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First really cold morning of Winter. It’s still below 0 degrees here. I’m freezing.
I got into my car at 845 and it was about 12 and I thought it was cold… Not as cold as it was when I was in Chicago last year though (it hit maximum 7c during the middle of a beautiful sunny day)
HAI
Who’s this guy?
HEIGH
Hey! It’s that guy that gets hyped over the things that I get hyped over! 😀
KFC and adventure games?
<3
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Mornin All
TAY seems slow starting this morning! I guess everyone is trying to rebuild their shattered lives after the Steam sales. Also, because everyone totally has money, everyone should buy Shovel Knight because it is freaking amazing.
I donno – I’ve just sunk $20 into the Spade Man kickstarter
Backed on Kickstarter – went to put the code into my Wii U yesterday and hit an ERROR. Sigh. Will chase that up this evening.
Same thing here. Quite a pain. Does anyone know if Shovel Knight is out on the AU eShop yet? That might Be the issue?
Man how great are school holidays? Streets are empty, trains are full of space, so easy to get around…
It’s like a taste of the apocalypse and it’s BEAUTIFUL. :’)
But there’s a drastic increase in punk kids loitering!
No good punk kids?
Is there any other kind?
True enough!
If they’re not on my lawn then what does it matter? 😛
School holidays means two weeks off work \o/
For anyone interested in Wasteland 2, it’s currently $40 on Steam for the digital deluxe edition (soundtrack, Wasteland 1, Bard’s Tale, two novellas), or you can get the standard edition code by email for Steam (released when the game is out of Early Access, which is today) from ozgameshop for $30.
They’ve given it a proper release date too. (Late August) So if you’re not a fan of early access, just think of it as a pre-order. We’ll be moseying so much come August. 😀
So I’m totally going to remember TAY MarioKart tonight. Promise!
Hopefully everyone else remembers too! I think 2 people played last Monday? Hehe
I’ll try to be there! (@sughly – a friendly reminder!)
I check every second day or so, never seems to be anyone around so I bail and play other things.
It’s still fun to play online against randoms. Guaranteed wins! 😀
We need to hype up a Mario Kart tournament. Get people excited.
Aw, I missed it!
BTW, what game should I get with my ‘free game’ offer that comes with Mario Kart? I can’t choose!
If you don’t have it already, I would go Pikmin 3 or Wind Waker HD.
Pikmin 3 is my favourite game on the Wii U, by far!
Oh man so many good choices! Depends on what you have and what genres you like 😛
I chose poorly. I’d never played a Monster Hunter, so I figured I would try it out. Yeah, it wasn’t for me. 🙁
:'( I love me some Monster Hunter, but part of what made me like the Wii U one over other versions was multiplayer. If you’ve got buddies see if you can get something together 😀
EDIT: Better than choosing Game & Wario! (@dc :P)
Oh FFS it’s Monday again, and I have things to do again. 🙁
It’s @liondrive week! 😀 😀 😀
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IT’S LIONDRIVE WEEK! D: D: D:
Also DC shopping spree week as I recall
Is there a proper meat planned for this? I think I may have missed the details.
Freeze’s thing on Saturday is the first thing!
Most likely will be hanging out during the week too. (Cause I’m a slacker type. :D)
Blararararghagararghatg!!!! *waves arms around violently*
I keep tagging good you in them…
Yeah but that would require me to be able to remember things.
Saturday night! *waves arms even more violently*
BE THERE AND BE SQUARE!
Become the table for the drinks
Whaaaaaaaaat tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime?
5:30pm
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I start work in a week…
D:
D: D: D:
My last week of freedom for at least 2 years :'(
But then you can be buyius, and greedius, and capitalist pigius, and so forth. Think of the delicious blood money!
mmmmm money
All that green 😛
…green is good?
But our money is pink and blue and yellow and the only green is a hundred
And green is goooooood!
And most importantly, gift-everyone-free-games-ius.
That’s the only one I care about!
Dinner Dates for all! \o/
Morning all. I got a wii u last week, so this morning I added a whole bunch of you as friends 🙂
If you want to add me because i forgot you, my nintendoid is my standard username 🙂 .
Also played boardgames and WiiU for most of the weekend. And then made awesome dessert (photos later)
One of us.
Damn it’s tough dealing with people who want easy answers to incredibly complex problems, especially when they know there aren’t easy answers…
WHERE’S MY ELEPHANT!
Hehe if it were only that simple, I could find him an elephant. Fuck at this stage I’d break into the zoo and steal one for him (if the wagga zoo has one)
Have you seen Tom Yum Goong (The Protector)? That’s my favorite line from that movie.
They’re playing that elephant song again.
I love that. Reminds me of elephants.
Finished Valiant Hearts over the weekend
Valiant Hearts ending spoilers
can’t believe the way they killed Emile, made a much bigger impact than if he was taken out by enemies though. @dc they didn’t kill the dog 😀Such a great ending, man. Those last few chapters were horrifying. Really humanized the people. All the trench runs were pretty damn harrowing. I loved the ending and am glad Walt lived. 🙂 I loved how they used game mechanics in interesting ways, like in the hospital rushing to find the first aid kit in the maze of sorts. Really added to the tension.Beautiful game.
I loved the fact that it’s a war game but you never fire a gun (vehicles and cannons etc. are different), such a nice refreshing change and such wonderful story telling.I loved the weird car chase mini-games too. Only thing I thought was weird was when the French soldiers were chasing them and you had to throw dynomite! THESE ARE THE GOOD GUYS, MAN! DON’T DO THAT!yeah those car chase bits were a nice little bit of humor to break up the pace a bit, I loved how everything was in time to the music too. Throwing dynamite was crazy, I thought the same thing, why can’t we be friends. I also really liked the sad atmospheric piano, especially at the end, I wasn’t expecting to get affected emotionally but the way Emile died really hurt, I don’t think I would have felt much if Germans took him out, but being executed by your own men….. ouch. I hope to see more games like itWas made all the more powerful when you read the real world facts behind the events. Soldiers really did get executed for this stuff. 🙁 The whole war just felt so pointless and futile. People just joining cause of alliances. Lives destroyed every where. Really tough to watch.I really liked the little historical facts, really helped tie the atmosphere together and set the mood nicely. They had some harsh treatment during the war, “Fight and probably die or don’t and we’ll kill you”. My Great Grandfather got badly beaten (permanently disfigured) because he fell in love with a German woman during the war and was found out, he defected and fled with her for fear of execution🙁
@dc it’s a happy story he didn’t get executed, made babies and I get to exist cause I’m a descendant, just thought I’d share some trivia, sorry deeceeeHooray! I’m glad you exist! 😀 How good was the dog Walt? I always felt bad sending him to do dangerous stuff though. (Creeping under gas, etc.)Walt was awesome, I loved some of the puzzles with him, pretty creative, the only thing that got annoying was when he started yapping at something he wanted me to look at while I was exploring other areas.We’re out of bread, so I had to improvise for breakfast. I made a breakfast taco. It was pretty awesome but I may have made too much filling stuffs.
Dota!
Spelunky!
Dotunky!
Last day of Gog and Steam sales today.
My wallet didn’t suffer too badly. Got some cheap Hotline Miami, Reus, Legend of Grimlock, the Riddick games for around $15. Oh, and I got Torchlight for free along with Magrunner Dark Pulse.
Banished is still taunting me at $10.
How badly did your wallets get hit?
Banished is great! Played it for about 5 hours on the day that I bought it 😛
Doesn’t have a huge amount of replay value though. All of my towns end up looking pretty similar.
It still taunts me. One day I’ll break, but made a concerted effort to follow a “Nothing over $5” rule during the sales.
I spent about $50, but my friends gifted me way, way, way more.
I <3 you guys!
I think I may have ended up with more in gifts than I bought myself.
I got mostly DLC this time round I think, wasn’t planning on spending much with a bub on the way and already massive pineapple.
Bioshock season pass, transistor, payday 2 for taybie playdates and a few pinball tables.
Other than that I got Onion dino shooty, enslaved, urban trials, forced, rogue legacy, space hulk and Xcom: The bureau from a bunch of lovely people.
The riddick games are amazing
Can’t wait to try the Riddick games. Now I just need to wait until I can download them cheaply, but they’re in my library when I need them.
I enjoyed Rouge Legacy a lot. Think I would have enjoyed it more if I had a pc controller. Interesting ideas, but it languishes on my pile of shame.
Not too sure, I think somewhere in the range of $700 plus.
WHAT! D:
WHAT! D:
WHAAAT! D:
Haven’t actually added it up yet, might be a bit more, might be a bit less, but I think my guesstimate is pretty close.
I’ve been a baaaad monkey, could’ve bought a PS4, oh well, there’ll just be less for me to buy in the Christmas sale I s’pose.
Thanks again for Limbo and Valiant Hearts. Not exaggerating when I say two of the best games I’ve ever played. 🙂
Click on the Badges page of Steam and click on “How many drops do I have left” for the Summer Sale badge, it’ll tell you an estimated amount :P. I’m curious how much a gifting spree costs/will cost me in the future!
You just smashed the gift giving like crazy, imagine if you had your tax back too
Reposting PSA from Old TAY:
Let this be a warning to anyone that is considering buying The Witcher 3 on GOG.
When they say they’ll give you the difference back, and say “Since the price in your region is almost $19.98 higher than in the US, we’re giving you $19.98 back (~A$21.78) in bonus codes to get free classic games from GOG.com” they’re actually being incredibly misleading.
You’re not getting $20 USD credit. You’re not getting vouchers for credit.
You get two codes that allow you to “Redeem a game up to the price of $9.99 for FREE”. So two free games up to the value of $10 each.
Very, very different to how they make it out on the site, and I think it’s bullshit. Sours me toward them quite a bit, which I doubt was their intention with it. I’d have rather it said “You’re paying $20 more than the US and it’s bullshit but we can’t do anything so deal with it or buy elsewhere” because I’d have gone and done exactly that. No doubt I could have gotten the game for $40-50 elsewhere around launch (instead of $72 – and that’s with a 20% discount for owning the first two games!), I just wanted to support the developer.
Shame they did it that way.
I mean, the majority of the ‘big name/popular’ games on thes site are $9.99, so they must’ve figured that was a good way of doing it and gave good value, without thinking about folks who wanted to maybe pick up several of their $3.99 titles… I’m wondering if the logistics of applying ‘use it up how you like’ fluid credit would somehow break their system more than simply per-game voucher codes.
I think it’s probably easier for them to write off 2 games than it is to write off 10+.
The thing is, if they had actually spelled out what you were getting properly (and they kind of do, in the fine print at the bottom) then I’d probably not feel particularly hard done by. The thing that really annoyed me about it was that I went there because there was a sale on, and I was like “sweet, I’ll fill out a few of these bundles and grab some other old games with the credit I’ll get” and then I found I couldn’t. I’d have held off buying the game for several months otherwise.
Guys, we’re having an issue.
A neighbour has 3 houses on her property that she lets out. I live in a court and they often park in front of mine and my neighbours house. Today, our bin didn’t get emptied because they’d parked in front of them, despite knowing that we get our bins emptied on a Monday.
We’ve requested parking permits, but because it’s a majority rules vote, we’ll be outvoted. Also, they occasionally break the law by parking a metre away from the curb, over driveways and 90 degree parking.
We’re kind of at the end of our tether. I’m going to try and speak to the owners, because they’re only parking out the front of our house for their own convenience. They can’t be bothered backing out of their driveways and would much rather park in front of our house so they can just drive off.
What do we do?
Sometimes this happens to me and I’m forced to move my bin to an open curb away from my property to get my trash collected. It’s not the best long term solution to your car issue but at least my crap gets taken.
The only issue is there really isn’t an open curb
If they’re parking illegally or on your property, you should look up your local parking laws and see how you can dob them in.
How do I find that out? Vicroad or council?
Should be your local council but if they’re on your property, it might be something you’d have to ask the police about. Try the council first.
They’re not on the property, just parking out the front of it.
I have no idea, but I’d probably start by complaining to council that the garbage wasn’t taken away. If it wasn’t taken because someone parked in front of it, they’ll probably discover that after enough complaints go in…
We told them at quarter past 9. They still haven’t come back to empty it
Council and/or po-po. Illegal parks are illegal parks. I’d take pics every time to make a nice portfolio that you can show.
Agreed, take photos to show council and hopefully they will move their cars or install permits/no parking areas
Can you put the bin on the road (instead of on top of the gutter) where they normally park sometime on Saturday or Sunday when they are… absent?
See it a fair bit around Brisbane in some of the narrower/busier streets. Most people just put it about half a meter down from where the driveway joins the road. Lets anyone drive in and out of the drive without hitting it, but stops people from parking in front of it.
Hola Tay
Had a fairly low key weekend- went on Saturday to give plasma, then was going to draft Magic but there wasn’t a big enough turn out, so tooled around the city for an hour or so with a mate. Went to Hungry Hippo and played Board Games on Saturday- was with a friend of mine’s new boyfriend and his friend, who weren’t the most adventurous of gamers, but I at least got them into Ticket to Ride.
Sunday, played a bunch of The Witcher 2 and went to the pub. Also caved and bought Transistor, bringing my total Steam Sale cost up to.. $70? ish? Maybe a bit more? Pretty reasonable. Went to the pub for tea with friends.
Busy week coming up- going to a friend’s birthday on Tues, then a Disney themed pub quiz on Wed.
A Monday Morning Question: Most underappreciated game soundtrack? Mine would have to be the soundtrack to XIII
Rocket Knight Adventures.
Also having recently been playing Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures the soundtrack for that is amazing.
I want to go with Trials Evolution. Don’t get me wrong, the songs are stupid, but you should see my young nephews eyes light up when they hear an opening tune. For young kids, that sound is awesomeness coming their way.
It’s a weird reason to appreciate an OST, but you really have to be there.
XIII, top game. Borrowed it from my neighbour as a kid and got hype over the comic panel kill frames.
Final Fantasy IX for me.
Fun experience last night. My brother absconded with my copy of Theatrythym last he was here. No biggie. I got a new copy because screw it I want to play again and I’m impatient. Slot the cart in and start playing. Go to play some of the DLC I’ve purchased and it’s not available. Turns out that the DLC is not only tied to the system and your account but to the specific cart as well. I’ve just lost $40 worth of DLC.
What in the name of fuck is wrong with Nintendo? Literally every other platform and online store in existence figured this out a decade ago. It is not hard. If Nintendo can’t even get a basic foundation of an online store right it just reinforces the idea that they should abandon the hardware side and leave it to people that aren’t distracted by chewing their own desks.*
*I’m a little over reactive and cranky at the moment.
Which is why I won’t be buying any thing off their eShop any time soon.
That sucks, man.
Nothing over reactive at all, it’s stupid as hell and it’s why I don’t buy anything from the eShop unless I have to (stupid Ace Attorney!)
If EA decided to do it the internet would currently be burning down. But everyone just shrugs with a “That’s our Ninty!” when they do it.
I don’t think Ninty has any malice or agendas though. They just legitimately live in their own little bubble. (Which is no excuse.)
It’s more that Nintendo haven’t changed the way they’ve operated in a very long time so most people just aren’t surprised and end up rolling with it.
Regardless, I’d be getting the correct copy back off your brother and give him the new one.
Yeah, i know. It’s just more time and expense involved now. As I said, I’m just venting in frustration.
I’m interested to see whether being played and saved on another system keeps the DLC when you get the cart back, or ends up getting rid of it too.
I mean fingers crossed it doesn’t, but I’d hardly be surprised if it did.
I think I’d end up breaking something.
Nintendo’s face!
Yeah, this is exactly why I never purchase digital stuff on the 3DS. I want to play Ace Attorney 5 but it’s digital only ;_;
Morning all! I played the Walking Dead Season two this weekend, I don’t know what to do with myself between now and when the next episode arrives… Speaking of which, does anyone know when that will be lol?
Shouldn’t be too long. They alternate The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us and Wolf was released last month. Sometime this month I would suspect!
Woo, got an employee number.
I am a number! \o/
No way. You’re 56253? I’m 84963!
Ahh, good times.
Patrick McGoohan is not amused
You are number 6.
I’m not a number, I’m a free man!
When I started they gave me a barcode, if they had their way it’d be a brand or tattoo, Welcome, you are now part of our corporate machine, leave your soul at the door.
Congratulations, prisoner 24601.
You are now a resource, not a person, congratulations! 😛
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
Going to have to call off Pathfinder tonight as I am not feeling up to scratch. We’ll just skip this one and reconvene in two weeks. Sorry to have to do this guys.
No prob man
Feel better, man!
At least that means that people are now freed up for Mario Kart. \o/
Silver linings man.
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Last week I waited in the lobby for five minutes and no one showed up. I suspect it’s more than your Pathfindering. 😀
I completely forgot about it last week until about 8:00pm. I figured it was probably too late by then.
Hope you make your Constitution save soon!
HITLER WOULDN’T HAVE CANCELLED! YOU’RE WORSE THAN HITLER!!!!
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*cough* S’all good.
That’s okay sir, get well soon! 🙂
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That’s cool. I was really late getting to work today – locked myself out of the house this morning – and so I was going to need to work late and timing was looking tight anyway.
Guys, I think I’ve become addicted to a hidden object game on facebook. SEND HELP!
In my defence though, it is Jane Austen themed and rather funny. And I get to build my own manor! And also the game’s bugged out on me and I currently have 355 energy when my max should be 43… :3
send me an invite, mum may like that
Sure 🙂 I’m not sure if I have you as a friend on facebook actually. So if you get a friend request from some random creep named Braycen, that’s me 😛
Thank you. I was about to add you as a friend when you added me!
Too slow 😛
Press ‘X’ to Braycen!
So after assuming I was immune to steam sales after buying nothing at Christmas, this is the tally of games I added to my library over the last 10 days:
– Skullgirls (I don’t really like fighting games but this one is alright… I need to learn to play it properly though)
– Metal Slug 3 (It’s not really apparent how much of a credit-thief this blatantly cheating game is until you have practically unlimited credits. I’ve played it in the arcade and never made it past level 2. Level 5 really ratchets up the bullshit)
– World of Goo (fun puzzler, sometimes frustrating, but a amusing enough and I got it for a dollar)
– Another World (was loving this until I came up against a broken puzzle. Might start over to give it another chance one day)
– Blackwell bundle: Legacy, Unbound, Convergence, Deception (I got The Shivah in a humble bundle and immediately loved Wadjet Eye’s style of retro-styled point and click adventure gaming! Legacy was great, Unbound just as good, looking forward to Convergence and Deception before I buy Epiphany which came out just this year)
– Primordia (I know nothing about this except it’s also by Wadjet Eye – will move onto this once I’m done with Blackwell and I think I still have two of their games on my wishlist that I haven’t bought yet)
– Deponia (another adventure game that everyone seems to regard highly, so for two bucks why not?)
– Octodad: Dadliest Catch (I haven’t gotten to this yet, but I’ve seen some Let’s Play videos and there’s something strangely appealing about the idea of playing as an ordinary suburban father)
– Don’t Starve (a lot of fun, very hard to get the hang of, I’ll come back to this when I have more time)
– Banished (interesting, fun, seems to have a pretty forgiving learning curve – I’ll be interested to see how this game goes)
– Spelunky (terrific fun, much harder than I thought. I was expecting something more like Steamworld Dig, I didn’t realise it was a roguelike… and speaking of…)
– Steamworld Dig (finished this in 5 hours, will play again. Well-paced in terms of upgrades that keep the gameplay interesting, a fun little story)
– Space Hulk (haven’t gotten to this yet, I’m sure I can find $2.50 worth of enjoyment here)
– Long Live the Queen (this is basically Princess Maker lite, I think? It’s not bad, I’ll spend some more time with it)
– Dragon Age: Origins – Ultimate Edition (thanks @transientmind) (will get to this ASAP)
– Broforce (thanks @evilmonkey) (stupidly fun, surprisingly clever in it’s design)
Now to figure out what I’m eating this week.
I don’t know what it is about Long Live the Queen / why, but I find myself making a lot more scribbles / notes as I’m playing it than I ever did with Princess Maker. Granted, it’s been a number of years since I played PM.
It’s because Long Live the Queen is amazing in every way.
One wrong move and you’re screwed
I actually managed to get (what I believe is) the most successful ending on my third or fourth try. But man…so many potential pitfalls.
I got the ending where you
steal the Lumen crystal from your vault and maxed my magic skills to defeat the long haired guy in a duel.I don’t know if that’s a good ending or not. I think when I do a second playthrough I’m going to focus on history, intrigue and naval strategy and see how that serves me.
I also want to do a playthrough where I get to go to my cousin’s birthday, so I guess I need to max archery, battlefield medicine and composure before week 16?
Aaaaagh /o\
Regarding the birthday:
I believe you need Archery and reflexes at high or full to dodge that arrow, or medicine to fix it, or some other skills. There’s a few chances for you to not die but I think all the skills need to be pretty high. I think there was a way to bring bodyguards with you that prevents it?Your ending sounds like it might have been a branch off the big one I got. I can’t really say anything about it without ruining it for you. I reckon you’ll know the one I mean when/if you get to it.
I think if you have a high archery you can dodge it. I made the mistake of maxing out Battlefield Medicine which prevented me from dying but then I failed a composure check to keep from screaming and having the bandits pepper me with more arrows to finish me off.
So… maxing archery is probably the way to go but I’ll be interested to see how surviving that wound changes the story (if at all).
Yeah, that birthday, hey. You don’t need to max out the skills, but it can be a pretty fine margin. The best way to not die is to avoid it, i.e. Archery+Reflexes. Otherwise, yeah, Battlefield Medicine + Composure.
Man, some of those checks though. You think “Yep, I’ve got enough XYZ to get through this” and then bam, fail the check and explode.
There’s one check…
You’d think it’d be pretty easy, to stop yourself from eating chocolates. But noooo, I’m a fat little piggy girl who can’t control eating poison. And there’s seemingly so many ways to avoid it! My screen was filling with FAILED checks all over the place. Backtracked a day and the only way I was able to live was by changing in to a medicine outfit and pumping both trainings in to Poison. Bleah.Hahahaha, I don’t think I’ve ever come up against the chocolates! I did try and study poison since there’s a check for it when your cousin gets bitten by the snake, but I found it easier to just train in composure and avoid her getting bitten altogether.
@kermitron – You don’t even have to go that far!
If you imprison whatsherface instead of letting her stick around, YOU get bitten by the snake instead and your cousin heals you. Same outcome (cousin goes home), no repercussions. You can go down to the dungeon at any time and visit whatsherface and commence your Lumen training.Interesting! I wonder if anyone out there has developed a complete tree of all the branching decisions and outcomes? That would take ages even IF you didn’t have the mood/stat component to factor in!
@kermitron – Like I said, I’m taking a lot more notes / scribbles.
One thing I want to try doing is maximising my mood. One thing that frustrates me is starting at “Depressed” and not being able to work on my Royal Decorum or Conversation skills. So I’m trying to map out the quickest path for me to get to Lonely / Pressured / Cheerful / Etc.
After a day and a half of playing.
Cheerful cancels out depressed doesn’t it? Playing with Toys gives you cheerful and lonely, going to court seems to be the biggest kicker for pressured but also gives you yielding?
@kermitron – Yeah, it’s more about getting some bits without getting others and countering the reactions from events in your daily life. Also unlocking activities at various times (e.g. attending ball = +Pressured, unlocked from dancing) to continue certain moods.
I picked up Long Live the Queen with credit I earned from card sales. Definitely worth it. Graphics are great and the music is awesome.
I tried PM2 at one point because it seemed popular and couldn’t make heads nor tails of it, so admittedly I’m no authority. I only referred to LLTQ as PM-lite because it seemed to be way less complex, but at the same time the options for adjusting your mood to maximise skill gain really takes awhile to get your head around.
Some good titles there.
1) Advance warning on Space Hulk: This is not a video game set in the Space Hulk universe, it is a carbon copy of the board game, translated to PC. I think a lot of people got annoyed by this, expecting the reverse, but I’m kind of loving it for that faithfulness to the board game. Go in with the appropriate expectations to avoid disappointment.
2) Long Live The Queen is not so much Princess Maker Lite as much as it is more like a visual novel with significantly more ‘decision points’ which are less story-based and more stat-based. You have to hit certain stat levels the same way that you would hit ‘flags’ in any other visual novel, in order to unlock story points. It’s pretty decent, otherwise, I had fun with it.
3) Dragon Age: Heh. You might wanna save that one for when you have a LOT of time. I’ve got it sitting in my ‘must get around to’ list, too. And have done for the last couple years. It was huge enough on the 360 where I played it first (multiple times), and that was without all the DLC/expansions. It’s also pretty crash-tastic, you really want to be quicksaving very, very, very frequently. Following the game’s meta-advice, I played the prologue DLC packs first, and that took up plenty of time on their own. I still haven’t done Awakening or the Witch DLC epilogue stuff. I will not be passing any judgement or disappointment on delayed play of that one.
Space hulk is a stupid game
What do you mean that is just because I keep failing the first mission over and over, what has that got to do with anything.
Thanks. My only experience with Space Hulk was a brief game session about 15 years ago on an old board game that a mate brought to school with him. I loved the idea, so a digital remake is all I ever wanted.
Maybe a more “video-gamey” version would be appealing too but it sounds like Space Hulk is the game I want it to be.
Well, it looks like they’re making the video-gamey version, too, if new trailers are anything to go by. 🙂
Wait, you are actually playing the games you bought? You’re doing it wrong!
Skullgirls is awesome.
I made myself a promise to limit my buying to things I actively want to play so in most cases I installed them and put at least an hour into them right after purchasing. It was glorious! I regret nothing!
So I think my grand total for the Steam sale has finally reached just over $100. I would get the exact figure but Steam has decided to stop telling me and I couldn’t be bothered tallying up recent transactions.
Reckon I did pretty well, cause at least $50 of that was for gift games, and then the majority of other stuff was a $20 game, a $16 game, and a heap of dirt cheap DLC for games I want to go back to.
Honestly, this post is just bragging about how I didn’t lose my shit on a Steam sale (for once).
My final count is thus;
The Walking Dead Season 2
The Wolf Among Us
Thief
Broforce
Tropico 4 (accidentally purchased the standalone, so I’ve got a support ticket in to have it changed to the Collectors Bundle they had for the same price)
Reus
Strike Vector Gift
Far Cry 3 – Blood Dragon
Alice Madness Returns
Metro Last Light Complete
Insurgency
Guacamelee! Gold Edition
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes DLC: Super Pack
Saints Row IV (AU)
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes DLC: Asgard Pack
BattleBlock Theater
NBA2K14
DuckTales Remastered
Papers, Please
Dead Island Riptide
DmC: Devil May Cry
Here’s what I bought during the steam sale.
–
Here’s what I was gifted during the steam sale
-Monaco by Mashaaaaaa
Do I win? 😛
@notoriousR BTW, finally started playing Mark of the Ninja. It’s a pretty cool guy
Love that game! Going to go back and perfect it one day. I only got around to playing it this year despite winning a code for it back in 2012 or something.
I went back and got the 100% as soon as I finished the game.
Amazing game, it is my GOTY for last year
That game is so great. It is my favourite stealth game. It handles stealth so damn well, so many games could learn so much from it.
HOW AWESOME IS IT
I NEED TO REPLAY IT
Get the DLC first!
Which I considered gifting to you one time but didn’t. Sorry brah 😛
NO NEED, @welbot TO THE RESCUE
THANKS AGAIN GUY
you’re very welcome sire! 🙂
Finally got a decent drop off crafting Summer Sale Badges! A pair of Spiral Knight Gold Dragon Wings… Uh, ok…
Wait, it sells for $5?!? SOLD!
Ugh, 3 days ago they were going for $30…
I just crafted ALL the badges.
Uncommon Item! Awesome, that’s got to sell for a few…oh, 3c.
Okay. 🙁
Also, kudos to @evilmonkey for being an absolute legend and getting me Walking Dead S1.
I have a feeling I’ll be picking up S2 in about a week or two.
This said extraordinary item so I was expecting about 8c.
No problem dude, hope you enjoy it.
FYI, Season 2 is currently down to $12.
Well.
Shit.
I got a pack of Might & Magic cards I offloaded for 30c. A few days later the same item dropped again, went for 3c.
Reminder repost reminder:
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@Liondrive is dead to me.
Damn kids.
Oh, take your pills old man >:P
There’s a meat on?
Hey man, I don’t write down dates of anything ever! Probably why I constantly forget about things but “eh”.
EDIT: Also why didn’t you tag me? Not even one tag? I see how it is. I’m not invited.
I just wanted to spend some time with you. *sob* You never pay any attention to many more.
I’ll have the cards if they’re up for grabs. Did you want anything in return?
Nah. I got the level 5 badge and just had those left over so they’re all yours. I’ll send them across when I get home.
Thanks!
where abouts was this meat again? I think I was confusing this with another.. This is on Thursday right? I was totally thinking about some weekend meat :\
Uh, Saturday night at my place.
ah lolz. I was looking at this month’s 5th :0
Still waiting to hear if mum’s coming home this week or not. If she does, I’m probably gonna need to help out my dad. It’s looking more like she will come home, as she was home for a visit over the weekend, so things are quite promising in terms of her recovery at least, but it may mean I have to bail. Will keep you updated though.
If anyone wants spare Steam sale cards, I’ve got the following;
1x #1
2x #4
2x #7
3x #8
1x #9
Sure. Want anything in exchange?
I’ll take a #1, #4, and #8 if noone else wants them – I was going to sell my remainders but I got a new PC and have been locked out of trading and selling so I may as well try finish the badge one more time.
You should check if you can actually buy/receive stuff. I think when I got locked out of website trading access on my work computer I couldn’t do anything.
I’ll see if I can send them to you now.
*edit*
Because I’ve not logged into steam on my work PC before, it’s blocking me from sending trades etc for the first week, it’ll have to wait till tonight.
So I’m thinking of retiring the ol’ dual-booted Mac and digging into building a proper PC and working through my Steam backlog (I’ve been holding off on things like Far Cry 3, etc so I can play them ‘properly’ :P)
Are there any good guides around for what I need to buy, what I need to do, etc. I have absolute zero experience and am very dumb. A “Baby’s first PC” guide would be good. Is it all easy enough to do?
I don’t really need to build a monster or anything. Just something that can play current games well enough. What sort of price am I looking at?
EDIT: I should probably note that I need everything but a keyboard and mouse 😛
@transientmind @stickman @negativezero @benny all know stuff.
I’m guessing $800-1200 or so for a pretty reasonable build?
http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/rmp_sg_whirlpoolpcs_gaming_configs_1
Yeah I’ve had a look at that Whirlpool thing. Didn’t know what I was looking at 😛
Bonus question for all: Where are the best places to buy this sort of stuff? Online?
http://www.staticice.com.au/ use that to find out the general prices of parts.
I’d say it’s better to buy them in person (you wouldn’t want anything being damaged if it was shipped) and if you’re lucky, you’ll have a few computer stores around you so you can just buy from whoever has the lowest prices. No biggie if you don’t though as most places have similar prices.
Most of the gear I buy comes from pccasegear.com.au in melbourne, they ship to sydney for a reasonable price, and it’s normally 1-2 business day shipping.
@welbot buiilt me one with an i5, GTX770 and 8GB of RAM and it hasn’t even stuttered with a game I’ve played yet with everything cranked up to max. Came to about $1500 all up for the case and everything in it.
If my tax return is as fruitful as I hope it will be I’m gonna hit up @welbot to assist me too. That price sounds pretty great, the less it is the more I can shower welbot with compensation. Haven’t had a decent gaming rig in like 10 years, I miss RTS games.
gaming rigs are good fun to use and build! I love piecing together new hardware! I always get so sad when I have to say goodbye though, but I know it’s going to a good home, so all is well! 😉
Sweet, gotta get my tax return to bolster my savings, then hopefully I can get things under way.
Yes, I would say it’s easy enough to do and I love recommending people to take the step and start building! It’s a great skill to have and the sense of accomplishment over simply buying a console instead is very rewarding!
As mentioned before, everything is colour coded these days, as well as snap-in – hardly any screwdriver work is required. Also, as I mentioned before, the best way is to get your hands on an old machine and have a play with that first.
Go for it!
The only thing to mention is to watch out for the notch in the DDR RAM slots… I had a guy almost break a motherboard by trying to force the stick in the wrong way around…
Are there any guides on how to actually put it all together once I’ve got everything? Or is it all much more obvious than I’m expecting? 😛
There’s a bit of research work you need to do even before you buy. Mainly, once you pick the mainboard, you need to check that you get associating CPU and RAM types – not all of them go together like peas in a pod.
For CPU you need to be aware of the socket type, and for RAM/memory you need to be aware of the DDR type. For both, you only buy the same types.
*eyes glaze over*
I’ve heard of those things 😛
Haha, it’s not so bad. Wikipedia even has a howto.
Ah, perfect! That’s exactly what I needed, thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPIXAtNGGCw – I think Part 2 really helped me, even though I’d built one before. Whirlpool forums are great for feedback. FYI here is my post from my build at the start of this year (probably well out of date now though) http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2203914
@powalen I totally can’t remember at all how I figured out what to get when I put my computer together last year, but the videos Phoenix linked here is what I used when putting it all together and they helped a whole lot. It turned out to be pretty easy in the end.
@powalen
I think I just looked at other peoples Whirlpool posts and got a rough idea based on my own price range. Then looked at PC Case Gear to see what similar options were out there (tweaking to suit my price range as well). I’d recommend posting on whirlpool with a basic build and see what people say, that or posting here 🙂
Thanks for those videos, by the way! I watched them last night. Really helpful!
I’m a member at Techspot, they have decent stuff to look at.
http://www.techspot.com/guides/buying/page4.html – to have a rough idea of the parts you need for a certain budget bracket.
Also check out their game benchmarks, to see if the graphics card you’re thinking of works okay for the particular game.
How-to-build videos are plastered all over YouTube. If you can follow a Lego instruction and ‘put square peg in square hole’ you’ll be fine.
I’d recommend at least $1000 just for the tower if you want some nice gaming punch. Also keep in mind that the next gen of grpahic cards (CPU recently released) is around the corner, so it may be good to wait a couple months. But, start drafting up some builds and researching. Come back here with your list of stuff, and we can help you further.
You’ll be looking at $200 GPU minimum, core i5 CPU, 8GB RAM minimum, SSD – as a rough guide to start with. I buy from pccasegear, computer alliance, or some of the other online Aus stores.
$1000 excluding monitor will get you a good gaming computer. Anything you spend above and beyond that, however, will increase the life expectancy of of it terms of running games at full graphics. $1500 would probably get you 3 years of no stress.
In terms of monitor, most people have around a 22 inch widescreen which you can get for like $150 for a brand name one.
Do you want to build it yourself or do you want to have something built for you?
What is your budget?
There’s a pretty good guide with tiered builds for multiple budgets on NeoGAF, but it’s assuming buying parts and assembling.
If you’re looking for a pre-built system, PCCG’s systems are pretty decent. This one in the $1500 range is a fairly good build:
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1411&products_id=28025
(I’d probably want to enquire about upping the CPU though, up to a 4690K, the extra $70 or so is worth it)
Also I don’t know if they still do it but PCCG used offer an assembly service where you can buy all the necessary parts from them and pay an extra fee and they’ll put it together for you.
EDIT: For monitors, IMO this is somewhere where it’s better to splurge on a higher-res, higher-size piece of kit (so like 1440p and 27″+ ideally) and get a good quality IPS panel and everything because a good monitor will last you years and years. I still have my old Dell 24″ ultrasharp, still works perfectly and it’s a decade old now.
Ideally I’d only want to spend max $1000 (but then again I have no idea what I’m doing so this is pretty flexible. I have enough savings to go a bit higher but I’d prefer to not go all out if I don’t have to).
The main thing is I want to get into building my own/knowing more about this sort of stuff, I just have absolutely no idea where to start.
I’ll have a look into all these links you guys have given me once I get home, cheers.
Good morning everyone! 😀
Hope everyone is dandy 🙂
I’m super pumped for this week, but super nervous too :S
What if people don’t like me?!
What if the hairdresser butchers my hair on Wednesday?!
What if I can’t get all my clothes into my luggage?!?!
On a totally unrelated note, is 9 pairs of pants a bit excessive for a 10 day trip…?
Anyway, super keen to meet people, and hope everyone has a great week! 😀
We’re more scared of you then you are of us! 😀
You’re only meeting me though, I’m meeting like 10 people! :O
Keen to meet, but still nervous :3
Killing the drifter will be a good ice breaker, don’t worry.
It will be an incredibly awkward week.
We’ll all point and laugh.
You’ll be wearing A LOT of layers onto the plane.
9? You mean 1 right?
…I own two pairs of pants.
I own four. Two are presentable enough to wear outside.
I have two pairs of pants for work (not counting the ones that go with my one good suit) and two pairs of jeans. And an old pair of jeans that are effectively retired because they’re worn out and sudenly too large. And some cargo shorts.
I suddenly feel all hoity-toity!
Hi, I’m liondrive, and I love clothes and shopping 😀
I think (off the top of my head), I own at least 15+ pants, 15+ tops, and 7ish jumpers 😀
So not that much really, it could be worse :3
I have around 40 shirts. I think maybe 6 of them actually fit me.
I have a shameful amount of shirts. But very few pants. Well, very few pants that fit properly. And some that I think I haven’t even worn. Hey, @liondrive – you like Kenji pants? I bought them ages ago but the material isn’t matte enough for my tastes. Never worn. Probably fit you. Cheap as free.
I do like Kenji…
I don’t think I’d be your size, but am willing to give them a look 🙂
I don’t have that much clothing cause I tend to give away the things I no longer wear. Gotta make room in my wardrobe for my newer and prettier clothes 😀
They’d be a 30, from memory. I’ll see if I can find them when I get home.
Pretty sure Liondrive is 6’8 or something. He’s going to lumbering around Brisbane destroying buildings! D:
Ok yeah if that’s the case then you’ve got no chance in hell @liondrive – I’m 176cm.
Anybody of a normal / reasonable height want some free pants? :p
Yeah, I’m size 34 :'(
Thanks anyway 🙂
Maybe you could give them to @dc, I hear he needs some new clothes ;P
And I’m not Godzilla or anything DC! :’O
Why you gotta hurt me so? :'(
@liondrive: I’m 6’2, sometimes I feel like a lumbering oaf. 😛
I own something like 40+ shirts 😛
Mostly band related 😀
me too, you can tell which bands I’ve seen more recently by how much they’ve faded :P.
Ha, yes! Though saying that one of my most loved band shirts (The Living End Retrospective Tour) hasn’t even shown signs of fading or wear yet and it’s one of the better band shirts i’ve owned too in terms of quality!
That’s rare, usually band shirts are pretty crappy quality, but I’m a chump and pay to advertise for them 😀
I know, I am amazed, I think they’re even Australian made shirts so that’s a bigger bonus. Though saying that I find Metallica, Slipknot & Stone Sour have pretty high quality shirts. Saying that, they’d want to for the price >_>
Including the green ones? D:
@masha2932 and you can bond over your pants 😛
Now I have three pairs of pants!
I’ve drawn out the paint design I want to do on them and everything! @scree would be proud! (or disgusted at how unprofessional it all is :P)
Is it a secret cosplay or have you mentioned it before? What is it? 😀
I haven’t shut up about it!
Same here!
o/
Everybody likes you. Deal with it.
Has your regular hairdresser that you go to all the time and trust butchered your hair recently? (If yes, ignore this point)
Get more luggage.
No, that’s not excessive amount of pants. Pack 2 more pairs and it might be though.
Oh yeah, I meant to apologise for not hanging out with you while you were here!
I was busy Friday – Sunday, and a meat with just really me might’ve been a bit weird, haha! 😀
I figured I’ll see you at Freezes meat anyway 🙂
Yeah, it’s all good. I didn’t really have that much time, and since the trip waaaas technically for work I had to do work things. Still, we won the sportsball, so the trip was good. Muahahaha.
Have you considered the somewhat radical plan of packing a relatively small selection of pants and filling the gap with the ones you’re planning to buy on this shopping spree thing of yours? Seems to solve the problem of excessive packing for the trip over and not needing to hire a shipping container for the trip back.
Reply fail.
So uh, how about that stuff huh?
Yeah, just like that team and their sportsball somewhere in the world. Amazing, huh?
@spaghett’s LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
For Good – Wicked OST
My sister bought us tickets for this when it comes to Brisbane next February. Listening to songs so I can familiarize myself with the music. (Musicals are better when you know the songs. WHO KNEW?)
I dunno, there was a great sense of wonder the first time I saw Spamalot and Wicked, I didn’t know what I was in for. Then again, mouthing along to all the songs is also a worthwhile use of my time.
Edit: Oh, and by my own volition was Everybody by the Backstreet Boys. Actual last song was whatever was on the radio, which was probably that Iggy Azalea one that gets played 40 times a day.
I’m the kind of guy who takes a while for songs to click, though. Very rarely do I like stuff on first listen. 🙂
I’m going to see it in Sydney in September. SO HYPE.
Chandelier – Sia
I don’t even care. Sia is the fucking tits.
I fucking love Sia. You’re okay with me, buddy.
Is Sia that chick that did the vocals for that She-Wolf track on the David guetta album?
Yep. Titanium, too.
I only recently found out that this was Sia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCm2bCjghoQ
to be fair, they intentionally kept it a secret until like 10 years after the track came out for some reason.
White Unicorn – Wolfmother.
It’s a rock your pants off Monday for me.
Blue Oyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
Ah, I love that song for The Stand reasons. I love that song for Orange is the New Black reasons. I love that song for being a cool song reason. 😀
’tis a fine song indeed, did you like the Frighteners? Danny Elfman does a version in that too.
Edit: The original better though 😛
I haven’t seen The Frighteners!
hmm, I haven’t seen it in years, can’t remember it very well, I remember not disliking it,
What? Dude! It’s like one of the best comedy horrors made!
Michael J. Fox used to scare me. Some one so young getting something like Parkinsons. Used to avoid everything he was in cause I found it too confronting.
Now I just have an (ir)rational dislike of Peter Jackson movies. 😛
On the plus side he can play his Nintendo 64 without a rumble pack?
I’m so sorry….I just had to…
Needs more cowbell
did you see Will Farrell on Jimmy Fallon? He looks like the drummer from the Chilli Peppers a little so they had a drum off followed by RHCP doing a rendition of The Reaper with Will Farrell on cow bell. (Tha’ts actually the reason I listened to the original)
#gutsoupspointlessexplanations
Yeah, I saw that, was pretty good.
Easy, guys… I put my pants on just like the rest of you: one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.
Of the Night – Bastille
Old Friends – Darren Korb
Haven’t started Transistor yet, but loaded up the OST last night
Christopher Tin – Baba Yetu (feat. Soweto Gospel Choir)
Listening to “Calling All Dawns”, not the Civ IV soundtrack, for those playing along at home.
Mado Kara Mieru is also excellent. Guy makes good music.
Yeah, that track is fantastic (I love how the singers age and then come full circle back to the little girl)
Another particular favourite is “Se É Pra Vir Que Venha (feat. Dulce Pontes)” the Portugese track. Man, even without knowing the lyrics that song is powerful, but when you translate it…
Jay-Z and Linkin Park – Numb/Encore
Moon – Yoko Kanno/Gabriela Robin
Yoko Kanno is one of my favourite modern composers.
Not a terrible set of pipes either (Gabriela Robin is her pseudonym she uses when she does the vocals herself).
Moon is one of her best pieces too.
Yep, I listed both names because it’s usually credited as Gabriela Robin but it’s Yoko Kanno’s work. I’m also a fan of Inner Universe, which was used as the Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex OP.
Skullgirls – Maplecrest
Had to reset my password for the third day in a row now because I couldn’t remember it.
I don’t think the brain training is working.
Colobus141
*adds note to file*
hunter2
(let’s see how old some of you are :P)
All I know is that when I entered that I was asked if I wanted to play Global Thermonuclear War.
I missed that reference. Yay logic says I’m young
Here you go;
http://bash.org/?244321
I don’t care about the reference, I’m just happy to be young again 🙂
Still, it’s a funny quote (at least, I think it is…) and the top 100 on that site is a goldmine of stupidity.
ha, you mean *******
True, but how many would get the joke if I just typed *******
*******
Wow it works!
Stupid sickness won’t piss off.
Even worse the cough medicine tastes like liquorice which I cannot stand the taste of. It’s really hard not to gag when I take it.
Aw man, I love liquorice.
You have it then D=
Liquorice is the beeeeeeeeeeeeeest.
It was great having a diabetic friend in college – got to have all the black jellybeans I wanted 😛
aww man @princesspipster brought this liquorice cover chocolate (yep that way round) stuff to trivia the other day. So good
Mine gotten worse, I can barely talk and my throat feels like its clamped
Hey everyone. I should have time this week to pop into TAY a bit.
My weekend was good, busy. Friday I got my bike back finally, with upgraded brakes for free! Went to cocktail party that night. Sat night was western-themed bday party at a community hall out of town, fun times were had. Slept on newly-purchased airbeds and sleeping bags, was alright. Sunday was some nice naps, quick roadtrip to meet with a friend, and DnD.
Didn’t play much, maybe some local Mario Kart for a couple races. Fun weekend overall, but now I need to find time to ride bike. 😛
How goes here? Everyone’s wallets doing okay?
D&D WOOOO
Highlight: we were up against a stone construct, big beastly thing. It rampaged towards me. I happen to have reaction attacks for movement within 5ft of me. So I react, KO it. DM asks me to explain how I killed it.
Is your character a halfling version of Samuel L Jackson?
I’VE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING ORCS IN THIS MOTHERFUCKING MORDOR
Sauron LOOKS! LIKE! A! BITCH!
Depends on my mood, haha. I have to say I’m the most versatile character in our party, so everyone’s come to expect that literally anything is possible. Makes for fun gameplay!
Nice job 🙂
@transientmind saw your comment on the steam sale article re kb + m for Wolfenstein, sure, fair enough.
But are there any PC games that you just can’t play that way?
Racing. If you turn off assists you simply can’t control the vehicle with a KB.
I’ve found that’s very dependent on the specific game. For some it definitely makes it tough.
Yeah, depends on the level of ‘simulation’. But IRL (and a lot of games behave similarly when all assist turned off and difficulty cranked) it’d be like only controlling he car my smashing brake/gas and pulling steering while fully sideways. D:
I don’t know if I’d count ‘boredom simulators’ as PC games. 🙂
(Background: I don’t like racing games and don’t count them as games for the purposes of any discussion about games.)
What about Need for Speed?
Burnout Paradise is also an insane amount of fun.
Nope!
My policy is: Unless there are guns strapped to the cars, there’s no point to a racing game!
Zombie Driver and Carmageddon may tickle your fancy.
You’re wrong and you should feel bad about that.
I felt the same until I played Burnout Paradise.
The point is to be faster than the other guy!
And possibly more furious.
Pssh. ‘Pure Racing’ games are for people whose ‘flight-or-fight’ instinct is broken and set to ‘flight’. 😛
Guns change the settings back to ‘fight’, and make it tolerable. 🙂
Double psh. F-Zero has no guns but is full of fight – gotta get as aggressive as possible and slam as many of the other racers off the road as you can!
Hm? Play which way? Using KB&M and the couch/TV?
Fanboy/zealotry-free zone ahead, just reviewing how things have gone so far:
I think things I couldn’t play might be anything that relies on really tiny text. For some reason small fonts are harder to read on the TV from the couch than they are on the desktop. Probably due to the lower resolution. I’m interested in trying Europa Universalis/Civ5/Warlock from there. Just to see if I can do a lazier, more laid-back session on the couch. I’ll tellya, Typing of the Dead was fantastic when controlled this way, but it’s keyboard only. I tried a few FPSes – Metro LL, Dishonored, Thief – and I felt very detached from things when playing that way. Even using KB&M.
I think the issue is also one of ergonomics.
Mouse and Keyboard from the couch is very difficult to get comfortable with. I put a tray down next to me on the couch to control from my side, with the keyboard on my lap and that worked OK, but I’m thinking maybe a large cushion/small seat and the coffee table might be a better bet. Only then I’m craning my neck upward to the closer screen. And I wasn’t kidding about the eyeball real estate.
It’s a similar principle to why Oculus Rift works so well. The screens aren’t big, but they’re right on your eyeball so they’re all you see. My desktop monitor is very close to my face and quite large, so it actually takes up more eyeball real estate than a large TV does from the couch. So it feels more immersive that way. It doesn’t help that the TV can’t match the monitor’s resolution – it seems like it SHOULD be prettier given that it’s such a wider space, but that space has a lower resolution.
My brother seems to really enjoy watching me play stuff while he’s using his laptop on the couch, though. I set up duplicate feed so that the output goes to both monitor and TV, and he does some backseat-driving from the couch, telling me when I’ve missed things. Or just laughing at the absurdity when I was playing stuff like Saints Row 4.
I’m probably going to have to experiment a lot more to get the perfect combination, and there’s a real chance I’ll need to move the PC closer to the TV to start experimenting with a gamepad as well (I DID NOT SAY THAT YOU CANNOT PROVE I DID I WILL DENY IT IF YOU EVER TRY TO QUOTE ME), see if there’s anything that’ll handle better that way, where KB&M’s finicky nature isn’t at odds with my couch-reclining.
Either that or I’ll need to buy a wireless gamepad/adapter rather than my wired. I own a wired one now, but have not set it up for PC yet. Haven’t felt the need, given that most games (strategy, FPS, puzzle, RTS, MMO) control better with KB&M on the PC.
I just can’t envisage playing something like The Witcher 2 or Mark of the Ninja with a kb+m.
EUIV or strategy, sure, but never anything that requires character mobility
I’m playing the first Witcher with KB+M and hating every minute of it. I just can’t get comfortable and properly sink myself into it. Consider g just skipping to 2 I’m disliking it that much.
I played the first two? acts of Witcher one, and then skipped forward.
You don’t miss much, one of the early cutscenes recaps what happens. All you need to know is (Witcher One spoilers):
Geralt killed an assassin who was trying to kill king Foltest. That Assassin was discovered to be a mutant Witcher. dun dun DUUUUUN!The Witcher is basically a mod for Neverwinter Nights, and is very point-and-click focused, while doing its best to hide that fact. You could try plugging one in, but I can’t see a gamepad improving it at all.
It’s not compatible with one.
Witcher 1 wasn’t and had like a billion menus and commands and shit. I only played about a half hour of Witcher 2 (going to go back to it now that I’ve been told it might not have been my graphics card’s fault it ran like dog shit) but it natively suported my wired 360 controller, no issues.
Oh man, KB&M nails it with stuff like Mark of the Ninja – they really got it smooth and intuitive. Witcher 2 less so, but I don’t have anything to compare it against, not having bought it on 360. I don’t know where this idea comes from, that 3rd-person adventure-type gaming is better with a gameplay. Just play something like Max Payne 3 and notice the difference. Headshots for days with no loss in mobility.
I’ve played a lot of stuff with KB&M that I’ve also played on the 360/PS3, and so far the only ones I think that felt worse were GTA4 (yeah, even DESPITE the precision that’s afforded for shooting – there’s just so much non-toggleable aim-assist it’s not funny), Dark Souls, and Deadspace. I’m pretty confident that the only time a game is worse with KB&M is because the porting team didn’t know what they were doing. I think this, because other games in the same class (eg: Saints Row series, where you can become a headshot death god with the humble heavy pistol) routinely prove that a better experience with KB&M is possible. I mean, port-quality is definitely a factor to consider – nothing exists in a vacuum and the developer’s ability to port should influence whether something’s going to work or not – but I’d reckon you should totally give at least those two mentioned games a go with KB&M. MotN was especially well-done, felt really good.
But I don’t see any advantage to The Witcher 2 (Not accuracy based, and roll to doge movement) or Mark of the Ninja (Platforming, really) being played any other way than with a controller.
Strokes for Folks, i guess.
Oh! I forgot Assassin’s Creed. That was pretty naff on KB&M.
I mentioned to a few people on TS that one of my Steam friends has a level 75 Summer badge and figured I should offer proof of this hilarity:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/swixel/gamecards/303700
hah, I’ve crafted 3 badges.
87 hours in 2 weeks? O_o
Probably card crafting, leaving games running for trades/purchasing
Oh yeah. I keep forgetting that a thing.
My Steam account is currently 46 hours. XD
Yeah……no.
He probably does do that, but those hours would be legit.
Reminds me of the days of TF2 idling purely for items… Oh the hours we clocked up.
I’m at 87.3 hours past 2 weeks
The fact the Mrs Tigs is home playing here puzzle MMO certainly is helping those hours
http://steamcommunity.com/id/palmdesert/gamecards/303700
D:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
That has to be running some sort of bot trade.
Or a glitch
More likely bot trade
I wouldn’t expect a glitch to flow through to different section
Dear TAY,
I’m at work, feeling like rubbish. Id much rather be at home playing Dragon Age 2.
went and watched Jeff Lang play at the Basement on Friday night. that man is an amazing guitarist. just…. so damn good. he’s the reason I started learning to use a slide.
Picked up some goodies in the Steam sales – Wasteland 2, Grim Dawn, Killer is Dead & a few other things…. really shouldn’t have done that, but whatever.
hows stuff?
Wasteland 2! Arrrgh! Saying I can’t wait for the August release is an understatement!
HEY MAN! HOPE YOU FEEL BETTERER!
oh hell yeah. So keen for that.
Started playing Baulder’s Gate for the first time last week. & that’s making me just as keen for Pillars of Eternity. so much rad RPG radness coming soon….
Playing South Park: The Stick of Truth has made me even more excited about Pillars of Eternity. Obsidian knows how to RPG. 😀
Now if only they could get some coding lessons. ..
Haha! South Park was probably their most stable game yet, though. So maybe they’re learning? 😀
But you played it months after launch!
Eh, most of Obsidian’s buggies is due to rushed release cycles. I can live with most of it, because I really enjoy the stories they tell. KotOR 2 was amazing.
Speaking of Isometric RPG’s apparently Divinity: Original Sin is getting a full release today/tomorrow. I’ve been looking forward to it for a while.
that ones on my watch list. gonna wait & see what the consensus is before deciding on picking it up.
Join the “feel like shit” club!
WOOO!!!! DO WE GET SPECIAL HATS?!
Yeah, they say “Don’t talk to us, may attack”
Oh man, people are going to confuse you with the “Don’t talk to us, will attack” hats of the Sex Offenders Guild.
Or even worse – the “Don’t talk to us, will attack” hats of the Pokemon gym leaders club!
“Don’t walk within direct sight of us, will attack” hats of Pokemon trainers on any Route ever
If I’m going to join any sort of club I want a jacket dammit!!
Worst club! When can it disband already.
JOB HUNTING CLUB ASSEMBLE!
There’s only like, 2 members left. It’s a little sad really.
Give it a few months, I’m sure I’ll be back before long.
Likely after some kind of extravagant purchase, that seems to be how these things go 😛
Woo Dragon Age 2!
Just finished that on the weekend. Had some major design problems but glad I played it – great story and has made me so hyped for Inquisition.
theres some things that irk me a bit about it for sure.
the shoddy combat camera being the main complaint. cant zoom out enough for my liking. I liked being able to see the positions of all my characters at the same time in DA:O.
reusing the same maps is a secondary gripe.
only other thing I think falls a tad flat is the skill system for your party members. I miss how in DA:O you had access to all skills for a class with your party members. in DA2 however, if you want a healer, you’re limited to Anders coz Merril cant learn healing spells. if you want a tank, you’re stuck with Aveline coz Fenris cant equip shields. sorta takes away the flexibility the first game had.
having said that though, I still like it. I like the writing & the characters & the combat itself flows more than DA:O.
I’m about half way through Act 3 at the moment… should finish it sometime in the next few days & hell yeah, I’m so damn keen for DA:I
The map thing really annoyed me. It is just so lazy! I mean they even used the same mini-map ffs: you would go into an area you had supposedly never been to before and the map is all explored because it does not just look like that other cave, it is the exact same one. Really took away any sense of immersion and of a cohesive world and made those bits feel like the grunt grinding, game padding they were.
And yeah, flexibility, camera and some pretty poor voice acting sometimes.
And its a shame – with the strong writing and characters it had, if they had just put the effort into those things it could have been a game for the ages instead of being largely panned.
from what I’ve read, DA2 wasn’t even supposed to be a proper Dragon Age game. it was supposed to be a console exclusive action-y spin-off closer to Dynasty Warriors than DA:O.
but EA pressured BioWare into turning a half-finished spin-off game into a full sequel so it could cash in on the success of DA:O.
I mean, seriously…. 18 months between DA:O & DA2? yeah….. too rushed. & executive meddling ruined what otherwise should’ve been a great game.
Ah, that makes sense.
Hello people, I seem to remember some people here play Mariokart regularly? When does that occur normally and how does one get involved?
I think it starts by you saying HEY LET’S PLAY MARIO KART TODAY HERE IS MY FRIEND CODE LET’S DO IT.
I don’t have a Wii U though.
Tonight! 7:30!
@dc and @powalen have the TAY Kart details but I’m assuming one of them might’ve already replied but the time I post this 😛
Dependent on available slots, I might try and get on tonight.
There seems to be a sudden renewed interested in it.
Dearest Greenius. Stop. All server details are on TAY Names. Stop. Kindest Regards. Stop. D.C.
…
STOP?
Thanks DC 🙂 Whats the link for tay Names these days?
http://tinyurl.com/taynames
You are an awesome person 🙂
YOU TAKE THAT BACK. >:|
Dishonoured? ($11.29 US)
Lego games?
Yay or nay?
Dishonored is amazing. Crazy good art direction. Lots of atmosphere. More Thief than the new Thief. You’d love it, Stan.
Shh, you had me at “Thief”.
THAT WAS THE LAST THING I SAID! D:
Dishonored? HELL YES!!!!
LEGO games? I bought and played my first one at the start of the year (MARVEL) and I wouldn’t recommend it :P. It’s pretty simple and not that fun solo. But I wasn’t familiar with the MARVEL lore so I dunno!
I compromised.
I did not buy the Lego games.
I bought the complete ultimate Dishonoured package, with all the DLC.
So I think I made the right move there.
Ugh the tissues here are sandpaper-grade. Worst.
I always get the Kleenex aloe vera ones. Takes a few days for those to start feeling sand-papery.
I haven’t had those in ages but they were the best.
I always hated those ones that are longer than normal tissues. Like, each one’s a tissue and a half. That extra half is totally useless, I’d usually just tear it off any use it for something else later.
Dude, when you have nostrils as cavernous as mine, no extra tissue real estate is useless.
Those suck for wiping glasses though haha.
Are you playing Valiant Hearts? Or is this just general feelings at your new job? 😀
Worse than either – sniffles because I am unwell!
It is the ABC!
No they’re Regal!
Budget cuts.
Hey, @Shane just at Kmart and they have those Wii U bundles in stock. You still want me to get it? Don’t have the money though, I could probably borrow the money from work, but I’d need it back pretty soon.
Maybe he can call this Wii U Scruffy Jnr?
Scooty Puff Jr
Looks like target has stock too.
Oh man, I picked the wrong day to be offline. Yes please man. Email me with your bank deets and I’ll get the $$ to you immediately. You can keep the Skylander stuff obviously
Edit: oh, if the offer is off the table because it’s a new day, I totally understand!
Sorry dude, been at work all day, I’ll e-mail my deets to you shortly.
Oh god. How to Train Your Dragon 2…
Feels…
So many feels
2? 2 do what?
No. There will be no feels had during that movie, as I am going to go watch it and do not want tears to fall into my manly, hairy beard.
No feels.
On a scale of 1 to Optimus Prime dying in the original Transformers cartoon movie, how bad is it?The part that got to me wasn’t even a tragic moment. No sads in that. Just got to me.
There are sads to be had though…
A recap of sunday TAY post
On Friday night I downloaded Valiant Hearts and Torchlight 2 and started torchlight 2 had fun with that, Cathryn’s friend stayed over the night and they watched movies so I was free to play games until I fell asleep on the couch. I also watched an episode of The Blacklist.
Saturday morning I played abit more of Torchlight 2 aswell as brought and installed Minecraft, I got killed by a skeleton, took revenge on a cow then built a wood tube to hide in when it went dark as I remember someone saying that thats a thing to do. After that Cathryn and I went to one of her friends 21st up in Eildon, safe to say that with melbournes weather it was a muddy mess and naturally our car got bogged along with 5 others which wasnt fun and so we got towed out in the morning as the only ones with vehicles who could tow were white girl wasted at the time.
Sunday morning we unbogged the car and set off for home, arrived home and then ducked out to the shops to buy myself a new phone and ended up getting hair dye to dye a friends hair red, now, ive never used peroxide and never claimed I knew how to, but she insisted on me doing her hair so I did, she wanted to go red, I dont know what colour it is but dammit its close enough to red for me!
Tldr; I did things this weekend
I ran around as a drunk Saiyan tearing up Steelport city most the weekend, yelling things like “VEGETA WHYYYY?”… hi @rize!
i should get out of the house more 😛
“BECAUSE I’M A MONKEY!”
“OH NO, I’M NOT A MONKEY”…
“OH NO, THE KID’S A MONKEY!”
Quite an interesting interview with Yoshinori Ono over on Eurogamer:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-06-11-the-rise-and-collapse-of-yoshinori-ono
Talks about how he got into the industry, working on Street Fighter 4, and how shitty Capcom are to work for and how they overworked him to the point he ended up in hospital. For serious. He’s pretty cutting.
I’ve been mucking about in Spelunky, trying to unlock new characters and explore the hidden areas. I finally made my way into the Haunted Castle to unlock Van Helsing and went along the roof to unlock him the easy way. For those that don’t know, when you unlock a new character they act as an AI controller helper for the rest of that run.
So the first thing Van Helsing does to help me after I free him? Throw a bomb in my face.
Van Helsing is a jerk.
so the end to my Steam extravaganza ended up being me picking up Deadlight + OST…
Don’t know anything about it, but it looked pretty interesting and it was $3 😛
Anyone tried it before?
Very good game. Writing isn’t the best but the art direction is stunning and level design is cool.
Also i know people say it’s just a formality,
But i sent off my application for Citizenship yesterday AND ZOMGBABYJEEBUSWTFBBQ I AM SO NERVOUS!
I keep checking the status of the application and once it saw the “Application – Investigation Commenced” message i think i nearly had a nervous breakdown XD…
It might be easy, but being in this country is my life now! and i’m thinking worst case scenarios at the best of times XD
Congrats, Nearly Citizen Pixel Ferret!
BUT I NEED TO SIT A TEST! it might be multiple choice and if i haven’t been living under a rock for the past 8 years i shouldn’t have any issues, BUT IT’S STILL A TEST DAMMIT 😛
If there are any sportsball related questions, the answer is probably “Shane Warne” but you’ll get bonus points if you just answer “Warney”.
Or Dennis Lillee.
So. Damn. Proud. My not-so-foreign friend! 😀
CITIZENSHIP CEREMONY MEAT!
ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
Here are your thongs, tongs, and footy. Use them wisely.
Is that what Ace Attorney investigates?
Do you have to sit some kind of Australianness test?
For my family it was super easy to get citizenship but we were coming over from NZ and it was before they made it harder.
Yep, 20 multiple-question about what it means to be australian, apparently…
Multiple sources tell me it’s a trick quiz and every answer is actually “D – Don Bradman”
so i’ll just go with that!
http://www.citizenship.gov.au/learn/cit_test/practice/
Pretty straightforward, though that could be my born and bred here bias showing.
Those are all government-based. Has the test changed? Because when it first came out it was a load of shit and Australians were failing it.
The questions were changed in 2009 to better match the citizenship pledge.
Think that’s when the Bradman stuff was removed.
Been there, done that and the correct answer for the final question is
‘Aww nah, there’s probably something wrong with your breathalyzer, officer.’
Oh, when did you become a citizen? 😀
Automatically at birth. No tests for me, truthfully. 😀
The citizenship test now is just:
“Did you come by boat? Y/N”
“If Y in previous question, please stay still until a lovely gentleman (please ignore the love and hate tatt’s on his knuckles, it was a mistake made in a previous life, he really is lovely, trust us) comes and helps you go to another test somewhere else.
In short, get in the van.”
I’m doing the sample quiz now and I’m a bit stumped by this one:
Both A and C are correct but I can’t select both (the “correct” correct choice was A).
c) is an example of freedom of religion, not speech.
Freedom of religion is a subcategory of free speech, just like freedom of the press.
Sure, but it’s covered differently in the constitution.
freedom of speech isn’t explicitly covered in the constitution. its an implied right rather than a protected one.
as for freedom of religion, the only mention I can recall in the constitution is that the govt wont legislate to create religions, and that no religious test can be admitted as a prerequisite for assuming office.
Section 116:
The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth.
C is a matter of personal opinion that only affects you, while A is speaking out against a decision by the nation’s leadership that affects far more?
Freedom of Speech isn’t an explicit freedom in Australia- good primer: http://www.ag.gov.au/RightsAndProtections/HumanRights/PublicSectorGuidanceSheets/Pages/Righttofreedomofopinionandexpression.aspx
Religion is better covered in section 116
The point was the freedom of religion is still an example of freedom of speech. Not a strong example but still an example.
What a fucking terrible question. Australia doesn’t even have freedom of speech.
A minor detail.
Star Citizen?
All the citizen \o/
Sometimes when I’ve been working late or doing late meetings in the city or running errands, I’ll find myself outside (former?) city hall in King George Square when a citizenship ceremony has finished. A bunch of formerly-foreign folks, walking away with certificates in their hands and more knowledge about Australia than the typical Australian, in their heads.
First time I didn’t really know what the event was, or why there always seemed to be something going on in the old city hall building so late at night, but only a couple weeks ago I actually asked a guy who was looking a bit lost at time-tables, and he told me it was the Citizenship ceremony.
I know it’s probably not saying a HECK of a lot, considering where some folks come from, but the patriotic validation of having someone want to be a citizen of your country is a nice feeling. I like to congratulate them and shake their hands.
Hey all, just thought I’d touch base and let you guys know I haven’t died.
I also may have juiced about 3 kg of oranges. Gotta get that Vitamin C.
Tch, stop listening to Linus Pauling.
I think avoiding scurvy is a good reason to get Vitamin C. 😛
mmm vitamin C 🙂
Just a heads up for @freezespreston @jocon @transientmind and @negativezero, I sent you guys an email regarding flights for Japanarama
Started looking at a practice Citizenship Test.
Is this a trick question?
http://i.imgur.com/OEhvQip.jpg
A. I think? Process of elimination tells me that A is the least ridiculous.
Or most. I have no idea.
A is correct. It’s also an ideal that isn’t always held to.
“D) Don Bradman!”
That is actually one i had issues with because i didn’t know what secular meant XD…
It means that you don’t make sacrifices to your gods before pillaging and plundering.
Unless that god is Don Bradman, obviously.
I’m fairly sure a hushed “99.94” under your breath before you commence activities is fine.
I actually live just off Sir Donald Bradman Drive.
I hope you leave bits of willow on his shrine.
Otherwise, he shall descend from the grand pavilion above and cover drive you for six.
It means not religious, basically- the Government isn’t rooted in a particular faith and doesn’t make laws preferencing one over the other.
You know, just like the current government…
Now, to be fair the Church of Blaming Labor is not recognised as a religion.
Yet.
I had the exact same lolwut reaction.
this current govt is nothing close to secular.
They still give money for school chaplains, so clearly the answer is C.
that wasn’t legislated for, hence the high court telling em they cant do it.
Yep, High Court said you can’t do it the way you’ve been doing it (i.e. the funding model is wrong).
They can still do it in future, they just have to do it differently to how they do it now.
…wow, constitutional law is finiticky.
That’s not what tripped it up though.
A is correct. At least on paper, Australia is a secular government. In theory, at least.
@stickman, You magnificent bastard! thank you so much for Shovel Knight.
Have fun! 😀
Stickman? moar like Giftman AMIRITE! o/
@pupp3tmast3r, just bought a starter pack for the Magic: Journey Into Nyx expansion today. You be up for some Magic on Steam this weekend? (that’s if my laptop’s fixed by then).
Magic!
Prerelease for new core set in two weeks!
Soz monkey been really ill the past couple of days! Hence my absence from TAY! Magic this weekend sounds like a plan!
so found some pics of the minion cupcakes my wife made a little while ago… and they’re ALL edible!
http://imgur.com/a/NtcPA
Your wife has skills to pay the freakin’ bills!
lol
Holy crap those are impressive. Does she do stuff like that professionally?
doesnthave a cake shop as such, but she gets orders from friends and family and word of mouth 🙂
dont have access to a commercial kitchen to turn it into a proper job…
Those look awesome. How long did it take her to make each one?
not sure to be honest, was a little while ago.
That’s awesome as man, they look delicious the closest thing to that I’ve seen is the cake we had for the missus 20th bday
http://imgur.com/I6FmumD
Don’t mind the ghost hand I did that
They are adorable! ^_^
Wait, the pictures are edible?
tempted to grab payday 2, anyone still playing it?
I’m going to play it some with my youngest brother in a few weeks when he grabs his monster-PC from ‘home base’ in another city and drags it to our new pad. Dunno how much life we’ll get out of it, though.
Playing with randoms can be pretty scary sometimes, but other times really gratifying! Quite the mixed bag.
Well I just grabbed it so I hope so
If you do grab it I’ll be starting a noob status as well
As will I, bought it the other day.
I’m on it every other night so it still gets some play time just my laptop crashes after 4 games so I have to drop and rejoin
Inspired by the EB Games twitter: How did you get your gamertag/handle?
I was on a forum and people there convinced me to sign up for AIM. Trojan Rabbit was taken and it suggested TrjnRabbit. I liked the look of it for some reason (I was probably 14 at the time) and it stuck. Eventually I started shortening it to just Trjn because people struggle to pronounce it and it’s fairly unique.
As for Trojan Rabbit, that was just a reference to a thing. Like most of my past handles.
I’ve been known as Sephiroth, Tall_Brad and Quiz_B.
Sephiroth because I was a wanky teenager that thought that was awesome.
Tall_Brad because I’m 6ft 7 (although @DC didn’t think I was that tall)
Quiz_B because I’m Brad…and I run quizzes, as in I’m a Quiz MC.
Summary: I’m boring.
If you’re Brad, why does @dc call you Stan???
This is what happens when you don’t post write-up’s, @quiz_b. 😀
I’ll write up my trip and explain how Stan came about.
*sigh* the length I go to for you people….
I just love DC comics so. damn. much.
I figured
I thought it was cause of your love for David Cage 😛
Or that you were secretly Daniel Craig.
i thought it was the District of Columbia that swept you off your feet!
My gamer handle is carnhawks because I’m a Hawthorn supporter. (Boo me all you like.) My TAY handle is a lame pun based on my surname (hence the double t).
I hate football (of any type), but I have a fav team in each code I guess. When it comes to AFL, I’ve always liked Hawthorn, probably because of Johnny Platten. In the 80’s when I first saw VFL, he stood out from the crowd with his hair, and I guess the hawks always come to mind when I hear about the game.
To answer my own question: Artifice was picked at random from a dictionary. Was going to be Green Artifice but thought Red sounded better. Used it to sign up to my first hotmail account in 2003 or so, been using it consistently since.
I don’t have red hair, nor am I a communist. Red isn’t even my favourite colour.
You and Greenius could’ve been the best of friends. :'(
Me and @greenius are colourbros 4 lyf.
There was another colour focused Taybie, but what happened there is only spoken about in hushed terms as a tragedy. Possibly Aristophenian in its scale.
That’s exactly what a sleeper agent would say
People here gave it to me.
What was it originally? I forget.
His real name I think 😛
What Virus said.
It was the first name without numbers that wasn’t already taken.
should have gone with P0W4L3N
But… Th-That has numbers!
Nob, you tricked meee!
Castform
That too.
C457F0RM
Not that.
Well my current name came from my previous name. While signing up for something I couldn’t think of a name. So as a joke, I just grabbed the first two “internet” words that came to my head (“Noob” and “Headshot”) and stuck with it. After joining TAY and speaking a bit on Teamspeak, @steve-o_the_deve-o refereed to me as “Nobshot”. It was pretty funny and everyone started referring to me as “Nobshot” then eventually just “Nob”. So I decided to go with it and added a “ulus” to the end of it. Also I have always had a thing for D&D / sword and sorcery kind of games so I just tacked on the “Ser”.
EDIT: I can’t believe I got Steve-O’s handle my first try. I guess miracles really do come true.
I still think Nobmang rolls off the tongue better.
Hi Nob!
Oh god we need to play JC2MP soon again 😛I have that now! … I have to fix my net line first though…
ALL THE BERINGS!
My dream is still to tether 10 berings together and then try to take off!
5 WAS NOT ENOUGH DAMMIT!
also yes, you definitely need to join in on the shenanigans because it is awesome! 😛
Oh god, I remember when we did the 5 Bering tether. Goooooood times.
1!…2- NONONONO TOO EARL- *boooooooooooom*
yep sure was XD
10/10 would do again!
Ah, the tale of how Tech Knight came to be… well!
At first I went by a different name before my realisation came of being a machine. During my horrid years of highschool where I had pretty much 0 real friends, only friends with me when it suited me. I mainly played games alone but I was always a force to be reckoned with online, back in the day where I played Guild Wars and was able to fight back entire armies on my own. Like a beast of great power that needs to allies to be strong, a dragon (Which is also the chinese year I was created on), so I went by the name “Drag0nman” at first, with the 0 just being a little extra icing on the gamertag cake. In the late years of high school was where I saw my connection with technology itself take it’s hold on my own soul to protect me. Despite all the darkness around me day by day, I stood tall as a lantern in that darkness and refused to let it change the good being I still am today, rather than let it consume me and I would hate anything, everything and everyone forever if I did. I always loved the idea of Knighthood as I grew up, honourable warriors that fought for what they believed in (Despite that it was religion or for a king, I still found it awesome), a lot like me. So that’s what I decided to go by as what I truly am, a knight of the future, in a world of technology, a “Tech Knight”! \o/
Similar to @freezespreston TAY named me…
My old gaming handle used to be a play on my last name and birthdate (Dider88)
but i went to comment here once, didn’t know what to call myself so as a once off i chose Pixel Ferret because it sounded funny… after speaking to @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian he promptly called me Pixel the Ferret Viking, and that kinda stuck… it’s a pain in the arse to type out so i’m back to Pixel Ferret in most cases 😛
Yeah but a Viking ferret is 137% more badassery than a regular ferret!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_zero#mediaviewer/File:IEEE_754_Single_Negative_Zero.svg
However I am also apparently the cute star of my own visual novel. I’m too at work to find an appropriate link for that at the moment.
Good choice, I assume this one is what you mean
http://vndb.org/v1746
Should be ok for work is you have lax policies, otherwise I would avoid
That is indeed the one. I have a copy (how could I not grab it given that it’s got my name all over it? :P) but haven’t ever played it. The prequel to it (Yumina the Ethereal) got an actual localized release.
One day when I can read Japanese I will play it.
I took a logo class and ended up with a logo I called Scree which is a combination of a controller, metroid and space invader.
Before that I was luckydog because I had a dog named lucky and I was so original.
I always took that as a reference to Primal
I didn’t even know that existed. It’s actually the high-pitched noises that metroids and space invaders make.
It’s one of Sony’s lesser known properties.
Neat concepts, lovely visual style but gameplay was a bit rough and it sank without a trace. Ripe for a reboot.
It comes from ‘Saturday Morning Funk,’ a particularly neat little groove I found on the internet & downloaded back in my first year of high school for my brand new Ipod. My family came from rough circumstances so it being all shiny and, well, the only thing I had that was a status symbol (the woes of wanting to belong in high school, really) I dearly treasured that little thing. I also hadn’t any taste in music at all when I received it, so quite literally it was the only song I listened to for the better half of a month until I found a couple of bands I was willing to listen to.
Nickname from friends. Because I was playing as Blooper (aka The Kraken) in MarioParty, and Kraken became Cracker became Cracks.
I’m Alex and I wear pants.
deep
Liar.
Benny is what everyone calls me in person. Unfortunately I’m not always the first one to the party and as such I am also forced to use fbzbenny.
A name thought up back in school, it comes from the amalgamation of fbz and benny with the former standing for Fly Ben Zeppelin; a statement instructing people to fly Zeppelin (with my name slapped in the middle) or in other words – listen to Led Zeppelin.
Well, I like Jar Jar Binks as a character *please don’t hurt me*
But somone told me his name was spelt without the r’s.
Orginally, there were spaces, so Ja Ja Binks2, but then I moved to something else which didn’t have space support, so it became JaJaBinks2.
So yeah, Jar Jar, with his name spelt wrong. Maybe a completely different, not annoying character.
(I don’t think he’s that annoying)
*braces self*
So you are basically a German version of a star wars character. I can support that
Ja, ich bin Binks Zwei, Ja?
I hate tags with numbers in them.
Plus I really love cats, and I think my personality is very akin to that of a felines (curious, look out for myself, friendly to those I like).
Obviously I picked the king of felines (lion) and needed something to go on the end.
Liondrive had a good ring to it, so I picked that, and luckily it wasn’t taken 🙂
Plus it sounded kinda fierce, which I liked 😀
Reminds me of Lionheart
Mine dates back to the mid-late 90’s.
I used to play a lot of quake 2 and rocket arena on the old ihug servers, and even though I often had a ping of 300+ (due to being on dialup,) I’d still kick people’s asses and rail them in mid air and do all kinds of fancy things. I got accused of being a bot so much, one day I just thought.. well.. bot…
welbot! Been that way ever since!
So a person with bot characteristics, yep definitely the cyborg like you once said 🙂
My Gamertag (CHEEKY MUNKY23), because it’s the only thing I could think of at the time that wasn’t already taken. And my Kotaku handle, because I like Family Guy.
I like the Mr. Monkey bags
Wait… these aren’t your real names?
Well, this is embarrassing.
Not except for @benny.
That’s obviously an alias.
His real name is T3aBaGG3r1337.
Stole it from a musician, who I actually met once a few years later. Added underscores cause I liked them..
When I was a wee little one, before I found online gaming, I used the handle Jormungand because I thought it was a cool name.
I was a Command and Conquer fan and enthusiastically jumped into Renegade when it came out, including the multiplayer – this was not only my first serious foray into the world of FPS games but the first online game I ever played.
There was a restriction on the handle you could have initially though – 8 or less characters and had to include a number. Jormungand was out so for a lack of a better idea and impatient to get into the game I went with Jocon89.
Thus was my crappy, but unique, online identity born.
I was originally Urban Stray, a nickname workshopped and given to me by some folks, after my refusal to commit. However, for some reason that was taken, in a bunch of places, so I did some mild pondering an came up with something a couple steps removed that I felt was fairly similar in spirit, but a bit more reflective. A wandering mind. I don’t know how I got there, and don’t really mind not remembering.
Surname led to school nickname of Kermit. That was shortened to Kermi in high school. Kermitron is a tech-y sounding derivative of Kermi that I hypothesized would be the name of a tech-related business I might one day own when I was discussing the topic with friends. I now like to pretend Kermitron is a hybrid robot/frog variety show host/assassin.
I used to use Cam289 as my brother used Zell289 and then when i started playing Battlefield 2 online Cam289 sounded childish so I went with CamV but that was too short and not noticeable and so I was playing and i was cold and I was sniping and I was 15 and I just thought “a cold blooded sniper” would be a cool name ColdCamV that will work
But nowadays it just gets shortened to ColdCam
I misheard the world pop tart and then I just added a number because I was so cool when I was 12.
Mine stems from my actual name and a rediscovered-later-in-life mispronunciation by my cousin when he was little, which he then converted into something else which I took quite a shining to what with it being rather unique. It actually has nothing to do with asians and I only learnt it was a racial slur a few years down the track when a forum I was on implemented a word filter and suddenly people were getting censored when talking to me.
MrTaco though, that comes from… I’m not even sure exactly. Some random garbage one of my net friends used to go on about, there was a guy who would pretty much only ever post in-character as some kind of dictator overlord dude, and another created some kind of opposition to him like Commander Burrito or something I think, maybe it was actually a taco. So when I was trying to think of a trash username for things I didn’t plan on using, I came up with MrTaco because it was pretty nondescript and seemed common enough to not be a problem when googling.
Though now I’ve got the problem where I used to use this place as a throwaway thing but now I actually use it as a proper thing and I’m stuck in an identity limbo 😛
I don’t smell good.
I) I love that game
2) I cook lots of things (and sometimes I blog about it)
http://sarah.hudson.uno3) I am a mama (but I think I had the name before that. Can’t remember)
I have gone through many internet names. RedScorpion47, Krill5, Schadenfreude47, SupahFrog,(I regretted that one immediately) and SaucepanOfLife12. (Sometimes written as Saucepan of Life)
I went with the Saucepan of Life name for a while. I almost created my Kotaku account under that handle, but Kotaku wouldn’t let me have spaces, so I panicked and didn’t attempt to create an account again until for about two to four months.
Between that time, (Or maybe before, I dunno) I bought TESIII: Morrowind, and had trouble thinking of of a name for my character. I wanted my character to be a wandering irritant that bugged everyone across the land, and needed a stupid name to accompany it. I eventually settled on Phlanispo IV.
A short while later, RIFT went F2P and came to Steam. I wanted a name for my character. I spent a very, very long time trying to think of a name, but I settled on just re-using the Phlanispo name.
I ran around the world of Telara, and came to the realisation that Saucepan of Life kind of sucks as a username, and Phlanispo is better. I decided to change all my usernames to Phlanispo, and created a Kotaku account under the name.
Then I realised Phlanispo kind of sucks as a username.
My life achievements from the weekend:
Cooked the most fucking radical pancakes. Twice. 2/2 family members plus myself all agree that while presentation wasn’t super, they tasted at least as good as any we’d had in retail establishments, and they were so damned easy to make as well.
I decided that I would go take my JP 360 + Nier back to my storage locker now that I was done with it. No need for that system any more, the only 360 games in my potential backlog now are playable on my PAL system.
While I was at it, I decided I’d grab the power brick for my PSP so that I could charge it up and use it to dump the UMDs for Valkyria Chronicles 3 and Final Fantasy Type-0 so that I could englishify them. Then I’d decide whether to play them using PPSSPP or the hardware, probably will go emulator because the PSP-2000 feels like an absolute hunk of shit after using a Vita for a while.
Did not find charger in storage unit. Despair. Decided it must be at the house somewhere. I thought it was in the storage unit because I had seen it within the last six months and a while back I took a big box of games related cords and stuff over there. Spent about an hour hunting through the garage and then looking through the various shit piled up in my wardrobe (I really need to go through and throw a lot of that stuff out. Anyone want a boobie mousepad? Apparently I have two and I don’t remember getting either of them!). Discovered that PSP charger was in my computer desk drawer. Crisis averted \o/ But by the time I’d finished I’d ended up giving up and obtaining copies of both games via less legitimate channels. 🙁
Watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly as I had suggested I might on Friday. Amazing film. The dubbed bits are a bit odd at times because things don’t quite line up, but that’s okay because the whole film is incredible. Glad I finally sat down and watched it now that I’m old enough to understand it.
Ended up blobbing a bit, watched about 3 hours worth of random documentaries on Netflix and I can’t actually remember what I watched. Been feeling a bit under the weather.
Also played about ten hours more of Bravely Default and I just can’t get a fix on how I feel about the game. Sometimes it’s clicking for me and I’m loving it. Other times I pick it up and stuff just annoys me. The tone of the game is wildly inconsistent and I was finding the way they approach some horrendous stuff in such a chipper way and then other stuff is OMG THE SADDEST and things very distracting. Get a strong impression that the people making the game didn’t really know what sort of game they wanted it to be until halfway into development. Hopefully the sequel will be more consistent. Anyway, I’m now 27 hours in, probably half done with chapter 3 – just picked up the Salve-Maker job (why isn’t that a pharmacist or something, incidentally?). I spent a fair bit of time absently grinding so everyone is > level 50 now and a lot of them have multiple jobs in the level 9-10 range. Auto-battle does indeed work, and works quite well. Trouble is I managed to hit a job for Tiz (ranger) where he does such insane damage (currently 1500-2000 per attack) that I don’t want to move him away from that class because he’s basically all my baseline damage. I have no idea how stats and stat advancement and everything works in the game, it’s really badly explained. Is it that with certain jobs equipped, specific stats grow faster at level up? Or is it that the job actually applies a multiplier to each stat so job level is what matters? How the heck are number of hits per attack calculated? How can I raise accuracy so people aren’t whiffing half the hits? The minmaxer in me really wants to get into the meat of it all but it’s kind of obtuse and poor at explaining itself.
Anyway, I know what’s in store for me once I get through chapter 4 so I’m hoping I can front-load most of the leveling up and grinding and just do all the second half of the game quickly and polish the game off.
Once I’m done with it I think the following conquest might be Valiant Hearts since it seems short. Then I’m not sure. I have Drakengard 3 and some Atelier games toward the top of my list, but I’m wondering if after doing Nier and then Bravely Default I might need a bit of a palate cleanser and not another flawed but fun JRPG / Action RPG.
Wow! You guys! 4 mentions when I arrive home, and all such lovely things to say! You guys are the greatest! 🙂
Hey @welbot, you’re awesome, don’t ever change 🙂
@shane @shane @shane
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/151037
$168 Target Skylanders deal …DELIVERED!
SHANE SHANEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Gone.
DAMMIT SHANE!
Damn, sorry, man. Thanks for the heads-up, though!
I wasn’t sure if the text was too much :P.
If you want, I can still text you if I see a similar deal by the end of the month. You can do an EB buy/return thing (or get the game separately) and register the code by the end of July but you have until August to actually redeem the code (which you’ll need the console for), but that does give you some extra time.
I’m not aware of any text messaging protocols that might have been breached, so I think we’re good. I appreciate the heads-up, really. It’s not necessary for you to monitor future deals on my behalf, as Evilmonkey has located a console deal and will be posting it to me! Will be investigating MK8 prices myself in the next few days. 🙂
Some people don’t like to be bothered, so I was just checking first 😀
Good guy @evilmonkey! 😀
I’m a fan.
Played some more Wildstar. It’s growing on me a bit. There is a powerful urge to race through things, which is really wrong, because if Wildstar is anything like its absentee father (WoW), the end of the levelling/questing content will essentially be the end of the game. Unless you really love the mechanics so much that you’re prepared to repeat them endlessly on a treadmill that doesn’t bother to change the scenery.
I did a random dungeon (‘Adventure’) which was filled with people who were surprisingly friendly and not-horrible. I didn’t top the damage, unfortunately – my single-target-focus build is magnificent for soloing and was useful at annihilating any of the problem mobs that I chose to eliminate specifically, but the lack of AoE doesn’t pan out too great in the massive, extended-combat fights with masses of mobs that made up the Adventure. I’m sure I can fiddle with it to improve my stats.
Cleansing every area of its science activities and diverting my attention from quests to undertake challenges whenever I see them makes things feel a little scattered and unfocussed, but it’s providing things to do and really immersing me in the zones.
I feel less buyer’s remorse than I did a week ago.
So I’m pretty sure my Steam account is haunted. I went to buy The Stanley Parable and it said I already owned it. I don’t remember buying it, and I don’t remember getting it as a gift. Further research uncovered a few more games I don’t ever remember getting, and they don’t seem to be temporary trials that Steam sometimes throws at you either. I’m scared, guys.
You can check through your account where your games came from 😛 (gift, redeemed code, purchased through the store) and if you still have the emails it’ll tell you who gifted you what.ALIENS
Party poopius.
Oh I just went through my emails. Turns out aliens gifted me all of these things and I just never took notice of them.
The lesson here is that I’m a horrible person.
ROLL THE CREDITS
God, you’re almost as bad as @powalen.
At least you redeem my Steam Christmas gifts…Reading this makes me glad that @markserrels didn’t try that polyphasic sleep experiment during a Steam sale. Who knows what might have happened.
Persona 4 Golden is so much fun. Seriously. Played about 18 hours of it since Tuesday(?).
Went to watch a newly purchased blurry of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, only to find that the first disc was missing. From a shrink-wrapped case. Sigh.
Also, Mario Kart + Monaco + Risk of Rain + Talisman yesterday with friends. Good fun. Liking the ability to use XBone controllers with my PC.
Also also, one week of work left until two weeks holidays! Yay for being a teacher. And I do believe the Destiny beta kicks off during that time ^_^
Reminder: Destiny group/clan thingy here: http://www.bungie.net/en/Groups/Members?groupId=100780
Speaking of Destiny, seems collector’s edition info etc, along with more beta info, will drop on the 7th.
Finally! I’ve been waiting to cancel my preorder and drop cash on a proper CE for months.
PS4 + Destiny CE bundle. That will be my entry to the console.
I regret buying my PS4 and not being able to get that release. I want a white PS4 to go with my White PS3. 🙁
EDIT: not racist
Is Mario Kart still on tonight guys?
I’ll be there regardless if any one else is or not! 😀
I’ll play!
My net is capped, so I won’t be there, alas.
probably not tonight, i finish work too late /o\
Hit me up anytime mang, If I’m available I’ll jump on.
For some reason, I arrived home today to find I had a Bastion card pack in my inbox on steam!
I now have 4/5 cards needed to craft a badge! Anyone have card 5/5 in the Bastion series?
After talking about it on Twitter today, I think I’m going to start a gump run of Fallout New Vegas.
Low Int, High Luck and High Speed.
Gump with added extras run*: Any football looking gear you pickup you have to wear.
*no I’m honestly not making this stuff up. There are places completely dedicated to the rules of different type of ‘runs’ in F3 and F:NV. My worst is the kleptomanic addict – get addicted early, get addicted hard, take everything (you can’t leave anything behind), sell it, buy stims/drink, go sit down somewhere and get high/drunk, once you’re out of drugs and in withdrawal, go out and kill/steal to buy more.
I lasted two hours before a bloatfly killed me.
Do you have a link to these? I saw some random discussion on reddit but not a “defining list”
…that was the main list I had in mind.
I’ll hunt it down, but I believe it was either attached to the Wiki or the Nexus Mod page.
@strange saw this today and thought you’d be interested in seeing it, pretty neat idea for old band shirts!
Yeah, t-shirt quilts are pretty cool. I especially like them as an idea for shirts from gigs you attended, as a memory quilt.
That’s a brilliant idea! All the more reason to buy two shirts then, one to wear and one to add to a quilt 😛
I finished two games today which makes 45 completed games this year!
(the list if you’re interested)
1. Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag and Aveline DLC
2. Attack of the Friday Monsters
3. BioShock Infinite
4. BIT.TRIP Presents Runner 2
5. Bravely Default
6. Broken Age Act 1
7. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
8. Child of Light
9. Costume Quest
10. Dark Souls
11. Dark Souls II
12. Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
13. Dragon’s Crown
14. FEZ
15. Final Fantasy X HD
16. Final Fantasy X-2 HD
17. Fire Emblem: Awakening
18. Flower
19. Gears of War: Judgment
20. Guacamelee
21. inFAMOUS: Second Son
22. Kid Icarus: Uprising
23. La-Mulana
24. LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes
25. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
26. Mario Kart 8
27. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
28. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
29. Octodad: Dadliest Catch
30. Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright
31. Psychonauts
32. Pullblox World
33. Resogun
34. Risk of Rain
35. Rogue Legacy
36. Shovel Knight
37. South Park: The Stick of Truth
38. SteamWorld Dig
39. The Night of the Rabbit
40. The Walking Dead Season 2 (Episode 2-3)
41. Tomb Raider
42. Toukiden: Age of Demons
43. Trials Fusion
44. Year Walk
45. Ys: Memories of Celceta
Still playing The Witcher, but I might be able to get Transistor done by the end of this week. Then I’ll play The Wonderful 101 for realsies and possibly Tales of Symphonia Chronicles. WOO!
I’ve finished like 2 games this year…
4 if you include the unfinished The Walking Dead Season 2 & The Wolf Among Us..
Broken AgeThe Wolf Among Us
The Walking Dead 2
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
inFamous: Second Son
Botanicula
Moebius
Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Mario Kart 8
Wolfenstein: The New Order
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Currently working on Transistor, Limbo and Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate.
Next up? Kentucky Route Zero! Thanks @blaghman! 🙂
Let me know what Kentucky Route Zero’s like. It’s one of the games I really wanted to get from the steam sale that I didn’t get around to buying.
I completed tomb raider over the weekend which brings me up to an even dozen for the year
My list:
– Assassin’s Creed IV
– Disgaea D2
– Muramasa Rebirth: Fishy Tales of the Nekomata
– Ys: Memories of Celceta
– Nier
– Wolfenstein: The New Order
– Transistor
– Tales of Xillia
– South Park: The Stick of Truth
I feel like I may be missing 1-2 more. Also Ys might have been very late December rather than this year.
EDIT: Note that 9 in six months is actually way higher than normal for me.
Mine:
Welcome Park (It counts)
Killzone Mercenary
Game Dev Tycoon
Walking Dead Season 1 + 400 Days
Hotline Miami
Star Wars Battlefront II (PSP version)
Mobile:
Quiet, Please
A fish out of water
I think I’ve finished 2 games this year.
I think I’ve only played 2 games this year, not including my current game.
Solid!
If I recall, you’re pretty good at keeping the backlog low? Doing better than the rest of us anyway 😛
Kinda. A lot of that probably has to do with my library being pretty small in comparison anyway.
Also, I’m just slow with games.
I watched this video, and decided that I really wanted some potato chips. But I couldn’t find any, so I had Vege Chips instead.
@dc since you like Arcade Fire you may like to watch their entire Glastonbury set.
I saw a video from it before, they’re alright, but not my kinda music. The singer had some serious Marilyn Manson face paint going on too.
Ooooh, thanks man. Net is capped at the moment, but I will watch for sure.
Ah, I love how we live in an age where we can live stream sets or even just watch full stuff after.
Thanks again!
You’re welcome, gotta spread the music 😛
I also love that the BBC aired the entire weekend too, so basically every big band that was on the big stage got their entire set recorded.
Oh wow! So, so cool!
Yeah! I wish Free to Air TV here aired our music festivals, instead of Foxtel airing some of it :/ ABC 2 should get on it in my opinion!
Guess whose re-adjusting their pattern again? This fool!
Some of the stuff I borrowed from the pattern I didn’t like so I’m adjusting it.
Ryan Gosling?
Yes, it’s Ryan Gosling.
Who’s Ryan gosling again?
I still don’t know how it is
HOW?!
*shrug*
I’m still not sure I know who he is either.
Other than “that guy that the internet talks about all the time”.
@evilmonkey
This is another alternative. Focus on the piping before anything else
OK @greenius, you wanted to know, so here it is. I went and added up all my purchases over the Steam sale.
Purchases for myself – $604
Gifts – $212.12
Grand total – 816.12
HOLY CRAPBALLS, I SPENT ALMOST A FUCKING GRAND ON VIDYA GAMES, SOMEONE TIE ME DOWN OR SOMETHING NEXT TIME PLEASE!
Jesus. And I was feeling bad about spending $250.
You’ve single handedly saved the video game industry! :’)
I think I speak for everyone who received a gift from you…
SO. DAMN. KIND.
Look on the bright side: you now own half of steam so you won’t be so tempted next time.
I don’t know if I can upvote this or not! But you did buy me Broforce…
Fistbump it!
I barely spent 50 bucks ($50.45 to be exact), I feel so self controlled damn..
Yeah, that seems a bit, excessive, to say the least…
What can I say, I’m very impulsive.
There was a time I spent that much at once on videogames.
In total it got me a whole nine games, one of which was an expansion pack so required the purchase of yet another game to even be useful. So you should probably not feel quite so bad, I’m sure you got much more bang for your buck 😛
Yeah, I got probably about 50 or 60 new games, so I certainly got value for my money.
That’s some pretty damn generous gifting right there.
I get why, though. I spent about half that and it didn’t feel like enough. Hell, it wasn’t enough to get everyone something. We have good peeps here.
Huzzah!
PS4?!
YES!
WELL NOW I ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER FROM TWITTER, YOU DWEEB! 😛
Hey hey hey.
Hey
What’ru doin’ere @dc !
EDIT: Did your PS4 ship? I bought a mouse from Dick Smith on the weekend and got that yesterday 😀
yeah, real quick, less than 48 hrs. ordered Monday night arrived Wednesdayy lunch.
Fuck yeah bro!
@coldcamv Thanks for the gift man \o/
I can’t wait to check out the 1,000,000,000p graphics with the 21,000 frames per millisecond!!!! and man dat particle future explosion system!
WawaWOOOSH I watched the friendship trailer and was like this is the single greatest thing I’ve seen this day i must know more!
Got a letter from the AEC today stating how much tax I would get back for working the Federal election, oh boy it’s a massive 4 dollars!
My equivalent is that I bought a chair yesterday so that I could tax deduct it (also because my current chair is broken), but I haven’t earned enough money this year to get taxed, so it doesn’t matter.
Best result!
I get all my earnings back since I am quite certain I am under the threshold heh.
Dad went skiing today.
He’s been taunting me with how good the snow was (not even good by Aussie standards, but legitimately good).
Guthega has a new lift too, which I really want to try.
But money.
And fitness. Mostly fitness, really. I fear I may die if I hop on the slopes as I am at the moment.
Damn you, life.
There’s snow now? I remember 1st week ski season there was nothing at all. Decent comeback, Mother Nature.
Also for me (QLD, non-Brisbane) it’s cheaper to go skiing in Japan than Aus. Laughable.
I just realised that the othersite stories at the bottom of the page have been rearranged.
How am I supposed to indirectly keep up with Popsugar now??
Wait PopSugar & the other one aren’t even there for me anymore, aw!
Just finished Hotline Miami
The complete ending, not the normal oneAlso finished the Walking Dead Season One, including 400 days (which I didn’t really get).
Also can’t figure out (or be bothered to spend at least half an hour per try) trying to win 2/3 games of scissors, paper, rock in 400 Days. Last achievment I need…
Also, how buggy is it on other platforms? The Vita had frame rate drops fairly often, I was just wondering how the other platforms fared.
Hotline Miami has multiple endings?
Well, yes and no.
Not sure if it’s a spoiler or not, but I can assure you that there’s no game spoilers in the following spoiler, just the gameplay mechanics
First off, the main game finishes, although it doesn’t really clear anything up. The next few levels are from the perspective of a different character, and they do clear up some things.
Once you finish that second bit, it’s game over.
However, through the game there are puzzle pieces, which form a sentence, and if you collect all of them, you find the true ending with all of the information, not just the normal ending.
TL;DR Normal Ending reveals basically nothing, proper ending requires collecting all the puzzle pieces and reveals the whole story.
Oh right. I’ve seen the ‘normal’ ending only then.
@negativezero @beavwa @strange @doc_what @sernobulus @greenius
SO continuing on Tales of Xillia 2… I have the JP version that came with an extra controller and I haven’t even finished Xillia 1 due to my inability to sit down and play games for a long time.
BUT ANYWAY Xillia yes? I like it. I know it’s not that amazing and the battle system was gimmicky but it was a lot of fun to fiddle with. And I love Jude. He’s so adorable and cute and he’s voiced by Yonaga Tsubasa (who did my favourite baseball anime boy and also I think some swimming thing idk). I think he sit in my top 3 of Tales male leads. My #1 is Luke because he is also adorable and mentally deranged and has a cute little blue sidekick. And he is voiced by Suzuki Chihiro who is this cute little guy who is really chirpy and adorable in real life. AND then there is Yuri because he is so manly and smiley and does cool things with his sword. Who is voiced by Toriumi Kousuke who is hnnngh so cool.
Anyway yes Xillia. There is also Sugita Tomokazu who is also so amazing.
I don’t know what the question is anymore BUT I have an urge to play Xillia now just so I can get Jude do fighting things and get beat up hnngh.
I’m still very sad about the fairly bad dub they did for Xillia. Jude’s voice actor’s not too bad, but the rest of them are pretty awful. Glad they’re going to go dual audio for Zestiria but too late for Xillia and Xillia 2 🙁
It’s pretty hard to replace Sawashiro, but they didn’t even try. 🙁 She’s the one that stands out the most because of the astounding difference in quality between the two versions. Shame the game wasn’t on PS2, someone would have done an undub patch and fixed it.
You should finish Xillia though. It’s one of the better games in the series. As an overall experience even despite the combat being a lot worse it’s better than Graces. Not quite Vesperia and I think I’d pick Abyss ahead of it.
EDIT: Side note, Sawashiro Miyuki is a top 10, possibly top five seiyuu for me. Also you’re correct, Yonaga was in Free! aka the swimming anime. New season starting next week. It’s not the sort of thing I’d normally expect to enjoy but I liked the first one a lot.
I don’t know how I feel about people in pools but I may give it a shot one day.
Sawashiro was amazing and even in person at the Tales of Festival she was so beautiful and gracious. She got heaps of applause then.
Yeah dual audio should be the way to go. But I think all of my favourite seiyuu have ended up in a Tales game already so I’m pretty satisfied!
Sawashiro is seriously one of the most talented people working in the industry at the moment. Insane range and versatility. And yeah, it feels like you know the people that have truly ‘made it’ in the anime / game seiyuu world when they turn up in a Tales cast.
I think a lot of my faves have turned up in Tales casts already, but I don’t know about it in a lot of cases because I didn’t get to play them that way. 🙁 I know for sure that a few have.
This year is going to be the only year that there’s ever been three Tales localizations released in a single year too – Symphonia earlier, Xillia 2 in August and Hearts R toward the end of the year.
Unrelatedly, Free isn’t about people in pools, it’s about extremely buff guys getting their shirts off, getting wet and deepening their friendship while the token girl character casts sidelong glances at their perfectly developed triceps, all lovingly animated by Kyoto Animation with surprisingly high production values. The funny thing is that it was originally an April Fools joke.
But Jude has no personality and is borderline creepy obsessed with Milla!
NO. ;A; Jude is adorable and cute and would do anything for Milla because she is fabulous anyway. I want to put him in my pocket and fly away.
@bish see this is the problem. Because Milla’s dub is so poorly executed and utterly lacking the commanding presence and charisma she has in the original Japanese, Jude’s infatuation with her comes off as being really forced.
I always play dubbed and I recognise uhhh Troy Baker and those other people from those other games/animes 😛
I think I will always have a soft spot for dubs even though I do try to play the JP version for the voices (which is killing me sometimes because Persona 4 in JP is at least $50 .___. )
I will never forget Star Ocean 2 which was like the king of bad voices
Hey @scree!
Remember a while ago I was asking cosplay questions about moldable plastic? Was it this stuff that you recommended? http://www.instamorph.com/ (I lost my notebook that I wrote all your tips down in D:)
I’ve got my green pants now! I’ll be going to get some fabric paint this weekend too. Then all I need is a green shirt (which is proving quite difficult to find the kind I want) and some yellow/beige shoes and I’ll be ready to start!
There’s a chance it could’ve been Worbla. At least I think that’s what it was called.
Edit: that looks like it could be good for an indestructible (or at least slightly less fragile) Robert Frost…
Ah, actually, yes it was! This website looks awfully familiar. Thanks buddy boo!
I’ve also found this: http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=NP4260 which seems to be a similar sort of thing and there’s a Jaycar in the city so I don’t have to pay shipping. Bonus! Might be a better option.
What are you cosplaying as? Is this for PAX?
It’s codename ‘Project Pow’. Except I plan on finishing my project! 😛
and Yes!
Haha, touche 😀
Did you never finish Project Nova? 😮
No I got stuck at a point where I couldn’t keep going and be happy with what I was doing. So it sorta fell by the wayside
But you finished Xenoblade (or so you claim!) so that’s all that matters in the end 😀
Green shirt? Green pants?
He’s clearly going as a giant Caterpie with a top hat and mustache.
That cat’s out of the bag now.
I figured Tingle. That would explain the need for plastic pants. *shudder*
Worbla and wonderflex. They’re two different thermo-plastics.
This one is also a thermoplastic. I suggest find out which is the cheapest/easiest to use for your specific needs.
I might try that Polymorph stuff I linked above, just because it’ll be easier/faster to get. I’ll keep Worbla in mind if I need a backup though! Thanks Scree. (I’m typing this all up this time so I don’t lose it again…)
don’t forget wonderflex as another option.
Also, what kind of Green are you after? Uniqlo is pretty cheap, decent fabric and a range of colours
http://www.uniqlo.com/au/
Grassy green, like this ideally: http://i.imgur.com/0bmEN1l.png But anything similar is fine. Just seems like collared shirts in this colour are pretty rare. Everything is blue! 😛
I’ll find something eventually. Thanks for the tip, Scree!
http://www.asos.com/au/men/shirts/cat/pgecategory.aspx?cid=3602&via=top#state=Rf-200%3D2&parentID=-1&pge=0&pgeSize=36&sort=3
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Looked there! This is the closest to what I want, but it’s too dark 😛 It’s saved as my last-resort backup if I can’t find anything else.
The colour is usually a little bit off in the pic so it could end up how you wanted …or even darker! 😛
Have you hit up many thrift shops? I have a whole circuit that runs me through a good half a dozen or maybe even more different Vinnies and Savlos stores etc whenever I’m hunting for costume materials, it’s pretty great 😛
This one? http://www.boohoo.com/aus/mens-clothing/t-shirts+vests/icat/t-shirts-and-vests/acid-wash-t-shirt/invt/mzz97537
Free shipping, but may have to wait two weeks
Perfect colour! I’m looking for a long-sleeve collared shirt though.
Thanks for your help though Scree. You don’t have to do any more browsing for me if you don’t want to! haha I’ll find something eventually. Haven’t even looked in actual stores yet.
Oh, my bad, sorry, I didn’t read it.
try Giordano. Relatively cheap and tends to have a decent range.
Hmm. To play FF VII/VIII or watch more Dragonball….
Either way I’m looking forward to a night of wallowing in the past and shaking my fist at all the new fangled whatsidoodads kids are playing and watching these days.
That’s literally what my options were last night. Ended up with DBZ.
Soooo muuuch SCREEEEAAMIIIIIIING!
Ok, so maybe pairs of 9 pants was a lie.
So far it’s:
-13 pairs of pants
– 11 shirts (3 fancy, 3 singlets, 5 t-shirts)
– 4 jumpers (1 denim vest)
– Underwear and socks
– 3 pairs of shoes
I definitely have a problem :3
I don’t want to leave any of it behind though :3
You so crazy!
I just love clothes so much :’)
I wasn’t joking when I said I have a shopping addiction, though you’ll experience that first hand 😉
Ominous foreshadowing, right there.
I’ll tone back my enthusiasm for shopping so I don’t scare you off, relax 😉
If we pass a Krispy Kreme though, you best get out of my way, cause I will knock a fool down to get me some donuts :3
Only ever had Krispy Kreme once (when I was in Sydney airport on the way back from Bali).
@dc, do they still have Dunkin’ Donuts in Brisbane?
I love me some Donuts.
If you have a shopping addiction, why are you filling up valuable space that could be filled with new clothes?
I’ll cram it all in!
I have also come to terms that I’ll probably need to buy more luggage :3
How long are you staying again, 3 months was it? :p
I’m trying to narrow it down, but I love all my clothes so much :'(
I’d rather be over prepared than under prepared anyway! 😀
I swear, when you said ‘9 pants was a lie’, I fully expected you to update with a more realistic number, like 3 or 4. Not INCREASE!
Really? I was half expecting him to say he missed a 1 off the front. Or a 0 off the end…
Thanks a lot @gutsoup for From Dust you generous man you.
oh, it told me that I couldn’t trade for 30 days, damn I would have bought more gifts :P, next time I’ll know what I’m doing and Steam right. hooray it worked, hope you enjoy it, I’m a big fan.
Edit: The last level gives you all the abilities and a blank canvass, I spent more time messing around in that than anything else, it’s like a free play sandbox mode that should have been selectable from the title screen IMO.
After my splurge on the Steam sale, I have decided that for the first time in my life I am going to attempt to make and stick to a budget.
I have also decided as I have so many more games in my Steam library that a new PC is in order as well (I know I just got a laptop, but that doesn’t count as it’s not that powerful, and it’s mainly for work). I will be putting a certain amount of money aside every week to save up for it. I plan on buying the parts and attempting to build it myself as opposed to buying a pre-made one.
My question is, I’m estimating to spend 2-3 grand on said PC, is that too much, not enough, or just right? I want to be able to run games like the upcoming Batman: Arkham Knight on ultra high settings, I’ll more than likely be keeping my existing monitor (Full HD), but I’ll definitely be replacing my keyboard and mouse with some high end gaming gear.
I’ll obviously have a lot of questions as to the best components for my money as I get closer to my goal, but for now what are your thoughts?
Hardware sellers must love Steam sales 😛
$2, $3k is way too much. Unless you’re desperate for Titan Zs, of course. 😀
Have you bought “You need a budget”? The steam sale is still on…
Nope, ran out of money (again).
By the way, I didn’t get time to take my laptop back today, figured out how to get to the boot menu, and am installing the OS (again). Hopefully it’ll be all good this time, cross your fingers for me.
1,500 will easily get you something that will run games for years to come, throw in a few hundred more for peripherals and such though.
Perspective: your machine is still going to get outdated, no matter how much you spend. Of course, the choice is still yours.
Since you want to go beastly, it’ll be around $2k ish. A high end GPU is around $500+ by itself anyway. But most things look really nice on Med/High and there’s no need to go Full Ultra so you could save some $$ but up to you 😀
The plan was to overspend a bit so it will last me a fair while before I have to upgrade again.
That’s what I did with my current computer built earlier this year 😀
I probably got things I didn’t really need but you know… why not! It was around $2k but I recently got very greedy and spent a whole lot more upgrading my monitor and keyboard/mouse.
I’ll be interested in what you end up with, I’m hoping to do the same really soon, been too many years without a good puter.
$1500 total (with monitor and OS) is enough for an okay gaming setup. $2500 gets you into 27inch monitor + niiiiice specs that’ll last a while + fancy stuffs territory.
$1500 for a tower only should let you play pretty much everything on Ultra, though. Fancy kb/mouse probably not really included in this …. depending ..
Also if it’s primarily for gaming only, we can tweak it to maximise your $$$ so you don’t spend crazy amounts.
Fancy keyboard and mouse should only add $150-$200 to the build (I’m not really a fan of “gaming” peripherals, which basically just add some LEDs for a rather high price).
PC parts aren’t moving forward at as fast a pace as they did ten years ago. Nowadays, buying solid mid-range options should perform extremely well for a few years. The high end options will last longer but I don’t think there will be enough of a short-term performance increase to justify the extra cost compared to just upgrading slightly sooner.
Where do you live mang? (City wise?) from memory you’re in Melbourne?
If you want, once the time comes, i’ll be happy to assist with assembly, i do like putting together PCs XD
I’m about 3 hours drive from Melbourne, thanks for the offer mang, but I wouldn’t expect you to drive all the way out here just to help me assemble a PC.
Which direction? i’m roughly 45 minutes out so it might only be 2:15 hour drive XD…
Well i honestly don’t mind, so the offer is there still…
I’m a bit out of touch when it comes to what hardware is the bees knees, but i’m still happy to advise if you need anything
Towards Adelaide.
Try and get yourself synced into a hardware cycle. Nowadays I generally try to buy in a tock cycle, for the reasons listed here: http://www.overclockers.com/tick-or-tock/ generally speaking I always advise spending as much as you can now so that your hardware stays comparatively up to date longer.
That being said don’t forget that we’re very close to having almost completely hosted software solutions. In another 10 years it would appear unlikely that you’ll need a large amount of grunt locally.
2-3k gets you a good rig just plump for some standard intel tock architecture, a good nvidia card, 32gb of the fastest ram for the mb you choose, and a good HDD. No need to go for raid as typically the benefits are diminishing for the price you pay.
Reason #2 to never set foot in Japan ever, as if the fist-sized hornets weren’t enough:
http://thejapans.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/mukade-the-terrible-japanese-centipede/
That is a real thing that exists. 🙁 @novacascade I think we might need to call off our trip.
I know about them thanks to the guy in Oni with that name. >.>
…well I’m sure glad I didn’t read that BEFORE going over.
holy shit those flesh melting hornets freak me out, anything that can f$%# you up enough to need dental records to ID corpses is scary, Pretty creepy centipede, at least it doesn’t fly.
They’re nearly immune to bug spray. They’re aggressive and bite because they’re dicks, not because they’re threatened. They like to hide in shoes, bed sheets and showers and also enjoy crawling on the ceiling and then dropping onto people from above. If you cut them in half, the part with the head on it will still function. If you smash them they release a pheromone which attracts more of them. Literally the most effective and recommended approach is to kill them with fire.
You should get some of that pheromone when you’re over there and spray it on people you don’t like :P. They sound pretty nasty, be sure to have fire on hand while over there.
Wow. OK, so now that anime I saw (Kawaisou guide to hostel behaviours) makes a LOT more sense, re: the centipede episode.
The solution they gave seems quite elegant, now. They poured boiling water on it, then wrapped it in a plastic bag. I assume the heat to kill, the plastic bag to prevent death-rattle pheromone spread.
Yeah, the accepted practice for disposing of big ones is to use tongs or long cooking chopsticks and have someone use a bbq lighter to burn them to death, or to dump them into boiling water. The water stops the pheromone spread.
And yeah, it makes you understand why they reacted that way to it in Kawaisou. Not only are they fucking creepy looking, they’re aggressive and have a venomous bite that with the big ones (they can get up to 30cm long! D:) can be fatal for kids and elderly people.
fuck…that!
I’m hoping that the Magical TAY Japan Extravaganza 2015 will be early enough in the year that it’s too cold for them. Really hoping.
My name’s Forrest, Forrest Gump. I am not a smart man, but I do know what LOVE is.
RED’S GUMP RUN RULES
“They was tryin’ to touch you Jinnay” – No remorse for any NPC harming women
“Stupid is as Stupid does” No guile. Can make speech checks, but no trying to negotiate better deals or bluff my way in
“That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run.” No stealth. Run as much as possible
“GUUUUUUMP! Why did you put that weapon together so quickly, Gump?” Good at repair and convetional firearms
“But you ain’t got no legs, Lieutenant Dan” No crippling legs if it can be helped. Cause o’ Lieutenant Dan.
“I wasn’t hungry but thirsty, I must’ve drank me fifteen Dr. Peppers.” ALL THE SUNSET SARSPARILLA
” When I was in China on the All-American Ping Pong team, I just loved playing ping-pong with my Flexolite ping pong paddle.” Collect baseballs and football gear.
And a portrait: http://steamcommunity.com/id/redartifice/screenshots/?appid=22380
That is excellent, if only they’d included Mutant Mantis Shrimps for you to harvest (they were going to be in Fallout online)
Glorious.
Definition: ‘Love’ is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope… Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds.
Back in Launceston for a day. Ugh. Not a happy trip. My dog Justin was put down on Friday and we got his ashes in a nice little urn today, so that was a happy way to start things off, and an appointment with my kidney specialist tomorrow then promptly back to Hobart. I always dread these twice yearly visits home.
Nothing good ever happens when I come home 🙁
So yeah, there might be a Tassie meat one day, but not this time, sorry guys. Feel free to come to Hobart though 🙂
I will get to Hobart one of these days seeing both you and @quiz_b live there. Not easy when I don’t drive. I haven’t actually been to Hobart since 2010 iirc.
Also, sorry to hear about your dog.
We can do the usual Tassie thing and have the meat in Campbell Town.
Deep fried Mars Bars for everybody!
Burger Me is pretty friggen great
It’s cold. Blankets are rad.
Jelly.. I want to be back in my cosy bed right now instead of work today… cuz when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, yesterday happened 🙁
What happened yesterday? I just want to live in bed in general so much warmth
Just work related chaos happening that only affects me and greatly increasing my stress levels. wall of text incoming:
The automation of the firewalls that I’ve been centered on supporting (As in next to nobody else able to support me cuz they either don’t want to learn it or are incapable of committing what I teach them to memory) has gotten even more broken than ever before. Thankfully this is my last week of work before I go on two weeks leave, but this is so much stress on me as I’m having to change the firewall rules manually while constantly getting data read errors on the GUI, making it take a long time to even do one change. The worst part, it’s been our own guys causing not only the original major errors to happen that broke automation for several clusters that a lot of customers are using, but also breaking it even further with their most recent patch last weekend. Even worse, they actually have the fricken patch to fix the first breakage, but won’t test it until they’re sure they’re getting the funding for it (As in we’re making sure we get paid first). I’ve got a lot of hate within me towards these guys right now.“Oh you-a-making-me-so-mad!”
Sorry, trying to cheer you up with a DBZ A quote… #helping? \o/What I’m feeling right now is something along the lines of “Nine minutes, eighteen seconds. Nine minutes eighteen seconds!” as I’m soon going on leave, so yeah light at the end of the tunnel I suppose
Oh geez that sucks! I dont blame you for hating them should just turn on em and say your not getting paid till you fix the first thing you guys fucked up.
That would do my head in sorry man 🙁
So Rolf Harris got convicted last night…
I don’t question the conviction but apparently he’s most likely getting jail time? For a man of his age it seems almost pointless…
If anything Britain needs it because Savile got away with it until he died.
Also, if someone is guilty, punish them. People can be old in a cell
I’m not saying he shouldn’t be punished, but at that age there’d be a better solution.
Such as? Should it apply to murderers, tax evaders, non-celebrity criminals?
I’d not object to a maximum security nursing home of sorts
Le shrug. I think it’s fine to jail the elderley, for those who’ve evaded justice to die in jail. Particularly if he’s got another ten to twenty years or whatever in him. To let folks get away scott free because they simply evaded the law for long enough? No.
ANY years of your life are too precious to waste in jail, but you have to pay the piper – otherwise what’s the point of jail at all? Anyone who believes that it’s for rehabilitation is sadly mistaken. We don’t rehabilitate our criminals here, or the UK, or the US. A precious few places do, but jail doesn’t serve that function here. Here, it’s punitive. Lock the monsters up with other monsters for what they did to our [insert relation].
Why? Revenge, deterrent (ineffective, but the intent is there), and preventing access to the society to which they may yet still do harm. (The latter purpose for incarceration forms the basis of the argument for extending the terms or denying access to unrepentant, likely reoffenders.)
So, unless you’re rehabilitating (which we’re not), jail time is a pretty pointless waste of life-living time at ANY age.
Your formative youth, your physical/financial prime, your years of raising a family, your twilight of fulfilling your bucket list? They’re ALL valuable years. If you choose to break the social contract, you forfeit those years. The young and the stupid do it all the time, and lose a precious part of their lives to something horrible. Losing your final years to something unpleasant is regrettable, but so is breaking the contract.
At least there’s no interest charged for time spent evading justice.
I’m not really sure how two people through I meant he shouldn’t be punished… 😛
He should, but jail doesn’t seem like a useful one. They’re basically just putting him in an old folks home.
Made it sound like “he’s old, why bother?”. I get that’s not what you’re saying but it’s sort of how it sounded initially
Right? But what other options are there? A fine?
Lifetime sentence to a reality tv show?
The worst part is that there’s no effort made at rehabilitation but then there’s also no effort made at breaking the conditions that lead to much of the crime in the first place…
Anyone want to help install me as a benevolent dictator? I’ll be brutally compassionate, ruthless in my changes for the better and drag the country kicking and screaming into an age of enlightenment.
Should have kept his wobble board to himself.
Seriously though, I’m glad that he’s been convicted.
It weird. I grew up loving him. Parents even took me to a couple of concerts of his. But hey, one of your childhood idols is a monster. Cool… :S
Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport just got a while lot more sinister.
Jake the peg
deedleeedleeedledum
With the extra leg…
To be honest, the guy always creeped me out. :S
Fuck that, 2 little boys???
Some people are reporting that on Ozbargain that they have been successful in purchasing a Mario Kart 8 premium Wii-U console bundle for the price of the Skylanders deal, or $179 from K-Mart!
Seems like if K-mart are sold out of the Skylanders bundle, the Mario Kart one will be the replacement. Insane deal though!
Yeah, there’s a bit of fine print you need to read; but still a great deal if you can pull it off!
So how bout that Shameless Gaming Month?
It’s still a thing, I’ll just be on the sidelines for it this year.
You can’t quit! You’re fired!
Cool. Can I get paid out in lieu of notice?
It begins! I havent made list of games to play yet and I actually doubt I will play any, gonna try sniper elite v2 tonight but
I threw a list together last night with some games to finish and stretch goals for them (like all achievements, 100% completion etc.). This time around I’ve kept it small so I have a chance of finishing what I set out to do.
I think I said yesterday I’d finish my runthrough of Tomb Raider DE and do some of the Lego games I’ve been accumulating so I can feel ok about buying more of them.
I guess by playing Fallout:New Vegas for the first time, it mean I’m participating. \o/
The Strange and Boone variety hour?
Also, have you found Danny Trejo?
Nope. The internet tells me I’ve discovered the quest that leads to his location, though.
Edit: I’m very surprised at how attached I’ve grown to Boone, actually. I don’t usually like having companions in these games.
You can always come back to Boone.
You reminded me I recently started the final DLC for New Vegas and still never finished the main story. Maybe I should get that out of the way too.
Hey guys, quick question for the 3DS Peeps:
So I’m looking at parting ways with my 3DS XL as it has been gathering dust for about 6+ months. bought it pretty much for pokemon y, finished it and havent touched it since.
MY question is as follows: I haave some games i purchased from the eShop, and are stored on my SD Card, If I restore my 3DS to factory defaults, will the other person still be able to play the downloaded games stored on the SD Card?
I don’t think so.
@mrtaco might know?
They’re stored on the SD card, but it’s all encrypted to your system. So if you reset it, the encryption won’t match any more and it’ll all get wiped and be gone. The only way to keep access to it all is to leave it as is, though you can always just delete friends and Miis and stuff I guess. Oh actually I guess if you’ve got your NNID tied to it then you wouldn’t be able to separate it at all.
I havent put my tax in from 2012/2013
how fucked am i???
Yes
Ha. Feign ignorance.
Depends if you actually owe any extra.
Wait, you do mean your tax return…right?
Yeah my tax return
i shouldnt owe any money. I have always got a return in the past.
Not at all.
I did it once. ATO didn’t chase me down. They don’t really bother unless you are a) wealthy as hell or b) a business. They didn’t even charge me interest.
BUT you won’t get access to this years return until you lodge that year. Bad news: don’t think you can lodge older years online, which means you get the telephone book sized form to do.
PAPERWORK EUGH
I think you actually have 3 years to lodge the tax so I doubt you’re in any trouble at all. Just means more headache doing it all at once because numbers.
Hey @greenius, I’m thinking of auditioning for
SurvivorSew-vivor!Seriously, though. If I did audition, and made it into the top 16 I’d need a lot of voting support so I’d be spamming everyone here all the time to vote for me. If you find it annoying, just don’t vote for me so I never make it to the next round and you never have to put up with me talking about it all the time. Deal? 😛
I look forward to the number of puns this can generate.
Come on guys! Just a few more votes – I’m hanging by a thread here!
To get votes, make puns. Got it. 😀
sorry strange, steveo wins the vote this bout….
I’m quite happy to volunteer my pun skills.
Their pinpoint accuracy will have the quilting audience in stitches.
If anyone finds it annoying they have to deal with me, who will do nothing but stand behind you and say “YEAH” intermittently.
intimidatingly?
YES! SO MUCH YES!
Aw man, no Thimble Council at the end of every episode?
From the rules:
“Just like on Survivor, there may be a few twists and surprises. For example, Immunity, Tribal Councils, and Challenge Rewards may come into play. These will be fair and at random. By entering, you agree that this is part of the competition, and will play along fairly.
–Elimination Process:
Challenge 1- Top 16
Challenge 2- Top 10
Challenge 3- Top 5
Challenge 4- Top 3”
Should be interesting to see how that all pans out.
Got to work this morning to find that my honey lemon ginger had spilled over in my bag and now everything was soaked in the stuff.
This is what I get for being “responsible” and wearing my jacket, instead of just leaving it in my bag where it would have actually provided support and prevented this from happening.
WAIT YOU HAVE A WORK AGAIN
sorry im out of the loops. Congrats mang.
Upside: your bag now smells like ginger & lemon.
Downside: My bag and all the stuff in it now smells like things.
Lesson learned; if you transport something liquid, put it in a sealed box as well. Or external pocket in a bag if possible.
I learned that the messy way. I once had a botte of soft drink explode in the same big kitbag as an awful lot of video tapes (evidently not recently), good thing most of them was just stuff taped off TV but the VCR that was also in the bag took a fuck of a long time to disassemble and clean. I swear everything I watched on it afterwards was vaguely tinged with lime.
Nah the real lesson here is to just stick to being my usual reckless self. It’s only by taking precautions that bad things happen 😛
If anyone was holding out hope we might see localizations of Yakuza 5 or Yakuza Ishin, might be time to give up. Sega says they’re working on the next Yakuza game already. 🙁 They said Yakuza 5 couldn’t be done because their guys were too busy working on Ishin a while back, it’s fair to assume the same will apply now.
So Ryu ga Gotoku / Yakuza will now go the way of Shining, Phantasy Star, Sakura Taisen and many others, awesome games that Sega won’t localize and won’t let anyone else touch. 🙁
:'(
I enjoyed 3 and 4.
Today will be Transistor day.
NPN or PNP type???
Supergiant type 😛
(I don’t have enough knowledge for a follow up electrical joke)
You just got omh’ed.
It’s pretty damn great. And pretty damn pretty.
http://www.candb.com/en/ OMG!
Just ordered one of the Okami ‘Path of Heaven’ prints. Will be getting #18 of 50. Couldn’t say no to amazing artwork from one of my favourite games ever.
One day I shall get it framed and it’ll sit alongside my Tales of Monkey Island print (signed by Steve Purcell!)
EDIT: Also it’s a shame their Journey stuff is sold out. And that I’ve never played Journey. Some of that artwork was absolutely stunning.
You need to fix that whole ‘I’ve never played Journey’ thing…
I grabbed it late last year and I absolutely regret waiting so long.
I own it and I really know I need to get onto it, but there’s been persistent rumors of a PS4 port and I’m kind of holding out for that.
EDIT: But you know what? I’m going to add it to my pile of shame list that I’m working through. I’d completely forgotten it wasn’t on there.
MultiTAY tonight at 9pm EST. (Check your local time difference)
We’ll be playing Sniper Elite V2.
If someone could post the TAY Teamspeak deets, I’d be really grateful.
I don’t think they usually get posted straight on TAY. Best bet is to ask someone via Steam or Twitter for a private message.
Okay, will do. 🙂
Damn, I now have a PC that can handle that, but I’m dangerously low on download quota until next week :/
Does your ISP have a steam mirror? Steamlimiter might let you download the game as unmetered data
I’m with Internode and I’m pretty sure they do. Will have to look up SteamLimiter tonight.
Yeah internode definitely do, they’re one of the major ones who mirror steam.
http://code.google.com/p/steam-limiter/ that’s the link to it. It’s not bulletproof but I’ve found it to be effective a lot more often than not.
Just tried out Sniper Elite and good news! it works! \o/ on medium graphics so that aint bad either 😀 now for the bad news, I tried playing the story to get a quick grasp on everything and bad news! I’m terribad at it \o/ I somehow had an 86% accuracy rating however I feel I missed every shot, either that or the nazi’s have learnt how to take copious amounts of lead to their legs
LAST PLAY SONG DEAAAAALY:
When I Grow Up – Tim Minchin
Alison Wonderland- I want you
The Ballad of Mister Steak – Kishi Bashi
Have I the Right – The Honeycombs
for some reason I felt compelled to listen to this, I must have heard it in a tv show or something recently.
Shame on the Night – Dio.
Bottomfeeder – Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra
I saw that live, and got eaten by her massive dress! true story 🙂
Princes of the Universe – Queen
Eric the Half a Bee.
Half a bee, philosophically,
Must, ipso facto, half not be…
Fiddle-de-dum a Fiddle-de-dee it’s Eric The Half A Bee.
Hell Could Freeze – Rudimental ft Angel Haze
Love me some Rudimental 🙂
Draw a Crowd – Ben Folds Five
Do me a favour – Harmony
The Mercury Arc: My Silent Call
Bit of a challenging one to listen to after someone you know tries to kill himself…
A rough estimate of my tax suggests I paid at least $10,000 more than I was supposed to.
Man, my payroll office is terrible.
How does that even?
I can’t even fathom this mistake. Funny part is, if something is wrong with my tax info they’re supposed to take the maximum amount (like 45%?) but this totalled to about 36%.
Imagine if you get all of that back though.
I had a fleeting moment of joy with that thought then realised I’d put most of it on my car loan.
Responsibilities! \o/
Yeah, but paying that off or at least a decent chunk off is a great feeling. Last time I got a bonus from work I sunk like two grand into mine, felt great.
I have my car on finance. I guess I could theoretically just pay it off with extra cash from bonuses but I’ve committed to just letting them take my money for five years so I might as well use my cashmoney for fun things. Like letting my wife buy every kind of nail polish in existence, or half of the Ikea showroom.
But if it’s on finance, and you’re paying it off quicker, aren’t you paying less interest? So saving more overall? I mean, I’d have to do the maths and all that, but in my head it sounds right.
@beeawwb Oh yes, absolutely, if you pay it off faster you save some interest. Over 5 years I’m paying about 185% what the original drive-away cost of the vehicle actually was to begin with (factoring in the extra cost of the finance being insured should I lose my job or die). I’m not sure if paying it off early is even an option for me, but I have no intention of finding out. I know I can meet the monthly commitment so I might as well use any extra money for other things, like purchases that don’t fit in my normal budget, or saving. Heck, I’d probably rather spend a few years setting aside money for a deposit on my next car so I don’t have to finance the full amount and can afford something a bit better next time around.
It doesn’t make the most purely economic sense, but… eh, it’s what i’m comfortable with doing, and ultimately that’s what matters most.
I often get stupidly big tax returns because I never claimed the tax-free threshold.
When I started working, I couldn’t claim it with my first employer because I had claimed it for my university tutoring job. Then a few years later that employer was acquired by another company and so we were moved to a new contract, and I had forgotten I never claimed the threshold so I didn’t claim as it was a new employer and the advice we had was not to claim the threshold.
Then it turned out that that was a good thing because they did payroll by hand, didn’t account for signing bonuses for people that stayed there after the acquisition, and basically stuffed stuff up, but because I never claimed the threshold, I had a nice big buffer.
Then when I moved to my current employer, I had a month’s leave accrued with my old one that was paid out and I didn’t trust them to get the tax on it right (in the end they actually did do it correctly, it was just that first year that things were dodgy) so I made sure not to claim, just in case.
Now every year, tax time rolls around and I’m like “I really should remember to claim the threshold this year” when I get a massive tax return.
It all really depends on if you want a big massive payout when you lodge your tax return or if you want a little bit extra throughout the year. I know some people who prefer to not claim the threshold because they are terrible at saving money.
I am terrible at saving money so what I did was I set it up so that my savings account is with a separate bank and they automatically take a chunk on the 15th of every month so the savings is automatic \o/ I’ve actually been toying with the idea of having entire salary deposited there and then having a chunk of it sent to my main account as a budget for stupid shit to stop myself overspending.
But yeah, probably will claim the threshold from next month because if I’m putting it into savings immediately I’m earning interest on it immediately, whereas if the ATO has it until I claim it back, the ATO is making interest on it instead of me. And given that Joe and Tony don’t seem to even know what our taxes pay for, let alone use them effectively, I think I’d rather hold onto it myself.
All my pay goes into savings. Each month I hold back enough in that account for our weekly grocery budget and the car payment. I take out enough for our immediate bills (phone, internet, electricity, rent) and pay those. I send the rest to my wife who pays the car insurance and a few other expenses. Whatever she doesn’t need for expenses like going to college, petrol etc. she sets aside for our “true” savings (which we usually wind up spending on games/entertainment/clothing).
Then I just allocate a small amount from ,y pseudo-savings each week for grocery shopping/general expenses, and have to remember to move the car payment money on the last day of the month for the direct debit to go through.
We don’t ever wind up saving anything but at least we don’t run out of money completely. I was on fortnightly/weekly payments for so long that I’m still not used to monthly despite being on monthly pay cycles for about 2.5 years now.
You can also ask your employer to make a larger tax contribution on your behalf so you enjoy a large return every year. I keep telling myself I’ll do that one day.
Jeez. Did you have a lot of overtime or something?
I was hoping that the rough lovemaking my bonus experienced by taxes was a mistake, but apparently not.
A rough estimate of my tax says I will owe the tax office $8.05.
A bit of a pity since my projection a few months back said I’d get about 2000. I think I forgot to put in the Medicare levy and a small pay rise bumped me to the next HECS bracket.
I just got a pop up that stated I was the 1,000,000 viewer at a website and that I should click their link to gain a prize.
Man, people still do that? I feel like those ads are the equivalent of watching old TV shows where people don’t have mobile phones and have to do research via micro-film in the basement of their local library.
Obviously visiting quality websites then aren’t you 😉
I was looking up the lyrics to Eric the Half a Bee. It tried to sell me the ringtone FOUR TIMES before showing me the lyrics.
I swear lyric look up pages are the last bastion of this kind of dodgy internet…iness shit.
And now I ask myself why oh why am I about to google the lyrics for Eric the Half a Bee knowing what awaits… Damnable Curiosity!
Lyric search websites seem to exist in the dark ages of the internet. It’s crazy. I think I’d rather just not know the words to a song than ever go to one of those pages again.
Hot singles in your area!
Come play my lord!
Ooops i think I’m in trouble for being on Tay too much during work :/… Guess I’ll be a bit quite during work hours for a little while guys
No regrets \o/ just sneaky do it on your phones hotspot thats what I do
That’s what I’m doing now, but the mobile page is shite and sometimes cuts off parts of the right side of the page so i cant always read everything XD Ah well I’ll probably just lurk around for a while throwing the odd comment
You were just leaving it running in the background, but you are aware that it has a few rotating ‘top article’ spots that refresh themselves…
That was my old reply to my manager but yeah better not tempt faith XD TAY mobile it is
That’s what mobile TAY is for! \o/
Yeesh, was it a general comment about productivity or a specific calling out for internet usage?
One time when I was at Kinko’s I did that overnight shift for extra money (it was a 24-hour location) and the next afternoon I was presented logs of my internet usage (mostly shady-looking but otherwise innocent topics on web forums) and given a telling-off. Felt bad man.
The only reason it came up was because I misread of a job ticket and only produced a single proof for a job that actually required 40 units to be completed. I could have done it easily in an hour and still had copious amounts of free time with no one giving a crap! I wasn’t wilfully lazy, I genuinely believed there was no work to do so I was just babysitting for the late-night architectural students who might need to print off their assignments on the plan printer.
@freezespreston – freeeeeeeeze, I hate to be the lame-o party pooper, but I didnt consider the world cup, and there’s kinda super big matches on this weekend I really dont want to miss T_T I’M SORRY! I might pass just this one time though. Please forgive me *bows*
Bows? I think you mean harakiri. I’ll be your second.
Literally worse than Hitler…
Coincidentally, guess who’s playing on Saturday morning? 😛
No such thing as coincidence. @Sughly is a Nazi.
Pass on what? Is there some kind of meat this weekend?
WHY DIDN’T YOU TAG ME @freezespreston
Oh I’m sorry.
@horriblehatmonster
see this thread here for some details.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-283/comment-page-2/#comment-2788848
@ynefel
reasons behind the Bezerker thing is that there’s a ‘zerker set called Harbinger / Draketalon that is utterly brilliant.
the rings & pendant have a requirement of 69 STR & 184 DEX. the rest of the set has 145 STR & 291 DEX. so if you enchant the 2 rings & pendant with 30 STR & 40 DEX each, you can equip the full set at like level 60 or something.
if you enchant the rest of the set & socket right, you’ll be looking at 700+ STR & DEX, 500+ FOC & VIT. 100% crit chance, ~20K HP.
as far as skills go, Wolfpack for AoE (scales with FOC), the one that increases damage enemies take & that one that transfers a percentage of damage to all enemies in an area. the rest is entirely up to you.
anyway, I’ve been farming Tarroch’s Tomb with my Engineer so much I’ve got dupes of the rings if you want them.
Thanks man. My ‘zerker is only level 16, I think. Should give me the room to set it up the way you’re suggesting. I had a level 50 or 60 Outlander, but I deleted it. Will look into it, and if you’re willing to part with the rings, I certainly wouldn’t say no.
@freezespreston @tech_knight @rize @sernobulus @pupp3tmast3r
I’m not sure if all of you were aware but I was planning/hoping to run the 40K RPG character creation session tonight. I’m still feeling under the weather but I reckon I could pull it off if people can make it. If worse comes to worst we can always try again another night.
Edit: I should clarify. I’m willing to do the session tonight at 8pm if people can make it. If not, we’ll try again another time.
Everyone wants to cancel on me *flees sobbing*
There there Freeze, it’s okay. I’m not outright cancelling but trying to work around when people are available.
All good Popdart, there’s always another night, get well soon! 🙂
If people are keen for it, I can still run it tonight but we can always try again another night.
If you’re feeling sick there’s no requirement to do it tonight. I’m usually available most nights, as long as I have some warning.
I don’t really have anything to add to this so I’m just going to say “yes”
*nods in approval with self*
@freezespreston @tech_knight @rize @sernobulus @pupp3tmast3r
So I won’t do a session tonight but I am keen to do the session either tomorrow night or on Friday (or possibly even both) at 8pm for each day. If people can’t make either then I’ll try and have a special 1-on-1 session with each absent player to make sure everything is done and dusted.
Works for me I’d be up for that
Sorry @popdart5 !!! Came down with a really bad case of food poisoning over the weekend, just made it back into work today >.< I’m good for this Friday at 8 but might be a little tipsy =P
P.S. will I need a mic?
Yes you will need a mic. Facecam is optional but I will be rocking it.
Very well I shall grab a mic this Thursday!
Are there spots anymore? My DnD group officially disbanded 🙁
@freezespreston @tech_knight @rize @sernobulus @pupp3tmast3r
Do you accept this newcomer?
Suuuure!
I don’t see why not
Only if he agrees not to be an Eldar =_=
My Tau brother
Btw f4ction, if you can email me at popdart10 at gmail dot com, that would be swell. You’ll also need a Google + account and a Roll20 account as I’ll be running things through Roll20.
@popdart5 Yeah ok let him in!
JB Hi-Fi have a new website as of today; it’s very Kogan-ish, mobile friendly and pretty cool.
Excitement during the working day, yay! Ooo lookie, it’s Lunch!©
Finally! Their old website was horrible.
EDIT: It’s all responsive and everything 😀
About time. The barf explosion they had previously was awful.
Oh brilliant, I FINALLY remembered that I had to add the word online after jbhifi and now they change it…
Wait, I can actually use the website now.
Fantastic
ONLY TEN DAYS TIL REDEEMER OF SOULS!
Ooh there’s a vinyl one too…
http://www.bundlestars.com/store/the-ship-complete-pack/
3 copies of The Ship for $1. I don’t know much about the game but Freeze was talking it up the other week so it could be a fun TAY multi game? 😀
Never used that site before so I can’t vouch for it, but it should be fine 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking bought me a copy during the Steam sale. It sounds like it could be amazing.
EDIT: I should mention, one of the reasons it sounds amazing is because it sounds really similar to one of the game modes in AC: Brotherhood multi, which I loved.
We should organise a game.
Sounds good to me! Not sure who else has it though.
Meeeeeeeee 😀
Meeeeeeeeee! (thanks Freeze!)
And meeeeeee! I’d be down for it.
I… I did? … Well aren’t i just a heck of a guy!
…I think it was you?
It probably was i just don’t remember XD
That sounds pretty cool, I’d be down for that. Anybody purchased and gotten the extra keys? I don’t mind throwing down singles though, it’ll be like a Friday night.
Well I just gifted you a copy since you seem keen, and steam says you don’t have it yet.
That means one copy left to gift away! WHO WANTS IT?!?!?!?!?!?
Thanks mate, I’ll slip a dollar bill in to your underwear next time I see you.
I mean, I’d do that regardless of The Ship. It’s more just a warning than anything else. :p
lol thanks for the warning! 😉 Enjoy the game too!
I just bought a copy of that myself, so I have 2 copies to gift away! Anyone interested?
Sure! I loved playing The Ship at the local LAN center before it closed.
Cool! I’ll send it through for you shortly! 🙂
Just random thinkings, but I would kill for a Final Fantasy Dissidia game for the PS4.
One made for it, not a ported / remade PSP version, but a full fledged Dissidia for PS4 with crossplay / buy for PSVita.
YES THIS
I’d buy that, but I wouldn’t buy it as quickly as I would buy FF Type-0 for Vita. 🙁
I also would love to see them do a new Valkyria Chronicles for PS4. I’d settle for a remake of 3 but a sequel would be even better. I’d even be happy to get something from that team that wasn’t Valkyria if it was revisiting some of their earlier stuff like Skies of Arcadia or Sakura Taisen.
That would be so awesome but I cant see them doing it anytime soon, I would love to have access to play as other characters too, maybe other bosses or side support characters. If it were upto me every party member of the entire series would be playable, I want to shoot hope in the face with Irvings shotgun/rifle/whatever it is
Yeah, I can’t see it happening either, but it would be amazing if they did!
Every party member might be a bit extreme, haha! I’d love to see more supporting characters though, and (pro/an)tagonists from side games, so like Auron and Seymour (FFX), Vincent (Dirge), Paine (FFX-2), Zack and Genesis (I can’t recall his name :S (Crisis)), etc.
Also have Sora and Riku as secret characters, just for fun! 😀
Divinity Original Sin seems pretty cool. I’ve only done single player but it’s pretty great so far. Party set-up is pretty cool, you have 2 created PCs and you can make them constantly disagree with each other. I have a feeling it would shine in Multiplayer because all players roll on what to say (like SWTOR) and can disagree / get mad at other party members.
Ah, looks like just my kind of game.
What are the quests like. Baldur’s Gate style or Diablo style?
Quests are a lot like Baldur’s Gate but battle are handled alot like the old Fallout games. You have a certain amount of action points and using spells / skills / attacking / moving costs said action points.
OOooh, sounds amazing!
http://www.theoatmeal.com/comics/cuddling
Spot on!!!
xkcd has the solution though
http://xkcd.com/335/
oh god, I’m not sure if I was meant to laugh at that or not
Oh, does the Oatmeal make comics again?
For awhile there it seemed all he was able to generate was smug diatribes about how shit you are if you don’t run marathons and drive a Tesla.
HEY GUYS NIKOLA TESLA RIGHT? FUCK EDISON, RIGHT?
MY FAVOURITE ANIMAL IS THE MANTIS SHRIMP, IT SHOOTS LASERS.
/circlejerk
Any chance I can get an idea of who’s interested in coming on Saturday so I can get a measure of how much food to organise?
I’ll be there! (Though if your numbers aren’t enough to justify something at your place I’m happy to hit up a theme park or something instead. It’s all good. I’m keen to hang regardless. Whatever’s good for you. :D)
The idea of spontaneously hitting up a theme park seems deeply weird to me.
There’s three of them about fifteen minutes from Freeze’s place and annual passes are a little bit more than the cost of entry which ensures future meats all year round… for free. 😀
Because you don’t live near one?
Edit: that was a question rather than the accusation it came across as :S
Yes. There are no theme parks in SA, at least of note
Yeah, I don’t think Greenhills Adventure Park qualifies as a theme park.
Even though this is the first I have heard about it and if there were posts before I didn’t get tagged in any of them I will be there!
(I have a feeling Freeze is going to strangle me when I arrive at his place this Saturday =P)
EDIT: Or has a baseball bat with the word *nob* written in blood on the side of it.
… With love!
I’m in. What should I bring? (Nothing is not a valid answer. Nor is “just your lovely self” although flattery earns
bonersbonus points.)If you want to bring some sort of snack that would be good I guess. Also if you’re training down can do pick up runs from the station. Same for everyone else.
Okey doke! And yes, I will be coming in via train. If anybody else is going via train too (@dc? I dunno?) happy to coordinate before hand and hop on the same train down. 🙂
Something hand-made! And thoughtful and funny! But nothing too outrageous. Also not too safe. Think outside the box! But don’t go too far. Most importantly: bring enough for everyone! Though you don’t want leftovers. As long as it makes people excited! But be careful not to out-shine the host. Perhaps something that shows off your talents! However you don’t want to brag. Simple is always best! Just nothing too basic.
This guy gets it.
Got it. 94 home-made cup cakes with sprinkles that were added after the icing set so the sprinkles sit disappointing on the plate instead of on the cakes, and one of them is filled with deadly nightshade.
Done and done. And I mean done.
I am interested in coming on Saturday.
Ew
@novacascade can drive you! \o/
@saturday prepare your diddly hole boy-o.
I reckon I’ll be able to make it. Although I have no idea where you actually live aside from the general Gold Coast area and I don’t know what time the shenanigans commence. Also I won’t be staying too late as I will be busy on Sunday.
I’ll be there! 😀
I’m gonna have to commit myself as a long shot at this point I think. It now looks like I might have a job to do for a customer on Saturday, and as yet, I still don’t know if my mum will be coming home from hospital, but it’s looking more and more like she will. Should that change at all, I’ll give you a holler as soon as I know, but for now, perhaps safest to assume I may not be able to make it.
I’ll come dude! May have to meet you at your work tho, s’all good? Assuming you’re working Saturday and not taking the day off 😛
Okay, quick question as it’s being doing my absolute head in.
Does anyone know where I can grab a copy of the Metroid Prime Trilogy for the Wii? I’ve looked in every videogame store over the past 6 months or so with no luck. The only copies I can find on eBay are going for well over $100 minimum. I managed to buy an original copy of the first on on gamecube, with a shitty 3rd party controller to plug into the top of my old Wii and it was amazing.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated. Cheers.
Unfortunately I only have Prime for GC and Corruption for Wii as individual games. It would appear that the triple pack has suddenly become a rarity.
It wasn’t all that sudden, it always maintained a pretty high price. Unless you were lucky enough to snag a copy during Myer’s clear-out 😎
Yeah, sorry I should have added my comment to the above. I didn’t think it was that rare as EB staff were trying to upsell me a copy the other week. I probably should have accepted in hindsight.
They did a short re-print a couple of years back, didn’t they? I seem to remember seeing it in all the Kmarts for a short time 😛
But yeah, it’s just one of those games. Same with Xenoblade. If you ever see it for a decent price, nab it!
Meant to tag @cephalxn in that 😛
The Prime Trilogy on Wii was a limited run. Was lucky enough to snag a copy just after they announced it was being discontinued.
EB Games at West Lakes, Adelaide tried to sell me the triple pack preowned a few weeks ago for about $70, but I picked up Corruption for $15 instead. I’m not sure if they still have it in stock.
Cheers, I’m in Melbourne though. If worse comes to worse I’ll track down some Gamecube copies of 1 & 2 and play them on the missus’ Gamecube she still has somewhere. I guess another question would be if anyone knows if it’s worth paying a premium for the trilogy? Are the graphical upgrades and motion controls worth it?
The motion controls are fantastic, in my opinion. The much better option I think.
I’m not sure there are any graphical upgrades? If anything I seem to recall hearing that there were actually some graphical downgrades.
Sorry for the spamming, but this dude has a copy.
Champion.
I don’t suppose your GC is modded? One of mine is, and the only copy of the game I have is a ‘backup’ copy, which wont work unless it’s a modded cube!
I can’t imagine so, thanks for the offer though 🙂
@cephalxn if you haven’t tracked down a copy I’ve got one here I can offer.
Out of the shrink wrap but it’s lived in a drawer and the disc has never seen the console. Picked it up on a whim at Myer a few years ago… Then lots happened and the Wii stopped being used.
Let me know if you’re interested. 🙂
Definitely interested, I never heard back from any of the Gumtree sellers 🙂
Might have to wait until pay week though (stupid monthly pay!)
It’s not going anywhere!
Drop me a line at sunsoar77 (at) gmail dot com when you’re ready or have any questions.
Actual work email I just sent (with details edited for privacy)
I love amusing myself.
Classic. 😀
You know it’s cold when you are wearing a ski jacket in your lounge room.
Blankets. I recommend lots and lots of blankets. Blankets are rad.
I have a blanket with sleeves but it was not cutting the mustard.
Clearly the solution is more blankets.
And tea.
Tea is indeed also rad.
Think I shall make some.
The Lesser Ritual of Elevator Summoning.
To be used when awaiting a slow-ass elevator.
1) Find a seat (if no seats available, a wall to lean against).
2) Get really comfortable. Stretch luxuriously and recline in leisure. Nap, if possible.
3) When the elevator arrives (purely to spite your comfort), force an unnecessarily loud and pained groan at the effort of getting out of your comfortable position.
As I explained to a potential neophyte who looked on with puzzlement (then admiration and envy): If the ritual works, you have either sped up your access to the elevator, or you have waited and relaxed in comfort. Win:win.
YOU SO CRAZY.
What is the greater ritual then?
That’s only for level 8 elevator summoners if you have the taken the feats “Floor 8” and “Close”
I’m only a level 30 wizard so I don’t think I can access that ritual 🙁
Page 5 re-post:
I’ve linked the details for Sniper Elite V2 tonight below:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-283/comment-page-4/#comment-2790514
Come join and shoot each other in the groin from hundreds of metres away! \o/
Starts at 8:30pm VIC,NSW, QLD,TAS; 8:00pm SA, 6:30pm WA.
I am feeling better today!
Mum was ill last night so we had to reschedule her outpatients appointment.
Also, 4 months to pax. HOLY CRAP, None of the cosplays are done /o\
…oh yeah that accommodation thing.
I hear @gorzilla is willing to share a bed =P
Done that! Also flights!
Just need to organise leave from work…
What’s doodlin?
My doodle’s doodlin dood!
I watched Edge of Tomorrow today. I was really impressed. Felt like a cross between Groundhog Day and Starship Troopers. Also, Tom Cruise was pretty decent in it.
Yeah, I don’t like Tom Cruise, but I thought that movie was pretty darn decent.
I’m not a big fan, but the two movies with him in it that I’ve seen recently (Edge of Tomorrow and Rock of Ages) are good movies.
Haven’t seen Rock Of Ages, but I’ve been told he’s really good in it.
Yeah, his singing really impressed me and he nailed the debauched rock star role brilliantly.
I’ll get around to grabbing and watching it eventually, but it might be a while, think there’s over 100 DVD’s in my collection that I haven’t watched yet. Hell, I’ve had Avatar sitting there for over a year and still haven’t watched it yet.
I bought Avatar on Blu Ray when it came out, and I’ve watched about a third of it.
Oblivion is awesome, I may have to check this one out.
I feel like they could have shaved off the last few minutes, and it would have been a better movie.
But yeah, I really enjoyed it. And while I don’t like Tom Cruise the Person, I do rather enjoy a bunch of his movies.
Got the OS installed (again) and got my laptop working, think I’ll make a start on Valiant Hearts tonight?
Just a quick question. If you buy a bundle on Steam that includes a soundtrack, where the hell do you find said soundtrack? I don’t have a friggin’ clue.
Have you check the steamapps folder?
It’ll be inside the game’s folder. So Steam/steamapps/common/GameName/ and assuming To the Moon is an accurate example, there will be a folder with the game stuff, and one folder labelled as the soundtrack.
Thanks man.
You can also right click the installed game through Steam and go -> Properties -> Local Files -> Browse Local Files
Oh yeah. Yeah, that way’s way easier.
And I always forget about it. :/
Today was Transistor day.
Such a great game!
Awesome game! It’s my game of the year so far (although I did really love Shovel Knight).
Dammit! I waited too long to put my Steam Summer Sale Trading Cards on the marketplace, listed like 40 cards yesterday that i couldn’t trade, they didn’t sell by the end of the sale, so now they’ve all expired and I get nothing 🙁
🙁
Heads up for anyone interested:
Sniper Elite V2 will commence in 15 minutes!
We shoulda done coop haha
Next time I fire it up we definitely will. 🙂
I just played some Battleblock Theater with @rize. I’m not quite sure what happened but I think it was good.
EDIT: Also we found a SECRET AREA!
Under the Dome 2×01 spoilers:
Just kidding. Why would I subject myself to another season of that? 😛I was going tell you to get hype.
“We can do it! We can finally contact the outside world using the power of our new Windows Phone 8s!”
If they’re new, how did they get them inside the dome?
That’s the magic of Microsoft, Scree. The future, today!
Through the Windows?
I just watched it, so I was disappointed your “spoilertag” contained no spoilers. 🙁If I wanted to see stupid people make stupid decisions I’d dwell on the actions of past DC. XDHaving been watching Falling Skies, everyone in Under The Dome suddenly seems smart! 😛
Also, this episode was written by Stephen King and even had a cameo. If I was you, I’d watch this one more episode to see if giving up is the way to go. Before watching it tonight, I was happy to never see another episode again, but Mr. Strange made me watch it and now I’m not so sure.Oh! Noted! I think it’s that much worse for me cause I’ve read/loved the book. :'(
There’s some new characters. I don’t know if they’re in the book or not.I rather enjoy Falling Skies.
Sure, there’s a bunch of things that could be fixed, but Noah Wyle has charm. That, and the story is somewhat interesting.
Noah Wyle is a dream boat and I won’t have any one say otherwise! 😀
I like Falling Skies, I just get frustrated that there’s so much stupidity. I’ve come to the conclusion that the characters are only doing stupid things because the writers must be stupid. 😛
So this makes no sense at all.
As some of you know I previously worked for Dan Murphy’s where I live, and the start of the year the store downsized temporarily in light of a new store being built, I was one of a few people who were casuals who just got left and given no hours, which I was told to expect when I started working there last year, which is fair enough. So since then I no longer ex employed with Woolworths and the manager said they’d be looking for new staff come the new store he said just keep an eye out for job ads etc.. So one was posted a week ago so I applied, thinking I have the training & knowledge since I worked there I should be taken back, apparently no, apparently I lack requirement to work there.. Is that a joke..? But no it seems the Woolworths recruitment team pick people based on pulling names out of a hat.
Still need to go have a word to the manager there anyway, about tax stuff so might just ask him what the deal is and if he’d have me back if not would like to know why cause jobs around here are scarce and I need a job to get any sort of money to be able to get a move on with my life.
I thought the Woolworths recruitment policy was ‘hire as young as legally possible and pay as little as possible’. Or something to that effect.
Funnily enough it was the same across the board for casuals at Dan Murphy’s casuals were on 22 an hour, those on contracts (38 hour weeks in other words) were on around 18 an hour.
@negativezero
So I was way too curious and I decided to watch one episode of Free and I don’t know how it happened. The cheesy 90s bgm music… The weirdly fanservicey type stuff and everyone’s urge to take their clothes off everytime. I feel so… confused. And then suddenly they’re in a desert but not and then they’re dancing and then there is an oasis with half naked young men so naturally he has to get naked and jump in. Halfway through the episode I was already screaming “HE CLEARLY IS IN LOVE WITH RIN”.
What am I doing with my life. – weeps dramatically –
On the other hand Yonaga Tsubasa is a total cutiepie.
If it’s wrong to like it I don’t know if i want to be right.
For something that literally started as a joke, it’s surprisingly well done. But Kyoto Animation are a top-tier company so that’s not that surprising. It’s also one of the only shows I know of where the director is a woman – the director role in anime is almost always a man.
In comparison to the weird fan-fiction you used to read I think a anime about a swimming team is probably A-okay.
The Squirtle is back!
The slightly different shade of green is back!
Or is that just you blushing?
😛
They should call him Squirlametle because he’s so lame. #charmanderlyf
My Squirtle could defeat your Charmander by literally spitting on it. Bring it.
Has it ever been established what the W in Shane W Smith stands for?
I hope it’s Word.
Winifred
Possibly Write. Cause he’s got the Write stuff.
SEE WHAT YOUR ABSENCE HAS MADE ME DO, @SHANE! >:|
Page 6 Victory!
We’re all monsters now! :'(
Wal-Shaniqua-Darnelio
It was a different time back then…
Shane Waquisha-Delashaun-Bernicia Smith
Serious answer: William.
True answer: Win.
LALALALA CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER MY HEAD-CANON
You have a head cannon?
Bet that’s a blast #hitsjustkeeponcomin’
What is it with TAYbies having the same names as me? I’m not as unique as previously thought!
Walsh?
I’ve got a bit of a dilemma, TAY, I think I need to sell my Theremin.
I haven’t touched it in years
#dadjokepagesix #Ilovethatspoilertagsareback #hi@strange!So for once I have some good news to take out of coming home. Saw my kidney specialist today and my kidneys are functioning better than they’ve ever been since I first went (and I’m guessing a long time before that too), and I only have to see him once a year now instead of every 6 months which is great. We spent more time talking about how I get from Hobart to Launceston and where I’m staying than doctor-y stuff, and then he offered me a ride home which kinda came out of nowhere but he does live like right round the corner from my parents place 😛
So yeah. Good news. But I just wanna get back to Hobart.
The Penguin Village stuff in Dragonball is friggen weird.
You say this as if the entirety of dragon ball isnt weird
I’m currently reading the manga, there was just too much filler in the anime.
Arale is great though!
So that Valiant Hearts is a pretty cool guy, only played an hour and a quarter so far, but I’m finding it very enjoyable, and that dog is such a lovable little guy.
Made me feel a little anxious when he got caught in the barb wire.I would definitely recommend it.
How many monkey bags would you give it out of 5
At the moment I’d say 4 monkey bags.
Haven’t had a lot of time with it so far, so that could change slightly.
I would have thought the standard monkey grading system was in barrels.
Barrels of monkey bags :p
seconded
I should go to bed….
Oh yeah, I went to go get Mario kart 8 yesterday.
Target: Sold out.
Big W: Sold out.
JB Hi Fi: Sold out.
EBGames: Charging full price.
So I didn’t get Mario Kart 8
I saw it in Target on Monday for like 58 bucks, I could pick you up a copy while I’m getting @shane’s Skylanders bundle if you want. Not sure if they actually have it in stock, just saw cases on the shelf.
That would be great if it’s possible
GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!!!!!!
SPORTS!
I watched Enter the Dragon last night
It was cheesy and simple and kind of boring.
BUT holy shit Bruce Lee can punch quickly.
It was fun and mindless but still enjoyable enough to waste a evening watching
Don’t think! Feel.
I got Enter the Dragon on Blu Ray as part of a 2 for $20 sale at Sanity a couple of years ago. I love it. Bruce Lee is so cool.
Man, I love that movie, haven’t watched it in such a long time.
Morning peeps! so im seriously considering getting an xbone this month. can anyone see any implications of buying one second hand?
i figured having only been out for 8 months, MS will still warrant it for at least another 4 months, (16 months by AU consumer law for retail electronics) etc…
dont really want to play full price for one, and ive seen a few in my neck of the woods go for around 380-400 with 1-2 controllers, about 4 games, and kinect.chances are id probably offsel the games anyway, im moreso bying it for whats coming up…. and Deadrising… and Ryse.
I generally have no issue buying used, and I’m of the opinion that most warranty type problems should occur within the first 3-6 months so if it’s past that I think it’s usually a safe bet.
Logically, xbone sucks fucking ass. Unless you have a boner for the controller and you need to have Halo or other exclusives, the only other remotely interesting reason to get it (over a PS4) is for friends. It’s been a proven trainwreck since release. But, I suppose you fall into the above two categories, so fair enough!
Buying second-hand, the only problem is making sure you have a receipt showing date of purchase. That way you can claim via MS directly using this date.
idefinitely wouldnt have picked it over a PS4. As i already have a PS4 at the moment however (bought on launch day) i was more so considering the xbone for the line of exclusives coming up…
i do like halo, and whilst ill probably get flamed for, but i found Halo 4 MP to be absolutely awesome, i normally wouldnt have given two shits about the MC Collcection… but the fact theyve amalgamated all 4 titles in the one package, should mean some epic multiplayer goodnes.. also i dont know why but i really, really want to play Ryse.
Ah yeah, you do have PS4! I’ll probably get Xbone one day too, but not this day. Needs to be $350 with games to entice me. I’d wait. Unless you rich. Then just buy brand new.
definitely not rich, but on the same token i dont think that $350 with games price point will be arriving anytime soon (im tipping a couple of years)
but yeah thats the price point im aiming for a second hand one.
NISA’s European store opened.
Prices are insane. 20 GBP shipment to Australia, plus everything is UK price including VAT so eg the Fairy Fencer F LE is 70 GBP. 90 to ship it. That’s around $160 AUD.
I ordered it from the US store shipped for around $90 AUD. But the US Store is now off limits for us. So the EU store price is nearly double the US price.
If anyone was thinking of ordering the Persona Q set from them, I guarantee it’ll be significantly cheaper to order it from Amazon and have it shipped via a proxy.
So NISA has managed to do what I thought was impossible: alienate one of their best, longest-running customers. I’ve been buying LEs from them since 2007. Once the current stuff I have in the US store is shipped, I will never be buying anything from them again. It was getting hard to justify even the US pricing because of the high shipping costs, there’s no way in hell that I’d pay $160+ for a mediocre mid-tier JRPG with a 30-page artbook and a CD attached.
For some reason I read NISA as NSA….. #needcoffee
You sound surprised.
I’m not surprised, I’m just astoundingly disappointed. I don’t want EU copies in the first place (I committed to being primarily US region for releases back in the PS2 era) so the fact we’re cut away from the US store is doubly irritating because I want US copies. Even if the price was the same I’d still want US copies.
Going to send them an email later and ask if they’ll still accept paypal-based orders in their US store provided the shipping address is inside the US, and explain why I don’t want to buy from their EU store. Hopefully they’re still reasonable. They used to be a good company and a lot of why I purchased from them directly was because I liked supporting them.
So a free to play FPS called Warface has turned up on Steam, from Crytek of all people. I vaguely recall laughing at the name a while back but that was it.
Anywho, it has 5 player co op and competitive multi, so I guess it’s time to find out if it’s worth the download.
It’s Warfacé, dammit!
Ɯä®ƑâҪé
If you asked Super Kame Guru about this game, he would just respond with “…Needs work”
To be fair, it’s apparently just in open beta. Given time I reckon they’ll Naaaaaaaiiiiil it.
Looking at the comments apparently shockingly pay to win.
Can use in-game cash to buy the powerful items but they are item limited to 7 days. while purchased ones are permanent.
I’m assuming it’s a First-Person Shipping game.
Why else would they call it Warf Ace?
Attention Booknerds! Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is being made into a TV series!!
Okay, maybe I might reserve a little bit of judgement on this one until I see it…I mean, Hannibal – awesome, but Heroes?
Edit: Also, on top of this, HBO dropped developing it because they couldn’t get the script to the level it needed to be. This is coming from the home of GoT so, when they say it can’t be done…now it’s in the hands of FremantleMedia – so a third party, hoping to sell it to channels. Now I’m worried.
The first season of Heroes was awesome. I think that if anyone can do American Gods justice, it’s Bryan Fuller. Can’t wait to see it, and might have to reread the book soon.
I don’t see the problem. Bryan Fuller went from Heroes to Hannibal and seems pretty capable. I’m more worried about the other guy. Michael Green was a writer for Green Lantern, not some impressive run on the comics but the Ryan Reynolds movie.
I refuse to have high hopes for this adaptation. It seems to stop and start and stop and start so many times over that it might never happen. The book is truly fantastic. If the book is all that we ever get (okay, there’s a short story as well which is pretty rad), I’m okay with that.
I might get excited if this stuff turns into something.
HOLY YES THIS MUST OCCUR
TIM MINCHIN MUST BE JESUS OR ELSE I SHALL WHINGE CONTINUALLY ON THE INTERNET FOR MINUTES, UNTIL MOVING ON TO ANOTHER TOPIC.
Jesus?
Judas
I think he’d probably end up being one of the new gods that show up towards the end. Jesus doesn’t really get more than a passing mention in the book :p
I know, but the mental image of TM being Jesus
hitchhiking along the road in Afghanistanmakes me laugh.
Fuller was the best part of Heroes, and pretty much everything else he’s done has been fantastic.
For the record, he came in late to Heroes and wrote “Company Man,” one of the best episodes of that whole series.
HYPE
my favourite book, by my favourite author
today is a good day.
Back at work today after two days off. Amount of work piled up = nil.
Some things never change.
I’m in the same boat i.e. 2 days away from work… but man I’ve come back to a shit storm >.
I was on leave last Monday and sick on Tuesday. Came back to about 5 times more work piled up than I would normally receive on any given Monday/Tuesday. I’m sure people can sense weakness and choose their moment to strike.
So I saw the most depressing thing ever yesterday on the Apple app store… The Kim kardashian game has over 3000 user reviews all with positive comments… *sigh* why humanity? why?!
Have you played it?
I haven’t, but for all I know, it could be the most perfect masterpiece of gaming the world has ever seen and the game of the century.
But I really, really doubt that.
More likely that people are just trying to justify their purchase of a self-indulgent, obscenely vane shell of a game with an outward display of appreciation that will be given the barest amount of attention by other people.
It’s just another symbol of KKK (Kustom Kim Kardashian) hedonism.
@shane, sent through my deets to you. As soon as the money goes through I’ll take a break from work and pick it up for you.
There was once a guy who posted by the name of Shane here. Nice guy. Any relation?
Email and money sent!
Just checked my account and it’s not there, did you go into a branch or just transfer it? Maybe it’ll take some time for the funds to clear.
It’ll probably take some time. I couldn’t get away today, I’m afraid. The perils of a large family in transition mode! 😛
Money’s come through, so I’ll pick one up on the way home.
So my first goal for Shameless Gaming Month was to get all achievements in Delve Deeper (I was missing about 20). I got the last one last night, and checked my progress aaaand 49/50.
It’s bugged.
Shit.
Send an email to the developer stating that if they don’t patch the game, you’ll never get on with your life and will regret everything.
Or something. Then start a petition. It’ll work. Maybe.
Morning Tay, how are things?
Rye? Want some?
At 10am?
Alky.
Nah, he’s more of a scotchy scotch scotch kinda guy :p
Ginger Beer is quite the beverage.
203 millimetres of fun.
Sorry, was playing Company of Heroes 2 last night and now I keep remembering my friend saying that over and over.
Note to self: when sending an email to a school called St Judes, probably not a great idea to type it as St Judas.
Judas was a saint, and it was awesome.
Also, did not realise that was a GRRM story.Don’t make it bad. 😀
I’ve been thinking. Edge of Tomorrow would make a great game.
Spoilers for those who haven’t seen the movie:
You play as William Cage and the tutorial is that first mission. As you learn the skills necessary to get further through the battle, the game adapts to your play style.What do you think?
That could actually be very cool. Third-person shooter rogue-like with a somewhat interesting story and setting.
Yeah, that was what I was thinking. Even an iPad/iPhone game would be pretty cool if it was done well.
You mean that All You Need Is Kill would make a great game? 😛
Yes. I know that Edge of Tomorrow is based on All You Need Is Kill, but I haven’t read the manga or seen the anime, and I have seen Edge of Tomorrow, so I based my statement on that. Ok?
Sorry to be annoying about it. It’s written by an author I really liked and illustrated by one of my personal favorite artists and it annoys me that it’s now associated with Tom Cruise (who I absolutely cannot stand) under a completely different title with a lot of changes made.
EDIT: Even the translations of the novels have had the title changed now too 🙁
@rize sent you a tweet but apparently you hat me and never replied :'(
what day are you paxing? With my bonus pay this month i should have enough money for the ticket!
The pax will turn us all into reavers!
I think you mean paupers.
Steam sales were last week. We already are paupers.
I have no tweet from you…
Also, I nabbed a 3 days pass. I think the rest of the family will be going Sunday so I’ll probably be hanging out with them most of that day. I think most people are going Saturday?
I’m still thinking Friday sue to 3 day weekend :P… Would you be able to be there Friday?
Oh yeah, I’ll be taking time off and coming down Thursday.
Ugh. Thinking about PC upgrades makes my wallet hurt.
But it haaaaas been almost 3 years since I built my current one. That makes it obsolete! :p
Only upgrade if it’s worthwhile. Next-gen GPU’s coming in a couple months, wait and decide when they release.
They’ve been facing some serious production issues and delayed until 2015. Possibly late 2015.
Technically the mobile version of the Maxwell architecture has hit, it’s the desktop ones that are having issues around the die shrink.
Intel are also having problems going down to 14nm processes for their upcoming Broadwell chips, so those got delayed as well. They did release updated Haswell chips (the ‘Devil’s Canyon’ refresh, which sure is a cool code name) but it’ll be a while longer for Broadwell.
Which all means that if you’re on a 3xxx or 4xxx-series CPU and an nvidia 600 or 700-series GPU you’re not going to want to upgrade until 2015.
Yeah, I know. I won’t be buying anything until at least Nov/Dec at this stage, and even then more likely Jan/Feb, I’m just starting to get in the price-vs-performance comparison mindset like I was 3 years ago.
Hopefully by then the price of 780TIs and/or 290Xs and/or whatevers will come down. As it is right now they end up as almost 50% of the build. :S
I find this time of year to be ideal for a pc upgrade, especially post tax-return!
Pfft, my gaming PC is 4 years old and it’s still a monster capable of running everything on ultra. The only things I’ve upgraded are the GPU, the RAM & added a pair of SSDs. the GPU was the only thing that was a gaming related upgrade, one SSD was convenience to get the system to boot faster, the other was for video capture, and the extra 6GB of RAM was for video editing.
Well I suppose I added a second monitor as well but that was dusting off a decade old piece of junk cheapo LCD from the cupboard and hooking it up via VGA, that’s how old it is!
Start planning now and work out what you can recycle from your current build and what you need to replace and it’ll make the calculation easier when the time comes.
Ah, but that’s exactly it. You’ve done upgrades in the meantime. I haven’t.
Yes, all I need to really do is upgrade the GPUs and I’ll be fine as far as that system goes. 2x 580s just don’t cut it at 2560×1600 any more. However I’m also considering doing a sideways upgrade and splitting out some of the existing parts in to a second system (e.g. keep using the 580s) so I’m thinking about what would go in to the downgrade PC and what would go in to the upgrade PC.
But the only significant upgrade was the GPU, everything else was convenience. The CPU, mobo & the rest is all the same as it was when I first bought it
Yep, and technically that’s the only significant upgrade I “need” to make to stay current.
2600K + 16GB RAM + 2x SSDs – all these things are still current enough, my only real bottleneck is GPU performance with 2x 580s. It’s more about doing an upgrade and downgrade to end up with 2 PCs that I’m considering.
Otherwise, yes, it’d simply be “go out and buy another GPU or 2” and be done with it.
Good News:
– Ar noSurge coming to the US on September 23rd so I don’t have to buy UK \o/
Bad News:
– NISA’s European store’s pricing is eye-watering
– Trails in the Sky SC has been delayed. XSeed were saying mid 2014, but now they’re saying that end of the year is a best-case scenario. 🙁 Apparently this is due to a bunch of technical issues they were having with FC, which they have to fix themselves because Falcom disbanded their PC development group several years ago, and XSeed only have one programmer on staff.
– Hironobu Sakaguchi’s big new game announcement was a smartphone RPG. 🙁
Today really sucks and I wish I had just stayed home and slept. Someone cheer me up 🙁
🙁
I don’t know how to cheer you up, but you know what cheered me up? There was only one dad joke that I noticed on the whole of Page Six! 😛
That didn’t cheer you up AT ALL.
Where’s @shane when i need him?
Actually being a dad is no joke!
i want a trails in the sky vita collection. would buy it in a heartbeat.
Well SC is definitely coming to PSP once it’s done, and you can already play FC on your Vita. They’re vacillating on 3rd at the moment. CEO said they were probably done with digital PSP stuff now, unless Brandish does gangbusters, but Wyrdwrd who is one of their localizers and one internally who pushes Falcom stuff the hardest says he’s still really hoping they can do 3rd for PSP as well.
I think they won’t ever have proper Vita ports. Falcom is done with Sora no Kiseki. They ported Zero and Ao to Vita and both the Sen no Kiseki games are Vita & PS3. Assuming Sen is a trilogy, wouldn’t be surprised to see it on Vita, PS3 and maybe PS4 next year (Sen II is later this year). Sora did get ‘HD’ ports of the PSP games to PS3 but apparently Sony won’t let them release those outside Japan because they lack trophy support and a few other things, which seems insanely narrow-minded.
Nayuta no Kiseki is still only on PSP and I was kind of hoping that it might get a localization at some point too. It’s a much smaller localization job since it’s a spinoff that doesn’t exist in the Trails universe and it’s an action RPG built on the Ys Seven engine. Get the strong impression that won’t be happening now. Maybe there’s hope for a PC port but I don’t think the Ys Seven engine has a PC version (and I’d imagine if it did, XSeed would concentrate on PC ports of Ys Seven and Celceta first anyway).
3rd still isn’t even confirmed yet, but I think that assuming that 2nd does well and they do decide to do 3rd, it won’t take anywhere near as long to release. They’ll have all the technological issues sorted by then, so it should just be a straight localization job rather than a big porting job (they were saying that sorting out the issues they were having with FC on Steam will also sort them for SC) and the reason 2nd is taking forever is that it’s an enormous game.
Compare the main scenario books for the three games in the Sora no Kiseki trilogy:
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17pv0smy9pnzqjpg/original.jpg
That’s just the text for the main scenario quests and sidequests. Doesn’t include the NPC dialogue (every NPC has a name and 3-4 lines of unique dialogue, and those lines all change as you progress through the main questline in response to events that have happened, so a single random NPC might have as much as 40-50 lines in the game, and the towns will have 40-50 NPCs).
So yeah, 3rd is bigger than FC but only by a bit. SC is nearly double the size of FC in terms of the amount of text to translate. I believe that Ao and Zero are closer in size to 3rd, so really if they can get over the big hump of Sora no Kiseki SC there might be more hope for the subsequent games.
I really hope they do well on Steam. Apparently FC barely broke even for them, which is why they had to outsource translation of SC to Carpe Fulgur. They love the games and want to localize them but they’re not profitable to do so, so they put it on the back-burner and concentrate on other games to make more profit off so they can continue to do the projects they really like as well. They’re basically a pet project for the company. However I think if the Steam release goes gangbusters they might be able to justify putting more funding into them which would likely get the games out faster.
I wish Sony would put some money into them. They were happy to put some cash behind getting Sen no Kiseki a Chinese localization, dunno why they won’t help XSeed out.
HUgs buddy.
I’ve been watching nothing but youtube videos of people building PCs for the last two nights. Haven’t even thought about mine yet.
Living vicariously through others! \o/
I read the NeoGaf threads on the things that other people buy. I never actually buy anything that way. I just look at it say “thats rad” then i keep looking at pictures.
They’re really no harder than lego nowdays, hell probably easier since you can put lego together in different ways whereas with PC’s everything is keyed so there’s only one way to plug it all in
You can doo eet!
Hey sydney people! this weekend is the Toy and games expo! I’ll be going on saturday, but If you like boredgames I highly recommend it. I always have fun and theres ussually some cheapys 🙂
Man, it seems like there’s been an expo on every weekend.
theres always something on somewhere 🙂
If you see a copy of Suburbia, I would quite like it.
We’re going to be busy playing host to Freya’s family this weekend. Well, I will be. She’s working.
I’ll keep an eye out 🙂
Toys, you say?
Wait no that’s a bad idea 😛
Never a bad idea :p
so you know when you’re having one of those days where you havent eaten dinner the previous night, skipped breakfast and are just itching for 12pm to grab some lunch? you are so hungry that you google to see what local eateries are around to check out? Then all of a sudden a big “fuck you” kicks you swiftly in the balls/ovaries once you realise you left your wallet at home???
yeah i’m having THAT day…
Where do you live can i buy you a pizza online??
45 minutes and 1 TAY later…
17 individual delivery drivers show up at Zetrox’s work all jostling for his attention.
lol my colleagues will be wondering what the hell is going on!
hahahaha my hero! \o/ all good man! TAY to the rescue, you guys are awesome! all good, missus is gonna be home soon, will ring me with my card number 🙂
Pizza delivery places should offer Paypal, then you wouldn’t be in this mess. 🙁
I think Dominos online accepts PayPal now.
Yeah, but Dominos.
Life is cruel 🙁 My girlfriend though believes that if you know your credit card number you can call the store and order something with your credit card. It’s worth a shot!
And logging into internet banking usually reveals your ccard number!
not commbank!
Weird. My account number for Visa and MC is shown.
You sure? Post your number here so I can check. Make sure to include the number on the back too.
**** **** **** *654
***
Whoa! It automatically covered it up for me?? Does it do it for you too??
Let’s check:
6
OH SHIT I’M IN TROUBLE! REMOVE POST REMOVE POST
hunter2
Password1234
Dude… I’m late to this post… But you have an iPhone or Andriod running 2.3+ I’m assuming… If you don’t have the CommBank App already – get it.
Then you don’t need your card and can get up to $200 from a CommBank ATM just using your phone. Or you could order a PayTag via the app – slap it on your phone and then you can buy lunch whereever they accept PayPass/PayWave.
See: http://www.commbank.com.au/cardlesscash
Sounds like an idea – Or if you’re busy send me your credit card details and I’ll do it for you!
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
i know /o\ missus is going to ring through my cc number soon 🙂
If you know your CC number off the top of your head you could defs order something in!
Fun story from this morning. I arrive at Town Hall station just before 9 as usual and notice that:
1) There are transit officers, and;
2) I forgot to buy a new weekly ticket this morning.
Knowing that transit officers are jerks who will give me a ticket regardless (for instance two weeks ago when I did buy a ticket but it printed incorrectly because their machine was acting up), I tried to divert to one of the station staff hoping they’d just flag me through the gate without drawing too much attention to myself.
As I approached the gates mentally preparing how to concisely explain my predicament, the fire alarm went off and all the gates opened so the station could be evacuated.
I’m pretty sure I am some kind of wizard. I don’t know what kind. But some kind.
Dear Mr @kermitron Wizard Sir,
I wish to have many monies without having to work for them. Please make all the ATMs in my local area open and spew forth their red and yellow prizes in the manner such as you have done with your station gates.
Your totally-awed-and-in-no-way-sarcastic-minion,
B-ob
Sure, but when I figure it out i’m taking all the green ones.
Yeah that was me. I saw you were in a pickle and lit up a ciggy near one of the fire alarms!
Can you make the trains run on time for once though?
Who do you think he is, Mussolini?
He said he was a wizard, not a god.
I’m pretty sure my powers only benefit me to the detriment of everyone else.
Meh. Then I’m not impressed.
8/10
Well I saw this “Do not push button” sign this morning… I was too curious 😛
Screw you sign! your not the boss of me!
I haven’t stopped sneezing since waking up.
This cold better bugger off because I don’t want to miss the meat. D=
Seriously considering messing around with EVA foam for cosplay to PAX but the people I’m going with are too boring for that :/
If you wanna mess around with EVA foam, you can come and help me with mine X3
I’ve been reading around regarding techniques and it seems like stuff i can do without stuffing it up too much 😛
I have to make Armour and I’ve used EVA foam before.
You know you can’t used certain glues with it, right?
Yeah i did read about that… I’ll probably just get some rolls or matts to play around with and learn the techniques first
Spotlight sells A3 foam. because it’s bigger, it may make it easier.
I once saw these guys who’d made fake muscles in their suits. They were dressed up as Vegeta and Goku
What are you thinking of going as?
Metapod!
Hopefully.
You should evolve over the days
😀
I was actually thinking about that but it’d be way too much work 😛
Plus I don’t think I could pull off butterfly wings.
Not with that attitude!
Thanks to @rize’s bad influence i am considering pulling off a saiyan armor 😛
Haaaa!
“You were a prison…”
“Nappa I swear to god!”
“..bitch..”
“F**k you Nappa”
Im really enjoying Remember Me.
I think a few things need a bit of work, but there’s a lot to love about it.
Has anyone else played it? Are there other games that people feel aren’t quite what they could have been, but still have some pretty great aspects?
I loved the game, way to underrated. It was the first game a brand new studio had just released so you can expect it to be lacking in some areas but overall it was fantastic.
Played it, finished it, loved it to bits.
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @sernobulus @f4ction
40K Rogue Trader chargen tonight at 8pm AEST. If you can’t make this one, don’t worry as I’ll be running a second one on Friday at the same time.
I’m probably going to stream it so that we can all go back and double-check what we actually agreed to down the track as there is a fair amount of bookkeeping required. I’ll also go through a few of the basic mechanics and stuff. Imagine things going like a tutorial mixed with “My First 40K RPG” feeling.
Edit: Forgot to mention this will be a Google Hangout on Google Plus so yeah, that’s a thing.
works for me!
I’ve got Uni thing tonight so I won’t be able to make it.
All good. If you can make Friday that would be ideal but I can always try and speak to you about it at another time when we’re both available.
Friday might be a bit difficult too as I’ll have @liondrive to entertain.
Oh! Don’t mind me, I can keep myself entertained :3
Edit: if it’s an in person thing, I could even just go with and watch maybe :3
What the hell?!? Where was my invite?!
Early next week suits if you want to sort things out then.
Everyone, look at this NERD! Too busy studying to go to a tabletop RPG session. NEEEEEERD
=PI’ll never get a girlfriend at this rate.
I will definitely try to make it tonight but got a date and not sure if I’ll be back by 8? Friday night i’ve got quick drinks after work so might be more realistic to make it then!
Also am I able to join in the festivities via skype or mumble? As opposed to TS or Vent 0,0
if Popdart’s using the system we use for… everything else, it’ll be on Google +
Red is right as we’ll be on Google +. If you don’t have a mic for tonight I’d say don’t worry about trying to make it and just aim for Friday night. If you can’t make that, I can always try again with you and Freeze early next week.
NINE DAYS TO GO
until?
Until souls are redeemed!
Light is coming in on an angle onto my keyboard and showing just how filthy it is.
Gross.
I’ve got some cleaning to do…
I need to do that too.
But I’ll ignore it a little longer
compressed air is the shit.
I do this thing where I start whack it onto my desk with the keys facing me… usually gets all sorts of crap out >.< I recommend wearing a face-mask.
Close the blinds.
I inherited this keyboard from the previous person working in this job.
No way am I delving into the dark recesses between the keys to fish out their scabby skin flakes.
I MISS TAY
*waves madly*
*hoicked off-stage by a giant cane*
Where did that baby get a giant cane? Oh Shane-child. *audience laughter*
*toilet flushes*
MONSTER!
*waves back*
Did you ever provide any details on the bubs, Name, gender, weight dealio?
Nella Margaret Walsh-Smith.
BoyGirl3304 grams.
That baby was over twice my birth weight!
That doesn’t mean much though since like 60% of newborns are…
…you were 1.5kg?
AIM BETTER
Can anybody recommend the latest Transformers film? Critics are savaging it.
Did you like the other Transformers films?
I’ve seen the other three, the first one I really enjoyed.
Perhaps not then.
It’s a transformers film, so I recommend don’t.
Oh shit, I just noticed Turturro doesn’t feature in the fourth. Deal breaker for me.
Seen it. Regret it. Holy ship is it bad even by Bay’s standards.
This’ll tell you everything you need to know.
I’m sure some of you already know this, but Legend of Korra Season 3 started last week.
Colour me surprised, that was quick.
3 episodes of the english dub are currently out. Very good episodes so far.
I know I’m probably part of the minority but I feel like season 2 ruined the entire series for me.
Season 2 was great, bar the last 2-3 episodes which were pretty stupid.
Edit – Spoiler bashing the ending of season 2.
Are those the episodes with the epic space demon battle in the alternate dimension through the stargates in the opposing poles? Cos yeah… that’s pretty fucking retarded.hahahahah yeah it was hilarious at how weird they went.
W…T…F…
yup, so stupidly weird. Still I really loved every episode of Korra until the last few eps of Season 2. Also, how amazing was the ending of season 1? Really amazing is the answer.
CRazy amazing. first season animation was soo good.
Yeah season 1 was pretty satisfactory for me, even though the characters didnt seem to have the same rapport the originals did but it definitely gave me enough to hope for more. Season 2 however just kind of built me up and then said hey lets throw in unicorns and rainbows and ufos, HYPE HYPE!
Seriously though wiping away all prior avatar experiences?? Not. Cool. Also didn’t care much for the ultimate embodiments of good and evil =_= so cliche, at least the original series gave motive and perspective to the evil Aang was going up against, it fleshed out the characters brilliantly. Didn’t just lazily write off as ultimate evil and ultimate good spirit. NOW FIGHT! *bell rings*It’s time for Pixel’s patented “things I’ve discovered that are amazing but 5 years after it was cool”
Anamanaguchi! I’ve heard of them before but never really listened until i picked up the bit.trip runner soundtrack… Now listening to their album and it is amazing! 😛
You should try out this new toy called a tamagotchi
How does it compare to ball-in-a-cup? I just tried that and it’s freaking rad!
Check out my awesome OddBodz. And connector Tazos.
I’m pretty sure I have a complete set of both OddBodz and Space Oddbodz cards… somewhere…
To be fair, music always flies under the radar for me 😛
Oh man! I’ve had one of those ugly cards lying around for ages but I didn’t know what it was called 😛
I’ve got this awesome collection of Garbage Pail Kids cards.
They will be worth millions in a few short decades.
No idea what the hell that is!
I have a Marvel OverPower deck somewhere if you want to play. Haha, sorry. You do realise you’ve created a TAY meme though!
I’m happy admitting I’m late to the bandwagon or sometimes missing it entirely XD
Yes they are. Got in to them via Scott Pilgrim.
Yeah just realised they composed that music as well… Well my playlist is set for a while!
Guild Wars 2 has launched season 2 of its “Living World” thing. Basically, it extends the story of the game beyond that which was in the base.
For S1, story segments were live for month or so periods of time. They’ve changed this a bit for S2 – basically, if you log in during the 2 week ‘launch’ period for a story segment, that segment gets unlocked on your account and you can play whenever (repeatable). The missions apparently need your char to be at level cap, but you can unlock them on your account with any character.
After that initial launch window, the story segments are going to be on sale in-game via microtransaction.
More info here.
It doesn’t really say anything about potentially paying to unlock S1 story content so that’s a bit of a bummer. It would be nice to revisit some of that stuff.
Only thing related that I can see is:
I missed that part. That sounds pretty darn promising.
Well I just beat Spelunky. That’s one hell of a thing.
I was just trying to unlock the shortcut to the Temple. To do this, you have to make it through to the end of the Ice Caves while carrying a key from early in the game. This means a lot of item juggling and you basically don’t have access to weapons. Somehow, I had a good start and ended up with 10 health, a Jetpack and Spike Shoes halfway through the Jungle while still carrying the key.
It turns out that the Ice Caves are just super easy when you have a Jetpack, so unlocking the shortcut was a breeze.
Then I kept going.
The Temple is fucking hard and I had a dark level along the way (you’re given a torch and all traps are lit up, otherwise the place is pitch black. Considering that I’ve only been to the Temple a handful of times and died quick and painful deaths, I didn’t have high hopes of making it. Somehow I made it through and got through to the final boss.
I still had something like 25 bombs for the final fight, so making a hole for the dude to fall into wasn’t that hard. Yet again, Jetpacks are fucking rad.
After I got the “You made it!” message, the game crashed. Doesn’t matter; killed Olmec.
Then my Bluray player broke, so I couldn’t watch O Brother, Where Art Thou to celebrate. Phooey.
Yay! Well done!
I’ve actually come to find the earlier levels as the hardest ones. Everything’s just so dense, and sometimes I’ll go an hour or more without getting to the caves. But you can fly through the later levels (literally, if you luck out with the jet pack) because things are more spread out.
Hell was the run that nearly broke me, though. So many things need to line up. You’ll think you have it, then one fuck up makes the whole run impossible.
Once I had done that, I was confident enough to go back and finish (4-4) in 7 minutes 🙂
The jungle is definitely where I have the most problems. The mines aren’t so bad at the moment but I do tend to take some stupid damage along the way, particularly when I’m trying to save the pugsel and get a little extra health.
It’s definitely the exploring and dumb mistakes that do it.
There’s also just a good dosage of being terrible with a slight hint of everything in the game trying to kill you.
@Negativezero
Have you watched Log Horizon at all? I started watching it (watched 3 eps so far) and my thought on it so far is “meh”.
Its better at the whole people stuck in a MMO than Sword art Online(It was bad at making sense but still), which i really enjoyed for about 15 episodes but the ending was super rubbish. SUPER RUBBISH. But i kind of felt similar after 3 episodes, its kind of “eh”
I think the biggest problem I have is that none of the characters are interesting. I think I will give it a pass. Another question, my friend is always talking about Fairy Tail, should I watch all 170ish episodes of it? Is it worth it!?
Do you like Naruto/One Piece? Its similar to those anime.
Its a shonen manga/anime (i think thats right)
I havent watched any but i know it focuses on magical peeps fighting each other and magical creatures.
Haven’t watched Naruto in YEARS! I might give a few episodes a go and see where it goes from there. You got any anime suggestions Rocket-o?
Kill la Kill- Amazing animation, cool premise and story. Great humor.
NB: you have to become comfortable with the skimpy outfits, it is very self aware about it, its actually a plot device but it takes some getting used to)
Angel Beats- Nob, you will cry, THE MUSIC OMG THE MUSIC is just amazing. Blaghs and I both love this anime so much.
Attack on Titan- Great universe it has pacing issues but its pretty freaking epic. ALSO DAT THEME SONG
the best thing is that all these animes are single series so you can blow through them in a few days if you watch 4-5 episodes a day. 🙂
Yeah, watched Angel Beats. That anime was a jerk.
Kill la Kill is awesome.
Wait wait wait! Log Horizon actually gets better! I think it starts to pick up following episode 6 or 7 but it does have a much slower and more relaxing pace as opposed to other anime of similar genre (i.e. MMO become reality). It’s also more conversation and politics oriented.
I’m all for conversation and politic orientated anime, it doesn’t work when the main characters are booooooring.
I’m just going to say that maybe the show isn’t doing it for you. Don’t force yourself to watch it. There’s plenty of good anime out there to try that might fit what you want better. What sort of stuff do you like and what are some examples of things you’ve enjoyed, if you’d like other recommendations?
Also this is the best possible week to watch some new shows, as the April-June season literally just ended and the July season begins tomorrow night with a couple of new shows debuting.
Also with Fairy Tail you’ll get a much better feel for what it’s about if you’ve watched or read an old anime called Rave. Same writer and a lot of his writing style and storytelling makes it across. If you like ye olde hero beating unbeatable odds through spirit and lots of powering up you’ll enjoy Fairy Tail.
I find bleach has a more serious tone in comparison. If you’re in the market for a new anime/manga though I can’t recommend Break Blade enough! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Blade
I watched a couple of episodes of Fairy Tail and it seemed a fair bit more… immature? than it’s cousins (Naruto, Hunter X Hunter etc).
Main character was way too annoying and I didn’t bother continuing.
Fairy Tail takes a *long* time to hit its stride. Once it gets going it’s really good. But yeah, periodically it gets a bit silly, especially early on.
Fairy Tail is great if you give it long enough to get going. The start of it is boring and conventional and utterly lacking.
It’s also incredibly well written. It will introduce characters that seem like minor bit parts, or it will mention some element in passing, and you won’t realise it but 50+ episodes later it’s going to be really important. Everything slots together really nicely.
But I hated it at first. I thought it was complete shit. It takes way too long to establish the core characters and does it in a really stupid way. But once it goes into the first major plot arc it really turns around.
Might give it another go then next time I am bored.
The point it started to turn around for me was IIRC the first true plot arc, where
Natsu, Lucy and Gray head off on an S-Rank quest and Erza catches up with them later. Those four are basically the core cast for the early part of the show. But that was just a turning point and it was still average then, the point where it really gets going is after that when they go into Erza’s backstory.Nails the feel of being in an MMO, you can tell that the author actually played them and understood them. He’s an Everquest veteran so you’ll see a lot of that reflected in the world. Slow start and end, and the characters are quite conventional. I was pretty undecided on it until about 5-6 episodes in when it hit its stride.
It’s not amazing but I enjoyed it. Except the ending trailed off like a bad fart.
So now that I have officially resigned from my current job, I can tell you all about the new job I’m starting next month:
I’m going to be making games!
OK, fine, writing backend services that power games.
OK, fine, probably writing tools to support backend services that power games.
But still: I’m going to be a senior software developer at BigWorld Technology, the company that makes the network technology behind World of Tanks, World of Warplanes, etc.
I think that’s pretty cool.
EDIT: Thanks guys! I’m pretty excited. I will definitely come to TAY first if any sweet discounts/invites head my way after I start.
Woo!! Congrats Batguy
Congrats buddy, that is seriously cool.
THUMBS UP HUGASAURUS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111122222222
Do we get freebies? mates rates? If so then congrats!
If not, then congrats too!That’s quite incredibly awesome.
Well done!
Congrats mang!
SO YOU’RE THEONETO BLAME FOR THE F2P DECLINE OF OUR PASSION!
*ahem*
Congrats man.
Not yet I’m not! But soon I will be full of excuses about why it’s the perfect business model for all involved.
Booyah! Nice one! Don’t break them, I was thinking of having a go of them one of these days
Top stuff sire! Sounds like a real fun and interesting challenge! All the best wishes for your success in your new role!
Definitely should be interesting. They have (tens of? hundreds of?) thousands of simultaneous users, so there’s going to be some eye-opening technology at work there.
You’re going to be working on game tech (so less horrible game dev crunch) and on tech that powers some insanely profitable and popular games that are definitely not going to disappear tomorrow.
Sounds pretty ideal as far as game development goes.
Also does this mean you can swing me a beta invite for World of Warships? 😛 I suspect I shouldn’t play it though, it’s so far up my alley it might be a bad thing for me to play.
Everything you’ve said there is pretty much what I’m thinking. They sound like they actively set release schedules to avoid crunch which would be amazing for any dev job if they manage it.
As for invites, *shrug*. I imagine it may be possible at some point after I actually start? I will definitely remember to let you know if it does!
Yeah, the crunch is one reason I decided I never wanted to work in professional games development. Middleware seems ideal to me. I think you’ve hit on something pretty good there.
Australia-based or are you moving overseas for it?
They’re in Sydney, near Sydney University. Just another part of the crazy collision of circumstances that makes it seem like the ideal job for me.
Ooh nice! I think I saw that listing. Then I was all like baw, I’m not a senior guy *close* 😛
I saw the listing and went “yes, yes, yes, yes, yes… oh shit, this is a games job that matches my skill set perfectly. How is that even possible!?! Apply apply apply!”
Some guys have all the luck!
Protip: if you think you have the skill set and the qualifications, always apply. Companies almost never get the idea candidate, and whether you’re a ‘senior’ or not and what that actually means depends on the company.
Eg my old job, a bunch of guys left so I got promoted to Senior because I was there longer than the new guys. Then when I moved to my current job I was one rung up from being a junior developer and haven’t risen up the ranks to be a ‘senior’ at this organization yet.
So don’t let being ‘not senior’ stop you applying! Worst case is you don’t get the job.
It’s ok. I never think I have the skill set OR qualifications 😛
Even moreso now that I haven’t really done any coding at all in the last six months >_>
OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD… Just received an email: “i am writing to you in regards to your application for Australian citizenship. An appointment has been made for you to sit the citizenship test”… OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
Do you remember Donald Bradman’s career average? If so, you’re sweet.
…no! OH GOD I’M GOING TO FAIL!!!!
OH GOD!!
is it 99.94 i always forget….
*phew*
You can stay.
Seven!
Just swear a lot and spit out bunch of racial insults. You’ll be through into time.
I’ve heard that if i call them “useless as a curdled bowl of fuckslaw” its pretty much an instant pass!
Glad someone’s having luck with it, a friend of mine is getting no end of trouble with hers, bureaucratic delays causing her English competency test to be out of date so she submits a new one which they don’t accept because it’s not the one on the original form but don’t bother to tell her about that little detail and now say she can appeal for a mere grand and a half…
Rock up wearing the aussie flag as a cape with way too big sunnies and thongs that you may have found at the op shop and your golden..dont forgot to get a spray on southern cross on every part of your body
@crazyguy1990, @steve-o_the_deve-o, @pupp3tmast3r, @tech_knight, @pixel_the_ferret_viking
Torchlight 2 again tomorrow night!
8:00 pm SA time unless proven otherwise.
May the Loot Gods grant us shiny things.
Elite mode muddafukas! >:D
Oh crap! I gotst to level up that mofo, I’m still only level 5 XD
How many people can play in one game?
Six Is the max I believe, sorry man!
ahh k. np’s!
Last time I tried to play multi (with Mrs Tigerion) we couldn’t even see each other to connect anyway. Haven’t tried with anyone else before or since, so not sure if it’s a permanent thing, or just a weird anomaly between our accounts. One day I’ll find out surely 😉
8:30 QLD time right? Should be there – going to town tonight to look and see if I can score a cheap Wii U, but shouldn’t take too long.
Ok, I have no idea where it came from, or who’s responsible, but I had a copy of Carmageddon 1 in my steam inventory when I arrived home!
Was anyone here responsible for this little highlight to my day?
If not, I have zero clue how I got it… best guess would be either it’s a late extra that comes as part of the early access to the new carmageddon, or perhaps an unmentioned bonus from my purchase of The Ship 3 pack I got from that site for $1 yesterday.
Same! I was wondering where it came from, and just figured it was some extra bonus for being part of the Carmageddon: Reincarnation kickstarting.
Sooooo, anybody want Carmageddon 1?
Turns out it was part of the Reincarnation early access! I got a tweet from @Max_Damage this morning telling me it was them who gifted it!
http://www.carmageddon.com/news/maxs-steaming-package
Oh nice! I already got it as part of being an early backer though via way of a GOG credit. 😛
Ah cool! apparently it’s going to be dished out now to all existing early access buyers, as well as future ones! Not sure how long it’ll carry on for, but damn cool of them to do so! 🙂
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@shane, you are now the proud owner of a Wii U \o/
Got it in the boot of my car, didn’t want to bring it inside and have to explain to the missus that I bought it for some guy on the internet that put money in my account, she’d freak the fuck out.
Replied to your e-mail. Let me know what you want to do in regards to Mario Kart.
Also, @scree, the label for Mario Kart on the shelf at target said $69. Isn’t it supposed to be $58 or something? Let me know if it’s cool to pay that much before I pick up a copy for you.
Sorry @effluvium-boy, this wasn’t meant to be a reply to you, I’ve had a looooooooong day at work, but while we’re on the subject 2475 comments \o/
Take it to the counter, it’s advertised at $58. That’s the price that should be paid. (just in case it happens to you)
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OK, I’ll pick you up a copy, if they have any, we’ll have to swap deets at some point.
Also, wow, that’s a lot of comments, but how many of those were to say sorry :p
I say other things too. Sorry was probably in there as well, but other things.
Was only mucking around.
I know. But you’re probably right
Even after the sales your still buying people things..THIS GUY! hes like a modern Robin Hood just he Buys from the Sales and gives to the people who couldnt obtain things from said sales!
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Free ride’s over. Looks like I gotta start actually doing work at work now, no more sitting around just playing games 😛
I lowered the difficulty to Easy in W101 😀
Boooo!
Woo! Actually learnt something tonight. Anion and Cations. Also difference between mass (A) and atomic (Z) numbers and what you can work out given those.
Everything else is kinda snoozy. It has made me realise even though I know some of the more advanced stuff there’s plenty of holes in my basics. Means I can’t switch off and cruise through.
Tell the kids how you were wearing an anion on your belt. As was the fashion at the time.
I always remember Roman CATholic has a symbol of a + so it’s where + ions come from. Also, R for reduction.
The funny thing is that the whole protons and neutrons explanation is nice and neat and works pretty well for chemistry… but it’s actually an abstraction and it’s not complete. There’s a more complicated explanation for stuff that is much more accurate, but it goes into quantum physics and stuff.
Protons and Neutrons are Hadrons. Specifically they’re a type of Hadron called a Baryon, which is comprised of three quarks. Protons have two ‘up’ quarks (each with +2/3 of a charge) and one ‘down’ quark (with -1/3 of a charge) and those cancel out to give it a net positive charge. Neutrons contain two ‘down’ quarks (-1/3 each) and one ‘up’ quark to give a net charge of 0.
Subatomic particles and the standard model make things go absolutely fucking weird. They all have silly names, eg there are six types of quark – up, down, top, bottom, charm and strange. I shit you not – they’re all paired, all carry the same charges as their like pair (eg down, bottom & strange are all -1/3) but different masses. Things just get nutty very quickly. It’ll do your head in trying to understand it.
Basically it’s like how Newton’s laws of motion are wrong but they’re good enough approximations to work except in really specific conditions. There’s a few things that the Protons / Neutrons / Electrons model can’t explain, eg the way that the particles in the nucleus stick together is hand-waved away by basically saying there’s a force that makes it happen, but not explaining what it is or how it works. The standard model does that. It also better explains nuclear decay, atoms each having a color and a bunch of other stuff.
This is what’s fucking awesome about science. Every time we think we’re close to figuring stuff out, someone discovers a curveball and everything has to be rewritten. Even the current model of particle physics is known to be incomplete, because it doesn’t explain gravity. It’s expected that there is another model, the Grand Unifying Theory, which explains it along with the other fundamental forces, but no one’s figured it out yet.
Reading this takes me back to physics in high school ^^ ah good times… We had an overzealous physics teacher who decided it was time we understood the basic principles of quantum mechanics! Best class ever.
I imagine it must annoy some science teachers to sit there and tell students ‘this is how it all works’ while knowing that it’s a gross oversimplification and the reality is astoundingly complicated.
Still got two guest passes for Killing Floor, who wants ’em?
“Dosh! grab it while its hot”
“money money money!”
uhhh….”Who needs some wonga?”
WOP IT OUT! LOADSA MONEY!
http://i.imgur.com/LSbhGvn.png
Bleed is $2.00 on Steam.
Buy.
Blood is $5.99 on GOG.
Retro buy.
Tears are Priceless if you start to Bleed Blood
But are the souls of 100 million Catholics worth the inevitable damnation?
God this would make an awesome horror story…
I smell a new book series 😀
Of Graphic novels.
So for those working on their PAX cosplays, here’s a blog post about my Supanova cosplay, with all the photos in one place at last.
http://sarah.hudson.uno/2014/07/adventures-in-sewing-viper-cosplay.html
There might be another for PAX, but nothing is certain at the moment. Happy to at least bet getting a little holiday in Melbourne.
Nice!
I should have a part of my PAX thing to show tonight 😮
Given the context, the “yum” for the rating thing became kinda creepy 😛
Yeah, that thing doesn’t get used anyway – been meaning to get rid of it.
@tech_knight @f4ction @sernobulus
Also anyone else who might be interested.
Rogue Trader Character Creation
I didn’t realise it during the session but I’m sorry if my mic was a little bit too quiet for anyone.
I believe @rize was interested in watching the vid.
Thanks, should be helpf-…2 HOURS??
Thanks 😛
To be fair you probably don’t need to watch Techs and Factions character creator because I basically did mine from scratch (except the dice rolls) and my character is also an Eldar. Although do catch the end because Pop gives us info on where we start the RPG at and how we got there.
Nah it was fine for me, maybe cuz I usually have my volume up anyway
@popdart5 sorry I missed it! Did I see the invite wrong or was there one on tonight?? cos if there’s one tonight I’ve locked out thursdays for the foreseeable future doing TAY Torchlight 2 with jocon, tech and others!
Give me anytime during the weekend or anytime next week and I’ll put it aside as long as it’s after 7pm on weekdays! =D Sorry popdart! 🙁
He’s running it Friday so you should be all okay in that regard
The invite was wrong as I created the event incorrectly. Ignore me.
There will be another character creation session on Friday night starting at 8pm for anyone who still wants to run through their character. If not everyone can make it, I’ll run another one early next week probably on Monday or Tuesday night. Tagging @rize and @freezespreston.
I’ll watch the video and let you know if I think I need more help.
Just FYI, I’ve had to change one part of the Seer starting equipment as I realised giving you Rune Armour off the bat was kinda overpowered. You will instead start with xenos-mesh armour as listed in the spreadsheet (should be AP 4).
It was okay for the most part. I am pretty deaf, technically I’m 1/2 deaf in my right ear which is why I use headphones all the time.
Does the video have that awkward moment where we all said our goodbyes but stayed online? XD
I cut it off pretty much just after we said goodbye but before we got to that awkward moment. 😛
Did you guys have anything from after I left that you wanted to ask me at all or was it all peachy?
Not me particularly but I think @tech_knight may have had a question?
Actually, do we start off with money?
Nope. You’re going to be hobos…. IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE. With laser, plasma, and mono-molecular weaponry and fantastic armour and stuff but you’ll still be penniless.
“Will chainsword for food”
The Greater Good doesn’t need money, it needs masses to enlighten!
I think I’d like to change my classified competence if that’s cool 😛 To Examplar of Unity. It fits my background better \o/
I’ve also decided to go a different direction for my character overall, purely from a story driven perspective
Yep that’s all good. I can’t quite recall what Exemplar of Unity does but I have no problem with it.
Follow My Lead
Type: Half Action
Subtypes: Concentration
Until the beginning of his next Turn, each allied Tau
character within 10 metres who undertakes the same
Half Action this Explorer performs after his Follow My
Lead Action gains a +10 bonus to any Tests associated
with that Action
So uh… hmm… on a lark, I decided it would be funny if I tried to order the Persona Q Wild Cards LE from Amazon US. They never ship internationally on Atlus stuff but I wanted to get an idea what the cost would have been from them to toss up using a proxy to import it vs buying from NISA’s insanely priced EU store.
Amazon let me place the order. Shipped to my normal home address, normal billing address, no proxies or anything involved.
I’m expecting this will get shitcanned later on but there’s a few times that this has happened to me in the past and they’ve ended up following through on the order. So fingers crossed!
http://gematsu.com/2014/07/hatsune-miku-project-mirai-remix-announced-western-asian-territories
PROJECT MIRAI! ALL THE SHITTY NEWS FROM THIS MORNING UNDONE.
http://i.imgur.com/crIAptX.gif
For those that don’t know, Project Mirai is the 3DS version of the Hatsune Miku: Project Diva games. The gameplay is a bit more along the lines of Theatrhythm or Elite Beat Agents and the music is all Miku & Friends stuff but the characters are all in ultra-cute super-deformed Nendoroid style. I’m a huge collector of the Nendoroid line and so Project Mirai was like my white whale, the one game on 3DS that I always wished would be localized and which I came very close to importing a JP 3DS for multiple times.
Awesome! I’ve always wanted to play the 3DS version.
For my business management class, I had to think of a business idea in a team. The best business ideas get entered into some kind of a national competition. The school didn’t give us much time, so I decided to refine the concept at home and email the teacher what I had done. The whole team thing kind of fell apart, because one guy was utterly useless, and the other guy wanted to open up a pawn shop instead.
Inspired by the ramblings of @transientmind and whoever he was conversing with, I present you:
Surge – A TV/Movie Digital Distribution Platform
-Surge sells both movies and television shows, but only movies are mentioned. Unless specifically -stated, assume all references to movies also incorporates television shows.
-Customers will henceforth be known as users.
-The companies that create and own the rights to movies will henceforth be known as movie publishers.
-DRM refers to initiates by publishers to stifle piracy
-The Store page will henceforth be referred to as a storefront, as it is a common industry term. Despite the name, the storefront has no connection to physical media or brick-and-mortar shops
After watching the successes of digital distributed PC gaming platforms, it made sense to do what those companies are doing and apply it to another medium – cinema.
Surge will be an all-new digital distribution platform exclusively focused on television programs and movies that uses the successful business practices of PC game distribution platforms. There are many TV/Movie digital distribution platforms, but they fail to capture the business practices that make many game distribution platforms a success.
When a user buys a movie, it is locked to their account. That movie can only be viewed by a device connected to that account. This lowers the chance of the file ending up on piracy websites.
Surge will have a website where users can buy movies, but all of the actual movie watching and downloading will be done via a separate client for PC, an app for smartphones, and an app for smart TVs. The client itself will have a store, an alphabetised library where movies can be categorised by installed and not installed, recently watched, and movies that are currently downloading. It will also have a community section, where public forums can be started, and people listed as ‘friends’ can send messages, and enter into ‘MultiView mode,’ where friends all watch a movie simultaneously, with full voice char and webcams. This mode simulates the on-the-couch movie-watching experience in an online setting. MultiView mode is targeted at friends and family members that live in other countries.
Surge will have a gifting system that allows friends to buy movies for other people. There are no strings attached. You buy a movie for your friend, they have it, and you don’t.
When a user buys a movie, 30% will go to Surge, and 70% will go to the publishers. These numbers will likely be adjusted before Surge’s release to meet the money-splitting policies of our competitors if they are found to favour either Surge or the publisher too much. Movies will be cheaper than their brick-and-mortar counterparts, as it is cheaper to distribute and users have no way of selling the movie. This cuts profits away from the used-movie-disc industries, where publishers receive no profits.
Due to the large amount of data being downloaded by users, Surge will require extensive server infrastructure. New servers will be added as the userbase grows and more people start downloading movies. Movies can be downloaded and uninstalled at will, so users may download the same movie twice if they have full hard drives.
Movies are watched via the client, meaning users will not have to trawl through files on their computer looking for the movie they just downloaded. They simply open up the client/app, go to the library section, and find it amongst an alphabetised list.
Surge values customer convenience above anything else, and takes the Gabe Newell brand of thought towards piracy.
“In general, we think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. For example, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the U.S. release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable. Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customers use or by creating uncertainty.”
Gabe Newell and his digital distribution store Steam single-handedly turned the tide of gaming piracy, and significantly reduced piracy over all. He turned the pirates into paying consumers by simply offering the better service than the one that was free. We at Surge believe that adopting this policy will reduce movie piracy in the long-term, and that movie publishers will start adopting these policies if Surge is successful. This will only be a positive for the consumer too.
Lastly, Surge will adopt a heavy emphasis on sales. There will almost always be something on sale, and it will be prominently displayed on the main store page. If a movie is on sale, more people will buy it. For example.
Casablanca is sold at $15.00. 40 sales were achieved that day.
Casablanca is discounted by 50% for 24 hours. It now costs $7.50. 160 sales were achieved that day. Many people who had no intention to buy Casablanca will buy it at a reduced price, simply because it is cheap.
A user can create a wishlist of movies, and they will be notified if any go on sale.
The months of June and July are typically when digital distribution storefronts have massive sales, and users are carefree with their money. It stand to reason that Surge should have a massive sale during that period. July 8th through to July 18th will be the stage for the Surge Storm Sales, where everything is at a reduced price, sometimes to ludicrous levels.
A few days prior to the Surge Storm Sales, there will be heavy marketing in order to get users excited.
For every day of the sale, there will be 15 movies at a massively reduced price that can only be bought at that price on that day alone. This will be displayed at the very top of the Surge storefront, so everyone can see it. Terminator 2, 80% off, today only. It will create the fabled ‘I must have it’ glint in the customer’s eye that publishers dream of.
Directly beneath that will be a list of some of the most purchased movies during the sale.
The most famous of all these sales on the gaming front is the Steam Summer Sale, and I can say from experience that every tactic mentioned above is incredibly effective. I can say from personal experience that I have spent far more than I should have during these sales. I purchased games that I don’t think I will ever play, but I bought anyway because they were cheap. I had a friend who spent over $800.00 during the Steam Summer Sale, despite not even having a reliable method to play the games. I can say that the Steam Summer Sales have a powerful effect on people, and it would be a good business move to tap into that. We don’t even have to compete with Steam, because they sell games and we sell movies and television programs.
There is one other aspect of Surge that I haven’t gone over; Surge’s presentation.
The storefront and client itself will have a dark purple and black colour scheme, and Surge will have a mascot, likely with an electricity theme and a cute name. Despite the name, Surge will have an easy going business persona, and the logo and mascot design should reflect that.
Surge will advertise via web advertising, and try to appear on movie-based sites such as IMDB. Surge advertisements may also appear on gaming-based website. This is because the audience that uses game digital distribution websites will be more likely to use Surge, as they will already know how everything works and be fairly receptive to the idea.
Surge will target itself towards both the people that already use digital distribution, and those that don’t. Surge’s storefront will be designed in a way that is familiar for people that have used digital distribution, but immediately intuitive for the uninformed.
In terms of age demographics, Surge will be targeted towards the large demographic of 15-40 year olds.
[NOT FINAL] Surge mission statement: Surge aims to provide the very best for our users. We are committed to providing the best movies at the fairest price.
Surge slogan: Because movies were meant to be experienced this way.
I think I might get an A. I went a little overboard, and I don’t think I even wrote down everything I wanted to. I made sure I made I was writing my pitch for the technically illiterate.
Godamm I wish I had the skills to make that thing.
Also: PATENT PENDING
The word document I wrote this in is listed as macro-enabled, and the icon has a yellow exclamation mark on it. Any ideas what the hell this means?
Probably should have used the spoiler button. Oh well.
Neat pitch, but two considerations:
Competitors- how does this compare with the google/apple/Ultraviolet offerings?
Exclusive content- what does surge offer in terms of content that the competitors don’t?
That was the content that I never got around to putting in. I knew it was a factor, but I kept putting it off so I could write about MultiView or something and just forgot at the end.
I don’t think UltraViolet is a worthwhile competitor to anything. 😛
Really? It’s cross service and has pretty much everyone signed up but Disney and MGM.
For an assignment, fine, but when doing a proper competitor analysis you’re never served by overlooking someone on first glance.
To be honest, I don’t think the assignment asks for me to factor in competition. I don’t think it asked me to put in half the stuff I mentioned. I went way overboard with this assignment, considering the teacher only asked for a few dot points, and I put in 1,380 words.
Fair enough.
I do a lot of business analysis for a living, so that’s how I approach this sort of thing.
Okay a few questions
Are videos only viewable through the surge client in the same way that steam games are only playable through steam or are videos basically standard files playable through the player of the user’s choice and have DRM that checks for the presence of the surge client and the signed in account?
What restrictions are there on the multiview mode? Does everyone have to own the video? If not, how does the system counter the possibility of adhoc piracy by letting friends who don’t own a video watch it while you go off & do something else?
Given how screen capture hardware/software is easy to use, I can imagine there’d be some concerns over piracy but then I don’t see anyone else solving it, the best Is HDCP but that’s fairly simple to get around. I could just as easily use my live gamer portable to capture a drm free version of a full screen ultraviolet movie if I had a mind to.
The worst part is that the largest impediment to this idea isn’t the market, it’s the dinosaurs in charge of the rights to the media you’d be dependant on.
1. Are videos only viewable through the surge client in the same way that steam games are only playable through steam or are videos basically standard files playable through the player of the user’s choice and have DRM that checks for the presence of the surge client and the signed in account?
The first one.
2. What restrictions are there on the multiview mode? Does everyone have to own the video? If not, how does the system counter the possibility of adhoc piracy by letting friends who don’t own a video watch it while you go off & do something else?
I’m pretty sure everyone will need to watch the video. If not, There might be some kind of fee for users who watch a MultiView video without owning the movie. Alternatively, there might be some kind of formula that dictates the ratio of paying customers to not-paying customers that must be met. Maybe 3:1.
MultiView is something that I made up in the middle of typing everything up, and my answers are purely off the top of my head.
3. Given how screen capture hardware/software is easy to use, I can imagine there’d be some concerns over piracy but then I don’t see anyone else solving it, the best Is HDCP but that’s fairly simple to get around. I could just as easily use my live gamer portable to capture a drm free version of a full screen ultraviolet movie if I had a mind to.
Screen capture was not accounted for. Maybe some form of HDCP.
4. The worst part is that the largest impediment to this idea isn’t the market, it’s the dinosaurs in charge of the rights to the media you’d be dependant on.
Yep. I have no idea how the deals between publishers and Surge are meant to approached, but luckily the teacher has no idea also. It is by far the biggest hole in my pitch. I am willing to admit that.
Thanks for the ideas. It’s probably too late to send new recommendations for Surge to the teacher, but I’ll probably try to anyway later tonight.
@Beavwa @Zapd @gorzilla @sernobulus @steveo_the_deveo
RE MINECRAFT SERVER!
guys just moved it to a new server. all your stuff is intact…
43.245.160.22:25565
was hoping it would fix some weird connection issues i was getting but it appears to be on my end… anyway, this host was a little bit pricier but so much faster!
can you guys just confirm its all working ur end? im having issues getting on myself but thats unrelated
@zapz
@steve-o_the_deve-o
Hey Zetro can you whitelist me? ColdCamV
Im interested in playing but still learning what the Frick everything is/does
added! you’re in for one hell of a ride!… i recommend some youtube starter tutorials to get u started…
Tempted to join in soon but I’m trying to work on my pile of shame, and Minecraft doesn’t help much with that 😛
it helps heaps! you need to get MC off your pile of shame right???
Have you have beaten Minecraft before?
Looks good from my end.
cheers steveo
Everything seems to be working A-OK for me
thanks nobs!
i’ll try to get on tonight.
Also quick question: if I set up my farm near bedrock would it reduce the lag for people on surface?
Also August 20th (EU) for the Sword Art Online game on Vita (digital) and November 14th for EU release of Tales of Hearts R (EU, I think it’s retail & digital?)
Oh yeah, anyone else watching Old School on ABC?
Really been enjoying it.
Bedtime.
Goodnight, folks. 🙂
I bought my 3DS back in 2012 I think, and forgot to buy games for it. I bought Resident Evil Mercenaries, but I didn’t like it. I realised that I needed to buy games to justify even buying the damn thing, so I finally took the plunge and bought some games. I picked up Spy Hunter for $9, Rayman Origins for $15, and Starfox 64 3DS for $23. It’s weird to think that I spent almost as much or perhaps even more than I did during the Steam Sales. (I couldn’t bear to see how much I spent on Steam)
I hope I made the right decisions.
Work is nuts. I even missed page 6! Haven’t even been able to lurk and upvote! I know, right? I’m sure people were being awesome but man I’m racking up a weekend to-do list.
We’ve been missing the upvotes. =(
Haven’t been this “upvote-dry” since @dc took a break from TAY.
So long WA 😀
You’re the man of the house while I’m away @phlanispo.
Don’t break anything >:P
See you in 5 and a half hours of flying + 2 hours of time difference! 😛
He said his flight arrives at 4:30? So I guess he has a stop over somewhere maybe?
Virgin via Sydney gets in to Gold Coast at 4:30. That would make sense. I was looking at flights to BNE.
Picked my flight dead on, haha!
Are you stalking me by chance? 😛
No but yes but yes. ;P
I’m just familiar with doing travel arrangements at work.
And stalking. Mainly the stalking thing.
Whatever you do, Freeze. DON’T SCARE THE POOR FELLOW BEFORE THE SATURDAY MEAT.
(Though you can scare him after, if you like.)
Basicaly just run at him screaming jibberish with a subway footlong in one hand and a paddle in the other. Queensland.
Oh the @dc stories I’ll be telling him….
He’s probably going to throw a wild party…
…
Or do his home work. One of the two.
Por que no los dos!?
I did that once.
Though it helps if you know that a “wild party” for my friends and I was watching Disney movies and playing video games while not drinking. So while one of them was playing I did some maths homework. Best at socialisation.
Holidays are next week. Kids will be in the streets on weekdays! They will be loitering outside your favourite stores! Or worse, they may be INSIDE your favourite stores! Anarchy will reign!
…
I expect to stay at home to play video games. I might venture outside once a week to put the bin out. I may even take the bin back in! Who knows? It’s always a mystery with Phlanispo!
Sacred 2 is currently $4 on Steam. Great Action/RPG game that filled the gap between Diablo 2 and 3, and it also introduce me to Blind Guardian
Damnit Rize! Why do you make me spend money! I’ve been looking at it for a while and never took the bait so I decided to buy it and….. Turns out I already had it. It was even installed. Just sitting there. 0 mins played.
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the games of our Steam Sales.
I’m actually working through my steam sales list quite well! Finished off the 3 episodes of Walking Dead S2, aiming for Wolf Among us and Child of Light this weekend!
I think i broke my brain again.
It took so long to fix my thinking but i had a breakdown last night…
The joys of recovering from depression
MY LIFE IS GOOD, WHY DO I TRY AND SABOTAGE MYSELF!
So while you sit back and wonder why
You got this fucking thorn in your side
Oh my God, it’s a mirage
I’m tellin’ y’all, it’s a sabotage
Best music video.
Huh did not know those where the lyrics,
i just sing
dadadad
SABOTAGE
Isn’t is great fun? It’s like your brain is so used to it that it realises something is changing and desperately tries to get back to the familiar even if the familiar is complete shit.
No suicidies though, suicidies are bad!
Well my girlfriend and I are officially on a break and based on the email I got from her last night, it really looks like she’s given up on our chances in the future and it might be all over…
Fuck… I’m still trying to stop myself from bursting into tears in the office.
Sorry to hear that, man. 🙁
Nothing wrong with tears though. If you can find somewhere private-ish, might be worth taking a few minutes to yourself. Catharsis and whatnot.
HUGS MAN
stay strong
I love you mr tinman
Aw man, I’m so sorry to hear that. 🙁
If there’s any thing we can do for you, let us know.
*hugs mang*
If you need anyone to talk to give us a shout tech (I think you have my e-mail from popdart’s W40K thread), I’m just coming out of a break up myself and I know how trying it can be. Piece of advice, just tackle this one day at a time and make sure you keep yourself ridiculously busy.
I’ll be up for chats on Steam tonight before Torchlight 2 if I get home at a reasonable time
Sounds good man, I should be done with my gym/swim by 7-7.30!
That sucks man I hope your alright, sending the feels
Maybe go get some fresh air and just take some time for yourself.
Heaps of people here whenever you wanna talk *hugs*
Maybe it’s permanent, maybe it’s not, what matters is how you’re feeling right now. And if you’re feeling dumped, I recommend the following:
1. Tell your supervisor/boss that you’ve just been dumped and that you’re really unfocussed, don’t think you’ll be productive, ask if you can take some time off for the rest of the day to regroup. Hell, if you have the time, maybe even a rostered day off or short-notice rec leave tomorrow, too.
2. Grieve like fuck. Cry in the shower for an hour or two, and cry hard. Look up ‘dumped’ music playlists on youtube of shit you’d normally never listen to, ask your closest friends/family if they don’t mind letting you dump that massive storm of hurt thoughts on them (because that maelstrom of self-questions IS coming). Be prepared to repeat several times over the next few days.
3. Don’t contact her. Or if you need to, make it very, very, very, very brief. Not defensive. Just stoic, more than you’re feeling. “I would fight for you, but if you don’t see a point to it, then I’m not going to waste my energy,” sort of thing. You have pride – it can’t be taken away from you. Less said is worth more.
4. BREAK YOUR ROUTINE. Do not go do your favourite things to cheer yourself up, as tempting as it may be. You will taint them with these bad memories you are about to form.
The last thing you want to do is fire up an old game and be reminded of the time you spent using it to get away from your greiving. New things will challenge you intellectually and emotionally as well. Do as much of this alone as possible. You are you. You exist alone. You have value alone, for who you are. Life might be better with others, but the only constant you will ever have is you. Prove this to yourself. Show yourself your value, in your adaptability, the ‘youness’ of how you react to these new things you explore.
5. Do something physical. The more you can focus on your body, the more it will get you out of your head. Go for a walk outside in the park, go visit a gym and do the cheatiest of cheat sessions (all machine, no free weight, lightest weights just to get your blood movie), but whatever it is, making it as physical as you can safely handle without hurting yourself. You need endorphins right now. That’s a way to get them.
6. Hop between grieving, exploring, physicality, and comfort-bingeing as your whims dictate. Just don’t don’t spend too long on any one of those activities in one sitting. Variety forms new memories and you need new ones now.
Most of what trans said is spot on! but be very careful taking time off as that can backfire. I kept myself super busy with work, gym and socializing post break up and the hardest times of the day for me. Taking days off basically means you now have a lot of free time to fill…. Personally I hated weekends post break up.
The most important thing to keep your focus on now would be to break routine. You need to break down the neural pathways formed while you were in your relationship, usually within 3-4 weeks new pathways form for your new routine at which point you’ll start feeling more like your old self!
Edit: I cannot re-emphasize how important staying social and being around people right now is. Keep your mind busy and let it form new social connections so the old ones can break down.
Oh god, I was a fucking wreck for a good half a week after my big breakup a few years ago. Like, sobbing in the car while driving. helps.
ahem Sobbing manly tears and all that
Well there’s no point asking for days off as I’ve got two weeks of leave coming up at the end of this week so I can spend my 2 weeks annual leave crying like fuck. Not how I was planning on spending my leave but the timing couldn’t have been worse.
She’s basically disappearing a lot already due to how depressed she’s been getting over the situation where she lives, but I’ll stay off facebook for the time being regardless.
I guess I’ll just go on jogs to break my routine during my leave or something. But basically right now I feel like I don’t have a purpose anymore, that everything I’ve done to try to make this whole thing possible is now wasted and my apartment (When that eventually finishes) will be just wasted space as I should’ve gone for something smaller and I may have probably gotten a better price. So yeah right now… self-confidence is back beyond the red like I was in my high school days and gaming was the only thing kept me from doing something really bad to myself back then. She was pretty much the only one that truly inspired me to push on to where I am today with both my work and the apartment, the saving and other things before I came onto TAY.
This morning I got up, had breakfast, went to work… and I don’t have a reason why I did any of this anymore… it’s just following my own programming now.
And THAT is why you need to go and do new things, put yourself into new situations to see how you handle them, to reassert the value of yourself for yourself, not for someone else.
No-one should ever be your reason for living but YOU. Not only is it an unfair expectation for another person (and forget what Hollywood says – very few people actually want to be another person’s only reason for being; that’s what people expect from their dog, not their partner), but it’s not fair to you, either.
You’ve shown us that you’re valuable, so now find a way to convince yourself. Other people aren’t the base of your life’s stew – they’re the seasoning. Life’s obviously better with them, but it should be solid and nourishing even without. You just need to figure out how that’s true for you. Find your value, your strengths, and then work to them. You’re funny, moral, you care… these are not things that you derive from another, they’re intrinsic to you because you value them.
And when I say break your routine, I mean more than just the way you get to work or where you get lunch. I mean aim to explore a city block and go see what’s in all those secretive upper-story hidden-away nooks and side-alleys. Unashamed, smile and say you were curious and find out about these people and places.
Go to the casino and tell yourself it’s OK to lose what… fifty? A hundred dollars? Whatever you can afford on some thrills. Then go in there and fucking lose it on blackjack. Tell the croupier you’ve been dumped, need a cheap thrill, and what’s the longest way to wring out your ‘safely lost’ balance and don’t leave til it’s gone. (Or until you’ve won crazy big, then like… get out, man – get out!) Have a couple drinks there, flirt utterly aimlessly and pointlessly – I’m not saying to grief-bang barflies (though there are definitely worse ways to regroup), but with nothing to lose and nothing especially that you want to gain, just make someone feel good with a compliment, feel good about the smiles you get back.
Go to a coffee shop and tell them you’re feeling crazy and they should ‘surprise you’ with whatever fancy brew they feel like making. And if it’s terrible, laugh and thank them and say it was not your style, but at least now you know. Honesty and salvaging something from a surface-level failure can feel pretty great if you let it, and it’ll translate over to a lot else.
And hell, you could do a lot worse than calling something like lifeline, too. They might give you advice completely opposite to mine and maybe it’ll work better for you too – and that’s cool. There’s a lot of ways to grieve and reinvent ourselves.
Is this your first serious break up? If it is do not give in to the mentality of “nothing has purpose/meaning anymore”. Because I can promise you what you’re going through right now is temporary, embrace the grieving and mourn the relationship but don’t let it consume you. Soon after my break up I cried for a few nights (in a manly way like red of course) but I always felt heaps better following that because I knew deep down that I could pick myself up and dust myself off and things would only get better and they have! For some perspective I was living with my ex for almost 2 years and we broke up a month ago. I’m at a much better place now and you will be too.
Just find things to do, organize meat ups! More group torchlight 2! More activities! In the past few weeks I’ve gone from no social schedule to having a tough time finding any free time! >.< You’ll get there too, just keep your chin up and look forward.
And something to keep in mind and I know it wont mean anything to you right now, but sometimes you have to close a door so that you can appreciate something new coming into your life. Spend the next few weeks re-discovering yourself. Not the person who was in a relationship, but the person you are, by yourself because trust me on this one tech. The only inspiration anyone anywhere ever needs is always staring at them in a mirror.
Edit: what trans said, I’ve met and gotten to know heaps of new people at work post break up and outside work, not to mention getting to know all of you guys! but don’t go gambling, gimme the money instead I’ll invest it! sheesh trans! =P
Hey, I look at the gambling as like… going to see a movie. You’re going to be out fifty bucks or so for a fun activity, and the gambling part brings the rush of potential winnings! It’s only exploitative if you let it be. 😉 If you consider the money already gone and that you’re ‘paying for the experience’ instead of naively hoping to win something, you’re golden.
*hugs* trans said most of what I would. Letting things closest to your heart go is always hard. You can either give the past a warm farewell or try to hold on to it ( would not recommend the latter).
Questioning your existence is probably the worst thing you should do right now, but it is inevitable.
I recommend spending your leave to learn something new to keep your mind occupied.
really sorry to hear man. Hope all is well. Just take some time for yourself. Steer away from the whole “theres no point to anything anymore”. It seems hard now but time heals all wounds, and maybe you might find something around the corner you never expected… Stay positive man. You’re a great dude.
People playing Divinity: Original Sin.
Which direction should I go for the first time after leaving the city at the start?
Tough enemies seem to be every direction! Just press on with main quest or is there somewhere I can get some XP from low level mofos? I’ve been wandering aimlessly fighting enemies but that plan doesn’t seem to be working. D:
I went west / north west. Have you done the “Solve the Murder” quest? You get a quest that tells you where to go when you do.
Oh yeah, I’ve done that but the enemies on the way to the place I need to go are crazy hard. Haha! And the guards at the gate imply I’m not experienced enough to go there yet even though I’ve done all the quests in the city. :'( I’m wondering if I missed some fights for XP or something.
Guess not. :S
I know the game is supposed to be tough, but I suspect I messed up character creation too.
What characters did you make? I went with a Warrior that can cast healing spells and an archer that can shoot fire spells. Also, don’t forget to talk to everyone in town because you can get people to join your party.
I’ve got a Wayfarer and a Rogue. I’ve recruited two party members too.
Think I might go to the Hall of Heroes and hire a hench men from that dude there.
Really digging the game though. Just a little jarring to play a crushingly hard RPG again after playing hand holdy new BioWare ones lately. 😀
Yeah, don’t be worried about hiring too many NPC’s. Sure they may lessen the XP you can get but they can make the game so much easier.
How damn pretty is the game, though? Really enjoying taking in the surrounds!
In fact, I’m going to go play it now. 😀 *goes to play it now*
Yeah I was thinking that before. I’m glad it’s gone for the colourful world approach instead of the Browny-McBrown-Brown that most Iso-RPGs go for.
@sernobulus: I think that’s what makes it deceptively tough too. Games with that art direction are usually forgiving and light hearted. 😀
Ok it’s official I want this game now >.< Man I can’t wait for the end of this year! Massive Chalice and Project Eternity… Good year to be a PC gamer =]
Don’t forget Wasteland 2. 😀
Mosey those caravans
Tides of Numenera? But it’s been postponed to end of 2015 🙁
Also, don’t feel bad for turning the game difficulty down. These games require you to have alot of info in the spells / abilities that you can acquire and the boss fights throughout the game. Much like the original Baldurs Gate.
I’m well versed in old school RPGs, so I think I’m just being a little hard on myself. “WHY AREN’T YOU BETTER AT THIS?” and all that. XD
Haha, I was getting frustrated too then I remembered, “Oh, I remember dieing about 1000 times in the oldschool RPGs so I am still ahead so far”. =P
Bought some bike lights yesterday. Two lil flashers for car awareness, and a bigger 650 lumens lamp to see where I’m going. Hopefully weather holds up tonight and I can go for a pretty decent ride, first night ride, and first time on the local mountain bike trails. Should be … interesting.
Don’t die.
How good is riding, but.
DAWG! WE COULD BE BIKE BUDDIES!
Fuckin’, talkin’ ’bout, ringin’ them bellsssss. RING-RING!!!
Are you in Brisbane? (Or Brrrrrsbane this morning am I right!?) We could Lycra up and pretend to be superheroes while traumatizing our bodies!
Haha, sounds like a plan, but I’m unfortunately 1000km north of you. 😛
Although, if I don’t appear here tomorrow you’ll know I’m injured/dead. 😀
@sernobulus @steve-o_the_deve-o @rize @coldcamv @beavwa @Zapz @gorzilla
and any other inecraft Peeps ive left out:
We’ve found a blaze spawner in a fortress in the nether. We’ve bricked around the front and sides of it and wide gaps on both sides, where weve been strafing left and right wacking our stick at them… was unable to deactivate the spawner using torches in order to build a proper farm, but it works nonetheless. Ive never mucked around in the nether so if there is any special way of deactivating nether spawners let me know. or if anyone has any ideas about making it into a more efficient farm, let me know. Will be building a portal there tonight and linking it to the overworld to make the fortress trip quicker.
ALSO, REMINDER: SERVER HAS BEEN MOVED TO A NEW HOST
New IP: 43.245.160.22
No port is necessary as it is a dedicated IP
Host location is now in Melbourne. Wombat Servers if anyone is curious.
Now im gonna have to go home and watch all the tutorial videos about what the heck a Nether is now
i highly recommend you dont go venturing off into the nether until you have a good grasp of the overworld, a bow, lots of arrows (or an infinity enchantment on the bow) some armor, and a set of brass nuts. The nuts are essential.
theres basically three seperate dimensions.
The overworld: The standard world you spawn in. the overworld is seperate into biomes, or sections with different characteristics. ie. jungle biome (lots and lots of trees, wild cats, etc..), snow biome (like a winter wonderland… with snow….), Desert, (Sand, cacti, and stuff), plus several others. its all interconnected seamlessly.
The Nether: essentially hell. lots of fire, dangerous creatures with special drops that can only be found in the nether, including a certain very essential potion ingredient (nether wart). You need to build a special portal to get there which is only possible after youve found diamond, as you require a diamond pickaxe to mine obsidian. (required to build portal) or you can use someone elses.
The End : Like a floating island filled with 2 things.. LOTS of endermen (think slenderman) and the end Dragon which u kill to “finish the game”. can only get there through a single portal which is burried somewhere on the map. need to craft something called the eye of ender to find the portal and fill it with ender pearls which are obtained from the endermen. (Enderman are also found in the overworld)
whew…. this comment was a lot longer than i expected it to be.
God dammit I know how to make a crafting box and turn logs into planks and thats about it. Oh and I can punch things, so many things, all the things.
A nether portal can be built without diamond, just needs some creative work with buckets of lava and water. Recent patch notes said they can be different shapes now, I haven’t looked into this.
There can also be up to 3 ender portals on one map. Very rare to actually find them (especially intact) though.
Blaze spawners will go slower with higher light conditions, but can’t be completely controlled ala on/off.
yeah didnt mention that. too much hastle though! 🙂
lost my diamond pickaxe with silk touch in the Idiotic Moment of ’14 when i decided it was a good idea to dig straight down…
I do that all the time, I just make sure to ladder as I go and shift-cling while digging.
YOU CAN CLING ON TO A LADDER BY HOLDING SHIFT??????????? SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTT……. SO OBVIOUS :/
Don’t worry, I lost my enchanted diamond pickaxe in my own idiotic moment of ’14 when I decided to do a spot of mining after getting home from hospital (and still a bit hazy from the anaesthetic) – I held down the mouse button, zoned out and kept breaking blocks until the pickaxe broke. Silly silly.
Get Magma Cream from the Black/Fire Slimes and brew potions of fire resistance. Sit next to spawner taking no damage and farm to your hearts content.
farmed 10 pieces yesterday, + about another 3-5 that i had…. have an idea 🙂
TAYlist requests time, go!
*Opens a beer bottle with the side of a table*
*Wipes spilled beer on stained wife-beater*
Cold Chisel’s Flame Trees, ya flaming drongo.
*Takes a swig of beer while hopping on a kangaroo to ride off into the sunset*
Jumpin’ Jack Flash – Rolling Stones
Everlong Foo Fighters
Since we’re all going retro, let me throw a chill’ one in there.
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding.
HIPSTER REQUEST
4am – Antemasque
SERIOUS REQUEST
London Calling – The Clash
Tim Fite – We Didn’t Warn You
Mississippi Queen – Mountain
I don’t know what you mean.
She taught me everything.
everytheen. Needs more eeen.
Ben folds five – Underground
London Grammar – Interlude
The Smiths – There is a light and it never goes out
Metallica. No? Okay then, how about any track from the Forrest Gump soundtrack?
Mrs. Robinson – Simon & Garfunkel
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want – The Smiths
Ok so this song’s been stuck in my head all day so I’ll suggest it
Love don’t die – The Fray
Sweet Jane – The Velvet Underground
In fact, anything by The Velvet Underground.
UNLIKELY REQUEST
Skullgirls – In Just A Moment’s Time (Credits Theme)
LIKELY REQUEST
Bruce Springsteen – Streets of Philadelphia
Alter Bridge!
Men At Work – Overkill
In honour of anybody who can’t get to sleep. (Not me)
Requests are closed, thanks for the song choices, everyone!
HIVEMIND; A QUESTION :
yesterday I somehow came into possession of a Wii U (NNID = number30five. if you wanna add that, it’d be swell)
I’ve got MK8, NSMBU & LoZ:WW. What else do I need to get?
A PC lololololololololoolololololol
….
I’ll show myself out.
*not-so-subtly points out the fact that I have a rad gaming PC that puts most to shame*
Wii is pretty much just for the local multiplayer when I’ve got people around & some decent exclusives.
A houseservant to clean you up and dispose of the wastage while you spend all time playing games!
Lego city undercover is pretty freaking rad!
AGREE
W101 and Pikmin 3 seem to be other must-have games. Can’t say for the rest (don’t own one myself).
ZombiU is pretty great (and cheap!).
Have you redeemed your free game for buying Mario Kart 8? If you haven’t, Wonderful 101 or Pikmin 3 are both cool choices.
yeah, I redeemed it for WW. never played the original 🙁
but with the hour I spent with it last night, it looks amazing & plays so damn well.
Right now? Nothing.
Play the games you’ve got first, cause they’re awesome! Worry about what to play later when you’re done with those ones.
ZombieU, W101, Pikmin 3 etc etc
Xenoblade!
It’s what @greenius would want you to do.
ZombiU! It’s ten bucks at Target at the moment, and if you can’t find it I know of one or two places that still have it so I can go grab one for you. And yeah, Pikmin 3 was the next Best Game on Wii U. For a month. Then Wonderful 101 happened.
Also, New Super Luigi is pretty rad. I don’t know if that’s still around retail or you’d need to get it from the eShop, but if you like NSMBU then you’ll probably like it too.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is also right up there too, as is Mario 3D World.
So, last night I went to a Disney themed pub quiz.
Our Team Name? The Maleficent Seven
I was a bit worried, because my friend who’s the disney queen couldn’t make it, but I was surprised how much I retained, and the rest of the team was pretty sharp.
We ended up coming SECOND!
I overheard someone playing “Be Our Guest” the other day and I’ve had it stuck in my head ever since. Except after a while of replaying it in my head it kinda morphs into “See My Vest”.
Every time they played Let it Go all I could think of was Serrels’ Dark Souls version.
See my loafers? Former gophers.
It was that, or skin my chauffeurs!
But, a greyhound fur tuxedo would be best.
Nice name. The first time I read it as Name the Maleficent Seven and was thinking that was a name from the bad female leads in disney movies or something
There are still a few of the later animated ones I haven’t seen yet and terrible at the live action stuff. When they start asking about actors/actresses or directors I just zone out
I managed to get one answer where they just played the credits- it was “The Wild,” the Madagascar-esque one that came out a few years ago and tanked.
Nice work. I’ve seen it but don’t think I would get it from the credits only
All I remembered was Eddie Izzard was in it as a Koala, so once I saw his name I was like “Shit, what was that Madagascar knock-off”
I think that’s a Skullduggery Pleasant reference.
http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/titles/9780007500925/the-maleficent-seven-from-the-world-of-skulduggery-pleasant-derek-landy
EDIT: Never mind. I thought you were referring to the other team. And then I rememberedmthat Maleficent is a Disney thing.
The Beards are playing near by tonight and I forgot damn it 🙁
those dudes are champs, hung out with them and had some drinks at Woodford, 2 of my mates have mighty beards so they were best mates instantly.
They’re awesome guys it seems. The bands who seem to do parody music always seem like awesome chill guys, like Steel Panther for example haha.
Overheard in the office:
“You started your Christmas shopping yet?”
“No! I’ve been meaning to do that for a while now! Really wanted to get some lay-bys in on those end-of-financial-year sales.”
People are just… so very different to anything I can relate to.
Right? I had discussions last year with my coworkers where they were asking me that three days before Christmas, and I had to respond in the negatory.
Do they have kids?
I know people who start really early just so there isn’t a huge drain on finances at the end of the year. Presents from the family, major present from Mum&Dad, little ones from Mum & Dad
Presents from Santa, Christmas sack to fillIf you have 3 kids that is hard to try and fit into the budget if you wait until the end of the year
My mother made the mistake of buying stocking stuff early one year.
Why was it a mistake? Because she forgot that she’d done so, and so bought a second lot. So that year we got both stockings (and ours were large ones), and pillow cases. Good year that.
That’s an awesome mistake to make. Probably not good for money but it’s an excellent way to bribe kids.
Knowing my parents, if they accidentally did that they’d hide the second lot and try and gift it for birthday or Christmas the next year.
My mother has a history of hilariously bad luck with Christmas presents.
Back in… 2001 or ’02 or so, our house got robbed, and they took our computer, which was amusing, since my mother had bought Diablo 2 as a gift for my father, and we didn’t have an appropriate computer for it until after Christmas.
Oh, also the thieves found what my sister and I were getting as presents, unwrapped them, then decided they weren’t worth enough and so left them (It was like lego, and books, and stuff).
I didn’t even think of the kid thing. It’s gotta be that. I know these guys were talking about Big W and I saw posters for a Big W toy sale recently.
It’s also probably the kid thing that means I can’t relate to them on any other lifestyle things they talk about…
These are generally the same people I can’t relate to who want daylight savings so that they ‘have more daylight at the end of the day’ (to do what with, exactly? Stay up all night with the sun being still out?), or who always well in advance book off all of the available leave adjacent to any school holiday, or who get pissed off about having some kind of roster for who stays back til 5pm, because they have a family to get back to and god dammit that time is more important than the time of childless individuals who might also want to leave early. Things I cannot relate to! Largely due to not having kids. 🙂
(Actually, that last one pisses me off, though I can understand it. You love someone so intensely, you’ll throw anyone under a bus for them and think it’s OK. But me, I think every staff member should be treated the same regardless of what their obligations are – their obligations are theirs to manage; workplace flexibility is great, but we have people who don’t want to shoulder ANY of the burden of staying back late, ANY day of the week, because it’s only childless folks who have to be flexible, not them. It’s fine to say that your workplace needs to be flexible, but what that means in REALITY is that it’s your coworkers who have to be flexible, picking up the slack. Which is unfair. It’s not like babysitters and daycare don’t exist anymore. My brothers and I had working parents, we were latch-key kids, and we turned out fucking awesome.)
I know I was talking a lot about the Big W sale with friends the other day…
We were all talking about buying toys. For ourselves >_>
I looked in to the internet only pre-sale sale, and it turned out, you could only get the items at sale prices, if you put them on xmas lay-by. Which means, you can’t pick up the goods from the store until Nov 30th or something ridiculous.
These people were probably thoughtless before they had kids. Having kids just gave them an excuse. 😛
I can see what you mean and it depends on the work. The people doing that are also stepping off the promotion treadmill, so are willingly restricting their chance for a better job down the track to do that.
Then again the people I have worked with who complained about people leaving the most were the ones who would expect others to cover for them during a shift when they turned up hungover or too tired due to a big night out.
There is strong evidence that parents being around in the early years has a much better impact on kids attitude. There is something to be said for taking a village to raise a child. If having parents leave early to raise decent kids means less kids with no manners or respect then I have been happy to make the sacrifice.
I haven’t actually heard of people lay-bying things since about 2002. I thought that all went belly up and the major shops stopped offering it as an option.
i didnt think any major shop gave it up… its all the rage nowadays, as you can lay buy till christmas.
Maybe it’s because my only real experience with Lay-by was at a Kmart that had a great big sign saying “Lay-by here” and then they took down the sign. I must have just assumed that they had taken away lay-by as well.
we do shopping for all the little ones (not my little ones) about midyear. We just did that on Saturday. It makes it easier financially as you get some great deals, and you get 6 months to pay it off… easier than forking it all out in one lump sum.
When I was at Toyworld people would come in and do large chunks of it whenever we had a catalogue out and Layby until christmas. That included shit like swingsets and trampolines
probably 30% of the work in the first two weeks of December was fetching Laybys from our back room.
My family (of 3) didn’t do anything for Christmas last year. We mutually agreed that there’s no point. So we didn’t even have the ‘obligatory $5 gift’ thing. Worked out great.
We are at the kids only stage now. Maybe something for Mum and Dad. I often still got something as I’m the only one without kids. I guess that will not be happening this year
Tiglet is gonna get SHOWERED in presents.
Probably. Although no where near as much as the first grandchild / niece
But from Daddy, absolutely, I’m a shocking impulse buyer
@tigerion
‘Darling, you haven’t counted Auntie Strange’s present, see, it’s here under this big one from Mummy and Daddy.’
‘All right, thrity-seven then,’ said Tiglet, going red in the face. RedArtifice, who could see a huge Tiglet tantrum coming on, began wolfing down his bacon as fast as possible in case Tiglet turned the table over.
Mrs Tigerion obviously scented danger too, because she said quickly, ‘And we’ll buy you another two presents while we’re out today. How’s that, popkin? Two more presents. Is that all right?’
Tiglet thought for a moment. It looked like hard work. Finally he said slowly, ‘So I’ll have thirty … thirty …’
Thirty-nine, sweetums,’ said Mrs Tigerion.
‘Oh.’ Tiglet sat down heavily and grabbed the nearest parcel. ‘All right then.’
Tigerion chuckled.
‘Little tyke wants his money’s worth, just like his father. Atta boy, Tiglet!’ He ruffled Tiglet’s hair.
Also in this interpretation of the future RedArtifice is living with Tigerion for some reason.
Oh god. Note to self don’t teach Tiglet to count
Oh well, in this scenario at least we have plenty of boardgames @redartifice
That kid would be on Catan by the age of six.
Man I am trying to subtly implement that with my family.
Gift giving is just a chore nowdays.
My sister works at Big W. Just recently they had a big toy sale and apparently she has seen people leave with 2 shopping trolleys full of toys. ARE THESE PEOPLE BUYING CHRISTMAS / BIRTHDAY PRESENTS FOR THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD!?
Could be a work social club.
Could be reselling for profits?
It’s funny how often I think that I just cant relate to anyone I work with, I get lifts from people occasionally and they’re always really awkward silent journeys because we just don’t have anything to talk about outside of the obligatory “how’s this weather” conversation
I’ve always tried to start my Christmas shopping from around June, even before I had kids. If you don’t much ‘disposable’ money it’s the only way to do it. Otherwise you just end up with last minute cheap things that were bought because they were cheap and you had to get something, and they waste your money anyway because they’re not useful in any way to the person you give them to.
I’ve… planned one that might be a christmas or exceptionally late birthday present for my brother, word is the ’66 Batman series is scheduled for DVD release I November and we’re both getting a copy as soon as it’s out because Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods, Batman is awesome! Is November too late to buy present for a birthday that’s in January?
All leave has been sorted through until Christmas \o/ AND I STILL HAVE 24 HOURS LEFT \o/\o/
@blaghman i really hope canned meat is at the end of august because that is when my leave is approved for XD
Well, Rocketto booked flights down, so I guess it is!
Woo!
I’ll have to be one of those guys trying to bum a lift from Sydney this time, not the one offering the lifts! It’s like opposite day.
I can probably be the drivecar man! Though with my green P’s we’ll go 10km/h slower than everyone else.
Just need to know which weekend it is to start organising
I think it was tentatively the 30th?
@blaghman
That sounds… right?
You confirm this before I make attempts to steal my own car then!
I dunno, ask Pixel and Rocket when their time off is booked, and it’s then.
AlexAndHisCar!
I’ll chip in some petrol money AND provide a stimulating round of ‘I spy’.
And I’ll prepare my best worst driving music!
Hits of the 30’s youll love
I was thinking a bunch of Glee soundtrack repeated ad nauseum.
All my leave for the year is sorted and I still have 5 weeks left. 🙁
Or 😀 ?
SLOW COOKING RECIPE CLUB
Cos @dc mentioned it on Twitter and it’s been said here a long time ago.
So, what’s your recipes? Share! 😀
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Me: I found a slow cooker cause packet thing and bought most of the ingredients. Followed directions then shoved all into pot. Added a carrot cos I like to live on the edge. Turned out pretty decent, would eat again.
This is the current hotness: Moroccan Beef and Barley Stew. Instead of Harissa, make your own Ras el Hanout an keep a jar of it on standby.
Not instead of. Both!
Harissa is usually a paste, ras el hanout is a dry spice blend. Together they make magic.
I know they’re different, it just seems redundant to add Harissa and garlic. If you add ras el hanout you’re adding all the spices in harissa and more!
But true harissa is a chilli paste, made up of mostly chillies.
I add chilies to everything anyway.
It’s more that I make up ras el hanout and use it as a dry spice mix on my shelf, whereas I’d have to go out and buy harissa special.
I haven’t used mine in a while D:
I was quite proud of myself for making my own gravy in it a while ago though. Just threw in a bunch of vaguely gravy-esque stuff along with the meat I was cooking then blended it all up at the end. It was surprisingly edible.
Other than that I had to make vegan-approved pumpkin soup (using vegetable stock instead of my usual chicken and coconut milk instead of cream) which was alright. Next time I’ll have to put something in it to stop it from going as sweet as it did 😛
I reckon coconut milk is way nicer than cream in most dishes 0,0
Also, Pulled Pork is the greatest. Talke to @freezespreston or @cookingmama though, theirs look great.
I always do my pulled pork in the oven. I get a tray with slightly damp smoker chips in it, put them under the grill until they start to smoke, put a rack over that tray with the spice or sauce-rubbed pork on it and wrap the whole tray in foil to keep the smoke more or less contained before putting it in a very slow oven for four or five hours.
That sounds lovely, but I wouldn’t dare try that in my oven – it has a tendency to try and set things on fire and woodchips might give it ideas. I have a bottle of hickory smoke seasoning, and smokey paprika that both do a reasonable job.
Good pulled pork needs great coleslaw to go with… I found this recipe in a comment on the bet somewhere, sometime ago… And it’s awesome! Excuse the ‘murican!
1/2 cup chopped cilantro
Zest and juice of one lime
2 cups shredded cabbage
2 jalapenos, seeds and veins mostly removed, minced
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon paprika
a couple of dashes of your favorite hot sauce
Method:
In a medium bowl, combine cilantro, lime zest, lime juice, cabbage, minced jalapenos, sour cream and salt and pepper. Mix to combine.
Add paprika and hot sauce and mix again. Taste for seasonings and adjust if necessary.
Let sit in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before serving so the flavors can meld.
My slow cooker recipe (well, not exactly “slow-cooker” because I don’t have one, more like “giant pot with lid”) is brown off some meat, remove it to throw all leftover veges in the pot to brown, add any tasty liquid I can find along with some random herbs and spices, put meat back in, put lid on, hope. 😛
You forgot *cross fingers*!
That must be why it sometimes doesn’t work out well, I forgot to cross my fingers!.
That’s the only slow cooking I know
Although also standard veggie soup with ham hock or bacon bones chucked in
To be honest, I don’t really like soups and stews very much so I hate making them. I get to smell them all day, knowing they’ll never taste as good as they smell.
I don’t use the slow cooker unless I know I’m out for the day. If I have to smell it all day I don’t want to eat it by dinnertime.
I do a few things – slow-roasted chicken drumsticks are good (just add seasoning and wrap them in foil), and things like pulled pork or chilli con carne with chunks of beef. But I think I like pressure cooking better – the flavours don’t get dulled the way you sometimes get in slow cooking. But for beginners who are worried about burning things, slow cookers are great.
Pork spare ribs, add water till covered, cook till soft.
Mix the following in a cup to make a homemade BBQ sauce: Brown sugar, Brown vinegar, Hot English mustard, Tomato paste. (change proportions according to taste but it should be moderately thick and have some bite to it)
Place ribs on rack and place rack on some kind of tray to catch drips
Spread some of the sauce over the cooked ribs & bake in oven until ribs are starting to crisp up & most of the fat has been melted off into the drip tray. You may be best served to flip them halfway through and coat the other side with sauce
Serve with remaining sauce, baked potato & coleslaw.
Best food ever.
I posted this on Twitter, but anyone who has Resogun should get the DLC. It’s pretty great. $7.55 for the Heroes expansion or $11.95 for the Season Pass. I got the Season Pass.
have you played much co op of that? It’s pretty fun, you also just reminded me I’m really close to platinuming that. Will probably grab the DLC but I might hold off so I can get working on my backlog.
Haven’t played any co-op yet, but if I can get a friend around, I might give local co-op a go.
oh wow, there was only online co op when I played, just read they added local in, sweet
@scree @evilmonkey everyone looking for MKart8
Target’s prices appear to have gone back up as of today: $69.
But I did get two Wii-U games: ZombiU and Darksiders 2 for a grand total of $25.
Both great games.
I tried Zombiu, I killed 1 zombie, the second one killed me, I wasn’t very good 😛
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/151313
This might work!
<3
I will try it tomorrow. Thanks #Helpius! #BargainHuntius
Edit: oh, it’s for online purchases, and MK is sold out on their website… :\
🙁 oh well
😛
Man, just not my week. =(
Thought I’d try and start getting into my pile of shame last night, start ps3, an update is required, ok, updated, put in Saints Row IV an update is required, attempt to update, 317mb estimated time 5500 minutes O_O huh, checked internet speed, seems fine, downloaded something else on psn, took a few seconds. Try again estimated time 8600 minutes. huh. Went back after like an hour and it took about 1 and a half minutes. Not a good start to shameful gaming month. At least it’s all ready to go for tonight.
My list for this month has about 20 games on it, I don’t think I”m going to succeed at this shameful gaming thing.
Good luck! I’m aiming to complete The Witcher 2 this month and sink some time into Endless Space and Civ V now that I got the Brave New World expac!
I’m a decent way through 8 of the 20, if I can get to 10 completed this month I’ll be more than happy.
I’ve lost count of my backlog…. at this stage it’s just damage mitigation from steam sales =p
Ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiv
Updates to the console are only really required for online play, so I tend to put them off for as long as possible, the firmware doesn’t require the latest version to work so there’s that.
yeah I know, but I like to be online all the time, I use the psn as a bit of a messaging service with friends. I considered just playing offline but a mate was going to play with me until we realized he had the censored Aus version and they’re not compatible.
Dota is definitely fucking with me now. The other day, it gave me Io as my daily hero challenge thing. Io is super strong in the pro-scene and if your team is a little co-ordinated can absolutely wreck shit. A co-ordinated team is not something you can really achieve at my level. Instead, Io is basically a glowing ball of “hey look, something squishy to kill!”
Don’t get me wrong, Io is rad and I like playing him but I can’t really win with him. Ho hum.
Just carry yourself. Killsteal is valid tactic.
I could try the patented Dendi mid-Io build. From memory, the trick to success there is being Dendi.
Anyone had problems playing Blu Ray movies on their PS4? I keep getting the CE-35486-6 error when I try to play The Lego Movie (which I just bought today). Any help would be appreciated.
LEGO movie’s out? INTERESTING
Quick google suggests unplug anything you have plugged into the PS4’s USB ports, eject disc, restart and put disc back in.
Yeah, it’s out. $15 on DVD or $25 on Blu Ray at Target. The fix worked (had my wi-fi modem plugged into the PS4 because I get better connection speed to PSN that way).
So now EVERYTHING IS AWESOME
Yep, thanks for the help.
EVERYTHING IS COOL WHEN YOU’RE PART OF A TEAM
I think I had the same issue and it was because I had a headset charging via one of the USB ports. I guess make sure there’s nothing plugged in? I would have assumed they’d fixed it by now :/
Yeah, it’s a pain. I searched the code and that answer came up, but my brain is tired and I didn’t process it properly. Got the disc working now, though.
Went to speak to the manager at Dan Murphy’s today see if i’d be able to come back working there and he wasn’t in /o\ but one of the guys there told me that they took on 2 casuals one from another Dans and another bloke who was working there before I was so that’s cool.
He was also saying these 2 casual positions are gonna turn into about 6 permanent positions after the new store is established a few months down the track (so say September/October leading to the Christmas rush), and he said just keep in contact with the manager let him know i’m interested in work etc, which I plan on doing. So fingers crossed, it’s not much but it’s better than nothing.
They’re a good lot to work with and everyone I was chatting with today were miffed when I told them recruitment said I didn’t meet the requirements for the job, but hey seems they want me to work there again with them \o/
Also they had 200+ people apply for the 2 positions they advertised :S Which for where I am is a lot imo and shows how bad the unemployment is around here bleh.
Ever thought about moving for work? My brother was unemployed around 6 months and had to start going that route, ended up getting flown all over the place by some companies. (Until getting a job literally two minutes walk from my door.) Some of the mines actually flew him out to WA, up to Cairns, Mt Isa.
It could be a bit of an adventure alright. I’m pretty tempted to try it myself… Except for being so damn comfortable. Maybe come the end of the next lease.
I have considered moving south (like Melbourne) but I just lack any sort of experience people want, which is why i’m just trying here currently to get started somewhere. I mean I do volunteer work at the local Salvo’s which is in theory retail experience. But yeah. I need to get on to getting my RCG to go with my RSA which should give me more of a chance of getting work in any of the clubs around here, since they state you need both to even consider applying which I think is wrong but that’s the law now apparently heh.
But saying that i’m relied on a lot at home due to mum & dad not being in great shape, Dad just found out last week he’s incapable of working ever again due to injuries that have happened over the years which has taken a serious toll on his body and mum is in a very similar boat from nursing and what it did to her back & neck.
A mate of mine who’s a programmer up Brisbane way reckons I could get a job in HTML coding but even so, i’m out of touch with it and I honestly don’t want to get back into IT cause sitting in front of a computer all day got boring fast especially looking at code and trying to figure out where I fucked up lol. I much prefer what I was doing in retail though, I like the environment and I liked being on my feet being active.
But yeah, if I can get a bit of money saved up to get a few things going like a license and such it’ll be easier for me to get a real plan into gear.
While at work, I was doing some very simple labour, and my mind started to wonder, and I started thinking about Kill la Kill. I started to analyse some of the themes. I started to look little deeper into some of the dialogue. I realised that the Kill la Kill story is actually a lot deeper than it appears.
Then I forgot everything. Dammit. It was something about female empowerment and Ryuko’s repression of her sexuality. Something something Max Payne-style main character. Something something abusive parent.
Godammit, I’ve forgotten.
Hey peeps, Myer has 50% off some stuff today which makes it reasonable http://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/103409/23715/family_friends_thur_3_july3.pdf
I saw a green shirt @powalen, so might be worth a look 😛 (it was only $20-30 with the discount)
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TOWERFALL ASCENSION! PS4 friends, we should play this some time 😀
wherewherewherewherewherewhere
EDIT: Couldn’t find one in those brands. Ah well.
I’m always keen for multi, don’t really know much about Towerfall though
It’s free on PS+ for PS4 this month. That’s all you need to know.
Oh, life.
“Hey! Just wondering where that key to the new mailbox is.”
“Oh, right! Sorry about that, we posted it the other day, you should have it by now.”
“Heh. Not to the new address, I hope.”
“Oh? Why not?”
“…Really?”
“I… oh.”
“So. You posted the key to our new mailbox…”
“I’m so sorry.”
“…to our new mailbox. Which we can only open… with the key which is inside.”
“This is really embarrassing.”
“It’s very zen. Call it performance art.”
“I’ll send another one.”
“Or I could come pick it up, we are just down the road.”
“But then I will be reminded and blush so hard that people will know what I’ve done.”
“It’s a price I’m willing to pay.”
I believe that you handled that in the most perfect way.
10/10, would read your customer service dealings again.
But which one is you?! 😛
Can’t you tell by the sheer suavity of one side of the conversation?
Heh. Which one do you think was me? 😉
Our new rental place had all the keys provided except the key to the – now overflowing – mailbox. So.Don’t lie trans! You just don’t want us to know you blushed today!
It is definitely something that people make me do on occasion. It could well have been either way on any day that I have the dumb and cannot brain. Like when I just told one of the girls:
“Did you do something new with your hair?”
“I washed it.”
*BLUSH* “Oh. Well… it, uh. Looks good, washed.”
Yeah, they love that shit. Smooooooth.
I probably would have said “Oh, uh, well, it looks good, you should wash it more often.” then realise what I said and power walk away.
Smooooooooth.
Then you asked for her number yes?
I’m spoken for, but yeah, I probably could’ve gone for the number.
AND THEN… you can use Rize’s line. BAM! Pickup line fine-tuned!
Edit: *takes a bow*
It took me a second to realise you were using a contraction of his name, and not calling him a transsexual.
Hahahah my question exactly!
It’s more Catch 22 than zen.
This is true, but I was trying to put a positive spin on things. 🙂
“Its very zen” he says as his fist flies through the attendants face “very zen”
Shameless Gaming Month! Here’s what I’m doing.
I’ve put together my Pile-of-Shame which includes about fifty of so games that I want to complete, sorted them by estimated time of completion, longest to shortest. I’m starting with the shortest ones so I don’t suffer games-burnout by playing whoppers like Bravely Default or P4G, first.
Currently tackling Metroid Fusion, next up Attack of the Friday Monsters. Shortly followed by Blood Dragon, Revengeance and Super Metroid – all time permitting, of course.
And no buying games this month! Except for Metroid Prime 2, purchased yesterday. I needed that one to complete the trilogy. 😀
I approve of this! Good luck to you and godspeed! I am kind of doing the opposite of participating by signing up for MMOs, which can never be finished! Multiple at once! (Yeah, I reactivated FF14. I missed its crafting system and wanted to see how pretty it looked on my new rig and the TV. The answer is ‘very‘.)
Thank you, I probably could do with some luck. 😛
I’m all psyched up here, I will TOTALLY be kicking myself if I can’t even finish Metroid Fusion..
Your plan of short/easy first is a good one. Handling it SMART. 🙂
FFXIV is the prettiest MMO. It is known.
Every now and then I get the urge too. But the last few times I logged in I basically sat there and stared at the game and was like “what do I want to do now?” and I didn’t want to do anything. Lost my confidence in my ability to run any dungeons (been too long since I played, muscle memory gone, changes I’m not aware of to the abilities etc.) and couldn’t progress the story due to being stuck on Garuda. No friends playing. Would end up sitting there for a bit then logging off. 🙁
Hah. I was trying to show things to my brother while he watched the TV and I was really, really, really bad. He was asking what things were, how they were done, and I had to re-learn everything. How to equip gear from the armory, which abilities were damaging, how chain-combos/stances work for pugilist, how aetheryte works, etc, etc… I just ran around doing botany, bumped into someone who was enjoying sharing posing with me, and chatted for a bit before thinking about going and picking up Mining, which I hadn’t yet. No pressure, no dungeon runs, just the fun stuff, relearning what I need to.
First thought: I should roll a character on your server.
Second thought: NO. BAD. BAD NEG. PILE OF SHAME. SHAAAAAAAAME.
Cactaur server is where it’s at!
Before I played FFXIV I never knew that the Cactuar is known as a Sabotender in Japanese.
What’s pretty awesome is that they actually play with that in some of the flavour text.
I was reading the description of a tea made from sabotenders which noted that the texture, toxicity, medicinal properties, scent, and various other aspects were very similar to that of the ‘more aggressive cactaur’ but ‘also completely different’.
I’ll have to go look for that one.
Metroid Fusion. Attack of the Friday Monsters.
You ARE one of the good Bens! 😀 They’re among my favourite handheld games ever.
Handhelds are all I seem to be playing lately, with this busy lifestyle and what not.
Bo-Bo-Bo-Byuunnnnn!!!
Quite similar to what I did last month – made a list of stuff I wanted to play, gave it a priority ranking from 1-5 and thresholded the list such that I got around 15 games. Then started picking one off the list and playing it. No new games get purchased unless I want to play that game more than enough of the list that I can find a new slot for it. Also whenever I finish something, new stuff from below my threshold point is allowed to bubble upward.
Working okay so far. We’ll see how it lasts when we get into the insane Vita release rush in August though.
Insane Vita release rush in August *raises eyebrow*
I may need to do some research.
Akiba’s Trip: August 5 (note: cross-play with PS3)
The Swapper: August 5
Disgaea 4: August 12
Hohokum: August 12
Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment: August 19
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth1: August 26
Minecraft: August some time (no date yet — this will be huge for Vita IMO)
Danganronpa 2: September 2
Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate: September 2
Natural Doctrine: September 16 (note: also cross-play with PS4, PS3)
FIFA 15: September 23
Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus: September 30
At some point in the September timeframe they’re also releasing Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd. Freedom Wars is meant to hit later in the year too, so September-October seems likely. Tales of Hearts R hits in mid November. Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines which is a rad looking JRPG that normally you’d expect would have no hope at all is supposed to be hitting around October to November as well. The crazy Senran Kagura cooking rhythm game is aimed at Q4, and it still looks like some time in November or December we’ll see Trails in the Sky 2nd for PSP & PC as well.
Other Q3/Q4 Vita releases which don’t have dates yet: Murasaki Baby, Arcana Heart 3, Hotline Miami 2, Nuclear Throne, Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Galak-Z, Wolf Among Us & Walking Dead S2, Axiom Verge, Don’t Starve, VVVVVV.
ow, my wallet.
That is a mighty list. A few in there I’ve never heard of, I’ll have to check them out, thanks man.
Less amusing story, still real and true:
“So what’re the specs on the new handset?”
“I’ll just look’er up. Hm. You want that in millimeters or inches?”
“Millimeters.”
“In that case, 164mm by 86mm. Height and width. It’s about 10mm deep.”
“OK, great… and what’s that in centimeters?”
“…”
PAUSE. FREEZE TIME TO DECIDE IF SERIOUS OR NOT.
STILL PAUSED… DECIDE CLIENT IS ACTUALLY SERIOUS.
“…That’ll be 16.4cm by 8.6cm. Height and width. About 1cm deep.”
🙁
I wish I were making these things up, sometimes.
So you asked for her number then yes?
The call-back is the cornerstone of comedy and you are winning at it.
Probably best that you didn’t. Sounds like you might have ended up with her house number instead of phone number 😉
Wait, what. Re-read. All good.
oh man people are dumb, I had a stupid one this week. Spoilerized cause boring 😛
I had a client call up and get all yelly at me because they claimed a cabinet we sent them didn’t have wheels on it like they ordered. So I consulted the dude that made it who swore on his life that he’d welded the wheels on it, it’s one of the first steps in their fabrication.So I call them and ask “have you completely removed the cabinet from the crate as sometimes they’ll cut grooves for the wheels to slot into so it won’t move around in transit.”
Client “of course we took it out of the crate, I’M NOT AN IDIOT *insert inaudible profanities here*
So I apologize and my boss tells me to send a guy out to fix it.
Book flight, accommodation and hire car and send our dude down, he arrives on site to discover the dickmen have taken the top and sides of the crate off but left the base on which is a shitty brown timber while the cabinet is a glossy black, they had somehow decided the base of the crate was the base of the cabinet and left it on, the wheels are in little grooves like I tried to explain to them, our dude told me he struggled to hold back laughing at them as he showed them how to remove the crate, needless to say my boss got pissed and charged them with all the expenses of sending our dude out to them.
Worth the read. Jeebus.
found it really funny afterwards because they were really nasty on the phone and sent some horrible e-mails to our managing directors, I would have loved to have seen their faces when they realized.
Correct response. Too many businesses try to be nice in these situations and wear the cost. I bloody wouldn’t.
we wear way too many expenses, our bosses are pushovers for clients usually, I think it’s because they were so nasty about it. They’re a pretty long term client too, we’ve done dozens of jobs for them successfully before this one.
Doing it right. I’ll wear costs for nice clients and people who treat my staff well.
Upset my staff or push for something you didn’t pay for and you will get hammered, charged for everything
yeah, that’s fair, I think jerks deserve their comeuppance and nice folks deserve nice things.
TAYlist for the 3rd of July 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by computer glitches, fun for allEllie Goulding – I Need Your Love
Cold Chisel – Flame Trees (Requested by @blaghman)
Michael Jackson – Rock With You
Rolling Stones – Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Requested by @popdart5)
New Radicals – You Get What You Give
Sugar Ray – Each Morning
Foo Fighters – Everlong (Requested by @coldcamv)
The Smiths – There’s A Light That Never Goes Out (Requested by @gingerchris86)
The Clash – London Calling (Requested by @35)
Simon & Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson (Requested by @benny)
Otis Redding – (Sitting On) The Dock Of The Bay (Requested by @quiz_b)
Bon Jovi – Bad Medicine
Pat Benatar – Hit Me With Your Best Shot (A local request, who also complimented me on the choice of music)
Men At Work – Overkill (Requested by @beeawwb)
Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Philadelphia (Requested by @phlanispo)
Mountain – Mississippi Queen (Requested by @freezespreston)
Australian Crawl – The Boys Light Up
That’s some fine listening right there, a-yup.
Edit: In fact, I think I’m going to call it. Favourite TAYlist of all time.
Streets of Philadelphia reminds me of the film, Philadelphia and brings a tear to my eye. Then I remember the ending with the Neil Young track playing. I totally cry every time by that point, watching it. I can’t even listen to that song without balling my eyes out, really.
Terry Pratchett has come out and stated that the “Embuggerance” is catching up to him.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/02/terry-pratchett-cancel-appearance-alzheimers-discworld?CMP=soc_568
He has Alzheimer’s, a rare form that attacks certain parts of his brain including his vision. He honestly forgets that something is there, when it is right in front of him. He’s stated that once it starts to catch up and he can’t fight it anymore, he will take his own life. Things are looking like that will not be far off.
For once I know how all those people who mourn celebrity deaths are feeling. 🙁
(for the rest of you, imagine how you would feel if GRR Martin, or Shigeru Miyamoto looked like dying sometime soon)
(╯T□T)╯︵ ┻━┻)
Also, that last paragraph about his vow is quite saddening.
I think that will be a death I will struggle to deal with. Pterry is my favourite author, and I thank the friend who introduced me to him and gave me a copy of The Colour of Magic. As much as I hate the idea that it will probably happen soon, I think he deserves to end things on his own terms. When I hear the news, I will play Spem in Alium as a mark of respect. It’s good to know that I’ll have people to talk with about him when the time comes.
He’ll be passing the torch to his daughter though, so there’s a silver lining there.
I do like that he’s still making jokes about it though.
She’s said that she doesn’t want to write Discworld because she believes she’s “not up to that level of storytelling yet”.
(looks at Tomb Raider, Bioshock Inifinite…shakes head at absurdity of that statement)
But she holds the film/tv rights to Discworld and PTerry has stated that he doesn’t like Hollywood and the money, he just wants it done right. So there’s hope we will get adaptions, but perhaps we won’t get new books.
Apparently there’s a series called The Watch in development. It’s supposedly a police procedural set in Ankh Morpork. Sounds interesting, if it ever gets done.
Well the ones that have been done haven’t been great
One exception: Going Postal. They got that somewhat right. The others…meh, coulda been better, coulda been worse.
I have a soft spot for the two animated ones they did, Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters.
The switching genres for Soul Music’s Music With Rocks In was particularly inspired.
Aside from the golems looking like they were straight out of Doctor Who.
I’m pretty sure his daughter lit a bonfire while he wasn’t looking and ran off with it. He has a lot to be proud of.
I’ve never been into his works (actually never really tried, always seemed a little too absurdist for me) but that really sucks. Alzheimers is a fucking terrible condition and having seen a few extended family members basically fade away because of it I don’t blame him for coming to that sort of conclusion. I don’t think I’d want to live that way either.
May I suggest one if you don’t like absurdity?
Go for “Going Postal”, it’s a brilliant satire about the relevance of aging government departments compared to the greed of corporations.
It’s also a satire about how the Internet could go if it is totally handed over to corporate interests.
It’s also a satire about slave labour. And a satire about unions. And a satire about rich people looking after the poor.
It’s just satire. And he gets less absurd the longer the series has gone.
I’m sure it’s a great book but honestly that doesn’t sound that appealing to me. Thanks for the recommendation though.
Night Watch is a parody of Les Mis. Jingo takes elements of Laurence of Arabia. Feet of Clay deals with several Clint Eastwood style cop films while being a very solid police procedural.
Witches Abroad plays with a whole hoard of fairy tales while a crotchety old woman, her happy go lucky friend and a naive young witch (well, they’re all witches) come to the conclusion that Mardi Gras is better than Disneyland.
Pretty much all of the books are a whole plot reference to something, or a satire of some tropes. If that’s not you’re thing, no worries but there’s definitely a broad range to choose from if you ever want to give it a try.
Pyramids is a particularly good starting point. A prince from a country that’s basically Egypt goes off to train as an Assassin in Victorian London-esque Ankh-Morpork. His father dies so he has to return home to rule. It’s a fish out of water situation with a completely absurd pantheon of contradictory gods that all manage to show up after things go a bit wonky.
Yeah, except I’m not looking for introductions or anything. As I said, they never interested me. It’s not like I was living under a rock and never had a chance to try them. Nothing you’ve mentioned makes me more interested, sorry.
The miniseries might be an easier introduction, it’s a fun show and pretty faithful to the book as well as being generally easier to get into. If you don’t like it after the 90 minutes it takes to watch part 1 then the novels won’t be your thing either.
But… Pratchett. He’s… he’s… he can’t die! He needs to keep condensing easily-ingested insights into humanity for the youth of today to absorb!
Honestly, I think my love of philosophy, fantasy and sci-fi came from him.
He was my stepping stone into “harder” versions of all three.
Pratchett. The gateway drug for your mind.
Douglas Adams was my gateway.
Terry Pratchett was my superhighway.
And he was gone too young too. ALL MY FAVOURITE AUTHORS, WHY ARE YOU LEAVING ME
At least Vonnegut got to 84.
We’ll always have Unseen University…
I’m getting the urge to try and hammer my head against a wall trying to get Discworld Noir running again
There is basically no part of this that is good.
His latest books have definitely dwindled and just don’t feel the same. People have taken this as a chance to use reviews as obituaries.
The lecture they reference at the end of that article is fantastic, by the way. It’s also available on Youtube.
Haven’t a bunch of the more recent books been ghostwritten? I feel like Night Watch was kind of his last hurrah. Thud! onwards just haven’t really resonated with me. The Tiffany Aching books were ok, and I was surprised to find myself enjoying parts of Snuff, but it’s just not the same anymore.
They haven’t been ghost written, they’ve been dictated using dragon dictate
“Terry Pratchett forced to cancel appearance by Alzheimer’s” Why was he appearing by Alzheimer’s in the first place? That’s just asking for trouble!
Ahh I love that man… I’ve not been looking forward to this announcement but I’ve known it was coming for a good long while, especially since he told my sister he had Alzheimer’s a few months before he announced it publically. I definitely approve of his exit strategy, no sense letting it get the better of you, when there’s no quality of life left and no chance of it coming back, there’s no point having the life.
Muramasa Rebirth’s DLC is still happening! I thought maybe they gave up on it since there was such a lag after the second one releasing, but they’re still doing them.
JP Trailer for #3:
Comes out in Japan on the 10th, so Thursday next week. Hopefully the English release will follow fairly soon after, last time it was just a couple of weeks.
The story for this one revolves around Arashimaru, who is a ninja, but appears to be more of your traditional type of ninja than Kisuke was in that he fights with throwing daggers and a kama and chain and so on. Looks pretty rad, much more interesting than the second DLC with the farmer dude was (I didn’t finish it, it wasn’t very interesting and didn’t play that well). More along the lines of the first one with the Nekomata.
@jimu
I believe it’s you Jimu, who talks this show up, though I could be wrong. Personally, I much prefer the animated series. Either way, it’s coming to home video for the very first time.
60s Batman.
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na Batman!
Yeah I remember it – very cheesy. Ashamedly, my parents claim I loved it as a kid.
Would have been my first introduction to Batman. Used to watch repeats regularly when it was on. I don’t know how well it holds up though.
You can relove it as an adult and get the tongue in cheek jokes that were over your head as a kid!
This makes me extremely happy. Hello Blu-Ray boxset!
Well if not Jimu, it’s me. I love the shit out of it, one of the best shows ever made, absurdly fantastic
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah
Cool, yeah.
I think they’re both equally valid interpretations.
9 Hours until Wolf Among Us gets the last episode of Season 1.
…I’d better start playing Episode 1 then, shall I?
No, 9 hours until they release the trailer for the last episode. They’ll announce the actual release date for the episode in the trailer.
Yes play them! They’re excellent!
Really? I thought episode 4 of Walking Dead was up next. I better start playing then, only got to the end of episode one and decided to stop because I didn’t want to be left hanging. I’ll have to try and get through 2 episodes a night, so I can play the final episode on Saturday night.
Edit: Just read Neg’s comment, might put it off a little bit longer then.
I have a bottle of rum, tonight is a good night \o/
Now you just need a pegleg and a wench!*
*A wench may be substituted for a parrot with colorful language
And an epic beard 😛
It’s friggin’ cold.
It’s 16 degrees here, so warm /o\
I hear ya scree. I don’t think its got above 5 degrees for over a week here 🙁
Stupid cold. Anyway, I haven’t had a chance to go to spotlight, I think the new Zealand website would be our best bet atm.
Have you heard back from them about if they will ship to Australia?
I thought you were asking ^^;;
Anyway, cape appears to be this colour
http://www.colorhexa.com/3875d8
Found this
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/By-0-5-Meter-Royal-blue-Mirror-Organza-Fabrics-Dressmaking-Decorative-hans-20-/141168936459?pt=AU_Fabric&hash=item20de53060b&_uhb=1
And this
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/By-0-5-Meter-Blue-Bird-Mirror-Organza-Fabrics-Dressmaking-Decorative-hans-19-/141168936457?pt=AU_Fabric&hash=item20de530609&_uhb=1
This one is the absolute closest, HOWEVER, it’s expensive because it’s 100% Silk. It’ll have to be hand washed and I’d rather that you’d be able to just chuck it in the wash.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Top-Quality-Pure-Silk-Organza-Bridal-Fabric-Off-Periwinkle-Blue-Color-Meters-/141172526598?pt=AU_Fabric&hash=item20de89ce06
I am derp
Or this one
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Blue-280cm-extra-large-ORGANZA-VOILE-CURTAIN-WEDDING-VEIL-DRESS-DANCE-FABRIC-/181412567651?pt=UK_Crafts_Fabric&var&hash=item2a3d081a63&_uhb=1
Baw. Just heard Mum mention she’s going up to Brisbane with my sister on Saturday to help her look for somewhere to stay for uni. I totally could have smuggled myself up in their luggage and gone to Freeze’s thing! Busy on Saturday anyway now though, lame 😛
Well, fuck.
My copy of Brawl is faulty. 🙁
I looked high and low for a copy in town, and found that the only one I got is faulty.
D:
Shit.
Did you want to borrow mine until you get a good copy?
Sure it’s the game and not the machine? My friend’s Wii can’t handle playing the game, the music is constantly cutting out on the menus, the laser can’t deal with the dual-layered disc. Or just needs a cleaning. IIRC it was a fairly widespread issue, which caused Nintendo to start selling cleaning kits.
Though I guess disregard if it’s being played on a Wii U or something 😛
Brawl, broke my Wii, it was working fine, played it for about a day then it started crashing constantly, then my disc drive died, got it fixed luckily and it worked fine ever since.
Apparently I’ve put 38 hours in to Rogue Legacy thus far, and I’ve only just today, discovered the Beastiality upgrade!
Feel like such a dumb ass!
/edit Typical.. telling the world how stupid I am, and it’s a page get! Well played…
I’m not sure it is normal to consider Bestiality an upgrade…
Tie me’ kangaroo down, Sport, tie me’ kangaroo down…
It happens to the best of us
I just got this game last night. I feel terrible that every time I die my family tree gets one generation deeper. I feel like I’m a lot worse at this than I should be.
(For what it’s worth I’m managed to upgrade my Shinobi to Hokage, Enchantress to Archmage, and Barbarian to Barbarian King. I’ve also unlocked the miner. I also have a few health/mana/crit upgrades and a vampiric sword, as well as a rune that gives me a double jump ability.
I think I’ve died about 20 times in 2 hours of play. Is that about par for the course or do I really suck?
That’s about par for the course which means better than me. Think it might have taken me about 4 hours to unlock the miner and 6 to upgrade them to spelunker.
Do you have the architect yet? Very useful for getting fairy chests. Lock down the castle and rerun until you get a child with the abilities you need. Doesn’t help with gold collection but getting extra runes is helpful.
Oh and double jump rune is best rune
I think I unlocked the Blacksmith and the Architect straight away, like after the tutorial level. I did use him to lock down the castle once but never since because I wanted as much gold as possible to unlock stuff after I found out you have to give up all your gold to enter the castle again, and the architect takes 40% of whatever you find.
I will keep him in mind for fairy chests though. I have come across some I simply can’t figure out how to beat, like getting to a fairy chest on a ledge above a spike pit where the challenge is “no jumping”. Then like three “heirs” later I unlocked the Hokage so I *assume* that the replacement technique special ability would have gotten me across that gap, though I haven’t actually tried it out yet.
I haven’t beaten a boss yet. Sometimes I find The Forest or the Maya(?) but the enemies in those areas seem to be more numerous and deadly so I’m sticking to the basic castle for now until I at least figure out how to beat the first boss.
The no jumping one sounds like you need a dash rune to get, or one of the other guys (hokage?) that can teleport a short distance.
Lock down is perfect of fairy chests, like kill all enemies and one in an enclosed area so just respawn until you get either a flame circle thing or the archmage so you have 3 chances of getting that.
Also if you get one of the take no damage then a assassin with mist form can make it a breeze. Or somebody with the trait that means they don’t trigger floor spikes.
I haven’t upgraded Knave to Assassin yet, that’s my next goal. I think I also need to remember to keep 375 gold for a dash rune on my armour as well – usually when I have that much Gold I spend it on other unlocks before I get to the enchantress.
lol yeah like tigerion said.. par for the course, and if anything, you’re doing much better than I did to begin with! Don’t be afraid to die in this game. Death means nothing really, except that you then have to give most of your money to Charon before re-entering the castle, so always spend as much money as possible before re-entering. There are upgrades you can get to lessen the amount he takes (at max level he takes 50% instead of 100%), which still sucks, but you get over it.
One thing I’ll add to Tigerion’s suggestion of using the Architect, is keep a look out for small dark areas in the walls. There are some large ones about too, but not as many. You can actually jump through them (or drop through them when underneath you). The small ones are only accessible if you have dwarfism though. So if you see a lot of those small dark entry points in walls, and then get access to a character with dwarfism on your next run, use the dwarf, and lock down the castle with the architect so you can go and investigate those passages. Quite a lot of them are just shortcuts through rooms, but some lead to fairy chests or regular chests. You’ll learn to spot which ones are shortcuts and which might lead to better things as you see more.
I get a bit torn as to which is my favourite class sometimes. I love the Hokage cos they’re fast, and pack a mean punch, but can’t do critical damage. They do come in handy for some of the boss fights due to their extra speed.
I also love the lich king (i think that’s what they’re called?) Everytime you kill something, it adds hit points to your total permanently (or permanently for that run through the castle anyway.) If you’re careful, you can easily amass a few hundred hit points, which will carry you a long way through the castle, or help you to beat a troublesome boss.
Now that I’ve got access to the Beastiality upgrade though, I’m starting to love the new class.. (I wont spoil it for you). Just a little peeved that I didn’t find it until I’d put in 38 hours and probably close to 200 generations in my family tree! :0
I’m liking the Hoakge like you said, extra speed and high base damage. When I have more critical hit upgrades I’ll probably prefer other classes though. Looking forward to assassin and lich king both of which I have ready to unlock as soon as I survive a run with 1000+ gold (highest so far was 1050 and I think I used that to unlock Hokage which was 950).
HOLY CRAP THE 18 YEAR OLDS WITH THE BAND THING REPLIED
I DIDN’T SCARE THEM OFF BY BEING SUPER OLD. SOMEHOW.
JOB OBTAINED, BAND CONTACTED… NINTENDO CALLED? 😮
The whole 3DS thing came up during a chat at work yesterday, the other guys all thought it sounded like I should have been alright with consumer rights etc and asked if I chased it up or whatever and I got sad again 🙁
Think I might pick up The Walking Dead Season 3 Blu-Ray from Ozgameshop this week. Can’t find it anywhere in Australia for less than 50 bucks, but Ozgameshop have it for $29, with the amount of Player Points I’ve got I can make a $10 voucher, so that will bring it down to $19.
Only watched up to the end of season 2 and I’ve been hanging out to watch more, but didn’t really want to pay $50 plus for it.
Oh wow that’s a good price.. Tempting but I tend to wait until a TV show has finished for good to buy it so conflicted D=
Well, you’ll probably be waiting a while then :p
From Wikipedia
Andrew Lincoln will be old!
He might lose that awesome British accent too /o\
I’m okay with that 😛 I kinda doubt we’ll see 11 seasons though. Bit like how Dexter continues long after where it finished in the TV show lol.
I just got out from under a rock apparently because I didn’t notice that Activision outsourced the Legend of Korra to Platinum until now. How did that even happen? Are they trying to make a licensed game that’s actually good and not a cynical cash-in?
Also is that show any good? I enjoyed The Last Airbender a lot but tried to watch the first episode of Korra back when it first aired and wasn’t really feeling it.
Possibly because it was distracting me away from quality time watching My Little Pony.Hmm, I need to get around to watching Season 2 of MLP:FiM.
EDIT: Question, does FiM improve at all in Season 2. I thought what I watched of Season 1 was okay, but maybe not good enough to get me to watch any more of it. If it gets worse, I won’t bother. If it get’s better, I might. I love half the characters, and despise the other half.
I think there was a point where the MLP producers realised most of their fanbase was guys in the 20s and tweaked the show to have a broader appeal, but I’ve watched like one episode so I wouldn’t really know, that’s just some shit I heard.
Nah, that’s the whole point of the show. From the outset the wanted to make a girl’s cartoon that was fairly wholesome and so on, but at the same time make it have a broad appeal and have the right combination of elements that parents could enjoy watching it too. The same way that Pixar approach their films, really. It was also a lot of the reason why the Powerpuff Girls worked, as it was a lot of the same creative team with the same philosophy.
I think also they pulled in a lot of anime influence in the artwork for the show and that struck a chord too. Girls’ anime sometimes pulls in similar sorts of maladjusted perverts.
Like me. I’ll freely admit to having watched Sailor Moon until halfway into SuperS, being super excited for the remake STARTING THIS WEEKEND, owning all of Cardcaptor Sakura on DVD and with the Remastered BDs on order, and many other shameful shows that I enjoyed greatly. Some of Precure was pretty good, for example.Eh, there are plenty of guys who like typically “girly” anime for non-creepy reasons. Cardcaptor Sakura was a genuinely good show that worked with some pretty complex themes. I question a grown man’s love of something like Sailor Moon but then I’ve only ever seen the English dub that featured on Agro’s Cartoon Connection or Cheez TV or whatever so I’m not really in a position to make a qualified judgement of it’s merits. I mean, I still have a box set of Fruits Basket somewhere.
I saw one episode of MLP:FIM to see what all the fuss was about and I found it pretty funny, but I don’t understand the obsession. Then again I feel the same about Adventure time too. I feel like i’m missing out by not really getting these shows but I’m not losing sleep over it.
MLP’s first few episodes are really average. Really average.
Sailor Moon’s honestly not that great quality-wise. Has some content which comes off downright creepy at times (eg. what kind of parents are totally supportive of a serious relationship between their 14-year-old daughter and a random college-aged dude?) and it’s pretty formulaic. However the third season, Sailor Moon S, was brilliant. And there’s a lot of stuff that was cut or modified from the localized release (homosexuality especially – one of the villains in the first story arc changed to be a woman, Uranus and Neptune modified to be ‘cousins’, etc.).
I like a lot of them because they’re nice and easy to watch, extremely accessible, usually pretty wholesome and not laden with service shots everywhere (not that there’s necessarily anything bad about those, but there’s a time and place for them) and just generally entertaining, when they get it right. Bright and colorful usually too.
The interesting thing is that if you were to take a typical girls anime like, say, Pretty Cure, change the characters to be male and give them ‘badass’ transformations instead of frilly dresses or whatever and basically change nothing else and you’ll essentially arrive at something that looks exactly like boys-oriented battle anime like Saint Seiya. There’s really not a lot separating them beyond character designs.
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH A GROWN MAN WATCHING AND LOVING FRUITS BASKET AND/OR MAYBE/MAYBE NOT TEARING UP A LITTLE IN A VERY MANLY WAY.
…Dammit.
I felt like it really hit its stride in S2. S3 was good too. Haven’t seen S4 yet.
I recently binged Avatar and went straight onto Korra. It was a pretty big tonal shift, but I liked it from what I saw. Took about five episodes for me to really get a feel for it, and the way in which the world was different. Still need to finish watching it though, I think I’m at the end of season 1.
Yeah, I think that big shift that it went through was what didn’t really click for me. But to be fair the first half of the first season of Avatar was really wonky too, at least as far as I recall.
I guess I should try and get it and give it a second look at some point.
I suppose my problem with it at first was the the Avatar went from being a beloved saviour of the people to being an irrelevant fairytale in the space of a single generation, even though benders of all kinds continue to be a major presence in society, and the primary form of entertainment is a bending-based sport. I guess this was a deliberate decision to set Korra up as the underdog like Aang was on the back of being missing/frozen for a hundred years, but it didn’t feel like organic storytelling was taking place.
Once I got past that and the story gave Korra a reason to spring into action and do her thing, I was able to just enjoy it.
One of the initial reactions I had to it was that the technology level they’d achieved in such a short period of time also felt wrong.
In fact, I suspect that they initially developed it with the assumption there would be a much bigger gap of time, but they decided they wanted a more direct connection later on and had to retrofit that in.
Yeah, I think if you think about the show as being like 500 years ater the events of Avatar instead of 100 the show immediately makes a lot more sense.
My friends seem to talk about it a lot. From what I can tell it’s a bit of a love/hate thing. As in they both love and hate it.
The Last Airbender was better, but that’s because it kinda came out of no where, no one expected this western nickelodeon semi-anime targeted at children to be really good. however going into Korra you have all of TLA to remember.
However i’m still thoroughly enjoying Korra, and apparently some people hated season 2, but i thought it was better than the first, you learn some cool stuff about the first avatar.
but yeah, don’t go in expecting TLA, it’s quite different, but still has the spirit of TLA.
in conclusion, yeah give it a shot.
Also platinum making the game has me so excited oh my god.
I’ve really like Legend of Korra so far. Just be warned the last few episodes of season 2 get really stupid. Like, REALLY REALLY stupid.
What nob has said, the end of season 2 is a massive disappointment, it’s like the writers were asked to come up with biggest possible plot climax with no regard to existing tropes of the avatar universe. So watch at your own risk because the end of that season ruined the show for me >.
it’s different but in a good way.
I’m about half way through the 2nd season and would consider it well worth watching. Not as good as the first series but seems to be getting better. I don’t think the supporting cast is as strong is this series
Korra is different, but still good. The ‘being set decades later’ thing is a pretty jarring change.
Things have definitely been moving along in the technology space and the politics and such are different, and when I watched it DIRECTLY after The Last Airbender series, I was pretty miffed at the lack of call-backs to the original cast, or who had or hadn’t died or been referenced. Knowing which characters had died was pretty heart-breaking. Life goes on, though, and this is a story about young people; not children this time, though, so their affairs get a little messier.
It was still good. Still very good. I enjoyed watching it and was hungry for more when it ended. (Although I greatly disliked how they chose to end it. But much like ME3, I didn’t consider that to ‘taint’ the entire experience.)
WOO I GOT MONEY
IT’S LIKE CHRISTMAS, EXCEPT IN not December.
I searched YouTube for a Divinity: Original Sin review (there are none yet 🙁 ) and noticed this strange search tag that came up. Any idea what it means? 😛
http://imgur.com/1ZDYaBL
Weirddddd! (but an excellent choice of colour)
I’m going to convince you to buy it.
Tonight I went into someone’s house, stole some unidentified items from him, as well as some paintings, then sold the paintings back to him, and got him to identify the items.
I blew up my party by digging around.
I blew up my party by thinking I could disarm a poison field by setting it on fire, only to have it reactivate while my party were standing there, and have everything blow up.
One party member has a teleport spell. That is used to throw people into the air.
My two main party members disagree about everything, so I have to play scissor/paper/rock over all sorts of things, which has led to senseless murders, and the blowing up of my party.
I watched a 20 minute preview of sorts (Game Informer Test Chamber) and I’m definitely interested. I liked the whole “stacking elements” thing (setting oil on fire etc.) but I’m just waiting for the right time to get it 😛 (and for some reviews to discuss the cons)
Watched the first two episodes of ‘The Last Ship’ last night and tonight. It’s kind of what I imagine Call Of Duty games are like, having never played one. It even has a dog.
Tangentially related (via the Television): Have you heard of The Great British Sewing Bee? It’s a reality, uhh, sew off, basically. It’s pretty short (four episodes for season 1, eight for season 2), but my mother seemed to enjoy it, so I figured I’d mention it in case you’d missed it.
Oh, thanks for reminding me! Yeah, I had heard of it but hadn’t managed to remember to grab it.
Oh yeah.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/281376828779
Ye boiii
I think we need a celebratory MK8 sesh sometime soon!
Sweet! The way it’s going though you’ll have the game before the console, been super busy at work. I’ll try and get away today.
No worries, man. There’s no hurry! I’ve got nine more weeks of leave 🙂
Nine! Are you on long service or something?
No, I haven’t taken any leave since my son was born two years ago. + 2 weeks parental leave + 1 leave of accrued flex.
Ah, fair enough. I tend to take a week of leave every 4-5 months so because I accumulate a week every 3 months I tend to only have a couple of weeks banked. 7 more years and I get my long service! Can’t wait to spend 3 months as a 38 year old gent of leisure…
FORREST IN THE MOJAVE WASTELAND
My mama always said you cain’t judge folks by the way they look. She said to me “Forrest, Life is like a box of chocolates, on account of how sometimes chocolates are irradiated and have funny skin.” I met a bunch o nice fellas who was building a rocket ship, they was just looking to go home.
I met a fella named Boone, too. He was awful sad, as his wife had gone away. My Mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on, so I helped him out there.
Boone reminds me a lot of lieutenant Dan, ‘cept he’s still got his legs.
Been playing Minecraft since 7pm and only just turned it off, getting a grip on it slowly, making iron tools and I built a small house which I then turned into a keep by surrounding it with water from the nearby waterfall..now no one can get in!
Soon Ill be able to join up with @Zetrox2k and the rest \o/
feel free to jump straight in man…. the easiest way ive found to get to grips with the game is to be thrown knee deep with some friends that no the game… hang around with them for a bit till you’re more confident…
May I please be added to the whitelistingssss? My name is ‘shyaru’ and I will need the details 😛
Will try and get on tonight
\o/ my soon to be castle is like the gate between zetrox’s place and the spawn XD
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/inside-shovel-knights-launch
A great article on the team and development behind Shovel Knight. I’m always impressed when there’s only a very a small indie team!
I thought about it and Shovel Knight is most likely my GOTY so far, it’s just so good!
@mrtaco you’d love it! I think it’s only on Steam for PC though 😛
I’ll wait for it to show up in a Humble Bundle 😛
3DS/Wii U? 😀
Not unless it gets a retail release.
Whats everyone doing this weekend?!
Personally I’m taking it super easy after food poisoning and assorted hangovers from last weekend!
@evilmonkey still up for some Magic 2014?
I’m doing nothing at this point, which is what I need- a couple of very busy weekends in the last 2 months.
I’m going bowling tomorrow then out for tea after that. Also watching the World Cup quarter finals.
man i havent been bowling in AGES!
come to think of it i dont know where my ball is either…. used to do league bowling but it started at 9:30pm on a thursday night and used to get home at about midnight…. by the time you get settled down and get to sleep, you wake up in the morning for work in all sorts
especially considering at the time i was up for work at 5am.
That reminds me, I offered a Magic thing on Steam a few days ago and someone said they’d take it. I forgot who it was…
I think it’s a prebuilt deck, or something?
Party at Freeze’s place! \o/
Besides that my super racist uncle from Sydney that likes to point out everyones flaws and point out how great he is, is coming down for the weekend so spending as little time as possible at home!
He must love the multiculturalism of Sydney then!
I’d like to, but my laptop started playing up again this morning, so I’ll see how it goes. If I can, I’ll give you a shout.
Heading to Sydney to stand in line for at least 4 hours to look at some props!
Fun!
TRYING to catch up on TAY, packing the apartment tonight, breakfast with relatives out in the middle of nowhere tomorrow morning, then straight to Freeze’s shin-dig tomorrow evening, then leaving that night or – more likely – crashing on the floor and heading home Sunday morning to greet movers and do apartment-moving Sunday midday through to evening. Then back to work early Monday. Hooraaay.
FUN!
Hey peeeeeeeps,
I used to watch a lot of movies but for the past few years I just kinda stopped (probably when hermit mode kicked in). I stopped going to the cinemas and didn’t watch anything at home 😛
Which means I’m totally behind for the newer releases and I’m thinking of watching them now. I get free Google Play credit with my pre-paid offer so I plan on trying out Google Play’s rental system to watch stuff legally (:P)… and that’s where you come in!
I’m looking for suggestions for any really good newer releases (from let’s say… the past two years?) that are on here https://play.google.com/store/movies. I don’t mind what genre but as long as it’s considered good, I’m keen!
Here’s a quick list of stuff I haven’t seen yet but have been meaning to check out:
– The Wolf of Wall Street– 12 Years a Slave
– Her
– Gravity
– American Hustle
– Dallas Buyers Club
– Nebraska
– Zero Dark Thirty
– Silver Linings Playbook
– A Separation
– Frozen
– LEGO Movie
– Monsters University
– 21/22 Jump Street
– X-Men: Days of Future Past
– The Grand Budapest Hotel
– How to Train Your Dragon 2
I doubt the 2014 stuff would be on there yet but I’m leaning towards something lighthearted first (so possibly Frozen or the LEGO Movie). Cheerio!
WOOO MOVIES
Man some real good movies on that list, I need to see LEGO Movie & Monsters University still /o\
Saying that I thought; American Hustle, Wolf of Wall Street, 21 Jump Street & Zero Dark Thirty were awesome! I really need to see 22 Jump Street as well.
Shaggy’s been lifting!
Also: they remade The Swan Princess? And nobody told me? Ugh.
he still looks pretty skinny in the background there, also how does that exist?
I recommend Ender’s Game, (can’t believe I’m about to do this but it was a solid watch) Catching Fire and Rush.
I’ve only seen Frozen and Lego movie from that list, and can confirm that they’re both pretty great.
Grand Budapest Hotel is a fantastic film.
Lego movie is, erm, awesome. Also highly recommend Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.
To take a feather out of red’s hat…. EVERYTHING IS AWESOME! EVERYTHING IS GREAT WHEN YOU’RE PART OF A TEAM!
Her, Gravity and HtTYD:2 are all worth watching as well, in addition to the ones mentioned by everybody else.
If you get Gravity, get it at the highest resolution.
If I had a 4K TV it’s one of the few movies where I’d like to see all four of those Ks.
Captain Phillips was pretty rad. Frozen is too. LEGO movie is great. Monsters University was good, but not as good as the original, obviously. Thus ends the list of movies I have seen in the last two years.
Gravity received super positive reviews. I should see it one day. 12 Years a Slave won an Oscar I think so it must be good.
I think Freeze and D.C. would be happy to recommend Transformers: Age of Extinction. 😛
Gravity is a great spectacle. Has some plot and physics issues, but just forget about those and drink it in.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is one of my absolute favourites!
If you haven’t seen The Black Hole, watch that, it’s awesome. Old but awesome.
The Lego move is fantastic, which is lucky, because my Mr 3 is now obsessed with it. Because Batman.
I completed my gene splicing experiment last night! https://twitter.com/PowalenAU/status/484642709605318656
@scree this was made using that polymorph stuff I mentioned earlier. It was pretty good, but only really good for chunky stuff like this. Very difficult to roll flat/get a smooth finish so it’d be useless in making larger stuff. But for little horns/spikes/etc it worked pretty well!
Maybe just need to try and hide the headband thing a bit better and then I’m done. I tried to find a clear headband but apparently they don’t exist. Painting it skin-colour might be the way to go.
Dermal implant. Permanent mounting point! \o/
Or get them to put a magnet in there. Then you might even have some inbuilt navigation!
I briefly considered super-gluing it to my forehead…
Spirit gum
Red’s right. You can use spirit gum to stick it to your forehead. Otherwise, you could use long lasting makeup, rather then paint.
I thought about it, but I’d prefer to be able to take it off easily.
Oil dissolves it.
Yeah I know. I just want to be able to take it off and put it back on whenever.
Stop being stubborn and just evolve if you want it gone.
That bloke from the jim rose circus had coral implanted on his skull to grow horns as I recall, that would probably do the trick
my girlfriends brother had them, got infected so he replaced them with little studs (similar to push studs buttons on clothes) that he can take off and change around, he now has a whole selection of different horns to swap around
Oh my gawwwwwwwwd
Paint it a clear colour!
/Helping
Hollywood tape
Thinking about it over the day, I kinda like that you can see the black band so obviously. It IS meant to look like I’m wearing a costume after all. Like a costume of a Gym Leader wearing a costume, I guess? 😛
(Thanks for the suggestion though!)
Fun fact about Steam achievements: secret achievements just don’t appear on the list till you have them.
First example of this was Delve Deeper (which I thought was bugged) giving me 49/50 and nothing left to do. Turns out it just wouldn’t tell me that there was one left. I compared to a list online and realised I was missing one (that didn’t need to be hidden. It was “play on the hardest difficulty”).
Second was State of Decay: Lifeline, which has two achievements for the ending mission you pick, which should be secret but why not do it like XBL and have a placeholder?
Irritating as hell.
if you go into the global achievements list… you know… the bit where it shows what percentage of players worldwide have what etc. it shows all of em. secret or not.
just beware of potential spoiler ones….
I actually tried that with Delve Deeper and it didn’t work…
odd. what was the name of the one that was missing?
“Beardy”
EDIT: It’s actually turning up if I look at the list on the website, where I’m not logged in. The description on how to get it isn’t, though.
This is part of why I don’t really care about steam achievements. I’m only really interested in maxing out my card drops so I can sell cards for games I don’t want the badge for and become eligible for booster packs which I can then also sell periodically. \o/
Then I notice games I was done playing months ago have added trading cards and to get my drops I would have to reinstall. /o\
Then there are games I hated and it annoys me knowing that because I own them they will forever sit in my “incomplete badge” list on my steam profile, getting in the way of shit I actually care about. (ノ ゜Д゜)ノ ︵ ┻━┻
Yeah, I’d like them to let us add permanent filters on those lists (like the games library) so we can just shove the stuff we don’t want or care about out of the way.
For the record, you can have games removed from your games library via Steam Support. It’s in the EULA.
I might look into that. There’s really only one game I want from my library that badly (though I have plenty of crappy games in my “junk” folder.
I played Ace of Spades once. It’s multiplayer only with cuboid graphics and destructible environments which sounds alright but any multiplayer game is only going to be as good as it’s community. The only other person I met playing it called me a noob fag then quit because I was beating him.
I actually have that too and had the same experience. It’s actually a lot of fun with friends only, especially the zombie mode.
Well maybe one day we’ll have a TAY of Spades evening and I’ll get to experience the true value of the game.
It will stay in my library… for now.
anyone used the Razer Sabretooth gamepad?
It’s got my interest coz I like the Xbox-esque form, but without the shitty Xbox D-Pad.
JB & EB are selling it for ~$150, but PC Case Gear have it for $70…
any opinions on the matter?
I’m pretty sure Pez has one.
I’d tag him here, but it’s probably easier to ask him on Twitter 😛
thanks man. I’ll check with him.
Friend has one, I tried it. Seems alright, is wired only. If it’s for PC might as well get Xbone controller.
Yeah, its for PC so I don’t mind wired. I’ve got an old 360 controller that I’m using at the moment, but for fighting games, like MK9 & Injustice, the d-pad is horrible. I much prefer the individual buttons like the PS3/4 pad has.
The real question to ask is are they 100% xbox compatible, as in will they show as a 360 controller in games since most games accept the 360 controller as defaults and many games accept it as the only option meaning you’d need a workaround to use a non 360 controller with those games.
well….. I did check to see if it’d work on PC.
From the Razer support site:
as I understand it, as far as compatibility goes, it’s the same as a 360 pad.
Welp, I lived. I came back from my night-ride alive. Maybe not well (my ass is pretty sore, legs/arms will kick in soon), but alive.
http://www.strava.com/activities/161154917
Shit was pretty intense. Didn’t expect 35km total. 11km was on mountain bike tracks, in pitch-black. Went down some drop-offs I wasn’t expecting. Somehow managed to not crash/fall, which I’m happy with. Might head out on Sunday in car for a more chilled experience.
I took Go Pro so hopefully I have some decent footage to show for it.
sweet, would love to see some footage, let us know if you end up posting any! i had a motorbike accident a couple of years ago, decided to ride in terential rain, riding a friends bike who is 6’5 and could only touch pedals with the tip of my toes.
bad idea; bike skipped on a gear change, toes slipped off pedals and feet were waving around as i tried to balance myself but couldnt get my feet back on the pedals. not a pleasant fall…. heap of internal bruising, and lots of back and shoulder pain for about 2 months.
D: Damn son, intense.
I’ll put video on youtube hopefully this weekend, Ill link here.
They’ve released the basic rules for the new version of D&D for FREE online: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/basicrules
Only skimmed through, but it looks pretty cool. Unfortunately they haven’t got a sample adventure up yet
Does the basic version come with a sample adventure?
No- the starter set, which you can buy soon, does, but this is really a rules overview and basic character creation.
Once the Monster Manual and then DMG are released, they’ll update the .pdfs accordingly.
That said, apparently adventures from previous editions are relatively easy to convert.
Am I missing something or is this incomplete? For one thing the Cleric section only lists one domain. Also, are there only 4 classes?
EDIT: Oh wait, Player’s Handbook lists them in better detail. Has that been released yet?
It’s Basic- designed to get you up and running and see if you like it.
A lot more of the heavy lifting in classes is going to be done by subclasses- a Sorcerer will be a type of wizard.
Beyond that, for more options you go buy the books
PHB comes out in August, followed by MM in Sept and DMG in Oct.
*eerie music*
You enter a cave what do you do?
Do I have an eleven foot pole?
I sweep for traps.
You sweep your pole over the walls and floor of the cave suddenly you hear a noise *click*
The cave begins to shake as rocks begin to fall from ceiling
Roll to save
You dive forward into the cave narrowly avoiding being crushed to paste by the ceiling. The same cannot be said about your eleven foot pole as now only 2 feet of it are left uncovered by the debris. With the way you came now blocked you head deeper into the cave
Is it more like 3.5 or 4?
Sort of in the middle. Characters are simpler like in 3 but the maths works better like in 4
cc@rize
at a glance, it appears that races align more to 4e, but classes progress more like 3/3.5.
also the “core mechanic” as it was enshrined in 4e is basically intact; essentially
1) roll a d20 to resolve conflicts* (do I hit the goblin? do I pick the lock? do I convince the merchant to give me a discount?)
2) everybody always rounds fractions down
3) specific rules always overrule general ones
* the only change is the addition of Advantage/Disadvantage, when you roll two dice and take the more appropriate roll. A new specific rule that alters the general one.
It looks really concise.
id be really keen on learning some d&d any ideas how best to go about it?
Couple options
1) Go to your Friendly Local Game Store and see if they’re holding any sort of release events or the “Adventurers League” which is the living campaign that starts up soon
2) go online and join a virtual game, like the ones that we do on here. Advantage? In the comfort of your home! Disadvantage: You don’t get to roll funky dice
3) Go on forums and find any LFG (looking for group) posts
BEST OPTION:
4) Buy a starter set for your game of choice (the new D&D one comes out soon) and play it with your friends. Great way to spend an evening, and a starter set is like $35-40 so split five ways is bugger all, has pregenerated characters, a basic adventure, and a set of funky dice. You can then decide if this is a thing you like and go from there.
That’s how I started in 4th Edition D&D and it’s a great way to go about it.
awesome… any specific starter set youd recommend?
The new edition is probably a good place to start- the starter set comes out on the 15th? or so and should be available pretty wildly.
Looking in Melbourne, there’s plenty of games stores that should have it.
Also: If you do start playing, come here and share! There’s a couple of people here who are seasoned roleplayers/GMs (myself, @stickman, @popdart5, @mawt, @beeawwb to name a few) and we can give you advice either with GMing, character generation, or how to be a good roleplayers. In addition, there are less experienced players here who I’d take into a group atany time.
cheers red!
Redartifice has some good tips above.
I learned as I went along. Went to my first session knowing pretty much nothing. Probably a better idea to read up on the basic game rules first, though. 😛
The GM/DM is key. It’s better if they know what they are doing, but not necessary. Pretty much they run the game, so you want someone that allows fun or seriousness, however your group of friends wants to play. Nothing worse than playing a social game and you want to do something, and the DM gets you to roll. You roll perfectly, but they say “nup can’t be done”. etc.
The way I like to play (roleplaying part), is to pretend you’re character in a video game. With no boundaries. So do typical game-y stuff while you get comfortable with it, then feel free to explore your options in-character.
As for the technical side of things, check out “How To Play” guides online. Basically: you have stats like an RPG, certain amount of move distance etc, turn-based, and you roll dice to see if you can do things.
Stickman’s kind of hit on a philosophy thing in RPGs: The role of the DM.
A very traditional view of the DM (the one that Gygax started with) is adversarial- the DM is posing you a challenge, and as a group you are to rise up and meet it. Which is fine, and if you’re into that as a group, go your hardest. It’s not, however, the approach i prefer or take.
My philosophy as a GM , in any game, is to be an enabler- I help my players tell a cool story or do cool things. Sure, I throw up obstacles or challenges, but it’s to make the story or the challenge better, not to kill or disenfranchise PCs (contrary to what @tech_knight thinks, I’m not trying to kill him 🙂 )
Basically, the rule of cool trumps all.
Whereas I, at times, embody the killer GM while at other times will play the Monty Haul route. It’s all a matter of changing your style of GMing to the players and the characters in the game.
For instance, you could have a friend who is a serious maths nerd and number cruncher while playing the game however his character will go and swim in the sewer because it’s bonkers and he wants to test out his +5 Fort save.
Correct. It’s not you (or @popdart5) trying to kill @tech_knight – It’s the Dice Gods.
Oh great and powerful Dice Gods, we, your humble servants beseech thee; allow us to make our fortitude saves and triumph over our enemies, or at the very least let us fail in hilarious fashion so that we might attempt to set ourselves on fire. In Gygax’s name we pray. Ahhhhhhhhh—–fuckit.
You can’t even Dice shame virtual D20s.
I accidentally rolled a dice and it bounced into some chilli salsa dipped. After I washed it off it started rolling really well and the legend of the spicy dice began that day.
I’m gonna pour salsa all over my modem now. It will make my internet give me good rolls.
*nods in agreement with logical conclusion*
I approve of this logic. However since Roll20 has upgraded to their “QuantumRolling” system you might want to see if you can get your modem and the salsa to entangle themselves at a quantum level. *nods*
We had one die put into the freezer as punishment.
Looks like a pretty solid almalgamation of 3.5 and 4e + the new roll twice for Advantage/Disadvantage (I like that mechanic).
It’s such a simple mechanic, but so cool.
Skimming it now. Don’t know 4e that well (only played it once and it was ages ago) so I don’t know what’s coming from 4e and what’s new. The ‘advantage and disadvantage’ thing is interesting, I like the idea that it simplifies the addition of bonuses and drawbacks.
The idea of a proficiency bonus that increases as you level up is interesting too. I quite like that.
Are ideals, bonds and flaws a required thing in character creation now? FFG’s Star Wars and Warhammer stuff have similar requirements for each character too, I guess they’ve adopted the idea from those?
Is Forgotten Realms the ‘core’ campaign setting for this, instead of the one they had in 4e? Noticed they have subrace descriptions for FR stuff and they’re walking through creating Bruenor from the Drizzt novels.
I also like that the classes have starting equipment listed, rather than an allocation of gold to buy stuff. And I really like that they’ve built each class with an attribute priority in mind, and actually point out what that is, eg for the Fighter they say to put priority in Strength or Dexterity depending on weapon focus, then constitution, and give a recommended background. One of the things I find a little frustrating with 3E/Pathfinder is that you can’t really build a character by just going primary stat, secondary stat, then whatever with the rest. Each one is important, and for some classes you need to put points into a ton of stuff (Oracle, for example, is completely screwed because they’re intended to generally be melee fighters (a lot of divine spells are touch/close range), so str & con is important. Their primary casting stat is cha, but they channel divine spells and a lot of those have effects that scale with wis, so you’re going to end up having to balance four or five stats). This was always something I thought that 4E was better with.
I notice as well that they’ve gone away from 4E’s powers-with-cooldowns approach? Seems like spells at least are back to having slots at each level that get used up and stuff. Seems like the approach they’ve ended up with for casters is halfway between a 3E/Pathfinder prepared caster and a spontaneous caster, you’ve got a big list of spells and you prepare up to a certain amount of them then you can use any of your appropriate slots up. So eg if you’re a third-level caster you get 4 level 1 and 2 level 2 slots, and at 16 int you can memorize six different spells from your book, but you don’t have to worry about charges and stuff, eg if you prepared Magic Missile you could cast it 6 times (using your level 2 spell slots on it too) because it doesn’t get forgotten from your prepared spells once used. I like this. It basically makes the WIzard and the Sorcerer back into the same class.
Also a big fan of the way they seem to have mainly ditched generic feats for picking a class-specific archetype and getting abilities from that. A lot of the newer Pathfinder classes do this too and as a concept I think it’s a lot more interesting. Will be interested to see what the actual feats look like, and I like the idea that you pick between taking a feat or modifying an ability score by 1, it gives an actual idea as to how powerful a feat should be in gameplay terms – some of the feats in 3E and especially Pathfinder are ridiculously unbalanced and there’s way too many of them.
The renaming of some of the skills and the cleanup of the Knowledge skills is also pretty nice – Bluff and Diplomacy being changed to Deception and Persuasion gives a much better feel for what those skills are actually for.
Combat seems pretty much like 3E for the most part. I like that they’ve simplified the different types of actions down to just being ‘an action’ and also like that you can move a bit, do an action, then move some more, but that might have been in 4E as well?
Overall looks pretty interesting. Should definitely stop Pathfinder eating their lunch, at least. Seems very much like 3.5 streamlined a bit.
FR is setting for the initial adventure path
They’ve scrapped the at-will/encounter/daily stuff.
The at-will etc. stuff was the bit that most strongly gave it a videogame / MMO-like feel (felt like you were hitting cooldown abilities in WoW or something) and I think that getting rid of that is a great move.
man, really proud of the missus and myself this month… we thought we were going to fall massively out of pocket due to some financial commitments that had to be dealt with (car registration $720!!!, 3 birthdays, an inflated monthly gas bill of 400 cause they havent taken a proper reading for 6 months, + a few other things on top of the standard rent/fuel/food).
little over a week left till payday and we still have about $80 spare after fuel and what not.
It sounds a bit daunting, but realistically, we have a shit ton of food to last the next 2-3 weeks, and have nothing left to pay for.
we’ve spent most of the month just at home or social visits, but have still squeezed in a trip to the movies, missus preordered GTAV PS4 and Last of us for me, and did some shopping for her return to uni. also managed to pickup a couple of games on the steam sales from some leftover paypal funds. \o/
since she finished her bachelorship of education (P-12) shes hasnt had any luck finding work in the limited roles that have come up, which has been really disappointing for her as she graduated with high distinctions practically across the board. and she is more than capable applying her teaching methodlogies in the classroom; she got very high recommendations from the principals at every school she completed teaching rounds at, and has had outstanding feedback from parents for students she has been tutoring for almost 2 years now.
so she has just been accepted back at VIC uni to complete an additional year which will give her early childhood qualifications for kindergarten which appears to have more opportunities available at present. so heres hoping things change!
Hurrah! My Wife and I were also having a tough month because of car rego too but we’ve come through ok, admittedly that’s partially because my wife’s aunt gave her like $30 for petrol because she went over to fix her virus-ridden laptop. Her aunt is only a 15 minute drive away but $30 pretty much fills our tank, so that’s one less thing to worry about. \o/
Hope the job situation picks up, I would have assumed teaching would be fairly steady work, but I guess getting your foot in the door is tough wherever you go.
cc @zetrox2k
Rego went up massively this year. Again. My car was $900, insurance $900, service coming up. Glasses $380, indoors upcoming for $250 minimum, dentist $600 with a $1200 cap incoming..
:'( I know dem feels.
My car is a Barina Spark so it should have been in the lowest weight class for rego purposes but apparently it isn’t so it was like $30 more than I thought it would be. I think all up the registration + green slip was about $960? So not so bad really, I just didn’t save as much towards it as I had planned to so it was a bigger hit against my June budget than I had intended. Thankfully I don’t really have any other big expenses coming up, though a visit to the dentist for a checkup/clean probably wouldn’t go astray to avoid having to get root canals and crowns later.
Sorry, is the Barina a good car?
The Holden Barina Spark is the more compact “City” variant of the Barina (it’s actually a Chevy Spark but rebranded to be familiar to Aussies). The cars we currently call Barinas are quite a bit larger than the older Barinas used to be so the Spark is more the “true” Barina if you ask me.
Is it a good car? Absolutely. I love it. One of my key concerns with buying a compact car was whether I, at 6’3′” would fit comfortably behind the wheel, and I do. It sacrifices a bit of room in the back seat for the sake of the comfort of the driver and front passenger so it’s not really a “family car”, but it’s perfect for my wife and I. It does have a ridonkulously small boot (and comes with a patch kit instead of a spare tyre) so that’s something to keep in mind if those things are a concern for you.
Fuel economy is great, it gets about 350km to it’s 30L tank in the city/suburbs, way more than that on the highway. The engine is 4 cylinders which is fine for most driving though when we took it down to Tomerong via the Princes Highway it struggled a bit up the mountains. We have the automatic transmission which is a bit sluggish at times and drew some complaints from reviewers because if you try and quickly accelerate from 50 to 70 you’ll notice a lag of a few seconds between when you put your foot down and when the revs jump, but I only notice it when I try to beat an orange traffic light which I probably shouldn’t be doing anyway.
And here’s a photo of mine.
We need a decent boot to fit Mum’s walker so it looks like that’s out of the question. =P
We want a small car, but one with a decent boot so the walker fits
Yep, you’d definitely not get a typical walker in the boot though maybe you could if it were collapsible. You could put the seats down but then no one’s sitting in the back.
I’m no vehicle expert and the Spark is only the second vehicle I’ve ever owned, but if you’re looking at something brand new I’d point you in the direction of the Hyundai Elantra or i30.
Ford focus or a fiesta have decent boot space failing that maybe check out the suzuki swifts
We used to have a toyota echo and when the back seat was folded down you could fit almost anything in the boot. I used to call it my TARDIS. Was also a zippy little thing to drive. I graduated to the Mazda 6 because baby seats…
\o/ \o/
thats awesome. I do IT work for a couple of businesses and it pays REALLY well but unfortunately its been a bit quiet lately. did a job for one of them this month of which there is $120 owed to me, but these guys pay in 30 days. if it was my bigger customer, ive made $600+ in one day and they usually pay within a week.
ah well it will be nice when the money drops in regardless now… m just happy we are doing ok. awesome to hear you guys are too! \o/
funny thing about teaching is theyre are about 2000 graduates (im betting much more) anually, and only a couple of hundred jobs. its a very competitive job hunt… my wife was mislead into believing it was steady work and positions available by the bucketload too….
I was studying to be a teacher back in 2004/05 but I wound up dropping out for financial reasons. I guess there’s always more graduates than there are jobs but you also assume that along with growth there’s always going to be a turnover in people retiring too. Then again teaching seems to be one of those jobs some people are still doing in their 70s.
It depends on the area in which you’re teaching. I’m a high school maths teacher, and the reality is that (in NSW at least) they’re running out of maths teachers as the older ones all retire. There are, however, a lot of English, languages or humanities teachers who often have to be willing to teach several disciplines to get the job.
What subjects does your wife want to teach? It might be better to do some Maths or Science pedagogy than EC – there might be demand in early childhood but the pay is terrible.
The trailer for the final episode of The Wolf Among Us is available. GET HYPE!
So I ended up having an absolute blast in Torchlight 2 last night, thanks for letting me join in guys… So is this a regular Thursday thing? Because I’m pretty sure it should be!
Torch…day.
Thurs…light.
Nope, I’m afraid you’ll have to pick a different day.
I’d feel much better about Torchlight 2sday.
Torchday kinda works at least for me because Thursday in danish is Torsdag, Torch kinda but not really sounds like Tor, so Torchday it is 😛
I’ve been thinking about installing TL2. I have 1 and 2 and started 1 awhile back but instead of going back to it I might as well just go straight to TL2 because it’s not like I really give a toss about following the story.
Then I can learn to play and actually take part in activities!
TL1 story = shits goin down underneath the town of Torchlight. 3 people go down to sort it out. they fight a dragon. the end.
…or is it?
yes. yes it is.Edit: the story is just an excuse for clicking on things & collecting sweet loot.
If it’s becoming a thing, I’m keen to reinstall it.
Do eeett soon because I think we have one drop out? =P @jocon who knows these things better than I do!
@stickman @coldcamv @redartifice @kermitron
6 is the multiplayer party max and we have 6 (or 5 depending on if @crazyguy1990 is gonna join us again?) already.
Regardless, it looks like you guys should join up with @welbot and form another party.
Should host it on thursday as well for maximum teamspeak chaos/fun times.
I’ll pop it on the Steam Group
I’ll install TL2 and delete TL1 since I’ll probably never get around to finishing it anyways. If I’m available for fun and games then I will try and jump in!
Have put it on the Steam group. Realised I’m busy next Thursday, but you guys, go nuts.
Well I’m declaring you Captain of the B team so host it whenever suits you all. Looks like thurs is no good for Stickman either anyway.
Alright, I’ll check it out. Thursday not the best for me.
Im easy i should be able to play most days so long as i have a heads up first haha
I have it, never played. I have T1 and it’s pretty neat, played 5-6+ hrs. Apparently Tl2 is just bigger and multiplayer, so I’d be keen to join some sessions too.
Torchlight 2 is in every sense the same way to torchlight 1 as Diablo 2 was to Diablo 1… Slightly more refined and waaay bigger scope 😛
Should see how many people we can get, multi max is 6 I think so maybe do 2 teams of 6 and compare stories
Yeah this has been the second thursday night we’ve gathered so far! I think we’re sticking with 8pm every Thursday =]
Yaaaay, one day I’ll learn to do not-pants-on-head retarded stuff like kiting 2 bosses into our group while we’re already fighting a mob \o/
i am the greetest tank evah!
Tanking like a bawss
Hey, that was my signature move in Diablo 3.
Friiiiiieeeeeeends!
Heh, butt
SHOVEL KNIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Butt butt
So, the girlfriend is working tonight, and I haven’t yet played BroForce in multiplayer… Anyone up for a few games? I can see @pixel_the_ferret_viking has it, but I’m not sure who else.
Apparently @fled @evilmonkey @pupp3tmast3r and @freezespreston also own it according to my steam thingie.
retagging @fled because I am bad at tags.
I have it thanks to @evilmonkey so I might be up for a little multiplayer this evening depending on the time.
Depending on what time, I’ll be keen… Gotta spend some time with wifey tonight because i kinda neglected her most of last night to play games 😛
Maybe she should have a chat to us instead of you? =P
Yeah add me on steam, I think you can find me on pixel’s friend list or on the TAY Steam group!
I’m probably out till 8 or 9 tonight but should be up for something online then!
Sorry Brisbane folk, my cold is being all topsy turvy and bleh so I think I shall steer the SS Plague Ship aware from the @freeze iceberg. I won’t be at the meat tomorrow but I hope you all have fun and give @liondrive the good ol’ QLD welcome.
And herp, @freezespreston.
Are we still game for a character creation session tonight?
I should be right to do that as I can’t project my cold through the Internet (yet).
@rize Did you want to join in or are you pretty set? @freezespreston We can arrange to have a session next week as it sounds like you’ll have your hands full with Lion.
I managed to give everyone I talked to through the net a cold, so I wouldn’t be so sure
I think it’s just this time of year. I know of at least three other people who all started coming down with a cold on the same day as me so it’s just this weather that’s screwing people over.
If the “good ol’ Queensland” welcome is to steal my kidney and leave me to die somewhere, please don’t.
And I can keep myself busy so that Freeze can join in more than likely 🙂
Steal the liver instead. Gotcha,
Is anyone trying out the new Cry Face game on steam? How is it?
Read a bit about it but seems stupidly pay to win and the worst kind.
That is from reading things, haven’t played it
Reposting from twitter just because I can.
A HAIKU
Damn this cold weather
I can not walk into town
Winter really sucks.
Perhaps a man could
ride a bicycle into
the township instead?
Perhaps a man hates
riding bicycles therefore
he doesn’t have one
Oh, Well in that case
you could drive or walk quickly?
I don’t fucking know
I think I will just
stay at home now it’s raining
Parents will take me.
Cool that sounds like a
plan that will be successful
Glad we had this chat
It was indeed fun
Trying to write in haikus
Stretches the grey stuff.
Limericks are a different verse
That can be a blessing or curse
I write one out here
and it’s thankfully clear
that this one isn’t
penisperverseJust set a brisk pace.
Walking will generate heat!
Might need a beanie.
Minecraft Peeps!
@sernobulus @steve-o_the_deve-o @rize @coldcamv @beavwa @zapz @gorzilla
Died 3 times trying to get this done, but ive made a trail from Steve-o’s portal in the nether to the blaze spawner in the fortress.. basically follow the randomly dropped cobblestone blocks (had to do that while running away from 3 ghasts!) leading to the fortress then follow the cobblestone blocks on the floor to the spawner. my primary reason for doing this was cause i kept getting lost trying to get to the spawner, and lost again getting back.
also ive crafted two ender chests; one is at my place in the overworld, the other is at the ender spawner. feel free to use them whichever way you want, but the way i do it is, place some armour, weapons food and potions in my ender chest at my place, travel to the nether naked, get to the fortress spawner, grab it all, farm some blaze, then put everything back including the blaze rods and follow the trail back, and retrieve my items from the ender chest in the overworld. i tried making a portal near the spawner to get directly to the fortress from the overworld, but it takes you all the way to X -3000 on top of an ocean in the middle of nowhere, which isnt exactly ideal.
Ugh, you’re making me want to play and I can’t waste time building things in Minecraft
wasting time?????????? how dare you!!! this is art!!!!! 😀
you should join and digout another GINORMOUS room underground \o/
I love minecraft and that is the issue /o\
I have to make these cosplays
WE CAN RESIST SCREE! DON’T GIVE IN!.. OOOoooooh new update!
I will resist. People’s cosplays depend on it.
Sweet! I have a path leading from Steve-O’s portal to mine so I should be able to get around pretty easily now!
if we all work together we can possibly even make a narrow tunnel leading all the way there with a minecart. not attempting this bny myself however, not enough resources to do it. if anyone wants to let me know
I will do what I can but I am currently pre-occupied by my current project, which leads me to my next question. Do you have a few stacks of dirt you would be willing to part with? A rough estimate of how much I need is “ALL THE DIRT”.
i have a few stacks, i just need enough to fill the top floor of my tower then the rest is yours!
I’m still working on my main overworld base but I can do a bit of nether redevelopment once I’m a little further along (at least with bulk resources from excavation)
That could be days, weeks or months away though. I don’t really have a set plan yet on what I’m doing here.
MINECART!!!!! \o/ also, has anyone started digging into the mountain next to my base (the one with pink-purple roof) if not I’d like to claim that for myself 😀
I’ve already claimed my area. Pretty obvious to spot if anyone wanders far enough to find it.
planning on making a small base reachable by cart about 300-400 blocks north from you if thats ok!
That sounds miles away. No worries on that.
At most I might spread along the ridge line a bit and dig some entrances / access out to the valleys either side as I dig down.
I assume we’re talking about my obvious new primary base and not the initial staging base marked mostly by some cows and sugar cane.
Is that the one with the big glass wall?
@coldcamv No glass yet. I’ve got an area blocked off with a big stone brick wall around it (lit along the top to stop mobs dropping in), that’s about as far as I’ve gotten. It’s not that close to a lot of the stuff near the initial spawn.
Ahh nevermind then, I built me a little shack past @zapz stuff towards the island area, right on the water
@coldcamv At a very rough estimate, I’m probably in the realm of 1000 blocks away from there. You might find me if you go exploring. Not that I’ve built anything interesting yet. Just a wall.
Well I teamed up with @steve-o_the_deve-o and he showed me alot of cool stuff to do and his mountain house and how to enchant and a few villages it was really cool
nope, you are all clear i think!
I found your castle im currently standing in it as it seemed like a good place to camp
Hnnnnggg NO. STOP IT! NO!
*whisper* it’s ok…. you will join us… soon…
ONE OF US. ONE OF US. OOBLE GOBBLE. OOBLE GOBBLE. ONE OF US…
I wanna join….. because I seem to like wasting time 😀
do it! \o/
last time (the first time too actually) I spent my whole Christmas break playing it on PS3, I built a 17 storey tower large enough for enemies to spawn inside of it until I sorted my lighting, I then made a freaking huge rail line from the top all the way to the floor,
Seriously Flickr get your shit together and fix whatever issues you’re having. The fact we can’t upload or have any photo sets viewed in our off site gallery is kind of annoying.
Looks like you can use DS4 on a PS3 now.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/how-to-dualshock-4-wirelessly-ps3,news-19093.html
*runs around flailing arms* about time! Shame I went and traded in most of my PS3 games haha.
Hmmm… I would have thought it’d be full support that would come with an OS update, not just generic Bluetooth device support without a lot of features.
I whole heartedly agree with this statement.
I was messing around trying to get img tags to work, but alas, failed. How did he do it?!
MOD POWERS
It has to be.
Magic mod powers I assume. That or @benwhite is the devil himself.
Edit: would’ve been hilarious if you broke TAY though… Like so everyone had strike through like Lambo once did to us. That was amusing.
Oh wow, I missed that one.
Was a while ago now, but it was pretty amusing. The ENTIRE page and then some had strikethrough.
AAAAH IT’S COME BACKAaahhh good ol’ broken Tay! I remember strikethrough Tay, italics Tay, bold Tay… Good times 😛
Don’t forget Bold Italic Strikethrough Underline TAY!
@powalen
BISUTAY!
Who did what, when?
DID I MISS SOMETHING?!
Ben White posted an image on TAY. An actual image!
When when!?
June 23, 2014 11.11PM 😀
Thanks friend!
EDIT: Not sure how I missed that 😛
Hm. Some details about the next TV anime from Studio Trigger (Kill la Kill, Little Witch Academia).
Title is Ninja Slayer.
“Kenji Fujikido is a salaryman whose wife and child were killed in a ninja turf war. In a brush with his own death, Fujikido is possessed by an enigmatic ninja soul known as Naraku Ninja. Fujikido cheats death and becomes “Ninja Slayer” -a Grim Reaper destined to kill evil ninja, committed to a personal war of vengeance. Set in the dystopian underworld of Neo-Saitama, Ninja Slayer takes on Soukai Syndicate ninja in mortal combat.”
Dunno about this. Director this time is a dude that was co-director on Kill la Kill but hasn’t directed anything himself before. Dunno whether it will be anywhere near as cool as Kill la Kill at this point, but looks like maybe Yoshinari and Imaishi (who are responsible for most of the look and feel) aren’t going to be involved.
I also suspect they’re deliberately targeting the US market. Posters they’ve been showing off at AX have artwork by the Afro Samurai guy. 😐 On the other hand, the setup sounds like it could be rad.
Sounds like Shadows of Mordor…. Jus’ saying!
It actually does.
@spaghett’s last song played game!
Province- TV On the Radio
The Hurry And The Harm – City and Colour
Divinity: Original Sin is such a pretty game.
I’m being heavily reminded of some of the artstyle in Van Helsing 2. Also a rather iconic and pretty game.
How is it to play?
I am hearing ever so many good things about it.
5pm needs to hurry the hell up
gods yes
Promptly followed by 6pm please!
To your coworkers: ‘Just going to the toilet, guys. I’ll see you all Monday.’
i work on flex time…. SO tempted to just leave early today
Go to the toilet at 3 leave at 5
So NISA put out a huge letter about their EU Store issues:
http://www.nisamerica.com/pressreleases/EU_Online_Store_PressRelease_20140703.pdf
In summary “This is better because we said so. Also fuck all you Eurotrash.”
Not even mentioning that the prices are insane, close to double for Australia. Shipping from UK to Australia apparently costs them 20 pounds and we pay the same price as EU including VAT (which is included in the price). US store still won’t be shipping to ‘Europe’ any more.
In conclusion, NISA have basically guaranteed I’ll never be able to buy a Disgaea limited edition again. And probably won’t be buying a lot of the games from them I would have, because I would usually order all their LEs without really thinking about whether I would play the game or not (so I have shit like The Witch and the Hundred Knight or Time and Eternity or Guided Fate Paradox in nice boxes on my shelf, but I’ll never play them as it turns out they are mediocre to awful games)
thank god i already pre-ordered danganronpa 2 from the american store…
it’ll be cheaper buying the games from EB than buying them from NIS…
and holy shit, it’d cost nearly $150 for the Danganonpa 2 LE including shipping to aus… what the actual fuck.
Yeah, the prices are daylight robbery. You could buy three Vita games for that price, and all the LE has is a fucking cloth and a keyring IIRC. The actual RRP for Danganronpa 2 (standard) in the UK is 39.99 pounds, but that includes their crazy 20% VAT, so it should be 33.30 for us (0% VAT). Assuming they had reasonable shipping costs of say 5 quid you’re looking at about 38. That’s still $70 AUD. We were always going to get shafted super hard by the changeover, as our dollar sucks against the pound. 🙁 Still, that’s less than half what it’d cost for the LE from their EU store, because:
– They charge 20 fucking quid to ship to Australia
– They’re charging 20% VAT to Australia and presumably just pocketing the difference (exports from inside the EU to non-EU countries should be 0% VAT!)
– They’re charging RRP + 10-15 pounds for their LEs when the extras aren’t worth that.
Danganronpa 2 LE is probably what, $70-75 shipped to us from the US? I know their Fairy Fencer F LE is setting me back about $85 AUD shipped, vs around $160 from the EU store.
Whole affair has really soured me toward NISA as a company. I was already getting frustrated with their average quality localization and penchant for censoring everything, and they lost a lot for me when Gust was purchased by Koei, since the best LEs that NISA did were Gust releases. It also looks like IdeaFactory are setting up to do their games themselves instead of using NISA (the new Neptunia remake for Vita isn’t using NISA to localize it for example) so I think they’re starting to flag. Atlus are still a bag of wet farts in terms of the way they localize stuff and the way they treat fans outside the US, Aksys mainly localize trash, so I think XSeed is fast becoming the coolest localization company. At least XSeed get their physical releases up on Amazon and don’t put pointless restrictions on international sales like the fuckwits at Atlus.
Thing is, this really should be good for Europe. It should mean Atlus LEs are available. But the price totally negates any benefit. I’d actually have probably grudgingly shifted over for PS3 stuff if the price was the same. Instead it will be significantly cheaper for me to use a proxy shipping company to get US LEs in the event I really want one.
P.S. NISA Europe is actually just Koei.
“If you don’t like it, leave. We don’t need you” is what it sounds like to me.
Yep. And I will be.
Will miss getting Disgaea LEs though. And overall it’ll probably result in me buying less of their games.
Horizontal PC builds are the worst.
Better than Diagonal PC builds.
I dunno, vertical Wii using the slant stand was pretty slick.
I just got a reminder that ice skating exists, and Canberra has a couple of places to do it. I think I need to go ice skating some time soon…
Let’s go for Blaghs’ Can’d Meat!
Agreed. Love Ice skating
I’ve only been once! I assumed my Xtreme rollerblading skills from my youth would reawaken and transfer, but they didn’t.
That’s actually exactly why I was good enough to not injure myself, the first time I was on ice. Considering I haven’t done it in years, it’ll be interesting to see if I still can.
In theory I should be good at ice skating, as skate-skiing uses a very similar level of balance, and muscle groups. But since I don’t have stocks to keep my balance, I just fall over a lot.
The last time I convinced a group of people to go ice skating my wife broke her thumb. The time before that my mother fractured her skull.
You do the convincing 😛
Don’t bring the baby! D:
Maybe we shouldn’t then. Having everybody break bones at the ice rink would make it the second worst Can’d meat ever.
So what you’re saying is that the injuries dramatically decrease in severity? At worst, someone is going to get a bit bruised this time. Seems like you should go ice skating continually until you’re all impervious to harm.
At this rate, I expect it will only take seven or eight trips to the rink.
I’m hoping by the time I hit 10 I’ll have given someone immortality.
“First immortality, then the bitches!”
Only one person gets injured though. If we go as part of a meat, the Russian Roulette there makes the odds fairly decent. 😛
Just claim dome little kid is part of your group and shove em down thats how it worked in final destination
Cool idea.
Ugh.
Chill, dude.
I actually live like 2 ks from the Phillip Swimming and Ice Skating Centre, home of the Canberra Knights!
Why they’re knights is a mystery to me.
I like to imagine that the Phillip Swimming Centre struggled for years with their pool freezing over in winter until one smart person decided to expand the business.
I like the idea of going their and there is just a bunch of rusting suits of armour on the bottom of the pool
The person that gives you the ice shoes is actually the queen. She can knight employees. Shh, don’t tell anyone.
I finally got a working copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl from EB! \o/
Also managed to get Zelda: Twilight Princess.
Looks like fun times ahead. 😀
A Xenoblade machine needs Xenoblade!
Except for the fact that it’s a Smash Bros. machine… 😛
Woo, weekend! \o/
…
Having reason to actually look forward to weekends again /o\
Feel like I am finally getting somewhere with the cosplays whoooooo!
Woo how much have you done now?
I have constructed the top for mine. Nob’s fake chain mail is being assembled and found the Organza that is needed for the Elsa one.
Woo \o/ what are you going as or is it a suprise? Also whats an organza
I’m going as Ruby rose from RWBY and Organza is a see through light material
Oh nice I had to google to see who that was haha at first I thought it was the girl Ruby Rose who was on MTV and stuff o.O
I now know what Organza is \o/
Got any progress pics?
Heaps for Nobs. None for mine, people have seen the process of figuring out the Elsa cape.
Finished work at 6PM, went to Target, saw a stand right at the front for The Lego Movie, grabbed a copy on Blu-Ray without hesitation. Watching it now. Man I love this movie.
Also, @pupp3tmast3r, looks like my laptop’s all good, so I should be up for some Magic this weekend. Might have a bit of a practice tonight, tomorrow good for you?
Edit: Looks like Magic will be a no go. Did the first tutorial, then it booted me out of the game, and a message came up saying “CRASH”, tried to get back into the game and it was just constantly loading.
SPACESHIP!
What a coincidence, actually watching that part right now.
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
I watched that this evening!
I was tempted to watch it on the plane trip, but from what I’ve heard it sounds more like the kind of movie that’s better to watch properly (ie, TV and couch).
Just saw and ad on TV for a new show called Extant. Looks interesting, no idea when it starts. Anyone else heard of/interested in this?
A couple of us were talking about it on Twitter a while ago. I’ll give it a shot!
It seemed interesting but god damn that’s an awful title. How many people are even going to know what that word means?
Could be worse. If they’d simplified it down we might have ended up with “Not Extinct” or “Still in existence.”
They said X-Men, right?
Less than 24 hours until the first episode of Sailor Moon and I’m way too excited.
If anyone is interested, it’s streaming for free for everyone on Crunchyroll, at least for the first episode. Normally CR is you get first ep a week late if you’re not paying a membership, but it looks like they’re letting everyone in on this. Also Australia is one of the countries they’re streaming to \o/
Also if anyone wants a 48-hour all access trial for Crunchyroll, I have two. CR is okay, but how okay varies a lot season to season depending on what stuff is licensed, since sometimes the US people are dicks and block off access to us.
I was locked out of my League of Legends account a while back, and kept installing and uninstalling the client, trying to get the damn thing to work. I haven’t played since December last year. I think not being able to log has something to do with region transfers or something. It’s a US account, but I transferred to Oceania when the Oceanic servers where created.
I’m thinking abiout simply starting a new account. I got to level 27-ish with my other account, but I only ever played co-op vs AI, and got into some bad habits. I might create a new account, only play a single character, and just play PVP.
Nah, that sounds like hard work. I’ll just play UFO Aftermath instead.
Or Dota.
All the cool kids play Dota now. Well, I say cool kids…
This spider in Metroid Fusion is impossible to beat.
Git gud.
Can’t be done – I’m too old. 😛
Git yung?
He’s a bastard. I remember being particularly low on health then too thanks to all those things caught up in the vines taking their toll on me, had to try and farm my way back up to some decent level of health but still got struck down again.
I’m up to like attempt 25. It’s really pissing me off.
Try morph-balling into the corners, might make it easier.
That’s not even the hardest boss 😛
God dammit.
BEATEN 😀 😀 😀
See! Nothing’s impossible if you try hard enough
FORREST IN THE MOJAVE
A lot of folk were telling me about his place where the use the sun to make e-lectricity. I had someone who was like my old drill sergeant tell me to fix the machines, and I did on account of how the sergeant told me to do it, but another fella told me that the e-lectricity should go to everyone, so I made it do that. He sadi he was a follower of a pack o lips, whatever that’s meaning.
I then ran up to boulder city, nearly wore out mah shoes. My momma always said you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes, where they go, where they’ve been. I’ve worn lots of shoes. A buncha fellers from the California Republic was having an argyment with some fellas called the great khans, but they were nice guys. I gave some bottlecaps to the NCR fellas and the great Khans just walked away.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
Asjdiuhsef… apparently I have to get up at 5:30 to take mum and my sister to the airport. Because they need to get up there for a 9am inspection.
Blah.
wtf were so many people doing up so early what is wrong with all of you
world cup would be my guess
I meant out on the roads but that just makes the image more amusing 😛
GOOOOAAAALLLLLLL *FLIPS CAR*
People go to World Cup parties and pubs to watch the game.
Nothing says road safety like a late night and booze.
Why were YOU out so early?
Got stuck playing taxi for an early morning airport run ;_;
ahhh ic! At least early morning airport runs tend to be reasonably hassle free. Any time after 8-9am airports seem to go cray cray!
Hah, to do an airport run all I need to do is put my sneakers on- I’m within about 300m of the terminal.
I had to travel to places to do things and now i’m back home. That’s my reason.
Man, after all that serching for cheap Organza, I finally found some for a decent price on Ebay. Annoyed I didn’t try there first.
Organza sounds like something you yell out when you’re happy or when you’re winning a game called Organza.
Is there a board game called Organza? because there should be one.
How would that even work?
Maybe because organza is similar to orgasm?
I’ll have what she’s having.
I was going to say oregano
I thought oregano too. I guess @scree just has a dirty mind.
@gorzilla had ruined me. =(
He’ll do that.
I have not!
You wouldn’t let me get that close!
Makes me think of (Princess) Leia Organa.
HANABI!
There’s too much ‘MURICA in my Instagram feed /o\
Not enough ‘STRAYA
EXACTLY!
I think I figured out what’s irking me about Bravely Default. It’s the pacing. The game takes way too long to get to the point and feels like it’s constantly interrupting itself on the way.
30 hours in, start of chapter 4.
You’re going to love Chapter 5 onwards!
Oh yeah, it’s going to be awesome. 🙁
I’m thinking I’ll probably just straight-line it and try and knock out the back end of the game quickly. As it is I think I’m overleveled. Currently sitting about level 54 on everyone and most of them are level 9-10 in the majority of jobs.
I turned off random battles and stopped doing any side quests in the second half of the game so I ended up underlevelled. I got temporarily stuck when I reached a part I couldn’t leave and was “trapped” by a difficult higher level boss :(.
Just make sure your levels are high enough!
Does it eventually open up some spots that have mobs that are better for grinding job XP? Best areas I’ve been in so far only give 40-50 JP per fight, and that’s fine if you need like 300-400 to level, but some of the jobs are hitting 4000-5000 now and that’s like 100 fights.
I believe so, but I can’t remember where (:P)
There’s definitely good levelling spots but I can’t recall any for JP specifically. I guess it sort of comes with normal levelling anyway. There’s always those items that give you double XP/JP/Gold
I just used the 100000 dollar item that forfeits xp and gold for bonus JP
I’m close to being able to afford one of those \o/
Found an awesome spot. Literally exactly where I left off, just outside Eternia. 6 mandrake enemies sometimes appear. The rest of the time it’ll be at least 4, and during the day everything is weak to fire.
Compounding to combine two Phlogistons together, with the Salve Master ability that amps up items and the Rod of Fire to increase fire damage dealt by 10%, you can take everything out in one round. Makes more money than the items cost by far, especially since you usually get Sweeper with it.
And now I have the 500k no-gold double-xp-and-jp item and every fight I get unscathed hero bonus, so getting between 300 and 600 jp per battle. Also level 11 Freelancer has a an ability that increases the character’s JP by 20% so that means actually between 360 and 800 or so JP each battle. :3
Unrelatedly, I think one of the best things about the game is the rad names they came up with for characters. They’re straight up excellent.
I came across some very funny crying Japanese politician clips reposted from nico nico douga to Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ApwKs3eU9g Guitar Cry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKGntXHTCdQ Thomas the tank engine cry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtoIPFsDHHs Forest Cry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMNiDiw0_eo Ballard Cry
Love the Japanese!
What did I just watch.
Seriously tempted…
http://www.asiapads.com/en/jxd-s7800b-game-pad3-rockchip-3188-quad-core-ips-ddr3-8gb-video-game-2458.html
That thing looks nice. Very nice.
So wait, it’s like a Razer Edge?
yes and no. it’s not quite as fancy as the razor. No keyboard or such, so this is more like a big psp/vita, except it can emulate all kinds of handhelds. They do have other devices that actually look and feel more like the razer edge, but even they’re still not quite the same. Very similar though!
Maybe it’s just me, but it looks a bit suss…
I know how you feel, but I’ve actually used some of their products in the past, and the ones I used were actually quite good for what they are. I haven’t got any experience with their current gen of devices, but I’d be willing to give it a try for those prices I reckon!
Hey Wii U friends, has anyone bought (or considered buying) the official Nintendo gamepad battery extender thingy?
Just wondering whether it’s worth it and how much it costs (I’m pretty sure you can get them locally straight from Nintendo). Thanks!
Semi-related ranting: I was playing The Wonderful 101 earlier with my shiny new Wii U Pro controller when my gamepad ran out of battery. Apparently I need my gamepad to be turned on as well even though it’s not being used as the main controller, or main screen… ugh!
Didn’t even know they existed, looks like it pretty much doubles the battery life, so I’d say it’s worth it, even if you just put it away and install it when the original battery dies.
On a side note, was just browsing the Wii U section of the EB Games website and discovered that they’ve got those Amiibo figures available for pre-order for $30. I couldn’t believe it, that’s almost double the price of Skylanders and Disney Infinity figures. I’m seriously hoping that’s just a placeholder price, but it is EB.
The price hasn’t been set yet as far as I know. Rumour going around is that they’ll be $15 (in the US at least).
It’s Nintendo, of course they cost way more than their competitors.
My fellow TAYbies, as some of you may know, I have aspirations to take over the country by coup and rule as a just and benevolent dictator. I have just seen the first sign that I will eventually slide into the egomaniacal ruler of a brutal, oppressive autocracy, I decided on the drive home from the chemist that overtaking on the left using the parking/cycle lanes or empty shoulders which are not sections of road will be punishable by death.
Especially when done in driving rain when you have to have the wipers on the second speed just to have the windscreen clear enough to see, could there be any better decision than whipping blindly around someone who’s waiting to turn a corner in those conditions? Oh yeah, FUCKING WAITING 5 seconds you cockhead!
I for one welcome our new overlord. All hail @aliasalpha.
Also, people are dicks.
@transientmind has aspirations to be a powerful dictator as well. Setting yourself a rival can really help you achieve your goals.
Well given the circumstances we may be able to work together. As I always say, the enemy of my enemy is my ally… for now
My stupid HTPC has decided to poo its pants. It gets stuck on the “loading operating system …” screen. It won’t go past it, however if I press F12 before it gets to that, then boot up through that way it works fine.
I have tried working it out via a few computer websites, but no one has really given a good fix. I have tried doing a system restore, it got stuck multiple times restarting on the exact same screen. I have tried to do a system repair using a windows 7 disc, said that there was no problem. I have tried doing a virus can, nothing. Everything on the hard drive works fine, so I don’t believe it is that.
If anyone has a fix please can you save me.
if it just gets stuck, and never crashes, it’s hard to say what it might be, but I’d start by booting from your win7 disk, open command prompt, and run chkdsk /r on the drive you have windows on.
If it still wont boot after that, go back in to the command prompt, and type sfc /scannow and see if that fixes it.
It doesn’t crash. I just turn it on, it loads past the Bios screen, then just gets stuck on the loading operating system screen. If I go through boot mode, then load the hard drive, then select the drive it all loads fine. I will try your helpful hints now and see how it goes and report back.
mm ok. try putting the drive on a different sata port perhaps, and tell the bios to boot to the hdd first. Providing this a desktop of course 😉 I had a laptop that was doing that to me a while ago at work. only solution was to re-flash the bios. I guess you could try re-writing the MBR on the disk, but I’d say cross that bridge if nothing else works
Ok I ran the chkdsk. It didn’t fix the problem.
Then ran the scannow and it rebooted and once again got stuck. So i rebooted and manually booted in again. The following error came up on the screen after getting into windows.
Pleasewait.exe
“Windows cannot find ‘pleasewait.exe’. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.
scrap that
just re-read what you said
Sounds like you might have some sort of malware. I’d give your computer a full scan with malwarebytes and see what it comes up with.
Ok, I will get on that tomorrow, cannot be bothered tonight. Thanks heaps for your help. I feel like I owe you something.
all good man. always happy to help 🙂
Quick google suggests not a virus, possibly that one of your system DLLs (I’m thinking a driver DLL maybe) has been corrupted somewhere. Anecdotes also suggest it could be related to activation going out of whack. Genuine windows install, not cracked?
That was my next suggestion. There is actually a virus that does use a file called pleasewait.exe though, and if you remove part of it, you will get a pop up when windows starts, saying it can’t find the file (cos the entry in startup is trying to load the file, but can’t find it anymore).
Without knowing more about what he’s done with the system, always best to try scanning for malware first, and if it comes up empty, then like you said, it’s likely a non-genuine windows activation issue.
Oh absolutely. Especially since from the sound of it, the system doesn’t get online much so is probably unpatched and vulnerable.
Can you get into safe mode? (Basic instructions and a few other tips: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows7/resolving-stop-blue-screen-errors-in-windows-7)
If the system is stuck in a reboot cycle, it sounds like it’s set to restart automatically on a bluescreen and it’s doing so on boot. That auto restart should be able to be disabled from the advanced boot menu where you an select safe mode or when within windows its in system properties\advanced tab\startup & recovery settings\untick automatically restart
It might also b an idea to pop it open and physically check all the hardware connections, & reseat cards just in case they’ve worked their way loose to the point where they’re just not quite registering sometimes. It’s weird and rare but it does happen
Ok. I have tried what welbot suggested, and have also tried your suggestion. As you can read above welbots suggestions haven’t fixed the problem and unfortunately yours haven’t either. I will crack the computer open tomorrow, and try a different sata port, and make sure all connections are good.
If none of this works I will try a windows 7 install and hope that fixes the problems.
How old is the system? One of the more common causes of that is activation not being done or being corrupted and is triggering thinking windows isn’t genuine (I’m assuming it is, if not, that’ll probably be your problem). Is it connected to the net at all? If you do safemode with networking (you said my suggestion didn’t work, I assume that was disabling the restart on error thing), you might be able to load system properties and go through the activation process again
It is genuine windows, and is only connected to the net sometimes using a wireless usb dongle. I might have to try activating again. The system is like 2 years old max.
ahhh yes. windows does require periodic activation checks. We get this at work a lot. Because we refurbish ex-rental laptops/desktops, we often have to deal with dead hdd’s and are forced to do vanilla windows installs if we don’t have the factory image. When we do that, we have to force activation, and usually when we do, we end up having to type the key in again, (even though we’ve entered it during setup). When we go to activate, it often says that the key is not valid, and asks if we want to type a new key. We choose that option, type in the key from the bottom of the machine (again) and it works.
Even once we’ve done that, if the refurbishment is finished, and then the machine sits around the warehouse for a while before getting sent out to a shop, since it’s not able to do its periodic genuine check online, when it does eventually get connected, it will often complain again that it’s not valid, simply cos it hasn’t been able to call home.
This is all well and good for possibly fixing the pleasewait thing, but its not likely to fix the issue of it not booting without being forced to via bios.
I would check the manufacturers website, and see if there is a new bios update. If there is, grab that and try flashing it. Even if there’s not a new one, I’d try re-flashing it with the same version you have now. Sounds like something in the bios is just not working as expected.
The only other thing I can think that might cause this, is if for some reason, the BIOS may have reset itself to defaults, and may have changed some settings you’re not noticing.
Not sure if you did the windows install yourself, but if you say, installed windows, and had the sata set on AHCI, and now it’s on IDE, (or vice-versa) it wont be able to boot. Usually this would result in a bsod though.
Have you actually checked the bios to see which order the hdd’s are set to boot from? Perhaps the hdd boot priority order has changed?
The other thing that could cause issues like this, is if you have a UEFI compatible BIOS. If you do, it may be something to do with that, as unless your OS was installed on a drive while UEFI is enabled, the BIOS wont actually see it as a valid boot device.
If you installed your OS with UEFI disabled, and it’s now enabled, it also wont recognize it, unless you enable legacy mode. If you can post some more details about the type of motherboard/model of laptop your using, I might be able to help you a little more.
Pretty excited for tonight! :3
Still no idea what actually happens at one of these things, but I’m still keen 😀
Even bought myself some fancy new clothes for the occasion :3
I thought everyone knew that the first activity is kill the drifter.
Expect Satanic ritual, pretty much the norm round these parts.
Sometimes they drink but, its like a russian roulette of drinking, killing and satanic rituals…youll be right
Hail lggradrsda
You’re making me feel like I’m gonna need to buy a new outfit just for meeting you! 😛
This is for you @scree
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/07/ladies-lets-stop-saying-sorry-all-the-time/
I saw that and thought the exact same thing
Well, sorry for being so considerate of others feelings! =P
Ugh. Worst Saturday ever. My phone started ringing at around 2:30. I was still in bed, catching up on all the sleep I didn’t have, and the phone was across the other side of the room so the only way to fix it was to get up and trudge on over. Pick it up, see that it’s Mum. She’s saying something or other about getting later tickets, or… I don’t know. I don’t think I used a single word when on the phone, just sounds. Then she’s all like “Oh! I didn’t realise you’d be sleeping! Is Dad up? Oh of course you wouldn’t know you’re in bed. Um I’ll just ring the house phone. Bye!”
Only just got up again now, and I have a splitting headache which is filtering down into my left eye. Interrupted sleep kills me (quite possibly actually. It’s why I hate alarms so much), and now I gotta get ready to go out in an hour or so to hang with friends. Sure I’ll be a regular barrel o’ laughs for that.
Worst Saturday ever.
DAMMIT @saturday!
WORK HYPE!
well… more like MONEY hype! But we’ll see…
MONEY HYPE!
\o/
I’m supposed to punch the first person I see to establish my dominance, right?
Punch the biggest guy you see and take em down
http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2009/04/the-first-day/
Dammit. I have been trying for ages to find a very specific video on YouTube. I remember that the video was a Skyrim mod where a bunch of NPC’s danced, and then it turned into a full-on acid trip with multiple Thomas the Tank Engines bursting through the ceiling. I can’t find the bloody video.
I realise this post is really weird out of context. And in context too, I guess.
Not the one you were after but…
It is the school holidays, and I plan to party hard.
…
I’m playing Monopoly.
Monopoly is cancelled! How will I party now?
Cancelled Monopoly is the best way to play Monopoly.
Monopoly would be a less irritating game if people stuck to the bloody rules.
No no, it’s fine mate, I’ve got a house rule, and that rule is that I can’t ever lose, mate.
I also can’t win, because it’s bloomin’ Monopoly, but regardless of how unlucky I am, I will stay in the game forever to taunt you.
There’s always strip monopoly…
if you land on free parking, you take an article of clothing from every other player.
Fun for the whole family!
Unless you’re Rolf Harris…
…
Too soon?
I’m getting really tasteless ads on YouTube for some anime MMORPG called Onigiri. I’ve seen multiple variations of Onigiri ads, and none of them have featured women with shirts. It’s either a really pervy game, or the devs are trying to pull an Evony/Agarest and have no nudity whatsoever.
Either way, idiots are probably going to play the game and make it profitable.
I think those ads reached their peak offensiveness when they animated the breast area of the women to grow and shrink on a repeated loop, as though breasts are now some sort of flashing light to alert men that women are in the area.
Yeah? Gameplay for it looked actually kind of reasonable for a free to play MMO. Also the stuff I saw had the usual assortment of shirts, chainmail bikinis and whatnot that you’d expect from an Asian fantasy MMO.
But also I don’t get ads on Pootube so I possibly haven’t seen the ones you’re complaining about.
Just watched an Elite video, and it had a pretty cool song in the background. Ramming Speed, by Turbo-Laser. Liked what I heard so looked them up and gave Ultra Metal a listen.
It is hilarious and awesome and baw why do they only have four videos up.
Elite, as in the new space game based on the Elite of old?
I thought he meant sniper elite
hahah well that’s why I asked! I’m not sure what he means either! But I came across the e3 video for elite (space game) last week or the week before, and it looks AWESOME! Hoping he was talking about that cos I’m totally hype for it!@
Yes that one 😛
I’m totally hype for it also. Will likely be shelling out for the beta+expansion pass before the month is out (and the expansion pass is removed from sale).
oh yeah! this game looks totally killer! I loved playing Elite way back in the day, and this looks totally mind blowing in terms of scale! One of the dev vids I was watching, the guy was saying he can’t wait to just load up his ship with as many spare parts as it can carry, and just head as far out as possible. Given how many star systems they have in there, that would be some seriously epic journey!
This video touches on a few of the points that makes me want it so bad!
I only ever knew of Elite back in the day, but had no idea it was a “thing” at all. It was just some game my cousins had on their NES that we didn’t know how to pronounce (“e-light”), but we never actually played. Having looked it up since, I can’t believe that we didn’t because that wireframe 3D would have made me crap my pants and want to steal the cart for myself 😛 And now I’m bummed my aunt threw out all their Nintendo stuff, and without even checking if we would have liked it…
I hadn’t actually watched all that much on this one, mostly just been reading things about it. But I went and watched that video now and hype is escalating further. Thanks 😛
I’m eyeing off a Wii U later this year, mainly for Legend of Zelda and Smash Bros.
I tried playing the new Mario game, and I couldn’t bring myself to enjoy it as much as the Wii version.
Which Mario? 3D World was great (although I liked the Galaxies more) but I think the 2D Wii U Mario games were a little bit poo 😛
I’m totally biased though cause I prefer 3D Mario over 2D 😀
3D World.
I just didn’t find it enjoyable.
How far through it did you get? I didn’t think much of it at the start, but once I got into it more I loved it.
I can appreciate both for what they are. Despite all the haters out there saying new super mario u is poo, they did actually do a really great job on the game. When you consider it was really only meant as a visual upgrade to the gameplay of old, they really did hit the mark. It feels like an old mario game, yet looks new and crisp! I understand some people prefer the whole 3d thing, and I too like the 3d games, but they’re not really meant to be compared to each other.
It’s a bit like the deal with shadow warrior and rise of the triad. They weren’t really made to be whole new directions for the games, rather they tried to keep the game feeling the same, while bringing the visuals up to current gen levels, and they did a fantastic job imo!
I’ve yet to play 3d world, so I can’t really offer an opinion on it, but I can’t wait to try it! Mate of mine said he’d send it to me once he’s finished with it, so I just have to be patient! 🙂
Just make sure you’ve got some multiplayer buddies! It’s one of those games that’s alright in singleplayer but gets way more fun when there’s more than one person playing.
Unless they’re shit. Then they become the worst games in the universe.
Uh, what? Rise of the Triad was extremely faithful to the source material, but new Shadow Warrior wasn’t. Nobody cared that Shadow Warrior was more linear, because KATANAS!
I know Shadow Warrior isn’t exactly faithful to the original in terms of most things, but I was referring more to the way it feels when you play it.. like the feel of moving around and such. They didn’t add any fancy physics or shit that can make stuff like that feel slower/more realistic. They kept it feeling like one of the FPS games of old.
https://soundcloud.com/turbo-laser/sets/turbo-laser-the-album-1
New favourite thing.
Just a quick reminder…
Just a number of reminders in one…
Ugh… 3:30am…
I should sleep…
Goodnight.
First post of the new day…gonna go have fondu or is it fondo I dunno
fondue?
aka hot goupy cheesey stuff!
Hot goupy chocolate* stuff from Max Brenners
Thats the one
If someone who’s around could check out my blog and see if it looks all professional-like, that would be handy. I need to make sure it’s ready for my Sew-Vivor audition post this week. Scary!
http://strangestitches.blogspot.com.au/
Edit: Just to clarify, I’m not looking for tips on aesthetics or anything like that, just want to know if it appears to look professional enough. 🙂
Sewvivor :D!
#Helping
Looks good to me, but I’m not overly familiar with professional sewing blogs.
Thanks for checking for me, anyway!
I’d make a few suggestions, but I can’t really without knowing more about how the whole thing is constructed. I’ve never used a blogspot site before, so I’m not sure what options are available for customization of the interface etc. I think it’s good the way it is, and doesn’t really need changes, but if I knew more about what’s actually possible, I could suggest some things to dress it up a little more.
Thanks Welbot. It just needs to be simple, and make my pictures look pretty, really.
I just wanted to make sure it didn’t scream “Amateur! She has no idea what she’s doing!” 😛
it looks nicer than a lot of blog posts I’ve seen!
Sure looks better than mine 🙂
I don’t know about that, there’s a distinct lack of tasty foods on mine!
The only thing that bugs me about it is the font for the dates of each post is in black on that dark background, which makes them really hard to see. I know that’s an aesthetic thing but I dunno if it’s something you have control over or that would have any impact on making it look professional, so thought I’d mention it anyway 😛
No matter which colour I tried, somebody complained they couldn’t see it, or else it stuck out too much, drawing your eye to the dates. To me, the dates things were posted is not super-important, so I just left it at black. you can read it if you want to, but it doesn’t draw your attention to it if you don’t want to read it.
Thanks for checking it out for me! 🙂
Although if your young eyes think it’s super-unreadable, maybe I could adjust the transparency of the background to provide more contrast.
The Completed Quilts section is a good idea! (is that a new addition? Maybe I just didn’t see it before) Saves me from having to go through all of your posts just to see some finished stuff. All your content is put together well too (lots of images is always good!)
If I had to be nitpicky and change two things, they’d be:
– I would probably get rid of the “Adventures in Stitching” text from under the banner. Just looks a tad out of place (or just move it somewhere else, like on the banner itself somewhere) …but that’s an aesthetic change that you didn’t want us to comment on 😛
– I’d make sure that each blog post has a short excerpt at the top that describes what the post is going to be about (I just noticed that a couple of them are just an image and a title with a ‘Read More’ on the homepage). Only has to be a sentence or two to give some context!
Good luck with Sewvivor! 😀
Thanks,Pow!
Yeah, the completed quilts section is new. I just hadn’t had a chance to do it before.
That “Adventures In Stitching” is the blog’s sub-header. It kind of has to be there as a short description of what to expect from the blog.
And as for the excerpts at the top, I’ve done that on almost all of them. The ones that are short are all the Mashaa Mondays because those posts are full of little bits of info so just the description of what Mashaa Monday actually is, is all that’s necessary on the front page.
The only one that doesn’t have any context was impossible to do without having pictures in the wrong place(as I’m making sure there’s a picture on the front page for each post) and a wall of text on the front page. So yes, having context on the front page is definitely something I’ve been striving for.
(Edit: A fair amount of sewing/quilting blogs I’ve seen have the whole post on the front page, and that annoys the crap out of me so I didn’t want to be like them. :P)
Thanks again for your input. 🙂
Last night was fun. We freaked @liondrive out with an E.T. Plush which @freezespreston is the owner of also @dc thought it was adorable. He was the only one who had this thought.
ET is freaky as!
Especially when it looks like it’s pointing and staring into your soul! :'(
Orange Is the New Black is great 😀
Thanks TAY hivemind!
EDIT: I’m pretty sure this is my new favourite thing!
Pokemon Fire Red – Power of Love Run
I remembered that I downloaded ROM hack tools for Fire Red a while back, and never used them for anything. I decided to change that. Since the ROM hack tools let me place Pokemon locations wherever I want, I decided to create a run exclusively using Pokemon that I like, but never get a chance to use. They include:
-Teddiursa
-Venonat
-Swinub
-Huntail
-Magby
-Mareep (Okay I use this Pokemon all the time but I love it give me a break)
These Pokemon may not be all that great, but it doesn’t matter. I have the power of love on my side. Of course this list of Pokemon will have to be switched out every now and again to accommodate for Tropius, the best HM Slave there ever was.
Gorbachev the Teddiursa has been picked as my starter.
Just beat Brock. My cute little Swinub Ryuko is a very effective killing machine now that she has learned Powder Snow. My current team is:
–Gorbachev the Teddiursa at level 13 (Shut up, I was thinking of Russia at the time)
–Ryuko the Swinub at level 12 (Shut up, I was thinking of Kill la Kill at the time)
–Valkyrie the Venonat at level 12 (Shut up, I was thinking of Skullduggery Pleasant at the time)
–HM Slave X the Tropius, currently residing inside the PC until I get any HMs
I was going to make a joke about Flonne from Disgaea but I have a feeling the only person on TAY that would get the joke is @negativezero
I would of got it, besides isnt a single solitary giggle all it needs to be successful
Everyone seems to prefer Etna, but Flonne is by far the best of them. That’s why Disgaea 4 was a return to form – they didn’t bring back Etna as a character like usual, they had Flonne.
The new updates to Titanfall are great! Matchmaking isn’t shit anymore, and there appears to be more content. (Burn cards, limited Titan Customisation, more modes)
However Respawn changed the maps. Literally. Maps seem bigger and I’ve discovered a bunch of secret hallways that weren’t there before. Titanfall already had rock-solid map design, so I guess I’ll have to see if these map changes are good in the long run.
Now that matchmaking isn’t shit, I may finally be able to play a game type other than attrition!
Nope.
This is exactly why I traded it in, matchmaking is shit, even though we’re supposed to have our own servers, and for an online only game that’s just bullshit. They’re gonna have a hard time selling a sequel, I know I won’t buy it, got burnt the first time, not again.
Still making my way through Bravely Default. Chapter 6. Everyone at Level 99, most jobs mastered. In the process of grinding out the last few jobs and then I’ll be unlocking Conjurer, swinging through the side bosses and then finishing the game
and then I’ll have to do it all again.EDIT: Maxed every class except the final one which I have yet to unlock.
Djokovic is a set down, but is serving for the 2nd set at 5-4.
EDIT: And Djokovic ties it up at 1 set all!Also (Formula 1 spoilers):
Lewis Hamilton won the British Grand Prix.Hmm?
Farewell TAY, you will be missed.
Actually you won’t be missed. I’ve been waiting for you to end all day.