infamy.
Well… It appears I have stumbled down the rabbit hole of SupDawg444’s JonTron remixes.
…help
Play some Steam games to wean you off of it!
Okay.
However… one more can’t hurt, right?
Thank you, 8 month old Rooster Teeth Podcast. You have freed me.
Re-post from previous page.
If any of you guys don’t have Killing Floor, I’ve got a couple of guest passes to give away. All you have to do is ask.
@thecracks just gifted me another game. D: You so damn kind!
Thank you so much man, but I’m beginning to feel incredibly guilty. Haha!
We do these things because we want to not because of some obligation or request. Nothing to feel guilty about.
Or because we’re monsters and want him to feel guilty? 😛
I’d gift you something, but you haven’t accepted my friend request. Looks like you haven’t been on for quite a while.
Yeah, my current laptop is terribly slow so I haven’t bothered to install any of my Steam games. Can’t even remember the last time I used Steam, to be honest.
Thanks for trying to be my friend, though! I’ll reciprocate in probably a year or so. 😛
I’ll be here :p
According to steam you last logged in 166 days ago.
Well there we have it: proof that old lady brains don’t remember past 165 days! 😛
What’d ya get, what’d ya get?! 😀
One of everything. D:
Well that sounds like a 😀 rather than a D: to me!
Also, I sent you a text. I think. I hope I didn’t send it to the wrong person. Confusion would ensue. 😛
I responded! This is the second time today someone hasn’t gotten my text! D:
…
I forgot to press send. :\
Oh no! Old lady brain is contagious?!! 😛
Am I the only one who would love to see a Powerslide re-boot?
@rize, @redartifice, @coldcamv, @freezespreston, @pixel_the_ferret_viking, check your inboxes.
Thanks man 😀 I have no idea what it is but thanks XD
Thanks Giftmonkey, I have never heard of this game but it sounds interesting
Aus diesem Grund danke kleines Geschenk monkey. Ihr Gesicht ist so großzügig wie ihre Aktionen.
Okay, so, I installed a PC port of Quake 3 onto my Xbox, and I can’t seem to connect to the Quake 3 local server that I have running on my PC…
Anyone know how to fix this?
Not sure if it’d work depending on what you dumped on there. Was it a legit version? q3 needed a key iirc.
Ah. It’s a homebrew version I found, and was seeing if it was compatible with the PC version…
Doesn’t look to be the case, unfortunately… :\
Huh, I guess I’ve been placed on the Red Team for Steam.
Frenemy!
😛
Status update on weekend goals:
– Haircut– Watch The Wind Rises
– Finish Nier.– Maybe finish Nier again– Maybe finish Nier again again– Maybe finish Nier again again again– Bravely Default?
Also now it’s time to update The List:
– Nier (360)– Infamous Second Son (PS4)
– Final Fantasy Type-0 (PSP)
– Valkyria Chronicles 3 (PSP)
– Bravely Default (3DS)
– Ys VI (PC)
– Atelier Arland Series (Vita)
– Drakengard 3 (PS3)
– Demon Gaze (Vita)
– Tales of Vesperia (360)
– The Wolf Among Us (PC)
– Ar Tonelico 3 (PS3)
– Danganronpa (Vita)
– Gravity Rush (Vita)
– Monster Monpiece (Vita)
Need to move a new game up into the Top 15 but no idea what. I assembled my Top 15 Pile of Shame list by giving everything a rating from 1-5 and taking everything I prioritized with a 3 or more, but I have 13 games with a 2 rating. Nothing hugely stands out above the rest as something I want to elevate. I guess I’ll just start working my way down the list and eventually something will bubble upwards enough or I’ll knock the top off the list enough that something will move upward.
There’s also a fairly significant blocker toward playing either of the PSP titles right now, which is that my PSP’s charger has disappeared so I can’t dump the UMDs to patch them with the fan translations.
Could’ve been easily solved with a MQFT!
I’ve done those before but I end up playing something else instead every time.
Me too! I think it’s because I don’t like being told what to do so if there’s a majority answer I’ll resist it and do something different.
Mystery Question No Fun Time!
Still lead to you playing a game 😀
It has its mysterious ways of working 😮
I always stick to the outcome, but I tend to do them on weekends, when there’s not many people around.
Anyone played The Ship? Looks like it could be a blast with a group of friends. Multiplayer murder mystery game on a cruise ship.
Never heard of it, but it sounds like it’d be a bit of fun.
Just bought it, got 2 free activations, but it won’t let me send it with the mobile app, so I’ll gift it to you when I get home. I’ll send one to you too @pixel_the_ferret_viking, coz apparently you want it too.
Gift sent, to you and @pixel_the_ferret_viking, apparently @blaghman, @chuloopa, and @transientmind have it to.
Steve-o played it, says it’s awesome multi game. Not sure on his tag.
Have it on my Steam list, but never played it
Sooo.. i should be installing it?
The Secret of the Magic Crystals’ Steam Trading Cards sell for about 20 cents each 😮
Nooooiiiiiccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I usually hate doing this, but I need your help. If you’ve got Facebook, please click the link below and vote for Harley Quinn. It’s not often you get the chance to play a show with your favourite band, but I have that chance here.
https://www.facebook.com/events/596132357174076/permalink/599023756884936/
I had to log into Facebook and everything! D:<
(you're winning now :D)
Good luck!
<3
Voted for you.
Also made F4ction and Numbers vote for you.
Thank you!
All the best. Heh just realised if you win you get to play with my mates band (In Hearts Wake) he’s the bassist..
Who’s your fave band on the bill, am assuming The Ghost Inside..?
Thanks!
It’s I Killed The Prom Queen, they’re the band that got me into this kind of music. Though I really do love The Ghost Inside.
Ah cool.
Never got into the hardcore scene, but a lot of my friends did, I remember how distraught they were when Prom Queen disbanded for a while. Dark times for said friends lol.
Facebook…
http://youtu.be/tbd4t-ua-WQ?t=4s
Yeah, I get that. Unfortunately it’s how bands connect with fans at the moment so we don’t have much option.
Done and done. And I mean done.
ily.
Tossed a few votes your way. (Friends/family,that is, not fakebook accounts.)
“Hey, do me a favour and click this link and vote for this band, willya?” was surprisingly effective.
You owe me now.
I’m just kidding, good luck with it 😀
Done.
So I dragged Mum into EBGames remembering they have a sale on. She walked out with 4 hidden object games
Sorry scree, my phone’s only letting me post intermittently on steamchat, but I appreciate all the info.
I’m sorry for posting so much /o\
Don’t be sorry dammit!
I’m afraid I don’t understand.
Anyway, as long as any of it helps
Skullgirls is on sale for $3.74!
Go and get it! \o/
SOLD!!!
And the DLC characters that we’ve missed are only another $1.49 each! \o/
I support this decision.
Thank you so much @freezespreston and @greenius for Batman: Arkham Asylum and Year Walk respectively.
You guys are awesome.
NO U!
Just got home, 5 beers, a glass of wine, and a glass of port later, I’m ready for some Dino Shooty Bang Bang and Mario Kart. Out of my way jerk-ass.
Is the remake of Age of Mythology worth buying for $US 18? I really enjoyed playing it back in the day but I’ve no idea if they actually updated it enough to be worth the money. Does it play online without issue?
Having not played it, I can’t comment on the online, or anything like that.
But if it helps, it does look noticeably better: http://imgur.com/gallery/L8WEE
I gave in and bought a 4 pack…
From what I’ve heard, they didn’t do much in terms of updating it. Don’t know about online.
Hey @stickman, and anyone else that cares, I just signed up for Twitter, have no idea what the hell I’m doing, but if you wanna follow me, my username is ev1lmunky.
Also, @liondrive, looks like they’ve got a full team of five over at Dino Shooty Bang Bang, so you up for Mario Kart?
Also, @liondrive, are you freakin’ serious, you’ve only got one steam game, that just will not do, I’m gonna have to gift you something.
I’m not even joking, do not waste your time gifting me any Steam games.
Send them to someone who will play them and appreciate them.
I DO NOT PC GAME.
It’s a nice gesture, but it’s wasted on me 😛
Also, I’ll be on Mario Kart in a minute 🙂
Tried adding you, you’re not coming up. 🙁 Needs to be your @something username.
Call me stupid, but how do I figure out what that is, the only other name I entered was evilmonkey.
Edit: I don’t think I’m fully set up yet, apparently I’ve gotta follow 5 people first.
I think this is your Twitter here; https://twitter.com/ev1lmunky
Cheers man, like I said, I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.
No worries!
@stickman, @liondrive, @dc I’m trying to join TAYKart, but it keeps saying that the tournament is closed.
Aw, I just left but Stickman/Liondrive are still racing. Just go to friends and rivals. Click on a friend who’s in a race and join them. 🙂
Yah I just joined DC. Went to Friends/Rivals, saw DC has a chequered flag (means he racing), and joined.
Yeah, that’s what I ended up doing, I joined @liondrive. Was fun, but I need more practice though.
Same. I was racing shit, but still: in 2-4th place, get hit once, in last place with no hope to recover.
State of Decay is pretty bloody fantastic, it’s a real shame there’s no co op in it!
I’ve lost my first survivor and i felt genuinely sad… WHY DOES THIS GAME MAKE ME CARE ABOUT PEOPLE? 😛
I haven’t got into it yet, so I’m yet to find out how awesome it is. Glad to hear you’re really enjoying it.
I liked it but I got off to a lousy start with it so by the time I got to the first safehouse I felt really scattered and had trouble keeping on top of missions. I should really give it another try.
Turns out Onion Dino Smasher is actually a blast of dumb fun. Enjoyed that.
@rize @tigerion @greenius @cakesmith
Yeah, I didn’t join in tonight, because by the time I was ready it looked like there was already a full team of 5. Oh well, next time.
Nob and Aleph were keen but they played DOTA2 since there was no one else D:
Oh and i was trying to get in contact with rize to see of there was a second group XD
I was waiting for someone to leave so I could join 😛
You guys could’ve had a whole second party! 🙁
I blame the schools.
Yep, this is why I said “We’ll definitely have enough for two teams” 😛
I think there is dino vs shooty man modes so that might actually allow for 10 people if we have that many people keen
Ooooh, that sounds like it could be interesting, hey @pixel_the_ferret_viking, you wanna be a Dino?
Certainly sounds like good fun… If i can be a rock hurling t-rex this is the best game ever XD
Before new TAY, I’ll leave you all with this:
http://youtu.be/FmDkye6IwPE?t=21m35s
See you all in new TAY!
Also, thanks to @phlanispo for Descent! 😀
@crazyguy1990 I sent you a game. Enjoy. I don’t know if it worked though.
Received!
Thanks again, mate. \o/
@evilmonkey Enjoy this obscure game that I liked called Bleed.
GUNS, SLOW MO!
FUNS, WHOA!
BOSSES, DRAGON!
JOUNCES, FRAGS SON!
ROCKETS, DODGE HER!
Oh crumpets, GAME OVER!
I can’t believe I spent 20 minutes browsing through a rhyming dictionary so I could make a rap song about a f***ing platformer where a girl with pink hair shoots a married giant centipede couple in slow motion.
Thanks so much man, you didn’t have to do that. I’m not giving you guys games because I want some back, I’m doing it because I think you guys are awesome.
Thanks again man.
*twiddles thumbs*