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Morning everyone, how was your weekend?
Mine was interesting, the missus finally agreed to move back to Adelaide, then yesterday I’m at work and I get a call from my boss. He wants me to be the manager and he’s gonna give me at least another $70 a week (after tax). On top of the other pay rise he gave me a few months ago that makes a total of $170 a week extra than what I was getting a few months ago, how could I say no. So it looks like we won’t be moving back after all, sorry guys.
On a side note, got the day off today, so I thought I’d play games all day seeing schools gone back and the wife’s at work, chucked in Ryse to mop up the rest of the achievements “this game requires a 5. something gig update. What! screw that, I’ll be waiting hours, fine I’ll play Dead Rising 3 instead, and I’ll set Ryse to update tonight when my son gets home from school, so it’s ready to play when he goes to bed tonight.
Also, it’s friggin’ freezing this morning -0.4C. BRRRRRRRR Lousy Smarch weather.
-0.5 here. I win?!
I finished the Wolf Among Us this weekend!!
What the hell was up with that little bit at the end with Nerissa?Same. I couldn’t work it out either, had to do some searching, see my post below.
oh man, i just got an XBONE on friday night, only got about 3 hours into Ryse on saturday, about half hour into forza, and about 20min into DR3… was planning to get some gaming in friday night, but this is how it went:
Unpacked XBONE
turned it on: 900mb update.
configured it.
popped ryse in
“This game requires an 8.6gb update”
figured id be able to play as soon as it installs.
about 35min later it said it was ready.
started the game, selected Solo Campaign,
then it continued to install for another 30 mins…
figured this was going to be a trend, so i scanned my Forza code, queued my games with gold games, project spark, popped in the dead rising 3 disc and let all the downloads and updates run overnight.
correct me if im wrong, but there seems to be no way of running a game without updating it unless you disconnect the xbone from the internet.
Yeah, it really sucks man. It’s the Xbone’s biggest downfall. It seems like everytime you leave a game for a couple of weeks it’ll come up with an update the next time you go to play it, and they ain’t small.
I’d have to say that the size and frequency of Xbone updates is the single biggest reason that made me upgrade my internet from 50GB a month to unlimited.
Same issue with the PS4, I’ve gotten into a habit now where I put the games in as soon as I get them let the updates run and then go to the gym! I haven’t had any problems with playing the games after the update the though, the PS installation usually just goes on in the background and so far hasn’t gotten in the way?
yeah but on the ps4 they arent as big an issue. i can still play the game (offline at least) whilst the update downloads in the background… on the xbone however, you cant even play single player games.
I love how, so far, the only games I’ve noticed that use the ‘play as you download’ have been exclusives. Only a handful of others do. Such a waist of an amazing feature.
Hearing about the updates is the biggest long term thing that’s making me nervous about the XB1. I’m assuming that it’ll eventually have a sustainable enough library to justify a purchase but given the fact our national communications infrastructure is a few bribes away from regressing back to string and tin cans, I’m more than a little concerned about mandatory updates larger than many steam games…
Yeah, I hadn’t touched Dead Rising 3 in a while, popped in the disc and it said there was a 16 odd gig update.
It’ll be interesting to see how they handle patches for the PC version. I’m guessing it’s something like replacing several entire archives that are in the multi-gig range rather than just updating them
Man i am so keen to get an XBONE!! I am however not keen for the massive and constant updates. Atleast i’m not on ADSL1. I love the Forza Motorsport franchise, i’d also love to play Horizon 2 when it comes out, as well as Halo: Master Chief Collection. Dead Rising looks super fun, although i might get that on PC instead. I just got married in March, man living on one income is tough. :/
I know what you mean man… we are on single income too. would have never gone further out of pocket to buy the xbone. I have my “gaming money” which is very limited, so for me to get the xbone, i had to sacrifice all my ps3 stuff, as well as my 3ds.. which wasnt such a big deal as i hadnt turned my ps3 on in 8 months, and my 3ds has barely gotten an hours use out of it in the last 6 months. since i finished pokemon Y and Links awakening.
Wow that is a big call mate. I’m not quite ready to let my PS3 go, as i am currently replaying the Uncharted series, and i haven’t played The Last of Us yet. I am unlikely to get a PS4, so i can’t play it on that either. The 3DS i have was originally mine, then given to my brother, now borrowed to play Pokemon X. Just completed my Dex last month. Woohoo!!
Does anyone know if XBONE has 3D Bluray support yet?
not sure. i actually found it bizarre that i had to download an app for bluray movie playback on the xbone…
depending how attached you are to the ps3, at the moment assuming you have a slim, you could prob flog it off for a couple of hundred with a couple of games like i did. seems to be a going rate. jb hifi has awesome trade in deals for the rest of the games; i got almost 120 for 8 OLD games. and you could always price match the ps4, ive seen them for about $450…. catch is there is still a bit of a drought, at least on AAA titles… but thats about to change. as at the end of this month there is plenty coming up from thereon out. I preordered Last Of Us Remastered for $49 from dicksmith which was a bargain.
i find that as i jump generations with consoles i completely stop using the old ones. my ps3 hadnt been turned on in 8 months roughly. i prefered to get rid of it whilst i can still get some decent money for it, considering i dont use it, and put that towards new gaming habits.
Unfortunately i have the Fat 40GB PS3 with a 160GB HDD in it. So i wouldn’t get quite as much for it. I think i will probably just end up waiting. I have a pretty decent gaming PC, so i might just play Project Cars when it comes out on PC instead of Forza on Xbox. Actually it looks like my wife might have some work soon, so finger crossed. I’ll have an XBONE by the end of the year. 😉
Neither XBone nor PS4 has 3D Bluray support as of yet.
Even then, it requires the game disc to install to the HDD. No getting around it.
yeah but i mean, the same game on the ps4 takes <10secs to instally and you cna start playing immediately, as it keeps copying content whilst playing. why cant they do the same on the xbone?
I think there is a ‘play during install’ thing going for the XBone, but it varies by game (usually limited to a demo mode, rather than proper game, afaik), and is slower than the PS4 one. Example: FIFA lets you play an exhibition match or two while it’s installing.
What day is today?
It’s @redartifice’s birthday
What a day for a birthday!
Let’s all have some cake!
(and you smell like one too *snicker*)
hip hip hurray \o/
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RED!
HAAAAAPPYYYYY BIIIIIRRRRTHHHHDAAAAAYYYY!!!!!! @redartifice, go to hell you old bastard :p
Happy B’day @redartifice !!! Hope you’re hungover =P
Happy birthday Red. May all your rolls be a natural 20 on this fine day.
HAppy Birthday @redartifice !!!!!!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday Redfoo!
Oh god. Poor @redartifice
Oops I mean Red fool. 😀
Happy BDAY man!
Hooray red! Or should that be grey now?
All of the birthday wishes for Red!
HAPPY BORTHDAY RED!
Let’s give a (late) generic birthday greeting for @redartifice !
Re-post from weekend TAY.
The Wolf Among Us final episode.
Put Georgie out of his misery, then it was off to deal with Bloody Mary, that fight pissed me off, until wolfie hoofed and poofed (that was cool). Then on to The Crooked Man, strangled that bastard without a second thought. Now back at The Witching Well Snow’s raking me over the friggin’ coals, Fuck you Snow, I’m the sheriff around here. and yeah, shut the fuck up BluebeardDidn’t really understand the ending, maybe I’m just a bit slow, but after some searching apparently the consensus is that Nerissa was actually a glamoured Faith.All in all I’d say that TWAU was very enjoyable, can’t wait for season 2.
Firstly I actually didn’t kill the Crooked Man, held him up for trial and what happens when you do that is you see the reactions of all the people you’ve helped or screwed over from the last 4 episodes! Helping them out means they’re more like to listen to your case, if not the Crooked Man could win them over! Choosing not to kill him gives the game much more of a cause and effect feel!Secondly with the ending I don’t think Nerissa was a glamoured Faith, that doesn’t make sense if you think that hypothesis through. First off with that hypothesis people argue that Nerissa was the one killed and then glamoured to look like Faith and her head placed in front of the woodlands. If that was the case Georgie would’ve known who was killed given he did the killing and realized something afoot with Faith’s head showing up. If Nerissa was already glamoured to look like Faith before being killed why would she voluntarily put herself in that situation? And not take the glamour off when Georgie tried to kill Faith? I think the more realistic assumption is that Nerissa glamoured herself to look like Faith at the start of the story maybe to cover Faith’s shift with the Woodsman. When the Wolf gets involved she uses this scenario to bring his attention to her situation (i.e. her ribbon) or get the Sherrif invested in Faith’s well being given she would’ve known something was going to be done to Faith for stealing from Ichabod Crane. Following that you deal with the Nerissa un-glamoured for the remainder of the story and what gives her away at the end is her using the same lines. Basically this implies that she had planned Faiths murder as a means to bring attention to the situation she was in and needed that to escape.Ok, did a bit more searching, this time on the Telltale forums. They seem to think that after Faith has the encounter with the Woodsman at the start Nerissa for some reason glamours herself to look like Faith (maybe she knew Faith was going to be killed, and did it to sacrifice herself so Faith could live), then Faith glamours herself to look like Nerissa, so, the whole time you think you’re talking with Nerissa, she’s actually a glamoured Faith.That theory doesn’t fit Nerissa’s character though! From everything the Nerissa you deal with tells you she seems like someone who was willing to do anything to get out of the fucked up situation she was in, placing the head on the steps, tattling on Faith and Lily and also when you go to trial for the Crooked Man she actually comes in last minute as a witness saying she heard him order the killings but later confesses to you privately she lied so that the Crooked man could be killed. Her personality seems to be one of doing whatever she can to get what she wants. Once again if Nerissa believed Faith was going to be killed it doesnt fit that she would volunteer to look like her! Working under the assumption Faith did steal something from Ichabod that led to her death and Lily’s it makes sense for Nerissa to have told on them, it fits her overall character up to that point. I like to follow Ockham’s Razor and the plot where Nerissa and Faith swap glamours with each other seems too convoluted a plotline, also if you pay attention at the very end there’s one line that Nerissa says that was actually used by Bloody Mary something like “see you later…. Wolf” hinting that Bloody Mary was somehow involved in the glamours. Personally given all the speculation the simplest explanation is Nerissa was glamoured as Faith at the start to cover her shift and then used the run in with Bigby to garner sympathy or hint towards what was going on behind his back, it would be too risky for Faith to glamour herself to look like Nerissa given that the glamours don’t seem to be perfect meaning at any point in time either Vivian, Georgie or Lily could’ve picked up on the fact that Faith was glamouring herself to be Nerissa. The explanation with the fewest plot holes is that Nerissa was herself the whole time except at the start.Well shit man, I don’t know, it’s all too confusing, my brain hurts.
Damn you Telltale!
Yeah all the possible theories have various plot holes in them, so there isn’t on definitive one yet!
To be honest that bit at the end feels really forced and doesn’t exactly fit into anything in the existing story until Telltale release a one off game like 400 days where you play the game as Nerissa or Faith! I was actually quiet pleased with how I played through the game, was absolutely ruthless to dickheads but showed generosity to people I felt were just dragged into a shitty situation so yeah I killed one of the Tweedles, ripped of Gren’s arm but for some reason I didn’t feel it was right to kill the Crooked Man, it wouldn’t be right to be judge jury and executioner if we’re trying to return order to Fabletown =\ Weird how the human mind rationalizes these things huh, couldn’t bring myself to do it even though I knew with a trial there was a chance he’d get off scott free.So early, so much XCOM. Anyone else get in on the M&B:Warband weekend? Was great to see a 100 person match.
Long war or normal? I didnt get on it but I already own the game so would be willing to play it down the line when I get a better PC
Battle mode, standard mp fare. Still haven’t tested out sp.
I’ve gotten back into xcom over the last week of being sick myself, playing it with the steam game streaming thing since my laptop is too shit to play the game natively.
Are you using Enemy Within? That’s definitely worth buying if you’ve not got it, aside from the cool story, new faction, extra weapons and all that cool stuff, there’s one thing that justifies the purchase price for me, the foundry project Tactical Rigging. Carrying 2 items on each soldier is a bloody simple thing but damn its fantastic, no more choosing between medkit and nanofibre vest for your line infantry, no more sacrificing the extra point of health by dropping the nanofibre vest to take the arc thrower on you assault, no need to decide if you want your heavy to have extra health or the aim benefit from the scope… fantastic stuff.
Also having a team backed up by a level 3 MEC trooper laying down masses of heavy fire or dropping mines or flamer fire to deny avenues of approach to a rampaging horde of chryssalids is fantastic. Then again, there’s nothing quite like thinking “Hmm, there’s possibly enemies I could flank if I could get up on this roof but the downpipe to climb is exposed and I’d take fire… Oh wait, my entire team is genetically modified with Muscle Fibre Density, we can all just jump onto the roof from here!”
About 20hrs deep in vanilla campaign on normal difficulty. Thought I’d go through vanilla before upgrading to EW, and by the sound of it all my concerns with the game will be fixed. Hadn’t realised the expansion was so expansive.
It adds a good chunk of content for sure, Operation Slingshot is worth getting as well if you can get it cheap, it’s not very long but you get a few new missions, a decent heavy trooper and some damned good salvage out of it. Might be a bit disappointing by itself but integrated into the rest of the game it’s good and gives you a good injection of alloys, elerium & such when it’s damned handy. Also fusion cores which are needed for making the blaster launcher which is definitely worth doing and can normally only be gained from raiding battleship class ships.
If you’re curious about the Long War mod, this guy is doing long war stuff in his live & impossible series 2 playlist and goes into some detail about the changes the mod makes. Also he’s just entertaining to listen to.
Love beagles stuff, had the chance to play against him awhile back during one of his live streams playing NS2 really nice guy
Cheers, I’m tearing through the campaign, so I’ll have to look into new content by the weekend.
*yawn*
Holy crap! Just looked at the achievement list for Dead Rising 3, there’s 116 friggin’ achievements now worth 1860 Gamerscore. I’ve only got 13 achievements so far, I better get cracking, s’pose I’ll have to buy the season pass too.
I NEED A DR3 BUDDY!!!
Cool, I’m sure we can work something out. I don’t have a headset though.
Edit: How far are you into it? I’m only up to Chapter 3 (4 days 11 hours), level 14.
umm. ive driven a car to a workshop?
It’s been that long since I’ve played it I’m having to read through all the tutorials to figure out controls and stuff, so I’d say we’re pretty even at the moment.
start afresh! \o/ …also you need a headset! 🙂
Yeah, I thought about it. Also, awwww, do I have to.
YES!!!
@zetrox2k, Dammit! What’s the go with headsets anyway, can you just buy that headset adapter and use any old headset, or do you have to buy a proper Xbone headset?
Also, decided to delete my DR3 save and start again \o/
@evilmonkey – yeah im not a fan… im actually a big fan of being able to plug in my usb turtle beach headphones straight into my PS4 and being able to output all audio the the headset, as well as use the mic \o/
I… um… haven’t played that game since December? January? I’m scared of the massive update…
Yeah, I updated it overnight on the weekend because I knew it would be massive. It’s 16 odd gig.
Don’t buy a season pass just to get gamerscore, play a shitty tie-in video game with an achievement list that can be beaten in 15 minutes!
/helping
Nah, not buying it for Gamerscore, I’m enjoying the game, extra Gamerscore is just a bonus.
Thank you everyone I had the pleasure of meeting for helping to make this trip one of the best times in my life :’)
I seriously couldn’t ask for better friends, and am glad all of you are in my life :’)
Dreading returning to WA right now, but I’ll cherish these memories forever :’)
I’ll definitely make it back over at some stage, so don’t any of you Brisbane TAYbies think you’ve seen the last of me 😉
I’ll do a proper write up of my trip tomorrow 🙂
Prepare to get barraged by your sister saying “your so lucky you could of been killed by thise people, you dont know them they could be rapists or worse..jay walkers!”
His sister sounds like my wife.
Confirmed: @liondrive is @evilmonkey brother in law.
May God have mercy on us all!
That makes the flirting all the more weird.
I didn’t flirt with him, I just made a joke and he came on to me.
Yay! So when do you come visit sydney!!!!
Yeah lion! What’s with the discrimination to Syd based TAY’s?! =p We can show you what a Glue store looks like!! =P
Presumably a glue store would be all sticky
Glue damn you not glue!
Upper case and sticky then!
He hates us.
Understandable.
Just some of you
*glares at @powalen*
😀
Haha, I’ll get there eventually 🙂
I missed some of my other friends who wanted to see me this visit, which sucked, but was alright, so I need to come back 🙂
Sydney would be the next place I visit, and I still plan on moving to Melbourne in just over a year 🙂
There’s no love for anywhere else though 😛
And with that Adelaide shed a single tear.
See, now I feel bad for making that joke, haha! :S
is that because only one person lives in adelaide?
Hey, you leave Adelaide alone. *shakes fist*
Everyone who lives there bags the shit out of the place, but once you leave you realize how much you miss it.
I know, One of my best mates comes from there. He grumbles about missing it every now and then
I’ve only ever visited, but I miss it too.
And will forever bag the shit out of it 😛
You haven’t even thought about wagga have you? You monster!
Yes, imagine all the fun things one can do when they visit. I say imagine because there are no actual fun things to do here and you have to imagine it.
Oi shut up, if I can’t trick @liondrive into visiting wagga by making it sound like something other than a hole full of shit, the only person I have to talk to here is you!
What is it with people from Perth wanting to move to Melbourne?
You’re still young.
You haven’t realised just how horrible Perth is yet 😛
Morning errbody hows every little thing? Last week I did a short course to become a real estate agents representative and so if I pass that I can get work in the real estate industry which would be cool.
Following that I had a rant on twitter on saturday about a friend who we let stay over the night stole cathryns make up brushes which were $170 and they were an anniversary present so thats really annoying.
Following that we went to two 21st birthday on Saturday and after we asked the person who we believe stole the brushes they said they were sick so wont make it to the 21st even though when someone asked her that morning if she was going she said yes. So didnt get home till 3am Sunday morning.
Other than that weekend was uneventful and now it’s red’s birthday happy birthday @redartifice hope you have an awesome day and party in the way in which you like to party \o/
Didn’t catch that on the Twitters, that sucks man, people are shit. At least you know what kind of person she is now, and that she’s not really a friend.
Yeah but shes thoroughly denying it and now because we asked her if she did and she said no now shes gone defensive and is like I cant believe you would accuse me some friend you are I dont want to be friends with someone who would accuse me of theft. Even though shes admitted to taking other peoples things just coz
Buy this house!
No
Aw please? I’ll be your best friend!
Ill sell your house awe please let old gill sell your house
Well, the World Cup is over for another 4 years. Yay for returning to regular sleep patterns, boo because I really enjoyed watching it.
I had a pretty good day on Saturday. I went to the National Automobile Museum of Tasmania with some friends and saw some awesome cars and bikes, including an E-Type Jaguar, which is possibly my favourite car of all time. Apparently my Dad used to own one, so I am jealous.
After the museum visit, we went for a bbq at the Punchbowl, a really beautiful park with free bbqs (that are actually pretty decent and usually fairly clean). It was only 10-11 degrees, but really nice in the sun.
Finally, for those who missed it, my Dad bought me a slow cooker. Can’t do anything with it yet, as I don’t have any ingredients, but I will use it as soon as I can. I suspect Wednesdays and Sundays will be my days for using it.
And now the wait begins for the Asian Cup. Oh man, the games in Brazil were absolutely fantastic so I’m mega-hyped for more soccer. I’m sad that the Netherlands missed out again but Germany was just the better team in every match they played. Well deserved victory for Deutschland.
Yeah, Germany was brilliant. Can’t believe Messi won the golden ball though. I’d love to go to an Asian Cup game, but the closest games to me are in Melbourne, which would require airfares and accommodation on top of match tickets. 🙁 I’ll stick to watching it on tv. European season starts up soon though, so I’m looking forward to watching Premier League and Primera League action.
Watch the Bundesliga and Serie A if possible. As much as the EPL and La Liga like to think they’re the best in the World, that’s only true in terms of how much money each league takes in. Obviously the Germans have just won the World Cup, but they’ve done that by organising the Bundesliga to be more competitive and based more on homegrown talent.
I’d love to watch the Bundesliga and Serie A, unfortunately I don’t have Setanta Sports so I can.
After the last World Cup the Germans looked the most likely to go on as a team and win this one. I’m a massive massive fan of the way the Bundesliga is now set up and just wish the FA (English) will finally take note and place restrictions on foreign ownership and foreign players. They won’t because money, but depends whether they actually want to win a tournament at any point or not.
This has been the best World Cup in some time though. Big teams not even turning up and smaller teams really giving it a go. Loved the fact that football in USA has the chance to build on a successful World Cup but that depends (much like over here) on how much it’s kept in the public eye or whether it’ll just disappear for the next 4 years.
Got tickets for the Asian Cup final. Season ticket for the Roar as well and I’m dragging my missus to every match as she was loving the World Cup but now to see if she can overcome her dislike for crowds and sit, well stand, in the singing section of Suncorp Stadium 😀
So jealous. I’ve only been to one A League match, and that was in 2008. Sydney FC v Perth Glory, and Glory won 4-1. I watch it on tv as much as possible, but it’s not quite the same. I think the Socceroos have more of a chance to build on the World Cup because of the Asian Cup being here next year. January, February and March are going to be awesome with the Asian Cup and the Cricket World Cup both being held here.
Good morning all. I hope everyone is swell. My weekend was pretty jam packed of RPG goodness.
Ancient Rome Pathfinder (with me as GM):
The party fought off some marauding Scythian horsemen raiders and conversed with an old wise man of the woods. They then fought and killed some ogres and are on their way to the Dacian kingdom.Also they may have enslaved half of the ogres and the raider leader and sold them on the slave/monster market. Which I gave EXP for. This might prove problematic if they start choosing to capture rather than kill everyone and eveything they find.
Pathfinder set in the Warhammer Fantasy world (with me as player):
We fought through a bunch of Naga that were assaulting a Dwarvish hold and managed to seal the port shut and trap most of the army outside. I (as a fighter) proceeded to get smashed into the ground by a huge water elemental while our ranger/monk slayer dwarf thought it was a good idea to jump into the churning waters that surrounded a Naga aqua sorcerer and try and axe it good.The fight ended when the slayer pulled a DBZ Goku move, grappled the Naga sorcerer and held it in place while our wizard did the Piccolo and special beam cannoned (fire bolted) through both of them, killing the Naga and the slayer. Turns out though that the slayer died in such a way that they received the favour of Vulcan, the Dwarven god of fire, and so came back as an Azer fire dwarf. Who now cannot swim otherwise she will die when her fire goes out (Charmander style).
Oooo before I forget! I’m all good for next Tuesday for the RPG session!
Just double-checking, have you picked up a microphone yet?
I shall before this session commences! Alternatively I’ve discovered I can also join via mobile phone! So I’ll look into that option as well =]
Edit: I still need to put aside some time to go over all my weaponry and armor stats +__+ and I’m still pretty hazy on the mechanics surrounding skills/rolls/movement etc but I’m guessing I’ll get the hang of it by playing?
We covered a few of the mechanics and how things work after you left the session so watch from about the second hour onwards of the recording. It should help explain a few things.
Also, I don’t know how well joining by mobile phone might work as it might trigger some of the reverb and echoing that you were getting last time. Considering you will need to roll using the roll20 app then I don’t know if that is even possible on the phone version.
Didn’t @redartifice use the mobile app for one session? I recall there being an issue with echoing.
Yeah, hence why I’m a little wary of the functionality of the mobile version. And communicating by text for an entire session would be tricky to say the least so a mic is ideal.
Yeah just looked into that and realized I need an app within the hangout to join in! All good I shall get the mic this Thursday/weekend !! Was hoping the phone might work since that’s how I join mumble for Dota 2 matches =] I shall also endeavour to finish my Tau drone model by Tuesday! It shall be a shrine to the drone you killed! :'(
Tyranids killed it. 😛
If they continually try to capture and sell slaves you should make it so they get attacked during the night by the slaves.
“The slaves break out during the night and steal your weapons … good luck”
Bit hard to break out when their means of capturing slaves alternates between cinderblock manacles and collars of permanent Command. Can’t really escape that sort of binding.
One of the slaves is immune to mind affecting spells and breaks the rest of the slaves out?
Even if I throw that at them then I’m sure they’d figure out a way to enslave it. These players are rather crafty when it comes to making money/experience.
Raiders raid during the night and break the shackles on your slaves, they steal your slaves as their own and escape into the night. No money or exp
Long xboner post coming.
So, I got rid of all my PS3 stuff. Except for one controller which i wanted to keep.
Got a LOT more than i expected to be honest.
Sold my 500gb HDD with Batman Arkham Asylum and Mortal Kombat for $200. Threw in my Rockband and AC/DC Rockband with 2 guitars, & drums simply because i just wanted to get them out of the house as theyve been sitting in my garage all this time.
Basically i hadnt turned it on since november when i bought the PS4.
I wanted to grab an xbone, so i grabbed about 8 games i had sitting there and figured id trade them in towards the xbone. these were all REALLY old titles (incuding haze, sega mega drive collection, etc)
EB offered me $25. Grabbed them all, walked over next door (literally to JB Hi-Fi, girl scans them all, and OFFERED ME $117!!! Score! \o/
Price matched EB’s deal for the XBONE, ($598 with Forza 5, Dead Rising 3, Titanfall, and Ass Creed), had her discount Ryse for me to $50 and it was a done deal!
@kermitron Is grabbing my Ass…….. creed as i already have it on PS4. (Its already in the post office box in an Express Post next day delivery envelope buddy!)
so first impressions?
Cons:
The box is BIG… REALLY BIG.
External PSU
Controller is awesome, though a built in Li-Ion battery would have been nice.
find myself constantly launching games by accident from dashboard.
Take FOREVER to install games
If a game requires an update, it wont even let you launch it until it finished updating.
Pros:
Kinect FOV is amazing. thank god they fixed that
Absolutely love the “Xbox use a code” and kinect scanning codes.
Ryse is absolutely Jawdropping. Also it is a blast.
Weird things:
If a game requires an update, it wont even let you launch it until it finished updating.
not sure if im just a noob, but couldnt find a way to just view all games available on live, or sort them… all i could find was top sellers, new releases, and recommendations. i think im doing something wrong.
Also to reiterate, Ryse is an amazing game. if you have an XBONE, and dont own it, GET IT NOW.
Pitty Crytek/MS couldnt sort IP rights and get a sequel happening… this is something MS needs to be a part of.
Also, i need more xboners. so drop me your GT’s or add me! (Zetrox2k)
The Xbone UI takes some getting used to, all I can say is keep fiddling with it. I’ve found the best way to manage digital titles you own is to pin them to your homepage. I believe I will probably delete finished games more frequently on the Xbone too, I’ve only got a half dozen games installed and I’ve apparently used 80% of our hard drive.
I keep meaning to check out Ryse but I think I’ll wait til I see it on sale. I have plenty to be going on with and I’ve bought far too many games at full price and not played them til they were way cheaper so I’m trying to be more responsible with my funds (preorder of Destiny Ghost edition notwithstanding).
You’ll find that the Xbone will be in fast boot mode by default meaning it just goes to sleep instead of powering off. This is great for fast booting but it does have some memory issues so you’ll periodically want to put it in “energy saving mode” so it shuts down properly. It’ll mean a long boot next time you power it on but it’s not that big a deal – just something to be aware of.
I’m surprised to like the controller right off the bat given you’ve been using a PS4 for awhile. I think people who transitioned directly from 360 to Xbone found the controller felt a bit cheap. I’ve grown used to it now, but it was a bit disappointing at first, especially because when I held a PS4 controller for the first time I was very impressed with the step up from the PS3.
I’ve used about 85.5% of my Xbone hard drive (I think). Think I’ll end up getting a 2-4 Terabyte external for it eventually. Also, I don’t think I’ve got you in my friends list, can’t find your deets on taynames. What’s your Gamertag?
Kermitron, same as here. I think I might have tried to add you once but the way friends/followers works I swear I’ve added people who still don’t appear properly. It’s probably just me.
Cool, I’ll add you today.
Yeah, that friends/followers system is stupid and sucks balls. Doesn’t notify of friend requests, and doesn’t really allow you to deny them, either.
I like the fact I can follow people, like if I want to see activity feeds for “celebrity” gamers like the Achievement Hunter crew, but it’s not clear who are proper friends etc. Admittedly I haven’t really investigated it properly since I haven’t been gaming online a lot yet, but it’s still an odd change from the 360 friendlist system.
i love the feel of the triggers, shoulder buttons and sticks. the vibration on the triggers is also phenomenal. Why didnt anyone think of that sooner?!?
also, Ryse is on sale at JB! $57! GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!!!!
also for comparison, i think i preffer the PS4 controller by a long haul. even moreso if it had rumble triggers!!!!
I did not know that! I’ll discuss it with the wife tonight and see what our budget is like after I’ve paid you for Asspirates. We were hoping to get it cheap in the XBL Gold sales they kicked off last month but we were still a tad underwhelmed by what they considered a sale price.
I don’t own an Xbone yet (possibly not ever, but I will probably cave in when next Gears and Halo are out) but the impression I got from it was that they designed the UI around using it with your voice and not making it functional without Kinect.
But IMO it’s a hell of a lot less messy than the PS4 interface, which is fucking horrid and a massive step back even from the PS3’s XMB.
I thought the Xbone UI was based around the Windows 8/tablet touchscreen interface. Kinect gesture/voice shortcuts are not dissimilar to a touchscreen I guess, but it’s not impossible to navigate using a controller once you learn where stuff is.
holy crap and i thought i was alone… The ps4 interface is horrid…
having to scroll through a single horizontal line for all games and apps…. they should burn the xmb and send it to the seventh layer of hell
i do like the xbone interface but it is SO cluttered. you end up starting apps completely by accident… The voice navigation so far for me has been bulletproof, somehow ive always had a very high success rate with utilising voice controls with kinect, siri, and many others.
sony really needs to invest some time redeveloping the OS side of its hardware. even the vita interface is just too much, but still leaps and bounds better than the ps4’s
I thought the PS4 interface was shocking from the instant I saw it. It’s got all randomly sized bits and looks messy, it surfaces a bunch of info I don’t care about and makes it hard to actually launch my stuff, and once I saw it I knew (and was right on this) that it would become unmanageable once you hit about 9-10 installed games, and I was right. The way it re-arranges stuff is really hard to get a handle on as well, is it most recently used first or what? The library is utterly dysfunctional too.
In the store if you look down the bottom of a column, say new releases for instance you should see three dots, click on that and it’ll take you to a page that has everything displayed.
Also, yeah, Ryse is the shiznit man, I absolutely loved it, short, but awesome.
but that just shows you all the new releases…. not all the games?
Nah, just double checked, it shows you all the games right back to Forza 5, NBA 2K14, Ryse etc.
youd think thered be a section called “ALL GAMES”?!?!?
Yeah, but that would make it too easy.
Microsoft have never been good at making UIs for consoles. Right back to the first xbox (which wasn’t the xbox one of course and you’d be mad to think it was!) the store UI was crap and only saved by the fact there was sod all on it.
The dash wasn’t exactly great on the XB#1 but it’s gotten worse over the years, more form over function and as always, less customisation has made it less user friendly.
GT is TheCracksAU
I’ll add you too.
This morning brought to you by the joy of watching Argentinians crying, a sniffling cold, no money for lunch or to get the train home and a cup of hot chocolate to dunk my doughnut in.
Happy Monday 😀
Everything Garfield ever taught me about Mondays was all a lie. I came in this morning to an email saying I got a payrise for some reason. \o/
Also saw Lorde on Saturday night with the guy who smiths cakes. I’m pretty sure I went blind for a while. Lights were quite heavily incorporated into the whole show and it got pretty intense at stages. The special guests were, um, something. I guess the problem with Lorde is that she only has one album and an EP under her belt, so it’s a very short show, but what you get in that 90 minutes or so is pretty good stuff.
And happy birthday to you RedArtifice! Old man.
I got a random payrise last month, though it was after the pay cycle so it doesn’t take effect until this month, which is… tonight! Yay!
Out of nowhere my boss calls me into his office and is all “mid-term uplifts are exceedingly rare, but…” and apparently I did something right because I’m a rare exception. It’s probably not going to be a huge amount after tax and all, but random pay rises are the tits. \o/
Buy me presents.
Every time I try to buy you a present you yell no and run away!
I’ve had 5 payrises since I started here nearly 3 years ago. It’s the first job I’ve had in 15 years where I’ve actually got one at all.
Does that include annual reviews as well? Every job I’ve stayed in more than a year had some sort of annual performance review which meant a wage increase.
You never got an increase to adjust for inflation …? D:
Nope.
Wow, wtf. I’m not sure that’s legal! But I am also too lazy to confirm that. 🙁
Completely legal to never offer a pay rise, you’re free to find employment somewhere else. Pay rises are a retention incentive.
Wait you’ve been there 3 years already?! Time flies…
Was it Safia? They’re from Canberra! They’re okay. They played Groovin the Moo a couple of years ago. Nothing particularly special, they just happened to have a hit on Triple J.
Lorde’s pretty rad though. When we saw her in January she was completely captivating for the entire set. Unbelievable for someone her age.
Yeah it was Safia. I just don’t think they had any real stage presence. They had an interesting sound, I wasn’t a fan of the vocals though.
But man, Lorde. Started off really good but the ending was just BAM hit BAM hit BAM hit BAM not an encore because she didn’t leave the stage technically and it was amazing.
FLAC or Live? What is better?
Welp, I can tell this Monday is going to be a particularly nasty one.
Weekend was alright, didn’t really do much yet again. Harry Potter, a short bike ride, and friend purchased Munchkin (RPG card game) to try on Sunday which was pretty awesome. Probably ruined some friendships, but FUCK PAUL.
Munchkin! Hilarity ensues.
This was a reply fail, but it’s gone now.
Finally got the 9th “full” ending in Binding of Isaac, and I have officially logged 100 hours. Funnily enough, I’ve been mainly using Cain because of his improved luck and never getting bad pills but the time I finished it this time I accidentally started with Isaac and not only had amazing luck with items but didn’t see a single pill the entire run.
Anyway, I think now the game is going to add another bunch of levels after Mom’s heart so it’s even longer and harder? I need to research this. Surely the Binding of Isaac is literally hell. It is my eternal punishment for having too many unfinished games. I can’t wait for the sequel.
The thing that really makes time breeze past playing this game is muting it and running TV shows in a small window, so I also spent the weekend marathonning season 4 of Parks and Recreation. I don’t think this show is better than The Office but I do like how there seems to be a point to it all, like the story arc was actually planned instead of an afterthought to generate drama.
I got Binding over the steam sales and man that game is hell >.< However I do what you do, where I window and mute it and watch a TV show while playing ^^ So far I’ve only managed to unlock Eve and having absolutely rotten luck in terms of progression =@ But somehow I seem to be getting a little bit further every time I try….
Eve isn’t bad but I I’ve been abusing Cain because he’s kind of OP even though he starts with reduced health. IIRC correctly you unlock Cain by collecting over 50 coins in a single playthrough? Or maybe that’s Judas.
I’m going to try and mix it up a bit moving forward because after the 8th ending I felt like I was beating my head against a wall.
Abuse the shit out of arcades if you find one. The machine that gives you coins for health doesn’t take soul hearts (the grey ones) so if the slot macines are dropping tons of health use it to generate more coins and continue the cycle.
Other than that 90% of the game is knowing the enemies and understanding their patterns.
I’ve actually been avoiding arcade machines! Same with slot machines, so far all I’ve gotten from bloody slot machines is pills =@ most of which just do bad things to me =,= And yeah getting the hang of the patterns is key but also getting some good drops early, one run I got the item that lets you shoot laser beams and went way further with that than I did with any of my previous runs!
Also I’m having a hard time figuring out the cards? Also what’s the purpose of the doors with spikes? There never seems to be anything useful behind them….
The spike door rooms contain red chests which have a chance of having good items but more likely spiders or bombs. I usually avoid them.
The cards do the same thing every time whereas the pills are randomised each runthrough.
2 of diamonds: doubles your current coins (or gives you 2 coins if you have zero)
2 of spades: same as above but for keys
2 of clubs: same as above but for bombs
2 of hearts: fills up to 2 empty heart containers
The tarot cards have an effect that drops items lasts just for the room you activate it in:
The Hierophant: drops 2 soul hearts
Justice: drops a selection of items, usually a key, a coin, a bomb, a random pill and a red heart
The Hanged Man: removes your body and turns you into a floating head that can fly over obstacles
The Empress: Mom’s giant foot comes down to crush an enemy (best saved for bosses, she’ll crush YOU if you use it in an empty room)
The Emperor: transports you directly to the boss room
The Tower: drops several bombs in the room (watch out, they can hurt you too)
Death: does a lot of damage to everything in the room, I don’t think it’s an insta-kill for bosses though
There’s others that I don’t recall off the top of my head but not many, you might want to research them.
The trinkets is a whole other story. I like Flat Penny because you have a 50% chance of getting a key whenever you pick up a coin, and Cancer because it doubles your fire rate. There’s also the Tick which I sometimes pick up just because it can’t be dropped so it prevents me accidentally picking up anything else, but it also cuts the HP of most bosses and I think it gives you back health whenever you enter a new boss room. I don’t remember. I’m usually not that spoiled for choice.
Just finished replacing the alpha map on 29 images because the arrangement of red and green subpixels made them look wrong when highlighted by mouseover and it bothered me.
#workinghard
On TAY.
#hardlyworking
Every time I think I’ve gotten past this cold it just comes back to kick my ass again. Just go away and leave me to die in peace you maniac.
So I guess even Mr Freeze can catch a cold =P
Dude, that was a chilly comeback. Stop it.
Picked up ZombiU for $10 on the weekend and then went home and played State of Decay… VIDYA GAEMS! \o/… How was everyone else’s weekend?
Glad to see your enjoying it you tried out the dlc yet?
Tried breakout and it’s pretty damned great! It’s just screaming for multiplayer though… That mode was just made for it 😛
One day hope they add it it would be amazing
As far as I can tell, Undeas Labs have moved onto their next project which sounds like State of Decay meets Day Z, or a State of Decay mmo 😛
I am hopeful that that willl work, I reckon state of decay 4p coop would of worked well
Had a great weekend.
Got over the disappointment of the problems with what was going to be my audition quilt for Sewvivor on Friday by making a whole little quilt in one day.
Then Friday night with TAY peoples was funasaurus rex (I drank a whole jug of a cocktail that had sliced up chillis in it!), followed by a pretty relaxing birthday. Was given some cool loot, and apparently my “main present” from Mr. Strange hasn’t even arrived yet so my birthday’s gonna be extended. Yup, I’ve decided it’s still my birthday until my present arrives. 😀
And yesterday we went to the place with the best chips ever – Country Chicken. Their chicken is awesome as well. It’s my favourite fast food place at the moment, and even talking about it now is making me drool. Or maybe that’s just because I’m an old lady. 😛
Happy birthweek!
Since it’s still your birthday, Happy Birthday Old Lady Strange :p
Happy B’day strange! What cool loots did you get?!
I was gifted a Freedom Call (a German “Happy Metal” band) T-Shirt to cut up and remake into something awesome, a necklace with the Sabaton (Swedish power metal band that sings about history and wars) logo, and three quilting books, one picked each by my husband and two kids. Also some moneys to go towards my epic sewing machine. \o/
Is an epic sewing machine a viking themed one with spikes and horns?
It is now!
*makes mental note to buy spikes and horns*
😀
Watched the new dr who trailer, 1 phrase sums it up: t rex in london, that is all
The king of the dinos.
See… that sounds like the best entry point to the series, to me.
But they’ve already done an episode which had dinosaurs running around on a spaceship!
Sounds like the plot of Dino Crisis 3.
And now I am sad for remembering that. /o\
They’ve also done an episode where there were dinosaurs in London.
Yeah but no one remembers that because it was more than 10 years ago. Also to be honest, some of the effects were best left forgotten.
Also Mike Yates should have been arrested for treason
I haven’t actually seen it, but I was brought up watching reruns of Classic Who on ABC on weekday afternoons, so I still enjoy watching it.
I tend to consider the new series as a reboot rather than a continuation of the classic series. It’s not the best show, but I enjoy it. Really looking forward to seeing what direction they take Capaldi’s Doctor in.
Clara, tell me – am I a good man?I…don’t know.PLEASE let us show a Dr who is a little more ruthless. PLEEEEAAAAASSEEEE.
Mostly done moving, now is just clean-up/cleaning to minimize the damage to the bond. (There’s always SOMETHING.) A few weeks of paying rent in two places is poopy, but not as bad as a couple years ago when I was locked into places for months…
The new apartment is pretty decent. The movers were top blokes, definitely earned their pay (River City Removals). It’s a good thing the trailer
axle brokewasn’t available (the axle breaking obviously not ideal for the owner), on reflection. No doubt whatsoever that what the movers did in three hours would’ve taken my previously-arranged ragtag crew of volunteers the entire day.I do miss the old place. That’s where we had our best days… I sent Kel a video tour of the place for old times’ sake and to refresh good memories.
Wasn’t where I planned to be, a couple years ago, but you make the best of things.
Out of all the times we’ve moved we have never paid a moving company, we’ve always just done it ourselves. Can’t bring myself to pay someone to do it.
Edit: Not only that, but I don’t like other people, especially people I don’t know handling my stuff.
You still in The Valley?
Noop. Lutwyche, now.
Northside for lyf. Also, neighbours with Beardy!
Lutwyche sounds like a boss in a fantasy game and is a witch that drops loot
Must be something about removalists. Everytime I move house, it takes them around 3 hours to pack my house, get to the new place and unpack! So good! I use a chinese mob called Happy Removals, and I’ve never paid more than $300 total! If I had to do it myself, it’d easily take a day or two!
these guys on their trucks.
I hope they have some ofSo it’s @redartifice’s birthday today. I wonder if the dice gods stop being jerks for people on their birthday? Also, Happy Birthday!
The dice gods do not show mercy, they just give false hope.
The dice gods choose days like this to make you reflect on all the good rolls you had during the previous year by making everything roll you make awful.
GOD DAMMIT! turned on Dead Rising 3 about an hour ago, played for about 5 minutes and died, then spent the rest of the hour faffing about on the internet. WHAT AM I DOING, I swear I spend more time on here than I do actually gaming these days. FUCK YOU INTERNET!
Since I’m from the internet and therefore assume this was directly aimed at me, in which case:
aw /o\ *moseys off*
😛@shane, I’m gonna be going down to the Post Office in about an hour and a half to send your Wii U. Are you sure you didn’t want any of that Skylanders stuff at all, because I only wanted that one figure. If you don’t want it, I’ll just trade the game and the other two figures in and include the cash with the rest of the leftover cash in a money order.
No worries, man. I don’t really want Skylanders, so whatevs. If it’s not too late, don’t get a money order – they’re a rip off. We can sort out a bank transfer at a later time.
But either way is fine. Thanks again!
My bank charges 30 bucks for a transfer unless it’s the same bank. Just finished at eb, they gave me a whole 10 bucks.
Blegh, still in bed.
Still wishing that his sore throat would piss off.
I’ve got a Steam key here for the Divinity Anthology (Divine Divinity, Beyond Divinity and Divinity II: Developers cut). I posted this on Twitter a week or so ago and somehow some random answered, and I was all like, Nah, I have no idea who you are, so I ain’t giving it to you.
Who wants it? Just to clarify, it doesn’t include Divinity: Original Sin.
Pageget \o/
You lost me at “doesn’t include Divinity: Original Sin” =P I actually got the Anthology a while back and those are some pretty solid RPG’s there!
Always annoys me when a random on Twitter tries to accept a free game from me, but it’s weird saying “anyone I know/any of my friends want a game?”.
Yeah, so, do you want it?
I had one guy do that when I had an extra SR3 code from a humble bundle, but he was a genuine-seeming dude who was really grateful and there was no one else who seemed to need it so I let him have it.
Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! Had a work thing on this morning so couldn’t jump on here straight away
I had a busy weekend playing games- went to the Magic prerelease Sat night, played “two headed giant” with a mate- basically a team variant where you share a life total and a turn. Stalled out to a draw in our first game, got slaughtered in our second by some INSANE combo decks and fought valiantly but lost our third game.
On Sunday, went to a board games day, played lots of games. New to me were Betrayal at House on the Hill (which I didn’t care for, really- too arbitrary) and Guillotine (slight, but I can see it being pretty neat).
A Monday Morning Question: Magic is a traditionally single player game, but having a team variant is great. What other games (board or video) need a team variant?
Game of Life. When you pick up your “Partner”, you get a second player to join your team. When you have “kids”, yet another player joins your team, etc. etc.
Also, inb4:
Pokemon MMO
Skyrim Co-op
Fallout Co-op/MMO
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of FALLOUT CO-OP YAYAYAYAYAYAY
I’d also like a Fallout no idea of the term so insert the appropriate term here.
For example, in New Vegas:
One of you starts with the New Republic.
The other…Ceasers Legion.
You have to continually do quests to gain the loyalty of the towns in the Mojave, and sabotage your other players efforts.
I’m surprised there isn’t a mod for it? There’s Half Life co op, or something else obscure.
For Skyrim, I heard it works fine for combat but the dialogue and quest trees break.
Oh, I remembered what it was. L4D 1/2 campaign co-op. Not sure if it’s an actual feature. Heh.
Man I’d play the crap out of a Pokemon MMO… I hate that Nintendo have taken so long in bringing Pokemon to consoles or even an open world version of the game 🙁
Nintendo.Hat.Money
Monopoly. Then you can replicate Wall Street accurately.
Also, tag-team Mario Kart with pit-stops or racing teams battling against each other, 3v3v3v3. T’would be glorious.
Mass Effect 4. (Divinity: Original Sin has sold me on the idea of dual-protagonist RPGs. Even when playing solo, roleplaying characters off each other is pretty great.)
Deus Ex 3
Shadowrun
KOTOR 3 (ohwait, they already did, it’s called SWTOR)
A quick skim of my Steam library shows that many, many more games than I realized already have co-op.
A multi player XCOM could be pretty cool although not sure which would work better
Co-op team performing missions or one person as XCOM and one as aliens
I think the idea I like the best is the concept of XCOM and YCOM. Both players are leading a super secret military organisation that is funded by the world governments. The amount of money you get from them depends on the actions you perform for them.
Each time a UFO is shot down both players have the choice to assist and claim salvage. Maybe if you are the first one there you have a set number of turn to clear the aliens and grab what you want otherwise the skyranger drops the opponents squad in.
Maybe have an area of control so when the last alien dies you claim whatever is in your squads area. So wanting you to push forward faster than you normally would to ensure you claim the lootz but balancing that with the danger to your squad.
I like this idea I also would add you could offer assisstance at a price say YCOM was over run and let out a distress to XCOM XCOM could accept if YCOM gave them the spoils ala munchkin style
I think any card game can be played in teams and works well I remember doing 2v2 yugioh duels in primary school which were fun. I reckon state of decay needed a team element
All the 🙁
You Ok Mister?
Sore throat, and my nose drips like a tap.
Ginger tea might be a good place to start 🙂
Got any honey and lemons? Lemon juice with just enough honey to take the sour edge off and enough boiling water to dissolve the honey is usually a good sore throat treatment.
Not sure about the nose though, you might need to replace the washer
Here’s a little known remedy to sore throats and I swear it works! Get a tablesoon of honey and sprinkle pepper all over it! Not tiny amounts mind you, enough to cover the spoon and then down it! The honey soothes the throat and the spice from the pepper completely dulls out any pain!
It usually lasts for about 1-2 hours before you’ll need to rinse and repeat but its worth doing if like me medication doesnt have any relief on your sore throat!
Interesting. Will remember for next time.
So my weekend was dedicated to trying to get steam OS installed on my old laptop.
I was expecting pain and misery, and linux did not hesitate to deliver
The first 6 hours of this ordeal were spent realising I had to tell the USB drive I was using for the install to be bootable.
The next 3 were spent realising that I should be using SteamOS’ ISO as my machine wasnt UEFI Compatible.
The next 4 were spent finding out that my Graphics card is considered Legacy hardware and so I should be using Stephensons Rocket iso instead.
Which came to the same errors.
So now I have to work out how to change the preseed file to allow the install anyway. Which I think I have worked out. It’s now just a matter of trying it out…
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/182
Has anyone tried installing Steam os? Any similar issues?
to clarify it hasnt even actually installed yet. these errors are occurring during the base linux install.
I installed it on a VM. Not gonna bother with it until it’s mature. Even then, the feature list is important, as streaming isn’t viable IMO and I’d need 80%+ of the games I wanna play with native compatibility.
I wasnt going to bother, but I have a laptop just sitting there doing nothing. So I figured I could use it as an arcadey console type box.
Sounds very much like a usual “Fun with Linux” experience.
I’ve been meaning to try it out but keep being lazy.
Not quite the full Linux experience. It’s not complete until you hit a showstopper, go onto a forum to ask for help and arrogant dickholes pop out of the woodwork to declare that it works fine for them and maybe you’re holding it wrong and you should read the manual or “fixed in SVN” and you should simply compile everything yourself and if you’re not capable of that you must be a luser that is unworthy of bathing in the radiance of Stallman and the mighty GNU and you should go back to your M$ Window$.
I want to discuss the mess that is video game acronyms. I’ve always used:
AC = Ace Combat
MW = Mechwarrior
MK = Mortal Kombat
but now it seems that none of those acronyms are shortened form of what I grew up with. When a new game comes along, why don’t they use a different acronym to avoid confusion?
AC? You mean Assassin’s Creed?
Huh? you both mean Armored Core right?
I think he’s talking about Animal Crossing.
How awesome is GoW?
God of War! Gears of War?
GALLONS OF WEASELS! 😛
Yeah man, I love the Grapes of Wrath!
My middle brother and I enjoy some online co-op Supreme Commander 2, so it’s always a little disconcerting when he asks if I want to play some ‘SC2’.
SC2 will always mean Supreme commander 2 to me!
Star Control 2. \o/
I find that Sim City 2 did not live up to the first one.
Yeah, I love the fatalities using the blue shell in MK8!
…wait
I’m not a big fan of Mein Kampf. I felt that Mein Kampf was a tad racist, personally.
I like the whole World of Warcraft vs World of Warplanes thing. Makes things pretty confusing but hilarious at the same time.
At least there are some acronyms that will never be shared like TWEWY.
It’s going to get even worse because their new game is World of Warships…
There’s always been debate amonsts God of War and Gears of War fans about which one gets to use the GoW acronym online. I think Gears of War eventually settled on being shortened to “Gears”.
The only time I’ve ever seen a reasoned compromise. Everyone else just does whatever they want and leave you to deal with it.
The way I see it its a first come first serve scenario
Totally forgot about GoW. I used to get confused with that too. Except at least God of War and Gears of War don’t share a platform, so you can sort of kinda guess depending on if they are on PS2/3 or Xbox.
The way I saw it, Gears of War was GOW, and God of War was GoW.
EDIT: But Gears makes much more sense.
Pretty sure MW = Modern Warfare these days =P Yes I know I run the risk of being stoned to death by saying this >.< I think MK is still Mortal Kombat though!
There was no problem with MK confusion until Nintendo started lazing out on the names. You could talk about MKDS, MKWii and MK9 and know exactly what was being talked about. Then we got given MK7 and MK8 and nope, not any more.
You mean Morrowind, right?
This is why I only use abbreviations in context of the conversation I’m having. Otherwise I just type the full name. My timetable isn’t so cluttered and my typing so slow that I can’t just type the whole name.
But I get where it can be frustrating where publishers and news sites feel the need to abbreviate and create the kind of confusion you’re talking about. You’d think professionals would think about what they are presenting to the public.
It’s going to be so terrible when Titanfall 2 inevitably come out.
“Hey guys, have you played the game called TF2? It’s a multiplayer first-person team-based shooter! I love turning invisible and silently killing people!”
Just shorten it to Tit2 to avoid confusion.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/07/huawei-ascend-g6-4g-a-wide-angle-front-selfie-camera-to-get-everyone-in-the-picture/
Was going to comment in the article, but it turns out you can’t comment in Advertorials.
I just don’t understand selfies, why would anyone want to take pictures of themselves.
#selfesteemissues
Something something @dc.
I like to think there’s a difference from photo a day thing and selfies for vanity. I want to track how my face changes over the year.
Funny story. I’ve actually discovered that I really don’t like looking at my face every day. 😛
Try taking high angle, soft focus duck face shots.
So that you have something attractive to look at when you’re bored? Or to send as gifts to people who have been very, very good.
#santaselfie?
You’re a funny, (and obviously) very attractive guy.
Right. And people who have been well-behaved deserve to share in that.
In all seriousness though, after being sent some old photos of better days and experiencing a massive nostalgia blast, I get why people would want to document good times, and should do it more often myself. I know the selfie originated with using your own camera-phone to put yourself in with whatever you were photographing, so you didn’t have to impose on strangers (or risk them running away with your shit), but it’s definitely metamorphosed into some kind of narcissistic fad, where how you look matters more than where you were or what you were doing or who you were doing it with.
Obviously you can separate out the motivations of self-promotion vs capturing memories, but I guess on the rare occasions anyone bothers to question it, the perfectly valid counter-question is, “Why not have both?” Shrug. Everyone’s got different values, different priorities.
Yeah, I’ve always used the “selfie” to put myself in the picture. What’s the point of taking pictures of cool stuff and places you’ve been if you have no documentation of you actually being there? Then it got a silly name and even sillier connotations. 🙁
Yeah, no one at Brisbane meats takes photos. I’ve got hundreds of you guys but none of me. XD
I only have bad ones of me. 😛
Haha! I get scared to take your photo now after the incident where I put some on Twitter that you hated. XD
Tsk. I should’ve taken some at Freezemeat.
Hmm, I avoid taking photos because they don’t stop me forgetting what they were about. Instead of getting a nostalgia blast when I look at an old photo, I just get angry at myself for not knowing what the photo is about and when it was taken. I’d rather just forget the event happened and have no proof that it happened, rather than struggle to figure out what this arcane photo was about.
I’ve just made an Instagram account and oh boy is it an annoying thing to try and use. If I didn’t have to use it for this competition I don’t think I ever would. So many steps just to try and post one little picture.
Yeah, it’s pretty damn terrible. Can’t even upload stuff from PC. :S
Nobody uses PCs anymore, old man!
The oldest of men.
Really? I mean… really? What the…
its taken a little bit of getting used to to use the app but after the first couple I’ve found it allright 🙂
You know that thing where you avoid people because they make you feel guilty? And that other thing where you thought you responded to something but you found out awkwardly late that you actually didn’t and the more time that goes by the harder it gets to respond? Both of those apply to my dealings with you. 🙁
You have my apologies (ALL the apologies!) and I will completely make it up to you.
It’s absolutely OK. Dont feel guilty. What with moving and crazy work life its been too hard to think about it all. Besides, its too cold to wear a kilt right now
So I don’t have to avoid you? Phew! 😀
Absolutely, I wouldnt want anyone to avoid me over something like that. Sorry for making you feel guilty. and equally, dont feel guilty or bad about it. It’s all good. 🙂
Oh you didn’t make me feel guilty, I made myself feel guilty. 😛
Oh and even worse: not only was ‘Strange’ taken, but ‘Strangist’ as well! D:
Strangist28592 isn’t taken!
You’ll get used to it, I think the hardest part is actually finding content to put on there! I run a instagram account for the gym I manage, it’s pretty tough thinking of things people would like to see lol.
My rule is if you don’t think you can get 10 likes for something, don’t post it!
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb
Tonight’s the night for TAY Pathfinder. 8pm start so we can get the train rolling again, figuratively speaking.
So keen!
That reminds me, I wanted to pick up a bladed weapon for Izumi, probably a dagger. I think you already gave the nod to just buying one between sessions at cost. Can I also pick up some kind of sheath or concealed pocket or something for it, and if so is that something I need to pay extra for?
I’m going to say that a sheath or concealed pocket will cost you 2gp, weigh 1 lb, and grant a +2 sleight of hand bonus to concealing the dagger. This is on top of the +2 bonus that a dagger inherently has.
Sounds good to me, I’ll make the changes to my sheet. Also going to sell some of the crap I picked up initially (I grabbed a standard adventuring kit and there’s stuff in there like a bunch of rope and torches which are heavy and not very useful)
The next time a street rat tries to pickpocket me, I’m going to literally eat it. All because you left my name off the list.
You monster.
Hasn’t the town’s economy suffered enough?
I can’t believe that we managed to make a dent in a bloody trade centre.
Won’t somebody please think of the
childreneconomy!Ah, I completely didn’t realise I missed you. Sorry Rize.
I’m not going to be able to make it, sorry man- birthday things
Also, I have read your email, I’m happy for you to do that if you’d like
Cool cool, no worries Red. Enjoy your birthday evening stuff.
And yeah, I’ll hold off until we get to a story convenient point to make the change.
Just as an experiment, I rolled randomly for a bunch of different character descriptors, types, and foci. One of the results was a Foolish Nano who Controls Gravity. I think that might be fun but I’ll flesh it out fully and send it to you when we’re a bit closer to the swap.That sounds like it could be really neat. I might also have a think, once it’s out, about whether we want to introduce some stuff from The Strange as it’ll be mostly compatibleHappy birthday!
Thankyou!
XBOWNERS!!!
is it possible to plug in a USB turtle beach headset via USB on the XBONE and get game and chat audio through it as well as able to use mic?
also, good is english mine.
I could be wrong, but I think you have to use that headset adapter thing, and it has to be a wired headset. I’ve only got a wireless Afterglow headset, so I think it’s a no go for me. Might be a while before I plonk down for a new headset just to be able to chat.
i want game audio as well though not just chat 🙁
So, is this a plot by Micro$oft to force everyone to buy a new headset or what?
do you have a kinect? you could always use the mic on that for chat. seems to work a treat even from a distance.
Yeah, I got a stupid Kinect. Forgot all about that you can use that for chat, although I really don’t like to talk, especially at night because our walls are paper thin and my talking would keep the wife awake.
You know what they say, happy wife, happy life.
I was just about to evangelise the solution I came up with after months of fucking about but then realised that you probably want to actually chat on xbox live which is the thing my solution excludes since I use Skype talking to friends rather than randoms online
I’m no expert and haven’t really investigated this in detail, but I don’t think so. It’s not like the 360 headset issue where you need to jack it into your component cable audio jacks for game audio then use the USB for chat/power.
You need to get an adapter that enables you to jack your headset through your controller. The game/chat audio then runs wirelessly through the controller into your headset.
I personally bought the Titanfall-branded headset back when it launched and it serves wonderfully. I think once you have the control adapter with the volume/mute controls you can plug in any regular headset to it and it’ll work, but I’m yet to experiment with this. Maybe I should try out my Razer headset I use on the PC and report back.
Apparently the adapter only gives you the ability to chat, you also (somehow) have to plug your headset into your TV/amp at the same time to get game audio as well.
Not with my Turtle Beach/Titanfall headset. While game audio might drop occasionally if my battery is low, I can sit with just the headset running through the controller (no cord running to the Xbone) and I get both game and chat audio.
It’s possible the headset has it’s own wireless connection and only needs to draw power from the controller, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the case.
But isn’t that because it’s a Tit ‘N’ Fall headset that’s specifically designed for the Xbone.
Ok, I did some research and yeah, you need an Xbone-compatible headset (such as the Titanfall one) to get that functionality.
I have no idea how you’d do it the other way.
could be the game itself that is routing the game audio through to the headset, and not the console if that makes any sense
yeah turtle beach headset come with an intricate set of adapters to accomplish that through RCA’s
i like that pluging my usb headsets into the PS4 just works.
also, not sure if people know this, but say you are playing a 4 player local game on ps4, you can actually have 4 USB headsets attached simultaneously and assign each headset to a specific player
Really! That’s awesome. I should be picking up a PS4 somewhere in August/September.
try and get one lay’buyd now.. ive seen a few deals at around the 450 mark! also target toy sale starts on the 28th, i think you can view the catalogue as of today. and they do laybys for christmas pickup…. gives you time to pay it off slowly, and lock in a good deal.
I might do that, depending on what deals they have for the sale. Also, the sale starts on the 23rd.
http://www.thegreatesttoysaleonearth.com.au/?gclid=COjcyJDfw78CFQt9vQodkT4AfQ
The cheap basic adaptors only allow chat, but you can get others which allow for more. I have two different ones from SteelSeries. One is entirely passive, one is powered via USB. It connects into your controller and has a cord running back to the game audio source. Then you connect your mic and headphones up to the adaptor. The powered one is called the Spectrum and also has volume controls for both chat and game, as well as a mic mute switch.
http://steelseries.com/products/consoles/steelseries-spectrum-audio-mixer-xb
Oh, I just remembered, did anyone watch Extant last night. I was so looking forward to it, got home from work in time and everything, had tea, turned my laptop on and promptly forgot all about it. See what I mean about the internet, but I digress, who watched it, was it good?
Ah, I forgot about it too…
Well at least I’m not the only one \o/
The Strain. The Leftovers.
I likes me good TV. 😀
Has The Strain started?
I’ve been watching the Leftovers and finding it interesting, but I haven’t really been all impatient for new episodes so I’m not sure if I like it or not! 😛
I like the weirdness of the tone and pace in The Leftovers, there’s nothing really like it.
The Strain starts today! 😀
Oh God, I am so hype for The Strain (love Guillermo Del Toro’s stuff), please don’t tell me it’s only on Foxtel.
So I’m just making the del Toro leap that it’ll be good TV. 😉
According to this, it’s on Foxtel (GODDAMMIT!), and it starts on July the 30th at 8:30pm
Edit: stupid me forgot the link.
http://www.foxtel.com.au/about-foxtel/communications/the-strain-215531.htm
Oh well, looks like I’ll be waiting for the DVD release.
So sleepy. Need nap.
Also hunger. Lunch soon?
Him card read good.
Booked car in for service. The girl estimates it’ll be a 2-day job due to the amount of issues I raised … and they don’t have any loan cars for some reason. Well shit. Watch them screw me on the bill, too!
ARGH. FLickr is acting up. Which means my friends website is useless and I can’t put up the Sonisphere galleries :/
I vaguely remember an email that Flickr are removing google and facebook sign-in methods. Could that be related to your difficulties?
Nah, I don’t have to sign in. So I hope this change isn’t affecting me lol. Saying that it could just be my browser not playing nicely with Flickr atm.
Last week they altered their API so our galleries (all 80+ of them) needed to be updated and they didn’t think to put a post up about it or email the users that they did this :/
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hooray! nobody else high fived me….
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……Delayed high five \o
http://www.junkee.com/paul-kelly-and-rupert-murdoch-are-australias-smithers-and-mr-burns/37924
Ah, when I read the name Paul Kelly in the link you put up, I instantly thought of the musician and was like, what?
Now I’ve clicked the link it makes sense.
Yeah that’s the only Paul Kelly I am aware of heh.
*strums guitar*
Climate change, wizards and unicorns
Is as real as you get.
Buy two years of Foxtel
Who needs the internet?
And that’s how you make gravy.
@shane I’ll take your upvote on my previous comment as meaning that’s what you want to do. Heading down to the to EB to trade those few things in now, then to the Post Office.
Just had a customer who couldn’t print in Adobe reader, cos their old HP printer (which had long ago been uninstalled) was the only printer showing in the list in Reader.
Two working printers on the network were able to be printed to by all other apps, but Reader just couldn’t see the printers.
Uninstalling reader completely and re-installing did nothing.
Turns out it was malware. Ran combofix, and after reboot, everything works fine again! Bizaaaarrrrreeeee
Are you sure you’re not this I.T. Guy, Welbot? 😛
lol I got more cred in my little finger than everyperson in that post combined! 😉
Haha, I know 😛 Just the adobe reader & how rebooting fixed it made me think of that. Hilarious post though, even if it is fake haha.
I prefer Dogbert’s Tech Support. Google image search for much hilarity. 🙂
Afternoon all!
I spent most of last week in Newcastle for a University Games event looking after students, on Monday night I was in the E.R at John Hunter hospital from 9.00pm-3.30am with a couple of students who had been knocked in the head with a bottle. Not a great experience for anyone, but overall I really liked Newcastle. If anyone here is from there I envy you, a pretty laid back and relaxing kind of existence!
I had to stay up late most nights making sure the students could contact me if something went wrong late at night (which it invariably did!), so I played a fair bit of Starbound to pass the time.
I also played a little bit of Pikmin 3 to try and work on my pile of shame, thanks to @gutsoup for convincing me to get it… I wasn’t disappointed, I liked the how you needed to multi-task a few different puzzles at the same time. It was tough when my brain is used to linear shooters and the like to get it into puzzle solving mode, was great though!
awesome, glad to hear you like it, it is a little tricky at first but by the end you’ll be multi tasking like a master.
One of our clients (a school) sent us an email today to update an image on their homepage with a higher-res version. The photo was of a school kid and it was slightly blurry, so sure, I’ll do that.
I upload the new high quality image, reload the page and everything is fine. Except now you can see that his face is full of pimples that weren’t that noticeable before.
I’m sorry, kid I don’t know! Your principal made me do it! D:
Finished the Telltale Jurassic Park game. It was flawed, but pretty good. You can definitely see the hints of what would become The Walking Dead in it.
Also started The Wolf Among Us. I’ve only played the first episode so far and it was enjoyable. I also love the start menu music. But damn it Telltale,
stop killing off characters I like.Unfortunately, due to reading the Fables comics, I know at least some of the characters have plot immunity. They do a pretty good job of introducing new ones though.
I gotta read those, but I don’t think i’ll be paying 36 bucks a volume like Minotaur wants :/
What are the comics like? I might give them a go after I finish the game.
Different.
First volume is a whodunnit, which is a bit meh, and the second volume is a bit of a riff on Animal farm. After that it gets into the series’ main plot, which is all about The Adversary and why the fables left the homelands in the first place, much more epic.
SPOILERS FOR EP TWO ON OF TWAU
The protagonists of the series are really Wolf and Snow, and their relationship is really central to it- the game is interesting in that their relationship is not as well established, but you can see her warming a bit to him and his methods.Also, Bigby seems a lot smarter in the books. Game Bigby is very reactionary.
Yeah, he’s a bit more in control by the time of the comics it seems.
What red has said, the comics start of a bit slow but really kick off once they start going into why the fables had to leave and who and what the adversary is! Also two minor characters to keep an eye on (tiny comic spoiler and these characters don’t really appear in the game) –
Flycatcher and Cinderella!I was so happy to see flycatcher.Hahaha yeah, and I love that little reference to Cinderella in the records book for fables in episode 1
“whereabouts unknown”=PBought the Jurassic Park game, and the Back To The Future game in the steam sale, haven’t played them yet though.
Also, yeah, I love that music too.
So did you rip Gren’s arm off or not. I did cos he was an arsehole.The only person I’ve out and out been a jerk to was GeorgieBy the end I just didn’t care what anybody said, I’m the sheriff around here, let’s see you do a better job was my attitude. Also, I kind of liked Snow at first, but by the end I hated her.Left him his arm. I’m trying to play as a nice Bigby, though after the end of episode 1 I might end up going full darkside. Vengeance shall be mine!TWAU Ep 4 Spoilers
Did anyone burn Auntie Greenleafs tree?I did at first just so I could get both Fable entries for the achievement, then I rewound the episode and didn’t, because I wanted that to be my final decision.Went into the city yesterday to hang with a friend who was down from Brisbane to visit family. Couldn’t figure out at all what to do, so we ended up pretty much walking the length of the city up and down again while talking.
Also I picked up Elite: Dangerous on Saturday. Already had a go of the single player combat missions, it’s tough. Also don’t really like playing it with a controller (though still better than keyboard and mouse), can’t wait to get my joystick back.
Should’ve just taken them to all the TAY spots. They’ll assume you’re wonderfully social and discovered them for yourself.
That’s what I- er, my friend does.
More or less did that. Stopped in at the Timezone and City Amusements to check them out and not play anything. Didn’t quite go to Kinokuniya but did eat at Ichi Ban since he asked me if I knew of any ramen places. So thanks for that, @bish.
I like to think I spread the joy of food.
Was Elite $100? Think it was last time I looked, and even though I want it sooooo bad, I dunno if I can justify paying that much now.
It’s £50 for the standard beta and £35 for the lifetime expansion pass, which comes to something like AU$155. But you can switch currencies to US$ where it’s $75 and $50, which came to a total of AU$133. So if you just want to jump in on the standard beta it’s only around AU$80.
still a bit pricey for a beta :\
I figure it’s $25 extra to start playing now on a game that’s not due til the end of the year.
Plus it’s only around the price of a new console game anyway 😛
yeah. I mean if I had tons of spare money I’d probably cave, but just can’t justify it quite yet! Guess it depends how long it takes me to find a new job! If I get one long before I start running low on cash, I’ll buy all teh things! But most likely a new cpu/mobo first!
It’s only fair considering it was the price of beta access on kickstarter though
I got my trombone out to see if I could get it working again. Gave it a clean and greased up the slide and the tuning slide. Rinsed the mouthpiece out and it seems to be working decently. Now I’ve just got to get my lips and lungs working as it’s a couple of years since I’ve been playing regularly. Hopefully regular practice will get me going again.
Dat brass instrument haven’t played for years lip and mouth muscle tingle.
It hurts.
Embouchure lips
Yep. At least with trombone, you don’t have to use as much lip pressure as you do with trumpet. I had about half an hour’s practice, if I do that every day for a few weeks, my body should get used to playing again.
My sax teacher used to complain of her “man shoulders” and neck muscles from wearing her instruments all day.
A Bari will do that
Yep. Baris are good for developing muscles. Trombones aren’t too bad either.
Friend of mine stopped playing during school because her arms were too short to work the slide.
I think too much time has passed for me to take up the saxophone again- I’d be starting from scratch.
That was only a problem when I started playing. I was about 11 (I think) and I couldn’t quite reach seventh position. I played semi professionally for a while a couple of years ago in a latin band, and played all through school in various Concert bands, Jazz bands and Church bands. Decided I wanted to get back in to playing because I do enjoy it.
Woo, music!
I haven’t done any in a good couple of months now. Gonna take a bit to get back into shape again.
Page… 18… So far… Away…
Hnnnnnggggggg.
Get back in your hole.
Or on your plane
I’ll get in a hole, don’t you worry 😉
ARGH, I NEED PAGE 18! :’O
I was wondering if it was all an euphemism…
I figured page 18 came early and was like heyooo
Maaaaan i miss my trombone… I’ll have to save up to buy one me thinks! Love me some Glenn Miller!
Tromboner *snigger*
You might be saving for a while. Instruments aren’t cheap.
Eeeeeeyup /o\
I read that as ‘tombstone.’ I was really confused for a bit.
So overall I had a pretty productive weekend when it came to games! Managed to finish the Wolf Among Us and even go to Act 3 in the Witcher 2. Getting a bit annoyed at the slow progression of the story though! Every time I think I’m about to move forward in a meaningful way something comes along and sidetracks the story +__+ And every time that happens I keep adding more people to the list of people I’m going to enjoy killing =__= So taking a bit of a break from it for now, maybe come back in a few weekends when I’m ready to sink in a lot of time in side quests that I don’t really need to do given I’ve somehow managed to amass a small fortune in gold by hunting Harpies (6k atm) >.<
Also managed to sink quite a bit of time into Hearthstone, really polishing up my Warrior and Shaman Decks, kind of weird playing these two classes since they both have very different play styles. My Warrior is able to kick some serious ass and has ridiculous amounts of tempo but the Shammy deck takes a lot of time get rolling and has about 33% win rate so far =\ Probably cos I haven’t unlocked too many cards for it yet! Also renewed my WoW sub and power levelled my Pally to level 31! And even with all this gaming I managed to find time to start Child of Light! It’s a very atmospheric and interesting turn based RPG so far, looking forward to sinking more time into it to see how much more depth it has in the turn based side of things =]
Over the weekend i’ve been playing a bit of sleepy dogs. Kinda fun but has me all sorts of worried about PAX meat. Maybe it is just a Hong Kong thing but if you sing karaoke with the same person twice that apparently means you are in a committed and exclusive relationship with that person. Something to keep in mind.
Although it is really weird in an open world game when you character starts to act totally different to how you have been playing and the person you are.
*wink*
But yeah, Sleeping Dogs is one of my favourite games of last-gen. So much so that I actually bothered to get the 1000 gamerscore for it (haven’t played any DLC, though). Was really well realised, and the focus on martial arts over gunplay was a welcome change of tone for those sort of sandbox games.
Also, the introduction of guns was pretty deliberate and had an impact. Really great game, that.
I honestly didn’t notice the change in how you perform your environment take-downs and various finishing moves from the beginning until the end until well into the game.
There’s a distinct turning point where the game introduces lethal environmental takedowns. I had been morally avoiding killing people but when the game introduces stuff like sticking people face first into a furnace or throwing them on a giant spike in the middle of a room I felt a strong tonal shift like “ok, this is what Wei does now”. I held off at first but there came a point where it was practically necessary so I just went with it. Although it’s pretty standard storytelling for undercover police in movies etc., I really felt the trouble Wei was having with seperating his undercover life with his cop life and that’s a big part of why I’d love to see more games in the franchise.
Actually I don’t think you even need to do the karaoke. Doing the sidemissions at all (hacking the CCTV camera with Not-Ping, the parkour with the Russian girl, karaoke with the hostess, breaking into the park with the American/Emma Stone) equals a relationship. The game doesn’t make this at all clear, you’re just suppose to infer that Wei is sleeping with them once the camera fades to black, or something.
This is where the budget gaps are apparent – these relationships were clearly supposed to have a lot more to them, but got cut. Still, it doesn’t affect the narrative apart from a very minor guilt tripping and you get collectibles appearing on the minimap for each of them that you complete the relationship sidequests for, so you might as well pursue all of them just for the gameplay benefits.
I haven’t got to the Russian chick yet, still fairly early in the game.
I guess it’s such a change from something like bioware where it is part of the game and really a choice. Or some of the more story based games where the relationship is part of the story and has a lasting impact on the game.
To go from “Hi how are you, oh sure I’ll sing a song” to “How dare she be with another guy, I’m going to go smash him for messing with my girl” was jarring. Considering I had done the same thing with 2 other woman so far. In my mind I was flirting with a few to see who I liked and suddenly I am neanderthal man.
Yeah, it was definitely jarring but I guess they left in what they could salvage. The poorly handled/unfinished relationship issues are the only downside to the game, but I’ll still give them points for trying. I prefer what we got to the alternative of having no prospects whatsoever. It was a good opportunity to explore other aspects of Wei’s character through his interaction with different types of love interests.
@welbot need some of your expert IT advice! Since I suck with motherboards 😀
Looking to downsize to ITX I currently have an i5 2500, looking to keep the CPU and swap out my fullsize ATX motherboard, i’ve found a few, best one I like so far is a ZOTAC H77 they’re a little over 100 bucks on eBay brand new, are they a decent brand and is that motherboard worth it?
I was also looking at a GIGABYTE GA-B75N which is basically a better version of my current ATX motherboard. They’re a little cheaper than the ZOTAC one it seems too.
Only thing I liked about the Zotac one over the Gigabyte was it had wifi, which isn’t important to me honestly.
So yeah, what do you reckon, also any suggestions for other motherboards?
Edit: got the Kotaku BSOD and I freaked out thinking it was my PC Q_Q that is cruel.
I’ve never used Zotac so cannot comment on, however I have used Gigabyte and they are fantastic. Also, haven’t had much experience with boards smaller than ATX, they tend to be suited for smaller cases/ HTPCs?
Yeah downsizing to an ITX case. Sick of the one I have. I’m pretty familiar with Gigabyte it’s been the only mobo brand i’ve bought for years. Might see what else I can find but that Gigabyte one is mighty tempting atm.
Five mountains of catch-up paperwork to move, people asking for help/training everywhere, my own clients coming up with the worst site faults to resolve ever…
OH? HUMBLEBRAGGING, I SEE. http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/07/why-we-brag-about-being-busy-and-how-to-regain-focus/ Bluh. Yup. Guilty as charged.
I’m going to take some time off, soon. From like… everything ordered, everything scheduled. Just going to do whatever, as I feel. But I’ve stuck my fingers into so many pies I feel kind of accountable for fixing them all up. So I’m going to have to kind of… earn(?) my vacation.
With that in mind? Now more than ever I’m so glad we live in an age where a girl can serenade her man through romantic 1940s music on youtube.
I had to put my hand up in my management meeting and say i was struggling and not getting stuff done. Just too much on my plate that I couldn’t focus. Struggling to come out of it now.
It’s a hard thing to do, certainly since I know I can do everything I need to but just taking reserves of brain power that i don’t have.
I think the reason it is hardest to do is really embarrassment. I feel like I shouldn’t have to say I can do this, when normally I know I can. Bad feeling but I have a list of things so just need to get done one at a time.
I try to avoid this because I feel like humblebragging about how busy you are seems blatantly self-aggrandising (maybe I’m just not good at it) and also blocks you being available to seize other opportunities.
I only mention I’m busy when I am legitimately not able to take on any additional work, and even then I will still endeavour to make it happen.
Yeah, my problem is basically that I haven’t been able to say ‘no’. People have trouble with shit, they’re not good at it, they need help/training/or it turns stupidly urgent thanks to managerial escalation and they want someone proven competent to do it, and next thing you know all the little stuff is piling up in the back, threatening to topple over.
Next thing you know, like @tigerion mentioned, you’re in the embarrassing position of having to say that you can’t do something because you have the literally most menial housekeeping busywork to take care of which has taken a back-seat to the BIG IMPORTANT STUFF for so long that it’s actually starting to become BIG IMPORTANT STUFF itself. But ‘I can’ impresses people, ‘I can’t’ doesn’t, and if you care about that, (which you definitely do if you’re trying to impress people), then you ‘can’ do everything. Then spend all your time trying to make that a reality, even if you can’t.
Then, eventually… Avalanche.
I’m definitely on the precipice at the moment – I’m sort of pre-emptively looking at things to offload but at the same time there’s no one to offload to until the new team members we have o board are more familiar with our system. I’m kind of the terminus of a large number of loose ends which makes me extremely valuable, but also getting to 3pm each day wondering how I’m going to fit a day’s work in before 5pm because I’ve been caught up doing other stuff all morning.
Yes. That feel? That is the feel.
Do what you can to get stuff off your plate where you can.
I’ve gone over the edge and it is too hard to get anything done. Deep breaths and an attempt to do one thing at a time is helping but not enough. I’m sure all this time on TAY is really helping but that is the procrastination, inability to focus that is causing the issue.
I should be able to cope with this amount of work and normally would, but check the rest of that personal stuff on top and I’ve just broken. Tiglet due in a week, still stuff to organise at home, financial issues, test on Friday that is rather important along with just making sure I stay strong for Mrs Tigs when she needs it. Chuck in a lack of sleep and boom, implosion.
I’m sure everyone has seen it… but ‘Urgent vs Important’ matrix saves my bacon time and time again when I feel the poop is heading towards the fan. I lock myself in an office for 30 mins with my big ole list and map out where everything fits.
How I use it below… hidden as a bit of a wall…
Urgent/Importants move to the top… Aim to get them done (or at least started) before going home that day.
Anything that falls into not important, but urgent (for me this is the stuff in someone else’s urgent/important basket) I try to prioritise. Occasionally I’ll hand work back by telling the stakeholder(s) involved that I won’t be able to meet agreed deadline. If the deadline is that important they’ll need to engage someone else. A lot of the time they revise the deadline to accommodate. Hardest part is having the conversation without trying to blame yourself or feel guilty for asking for help/saying no.
Important but not urgent (research, self-development etc) I push it aside and diarise to revisit it in a week to schedule some time. Not important/Not Urgent are distractions like the entire internet… and TAY… (please don’t hurt me – I’m new here)
So the hype and excitement about EVO this year is positively stratospheric. I don’t know about you guys but fighting games seem to be a much better fit for eSports than stuff like DOTA or Starcraft simply because it is faster and more instense.
Or maybe the sports comparison is a bit more apt in that there is room for both long sport (football, rugby, DOTA) and short sport (basketball, wrestling, Street Fighter). I think to really expand eSports fighting games are better suited simply because it’s a more watchable format compared to strategy and MOBA which pretty much requires an understanding of how the game is played. A lower barrier to entry helps bring more people.
Anyway, just my thoughts.
I think you’re right, in that you can watch a fighting tourney without ever having played Tekken and still grok it.
I’m not really into eSports or MOBAs or fighting games, but I agree with you. Fighting games are a lot more interesting/enjoyable to watch being played than MOBAs are.
It probably helps that you can get the casters to go stupidly excited (See blazblue) as it happens so quickly. As somebody watching you can feed off that energy. You do get that in DOTA but SC2 seems much more relaxed from a what is happening stand point.
But the 2 people on the screen fighting, even if you don’t know all the moves or what is going on it is clear when somebody is getting hit
The only time you seem to get that level of excitement in the casters is when a big play happens. Of course that big play takes a few minutes to set up which is kind of the main draw in watching DOTA or SC2. It’s kinda like chess or a tabletop game when the player bides their time and absolutely changes the whole dynamic of the game in one turn.
Compare that to some of the EVO stuff we’ve seen where comebacks and last stands can happen in the space of seconds. Fighting back from that last sliver of health and nailing a perfect chain of combos is what gets the audience in a frenzy.
You don’t need anything to happen in a Dota game for the commentators to go nuts, if they’re Korean.
100 minute game =/
Burning wasn’t done farming, okay?
MvC is very, very easy to watch. Even if you have no idea what’s going on! =D
Fighting games are easy. There’s a literal running score at the top of the screen telling you exactly where the match is at.
MOBA’s and RTS you really need to understand the details of the game to understand and follow.
Fighting games were what got me into eSports and I’m watching EVO as I write this.
Understanding something is absolutely pivotal to enjoying watching it. The minimum level of understanding for fighting games is much lower than for strategy games and MOBAs. It’s like comparing soccer to cycling. Seeing that a team has the ball and are trying to score with it is pretty simple to get. Seeing that a team is doing some heavy pacemaker to split the peloton and give their leader a chance to attack is harder to get.
I genuinely think Dota is more interesting to watch than fighting games. But that’s because I can read both games. Getting to this point took a lot more time than people are willing to invest.
Making games accessible for casual viewers is the real trick. The International has a newbie stream that explains the absolute basics of the games to newcomers. That might go a long way.
Personally, I don’t get fighting games.
If I wanted to be bored while watching two people punch each other, I’d rewatch Man of Steel.
Okay, I mostly said that for the purpose of the joke, but I don’t have a clue at what’s going on aside from health bars moving, and I have no interest in learning more.
But man, Starcraft? I haven’t watched Starcraft 2 regularly in years, but it’s just amazing. Watching someone do a split to keep their ‘rines safe from Banelings, while also doing a Hellion drop on the mineral line, knowing that their army is probably safe because the Zerg went for a fourth relatively recently? Glorious.
But I’ll accept that it is completely incomprehensible to anyone who doesn’t understand the game.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/07/the-most-intense-battle-of-evo-2014-so-far/
Holy shit.
Folks, if you have 30 minutes to spare, watch this.
I just did. Amazing
Wow.
Negs watches new Anime: The Thread Part 2
Watching new shows so you don’t have to
It’s been a while since the previous thoughts I posted but this weekend I got time to catch up and watch a ton of stuff.
Himegoto:
I didn’t realize going into it that this is one of those annoying short-format web shows that have been popping up a lot recently. The 4-minute format is great for some stuff, but for anything that actually attempts substance, it’s very limited. But I’m not sure this would be any good even if it were a full 25-minute episode. Basically it’s about a guy who has deadbeat parents that have skipped the country and left him with an astounding debt. Also he is astoundingly girly and some stuff happens and his debt basically gets bought out by the all-girl school council, who force him to dress up as a girl (and as a girl he’s more attractive than the rest of the cast…). It’s just as daft as it sounds. I will never get that 4 minutes of my life back. 2/10Gundam-san:
So here’s another 4-minute show example, but in this case it’s a format that actually works for the timeslot. Basically this is a simple gag show that lampoons Universal Century Gundam stuff. Char finds out that painting his mobile suits red doesn’t make them go any faster after all. If you like Gundam this is great. If you’re not familiar with Gundam this is going to sail miles over your head. Fans-only. I think it’s hilarious but only because I’ve got lots of franchise experience. 6/10Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Ilya 2wei:
I am of two minds about this. I enjoyed the first season in spite of itself, I think, because I’m a massive fan of the Type-moon stuff and this is basically a stupid alternative-universe take on Fate/Stay Night where Ilya is a cute generic magical girl. It’s not just dumb, it’s self-aware enough to be slightly creepy and makes me feel like a horrible dirty old man for watching it. 🙁 So I’m watching more. I don’t know why (this is a lie – I do know why, and the reason is Rin). I guess I’m that desperate for new Type-moon content (ufotable’s upcoming remake of Fate/Stay Night cannot come fast enough). 5/10.Momo Kyun Sword:
So imagine you took the classic Japanese tale of Momotaro, where a baby born from a giant peach assembles a rag-tag band and sets out from home to brutally murder lots of Oni, and you changed it so that the kid is a girl. And then you give her enormous boobs. And then execute the show you’re making in as poor a fashion as possible. Congratulations, you’ve made Momo Kyun Mediocrity. I could actually forgive this for being so vapid if it had some interesting elements, but it doesn’t. I could also forgive it if it was a dumb boob-laden service show, but it was pretty tame on that front as well. So there’s literally no reason you could ever want to watch this. 2/10.Tokyo ESP:
This was one I had my eye on going in, and was not disappointed. This is adapted from a manga by the same author as Ga-rei (side note: if you haven’t seen Ga-rei Zero, it’s a strong recommendation, if only because the first episode has a completely unexpected twist). I don’t really do manga much, but I got right into Ga-rei. Fairly conventional action but quite well executed and written. Apparently the two universes are tied, but I’m not sure if this occurs in the same setting or an alternative version of the Ga-rei setting – the episode opened with several characters from the older series, but I’m not sure if these were cameos or not. But I digress. Basically the setup is that ‘espers’ with various supernatural powers have started a revolt with the intention to take over the country, and begun by literally lifting the Diet building off its foundations and floating it above Tokyo while a bunch of them go around the city blowing shit up. The main characters appear to be equally powerful but in opposition. It started right into the action and didn’t do the usual anime character suddenly delivers an expository infodump thing, so I’m iffy about what’s actually going on. But I liked it. Solid animation, interesting plot, intriguing characters, strong pedigree for the original work. Definitely watching more of it. 8/10.More to come.
I’ve been watching Little Busters the last few nights on Crunchyroll. I figured I liked Clannad and those sort of shows back in the day so it might be good.
It’s not too bad so far. Visual novel anime never put the focus on the characters that I want them to, though 😛
Brace yourself. There are feels incoming. All of them.
You’re right about the Visual Novel feeling though, but I think that some of that is in the execution. It’s just not as well executed as Kyoto Animation’s work on Clannad or Kanon sadly 🙁 They also adapted Air, but not as well (though the ending is still an absolute tear-jerker). I always felt like KyoAni’s VN adaptions worked a lot better, they put more adaption into it rather than just doing it straight-up. But also it probably helps that the characters in them were better.
Started watching Sword Art Online last night. 8 episodes in and loving it so far.
Yeah, it’s a solid show. I haven’t started into SAO II yet though, I didn’t like the second half of the first series that much (various reasons) and I have to suspend a lot of disbelief to get into it, plus I straight up know I’ll enjoy the show to some degree so I’ve been giving priority to new stuff I don’t know about. I think it’s a series that really lends itself to watching in bursts or as a marathon rather than single episodes as well.
Argh. Comment stuck in moderation and nothing I do will fix it 🙁
hahaha was I tagged in it? Cos it’s telling me you mentioned me in a post, but I can’t see it!
Yep hahaha.
Edit: was asking what’s a better motherboard, since I am looking at getting an ITX board for my 1155 core i5 and I found 2 I like, being a GIGABYTE GA-B75N & a ZOTAC Z77. I can’t find them here in Aus, but there’s plenty in the states on eBay for a little over 100 bucks. What’s your opinion? and could you recommend any others?
They’re both ok boards. Nothing special by the looks of it.
Umart have an Asus H61-M for $55 atm. pretty sure it’s got most of the same features.
Might be the only one they have cos the socket isn’t in production anymore. I’ll check a few other places though and see what’s around.
Thanks man appreciate the help & feedback.
Edit: yeah, I was amazed I was even able to find any here that were available heh.
Just edit it out and paste it as a new post? Worked for me when I went to edit something that had three links in it which then sent it to moderation the other day.
So much effort 😛 Pus Kotaku keeps going to error pages for me today 🙁
@shane, your Wii U is in the post, I’ll email you the tracking number shortly. I’m really sorry it took so long man. You be up for some Mario Kart this weekend?
Only if @powalen agrees to lose to me at least once 😛
I’d like to, man. My gaming availability doesn’t really start until 9pm most nights though… :\
That’s fine with me man.
No deal.
So, birthday present from work was $60 worth of EB vouchers.
Was thinking of saving them and preordering something, but if you had to blow around $60 at EB RIGHT NOW what would you suggest?
Five copies of Rhythm Heaven Wii (apparently they’re down to $9 each now :/)
Buy six copies!
EDIT: Oooooh my local shopping center has a copy. I’mma buy that on the weekend!
What consoles do you have?
PS3, 3DS, PC
Save towards a PS4?
Thought did cross my mind
Do you have PS Plus? EB charges $70 for 1 year subscriptions to it. You might get less out of it if you only have a PS3 and don’t use it heavily though.
Ah, paid up on that for quite a bit. Not a bad idea though
$60 of steam wallet credit
It’s a shame they don’t make prepaid steam credit vouchers like they do for PSN and XBL because I’d recommend that otherwise.
I was almost positive that EB game do sell them. Last I saw it was actually really good value as a $50 card cost $50 but added $50 US to your steam account
Oh wow, I didn’t know they’d started doing that. Shows you how often I go into EB!
A while ago they changed it so it wasn’t 1:1 but I still think it’s above the exchange.
(@negativezero)
According to Nos $50 for Steam ran him about $56 AUS, sounds about right for the exchange rate.
They do. How I got through the steam sale without wifey murdering me for credit card charges.
But they do!
Steam credit or soon-to-be rare Wii titles. Mario Galaxy 1. Or 2. Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire preorder.
So many things!
Wii titles?
eww.
Yeah, I guess you need a Wii console first. Wii U!
Ask them if they can trade the credit towards Steam =P or to a better priced store!!!
What consoles have you got?
Edit: Nevermind just saw your post! I’m not sure what hard copies there are for PC games anymore =\ But I would recommend Child of Light! Umm and 4 months of WoW Sub =p
Nah you can only buy 2 month subs at EB and it’s 42 bucks LOL. But saying that, 60 day time cards are that price everywhere here.
LOL are you serious? How can they get away with charging $42 for a $30 sub? At best I could understand $35-$38…
Actually it’s a 33 dollar sub, if we’re going off the fact Blizzard charge aussies $16.50 a month 😛
Eh it’s always been that, JB charge the same and GAME used to as well.
Assuming I don’t have a preorder to put it towards and I seldom buy games from EB because $60 doesn’t get you a game released before 2009, probably toys. Like some of those vinyl POP! figurines that go for around $15 each.
Pop! vinyl figures are awesome, I support this suggestion.
I apparently also support replying to all of kermitron’s posts 🙂
I love them and want more. I have a Jon Snow, Arya and the “Mother of Dragons” variant of Daenerys from Game of Thrones, as well as a Viserion that came with my season 2 box set. And a random Batman one because Batman.
I’m definitely going to piss away more money on the GoT ones whenever I see them around.
I only have a few so far. My Minion that is on my desk at work and at home I have Capt America and V
I think the one I want the most right now is the Predator
And damn you, I just saw that they are releasing Firefly figures, so now I need to buy more of them
Saw Marty McFly and Doc Brown ones I really want the other day. Might grab them on payday.
I have gotten close to collecting those as they’re pretty cool, but I already have a bunch of super-deformed figures. And my desk is accumulating too many toys as it is. 🙁
I’m thinking that Tiglet might be wanting a bunch of them 😉
Oh yeah, you’d better get a whole ton of them. For the tiglet, of course.
I looked at them, there’s a couple I might think about
any free xbone content im missing? got the games with gold stuff, killer instinct, and project spark, as well as the fitness stuff.
Guacamelee?
Guacamelee is currently free on Xbone for gold subscribers. Grab it now because they’ll (probably) roll it over to something else on the 16th.
You shoulsd also still be able to get Max: Curse of brotherhood and Halo Spartan Assault if you’ve had gold prior to your Xbone purchase because for Xbone they’ve adopted the PS+ model, but don’t quote me on that.
ive had gold for about 2 years, but alas, can no longer get halo spartan assault…. so live gold games roll over 16th of every month?
Typically they do 2 per month (though they did 3 on 360 last month) but they haven’t announced the 2nd title for July yet. They’re planning to, but it’s still TBA.
So you got Max: The Curse Of Brotherhood? Other than that, I think that’s about it.
Negs watches new Anime: The Thread Part 3
Watching new shows so you don’t have to
Part 2 here
Rokujouma no Shinryakusha:
This has really nice character art but nothing else of substance at all. On the surface it’s a re-tread of a fairly common trope, a dude moves into a cheap apartment that happens to have a bunch of crazy neighbours. Even has the landlady-is-his-classmate thing going on. The twist, if you can call it that, is that the particular apartment is coveted by a bunch of random girls, including a ghost that haunts the room, a priestess from inside the hollow earth who wishes to turn it into a base for an invasion, a magical girl who is there to defend it from evil dark magical girls, an alien girl from another dimension or something, and probably more to come. This all seems like it could work, but the problem here is execution. There’s honestly nothing that remarkable here, when you peel away the outer wrapper. Everything has been done better elsewhere. Additionally the magical girl’s voice is possibly the most grating whiny voice I’ve heard, significantly hampering my ability to derive any enjoyment from the whole thing. Which was difficult at the best of times. Maybe it will get better, but probably not sticking around to find out. 3/10.Majimoji Rurumo:
Again, execution is everything, and this isn’t executed at all well. In a sea of mediocrity, this is below the waterline. Unappealing character art, uninteresting characters, dumb plot and just generally doing nothing at all worth the time. The main character summons a witch who grants his wish – and his wish was a pair of girl’s panties because he’s a creeper – in return for his life. But she screws up repeatedly by breaking the rules and now she can only use magic when he asks her to. Or something. It is mediocre in every way and didn’t even have something I could latch onto as a thing it did well. So don’t bother. 3/10.Barakamon:
This has a lot of promise. The main character is a professional calligraphy artist who flips out because his work is criticized as being mediocre and bland, so he moves to an island in the middle of nowhere to attain solitude and clear his mind to focus on his work. Only the locals – especially the local scamp, a kid that appears to be about four or five years old – aren’t so interested in leaving him alone. We never got an anime adaption of Yotsuba&, but this reminds me a lot of it in parts. It’s pretty predictable – the kid teaches him how to feel or whatever, but it’s enjoyable and funny and works fairly well though it does have some flaws, so it’s definitely a recommend. 7/10Glasslip:
I really like PA Works. They’re overall a great studio, and I had fairly high hopes for this. PA Works approach is fairly unique, I feel. They basically create live-action dramas using animation. What this means is you get a focus on character interaction, less overt anime tropes, and a lot more natural-feeling drama. I’m unsure about this one though, at least off the first episode. I’m not sure what the hook is. What is this actually about? True Tears immediately showed it was about strained family relationships, Tari Tari had the whole musical angle, Hanasaku Iroha had the traditional Inn as a backdrop, Nagi no Asukara had a fascinating setting… this just didn’t really strike me as having much going on yet, so it’s hard to even describe. It seems like it’s basically some guy transfers to a semi-rural town and acts like a dick to some people and threatens a girl’s chickens. Which is an inaccurate description. I do like the way they put stuff together though, they’re incredibly adept at showing a huge amount of character with really subtle things. For example there’s a quick scene at the start where one of the male cast has a lingering glance at one of the girls, and then one of the other girls looks at him, and you can immediately see the triangle. No words exchanged, about 2 seconds of animation. PA Works are experts at this. So anyway, I’m going to stick with this a bit and see if a plot shakes out of it. It’s certainly not bad, but I’m not sure if it’s good or not yet. 7/10Futsuu no Joshikousei ga Locodol Yattemita:
I’m generally not a huge fan of Idol shows. I watched The Idolmaster and enjoyed it a lot, but others usually fall flat for me. That said, this was actually fairly okay. The setup is that the protagonist is an average-ish schoolgirl living in a rural town that is utterly unremarkable in every way. Her uncle, a civil servant with the local government, convinces her (or rather tricks her into) doing a publicity stunt, where she and another girl are set up as ‘local idols’ doing promotional work for the opening of the new local pool. I think it worked pretty well. The main character is pretty cute and there’s just the right sort of contrast between her and her partner and it feels a lot more genuine and soulful than I expected. There’s a hint of yuri in there, especially given that the pair cleave fairly closely to the classic pairing archetype (for those unaware with the terminology – yuri, japanese for ‘lily’, is a catch-all term for content involving love/attraction between girls). Also they can both actually sing which is nice – there’s been a lot of cases recently of anime being used as a vehicle to promote various voice actresses as ‘idols’ and some of them are sorely lacking in talent. Enjoyed this, but not sure if I enjoyed it enough to stick with it yet. 6/10EDIT: Still more to come, but I need to appear like I did some work today.
Glasslip
I agree with everything you said about Glasslip. Some cool little drama love triangle things that were pretty small which i like. Subtle stuff like that is pretty great for creating a sense of realness. But the characters seem pretty generic. Smart girl, creative girl, silly boy, love lorn boy ect. Animation is tight though and music was really well done. Ill keep watching but i dont hold high hopes.Hamatora
Never saw the first season, watch a few episodes and really liked it, Cool concept of a detective agency with special powers. The animation is killer and i really like the characters. Definitely something im going to watch all the way throughFree 2nd season
I hate how much i love this show. I nearly rewatched the whole first season after watching the second episode finishNo game No life
Finished it, SOOOOOOO GOOOD. i actually am thinking of getting the manga because of how much i want to find out what happens next. SUPER HOPE it gets renewed.Glasslip:
The thing with PA Works stuff is that the characters are *always* stereotypes at first glance. It’s how they build them out and how they interact with each other that makes their stuff interesting. So that’s actually not much of an issue, the real issue is whether they muck around too long before establishing what the show is actually about.No Game No Life:
Agree, brilliant show. Did you know that the author is actually from Brazil? He writes the light novels and his wife illustrates the manga adaption, and I suspect there’s a fair bit of the two of them in Shiro & Sora. Anyway, I’d be stunned if it didn’t get a continuation, it’s obviously not been greenlit yet but the show did pretty well.If you want something similar to it, there was a show 18-24 months ago called “Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai Kara Kuru”. It doesn’t go quite as deep on the whole mind games element and the main characters aren’t otaku, but it has that same cool anti-hero style protagonist that always has an answer to everything or a crazy plan or just somehow wings it and makes it look deliberate, and the overall setup for the show is quite similar.
For realz, thats awesome about the author and his wife, it seems so very Japanese to not be written by a Japanese person. Shall check out that other show out and let you know what i think.
Well his wife is Japanese as far as I know, and he is of Japanese descent at least. Bur yeah, his actual name is Thiago Furukawa Lucas, and he’s one of the only non-native authors to have successfully broken into the market, both as an artist and as an author.
How many weeks should I give it before asking for a shortlist of what’s worth watching, so that I can watch three episodes, think “hey, this is pretty cool!” And then never watch another episode?
Because I still haven’t finished Gargantia (as an example). I have had two episodes of it to watch for over a year, and yet I still just haven’t watched them.
There’s only one show I’m guaranteed to actually watch at the moment, and that’s P4G, because I’m way too much of a fanboy to not.
The standard approach for anime seasons is that you can usually pick the ones that are obviously good within a few minutes, sometimes before they even start, but for stuff that’s interesting but maybe not going to last, you give it three episodes. This also avoids the issue that used to pop up with the over-manufactured crap that Gonzo used to churn out (and JC Staff seem to do now) where they would do amazing opening episodes and then everything turned to shit by ep 3.
So ask again in a week or two, probably. But you can always read the summaries I’m posting. I’m putting them in spoiler tags only because they get longish, not because I’m spoiling much.
Oh yeah, I’ve been reading them already, and some stuff has piqued my interest, but I know I’m going to forget it all within the next two hours or so, so I’ll need an easily digestible list later. 😛
No worries, I can just tell you what I end up watching regularly.
My current list is looking like:
– Fairy Tail (Continuing from last season)
– Hunter X Hunter (Continuing)
– Tokyo ESP
– Aldnoah Zero
– Zankyou no Terror
– Akame ga Kill
– Sword Art Online II
– Hamatora
– Argevollen
And I’m fence-sitting on a bunch of others (Glasslip, Hanayamata, Sabagebu, Barakamon, Locodol, Glasslip) and will select a few from that for further watching after I’ve seen a bit more. I’ll probably also be adding Free in there, but might wait until that’s done a bit and then watch in bursts. May also do that with SAO as the first season wasn’t great to watch weekly. Also I thought it ended at the halfway point and stopped getting episodes for several weeks before I realized!
I have like 60 episodes of Fairy Tail sitting on my computer, and I don’t know if I’m willing to start watching it and sink that much of my life into one show.
Also, my total knowledge of Hunter X Hunter is that there was about half as much merchandise for it as there was for One Piece when I was in Japan, which means that there was a stupidly large amount of merchandise for it.
Hunter X Hunter’s adapted from a manga by the same guy that did YuYu Hakusho which was super popular in the 90s (he’s also married to Naoko Takeuchi, the Sailor Moon author). It’s really good because it’s your standard dumb Shounen Jump action show, but it’s not dumb at all, it’s got a lot of thought to it. Mind games and stuff. It’s gotten a bit ploddy recently though.
There was an adaption years ago which got maybe 60 eps in? And then it got rebooted and the current one is still going, about 150 eps in now I think. I really enjoy it but its quality level is a bit inconsistent. Some arcs have been awesome. Others not so much.
I think your own viewing from 3 eps is going to determine what’s a solid, enjoyable piece of work that you’ll watch when bothered/bored, to the ones that you actively hunt down a copy of each week and hang out for. 3-4’s a pretty decent number to let something pick up steam and settle in, and you’ll be about 2-3 weeks away from that for most.
Gargantia I had to get into three times before I started really steamrolling the episodes, but I’m glad I watched them because it really picked up and got some tension.
Others I had to devour very rapidly were Log Horizon, Mahouka, Kawaisou complex, No Game No Life, Kill la Kill, World is Still Beautiful, and Strike the Blood.
This season I’m thinking it’ll probably be Glasslip, Argevollen, Aldnoah Zero (even though it got pretty fucking dark pretty fucking fast) and… I’m not sure.
Yeah, I actually finally got around to downloading the last two Gargantia episodes the other day, so I’ll probably watch it soon. I also had to wait with Attack on Titan. Its week-to-week pacing was godawful, so after watching the first 12 episodes or so, I took a break until a little while after it was done, and watched it then.
But mostly, I don’t have the time to waste* on trying everything to see what I like, so it’s way easier to ask for a shortlist, and go from there.
* That is a complete and utter lie.
Also @blaghman some stuff is not necessarily that great but is really good to consume regularly. Strike the Blood is a really good example of that. It’s very conventional action anime stuff, nothing that special, but it’s executed well, each episode is good and exciting and it was fun to watch every week. I suspect that Akame ga Kill and Agevollen will both be that sort of show in this season, probably a couple of others too. They’re sort of your Meat & Veg shows.
I support this recommendation of Kill la Kill.
Have you seen the 2nd ep of Glasslip yet? It really moved things along pretty damn quickly. I’m more interested now than I was from the first ep.
Because no shit, ACTUAL ep2 spoilers here:
Confessions within the love triangle THIS early in the show is pretty unusual – any other show would’ve dragged that shit out to horrifically painful lengths. Usually a rejected confession is just the ‘end of an arc’. I was pretty surprised to see the light-supernatural element introduced. Not what I was expecting and still not sure if A Beautiful Mind territory or actual in-series-reality.Haven’t seen it yet, watched stuff for 7 hours solid last night and passed out around 3am. I need to stop doing that to myself, old man needs his beauty sleep. 🙁 I have a 4th installment of thoughts plus some updates regarding a couple that I caught ep 2 of (my opinion of Rail Wars has gone up significantly, in summary – I realized it’s basically a less good version of You’re Under Arrest which was always a fave of mine).
I’m glad to hear that Glasslip gets moving fast. I got the impression it’d be a single-cour show so they don’t have time to dick around. Will try and get to ep 2 tonight if I can.
Does anyone have the new HTC One M8 and can recommend it? I think I want it. I know I definitely don’t need it but that’s never the point when it comes to purchasing mobile phones.
Mate of mine who works for Telstra has it, says it’s pretty damn neat.
M8! 😀
Gf has it, she likes it and the OS. The build quality is nice, battery life is great, screen & power is good. I personally don’t like the stupidly huge bezels (especially bottom bezel).
I’ve seen worse bezels on cheap HTCs. I used to own the M7 and it was fantastic, it’s probably half the reason I really want the M8.
M7 incorporated the buttons into the bezel. M8 doesn’t, so it’s another line of on-screen buttons. That’s almost in unacceptable territory, for me.
Oh yeah, you’re right. I just noticed that.
Heh, reading another article. This image pretty much says it all.
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_xlarge/jqdccuaektv336hdmihx.jpg
I got it and it’s great 😀
Any specific questions? I’d be more Helpius but I want to watch Orange Is the New Black now 😛
@powalen & others wanting to know how to build a PC from scratch.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/how-to-build-a-gaming-pc,2601.html
All my parts have been shipped 😀 If I’m lucky they’ll be here by the end of the week.
also if you guys are after a quality gaming case on the cheap, i can not recommend the Thermaltake Dokker enough… At $43 (MSY) it is AMAZING. the quality is fantastic has a nice windowed side panel, and to top it off there is a 2.5″ to 3.5″ HDD slot on the top so you can just plug in a bare SATA drive quickly and painlessly. Lots of room inside as well.
Built about 15 PC’s this year so far using this case. It is fantastic.
Sweet! That’ll come in handy.
This will come in handy as I’m planning to build a PC after I move as a house warming present, it will be the first time I’ve ever built my own PC
Drinking water to get my fluids back up.
Semi-\o/
Progress
By the sounds of things right now that is the best thing you could possibly be doing
Ha, semi 😉
What is wrong with me today?!
Oh good, I’m glad I’m not the only one acting like a two year old.
Yeah, I wasn’t going to say anything, but I also went there.
The Brisbane TAYbies really rubbed off on you, huh?
Only that one time…
Uh..
Get your mind out of the gutter. Come on, Benny.
Freeze did it first!
If Freeze can’t hold himself back for a second and get a firm grip on the situation, then he needs to take a long, hard look at himself.
Now you’re at it again! 😀
He’s already given up on me.
what a shitty day, followed by a shitty day tomorrow
WORK WONT FIRE ME, they would rather yell at me and question my mental health.
i hate this place. I hate so much. I want to curl up in a little ball and just stay like that.
Hah, document that shit. It’s illegal for them to ask about your mental health, short of HR going “we’re worried, take some stress leave”.
I wish when i started here i documented everything. so many things that i let slide that i shouldnt off.
Its never too late to start! If you can get them to enquire about these things via e-mail or other forms of captured media!
🙁
*hugasaurus rex*
*mega hugs*
Was trying to write some fell-good stuff, but ended up in some bizarro comparison of bad situations to taking a dump, so maybe ignore me 😛
Just remember that you’re awesome, and there’s a whole bunch of people here who think so, regardless of whatever the shitheads you work with/for say or do.
We’ve got faith in you, Rockets.
Best of luck wading through the ensuing shitstorm, friend.
Time to move, because fuck those guys.
I want to leave, i truly do, but without a reference how am i meant to get another job. Plus the manager has been guilt tripping me about leaving when another worker is leaving in 4 weeks and im the only person who can do it. I just want to fall to pieces and let it sort itself out. Im just stuck and this place has just dragged me down so far. I just want to cut the tumor off me because its killing me. But i cant. I just dont know what to do.
Maybe clients who you’ve worked with can be references, or any of the employees who you actually get along with? Suppliers/vendors can be a great source as well, for vouching for how you handle yourself professionally.
If this is really killing you, don’t be afraid to take a pay-cut/move/go unemployed for a while.
When I quit Telstra, I had to do it because it was suffocating me. People turned against each other, idiotic management, aggressively hostile and occasionally outright criminal behaviour against employees, not to mention schizophrenic policies and enough ineffectual poetic feelgood bullshit to fertilize the frickin’ Nullarbor (who ohmygod whose name I JUST now got; Null. Arbor. Zero trees. Damn I’m slow).
I kid you not, management actually had a file on the shared drive which they thought was secret called ‘shit list’, along with ‘isn’t playing ball with our contradictory policies’ employees marked on it for shit-canning as soon as an excuse could come up or be reasonably manufactured. All the good folks who I’d loved hanging out with socially while at work (some of whom are my dearest and closest friends today) had been canned or quit, and ‘playing the game’ was becoming intolerable, to the point that the only way you could succeed was by actively fucking the customers. Actual support was out of the question – too costly. The competing interests of work ethic, conscience, and contradictory flavour-of-the-week management policies was too much and I bailed at the worst time of the fucking year to find a job (Christmas) without having anywhere to go to.
It was liberating as hell. I had some savings, NewStart covered me for the month I was out of work, and getting back into the recruitment game and talking up my skills was empowering. If you want others to believe it, you have to believe it yourself. For many/most of the jobs, references were seemingly unimportant and I was able to use former supervisors who’d been the good apples (obviously – they left), coworkers and wholesaler clients.
I took a paycut to work for government and while it’s still not the most motivating place to work, it was a damn sight less evil. Which has done wonders for what I tolerate.
The thing I can suggest most: Be prepared to take a temporary loss. Conditions will rarely if ever be perfect. Factor it in to whatever you decide to do, but the ultimate goal is finding someplace where you aren’t dreading to go in every day with people who don’t bully you. Do whatever you can or want to in terms of industrial relations stuff, whatever, that’s just going to buy you some comfort – those cases very frequently result in leaving a hostile environment with some extra money to tide you over til you find something much, much, much better. But if you stay there because you can’t take the risk of a short-term loss, I doubt things will ever improve long-term.
(The fact that I am now bending over backwards to kill myself with work is more of a personal problem than anything to do with the workplace itself. It’s probably an OK place to work!)
Holy crap.
Too wall of texty? I can spoiler when back somewhere with net that is not my mobile…
Nah, I was referring to your account of the Telstra workplace.
…and as I was reading it I was thinking “well I guess there wouldn’t be any harbour th- Oh.”
Just remember you owe them nothing. Less than nothing, actually, since they treat you like shit. If you leaving would fuck them over then that’s their problem, not your problem, and maybe if you’re that important to them that they can’t function without you they shouldn’t make you hate working there so much you want to move. Not saying you need to be vindictive, but seriously fuck those guys.
Does the person who is leaving know you very well? Maybe they could be a suitable reference.
That sounds like an opportunity to me. Get a signed contract for your desired working conditions with a designated start time or give notice that you’ll be leaving right at the time they need you the most. It sounds like they’re not going to give you a reference one way or another so its not like you’ll lose out on anything.
You’re infinitely more important than the job and you owe it nothing, never fall into the trap of thinking its worth your sanity.
When you give them your resignation you can ask for a written reference, all it needs to state is that you were at this role for X period of time and a short list of your responsibilities. You can still provide your manager as your referee for call ups if you want but usually not too many companies do referee checks unless it’s a really close call between 2-3 interviewees.
By the way if the company can or can’t keep running without you is none of your concern. As a business owner/manager its his job to account for contingency plans. Let me ask you this, if the company was sinking do you think they would look after you? Or leave you out to rot? At the end of the day you need to look at working in a job as a business transaction, if this transaction is no longer to your benefit you need to find one that is. Regardless of how it might affect your existing employer.
I think I reply-failed on my own blog. Oops. That’s…kinda embarassing. 😛
Respond like a mature adult by deleting the entire blog, and creating a new, very similar one in its place.
Under the name Strunge.
Ooh, I wonder if that one’s free on Instagram? 😛
Strange’s Titches.
stitchesnotitchesdamnit.com/whatiswrongwithyoupeople
Not itches or no titches?
It’s your birthweek celebration, you’re excused.
So it turns out I was very, very wrong in my suspicions about the new Thief game. Well. Not completely off the mark in some of the simplification guesses, but man, that game is dripping with atmosphere, and the basics are still there and enjoyable. Emo-Garrett isn’t as intolerable as he looks, and it’s not too hard to let yourself thing you’ve got some real freedom of movement/approach. It’s not horrible! 🙂
Feel like I have to write an apology note to the devs and internet commenters for being so skeptical in the lead-up to its release.
I’ll have to get back in to it, but it’ll have to wait because I’ve just started back up with Dead Rising 3. Bought Thief at launch, I only played the first couple of levels, but what I did play I liked.
I’ve got to force myself to go back to it, the asylum level is triggering as fuck and I seriously needed to walk away from it for a while. No idea why, it’s not really any different than any of the other versions of the trope that I’ve played through a dozen times before
I was just thinking yesterday, that I should get back into it. Only played an hour or so – ragequit at a stupid section.
Just did my tax, safe to say because of being through 4 different jobs in the last year, I have overpaid a shit load of tax. So getting a great return, few things to buy. Highest priority is a Gaming PC with at least dual monitors. Can pay my car rego easily. Will also probably get a Wii U when the next price drop occurs.
Xenoblade \o/
Hello everyone, update time I guess. Whoo.
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Ur fnvq V jnf frysvfu naq fubhyqa’g unir tbar gb gur cbyvpr nobhg vg. Ur gbyq zl Zhz fur fubhyq’ir fgbbq hc sbe uvz va pbheg. Fur gevrq gb rkcynva gb uvz gung ur unq npghnyyl uheg zr dhvgr onqyl, ohg ur xrcg ercrngvat vg jnf zl bja snhyg naq gung V fubhyq unir yrg uvz hfr gur pbzchgre.
Ur pnyyrq ntnva yngre qrznaqvat gung jr yrg uvz fgnl urer naq abg gryy gur cbyvpr. Gung ur whfg jnagf gb unir n fubjre naq fyrrc n srj ubhef. Ur jnagrq zr gb gryy uvz V jbhyqa’g gryy gur cbyvpr, ohg gou V’z greevsvrq.
Ng gur fnzr gvzr, V unq orra gelvat gb svaq uvz nppbzzbqngvba ohg qrfcvgr hf tvivat uvz n jubyr ohapu bs cynprf gb fgnl purncyl, ur unf guebja vg va bhe snpr, cebsnavgvrf vapyhqrq.
Ba gur fhowrpg bs zl cubar gubhtu, gurer vf abguvat gung pna or qbar nobhg vg, fb V’yy rvgure ohl n arj haybpxrq cubar, cnl gur obexrq bar V unir bhgevtug be ryfr whfg tb cubaryrff sbe 7 zbaguf. Ur unf ab vagragvba bs ercynpvat vg naq fnvq V znqr uvz qb vg.
*fvtu* Jul qvq V unir gb trg na ragver shpxrq hc snzvyl?
Don’t know what to say, other than hang in there.
*hug*
Pynffvp orunivbhe bs na nohfre. Fgvpx gb lbhe thaf Fperr, qba’g yrg uvz vagvzvqngr lbh.*Hugs*
Double plus this.
@scree What monkey has said. Seriously.
Zl qnq hfrq gb orng gur penc bhg bs zr naq zl zbz, naq gb guvf qnl ur qbrfa’g oryvrir ur qvq nalguvat jebat.(Upvote for explanation, not for spoiler).
Aw man Scree, this whole thing sounds awful, but at least you’ve got the order in place. Hope you can now pick up and move forward.It’s bloody horrific, the whole affair. Hope you and mum are OK.
Mum’s not coping well. She feels guilty that he doesn’t really have anywhere to live or have any of his stuff.
If he can’t even accept that this mess is his fault, then your mum shouldn’t feel guilty. He is 100% to blame for this whole ordeal and these are the consequences of his actions.
Don’t feel guilty, you are absolutely doing the right thing.
I missed out on what this is all about, but from your post I can make a few guesses and it seems pretty bad. Hope everything works out for the best for you.
It’s on previous tay
Already sounds like he’s edging on breaking the order and it’s not even been 12 hours much less 12 months. At the risk of using a @strange catchphrase *hugasaurus*
Mum is struggling with the thought of not letting him in. I’m worried about it because I feel that if we give him an inch, he’ll take a mile.
Not even a millimetre.
He has shown that it will take the mile and more. Stick to your guns and do your best to get your mum to. He crossed the line long ago, he is not and should not be your problem anymore.
Family is not a free pass.
Based on the fact you have an intervention order on him, he’s legally not permitted to be there (assuming the conditions of the order restricts him being on the premises which sounds like it does). If he’s there, you have you call the police right away or you’ll likely be the one considered to be in breach of the order and will probably be ignored in future complaints which, lets face it, will probably happen and likely be escalated.
The unfortunate thing here is that your mum’s opinion isn’t relevant because it’s not her order, it’s yours and you have a right and responsibility to self defence and safety.
If your mum is struggling with the thought that he doesn’t have somewhere to live and doesn’t have his stuff, by all means give him his stuff and even suggest some sort of hostel as a cheap short term solution. More for your mum’s sake than his.
Ur’yy xrrc gelvat gb znxr lbh srry onq ohg gurer vf n grez sbe gung. Ivpgvz oynzvat. Whfg erzrzore ur’f qbar guvf gb uvzfrys naq vs ur xrrcf vg hc ur’f whfg znxvat vg jbefr sbe uvzfrys. Lbh naq lbhe zhz unir orra orlbaq trarebhf va gelvat gb uryc uvz naq tvivat va jbhyq or onq sbe nyy bs lbh. Ur arrqf gb yrnea ubj gb orunir yvxr na nqhyg naq abg n 4 lrne byq guebjvat n gnagehz.*hugs*
Gungf greevoyr gb urne rfcrpvnyyl gur jnl urf gerngvat lbh naq lbhe zhz rira nsgre lbh jrag guebhtu gur gebhoyr bs ybbxvat hc nppbzbqngvba sbe uvz rira gubhtu lbh qvqag unir gb! Ur vf na nohfre yvxr rirelbar ryfr urer unf fnvq naq vgf nyy ba uvz, lbh naq lbhe zhz unir abguvat gb srry thvygl sbe. Ubcrshyyl guvf jubyr beqrny jvyy cnff fbba, vs lbh rire qbag srry fnsr fcrnx hc rvgure urer be gb gur nhgubevgvrf naq fbzrguvat jvyy trg qbar V cebzvfr. Fgnl fgebat fperr jr ner nyy urer gb fhccbeg lbh naq jvyy uryc va nal jnl jr pna*bonus hug from Cathryn*Holy crap. If you need help in the mobile phone department, I have a few spare that you can have. Not flagship phones or anything, but ones that will definitely get you by. With emails too! 😀
Two Sony Xperia Es; one black, one white, both locked to the Telstra network. One HTC Desire 310, navy blue back case; network unlocked.
Saw on FB, shitty situ. Everyone else has lent their support better than I can, so I’ll just jot down some other stuffs below.
Don’t be surprised if you come home one day and your brother is at home. Depending on the restraining order, it may be possible for your mother to invite him into the house as her guest. Be prepared for this and don’t freak out, he may use it against you.
Also be prepared that you may get some BS from your mother/family about this. As said before, if you don’t feel safe then discuss it with someone else, and I’m sure you can work something out. We live in Australia, almost nothing is worth it to have you scared and alone at your own home.
Holy shit. I haven’t been reading TAY all that much recently, so I missed the catalyst to this whole situation. All the internet hugs. Stay strong, don’t let him win.Yay for university statistics on a Monday night after a massive day at work!
Assignment due in a week and I need a swift kick to actually make a start on this damn thing… So many numbers…… day and night…
/o\
Freaking hate statistics.
I understand enough (2nd year uni level) to know their use and importance, but I am so, so glad that there are people who enjoy it enough that I don’t need to do it 😛
Stats is abominable, and pure maths was too abstract and not immediately useful, so I ended up finishing with an applied maths major to go with my chemistry.
TL:DR – Fuck statistics.
Awh, I really, really loved my stats subjects back in uni… I wanted to play with them forever to leverage truth into a world which doesn’t understand itself or even how to begin to. Thinking! Logic!
…Plus all that boring maths crap. ie: most of the course material.
Soooo… Let’s say love/hate.
Hey, maths is fun! Very fun!
Except statistics. Screw that stuff.
http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2013/01/statistics/
DAMMIT @mrtaco !
Now I really want Rhythm Heaven on Wii and if my EB doesn’t have stock on the weekend I’M HOLDING YOU ACCOUNTABLE FOR ANY RAGE!
I randomly “acquired” the Japanese one on DS and had absolutely no idea what I was doing outside of the actual rhythmy game stuff (because it was in Japanese). Good fun though and I’m a beast at rhythm games 😀
THEY BETTER HAVE IT IN STOCK, MAN.
The original Japanese one was on GBA. Noob 😛
Actually if they don’t have it then I have a friend in Melbourne who has a worse hoarding problem than me. She’s now got three copies of the game because… actually scratch that I don’t even know why. But yeah she could probably do with someone to take an extra off her hands.
>:|
Wait now that I read it back… was it the Rhythm Tengoku you played, or Rhythm Tengoku Gold (known as Rhythm Heaven here, and often found for maybe $10-$15 and totally the best game on DS. When I don’t feel like saying Soul Bubbles instead)?
Gold. I know it was unclear so I edited it 😛
Ahk. Well if you still have the method of acquisition you should get the GBA one, it’s also awesome. There’s only maybe one game where not knowing Japanese becomes a bit of a hindrance, otherwise it’s all rad.
Apparently it’s called Beat The Beat: Rhythm Paradise in PAL regions, just had a look on the EB site and it appears that my local store has stock, so if you don’t have any luck let me know and I’ll see if I can help you out.
(and @mrtaco)
Seems like $12ish is a standard eBay price so if my EB doesn’t have any stock (it says it does online), I’ll just eBay it 😀
$_$
😀 😀
Did I miss mario kart 8 fun times?
I think it was delayed until next week? I dunno. I think @doc_what was trying to coordinate but not enough interest?
I wasn’t really paying attention, sorry.
It’s okay. I would be up for it next week.
I think people still played tonight but I doubt it would’ve been more than 5 people or so. I didn’t play but I suggested we play next week (or later in the week) whenever @shane gets his Wii U 😀
FREE WINS!On second thought, I will play next week.
…anyone want to buy a Wii-U? 😛
I’ll give you $10 and one of your own books for it 😛
this man knows value!
I didn’t sign up for free losses!
@tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
Thanks for the session tonight guys. Hope you all enjoyed it. Sorry you weren’t able to make it @redartifice but nothing died (yet) in your absence.
Great night as usual!
Let’s throw @redartifice off a cliff so he can go stag hunting and attack the sky.
IN-JOKES THAT HE’LL NEVER GET SINCE HE WASN’T THERE. >:'(
(Also I’m about 3 days too late with this)
Indeed you are. The in-joke will indeed continue without him ever know– crap you tagged him.
That’s it. The jig is up.
Catching up on 2 days of missed TAY sucks. All the good conversations are already done. *pouts*
I’m regularly 4 days behind on TAY.
The title sequence for The Leftovers is creepy as hell.
Also, I seem to be liking The Last Ship even though it’s very American, and very silly.
My badass Okami print shipped.
FedEx say it’ll arrive on the day I get back from NZ so should have it in my hands for inspection (apparently need to let them know if it’s damaged within 24 hours) in a week or so. EXCITED.
I’m planning on moving to my own place in September-October if I can, and one of the first things I shall do is get it framed and put it on a wall. Ditto the other cool artwork I have. (that one’s cooler because it’s signed)
…and a house warming meat? 🙂
Yeah, that’ll be the plan.
My copy of Spyro: A Hero’s Tail sold for $3.
🙂
Noticed a few people from here on Twitter that I hadn’t added.
For anyone interested, my Twitter handle is @TheCracks1 – it’s a locked account, so I’d need to accept any follow requests.
Urgh, back in Perth.
Little did they realise that I was the internet killer! >:D
Wait…
I forgot to kill anyone 🙁
Next visit >:)
Please don’t start here…
Start over there
Ahhhh clever… the police will never suspect a thing now…
WOAH! Robin from Fire Emblem made it into Smash over Chrom! Exactly like I wanted! So good!
Heh, browser was too explodey to post about it 😛
I had no idea what was going on in that trailer. Other than FALCON! YES!
Also the bit where Marth and Ike showed up.
Git Fremblem
I got the one on GameCube, does that count?
Yes… but also no.
Apparently Chrom has made it, Luncina too
EDIT: Crazy, they have brought the count to 5 Fire Emblem characters.
EDIT 2: Oh wait, maybe not Chrom. Kotaku US article claimed Chrom was in but everywhere else doesn’t say so.
But ROBIN! Finally a non-swordy Fire Emblemer!
Looks like Chrom is an assist trophy or something though? Totally fine with that 😛
EDIT: Yeah, Chrom didn’t get a newcomer title card, so he definitely won’t be a separate character. Either an assist or part of a final smash or something?
When I first saw it I thought to myself “Who the heck is Robin!?”. =P
But, that cloak…
Fire Emblem Overload!
I like how they’re using both male and female versions of Robin. Nice touch, Nintendo.
It will be interesting how they make all the sword users different, mostly in regards to the Fire Emblem sword users (excluding Robin because I assume they will be hybrid between mid range spells and close range sword). I’m assuming it will be something along the lines of Ike = Slow/Heavy Luncina = Fast/Mobile and Marth will be a middle between the two.
Considering that Lucina was supposed to copy Marth in the Fire Emblem game, it’ll be interesting to see the differences.
Perhaps having one be more offensive and the other defensive while maintaining similar speed/mobility?
The Levin Sword is a ranged weapon too, so I assume only Robin’s basic attacks (when he doesn’t have a Tome) will be actual slashes. The rest will be thunderbolts and such!
I agree about your tiers there though, that sounds about right. There’s not much else they can do to differentiate Lucina from Marth.
I think Lyn from Fire Emblem 7 would have been a great choice in place of Lucina. Focus on mobility and speed as befits her Sword Master nature.
But I suppose Awakening is still fresh in everybodies’ minds, and Lucina is pretty cool too.
I think Anna from every Fire Emblem game ever would have been a great choice instead of Lucina because she’s visibly different and has a different fighting style as a thief.
Also she’s in every Fire Emblem.
… Ro … bin?
Actually, watching it back now… Chrom is definitely part of Robin’s final smash. You can hear Robin call him, and then the ‘pair up’ portrait from Awakening flashes on the screen. Cool!
Anybody else find Captain Falcon not finishing “FAAAALCONNNN PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNCH!” unsatisfying?
Although I suppose if he did manage to FALCON PUNCH, it probably means I am filthy misogynist whole wants to see Lucina bashed in a display of male dominance, and thus enforcing the patriarchy.
Putting the avatar character into smash is a fucking terrible idea. The character’s personality and gender were up to the player and that was half of the appeal, by putting them into smash – especially as a male character – they cut that off at the knees. Nintendo basically saying ‘whatever the shit was you chose is irrelevant, this is the real choice’.
If they wanted a popular Fire Emblem Awakening character that wasn’t a sword fighter there are a ton of options like Tharja or Cordelia that would work absolutely fine without carrying a subtle implication that most people’s Robin was incorrect.
You can play as male or female.
Also ties in with a bunch of the other gender choice options like Wii Fit Trainer and Smash Mii. That’s now three different characters where customisation is more than just a palette swap.
I imagine if they ever brought back Pokemon Trainer (doubt it though), they would probably give the option of choosing a male or female trainer.
The female option felt like a tacked on thing at the end, the message that the Male avatar is the ‘correct’ version as far as Nintendo goes is pretty clear.
The avatar’s personality was fairly set in stone.
Yeah, well what is shown in that trailer doesn’t really seem to reflect the personality I remember.
Also it looks like Lucina is probably just a skin for Marth, she’s not being listed as a true new character the way the actual newcomers are, plus her moveset is practically identical. Probably took them zero effort to add her that way. 🙁
Didn’t they say this Smash Bros no characters would have the same moveset?
I think they just said they were trying to make everybody distinct (though I suppose that kinda means the same thing at the end of the day :P).
I’ll wait until her moveset is properly revealed before I comment more. They could surprise us.
Falcon wanted to show his moves, but couldn’t.
Robin ended up showing his/her moves.
Poor Falcon.
Looks like falcon…got punched.
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=Du7DU6yeNYzekwXYyoDwAg&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D6YMPAH67f4o&cd=4&ved=0CCYQtwIwAw&usg=AFQjCNGIvr2LVkM0a7YAcrZiRk-i9jsBBQ
Looks like he got beaten to the punch 😛
I can’t sleep… 🙁
It’s too cold to get up… 🙁
I’m still not well… :`(
I had that problem this morning. Woke up and I was really sore, didn’t want to get up, but couldn’t sleep any more. Coffee was worth getting up for though!
Also, hope you feel better soon man!
Coffee is always worth getting up for. Unless it’s instant.
This was instant unfortunately, but to be fair, it was a free sample of Moccona Vanilla Coffee, and it is actually quite nice for an instant!
Moccona is almost palatable by instant standards, and the vanilla flavouring would help. At least it’s not Maxwell House or International Roast.
I find Robert Tims instant is pretty good. Tried it?
Hope you get better soon man.
Other competitors for Sewvivor are leaving comments on my blog. Nice comments. Don’t be nice, I want to beat you all! 😛
The tribe has spoken! Sorry, that’s all I remember from first season Survivor. 😀
THE TRIBE HAS SPOKEN and voted that that corner stitching is effing delightful
Morning TAY! The start to another week! Man it feels like they never end =p
What’s everyone playing during the week? I’m dropping in the odd 2-3 matches of Hearthstone after work.. can’t risk launching Witcher 2 or the Civ 5 on a working day >.< or WoW for that matter 🙁
Deleted my old save for Dead Rising 3 yesterday and started again, already just about back to where I was. After I finish, I plan on buying the season pass and playing all the DLC. Also, while my son’s home after school I’ve been playing a bit of either Peggle 2, Skylanders: Swap Force or Lego: The Hobbit.
I’ve been dabbling in some new and plenty of older games. Playing some BattleBlock Theater, Spintires, Borderlands, Just Cause 2 and Red Faction Guerilla. Also some Forza Horizon.
How do you manage all those games on a work day?!
I play some of them at work because it’s dead quiet here. Then play some at home using Steam In-Home-Streaming, to stream them from my gaming PC to my Macbook air whilst watching TV with my wife on the couch.
Who here is Liam? Some Aussie (not on my friend list, yet) came on Mario Kart last night, right as my friend and I were destroying some Frenchies. I had to leave soon after Liam joined us unfortunately, but I’d like to add them and play more next time! 😀
…I know of an Aussie Liam that seems to always pop up all over the place. Can’t think whether I’ve come across him on any Wii U stuff though, and whether he goes by Liam there or his other usual screen name.
I will have to jump online in Mario Kart soon, but not until I can beat the cpu players….yeah I’m that bad.
Hah! THey cheat, remember. 😛
My very first MK8 game was online, and so were the subsequent (roughly) next 10. I didn’t fail as badly as I thought I would and it was a lot of fun. Just go for it!
Stewart’s (cause “Liondrive’s” is so informal :P) holiday write up!
(caution, extremely long, read at your own peril)
Day 01 – Am I Going to Get Stabbed?
Flying into the Gold Coast, all alone, not entirely sure of what was waiting for me was surprisingly daunting. I know I could trust all the people I was going to meet, but getting in a fight with my sister right before I left had left a sour taste in my mouth. What if my sister was right? What if I was being stupid?This small amount of doubt quickly left after meeting @freezespreston at the GC airport for the first time. Super nice guy 🙂
I briefly met the family (who are also super nice) before being whisked away to my idea of heaven. Robina, the biggest shopping centre I have ever been in! Pure bliss! Freezy took me out for Mexican (from a place who’s name escapes me), before making the mistake of pointing out a Chocolate Restaurant, Max Brenners, on the way out.
Of course I’d drag him there.
Of course.
That’s like dangling a steak infront of a lion 😛
Day 01 ended with me ruining my nice beige / white jumper by spilling chocolate all over it.
What would usually devestate me, ruining clothes and wasting chocolate, didn’t, as I had had an amazing day 🙂
A good sign for things to come 🙂
Day 02 – Preparations 😉
Not much worth noting happened on this day to tell truth. I explored Robina fully by myself, scouting out which shops had sales, for how long, prices, and where had the best clothes. This was all for plans that were organised to happen later in the week. The dreaded, Shopping Spree *dun dun duuuuun* (more on that later).Day 03 – The Big Freeze Meat (giggity)
Today was the day. The day of my first full fledged meat!I spent far too long at Robina again, trying to find the perfect replacement jumper to the one I spilt chocolate on, as that was what I had planned to wear.
Now, I can hear you saying, “If he cares about clothes so much, surely he would’ve had a back up outfit”, well, I did to be honest, but I freaked out thinking that I may get teased for wearing a denim vest to my first meat :S
New clothes was the only alternative.
I spent the whole hour before the meat was planned to start running back and forth between the mirror, making sure everything was in perfect place.
People started to arrive, and I slowly began to realise that I was being silly. Everybody was incredibly nice, and friendly, and welcoming, and really didn’t care how I was dressed, but it’s in my nature to over prepare 🙂
If I recall correctly, I met @virus__, @beeawwb, @sernobulus, @dc, @transientmind, and @dkzeitgeist, in that order.
Everyone was incredibly nice, and the meat was awesome. Everyone just chilling, hanging out, having fun. It was exactly what I imagined, and everyone made me feel at ease 🙂
Until night came, where almost all of my new foumd friends kept tormenting me with this incredibly creepy ET toy >:(
Day 04 – Theme Parks and Fun Times
Today did not start off how I imagined. I thought it would start off relatively chilled, kinda a continuation of last night. Instead it started with me being used as two small childrens play thing. Getting jumped on, beat up, tormented by two small children, while a pack of adults egged them on was not what I had imagined, haha!It was amusing, I’ll be homest, and they didn’t do any harm, but being slightly hungover due to drinking far more than others had realised the night before meant that I was a little lost as to what to do in that situation, haha! :S
The day got progressively better though, as I got to go to Movie World with DC, Freeze, and his family! My first proper theme park!
It was an incredibly fun day spent having fun with friends, even when we did accidentally traumatise a little girl (in our defence, it was hilarious).
Today was also my last full day in the GC before heading to Brisbane 🙂
Day 05 – From the GC to Brisbane
Another quite uneventful day to be honest. I spent the morning trekking to my hotel room (which was way overpriced for what it offered), scoping out sales (shuttup, I like shopping!), and devouring Krispy Kremes and Starbucks 😀Day 06 – the Shopping Spree!
I am unashamed to admit that this was the day I had most been looking forward to. I love shopping, ok. I don’t think that’s a secret.I also enjoy doing nice things for nice people, so this was the perfect opportunity for me!
Today was the day I took DC shopping ;D
We met in the late morning, both not entirely sure if @strange was coming or not. We thought she was, but weren’t quite sure, kinda thing?
Strange did make an appearance, to both of our relief. DCs relief that he had someone on his side to hold his hand, and to my relief as I knew she was actually on my side, and would help me get DC into the change rooms (which she did with gusto) 😉
Strange is super nice by the way. Not what I was fully expecting, but along the lines 🙂 She’s a lot friendlier than you guys make her out to be! 😛
The day was incredibly fun, though I could tell from the look on DCs face that he didn’t want me to keep buying him clothes. Little did he know that the pouting made it all the more enjoyable for me >;)
I think DC slowly started to enjoy the process, and even picked out some incredibly nice clothes (that he looks stunning in! A real head turner if ever I saw one 😉 ).
Strange had to depart at lunch time, which is where we wrapped up shopping for the day. We spent the remainder of the day moseying around the city, taking in the sights and just chatting before heading to Southbank. DC made the mistake of showing me where Max Brenners was. Of course I was going to stop there for lunch.
Of course 😛
We continued our stroll through to the botanical gardens before calling it a night. It was a truly amazing day, for me anyway (I hope it was for DC too) 🙂
Day 07 – So Much Food! :O
Today was a lot more relaxed than yeaterday. Me and DC had plans to hangout again, and mosey again, before meeting up with Freeze to catch a movie.We didn’t actually do much, that I recall, other than mosey from place to place, like Krispy Kreme (cause DC had never had them!), to lunch at a Japanese place (cause DC had never had it!), to Cold Rock (which DC had never had!). See, I’m not from Brisbane, so I have an excuse 😛
We saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which was surprisingly awesome, despite my dislike of apes (they’re creepy looking, ok?!).
Oh, and DC totally managed to some how spill coke all over the cinema foyer, to me and Freezes amusement, and his own embarrassment 😛
Another great day spent moseying around with the best company 🙂
Day 08 – A Time of Reflection
Today was the firat day where I was unsure of exactly what was happening. I had almost all of the day to myself, which while not unwelcome, left me a little lost as to how to amuse myself.I spent far too much money on not much clothes (#YOLO :P), before meeting up with @jimu for lunch 🙂
Great guy 🙂 I was a bit confused as to why he wanted to meet me, to be honest, as we hadn’t interacted a whole bunch before, but I’m glad I met him 🙂
We chilled out over lunch, and just talked. It was nice 🙂
My night time plans unfortunately fell through, so I took myself on a pity date.
I went to Max Brenners, took a walk along the river, and went to the movies 🙂
I had a lot of time to just think about things. Today made me see where I want to be, and who I want to be.
It was a good day 🙂
Day 09 – A Drunken Fool
Today was spent in preparation for the night to come. A night of drinking!Most of you are probably somewhat familiar with how I get when drunk. I was determined to not make an arse of myself! I would not be the fool!
Yeah, that didn’t happen :S
10+ cocktails will do that to a man.
The night was incredibly fun 🙂
Everyone hanging out, having fun, laughing. It’s stuff I wish I could do with my friends back home :'(
I also met @welbot, who no one introduced me too! Cool guy, but I think I was too tipsy to hold a conversatiom by that stage, haha!
Highlights of the night include:
– Chilling with DC before hand / while waiting for others
– Pretty much every word out of @dkzeitgeist’s mouth
– Dirty dancing with / too Dan from across the table
– Seeing everyone tipsy
– Hanging out in general
– Getting called very / extremely / flamboyantly gay by everybody (it was surprisingly amusing)
– Putting coins in Stranges bra to try and get her to dance, and not getting slapped
– Street dancing
– DC twerking
– Some magical food place Freeze took us to
Best of nights out 🙂
Though finding somewhere to dance would’ve been the cherry on top 😉
Next trip, clubbing 😉
Day 10 – Reality Kicks In
Today I had to head back to the GC :'(Don’t get me wrong, I like the GC, but after such an amazing week I didn’t want to leave :'(
I spent the day feeling sorry for myself, because my trip was almost over, and I wouldn’t get the chance to see pretty much all of my new friends again :'(
It was a sad day :'(
Day 11 – the Final Day
The saddest day by far. I fear I may have not been the best of company for Freeze, as I was quite down :’SWe did go to Timezone though, which cheered me up. One final fun thing to do on my trip 🙂
We also went to Hard Rock cafe, which was quite cool 🙂
A nice relaxed ending to an amazing trip 🙂
Afterthoughts
This trip has had a bigger impact on me than I thought it would.
It has given me memories that I’ll cherish forever, and I am genuinly proud to consider not just the Brisbane TAYbies, but all the TAYbies, as my friends, if not my family. I truly do love you all.
You’re the best friends a guy could ask for 🙂
It’s also helped me to see the man I want to be, and has made me see how I can improve myself so that I’m happier.
I’m resolved to finish uni, I’m going to start looking for a job that makes me happy, and I’m going to come out to my mum next time I see her 🙂
I want to be happy, and all these things will help do it 🙂
Thank you TAY.
You’re all amazing people <3
tldr : Who’s Stewart?!
Edit: Sounds like you had a good trip lion! Nope not calling you Stewart =P The highlight of your trip being you didn’t get stabbed!
TAY’s resident Super flamboyant gay drunkard! 😉
Was great to meet yet another TAY friend (Actually 2 cos I met @beeawwb as well!) He (liondrive) actually reminds me a lot of a guy I went to school with many aeons ago! Granted I was a little bit quiet on the night, but considering the week I’d had, I was a little surprised I even went. Was well worth it though! Always enjoy the company of these guys! @dkzeitgeist is always a riot, and super nice guy too! He and @strange were go great when my ex left me, and I will never forget them for being such great peeps!
Equally awesome things can be said for @freezespreston and @dc too, but I dun wanna steal the thunder of this thread!
Just wanna say I had a great time, and hope some day in the future, we can do it all again!
You might be confused anout who Stewart is but I want to know who Gusto is. And why @strange and @liondrive pushed @dc into the change room with them.
A nice read. :’)
sounds like a good trip, glad you had fun.
WELL EXCUUUSE ME!
*runs off crying*
The Brisbane TAYbies are pretty rad. Even Dan isn’t a total dickhead.
which Dan though? Or is that a blanket statement? 😉
Yes.
Nah, Hipster / Zeitgeist Dan’s a total dickhead, but that’s what makes him awesome 😉
<3 U Dan :*
Gross.
We’ll always have this, Ryan. We’ll always have this.
Depending on the Laneway lineup, I might come back up in January. We’ll see.
Bring Rockets… and @sughly. Whatever happened to Sughly?
Having stayed at his place I can confirm that he just waits until he is mentioned before commenting in TAY. It’s.. Weird.
*turns off lights and stares into mirror*
@Sughly @Sughly @Sughly
you’re weird!
:'(
Oh come on, mate.
Also, did you mean to include a pic of said creepy ET toy? Cos I wanna see!!
There was no way in hell I was going to take a picture of that, thing! :O
awwwwwww
How about I just recreate it.
“E.T… Watching you sleep, Stewie…”
TL;DR
Was excellent meeting you, Stewie 🙂 A good trip!
Sounds like you had an awesome trip my friend im glad you had such a great time! Next stop all the other states for party fun times \o/
He made the mistake of coming here first so now everywhere else is going to feel dreary and lame.
#MasterTayce
Unless he comes for the single big weekend in melbourne. PAX weekend
Can’t, it’s in the middle of uni :'(
I already looked at it, haha!
Hopefully next year though 🙂
YEAH! CANBERRA! WOO!
No? Just me? Alright then.
Party on canberra!
Party on.. Somewhere.. Melbourne?
That one
I got lots of pictures. Lots and lots of pictures. I’d post them but there’s some with Freeze’s familiy and I probably shouldn’t post those. YOU’VE GOT THE LINK, STEWIE. 😀
What did your sister think about surviving? Tell her your tales? 😀
My sister was quite surprised I actually had a good trip.
She thought I was flying over to see one person, despite telling her numerous times I was meeting a bunch of people.
She then proceeded to make lots of gay orgy jokes 😐
I think she’s happy I had a good trip anyway 🙂
And I’m on my mobile, so linking to those pictures is hard for me right now 😛
You’ll have to! 😀
Just show her the movie world pictures and Krispy Kreme pictures. XD
I bought her some Krispy Kreme back from the Sydney airport to distract her, haha! 😛
Did it work?
It did until we ate them all :3
Then she was on my case a bit, haha!
Over now, and she’s glad I had fun 🙂
She was just (understandably) concerned at the time 🙂
I don’t know what she thinks you got up to but if you’re way happier after you came back, no matter what you did, isn’t that a good thing? XD
7/10
I’ll take it! 😀
I don’t know if you noticed, but I’m pretty easy like that 😉
“Not what I was fully expecting, but along the lines 🙂 She’s a lot friendlier than you guys make her out to be! :P”
What exactly were you expecting? A monster? 😛
Would you be offended if I said stern, haha!
It’s what others make you out to seem like is all!
All this monster talk 😛
You’re really nice though, don’t worry! 😉
You’re not my kid so I don’t need to be stern with you. 😀
And I don’t want to be nice. Nice people are scary!
Finally got around to finishing Saints Row IV and got platinum whoop after realizing that they have no idea what “Hardcore” difficulty should be like (I’d completed all previous SR games on the hardest difficulty because your character becomes so OP), no problems with enemy difficulty but the challenges were ridiculous on hardcore they give you ridiculously impossible times to beat (some were up to 7 minutes difference between difficulties) bumped the difficulty back and breazed through every challenge I was struggling with. Brings me up to 18 games complted in 2014 so far!
Highlight minor spoiler (to do with Keith David not so much the plot or anything)
I kept getting a real They Live< /a> vibe from it, with all the billboards having things like “Obey” written on them and the fact that Keith David a> is in it. Then I did a mission for Keith David where he was having a really long drawn out fight scene with a dude in a kilt and I thought, hey this is almost exactly like the fight from They Live, then the kilted gentleman introduced himself as Roudy Roddy Piper a> . :O holy shit it’s him, and then the mission name came up as “He Lives”, now I can recruit Keith David and Roddy Piper as my back up. I love their funny cameos, like SRIII you got Burt Reynolds, so silly but so fun…. and I borked the links, sorry folks. Moderation? Too many links maybe.
Forgot to mention it on TAY but I’m back from Asia. I miss how cheap everything was. Also I would like job now, I have no money fillers for which to buy necessities. Mainly coffee and fuel to get to coffee.
welcome back! I remember feeling the same pain when I came back from my first trip to Shanghai. Was there for 40 days, and when I came back, even though I knew stuff was more expensive here, it was such a shock to see the differences after a first hand experience!
Good luck with finding work too! Just don’t go applying for the jobs I’m applying for plz k thx! 😉
Your in a different state so I don’t think we’re competing. Also I know nothing about computers.
You should do it just for lolz =p
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So thought provoking. You’ve opened my eyes to a new outlook on life.
I’m glad I could help someone.
*deep inhale of herb* thats some thought provoking shit
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French deathcore band covering Let It Go. It’s something.
I’m not a fan of those type of vocals, the instrumental parts are amazing though.
Oh god my friend had to go home sick now I’m here flying solo everything’s going to explode ;_;
A stranger’s just a friend you haven’t met… you haven’t met… STREET CAR!
Gf and I broke up around a month ago. Being single is weird.
Good weird?
More-free-time weird!
Freely-masturbating-on-the-couch weird.
Better than freely masturbating TO the couch weird
Rocking-back-and-forth-in-the-corner-weird?
More just weird weird. I guess I’m sort of over the whole singles scene even though the extra freedom is nice.
I went to a friend’s birthday at a club a couple weeks ago and it was a stark reminder of what I had gotten so tired of. It’s like no single girls are interested, but all of the attached ones are. I have no idea how or why this happens but I distinctly remember this happening last time I was single. It’s kind of amazing how I didn’t get in to several fights, I think I was just a bit lucky with timing.
These are the times I seriously start to question humanity.
EDIT: Reply fail
It’s simple, when you’re in a relationship your partner is a safety net that enables you to be yourself. Therefore, you’re more outgoing in social situations because if you make an idiot of yourself, that person is still gonna put it in/let you put it in them.
When you’re single, that shit goes out the window and your waaaaaaaaaaaay less confident because you always want to make a good impression.
Dan’s debut single:
Person is Still Gonna (Put It In/Let You Put It In Them) ft. Rhianna
Of course it had to ft. Rihanna =P
Sorry to hear it, by the way. Doesn’t matter the reasons, break-ups are usually a downer. It means something you hoped would work… didn’t work. And that’s disappointing.
Thanks man
boo to comment in moderation, by the time it comes out it’ll have faded into the depths of TAY and be read by no one.
More just weird weird. I guess I’m sort of over the whole singles scene even though the extra freedom is nice.
I went to a friend’s birthday at a club a couple weeks ago and it was a stark reminder of what I had gotten so tired of. It’s like no single girls are interested, but all of the attached ones are. I have no idea how or why this happens but I distinctly remember this happening last time I was single. It’s kind of amazing how I didn’t get in to several fights, I think I was just a bit lucky with timing.
These are the times I seriously start to question humanity.
Many, many people don’t even go to the clubs so there’s way more options out there. You just have to find it.
I say enjoy being single for a while, but the stigma of online dating and all that isn’t as strong as it used to be.
I started an OKCupid profile and got some messages. Something about it feels a bit off to me though. I dunno, I don’t feel any motivation to actually set up a date with these people. Maybe if I met someone special in particular I might feel different.
doesnt necessarilly need to be a date. Just go for a cup of coffee. Gives you a chance to see what the person is like, and then decide if you think this is someone you want to get to know a little better… just dont do the whole, “ill call you” thing if you’re not interested. Just be polite and thank the person for the opportunity to catch up for a coffee, and be up front with what you are looking for.
I’m still debating whether I should bother rewriting mine, no one within range so it’s kind of pointless but then there’s really no other options given that I’m not a going out kind of guy
It’s not a bad thing. If you can keep yourself from getting hopeful about every contact, just take things as they come and make it pretty well known that you’re only interested in getting a coffee or lunch or something for a first meeting, you can at the very least just have a bit of novelty in meeting new people, hearing interesting stories, flexing some socialization muscles and breaking your routine a little. All pretty harmless and ultimately better than not doing anything. It’s how you make a life feel more lived – new things.
Also, people can be awkward as hell when you first meet. I mean… they DID sign on to an online dating site, too. Just like you. They have a goal in mind – hopes, fears. All that. And stupidly, there’s still some weird stigma in some peoples’ minds, despite the fact that how we structure our society, our jobs and our time has changed dramatically from the traditional norm that functions like these are actually a sign of the times and perfectly healthy.
If you go in with an open mind, relaxed, and reinforce that there’s absolutely no commitment to take things any further that you’re just exercising your socialization muscles, you can have a good time just meeting new people, getting a feel for what people are looking for, maybe help them feel good about themselves for a little too, even. It may help to know that you really have nothing to lose just by going out and meeting someone for an informal coffee/whatever.
Sounds about right =P Also unless you’re just looking for random hook ups you aren’t going to be meeting too many people of substance going clubbing!
exactly that. majority of people going clubbing with the expectation of meeting someone, are 9/10 not looking for a serious relationship; either a hook up, or a fun but not serious relationship.
a great place to meet people is through friends; speaking of which, my friends must really hate me… one of my first crushes was with my friends cousin, and now im married to my best friends niece! (different friend!)
Agreed, clubbing isn’t the place for meeting someone for a committed relationdhip.
Online dating isn’t a bad option, but I’m a firm believer that you tend to just find the one, sooner or later 🙂
I’d take the time to be single and just have fun in the meantime 🙂
There’s nothing wrong with being single after all 😛
I remember reading a study recently about how a person becomes more ‘appealing’ when they have a partner, by virtue of the human pysche believing that the person has a partner so they must have ‘something of worth’.
I tried to find a link for reference but can’t seem to find it 🙁 Sounds like you’re having a different experience with this though!
That’s an interesting analogy you have, it’s like we as humans in a constant state of flux when we are in a relationship we may not want it after a while and when we aren’t in a relationship we want to be. Not necessarily scientific but more of a musing, just some deep thinking.
I blame @stickman.
*cue awesome @transientmind insightful comment in three… two… one…*
I have no real stories to share. The girlfriend was a huge ‘social experiment’ nerd and was totally into the psychology behind the phenomenon though, so she used to link me articles about it.
If you look for any studies on the subject @highperformance, it’s called ‘social proof’. Validating a partner’s worth is a time-consuming/risky process and if another person has already done it for you and found their partner to be satisfactory, the odds are higher that you will find them satisfactory as well. There are various forms of social proof, having a partner is just one of them.
I’m guessing it’s why some of my friends love to offer to be female ‘wingmen’ for our single guy friends to help them pick up. It doesn’t say much flattering about peoples’ respect for boundaries or monogamy, but I guess that’s why the old saying is, “All’s fair in love and war.”
Which, y’know… it doesn’t have to be.
It’s not that hard to avoid the pitfalls of immorality as long as you 1) don’t lie to anyone, 2) don’t intentionally hurt anyone. You’ll never truly be able to avoid hurt feelings as long as people have different preconceptions about the ‘unwritten rules of dating’, or as long as people have conflicting desires. (Eg: when someone likes you more than you like them and you have to tell them you’re not interested enough, so you don’t string them along.)
Communication is key.
Some people think that as soon as you start dating someone, you stop all romantic expressions of interest with anyone else, some folks think sleeping with someone implies monogamous commitment, and others don’t consider a relationship to be monogamous and committed until that status is agreed upon by both parties.
The idiotic thing is that most of the time, everyone of those groups will think that their opinion on the ‘rules’ is the default normal/moral way based on who they associate with/how they were raised, and that everyone else is either naive or immoral. Fallout from conflicts of assumption is the worst part of dating, but it’s avoidable through communication. Which – of course – many folks are too shy/cagey about doing in case they hear something they don’t want to or for fear of overstepping boundaries.
In short… people are stupid. Good luck.
I have nothing to share
400 words later….
No stories! Only anecdote-free commentary! 🙂
And yet you still managed to get your best girl in there one sentence in 😉
She’s worth it. 🙂
Social proof, gotcha! Thanks for helping me with that, it’s been burning me since this morning lol
Heh. 😛 I think a simplification is the “grass is greener on the other side” thing.
Oh that is definitely true. But what about when someone is in a relationship and then other people become more appealing?
Well that’s usually a sign that there’s something wrong with the relationship =\ Personally if I’m in a happy relationship I never find myself attracted to anyone else.
for some reason I always remember an episode of “The Wonder Years”, main dude gets a GF and suddenly everyone wants him, they called it “The scent” if memory serves.
To be honest after 12 years in a committed relationship I would not have a clue what to do if I suddenly found myself single. Wouldn’t even know where to start. Probably just freak out and retire to hermitude.
It’s good work if you can get it!
One of us. One of us. One of us. =P
12 years? what are you like 80?
I may or may not have been with my partner for 12 years too and would be equally clueless and am already an expert hermit so I suspect I’d just disappear into my cave for good.
We met when I was 17 and started dating when I was 18. Guess we were lucky enough to find each other early on.
yeah, me and my lady friend were 19 and 17, seeing some of the relationship crap some of my friends have been through I’d say we’re the lucky ones 😀
I honestly don’t know anyone with a long term partner who met them at a club. They met them at school, at uni, through work, through sport and even one couple who met at a bus stop. Meeting people who like the same stuff as you is always a good start. Also, someone saying they enjoy surfing on their dating profile can be quite different from actually meeting someone at your local surf club. Besides, if someone decides that they like hanging around you after a day of playing sport and getting all dirty and sweaty and generally looking pretty ordinary – they’re probably a keeper 😉
God dammit another reply fail
HI TAY.
stuff :
Finally finished Dragon Age 2. its not shit. not as rad as DA:O, of course, but whatever. I’m damn hyped for DA:I now.
Divinity : Original Sin. I’m having a hard time with it. mainly (only) because in every RPG ever, I can never decide on what ‘class’ to go with. Jack-of-all-trades is not usually a viable path, so I’ve gotta pick… but the worst thing about D:OS is that I’VE GOTTA DECIDE TWICE. that’s just rubbish. still…. other than that pointless / non-serious little gripe, its pretty rad so far. nicely difficult.
went to the parent’s place over the weekend. saw the puppy & the kitty. every time I see my puppy, she’s looking older. & her back is sore. & she has a hard time with steps coz of her sore shoulders…. I know a day is gonna come sometime soon when we’re gonna have to put her to sleep & I know I’m not gonna deal with that too well.
but fuck that. I’m forcing myself to not think of that & i’m just gonna keep patting her & playing with her every time I see her coz she’s rad 😀 I MEAN, JUST LOOK AT HER.
been playing Rocksmith 2014 more recently. feels good to get back into playing music. need to do that more often.
anyway….. back at work now. don’t wanna be here. much rather be at home doing more interesting stuff.
so yeah… whats up with you lot?
Edit: also, my old flatmate is back in the country for 6 weeks. in the 2 years he was gone, I got so used to living alone… its damn weird to have someone else staying with me again.
When I get around to playing Divinity ill go warrior and ranger probably.
Rocksmith is awesome I havent played in awhile but I brought the alterbridge dlc to learn blackbird and its hard haha but good
I’m playing a Rogue and Wayfarer.
what are the class choices?
To be honest, I can’t remember them all. The usual standard RPG classes though. 🙂
Can’t remember the class names exactly but the presets are basically …
Warrior
Rogue
Archer
Mage (Offensive)
Mage (Debuffer)
Warrior-Mage (Offensive)
Warrior-Mage (Buffer)
Rogue-Mage
Archer-Mage
That being said, class means basically nothing (except for starting equipment), any class can take any skill/trait and use any weapon as long as they meet the prerequisites.
I mainly play bass in RS & I’ve been trying to get good at this track currently sitting on ~94% accuracy…. damn tricky in places, but fun to play.
Edit : in hindsight, just watching that clip & not trying to play along with it, it looks a lot more simple.
That does not look simple to me haha, that being said im at 30% accuracy on blackbird and i struggle with it already
Right? That looks super complicated.
Also, I haven’t picked up a guitar in years, but I’m considering getting Rocksmith to try get back into it. Worth it?
if you wanna get back into guitar, yeah its worth it. good learning curve, decent mix of tracks.
its definitely helped me get better at playing.
what platform would you be after? coz I’ve got a copy of the first RS on PS3 that you can have if you want?
I’ll probably end up grabbing it for Mac, since I haven’t got my PS3 set up anymore. Thanks though.
Aww, lookit that lab. I miss my lab.
DON’T REPLAY DA2.
That’s the biggest mistake I made with it. You will see all the seams and all the puppet strings everywhere and it will affect your perception of the game dramatically.
Yeah DA:2 was surprisingly not the steaming pile I was lead to believe.
In Divinity, the two companions you find early on are:
A 2-hand warrior and a water/wind mage. The mage also has some basic crafting skills.So with that in mind I went with a fire/earth/witchcraft/social skills mage and a bow wielding thief.
Some more tips:
Start your dex character with a point in Scoundrel, if only for the invisibility skill. When invisible you can still interact with objects (only attacking/casting breaks it) so you can easily steal everything that isn’t nailed down.The magic arrow recovery talent is not worth it.
The Far Out Man talent is.
High Speed is really useful.
When you level up save your points until you really know what you want to use them for.
Clouds of smoke/steam are your friend – enemies cannot see or attack through them. Create fire patches liberally to not only deal damage but also as crowd control and area/sight denial.
So the main thing I’ve taken from that Smash Bros character reveal is that I should probably play more Fire Emblem.
second thing I’ve taken from the reveal is that I should probably get Smash Bros.
I’m starting to buy into the hype enough to be seriously considering the 3DS version (Wii U with GameCube controller is a given at this point)
I’m leaning toward just the Wii U version. don’t think i’ll have much chance to do multiplayer on the 3DS.
You definitely should!
EDIT: Fire Emblem, that is. Though Smash too of course.
I’ve restarted FE:A so many times. never had the time to properly get into it… I should remedy this.
Did you at least get to the babby making? That’s the core of the game right there.
BABBY MAKING?
no. I haven’t got that far into it.
I’m missing out, aren’t I?
Fire Emblem: Awakening is easily one of the best if not the best game on the 3DS. So you should.
Pathfinder last night was fun. Think I finally managed to catch @Popdart5 off guard and cause him to hesitate.
Experimenting with the blank skills on the character sheet and out of the blue took a roll in Pleasure Self. Which I rolled a natural 20 on. Take that GM!
To be fair he handled it with aplomb and more dignity than the situation warranted.
I think if you tried a stunt like that with our session next Tuesday we’d be facing Slaanesh a lot sooner than expected =P And here I thought I’d be shooting Rize first.
shooting at*
I have crazy agility, remember 😀
To be fair, your Pleasure Self skill was Strength-based so it was pretty easy to say it was related to your weapon prowess (or as @blaghman plays it, flexing).
Let’s just say that if was for your other Pleasure Self style, then you are very, very vigorous with your, ahem, axe.
Gentle deftness is for the weak and girly. Lundgredolph is strong and takes deep pleasure in a showy display of strength. Preferably public. People should know.
If you’re allowing one character fluff skill Pleasure Self isn’t really something that fits Lundgredolph. I’ll probably set something else if I can run it by you first.
Whatever you come up with should be fine by me. Everyone will have the opportunity to throw skill points into what people choose when you next level. For the time being it will be run at the associated base attribute bonus.
You’ll still keep that +1 bonus to ATK and DMG for the next fight from a natural 20 Pleasure Self though.
@kermitron – did you get the Creed of Ass yet??? My missus was meant to post it yesterday morning but was sick most of the day. I ended up posting it about 6:20pm. It was in a guaranteed next day delivery envelope, but the Post Box said “Mail needs to be posted by 6pm” so im hoping they were running a bit late and it still left yesterday… SORRY!!!
Not yet but we sometimes get a second round of express post deliveries in the office until the afternoon, so I’m not counting it out just yet!
No stress, it’s not like I’m itching to get onto it right away!
Argh! My phone credit expired today, and I’m also about to run out of internet access. Also, my bank account’s overdrawn. Fortunately, I at least still have food and coffee, so I should survive until Thursday. I hate being paid fortnightly at times like this.
happy to hook you up with some credit and you can fix me up later?
I should be able to cope for two days without a phone. Thanks for the offer, but I don’t really want to trouble someone I hardly know. I only posted what I posted because I felt like venting.
I think there’s drawbacks to every kind of pay.
Weekly and you never really feel like you have a lot of money, makes it harder to save for larger purchases even though you’re never completely broke for more than a few days.
Fortnightly you’re at a higher risk of being broke for longer if you’re not careful.
I like monthly because I can usually pay my bills in one hit (apart from that bastard of a power bill which comes quarterly and is eleventy billion dollars) then hopefully if I’m not an idiot who impulse purchases shit like the Watch_Dogs Dedsec edition instead of saving towards car rego, I can manage my grocery budget well enough to eat.
ive been on monthly pay cycles for about 10 years now…
This is how we budget on single income:
Set all our utilities to monthly instead of 3 monthly. Prevents heart attacks as we avoid a bazillion dollar power bill. anyway, 15th we pay rent, gas, electricity, phone and internet. within a day or two we do a BIG food shop (this time was around $400) . We buy most of our meats from markets in bulk. the meat is MUCH cleaner and MUCH cheaper. ie. Safeway/Coles have diced lamb with fat for about $18 a kilo. on saturday, i bought 4.3 kilos from the market, not a single piece of fat, for $35. thats almost $10 a kilo less, saving about $43 on lamb alone.
car rego just means we need to be VERY carefull for two months leading to… we really should be budgetting rego monthly but we dont… (idiots). thats why July was my poor month (you might recall my post a couple of weeks back). was so glad pay went through on the 11th, but that just means i need the money to last 5 more day (paid 4 days early, + 31 day month)
The new Smash roster reveal makes me wanna pre-order a Wii U…
🙁
You mean pre-order Smash Bros. and BUY a Wii U. The Wii U is already out.
Also, I kinda want to get a 3DS (again) for that version.
Yeah, that.
Stupid sick brain. 🙁
ACHEIVEMENT UNLOCKED: REPLY FAIL PAGEGET. +1000 XP.
You spelt “achievement” incorrectly. 😛
ACHEIVEMENT UNLOCKED: APATHY. +4XP
-1000 XP :p
Don’t worry, it can still be a preorder in your heart.
Hi everyone!
Quick update before I get pulled back into everyday life:
1. My website seems okay for the moment. I erased everything, and am currently rebuilding it from scratch. Security on the site is so tight that I can only logon about half the time. Running frequent checks on it, and the underpinning database for any suspect changes so that I can get on them immediately if they happen. Fingers crossed that it holds this time.
Instead of restoring content, I have added a storefront to my store. So for all those who want copies of my books, this is how you get them: http://shanewsmith.com/shop/ In deference to recent security issues, the site will only take your name and email address, and Paypal will handle the rest. #ThinkingOfYou
2. Babby Nella is more than three weeks old now. She’s awesome, but the time is going by crazy fast. I love being home, away from work – it’s the best thing. Kids are pushing my buttons from time to time, but it’s still better than work by a factor of a thousand.
3. 90% sync in ACIV, and heading into the last couple of mission sequences. I have looted, plundered and explored the entire world to exhaustion, so it’s just story stuff now… and possibly the Abstergo challenges and “real-world” collectables if I can be arsed to do them.
How are the other kids taking to new sibling?
They’re probably going to kill her by smothering her in love.
Hey Shane! I MISS YOU!
*plays it cool.*
hahaha such a fan boy! you’re the best @dc!
Dammit DC don’t scare him off!
Hey Shane! We didn’t really notice you were gone *shrug* =P
I was really angry about work yesterday. My sister called me and asked her to pick her up at the university. On the way to pick her up i saw a crazy chubby guy with a massive smile on his face and a badminton raquet in his hand. I have no idea why but i instantly cheered up and all my stress floated away.
Thank you chubby, happy uni student. You actually made my day.
Lifes to short to be angry and cranky all the time. So when i talk to my boss today, im just gonna chill out a bit, this isnt life and death, this is a place i come to get money and feel fufilled. I can always go somewhere else for that 🙂 Anyway thanks for the advice guys. Love you all
Especially cracks and transient mind. You guys are always such wonderfully helpful dudes.
Maybe he stole that badminton racquet from a disadvantaged youthI’m happy you’re happy!
If it makes him happy, it can’t be that baaaaaad.
Maybe he kicked some major ass at badminton!
Sometimes you just have to get out. I had a situation where I wasn’t getting along with a co-worker once, and was doing all his work, while he got paid better than I did, simply for doing said work. It got to the point I had words with the employer about it, and since things didn’t improve, I left.
That was one of those lucky rare moments in life where I walked in to a new job the next week, and the fact that it was looking promising that I would get the position is what pushed me to leave, but it was the best thing I could have done. Instantly cut the bullshit and life moved on. Hopefully you will sort it out with your boss, but as you said, it’s not life and death. There’s always the dole in the worst case. Might not be ideal, but better to progress in finding something better than hating life every day. You’ll come up with something better eventually! All teh well wishes and luck from me man!
Caring about fitting in and doing a good job just means you’re a normal/decent person. Which we all already know. A little distance in your perspective is a great thing. I don’t expect your coworkers or boss to suddenly become decent people because you’ve found some perspective, but I’m sure you can weather their poor attitudes as long as you can hold on to the knowledge that you will get by even if you decide to take a paycut and just walk away and do things the hard way. There is nothing wrong with doing things the hard way. You can get some great stories out of it and have the confidence that comes from surviving difficulty. 🙂 (Like Dark Souls for RL.)
And man, isn’t there just something about people smiling that’s crazy infectious? I remember walking toward the CBD once and seeing some guy grinning like an idiot. Like he’d just remembered the best joke in the world and couldn’t help but laugh. I actually stopped the guy and asked him, “hey, you look like everything’s going your way… what’s the good news?” and he replied, “Nothing really! Sometimes I just like to smile and be happy for no reason! It feels really good!”
Another time: I had been on crutches for a while at one point, which had been lent to me by the hospital. After a few days of feeling strong enough to walk without them, I decided to go take them back and walked the way there. I still had a hell of a limp, but with a feeling of purpose and that buzz you get from recovery (and possibly some pain endorphins), I know I had a bit of a lopsided, determined grin. And every person I walked past, seeing me limping along with crutches packed away (unused, under my arm) gave me the biggest smiles back and occasionally approving nods. Good times.
Thanks for the story Rocketman. I’m feeling better about today, myself.
Awesome to find that happy place. Life is too short to expend most of your energy on negative things, since that’s a zero sum game.
^_^
The more I listen to Redeemer of Souls, the more I’m liking it. Except for Beginning Of The End and Never Forget, because those both make me sad 😛
Although there is some kind of strange stuff on there. A couple of songs that sound kind of… I dunno, American rock? Like Snake Bite. Also there’s some weirdly bluesy stuff like Hell & Back and Crossfire, it reminds me of some of the stuff Hugh Laurie was playing when we saw him.
I have to listen to that at some stage. It’s on Spotify, so when I have some bandwidth again, I’ll give it a go.
I’m on a Priest album?! \o/
*\m/
Wtf I just felt something weird on the side of my chin so went to the bathroom mirror to check it out and this weird super thick beard hair came out that was like the thickness of three regular ones, almost like some kind of gigantic splinter. This is weird.
Are you part porcupine?
Just the one tiny part.
It’s a super hair! You have now taken your first steps on the path of hermit. Welcome fellow traveller.
I have a random hair like that that juts out the side of my neck. It drives me crazy to know it’s there so I obsessively pick at it from when it starts to grow in until I can finally get a grip on it with my nails.
I have one little hair on my neck like that too! Always grows way quick, and as soon as it’s long enough, I yank it, but a week or so later, it’s always back again!
Mine isn’t on my neck… it’s this strangely transparent hair that grows roughly in the middle of my forehead about 1cm above my eyebrow line…
As soon as my wife is giggling at me and staring at my hair line I know it’s back… It’s usually an inch long by then but you can only see it when it catches the light.
A beard spider obviously laid it’s eggs in your beard, and now you have baby beard spiders hatching.
Obviously.
Expect luxuriant growth and an absence of flies in your face shortly.
Poke at it – it may actually be three hairs coming from the one pore.
I thought that too, but it came out when I pulled at it and it definitely seems to be just the one.
You pulled it out?
You know that means three more grow in its place, right?
Well if that were the case then why do I need this stupid beanie?
I have one like that at the top of my moustache. Shorter than all the rest from being pulled out last time to work out what it was.
I feel like I should play something to help take my mind off of illness, but I don’t know what…
It’d have to be console-based, preferably.
Infamous Second Son. Wolfenstein. Killzone Multiplayer.
I only have Wolfenstein on PC, and I don’t have the other two.
Child of Light! Divinity Original Sin! Witcher 2! Hearthstone!
XenoWonderful 101!I’m afraid I don’t have a Wii U. 🙁
Well, help us out here, what do you have?
I ended up playing FIFA 14 and Virtua Fighter 2 on my PS3.
So I just managed to go past a 1000 comments =D Does this mean I get a medal? Is there a special TAY ceremony I’m supposed to attend?!
Right, time for the initiation ceremony.
Somebody prepare the hobo.
Bring out the gimp! [shudders]
Yesterday I got a call “Oh hey, remember that temp job you were going to interview for a few months back but was cancelled at the last minute? They need a temp again, can you come in Wednesday for an interview?”
Today I got another call “Oh hey, remember that temp job you were going to interview for tomorrow? Yeah, they’re doing the same thing again. Hope you didn’t waste time ironing your pants.”
Unemployment is something.
Employment is no better.
I’ve been employed for long periods of time and now unemployed for over a year. I’ll take the bit where I have my own income and something to do other than play Dota and drink tea. Admittedly, Dota and tea are rad but other things would be nice.
Unemployment is the worst. When you have too much time you end up doing nothing. 🙁
Now I feel like I have no time to do all the things I want to do ;_;
“I have plenty of time to do this later” is a dangerous trap.
As someone that had never ever had any extended period of time off (went straight to full time work out of school) I am starting to feel this. I’m doing things I like but I would give anything to have a full time job right now. =/
Don’t let the ‘I’ve been out of a job too long, what’s the point applying?’ thing get to you because that time is only going to get longer if you do nothing.
:'(
*pointed cough*
I wouldn’t wanna work there if I had other options. They just like to fuck around and waste time and money. There is no need to do another interview for someone who has had their interview – the documentation on the applicant should be readily available.
They cancelled the interview an hour or two beforehand last time. This time they cancelled the interview a day beforehand.
Oh boy, here’s hoping they make up for the interview bail with a good job and moneys for you!
Random massive panic attack.
I hate you brain.
Hope you’re okay now, buddy. 🙁
Just remember you’re a good guy. You have a good family. You have good friends. All is okay, no matter what your brain is telling you.
It’s actually not really the brain I guess. Consciously I know nothing’s wrong but my body decides to freak out anyway. It’s actually irritating.
Take a deep breath and go for a stroll! Trust me it works!
Alternatively you could just light up a ciggy but given I quit a few months ago that option is null and void!
:'(
@freezespreston critically failed his “Pleasure Self” roll?
(Hope everything’s okay man!)
Not very often, but sometimes I get short of breath for no reason at all, I find that if I stop whatever I’m doing and just concentrate on deep breathing it sorts itself out.
How long do comments stay in moderation? Had one trapped there since about 8:30am.
Depends how much Marky Mark hates you! :'(
I had 3 links in there so that’s probably why I guess, all were to IMDB though. Oh well you’ll all have to suffer a double post cause it’s almost 2 pages ago now.
Basically until one of the staff members notice it.
Do you have twitter? You can usually tweet Mark and he will get on it.
eh, not that concerned, just curious how it all worked.
I do have twitter, but it was all new and scary so I thought I deleted it but someone pointed out to me that it still exists.
The system is a shambles. Just keep posting the same comment until it gets through. Then edit the ones that are in moderation to say nothing, and they will magically be approved.
couldn’t be arsed, it was the first post in a while I actually put some effort into, with links as reference and such.
Rofl – it has been so long that i had to re-register…
G’day all.
@spaghett’s last song played game!
Happy Birthday – The Birthday Party
Also on Nick Cave stuff: They’ve released the trailer for his new faux-doco-thing 20,000 days on earth
Do I lie or do I tell the truth.
…
The explanation for listening is a little more manly:
There’s a scene in French movie Rust and Bone that uses this song really well that I associate this song with now. Wait, that’s not manly. D:BABY YOU’RE A FIREWORK!
O_O you should label that, I clicked it, now I feel like I need to be surgically sterilized 😛
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?
? are you suggesting I suffocate myself?
Nah man, just suggesting that sometimes you might feel like a house of cards, one blow from caving in.
Just remember, though, baby, you’re a firework.
Eh. I have no problem with Katy Perry. Whoever is writing her songs knows what they’re doing and she sings them pretty well. Nothing wrong with well made pop music.
She writes or co-writes all her stuff. This is why she’s cool. My kids love her music and I’d much rather they listened to her than a bunch of other crap my 13-year-old likes.
I’d rather listen to Cheap Trick.
I know it’s a Simpsons line, but I really would.
I love Katy Perry!
I Kissed a Girl is still her best song 🙂
Weird Al Yankovic – Lame Claim to Fame
So it turns out Weird Al isn’t that funny when you have no idea what songs he’s parodying, also makes me feel old cause I don’t know many songs from his new album.
I actually prefer his original stuff to his parodies, when I do listen to him (which is rarely)
Well, that and the polkas, which are inherently funny
yeah, I haven’t listened to him in ages, thought I’d see what the new stuff is like, turns out it’s new and foreign to me, so I went back to shaking my cane at young folk.
It’s not a “Weird Al” album without a polka.
Mine was weird al too!
http://www.nerdist.com/vepisode/weird-al-yankovic-gets-tacky-with-pharrells-happy/
That’s a great parody, but jesus is Happy a hell of a pop song.
Hahahaha, that’s awesome. Totally agree with @redartifice, the original is just so damn catchy, and every time I hear it I think of Gru in Despicable Me 2.
I haven’t seen either despicable me.
Get thee to a video rental establishment, post haste!
Very much worth watching
I’ve listened to about 20 Weird Al Yankovic song prior to his new stuff, and I think I understood the reference to no more than of them. Didn’t detract from the experience for me.
EDIT: No wait, I understand the reference to five of his songs.
Black Sheep – Metric
Because I’m listening to the Scott Pilgrim Soundtrack. Probably my favourite soundtrack of all time.
Great song!
It’s so much better when sung by Brie Larson though 😀
Fineshrine – Purity Ring
Last to get stuck in my brain: Halls of Valhalla – Judas Priest
Lloyd Spiegel – Murder for breakfast
Sam Smith – Stay With Me
Not all the songs I like are pop songs 😛
God, how incredible is his voice? I love it so, so much.
There’s no denying he has a lot of talent.
It’s just a great song too 🙂
Tragedy + Time by Rise Against.
Kill la Kill – Till I Die
On my fifth time listening to the entire Kill la Kill soundtrack last night, I realised I missed a few this morning. I’m beginning to really like this song. It’s more of a pop song than the others – considering the rest of the soundtrack is German club music, bagpipe heavy metal, marching band spy-film rock, electronic square dancing music, traditional Asian music, acoustic folk blues, rap, and the occasional blasting of the almighty french horn. It’s quite a departure, as you can see.
I realised that in order to obtain the link, I put myself in incredible danger of re-listening to the entire soundtrack again. I am strong. STROOOONG.
@jimu: This meat thingy still happening this weekend, my friend?
it better be, I cleared my calender just for it, or I would have if I owned a calendar and had plans.
I am looking forward to travelling five minutes for a meat. XD
how are you getting there? Pube lick transport will take me ages because of the 30 minute walks at either end.
Oh, he lives thirty minutes away from station? Uh… Er… Hmmm…
I could get you on the way through.
*sniff, wipes tear*
I like walking by myself anyway.
you could catch tne 327 from Strathpine
@dc
Hnngh. I hate playing the waiting game. Especially for Kickstarter stuff now that they’re finally getting to the delivery stage.
One more month. *heavy breathing*
The @strange?
Yeah. Been reading about it and the hype is reaching pretty astronomical levels. I have a tonne of ideas on what could be done with the setting but I’d need to see how exactly prime/shade world interaction works.
The bit that excites me is that fictional worlds are recursions, so you could have The Joker break out of a recursion into the Prime.
Oh god that excites me way more than it should. One of my ideas was to basically take the setting of the Everworld novels and have that as a recursion. Imagine all pantheons of all gods of all of the various mythologies in the one world. That would be awesome.
Also one where Harold Holt accidentally disappeared into a recursion and became Emperor of the World.
Holt Emperor of Dune has to be a thing
Oh yeah, did your level of backing give you the conversion book for Numenera/Strange transfers or are you going to grab that later? I imagine it’d be pretty to just houserule it without the book.
I.. think so? if not I’ll pick it up anyway
Yeah, apparently all backers get that one
@redartifice Ah yeah, completely missed that part. That’s actually a really, really nice package for the amount of money they wanted.
I’m probably going to end up double-dipping at some stage and grabbing a physical version of one of the books. They’re all looking really pretty.
Are you getting the physical corebook or all ebooks?
@redartifice I’m getting all of the ebooks and a physical copy of the corebook and More Strange Adventures. Those were the goodies I got in addition to grabbing the Numenera corebook.
It’s going to be a little weird seeing my name in the supporter section. Nice but unusual.
I just got an update from one of my Kickstarters that they’re delaying production because they were able to negotiate a better deal with their printer/publisher and now want to do a bunch of extra stuff they didn’t originally plan for in their stretch goals since they have “extra” money.
I’m sure it’s going to be great but now there’s no timeline for delivery when it was supposed to be September!
I have like four board games coming in the next 3 months, + The Strange.
No more KS for me for a while.
The Strange sounds interesting, I’ve not heard any hype about it though. What is it @redartifice?
Upcoming tabletop RPG from gaming legend Monte Cook, using the Cypher system from his previous effort, Numenera (which gets a bit of talk around here as I GM an online game for Taybies).
Basically, the setting is earth, but y’know all that dark matter that we can’t detect? Turns out it’s actually the fabric of an intergalactic network known as The Strange. There are prime worlds, like Earth, but each prime world creates recursions- little pocket worlds or sub worlds, as well as some that are more fully featured, like the fantasy world of Ardeyn and the dark prison known as Ruk. The PCs are “quickened,” so have the ability to “translate” between recursions- and when you translate, you may find yourself physically and ability wise transformed.
Simple game mechanics, neat as hell setting and, if Numenera is anything to go by, a very, very pretty corebook = great RPG. Haven’t planned yet, but there may be some games going around.
Sounds pretty cool, I just had a look at the kickstarter and it sounds like you’re onto a winner. Look forward to seeing your thoughts on it!
I guess it kinda works out with the extra stuff but it’s annoying to not have any real idea when it’s going to be finished. I imagine the people that backed Broken Age are feeling the same right now.
I like the mechanics of Monte Cook’s stuff but really dislike the settings. Too open and undefined, they might as well just be a big sign saying “Make whatever the fuck you want. It’s cool.” I prefer to have something interesting to latch onto, and really didn’t see much of that in The Strange or Numenera, and it’s why I never bothered to back either of them, as I just didn’t see anything there that warranted paying for.
I’m a fan of both defined and undefined settings. Each one has different playstyles and stories that suit the setting and I enjoy what each one has to offer.
Oh, don’t misunderstand, I’m cool with open settings. But I’m not cool with paying for open settings, at least I balk at paying the usual amounts you’d fork out for a full detailed campaign setting. I feel like so much more work went into the latter than the former.
Finally got the last achievement I needed in State of Decay, so I now have 3 games at 100% of Steam. Only two or three hundred to go!
Also, finally got around to playing TT Walking Dead S2E03. Still such a great game, and it’s still really great at provoking a response from me without the feeling of lazy manipulation that many games and TV shows give.
Congrats!
I got my 22nd platinum trophy the other night, always satisfying to clear something completely. Now if I can beat Watch Dogs’ stupid drinking game I’ll have another.
I was planning to 100% Watch Dogs but the drinking game just got unenjoyable 😛
It’s on my list to complete basically everything else in it this month though.
yeah the drinking games are disgustingly unfun. Of all the side quests to choose to need 100% in why this one? I thought the online ones would annoy me but they were actually fun and even thrilling at times to complete.
Oooh, 100%’ing Steam achievements? *eyes 800+ library* Hahahahahano.
I just have to live with the shame of everyone seeing my profile as average completion rate around 20%. 😛
I’m actually really happy with my 40% completion rate
Currently 14 games at 100% and a few more that I’m targeting. Then again I’ve only got 75% of the games you do so it balances out somewhat
I’m now at 4 perfect games, average completion of 34%. I think as a goal I’d like 50%, and reckon I’ll hit it before the end of the year without trying too hard.
My completion rate overall is about 27%, not happy with that at all, need to work on boosting it up.
People can see your average completion rate?! Oh boy, this can really hurt my image as the ultimate gamer image amongst my steam friends…
http://www.troll.me/images2/andhereswhereiwould/if-i-had-one.jpgGot my 50th on XBox when I finished The Wolf Among Us the other night. Feels good to 100% a game, don’t it?
ARGHHHH SO F**king annoyed right now!!
Remember how I said someone stole my girlfriends make up brushes that were $180 odd bucks but the price wasnt the point as she needs them for her schooling as well as being an anniversary present.Well, we confronted the person who stole them and they flat out lied to our faces spitting nonsense about how hurt and disrespected she feels that we would accuse her of all people of stealing! she started claiming that she doesnt use make up brushes and doesnt even wear make up even though she had a full face of make up on as she was saying this!
Nearly had a fight with her boyfriend over it because she was basically calling us the liars and pathetic people for “blaming others when you lose stuff” and when we called her out on her lies he got aggresive.
So over this shit so now we have to go to the police and make a statement about the whole thing and even then theres only a slim chance anything will get done because if the police investigate theres nothing stopping her from keeping the brushes at the boyfriends house or chucking them out or giving them to someone else as a present or even selling the damn things for money!
Ughhh the missus is upset and angry and rightly so, Im angry and people are like oh its only $180 dont worry about it, its not even about the money! she needs those for doing make up in her course and her career as well as being an anniversary present. Not just that its a point that you dont steal peoples stuff!..people shit me
Sorry just needed to vent
TL:DR: People suck.
Seriously man, sorry that that’s happened. It sucks when people steal your stuff.
Seriously, it’s only $180, you can’t even buy the Inquisitor’s Edition of the new Dragon Age for that. Gosh, you’re so petty Cam.
I know right! =P However if someone stole my copy of DA:I I’d kill em =,=
I remember a few years ago in college I’d scrimped and saved for Black Ops 2 and got it for my birthday and left it in my dorms lounge room for my flatmates to use. Came back to it a few days later and the disc had disappeared…. Total dick thing to do =@
That happened to my copy of FFXII
🙁
Sounds pretty shitty 🙁 Hope you get a good outcome somehow even though it would not seem likely at present.
How exactly do you know this chick took her stuff?
Turned the entire house upside down looking for it, it never leaves the missus make up area at home and her friend was the only one thats come over and was eyeing the brushes off when they were doing their makeup
damn :\ that sucks pretty hard. Sounds like a right bitch
Yeah she is one of those eveything about me kinda people
Make-up and all its tools are stupidly expensive. It’s a shame this girl couldn’t be all “Oh. Yeah. Sorry, you got me. I’m kind of a kleptomaniac, here have them back”. At the same time, if you did get them back,you’d want to be disinfecting the heck out of them!
People suck. 🙁
*hugs*
yeah I know we said if you just say you took them we dont care so long as you just give them back but she wanted none of it
People suck.
Dogs are better.
Dogs lick.
For the right price people will do both.
Nice.
Stab them in the face.
Then keep the bodies at your boyfriend’s house, chuck them out, or give them to someone else as a present, or even sell them for some money.
I like the way you think, will need to check the going price on cadavers
@mrtaco any waggle motiony stuff in Rhythm Heaven Wii?
Dunno, haven’t played it 😛
But I don’t think so. Fairly sure they just use buttons.
Are you referring to Beat the Beat? Or Fever?
Both 😛 (they’re the same thing). I just refer to it as Rhythm Heaven because it sounds better and that’s what I knew it as first 😀
(didya buy a HTC M8 yet?!)
Beat the Beat is the worst stupidest dumbest name and I refuse to acknowledge it.
Why couldn’t it just be Rhythm Heaven Fever?
Also I think I bought the Fever soundtrack when I was in Japan. Totally forgot til you said Fever then 😛
No waggle. Only buttons A and B
@popdart5 it just struck me that The Strange could be a neat way to do a M:tG planeswalker campaign.
Oh damn. That suits the idea of both settings ridiculously well and would be really easy to get people into the story.
I’m looking forward to when they launch their recursion fan site where people add in their ideas for recursion to a giant database. So many ideas are going to come out and it’s going to be awesome.
My hermit-sense is tingling. This sounds like something I could get into 0,0 Where do I sign up to be conscripted?!
This is the RPG: http://www.thestrangerpg.com/
releases soon- it’s being printed now. Following which, who can say, there may be a game or two going around
Yeah googled it… I was actually following this a few months ago when I was browsing the most successful kickstarter campaigns! If you guys get a game going when its released keep me in mind =D
The one rule is that whenever it is discussed, you have to tag @strange at least once.
So whenever we talk about The @strange we have to tag @strange?
Yeah, otherwise it would be
weird@strange.You guys are a @strange bunch.
STRANGE @strange
@strange things from the deep could be a cool scenario for The @strange
oh forgot to mention guys, Dick Smith is doing preorders for the Last of Us Remastered for $49.95 which is a steal… guaranteed stock too. Price is only valid if you pre order.
Thanks for reminding me. Might go in on Thursday and preorder it. Didn’t get to play it on PS3.
Probably my favourite ending to a game…Ever?
Joel is my kind of crazy 😀
:D?
😛
He’s not crazy! He’s scarily relatable!
Yep yep yep 😀
Yup. $60 launch price, however they have $10 preorder thingie so it’s $50 total if you pre-order in-store.
Good game is it?
havent played it but it seems amazing…. reviews have also been overwhelmingly positive…
From what I’ve heard, The Last of Us is a great game and a great, but cliched story wrapped in a package of pretty frustrating controls and framerate problems. The PS4 edition probably will fix them. Hopefully. Or maybe just the framerate.
Might have to go in and put a tenner on it on Friday. I’ll just put it on my shelf next to the other PS4 game that I can’t play yet (Infamous: Second Son) as I can’t afford to buy the console yet. Only $450 to go.
I still feel like that’s too much for a remaster of a game that will be over a year old when it releases.
Remote Play
What does that have to do with anything?
My man Jemu can’t remote play The Last of Us (PS3) but he totally can with the PS4 version!
I can’t even get a stable enough wifi signal on my vita to download a game end to end off PSN, let alone use remote play, but even if I’m in the same room I can’t see any value in remote play. Just play it on the console?
have you tried setting it to direct connection?
if you still have trouble, switch the net off on the ps4.
I noticed that RP play performance suffers if theres a lot of wifi activity.
@gutsoup has perfect RP because his ps4 is hard wired to the net, leaving the wifi on the ps4 free.
Sony really should have thrown a second wifi thingy into the ps4.
Also,I share my tv. Its great to be able to play ps4 while my son watches Peppa Pig.
I have no need for remote play.
1. I own exactly one PS4 game
2. I have a massive pile of other options in the event I can’t get PS4 time.
regardless of your personal circumstances, the packed in single player dlc & RP justify the price.
That’s the way I felt for pretty much every release in the last 3 years.
It’s why I primarily buy AAA on PC. Can often source a Steam code for a new release game for $40-50.
i think considering how big a hit the game was and the fact that it launched so close to the ps4’s release, $49.95 is justifiable. only just. ps3 owners however, should at least have been given the option to upgrade for $10-20
I feel like The Last of Us: Upscaled Edition has more of a leg to stand on than Tomb Raider: Closer To PC Edition. The main reason Sony are doing this is because of the massive amounts of people who have bought a PS4 but didn’t buy a PS3. Like, a lot of Xbox people jumped ship to the Sony Submarine. There is hard data of this.
@beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
Big Jimurican Party
Hi, sorry for the late update.
jimu’s birthdaye meat is still on, still this saturday 19th July.
You can start turning up about 11ish but I wont actually get the BBQ sparked up til 12.
Shoot me an email at mij 69 _ 96 jim @ yahoo . com for my address and or phone number.
Unless you already have my number in which case, send me a text.
It’s BYO drinks, we will provide the meat and salad. If you have some kind of special dietary needs, sorry, you better bring something along.
I don’t require a gift, if you must, I prefer you get my son something, he just turned 4 on the 13th and likes Cars, LEGO and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (he doesn’t require a gift either).
I don’t live close enough to the station to walk. I can organise someone to grab you from the station on the day if need be.
No V.I.P. invite this time? :'(
No greenius’ allowed!
does @strange want a lift with me? Anyone else I’m likely to drive past on the way want a lift too?
I am unsure if I can attend yet. I’ll let you know. 🙂
Sorry mate, I’d love to come but I’m slated for overtime on Saturday and with no idea how long I’m actually needed for I can’t quite plan to attend.
I’m a maybe, sorry man.
I’ve got a wicked bad cold/flu so I’ll have to see how I am on Saturday.
no worries, just text if you want the address
Have to count me out man, I have family commitments Saturday, sorry 🙁
@shane, just checked the tracking on your Wii U and it was at Fyshwick ACT 2 hours ago, so you should probably get it tomorrow \o/
Oh hell yeah. That’s awesome, man. Thanks again!
Negs Watches New Anime: The Thread Part 4
Part 3 is here. I didn’t get time to post this yesterday as they wanted me to do actual work in the office for some reason.
Jinsei:
There is a sort of genre of anime that’s emerged in the last 5 years or so (and probably is older than that) which is basically focused around the after-school hijinks of a bunch of people in a club or the school council. I hadn’t really expected this to fall into that category, but I think it’s the closest match. Basically it’s a gag show, where the school newspaper has hired on three girls – the top student in sciences, humanities and athletics – to give life advice, answering anonymous questions for the paper. This usually devolves into the three arguing about it for a while. In theory this could be pretty funny, but I felt like it was quite flat and unremarkable. It’s competently made but there just wasn’t anything there to recommend, felt very rote and not very amusing. 4/10.Hanayamata:
In part 3 I mentioned that locodol had a faint whiff of yuri in it. This probably increases it by a factor of ten. The protagonist is an incredibly introverted girl who wishes she could be a princess in a fairy tale, hates how shy and timid she is, but is too shy and timid to actually step out and do anything about it. She meets an incredibly outgoing american girl (who thankfully doesn’t have the usual horrible gaijin accent) who is dancing around in a shrine one evening, and mistakes her for a fairy. She’s no fairy, but she offers to take her to a whole new world anyway: that world being Yosakoi dance, which Wikipedia tells me is a highly stylized synchronized dance form from Kochi, basically a highly flashy and flamboyant derivative of traditional festival dances. I really liked this show, see a lot of promise in it. The only knock I’d have aside from it taking a while to get going and the protagonist maybe being a little too timid is that the character designs are quite odd. Specifically the way that the character’s eyes are drawn is really unconventional and odd looking. Not sure if this will be a regular watch or something I do in bursts yet, going to give it a few episodes to see. 6/10Zankyou no Terror:
Apparently ‘Terror in Resonance’ is the translation of the title. This is running in Fuji’s Noitamina timeslot, which is usually a fairly good indication that it’s worth paying attention to. The timeslot runs stuff that’s less conventional, often original creations, with high animation budgets and often a more mature demographic focus. Some well-known examples of Noitamina shows would be Eden of the East, Moyashimon, Anohana, Nodame Cantable, Mononoke and Silver Spoon (and you should watch all those shows if you haven’t). Anyway, this one is really interesting. Super high animation budget for it, looks fantastic. The story is centered around two guys, and I’m not sure what their exact motivation or anything is, but they’re basically terrorists – the first episode involves them literally blowing up a skyscraper by setting bombs in it, and if you were a 9/11 survivor I’d think this would trigger some pretty bad flashbacks. As such, it’s a bit difficult to recommend for sure, because it’s really going to hinge heavily on what their motivations are. But I think this was one of the more interesting shows this season and it’s definitely worth a go. 8/10.Re: Hamatora:
This is a second season of a fairly recent show, so really it’s more of the same thing. The first season was pretty good, though not amazing. It’s sort of a Japanese take on american comics, almost. The characters are all ‘minimum holders’, which is to say they’re people who have supernatural or extraordinary powers. A group of them, centered around the Protagonist, Nice, run a ‘detective agency’ which basically takes on random odd jobs, usually linked together by the overarching plot arc of the first season which involved a psychopath who was killing minimum holders, extracting their brains, and using them to confer those powers to ‘normal’ people. The first season also ended on a cliffhanger which is resolved really badly in the first episode of this season. But based off the strength of the first go around I think I can probably still recommend this as something to pick up. Watch season 1 first though. 7/10.Sabagebu:
Character-joins-club-full-of-strange-people show, in this case the character is a girl who transfers into a new school and finds herself roped into joining the Survival Game club. Survival games being what they call going out into the wilderness to shoot each other with airsoft guns. Amazingly this is not the first show with this premise, and if you expand to cute-girls-engaging-in-combat there’s at least four. And of those four, I’d say this is probably the weakest. That said, it’s still not bad. I was fairly entertained. However I would recommend hitting up the aforementioned shows first (Girls und Panzer, which involves cute schoolgirls engaging in the time-honored sport of competitive tank battles, is the best. C3, which is basically exactly this show, is also more interesting at first go, and Upotte, where the girls literally are anthroporphisms of assault rifles, was more engaging off the bat too). Like Hanayamata and Locodol, I feel like there’s a fair bit of yuri here. It’ll probably not get as dark or as stupid as some of the others as well, simply because the manga for this runs in Nakayoshi, which is Kodansha’s shoujo manga periodical aimed at girls around 9-15. It has a softer color palette and is less obviously aimed at a male audience. I like it and would like to see more, but like Hanayamata I’m not sure if it’s a regular. 6/10Shounen Hollywood, Bakumatsu Rock:
I didn’t make it more than a couple of minutes into either of these, very quickly realized they’re not my sort of thing. So I’m not going to pass judgment on them either way – they might be very good for what they are, but they’re too far outside my interest zone.Still a couple to go that I haven’t seen yet (SAO II, Blade Dance, couple of ohters) plus some updates based off 2nd episode viewing, so there may be a Part 5, but maybe not, depends if I get to them tonight and have time to write some stuff up before heading away for the rest of the week.
I’m laughing at how you reviewed the last couple under the same spoiler tag.
You got further into them than I did. I salute your stamina.Man, that Xbone controller. What is it with next-gen and obnoxiously bright LEDs?
LEDS ARE THE FUTURE! WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW!
Man machine THE FUTURE
Oh god I know right? I smeared some white-tac on the two LEDs on the Wii U so they wouldn’t bother me at night. And if the 3DS is charging, then I have to make sure it’s pushed up against the tissue box so that it doesn’t glow across the whole room.
I stupidly picked a PC case covered in super bright blue LEDs that lights up the bedroom like daylight.
Blue LEDs just need to die.
Also those super bright headlights that look like they’re kind of blue.
Those fuckers usually swap them themselves, so their height is way off. It’s like high-beam on low-beam. I sometimes regret not purchasing an armoured humvee so I can ram those assholes off the road.
You wouldn’t believe how often I’ve fantasized about a hidden rocket-launcher compartment.
I have been meaning to find/buy a more realistic-looking fighter-jet-style ‘ARM’-button plastic case covered thingy to plug into my brother’s car, as a gift. So he can hover his hand over it dramatically when encountering motor-morons.
Stupid Xbone controller is searing white light on the retina. At least you could angle the PS4’s (now semi-fixed) bright light away. >:(
Do you game with the controller right in front of your eyes or something? I’m not trying to be funny, it’s a serious question. I’ve been using mine since launch with no such issues.
In the dark with a 60inch plasma providing light. The xbox logo while lounging on the couch is so damn bright, that it just burns into my eye and hazes a section.even trying to tilt the controller forward a ridiculous amount doesn’t make it shine less. Also I’m tall so have longer distance between eyes and controller than most, however this would make the angle worse for me …. so maybe that’s the problem.
I game on a 23 inch monitor, so maybe on a big tv in a lounge room environment it’s different, I don’t know. But even the Xbone console itself is not too far below eye level and is only 2-3 feet away, and I never have an issue with the light on the controller or the console.
I’d wager you’re sitting more upright than me, and the angle between controller and screen is also a lot higher, so the glare/haze isn’t as noticeable.
Don’t know, could be a factor.
*Microsoft holds a conference to discuss the new Xbox One controller*
Manager: “Okay gentlemen, we need to think of ideas to improve our old xbox 360 controller”
Employee 1: “DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC”
Employee 2: “How about we make it chrome? everything in the future is chrome!?”
Employee 3: “Poorly optimised motion controls? Everybody loves poorly optimised motion controls”
Employee 1: “DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC”
Employee 4: “How about just one big button, people are still using skill when playing games we need to make everything easier for them”
Employee 1: “DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC DLC”
Employee 5: “I GOT IT! LEDs! It’s the future guys! LEDs!”
Employee 6: “What are you all talking about!? LEDs? We are pioneers for the next gen! We should be improving the users playing experience not dishing out cheap answers”
Manager: “Hmmmm”
*queue scene of employee 6 being thrown out of skyscraper*
*manager turns to employee 5*
Manager: “What did you say about LEDs?”
*Employee 7 kicks down the meeting room door*
Employee 7: I’VE GOT IT GUYS! RUMBLE… IN THE TRIGGERS
E3 2015: Introducing the new console, The Diode!
It’s region-locked, doesn’t come with useful features, and has exorbitant fees for online multiplayer!
But, best of all, it’s shaped like a giant blue LED, which lights up when turned on!
….
I want one.
I have made, like, so much brandy cream pepper sauce. Just realised I have made over a half liter of it.
This doesn’t sound like a problem.
Yeah, but I’m going to feel so sick after I’ve uncontrollably eaten it all.
I wish Mr. Strange would cook yummy stuff like that!
Woah! You know how companies send you an email with a birthday bonus, like a 5% discount or something?
Crafsty (the place I get sewing, quilting, weaving and cooking video lessons from) just sent me an email saying I could get any sewing class I wanted for free! At full price they’re $40-$70 which is why I only buy classes when they’re on special.
Jesus. Level 5’s Yokai Watch 2 (think Pokemon with Japanese ghosts instead of Squirtles) moved 1.28 million copies in Japan, first 4 days.
The first game took over a year to break a million. I think they’ve managed to manufacture a hit again.
I had a corny joke for page six, but I’ve forgotten it.
Pity, you were all going to be amaized.
#dadjokepagesix #I’vetaggedstrangetoomuchtoday #sorry@strange #ohcrapWhich racing games support 1:1 steering wheel mapping? Because there seems to be a steady trickle of deals on Logitech wheels, but I don’t want to waste my time/money.
Asseto Corsa and the F1 20XX games do. No idea about Grid or the others.
Pretty sure GRID & DIRT3 do, technically not a driving game but Arma 3 does.
On PS3 I know that Gran Turismo 5 does, presumably the same holds true for 6 and I’m hoping it’ll be the same for the PS4 versions
Dirt 3 didn’t with my Wireless Speed Wheel (which acts like a proper wheel AFAIK). The game even has specific wheel control settings. 🙁
Blood Bowl Chaos Edition is $7.50 on steam everyone should get around it
So much worth. Although be prepared to curse Nuffle for all he’s worth.
Piece of shit Nuffle aint worth jack
Got Blood Bowl on 360 sitting on my shelf, never played it though.
THE WOLF AMONG US EPISODE 5
Ended GeorgieBrought the Crooked man back alive
chose to imprison him
accepted TJ’s gift for snow
I hope I’ve done some good here
Overall, I enjoyed the series. Am going to do an angry Bigby playthrough though
Also, @pupp3tmast3r and @evilmonkey:
I can see the first Faith you meet boing glamoured Nerissa, sure, but I think they’re who you’re told they are. The bit at the end was just a classic film noir thingI dunno, maybe you’re right, it hurt my brain trying to figure it out, in the end I just gave up. Judging by what I’ve seen on my travels on teh interwebz a lot of people are confused about it, Telltale need to release an official statement on TWAU forums to clarify (spoilered of course).Yeah that could’ve been it as well… in fact that probably is it. Given there’s also a reference to bloody mary in those random lines Bigby starts putting together! None of what goes through his head points to any single possibility but a few dozen possibilities. I actually thew the Crooked Man into the Witching Well will comic spoiler why belowThe Wolf Among Us Comics Spoilers
Given that no one actually dies from going down there and Flycatcher brings everyone who’s fallen down there back out alive! I figure at least this way The Crooked Man will be locked up for a few years in the Well and then be under Fly’s domain once he gets his kingdom!Oh man, I’d forgotten how amazing and addictive Pokemon Conquest is.
Don’t do it, Nova! Don’t get sucked back in!
Its too late for me. Save yourself.
Gallade and Darmanitan are sooo powerful. Always take them with me
The worst part is that I have so many new games that I haven’t played/finished. But nope, I’m stuck in the “One more turn” situation. But damn if it isn’t a lot of fun
@redartifice and others who are curious.
I’m not sure if you were aware but they released a little preview of The Strange core rulebook.
http://www.montecookgames.com/product/the-strange-corebook-pre-order/
My favourite thing that I’ve seen is the list of some of the known recursions:
– Innsmouth
– Oz
– Wonderland
– Star ______
*squee*
So from what I have read / heard about The Strange (hi @strange) it’s basically what would happen if Kingdom Hearts and Numenera had babbies.
EDIT: Except instead of locked to Disney worlds you can literally have any worlds, even DISNEY WORLDS!
That does seem to be the premise for the system. It opens the door to so many different types of games that one can run as the number of settings is literally infinite.
Wait could this mean that I could bring across my Tau Fire Warrior and use him to kill Donald Duck??…. WANT!
But by the time he got to the disney dimension, he’d no longer be a Tau, as he’d “translate” across
Breath condensing into steam in the air this morning. A rare incident of one of my criteria for perfect weather.
Most excellent.
Mehhhhhhhh. *pulls blanket over head*
But you’re supposed to be Freeze! Your breath is always supposed to condense into steam!!!
WHY ALL THE LIES FREEZE?! WHY?!
So that wasn’t a controlled burn on the Northside today but it was in fact you breathing outdoors?
MY BLOOD AND LUNGS ARE FULL OF FIRE AND THEIR CLASH WITH THE FURY OF THE NORTH WIND IS THE SUFFERING OF MORTALS
now say that in Dragontongue
True sons of Skyrim speak with steel.
FOR THE EMPIRE
MQFT: S or B?
B.
Ummmm, S.
bacon and egg mcmuffin
That’s not what I’m choosing between. Sadly, McDonalds is a fair way away from where I live. But that’s a vote for B.
Anyway #SausageandEggMcMuffinforlyf
So apparently now i own all of the old X-Com games thanks to humblebundle… I have honestly never played any of them, so i have no idea what these are except by name 😛
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM has the play order by name. The first one was pretty decent and by all reports the second improved it greatly, although I found the underwater setting a little weirder and never got into it far enough to spot the improvements. Apocalypse was my entry to the series and I loved the hell out of it, as buggy as it was. I think this is the version that actual love-letter-game-if-not-outright-infringement Xenonauts resembles most closely.
Interceptor was an OK’ish flight sim, Enforcer was a very mediocre 3rd-person shooter, and I never played First Alien Invasion because it looked like the X-COM version of Yoda Stories. Probably only the first three entries are worth the price of admission or your time.
I liked TFTD better than UFO but it was astonishingly difficult and I never finished it. I think I made it to the Martian base once and was woefully underprepared for what I encountered there.
All you need to know is that in the first one, rename all your privates to ‘parts’, and in the second, rename all your sea men and able sea men to ‘stains’.
hur.
X-Com: UFO Defense is the punishingly difficult original game, Terror From the Deep is the brutally impossible sequel.
I never got around to Apocalypse, Enforcer or Interceptor. I think Apocalypse was set far in the future where most of earth has been devastated and humanity lives in dome cities. I remember being excited for it when it first came out but I’ve never owned it until now. I have no idea waht to think about interceptor or Enforcer.
I named my iPod Titanic and now it’s syncing.
….
#neversorryaboutpage6
I legit renamed my last phone to ‘Banana Phone’.
Drew some laughs whenever bluetooth was involved.
Holy Lego Minifigures Batman! Just found out that Adam West is gonna be in Lego Batman 3. Definitely gonna pre-order this bitch now.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-18688-LEGO-Batman-3–Beyond-Gotham-Welcomes-Adam-West-to-the-Roster.html
…I’ve never felt compelled to buy a Lego game since someone was selling the Star Wars ones on Cube way back when and the combination of reputation+cheap lured me in.
Until now
I was going to get a Nokia Lumia 625, but unlocked it’s $300. It’s $150, locked to vodaphone. Has anyone had any experience with vodaphone? Is it decent service? Is it easy to unlock the phone later?
Vodafone are by far the worst mobile carrier I’ve ever dealt with. So many hidden fees and charges for everything, usually with amounts that are beyond a joke.
Yeah, steer clear from vodafail. I was with them for 2 years and they were terrible. Service was unreliable and customer service even worse.
I can’t remember having a problem with Vodafone when I lived in Adelaide, but when I moved here (halfway between Adelaide and Melbourne) it was crap, would lose reception just going into the shopping centre.
By the way, how goes everything Scree, you alright?
I’m okay. Stuff is happening, but I’m waiting to speak to the psychologist before I completely make up my mind.
Good to hear you’re ok, if you want to talk though, or just vent hit me up on steam chat or DM me on Twitter.
unfortunately, the situation has become so much more complicated.
Glad I have cosplays to keep me amused
I thought Vodaphone was okay in the cities, maybe not in outskirt suburbs. Also sucks for rural coverage.
Also, uh, what’s the story with the Note? Smashed how? I’d imagine paying out a 17 months of a 24 month contract would be a lot more than just getting it fixed.
The phone is completely totaled. There’s only 7 months left on my contract and it’s $280 to get out of it.
Depends on who you’re with, but I’m pretty sure Optus lets you upgrade when you’ve got 3 months left on your contract.
It’s 5 months left for Virgin
In that case, I probably wouldn’t bother buying an unlocked smartphone. I’d just get something really basic to get you by for two months so you can at least still call and text until you can upgrade, that’s if you want to renew your contract.
I’ve got a basic (non-touchscreen, not even a camera) old Samsung around here somewhere you can have if you want.
Everyone has been offering me phones and even money to buy a new phone. You have no idea how much this has meant to me.
We know you’re going through a tough time and we just want to help in any way we can.
I don’t think I had to pay that much to get out from under the virgin name.
My note 2 was brand new when I bought it. It was a very recent release
It was a joke about prostitutes 😛
I was gonna write a bunch of stuff, but it’s not worth the time/money for $280. I’d cancel it, too.
in a city the coverage is mostly fine, no worse than Optus. I haven’t really ventured out of Brisbane much since being on Vodafone but it does get patchy to say the least.
With Telstra you get what you pay for: a decent coverage map. That pay doesn’t cover decent customer service though
I am just outside of the main city of Melbourne. So start of the suburbs
Ive been with optus for the past nearly 3 years and they arent bad I had worse time with optus screwing me left right and centre and not doing anything to fix it including sending me a bill for $300 for changing service providers 4 months after my contract ended.
Eastern side they arent bad rural areas I go camping had same service as those on telstra so i dunno depends on the area
Oh, and if you’re looking at Nokia’s, Dick Smith have the 520 for $179 in-store (or $154.91 online) Unlocked.
http://www.dicksmith.com.au/unlocked-smart-phones/nokia-lumia-520-windows-8-unlocked-black-dsau-em5198
Or if you really want the 625 and can spare a little extra cash they have it in-store for $278 (or online for $241.31) Unlocked.
http://www.dicksmith.com.au/unlocked-smart-phones/nokia-lumia-625-win8-unlocked-dsau-em5226
When I went into store it was $300.
Maybe I should look at getting a different phone
Vodefone are so bad, just so bad.
I wouldn’t say I live in a rural area but I couldn’t even get connection at my house. Their coverage is just pathetic. Their customer service are completely pathetic and they certainly love their hidden fees.
Sounds like it’s not worth it
By contrast to what seems like everyone else, Vodafone are the 2nd best provider I’ve been with in terms of service, coverage, and price. The best was 3, but they got swallowed up by Voda. Every complaint I’ve ever had has been resolved in my favour, I’ve had free stuff thrown at me, rarely been out of coverage, my plans shit all over Telstra/Optus, and their attitude toward late payment has been beyond generous. I can forget to pay for literally months and experience no consequences except the eventual text reminder that I’m, oh, three months overdue.
But Melbourne people tell me the coverage isn’t great. I didn’t notice any problems when I was there, but I was mostly just in the CBD and surrounding suburbs.
I realize that doesn’t help to provide divided opinion. :/
Nsfw comment coming up
Ok so why do some artists think it is a very good idea to give some certain female bounty hunters a b-o-o-b job, ie from medium to melon size, I mean why do it to characters who look badass as they look by overly sexualising them?
No idea. It completely depends on the person. Some artists draw breasts like balloons. Others make them look weirder.
bbeeeeewwwwwbbbbssss
Here you go an ernie award
Does it come with bbbbewwwwbbbbsss? Cos if so I’d like two.
You just tempted fate by your comment & your award is instant disintergration by someone who is at the recieving end of your type of fanservice art much better if said subject teams up with someone who has a cup angst with equally powerful weaponry
Because boobs.
Here you go an ernie awardx2
ORJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJOF!
( o Y o )
I’d like to Squirtle on them Jigglypuff’s :p
@evilmonkey & @benny ernie awards x4 for you both
Because depending on the circumstance the art is used in, it may go through several iterations from the artist’s original vision.
Or the artist likes breasts.
Heh. Probably a lotta truth to the latter part.
My middle brother is a pretty fantastic artist, and he likes to do character sketches for the stuff he writes… It doesn’t take much of a review of his portfolio to get to the understanding that he reeeeeeeeally likes abs. A lot.
Watched 5 episodes of Under The Dome last night. I’m really liking it so far. Can’t look at “Big Jim” without thinking of Det. Hank Schrader though.
I gave this a good go but I really couldn’t get past the dialogue. The premise is so promising though!
Finally finished Wolfenstein The New Order (got distracted by other games)
Ending Spoiler
did anyone else think the ending was really lazy? I really liked the game but felt the ending let it down, not the way it ended or anything just that it was like 3 seconds long. Blazkowicz rolls over says “you’re all clear” credits roll, a little disappointing I thoughtThat’s on my list for Shameless Gaming Month. Started with Dead Rising 3, then it’ll be Watch Dogs, Wolfenstein, Thief and Tomb Raider: DE, and then knock out the last achievements in Ryse.
me too, working through a lot of my backlog, only beaten 3 games this month so far, bringing my total to 19 this year so far. One problem with full time work, not enough game time, but I wouldn’t be able to afford them without working,
Are you on Xbone, or just PC?
PS3, PS4 & Vita mainly, got a few 3DS in the shameful pile too.
Edit: I’m hoping to have a gaming PC within 2 months or so
Cool, should have a PS4 within 2 months and a gaming rig within 6-8 months.
sweet, I’m hoping for a good tax return, if that happens I’ll get going on the gaming rig really soon.
I need to finish it. Got to just before
going into spacebut let my mate have a go for a little bit on my save but haven’t touched it since. But now I’ve started a new New Vegas playthrough and am determined to finish this one before picking up any other gameYou’re not far from completing it, only like 4 or 5 levels left, some pretty cool stuff coming up too.
my missus finished it but couldn’t beat the final boss so handed me the controller so I know how it ends at least. I’ll be interested to see if the ending is different though as I picked the other choice at the beginning than she did
I don’t think much will change, probably just a few conversations.
I’m actually saving Wolfenstein till the very end, absolutely loved the first few hours of the game so saving it for the upcoming dry spell after destiny’s released…. Mark my words there will be one before October :@ Stupid devs making me ration my games 🙁
Dry spell? That’s when the releases start to pick up, there’s pretty much nothing before that, but an absolute buttload after.
I think I need to take October off, so many good looking time consuming games.
I’m so glad Arkham Knight got pushed back, well annoyed as I want it more than anything else announced atm, but because it’ll allow me to put all my time and effort into Destiny
As far as I’m aware we have one big release coming up which is Destiny and then it’s a dry spell all the way till October :\ What games am I missing? D=
Sorry, you’re right, just looked up upcoming games on the EB website and it appears that that’s pretty much the only big one till early October, but it’s only like a 4 week wait and BAM it’s just one after the other.
At least it’ll give us a solid 4 weeks with Destiny.
Well given that the Beta is out this week so we’ve got to stave off the dry spell with Destiny from now till October 🙁 That’s almost 2 months monkey!
Wasn’t counting the Beta, I’m using the time between now and the Destiny release to catch up on games and TV shows/movies.
Today’s page 6 contribution comes from a JB HI-FI review note I saw once for GTAV.
“If you drive like a normal person in this game, you’re going to have a dad time.”
Wht. Reply fail. Uh. Funny joke!
Hmmmmmmmm
http://www.techspot.com/news/57409-developer-claims-consoles-arent-powerful-enough-to-run-star-citizen.html
edit: I messed up my links 😛
What did the fish say when it swam into the wall?
…dam.
#pagesixpunlifeI was thinking about shameless gaming month this morning. Do you guys have games in your ‘pile of shame’ that probably aren’t even worth finishing? What do you do with these? Do you just strive to finish them anyway, just to mentally tick them off of your list?
Must. Finish. EVERYTHING. I fear I will be fighting this battle for the rest of my life….
Is there someone holding a gun to your head? Because if there is, just let me know and i’ll call the cops. Hehe
Negative Zero has a pretty cool method. I have a list of 50 or so games that I want to finish.
I’ve actually been really good this year, put a strict limit on all the games I’m going to buy, everything extra goes on to my wishlist to keep track of in case I get an unexpected stipend to my gaming budget =P This way I have a lot more spare time to work through the games I already have…. also the key is to be really careful in how many JRGP’s you decide to start in a year… those damn things can suck your life away 0,0
On that note I can never bring myself to play or finish Watch Dogs which was the only game I’ve bought this year that I don’t plan on finishing.
So many games on discs I haven’t finished and will never touch again. So many games in my Steam library I haven’t finished and will never touch again.
Gone are the days when all I had was a Playstation and a shedload of time on my hands as a student. They were much simpler times
I have a couple on steam that I gave a shot a while ago and have no intention of picking up again. I guess they’ll just sit there and add to my numbers!
I don’t count them on my Pile of Shame if I don’t actually want to play them!
that’s when I move them to my Pile of Pride,
I would have thought Pile of Regret would have been a more appropriate name.
yeah, regret over purchase, proud to not finish them though 😛
If a game is so bad (either bad, or I just really don’t like it) that it would be a really shit time trying to finish it off, I’ve got no qualms with getting rid of it.
With Steam games, I uninstall them and set the user created category of “Crap” on them so they’re mostly out of sight. For physical stuff I usually troll gift or just chuck. Haven’t had to do that too often, though.
Good call. I noticed that Steam kept removing my games from the categories i had created. So i stopped using categories. Also the categories don’t seem to sync across multiple PC’s.
If I own something that isn’t worth finishing, I usually just give it away on TAY 😛
My Pile of Shame is actually pretty manageable! 😛
Good idea for physical copies. Most of my games are tied up in Steam.
I have written a lot of shit off. Stuff that ends up in my Steam library purely by virtue of coming with publisher packs or being linked to something I actually wanted that was on sale. When it comes to inflating my library, bundles have a lot to answer for.
I don’t consider them part of the ‘pile of shame’.
So I’ve hit a bit of an ethical dilemma. I’ve just found out in the next iteration of Thor Marvel’s giving him a gender swap and they’re calling it permanent. Yes yes I know when Marvel says permanent it means 6-9 months but I’m finding myself quite annoyed by this. I’m a strong believer in the fact that women are poorly represented in comics and games but bloody hell do you need to re-invent an existing comic icon for this?! So on the one side I’m glad there’s going to be a strong female character being added to the Marvel universe but I’m really flipping pissed they’re getting rid of one of my favourite Marvel heroes to do so =@
I actually completely dropped Spider-Man in the new iteration because of (Comic Spoilers)
Otto taking over and getting rid of Peter Parker’s psycheand Spider-Man was the very first comic I got into.Chris Hemsworth has some serious acting work ahead of him.
Spiderman:
You’re missing out, Superior Spider Man was really coolThor:
As i said on Twitter, I think it’s cool, I just wonder about the mechanics of it- I’m not sure where the whole “Donald Blake is Thor” thing sits atm. Certainly women have wielded Mjolnir in the past, and had all of the Thor powers, but I thought they’d moved a bit away from the powers all being tied to the hammer.
I’ll probably grab this off comixology when it comes out, it has me more curious than anything.
Also, Marvel’s doing a lot of cool stuff with female superheroes atm- Captain marvel has been great, Ms Marvel is pretty cool, Kate Bishop hawkeye is awesome and Black Widow & Spider Woman are doing stuff in Secret Avengers.
According to what @redartifice has been saying on the Twitters male Thor is still around, he’s not having a gender change, so apparently we’ll have both male and female Thors.
But he’s apparently not going to be “Thor”- won’t have his powers, but he’ll still be around. What they’ll call him, I dunno
The guy who used to be Thor? MAN 🙁 The new Thor series was one of my faves as well! BAH! I’ll the check the new series out but not going to be jumping at it like I do for Uncanny and Amazing X-Men…. Also I want to see more of the Kid Omega x-men troupe 0.0
Wise advice re the JRPG’s. I have limited funds to buy new games at this point, so i’m mostly playing older games on Steam. I’m considering trying to finish Alan Wake and Borderlands. Not sure if i can be bothered with the likes of Dead Island. Last time i played that game i got a massive headache and felt sick from all the first person screen effects, and that has never happened to me before.
Reply fail? Be careful starting games like Borderlands! Once again those are games that act as massive time sinks and pull you away from completely other games that aren’t designed for longevity! Check out cheaper bite-sized games and don’t overly commit to time sinks like Diablo 3, Torchlight 2, WoW, Civ 5 etc. Off the top of my head I would recommend Wolf Among Us, Walking Dead! If you plan on doing larger games set a certain amount of time to put into them so that you don’t neglect your pile of shame completely! =D It’s what I’m doing with the Witcher 2 at the moment, I try and play a few hours every weekend!
I always steer clear of MMO’s, a friend recently tried to get me into Wildstar with very little success. I finished Diablo 3 once, and that was enough for me. Not really a big RTS player either. I will heed your advice re Borderlands.
Alan Wake is an amazing game. Well worth playing to the end of.
Dear @rocketman,
Your Secret SanTAY present from 2012 is the gift that keeps on giving! https://www.dropbox.com/s/9or3mbdqrr1vohi/2014-07-16%2008.27.50.jpg
Thanks again!
There’s a joke to be made there but for the life of me I can’t seem to word it without being wildly inappropriate and/or offensive.
Hey look shanes baby wearing rockets clothes from 3 months ago
lawl! you’re the greatest Rocketman!
No worries bro. 🙂
Remember that in English read and lead rhyme and read and lead rhyme, but read and lead don’t rhyme and neither do read and lead.
I have a question for the handheld peeps
My time of having free access to my gaming rig might be coming to a end so I’m considering getting a handheld. The problem is I know nothing about them.
What are the pros and cons of them for somebody without a console who is interesting in something they can sit on the couch and play in small stints that can also be sued for the commute (around 30 min)
How much of the functionality is tied to the console and are they worth getting standalone?
Are games around the same price for the different handhelds?
Difference in battery life?
What’s a good sale price for them that I should keep an eye out for
Am I better off looking at a windows tablet and just using that instead
Any other advice is welcome as well.
They’re really pretty similar in functionality and I’ve probably spent similar time on both. Biggest difference is I’ve spent a lot less for far more on the Vita. 3DS games tend to run the expensive side of the equation whereas I’ve purchased 2 games and PS+ and have a rather large library of games for the Vita now.
I can only speak for the 3DS, but that is completely standalone (as far as games are concerned anyway). A new 3DS game is usually about $50-$60. The XL is much better than the original, in my opinion, but what you want will depend on how portable you want it to be.
Really, the only thing you need to look at is the games. If you like the games on Vita better, get that. If you like the 3DS games, get that.
By handheld, I’m assuming Vita/3DS
Both are independent of consoles, though a Vita + PS4 has more interactivity
3DS is cheaper
Vita has access to the PSN store, so lots of the indie titles
3DS has a stronger first party catalogue, but they retain their price pretty strongly
@tech_knight was looking at windows tablets
Gaems. It all comes down to what games you want to play exactly as the two major handhelds have vastly different libraries.
I found I ran out of vita games. Plus that memory card is a massive issue for me. The memory card seems like it’s permanently full, where as my 3DS doesn’t have that issue.
That, too. I have both handhelds but personally I use my 3DS XL more.
I can’t speak for Vita, but the range of games for the 3DS is amazing. It plays DS games, and sells some even older titles through the eshop.
By handhelds I’ll assume you’re looking at the 3DS and the PS Vita? Off the bat the 3DS is more suited for short stints off gaming since most of the games available on it can all be saved on the fly and it has pretty good battery conservation if you just need to close it out of the blue. I don’t believe it has any connection capabilities to the WiiU but I might be mistaken on that front! Also the 3DS has a much larger selection of games when compared to the PS Vita!
The PS Vita however feels like a much more solid handheld device and I love the OLED screen on it! It’s pretty good with power consumption and can last for ages 2-3 days in my experience when it’s on standby mode. Be warned however that there isn’t as varied a games collection on the Vita and most of the good games on there are massive time sinks! Bright side however you can buy PSone and PS2 games on the PS store for it and play them on the Vita as well, however I’m not sure how optimized those games are for PS Vita controls…
I have Vita. I don’t think I can ever buy a 3DS due to shitty graphics. Vita games are solid and the closest to a ‘console’ you’ll get. PS+ membership (on special) is probably worth it for Vita alone.
Crazy talk!
Compared to the Vita?
not really.
That Vita screen is mighty purty.
Though the 3DS is still capable of some great looking games.
http://www.dicksmith.com.au/mobiles-wireless/unlocked-smart-phones?dir=asc&order=price&price=100-200
I’m looking at these. I’m thinking after the 2 months, I will give the phone to mum. What do people think I should go with?
I should mention it needs to be really simple to use.
My friend had the Sony Experia E and said it was great, so I’d recommend that.
Well, I’m a big fan of my Xperia Z1, dunno how the E stacks up.
Samsung Galaxy trend also looks OK, but for two months might be more than you want to spend.
I’ve got the Xperia Z, seriously thinking about getting the Z2 when my contract allows me to upgrade, @freezespreston has one doesn’t he? What’s it like Freeze?
What carrier are you with?
Virgin. Just want to tie over the 2 months
I have a new in box HTC Desire 310 if you want it? Unlocked.
Unfortunately the two Xperia Es that I have spare are locked to Telstra.
I can afford it. If you don’t need it, Numbers @lucifer9783 could probably use it.
I dunno, I’d love to give advice on it but I’m genuinely confused. A couple months back you were saying how you and your mother are super-short on money and can hardly make ends meet. Now, you have a smashed Note, are gonna pay $280 contract cancel for who knows what reason (if it’s an old plan, it’s probably better than anything on the market today), and you’re contemplating buying a $150-200 phone that you will give away when you presumably pick up another 24mth contract on an expensive phone for over $55/mth… presumably..
So, uh, for now, I’d say just go out and get a Samsung S5. *shrugs*
We’re short of money normally, but I got my yearly bonus. It was more then I expected, so I can buy a cheap phone.
If you’re gonna get an expensive 24/mth plan with a phone anyway, I’d suggest you do that straight up. Galaxy S5 just came out, it’s pretty neat, you’d be used to the OS. $150-200 is a bit too much to spend on a ‘simple’ phone for your mother – there are sub-$100 options out there.
I ended up going for a nokia lumia. Also, I’m not ending my contract. I’m using this new phone on the old contract until I’m eligible for an upgrade. The upgrade has a cheaper plan anyway, so it’ll make it easier for me.
The cheap phone is a backup in case something bad happens in the future and I’ve always got a fallback phone.
Alright, cool stuff.
Finished ACIV Pirassassining! Dunno what everyone else thought of it, but I think it was the strongest game in the series to date.
I’m at 99% sync, with just half a dozen story missions to redo properly. I don’t think I’ll bother though – those optional objectives are sometimes pretty irritating.
Thanks again @evilmonkey. The game will be in the post very shortly!
It looks fantastic and I keep wanting to try it but then I stop myself because I disliked Assassins Creed 2 so much D:
Wait, you disliked 2? 3, sure, but 2?
I jumped straight to 2 because everybody said it was the best (at the time – some time before 3 was released) and yeah. I dunno, just didn’t click.
I gave up because it just seemed to be a lot of pointless running around. I had the money to buy whatever, too (lil trick), but it wasn’t enough.
I did that too. I thought it was ok, but by the time I (finally?) hit the end I felt like I’d played all the AC I’d ever need to and could happily put the series behind me.
And yeah, all the talk of pirates has me interested but I’m still not sure if want 😛
I stopped playing at ‘Press X to throw a rock, you dirty, dirty peasant’
Meh, whenever you’re done with it man. Let me know when you do post it, I’ll send you back Deus Ex (didn’t even touch it), the way I’m going it’ll be next year before I get to it. Also, Ozgameshop have it for 17 bucks, so I’m happy to just buy it, then I don’t have to feel bad for hanging onto it for almost a year. I’ll send you Watch Dogs at the same time too.
It’s cool, man. Hang on to it if you want. I’m in no hurry to get it back.
Save yourself that $17. Then you’re a third of the way to buying a new-release game! \o/
17 bucks won’t kill me, and I’d feel better about it. I prefer to own games anyway, I’m a collector.
Also, checked the tracking on your Wii U and it said onboard for delivery today \o/
Lemme know when you’ll be up for some Mario Kart shenanigans.
Also also, what free game did you pick.
I need to jump in on the Mario Kart shenanigans – how does it work? Is there a Wii U friend code or something?
Wii U has ‘username’. Check out TAYlist for em all.
There was an online tournament set up, but pretty much we all just message each other here/Twitter and go online. People then join the first players match.
I think you go to Single Player Online or something, then, tournament, then put in the TAYKart code, then join the first person (it’s been a while)
@dc
http://tinyurl.com/taynames
All server details on TAYnames.
I pik’d Pikmin!
Same, your Wii U arrived yet? It shouldn’t be far away now.
I just came on to say a PACKAGE JUST GOT DELIVERED! Unpacking as soon as I hit submit! \o/
Good choice! I actually felt a sense of achievement (which I normally don’t get from games lol) when you beat some of the puzzles.
Have you done all 4 super ships? 2 of those are the only things standing between me and 100%. I get so damned close but just make a small mistake, take a bit to much damage and it just gets progressively worse and don’t quite survive long enough.
The two-boat Legendary battle was awesomely intense.
That and the super armoured one are the two I have left to do. I managed to drop one of the ships in the twin fight but miscalculated and took a heavy chunk of damage and messed it up towards the end
The trick to that one is
To damage both of them to near-death before you finish one off, because the remaining ship goes into a crazy unstoppable berserker rage and will demolish you.This.
Yeah I noticed that trick a tad too late to help and never got around to trying it again
Yeah, I did those. A couple of them were pretty hairy, and I failed all of them at least once, but they ended up being not too tough once I’d fully upgraded the ship.
It was so enjoyable that I actually went and got 100% sync. Which I hadn’t done for any of the others (hell, I didn’t even finish 1 or 3…).
I couldn’t decide whether or not to go back and really finish it. In the end, I decided to let the final mission be my final experience with the game 🙂
AC4 is the only one I bothered to 100%. I hearted that game muchly.
Yesterday was the 90th birthday of the Stobie Pole.
James Cyril Stobie, you shaped the landscape of this state more than you know.
SATAY history; brought to you by the colour Red and the number 9783.
Now lets all celebrate with a Coopers Pale Ale and a Vili’s pie!
Hell yes!
Brought a carton of Coopers Pale Ale, with me to Christmas at the in-laws one year, copped so much flak over it, dunno why, so much better than the shit they were drinking (VB).
VB is awful.
Pale Ale is great
I’ll take the Sparkling Ale over Pale personally, but they’re both fantastic.
I don’t mind the Coopers Stout, personally. [dodges tomatoes]
Never tried the Stout. Only Stout I’ve ever had is Guiness, and that’s only on St. Patricks’s Day.
Guy I used to work with bought me a drink once (he worked at a bar), half Guiness and half Scrumpy Jack (don’t know if they still sell it) Cider. From memory it was quite nice.
I’m not a fan of stouts as a generalisation, but I’m sure whatever Coopers do in that regards would be enjoyable if that’s your thing.
Best Extra Stout. I buy it in long necks. Half goes into the beef stew and the rest is for me!
VB is the worst beer I’ve ever had.
I’ve had one once, don’t remember liking it, but it was once.
West End Draught however I’ve had on more than one occasion and I’m not a fan at all
VB = Vomit Bomb
Started up, Dead Rising 3 after getting home from dropping my son at the bus stop for school this morning, just been sitting on the start screen while I mucked around on TAY and Twitter for the last 3 hours. FUCKING HELL!!!
Monkey I think you have a problem….. I think it starts with ‘pro’ and ends in ‘castination’
Read that as Castration… DON’T DO IT MANG!
Oh gods
Ran into a guy I knew from uni the other week, had a beer. He’s a nurse, and he was telling stories, so someone of course asked him for a gory one.
Couple of months back, he’s working in the ER, and a guy in his late 20s walks in and says “Mum said i should come in and get someone to have a look at this”
“What mate?”
“Well, I decided the other night that my balls weren’t doing me any good, so i took them out”
“You took them out? Your testicles?”
“Yeah”
“ummm… Why?”
“They weren’t doing any good, decided they needed to go”
Spoilered for the squeamish
So they get him on a bed, and get him to pull down his pants before the doctor gets there. Apparently he’s got mental health issues (duh) and has decided that his lif would be better testicle free, so he’s liquored himself up and with kitchen knives has castrated himself. He’s then stitched himself up with fishing line, and his scrotum is now filled with fluid.Medical team decided there was not much they really could do for him except drain it and stitch it up properly, then refer him to mental health. Apparently he was calm as anything
*twitch*
wh-… Whyyyyyyy?
*thump*
*shudder*
!
Also, Oblig
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
I decided the other night that my balls weren’t doing me any good, so i took them out
Needs to be a pageget.
Had he been playing Sniper Elite 3 recently, done a testicle shot and thought “well, I don’t want that happening to me!”?
Nah, this was months ago.
Played some ZombiU last night… It’s certainly… Something :P… Got massively frustrated with it early on due to the way they’ve done combat, i got so frustrated i had to walk away :P… After cooling off i bit i think it finally clicked and i now understand the game better… I’m quite enjoying it now, but it’s very flawed… Still worth the $10 admission fee
I swear I must be immune to Ubisoft FPS problems. Loads of people seemed to have problems with Red Steel and its sequel, and same with ZombiU. But I love all of them so much and have no idea what people are talking about, especially when it comes to glitches and such.
Really need to get back to finish ZombiU.
what frustrated me was the initial horde attack on your safe house… I died like 8-9 times on that stupid raid and just got frustrated :P… I think i was expecting the game to be something different to what it is, more like a smaller scope state of decay, when it’s more linear then that…now that i understand the game better i just creep around everywhere taking my time, and i must say, they have done an amazing job at creating a tense atmosphere
So much this. Absolutely loved how they had me constantly terrified, and it was all through tension. I don’t even remember any jump-scares at all (though I guess there were probably a few here and there). So many times I would just stop and not want to proceed because I thought I could see a trap ahead that would trigger once I went through… only to finally man up and get on with it, only to have nothing happen at all. I have no idea if it was their intention to play with my mind like that and have it all be in my head, but I love that it did that so much.
Honestly had to constantly just pause the game, put down the controller and go do something else for a while, just to relieve myself from the fear. Hate the game so much. But I love it 😛
Man, that part where you
(Minor location spoilers)
Are in that classroom / Nursery, I’ve never been so tense and terrified when exploring somewhere in a game.I usually dislike horror games due to their reliance on “jump-scare” scenes (“Boo! Ha! I scared you! I’m great!”) but can really appreciate a game that builds a lot of tension and can turn your own mind against you.
Fuck that place. So hard.
Red Steel was so good, I played the hell out of the local multiplayer,
Man I always wanted to play Killers mode. I thought it was brilliant.
Shame it required four players though. Only got to play it once, and that was with an extra remote sitting on the coffee table.
I was lucky enough to be living in a share house that had frequent visitors and everyone was keen to try out those fancy new motion control things. Some of my best Wii multiplayer memories are from that. Never got around to playing the sequel, really liked the look of it bbut was a little detered by no multiplayer.
The sequel was pretty good. Had a great style to it, and the new control system worked well I thought. That said I did put it off til I found it for $15 on clearance from Dick Smith 😛
Oh yeah and I got to go to a preview event for it at Ubisoft, and they gave us all some of the preorder samples that they had lying around (no retailers were interested in taking them so they never happened).
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/RedSteel2/Freebies.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/RedSteel2/PackInsides.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/RedSteel2/BookBullet.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/RedSteel2/PackBack.jpg
Nice, some really nice stuff there, how did you get invited to that?
Competition, the site had something like three invites to the event and two staff went with the third going up for grabs for the users. There were people from maybe three or four websites there, it was pretty good fun.
This is probably similar to how people who’ve never had chocolate before don’t understand why everyone’s so down on carob.
If you ever leave the Nintendo ecosystem and play REAL games, you will understand. 😉
Not entirely serious just stirring!Haha, it is something to be wary of I guess. But then I feel in this case at least, I’m *looking* for carob and not chocolate. But people seem to complain that their carob has seeds in it, and I haven’t found any in mine.
Also I love stretching analogies to death.
haha, someone in our office bought a little container of unsweatened Carob buttons and left them in the staff lunch room for people to help themselves, I think people ate like 5 and the container has been sitting there untouched for about 6 months, it’s going all white and funny. I saw them when they were first put there and thought hmm, might try one, the moment I tasted (or didn’t taste) it I knew no one would eat them, now I understand why kids look so upset if they’re given Carob easter eggs.
I remember those dark, dark days. Carob is NOT chocolate. It tastes NOTHING like it, and the people who say otherwise are sadly deluded. So glad I can eat chocolate again.
it just sorta tastes like nothing to me, I will never buy anyone Carob, not even as a cruel joke,
Why couldn’t you eat chocolate? I say…………….
Gimme Chocolate”< / a>
It’s great! I died so often at the start before I learned how to play “properly”. Didn’t die again after my little epiphany! (played SUPER timidly though)
ps. It helps to give your cricket bat a name. Ol’ Bernadette never let me down! 😛
I still die on a regular basis, but much like Dark souls, every time i die i understand why and it’s always my freaking fault 😛
is there a limit to the number of deaths?
Nope. Only shame as you see the death counter climb higher and higher.
Yep this, it constantly reminds you how much you fail 😛
hmm, might give it another go, beaten 2 games already this week, not sure what to set my sights on next, ZombiU might be it.
I had one go of that, the first Zombie (after the ones in the intro chase) killed me, Haven’t had the urge to go back, I really should though.
I’ll be playing that soon, too! \o/
Or should I say o=
Introduced my son to The Simpsons last night, he seemed to enjoy it. Started with Season 1 Ep2. (don’t ask me why I skipped Ep1, I don’t know). Wanted to start him at the start and work our way through.
Now I just have to get Transformers G1 on DVD, He knows about them, but has never seen an episode, and I don’t want his first experience to be Bayformers. Oooh, and Beast Wars too.
The sharing experience between Father and Son has begun.
Bart gets an F! It’s the only one I remember. Clearly haven’t watched it in a while..
The one we watched was Bart The Genius, will probably go back and watch the first episode with him, and continue on from there in order. Gonna take a while, a) because there’s so many episodes, and b) he’s only 6, so he won’t get a lot of the jokes.
Also, this is the Transformers pack that I have – and am yet to watch it.
Awww yeah! Gimme gimme gimme. Are there any shops that stock that one these days, or only EBay?
Yeah I couldn’t see that exact one on the JB site, but they do have newly packaged copies of G1 though.
Yeah, I got given that one too. It’s still sealed 😛
I am no good at DVDs.
That’s the one I have. Got about 3/4 of the way through it. Make sure you watch the movie at the appropriate point.
Damn, but that movie is traumatic. Poor Prime.
Already got the movie on DVD.
I have a boxset of G1 Transformers. So much better than Bayformers. Also, really good as a kids show.
Major change marvel, the killed off the human that was held thor’s spirit & replaced his host body permently as a woman, cue fandom debate after the axis crossover and some sexists decrying the decision, possibly some homophobic reactions since in marvel thor is in love with a human woman
Well for all we know
The new Thor could be Jane Foster. She’s wielded the hammer in a couple of What ifs.I always thought Mjolnir was just a penis metaphor. Men always running around brandishing their “hammers”. Now it represents the feminist movement claiming and brandishing the “hammer” for themselves.
And yes. Yes I am talking out my ass here.
Haha.
Sooo tempted to put my bewbs ascii art here.
Once per day is enough, though.
And again I am rewarding you with an ernie award, an award for sexism
I never asked for this.
You + multiple fanservicey articles = multiple more ernie awards for your bank account
I don’t even.
@benny there I upvoted =P
@pupp3tmast3r Thank you! But the video game reference was the other comment! 😀 I never asked for this..
Why is it even an Ernie? Is this a reference to Sesame Street?
apparently it’s a thing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Awards
I didn’t know Google told me
A quick search tells me it’s an award for sexism and hating on women or something.
@benny well, as a winner, you’re certainly in august company.
It’s almost as if someone’s just throwing the term around as if it’s expected to be funny, rather than an accusation of misogyny!
I don’t feel like a winner, mainly because no one upvoted my Deus Ex 3 reference, three above. 😛 Kidding, I’m pretty happy today.
@benny Is it this one?
Straight to the Pool Room with that one, @benny!
Can i have an anti-ernie for my castration story upthread?
I think you need a Warning: Extreme sticker for that one, spoilers just ain’t enough. 😀
@benny What about this one? =P
Also, this is probably the best summary.
http://textsfromsuperheroes.com/image/91902045306
Ernie award? I don’t hate or dislike women! wtf.
I’m not even the most sexist one here! [everyone eyes each other awkwardly]
Thank you for eyeing every single sexist commenter, they each get an ernie award, *runs as an angry mob goes around @benny*
Who died and put you on the awards committee?
There were people on the awards committee?
For the Ernies, apparently, though looking at the winners for the last few years they were pretty slam dunk winners
Admit it Benny. You’re a monster. Just like all Bens.
Screw you, Freeze! I’m not a monster! (Well, maybe a little…)
Whoa! Another Ben I didn’t know about! 😀 We’re taking over!
Bens are the worst!
Might want to spoiler this.
Edit: nevermind =p
Oh please, not again. 😛
Anyone here got Door Kickers? I need some guinea pigs to test out my new map
I usually use my hands when operating doors.
I think you might be on to something here nob!
Interestingly enough, there’s a mod for the game called Door Openers that does exactly that so units can enter rooms quietly rather than kicking the door down
While we are at it let’s mod Halo so the Halo is a sphere because ringworlds don’t really make any sense when you think about it.
So had a job interview this morning. Little to almost no sleep, due to little boy being sick with Bronciliolistis (think Bronchitis but for babies).
Job interview: didn’t romp it in, but didn’t stumble. Think I went well. It’s for a permanent position, so if I get it and I’m in, that will be IT – they cannot fire me unless I am truly an incompetent human being. The jury is out on that.
Nerves: still jingle-jangling and I cannot for the life of me concentrate on anything,
So, quick question – do they normally ask people in an interview “How quickly would you be able to start this job”, or just people they think may be successful?
Oh, and Quiz_b’s fun question of the day: What is the weirdest question you’ve ever been asked professionally? (Interview, workplace, education)
Mine would have to be “Are you sure you’re not on any drugs?” when I came in happy and energetic on a Monday morning. I would have laughed, but it was the big big boss and he was serious.
Two days later I had to take a drug test.
Aside from abnormal levels of caffeine in my pee, I passed.
That’s actually a pretty good sign if they asked you how soon you can start! Normally interviewers only ask the question if you’ve been short listed!
Yeah, I’ve only ever been asked “when can you start” when I’ve been successful. It at least means you’ve not been ruled out. I think if you flopped badly they’ll go with “we’ll let you know”.
I dunno, I was asked that question pretty frequently (I don’t want to get your hopes down though 😛 good luck!)
I got asked if I would like a slice of birthday cake once. I didn’t accept 😛
Unless it was vegan cake, no excuse will ever justify your not eating of that cake.
I was just caught completely off guard and politely declined before realising that I really wanted some cake 😛
Probably why I didn’t get the job. The interviewer must’ve resented me for denying her the chance to eat cake for half an hour.
I’ve read that a good interview trick is if you’re offered anything like a tea of coffee, accept something – even a glass of water. It puts the interviewer at ease because it means they can have something as well in case they need to sip something while talking or whatever.
I probably would have been unprepared for cake though. I mean, what if it’s carrot cake? I don’t know how I’d bounce back from that.
Woo. So I find that the question is usually asked if they have a general liking but aren’t 100% OR if they feel they’ve not asked enough questions. Could go either way.
Best of luck!
Weirdest interview last question I’ve ever been asked was, ‘How about you come back to my place tonight?’ It was a one on one interview and she was very attractive, so I went! Good times.
Okay that was very Gooky-ish so I’ll summarise.
Workplace relationships are awkward and this was no exception, I only lasted a year there.
But did you get the job?
Gold.
>_>
Wii-U get!
System update… getting…
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Fun get!
it’ll be a while! First one’s a bitch!
I expect a post saying ‘Get.’ in a couple of hours time.
don’t forget to claim your free game.
\o/
On the bright side, at least you’ve got some time to charge the gamepad.
So Mario Kart shenanigans tonight?
What? Not even gonna give me a few days to learn the controls? How humiliating!
Just got the new roster, woohoo 3 day weekend.
OH YEAH!
*pelvic thrusts*
CAN YOU FEEL THAT HUH, CAN YOU FEEL IT!
#Postfail wasn’t meant to be a reply.
So once I finish these props for @sernobulus I think I’m going to give commission prop building a go (apparently I am undesirable for anything else). I’ve got the tools, the time, the interest and soon enough, the portfolio. Then it’ll just be a case of making stuff for a reasonable cost …but therein lies the trouble. I have no idea what a reasonable price is. Most of what I hear is “it’s too hard to say a price range” but damn it, that doesn’t help.
I’m also going to use my tax return to build a vacuum forming machine (which I am totally looking forward to, building tools is awesome fun), so I can make things more professional than fibreglass, bondo and foam. I have everything I need but wood to build the frame! And maybe a second vacuum so I can make very large moulds (talking about 1 m2). And a better heating element.
Now I want a new shed.
TL;DR I’m going to make props for people at a reasonable price and I like to make stuff.
Could you make me a Payday mask? I had an idea of going as one of them but a mask from US is like $200+ for a decent one
Any specific mask?
I have no preference can even be one of the custom masks if its easier.
Okey dokey. I’ll give you a run-down on a price estimate tomorrow after I do some research! I guess the time frame would be for PAX?
Sweet sounds good to me! and yeah if it not to difficult for you
Look ma! No hands! https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/82751694/props/payday_temp.jpg This is a good start.
Oh wow that was crazy quick haha
Hey, sorry, I’ve been busy today. As far as I can tell you’d be looking at something around the $140-$150 mark just for materials (depending on stock, since time is kind of an issue), so I’m not sure if you want to just put out the extra cash and buy one you previously found. Alternatively, I did find a whole mess of the cheap, single piece of plastic ones on ebay for about $30 a piece.
But if you’d like me to go ahead shoot me an email at shakeshaft.steve@gmail.com. Mine would include the backing straps, foam interior and a fibreglass face painted however you want (within reason), fyi.
Hmm how much we talking with all that added you reckon? I looked online most places were charging bout the same but the paint quality and finish looked poor which was saddening
@coldcamv Since I’m still getting myself a folio and the like, I’m happy to call it an even $160 for this limited time offer 😛 As you’re in Melbourne we could cut out delivery expenses entirely!
If your willing to do all that for $160 im more than happy to pay it to you rather than an overseas supplier haha
@coldcamv Sounds good. I might DM you on twitter in the morning to avoid this mess of a TAY 😛
Reasons why /r/showerthoughts is great:
“If Mystique shifts into somebody with clothes, and then takes off those clothes, did she just make clothes?”
“I wonder if the impact of confirmation bias has been exaggerated due to confirmation bias”
“Mars is a planet occupied only by robots”
MARS – THE ROBOT PLANET sounds like a great sci-fi B-movie
So Mystique’s real power is being a giant textile plant?
She should work for one of those fashion places that gets knock-off clothes to market faster than the original designers.
New Big Hero 6 – animated Disney film – trailer out.
Hairy baby. Haaaaaaiiiirrry baaaaby…
Oh man, that movie looks fantastic.
Just got to the Mr. Popo introduction in Dragonball.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxr10LlOp48
I can’t take him seriously any more after that.
Pecking Order!
Making toast!
I don’t torture … cats.
Kami, I need you to tell me that I can leave the lookout if I want to!
All these squares make a circle… All these squares make a circle
I’ll tell you where they’re not.
Safe.
Bitch I ain’t going nowhere!
C’moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Please hurry, Aus Post. I want my PC parts. You’re so close by! Just a little more! Please Aus Post. Please. Aus Post? Aus Post please. DO THIS AUS POST!
The best part is when they change it to “Delivered” when you haven’t received anything!
They do this all the time when I get stuff delivered to my flat. “He’s on the THIRD floor!? Screw it, I’ll just say I knocked”
it’shereit’shereit’shereit’shereit’shereit’shereit’shereit’shereit’shereit’shereit’shereit’shereit’shere
Coming soon, photos of bloodied hands
Destiny peeps.
Unofficial Kotaku AU / TAY group here: http://www.bungie.net/en/Groups/Detail?groupId=100780
Now with Clan support!
If you’ve already joined up, select as clan – apparently 4+ clan members makes it appear in-game, and confers rewards of some indeterminate sort.
Just joined! We should create a TAY Destiny Multiplayer group and destroy all the 12 year olds who we’ll probably be playing against =P
But… but I want to play with people, not against people!
I am an enormous carebear.
But.. But… I want to snipe more than just NPC’s 🙁
did you try the PvP in the alpha, I really liked everything else but the PvP was really bad, maps were a mess, spawn zones seemed random as hell (kept spawning in only to have an enemy spawn in the same spot after I took several steps and get an easy kill on me)
Only watched vids of the Alpha PvP, seemed very similar to Halo 3 and Reach in terms of movement and weapon feel? I think random spawning is usually common in FFA matches in the FPS genre? If there was random spawning for team death matches that kinda sucks though…
all the matches I played were team matches. It felt like FFA, we were always split up and just running around doing our own thing. I’m really hoping they’ll fix it, I’m sure they will, alphas are always pretty rough. As I said I really liked everything else so I hope they bring it up to scratch
Sometimes I wish I could say to my brain: you’ve got the necessary experience now, revert to that and autopilot me through this because bullshit I don’t feel like dealing with it personally.
Then I realise that’s what my manager has a team around for. I now think of our team as external brains that retain useful knowledge resources to be drawn on when needed and otherwise occupy themselves with day to day bullshit. One day he’ll say in passing “i’d like to give them a piece of my mind” and I will take that as my cue to go and hit someone, because I’m a pretty proactive kind of guy.
You need a holiday. Here you go –
I have leave in two weeks. I am currently rounding the moon and preparing to slingshot my way back to earth because my engines are mostly burned out.
TIL Mario 64 has multiplayer? Guess I’m gonna set that up for some couch gaming goodness one day!
With mods.
And the DS version has it built in.
It’s lame.
I’m off sick so I wrote a piece on my best cold bustin’ recipe that I took out for a test drive yesterday.
http://www.dankarlszeitgeist.com/?p=119
Back from the city. It rained while I was out.
“Weren’t you just out in the rain? Did you walk in that all the way from the station? You’re hardly wet at all!”
“The trick is to walk between the rain drops.” *wink*
And with that, I am now ready to receive my ‘cheesiest man in the universe’ award, along with any rotten fruits and vegetables that may be (rightly) thrown. (Worse yet, this is the second time I have knowingly and intentionally said this terrible thing. I can only put it down to being a Terry Pratchett fan.)
But you Aten’t Dead, so there’s that
You are a god amongst dad’s, Transient. A golden god.
I’m pretty sure this kind of behaviour isn’t something to be praised or rewarded, but thanks.
Someone mentioned something similar the other day, actually… I made a truly heinous dad joke and one of the girls said, with the darkest, most thoroughly-unimpressed expression, “Yeah, you’ve got a kid out there somewhere.”
I’ll just leave this here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5LSRrAwUtA
A TAY BACKWARDS RPG, Cribbed from Reddit and Google +
THE SUNDERED LAND
I’m a warrior seeking peace and an end to bloodshed. I’m on pilgrimage across the Sundered Land to the Temple To No Gods in the distant City of Gulls. My pilgrimage has brought me to the edge of the Gray Hills, and the uneasy boundary between the Zo and the Ixti, warring clans of cannibals. My goal is to pass safely through and continue my pilgrimage.
You all, my friends online, play the world. Your goal is to see me to my doom, instead of safely on my way. You’re allowed only to directly answer my direct questions, though, so you might not be able to do it.
The Rules
1. Only answer my questions.
2. If you don’t know the answer, make one up.
3. Keep your answers short.
4. If your answer’s disruptive, I’m allowed to ignore it
5. Otherwise, I’ll use the first answer somebody gives.
6. I’ll upvote the answers I use, and anyone is welcome to + an answer they like.
Overhead, the sky is grey, and I survey the landscape. It’s warm but not hot, and there are hints of humidity rolling over the steppes.
A creature cries out, warning me of approaching danger. What is it?
Colobus Monkey.
I see a monkey run through the steppes, thin and unfed. It stops for a moment, looks at me for a moment, and continues to run away from something in the distance, which I can not hear but I can begin to perceive through vibrations in the hard earth.
I look around for a place to hide in cover, what do I see to hide behind?
Nicki Minaj’s giant ghetto booty.
Within the unusual landscape, I see a rock formation, strangely reminiscent of a pair of buttocks that I saw on a poster in the cities once. The rocks stand a few metres tall, and I can see a path to the top of the rocks. I quickly move behind and then on top of the rocks, which are still warm from the morning sun, and from the top i can see a presence approaching in the distance.
What can i make out?
To the west, the Malaria Mosquito Marsh and to the East, the Hungry Hippo Highlands.
From my vantage point atop of the rocks, I can see to the west a wide marsh, mist and steam rising from the damp and gnarled plants within. To the East, the land is less swampy, a wide plain interspersed with rivers and lagoons. i can see some sort of creature wallowing in the lagoons, a large pig-like animal with grey skin that is unfamiliar to me.
Luckily, i’m heading north, in the direction that the monkey came from. I can still feel a rumbling through the rocks- Can i spy the source?
You spot the gleam of a few animated crystals between the rocks, the light of the morning sun dancing off their prism like bodies.
A midget elf welding a pneumatic jack hammer.
Aw man, no fair 😛
@freezespreston through the haze, i can make out a small man wielding some sort of mechanical device, which pounds into the ground constantly. i cannot see what the machine is connected too, nor can i see any signs of how the man came to this place. Does the small man appear to be alone?
@powalen too railroady 🙂
The wavering silhouette of a horse and its rider clad in a black tattered cloak; a slave to the wind it serves to make its master seem more menacing he is.
Edit: Refresh fail *facepalm*
From the top of the rock I can see a lone rider, a black-cloaked figure riding a large destrier. As the rider approaches, I slink behind the rock, putting it between him and myself. As i peer around the rock, i can see the horse is well fed but tired, and the man’s cloak is tattered and swirling in the breeze. I don’t think he’s seen me yet.
Does it look like he’s alone, or is he part of a company?
Does this mean I have two save files for this RPG? 😛
The lone rider doesn’t seem to be part of an entourage, his animal seems weary and his cloak while initially seemed menacing on closer inspection seems covered in dust. He’s barely able to stay atop his horse.
@pupp3tmast3r I cautiously hail the rider, hand resting on the pommel of my sword. His head jerks towards me- he’s tired, and surprised. What does he say?
@redartifice
His voice struggles to escape but you make out one word through his husky breath… “water”.
@pupp3tmast3r I search my pack for a waterskin, and cautiously approach the rider, still ready to draw my sword if needed. I hand it to him at arm’s length.
How does he respond?
@redartifice The rider musters as much effort as he can and takes the waterskin from your outstretched hand… as he does you notice his eyes.. you notice the unearthly cerulean glow that seems to emanate from his pupils and feel it send a chill down to your very soul.
A cliff
@kermitron – are you exploring the creeds ass yet?!? should have been there by now!
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lol he bought my sealed copy of Assassins’ Creed Black Flag that came with my new xbone. i already had it on PS4
Sadly not yet! I assume because it missed the Monday pickup it might take an extra day to get here from Melbourne.
No worries, tomorrow for sure! Did you get the money?
“After every engine stop, without fail, there will be a clunk sound in the rear axle at exactly 28kmph”
Car service dpt: “we could not find the issue”.
Well then, useless motherfuckers, come take a ride with me while I show you something a baboon could do.
As for my other 2 major services items which were “not found”, I already have one on video evidence. I’ll be hopefully getting the next one tonight.
On my old Nissan Pulsar ’86, I noticed that my drive was perpetually pulling very slightly to the left. Not enough to seem like a huge problem, but when flush with a bit of cash, I went to go get it fixed in case I accidentally killed someone with it.
Took it to an AutoTune, got the alignment balanced, took it out on the road. Damn near fucking crashed the thing within minutes. The gradual pull to the left was gone and had been replaced with sudden, violent, massive and uncontrollable jerks to the left and sometimes right. Almost enough to lose me control of the vehicle.
I turned the car right back around and drove it directly back and told them something had gone horribly wrong. They frowned and tested it again and said it tested just fine.
FORTUNATELY, this was the point where the manager came out, tested it himself, then told one of the young guys to take it out for a spin. Guy came back white as a fucking sheet, told us he’d damn near killed people and/or died on the way back and this had to be fixed. Now.
I forget what it was specifically, just that something was loose and the pressure/tension from the alignment being out was the only thing that had been keeping that loose thing in check. Cost a bit extra to fix that. Another thing I was annoyed at the used car dealership over. 😛
Sometimes you just have to drive the damn car.
Does anyone have a copy of CS Global Assalt I could buy for cheap or have for free?
SUPER PERSONAL STUFF
Hmm.On Friday I went to my Dad’s place. The plan was to go there from Friday to Monday. I went there, and forced to go on a camping trip that wasn’t great for the ol’ anxiety.
When I returned from camping, a heated argument sprung up around my education on Sunday night. My Dad went a tad ape-shit. He shouted a bunch, threw something at my sister, (missed) said I was going to fail everything, and then he said that I was the reason Dad and Mum got divorced. You know, the usual. Except for that last part. Don’t worry, there’s no lasting psychological damage, I completely forgot all of this happened the next day because my memory’s so bad.
For perspective, I am in Year 12, but I am also doing a Certificate II traineeship in Information Technology. I go to my workplace, but I also do a e-learning course at work to achieve my Certificate. I’d fallen behind on the e-learning units. Units were taking too long to finish. I’d only finished 3, but 7 other units will be due in about 10 weeks. I confessed my concerns, and Dad put forward an ultimatum:
A: Go back to my mother’s on Monday, and not do any work because I’d get distracted.
B: Stay an extra couple of days, cram as much work as possible
It seemed that B was the best option. I really was behind, and there was no way I would have the discipline to do the work at Mum’s. I didn’t want to stay there any longer, but I made a sacrifice for my education.
My sister got the hell out of there the next day. I spent the day working and little else. Same for the next day. By Tuesday night, I’d done as much work as I possibly could. The units typically contain a prac section that can only be done at the workplace, and a theoretical section that I am able to do at home. I started every unit. I couldn’t finish any because I lacked a few pieces of critical information on how some things was structured. I also couldn’t do the prac stuff, obviously.
I had a headspace psych appointment at 1200h on Wednesday. I had forgotten most stuff about the Sunday argument, so I told the psychologist all about the work I did. Even though I could only tell scant details to the psychologist about the Sunday argument due to memory, the psychologist recommended simply not going to my Dad’s place anymore. I wasn’t sure how to take that. The only reason I go to my Dad’s these days is because of obligation or to keep the peace.
After the headspace appointment, Dad dropped me off at Mum’s place. On the way there, he kept talking about how I should drop all my recreation time to focus on schoolwork. The usual talk. When I arrived back at Mum’s place, the environment was rather weird. My sister had told my mother about all the shit that happened on Sunday that I had forgotten about. I forgot that Dad’s shouting had brought me to tears. I forgot that Dad threw something at my sister. I forgot Dad said that I caused the divorce. I barely told the headspace psychologist anything simply because I forgot. Mum said that my sister was probably not going to my father’s anymore, and that I should do the same.
I’m a bit conflicted on what to do here. I thought I’d probably post this here for reason that I have now forgotten. Hmm, my memory issues are becoming more worrisome by the day. If I could forget something as big as what happened on Sunday, what else have I forgotten? I really should get my memory evaluated at some point, conduct a test for child dementia, if that is even a thing.
These family issues are frustrating. I never instigate arguments, and I’m always the one having to defend myself. Makes me wonder whether I’m in the wrong somehow. Shit, I better press the submit button before I leak my entire psyche into a single post.
You know, I have entirely too many things to worry about.
Grade 12 is hard enough without family things on top of it as well. Don’t forget we’re always here if you need to vent, we’ve all gone through similar types of situations.
Do you want me to go beat your dad up? I’ll do it! 😀
I agree with your psych though, it sounds best to stop going to your dads. You should put yourself and your own well being first, not your parents.
If you need a place to crash for a bit to get away from things, or just chill, feel free to drop me a message 🙂
TAYbies can now confirm that I’m not a serial killer, and I’ve got the “meating” bug, haha! 😀
I’m sure you do :p
If you’re ever over here, I’ll show you just how badly I’ve got the meating bug, hunk 😉
:s
How you do’in?
*slooooow wiiiiiiink*
This escalated quickly
@coldcamv
I’ve got something else that escalates quite quickly 😉
CAN WE PLEASE GET TO PAGE 18 THIS WEEK?!?!
We will try it will probably be part weekendTAY
Out of the night that covers me,Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
Once you’ve read that I hope you realize something. That the people who move humanity forward as a race aren’t the ones with the perfect lives and happy families, but the ones who struggled to get to where they are. What I’m trying to say is, it gets better and you will be stronger for it.
Edit: Also as target has mentioned you’ll always have us on TAY! =]
Jesus bloody… Yeah, I got no idea.
Literally the only thing I can think of is to get out. Like… out. On your own. Being your own man, earning your own way, doing things on your own terms. It starts out hard but gets easier and it’s the most liberating thing in the world – you’re not bound to your parents by an immediate sense of obligation, at least (although always with the overarching sense of obligation and gratitude for being raised). But is that too much? Too soon?
I was your age when I moved out, but I had more support and a damn sight more hubris. I don’t know what will work for you.
That sucks man, no one should have to go through that its not right and its not fair on you, if anything his outbursts at you will make you fail.
Do you think the reason your forgetting might be your psyche trying to protect itself by simply blocking out the memories of any abuse?
Maybe, but it’s more likely that my memory is just bad.
For my two cents:
Make your own decision about if you go to your fathers place. He seems like an angry dude and it’s not fair on you, yes. On the other hand (while not really condoning his actions) it seems like he’s lost his immediate family and he is looking at his son struggling (with schoolwork) with a woman that contributed heavily to his situation. He may not give a shit about her, but he gives a shit about his kids, whether you can currently see that or not.
As for this:
It’s not really anything major. Psych’s and a lot of people on TAY would take the opportunity to jump on this single quote alone and say you dad is “controlling, trying to control your life, preventing you from doing kid stuff, prohibiting social growth, etc”. The harsh reality of it is, if you’re really struggling to keep up with the workload, you will have to drop the optional stuff out of your life to ensure you finish your work on top. This shit matters, so you can get a head-start on the next chapter of your life.And what is that chapter? You, getting a job. Moving out of home. Becoming independent. Growing emotionally. Distance from your turbulent family. And after a while, when everything is stable, you’ll be able to take an outside perspective on your current (e.g. this point in time) situation and think about what you want to do. Perhaps your father will have calmed down enough, so that you may continue your relationship. If your mother tries to get you to see Dr Yoghurt, you can politely smile and say you’ll think about it … while going home to your own home and doing whatever you feel like.
So my advice, again, is to focus on what’s important. IMO this is your schooling. You’ve said that you get distracted at mothers, and you managed to churn out good work at fathers. Don’t let other people tell you what to do, but let them suggest.
So just in passing while talking to my Dad (I needed some cufflinks and he was like “oh, have these, they were your grandfather’s”) I found out that my Grandfather was much cooler than I knew. I knew he served on the HMS Rodney during WW2, but turns out that he was radar officer on the HMS Ark Royal during the Malta convoys and was on board when it was torpedoed and later sunk. I never knew this, he never liked to talk about it much. I remembered him talking about being part of the group sent out to pursue the Bismark and also him briefly mentioning being on a ship that was torpedoed and having to evacuate it, but I hadn’t realized it was a vessel that significant.
And it also turns out we have a stack of old photos he took of Malta and Norway. Some of them are missing because of Military censors but apparently we’ve got a whole pile of them. Think I’m going to find the box they’re in, scan them all in and send them off to some museums to see if they’re of any historical value.
The AUstralian War Memorial would be the place to submit- they’ve got a bunch on file, looks like they’re only after select areas of coverage: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/photographs/
Yeah, they don’t sound like they’ll be interested, as he was part of the Royal Navy and from New Zealand, not Australia. I’ll consider showing them in case they’re interesting, but I think if there’s anything of note in the photos I’ll get more interest from museums in the UK or NZ.
EDIT: That said if there is actual historical significance to anything they’d probably be able to refer me along to historians or museums who are interested even if they’re not.
if you do submit them to the war memorial they will digitize them and provide them with reference codes so that they will be available from their library. They’ll then return the originals to you. From past experience I’ve always found them really helpful in this regard and I’m sure they’d love copies of them.
I wish I’d had a chance to talk with my Grandad about his life. He was in Darwin when it was bombed and was a stretcher bearer/medic. Unfortunately he died when I was 13 and I wasn’t mature enough to have a conversation about such things. I miss him every day, even almost 18 years later.
Yeah, mine passed away when I was about 14 or 15 and he didn’t really like talking about his time in the Navy much either, both not wanting to remember, and I think not wanting me to know because I was pretty young.
My other grandfather (still alive \o/) is also very interesting but in different ways. He’s got a story about everything and has done a ton of different seriously fascinating person.
I never met my Mum’s Dad. He died before I was born. I’m actually named for both my grandads. My first name comes from my Dad’s Dad’s nickname and my middle name is from my Mum’s Dad.
Yeah man, I only just started to learn about my grandad’s life from when he was young. He grew up in Italy during World War II and it sounds like he had an amazing life. From what we’ve gathered, his father was a priest who refused to be involved in the war, though he has trouble talking about it. He was in the Italian Merchant Marines and jumped ship when he got to Australia to be with my grandmother.
I’d love to be able to get more out of him though.
Funny how they don’t talk about it.
My dad’s father was in both wars – 1 and 2. He was pretty old. Lied about his age to get into the first one. Lied about his familial/farming obligations to get into the second one.
Died in his 90s when I was probably 7 or 8. And of course, being bloodthirsty little shits, we had absolutely asked about the wars, hoping to be told cool/gory stories.
He never talked to us about it except to say, “Don’t go to war.”
But after he died, he passed on his box of medals to my dad. Guy had… a lot of medals. No photos, newspaper clippings, or anything else. Just a fucktonne of medals.
He was Infantry in ‘The Great War’ and a Wing Commander in RAF Intelligence by the 2nd war. A farmer in between them. I think… there’s a lot of stories probably died with that man. And he was likely ten times the man I will ever be. c.c
Someone connected to you has a lot of stories? Why am I not surprised?
There I was storming the St Quentin Canal to rescue my best girl from the Germans…
My late grandfather was also in Air Force for WW2 and never spoke of it… at all. He still loved flying and I have a picture of him and me standing next to a “Red Baron” painted up bi-plane when I was 5 or 6. Sad part is I can’t remember being there. 🙁
Also, if you’re after some amazing stories from WW1 go an grab a copy of The Unknown Soldier by Neil Hanson. Brief paraphrasing of the back cover – the story of 3 soldiers (1 each American, British and German) and their life and experience in the theater of war. Written using “largely unpublished letters and diaries … few books have ever shown the true and horrific reality of warfare, or told such a moving story of human life and loss.” (so I couldn’t paraphrase that). It’s an absolutely stunning read. A bit heavy going and weighs in at nearly 500 pages of actual text, plus another 150 odd for index/references etc.
Once I’d finished I’d shed a few tears and had a profoundly different view of both world wars – also made me absolutely petrified of what would happen if the world fell into a new “world” war.
That’s pretty cool, to get the stories. My grandparents were around during bombing raids, and parents were around too during Russian occupation. But they don’t really like to talk about it much.
One of the maritime museums might be interested in the photos. My great great grandfathers ceremonial sword from when he was a navy captain is in the Brisbane maritime museum at the moment.
Negs Watches New Anime: The Thread Part 5
Watching new shows so you don’t have to
One more before I go away for a week. Part 4.
DRAMAtical Murder
I went into this expecting to turn it off within a minute or two like with Shounen Hollywood. Oddly, I didn’t. It’s very much not my usual thing, but I watched the whole episode. I don’t know what the shit it’s about though. Some dude with sensitive hair (yes, really) may or may not be some kind of ace at some kind of full-immersion VR game? And he lives in a town where there’s some kind of dome world where everyone rich lives and a slum area tacked on the side where everyone is in a gang or something? There was nothing particularly DRAMAtical about it and no one was murdered. Didn’t really like it and won’t be following it if it was a bit more into my wheelhouse I might have considered it. 5/10Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
This show is meta as fuck. It’s a shoujo manga (girls comic) adaption about a girl who confesses to the guy she has a crush on, but flubs it completely because she’s too shy to say she likes him, instead declaring herself a ‘fan’ of his. He immediately responds by signing an autograph for her. It turns out that despite being an utterly clueless guy, he’s an incredibly popular shoujo manga author and no one knew (or no one would believe him when he claimed it). This was actually genuinely funny, the cast works really well and I can easily see it being a regular watch. 7/10.Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance
I guess every season needs its dumb moetrash light novel adaption, and this is it for this iteration. Lazy light novel fantasy with all the tropes you’d expect. There’s the protagonist who is really a Nice Guy even if he can be a bit of an ass sometimes, and he of course has a magical power that no one else has, in this case he can form a contract with spirits and use their power – an ability which is supposedly only limited to pure and virtuous ladies because how else would we shoehorn him into a fantasy high school full of pretty girls. Speaking of which, all the tropes you would expect to see are in force. They’ve even been color-coded for your convenience! We’re quickly introduced to Claire Rouge (spoiler: she’s got red hair) and if you’ve ever watched a show like this, you’ll already have correctly guessed that she’s angry and violent and extremely self-conscious about her less-than-bountiful bosom. And she throws fire around and has a whip and holy shit, do they churn these shows out of a factory or something? These shows are generally trash. Sometimes there’s naked boobies and that kind of mitigates (enhances?) the trashiness, because at least there’s somewhat of a bad justification for watching them, but this is so utterly generic it doesn’t even have that going for it. Periodically one of these turns out to be better than the sum of its parts though – Infinite Stratos from a few years ago ended up being a lot more enjoyable than it had any right to be, for example – so maybe this will improve. Big maybe. I’ll probably end up watching more of it simply because it comes out mid-week when not a lot else is running. Maybe it’ll get better. Doubt it though. 3/10.Sword Art Online II
Aside from Sailor Moon this is easily the highest-profile show of the season and I already knew I’d be watching it, so saved it until I’d done most of the other stuff. A direct follow-up to the first series, Kirito is drafted by some dude from the government to investigate a new VR game, Gun Gale Online, which is a competitive shooter version of SAO where the players can make money playing the game and so there is a whole professional scene around it. Multiple people have been shot in the game by a player who calls himself ‘Death Gun’, and those players he’s targeted appear to have died in real life. Based off the first two episodes I’m going to say that if you liked SAO, you’re already watching this. But if you weren’t super into it, I’m not going to recommend making it a weekly watch. The first two episodes were paced slow as fuck. Basically 75% of episode 2 is one action sequence involving major new character Sinon. It doesn’t feel like it’s badly paced by any stretch, just that it feels like it won’t be running at the breakneck speed of the first series (I think they actually fucked up with that – there was enough material to turn just the Aincrad arc of the series into a two-cour show easily, instead of cramming it all into a single cour and making it feel abbreviated and the ending come so abruptly). What this means is that I suspect that the best way to consume it will be either as a marathon when its done, or in 3-4 episode chunks. I’m sure it won’t be a bad weekly watch, but it felt slow enough that it’s not going to be an optimal experience that way. 8/10.Have not yet watched: Ao Haru Ride, Free! Season 2 (but I can confidently say that if it’s more of the same, then you should watch it because Free is great, even if the idea of half-naked muscular pretty boys getting wet together doesn’t sound like it would normally appeal to you), Nobunaga Concerto. Probably won’t get to any of them before I go away.
I do appreciate these posts by the way, they are quite informative.
I have been enjoying Yami Shibai. =P
That’s the Japanese ghost stories one right? I never watched the first one, I assume it’s good?
It’s kind of like those, “it happened to a friend of a friend of mine” but I really love the art style
So more along the lines of tall tales or creepy stories than actual classic ghost stories? i.e. less along the lines of something like Ayakashi or Mononoke if you’ve seen either of those (by the way, if you haven’t, you should. Especially Mononoke, it’s great)
They’re only 4 minutes long. And more like creepy tales.
Oh, that’ll be why I didn’t watch originally, don’t really like the 4-min shows.
I don’t normally like them either, but for some reason, it works quite well in this format
I’ve enjoyed Ao Haru Ride. It seems liike a slightly more fraught Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun.
@crazyguy1990, @steve-o_the_deve-o, @pupp3tmast3r, @tech_knight, @pixel_the_ferret_viking
Torchlight 2 again tomorrow night!
Start of Act 2 in the early level 20s is where it’s at, hope you can all make it.
Only if tech will let me tank =P
Edit: Also thanks for the reminder =]
Hey I’m down with you tanking. Last week with just Techy and I was brutal on my in game wallet – Pip cannot take a hit and is not skilled for kiting.
I started catching up the other day, but I don’t think I will be available tonight – I have to go buy baby stuff with the missus.
Got a name badge today for the place I volunteer at, only been there 4 months and the boss ordered it when she started there which was a month after me..
*head explodes*
Apparently we just covered a full terms of high school work in 2 hours.
Smartest man alive?
Haha. Noooooo. I got all this week as it’s just all maths and formulas bit still trying to fully grasp last week’s stuff like identifying and deconstructing polyatomic ions since it involves memorisation of long lists of chemical formulas they gave us a week to do. Didn’t help I forgot my glasses last week and couldn’t see thing.
If you think about it, there’s probably only ten hours of actual work per subject per term. Cutting that down to 2 seems entirely possible if you approach it the right way.
There is actually a lot of time built into high school teaching programs for revision. You don’t get that at uni. You’re essentially sitting the HSC every 6 months, with only 2 weeks to prepare for the exams, instead of 2 months. It’s tough!
I remember starting my first maths course at Uni. I was in the advanced stream of the first year calculus course and we pretty much covered the entire 4U/Ext2 course in the first semester. Definitely felt like I’d jumped in the deep end.
Depending on the level of high school maths, it’s pretty doable. I should know, given that I teach the stuff. 40 hours per term contact, less time for assemblies and other interruptions. Then allow for a whole heap of revision. Then allow for the need to slowly introduce more abstract concepts as appropriate for the kids’ stage of cognitive development (adults are generally better at being able to grasp abstract concepts than children/teens). Then allow for the lower attention and retention of teenagers as compared to a dedicated adult. Then allow for time spent dealing with misbehaviours and off task behaviours.
So, yeah, two hours for a dedicated and reasonably intelligent adult to learn a chunk of high school maths doesn’t seem unreasonable. Remember, though, that guided practice and working through a heap of problems will really help with your understanding of the concepts, and your ability to recall and then apply those concepts to problems both familiar and unfamiliar.
Out of curiosity, what were the concepts?
Also what were the chem ones? (chemistry was my other major)
Atomic mass, molecular mass, Mole and the various was to apply them. Bunch of the gas laws (Boyle’s, Charles’, Gay-Lussac’s, Ideal and Combined), Empirical Formula and % composition.
Of those things, Empirical and % composition are probably the hardest, and once you get your head around the format of problems and responses, they’re reasonably straight forward.
Also you can probably rely on adults to spend a little more time thinking about the subject and a little less time thinking about wanking
A little
Woot, got our electricity bill for the last quarter today, $988! It’s only $500 more than the previous quarter!
PS the enthusiasm is a lie.
Mine was $380, $250 down from last quarter. I wonder if I actually used that much less power or one of those readings is waaaay off.
I feel slightly less angry about our $800 bill.
This was with a $114 concession discount too…
Edit: I find it kinda funny how everyone dismissed everything I said about turning heaters off at night/whilst not home. I think everyone changed their mentality quite quickly today. Nobody can say they weren’t warned.
Lol, ours was 960 last quarter and we don’t have that much shit running!
Ours is pretty much never over $320.
And the amount of complaints when it reaches $330 is crazy (at least in my home)
We just got a gas instantaneous water heater installed today – our off peak usage was higher than all other times. We are expecting to drop about $70 a month on the bills – putting us down to $80 a month/ $250 a qtr ( i hope)
Those heaters are amazing. Unlimited hot water. No wastage heating a giant ‘kettle’. We have electric one on a home but the transformer on the street is shit so the amps drop a lot when it’s on. 🙁
Man, and I thought I was hard done-by with my $200/month bill for me and my brother.
How the hell do you manage that? I’m p[pretty sure I use up half of that just booting up my computer. Do you have solar panels?
No air-con, heating, fans. Lights are only on for a couple hours a day with power-saving bulbs… two people having 7min showers each. Pretty much the only things left running 24/7 are the fridge, microwave, modem, phone chargers, and PC (but not the monitor). With a decent tariff, most of what we pay is in the higher basic service fee.
(You know… The one that fucks singles and the elderly or anyone else who watches their energy use. Power company reasoning is that it costs just as much to service and maintain service to a house that barely uses any power compared to one that uses lots, so everyone should pay more equally to cover the maintenance. Which sucks for me, but I can’t argue with the logic.)
Mine was $214, but that includes an electric heater being on for large stretches, so I’m happy with that.
I’m happy with cutting ours down from $700 to $620 for 5 adults. Just go on a mission to turn everything off at the wall sockets rather than just turning the tv/pc off normally. Leaving things on standby is almost as bad as leaving them on 24/7
I’ll never forget Pyrean complaining that he thinks the power company is ripping us off and overcharging us. Come home that night and he’s left every light on in the house except one of the bathrooms and my bed room.
Extra funny because he loves the rant in the first episode of the walking dead about light switches going both ways.
Got some bad news today. Made a few calls to double-check and see if there was a mistake or anything I could do, trying all the options, but apparently, nope… I’m pretty much just fucked.
My old internet speed used to be around 1.7MB/s, and the new place is maxing at about 400KB/s. Distance from exchange, line quality. No NBN on the horizon.
Just kinda numb at the moment. Hasn’t really sunken in. Not… not really sure what to do. What I can do. The idea of not being able to do anything at all doesn’t seem… real. Will probably hit some of the other stages of grief soon. Hell, in a fit of desperation I actually even thought about Wireless. I know, right?
I mean… I’ll get by, I know. It’s just a lot to take in right now.
Welcome to my world.
Should have moved to a better neighbourhood or so I’ve been told.
Whenever we go to the missus dad’s its like hell. We usually go on weekends the areas already known for their poor Internet (adsl only not even adsl2) and her dad decided to go with Dodo (they had an “unlimited” plan.) Long story short when we get there we get the blame for the internet going slow because her brother blames us even though hes there playing BF4 on the PS3 while watching youtube vids on his laptop next to him, her dads uploading 10000 photos onto facebook “for safe keeping” and her dads partner is doing online shopping and we get the blame for the internet going slow
I used to get blamed for our data allowance running because I was playing TF2 and Football Manager online. Nothing to do with the hours of youtube watching or downloading shows
Yeah, the neighbourhood called “Sweden”
Whatcha complaining about? Australia’s communications infrastructure is fine for years to come! The pollys said so.
I know the feeling. Even worse when it costs more than the good connection you moved away from.
What’s the expected timeframe? 1-3 years? Longer?
There is no timeframe listed! So… never. 🙁
Timeframe for the duration of your stay? That may change before your internet does.
This is the horror story most likely waiting for me when I move out of here too. I’m on Telstra HFC and on good days sync at 90-110mbit down, not sure I can go back to 2-3mbit ADSL after this.
what will you do? Go back to buying games, movies & tv shows on disc that’s what 😛
I shouldn’t poke fun because I know it’s gonna happen to me at one point
Like a console peasant?! What’s even the POINT of being part of the Master Race if you have to scrabble in the dirt of physical media like a heathen?
*curls into a ball and cries*
Feel for your situation… I have a similar story but ended up a little better.
I moved from 1.9MB/s to 1.1MB/s when I bought my house and cried a little… Then about 18 months after moving in a new business park went in down the road, then all of a sudden I ended up with 850KB/s.
A few times in the last 3 years I’ve considered swapping to Telstra cable… Any chance your new place is hooked up?
It’s a possibility. I’m going to have to check it out.
…Edit: Awwwwh, noooo.
Damn. I went with cable. It’s expensive but I know I would spend months crying if I was forced to go back to a slower speed. Though a friend just got NBN and is now getting slightly faster speeds with 4 times the download cap at 1/3 the cost. Next time you move look for NBN areas. They are the white whale!
Caaaaaaaaan we just revert back to using the standard Mbps for internet speed, kthx. D:
Is this just with your current ISP or with all of them? Exchange distance is probably going to be the determining factor but you might be able to put in a complaint about line quality at least. Of course they’ll just say there’s nothing wrong with the backbone string, the fraying is within spec and you’re shit out of luck and that’ll be $200 in service fees
So… I have learned that I can’t afford to have a Wii U. Everything is soooo expensive 😛
#TheRegretStage
Edit: Think I’ll be taking advantage of the TAYLend library.
#TheSolutionStage!
But now you get personalised Xenoblade messages 😀
PLAY XENOBLADE! SHANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Uh… sure. Wanna lend me a copy?
No one touches my babies.
I think @scree said she had a copy to lend but im not sure if shes already lent it out or not
It’s just sitting here, not being used =P
Haven’t put my Wii U games on The Game Lending Project yet, I’ve only got 3 though, Nintendoland, Mario Kart 8 and New Super Mario Bros. U.
Are you enjoying it?
Updating is fun! Have added friends, downloaded Pikmin 3 (twice, because apparently once didn’t cut it). Added money to my eshop account before realising that most of the games I wanted on VC haven’t made it over to Wii U yet.
Have had the console on for almost eight hours now. Haven’t played a game yet.
/o\
I was the same I have ZombieU, WiiPartyU Nintendoland, Mariokart 8 and Super Mario U of which I havent played nintendo land or Wii Party
Didya add people through MiiVerse? If you did they get a notification and accepting it adds the person to the friends list but adding it normally acts just like it does on 3DS. There’s no notifications and both people need to add each other :/
Damn it.
Oh yeah, don’t buy Zombi-U or Darksiders II. Happy to lend!
Meh, got Darksiders II on PC, and they’re both cheap enough now anyway. As I mentioned before I’m a collector, I’d rather buy it and keep it than just borrow it and have to give it back. Thanks for the offer though, appreciate it.
I’ll send you back Deus Ex tomorrow, along with Watch Dogs.
Woo! First free work trip confirmed for Sunshine Coast in November.
Turns out I could’ve stayed an extra day but I think it’s a bit too much to ask Brisbane peeps to hang out (it’s a bit far from Bris isn’t it?).
What’s a business conference anyway? Sounds like a massive party 😛 ;D
Get ready to sit in a room watching people talk about things you don’t care about.
I’m sure my Dad would hate me for saying that, given the number of conferences he’s presented at, but they’re medicine ones, not business. Given I know literally nothing about businesses, I can only assume that they’re dry as… something witty that is really dry.
Oh, and the Sunshine coast’s about an hour north of Brissie, from memory.
Never been to any personally but from what I hear, sales conferences can turn into utter fuckfests of debauchery and shame.
One of my best mates’ wife had to fire and/or discipline a handful of reps after the shit they got up to at one of them, but they were far from alone.
So uhm… not sure how that relates to @greenius ‘business’ conference.
Not being an old military type, I don’t engage in that at defence conferences, but a LOT of drinking happens.
Honestly at most it’s like a 90 min drive from the furthest point of the Sunny Coast to Brisbane…
In conference or on a show floor/booth?
Thanks for taking me with you, Greenius!
Thanks for the Sydney tour!
Was gonna watch Under The Dome, or play a bit of Dead Rising 3, but the little heater in the spare room packed up, so it looks like I’m having an early night.
Just realized that I consider 11pm on a weeknight an early night, that’s not right o.O
‘Night TAY.
Telltale’s The Walking Dead S1 EP3
I’m using rot13 instead of spoilers because I don’t trust myself to not slip up on pressing the spoiler button.
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V’z sebmra bire gur ‘gryy Yvyyl ubj lbh ner n ubeevoyr zheqrere naq lbh pna’g or gehfgrq’ qvnybthr ohggba. Bu tbq, vf guvf n tbbq vqrn? V unir gb gryy fbzrbar, V xabj gryyvat ab bar jvyy nssrpg zr yngre.
V gbyq Yvyyl. Fur gbbx vg cerggl jryy. Gbb jryy.
I’m staying out of this until you finish the chapter! Keep posting, though! 🙂
BU FUVG. JUNG GUR URYY JUNG GUR URYY JUNG GUR URYY. Jul, Yvyyl?
V yrsg ure gb qvr. Fur’f hafgnoyr, fur pna’g fgnl jvgu hf. V erpxba fur’yy ynfg n qnl.
Qnzzvg, V ernyyl yvxrq Pneyrl.
V srry onq sbe Xraal.
Bu, fb Pneyrl jnf vaabprag. Vg’f nyy Ora’f snhyg
…
…
Cuynavfcb jvyy erzrzore gung.
Bzvq jnf errnnyyyl unccl gb frr Pyrzragvar. Crqbcuvyr? Puvyq pner jbexre? Sbezre cnerag? Ernyyl rkpvgnoyr thl?
V QB ABG gehfg Puevfgn naq Bqva. (V sbetrg uvf anzr)
RQVG: Bzvq, pybfr rabhtu.
Telltale’s The Walking Dead S1
Here’s my choices so far.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
So Marvel is going to change Thor’s gender. Giving a superhero a sex change is an interesting idea, but why Thor? Thor is a character based on history. It makes sense to change someone like Spider-Man or Iron Man, (change the names, though) as they have no basis in another culture’s mythology.
All in all, I don’t care. But I imagine the Internet sure does.
From what I’ve read
Thor’s not having a sex change, he’s been made unworthy to carry the hammer so that’s passed onto a new female character who’ll also be called Thor seemingly even though that bit doesn’t make sense. Old Thor’s going back to using his axe.I think most people are annoyed at her being called Thor more than anything else. Sure, pass the hammer onto whoever’s worthy but whoever carries it doesn’t have to be called ThorEdit: wasn’t sure if people might want what’s been announced to be spoiler tagged or not
What’s the bet on the inevitability of a lesbian scene between Thor(ina) and Sif? All done tastefully gratuitously of course.
This! Why the hell is the new female weilding Mjolnir have to be called Thor?! When I go about weilding a Mjolnir in Dota 2 does my hero suddenly shapeshift in to the Norse god of Thunder?! NO :@ Stupid Marvel, stupid political correctness, stupid stupid stupid =@
Monster hunters:
A Savage Deviljho has turned up during a G rank solo hunt that I am now halfway through.
Do I
a) run away screaming
b) try to take it down solo
Tally by the end of the day will determine my fate when I resume the hunt on the train home.
Take it down while screaming.
That’s a given for the second option.
I say keep the fight going to big or go home
Keep in mind that G rank is a 4 player co-op hunt. It’s silly enough to be doing it solo without the bonus friend that just showed up.
Extra context: deviljho is probably the nastiest ‘normal’ monster (not an elder dragon).
All monsters have at least 2 main states in a fight: normal and pissed off. Pissed off can mean faster, hits harder, has bonus attacks, etc.
Our savage friend has a base state of pissed off, and an escalated state of super pissed off. Should be ‘fun’…
Ohh.. in that case pit your head between your legs and pray he mistakes you for a rock and leaves you be
Deviljho? Always run screaming. Even when he’s the target. Screw that guy, seriously.
Woke up, got on TAY and saw all of @phlanispo’s posts, Dayum son!
#page8is@phlanispo’spage
And half of TAY will not read them because of spoilers! \o/
And half of the people who read them will not understand what I am talking about because they made different decisions earlier on! \o/
And even the people who made the exact same decisions that I did will not understand them because my posts are completely out of context! \o/
I think about three people knew what I was talking about.
Are you enjoying it so far? Have you got the 400 Days DLC? Have you got Season 2 so you can continue straight on?
I do not have Season 2 or the DLC. I don’t think I’m going to buy Season 2 until it finishes. Or has it already finished?
Not yet, episode 4’s coming this month I think.
Oh @blaghman. You just brightened my day.
I try my best.
…
What did I do?
Took off your shirt. The glare…
Eh, with the amount of hair I’ve got it’s not really that bright.
I thought I managed to not wake you up when I snuck in and shaved you.
I needed supplies for the effigy. The shrine is almost complete.
Nudes?
@kermitron – yeah all good on the money end man ill get my missus to ring me with the tracking number when she wakes up. 3 days for a guaranteed overnight service… woohoo…
I’ll update you if it arrives this morning!
Kirms, according to Aust Post it was delivered yesterday just before 12
Tracking number is CV2312958
Track it at: http://auspost.com.au/track/track.html
This is the summary:
Wed 16 Jul 2014 11:55 Delivered WATERLOO NSW
Wed 16 Jul 2014 05:22 With Australia Post for delivery today WATERLOO NSW
No sweat dude, it was at reception when I rolled into the office at 9am. 😉
Edit: weird, it was delivered yesterday morning? I swung by to check when I was leaving yesterday at 5:30 and there was nothing!
grab your torch and pitchfork!!!! did it get there in one piece?
Oh no, I just opened the envelope to check and there were two pieces! The game seems to be ok, but I don’t know what to make of this magnificent artwork that was enclosed.
I simply can’t derive the meaning, but I suspect the artist was some kind of renaissance genius.
his genius will be lost in the annals of history, his true identity forever a mystery….
How goes the Xboning, you enjoying it?
RYSE is SO GOOD. That is all.
Finished Ryse, waiting for my mate to get his xbone in a couple of weeks so we can coop the gladiator stuff, so much fun. kind of upset though cause there are 2 skill sections you can upgrade on completely different sections of the menu, and i completely missed one so i didnt unlock all the additional executions and dual assassination executions till halfway through the final chapter which was pointless. :/ anyway its definitely due for another playthrough to get some of the achievements, and max out the difficulty. The combat is weighted so elegantly.
Planning on some Dead Rising tonight, tbh there isn much else that interests me at the moment till november Halo master chief collection. anything multiplatform coming out ill almost guaranteed be buying it on PS4 as that is where most of my friends are at. Having some casual games of Forza 5 here and there, but not a game i actually plan on playing properly. Guacamelee just doesnt interest me, and i havent playd the other one (maxs cursed something rather)
other titles im looking forward to are:
master chief collection
halo 5
ori and the blind forest
fable legends
Quantum break
D4 (maybe)
there were a few more i saw on the e3 stream but cant remember the names. might grab jet set radio and deadrisings love child when it hits the bargain bin… (sunset overdrive.)
anything else you can recommend
Still making my way through Dead Rising, I plan on getting back in to Ryse at some point too. Nothing exclusive I can think of that’s out at the moment that I could recommend other than those two.
I need to get a 4 port HDMI splitter so I can connect my Xbone, PS4 (when I get it), 360 and PS3 at the same time. Found this one, any of you guys had any experience with that specific one? If so, would you recommend it? If not what would you recommend?
US$18 free shipping to australia, support HDMI 1.4, and 2k and 4k resolutions….— REMOVED LINK —
EDIT: Wait thats only two way.
ignore that one
$100, shit son. You’d be better off putting that towards a home theatre system that does 4/5 HDMI’s.
jaycar.com.au
Look for “HDMI splitter”.
I watched Monokyun sword last night
Dont watch it. its bad. i watched a whole episode. Dont do it. Just dont. PLEASE PLEASE DONT
Also downloaded Tokyo Ghoul which i am hearing really good stuff about. Havent watched it yet though.
I recommend not getting too hype for Tokyo Ghoul. The violence is pretty mindless and pointless and commited by and against people who are pretty much unlikeable and/or uninteresting. The protagonist is the definition of bland. I’m probably going to watch the second ep, but I’m not finding much to recommend it.
Also, yeah. Peach Girl is a riff on an old legend about a boy born from a peach who gained fame by fighting demons just with boobs everywhere for no reason, and I can’t really find much to get enthusiastic about for it.
I warned you!
Ok so there is an interesting blaz blu manga that is running at the moment where the protaginist (an expy of the protaginist of the eroge game xchange) of it becomes involved in school days of the nol characters, while this manga is mainly slice of life, hidden in it is the quest to find the true azure grimiore, which I think will lead this character to be in blaz blue 4, this is a manga that is a must have for the back story of the game
Ps nsfw warning: this manga was illustrated & written by a doujin author, so expect boobs, including boob stares by makoto
Oh man, you mentioned boobs. That’s an Ernie award for you.
boobsboobsboobsboobsboobsboobsboobsboobsboobs!
Edit: I LOVE BOOBIES!!!
\o/
I think you are the type of person watches sbs on thursday & friday late nights because of the subject of those films that are on after the late news & watch tmz late at night on go, where among other interests they show pictures of the female upper chest & then keep off the safe search on google while looking for pictures of female characters & then go look at porn sites, *analysis of @evilmonkey complete*
You’re an odd dude.
For me it is to think possible ways to come to a conclusion for example most men or lesbians whose first reaction to the mention of the female upper chest tends to come from exposure of media on that subject an analysis of free concealable media are from the following da internet to watching sbs late at night (hence the fan nickname sex between soccer), having a long running long term memory, tends to help analyse someone ie @evilmonkey who jump in to the mention of the female upper chest, good enough explanation for you sir
Haha, what? What are you even saying? That he likes to look at boobs? And that’s a bad thing? Don’t be a dickhead.
waaay too late for that
Yeah, I do like to look at bewbs, so does pretty much any other heterosexual male, if you don’t you’re either gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that @liondrive), or a liar.
@evilmonkey Or just heavily repressed 😛
Also I was under the impression that even most gay guys love boobs too.
Boobs are pretty great.
@evilmonkey… Bewbs are pretty great… Just saying
@evilmonkey
Oh, I like to look at boobs 🙂
Muscley pecs on a dude are sexy 😉
That counts as boobs, right? 😛
@evilmonkey Don’t discriminate monkey… Lesbians probably like to look at bewbs too!
@liondrive LION! the politically correct term is “moobs” TYVM!
@pupp3tmast3r I think it’s only moobs if they’re flabby, @liondrive sounds like he’s after more solid pecs (I’d not mind having those myself)
Dude he has a wife and a kid. probably about the same age as you.
Dammit guys you beat me to it =P
no man he was warning us about boobs he gets 3 negative ernies.
Berts?
Berts?
…Brets
BREASTS!
HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!…
…wait
So reading Patricia’s article on Cards against humanity brought up some long forgotten memories for me. Back in college during my first year there used to be this girl who had slept with pretty much all of my friends and then started crushing on me. I never really read into it or did anything and brushed it off as a harmless crush. As it would turn out 6 months later after I’d left this college accommodation and moved to another I found out she’d been going around telling anyone who would listen that we had slept together.
Now my friends knew this bullshit because I was still a virgin at this point in time, but looking back while reading the situation Temkin is in has made me realize how easily she could’ve been going around telling people a much more dangerous story.
I still strongly believe that our society has a massive blind-spot in its legal system when it comes to rape and there should be more avenues available for women who have been assaulted. But I think for the first time I’m kind of realizing how dangerous even a false accusation can be and when taken out of a legal framework it provides no form of defense for the accused.
That’s one thing that’s always concerned me, I’m all for women coming out and saying that they were raped if it actually happened, but there are women that claim that they were raped when they weren’t just to get back at a guy, and everyone automatically takes the woman’s side. It can absolutely destroy a guys life.
Unfortunately there seems to be an increasing amount of people who throw around these accusations without a second thought because, well, I don’t know why someone would do that. Attention? Trying to get back at someone for something? Jealousy? In most cases though (and yes I’m generalising here), but in cases like this it’s really a case of guilty until proven innocent and even if it turns out the accuser is lying then there’s then a stigma over the accused that might be in the back of some people’s minds from then on.
I remember sitting with a bunch of friends in year 12 and a bunch of younger girls came up asking which one of us was me. I put my hand up and they started squealing about me sleeping with Jane Doe. I hadn’t even heard of this girl.
You dog.
I think the biggest problem (and that’s saying something given how much potential damage a false accusation can have) is the dilemma with respect to the fallout afterwards.
If a person (usually a woman) makes a false rape accusation and follows through, the alleged attacker (most likely a man) can be arrested, have his name published as an accused, and potentially go to prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
If she drops the charge midway through, she walks away. The man still has his name in printed media as an accused rapist/sex offender, and is probably going to spend a long chunk of time rebuilding social connections and explaining to people he was never found guilty. And that’s the worst part: never found guilty is all he can prove. Sure, he can say “I’m innocent, it never happened” but are people aware of the accusation ever really going to 100% trust him? Some people, maybe. His best and closests friends. But not everyone.
Even if the woman admits she made it all up, how do we know she isn’t just too afraid or ashamed to follow through? And then what? Is she punished for making a false report? I’ve seen some reported cases of it. I think some woman in the UK was penalised after making something like 13 proven false accusations in a 6 year period or somesuch.
The problem is if you start penalising women for “false” (or deemed false) accusations, you make it harder for actual victims to come forward, for fear not only of social reprisal and the psychological difficulty in even ust doing so to begin with, but the possibility that if she gets cold feet or the attacker escapes conviction, she could be penalised, as the victim! It’s bad enough that we’ve got cases where some actual proven rapists were raised up as victims by the media because the victims had the audacity and temerity to see through the conviction and ruin their budding athletic careers! Add a legal sanction to that kind of stress and you make it impossible for us to manage this issue as a society.
I don’t even want to get into Patricia’s “consent” headspace. In the future we’ll have to have forms signed in triplicate and witnessed by a justice of the peace to requisition authority for impulsive first kiss in the moonlight.
Cards against humanity … rape ….. how did that escalate so quickly?
Oh.
I don’t know if I want to find this article or not.
tl;dr: someone accused the creator of CAH of raping her in college 10 years ago via a random Facebook post that blew up on social media. He responded on his blog saying “we never did anything but make out, I broke it off with her after a couple of weeks, I’m sorry if that caused offence”.
Patricia’s view of this is basically the guy totally obviously raped her and shouldn’t be trying to minimalise his crimes by trying to blur the line of what is or isn’t consent. Now she’s trying to distance herself from the article by saying it’s led into a discussion of whether or not the accusation is true when that wasn’t her intention – which is true, since her intention was for us to accept that it’s 100% true and vilify him accordingly, because that’s how social justice works.
Ugh, why the fuck did I read the article. I’m starting reading your comment now. You notice how the title changed, too?
hahahah It has too changed! It used to be “How to respond to a rape accusation” !!!!
Check the URL, that’s the original title. Means it’s had three titles now. :\
Rape has such a victim-blaming culture that speaking up and saying you were raped is difficult. The number of false accusations is actually minimal, (I saw the number recently and want to say 1% but can’t remember exactly), especially when compared to the high percentage of unreported rapes.
I think that the number of reported rapes vs. unreported rapes is so small that yeah, the proportionate number of false reports vs. total actual rapes is extremely low. The proportion of false vs. true reported rapes is higher, but absolutely not a majority or even significant proportion, and as a culture the victim-blaming needs to stop to make it easier for real victims to come forward so these numbers stop being skewed. And remember, this issue isn’t even about a reported rape. It’s someone making a statement over social media. A Facebook post that could be deleted tomorrow and vanish into the ether of the internet.
Still, we can’t pretend false accusations don’t happen at all, or that they’re not extremely damaging when they do. A rape accusation is an extremely powerful weapon and I don’t mean that in a derogatory way – I just mean that it should never be turned on an innocent person. A victim should always be empowered to come forward and use it in their own defence to ensure justice is able to be served.
Make no mistake, I do not assume the accused is an innocent man, he certainly has a lot to lose by being found guilty and the fact he denies the accusation proves nothing, either way. But the fact an accusation has been made, whether informally or formally, gives no one any credibility until it’s been proven true beyond reasonable doubt.
If someone came up to me out of the blue and said I owed them five bucks, I wouldn’t give them five bucks to hold while we discussed it, because then they’ve got the five bucks they wanted and then I need to convince them to give it back. When my liberty and reputation are on the line, you can bet I’d fight even harder.
This is part of the reason I believe our legal system is failing sexual assault victims. However while the number of false accusations may be minimal they still do happen and the repercussions following allegations like that never really leave either.
I agree the bigger issue is that rape is currently horribly mis-handled to the point where I’d like to take a fist to the people in charge of shaping our legal system. However there are quite a number of people out there who use rape accusations to garner attention or seek revenge. It’s a fine line to walk but I think we can all agree that it’s high time that as a society we need to give more attention to this failing in the legal system.
“However there are quite a number of people out there who use rape accusations to garner attention or seek revenge.”
Are there, though? I know quite a number of people who have been raped or sexually assaulted in some way, but I do not know anyone who has been accused of rape, falsely or otherwise.
Do you know “quite a number of people out there who use rape accusations to garner attention or seek revenge”? Because I surely don’t.
Edit: I’m not disagreeing the legal system sucks, I just want you to think about where your perception that there are quite a number of people out there falsely accusing people of rape comes from.
And quite frankly, I’d much rather go around fearing that someone might falsely accuse me of rape than fearing that every time I’m dressed in a manner people find attractive, if I’m raped I’ll be blamed for it.
Surprisingly I can think of at least two people I once knew who would be capable of falsely accusing people of rape or sexual assault. Ok make that three. Mind you I figured they should’ve been on some form of medication or for all I know they might’ve been.
Once again my comments aren’t meant to deter from the fact that our larger problem is that it’s all to easy to prey on women and they have no legal means or pursuing justice. I know friends who’ve barely escaped some incredibly fucked up situations in clubs just by being lucky or having some one they knew close at hand. The sad part is in society’s current state most people would just write it off as shit like that happens in clubs. But it shouldn’t but I don’t think it’s right to say you’d rather be falsely accused of rape as opposed to fearing being raped. As a kid I was in a pretty fucked up situation at one point and I know that fear all too well, the loss of breath, that sensation of complete helplessness and not knowing what to do or how to do it. But at the same time as a man now I can attest to not know what the fuck I could do if I was falsely accused, especially over social media where you can’t just take it back. People are always going to want to believe the worst about someone they don’t know and an accusation like that can ruin careers/lives. It most definitely doesn’t compare to the act of being raped but it can be destructive as well. I don’t see why it needs to come down to a choice of the lesser of two evils, when it should be a case of the legal system actually accepting they’ve had this massive flaw in the system and looking for ways to address it.
I mean for crying out loud Apple and Samsung throw multi million dollar lawsuits at each other every few months and the cases being made there are probably a 100 times more complex, but as a society we don’t have the time or money to create a system that can stand for sexual assault victims but at the same time protect those who might be wrongly accused?
Once again, you said “capable of”. So they haven’t actually done it. This is what I’m talking about.
Let me rephrase my original comment a few posts up. Do you believe there are people out there who are capable of falsely accusing people of rape?
Personally I don’t know anyone who has falsely accused someone, has been falsely accused or anyone who has sexually assaulted another person. The only sexual assault victims I know of experienced it in their childhood in countries where no legal recourse is viable. Once again I make my comments not in defense of the accused but to illustrate a legal framework where both the victim and accused should be afforded legal protection as any justice system should.
I get the feeling you’re taking this personally soooo I’m just going to leave with this =P
Oh, I’m not taking it personally at all. I just wanted you to think about where your assumption that there a lot of people out there who would falsely accuse someone of rape is coming from.
I asked the other day and no-one put their hand up for it, so I’ll try again. I’ve got a Steam key here for The Divinity Anthology, does anyone want it?
If no-one wants it, I’ll just give it to @scree.
WARNING: DOES NOT INCLUDE DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN.
I was hoping to find Original Sin on greenmangaming but nowhere in sight 🙁 it’s still cheap enough on Steam but I need to be an extreme scrooge right now
Lets go with the TAYlist requests, everybody.
Robin Thicke- When i get you alone
Oh rocketman.
ITs been stuck in my head for 3 days. Im sure it uses a stevie wonder sample and i dont care. Its decent pop music even if its repetitive.
Is that his first hit from years ago? Isn’t it a Beethoven sample?
THATS WHAT IT IS
yes it is. im a goof. 🙂
Oh, I just thought the request was ironic given today’s big drama topic of conversation and the SJW response to Thicke’s songs, but I guess if you were going for that “Blurred Lines” would have been more apt.
Paperback Writer – The Beatles
*flees*
The Dig!
we’re going with a Beatles theme today
HEY! YOU’RE STEALING @shane’s BIT! GET HIM!
I’m honoring Shane! It’s my way of saying I MISS YOU while playing it cool! XD
Stop scaring him off!
Something by Muse. Supermassive Black Hole or Time Is Running Out.
Lets go with Supermassive Black Hole =P
The Beatles – Help!
“Weird” Al Yankovic – Tacky
It’s pretty new, so if you don’t have it just play the original (Happy – Pharell Williams).
Half serious: Let it go – Frozen OST
Actually serious: Lanterns from Birds of Tokyo
(Obviously I’m in a melancholy or sassy woman with superpowers mood today)
I Kissed a Girl – Katy Perry
I bet you liked it lion! =P bahahah couldn’t resist
Not enough stubble for his liking!
Don’t knock it >:P
Stubble is sexy 😉
The gravel rash is only annoying the first time
Nico & Vinz – Am I Wrong
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Blue Öyster Cult
NEEDS MOAR COWBELL!!!
I love that so much
Machine Gun Fellatio – Unsent Letter
or
Garbage – Cherry Lips
Cherry lips is the first song on my AWESOME MC AWESOME tracks playlist 😛
Go baby go go, yeah, we’re right behind you
Garbage are awesome.
Atlantic City – Bruce Springsteen
Smoke by Ben Folds Five.
Placebo – Twenty Years
Halls of Valhalla – Judas Priest
I know it won’t get played but I haven’t posted in one of these things in a while and it’s stuck in my head 😛
Supertramp – Bloody Well Right.
Royal Blood – Out Of The Black
Requests are now closed, thank you, everybody, for your requests.
@evilmonkey – found the right one…
http://www.dx.com/p/1080p-hdmi-1-4-switch-w-remote-controller-4-in-1-out-110146#.U8cMVvmSySo
4 HDMI in, 1 output, supports HDMI 1.4, 1080p, HDCP, 1080p output, etc…
and it has a remote control. You wanna ensure whatever you get supports HDCP and hdmi v1.4 otherwise you will get distroted colours, screen fading in and out, or no picture at all.
Oh sweet! Thanks man. It doesn’t look like it supports 4K or 3D like the one I was looking at, but it’s like 80% cheaper so who cares. Might grab one of those right angle male-female HDMI adapters too so I can use the second HDMI port on the back of the TV to plug in my Wii U as well.
Thanks again man.
dx.com is UBER cheap… and free shipping. ive used them heaps of times for console parts and gadgets…
OK, it looks like no-one wants my Divinity Anthology Steam key, so I’m giving it to @scree. Enjoy my friend.
Just posted this to twitter. But Yes… http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3422
From I am seeing when I post a comment about the female upper chest, many of you jump at the mention of the female upper chest & fanservice, I will ask you this have you at ANY point of your life watched or read the following: berserk, late night sbs, tmz, black bible, ghost in the shell manga & viper series, if should warn you if you want to read some of what I mentioned, get some brain bleach at the ready
Booooooooobs.
As true today as it was when written.
Hmmm, from what I gather from reactions from patricia’s articles & gaga reactions on mention of the female upper chest, I gather that you openly disaggree with articles while male gazing at the female upper chest, quick solution to that, open your mind to her articles & while thinking of the female upper chest think of bajo’s chest hair covering the chest area, get brain bleach at ready
You know nothing about me.
I read the Hernandez article, I didn’t feel it was a great analysis. I’m willing to agree with her on many of her other articles, but this seemed too sans context and overanalysed- I felt it didn’t really give anyone the benefit of the doubt, as her corrections made clear.
And what precisely are you trying to accuse me of? Ogling? Sometimes, perhaps?
Congratulations @redartifice! Or should I say @ernieartifice?
You know red say what you will about these posts but I haven’t been this entertained in a long time =P
You can say boobs.
Or beawbs.
Or breasts.
Or fun-bags.
Or chest-melons.
Or chesticles (my personal fave 😉 ).
I’m just gonna point out that the term “chesticles” are only held for special cases. Like the characters from Dragon’s
BoobsCrown@beeawwb?
Let’s be fair and give @beavwa a go too.
In my head I read this entirely in the honest trailer man voice.
I call them “bouncing fun-bags of joy and love.”
It’s a bit of a mouthful though.
I’m sure this is the perfect place for some sort of joke relating to the consumption of breast milk.
Fat sacks
Eww, hahaha!
Is that like, a thing people say?
That’s gross, hahaha! 😀
I love it! 😀
To all people who think that melon sized female chest area would work in real life, it would be a back breaking paralysis inducing trauma, with many of them in real life to be expected to be seen in wheel chairs & let us not forget if a man has his face smothered by them, he could potentially die
I’ve watched SBS at various times. I’ve read some of the ghost in the shell manga.
Point?
You forgot Ninja Scroll and Urotsukidoji.
why did you remind me of Urotsukidoji
*has flashbacks* penises, penises everywhere
It’s sitting on my DVD shelf if you’re interested. >:D
I’m interested.
I’m very interested.
More tentacles than penises. Or was that the other way around? It’s hard to tell with Urotsukidoji
Penicles?
That sounds more like a penis monocle though.
Purple Penicl.
And suddenly I’m a lot less interested.
They’re called boobs, Ed.
Look man, just stop, you are becoming a annoyance that the very lovely people here are getting pissed with. Stop with the accusatory judgements please, you are making a fool of yourself and making me (and others) not want to read your bullshit.
OK guys, let’s stop feeding the troll now.
…yes… As has my wife… Point?
How is she going lately anyway? Weird place to ask I know but was just wondering after the last few weeks
Haha she’s doing okay, thanks for asking… She’s starting to take rather large steps towards normality in terms of battling her anxiety, though there’s still a lot of ground to cover… She misses her pop naturally, but overall going quite strong!
Well thats good then 🙂 glad to hear shes getting through it and making progress \o/
I like boobs. Boobs are rad.
What I don’t like is boobs instead of content. Pointless fanservice or sex as marketing is simply dumb. Instead of putting any effort into making something good, they’ve thrown some boobs at you and gone “yup, that’s good enough.” It’s lazy, it’s uncreative and it reduces characters to nothing more than wank fodder.
I don’t need wank fodder in my media, I can watch porn whenever I like.
Boobs are rad.
Oh yeah also – upper chest?
If anything, I’d say they’re more part of the lower chest. Maybe you should become more familiar with boobs.
yeah… upper? are they talking about… you know…. collar bones?
perhaps DinoKing has a clavicle fetish?
I aint gonna judge. whatever tickles your kitten I guess.
I hear adams apples get @liondrive in a stir…can be taken both ways bring on page 18!
What can I say, I have an acquired taste 😉
You guys are missing out 😛
Dat second rib.
Dont you mean “whatever tickles your clavicle”? =P
Man, clavicle. Now there’s a word to get you all hot and bothered.
Dat gastrocnemius muscle…
I WANT MORE FANSERVICE IN MY MEDIA. ALL OF IT. ALL OF THE TIME. BUT WHY STOP AT BOOBS? I’M A PROGRESSIVE & EQUALITY-MINDED MOTHERFUCKER.
I WANNA SEE DUDES HUNG LIKE A MAMOTH IN TIGHT LYCRA SHORTS WITH SUSPICIOUSLY UP CLOSE SHOTS OF THEIR TIGHTLY WRAPPED JUNK THROWN IN FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON. ALL. OF. THE. TIME.
seriously though…. blerrrrgh. your seemingly incessant shit is annoying my friends here. stop doing that please.
I’d get upset or annoyed if I knew what the hell he was on about most of the time…
*reminds self that if one is to mention boobs or patricia, 1 is sure to get attention from people who make imatture comments on the former & anti sarkassian like comments about the latter, as both topics are red button issues amongst taykers*
Everyone has to wear lycra wetsuits all the time in the media everywhere
C’mon guys, stop engaging him.
Phasers set to stun
You mean kill. 😛
Bennyyyyyy!
How’s that Spaceship going :p
SPACESHIP SPACESHIP SPACESHIP 😀
Freya needs a new computer. I saw her try to play League of Legends the other day and it looked like a silent movie with an arthritic sloth pulling the crank.
Anyhow, here’s the part list I’ve bodged together:
It’s based off of a Whirlpool recommended build with a few minor tweaks. Any thoughts? Mainly looking to see if there are better brand options at the same specs.
get her a pink case
sexist
Ernie award time.
Anyone here not own an Ernie yet?
I believe dinoking is yet to get one =P
They don’t just give them away you know.
You gotta Erniet.
I cant remember if I have or not
2.bp.blogspot.com/_kRtu3QFUkWc/SlYz7EfFB3I/AAAAAAAABsg/ihF22jNwcpk/s1600-h/DSC03932.jpg
I WANT A PINK CASE NOW
4TB internal drive? this interests me. wasn’t aware they were on the market yet. what price are you looking at for that?
also, unless Freya is gonna be putting stuff other than the OS on the SSD, might be better just getting a 120GB one & saving the cash.
$189 for the Seagate ones. Seemed like good value for money, so I’m nabbing one for myself too.
I told her that a 120gb SSD was enough but she started throwing all of her doctor money around.
yeah, that’s a good deal. might shop around & grab one myself.
You can get good 120gb intel m.2 modules for about $130-$150 atm. That would give the computer a supreme boost in OS speed!
MAKE IT RAIN
Yeah, I’m looking at putting a few 4TB drives into my gaming rig when I build it.
yeah, I’m down to the last 30GB on my 2TB drive. why do games & movies have to be so… big?
a 4TB drive is looking mighty attractive right now.
MSY currently have 256GB SanDisk SSD’s for 125 bucks.. May as well 😛
If you’re trying to future proof her a little, I’d recommend an msi-h97m-g43 motherboard. It’s a cheap board ($113) and also has an m.2 port on board, and also comes with an m.2-sata express converter, so you can put a smashingly fast drive in there at some point.
Was there any particular reason you opted for that Asrock mobo?
I simply haven’t had any bad experiences with Asrock. Will definitely swap to the MSi board though, no real reason not to. Cheers.
I haven’t had any bad experiences with Asrock’s either.. was more curious if there was a particular feature you liked about it, so I could match it up with others to see what’s best bang for buck!
Honestly, I just kind of went through PC Case Gear and picked out the one that seemed most reasonable at a glance for these. I don’t think there’s any features I’m looking for that aren’t standard across the board at this price range.
cool cool!
If you decide to look at getting her an m.2 drive for the OS, the Intel SSDSCKHW120A401 is going for between $115-$140 depending on where you look. It’s a 120gb drive.
In fact http://greenboxit.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=473798
$98 atm from those guys!
Neat.
+1 for M.2 Drives. Got one in my new rig and boot time is literally 2 seconds.
2x 8GB sticks is an odd choice for a lil gaming rig. 8GB total is enough for gaming at this point in time.
Future proofing.
Then why not Z and K mobo/CPU? And 3GB VRAM GPU? That mobo comes with 4 RAM slots, so you can get 16GB eventually. I think if you’d need to upgrade to 32GB RAM, then you may as well build a new rig with better components throughout (die shrink on CPU/GPU, DDR4, faster SSD’s..).
by the time it needs to be upgraded, they’ll likely have bigger chips available at a reasonable cost. 16gb will keep you out of trouble for a while yet unless you do lots of video editing or 3d stuff.
Freya does photography and that means that she might attempt image/video editing. That’s where the extra ram is more valuable for future proofing than the other options.
Also, more ram is more good. Everyone knows that.
Note to self do not mention the female chest area again or the fanboys will jump at it like the reporters of tmz in their morning meetings
The time has come. We need to speak up about Patricia’s articles.
Checking the comments of the latest one, there’s a ton of hate against her ‘journalism’. Checking the upvotes, there’s a ton of people agreeing. A ton of TAY regulars, too.
So, I ask you guys to follow me. I’m sending an email to Kotaku, asking them to add her to manual-filter list and pointing to the comments as justification. If you feel the same way, do the same. Maybe if they get 20 emails saying the same thing, someone will listen.
Eh.
If it’s bothering you, don’t click?
It seems trite but if you don’t like them, don’t read them. Multiple people from Kotaku AU and US staff have publicly stated that they stand behind her on more than one occasion.
You’ll probably find her article get the most traffic by far and are worth a tonne of advertising dollars. Everyone complains but keeps clicking anyway.
Blaargh you’re totally right. “Don’t feed the troll” and what do we do.
I think Mark would just tell you to take your business else where.
He’s stood behind these controversial writers often on twitter.
Just stop reading the articles if they anger up the blood. 🙂
I believe he is on good terms with all the US staff and they seem to be decent people put into a hard spot by having to create a certain amount of traffic or articles in a day.
If those two metrics are the only things they are being judged on, then I weep for the readers. Traffic is traffic to the ad agencies, but it sure as heck isn’t (supposed to be) just traffic to the main site.
Its a sad truth. The quality of content does not equal more advertising dollars.
But chasing dem easy dollars and not caring about reader responses isn’t a good business tactic. Eventually, people will stop visiting the site altogether, as the initial good-quality appeal is lost.
Why do you think I left Gamespot and came here =P But for the most part I don’t mind Patricia’s articles. It’s only this one that’s left a bad taste in my mouth =\
Saying 1 + 2 = 5 isn’t controversial. It’s fucking retarded. But, sure, at least some of her stuff is actually ‘controversial’, and I get it.
Patricia is already martyring herself on twitter saying that her article with cause her to be harassed, in some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy i’m sure the MRAs and redpillers of the internet will only be too happy to oblige by sending her more death threats or whatever it is assholes do. Any sanctions against her for her terrible articles, massive bias and lack of integrity will just inflame her followers and cause an outcry against the oppressive patriarchy for trying to silence her.
I want to stop seeing her shit on Kotaku too, but I feel like if they haven’t taken action against her purely on the self-evident basis that her work is awful, I don’t know what an email campaign will accomplish. They probably get the bulk of their ad revenue for her clickbait bullshit.
I’d take her over Brian “here are some boobs in Japan” Ashcraft or Luke “I wrote a sentence about something I saw on Reddit” Plunkett.
Patricia has an area she wants to write about. She’s not as good at it as someone like Leigh Alexander but I think she’s genuine about her opinions.
But there’s a limit. You can have an opinion, sure, but there’s a point where it’s so fucking stupid that it becomes irrelevant to anything. I could churn out articles saying “Nintendo are Nazi and they show falsely that the earth revolves around the sun”. Damn, I’d get a lot of hits on that one.
Also, as a valuable reader and contributor to the community, you should have to “take her over Brian/Luke”. Plunkett churns out short and false shit all day erryday, and we seriously shouldn’t have to put up with it.
Oh god yes, Patricia is passionate, I’ll give her that, and her articles inspire debate which is always fun. I just find that I can never side with her because of the way she presents her information.
I just really dislike how she takes an issue tangentially related to her agenda then starts twisting information or making bold assumptions to better express her point more clearly instead of sticking to what the facts actually are.
Her most recent article could have been good if it spent less time in a general discussion of the issues instead of slamming Max Temerik because he had the audacity to object to being called a rapist.
She’d definitely do better if her arguments were better formed. On the other hand, the constant negative reaction, regardless of how well-made her point is, probably wears on her a lot.
Maybe she’ll take the hint one day? Try something new? Realise that generally her “how the internet reacts” articles actually get some lulz out of people and a positive reaction?
My idea was to write to Kotaku, so her superiors force her to get the hint. Upon further contemplation, nah, this won’t happen.
She goes into these things pre-supposing she’s going to get hate for it now, which is sad, but I feel like it’s up to her to start producing better artcles rather than the reader to filter and interpret the issues that matter from her critical diatribes.
Yes. The problem is that occasionally she actually writes some good stuff and people still react the same.
I have to admit that going back over her contributions to Kotaku for the past few weeks there’s far more than I really noticed and inoffensive articles I’ve quite enjoyed. My dislike of her is pretty much confirmation bias because the only memorable articles are the ones that offended me, almost entirely related to social justice issues/feminism/etc.
Edit: Not that those are bad areas to write about, just that Patricia in particular writes about them in a way that annoys me and I feel could be handled better by another contributor.
When Plunkett wants to he can write some pretty good stuff. I used to enjoy his Total Recall article.
Yeah, for sure, I’ve seen a handful. Unfortunately, only a handful. 🙁
Yeah, I miss those. Both him and Patricia get a partial-pass for me, they have the occasional gem amongst the trash.
Bashcraft on the other hand I don’t think I’ve ever seen write anything worthwhile. And while Tina Amini has done a whole bunch of under-the-radar type stuff I haven’t noticed instead of all the trash, I don’t recall ever seeing anything standout from her either. Also I’m glad that we don’t seem to have been subjected to the horrors of Owen “Should Be Banned From Commas For” Good in a while either.
For the most part I enjoy reading Tina or Patricia’s articles but dear god the Bashcroft ones >.< Nowadays when I see his name on an article I’m just like yeah…. pass.
As i said upthread- I didn’t particularly like the article she wrote today. I thought it made too many assumptions, and didn’t really give a great insight into the topic.
That said, some of her other stuff has been quite good, and I’m not going to jump into a hate brigade over that. I’mma get in my car and drive on.
Your second paragraph. It’s slightly ironic.
Because Patricia stands for women rights. Women should feel free to speak up against their oppressors without fear. The only way to improve the situation is to keep making noise about it and slowly chip away until we’re at a mutual medium.
…And then everyone is just commenting saying “you don’t like it, move on”.
I said YOU don’t like it, move on.
Not that everyone should ignore it. Perhaps that article will spur someone to report an old rape that had gone unreported, or someone to evaluate their own behaviour and change how they interact in the future.
FWIW, I do sometimes read these things and think about my own behaviour when it has come to sex- was I perhaps too insistent at times, or was I not clear enough in my intent? That makes me want to do better, and be a better person. That’s the best effect even a poorly written article can have.
I don’t disagree with you and in principle I don’t mind that she writes about these issues. I just feel like she looks for ways to push her entire agenda through any vaguely gaming-related topics that justify putting it on Kotaku, rather than discussing the topics themselves and finding ways where her views can lend insight. She almost never accomplishes a valuable contribution to a topic and it drives me crazy.
2nd paragraph is what worries me. I don’t particularly want to watch the downhill slide.
Ok people, so what if you went on sports blogs and commented on caroline wilson, what will be your reaction be against her be?
BREASTS
BOOBS
TITS
FUNBAGS
DIRTY PILLOWS
CHESTICLES
HOOTERS
GAZONGAS
KNOCKERS
NORKS
JUBBLIES
TA-TAS
CHEST PUPPIES
BEWBS
JUGS
Sorry, all this talk about boobs has got me all a titter. Ok, I’ve got it out of my system now.
I wasn’t aware of one of those. Thank you for expanding my vocabulary!
Norks? That’s one I’ve never heard.
you left out boulders!
Lol, my mum used to call bras “over the shoulder boulder holders”.
Yup! First time I heard that line was by Bette Midler. iirc, it was in Beaches.
You get an Ernie! YOU get an Ernie! And YOU get an Ernie! EVERYBODY GETS ERNIE’S!
BEES
I would like to thank the academy, and the boobs, all the bewbs.
Never heard “dirty pillows” before.
Though that’s just given me a nostalgia hit of when “love pillows” was a term being constantly thrown around by a group of friends. Those were the days.
No Oppai? 😛
Wheres the Melons? The 2nd pair of eyes?
Yesterday, I got so many spam emails for penis enlargement (over a two hour period), that my junk folder is now sitting at 69 emails.
Giggity.
This is humourous because “junk” is a colloquialism for “penis” and the number of emails in said folder is a well-known sexual intercourse position.
I get jokes.
I don’t get it …
Genitalia is a common topic when attempting to engage other parties with humourous or comical quandaries.
People often laugh when discussing my genitals.
I … don’t … get it.
As evident by the amount of upvotes #35’s comments got below, it would seem joking about the enormous size of one’s genitalia is the style at this time.
That is to say, apparently Trjn is quite well endowed.
That’s why it’s funny, right?
-Opens TAY.
-See multiple comments about boobs on the latest page.
-Closes TAY.
I’ll be back next week.
ALSO MAMOTH-SIZED COCK.
So big it could feed a small family, its all the growth steroids in its food
Upper Chest!
*hands @cakesmith an Ernie award*
But boobs! 😀
Wait, why am I saying that?
Ha…
Butt :3
Bottom
Hehehe
Rump!
Badonka donk
Here’s something interesting I found regarding Disney Infinity 2.0 and female Thor.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-18700-Disney-Infinity-2-0-Edition-Gets-Tinkerbell-and-Stitch–New-Female-Thor-Also-Possible.html
Hints received and acknowledged. Time for a break.
Hey, look, man, I value your contibutions to TAY. I just disagree with you on this one. I’m sorry if anything I said up there has made you feel like you need a break.
cc @dc
Nah, not you guys. “It’s not you, it’s me” I just saw myself getting to be an angry douche and this isn’t helping to prosper a nice community like TAY. For the benefit of all, it was Internet break time!
Hopefully I can now help out and shoot the shit without being angry mofo. 🙂
I think everyone’s just a little worked up over a certain person (not you). Now let’s just get on with things, and forget about the boobs.
Please stay, we’re all friends here. Except for maybe Kingdino, though. He’s become like the Patricia Hernandez of TAY: makes no sense at times but gets everyone talking at least. 😀
If you interpreted
as a hint, it wasn’t meant to be.
I’ve just seen this advice given to people who dissed Kotaku writers to Marky Mark on Twitter.
Dear @stickman
Please do not take offense! Let us focus our attention on things that really matter. Like GAEMZ! Also I like to see TAY as a forum for discussion, meaning people will are bound to disagree eventually but its through our disagreements that we grow by seeing other points of view!
That’s it.
New topic.
How about them video gaems? I did more of my Forrest Gump run on tuesday night, making my way through Vault 22. How’s all the Original Sinning going?
Oh I’m sinning alright, and very originally to I might ad :p
Oh you mean the game, haven’t got it yet.
I hope you also have co-op protagonists in your sinning.
Solo sinning isn’t as fun as it used to be.
I tried Stryder for the first time 😀
I have no idea what is going on it that game, but I like it 😀
I was also thinking of picking up Transistor and Valiant Hearts, but I already have a back catalogue of games to work through :S
Valiant Hearts is very good, still have to finish it though.
I bought it, downloaded it, got wrapped up in World Cup excitement, got back into FIFA 14, haven’t touched it. So, you know, the usual.
I played some Wolfenstein: New Order last night – just finished the prison chapter and I’m really enjoying the game so far.
Original Sinning is not going well… Its properly down to the fact that i don’t own the game, but i still consider that as going badly!… ZombiU continues to be a pretty rad dude though… Gets so freaking intense once all the lights are off and the surround turned up!
Picked up Sunless Sea last night. been an Echo Bazaar/Fallen London fan for a long time but I didn’t have the funds when they did their kickstarter for their at the time unspecified “top down exploration game” to back at a tier that meant anything. I think they wanted $80 to get an in-game reward like a custom ship or something? No thanks!
Only put half an hour into the game since it was like 11:30 and I was just checking it out before bed, but I like it. It’s pretty tough but I guess it helps I’ve been on a bit of a roguelike kick lately as well.
I reckon I’ll spend a bunch of time with it this weekend.
Dream on white boy
Dream on black girl
And wake up to a brand new day
To find your dreams have washed away
Kick is a really interesting album
It’s on hold because my saves seem to have corrupted. Which is a shame, since I was loving it.
Sinning is going a tad poorly. Rolled a Pyro/Geo Wizard & Ranger combo the other night, but both are far too squishy for my liking. & the ranger apparently doesn’t even become a viable damage dealer til mid-late game.
gonna re-roll over the weekend & have a Wizard / Warrior. just gotta beware of friendly fire now I guess…
still…. its a very nicely put together game. love the throwback to older-school type mechanics.
I noticed @rize and @cakesmith giving it a go last night. I’m interested to hear how coop plays.
Pretty well, but we both had a limited understanding of some of the basic mechanics and got smashed. Going to be playing more again soon!
Video games?
What are they?
Well I spent my lunch break updating my newest Xcom recruits into taybies
Much more rewarding to say that @shane charged in, got mind controlled and shot @jimu repeatedly in the head. Sorry Jimu
I didn’t actually have any time to play once I finished doing that
Xcom spoilers
Having trouble with this run. Need the new ship to take out the super fast overseer ship but don’t have enough flight computers to do it. And the missions I’ve bee getting have no chance at me getting them. Bomb disposal last mission and then abduction in the next one. And any UFO contact I’m getting is the overseerI’ll remember this, @shane
Send me in Tigs if im not already dead
I’ve beaten 2 games this week already (Saints Row IV & Wolfenstein New Order and I’m gonna beat LA Noire tonight (up to the final case), been a pretty good week for games so far, trying to finish things in my pile o’ shame is actually working.
I walked about 30-40km on the Minecraft server to find a jungle.
Dang, son, I just finished Vault 22 t’other night too.
I’ve just gotten the Boomers on my side and am currently trying to track down the Brotherhood of Steel. I stumbled across the Great Khans hideout but no one wants to talk to me. 🙁
I’ve also been pardoned by Caesar to go and chat with him RE: battle so I had to dismiss my Boone. Didn’t want him taking pot shots at Legion soldiers while I tried to listen to some bull shit.
I dunno how much more I can play, though. I’m level 20? I think? And I’m starting to get a little bored. Traipsing around has started to lose it’s luster.
That’s why I’m enjoying the RP aspect as Forrest.
Plus, I’ve found at least one area I never found before
I just got the “Show every place on your map” perk and that was a mistake.
There are waaaaaay more places than I thought.
Honestly, that majorly contributed to my downturn in motivation.
Nurgle you so metal. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/82751694/props/firstwashes.jpg
Still lots of paints to apply!
Man, this helmet looks awesome.
Shame you can’t finish the whole set, but I can see the expense
If I could get an actual job I’d be happy to slowly do the whole set. I want to use something like ballistics jelly for some hanging organs etc on the torso.
Ballistics Jelly I don’t think would hold its shape- it’s designed to tear etc. You’d be better off with rubber I reckon
True!
Or make a stop at the butchers!
liquid latex is pretty good for dangling organs (with enough paint/ fake blood etc) Me and my mate made people dry reach at the zombie walk playing with our dangly organs. dangly organ….. hehehe.
Get yourself to a theater or a TV lot with that.
Point to it dramatically.
Point to yourself.
Point to them.
Then say “Job now please”
That’s seriously how most props people get their jobs.
That’s really awesome mang.
I can’t see it because of work internet but I up-voted anyway. Always preferred Papa Nurgle over the other gods.
Tzench (spelling? I dunno. its been 15 years since playing warhammer) all the way.
Tzeentch, the Changer of Ways. Nice choice.
Nurgle was a little to blergh for me, Slaanesh too decadent.
Khorne is nice and straightforward, but just a bit singleminded haha.
So, yeah, Tzeentch and all his batshit insane mutations are the way.
I just really liked the model :p
was more a Ork player in 40K.
I’ve never played 40K but a guy I know plays Orks almost exclusively. His name is also Nick so he has received the nickname of Nork. I must say, seeing Nork’s Orks in action is pretty terrifying at times.
Anyone that’s interested, I think Magic 2015 is out on 360 now. Might pick it up, if any of you guys do too hit me up for a game.
I’ll grab it when it hits Android.
Generally only played 2014 while I was giving blood.
Apparently it’s already available.
Ah, sweet, when i searched before it didn’t come up.
I love remote install
I just got a Nexus 7 last week and had no idea remote install was a thing. It’s pretty great.
Nexus 7 bros! (cc @masha2932)
I have the original ver, love it
Pshhh, scrubs, the Nexus 14 is where it’s at.*
*That’s when you stickytape a 10 and 4 together.
Best club \o/
Nexus 7 and Nexus 4.
I’m curious what Google will reveal this year.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/07/i-was-hidden-on-this-guys-hard-drive-for-over-six-years/
anyone read this? quite eerie… though i dont quite understand how on earth the other guy recognised him…
It was a good read. Really good read.
I think it might have been through Twitter – you know, you follow people who have shared interests and then this guy goes “Hmm, seen that face before…”.
It could also be from both of them being in shared professional circles, so checking out each others work and seeing headshots of each other.
In seriousness though, it’s shocking how small the world is sometimes.
world is a very small place.
few years ago, there was a bushfire just north of Sydney that was stopping trains, so I couldn’t get home. was hanging around the Hornsby westfield killing time & I ran into a guy I went to high school with. no big deal. but then as we were sitting there, my mate recognises a guy he went to primary school with walking out of the shopping centre. we all get to talking & it turns out that he & his finance live just down the road & he invites me & my mate back to his place to hang out until the trains are running again.
so we get back to his place, & his fiancée turns out to be my bosses daughter. weird.
then were all sitting around having a beer & chilling when their new kitten jumps up onto my lap. & I’m all like, ‘hey, that cat looks very similar to the kitten I got just a about 3 weeks ago. also about the same age.’
turns out they bought the cat from the same pet store o got mine from & their kitten is my cat’s sister.
weird.
then theres things like when my parents went to the UK a few years ago. my dad got stopped by another Australian tourist coz he was wearing a central coast mariners cap. turns out that this random tourist lived around the corner from my parents. like 70 metres away. & they randomly ran into each other in Scotland.
Small world storytime? Ok!
Start of last year, we had a thing at a restaurant for my dad’s 60th. Saw a family friend there who I hadn’t seen in a while, and it turned out that while I was going to Japan in a month, so was he. My second week was overlapping with his first week. Asked what area he was going to, and it was even in the same part of Tokyo that we were going to.
The day came where we’d organised to meet, but we were having trouble communicating and catching each other. Eventually they ended up in a bar, and noticed through a window that the hotel next door had free wifi and the passwords listed on the desk, so they hopped on that. As it turned out, that hotel was the one where I was staying. AND, the hotel they were staying at was on the opposite side of the main road this one’s street branched off, and was the hotel I stopped in to ask for directions when I first got there because my friend’s directions were unclear and I was lost.
A year later my sister and her boyfriend had organised to go to Japan themselves, including going over for skiing. During Christmas meets, they found out that his cousin and uncle had also organised to go over at exactly the same time. And were also going to the same remote little village they were.
Attack on the Pokemon (weird and a bit disturbing)
http://imgur.com/a/ZdSbL
o.O
Oh no! I’ve almost exhausted all the extra things to do in Havana in ACIV without continuing the story! I’m scared if I start following the story I’ll stop having fun. 😛
The story’s not too bad, actually. Additionally, it opens up more place to start tooling around in.
I didn’t mind the story too much in AssCreed Pirates! It was less silly assassin v templar nonsense and more “Woooo! Imma Pirate!” fun!
EDIT: Although, those points when you aren’t in the Animus thingie *vomits*
I found some buried treasure and felt like a real pirate. \o/
That’s pretty much how I approached it. On the plus side, I don’t think you can miss out on the side-thingies, and one of the more frustrating things is that the story will force you to play tutorial missions for all the side thingies you’ve been doing for hours already. So it probably couldn’t hurt to advance the story just a leeetle bit.
The story is alright. But being a pirate is the best bit!
Hm. Just wasted 400 words of moaning. Snip!
Guess I’ll just post as spoiler for therapy reasons.
Got some recognition for efforts today in a group forum at our meeting with the director, so that was nice. Probably didn’t do much to keep everyone from dog-piling with escalation requests and urgent action items. But having higher-ups know you by name and face is a good thing.I swear… Have you ever done something that was stupidly, life-threateningly dangerous and you felt this incredible tension through your entire body as you worked with very careful and very intense focus to get yourself back to safety? The kind that’s manageable, within your capabilities, but there is no option of taking a breather, no room for mistakes, no option to relax or give up, because that means very certain death? The kind of tension you might feel sitting on the door of a plane or helicopter before a jump. Don’t fall now – your chute won’t save you. Rock-climbing; yes you’re sore and burning and tired but don’t rest here, your muscles will cramp then you’ll die. Crossing a rope bridge that’s way too fucking high. Whatever…
I just realized that this is the exact same tension I’m feeling now. OVER FUCKING PAPERWORK.
Paperwork. No bullets, no bushfires, no death drops, no storms at sea. Just fucking paperwork.
I’ve been a model law-abiding citizen and productively, predictably-employed for so long that I’m actually eligible for long-service leave, now. Several times longer than a few years of directionless, youthful recklessness. But God help me if the old Me doesn’t take a step back to see this fit, healthy, powerful creature, designed and built for… god, ANYTHING else, shackled to a desk, listening to people bitch about petty, pointless personality conflicts, and think, “What the fuck happened to you?”
I really need to take a holiday but with so many plates spinning, some will fall down. How fucked is it that the source of your stress is the very reason you feel you can’t do anything about the stress?
*books Monday off* Hopefully that’ll do for now. I think I’ll sleep and play video games.
Really looking forward to whisky with Bob and Freeze, too. Wish I could do the Jimu meet since I don’t think we even really got to hang at… what was it, the Southbank DC-fist-bumping/Freeze-hugging meet, and even then a wave from the other end of the table? But this weekend’s a write-off for me.
tl;dr less moany version:
1) Got some recognition for achievements at work today. Felt pretty good. Got dogpiled with urgent action and escalations immediately after. Boo.
2) Feeling pretty tense with work. Gonna take a day off next week when things are quieter, but I really need to take a much longer holiday. NO idea when that’ll be possible.
3) Upcoming meats should be awesome, but I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to make the Jimu one this Saturday.
Idle thought bonus:
4) Yo, bank. ‘Available credit’ isn’t very fucking available if I can’t spend it now, is it? Also, I love how ‘3 day processing’ actually means three nights and four days. Because they don’t count the day you deposit. Who the fuck writes cheques anymore anyway?
oh poo
Yeah. Sorry man. Hope it goes smooth – I’m sure everyone will have a blast.
Re 2 – Japanarama \o/
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Hope you’re well?
Some of you might know that I’ve got pretty severe OCD which I usually keep (somewhat) under control. It ain’t fun. Any ways, recently it has spiked like crazy. *flails arms around crazily*
Started taking meds again for it and can feel the lumbering zombie DC shuffling on the horizon.
It’s okay though, just a temporary road bump that’ll give me a little distance while I regroup.
Why am I sharing this? *shrugs*
DC
(Wrote about my troubles earlier this year, if you’re interested!)
BraaaaaaAAaaaAaaains…
*Flails each arm exactly 37 times*
I’m going to assume my moderately poor form OCD jokes aren’t a problem for you, speak up if they are though.It’s funny cause it’s truuuue. XD
Joke away.
OCD’s a weird one, because there’s so many different symptoms/manifestations. Like doing things X number of times, or only ever on the half hour mark or something, requiring things to be clean, and so forth.
There was an odd one with a patient here, where it constantly made him question his sexuality. Despite the fact that he was straight, he would constantly ask himself if that were really the case, and he wouldn’t get into the dating game again because what if he was looking for the wrong people? Really bizarre.
Odd disease. And then people are like “that sign isn’t straight, and that annoys me because of my OCD” and you just want to strangle them for misusing the term.
This isn’t really related, in hindsight, but shut up.
I’ve heard it described as pathological doubt. That about sums it up. 🙂
Looking for answers that can never be answered and a peace that can never be found.
And counting, too. (Cause maths is rad!)
ZDC? or ZC?
Why not both?
if theres Anything I can do to help, even if its just listening, happy to help 🙂
Thanks man. It’s something I’m well versed in though. It’s not fun, but it’ll pass. Always does.
Hope you’re all better soon, pal 🙂
Out of curiosity, how does it manifest?
Don’t answer if you don’t want to.
It varies from person to person.
With me? Mostly intrusive thoughts and the ruminations that come with it. People do ritual stuff to ‘vent’ anxiety in an abstract way, ruminating is just the mental form of that.
HOLY CRAP, I SOUND NUTS. XD
Y’know… funnily enough? Not really.
hope it doesn’t get too much worse for ya man! Give us a holler if you wanna talk or somthing!
I feel sorry for dyslexic OCD people who google it and then ending up having their mothers being the subject of abuse on various COD forums…yeah, I’m more tactless than @blaghman
I hope this road bump’s a small one for you buddy. Mental illnesses are never fun although I hate them being called mental illnesses as whenever you say that to someone they’ll start thinking of One Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest and that’s just not the case for the majority of people. Just remember that everyone has their own quirks and oddities and there’s not one person who is truly ‘normal’
Thanks man, as kind as you are monstrous! 😛
So The Order 1886 is already been proclained Worst Game of 2015 huh?
It’ll be my game of the year. 😀 The ‘C’ stands for contrarian. XD
Hipster DC.
Well that fucking sucks. Cause it sounds pretty cool.
I’m guessing that’s all the people raving about it’s going to be terrible as it’s only going to be 30 FPS and subpar graphics and all that other crap. It’s a bit petty and short-sighted to hate a game this far out from release.
Also it’s only on PS4 when Xbone is clearly the superior console so obviously The Order 1886 is going to be a steaming pile of shit and also I heard clowns will come to your house and bang your mum in front of you every time you play it.
I reckon it looks cool.
I’m pretty keen for it.
By reviewers or people that haven’t played the game yet?
All the reviewers say it is pretty great.
Ahhh, so people that haven’t played it yet. Gotchya.
OMG NO 60FPS WERST GAME EVAR!!1!
Lol, NO PC RELESE MUST B 4 CASULS! LOL!
(Am I doing it right?)
Oh boy that Fred Durst article about him playing CoD, the comments.. Some people really are upset that he still exists. Me I don’t care any more, I think he’s a twat, but Limp Bizkit had some fun songs.
I remember I was about 11 or 12 my mother hating the fact I got a copy of Chocolate Starfish & The Hot Dog Flavoured Water and would listen to it a lot, so many swear words 😛
I haven’t read the article but Limp Bizkit hasn’t been popular in Australia ever since a fan died at BDO back in 2001.
I think you’re a bit wrong there, in my opinion. Soundwave 2012 they got an excellent reception from those who attended Brisbane at least. They were fun. But they certainly were very well welcomed.
There were ten years for people to get over it between then. I don’t think they’ve really come up enough since then for me to register if people still hate them.
As far as I’m concerned Limp Bizkit was that band who did Undertaker’s entrance music when he was in his American biker period.
Argh. Still no tax back from Dan Murphy’s being my first free day in the last 2 weeks i’m off to see the manager and ask him about, it also I need my employee number cause i’m a dunce and lost it how I managed that beats me Q_Q
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/krispy-kreme-bandit-steals-kids-doughnuts-at-knifepoint-from-new-store-on-port-road-adelaide/story-fni6uo1m-1226992096922
That’s our @liondrive.
That’s just fucking embarrassing.
Serial killers, churches and fucking donuts man..
Have you had a Krispy Kreme doughnut though? Hell, I’d stab a kid for one.
Don’t care.
It’s still a fucking pastry.
They’re actually not even that good. I’d take a fresh cinnamon doughnut over a Krispy Kreme any day.I only consistently enjoy the plain glazed.
Shhh you’re ruining the joke.HEY EVERYBODY THE FROSTING IS BRILLIANT
(I personally like making my own at home. They taste lighter, less oil and steaming hot donuts are always great)Try a frozen cinnamon doughnut in summer!
Freak.
Doughnut King <3
Donut King used to be the best when they had a cheesecake filling for their donuts. One day it just…disappeared off their menu. :'(
I am glad I never got to try it.
…only because It lessens the sense of loss.
Dreamy Donuts were the best ever.
What happened to them?!
Gold Coast had one open up on every corner but then they all failed and there’s about 2 now. Both in servos.
Yeah, all the ones they opened in Canberra failed too. They’re only sold at 7-Elevens now.
I thought Brisbane had none, but @liondrive found one.
THEN HE ATE THEM ALL.
D:
I bought a dozen back from the Sydney airport! 😀
They lasted for 5 minutes after I got home :'(
Edit: Oh! And I was almost on a first name basis with three of the workers at Krispy Kreme 😀
Kid wouldn’t cooperate.
The latest Carmageddon: Reincarnation updates are 15GB…
My download quota weeps.
15gig for an update. How do you get an update that large!?
By forgetting to do the previous one, I believe.
but … that’s still 7.5gig (on average) per update. That’s a pretty heft update.
they did add a whole lot of stuff this time. this morning’s was 9gb. new vehicle(s) and powerups for sure, possibly new levels too I’d say judging by how many they added last patch.
OOooo….
*rubs hands gleefully*
Is randomly changing words that you have spelt correctly to something completely different an Android thing or a SwiftKey thing?
I typed in “sex toys” and it automatically changed it to “sexual thrusting”.
Swiftkey learns from your typing history.
Just what are you implying.
That you do a lot of sexual thrusting duh!
Why were you typing in sex toys?
Wanted to ask @shane for a Lesser Evil branded one from his shop.
That’ll lead to a Peaceful Tomorrow for sure.
I wonder if it could expand to a JamesFlamestar range. Picture of Pez’s face on the top.
So, following on from yesterday’s Thor news, apparently The Falcon is now going to be Captain America.
That’s awesome.
Also, The Falcon was one of the best parts of Cap 2.
Interesting. Especially since Chris Evans doesn’t want to continue acting after his contract with Marvel is done.
I keep forgetting that he was also the Human Torch in the Fantastic 4 movies. I can see why he’d be over acting but I hope he takes the Mark Hamill route and does some other interesting stuff. He’s undeniably talented and it’d be a shame to see it go to waste.
Last I heard he wants to focus more on directing. Not sure if he’s done anything of note as yet, but we’ll see.
I think they’ll put Bucky in the suit first in the films.
Apparently Snowpiercer with Evans is great
Apparently?
WATCH SNOWPIERCER! It’s great.
He recanted that apparently. That being said, he’s apparently had a lot of problems where he felt like the good work he did was ignored and people were more “zomg so hunky!!!!1”
I imagine Chris Hemsworth would be the same if he did anything aside from playing the hunky man role.
Also coming from a background of Australian soaps would kinda lessen the negativity about playing a one-note role. *zing*
What, he isn’t going for the record of “Acted in the Most Comic Book Movies”? So disappointment.
Captain America/The Avengers, The Losers, Scott Pilgrim, Fantastic Four…
Does this mean that The Falcon was/will be subjected to the super soldier serum or will he simply take up the mantle of Captain America and be a badass because he’s The Falcon?
The latter I think.
Apparently Rogers has lost the effects of the Super Soldier serum.
I thought he died? Or is this the reboot of the prequel of the reboot of the alternate universe retcon?He got better. it was a weird revival, as comics go.He’s notBucky,Jason Toddor Uncle Ben, so Cappy doesn’t have to stay dead.MAHVEL BABY!
Still not as bad as DC in the retcon department though.
DC really needed to do an “Ultimate DC” about six years ago.
Apparently they’re doing better now they’ve got past the New 52 bollocks.
I thought New 52 was their attempt at doing the Ultimate thing.
Mostly, I just want more Earth 16 DC material. Young Justice was the shit.
Leave @dc alone!
I do retcon alot.
Remember that time when Shane went to the moon?
It totally fit Shane’s back story. It was the only logical thing for him to do next.
Main universe Thor is a woman, main universe Cappy is black, Ultimate universe Spider-man is black (and also maybe hispanic, I can’t remember).
For a company that basically only writes about straight white dudes from New York, Marvel is really stepping up their diversity game.
Miles Morales is black/hispanic.
Also, they’re pushing a lot of their big guys out to the west coast- Daredevil is there, and Iron Man’s heading there.
Also, Ms Marvel!
The X-men were pretty good at adding diversity to the cast. Not just having strong female and minority characters but also having teams all over the place.
It’s good to see the rest of the Marvel universe catching up.
Show me your moves?
So, you know how I said I have $60 to blow at EB? thinking of putting it towards a mouse. Any suggestions?
Long-tailed hopping mouse!
Like this one?
You’ll never have a cat problem ever again.
Logitech G400/500. I’d tell you to get an MX518 but they don’t make them anymore.
I’ve heard good things about the G502?
Haven’t tried it so can’t comment. In general though, Logitech just make really solid mice.
I have a logitech keyboard, and i was originally thinking of getting one of those, but i love this current one too much to replace
I have a G400 and it’s a solid gimmick free mouse that I absolutely love.
G5
@redartifice
Trjn (@blaghman?) and I were part of the MX518 club but I recently got a G400S (2 revisions after the MX518) and it’s great. It’s still basically the same thing but it was recently (might still be) around $30 from Dick Smith and Catch of the Day, so if you’re interested they’re way cheaper than EB’s price (dunno if they price match that stuff though)
This is what I use. But it’s not $60. 😛
http://www.evoluent.com/vm4r.htm
Erm…
You just said suggestions. Not that they had to be realistic or productive. GEEZ, YOU JUST CAN’T PLEASE ANYBODY THESE DAYS.
JEEZ FINE BOB
THANKYOU FOR YOUR SUGGESTION, I’LL TAKE IT UNDER CONSIDERATION AND EVALUATE IT NEXT TO THE OTHER OPTIONS ON ITS MERITS
BOOBS. ERGONOMIC MICE AND BOOBS.
Ok, I’m done.
Speaking of ergonomic boobs… A few years back a young friend of mine thought that a hilarious present for a housewarming would be an ‘ergonomic’ mousepad with a photo on it positioned so that the two prominent bumps on it were in the place of boobs. She then crowed that, “It’s not as good as the real thing, of course.” I, of course, used this as an opportunity to suggest she let me try a squeeze test with them side-by-side for comparison. Which she readily agreed to. It was a pretty good day.
(We made out and some other things later that night, which means essentially I was hopping from 2nd base to 1st to 3rd in COMPLETELY the wrong order.)
The fuck is that thing?
It’s a normal mouse flipped on its side for ergonomic reasons. Sharp learning curve where it feels totally unnatural for a few days and then becomes the most comfortable mouse I’ve ever used.
The thing that should not be. Got it.
Exactly. Cthulumouse.
I would like to heavily recommend – http://www.razerzone.com/au-en/gaming-mice/razer-mamba
I did have a look at the Deathadder, looks pretty cool
I have a DeathAdder. Most comfortable mouse I’ve ever owned.
I’m gonna throw my own experience in here and say completely avoid Razor products. They are overpriced for what you get.
I got mine for $60 from MSY 🙁 I thought that was a pretty solid buy!
I’m spoilt now and use this – http://www.cyborggaming.com/prod/mmo.htm
Spent a day or two getting the perfect configuration for it and now it fits perfectly in my hand =] I do have to say though… You’ll never use all those buttons >.
That mouse looks like it was directed by Michael Bay.
I’ve had 2 razor mice and a razor keyboard. Through normal use all of them have died extremely fast. Mouse died within a year of getting it, got it replaced and it again broke when the warranty ended. Same with the keyboard. I ended up getting logitech stuff after and they haven’t steered me wrong.
EDIT: Oh, completely forgot about the Razor headset I got! That broke pretty damn fast. Worst thing is that it was a gift and the person that gave to me didn’t keep the freaking receipt.
I AGREE WITH NOB. Razer are shit. I will never buy them again.
I really like my Razer Mamba. It’s a very solid product, just feels good to use.
I don’t use it wireless though, which probably wastes half of its price tag’s functionality.
I’ve got a Logitech G500 and it’s probably the best mouse I have ever used. Has a couple of extras yet extremely simple and most of all it’s comfortable. \o/
I use a G700s, but it’s heavy on features that a lot of people don’t use.
I think EB charges out the arse for it, too.
TAYlist for the 17th of July 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by Nos in Adelaide for AVcon, subsequent freedom from idiocyOffspring – Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
Billy Idol – Dancing With Myself
Blue Oyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (Requested by @gutsoup)
Pharrell Williams – Happy (Requested by @evilmonkey, the computer actually generated the playlist with this song)
Foo Fighters – The Pretender
The Beatles – Help! (Requested by @cufcfan616)
John Farnham – Two Strong Hearts
Ben Folds Five – Smoke (Requested by @thecracks)
Supertramp – Bloody Well Right (Requested by @beeawwb)
Supertramp – The Logical Song (One of my personal favourites)
Birds Of Tokyo – Lanterns (Requested by @quiz_b)
Placebo – Twenty Years (Requested by @gorzilla)
Savage Garden – Break Me Shake Me
Bruce Springsteen – Atlantic City (Requested by @redartifice)
Katy Perry – I Kissed A Girl (Requested by @liondrive)
Garbage – Cherry Lips (Requested by @gingerchris86, a blast from the past for me, thanks for that request, mang)
Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight
This, this is an amazing list.
I hope you have School by Supertramp for when I select it next week; the second half of that song is simply amazing. This week’s double makes me think the station may have a few of their tracks.
Perhaps, we have a decent amount of Supertramp songs in the computer.
Oh HELL yes. School is amazing. And that stifled scream at the start… brilliant.
No joke, I looked at that playlist, opened up iTunes and purchased the Very Best of Supertramp just then. I always used to listen to my dad’s copy in past but no more! I now have my own copy! 😀
Goodbye Stranger has just started playing.. oh man. It’s going to be a good end-of-day.
“Very Best” is on heavy rotation through both my work and public transport musical needs. Was listening to it on the bus this morning, true story.
All those songs are great, with the single exception of @liondrive’s request.
Everybody else, you get high fives. Stewie, you get beat up by small children.
I was going to call that out up there
Tasteless hacks, the lot of you >:P
It’s her best song, by far!
With California Gurls having the best film clip by far 😀
E.T for me
E.T is’t bad. It would be in the top 5 at least.
My top 5 I reckon is:
– I Kissed a Girl
– Dark Horse
– Unconditionally
– E.T
– Firework
Oh bite me, that’s a great song! >:P
You’d enjoy that.
Nobody except you would enjoy that song. Ergo, biting. And beating up by small children.
I’m with Liondrive.
Then again, the songs I mouthed along to at work today were from The Spice Girls, Lady Gaga, and Pink, so I probably can’t talk.
Spice Girls I can enjoy, Pink I can tolerate, LG I can smack upside the head with a stop sign.
I don’t think I’ve been bitten…
…wait, no, I have.
It was a’ight.
I digress. I Kissed a Girl is a great song, and I’m sure plenty of people here like it >:P
I like Katy Perry, I always appreciate a good set of breasts. Plus she I don’t find her annoying like that Kesha girl or that other one Nicky Minge something.
Ernie award to @virus__
I should keep a tally of this shit.
Right.. What in the fuck is that..?
I think I’ve broken even with Ernies, as I still think I deserve a negative one for the castration story a few pages back.
@virus__ TAY’s latest thing. A troll appeared earlier and told many people that they deserve an Ernie award (awarded to the sexist people each year) for thinking about “the upper chest area” of females.
EDIT: conversation begins here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-285/comment-page-9/#comment-2815452
Fair enough then.. I guess i’m also sexist for being a white heterosexual male, well Tumblr think I am apparently.
Best rendition is easily by Paul McDermott. He’s an amazing singer.
http://vk.com/video2405785_164964142
Man whatever happened to him after Good News Week ceased being a thing again?
He was ambassador for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival a year or two ago
Doug anthony All stars reunion
He grew a bitchin’ beard. Seriously. Look it up.
He became an artist!
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/tvs-paul-mcdermott-returns-to-his-roots-to-dabble-in-dark-arts-20130926-2uh7y.html
Dear sir or madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look?
@dc
And he’s back =P
BUT AT WHAT COST!
Upvoted for Supertramp, Garbage, Blue Oyster Cult, Beatles, Offspring, & Foo Fighters.
Nice selection, there.
That is an amazing List HOLY CRAP SAVAGE GARDEN!!! 😀
Am I the only one who hates Weird Al” Yankovic?
Yes. Probably?
That makes me special. :’)
I don’t mind some of the songs, but his voice is pretty annoying.
Hate is a bit of a strong word, I just don’t think he’s the greatest thing ever.
I don’t listen to him much, but I appreciate what he does.
I’m curious. From where does this hate stem from?
I know people who dislike Weird Al but no one who hates him.
Yep. His parody of Royals is awesome. The original lingers in my nightmares from having to listen to it on the radio every single day at work…
Yes.
(it’s ok, but really, you don’t like ANY of the songs he’s made?)
Not even one!
Not even Eat It?
Not even Stuck in the Drive Thru?
Man, I know that song off by heart, Genius In France and Albuqurque too.
I used to like him a lot more, like I mentioned yesterday it was a lot funnier when I actually knew what songs he was parodying, Also IMO pop songs have gotten a lot more annoying over the years, I used to listen to a parody version of something and chuckle, now not only don’t I recognize the songs but musically they are terrible to my ears so I can’t appreciate the humor. Short answer I like him less and less every day.
Tend to agree, however Word Crimes made me laugh especially hard because of how much I hate the original. Rare exception on the “modern” side.
I think it’s just my grumpy old man side coming through
*shakes cane*
“White and Nerdy” was pretty good
Hard to believe that was 8 years ago.
Hard to say if that or Amish Paradise was the pinnacle of his work.
It’s easy to say as you get older that pop music is terrible and worse, but nothing has really changed other than the reach of the marketing. I mean really, One Direction are terrible, but are they that much worse than New Kids on the Block or The Spice Girls? Music history is overflowing with one hit wonders and talentless idols with pretty faces. But a good pop song is the music equivalent of eating fairy bread: Fun at parties but you shouldn’t have it all the time.
I listen to Triple J (and Double J – woo!) even though I find some of the presenters awful and some of the music terrible because the alternative is to listen to the awful rubbish on commercial radio, or resign myself to listening to the same 10 albums I liked in the 90s. This week I’ve been listening to the new Rise Against album and new Presets and new Bagraiders and enjoying it all immensely.
You should listen to power metal. Trust me. I’m not biased at all. 😛
Does Babymetal count?
It’s a good start…. 😀
Babymetal’s awesome.
What makes power metal power metal?
For me it’s a feeling. An epic, glorious feeling. 😀
To be honest it really is as simple as that for me.
I asked your question of Mr. Strange and he began reading me answers from this although I think you may need to already be a power metal fan to appreciate that list.
Hmm. I am only about 30 in but so far in my limited understand of the world of metal, it seems as though all metal is power metal 😛
I remember these guys from Spicks and Specks. They seem to fit the bill?
They do indeed appear to fit the bill. 😀
Power metal is the softer side of metal with extra cheese. Glorious, glorious cheese.
There’s this ridiculous, over the top, self-aware epicness that most power metal bands have that’s just right.
I’m not really into parodies of existing songs, either.
That’s okay, he also does polkas.
Nothin’ like a good Polka.
You do know he’s done heaps of original songs too right?
He’s alright. I dunno. I used to love his stuff, now it all just feels a bit safe I guess.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/07/weird-al-yankovic-endures.html?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=twitter&mbid=social_twitter
Just saw this, hits on that point.
Yeah, that basically covers it. The parodies don’t mean anything. It feels like he comes up with a clever line or a spin on the song title and writes the rest of the song around that.
Still, takes some skill to sustain that for 20 years.
Weird thing is, George Hrab (Skeptical musician/podcaster) released a “Happy” parody this week too:
I’m on the fence. I’m not a massive fan of novelty songs but they go ok in a party. It annoys me that he parodies annoying songs because then I get reminded about the original annoying song, but I guess that’s the whole point of a parody
I think Running With Scissors was the 3rd CD I ever bought.
Still undecided about the new album though since I don’t like the music as much that’s being parodied. Word Crimes was a very funny video but I probably couldn’t just listen to it.
I like Weird Al, but if I want amusement in my music I’ll take They Might Be Giants anyday. Or Tripod, or Axis of Awesome. But mostly TMBG ^_^
TMBG ftw!
Even this song?
HAHA – I’d forgotten about that one! The Alternative Polka is one of my favourites.
Jackson Park Express is pretty great.
So is Mission Statement
And Foil
And First World Problems
And polka
…And that’s just his new album 😛 Word Crimes was fun for the first couple of listens but it’s getting just as annoying as the original song now.
Loved him when I was 12. Now I like him ok, but in small doses.
In honour of all my computer systems being down AND the Thor/Capt America stuff happening, how about this:
Create your own superhero. C’mon, we’ve all had dreams of either being a superhero or making one for comics. What would yours be?
Slingshot. Has the power to match velocities with anything.
Can someone say railgun?
Hell, I’d settle for bullets.
Man Who Can Freeze Time! [Yes, we’ve been here before – I know]
Wouldn’t that be the man who could repeat time? 😛
I think any superpowers we could reasonably come up with have probably been created at some point.
My first thought: Somebody gets sucked in to a black hole and gains the power to manipulate gravitational forces.
Yeaaaaah, I just created “Gravity” it seems, right down to the backstory.
Yeah, but that’s half the fun – thinking something up then going “I wonder…” and googling, to find a superhero with the power. And potentially a new comic to follow!
If it’s not been in a normal comic, almost guaranteed it’s turned up in Dial H for Hero
All the ‘superheroes’ in the world are stray cats and dogs but no-one notices the things they do
I like the idea of vulnerable heroes with gadgets, maybe something like Parkour Guy with buckler filled with gadgets that fires grappling chains for super stylish parkour chain swinging antics. Name pending.
Casanova:
– Extraordinarily charismatic
– Exceptionally lucky
– Fast reflexes
– Incredibly agile
Uses his charm to swoon his enemies into lowering their guard in order to catch them off guard.
Totally already a thing.
Lol best comment ever.
Was expecting @transientmind 😛
I was going to say he linked my profile incorrectly, but c’mon man… look at his avatar.
It’s Archer.
Oh THAT’S what it is…
I don’t usually peek in to see the full sized profile page ones 😛
That was my first thought, but I figured over-confidence made for the better joke.
Sounds like Lupin the Third.
Who’s based directly on Arsene Lupin, from the Maurice LeBlanc novels.
Jean le Flambeur.
Except he’s got the All-Defector hidden within his quantum structure and OMG CAUSAL ANGEL IS COMING IN THE MAIL SO EXCITED
I tried writing a novel once where there were two ordinary people that were given the power of telekinesis. One of them was a nerd and tried to follow the typical superhero tropes. The other was a braggart that didn’t realise she had telekinesis and thought she was basically superman.
It was a fun idea but I couldn’t make it work.
So, in short, telekinesis because there’s a shitload of ways to use it.
Not telling.
Damn reply fail >:(
Oh well, gonna go apply at EB games! Wish me luck 😀
Damn you and your edits.
Good luck, be charming.
Good luck!
Godspeed good sir!!
North or south of the river?
North. It’s less applying, more just handing my resume out to three stores to get in early on the Christmas Casual positions 😛
They’ll start advertising those around September (if they’re looking for Christmas casuals)
I called up yesterday to find out how best to apply, and the past said they each handle it differently, but that she was gonna start advertising for Christmas staff cone early August, so I wanna get in before that 🙂
Good luck. They’re awesome to work for (in my biased opinion)
And probably to work with? I’ve always enjoyed my interactions with the guys and gals at the EB on Albert St in the Queen St Mall. They seem like pretty groovy people. Switched on and not pushy about their sales quotas. Probably have the luxury of not needing to do much to meet them, what with the place having the best location ever.
Yeah man totally, some of the stores that do well with sales in general are very laid back with customers, others that struggle really push extras on to people, we were told we had to ask people if they wanted live/ps+ sub, controllers etc when buying a new console or a game guarantee when buying games but half the time the ones who wanted that stuff would ask anyway.
The staff at the store I work/ed with are awesome. Turns out @freezespreston was my boss’ best customer at her old store haha.
Monster Hunting postponed.
Train is full of noisy students and between that and the flashing sunlight the whole way, I can’t concentrate enough for a savage deviljho. Just have to leave it paused.
Y’know, for someone with severe hearing loss and blocked ears, I seem to have a lot of problems with background noise.
Ugh. Students.
UGH!
(I can totally say this now :’) )
EDIT: How great was that Jap Direct MH4U footage? Gimmmmmeeeeee
I did not see the MH4U footage. I will watch this soon.
I have the strangest urge to buy an NHL game. Someone stop me before I waste $20.
EDIT: So this was my 2,000th comment, huh? Nice to see I put it to good use.
Don’t.
Grass Hockey FTW.
Field Hockey!
I love Field Hockey!!
Buy it – best 20 minutes of your day (other than self medicating of course!)
*SLAP* Better?
Edit: Don’t say I never gave you anything =P
Only decent one I played was NHL 2002.
Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey! on N64.
FML – I am sick of the delay for every one of my comments being flagged for moderation….
So I get an email from a third party forwarded to me asking that we set up some facility and that we should get started asap as it will take 6 weeks to do. I call my relationship manager at the bank and she has no clue wtf they are talking about. She then gets someone to look at it and he takes some guesses. I forward these back to the third party as questions to clarify if that’s what they are talking about. His response? “I don’t know the technical details. You’ll need to speak to your relationship manager”. Seriously, this guy gets paid +$500K.
So today the fabric for Elsa’s cape arrived. Whoo!
It’s the wrong colour. Oh crap.
It comes from England. Oh crap!
It’s cut so there is probably no refunds/exchanges. Oh crap!!!
To ebay! Sell it, and then use the money to buy what you need.
Hoping to see if it can be exchanged as it is their mistake, not mine.
Also, Lincraft is having a half price fabric sale, for all your cosplay needs =P
That sounds good. I’m also in need of another 50s circle skirt. I don’t have a pink one yet.
Oh man! They briefly taught me this thing at work and then they’re like: “well ok, now you’re in charge of it for all of Australia and New Zealand” :3
Shieeeeet
And for some reason I really want some running shoes (Kayanos) and Rhythm Heaven Fever! GIMMEEEEEEEE
Did my tax today. Was hoping for more than what it turned out to be. Oh well, still should allow me to do the PC upgrades I want.
@novacascade @transient_mind @negativezero @jocon
Jetstar have direct flights in business class from Gold Coast to Osaka for $700 one way on a current special.
Just saying… Business class.
@transientmind
Ehhh I would prefer the money to comfier seats.
I think I’d be happier with the dollar.
I’ve seen them cheaper in the past (I think $499 was the cheapest I’ve seen), but the one to watch out for is their 2 for 1 sales! Sometimes you can get 2 business class tickets for under $700!
Yeah but the flight from Melbourne to Gold Coast is probably $800.
Resumes = handed out \o/
I handed out resumes to three EB stores, so I’m feeling pretty good 🙂
They said they probably won’t be employing until late August, so I’ll just wait and see 🙂
I also applied for a job at Harvey Norman 🙂
Even if I don’t hear anything back, or don’t get the jobs, it feels good to try, and to be pro-active 🙂
I also set a mental date for when I’m gonna have “the talk” to my mum :S
NERVE WRACKING! :O
*wracking
Sorry.
Haha, cheers 🙂
I don’t use that word often, so wasn’t too sure 😛
I’m still sorry. D=
If you actually are sorry, it may be better to refrain from correcting in the first place so you don’t make yourself feel bad.
Probably, but it’s almost a compulsion at this point.
Grammer nazzi 😛
*nazi. D=
I even corrected the police officer who was writing down my statement.
@scree, you forgot *grammar. 😛
@strange so I did
@scree @strange
I hope people realise that I was joking with those misspellings, and that I’m not actually that stupid, haha! 😀
I’ve been wanting to do that all afternoon on Twitter 😛
Hahaha, shoosh! You should have corrected me! 😀
I’m one of those few people who doesn’t mind being corrected, so long as it’s in a polite manner 😛
I hope I’m not coming off as uppity or something. Not my intention.
Scree the apology queen. No need for insecurity, you’re awesome.
I’m sorry for being insecure?
No no no, if you were like, “it’s ‘wracking’, not ‘racking’, you dumbarse”, then you would’ve seen how much of a bitch I can be (warning, I’ve got it down to an art form) 😉
Like I said, I don’t use that word much, so would rather be corrected for future references 🙂
I would also like to be corrected. I don’t always spell everything right and it really annoys me when I’ve written something 5 times and none of them not right.
Good luck. pal!
Thanks, on all fronts 🙂
Looking for a better job is making me happy, and I’m determined to rip that bandaid off with my mum 🙂
Wait, you’re still in the closet with your mother?
Somehow she hasn’t twigged yet 😛
Everyone else I care about knows, but it’s slightly terrifying thinking about “coming out” to a parent :S
Plus I don’t see her very often.
My middle brother brought me along when he came out to our mum. She DID ask if he was ‘sure’. And did look pretty crestfallen when she sighed, “Oh but it seems like such a harder life…” Which… well. She probably wasn’t wrong. But yeah, she adjusted after a bit. Asked me if I was too, so she could get all the surprises out of the way. She was a bit flustered but did admit that they’d really probably known for a while.
If most your friends/family know, I’d say she probably does too, but might be… letting you ‘figure yourself out’, or buying herself some denial time. But I’m sure it’ll be fine.
Pretty much all the friends I care about know, and my eldest sister knows.
My other two sisters probably know, but I’ve never told them, more cause I couldn’t care less if they know or not. It’s not something I need to tell them.
I’m expecting awkwardness when I tell her, but my mum’s pretty cool 🙂
And oblivious, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it is a shock for her :S
Is she deaf and blind?
😛
It’s not that obvious, is it? :S
She is pretty oblivious, so I think she might actually not know / have an idea :S
It’s probably more obvious since we know and pick up on it more.
Unless you’re drunk….
I did mean to ask, on a scale of “wet match” to “forest fire” how camp is Liondrive in person?
Sober? A modest single person campfire.
Drunk? One of those underground coal mine fires.
@freezespreston
Oh, c’mon! I wasn’t that bad drunk!
So I tried to flash DAN! a nipple, who hasn’t 😛
So I had the girliest drinks, they’re delicious 😛
So I dance like a teenage girl…
Damn I’m a camp drunk, aren’t I? :'(
My (step)cousin decided that he had to come out to his mother.
Her response was “well, duh.”
She may well know, and have simply decided to let you tell her on your own time.
Or, she’s blissfully unaware, and will be horrendously distraught at what she sees as the loss of her son.
Best pep talk ever right here folks.
People don’t come to me for useful advice.
Well, they don’t come to me for advice at all.
But I guess the reasons for that should be obvious.
I’d always come to you for advice.
The laughter alone is worth it.
It’s already been harder on you then it will on her. You’re independent too. You got this.
🙂
I’m in a good frame of mind for it now, but come the time I think I’ll be a wreck, haha 😀
I want to do it though, for the first time 🙂
It feels like the time is right 🙂
You could always just casually drop it into conversation and then when she reacts surprised, say you mentioned it months ago and you’re a bit annoyed that she’s forgotten
I don’t think that that’s something you just forget, haha!
Plus I want it to be a bit more, formal.
It’s a big deal (to me), so I don’t want to brush it off like it’s nothing, or mention it in passing 🙂
Your mother will still love you, but she may also be mad at you for not providing her with grandchildren in the foreseeable future. 😛
Oh, I know she’ll be fine 🙂
Even if she isn’t for some reason, I’ll be fine at least 🙂
And I have three sisters, one of them is bound to get knocked up sooner or later, so she’s still set for grandchildren 😛
I wish you all the best. Unless your mum is particularly homophobic (perhaps for religious reasons), I’m sure it will go well. My baby brother is gay and we all knew. It was still important for him to come out when he was ready.
Thanks 🙂
She used to be quite religious, but she’s eased up heaps these days.
She’s not homophobic at all, but if she doesn’t have any idea then I’d imagine it’d still be quite a shock for her :S
And I feel ready 🙂
As ready as I’m going to anyway 🙂
But more importantly, I want to do it for the first time ever 🙂
Mums do notice things. I’m sure she will be glad you’ve told her.
Good luck on all fronts!
Thanks man, I appreciate it 🙂
As I’ve said buddy, good luck. You’ll be fine 🙂 You sound ready and thats a good thing 🙂
Thanks for all your input earlier- went with the Logitech G500s.
It’s so pretty. And larger than my previous mouse, which is an adjustment.
That’s the one I use. Clearly it stands up to a lot of clicking, what with all the Dota and Diablo I’ve played with it.
Thought this TAYlist merited a Spotify version: http://t.co/WoH3i3Zlps
HA!
Even after all the whinging and whining, my song still made it into the list! >:P
For completeness sake ONLY.
Yesssssssssssssss
Does anyone want a copy of XCOM on steam? I’ve got a spare.
Nobody, all right, I’ll take it off your hands.
Alright, I’ll figure out how to gift it tomorrow.
I’ve basically got a humble bundle link. I’ll assume no one else will take it if i post it here.
Or do i follow you on any of the various social medias?
Buzz me on Steam
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Looks like I may be able to do 70000 Tons Of Metal again in 2015 after all! 😀
What a coincidence! ME TOO!
…
No.
Excellent news Strangey.
TAYstarter to get @dc to 70000 Tons…
What? No weight jokes TAY? 😛
Awesome 🙂
Please enlighten me as to what this is. I’m assuming it’s some sort of heavy metal music festival.
On a boat.
http://70000tons.com/
A 5 day cruise on a ship with a 60 metal bands playing two sets each, constant live bands from around 10am until 5am. Meet band peoples, make friends, watch great performances and drink many drinks.
huzzah 😀 we’re still on the fence. My sister’s announced that the first of a new generation in our family will be arriving in January so going to England early next year is now the priority. Still hopeful that we could make it but chances are by the time I have the moolah all but the most expensive tickets will be left 🙁
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Also, if you could book now, you have until October to cancel with just a $100 cancellation fee. We’re doing that. We’re only 75% sure we can go but if we wait until October to see, it’ll cost us a lot more for our room and we definitely won’t be able to afford it.
Well the missus is starting a new job on Monday so there’s going to be a short period of us surviving on my money and with us being the masters of all that is having nothing whatsoever in savings means we have nothing to put down on tickets 🙁 I wish we’d’ve gotten on board (pun) when the deposit payments were available. Ah well, at some point I’ll get on a boat and listen to metal
Went to download Magic 2015 from the play store and it says “your device is not compatible”. WTF!
My Z2 seems to have no problem with it.
I’ve got the original Z.
You need high system requirements to display those ultra-realistic card textures, bro!
/s
@kermitron @shane
Achievement Hunter have uploaded a new heist. By far the most exciting one. But probably the best thing to come out of the video was an alternate ending I found in the depths of YouTube’s comment section.
Alternate Ending – Written by Darzala
The Fake A-Team was flying away in the Titan with the choppers gaining on them. The choppers were getting inches away from taking them down when an explosion ripped through the air! Cries rang out from the Titan in the night sky as the Titan was engulfed in a fume of black smoke. The team closed their eyes in anticipation of their last moments as they said their last words. A second went by. Another. The team opened their eyes as they realized the Titan was still on the move, flying smoothly through the air with the black smoke lingering where the closest chopper had been just seconds before.SHOOOSH! The sound of a fighter jet pierced the teams’ ears as they gained clarity to the fact that they were still alive. Michael, slowly gaining his senses, peered around to see where the defining sound and black smoke had originated from. In the midst of the night sky, he was just barely able to distinguish what had happened when… Boom! One of the helicopters chasing the team spun wildly out of the sky to its earthy grave.
“Oh my God! It’s Dan the Man! He’s taking out the choppers in a fighter jet!” yelled Michael, as the other team members began to sight Dan lighting up the night sky with his firepower.
BOOM! Another chopper succumbed to gravity and began plummeting to the earth below. “Monkey fudgebip! We’re going to make it after all!” screamed Gavin, as he operated the Titan’s controls while trying to catch a glimpse of Dan in action.
Dan the Man swiftly cleared out the sky, living up to his name, sending chills through the Fake A-Team as they were finally able to grasp what had just transpired. All that was left in the sky were wisps of smoke, temporary markings of the one-sided dog fight.
It was almost serene as they approached their destination. Gavin, in awestruck of watching Dan and attempting to hide the fact that he had cacked his pants, prepared to land the Titan with the thought of the first successful heist in AH history. He looked around at all of his mates that were still alive, only to have his breath taken away to realize Ray was no longer with them. Thoughts of the X-Ray and Vav connection began surging through his mind. A flashback, clear as a theater film, began to fill his head. He remembered the time he jabbed at Ray’s controller in a Minecraft Let’s Play causing him to lose the game’s round only to later win the Let’s Play for him by erecting the Tower of Pimps on his block. Gavin forced a laugh through the gut wrenching sadness that had overcome him.
“Gavin! What are you doing!? You don’t have the landing gear down!” Jack screamed. Realizing they were only feet from the ground, Gavin hastily snapped out of his memory with his lost friend and began to frantically press the controls to lower the landing gear. The entire crew panicked as they saw the ground only a car length away. The landing gear slowly dropped a couple of inches in what seemed like an eternity, but it was too late! The Titan slammed into the earth with a deafening roar. A metal eating fireball consumed the Titan in a hot flash. Silence pursued, as nothing but the crackling of flames and a shadowy figure remained.
Ghost Ray stood next to the flames, realizing that his sacrifice had been in vain. He stared at the orangish glow of the spreading fire for a moment, trapped by its mesmerizing motion.
He then turned to leave, slowly turning his back to the Titan grave, muttering one last sentence to his fallen comrades. “Just blaze.”
The End
Incredible.
Thanks for the heads-up! Watching now!
Hey Guys,
Just wanted an opinion again on this computer build.
http://www.pccasegear.com/sc/e7H
I would like to take it to under $2500 if I could, but want the dual monitors and keyboard and mouse for sure.
if you don’t plan to overclock, don’t bother getting the 4970K. Just get the 4970 and save yourself some $. Other than that, it could do with a motherboard..
If there’s no overclocking going on and it’ll mostly be used for gaming and not stuff like video editing, an i5 is more than enough. The 4690 will save $150. Also, I have a first gen i5, but the stock cooler was more than capable of keeping it cool so the cpu cooler is probably not needed.
Other than that, agree with @welbot. A motherboard is a must, games won’t use anywhere near 16gb RAM atm (and when they do RAM is dirt cheap enough to just buy another stick later on) and a 120gb SSD will be enough for the OS and a couple of games. Unless you’re really wanting to cut down on loading times for games, Western Digital HDDs are fast enough for most applications atm.
Lastly, do you need Windows Professional? If you’re wanting it for Office just get the Home edition and download Open Office to save some more pennies
Pro doesn’t come with office. It just has a few more features than home.
even less reason to get Pro then 😀
well it depends. if he wants to play around with domains, or encryption, then he’ll need it. There are a few other nifty features too, but if he doesn’t intend to do anything with it except use it as a platform to launch games, then yes, I’d say get home, but I’d also go a step further and say get windows 8, as it’s generally cheaper than 7 now
I’d say shave off 8gb of ram if you need to save some money too. you can always add more later. Perhaps even the ssd. 120 should be enough to keep you out of trouble, and you can add more to expand later if need be.
Halfweay through updating Carmageddon: Reincarnation!
Only… 7.7 GB to go!
‘lo
Jimu! \o/
‘i
‘mu!
Fuck it, TAY20 is now a permanent coupon.
http://shanewsmith.com/shop/
That’s mighty generous of you man.
You obviously missed the part of my writing career where I was just giving books out to TAYbies. This actually feels a little stingy in comparison 😛
I actually feel pretty bad that I have yet to pay for one of your books and I’ve got pretty much all of them. So much guilt.
The Game might ease that guilt.
I tried to pay him a reasonable price for one of his books once. HE SENT SOME OF THE MONEY BACK. IN CASH FORM, SO I COULDN’T REFUSE IT.
WHAT A MONSTER.
Once we were ambushed by eight ninjas and he took them all out before I had a chance to fight any. Jerk.
He’s the WORST. >:(
Obviously.
*tries TAY90*
Damn.
The guilt this would have produced if it worked would have been hilarious
Anybody got the xbox one? It takes soooooooo long to download any game
just got mine last friday… no real issue with the downloading, but the installs… oh god the installs. a game that takes about 8 seconds to install on my PS4 takes 30+ minutes on the xbone.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Seventeenth Session Recap (25th June 2014) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Phetys aka @mythamphetamine the mechanical Nano who fuses flesh and steel,
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness,
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders,
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
And unfortunately absent:
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places.
The party sealed the door behind them as they entered the Spinneret. They hoped that would deter the roaming slime creatures from attacking them as they scaled the tower and sought to destroy the Insidious Choir once and for all. The party cautiously started walking up the ramp that would take them deeper into the Choir’s lair.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
FUCK YES I FINALLY BEAT INCURSION
(Context – it’s one of Elite: Dangerous’ single player missions that I’ve been playing through, involving multiple waves of enemies that just mow you down. It’s fucking hard and I came close to wrenching the controller in pieces many times)
And now it is bedtime. Well, past bedtime.
…Well past bedtime.
it’s cold, and I can”t sleep, so I’m staying up watching the Tour de France.
And now I’m off to bed.
Goodnight, TAY.
Doki-Doki Universe.
Get it. Play it. Love it.
I’ll be honest, as a purchased game I’d give it 5/10, but as a PS+ free game I’d easily give it 10/10, just for the personality quizzes 🙂
Screw the story, that only brings the rating down 😛
Carmageddon:Reincarnation, Eff Yeah!
All I can say is, I cannot wait for the final release of this game! 😀
Hey @negativezero
Do you still happen to have a spare Destiny Beta key? I haven’t been able to get to a shop to pre order, will do it tomorrow on the way to Jimu’s thing.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I was under the impression that it was now an open Beta, so no key required.
Edit: My bad, even though it’s open apparently you still need a code, which you get from pre-ordering.
I’m still waiting for my key. The key I got sent by EB to redeem on the Destiny website has been activated by another account. Yay me while I wait for Activision’s customer service to do something. On the plus side, this could potentially free up lots of time over the weekend to…play a different game all weekend
That sucks man.
OMFG Today’s Destiny’s beta! I forgot all about it…. You just made my day 0.0
I wonder how big the download will be,
Eh you can have mine if you like, since I can’t play the beta. What console you getting it for?
PS4, why can’t you play the Beta?
No PS+ sub and I cancelled my pre order 😛
Edit:
F87T-CNND-4K8D ENJOY!
champion, thank you so much.
No worries dude.
quick question, is that the PS4 code? I, like a noob just went to put it onto the bungie code redemption thing :p
Yeah PS4 code haha, I had redeemed by beta inv codes months ago. Sorry! 😛
I do but it will be hard for me to get it to you until Monday. Do you need AU or US?
all good @virus__ just fixed me up, thank you very much anyway.
I just want to point out that the strongest guy in the Final Fantasy X universe has to be the monster arena guy.
So he seems lazy making you go around and collect all the monsters for him but really that stuffs just below him. Not only is he capable of keeping captive just about every fiend you can find but he’s able to then create new ones himself!
Most of these are even more powerful then Sin, the monster that’s been humanity’s most feared threat over the last 3000 years.
He even manages not to let these abominations escape and on top of that he can control them enough that they are never able to kill your party beyond healing.
We should be thankful that he decided to use his talents for blood sports rather then world domination.
OK, Dynasty warriors 8 EXTREME LEGENDS COMPLETE EDITION!!!!!! is apparently on sale. I’ve been tempted to buy it but I’m holding out until they add on line co-op (or I forget about it, whichever comes first).
But what is confusing me at the moment is the caption on the ad. What the hell does “WEEKENDTILBUD50% RAB AT” mean? I’m guessing it’s supposed to say weekend deal and someone is drunk at work.
Apparently @pixel_the_ferret_viking can tell you what that says.
You’re a terrible person!!! Wait no, that is legitimately danish… You still a terrible person though XD
EDIT – and yes it says Weekend Sale 50% discount 😛
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/07/the-wii-u-is-getting-one-scary-looking-game/#comment-2817265
OH MY FLIPPING GOD GUYS! Mind you I’m trying not to get my hopes up because it may not be released in Australia or UK. I’m hoping it will.
I take it you’re looking forward to The Evil Within then?
I don’t have the console for Evil within. It looks great, but I really love the fatal frame series
I really hope it’s gonna see a western release too, remember playing Fatal Frame I and II (Project Zero) on the PS2. They really need to do a collection with all 4 of the previous games. You know they’re making a film too? It’s coming out this year (in Japan at least).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Frame_(film)
I’m not too hopefully about the film as they’ve kind of been discussing it since the first one.
Played 3, 4 and shinrei shashin? I mean Spirit camera
Hahaha good one 😛
My experience is Nintendo Australia will screw us over. Nintendo of Europe will fight for us.
Clearly we should just buy nintendo.
AN EMAIL FROM BUNGIE…telling me it’s not too late to select how I’ll play the beta. I bloody well would if you replied to my support ticket about my beta code that’s apparently activated on someone else’s account.
Cheers for the mockery Bungie 🙁
Oh man, you poor bastard. Talk about a kick in the nads.
Edit: Not promising anything, but I MIGHT pre-order it on PS4 today, if I do you can have my code. I won’t be able to play it because I don’t have a PS4 yet.
you can play the beta on ps3 even if you order the game as ps4. The same with 360 and Xbone I think too
Meh, I’d rather wait till the full release.
Edit: Still tossing up whether I want to just pre-order the game, or if I want the Limited Edition console bundle.
Edit Edit: Think I’ll just go with the Limited Edition game, if I get the LE console and I want extra controllers down the line the white ones will probably be hard to find and expensive. Looks better in black anyway. Besides the LE copy of the game includes the Expansion (Season) Pass.
I just got an e-mail telling me it’s not too late to choose…. BUT I’VE ALREADY CHOSEN DAMN YOU! :@
Just found out that apparently they’re making a TV series based on the 12 Monkeys film.
Thoughts?
I hope it’s not terrible.
http://collider.com/12-monkeys-tv-show-trailer/
Not available in Australia 🙁
Why the hell would that do that on a damn trailer?!?!? ARGH!
If we don’t know it exists, we can’t pirate it?
True, but we also can’t buy it so it doesn’t actually help them. Then again most of these big companies don’t seem to act with their long term best interests at heart when it comes to piracy. All they care about is what will be said at the next shareholder meeting.
Oh poop.
Here’s one that works!
Thanks man.
Looks good.
I think it could be really good but I suspect even if it starts off good it’s the sort of thing they’ll be tempted to keep making new things happen so that nothing ever gets resolved and they can keep pumping out more episodes until it dies in a pile of it’s own mediocrity as seems to happen with so many shows these days.
For a good story there needs to be some sort of destination. That was one of the things I liked most about breaking bad. They weren’t afraid to wrap up the show when it came to it’s natural ending even though it was still popular (possibly more then ever.)
But with time travel I worry they’ll be too tempted to throw a start trek and keep throwing out all the old cannon.
I worry about this with every new tv show these days.
The thing about the film is that is kind of resolves itself as much as a film based on a time paradox can. That story’s been told, I don’t need to see any more of Cole. From the trailer, I don’t know if any of the characters are Cole, but the main guy is looking like Brad Pitt’s character, but it does seem to be rehashing the time travel stuff that has already been done in the film. Show me how the new World works. There’s gotta be plenty of stories that can be told around that
Depends on the angle they take. If it just focuses on Cole and rehashes what was in the film then it might be crap but hopefully it’ll focus more on the fallout of the virus being released and the changes that happens in the World. Everyone loves post-apocalyptic stuff. Now to go and look it up
POST-APOCALYPTIC URBAN DECAY @dc.
Holy shit! Was browsing PC Case Gear and found out that this is a thing.
Didn’t even know they made 12GB graphics cards these days. At $3600 they can keep it too.
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/500x/43617100.jpg
Is that the one @ynefel has two of in his pc?
I think he has Titan Blacks?
Got two reference 6GB Gigabyte GTX Titans with XSPC water blocks and plates – the Titan Z is pretty much just two Titans bolted together on a single card. Crazy. AMD also has the 295X2 which is pretty much the same, except it’s two R9 290X’s bolted together with a factory closed loop cooler.
I think they are primarily designed for developers so they can make games and such that will run at max settings on high range PCs when the game comes out in a few years. But they are still happy to sell them to people who want to run Crysis at 4k resolution.
nope! these are straight up enthusiast cards. You can also get a 12gb quadro K6000 for around $6000. That’s the developers card!
Beat LA Noire last night, that’s 3 games finished this week, bringing my total to 20 games finished in 2014 so far.
Overall I thought LA Noire was decent but was always a bit thrown off by the “doubt” option, I said doubt not accuse the suspect of everything aggressively.
Highlight
All the old timey music and radio shows really helped the atmosphere.
Yeah, that was probably my main issue with the game. I assumed doubt would mean “Hmm, I don’t think you’re telling the truth,” not “FUCK YOU YOU LYING PIECE OF SHIT!”
some of them were nuts, having a nice calm chat, choose doubt and the dude just flies off the rails, starts shouting in their face and makes some really nasty accusations, one case you interview the wife of a suspected murder victim (he’s missing), she seemed totally innocent to me but I suspected she was withholding evidence so I chose doubt thinking maybe I’ll squeeze some more info out of her, nope, Cole jumps up points his finger in her face and yelled things like “Why did you kill your husband” and the poor woman looked like she was going to cry, I felt like a terrible detective.
I used to just drive around listening to the radio in that game. Some of the radio shows were hilarious.
I was doing that last night, only have some free roam things left to collect, actually makes looking for collectibles a pleasure.
But you don’t want to have to get out of your car or the radio stops, so you find the smallest car you can get and try to drive it into every nook looking for collectibles.
At least that’s what I did.
:O
great idea, I’ll have to track down the smallest one I can find
I always do that in Rockstar games. I’ll just sit in a parked car and listen to the radio. My all time favourite has to be Emotion with Fernando Martinez in Vice City.
Apparently in design it was “Press,” like pressure the witness. Makes so much more sense
that would have made so much more sense. I felt bad during a lot of interrogations, your character could be such a dick.
I wonder why they dropped it. Too many gamers getting disappointed that it wasn’t a prelude to porn?
How many hours did it take you to finish it? I’ve been meaning to sink my teeth into that game for a while.
I think my stats said about 25 hours, It didn’t feel that long, must have been all the slow investigating bits. I did play it in fragments over the last year or so, so that might have warped my perspective somewhat. Also I did spend a bit of time just exploring doing nothing in particular.
Hey @rize, up for some alcohol mixed with SRIV tonight? Feel like getting mah Super Saiyan swagger on!
I might have a dinner thing on, not sure, but after that sounds good to me!
One episode left of true detective
everyone on that show is a horny asshole. Still good though. Really good.Still gotta start that. Should be finishing up Season 1 of Under The Dome tonight, so then I can start on this over the weekend.
Oh man, so fucking good, right? Easily the best thing on TV in a long time.
Its a winner on all fronts
Amazing soundtrack, brilliant actors, compelling story, subtle humor, great camera work.
It feels more like 8 movies with a overarching plot. SOOO GOOD.
SAH GERD!
Have you seen Breaking Bad or The Wire?
seen 1 and a half seasons of Breaking bad, never touched the wire. The hype is too strong. Ive heard its the best thing ever put on tv and im afraid its gonna be shit.
Sometimes my jokes are too subtle.
HOW GOOD IS THIS SHOT: https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/m6Y7E6EBhvQ/hqdefault.jpg
AND THE CONCLUSION OF EPISODE FOUR!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_HuFuKiq8U
woody harlson looks like the giant titan from attack on titanwith roads on his face.
Well that is depressing news to wake upto.
Yeah I was just reading up on that…. What’s even more frustrating is I don’t trust any of the world’s leaders to do a damned thing about it. They’ll do the usual song and dance while the media has it’s frenzy over this and we’ll never hear of it again.
Nope. They’re all too scared of Russia to do a damned thing.
I wouldn’t say scared, let’s use the words not properly motivated. I’m sure if the Russians had encroached on US soil we’d be at all out war now! But as long as its any country that isn’t America invasion, terrorism and abusing human rights will be tolerated!
with a population closing in at 150 million and all their resources, I think they’re pretty intimidating personally.
I agree, but I still think if there was any kind of encroachment on American soil most first world countries would have sprung up to defend the incursion.
The fact is the initial lack of reaction from the rest of the world to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has allowed a situation like this to manifest and 300 civilians have had to pay the price. Do I believe Russia and DPR carry most of the blame? Yes but the world leader and the UN that responded by slapping Putin on the wrist for his extremist actions in Ukraine get a share of the blame too.
yeah, just a horrible situation, I don’t know how it should be handled I just know Russia isn’t a bee hive I’d want to kick.
Heard about that on the radio during the drive to work. It was so incredibly surreal it took me a good 30 seconds to process what was said…
I dont think i can process it still. Its like we are in War times where even the general population isnt shielded from the conflicts. its fucking terrible.
Mum mentioned it to Dad when we were leaving this morning, so he put the radio on in the car. They were reading out how many passengers there were, and from each country. Hundred and something Dutch, however many Australians, so man Filipino, a few other nationalities… and one Canadian. For some reason I found that last bit hilarious and then I felt bad >_>
1st thought: I really hope that ‘consular staff’ is code for, ‘the most heavily-armed, meanest, nastiest, most ruthlessly and efficiently lethal motherfucking killers western civilization can produce’.
2nd thought: Why on earth did I think that? Things are probably a lot more complicated than I know from some news.com article.
3rd thought: My Dad flies Malaysia Air sometimes. If it had been him, I would fucking scorch the earth myself if someone else didn’t. Fuck ‘reasons’ and complicated anything. You drag uninvolved civilians into your fucking bullshit, you deserve a swift and painful death.
Unbelievably horrific. Seeing all the passports being gathered on news. Heart breaking. 🙁
Agreed man. Just utterly horrific 🙁
@scree, did you get that code?
No I did not, sorry.
Shit, you were offline at the time, I’ll send it again, give me a minute or two.
Yeah, steam told me I had messages from you but didn’t show them. =/ Thanks steam, real helpful.
Got 2x Destiny PS4 beta codes (Euro region) up for grabs if anyone wants them…
@dc are you public transporting to Jimu’s or did you score a lift?
Haven’t thought that far ahead yet. I think I can probably get a ride to there but no idea on getting home. That’s future D.C.’s problem. XD
We can drop you back as well.
Oh, I was going to get my sister to drop me off there. Don’t like the idea of you going any further north than you have to. XD THANKS THOUGH!
It’s like 10 mins…
eh, just make sure I get drunk an I’ll pay for a cab :P, I hear poor Jimu is still sick so we’ll just be hanging at his for a while.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Was anyone you knew on the attacked plane?
Nah not at all… Pretty scary though i was considering that particular route to get to Denmark over Christmas time :P…
Was just on the Steam store and came across Plague Inc. “Now featuring the Simian Flu from Dawn Of The Planet of The Apes”.
Hmmm, to buy or not to buy, if Steam’s removed the lock on my account that is.
How many monkey-themed or monkey-mention games do you own?
If you count Enslaved: Odyssey To The West, Tales Of Monkey Island and Secret Of Monkey Island, I think 3.
I played a bit of Plague inc on my mobile a while back, was really interesting but was riddled with pay walls so I never progressed past being a basic virus. My sister forked out a couple of bucks for more features and she really enjoyed it, interesting concept if a little morbid.
@freezespreston @jocon @transientmind @negativezero
In light of the recent events mentioned up the page, I have to ask you guys what you want to do about flights to Japan. The plan was to fly Malaysian Airlines, but I have already had a phone call from another couple on the trip saying they reeeally don’t want to fly Malaysian. What are your thoughts?
i feel for them, because it’s not like it’s their fault they got SHOT DOWN.
I know, I feel the same. Personally I think they are a great airline, who have been galactically unlucky this year. But perception is reality, and people are perceiving its unsafe to fly Malaysian. *shrug* Hopefully we can get a consensus on what to do, but we’re all spending money on the trip. Everyone gets a say 🙂
These kinds of things can destroy an airline, too.
They are certainly in for a rough couple of years, even if there are no more incidents
Not to mention went missing, how many bad luck rolls can they get?
Seems a fair call to make. Honestly, I was (somewhat unrealistically) hoping to hold out a little longer to see if any truly absurd deals came up to mimic the outright-ridiculous specials we saw last year (like… $200 each way kind of ridiculous) anyway. With the missing MH370 also being a Malaysia Air flight (also rumoured shot down), I can understand folks being a bit gun-shy of that Airline. (Like maybe someone has a grudge against their planes.)
The next best option was with Singapore airlines, which are better in terms of flight times for everyone, but were a bit more expensive than Malaysian. Honestly I think Singapore are a slightly better airline, have never had any bad feedback about them. But its a question of if people are willing to pay a bit more for that extra service
I really don’t think the plane got shot down because of what airline it was. I dare say Malaysian Airlines will just change their route.
I’d imagine the sensible thing to do is check up on the itinerary of any flights that plan on going near the Ukrainan or even Russian air space and swap over to flights that avoid those territories.
Edit: That said I won’t be flying anywhere anytime soon >.
How important is it that we all fly together?
It was mostly so that we all arrive at the same time and can organise a single transfer to get us to the hotel in Osaka on the first day. I figured it would be easier to do it as a group rather than arriving a couple at a time. I suppose its not essential, but I was hoping we’d all start off the trip together
I was looking to go with Jetstar since they have direct flights from the airport that’s 10 minutes from my home. Also they’re usually ridiculously cheap flights. On one hand, ugh, Jetstar. On the other, cheaper.
Still. Ugh. Jetstar.
I just had a look at the Jetstar flights for the dates we’re going, and once you add on all the taxes, booking fees, baggage, meals etc you end up with basically exactly the same price as Malaysian or Singapore. And I will all but guarantee that you’ll have a better experience on one of those two than with Jetstar.
Jetstar are very good at looking cheap in the beginning, but then slowly adding and adding until you end up paying just as much as any other airline.
Personally I am fine with Malaysian as long as the specific flight does not go over the Ukraine.
That flight in question was heading to Kuala Lumpur after all.
Probs have to ask my +2 as well though.
I’m not worried either way but I would like to arrive as a group if possible
I gotta say that my job’s internet policy is a bit weird. They’ve set up a wi-fi network that can be accessed by staff however you need to send an email requesting access and they’ll give you a special user-specific login. Which they will monitor to see if you’re overusing the service.
I think I’ll stick to restricted PC internet and free mobile data thanks.
I think I’m trying to figure out a way to change the system here at work to function like a set of logic gates.
Except I don’t really know what I’m doing at all or whether it would even be useful in the end.
Long time lurker, first time poster. Anywho, I’ve got
twoone spare key for the Destiny Beta (PS4, Europe region) if anyone wants them. Figured here would be as good as any to give them away; I’d hate to see them go to waste. Let me know if you want one, and a contact address (email/whatever) so I can send it to you.Hey, you! Welcome!
SOMEONE GET THE OAR OF THORNS
Is it initiation time again?!? *menacing grin*
YAY! BRING THE OAR!
I didn’t get oar’d 🙁 … 😛
Come to my house and I can fix that for you 😉
that’s a paddlin’
That it is Red.
That. It. Is 😉
Hi, Thanks, and D: (and in that order).
Hey!
I had no luck asking about this on twitter the other day, but if you still have any left I’d love to grab one. It’s not for me (I don’t have a PS4), but for a friend of mine.
email: *redacted*
Thanks!
Sent! One down, one to go.
Thanks very much, and welcome to TAY!
Hello! and welcome!
Welcome 😀
Welcome to Tay.
Financial warning: Sometime within the next year or so you will find yourself travelling to another city to meet (“meat”) people if you keep posting. Don’t fight it. It will happen.
I did that. Now I live in Dubbo.
The curse of TAY has spoken. Bewaaaaare.
And someone will try to sell you a copy of The Lesser Evil.
Permanently discounted, mind you. 🙂
Xenoblade?
I just want to say, that offer is open to everyone.
I own all the Fatal frame/ProjectZero/Zero games and are happy to lend them out
Xbox
Fatal frame
Fatal frame 2
Ps2
Fatal frame 3
3DS
Spirit Camera
Wii
Fatal frame 4
Fatal frame 2 remake
Yes but will you be playing Destiny this weekend?!
no?
🙁
I had the one where you start in the woods and move down to some traditional village and there’s the ghost girl in the box.
It was pretty rad. Terrified my wife.
And really, isn’t that what you look for in a game?
That’s Fatal frame 2. She was killed in that box y’know.
Way to just spoil the whole game Scree, gosh!
Or have I? You’ll have to borrow the game to find out.
Just decided that I think I might like to borrow them, but I don’t have a PS2 or 3DS anymore, and apparently the XBox versions aren’t compatible with 360.
Want fatal frame 2 on wii?
I’m really tempted to go out and buy a PS4 today. I really want to play that Destiny Beta =P
You totally should! What else are you going to do? Work? Lololololololololoolololololol……
..
….
I’m sorry. I bring shame upon myself and my family.
You sir have offended me, buy me a PS4 and we can call it even okay?
=PWhy the equals-pee? He might’ve actually bought you one!
because then I can be all: “Oh man, I was joking you are an idiot” but then be all “Oh man, he totally knew I wasn’t joking” in my head
is there anything else on PS4 you want that’s already out? once the Beta ends you might not have anything to play until the proper release.
Infamous Second Son, Killzone (mostly because it’s an exclusive). There are a couple of games I definitely want coming out.
well in that case I’d say go for it if it won’t leave you destitute.
I say go for it even if it leaves you destitute! Sacrifices must be made for the greater games… I mean good.
DOOOOOO EEEEEEEET!!!!!!
will this be the first case of people buying a console to play a beta? Not saying it’s not worth it, if you haven’t played the games on other platforms then there’s plenty of games available to keep you busy until then…also the Destiny Alpha was pretty damned good. Who’m I to dissuade someone?
It’s not exactly just because of the Beta, I’ve wanted one for a couple of months now but all the deals currently out are crap. Most of them come with games I already have because, heaven forbid, Sony selling their console selling games with their console.
The Destiny bundle would be something I’d want but that defeats the purpose of getting a console for the beta. There’s definitely nothing like the Wii U bundles out atm though which sucks a bit. Are there no PS4/Vita bundles going around? (assuming you don’t have and want a Vita)
I’ve got a Vita, all I want is a PS4 with console exclusives. Is that too much to ask!? (Also I do not like the look of the white PS4).
So my cat has apparently learnt that he won’t get injured from jumping off our balcony 🙁 We don’t wanna let him out due to cars and also dogs basically in every garden surrounding ours, not to mention the odd snakeskin or two we occasionally find. Looks like it’s time for CUFCfixitman616 (CUFC-The-Tool-Man-616?) to make an appearance and lay down some mesh over the railings
My dad’s been in the hospital so much they gave him a preferred customer card.
Yeah, one more head injury and we win a trip to Hawaii.
Uf uf uf uf uf.
Why can’t I find Hearthstone on the play store? All I can find is Spellbook: Hearthstone, which was developed by Massive Disaster, not Blizzard.
Just answered my own question, apparently it’s not out yet.
then demand early-access
To truly enjoy Hearthstone dear monkey, you must play it in its natural element. The PC.
#pcmasterface
Here’s hoping you can play it! Message me on steam once you create your account I’ll send you my BNET deets! Though at this stage you can only duel your friends =P
Done, have to get ready for work now, so we’ll swap deets either tonight or at some point over the weekend.
Anyone downloaded the Destiny Beta yet curious how big the download is considering the Alpha was 6gb. I gotta go home to Master the Beta…. hehehe
Just short of 13GB.
cheers, blergh better start that as soon as I get home, hope the network isn’t too flooded but with it being Friday night and everyone downloading it I suspect it’ll take a while. Bring on the weekend already
You can’t kick it off remotely? You can set things to download from the web store, but you’ll have to have set the PS4 to allow downloads in standby mode.
Yeah I should have set that up, good advice will be heeded 😀
I think part of the problem is that it isn’t a PSN download, it’s mucho grande download time once you launch the client.
Going by screenshots and comments I’ve seen on twitter, at least.
Oh, is it? It’s listed as 12.3GB in my PSN download queue. Maybe it’s one of those ones where you can download a bit, launch it, and play while the rest downloads?
https://twitter.com/Joabyjojo/status/489929247771729921
It appears the voices in my head didn’t make this one up.
Edit: thank you for the spaces in the URL, clipboard
Great. So I get home drunk, set it to download and then pass out to be greeted by it tomorrow!
@markserells tweeted that it’s apparently about 15GB.
Dammit! @markserrels.
I was going to say someone should make a @marksurreals twitter account and post nothing but post-modernised arty-sounding gibberish tangentially related to videogames but with all the words mixed up and making references to things no one understands, but then I remembered I already follow Donald Plainview and Ian Bogost.
A school teacher rang just now to ask us if we could host an excursion for a high school class studying web development/project management.
Now I get to put on my best bored Box Factory employee impression!
“Many interesting and important things have featured on our websites over the years: textiles, other websites, even children’s candy.”
“Do any of these websites have candy in them?”
“No”
“Will they ever?”
“No, we only make websites to advertise nails.”
Who can take the sunshine
Add header tags or two?
Cover it in photos
and a CSS or two?
The Powalen!
The Powalen can because he mixes it with love and makes a website good
Who can take a project?
A database or two?
Soak it in the code
and code a website just for you?
The Powalen!
The Powalen can because he mixes it with love and makes a website good
Website rulers make
Everything you take
Visually clean and slicker
You should click it with your clicker
You can even share on twitter
Who can take tomorrow?
Code it all to be?
Firefox compliant and
ready for all to see
The Powalen!
The Powalen can because he mixes it with love and makes a website good
And the website works good, because Powalen thinks it should
@redartifice The Magic 2015 cards are out now aren’t they. Haven’t got a FLGS here, so I’m hoping that K-Mart have got them in.
Tonight I believe is the first time you can draft with them and purchase them, yeah.
Horsham, yes? looks like your closest FLGS is Stawell.
Really, I didn’t know they had one.
Wizards thingo tells me it’s something called “Miss Devious”
Righto, cheers, don’t think I’ll make a trip just to get cards, but if we’re ever on our way through I reckon I’ll stop in.
Dunno if it’s a store or some sort of stockist, can’t find it on the web. has a fb page though
Ok so not quite logic gates, but more a state machine. Just finished talking it through with the boss, and he seems to like the idea.
Sooooo confusing a conversation though. Because he kept asking me things and I don’t think I’m smart enough to say “yes this is how it should be”, I can’t even remember why I came to some decisions I did. It just… feels right? The vibe, Mabo, etc 😛
Just get someone else to come and test it. They will often pick up on obvious things that you may have missed
I dunno, I think I might be the guy who needs to test it 😛
It still needs to be put to the code guy in charge of modifying the engine, so I guess we still need to see whether it’s possible and/or goes into the Too Hard basket. Could be cool if it goes ahead though. Especially if it does so without me having fundamentally borked it up so that it runs into issues down the line 😛
Sooo, EB Games Aus is gonna be opening a pop culture venture here in the coming weeks. Should be interesting, it’ll be something along the lines of Minotaur in Melbourne or Pop Cultcha (that online store, no idea if they have a physical store)
Edit: Beavwa just told me they opened one in Melbourne a few weeks back. Sounds like it has potential, especially since that kinda stuff sells really well at EB.
I sorted my work issues. I was a bit irrational on Monday when i tried to stand my ground. I compromised a little and so did my boss and he is happy and im happy. I also think i should learn to manage my stress better before i turn into a irrational ball of idiocy. Thanks to everyone for your help. 🙂
Glad everything’s sorted man, and you’re happy.
Oh rocketman! *cue sitcom laughter*
Just installed Hearthstone, at the account sign-up stage. Do I really have to put in my birthdate and real name? Didn’t they get hacked a while ago?
John Smith 1 Jan 1970
lol, but wouldn’t it have to match your credit card info if you’re gonna purchase packs of cards?
Nope.
Cool, thanks man. But yeah, as I said before, didn’t they get hacked a while ago? A bit weary of putting my card info on there because of that.
Then don’t put any card info there. You don’t need to make any in-game purchases to play, you can just grind it out for gold.
Fair enough. Sorry for being a noob.
Account set up and ready to go. I’ll give it a crack over the weekend @pupp3tmast3r.
You can use PayPal with Blizzard 🙂
Here’s a warning with Bnet Monkey, it does get hacked often especially if you have a WoW account. Make sure before putting your details in there that you get an authenticator app for the account. Trust me it made all the difference back when I’d log in to my WoW account and find random toons all over the servers =@
Also don’t spend any money on Hearthstone, I’ll give you a rundown of the basics on steam tonight or over the weekend if you log on! If you don’t make sure not to spend your gold on anything! Just save it up for now!
If you would like to spend money on the game and contribute to Blizz they’re probably releasing a $25 expansion pack in a month or so! So hold off until then. If you can save up enough in gold you don’t need to pay for it, however you might be better off spending gold in the arena!
I should really re-link my authenticator 😛
I think I utterly screwed up my unis enrollment process :S
I’m pretty sure I ended up:
– Studying a third year subject in second year
– Studying subjects in the wrong semesters
– Studying one unit off campus, and
– Having two units on the same day :S
Also apparently I’ll need to pick two electives at some stage, but the only electives on offer tend to be artsy ones (due to my uni being part of WAAPA (West Australian Academy of Performing Arts)), so I’m probably gonna have to do dance at some stage :S
I would care a lot more, but I ended up with a 5-day weekend this semester (Thursday – Monday), so I’m in a good place right now 🙂
I thought that was already a pretty regular occurrence?
Exactly! I figured I may as well get some practice / credits for it 😛
dancing for me is a daily occurrence whether people want it or not. Everything’s better through the medium of interpretive dance
A 5 day weekend may sound great now, but yeah… in my experience they’re horrible 😛
STOP TRYING TO RUIN MY MOOD, POW! >:(
If I don’t, who will!?
…Life :'(
#Emo4Lyf
It’s “The Powalen”.
Don’t you read anything that @redartifice writes?! 😛
Liondrive ignores me.
Probably a good life choice.
If it helps, you can probably head over to the Enrollment desk and bring your current course list and a sad, puppy-dog expression and look broken-hearted when you explain that you don’t know what you’re doing and think you screwed everything up and please help.
I’ve done it. It worked.
Yeah, but I don’t really want to lose this 5-day weekend, haha!
I think I can work with it by putting my second major units in the gaps of my first major, but it’ll take a bit of, manipulation :S
I think I should be fine, hopefully 😀
Writing an expression of interest email for a job is hard 🙁
What, like a cover letter?
Hmm I guess it would be now I think about it. But saying that I already am employed by the company that the position is in..
Dear x
I am writing to express my interest in internal position y, advertised [wherever the fuck it came from].
As a current [job title] of ABC company, I would make an excellent y, as I am [insert responsible/effective/good at sales words]. During my time with y, I have [something good you did].
Please see attached my current resume [and responses to the ad if needed].
Yours faithfully,
@virus__
PS: IRON MAIDEN RULES
PPS: Don’t include the second PS.
Cheers man! Appreciate the help, cover letters always stump me 😛
Dear sir,
I like money. I don’t have any money. I need money. This is where you come in.
Regards,
Lord Aleister Fatdong III
@novacascade I mentioned Malaysia Airlines to my wife and she freaked out and said she’d rather walk.
She’s a bit superstitious.
Did the girl in the box have anything to do with this?
I feel really bad for those guys now. Getting attacked by rogue militia/military isn’t exactly within most folks’ control, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the tinfoil hats are right and the first plane went missing as a result of military activity, either. And if everyone else is avoiding flying with them because of their bad ju-ju… you can only drop prices so low before you can’t pay for staff, maintenance, or fuel anymore, which only makes things worse. And they weren’t in the best position to start with. Shittiest. Luck. Ever. :/
I wonder if they’ll think about rebranding to control some of the likely blowback.
I don’t know how much rebranding they can do, seeing as it’s owned by the Malaysian government.
Rebrand the government!!!
Ours keeps doing that and it’s bloody annoying to clean up after.
I can almost guarantee you that the backlash from these 2 events they’ve had this year will mean the airline won’t exist soon… The loss of revenue for any airline as big as Malaysian airlines it’s pretty damn hard to come back from
Plus they’re both so high profile and decidedly unique. Looking at a list of 2014 air disasters there’s been more than a few others.
Oh. I just saw they’re offering full unconditional refunds for already booked flights.
*wince*
Those guys lost coworkers and confidence in their safety at work. :/
Looks like Singapore might be the go
I have 2 ex girlfriends arguing on my facebook wall about politics. Maybe it’s time to deactivated for a while…
Eh, just click the arrow next to the post and say “show me less of this”
Get involved and tell them they’re both wrong.
Welcome to ‘keeping your exes as friends on Facebook’, where nothing can possi-bligh go wrong. Er. Possibly go wrong. That’s the… first thing that’s ever gone wrong.
I make a point of not deleting people from facebook as that would just be admitting defeat. We can’t have that now can we?
Mediate the argument and convince them to bond over something they share in common…. You. =P
Edit: Remember… Make love not war 😀
“Ladies….ladies please. There’s plenty of me to go around”
For those of you who might’ve already started on the Destiny Beta… Any indication on how long it took to download the game?
Average time based on most people’s Internet connections would be like 6 to 10 hours, if you have ADSL2+.
There’s a bunch of smart, grown-up type people here, right?
You know how you have a limit with your bank of how much you can withdraw from ATMs, and spend through EFTPOS in the one day? Can you change this at all?
I need to spend a lot more than that limit on a day very soon. Will just pressing the “Credit” button instead of “Savings” work(I have a debit card), or will I need to make different arrangements?
Wow, I sound really clueless! I’m not used to spending great amounts of money. 😛
I don’t even know if my debit card has a limit or not 😛
#helping
I think I can change mine through online banking. Never tried, I just think I remember seeing the option.
yep just ring the bank and they’ll change it for you. depending on who you bank with they may also do it as just a temporary limit increase. from the debit card if you’re withdrawing money from an ATM it should be cheque but if you use it via an eftpos machine it will be credit.
If its a debit carrd, using credit should work exactly the same as savings (be careful of any fees for using credit though). Not sure if its governed by the same limit.
You can up your limit by calling the bank. You can do it for a single day or make it a permanent increase
If you have a debit card, depending on the bank you’re with you can use the online banking to request (or in some cases change it directly) an increase to your withdrawal limit. As far as I’m aware, pressing credit while using a credit card will either deduct straight from your savings (and count towards your cap) or be refused as it sounds like you don’t have an attached credit account.
I think you can request a permanent increase to your withdrawal limit to about $2,000 but that depends on your bank. I believe (don’t quote me on this) that the limit for you debit card and a regular keycard are separate so you can kinda get around it that way. Best to contact your bank to make sure of that though.
I used to ring the bank and talk to them when I needed to do a large transaction on computer parts for a build job, but I’m pretty sure these days it’s all in netbanking for me at CBA.
I said no presents.
Last time I tried a few years ago (I was buying a couple suits and they went WELL over the EFTPOS limit) the only way was to extract cash from a branch.
Wandering around with a few thousand dollars in my pocket was an exercise in hyper-vigilance. 😛
I rang my bank and asked them to increase it because I wanted to buy a fridge and a washing machine. They were like “sure, we’ll increase it to $10,000!” I was like “I don’t think I have that much in the account…”
So, I just noticed that when you write the word “I’ll” the I is shorter than the l. Now I’ve noticed it I seem to keep tilting my head to try and make it straight.
No. Wait a moment, it’s making my eyes water and I’m going cross eyed now.
And to think some people want to backup the internet so that we don’t lose anything? Can’t wait until someone reads this thread in a hundred years.
Ooh, this man has master in his title, he must have been someone important.
This must be what lead to World War III, or world War Ill as some scholars wrote it.
Hello future people!
How was 2027? Gosh, wasn’t that a rum’in of a year.
Anyway, watch that John Smith fellow. Literally worse than Hitler.
Seeya!
But… but when I go on the run and have to change my identity, John Smith is what I want to use! Don’t ruin it for everyone by spoiling the surprise!
I can’t wait to see what the future people think about the pet sex monkeys that are issued to every citizen of Rand McNally on their 18th nameday.
Who can take some c sharp?
Link it to some ess-queue-ell?
Fuck up his transactions and send the database to hell?
Steve-O Can!
Steve-O can because he plays Minecraft at work far more than he should
Woops, reply to @redartifice
Steve-o Eve-o Loompa de do
I’ve got a computer puzzle to solve
Steve o Deve-o Loompa de de
Why is the Memory overflowing for me?
Why is the com-pu-ter program gone bad?
When your programmer’s slacking off bad
What are you doing to make us all sad?
If they find out, they’re not gonna be glad.
I don’t like the look of it
(deedle -eedle -eddle- it)
Steve-o Deve-o Loompa de dack
Why don’t we fire the admin who’s slack?
You could live in happiness too
Like the Steve-o Deve-o doompa de do!
I’m terrible, but not memory overflows in managed code terrible 😛
Shush, i just threw IT sounding terms at the page until they vaguely rhymed.
Actually, for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory it’s reasonably simple, fairly simple song structure.
Man, giggly cashier’s have really thrown me off today. Were they laughing AT me? D: (the first thing I did upon leaving the store was check my face for food and/or boogers :P)
You should have just awkwardly joined in with their laughter.
When I first met my wife, it was at a party hosted by a girl I’d dated briefly and was still pining for (she dumped/rejected me before we really had a relationship, so I don’t refer to her as an ex-girlfriend).
Anyway, late in the evening this girl, my future wife, and one of their other friends were off in the corner giggling. Because I was a sensitive-as-fuck and socially inept 20 year old I assumed they were giggling at me and sulked off by myself in another room. My future wife made several attempts to approach me but I pretty much ignored her because I assumed her flirting was some kind of joke.
Six months later we’d been chatting intermittently over MSN Messenger (yes this was 11 years ago, why do you ask) and I invited her to my 21st, where we hooked up.
It turns out they were giggling at the dude playing DOA: Extreme Beach Volleyball and listening to Aqua songs on his modded Xbox.
@powalen SEE! You just missed out on your future wife.
#moralofthestory
The main cashier was a guy, that’s why it threw me off so much haha
He could’ve changed you Pow!
If only you’d opened your heart to him :'(
Farewell, my future husband.
I think the weirdest cashier I have had was a young girl that did a small curtsy when I left. Made my “Catchya round” look like a pile of crap. (Although that did make my day so thank you odd-curtsy-girl”
No elegant, courtly bow from the honourable Ser Nobulus?
For shame, ser! I am aghast.
…Though I probably would’ve just chuckled, too.
haha, I did leave with a grin on my face.
If I knew that Dota 2 thing was going to be credited to Mark, I’d have thrown in more em dashes.
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Oh, Hi Mark.
the em-dash is one of the only unicode things I know off the top of my head, and it’s mainly through mocking Serrels on twitter.
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I’ve only got three memorised: é (233) from back when I was a massive anime geek, ß (223) because I always forget é is 233 and type 223 first, and ¿ (168) because upside down question marks are hilarious whatever the occasion.
They are¿
¿Did you not know that?
My grandfather dying from lung cancer is the reason I finally quit smoking 18 months ago.
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I don’t know what unicode ones are or how they differ, but I have a few that I use the alt codes for. 130 is for when I used to talk to a girl named Renée (those MSN days :P), 167 is for complaining about how 18º is really cold, 164 is for talking about how great jalapeños are.
Oh, I forgot about °. I use 248 for that though.
That’s weird. I get ° for 248, but if I do 233 I get Ú and 223 does ▀. 168 is still ¿ though.
Ugh, so bored… 🙁
We need a TAYgame…
Who can not comment the longest! Next person to comment loses.
So I just got back from all this weeks invoices and…. OH WHAT THE HELL POW!
…Dota?
If I used a Destiny beta code today, would I still get into this weekends beta, or have I left it too long? Anyone know? My google searching for answers has given me conflicting answers.
Ummm it shouldn’t matter as far as I know since technically the beta promotion is part of the pre-order so I’d imagine even if you got it two weeks from now as long you pre-ordered you should have access to it!
I think the beta is only running for the next two weeks, PS4 starting from today and Xbone from next week.
Technically once the beta period has ended you’ll no longer be able to access it (if the Halo 3/Reach betas were anything to go by Bungie will throw up a “thanks for playing, see you in September” message if you try to access it once it’s closed) but you should have no problem redeeming platform-specific beta codes logging in any time between now and then as long as you have a valid pre-order code.
So just when i thought my wrist was getting better, it’s hurting me again.
*sigh* Screw it, I’ll work on the cosplay stuff anyway!
Have you had it checked out by a doctor?
No, I haven’t
If it’s RSI related you really should give it some rest! I had wrist pains a few weeks back and just refrained from using my keyboard as often as I could and it got better!
Reposting from last page: If I used a Destiny beta code today, would I still get into this weekends beta, or have I left it too long? Anyone know? My google searching for answers has given me conflicting answers.
Replied last page, also I believed the beta wasn’t just for this weekend but for a while? I believe the last day is the 27th of July so as long as you redeemed it by then you should get access!
Might as well try, no use saving it for later.
GUYS GUYS GUYS
Arnott’s have just released Peanut Butter Tim Tams.
GUYS
GUYS
I NEED THEM
Why would they ruin perfectly good Tim Tams?
Oh my God Pow!
First you freeze perfectly good donuts, now you don’t like peanut butter?!
Are you serious?!
ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?! >:(
What are your thoughts on licorice?
You’re answer will determine whether or not we can be friends.
Every licorice except actual licorice is good.
So I like flavoured licorice (raspberry, blueberry, strawberry, etc).
Plain licorice is gross 😛
*sigh*
Enemies, it is…
Fine, I didn’t want to be friends anyway! >:(
:'(
*crosses Powalen off of potential boyfriend list*
*cries hysterically*
But if you don’t like proper liquorice then how are you supposed to also enjoy other yummy things like sambuca, or aniseed cake, or fennel? 🙁
@mrtaco
I’ll drink sambuca if it’s mixed with something else so it doesn’t taste as bad 😛
Other than that I won’t eat things that taste like licorice 😛
It’s just such a, pungent, taste >:P
Any aniseed based food or beverage is disgusting and part of the way the Illuminati figures out who will not be joining us in the Bunkers.
I agree. Now let’s discuss salt liquorice!
Never heard of that before! What’s it like?
Salt liqourice is a European delicacy – particularly popular with the Dutch. It comes in a range of types from soft with a sweet+salty flavour (for kids) to hard and very salty. Really good lolly shops stock it, as well as good delis. It’s worth trying if you like liqourice. I think Aldi had some too the other week.
Might keep an eye out for some! Sounds different.
While I don’t agree with @powalen’s insane rambling of “Normal Licorice is good” and “Freeze perfectly good doughnuts” I do agree with his stand on Tim Tams.
There’s hope for you yet, Nob.
Liqourice is the best thing ever.
I don’t downvote often, but you earned it, sir.
GOOD DAY TO YOU. *fake doorslam* Goddammit that door won’t slam properly hang on I got this
Nope. Well shit.
I hate liquorice, but recently I have become addicted to Fisherman’s Friend mints – the I read the ingredients and it includes liquorice powder.
I don’t know what to think any more.
Those things are great when an orbital laser just isn’t quite doing the job to clear your sinuses.
I’ve eaten about 5 packets so far this week and my sinuses still aren’t clear.
NononononononNONONO howaretheremorevotesagainstpeanutbuttertimtamsthanfor?!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
Eeekkk scary grown up stuff
Love it!
@gutsoup did the code work for you dude?
oh hey, sorry, yes it did, I was too busy playing to check on here 😛
Thanks again
Sweet, good to hear!
It’s a good thing to have a written reference for jobs from someone in the federal police right..?
Not if it’s outlining your criminal record.
Well, if it was it would be a good thing cause I don’t have one 😛
Unless you are applying for the Mafia, probably.
I think it depends on the nature of the relationship?
I’ve been told that a prospective-employer/HR-filter-drone will place more value on references from people you have worked with, and who were ‘above you’ in the pecking order (e.g. your supervisor/manager from a previous job). If it’s too personal a relationship, it may look a bit like one of your mates saying “Oh yeah, me ol’ mate Doc Krieger’s a good bloke!”…
That said, I also think there’s big value in word-of-mouth and being recommended/getting your foot in the door for a job through a friend/family member (and possibly shortcutting the more formal recruitment process).
Yeah, it is indeed who you know not what you know.
I am unreasonably excited about having an actual weekend off.
Stuck on the train sitting next to two obnoxiously loud nerds discussing comic books at far too great a volume.
Dammit @powalen shut up already 😛
I’m important. People need to hear what I have to say.
Haha and as soon as I post that they get off. And then the carriage goes silent. And the woman across from me says “wow, it feels like all the noise just left.” Burst out laughing, I was about to make a similar comment :p
So you’re saying everyone finds @Powalen on the obnoxious side?
He likes aniseed-flavoured [anything, it doesn’t matter, it all qualifies you for Operation Landfill]. He’s a monster!
More like “Anus-seed”, right?
😛
YES. This is where we are at now. Let the war escalate and the cards fall where they may.
Yeah, I like things that taste good. What of it? 😛
*twitch* ‘Good’. Yes. Enjoy your life to the fullest, my friend.
FOR WHEN I AM EMPEROR, ALL SHALL… waitwaitwait play it cool, don’t let them know, they might scatter and be harder to round up.NOTHING TO SEE HERE.Oh, I will enjoy it.
Because so long as people like you have broken tongues, that means there will always be more for me!
Why Gooky…
Where else would you find him?
Has anyone developed the “specific mind wiping button” so that I can re-play To the Moon and P4G for the first time… again?
Because P4GA is making me re-hyped about the game, but I lost my save for NG+, so I don’t know if I can get the enthusiasm required for another 90 hours playing it.
And I could always just go and play P3, because watching the first movie for that made me want to play it more, but it’s not quite as friendly from a mechanics standpoint as P4G…
Ugh, why does life have to be so hard?
Oh, Divinity players.
Are you are like me and 20 hours in regret some of your characters builds and wish you could change a couple of stats?
If so, I have dug up a kindadodgeycheatingmaycorruptyoursavegamessofairwarning way of stat editing. If anyone is interested.
Though there is apparently a proper respec option late game.
Oh. Should have put the dots together. There was a phone call this morning from my aunt, for Mum but she wasn’t up yet. Turns out my great aunt died this morning. She had a stroke the other day, so it wasn’t that much of a shock. Still sad news though 🙁
All the oldies are dropping so fast, only one of those five siblings left now…
Alright. Last minute urgent items cleaned up, all the fires put out, time for a weekend of finishing up my moving and cleaning the old apartment to make sure I get the bond back. On the plus side, at least I have Monday off to relax a little and be at home when the tech comes around to fix my internet…
Best shut down the PC. *ding* Reminder: ‘True Colours’ Service Excellence workshop on Monday.
Oh god… dammit. I missed the last sessions and they can’t reschedule any more without extraordinary difficulty, and it’s mandatory. I have to go to this. How did my leave get approved?
…
*sigh*
*does the responsible thing, mails to cancel leave*
*head-desk*
*laugh darkly*
Good one, universe. You really got me there.
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Also, randomly:
Our department has started using a ‘safely corporate’ social media type system called Yammer. Our intranet home page features a picture of a Director’s face photoshopped onto a certain 90s rapper in parachute pants with the bold headline: “Stop, Yammer time!”
****
There’s a school on the same block as my work. Spent a good part of the day asking folks if they’d heard about the kidnapping over there.
…It’s OK, he woke up.
We use ‘Chatter’ by Salesforce… So much effort into building that thing up… and now its like G+… a Ghost town.
sucks to hear about the leave. You can start the day after though can’t you?
Heh. Yeah. Won’t get anything done on that Monday though thanks to the training, so I packed a little extra work to tackle over the weekend, see if I can’t get ahead a bit.
Woo made it to the weekend!
That light at the end of the tunnel turned out to be a cold beer and dinner cooked by wifey!
Now lets hope the wind in Brisbane goes away for some decent weather.
there’s a lot to be said for a couch, tv, lots of blankets and shutting the curtains to lousy weather. That’s my plan anyway
As much as I’d like to… Mother-in-law has her birthday tomorrow so we’re out and about for lunch. But Sunday is an open book so maybe line up a few movies and hunker down.
I’m a tit. Didn’t realise I’d set up two Bungie accounts. Explains why my code was being used on a different account. Not sure why they allowed two accounts with the same username though :-/ ah well, time to watch the download counter go
BOOB?
stop typing words on the windows calculator 😛
5318008
Ernie award?
I can only hope.
Female upper chest area.
Don’t be so crass.
Also, the missus is watching Orange is the New Black, just seen Kate Mulgrew and boy she shouldn’t do a Russian accent. It’s like one of the bad Hollywood Russian accents from the 80s and 90s. Still, makes me wanna watch Voyager now
Red is still amazing.
What does @redartifice have to do with it?
I am pretty good.
Me and the missus started watching it last night and are about halfway through the first season I like it and kinda waiting for it to pick up. Where as the missus doesnt really like like it heaps but still
Anyone want a PS4 code for Destiny btw? First in best dressed
edit: mine has gone if anyone’s still looking for one
I think I have a PS3 one too if anyone wants.
Like wise, got 2 spare going here.
@cufcfan616, you still want that Destiny beta code?
Nah, I found my own ones at last 😀 downloading now
Glad you got it sorted. So who wants a beta code?
Ah screw it! It’s off the table I’ll use it for myself on my PS3.
Looking at The Ultimate Doom on Steam and is it just me or is there something horribly wrong with those screenshots colour wise? They look awful.
Looks like 16-bit colour to me, so perfectly fine 😛
ZE GOGGLES
In approximately 12 hours I will be heading to my local EB and I better be heading out with a copy of Rhythm Heaven Fever for $9 @mrtaco !!!
Don’t blame me blame… uh… dammit I forgot who it was that made mention of it.
Blame @scree because she’s the only other person I can think of in relation to the game 😛
@shiggyninty!
I have only the greatest taste in video games. The greatest.
Next block of movies lined up for me to watch.
Blue Ruin
The Angriest Man In Brooklyn
Transcendence
Under The Skin
Gun Woman
Razorback
Need For Speed
Nemesis
Age Of Tomorrow (2.4 on imdb? What could go wrong?)
I’m…. not hopeful for some of them.
Oh man Razorback, I have that I should really watch it. Apparently it’s decent.
Age of tomorrow or Edge of Tomorrow?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3677466/
Its dropped to a 1.9. Going be rad.
https://ebgames.com.au/wiiu-800124-Wii-U-Premium–Mario-Kart-8–Just-Dance-4–Wii-U-Game-Party-Bundle-Wii-U
Trade in Just Dance 4 and wii U Game Party, and get New Super Mario Bros Wii U and put down a pre-order for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U! \o/
Heh. There’s a troll in the PS4 article about it selling out fast here from today.. Oh boy, he is either trolling or he is serious and doesn’t get it so is down-voting everyone and giving out rude/stupid replied.
Edit: nope he just and downvoted all my comments in the article, hahaha.
I’M PLAYING MARIO KART 8 IN A DIFFERENT ROOM FROM THE CONSOLE.
NEXT GEN, I <3 YOU.
Don’t forget to put the gamepad down before you wipe.
AW YEAH! I thought songs from one of my favourite bands would work well in Rocksmith and I just found out they just added a bunch of their songs a couple of weeks ago :D.
Too bad I already know how to play all of them (except for one) but I reckon I’ll probably just buy it anyway. At least the bass stuff will be there when I buy one.
Get the Billy Talent DLC @35 @gorzilla !
FINE. I GOT IT.
good tracks too. though i always thought the intro of Devil in a Midnight Mass sounded like it was on bass :/
:D!
Were you a Billy Talent fan before?
yep! since their 2nd album.
also picked up the Deftones pack… umm….. good tracks, but yeah… a tad uninteresting to play.
I can’t say I’m familiar with him/them. I will have to look it up.
Also, do you know if you need rocksmith before you can buy the rocksmith DLC and import it into 2014? because I wanted to buy the Offspring songs but it says they are for the original and I was too worried they wouldn’t work without owning that as well.
Yes unfortunately :(. It’s a known issue and I thought they were trying to fix it. I just ended up buying Rocksmith for $10 during a sale. I reckon it’s worth buying anyway to import the songs (which costs another $10), but they shouldn’t lock out the DLC like that :/
Unfortunately I realised I would need it after the sale for rocksmith had already finished or I would have bought it. There is a couple of songs I would probably play on there anyway. I’ll just wait until the next sale.
Just watched World War Z. It was kinda lame but not terrible. Some cringe-worthily bad moments though.
Funny looking at the credits and seeing “W.H.O Doctors – Peter Capaldi”. That’s almost Page 6 worthy. 😛
That was @dc and my first (and last) man date movie.
He never wants to go to the movies with me anymore. ='(
something something because you didn’t put out? 😛
it was nowhere near as bad as I’d thought it’d be, but yeah, the Capaldi character raised a smile or two in this household, especially when he was based in Cardiff as well 😀
It’s Friday. This means getting up to run at 7am tomorrow.
*sob* It’s going to be COLD!
Try living in Canberra.
I’ve been up running (Jogging three metres and then collapsing in an obese, unfit heap) early enough to see the mist form at -3. Good fun.
Well done @blaghman! Running is hard, and running in Canberra winter is even harder!
To be honest it wasn’t too bad this morning, I remembered my headband and with the wind out of my ears it was almost pleasant (not that I generally find running pleasant. It’s a necessary evil).
Ran 2 minutes faster than last week, but still 3 minutes slower than my PB, and came last for the 2nd week in a row. \o/
Do you parkrun?
I live in Canada.
I know a Canadian who’s been complaining about how cold Sydney is, and she grew up in Halifax :O (it’s all just what you’re used to)
Any Xboners up for some Dead Rising 3?
There’s the words “Xboner” and “Rising” in the same sentence.
There’s a joke here…
Just looked up Dead Rising 3 co-op, apparently one person plays as Nick, and the other person plays as Dick.
I might be up for some at some point this weekend, but remember, no headset.
It’s nearly 1am…
🙁
Yup.
Its nearly 2am
Yup.
It’s nearly… fuck.
Yup.
This is my favourite comment thread.
Yup.
I was happily gunning through Destiny until the server kicked me off, probably for dying too much in my 3 man fireteam. Awesome fun though…aaaaaaand it’s now 1.25am.
I guess this will be the pattern over the next couple of weeks, work-Destiny-sleep? rinse and repeat
I didn’t stop playing with my friend until 3.30am…
To all Wii U owners on here, is it better to get the 8GB version or the 32GB version?
from what i hear definitely 32gb… the OS takes up the majority of that 8gb…
So, say I traded in about 10 PS3 games, what would I get off of the price at either EB or JB, as a ballpark figure?
Apparently you can plug in an external hard drive for extra storage, so the only differences are that the 8GB is white, you don’t get a sensor bar (doesn’t matter if you still have a Wii, you can just use that one), Some packs don’t come with Nintendoland, ( the Skylanders bundle does), and you don’t get an extra 10% credit on funds added to your wallet for the eshop (which only lasts 12 months anyway), and you don’t get the gamepad cradle or charging dock.
As for the PS3 games, it depends on the games, if it’s something like Brutal Legend they’ll probably only give you a dollar or two, because it sells for $4 pre-owned at EB, or if it’s something like The Last Of Us, you might get 10 or 20 dollars, as it sells for $47 pre-owned. It also depends on the retailer, someone else on here (can’t remember who) said they went to EB to trade in some PS3 (I think) games in on a PS4 or something, and they offered them a pittance, they walked over to JB and apparently got over 100 bucks.
Will you be joining TAYKart as well?
Oh, and by the way, if you want to get one of those Skylanders bundles (which includes Nintendoland) I’m pretty sure my local Target has stock still.
TLOU you’ll be lucky to get 20 bucks for it. I got 14 bucks (not including bonuses from EB World card or the E3 bonus). But then again they were selling it pre owned for 25, so yeah..
Depends what you’re going to do with it. If you plan to get lots of VC games and such, then it might be better to go with the larger one. But if you’re planning on getting the free MK8 download, some of those games will fill up (and possibly not even fit on?) the 32GB one. In which case you’ll still need to get some sort of USB drive to use as expandable storage, as you would with the 8GB anyway.
I can’t say for certain but I think the 8GB would be more than enough room for your game saves throughout the life of the system if you aren’t going to be doing much more than that.
For me I’d just go with the 32GB but that’s because it’s black and I think white is ugly 😛 But cost-wise (if you can find one at least) you’re probably better off just going with the 8GB.
Just for @crazyguy1990 ‘s reference: I have the 32GB model and I have one retail game (Wonderful 101), 3 eShop games, 8 Virtual Console games (NES/SNES/DS) and a couple of demos and apps installed. That’s absolute max capacity. I think I have less than 100MB leftover at this point.
So yeah, you’ll likely need to buy an external HDD at some point anyway, so just go with whatever you can get cheapest.
I have an 8GB with a USB drive plugged into it, and it cost a fraction of the 32GB version 😛
So, 8GB+external HDD is the way to go.
Cheers, guys! 😀
Also, I put a pre-order down for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at EB today. 😀
Don’t forget to add all of us.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgFxIpTLAp-LdDNZbWVTNjhYNGE2bXpFTkxqV3BzM2c&hl=en_US#gid=0
TAYKart FTW.
Today is “Build a PC” Day! \o/
Also “Pray I don’t explode everything” Day! /o\
Good luck, I will be doing that within the next few weeks hopefully. Its scary stuff when you dont do it often.
Today is destroy @mrtaco if I don’t get a copy of Rhythm Heaven Fever day. Des-troy.
I dunno I went to knox yesterday and didnt see it, granted I just took a glance it could be out the back or preowned etc
Success! @mrtaco will live to see another day…
They said they had 2 copies so there’s still one left for you Cam 😛
I’m a little disappointed. Now we don’t get to see you go green with angry.
I DIDN’T BUY THE RUNNING SHOES I WANTED
RARRRGHHHHh!
But one of my old friends from high school (who I haven’t seen or spoken to in years) randomly works at the Rebel I checked! WOO FRIENDS
You can do it \o/
Then tell me how to so when I do it I dont burn the house down \o/
This may be of assistance to you.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/build-your-own-pc,2601.html
Also, @powalen.
I remember that day fondly. Though my alt-name for it was “earn a geek merit badge day”.
Ok, updated parts list, with out being an dummy and not including a motherboard. @welbot @cufcfan616
http://www.pccasegear.com/sc/tWS
Few questions, not sure if I should get a dvd drive or blu ray drive. Also I am happy to keep the 16gb as the computer will be used for things like Photoshop (for the gf) and AutoCAD for me. I changed to the 120gb for the SSD. I also have a WD 3tb black in my current rig that will mostly be used for the gaming side of things. Anything else I have no idea if it looks good or not. Also, if anyone has a better looking case that would be nice to change. Not too concerened about cutting costs, have been putting money away for this for a long long time and got a better than expected tax return.
In other news, watched season 2 of arrow, loved it. Thought it was great and a real step up from season 1. Started watching Orange is the New Black, this is also very good, the girlfriend is addicted to it though.
Looking good. Cases, I don’t know a great deal, I usually just go for an Antec gaming case that’s relatively cheap as they always have decent airflow. That or you could build it into your desk 😀 Just take the time to go through each supplier and see one that you like the look of and then go on Tom’s Hardware (or equivalent website, I like to use bit-tech.net as I learnt everything about PCs from Custom PC mag) and see if it’s got a decent airflow and more importantly, space for the 780. No case is right or wrong though, it all comes down to your preference.
Bluray/DVD drive, I honestly don’t use mine anymore except for the occasional time I want to play an old game that’s not on Steam or GOG yet. If you’re wanting to rip/burn cds and DVDs/blurays though then obviously you’ll need one. Bottom line, they’re cheap enough so might as well.
With the SSD, they’re coming down in price all the time so hopefully in a year or so we’ll start seeing 500GB-1TB being more reasonably priced. At that point just stick another drive in. One a 120GB drive though there’s still plenty of room after the OS to keep a couple of games on
Thanks mate. I will be ordering the parts as soon as my tax refund comes in.
Ended up caving and threw money at Roberts Space Industries last night… Then i proceeded to oggle at my new shiny Origin 315p Explorer for a few hours… My life is going to end when this game comes out i just know it!
I feel it will be out 2016 so as long as the world doesn’t end before then I think you’ve got a good chance
Haha true! I guess the correct phrase would be; my life as i know it will end… Seriously this game looks amazing and if it even achieves half of what it promises it will be my “perfect” game!…
I shall wait for if it uses mouse clicks to move I will be throughly upset
Being that Chris Roberts is behind it i highly doubt it XD… Had a quick go at Arena Commander last night but didn’t bother plugging in the joystick, and the kb/mouse controls were pretty horrendous \o/ 😛
That sounds….not that good haha
It sounds fantastic.
As a big PC gamer (and someone who played a bunch of War Thunder), fuck supporting KBM in Star Citizen. Besides that, Joystick/HOTAS and controller work really well.
so i spend $100+ on preordering the game and then another $100+ on a joystick to play said game?
I understood some of those words. =P
Star Citizen!
SPACESHIP!
…
SPACESHIP!
Oh right, I’m still kinda “meh” about it despite @cakesmith and @rize trying to convince me to get it. =P
(That said, it is great that other people can be hyped about it!)
Being a huge wing commander and X-Wing fan back in the day i needed no convincing to get hyped about this… Then again it definitely wont be for everyone and that’s fair enough too
I’ve been putting off sinking money into this until I actually have $150-200 to spend on something that won’t be out for a while. I really want a Freelancer as I loved that game but now can’t find my copy and it’s nowhere to be found online 🙁
Side note, multi-ship options, it’s awesome and also a bit scary that the $15,000 option is now sold out https://robertsspaceindustries.com/store/337-the-completionist
EDIT – Disregard that i read it wrong as there is a ship called the Freelancer :P, yes i concur that Freelancer was an amazing game! And yeah it’s scary that enough people dropped $15,000 that it sold out 😛
With my cosplay starting to take shape and starting on @gorzilla ‘s armour, I will be taking photos so people on here can see the progress.
If you’re interested of course.
Of course we are interested anything artistic and unique we are interested in 🙂
My daughters swim school’s advertising posters are weird. It’s all pictures of crying women saying it’s too late, they should have gone to Coopers (the name of the school).
That’s… morbid.
…Do you think it works?
That tells me nothing about swimming and more about these ladies regretting not going to coopers awesome party when they were younger..they couldve been someone?
Do they fill their pools with the tears of less fortunate parents?
Question: I used to have my PS3 hooked up to my PC monitor (it’s also got an HDMI port), whenever I switched over to the PC input the PS3 would basically just turn itself off after a little while, my 360 and Xbone don’t do this. I now have my PS3 connected to the TV in the lounge room. will it still shut itself off if I switch from the HDMI input to watching TV? I want to download the Destiny Beta, so it’s ready to go tonight, but the TV is going to be used throughout the day, I’ve been through the settings, and I can’t find an option to turn off auto shut-down, or is there something wrong with my PS3?
it will usually only turn itself off if the setting to auto-shutdown has been selected after a various time of inactivity or if it’s overheating. So either clean out the vents or check your settings 😀
Cheers, I’ll open it up and see if it’s dusty, if not I’ll check for this setting again.
System Settings > Control for HDMI. disable that and your problem should stop
Cool, I’ll check it out when my son’s finished playing Mario Kart.
also what kind of tv do you have? LG, Samsung? Check the settings for your tv. If you’re using something like simplink, turn it off, or disable it for the ps3.
If anyone wants a Destiny Beta Key for PS4 I have 2 spare.. So knock yourselves out or don’t, that’s your call.
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ECBC-TRNT-ECQ2
Who’s playing destiny on PS4??! Add me for the PS4 “Kronos013”
I’m not playing, but I added you anyway :3
I’ll be playing when it is fully released 🙂
Another question, when picking your region for the Destiny Beta is everyone choosing Americas or Europe? I’m assuming we pick Europe.
Also, I’ll get 3 PS3 keys, anyone want the other 2?
Edit: don’t worry about the region question, it’s all sorted, @pupp3tmast3r helped me out. Still got 2 PS3 keys to give away though.
I would be playing the PS4 beta for destiny but my PS4 is at my girlfriends dads house and currently they arent on the best of terms so I cant even go over and get the damn thing until all this sorts itself out
Damn man, that friggin’ sucks. So you don’t have a PS3?
I do but I havent got the space to install anything on it. Ill try and get my ps4 tomorrow
Don’t think I do either, gonna have to delete some stuff.
We did it, guys! We did it!
Now where’s the bokeh at?
Success!!! Well done sire!
Merit badge get!
Man, this thing turns on quickly! I thought the Windows 8 login screen was like a pre-boot thing. You log in and then it loads everything… but nope, it just boots that quickly 😛
I need to buy an extra SATA cable for my Disc drive though, it didn’t come with one D:
Page six was a while ago…
only 2 cables in the mobo box? I would have thought there’d be 4 at least :\
oh well. not super often you need to use dvd’s. Should all be hot swappable though anyway, so you could just yank the sata from the HDD and plug to the dvd temporarily if need be
Yep, only two. Doesn’t matter though, I managed to install everything I needed to via the disc drive then swapped the cable over to the HDD. I’ll get an extra cable sometime next week.
Ah, Win 8 + SSD makes for damn fast boot times.
Both PCs in this house generally boot faster than the monitor / TV they’re plugged into.
So I haven’t been on Tay in ages so I don’t know what’s up. But I’m at avcon any other taybies here?
Hey Batto
Don’t think anybody has mentioned avcon recently so you might be the only one from these part that is there
Oh well…
@wilbur maybe? I have friends there, there’s a Chun Li running around that I know.
Any Star Citizen people, I’ve created a TAY organisation:
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/orgs/TAY
If you’re planning on jumping in a different organisation, join this one anyway. You can have one primary organisation, and 9 secondaries.
cc @cakesmith, @pixel_the_ferret_viking, can’t remember who else has it…
While looking for a PS4 I spied this deal at target which I am seriously considering getting. Hopefully they will let me swap FIFA 14 for something else (either that or go to EBGames and trade it towards Infamous / Destiny LE). Anyone here played Need for Speed: Rivals?
Hey friend! This might help
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/153040
Yeah I actually just noticed that! Hopefully I can pick up a cheap console + games.
Ugh, BargainiusRivals is okay. Saying that to get any benefit out of it you need to be online turns out. I ended up trading it in.
GAH! These running shoes I wanted randomly went on sale an hour ago and by the time I realised (now) they sold out :/
Guess you weren’t fast enough.
Ugh you… I… ugh…
*shakes fist*
*upvote*
If only he had some kind of shoes to make him run to his computer faster.
Maybe you should look into getting some new shoes for running @greenius
Just finished Tomb Raider, it’s a pretty cool game.
…
Not sure what else to say about it …
I used the bow for like, everything. Unless there was an abundance of enemies, then it was uzi time.
I found the shotgun helpful at the end. Besides that it was basically all bow all the time.
I found it really satisfying unlike the bow in the last of us.
MQFT!
T or F
F
T
or
You guys.
Hey! That’s not one of the choices!
I choose T.
Okay, good! Ending it here before someone tries to even out the score again 😛
The first game I will play on my PC is Tomb Raider!
(the other option was Far Cry 3)
The first game I played on my new PC was Tomb Raider as well!
NO WAIIIIII
MQFT secret:
You can always go with the first reasonable response rather than a majority 😛
Where’s the fun in that!
So I just watched the first episode of Sword Art Online (because I finally finished Suisei no Gargantia earlier today, and rather than go on to another half finished show, I of course had to start watching a new one), and this show is super stupid.
*Starts watching the second episode*
Just be thankful that it isn’t School Days…
*shudder*
HA!
You think it’s stupid now, but just you wait.
Just. You. Wait.
I’ve read some stuff, and talked to people. I’m quite aware that it goes completely pants on head.
After episode 2 my response was “this show is so friggin dumb.” *Queues up third episode*
It’s dumb, but enjoyable.
I don’t quote get all the aplomb about it to be honest.
It gets ridiculous at episode 15 I think it is.
Like, RIDICULOUS ridiculous.
Hey, when does the Destiny beta end, just out of curiosity.
Tomorrow, isn’t it?
It’s up until the 21st, is down for 2 days, then is back again from the 23rd to the 27th (With Xbox people able to play then).
If you want a PS3 key hit me up.
It’s taken most of the day (and last night), but I’ve finally figured out how to get FreePIE to pump data from my Hydra into a vJoy stick. So hopefully now I can use the hydra to play Elite…
Any bets that it’ll turn out to be awful and/or just not work and I’ll have to go back to using the gamepad anyway 😛
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-285/comment-page-14/#comment-2819344
At least one of us did.
I bought 3 lots of material today! Numbers’ ribbing, fake leather for Gorzy and stretch weave suiting for me =D
Fake leather for Gorzy?
But he always insists on using the real stuff with me.
(And I’m not even getting into the jokes I could make about ribbing)
fake leather for Gorzy… making him a gimp suit huh? 😉
When I asked him to look for fake leather fabric, he got gimp suits as a result =P
rofl
He wanted something that says “Daddy likes leather”.
Aannnddd I’m done with the beta =P Maxed level, more or less the best gear I can get at this point. Only thing left to do is farm quests for enough cash for a new ship or speeder! If anyone’s running some co-op heroic quests or striketeams let me know on TAY or on steam =]
Think I’m almost done with Rogue Legacy. Just had a playthrough as a Barbarian this afternoon on NG+ and cleared everything except for the final boss. I quit when I died and left it for a few hours. Just loaded it up then to play through while waiting for dinner, and I had 140,000 gold to spend! :0 That was without any of the gold bonus thing’s too! Wont be long and I’ll have everything. Barbarian seems way to OP. I had over 1300 health on my last run! I just bumped my health up from like 52/75 to 74/75 too, so… just.. wow.. super fun game though! Only one piece of armour and handful of upgrades left now! I can do eeeeeet!
You think you’re OP now, wait til you’re on your NG+2…
We’re not getting to page 18, are we :'(
I’ve been holding out for it all week!
Sorry for letting my randy-ness spill into TAY, hahaha! 😀
Not with that attitude :p
MQFT
H
U
R
D
HUR
DURRRRR
D
Welbot wants the ‘D’ 😉
I’ll go with D too 😉
You always want the D :p
Not always 😛
Just most of the time 😉
Oh cock! You saw through my plan! What a balls-up! Totally bummed out now.
U
2 votes for D, I haven’t got all night, so I’ll give it another 10 minutes, if no-one else votes, D wins.
U
So 2 for D, 2 for U. We gotta tiebreaker here, c’mon people.
My vote always counts for two votes, obviously. Therefore ‘U’ wins. 😛
Well, in that case it looks like I’m continuing watching Under The Dome.
Sorry to hear that, man. 😛
Quite liking this whole free month of Foxtel thing. Watching movies I’d never pay for. Tonight’s was After Earth which was quite a pretty movie.
Bought that for like 10 bucks a few weeks ago, haven’t had a chance to watch it yet. So it’s pretty, but what about storyline?
Simple, cliched storyline. Worth watching for the pretty, though.
Dear Phlanispo,
What the hell are you doing? You are re-listening to almost the entire Kill la Kill soundtrack for what, the fifth time now? Surely Nonon Jakazure’s theme would have gotten old by now?
I mean co-
…You’re trying to memorise the lyrics to ‘Before My Body Is Dry..? You already tried for weeks to memorise the German lyrics to Blumenkranz, and that didn’t work. What makes you think you can memorise the lyrics to this song?
Who am I kidding, I can’t change who you are.
Don’t lose your way,
Phlanispo’s Brain
It is midnight.
Happy tomorrow!
Morning.
Why is everyone on the god damn east of Australia?!?!
WA is literally half of Australia, yet there’s like four of us!!!
C’MON!!! >:(
The Wild West don’t truck with no vidya gamez.
That’s not what the Village People had in mind…
It’s like they said, “Guys, not that far.”
Why did Quakecon have to be this weekend…
Why?!
D:
That was weird. The picture of the girl with the tongue in the cosplay comparison article severely reminded me of Sketchbook for some reason. To the point of heartskip. Even though she doesn’t really look like her at all.
Also, the Hydra thing only sorta kinda works. It feels kind of potentially cool, but is awkward 😛 Could just be because I’m used to the other setup and need to learn better. And/or just have a shitty button layout mapped. Also probably could do with tweaking of values to make the motion axes better. But that takes efforts and smarts I don’t think I have.
FFX remake.
I just finished getting Kimari’s ultimate weapon.
Those butterflies where harder then I remember. I think that may have been largely due to the vita having such as small screen though. Made it kinda hard to see exactly where they were and where where I was on the path.
Also, the first one I finished once and then ran a little further, transitioned to the next screen which cancelled my win.
Then I did the same thing with the harder one. Twice. Apparently on the harder one you only need to take one step beyond the last butterfly to transition.
Only Lulu and Wakka to go.
I’ll probably get lulu’s first as I’ve never done more bitzball then I need to progress the story. Kinda looking forward to learning it properly though.
Blitzball is pretty easy if you recruit some players to replace the base Aurochs, but even without ringers you cream them pretty easy once you unlock Tidus’ good move. I don’t remember what it was or how I did it, but I remember steamrolling every single game.
I never got Lulu’s ultimate weapon. Didn’t even try the lightning dodging.
Sid kept me up most of the night last night. Apparently, something may not have agreed with him.
The night before I slept terribly also, but for other reasons.
Sum it all up, I feel kind of crappy. I will still work on cosplay stuff though, sleep deprivation won’t stop me!
He shouldn’t have eaten all of his dinner. And half of yours. And 3/4 of your mums.
PS4 get!
Got a console, an extra controller & 3 Games (Infamous: Second Sun, Killzone, Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zero) for $570! \o/
Now to play the waiting game. /o\
DO YOU WANT A CODE FOR THE DESTINY BETA? YOU SHOULD HAVE A CODE. THEN AGAIN, WE’RE SO SHORT ON CODES HERE, IT’S A TRAGEDY.
Don’t worry, I’m sure I will probably end up pre-ordering a Limited Edition version of Destiny because we all need more codes right … RIGHT!?
Add me! 😀
I need more friends :'(
(same name as here)
I will once my PS4 arrives!
Did you add me? :'(
Oh, I, umm, don’t have a, Playstation…?
Oh, I, umm, don’t have friends… :'(
Hahaha, relax, I added you right after posting, friend! 😀
Assuming your PSN tag is Greenius also, otherwise I added a random :S
That’s not me! :O
But it kinda is… but it also isn’t… :P. I made “Greenius” when I got my PS3 but since I put my real age at the time (which was under 18), I couldn’t play online and ended up making another account which is now my main and current one: GreenCOD
TAYnames is your friend! …unlike me apparently :'(
Ugh, Babbyius
@liondrive he likes to regale you with tales of your mother and the compromising positions they explored the previous night.
I’m just adding everyone 😛
@freezespreston
Yeah, she gets around :'(
I was just about to ask whether you got one for $400 but I see you got a bundled one 😀
WOOO!
Nah I got a separate PS4 from the eBay Dick Smith Online store (It ended up being $403.16 (delivery included). I bought the games and controller from another eBay store.
Happy birthday @rocketman! Turning 13 is a big birthday! (Never gets old)
Happy Birthday, @rocketman.
You’re a @rocketman.
Ooooh I forgot about Mario Kart on Monday until I saw a reminder I made last week :P.
Are people still keen?
C’mon @shane join the fray 😀 (you too @evilmonkey!)
I’m in! Also gonna tag @scree because she wanted to play some multiplayer!
My wrist hurts but I don’t care!
That’s the spirit! \o/
Yup, I’ll be on, remind me tomorrow.
C’mon @shane join the fun.
Free wins \o/
I’m keen. But I’ll be a maybe, because who knows how the kids will be doing. Also, most of you have not added me as a friend yet, and I might well not show up just out of spite >:(
You’re just scared of losin’!
Haven’t had my Wii U on in a week or two, I’ll add you when I turn it on for Mario Kart tomorrow night.
I’ll be there 🙂
It will probably be my last for a while thanks to a new work roster :'(
Ill try and make it
Why do I suck at analysing things?
I’m trying to analyse a song and compare it through different listening environments (CD player, PC speakers, Headphones, External Speakers), but I just can’t write anything…
🙁
Ugh. Woke up at 3.30 this morning couldn’t get back to sleep until sometime after 6am, even then it was maybe 30 minutes of sleep until I woke up again 🙁
Hey hey @negativezero, out of curiousity, which version of the Nimbus do you have?
The 2000 model of course 😛
You didn’t end up getting the 2001? 🙁
😛
I honestly can’t even remember, it’s been a long time since I watched the original movie or read the book 😛 2000 sounded about right so I went with it 😛
Iirc the 2000 was the one Harry got, and the 2001 was the model Malfoy loaded his team up with in one of the later books.
But yeah it was a long time ago 😛
I’m not buying anything Malfoy thinks is good.
The Flying Nimbus.
Nimbus 15
Oops too much sleep, bye bye Sunday.
I’m a combination of bored, stressed, and frustrated. 🙁
I don’t think most of you are all that interested in quilt so I don’t link to every new blog post I do, but this one has dinosaurs. DINOSAURS!
I really want a quilt now :3
That can be arranged!
Just give me two colours and a word representing a style or theme and I’ll add you to the end of my queue. 🙂
If you ever return to TAYquilt, what happens to new TAYbies? Are they included too?
What happened to TAYquilt? 😛
TAYquilt is a snapshot of TAY at that time, so no newbies allowed. 😛
TAYquilt is waiting until I’m not so busy/tired all the time!
I feel like playing a game, but I don’t want to play any of my games :S
So here’s a MQFT:
D, N or I?
Voting closes at 7:30pm EST.
Yes.
Maybe.
Hey, you’re alive! 😀
I don’t know.
Were you dead?!
Was there a great deal of drunkenness at Jimu’s yesterday, is that why?
Nah, I’ve decided to stop drinking for a while. Won’t be Drunken C again until atleast September minimum.
Aww, this better not be because of anything that happened at last week’s meat. Drunken C can at least have something to blame if he does anything he finds embarrassing!
Haha, I just hadn’t seen DC pop up in a while, which is weird since he’s usually every third comment 😛
D
Strange wants the ‘D’ 😉
No offence, but I’m not gonna flirt with you about that, for obvious reasons 😛
And don’t forget, as I mentioned to @evilmonkey last night, my vote counts for two (because I said so! :P) so I apparently want two…make of that what you will. 😛
D
Phlanispo wants the “D” 😉
Aaaand you’re under age. No flirting for you either 😛
@powalen
THIS THING! http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience
This tells you whether you can run something at higher graphix than what it’s currently set at (and can change it to all those settings for you)
I don’t really use it much since I run most things at medium/high anyway, but at least it tells me when new drivers are out 😀
All I did was set everything to the highest possible value just to see if it would run 😛
That the real master race way.
In Watch Dogs I ended up switching from 1080P with FXAA to 900P with SMAA+T because it gave a better image quality, and I gained about 5 fps, and it only took half an hour to find my optimum setting for 2 graphics options! In just 5 hours, I could have the whole game running optimally to my preferences on my system!
Umm… Bokeh! Parallax!
Geforce Experience is pretty useful, in my opinion. The Shadowplay feature is also pretty cool.
http://aussietheatre.com.au/features/broadway-unplugged/broadway-unplugged-project-x-melbourne-heat-4#.U8tvn7EZnhQ
A friend linked me to a video of another friend singing the other day, but I only just found out now that there’s actually voting involved.
He’s only seven behind at last check and voting closes in maybe 25 minutes (6:30), so if anyone could help that would be awesome. VOTE STEVEN THROUP!
The Good Game Top 100 shortlist I ended up with:
Alex Kidd in Miracle WorldBanjo-Kazooie
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Bayonetta
Borderlands
Call of Duty 4 (Modern Warfare)
Catherine
Dark Souls
Day of the Tentacle
Demon’s Souls
Diablo 2
Doom 2
Fallout 2
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 8
God of War 2
Goldeneye
Gran Turismo 3
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Kingdom Hearts
Mario Kart 2 (64)
Metal Gear Solid 2
Quake
Resident Evil 2
Silent Hill 2
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Star Fox 64 (Lylat Wars)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2
Street Fighter 4
Super Mario 64
Tekken 3
The Curse of Monkey Island
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
The Neverhood
The Wolf Among Us
Transport Tycoon
Uncharted 2
Unreal Tournament
Vagrant Story
Warcraft 2
Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon’s Trap
X-COM: Enemy Unknown (2012)
Now I have to pick only 3? Errrgh. So hard. (yes I’m aware I’m days late which is generations in internet time)
Ended up picking :
Dark Souls
Doom 2
Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon’s Trap
Alrighty, with one vote for “A durr, I don’t know how to play this game”, and one for “D” (seriously, 2 votes, C’MON!), I’ll be giving Dark Souls 2 another go.
I’mma start again and go a strength build this time, since they kinda nerfed my DEX build >:(
When people do a MQFT that appears to be asking which game to play I always vote for ‘D’ because Dark Souls.
I was hoping D stood for Disco Dinosaurs Destroy Detroit Dealing Dangerous Disquiet, 2: Darkness Downpour. Developed by DICE, of course.
I want this to be a thing now.
Every symbol for Xenoblade! 😀
Spoilerised for personal content:
My Mum had a text from my little sister (who lives in Canberra) a couple of hours ago that said “I’m sorry. Please look after (her son).” So Mum called for an ambulance to be sent to her place and then had to just hang around, not knowing what was going on, or if she was alive or dead. She called the hospitals a while later and it seems they brought her in and she’s now okay, physically.So I’m both upset and really mad right now. I get that the text was a cry for help but my Mum is already stressed to the max because her Mum is undergoing chemo for some kind of blood cancer thing, and my Dad hasn’t fully recovered from whatever brain thing that made him forget a whole morning last year, not to mention her own illnesses. You don’t send her a text like that, I don’t care what you’re going through. At the same time, I understand you’re not thinking straight at times like that in your life so yeah, cross, but upset as well. Dammit. 🙁
*hug*
Tough stuff. *hugasaurus*
Man, there’s no pat answer I can give you strange, other than I hope it all works out.
Also, as @dc said, *hug*
Really sorry to hear that. I can understand why you’d be pissed off about it, because you love your Mum and don’t want to see her burdened with extra stress. As a parent though, I’d like to think that my son wouldn’t think twice about calling me in a situation of crisis regardless of what situation I’m in. I would honestly be hurt if he didn’t contact me or his Mum. Like you said, it was a cry for help, she obviously felt that that was the only option.Also, *hugasaurus*
I have created my shortlist for the best games ever competition that GoodGame is running
-Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
-Crash Team Racing
-Just Cause 2
-Minecraft
-Pokemon 4 (Gold and Silver)
-Pokemon 6 (Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald)
-Pokemon 7 (Fire Red and Leaf Green)
-Skyrim (The Elder Scrolls 5)
-Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Despite the fact I didn’t have anyone to play with 90% of the 100 hours I put into it)
-The Simpsons: Hit and Run
-Katawa Shoujo
-Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness (Or Time, whatever)
I have to narrow this down to 3. What do now? Skyrim was great. The Crash Bandicoot games are good, but probably not good enough. Katawa Shoujo is a Visual Novel, so I don’t know if I can even put this on there. Mystery Dungeon: Explorers is a damn good game. My love for The Simpsons Hit and Run comes more from nostalgia than anything else, so it doesn’t qualify. If I have to choose one mainline Pokemon game, it’s going to be Gold and Silver. Minecraft is way too mainstream to put on there, so it’s gone.
Shortened Shortlist That Isn’t Short Enough
-Pokemon Gold and Silver
-Katawa Shoujo
-Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness (or Time, whatever)
-Skyrim
EDIT: You know, I’m going to knock off Skyrim.
I decided to give it a go and got the following for my shortlist games:
Baldur’s Gate 2Baldur’s Gate
Banjo-Kazooie
Borderlands 2
Chrono Trigger
Dark Souls
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dragon Age: Origins
Fallout: New Vegas
Goldeneye
Halo
Kingdom Hearts
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Mass Effect
Metal Gear Solid
Metroid (Super)
Minecraft
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Paper Mario
Persona 3
Persona 4
Pokemon (Red, Blue and Green)
Rock n’ Roll Racing
Secret of Mana
Skyrim (The Elder Scrolls 5)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Sonic The Hedgehog
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Sunshine
The Legend Of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
The Witcher 2
The Witcher
Uncharted 2
Uncharted 3
Uncharted
Xenoblade Chronicles
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 8
Star Wars: Battlefront 2
Now how the hell do I shorten this list?
I chose based on what emotions my memories of the game evoked. Skyrim is probably a better game than Mystery Dungeon, but did Skyrim make me cry? Did Skyrim have Grovyle? I think not.
Just Cause 2 was was more of a ‘game’ than Katawa Shoujo , but did Just Cause 2 have waifu?
EDIT: In essence, what game do you have the most emotional attachment to?
Okaaaaaay here it goooooes.
Top 3 of ALL TIME!!! (drum roll please)
1 – Dark Souls – This game came from nowhere for me. I literally heard nothing about it except “It’s super hard like Demons Souls” I had no idea what Demon’s Souls was but I decided to grab this because, “meh, why not”. That feeling of beating the first (proper) boss is just, it can’t be described and it hooked me after that. I love this game just, everything about it was amazing about it. I constantly have weekly (if not daily) thoughts about this game and how much it impacted me.2 – Final Fantasy VII – I could list so many reasons why I love this game so much but there is one thing I will always remember about this game. It is the first video game to invoke some kind of emotional reaction out of me (besides anger & frustration). Never had I dreamed of a video game making me care so much about a digital character. However, when that particular scene played I gasped and covered my mouth, my heart sank, and finally the tears. That scene (and the scene that follows) has always stuck with me and whenever I hear the Aerith Theme music my heart sinks.3 – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – “Hold on!” You may be saying “Majora’s Mask isn’t how you spell ‘Ocarina of Time’, you so silly nob”. Well the final choice was probably my most difficult but at the end I just couldn’t pass up on the game that made me not just like Zelda games, but love Zelda games. The world was just so amazing everything in the game was alive, every damn NPC had a life and personality. So many people’s stories to see, but so little time!They’re all on my list! I really wrestled with putting Final Fantasy VII as a final choice there, very close 4th place. And Majora’s Mask I put instead of Ocarina as well. Nice choices.
Last post of the last page means doomed to obscurity! *flails arms*
Alex Kidd in Miracle WorldBanjo-Kazooie
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Bayonetta
Borderlands
Call of Duty 4 (Modern Warfare)
Catherine
Dark Souls
Day of the Tentacle
Demon’s Souls
Diablo 2
Doom 2
Fallout 2
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 8
God of War 2
Goldeneye
Gran Turismo 3
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Kingdom Hearts
Mario Kart 2 (64)
Metal Gear Solid 2
Quake
Resident Evil 2
Silent Hill 2
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Star Fox 64 (Lylat Wars)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2
Street Fighter 4
Super Mario 64
Tekken 3
The Curse of Monkey Island
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
The Neverhood
The Wolf Among Us
Transport Tycoon
Uncharted 2
Unreal Tournament
Vagrant Story
Warcraft 2
Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon’s Trap
X-COM: Enemy Unknown (2012)
Shortened to Dark Souls, Doom 2 and Wonderboy III.
Phlanispo’s Best Games Ever of All Time According to My Brain at The Moment
-Pokemon Gold/Silver
-Katawa Shoujo
-Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness
I probably should have explained why I chose these games, huh?
My list:
Dark Souls
Dark Souls
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I’m gonna have trouble narrowing it down, though… :\
I thought you weren’t a big fan of Dark Souls 2? :\
Well that’s why it’s 46th!
I loved it! Freeze was the one who wasn’t too keen.
Ohhhh.
I remember Freezy not being keen, but I thought you said it started to grate on you too.
Must’ve been someone else 😛
Hmm, I did go through a brief stage of apathy with it in the middle there somewhere, maybe that’s it.
Have fun with that.
Dark Souls isn’t even listed once on your list? I thought you liked it.
Nah.
My cosplay is taking longer then I hoped because I didn’t like that the stitching wasn’t straight enough so I unpicked it and started again. Then I fixed up the fraying that was getting on my nerves.
I am my own worst enemy.
😀
I’ll see your link, and raise you this!
I’m sure it’ll be fantastic Scree, I really need to make sure I go to PAX now, so I can see these cosplays you’ve put so much work into.
I know from experience that if something is bugging you about your work that it’s better to deal with it straightaway otherwise it’ll take a lot more work to deal with it later. Because if it bugs you when it happens, it’ll bug you 100 times more at the end of your project.
So don’t worry, you’re not your own worst enemy, you’re just being practical. 🙂
I guess that’s completely true. Now it’s done I don’t have to worry
Last week when I went camping, I was sitting in the campervan playing on my laptop. My sister bursts in, raving about this new song. She plays it. It’s nothing but a guy saying ‘ready for action’ over and over again along to a generic beat. I threw in a snide comment, but my sister told me to “wait the for the beat to drop.” The beat did indeed drop. My sister proceeded to rock out. I was not impressed. To counteract the minute of pop song that I had to endure, I played the Xenoblade Chronicles theme. When my sister told me to turn it off, I told her “to wait until the violins dropped.” When the violins dropped, I feigned a lot of excitement and started bouncing up and down in my seat. My sister was not impressed. When the song was over, my step-mother congratulated me on my taste in music.
You and your step mother are cool!
So that Hearthstone’s a pretty cool guy. Really enjoying it so far, it’s easy to pick up, and quite addictive.
I’m off to bed.
See you all in new TAY.