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I was surprised to find that my copy of Rayman Legends that I bought last week (or whenever it was) actually came with a club nintendo code! I thought it was only 1st party nintendo games that had them?
Most Nintendo games have them.
That was the case with the Wii and DS. Since the 3DS and Wii U, all games have them now.
I guess I was even more surprised, cos I have a feeling the one I got may have been pre-owned! I can’t recall for sure though as I ripped all the stickers off the cover as I always do!
I’m the same, absolutely hate having stickers on my game/dvd covers.
Glad to hear I’m not the only one with that obsession! Mine borders on OCD levels I think. Even if I peel a sticker off, and it leaves residue, I have to get out the eucalyptus oil and clean it off til it’s all shiny and new looking!
That’s not OCD that’s normal.
Although I get a little nostalgic when I see old price tags on the boxes, like the old EB ones that had the red on them, or the old little Kmart ones with the colour logo, old Tandy ones…
Apparently Olive Oil works a treat too, but it would leave it a bit greasy. I’ll have to give Eucalyptus Oil a try.
never tried olive oil.. never heard of anyone having tried it before either. Doesn’t seem like it would do a terribly good job to me though. Eucalyptus oil is nowhere near as greasy, and it smells nice at least! Other good stuff to use is Nail Polish Remover.
That’s usually more likely to damage the surface of plastics though isn’t it? But I guess eucalyptus oil also carries a risk of turning plastics cloudy, not sure it’s as high of one though.
“TODAY 8:30am”
Lies! I checked at 8:32 and it still wasn’t up. Serrels must have been too busy talking about sexy Star Wars carnage on Twitter to put TAY up on time. 😛
Sexy Star Wars carnage takes precedence over TAY dontcha know.
I’m an impatient kind of lady. I don’t even have anything to say, I just want everyone else to hurry up and start entertaining me! 😛
*dances for Strange*
…
Sounds like we have a dance off!
this is where I really shine
Call @liondrive I hear he loves a dance off
:)|-<
:)/-<
:)\-<
;)>-<
Come at me bro.
Dammit. If he can do anything better than Thriller, I’m boned.
I hope it’s not a sexy Star Wars dance.
like this?
Edit: one of my favorite intros ever 😛
*dances*
*emerges from hermit cave* Sexy Star Wars Carnage? What’s all this then?
Edit: I am actually a hermit and have no idea what this is about.
Morning TAYbies, how was your weekend?
Mine wasn’t too bad, my gaming plans changed radically from what I originally intended. Meant to play Dead Rising 3 and Peggle 2, in reality I watched the rest of Under The Dome Season 1 (definitely declines rapidly in the second half of the season), and played a bit of Disney Infinity, and a fair bit of Hearthstone. I’m really enjoying it, it’s easy to pick up and so addictive.
In other news, spoke to my Dad, apparently he’s getting a payout for an incident that happened last year, and he’s decided to take me, my wife and my son on a holiday to England next year. Pretty blown away, gonna have to speak to my boss and arrange time off. Apparently he wants to spend a week in London, maybe a few days in Paris, and then 2 and a half weeks of traveling through the English countryside staying at various places. I’m expecting this to be the most boring part of the trip by far, so I’ll have to make sure I bring my laptop and buy a 3DS. Overall I’m pretty excited though.
Also, when does the Destiny Beta end? didn’t get into it at all over the weekend, gonna start it up now.
Under The Dome definitely goes down hill. Gets too spiritual/supernatural for me (I know it’s Stephen King but still). I’m hesitant to start watching season 2 but I guess it’s gotta happen at some point.
Great news about England 🙂 if you want any ideas of where to go/what to do then shout a question or two my way. Plenty of places to see for different kinds of people. Have you ever been before? The countryside can be pretty damned awesome when you’re there. I like the thought of retiring to a small country village in Yorkshire somewhere, a line of thinking made from the combination of watching The Last of The Summer Wine and living in Leeds and York for 5 years 😀 Seriously though, you just get an awesome sense of history in a lot of places around England.
Destiny beta goes on for another week and a bit I think. The Xbox one starts this week and I think that goes for a week? The Playstation one goes on as long as that does though.
Cheers man, I’ll probably hit you up for some info sometime next year as it gets closer.
Xbox beta starts on the 24th(25th our time?) And both platforms run til the 28th(29th)
Theres also a planned 2day maintenance on the 21st/22nd!! 🙂
My weekend was good, did a lot of relaxing, meant to play a bunch of different games but ended up driving around in LA Noire collecting all the collectables and listening to its old timey radio, got the pladernerm :D. Also played some Destiny, it is still fun. Went to Jimu meat and saw DC & Freeze. Wishing it wasn’t Monday.
I’ll give you some of my hand sewing for you to complete for me while you’re in the English countryside so you have something appropriate to do. 😛
Seriously though, what an amazing surprise for you. Excitement!
Lol, tell me about it, excitement plus \o/
Weekend was good, will detail later.
Hearthstone is really good and ive never watched under the dome but ive heard mediocre reports of it so will probably never watch it.
Also thats awesome as, you have to rent a car and spend the entire time narrating as if your Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear about the handling and the road and basically anything that happens on the trip ever.
Worth noting that after today Destiny is down for two days and then up again on Thursday! So get your Destiny fix now monkey! =P
How’d you go with Hearthstone? Play anymore after clearing the tutorial?
I’ve done the drive north from London to Edinburgh via Nottingham and it was great. Lots to do. Keep an eye out for bands that are touring the UK at the same time, and try to go to a football match. See Shakespeare performed at the Globe. See bronze-age stone circles in a farmer’s field. Marvel at how incredibly GREEN the grass is.
@greenius
Max Payne 3 is a pretty decent game but it is so damn repetitive. The game play never varies. Not sure I could be bothered finishing it. Story only thing pushing me to.
Had exactly the same experience. There are only so many times you can bullet time shoot people before you eject the disc.
As much as it pains me to say the game actually needed a lot more set pieces.
I actually never finished it. Like you, I found it way repetitive.
I traded it in after doing the 5th mission I was bored of it
I ended up finishing it but I used bullet time pretty sparingly because I found it dull with it and frankly I found the gunplay more fun in full speed since it’s quite polished
I keep checking my eBay account waiting for them to mark my items as sent.
*F5* *F5* *F5* *F5* *F5* *F5* *F5* *F5* *F5* *F5* *F5* *F5* *F5*
You’ve combined all the enjoyment of Sunday TAY with the fun of buying stuff!
HEARTHSTONE FOR GOD SAKE GIVE ME A LEGENDARY. Somewhere near the 20 opened packs mark – none. I’m begging here.
Only just started that this weekend, I’m just trying to playthrough in practice with all the different characters to unlock all the basic packs to start with.
Its great fun. I cant get the hang of the Preist, Warrior or Warlock but have good decks and good times with the rest.
Warrior can be beastly with the right cards. I had the card that gains attack every time its damaged, you put it with two taunts and use blood lust or whatever its called it does 2 damage to your creature and gives +4 to attack so use it on the monster with 2 strength and 7 health with the power up for damage skill suddenly they have 8 damage and 5 health
Ahhh the Berserker I believe. I had the challenge to win 5 games with the Warrior (or the Rogue) and was determined to do it with the Warrior – that was my best combo. As you said – you need the right cards and with the Warrior I think that is more true than with the majority of other classes.
I think they key is some heavy early taunts and the Armorsmith. You can get to 30 health and 20 armor then have enough beef to just ride it out.
Ah the gurubashi berserker, he’s actually a bit weak in a warrior deck imo (since warriors run high tempo cards!), better suited for priests or mage where a mage can drop him on the field and whack him with a fireball to get the instant attack boost or a priest can use divine spirit and double that 7 hp to 14! Also the best part is once the berserker takes damage a priest can keep healing him up and keeping that attack boost. Warrior’s can’t really do much with the berserker though and there’s much better alternatives for a warrior in the 5 mana range!
So worth noting, right now in competitive play the weakest decks are priest and pally. They just don’t have the tempo to match up against miracle rogue or zoo hunter or even a handlock. Mage is a pretty solid starting point but from that point on I recommend getting the hang of druid/shammy and definitely a rogue or warrior if not for any other reason than to know how to counter them! That said aside from a Druid wall there isn’t really an effective counter to a miracle rogue right now >
Edit: Sorry for the rant, right now I love all things hearthstone =P
Druid is awesome – really fun to play and their main legendary is an absolute beast. That said – I don’t often lose against them with the Hunter.
Yeah Hunter and Rogue are the dominant decks in the current meta game. However a miracle rogue deck is really expensive to pull together so hunters take the lead if you don’t have the cards for the rogue deck!
Leeroy aint cheap.
Ooh, e-mail from Sixense. A little while back they changed the design of the STEM so that the motion-sensing packs were no longer removable from the controllers. Some people weren’t happy about that, so they offered to allow people to exchange the controllers for STEM packs, or to be able to order extra packs at the discounted Kickstarter price, through a future survey to find out who needs what.
THE SURVEY IS HERE NOW, THIS MUST MEAN IT IS HAPPENING SOON!
Hey Tay… WOO WEEKEND \o/… By which i mean i worked the previous couple of days, so i have today and tomorrow as RDO \o/… So talking with @rize i am pretty damned hype for Star Citizen… So much so that I’ve started playing Evochron Mercenary again… It is a really damn decent space sim! Not particularly pretty but the flying is amazing once you get your head around all the complexities…
how is everyone else?
I keep thinking I should look into what I want to do in regards to controller choice for Star Citizen soon (and then test it in EM), but I reckon if I wait long enough some new stuff will turn up specifically for SC.
Tempted to put a control system together that mimics the appearance of the Freelancer.
Had a leaving party for my housemate going around the UK and Europe for however long. Sadface about that but excited for her to go travelling.
Destiny beta took up a lot of Saturday and Sunday. I did all the missions on a Warlock character solo on normal no problem with a random guy or two dropping in every now and then but then decided to go through some missions as a Titan with two mates (sorry @pupp3tmast3r, Sunday was taken up fireteaming with housemates) on hard/very hard. Tried the Devil’s Lair mission, almost finished the boss off after about 30-45 mins of fighting him when he quickly killed us all and decided we weren’t in the mood to go through it all again 🙁 tonight is the rematch. I am a bit disappointed though with basically no-one on PS4 using a headset. Glad I can just plug in my Samsung earbuds though and use that as a mic headset
Watch the first ep of The Strain. I didn’t realise it was out so soon, I thought I had time to read the books first so I can be a hipster douche and say I read the books first before the tv series made it popular 😀 It’s definitely interesting to say the least. Has a strong feel of Stephen King about it though, but feels like the decent King tv adaptation that was never made.
How’s everyone else?
There’s hard or very hard??! Are you referring to heroic quests? Or the level 8 striketeam? I’ve run Devil’s Lair like 9 times over the weekend and gotten to the point I don’t even die anymore =P Couple of things to note with Devil’s Lair with the first boss before the waves start Hunters and Locks should get on to the balcony behind where the Ghost is hacking that machine. Titans can just jump around and cause general chaos. For the second boss there’s two spots you can camp on either side of the walker, make sure not to all stay in the same camping spot cos you’ll get wiped out, to make the fight go faster use auto rifles/scout rifles/pulse rifle/heavy machine guns. All other weapons have minimized effect on the tank. For the final boss (easiest one imo) Just aim for his eye and manage the adds, the most annoying thing with this boss is possibly running out of ammo!
I cracked and bought a PS4 last night, in the last minutes of the ebay 20% sale. Felt like $400 was too good to pass up, which was immediately followed by the feeling of “why did I just buy something which has no games I actually want to play on it”. I’m sure once some more of those sweet Sony exclusives hit I’ll be very happy with my purchase, but until then I think I’ll just be sticking to the free PS+ games.
Second Son is radballs. I don’t even like open world games all that much but it did something very right.
Yeah at the moment that’s the only PS4 game that interests me. Coming from the Wii U and being spoilt by exclusives, it feels like a bit of a barren desert at the moment – but it only takes one new Naughty Dog drop or a few Sony backed arty PSN game to completely justify it for me. Here’s hoping the exclusive line-up ends up being as amazing as the PS3’s was.
Haha I had a friend do exactly the same thing. Bought one then immediately just said “…why??”
I’ve been telling myself for months that I’d wait till a slim SKU, or at least until a very cheap bundle, but as soon as a remotely decent sale hit my reptilian brain kicked in, like it does every Steam Sale, and before I knew it I was basking in the warm glow of buyers remorse.
My wife is opposed to PS4 ownership whereas I’m indifferent. I think we planned to completely skip the PS4 but I think by the time we’re sub-$300 and/or there’s an updated/slim SKU and there’s enough games to justify a purchase (I’d say at least five, which is about how many PS3 games we have) we might jump in.
Perfectly happy with the Xbone for now though, and I have more than enough games to play elsewhere, so I’m in no hurry.
That’s the right way to do it.
It’s made easier by the fact that while games like Second Son and Order 1886 look pretty good, they’re not what I consider “must have”. While they might be fun to play and have decent stories, I no longer feel the need to play every single thing that comes out. I just don’t have the time. I feel less like I’m “missing” those games than I am choosing to appreciate them from a distance.
I have a ludicrous amount of 360 games some of which I have not so much as placed into an actual console, and this frankly has to stop. I kind of expect that by the end of this gen my Xbone library will be about half of my 360 library even though the games that come out will probably be just as good as last gen if not better. I just want to use my time more effectively and stop buying every major title at launch for the sake of doing so.
That’s been me with pretty much every purchase. I’m scared to look at my finance tracker.
It was my birthday yesterday, I ate cake and cleaned my house.
Also watched 4 episodes of legend of Korra
This season feels more mellow than the last few, also ZUKO HAS A FUCKING DRAGON. The only problem i have with the series is the villians. I mean sparky sparky boom boom man’s daughter is badass and the armless lady who uses water as arms is hella cool. But They just seem to powerful.NEXT EPISODE IS OUT? WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME!?
i watched 4,5,6,7
i think 6 and 7 came out at the same time.
ARGH! I’ve only seen up to episode 3!
Dang. They’re chewing through this season quickly considering the first episode only came out about a month ago.
The whole season was leaked in spanish so i imagine they are rushing through the english one. No matter to me. The quality hasnt really been affected.
It is a worry as it takes them so long to produce a new season – but regardless I am loving what I have seen so far. Episode 7 is all set for my bus ride home.
So eager for the final battle against those 4 super badassesHappy belated birthday!
happy birthyesterday \o/
Holy Crap! Just found out that Oddworld: New ‘N’ Tasty! is out for PS4 this week. Dammit! I need a PS4 NOOOOOW!!!
It was coming out on PC as well, but yeah, it sprung up on me. I’m hoping it’ll be a PS Plus game at some point as I can’t afford it this week 🙁 next week I might just throw $30 at my PS4 though after the Destiny beta finishes
:O I had no idea it was that soon, excite!
FYI I just read pre orders get a bonus level and costume, no idea how much actual content there is in it.
My weekend; a summary.
Friday: A 2 hour carpet clean taking 8 hours due to equipment failure. Then… Pizza and Catan.
Saturday: Working, then cringing at the footy on TV, then trying to forget the footy with burgers.
Sunday: More work, then coffee. Then cocktails / long lunch. Food shopping. Dinner with friends. Ice cream. Really bad sleep. Perhaps related to amount of food consumed throughout the day.
Now more working.
Cataaaaaan
“2 sheep and a wood? That sounds like a New Zealand porno.”
I have wood for sheep.
Amen.
I jumped on WoW last night for the first time in a while and was flying around leveling my archaeology when who do I see?
cc @markserrels
A couple of friends of mine have decided to jump back into Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer on PC. I think the plan is to organise regular sessions depending on interest, so if you’re keen, join the group and jump in this Wednesday!
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/MW2PCrevival
Keeeeeeeeennnnn…
Oh wait, PC. *sigh* Racists.
Hmm, looks like it’s $20 on steam, or $15.99 on Amazon… tempting…
I’m unsure of whether everyone has DLC, or if it’s expected that you own it, or anything. I’ll find that out before I tell people that should buy it 😛
That game is still great. I’m making an effort to to play it (on xbox 360) every now and again. Washes the taste of Modern Warfare 3 out of my mouth.
Weekend RPG shenanigans with Popdart5 (cue theme music):
4th Edition D&D as a Dragonborn Cleric:
We were given a quest to clear out a barrow of undead so I was right in my element. Unfortunately these were frostborn undead so they exuded frost auras and could immobilise with a single attack, which I got hit with in the first round. When I finally got free though, oh boy it was so fun to use Turn Undead and send them flying back. And then I immediately got hit with cleric-whine agro and spent the rest of the fights being a heal-bot. We killed them all, got our reward and other phat loots as well.Just as a point, I’m not a huge fan of 4E. I find the tactical map and the powers system have placed too much emphasis on combat over story. Sure you can have a very story-heavy campaign but the fact that they simplified skills and changed class abilities so that they are only effective in combat is kinda lame. D&D Next/5E looks to have gone back to basics a bit so I have hope storytelling comes back into the fore.
Kotaku uk had an interesting article about the recent /r/pokemon trend called pokeshaming, 1 of the pics that caught my interest was about gardevior, now in conjunction some weeks before, I read an interesting poke report on the pokemon professors deviantart page about gardevior & the troubles with gardeviorophiles, basically saying that despite it not being in the human-like egg group, many people treat them as if they were, I mean what is wrong with these people, if you don’t trust me, turn off google’s safe search and type in gardevior & better not yet gothitelle, worse yet gard/goth, after that you will need brain bleach, & if the comments on the pokemon blog that kotaku hosts are any indication to go by, well you will have nightmares, bye
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Those pictures are so hot it would put a Charizard to shame.
YOU DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH BADGES TO TRAIN ME!
No.
You keep talking about brain bleach stuff but I’m yet to see anything beyond entry level from you. You have a lot to learn young padawan.
Ok so do you remember encyclopedia dramatica, whole page on gardevior dedicated to that stuff, you would need some level of brain bleach to cope
Encyclopedia Dramatica aka Babby’s first guide to interweb drama?
Dramatica?
Bro, do you even internet?
It imploded a few years ago, went there, was so disgusted that I need brain bleach, also it had alot of sexist & autism hatred related stuff, was proud it imploded that I didn’t have to read that stuff again
Most of the way through Tomb Raider: DE, basically up to the last area and took a break because I know when I finish it I’m going to jump straight into collectible hunting and want to be fresh for that.
Tried a few “challenges” in Binding of Isaac. Quickly learned that Binding of Isaac takes the definition of “challenge” seriously, curled into a ball and cried.
My wife started Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, which looks amazing. Going to have to get on that this week too.
Other than that my weekend was largely uneventful. Which is how I like it. A colleague was complaining how he went out Thursday, Friday and Saturday and felt wrecked by Sunday. Pah! 26 year olds, am I right?
My boss brought back my Breaking Bad blu rays after holding onto them for three months and not finding time to watch it, so I’m sure a re-watch of Breaking Bad is in the cards for the near future.
And that’s it. That’s everything. This is my life. I can just run out the clock on this.
Isaac 😀
104 hours logged. Only beaten Mom’s Heart 10 times. I understand now if I beat Mom’s Heart again there’s more levels below the womb?!
Yeah! I’ve played for about 60 hours but I’m at some part where I have to collect pieces of a picture for the final stuff to unlock.
Sounds like you’re way further ahead than me. which is embarassing. I mean… 40 hours! I can only blame my friends playing on my account for maybe 10 of those!
Interesting little encounter this morning. Went to chemist to get my script re-filled, and the pharmacist told me I couldn’t get it til tomorrow, despite saying on the script “Please see pharmacist if before 21/7/14.”
He flat out refused to dispense it, even though I’ve always picked it up on the day that’s written on the script in the past. He then proceeded to try to convince me to leave my script with them and come back tomorrow because it would be “easier”.
So I politely told him I had no idea where I would actually be tomorrow, and I’d take it with me. Went to another chemist further down the road, and they dispensed it on the spot with no questions asked. Kinda makes me wonder if there’s any legal repercussions for refusing to dispense without a valid reason. I understand if you say.. wanted to get a script re-filled earlier than the date, or if you’d had too many of the same type filled in a certain time period, they would have the right to refuse if they thought there was some manner of drug abuse going on, but if I’m legally entitled to have a script filled, I would think they have a duty of care to dispense the medicine. Anyone else encountered anything like this in the past?
Generally it’s their business and they can run it how they like. Just like you were free to take your business elsewhere. Usually the customer doesn’t really have much in the way of rights until post transaction.
Yeah, kind of like how that rural pharmacy/ist is free to not stock / serve contraceptives due to their religious beliefs. Stupid, short-sighted, bigoted?, against my own beliefs… but within their rights as proprietor.
Yep, exactly. They’re well within their rights to be unethical wankers.
I think the only time a duty of care exists is where there’s an immediate and foreseeable threat to life. E.g. insulin shots, asthma inhaler, etc.
mm yeah well I would expect it if my life depended on it. I’m not gonna go and sue them or even try and battle with them in any way. Just curious if there were any known rules about this kind of thing. Just strange that I’ve never encountered it before, and I’ve even had that pharmacist dispense it on the day written on the script in the past, which is what I found really weird. Even the chick at the counter thought it should be fine for today when I pointed it out, and looked puzzled when the pharmacist said I’d have to wait.
Maybe that guy’s just a cunt!
I suspect you’ve hit that particular nail on the head, and he can see you next Tuesday to dispense the script. :p
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was pretty lazy I didnt play any games all weekend, I loaded up payday on Sunday but other than that my weekend was more involved on watching things.
Me and the missus started watching Orange Is The New Black and after awhile she started getting into it but felt it was dragging alot
I dunno I guess she thought a show about prisons would have more riots and violenceWe also went out on sunday to the shops and ended up buying the entire series of Angry Beavers because its a classic as well as 5 other tv series. We then went to buy pots but the shop we go to was shutdown so instead we brought new towels for when we move out
A monday morning question if you were to start a youtube account what would you call it and what would your videos be about?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wnRmWwfTHqk/ULYcqh80xgI/AAAAAAAAAMc/RGzplDzo9dU/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-11-28+at+22.18.33.png
I’d name it Greenius and I’d upload random music covers on it for my own viewing.
Waitaminnit…
Nice channel.
This came to mind as soon as you said that.
https://www.youtube.com/user/AtHomeWithUncleWormy
In all seriousness, I upload random stuff to Dailymotion, because I’m too cool.
http://www.dailymotion.com/Phlanispo
I haven’t done my research but is the Destiny beta open to PS3 users? If so, how do I get into said beta exactly?
Pre-order Destiny, the retailer will give you a code. You then redeem that code on the Bungie site which will give you three keys to the platform of your choice (which is not locked to your preorder platform, you can preorder on PS4 because you might intend to buy a PS4 before September, but play the beta on PS3, for instance).
There are other ways to get keys, if you know the right people. I think some TAYbies might have spare codes.
Many thanks.
Yep, it’s on PS3. You need to preorder or wait until someone gives you a code. There’s a bunch floating around.
I can give you a PS3 key right now, got one left, gave the other one to Masha, Hit me up if you want it (DM me on Twitter or something). It’s a 5.5GB download from memory.
That would be awesome, thank you.
No worries dude, just DM me on Twitter or Steamchat when you want it. Don’t want to put it up on here in case some lurker grabs it before you.
Hola Tay
Fairly quiet weekend- went and gave plasma on Saturday, went to a gaming night sat night, but mostly spent the weekend cleaning my house- inspection tomorrow. Played a bit of Fallout NV and Civ V (Ciiiiiiiiiiiv)
A monday morning question: What would you like to be made into a Strategy game? I’d love something a bit more Arthurian in a fantasy one
I would say pokemon but that has been done, its actually pretty freaking amazing.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Build your massive army. Miscalculate the scale / sizes. Get swallowed by a small dog.
Global or squad scale? A Judge Dredd squad combat (minus the squad) style strategy game would be pretty rad.
Or a Mass Effect 4x game.
YES.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=172933304&searchtext=mass+effect
Eh, Civ V mod =/= Dedicated Mass Effect 4X.
Thinking of an X-COM style Judge Dredd game, I think you’d need to nerf Dredd a little to make the gameplay more interesting than X-COM with unkillable soldiers uing one-shot-kill AoE-homing guns. 🙂
Well they already did Brutal Legend which I thought was amazing, so i’m out of ideas 😛
I want a lovecraft inspired strategy game 0,0
The strategy in Lovecraft is
1. Go mad
2. Die if you’re lucky
I love it.
The Elder Scrolls: 4X strategy, set before the Imperial Legion took over everything. You choose a faction, and try to conquer all the other factions. I chose this purely because I love the universe so much.
Dead Space: Dawn of War-style/UFO-style strategy mixed where your missions are more about recovering ammunition and finding new weapons. Mixes some elements of the Walking Dead, where you have to keep all your team members happy, and be very careful about who you take along for missions. Maybe a few team members are Unitologists, and are conflicted about whether killing Necromorphs is sacrilege.
There is an Elder Scrolls mod for Crusader kings 2 I think
I played the TES mod for Civ 5 and enjoyed my time overall. But as you said earlier
A legitimate TES strategy game would be awesome.
Anyone that doesn’t have a PS4 yet, the Target Toy Sale Catalogue is advertising a bundle including the console, Need For Speed: Rivals, FIFA 14 and Killzone: Shadow Fall for $559.
Also, the 3DS XL is $268 with Adventure Time: Hey Ice King, Why’d You Steal Our Garbage, and a choice of Pokemon Black 2 or White 2.
Also also, The Mario Kart console bundle including Rabbids Land is $389.
Also also also, Disney Infinity figures are 9 bucks each.
Reckon I’ll put a PS4 and 3DS on Layby as well as a second 3DS for my son for christmas and complete my collection of Disney Infinity figures and playsets in preparation for Disney Infinity 2.0, speaking of which, I’ll probably put a pre-order on that while I’m there too, they’re chucking in a bonus Nick Fury figure.
Well finished Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall last night, bloody good expansion overall. It improves upon Dead Man’s Switch in pretty much every way, I really love how you have an actual team rather than hiring runners for jobs, it feels like having friends you’re working with and it builds up a sense of camaraderie that the original campaign struggled to achieve.
Pretty much as soon as I talked to Eiger I knew I was never going on a run without her on my team since I loved her no bullshit military professionalism style (and sniper rifle) and when I got Blitz and had to start picking which team members to take, Eiger was always in without a thought and then it just came down to whether I needed a decker, felt like I needed additional magic (since I was playing a mage, Dietrich was kind of a backup to my main but played a decent support role) or if I needed some decent melee combat & medical support.
The story was pretty damned good too, I really liked how open it felt with the jobs you could take. It mostly took the form of raising money to pay off an information broker and there were several fairly large jobs you could take to boost the fund. Some of them were a bit shady, more than the usual what with you being career criminals and all but there were often ways to turn the shady ones around into something a bit more ethical or at least sabotage the most unethical parts so the dodgiest parts that would cause the most harm wouldn’t be of any value but you’d still get paid, even if it’d damage your rep in the end.
It still didn’t fix one of the biggest bugbears for me which was the inventory management, I bought a dozen medkits & trauma kits (basically revival kits) before the hard missions but because you can’t move stuff out of the inventory of the NPCs and they normally start full, I couldn’t take away Glory’s advanced medkits and low grade trauma kits to give her premium medkits & high grade trauma kits. It was hardly game breaking and chances are that it’s the kind of thing that would have required a lot of code changes rather than writing a new module which is basically what this was but still a bit of a bummer.
Still, definitely worth it if you even vaguely liked the original game.
The team was one of the few things I didn’t like. Blitz was an intolerable tool, Eigar was just grating and Glory was just the non character who’s “troubled and mysterious”. Dietrich was cool though.
I quite liked Glory’s backstory, but everyone paled in comparison to Dietrich.
Yeah, I used both Dietrich and Glory in all the missions on my Decker.
You might need to be a mage or something comparable to get glory’s backstory, I had to use magical abilities to get into her head at one point and there didn’t seem to be any other conversation option that would trigger it. Then again it might happen later and I closed it off by getting it early with the aura reading trick
Wiz!
Rad.
DREK.
Morning! 🙂
I miss Brisbane :'(
Brisbane misses you too man!
Sydney doesn’t miss him.
Nobody misses Sydney.
CANBERRAAAAAA!
You’d have to be pretty blind to 😛
Morning, TAY!
I’m now officially part of the Master Race! I can feel my smugness growing already! 😀
…That is, until I was informed that there is a level above Master Race that I wasn’t aware of. The Supreme Race who game on 1440p and above! D: I was so close!
Secret:
There’s always a more masterful masterracer
The actual building of my PC was actually fairly straightforward. Pretty enjoyable too! I followed that NewEgg video for most of it, and the stuff that they gloss over (like connecting all the cables to everything) were fairly easy to figure out. Everything only really fits in one place.
Had some trouble at the end where it wouldn’t turn on though. Turns out I had the switch on the back set to off, when I thought “O” meant on… ._.
It’s not an O it’s zero 😛
Like binary, zero and one. Off and on.
Yeah, I know. I was just in the mindset of a lightswitch: down being on. This one is up is on 😛
I only checked my cabling twice before realising…
At least it’s only a power switch these days and not a voltage switch. Used to be a great way to fry your shiny new machine!
I learned that in (roughly) year three, when a mate of mine say a shiny red switch on the back of a school computer and figured it was a smart idea to flick it.
I can’t wait til my Tax return comes in! I’m very tempted to get one of these!
http://www.aocmonitorap.com/root/hk_en/product_display.php?id=556
I’ve seen em on sale for $648 at some places!
I’ve seen a few companies have UHD monitors for around that price! I was amazed they were so cheap, made me think something was wrong with them 😛
There’s a good samsung one for around the same price, but it only has 1xhdmi and 2x display port. At least the AOC one has DVI as well! While I’d prefer to use display port, my card doesn’t have a port for it yet, so that’ll have to wait for my next gpu upgrade!
Ah fair point. Didn’t realise DVI did those resolutions, must be VGA I am thinking of that may not..?
They can all do rather high res images, though the VGA has a max of about 2048×1536 @ 85hz I think. Possibly 2560×1600 at a lower refresh rate, but not sure.
DVI single link has limited bandwidth, so it’s limited to 1920×1200 or 2560×1600, but dual link can do up to 3,820×2,160 with no audio.
HDMI can do 3,820×2,160 if it’s 1.4a. I should add that HDMI can only do that res at 30Hz until HDMI 2.0 comes out, where they will be able to do the same at 60Hz.
Speaking of: Which cable should I be using for my monitor? Using DVI at the moment because it was the first thing I had on-hand, but I’ve got a HDMI that I can swap out if it’ll be better.
At your resolution, they are the same. Use DVI for less chance of hassles.
DVI is usually my preferred choice. HDMI is slightly more limited, though if you’re running at 1920×1080 you shouldn’t have any issues.
I had a 16:10 monitor which had vga/hdmi/dvi, and the native res was 1920×1200. HDMI would not let me use that res. It maxed out at 1920×1080 and left me with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.
HDMI is thin and easy to move and there’s no faffing about with screwing the interface in, no reason to use DVI if you’re using 1920×1080.
Also HDMI is good if you ever plan to get into video capturing stuff & look at something like the avermedia livegamer portable that uses a HDMI passthrough
Careful, some are limited to 30Hz.
They, like, merge two ‘panels’ together and have each running at 30Hz only to save on bandwidth. Means it’s okay for office work, but sucky for gaems.
2560×1600, REPRESENT.
Wooo! Represent.
Mornin’ all…
I guess 5 & a bit hours sleep isn’t optimal turns out, oh well.
Gonna email off my expression of interest for this job today with EB, nervous as fuck about it. Mostly cause I have never met this particular area manager and I don’t know what he is like.
My friend saw Monty Python live last night and I am extremely jealous she got that once in a life time experience.
Had an okay weekend, was better than any day last week at least. How is everyone?
5 hours a night is what I aim for, usually closer to 4 though, if I could eliminate sleep altogether I would be happy.
Haha. I couldn’t get to sleep until 3:30am, beats Saturday night, woke up at that hour and couldn’t get back to sleep 😀
lame, yeah sleep annoys me, can’t get any when I need it and when I don’t want it I develop narcolepsy.
I hear ya there dude, add stress to the pile and it makes sleep even harder to come by lol.
I would love to get by on 4 hours of sleep a night.
I could probably manage it if people didn’t mind me passing out at my desk. They always seem to kick up a fuss though…
I drink far too much coffee for my own good, Wouldn’t be able to manage it otherwise.
I have this thing where coffee is just a drink that tastes nice. It’s never had any kind of beneficial effect on me like everyone else seems to get.
Although if I have some when I’m tried, then I feel even more like crap. So best to avoid it in those situations.
I have really disgustingly strong coffee and lots of it, regular strength has no effect on me anymore.
I once went out to dinner at a Lebanese restaurant with some friends. At the end they brought out some Turkish coffee, the real strong stuff. It was great, I had about six cups of the stuff. Only the first one or two were liquid though, the rest were all sludge.
Went home afterwards and had no worries going to bed.
yeah, it doesn’t stop me from sleeping, just keeps me from randomly passing out 😛
Damn, dude. I remember when I used to some how get by on 3-4 hours, how it never killed me i’ve no fucking idea.
Haha yeah, there were a few times (usually leading to the due date for some ridiculous project (personal, not any kind of actual work) I was working on) where I managed to go for three or four days on just four hours of sleep and survive just fine. Don’t know that I could make it a regular thing though, also not sure that I could still do it 😛
I used to be able to survive on 4 hours of sleep back when I was 23 and had a job I could sleepwalk through.
Now if I don’t get 6 hours I’m completely lost. I usually get nothngi done and spend half my day walking back and forth from the kitchen to top up on coffee.
yeah, I survive on 4-5 hours a day but I do live in a bit of a dazed state.
Regarding EB: apparently they want sales people and don’t really give a shit about your games knowledge. Some stores are seeking specific demographics and expertise areas, however, so it’s good to say “im familiar with these systems:” during application. But, focus on sales.
YMMV.
That was my experience. Be able to relate to people quickly and avoid awkward silences and you’ll be alright.
Then again I was a terrible salespersons and stopped getting hours after my first month.
I already work for them 😛 It’s a job within EB for their new business Zing – Pop Culture which\ is opening here in a few weeks lol.
Also it really depends on the manager, my manager she LOVES people who know their shit, she wants that over someone who is a good salesman but knows fuck all about the product.
Found 3 pieces of interesting art on deviant art that could set up 2 splinter universes, 2 of them is a what if in metroid prime: after defeating metroid prime, what if it’s essence merged with samus & kept her from taking off her phazon suit, these 2 pieces of art would show you the result, the last piece of interesting piece of art is what if ridley, in of thee key scenes of metroid manga, chose to be little samus’ friend & took her so that she would see what would happen to her parents, this piece of art would show that result
That’s fascinating. You’re a fascinating person.
Tell me, given that many open-world platformers are referred to as “Metroidvania” have you ever considered what might happen if Samus was given a bounty to hunt and kill Dracula? What if Dracula turned Samus? What if Metroids were vampiric? What would be the result of the unholy threeway that would inevitably result?
Bloodrayne.
The classic piece of contemporary cinema directed by visionary genius Uwe Boll?
Bloodrayne’s bad, but it’s not boring bad. no so bad it’s good, but so bad it’s entertaining enough.
I mean, Meatloaf and prostitutes as extras! Billy Zane! Ben Kingsley slumming it!
Far Cry, however, is SO DULL
Bloodrayne make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad. if you want bloodrayne no get if like shoting bad guys ok great get.
I tried House of the Dead, I think I made it about 10 minutes in. It looked like an experiment where some teenagers filmed themselves doing mundane tasks in the dark then put the footage in a blender. Whatever frames they couldn’t piece back together, they filled in with pointless visual effects.
I kind of liked Postal for all its pure offensiveness. Nothing like seeing Verne Troyer getting stuffed into a suitcase full of sex toys and get tossed around for ten minutes.
That said good or even competent aren’t words to describe it.
*facepalm* post fusion, samus is considered to be a type of vampire, an energy vampire, this sort of vampire drains its victims of energy aka mana, since metroids work in this matter, one can consider them energy vampires, fyi the 2 pioneers of metroidvania have 2 types of vampires: blood & energy & you want to know another kind of energy vampire: the possesor of the azure grimoire, since it holds the essence of the black beast aka orochi in blaz blue, I could give you a whole of them, but the matter of fact is that metroidvania is pionneered by 2 types of vampires: energy & blood sucking vampires *ends rant*
Amazing. Are you suggesting that energy and blood vampires cancel each other out so Samus can’t be turned by Dracula? Otherwise I don’t really see how you answered my question.
More important: Are they working in conjunction with the saucer people?
We’re through the looking glass here people
Are you talking about the upper chest? What is your facsination? Why are you trying to hog all the Ernie’s?
Boooooooooobs.
Dude that is not the half of it, if you dig a little deeper of sub species of vampires, you will find the cubus sub species as well as the dream energy eating kind, think about it & you will consider the vampire family to be made up of multiple kinds of vampires, repeat think about it
Where do the vampire watermelons fit in?
I’m thinking about it
Dude it is MUCH worse, 2 sisters of the same family alucard (dracula backwards) have been seen together with persumably energy vampires with bloodedge nicknames and this is blaz blue CANON
But are either of the sisters vampire watermelons? Or vampire pumpkins? Don’t leave me hanging here
Whaaaaaaat. No way.
Really think of it, both sisters have an interest with the azure grimoire’s posseser, both men are expies of dante, the newer character is sorta simliar to new look dante & also the latter has the bloodedge state, also to put this on the blaz blue timeline, this manga starts when both valkenhyn & relius clover were mercs hunting other supernatural beings in their 40s & when clavis alucard was alive, plus they share similar names: raqel, rachel, if that doesn’t tell you that vampires have an interest in energy vampires, nothing will
I’m convinced, completely. You are like an encyclopaedia for vampires.
Waaaaaait.
Dante wasn’t a vampire!
@kermitron I’ve heard that it “takes one to know one”.
We should probably be a little more cautious about this fella.
…you wouldn’t happen to have a sister named Elena would you?
*another facepalm* this comment was supposed to be about the most dreaded m word in geekind, made more infamous after nintendo released the historia of hyrule, in which during oricana of time, 3 timelines split off, the dreaded multiverse, first 2 pics were about samus the metroid prime queen timeline, last pic was about samus & ridley: friends timeline, two parralel universe in 1 game series
Mmmmmmmmichael Bay?
MULTIVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEE, equally as dreaded as seen with sheldon’s reaction to that word
The only Sheldon yell worth a damn is WHEEEEEEEEATOOOOOON!
I don’t mind a multiverse theory for a game- Continuity is not and should never be god. That’s why i think Disney scrapping the Star Wars EU was the right thing.
I don’t care if Disney scraps the EU because I’m no longer 15. I feel like 1997 me would have cared waaaay more.
Yeah, my reaction would have been different ten years ago. Maturity? perhaps, but I’ve been out of the Star Wars EU loop since uni, reading other things.
Might read through some stuff in advance of @negativezero’s EotE game though.
@redartifice I think part of it is the out-of-the-loop stuff. I stopped reading after Vector Prime. A combination of not liing the new stories as much, and getting older/having other stuff to do.
If I can’t be bothered keeping up with the new Jedi stuff, the battle with the Yuuzhan Vong etc. I shouldn’t expect people who’ve only followed the movies to give a shit about Thrawn, Mara Jade, the Jedi Academy and all the minutae from those real pieces of shit like Darksaber and Children of the Jedi.
@kermitron Errrrrgh, Darksaber. So bad.
That’s pretty much my thoughts too. From the outside, it’s a mess. Now, for a while, it was MY mess, so I knew it back to front, but a clean slate is the best option.
That’s not to say i wouldn’t love to see Thrawn on the big screen, or reintroduced and rebooted, because he’s really one of the best villains.
@redartifice Absolutely, I’d love to see the Zahn content like Thrawn and Mara Jade become canon only because I think they’d be great adapted to film, and the other stuff can remain “legends” or whatever.
@dinoking Look pal, if you’re going to come here, be part of the conversation, rather than banging on about obscure metroid fan theories or accusing people of sexism. If you want to just rant about either of those two things, there’s this site called tumblr you may want to check out.
This is something I feel very strongly about. In my upper chest.
Clavicle. Politically correct term is clavicle.
You have the collar, i have the bone
I am so sorry, that was awful and puerile.That’s what was so great about it.
Spent the weekend playing Supraball and Intruder, while lamenting the dearth of AU servers.
I spent the last 2 minutes looking into what the hell Supraball was and-oh my god I want that.
Reminds me of Bombing Run from Unreal Tournament, but as a full sports game.
It’s brilliant. There’s currently only one AU server, it’s been populated in the evenings since I found out about the game a few days ago.
I see Cold Chisel have branched out into the seedling market. Spotted this at Bunnings yesterday.
I couldn’t trust my fart after I downed CaySan
And it burned my hole through my chilly dish – double helping wasn’t, the smartest plan
Terrible, but it’s a Monday
B+ for effort. C- for execution. Overall you get a pass, because of Monday scaling.
From a Cracked photoplasty I just read through, what would be one of the worst casting decisions possible? Eg: Wayne Brady as Malcolm X.
Ben Affleck as Batman 😛
Boooooooo
I think Batfleck is going to rock.
fair enough, I’m not a fan.
If only thanks to the name.
I’m reserving judgement until I see the movie.
also fair enough, I just took a lazy Monday morning cheap shot.
Andy Dick as any character.
Steve Buscemi as Thor.
Christopher Walken as Nick Fury.
No wait – that would be brilliant
Christopher Walken can do anything.
By which I mean, no one has the nerve to stop him. Not that it’s necessarily a good idea.
Hey…I was, …thinking. How about I play, you know, all, …of the Avengers.
Every one, I mean. Yeah. …What you gonna, stop me?
The.. the Tesseract, I hid it…. in my ASS
the decepticons will NEVER find it there!!! even if they knew where it was, i doubt theyd want to venture into the unknown! \o/
Adam Sandler in anything that did not involve puerile humour.
Adam Sandler in anything
that did not involve puerile humour.HEY YOU GUYS LET’S CAST ADAM SANDLER TWICE AND HAVE HIM DRESS UP AS A WOMAN FOR 90 MINUTES. THAT’S SO INHERENTLY FUNNY THAT WE WON’T NEED A SCRIPT OR PLOT OR ANYTHING.
Paris Hilton as Galadriel?
2014 Betty White as 1977 Princess Leia?
No, I’ve got it. Woody Allen as Adolf Hitler.
I’d pay good money to see a Woody Hitler.
I assume that’d play out along the lines of The Great Dictator and might be enjoyable.
I’m more thinking “worst” in terms straight dropping him in to Downfall.
I wonder if you could do a reverse Downfall parody where you take the audio from Downfall and make it fit the video from a passionate Woody Allen performance.
I….. may have to get back to you later tonight. After I watch some Woody Allen scenes.
Man, that freaking meme. Downfall was just downright amazing and that scene was a powerful one. But people are all “lol, angry Hitler shouting German = funny”. It shouldn’t irritate me but it does.
This is as close as you’ll get, I’m afraid.
I’m level 50 in Dragons Dogma now, so decided to give BBI a go. Really similar to Dark Souls level design, I’m a huge fan of this. Not as hard as I was expecting tbh. Nothing has given me trouble except that Condemned Goreclops. Is it cheating if I stand above him and slowly take him out with my magic bow? I keep moving down the bottom but my pawns end up dying and I end up dying if I take the time to rescue them.
So a ton of people i know scored PS4’s for $399.20 yesterday through Dick Smiths ebay store all day yesterday (with a coupon), and free shipping… yet not one of them was able to forward me the details in time so i could share them with you guys…
DAMN IT ZETROX I WANT RESULTS. but i forgive you cause you have a pretty smile.
IM SORRY!!!! /o\
Heyo. I have 2x Destiny Beta codes for PS4 EU. Comment here if you want em, and send me email adr1k000@ googly mail.
Tickets for the Doctor Who World Tour Sydney leg have started, so if you’re keen I’d jump at it quick.
i want to go but i dont think i can swing another interstate trip this year. Damn responsibilities.
It’s ok, I’ll recreate the experience when you’re down in Canberra using @blaghman and some intricate shadow puppetry.
you are a saint. A saint who dresses like Han Solo sometimes.
If I could pull it off, I’d dress like Han Solo ALL the time.
RIZE PULLS IT OFF BIG TIME
Just went to launch the Destiny Beta, pressed X on the start screen and got an error message “You need 264MB of free space”, exited the game, checked my hard drive, free space = 9975MB… WTF!!!!
Delete more. APparently it needs an additional 10GB to download once you launch it for first time.
For the PS4 version it took up 13.7 GB so you might need at least 10 for the PS3 =\
Oh really! I thought it was 15GB only for PS4, Crap! Looks like I won’t be playing it till it comes back up in two days.
Edit: deleted Jak and Daxter I, II and III, got them free with PS+ and my subscription’s expired anyway, gave me an extra 7 or 8GB. Looks like I’ll just be playing Disney Infinity, Dead Rising 3 and Hearthstone for now.
It was 13.xGB for the initial download, but then they are twats and put in an extra in-game, it seems. My friend started it up on my console, so just going off that.
Think it was 5.5GB for the initial download on PS3, then another 20 odd Meg update. After deleting those games it let me proceed without downloading anything extra, weird.
If you need space onyour PS4, try going into the ‘GAME DATA’ section and deleting the data for games you’ve finished or won’t be playing for a while. Not the save game data section, just the game data section where all the updates and mandatory installs are kept.
I’m playing on PS3, don’t have a PS4 yet, thanks though.
Oops,typo. I meant 3! PS3!
Edit: I don’t actually even know how to do anything besides watch foxtel and play Assassin’s Creed on my PS4. 😛
Sorted now anyway, about to grab my first gun.
Happy SKYRIM! everybody.
Speaking of SKYRIM! (HA! when am I not) as much as I love the game, I’ve been giving Oblivion another whirl purely for one aspect that I found rather disappointing in SKYRIM!… the MAGIC!
The ability to craft spells in Oblivion is just plain awesome after the somewhat lacklustre spells in SKYRIM!
Though the fact that most of my time in SKYRIM! running around swinging the biggest two-handed weapon I can find at pretty much every object in the game, may mean I have not given the magic the proper time and consideration it deserves.
Though, you can craft spells in Morrowind as well can’t you?
Definitely seems like a massive step back in terms of gameplay.
Also finding I prefer having the good old strength, agility, intelligence, etc, stats back.
…
…
SKYRIM! is still awesome though.
SKYRIM!
I’m too busy playing NEW VEGAS to Skyrim!
Actually been playing a lot of that as well, just felt a need to magic things 🙂
Talking of New Vegas, just finished Honest Hearts, hadn’t realised how great that place was for farming some of the most powerful rifles in the game. Must have picked up 5 Brush Guns, 6 Trail Carbines, 10 Hunting Shotguns and Rifles each and about 4 Ant-Material Rifles all within an hour or so.
The fact that I have not yet run across one of these guns outside the Gun Runners in the Mojave, makes this an awesome place for picking up late game weapons easily and without having to come up with thousands of caps needed to purchase them.
I’ve not done any of the DLCs- What level do you need to be to start them?
Hard to tell, very dependent on character build.
From what I have found;
Honest Hearts: Very combat focused. Good with guns is required, from what I can tell, not much else is needed in terms of skill.
Dead Money: Only played through this once. From what I can remember this was pretty much a jack of all trades DLC. Certainly wouldn’t tackle this until later in the game and had good amount of varied skills and/or skill magazines.
Old World Blues: Had the most fun with this one. Very science focused this one and a bit of varied combat as well. I normally leave tis to near the end.
Lonesome Road: From what I remember, only done once and about to tackle again, this is the hardest of all the DLCs. I would certainly leave this till the end of the game. High level of combat and high level of skills needed.
Though ask around and you could probably pick up half a dozen responses fro TAY totally different, ah the joys of rpgs 🙂
Guns and speech are about the only two things I’m good at. Low INT is a BITCH for skill monkeys, and there’s a bug where I can’t even get the intelligence booster implant.
Ouch. Well you could always try talking yourself out of most situations and if that doesn’t work, at the end of the day there is rarely a problem that guns can’t fix 🙂
Might wait til i at least have lockpick or science at 50, having them BOTH low is awful. Soooooo many unopened safes
@redartifice
Good idea, I tend to focus on science as many computers are linked to locked doors and safes, plus it often comes up in many other situations.
@hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian Yeah, but Forrest Gump aint no sciencer!
I’ll get there eventually…
I’m too busy playing at being a pirate to New Vegas. Sorry Boone. 🙁
I’ve got my buddy ARCADE atm
Had Raul, had to let him go for a mission, and Black Mountain has been repopulated by mean super mutants.
There’s some amazing mods based around magic for Skyrim that addresses a lot of those issues.
Off the top of my head I think Midas Magic was a good one.
Another reason I really, REALLY need to drag myself off the 360 version.
I already have it installed on my laptop, as well as a few graphics mods, just too damn used to console gaming.
360 controller + HDMI output to screen!
Been meaning to do that for ages.
Just gave it a go and WOW, just WOW!
I can’t get over the difference.
All the beauty of a modded pc version, with the recliner chair laziness of a console 🙂
My PC has been connected to my telly for like four years now (had a laptop, don’t have a monitor)
Keep thinking I’ll buy a monitor, but it hasn’t happened yet.
I couldn’t quite get the hang of magic in Oblivion or Morrowind. The lack of early mana regeneration was pretty tricky to deal with outside of potions and the fact that every time you casted a spell there was a chance it didn’t work.
My Oblivion playthrough ended up with me devolving into levelling my hand-to-hand. Kvatch was pretty darn intense with only my fists.
Definitely agree with Morrowind, I don’t think I have ever play a pure magic user in that game.
With Oblivion, I found just casting the most basic Shield and Detect Life spells would increase your Intelligence and Wisdom dramatically and very quickly as well.
Actually doing this on my current playthrough, massive help with the mana.
I really need to remember to buy another 360 power cable so I can get back into
SkyrimSKYRIM!@shane Asspirates just arrived in the mail, thanks man, hope you enjoyed it. Also, you didn’t have to include a SSAE, good thing I didn’t get around to sending you Watch Dogs on Friday, I’ll pop it in the envelope and send it off to you on my way to work tomorrow.
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @sernobulus @f4ction
40K RPG tomorrow night at 8pm AEST. A techpriest, two Tau, and three Eldar arrive in a hive city.
Heresy ensues.
I’ll be sending the invite out tonight. Just a reminder that I’ll be recording this and putting it on YouTube for people to watch later if they want to.
People are monsters
I smell a sitcom!
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only hilarity.
Gahhh I need to get my character sheet completed tonight then! >.
If you can, log into Roll20 and enter your stats into the character sheet there. It will make rolling so much easier.
Just finished P3P feMC route last night. I think I’m starting to lose count of how many times I’ve finished Persona 3 and 4, and I haven’t even played Golden yet!
I preordered the collectors edition for Persona Q last week as well, NISA’s europe store is SO EXPENSIVE.
I hoped I’m not all Persona’ed out by the time P5 comes out.
I really should try P3P, P4G was my first game in the series and I loved it so very much.
I would suggest you play P3FES as the experience would probably be more enjoyable (well to me at least) because they had to cut out a few things in the PSP version. One day I’ll play P4G, but watching the new anime adaption should suffice for now haha
At the rate they’re going, P5 is going to be a while away, so you’re good on that front at least?
I’m dying for some new P5 information! I guess PQ and Ultimax should be enough till then.
Man Destiny really is pretty… even on PS3.
It’s Monday, which means it’s okay if I don’t do anything productive, right? Pretty sure there’s loot waiting to be looted, ships waiting to be boarded and bad guys waiting to be stabbed in the throat.
Also, there’s now three times as many auditions for Sew-Vivor as there is spots. D:
I guess it will make it even more of a good feeling if I make it in out of all those people, though.
Do what you want you want ‘cos a pirate is free! You are a pirate!
A pirate I was meant to be…
it’s never too late to start!
I street passed you this morning.
You live inside my 3DS now.
First time I’ve streetpassed someone I actually know. Other paths must have intersected at some point when I was on the bus.
Found my first boomstick in Destiny, that’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout, up close and personal.
Went on a date over the weekend! Friday night we went out for dinner and ended up watching (the comedy movie) Sex Tape. Saturday we spent the day together going to Paddington for brunch, Watsons Bay for coffee and Burwood for dinner. Had a pretty great time.
I love dates like that, where you have such a nice time and the other person is super keen to continue it the next day. It takes all of the ‘will they/wont they out of the situation. nice work buddy. 🙂
Thanks man, yeah I almost thought of spending sunday with her but I did have a couple things I had to do. Hopefully see her during the week.
I saw some people criticisng Sex Tape on reddit over the weekend, mainly that the movie promos implied heavily that this was the movie where they’d finally see Cameron Diaz nude and then that didn’t happen. That was the first I had heard that this movie existed.
I’m wondering if it functions as a comedy at all. The premise seems a bit like it could have easily been titled “Dude, Where’s Our Sex Tape?” and I could get behind that if it’s a couple of 30-somethings suffering middle-aged morning-after regret/shame as opposed to teenage stoner befuddlement and aliens.
You see her backside and she runs around in see through tops a couple times. You see more of both Diaz and Siegel in plenty of other movies if that’s really what someone is looking for.
As a comedy movie, it’s good, not great. The story doesn’t really make much sense and it makes a couple leaps in logic but I really like both of these leads and the cameos. Would never bother watching again though.
Been playing Destiny for what, 15 minutes, and I’m already dead, man I suck at shooters.
You on PS3? What level? Want company?
Yeah, PS3, level 1, only just started. Can join me if you want, but I don’t have a headset hooked up, and I’m gonna stop for lunch shortly.
Yay, level 2 Titan. Lunchtime. Should be back on in about 15-20 minutes if you wanna join.
What? How’re you dead?! Ok make sure to jump around a lot and get behind cover, so far I haven’t seen any enemies resort to flanking! Except for shanks but they’re easily disposed of. What weapon are you using? Pistols I’ve found are the most ineffective weapon so far, crappy accuracy, heaps of recoil per shot (meaning you have to re-aim), long reload times and not even remotely viable for multiplayer or pve. I recommend auto/scout rifles + fusion rifles/sniper rifles for secondary! Also remember aiming for the head isn’t viable advice just during a zombie apocalypse =P
Pffft. cover is for pussies, I’m a go in all guns blazing kinda guy.
That’s why you ended up dead =P
Yeah, probably, but meh. I never said I was smart :p
Been playing Dangrantropa (trigger happy havoc), i think i stopped at the 2nd case for some reason and i cant remember why. The story is just so good.
So, Destiny Beta. How are people finding it?
Had 3 mates over on Saturday to play and had a blast. Kept DCing us if we had more that two in a fireteam but it is a Beta. Warlock and Titan are fun but Hunter not so much according to he who played it.
It did concern me how fast we got to level 8 with an apparent cap of 20 though. Progression is the lifeblood of a game like this and it makes me worried about longevity.
Also PvP seemed kinda unbalanced. I miss Halo where everyone was on an even playing field – none of this advantage to he who grinds the most.
And vehicles are way OP currently, almost no way of dealing with them.
But fun overall. Buy a PS4 fun though? Not sure yet.
I actually took on both the tank vehicle and ghost vehicle on foot and beat them (jumped over them a lot! they have blindspots if you can get above or behind them) =\ The key is to not be caught out in the open!
I don’t get what you mean about grinding though? The weapons and armor all get scaled when you enter pvp (i.e. no levelling bonuses). For example yesterday one match there was a warlock dominating our entire team (50 kills 3 deaths) and when I inspected him half his gear was white! I think weapons do the set damage (depending on type) when you’re pvp’in!
The only reason to grind would be to get a type of weapon you want! For example I use my white auto rifle in PvP but my blue scout rifle when I PvE.
Edit: I am getting the feeling that there won’t be enough to do in this game though… i.e. we’ll hit level 20 cap pretty damn quickly! >.
Edit Edit: Ok just checked up, the weapon damage scales so everyone is on an even playing field, however the bonuses you get from the weapon skill trees persist. I.e. reduced cd for grenades, or faster recharge for your ability when you melee etc.
I’d wager they’re banking on the subclasses giving you stuff to grind toward. So hit level 20, lock off one subclass when you’re happy with it and move on to the next.
That way the level cap is tied to your sub class, not your character.
Also, don’t forget grinding away so you can buy silly cosmetic upgrades. I saw a bunny rabbit emblem that I really, really want.
Let’s hope they have raids!! MOAR PvE! =P That said I’m enjoying the PvP too, play a few matches, get frustrated then go PvE! Rinse, repeat.
YES! I like a bit of Man V Man but I much prefer fighting ahlienz.
I reckon there’ll be plenty of Strikes and public events come the full release.
Fair enough, I only did a couple of matches.
Had one guy in the tank thing camping a point and we just could not get near him – took peeps out in a shot or two and our limited heavy weapons barely made a dent.
Yeah, the amount of content is my main worry. I think I will wait till the full game has been out a bit to get a feel for that before throwing down money.
Especially since I would be buying a PS4 to play it.
Couple of counters for someone doing that, sparrow around him and get someone to flank him while he chases the sparrow. Lure him to a turret and kill. Alternatively you can just go around capping control points since those tanks have a hard time dealing with buildings! A sniper on the broken dome could also take the tank out, I don’t believe they can aim high enough to hit someone on elevated terrain!
Edit: I am fully aware I’m in the honeymoon phase with this game =P Take everything I say with a grain of salt and check back after release =P I don’t believe it’s a game worth getting a PS4 for though! There need to be more releases before making the jump to current gen imo. However Sept-Oct would be a good time to do that!
Yeah I am set about getting one though, just a matter of when. And I would hate to miss out on cool stuff for the sake of a layer of dust.
But shall see, mostly depends on what mates do I guess.
Little known pokemon expy fact: while mewtwo is an expy of frikkin giygas, kabuto may be an prehistoric expy of the equllay dreaded metroid, both of them look 50% similar, larva metroid that is, but look at both the alpha & beta metriod, both of them have an exoskeleton, now consider this, kabuto is basically an evolved metroid, want more proof that kabuto is an expy of the metroid, it learns the drain attacks, much like how a metroid attacks its victims, also 1 gets the impression that kabutops is like a raptor compared to the omega metroid,
………… maybe that is how the gf made metroid ice proof, considering how its the nintendo universe, using kabuto blood like to how scienetists use horseshoe crabs for science
… nightmarish right
Pokemon talk!?
I like shorts! They’re easy and comfy to wear!
Hey, Why aren’t you wearing shorts?
i dont think people think about this shit as much as you do.
I dont think anyone has every thought this much about anything.
pretty sure Kabuto is a Trilobite
Also, what is their relationship to the Cybermat?
Or maybe, just maybe, Pokemon are based on actual animals.
Crazy right? Almost as crazy as insane conspiracy theories and cross-universe dimensional shenanigans.
what if pokemons are actual animals and we have been watching/playing a game with lots of animal abuse?
@redartifice Get the oars!
I think @zapz got the oar a few weeks ago.
Mai bad!
Unfortunatley the game theorists let that cat out of the months ago, no scratch that wreck it frikkin ralph opened it years ago, no scratch it again the original smash bros game let it out & thats when people began comparing nintendo characters
Game theorists?
Goddammit, Russell Crowe, you and your Beautiful Mind ruined it for the rest of us.
Game theorists: its like a gaming version of mythbusters with alot more unfunny puns & same wavelegth of thought provoking, plus they actually do their research & have a rivallry with the dudes of deathbattle
But how is John Forbes Nash related?
Game Theory is kind of a thing.
I like pokemon. Much hype, amaze battles.
Kind of shattered that the new Doom game is 3rd Person… Very RE4-like. it just doesnt look right. Hopefully camera perspective is optional and works well. (like skyrim)
Orly? Hadn’t heard that yet.
Still, people seemed to come out of the trailer with very positive impressions. I’m hyped from the teaser alone.
ill upload some split clips. bad quality but gives yo9u an idea…
whaaat? I really hope it’s an option.
ill upload some split clips. bad quality but gives yo9u an idea…s
God damn it. I always saw the Dragonball Z Hd collection at EB but always um’ed and ah’ed about it. Finally decided to get it after rewatching the series aaaannddd it’s out of stock everywhere.
Is this the Kai version or the full bloatware verision? I have a second copy of Kai if you’d like it?
No, the game. It’s Budokai 1 and 3 remastered for the PS3.
In stock at Ozgameshop.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps3-games/dragonball-z-budokai-hd-collection-game-ps3
That means I have to order one on the card and wait weeks. Meeeeeeeehhh *whines* #firstworldproblems
Lol, I’ve had stuff arrive from them within about 4 days before, other times it’s taken 2-3 weeks.
You could go and get the Kai version instead, i recently watched it and it was pretty great. I cant remember if it cuts too much important stuff though. I watched up to the Cell games and it was good.
I checked 3 ebs for it and picked it up it was $46 preowned or $40 new…it made no sense to me
Granted that was 3 months ago
But it doesn’t even have the best DBZ game: Budokai Tenkaichi 3.
Hey all. Still got one Destiny Beta code (PS4/EU) up for grabs. Leave an address to send it to if you want it.
P.Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2629753/2014-07-21%2014.24.55.jpg
Unfortunately, as you neglected to include a postcode, you’ll have to trust Australia Post to figure it out.
😛Picked up Trials Fusion today on PS4, seemed like a good deal for 30 bucks.. It better be as good as those here who preach about say it is 😛
You better like it, or you’ll forever be a TAY outcast.
*shakes fist*
Oh bud, you are going to haaaaaaaaaaaaaaate it.
But then something will click and you’ll become one of us.
Just push through the learning curve, that’s the worst bit.
Sounds fun then 😛
Im meant to be painting this house but im too distracted by a dog climbing the tree out the front…productivity
Hey peeps! Remember to play Mario Kart 8 tonight!
I totally forgot about it again until I saw the reminder I made for tonight :P. Are people still keen?
YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!
(I’m up for it!)
I’m keen but unfortunately Mondays are no good for me. D: So I’ve stopped playing. Powalen and the rest of you guys were always kicking my arse, anyways. 😛
Fo’ sho’, I’ll be there. Now everyone pressure @shane into joining us.
One of us @shane, one of us.
Fo’ Sho’
Nah.
I have a PC now. I can’t be seen playing baby consoles.
Who needs you anyway.
No no, you can’t be seen hanging with the peasants, cause glorious master race yadda yadda yadda..
What about your evil twin Nelawop?
Awesome \o/
Free wins 😀
Suuuuure, I’ll try to hop on.
I will try to join, if I can figure out what I’m doing
Lunchtime question: Do you eat the crust (ends) of a loaf of bread?
I do, but my wife and son won’t, I think there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it, but they just refuse to eat it. Curious to see how many people do, and how many don’t.
Don’t. That said I don’t really eat much bread either =P I’m a pasta and rice man!
Only as toast. It’s different somehow.
This so much. End slices of bread make the best toast, especially for grilled cheese on toast.
Food’s food.
Crust is the best part of all bread!
Nothing like eating the crust off a freshly baked loaf of bread smothered in butter.
I once had the privilege of having had a elaborate prank pulled on me- namely put, having all of my slices of bread in one package be replaced with end parts, my brilliant roommate spearheading this revolutionary idea.
I didn’t really give a solitary fuck, so I made a triple-decker PB&J sandwich out of end slices and ate it in front of him. He didn’t react, I didn’t react, this was simply a thing that randomly occurred and we had to both accept it.
So, yeah, I eat end slices. Can’t afford to be picky.
I’m surprised you could afford a triple decker sandwich, mang. That stuff is pricey.
Oh, it’s not far off from my infinitely cheaper toast sandwich recipe. The secret to a good toast sandwich is instead of condiments or meat or anything resembling anything tasty, you simply place a piece of toast between two slices of toast! butter and salt-laced tears caused by poverty are optional.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich
I usually don’t eat enough bread to finish loaves before they’ve gone stale, but in the rare event I do, I will.
Sometimes if I’m on a bit of a bread-eating kick I’ll buy two loaves (the cheap ones form woolies that are like $1.15) and skip the crusts in favour of moving onto more slices, but then I won’t eat bread again for like 2 weeks.
I do quite like the end of a baguette or a lovely fresh sourdough. Supermarket bread, meh, not so much.
Depends on the type of bread. If it’s Italian bread or the end of a baguette you bet your ass I’m going to steal both ends. If it’s plain white bread I treat it like every other slice.
Ugh, crashing. Woke at 5:30 for no reason. Couldn’t get back to sleep.
I used to be so good at sleeping, now I suck at it.
Go for a jog! Take a hot shower! Have some hot chocolate!
Me personally I like to read comics before bed =P
Can’t do any of those things, I’m at work 😛
Oh those were cures to help you sleep! not keep you awake! I definitely wouldn’t do any of those things now unless you want to be caught napping at work xD
I find that whenever I play Racing sims like Forza and Gran Turismo after it hits about 10 or 11pm it makes me really tired. Probably the monotony of going around and around doing the same thing lap after lap.
All these stories coming from the MH17 disaster are deeply, deeply dark and upsetting.
And I’d imagine it’s a bit more traumatizing for you considering you frequently partner up with The Jets.
Hope everything is okay!
Just uploaded some footage snipets of the new DOOM reboot I have that leaked from Quakecon 2014. Not uploading to youtube as it will be taken down instantly…http://tinypic.com/r/23loc1y/8
This Doom footage shows that Doom runs in 3rd person, as well as some mechanics… It is only a few seconds of footage in really bad quality so dont judge too harshly. The response from Quakecon 2014 where people saw several minutes of gameplay was overwhelmingly positive.. How much of that is just uber fanboyism or genuine we’ll have to wait and see for ourselves…EDIT: INTERNET LIED TO ME APPARENTLYT ITS EVIL WITHIN… 🙁
@mrtaco @gutsoup
Is that not ‘The Evil Within’ footage? I swear it is.
Absolutely is.
Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfw2MUoEdM4
than i got tricked!!! hadnt seen evil within and found this footage on a forum… bastards… internets lied to me…
Awesome. Will have to remember to check it later when I have a chance.
Lol it’s Evil Within
Flash? FLASH! GAAAAAAAHHHHH! Y U hat me so muc?
Flash? GAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
Saviour of the Universe!
Gordon’s Alive?!
Always meant to ask, but never got around to it. How do you put lines through your words like that.
(del)(/del)
Pointy though.
Other tag we've found, any others we know of?
We can try experimenting!
I don’t know many tags though :S
And I don’t want to break TAY :S
Oh well 😀
small text
strong text
highlighted text
subscript and superscript text
Edit: well, [strong]…[/strong] works, but it’s the same as bold, so that’s no fun 😛
Edit 2: I wonder if marking works?
Edit 3: nope 😛
BRING BACK BLINK
One of these days I’ll discover your ways! And then you’ll all pay!
Test
TestTest
EDIT: Woohoo!
Yay
EDIT:
Turns out it was really easy to discover.strike and /strike within < and > brackets.
oh good, I hope Doom is FPS
same!
im actually glad footage is fake… there is still hope! i thought it looked kinda crappy to be doom considering the doom games have been renowned for running on state of the art tech. I assumed the crappiness in the vid was a result of really crappy quality cam recording.
Anyone getting the Gods will be watching? If so let me know how it is!
Releases in 3 days and 13 hours, it’s also currently 10% off.
Lol, paused Destiny to make and eat lunch, looked up at the screen to see “STILL THERE? You have been returned to Orbit because you were inactive”.
Yeah, online only kinda deal with no pausing unfortunately.
Just accepted your FR.
The heck happened to ozgameshop? They’re the same price or more as everywhere else now and charge shipping as well.
The AU dollar dropped.
They’re not as bad as EB, They’ve got The Evil Within on PS4 for $76, while EB are charging $99. They’re definitely not as good as what they used to be.
Listed price and what you pay are two very different things at EB. Been a very long time since I paid listed price for something that wasn’t a collectors.
Didn’t they always charge shipping, but only on stuff <$40?
Nope.
Their prices have been not worth it for a while now. When I stopped buying from them a year or two ago they were only five or ten dollars cheaper (but weren’t charging shipping) and it took at least two weeks to arrive so it wasn’t a big enough saving anymore for the wait to be worth it for me.
I think the last thing I bought from OGS was when I ordered some board games, over a year ago.
Even then they were skirting thel ine of “I might as well buy this locally”. I think moving forward I’ll solely order things I can’t actually get locally at all, which is a pretty slim selection given how infrequently I buy board games and the fact I work a 5 minute walk from Games Paradise.
Yup. They’ve been slowly creeping up for a while, a little bit worse each time I checked. They reached the JB threshold a little while ago.
I ate tuna for lunch and forgot to bring fresh pack of mints. I am now (maybe) Tuna Breath Man.
Nanananananananana Tuna Breath Man!
Bumblebee Tuna. Alrighty then.
@bumblebee_tuna?
Get this guy in the Justice League.
Not having a good day. work is not going well, and just found out that anton is science experimenting this week, so it looks like I’m going to have to get stuck into games or something…
Preferrably something where I can interact with people while playing…
Any thoughts?
Destiny. You interact by shooting people in the FACE! It’s a very people friendly game.
What! I get booted out of the Destiny Beta for being idle, then when I relaunch I have zero ammo when I had a few hundred rounds before.
Must be a bit of a delay, as I typed this it came up on the screen.
Sid has been sick for the last 2 days. He woke me up once every hour last night because he needed to go to the toilet. He’s also curling up on the couch, something he doesn’t normally do.
I’m pretty tired, but more worried about the dog.
oh no, I hope he’s ok. Have you been to a vet?
Not yet, we’re waiting to see if it’ll clear up on it’s own.
I hope he’s ok! *Sends hugs*
Oh no thats not good shadows been doing the same we took him to the vet and apparently hes constipated 🙁
Afternoon, TAY. I hope this day is finding you well?
I’ve been playing Mario Kart all morning. MARIO KART. MAAAARIO KART.
Just make sure you’ve got some Mario Kart left in you for tonight.
Nah, no one ever turns up. If I’m online you’ll find me on friends or rival racing randoms. 🙂
I only ever play on monday nights
I plan to turn up, but no one has explained how this works for the newbs
DESTINYYYYYYYY.
I’m very interested in that, but have no interest in the beta. Full release or nothing for ‘ol DC.
You’re going to love it. Everything is so, so pretty.
Edit: Look at this!
Still not sure about having to get a PS+ subscription, but if I was going to do it for any game it’d be this one!
I’m not sure about this but from what I can tell in the game you only need a PS plus subscription to play strike teams (I.e. dungeons) or the Crucible (i.e. PvP). The reason I say this is because under the descriptions of each it has a little asterisk saying – PS Plus subscription required.
How much of the game does that constitute? (I’ve been media blackouting… XD)
Kind of a lot, honestly.
Well you’d still get the storyline and the single player missions but you’d be killing all the replayability in the game without a PS Plus subscription
Sounds like if I play this, I’ll get a PS+ at the same time.
Not required. Only some of the stuff requires PS+. Pretty sure you can even play with friends without PS+.
I’m still on the fence, mainly because I don’t have a PS4 and I’m wondering if I grab it on PS3 and go from there.
Ooh, getting a new computer at work on Thursday.
Except they might be putting it over at another desk, where my back is to everyone and I can’t hide in my little cubicle and probably browse TAY a whole lot less. Boo!
Oh gods, i used to hate that. Even if I was on task it felt like spies were watching.
Yeah, I hate feeling like I’m being watched. Always gotta keep a wall behind me 😛
Then tell em you’d prefer your current desk. If they ask why: “I prefer a wall behind me, ‘safety’ etc”. If they still have a problem with that, take a mental note that they don’t give a shit about you.
Can’t really do that – it’s someone else’s desk, they’re just on holiday at the moment. I’m just a squatter.
Demand a wall be put up for safety etc you get anxiety attacks when spies hover your shoulders
Oh. Well still mention it, and if there’s any other available desks. If not, like @coldcamv says, ask for a temp wall.
Turn off images on TAY. Kinda makes it look less like a time waster website. Sorta.
Destiny is really fun. I’m glad. I was hyped for the game, then that hyped died down a bit when some gameplay videos were released, but now I’m super hyped again. My only complaint so far is the bullet sponge bosses in Devil’s Lair. Spending several minutes shooting something and watching its health slowly go down isn’t very exciting. Hopefully not all bosses in the game end up like that.
I dunno, when you’re spending half the time running around reviving your team it goes alright 😛
Me: “Ok (friend), stay safe, I need to run out and grab some ammo.
Friend: “Gotcha”
*10 seconds later, as I am running across the field*
Friend: “I’m down! Revive me!”
Me: ….
… Sorry.
Yeah I have to agree…. it does get kind of dull when the over-arching mechanic is wittling the bosses health away little by little. However if all 3 people on the fireteam know the weak points of the boss I’ve found we were able to down the Walker and the Servitor within about 10-12 minutes each? But yeah that’s too long to be stuck shooting at the same thing… They need to bring that down to about 4-6 minutes per boss and have more big battles!
I mean you already fight your way through a small army getting to the walker, why do you need to spend 20 minutes wittling him down =@ And why do rocket launchers have no effect on it! So far it’s been better to use a heavy machine gun on giant vehicles as opposed to a rocket launcher… which doesn’t make sense =\
I’ve mentioned elsewhere that I think the Devils’ Walker is poorly implemented at the moment. The spider tanks behave significantly differently to anything else in the beta. There is no “training mission” to teach you about hitting weak points, or any indication that hitting the legs will push the tank into a second “stance”. Each of the other missions around the Cosmodrone are essentially “training missions” for how to play the game (collecting new weapons/gear, missions structure, enemy heirarchy, bikes, etc). It feels as though there was maybe one or two missions that should occur before the Strike unlocks, and I hope that will be the case in retail.
The Servitor, Sepkis Prime, is fine as is – it moves through a fairly standard pattern of attacks, and shifts into a second phase with about 33% of its health left (iirc). Things will get out of hand if you’re not clearing waves of mooks when they spawn, but if you’re not doing that then you probably having problems getting past the meshed door at the start.
Most bosses will be damage sponges though, since either they’ll be acting as
a) gear checks – wherein the fight will rapidly devolve into being unhandlable after a soft timer is met, so you’ll need good enough gear to kill it fast.
b) skill checks – wherein it will telegraph large, hard hitting attacks that you need to avoid while whittling down its large health pool.
The spider tank is essentially a skill check; the servitor is essentially a gear check.
The first “boss” (or rather, event) in the Strike was the most interesting – having to hold a position while being assaulted by waves of increasingly stronger minions, like a kind of Horde Mode.
I would hope that maybe they incorporate elemental weaknesses into some of the larger/later bosses, that would encourage a range of weapons across players in the group.
I’m not sure if the Servitor was meant as a gear check (finished him off in mostly white gear)… essentially my first few tries with that strike I managed to clear the servitor and with less hassle than I did for the spider tank, the tank takes probably as much damage as the servitor but has one hit K.O. abilities making the fight drag on for a lot longer than it should.
Everything said and done even with moderately well of gear the strike is still taking me around 30-40min to clear with most of that time being spent on Sepkis and the Spider Tank (approx 10-12min each?). Which kind of sucks because the boss that’s the most fun (horde mode) is the smallest part of the strike.
Agree.
I only listed Sepkis as essentially filling the role of a gear check because once you push it into phase 2, things will get out of hand if you don’t finish it.
@popdart5 @mawt @tech_knight @novacascade @blaghman
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
You’ve destroyed the vats the insidious choir has been using to make dudes, but there’s a whole rest of the tower ahead of you.
What do?
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY SA TIME
ALSO STREAMING
I miss @mythamphetamine already. 🙁
Given “Save Phetys” was your party’s quest, and they’ve left, we may have to have that discussion
Cue a large-scale adventure of x many months where we must track down Phetys after his mysterious disappearance?
Finally, after a long absence, I will make my glorious return to the 9th World.
*D20 check for glorious return*
*critical failure*
Finally, after a long absence, I will make my somewhat memorable return to the 9th World
*D20 check for somewhat memorable return*
*critical failure*
*Faceplants into computer screen*
GM Intrusion: The monitor explodes in a shower of sparks, the electric field of which triggers one of your cyphers.
Speed Roll to dodge a detonation in your pack.
Random number generator is kind to me – 14 \o/
D20 roll to see if you even turn up for it?
Initial thoughts on Destiny
It’s got a bit of a Halo feel to it (obviously), I’m also getting a Mass Effect vibe from it (not that I’ve played much Mass Effect, finished the first one and that’s it).
Overall I’m enjoying it, and am looking forward to the full release.
Whenever I’m running through the Tower I get huge Mass Effect vibes. Makes me sort of wish the entire game was in third person instead of first.
But then it would be a third person shooter, and thus horrible.
Cool that it is third in the tower though, gives you a chance to see your toon.
Apparently I need to learn how to create a Minecraft server that can host potentially 200 concurrent connections and be safe enough to allow underage school children to play on. Woo.
Hoo boy. That world is going to be filled with penises.
just like the real world pow. STOP TRYING TO SHELTER THE CHILDREN FROM THE COCK!!!!
Quite frankly, if there’s not at least one case of a crucifix getting turned into a dick I’ll be shocked.
Oh @liondrive.
Better yet – penis cannons.
SAFE?
like they cant hurt themselves?
More like creepy paedophile griefers can’t get in.
It’s stopping things like unauthorised access, moderating content (HA!), preventing bullying is a big one. It’s all do-able just need to plan like mad so I don’t miss something. Things like this can be legal nightmares with some of the parents out there…
Also, just getting Minecraft to run stably with minimal admin interference.
If a kid kills another kid’s character, give everyone permission to kill the bully’s character once. That’ll set them straight.
More seriously though: being able to play something like Minecraft on a server would’ve been a blast in school. We used to play Super Maze Wars on rainy days because it had eight player multiplayer. Was amazing.
While on the topic of RPGs, picked up the new D&D starter set on Saturday. Rules seem really clean and light, and the starter adventure looks quite well structured and written, though it does go straight for a mini dungeon crawl before much chance for roleplaying (which is fine, I’d probably streamline it a bit if I was running it). Starter set also includes dice, but they’re bog standard nothing special ones, would have liked a D&D branded one.
All in all though, good place to start and the characters all have little roleplaying notes which is great for newbies. Recommend
So is the starter set just the player guide and preset adventure?
I thought I had read somewhere that they were releasing each of PHB, DMG and MM a month apart (July – August – September ?) in which case I was going to wait and pick up the inevitable bundle. Also, I’m kinda busy right now, so wouldn’t have time to even consider running the preset campaign until end of Aug/early Sept.
Yeah, it’s a stripped down ruleset, a fairly meaty adventure, and pregens. The full books are aug-sept-oct.
Also the basic rules are online for any additional stuff you need in those first few levels.
I’ve read through the basic rules and like what I see. I guess I’ll wait for October then, or maybe plan to get the starter set for my birthday.
How much you pay?
My brother started playing pathfinder with his friends and they asked if he’d like to DM a game so he keeps pitching dungeon ideas to me and I havent the heart to tell him ive never played an rpg like that except for D&D castle ravenloft..so I just pitch ideas from movies/anime ive seen works well
To be honest, having themes for stories is pretty good. I basically ran half a campaign with the whole thing basically being Gladiator with monsters and it worked pretty well. A friend of mine ran a Star Wars campaign where he just recreated scenes from the movies and games as various sessions and it was suitably cinematic.
Castle Ravenloft is a pretty cool adventure to play through though. You have fine taste.
My main suggestion was you enter the room suddenly your body feels as though a massive weight has been strapped to your body. The door slams behind you as you hear maniacal laughter coming from the shadows, a withered man with scars across his body steps forward from the darkness.
It’s $25 for the set.
It’s so much easier as a GM to rip off and steal as much as you can- thematic adventures are great, and anything you can steal and insert is goodly.
The adventure here is pretty traditional D&D, very tropey, but again, that’s what a starter set is for.
Castle ravenloft- the board game or the AD&D scenario?
Board game got it for my birthday a few years ago
Ah, I’ve got that one, it’s good fun for what it is.
If you’ve played that, you’ll pick up proper D&D easy.
Yeah I played a few games of it with my brother but thats it, so only know the basics as we only did the first adventure haha
I saw a few people commenting about the starter dungeon:
A lot of people were saying that it’s a bit deadlier than past versions because of some of the extra rules for monsters (particularly the brute rule for the bugbear). I would have to wait and see for the Monster Manual before saying that it is particularly bloody. Also the starting characters are only level 1 and you are always at risk of death in those circumstances.The dungeon is also kinda railroady but that’s to be expected for the starting adventure.
I’m going to have to hold my judgement on this until the Player’s Handbook comes out. The core rules are fine (I do like the advantage/disadvantage mechanic and the streamlined nature of some of the spells) however some things definitely need some clarification. It also seemed as though skill ranks or skill training was limited to proficient/non-proficient which is a little odd but I’ll wait and see.
Edit: Must say that the price was right for the starter set. I wonder if Wizards are losing money on this at all.
In terms of starter kits, it’s actually pretty good value- compare to Keep on the Shadowfell, which came out here at like $60
KotS is free now if you want the PDF version. Even better get the fan-remakes that tie H1 H2 and H3 together for 1 super-module.
But that’s soooo last version.
Yeah, I’m more talking on release. I’ve no doubt that this adventure will eventually end up the same.
H1-3 were designed to be one loose campaign from memory? I only played a fair chunk of Shadowfell (player and DM, .pdf fell off the net) and a little bit of H2 a couple months ago when I sat in for another GM’s session.
Yes and no from the way I was shown it. They were “intended” to run one after the other but there were a lot of gaps that made it awkward and clunky to move between modules. So fans re-wrote bits of it so they’d fit together more seamlessly and give players a sense of something “bigger” rather than “you do this. Then this. Then finally this.”
Not that we ever got that far.
I have/am just experiencing one of the most awkward moments of my life.
My office colleague is giving me a job reference over the phone while I’m sitting here not 4 feet from her.
She’s lying through her teeth.
I sound awesome.
I need to buy her a bottle of very expensive alcohol.
Still. I am feeling so awkward right now.
I’ve had that happen as well. I went up to them afterwards and thanked them so much and bought them lunch the next day. That seemed to work out all right.
She must really be praising you if you’re going to give her nice alcohol.
He’s a good worker, on time and an amazingly humble, communicative and not at all argumentative.
Right, bottle of fucking vodka to you!
Just went through TAYnames and sent a bunch of you FR’s on PSN.
Pageget \o/ Also, it’s gonna be hard telling who’s who, some people have different handles to on here, and a few people have the same avatar that @benny does on here. Everytime I see that SPACESHIP I think of @benny.
Confirmed 🙂
Similarly, I can’t be bothered going through TAY names again, so if anyone wants to add me, I’m the same name as here 🙂
Same here.
I’m red_artifice. I know, I know, damn my inconsistency.
Oh, I saw a message about something monkey-ish pop up while I was plundering. That was probably a friend request from you, then. I’ll try and remember to confirm it when I’m next on there.
Yeah, would’ve been me no doubt.
Benny used to have a Mii as his gravatar and then he was all “I’mma be consistent because no one will recognise me!”. Good thinking, Benny!
THE END
You remembered! 😀 ily
Only because your Mii has a mole and I also know a Ben with a mole! 😛 (and briefly thought you might’ve been him)
EDIT: IT’S BACK!
I wonder if @powalen will go back to his Mii/Mii with orange background 😛
You are correct, I changed it so people would know me on PSN but now I’m hardly on there so it’ll be a nice change to go back.
@bdkiaf Tell me I’m not crazy- that Lorde comment thread IS full of idiots, right?
Some of them are just painfully cool. I didn’t think I’d care so much about it, but there’s just no way they can’t at least know what Lorde does. I don’t care if they don’t know her songs or anything, but at this point it’s near impossible to not know she’s a musician.
It’s also the attitude of ‘WHY ARE YOU TELLING US THIS?” or “WHO DIED AND MADE LORDE GOD” (Hah, Lorde and saviour #pagesixerryday).
Like honestly. It’s a point of interest. if it’s interesting, it’s interesting. if it’s not, move on. Don’t wade into the comments and go “who’s Lorde?” and expect that your views have credence. It’s flaunting your ignorance.
Honestly? If an article said “this is what One Direction thinks of the rift” I’d be interested, because they’re a popular cultural force and it’s those sorts of everyday tastemakers that need to be sold on VR.
The last thing I would want to hear would be One Directions opinion on anything.
Hard news and facts or GTFO.
As I said on twitter to @dc, OCULUS IS ONLY FOR TRUE MASTER RACERS AND OUR CODSES ALSO LORDE IS A FILTHY CASUAL
Filthy!…casual
I’d never even heard the name till today, and I would definitely not be considered cool.
And that’s fine, but the response should then be “I should find out who this is” not “I’ve not heard of her must be unimportant”
Just looked her up on youtube, can honestly say that I’ve never heard any of those songs, she’s ok I guess.
And that’s fine. It’s more the attitude over in those comments that gets me of “How DARE this person i’ve never heard of have an opinion!”
I can understand that, no matter who the celebrity is, there’s gonna be people that will listen to it. Personally I couldn’t care less if Tim Schafer himself said he loved the Oculus Rift, it’s owned by Facebook so I don’t want it.
I know who she is, and I don’t care.
Again, that’s fine. But you didn’t see the need to wade into the comments.
Well, considering my lack of caring, if I went in there, I would be flaming.
Wait a minute. That sounds like reasoned thought.
Just what exactly do you think you’re doing on the internet? *eyes suspiciously*
being the minority?
Oh, this makes my question further down the page seem rather ignorant. I assumed she was a YouTuber or a developer.
It isn’t all that hard. I didn’t know she was a she, I’d heard a mention or two of the name here and there in the context of music, but thought people were talking about the Eurovision monster band.
The cheap GWAR knockoff you mean?
…who? 😛
I’m not going to kill you because I like you… just enough… and I know you’re just taking the piss.
But I can’t let a post about GWAR go by without posting a clip so: The Road Behind
Rest in peace Oderus you magnificent bastard, toasting you with a goblet of fresh baby blood!
I am so confused – I am a SUPER hipster and I still know who Lorde is, and I probably only read the news like once a month/listen to the radio only when someone else has it on at work…
Listening to the radio? At all? That doesn’t sound very super hipster 😛
Mario Kart tonight. 7:30pm. Tournament code: 6219-0979-9527
Will D.C. make an appearance and say Hooray?
WILL HE!?
You know it!
He did!
@shane
@shane
(free wins)
I think Shane said he can’t play until later but there’ll most likely be people about for a while.
Jeez, he has one baby then all of a sudden he doesn’t have time for us any more >:(
Nice to know we mean that little to you, @shane!
😛
(three babies)
I meant one more 😛
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANT!! >:(
All teh babbies \o/
I’m here. And in. What do I do now?
Hi Gemini! Sorry about that red shell 😛
*twiddles thumbs, waiting for everyone else to vote for a course…*
(there doesn’t seem to be anyone else)
I might not know what I’m doing… :\
Worst waiting room simulator ever…
Argh, and now a connection error
You guys lied to me. You said there’d be racing.
Aw sounds like you were put into a different lobby. You’ve got to go join manually through friends and rivals if that happens.
OMG @SHANE !!!!! There was about 8 of us in a room on average!
I tried that…
@greenius, sounds like I brought the average down quite a bit 😛
Dammit. I was wondering what happened to you all.
Sorry, I was too busy on Mario kart to check TAY. What you do is go to One Player Online and join the first friend you see.
Yeah, did that. Got connection errors everytime. Besides, most of you jerks haven’t friended me 😛
@shane Sorry /o\ When I first turned on my Wii U I hopped straight into Mario Kart, as soon as we finished I accepted it though.
Yesterday I named my 3 favourite games of all time. Then I realised that I didn’t state my reasons, making the entire post pointless. So here it is.
PHLANISPO’S FAVOURITE GAMES OF ALL TIME
*drum roll*
*accidentally drops drumsticks on the floor*
*finishes drum roll with fingers*
*whimpers in pain*
3. Katawa Shoujo – The Pride of 4chanI think that if I had a time machine, I would go back a year or more and tell my past self that one of my favourite games will be what amounts to a book created by 4chan where you date a legless, blind, or armless chick. My past self would have quite the humourous reaction. i have already given an incredibly lengthy spiel on my I love this game, and successfully convinced a couple of people to download it. I’ll narrow what I said down to the bare essentials:
-Fantastic writing
-Incredible characterisation
-Good music
-So many emotions
-Kenji Freaking Setou
-Gave me perspective on my Asperger’s, and my other assortments of mental oddities
I’ll stop before the list becomes 32 lines long.
Just one question must be asked; Emi Ibarazki or Lilly Satou?
2. Pokemon Generation 2: Gold/Silver – Dogfighting Has Never Been This Fun!I love Pokemon games. They were my childhood. They were my teenagehood. I suspect they will be a part of my adulthood as well. Pokemon games are great, okay?
But how do I determine which Pokemon game to put on this list? The categories for the best Pokemon game are nostalgia, design, pacing, mechanics, music, and the amount of content. This was made easier by Gen 4 being completely average. Although I truly believe Gen 3 had the best mechanics of any generation, Gen 2 wins it all due to it’s superior pacing and design, slightly better music, ginormous amount of content, and more nostalgia. Gold and Silver also had a kickass old-asia theme in cities like Violet and Ecruteak.
Considering how much I love Pokemon, I surprise myself every day with the fact that I haven’t touched anything past Gen 4.
1. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Time I Didn’t Want To Say GoodbyeTears. Manly tears, of course. Followed by girly tears. Followed again by infant wailing.
This is a sad, sad game protected by a gelatinous layer of happy-go-lucky adventure.
But what kind of game is Mystery Dungeon, anyway. Simply put, this game is a rogue-like dungeon crawler that uses a turn-based structure on a tile-based floor from an isometric perspective. It’s pretty hard.
I will spoil as little story as possible in my song and dance routine on why I love this game.
The first half of the game is rather happy. The big bad gets captured, and all seems well. You wait for the credits to roll. SUDDENLY BRUTAL EXECUTION AT THE STAKE. You escape of course, but the feeling of happy-go-lucky adventure never returns, instead replaced by desperation, fear, distrust, sacrifice, grey morality and of course, the genocide of billions of Pokemon. What did you say, dear reader? That doesn’t sound like my Pokemon? WELL THIS IS CHUNSOFT’S POKEMON, MOTHERF***ER! YOUR GODS HAVE FALLEN TO INSANITY! GO AHEAD AND CRY, WEAKLING!
Ahem. Yes. Uh, yeah. So that’s my favourite video game. Don’t judge.
dude Katawa Shoujo is the shit, besides pokemon games its legit the only thing ive played through more than once. I wouldnt call it a game though. It is more of a Virtual choose your own adventure book.
EMI ALL THE WAY.
Also dude do yourself a favour and play the latest gen of pokemon, ive played through every game multiple times and i can honestly say that they all improve on each other in some way. My fave is probably a tie between diamond/pearl and gold/silver. But X/Y is fantastic.
So on the bottom of the page is an ad for Kotaku’s premiere article of the day. What is it?
“But what does Lorde think of the Occulus Rift?” accompanied by a picture of some girl. Uh… so… who is Lorde? Is this some well respected journalist I’ve never heard of? Some YouTuber that Luke Plunkett has a crush on? Is Lorde a one-man dev team that made some superstar smash-hit indie title? So many questions.
EDIT: I feel foolish.
@sernobulus has your PS4 been shipped?
I did a similar refresh thing at Amazon with my shoesssssssssss… SHIP SHIP SHIP! They shipped! 😀
Now to play the waiting game…
Nope. Spent all day refreshing my screen. ='(
That’s a lie I spent most of the day at the shops.Look at Mr. Goesoutsidethehouse over here!
Excuse me, It’s “Goesoutsidethehouseulus”
You forgot the ugh
Telltale’s The Walking Dead S1 EP4
Over Saturday and Sunday I played episode 4 of The Walking Dead.
My choices
Who came with me
All in all, I feel really bad for Kenny. And I don’t feel bad about what happened to Ben.“And I don’t feel bad about what happened to Ben.”:’)
Not sure if this was intentional, but both links seem to go to the same image?
Oops. I’ll fix that.
EDIT: And now it’s in moderation.
Oh dear. Twitter has discovered Lifehackers little passive aggressive sex spreadsheet article.
Dearest TAYbies, could one of you be so kind as to pass me the popcorn?
On Saturday I did something I haven’t done in a while. I watched a game of Australian Rules Football. I haven’t really cared about Football since 2007. I don’t think I had watched a game since the 2009 grand final. I actually enjoyed myself. It was a game between that new team in the orange, and Geelong. It was a closer game than you would expect.
YAY SPORTSBALL!
And we won! \o/
Still, I only ever listen to it on the radio (Triple M Melbourne).
Channel 7’s coverage is woeful.
Eh, I was rooting for the Giants. Their theme song sounds like a cross between Oktoberfest and a Disney song, how couldn’t you like them?
I just like the hi-vis orange G.
That and geelong got annoying to me a few years back..I want to punch ling straight in the jaw
The Giants are OHS compliant. The Giant’s unusual colour scheme brings to light all the colours the AFL doesn’t know exist. Is there a green team? A pink team? (That would be hilarious) Come on AFL, you made the Kangaroos and Geelong almost have the exact same jersey.
Richmond and essendon are the same basically
Come to think of it, I do harbour a little bit of hatred towards Geelong after they thrashed Port Adelaide. (My favourite team at the time, but their new jersey is so awful I can’t support them)
Restarted Dark Souls 2.
Enjoying myself far more than last time already 🙂
Dual wielding is quite fun, especially when it’s a Heide Knight sword (electric) and a Fire longsword 🙂
Went deprived again, and so far no issues, though I’m only at the second bonfire in the forest if the giants :3
Oh, and my blue haired dudes a total babe 😉
Probably spent too long on the character creation screen :3
@kermitron @evilmonkey and other XBOWNERS!
Wanting to tea up some Dead Rising 3 with someone… Let me know!
Might be able to do it tomorrow or the next night, I’ll let you know.
I can’t necessarily make any promises since my gaming time is haphazardly scheduled in around whenever my wife isn’t using the Xbox, but if I get a chance to hop on for the DR3 I will. Heck, maybe my wife will be up for some co-op. I’ll ask.
Back from NZ. It was good. Discovered some stuff about myself that I’m not particularly happy about and which I see that my Dad and his brothers also have the same issues with. So going to be putting some extra effort in to try and work on that.
It started snowing early in the morning this morning. Dunedin’s forecast top today was 6 degrees. Could not live there. Too cold. My feet still haven’t fully warmed up yet.
Also I came back and there was a card left last week for a package and I have absolutely NFI what the package is. I have two things waiting at work and know what they are but can’t for the life of me figure out what would have been delivered to my house. So that’ll be a fun surprise!
Why is there no “I hat you all” option in Mario Kart?
I would also like an “oh fuck”, “I’m shit at this” and “I am a derp” options
You kept apologising everytime you beat me im like gahh and then Twitter would go off with you saying sorry and im like your apologising for no reason but it made me laugh 🙂
Oh yeah a sorry option is a good idea too
No sorry option /o\
He’s probably out doing something manly and awesome but @transientmind would want me to post this.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/07/09
:-p
It wasn’t anything like that.
There were far more expletives involved.
<3
All I need is “I hate you @powalen”
Who knew one simple sentence could be used in so many daily situations!
Man like three fucking times I got hit by a shell like 5m from finish line. While first. >:(
One of those was me, fyi 😉
>:{ BLAAARGHHH!
I am equally as terrible. I think I need to race more at 150cc – I’ve only played 50cc so far and it’s way easier.
Does anyone want Destiny beta access? I realize I’m totally late to the party now 🙁
I have 3 unclaimed US PS4 codes, 3 AU PS4 codes, and 1 US PS3 code.
I thought the beta goes down for a couple of days and then back up until the 27th (or something like that). There’s still some time!
Yep! So I missed this round though 🙁
It starts again on Thursday. I only started downloading it yesterday so I’ll try it then.
Btw do you know if PS4 players can play with PS3 players? I know most people on TAY have it on PS4,
I could be wrong, but I think PS3 players can’t play with PS4 peeps, but as I mentioned below, @benny and @jocon are on PS3 as well, so we should be able to organize a foursome.
Sexual innuendo not intended.
Strike teams are 3some oriented events =P Unless you’re jumping into PvP!
What’s a strike team? PVP???
I just run around, do missions and shoot my gun at the bad guys.
Strikes are Destiny’s equivalent of dungeons, I think you unlock Devil’s Lair at level 6!
@pupp3tmast3r, Ok, I’m only at level 3, so I don’t know a hell of a lot about the game yet.
Ah, sounded like you missed the whole thing D:
Nimbus 15 buddies! Did you try the Kayanos 20 too? I ended up buying both from Amazon to qualify for free shipping :3
I can’t use the Kayano, the arch support is too built up, interferes with my orthoses.
Great turnout for Mario Kart tonight guys. I suck at it, but it was fun.
Yeah, I was surprised at the turnout!
We had twelve people at one point!
I only saw 11! (unless the party happened after I left 🙁 )
It was only one round then someone left. Got a screenshot of eleven in different round.
Yeah, you’re kind of a buzz kill…
Edit: re-reading, this doesn’t sound like a joke, but it was totally a joke! D:
Sorry for winning all the time…
😀
You’re only 6 wins ahead of me overall >:(
The whole time I was screaming, “SOMEONE F***ING JUST BLUESHELL THIS STUPID GREEN ARSEHOLE ALREADY!”.
Admittedly, I enjoy playing against you, haha! 😀
And all swearing is in the heat of the moment :3
I got Blue Shelled many times :(. Man, that first race I did with you guys, Blue Shelled BEFORE THE END OF THE FIRST LAP! That’s insanity!
And then @dc was super lucky someone Lightning’d us because I had 3 Red Shells ready for him 😛
hahaha that scattershot crash at the end of the jungle track thingy! Pixel sailed from 6th to 3rd!
Also I’ve decided that @dc is my rival *shakes fist*
Liondrive was the silent assassin. Appear out of nowhere to wiiiiin.
It’s how I do 😉
Otherwise I get targeted like crazy if I’m at the front :S
Was going to make some comment about coming from behind, but I thought I better not.
You’re just full of gay jokes, aren’t you 😛
@liondrive, yeah, but you love it.
Edit: Also, that could totally be a heterosexual joke :p
More like I get hit and he steals the win! D:<
You turned pro though! 😀
1st to 6th or something for me 😀
You were another person I kept overtaking. Sorry.
🙁
Sorry mang, you know how to do it now right? You’ll be good to go for next time.
I blame your lack of mobile devices! I was tweeting you, man!
ETS2 players!
There’s a multiplayer mod available!
And it looks awesome!
Get it here:
http://ets2mp.com/
And you can get ETS2 with the Humble Weekly Bundle along with Tropico 4, Turbo Dismount, OOTP Baseball 14, Cook, Serve, Delicious! and Universe Sandbox for $10!
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VAMPIRE APOCALYSE – A short story by Phlanispo
Inspired by James Rolfe
Episode One: The Pitfalls of Staying Young
The alarm went off. Clayton Moore groaned. Moore blindly flailed his hands, hoping to hit the snooze button. He couldn’t find it. Damn it all, he’d have to get up. Moore rolled sideways and fell off the bed. That woke him up.
Moore rose, and remembered he’d replaced his alarm clock with an iPhone several months ago. The latest model iPhone, of course. He had to stay trendy.
Moore walked to his wardrobe, chucked on a wife-beater and a jacket. No wait, jackets weren’t trendy anymore. Moore pulled off his jacket and put on something more sensible. A trench coat. Markson from the bar told Moore that it was the most ‘in’ thing right now. He had no reason to distrust the man. He’d been right about the plastic raincoats last summer. He got a lot of looks from young girls that day.
Moore walked to the bathroom and got out the container of foundation. He had to cover up those wrinkles. Young people didn’t have wrinkles.
Now that he was ready to hit the town, Moore walked into the kitchen and poured himself a bowl of cereal. He realised that he had no idea what he was getting ready for.
Carrying the bowl with him, he picked up his phone from the bedroom dresser and checked to see what he wrote on the calendar.
The calendar, not the call log. Press back. No, you pressed it too much, you hit the password screen again. Just go to the calendar app. Where is the bloody calendar app? Oh, there it is. Fucking iPhones. The pitfalls of being young.
There it was. He was going to the mirror store to buy a mirror for his buddy McAllister’s birthday. Looked like it would be a fun day in the town.
Moore ate a spoonful of cereal, realised it had gotten soggy. Not salvageable. He chucked the contents of the bowl in the bin. Most kids these days didn’t eat breakfast anyway.
There were still a few minutes until he had to leave, so he turned on the television. A news channel appeared, talking about an outbreak of something or other. Boring. He changed the channel. More news. He kept changing the channel until the he found the one that had the Saturday morning cartoons. It seemed Mitzy was still leading a productive life.
Moore spent far longer watching cartoons than he intended, and rushed to the door. Crap, he’d forgotten his shotgun. Moore walked back to his room, and opened up the chest. In it contained his prized M83U2 6-round shotgun and piles of ammunition boxes. He decided to take the silver bullets because he was feeling stylish today. He hid the shotgun inside his trench coat. Thank God for concealed carry permits. He never applied for one, now that he thought about it. Things to do later.
Finally ready for action, Moore opened the front door and walked outside. He promptly tripped on something on his doorstep. A package? There was a note attached. Moore opened the envelope and started reading.
It was a package from his ex-girlfriend. Crazy stalker weirdo. They broke up months ago. Tina thought Moore trading in his Ford Falcon for a Harley Davidson motorcycle was irresponsible. She blamed his ‘midlife crisis’ or whatever she called it. So he dumped her. Seemed like the best course of action at the time.
Moore looked inside the package itself. It was filled with bloomin’ garlic. He hated that stuff. Moore didn’t know where to put the package, so he left the package and the note in front of the Matsumoto’s house next door. Tina’s note could spark suspicions of adultery in Ms. Matsumoto’s mind, but Moore didn’t care about any of that.
Moore clambered onto the Harley Davidson, forgetting to lock the front door. He had no idea how he’d be able to return home on a motorcycle with a mirror, but YOLO, right? That’s what all the kids would say. Moore took off in the motorcycle, attempting and failing to do a wheelie in the process.
END OF CHAPTER ONE
I posted episode one on TAY about two weeks ago, but I didn’t actually finish writing the rest of the damn thing until today. The version you see here is slightly altered from the original.
Spoiler: Phlanispo is Dinoking.
That’s harsh, man.
Or is Dinoking really Phlanispo? The psychic thought patterns of the elemental pokemon threats in the Metroid multiverse all point to the inherent propensity of the sexist agenda and proves the relative theory of our existential phenomenon.
Think about it.
Or maybe Phlanispo is just taking inspiration from Dinokings ramblings.
Heh, I took the inspiration when I watched this video. It mentioned the that vampires are never really used as an ‘end of the world’ plot device. The idea for Vampire Apocalyse came to mind, then I re-watched the AVGN video for inspiration. The first chapter was really only to establish the main character as a complete idiot in the middle of a half decade-long midlife crisis.
In Falcom news, the guys who localized it years ago are finally getting Falcom’s Gurumin onto Steam. And apparently are giving free copies to anyone that votes ‘yes’ for it on Greenlight:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=286828342
It’s a cool action platformer that plays a lot like Ys in a lot of ways, I suspect there’s some shared technology. Except instead of Adol the red you play a cute little girl with pigtails and an enormous drill. It’s got a really nice cel-shaded art style, great character work, a surprisingly good dub and is overall a really underrated game.
Destiny peeps. Haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere. I’m pretty sure the big xx ATTACK stat on weapons is actually the damage per second stat. Not sure if it counts reload time, but usually not?
Also on Destiny, but not really a reply to you, who else is on PS3 for the Beta, so far I only know of myself, @benny, @masha2932 and @jocon.
Also, who’s gonna be on for the XBox Beta this weekend? If anyone’s got a spare code, I might take one.
I’ll cross my fingers and hope my download is finished by then and I can join PS3 folks when the beta returns.
Thanks again!
That’s cool, the key worked didn’t it?
Yup, downloading now. 😀
FUCK YES SMASHED A RED 4E IN TWO GOES [/climbing talk]
Also today at work I had to go through I don’t even know how many pictures of 3D block models and make sure that their top, front and side images all actually matched the isometric view.
After all that there were two and half that didn’t, and another two that weren’t tagged correctly but not in a way that would actually affect the game.
Hey @dc did you end up watching The Strain? What’d ya think?
Haven’t watched yet. Started meds and wanted to wait until I felt better.
Did you read the books? I keep meaning to buy them but also keep forgetting. And now I don’t know whether to just wait until after watching more of the show, or jump right in.
Next time I have money I’m grabbing the Under The Dome book, by the way. 🙂
Haven’t read the books, but I imagine they’ll be pretty loyal if del Toro is heavily involved with both. Unlike Under the Dome. 😛 It’ll be interesting to see what you think of that book. 😀
Oh, also on TV…anyone watching The Last Ship? It’s really lame and borderline offensive in its US patriotism but I just can’t stop watching it for some reason. Maybe it’s something to do with the way it seems they’re trying to be every videogame ever. The latest episode was like Far Cry 3. 😀
I made @benny change his Gravatar.
The Spaceship @benny, the Spaceship *sniff*
SPACESHIP SPACESHIP SPACESHIP
We’ll always have that.
The replacement? 😛
MOLEY MOLEY MOLEYI’m sorry!
MOOOOOOLE!I’m sorry.
PS. Not sorry.
See top of page for details of the change. I also briefly had one other avatar during the Halloween TAY special: Ash from Evil Dead.
Hey, I’ll take some credit too, thanks 😀
Ok, it was a team effort \o/
I don’t like when people change their avatars. It’s like changing their faces IRL. One moment ‘George’ is a red-head with freckles, the next he’s an asian. 🙁
Thoughts on work:
It’s alright so far! Now I actually know what “work” is 😀
Things have been pretty chill though since I’m not really expected to do much at this point, but I’m not complaining! Meetings are the worst though since I don’t know anything yet and I’m just left sitting there for hours doing nothing and trying to understand what the heck is going on 😛
I’m glad it’s not in the city and it’s close to my house in the ‘burbs. Saves a ton of time but then I do miss any potential spontaneous TAY lunch meats 🙁
I’ll try to get as many free trips out of it as I can. I know there’s a really high chance of an 8 month+ interstate relocation so wherever I end up, y’all better show me around! (pretty please, I’ll have no friends :3)
The secret is that’s what everyone in the meeting is doing.
But their mouths are moving and fancy words are coming out!
Synergy! Cross-Compartmentalization! Focus tested attachment ratios! Uplift the core potentialities!
You focused on whose core now?
Sorry, they were the only two I understood in all them big words up there.
I’ve been told I have a pretty good core, maybe it was mine?
8 month relocation? :O Better hope you get sent somewhere good.
Could be permanent too.
Perth \o/ 😛
(I’m hoping for Sydney or something…)
Middle of the Desert! \o/
They’re sending you to this lovely place called Pripyat. They just finished building this awesome amusement park!
HOLY CRAP A SET OF VIRTUAL BOY PLAYING CARDS THAT *AREN’T* A HUNDRED BUCKS OR MORE!
*buys*
So I finished Telltale’s The Walking Dead. Yeah. Sad ending, huh? I didn’t cry, though.
It’s weird how I react to sad endings. Let’s analyse my history with them, huh?
-Cried in Mystery Dungeon, but I don’t think I cried the first time. I know for sure that I cried when I watched a YouTube video of the ending years later.
-Cried at the ending to Arby n the Chief, but only because I rewatched the ending three hours later.
-Did not cry at any of the endings to Katawa Shoujo. However, I felt empty inside for days afterwards. I know that I replayed Emi’s ending multiple times just so I could spend more time with her.
-Did not cry at the ending to Kill la Kill, but this was heavily due to the fact that the ending was one gigantic plot hole.
I wonder if The Walking Dead will turn me into a zombie (that pun was unintentional) for a while, like Katawa Shoujo did. I doubt it, though.
Now I’m going to post a tonne of links, and hope that I get them right. If you want to see all the other choices I made, either look at old comments, or look at the screenshots on my Steam account.
Choices:
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/54358977630563460/C1EFC0133C61821E2C6D70CCDCB8DAE33D9E775E/
Fate of the characters:
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/54358977630584794/E05A7E6D045F562C6DD7A67F160B480D45975D5D/
Fate of the characters 2:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/54358977630600593/822D377F572D352037209ABEC12B9319BFBF9265/
It worked! \o/
I think I cried at the beginning of the Unfinished Swan, and at the start of Ni No Kuni too.
(Spoilers as to why)
Anything to do with mums dying, or leaving just kills me :'(Makes me cry like a baby every time :'(
My mum means a lot to me, so I have no shame admitting that stuff like that makes me bawl.
I think those are the only two games I cried in, and they’re not even deemed as sad games :S
The game that’s brought me the most close to crying is Heavy Rain, it’s all the more upsetting when you have a child, especially a son. All the feels.
Still haven’t finished it, I must get back into it
The International is over. The finals were kind of crappy in the end. Same drafts each time, Vici gaming just drafted terribly and then got outplayed on top of that.
Everything leading up to the finals was rad though.
Hey can someone text techy and see if he is okay. He hasn’t been around here for about 2 weeks and I’m kinda worried.
He’s been on TS relatively recently, and he was on LoL last night.
So he’s alive, but I can’t comment beyond that.
Okay well that’s good. I know he’s been down recently I just wanted to see if he needed anything. Thanks bloggs
He probably needs a hug.
I typed that as hog first, because I can finger good (PHRASING!), and now I’m imagining the wacky adventures of Techy and his friend, Billy the talking Hog. I don’t actually know what their adventures involve, but that’s not my job, I’m the ideas man in this outfit (of one).
Robot knight and hog. Pretty great anime idea.
With the villain being Blaghs the Finger.
Porco-Rosso with Mecha? I’d watch the shit outa’ that
Pretty sure he’s just busy with the new job application (Death-Bot on LoL)
I’d like to apply to be a Bot on LoL too but I think they will put me as the tutorial Bot >:(
Had to go out early this morning to get some things, so I showered and dressed and left at 7am. Only clothes I had to get dressed in was my old work clothes (minus the uniform shirt), and had to drive along part of the route I used to take to work. So now I’m done and come home, I’m sitting here almost feeling as if I’ve cheated my way out of a work day by pulling a sickie or something!
It’s not yet even the same time as I would have normally left for work, and I still can’t help but feel like I’ve been a little bit naughty! :p
Hopefully this means that today will feel equally as exciting as if I had chucked a sickie, cos those days always seem to be the best!
*Rolls up newspaper*
BAD WELBOT!
I’m back. I was out of internet access for a few days (although Twitter and Facebook are unmetered sites so I could use them). Glad I was away because it meant I didn’t have to put up with a certain someone.
A quick summary of my weekend: Friday I decided I’d give up soft drink (again). I’m drinking water and coffee and so far I haven’t missed it. Saturday I walked into town, bought some music to play on trombone and saw a few friends. Sunday I went to church. Unfortunately the Munchkin session I wanted to do didn’t eventuate, but it will happen at some stage.
And that’s all I really have to say. I don’t lead the most fascinating life.
Destiny Beta Multiplayer
Had a go at the multiplayer, it’s like 100 times better than the Alpha, very pleasing, I had nothing but harsh words for PvP in the Alpha, had a couple of matches, connection seemed great, no spawn kill issues, people were actually working together and it was good fun.
I had a great time with the PvP. The maps are so pretty and seem to be really well designed. The only one I’m not a fan of is the moon(?) one with the vehicles. That one can get fucked.
Awesome to see such an improvement between Alpha and Beta, good sign for the final release, can’t wait. I was really impressed with all the randoms I played with last night in PvP and strike missions, everyone was really helpful and cooperative,
Yeah I prefer the close quarters one on Mercury or is it Venus? When you have large maps like the Moon you increase the chances of people not working together and trying to do their own. Smaller more intense maps keep the action up and people are more likely to work together because they can see where the action is as well!
Didn’t play the Alpha, but I’m enjoying the Beta.
sweet, I can’t wait for the full game now, especially since you can get gear for above level 8, bastards dangling those juicy carrots in my face.
You’re playing the Beta on PS4 aren’t you? I think @pupp3tmast3r is too. Hopefully I’ll be picking up a PS4 in the next few weeks, so I can knock out Infamous: Second Son before this drops.
yep I’m on PS4. Infamous is awesome & freaking beautiful but it’s a fair bit shorter than the previous 2 games, you’ll knock it over easily.
Add me on for the PS4 I’ll probably jump on for some PvP and strikes this weekend – Kronos013 (probably only get a chance to accept on Thursday or Friday though!)
ok, will try to remember when I get home.
I’ll send you a FR too.
Mmm, things are good. Kicked arse at climbing last night (sister’s boyfriend’s sister was being quite cute too >.>), then had the Virtual Boy cards pop up for cheap, then apparently there’s a glitch in the single player of Elite that lets you do some of the multiplayer stuff like supercruise and inter-system travel that you’re not supposed to be able to do (albeit with a fucktonne of interdictions and AI that is hard as balls), so I’m dying to try that out. And then on the walk to work this morning I found ten bucks!
I stopped here:
and grabbed my popcorn.
Always have some prepopped popcorn on hand for those juicy moments
@mrtaco yes please elaborate on what stickman has quoted! I shall proceed to grab popcorn as well.
Nothing much to elaborate. She was just excited to have done a plaster cast on her first real person, and then to have managed to nail a 4C climb for the first time ever (I was surprised, thought she must have been up at that level back before she had a load of time off), and also was handing out home made peanut butter cups that she’d made. They were delicious.
So the short version is she was being cute so gooky enjoyed her buttercups 😉
I streetpassed you again this morning @dkzeitgeist.
I’m not stalking you I swear. *shifty eyes*
Repost, cos I literally haven’t seen it anywhere. Not even Destinypedia.
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Destiny peeps. Haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere. I’m pretty sure the big xx ATTACK stat on weapons is actually the damage per second stat. Not sure if it counts reload time, but usually not?
Meaning, there’s a lot less ‘variety’ than we actually thought. No “high damage but wild recoil, or you can get lower damage with low recoil”. Dat lack of content, yo.
Er, it’s a beta and not a complete game? Try reporting that as an issue you have to Bungie since that’s the whole point of a beta.
I don’t think it is an issue, it’s just explanation on what the stat means.
I meant with you being worried about alack of variety. If it’s an issue for bunch of people they might look into changing it.
Oh. Nah, no point, they’re a couple months away and both Alpha and Beta are super-sparse for all content. Either they have no idea what a beta actually means and they are just giving us a small snippet only (thus, yay..?), or the release game will be the same. Can’t change much now. 🙁
‘Beta’ is now marketing speak for ‘demo’. And that’s what it is.
If they put all the content of the launch game into it, there would be poop-sockers who already finished the whole game by now and wouldn’t bother buying it.
I didn’t think that’s what it meant. I was under the impression that the attack stat was what determined whether your attack would do damage to an enemy. Not sure why I thought that though.
Edit: This explains it much better than I do.
Could be. My thoughts on why DPS:
– I took assault rifle, 49 ATTACK. It shoots pretty fast and was doing 32’s or something to spider legs.
– I then took out another assault rifle, with 51 ATTACK. It shot a decent amount slower, yet still did 38’s or so to spider legs.
– Took out hand cannon with around 49 ATTACK, it shot super-slow and did 100+ to spider legs.
Kinda seems to me like DPS. Although if you look at the weapon closely it does have a rate of fire stat, so I’m probably wrong.
I’d take a look at the impact stat next time you’re testing it out, because it looks like that has the main say in damage.
Ah, I replied before your edit. Yep, that makes sense to me!
Odd that a stat as important as Impact has no numerical value. I didn’t see a hover-over when on the bar graph.
Could be both. DPS and ‘for your information: you’ll be firing THIS slowly’ stat.
That’s true, I’ve seen a ton of games that list both even though it’s kinda unnecessary. Bungie isn’t letting much info slip on the stats and everything, so I suppose we’ll have to have release manual confirm it all.
I’ve got to agree that they’ve been a bit vague on what the stats mean and if impact really makes so much of a difference they need to get the details across clearly in the game. I’ve had similar issues with attack where an assault rifle with a 50+ magazine fires ridiculously fast and does the same damage per bullet as an assault rifle with 20+ magazines and long reload times (this is based off damage being done to the Spider Tank and Sepkis).
On that note I haven’t really found a stat that describes how quickly your weapon fires either and I’d love to have a stat showing that… I swapped a slower more accurate assault rifle for one I thought was an upgrade (based off the attack stat) and got my ass handed to me in PvP because this one had a high fire rate but absolutely no accuracy or damage.
@stickman this makes it sound more like Attack is Armor Penetration and Impact is Attack Power.
In the Alpha I played mainly with the… scout rifle? The one that’s basically Halo’s DMR, semi-automatic rifle. I found it was the most useful of the basic weapons. The AR fires fast but it’s not accurate even in bursts, and the battle rifle equivalent which fires the 3-round bursts is only competitive if all three shots hit, because the damage is spread over the burst.
I could barely touch the spider tank with my shots though. Or any of the other public event bosses, actually.
Yeah I’m reading that link the same as you. Makes sense I guess.
What do you mean in your last para?
I mean, in the Alpha, in exploration, periodically you stumble into what in the games it originates was called a ‘public quest’ or a ‘public event’, eg the spider tank drops in and a bunch of teams are meant to converge on it and do some stuff.
I encountered 4. In one case, one other dude was there. In the rest of them I was on my own. I couldn’t even scratch the enemies. Could have chipped them away if it had been 3-4 times longer but the events only lasted a few minutes. 🙁
Ah, yeah the random events in this one were a lot harder I thought too. I found a spider in the location where it is on the strike, and I took him down myself. Probably took near half an hour though lol.
Did they remove / increase the timer then? The spider tank in the Alpha had about a 12 minute timer.
The Beta Spider Tank events I’ve faced have approximately 4-5 minutes on the time… I have taken a tank out by myself though in under that time!
This wasn’t random event. It always spawns at the strike location if you just go exploring there. Counts as a normal monster spawn.
@pupp3tmast3r: are you some kind of moon wizard? I don’t think I managed to get it below 50% 🙁
@negativezero Lol…. it was quite simple… I had run a trio of scout rifle/fusion rifle/fire based heavy machine gun. I had max ammo on everything. So swarm grenaded the entourage, golden gun’d the legs first chance I got. Swapped to heavy machine gun and used up all of its ammo. Then it just became a matter of jumping around hitting the legs with the fusion rifle! Once the helmet popped I used the scout rifle and knife throw! Usually takes about 3-4 minutes?
Mario Kart was pretty cool last night guys. I can see a lot of TAY tournaments on the horizon for Smash Bros. Can’t wait.
I’m not getting SMash Bros, but there’s no way in hell I’d ever play single-player-online Smash Bros – Mario Kart is borderline as it is.
With single-player online, you can’t turn to face the fucker sitting next to you and yell expletives at them. 🙂
True, we’ll just have to have a Wii U Smash Bros. meat then.
PAX?
Would be nice, but Smash Bros. won’t be out by then. We could play Brawl though.
Hurry up and get me a room. There is somebody I want to meet
Is today the day?
Yep. At hospital waiting to get in now
Ooohhh im excited! Cathryn and I send all our support to both of you cant wait for the good news \o/
Ooooooohhhhh. I get it now. Exciting and stressful times! Good luck to the both of you.
Wonder if the same group of people ranting about Lorde having no place in gaming are going to start ranting about sports fans sucking it up and accepting gaming on ESPN?
Probably. I can’t remember where I saw it but “gamer entitlement” is a pretty apt description for that sort of behaviour. They enjoy their hobby, they want others to know that they enjoy it and are proud of it, but god forbid they actually let the public try and enjoy it too.
Probably the same class acts who were complaining about ESPN showing soccer during the world cup. “WHAT IS THIS SHIT? I WANT SPORTS, DAMMIT! BY WHICH I MEAN NASCAR!”
A right turn!? *faints*
Hey guys, apparently the August Xbone update is going to include 3D Blu-Ray support \o/
I am stunned it’s been so long without it. 0_0
I didn’t even know 3D Blu-Rays were a thing.
Hey Gang, Dan here.
I can’t go to PAX anymore so I’m selling my Saturday ticket. DM me on Twitter (at)dkzeitgeist if you want it and we’ll work it out.
Sell it to @dc!
Nah, no PAX or Melbourne for ‘ol DC ever. I can’t be out of town while PAX North is going on and also cons aren’t my thing even if I wasn’t so poor. 😛
But Melbourne’s a fine place! Awful football teams, and the weather… But the food’s nice! And people like @tigerion and @beavwa live there!
Aswell as @scree @techknight and myself as well as pixel cant forget him
That was not a comprehensive list, I just picked two Melbourne Taybies I’ve met.
And youll meet many more at PAX \o/
I met some other Taybies at PAX last time (@trjn and @freya among them) but I’ll be hopefully partaking in the Karaoke festivities this time
Pfft, like I’d sell anything to DC.
If he wants it he gets it for free, goddammit.
<3
He totally wants it. He just doesn’t want to let on that he does.
Well, I also imagine there’s the issue of transport, lodging, meals, etc.
Nah, that can be taken care of too 😛
Sell it to @beeawwb!
Wait, I’m @beeawwb.
Sell it to me!
(I’m actually just working out flights / hotels at the moment to confirm it’s do-able. And knowing that I won’t make the evening meetup since I’ll be doing Star Citizen stuff.)
There will be multiple meats on multiple nights. Just one main one that the lovely @scree has planned
Well, at this stage I’m thinking I can fly in on Friday morning, do TAY stuff on Friday, then PAX and Star Citizen on Saturday, then fly home on Sunday evening leaving Sunday morning / afternoon free for more TAY stuff.
(Speaking of the Star Citizen meetup, are @rize / @pixel_the_ferret_viking / others planning on going to that? Saturday 1st Nov, likely sometime in the evening.)
…Star Citizen Meetup? INFO PLZ!
Cloud Imperium do fan meet-ups / citizen gatherings when they do convention appearances. The first one was at Gamescom last year, but since Gamescom is an industry event there wouldn’t be a way for citizens to get in. So they held it at a nearby pub. Then they did another one this year at PAX East, and they’ve said they’re going to do one at PAX Australia.
So, some time on November 1st (which is what Sandi has said to me when I asked) there will be a Citizen meeting somewhere near PAX but not requiring PAX admission. I think they said (on an episode of AtV) that they’re having issues finding a location with sufficient bandwidth for live-streaming the event, but that’ll get sorted in the next few months.
ooohhh I’d be interested in going, granted I can still go to the Meat afterwards because that has a high priority for me 😛
Still sounds pretty bloody rad though… I’m getting way more excited for this game then what should be allowed 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking Yeah, it should be awesome I’m just not sure how it’ll link up with the Meat since there’s no timing. However I think it’s safe to assume that the SC thing will only go for a couple hours so there should be plenty of night left for Meat-araoke.
PLUS chance to meet Chris Roberts, Sandi, ?Wingman?, whomever else comes over.
I’ve been getting back into Disney Infinity lately. Started playing it again on the weekend and loaded up the Toy Box, for some reason it looked like Radiator Springs, and I was like “hey, I don’t remember making that”, so I ended up deleting my save and starting again, which is a shame because I’d already completed The Incredibles playset to 100%. Got about an hour and a half before I have to start getting ready for work, so I’ma jump in to the Monster’s University playset.
NOW PUT THAT THING BACK WHERE IT CAME FROM, OR SO HELP ME!
So help me.
Pirates is by far the best playset.
Monster’s is great with a pal but that Incredibles one was so bland.
… i certainly did not just place a pre-order for Disney Infinity 2.0… nooo siree…
*twiddles thumbs*
Lol, for what console?
Well i’m on a roll with the Wii U, so i thought i may as well keep going 😛
Fair enough, I reckon I’ll either pick it up on Xbone or PS4.
Ah, Mario Kart last night was so fun.
Here’s the turn out:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtD48C3CMAAZJX_.jpg
DAMMIT!
I got caught up playing Destiny.
Next Monday, though. Oh ho, you guys better watch out.
If we get as good a turnout next week as we did last night, with you and @shane as well, we might not have enough spots for everyone.
I won’t be there next Monday :'(
Or probably most Mondays here out :'(
New work roster :’O
Fair enough.
No no no, you’re supposed to be all like, “Don’t go Lion, we’ll miss you! ARGH, what’s the point of even playing any more?!”, to which I say, “It’s ok Monkey, I’ll hopefully be around every now and then. Just cause I won’t be there doesn’t mean you can’t have fun. Have fun without me, just make sure to remember meeeeee…”.
Also I just noticed that we’re both animals (Lion and Monkey), which kinda amused me :3
Lol, just don’t eat me Mr. Lion.
DC and Pixel, neck and neck!
We’re apparently nemesis!
*nemeses
It makes it more fun to have a nemesis that you save your red shell especially for.
@sughly @greenius ;D
>:(
I save mine for @SUGHLY too!
*shakes fist*
*prints out list and buys red marker*
That’s how my list began too. Better clear a wall and buy some pins and twine and maps too.
I made a conspiracy wall once. It was fun.
What were you conspiring against
My honours project.
No need. Only need the list, ten lines drawn with the marker and time.
What did Baby Daisy ever do to you?
She knows.
I had to leave because of a phone call, then when I came back no-one was there! 🙁
I noticed you left really early! That must’ve been a long phone call, we were going for a while :3
I have a feeling it might have not allowed me back in the same group as you guys I dont know if it creates two rooms or what
I’ll have to join and have a go next week, I had soccer that night but looks like fun. My internet connection is hovering at a speedy 64kbps so I’ll have to bring my Wii U over to my Aunts with a 880kbps connection. Will that suffice lol?
Pax Flights booked!
I should probably get around to booking flights.
QANTAS has a bunch on sale- I got mine for $89 each way at real person hours during the day.
Nice. $250 one way for Red-E deal for me. 🙁
Oof.
I would like to take this chance to talk about one aspect of Destiny I’ve really enjoyed but completely overlooked until watching the Xbox 1080p article. The weight and feel of the Sparrows! I don’t know how often I’ll spawn it just to drive from one end of the map to the other in explore mode! Bungie have really done a good job on making that vehicle a joy to use 🙂
I hop on em and just boost-start, cos it’s such a nice sound and effect! They messed up the audio when you’re cruising though lol.
Disney Infinity 2.0 hype. Who’s getting it. Really looking forward to it, especially being able to play as Marvel characters. Hopefully they have plans for more figures than just The Avengers, Spider-Man and Guardians Of The Galaxy though. They do have Iron Fist though, so that’s a start (I realize he was in New Avengers, but I’m just talking about current characters in the movies).
Not me, I’ll stick with my Skylanders Swap Force. Picked up Giants for $5 too, so I can go back and play those lol.
Fair enough, those are pretty fun games. You getting Trap Team? Which console you on?
PS3 for 1 & 2, PS4 for Swap Force. Nah, not gonna get Trap Team until it’s bargain price this time. Swap is the only one I paid a lot for – $79.
I’m gonna! Looks awesome! And I’m so glad its compatible with the original figures as well! I’ve obsessively collected them all including the special ed figures. Also glad there are some new disney characters on top of the Marvel dudes.
Yeah, I’ve only got about 7 to get to complete the set, as well as the series 2 power discs, got a few limited editions too (Clear Sulley, Jack Sparrow and Mr. Incredible). Hopefully pick up the rest of them in the Target Toy Sale this Friday.
Im so annoyed with the power discs though, Ive got soooo many darn doubles of everything, I’m yet to complete the set…
I know, the blind bags are a pain, think I’ve still got 4 or 5 to get for series 1. You can trade ’em at EB, but I don’t think they give very much, it also might be a good idea to check them for any you’re missing instead of just buying more blind bags and trying your luck.
that target sale looks decent, some pretty cheap games on there, Saw Fifa 14 on PS4 will be like $37
I’ll be getting it for my kids. On the WiiU. And then Mr. Strange will buy all the figures and take over. 😛
oh god that J.J. Abrams teaser earlier today is making me get my nerd on!
Having full on conversations about various ship types with colleagues makes me realise how much of a Star Wars nerd i truly am 😛
Also apparently the ship in the teaser is an X-Wing, according to a tweet by “The official Star Wars” Twitter account… don’t know whether to believe that or not 😛
Haven’t seen that yet, pretty hype for the new movie at the end of next year.
Also, fully expecting them to release Disney Infinity 3.0: Star Wars next year a few months before the film comes out.
If you’re interested,
This is what i am referring to
EDIT – Also i would buy the shit out of any Infinity Star Wars packs that gets released 😛
Sweet!
Look closely at the intake – there’s a split. It could very well mean the wings open to X formation.
yeah pretty much… I’m struggling to figure out how they’ll justify the re-design, unless it’s not the T-65 X-Wing, but more like the T-65e, eg a newer model?
It also looks smaller then the old X-Wing, but yeah i dunno… guess i’ll have to wait and find out /o\
Looks good mesa thinks; I like the blue. Then again, I have no idea about model numbers and you’re right; upon googling, this one very much looks like the Z-95.
It’s something like 20 years after the events of Episode 6 so it’s plausible that they had refined the X-Wing design in-universe so that it was more streamlined and slimmer.
Will make things interesting to see what else they do. I’m pining to see some veteran Star Destroyers that had been repurposed by the New Republic/whatever they’re calling themselves now the Empire fell.
well if i remember correctly the fallen Empire was called the Remnant in EU, but now that that’s been canned, it will probably change…
But seeing how he sticks to original ship designs, i am actually pretty hopeful for the new movies! i can’t wait to see what else they come up with (oh please be the B-Wing! please be the B-Wing!)
I think it’ll be a much newer model. It’s not just an improved T-65. Maybe split s-foils are to fighters in the Star Wars universe what putting a pair of vertical stabilizers on the tail of a jet fighter is in modern aviation, just an efficient way of doing things.
Teehee. Google Project Zero. Look at the results. Google fighting piracy using project zero. Compare to image results. Wow. Google are taking this seriously.
@popdart5 @mawt @tech_knight @blaghman @novacascade
Really sorry guys, but I’ve had to be booked in for a work thing at the last minute (boss is sick) so i won’t be able to do the session on Wednesday
Just let them run the session how they like free of GM constraints.
Oh look. They found a room full of +10 magic weapons and 400 million gold.
When Red was having issues one time we decided to try DMing ourselves (briefly).
It was the best idea. I had my first ever string of successful flexes!
“Oh what’s that? A genie of unlimited wishes? Don’t mind if I do.”
All good man. Work is more important than RPGs (but only barely :P).
As much as I was looking forward to this, I’m also a little relieved.
It’s now more than 36 hours since I last played Destiny.
Wooo! My PS4 games & controller has been shipped! My PS4 however has not been shipped. I have a feeling I am going to spend a couple of days staring at my PS4 games with no PS4 to play them on. /o\
Plug controller into PS3 and pretend it’s a PS4?
“Oh man, look at these next gen graphics. So amazing.”
*said @sernobulus through his constant stream of tears*
I’ve had Infamous: Second Son sitting on my shelf for probably about 6 months now, and still no PS4, I’m so close now though.
I currently have Tomb Raider: Super Fancy Edition and Trials Fusion + DLC for PS4… and all the PS+ games… and a Dual Shock 4… but no solid plans to buy a PS4 yet. So you’re not alone!
This job is cool because I get to let my OCD run wild. Currently rearranging all the elements of this game to have pixel-perfect alignment instead of all this higgledy-piggledy “close enough” layout that it had by whoever set it up in the first place. Just awful 😛
My hero! <3
any decent GMG coupons floating around?
Well dang. It seems I passed a milestone and didn’t even realise it. I cracked 50,000 words in total for the Numenera recaps I’ve been doing and it’s all thanks to you guys.
@transientmind @tech_knight @blaghman @mawt @tigerion @novacascade @negativezero @redartifice @mythamphetamine
Thanks for the great times guys. You’ve been an excellent source of inspiration and joy to play with. And thanks a bunch Red for being a fantastic GM.
Reading the write-ups has always been a great joy for me, thanks so much man.
I owe you one for Pathfinder too
All good Red. Take your time as I’m sure you’ll make it awesome.
But a greyhound fur tuxedo would be beeeeeeeeeeest!
…dammit Serrels.
Let’s prepare these dogs.
Kill two for matching clogs!
See my vest! See my vest! See my vest! (etc etc because that’s the end of the song)
Nanana nanana na nana
I feel like my answer to the question is a little long, particularly since I cheat and don’t actually answer the damn question. >.>
And don’t curse him, this is the greatest thing that could happen.
Zis Tay, Es slow eh?
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*tumbleweed*
*acrobaticweed*
*slobonthecouchweed*
*legaliseweed*?
We’re on page 6 already, it doesn’t seem that slow. I’m already 4 pages behind.
Not looking forward to tonight. Basically going to be staging an intervention 🙁
Fb, nf zragvbarq ba Byq Gnl, ynfg jrrxraq V jnf va Arj Mrnynaq nggraqvat n shareny. Guvf jnf fhcre fgerffshy orpnhfr trggvat gurer vaibyirq trggvat zl Qnq onpx sebz Gunvynaq, jurer ur yvirf naq jbexf.Ur’f orra bire gurer sbe lrnef abj. Unfa’g orra onpx gb Nhfgenyvn fvapr yngr Abirzore, naq orsber gung vg jnf nebhaq Whyl ynfg lrne. Fb jr uneqyl rire frr uvz, juvpu vf snveyl uneq.
Jung’f rira uneqre, gubhtu, vf frrvat gur fgngr ur’f va. Onfvpnyyl, ur’f ba gur iretr bs onaxehcgpl. Ur raqrq hc gurer nsgre yrnivat bar pbzcnal ur jbexrq sbe orpnhfr ur oyrj gur juvfgyr ba fbzr pbeehcgvba ceboyrzf gung ur unq gbb zhpu vagrtevgl gb vtaber, gura raqrq hc va nabgure wbo jurer n fhqqra znantrzrag punatr oebhtug va fbzrbar gung ur unq crefbanyvgl pynfurf jvgu. Fvap gura Zhygvcyr arj ohfvarff iragherf unir orra gevrq naq unira’g znantrq gb gnxr bss. Ur’f jbexvat bire va Gunvynaq sbe n thl ur ungrf jbexvat sbe, znxvat rabhtu gb fpencr ol ohg abg rabhtu gb rire trg nurnq ba nalguvat. Ur’f nyfb vzcbffvoyr gb trg ubyq bs juvyr ur’f bire gurer. Fbzrgvzrf erfcbaqf gb rznvyf, ohg uvf cubar ahzore punatrf erthyneyl rabhtu gung lbh pna’g trg ubyq bs uvz ba zbovyr / ivore pnyyf, unf zbovyr cubar vffhrf (be fb ur fnlf) naq trarenyyl jr qba’g urne sebz uvz naljurer arne rabhtu.
Nqqvgvbanyyl gb gung, ur’f qvnorgvp, ohg qbrfa’g frrz gb znantr gung jryy, nygubhtu ur frrzf gb or n ovg orggre guna ynfg gvzr V fnj uvz. Pbafgnagyl gverq naq jbea bhg orpnhfr ur’f abg ernyyl obgurevat gb znantr vg gubhtu – ur gnxrf fbzr zrqvpngvbaf gb ‘svk’ vg, ng yrnfg va uvf urnq, ohg gura cebprrqf gb rng jungrire naq abg ernyyl rkrepvfr be nalguvat.
Gur ovttrfg vffhr gubhtu vf gung (naq guvf jnf gur bcvavba bs guerr frcnengr Nhagf bs zvar jub nyy ner sbezre be pheerag Ahefrf) V’z snveyl fher ur unf n onq pnfr bs pyvavpny qrcerffvba. Jbefg vf gung ur cebonoyl xabjf vg uvzfrys, ohg pna’g fgrc bhg naq trg gerngzrag sbe guvf. Zl rkgraqrq snzvyl unf fbzr cerggl ovt vffhrf rkcerffvat gurzfryirf rzbgvbanyyl – zl Qnq naq obgu uvf oebguref nyy qb gur fnzr guvat, jurer engure guna gnyx nobhg gbhtu guvatf, gurl jvyy fgrc onpx naq fghoobeayl qvfratntr, be fvzcyl chg hc n snyfr irarre gung rirelguvat vf bxnl, jura vg bsgra ernyyl vfa’g. V xabj V qb guvf n ybg nf jryy – V graq gb ubyq rirelbar ng nez’f yratgu, rira pybfr sevraqf, naq gung’f fbzrguvat V ernyyl jnag gb jbex ba zlfrys univat bofreirq zl rkgraqrq snzvyl uvggvat gurfr fnzr vffhrf.
Ohg naljnl, ur onfvpnyyl fcrag gur ohyx bs gur gvzr jr jrer bhg va Arj Mrnynaq ‘fyrrcvat’. Juvpu vf gb fnl gung ur onfvpnyyl pybfrq uvf rlrf naq qvfratntrq pbzcyrgryl. Abj, n cneg bs gung vf tevrs, n cneg vf cbbeyl znantrq qvnorgrf naq n cneg jnf fvzcyr wrg ynt (5 ubhe gvzr qvssrerapr) ohg ertneqyrff, vg znqr gur ragver snzvyl fhcre pbaprearq. Ur’f nyfb ybfg nobhg 20xt fvapr V ynfg fnj uvz, ybbxf tnhag.
Fb onfvpnyyl, jr’er guvaxvat jr arrq gb fvg uvz qbja guvf riravat naq sbepr uvz gb unir n ybat gnyx nobhg guvatf. Zl Zhz unf onfvpnyyl orra yvivat yvxr fur’f frcnengrq sebz uvz sbe frireny lrnef abj. V’z fgvyy yvivat ng ubzr orpnhfr V nyzbfg srry yvxr zl yvsr jnf chg ba cnhfr va zl zvq-20f orpnhfr zl Qnq jrag bss gb Nfvn naq fybjyl sryy ncneg naq nf gur bayl bar bs zl vzzrqvngr snzvyl jvgu n ernyyl tbbq vapbzr V onfvpnyyl unq gb fubhyqre n ybg bs gur oheqra yrsg oruvaq, naq hagvy gur ynfg lrne be fb, unq V yrg tb bs gung vg cebonoyl jbhyq unir frra zl Zhz onfvpnyyl pehzcyr gur fnzr jnl juvpu jbhyq unir orra gur ynfg guvat V jnagrq.
Fb zl Qnq’f fpurqhyrq gb syl onpx gb Gunvynaq ba Guhefqnl. V’z npghnyyl yrtvgvzngryl jbeevrq gung vg’yy or gur ynfg gvzr jr’yy frr uvz, gung ur’f tbvat gb qvr bire gurer sebz birejbex be fbzrguvat, be jbefr, naq jr fvzcyl jvyy arire svaq bhg orpnhfr jr unir ab jnl gb pbagnpg uvz naq V qba’g xabj vs nal bs gur crbcyr ur xabjf bire gurer jbhyq or noyr gb pbagnpg hf rvgure.
Fb jr’er tbvat gb unir gb fvg uvz qbja naq nve nyy gurfr pbapreaf. Zhz vf npghnyyl qbvat bxnl evtug abj ba whfg ure bja vapbzr, fb vs ur qvq abguvat ohg pbzr ubzr naq qb abguvat ng nyy, V guvax fur’q or noyr gb znantr. Ur ernyyl arrqf gb trg gerngzrag sbe uvf qrcerffvba, trg uvf qvnorgrf haqre pbageby naq trg fbzr crefcrpgvir ba rirelguvat, trg uvf cevbevgvrf fgenvtug. V guvax ur’f qrpvqrq gung ur’f abg rzcyblnoyr nal zber, ohg V xvaq bs jbaqre jurgure gur ernfba ur’f unq fb znal vffhrf jvgu ohfvarff erpragyl vf gung ur’f tbg nyy gurfr urnygu ceboyrzf srfgrevat njnl.
Gur guvat vf, V’z abg fher qbvat guvf vf gur evtug nccebnpu. V qba’g jnag gb oernx guvatf shegure ol gelvat gb svk guvatf naq V’z abg fher vs pbasebagvat fbzrbar va guvf fbeg bs fvghngvba, rira va gur zbfg ybivat jnl cbffvoyr, jvyy npghnyyl unir gur qrfverq rssrpg.
I see the same character flaws in myself, actually. Need to work on that a lot.
V guvax vg’f cbgragvnyyl n qnzarq vs lbh qb, qnzarq vs lbh qba’g fvghngvba va ertneqf gb pbasebagvat uvz nobhg nyy bs guvf. Ohg V srry yvxr ng gur nofbyhgr jbefg, lbh’yy xabj gung lbh’ir nverq lbhe pbapreaf, yrg uvz xabj nobhg ubj lbh naq lbhe snzvyl srryf, naq vzcbegnagyl, znqr uvz njner gung lbh thlf qb npghnyyl pner sbe uvz. Ur znl gnxr vg onqyl, ohg V uvtuyl qbhog vg’f tbvat gb znxr vg jbefr sbe uvz guna vs lbh fnvq abguvat.
Uhtf, zna.
I think you’re right. That’s been my perspective on it too.
*hugs*
We tried an intervention for my father about his drinking a while back. He just called us all horrible names and walked out. I haven’t spoken to him since. Just be aware they don’t always end up all’s well.Yeah, I’m hoping it doesn’t go that way either. I think the situation’s a bit different here though.
Zna, gung vf n ubeevoyr srryvat. Rkcrpg uvz gb ernpg artngviryl gb gur vagreiragvba, ohg V guvax, nsgre vgf bire naq guvatf pnyz qbja, V’z fher ur jvyy haqrefgnaq lbhe vagragvbaf. Gb zr crefbanyyl vg fbhaqf yvxr cneg bs gur ernfba ur vf fgnlvat va Gunvynaq vf jbex eryngrq. Ur fbhaqf yvxr ur unf irel yvggyr frys jbegu naq nf n erfhyg, ur guvaxf ur unf ab punapr bs svaqvat nal rzcyblzrag onpx urer, naq vf gb cebhq gb ergver/fgnl ng ubzr.
Ubcr rirelguvat tbrf jryy zna. V’z abg fher bs uvf ntr, be fxvyyfrg ohg fheryl vs ur trgf uvf urnygu onpx haqre pbageby ur fubhyq or noyr gb svaq ng gur irel yrnfg n cneg gvzr wbo gb cerbpphcl uvzfrys.
Zl qnq vf va n fvzvyne obng jbex-jvfr naq urnygu jvfr, ohg sbe qvssrerag ernfbaf. Fvapr zl zhz cnffrq njnl n srj zbaguf ntb, vg unf pbfg uvz qrneyl, naq uvf urnygu unf qrgrevbengrq nf n erfhyg. V pnag rknpgyl gryy uvz gb fgbc jbexvat, nf vg cerbpphcvrf uvz abjnqnlf, ohg ng gur fnzr gvzr ur arrqf gb fgbc jbexvat. Vg’f n qnzarq vs lbh qb, qnzarq vs lbh qbag xvaq bs fvghngvba…
That sucks, re: the last bit. 🙁 Hugs.
Your assessment is fairly spot-on I think.
One thing I know very well:
Working like a madman, filling every possible hour, can sometimes be the only thing that keeps you sane, safe from grief. Whenever something terrible has happened in my life, I throw myself into my work and leave nothing left. Because the alternative is going home to an empty house and that bed which is too god damn fucking big now, and just… No. Better to have something to distract you, as often as possible. Work, internet arguments, socializing, movies, video games… sometimes some will work, then they’ll wear off and you need to try something else, but work is pretty consistent. There’s co-workers for a feeling of belonging, there’s the satisfaction of achieving, and usually there’s as much to do as you want. It can also be dangerous where you overcommit yourself and can’t back off or start too many plates spinning to be able to breathe for the tension of keeping them going.Bad situation. The only thing I can think of is just a small thing that might make a difference? Buy him a phone. Like, with a reputable carrier, that you pay the bills for. If he’s having money troubles, the reason for the phone number changes is probably switching carriers when he’s in debt to one. Even if you’re only topping up call credit every now and then, at least the device will be active and consistently available for being called, if not calling out.
A man has his pride, so I don’t know what you wanna call it… a father’s day or birthday gift that’s a little overdue, in combination with, “It’s as much for me as for you; this way I won’t have to keep getting your new numbers, you’ll just have this one.”
That’s actually a really good idea.
Although maybe suggest it’s only for family/friends. There’s always the possibility he changes numbers to dodge people or avoid associating the number with failed businesses.
Probably too late for useful advice but in the end the best you can do is point out what he needs to see and let him come to his own conclusions. After all, you can’t really change people, at best you can make it easier for them to change themselves
Usually, when I have a dream, its a completely pointless affair. They sometimes make so little sense that they are a complete waste of time. Not tonight though.
I dreamt that Arnold Schwarzenegger became best friends with Geoff Ramsey, Gus Sorola and Burnie Burns from Rooster Teeth on a trip to Indonesia. They were all wearing white suits for some reason. Throughout half the dream, Arnold Schwarzenegger was trying to learn Indonesian. At one point, they were walking, and the RT crew got tired, so Schwarzenegger picked up all three of them in his arms. When the ride ended, Geoff said “Well that was about the worst thing ever.”
Then Schwarzenegger asked the RT crew to help him pick up “little asian” chicks.
Then I woke up laughing. It turns out that it’s possible for a dream to be so funny, that it wakes you up.
I had a dream about Arnold Schwarzenegger recently too.
Although I dreamt that his movies were actually his dreams that he had revealed to his shrink, who is turns out wanted to be a Hollywood film writer. So the shrink writes down these dreams, sells the scripts to movie studios and then convinces Arnie that the best way to deal with the dreams is to act them out, to become these things he’s dreaming about.
And it all starts to fall into place, “Doc, I’m having this recurring dream where I am a cybernetic organism – living tissue over metal endoskeleton – sent back in time. My name is T-800 but everyone called me The Terminator. What do you think it means?”
“Doc, I had this dream that I was chasing a killer alien through South America.”
“I had this dream that someone had given me fake memories, and I was really a spy and I had to go to Mars.”
“…it’s Christmas time and my son really wants the latest action figure toy.”
Nap time pls…
*head on keyboard*
*dribble starts to pool under the keys*
That’s what the space under desks are for!
I used to think the brain was the most important organ. Then I thought, look what’s telling me that.
#dadjokepagesix #slowtayhilariTAY #hi@strange!Not mine, but taken from the Internet because it’s brilliant:
Marvel to introduce female Thor.
Women’s status in comic books has gone from bad to Norse.
I opened a door for a clown today
I thought it was a nice jesterCakes & Stuff my wifey makes part 1,724.
http://i.imgur.com/r8EjDi9.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/X105Mgl.jpg
Those are adorable :3
So gorgeous! Your wife is an artist!
Awesome stuff man – Mine used to do it too but she was getting too stressed out. I made half the animals for the farm cake at 2 in the morning when she ran out of time :/
God just looking at those ducks again – terrifying.
thats awesome man! \o/
3DS shenanigans update:
So, I lost my $20 worth of streetpass games after my 3DS had the wrong NNID on it, and I changed it to the same as the Wii U.
Nintendo agreed to restore the games.
A few weeks later I got around to calling and asking how that was going, got told it should have been resolved.
Got a suggestion to re-download from the previous download list on the eshop, nope, wasn’t there.
Then they suggested I just go to the streetpass plaza shop, but nope, it just prompts me to buy.
OK then, we’ll give you the combo pack credit to rebuy. Nope, didn’t show up.
OK, we’ll put the credit on your account, not your hardware, yay, it’s there now.
Re-bought the games, downloaded again and … nothing. Credit gone, still no games. Shop still prompts me to buy them.
So today Nintendo have said I need to send the 3DS back to them.
Guess it’s time I start playing Persona 4 Golden then.
I’ve sworn never to buy digital from Nintendo again. They’re just fantastically inept at something that the internet figured out nearly 20 years ago.
Makes you wonder why. Surely it’s not because they can’t figure it out.
I was honestly surprised that it’s gotten into a state where it can take your money for a purchase, then keep telling you that you still need to buy that because you don’t own it. Someone screwed up testing the transition.
I’d expect they’ll probably fix it by doing a complete wipe and reflash of my device.
It’s almost like they should have a system where you have an account, and you log into that account using a password on any system, and then you can access all the games you purchased with that account on that system. You could even make it work on every platform they make. I’m sure that no one else has thought of it at all, they’d be quite innovative and ahead of the curve by implementing a system like that.
That’s crazy talk!
You just know if they did do that, people would come out of the woodwork claiming Nintendo was innovating.
Yeah because they’d dick it up by making you log in using a 16-digit number instead of a username or something. ‘Innovative’.
THE FUTURE IS NOW
Remember this password up up down left right B A Y right left down down down B down right trigger
Htu.
Since I’m scrolling up, I don’t even know what this is a response too, but all the upvotes for Htu.
I think the saddest thing is that Nintendo just being this incredibly shit at dealing with the internet (I was going to origianly say “dealing with account management” but you need proper accounts to actually be able to manage them) doesn’t shock me anymore. =/
(On the bright side Persona 4 Golden is fantastic
Yeah, this might be the nudge I needed to start playing it.
I’m at the last boss. It was smacking me around something awful, so I haven’t played in about a week. So I started watching the anime instead haha.
White doctor spends some time in Africa and spends 2 years as a guest of the village chieftain.
The chiefs wife goes into labour and has a white baby. Furious, the chief orders the doctor be bought to him.
The doctor walks into the chiefs tent confidently.
” You slept with my wife! You must be punished!” yells the chief.
The doctor smiles and responds. “Let me explain myself chief. Come outside so i can explain.”
TGhe chief walks with the doctor outside and is led to a patchy green area.
“What happened was an act of nature. Case in point. See all these white sheep? notice how there is one black sheep among them?”
The chief looks around, leans in towards the doctor and whispers…
“okay okay, i wont say anything about the white baby, and you keep quiet about the sheep!”
In less depressing news, I found out what my mystery carded package was.
It was the two Trails artbooks (one character design focused, the other world and key art focused, with stuff from Trails in the Sky, Trails in the Blue and Trails of Zero) that Udon published a while back. Forgot I had bought them and didn’t realize they required a signature for the shipping method I picked.
Also when I got to work I found that my Spirited Away bluray and my Okami Path of Heaven limited edition print had arrived. \o/
Alright, since TAY is being slow then not slow then slow again:
One line review of the last movie you watched!
Every Which Way But Loose: Orangutan-splotation, sans Orangutan not much to write home about, good for nostalgia 3/5
Man of Steel Illegal Immigrant deals with government officials in new country, unrest back home.
R.I.P.D. – Not as bad as I thought it would be.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Monkeys and post apocalyptic urban decay, for the win.
Seriously, what a great time to be alive. The #1 movie in the world right now has a chimp firing dual machine guns riding a horse through fire. Almost sounds like a punchline. lol
It really was a surprisingly great film, though. My dad nagged me to go see it with him Saturday, so I did and it was better than I expected. I loved Rise and this new one references that one nicely indeed.
for sure! I was quite surprised because the trailers didn’t wow me, but it was a great film, and much deeper than I thought it would be! Easily one of the best this year!
Ha, that is the last movie I watched too 🙂
And we saw it together. Haha!
And you spilt my coke everywhere, hahaha! 😀
Good times, good times 🙂
Oh and freeze was there too 😛
Still need to watch Rise….
aka The Last Of Us, the movie, with Apes.
The one before that
Gravity: Russians once again blow shit up, ruining things for everybody.
MY FACEBOOK!!!
Pretty much the whole time I was watching Gravity, all I could think was:
In this universe, Russia’s little “accident” targeting both China and the US just gave two otherwise opposed superpowers a common enemy to unify against. There’s not much reason to hurry back to an irradiated wasteland as the Last Human.
Scary part is the Russians actually did detonate a satellite, to which everyone just said DUDE WTF
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Monkey magic!
Dawn of Planet of Apes: Guns were too loud. Apes were cool. Gollum has come a long way.
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie:Sponge has an existential crisis prompting an acid trip into a broken psyche.
School of Rock: Jack Black isn’t as funny as I remember him, but still laughed.
Was he ever? Or is this one of those Adam Sandler moments, when you realise they weren’t that funny in the first place…
I find the Tenacious D skits hilarious. Two fat, balding middle-aged men trying their hardest to be rock stars.. with acoustic guitars. I love it. 😀
Sandler was. I can still watch Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison and laugh my ass off. He just doesn’t care any more.
When you’re still getting paid at least $15 million for each shitty performance, you probably don’t have to care anymore.
Jack Black is brilliant in High Fidelity. And Tropic Thunder, which is probably one of my favourite American comedies ever.
High Fidelity = One of the best book to movie adaptations, hands down.
Who knew a book that was “quintessentially british” would work so well transplanted to Chicago?
Maybe because I’ve never lived in the UK, maybe because I’m American, maybe because I’ve seen the movie and that’s supplanting any memories I might have had from first reading the book…
I’ve never felt it to have any “distinctly” British elements in it.
However I remember reading a one-liner once that said they took a book where the British characters pine for classic American recording artists and turned in to a movie where the American characters pine for classic British recording artists.
The book is very British in “feel”
Weird thing is, that’s not the only Hornby novel to get a country transplant, Fever Pitch got translated from Soccer to Baseball.
Funny People: LIES!
That was a strange, strange movie.
Saddest part is that Adam Sandler went from that great performance right back to his usual stupid shit.
Who knew that he could sing too?
I blame Kevin James.
Stargate the movie – I never realized James Spader was Daniel Jackson, and I still don’t get the goofy helmets.
The Yellow Submarine – Pepperland turns blue, Ringo makes several awesome puns
As One: Fantastic in every way.
And the one before that:
The LEGO Movie: Really not what I was expecting. In a bad way. Maybe I had too high expectations? I dunno, I thought it was pretty poor. I really wanted to like it, too…
Monster!
What!? It was beautiful! The little scratches on the surfaces, the tiny irregularities in the animation of the baseboards. The feels at the end. BATMAN! UNIKITTY! EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
It could have been so terrible. Like the Barbie Movies.
Gladiator I was entertained.
Appleseed Ex Machina: Oozing with Woo
Sex Tape alot of running around and cheap laughs not much else and alot of empathise on sex 3/5
Last actual movie I watched: Apollo 13 Houston, we have a triumph.
Last “new” (i.e. hadn’t seen before) movie I watched: Ender’s Game Makes me want to read the book(s).
Princess Mononoke Don’t cut down all the trees or the giant animal gods will give you power leprosy and a wild girlfriend.
Power Leprosy bad, Wild girlfriend good…
Probably a wash actually.
Godzilla (2014): Needs less humans and more giant monster fights. Would rewatch though. 3.5/5
American Hustle. Amy Adams side-boob and fat Christian Bale with a comb-over carry an otherwise meh story.
Dead EndRabid commentary on xenophobia and terrorism loses steam and illustrates why montages should not wrap up story elements.
Gamery update: Did next to nothing over the last week or so, having finished off Bravely Default. Played some of A Link Between Worlds and feel like I gave it a fairly decent shake (about 3 hours) and if that’s the way Zelda is going to go, I want no part of it. Really, really dislike it. Definitely a fans-only thing, feels like it was designed in 1985. And probably by someone’s mother the way it constantly actively tells you to stop playing it and do something else.
Played Lumines on my Vita on the plane and didn’t start anything new. Lumines is still my go to for “I want to play something and not think about anything”. Didn’t quite finish the Voyage, I always fail on the second-last song because it’s just a bit too fast for me. Ended up passing it to my sister who proceeded to clock up about 15 hours playing Sly 4, really clicked for her (she was a Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter etc. platformer fan as a kid).
Ended up just reading most of the time.
Lumines
So goooooooood
Also monster!
Perhaps if it didn’t control like crap, though that’s largely the deficiencies of the slide pad thing. Or maybe if it actually gave you some idea what you’re expected to be doing, or made you give a shit about it. Or maybe if there was something I could actually do with the 1000+ rupies I’m carrying around rather than nickel and diming me every time I die for ‘rental’ fees. Or maybe if it would just shut the fuck up and stop throwing piles of text at me. Or perhaps if it didn’t look so primitive.
It’s just… I don’t get it. I guess this is what the games used to be like before they modernized them with Ocarina? I’ve absolutely hated everything in the franchise since Twilight Princess so maybe they’re just not for me any more.
I still don’t get Zelda games.
Haha, I don’t get how you don’t get it 😛 I thought it was great, and looked amazing. The only issue I had with it at all was that the whole “buy to own” thing on the items remained hidden from me because I… don’t think I died at all? Or only died once early in the game before that became an option. And the only way to find out about it is to revisit your house after a certain point, but I never had any reason to go back there after that trigger happened. So yeah, that made me pretty angry because it was stupid 😛 Absolutely loved everything else about it though, I really felt like “wow, this is something that just would not be possible at all on the SNES”.
See, I didn’t even own a SNES and didn’t know anyone that did. In fact while I did own some earlier consoles I’d say that console gaming for me really began with the PS1.
The other thing that was really ruining it for me is that the entire time I was playing, it was reminding me of Ys. Assuming the original LoZ games were a lot like it, I can see why people compare Ys to Zelda now. If the game had more of an RPG element to it like that, it probably would have clicked for me.
Oh, I didn’t play Zelda back on the SNES. My first go of LTTP was the GBA port. Pretty sure my first Zelda would have been OoT, and I didn’t really “get it” then. Although might have been the Oracle games actually… totally unfamiliar with Ys though, beyond being a name that I know exists and I don’t know how to day 😛 But then I’m totally not big on RPGs at all, so our gaming tastes probably wouldn’t match up very well.
Ys is an action RPG, not a full on RPG or anything. Basically imagine Zelda but you gain XP and level up and get some gear upgrades over time.
Also in the older games you fight shit by running through them.
Because I’m a jerk:
Did you beat my first-time-playing-Lumines-on-Vita high score? 😛
No. Damn you. I didn’t beat my own high score 🙁
This pleases me and my jerkness 😛
(sorry)
I’m back on the Civ V roundabout.
I just can’t quit you, Civ,
Also, Askia of the Songhai can go eat a bag of genitalia.
You’ll be able to red… on the 27th of October. Do you know why?! Do you?!?!?
That looks great. I hope they fix the MP code so we can do Tayciv proper
I’ve been playing STUPID amounts of Civ. Even though I have all these beautiful Steam Sale purchases just glaring at me.
I really like Civ, but I’ve never got the hang of diplomacy with the PC’s. Even in games where I go out of my way (giving resources etc) to make them friendly, they always end up stabbing me in the back at some point.
Oh, they’re idiots. Like, 90% of the time, they make NO sense and are suddenly jerks.
There is one exception – when your borders don’t touch, and never will touch.
Next door neighbour? Hates me.
Guy from the other side of the world? Best buds.
Otherwise they begin coveting lands you own, and you know where that leads…
Nuclear war, pan-continental conquests, international sanctions, and flipping them all the bird while I laugh my way ahead into the space race.
I’m pretty sure that’s the only way to play the game.
Cultural victory is still my favourite. Esp. post BNW
Apparently Civ has multiplayer. I don’t know how that would work, but want to do Civ multiplayer?
Sometime, sure. We’ve tried before and the net code is awful though
How can you have bad netcode on a turn-based game? How can they even screw that up?
Dunno. You do your turns simultaneously though
W40K tonight!! Much hype!! Amaze rolls!!
*rolls dice*
100.
Crap.
Oh right 40K (kinda) does the opposite doesn’t it. High Rolls = bad. I wonder if that means our shit luck of getting low rolls will work for us?
You just missed your shot spectacularly =P I believe popdart5 was going to introduce a house rule where if you ever roll a 1 on an attribute check you get a +1 to the attribute?
That is indeed correct.
YOU BETACHA! BECAUSE ROLLING BETWEEN 1-5 FOR 2+ HOURS IS PRETTY AMAZING!
The good news is, you know exactly what you need to roll to be successful at a task. You have to win against your own scores and the only time I will roll against you is when the enemies dodge or parry your attacks.
So is TF2SDAYS happening tonight??? im happy to join in again, but wont be able to till about 8:30/9:00
I kinda hope not, because I don’t have a mic anymore D: Also I don’t have the game installed yet 😛
If it is, I’ll skip and join in next time!
Look at this weirdo who doesn’t talk!
Finally got around to starting “To the moon” last night
not much gameplay but man, the storyline… sends some eerie chills straight to the soul. Them feels…still havent finished it though.
im up to the part where John approaches River in the library and they start talking about animorphs.It’s less a game and more a visual novel, but no less amazing as a result. And the soundtrack is great too. Love it.
Given everyone seems to be into it, and it looks kinda pretty,
Sell me on Destiny, TAY
Caveats:
I love Borderlands
I’d be buying on PS3
I don’t and haven’t played Halo (other than a couple MP sessions)
Do you want a beta code to try it out?
You’ve got a spare for PS3? if so, yeah, that’d be great
DM’d.
Much guns! Such graphics! Amaze shooting! Very multiplayer!
What more do you wana know? =P
What makes it different/better from other face shooty games?
Being a massive Call of Duty and Battlefield skeptic since Modern Warfare 2… I’d have to say how the guns feel. Every gun just feels so goddamned good to use (refresingly so) >.<
Personally I think it’s a mix of how the weapons sound, the impact it has on enemies depending on the weapon and the fluidity of the controls. After a few hours into the game it just felt so natural to be swapping weapons between reloads, using abilities allowing you to end up with some truly “holy shit” moments!
One that comes to mind was a close strafing battle I got into with another player in the crucible, we both got of a few good shots and just before I died I threw my knife smack dab into his head and died a second later =P
How much of it is PVP? I’m more interested in PvE
It’s mostly a PvE game with a PvP arena thing.
I’ll be curious to see how they go about increasing the games longevity… So far games have had to focus either on the PvE or PvP end game with the other always falling short…
All they need to do is keep them relatively separate imo.
Keep the PvP an even playing field free from the levels and items – that way everyone can play without disadvantage. Once the core mechanics are balanced they just need to add a couple of maps and game modes occasionally and it will be a fun diversion.
Then focus most of the development energy on PvE – that’s where things will get stale the quickest.
Get some Horde mode stuff going on, some hardcore 6-man strike dungeons, maybe even raids with multiple fireteams.
Could be real good, if they play it right.
edit: also hardcore PvPrs will take their time to a truly PvP focused game such as Battlefield or CoD in the long term so they should not focus on that for end game.
That’s what I want to hear.
it’s weird, it does sorta feel like a shinier Borderlands with Halo influences with a bit of MMO thrown in there but it’s got that The whole is greater than the sum of its parts thing going for it.
I’ve played Borderlands maybe 2-3hrs total. It seems like a Borderlands-ish type thing where you have fun shooting things with your friends.
Don’t get it otherwise.
My Facebook feed at the moment is all about how much of an amazing super substance cannabis is. It is a magical cure all that defeats every disease imaginable, extend our lives, increase our brainpower, used as a super material in building, a renewable energy source and the only reason our civilisation hasn’t reached this potential is the man.
*sigh*
So, your fb friends are all high?
Renewable energy source? really?
Apparently hemp burns better than coal.
you can all donate a bunch over to me and ill erm…. test the theory…
*starts rolling a bunch of joints to test the burn rate*
Well sure it does. I don’t see any losers hanging around parks and smoking a bong full of black gold. There’s a reason for that.
Technically all plants are renewable energy sources.
That wouldn’t be related to that blatant fact-twisting story that was on Sunday Night aka. Channel 7’s 60 Minutes was it?
Amusingly, Shane Rattenbury, Greens member of the ACT parliament, has just introduced a bill trying to legalise medical marijuana in the ACT.
Of course, it’s going to get no support. Since it’s for people with chronic pain or who are terminally ill, it’s not going to be supported by the stoners. Since it’s to allow people to grow their own, it’s not going to get funding support from a private company looking to be a dispensary or whatever.
And obviously, since it’s weed, it’s going to get no support from all the people who care about the adverse health stuff or the fearmongers, or the precious people thinking of the children or whoever else.
So, that’s like 12 people in the Territory who would back it wholeheartedly.
(Insert joke about how that’s 2/3rds of our population)
Didn’t there used to be a law or something that allowed ACT residents to grow a small amount of marijuana if it was for personal use? Or was that overturned at about the same time they prohibited the public sale of fireworks?
Dunno about ACT, but that used to be the law here in SA. Think it was changed in the 90s?
That explains why you’re all so rabid about doughnuts at least…
Nonsense.
That’s the meth.
Actually, rumour has it that at one of the residential colleges in Adelaide in the 70s the students managed to cultivate a marijuana plant in the gutter over the dean’s office. He either never twigged or didn’t care.There was pot growing at the edge of the oval of one of the schools my mother went to when she was growing up (She realised this years later). :/
Some family friends moved into a house years ago and pointed one out that was growing wild on the property.
We’re also pretty sure our old house that my parents had rented had a hydroponic marijuana setup in the shed.
@redartifice at my current house we ripped out a small hydro setup in the garage when we moved in and found a heap of glassware in the roof space.
My mother in law owned it previously and said the tenant was growing tomatoes…
@freezespreston a couple of my friends found glass vials and a crack pipe in their rental garage- apparently the previous tenants moved out after a knock on the door from the constabulary.
So far as I’m aware, it still exists, but it’s odd.
Technically, I think it’s still illegal, but you won’t be prosecuted for it, or something?
I think at absolute worst if you have this little amount of pot you face an on the spot fine, and that’s it, but I’ll admit it’s not actually something I know a huge amount (from what I understand, this is basically an extension of that, which makes it completely legal for people with a licence to grow whatever the amount is (it’s two plants under some height, I think)).
Did you get that one about how it CURES CANCER!? I did and I got a bit short with the friend who shared it.
If you have a look at peer-reviewed stuff, there is certainly some promising research in cannabinoids. They’re being used for stimulating appetite in cancer and aids patients, for managing chronic pain (especially effective for chronic arthritis), and there’s been some interesting results in treating patients with nerve and brain diseases such as Parkinsons and MS. It’s also looking like it might be helpful in treating some cancers. The challenges are isolating which of the compounds are the most effective (there are hundreds within the family of chemicals), working out the dosages that are therapeutic without nasty side-effects, and synthesising them for consistent production and delivery (a challenge for any medicine). I honestly think that the body of evidence in favour of medical-grade marijuana products will push their use into mainstream medicine.
But eating home-made cannabis oil to cure your cancer? That shit is unhelpful (although probably more effective than homeopathy!)
My med student pals have said the full extent of effects is still unknown but there’s a lot of proven bad shit and zero proven benefits apart from pain relief.
Anyone stayed with an Airbnb host in Tokyo? Our first trip there is booked for November this year and we’re spending 4 nights in Tokyo.
Most places look clean, functional and seem to cater well for kids compared to most hotels (daughter will be nearly 2 when we’re there) because she can sleep in a seperate room and we can potentially cook our own food instead of relying on restaurants.
Any thoughts or ideas?
Sorry man, nothing to provide, but I would like to hear how you go, afterwards.
I’d recommend the Toyoko-Inn chain. Clean, business, big enough, cheap. Tokyo would be maybe $120 max for two of you. Or get like two rooms at $80each.
But that’s like a business hotel where you sleep and eat breakfast. No cooking facilities. In fact, I’ve never stayed anywhere in Japan that had cooking facilities (not sure why you would, since dinner is $6each).
@coldcamv asked a question earlier about a YouTube channel that I would make. I indulged in a bit of shameless self-promotion for my stupid Dailymotion account. But then I remembered the crux of his question:
If I were to start a legitimate YouTube account where I put some effort in, I would get some people to record footage in a game with tacked-on multiplayer like Bioshock 2, Overlord 2, or Naughty Bear, and then commentate over it like it was a big esport.
I like this, I would play in that. I always thought anything with not a super competitive multi would be great to commentate over
Don’t get feedback from your friends. This sounds like the kind of thing where you can either pull it off or your can’t. Friends/TAY will just give you unrealistic (but nice) feedback.
Oh, trust me, I don’t think I could ever pull it off. It just seemed like a neat concept. Plus, it requires effort. And editing.
So who’s cosplaying for PAX? Or dressing up if you prefer that term. Ive decided im going as one of the crew from Payday, just need some blue gloves as I have the suit and @f4ction said hed make me a mask \o/
Anyone else dressing up for it?
Yo.
I keep having some amazing ideas, but keep hitting roadblocks (AKA money :P)
But i’m still playing with the idea… I dunno, if i can scrape the resources together, sure! 😛
Mr. Popo
Oh god that’d be amazing!
“PECKING ORDER!”
http://www.morphsuits.com.au/black-original-morphsuit
Right, so in order to be convincing i need to go on a steady diet of KFC and… KFC… until Pax time 😛
“HAVE A GOOD CLIMB BACK UP, BITCH!”
Go as Vegeta!
The trick of cosplaying on the cheap is to pick a character that wears fairly everyday clothing (like The Doctor, for example) and then trawl the op-shops. It’s amazing what you can put together for $50.
I’m putting together concepts to play as Raz from psychonauts- payday this week so I’m going to start ordering some components (bag, badges & goggles)
I wanted to do Oberyn Martell from Game Of Thrones, but I don’t have the time, money or patience :/
Be great to play. Just walk around being a suave as fuck ladies man and then suddenly YOU RAPED HER! YOU MURDERED HER! YOU KILLED HER CHILDREN
even better if carry a watermelon around with you and then have another guy dressed up as Gregor The Mountain Clegane… “AND THEN I SMASHED HER HEAD IN, LIKE THIS!”actually, no… don’t do that 😛
I’m planning on going as Matt Smith’s Doctor, and scree is making an Elsa dress for my girlfriend. I’m also bringing my Journey cosplay from last year
And then on the second day are you going to swap costumes?
Please?
Nova Don’t care
What they’re going to say!
Elsa dress, with the Journey mask, while wearing a fez and carrying a sonic screwdriver.
THE COSPLAY TO END ALL COSPLAYS!!!!!!
Nice! The missus was thinking of going as Anna haha
That would be awesome. If she does we have to get a photo of them together
I want to. I don’t know what I’m going to do though. I’ve got a Shredder outfit here that needs fixing up, but I feel more inclined to leave that for Supanova or something and go with something gamey. Kinda leaning towards attempting Hawlucha, but between being overly ambitious an idea as well as running on employment time now, I’m not sure if it would even be possible 😛
Yes. As Moxxi from Borderlands
Maybe us (a group), but I have no idea man. :\ Shit is kinda hard. Also if you don’t live there, can’t take big costume.
The school holidays were supposed to end today, but they were extended sue to an asbestos scare. It seems the school holidays are extended again for the rest of the week. \o/
Except I still have to go to work experience on Thursday and Friday. /o\
This is actually probably a bad thing. No time at school this week means more more work next week.
Driving lesson in a few minutes in wet conditions. D:
Eh, you’ll be fine, just take it slow and cautious and put your goddamned headlights on.
My father and I managed to get us bogged in a 4WD when i was learning to drive
Dammit I get so uppity at people who insist on driving in the rain without headlights on.
And in winter at 5pm when it’s raining it’s pretty much like driving at night……. Headlights? Who needs those!?
/endrant
Hope you had fun!
Show off your dr1ft skillz and you’ll pass, trust me.
@novacascade: were there any decisions made re: choice of airline for the TAY & Friends Magical Japan 2015 Tour Extravaganza?
You have to give it a better name than that if It’s japan.
Sparkling Starshine Talk Against Journey Luck Tour: Let Us Travel EX Default
You’re right. It needs a completely unrelated title that’s actually an enormous phrase. “I can’t believe my tour guide is this cute” or something.
Generation Jolly Happy Bebop Train Club
Aim for the Skies! Greatest Travel Agent Nova
Consensus seems to be to avoid Malaysian, which leaves Singapore as the next best option. Flights are currently showing around $1300-1400, which is more than I was hoping, but Singapore have been having some issues with their availability systems over the past week or so, so hopefully once that gets sorted out I’ll be able to access some cheaper prices
Not a huge difference then.
I’m hoping to get my tax done this week assuming my employer comes to the party and gives me my statements etc, and hopefully will be able to use that to pay a chunk of everything off. Will keep you posted.
Pretty sure I said this ages ago, dunno if anyone replied. Jetstar has specials now from Melb and Syd and Bris. It’s like $250 for starter fare, so $300-350 with luggage. $700 beats $1300 by a long shot.
I’m not convinced to avoid Malaysian personally and depending on how things pan out with finances in the next month or so, may go with them anyway. I have the strong suspicion that the group will be fairly split until arriving in Japan anyway.
I mean, comfort is nice, but the specials @stickman mentioned are a significantly better price.
Not sure about comfort. Leg room, short queues, and luxurious seats are nice (don’t care about food), but I’m not sure there’s such a degree of comfort to be enjoyed for $600-700 price difference that will negate the baseline discomfort of spending ten hours in a tin tube breathing two hundred peoples’ recycled farts. Shrug?
Going to brainstorm with my brother and see what we want to do with travel between cities etc.
@mrtaco needs to get Twitter so I can tweet him while he’s waiting for his delayed train to arrive.
And so he can join in the Nintendo Direct hype!
…Where were you hiding, creepo?
Haha, I was hoping that would work.
I walked around a bit to try and find you but there were too many people. (I always stand out the front of the info booth, for future reference :P)
Yeah, I figured you were usually there.
And that I got there too early for you today 😛
I finally got Mario Kart!
…for the original Wii. :\
That’s like the worst one! 😛
Alas, Greenius speaks the truth.
Hey Dark Souls II friends!
For the past few weeks they’ve done a “countdown to DLC” type of event where a chest in the Majula mansion would reset each week and give you a bunch of different items. I believe this week is the final one and there’s a “A Secret Item”. It can be pretty cool!
(Spoilers for what it is)
I believe it’s a reskinned weapon and there’s a few different types you might get. http://imgur.com/a/Ut96x I don’t know whether it’s chosen by account or character, but I opened it with two characters and got the black Murakumo sword on bothSo here’s a friendly reminder to get it… because why not!
Oh nice. I checked ages ago and got 3x petrified somethings and thought it was pretty lame so never bothered again.
Known my luck I’ll get something completely useless for my build.
Hey, I got the same sword you did! :/
Which chest is this chest?
Like, where abouts in the mansion?
In the basement where the skeleton was! If it’s still open from when it contained whatever original item it had (Soul Vessel I think) just warp away and back to Majula and it’ll reset (that’s what I did)
Driving lessons are always a sad experience these days. 16 months of driving and I haven’t improved much. My driving instructor admitted that he feels guilty making my mum pay for driving lessons, as I have barely improved. I still can’t park.
The thing that makes this so frustrating is that I used to be good back in March. Then I stopped taking driving lessons for two months due to circumstances that I have long forgotten, and completely regressed. It worries me that two months of inactivity can cause my brain to completely delete everything it learned. There isn’t even anything stored in muscle memory anymore.
What happens if I pass everything, get a full license, then as soon as my car is out of commission forget how to drive?
The fear and stress around driving lessons has mostly been replaced by melancholy.
Buddy, just don’t overthink it.
Practise is practise for a reason.
Get your mum to take you out to practise parking, and drive around other than during lessons.
It’ll come back to you 🙂
And when you’re driving around by yourself, it does become muscle memory 🙂
^– This is good advice. Just chill driving with your mom is completely different to driving with a learning instructor. With mom you’ll be nice and chill and not have many worries. After a while you should snap back into your groove, so you will be familiar with the driving aspect. Then, when you have nothing else to worry about, you can learn about the art of parking.
Getting your licence doesn’t mean you are perfect at driving, it just means you were competent enough to pass the test. It takes a few years to build up the experience to feel really confident, and even then, driving in heavy traffic or unfamiliar territory can rattle even experienced drivers. All you can do is practice lots.
To practise parking, go find an empty industrial area and just practise practise practise. See if you can get a range of people to take you driving – sometimes a different explanation of how to do something makes all the difference. My dad taught me how to drive on the freeway and in the city, my mum taught me how to handle carparks and how to avoid flinching on narrow back roads. I’ve been driving for 17 years now. \o/ (but I failed my Ls the first 3 attempts when I was 17 because I was too nervous – there is hope for you)
Dude bring this up with your doc too. You’ve said before how you’ve found yourself forgetting a lot of things (what people said and what happened). Forgetting muscle-memory type stuff like driving and riding bike, in addition to that … is concerning.
As for driving tips – get a toy LEGO car with steering wheel. I learnt how to do every park under the sun at like 10 years old.
My memory is a constant source of worry for me. I have no idea whether it has any connection to my Asperger’s Syndrome or not. When I tell my father about my memory problems, his response is akin to “Git gud,” and my mother responds with something that seems to advocate for denial.
But every time that I start to worry about my memory, I remember I have thirty-two other things to worry about, and my memory gets pushed to the wayside.
@novacascade with those flights you mentioned, is the rate you come up with viable if we fly back a few days later? Also where would they be from? Guess we’ll have to add a flight somewhere else to that? Questions? Who? How? What?
Should be the same, it all depends on how full the plane is when the tickets are issued. Price is all dependent on availability. We’ll be flying back from Tokyo. I’m waiting for the price of extra nights for Jo as well, so I’ll let you know how much it will be too. If you want to head off somewhere else, let me know and I’ll find that out for you too
I’m actually tempted to potentially stick around for an extra night or two in Tokyo as well. Dunno if more people would make that easier or harder…
I think I’m going to play the Witcher 2. I wonder whether I should peruse the wiki first?
Just jump in. They recap the first game almost straight up.
I was referring more so I could determine what build I choose.
Don’t bother, all the options are good.
Oh, I almost forgot.
VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE – A short story by Phlanispo
Inspired by James Rolfe
Episode Two: Mopman’s Mirrors
I really should have applied for those motorcycle lessons, thought Clayton Moore as he zipped through the cars on the freeway. He still hadn’t got the hang of driving the Harley. Turning this thing was really annoying. It required two hands, so he couldn’t drink a beer like he normally would. And it was so damn windy on this thing. The best way to tolerate the wind was to close his eyes, but he could only do that for a few seconds at a time. Any longer than that would be irresponsible.
Moore reached a tunnel. It wasn’t as windy in this thing as it was in the open air, but Moore still had to close his eyes every now and again.
Moore began to get bored, so he started looking into the windows of the other cars. The ute next to him had a girl giving a guy a hickey on the neck. Lucky guy.
It got a bit windy, so Moore closed his eyes, and when he opened them, the girl and the guy where gone from view. Having sex whilst driving, that guy was an irresponsible driver.
Moore remembered that he needed to look at the road, so he focused on driving for a bit. The tunnel was coming to an end.
Moore risked another peek at the couple in the ute. Their ute had veered to the side, and risked hitting him.
Moore moved as far left as he could, but the ute kept turning left. There was a car behind him and in front of him, so Moore could not speed up or slow down. He was trapped.
The tunnel ended and the sun shone bright. The guy in the ute jerked up, and started steering the car back onto the road. The guy had two bite marks on his neck. Ouch, that must have been a painful hickey. Moore flipped the guy off for nearly killing him, and made a right at the next turn.
A few minutes of uneventful driving later, Moore arrived at Mopman’s Mirrors. The shop sold the best value mirrors and vaguely shiny steel this side of Louisiana.
Mopman was an easy-going bloke, and was willing to haggle the price of his mirrors if he could guarantee a sale.
Mopman gave a curt nod as Moore entered the shop. The shop reeked of marmalade. Moore walked up the aisles, looking for the perfect mirror. McAllister was a narcissistic man, and liked to stare at his reflection. He needed to find a mirror that was portable, regal looking, and most importantly, super cheap. Whilst perusing the aisles, Moore noticed that the teenager in front of him had two really sharp teeth. He must have sharpened them or something. Was this a fashion statement? Moore was not one to resist giving in to fads, but Moore felt best to back out of this one. Moore had a sudden flashback to the days of the spirit hood. Never again.
Moore noticed that everyone else in the shop had the same set of two sharp teeth. Even the old lady.
Okay, if this fad was this popular, he had to get in on the ground floor. The only one that didn’t have two sharp teeth was Mopman. Mopman was missing half his teeth anyway, so he would be able to the ‘two sharp teeth’ look anyway.
Moore found a perfect mirror, started admiring himself in it. He bared his teeth at the mirror. He’d sharpen two of those tonight. He had a nail file that would be perfect for this.
Moore motioned to Mopman to come over so they could haggle. Moore turned around, and realised there was a teenager directly behind him. Weird, he would have seen the kid when he was looking at the mirror.
Moore started to look round the shop. The walls were covered in mirrors and the shop was packed with about ten other people, but Moore and Mopman were the only ones that showed up. How odd.
Mopman strode up to Moore. The guy was staring blank-faced at the mirrors on the wall. Mopman looked at the mirror in Moore’s hand.
“That faine piece of merchandise in ya hand will set you thirtay-fi-yuv dollars, Clay” said Mopman. Clay didn’t respond. Mopman tried again.
“I sayed thirtay-fi-yuv, Moore.” Mopman drawled.
Clay’s face stayed completely blank. Suddenly, realisation dawned on his face. Then he started screaming bloody murder.
Mopman panicked and punched Moore. The guy fell like a sack of corn. Mopman crouched near him.
“Ma prices ain’t that bae-yud.” Mopman whispered.
“But this place, it’s full of vampires!” cried Moore in a very loud whisper.
“Ya only just noticed?” asked Mopman quizzically. “What sawt of eed-yut takes that lawng to realise?”
“Why aren’t they attacking us?” asked Moore.
“Becawse the sun’s up, ya asswipe. Haven’t you seen a vaimpire movie in your life? Thay don’t have any powers if the sun’s up, but thay steel have them funkay teeth.”
“If you knew about the vampires, why did you open up the shop?”
“Business is business, Clay. Eet’s an excuse to throw a end-of-the-world say-yell!”
Moore stood up. Everyone was looking at him.
“That mirror’s still thirtay-fiyuv, but I’ll settle faw twentay-nain.”
Moore put the mirror back on the shelf and walked out the door. He should be getting home. Seven vampires from the shop followed him. It’s okay, they can’t hurt you, it’s bright and sunny, he told himself.
There was a pair of vampires in the vicinity of his Harley Davidson. He kept walking until about nine vampires surrounded him. They couldn’t hurt him, but he withdrew his shotgun from his coat anyway.
Good old sun, protecting me from harm. Wait hang on, is that solar eclipse? Whoa, it’s beautiful. I’m pretty lucky to be able to see this in person.
Moore looked over at Mopman’s Mirrors. Mopman was getting attacked by three vampires. One of them grabbed him, and sunk his teeth into Mopman’s neck. That wasn’t good.
Moore stared at the vampires that surrounded him. Well, shit.
END OF EPISODE TWO
Heh. My current number of posts on Kotaku (on this email) is pretty metal.
Are you going to try and not post so that the morning people can see what you meant? 😛
NOPE. THEY CAN GUESS!
80085?
While not particularly metal, I’m going to say yes, just because I like your answer.
Oh.
Then was it eleven?
FIVE!
So guess who is a giant dickhead? Me that’s who!
So I was removing the screen from a laptop (as you casually do) I use as a HTPC, cause it was broken (in several places) and would not turn off no matter what, so I proceeded to remove it, undo the video cable, web cam cable and accidentally cut what turned out to be the wifi antenna.. So now I have nil wifi.. It didn’t help the wifi card has been on the way out for a fair while… So now I have to either see if I can repair it (doubt it) or use one of my many wifi dongles, which I need the drivers for it seems and that’s a pain in the arse. OH WELL. Lesson learned.
I had to buy a USB wifi dongle because even my awesome tri-antenna card didn’t work well enough when inside the cabinet. 🙁
I have 3, just windows will not install them with generic drivers so i’m gonna have to bring it out here to my router and connect it via ethernet D=
So the graphics settings in The Witcher 2 are configured via an external launcher? For shame, CD Projekt, for shame.
YOU TAKE THAT BACK CD PROJEKT ARE POLAND’S NATIONAL TREASURE
Oh god Geralt is all shiny and has a red glow for some reason!
YOU CAN’T EVEN ADJUST THE CONTROLS IN-GAME!
Use a controller
But the inventory is designed for PC!
Works fine with a controller. Quit yer bellyaching
Games industry,
Why do so few of your games let us rebind the Quicksave/Quickload buttons? I’m so used to using NumEnter and Num+ that having to use F5 and F9 seems alien.
Wait… wat?
By Arceus, am I the weird one?
I don’t even PC game nor have I ever used quicksave like that… but I feel like F5 would be the natural expected button to use.
@phlanispo, please sit down. We all need to talk to you.
If you’re not using F5 and F9 (F8 if you’re nasty) for Quicksave/load, you are either very weird or secretly a traveller from Bizarro-world.
NumEnter? If numlock is turned on it functions as Enter. I don’t know many people who run with numlock turned off. Yep, you’re weird.
One of these days, I’ll find the correct graphics options.
Scored this for 10 bucks today. Thinking i’ll look into mod chipping it. Now all I have to do is find a PS1 and chip that, cause my chipped PS1 was the tits.
Woah. $10?
Yep! Bargain, right? Even came with a memory card loaded with saves! There was also a Mad Catz wireless controller too (lol they were so garbage)
Awesome deal!
Hells yeah!
That went surprisingly well \o/
Unrelatedly, FULL SET (until Princess Kaguya releases, and unless they release Ocean Waves)
The rot13 thing? Good to hear, man 🙂
Finished Remember Me last week and I really enjoyed it. The game started off really slow (i considered stopping at some point) but it picked up at some point and I really enjoyed it from there to the end.
It is kind of simple but I really liked the combat system. The idea of different combos for different effects in-game was a great idea and it helped make every combat encounter different. At one point if i’m low on health I’d just switch to the health combo then to a high damage one if enemies were too tough. I liked that the timing was the same on all the combos too. It made for a uniform experience and I actually used all the combos as opposed to games like God of War where one just ends up using something like square square triangle because it’s the easiest and most effective.
I loved the soundtrack and it really fit the memory aspect of the game. The use of an orange visual scheme throughout the game was great too.
The overall story was OK but what I really liked were the ideas of within that story. The game brings up some really great concepts regarding how memories can be used to control but also bring people together. This stuff made me wish for a Remember Me TV show or book (rather than a sequel-the game stands alone nicely) to flesh the ideas out. I’m sure there are novels out there you guys would recommend that deal with similar concepts.
Spoiler 1: Side stuff not part of the main story. Fairly safe to read
An advertisement in the game encourages customers to exchange their memories with their neighbours as a gift of mutual trust. What! This was just brought-up through a PA system in a mall in the game. It was just in the background but it really got me thinking. I like the idea of total trust and i’ve always wanted a friend/partner who i could talk to about anything but the idea of going all-in just made me reassess if that’s what I really want. Kind of cool considering it was just flavour text in the backgroundSpoiler 2: Part of the main story
In the game Nilin (the main character) has to break in to the main prison in the game and rescue someone. What I found interesting about this part of the game was the idea of locking up prisoners memories to prevent them having a reason to escape. I just felt that was so clever yet evil in a way. All the prisoners are basically is just living husks.Stuff I didn’t like:
Errorist is just a silly word. I have more wrinkles now thanks to you Remember Me :-p
The only problem I had with the combat was I didn’t feel the dodging flowed as well between combos. The game tips said that dodging does not interrupt combos but that only worked some of the time.
I also wish the game had more memory remixes. They were simple but cool and I would have loved a side mode where more were available as challenges set apart from the main game.
Games like Remember Me is why I love and hate PS+ . I would have most likely never bought the game given it’s average reception but because of PS+ I go to play it. One the other hand, because of PS+ I’ll likely never buy a copy which I can lend to a friend and tell them, ‘Here, play this, it’s nice.
Now that that’s finished, I’ve been playing Doki doki universe on vita and Sleeping dogs on PS3. The personality survey part of Doki Doki is very interesting but the other parts of the game are super repetitive. it’s a fun game though and the game is kind of accurate in determining your personality.
You can even compare yourself with friends. This is how Me, liondrive and hellscream compare https://twitter.com/Sir_Mashaa/status/491307046529429505/photo/1
Shameless media month is going well. I’ve freed up a lot of space from my laptop watching TV shows and movies I hadn’t touched for months and I still have 2 weeks left. It’s hard knowing there are new and returning shows I’m not catching up on but at least i’ll have a good backlog in August.
EDIT: Oops I forgot to put spoiler tags on one of the spoilers.
I really need to finish that game (Well, okay, play more than the first 2 hours). Thanks for the reminder Masha, for whatever reason, the game doesn’t stick in my brain! 😛
Cool, reminds me to finish Remember Me one day. I’ve been enjoying it too.
Ghibli newses that aren’t me bragging!
Full trailer for their new movie, When Marnie Was There. Opened in Cinemas in Japan last week and looks really interesting, plus extremely pretty, even by Ghibli’s usual standard. This is Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s sophomore effort as a director, after making his debut with Arrietty, which was also a stunning looking movie. This looks like it could be incredibly good.
Oooh, looks good!
It gets me that Ghibli somehow keep “their” look, and yet the animation has improved so dramatically over the years. Such an amazing ability to do that.
40K Rogue Trader RPG First Session
Starring:
@freezespreston @tech_knight @rize @sernobulus @pupp3tmast3r @f4ction
In a word, wow.
popdart had it in for me! It all started when he killed Sparky…. :'(
But learning Low Gothic on the fly was handy!
I have taken Logic +10 so I hope to use logic to prepare a reasoned argument for debate about our release.
I’m going to go for navigate surface. Nothing else that’s available that’s really worth getting =\ Possibly get an increase for intelligence with the spare 100 leftover!
Should we expect a write up? I hope so
I started taking notes but everything went south hilariously fast and I got distracted 😛
See now I want to now what happened even more
I realised afterwards that the tagline I had spruiked for the first session wasn’t too far off the mark from what happened.
Heresy ensues.
My first experience with the Witcher 2 was not very positive. I spent a while selecting the best graphics options, and had to settle for 720p. This may be the first time I’ve had to do that. Those black bars at the top and bottom are an eyesore, and text looks atrocious.
I played the tutorial first. I had a lot of trouble with the magic. It’s functions almost like an MM would. I think I’ll stick to stabbing things. I had a lot of trouble with the controls overall. The game only let’s you rebind 3/5 of the keys, so I’m stuck with ‘I’ for inventory and ‘C’ for character-building. Speaking of character building, I couldn’t finish the tutorial because the tutorial kept telling me to level up my character, even though I already did that
The path to enjoyment looks like it will be a long one with this game.
There’s a steep learning curve with the Witcher 2, but keep at it and you’ll find by act 2 you can’t pull away from the game! Also might be worth dropping the difficulty to easy if you’re having trouble with combat in Act 1, however by Act 2 once you get into your levelling stride you’ll have enough skills unlocked to make it more manageable!
Couple of hints that would’ve made my first time in the game easier – In flotsam spend your first few hours doing all of the quests within the town! Don’t venture out to kill monsters until you level up a few times! (There’s a number of non-combat quests to undertake). Secondly grab everything you can pick up especially the following – cloth, leather, iron ore, silver ore and wood. You can store them in the Inn (there’s a storage chest in the basement of the Inn that carries over to all Acts). Finally learn to use Quen and Aard a lot in fights once you get there and always keep Swallow and Rook potions active (you never know when you’re about to get thrown into a big fight!). Also craft yourself a silver sword first chance you get, you’re going to need it! (if possible a Robust Silver Sword recipe can be obtained from the blacksmith).Magic (much like traps) isn’t really meant to be a major form of damage in the game but rather a means to augment your playstyle. So invest primarily in the swords tree and then decide on the potions/traps or magic tree! Also don’t attach mutagens to your skill tree unless they’re the highest tier (which you won’t receive till the end of Act 2) I say this because they can’t be removed once attached AND you only unlock more slots at the end of each respective skill tree once you use up the ones in the starting skill tree!
Make sure to sell anything you don’t need to merchants (its how you’ll make money). Buy recipes for leather/cloth and other crafting materials and only buy recipes for essential traps/bombs/potions i.e. you will definitely need the Grapeshot bomb recipe. Make sure to do as many side quests as you can before progressing on the main quest to make your life easier!
I started the game a few years ago when it came out and gave up on it after a few hours, frustrated me too much. Picked it up again during the steam summer sale and decided to stick it through and I can tell you I’m really glad I did! I’ve lost entire weekends to this game 🙂
I bought and started it a few years ago too, it’s a little hazy, but from memory I got through the tutorial battle and into the first town, I had an objective on my map I think for a quest, no matter what I did, I could not reach it, so I got frustrated, gave up and returned it.
No matter I do with graphics settings on any machine, the first priority is setting the resolution to the highest setting possible. You can turn off everything else, drop textures, effects, anti-aliasing, all the bells and whistles, but the single biggest impact to aesthetics is going to come from resolution, to me.
Anyone playing Dark Souls 2 DLC? It’s getting decent reviews.
I’m unsure at this stage. Money is so tight I might even have to sell the Wii U, so gonna at least hold off for a while :\
Edit: ultimately, if the DLC has achievements, I might have to drag myself back into it *shameful shake of head*
Still haven’t even finished the main game yet. Think I’m still in The Lost Bastille, seemed like it took me forever just to get there.
Also, did a bit of a search, and as far as I can tell, there are no new achievements for the DLC, so your 100% is safe \o/
Also also, NOOOOOOO! Don’t get rid of your Wii U mang, you only just got it, and we haven’t even played Mario Kart yet, so much good stuff on the horizon for it too. Don’t forget if you do get rid of it you’ll lose your free game. As far as I know your Nintendo ID is locked to that console.
What system / are you still playing?
If you’re on PS3 it’d be cool to try and coop some time 🙂
Sorry, 360 🙁
Edit: Got stuff all PS3 games now anyway, gonna remedy that this weekend though, gonna pick up Infamous 1 and 2.
I really don’t want to, and I know how much trouble you went to to get it for me. It’ll be a last-resort thing, but sadly, it’s about the only valuable thing I own… 🙁
Wasn’t that much trouble to get it for you, really. You gotta do what you gotta do I s’pose.
You have kidneys don’t you? Sell one of those :p
So I just finished goofing around with the Elite: Dangerous glitch I found about last night – which gets you out of the limited single player combat missions and lets you view the galaxy map, use supercruise and hyperdrive, and basically go wherever you want.
HOLY. SHIT.
I honestly spent ages just looking at the galaxy map. They talk about there being 400 billion stars or whatever and yeah, it sounds huge, but really it’s not until you’ve gone to look at the system you’re currently flying in, then zoom out to see just how insignificant a speck it is amongst all the other places there are to go to. It’s just… I can’t even.
And then though, kicking on the hyperdrive to jump to a new system. OH MY GOD I COULDN’T STOP GRINNING LIKE AN IDIOT. The sound it makes is just so good, I want to move the computer over to the TV and hook it up to the stereo. Every time I made a jump I had to stifle a giggle. This game is just so fucking god damn cool and I’ve barely played it at all yet!
Flew around to a few systems and found some space stations to dock at, managed not to get myself killed at all which was nice. Really can’t wait to get my joystick back though so I can start flying properly. Still got a week to go before standard beta opens up properly, but my hype is already through the roof.
It’s a good year to be a PC Gamer *sheds lone tear*…
Might be time for me to build a new comp :O
I don’t know why, but I just feel disinterested in video games right now.
It’s like I have them lying around, but it’s too much effort to play any of them.
🙁
Get Divinity:OS!
I sat my toon in a chair today and it sent spikes up his butt and almost killed him.
\o/
I already got the Doom pack off of Steam, and Mario Kart Wii so far this week.
I don’t want to buy any more games for at least two months.
I decided to try CS:GO im equally as shit at it as I used to be..and the community is equally as shit in terms of the things they say like this gem “I know we are all thinking it but im gonna say it, your lagging so much I hope you get a slow killing cancer because of it”
*sniff* It’s beautiful.
Whelp. That’s all of Dragonball watched. That was actually pretty awesome. Really enjoyed the focus on adventure and martial arts over screaming power up lightshow. Got a bit silly towards the end and the final few filler episodes felt ridiculously out of place and unneeded.
On to Dragonball Z! Again!
Dragonball Z always reminded me of the Bold and the Beautiful. You could not watch it for 6 episodes and not miss a thing…
I think that’s why I like it. It’s a no brain show where I can just relax half asleep on the couch with it running and just tune out and forget about everything for a while.
The martial arts tournaments in Dragonball were awesome.
Spoilers just in case:
I liked it when Tien used to be a bad guy. He was deliciously self-righteous and jerky before he was shown his place.PECKING ORDER!
Goodnight.
Goodnight, Crazyguy 🙂
I await your return with bated breath 🙂
I’m refusing to get up for work until my cat gets off my belly. Today’s gonna be productive, I can feel it already
I fell asleep immediately after my alarm went off, so have called off the entire day for religious reasons.
Super productive day time. >.>
religious reasons you say? It’s the Feast of Maximum Occupancy
http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/homertheheretic11.png
Happy Robanukah!
Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC is finally done and dusted for Steam. Releases next week for $19.99 and you will be able to buy it for a 15% discount in the first week.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/251150/
If you like JRPGs you should be buying this. Trails is incredibly underappreciated and this will be the best version available in English as it’s the PC version (higher res etc.) but implements almost every enhancement from the PSP version as well, plus has Steam integration. Literally the only reason not to get it is that it ends on a cliffhanger, but that will be resolved later this year or early 2015 when Trails in the Sky SC releases.
Thanks for putting it on my radar. I’ve been glossing over a lot of semi-dubious-looking shit lately. I believe the Steam Sale may have sated my appetite for fresh gaming.
FYI despite the unfortunate acronym (TitS) it’s not a stupid fanservice game like Agarest or something. It’s a pure, wholesome and well-made JRPG in the classic sense. The Legend of Heroes franchise is one of the oldest JRPG franchises out there, actually – the first game, Dragon Slayer, released in 1989. Though you don’t need to know anything about that since Trails is its own universe.
So this is a better version of the PSP one?
Basically, yeah. Or it should be. Has Steam trading cards and achievements and stuff in addition to pulling in all the PSP’s additions and running at decent resolutions and framerates and stuff. So basically the same way that the Steam Ys games are better than their PSP versions.
Awesome, I’ve got my eye on it!
Oh. Okay. Apparently the US is directly responsible for MH17 as they are desperate to restart the cold war with Russia because of the military prosperity it brings. Also something so do with the Gazprom gas pipe running through Ukraine. And NATO is involved somehow too. I started to glaze over and stopped reading at that point but you guys, seriously. Open your eyes.
I sound like I complain but I think I actually enjoy the sheer ridiculousness of the thought process that must go into these things.You make a lot of assumptions of “thought” in this “process”
Where you read that? Every Western media release directly blames RU with no evidence. It’s laughable ,really.
I’m guessing these sources of @freezespreston’s are probably on Facebook, where people desperate to uncover The Truth would take ‘every Western media release’ as the prime example of exactly why the opposite is true. CONSPIRACY.
It’s an incredibly common thing for people out there to be desperate to draw connections where there are none. The terrifying chaos of randomness or the depressing reality of predictable ockham’s razor solutions leaves them feeling insignificant and powerless against the uncaring great void. So people attribute to malice or other what should be attributed to chance or ineptitude.
It’s why you see people desperate to lose belly fat turning to homeopathy or specially-imported rare fruits, lured in by the idiotic headlines, “Doctors hate this.” As if there were some grand conspiracy by modern medicine and science to hide beneficial things. It’s why the desperate terminally ill or suffering will turn literally anywhere that promises to offer actual solutions and hope instead of the uncertainty, doubt, or gravely bad news offered by science.
(Edit: I’ll fucking TELL you what doctors hate about those superfood fat-busting juju berries. Doctors hate people turning away from proven, working medicine in favour of witch-doctor quackery, spending money they desperately need to enrich scam artists and charlatans at the cost of their health. Not to mention the quasi-intellectual arrogance to assert that uncertified truth-tellers are somehow better researchers and scientists than everyone who’s ever worked at it for a living on no basis other than that the quacks are telling desperate people what they want to hear; ie: that they won’t have to work as hard or pay as much to actually solve their problems, or that unsolvable problems can be. ALSO they might possibly hate the implicit accusation that someone who works on the front-lines of health, staring in the face of suffering every working day of their lives might somehow willingly be complicit in some grand scheme to PERPETUATE their suffering because it might – in some bizarre, illogical way – affect their amazing not-always-six-figure-definitely-not-as-high-as-you-think-it-is income. GO FUCK YOURSELF, BANNER AD.)
People want their lives and the world to mean something, to make sense, and to be ‘special’ – other than what is overwhelmingly known. Like they might matter more if they’re plugged into the secrets that no-one else knows.
It’s understandable, I guess.
It’s actually a real concern. It seems that the more society advances, the more people don’t trust those with any sort of authority at all. Doctors, teachers, politicians (they might have something with that last one). Even going back a few hundred years, the moment people started coming out of their medieval peasant illiteracy and lack of education, the more they realised that the people that they had trusted (religion, nobles, the crown), the more they realised that they were the big losers of the world. Now that the obvious evil authorities have been removed, people are trying to find something to rail against whenever and whereever they can find it.
There is something to be said about how some writers have depicted dystopian society. Some have gone deliberately for the “happiness in ignorance” path and there is a reason why that is a worrying conclusion. Look at North Korea for instance. Information about the outside world is so heavily restricted that they don’t really have much of a comparison and think their lives are great. The more that people know about how things could be better, the more that they get angry/upset that their own lives aren’t great. The fact that people are wilfully ignoring proven science on the basis that they’re hiding some super cure for life or some bs means that they can’t accept that life isn’t all sunshine and happiness all the time. It’s borderline crazy.
The US military would never incite a war with a country that can defend itself. They’re totally happy inciting a war with half the countries in the Middle East, because those wars are easy.
The people who think the US caused the MH17 disaster are idiots.
So one of the guys I work with mentioned that he hasn’t played a good battleship game in a while.
I mentioned Kantai Collection then decided I’d try to find out some more bout it.
My quest for info led me to stumble across this gem.
I’m more confused than before I watched it.
On the wiki page it mentions they have plans for a vita version. Any idea if that will be international?
You sunk my Battleship.
Oh Gorzy! Then before you watched it what?
#worsegrammarthanrocketman
I blame it on the fact that I’m at the of a 12 hour shift.
Only 1 hour two go than I get too go home.
hahah well fair enough then. I’m not sure I’d even be able to construct full sentences, let alone spell 😉
… you know I’ve been playing that off and on for ages right? It’s actually a really good game. Doubt that the Vita version will be internationally released but if it’s a physical game you’ll be able to import it. I think they were billing it as being a more in-depth RPG than the standard game though so it might be harder to play.
Also that video is awesome.
I remember when you first started playing it. I decided I couldn’t be bothered messing around with a proxy. Though the other day someone said that you only need to do that to set up an account. Does that sound right?
Also the fact that I won’t actually be able to understand any of it is a little off putting. It looks like something I would enjoy however.
I played it for a while and talked with Neg about it at the time. It’s a pretty decent browser game but my understanding of Japanese is absolutely atrocious so I had to have the wiki open at all times to make sure I was pressing the right button. There’s pretty good attention to detail with the ships and the game is cute in a way. The associated manga stuff that they’ve done (particularly the 4koma panels) is pretty good and is a nice tie-in with the game.
It might have changed since then but I needed a proxy to log in to play the game and every so often (approx. 30 minutes) it would boot me for a bad connection as I would turn my VPN off after I got in. I was only using a cheap free one though so that might’ve been the reason.
Yeah, you only need a VPN to create the account, get through the initial tutorial process and get your API key. The other tricky thing is accounts are via a sort of lottery system, you have to wait for a specific time to try and join and hope you get in during that period.
They changed things a little bit recently, there’s event maps which reset every month, clearing them rewards medals, and four medals can be turned into blueprints that are required for upgrading Tone & Chikuma to aviation cruisers, Bismark to Bismark Zwei and upgrading sub tender Taigei to light cruiser Ryuuhou (totally worth it since Ryuuhou is ultra cute, if I still played I would be grinding the shit out of the game to get her)
The reset on those maps is based on your API key though, so every month you need to log in via VPN to refresh your API key.
The game’s pretty playable once you learn what the buttons do, and I found it was a good way to learn a few non-useful Kanji as well. So I know fantastically useful things like that 魚雷 (gyorai – combination of kanji for fish and thunder!) is a torpedo. I’m probably starting from a point where I’ve got enough experience with the language that I’m not as intimidated by the heavy use of Japanese text and stuff though, eg. I can understand most of the vocal lines they say and stuff. However I’m pretty sure that @popdart5 can attest that it’s fairly playable without a lot of Japanese language knowledge.
I had my momentum with the game broken a few months back and haven’t gotten back into it, but it was owning my life for about 5-6 months and I still keep an eye on what’s happening and buy lots of merchandise and stuff. Was looking forward to the anime adaption but it got pushed to next season. They’re gearing up for a big event soon, rumor has it that the ultimate reward will be Shinano, which was the third Yamato-class battleship that was converted to a carrier during construction after the IJN carrier strike force was completely broken at Midway. Don’t know if that’ll happen or not. I just hope that they eventually add other ways to obtain her, because my fleet isn’t quite powerful enough to get through the hard event maps and I don’t have the resources to run the big ships for that long either (Yamato is my
waifuflagship but she costs a staggering amount of resources to sortie with)It’s f-f-f-frickin’ freezing Mr. Bigglesworth, -0.5c.
Off to watch an advance screening of Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie, should be a friggin’ riot.
I have a lot of skepticism about this movie, as televison-hollywood movie rarely works well. Prove me wrong, please.
It was good, but the TV show is much better.
Arrgghhh dammit! Both Destiny and Bnet were down yesterday and I didn’t get to play either of my fixes 🙁 I’m in withdrawal now…..
On a completely unrelated note is anyone reading the current Magneto and Thor series?
Facebook tells me that Destiny is back up now. I thought it wasn’t until tomorrow! Sweet relief.
Yannick’s new article is a good read.
In fact, for all the complaints about the tiny/two line articles and the click bait articles, I have to say that the long ones – particularly Mark’s – are great quality on this website.
Just some thoughts.
EDIT: “Pretty good” changed to great, because I’m not good with words before coffee.
Hm? Which one are you referring to? The ‘Areal’ Kickstarter one?
Yeah – the ones where they go in-depth like that and do a lot of research. Mark is particularly good at it. It makes me read the articles twice over.
Only slightly related: I got a little hung up reading the Kickstarter article.
‘Always has an answer for everything’ is a red rag before a bull, to me. It sets me right off.
It might as well be short-hand for, “Always has an answer for things I don’t personally understand, which all conspire to disprove my secret theory that paints them in an unflattering light.” Or shorter, “I wanted to catch you out and you’re making it difficult.”
Explanatory story from a few years ago:
We’d had a couple areas merge together into one larger team, and there were some cultural differences between the teams. One of the newer temporary supervisors had it in for me, because they thought I was a know-it-all (I was) who needed to be taken down a couple pegs, and who was acting ‘different’; not because I have different values and differences are great and should be celebrated, but because having different approaches and values towards doing things (like working or going outside during break times instead of socializing in the kitchen) are somehow a criticism or attack on their values or approaches. Which is one of the brain malfunctions responsible for holy wars.
So, the INCIDENT:
One day, I received an email from the temporary supervisor which they had obviously intended to send to one of their friends in their little gossip clique. She had secretly enlisted and deputized this coworker of mine to monitor my comings and goings, under suspicion of me taking longer breaks than everyone else. (The opposite, in fact, was true.)The email basically said (paraphrased), “Nah, he came back on time last time too, nothing to catch him out with yet. OK, he’s going again, can you log that time? He’s so sneaky. Seriously, who goes outside for morning tea, anyway?”
Apparently it was a great cause of suspicion to them that someone would go for a walk around the block for some fresh air and exercise instead of stuffing their faces while paying out the contestants on Biggest Loser and complaining about their weight. I’m guessing they consider ‘exercise’ to be a four-letter word and can’t imagine why anyone would ever WANT to do it or find it relaxing or reinvigorating.
Apparently it was also very ‘sneaky’ for me to take my morning breaks 15-30min after the time that ‘everybody goes’, apparently not realizing that I might want to do that because we kind of operate a call centre and someone always needs to be available to take the calls instead of letting things go to voicemail.
Apparently it’s very suspicious to only let the people in your immediate area know when you’re leaving for your damn-near-same-time-every-day walk instead of running around to the entire team or sending a mass email; but only suspicious if I do it, because ‘everybody knows’ that 10:30am is morning tea, so of course no-one else needs to let people know when they’re going at that time.
And apparently being able to explain all these things, to have a recorded log of work performed and times worked, is also ‘sneaky’ because it somehow defies what they know in their hearts-of-hearts: that I was ACTUALLY working less time and fewer jobs. Just none of the facts actually bore that out, possibly because of my being a warlock or wizard. Obviously lying or manipulating the stats. Apparently having reasons and information and actual answers that do anything other than confirmed their suspicions counted as being, ‘always having an answer for everything’. Yeah. I have answers because there fucking ARE answers.
So whenever I hear ‘always has an answer to everything’, the first thing I can think of is, “What if there ARE answers and you just don’t like them?” If what you heard was actually the answer, the real, honest-to-god truth… WHAT THE FUCK ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR IF THE TRUTH IS NOT FUCKING GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU?
And in some cases, people ask questions that they want a specific, not always correct, answer to. Such as, “How much less work than us do you do?” “Actually, I do more,” is not an anticipated response because it doesn’t FEEEEEEEL like more. Because they get in at 8-8:30am, talk for half an hour to an hour about last night’s TV and include it on the clock as ‘work time’, then leave at 3:45-4pm, and since I got in at 8:30-9am and left at 5:30-5pm, obviously anything I did from 4pm onwards never fucking happened because they didn’t see it happening.
Like when my brother got called in to a meeting with managers and HR because of staff complaints that he wasn’t doing as much work. He replied (paraphrasing), “You have the stats. I actually do more work than all of those lazy whiners combined. Would you like me to do the exact same amount they do? Because I can do that. Or you could just discipline me and we’ll see what the ombudsman has to say about it. I might be able to get my deck or bathroom done.” And their response was, “Oh, nononono, you’re not in trouble… we just had to be seen responding to the complaints. [Editorial: ie: placate the bitches and make it LOOK like he was in trouble, to satisfy their pettiness.] Could you please just try to look busier or less relaxed? Because perception is reality.” (He has since left there because FUCK working for fuckwits like that.)
I really have to restrain myself from vigorously attacking when I see these lines of thought occurring because god fucking dammit, ask the right question or accept that sometimes there are truths out there that you don’t understand that conflict with how you feeeeeel. Because feelings aren’t facts and are more likely to be WRONG.
Which, y’know, given the comments section on Kotaku sometimes…
My fingers are too cold for the handsewing I need to do so what a shame, I’ll just have to play some more pirate simulation game instead. 😛
I’m enjoying it in the same way as I enjoy all Assassin’s Creed games: fun while I can do my own thing, but when I’m following the story and being railroaded it’s annoying as hell. And I absolutely hate having more than enough money to buy stuff but being told I have to “progress further in the story to unlock” it. And coming across stuff out on the ocean but also being told I have to progress to take advantage of it. I’m impatient, dammit!
And I don’t even like Edward, but hey pirates are nasty people so at least I can understand that. 😀
Oh, and should I buy the story DLC?
Definitely hated how long it took to unlock all the equipment in this game, I think the only reason I did any of the main story was just so I could get the ship and tool upgrades.
I’ve been umming and arring (arg!) about the DLC, but it looks like it is entirely self contained and does nothing to add to the main game. If it doesn’t add any new goodies for Edward to play with, I don’t think I will ever be bothered getting it.
I felt exactly the same, which is a shame and probably why people say Freedom Cry ‘doesn’t count’ towards Ubisoft inclusiveness/political brownie point record, because no-one’s going to play it. Which is a shame. I really should get it just for that aspect, and to reward them for the really consumer-friendly approach of making the DLC standalone… but meh. The lack of motivation is powerful.
If you don’t like the kind of railroading the story in the main game does, I’d pass on the DLC. It’s pretty linear, and there really isn’t much in the wide of side activities there. A neat little contained story, but not much else.
You’re alive!
Awww, you missed me.
He didn’t say that.
Let me live the lie.
I really enjoyed the story DLC, very tightly focussed on the story and not much in the way of side activities but really strong story
I got it because it was one of the few decent PS4 games available going against my dislike of the previous AC games but I enjoyed it a fair bit. It’s definitely better as a free roaming game though. I think it was more of the setting than the story that made me like it
I bought the Season Pass when I first got the game, but after I finished the main story I moved on to something else. Now I’ve got it back from @shane I should probably get back into it.
Weirdest dream. Part of which involved an old guy (who seemed familiar but I can’t place the face now) who ran whatever shop we were at coming over and making fun of us. Through rap.
90% sure that I actually dreamt a fully rhyming insult rap.
I had a weird dream. Ended up in a prison, at one point I attempted a breakout with Nicky from Orange is the New Black.
Then somehow I ended up being sent to the chapel of this wide open prison where I’m pretty sure I could have just walked out if I’d wanted to, met one of the chaplains from my High School, and ended up wheeling around one of the children that I used to work with when I did volunteer stuff at a school.
I was very confused when I woke up.
For some reason I’m picturing an updated version of the jive scene in Flying High
ugh… humble bundle is having a SE bundle sale.. *eyes pile of shame*
that is an excellent bundle.
Although… Daikatana…
buttttttt now I own one of the worst games
Butt.
Mini Ninjas is a great game!
AAAAAHHHHH!! Dragon Age has been postponed :@
@!#!%%!)*#$!)U@#(!%)(&)@!(#!@$%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the hell!
Eh, only by a month. I’d rather they get it right.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! I wanted to take time off for all the games coming out 🙁 So I could get them all out of the way at once :'( It was going to be my early bday present to ME! :'( stupid ffewqeihfalkfhgwerqowag BioWare :@
Good. EA are doing the right thing here and with Battlefield.
Edit: Also, it was releasing not long after Destiny, which just wasn’t going to work for me.
Thought Destiny was September?
Shhhhh.
All the games are so far away! And now I have to wait 2 weeks to find out if me and faction survive the first 40k session! Why is everything a waiting game *cries*
Note: I may have sculled my morning coffee and suffering from gaming withdrawals 0,0 Excuse my rants on TAY this day 😛
You’ll be summarily executed at dawn. @f4ction won’t. He’ll blame it all on you. As Eldar who have no idea who you two are, we’ll just keep at our business as why would we care what some filthy alien commoners do? @tech_knight will continue to keep a low profile.
Wait what! Hey wait a minute why were we arrested for carrying explosives when Freeze is walking around with a rocket launcher on his back?! This whole thing’s fishy!
Fishy like Tau vehicle names. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! (Bad pun is bad).
It’s also a bit different for openly preparing to throw a grenade than just keeping it holstered or on your back. And then you tried to run. Not the best move trying to run from the guards.
@popdart5 could’ve worked if not for that stupid concealment roll =@
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiit.
Edit: oh. I see, delayed slightly. Still not remotely close to doing the right thing.
What?
CC @redartifice
The right thing would be to make BF4 run properly before having the balls to announce a next version. It’s still not good to this day. Considering the track record (BF3, BF4), Hardline should be delayed to at least 2016.
Maybe they decided not to throw good money after bad?
As @bdkiaf said, What? Delaying games to give them more polish is a bad thing?
At least I won’t get slammed with having to finish paying of so many damn CE’s at once. I had a hard look at it and started to worry that I had bitten off more than I could afford.
Man, I am glad I did not book leave to play it like I intended.
If anyone is keen on getting The Walking Dead books, $15 for the first 5 volumes:
https://www.humblebundle.com/thewalkingdead
How are you finding parenthood?
Never really got into that show. The Steve Martin movie was all right, though!
Already have The Walking Dead Compendium’s 1 & 2 as well as Vol 17, 18 and 19. just need to get 20 and 21 and ill be up to date till november
Hello peoples.
Would anyone be interested in playing a board game online tonight? I dont care what really. I just feel like playing something. Any interest?
http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!gamelist or Talisman or Space Hulk or anything really
Seems like Telltale have borked 360 controller support for TWD Episode 4. It refuses to acknowledge I have it connected after I’ve used it exclusively up to this point. It works in every other game so the controller is fine.
Damnit. I tried playing K+M but it just feels so wrong. Interface is far far uglier as well. Have to wait until I can find a solution on my end or if it is on theirs they fix it.
Edit: Google isn’t turning up anything so maybe it’s just me. Weird. I haven’t changed anything. Just updated the game and it refuses to work. Can’t even find a mention to start troubleshooting. #masterrace I guess?
Device manager still picks it up correctly as Xbox 360 controller with xinput?
Indeedy.
I gots nothing. 🙁 Might be a new issue that Google isn’t picking up yet. Maybe search through game config files. GL!
Temporary workaround could be a controller to keyboard mapping programming like the one they tell you to use for Binding of Isaac?
Is the controller wired or wireless? Either way, one thing I’ve had some measure of success with when a controller hasn’t been detected is to unplug it, load the game then plug the controller (or in my case wireless adapter) in, something about the game being loaded while windows detects the device seems to kick it in the head and get it to pay attention again.
It might be worth getting a copy of someone else’s settings/config files who can definitely use the controller and seeing if using theirs works.
Hmm, really simple idea, change the USB port the controller is plugged into, windows will have to reinstall it from scratch and it might be just enough to remind the game that it’s there.
I did have a really weird one with Rainbow Six Vegas 1 & 2 where the controller ID the game would accept was hardcoded to the ID number for the old wired controller and because of that didn’t accept the wireless controller because it had a new ID but that seems highly unlikely to be the case here since that was an old problem before the wireless controller came out, it’s worked in previous episodes and because it’d mean telltale did more work on their engine which doesn’t sound like them (I love their stuff but damn do they need to get some better coders on staff)
Wait, how would playing The Walking Dead possibly work with a controller? How to do you click on shiny things? I assume you use the right analogue stick or something?
I need money! Buy my books! Coupon TAY20 is still active! http://shanewsmith.com/shop/
@redartifice, your book is on its way! Sorry it took so long; we have had major car troubles recently.
In other news, I’ve also picked up a digital copy of Zelda Wind Wanker. It’s all right, but I’m not feeling the usual Zelda magic from it. The controls feel very loose and imprecise to me, and it’s kind of annoying me. There are some great concepts there, though.
Haven’t played Pikmin 3 yet.
Hanging out for the next chapter of The Walking Dead! Should be d/ling on my US XBL account tonight!
So, how’s things with you?
But… I also need money! Can’t we both get money?
Sure, just go and write an Aurealis nominated comic!
Doesn’t work 😛
Woooo! Comics!
I’ve been putting off buying your books week after week, it’s about time I actually did it. I have some money saved, but I made my wife lock it away so I couldn’t get it, so it’ll have to wait till my pay goes through.
*searches for money to throw at Shane* *finds $50 worth of 10cent coins* \o/
Does it save you postage if I order 4 books at the same time?
Yep. It costs me $13 whether it’s one book or five! Figure that one out 😛
Also, thanks! Don’t forget the coupon TAY20 and to let me know if you want autographs personalised!
Loved the newest ep of The Walking Dead game. I thought the last one was a misstep but this one is so damn good. Arrrrgh. Can’t wait to play next ep.
Ive been holding off on playing to binge later once they’re all released. Is Season 2 as good as 1?
Depends who you ask but I would say yes, with the exception of 2×03. Builds on from first awesomely.
Favourite song of the year so far? Its been kinda meh for new releases and im curious to what you guys think.
My fave is probably Let the ocean take me- The amity affliction
My fav song is that one time at around 5:15pm where those two radio presenters proceeded to talk about their favourite song of the year for around an hour, and they laughed and cried and it was amazing.
I cant tell if you are mocking me
Lets go with yes, in which case
🙁
No no! It’s just a sarcastic rant about “Hot FM” type radio stations where they just talk shit during morning/afternoon commute hours. 🙁 And how that means I’m very behind on pop music. 🙁
Hmm. It’s a toss-up between Battle Cry, Dragonaught, Redeemer of Souls and Halls of Valhalla. Slightly leaning towards Battle Cry.
I don’t think I’ve really listened to any 2014 music. Car has classic rock station or ipod, work has stuff from 10 years ago playing on a loop and home I don’t really listen to music.
Dunno.
The True Detective theme?
If you ask my kid what song he wants to hear, he’ll say ‘Let It Go’ or ‘Happy’.
Personally I’ll go with Coldplay’s Magic.
Turn Down For What – DJ Snake & Lil Jon
Obviously.
Nah, but srsly, here are my favourites so far, in no particular order.
Kjærlighet – I Killed The Prom Queen
Naysayer – Architects
Fancy – Iggy Azalea ft Charli XCX
Fever – The Black Keys
Let The Ocean Take Me – The Amity Affliction
Chandelier – Sia
I’m certain I’ve missed some, I just scrolled through the list of albums released in 2014 on Wikipedia.
How good is chandelier? I also dont like how much i like Fancy but its just so dancy and fun.
I hate how much I love Fancy. It’s just such a fun pop song. I can’t resist it.
No idea…
Are Pink Floyd still around?
Freedom Call’s ‘Come On Home’,
Thaurorod’s ‘Path’ and ‘Marked For Diablo’,
Vanishing Point’s ‘Era Zero’,
Sonata Arctica’s ‘Blood’,
Twilight Forces ‘Gates Of Glory’,
Epica’s ‘The Essence Of Silence’
…and those are just the first songs that came to mind.
This year’s been FULL of awesome releases for me, and there’s still new Eluveitie to come in a few weeks.
I think I heard a Jessica Mauboy song on the radio and didn’t instantly despise it. But then the radio played it almost immediately after and I realised the song kinda sucked.
I didn’t hate ‘Eveything is Awesome” from the Lego Movie, but then I did.
I can’t even name any songs that came out this year. .
..Oh yeah, that Miley Cyrus one. I detested it.
Does the Kill la Kill soundtrack count? I mean, it came out last year, but I’ll count it anyway. I think those are the only songs that I have willingly listened to and liked this year. I don’t like modern music, okay? I only listen to video game OSTs.
EDIT: Reading over everyone’s responses, I don’t have a clue what they are talking about.
A rough summary of last night’s 40K RPG session:
– @pupp3tmast3r wandered into the Choke and Puke, nearly got hit in the face by a flying gretchin, then casually sat down at the bar
– @f4ction stepped in, realised he CBF with the commotion, backed out and waited outside
– The 3 Eldar made a grand entrance and then took a really long time figuring out what the hell was happening
– @freezespreston started an arguement with an Ork inside the Choke and Puke
– Pretty sure @sernobulus was facepalming at everyone at this point
– Everyone with a helmet on kept trying to convey facial expressions
– @Tech_knight kept bothering Faction for information, who responded by threatening him with a photon grenade. This was witnessed and caused a large chain of events:
– A mob formed yelling at Faction
– A couple of Servo-Skulls noticed
– Puppet came outside to try and calm Faction down (Tau to Tau)
– I scared the crowd off via telepathy
– The guards arrived and chased the Tau into an alley
– Faction and Puppet ended up in a dead end, outnumbered, and surrendered. In the mean time, Freeze, Nob and I are chilling back in the bar
Oh, and I’m pretty sure @popdart5 had a great tim GMing, based on his exasperated sigh at the end of the session 😀
Wait, Servo Skulls aren’t just a collectable in SPAYSH MAUREEN?
I recall @popdart5 saying something along the lines of “That was a cluster fuck” at the end of the session. Oh man, I think he’s just glad he talked @f4ction and @pupp3tmast3r out of starting a colony wide conflict in the first session. XD
Goddamit! Have none of you heard of subtlety before. At least find the name of the planet we are on before we wage war on it!
It’s more fortunate that they ducked out of the way of that Choppa. That really would have hurt.
I have a question in regards to leveling & available talents!
I was interested in getting the Ambidextrous talent because I’m planning on taking two-weapon Wielder (melee) when I can but it’s not on my character career path. Any chance I can get it added as an “available for purchase” talent as it seems like something I should have available to me.I’ll have to double-check because I could have sworn it was in your career path. I’ll get back to you on that.
It might be, remember I was missing a few of the tables when I converted the files to Open Office / DocX format.
THAT’S WHAT I WAS TRYING TO DO!
Subtle! You could have literally asked anyone besides the Orks and it would have been more subtle!
*flails arms wildly in the air*
I suppose the phrase “Did I stutter?” wasn’t too diplomatic…
I have the name of the colony etc written down
Currently the Eldar are the only ones who don’t know what moon, system, or hive they are currently in. Everyone else knows because you guys arrived by spaceship.
If by sigh you mean more of a f-bomb then yes, you would be right.
It was good fun and I enjoyed hamming up the session and playing off the humour of the setting. You guys certainly kept me on my toes but at least no one died.
Seriously, Puppet and F4ction took three lasgun shots each and they barely scratched their armour.
Sounds like it derailed in the best possible way
It’s a story that I shall share to my children.
I’ll have a look at the stream some time this week.
It totally did 😀
It was pretty fantastic.
Not to mention we really were about to start a war with the colony =P If faction had a slightly better initiative roll….
(Way to talk us off a cliff GM =P)
To put it in perspective, those soldiers rounded the corner and snap-shotted you guys. If you two hadn’t surrendered, they potentially could have unleashed triple the amount of shots at you guys.
You know the irony of all it is I went to aside to try and stabilize what Faction had started…. So much for that plan =__=
I didn’t threaten Techy with the photon grenade. If people recall I was going to throw it inside the pub to disrupt the fight that was already going on. BUT NOOOOO, everyone assumes I was threatening him
Rule Number 1 when dealing with Orks: Never try and break up a scrap. Unless you feel like being part of it.
Rule Number 1 when in population centres: Never underestimate the common civilian’s ability to misread a situation. Or their stupidity.
You can’t have two Rule Number 1’s! =P
I’m going to enjoy reading these write-ups me thinks, sounds absolutely amazing… Aren’t you guys, you know, meant to be a team? Not threaten each other? 😛
The funny thing is, they haven’t technically formed a team yet. They’re still in their little groups that are yet to join up. That will have to be figured out next time.
If you feel like the non-abridged version of the session, listen in here.
I’ll have to give that a listen once i get home from work! Thanks man
Everything said and done Roleplay-wise it makes sense I don’t imagine a tech priest, 2 Tau soldiers and 3 Elder being all chummy from the get go =P
“Team” isn’t the exact words I would use. We are more along the lines of “Group of people that have seen each other at a distance”. Seriously the only interaction us Eldar have had with non-Eldar was @freezespreston asking @pupp3tmast3r where the hell we are.
I think we barely avoided a scrap up just from that question =P I was about to reach for my pistol again xD
This is what’s happened when we were trying to meet each other and form the team.
Also I like the idea of @tech_knight character annoying someone is “Hey! Nice armour you’ve got there”. =P
I am finding it very hard to concentrate on anything at all today.
I just want to go home and screw around with Elite some more.
I’m home and have all the time in the world to screw around, but I don’t have Elite 🙁
Which girl is Elite? Hurrrr hurr
All of them 🙁
*slow clap*
Hey IT gang, I’ve got a question.
My upload speed at home is godawful. Uploading to Soundcloud or my WordPress will go tediously slow and will eventually hang at about 85% and fail. Dropbox syncing is the fastest at around 85-150kbps and completes correctly.
For example, I tried uploading a 600kb JPEG to my wordpress. It would hit 65% instantly then take about 30mins to hit 100% and then I’d get a “http error, try uploading again.”
It’s killing me.
Connected via ethernet to my modem.
Does anyone have any ideas what it could be?
Did you check the Australian internet infrastructure? That’s normally the problem.
Serious answer: no idea, sorry.
YOU’RE A REAL PIECE OF WORK AREN’T YOU, SHANE!?
it’s extremely difficult to say what the cause could be, especially when you’re uploading to a service controlled by someone else. Is this only a recent issue, or has it always been this way for you?
Only recent.
As in since we’ve changed the pod over to our own site and Soundcloud.
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.
mmm ok. that doesn’t really super help. I was hoping you’d say you used to upload to those services fine, but now it’s shit all of a sudden!
Are you running any anti-virus/internet security on your comp?
Also what kind of format are you uploading? mp3? wav? flac?
mp3s of max 35 mb or so.
I’ll keep digging and see what other troubleshooting garbage I can try.
speedtest.net
Try all the servers closest to you (manuall select) and report back.
Followed by pingtest.net to check jitter and packet loss
I’ll do this tonight, buds, and will let you know.
These may prove useful, but it may also not if you don’t understand what you’re looking at. Given your drop box works ok, I’m guessing it’s something to do with either the servers you’re uploading to, or your link between them. If it’s your link that’s causing the issues, then it’s probably something your ISP needs to look in to more so than you, but with soundcloud, I’m aware of others having issues with uploads getting stuck, and it usually seems to boil down to something with the transcoding on their end.
I’ve seen a lot of people report that by changing the format they upload, it can solve the issue, so that might be worth a try.
As for your wordpress though… that’s a slightly more difficult beast. Who hosts your site?
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
Should I figured that because it’s similar issues across both Soundcloud & WordPress it might be something on my ISP.
Which is lame because they’re an unknown company that was part of the real estate’s “Connect-you-up-before-you-move-in” service. I think they’re called Allcomms? Service has been fine it’s just when anything like this happens it can be a bit of a hassle to talk to anyone.
Any good deals for naked DSL going?
mmm yeah never heard of them.
Do you use them as ISP and host for your website? or just one?
hard to say what their support will be like. I’m used to dealing with the big host players like godaddy and webcentral etc, but when it comes to the smaller hosts, it can be a bit hit and miss. That being said, some of my customers use small hosts based around brisbane or gold coast, and the support they offer is fantastic. Whether that’s because they just care more, or due to not having as many customers themselves, thus being able to spend more time solving issues, I don’t really know.
The soundcloud issue may very well turn out to be a totally separate issue to the wordpress one, but only testing will really tell for sure.
As for naked dsl, there’s plenty of options around, but best bang for buck is probably TPG or iPrimus. They both have unlimited data naked adsl2+ plans for $69 a month.
There are cheaper options, but you’ll be limited by data obviously.
Start with step 1 or you’ll cry.
IT GANG ASSEMBLE! Okay, we’re here. Have you tried turning it off and on again?
This guy.
We’re all pretty useless here, you know that by now. We just pretend to know stuff. I do anyway.
That’s how I.T. Works isn’t it?
“I.T. Because we can Google shit better than you!”
You laugh, but the number of internet problems that I’ve seen go away when you unplug the router from the wall and plug it back in (forcing a flush of its memory etc.) is astounding.
I like it how you only pop up when you need something, or when it’s time to plug your podcast :3
To be fair, it’s a pretty amazing podcast 😛
I wasn’t knocking it, haha! 😀
I think it’s funny how he shows up for plugging 😛
On a related note, I’ll have to listen to the next podcast :3
WHY WAIT!
Seasons are archived here!
https://soundcloud.com/dankarlszeitgeist
ily
I chime in when it’s interesting.
That’s not to say you guys don’t talk about interesting things, I just don’t have much to say outside of junk which I post to Twitter (@dkzeitgeist)
Fun Fact: I started my twitter account to promote my podcast Dan & Karl’s Zeitgeist which you can listen to here http://dankarlszeitgeist.com
That’s really interesting, so tell me Dan… Is there anyway i can support this amazing show, maybe with some apparel? Like maybe, oh i dunno, t-shirts?
If such a thing doesn’t exist, it would be a tragedy.
Hows the local network, any slowdowns or weird dropouts to speak of? Downloads running okay? How old is the router?
Stickman & pixel suggested the sites I was going to, I’d suggest running those, noting down the results then talking to your ISP about it. It could be a line noise issue or possibly the modem being on the way out. One possible test is to try a file transfer of say 100mb with someone and try to establish if it’s just those services or your line that’s the issue, if nothing else it’d be another good bit of data to tell your ISP support
Hey @rize! You, me, teamspeak tonight! We need to settle this organisation stuff! I still like CPR
We should!
I have Modern Warfare on at like 8:30, I think.
That’s cool, how long do you expect that to take?
Dozing off at my desk. One day, I’ll get good at this whole sleep thing.
Getting good will obviously require you getting a mattress installed under the desk! Obviously.
I played the latest episode of The Walking Dead. Can’t even talk about it, it’s all too damn depressing.
But you just talked about it!
Ah, but I never specified what was so sad about it- if there’s one thing young people are good at, it’s talking about depressing situations but never giving any details.
Here are the choices I made:
SPOILERS FOR THE WALKING DEAD 2×04:
I managed to convince Sarah to come with the gang at the trailer park. I was beginning to feel like Jane was right and this wasn’t going to end well but Clem’s trying to save everyone she can and grasping onto her humanity. After what went down with Sarita I think Clem just wanted to help someone.
I didn’t rob Arvo. Clem of all people knows the consequences of stealing in a world like this. (As seen in the season finale of last season.) She told Lee not to steal back in the day and she stood by her own words today. Unfortunately Jane roughed up the kid and Clem was pissed.
I crawled through the ticket booth. Clem needed no convincing. It was the quietest way and she’s been in worse predicaments before. She was happy to offer her assistance.
I tried to help Sarah. I wanted Clem to stick to her word that friends help each other. I was incredibly nervous that I might get Jane killed in the process. It was sad, but I can’t help to think Sarah’s loss is kinder in a way for her. She was on the verge of a mental breakdown and would’ve gotten someone killed.
I held the baby. I like to choose the kind, human option for Clem whenever she gets a chance.
I sided with Luke and argued we should wait a day or two before heading to town.
I didn’t shoot Rebecca. I thought this might set off something in a precarious situation. I alerted the group but the worst happened any way.
Lost Nick. Lost Sarah. Lost Rebecca. Lost Sarita. And possibly more! HOLY FUCK!
Great, great episode. Easily up there with my favourites. Can’t wait for season finale.
started NG+ in dark souls 2 last night. died 8 times to the three falconers in the very first room.
man… NG+ doesn’t mess around.
managed to beat Last Giant & the Pursuer though. gonna run off & do the dragon rider & not-Ornstein tonight….
though…. whats with all the red dudes? bastardy bastards.
also, Divinity Original Sin is rad. finally getting the hang of it, though most fights are a bit scrappy at the moment… running a Geo/Pyro mage & a Ranger as my mains. so damn good.
Edit: also, ‘hello’ I guess.
PRAISE THE SUN!
NG+ is great. I love all the changes they made to the different areas, though as with NG and other Souls games, it’s hardest at the start (I think Huntsman Copse is where I died most often in NG+).
its hard to say where I died most in NG… the Gulch, maybe? those poison spitting statues were a pain. or maybe to the Chariot? Ruin Sentinels? I dunno…
anyway… its proper tricky. been using my bow a lot more than the first run. might need to level my DEX a bit for added fun times.
I am running the same comp in D:OS.
Most of my fights end up in utter chaos with half the field and my team on fire and poor Madora a combination of burning, poisoned, stunned and knocked down from usually the second turn on.
Good times.
yeah, same here. my strategy at the moment is STUN EVERYTHING & SHOOT THEM FROM A DISTANCE.
also, using the spider summon as a roadblock.
I sorta love/hate how the game doesn’t give you any direction. love it coz it gives you freedom, but hate it coz I’m currently wondering around outside the first town with no real idea if I’m heading in the right direction to do the quests….
I just asked Nob what order he did things in. >.>
I’m starting to become very self-conscious about my lunches. Everyone keeps commenting on them all the time, and how good they look. All most feel like I should start bringing in total crap to eat just so I can go unnoticed 😛
I bring 90c noodle cups like a fucking champion! I just get stares, and i know it jealousy for amazingness of all the artificial things I’m about to consume!
pics pls
Too late I ate it already 😛
It’s always just the leftovers of the previous night’s dinner.
Dollar cheeseburgers at Maccas, starts today! 😀
Oh hey would you look at that I *can* take pictures for pow now…
Pow now brown cow.
Wizards turning people into all kinds of stuff ’round here…
I get a lot of comments about my lunches. Which are always the same so I don’t know why. A bit of sliced chicken and either some rice or a pack of Heinz steam fresh vegetables.
I mostly take sandwiches. People keep asking me what’s on them and I keep saying the same thing. Peanut butter on one and vegemite and cheese on the other.
Whenever I bring leftover curried sausages, I eat them at my desk so that everyone can smell them. I’m a bad person.
I eat mine at my desk too. And also tend to go and eat earlier than everyone else, they all leave around 12:30 but I get hungry around 12 so eat then instead. There’s always comments on how my food smells so good 😛 I am probably a bad person also.
Just picked up my Wii U Mario Kart bundle! :333
Should have got two, then you could have :666
\m/
dude, page 6 is back there <–
Xenoblade machine! 😀
TAY is being super slow again lately, and I’m extremely bored with nothing to do, and I can’t think of any good questions or topics to start, so if anyone wants to ask me anything, go for it.
Super bored, so literally, N-E-thing 😉
Which letter does a Liondrive usually map to in your computer’s directory?
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR obviously.
I’ll be disappointed if this isn’t the answer.
#PAGE6FORLYF
The D.
#PAGE18FORLYF
I’m pretty sure it is D, without checking :3
I’ll check later 😛
If you could only eat one food for the remainder of your life, what would it be, and why?
Frozen doughnuts.
GO TO HELL, POW! >:(
Lasagne.
Cause it’s lasagne and lasagne is delicious :3
How’s Perth? Is it really called Pers and everyone just has a lisp?
Perth is horrible.
Better than Darwin, but still horrible.
I was trying to think of places I could show someone if they came over, and there’s literally nothing worth seeing.
And it’s called Perth 😛
But surprisingly, it’s not technically a capital city :S
Why is it not technically a capital?
Something I heard on the news about WA not legally having a capital city, which affects fundings for stuff and what not.
Like, it is the recognised capital of WA, but by technicalities and legalities it isn’t registered as a capital city, unlike every other capital, so it is technically not a capital.
I digress, don’t visit Perth, it sucks 😛
I’ve never heard of this before…
Link?
Yeah, I’d never heard of it either, just like I think most people haven’t, but apparently it’s a thing :S
Not a fan of Cottesloe haha?
You can only go to Cottesloe so many times 😛
Wait, does this mean you’re from Perth?!?!
Haha nah, I went there for a University thing a couple of years ago and stayed in Northbridge. We stayed in Aberdeen Street and went out to The Library a couple of times lol.
Argh, there’s a severe lack of WA TAYbies around here, and you got my hopes up! >:(
I know Aberdeen street though! 😀
You shoulda gone to the Court 😉
Best club / pub in Perth! 😀
Lol I went to maybe three clubs when I was there? I went to The Aberdeen and The Library definitely… where is the Court? No I’m a Melbournian unfortunately!
WA TAYbies are around!
Can you even?
Odd question.
I usually can’t even.
Depends on circumstances 😛
Where do you want to go overseas to first?
Hmm, tough question.
I think the first time I go overseas will be when I move from Australia, so it will probably be California.
There’s not many places that interest me enough to warrant visiting, to be honest.
I’d like to check out Japan someday though 🙂
Headin’ out Californee way, lookin’ for some internet?
Rottnest?
Have you ever really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Umm, can you rephrase the question?
I said, have you ever really decided as to even go that far in wanting to do to look more like so?
There’s an HBO pilot of Westworld as a TV series with Anthony Hopkins in the pipeworks? I’m creating my manfort on the couch already in anticipation. Westworld is one of my favourite films. Hopefully JJ Abrams won’t ruin it all with lens flare though
Nice! The original movie was awesome, though it lost a little bit of impact for me because I had already come to identify Yul Brynner as the King from “The King and I”, having had it played far too often by my mum and sis when I was little.
So I still have 3 unclaimed US and 3 unclaimed AU PS4 Destiny beta codes. No one wants?
If my PS4 ever arrives I wouldn’t mind one …
It’s yours if you need it. Want a US code or an AU one?
sure, if you got some to spare. Send it to my TAY name at the g mails and the dot coms.
(I will take an AU copy please)
Mailed
Such a gent! (In the traditional sense, not the Shane/Dan version.)
Ohwait, I totally misread that. Nevermind. 🙂
Soooo… Anyone reading any Marvel comics from the current arcs?
Hawkeye!
Is it any good? I didn’t realize Hawkeye had his own comic post Marvel NOW
Issue #19 comes out next week
@liondrive Mate, if you ever visit Sydney, I’m hosting a Meat and force feeding everybody a damned frozen doughnut.
I’ll visit Sydney…
WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER LIKE YOUR GODDAMN FROZEN DONUTS! >:(
Stop fighting it… Just give in =P
SEE YOU THEN
What’s wrong with Sydney?
Other than EVERYTHINGOh, I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you over the sound of our awesome bridge.
Also, we had the Olympics, remember those?! Pretty sure we can rest on those laurels for at least another 26 years.
We’re not Melbourne, that’s another feather in the cap for Sydney.
And flamin’ strewth, mate – our Jaeger pilots were better than a poke in the eye, true blue heroes.
Hey, yeah, you aren’t Melbourne.
Because fuck those guys.
The difference between Melbourne and Sydney, is that you don’t have several million self-important people in a place that isn’t cramped.
Also, they’re all about rugby league, so that’s another point off.
The only reason the Harbour bridge is there is so that people would have something nice to remember as they left, instead of the offal of humanity in that dung heap.
FREE FOOD! \o/
Hold up.
Frozen donuts?
Explain.
You buy some plain cinnamon doughnuts from the supermarket (so, not fresh/warm ones)
You put them in the freezer until they freeze.
You take one out on a hot day, wait a minute for it to defrost just enough to bite.
You enjoy a delicious summer treat.
You are blowing my mind here.
Sounds disgusting, right?
RIGHT!?!
I need to try this.
Aftermath of the Alaskan Pipeline.
…why did I google this.
:'(
Man this is sad.
https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/teenage-son-discovers-his-deceased-father-s-ghost-car-in-xbox-rally-game-154558866.html
Dude.
I’m literally crying. Stop with the onions, guys!
:C
I came here to laugh, not to feel
..said the escort getting propositioned at the comedy show. 😀
Pretty sure I’ve seen that earlier than today …. hmmmmmmm…..
So many feels happening on reading that… *hugs self*
@redartifice @blaghman @quiz_b @tech_knight @sernobulus: have you guys given any further thought to Edge of the Empire RPG characters?
The story we seemed to be more interested in as a group involved conducting a heist to steal a jewel on Bespin. The other option involves hunting for a treasure that belonged to a notorious figure who died somewhere in the uncharted worlds beyond the outer rim.
So far, I know that @redartifice wants to play a former speeder bike racer, effectively being the driver for us, and possibly the pilot of the group too if no-one else fills that roll better, and that @tech_knight will be playing a droid, though I’m not sure what sort of role concept beyond that.
What sort of party roles are you guys interested in? If you have an idea for a character I can help you find some classes that will fit with that idea and we can flesh things out a bit from there. Just simple things like “I want to play as a Bounty Hunter” or “I want to be a l33t computer slicer” or similar.
I’m the engineer. It’s broke, I fix it. If it’s still broke, I fix it better. If you broke it, I’ll fix you with a wrench.
I have more ideas, but it’s all still swimming in my head…give me time and I’ll bring to you a rounded character!
No worries, that’s a really great starting point.
I’m more than happy to be pilot too
Yeah, you’ll end up with some reasonable piloting ability by default as a driver so that should be pretty much fine. But if someone else wanted to do a piloting-focused character then that’d be fine too.
There’s no (legal) .pdfs for this are there? Maybe if people are still undecided, we could do a chargen session or two? Then we may be able to work out where our gaps are.
There are PDFs, but not free. 🙁 So yeah, we’ll need to do a chargen session.
I’d be happy to buy this in .pdf, but apparently that’s not a thing.
DAMN YOU FANTASY FLIGHT, I WANT TO GIVE YOU MONEY JUST NOT THAT MUCH MONEY
Oh, apparently it isn’t. That’s fucking stupid.
Sounds like we need muscle and and a “face” – not sure what @tech_knight’s droid was into, but “Face” is probably out
I don’t see why not! The idea of a massively charming, persuasive droid amuses me greatly. 😛
Well, if he makes his seduction roll, he makes his seduction roll…
Do you wish to see me twerk my circuits master Y/N
…oh hell what is wrong with my brain for thinking that up
Hello there, good sir, how may I serve you…
*Angle grinder noise*
I was thinking more the sound of a vacuum but alright 😛
I was thinking more C-3PO with a sexy metal Tom Selleck-style moustache.
Glued on chest hair. That’s all I’m saying.
And doing to him once the game gets going.
C3PO played by Burt Reynolds would be hilarious.
Master you have seen me without my exterior panelling. I’m expressing an emotion equivalent to embarrassment.
Also, oblig: “Emtrey, just scrounge it or something!”
I was considering a Bounty Hunter, just so that I can be a jerk 24/7.
Or maybe some sort of Han Solo rip-off, to be a loveable jerk 24/7.
Basically I haven’t thought beyond the point of “I wish to reflect everyday life, and be a jerk.”
*rolls to flex*
That should be Techy’s thing.
Why?
So that if he critically fails, his arms fall off. >.>
I was thinking either a “smashy smashy” guy or computer “slicey slicey” guy.
@crazyguy1990, @steve-o_the_deve-o, @pupp3tmast3r, @tech_knight, @pixel_the_ferret_viking
Who’s up for Torchlight 2 again tomorrow night?
Possibly.
I’ve got a movie date tomorrow so I can’t 🙁 Can we rain-check for any weekend evening this week? It’s easier for me to make it then 🙁
Fine with me, depends on others.
@others Reply dammit! =P
I haven’t been able to catch up, so I’m probably pretty far behind. If I can run around with you guys leeching EXP then maybe? Also depends on how pregnant missus is feeling – might have to chalk up some browny points and look after her.
Hint: Pregnant missus probably needs a foot massage.
And a back rub…I hear they love back rubs
I’ll have to pass again sorry… Mix of being unable to catch up and finishing late means i can’t commit to this at the moment… Sorry guys /o\
SO MANY THINGS TO DO SO LITTLE TIME BLAARGH
No worries, next week!
So I’ve been having a fun time with a particular kickstarter which has been delayed for a while. to the point where I’m about to take the creator up on a half refund of it. But that means I’m now going to make my own box to house all the cards for dominion.
This means I’m about to go to Bunnings and buy alot of wood to be manly and creative.
YAY MANLY! This could go really well, or really not well.
Yay Manly. Wooo!!! Top of the table, baby!!!
Wait, what?
measure twice, cut once.
Measure PROPERLY twice and cut slowly once.
Eyeballs are the most effective measuring tool.
looks even enough *cuts like a 4yr old with plastic scissors*
Anyone who’s keen: Modern Warfare 2 on PC tonight. Jump in any time after 7!
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/MW2PCrevival
I was so Im installing it and my nets stupidly slow so ill jump in next week
No worries!
FYI we had 11 people online last night and it was a blast. Huge chance it’ll be as successful next week!
Good:
– I have 4 and a bit days left at my current job.
– I just found out that I have around 200 hours of leave owing on top of my final pay packet.
Bad:
– My boss is still giving me new things to do, making it very difficult to tie up all the loose ends.
– I still have 4 and a bit days left at my current job.
200 hours?!?!? Do you never take annual leave?! =O YOU’RE GOING TO BE A GAZZILIONAIRE!
Edit: Yes that’s a real word. Don’t check up on it.
That’s what, 5 weeks?
Year and a half or so you can accrue that
Buzzkill.
i had 300 hours accrued when i left my job. and about 40% went to tax. Stupid bulk payments. :/
I’ve heard of people that snake their way around that via the use of gifts instead of payments and/or continued weekly payments instead of lump sum.
Yeah realistically i should of taken the holiday days and got paid out then go back and quit. But hindsight is 20/20
If it pushes you into an abnormal tax bracket for that final pay packet, then you should get a shit-load back in your tax return. So it’s not like it’s all gone!
I get taxed a whole bunch already, so I don’t think I’m going to get hit that much worse than normal. BUT I am hoping to use my pre-tax dollars to buy out my work laptop, so that will help reduce it a little.
I’m at 277 at the moment.
Just cheked, i have 96 atm. Pretty good, given how much leave I’ve already spent for November, but I have been here 4.5 years
Hey I’m at 4.5 years here also! I forgot to add that at about ten weeks or so accrued the boss starts ringing and telling you to take time off.
Yeah, I was getting that hint last year, then I booked South America.
Then they had the gall to look sideways at me for using so much leave at once, until my manager sorted our HR man out.
[Scribbles into notebook: expect evil eye from coworkers when you take all seven weeks leave at once.] 😛
I’ve got 260ish. Bosses don’t let us take leave since they never have anyone to take over while we’re gone. Because we’re overstaffed or so they keep telling us.
Wait, what? That makes no sense.
No one to cover you when you’re gone, yet over-staffed?
@Benny yeah. My bosses are dicks. They just don’t want to hire anyone over the bare minimum. Unfortunately we have a lot of staff that like to take constant sick days (some up to 5 a month) so the ones staying on are constantly screwed. I’m always working 13 days straight and 12 hour days at times.
That’s bullshit. And I thought I was too busy with forty hour work weeks. You need a change. That scenario doesn’t leave you with enough time to spend with your wife and kids.
Exactly. I’ve been here for a bit under three years and have really only taken a bit of time Christmas and New Years. Still a nice surprise!
No, I take nowhere near enough leave. That’s part of the reason I’m quitting the job. It’s never “a good time”.
heh sounds an aweful lot like my previous position. And several others in the past. It’s never easy or a ‘good time’ to take leave when you’re the manager, or the primary contact person for sorting out issues/answering enquiries. Hope you manage to get yourself in a slightly more chillaxed position next time round!
OH GOD WHAT HAVE I BECOME?
whenever i get a message from the missus going “i bought you something”, my response used to be “oh cool, WHAT IS IT???”
My response now a days is “how much?”… What have i become?
Scrooge mcfuck.
yeah you read that properly.
“oh rocketman” !! =P *cue sitcom laughter*
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
Welcome to the dark and dreaded path of committed relationships =P
Haaaa aw /o\
😛You know i love you, you Germa. .Swedis.. Norwegi.. Dutch bastard.
“there’s only 2 things i can’t stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures… And the Dutch!”
Take ze fazha away!
ily
So hot, so ross.
Mature. And probably good with savings, too.
Savings part, not so much… Mature, probably :P… Or just boring, but i like mature better XD
Mr. Strange and I have separate monies so we can buy each other (and ourselves) stuff with it and not have to ask or answer any questions like that.
Like that time he got you Xenoblade! What a keeper 😀
And then she says in a sexy voice “It was on sale“
… HOW’D YOU KNOW??? 😛
Hooray for sticking to a sensible budget?
Atleast you didnt ask if she kept the reciept incase you could return it for store credit.
What was it anyway? was it a duck?
Gina Reinheart is trying to take over Fairfax? Oh wouldn’t that be grand…. :S
Probably a lot more than a grand!
HEY!!!!! Page 6 is <<<< thataway
There’s no one I have so much simultaneous love and hat for than you Pow Wow.
Much hat?
You and me… and her, Simultaneous lovin’ baby.
Eh, that story was a beat-up by The Australian.
Besides, Rineheart already controls, what, two board positions?
One as far as I can find out. And she can’t even sit it. Jack Cowin does as a representative. A 15% stake isn’t anything to sneeze at however.
There’s a few places reporting it although half are citing the Australian as a source so I guess that cancels it out.
The two sources in that article are “anonymous” and Jeff Kennett from 2-3 years ago.
Wait until it’s more concrete methinks.
There’s not a lot of information out there, only speculation. Just the thought of it is a bit gross however. Murdoch on one side and Reinheart on the other.
Becoming more irrelevant by the day. The Australian loses money, Fairfax is in trouble.
Meanwhile, The Guardian is putting on more staff and the HuffPo is going to launch here soon, so…
The Guardian is on the home screen of my phone.
Whoever wins, we lose.
Fuck, that’s what I get for not double checking earlier posts. Thanks @redartifice.
Lovely story 🙂
When i was six i didnt know how to tie my shoes, true story.
When I was six I got so excited that my mum got a new high score in Tron that I literally bit through a drinking glass and absentmindedly began to chew, until the pain hit me.
Ever since that point she has on many occasions told people I’m “special”.
Sadly, a true story.
Poor joke: removed.
Man, that story was just as sad when @zetrox2k told it at the TOP of the page!
That’s an amazing story! Pretty damn heavy too!
My curiosity burns brighter than the largest flame.
…or something.
In case any one’s missed it and wants to compare notes:
SPOILERS FOR THE WALKING DEAD GAME 2×04:
Here are the choices I made:
I managed to convince Sarah to come with the gang at the trailer park. I was beginning to feel like Jane was right and this wasn’t going to end well but Clem’s trying to save everyone she can and grasping onto her humanity. After what went down with Sarita I think Clem just wanted to help someone.
I didn’t rob Arvo. Clem of all people knows the consequences of stealing in a world like this. (As seen in the season finale of last season.) She told Lee not to steal back in the day and she stood by her own words today. Unfortunately Jane roughed up the kid and Clem was pissed.
I crawled through the ticket booth. Clem needed no convincing. It was the quietest way and she’s been in worse predicaments before. She was happy to offer her assistance.
I tried to help Sarah. I wanted Clem to stick to her word that friends help each other. I was incredibly nervous that I might get Jane killed in the process. It was sad, but I can’t help to think Sarah’s loss is kinder in a way for her. She was on the verge of a mental breakdown and would’ve gotten someone killed.
I held the baby. I like to choose the kind, human option for Clem whenever she gets a chance.
I sided with Luke and argued we should wait a day or two before heading to town.
I didn’t shoot Rebecca. I thought this might set off something in a precarious situation. I alerted the group but the worst happened any way.
Lost Nick. Lost Sarah. Lost Rebecca. Lost Sarita. And possibly more! HOLY FUCK!
Great, great episode. Easily up there with my favourites. Can’t wait for season finale.
What episode was this @dc?
I just escaped the shopping mall and hacked off Sarita’s arm, is this AFTER that episode???Haha fair point, should read a bit closer next time!
Yes.
holy shit @dc , do you live in the ghetto or something?!? remind me never to cross you!
Huh?
All in a days work eh?!? 😀
Just finished it.
I was in the majority for all the choices but most of them were pretty close at 50-60%. I think I had mostly the same choices as you except the last few which were “Save Jane” (figured Sarah is on the floor and there’s no way to save her), “Side with Kenny” (we need food!)The bag said “Sportsball”! 😀I didn’t really have any big “feels” this time. (I’m a monster), but I was so happy to slap some sense into Sarah!– Saved Sarah in the mobile home. Thought Jane was gonna buy the farm though, because she was the last one through the skylight. They set this up well to be a tough decision, but in the end, my Clem’s gonna try to do the humanitarian thing.– That said, I robbed Arvo. I didn’t believe he had a sick sister, and Clem had just had that conversation with Kenny about his eye getting infected. Also Luke’s ribs, and (although I’m not sure about the safety in this) giving painkillers to Rebecca in labour. I regretted it the instant it happened, though. Both Luke and Kenny ended up being seriously pissed at Clem.
– Clem volunteered to go through the booth. What other choice was there?
– When the walkers attacked, I told Mike to grab Sarah, rather than the water. I thought this would probably have repercussions, and given what eventually happened to Sarah, I kind of wish I’d gone the other way, especially because…
– I agreed with Luke and told the group to wait a couple of days. It’s getting harder and harder to be on the fence between Kenny and Luke, and the game is making it really goddamned hard to pick a side (like I KNOW I’m gonna have to in the next ep). When I’m forced to take a position, it’s about a 50/50 split.
– I sent Jane down to save Sarah. It was good for her to try, I think. I thanked her for trying. She left.
– Held the baby. Everyone should hold babies. They create families out of fractured dysfunction (wait, is this The Walking Dead or a sappy sitcom)
– Shot Rebecca. That’s the dad instinct. Didn’t even hesitate. I knew it would go bad, but I still did it.
I know they need to bring the game together for a unified finale sequence, and so start killing off all the optionally-saved characters from previous episodes, but poor Nick definitely got an unceremonious ending. Clem didn’t even get to check his pockets 🙁
Great episode! 😀 I like how we feel like monsters either way no matter what we choose now. XD
OK @dc, so I just finished my play though of the episode. Another great, great episode!
I made these choices:
I left Sarah at the trailer, I was cold hearted and was scared she was going to get Jane killed.I stole from Arvo, YES I DID IT. I had a feeling he was lying, so I took the pills. I regret nothing.
I crawled through the ticket booth straight up, my Clem is a badass so she went straight in.
I told Kenny and Luke to stop arguing after siding with Kenny saying we needed to leave in the morning for town.
I shot Rebecca, my immediate thought was ‘Oh god, what have I done?’ HOLY FUCK D.C!!
Hahah! Amazing episode! 😀 YOU MONSTER.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Eighteenth Session Recap (9th July 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 emaciated man sat on his pile of scrap metal and broken Numenera, a husk looking at the party. He coughed and violently dislodged phlegm from his throat as he again opened his mouth to speak.
“Help me.”
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/.
I gave the Witcher 2 another chance, this time with a controller. In some parts it was better, in other parts it was worse. The biggest problem was camera control, since you can’t select a target and press X at the same time. I’m going to have to change the controls to be more dark soulsy, so that RB is attack.
However, I faced the exact same bug in the tutorial level! I’ve played the tutorial 3 times, and I am truly sick of it. I don’t think I can go on playing this game.
I’ve heard that the tutorial prison thingy is one of the worst parts! I haven’t played Witcher 2 yet but I’ve been wanting to for a long, long time. Only recently got into the original Witcher and I’m loving that, so that one might be more up your alley? (it definitely feels dated though)
The Witcher games are kinda overrated imo and the controls in particular are pretty balls.
*gasp* Next you’ll be saying Gaben isn’t really Jesus II!
edit: nah that’s just a bit mean, Gaben’s the man.
I am actually a dirty console peasant in disguise, come to sow distension in the master race with snide remarks.
But you already have a lot of those so I just hang around and play games.
You gifted me Witcher \o/
Stop playing the damn tutorial!! =P The highlight of The Witcher 2 is its story! The controls work well with the PC K&M since it was originally a PC release but it does take a lot of getting used to unfortunately. If you enjoy games that are 50% conversation and 50% combat the witcher’s for you both are done really well but the combat is punishing but the story will repeatedly keep convincing you to stick it out and then you’ll get the hang of it 🙂 TRUST ME! =P
Done.
I am now an “out” gay man (to my mum at least) 🙂
It went a lot better than expected, and wasn’t as awkward as I thought it’d be 🙂
Terrifying though, but I’m feeling good 🙂
Edit: Oh! I forgot to say thank you for all the support! Sorry, I’m still a bit dazed, haha! 🙂
It means a lot knowing I have friends behind me to support me 🙂
I probably (ok, definitely) wouldn’t have done it today without your support 🙂
Congratulations!
Is Congrats even the right term? I dunno. Good work, buckaroozil.
I’ll be honest, I don’t know what one’s supposed to say in this situation either, so I’ll just say thank you, buddy, haha! 🙂
It means a lot 🙂
Congayulations?
Congratugaytions?
Congayugaygay!
^^this is my favourite 😀
Also, thanks, I think…?
A toast to the no longer imprisoned liondrive! Up ya bum!
P.S. Go and watch The Sum of Us if you don’t get it.
I don’t think “imprisoned” is the right word, haha! 😛
It feels good to have it out in the open though 🙂
I feel, good 🙂
I’m glad I did it 🙂
perhaps not the exact word I wanted, but it’s like you’ve unleashed the beast inside you! 😉
Awesome mang, glad it went well.
Thanks, pal 🙂
It was extremely nerve wracking at the time :S
I think it was the best outcome though 🙂
It feels good to have it off my chest finally 🙂
Congrats man, that’s fantastic news! Yay for being yourself? \o/
It sounds so much less meaningful when you put it like that, hahaha! 😛
Thanks, friend 🙂
Hahaha i guess it does, doesn’t it? Sorry, i meant for it to sound more like you no longer have to pretend to be someone else around your mum, and just be yourself… I WAS TRYING TO BE DEEP AND MEANINGFUL DAMMIT!
😛seriously though, good for you! I’ll buy you a drink if/when you come to Melbourne!
Was her response “I already know”
and your like “but..how?!”
and she replies “I found your rhinestone covered speedo and a man name Mark keeps calling for you and hangs up by saying xo toodles”
and then a laugh track hits and you hug and the credits roll and next up on TV How I Met Your Mother re runs?
What’s a re-run?
Basically where they claim they are airing new episodes but before we air the new episodes heres 2 episodes from 2 completely seperate seasons to see how well you remember shit
Sorry, I was just quoting a line from Back To The Future.
Im ashamed to admit that aside from most of the pop culture refrences to it I cant honestly remember anything about Back To The Future 🙁
Her first response was, “But you still like girls, right?”, to which I replied, “No mum, that’s not what gay is. At all”, haha! 😀
She did say something a bit, urgh, but I called her on it.
She was like, “If you get a boyfriend, please be a bit considerate and not kiss in front of me”.
I get it, but I said that considerate definitely was not the right word to use, and that I’m going to be me regardless of who I’m around.
She seems happy though 🙂
I do not ever want to see my kids kissing anyone, no matter which gender they end up liking. That’s just weird. They’re my babies!
And yes, I’m aware that it’s silly of me, but it’s still weird!
Let’s check back on this statement in a few years (however many years it takes for strange’s kids to get hitched =P)
I’mma make a rule they can’t “kiss the bride”. 😛
Might need to take the one up with the pastor =P If you do please make sure to twitch stream it while I grab the popcorn xD
Woo, glad to hear it went well mate!
Nicely done.
Good job! Tremendous! Congratulations! Huzzah! Terrific! Hail! Felicitations! Thesaurus!
This thing is so unruly so I won’t try to find a relevant thread, I requested a join to the Kotaku (AU) Destiny clan, if someone could kindly point this post to whoever is running it. PSN name Piat420
@TheCracks
Yay, fronds!
Approved. I usually check it at least once a day.
We should get a 3-man strike team going to farm devil’s lair for the PS4! I want all blue gear dammit! =P Anyone interested?
Suuuuure, I might try.
I am keen, I will be on this afternoon.
seems you cant see clan in game so you can add me directly on PSN, see above for username
How does one see who is online from your clan? I could not see any info anywhere. I hope the clan system is fleshed out more/clearer for release, it will be the only way to group with people consistently.
Yeah, I have no idea about the in-game stuff regarding clans. I’m assuming it’ll be in there for release.
Stoichiometric coefficient? What kind of word is that? Dafuq is wrong with you people? *bangs head against table*
Also: Balancing chemical reactions and yield limiting reactants.
Also also: there is like five times the amount of people in the city tonight than usual. I blame @dc. And @Sughly. But mostly @dc.
Have you done the noodle markets yet?
Craaaaaaappp. No.
WHERE WERE YOU 15 MINUTES AGO!
It’s on until Sunday – there’s still time 🙂
Going tonight after work. \o/
ey? What I do?
Sometimes avoid our red shells :'(
Stoichiometry! \o/
Listening to the Bravely Default soundtrack again. Still great. The final boss battle music on the soundtrack is epic, so many movements and bits and pieces, even has a little medley of four characters special attack themes toward the end. Easily some of if not the best final boss music from the last 5-10 years of JRPGs. So good.
(Incidentally, Edea’s theme is the best of the four, even though it does kind of sound a bit like a sitcom theme)
80 minutes of basketball over two games is really draining. I scored 6 points in the first game and 4 in the second, but I am exhausted. Plus I had my exercise group and I walked into town, so I did 160 minutes of exercise today. Phew!
I played a game of soccer on a court which was my first time playing any sort of sport in like 5 years and I’m dead. I now make some horrible wheezing dying noise now when I exhale 😛
160 mins is insanity!
indoor or outdoor?
Outdoor, but it was on my work’s multi purpose court. Material was kinda tennis courty?
Yeah i know the type, I used to play goalie at indoor haha
I wasn’t expecting to play the 2 full games of basketball, so I decided to walk into town. I would have caught the bus if I’d known. You’re right though, 160 minutes of exercise is insane, and my back is not happy with me.
Man you’re making me feel guilty =P This has been my rest week from gymming and I think I really needed it given I passed out on my bed at 7pm yesterday 0.0
But good work on 160 minutes of exercise!! Keep at it! =D
Thanks. Once I finish my exercise group (in 3 weeks), I will be joining a gym.
\o/ keep it up! After a few months you will think 160min is normal 😛
I only did half an hour yesterday but by fuck it was hard, set several new dead lift records in a row, my previous was 60 which I did to warm up then hit 80 then 100 then 110.
If you ever do any lifting, I can definitely recommend getting wrist straps, you wouldn’t think it but a small change really alters where the pressure rests, pushing some of it into your forearms and makes a big difference to how much you can do since it’s not all in your wrists
At the moment I’m focusing on losing weight and getting fitter. Weights will be further down the track.
Decided i’ll just pony up and build a proper HTPC. Looking at something a bit like this; http://www.pccasegear.com/sc/kxj
I’ll probably put one of the spare SSD’s I have lying about in it as a boot drive and for immediate programs. Use the mech drive for storage. Anyone got any suggestions? Would prefer to keep it under 450. Which I think is a good target.
Depends what you want to do with it. If it’s just as a media player and you don’t have any odd requirements like playback of Hi10P or something, what you have would be really capable.
Personally the last time I built a HTPC I went much smaller. Mini-ITX case, motherboard with an integrated CPU (AMD E-350) but it was a bit underpowered for windows and couldn’t handle Hi10P stuff at all, and so when the anime fansub encoding community took a collective shit in the mouths of everyone and all went to 10-bit for no appreciable quality gains, I had to ditch the machine 🙁
EDIT: If it’s just for video you could consider one of these:
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=138_1019&products_id=28027
ITX board with a low-power Celeron CPU on board that has integrated graphics and has accelerated h264 decoding. Should be capable of most stuff you’d throw at it, maybe not 1080p Hi10P stuff but most normal video would be fine.
There’s also this little gem for even cheaper! and it’s a quad core! Can’t speak for how well they perform, but for $88 could be worth a try 😉
/edit helps if I put a link..
http://www.umart.com.au/umart1/pro/Products-details.phtml?id=10&id2=376&bid=5&sid=193563
Yeah, the one I linked has the 2.4ghz dual-core CPU, that one is a quad but you lose 400mhz clock, not sure the tradeoff is worth it for video. Either of them would probably be fine though.
It had occurred to me just after last night that ITX would be better 😛
I don’t do 1080P of any sort I just stick with 720p h.264 and I have never used Hi10P, would seem from Google it’s mostly just popular in the Anime scene at the moment?
Only issue I have with that motherboard is it requires SODIMM ram, saying that I could use the ram from the laptop I have since it’s DDR3 and pretty sure 1333 speed.. But yeah.
Re-did the build just this morning, I kinda like what i’ve come up with and it now has a motherboard with build in wifi and cheaper again so that’s a plus. http://www.pccasegear.com/sc/iEC
Motherboard in that linked one is still a Micro ATX one?
Argh, it some how carried over the other one, not sure how..
http://www.pccasegear.com/sc/iTZ there we go 😛
Weird that the mobo has 2 HDMI outs, must be in case you want to occasionally hook it up to a projector or something.
It looks like it’d be a good solid build and should have little trouble supporting 1080p stuff, you may not be using it now but you’ll probably do so in the future, even if only because people will stop putting 720 stuff out eventually.
My concerns about it are that you’re going to run out of room rather quickly if you go with a 3.5 HDD but I guess that depends how much media you plan to store on it and how many drives you expect to put in over time. You did note that you can’t have an optical drive and the 3.5 HDD in that case at the same time didn’t you? I gather since you’re not ordering one you don’t plan to use one so it’s not a drama.
The biggest concern though is the PSU you’ve picked, I don’t think it’ll fit. The case specifically says it needs an SFX sized PSU which is a specialised small scale format and the one you have selected is 140x86x150mm which is pretty large compared to the case itself and I have a feeling you might come to grief when putting it together. this one is specifically mentioned as being SFX format and is of course a bit less powerful and a bit more expensive. Silverstone also have a 450w one which is $100. You’d probably have to decide how many drives you imagine you’ll be packing into the machine over it’s lifetime before you pick which PSU to go for. If it’s only the boot SSD & 2TB you’d be able to get away with 300w, if you think you might keep adding drives till it’s full then 450 would be a better choice.
Eh, unless they start putting TV shows on cable/free to air in 1080p not 1080i then I think it’ll be a while yet. Plus i’ve never had an issue in the past with 1080p on my raspberry pi or my current set up. Since I only run XBMC nothing else when i’m watching stuff and don’t have anything running in the background.
Derp, SFX missed that. Ah ffs Silverstone. May revise the case then. Forgot silverstone use their proprietary PSU for their ITX cases >_>
Eh, I don’t really have much in the way of media, I have an external 1.5tb that’s only maybe half full. I plan on only ever requiring 1 3.5″ drive with an SSD. I only acquire TV shows, I don’t do movies since I have an extensive blu-ray movie collection.
I said this in a few other spots, but as long as the CPU or GPU & software has h264 decoding, standard profile 1080p is trivial. If a Roku can do it, a modern PC with hardware decoding can do it.
However @virus if you’re worried about CPU performance you could consider one of the cheap Pentium line, the G3240 for example is a dual-core, 3.1ghz Haswell CPU with kind of weak but adequate integrated graphics and is in the same price range.
Things to consider:
– A6 6400K is a newer version of the processor you’ve selected there with a newer GPU, faster CPU, same TDP and costs $4 more. You should get that (or consider the A8 quad core range)
– Make sure your selected case will fit the Cooler! If not you’d need to buy a low-profile cooler for the AMD socket.
Cheers man! I know nothing about AMD honestly 😛
I’ll probably get shouted down, but what about something like an EeeBox? I used to have a model 1501 and that was perfect for a media centre. Played 1080P content with no issues (via an attached external HDD), and looked great to boot or alternatively could be mounted behind the TV.
The new models appear to be going Intel HD integrated graphics, so I’m not sure what performance would be like but the EB1503 appears to have a GeForce 610M, according to Wikipedia so that could be a good option if you can track one down.
It’s a low effort solution, for sure, and you can probably build something for cheaper, but it’s something to keep in mind if you’re feeling lazy.
That’s an issue I want internal storage 😛 Seems like a good little build for someone who is lazy/has no idea what they’re doing.
Yeah, if you want solely internal then the EB lineup isn’t great. It’s very much a CBF / half-assed solution. Which is exactly what I wanted at the time. 😛
Just make sure the CPU of choice can play local 1080p content fluidly. 3.6GHz dual-core AMD should be fine (but do your homework) but it might choke if doing stuff in the background too.
Don’t play 1080p content tbh! But if the laptop i’ve been using (AMD dual core something from about 2-3 years ago) can i’m sure this would be fine if I need to lol.
Nowadays, standard profile h264 has hardware decoding support and you don’t need much CPU grunt, just the right software to offload it to the hardware correctly.
Yeah, and some of those low-end APU’s struggle with 1080p content if you’re also doing things like streaming and torrenting in the background.
Bah, just spent like two hours trying to get the glitch to work again. Did it all right, like a good half a dozen times or so at least, but it still didn’t happen 🙁
You’ve got to love apathy, eh? It makes hthtrhsb
I literally just don’t care enough to finish the sentence. Wow.
Maxibon ice cream sandwiches solves everything, kids!
Haven’t had one of those in ages, I’ma get me one tomorrow.
It’s like an ice cream sandwich and a magnum rolled into one!
Hmm, That Neptunia anime girl post there and no one has questioned the Final Fantasy girl named Ain Al?
Or I just being ridiculously immature? Like usual… I’d go with that.
I don’t know why they’ve separated it into two words, the Katakana doesn’t show that. It should be Ainaru or something (remember, Ai is pronounced like ‘eye’).
Your point kind of stands though.
Depends on whether you think ‘ain’ make an ‘ayn’ or ‘aen’ sound. It’s the former for me, so it took me a while to figure out what you where saying.
…I don’t see how ayn al makes it sound in any way different.
Okay, it seems we both have different interpretations on what ‘ayn’ sounds like. How about instead of ayn, I said ien?
EDIT: When I see ‘ayn,’ I read it as aye-n. You know, like the Scottish phrase for hello.
I don’t speak Scottish.
Help me, @markserrels!
I can’t even say the word Titmouse without giggling like a schoolgirl.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/SUPERSMASHBROS
This is what I’ve been laughing at for the last five minutes.
So The Walking Dead Season Two by Telltale is amazing. Just amazing. Cannot wait for the last chapter. It’s gonna be huge.
Here are my choices for S02E04. SPOILERS ABOUND.
– Saved Sarah in the mobile home. Thought Jane was gonna buy the farm though, because she was the last one through the skylight. They set this up well to be a tough decision, but in the end, my Clem’s gonna try to do the humanitarian thing.– That said, I robbed Arvo. I didn’t believe he had a sick sister, and Clem had just had that conversation with Kenny about his eye getting infected. Also Luke’s ribs, and (although I’m not sure about the safety in this) giving painkillers to Rebecca in labour. I regretted it the instant it happened, though. Both Luke and Kenny ended up being seriously pissed at Clem.
– Clem volunteered to go through the booth. What other choice was there?
– When the walkers attacked, I told Mike to grab Sarah, rather than the water. I thought this would probably have repercussions, and given what eventually happened to Sarah, I kind of wish I’d gone the other way, especially because…
– I agreed with Luke and told the group to wait a couple of days. It’s getting harder and harder to be on the fence between Kenny and Luke, and the game is making it really goddamned hard to pick a side (like I KNOW I’m gonna have to in the next ep). When I’m forced to take a position, it’s about a 50/50 split.
– I sent Jane down to save Sarah. It was good for her to try, I think. I thanked her for trying. She left.
– Held the baby. Everyone should hold babies. They create families out of fractured dysfunction (wait, is this The Walking Dead or a sappy sitcom)
– Shot Rebecca. That’s the dad instinct. Didn’t even hesitate. I knew it would go bad, but I still did it.
I know they need to bring the game together for a unified finale sequence, and so start killing off all the optionally-saved characters from previous episodes, but poor Nick definitely got an unceremonious ending. Clem didn’t even get to check his pockets 🙁
Got it on PC and 360, but I’m holding off till about a week before they release the final episode before I make a start on it.
Wise man. That’s what I did for season 1, and I didn’t regret it!
Same I’m avoiding all possible spoilers because I liked how Episode 3 kind of tied itself up (YAY no cliffhangers!) But no way am I touching Episode 4 until we at least get a release date for the last episode 😛
I was sad to see Jane leave the group. She kind of reminded me of Carol from the series. (And I like Carol from the series. XD) I appreciated this episode didn’t have a next time montage to spoil the home stretch. Hopefully it’s not too far away.I haven’t played episode 4 yet since I was playing Destiny last night but I just want to say something that’s really fascinating to me about Walking Dead is that when I was playing as Lee I tried to make that choices that would make Lee the man he wanted Clemintine to think he was. Now in season 2, I’m trying to play Clem as the kind of person Lee would want her to become.
I guess when you think about it, it’s really just me playing the way I want to play, but the game is is letting me express that really effectively through their characters to the extent I kind of feel like the choices are out of my hands.
Stop saying how amazing it is, I can’t play it until the weekend! D:
Question for Master Racers: my Walking Dead (non-Steam) is on my old computer, but I want to play it on my new computer. Is it just a matter of copying over all the files to the same folders? I don’t want to lose my save file 😐
On Steam there’s an option to backup game files. Do that and then restore/install it on your new comp!
Oh, that work for non-Steam games?
I have the standalone digital version from the Telltale website.
Ohhh I thought you had a Steam version. Steam stuff only as far as I’m aware. You can try redownloading and just copying the saves if your thingy doesn’t work
I clearly said “non-Steam”! Geezius!
Can’t readius!
VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE – A short story by Phlanispo
For those who came in late…
Episode Two: The Pitfalls of Staying Young
Episode Two: Mopman’s Mirrors
Episode Three: Shotgun Shindig
Nine vampires surrounded Moore. Okay, this was bad. They were waiting for him to make the first move. Okay… easy does it… no quick movements.
Moore ignored his brain and shot the vampire directly in front of him, then dropped to the floor. Moore crawled out of the circle of vampires unscathed.
When he got to his feet, he shot at the nearest vampire. Despite being a point blank range, he missed. Moore ran to his Harley and started it up. He attempted to shoot and drive at the same time. All he succeeded in doing was waste two rounds of ammo.
Moore stopped the motorcycle, aimed his shotgun, and fired two rounds. The shells found their mark, and two vampires went down. Three vampires down, six to go. No shells left in the shotgun.
Moore took off on the open road, with vampires in pursuit. These buggers were fast. Good thing the Harley was faster.
When Moore had gotten a sufficient lead on them, he stopped the motorcycle and started to reload his shotgun with the silver bullets he’d taken with him.
When Moore finished reloading, the vampires had caught up to him. Moore shot blindly and magically hit one of them. Moore took off again. The vampires trailed behind him.
Moore entered the freeway. Crap, there was a lot of traffic. Moore sat on his motorcycle impatiently. Come on, the traffic is barely moving.
Moore noticed that almost all of the cars had a piece of garlic hanging from the rearview mirror. Weirdos. What kind of person hangs garlic from their rearview mirror?
The vampires were gaining on him, and he was completely stationary. May as well start shooting at them. They were what, 100 feet away? Okay, now they were 90 feet away. Easy pickings.
Moore fired one round at a vampire, and instead shot out the tyre of one of the cars behind him. It was at this point that Moore realised he was bad at shotguns.
The woman whose tyre had been shot out got out of her car and started yelling at Moore. A vampire tackled her and sunk its teeth into her neck.
Moore fired, and accidentally killed both of them. Moore considered that a victory. Five vampires down, four to go. Three bullets left in the shotgun.
The vampires that remained were very close now. If only he could through this damn traffic. They were getting closer. Very close now. \
It was at this point that Moore realised he was in a motorcycle, and he started to weave in and out of the stationary traffic. He wasn’t much faster than the vampires that were chasing him, but he kept them at bay. Moore got to the front of the traffic jam, and realised what had caused the jam.
Two men had had a light collision, and had stopped to exchange insurance information. They saw the vampires that were chasing Moore, and climbed into their ever-so-slightly dented cars. They both had garlic hanging from their rearview mirrors. Moore shook his head, and sped off. On the open freeway, the vampires didn’t have a hope of chasing him. Moore looked back, and watched the vampires slowly disappear from view. Victory.
The drive was surprisingly quiet on the way back to Moore’s house. Moore passed through the tunnels with no disturbance. A few minutes later, and Moore was in his suburb, only a few miles away from his house. He passed by a horde of 15 vampires. Moore stuck his tongue out at them, and they gave chase. Heh, they couldn’t get him, he was driving a Harley on open road. Moore’s arrogance was short lived, as the motorcycle ran out of fuel two blocks down the road. The best course of action under those circumstances was to run, Moore thought.
Moore quickly realised that he was not as good at running as he used to be. He was never good at running and shooting at the same time to begin with. Both of the two shots he fired missed completely. Okay, he only had one shell left, no time to reload, 15 vampires were chasing him, and he was about a mile away from his house. Now seemed a good time to panic.
Looking for a shortcut, Moore cut through the park, and dived into the stream. If he swam through the stream and got to the other side of the park, it would cut half a mile off his journey. Four vampires jumped into the stream to chase him, and instantly disintegrated.
It seemed vampires couldn’t handle running water. Well that’s just stupid. The vampires with functioning brains went the long way around.
When the stream ended, Moore got out and continued running towards his house. Moore looked behind him.
The vampires that remained were quite a bit behind him, but they would catch up to him in a matter of minutes. Moore could hear the Matsumoto’s arguing, so he must be close.
The vampires were very near by the time Moore’s house was in view. Moore heard Ms Matsumoto yelling something about infidelity, and Mr Matsumoto was pushed out of the house. He seemed to be carrying a suitcase. It seems Ms Matsumoto read Tina’s note.
Focused on other things, Moore didn’t realise that one of the vampires had caught up to him until it grabbed his trench coat. Moore spun around and fired his last round. The hand loosened its grip. A few more steps and he was at his front door.
All he had to do was unlock the door. Using his keys. Which were in the ignition on his motorcycle. Shit. Panic set in.
The vampires were getting very close. A few of them broke off to attack Mr Matsumoto.
They were in his driveway now. They’d be on him in seconds. Then Moore remembered that he forgot to lock his door this morning. He opened the door, and stepped inside, started activating all the locks. They would pound down the door, given enough time.
Instead he heard a gentle knock. Puzzled, Moore waited for a trap to be sprung. A voice came from the other side of the door
.
“Hey, sir. Can you please let us in?” one of the vampires pleaded.
“Uhh… no.” responded Moore.
“Oh pleeaaase? We can’t get in unless we are invited.”
“No.”
“Come oooon. I’ll be your friend.”
”Tempting… but the answer is still no.”
“Aww, you’re no fun.” another vampire chimed in.
“Come on, let’s go to his neighbour’s house. Maybe she will let us in” said a third vampire.
Moore listened to their footsteps as they left. He breathed a sigh of relief. When you think about it, vampires are pretty stupid. He made himself another bowl of cereal and turned on the TV and watched Wheel of Fortune.
Fin
I am well aware that it says Episode Two, followed by episode one’s title. If I try to edit it, I’ll be in moderation city.
Okay, so you may or may not want critique but im gonna give it anyway.
The story is fine but your writing style is very “he did this and then they did this and then he did this”
some amazing writing advice i saw on reddit a little while ago and i urge you to take a read because it makes you realize exactly what you are doing wrong and right
http://litreactor.com/essays/chuck-palahniuk/nuts-and-bolts-%E2%80%9Cthought%E2%80%9D-verbs
also keep writing stuffs. This stuff is shitloads better than anything i can come up with and you seem to understand grammar WAAAY better than i do.
I agree 100% with le Rocketman. One of the things that I learned about writing is to vary the flow and pace of your writing. Mix up long, winding sentences with short, staccato, ratta-tat-tat sentences. Once you start getting good at it, you can actually start conveying quite a bit of mood and feeling through the structure of the writing itself and not just the words on the page/screen.
I know this is a bit hypocritical considering my writing has, of late, been a very much “he did blank and then he did blank” affair. But honestly @phlanispo keep writing as much as you want. Practice makes perfect after all. 🙂
Oh shit, soFallen films isn’t making Halo machinima anymore. He just uploaded his final episode, and it’s 35 minutes long.
I’ve been awake for way too long… 🙁
Go to Origin.
Redeem Code.
Type “I-LOVE-THE-SIMS”
Free Sims 2 Ultimate Collection! 😀
It was supposed to be for Sims 2 owners only, but the generic code works for everyone. I’d hold out on downloading it for a bit to see if EA let it stay.
help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-get-the-sims-2-ultimate-collection/
Looks like they don’t really care who downloads it.
Few server issues however. Say a number of people are getting it.
I got an email from them last week I think, telling me that my copy would no longer work. I don’t recall seeing any code in the email I got though. Still, cheers! Always happy to add another game to the collection, even if I’m not likely to play it for a long time.. if ever!
I’ll do this tonight. I do have a disc-based version of Sims 2 and most of the DLC already, but I wouldn’t mind a digital copy of the entire collection since I liked it way more than Sims 3.
I would but then I’d own the sims 2!
The best one!
Still kind of like picking your favourite between tuberculosis, cholera or diphtheria… Still, fair play to them, good to give away stuff to people who like it even if it’s only an accident. It’ll be good if they don’t revoke it and just write it off as good PR like adobe did when they accidently gave away creative suite 2 to a lot more people than they planned
I started playing super meat boy again last night. I started off trying to get all the band aids.I love Meat boy sooo much, such beautifully tight controls and great level design. Then i played more trigger happy havoc. Those characters are great. With each murder i actually get sad because i like the characters group dynamic. Its just such a intriguing story.
Fuck Yeah Super Meat Boy!
Destiny Beta thoughts:
First things first, this game looks bloody amazing. Just really great work here.
Game sounds feel right, though I hope there’s more in-action music during the real game, I didn’t really get a sense of the atmosphere like I did during battles in Halo, though the world itself seems well-realised and well-designed.
This thing is straight-up MMO. As someone who generally cannot get into MMOs I’m sure I’ll warm to it especially once all my friends are playing but there’s no use pretending this isn’t designed around the MMO format.
Combat is engaging and satisfying. Guns feel good to use. I’d expect nothing less from Bungie.
Overall positive impressions and for the moment I feel no regret that I’m dropping $200 on the Ghost edition because I’m sure I’d feel remorse for not doing so later on. I hope there’s a good story to go along with the world they’ve built here and not a thin veneer of plot MMOs usually get, or I’ll wind up being disappointed.
Two questions on the MMO thing:
Will there be subscription fees?
How many players can be involved in one combined instance of gameplay?
No sub fees. PS+ required for some things (strike missions – auto-matched co-op missions), not sure about XBL.
Define instance. I’ve had 5-6 of us doing a random/mission event when we bumped into each other in the world. Haven’t seen a limit on that. Strike does have a limit and it was 3 for the single strike mission in Beta.
Instance = players sharing gameplay. Like some MMOs have full overworlds with whole server populations but instanced dungeons just with the group present.
As an example Dark Souls has instances of up to 4 players in the same gameplay space.
No idea, don’t think Bungie ever specified. In the ‘city’ section I’ve seen 25+ people.
PS3+4 requires PS+ for dungeons and pvp, 360+one requires live gold for everything.
Dungeons are 3 players, for “strikes” there is talk of raid like content later game, but haven’t heard anything definitive about numbers. Open world content is still instanced, also haven’t seen anything solid on numbers but i’d say @StickMan is right at about the 25 mark with the tower.
While in the “Tower” which is like the mission/store hub I saw maybe twenty other names floating around but i’m sure there were more people than than playing so presumably they divide randoms across servers. If you want to run with friends you’d invite them to your game or vice versa.
The missions I’ve done so far recommend 1-3 players and the level bosses were sort of a challenge to solo but not particularly tough. I guess there’s no real reason that ten people couldn’t waltz in together if they wanted but I haven’t seen it happen. The game might restrict it. You basically get dropped in the area where the mission is then when you get to the objective you get a warning that respawns are restricted, meaning I guess if your party wipes you hard to start over. Maybe in that area you’re limited to your party/fireteam only? I noticed I couldn’t see any random names floating around outside once I entered that area.
As far as I’m aware no subscription fees, it’s never been mentioned. I’m sure Activision will try and microtrans out the wazoo though.
Darkness areas are limited to a single fireteam (3 people).
Darkness areas being mission areas, when it comes up saying spawning is restricted that is a darkness area and is limited to your fireteam.
There is public events which is anyone on the map.
‘Fireteams’ can also combine on-the-fly. CC @piat
One time there were just two of us doing the strike. We got up to a section where respawns are limited, and some other solo dude somehow merged into our fireteam.
Also, just because you’re doing a mission with your fireteam doesn’t mean you’re the only players in the instance. You can catch up with other people and have them help you out, or vice versa. A pretty cool system really, and it’s kinda weird that no one is mentioning it (since it was touted by Bungie as a game-changing feature, and praised wayyy before the alpha).
Yeah strikes functioned like that in the alpha, if you’re down a member people who launch the strike solo will be dropped into your party. Nothing really new with that as WoW has been doing that for years now but cool none the less.
Be aware to have people join you for missions your fireteam has to be public to get randoms,.
I’ve never seen more than 3 people in a strike except in the opening area which acts like a player lobby, you get everyone without a full team in there until it pairs you up.
You cannot have more than three in any of the beta missions. More than 3 in a team won’t let you start and you never randomly meet up with others to make more than 3 once the mission/strike really kicks off.
Can get a fair few people in each server area. I think 16 per Tower instance, though.
Strikes (dungeons) are 3-player instances.
Raids will be 6-player.
Roaming around in Explore mode,more entering the Crucible (PvP) can take 6-player fire teams.
And no sub fees.
oh raids are 6 people are they? Haven’t heard that.
See my comment above.
This is not necessarily the case.When I picked up Final Fantasy VII on Steam on release, I played it for a bit and questioned if it was a worthwhile purchase, as I had no real drive to play it again.
Fast forward to now and I’m almost midway through the second disc, and looks like I’ll be knocking off every achievement on the way (including “Master all materia”).
Played a few Hearthstone matches last night to check out the first wing of Naxx and to clear out the daily quests… I came across quite a few people running the new Naxx cards in their decks for no good reason… I mean priests and warlocks running the spider deathrattles or the nerubian eggs in decks that were clearly not designed to play well with these cards? I could’ve easily lost in those matches (was using a level 8 druid deck for dailies) but thanks to how they were using the naxx cards I managed to pull ahead.
I’m sure this isn’t the case in the current meta-game but even for fun its clear the spider cards are meant for zoo decks =\
@evilmonkey Get any more play time in or checked out the Naxx wing? 😀
Edit: What the hell! Not meant as a reply to Rize!……
Nah, haven’t got any play time with it since the weekend, hopefully I’ll get on and check out the new cards in the next few days.
TAYlist requests, anyone?
The gossip-Heavy Cross
Paperback writer – The Beatles
Where Does the Good Go? – Tegan and Sara
Sweet disposition – Temper Trap
GREAT TRACK.
Supertramp.
Hooked On A Feeling – Blue Swede
Guardians Of The Galaxy Hype!
Coconut – Harry Nilsson
Ramming Speed – Turbo-Laser
For some reason when I thought about this,the first song that popped into my head was ‘Good’ by Better Than Ezra. So despite not having even heard or thought about that song since forever, that’s my request. Because now it’s stuck in my head. 😛
Feeling a bit downtempo today. How about Portishead – Glory Box?
Seconded!
You need some Zero 7. Try ‘Destiny’ or ‘In the Waiting Line.’
I’ve heard ‘In the Waiting Line’ before, I should really check out a whole album. Good suggestion. 🙂
All this Lorde talk makes me want to request Team by Lorde.
If that’s too new then I’d like Little Talks – Of Monsters and Men.
…who?
Get back to work! >:(
YOU’RE NOT MY BOSS
I hope.Dinosaur Jr – I don’t wanna go there
How about some Orianthi, since she’s a born and bred Adelaidian 😛
Had this on high rotation in my playlists for last 9 months after hearing it on Suits. Fair warning it is jazz/blues in case that’s not your cuppa.
Dusty Blue – Charles Bradley
Spotify link cause I’m lazy on my phone: http://open.spotify.com/track/3N2FglYF3MGNntecAnVyeG
Requests are now closed, thank you for the song choices.
Skateaway by Dire Straits.
Tested out the 3D features of my TV for the first time last night with Frozen! It was pretty awesome, good movie.
Soooooooooooo many support requests to dig through.
Tell me about it – sounds like my day.
Well, there was one person who sent through three different messages all more or less saying “I’d like to start the trial please” all within the span of an hour. Rather than using the honking great sign-up from that is front and centre when you visit the page.
Oh Gooky, you’re so funny. Expecting users to read instructions…. Classic!
Funny, that’s exactly what the following one was about…
Ahhh, those are the kind of support tickets people used to scramble to take since it’s little to no effort to close, and adds to your KPIs to make you look better.
Meanwhile I was the only sucker actually tackling the difficult tasks, and had lower stats because of it.
I am glad I don’t seem to have any KPIs like that 😛
I could do with some support, earlier this week I think a rather attractive lady was checking me out and I had no idea what to do since it’s never happened before. How do you talk to new people beyond saying hello?
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sorry that’s way out of my area of expertise.
I’m gonna escalate you to @transientmind.
There you go, all done.
High-five! Getting checked out is a nice ego boost.
As to how to handle it? I always found that telling myself, “You know what? Fuck it,” always helped.
Just don’t care. Assume you’ve already ‘blown it’ and just have fun talking pretty much the same way you talk to anyone. Just one of the guys. Doesn’t have to be anything particularly special or suave about it – it doesn’t really matter, all that matters is you’re friendly, you’re not leaping to any assumptions, just a human reacting to another human signalling via eye contact that they want to communicate – for whatever reason.
If she’s checking you out, that’s very fair to interpret as an invitation to say hi. Humans are like that, about eye contact. It’s a form of communication. So just say hi. Smile, throw up a few fingers in a lazy wave, call out, “Hi,” back. Go about your business, then when you’re done with your set or whatever, if she hasn’t already come to say hi, just walk on up and smile again and ask if you can help her out, say you noticed her looking, ask if she was curious about anything, wanted tips/had a question or if she was just admiring. (Because you could understand that. Who wouldn’t?)
One of the things I’ve consistently found is most disarming to pretty women is for you to utterly ignore their beauty and talk to them, treat them the same as you would anyone else. For you? It’s not a factor. You can be as funny, irreverent, or indifferent as you like because you’re not tripping over your own panting tongue in a desperate effort to ‘not blow this chance’.
People like being treated like people, funnily enough. I mean, a little bit of flattery is all good fun and games; people put effort into their appearances, they do like a little payoff every now and then, but the real joy of having a fun chat with an attractive person is not so much the whole agenda or social gaming or trying to get a number/get them in bed, as much as… interacting with someone for the novelty of the new, and enjoying that contact with someone, openly. Honestly. Humans are gregarious by nature. That person being pretty is the icing on the cake – we all like aesthetics, it’s why we decorate.
There’s no pressure, nothing creepy, so you just say, ‘y’know what? Fuck it’ and go talk. Even if they decide that actually they didn’t want to talk, you lose nothing. Or what… people will think you’re confident, approachable and polite? Horror of horrors. 🙂
Dear Diary. Talked to a stranger. It was nice. Good day!
tl;dr: Relax, feel good about the compliment, enjoy talking to a stranger, realize it’s ‘not a big deal’, just a nice highlight to the day.
Ahh there you’ve hit upon the stumbling block, after decades of being a socially isolated outcast interacting only with people I already know and on the net where I can just join in on a pre-existing conversation, I’ve completely forgotten how to start talking to new people. I mean if there’s some obvious hook I’m okay, for example I could say “So how on earth did you find yourself on fire anyway?” but if they’re not on fire I’m stumped. Also if you set them on fire so you have something to talk about they’re actually less likely to talk to you, I learned that one the hard way.
I’d like to feel good about the compliment but I can’t see it in the mirror and I can’t really imagine anyone finding me attractive, I suppose it illustrates how fucked up school abuse made me when I can’t conceive of a compliment being aimed at me without at least suspecting on some level that it’s some sort of cruel trick even though intellectually I know it’s not.
You know, I know what you mean and I DID think about that too, but thought I’d let it go.
I wouldn’t say I’m the best at it, but I’ve always had fair to middling or even positive responses with just whatever was most present in my mind. No ‘angle’, no pretense, just… if the overriding, most ‘top of the pile’ thought in my head was, “You’re really pretty,” I’d go with, “Good hair day, huh?” or something like that. (Always best to at least compliment people on their choices, not their circumstances – being pretty is less of a decision and more of a circumstance. What they choose to wear, however, is a lot more about them as a person and not simply the body they were born in.)
If it’s something about he circumstance, then pretty much just say something about that.
People pick up on pretense, and you shouldn’t need a ‘line’. Just whatever’s most pressing in your mind for the situation, because the odds are pretty good that if it’s situational (like a comment about the bus being so damn late) then you’re not the only one thinking it, and if it’s a response to stimuli, then it’s logical, reasonable, and again – no agenda or pretense.
Hell, just YESTERDAY, I was standing in a line to get on a bus and when I turned around to see how many people were to get on, I made very brief eye contact with a girl who smiled a little hesitantly, and when my face didn’t change and I kept on looking around, her face fell – just a little. As we got on, I pretty much just said, “Hey… You smiled before and I didn’t return it. Just wanted to let you know I was in another world, didn’t want you to feel bad.” She just blushed and waved it off, so I wouldn’t exactly call that any kind of resounding social success, but that was never the point. In my head, the overriding thought was, “Oh man, she’s going to feel bad,” and I didn’t want that. So I said something. It was a little unusual, but it was the top thought on the pile. And I didn’t get called a creeper or rapist and thrown off the bus, so that’s always a bonus.
Maybe practice is needed to get over the taboos we’ve built up about unsolicited comment, but at the end of the day we’re all humans on this absurd little temporarily-spinning piece of rock which will face annihilation one day and not one jot of any of those spins will matter to anyone or anything.
Hey. Sometimes people don’t WANT to have a conversation. You don’t need to press the issue – simply opening and being approachable indicates that if they want to, they can. But trying and failing to reach out to another human is always going to be better than wanting to and not trying.
Man. This is why you’re the go-to guy 😛
By the time I’d processed everything well enough to come to that conclusion, the moment to do anything about it would have been long gone. Probably along with the bus.
It’s less a matter of wanting to and not trying and more a matter of wanting to and not having the slightest idea how. If there was such a thing as a small talk disability I’d say I have it, if I’m not talking about a topic of some interest it’s not worth wasting the oxygen on and I can’t really just wander up to a complete stranger (whether male or female and whatever the possible end point of the conversation) and ask what they think of the new fatigue updates to Arma3 or they’ll think I’m some kind of maniac and I’d sooner they take at least 10 minutes of conversation to figure that out.
Probably just practice. Though the only part of that you can really practice is ‘being approachable’. Saying Hi, basically, giving an opening. It does, after all, take two to tango; it’s pretty rude to force a conversation on someone who doesn’t want one. And it probably helps to consider that you might learn something interesting even if not discussing something in your wheelhouse, just by asking questions. And being OK with silence. Silence is just fine. 🙂
Though honestly, I’m not even the best at it – the casual small-talk with strangers. I don’t do it as often as I should, usually preferring my own worlds that I slip away to in the idle time.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/23/5929823/lara-croft-and-the-temple-of-osiris-release-date
Ooooh, first game was so fun. We should totally play coop, TAY. *decisive nod*
I played 2 hrs with my friend the other day. Definitely lots of fun.
Renegade Ops is another game that’s crazy fun for coop. 😀
We should co-op it some time.
I think you gifted that to me… LETS PLAY!
Oooooooooooooooh. Can’t wait. The first game was fantastic.
Quite enjoying the new (old now, I guess) Tomb Raider game too. Better than I was expecting and so far I’ve managed to avoid the gruesome death scenes that turned me off the game originally.
Ah, last year’s Tomb Raider was a thing of beauty. Can’t wait to play Rise of the Tomb Raider. 🙂
Not really spoilers, but just in case
I love how at the start of the game Lara says basically nothing except scream/groan during action scenes, but slowly as you progress she starts doing her little quips and things after she does something cool.Guardian of Light was great, I’m keen
No one will play it on PC with me :'(
*cough*
You’re the jerk who told me to buy it during a Steam sale but then you were all “oh I finished it already, go find some friends loser” :'(
I really enjoyed the first one but the material they’ve released so far doesn’t remind me of it very much. It seems very combat-heavy. The appeal of the first game was the co-op puzzle solving.
Damn, the Disney Infinity 2.0 Collector’s Edition is expensive, but I just can’t help myself, I have to have it. Gonna put a pre-order on it tomorrow.
https://www.ebgames.com.au/ps4-203750-Disney-Infinity-20-Marvel-Super-Heroes-Collectors-Edition-PlayStation-4
WHAT
I don’t get all the hype around these toy based games =\ Is the gameplay actually any good in Disney Infinity?
The controls are a bit poo, but it’s fun to play around with some of your favourite characters from the movies in their worlds (playsets). Haven’t had any time with toybox mode so I can’t comment on that. Hopefully they fix the control issues with 2.0.
Does it matter?
Neither do I, but EB are cashing in on this really well haha.
Cant afford /o\ i have however preordered the standard edition for WiiU \o/
Holy shit that’s expensive.
That’s actually a not terrible CE in the grand scheme of CEs, since it’s a display stand for your figures and somewhat useful.
Definitely kinda steep though, once you account for the extra figures it’s about $100 for a decorative stand.
Pretty much, plus it’s the only way you can get The Hulk (one of my favourites) figure till next year I think. Also, EB chuck in a bonus figure of your choosing as well.
Interestingly, normal starter is US$75, 3 figures US$45, which makes the CE stand US$60.
The extra premium we’re paying here isn’t really justified. It would be cheaper to pay a silly amount of shipping to import it.
Edit: Australian prices taking bonus figure into account – starter 100, 4x $18 figures 72. CE additional 78.
Not that much difference taking everything into account I guess.
Wh…why do I feel like I’m starting to talk myself into this one?
DOOOOO EEEEET!
I don’t even have the first one, nor do I have any major emotional investment in Disney or Marvel franchises.
Getting very excited for Wasteland 2’s release next month!
Multiplayer!?
There’s multiplayer?
Not that I’m aware of, unfortunately. I’m really keen if there is though.
Really? Seems like the perfect game to have Multiplayer. =(
It’s next month? I’m gonna have to get my mouse back into action after playing the Destiny beta exclusively for the last week
AWWWW YIIISSSSSS DARK SOULS 2 DLC
….
wait shit I never finished the vanilla game.
Vanilla is the best flavour ice cream.
If you are one of the rare two or three that do not have the Arkham trilogy of games yet, Green Man Gaming currently have 75% off a bunch to commemorate Batman’s 75th anniversary.
However if you’re feeling really cheap; I have free codes for Asylum and City. 😀 Happy payday!
I only have Asylum.
It’s still sealed 😛
That’s (arguably) the best one of the three.
I think I still have a spare PS3 copy of Origin lying around too, if someone wants it.
Hmm, do you have it in Xbox? 😛
Apparently you can still get the Definitive Edition at EB for $36, which is $11 cheaper than the standard game (figure that one out). It’s in store only though, checked availability and they have stock at Tuggeranong ACT and one of the Adelaide stores.
Hmmm, might get my friend in Adelaide to pick one up for me and grab it off him when we make our next trip down there.
https://www.ebgames.com.au/xbox360-163598-Batman-Arkham-Origins-Definitive-Edition-Xbox-360
I was just making a funny. I won’t be buying any games for a while 🙂
So I played a bit of Trials Fusion last night, unlocked 4 career thingies, managed to gold an entire career path thing, I was amazed. That Gutsoup fellow is sure hard to beat Q_Q likewise Freeze, what a jerk!
I hate how Windows keeps changing folder views in Explorer. Just because the thing is full of MP3s doesn’t mean I want you to remove the Size, Type and Date columns and replace them with Track, Artist and Album you stupid dick!
There used to be a Remember option in Folder View options for XP, maybe 7. I think it has been removed since though.
Yeah, it seems to remember for some. But then I go to others/new ones and it’s different again, even though I told it to apply to all folders already.
I think it depends on where you apply it first. Like if you tell it to display a list on the root of your c:\, it should filter down to all folders below that, but if you did it inside a particular folder, it only applies it to that folder, and any sub-directories it has. Anything above it in the hierarchy will remain unaffected. I think if you’ve already applied settings to a folder, it may not update it too (like if you have a folder that displays thumbnails for pics, it may leave that setting applied as it’s not the default.) Been a while since I had any issues with doing that stuff myself, so it might not be 100$ accurate, but I’m pretty sure that’s how it works!
Settle, petal.
NEVER
Whatever Trevor.
Relax, Max. Calm your farm. Get off the boat. Take it easy.
That’s a bit better. Now to clean up the rest.
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Wat
https://explorerplusplus.com
Oh yeah I had some alternative like that ages ago… Xplorer^2 or something? Forgot all about it.
TAY’s dead today huh ={
I’M NOT DEAD YET! Yeah, though a bit too much of me today I think.
TAB: Talk Amongst Benny.
Not TAY, just the humans.
The humans are dead. The humans are dea-ead.
We used poisonous gasses!
And we poisoned their asses!
oohhhhhh … Purse Owner Q release date! \o/
But do you guys also get the fancy special edition?
Also, jebus, I really like that opening. The timing of the imagery with the music, the fluro colours, the contrast.
We only get the fancy special edition if Amazon fucks up and lets you order it (happened to me) or you sign over your firstborn and sell three kidneys to afford the ludicrously priced LE from NISA’s European store.
Hoooooooooo boy. Yesterday there was a change to the scoring system that got pushed out. Today there are LOADS of people unhappy and/or confused that their scores suddenly plummeted. Seems like they weren’t given too much notice about it, although the expected changes weren’t supposed to be so dramatic. Just pushed like 40 odd messages about it to my friend to sort out 😛
Hi TAY
Had a breakfast meeting. There was a robot.
My theories of you working on SkyNET is making more sense by the day. *connects another thread to the conspiracy wall*
It was a friendly Robot! Like Robbie! Or a
T-1000Artoo unit!They always start off that way.
*waves hand*
These are not the droids you’re looking for.
Danger Will Robinson! Danger!
Danger! Danger! my limbs are flailing wildly!
Can’t have been all that good. It wasn’t me after all! :p
So you know how in Terminator 3, they said Skynet was basically started as an Antivirus AI?
…
Guess what I’m working on, sort of?
Was it awesom-O 4000?
One of my favourite episodes.
Molecular nanoweapon robots?
Oops, packed myself too much lunch today.
pics pls.
All gone!
You get a downvote for pulling the same stunt twice! :@
Edit: Oh dammit I can’t downvote you =P
Did it for you! 😀
Monster.
Hey, I’m not the one teasing awesome lunches now, am I? 😛
I never said it was awesome, just that there was too much of it!
EAT. GROW LARGE WITH FOOD.
It would be nice if it could make me grow up instead of out.
Lay on your back.
*falls asleep*
Sydney TAYbies, posted on Twitter but drinks at Mojo’s this Saturday night at 8pm. Mojo’s is on York St across from the Bavarian Beer Cafe. Lemme know if you’re gonna turn up. FOR FUN.
Dinner too?
I probably won’t get in until about 7, so sure? WHY NOT.
Special occasion? Or random shenanigans? :O
Yes please.
Already replied on Twitter, but I’ll be in the city for a birthday dinner with some girlfriends, and I might be able to drop by after – 9 perhaps? Sounds good. I’ll be wearing my stupidly high-heeled boots 😛
I’ll wear mine then!
Pub lunch and a pint of cider will hopefully make the day go faster. *crosses fingers*
Choke N Puke?
More like the Om N Nom. Or maybe the Chew N Spew, depending on how the rest of the day goes. 😛
Did @popdart5 succeed in his awareness and dodge roll?
I’m pretty certain there were no Gretchen. Pretty certain.
Hey, don’t spose anyone has a spare Destiny code for Xbone? For a work mate.
Hey Jo, I have one. Where do you want me to send it? I just need to find out how to find it again lol
Dick Smith have finally sent my PS4. It’s funny because my games will probably arrive today. I think I’m going to avoid ordering anything from Dick Smith. Either through their online store or eBay store. =/ (cc: @greenius)
I’ve never had any issues with them :P. My PS4 was a preorder from DS, but I got it within their specified time frame. More recently I bought a mouse from their eBay store. It was shipped the next day and I got it the day after.
I assume there was huge demand for the PS4 though which probably caused the delays.
I jus’ wanna play Des-Nasty. /o\
I had the same feeling after the preordering UFC incident where it took 3 works and constant talks between staff, managers and their head office before they actually did anything to find it because the guy wrote down the preorder, gave me the receipt but apparently it never went through their servers so they had no knowledge of my preorder
Liondrives Man-Date recap 😀
So last night I went on a man-date (like a friend date) with my friend.
My goal was to make it look as much like a date as possible to embarrass him >:)
I really didn’t have to try hard.
We went to an incredibly fancy restaurant, where I proceeded to play footsies with my friend under the table while he was trying to order, giggled whenever the waiter came over, ordered a fruity drink (I would have done that regardless), and ate the strawberry it came with rather, suggestively, and touched his shoulder when I got up 😉
The worst was yet to come >:)
Upon paying, the cashier said “Have a fun night guys”, to which I replied, “Oh, we will” with a wink 😉
We then got icecream! 😀
Which I made sure to lick off my finger when we passed people 😉
And he made me choke laughing :'(
So I winked and remarked how I never choke when we passed another person to get him back 😉
Fun night! 😀
And I wasn’t being mean, he expects this kinda thing from me, hahaha! 😀
10/10, would do again >:)
And then we ended up back at his place… 11/10.
My place, actually 😉
Then he left soon after cause he’s an old man 😛
He thought it was a fun night too though, haha! 😀
Bow chika bow wow.
Hot coffee mod? =P
On behalf of people who love making people feel awkward. thank you.
I love making people feel awkward, hahaha! >:D
It’s so much, fun >:)
Anyone know how much longer the Destiny Beta is going? I don’t want to miss out but I doubt I will get my PS4 this week.
I’m pretty sure that the Beta closes 11.59PDT on 27th of July. I need to get home and play it nooowwwwww
Daaaaaaaarn, Probably going to just miss out.
Do you have an Xbone? I have another spare key if that helps?
Nah, Although I think someone was giving away PS3 versions of it. Maybe I should try and get in on that.
You could always pre-order on Amazon and cancel the order once you’ve got your key?
I was, but I gave my last one to @benny sorry. Not sure if anyone else has a PS3 one.
I has one if you want.
Sure! Send it to my tay name at the gee mails dot coms
Sent
@jocon
Got it! Just gotta update my ps3 …
Whyyyyyy would they close it halfway through a weekend?
Good question!
From the Destiny Beta FAQ:
The Beta begins for Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system and Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft (Xbox Live Gold required, subject to change) at 10:00am PDT on July 23.
The Beta will be offline for scheduled maintenance on July 21 – July 22 and open back up to pre-order participants across all platforms until 11:59pm PDT on July 27.
27th is Sunday, and converted to AU time works out to be around 4pm Monday.
You got all weekend mang.
Ah, for some reason I thought today was the 25th.
it is now 😛 from my (likely wrong) working out, 11.59pm PDT is 4.59pm on Monday AEST
I still haven’t had a chance to play it, not sure I will 🙁 Really hoping to get on this weekend and get their beta banner thing or whatever it was.
*Sigh* Mrs just downloaded that Sims 2 ultimate pack.
Great. I’ve been waiting for her to come back to The Wolf Among Us for a week now (we’re playing it together). Guess I’ll have to start again and make my own decisions this time.
Spoiler for Ep3
Tweedle you little piece of shit I am gonna murder you so hard this time around@highperformance
jormungand_xix at the hot mails dotcom
Cheers man!
Sent B-)
TAYlist for the 24th of July 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by solo driving, brought to you by P1 LicencesACDC – Are You Ready
Madness – Our House
Orianthi – Shut Up And Kiss Me (Requested by @virus__)
Thirsty Merc – Mousetrap Heart
Thirsty Merc – She’s So Fine
Blue Swede – Hooked On A Feeling (Requested by @evilmonkey)
Roachford – Only To Be With You
Supertramp – Give A Little Bit (Requested by @benny)
Genesis – In Too Deep
Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition (Requested by @pupp3tmast3r)
Groove Coverage – Moonlight Shadow
Queen – A Kind Of Magic
Shania Twain – Man, I Feel Like A Woman
Jolly good show ol’ chap!
MADNESS 😀
Can’t…stop…laughing. This is up there with Norm Macdonalds the ‘moth joke’ (which I’ll link below).
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/18/guy-walks-into-a-bar
This, is how you take a joke, take it too far, way too far, really far past that and it eventually gets back into funny/poignant territory.
And the moth joke, which is just the best thing ever in this weird sub-genre of too far jokes.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8c4_1306857615
And the graphic nature of the comment kind of kills the moment.I lost it at that part.
Can’t get more hype than this.
So my bank just sent me this email about their AMAZING new feature where you can get cash out of your account via an ATM without even having the card, just by ringing them up and passing a few security questions which are likely extremely easy to socially engineer.
Fuck. That. Shit.
Going to have to call them up and ask if I can immediately opt out. No fucking way is that a good idea, I want that shit gone and don’t want it anywhere near my accounts, ever.
By contrast, as someone who is lackadaisical with my security, MY first thoughts on that were, “Oh, well that’ll be useful if I get into an emergency at some point, guess I’ll make use of it one day.”
You’re totally right, of course! And I totally don’t mind. There is obviously something wrong with my priorities.
I work in a digital security field, I always think about shit like this.
This kinda makes me wonder what the bank’s digital security people think. (Because they undoubtedly have them.)
Probably a shitload of very angry emails and technical people threatening to quit/actually quitting, falling on deaf ears because senior management has heard it’s all the rage in EU/US and drank the kool-aid at some conference they went to in California, and Marketing say it’ll work and give them a huge winback/retention boost and besides we’ve heard rival bank is doing it and FUCK THOSE GUYS we’ll get there first.
…If my read on corporate culture is anything to go by, anyway.
Nah, you’re not thinking about those enterprising young men and women who work hard to engineer scams. At least our banks are thinking of them.
I am thinking about them. I want them to man up and rob me directly rather than over the phone.
I don’t. I don’ t want to end up in hospital/morgue or jail! (I would undoubtedly end up in one or the other.)
In all seriousness, I remember once carrying around a significant chunk of rent/bond money for Reasons(tm) in the Valley, and carrying myself with the coiled-spring readiness to respond to even the slightest hint of robbery, mentally preparing myself to commit unspeakable acts of brutality on any passerby-turned-would-be mugger, and in a moment of self-awareness was utterly horrified by the depths of savagery I expected to be ready to descend to for the sake of a measly few thousand dollars. (Well. ‘Measly?’ you scoff, but relative to the value of a human life? Yes.)
Which, from the perspective of a conversation: ‘Would you murder someone for a couple thousand dollars?’ ‘Uhm, fuck no?’ makes, ‘What if they were already your thousands of dollars?’ ‘Oh, well that’s OK then’ a bit of a weird psychological Gordian knot that I resolved to cut with some anger management/Buddhist retreats/therapy.
(And of course, I totally didn’t follow through beyond the first few appointments because fuck the rest of the world, it’s them who should change, not me. Also, spending thousands on something totally under my control for the benefit being OK with losing thousands to robbery seemed a bit like insult to financial injury.)
You’ve thought that one through pretty thorough.
Me? I just try not to have a big wad of cash on me at any given time. It just feels wrong when I do, like something bad is bound to happen. If I were to get held up, I’m pretty sure my adrenaline would kick my run-away speed into maximum overdrive. Yep, I’m a chicken shit that runs away (or at least I think I would be?)
Yeah, I’ve wasted plenty of brain-time crunching those processes. Faux-intellectual wankery is totally my wheelhouse!
Also, running? Is smart. It’s also (outside of passive compliance) kind of what the law expects of you.
What kind of questions? This sounds like a disturbingly crap development
“Security Questions”.
Because no way those can be faked / guessed ever.
That banks implementation is crap… I work for the other bank that does this… and our solution is more robust…. in that it cuts out the need to contact your bank to use it.
All done via the app – app is protected by a 4 digit PIN (or you can use your online banking credentials if you wanted). Simply queue up the request (max $200 a day) and app generates an 8 digit access code and an SMS with a corresponding 4 digit PIN.
I heard a friend raving about that banks solution, i interrupted them and asked why you even need to contact the bank when I can do it via an app in 30 seconds?
Yeah, CBA did it right, Westpac then saying to make a phone call to ask for money? Seems like a half assed solution because they only got the ATM half of the process working.
My bank’s solution is complete bullshit in every way. $1000 limit too, which is insane.
Agree – who in their right mind needs $1000 cash in an emergency when they don’t have their card.
I just can’t imagine the circumstances where you’d need that much cash without having thought about it before hand.
Jetstar currently have return trips to Japan, two for the price of one. I’m not sure if this may be relevant at all to the TAYbies travelling on the Japan tour?
Cool, now they can take me for free.
You’d still have to cough up for everything else that isn’t flights, however.
@novacascade ?
Thanks, I checked the dates, too. March 21 to April 3 applies.
$926 for 2 return trips Gold Coast to Osaka or Tokyo only on their new Dreamlike planes. Maximum 8 people per booking.
That works amazingly well for myself and @transientmind.
Not sure on Dates yet. Haven’t found them yet.
Dreamlike or Dreamliner? I’m gonna assuming you mean Dreamliner 😛
Also aren’t those the ones that were having major issues only a few months ago with batteries and all?
Eh, it’s not like it’s the season for plane crashes or anything…
To be fair that had outside help..
NO ONE LISTENS TO STICKMAN WHEN HE SUGGESTS JETSTARRRRRRRRR
Who suggesting what?
Man, that’s crazy. And I’ve always wanted to go to Japan. Just bad timing since I’m saving for Thailand. Urgh.
Did anyone notice I was missing?
I’ve been ill with the flu. Mum has also been sick. So hard to be a carer when you’re both ill.
I did, but I just assumed you were busy with your cosplays.
You’re obviously feeling better, so that’s good.
Getting there. Also, I’m online when working on cosplays. =P
If it went unnoticed, it was probably because it seemed like nearly everyone else went missing too.
Except for the crickets. They’re always there. Watching. Waiting. Chirping.
Yeah I assumed you were in crunch mode with your elsa outfit and just didnt have the time to jump on here.
That sucks that you and your mum were both sick hope your both feeling better now but 🙂
Haven’t even got the material for Elsa yet =P
I still have to come on my computer for making armor and stuff, so I’ll still be online.
Hooray \o/
http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/24/5932343/batman-final-fantasy-designer-tetsuya-nomura-kingdom-hearts
O_o
I…
I kind of want it.
And by kind of, I mean really want it.
It’s pretty damn impressive with the wings outstretched.
Yep, same.
A bit of Dragon Age: inquisition news. Apparently you’ll be able to ride a Unicorn, but not a dragon. Interesting
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-18762-Dragon-Age–Inquisition—You-Can—t-Mount-a-Dragon–But-You-Can-Mount-a-Unicorn—Video-Interview.html
The game must come with a pre-order bonus of meth.
Anyone watching the Commonwealth games?
They’re on One. 😀
Really..? Where are they being held..?
Glasgow.
I hope there’s some Caber Tossing if this is the case.
Phlanispo’s Guide On How To Build A PC
1. Put in DVD drive. Use 7 screws, even though 4 is the standard.
2. Put in the two hard drives the customer asked for
3. Attempt to attach the motherboard in the computer for 5 minutes
4. Adjust the IO shield
5. Realise that one of the motherboard standoffs is in the wrong place. Adjust motherboard standoff.
6. Attempt to attach the motherboard in the computer for 5 minutes
7. Take IO shield out and then put it back in again. Push some of the IO shield prongs back a bit more.
8. Ask supervisor for help.
9. With your motherboard now attached begin cable management.
10. Use at least 7 cable ties. Make sure the power LED cables have a least 3 cable ties.
11. Attempt to attach yellow fan connector for 7 minutes.
12. Ask supervisor for help.
13. Let it sink in that you spent 7 minutes trying to attach the graphics card cable into the fan connector.
14. Put graphics card in. Realise this type of graphics card doesn’t even use the graphics card cable.
15. Attempt to close the case for 4 several minutes.
16. Realise 2 of the cable ties you used actually prevents the case from being closed.
17. You are now done. Congratulations!
18. Be told by your supervisor that you forgot to plug the DVD drive into anything.
19. Go to lunch 40 minutes late.
20. Brag about your 1337 computer-building skills online.
Overall: Nailed it!
Sounds like a job well done!
Those cables won’t be escaping any time soon!
Plot twist: cables are in to bondage.
Nah if you’re doing bondage you need something that can be quickly released in case of emergencies, most cable ties have to be cut or they’re the kind that are too lose to be worth using for bondage
Cable ties? pfffft, real men let them dangle!
if you’re really lucky they fall into one of the fans making the clicking noise! That’s street cred! akin to when you were a kid and put playing cards in the spokes of your bike!
#masterrace
Achievement unlocked: Cobwebs between dangling cables.
I just wear underpants
I used to swap parts in and out of my computer so often that I gave up on tidying the cables. Now I’m just accustom to them being organised chaos.
Not like I open my case any more apart from the odd dust blow out.
Did you wear an anti-static wristband?
Didn’t need to, I was on a concrete floor. Anti-static wristbands are only needed when you are on carpet.
don’t know if the customer would take that excuse 😛
WOO! Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise Beaten! (Rhythm Heaven Fever is a betterer name :P)
Everyone should go buy it from EB for $9! Bargain! https://www.ebgames.com.au/wii-158658-Beat-the-Beat-Rhythm-Paradise-Nintendo-Wii (thanks @mrtaco! you would’ve been so wrecked mate if my local EB didn’t have any copies. So wrecked.)
I love me some rhythm games every now and then :D. So hyped for Theatrhythm now! I think I’ll cancel my online JB order and pick it up in-store on launch, now that I do that whole “leave the house” thing.
@sughly get Rhythm Heaven Fever! Rhythm game budddyyyy
But I don’t have a Wii or have aspirations to buy one, damn it Greenius.
M8 the only one who woulda got wrecked was you.
U fkn kiddin me???!!?!
NAH IM FKN SMASHIN U THATS WOT
Holy crap, that’s the one Wii game I didn’t own that I always wanted a copy of due to it being rad. Thanks for the heads up!
Oh, I guess you must’ve missed the talk in last TAY since you were in NZ. Knox said they had 2 copies when I bought mine on Sat, so hopefully that one is still there for you 😀
I just ordered it online with them. Fuck going outside.
I like the way you think!
Ohhh I didnt know about this. I loved the DS version of Rhythm Heaven. Hmmm. HMMMM
Do it brah! I loved Rhythm Heaven on DS too! (even if my version was in Japanese)
Good game spawn point gave it 2 out of 10 each and said it was terrible!
…
Excuse me, there’s some kneecaps I must go remove.
That says a lot more about Good Game than it does about Rhythm Heaven IMO.
I have it and can’t play it =/
WHY
I put it away after playing it a bit. I need to finish playing it.
It didn’t take too long to beat, but I’m pretty amazing ;D
A wild Labour appears
Labour uses swelling
Tiglet is Dazed
Tiglet uses secret exit
It’s super effective
At 4:01am this morning Tiglet came into this world at a fighting weight of 3.61 kg. Both Mum and bub are doing really well. This has been a damn long Wednesday so I’m going to crash, totally worth it though.
So amazing. Congrats. 🙂
YAY! Massive congratulations to you guys. The chain of TAY baby girls continues. Enjoy the ride!
I had girls before it was cool.
*glasses*
*ignores @strange*
Damn hipster
That looks more like a baby than a tiglet to me.
Congrats anyway!
You’re all “I mades this”
Way to overshadow my post, man! 😛
I jest! Congrats!!! 😀 (you are now eligible to attend @jimu birthday parties)
What’s going on?
You said only people with babies could go to your son’s birthday parties 🙁
I did?
https://twitter.com/JoelGreenius/status/487936199860834304
Well not unless I’m on BBQ duties 😛
And you didn’t offer?
To have a baby?
With me?
@greenius
So squishy! 😀
Congrats, guys. Give your ladies a hug from me and a wink from my son. 😛
Congratulations to you both! Glad to hear Mrs Tigs is doing ok and everything went well! 🙂
Congratulations!!! 🙂 You must be incredibly happy and tired =]
Rest up, you’ll need it. 😀 All the best.
So, apart from childbirth, PC building, and Commonwealth games, what else is going on?
http://shanewsmith.com/shop TAY20 coupon gives 20% discount
I think I strained an abdominal muscle at the gym
I’m feeling better?
Um…Um…Sid is currled up on the couch?
I bought shoes from Amazon early in the week \o/
A 20% off code just popped up today… FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. I’m now one of those suckers who just bought something only to have it be cheaper shortly after :'(
Heh could be worse, one time @Longjocks bought a Voodoo5 and then a few weeks later NVidia bought 3dFX and the price of the card nearly halved
The first week of the first subject in my TAFE course involves basic maths, including rounding and order of operations. The hardest part is writing the answers into the poorly formatted word document.
5-a-side football really hurts when you’re unfit
Meeting people, all were asked what they wanted to drink. I asked for a single plum, floating in perfrume, served in a man’s hat. Only one person got it. We are now friends. The rest are uncultured philistines/think I’m weird (which is true, but this shouldn’t have been decided so quickly on so little evidence).
Source pl0x. I may be uncultured philistine, need to confirm.
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Homer's_Barbershop_Quartet/Quotes – CTRL+F for the relevant quote. 🙂
It is alarming how often Simpsons references seem to fall on deaf ears these days.
Talk Amongst Benny.
I played some Valiant Hearts and it made me a bit melancholy. I think we’ve lost our appreciation for just how horrible WW1 was.
People have gone quiet this morning. Stupid work getting in the way of me and Destiny 🙁
@stickman @piat I’ll be on PSN for Destiny later tonight! Probably around 8.30 add me if you haven’t already Kronos013 I’m up for either rolling new toons or farming strikes! =] (or farming explore! I want a new spaceship dammit!)
Awww yeaaahhhh, I’ll do some stuffs with you. Added you. Lvl 9 Sly (or someth) ?
Sly Cooper FTW!!! *tear rolls down face* Him, Spyro and Crash made my childhood so memorable…
Schweet. I should be good for 8:30.
Been refreshing my inbox all week hoping for an e-mail saying my joystick’s ready to pick up.
Come on god dammit I want it for the weekend ;_;
I’m really trying to not snigger but that post is made of euphemism…
Can anyone recommend a headset with a mic that’s compatible on the PS4 controller? I envision me needing one after the 9th of September…
Wouldn’t it be any that uses a single 3.5mm plug and has three stripes? I scored an Xbox 360 one that plugs into the dock thingie using such a connector.
While I consider myself somewhat tech savvy when it comes to sound systems I’m a complete and utter dunce… Atm I’m using a headset that has two plugs for the pc… But I don’t think it can plug into the PS4 controller 😛 So any reasonably priced recommendations would be welcome!
You need a headset that has a single one of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:3.5mm.jpg
You may be able to buy an adaptor that converts two plugs (stereo audio, and mic) into one of these single plugs at Jaycar.
I’m pretty sure the above advice is correct, but I haven’t confirmed it myself …
Can you grab an adapter from dx.com for a few bucks that combines the audio and mic jacks into a single 3.5mm jack? Surely such a gizmo-widget exists and would work?
Edit: beaten by 2 mins…
You can definitely use the adapter, that’s what I’m using to get my pc headset to work. The sound quality through the controller is actually very decent.
You can choose to have all sound come through the controller in the ps button menu.
How does that work with stuff that outputs though the little speaker on the controller itself, is that routed through the headphone out as well?
Not actually sure, will try it out when I get home
Anything that’s meant to come from the controller comes trough the headset
Oh that’s cool. I thought it might be something like that, seems the sensible way to go but I can also see it being the kind of thing that might slip through the cracks
Morning TAY!
I turn 25 today, so I’m living it up with purchasing early access to Darkwood and am finishing up work early today to play some Destiny Beta!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD!
Happy Birthday!!! Sounds like you’ve got a great day planned! Hope it all goes to plan 🙂
Happy birthday old man.
Happy birthday! Don’t break a hip.
Happy birthday, my friend! Enjoy the mid 20s! 😀
Happy birthday!
Welcome to the end of the beginning of the rest of your life… you know what I mean!
Happy B’day man! =]
Happy birthday!
Who the hell had a 26 inch waist at 25???
I’ve found it’s usually around 26 or so that everything starts to give way, so he’s probably got another year before food won’t digest the way it used to. 🙂
Friday! \o/
What’s everybody got planned for the weekend? I’ll be finishing off my PAX costume! I’ve painted the base colour on my pants (just detail work to be done now) and outlined what I need to paint on my shirt. Should be good! Then all I’ve got to do is buy some yellow shoes (or white and paint them) and I’m set.
Then I’ve got to design my badge for the PAX Pokemon League. Hopefully a few of you guys will be able to win one from me come October/November!
I keep putting off playing Pokemon. I WANNA WIN A BADGE!
Why stop at one? Get all the badges! Plus defeat the Elite Four and the Champion!
YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH BADGES TO TRAIN ME!
Yeah i highly doubt ill win a badge from you. I have the skills of a 7 year old.
You’ll be fine!
I’m going to the pub for a mate’s birthday Saturday Arvo. The rest of the weekend is contingent on what happens there
Doing my Hazard Perception Test to get my green P’s tomorrow morning then having a couple of mates over in the evening – they originally had plans but suddenly became un-busy and now we’re hanging out. Hopefully somewhere in between I’ll be able to clean my apartment and play some more of the Destiny beta. My friends typically crash and don’t leave until Sunday afternoon whenever they come over on a Saturday evening so that’s most of my weekend accounted for. Thankfully I have next week off work so I hope to accomplish a lot of gaming.
Good luck on your test! Careful of that one tricky video they show you with a truck that doesn’t look like it’s going to move, then a motorbike comes zipping out in front of you from behind it 😛
I did a few practice tests a few months back and learned that if you don’t have line of sight it’s not technically safe to drive.
Of course if we all followed those rules the country would be in a state of perpetual gridlock.
That was the one that got me the first time! The lesson I learned is that it’s all one big trick to try and get you to move when you shouldn’t
The laws must be different in your state. In WA, you need to pass the Hazard Perception Test to get your red P’s.
Oh yeah, good luck.
L plate = driver knowledge test
Red P plate (1 year, restricted to 90km/h) = driving test
Green P plate (2 years, restricted to 100km/h) = hazard perception test
Unrestricted license = combination driver knowledge/hazard perception test (I think)
WA standard:
L plate = Theory test
L phase 2 plate = driving test + 25 hours and 6 months (Can drive in any conditions at any time I think)
Red P = hazard perception test + 25 extra hours and another 6 months (No speed restrictions that I know of, but driving curfew and ridiculously low blood-alcohol limit)
Green P = Shit tonne of hours and time (Restrictions unknow)
Full license = 1 or 2 years of Green P’s
Interesting. Normally for red P’s in NSW you also have to do 120 logbook hours and be over 17/have held Ls for 6+ months but once you’re over 25 they waive the logbook/time requirement.
You also have to have zero BAC at all times while driving. It used to be 0.02 but idiots abused it thinking it was ok to have a couple of drinks, so now it’s absolute zero.
As far as I’m aware even under 25s don’t have to do additional logbook hours etc to get their greens once they’ve done the initial 120 to get their reds.
It’s interesting to see what the requirements are these days. I remember when I told some of the older TAYbies about the new driving laws, and they said they only had to do like 5 hours.
Back when I was 16 it was zero. You did your DKT to get your Ls then as soon as you turned 17 (and had held your L’s for at least 6 months) you could to your driving test to get your Ps – there were only reds, none of this green bullshit.
Once you turned 18 you went onto your unrestricted. I don’t know if there was even a test.
Also going to see Jersey boys movie then visit my grandparents on sunday 🙂
Parents are away for the weekend, woo!
But sister’s back down for a friend’s farewell, baw 😛 She’s got friends over tonight, but should be out tomorrow. Then I gotta drive her to the airport on Sunday.
Party at Gooky’s!
Hmmm, guess I should start prepping something like that once I get my 3DS back. Still going to be X/Y at that point since the new games are 3 weeks later.
Yeah, you need to have a copy of X/Y to participate.
Parents are out, So I’ll be crying to myself for hours on end.
And possibly going to a Shadowrun character creation session.
I have no idea… Probably stress about things. So business as usual.
Ooh an e-ma-
Baw. New Oculus SDK. Hmm, should see if there’s a firmware update…
Could be to coincide with the fact they’re shipping DK2 now?
Yeah, it adds some DK2 stuff.
Man I want them to hurry up and announce CV1 already 😛
New ToS seems a bit suspect:
https://twitter.com/kentbye/status/492495108126674944
I don’t get what the WTF stuff is. To me that reads as though if the product your developing is ONLY for use with the Rift, then you have to sell it through Oculus-approved channels. Whereas if what you’re making is for use with anything but supports the Rift as well, then you can sell it where you like.
Sounds fair enough to me.
I agree that it makes sense.
I guess a lot of the backlash is that this sort of thing moves away from the ‘open platform’ utopia view a lot of people initially held after the crowd funding. The direct response when this was brought up re: Facebook acquisition was
Additional ToS like this being added to the next dev kit doesn’t really align with that sort of philosophy.
I see both sides, and I’ll be interested to read the detailed clarification they’ve promised is coming soon.
Morning all! So Im looking for a cheap hard copy or digital copy of a textbook..
The Creative Arts: A Process Approach for Teachers and Children – Linda Carol Edwards
I’m after the 4th or 5th edition, thought I’d post it here maybe someone has it laying around?
Check here and other similar sites: https://studentvip.com.au/textbooks/search?q=linda+carol+edwards
yeah tried that not getting any responses though
used ~$50
new ~$75
http://www.amazon.com/The-Creative-Arts-Approach-Teachers/dp/0137151632%3FSubscriptionId%3D179EQG3F3QRNWT8WS602%26tag%3DTrove08-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0137151632
Best I can do: https://booko.com.au/works/2024798
I’ve made it a week without soft drink. I’ve done it before, but this time, hopefully, it’s permanent. I’ve been drinking water and coffee (espresso without sugar). It hasn’t been as hard as it has before. Hopefully it might stick this time. Fingers crossed.
Good luck! Keep at it!
I’m now over 2 years without soft drink \o/
I’m 2 years without energy drinks, so this is the next step.
Me too!!
That’s awesome. Cutting soft drinks is super hard but once you do it and are clear of the sugar cravings, you won’t miss it much.
Protip: tea is awesome if you want flavoured watery things.
Not a tea drinker, although I like iced tea, but I’m trying to steer clear of sugary drinks, so that’s out too. Might have to try making my own.
You could probably find a nice herbal tea which would work for you though.
I hardly ever have soft drinks any more… although I mostly have cordial instead, so it’s probably not that great a substitute 😛 Still, I try not to make it all that strong…
I never get urges to drink soft drink by itself – but can easily drink 2L in a single night mixing it with spirits. I’ve tried drinking whiskeys neat but it doesn’t work for me (probably because I keep drinking $20 bargain bin bourbons)
I gave up soft drink years ago. Now drinking lemonade gives me a headache…
Soda water with a couple of slices of lemon or lime is another good drink that gives you the refreshing fizz but no added sugar or caffiene. Even better with a measure or two of gin…
Oh god no gin and soda water is awful. Got given one in place of a gin and tonic at one of the last TAY things, it was a struggle to get it down.
You need to have plenty of lime, otherwise yes, it’s just watered down gin.
Worse than that to me, I think soda water tastes completely awful 😛
I like the Bickfords cordials mixed with either mineral or soda water.
I kind of feel like playing the Uncharted trilogy again back to back but am scared in case Naughty Dog announces a PS4 version that I will have to buy. WHAT DO I DO?
…
Hope you guys are pretty great?
Play it. Then you can play the trilogy once more in even H-er D!
I’ve already played them so many times though. So many times.
I’m worried it’s getting to over played territory. XD
Have you played much of the UC3 multi? The co op missions are great fun, and If you want to party up I’d be keen
No multi, all of the time, Red. XD
THEN WHO WAS IT WHO STOLE MY CAR, DC? HUH? HUH?
To be fair, I had reasons. I thought it would be funny.
Cmoooooon, play UC3! It’s good fun in multiplayer and you barely need to talk!
But I like Uncharted for the story and adventure and over the top set pieces. Not socializing with *shudder* real people. XD
@dc the co-op missions have Story and adventure! That’s why they’re great!
I couldn’t play them again. D: And I still have #3 to start/finish. Too much shooty shooty BS filler.
wait 12 month… plenty coming out in between to keep you busy… i think its almost guaranteed we’ll see a HD collection in the next few months…
Ladies, Gents. I don’t wish to alarm you, but….
PETER ALEXANDER ARE DOING STAR WARS / HARRY POTTER PYJAMAS
Why are you still reading this!? GO BUY STUFF.
I saw the Star Wars pjs in the local Peter Alexander on Wednesday. They look pretty awesome.
$70 for pyjama pants?!
To be fair to PA, I’ve got a pair of their Space Invaders ones from ~2 or 3 years ago still going strong. Excellent quality, very comfortable.
I had some of those ages ago… actually wait, was it Peter Alexander or Mitch Dowd? I forget which name belonged to which set now. Either way they were rad. But are dead now 🙁
If your pants dont cost at least $50 im not sleeping in the same bed as you man.
*buys cheapest pants possible, just to be sure*
But we wouldn’t be wearing pants…
Do people actually sleep in pyjamas?
They’re so uncomfy :S
Yes and no. I more treat PJs as “walking around the house in more comfortable clothes than I’d go out in” – but if I sleep in them I’ll overheat.
I just sleep in the clothes I wore the same day. Much more comfortable.
Like, every night?
…THAT SOUNDS THE LEAST COMFORTABLE!!!
Naked all the way! 😀
Or if it’s cold, socks! 😀
Or if it’s really cold, socks and undies! 😀
If it’s cold, naked with blankets
Naked is the only way to sleep! 😀
Anyone who doesn’t, or hasn’t, should try it! 😀
Unless they’re in the habit of napping on public transport
Didn’t anyone here read the Lifehacker article? Sleep nude to increase self confidence!*
*Note: I haven’t read the article either
I would, but I tend to only read Allure Media affiliates when at work and I’m pretty sure that article would get content blocked. 😛
People keep asking me if I’m “going anywhere” when I’m on leave next week. Apparently just wanting a break from work isn’t good enough, you have to have “plans”. Fuck that. I’m visiting South Park, Colorado to search for the Stick of Truth then I’m going to hunt for relics on the island of Yamatai and save my friend from the deluded acolytes of an ancient Sun Queen. If I have time I might even swing by Chicago and cause mayhem with my sweet hacking skills.
It really depends on what sort of break you like. I cant stand being home for more than 2 days alone. even with hobbies i get so fucking bored so my holiday time usually means i go somewhere and do something.
I can’t even stand of the idea of lying on a beach with a paperback novel and a cocktail. I’d be bored after a day and probably spent most of my time sleeping. I also feel like rushing around looking at tourist attractions is too hectic.
The only way I feel like I’ve had a productive vacation is if I sit at home doing what I’d normally do but without the interruption of getting up and going to work every day.
People will judge you either way. I went on a two week theme park vacation and people thought it was a wasted trip only going to theme parks. XD
o.O what buzz kills!
Staycations are just as good as vacations.
To date all my long vacations have been staycations! I only do trips when I take one or two days off and meld it into a long weekend 🙂
Sudden urge to attend GCAP just before PAX.
I’m an I.T developer. I like games. Not a games developer. Could be interesting.
But it’s also $275. Hard to justify for something I don’t actually do.
Admittedly can also get a 3 day PAX pass combo for 425, so that’s one way to get another 3 day pass if I wanted to pass mine on to someone else.
Got a link? I too am a Developer who likes games.
gcap.com.au
Neat..
If any of you that own Origin and want The Sims 2 if you redeem the code “I-LOVE-THE-SIMS” in Origin, you get the entire Sims 2 + all 18 xpacs for free!
@markserrels is it news worthy, free games?
This news is so yesterday.
Hey look it’s like the only Disney star who didn’t grow up to have a fucked up life with drug addiction or something..
Yeah, but she starred in Cheaper By The Dozen 2. That’s a sign of a ‘fucked up life’ if I ever saw one.
LIES. I never saw it so it never existed. Cause the whole world revolved around me.
Just got handed a card for one of the ladies here, since today’s her last day before she’s off to have a baby. So yeah, had to sign a card for someone I pretty much don’t know.
Nailed it.
Wow you move fast.
Gooky sweeps them off their feet and they’re pregnant before they hit the floor.
Leaving the above mentioned note on their pillow while they’re still sleeping and he slips down the fire escape
Nice. Even I wouldn’t be so ballsy. Very impressed.
I just draw pictures in cards these days, i can never think of a message.
I usually look up some semi-relevant proverb in latin.
“Confucius say man who walk though airport turnstile sideways is going to Bangkok”
Confucius say: Man who want pretty nurse has got to be patient.
Confucius say: Man who run in front of car get tired.
Man who run behind car get exhausted.
My hands smell of diesel, yet I haven’t been handling anything that is remotely linked to it..
WebMD says cancer.
So now it’s time to cook meth, you’re telling me..?
Yeah science, bitch!
SCIENCE!
…Was it ever not?
Well given where I live this is a very valid point..
The parfum?
Is it blowing your mind drastically, fantastically?
Ha.
No, not really 😛
Still in my music rotation. High-five.
Re – Jetstar Japanarama flights
I have had a look into the various specials that @benny and @stickman have mentioned over the past couple of days. The 2-for-1 deal especially looked really good. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to line up with the dates we need. As far as I can see there are black-out dates from Mid-December 2014 to the End of April 2015. And for the flights they do have on the dates we want, once you add on all the taxes, booking fees, baggage etc, it works out to be just as expensive as any other airline.
I understand wanting to save as much money as possible on the flights, I want to as well. Its a lot of money to drop at one time. And rest assured I am trying to find the best deal possible for us all. I’m giving Singapore Airlines a call today to try and find out what is going on with their systems as well as rechecking with some other airlines as well.
@freezespreston @negativezero @jocon @transientmind
Also it would be a whole lot more expensive for those of us not in Brisbane, plus it would mean we’re arriving on different flights so there’s logistical issues.
I’m cool with anything though.
You sound stressed. Effin clients amirite?
Nah its cool. I guess I am a bit stressed, but mostly because this this the first group departure that my office has ever gotten off the ground and I want it to go well. Nothing anyone here has said or done 🙂
Yeah sorry the dates were gone when I checked last night.
Yah Jetstar is only good if they have their specials on, which lately have been decently limited to certain dates.
IMO, this is how you guys should do it. I’ve been there twice and seen itinerary of parents going another 2-3 times too.
– People who can hop of a cheap Jetstar flight from Gold Coats, Brisbane, Sydney, Melb. I’d go for it. $199-250 is the starter fare, plus luggage. $40-50 gets you 30KG+ check-in. You won’t have food ad stuff, but that’s sub-$800 mark for a return flight.
– There’s only credit card surcharge (which in itself is illegal) that Jetstar charges. Everything else is built-in to the fare, or pre-selected for you (just remove it).
– Sub-$800 and $1300 is a big difference. Maybe not so to some people, who i offer the below:
– Other people, or who want an all-in-one package (flights, maybe increased comfort, no messing with options, meals/drinks included) can go for $1300+ return with Singapore etc.
– You’re all going for like 2 weeks or more? Getting in at a different time or day doesn’t matter at all, for the following reason: CC @negativezero
– You arrive in Tokyo/Osaka, and you hop on a train and go to your hotel of choice. Be it in the city, outskirts, or in a neighboring city. Check in, relax, go gently exploring. Even if you have to spend 1 night waiting on everyone to arrive, it’s 1 night (of exploring) out of a two-week trip where you’ll be in contact with everyone. You won’t die.
– When everyone is together in Japan – not even spending the night in the same hotel/city! – you meet up at some central station by 11am and begin your group journey.
– I suggest going away from the major cities at the start of the trip. It’ll be too overwhelming for some. Go explore the country (which is more civilised than our capital cities).
– I highly recommend JR East/West rail passes. 3-5-7-more-day passes, unlimited travel, some shinkansen included!
*******
There’s mah notes. I’m not telling you guys what to do – I’m not even going :P. But, the above is how to get it done for the lowest possible cost.
Except that this is a properly arranged tour with a schedule and stuff, we’re not just all going there randomly at the same time.
Ah. It can still be done if there’s room to push back the ‘tour’ for a day. Meh, carry on.
No worries man, I trust ya.
There’s an Artline magnet on the whiteboard in my office. Someone wrote an F at the front of it, and I laugh every time I look at it.
It might have been me.
Plunger gun in SRIV? 😛
I have a choc chip cookie that’s bigger than the palm of my hand… It’s pretty fucking rad!
Was it one of those half-the-size-of-your-head vending machine ones?
Man, those are like… a major part of the reason I passed any of my courses at uni.
Plate-sized choc-chip cookies.
They’re close to it but not quite… Although we do them as well… This is one of my work colleagues being bored at home, and I’m currently reaping the benefits! 😛
I always feel incredibly weird writing a message in a retirement or get well card for someone I don’t know. Here’s to you, person that I might have seen but probably never spoken to.
Easy. Just write:
It literally works for every occasion!
Happy birthday: Enjoy your new poop machine.
Congratulations on your wedding: Enjoy your new poop machine.
Kwanza: Enjoy your new poop machine.
Every single holiday, enjoy your new poop machine.
“Steve Holt! – Popdart5”
I actually had to look that up to get the reference. I totally should have done that.
You should really watch Arrested Development.
Finally got to try out some of the Destiny Beta. I’ve really enjoyed it what I played so far and put a pre-order in for a PS4 version. I only played up to level 4 because I didn’t want to ruin the game for me when I move to the PS4.
Don’t worry… you won’t 😛 basically they’ve only given you 5 missions quests and everything else optional PvE or PvP. I believe the quests only take you to Level 6, beyond that if you want to hit level 8 you’ll have to do strikes, crucible and explore. Also I have a feeling we’ll have plenty of content to dig into for the remaining 3 planets/moons!! 🙂
(Is anyone else getting the impression like the WoW map they’ve left sections of the Destiny map open to additions of other planets?)
As far as presenting an idea of what potential MMO-related challenges may be and providing an industry-gold-standard template for addressing them, they could definitely do a lot worse than looking to WoW for advance knowledge.
Considering that they announced that the post-release DLC will be basically two new planet areas, I think that’s obvious. 🙂
Also I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s other alien race groups in the works too. They want the franchise to run for 10 years or something (I’m assuming that means a new game every 24 months rather than 12 months, but I’d be okay with it being an annualized release if the quality’s good)
Considering the whole point of the beta missions is to secure a ship and a warp drive so you can travel to other planets, I’d say the addition of other planets is extremely likely.
Dear @powalen: http://imgur.com/e9dtl2z
Enjoy.
Dude I have ravioli/pasta today too! We’re like brothers now!
*high five*
Confirmed! @stickman and @mrtaco are the same person.
Another case solved by @sernobulus
“Awaaaaaaay”
*Does superman flying pose*
*Slowly walks out door*
You monster, why would you post that?! Now I’m hungry! 😛
Nom nom nom nom!
Because it’s lunch time! Go eat something!
Aww man, I was just attempting a joke. You know, because everyone was asking you to post pics of your lunch. I obviously suck at joking. 😛
Nah, I just suck at picking up on jokes.
Just ask @effluvium-boy 😛
To quote a great man from SC2 – “Hell… It’s about time” =P
After all the hype from the last few days, I’m disappointed. Where’s the lobster?
In the bin. Where it belongs.
You’re only meant to eat the eyes of a lobster anyway.
That seems extremely inefficient.
To quote @mrtaco
Hoisted by my own petard 😛
I’m a little burned out on Dota right now. We’ve played a lot of it in the last few weeks.
The obvious solution is to play something else, like CS:GO but the other option would be to play some different modes of Dota. Specifically, Captain’s Mode and Captain’s Draft, maybe also some Random Draft. Those could be pretty rad.
Or you could just given in and play Hearthstone and Destiny =P
You’re a funny guy.
Awww thanks man =]
Ability Draft is pretty fun
I liked Ability Draft at first, but the novelty wore off very quickly. Then they added Meepo to the mix and it got worse. Then they removed Meepo from the mix and I didn’t really want to go back.
I’ve spent all morning doing something special for my daughter so she can get a nice surprise when she gets home from school.
Meanwhile, the whole house is gross and messy but hey, at least I’ll have happy kids. 😀
Happy wife, happy life…. Ok that might be wrong saying for this situation but the sentiment still carries over right?!
I just downloaded the Sims 2 Ultimate edition because … free.
I wonder how long it will take until I get bored and cheat/set fire to everything.
It’s more fun if you just do that from the start.
Make a house of TAYbies!
Apparently there are apartments now. Last time I played they only just added pets
…
That was Sims 1.
I lost my Sims 2 discs ages ago and I really didn’t like sims 3 very much so I scored a fee Ultimate edition of 2 for myself and my wife (my wife is going to get given a gaming laptop as part of the game development course she’s doing so she’s starting to build up her own Origin/Steam libraries).
Lunchtime TAY question!! (Because I’m bored and TAY is being slow today :@) :-
If there’s one video game protagonist you could be in real life who would that be and why??
Me, I’d choose Death from Darksiders 2. Why? Because he looks really cool in his mask!! I’m sure there’s some existential philosophical psychological connection to be made from why I would choose that particular character but I’m just going to go with his mask looks cool!!
Samus, because I think a Chozo power suit would be fun.
Also, boobs.
Guybrush Threepwood. He has amazing adventures, gets to be the captain of his own pirate ship, and scores the hottest most powerful girl in the tri-island area.
I’m guessing Deadpool would be cheating, because he’s not exactly a game character.
Max Payne. Dude’s fucking invincible, or at least has a healing factor better than Wolverine, and 3 left him in a pretty decent place.
Max Payne! 3! He’s so badass looking.
I just heard someone else get asked to write in the card, they made a comment on it being a really good card which made me realise I was so busy trying to figure what to write, I actually didn’t look at it at all. So I went over to have a look when she was done with it, but before I got to that I saw what she’d written and just burst out laughing.
“Enjoy #2”
Who does #2 work for?
For the first time, I had to manually apply thermal paste. Who in their right mind thinks that the amount you need to apply is pea-sized? Must be the smallest peas in the world.
The amount you need to apply is lentil-sized. Case closed.
The advice about a pea sized dab might have been a holdover from the days when CPUs were enormous, back when you were born, CPUs were about the same size as you were when you were born…
I’m taking some crazy pills for my OCD and have reached that zombie stage where you feel like doing nothing but sitting still. I don’t like this stage. I usually stop taking them at this stage. I’m wondering if there’s a stage beyond this stage though, so might stick it out. I can’t believe how much nothing I’ve done today though. XD OCD is better though. HOORAY.
I love doing nothing all day! Sometimes I spend the whole day just thinking about the many things I could be doing and end up wasting it doing nothing! Feels good though =P
Good to hear that the OCD is getting better 🙂
That article you posted on Twitter about it a while back was incredibly saddening :'(
I had no idea it was anything like that! It sounds truly horrible :'(
If you feel like you need to keep taking the meds, then I say do whatever you feel is best for you (though I thought you didn’t like taking them :S). You’re the best judge for what’s best for you after all 🙂
I don’t like taking them but sometimes I need to, alas. 🙂
Was it this article?
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-no-one-tells-you-about-having-ocd/
I hope it’s not a shame thing.
There’s no shame in taking them after all 🙂
And yeah, it was that one :'(
It’s really sad! :'(
It’s far, far worse than what I thought it was :'(
You’re not a terrible person though DC (if you think that) 🙂
Ask your psych about it, the antidepressants did that to me and he gave me some dexamphetamines to counteract that dead brain feeling. 15mg of that makes me function at something close to the normal human range and doesn’t take much of the edge of the citalopram so I’m also reasonably level emotionally. Well, sometimes. Better than I was at any rate.
Technically I can’t really say I’m a straight edge teatotaller anymore but I suppose I can say I’m on amphetamines, get a reaction and then explain…
If it helps, that sounds very similar to the experience I went through every time I shifted to polyphasic sleeping. Once the sleep dep hit, usually for 2-3 weeks. Total zombie mode. You know all those background thoughts you usually have buzzing around, thinking about anything and everything? Internal arguments, references to things the current thought reminds you of, what you’re going to do for lunch/dinner, idle fantasies… all gone. Silent. No internal dialogue. Just monologue. Alone, and no-one to talk to inside your head.
When I went through that stage, I actually had to draw up a schedule of things to do, and mechanically get in the habit of checking things off the list. Even basic ablutions. Eating. Exercising. Chores. Work. Naps. Entertainment – all of it scheduled, forced into without any enthusiasm, just to pass the time so that I wouldn’t fall asleep, except at the appropriately-scheduled nap times. Without the schedule, I very, very, very easily could have sat in my computer chair and done literally nothing for hours.
And I’d have called it ‘hell’ if it wasn’t so devoid of emotion at the time. It was just… different. Unusual. I didn’t like it very much, and I kind of felt tired the whole time, too. ‘Less’ than my potential.
I don’t know if that sounds like what you experience through the magic of drugs, but all I know is without the drugs it took 2-3 weeks to get clear, and it wasn’t an overnight snap as much as groggily coming-to. Like Aliasalpha said, see your doc about it, make sure they know what the symptom is, and make sure you get an assurance from them if it’s a sign that the dose or whatever is wrong, or if it’s a phase that you will eventually adjust to.
Brain chemistry is a funny thing, and yes – sometimes it does need to recalibrate itself.
That does sound spot on. XD
Have you ever been able to see the other side of it, like… pushing through and ‘normalizing’, while still taking the meds? Or have you got jack of it and stopped medicating every single time? If so, what’s the longest you’ve gone, putting up with it?
(Edit: Because I can’t really imagine going more than a month in that state, I’d probably get jack of it, too. Although I think that might be what happened when Mark tried his polyphasic experiment, and the process might’ve been drawn out because he was still consuming caffeine while doing it, which is a huge no-no. Which honestly, makes me wonder… have you tried going without caffeine?)
About five weeks is the longest I’ve taken and I think it was getting better but most times it’s annoyed me. Going to stick it out until atleast the end of August this time minimum.
Hey, good for you, man. I am curious about the caffeine thing, though.
I don’t know that there’s any similarities between massive sleep deprivation and medication-induced zombie-state, but IF THERE IS (and apparently they sound pretty similar?), it would be interesting to see if caffeine affects it. (Per my edit above, after you’d already responded.)
I do drink quite a lot of caffeine. Was only thinking today that I should cut down.
*strokes patchy stubble*
Sugar drinks, maybe? Even that’s probably not IDEAL, but y’know… creaming soda, solo, cordial, bottled iced tea, maybe chocolate milk (but sparingly – your gut won’t like huge amounts of milk).
Dropping sugar and caffeine at the same time would be madness. Your body would revolt. There’s a reason when people try to cut back on sodas they switch to tea, which still has caffeine. Or when they try to cut down on coke entirely, they switch to smoking. (Or at least… that’s what Kel always did.)
Okay, I have to concede defeat here, I am no longer the holder of “most number of superfluous teeth”
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/dentists-remove-232-teeth-from-tumour-in-indian-teen-ashik-gavais-mouth/story-fneuzlbd-1226999722950
Kind of makes my 3 extra wisdom teeth look at bit pathetic by comparison…
@mrtaco was your pasta tasty? My pasta was tasty.
It was delicious. Particularly all that melted parmesan, but ESPECIALLY the fried crispy prosciutto sprinkled over it.
Innuendo?
I had pasta too.
In-your-endo
#hadtobedone
Inside-your-butthole.
I was put in charge of cooking a BBQ for the company today. Some people asked for their steak to be well-done. Those people got sausages.
I grew up on well-done steak, and used to watch in horror when my other half tucked into a nice medium rare steak. What happened was, I got sick of waiting for my steak to cook that I just started eating it more and more pink. Now I have the problem of having to check that the steak is actually past rare.
I have the problem of having to check the steak is pre-rare.
Hype for Skulduggery Pleasant Book 9 is rising… rising…
HYPE HYPE HYPE
Aw yeah, just applied for a job with JB. If I get an interview it should go very well, especially if my mate comes through on his promise and says he’ll put a good word in with his boss for me.
I genuinely hope you get it, man! Sending good thoughts your way!
Cheers buddy!
GOOD MOVIE FRIDAY
Because It’s damn slow around here, recommend/discuss a good movie. Not one for @dc’s list, just one that’s worth checking out.
I nominate Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Gary Oldman gives a great performance, stellar British cast and the best feeling of oppressive foreboding I’ve ever felt in a film.
That’s a great movie. Really great sense of time and place.
Also, Mark Strong! He’s great.
All that climbing.
Really solid movie, that. It managed to translate the… Le Carréness(?) of the book really well.
Anal Queens 8. Dat plot, dat acting, dat booty.
Philistine.
Everyone know 6 was the best.
I love that movie. Haven’t watched it since I saw it at the cinema, but it is brilliant.
Wolf Creek 2, it was fun and rather enjoyable, and I found it quite funny, well if you like dark humour 😛
I heard it wasn’t as good as the first?
I think people just say that about a lot of horror cause most sequels are never good, but honestly I thought it was great. I laughed a lot more this time at the character Mick Taylor than I did with the first. Take away the psychopath he’s a pretty cool guy.
Kung Fu Hustle. Completely insane but very well done. One of my favourite movies.
Haha I’ve watched that movie like 10 times when it came out!
I nominate Black Swan.
Such a great movie.
Everything about it just perfect, from the acting to the music 🙂
My third favourite movie of all time 🙂
What are the other two?
Liondrives top 5 movies:
1) Scott Pilgrim vs the World
2) Kill Bill volume 1 & 2 (they’re one goddamn movie)
3) Black Swan
4) Beauty and the Beast
5) Mean Girls
Disclaimer: everything under the top 3 is subject to sporadic change 😀
I don’t see The Princess Bride in your list. It therefore doesn’t count.
I’ve, urgh, never seen it :3
It’s from 6 years before I was born, cut me some slack! :O
:O
It’s a cult classic – so much fun!
Brooooo that’s no excuse!
Oh man that’s a great movie, I love Darren Aronofsky! Pi & Requiem for a Dream are just awesome.
I haven’t seen any of his other works, that I recall :S
I just have a hetero crush on Natalie Portman, haha! :3
I wouldn’t go there, ever, but she’s so amazing! 😀
My hands down favourite actress ever 🙂
Nah man Mila Kunis 😀
I nominate V for Vendetta because as far as I’m concerned it’s the greatest movie ever 0_0
Really? Odd choice.
I just love the script and the way V speaks. Also there’s a lot of lessons to be taken away from that movie, even though it exaggerates a lot of issues I think it serves to remind us what can happen when a population lets fear drive a democracy.
Have you read the graphic novel?
I love the twist in that one. Great film.
Not a movie, but I’ve been dabbling in a bit of anime recently for the first time in many, many years so I may as well talk about that.
I’ve been watching a brilliant series called “Tonari no Seki-kun”. The episodes only go for about 7 minutes (including an intro/credits song, so more like 5 minutes) so they’re great for watching whenever I have a spare moment.
The series basically revolves around a girl who is constantly distracted in class by the boy sitting next to her, who instead of paying attention plays elaborate games with toys/props. They almost never actually interact, it’s mostly just the girl watching the boy doing crazy things and commentating. It’s kind of hard to describe the appeal of it…
The girl tries so hard to concentrate on the lesson but she’s always too curious and ends up totally engrossed after a while, only to despair at the end of class that she’s forgotten to take notes again. In one of the episodes the boy is playing with a Shogi set, while the girl watches, imagining this epic storyline to go along with what he is doing. Or another when he brings a little toy bear and makes it go rock-climbing on the student sitting in front of him’s back (without him noticing) while the girl’s imagination goes wild with some high tension life or death scenario.
There’s no other notable characters (and usually no one else talking besides the girl thinking to herself). I don’t know why I find it so amazing, but it’s great. I think it’s the small-scale of the story. No massive plot that takes itself too seriously and involves a hundred different characters with their own motivations or whatever. Just a simple story with enjoyable characters, I like that.
(All for free on Crunchyroll too, so it’s even better!)
(It’s slow at work today :P)
Disappointed in the distinct lack of Rubber.
You’re slipping Pow.
I can’t describe that movie without spoiling what it is I like about it!
(everybody should watch it)
I watched some episodes of that a few weeks back, it was pretty cool. Can’t remember where I was up to, though. :/
Princess and the Frog. Overlooked Disney movie, which kicks Frozen’s ass six ways from Sunday.
That’s the only one I haven’t seen, actually.
(well, I haven’t seen Frozen yet either…)
Hackers.
It’s kind of in the “so bad it’s good” territory but a young Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller completely embrace their roles as generic rebellious teenagers, knowing that the movie would inevitably be kind of shit because it had to make urban technological warfare look interesting in the mid-90s when only children really understood modern computing. Honestly I like it in part because in spite of the goofy subject matter and dreadfully executed cyberpunk-lite themes it’s actually really well directed with a tight (if horribly dated) script.
I’m no aspiring filmmaker but as a film appreciater I think we can learn a lot from examining how this stupid movie was made. It’s one of my all-time favourites.
I quite enjoyed In Time when I watched it years ago. Chances are, it’s nowhere near as good as my memory believes it to be, but the concept is brilliant. Time is Money. Very Robin Hood/ Bonny and Clyde-esque. That’s all I can think of right now that isn’t Batman Begins or Terminator 2.
Ooh, the Die Hard tetralogy (you heard me) is great, but you probably already knew that.
You’re dead to me.
Edit: you didn’t say Pentalogy. You may continue to live in my acknowledgement, just of a severely diminished opinion.
So I’m net positive, right? Yay!
Hey! 4.0 wasn’t that bad! It sorta… gives me something to strive toward.
c.c
I think it was leagues ahead of Die Hard 2, personally.
True Lies. Possibly one of the best movies in the world.
It wasn’t until we sat our Mum down to watch it that she realized what kind of movie it was – she’d always wandered past during some explosion/gunfight scene and figured it for typical man-shooting.
That movie has one of the few interesting chase scenes in the history of action movies.
Third best Arnie film.
What were the best two? T2 and Running Man?
…The expendables 2? It’s the Expendables 2, isn’t it.
Total Recall and Running Man.
Other people might pan them, but I’m a huge fan of his grieving/washed-up anti-hero flicks – Collateral Damage and End of Days.
Gabriel Byrne was a great Lucifer.
Even at Arnie’s worst he’s great. I somehow enjoyed The Last Stand despite Knoxville’s best efforts.
I just got an urge to watch The Sixth Day.
Same! It was pretty great.
(Well. Maybe not Junior worst, but any other worst is great.)
I really enjoyed The Last Stand.
Monsters University
I probably love Monsters Inc. more than I love Toy Story (collective gasp)
Monsters University was a worthy prequel. The movie had a really interesting moral:
No matter how knowledgeable you are about a subject, there will always be someone more naturally talented. No amount of knowledge will make up for a lack of a lack of talent. in other words, nerds don’t always win.
The last 20 minutes are also really touching. I liked it.
Untouchables.
Because it’s goddamn amazing, that’s why.
One of my all-time favourites.
@virus__ I just preordered World On Fire from iTunes. Got two of the tracks on the album for preordering, so I’m listening to them right now.
Oh neat! I’m guessing world on fire and that new one Slash debuted other night, which name escapes me 😛
Bent to Fly is the other song. Two completely different songs though. Onto a second playthrough now.
I just bought the song, not bad. I have two copies of the album preordered a UK version and the Australian version 😛
Yeah, I think you mentioned you bought the fan pack. Now I’m listening to Apocalyptic Love. Such a brilliant album.
Yeah I did haha. Personalised (and I think signed) poster? Count me in!
Loved that album was defs one of my favourites from 2012 along with House of Gold & Bones.
Seeing Slash live in 2012 at Hisense Arena was one of my highlights of 2012. Damn, almost 2 years ago.
Time flies way too fast :/ It still feels like it was only 6 months ago I saw Metallica when infact it was 18 months ago D=
You can pre-order music now? I saw on Amazon that you can pre-order books, too.
Damn you pre-order culture!
Have been able to for yeeeeeeeears!
I pre ordered an album today, but that was at JB 😛
@popdart5 The Strange (@strange) has been officially ordered! Now just waiting till it ships.
Blah. Mustgethomemustgethomemustgethome. I hope the PDFs have also been released because that would be nice to read whil waiting for the physical copy.
Not yet- only the physical award ordering can be processed.
YAY! Looking forward to The Strange (@strange) RPG Session 🙂
There was cake!
It was a tall cake!
It was also a delicious cake.
There was also socialising. Some of the people from one of the other floors came down for it. A couple of them were youngfolk, so the four of us were huddled together away from the old people. I think I might have passed myself off as a regular human being, so that was nice. Mostly thanks to my friend being the driving force of conversation 😛
Wait… you’re a youngfolk?
He told us his age.
I remember it well. He’s like… 60?
Yeah. 60.
Compared to say Bish or Strange, he’s essentially infinitely young, and I’ve heard that there’s even older people than those two.. OUT IN THE REAL WORLD!
http://i.imgur.com/TJViISQ.gif
Dun dun duuunnnnnn!
What are you doin’ here?
I thought this was my house!
Wait, I don’t have green drapes!
Shiiiiiiiiiiiittttt. I need to find my pants.
No. You really don’t.
*locks door*
Is it me, or has Freeze been a bit more… thing… than usual lately?
I miss @chuloopa 🙁
He’s left a hole that needs to be filled…
PHRASING!
Are we… not doing phrasing anymore? Someone needs to tell me what we’re doing, now…
Chuloopa misses you and your holes too.
Unfortunately i now have a job that i can’t use the internet 🙁
Boo.
@dc whatre u doin ereeeeee
Hi, TAY.
I bought two Wii classic controllers for Smash Bros on Wii U.
$15 for the pair.
The wait until release day will be long…
Xenoblade until then! 😀
Where did you get them for that price?
eBay.
Taybies, I have an 8-disc DVD set of Cardcaptor Sakura season 1 and 2. I don’t want it anymore. I’m willing to sell it for about $25. Or best offer, or maybe just give it away.
WINDY!
Best offer, ay?
I’ll give you a lock of my hair for it! It’s really soft, you won’t regret it! 😀
Do you actually want it?
…not really :3
I kinda just wanted to try and start a bidding war of random things! 😀
I failed :'(
I have a button!
Not a badge, but an actual button. For clothing. I don’t know what it came from.
I’ll see your button and raise you a half used lip balm!
Far more useful than a button 😛
Not as useful as a piece of giant Toblerone!
With a best before date of July 2002!
I searched for things around my room of greater value that I’d part with, but couldn’t find anything :'(
Looks like you win the bidding! 😀
Enjoy your DVDs, and hopefully Scree enjoys the chocolate! 😀
How many seasons were their of Cardcaptor Sakura anyway
2 seasons and 2 movies. I don’t have the movies.
Kransky!
Cheese?
At the front of JB Hifi special?
I just filled in a job application that wanted a certificate proving I could type 30 wpm with 98% accuracy.
I didn’t know typing speeds went that low or that you could get a certificate proving you had arthritis.
I really gotta get around to learning this whole touch-typing thing… :S
http://play.typeracer.com/
We should play together again! (@masha2932 @trjn @freya)
(free wins! :D)
EDIT: Dammit! I forgot to sign in on the random race I joined and got 143wpm (top of the recent leaderboards :P)
Show offius.
Woo! 30wpm! I type way faster than I thought I did.
This thing is cool – I just got 72wpm with 97.7% accuracy!
30wpm? That sounds way out of my league. I hover between 8 an 9 words per minute, with 70% accuracy.
Even typing the text above took about 2 minutes.
With typeracer, I scored exactly 30wpm with 80% accuracy. I’m impressed with myself.
Time to get practicing then.
I recommend a hearty diet of early 2000s online gaming and MSN messenger. There are probably still servers for Ragnarok Online around.
(Y)
HAHA – this is EXACTLY how I learned to type. Warcraft, Diablo and ICQ Messenger 🙂
Our work identified that typing speed was an issue and people had to go on courses and training every week until they can get up to 50wpm with 95% accuracy.
That was probably eighteen months ago. There are a lot of people still going.
Urgh, paranoia!
I need man advice! :O
Deodorant, aftershave, cologne, or other?
And also recommendations!
I usually use Lynx, but apparently that’s a no no if you want to be a man :3
Help me men, I’m just a young’in! :’O
I prefer Old Spice. I know, the whole popularity thing, but honestly, it smells better than Lynx to me. However it’s hard to come by here so I make do with whatever I can afford.
I have Old Spice Aftershave (on rare occasions), to smell like a man that I could one day dream of being.
The important thing is to be reserved with your application. Have you ever talked to an old lady, and had your nose assaulted by the smell of two different types of perfume, a faint whiff of their hair product, and the accumulated smell of six different types of make-up (I only pick on old women right now because I’ve experienced it twice in the last two days)?
That ain’t fun. You want it to be subtle. It’s noticeable if they decide to lick your three chest hairs, but you don’t wish to assail them when you’re sitting near them at a table.
To be fair, the musks and scents of old people kind of assault your senses regardless of what they’re using.
Lick my, three, chest hairs?
You clearly have not seen my unreasonably hairy chest :S
I’ll send you a picture, babe 😉
Whatever you do don’t use Old Spice =P I recommend a Burberry Rhythm or a CK!
I always use deo but never double up on aftershave AND cologne. Deodorant is meant to draw them in and when they get close enough either the aftershave OR cologne seals the deal. Make sense?
I usually just use some Rexona antiperspirant. But then it’s more functional than anything else.
Rexona have good scents in them and they actually work.
There’s an antiperspirant that chemists stock that has no smell at all, that’s the best one
I need something that smells, haha! I don’t trust my natural scent 😛 I want to smell pretty 😀
Look pretty and the guys won’t care what you smell like (within reason)
The only deodorant that actually works for me (i.e. doesn’t result in Ballmer-style sweaty pits by the end of the working day) is the Rexona clinical stuff but it costs a small fortune to buy it 🙁
I like Brut deodorant. Lynx isn’t technically a deodorant either it’s just a body spray lol. Saying that the OLD version of Lynx Phoenix was boss.
You need to try each and see what you like. I hate antiperspirant cos it turns to sticky gunk in my pits.
I like brute Deo-cologne spray which is just a fancy word for deodorant. Its stink is stronger than my stink, which is important.
Roll-on deodorant, and a splash of aftershave or cologne.
Ha, ask for man advice and Strange replies 😀
Confirmation that Strange is secretly a man! 😛
@strange also managed to condense my thousand-word response into ten. 😛
I liked your thousand word response though 🙂
It was well thought out, and offered far more advice than I thought I’d receive 😀
Oh good. 🙂
Also, I’m not sure if it helps, but I think the odds may be in your favour with regard to scent. Science tells us that women detect and react more powerfully to scent than men do, which leads to things like men thinking they’ve got the right amount on, and women almost choking – in the bad way.
I’ve not experimented to tell the difference in pick-ups, because I’ve never tried to pick up men, but I assume that whatever you like, other guys probably will too? I should really ask my middle brother about this. Kind of a shame one of my coworkers left, who was in the know… we used to chop this shit up a bit.
I’ve heard from straight guys that guys in general smell bad, hahaha!
I like that blokey, masculine smell that guys have though 😀
Like, women can smell good too obviously, but that feminine scent doesn’t do anything for me, unlike guy smell 😛
Soap.
That’s where I was going wrong!
I am unfit to advise 😛
Despite the bad rap it has and what people continually say about it, I use Lynx. Dark Temptation, the chocolate one. Used to use Dimension back in the day before they discontinued it, which was devastating because it was the only one that smelt any good and the others were all variants of flyspray. But the whole time using that and now this one, I’ve always had people commenting that I smell good. And/or have a distinctive smell 😛
I’m of the opinion that you have to find something that works well with your body, and I’m just lucky that these things happen to do that for me. Wouldn’t have a clue how to find something else though, both of these were just kind of luck.
Depends on what im doing, if im working I just wear Lynx Chocolate spray deoderant. If im going out somewhere for dinner with friends or family I switch it up with either Joop Homme or Joop Go cant go wrong with Joop its a sweet smelling cologne
One little tweet and I’ve cause Liondrive to become unsettled! Score! >:D
There’s nothing wrong with using Lynx, it’s just got a bad rap from teenagers using way, way, way too much and choking out everybody in a 50m radius.
Just have a good shower scrub and use whatever you use sparingly! For the sake of all of our noses!
Also, I’ve known some IT nerds who used what the ladies called, ‘the Lynx shower’. Deodorant in place of a shower. And no anti-antiperspirant when they really, really, really needed to be using it.
I probably use a little more than the recommended dosage >.>
I REGRET NOTHING
Alright son. Man-advice time.
First:
SWEAT:
Depends almost entirely on how you sweat and where.
Some folks sweat at the pits and that’s where all the bacteria live, so it tends to whiff a bit. It’s generally stickier/thicker than the light water-sweat that you get on your brow. If this is you, it’s likely to be the primary place where you sweat, and justifably an odor concern. Shower before going out anywhere, and make sure to pay attention to keeping your arm-hair clean (shampooing might seem weird, but no, it’s not. If you have antibacterial soap, this is a great place for it.)
Other folks don’t sweat at the pits much, but fucking EVERYWHERE ELSE, especially back/forehead. (That’s my type.) You can always tell these by walking behind one on even the mildest of days, by the dark patch in the small of their backs. This sweat will typically trigger faster and while being thinner, like just water, will usually be more profuse.
Regardless of where you sweat, you’ll want an anti-perspirant. If you’re a heavy sweater, you actually want to apply it just before you go to bed (it sinks into your pores overnight) as well as after a shower in the morning/after exercise.
ANTI-PERSPIRANT:
If sweat is the problem, this is the solution. Odour? Less-so. Both? See this AND deodorant.
Generally the Rexona/Adidas/etc ‘sport’ type ones are going to be generally inoffensive in odour, which will allow you to add a layer of deodorant as well, for a signature scent. The amount you sweat should dictate which ‘strength’ you get. If uncertain, there’s honestly no harm in going for the maximum. Roll-ons will be more effective than sprays, but some brands (eg: Lynx Dry) like to include a powerful deodorant in their anti-perspirant spray, so that can be useful for travelling.
BACK-SWEAT BONUS ROUND: SINGLETS
If you sweat on the back a lot, even 2x a day anti-perspirant may not help and you’ll ruin (and I do mean ruin) your shirts over time. The only true solution is to wear a singlet. There are numerous types, and you may need to cross reference the sizing of them with whatever shirts you wear (they’re not the same as typical shirt sizing), but all you really need to know is that synthetics are bad, you want cotton. Some people start concerned that it will make them sweat more, but the sad truth is that if you start sweating at the back in heat, the singlet isn’t going to make it happen any faster, and if it’s GOING to happen no matter what, you need it there to protect your shirt.
DEODORANT
Have a separate deodorant/cologne for scent. There is no real wrong or right choice there, whatever you pick should suit you. Brut, Old Spice, Lynx… whatever you like the smell of, because you’re going to be living with it longer than anyone else. Any old spray will do. Bottles for spritzing if you’re feeling fancy. (WHICH YOU SHOULD.) Cans seem cheaper, but to get the same results as you get from a powerful bottled cologne, you will spend just as much anyway. Besides, you should only be using the cans on your pits, and unless you’re sweating very, very, very, very heavily (like actual exertion heavy), that’s not going to be where people are getting your scent from.
When I was out lady-killing (figuratively, not literally), I got a very serious boost in results by going with a scent by Nautica. It was a glass-bottle spritz cologne – not suitable for armpits, but hit the scents where most day-to-day interaction would help it waft.
THE USE OF COLOGNE
Spritz onto a wrist, rub wrists together. Spritz on your jaw, where it meets the neck, either side. Generous enough to rub up behind the ear and the back of the neck a bit. That spot around base of ear and neck is apparently a prime location for folks to be smelling. On your cheeks is good, if you shave. Feels good, smells good. (WHY DO YOU SHAVE I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO BE A MAN GET OUT OF MY HOUSE)
With dosages like that, you may run the risk of overpowering whoever you walk near or stand in the immediate vicinity of for an hour afterwards (something anyone who’s taken early-morning trains will attest to, with that early-morning train-carriage scent of shampooed hair and recently-applied cologne), but it will fade very quickly and you may even want to re-apply a more circumspect amount as you get back from lunch or a half-hour to hour before going out of an evening. (Preferably not just before walking out the door, it’s far too obvious and blatant; think of the typical popped-collar douchebro you’ve walked past on a Friday night who’s out clubbing and has knocked you out with his perfume on his way past – don’t be that guy.)
GYM:
Totally doesn’t matter what you wear, you’re going to sweat anyway. Sure, use something to keep it under control, but this is a place where you’re going to reek – but that’s OK because so does everyone else. If you’re picking up in a gym, it’s with people who understand workout musk. What you wear, in this case, will matter. Because the sweat can affect your workout. Keep it consistent, well-washed, and make sure it covers anywhere that your skin rubs together. Airy is better, fabric not especially important, though anything that breathes is a plus. Probably the only time I recommend wearing synthetics, as some of those have some great cooling effects. (People pooh-pooh them, but a well-designed ‘running’ shirt really can work wonders.)
Also, don’t be a tool. Bring a towel. A big one, if you can, not one of those poseur little ‘barely covers the seat’ ones which never cover a bench properly and only ever the seat on a machine, leaving your sweat over any other pad you come into contact with. It’s just considerate.
I’m not really a heavy sweater thankfully 😀
And I take a little towel to the gym :S
I thoroughly wipe down all the machines after use though! 🙂
I hate it when there’s sweat all over the equipment!
What’s better do you think for general day to day use though? Roll on, spray on, or splash on?
Also, aftershave! Should I be using it?
My manly knowledge is sadly lacking :S
Day to day?
Roll on antiperspirant, spray-on deodorant. Spray under arms, maybe back/chest a little, too.
Though really, if you find a nice bottle or scent that you like there is absolutely no reason not to start every day with a few spritzes/dabs of cologne. It’s just classier. 🙂 Aftershave is a replacement for cologne; it’s basically the same thing, used the same way.
Oh, and when it comes to buying, don’t be shy to jump into Myer or David Jones and seek out those girls who keep ambushing people by the entrance, with a cacophony of perfume. Ask if you can try out different scents. When you’re buying a hundred-dollar bottle, it’s worth it to experiment. Bring a friend for a second opinion.
Hmm, thanks for the good advice! 😀
Oh, and regarding shaving. I want a beard, but until I can grow a proper beard, shaving is a necessary evil :'(
One day… one day. You’ll get there.
I always thought I couldn’t grow a beard. Then I did.
Disclaimer: It looked pretty bloody horrible for the longest time – scrappy and patchy – and itched like a motherfucker (like I nearly ran screaming to a 7-11 to pick up a bag of disposable razors, several times a day for weeks; I actually had a damn RASH under there, ended up using some hypo-allergenic scentless anti-bacterial balm from the chemist to rub into it for soothing, because apparently I am actually an enormous pussy) for like… a month. Compare to my proudly Jewish/Hungarian coworker who can accidentally grow a beard if he thinks too hard, getting to the length I keep mine trimmed at, within like… a week. That fucker.
Oh, and when trying on aftershaves or colognes – PUT THEM ON YOUR SKIN. Don’t rely on how it smells in the bottle or on a piece of paper. A good aftershave or cologne is just like a good perfume. It’s a complex chemical mix that might react with your skin and make a smell you don’t like. Try one scent at a time on the inside of your wrist (like the ladies do). It’s a pulse point, so it warms the scent and you’ll get a really good idea if you like it. Also, notice how it smells as it wears on through the day. A good one will still be going ( in a more subtle way) at the end of the day.
For the record, I love Cool Water by Davidoff, and the ones by CK, YSL and Bulgari are all very good.
Even if it’s the entire head? 🙁
Never been a fan of anti-perspirants. They always smell bad. Even the ones that are supposedly odourless. Even the ones that are supposedly the same scent as my deodorant.
Well. Maybe not the head? I’ve honestly never tried. I should sometime…
But yeah, the point of antiperspirants isn’t the odor and is why I recommend both that and deodorant, plus a little cologne. In order of scents, you want people picking up on cologne over deodorant, deodorant over antiperspirant, antiperspirant over pit-sweat. Any other sweat is pretty much odorless until dried.
😀 I love this job!
Good location, good people, good work (it’s been easy so far), good environment (want to arrive late and leave early? GO FOR IT!), good opportunities (free travel :D)… WOOOOO!
Only downside is I haven’t been paid yet :'( 😛
When you do, can I have a gift?
But I’ve given you lots of gifts already!
You don’t even play my games :'(
😀
That’s not a job, you are at a pub.
You do get paid, right?
…. D:
(I started past a certain date so I didn’t get paid this month but I’m supposed to next month :P)Duckie-boos!
Nanny, is that you?
I’ll get it!
*Thundering Crash*
I love how her arm is permanently in a sling
It’s to hide the fact she’s a chicken with only one breast M’lord
Just got some weird cryptic “You’ve Been Chosen” email with a link to some random video from Bioware / EA. I’m assuming it’s some stupid EA wankery but did anyone else get it and if so, how much of a waste of my time will it be to click this shit?
Clicking weird emails from unknown sender is always a waste of time.
Probably about the same time it took you to write this comment 😛
I don’t bother with most game marketing emails. I didn’t get that EA one though.
Pretty cool vid of their new horror game. No in-game visuals though.
Im keen!
I clicked the shit, watched
a vague, choppy, live-action, film-school teaser about a hoodie-wearing urban-dweller having a nightmare about running.Lasted about thirty seconds. Asked me to subscribe to their newsletter. Not even mildly intrigued.
That sounds like complete shit.
Remember when Bioware used to be cool? 🙁
But… but… Inquisition! They can still be cool! Some of the time!
I dunno, I hate to be that guy
this is a liebut Inquisition has utterly failed to grab my interest. Nothing about it looks or sounds interesting. No returning characters I care about, continuing a plot arc that left me utterly cold in the previous game, all the new characters look like they were designed by people sitting around and deliberately trying to make the cast ‘diverse’ and ‘realistic’ and avoiding any genre cliches etc, which instead means none of them have anything remotely interesting to latch onto and they all look just unappealing.Plus recently the company has a record of putting out games with half the content cut, or with massive amounts of compromise or a big giant BUUUUT about them. Mass Effect 3 is great most of the time… but that ending. Dragon Age 2 is good, but all that repeated content. SWTOR is an okay MMO, but it’s an MMO. And honestly, Dragon Age Origins was adequate but it doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same paragraph as the classics like Baldur’s Gate.
And then this new thing they’re teasing doesn’t sound remotely interesting either. Maybe it will turn out to be cool but this isn’t a good way to get me interested. I feel like at some point EA stopped making games people want and started making the games they want to sell. I want another Jade Empire. 🙁
It looks like a cool concept for a new Bioware game. Boo to you, good ser, boo.
I might as well ask…
Where’s a good place to buy futsal/indoor shoes? I’ll be playing on an outdoor multi-purpose court whose material is sort of tennis court-y. Doesn’t seem like Rebel etc. have much on offer and they’re almost the same price as all the import sites (Eastbay, Startfootball)
@coldcamv @thecracks
Sportsgirl
Na man, Supre is the shit.
EDIT: Does Supre even sell shoes? Dunno.
Athletes foot has a few and alot of sports shops do. I just played wearing runners as found they worked well as a goal keeper
http://www.vibramfivefingers.it/product_details.aspx?model=FLOW
Hey @greenius, I bought my pairs from Nike outlet store in University Hill (If you’re a melbournite). You can pick them up from those low-mid tier sports stores as well.
I am a Melbournite but I’m way out in the South Eastern ‘burbs 🙁
I’ve got my eyes on the Mercurials or Lunar Gato IIs!
Rebel usually have the main brands (nike, adidas, etc) for sale. That’s where Batguy gets his. It’s worth getting futsal boots over sneakers for sure.
They only had one online so hopefully in-store there’s a better selection 😛
I buy shoes from the shoe place.
Seriously.
My indoor soccer shoes aren’t even indoor soccer shoes. They’re indoor *something* shoes, but not indoor soccer shoes.
I am figuratively the best.
Oh Cracks *shakes fist*
You like Billy Talent so you are pretty good!
\o/
Something about that is strangely appealing.
It’s no dancing Chinese baby.
The Dwayne Johnson Hercules movie is reviewing surprisingly well.
This pleases me.
I too am pleased.
The thing that surprised me with the trailer was just how bang on it was with SO MANY Hercules elements. Most of them pick and choose to hell and back (since he was the default for every Grecian heroic tale, there’s like four times as many stories about him as anyone else), but the main elements are pretty cool.
Did you see the Renny Harlin one? It was amazingly shit.
I saw like, three seconds of a trailer, and turned it off in disgust.
Well, switched to a different tab while it played an ad on youtube. >.>
Apparently they used the scrotal hair of a buffalo for his beard.
I kinda like The Rock. He seems like the most amiable guy.
And even though he was a walking bag of watermelons for it, I loved Faster.
Snitch was decent as well.
Have you seen that 90’s photo of him doing the rounds lately? Jimmy Fallon had him on the show and asked him what was in the bumbag. He replied that it was full of Poptarts and condoms.
I guess he needed plenty of both. Doesn’t seem like there’d be enough room for the poptarts, though…
Bought Faster on DVD the other week, still haven’t watched it yet though.
Kinda interested in watching Hercules, but I still haven’t watched Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes yet, reckon I need to do that first.
Waiting for Destiny Beta to download…. COME ON, COME ON
TWENTY-FOUR PERCENT COMEONCOMEONCOMEON
I was at 24% at 7pm tonight and only just played about 15 mins ago lol. Hope your connection is faster than mine !
It’s not. 🙁 I’ve actually got a fault logged to get the connection fixed. Drop-outs and sub-2mbps.
:C
This is why I normally don’t do betas and demos. 10gig download for something that’s only temporary is insane. I just couldn’t resist the Destiny beta though.
Agreed, normally don’t do it either! I worry about when I have to download the full version lol
Worth it.
If anyone is up for any gaming shenannigans let me know! (Steam me up!)
I really want to play the original Payday: The Heist with someone at least one.
Too much pad thai, night before last. No microwave in the new apartment for leftovers. Did not think this through.
Decided to try putting it in the oven – that heats things, right? But too slowly. Screw that. Grill!
Did not think through.
*munches on crispy black noodles* Mmm. Good! *eyes watering*
-_-
My microwave needed replacing a week or two ago. The old one started spitting sparks from underneath the door o.O
That’s a bit worrying man, reckon you need to replace that thing ASAP.
Ours had rust on one of the lefthand inside edge, finally replaced it about 6 months later.
Yeah, we immediately ended the cook cycle, unplugged it, and relegated it to the garage.
Got a new one the next day.
There is no such thing as too much Phad Thai.
Did you not consider perhaps steaming it over a saucepan of water on the stove? I find that’s usually a good alternative for a controlled reheat
Finally completed my Disney Infinity collection of figures today, bought Anna, Elsa, Rapunzel, Phineas, Agent P, Sorcerer’s Apprentice Mickey and Woody all for 9 bucks each at the Target Toy Sale \o/
Now I just have to get the rest of the power discs, and get the last few I need to complete my Skylanders: Swap Force collection.
Also, on the subject of Disney infinity Power Discs, I’ve got the album for the Series 1 discs, and I bought the album for the series 2 discs today, found out tonight that apparently there is no album for series 3 discs, with no plans to release one… Poor form Disney/Avalanche.
Reminder for the Destiny folks.
Group you can join here http://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/100780
Joined last night, just about to jump on in 15 mins!
MQFT
D
H
F
S
Yes @liondrive, we all know you want the D :p
F.
I WANT THE D TOO.
…Destiny, that is.
Denoblade \o/
The D.
Celebrate @liondrive finally coming out to his mum.
Looks like the winner is D.
Sorry to disappoint you all, but D was Disney Infinity.
Edit: changed my mind, can’t be stuffed, I’m so tired, I’ll have to take a raincheck on it.
I’ve made a huge mistake.
Good god but is Clive Barker’s Jericho a torturous wank.
Wouldn’t know, I’ve never played it, but by the sounds of it, I probably don’t want to.
The only Clive Barker game I remember playing is Clive Barker’s Undying. Remember really enjoying it too.
Ooh, just found it on GoG for $5.99, I might just have to buy it.
http://www.gog.com/game/clive_barkers_undying
Wait til the Halloween Steam Sale and pick it up for $2 maybe. That’s… about what it’s worth.
(Edit: The weird thing is, I really enjoyed the demo on the 360. Just the early levels on PC? Shat me to tears. Also, I don’t graphics whore that often, but they kinda feel like they make a difference, here. It hasn’t aged well. And it falls prey to SO MANY terrible video game cliches to railroad you into ‘playing properly’.)
Didn’t realize it was on Steam.
Are you really being so stingy as to avoid paying $4 more?
Like, if you saved $10+ then sure, but $4…
Yes. Now think carefully how bad something would have to be to warrant warning against four dollars worth of curiosity.
(Edit: I believe I probably paid about that much, too… and wish I hadn’t.)
MRS SHANE VS CHAPTER THREE OF SEASON TWO OF THE WALKING DEAD
This isn’t the just-released chapter, this is the one before it. Mrs Shane is still catching up.
Mrs Shane’s Clementine is still trying to get along with everyone. She’s determined to be Sarah’s friend, and wants to stay on good terms with Kenny and Luke. So many times, her default position is to say nothing, rather than take a side. She says it’s partly because she’s playing as a kid, and that silence would not be as viable an option with a more influential character like Lee.I don’t think she believed Carver’s assertion that Clem is actually a leader.
Anyway, her choices:
– She helped Sarah with her chores. She isn’t worried about coddling the dumb kid, she just wants to be friends.
– She also wants to be friends with Bonnie. She said she loved the doofy jacket, and told her instantly about Luke.
– She tried to take the blame for the walkie talkies, just as I did.
– She tried to talk Kenny out of killing Carver, and then walked away while he did it. Mrs Shane definitely doesn’t see Clem in the same way I do. She definitely doesn’t agree that there might be a little Carver lurking inside her.
– Sarita’s arm, gone. She was surprised there was even a choice there. What good does it do to kill the zombie once the woman has been bitten? 😛
There’s totally a little Carver in Clem, even if you don’t play her that way. I’m playing Clem pretty altruistic, and it’s still obvious that she’s hardening up as a person.So my sister and all her friends know pretyy mcuh all my sex stories now. THank you, drinking games.
Should out to @liondrive
My best friends sister knows basically all of mine due to drinking as well as several other random people, good times
She thinks I’m a slut now. SHe’s probably right.
Also that I should tell my cousins ( the males one,s anyway), because apparently they’re worried about me. And would be proud.
Man I can’t even remember the last time I was drunk in any capacity, let alone this much. I’m gonna call at least six months. Probably more though.
I’m gonna go try to take down that fucking anaconda in elite. Because why6 not. Test yoself.
No really. Try and spam more.
Ok yeah I will own this page.
All I have to do is time out the gap between posts. It’s what, 30 seconds, right?
My sister seemed a little disappointed when I told her there were no girlson the scene at the moment. She dicn’t even know of my “reputation” at the time yet still seemed disappointed.
God knows what she thinks now. I guess it could only be further disappointment.
Though I guess……… I completely forgot what the other half of that thought was.
Ok being too much of a fuckwit, time to ban self from internet.
Nooooooo. Stay forever!
What does the scouter say about his power level?
0.044!
Man if that thing were accurate, no way I feel like I could car right now. How the fuck does California do 0.08??
what a shitty annoying night. worst sleeps ever! don’t think I got more than an hour and a bit in any one go. Must have moved from bed to couch about 6 times :\ Easy to fall asleep on the couch, but not the best for my back, so go up to bed for comfort, and can’t sleep. le sigh.
Hi. Does any one want a guitar hero world tour drumkit and a guitar hero world tour game? I won the kit in a comp, but hardly use it because I prefer Rockband. I am keeping the plastic guitar though as I use it for Rockband. I am in Malvern East if any one wants to collect it. Cheers.
pops I forgot to add the guitar hero world tour I’m giving away is for the Xbox 360
Actually, sorry I just had a closer look at the guitar hero world tour set and the cables are shot.so forget it, into the hard rubbish it goes. Sorry.
Got a TAY meat coming up? Can’t decide where to fucking eat? Try this!
http://www.wtfsigte.com/
If you don’t like the suggestion, tell em it’s shit and try again! :p
It just recommended I go to the Capital Pathology branch in Woden.
Pretty sure that’s not a food place, website.
I mean, it might be great if you want some bloods, maybe a kidney stone or two to lick, or something along those lines, but umm, no.
well it might not be 100% accurate, but when I did it for Brisbane it showed me 8 or 9 food places in a row
IT KNOWS YOUR SECRET AND NOW WE ALL DO VAMPYR
So apparently from the start of next month, every standard drink in a bottle of spirits we will be paying 1 dollar in tax for according to the ‘alcoholic spirits industry’. So, a bottle of Jack Daniels at the current Dan Murphy’s price would be 50% tax :S
So… stock up while you can? Gotcha.
Basically.
ooor go another route and distill your own, you can buy a 65L pot still from china for pretty cheap, my mate does this. I’m yet to try anything other than his pure straight spirit. Which is essentially rum since he distills from cane sugar.
Nah I don’t drink enough for that.
Though I do have an empty shed and alcoholic friends…
Wow.
People often ask how we can be feeding a family of five and paying off a mortgage on one salary. They don’t seem to understand when I say that one of the reasons is because we don’t drink.
In this day and age it’d be stupid to do so in your situation, especially when alcohol is so expensive and it is a luxury item, it’s not a need it’s a want.
When I was working at Dan Murphy’s I just couldn’t understand the people who buy the 47 dollar cartons of Toohey’s New every 2 days. How the fuck can you justify close to $150 a week for booze?! Then again that wasn’t as bad as the bloke who bought the $30 bottle of McAlister’s Scotch every day. Nice guy though, but it must be hard to be a functioning alcoholic with today’s prices.
Our alcohol is already 40% tax as well. I don’t see why we need to be taxed so harshly on it, the people who desperately want it will continue to buy it, it’s not helping curb alcoholism or binge drinking. The alcopops tax did prove that.
My wife can’t drink often because it affects her medication and since I’ve been on my P plates the last year I don’t drink often in case I have to drive. We used to keep well-stocked but we offloaded it awhile back. I have a bottle of scotch around for when I just feel like enjoying one, but if it’s going to cost me ridiculous sums just to have a bottle sitting there then screw it.
@mrtaco
I need to up my game :\
You two need to be drunk at the same time, we’d break page 20 in no time
Better go fetch a button 😛
Just realised with my size and build I could pull off a pretty decent West-Bat.
Kind of depressing. I think I need to make this happen at PAX however.
East-Bats are where it’s at!
What the hell is a west bat?Adam West Batman?
Maaaaybe…
Yes.
You kids and your crazy lingo.
I thought the most popular term for Adam West Batman was BatWest.
you could buy a pre-made one and get someone with sewing know how to adjust it
Gotta be campy as hell though.
Depressing?? That’s the Adam West WAS Batman damnit! All the others, no matter how good, were all pale imitations. What you need is to find a pencil thin clinically insane bloke who can laugh like Frank Gorshin and doesn’t mind dressing in a green suit with question marks…
Pencil thin? Clinically insane?
It’s the role I was born to play!
Can you do the laugh? That’s the critical thing, it’s what made Gorshin’s Riddler simultaneously hilarious and creepy because he really did manage to feel completely unhinged
WAS?
IS!
He’s not doing it anymore, hence the past tense. He’s always Batman to me.
I even asked Rocksteady on twitter if they could do Arkham Knight DLC with Adam West revoicing all the dialogue. I reckon it’d make a fantastic charity thing and by fuck I know I’d play through the game with it on all the time
Passed my Hazard Perception test. It suggested at the end that I work on judging when it’s safe to make right turns but considering 75% of the questions were “here is a right turn where it is not safe to turn so do nothing” and I did nothing on all of them, I find that a really interesting assessment. Anyway, whatever, on my P2 now and my wife can stop complaining about us having to switch between red and green P plates all the time and we can focus on complaining about having to adjust the seat and mirrors. 😛
Secondly, played the latest Walking Dead episode last night.
Really good stuff. Really feeling these characters. Kenny is clearly losing it but I’m playing Clem as really loyal, always seeing the best in people, so I like to believe that Kenny will pull out of this slump and don’t want to give up on him.At the same time, I seem to be pretty heartless when it comes right down to having to make a hard logical decision. For instance I convinced Sarah to leave the trailer park with us, but I left her behind to focus on saving Jane when the deck collapsed. My wife went the other way and apparently Jane can’t save her and runs up onto the deck anyway so it’s not an either/or like with Carley and Doug back in the very first episode.
I also killed Sarita without hesitation when it was clear she wasn’t going to make it even after I lopped off her hand last episodes. I had a feeling Rebecca wasn’t going to make it so I had no hesitation just shooting her when she turned. I’m pretty sure that episode was going to end in a firefight regardless.
Woo, congrats! About the Ps that is.
I kind of like the fact that the test is mostly a big trick to force you to sit there and do nothing, drivers need to exercise that skill more often (especially fully licenced ones, fuck some of those people are shit drivers)
I just got off my P2 license the other day so hooray for full licence \o/
So Blizzard did a thing with that Paul Jr. kid from Orange County Choppers (American Choppers show) which had his shop build two bikes for World of Warcraft, the winner would become a free in game mount, so there was one Alliance themed and one Horde themed. Now it was no contest the horde one was gonna win, cause it actually looked good, even I an Alliance player voted for the Horde one.
But holy shit the amount of whining on the forums/news post about it, is just sad.
“Exactly what a casual would say.” (@McGarnical 23/07/14)
Team Tribalism GO! 🙂
So much butt hurt … so very much …
Oh yeah.
I’d be assuming Blizzard would put it in the game in the end anyway. It’s Blizzard, they’ll either sell it or make it craftable ffs!
So that Destiny’s a pretty cool guy, hey.
I set it up and finally got in around 10pm’ish last night. Played a bit, but got distracted by birds chirping and and realizing that it was 9am.
Sooooo yeah… when this comes out I’m gonna have to book some time off. Definitely cannot afford to be doing that while working.
Kind of a shame the beta’s so limited. There’s practically no difference between the classes, gear’s a crapshoot, and we’ve only really played in one environment. Even just one moon level as a teaser would’ve been fantastic, but I guess appetites are already well and truly whetted.
I’m hoping the inability to get to the tower until every 20-30th attempt is a beta-related server issue.
Kiiiiiiiiind of concerned about the PVP focus. There’s like two factions for the shit, and at least three separate vendors for PVP-only stuff, and the bounties for experience are 75% PVP objectives. I don’t give two fucks about PVP and am a tad concerned that the devs will be nudging players into a 75:25 PVP:PVE split of their time. Which… nope! Hopefully this is just a beta thing as well, as matchmaking for mulitple players every fifteen minutes should be more stressful on the servers than dumping PVEers into a world that they’ll explore for a longer period of time at their leisure.
Yeah based on just wandering around the tower (I just got there & am waiting for a mate so we can coop later tonight) I’ve already seen more PvP stuff than I care to but then I guess if it’s the primary hub that you’ll be using, it kind of makes sense for missions providers & shops to be there, it’d be nice if that was segregated into it’s own dedicated area though. Since the tower has a kind of 3 pronged layout, it’d be nice if it had general stuff in the middle, PvP on the left & single player on the right or something.
I do seem to remember them saying you could totally ignore PvP which does give me some hope that it won’t be a gaping hole in the gameplay experience. If I remember correctly, Defiance did a kind of opt-in open world PvP system that you could avoid and then had arena deathmatchy stuff that you could just jump into if you wanted and the rest was coop, that’d be the kind of thing I’d like to see with this. I’d never do the PvP but I’d be all over coop with people who aren’t arseholes.
I guess that must have been an unusual thing, played for a good 5-6 hours last night and didn’t get that once. It was occasionally a bit slow to get there but it always connected, are you still seeing it?
Yeah, it cleared right up a little after the event got underway. Whatever was causing it, I’m guessing it’s fixed.
Moved the computer over to the TV, hooked it into the stereo. Elite just got even better!
Subwoofer really adds some punch to the sounds.
It’s got Rift support doesn’t it? Have you tried that yet?
Just spent a whole load of time fucking around so that I could have headphones on but still get the rumble of the sub, for whatever reason if I plug it straight into the machine it works fine in the test thing but then in the game nothing comes out of it. So instead I’m using a splitter to pipe sound to the stereo as well as the headphones, then just turning the sub up high. Still has lower volume on the headphones than I’d like.
It’s pretty good in the Rift though. I love being able to completely look around the cockpit, both just because it’s cool as well as being able to just look straight up through the canopy and see whatever might be flying above/around me. Of course the low resolution and motion blur isn’t as nice as playing it regularly on the TV, but hey 😛 Would also be nicer if I could have positional tracking through the Hydra, as well as just having my joystick here. Half considering going for dual joysticks actually, being able to do lateral thrust with an analogue control feels a whole lot better than I imagine trying to use a hat switch would.
So it supports left/right/up/down thrust with one stick and rotational with the other? Hmm, that’s a nice idea. I’d probably be as happy with a hat since one of my 4 is analogue and just use my HOTAS so I have fine throttle control and extra buttons as well.
Damn I wish I could afford to just drop money on the beta! I want to try it and see how it supports TrackIR
Yeah, it pretty much lets you use as many controllers as you like. Map what you want where you want. The only problem at the moment is it doesn’t play nice with multiples of the same controller.
That’s the only thing I don’t like about the idea of a second joystick, I still want to be able to use a throttle slider but it’d be stuck on the base instead. I know people have talked foot pedals, but I think that’s a tad overboard for me 😛
…although come to think of it I do have a steering wheel for my GameCube which has a pair of pedals that connect to it through a 15 pin plug. Might could use an adapter or something to hook it up to the PC and use those. Hmm.
Still it’d probably be nicer just to get a proper throttle. But they don’t really seem to come cheap as standalones.
The writer is a genius. *giggles*
http://www.waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/07/24/hipster-hospitalized-with-heatstroke-after-refusing-to-remove-wooly-hat/
That site’s fantastic. Clicked over to the ‘ex-girlfriend moving on with her life like a total bitch’ one and got a good laugh, too. Not to mention the Fucking Flying Ants.
No pantsius
Walking Dead Game Season 2 Episode 4 spoilers/discussion!
Choices:Saved Sarah (I was praying that Clem would get to slap her in that scene 😛 Yes!)
Didn’t rob Arvo
Didn’t crawl through the shutter in the museum (I’m glad that the game gave me a choice this time. I’d been starting to feel like they go to the “Clem is the only one who can do it!” line a bit much)
Held the baby (why is this even a major choice? What does it matter if I hold it or not? :P)
Didn’t shoot Rebecca (trying to avoid exactly what ended up happening anyway)
Pretty great episode. The one thing I REALLY disliked was how the last scene with Arvo went. I did NOT rob him. This is the first time where I’ve actually taken issue with how the game is structured. They really should’ve had two different conversations at that point depending on if he gets the bag back or not. Surely it can’t have been that hard to change “they robbed me” to “they threatened me” depending on what happened 😛
No idea where they’re going to go with next episode! Obviously Clementine survived… but surely Kenny didn’t? He was the first person to shoot, they would shoot him first, right? The only “bad guy” I can see living is Arvo. Hopefully Mike is still alive, I like him. Bonnie too. It’s hard to know. You wouldn’t think ANYBODY would survive how many shots went off, but they can’t very well have Clem and the baby be the only survivors… can they?
Managed to move it all over to my new PC without much issue, too (it runs so much better :O No choppy cutscenes!) Just did a fresh install on the new computer and then copied the save folder over. Master Race can be pretty cool sometimes.
What happens if you if you don’t shoot Rebecca, exactly? Because if you do, there’s the bang from your gun, then it fades out over shouting and shooting. I only chose it because by that point I was just sick of everyone’s shit.Clem yells, Kenny steps in front of her and shoots Rebecca, who slumps over the top of the baby. Camera quickly goes around to everybody yelling/preparing to fire then same as yours: cut to black as they shoot.Just finished it. Turned out the controller issue was because Telltale did change something. They fixed the problem that caused a bunch of people (myself included) to have to download some crazy french DLL file to get the controller to work. But the fix meant having the file broke the controller again. *tears hair out*
Aaaaany way
Saved Sarah at the trailer. Albeit only just. She was starting to annoy me and has been nothing but a useless liability. But still, she’s a fellow kid and I did promise to help her.I robbed the shit out of Arvo and did not feel a bit of remorse. A sick sister back at camp? THEN WHY ARE YOU PUTTING THESE SUPPLIES IN THIS HERE BIN INSTEAD OF YOUR SISTER? Plus he looked weak and harmless and this being Telltales Walking Dead meant he was a shifty threat.
Went straight into the ticket booth. Clem is a pro at this now.
Held the baby. It’s a baby. What kind of monster wouldn..oh. 48% of people… (I hate that baby so much. I have a weird thing about babies and thinking it was dead almost broke me. Killing my friends? Done. A baby I’ve never met? OH GOD NO!
Shot Rebecca no hesitation. Interesting that a few people didn’t but @shane saying the dad instinct prompted him. All I could think was threat holding the baby BAM! Goddammit…They’re going to make that baby die next episode aren’t they for a cheap emotional moment and I’m going to cry and hate them forever?
Tagging @dc because he likes these things.
You and I played the exact same way!
Except I felt a little remorse for Arvo, despite being suspicious of him.I said “I don’t know how” when asked to hold the baby and the game gave it to me anyway. Then it started to cry and I was like “I don’t want this anymore” and Rebecca is all “You’re doing fine!” and I was all LISTEN TO THE WORDS I AM SAYING BITCH.Hi, TAY.
Picked up a new phone today, as well as some T2 tea.
I feel really sleepy…
what kinda phone?
Don’t leave us hanging!
HTC Desire 310.
We could’ve been HTC One M8 buddies :'(
Oh that reminds me @benny, there’s been a whole lot of deals for that recently in the $750ish range from local retailers!
Thanks m8 but i ended up getting the m7 on the Vodafone $30 plan.
I see how it is… ditch me for another Ben…
I hope you enjoy your new M7 buddy @powalen :'(
If just picking 2 things up causes that level of fatigue, you really should see a doctor about it
Crazyguy mentioned he was sick earlier. Perhaps same thing I’ve got.
Rode up the shops, slept for 2 hours or more afterwards.
Ahh classic symptom of shops allergy!
Or in my case, flu hangover
Tier 2 tea? Does it provide extra buffs or stat upgrades?
http://www.t2tea.com/
T2.
Hey guys! Well, I’m back in the land of Oz. I made it through the sweltering Canadian summer and survived the Dashcon Disaster.
So, Guardians of the Galaxy is out next weekend. I’ve made plans with an IRL friend (some of whom I believe you’ve met at my birthday? @dc and @freezespreston at least). We’re going to see the 2D session at 1:20pm on the 2nd of August at the Chermside cinemas (expensive tickets! be warned!), followed by bowling and food of some description. Probably Grill’d or Groove Train or some such. Then we’re going to come back to our apartment and play board games or something for the rest of the night.
Does anyone have any interest in coming along to any/all of these thingymabobs?
@beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @rocketman @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
September?
August! Whoops!
I’d love to but I’m stuck working Saturdays.
Oh God!
PLEASE NO FIGHTING THIS TIME! :’O
That’s next weekend, right? Sounds like fun but I won’t be able to make it. 🙁
I may be interested in bowling depending on how much it is. I need to find out if I need to help out my parents or not too. Hopefully I can get some kind of idea of what their plans are this week sometime.
We usually do three games at the Hyperbowl, and it’s $24 for three games. Or like $18 for two games if you only want two! We get pretty intense 😛
Intense doesn’t scare me! I have my own ball and shoes! :p
[Bowling intensifies]
MAYBE!
YAY! I know you don’t do the Facebooks Jimu – do you want me to send you further deets by dm on Tweetar?
Please
Spewing, because we’re not getting Guardians Of The Galaxy at work until Thursday week (7th of August).
Used to love going to Chermside when we lived in Brisbane about 13 years ago. That Irish pub still there? Gilhooley’s I think it was.
It sure is!
Soz mang, I’m all planned out that day.
I wanna hang with you and Ber soon, though.
Get me some Juice Goose.
All good man – we should do board games again!
Just watched Warm Bodies. It was just the right type of movie for tonight. Not spectacular, but no thought required and very entertaining.
Also, ate some of an Eagle Boys pizza pie thing. Didn’t expect it to be very good but it tasted awesome.
Also also, the host of Sewvivor is giving hints on who made it into the top 16 (announcement on Monday, US time) and one of them was that at least one person with the word “stitch” in some form in their blog name made it through. There were five(out of 78) with “stitch” in their blog’s name, including me. Eek!
This whole thing has made me realise two things. One, that my sewing skill is the only thing I’ve ever been really confident about. I know I’m good and it feels…odd. Odd to know I’m good at something. Especially seeing as it’s taken me until this old age to find something I’m really good at. 😛
The other thing I’ve learned is that I’m bad at judging how my work stacks up against others’. Probably something to do with knowing every single cut and stitch on my work, so I instantly can see the imperfections in my work that others may not find so obvious. Especially if I strategically photograph my work so I don’t get closeups of the imperfections. 😛
I don’t really care about imperfections all that much, though because those are the things that make hand-made special. The humanity of of the work, so to speak.
Good luck Strange! 🙂
I really hope you get in!
AND WIN! >:D
(or give it your best, at least :P)
I can start rumours about the other competitors on Twitter, if you want to increase your chances >;)
Hope you give those judges the strangest itches ever!
You’re also good at being awesome! 😀 (except that time you didn’t watch the latest season of Survivor with us :'( not cool!)
Good luck!
Huh. And the latest clue is that there is “at least one Aussie” in the top 16. I think I counted about four of us.
If there’s a hint dropped that any of them are a bit odd…
Now you must cross-reference the Australians who use Stitches in their site’s name.
…And eliminate them. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
When does the beta end for Destiny on the Xbox 360 end? The 27th could mean stopping at midnight tonight, or midnight tomorrow. I forgot to download it last night, so I’ll try and download it tonight. However, if the beta ends tomorrow morning I won’t bother.
If I miss out, I don’t think I’d care, but I was thinking that it elevate me from ‘never purchasing it’ to ‘maybe purchasing it.’
For aussies? About 5pm monday.
Theoretically.
Baw. Finally got back into the free roam part of the Elite preview and was flying around the place, taking in the sights in the Rift this time. Made my way to a station, upgraded weapons, went off exploring. Then got interdicted near a planet and fought the guy off pretty easily, but he warped out of there pretty quick smart. Went on with my business, had it happen again but this time the guy was a whole lot tougher. Managed to eventually get out of his weapons’ reach (they really packed a punch) and then get on his tail. Which was good since it meant I could take power off shields and pump it into my own weapons, and start pummeling him. And pummeled he was – took him out before he could jump away like all others I’ve fought! He still did a lot of damage to me though, so I had to go dock somewhere and get repairs done. Of course right when I got near, the game crashed >_<
I am going to actually die because of this thing. Devoured my entire Saturday, I didn’t even eat between breakfast and about 9.
That’d be a nice thing to have in games like that, a real word reminder function. Let you set a reminder that will alert you using the ingame UI to things you need to do in the real world: “*BLEEP* *BLEEP* Incoming Message: It’s 17:00, probably time to log off and start cooking tea”
And then you think “oh maybe just one more go”, hit Ignore, and continue on into the night 😛
Reminder functions with repeating alerts could work. Also an auto-shutdown feature (with a dedicated quicksave beforehand)… Something sid meier games could do with.
So by now i think i’ve established how big a fan i am of Team Four Star… and then they release this
This has to be the best summary of what happened in season 2 of Dragonball Z… Well, ever!
I am hilarious and you will quote everything I say.
They really nailed Kai’s habit of this this and this happened fiiiiiiight sceeeence!
I got the things!
IMMA GRAB ALL THE THINGS WAHAHAHAHAHAHA etc.etc
Looking at pictures of cordyceps before bed is a great idea, Phlanispo! Good job!
Oh what’s the problem? Its not like you’re going to wake up blind and clicking…
I know I said i would post pictures. I’m hoping I will be able to take images on my cosplay progress soon.
I liked looking at the pictures when you had the blog 😀
It’s always cool to see how stuff is made.
I was trying to be instrutional there, so it was very blow by blow process.
With so much to do this year, I can’t really do the same, unfortunately.
MQFT:
W1?
W2?
Both the Witcher games!
Good enough! It was W(itcher) and W(onderful 101). I was going to toss one aside and just play the other until I finish it, but W101 was starting to annoy me anyway…
WOO WITCHER :D!
>:[
The missions are just too long, man!
Not long enough!
Need to figure out what to play next! Finished Valiant Hearts and have eliminated A Link Between Worlds from my playlist due to bumping the priority right down owing to the fact I found it incredibly dull and frustrating.
My current top 15 priority list, not sorted in any specific order, annotated with whether I need to start from scratch, restart because it’s been too long since I originally began playing, or continue an existing game.
– Final Fantasy Type-0 (PSP) (Start)
– Tales of Vesperia (360) (Restart)
– Valkyria Chronicles 3 (PSP) (Start)
– Ar Tonelico 3 (PS3) (Restart)
– Danganronpa (Vita) (Continue)
– Atelier Arland Series (Vita) (Restart)
– Ys VI (PC) (Restart)
– Drakengard 3 (PS3) (Start)
– Infamous Second Son (PS4) (Continue)
– Demon Gaze (Vita) (Continue)
– The Wolf Among Us (PC) (Continue)
– Gravity Rush (Vita) (Continue)
– Monster Monpiece (Vita) (Start)
– Watch Dogs (PC) (Start)
– Sakura Spirit (PC) (Start)
I’m kind of leaning toward knocking out Infamous. I think I was around halfway, but maybe not. Last thing I remember doing was
unlocking the neon power and doing some stuff with it.You’re a monster for not liking LBW. Complete monster.
I’m with you on Infamous. It’s pretty short (I consider it a good thing, the first Infamous dragged WAY too much), so you should be able to knock it over fairly quickly.
I’m beginning to think maybe The Legend of Zelda isn’t for me any more. I’ve only played a few but of them I’ve only enjoyed 3 enough to finish them (Ocarina, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess) and now I’ve actively disliked 3 more.
What I couldn’t get past with LBW was that it looks so much like a Ys game but plays like a clunky unfun version of it, plus the way I constantly felt like it was on rails and holding my hand everywhere without actually giving me any idea what it actually expected me to do felt like primitive design. Like it was designed by someone who’s in their sixties and has played modern games but not understood them.
I’d probably vote for inFamous or Wolf too. I haven’t played Wolf but I know it’s fairly short and I recall you liking it.
Does the taking down of the fan translation affect your copy of Type-0?
Nope, already got it downloaded 🙂
Wolf Among Us. It’s not very long and it’s finished now.
I vote for The Masturbation Game, (also known as Moster Monpiece) purely for the mental image.
Mmm…. T2 green tea… 😀
… green … 😀
That’s all I read 😀
White tea is where it’s at… Buddha’s Tears, or Dragons Eyes… Or whatever variant is going.
Love watching the leaves unwrap in the water…
It’s Wonder Festival in Japan. Bi-yearly thing where a bunch of figures get announced.
As everyone is probably aware I am addicted to collecting the Nendoroid series. It looks like Goodsmile Co. are deepening their relationship with Disney, as they’re doing Nendoroids from Frozen, plus they announced a pair of Star Wars nendoroids, a Stormtrooper and Darth Vader. I wants them.
Also appear to have announced a Batman, a Mario to go with their announced Luigi, another Sakura Taisen figure to taunt me (Erica Fontaine, star of Sakura Taisen 3 & 4), Solid Snake, a bunch of Fate/Stay Night stuff (Rider!), the requisite new Miku now that Snow Miku 2014 is out (this time it’s her Senbonzakura costume, fans will know what this is) and then a bunch of anime stuff, the most important being a Tomoyo to go with the upcoming September release of Sakura (as in the card captor). They also announced a fuckton of new Kantai Collection Nendoroids to wage war on my wallet – Amatsukaze and Hiei seem to be the next ones since they have painted prototypes, I-401/Shioi also shown unpainted, and they have images for Kumano, Suzuya and Ryuujou as well. So presumably that’s the next 4-5 months after the current ones set.
Going to be broke. 🙁
@redartifice @blaghman @quiz_b @tech_knight @sernobulus: FYI I now have all of the Edge of the Empire books in my possession. The last two I was missing arrived Friday, the sourcebook with all the Corellian stuff in it, and the Jewel of Yavin adventure.
Since I want to run one of the two published adventures and previously on a one-line summary we’d been leaning toward Jewel of Yavin. I can give you a better idea of what the two are now.
Beyond the Rim is a treasure hunt, essentially. You’d be hunting down the location of a distress signal from a Separatist treasury frigate lost on the edge of Wild Space during the Clone Wars in the hope that you can recover its extremely valuable cargo.
Jewel of Yavin is a heist and it’s a lot less linear. You’d work together to plan for and then execute an elaborate scheme to steal a corusca gem which is being auctioned off during the yearly gala on Bespin, and hopefully make off with the winning bid as well.
Are we still on Jewel? If we did finish it we might be able to move into the other one as well, so it’s probably not an either/or situation.
Heist soud good to me
Anyone else planning on buying Warriors Orochi 3 and/or Samurai Warriors 4? 😀
Before getting DW8 it was ages since I’ve played a Warriors game and now I’ve got the bug again. I’ve only played the first Samurai Warriors which was basically a Japanese DW, but WO will be new to me.
I’m assuming they’ll have online, so I’m up for some PS4 shenanigans 😀
EDIT: They are coming out pretty close to each other though so I hope I don’t get Warrior fatigue D:
I haven’t played an Orochi game and the only Samurai Warriors game I played was the first one which I did enjoy. I will probably grab one if they have Online Coop.
Did your PS4 arrive yet? 🙁
NOPE! /o\
Just wait for Hyrule Warriors in September!
Oh jeez! That’s my main one out of them and I totally forgot about it :D. I’m definitely getting Warrior fatigue 😛
I have the original Warriors Orochi 3. It’s sick. So so fun! One of, if not THE best Warriors game so far 🙂
Samurai Warriors is also really great 🙂
I’ll definitely be picking up all the new ones at some stage 🙂
I don’t know about online though, tbh. Hopefully they do, but I wouldn’t hold your breath.
Well DW8 has online so I don’t see why not 😛
O, does PS4 DW8 have proper online coop?!?!
I have PS3 DW8, which doesn’t!
I need to upgrade asap! :O
But… PS3 DW8 has online co-op!
It totally doesn’t! Does it?!
I got it while I was offline for ages!
WHAAAAT?!?!
How did I not know this?!
*shrug*
😀
It’s only the PC port that doesn’t have it for some (odd) reason :/
I played a bit of the Destiny beta on Xbox 360.
Eh… it’s alright. I didn’t think this would be my kind of game going in, and I don’t think it’s my kind of game going out.
The world feels really soulless, and seems to lack any kind on character. Peter Dinklage deadpans the shit out of his role. Why would you get Dinklage for your game if you are just going to have him deadpan everything?
I have other gripes. The game is clearly an MMO, but the social aspect is really crippled by the lack of any chat log.
Maybe it’s because I don’t console game all that much, but the aiming is really awkward. It’s almost as if the x-aim and y-aim are on two different sensitivities. Maybe the game needs more auto-aim? Maybe this game needs a Keyboard + Mouse. 😛
The descriptions for the classes are really damn vague; I don’t even know what the Hunter does.
I chose Titan, who I guess is a tank? Does this kind of game even have a meta? Dunno.
At the end of the day I don’t think it’s my kind of game, and the lack of a PC port really makes purchasing it a hard sale. The emphasis on co-op is probably my biggest opposition. The friends list system on Xbox 360 is a mess compared to Steam.
When it’s all said and done, I’m glad I got to try it before release. I doubt this game will have a proper demo.
I somehow threw out my back playing Destiny. I don’t even know how that works. Hurt like hell.
I can almost feel a bone jutting out of my back. It’s been a few years since I’ve had back problems. I guess they had to return at some point.
So I guess Google officially bought twitch.tv. I thought there were anti-monopolistic clauses for these sorts of things? I guess if they don’t apply to Comcast buying Time Warner, they don’t apply to anything.
This could improve twitch, or doom it to oblivion. Considering YouTube in the last year, I vote for the latter.
It’s not monopolistic behaviour- there’s plenty of streaming sites, and they don’t wield the market power to do anything oppressive.
Comcast/Warner is quite different
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bth3C6qCAAAsBuS.jpg:large
If I was talented and had the time to construct it I’d totally go to PAX as a giant Rensouhou like that (the one on the left).
http://youtu.be/xBn548XsCXA
When I was a kid in the 80s I thought this piece of music was rad. Now I’m an adult
and I still think it is \o/Gives me Super Metroid vibes.
Super Metroid is a 90s game and this was 1986 so it’s entirely possible that one of them influenced the other.
Rah-rah sis boom bah-BOOM!
Let’s go read a bunch of books, yeah!
Okay!
Turns out I don’t have to drive my sister to the airport after all \o/
Tay! Help me decide!
As you know, I am going as Ruby rose from RWBY but I cannot decide what zip to use. There are pros and cons to both.
Invisible zip
Pros: invisible. Kind of the point
Cons: Doesn’t open fully, make make putting the jacket thingy on and off difficult.
Normal zip
Pros: Can open like a jacket, easy.
Cons: Stitching will be visible.
Does accuracy or practicality matter more?
Accuracy.
Well there’s your answer.
If you can see a zip on the source outfit, then use a regular one, if not, go the invisible. Exposed zips can be very distracting.
Difficulty of getting the costume on and off shouldn’t matter too much (as long as you can go to the bathroom okay!) as presumably you’d only take it off once, at the end of the day.
If you’re not confident with installing an invisible zip, you could install a regular zip with a placket to cover it.
I’ve done both before, I just am really terrible at decisions
In that case, go with an invisible zip. You’ll be more satisfied with the result.
Velcro an option or is that a bit too unreliable?
Velcro tends to look very bulky and would itch. It’s also one of the most expensive fasteners.
It’s my favourite fastener 😛
That’s because you’re a stripper at heart
A heart of gold.
Such a cliché…
Ahh I’d not considered bulk, I thought it compressed down fairly well. Never knew it itched but I guess comfort is kind of an important thing if you’re going to be wandering around all day in an outfit and the character you’re portraying isn’t known for scratching madly at random intervals
🙁
What up?
Stuff just piling up…
I’d rather not go into it. 🙁
Is it gas?
It’s gas, isn’t it?
I bet it’s gas.
A little bit, but not the main problem.
FEAR OF FLYING
Are you still sick, Crazy?! 🙁
I’m getting better, fortunately. 🙂
This is really interesting
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/how-to-invent-a-person-online/374837/
I only just realised that a Portuguese man-of-war and a bluebottle are the same thing.
I only just realised that myself a couple of years back.
@rize @cakesmith @bdkiaf @grandmasterb-funk @phlanispo
This saturday & sundays’ Titanfall shennanigans have left me with a case of TFI (TriggerFingerItis)
going past to see my dad after work, but im free game from 8/8:30 (AEST) if you guys are up for some more action!
EDIT: Cant believe i got all the tags right!
Unfortunately I have Pathfinder on tonight but keen for more at some point.
We may even have enough to try and get a full game of friends-only some time.
my bro in law unloyal is also up for it but he isnt on TAY so i cant tag him… also i think it was @bdkiaf who no longer has it installed. so we’ll have a full team if either @bdkiaf @grandmasterb-funk join in!
Also @morkai
ah wait i think it was morkai whodidnt have it installed… /o\ memory of a goldfish… anyways, its one of them!
Yep, it was me. I haven’t played it since we last all finished the campaign months ago, so didn’t see the point in taking up the 50GB.
ahhhh, sorry i missed this!
Gimme a link next time and i’ll definitely join in! been missing playing some titanfall 🙁
@rize @cakesmith @phlanispo @grandmasterb-funk @zetrox2k and @Unloyal (not regd)
Thats it! that completes our team of six for Titanfall tonight if you guys are up for it! ill tweet you guys later!
is it a crime that im con sidering buying the latest humble bundle just for Daikatana?
The biggest crime is that you are in old TAY.
…Wait a minute. Daikatana? That IS a crime.
@rize @cakesmith @phlanispo @grandmasterb-funk @zetrox2k and @Unloyal (not regd)
Thats it! that completes our team of six for Titanfall tonight if you guys are up for it! ill tweet you guys later!!!
OH WAIT, I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS HAPPENING AGAIN TONIGHT!
sorry man, tuesday night is D&D night for me, it’s pretty much the only night i can’t play. 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
I didn’t receive any messages, and no one on my Origin friends list seemed to be playing yesterday.