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Uh, hi guys. How are we all?
How about morning?
Morning ok.
How about night time?
Night time alright.
How about noon?
Noon meh!
how about afternoon?
Afternoon, s’alright.
How about lunch?
Sure, if you’re buying.
I was gonna make toasted chicken sammiches, but I could go for bought lunch now you mention it.
Oh man, I edited my comment as you posted yours andnowitlookslikeyoupostedafterIedited becauseitwasonthesameminute
Uh, sorry about that. The edit.
Don’t stress. =P
Mornings are horrible and should be banned
So unfair that I can only upvote this once.
Hawx 1 > ace combat that horizing one.
Titanfall is still alright, sux it only attrition is still being played.
Also terror resonance is awesome. Aldnoah zero not so much. Looking forward to that other one, forgot what it’s called. Ugh it’s too early.
Aldnoah might pay off in the end, but yeah, it’s not exactly easy watching.
It’s a bit of a might not as well. 2 clever characters. 1 is too smart for how he was set up to be at ep 1 and the other is constantly being treated like crap, but makes more sense than any other character. Terror in resonance on the other hand I can’t wait to see more
It’s an amazingly strong indictment on how bad Assault Horizon was that you can honestly say that HAWX was a better game. 🙁
Hey, appache barrel rolls to dodge rockets is where I said nah screw this and bought Hawx for 10 bux. Hawx is awesome with expert controls and assistance off mode.
I got off work early to spend time with my sister since it’s her birthday. Dunno, go out, watch a movie, get dinner?
“I’m tired and lazy and cold, can you just buy food for me?”
And so I’m just playing MGS4 on Playstation now.
She sounds awesome.
You should marry her!
If I wanted to marry someone who is obsessed with food, lazy, and is devastatingly attractive, obviously you’d be on top on the list.
Back off i saw him first.
We can share, there’s enough of him to go around. Literally? metaphorically? you decide.
So it just dawned to me that I’m having my Citizenship test tomorrow… It’ll probably be really easy, SO WHY THE HELL AM I FREAKING OUT ABOUT IT…
Oh hai TAY, you look nice, did you do something to your hair?
Because nerves are a bitch?
Having one of those moments where I’m sitting at work twiddling my thumbs, not achieving anything because i can’t focus XD… I always terrible at test due to performance anxiety… Ah well, SO VIDYA GAEMS, THEY’RE PRETTY GREAT
They are definetly a thing im pretty sure possibly
Whooo you’ll be fine! I did mine last week and the test takes about 3-4minutes but you’ll have to wait for about 20 min for your turn to have your original documents checked!
Nice! Did you find it easy enough? I have done the practice tests and kinda feel like unless you’ve lived under a rock, it’s common sense…
Yeah it was really easy! I think I got one question wrong which was “How many languages are spoken in Australia?” and I chose about 100 >.<
I had about 4-5 questions come out of the parliament section but if you read up on the booklet relating to the test you should be fine! I did my studying for it a day before the test while at work =P
Yeah, I’ve watched the youtube clips and stuff over the weekend, but still that seems like a bit of a dick question XD
The only one I got wrong was something regarding dual citizenship and membership of a political party. I can’t remember the specifics but I remember seeing that I got it wrong afterwards and then reading through the book over and over again and finding that no, I wasn’t going crazy, it wasn’t covered by the reading material.
Stupid book.
But yeah, @pixel_the_ferret_viking, you’ll do great! Relax, don’t stress about it, and just go in knowing that afterwards you’ll be one short ceremony away from citizenship. Best feeling.
Edit: My favourite question, no joke.
“What are Australia’s national colours?”
A) Red and Green
B) Green and Gold
C) Red and Blue
Red and Blue! Duh! =P It’s a trick question!
D) Skull and crossed bones!
Well done man, didn’t even know you’d done it. Congrats.
……Star…
…Citizenship?
\o/
Y…es?
You’ll be fine mang.
Here I’ll give you the answers
VB
Footy
Aussie Aussie Aussie
Steve Irwin
Ya bloody Galah
There sorted.
Love ya’ work!
I’m pretty sure you could answer everything with “Well I WOULD know the answer, but those damned boat people took it from me”.
EDIT: And now I can’t stop picturing half-people-half-boat creatures. THANKS ABBOT.
Centaurs but the bottom half is shaped like a Trat Tang Mo? 😛
Edit – FYI that was a piss poor segway into JC2MP should happen again some time soon!
Don’t forget The Don, and Mateship. An community and caring for others, unless they arrive by boat.
I need to book mine in at some point. Having gone through the practice tests online I’m hoping it’s not like maths tests where the practice shit was easy as and then the exam in ten times as hard (fortunately I maths well so that wasn’t a problem).
You’ll be fine though 🙂 tell me the answers though after you take it. Waltzing Matilda the national anthem right?
Yep, and the Commonwealth coat of arms is a can of VB with crossed crickebats and the slogan “Bloody Oath” written underneath in a lazy clipart
The Australian coat of arms has an Emu and a Kangaroo on it. Why? Because they’re both fucking delicious.
Yes, I cut it all off.
Sack, back and crack eh?
I am a man. The only hair removal necessary occurs from the neck and up.
*flex*
no mullet or rat-tail for you then
And with good reason!
If your Dad doesn’t have a beard, then you have two Mums.
Gross
Just remember Don Bradman is the key to all the answers.
The idea is to use it like a Matt Damon (team America) style mantra during the interview 😛
This guy gets it. How you don’t have your citizenship already baffles me! 😛
So proud. :’)
Pixel is now an Australian meat in the next few weeks then? Go out for some parmas and VB. 😛
Hahahahaha I’d be up for that!
Morning errbody, hows every little thing?
My weekend was slow but pretty relaxing aswell! On Saturday I hung roubd the house watching tv shows and movies, then that night went to the pub for dinner with missus family then went to see Deliver Us From Evil thoughts below
it was good but it took quite a while to get into and it opens things that it never really explains. I feel it would of been better as a psychological thriller more than a supernatural horror.Then on Sunday we went to the shops and brought a new cutlery set for when we move out in a few months and we also picked up the Invader Zim box set.
A Monday question because its a nice day outside if your local area that you live is used in a video game what style of game would you like it in? I personally would love to see it in a sort of apocalypse/zombie survival game.
I think mine would be Earthbound-like. Still haven’t played it, but I may when I get a Wii U.
Pretty much the same as you, I’d love to see where i grew up in a post apocalyptic setting, my school in particular lends itself to a horror type game, full of long underground corridors… We actually shot a horror movie in them for a project, scary shit! :P… Side note, ever looked at your local DFO’s map? Would make an excellent Mario Kart circuit!
Hahaha oh god it would too, now I want to take green machines through it to test it out haha
Pretty sure that’s a thing that needs to happen
Maybe some sort of Alan Wake like horror game.
I need to play that some day. I already have it installed and I’ve already run it to see whether it works, but I can’t convince myself to start playing.
Invader Zim is great. I should really re-watch it …
Not where I live, but whenever I go over to the Homeland and visit the areas we used to go holidaying a lot (the area around Central Otago) I think about how rad a period game would be in that area, around the 1860s Gold Rush. It’s nice and remote with lots of open wilderness with lots of small towns scattered around, heaps of stunning scenery and everything. The ideal thing would probably be a Red Dead style game but it’s not like the place was crawling with bandits and stuff so the western tropes might not work that well, so maybe an adventure game or something.
Gold digger redemption. Your a man who lost his family and decided the only thing left to do was go out and search for gold
Morning all. Finished playing The Wolf Among Us last night. Really loved it. The music especially was awesome. Spoilers for the final episode:
That Bigby vs Mary fight was great. I loved Mary as a character, and I loved that Bigby had another form beyond that wolfman one we’d already seen previously. The ending with Narissa was deliciously vague. I love those sorts of endings to stories; with most everything being wrapped up nicely but then a small tidbit that keeps you wondering.I also played the fourth episode of the second season of The Walking Dead a few days ago. Haven’t shared my thoughts about it on TAY yet, so here it goes (spoilers for The Walking Dead game, season 2, episode 4):
I can’t remember what all the relevant choices were, but I saved Sarah (and slapped her), robbed that guy and shot whats her face at the end.I think the episode was pretty good. Even though I saved Sarah and had Clem be her friend, I’m glad they killed her off as I just found her really annoying. It sucks that Jane left. Hopefully she’ll be back for the final episode.
Speaking of The Walking Dead, it seems season 3 was just announced. I expected that, but it’s good to have a confirmation.
I can’t wait to dig into both of those games. I just don’t get episodic games until they’re finished. If I didn’t already live by that rule, Ep 4 in season 1 would have taught me that one.
I have started Fables. One episode in so far. Really looking forward to where it goes. The only problem is avoiding spoilers, but I’ve done really well at that so far. It helps that this community doesn’t suck and actually uses the spoiler tags.
Yeah, I didn’t grab the first season of The Walking Dead or The Wolf Among Us until they were fully released. Not really a fan of these staggered releases, but I guess that’s just Telltale’s way of doing things. I only grabbed season 2 right away because as much as I can trust TAY not to spoil things, the rest of the internet isn’t nearly so trustworthy.
You’re absolutely right. TAY is fine, but the rest of the web receives a lot more scrutiny before I click on anything the just might contain info.
???
Tidbit, sorry. I’ve been up all night and my mind is working slowly.
The guy i sit next to is having a bad day, i think he split up with his wife on the weekend.
I asked him how his weekend was and he responded
“who the fuck cares, sit down and finish that shit you started on friday”
I dont want to snap at him or get yelled at so im just being as nice as possible because he is probably having one of the worst moments of his life.
That’s probably the best idea. If you yell, he’ll get madder, and who knows what might happen if he does. Stay positive.
You should keep an eye on him though. He’s probably going through so much shit he might feel like he has nothing to lose. And people can act irrationally when they feel like that.
That’s pretty harsh. As sad as that situation may be, the guy sounds like a grade a douche bag. If he treated his wife the same, I’m not surprised they split. When LittleJJ and I split, I didn’t get nasty at anyone asking about me or what happened. It’s not their fault, or their business unless I decide to say something, but just cos you’re hating on one person, doesn’t give you the right to act aggressively towards others.
Sounds to me like you’re doing the right thing Rocket. Just give him some space and try not to take any harsh comments to heart. Hopefully he’ll calm down and your day will get better! *hugs*
I agree. Either the man isn’t handling the breakup well or it was not a pleasant relationship at all. Regardless of what it was, you’re doing the proper thing by keeping calm. The guy clearly has issues and may get aggressive if you yell, which would be bad for everyone in that situation, especially you.
If you feel like you’re going to snap, distance yourself from him. Take a breather. It’s better than staying around a volatile man such as him.
Im okay, people sometimes have shit days and dont mean what they say. He usually is a jackass but i dont want people feeling worse because i say something stupid. So ill just give him some space.
Depends very much whether it was a case of “split up with” or “got screwed over by”, the former could create sadness but the latter could realistically create that level of anger @rocketman mentioned. Still not nice to lash out at other people but more understandable if something that bad happened and he still had to go to work and act like shit was normal when he really didn’t care and his life was falling apart
Pretty much everyone that @rocketman works with seems to be a Grade-A Douchebag.
It makes you wonder wether i am a sensitive asshole or just really unlucky. 😛
Just really asshole!
😛
Man, that sucks. You might just have to toughen up the exterior and take whatever shit he wants to fire off today. Just put the head down and avoid eye-contact
Hopefully he’s not being a wanker over something trivial thoughAre you freaking serious? Just cause you’re going through shit doesn’t give you the right to speak to other people like that! UGH I hate people like that =@ Having a shit day? Just keep to your damn self and stop letting your shit fall out on people who have nothing to do with it.
(Sorry I’ve just had bad experiences with people who can’t compartmentalize their work and personal life)
Maybe try to appeal to him with: “Fucking bitches, amirite?”
/s or no /s, I don’t know.
So I downloaded the Destiny beta on 360 and was amazed at the graphics, art style and lighting effects they managed to get working on that console.
That being said, playing the game left me bored out of my skull.
Also, I really don’t like the thumbs system on Kotaku. It’s really easy for people to abuse when you say something they don’t like.
“I liked Man of Steel”, downvote bombed into guest status. Although I think that if you edit your message your comment will become posted, so it’s easy to bypass. Someone should look into that (even though I hate it).
I’m being ironic. Weeeee!
(I agree with you. Voting systems tend to stifle active debate about topics and cause conversations to be incredibly boring with no real differences of opinion.)
I only remembered about the open beta on Sunday night, by then it was toooo late. 🙁
You play the moon?
Game looks good on 360, but so does GTA5. You can tell it’s restricted though: textures, pop-in, everything blurry. Still look awesome and I wouldn’t really be ashamed to buy on 360/PS3 to play it.
I actually didn’t notice any problems with textures or pop-ins. Even though it was a beta, I didn’t notice any problems with the game or engine. It ran surprisingly smoothly and looked great on 360.
Although, some people would complain that pre-gen is holding it back from looking as great as it could be on next-gen. At the moment I can’t see it,
I enjoyed it. The shooting was a lot funner than I thought it would be. My main concern was with the story. It felt a bit lacklustre. I’m hoping it’ll pick up at higher levels.
The shooting mechanics functioned perfectly. I decided to spend my time avoiding ADS and was able to land most shots when pacing and moving quickly.
My problem is how limited the game is. You have very little ammo for your secondary and heavy weapon, meaning you spend most of your time aiming down the sights of your rifle. Your abilities cooldown take way too long. Even though I looked forward and saw abilities that allow you to reduce the cooldown, that was still many levels away.
ALL THE DOWNVOTES!!!! \o/
CC @rimmy
Actually, don’t do that. Downvotes will cause his ‘score’ to go to shit and he may get his messages held for moderation if he gets a couple more.
ALL THE UPVOTES!!!! \o/
i must have really pissed someone off at Gizmodo, every comment i make needs to go under moderation… its been 2 years! 🙂
that what you get for sharing an opinion i guess!
Yeah, their system is pretty trash. 🙁
Upvoted to stop your comments going into moderation. Totally agree with you on that, you should be able to downvote a comment that you disagree with without sending them into moderation. Comments should only go into moderation if the comment has been reported.
Actually, that could work to our advantage
#dinoking
Yeah reporting is the only thing that should cause moderation and it should really be a case of 2 reports is enough. Massed downvotes means you’re being an arsehole and people don’t like it, that shouldn’t be enough to restrict posting. Maybe a better system would be to do something akin to what a lot of places do where complaints about posts cause them to be automatically hidden and users can choose to view them if they want so arseholishness can still happen for a single event but not overly restrict posting for other things. It’d allow for arguments on controversial things without downvote wars messing things up and causing moderation backlogs.
Morning everyone! Happy New TAY!
My weekend was both good and bad. Good cos my mum’s home from hospital again! This time not because she was impatient and checked herself out, but the doctors actually let her go!
Also good cos I sat around the house doing not much except playing the occasional game of Marvel Puzzle Quest, and watching tv!
Bad cos my Grandpa died on Sunday morning. I’m ok though. I haven’t spoken to him in a long time due to his latest wife being a retarded troll, so we haven’t been really close since I was a teenager. Even my mum took it really well (it was her dad.) We all knew it would come someday. He was one month shy of 93yrs old, so he had a really good run, and I’m glad mum is of the same opinion. If she had also been as close as we all were years ago, I think it would have been a bit different, and the sadness might have impacted on her healing process, so in some ways it’s good that we had that distance I guess. My mum and sister are flying to Sydney for the funeral sometime this week. I have the time to go, but due to the short notice, flights are going to be a bit out of my price range, which sucks, cos I’d love to go down and meet some TAYbies while I’m there. Alas it’s not meant to be.
This may or may not impact on my going bowling with @beardymcmuttonchops on Saturday, as I’m not sure what day the funeral is, and while they go, I might have to look after my sisters kids. Apologies in advance Beardy if I can’t make it due to that. I will try to find out more info and keep you posted though.
That really is good and bad news. Glad to hear your mum’s ok, but losing a family member, even an estranged one can still be a kick in the nuts
Also, bowling. I love bowling but haven’t really had the chance to go since moving over here (assuming ten pin is being talked about and not the lawn variety :P) Whereabouts do you go? My bowling ball is getting restless
yeah ten-pin. I think he’s got this one planned for the bowling alley at Chermside Shopping Centre.
I usually bowl at Logan Tenpin on Wembley Rd in Woodridge. When I say usually, I don’t mean it’s a regular thing so much, but that’s where I go cos it’s close to me and cheap on Saturday nights. I went there with some TAY peeps last year or the year before I think. It was good fun! I haven’t been bowling anywhere near as much as I used to since LittleJJ left though. Used to go with her and or with other friends at least once or twice a month back in the day.
If you’re keen to try it one Saturday night, let me know! They do 3 hours of unlimited games from 9pm-12am for like $15 or $17. They usually have contests and stuff to give away prizes and stuff too!
Chermside is definitely closer to me (Alderley) than Woodridge. I’ve been to Woodridge once since being here while I was doing door to door for Optus. At lunchtime I witnessed a lot of arguing and pushing outside the bottle shop next to the station, turns out it was a mother and daughter having a full on slagging match at each other before hugging it out. Good times.
That can be a lot of games though. People I convince to come along usually have one or two games in them tops.
Yeah if you play pretty full on you can fit in 4-5 games, depending on how many people you have. There have been times where I’ve been and played 2 games and left as it satisfied the urge, and even then it still works out cheaper than paying for 2 games under normal circumstances!
Woodridge certainly is a bit of a shady place in general, but thankfully I’ve never had a bad experience at the bowling alley! Totally expected the place to be swarming with Bogans the first time we went, but thankfully the ones who give Woodridge a bad name, don’t seem to bowl very much! 😉
Glad to hear your Mum’s better mang, sorry to hear about your Grandpa.
*hugs*
Dude don’t even apologise. In situations like this, you have to be there for your family in whatever way they need you. I wish I could help more.
MASS EFFECT NEWS!!!
http://www.themarysue.com/calling-all-n7s-new-details-revealed-for-the-next-mass-effect-game/
Kind of, nothing really substantial but stuff nonetheless.
KEEN.
Also, anyone who ever bad mouthed the Mako is a liar, hates fun, and probably kicks puppies.
The Mako was pretty great, off roading on 90 degrees gradients? Why not!
What’s a gravity?
I was surprised when I learned how many people hated it. I always found it a lot of fun.
I mostly enjoyed it, just the dick move of being able to be one shotted by thresher maws from beneath that annoyed me.
The only reason the Mako wasn’t in 2 or 3 is they wanted us to fall in love with the other members of the team, like Garrus and Tali. We all know that if the Mako had stayed in the game everybody would have had some sweet Shep n Mako loving.
…just me then?
I fell in love with Tali even with the Mako in #1, it was a slow burn but well worth the wait until #3…
As someone who has never played a Mass Effect game, I shall assume you are referring to Mako Mankanshoku from Kill la Kill. Yes anyone who ever bad mouthed the Mako is a liar, hates fun, and probably kicks puppies.
FUCK PUPPIES!
THE MAKO SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS!!!
Upvoted for the truth.
The Mako was rad and I loved exploring uncharted worlds. Finding random stuff on random planets and everything, it made the galaxy seem huge and interesting and inhabited and I was really sad when they cut it out of 2 & 3.
I do like the Mako being back. It added a sense of exploration despite being clunky as hell. Co-operative gameplay seems good too, as it won’t make the servers die out from lack of interest.
However, BioWare have let me down quite a lot recently. I’ll wait and see how this turns out.
I was hoping for a first contact ME game. Now that I think about it, how cool would a Battlefield like game set during the first contact war would be. Basically the ME3 multiplayer but in a full game format.
I was hoping for a post-reaper game myself, something about rebuilding and re-exploring the mass relay network and having a different enemy.
Morning all, how was your weekend.
Mine started off pretty shit. Friday I had to go and drop some stuff off at another cinema 3 hours away, didn’t even get 10 K’s down the road and the temp gauge was on red, so I pulled over, turned it off and waited for it to cool down, got the bottle of water out of the boot that I keep for just such an emergency, start the car and top the radiator up, put the cap back on but only turned it halfway. Went back to the car and the temp gauge was up to halfway, so going against my instincts I go back to the radiator and take the cap off to see if it needed more water, turns out it was too hot and exploded in my face. Was pretty pissed off after that so I waited till it cooled down and then flogged the crap out of the car all the way back, stupid thing didn’t heat up at all, so I thought I’d turn around and try again. It played up a little bit on the way there and not at all on the way back
FUCK YOU CAR YOU PIECE OF SHIT!
Was in a better mood when I got back, because the car didn’t play up at all on the way back, and because I stopped at Target and completed my set of Disney Infinity figures (Anna, Elsa, Phineas, Agent P, Rapunzel, Sorcerer’s Apprentice Mickey and Woody). Made it back in time for my sons birthday tea, so that was good.
The next day we arrive at Maccas for his birthday party and I get a call from work informing me that the projectionist hadn’t turned up yet, so I headed in to work and got everything ready, about 15 minutes after I get the last movie on he waltzes in (not literally) and says “sorry, I only just got up”, was not happy, but at least I made it back in time for the end of the party.
Sorry for the wall of text.
Dude your radiator might be clogged. I had the same problem a while ago and go stranded 8 hours from home. The repair bill wasnt ridiculous either, I would seriously get it checked out.
HUGS
Cheers man, I’ve been thinking about getting a new radiator for a while, but after all the trouble this car’s given me I’m seriously thinking about just getting rid of the damn thing.
It could just be the temperature regulator valve thingy, can’t remember what it is called. They sometimes jam shut instead of open, they are only about $50.
Never take the cap off when it was hot. I was in hospital for 3 months with 2nd and 3rd degree burns and looked like Freddy Kruger. Count yourself lucky you got away with it.
Thermostat is the word you’re after. If it won’t open, the thermo fan (assuming it’s a thermo fan and not a fan driven off the engine belt) won’t kick in when it’s meant to and thus resulting in overheating.
You mean the Thermostat? Pretty sure I replaced that when I did the water pump a while ago.
Yeah, it really was a stupid thing to do, I went against all my instincts when I decided to do that.
Yeah this.
I remember my mates Alpha when he had that, was over heating every x amount of time, we thought at first it was the fan not kicking in, which was a culprit. Turned out radiator was clogged as well.
It’s not an Alpha if there’s not a creeping sense of dreadful anticipation whenever you drive it that increases for every kilometer traveled without it crapping out on you.
Man that thing was a true P.O.S imo the trouble he had with it 😛 Even though it was in good condition, it just sucked. What happens when you buy an 80’s Euro car 😛
Every Alpha is an unreliable shitbox with wheels. That’s the only way they know how to make them.
I’m picturing Basil Fawlty-esque flogging of car.
Make sure the projectionist knows he owes you a lot
Lol, that totally went through my mind, after I spat the coolant out of my mouth.
RIGHT! I’M GOING TO GIVE YOU A DAMN GOOD THRASHING!
Nothing like a child’s birthday to work a guilt trip!
Oh shit dude, never turn engine off if it’s overheating! Better to let it idle and have the fan/rad running, otherwise it can overheat even more when totally off.!
lol @ rage
I’ve gotta interact with people in the real world today. D=
Got an electrician coming over and installing a couple of fans, sensor lights and check a couple of power points.
Make sure he he knows whats watt.
Well, you’ve got to be a bright spark to get your electrician qualifications
As someone who went to TAFE with electricians, no you dont.
well, I guess they do get conFUSEd easily…that was terrible
You need to amp up the quality of your jokes if you want to really get upvolted. There’s a lot of resistance.
I’m shocked at how some people are either positive or negative about upvoting. Sometimes you look at that number and it’s just static
Terrible, just terrible
*upvotes*
How was the interaction?
Hearthstone: Maexxna on Hardcore mode is impossible i don’t care what anyone says I’m not listening lalalalalalalalalalala
Worst god damn night of sleep ever. If you can even call it that.
Went o bed around 11:30, but woke up again at about 1:30. Then again at 3:30. Then couldn’t get back to sleep again til around an hour later. Then woke again at 6. Then fell asleep straight after my alarm went off 3/4hr later. Though at least I woke again only ten minutes later.
Expecting I’ll suddenly pass out at any moment today without notice.
Find a dark area to lay in and have a nap
red bul and coffee till the day is through. then collapse
Ew gross. Red bull is awful and I am never going to ever taste it again, ever.
Also coffee kills me when I’m tired.
You’ve never had a jager bomb have you…..
Definitely not. While I’m a huge fan of herbal liqueurs, I also think jagermeister is gross 😛
Yeah jagermeister is definitely gross! But a jager bomb…. She’s a thing of beauty she is…
I remember when jagerbombs were a shot of jager in a pint of beer (also called a depth charge). I don’t know when it got changed from beer to red bull, but I think it’s a worse drink to offer than beer. Mind you, I absolutely detest energy drinks with a passion
I assume you’re currently looking after one of your many children?
I know the feeling. Baby finally went to sleep at 11, then woke every 20 mins until 1:30, then was awake until 3:30am. Getting molars, lots of fun.
Her older sister woke up with night terrors at 4:15, set off next door’s dog, finally got to sleep at 5:30, prick next door on the other side starts up his Diesel ute and revs and idles it for 15 minutes at 6.00am
I’m ragged today.
…I hope this is just coincidence and you’re not actually going off @rize’s post. I don’t *actually* have any kids.
At least, none that have ever made contact with me.
Sounds like the first six months of parenting!
What is with all these parenthood posts ;_;
It’s the ‘in’ thing.
That’s how you get into this parenting mess in the first place
join in… as i write this i fell asleep when i scrolled to your comment, woke up a few seconds later, read half of it, fell asleep, woke up 2 mins later, read it from the start, fell asleep again, woke up and type this reply…. the joys of having yoiur own office space…
I’m not actually THAT laze, under normal circumstances, but i too had a horrible night last night constantly waking up throughout the entire night.
*solidarity*
…
*and envy*
Hello everybody! (Hi, Dr. Nick!)
Weekend was good. Very full, lots of stuff every day. Too much to detail. Looking forward to the week ahead, with Pathfinder tonight and Yamazaki Whiskey Tasting @ Cobbler tomorrow! (*cough cough* @freezespreston @transientmind) – I’m in a pretty good mood for a Monday, it seems. Who is typing this, and what have they done with the real B-ob?
it just means you’re using this as your one good Monday out of 52 😀
I like those odds!
Hola TAY! I’m back at Uni, which means I’m back lurking here not doing my uni work \o/
Anyway Destiny is awesome. I went from not hype to very hype after playing the beta and suddenly feel the need to know about every little facet of the damn game.
We Mario Kartin’ today?
😀
I might be up for it depending on what time
I got Pathfinder today so I won’t be there.
Awwwwww yeeaaaaaah.
I assume we will be dragging @tech_knight’s corpse out of that cave tonight. =P
You assume correctly.
Mebbe. Not much difference between me racing and a CPU controlled player though.
I feel like last time we raced you were always in front of me when i got some of the good power ups… So, sorry for wailing on you repeatedly with red/green shells 😛
Would love to, but unfortunately I’m gonna be at work tonight.
Bought The Crown Of The Sunken King DLC for Dark Souls II yesterday before work, would’ve bought the season pass if there was one, apparently there is for PC and PS3, but not 360.
Anyway, I need to get back into the game, because as I mentioned in last weeks TAY I haven’t gotten very far in the main game (The Lost Bastille). I feel like I should start again and try a different build. When I first started the game, I did what I always do and chose the class that had the most Health and Strength, and just pumped as many souls into those stats as I could, figuring that I could just wail on everything and progress. Turns out that strategy doesn’t work so well, so I’m looking for some advice.
@shane, @freezespreston.
Avoid getting hit!
Sorry, man. Haven’t played it, so I dunno.
Collecting Lightning Spears and spamming your way through any area is always a viable strategy. So too is a tank strategy, though dodging is more effective than blocking in DS2.
Good morning all. I hope you are all well/being awesome as I know you all are.
Weekend RPG funtimes with Popdart5: Pathfinder (with me as a player)
So chaining leadership feats through cohorts is kinda tricky to deal with as I’m effectively controlling four different characters. My main character has also multiclassed again (now a fighter/cavalier/paladin or a Fivaldin) and I’m in the position where my horse is tankier than me. Dang those low HP rolls when levelling.Nothing too out of the ordinary happened. One of our players retired his character, a Dwarf Forgemaster Cleric, and brought in a new one as a Dhampir Oracle (yeah, was a little surprising). Our Wizard keeps intentionally splitting the party by using dimension door and taking the Azer (Fire Dwarf) Ranger/Monk and the Drow Rogue with him, the three squishiest characters in the party. Meanwhile my Fivaldin already had concerns about the Dhampir which increased quite drastically when he started summoning undead. So yeah, the party is a little bit dysfunctional.
We killed a Drow lord and took his head because we needed information from another Drow lord on the whereabouts of his son who has become a full-fledged Necromancer. Next time we hope to be able to find the little vagabond and put him in a grave (permanently).
Just found out JB are running a comp for those who pre order Slash’s new album to win a meet & greet with him, how can I not enter?!
I think the best method would be not filling in the form and giving it to the person behind the counter
Well I have to pre-order online to be able to enter I think, so pre-ordering in store would work 😛
Morning everyone!
Destiny Beta has me very hype for the full game in September. @thecracks has me excited to play in a Kotaku Destiny clan, I think the game will be much more enjoyable when you’re playing with folks.
My birthday weekend was good, had the family over on Friday for dinner and played soccer on Sunday. My team won 7-0 and they wouldn’t let me score on my own damn birthday weekend!!
7-0? Were you playing against Brazil?
The bastards!
I was representing this weekend by topping the leaderboards in the Crucible! =P I shall endeavour to make all people who see the [KAU] clan name in a match be struck with fear!
Got absolutely destroyed in the Mars level though… That said I think I was going up against some pretty full on veterans, my whole team got decimated. Shout out to @piat and @stickman for jumping on Friday night (sorry about the headset static!)
It was pretty fun! Cheers.
No worries, was great fun. Annoyed I missed the moon mission but super pumped for the full game
I didn’t get to play over the weekend nearly as much as I would’ve liked 🙁 missed the moon mission as well, but hey, it’ll be there in the full release.
I’m slowly getting better at the Crucible. I absolutely hate the Moon map although the feeling you get from melee-ing someone out of an interceptor is second to none in the game. I started off struggling to find a weapon I really can use but have since settled on an auto rifle. Sucks I never found a level 8 uncommon one though so I could get it up to 62 damage. Still undecided about the Mars map. The other 3 have their own character and style that you should play but with the Mars one, it seems to be better to be a jack of all trades rather. Either that or everyone was running round like headless chickens in my matches because they didn’t know the map that well either
Yeah half of the Mars map is close quarters combat (Point A) and the other half is a sniping game, makes it really hard to ever dominate more than half the map (good thing imo for balanced matches) but makes it ridiculously annoying when you’ve just got a few kills in the close quarters part and then head out in the open just to get sniped =@
Couple of hints for the Moon map that I figured out the hard way. Firstly use a scout OR pulse rifle for this map. If you’re on foot (i.e. don’t have either of the vehicles) do not run around in the open. Do not use your sparrow to get to points only use it to get from the open area to reach a building (Because riding it around paints a giant target on you while running on foot keeps you harder to spot! Especially if you have grey armor like my Hunter does). Learn the backdoors to each capture point; I believe all 3 have an entrance from out in the open and a backdoor which can be accessed via buildings. You’ll be surprised how often people guard the entrance but forget to check the backdoors!
Final round of tips, if you’re caught in a fight outside of a building jump AND strafe. Due to the nature of this map jumping isn’t constricted and you’ll be surprised how often it lets you land a kill just short of dying. If you have to face off against a vehicle and are caught out in the open DO NOT seek cover, turning your back to a vehicle is the surest way to get killed. Instead I recommend constantly jumping (ideally towards the vehicle if you’re too far jump sideways) This gives you the opportunity to get above the vehicles line of fire and at the same time land some direct hits on the pilot as opposed to firing on the vehicles armor!
Weekend was too short again, as always. Did some stuffs, like another ride on Saturday (3 days in a row) and felt the burn. Played some moon shit on Destiny, was pretty fun cruising on bikes and blasting people.
Good morning TAY! I got to go to a Meat! I haven’t had any coffee since Saturday and I feel fine! Why am I shouting!?
Caffeine withdrawals, obviously.
Actually most of that was on the weekend and I’m still drinking a bit of tea, just no coffee or coke zero. Having a detox week to reset some lazy eating habits.
Because you haven’t had coffee since Saturday.
That’ll do it.
I haven’t had coffee in years!
TAY meat is the BEST meat!
What a coincidence, I got to go to a Meat too.
I don’t think I embarrassed myself too much.
Hola Tay
Busy weekend. Got invited at the last minute on Friday to the “White Album Concert,” with Tim Rogers from You Am I, Josh Pyke, Chris Cheney from the Living End and Phil Jameson from Grinspoon performing the entire Beatles’ White Album start to finish. Really good, but the show lifted WAY high whenever it was Living End dude.
Saturday went out to a mate’s birthday, had an enjoyable arvo/evening in the pub. Other than that, played the Destiny Beta. Preordered it on Friday, I can see putting a lo of hours into it.
I played something like 3 hours of the PS3 beta then preordered. Can’t wait for it to come out!
Edit: I should probably clarify I ordered the PS4 version.
I did the complete opposite, pre-ordered it, then played for about 3 or 4 hours.
Yeah, i played it thursday arvo then ordered it on the way back from work Friday.
Chris Cheney is rad.
Bobcat Goldthwait.
Sorry, still a reply to you, but meant to be to the post below.
A Monday Morning Question: Peter Dinklage is your in-game companion in Destiny- he’s pretty much talking into your ear the entire time. If you could have any celebrity talking into your ear all the time, who would it be?
Alan Rickman! Ooooh, or maybe Scarlett Johansson from Her.
I’d make her sing the Moon song all the time. :’)
Morgan Freeman.
Always Morgan Freeman
Seth MacFarlane
Why have one voice, when you can have lots!
That was my thinking, though his natural speaking voice is pretty great on its own.
Mel Blanc, the original “man of a thousand voices”.
Can we also see them? If so Jennifer Lawrence.
If not and it’s just a voice we hear, Morgan Freeman like Nob said.
A whispering and seductive Scarlett Johansson. You beat me to it, @dc! Okay you can have her. I’ll go with fictional character Walter Bishop from Fringe, the celeb John Noble.
Vincent Price.
Yes.
No one cos people are stupid and I don’t wanna hear their junk 24/7. 🙁
No no it’s their mouths that do it.
James Earl Jones.
Jennifer Lawrence or Samuel L. Jackson…
On that note does anyone else feel like Peter Dinklage’s voice is completely out of place as the Ghost? I feel like the voice is too human (which I wouldn’t mind) but the damn techno sounds thrown in to make it sound like a machine just ruin his dialogue for me…. The same with Bill Nighy as the Speaker, I usually love his voice but I don’t feel like his voice fits…
Peter Dinklage’s voice really threw me off. It’s so damn deadpan. If you are going to make Ghost deadpan, you may as well hire the guy who voiced JC Denton.
Ooh I could also get behind Sam Jackson, if he was in his Pulp Fiction person for sure.
Everyone has already said Morgan Freeman, so I’ll go with Patrick Stewart. Or Sean Connery.
EDIT: Or Bill Murray, as long as he stays in his Captain Price pseudo-philosophy banter the entire time.
Ron Howard? 😛
I wouldn’t be able to take ANYTHING seriously. 😛
And now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything…
………I can’t believe I didn’t think of that at all.
Sean Connery.
Gilbert Gottfried.
Christopher Lee
Or Brian Blessed if I don’t value my hearing too much
SMASHING! DID YOU KNOW I ONCE FOUGHT A BEAR?
GORDON’S ALIVE?
FRESH HORSES!
Brian Blessed is one of the best bits of Peppa Pig. Love Grampy Rabbit!
David Attenborough… He counts right?
Oh, and it’d have to switch to Ringo Starr for any and every train ride.
Ringo Starr will be forever associated with the words “aqueduct” and “viaduct” for me thanks to Thomas.
If Scarlett is spoken for… Bill Bailey… But only of he can put his spin on it.
@effluvium-boy
Failing that, Michael Wincott.
He does have quite the voice.
Benedict Cumberbatch!
Morning, TAY!
Drinks on saturday night with a few TAYbies was pretty great. They’re a good bunch! Many important topics were discussed such as conspiracy theories and the anal abilities of caterpillers.
A rare Sydney meat! 😀
We don’t really have “Meats” anymore, alas 😛 Smaller gatherings amongst friends, maybe? We haven’t had any new Sydney members for a long time to warrant a proper Meat!
I guess it’s the same with Brisbane. We just hang like friends would hang. (With only big structured meats for when out of towners are in town. :D)
Y’all better plan the best gathering ever for me! (@POWALEN)
Hungry Jacks on Queen St. BAM. Done.
Nah
It’s ok, I’ll just have my own Kino gathering again 🙁
Oh hey there was a thing on wasn’t there.
WHY DID NO ONE REMI- oh I see how it is.
http://www.twitter.com
http://www.tay.com/
Gooks, I used to resist twitter like you but you don’t know what you’re missing until you try it. It’s like TAY but better! (You heard me!)
TAY is a bad enough addiction, I don’t need to make it worse!
I’m not resisting I’m saving myself 😛
Nintendo Direct hype platform.
What’s that about Skype now?
Including a guest appearance by famed gaming journalist Harli! Who was too famous to stay.
It was nice meeting some new faces, even if I was late and missed @shiggyninty and @doc_what.
NEXT TIME!
Saturday my sister and her husband returned from Thailand, we had dinner together and as I returned to the table gathering after getting a beer from the outside fridge, the conversation went as follows; (I kid you not)
Sister, Bec: I think we should plan a trip to Cairns!
Grandma: I feel like eating some ham!
Myself: Jetstar have 2 for 1 flights to Japan!
My kid, Josh: Cheers!
Brother in law: Yeah, cheers. Bec is pregnant!
My wife to my sister: ARE YOU REALLY?!
I look to my sister and she nods, grinning.
Ah, it was then that I realised that the rest of the conversation wasn’t going to be about Cairns, ham or Japan.
A very weird conversation, indeedy.
Sounds like some particularly bad poetry.
It doesn’t end there. I’ll extend.
DID GRANDMA GET TO EAT SOME HAM!?
What a cliffhanger!
Perhaps, she usually keeps a leg in the fridge. 😀
She keeps ham in there too.
#dadjokepagesix
Wait, so she’s somewhere near a mosque in queensland?
Innuendo?
In your endo.
And that kids is how you make babies
Ummm, maybe these days, but in my day you had to put it in the other hole.
Posted on this on the previous page, but got no response, so I’ll try again.
Starting Dark Souls II again (like now), and am looking for advice on what class to go with, and what stats I should concentrate on boosting with souls. Any help is appreciated.
I went down the path of picking a style of weapon/magic and sticking with it, buffing the stats regarding that. It worked kinda alright although I am yet to finish the game. I found getting at least 20 in a bunch of stats is handy if only for the extra HP and 20 in adaptability helps if you don’t feel like fat rolling.
For the record, I went a spear/polearm build with the reduced weapon durability loss ring. Worked quite well but spacing was important.
Faith builds are supposed to be pretty powerful.
All builds are viable. Pick what you like and go with that. Stats aren’t really important besides equip requirements (scaling is terrible in 2). More important to just play and learn the game and the flow of combat.
Just keep clearing out early areas and focus on getting to grips with it all. Dark Souls 2 has terrible enemy tactic variety so soon you’ll find it will all fall into place.
I loves me a high-agility/moderately-high-armour/high-strength build. Sword and Greatsword (not Ultra – those things are way too heavy and slow). I think the bastard sword ended up being one of the best, once upgraded and enhanced (lightning/fire/dark – you can have multiple of them). A 100% physical resist shield as soon as possible. Block/dodge/slicey build. Served me very well.
Thanks guys, I think. Guess I’ll just peruse the guide and have a think about what class to play as over lunch.
Bandit!
Starts with good stats, good weapon, and a bow. Out of the four I tried, definitely my favourite.
I have always said the two most useful things in Dark Souls are patience and a good shield.
With those in hand anything is doable.
I found the knight a good starting class: tough and has good gear.
From there channel your stats into whatever you need for your choice of equipment, with a little bit in HP/Stamina/Agility. Keep in mind that those last three are not worth leveling past 20 even in the late game, so don’t dump too many points in there.
My arms of choice are a great-shield and halberd. This combo gives you excellent defense, great damage at a good range, reasonable speed and a variety of attacks.
I pair this with light gloves/boots/helm focusing on resistances rather than armor, and a chest piece with the most poise I can get while keeping me under 70% burden for speed.
I found it actually better to not enchant your weapon in #2 – you do more damage to more enemies with plain physical than elemental damage on your weapon.
Faith is awesome, especially late game. After from gear requirements etc, I recommend making this your dump stat.
Gives you more healing to last longer and Lightning Spears are utterly OP – save em for the bosses and enchant your chime with lightning for more damage.
edit: Also make sure to pick up a bow; sometimes you just need it, and a Mace; blunt damage is very very effective against some enemies.
Hope this helps!
So glad I got a capsule coffee machine for my 30th birthday. Since I’ve given up soft drinks, I’ve been using it more often. It takes the Nespresso size capsules, and I’ve been able to find some reasonable quality cheap capsules. Surprisingly, Coles Finest capsules are really good, and at 40 cents a cup, definitely worth it.
Yep this! I’ve had one for a few years and it is pretty amazeballs… I keep the plunger around for when i feel like a nice black coffee, but otherwise it can produce a really tasty brew indeed 😛
I usually have a short black and I find the capsule machines are perfect for them. If I want a good coffee, I only have to walk 100 metres or so to the cafe down the road. It’s not cheap, but does a really good coffee.
I’ve been resisting getting a capsule coffee machine, because I don’t like gimicky things that you’ll be forced to throw out and buy a new one after while because they don’t make the consumables that you need for it anymore, but lately I’ve been thinking about getting one.
I picked up a Nespresso last year and it’s saved me heaps of money that I was spending on store-bought coffee. They’re not fantastic, but my proper machine I had at home was very hard to use, quite limited, very messy and took way too long to heat up and use, so I basically only used it on weekends.
Nice. I see there’s a decent selection of various coffee’s too, which is awesome. I may pick one up one day. I drink most of my coffee at work, however.
I bought my Aldi machine about 2 years ago. It’s been wonderful, lots of choice and I just buy a box of pods when I do my weekly shop.
Friend: A real time tactical role playing game where the player controls four unique warriors to defeat enemies. Bad pun names plz 😛
Me: For War is Four, Armed
I think I made even myself a little sick with that one.
it’s too early in the week to be hurting my brain like that 😛
Over the last three days I have heard Dragon Soul 56 times and now I will fight for love and glory and live to tell the…… DAMNIT! I mean I can’t get it out of my head. It won’t stop. Won’t stop. Don’t stop we’re in luck now….. *kills self*
Boy are those ending themes something terrible though.
I’m going the way of the ancient samurai, who when dishonored, would hang themselves from a fluorescent light.
Man I love Anchorman….
I love lamp!
actually my favourite quote must be “Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means ‘a whale’s vagina’”
Brick, I’ve been meaning to talk to you about that. You should find yourself a safehouse or a relative close by. Lay low for a while, because you’re probably wanted for murder.
The 8th grade boys saw my pee-pee.
San Diahgo.
Fun Fact: Mental Health facilities have special fixtures so you can precisely do not that.
There’s a building in SA, one of the “super clinics” that’s half and half- the fixtures in the whole building look uniform, but in the mental health half you can’t get enough wire to harm yourself.
That’s more an upsetting fact. D:
Eh, it’s thoughtful design- means that it doesn’t look like a mental health facility, but it’s an adequate precaution.
Perhaps not fun, but interesting.
I really need to watch the second one…
Noooooo. No you really don’t.
Yes, yes he does…
Son of a beesting!
I turned it off almost half an hour in. Almost half an hour later than I should have.
It was terrible.
Loved the first, despise the second.
It took everything hilarious from the first, and murdered it.
I would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party.
New developments in Freeze’s Neighbours Are Just…. WAT?
Campaign running to get people to buy a bunch of pork and bury it on the site of the proposed Mosque.
I’d move but I don’t think it would be better anywhere else.
:S I think this says more about the quality of your neighbours than the ‘threat’ of a mosque. That’s just batshit crazy!
Where’s this proposed Mosque gonna be?
Hmm, freedom of religion, only so if you’re white and Christian…
And if you didn’t come over on a boat….. oh wait.
Ha, the sad reality.
Reminds me of this.
Or this one.
Ha, yes!
Back of the industrial area in Currumbin down Villiers Drive. Wedged up next to the quarry.
Wow, it sounded like it was gonna be on the Gold Coast Highway next to PBC or something..
But there, that’s so out of the way. Plus who cares, it’s not like people go around in this country protesting any denominations churches…
Racists care, Virus. Racists care. They care so much. We should thank them for caring for us all.
But they’re ruining it for me /o\
I honestly think the world would be a better place if people cared less.
So much of the crap in the world is because some people care WAY too much about stupid shit and cannot let it go.
Well, I was being mostly facetious. 🙂 You are indeed correct.
Only found out yesterday that a Mosque is being built here, amazed that I haven’t heard anything about it till now.
*sigh*
I think we’ve got the plot of Hollywood’s next big blockbuster horror movie. A priest must fight off evil spirits after discovering his mosque is built over an ancient pig burial ground.
In all seriousness though, you’re neighbours are crazy.
Jesus. People really need to know about what’s haram and not haram.
The pork thing, the rule is “Try not to eat pork. If it’s starvation or pork, eat the goddamned pork.” It’s not like Muslims eat one piece of ham and suddenly heaven is closed.
This is just like those idiots with the pork bullets.
If I knew people like that, I’d say that there’s a simple solution. If they don’t like it, then they can leave. I swear, NIMBYs are the crux of selfishness and make themselves look like fools.
Where I live it’s pretty much the same unfortunately as there are a lot of old and run-down houses that should be demolished but the old people just hang on to them. I reckon once all of the old people in my area move out (naturally or otherwise) then we might get more diversity rather than just white, white, and more white.
Suggest they should actually do a BBQ on the site.
Then, when all the supporters turn up, push them into the bonfire you prepared earlier.
Wut.
That seems like a completely productive use of their time. Burying food. Which they could have eaten.
That is slightly weird. Like, massively odd. I can’t even follow that thought process.
And
a) muslims can handle pork, they just have to cleanse afterwards and,
b) it’s not necessarily muslims working on the mosque building site so it may IN FACT be someone else (ie not the proposed target) who has to dig up smelly rotting pigmeat
c) this is incredibly odd.
To be honest, I’d drop off the nasty stuff to my friendly neighbourhood police station. The like to know when people start planning to do stupid things.
I played Mario Kart 8 with a newbie this weekend. 50cc. I taught them how to do tricks and drift. I dominated every damn race. It was 50cc, how could I not? 😀
This must be how @Powalen feels all the time.
I can’t imagine the disappointment new players to TAY Kart feel after they realise the image of me being this Mario Kart super racer is extremely overstated 😛
Man fuck @liondrive, he just wants me to look at his ass all the time in MK.
And real life.
Orly? @dc can you confirm?
For some reason whenever I read Orly in a comment I read it as orally. Stupid Brain.
understated *
Wow. The who AFP officers who posed for a photo of pretending to arrest Lily Allen at Gold Coast airport yesterday are now in deep shit over it, what the fuck. How can they justify that?! I see pictures all the time of police in the US taking similar photos with the public yet I never hear of them being reprimanded for having a little bit of fun.
Also the people saying they deserve to get in shit over this are disgusting people themselves.
I agree with you 100% …reminds me of the “incident” with that female officer dancing on a stage at the big day out….
They’re only human, well some cops seem like cyborgs who’re only there to make peoples lives hell, but most of them are human beings in a tough job which can be extremely horrible on a day to day basis, let them have a little fun on the job from time to time especially in harmless situations like this.
Plus look at this the Swedish police are allowed to have a bit of fun!
The whole issue is probably because they’re the AFP. I imagine that if a bunch of badged and clearly identified CIA or FBI officials took part in something like this then they might get chewed out for it. I guess it’s that whole perception that the AFP are the elite policing force in Australia so they shouldn’t be doing something like this.
It is incredibly stupid to rake them over the coals for what they did though. It was just harmless fun.
Eh, they were assigned to escort a musician who is relatively famous. It’s not like they were escorting that dickhead we have to call a Prime Minister who they’d have to protect from rabid people 😛
Rules are rules. They are in place for a reason. People being assholes and saying they “deserve to get in shit” is a bit far, but the AFP officers knew they were breaking rules. The thing exploded, they get in trouble. Shit happens.
THREE THOUSAND KOTAKU COMMENTS!!!!!!!! \O/
My condolences.
Congrats. \o/
I bet several hundred of those were gifting comments during the last steam sale. 😛
29k!
@dc at 36 and @shane at 27. Weeeee
OK, I get it, I’m a babby compared to you guys.
*flex*
Had a quiet Saturday, apart from watching the Super 15s semi final and the Hawks beat Sydney. Sunday was a different kettle of fish. After church I played ‘softball’ (indoors with a plastic bat and a soft die) and a pretty serious game of UNO (1st to 500 lost). Lots of trash talk was exchanged and fun was had.
Uh, is anyone going to be wearing spandex for their cosplay at PAX this year?
Me in skintight clothing is something the world is not ready for.
Unfortunately I’m thinking about it.
What are you thinking of doing?
Classic 90s X-Men or the like. Maybe as a Scott Summers/Jean Grey/son family if I can convince the wife to join in. I dunno.
Nice. FWIW, Spandex does tend to retain odour…
I’m not sure if I’m after actual spandex, I just assumed that’s what you’d call the material of the suits they have in the animated series.
…is that to say that the odour will stick with it long after use (and wash?), or that any odours will be stuck within it and won’t escape to the surrounding environment?
What are you picturing him in?
Probably the same thing YOU are now picturing.
#stupidsexyflanders
Nothin at all!
NOTHIN AT ALL /o\
Ballsy.
Do eeeeetttt! =P
Maaaayyyybeeee….
😀 Sudden confidence boost!
Possibly. Why?
Just need some pointers. Whether it’s cheap? Easy to do?
Haha, wouldn’t have a clue.
CC @scree 😛
morph suits.
Awesome! Thank you.
ozgameshop sells morph suits. you should be able to find what you need. They can also be painted with fabric paint
Fabric paint! Tell me about fabric paint!
@redartifice opaque, transparent or glitter? Do you have lincraft or spotlight near you?
@scree I have access to Lincraft or Spotlight.
I’d be trying to get the stripes on Raz’s shirt, a lighter green than the turtleneck thing I’ve ordered, is fabric paint the best way to go?
Ill be in a suit, not made of spandex, like Red the world isnt prepared for that image of me in spandex
I didn’t know a bunch of washed 80’s rockstars were gonna be at PAX this year!
Maybe morph suit. But I’ll be sure to cover it up, because it’s only for the face/hands.
Slenderman?
Kinda, I was tossing up the idea that our group go as “The Fancy Slendermen”. Morph suit, suit, hat, all in different awesome colours.
I can see it now SlenderPimp, SlenderGangster, SlenderHipster…
Ha! 😛 Yeah kinda like that!
No, but probably fishnet stockings.
Mario Kart tonight peoples. The blue shell is calling your name…
No it’s not. I’m never in first =P
So you’re the launcher of the shell that calls out “Poooowaaaaalleeeeeeeeen *booom*”
More like the person who keeps missing those shortcuts.
Dem pesky shortcuts
Hi everybody, just taking a moment to drop by and say hi and thank you for the messages here and on twitter.
Things are going well on the whole, a few little bumps along the way but we are all home as a family now.
@virus__ First I was “I made this” but then I was “Damn I do good work”
@strange Thanks for the message, it got a much need smile
@coldcamv We decided on Fiona Lillian
She is on 3 hourly feeds now so eating when we can, napping in between and hopefully staying sane
Awesome name, Tigs. Congrats again! 🙂
TIGLET! I missed the announcement! Congrats!
Thats a beautiful name man, so happy for all of you and cant wait to meet the little one!
This comic come up as the most recent update this weekend, and I immediately thought of Tigs and Tiglet. http://www.fowllanguagecomics.com/comic/id-take-a-bullet/
Is Lillian her middle name or is her first name Fiona William?
Lillian is her middle name
Good to hear! Newborns don’t allow much sleep or sanity but the cuddles are delightful.
So the Cosplay is not consent facebook page has gathered quite a following.
I think we’re quite lucky in Australia, as it’s not as bad as it is in other places. I’ve been cosplaying for years and haven’t had an issue. If I saw someone was groped, I sure as hell would not stand idly by and I like to think, others would be the same, standing up for the person.
A friend of mine was groped while dressed as Hathaway catwoman. She said it happened so fast that she didn’t quite realise it was happening until after. Sounds disgusting.
Where did it happen? I hope she reported it.
Supanova or Comiccon last year? One of the cons that came to Adelaide. Not sure what happened after, think she just brushed it off
She should report it. It’s not acceptable behaviour and that way volunteers will know to keep an eye out for it.
As I said, I’m not sure what happened after- she mentioned it in passing, so I dunno whatever came of it.
If I’d been there I’d have definitely encouraged reporting. Or broken someone’s wrist.
Tell her next time to report it. It may seem insignificant, but the person may do it to others and it may become more severe.
I believe she’s got a creep strategy- I dunno if you see AVcon pics, but she’s been the last few years as various forms of FFXIII Lightning and something else on the second day.
I probably wouldn’t broach the topic again unless she brought it up, to be honest.
Also there might be cameras around, which could catch the person.
I totally agree that how a person is dressed is not permission to grope, rape etc. However, I find it confusing when a woman wears revealing clothes, but gets pissed off and or trys to cover up when she catches you looking. I just don’t understand, if they don’t want people to look, why do they dress like that. Or is it that they only want a certain type of person to look i.e. people that they find attractive.
Careful, that’s a fine line you’re treading. 😛
Probably, but I’ve always been confused by it.
Yeah, I kinda agree. If a chick wears sexy-as-fuck stuff to an adult convention, I’d be inclined to expect that she’s get groped. But a comic con convention is different, as so I wouldn’t expect her to be groped. It wouldn’t be totally unexpected, but it’s still be weird/creepy.
As for the whole ‘looking’ thing, yeah that’s retarded. If you flash some skin or dress sexy, you are sexy, and thus you’ll get looks.
Nope. Not acceptable in any situation.
Never said it was acceptable. I just wouldn’t be surprised if it happened.
Everyone always writes off the “you wore short skirt etc down dark alley, you were asking for it” thing, but a lot of people don’t deliver it correctly either. If you drive your fancy car to the ghetto and leave it unlocked, it’ll probably be stolen. It’s not acceptable, but it’s not really surprising either.
Sounds too much like rationalizing / victim-blaming to me.
Regardless of the event, it should be surprising to hear people get felt up because of the clothes they chose to wear.
@negativezero Why is it always “because of the clothes”? Because that’s what the caught people say? THAT is victim-blaming. The clothes are never the sole reason for the actions of another, but they can be a catalyst – something that the wearer can control.
@stickman The thing is though it shouldn’t be a catalyst! It’s like saying “oh you’re wearing something sexy, sorry we’re unable to control ourselves so be prepared to be groped or worse”. While I agree the reality is women do need to be careful of what they wear because there are plenty of predators out there and I always caution any female friends about friday/saturday nights in the city BUT it shouldn’t have to be like that! And accepting/dividing the blame as “oh that girl wore clothes that were too revealing” just isn’t good enough imo.
Everyone is free to wear what they want, however people aren’t free to grope or invade someone else’s privacy and that’s what it comes down to. Until we as a society decide to legalize the groping/raping/molesting of our peers that’s what it will always come down to. People are allowed to wear whatever but no one has the right to cause harm or discomfort to another; physical or otherwise.
@pupp3tmast3r
Yup, it shouldn’t have to be like that. But it is, and we can’t change it. It’s not just groping/rape. Theft, murder, assault, etc – I’d like to also leave my car unlocked in a ghetto and walk the streets with my iPhone 5 in my hand playing some offensive song. Or go swimming with open bleeding wounds.
Just because you can do it and you should be able to do it, doesn’t always mean it’s a good idea.
Was just about to say what negative has said. Groping isn’t acceptable in any situation.
While I think there’s a fine line for looking i.e. checking someone out vs straight up leering there’s no reasonable situation where groping should be accepted. It’s an invasion of privacy on the most intimate level!
You’re supposed to look but very very discreetly!! =P
Personally I find women a lot more attractive if they wear classy attire as opposed to revealing… I just find it more enticing when they leave things to the imagination? I guess this is a sign that I’m getting older *sigh*
when I dressed up as Elizabeth last year, I didn’t even notice people looking. Even if they had, I wouldn’t have minded because I did have cleavage. If someone had touched though, I probably would’ve flipped out. And it’s not only guys. Sometimes girls stare too. I’ve done it. It might be because I’m trying to figure out how they made part of their costume. I dunno, maybe it’s just me.
You should dress up as http://tlj.wikia.com/wiki/Zo%C3%AB_Maya_Castillo
\o/
Also I think it’s just weird for anyone to stare… for any reason >.< If you want to find out more about a costume just approach the person and strike up conversation 😛
Looking I completely understand. You’re dressed weirdly, so normal people will stare in a weird way. I think as long as the person isn’t openly leering, it should be fine.
Because appreciative glance =/= ogling =/= leering =/= permission =/= TAKE ME NOW
Its her body she is allowed to do what she wants with it. If she finds you looking at her to be offensive she is within her right to cover it up. You are allowed to dress just for yourself too. I dont dress for anyone but myself and im guessing a lot of women are the same. I just wear what i think looks cool.
Yep. “I want to feel sexy” isn’t the same as “I want to be ogled”
But it’s a fine line and you can’t control what other people do. They are free to look. Doesn’t mean it’s acceptable, but they are kidding themselves if they think they can go out and not have anyone ogle them.
But thoughts like this just give people a reason to ogle. “It’s not right, but it’s her fault because she dressed like that”. It’s a terrible line of thought that can lead to even more terrible things.
It leads to victim blaming.
I was hinting more to groping (and further then that). It gives the aggressor fuel to do what they do, but you are right.
Yeah that’s fucking bullshit behaviour. But then again, this is a person who randomly groped an unwilling participant, which is also fucking bullshit behaviour.
There is no ‘fault’. There was a choice. Choice A means that Result Y has a small chance to happen. You can’t change that. If you make Choice A (to dress sexy), you gotta be prepared to live with the consequences that there is a chance Result Y will happen. We don’t live in an ideal world – it’s full of fuckfaces – so you’re just living a delusional bubble if you think probability doesn’t exist.
Who’s responsible for rape?
1) rapists
2) See 1.
That’s it. Hell, women get raped in burkhas.
But you are saying contrary to that right there:
Sure, you are dancing around the word but at the end of the day you are still saying some of the fault lies with the victim.
@redartifice (& @negativezero since you so kindly down-voted me)
Yup, the rapist is responsible for rape. I never said any differently. However, are you saying that there is no result for the actions/choice of an individual? This is just that – a fact of life – and the victim isn’t at fault. However they did make a choice to potentially increase their odds of an incident. If you’re denying that, tell me now, cos I’ll stop replying to you guys about it.
@sernobulus no. Don’t put words in my mouth.
Just because a certain choice may have increased the probability of an incident, it can’t outright be proved as a catalyst and it sure as hell isn’t the sole reason for the incident. Therefore it’s impossible for “dressing sexy” to ever result in the person being “in the wrong” or at-fault.
Yes, the world is a horrible place and humans are terrible. But sometimes your gender, age and where you live can increase the odds of rape. What the person is wearing shouldn’t matter. People use it as an excuse. The thing is, rape is generally about control and often it won’t even matter what you wear.
It’s like if someone was stabbed because they were wearing a shirt saying “stab me”. It seems that people are expecting it to happen when someone dresses a little more provocatively, but it shouldn’t be the case. Only with zero tolerance can we change that. Just because we think it, and it happens, doesn’t make it right.
Change this from ‘dressing provocatively’ to a street having poor lighting, an underpass having no cameras or low police presence in a certain area, and your stance on nobody but the rapist being to blame will begin to change. Suddenly the council and the police are (rightly) taking on some responsibility of their own. That doesn’t free the rapist of even the slightest ounce of responsibility. However whether the police let the public down or not the criminal is still entirely responsible for their own actions. To call the police out for failing the victim/community doesn’t mean there’s suddenly less blame on the criminal.
Now what if someone chooses to go down that badly lit street because it knocks 5 minutes off their trip compared to using the safe part of the street. You certainly wouldn’t turn around and say ‘quit crying, you were playing with fire and you knew it’, but at the same time there’s no denying that the victim made an irresponsible decision that led to the crime.
That’s why we caution people (not just women) to catch taxis home late at night, not leave their drink unattended, travel in groups, not drink too much, etc. That’s why getting in cars with strangers is considered extremely irresponsible. By shoving your fingers in your ears and saying it’s impossible for the victim to have any control over the outcome you’re allowing your sympathy for the victim to override the idea that measures can be taken to minimise risk and ignoring the idea that mistakes can be made.
I’ve had women come home with me only to pass out on the couch before anything happened. I actually feel guilty for not lecturing them the next day because even though it’s clear we both underestimated how drunk they were they still did something super dangerous. I obviously wouldn’t defend anyone who took advantage of them, and I think even when drunk with strangers most men respect the difference between intent to consent and consent, but in those cases the difference between them being rape victims and not is still just luck.
Please don’t take any of this the wrong way. Using the playing with fire/asking for it argument is disgusting. I just think people have a tendency to over compensate in anticipation of hearing it. @stickman is being realistic. That doesn’t stop us from treating it as one of the worst crimes you can commit. He hasn’t suggested once that a rapist should get away with the crime or be let off easier if the victim was dressed provocatively, yet everyone is treating him like he’s arguing for early release of rapists.
He’s not even saying it’s ok to stand there leering at a cosplayers cleavage, just that if you show cleavage at a gaming convention realistically you should be prepared to encounter some people who cross the line between looking and staring. I don’t want to put words in his mouth but I get the impression he’s fine with cosplayers asking people to stop staring or taking photos.
Personally I hate that people stare in a creepy way because my eyes are attracted to pretty things. I probably would stare at scree up there in her Elizabeth costume without even realising because even if it’s only half faithful she’s an amazing character to look at. It sucks that there is a group of people that make cosplayers uncomfortable which I accidentally fall into from time to time. It’s not like I can say ‘hey, sorry about that, I’m just appreciating how good you look, like I would a painting, and even though pretty much everyone else who says this is lying believe me when I say I’m not just saying this to get away with looking at you for too long’.
Look, I’m not saying it won’t happen, I’m just saying it’s not what people are asking for and in no way do they deserve it.
I agree with you.
And what rocket has said! Most of the girls I know do like to dress up just for themselves! However this doesn’t always translate to revealing attire. That said even if it did I’d like to think humanity has evolved somewhat past our primal urges and can exhibit some form of self control (Key words “I’d like to think”).
Maybe it’s not the fact you’re doing it, but the way you do it?
A girl is standing there with her boobs out I’m going to look. Because a) boobs are awesome and b) boobs are awesome.
What I’m not going to do is stare or start shifting to get a better look. An appreciative look can be done without being a weird creep about it.
I feel I need to say “BBBBBEEEEWWWWWWWWWBBBBSSS”
*sigh of relief* There it’s out of my system now =P
ERNIE!
And yet, when the boobs are out to feed a hungry baby suddenly it’s disgusting – thankfully I never had that problem but it happens a lot. >:(
I really never got people getting upset about that. People need to grow up. It’s feeding a hungry baby.
Yep, My favourite spot was in the food court. I got to have a snack and the general noise would send the little one to sleep.
I used to wear a lot of revealing clothing (for various dress up purposes, although not always specifically cosplay).
Sometimes people leering or looking at me slightly funny made me realise “oh wait, my boobs are hanging a lot further out than I was intending” and so I’d readjust. I didn’t MIND people looking, but I did mind if they were able to see my nipples. But that wasn’t their fault.
Oh cool, I can’t even collect The Last of Us on release 🙁 I thought it was out Thursday, not Wednesday.
Me neither. Hopefully Dick Smith will hold it for me. Stupid game coming out on Wednesday and not Thursday (which is payday)/
If you’d pre ordered they can’t cancel it with out informing you. Well we were not allowed at EB.
I just can’t get to EB to pick it up, I get home after they close so rude.
At work we’re doing a new website for a college with “Marist Brothers” in their name. We now refer to it internally as “Mario Brothers College”
*Boss walks up to @powalen*
Boss – “DAMMIT POW! I ASKED YOU TO FINISH RESEARCH AN HOUR AGO!”
Pow – “Sorry, sir. I ran into complications. I will need a couple more hours”.
Boss – “Fine! But if you aren’t passed World 5 in Super Mario Brothers by then. We are going to have a talk”.
POW JUST USE THE WARP TUNNELS
Harpo, Leonard, Zeppo, Gummo and Groucho?
Never heard of Leonard, do you mean Chico?
Edit: Nevermind, I just looked it up, never knew that was Chico’s real name.
Oh, no, not Lenny — not Lenny!
EDIT: You know, never mind. I’d rather not have a shit-tonne of responses.
Your life wont be a downward spiral, You are a bright kid with a good future ahead of you. You seem responsible and friendly and those are good traits. I might suggest not being so hard on yourself.
Also, I’d suggest lightening up from time to time and not being a victim. Sometimes that’s a concerted choice you make instead of circumstances of your life.
The day i stopped thinking the world was against me was the day life become alot easier to manage. Also just because you think you might be deeper than your peers and that they are “stupid and immature” doesnt mean you are better than them. I learnt that the hard way. In a lot of ways they were more emotionally mature than i was.
I agree 100%, Rockets. This is something I’ve learned too.
I hated myself in high school. He wasn’t the nicest of guys. He was sarcastic as a defense mechanism. He didn’t have any friends. He felt powerless.
He also blamed others for his problems.
I’m not that guy any more.
Yep this was me in high school alright! And then in my last 2 years I discovered everyone has sides to themselves you’ll never see until you take the chance to get to know them! Had some amazing times and made some amazing friends once I let myself drop my guard =]
What even? School is school. You get told what to do. When that ends, you have the freedom of doing whatever the hell you want. You are your own master. For some people, this is good. For others, not so much. But you have yourself in your own control (after finishing school).
For almost every one life gets better after school. You haven’t even started life yet really. It’s when you finish school you will decide the person you really are, the people you want to surround yourself with and how you conduct yourself out in the world. Any time you’re not happy you can course correct too. You’re in the home stretch of year twelve and the world is about to open for you.
Actually you can decide the person you want to be right now. You can decide if you are going to be a positive person or a glass half empty person. You can decide if you’re going to be kind or closed off to those around you. You decide if you’re going to be a victim or someone who’ll be okay despite the circumstances of your life. You can plan to make your life better. (Even if you can’t implement it fully yet.)
Yeah, little secret: HS is in no way your peak. Get to uni, be social, learn cool stuff, meet women, all so much better than HS.
And after that, it gets even better.
Five years from now you will look back at the person you used to be and they aren’t going to be the person you are now.
Ah, I know I’ve responded a whole lot to this but it’s kind of something I’ve wanted to say to you for a while Phlanispo. Don’t be a victim. Don’t be negative.
This. Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and it’s on you to decide how you want to approach it.
I don’t think I really consider myself a victim, but I know for sure that I’m pessimistic as hell. Oddly enough, I actually consider my cynicism and low self-esteem a positive trait. Low self-esteem= No ego. No ego = rational thought and admitting mistakes.
My pessimism isn’t going away, so I may as well put it to good use.
The post I had earlier (which is now gone) was during a brief period of uncharacteristic bitterness. I wasn’t 100% sure what I was really bitter about, but I tried to minimise consequences and avoid bad decisions. Making that post was a bad decision.
I don’t think the ‘Five years from now you will look back at the person you used to be and they aren’t going to be the person you are now’ thing will be an issue. My mind will completely forget what my thought process was like years ago. I have no idea what I was like as a kid, but my mind tells me I was the same cynical twat I am now. Of course, that can’t be true. I had different environments, different social attitudes and different goals.
I think I derailed a while back.
Yeah, nah. Part of self esteem is being able to back your own thought processes. I’m 100% sure that you’re not thinking as rationally as you are, because cynicism must be tempered.
I say this as someone who has been cynical, and then decided I was sick of that. Be skeptical, don’t be cynical, much better.
As for free time, you structure it much better. Or you work in an area where you enjoy. Or you find purpose/enjoyment outside of work and use work to support that- work lets me pay for holidays to places, or cool shit, or so I can afford to do cool shit with my friends.
But after high school, I’ll have so much less free time. The only joys in my life are in my free time, and losing that is frightening. Also, the lack of order is rather terrifying. I’m used to being told what to do, and I usually screw up when I have to make my own decisions.
I’m 27. I have a full time job and a mortgage.
You know how much free time I have?
Fuckloads. More than I know what to do with.
Why? Because I choose to, I made life choices that enable me to have that.
And so can you.
And because I am an adult, with a full time job, I can do SO much more in that free time than any teenager ever could. I have the freedom and the income – things you have not even begun to taste yet.
Highschool is balls man. Your life will get better afterwards; trust us who have been there.
You will make mistakes, everyone does. But most of them will seriously not be as big a deal as they will seem at the time.
Some advice though: make the most out of your education and not having to pay bills while you study. One of the things I regret is not getting some useful tertiary qualification that would enable me to find a well paying job anywhere.
Chin up man, and keep at it with the driving – the freedom of your own wheels is so worth it.
Screwing up isn’t so bad. When you’re young things can feel so final and important even when they’re not. I completely wasted like 10 years of my life, yet when it’s all said and done it only took about a year for me to get all my impossibly overwhelming problems sorted out. Now my life is pretty damn sweet.
People tell you life is easier once you get out of school but personally I’m finding life didn’t get any easier I just got way better at it. Think of it this way, by the time you’re 25 you’ll have had five years of being an adult under your belt. It can be rough getting to that point but you really don’t get worse at life and over the course of years (or decades) you get a hell of a lot of experience at it.
Also it sounds obvious but you can set your own rules. It’s not quite the safety blanket of following other peoples rules but a lot of people find that by setting themselves rules it adds a little order to the chaos. It sounds dumb but a doing your budget and sticking to it can really make you feel in control of other aspects of your life. When you screw something up in the budget instead of feeling like you’ve ruined something you can view it as a mistake that makes next months budget better.
Failing that just join the Air Force. They’ll give you order while shoving confidence down your throat. =P
Ok, so I’m thinking of picking up a new graphic card this afternoon. Right now I’ve got a Radeon HD 5770 and it’s alright, but I want a third output and upping the power of the card would be nice. My current setup has two screens and I want the third to just mirror the second, but the third output goes into my XBOX One’s HDMI in port and my screens don’t take HDMI so I don’t think I can use any sort of splitter.
I think ideally I’d get a new, more powerful card with two DVI outputs outputs to be the PC’s primary card, then crossfire the 5770 to be the third screen, but I’m not sure how that’d go mirroring an output from the superior card.
Anyone have any suggestions? Keeping the price down under $300 would be good, but considering the 5770 lasted me almost four years I’m open to spending more.
Could pick up a GTX760. The EVGA version for 290 has 2x DVI, HDMI & Display Port. It seems to be about on par with the R9 280X which is about 40-50 dollars more.
Nah, GTX 770 on-par with 280X.
770 is more on par with a 290 though and exceeds the 280X according to the video card benchmark website 😛
Yep, you’re right, but the 280X should be a decent chunk better for most stuff than a 760. 280X is a down-clocked 7970GHz, which was on-par (and slightly bested) with 770. 😛
Yay [pointless statistics!
The first problem you’re going to have I think is getting the 3rd screen to clone the second. I’m not entirely sure you can do that without extra software. Pretty sure you can only clone to all screens at once, or have your desktop span across all screens. Perhaps with some software like DisplayFusion you might get an option like that, but I’ve never tried any of those programs before.
As for what to get, I’m not really familiar with the AMD side of things, but on the nVidia side, you can get something like a GTX760 for under $300.
Yeah. That’s where things got a little tricky for me. What I want is essentially just a splitter that will take a DVI output and split it into a DVI and a HDMI, but it rapidly snowballs into a much more complex situation.
@stickman
Yeah, I figured you guys would probably be able to suggest something more fitting. Odds are I’m not the first person to think of solving the XBOX One’s video playback limitations by just using the HDMI input. =P
Right now I’ve just got the lone 5770 (two PCIe slots with the second unused). I’ve got the two DVI ports hooked up to two screens on my desktop. There is a DisplayPort and HDMI output on the back, but it’ll only output to two of the four at any time.
Ideally I’d have three outputs. A desktop spread over two screens with my XBOX One HDMI input as the third ‘screen’. What makes it messy is that I don’t want the third output to be an extension of the desktop. I want it to be a duplicate of the feed going to screen two. Although in the past nVidia cards had a ‘mirror video to screen’ feature that stretched any running video feed out and put it on the screen. It was a bit of a pain sometimes but that would be an acceptable solution to my problem.
I swap between screens when gaming (or preferably use both), so if I had a setup with multiple cards having the stronger of the two handling the desktops would be best.
It sounds like @virus__ is on the right path. Looking at the GTX760 that series of cards will do what I want.
HD 5770 official page:
But, I don’t think you can do STRETCH_DESKTOP across #1 and #2, AND DUPLICATE_2_AND_3. You may be able to do Eyefinity 1 & 2 (stretched, not the best for doing work, games will stretch too)and duplicate this to your 3rd screen.
But, why are you using the Xbox One input? From what I’ve heard the input lag is too high to play games via the HDMI IN. Also this is a very weird and messy setup overall. :\ Why exactly do you need that XBOX IN?
Some thoughts:
– May be easier to get an HDMI switcher and put it between screen 2 and Xbox One.
– Just set Xbox one as a 3rd screen and use fullscreen-windowed mode on games to move them across. Or just disable the unused PC screen and enable Xbox input – messy I know, but …
Just media really. I always find PC gaming on the couch to be a little too uncomfortable. It seems a bit dumb but I like to keep XBOX Live on the TV. One of my biggest disappointments with the XBOX One (and there were many =P ) is that thanks to the latency issues I couldn’t play the Wii U and PS4 through it properly.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm….. Download the latest drivers and Eyefinity software, try it again. 3 outputs should be working for you in some form.
Can you explain your setup currently and your ideal setup? I’m not confident enough to say anything because I don’t fully follow. TBH it sounds like we can suggest an alternative which may be better solution …
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
Pathfinder tonight at 8pm AEST.
Monsters and danger abound. Do you have the strength of character to stand victorious?
Do you have the weapons to pleasure yourself?
Abelas has had a nice nap or something
Abelas is still in Xondol. However he’s pissed off the wrong conjurer when attempting to pick his robes. In a fit of rage the wizard casts Interplanetary Teleport knowing of a particularly cruel band of Ogrekin that have set up camp near a lake who might enjoy a new plaything.
By crazy coincidence, that’s just where we happen to be.
As long as I have my brand new spear, I’ll be happy (Instead of the stick i was using to trigger traps).
Plus, I can flank from another square away
It says here that Abelas has had a whole week of time to go shopping (wondering where the rest of The Monday Knights are… they said to meet in the market on Monday morning… it’s Monday now!) and was passing the time pick-pocketing wizards while fully kitted out for an adventure.
I hope your guys aren’t rolling saves like the last humanoid combat we had. :\
Maybe I will, maybe I won’t. Your sacrifices to the Dice Gods will need to be in order. 😛
Summary: Get Techy off point before he gets eaten. Potentially literally.
@redartifice
Decided to do a separate post about the fabric paint.
Each Fabric paint is a little different. There are two I use. So Soft by Decoart and Setacolor by pebeo.
So soft is available at Lincraft and is easy to use. You paint it on, let it dry and it’s done. However, it will need several coats and doesn’t have as many colours as Setacolor.
So soft retails for about $4
Setacolor had a bigger variety, as well as having the option of Opaque or Transparent paint. It’s requires ironing after drying to set it properly and make it completely water proof. It requires a lot less paint though and is of a higher quality then So Soft.
Setacolor is available at Spotlight.
Retails for about $11
There is another alternative. You can use a normal acrylic paint and add a fabric paint medium to it to turn it into a fabric paint. I don’t really like to do it myself though
http://decoart.com/cgi-bin/Products.cgi?So-Soft_Fabric_Acrylics
So soft
http://www.dharmatrading.com/paints/setacolor-fabric-paint-by-pebeo.html
Setacolor
This was made with So soft
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/Knight%20solaire/20140314_131635.jpg
Great! Thanks for this!
Just be warned if you’re thinking about acrylic paints, they can set kind of hard, shiny and even rubbery.
Hmm, what’s better, the paints or a dye of some sort? Not sure how I’d get the dye lighter than the existing fabric?
I missed what exactly you’re trying to do. But generally, dyes are pretty tricky to get a nice solid colour with, the colour ends up mottled especially if you don’t stir it a lot. And yeah, you can’t really go lighter with dye, unless you want to mess around with bleaching.
Screen-printing inks are an option, as well. Water-based products will definitely give a softer feel to your finished product than the possible stiffness or rubberiness of oil-based products.
Whatever you do, make sure you prewash the fabric in warm water and rinse it thoroughly afterwards before colouring it,this will remove any leftover chemicals, oils and dirts in the fabric that will interfere with the colourfastness of your treatment.
I learned that lesson (well, the person i trusted made me learn that lesson) during tie-dying. My lab coat ended up Pink.
I’ve never had that issue with either one of the paints I use.
No, I meant the normal acrylic paints with textile medium added.
Oh yeah, I forgot to add that. But that’s why i said I don’t really like to do it.
The So Soft paint is pretty good. Only needed two coats on the (very dark) shirt of my PAX costume. I just bought a couple of different colours and mixed them to get the exact colour I wanted.
That’s the good thing about So Soft. not sure if you can do the same as setacolor
Hi all! Out of lack of anything else to do on the weekend, I figured I’d try my hand again at Dark Souls 2, after rage-quitting to the Rat Vanguard because I kept forgetting that the game gave, um, choices. :3
So, on Saturday morning, I proceeded into Huntsman’s Copse. Not much to my surprise, I stopped due to frustration again, although very much to my surprise, it’s against the mirror knight.I think my Greatsword is kinda letting me down in this fight, as the primary attack swings right onto his shield nine times out of ten. Need to get my timing for the overhead swing, I think. I’ve got a few other ideas about how to avoid getting double-teamed by him and his minion, too…
I never thought I’d ever be thinking about swing arcs and tactics – felt like I got this far by just hiding behind my shield and whacking anything that bounced off it :3. Except steel turtles. Screw those guys.
Yay, progress! Yay for the Ring of Binding (I must have walked past that chest ten times in my last session).
And above all, Yay for changing attitude! For the first time when playing a Souls game, I’m encountering a tough boss, and (after raging for a while), thinking up how to beat him, rather than looking for something else to occupy my time. We’ll see how long this lasts…
Nice.
I recommend sticking to the Mirror Knights butt like a bad smell – will help in avoiding his magic.
Has anyone found a place selling destiny for less that $100?
Also why is is cheaper to get the $130 limited edition which includes the expansion pass and more than buy the regular edition and the expansion pass?
To encourage people to by the LE, as a bird in the hand…
My guess is JB or Big W or someone will do deep discounts on day 1, just not of the LE.
Good point… It makes it worse that i know I’m a sucker for this kind of “value”
Eh, i figure I don’t buy many new release games these days so I’ll splurge on this one.
That said, October is gonna be murder.
The whole spring-early summer time is always murder for my wallet
That’s exactly my thoughts. Plus I have a handful of people buying PS4 just for it, so it’ll be fun with friends. I got the $129 limited.
I’ve got that one coming for PS3, don’t think anyone i know outside of TAY has jumped to PS4 yet
I saw it on 360 last night and it looks awesome. Like, GTA5 type of awesome. No missing rocks, bushes, trees, it’s all there (albeit worse textures and blurry). I was impressed!
JB $79 or 89… I have a feeling 79. Plus $40 for expansion pass makes it $120. So the limited edition crap is $10, which is okay dealio, maybe.
Cool yeah it’s $79 at JB
$69 at DSE if you pre-order. For Xbone/PS4 only it seems?
Ozgameshop have it for $75, if you’ve got any discount point stuff with them you might get it cheap enough to be worth the wait (I’m grinding out reviews to build up a $20 off voucher at the moment, only need about 10 more)
No idea. Landed myself the Ghost edition, so normal prices don’t interest me haha.
Guys part 2 of my interview with Dan and Karl got released. Its pretty hilarious and will make you ask wether or not my life is a tv show. check that shit out http://www.dankarlszeitgeist.com/
*canned laughter*
Sheeeeeet! Can’t check it right now. Maybe in an hour. CAN NOT WAIT!
My body is being stupid again. This morning is the fifth time in the past couple of weeks that I’ve had to go back to bed after the kids left for school because I just couldn’t get warm. Not even a hot shower warmed me up, so I’ve just ended up huddled in bed with a billion layers on, shivering and trying to sleep it off. And waking up a couple hours later all hot and sweaty. Stupid body. What a waste of time. >:(
It actually reminds me of when I was pregnant with my son. My body couldn’t regulate temperature so once I was cold I couldn’t warm up, and once I was hot I couldn’t cool down. I’d better not be pregnant again, I’m too old! D:
In good news though, I’m excited for the Sewvivor finalists to be announced late tonight, early tomorrow morning. Because if I get in, it will be fun and a big boost to my confidence(not to mention readership), but if I don’t get in, I’m excited anyway because I’ll finally be able to blog about what I’ve been working on, and I won’t have to worry about deadlines or anything like that. 😀
Congrats on the baby!
…
😀
(Hope you feel better, Strangey.)
Also good luck with the Sewvivor thing! You’d be amaaaaazing at it!
Grrr. 😛
At least now we know what @strange has been sewing…
Babies!
At least I can tell Mrs Freeze you cracked before she did 😛
Everyone is having babies today.
IM GETTING A NEW BROTHER OR SISTER YAAY
That’s usually sign of thyroid problems. I recommend getting it checked out.
I’ve had similar stuff too. It happens when I’m under huge emotional stress. Could be ‘panic attack’ or something similar like that.
My family has a history of bad thyroid problems. I have a whole bunch of symptoms that point towards me also having thyroid problems. I keep getting a bunch of tests but they always come back negative.
🙁 Gf has similar problems … all tests come back fine. Keep pushing for it, otherwise you’ll see the health system failing you (it already is, really).
At this point I’m just going to guess like House’s team, and pretend I have Lupus or Sarcoidosis(or however you spell it!). 😛
Edit: Actually, for a while there I almost was convinced I had lupus. A lot of my symptoms fit. That’s the danger of diagnosing yourself over the internet!
It’s never lupus.
http://images.wikia.com/house/images/5/50/It_was_lupus.jpg
Sarcasmdosis? No that can’t be it yet… though it sounds like something I might have =P
The thing with Lupus is that its most common symptom is present in less than half the people who have it, and that virtually any health issue can be a sign of it, thanks to how varied it is.
As such, if I trust Doctor Google, my headaches, joint pain, stiff back, and near-constant minor illnesses are all symptoms of my lupus, rather than lord knows what, probably a mild form of arthritis, obesity, and working in a medical centre when I’m super unfit.
Dammit, people, NO BABIES ALLOWED! My body needs to be a baby-free zone for ever and ever now. I have one girl and one boy so I’ve done my procreational duties. 😛
ahem????
2 boys and 1 girl
I’m sitting at a school bored out of my mind and dreaming of getting home to dive back in to Final Fantasy VII.
…I have become my 10 year old self again.
I’m not sure I ever stopped.
Slightly sobering: I just had to help a student with an account issue. He was born 6 years after FFVII came out, and is almost in high school.
Fark.
I just enrolled a student into the Uni here that was born after Mario 64 came out.
Granted, it was a matter of months, but still. I’m old.
What’s Mario 64?
(Did that help? =P)
*weeps gently in corner, pulling out grey hairs*
Yes! Pull out those hairs! Baldness will make you feel less old!
*weeps gently in corner as everybody assumes his grey hairs are on his head*
Oh my god, you too? Man, who would’ve guessed about those bloody nose-hairs, right?
@transientmind Not sure if you were joking or not, but yes, the nose. And some chest hairs.
I am obviously close to evolving into my final form – bald, greying hairy back man who hangs at the pool wearing bathers far too tight.
With scrawny limbs and a sexeh pot belleh. COME AT ME LADIES.
And no, no joke. Those godamn nose hairs. Like fucking kudzu, you can’t keep it down with a flame-thrower. The only solution is eye-wateringly painful yanking, for if you are foolish enough to trim, you can be sure to enjoy the exquisite pain known only to those whose nose-hairs are growing into freshly-hewn razor edges which use their newfound freedom of growth to jab awkwardly into your sensitive points.
I was 3 when Mario 64 came out 😀
You’re a babby, I was in my 20’s.
I was AT uni when Mario 64 came out. Goddam Mario Kart earned me a fail or two. Those were the days!
I sometimes tell the kids I teach that I’ve been playing Pokemon longer than they’ve been alive.
That must blow their minds.
Did you help him turn based style while humming the battle theme?
I had nerds for lunch and have started drawing robots in my notebook.
I also look like im 10 so its more acceptable for me though.
Still a bully huh?
SHUT UP OR ILL POUND YOU
PHRASING!
Nnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeerd!
After much thought I think I’m gonna go with the Bandit class for my restart of Dark Souls II. Thanks @strange.
Wish me luck.
Man I love the opening cutscene, it looks so awesome.
Bandit bro!
I hope you went with the girl bandit, she looks way less ridiculous than the boy bandit. 😀
Only just got to the Firekeeper’s House, so I’m just about to pick my name and class.
Edit: Man I hate picking names, I find that just about as hard as playing the game itself.
Decided to name my character Stabbymcstab.
Good name! I look forward to hearing about their adventures.
Are they related to my character in the original Dark Souls, Punchymcpunch?
Yeah, he’s her Dad.
What gift do you reckon is better, the Healing Wares, Life Ring or Petrified Something?
Petrified Something because surprises are awesome. And occasionally sucky. 😛
If I get something crap I’m blaming you :p
Yup, you’re right about the girl bandit, first time I’ve ever played a female character by choice though.
Here. Have an Ernie.
I wasn’t into the armour at first, but I ended up liking it so much because it suited her and I was used to seeing her like that, that even thought I acquired better specced armour I didn’t equip it because she didn’t look like herself anymore. 😛
I buffed up the Wanderer’s armour in Dark Souls so much that it ended up being the most valuable kit I owned and I wore it WELL into my 2nd playthrough for most of the game, before finally settling into a weird mish-mash of heavier kit.
The end result was thinking that Dark Souls = Wanderer Armour.
I avoided it in 2 because I had this idea I’d get the badass armour from the trailer ASAP. Only to realize I wouldn’t get it until almost the end of the game and that when I did, its stats would be shit and its textures horrifically scaled-down and washed out and coloured weird.
That’s probably the biggest disappointment of Dark Souls 2 for me. I never got to look like the hero from the trailer. Even when you wear the same armour, you don’t look like him. It’s
genuinely heartbreakingdisappointing.If anyone’s interested in getting Destroy All Humans: Path Of The Furon it’s $3.99 on the XBox Store right now (bought it yesterday).
The first two Destroy All Humans games were great! Haven’t played any after that though.
The lady who sits kind of next to/behind me is back from holiday today.
That means the return of the squelchy sound of hand lotion being constantly applied throughout the day. Ugh.
Also the scraping sounds of a mouse with no teflon pads being dragged across the desk.
grabs popcor…
dammit gooky. Also who doesnt use a mousepad.
*as rocketman drags his mouse on his antistatic mat without a mousepad.
Yeah whats up with that?
*drags mouse along quilt
Headphones kgo
Glue a mouse pad to her desk.
Replace her hand lotion with…the rest of the glue, I guess.
Make squelchy sounds with lotion back… *cough*
You forgot to add the disclaimer about how that might get him fired :p
Yesterday was a day of playing games I’m terrible at and being slightly less terrible at them.
I played some Trials Frontier and took 6 minutes off of my best time for a track. I now have a silver medal in that one!
I played some Spelunky and got to the City of Gold for the first time! Then died to Olmec because I had bugger all resources.
Then I mixed things up and played CS:GO for the first time. Zetrox, Unloyal and I mucked about in a few rounds of Arms Race (gun game). Kill someone with a gun to upgrade to the next gun, first person to cycle through all the weapons to win. The last level is a golden knife and I don’t mind telling you that when it gets to that stage, I lean so far forward, you’d think I had lost my glasses.
He actually had his nose against the screen.
ive been playing CS:GO a bit lately, im shit as and constantly get told to disconnect or for someone to kick me because apparently my KD is why our team is losing and has nothing to do with their team having all sniper rifles
But otherwise its fun
I uh… ok then?
Silly Gooky, expecting your users to quickly scratch pairs of evil lemmings.
Haha, thankfully that’s not one of our error messages. It’s one in a task planner thing my friend’s got us using. It likes to disconnect from the server a lot.
CRAP! Just left the Firkeeper’s House and I’m so used to pressing X for attack in games I accidentally used a lifegem.
I thought you said you already played a bit of Souls games before?
Yeah, I have played it a bit before, but I forgot the controls.
Made it to Majula, and now I have to go and pick my son up, I’ll have to resume tonight when I get home from work.
I do that every time I start playing a Souls game again.
For a while I was swapping between Dragon’s Dogma and Dark Souls 2 in different play sessions. There has been a period of adjustment EVERY TIME where I would use up (ie: WASTE) something valuable, or gumby around getting murdered when I inted to be attacking.
@evilmonkey @ other magic players
They’ve spoiled new art for the next set, Khans of Tarkir:
http://media-dominaria.cursecdn.com/attachments/130/385/635419850913646073.jpg
I’m sold.
I really hope that card is called Bear Puncher, Puncher of Bears.
Someone’s already shopped it to be Stephen Colbert.
Zangief?
Bought Magic 2015 on 360 on the weekend. Might squeeze in a bit tonight between finishing work and more Dark Souls II.
Does anyone know if PS Vita memory cards are region locked? I’m ordering stuff off american amizon and was thinking about grabbing a memory card as well.
No they aren’t.
Import away. I’m using a 64gb Japanese memory card in my AU Vita.
But isn’t everything in Japanese?
#lol
#killme
Only if I’m playing my old copy of Project Diva f!
Apparently amazon won’t ship them to AUS 🙁 I’m guessing Ozgameshop is the next cheapest.
@masha2932 ordered one semi-recently I think? (help us out Mash!)
The cheap Asian sites are good. I got a 32GB from SuperUFO a few years ago. I assume they’re still around so maybe they’ll have a decent 64GB price 😛
I bought my 64GB card from here http://www.superufo.com/products/psvita/PS_VITA_PSVITA___Memory_Card_64GB_Japan_Version.html and it worked fine. Memory cards are not region locked. You can only have one account on Vita though so if you have a PS+ suscription in either your AU or US account then choose the one you use mostly.
Have fun, it is very freeing to have a 64GB card. Also, I don’t know if you know this but If you need to delete games from your vita remember saves are tied to the game so backup your saves first before deleting a game.
I just ordered one from there. Thank you.
Aside from PC Case Gear, what sites are good for PC parts? Obviously places that don’t charge through the nose for delivery are preferred.
Doesn’t Newegg ship to aus now? Dunno what the shipping is like
I didn’t even think to look because of shipping.
http://www.staticice.com.au/
You might find some places through there.
Nifty.
This is what I use 99% of the time. If only to check that my local “whatever” shop isn’t overcharging. And also to compare against MSY prices.
I’ve used Mwave, umart, computer alliance. I lube myself before checking out the shipping costs, so it’s not as much of a surprise.
So, I decided to do a trial sub to Google Play Music. Any recommendations to listen to?
Lazerhawk.
Reminds me a bit of Silent Shout.
Hmm, listened to about half an album, seemed a bit… samey to me?
Dinorsaur Jr!
Twilight Force!
Or just choose a song or album you love and start up the “radio station” for it which could help you discover new things to love.
I’ve been subscribed to Google Play Music on and off all year (so frustrating to only be a monthly sub though!) and I’m really loving it. I’ve discovered a whole bunch of new bands to listen to (I tried Sony’s Music Unlimited for a while but the selection of metal wasn’t quite as thorough), and I can also use it to listen to albums I’ve bought but that are on their way in the mail.
The best thing is being able to pin music to your devices to listen to on the go without using data. I’ve uploaded almost my entire computer’s library to its cloud because pinning is way faster than all the usual methods of transferring your owned music to your ipod or phone. This means I still use it every day even when I’m not currently subscribed to All Access.
Yeah, I’m doing the upload thing, but I’m also trying to find rartist litle outsid my nomal listening patterns- the unknown unknowns 🙂
The new Rise Against album is enjoyable.
Red, this is your chance to be hip with it. Connect with da kidz on music they like.
Go for Barry Mannilow, I guess? Kids like that i think maybe.
Oh Mandy…
I’m just going to leave this here… for anyone who’s interested!
http://www.dicksmith.com.au/playstation-4/the-last-of-us-ps4-dsau-yg10524
Gawd, puppets, don’t just leave your shit here, people might trip on it!
/dad
God’s puppet? D:
Deep.
I’ve got no strings, to hold me down…
/pinocchio
It was $50 for like 3 weeks …until today! (when the promotion ended :P)
Today? I went in last week and they said I was a week late.
I just ordered an NTSC copy from ozgame for 56
They had a new catalogue which extended it until today 😛
I considered it but decided I’ll wait a bit. Turns out I mysteriously got paid the other day and only found out today! I totally would’ve bought it if I’d known then :'(
I got them to check the computer and everything.
Fuckers. I had money in hand and walked out.
Smith’s Dick are really good at not getting my money (also at getting my money)
Yeah I saw that in the catalogue last night. They better not try to screw me over. I’m paying $39.98 when I pick it up and that’s all.
Feeling like an idiot at the moment. I copied the CD that came with the Trombone music book that I bought a week or so ago as a VLC playlist, because it doesn’t seem to like iTunes. Fast forward, CD’s finished copying, and I close VLC, without saving the playlist. DURBRAIN!!!!!
@scree how hard are morphsuits to modify? Can they be cut and resewn or do they just fall apart?
Need some extra room?
One of these days Pow….
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon.
Right in the kisser?
From what I’ve heard they can be. I don’t see why they wouldn’t. You just need to make sure that you get the same type of material.
http://www.craftsy.com/blog/2013/04/sewing-spandex-tips/
Also, read stuff like this as it’s not like normal sewing.
Can I see what you’re aiming for?
Want to cut the head off one. I know the stitcher I have doesn’t work on neoprene so assume it won’t work on the suit.
What are you doing this for? Or is it a secret surprise?
PAX. Adam West Batman. Figure I’m out of shape enough to pull it off.
nice
Man, that’s awesome. Know the Batusi?
…. Yes.
I’m going to be doing that all day aren’t I?
Gods yes. Make sure you have an old spraycan with Shark Repellent on it too.
Do you have someone going as Robin? Because that’s the other question you’ll get.
Why doesn’t batman dance anymore?
Cause he got all srsbsns n stuf. I liked the fun Batman from the Adam West days. Also the corny jokes were amazing.
YES! You are in tip top condition after all!! 😀
Should be possible.
http://youcancosplay21.tumblr.com/post/57600262385/mini-cosplay-tutorial-beheading-a-morphsuit
Completely possible. Turns out it doesn’t fray and altering the zip is your only worry.
Hmm. Should bookmark this for later.
Stretch material can be tricky. If you know someone with an overlocker that might be helpful.
This is another option. $20 postage and the free custom sizing is a bonus.
…. Ew.
Easier than trying to customise a morphsuit, I guess. How about that first Batman suit they have listed? Kinda looks like Dark Knight Returns Batman – I was even considering that one. Can’t have two TAY Batmans though.
A few hours into ACIII. I don’t hate this and am finding it much more interesting than Revelations.., but I also just unlocked the missions to upgrade the homestead which I think is what finally crushed my wife’s spirit.
The Homestead was my absolute favourite part of that game.
I didn’t like Revelations AT ALL and if it wasn’t for the Homestead I don’t think I would have liked III either. In the end I loved everything extra you can do (the tunnels were awesome!), but completely hated every single forced story mission.
Ergh, that final chase.
Esp when I figured out you could just shoot him…which caused a mission failure.
I feel like I’m going to like the homestead management in theory, I loved the town management in 2 and Brotherhood. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.
Still haven’t finished 3.
It was just so boring.
Probably the fact that I have zero interest in the setting, but it also seemed to expect players to have some knowledge already.
Everyone watch Zero Theorem, GO!
Make me.
*makes the cracks watch Zero Theorem*
It’s out?
There are ways. Will buy when I can.
It was shit. I much preferred my time just prior with Grand Budapest Hotel.
I still need to watch that and also, you’re shit 😛
Damn, wanted to get a PSX off eBay but they aren’t cheap 🙁
WHyfore? Wattabout a PS2?
Already got a PS2, 2 actually…
I dunno I just want a PS1 again lol. Thought I could get one cheap, I am wrong.
But what do you need a PSX for if you have a PS2? They play PSX games.
It’s not about logic, it’s about want 😀
If you don’t need to use it, you could make one out of paper and pretend it’s real? 😛
Ive kept my broken PSX for want
@virus__
Oooh a primary school friend did that with the Gameboy Advance.
😛
Naaaah 😛 Would look nice next to my PS2, PS3 & PS4 😛
What’s wrong with this one.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sony-PlayStation-1-PS1-Grey-Console-PAL-SCPH-1002-games-plus-all-cords-/251600294168?pt=AU_Consoles&hash=item3a948bd118&_uhb=1
$64 including shipping with a few games, and it’s chipped (which is what you wanted isn’t it?), only thing it doesn’t include is a memory card.
Edit: Just checked the phat PS3’s and they seem a pretty reasonable price, might have to snap one up soon. I’ve got a slim, but I’ve always regretted selling my phat one.
It’s ended, that’s what’s wrong with it 😛
If you’d looked at it yesterday when I posted it it would’ve still been active :p
But I was in bed by then /o\
Excuses excuses :p
Nah 😛
Today is all about waiting.
Waiting to not be cold, waiting for a bus, waiting for dinner to cook, waiting to feel well enough to do something fun, waiting to get money so I can buy the PDF pattern I’m craving, waiting for it to be a reasonable time in central USA so I can find out what I’m doing with myself for the next couple of months, waiting for the kids to go to bed so I can eat the chocolate I had hidden away without having to share, waiting for Mr. Strange to stop playing ACIV so we can watch the next episode of The Strain.
Stoopid Monday and your waity mcwaiterson. I’m not good at patience!
Clearly you are if you’ve waited that long!
I look forward to this phase of my life 😉
Is anyone having issues installing The Sims 2 on Origin? I keep getting a problem when trying to download it.
Ok, I can’t download anything on Origin at all, even stuff I paid for. What a piece of shit.
It’s the EA way!
Ok, turns out Origin doesn’t play friendly with software that might disguise your location such as Hola Unblocker. If you’re getting error code 196620:0 turn off Hola. Found that little gem buried in the depths of reddit because no EA officials were able to nut it out.
I downloaded Sims 2 fine, then again that was a couple of days ago. I assume they are having server issues.
So, Destiny huh.
Beta was fun, not gonna buy a PS4 to play it but might grab a PS3 copy.
The thing that worries me at this point though is DLC.
Disclaimer: I don’t like DLC. It’s overpriced at best and a content cutting customer gouger often.
And Destiny seems to me like a game built from the ground up as a foundation for selling DLC.
I mean they have to re-coup that $500 mil somehow right? And DLC provides the most profit for development effort.
I am picturing episodic content on a grand scale: a few story missions, a strike, some player levels and a PvP map or two, all for a fifth of the price of the base game, several times a year. With a full retail expansion every couple of years.
And “Season Passes” that bring the “Seasonal” into play with a new one required every DLC cycle.
I want to play it, I really do. But I have a deep suspicion I’m gonna lay down my 80 odd bucks and get an experience that does not last as long as I would have expected, ending in a “To Be Continued” screen with a link to the store.
But hey you can PvP… until the new maps and weapons come out and you are left in the dust.
I’d hope for better from Bungie but it fits their talk of a 10 year franchise and there is already DLC on the way, with pre-order/CE incentives to boot.
Maybe I’m just a cynical bastard, but I think I’m gonna keep my wallet close till I know the score.
The Bungie community manager recently made some remarks that it’s a large game but the GAF community is interpreting this as most of the content will be periodic expansions that we’ll get gouged on.
I think the problem is even if the game is huge people are going to plough through it in a couple of days and complain about DLC regardless, even if the expansions are meted out on the same rate as WoW expansions.
Yeah, I’m being unduly cynical but it’s just easy to see happening you know?
Time will tell.
Oh absolutely. I’ve seen a dissection on GAF where people are saying “only one area per planet, only five planets” like they think what we saw in the beta was literally everything that will happen on Earth. I can understand the concerns but the thing is even if those assessments are accurate we’re talking probably 20-30 hours of actual content with tons of replay value and the multiplayer modes/raids etc. Why are people acting like this is a bad thing and not actually pretty good compared to most other games?
You could smash out the beta content pretty fast, and Strikes are unlikely to have the replayability of MMO dungeons, which are mostly replayed for gear grinding.
And a soft cap of level 20 (which in beta at least you could smash through real quick) limits the draw of the progression treadmill, while making areas easily reusable.
In the end DLC has burned people so often that it’s very mention is seen as one of the great gaming evils, just below micro-transactions in the digital demonic hierarchy. And not without cause.
And really, most players are far less enamored by the idea of games-as-a-service than the makers are. Some of us just want to buy a game, play and be satisfied, without feeling like we are missing out unless we open our wallets again and again.
But hey, the damn game is not even out: no cause to sharpen the pitchforks yet.
And Bungie have a pretty good history as one of the good guys. So my mind is open, just not yet my wallet.
You were capped at level 8 in the beta. People are assuming 20 is the max level but I’m not sure if that’s confirmed yet, and if it is then I expect the leveling curve levels off quite a bit, or possibly they applied an accelerated curve to the beta to get people into strikes etc. faster.
EDIT: Also since the plotline in New Russia was left hanging and AFAIK (I missed the tiny window where it was playable) the Moon mission they had available was a different storyline, I expect there’s a fair bit more content on Earth we haven’t seen yet. They don’t want to spoil the released game!
Level 20 is an exp level cap. Levels beyond 20 are provided by the ‘Light’ rating on your end-game gear.
You’re correct on the separate (kinda) moon storyline.
There’s probably areas of the map that most people haven’t seen yet too, due to them being populated with level 20 dudes. Plus even once you hit level cap there’s gear to get and then unlock upgrades and stuff on.
Also Bungie have a good track record of supporting their games post-launch, though usually only with Competitive Multiplayer. Hopefully they’ll have some good single / co-op stuff too.
Haha, my mates and I spent rather a lot of time investigating all the crannies, including those bits of the map filled with those invincible level 20 dudes.
I can confirm there is at least 3 obvious dead ends that will probably lead to additional sections of the Russia area, with likely more less-obvious ones.
So definitely more content even in that one area than the beta showed.
Question: if it were a subscription MMO, and you got that extra content as part of the subscription, would you still be opposed to it?
Because the cost of the DLC is about what it would cost to have 2 months of subscription time to most MMOs, for reference. Normally they only get major new content every 3-4 months at best, sometimes longer.
I don’t play subscription MMO’s. To me they don’t seem worth the time and money for what mostly ends up being a skinner box.
edit: also keep in mind there is PS+/Live on top to consider.
I can see your point though.
I’m reserving judgement re: amount of content and DLC until Bungie actually announce what the plans are. Bungie are normally pretty solid, but there could be undue influence from Activision, so you never know.
Fingers crossed, because I absolutely loved what I played in the beta.
Lot of good points Jo and I think it’s safe to expect a lot of DLC or expansion packs in relation to Destiny for one simple reason. The amount of money, time and effort Activision have thrown behind this game can’t be recuperated even if Destiny was selling like hot cakes on release.
The only way to turn this game into a profit is to look at the base game as a foundation (similar to WoW) and use that foundation to catapult extra content that won’t take as much money and time. They’ve already laid down the groundwork in terms of animation/models/textures and other game assets now they just need to use it to create new content.
For people looking to buy Destiny I would say don’t expect more than 4-6 months from the base game with DLC being announced by the time that 6 months is up. My advise would be to look at the cost of Destiny with the Season Pass AND your PS Plus or Xbox Live subscription cost. Don’t look at it as a one off purchase because there’s no way Activision can make this a 10 year franchise unless they follow what WoW has done.
P.S. I compare it to WoW more than CoD because of the production value gone into the game and the large amount of initial capital they’ve invested into it.
There’s two expansions already slated. We’re gonna get our wallets fucking demolished. The only reason I’m buying it is cos I hardly ever buy full-price so can afford to get it purely to fuck around in and play with 2 other friends.
totally worth it just because it showed $69 on checkout \o/
@shane
Thank you for your order! I’ll get the books out ASAP!
Glad I saw @zapz post, I completely forgot to buy some of your books like I said I would.
#helping
Ah cool, thanks, man. You got the last copy of The Lesser Evil #2 that I’ll ever sell (individual volumes are out of print) – congratulations! 😀
damn it why didn’t check stock of individual volumes
#regret
The omnibus is prettier. Trust me on that. If you’re really deadset keen on the individual volumes, Amazon’s got one left of #2, and one store here in Canberra has one or two left.
omnibus is prettier \o/ besides I’m terrible at keeping thinner books in a good state unless they are hardcover 😀
Yeah, I noticed that, sweet! \o/
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
Battered and bruised and with more than a few stab wounds, our valiant adventurers emerged victorious against the horrific Ogre matriarch and her kin. What more awaits the Monday Knights on their journeys throughout Idris? More of this saga shall be told in two weeks’ time.
Lundgredolph has a new goal for this adventure. Crack 100 damage in a single swing.
I just can’t wait until you get raging swimmer.
AAAAAAARGHRAGH *blub blub blub* AARRRRGAHGHAA
I currently have -5 to any swim checks. I don’t think that second scream would ever eventuate.
I have this mental image of a really intense and angry swim stroke. Like, he’s chasing you down and axing you no matter how fast you row. Like the Terminator
I’MMA FUCKIN BREASTSTROKE THIS SHIT
Real barb power, look it up 🙂
Breaststroke would be epic. Every time his head bobs up for a breath he glares at you and yells.
So swimming as fast as he can run.
Sometimes I get @transientmind and @cookingmama mixed up because of their gravatars. I think my eyes are failing. I’m becoming
old@greenius!You have to bear the burden of being me!
Lucky you 😛
Ugh, Strangeius
Ugh. Just found out that my great aunt’s funeral is on tomorrow. Mum forgot about it with the weekend away and everything, and also just kind of assumed that I wouldn’t want to go. Even though I went to all the other ones. I feel like it’s kind of shit to be going and getting out of work last minute like that especially when things are starting to get behind a bit there, and also it’s all the way out at Minchinbury which isn’t exactly easy to get to at all. I don’t know what to do.
Everyone will feel differently and personally about that kind of thing, so you should go with your gut. To me? Probably worth going. Everyone understands taking time for a funeral, and the people who care about the departed are grateful to see people turn up to see them off. It’s a comfort to know someone was respected enough for that.
Yeah, I messaged my friend about it at the time of the post and luckily he was still up, said it was fine and everything. I’m going.
Oh, man. I forgot about TAYKART. I am the worst friend.
Edit: And I can’t even hide my shame at the bottom of a page.
Hide your shame or your shane?
I did a pretty good job of hiding the shane… at least until I drew attention to it 😛
I asked if people were playing tonight and it didn’t seem like it, so I dunno if there was even that many people 😛 (I doubt it)
Next week for Shanefest 2000? (a.k.a. free wins :D)
There was about 5 of us at one stage
It was fuuuuuuun.
I really should have saved some of the footage from those races. There was some decent action there!
Pencil it in! \o/
I’ma be there.
End Gets are my thing 😛
Boo-urns.
Sorry guys, I got dragged into a family dinner with the girlfriends parents. Keen for next week though!
Sorry guys, I was made to watch the masterchef finale.
Add me on Nintendo, gent!
Hey @powalen!
Are you basing your PAX ‘Pie cosplay on anything or did you come up with it yourself? There used to be a website that had a whole bunch of “dress up like Pokemon” costume ideas based on the colour schemes of normal clothes …but I totally can’t find that site again 🙁
Making it up as I go along. I like the idea of plain clothes cosplay though. Wondering what I should make for next year already!
(Kinda thinking Sneasel :P)
Turns out it’s called “casual cosplay” and there’s a bunch of random posts from different people on various sites. A Google image search will give you plenty of ideas :D. If I ever cosplay it’ll be one of then
We have a prophet amongst us!
First round. Not literally however.
What do you think those bite attacks were trying to do? :p
if he continues to be a demonic hellspawn, he can get eaten, for all I care.
Shit like that is why elves don’t get nice things.
Just playing through the tutorial of Magic 2015 and man I wish you could change the voice of the trainer, just listening to her talk makes me think she’s going to say “like, totally” at the end of every sentence.
Oh well, at least I should only have to put up with it for the tutorial I s’pose.
PLOT TWIST: She ends up being the love interest and permanent sidekick.
#NotReally
I’ve said it before, but TAY folk are the best folk. You guys are basically keeping my writing career afloat, and even despite this, you still come off as awesome.
Looking forward to reading your books mang, just sorry I couldn’t buy them all in one hit. Felt bad using the voucher code too. I’ll probably buy two more this week, and then the remaining two the week after. I realize one of them’s the Omnibus of the 3 separate books I bought, but meh who cares, it’s only money, besides I want to keep that volume 2 in pristine condition considering it’s the last one.
Ordered a copy of @beardymcmuttonchops’s book Metro 7 too.
I bought the Lesser Evil Kindle Edition on a whim a few months back and haven’t touched it. It is unreadable on a Kindle, so I have to use Kindle PC. Except that having a book chained to my computer means that I can’t read it on the go, which is where I read most of my books. Maybe if there is a Mac Kindle for PC thing I might be able to read on a laptop.
I should probably order a physical copy of the Peaceful Tomorrows, just to convince me to start on the Lesser Evil.
Do you have a tablet? I read Lesser Evil (again) on tab.
That said, I’d prefer a .cbr.
I don’t have a tablet. My mum has an iPad, but I doubt she’d let me use it.
I found out that my Blu-ray player has a Crunchyroll app…
I don’t think I’ll need Free-to-air for a long time…
Also, who else is watching the commonwealth games?
Seen a fair bit. Really enjoyed the 7’s and Men’s Hockey so far. Really wanna catch some basketball as well.
I may have resurrected the GameCube and fired up smash. I am very rusty, going to need a bit of practice before PAX.
I also need to start learning competitive Pokémon for all those gym badges.
You don’t need to worry about being TOO competitive. Obviously it will make it easier for you but the gym leaders are a good mix of casual and competitive (plus, they’re all single type teams so you know exactly what will be useful ahead of time)
I won’t make it easy to win my badge! >:)Fire, fire, flying, flying, fire/flying, fire/flying…
Had my first gym session in a very long time this morning. Feel like I’m going to shit myself or spew. Taking bets on which happens first with a Tom Waterhouse special – everybody gets their money back if I do both at the same time!
I like those odds. I’ll put $10 each way :p
That basically means you win nothing! >.
Hey, I didn’t ask for logic.
I didn’t make it into Sewvivor.
I’m a bit sad but also a lot relieved.
And looking at the ones that did make it in, I also know what let me down. The piecing. The original quilt I’d started and designed from the ground up to showcase every single one of my skills had some complicated piecing in it, so it may have given me a chance but when I realised my machine couldn’t cope with it (I’m scared for my poor little machine, actually: it’s now making a buzzing noise!) I had to go to plan B, and because I’ve given most of my quilts away I only had a couple to choose from, and ended up going with a very simply pieced one, hoping the story of it was enough to get me across the line.
I guess what sucks is that I know my Nautical piece that would have been in the first challenge is really strong, so I knew if I made it in I at least had a very good chance of not being sent home after the first challenge.
But what doesn’t suck is that I can now tweet progress pictures again, and have Mashaa Mondays again. And also, no deadline means I can put all my ideas for @cookingmama’s “black, blue, shark” thing into play, instead of having to only do what time allowed. 😀
So now I’m gonna celebrate by playing at being a pirate in ACIV all day. And maybe buy myself that sewing pattern I’ve been eyeing off but held off on buying due to not knowing if I’d have the time to use it yet.
If you get bored we can set challenges for you!
Sew this quilt while balancing on a tall pole in the middle of the water on a windy day!
You haven’t blogged in a week so I secretly rigged the vetting process. Sorry /o\
Jokes aside:
Oh no 🙁
It’s nice to see you’re taking it well though and you’re learning from the experience.
Also keep following the competition even if you’re not in it. You might learn some cool techniques but you can also cheer for your favourites. Go other person! :-p
You know what’s under the spoiler buttons Strange, will you dare to click it :-p
TAY Quilt for Sewvivor 2015! Ooh, it’s not like you have enough projects already but I’m imagining you doing a survivor quilt one day and slowly making parts of it every week as the show goes on. Mostly TAY quilt though.Gnl dhvyg?I’ll keep following, but I already know it’s going to be boring because they’re all boring and none of them are me. 😛
But yes, I’ll be looking forward to seeing what they all come up with for their challenge entries.
And I knew what that second spoiler was but I still had to go decipher it just in case. It was like being rick-rolled. 😀
Sorry to hear that Strange, but don’t feel too bad, you’re still the best quilter I know :p
YAY ACIV!
Boo no sewvivor.
Yay that you’re taking it well though
*hugs any way*
Babies????? BABIES?!
I can give you sewing challenges if you like? 😀
Here’s your first one:
Do your best and we’re all winners. :’)
*throws up*
Ah, I’m sorry you didn’t make it in, Strange. I reckon you should do some of the challenges any way.
Sorry, I liked @powalen’s challenge better. 😛
And yes, there’s a following along group you can join and one person from there will win a prize so if I end up making all the things I’d planned, I may blog about them anyway and post pics to the official groups. 🙂
Man, you hunted a whale yet?
Sah gerd.
FYI, Boy is bananas about his quilt. He humps it regularly.
I bet none of the Sewvivor finalists can say that!
Caught a white whale last night while Mr. Strange (who hasn’t manage to catch one yet) watched. So much better than catching one while nobody was looking. 😀
You found your white whale? I thought that was a metaphor!
Split your lungs with Blood and Thunder! When you see the White Whale!
First time I caught one was truly terrifying.
Your old machine probably just needs a service and a good oiling. I know mine ran much better just with the bit of oil I added to it.
Sorry you didn’t make it, but hey, there’s always the next challenge 🙂
I can’t wait to see what Black, Blue, Shark! looks like. The sneaky peaks are very exciting 😀
Erhmahgerd its today guys! Sitting at the immigration office pooping myself a little bit… I’ve had a coffee though, it was pretty rad
You’re gonna be fine, Mr. Pixel The Australian Viking. 😀
Please, Mr Pixel was my father! :P… Thanks Strange, it’s just the waiting that’s agonising 😛
good luck you will be fine.
Thanks Rockets, my treat once this is over will be listening to Zeitgeist Rocketman part deux! YOU’RE FAMOUS NOW HOW DOES IT FEEL?
Waltzing Matilda, Steve Irwin, Crocodile Dundee. What’s to be nervous about? Don’t forget to say ‘bloody oath’ every time you write your answer down as an affirmation of just how Australian you really are
DON BRADMAN!
It’s an online MCQ test =P No writing involved! Though he could probably shout out ‘bloody oath’ everytime he answers a question!
You’ll be fine. You’re pretty much an Aussie anyway, this is just confirming it.
Don’t worry man, you won’t fail, because if you do, you can get Eurass back to Eurasia.
Vote yes on prop 24.
Seriously though, you’ll be fine mang.
GOOD LUCK!
Have you finished it?! It should’ve only taken you a few minutes for the test! STOP KEEPING ME IN SUSPENSE!
BBBRZZZTTTTT *short circuit*
Good luck Pixel!!!!
Wow, just imagine… By the end of the day you could be a full blown Austrian.
Apparently Austria gets that many dumb tourists that they sell T-shirts and other touristy stuff that clearly says “No Kangaroos here”.
He’s got to wait for the approval letter first and then the citizenship ceremony which is usually 2-3 months after the letter… THEN he’ll be an Australian! =P
Edit: Sorry I mean Austrian.
Where you originally from if you don’t mind me asking? 😀
Glad your test went well too! 🙂
uggcf://jjj.tbbtyr.pbz.nh/zncf/cynpr/Pbybzob,+Fev+Ynaxn/@6.9215305,79.8648533,13m/qngn=!3z1!4o1!4z2!3z1!1f0k3nr253q10s7n7003:0k320o2r4q32q3838qI’ll let you zoom out to figure out where it is xD
It says it right in the link! 😛
Wait let me rot13 that!
No! They’re all lying to you! There’s only one place per intake and the “test” is really a battle royale to the death between all the hopefuls. Including the women and children. New LNP immigration policy.
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!
I WANT TO SEE BLOOD DAMMIT!!!
Hack the bone!
HACK THE BONE!
I HAVE THE SHINIEST MEAT BICYCLE.
The way things are going we’ll turn into Pandora before abbot is finished… I’d better get back to the gym so I can be king of the psychos
There’s a lot of ‘shitting myself’ happening on page 4. @steve-o_the_deve-o
#ShitMyselfPg4 ?
‘member, Toffee Apple = Crunchy, Munchy, Very Sticky.
Don’t forget to clean your teeth.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/07/how-much-sleep-do-you-need-to-feel-normal-and-healthy-let-science-be-your-guide/
I thought it was like 3-4 hours or so. Of REM sleep. Video is tl;dw
So who’s planning on going to a screening of Monty Python Live (Mostly)? I can’t wait, seriously hope I’m not working that night.
I’ve never seen any of them. I know, I’ll see myself out.
Monster!
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
What’s a Mon teee pai thawn? Is it a vietnamese dish? Sounds yummy!
I’d look to see if it’s on at my local but the cinema are cheapskates and they’ve exceeded their bandwidth…
@scree your Mii is adorable lol.
Also don’t feel too bad about Mario Kart and random BS things. The game has a serious lag problem and it happens to a lot of people.
Also I hope you’re having fun, Scree. I used to take it way too personally when I lost and discovered now I’m having a lot more fun and doing a lot better now that I don’t care. Haha! 🙂
Spoken like a true loser 😛
I’m winning way more than I used to! XD
We also established the loser thing years ago, Freeze. Keep up! 😛
…
Also I feel like it would be too mean to say look who’s talking. So I won’t. >:D
*kills self*
Well played sir. Well played.
Says he that was pretty much in last place almost every race last week.
I just made the top of the list, didn’t I.
Sorry, I can’t hear you over being dead from @dc’s cyber bullying.
Oh dawg, saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame.
Mario Kart is the Monopoly of video games.
Except without the boredom! 😀
Except flipping over your WiiU/TV isn’t as satisfying as flipping over a gameboard.
I am having fun but as @gorzilla and @lucifer9753 can confirm, I was really quite sick while playing
Oh man, I’m sorry to hear that. 🙁 Hope you’re feeling better now.
Yeah, i wish the stupid thing would bloody piss off but it seems intent on sticking around
GUYS! The Potaku Podcast will be back soon! I know you’ve been fretting and worrying, but it’ll all be okay.
We’re looking for people to tell us what they’d like us to change or add in Season 9 and I’m sure you guys will have some ideas, right?
This is for those who don’t listen to the show as well as the few who do. What would get you to download and listen each week?
Leave your comments over at http://www.pixel-otaku.com/help-us-make-the-podcast-better/
Thanks!
Nudes.
We’re nude EVERY week.
Nudes.
n00dz
Nudes.
Fully clothed people including burka’s.
Make shiggy play some goddamned games.
You’ll probably be pleasantly happy when we return.
FUCKING ACED IT!!! 100% Babeh!!! Does that make me an academically qualified Australian? 😛
Want some (celebratory) rye? Course you (celebratory) do!
He only drinks VB now!
Yay, we don’t have to deport you \o/
I knew you’d do it *sheds single tear*
Pixel the bush kangaroo change your handle NOW
No. To do that you have to forget everything you just learnt.
Welcome to Aus-wait a minute, you flew here right?
You did?
Because if it was an aquatic approach, you know what I mean.
So it was definitely plane?
Alright! WELCOME TO AUSTRALIA!!!
Bonza, you’re a true blue ocker aussie. Here are your thongs, stubbies and singlet, you’ll be issued with your esky at the next station.
So where’s the party at? Celebratory meat?
Well i still need to take the pledge before I’m a citizen, and there’s a 3 – 6 month waiting list, so, not for a little while yet? 😛
PARTY! PARTY! PARRRTTAAYYY!!
Lets call it a rehearsal! (Wait are you in Sydney? cos if you aren’t screw that =P)
IIRC when our family did that we got a really fucking tacky looking plaque thing (seriously, it looked like the sort of artwork that would go Straight to the Pool Room) and a tree.
Tree died and we threw the painting thing away. 😛
There’s a Canmeat at the end of August. Now we have an excuse to force Pixel to come!
as if i needed forcing, i’m already planning the trip XD
Celebratory meat pie floater surely?
Awesome stuff 😀 now sneak me the answers, I’ll be taking mine before year end
Based on your username, I assume you are from Cuba.
😛Well, the Australian thing to do would be to have a huge party, and pay for everyone’s travel expenses to get there.
Ooooohhh that’s neat! you should totally lead by example so i can learn! 😛
I managed to throw together a blog post this morning and I haven’t even had any caffeine yet. A much better start to the day than yesterday!
After you’re finished with AC4 you should join us on Destiny in September!! I promise it’ll make your days a lot less productive! =P
Destiny will come out around a week after I should be made permanent at my job. Would that be too early to use a week of ‘sick’ leave to play Destiny?
Possibly… let me know if you need help twisting your ankle or something =P
Eww, guns. 😛
So you don’t use your pistols in AC4? :O
(this is a trick question)
Edit: Also obligatory *flex* at the mention of guns.
My pistols are purely decorative. 😛
As are my guns. *flex*
(Sorry couldn’t resist!!)
I slept nearly the whole night through.
NO MORE BABIES! \o/
This weather definitely seems to have set in. It’s wet and windy, but fortunately I am nice and safe and warm inside.
Sounds like good gaming weather. Unless there’s a blackout, then it’s the worst.
So far it’s been Trombone playing weather. The power did flick on and off a bit earlier, but so far that’s all that’s happened. Touch wood that it stays that way.
I love gaming on rainy days!
Day off tomorrow. Woo woo! All aboard the mid-week day off train. Woo woo!
Have to get ready for work, but I don’t wanna. Why can’t they just pay me to stay home dammit.
They do! You just have to take annual leave first!
(Played any Hearthstone?)
Nah, not for a little while. Hopefully tonight.
Should defs jump on soon to get the first wing of Naxx for free! The cards from that wing have made a huge difference in my win/loss ratio =D Won 7 matches back to back yesterday ^^
Something I’ve been meaning to ask Hearthstone people: is the expansion just new cards and some unfair AI battles?
Basically yes. However the new cards have drastically changed the current meta-game. For example I’m seeing midrange rogues running zoo decks and was watching an incredibly successful Druid token deck last night! So the new cards alone are worth buying the expansion for if you play competitively.
In regards to the AI battles I didn’t find them that challenging and I don’t have any class above level 15 yet or bought any packs so I don’t think they’re difficult. However I haven’t yet tried heroic mode and that’s supposed to be a lot more challenging!
Edit: Worth noting its not really worth sinking time into Hearthstone if you don’t like PvP! The PvE while great for practice doesn’t really do much else!
At home sick. Surprisingly nice day outside.
Perfect for staying inside and breeding chocobos.
I remember that mini-game.
For some reason “Black Chocobo” and “Intense frustration and hatred” are banded together in my memory.
…I can’t remember exactly why. So this is what a repressed memory due to trauma is.
There’s a jockey called Joe who rides a black chocobo called Teioh. It’s stats are always soemthing like “your chocobo+15%” so he’s usually in the way a lot in S class.
Chocobo races are easy though. If you hold R1+R2 (I have no idea what the keys are for PC) You regain stamina even if your Chocobo is in the running speed/stage before sprinting
I always hated doing that, so I just breed mine to be faster running then they are sprinting. Saves on stamina 😛
Sounds racist…
Skin suit purchased! \o/ Oh God, I guess it’s really happening, now.
I picked up plain blue, so I will have to do some work with it. As for convincing the wife to dress up with me, she just laughed in my face when I showed her this pic. It may happen though! As this morning I told her not to worry about dressing up, that I’d do it alone and then she sorta felt bad. Reverse psychology for the win!
\o/ for guilt trips!
It won’t be that bad. If she wants to do it, she’ll do it. We won’t be the only silly looking people around on the day so I kinda take comfort in that. It’s all about having fun!
Dark Souls 2 update: The Looking Glass Knight has fallen! \o/
*goes down lift go Shrine of Amana, hits bonfire, goes down stairs*
Thinks: “This ain’t so bad…”
*enters house, chats with NPC, leaves house*
Thinks: “Who are those skinny white dudes over theRE OH MY GOD THE RANGE!” /o\
*dies to homing soul masses and things with large teeth*
Thinks: “Hmm… I may be here for some time…”
I haven’t played for a few updates but apparently they’re not as bad as they used to be?
I’m still on version 1.03, likely because I’ve not had internet for about six weeks… 🙁
Edit: Looking at some pre-/post-patch comparison footage, here, mine certainly seem to be pre-patch.
Damn. The cute girl in my TAFE isn’t here today. I’m only here once a week, so I’ll have to wait until next week to speak with her. Worst day ever.
*grabs popcorn*
*puts in order for popcorn for a weeks time*
I am in Canberra from the 27 of august for the Can’d Meat mach 4 or 5
WHO ELSE WILL BE THERE???
At that speed, you’ll get there pretty damn quick. 😛
Probably @blaghman. I can’t go anywhere in Canberra without bumping in to him.
AND YOU
yo o/
I believe I was ordered to go there by @blaghman so I should probably book tickets or something. Anyone driving there from Sydney?
Photographers of TAY, let’s talk! Really starting to enjoy taking shots out and about. What do you guys and gals like to do? I really enjoy taking shots of people and architecture. I like taking photos of people when they’re at they’re most natural, captures something else about them you don’t usually see. Without trying to sound too wanky, you start to see stuff you wouldn’t usually see with photography, start to see things differently too. So let’s talk photography! Or is it phoTAYgraphy?
I have a camera, but I’ve not used it for ages- will dust it off before my holidays
This can’t be a coincidence right?
Actually, I did have a question for photo types. Going to Japan and want to get some nice photos, guessing a phone camera won’t cut it. What’s a good camera for a rank amateur?
IlluminaTAY?
I’m not sure what sort of camera! Guess it depends on how invested you’d wanna get in getting good shots. I’d always had happy snap cameras but put down a grand for a DSLR with interchangeable lenses and I don’t think I could ever go back. Nikon and Canon are suppose to be good brands, but I got a Sony Alpha 6000 and I love it. Just read reviews and figure out what you want to do with it I guess!
I picked my Nikon D3000 up for $700 in Shanghai. Came with a lens, carry back, charger, spare battery and a carry bag. When I got back to Australia, I found out they were selling the body alone for $1299! :0
Like @Shiggyninty said, a low-end DSLR is a great place to start. Work out what it is you need and then look for what is best for you. Just remember is that while DSLR bodies appear expensive, it’s the lenses that will really break the bank.
I usually take (or took, not done it in ages) flora & landscapes, they can’t run away unlike animals or complain like people. Most of the time I tended to take macro shots of stuff since even things like moss is interesting close up
Macro stuff is awesome. Seen some unbelievable stuff with macro.
I’ve taken a few amateur shots in my time with a compact digital. Always compact digital. As I sift through them lately to back them up to the cloud I find I keep the ones of close ups of faces (not too close!) and discard the others. I agree with you about taking photos of people at their most candid, natural.
I only take close ups of half finished starbucks coffee, then i make it black and white in photoshop on my mac. They sell for $10000
I AM A ARTIST YOU ARE ALL SCUM
In all honesty though, i have been using my DSLR to take pictures of the scenery up in the mountain regions of northern QLD, i dont have to work at all for it to look beautiful.
Is the cup half empty? Or half full? That’s the $10k question!
Relevant Farside
Farside is always relevant!
I exclusively take photos of things that I want to brag about on Twitter.
Not that I’m a photographer, but when I do take pictures I enjoy taking landscape shots.
I like to take photo’s! One of my old colleagues is BIG in to photography too. He takes pics of all kinds of people/places. For me, I tend to use mine a lot to get reference shots for textures and stuff.
I have a Nikon D3000.
Yeah, people in like “I’m having a photo taken of me” pose suck. Unfortunately, I rarely ever seem to get good stuff though. Here’s some pictures I took back in June of some friends. I like the fifth one down a lot, because when I first checked it on the camera screen, I was like “this one is balls” but when I checked it on the computer, I felt like there was a decent amount of “Callie”ness to it.
I also take a lot of nature, and jazz. I posted this over the weekend on Twitter, but here’s some assorted pictures from the past few months, with requisite commentary. I really like “breaking” the camera, trying to get pictures that feature the limitations of my moderately priced camera and kit lens.
The one thing I’ve noticed is that I pay more attention to my surroundings when I have the camera with me. I see things I wouldn’t otherwise notice, and it’s a nice change to my normal habit of sitting inside my own little mental world.
I have a Canon 600D but I don’t use it a lot. Also the battery in it died so I need to get a new one. Mainly like to take landscape shots and shots of my figure collections, but I don’t have good lenses for the latter. Getting a decent Macro lens has been on my todo for ages.
I generally leave the photography up to my sister though. She’s semi-professional, has done some professional work (has some stuff in print IIRC) and did an internship with a pro wedding photographer as part of her degree.
I’ve always loved taking pictures of my kids when they’re outside playing and don’t notice me, they’re always the best shots.
Recently I’ve had to start learning more about photography in order to not have the most terrible pictures on the internet on my blog. I’m still not great, but learning is fun!
Only way you can get better is practice! I still take a lot of terrible shots, but the more I do take them, the more I learn what works and what doesn’t!
It’s funny you should mention photography given people’s suggestions for the podcast above!
I take photos of the games and stuff I buy so then I can show people on the internet.
A pretty good deal on a base system.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1716296
Just had my first lecture today. All I heard was gibberish. Fun times ahead /o\
Topic?
Introduction to Gibberish
Signals (telecommunications related) basically I barely passed the previous subject and this is more advanced version /o\
Maybe you walked into the Korean Language course by mistake?
I wish I did 🙁
Slow TAY is slow.
A Tuesday afternoon question: There’s all this talk about video game movies, but what would be your dream director/game combination?
David Fincher’s The Wolf Among Us would be AMAZING
Uwe Boll’s Mass Effect.
Admit it. You couldn’t NOT watch it.
All the asari are played by prostitutes! Jacob is played by Billy Zane! For some reason Jason Statham is in it! Verne Troyer is Garruk!
Michael Bay Advanced Warfare! Starring Kevin Spacey…… wait a minute!
Honestly, that’s a perfect marriage of director to material.
Stephen Chow. Wonderful 101.
Luc Besson’s Metal Gear Solid.
Peter Jackson’s Legend of Zelda.
Besson would bring the right level of nutso to Metal Gear
I’d love if they made a movie out of Telltale’s Jurassic Park: The Game.
More seriously: Playing the new Tomb Raider the past week… that could be turned into a pretty great movie. I feel like the ‘kinda ordinary person who turns into an action hero over the course of the movie’ is sort of underutilized in action flicks. It’d be cool to see.
For something that hasn’t already had a movie adaptation: Wii Sports.
You’re joking right?
Maybe.
I do think Tomb Raider has handled it a bit differently than I normally see in film though. However that’s probably because Lara’s already an established character.
Speaking of Mass Effect, I’d love to see Neill Blomkamp tackle it.
That would actually be pretty promising! However both District 9 and Elysium had such a pessimistic outlook on how humanity progresses when given access to advanced technology. I’m not sure I’d want that kind of a dark spin on a Mass Effect story… Maybe he could direct Fallout instead? 😛
John Hillcoat should direct Fallout, now and forever.
Oooo Christopher Nolan Bioshock Infinite! or just Bioshock actually….
Hmm, not sure Nolan would be the right pick for Bioshock.
A Nolan version of something like Mirror’s Edge I could totally get behind.
Tarantino with GTA or Red Dead. So many options for violent humour.
Hmm, GTA Yes- Tarantino’s never done a car chase, which could be very cool.
Red Dead I don’t think fits his milieu as well.
What about the finale of Death Proof? It’s just one long insanely tense car chase.
You know what? I’d totally forgotten that film. I’ll stand 100% corrected
Everyone’s always forgetting ol’ Death Proof.
Um, did you not watch Kill Bill 2? That entire movie was a tribute to classic westerns.
I know, but I think Red Dead is tonally different to that.
I think Tarantino is better with stuff that’s meta in a different way to Red Dead (And Red Dead was meta). Unless he was going to direct it straight, I’d prefer someone else.
Studio Ghibli and Zelda!
They already did. It’s called Princess Mononoke.
If you want something completely depressing, why not let Darren Aronofsky tackle Katawa Shoujo
Just looked that guy up. That would be entirely horribly depressing, and I’m not entirely sure if you are being sarcastic. How about Dennis Dugan or Kenny Ortega instead? Adam Sandler can play all the characters!
Guillermo del Toro’s Dishonored.
What it lacks in creatures (although there’s the sea life, vermin and hounds) it would make up for in Steampunk/Dieselpunk/Retrotronics/Clockwork/Etc.
Plenty of opportunities for autopsies too.
Hideki Kamiya + Star Fox
[/doesn’t read the question fully]
Also, Please let Kamiya make a Punch-out game as well…
Wonderful 101 was basically Kamiya going “Hey nintendo, look at all your stagnant IP’s that i could make a game from”
I know this is a comic book, but he had a game so…
Deadpool, Directed by Quentin Tarantino
John Woo. Sleeping Dogs.
It’s pretty much already the game.
Peter Jackson’s The Elder Scrolls?
Neil Blomkamp could probably do Deus Ex well.
Del Toro’s Just Cause.
EDIT: Grammar
Hi everyone, how’s things? I’ve got nothing to do at work so I’m super bored and I’m going to “catch up on TAY” for the first time in months. Expect some previous page void replies and upvotes.
PS: pls talk to me
Colourbro! You’re well?
I guess so! I’ve been running a bit lately and did a decent amount last night (for an out of shape asthmatic)
My fancy new running shoes should be here from Amazon soon 😀
I’ve been so slack with my running, I need to get back into it.
I’ve been crazy slack with cycling, too.
We should to somethin’ motivational again.
Add me on Strava/Endomondo, we can motivate each other!
Strava: http://www.strava.com/athletes/2344725
I’m on Runkeeper so that’s got all my stats on there.
http://runkeeper.com/user/920847774/profile
You’re on endomondo? I’m on endomondo!
Sarah? DENIED!
loljks added you. 🙂
Same! I want to get on the (exercise) bike again soon.
Been thinking about putting the Xbone in the lounge room and doing a bit of XBox Fitness erryday.
Are they green?!
Look up the ASICS Kayano 20 in Pine…
I WANTED THOSE SO BADLY! But they don’t sell them in Australia and Amazon didn’t ship them here for a reasonable price :(. So sad.
(had to settle for white or something instead)
How’s work? What cool things are you doing? What un-cool things?
Being bored is pretty uncool.
How many incriminating company secrets have you discovered so far?
[Redacted]
! D:
Human experimentation on information extraction?
Pirating was fun. Until I started a story mission. I play games to relax and have fun. Tailing a group of people forever, and then being immediately thrown into an eavesdrop mission is not fun and certainly not relaxing!
Next time I play I’m just going to loot and sink ships, hunt for buried treasure and pretend I’m a pirate. And try and forget all about the Assassin-y part of the game. 😛
Hopefully Ubisoft will give us a straight pirate game soon.
There’s plenty of pirate games out there already! Just load up your torrent client! :p
I’m convinced more than ever that Ubisoft have forgotten how to make good games in their quest to make good sandboxes. :'( Atleast Michel Ancel can still do it well with Rayman.
Is this the mission where you’re following a couple of guards that then lead you to eavesdropping on the leaders of the templars? Because I failed that mission like 3 times and decided this was where Ubisoft lost me on ACIV!
Something like that. And for the eavesdrop section there’s like a guard at every hiding spot. So not fun.
@redartifice I’m thinking that we should start another Fitocracy challenge. Seeing Friday’s the 1st of August, I think that we should start it then. What do you reckon?
I would be up for that. I have not been doing well remembering or convincing myself to go
Red’s Running Rampage Redux?
Let’s do it. Might kick it off on Monday though- new week, fresh start
Sounds good. Should get a lot more points this time.
Sure, but no running for me. Cycling?
Whatever you like- it’s on Fitocracy
Do you have to go to a Gym to do this, or can it be any form of exercise? As I mentioned above in my reply to @greenius, I’ve been thinking about putting the Xbone in the lounge room and playing some XBox Fitness as well as doing a bit of weights to try and get in shape.
Most things are covered. Fitocracy is just a log where you find and enter whatever exercise you’ve done and you get points for it. I don’t think “Xbox Fitness” would be in there but the activities you do in it might be (i.e. jumping jacks, push ups, running on the spot etc.)
Cool, I might just get involved this time.
I’ll still try to do stuff but I just can’t be bothered logging it anymore 😛
Sounds good – I’m doing the City2Surf on the 10th :O
Yay for working in the city (Brisbane)!
So much choice for lunch compared to my normal office in the burbs.
Had delicious pork belly bun and gyoza! And so cheap! Could eat it again… Would probably be sick but would do it anyway.
Anyone in Brisbane in the city should check it out: Ichiban Yakitori
ONE OF US. ONE OF US.
GOOBLE GOBBLE
More like Ichibum, am i right!?
FYI I’m the funny one.
Lunch tomorrow is now sorted
Smurf soup!
Do it!
It’s tucked in behind the corner of Queen and Creek Sts. Also have noodles and rice dishes. From memory nothing is over 10 bucks.
And now I’m left wondering how many other TAY peoples are in Brisbane and don’t want to meet us, like you. 😛
I think @gemini’s Mario Kart profile says Queensland. D: D: D:
Sunshine Coast, but close enough to Brisbane that if an event arises I could probably come down for a visit….if the price is right. 😀
I’ve actually lived in Brisbane this whole time!
I live in Stranges house she just doesnt let me go to all the meats.
Feel honoured that most of the time I can be bothered to see neither Kotaku or non-Kotaku people alike. Give it a couple of months when I have some plastic notes in my wallet that can be traded for goods and services and I’ll be up for many more festivities
I’m new to this TAY thing – only really just started following these threads seriously and I feel like I’m looking in the window on a big family dinner.
Just easing myself into TAY… Between full time work, 18 m/o baby (seems like a theme lately so I’ll add mine!), family and going back to uni studies I just need to find a gap and I’m keen to meat (did I get it right?) when something is organised and I can pop by and show my face.
So far everyone is amazing, so I’ll hang around and slowly introduce myself. 🙂
There’s no window, we eat outside so everyone can join in. 😀
I’ll make sure we tag you for the next Brisbane thing organised.
Welcome to TAY, man. 🙂
Haha, it’s nice when new people come to TAY. New people and experiences and discussions and memories and I’ll get the oar.
I reeeeeaaaaally miss working in the city.
Easy to get to. Best food choices around. Can do shopping/errands during lunch hour. The finest eye-candy the city has to offer. Those are actually really high priorities for me, now that I think about them, I need to re-think my career priorities.
Eye-candy. The thing I miss most about lunchtime in the city *sigh*
I get the delights of Milton and Park Road. It’s not too bad actually. A fantastic Japanese place next to the Subway on Park Road. Does awesome sushi (much better than any in the city that I’ve had) and Karage Chicken boxes for lunch.
Yannick Lejacq hated Hercules? Considering his multiple articles about how amazing Transformers 4 was I’d take that as a ringing endorsement…
he even did a article about the entire fight sequence for the 4 movies was like 20 minutes and still said it was amazing. He is bluemaxima and transformers movies are his PS Vita
Hahaha completley forgot about that article, Hercules was a pretty painful movie though! It spends half it’s time trying to be serious and the other half trying to be tongue in cheek.
For what it’s worth, I actually enjoyed Hercules. It’s not groundbreaking cinema, but I certainly don’t regret going to see it.
Full disclosure, though; I’d watch anything with The Rock in it.
The more I think about it, the more he belongs in my pantheon of leading-man greats. Bruce Willis heads that list, and Arnie is a no-brainer, but it also features Vin Diesel and Jason Statham. I think he belongs in there. Ryan Reynolds is in there too (primarily because he’s so dreamy?), but he looks a little out-of-place, considering how many outright BOMBS he’s been in. Actually, that might be something all those actors have in common, come to think of it.
RIGHT YOU NERDS
RED’S RUNNING RAMPAGE REDUX 2: THE RAMPAGINING
STARTS MONDAY
https://www.fitocracy.com/group/14940/?challenge
OH YEAH
I have joined. Looking forward to seeing how much progress I’ve made since the last one.
I probably should huh, considering I’m going to be donning lycra later this year.
My thumb had better have healed by then so I can smash you noobs with my awesome new weightlifting powers
Will sign up again when I get home. I have been terrible about going to the gym since I got back from the UK. Thanks for the incentive Red/Ontargett
Is this just for running, or all general fitness things?
EVERYTHING
Hmm, I might join up this time too then 🙂
I normally skip over TAY, but decided to have a look this morning and now I’ve injected myself straight into the Fitocracy challenge. Don’t mind me – I’ll just be running over here in the corner.
A bit over an hour ago, my whole body failed me all at once. The left side of my head was feeling rather fuzzy, and my balance was off. I had the occasional migraine, which was fun. My left thumb just refused to work, and I couldn’t grip anything with my lefthand. The middle-right part of my back really hurt, and I would experience a world of pain if I didn’t sit in a very specific way. So in order to punch something into a calculator without pain, I had to sit in a very specific way, grip the calculator with my right hand, then tap the calculaor with my index finger on my left hand. All without shifting my back and with a sense of faint dizziness.
At the start of the session, I asked if I could get some paracetamol out of my bag. I was granted permission. I had to take two pills, but I only had enough water in my bottle for a single pill. I had to take the second pill without water. Didn’t work. The second pill was gagged up and ended up on the floor for the next hour. I couldn’t take any pills without water, so I had to endure the rest of the hour with only minimal pain relief. My eyes were watering so much that I had trouble seeing at times.
When I finally got water, I banged my arm on the door so hard that the bone tingled for the next forty minutes.
Fun.
EDIT: Grammar
I got a coke zero from Hungry Jacks and they put too much ice in it, i understand your pain.
ALSO GO TO A DOCTOR.
I’ll second that notion. Sounds like the symptoms of a stroke or heart attack. Not sure about the ‘occasional migraine’ though.. how exactly is a migraine occasional? When I get em, they last for hours, if not days :\
I thought the point of a migraine was that it was like a headache, but sharper and last for a few seconds, but will probably return in like three minutes? Is my definition of a migraine wrong?
Yeah, a migraine is like a headache, but way more intense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migraine
indeed.. most of the time it makes me blow chunks. not fun
Yeah, my missus used to get them a lot, they’d pretty much take her out for the whole day.
I’ve experienced what you’re describing before. I went through a period for about 5 years where I would get random attacks of that kind of pain. There doesn’t seem to be any definitive answer or explanation for them judging from what I’ve been told by my doctors. The closest thing they can relate it to is cluster headaches, but they’re not quite the same. Or for me anyway. Cluster headaches typically happen around the eye/side of the head, where as mine were in the top of my head. If yours is located on the side or near your eye, perhaps that’s what you’re dealing with. See a doc 🙂
Healthy.
While TAY usually has amazing diagnostic advice like sarcasmdosis and lupus I highly recommend NAY I insist you go to a doctor. At least half those symptoms are inter-related and signs of a larger underlying physical condition. Putting it off only puts you at risk for further damage and also increases the chances of it not being treatable.
Also contrary to popular belief paracetamol is not the cure-all of symptoms. Back pain, partial loss of control and migraines are a bad sign to say the least and definitely need to be checked out.
You might have ebola man.
Tis the season!
Ebolaman, the upcoming sequel to Slenderman
Seriously man, as @rocketman said, go to a Doctor ASAP.
You. Doctor. Today.
Okay, this may be more serious than I thought. I guess I’ll drop in to the school nurse’s office tomorrow.
EDIT: I’m properly going to the doctor’s tomorrow,
BOOOOORED
my sister and her boyfriend are visiting next Saturday and I’m super looking forward to it. I haven’t seen her in like 8 months and although she can be a pain I do miss her a fair bit, we were never super close but before she moved i would see her once a week and she always seemed to understand me better than most people.
This is why i find it so weird that my Mum and her sister hate each other so much, I can understand being angry with sibling because they can push your buttons more than anyone else but to completely shut them out seems impossible to me. Why would i not want to talk to the people who understand me the most.
Sometimes family’s don’t understand each other at all and they find themselves after they get some freedom. Then when they hang with family again it’s just uncomfortable and weird and feels like reverting to how you used to be. Or something.
My Brother and my Father clash all the time. Mainly because they’re too similar in temperament.
My mum and her sister are the same person, but if you say that to either one they would punch you in the mouth. The whole family thinks so, its so funny how stubborn they are. Also a little sad.
It took a family friend, now deceased, who was an astute judge of character to point that out to my father.
I think they’re in a better place now than they once were. It got pretty bad after my brother dropped out of uni- He moved back home, which is in the country, so was isolated, and my Father never understood why he’d dropped out so they’d fight- and mum was caught in the middle. I used to go home and get 3-way bitching from my brother, my father and my mother. Eventually I told my mother that that’s not what I came home for.
Once he moved back out, it got so much better.
Your mum is also her own sister? D: How does that work?
The sims 2 isnt a perfect game
Sometimes family are the ones who can hurt you and disappoint you the most out of anyone else in your life!
My Dad didn’t talk to his sister for about 20 years – turns out when she got the invitation for Mum and Dad’s wedding, her response was “It won’t last, I’ll come to the next one”
WOW that is super fucking harsh.
I cut off all communication with one of my sisters, because she’s a bitch and a liar that took advantage of my Mum and Dad.
Agreed with paragraph two.
My mam and her sister weren’t talking for a while (but are now, so free cake!).
My brother can drive me nuts at times, but I couldn’t imagine not speaking to him. He’s my brother.
I was trying to avoid TAY for a bit cause I was feeling down.
Was going to try and distance myself a bit so that I didn’t bring others down.
I lasted a day.
I MISSED YOU!!! :’O
Man, what a downer!
>:D
We missed you Stewie! TAY’s like Cheers or the 7th Heaven house.
WHERE DO YOU GO WHEN THE WORLD DON’T TREAT YOU RIGHT? THE ANSWER IS TAAAAAAAY…
*shoots self*
You should be coming here when you need some cheering up.
Hahaha, part of the reason I tried to distance myself was my thinking, “All the friends I want to hang with are on TAY, but can’t, so I should distance myself from them so I’m less down.” :3
When I’m down, I’m like super pessimistic and stupid, hahaha! 😀
Feeling better now though 🙂
Who’s Stewie?!
Edit: It’s a well documented scientific fact that humans when pulled away from a community suffer mental instability. So you basically added fuel to your metaphorical fire! =P Next time just indulge yourself!
THIS IS WHY PEOPLE NEED TWITTER! YOU CAN EVEN SEE REAL FACES! REAL FACES!
What’s twitter? Is that like your hipster way of saying people need Tweety?! If so I agree completely! =P
Everyone should see my pretty face 😉
No joke, I kinda wanted to see how, inappropriate, I could make my dp before anyone said anything.
I WAS LAYING IN BED, SHIRTLESS, WITH A LOLLIPOP IN MY MOUTH, AND NO ONE SAID ANYTHING! :O
You guys ruin all my fun :'(
C’mon man, you need to do a lot more than that to get a rise out of us.
For starters, I’d suggest something that will really get a rise out of us, if you know what I mean.
Cleavage shot, gotcha 😉
I’m thinking something a little lower than that.
Wink.
Hairy snail-trail, gotcha 😉
Alright, alright, let’s be clear here.
Your cock. We need pictures of it.
For, you know, reasons.
No… Homo..?
Real faces?
What a horrible notion.
Ah, the zealotry of the later in life tweeter.
WE BEGGED YOU FOR SO LONG
Flaming Moe’s
Who’s this guy?
I hate you.
So, so, much >:(
I <3 U POW! :*Don’t ever leave us again.
(Edit: *preps basement-jail just in case*)
You lasted longer than i usually did. I got like 8 hours in before i checked TAY or twitter.
Who’s this “Down” person? Did he enjoy it?
Like we can get any lower.
LIOOOOOOONDRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*crash tackles*
Welcome back dude.
Catching the train home and there’s a woman in the carriage who won’t shut up about God. Now, I believe people can believe in whatever they want, but does she really have to tell the entire carriage how God invented boats, saved a woman from being raped or sends her visions? Turn the volume on your voice down a bit, please.
Was it this girl? D:
You should punch her in the face. Then listed to her spiel on how it was meant to be, yada yada. Np matter, you still got to punch her in the face.
Or stand up and move to another carriage/crank up headphones. I’d probably do that.
when cornered the hermit always chooses the path of passive aggression
Or they get off the train and avoid unpleasant confrontation by waiting half an hour for another. XD
Many times I’ve done the whole ‘stand up as the train approaches a platform to pretend I’m leaving, only to move to another carriage’ if I accidentally sat next to a smelly person.
YOU SAID IT WAS BECAUSE YOU GOT THE STOP WRONG, YOU BASTARD!
She’s gone now thankfully. I was thinking about moving carriages, but then people would have noticed me, and I don’t like people noticing me.
Get the fuck out of here with that rational, level-headed bullshit.
Hey, it’s the guy who was propositioned by Rocketman’s ex! I would love to hear your side of that conversation! 😀
I believe my response was something like “Oh.. That sucks.. I have to go.”
😀 Outstanding.
” If God really does exist, he’d make me deaf, or make you shut the fuck up right about… NOW”
That’s pretty risky.
Wow. You caught a train? Trains are big and heavy, how did you manage to catch it? I hope you used gloves
the god chick? Walk up to her and say out loud that you’ll sell your soul in exchange for touching yourself on a Sunday morningReminds me of how I see countless posts about God/Jesus etc on my Facebook, because my whole family (except for me) are Christian. It’s really annoying.
Oh, uhhh, reminder.
Canberra Meat, August 30th.
You probably know the drill by now (His name’s Frank, he likes Mojitos, Carbonara, and long moonlit walks on the beach. No fatties!).
Sydney people may want to talk to one another, also talk to Nob, since I think he was considering coming down. Here’s a specific invite to Freezles so as not to offend him, though he’ll promptly forget who I am, making it all moot.
Also, @pixel_the_ferret_viking do you have a plan? You’re not going to weasel your way out of this one. You get to come up to Canberra and eat like a (Guinea) Pig. Don’t make me rat our your true nature to the Department of Immigration!
…
*Shoots self*
Also, F4ction was wondering if you had a plan or anything, so I figured I’d check, and then forget it, since I’m bad at organising.
You read my mind! I was just about to ask if this was still on. We were talking about it on saturday night behind your back.
Well, talking about how shit my meats are is better than talking about how shit I am, so I endorse this discussion!
If anyone from Sydney is driving down, has free space in their car and is willing to put up with me for however long it takes to drive to Canberra from Sydney that would be really cool. I can probably save atleast $100-$130.
I hope you’ve got some money saved!
I suppose spending more then an hour with me in a confined space is asking a bit much.
(but really, I’m sure someone will have a space for you)
Ash and I will be driving down from Orange on Friday night, assuming its cool that we crash on your floor. When we sleep, not with the car… probably
PS we’ll both bring money for our Wicked tickets too
No, you can’t!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
(Of course that’s fine)
Edit: Welp, you beat me to it, there we go. Damn edit button.
Indeed, now that this whole citizenship shindig is over for the moment, i am going to start planning the Pixel’s Interstate Xtreme Extravaganza Locomotion or PIXEL(oh come on i tried!)
trip for Melbournians… stand by for more information
@shane’s still the original, and the best. You have much to learn young padawan.
Greenius. Standing by.
I might be boring but I gots no interest in seeing Game of Thrones blooper reels or The Last of Us cast singing. I feel such things kind of ruins an atmosphere and it’s hard to see things properly again after that. BAH! *shakes fist at cloud*
How about this excellent Parks and Recreation blooper?
Funnier than the actual episodes they’re from! 😀
But Troy Baker has such a great singing voice.
Then I’ll play BioShock Infinite then! *folds arms stubbornly* 😛
You haven’t played it yet?!
I have, but:
BioShock Infinite spoilers
He sings legit in that so I don’t need Last of Us singing.Plus: dreamy. 😀
The Last of Us cast singing is amazing though!
I’d call you a monster, but I know you’d just feed off it.
Edit: Also, Having watched the live version, I think Troy Baker would make a good Roger in Rent.
What about seeing the cast of Glee in a horrific survival situation where each moment could be their last?
I won’t stop believing they can get through it!
Wait a sec, is this Page Six?! 😛
So here I was, thinking back to last night and thinking I may have slightly overdone it with the sheer amount of hurt I dished out.
Then I promptly slapped myself and got right back to thinking of new things to throw at people. 40K is going to be fun next week. >:D
We survived.
The Tallone fight is going to be up on the tumblr tomorrow. That fight was a mess.
………. I’m going to create a backup character sheet =__=
Me: I take two steps forward
Popdart: Roll for an Awareness check
Me: Disconnects Google Hangout =__=
To be fair, you rolled really well and we didn’t. We do have a fairly squishy group though, basically everyone is a damage or utility class. No healer.
Technically also, I read up on it and the sleep spell is a 1 round action so it shouldn’t have come into effect until just before the start of the turn following the cast, rather than the cast taking the full action time i.e. not moving. I’m pretty sure she was blocked in and couldn’t get into range to whack me anyway so effectively it didn’t matter, but something to keep in mind for next time.
Even without the crowd control, we’d probably have beaten the ogre, but it might have been just 1-2 of us standing at the end.
I think the main issue wasn’t the toughness of the guys since we didn’t really have much problems hitting them or anything. It was the weapons they were using. It looked like an average-damage hit was enough to take several of us out of the fight in one hit.
I’d say it was possibly tuned a little bit too high, but it’s a pretty hard line to tread between being difficult and being too hard. And maybe it’ll offer some interesting role-playing as well. I know that Izumi would be questioning whether going out and fighting things as dangerous as that again is a solid use of her time when it’s not really advancing her interests directly.
Yeah I was rolling pretty well so it did screw you guys around. Roleplaying into the situation did get you guys a little out of kilter as well as one of your consistent damage dealers in Techie got taken out in the first round. It made things harder certainly and the fight was already scaled towards the high end but this was balanced by the reward you guys are going to get.
The bus driver is in cahoots with my son.
He sped right past our bus-stop, and wouldn’t stop for us until the next one which happens to be right at a playground. 😛
When life gives you lemons….!
I hate this saying, lemons are super useful.
How about when life gives you a used condom. What are you gonna make outta that smart guy???
If life gave me a used condom I’d like to think I’ve just finished making something of it =P
This guy ^
Wash it out, and make a sick-ass water bomb to throw at my sister!
Or dont wash it out and do the same.
wut
Have you never made a condom water bomb?
They are ssiiiiiiiiiiiiccccccckkkkkk.
My Dad taught me about them!
Can’t say that I have.
Breakfast.
Ry ry that is eugh. So unlike you to be vulgar.
The comment above mine is you suggesting throwing a used condom at Blaghs’ sister yet I’m the one being disgusting?
Blaghs suggested it, i just improved it 😛
Cahoots is a pretty great word.
TAY Question time! (once again because I’m really bored at work)
What’s everyone’s favourite PvP based game? Any genre!
Right now mine’s Hearthstone as I’m sure my posts have revealed but before that it used to be Call of Duty….
LoL
There is a bear with armour who runs at you.
A BEAR WITH ARMOUR
Man i want to redownload LoL
MUST RESIST
I’ve never actually played LoL, only ever managed to stay with one moba at a time and right now it’s Dota 2. Is there a huge difference in gameplay?
DO IT DO IT!
Has been Team Fortress 2 for the last decade or so and will continue to be for some time although I can see Destiny taking up a fair bit of the rest of the year come September(not strictly PvP but 😛 )
Yeah I’m not looking forward the juggling act I’m going to have to carry out after the wave of games starts come Sept-Oct.
I’m only concentrating on Destiny until next year. I have Arkham Knight on pre-order but that’s it. Wasteland 2 next month, Destiny in September and then putting my head down and going through my games of shame list
Gahhh got to add wasteland 2 to my list as well >.< I have a feeling I’m going to pile up quite a huge pile of shame before this year’s over…. Still haven’t finished Gods will be watching either =@
Starcraft 2.
Terran, ross or zerg?
Protoss. Haven’t played for ages though
ZEALOT RUSH
I made it to gold zealot rushing, then lost to a Terran player with a single reaper (who killed 4 zealots whilst his buildings flew away).
Haven’t played since, but really should go back and at least finish the campaign.
I play a lot of Dota 2 and TF2. In the end I’m slightly more fond of TF2 because of how easy it is to pick up and play but it’ll never compare to the good games of Dota 2.
I keep going back and playing DotA and LoL because I hate myself. I’ve stopped playing solo queue lately though and only play if I’ve got some friends to team up with (blame).
Left 4 Dead.
I think that counts as PvE =P
Was BFBC2 or TF2 or HoN back when I played.
None of them.
Life!
Can I just say, screw you Blizzard. Installers don’t need max volume sound effects.
@dogman Came across this today. It might solve your issue if wanting to clone your screen.
http://www.computeralliance.com.au/24-benq-rl2460ht-led-gaming-monitor-with-height-adjust
It has a HDMI output port which sends a clone signal to another monitor or capture device. Dunno if you’re in the market for buying a monitor, or if you only wanted to do your GPU, but given it does pretty much exactly what you want your machine to do, I figured I’d link you to have a look-see!
Thanks. I’m pretty happy with my current screens, but that’s an interesting solution. Makes me wish I did game captures. =P
Hm, did you ever reply to my comment yesterday? 😮
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
The comment above mine is you suggesting throwing a used condom at Blaghs’ sister yet I’m the one being disgusting?
Liar! My comment doesn’t even mention Blaghman, let alone a used condom! 😉
It was implied
I was going to put it in the thread, but I thought it needed to be spotlighted more.
Any publicity is good publicity
…I think…I still can’t believe what my innocent little comment spawned. 😛
I’m sure you should have learned by now that we ruin everything we come into contact with. Everything that was once pure and innocence is corrupted and destroyed.
Funnily enough, much like a used condom.
And his sis-… i can’t even finish that *jumps through the window*
HOW WAS YOUR TEST?!
He got a 110% !!
Funerals are pretty great.
I mean, they suck. But it’s also pretty great to see all the extended family and everything again. Though in turn it also sucks that that’s what it generally takes to make it happen.
Anyone ever had an issue with a PS3 where the drive reads DVD’s and Bluray movies fine but refuses to recognise games?
Game or games?
Games. Although it suddenly started reading them after the third time reassembling the bluray drive.
Oh, I just want to say though, I know it’s all in good jest and everything, and not meant as offensive, but can people ease up on the gay jokes a bit?
I don’t mind the occasional joke, but lately they’ve become a bit, frequent. There’s only so much friendly teasing I can take before it kinda starts to feel like actual teasing (which I know isn’t how it’s intended).
Definitely. Sorry for my part in this, my friend. 🙂
Honorable members of the TAY Committee, I move a motion that we now make jokes about Liondrive being a West Australian, or being a Lion.
Or about being obsessed with doughnuts.
Do we concur?
Counter motion, can we leave out the doughnuts? they’re pretty rad
Also, Adelaide being unable to handle their donuts has already represented the donut comedy subcategory.
UPDATE
The council that Krispy Kreme is in made like $21,000 off of parking fines around the store.
Krispy kreme is giving you donuts if you bring your ticket in.
Counter counter motion: We can joke about how rad the doughnuts are in the context that Liondrive is obsessed with them.
West Australian jokes? Come on man. You don’t make jokes about disabled people do you?
I’m wounded.
plz no with the west australian jokes, we already live in WA, no need to kick us when we are down…
Sorry.
If it means anything, I make exactly the same jokes with everyone, but I shall refrain in the future.
I don’t (think I) tend to, but call me out if I do.
Sorry about that. I’ve been failing to live up to my rep, leaving a gap that needed to be filled by another character 😛
I don’t think i’ve participated in those shenanigans, but if i have i do apologise… If it’s any consolation you’re allowed to make fun of me being foreign any time 😀
Only for like two more months, then you’re dinky-di.
I suspect people will still pick on the accent 😛
BORK BORK BORK!
Sorry man. I think I’ve done it (upon reflection) but I swears my intent was to show how pimp you are in Mario Kart. 🙁
Do you swears…. on the precious?
Apologies if it’s me.
I absolutely have made those jokes, so I’m super sorry if I offended you. I’ll refrain from now on, call me out in the future though.
It’s not so much the jokes themselves that offend me. It’s more the frequency of them lately. I can handle a joke, but considering I had two gay jokes alone yesterday when I wasn’t even commenting, and a couple already today, they kind of start to wear you down a bit.
S’this joke?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-287/comment-page-2/#comment-2836650
Because I meant that as more of a vain joke than a gay joke.
Sorry ’bout that.
Like I said, it’s the frequency, not the jokes themselves.
But yes, yes it was that joke 😛
All good though, just thought I’d mention something rather than let it get out of hand is all.
As well you should!
I know how it can feel when friendly teasing gets out of hand.
I grew up fat, after all.
You can hear about it here: http://dankarlszeitgeist.com
This is bullshit!
People like you really hold gaming back with your “feelings” and “direct assault on cyber bullying and inappropriate behaviour by calling out issues rather than passively accepting them.”
When I was growing up, it wasn’t uncommon for me and my friends to have a swim in the pool and then, as I was worried about corrosion on my controllers, shower together in order to rinse off the plastic melting chlorine as my Dad liked to keep it just below lethal levels because he “couldn’t be buggered to scrub the pool every bloody night” due to the fact the fruit bats would shit in it when the sun went down.
Sure, people would make fun of me calling it “gay” or “inappropriate” or “we don’t have to do this at Joel’s and his Mum is a crazy neat freak”, but they were just naive 17 year olds. It lowered my self-esteem enough for me to shut myself away from people and pay the dues that are required to be a true gamer.
This is why girls/gays/minorities can never be gamers. They’ve never been marginalized.
Bullying is a part of gaming and if you can’t take it, I suggest you grow a thicker skin.
Eh, not out there or earnest enough, 7/10.
I’m sure this is pretty funny but it went totally over my head. 😛
No problem buddy, sorry if I was making you feel shit. All you have to do is say the word and I’ll stop.
Good to have you back mang.
Sorry. D=
Noted.
Just call me out on it if I’ve offended you man! I usually try to watch what I say but once again if I made an inappropriate jokes just pull me up!
I don’t have any memory of ever making a gay joke, but if I did, I’m sorry.
So I’m really going on about these PAX cosplays now huh? I won’t stop there! Does anyone have any progress blogs I can be nosy and have a look at? I’m just looking to read a bit, look at some pics and take general notes/pointers into consideration to use for the time when I must get artsy/crafty myself, once all my items arrive.
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/luckydogofdeath/library/Knight%20solaire?sort=3&page=1
It’s all I’ve got.
http://s7.photobucket.com/user/Gooky/library/HelmetProgress?sort=2&page=1
I have a few pics from a thing I did earlier in the year still floating around in a public album. Should really get around to reposting all my old blogs on costumes and such that got eaten by jerks who got too lazy to run forums any more.
I just ordered a $77 Telstra plan. My current plan just gave out and the most I’ve ever paid was $35/mth. What the hell have I done. D:
Yeah, I upgraded my phone and internet package (not Telstra) from 50GB a month to unlimited (mainly because of the size and frequency of Xbone updates) about 6 months ago, the bill went up to $200 a month, initially I regretted it, but now I’m used to paying that much and it’s not too bad.
Yah, mine’s the expense of living in a non-capital city. I want dat 4G and Telstra is the only one with it. Phone is fine too, but is annoying me in battery life … so I’ll just get a new one. Got a $250 VISA with it, so not entirely bad.
@powalen
1440p master race?
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/154659
Ugh, don’t you know I’m poor now!
Nah, Giftius is buying it for you.
What a nice guy that Giftius
Thanks Generousius!
;_;
Oh damn.
It annoys me that there’s no 24″ 1440P monitors, because I’d love the extra pixel density, but I like the size of my current monitor for where I sit.
But that price is tempting.
It’s pretty great! 😀
http://accessories.ap.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=au&cs=audhs1&l=en&s=dhs&sku=391-BBOI&redirect=1
See, and that’s more resolution than I need (And way more than my GPU can reasonably take), and at a higher cost than I’d like to boot.
Why does life have to be so hard?
Found a couple for apparently ~$600 on ebay though.
What are your options for 24″ monitors? is 1080p the max?
Pretty much. 27inch is 2560×1440. Unless you go 4K.
Bugger. 24″ is really the size I want.
Yah it’s a nice size.
1440p is for scrubs. Gotta have dat 2560×1600 16:10 goodness.
Also 1440p is scrub talk, the master race talks in defined resolutions!
MASTAARRRR RRRAAAACCCCEEEEEEE
Mine’s 2560×1080
Ultra-wide.
I love it.
I have one of these
https://www.ple.com.au/ViewItem.aspx?InventoryItemID=614600&CategoryID=502
Random non-Monday Knights Pathfinder thoughts (@popdart5).
Why is there not an Oracle class archetype that has two mysteries? They’re very close in design to the Sorcerer, where the Sorcerer is a spontaneous-caster wizard that pulls some spells and abilities from a Bloodline and the Oracle is a spontanteous-caster cleric that pulls some spells and abilities from a Mystery.
The sorcerer has the Crossblooded archetype. You choose two bloodlines, gain all the class skills of both. Whenever you gain an ability or spell from the bloodline, you pick which of the two bloodlines to take the ability from, and can also instead elect to take a bloodline power skipped at an earlier level as well. Both bonus feat lists are combined when selecting your bonus feats as well. You gain both bloodline arcana bonuses. The drawback is 1 less spell known at each level than normal, and -2 to will saves.
The closest that the Oracle gets is the Dual-Cursed Oracle archetype, where they pick a second Curse and that curse never improves and gains bonuses with levels (so eg if you have Clouded Vision as the second one, you never gain darkvision or anything) and you get a couple of shitty powers instead of the usual power from your mystery and your bonus spell list changes a bit.
It seems like you should be able to do a Dual Mystery oracle using the same basic approach as the Crossblooded sorcerer. Combine the class skill list. You pick which bonus spell you take at each level. There’s no bloodline arcana or bonus feat list to combine, they only get revelations – I’d suggest they get a revelation from each mystery at level 1, then have to pick which mystery they take from after that. To counter-balance that, they know 1 less spell at each level than normal (minimum 1 though, so you still learn a higher-level spell at the same time, otherwise the bonus spells come in a level or two late) and have to pick a second curse which never improves, as in the Dual-Cursed Oracle.
Combining two Mysteries could make for some really interesting characters IMO. You could go for complimentary stuff (like, Occult and Dark Tapestry, Wood and Nature or Battle and Ancestor) but a more interesting thing would be to go for opposed mysteries, like Bones and Life, or Flame and Winter, or Wood and Metal. Life and Bones together would be really interesting.
Spoilered for length.
The main issue I see with the Dual-Mystery idea is that Mysteries and Revelations are in a few ways better than the regular Sorcerer bloodline powers but this is countered by the Curses that they take on. Trying to combine the two would be tricky and likely to be unbalanced in ways that I can’t really begin to understand (have never played with or played as an Oracle). The Crossblooded Sorcerer actually has the potential to be worse as you can get stuck with certain spells which aren’t going to be useful and your reduced known spell list means you are less adaptable. That is a distinct trade-off for getting more options through your bloodline as opposed to just selecting through the normal spell lists.As an Oracle is primarily a divine spellcaster, I believe they made the same choice for them as they don’t allow dual-domain Clerics. I don’t know what Paizo is thinking but I presume there is a reason for doing so.
There’s a new Pathfinder book coming out soon called Advanced Class Guide so it might have something there that would enable what you’re thinking of for a Dual-Mystery Oracle. There are apparently going to be a few new classes available as well so it might be covered there in some way.
Oracle learns the same number of spells as Sorcerer does, at the same level. The only difference is they’re pulled from the divine pool. They also get the same number of bonus spells. I don’t know that one would be unbalanced and the other not – the same drawback of being stuck with crap spells would apply. Divine spells are generally not as powerful as arcane ones too, with a lot more utility.
The mystery powers are perhaps more powerful than a Sorcerer’s bloodline ability (most of them aren’t) but you’d end up with ideally the same number of them as you’d have as a normal Oracle (just from two different pools) and two curses, one of which never improves, so you’re going to be stuck being lame or deaf or near blind or something. Depending on which one you pick that’s a massive disadvantage, especially with less utility due to knowing less spells.
Got my tax back yesterday, i’m temporarily rich hoorah!
Hold on to it till October! After that month you’ll be permanently poor =P
I’m gonna be so broke.
Assuming, games? If so there’s nothing I want lol. Well WoW & GTA V, but i’ve paid those off…
Shadows of Mordor? Dragon Age? Evolve? Beyond Earth? The Evil Within? Destiny DLC?! Arkham Knight?
Yeah, I don’t care about any of those.
Nope 😛 Not getting Destiny now lol. Might get Arkham Knight in the Christmas sales when I bother to finish Origins.
The Wonderful World of Yahoo News
Let’s look at the headlines for most respected news source in all media; Yahoo News.
Imagine that I am smoking a pipe in front of a fireplace in an old armchair for this post. Possibly reading Moby Dick and saying “oh, I didn’t see you come in.”
Model Shames PM with Nude Selfie
Presented with a very tasteful picture of a nude woman’s underbreasts. Hmm, yes, hard-hitting news.
North Korea: We’ll nuke white house
Ah, I see. It’s very surprising that this threat hasn’t been delivered yet. Oh North Korea, you silly old chaps.
Kim kissed her stepbrother?
Ah yes, the Kardashian family. They are a jolly good source of entertainment for all. One wonders whether the article just contains the words “No.”
Rage as child defecates in plane seat
Oh yes, I would be rather perturbed in such a situation.
Will and Kate get flirty
One assumes they already did that, considering the baby and all.
Kylie bares her butt
The thumbnail is an image of a cover of GQ, where indeed, there is a woman baring her buttocks. As I am presently unaware of who the photo is of, I choose to believe they are referring to the Aboriginal hurting stick, which is the sister to the boomerang.
“I’m into boobies, not weenies”
I shall refuse to comment on this one.
The recommended searches of the day are ‘ebola virus,’ ‘pet insurance,’ and ‘Hunger Games.’
That concludes this episode of The Wonderful World of Yahoo News. Keep at it, Yahoo!
Feeling better I take it, no?
Odd migraine every now and again, my left thumb is still a little weak, and I have some mild back pain. Much better than before. I’m scheduled to go to the doctor’s tomorrow morning.
@redartifice since you love chiming in for Civ 5 I thought I should tell you to definitely check out Endless Space…. It’s 4X heaven…. I’ve spent the last weekend just getting my head around the management mechanics, steep learning curve but everything is so fricking detailed!!!!!! LIKE ALL THE THINGS EVERYWHERE!
DON’T TEMPT ME FRODO
So after playing about 5 practice games in the last week on very easy I decided I knew enough to try my hand at a small map with 3 AI enemies still on very easy. 3 hours later I realized how badly I’d mismanaged my fleets and had my ass promptly handed to me after declaring war… on very easy >.
A-Fiddle-De-Dum A-Fiddle-De-De
Dear UK: Hurry up and stop being ten hours behind, I want to play Elite!
Also still no sign of the joystick. Also also, fucking yahoo mail is being retarded and making e-mails go invisible. They’re not being deleted, you can still find them if you sort by sender, then shift them out to another folder and back again to have them reappear. But it’s a god damn pain in the arse.
Random thoughts: it’s past midway through 2014, and there isn’t a release date for the fourth and final Evangelion film. This most likely means a 2015 release.
The original series took place in 2015.
I only just finished sitting through the original series recently… had forgotten how much of a mind trip the end of if ended up.
Keep meaning to grab the films… they are essentially the series reproduced/remastered for film right? Are there significant differences?
Nope!
End of Evangelion, the late-90s film, is the ‘true’ ending of the TV series, replacing the TV episodes 25 and 26. Personally I prefer the original TV version.
Rebirth is a complete do-over from scratch. The first one is a straight-up remake of the first 6 or so episodes, and the second deviates quite a bit, covering a lot of the major elements of the series up to around ep 20 or so but by the end it’s diverged miles away. Third film is completely different and the fourth and final of them will be all original as well.
There’s a fan theory that episodes 25 and 26 happen after End of Evangelion. It kind of makes sense in the same way that anything in the second half of the series makes sense.
25 and 26 take place during it, sort of. A lot of EoE was what they originally planned to do, but the show got heavily criticized due to content and they weren’t allowed to make it, plus their budget ran out. Also it wouldn’t be a Gainax show if the ending didn’t leave you feeling that way. ‘Congratulations’ is almost a direct callback to the ending they did for Gunbuster.The real difference is that EoE’s tone is so utterly different. Where the original series ends with a positive, uplifting tone, End of Evangelion is full of rage and despair and cynicism. They poured everything into it, and it’s really obvious. Bloody dismemberment, everyone dying horribly, the bleakness of the final part having a peppy-sounding pop song named ‘Come, Sweet Death‘, the rapid-fire cuts of hate mail and angry complaints about the content of the series that they received (and the fact that the final part is titled ‘yours sincerely’). It’s an utter total shift and it’s why I don’t like the film very much, though I appreciate it a lot and think it’s a great film despite that.
The theory that the Rebuild films happen after End of Evangelion is probably true too.
From memory, so much of the series changed as it went along that there’s no telling what the original plans were. The 90s were a weird place to begin with. The 90s at Gainax would have been a thing to behold. And they were pretty much completely broke halfway through the show. It’s fun rewatching and seeing just how many shortcuts they use to stretch the budget.EoE is odd. I enjoyed it as a fan of the series because it gave that grand finale that the show lacked. It was also just a giant “fuck all y’all”. I much prefer the direction the new movies have taken because it feels like they knew they had something good and want to bring it to a better conclusion. Not necessarily a happier one but a more complete one.If the last shot of the final movie is the same as the first shot of the first movie, we’ll have confirmation of that last theory but I’m not sure.I’ve seen 1.11 and 2.22
I have *ahem* copies of Neon Genesis Evangelion, but haven’t watched them yet.
I should probably rectify this.
Make sure it’s the full home video release that sometimes gets referred to as the ‘director’s cut’ because the original US release used the broadcast edition due to ADV not licensing it correctly. The JP home video / ‘Director’s Cut’ release has quite a few extra scenes in episodes 21-24. Expanded backstory for one character, extra info for another, stuff that ties into End of Evangelion, and a few other things. Not critical if you miss them but worth seeing with them in place.
Fair enough. Ta.
Is it entirely inappropriate to have a massive man-crush on the Alex Turner’s voice? (lead vocals from Arctic Monkeys)
I love my wife… but… his voice… sounds amazing in my ears!!!
Saw him live in 07. Quite the show man.
The old man picked up a 6 pack of these Guatamalen beers from Aldi ‘Monterrey’ they ain’t bad, pretty light on taste, would be awesome to scull on a hot summers day i’d say.
Seen those before, but never tried them, have to remember that for when the warm weather comes.
The only people I’m losing to overall in MK8 are @dkzeitgeist (by 1), and @greenius (by 6) >:(
Guess who are at the top of my hitlist >:)
It’s really fun watching everyone improve though 🙂
Competition is getting fierce!
I LIKE IT! >:D
I’m now too scared to return to MK8, since everyone will destroy me even more than they already did.
Ah well, it had a good run.
That’s what you get for being such a casual.
I have to go back to my spreadsheet management games on PC now. :'(
I am no competition, I know this.
Sorry
I’m not very good myself, even @shane was beating me, and he only just got his Wii U not long ago.
Yeah, but you guys are me on launch week. Just need to play to get better. 🙂
I’ve been Mario Karting since the mid-90s. The formula hasn’t changed that much! For all the time I’ve spent with the franchise, I’m embarrassingly bad at the game 🙂
Thanks for a great time – so much fun.
Good seeing you in particular, man. I grinned when I saw you online! 😀
…
I MISS YOU. (Play it cool DC. :P)
Me too! It felt good to be doing something psuedo-social
*me, locked in bedroom*
“F*** off Dan!”
“Oh my god, why would you red shell me?! I’m not even first!”
“I f***ing hate all of you!”
*sister*
“What are you doing?”
*me*
“I’m socialising with my friends, what does it sound like?”
Much more fun in person, with beers.
You like that barrage of red shells I sent your way :p
Red Shells are 1000x worse than the blue she’ll >:(
What’s THE worst though (other that people who steal the win from under you) are self bob-ombing / banana-ing I reckon.
So humiliating :'(
I hate being lightning-ed or hit with any thing while air borne over a drop. SO TIME CONSUMING TO RECOVER. :'(
I hate Powalen.
Bens are the worst!
I heard my name.
Gattaca? Pretty great!
Dans dropped a couple, hundred, places on my list tonight >:(
@powalen will return and put us all in our place once more. :'(
Ahh, the Alpha and the Omega. He who levels the playing field for us all, by removing first place from the equation.
We’re all just in an ’80s style training montage while reigning champion Pow is in the hot tub with his groupies.
He ain’t all that 😛
And he’s out of practise >:D
I think he’s in for a surprise next time he plays 😛
Yeah nah, @powalen is unstoppable 🙁
@gutsoup is good too! Those two are the only ones beating me, Gutsoup is just barely beating me (I was catching up!)
And when those two combine.
…
D:
A good time ensues!
TMI
Shazzan!
So much pressure D: I can’t live up to all this hype.
I’ll just never play again.
Retire a hero, become a legend. Or something like that.
Oh man, this is the plot of Cars all over again. D:
What are your stats against Pooalen and Gutpoop?
Pow’s beating me by like 20 :'(
Gutpoop: 1 – 0 (winner Lion)
Pooalen: 11 – 7 (winner Lion)
Pooenius: 14 – 20 (winner Pooenius >:( )
Pooenius? is that like a cross between a Poo and a Penis?
Greenius the Poo Penius.
What about @sughly? He is pretty okay too!
That name…
Sounds so familiar…
But from where and in what capacity?
That guy who won’t buy Massive Chalice and be my buddy at launch :'(
So much Mario Kart I dont know about :'( and I join Monday (once) and noone was there :'(
I didn’t know about last night either :(. Save the date for this Monday caus I’ll play then and make sure everyone else is keen
@greenius cool, will be there. I had time to play last night too for once, would totally have joined if I knew too T_T
I think they just want to win 😛
Which they can’t do with me there!
Crumbly Joe?
(new post to make responses easier)
Now I’m curious though.
What are people’s kart setups for MK8 like?
Like, do you try to balance stats, or do you pump up one stat in particular?
I was trying to balance everything around midway, but tried a new setup tonight with higher speed and had good results, so I’m going to pump speed even more next time and not worry about any other stat 😛
Gotta go fast.
I prefer the Yoshi Bike/Button Wheels/Cloud glider. It’s a good balance of all the stats for me. (I prefer the maneuverability of the bikes over karts too.) I also like the Yoshi Bike because it’s so pretty looking. *decisive nod*
Bikes are the worst!
The WORST!
They’re so hard to handle! :S
Is it green? Yes? Done.
😛
Give you tips to help you get better? For free? Hahahahahahah
Toad is the only stat you need.
*puke*
Don’t badmouth the Toad man, at least he’s better than the Koopalings.
C’mon Nintendo, give us some Diddy Kong DLC.
I go for looks. Gotta be stylish when I win.
Yeah. Fashion Kart, too!
That’s why I play as Rosalina now.
B**** makes everything stylish 😉
But really: I find acceleration to be the most important stat in Mario Kart.
You are such a liar!
Toads all about speed!
YOU LIAR! >:(
Wait, what? Light characters have the best acceleration 😛
I swear toad was speed…
I still think you’re a liar >:P
*glares at @powalen*
The fatties like Bowser and Rosalina have more speed 😛
Speed and Acceleration are the most important though (probably acceleration in multi since you get hit with items so much).
Or in Pow’s case, cheats and hacks. DaWorst.
Ugh. Cheatalen.
Ah, I was getting it the other way around :3
Still a liar though 😛
Rosalina, fatty???
Well she’s considered one of the heavier weight classes in the game 😛
@greenius, really? I never took any notice.
Well weight classes are pretty hidden except for obvious ones like Toad being lighter than Metal Mario, but it’s all covered in guides and wikis
I’ve just been going with whatever I think looks good, maybe it’s time I changed my strategy.
Acceleration/speed.
What are these other stats? Relevant? Nah.
Also, I play as my Mii. For no real reason. I didn’t even bother investigating whether different characters have different stats. I just played as Mario until I unlocked the Mii.
I like my acceleration and handling. Particularly on maps with large numbers of turns, being able to accelerate is preferable having a high top speed which I probably won’t hit.
Having said that, I’m not all that good haha.
Also, I rather like Morton on the moped with the miniature wheels.
Mii/Koopa Kid (probs Lemmy) in Sports Coupe/Neon Slick/Cloud balloons.
Nice balance of acceleration & speed.
If I’m feeling particularly egotistical swap out Sports Coupe for Gold Kart.
Elite servers go down in an hour!
IT’S ALMOST ABOUT TO BE HAPPENING!
*hype*
When’s Elite officially out?
Scheduled for the end of the year sometime.
Was going to play some Dark Souls II, but I really can’t be arsed, it’s too much like hard work, and I don’t really want to get all worked up and frustrated before I go to bed. Think something a little more relaxing is in order, maybe some Disney Infinity.
Or juggling rabid tigers.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TAYKART
Thanks for the notification @evilmonkey!
That was fun, man. I think you arriving gave everyone a second wind too. (I know I stayed for longer than I planned to. :D)
No worries man, was good fun, you’re pretty good.
He was a’ight.
Kind of you to say, but I was 9th waaaaay more than I was 3rd 😛
Oh… I never got notification. :'(”””’
Ugh, need to try remember what the hell my Club Nintendo password was.
Found someone willing to buy my free game, seems kind of a shame they only want Monster Hunter. In that it was on sale for $36 not that long ago, but hey.
Redeem it yourself! Monster Hunter is awesomes >:|
Nah. no interest in MH3U for the same reasons as Wind Waker. And even moreso since it’s dropped in price. And on top of that, no interest in using the eShop at all either. Not since… the incident.
I would’ve bought it. Didn’t know you were trying to offload.
Oh, I haven’t used it yet. What game would you like? I highly recommend W101 or Pikmin 😛
I have already redeemed codes for Pikmin and for LoZ:WW. Tossing up between W101 and MH3U.
(It works if you create new accounts for each game redemption)
Look Taco, a new W101 buddy! 😛
(@shane perhaps your W101 playing will motivate me to play it again :D)
Then I will throw in a vote for W101 because it’s the best game ever (totally unbiased opinion there) and also I don’t think it’ll likely drop in price at all at retail, so is a greater saving.
But totally up to you of course 😛
How much do you want for it?
Is 30 reasonable? That makes the game like half price or so I think?
I promised I’d discuss any purchases w Mrs Shane before they happened. Money’s tight right now. Can I let you know tomorrow?
In the meantime, if your other buyer wants to go ahead, feel free. Thanks!
@shane Sure, there’s still time. The other buyer’s just a friend of a friend, I don’t know them at all so I don’t care. You’ve got dibs 😛
@shane, I just bought some of your books, you can totally afford it.
He’s already got Pikmin 3.
I’ll pay you $36 for that code.
@mrtaco, take this man’s money. I
can’twon’t compete with that bid.I’ll give you $36.50, and give the code to @shane.
#outbidius
Hahaha
#noHahaha
Like you have a say in it :pNOW I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO! /o\
Why did Nintendo include Diddy Kong in the upcoming Smash Bros. games, but omit him from Mario Kart 8? Please let it be because they’re developing Diddy Kong Racing 2, pleeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssssseee.
I would completely lose my shit if they announced that.
I would play that. So. Damn. Much.
Unless he talked again. Then I wouldn’t play it at all.
“Diddy Kong Racing”
*shudder*
😀
What are you talking about that was TT that said that.
Oh, this changes over a decades worth of grudge.
XD
COULD I BE WRONG ABOUT THE n64 ERA?
No. It was the worst. Everyone else is wrong. *decisive nod*
Yes, you are wrong, so many great memories.
The 64 is actually the best platform ever, you are wrong.
After the GameCube, anyway.
@mrtaco, the SNES is clearly the pinnacle of gaming. N64 had some great games, but not nearly so many as the Super Famicon era. Ditto Gamecube.
I like the idea of the SNES being that magical golden era that everyone claims it to be… but when it boils down to it, I have way more games on my Cube that I love more than those I have (or played, or have interest in) on my SNES.
N64 was awesome.
D.C. gets a downvote.
The world is ending.
(You’re cool, D.C.)
((But N64 was awesome))
Two words; “Nintendo Amiibo”
Which leads to three other words; “Nintendo love money”.
Which leads to three more words, gimme gimme gimme :p
Still doesn’t explain why they put him in Smash Bros. and not Mario Kart, if that was the case they would’ve left him out of Smash Bros. too.
The same director that made Ferris Beuller’s day off directed High School Musical. Huh.
@beavwa
Thoughts on Rocksmith 2014? Electric guitars? 😀
Still need to get new strings for my axe so I can get back into that, maybe this week.
*Slips on shades*
This is mine.
http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a549/anonymous286/DSCF4336_zpse0e43f0a.jpg
Scary but it seems like it has a lot of n00b content for learning the basics – there’s even a ‘put the strap on the guitar’ tutorial.
I like being told something is in tune rather than having to rely on my ears too.
Turns out I have 1600 points in my Club Nintendo account. And 100 expired at some point for some reason. And 450 expire at the end of this month. Along with another 150 next month I guess.
Feel like I gotta spend 600 points on something, but there sure is a whole lot of nothing on there…
AAAAAAAHHHH!!!! The Game & Watch Collection Volume 2 is gone from the Stars Catalogue, I wanted to get that.
Oh well, guess I’ll just have to grab it off EBay before prices get to high.
Sadness. Revo, the guy who composed the fucking amazing soundtrack for Bravely Default, will not be doing the music for Bravely Second. His music in general (not just the BD stuff, he’s the guy behind the openings to Attack on Titan and the composer for Sound Horizon) is amazing so that’s a real shame.
Replacing him is ryo, the composer from the band Supercell. He’s the guy that was the first huge break-out success using Hatsune Miku with stuff like Black Rock Shooter, has done a bunch of anime stuff (most famously the ending theme for Bakemonogatari) and does a lot of songwriting for other singers and groups now too. I like his stuff a lot, but it will be very different from Revo’s work on the first game. Revo’s stuff is very complex and soundtracky, where ryo’s work is heavily piano-based, a lot more conventional and pop music oriented.
Not sure yet how I feel about this. I guess the proof will be in the pudding. The first game’s soundtrack is amazing so it was going to be hard to follow up for anyone.
Wait, Revo did the Attack on Titan opening? Awesome.
Yep. Also the opening for the new Sailor Moon.
OH SHIT CRISIS TIME TAY
I accidentally sent a naked picture of myself to everyone in my address book!
Not only was it embarrassing but it cost a fortune in stamps.#dadjokepagesix #hi@strange
Thought this might’ve been the first week where we didn’t have any Dad jokes on page 6, I was wrong. You just squeezed that one in.
…that’s what she said?
*checks mailbox*
Soon…
You get your PS3 fixed?
Though that begs the question, if it takes that much effort, how could it be an accident?
Wait, that means you did it deliberately?!
o.O
That’d be the inference you could draw, sure
Inference is a cool word. @dc =P
Wingman has convinced me to go with her and a couple of others to Smash in the following weekend or two. And that I should take Shredder out for a spin.
Guess that means I should dust it off and assess the damage it received after all that drinking back in February. And I mean literally dust it off – it’s still in a pile on the floor in my room where I left it after waking the next morning.
I went to smash back in ’09!
It was a’ight. I wore my cloak. Not for any practical reasons, but you know, cloak.
Trials: Fusion peeps, apparently they’re releasing the first of six DLC’s this week called “Riders Of The Rustlands”, with 10 new tracks, 18 new challenges, and 5 new Trophies/Achievements.
As good excuse as any to get back into it.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-18807-Trials-Fusion–Riders-of-the-Rustlands–DLC-Out-This-Week.html
Does season pass last for all the DLC’s? Man it’s been ages.I was waiting to play it so I can beat people on every track 😛
Pretty sure season pass covers all 6 dlc’s
Still playing ACIII, still not bored with it or frustrated. I’ve been trying to balance collectible hunting and exploration with story missions and I’m actually finding the story pretty engaging, as far as late 18th century Boston can be. My wife saw me heaving crates of tea off a boat and just said “Really?”
Trails in the Sky is out on steam, finally \o/ Get it this week and you’ll get it for 15% off!
How does TITS hold up today?
Still worth getting a hold of?
EDIT: Yes it is a serious question and Yes I purposely worded it like that. =P
The PSP version held up really well despite being a 10-year-old game when I finished it last year.
FYI:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/07/dont-miss-trails-in-the-sky-on-pc-today/#comment-2840964
The game holds up well, but it is a decade-old game and it is the start of a franchise and Falcom’s first really wordy RPG, they apparently got better at doing it as they went.
The PC port takes the original 2004 PC release, updates the engine significantly (adds DirectInput support, runs at high resolutions, smoothed fonts and stuff), adds in most of the features added to the PSP release (combat voices and a bunch of stuff) and then adds a bunch of Steam features like achievements, trading cards and cloud saves.
So I guess you could say that overall TitS holds up well, still quite perky, full and well-rounded?
Holy shit, I did cut it fine with that joke. Will just have to be more vigilant!
ELITE DAY! *party whistle*
Baw, only halfway done downloading.
The Last of Us Remastered Day! 😀
Unfortunately, that’s tomorrow for me. 🙁
I didn’t especially like what I played of TLOU on PS3. Bought it for PS4 last night for some reason though.
You’re a complicated guy! 😀
Sure is quiet around here.
HELLOOOOOOOOO!
Echo
… Echo!
HELLO! *waves*
Kung pai!
I’ve been playing Majora’s Mask because I’m on a Zelda binge, but I’m using the version on some Gamecube Collector’s Edition disc Doc loaned me, which apparently is quite prone to crashing. It’d been working perfectly for over half of the game, and I got through the first two dungeons and all associated side quests just fine.
Then last night I did the Water Temple, which was tough and frustrating and took about three solid hours. And you can’t really save in between, because MM has a real weird save system, so it all had to be done on one run. The game crashed once right at the beginning of a new save cycle, so I got a bit worried. I did the whole temple and got all the stray fairies and was literally one screen away from saving the game when it crashed, and I lost all that progress.
I guess it’ll go a lot faster the second time round, but it’s been ages since I’ve lost that kind of progress in a game because everything has autosaves these days. A bit nostalgic, but for all the wrong, painful reasons. 😛
Also, I’m confident that the day I finish the game is the day they announce a 3DS remake, just to mess with me.
Good morning!
3DS remake! \o/
NEVER >:[
Then hurry up and finish it!
=PI lost 10 hours progress on Wii U Wind Waker because there’s no auto save.
Almost everything. 😛
It was my clean up all the side quests day to consider the game ‘done’. Even though it’s not on my save file, I still filed it away as done.
Huh, I never knew it was supposed to be crashy. I thought it just had weird glitchy sound when you moved between areas, because of weird loading stuff.
I think Majoras Mask is my favorite entry in the series. I loved the diversity in play-styles the different masks/forms provided. Dammit Pants, I’m going to have to find a copy now…
My work here is done.
*walks into sunset*
*checks watch*
Dammit, still got seven and a half hours to go.
5 hours \o/, early morning starts suck! But the benefit is having the afternoon off 😛
Sorry to rub it in, but I start at 11 and finish at 3:30 with a 3 day weekend coming up woohoo \o/
Is wiki leaks legit or tinfoil?
As legit as what’s put on it? I know a lot of legit stuff has been posted, and they’re given some investigation, but there’s a difference between having information and that information being true, right? Or are you referring to something just hitting the news recently that I should know about, like when newspaper headlines start referring to some missing woman by her first name and assume that I should already know who the fuck this is because keep up, guh.
https://wikileaks.org/aus-suppression-order/
Given the nature of the case, wouldn’t surprise me if this is legit.
They engage in tinfoil quite a bit, they’re occasionally correct
https://twitter.com/SenatorLudlam/status/494261238872805376
Gaining enough momentum to be legit
Scott Ludlam linking to it. Guess he deleted the tweet.
Yeah looks like that could be legit. If you look into the current and past political actions of our neighbouring east asian countries you’ll see countless acts of corruption and human rights violations but the fact is as an isolated western country these are the bedfellows our government has to sleep with.
Is it right? Hell no. But this is the context of the world we live in, where it’s only a minority of countries that believe in human rights and the other privileges we enjoy in Australia like freedom of speech and equal rights to both sexes.
I believe back in April this year the government blocked the release of secret archives detailing the East Timor war (what I like to call a massacre) in order to prevent relations with Indonesia from becoming too frayed.
Interesting. Probably legit.
Initially I thought it’s understandable to avoid having a trial by public opinion, but as soon as I typed that, I realized that could really kind of apply to ANY trial, and that I was basically endorsing secret trials. The whole POINT of our legal system is transparency. Not only so that people can come forward with relevant evidence, but also so that things are done in the light, so that judgements can be held high with integrity, rather than shrouded in doubt and secrecy.
And while that’s a nice principle to try to uphold, the realities of protecting innocent parties (or reputations, as mentioned in the order), such as when children are involved, means that not EVERYTHING needs to be on display for the public to ogle. And safety’s an issue, such as for military forces, spies, etc… So where do you draw that line?
If the answer has been that the government is drawing that line somewhere very convenient for them that protects the party, not the country (with some governments thinking that the two are one and the same), then that’s a problem. I don’t think hiding something that might ‘damage international relations’ is actually a worthy cause; rather, you identify that individuals have been involved in law-breaking, and that steps are being made to remedy that. That’s the honest thing to do. An act of integrity. But by deciding to hide it, you imply that these are the actions of a government, of a country, consistent with the decisions of the country, which are illegal internationally and need to be hidden, rather than rogue elements acting against the country.
Which do you reckon it is?
Interesting.
Vaguely related: I think it’s pretty disgusting that people who release information to wikileaks are being pursued and prosecuted more vigorously than the institutional criminals who those leaks have exposed.
(Also that police have spent six million pounds hunting one man on charges that only happened to emerge after he severely pissed off several major world powers. What a coincidence. Less concerned about that, though, because you shouldn’t get a free pass just because you’re hiding. I can understand that with world powers looking for his neck he might be concerned about the fairness of his trial, but the honest thing to do is face justice. If innocent, he should be fine. Should. Provided no-one’s leaning on the judges/witnesses/etc. Because that wouldn’t happen in a bid to discredit/villainize an enemy of the state, would it? And facing the music in a country that’s more amenable to extraction to the US on espionage charges wouldn’t happen, would it? Fuck politics. Fuck it so hard.)
Remember what happened to Chelsea Manning*, the one who gave the information to Assange? She was kept in solitary confinement months longer than human rights allows, and was given a Chairman Mao-style hearing. Assange is perfectly right to hide.
*Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning
Also, back to not sleeping properly again. This time woke around 4, wasn’t back to sleep til 5.
Just about ready to punch my brain for being a jerk all the time.
Ok I know this isn’t a perfect remedy but it’s what I resort to when I can’t sleep well for a few days in a row. Once you get home have dinner, finish it off with a glass or two of red wine. I promise you’ll sleep like a baby!
I struggle to get through a single glass 😛
Close your nose and chug it! Also I highly recommend Penfold’s Bin 47 Kalimna Shiraz… mmmm yum.
I like McWilliams Fruitwood Red, it’s quite sweet and is only 5 or 6 bucks a bottle.
The challenge with alcohol assisted sleep is that while it can help you “get” to sleep, the quality of the sleep you have may not be as good as if you’d had a normal sleep cycle.
I read it was because your body’s busily metabolizing and filtering all that poison you’ve ingested. (Alcohol is a poison. Just not an especially powerful one in the quantities most people consume it in.) Because it considers you to be sick, it keeps you ‘on alert’. Apparently once the majority of that processing is done, the body triggers a wake-up signal.
Not a bad theory, makes some sense to me.
I’m now picturing it / analogising it to your body running a defrag or virus scan or something, and giving you an audible alert that it’s finished. “Wake up, Dave. I’ve finished your repair procedure.”
Bodies are fascinating and weird.
I read that in my mind with a HAL 9000 voice.
Read as intended. 😉
They sure love their animal cruelty.
Whoa shit, I passed 10k comments last night 😮
I’m guessing that the pair of evil lemmings is responsible for dyeing those geese and preparing some kind of water torture for them.
@shane, just wondering is there tracking on orders from your website?
For digital copies? 😛
No paperback. I don’t normally buy digital unless it’s the only way it’s available.
Nothing automated, but I will let you know on TAY when it’s posted! And I’ll be sending via prepaid satchels, which come with some sort of tracking number, I believe. Will let you know that as well.
Ah, cheers man.
Man Amazon are slack, ordered Metro 7 two days ago, and it’s still being “prepared for shipment”.
Isn’t it print on demand from Amazon? It’s probably being produced.
Really? Didn’t know that print on demand was a thing.
Yeah, all my books on Amazon are print on demand… and they were published by a proper publisher. It’s a pretty common thing for small press these days.
It’s becoming more common, much better value proposition for small publications
Are people keen for Mario Kart 8 on Monday? I’m lame and only want to play when there are decent numbers 😛
I’m keen. I might forget, and I might not end up making it, but I’m keen!
I’ll tag you again.
Yeah, I’m keen, but why does TAYKart have to be on a Monday?
Friday night taykart with alcohol inserted could be pretty great 😛
I’d even consider getting a WiiU for that. :p
@liondrive can’t do Mondays any more either.
Yeah, I can do Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays (but I’ll be a bit late on Sundays).
Stoopid work / uni >:'(
We had five on Monday and six yesterday! Decent enough without a heads up!
No one told me :'(
Neither. i r sad panda
I’m keen but I’m busy every second monday. =/
Fun fact: last night myself, @transientmind and @beeawwb consumed what I understand to be around $900 worth of alcohol between us.
And didn’t even get drunk.
Did you smoke pipes and wear your finest jackets?
Don’t forget leather lounge chairs! There has to be leather lounge chairs!
I’ve been to the place they were at. It’s plenty fancy like that. There’s even low, dim candle light.
Ooh, if it’s the place I’m thinking of, I was there too! I bought down the “class” in that place so much :3
I don’t know, others helped. I was in line for the bathroom and had a conversation with a dude about whether people were doing a number #1 or #2 in there. (Believe me, I didn’t start that conversation. :P)
HAHAHAHAHA!
Why is this the first I’m hearing of this?!?! 😀
I just got weird looks when I was hugging your leg to try and stop you from leaving :3
If by jacket you mean a pretty much the only hoodie I own you’re damn right I did.
Aw man.. why aren’t you guys in Sydney >.< (was this the tasting?)
I’m sure the Suntory salesman who was hosting the gig will probably make a Sydney sojourn and be happy to let anyone and everyone know when and where. 🙂
Yeah, the “Brand Ambassadors” for the major players travel around doing these things. Just a matter of hearing about them / watching the kind of places that do them. (E.g. “The Roadhouse” in Byron Bay has done at least 3 that I’m aware of.)
I find that the more experienced a drinker I become, that more difficult it is to get drunk.
I’m the opposite. I have six beers and end up pouring one over @dkzeitgeist. :'(
I am actually still catching faint echoes of the sweet toffee’ish motes of flavour from that $220 nip of whisky last night. I swear I clean my teeth properly! The dentist even explained that the vigor and frequency of brushing/flossing is responsible for the gums starting to recede slightly… But yeah. There’s echoes, there. Maybe psycho-somatic. But it’s nice.
I’ll just leave this here then… http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Suntory-Yamazaki-25-Year-Old-Sherry-Cask-Japanese-Single-Malt-Whisky-700ml-/161376261261?lgeo=1&vectorid=229515&clk_rvr_id=673139225578
$300 and not drunk? Damn son you got jipped.
For English class, everyone had to watch Gran Torino. I will confess that I was not ready for the ending.
Amazing movie. I loved it so much. And the song over the credits. Beautiful. :’)
A powerful film.
It goes hand in hand with Million Dollar Baby – both feature gut-wrenching endings.
Yeah loved both those movies!
Same. I’ll be completely honest, for the ending of Gran Torino I was totally expecting Walt to go all Dirty Harry on the Spider gang.Spoilered for Red. Crap, I hope he hadn’t read it.
Haven’t seen Gran Torino, but MDB was heartbreaking
Oooh, watch Gran Torino, Red. I think you’d dig it!
One of those films I heard good things about but just missed.
I don’t actually watch many films these days.
I’d recommend, it exceeded my expectations sevenfold. Plus, I learned so many racist insults!
Augh! Still have to choose Club Nintendo reward.
Donkey Kong 3, Wario Land 2, Metroid, Super Mario Land 2.
Leaning towards Metroid. Any strong thoughts otherwise?
Also, “Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright, earn a bonus 10 play coins before August 22!”
Nintendo, you release it here August 29.
nintendo why
I don’t think the original Metroid has aged very well. Better off playing the remake. Wario Land 2 is apparently great but I’ve never played it.
i pushed a co-worker on a freight kart around the office, then my boss saw and shook his head. Then i pushed him on the kart.
Yeah work isnt super busy today.
“Hey! You guys can’t be doing that!…”
🙁
“…Unless I get a turn!”
\o/
thats pretty awesome 🙂
You have the weirdest goddamn relationship with your work and colleagues.
Yeah, its pretty hot and cold. When we are good we are best mates, when its bad i want to murder them.
Sounds a lot like a marriage. Jus’ saying
You!
You don’t really want to stay, no
You!
But you don’t really want to go-o
I want to go home 🙁
Seconded
Dark Souls 2 update:
The three P’s have won over the skinny white guys in Shrine of Amana. Patience, Perseverance, and my last twenty Poison arrows :P. The Song Demon was rather disappointing after all the trouble it took to get to him – bait an attack, back up, run in and slash thrice, rinse and repeat. He must have other attacks that I didn’t see, as he went down very quickly… Got the key to the embedded, so I should go back to Drangleic tower at some point and see what that does. Seems an odd name, if all it does is unlock that cage…Got to the first bonfire after that, in the crypt under the stairs, got creeped out so I went exploring elsewhere. Spent a while sniping two casters in the Shrine, to collect the items just before the boss door, and got most of them. Then I was promptly invaded and slaughtered by an NPC caster – surely he’s the real boss of this area.
Finished (I believe) the Pate/Creighton storyline, which was interesting, even if the loot was rubbish. Sided with Creighton, purely because of the ambush Pate led me into in the Forest of Fallen Giants back in April.
I’ll be heading back to the crypt tonight… hopefully no necromancers in this one.
The crypt has some tough sections. Are you wiki’ing for assistance? Do you summon helpers? Good luck either way!
Only wiki’ing after half an hour of dying in the same spot. No internet, so I’ve only got NPC summons available, but I’m not summoning much – last time was for Freja, which allowed me to get through her on the first try, so I’m avoiding it.
In hindsight, I probably should have summoned the NPC for Mirror Knight, as I was having issues almost exclusively with the minion’s presence, but he’s done and dusted now.Having the Ring of Binding means I’m not really punished much for dying to bosses repeatedly, so I’d rather take the time to get better and learn the limits of my equipment and build (the mess that it is), than use the NPCs and potentially make it harder on myself later down the line. Plus, it means I’ve got about 25 human effigies to spare should I desperately need a summon later on. :3
The Crypt. Ugh.
I think that’s where I got up to in my NG+ run on 360.
It’s… less than pleasant.
For anyone who’s been considering it, I can say that my review of trying to power clean a 60kg barbell, falling over backwards and having it land on your abdomen is, on first impressions rather negative.
It starts out fairly well with a confident beginning but then you discover that the balance is off, the difficulty curve spikes alarmingly quickly and then the enjoyment trails off quite rapidly.
I plan to have another crack at it in case it’s a problem with my build, it could be a “How am I supposed to kill this Havel The Rock guy with a sword that does 5 damage to him on a good hit?” situation. Definitely don’t go into it thinking it’ll be easy though, that’d be my advice.
How many Shiggys is that then?
Without knowing how much one shiggy is, it’s hard to provide an accurate conversion
It doesn’t get all that much easier once you’ve mastered the maths of it. The correct answer is nearly always 11/10 shiggys.
Are you okay?! That’s a fair amount of weight to have land on you.
Oh yeah, one of the advantages of being absurdly strong now is that I basically did a chest press as it landed on me so I probably really took half the weight, luckily I managed to get it up and over my head so I didn’t end up with it on my face as well.
Did you poop?
Once I got home I eventually did
Cool.
I, umm…
I, umm, downloaded that Kim Kardashian: Hollywood game…
😀
Don’t judge me :’S
I played more of it than I probably should have. Deleted it from my tablet before I got too hooked.Note to self: Judge Liondrive. (And BDKIAF.)
You get to throw your drink at a girls shoes dc! And start rumours about her!
THIS GAME WAS MADE FOR ME! 😀
You make it to the A list! Now spread a rumour that she has genital warts
I won’t judge you now, but I did for the few seconds before I read “Don’t judge me”
Sorry too late. I take back all the nice things I ever said about you!
(now I got you wondering what I’d said haven’t I?!)
Dun wanna get my hopes up, but I just submitted my response to selection criteria for a job with dept of education! Hopefully my still having a valid orange card certification and blue card will work to my advantage! Also working for schools previously of course! Twould be so awesome if I could get a job now!
Today is made for a refreshing cider on ice with feet kicked up, not working and staring out the window. Days like these I miss my student lifestyle all those years ago
Also, I’ve weirded myself out by reading about the Ebola outbreak and then getting a desire to play Plague Inc.
These new super slim PS3’s look horrendous. This flappy thing they call a disc drive. Ew wwwwww. I hate it so much but the older ones turned out to be hard to find here.
R.I.P PS3 #4
Anyone had any experience with these new designs? Awful or better made if not cheaply and ugly?
*cries*
#firstworldproblems
Well we all have it bad, man. I’m making a sausage casserole in the slow cooker and my house smells too amazing. #firstworldproblems
I thought the general consensus was that they are slightly worse quality (dat cheap disc flap), but were quieter/cooler/less-power overall.
Don’t mind my slim, but I definitely think the original phat PS3’s with PS2 backwards compatibility and 4 USB ports are much better. If it was me I would’ve gone on Ebay and bought a 60GB phat and just put in a 1TB HDD than buy one of those crappy cheap-arse super slims.
My slim has survived a TV being dropped on it with just a few scratches on the casing to show for it.
My PS3 at the moment is the Super Slim and I like it. You can feel and see the low quality materials they’ve used but it’s really quiet* and it uses the least power of the three PS3s and that’s a big plus for me. Aesthetically the original phat and slim look better but for me it’s just a black box under the TV so I don’t mind it. Also the fact that the disc drive can be opened manually is useful in case the console dies I can remove the disc without opening up the console. The fact that the disc drive is on top means that you need to keep the top of the console exposed though so it can be hard if you want to store it in a thin slot on your TV stand/Wall unit. It’s really light too in case you move your console around (Very rare probably but useful when you do) – I hang out with my cousin over the weekend and moving the console from my house to his was not a hassle.
I don’t know if your kids would play with the opening mechanic for the disc drive so that could be an issue for you.
Also, Sony sells a stand for storing the console vertically but I wouldn’t recommend it. The latch that holds the disc drive closed when horizontal tends to slip at times when the console is stored vertically. This is a primarily horizontal console and for me it works best that way since it’s easier to put the disc in. Kind of reminds me of the PS2 slims which I owned during that generation.
*I put the asterisk here since it does become noisy when you put in a disc initially (because of the thin plastic used to cover the disc drive) and when the game is loading etc. I play a lot of digital/PS+ games (so quiet when you’re playing digital games) so I don’t use discs much but even when I do I don’t mind the noise that much. It doesn’t reach the level of the 360 jet engines and I barely hear it over the TV’s volume. I’ve never used Blu ray’s in it though but I remember Blu ray’s being louder than game discs on my ps3 phat so maybe they could be worse on the super slim. No idea.
If you need a PS3 I’d recommend the super slim but if you can find an original slim at a similar price then it’s probably more durable for your use.
Hopefully your saves were backed up before your console died. Sorry about that.
I ended up picking up The Last of Us again.
I’m not too sure why :S
I’d like to reclaim my masculinity now.
You did good. I can’t wait to replay again. I think I’m going to portion it out this time and play an hour a night instead of long marathon sessions.
I think I’m gonna stick it out this time, haha! 😀
I never actually finished it :S
I don’t even think I got half way :S
I really need to get this (PS3)… Managed to avoid all spoilers so should probably reward myself by playing it now.
Need. Nap ;_;
*circles the wagons while Gooky naps inside*
*tumbleweeds*
*shoots tumbleweeds before they wake Gooky inadvertently alerting the coyotes*
*flips gun into holster and rides off into the sunset*
HEEYAA!
*loads up the firework and pinwheel machine and aims for the coyotes*
I felt like that, but then I had a coffee milk, and now I can punch the day with my shaky, sweaty hand.
If I put a pan in front of a mirror, will that help?
I decided to grab Final Fantasy 3 in the humble bundle sales because … raisins.
Here’s my experience so far:
Whooooa I fell down a hole.
Me “I guess I will walk this way”
Game “Something something You are the chosen one”
Me “wait what?”
Game “…”
Me “… okay then, I will go to this town I guess?”
Villagers “You are the chosen one now get out of the town and do stuff”
*checks game time*
*You’ve played 10mins*
They really didn’t worry about things like “story” back in the 1990’s did they?
If it’s the one I’m thinking of, it’s the redone one from a few years ago not the infinitely more amazing 90s one.
From a quick search all I can see that they really changed (besides graphics) was making the characters have personalities and tweaked the job system.
I played about an hour of that one, then skipped along to FFV.
Actual FF3, or “FF6” FF3?
I’m pretty sure it’s the remade one.
Oh just checked and yeah it is the “actual” Final Fantasy 3, not “Final Fantasy 3” which was actually Final Fantasy 6.
Yeah, there’s now three versions:
FFIII
FFIII but VI
FFIII-3D, which is the same as the iOS and PC versions.
Goddamn Square/Squenix
/Squaresoft
It never ceases to amaze me that there are so many people in the world that ACTUALLY FOLLOW this thought process:
“I’m at work and no one else is. I wonder what pornography is up to these days?”
I’m usually the opposite now.
“Everyone’s at work and I’m not, I wonder what pornography is up to since 3 hours ago?”
=PHell, I get nervous sitting at work and looking at any page that has the combinations of the letters s e x, whether they are part of another word or mean sex.
I’m sure some guy in IT keeps looking at my browsing history, judging me, and slowly shaking his head.
Please tell me they don’t do that.
Hot mails, you say?
Well, you know that I enjoy Yahoo!’ing the G-Mail.
“I’m at work and no one else is. I wonder what TAY is up to these days?”
I know right? At least send/receive/view nude slideshows via email with inconspicuous filenames, huh. 😀 I kid, we have a filter on ppt files as a result of the aforementioned.
I don’t believe you. You’d have to send me this presentation file so I can confirm your story.
“I havent checked my local pornographie site in the last 7 minutes, better take a look and make sure they doing alright”
I currently intensely hate everything.
ESPECIALLY YOU FLAPPY!
Fun fact: Even though PS+ cloud saves your Dark Souls 2 data it doesn’t matter. Still can’t use that data on a different machine.
Weeeeeeeeee!
[hate intensifies]
“Cloud*”
*Cloud in this instance refers to your local hard drive. That’s a cloud, right?
So it’s only for recovery on a machine that has a hard drive failure/replacement?
Wow, that sure is……useful.
Wow. I honestly would have expected it to work like the Steam one. Which is… amazing.
shit, that’s the only game I’ve heard of doing that , I’ve done 2 PS save data swaps using PS+ cloud and didn’t encounter that problem. That’s some bad luck 🙁
That’s odd.
I’ve recovered Dark and Demon’s Souls data to two different PS3’s after breakages. And I download the cloud saves for multiple games onto two PS3s at once if I want to continue playing on the bedroom PS3 but I started the game on the loungeroom PS3.
This is the slowest day in the universe.
http://i.imgur.com/lpfKlvT.gif
That is the second best gif I’ve seen this week!
This is the best and its hard to top, frankly .
And this is the greatest song in the wor-rld nyahhhh this is just a tribute!!
Couldn’t remembeeeeeer the greatest song in the world, no. This is a tribute ooooohhhh. To the greatest song in the world, aaaalright, it was the greatest song in the world, aaalllriiiiiight you know it was the best muthaf***ing song the greatest song in the world alright.
Oh my goddddddddd… I’ve had pretty much no work to do the past few days so I kinda just sat there :/
Come on. One more hour. Then trainsleep.
You finish at 4:50 now?
The things you’ll do to avoid me, honestly!
There’s a smash repairer in QLD (Ashmore, Gold Coast for those playing at home) called “Max Butts” tee hee hee hee.
I’m 12 years old it seems.
In Coopers Plains, there’s a car dealer called Mike Hunt’s Cars!
Dick Payne Real Estate!
Sofa King Adelaide.
Their prices are Sofa King low XD
I’ve seen that one! 😀
I may have been neighbours with that guy as a kid. At the least, I was neighbours with a guy called Mike Hunt that sold cars.
Haha, hunting cars.
There is a mechanic in Adelaide with a big sign out the front saying: “Head Jobs Done Here!”
I actually saw that one a few years ago when I was there, had to do a double-take. Had to stop and take a photo of it.
The highschool I went to used to get stationary supplied from a company called.
Australian
Stationary
Supplies
Did they advertise at the local arcades by getting all of the high scores?
No, POO and ASS were already taken 😉
I guess business wasn’t going anywhere.
In a similar vein: https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/statuses/493434345219457024
1hr until I get to play and stream The Last of Us. 😀
Dammit. I have to wait until tomorrow to play it.
When I’ve done the skirt (when I stop procrastinating) I’ll post pictures
just realised i prob should throw some feelers out there early, Im after some 3 Day pax passes if anyone ends up with spares. 1 more guaranteed but possibly 2-3 more.
i suck at this. second year in a row im looking for last second tickets. didnt even realise pax tickets going on sale for this year, and by the time i did they were sold…
Due to financial issues I don’t think I’ll be able to attend this year. You can have mine if you like mate.
that sucks man, i do feel for anyone travelling from interstate to come to pax… can get very pricey… let me know if you are definite you arent going and ill organise some cash for you come pay day.
Yeah just sorted my tax out – not good – so I’ve cancelled the accommodation. I’ve still got your email from the seedbox stuff a few months back, so I’ll email you when they arrive, guessing I’ll just have it posted to you?
yeah sweet no problem man…
Anyone up for some TAYKart tonight?
@freezespreston, @shane, @liondrive, @dc, @coldcamv, @stickman, @greenius, @powalen, @scree. Sorry if I’m forgetting anyone, I need coffee.
Pick me! Pick me!
I usually would but I got some post apocalyptic urban decay to explore tonight! (The Last of Us, Woooo!)
Sure!
OK then, usual time I guess 7:30PM.
Ah man, TLOU. 🙁 If I remember I’ll join, but the game might be too good to put down? 😛
Thanks for the tag though! Any time you feel like during the week, gimme shout out on twitter! (notification woo)
Sure, but I’ll leave if there’s low numbers 😛
@sughly @doc_what !
What’s the number for it again? Dunno if I can yet, but I’ll need it if I do!
Ah, I would, but thanks to uni the earliest I’m available for tonight is 9:30pm est :S
I’d be keen for it on Friday night though 🙂
Got a new speed kart I want to test out 😉
I still haven’t unlocked so many things :S
The last thing I unlocked was that gross squirrel glider thing XP
Might be late, sorry. But I’ll pop on when I can, and see what’s happening!
You might want to turn your Wii U on now though, as I’ve mentioned below there’s a system update.
Pokemon fans! I found this hilarious. The words are a bit NSFW.
That is indeed hilarious. Thank you for sharing.
Well.
To quote LoganTrackwell,
STILL NO NOTICE OF JOYSTICK RETURN >:[
Where did you get it from?
http://www.skycomp.com.au/thrustmastert-16000mjoystickforpc.html
These guys. They were an easy walk from work.
I’d have an easy walk there and have a word, it’s been quite a while now hasn’t it?
I went over on Friday and asked about it, the guy told me it usually takes about two weeks (which it had been that day). Though when I dropped it off, the guy said it should be about a week.
So yeah, gonna give them a call or something tomorrow if there’s still no e-mail about it.
Work story spoilered:
Ah. Uproarious, uncharacteristically boisterous laughter from down the hall toward management. Either someone is being pants-wettingly hilarious, or our VIP has arrived. Something about Important People makes the things they say so much funnier than coming from anyone else.
Guess is confirmed a few moments later.
“Hey! Transient! The General Manager is just around the corner! Quickly!”
“Quickly what, exactly?”
“Quickly… look busy! Log into the phones! Do work!”
“I am busy, I am in the phones and I am working.”
“Yes but… Look busier! Like, stressed but motivated!
I offer a very severe look in return.
“Well… at least sit up! It’s not a lounge chair, your arm doesn’t need to be over the back of it. And do you have to be chewing gum?”
I continue to frown, but also arch an eyebrow. No-one’s that important. “I’ll be sure to curtsey.”
Hierarchies. Grunt. (Edit: The VIP was actually very nice and we were all quite happy to provide the assistance they needed in understanding our somewhat unique duties. I am just a child who doesn’t like being told how to behave.)
Also, here’s gem. We are in the telecommunications unit. People come to us when their phones don’t work, when they need to connect them, cancel them, move them, pay for them, whatever. It’s what we do. So we’re doing a bit of a reshuffle and someone asks without a hint of irony, what we’re doing to do if the phones don’t work after we move.
Cue my searching stare as I try to figure out if they’re trolling or not. Ask carefully, very deliberately, “What is it that we do for a living, again?” Embarrassment? So yeah, not trolling. Wonderful.
Really think I need a holiday soon.
My business experience so far has demonstrated that any company that specializes in something is absolutely shithouse at doing it themselves. So eg HR companies have shit HR, tech companies can’t manage their IT infrastructure properly etc.
“Blaghs’s struggles with employment!”
(Watch Blaghs struggle with being employed)
*sound of a jingle writer being put through a shredder*
Sitting at work today, the receptionist next to me sighs, puts down her phone, and says (in an exasperated manner) “Men.”
Another receptionist turns around, and says (in an agreeing way) “Men.”
A third turns slightly, and says (in a sort of combination of the above two ways) “Men.”
So of course I respond with “…” while my brain is like “Dammit Sean, you were supposed to follow suit and say ‘Men!’”
And then they all turned and looked at me.
Other story:
My mother was standing over in the doorway to the Nurse room, and I was close enough that I could hear most of what she said.
“…when I’m dictator. Because I’m going to be a dictator. People aren’t going to be given a choice about whether they do what I say, or else they’d end up like my son. *pause* Who is now looking at me and smiling…” (While I smiled and waved furiously at her)
Hey, if more people ended up like you, so much the better.
Picked up The Last of Us today since EB shut at 5:30 \o/
Now to actually play it this time.
I’m thinking I might change one of my uni majors.
I want to do Games Programming, but I’m just not very good at it :S
I’m far better at the written / practical side of the IT things, and plus I think I’d be earning more money 😛
I have a bad feeling about one of my courses already (it seems really hard!), so I’m gonna give it my best still, but if my best isn’t enough than I might switch to a more IT based major, or only do one major even 🙂
Do a little bit off programming, but games jobs are few and far between.
Yeah, I had a plan for that. I was gonna make it big Scree!
I was gonna work wthin the games industry doing IT based rolls, while working on my portfolio in my own time as to get my foot in the door, then work my way up from there with a big company 🙂
Experience matters more then a portfolio. Seriously.
Make your own games. It’s the best experience
That’s what my portfolio was going to be 😛
Games 😀
Self made games to show my programming know how.
That and 3D character designs 😛
Plus working within the industry, in some capacity, would be good for my CV also 🙂
And I’m somewhat competitive. Why?
code academy race? We could set up some challenges. So you have a month to make a game, and then we could see who wins
Hmm, I’ll look into it first before I commit. I have a bunch of assignments due already, so mightn’t the time :S
I’ll get back to you 🙂
It’s just an idea. Something that may help. For example when you’re on holidays
But if it’s a creative job (which games design is) and you have some experience and no portfolio to back it up………..
Yes. I tried to get into games art. You have to go through QA jobs generally. A portfolio is important, but so is experience
You’re competitive, aren’t you, Liondrive?
What’s the course that seems hard?
Introduction to 3D Games Programming.
It seems interesting, but they neglected to teach us C++, or how to use the software, or anything really :S
The only thing that boosted my confidence a bit was that one of the guys that I thought was a lot smarter than me only got a credit in the last unit, where I was bordering on a distinction.
I’ll give it my best, like I said, but if I fail, rather than repeat the course I think I’ll switch majors.
So is it just a theoretical course about object oriented programming, or at they teaching a different language?
So far (cause it’s only been one lecture), the lectures are theory based, while the workshops are hands on “make this shape, do this, make this, etc.”, while the second assignment is to actually make a game :S
They expect you to know / learn C++, despite teaching Java last semester (it’s even the same lecturer :S) and not teaching it in the lecture.
One thing that’s consistent on I.T. is change. Tech will change, you gotta roll with it and learn as you go. Good experience throwing a C++ project at you after you’ve just been using Java.
The most important thing you can take from an I.T. degree is the ability to learn. Any specific technical knowledge will eventually be obsolete.
This is actually a good thing because Java is a godawful hunk of shit that should never have existed and no one in the games industry doing any serious work still uses it if they can use C++ or C# instead.
Are you doing the 3D stuff in DirectX or in OpenGL?
The only software I’ve used so far was…
Visual Studio? I think we’re moving to DirectX after using open GL last semester.
I’m gonna sit down and get my head around it all on Friday.
I wasn’t in a spot to learn on Tuesday, haha! 😀
If you need help with C++ I can give you a hand, I’ve been coding in it professionally for about a decade now. Generally prefer C# over it nowadays though.
There’s plenty of good options out there to help you figure out c++. Given that you have done some programming before, it will likely be a little easier to get a grasp on in the early stages.
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/c-a-general-purpose-language-and-library-jump-start
I did c++ when I was at college, so I know a little, but I rarely use it these days, so I’m pretty rusty myself. I can probably help quite a bit with 3d stuff though, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask 🙂
Aw what? Captain Toad is delayed until next year for Europe (I assume all PAL regions). LAME, NINTY!
I thought the days of long delays between Western regions were gone :'( (I think it’s still a 2014 release for US)
In other news, it’s apparently a mid-tier price title ($40 in US) which is pretty reasonable. I thought full price would be a bit much and I just hope there’s enough content in there to justify that price.
EDIT: Ooooh and a reminder that the Mario Kart 8 Free Game Promotion ends at the end of tomorrow!
As long as they don’t pull the same crap for Smash as the last one.
So far I’ve done nothing this week except play ACIII and I’m pretty sure I’m only like halfway through it. I don’t even know how many hours I’ve clocked up. 20? 30?
I think it’s safe to say I really like it. Since my wife can’t stand it, she will tell me what happened at the end of Revelations if I tell her all the important Desmond stuff from ACIII, then we can move onto Black Flag together.
That’s a good system :P. I only finished I and II before playing III, so I was completely confused about what was happening 😀
I despised III though :P, good to hear someone is enjoying it 😀
That’s a really good arrangement.
You should wife that girl.
Get her a wife? We’ve considered it, but she won’t promise that we’ll share which I think is selfish.
Today I made something creepy. \o/
What was it?
All will be revealed in time….
Aw okay 🙁
Oh, okay. It was a Creepy Spider (from the book “I’m A Shark!). And it was really more cute than creepy.
Haha. I’ve no idea what that is, but sounds cool!
More babies?
Dammit I wanted to say that!
You’re too slow! 😎
Remember Breath of Fire? That was a cool JRPG series.
Now look at what they’ve done to the latest installment. 🙁
…Whyyyyyy?
Crapcom make more money off shitty iOS games 🙁
I dunno? The trailer looked pretty sweet, but it was just anime basically.
The title of the article was a bit disturbing, though.
A question to you master racers out there…
If I got a 3840×2160 display but used a resolution of 2560×1440, how much would that affect picture quality compared to a native 1440p display?
I think I read about an effect called pixel smearing or something similar – the problem with that kind of arrangement is that each pixel of output will get 1.5 pixels each way (vertically, horizontally) so it may look a little warped since the distribution won’t be even.
Native is best, even scale of native second best. In this case, next best to full might be 1080 output since it can be distributed evenly.
Cheers.
Alright, ummm, this is hardly perfect, but I made a quick little comparison thing: http://imgur.com/a/jchyk (I’d recommend popping these up in tabs next to each other, and flicking between them)
The first one is a cropped 2k image off a 4k source, so you’re getting a 1:1 pixel comparison, the second is the same cropping, but after the source image was downscaled to 2.5k, and then upscaled with absolutely no filtering whatsoever (even a $200 screen (somehow running at that resolution) will filter it at least a little better than that).
Edit: Alright, changed the AssCreed one to three images, 4k, 2.5k, 2k, hopefully in that order. Latter two downscaled using no filter to try and mitigate the effect of super sampling (though failing a little, I’ll admit), then upscaled using a linear filter (compared to the cubic I used originally which was a little overboard), so hopefully they more or less resemble what you get. Ish.
It’s worth noting that depending on the size/distance to the screen, and the pixel density you’re dealing with, whether or not this matters can vary a lot, particularly since what takes up the whole of your 1080P monitor becomes a quarter of it at 4k.
Man, master racing is hard.
Dat 4k is dead sexy though, not that I could run it any time soon.
Thanks for that, quite helpful. I’d probably have to actually find a 4k screen and try it to see about the pixel smearing Beavwa mentioned though.
What would you do Blaghs? If you had a not bad 22″ screen and was thinking of upgrading?
I’m currently rocking a 23″ screen (It’s only a TN, not an IPS, but it runs at 120 hz which is nice), and was considering the same things you are. But, my computer has enough issues running games at 1080P, so for mostly that reasons, I think I’ll stick with what I’ve currently got. Monitors get more cost effective year on year, and most content is optimised to 1080P at best, so I think it’s best to save cash and stick with what you’ve got.
That said, if someone sold a good 1440P screen at 24″ or so, I would be throwing my wallet at my screen so hard right now.
The affordable-priced 2160p monitors out there right now are still very badly compromised in terms of technology and also often really big. Resolution aside you’re better off right now with a high quality IPS-based 1440p screen at 27-30″ than a TN-based 2560p screen at 32″+
Yeah, I don’t really even want 27″, 24″ would suit best. Was thinking of the Dell UP2414Q.
Though if I mounted a 27 on the wall it would probably give the right amount of distance. I imagine reading text could be problematic though.
Maybe I will wait and try to find something like the Asus PA279Q on sale.
I have a 2011-model 27″ Dell Ultrasharp and it’s pretty rad. Only real issue is there’s a bit of input lag.
I sometimes play shooters and other fast paced games so that kinda thing is a factor.
Shall keep an eye out, have plenty of time till stuff like Star Citizen comes out that would really benefit from an upgrade.
Need double of each resolution to have pixel-doubling affect (Macbook retinas do this). Anything else and you’re just fisting yourself. Problems include:
– The picture looking like total ass.
– Not being supported by any kind of Windows standard.
– You’ll take a performance hit, because the GPU will have to do scaling.
– If you set the screen to do scaling, who knows what the performance hit will be.
– You got to the end of this list. Go back to the first point, because that’s all that really matters.
tl;dr don’t do it. There’s a reason the rumoured iPhone 6 will have 4.7inch screen – they need the space to double the resolution of ‘retina’.
90% DOWNLOADED!
I have no idea what you’re talking about half the time 😛
NOBODY DOES!
Elite.
Unless it’s the half when he’s talkin’ ’bout the ladieees.
They take up so much bandwidth.
I’ve never had a problem. It helps to have ‘fat pipe’. 😉
*goes to say something*
…
*doesn’t*
Aww.
Just a heads-up for anyone joining TAYKart tonight, it appears that there’s a system update, so you might want to turn your Wii U on ASAP so it can start the update.
I thought since the latest system update ,fi you have auto-update turned on it will … auto update when turned off (during its check time).
Oh yeah.
@shane @benny @evilmonkey. And hey, any others who want to join the throng I suppose.
MK8 promo game – what am I doing? 😛
Just go to one player online, then friends and rivals, then just join any one of us.
Also, @welbot.
No no the club Nintendo thing >_>
Ah, sorry. my bad, I might not be able to afford it at the moment, so let @benny or @shane have it.
@benny can have it. Three kids are expensive 🙁
Sorry to jerk you around, man.
Hi, TAY.
I would have something witty, but eh.
Apparently you get upvotes anyway, so why bother wasting energy on being clever?
Have an upvote.
😀
Thanks.
Okay so I need to get this Instagram thing up and running, and not look like I have no friends. So please add me on Instagram if you have it. Pleeeeaase?!
@strangista
(I hate that name 🙁 Wish I’d been able to Strangist, like my Twitter name. I’d even have been happy with Strangey!)
Strang1st?
Strangest itches?
So….. Like coffee?
Strangistest. Strangisterest. Strangisteresterest. Strangistence?
Will do – when I go near my phone which is charging elsewhere.
You can totally use Hipstergram in web browsers now for liking things in your feed and following people. So handy 😛
You couldn’t do it before?
nope- you can pretty much just see your feed on the web version of instagram. All the functionality is in the app.
As someone who neither has nor plans to own a smartphone, this kind of business model perplexes me. Maybe it’s genius. I dunno.
Nah was maybe a year ago they allowed access to it all via the website.
OH wait. We’re talking about Hipstergram. In that case, yes, @virus__ you are correct (my bad, I have a cold and my brain is slow today). But instagram is still all app.
Haha, all you can do on the website is view your feed along with liking and commenting, can’t upload. Would like a little notification thing when someone mentions me or comments on my stuff lol.
Followed!
Also reminds me of the Salvo’s marketing thing “Fashionista” stuff they have on posters in all the stores lol.
Thanks, peoples.
Also, the way I understand it, the point of Instagram is to accompany every picture with a billion hashtags. Am I understanding correctly? 😛
#oronemaybetworeallylonginappropriatehashtagsthatnoonewilleversearchfor
Basically, since it’s all about the likes and comments and stuff. But they’re pointless if your account is private, cause then it won’t be cast out into the hashtag/keyword search feature thingy.
Strangista from another sister!
D:
*vomits*
Hey it could be worse, Greenmangaming’s playfire thing actively complains I don’t have enough!
You only have 1 friend so some features won’t work properly
Some person at a whisky bar convinced me to get an account, so I can now follow the Strange on it!
Some person? Smooth…
There were a lot of people in that bar.
140 minutes of exercise today. I walked into town, did my exercise program and played two games of basketball. Fortunately we had a sub, so I didn’t have to play 80 minutes. Next week is the last night of playing 2 games (Thank heavens). Pleased that I know I can play 2 games though. Now it’s time to sit down and watch The Strain.
keep it up! try not to overstrain your body though 😀
Woo Mario Kart 8!
@liondrive I checked my stats against everyone and the only people beating me is @powalen (31-56) and @gutsoup (24-25 :P).
I’ve probably got the most wins against @benny which is 42-2 (sorry Ben!) but I reckon it would’ve been @dc which is something like 67-30 now, but he totally turned pro and won most of the games tonight and probably beat me over 10 times! NEW RIVAL. >:|
@dc and I both smashed into the same overpass within seconds of each other in one of the toad turnpike runs.
Sorry, I didn’t stay on too long because cosplay stuff. =(
Can only mean one thing. HAUNTED OVER PASS.
It was after one of the moveable ramps. I ramped off, then you did. Red shy guy on a bike right?
Right! 😀
Well gang, looks like we’ve got another mystery on our hands.
jinkies!
Thanks everyone for a good time. @dc is intimidatingly good at this game. @sughly and @sernobulus totally outclassed me too. @greenius plays way dirty. 😛
I’m reasonably sure I finished ahead of @sughly in Moo Moo Meadows, but the game thought differently. Is this a frequent thing?
I pretty much stink at this. Only placed in the top 6 twice in all those races. In single player, I’m still in the “hey, they play pretty rough in the 100cc races, don’t they…? :\” stage.
Everyone left at the same time except for @evilmonkey and then, I shit you not, I came first the next two races. Then @liondrive came on, and I came third.
Then… communication error booted me and I can’t get back on.
But it was fun while it lasted. Thanks all.
Thanks buddy! Was crazy fun!
Regarding your second point: sometimes! I totally hit a guy and overtook him but the game still said he beat me. I even uploaded it to YouTube :P! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgj01YYBJ6I (easier to see in slow-mo :P). but it’s not that common.
What’s more common is random people coming out of nowhere (last second boosts) right at the end to beat you 🙁
And don’t worry about not being “good” – practice makes perfect! Some of us are pretty good at the game though :). I find playing against randoms online is a lot easier than TAYfolk.
Yeah and everyone who’s ever got good at TAY Kart has had their ass handed to them many a-time. XD
Was fun, I’m still on, @batguy’s on too.
CC @greenuis
Yeah there’s a lot of lag issues on the game.
– Coming first, then game saying you didn’t – I’ve heard this plenty of times.
– Last second boosts aren’t exactly lag. You can get them from drafting or mushrooms or something. I’ve done it a couple of times.
– I’ve been going faster than someone in front, hit them with a shell or something, and they boost off and beat me. Lag.
– I shoot a shell forward, miss someone by 2-3 kart-lengths off to the side … and then they get hit somehow. Lag.
– Do we even know if they have Aus servers?
I’mma have to practice fierce!
I think I’m getting worse, haha 😀
That makes two of us
Yeah, reckon I’ll do some more single player grand prix’s, haven’t unlocked everything or got all golds yet.
Tomb Raider was a great game! Much better than I was expecting. Slightly disappointed that it was fairly light on puzzles, but with any luck (now that the origin story is out of the way) we can get some better ones in the sequel!
Managed to avoid most of the gruesome scripted deaths too, which was a bonus. Except for the impaling one on the waterslide they loved to show before release. Had to see that multiple times :/ I don’t know why it unnerves me so much. (I’m a wuss)
Anyway, definitely recommended!
Ending cutscene spoiler
I loved that they gave Lara her trademark dual pistols in the very last scene! I was thinking they cut them and was formulating complaints in my head before that last bit 😛 Should be good to use them in the next game.I loved the puzzle tombs as well. More of them in the next game hopefully.
And bigger! More than one puzzle in each!
The environment was really great too. Just big enough to get some good exploring done but not too big to be aimless. Good!
Loved how cohesive it felt too. See places you’re going to go in the distance and places you’ve been behind you. Gave a good sense of place like the island from Uncharted.
That’s one of the things that always amazed me in the God of War games. Standing at a certain point in the game and seeing how all the puzzles you’ve been doing in the latter levels link up and combine with the current levels to form one huge area.
I’d be okay with a bit less puzzling if they eased up on the combat a little and instead gave it a more open construction. Ideally Arkham Asylum with a Tomb Raider skin. It’d work really well I think. There were strong hints of it in the game as it was, they just stepped back from it a fair bit.
Definitely hyped to play the sequel. Eidos is the studio when it comes to rebooting old properties, back to back they did an excellent Deus Ex and a great Tomb Raider.
Right down to having The Joker as an antagonist?
The structure of that game, but as a Tomb Raider game obviously.
The Joker would be boring as an antagonist in a TR game. Lara would just shoot the fucker and be home for tea and scones by the end of the first hour.
Might be worth it for the surprise on his face and the pained “… but Bats never shot me!” as he bleeds out
Which serves to highlight why Batman is such a prick.
Yeah, but where’s the fun in that.
She’d die multiple bloody deaths while preparing the tea and scones?
So how’s The Last Of Us Remastered @dc, and @stickman, just as good as the original or better?
Exactly like the original but even prettier. Amazingly pretty.
I’ve never played the original. My thoughts so far:
– Looks pretty. Can tell it’s a ‘remaster’ though, but overall it’s nice and holds up on PS4.
– I like the controls and gameplay so far. It allows me to be in the game more.
– Story/tone/etc is pretty neat so far too (2.5hrs in?). It’s a serious mature game through and through. No tongue-in-cheek jokes yet (a la Uncharted). It’s also realistic enough to keep me engaged.
So yeah, I like it. 😀 It’s why I didn’t Mario Kart last night heh. Next time!
Played a bit of Type-0. It seems pretty good. Not sure about it though, should I get wrapped into it now or wait for the HD release? At 1440p it looks like… well, an up-resed PSP game. PS4 is going to look miles better. But that might be a year or more away from releasing and it’ll have a shitty awful anime dub (because the game lends itself to shitty anime dubs).
If it was getting a Vita release I’d wait without question, but it definitely feels like a mobile-oriented game and that’s kind of hindering my desire to wait as well.
Went to bed and did the usual watch an episode of Next Gen before sleeping thing, but Mr. Strange was moan-snoring (imagine the pretend snore noise people do with a snort followed by a whistle, except the snort is a groan and the whistle is a SNORT) in my ear and then hit me in the back when he rolled over in his sleep which made it a tad difficult to get to sleep.
So now I need to find something boring to do to make me sleepy enough that the distractions won’t stop me from sleeping.
I’m downloading new tables for Pinball FX 2, making me pretty damn tired just sitting here looking at the progress bar.
Maybe you could try that :p
Edit: Downloading the Doctor @strange table now :p
I bought a new online class. Watching them often makes me sleepy, even if I’m really interested in the subject. There’s just something about only one person talking for a long time that makes my eyelids heavy.
Heh. Talk to anyone who has to sit through training in a corporate environment.
(Edit: Hell, it happens to ME. All while I’m sitting there, chastising myself, “I’m an ADULT. This is not school! Get it together!”)
I don’t know how the trainers put up with knowing everyone there is falling asleep. I only ever train people one-on-one. Mostly so it’s so I can tell they’re learning, but having undivided attention is key to that.
Haha yes. Couldn’t not fall asleep through nearly every lecture I had at uni, even the subjects I was interested in or the lecturers I liked.
I seem to be unable to fall asleep on the trains these days though, which kinda sucks.
You should’ve heard the Freezemeat the other week. I had my suspicions and hit the sack early, but on waking partway through the night, there was quite a symphony going.
Hypnotic in a way.
Hooray, after many crashes and freezes and a server outage, I made a delivery of natural fabrics from Azeban to Aulin. Only to then realise I had to make the trip back again to collect my reward 😛 But I got moneys!
Also, @benny. Was it Monster Hunter you wanted?
I’m happy with that thank you, I don’t have that one yet. How much do I owe you?
ONE MIRRION-
Eh, 30’s fine 😛
Good job!
@sernobulus @rize #OldTAYMemes
How’s Elite going???
Slowly 😛
There’s a bit of a Minecraft-like “oh god this place is huge and I don’t know what I’m doing or where I’m going” vibe to it. Also it was very hard to pull myself away and actually go to bed.
Had a fair awesome night of playing MW2 with @rize and his friends once my laptop actually decided to listen to me and give me back my in game sound aswell as decent ping! Overall a very fun night with some very funny peopke
For someone who had barely played on PC, you did really well!
I got Into my stride near the end of the second pistol game haha
I had one of the most productive driving lessons in a long time today. Finally reached the dizzying heights of basically being okay.
WELCOME TO MEDIOCRITY!
*confetti of one colour falls from the roof*
Help yourself to some Jatz, no we don’t have dip. WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS!? SLIGHTLY ABOVE MEDIOCRITY PARTY!?
How about some water? Huh? Do we have anything else to drink? WHAT DID I JUST SAY!?
You’re doing good, Phlanispo. To put things in perspective for you, I’m 38 and still don’t know how to drive so you’re way ahead of me. 😀
Twins \o/ Sort of. Same age, but I have my licence :p
Shhhhh! Don’t let @blaghman know. I think he’s afraid of old people. 😛
Nice man.
Before you get down on yourself remember that if it was not hard you would not need a license to do it.
I was telling my daughter today that practice is important for getting better. Natural ability can only take you a little way in life – the rest is hard work and perseverance.
In some ways, most of life isn’t much more than MMO-style grinding. Often pointless, always repetitive, and the rewards aren’t always what you were hoping for… but you always end up leveling up.
Keep it up, man. You’re making progress, and you’ll only get better, too. Soon you won’t have to 10-to-2 your hands, and you’ll be able to drive with one arm out the window while the loudest, most distracting music in the world blares at top volume through the tinny speakers of your mum’s car… and you’ll think you’re the king of the world.
Fetch quests galore!
Though car mounts reduce travel times.
I was always more a fan of quarter-to-three, myself. Mainly because I found the other one tiring, having to hold my arms up like that. Much more comfortable to just latch my thumbs on the bar that holds the wheel to the middle bit.
Rationally, driving a car should be scary.
It’s something you’ll get used to with time and practice.
Almost as scarily, the actions and decision making become so ingrained that you can almost autopilot through the motions.
In short, you’ll be fine.
Goodnight, folks.
So, watched the first two eps of Penny Dreadful.
One Eva Green, thanks.
http://tinyurl.com/kzxcv47
About a week ago, Mrs Shane and I were watching Girls season 2 and Will and Grace season 1 alternately. We came to the realisation that we disliked both of these shows, and that our irritation at slogging through these shows was spilling into our daylife as well.
Instantly jettisoned those shows, and replaced them with a tried and true classic: Gilmore Girls. Immediately, everything about life seems better. One of my top three shows of all time for sure.
A Thursday early-morning question: your top three shows of all time? Here are mine:
* Six Feet Under
* M*A*S*H
* Gilmore Girls
Honourable mentions to: The Shield; The Sopranos; Friends; The Wire; Treme.
Off the top of my head…
Gilmore Girls
Dark Angel
Teen Wolf
I like the majority of my TV to be more light and fluffy than heavy and brooding. Although I know I have more favourites but will only think of them after I go back to bed. 😛
…I thought of one that’s up there with those three: Persons Unknown. I really enjoyed that. Oh, and Les Revenants.
Edit: and you know what? I wouldn’t have put it in my top 5ish before, but upon rewatching Firefly this year and realising just how smart it really was and how it still stands up to a rewatch (unlike Farscape, wish I’d never rewatched that 🙁 ) I’d definitely put it up there.
You didn’t enjoy your Farscape rewatch? That’s sad. I’m really digging mine.
I ended up actively hating everyone by the end of it. I’d watched it three times in fairly quick succession just before and after Peacekeeper War came out and loved it every time. But this time I just couldn’t find the love I used to bear everyone. I think it’s old age. Don’t get old, Shane…nothing’s shiny anymore.
That awful Ames White… *shakes fist*
Firefly.
Wire in the Blood.
Blackadder (all of them, though my favourite season is 2).
Also Red Dwarf.
Man that’s a tough question, so many great shows over the decades.
The first 3 shows that I really like that come to mind (not necessarily my favourites of all time, there’s just too many)
In no particular order
Seinfeld (So funny)
Breaking Bad (Badass)
The A-Team (Great memories of watching this with my Mum when I was a kid)
Also, honourable mention for Mrs. Brown’s Boys, that show is an absolute pisser.
Ooh, and Fawlty Towers, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Transformers G1, I could go on and on.
That’s a toughie. First instinct is to say Stargate (can I just count all three series as one? >_>), then maybe Futurama or something. Wouldn’t have a clue what to say for the third, both because it’s too hard to think of anything and yet at the same time too hard to whittle down.
In no particular order…
Breaking Bad
M*A*S*H
Scrubs
And when I say Scrubs I mean “Scrubs”. That “Med School” 9th season does NOT count and I will totally get up in your grill about it.
Wait, scrubs kept going after season 8?
seriously though, that med school thing was so bad.I went out of my way to import a box set from the UK that was only seasons 1 through 8. ;D
Only three? Jesus. Okay.
Breaking Bad
True Detective
Arrested Development
Honourable mentions to basically everything.
The Simpsons
Arrested Development
Mr Show with Bob & David
I watch these three shows every week. I love them so, so much.
The Wire
State of Play.
The more I think about it, Fargo.
Sesame Street.
– Arrested Development
– Scrubs
– Simpsons (First 10 seasons).
I like all seasons. I like the first 10 way more, though.
*I’ve only seen the first 18 seasons, no idea how many seasons there are now.
In no order I would probably say my top 3 are
Burn Notice (still havent watched the last season)
Breaking bad (one of the few shows ive watched every episode in)
The Blacklist ( love it but havent finished the 1st season yet and its annoying because family friends speed watched it and are spoiling parts)
Fringe
Sopranos
Lost
..and suddenly I’m feelin’ deja vu.
As someone who doesn’t watch a lot of televised vision:
-The Simpsons
-Futurama
-Friends
I actually can’t think of any other TV shows I like.
EDIT: Oh wait, know I thought of some.
Hon. mentions: Total Drama
I’m going to name the shows that I could sit down and watch happily anytime and out of order if they happened to be on tv.
Red Dwarf
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Stargate
(that’s a lot of scifi…)
Carnivale
Six Feet Under
Enlightened
I know I’ve forgotten a lot of stuff but those three came to mind reading this.
Honourable mentions: Gravity falls and ugh I can’t think of stuff right now.
The lady teaching this class I’m watching looks like a lady from one of those “Real Housewives….” shows I’ve seen ads for. It’s disconcerting.
I’m sure this was discussed previously, however I cannot find it and I’ve gone back a few pages too; what hotels are people staying at for PAX, if you don’t mind me asking of course?
Just had to check my confirmation email to remember haha.
Apparently my brother and I are staying at the Oaks on Collins.
I’ve stayed there before, nice place.
I’m probably going to stay at The Atlantis (aka Best Western Atlantis) on Spencer St. 1 block away from the Southern Cross bus terminal which makes getting in from the airport nice and easy. It can be a bit far if you walk everywhere (like I do) but it’s never bothered me before.
Really should get around to booking.
Probably ‘Tune Hotel’. It’s cheap, new, neat, proven, close to station, 2-3 stops from PAX.
Felt myself slipping again tonight.
I don’t like feeling down :'(
I like feeling happy 🙂
I thought it might be, therapeutic, to right down the things that are getting me down (even if I delete this post and not publish it).
I’ll spoiler it in case I do publish it though.
Self-worth:
This is usually where it starts. The first crack.I feel like I could be doing more. Should be doing more. I feel like I’m being wasted, and thus wasting away. It makes me think that I’m not good enough. As though I don’t have much, if anything, to offer. I want to have something to offer. I can’t see anything worth offering though.
That makes me feel like a hindrance. Like someone to pity. I don’t want pity.
I want to love, and be loved, but I can’t love someone with who I am now. I don’t have time. I don’t have anything to offer to a relationship.
I don’t have anything to offer, fullstop.
Self-image:
The second crack. Part of why I try to look good is to do with self worth. Cover the doubt with pretty clothes, and styled hair. Maybe I can fool others into thinking that I’m worth something. Maybe I can fool myself.I know I’m not repulsive, but when you worry so much about your appearance, only the imperfections stand out. The glaring imperfections that you can’t cover. Can’t fix.
The imperfections that make you doubt yourself.
It’s hard not to care when you feel like it’s the only thing you can do to make yourself feel wanted.
Worth something.
Self-doubt:
The final stage in my twisted cycle.This is where I start worrying that I’ll never have enough to offer. Never be good enough. Can’t be the man I want. Can’t have the life I want. Can’t be enough.
This is where I break my cycle.
This is where I tell myself to toughen the fuck up.
That life isn’t going to hand everything I want to me on a silver platter.
That life isn’t going to do me any favours.
That I need to do shit for myself.
That I need to stop worrying about all the useless shit.
This is where I patch my cracks, fix my walls, and go back to being happy.
This is where the first crack appears again.
Being so close to the finish line of, what I dub, the grind (schooling), is exhausting. I know I’ll stop worrying once I’m out of the grind, and into life, but I’m terrified of falling.
I want the chance to learn, to grow, to love.
I want to live.
Is it sad that my dream is a 9-6, Monday to Friday desk job?
I want to climb that corporate ladder. I want to show my worth, and prove that the grind was worth it.
Soon.
Only one and a half years left.
Soon.
You need to stop worrying about how people see you man, I haven’t met you in person, but you seem like a great guy.
You’ve got plenty to offer, and if people don’t like you for who you are, fuck ’em, they’re obviously not worth it.
You’re a work in progress. We all are. Just focus on one thing at a time, and don’t try and hold yourself up to what others are doing or what you think might be expected of you, or even what you expect of you.
That saying about finding love when you least expect it is based on truth. It’s true of most things that make you happy. They happen when you least expect it, when you’re not actively looking for them. When you’ve discovered how to be content right now, no matter what you’re expecting from the future.
I always found that when I was happy with myself and what I was doing then that’s when the other things I used to worry about (like finding love, and my appearance, and the hopeless feeling from listening to my stupid inner voice) kind of disappeared or fell into place.
Just be who you can be right now, and everything will usually fall in line around that.
You have a dream. That seems like a pretty good place to be.
I’m still in the lost-and-want-to-go-in-every-direction-at-once-also-nowhere-at-all stage.
Trying not to sound flippant, but I think you’ll be okay.
From the limited amount I’ve seen, you’ve thrust yourself out into social situations with almost complete strangers, and thrived. That’s a significant something. Something I would normally struggle with.
What’s more, there seems to be people here that like *you*, not anything that you think you’re pretending to be. People will like the real you, if you give them the chance to see it.
And not feeling like you’re ready to be in a relationship doesn’t mean that you never will. Don’t tell yourself you have nothing to offer, because you’ll stop noticing the things you *do* have to offer.
And that feeling of wasted potential? I can understand that. I get asked occasionally why, with all my intelligence and education, I became ‘just’ a teacher. And I don’t care, because I love what I do. If you feel like you’re wasting your abilities, you might not be doing what you want, or should, be doing. Took a very good friend making a very hard call to make me realise that for myself, and I couldn’t be more grateful to him.
Also, screw other people’s expectations of you, because trying to live up to them can be more trouble than it’s worth. Set your own *realistic* expectations for who you really want to be, and strive for those instead.
I can relate to all these feelings. They’ve been a part of my routine for as long as I can remember. Here’s what I have learned in my old age. It doesn’t really help the mood, but perspective is (probably) a good thing to have regardless.
1. Self-worth
You’re not the person to determine your worth in terms of what you offer to other people. Ultimately, it’s up to other people to decide to spend time with you (socially/romantically/etc). They’ll see things in you that you’ve rigidly denied, or maybe didn’t even see at all. It was a big shock when I discovered Mrs Shane wasn’t spending time with me out of some obligation or inability to turn me down definitively.In terms of self-worth, it sounds like you need to reflect off other people for that. That’s not a bad thing, by any means, but it does mean that a large part of that is out of your control, and that you’ll probably take singledom a little harder than someone more internally secure.
I don’t really have anything to suggest, but if opportunity comes knocking (in whatever form), I recommend you at least try to be open to it. Someone’s obviously decided that you’re worth the time to get to know better. (And of course, TAY has big love for you)
(And for what pathetically little it’s worth, I decided you were worth staying up past bedtime to write this reply for)
2. Self-image
This one is an unfortunate hang-up, because short of cosmetic surgery, there’s not a whole lot you can do about the foundations of your appearance. Imperfections can’t be helped; but I’d go a little further and suggest that you wouldn’t even be yourself without those imperfections. They are your distinction from other people. I’ve long ago learned to accept my physical imperfections.There’s a big step between acceptance of your ‘imperfections’ and loving them, though, of course. But it might surprise you how people respond to them. Personal example: one of my shoulders is extremely hairy, and the other one basically bare. But Mrs Shane wasn’t bothered at all, though, and we bonded over giving the affliction a nickname (‘werewolf shoulder’). Another example: she has a big dent of a scar in her side from some emergency surgery she had as an infant. There’s no pretending it’s a sexually attractive feature, but not all features need to be appealing. I certainly don’t find it unappealing or repulsive or anything; it’s fascinating, and an integral part of her journey to becoming the person she is today.
3. Self-doubt
Man, do I understand this one. You have no idea how many times a day I tell myself that I’m wasting my time going after this writing career I want, that I’m being ridiculous and selfish, and diverting money and time that would be much better off spent looking after my kids. Or that surely today is the day that Mrs Shane wises up and kicks me out. Or that my decreasing work ethic is going to cost me my job, and cast my family into the streets… and it’ll all be my fault, because I don’t have the right priorities.Ultimately, I think it’s normal to think about these worst-case scenarios, because it makes it possible to future-proof against them. But if you let these fears paralyse you, then they become totally self-fulfilling and extremely counterproductive.
I hope getting a job does something to alleviate these feelings you’re having, but if you’re anything like me, you’ll just find something else to freak out over, and all those ways you find to get down on yourself will return, manifesting just as strong as ever, and only slightly different from before. If it gets unbearable, I strongly recommend seeking help rather than just trying to wait out the clock for better times. (Not least because I discovered that the rat race is even more of a grind than the schooling years)
Love and all its assorted ills/awesomeness (often the same thing) is something you do WHILE you’re working on yourself.
No-one – and I do mean no-one – is ever ‘done’. The goal-posts are always shifting.
It may help to know that everyone else is pretty much a work in progress, too. The whole ‘living’ thing is pretty much just poorly-managed chaos.
Yeah, this. The best relationships are always the ones that push you to be the best version of yourself you can be. Where you learn and grow together. The ones that are partnerships.
We’re quite similar, you know 😛 As much as that may pain you to hear!
Moving out of home, leaving Uni and getting a decent job helped me astronomically with all three of those things.
But I think the biggest thing that helped me was discovering the frozen doughnut.
I’m going to beat you to death with a frozen doughnut one of these days.
They call him the TAY Froughnut Killer.
Froughnut! I should try that one day.
I know it’s hard but you need to stop worrying.
If you work hard, then you’ll get places. It’s just a matter of where you want to go.
As for your self-worth, everyone may have a little downtime, but you don’t realise how much of a help you are just being around people. Sometimes, it’s the smallest stuff you do that has huge impact on people.
Oi vey! @liondrive First off while I’ve never met you and from the sounds of things never will (as you’re never going to come to Sydney! Too cool and all that jazz) I can safely say you seem like a really cool dude! And I don’t throw that around too often. So here’s my little blurb as a reply!
Edit: ok it’s a massive rant, SORRY!!!
1)
Feeling like you should do more is a good thing, it shows you have a passion and drive to better yourself but you need to stop letting it break you down. Secondly no matter who you are and what you do you will always have something to offer the world. I guarantee this to be true. Finally in relation to being loved, lion I hate to break it to you man but being loved isn’t about having anything to offer your partner it’s about finding someone who will continue to love you even when you feel you can’t love yourself. Someone who’s able to see all you can offer when you’re completely blind to it. So even if you think there’s nothing you can offer to a relationship it doesn’t matter because for the right person, they’ll be able to see everything you can’t! I think wanting to better yourself is an important aspect everyone should take on board but don’t let it chip away at your self confidence!2)
Self-image I can’t really comment here because I’ve never seen you but trust me when I say you could not have looked as bad as I did in high school! I was a meek 40 kilos (friends used to joke saying a strong breeze could kidnap me) pimples all over my face and I couldn’t even bring myself to speak to girls properly until I was 16! Then something happened, I learnt a few tricks. Firstly fashion! Clothes make the man and you seem to have a good sense (going off what D.C. got). Secondly grooming, I believe everyone has exactly what they need to look attractive they just need to sculpt it out of their bodies (I’m against plastic surgery big time for cosmetic purposes!) Finally and MOST importantly confidence. Confidence and state of mind in my opinion makes up 50% of how attractive a person seems. The rest is just to draw people in, confidence keeps them there! If it helps go to the gym, go swimming, go for a run, when your body starts to take shape to what you want it to look like it’s a massive confidence booster! Oh and FYI all these imperfections you think you can’t fix? Hate to break it to you but imperfections are what make people beautiful, it’s those imperfections that I remember when I look back at my relationships both physical and mental. So stop trying to hide the things you don’t like and learn to show off the things you do like about yourself!3)
I don’t think you’ll like my advice here because I think self-doubt is an extremely good thing. Being unhappy with yourself means you will always and I mean ALWAYS push yourself harder. The greatest people in human history weren’t people who were completely content with themselves or with the world, they were people who would’ve constantly thought “this just isn’t good enough”. I think the world needs more people who think like that, more people willing to say “this isn’t good enough” of themselves and the world around them. Don’t let it break down your confidence but let it be fuel to your fire. You don’t think you’re good enough? What are you going to do about it? I remind myself I’m not good enough every week and build goals around that. This is how you get better, this is how you become who you’ve always wanted to be. So hold on to that self-doubt and let it feed you.😀
You’re a good guy, Liondrive. I struggle with these things too. And I know you’re 10x the person I am, so if you think I have any worth than that goes for you too.I may or may not have just spent way too much money on tables for Pinball FX 2 O.o
I gave in yesterday and bought booster packs on Hearthstone + the Naxx wing :'( All my moneyz gone! *cries* Didn’t even get any decent legendaries :@
Morning all! So I’m looking at upgrading my laptop (primarily for gaming), and wanted your expert opinions on if I am indeed doing the right thing.
I have a Samsung NP305VA (2012) and get the following experience index scores on stuff:
Processor 6.8
RAM 7.3
Graphics 5.9
Gaming graphics 6.0
Primary hard disk 5.9
I notice when I played games like Age of Wonders 3, Darkwood, KOTOR that the framerate is kinda slow.
Am I crazy and just accept my computer what it is, or would I be looking at a massive upgrade price?
From memory (pun for further down this sentence) the only things to easily upgrade in a laptop are RAM and the HDD. Anything else and you’ll struggle to find the parts as well as having to take apart your whole laptop and voiding any warranty you may have.
I’d say look at a new laptop or just make do with what you have really. Having a quick look at your laptop, the cpu isn’t as good as an i3 which are basically the laptop cpus to be looking at but you can’t change to an intel cpu. The graphics should be ok for low-medium settings though. If you’re wanting to play the latest games at high settings though, gaming laptops can get very expensive
You’re right, I think I’m going to make do with what I have and just suck it up. It’s only a couple of years old and purchased it so I could use excel, microsoft word, etc. It runs most of my games well, maybe I’m just being a perfectionist 🙁 haha
– Get rid of bloatware.
– Defrag.
– What’s your RAM slots and current capacity? Download Speccy and tell us.
– Run stuff like ‘Game Booster’ before playing games.
Otherwise, it looks like that laptop isn’t really a ‘gaming’ laptop. Maybe start saving up for a nice desktop PC which will blow any laptop out of the water.
Pardon my ignorance, what do you mean by Bloatware? Like Adware or other bugs? I’ll be download speccy and game booster tomorrow and start defragging (Haven’t done it in a while, it should probably help!_.
Definitely wasn’t purchased as a gaming laptop haha, it’s only a couple of years old now so I think saving up for an awesome desktop sounds like the way to go!
Bloatware = shit = junk programs. Samsung Wireless Assistance, Samsung Battery Helper, Samsung DVD Wizard – junk like that.
I’m not sure what kind of specs your laptop currently has, but you’re very limited in terms of upgrades. As cufcfan8 says, memory and HDD are the easy bits. You may be able to upgrade the cpu/gpu/apu if you can find someone selling one that fits your socket and works with the motherboard, but how much better you can get I’m not sure.
The only other option that really exists that could provide a reasonable amount of extra grunt, might be to add an external GPU.
There are cards/adaptors you can get, that attach to your laptop (generally by USB or PCMCIA) that have a PCI-E slot you can plug any old desktop GPU in to. Usually you’ll need to hook up a PSU to provide it with power as well, and you can get specially designed boxes to house the PSU and GPU safely.
You’d be easily looking at 2-300+ to get that kind of thing set up though. You’re probably best to look at getting a whole new lappy.
Quick link to the thing I was talking about http://www.hwtools.net/Adapter/PE4H.html
I agree with you, I ended up deleting a microsoft service pack the last time I tried to update/upgrade my lappy so I think buying a whole new one will dummy proof it from me 😛
Yeah unfortunately laptops really aren’t something you can upgrade so a replacement is probably your best bet and even those are getting hard to get custom versions of these days. I’m in the market for one myself and even Dell have basically stopped offering anything beyond a few stock models with cosmetic & software options.
The only place I’ve seen that still builds custom jobs for a reasonably decent price (and who I’m thinking of going through myself) is this lot: http://www.metabox.com.au/
That’s an awesome website, it makes it pretty easy to put it all together. I’m confused how a WIndows 7 Ultimate 64 costs more than Windows 8.1 Professional though :S
I think if I happen upon a spare $2,500 I’d have to give this website a burl lol
Well Ultimate’s are always more expensive than Pro’s so that’s probably the reason there. I’d love a much better one than the one I’m looking at but the $1200 odd I’m hoping to spend if they ever finish this bloody sale and show me their normal prices (weird that I want a sale to end) will get me a good solid lappy that can at least do backup/’too lazy to get out of bed’ level gaming
Feels like it’s already been getting warmer over the last few days. Didn’t even have to wear my beanie to work today.
SO LONG, SUCK SEASON!
My scrawny arms aren’t going to cover themselves. I NEED WINTER. :'(
Dammit summer, I don’t want people to see my knobbly elbows!
JOIN THE FITOCRACY CHALLENGE, DWEEB, AND WORK THOSE ARMS
/the commando
One day I’ll join a gym again and I will be happier. 🙂
GO TO THE GOD DAMN PARK TO EXERCISE DC I SWEAR TO GOD I’M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU AGAIN! >:(
I don’t know what mythical gym parks you have but I’ve never seen one. 😛
I have ways of finding where you live, and thus finding parks near you that you can exercise at.
It have WAYS >:)
I’ve told you to come down to wagga and we can do some boxing training but you were all “ooooh different state…”
When’s that starting again, tomorrow or Monday?
MONDAY IS PAINDAY
*when you’ve not exercised for months like me
Or years like me.
Apparently it’s forecast to snow in Canberra tomorrow, and I couldn’t be happier.
DEATH TO THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF SUMMER.
SNOW????
are you kidding me????
FUUUUCK im gonna die next month. I have 2 hoodies and jeans.
We can huddle together like penguins.
DEAL
My mother wants it to snow.
So that we can be snowed in, and she can take the day off work.
It is ridiculously warm in Sydney today. Feel like I should be at the beach.
I am inside wearing a jacket and beanie because of the air conditioning and I hate it.
lol, hope you’re not in Melbourne!
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🙂 man i am a whinger.
Don’t forget your humility.
AH GODDAMIT!
NOW THIS DOESN’T MAKE SENSE!!!
I had to google that, then i still didnt understand how it applied.
Am i humble enough yet???
Nah.
fuck, what about now??
Playstation Plus games lineup for August:
US:
– Dragon’s Crown (PS3 & Vita)
– Fez (PS3, PS4 & Vita)
– Road Not Taken (PS4)
– Crysis 3 (PS3)
– Proteus (PS3, Vita)
– Metrico (PS3, Vita)
EU:
– Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Vita)
– Fez (PS3, PS4 & Vita)
– Road Not Taken (PS4)
– Crysis 3 (PS3)
– Proteus (PS3, Vita)
– Metrico (PS3, Vita)
I haven’t gotten to Fez yet, sweet.
I forsee my vita being ‘borrowed’ in the immediate future.
Xbox Live Games with Gold for August
– Crimson Dragon (XBone)
– Strike Suit Zero (XBone)
– Motocross Madness (360)
– Dishonored (360)
…man
I feel like that’s actually a pretty respectable lineup. It’s just that Sony has more cross-buy / cross-play stuff. They sort of designed with it in mind, where MS considered their platforms separate.
Already got all of those except Dishonored.
Dishonoured is the best
Goddammit, Microsoft! Stop giving games I would rather play on PC!
Boobs Crown is only available on PS+ for the US? Bummer, I want to play it but don’t want to spend money to get it. =P
It was PS+ on Vita in Europe a few months ago.
Really? DAMMIT!
Cool. I played Fez on PC with a controller, but I think I’d like it more on Vita.
Vita seems like the perfect platform for it, really.
3DS I reckon. Would love to trip out on constant changes from 2D to 3D 😛
3DS is a shit platform for anything that has ever existed. >:( There is literally nothing on it that wouldn’t be better on hardware that was less shit.
I can’t think of anything that wouldn’t benefit from being on better hardware?
I hate the 3DS so much. 🙁 Every time I turn it on there’s this sinking feeling of depression. Followed by an ache in my hands and wrists as the thing has the ergonomics of a fucking brick.
Are you still sporting a vanilla? I hated that too, but I think the XL is pretty brilliant.
I have sinking feelings of depression too, but that’s for other reasons >_>
@mrtaco: I have TWO (because Nintendo are assfucks that decided to region lock) XLs. The XL is marginally less shit than the base model, but it still is ergonomically utterly terrible, poorly made, underpowered and with absolutely shit basic functionality.
Problem with new The Last of Us.
It’s TOO pretty. I want to stop to take #PS4Share screenshots all the time.
I was thinking it’d be cool if there was a mode with everything stripped out (no enemies, no NPCs), just the level fully open to explore and admire.
Seems a waste when you sometimes can’t admire all the work they put into it.
The new screenshot mode kind of pauses every thing and gives you a chance to take in the area.
Yeah, but I found myself just wanting to amble around while playing, but couldn’t cause of the stupid enemies / NPCs, haha!
I just wanted to look at the pretty sights and explore everywhere :3
I found it still blocks the camera to only where the character can go. 🙁 Like I couldn’t zoom outside of a window to take a pic of Joel inside a house.
The more details I see about Bravely Second, the more worried I get that it’s going to be a crushing disappointment.
– Agnes and Tiz confirmed to be recurring characters, but Edea and Ringabel (i.e. the ones who aren’t boring or annoying) are not.
– Revo not doing the soundtrack, instead it’s going to a guy who, while very good at what he does, primarily writes Anime themes and Miku Hatsune stuff.
– Scenario writer Naotaka Hayashi from 5pb (Steins;Gate amongst others) is not returning. Instead they have a 4-person team doing writing – the two producers of the original game, the dude that wrote the light novel adaptions, and the game’s director. Notably only one of them is actually a writer, and he’s not a good one. 🙁
– Returning to the same world after a minor time skip.
– Only jobs revealed so far are re-treads of the same stuff, they’ve just been showing off new character Magnolia in the costumes.
I’m getting this creeping sense of dread. The game’s moved a million copies (600k outside Japan) and so I think Squenix management has smelled success and pulled as much of the game back internally as possible so they can capitalize, but the whole reason the game wasn’t a smelly fucking turd like mainline FF is that it was outsourced and people outside their fucked up useless organization were making it. If they’ve moved it primarily in-house it won’t be done for ten fucking years. 🙁
I’m going to wait and hear some post-release impressions before grabbing it this time. As long as they don’t try something silly like Bravely Default’s second half again, I’ll probably buy it.
I bought the collector’s edition of Bravely Default, and I’m glad I did.
From what you’ve just said, I’m concerned.
I bought the CE too, though I kind of regret it because the figure wasn’t very good and I subsequently imported a better artbook (Art of Bravely)
EA are the worst ever and I won’t touch their games ever.
Why won’t Sony let me buy into EA’s games service? OMG!
Interesting to see the ones most angry about it are the ones that tend to be the angry Microsoft fans everywhere else. Including the guy who spent half a day abusing me because I didn’t like Windows Phone.
Gamers are an unusual bunch.
Now now don’t just brand them gamers and give all of us a bad name. The term you’re looking for is fan boys!
That said odd move by Sony to not let EA have this service on their console. But meh I’m not going to miss any of the games from that offer anyways!
Man with this whole citizenship thing over and done with i feel like a big freaking weight has been taken off my shoulders, actually starting to feel quite positive about… Well… Everything 😛
Even Mrs. Pixel has started taking huge steps towards normality compared to that weird limbo we’ve been stuck in for the last year…
Without getting into it too much, due to her illness she has been quite a hermit for a long time, and due to that put on a bit of weight… She has noow acknowledged that this is not OK, and started taking action, which by the way is huge for her! She’s gone on a diet, and the really the big thing is she’s started going on walks with me… The reason why that is major is because the anxiety she has is aimed toward physical sensations and exercise, so she’s kinda knocking two things on the head at the same time…
i guess what I’m trying to ramble about is that things are looking up! And we’re finally getting somewhere, and I’m super proud of her!
… Sorry for rambling, just felt like sharing what’s been going on in my life, if someone cares… I would also like to add that you guys have been super awesome through this entire journey, couldn’t have stayed mentally sane without you! I FREAKING LOVE YOU TAY GUYS! thank you and stay awesome!
/rambling
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Good news, my friend. 😀 I’m happy for you guys!
\o/
Never apologise for rambling about good news! \o/
APOLOGIZE IF YOU JUST SAY GOOD NEWS AND GIVE US NO DETAIL THOUGH WE ARE MASSIVE GOSSIPS
Well done Mrs. Pixel, keep it up. Fitocracy challenge for everyone \o/
Also, you’re mentally sane? =S
I’m not to sure about having a mentally sane person on TAY but you know what,
craziersaner things have happened! =PThis is the power of being Strayan.
🙂 Thats great news man.
HUGS AND SHIT
also real life hugs soon.
That sounds like very good things happening for both of you!
\o/
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Yer Alright, you lot. Yer alright.
I caught up on all of the TAY I missed on my day off yesterday. You’ve all been busy I see.
And apologies for not really being able to contribute at all for any of the advice stuff. I’m pretty terrible at giving advice so I just keep my mouth shut.
I would like you to remember “so I just keep my mouth shut” the next time you want to say “awareness check”!!!! =P
I don’t know, when you advised faction and puppet to not start a colony wide open conflict I would say that’s good advice. =P
RPG advice I can handle. Life advice is a little bit trickier. I can’t just say “Roll 1d20 to see if you should do ____”
I don’t want to be Gary Gygax from that Futurama episode.
The dice say…no
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I appreciate how tough it must be to act like jerks all the time! Well done!
😀
THANKS MAN I TRY REALLY HARD
Not one of them wished you a happy birthday yesterday. Bunch of horrible jerks.
I didn’t even know. Happy Birthday for yesterday @dc.
My birthday’s in January, but thank you! 😛
Dammit Freeze, you tricked me you jerk >:I
THIS IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT. YOU’RE ALL A BUNCH OF JERKS. WELL DONE. 😀
Does it make what I said any less true?
Man has a point, Monkey.
Dan’s don’t age thus don’t have birthdays.
It’s a fact
You don’t have birthdays, you have Danuarys.
It’s only fair after all.
its pretty easy, actually.
You’re talking about taykart aren’t you? 😛
HE KEPT WINNING! IF ANYTHING HE IS THE JERK!
We’re all jerks, now.
Like one big family of jerks! \o/
A circle of jerks o.O
Will the circle be unbroken? #videogames
It’s not that tough.
I picked it as my perk at character creation so it’s an easier skill check for me
the Jerk Perk
No, that one was for making jerky, the one for being a jerk is called Jerktastic
it’s called, Hands Off My Jerky, Turkey
I’ve never had turkey jerky. I’m told that poultry doesn’t jerk well. Reptile does, I’ve had croc. It was a non-event & tasted kind of waxy.
Whatever.
Just got an email from Amazon informing that they have $140 worth of apps for Android for free today and tomorrow! Not all really great apps, but Sonic & Sega All Star Racing, and Carcassonne for free certainly makes it pretty cool!
http://www.amazon.com.au/gp/search/ref=pe_997162_170137702_pe_button/?rh=i%3Amobile-apps%2Cn%3A2544160051&hidden-keywords=B0081SRJSY%7CB00AKO93JK%7CB007BFSYMS%7CB004T4LUPW%7CB004FOOQV6%7CB008P1EWIM%7CB0097HSS4M%7CB008RA3X5E%7CB004W4N55C%7CB0088YACP8%7CB00900NAFI%7CB00DSY8D36%7CB004SDSSFY%7CB004OZOTSQ%7CB00BXI26XC%7CB004WGGQPQ%7CB004SYP5WC%7CB004SC3BLG%7CB004RJ6978%7CB007SN9TKE%7CB0064BCNA4%7CB00KDEVVDI%7CB007TKT2SK%7CB00BJ8SXFG%7CB00881PPTO%7CB00DIJQAI6%7CB00DVQ7EGS%7CB00BFEVFP4%7CB00G6HW8II&ie=UTF8
Carcassonne is so great.
Link not long enough. 4/10.
Got to give them points for their repetition of 7CB though
Can you just purchase the apps via an Amazon account and tie them to the device later, or do they have some shitty system?
EDIT: Amazon App Store…ah well.
They’re not tied to any particular device afaik.
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I was doing it before it became cool.
I remember when I first started posting in TAY in 2012 there was a crazy love fest thread with Rocketman and Blaghman and everyone. It was heartwarming and sickening.
Rockets and Blaghs.
Heartwarming and Sickening.
…
You monster.
The truth is that before TAY i had like 1 friend.
Now i have friends coming out the wazoo
Im super lucky.
I’m only kidding. Was a beautiful thread that endeared TAY to me. 🙂
Yeah well you endear yourself to me.
ALL NIGHT LONG
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*sings*
All night long (all night)
Same here mang. Internet friends, scratch that TAY friends are awesome.
You should see the doctor about that
Shut up, D.C..
It was only the latter, and you know it.
*pushes boulder away from hermit cave entrance and peers out at the world*
*waves at TAY*
This guy! I saw him in person not two weeks ago! And a rare sighting on Mario Kart last night!
and those are the 2 most social things I’ve done in months :p
Urgh, you’re so clingy.
D:
<3
not posting for 8 days is clingy *cries*
I’ll aim for a month next time 😛
Noooo! I was only joking! :’O
Plus I need to play more MK8 against you to rack up my wins 😉
IS THAT YOU, JESUS?
*rushes at gutsoup*
GUTSOUP!
*bear hugs*
Too much?
😀 I needed that.
Thanks for the free wins in MK8 last night! 😉
TAY appreciation page, huh?
I APPRECIATE YOU!
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I appreciate how open and caring each and every one of you are to one another. If someones having a rant you guys are there to offer help
Yall are pretty great I reckon
I appreciate this page so much.
You are the greatest page in the history of TAY pages.
And this page appreciates you, come.. join us in pure appreciation
Says this guy. Perhaps the greatest of them all! >:|
WHY YOU SO GREAT?
Says a king to a peasant why you so great you’re the bloodline of TAY appreciation my friend
*hugs*
I clearly did not take note of what underwear I put on this morning….
Must remember to do up my fly today or people will complain at being able to see my pubes…
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I Appreciate all of TAY! You are all beautiful people and I love you all !
I thought the underwear thing was just you showing your appreciation!
Hes appreciating us by not showing us his pubes and giving fair warning about his underwear..thats appreciative
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Oh alright I’ll say it! You guys are pretty cool!
We’re all going to be diabetic by the end of the page.
Ill put a fiver on @liondrive being the first to go hes half chocolate already thanks to Max Brenner
Sometimes, I buy chocolate dipping sauce, and then dip chocolate into my chocolate sauce.
Somedays I can’t feel my feet.
Is that from a loss of sensation or are they just covered in chocolate runoff?
His dream is to one day cover himself head to toe in chocolate by swimming in the vats that they mix the chocolate in
Kind of like that thing in the simpsons when apu had himself covered in chocolate for… er… whatever his wife’s name was
Sweet.
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You’re all awesome except for those three we all quietly agree aren’t behind your backs.
Hah, yeah, @freezespreston is such a jerkI mean, uh, yeah, those guys.
I said behind their backs, not common knowledge.
Do tell, who are these people?
Shit, now I’m getting paranoid.
It’s me isn’t it?
*runs off crying*
Sorry monkey! We never wanted you to find out like this!
Nah we’re just conspire against the Dan’s of TAY…
I thought it was the Ben’s
Oh them too..
You aight, TAY.
Tay Appreciation Page?
Hmmm…nah. Can’t be bothered. 😛
I <3 you all.You rate everyone as less than 3?She’s old. Our shininess has worn off, Farscape style.When you’re that ancient everyone looks like a kid.I’m older than her…
Old lady aliasalphaHey I said I was older than @strange, not that we had the same genitals! If nothing else that would create an awkward timeshare situationOld Man Aliasalpha.
And we love you Old Lady StrangeThe oldest of ladies!Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, one of my favourite books of the last 10 years, is on slae at various eBook places for $2. DO EET http://www.harpercollins.com/9780061982484/anathem (click “more retailers” to find your place of choice)
I have about as much focus today as
as? as??? AS?!??! Dammit gooky I hate cliffhangers!
A wide angle lens.
Badum tish.
Go ooonn
a Colobus Monkey.
…a five-year-old in a candy shop?
…a ferret on crystal meth?
…a labrador in a tennis-ball factory?
I was thinking something like “a hipster’s glasses”.
My Labrador never got the point of fetch, you’d throw her a ball and she’d go “yep, that’s a ball”
It was weird
When @dc lost his glasses?
Six Feet Under
The West Wing
Battlestar Galactica
#NotAReplyFail
Looking forward to The Newsroom season three! Been watching season one again on Foxtel. (For like the fourth time through.)
BATTLESTAR
Did I tell you about a friend of mine who broke up with his gf over battlestar?
Was she a Cylon?
If she was, she was sure left out of the master plan.
TAY Appreciation.
If you guys were food, you’d be chocolate and doughnuts.
That’s how much you mean to me.
Pow would freeze us all!
Well, half of us. Who knows what he’d do to the other half.
Deep FRYING!
Melt us into a chocolate sauce for the frozen doughnuts.
Then he would eat the whole damn lot of us, then he’d be lonely.
Well he is a Ben, what a jerk!
Aw man, I totally should have said “I bet it would be something strange”.
Wasted opportunity 😛
Something something shane.
DOUGHNUTS?! WAY TO GIVE ME A FLASHBACK TO THE GREAT DOUGHNUT WAR OF ’14
You don’t understand how much I love doughnuts.
I would stab a kid for my doughnuts.
Too soon?
I would stab a doughnut for my kid :p
WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE DOUGHNUTS?!???
I will.
Doughnuts, is there anything they can’t do?
You’re pretty shit.
By which I mean, if you were food, I’d have eaten, digested, and dispensed you by now… and you’d still be looking dapper.Chocolate doughnuts?
I wanna do a Krispy Kreme run now
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I appreciate that I have no idea what this is or what I’m doing. But I also appreciate that this is normal for TAY.
I don’t get where this all came from either, but TAY is the greatest! So glad you guys are all a part of this great community! Special props to @chuloopa and @qumulys for consistently commenting on things with me all those years ago! Together we created a monster! But it’s the best damn monster on the planet!! *fist pump*
Loops and Q-Bo were the greetest.
TAY Appreciation: You people are amazing. You welcomed me with open arms, you’ve encouraged me with my weight loss and exercise, and you’ve gotten me through some pretty tough days. I LOVE YOUSE ALL!!!!!
Mate of mine and his wife are having their baby today (C-section).
I have spent more time on florist’s websites in the last week than i care to admit.
how much time would you like to admit to then? W
…probably about 3 hours off and on since Saturday night.
Mainly because i found one that I liked on Sat while half drunk and couldn’t find it again.
Red: “Hey I would like to order some flowers for my mate, his wife just had a baby”
Florist: “Oh how nice, would you like to put a letter with a personal message with that?”
Red: “Yeah, put; So, you guys had a baby huh? Well, see you in 20 years”.
Red: “Now read that back to me”
Best present for new parents is food. Like, order them a home delivery, or cook something and bring it when you visit. Or just bring a pull apart from Bakers Delight and coffee for everyone. Eating becomes something that you do in between feeds and nappy changes in the first few weeks, so when someone brings you a meal, you are incredibly grateful.
Should have thought of that.
Oh well, they have a gift basket with baby toys and chocolate on the way to the hospital
I’m sure it’s beautiful 🙂
tay appreciation whatever
you gave me food one time
I was pretty stoked about that
That’s the spirit!
Pyrean and I played some Breaking Point this morning. Things went about as well as they do when I have a helicopter. http://youtu.be/8BprEvgnQs4 ShadowPlay defaulted to not recording my mic though, so it’s just Pyrean talking to a ghost 🙁
In my defence, on both occasions I’ve flown they’ve run out of fuel mid-flight.
Remember that time we were playing DayZ, we found that plane then we both died horribly in a freak plane accident. Gooooood times.
aka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bEui4H43ms AND with the same mic issue. I am terrible.
WARNING: The following video contains a lot of my voice. For comfort please cause temporary or permanent hearing loses to yourself to avoid hearing my terrible voice.
Yay I.T. !
– Have Exchange Online service for corp. emails.
– @company.com.au is thus a trusted and authorised domain.
– Emails from this domain still go to Junk Mail folder sometimes in Outlook program.
– The only way to prevent this happening, is to put @company.com.au in the Safe Senders List.
– Can’t do that, as it synchronises with Exchange Online, and it doesn’t allow authorised domains on this list.
– Continue to get messages flagged as Junk.
– Cry.
Are you using the exchange service for office 365?
Yeah.
Possibly your best option is to use either a transport rule to set the SCL to -1 for your domain, or you could use/setup an SPF record for your domain.
There’s a handy little wizard for the latter here http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/content/technologies/senderid/wizard/
I’ll drop a link to a page showing how to make a transport record in my next comment, otherwise it’ll go in to moderation.
http://www.mcbsys.com/techblog/2011/09/office-365-safe-senders-list-and-you/
Also, microsoft have a handy little tool which can help you troubleshoot some issues with connectivity. Whether or not it helps with your issue I can’t say for sure, but could be worth a try.
https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/
Cheers.
No probs. Hopefully it’ll help you get sorted. Gimme a shout if you still have troubles.
I’m not the one looking after it, so I forwarded to our dudes. Hopefully they get it sorted.
ahh k
TAY appreciation thing
When I was all new here and such a kind gentleman named Shane W something (has a crazy last name that isn’t memorable :P) insisted I take a free game when I showed an interest in it during his uber generous giveaway even though I was all “but I’m new”, then I got a package from an internet stranger and it was completely anthrax free with only trace amounts of semen. Restored some faith in humanity and was a nice welcome to TAY. As for the rest of you……….. you’re pretty terrific 😀
And that’s how Gutsoup ended up with Shane’s secret love child!
*lovechild/clone (it’s complicated)
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
I got a package from an internet stranger and it was completely anthrax free with only trace amounts of semen
We should catalogue these and give it to certain peoples’ relatives/friends. @planispo, @liondrive… who else?
Anyone younger than they should be.
My wife.
Planispo! Like Phlanispo, but with more forward thinking!
This page is awesome. It’s made me smile and I rarely do that. 😀
You idiot.
Not smiling any more are you, idiot.
What an idiot. Geez.
If I enter a reality TV show, this will be my sob story. 🙁
It’s your tragic backstory on the x factor
WAY TO GO @DC…
…
You’re still pretty rad though
Oh, DC, that was a hell of a pageget.
Aw man, don’t take it back… Poor page 11 is now like when you think someone’s waving at you and smile, and then they’re like… ‘No, not you, my friend behind you, page 10’ and now page 11 feels all embarrassed.
Hey. Page 11. You’re alright. Let’s hang out sometime.
(Observation: If you are now feeling bad for page 11… please don’t. It is not sentient, it does not have feelings.)
I guess page eleven COULD be filled with wonder and excitement.
…
*waits for wonder and excitement with arms folded*
I am for this.
This page is awesome. It made me smile and then start to giggle.
TAY appreciation:
You’re all awesome, even though I’ve never met any of you IRL.
Making assumptions about people you’ve never met makes you a bigot. An ignorant bigot.
😛
Ernie award for you
I didn’t even say boobs once! Not once!
*clavicles.
ERNIE AWARD!
(o)(o)
You just did! Here have another Ernie!
wut? really? don’t tell me you live in a wasteland devoid of human life, like canada or something.
Some of us might take offence to that, ‘eh.
It’s okay! There are bears and meese and beavers to talk to.
It’s like I’m a Disney Princess!
*cue wonder and excitement in 3… 2… 1…*
OK, how about this: The Long Now foundation is building a clock that will tick for 10,000 years
http://longnow.org/clock/
In 10000 years when it stops ticking, there’ll most likely be a cult built around it who will think it heralds the end of the world.
I read that as “wonder and excrement”.
Deviant.
Excrement is an integral part of living, Doofus Cee. 😛
http://diply.com/trendyjoe/these-rad-retirees-recreate-their-favorite-movie-scenes-an/44377
See, not all of us old folk are boring and stodgy!
So what’s your excuse then?
*ba-dum*
Chewbacca motherfucker!
Now I don’t need the costume, I’m just that hairy…
The hover-handing in the Titanic recreation amused me more than it should have.
@dc I brought you some page 11 wonder and excitement.
http://time.com/3060145/interstellar-trailer-nolan/
Thanks buddy. Media blackout though. They had me at Nolan. 😀 (And space.)
Alright, alright, alriiiight.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/07/sharknado-2-is-on-foxtel-right-now/
May God have mercy on us all!
It’s a wonder such things get made. Thanks for the wonder, buddy!
Maybe this is TAY Depreciation thread:
I hear it’s right next to a train line. Lots of noise.
There’s so many pushy people in TAY. Always trying to give me free things.
Like how I keep trying to give you Gooky-free train rides?
Dude don’t get me started on Depreciation. You don’t want me going on about straight lines, accumulated value, and assets.
#intentionallytakingitthewrongway
I was hoping you would, but didn’t want to dare get my hopes up.
This page is all about wonder and excitement though!
Where dreams come true and any thing is possible!
Like tax-deductible donuts and chocolate. cc @liondrive
Depreciation thread?
-I don’t always agree with people here.
–Sometimes people beat me at Mario Kart.
-People speak of defiling doughnuts.
-You were all too nice in person, so I couldn’t bring myself to stab any of you.
-I miss TAY if I don’t check it in a while.
@redartifice Dem shakes man. One more day until I can start properly counting down to The Strange.
Mind you, I’m glad I backed the Kickstarter. Got surprisingly good value for the dosh that I threw into it. I might have to look and see what else is on offer.
One of us is going to have to run this at some point
I’m kinda keen to run this offline first as I know a few people who would get a real kick out of it.
And yeah, at some point are the magic words. Lest we threaten all of TAY with a tidal wave of RPGs.
Me me me me me me! I won’t be satisfied until I incite galactic war!
Edit: Though from the sounds things inter-dimensional war is just as good =P Also obligatory @strange
Count me in!
I’ll play too. 😛
Ill be a 5th if the spot is available on the @strange ship
Don’t know about wonder and excitement, but I can certainly bring extreme laziness to TAY.
Now typing from my recliner due to finally connecting my laptop to the TV and getting a wireless keyboard and mouse.
Must remember to occasionally get off my arse, simply so I do not merge with my chair and become some Hugo/Recliner abomination. Though at least I would always have somewhere to sit.
Even more dangerous now that I am playing SKYRIM! on my laptop , I don’t even have to get up to put in a disc.
How many mods are you running?
Currently 16 and growing… wait there we have it, WONDER AND EXCITEMENT I now have LIGHTSABERS IN SKYRIM!!!!! along with half a dozen graphic mods and all sorts of goodies I could never have dreamed about while playing on my 360.
I need to properly mod out Skyrim. I think it was breaking my 9600gt though. I really need a new graphics card that isn’t from the last decade. I did start one with the Thomas the Tank Engine dragons but was disappointed when you kill one that it didn’t leave a skeleton of a train 🙁
Ah, I see Far Cry 4 and AC: Unity are now available for pre-purchase on Steam for $60 – pre-Australia tax. Now, let’s see how long it takes for them to mark those up because they ‘accidentally’ got the price wrong. Again. Like always. Bets on ‘2-4 weeks before release’ anyone?
Oh, games sure to have hours of excitement. What a wondrous time to be a gamer!
Thanks for the heads up!
They did the same thing for the Witcher 3. Although I think it actually was a mistake at first because the price only stayed up for less then 24 hours.
Tempting to buy FC4 for that price right now, since they’ll have to honour that price too if it gets marked up.
I honestly cannot tell if this repeated-to-predictability behaviour is a nudge-nudge wink-wink ‘accident’ implemented to give Aussies an early opportunity to beat the Australia Tax because dammit, the sooner retail shrivels up and dies, the sooner they can stop demanding outrageous price-match mark-up for digital… or if the inevitability of the mark-up is some kind of petulant punishment from the publisher because everyone should be buying pre-orders, dammit, so we can sell games based on the strength of marketing instead of reviews by ‘uncooperative, outrage-culture-steeped neckbeards.’
GMG have them both for preorder as well, both are currently pre-australia tax and they’ve got a 20% off coupon going. The downside is that they’ll be uplay codes rather than steam ones but you’ll be dealing with uplay anyway so it’s really not much different.
CC @transientmind @coldcamv
Rather a Steam code in all honesty, i’ll just wait for a Christmas sale or something. I still need to finish FC3, but I don’t like the forced stealth bit i’m upto.
Even though with that you’ll just be using steam to launch uplay where it’ll load the game? Wouldn’t that be effectively the same as having a uplay code and then adding the game as a non-steam shortcut?
I have all the other Far Cry’s on Steam, may as well keep the trend going. Plus I doubt i’d play it on release some how.
Does that mean if you preorder before the price hike you get it cheaper or what
If you pre-order it now you pay the current price of the game because Steam takes entire price when pre-ordering and not a $10 pre-order fee thingie like other places do.
Yeah, you get the price you paid – preorder games go straight to your inventory/library (whichever you activated), even if they’re not released yet. They stay in your ‘games’ list, awaiting install. When they’re available for pre-load, you usually get a notification and can download them manually, waiting for activation.
Of course, because… fuck I don’t know, fucking REASONS*, they don’t usually launch at the same time globally, but open up access in the US first, then wait for 1-2 (sometimes 3-4) days before opening in Australia. You can bypass that part with a VPN, proxying in from the US and activating that way.
*I don’t understand the 2+ day delay. Yes, we are roughly a day ahead of them thanks to the international date line. So one day? Sure. That way all your marketing can say the same day. Convenient! I can understand that. Also, it’s not always great to smash the content-delivery servers globally on the same minute. That makes sense, too… staggering it over a day? Not too bad. Even though we’re a relatively tiny market, it’s still an excuse I’d grudgingly pay. I would be mildly annoyed, but at least it’s reasonable. What I DON’T understand is the 2-4 day delays. The only reason I can think of is American cultural primacy. ie: publishers being a pack of c***s. I doubt we’ll ever see it said, but I’ve seen industry people very pointedly and deliberately avoid saying it, to the point of having to put the brakes on when accidentally about to say it.
Dear TAY,
I appear to be over stimulated today.
I apologize for all the spam,
Your pal and mine,
D.C.
Now that I can TAY from my recliner, I may never leave.
HUGO WANTS MORE SPAM!
Wait, you’re your own pal?
It got me through high school.
Everyone should be their own pal.
You gotta like yourself, after all 😛
DC likes all the things I like. TV shows. Games. Self-loathing.
I am my own worst enemy, sabotaging me at every turn and spending all my money. But every time I want to give me a piece of my mind, I look into those beautiful blue eyes and aww shucks… I can’t stay mad at me.
You’re not the boss of me.
Over stimulated is good!
Increases our chances of getting to page 18! 😀
Post more! MORE! >:D
Lay off the drugs you hippie! 😉
Spam is tasty.
“Lovely spam, wonderful spam!”
Phrasing.
Despite my misgivings about Bravely Second, this Magnolia figure is kind of tempting.
misgivings? whys that?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-287/comment-page-9/#comment-2842863
oh. damn.
Resist the urge. Wait for the reviews!
Been playing heaps of Hearthstone the past few games. Something I’ve learned? I really suck at this game.
One thing I learnt about hearthstone… you’re going to keep getting your ass kicked right up until something clicks and then all of sudden it all makes sense. All the plays, all your opponents possible cards and then you start winning like crazy =]
How far into it are you? i.e. classes of choice and level? (I recommend choosing at least 3 classes to stick to)
I have a level 25 mage and a level 11 rogue that I play. I’m ranked 21 in the ranked games.
Man I ain’t even started ranked yet! =P Though I probably could with my Druid and Warrior deck.. I’m just holding off until I get the cards I want for my constructed. Still need force of nature and power of the wild for my druid deck and warrior needs slam and grommash =O
Edit: Also which server are you playing on? Because NA i’ve noticed is a lot tougher than Asia.
Playing on NA.
Haha that explains it! A lot of the twitch streamers play on NA (I think only Trump and Massan play Asia atm). I’ve also noticed even in casual matches you’ll find yourself going up against legendaries and well constructed decks in NA whereas in Asia a lot of people are still learning in casual and migrate to ranked once they’re ready.
That said if you’re playing ranked I’d drop Mage and Rogue. Right now meta game is being dominated by zoo lock, wall/token druid and I’ve seen a few mid range rogues as well. That said Tides’s priest deck is also something to watch out for, that thing is a beast.
(Also hope you’re not playing miracle rogue, especially now that loatheb is out). I’d recommend swapping to a druid/hunter deck if you want to make dent in rankings.
In what is worryingly becoming a daily occurrence, and because I have nothing interesting to talk about, Dark Souls 2 update:
Made some headway into the Crypt last night, got attacked by walls. Well, zombies first, then casters, then ghosts, then walls. Will need to figure out a good way to deal with those giant shield-knights – they seem to have very high physical defence…
So, after finding the second bonfire in the area by fleeing from those things, I endeavoured to
procrastinateexplore some more areas I’d passed over before. I went back to the Bastille and un-petrified Straid, and traded in a Dragonrider soul for the bow. Then spent a while gathering the 56k souls I needed to get my dex up to 18 so I could use the bloody thing, but it was so worth it. Went back to Amana to try it out on some casters… which was a terrible idea.Then to Doors of Pharros to pick up a bunch of poison arrows, and discovered the second bonfire. And the Royal Rat Authority… those toxic rats are a pain… But I prevailed after a few attempts. Felt a little guilty after he started limping… poor thing. 🙁
Then to Huntsman’s Copse, to tackle the area I remembered from the beta footage, and had scared me off last time I was here. That bow… so good… 3-4 hits to kill the dark-weapon wielding guys before the bridge. I can see why some people really like dex builds :P. So, as I was rather enamoured with my new bow, I kinda cheesed the Chariot boss… which was interesting.
So, despite procrastination, another two bosses down. Now, to figure out what to do about that “wall” in the Crypt…
You could attempt to bait and then run through and away from them.
I’ll likely try this if I die in the areas after them, but I don’t like the idea of something that big chasing me into unknown territory… two somethings that big even less. I’d prefer to take it slow the first time through.
I typically kite them back to the larger, more open room. Easier to get behind them that way, and separate them. But if you absolutely must fight them in close, cramped conditions, just keep a shield raised against their weaker attacks, not giving any ground until they expose themselves with their massive shield-breaking attacks. Punish them for it, and repeat. It’s slower, but effective.
Yea, I had no intentions of fighting them where they were, and the room before the corridor is probably the best place for it. I’ll see what I can do to get around those shields; I might be able to dodge right and catch them with the backswing, depending on how wide their attacks hit… I want to beat them at least once, so I can take my time going through whatever’s beyond them.
That’s good, because I’m pretty sure you need to beat them to finish the game. 🙂 Side-dodging might be OK for the big hit because I’m pretty sure it’s vertical, but they definitely have some surprisingly quick sidways jabs in their arsenal in NG+ at least. Can’t remember about first run.
I always just bait them into swings and either step back normally. It’s pretty easy then – you bide your time til their overhand swing downwards. And much like everything, use it to get 1-2 hits in, but don’t get greedy with that limited opening or you’ll pay for it.
Sounds like my MO for dealing with the turtle knights in Iron Keep – bait the vertical attack, backstep, overhead swing, bait again… I really don’t like enemies that refuse to stagger… so inconsiderate. 😛
Greed’s not a problem – I’ve had too many silly deaths because I got reckless.
Heh. The game is definitely an exercise in staying calm and being patience in the face of danger and pressure. I don’t know why but there’s something just so conflicting with instinct when you see a boss leaving you an opening and you spend the entire window using a restore item instead of going for the kill. But you have to do it. It punishes you mercilessly for anything less.
I’m sure this could probably be extrapolated to Real Life somehow, right… right?
It’s kinda like self-enforced turn-based combat, isn’t it… each turn initiated by the opponent’s attack, and lasts until they recover. You have to get as much done to benefit you during each turn, whether that be attacking, defending, buffing or recovering; but acting between turns will get you squished.
Well, that’s how I rationalise it, anyway.
A bit late to the scene, but I was wondering what people think/thought of Transformers Prime.
Only just watched a couple of episodes of this series, though I have just found out it is finished (great timing Hugo) and I was curious what people thought of it, especially the die-hard G1 fanatics like myself.
I loved and continue to love the G1 Transformers, never liked any version that took place after, though I did try. However after just a couple of Prime eps, I think this could be a damn good version.
Please tell me that this series is good, pretty please with energon on top.
I would like to know this as well. I really couldn’t watch Beast Wars and didn’t see any of Headmasters, but I’m keen to get into some new stories
This is relevant to my interests.
Has @beardymcmuttonchops seen it?
I’ve watched some of it, but haven’t really connected with it. It’s not a bad show by any means, but it’s just kind of soulless. I don’t know. The whole dark energon thing is just a really silly storyline.
The only good current Transformers fiction is being told through the IDW More Than Meets The Eye/Robots in Disguise series right now.
I liked them so much that I gushed about it over on my website.
I mean Ultra Magnus is giving someone shit for not having their insignia on straight, Cyclonus is being psychologically evaluated after joining a mostly-Autobot crew in search for the mythical Knights of Cybertron, Swerve has his own bar, Prowl is making moves behind Optimus’ back… and Starscream takes control of Cybertron. It’s fucking magical. It’s the kind of story that I want, and it’s the kind of story that couldn’t be told in a kid’s show.
Holy shit this ebola outbreak is terrifying!
God dammit, Benny! I wasn’t sure if that was a joke or not, so I loaded a non-gaming news site.
I LOADED A NEWS SITE, BENNY. I AM VERY, VERY ANGRY NOW. The first thing I saw was the Qld Premier washing his hands of all blame for the government’s future direction because they work-shopped it with the public, so now ‘it’s Queensland’s plan’, not the government’s.
It only got worse from there.
How do ‘normal’ people put up with all this exposure to Real World news all the time without wanting to burn everything and everyone to the ground?
A tin foil hat sometimes helps.
You had an appreciation page without me? I hate you all.
I appreciate your handsomeness, Alex.
SAVE IT FOR THE NEXT APPRECIATION PAGE DEECEE!!
I appreciate your honesty.
This breakout is wondrous and exciting welcome to wonderful and exciting TAY care to jump on the magic ride to the mythical page 18
I missed it, too. I appreciate that I was not alone. 😀
But we are now on TAY depreciation page so your second sentence is relevant.
I appreciated that you weren’t there.
Haha! This could easily turn into passive aggressive insults! XD
Now I’m double sad.
I appreciate beanies AND pants!
Aw man, Dick Wagner passed away. He wrote some of Alice Coopers bigger songs in the 70’s and he was a main writer on two of my most favourite Alice Cooper albums ‘Welcome To My Nightmare’ & ‘From The Inside’.
Welcome to my nightmare was an amazing album!
It was, will always be one of my favourite concept albums.
Does anyone remember The Story of Thor, I’m sure it was discussed with fond nostalgia on TAY before.
Anywho, I used to love that game and for some extremely weird reason, I actually dreamed about it the other night. Anywhen, I just gave it a google and it looks like it was re-released as part of a Sega collection for the 360 years ago.
My main mission in life is now to go and get me a copy of that game.
My only concern being that the game may not be as AWESOME PERFECTION as my somewhat hazy remembrance of it may be.
Or I could just get it on Steam for a couple of bucks… Computers, Internet, buying things online… what a strange ( Hi @strange ) world we are living in. May have to actually crawl out off my cave one day.
I did like that game but Landstalker was better.
I felt very similarly when picking up the mega pack for Altered Beast, Gunstar Heroes, Alex Kidd, Columns, Ecco the Dolphin, Eternal Champions, Streets of Rage 2, Wonder Boy, and Shining Force 2.
(Which I totally did not play and cherish as a kid because those were the Console Wars dammit, and I was a Nintendo stalwart!)
Gunstar Heroes, Columns, Streets of Rage 2 and Shining Force 2 still stand up pretty damn well. The others… not so much.
So i finally played the Wolf Among Us last night, to which i then played the game until 3 in the morning till i beat it….
So yeah, Wolf Among us is really good, i wouldn’t even hesitate to say it was better than season 1 of walking dead (haven’t played season 2, so got no idea about that). I might be a little biased as i straight up love mystery books/comics/games.
Anyway, Spoilerino’s ahead.
Oh man, what a game, the crooked man was such a great villain, the dude was so sly. I ended up not killing him in the end, because when he was egging bigby on at the end, i thought “i’m not gonna do what he says”. Also Nerissa at the end! I’m assuming it means that she was glamoured as Faith the night she fights the woodsman, and that pretty much everything was her fault, whether it was for the best or not, i still don’t really know.Momentary excitement of inbox notification!
Crushing disappointment of spam.
This is why you have multiple inboxes. One you only use for your nearest and dearest, one you only use for shit you are interested in, and one you use for the fifteen fucking thousand unique registrations every god damn website, video game, or other goods/service distribution business in the god damn fucking world demands you keep track of. BUT REMEMBER, KIDS – DON’T USE THE SAME PASSWORD FOR ANYTHING! THAT’S NOT SECURE. (Oh, but it’s OK, you only need one password to access all your services unique to this publisher/developer/distributor/company, for all the products under its banner! That’ll totally incentivize consolidating everything under their limited marquee, it’s not at all over-reaching or suffering from delusions of their significance in their chosen industry!)
We are going to reach critical mass on this shit one day, I swear. The older generations complain that kids these days have worse memories because they no longer memorize historical dates of shit they don’t care about, thanks to Google. The reality is more likely that kids’ memories these days are going to consist solely of remembering all their fucking account details for all their apps.
Heh, I have about six or seven different addresses and inboxes attached to this account, specifically for that. It’s just been a thing of either having to read them out over the phone or having real names attached to them that has led to these two both being used by this particular one. Should have gone in and changed them by now but I am lazy 😛
As I read TAY from the work van a pole just got blown over down the road..dammit we’ve angered the wind god!
innuendo?
Well played
If Dragonball Z Hd collection isn’t in my mailbox tonight I’m going to be cranky. I paid way too much extra for the “express” postage and it’s now been 8 days. Considering it says 7-9 for standard….
It’s probably still powering up.
Zing!
I’m still waiting for my PS4 and games that were apparently “shipped from Australia” … it’s been 7 working days so far. =/
Australia, Earth? Or Australia, Neptune?
Space Australia
MY SHOES AREN’T HERE YET EITHER! OUTRAGE!
(they totally came from America though and it’s only been like 7 working days :P. I think they’ll be delivered tomorrow based on tracking :D)
Quick question: anyone here play Mount & Blade Warband, now or in the past? I’m keen for some multi some time, partially due to fun and partially for achievements.
I know some people were keen in the past but I’ve forgotten who they were.
I have it I think, and would be willing to install it
According to Steam:
@bish @gorzilla @sernobulus @pyrean @f4ction @blaghman @tigerion @jocon @beavwa @steve-o_the_deve-o @ynefel @mawt @anonymous_pessimist @cj @mythamphetamine @klutar @lucifer9783
EDIT: Only got one wrong \o/
I’ve never played it! \o/
Pro tip: start off with a one-hander and a strong shield. Everything else requires way more learning 😛
Oh. Yeah. That game was kind of fun. Id probably pay it again. It has multiplayer?
Yep! They’re literally like the solo battles, but everyone is human. Also, generally more intricate maps cause stupid AI isn’t an issue.
hahahahhaa time to play games :S
I am upset that I wasnt included in these tags…I should check I actually have it haha
It was cj, wasn’t it? 😛
Whoa. Think I might even have it installed at the moment.
Warband is one of my favorite games of all time.
Never played multi though, be keen to give it a go.
Also, Tay Depreciation Thread:
My car is not worth as much as it was last year.
Every keystroke is depreciating my phone.
My overall net worth has gone down! \o/
TAY depreciation:
Sometimes I gross myself out with my farts :S
Someone preserve this line in amber.
Fucking just kill me.
Sometimes I catch myself laughing at Tom Green and subsequently consider suicide.
Sometimes I gross my boyfirend out with my farts.
Especially when he lifts the blanket
It’s all that protein powder.
I’ve been drying chillies in the oven all day and thought my house might smell deep and rich and chilli-like but it just smells bright and capsicum-like. I hate capsicum. 🙁
I love capsicum! \o/
Capsicum is the best vegetable.
Best fruit vegetable.
But only second best. Because tomato is best.
You’re a disgrace.
Nah, just a wog 😛
Mate, I was with you on the frozen donuts but this… this makes me rethink my stance…
@strange @rocketman Are QLD capsicum’s different than ours or something? How can you hate something so delicious!
Green capsicums I could agree with you all on, especially cooked, but Red or Yellow? Eat ’em like apples!
you are a sick man pow a sick sick man
Love me some raw red capsicum, bring it on, gotta get the 3 nub ones, they are sweeter
My best friends parent own a capsicum farm and they always give me capsicum. I hate everything about it but i take it not to be rude. Luckily my other mum likes it.
I ALSO MADE SWEET PRETZELS LAST SATURDAY. They were rad. im making profiteroles on saturday 🙂
Let me know how the profiteroles go. I wouldn’t mind a decent recipe.
I’m about to start on a baking frenzy I think. New oven, mini-muffins have sunk in the middle the last couple of times. I’m blaming the cases not being big enough for the tray. See what happens with normal sizes cupcakes. Also, one cherry bakewell will be incoming soon. I love baking, my body and my housemates for filling the house with delicious sweet treats
My Dad was trained as a pastry chef, I can get his recipe if you like 🙂
Sinking in the middle usually happens when 1) you’ve opened the door partway through the cooking process or b) you’ve taken them out before they were fully cooked and they’ve sunk.
Muffins love only just enough mixing and a hot oven (most I’ve cooked in a day was 6 dozen)
Profiteroles are fun to make. There’s something magic when you’re cooking the dough and it all comes together in the saucepan.
Much better to eat than to make.
At first I read this as a response to @liondrive’s flatulence comment and got stuck at:
thought my house might smell deep and rich and chilli-like
Before I re-read and realized it was it’s own comment.
This weather is really quite scary. Apparently a person was killed by a falling tree in the suburb I live in. The only reasons I ventured outside today were to get breakfast and pick up my copy of The Last Of Us Remastered.
The wind in Canberra is mental, so I parked my car under a tree to keep it safe from falling…
…sky, I guess.
Good call chicken little.
I bet you $50 my car doesn’t get hit by falling sky.
I bet you a cupcake that you are right.
that cupcake just cost me $50
Falling Sky wad never a hit
Getting killed by a falling/flying tree is a freak accident and probably not much to worry about as long as you’re taking appropriate shelter. The thing that’s really worth worrying about is walking around after the fact, when fallen trees have managed to take down and/or tangle themselves in power lines. You remember that big storm NYC had a couple years back where all those people died? Electrocution, most of them. Power lines and water. Great combo.
@zapz @evilmonkey
I’m on my way to the Post Office right now to send your books out. Thanks for your orders! I’ll update you via email with any tracking details I pick up.
Everyone else: Coupon code TAY20 at http://shanewsmith.com/shop/
You know you want to.
Cheers man, I’ll let you know when they arrive.
@spaghett’s Last Song Played Game!
Breathless – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Warm Like You – Adalita
https://soundcloud.com/adalita/warm-like-you
Crime of the Century. Supertramps.
Who are these men of lust, greed, and glory?
Alanis Morissette – Not The Doctor
Bad Romance – Lady Gaga
Still her best song I reckon.
Telephone, bad romance and poker face are terrific pop songs
Applause is so great, too.
I used to think that song was “a little bit lost”
The Killers-Mr Brightside
Also my 2nd favourite song ever.
I NEVVVVVVVVERRRRR
The entire Hot Fuss (Hotross) album is awesome.
Air- Mayfair Song
Nice. 🙂
The Artist In The Ambulance – Thrice
Lovage – Book of the Month
Your Horoscope for Today – Weird Al Yankovich
One of his best original songs.
especially that line about avoiding people with the ebola virus.
/topical
I really should work a little harder on improving my low self esteem (you stupid freak)
The look on your face will be priceless when you find that 40 pound watermelon in your colon.
For some reason one of the F-Zero X Expansion songs has popped into my head. I can’t remember if it’s Regeneration or the other one that started with R whose name I forget. Probably Regeneration though.
City Girl – Snakes & Daggers
Into the Nothing by Breaking Benjamin.
Oya – Ibeyi
Got some fresh cinnamon doughnuts and they smell so good.
@Powalen and his freezer can stay the hell away.
I used to think you were cool.
ps. Nobody is saying put fresh doughnuts in the freezer! They’re far too oily and go weird! It only works with supermarket ‘dry’ doughnuts!
Calm down, geez.
Let’s have a look at the news….. Asylum seekers medication is being seized and destroyed on arrival and 80% of them are showing signs of torture….
I’m done.
Fucking disturbing. Lately I’ve been thinking that no one sets out to become a monster, stuff like that happens in increments slowly and surely. What we’re allowing to happen in Australia at the moment is unfathomable. 🙁 How did we get here?
As you say DC evil doesn’t take place overnight, it’s a gradual erosion of values and ideals which are constantly reinforced by “what choice did we have mentality” or even worse by a “it’s what needs to be done” mentality. The sad truth is even if a majority of the Australian population was outraged by this nothing would change.
Money changes government policy a lot faster than votes ever could. And there’s just no money to be made while defending human rights.
By brushing aside accountability and refusing to talk about it?
I don’t do much politicking these days because of my job in the public service, but this is an issue I’m really upset about 🙁
Don’t read realworld news. Just don’t do it. Nothing good can come from it.
Eg: TRANSIENT RANTS! Which, edit: because not the time nor the place. Then… put back because fuck it.
I remember hearing a lot of shouting just now, and only just realized that it was me. Things are a little hazy after the rage-blackout. It seems there’s something quite triggering to me about seeing the words, “fair dinkum” attributed to… well. Pretty much anyone, honestly, but especially from a man whose name is now a verb to describe something unfortunate happening. (“I got Newman’d,” is the explanation folks give for their impending departures around here, or the staggering workloads they can’t keep up with due to losing all their coworkers.)Even if the ‘strong choices’ campaign hadn’t been a complete sham of a tiny demographic answering loaded questions whose answers were ‘interpreted’ (ignored) to mean whatever the fuck the government wanted to do anyway, then used as an excuse as to why the government can’t be blamed for anything they do (because it was the public’s choice, not theirs), THAT’S NOT HOW GOVERNMENT WORKS. >50% of the state didn’t get together in the heat of Summer to run the gauntlet of telling pollsters where to stick their how-to-vote cards, just to hand control over to the state to the 1.75% of the state mad enough to participate in a Government PR exercise to sell a selection of false choices nobody wants.
You CAN NOT govern by bloody online opnion polls. It is the height of arrogance to present a tiny segment of the population with a selection of policies you’ve limited to what you want, then lay the blame for them at the entire state’s feet. They’re essentially claiming we can’t complain because we chose the stick they’ll beat us with.
People elect representatives who stand for previously-stated beliefs. They didn’t elect an online fucking opinion poll. What’s the point of having this government – or ANY government – if the only thing that distinguishes them is that they’re the ones who happen to be sitting, when they turn around and ask where everyone else wants to drive to? Why are they driving? Why not the other guys? What was the POINT of putting these fuckers in the driver’s seat in the first place if they didn’t know where they wanted to go or how to get there?
There is nothing strong about that at all. It’s the opposite, in fact. It’s weak. A weak, transparent, devious little excuse to grant complete immunity they don’t deserve. They presented the choices, they should fucking own them. Political parties aren’t meant to develop their policies based on, “What do you want?” They’re meant to say what THEY want, and let people decide if that’s what they want representing them. This is not a brand war, red vs blue, with policies decided to have the best chance of getting red or blue ‘a win’.
What it should be is core moral, ethical philosophies, followed through with logical and consistent policies. And if those aren’t popular, then they aren’t selected. That’s how democracy’s meant to work.
But that’s not what the massive spending on TV ads tells the grossly uneducated. It tells them, “The other guy is bad and has failed you and you should not vote for them, you should vote for us instead.”
If what you TELL people what you stand for is, “To toss out the fuckers who’ve been failing you the last three years,” then you shouldn’t be surprised when – three years later – voters are voting for the same platform again: to toss out the fuckers who’ve been failing them for the last three years. Congratulations. You got the electorate you trained, not the one you wanted.
Help desk ticket re-opened with response:
DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT STILL DOESN’T WORK
Do a little bit of work, remove infringing elements, politely advise user to re-add elements. Close.
Ticket re-opened:
I can’t believe that I sent this in the beginning of June and it still has the same problem
Apologise for the delay, politely advise that there are many other critical tickets that take precedence over single user issues, re-iterate that a workaround does exist. List the steps. Close ticket.
Ticket re-opened:
It has always worked and all of a sudden it doesn’t
…
Seriously, that last statement can almost be applied to every IT issue ever. Hotross, you thought you were the one whining on TAY? I am on the verge of stabbing someone in the neck with a pen.
How good is working in IT though? Just, so good.
IT is okay. Support is balls.
I would have probably been locked up for murder years ago if I’d stayed in support.
The ability to be lazy, play games and browse all day is great. Doing this too much and running out of time to complete projects, not so much.
I lack discipline.
I have an option to close tickets without notifying the user which I enjoy greatly in those situations.
I can do that too but it just feels like cheating. I want the end user to acknowledge my response and be satisfied, instead I get pointless whining.
Satisfaction from end users? Aren’t you the ambitious one.
Upvote for calling him Hotross
Yessssssssssss
Why am I studying IT, whyyyyy
I don’t know why I am either!
Just soft locked my save on Final Fantasy 3. I got to a point where I needed to cast a level 2 white mage spell to escape a room I was in but none of my classes could cast the spell because I just re-trained everyone’s job/class. The room I was trapped in was a battle free zone so I couldn’t even grind till I unlocked level 2 spells. /o\
I did have a save that’s about 2 hours old and one boss behind so … yay … i guess.
PSA: Always rotate saves!
Save game edit, hex editor, cheat engine, etc? Yay for PC ma… mod benefits?
I feel that would be my plan B if I didn’t have a previous save file.
So I wasn’t too interested in Little Big Planet 3. I mean, it looked cool but I wasn’t super hyped for it but man this costume pack (mostly the Journey one) makes me want to pre-order it right now.
SackDaxter is cute, and possibly infinitely less annoying than his counterpart. Might have to preorder LBP3, seeing I’ve owned both PS3 games.
TAY, what should I take for a sore throat?
Gargle salt water.
I have some of these, and they work pretty well.
http://www.michaelschemist.com.au/wp-content/uploads/difflam-AAA-sugar-free-berry-lozenge.jpg
Tried those.
Worked, although they taste bloody terrible.
I’ll have to try and pick some up later tonight or tomorrow.
Muscle relaxant, cough suppressant, numbing agents… depends. 🙂
Paracetamol will trick your brain into not feeling pain. Codeine will do similar, but also has some cough suppressant effects (in case that’s causing a problem).
Ibuprofen is an over-the-counter anti-inflammatory, and can be taken in conjunction without screwing up the above, but you don’t want to take more than the recommended, or for more than 3-4 days, because it’ll fuck up your liver over time.
If it’s super-intense, doxylamine as a muscle relaxant could do the job, but beware that it’s also a sleeping aid and might knock you right out. Also, super-easy to get addicted to.
The ‘night’ parts of any codral cold&flu day/night formula from my reading contain chlorpheniramine maleate and phenylephrine which are weak antihistamines (anti-allergens) – I’m not too familiar with these, but think their only real benefit will be if allergenic irritants are causing your problem or exacerbating it. And they can make you drowsy.
There’s various antibacterial lozenges or syrups to take as well, most of which just serve to coat the sore parts of the throat so they won’t get irritated. Others have a mild anaesthetic in them for the same purpose.
Or you could do the thing I recommend, which is find a no-bullshit pharmacist who you trust, and ask him or her to give you the most powerful things (in a comprehensive range) they can because you don’t want to dick around with weak-assed crap.
Plus: Garlic, zinc, loads of fluids, make sure you’re getting all your vitamins (through diet or multi-pill, whatever it’s all the same), and loads of rest for the immune system to do its thing.
the ones i posted a pic of have anaesthetic as well as an anti-inflammatory! helped me heaps a few weeks back!
How do you know so much…. stuff?!?
I get called on my fountain of generally useless information I pick up… But it pales in comparison to… that! 🙂
If the throat isn’t too bad I usually just have a glass of warm water to calm it down and let my body do the rest. It’s not pleasant to drink, but provides good temporary relief.
Thanks? 🙂 Good memory, inquisitive nature, most of a medical degree/journalist degree/IT degree/business degree, IQ between 155-165 depending on if I’m gassy on the day of testing (which as I always say, needs to be taken with a grain of salt, because I’ve also caught myself giving someone a thumbs-up over the phone), etc, etc… There are factors.
Heroin.
No thanks. I hate needles.
You can smoke it, then there’s hillbilly heroin aka oxy contin which is a pill I think?
The salt water gargle is actually quite effective. Dentists often recommend it after surgery. Betadine throat gargle is also good to try. It all just depends on what’s causing the sore throat and whether it’s a scratchy throat or a swallowing razor blades throat. If you have a nasty virus, then anti-bacterials like strepsils and betadine aren’t going to do much good, whereas an anti-inflammatory like difflam or ibuprofen will do better. If it’s not gone away after week or it’s getting worse, go get it checked out by a doctor. Hot honey and lemon tea with a bit of coconut oil in it can be very soothing if it’s just a scratchy throat.
A keyboard box fell off a display, hitting my crotch on the way down. Pain is a funny thing. You know how cats can retract their claws? Why can’t I do that?
I knew a martial artist who could do what you’re talking about, so it is possible for a human to learn.
Claws or crotch?
Crotch. He didn’t have any claws, as far as I know. Though thinking about it, a person being able to retract their fingernails would be pretty freaky.
Wrap your junk in thick rubber.
Problem solved.
Where a cup EVERYWHERE
Cup, uh could ya spell that?
Many problems solved! \o/
Cold Shower … VERY cold shower.
Hellishly busy and draining day made so much better by seeing a Husky puppy riding in the sidecar of a motorbike on my drive home from work.
Time for a relaxing drink and some mindless TV catch up (Final season of True Blood if anyone is interested)
I’m not a dog person, but even I think Huskies are pretty kewl. All the ones I’ve met have seemed so restrained and mature compare to bouncing-around-spasming-with-enthusiasm dogs.
I dig a calm dog.
Speaking to a friend of mine last night and apparently they lucked out and got one of the most chill Greyhounds ever. She said it was quite a change from their last dog which was a Great Dane that you did not want to come barrelling into you (the dog was a giant).
Note to self: Sedate my manic Husky x Shepherd if Transient visits.
Hey you, can you please let me know when there’s a cool page like Page 10 again so I can go back and read it? Thanks you!
No!
Blaghs. TAY Director of Human Resources.
In which he uses us as resources.
Downloading the update for Hearthstone, so I can check out the expansion.
@pupp3tmast3r
I’m playing ranked trying to get to rank 20 before the day’s over! Today’s the last day to earn a ranked card back 🙁 Let me know how you find Nax!
Will do.
No matter what I do I can’t beat that spider enemy, Maexxna, or whatever the hell its name is. Bloody frustrating.
Really? I beat the first wing on my first try =\ Are you playing heroic or just normal?
Remind me what her ability is again? Was it to spawn a spiderling?
Edit: Also managed to get to Rank 21 last night… 3 wins away from my Card back which is now un-obtainable :'( Damn you Blizzard! And man ranked matches are a whole new ball game! The kind of players you go up against changed drastically, all their decks have clearly defined combos and seem to be made with a few key strategies in mind. Until now all my decks were just reactive, giving me options to counter-act my opponents moves kind of a jack of all trades.
The first guy I beat first try, the second one took me two goes, and this one I just can’t beat. She has cards where if the minion dies it turns into two 1/1 Spiderlings (or something) and her ability is to shoot fireballs (I think), depending on how many cards you’ve got in your hand (if you’ve got 5 cards, she’ll shoot 5 fireballs doing 1 damage each).
I’m playing on normal, yeah, I know, I’m pretty dumb.
You need an early game tempo deck for her so that you never have more than 2 cards in your hand! When she throws down the spiders they only have 1/2 meaning you don’t need to kill them because at best they’ll just hit you for 1 damage each turn. I just ignored the spiders until she had 2 or 3 on the board and I had a board clear spell like Flamestrike, Arcane explosion, Holy Nova, Swipe or Whirlwind. At which point use your minions to pop the spiders and then board clear with an AoE.
Basically you got to make sure you don’t have too many high cost cards in your deck, so that you can constantly keep your hand below 2 cards. I also recommend having a few card drawing cards in your deck to help keep your momentum up and you should be able to whittle her down =] If you haven’t played too much you Maexxna as a legendary minion and she’s quite useful for starter decks since she’s a 2/8 minion that kills anything she fights. So anything she hits once dies cos of her poison ability. (watch out when using her against priests though because they’ll mind control her first chance they get!)
I loved The Last of Us the first time around and am enjoying it even more this time! The sense of mystery and not knowing what’s around the corner isn’t there any more but the subtle details, foreshadowing and little story points I missed last time makes up for it. So, so pretty on the PS4 too.
It is a very pretty game. Haven’t gotten far in it yet, but it’s great so far.
What difficulty do you play on?
I’m finding normal quite hard :S
Though that’s probably cause I suck at sneaking :3
Due to inventory constraints, I spent a lot of time making things harder on myself than I needed to for the sake of preserving my resources, then wound up finding more shit than I could actually carry. I didn’t get much more than six to eight pain-staking hours into it (I wring a lot of exploration out of that kinda thing when it’s that pretty/rich), so I can’t say with any authority, but I’d suggest it’s one of those games where you’re actually meant to use your items instead of stockpiling them for a rainy day that never happens.
It’s one of those games that really illustrates the annoyingly arbitrary limitations developers often put on your inventory. If I don’t want to carry mines or whatever, I should be able to carry more shivs because my pockets won’t have mines in them but NOOOOOOO those are MINE pockets, not KNIFE pockets and I’d void the warranty on my pants!
Give me pockets that can hold 10 THINGS and let me pick what I carry damnit!
I’m playing on normal. I sucked when I played on the PS3 but by the end of the game I was used to it. Now I’m used to it straight away. You’ll get used to it too. 😀
Might go play it tonight!
Aaaaand MK8 registered.
It’s about time 😛
Yeah I just registered it now.
I ALREADY HAVE ALL THE GAMES I WANT BUT FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Man, 15 expired Club Nintendo cards. Stupid whateverIwasdoinglastyearwhenImenattogothroughthem.
Although now I’ve hit a bunch that aren’t telling me they’re expired, but they’re not going through either :/
Man advice time! 😀
When you shave, you’re supposed to shave downwards on your neck, yeah?
I’ve never been quite sure :S
Don’t judge me :S
With the grain first (down), then back up.
Let the razor do all of the work
Wet face first, then use a gel or foam or cream.
Wait, down, then up?!
Does that apply to the face also, or is face just down?
Face is down, yeah?
I suck at being a man :S
You should be able to feel where the grain of your hair is when you run a razor along it. I have this one patch on my neck that runs sort of sideways, and is a real pain if I’m not thinking.
I knew there was something strange about you. Now I know for sure.
Yeah, that’s it.
That’s what’s strange about me. And it is, in fact, the only thing strange about me.
Generally, you want to shave with the grain for comfort, or against it for a close shave.
So what I do, is shave downwards(for the most part) for a once over, and if I’m feeling dedicated, then I go upwards (mostly) to make it closer.
I shave every direction. #THOROUGH (or #clueless)
If you’re anything like me, in about a year or so you’ll realise that clean shaving is way too painful to continue, give up entirely and flush all your razors down the toilet*
( *keep them in a box because those things were expensive )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZB8HRrJ0KM – This dude has the best advice can be given on the subject.
Whenever I shave my neck I always go downwards, NEVER UPWARDS. Every single time I try to shave my neck upwards it just ends up bleeding like hell.
Any part of your face you want to start off by going with the grain of your beard and then one more round against it. Personally I don’t use shaving cream/gel just some shower gel and moisturiser when I’m done!
Personally I like to keep a 5o’clock shadow every chance I get.
I was told that you are only meant to shave your neck upwards and everyone is saying to shave downwards D:
Just got my ‘that wizard came from the moon’ shirt.
http://mikatan.goodsmile.info/en/2014/07/31/nendoroid-solid-snake/ !
If it came with a removable “!” and “?” it would be perfect.
I’m hardly an expert on MGS but I’m pretty sure that appears over everyone else’s heads, not Snake’s?
There are some scenes where it does, mostly in MGS2 when you are controlling Raiden.
I don’t even play MGS and I want to buy that goddamn thing.
As a side note, got an email the other day about the Link one I ordered, and got all excited again.
Hobby Search’s ‘reservations for August’ email? I have it ordered from them too, along with Nendoroid Kongou who I am greatly anticipating as Kongou is one of my faves.
That’s the duckie.
Yikes, what do these usually cost, because I’m thinking of offering up a kidney for that.
I think they’re only usually 50-60 but that’s just fuzzy memory.
Depends on two things. First is the size of the box – most of them are standard size but some of them pack in a bunch of extras and are bigger and more expensive. He looks to be a general release so you don’t need to worry about buying from GSC direct or using a proxy buying service (this can make things go pretty expensive, eg if you wanted a Pokemon Trainer nendoroid you need to take a second mortgage since you need to pay someone to go to the Pokemon Center and buy it).
Standard-size Nendoroid at standard price is around 3500 yen + shipping. EMS is usually about 1500 yen. Some stuff gets preorder discounts depending on how popular they’re expected to be. Some stuff is just more expensive, probably the license costs more to get. So all up I’d estimate about 5000 yen shipped, +/- 500 yen. That’s about $50 AUD. Obviously if you go for cheaper shipping you can get it a bit lower. Also if you order stuff together it’s marginally less for shipping.
If you buy one from a local retailer that imported, expect to drop upwards of $90. I collect the shit out of these things, I think I’m past 200 of them now, and they’ve always been imports.
Updated my collection and turns out apparently I’m at 179 with another 12 on order. Need to lift my game! There’s more than 400 of them available now, I don’t even own half.
Been looking on hobby search, how reliable is shipping? because im eyeing this off http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10285738
EMS is express airmail then handled by Australia Post as express post. So depends mainly on how much AusPost hates you. FWIW I’ve been buying figures from them with a monthly shipment since I got pissed off at the previous company I used (HobbyLink Japan) in 2007 and moved my business, so 7 years now, and I have never had a shipment damaged or lost.
The new Alestorm album is out tomorrow, but i’ve already got a copy. Still gonna be picking up my copy tomorrow and whenever my fancy pack version turns up in the mail..
Hmmmm, might have to check that one out.
It’s goooooood. Their cover of this song Hangover by some rap dude is pretty awesome.
New Eluveitie is out today as well. So excited! I have the super awesome versions of Eluveitie and Alestorm’s new ones on their way to me in the mail and I’m going try and not spoilerise myself before they get here. I’m not sure how long I’ll last, though. 😛
Awesome! I wanted the Alestorm one that came with the hip flask and other stuff but I was too slow when I decided I wanted it and it was sold out 😛
Is there a thing that exists that sums up the 90’s as a decade more than this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLKYOSiW7U4
Put on the 3D shades!
I love that they rap that while being completely straight man about it.
I’ve literally never heard of that show before 😐
Neither had I. Just watching a bunch of old cartoon themes pretending I was young again and saw that cringe worthy mess.
Oh! 😛
I thought it was one of those super nostalgic popular shows 😀
Well, you just had to do it, didn’t you…
So now I have the a comprehensive playlist of HOURS of intros lined up for 80s-90s shows.
Yeah, that Microsoft ad.
Man, I’ve been wanting to start playing Far Cry 3 for the last two nights, but I’ve forgotten my Uplay password so I can’t even open the game. Filling out the password recovery form doesn’t send me a recovery email.
DRMMMMMM *shakes fist*
It should, pretty sure I couldn’t remember my Uplay password when I got Valiant Hearts (which I still have’t finished), got the recovery email almost instantly.
Ended up just making a new account. Lost my “Powalen” username, but eh 😛
🙁
In the vein of @shane’s question last night, and taking inspiration from @freezespreston, I will pose a similar question. What are your top 3 theme songs from 80’s TV shows?
Off the top of my head
The A-Team
Knight Rider
Transformers G1
are some of my favourites.
Ducktales WOOOOO-OOOOO
teenage mutant ninja turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
HEROES IN A HALF SHELL
TURTLE POWER!
Airwolf!
wait, that may be the ’70s, not sure…
GO GO POWER RANGERS!
*don’t even care*
My son walks around the house singing that line.
Talespin!
Ducktales!
TMNT!
Bit of an interesting choice, apparently there’ll be no matchmaking for Destiny’s high level raids, it’s friend invites only.
I mean sure, randoms suck but if it wasn’t for you lot, I’d have no chance of ever doing them.
I know exactly what your saying man, lucky we’ve got a great community here, huh. TAY 4lyf.
Edit: Back by popular demand, the TAY appreciation page.
I LOVE YOU GUYS! \o/
Edit Edit: Repost from previous page.
In the vein of @shane’s question last night, and taking inspiration from @freezespreston, I will pose a similar question. What are your top 3 theme songs from 80’s TV shows?
Off the top of my head
The A-Team
Knight Rider
Transformers G1
are some of my favourites.
Dangermouse
The Goodies
Astroboy
(what can I say, I was a kidlet in the 80s so these things were important at the time)
Not sure if they’re my top 3 intros but given other peoples’ answers all that’s in my head at the moment is cartoon intros.
1. Wild Cats
2. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr2iQ96em2w
3. Samurai Jack
I used to play the crap out of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs in the arcade back in the early 90s, I didn’t realize it was a show.
If anyone’s having trouble remembering the classics, this youtube playlist has a couple hundred intros from 80s-90s shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdkiKR-yhA0&list=PL4EE3C879EF170BD1
Several hours of nostalgia ahoy!
I’ve largely purged my memory of stuff I actually watched in the 80s with a few exceptions like the opening to The Mysterious Cities of Gold, and so when you ask that my mind immediately goes to classic 80s anime themes. And if that counts, it doesn’t get much more 80s Anime than TOUGH BOY from Fist of the North Star. After that I’d struggle to pick between Pegasus Fantasy from Saint Seiya or Chala Head Chala From Dragonball Z. But I think that’s kind of cheating as those are things I watched in the 90s or 00s.
I suspect that I would recognize and enjoy a lot of 80s cartoon stuff but I can’t bring many themes to mind. I didn’t really watch much outside cartoons in the 80s since I was a negglet at the time.
The Astroboy theme is one of my favourites.
The 80s remake? I’ve actually never seen that.
Also, Speed Racer is another one of my favourite 80’s cartoons.
Have to pay a visit to the video shop across the road from work today methinks and see if they’ve still got that Speed Racer box set for 35 bucks.
Speed Racer is 1960s.
Yeah, but it’s still great.
Yeah, just watched the IGN video and came here to talk about it haha. Was wondering if anyone had set up something for the kotaku destiny guild or organise group stuff?
Probably a lot easier to use something external and persistent rather than these threads. Possibly a Google Hangouts group, those are great for instant messaging, or even a forum possibly, there are a couple of free options for that.
Or if I’m out of the loop and something already exists point me in that direction.
The Bungie group has its own forum, accessible from the group page.
Group here, for those that need it: http://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/100780
That’s kinda annoying.
Yeah randoms suck but often you just don’t have 5 mates available to play, especially all at the same progress/gear level and for an extended amount of time.
Even here on TAY getting a half dozen people together with any regularity is a rare thing unless you play Dota.
Especially across potentially 4 platforms.
Kinda another hurdle to me opening my wallet honestly.
Join up with the KotakuAU group and there’ll be people to take it on with you 🙂
Except you still need to add everyone to your friends list, it doesn’t show people online that are in your groups unless you’re friends. Talking from experience in the alpha and beta here, since I haven’t added many people from TAY on my US account, and so I ended up not playing any of the co-op content. 🙁
yeah, I need to add everyone on the playstation clan. I’ll still be playing with my housemates first and foremost, but can run a kotaku character at the same time
I am pretty hopeful that this will change for the full release, since none of the clan functions were *required* for beta (although they would of been helpful) they were probably left out. Making 5 mans required to be organised would make not having clan lists available in game really stupid and make clans almost pointless.
Also: I take it that the lack of match-making is confirmation that there will be chat channels of some sort? Because you kind of have to have one or the other.
Though from the grimoire, I’m not so sure. Fucking morons seem to think that forcing people out of the game for various activities (such as story, lore, stats, social activities) is somehow a good idea.
in the Beta chat was only amongst your fireteam, even in pvp matches when your fireteam gets put on a team with a few randoms (at least I hope that was the case :D)
It might not be the cheapest solution but one of these with a pair of 3.5mm stereo to dual 6.35mm TS cables and a computer running Skype solves all gaming communication problems and is shitloads better than any of the game chat services I’ve ever used. Lets you dynamically alter chat and game volume to suit the situation so if the volume of one is ever in danger of drowning out the other, turn it down on the fly.
It’s seriously so much better that I ended up buying a mate a similar mixer setup for his birthday specifically so I didn’t have to ever use the hissing nightmare of xbox live chat when we get back to playing online.
I’ll probably bookmark that. I’d be going PS4, though. It’ll require research either way. My current bluetooth experiments have all been weak, ineffective pieces of shit.
Well the way @longjocks & I have our systems set up is to run the game sound from the TV’s headphone out to the mixer’s first input and the Skype audio from the computer’s headphone out into the mixer’s second input. Headphones are plugged into the mixer’s headphone out and the mic into the computer’s mic in.
Took fucking forever to get a working setup since we were also going for recording options and wanted clean record of the individual chat audio channels. I was running with a netbook, cable splitter and xbox headset adapter for a while and it was a cable nightmare, this mixer solution is far cleaner.
As far as the game goes, I’m going PS4 myself
sign up via @thecracks for Kotaku AU and represent! I think I’ll definitely be running raids with peeps @stickman and was it @piat ?
I believe there’s both an Xbox and PS4 clan up and running
Yeah that was us. 🙂 I have three friends that are getting PS4’s for it, and then a couple semi-friends too. Merged with Kotaku, that’s almost two full teams!
All the raids all the time! =P
Ren and Stimpy
Animaniacs
And the Tiny Toon Adventures has the most catchy theme ever.
Oh. 80’s not early 90’s? So young childhood, not late teens like you? 😛
Duckula
SuperTed
And goddamn but is the Raggy Dolls perpetually stuck in my head.
Fail, fail fail.
@evilmonkey
Alias The Jester! Alias The Jesteeeeeer!
Dafuq are you talking about?
*googles*
O..M…G… I watched so much of that show but could not currently remember it for the life of me.
I thought you were talking about me there for a minute
Oh man, that used to air back-to-back with that show about the Loch Ness monsters.
The Family Ness?
Something like that! I’ll have to look that up.
…Yup, that was the one.
You wouldn’t be trying to tell me I’m old, would you? Coz if you are *shakes fist*
Those are all great. The Ducktales theme deserves an honourable mention methinks too
Edit: Hang on I’ll edit my comment above yours and repost the question so you don’t look so silly :p
Should’ve read this page before posting my answer. DUCKTALES
To be fair it’s entirely the fault of @evilmonkey.
I wasn’t even born in the 80s.
Feeling old? =P
Young ‘un like me. High five!. o/
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Another late night/early morning question. As I bought a fair few Pinball tables for Pinball FX 2 last night I thought this was an appropriate question to ask. If you could have any real life Pinball table, which one would it be?
Mine would be The Addams Family without a doubt. The best pinball table of all time IMO
Also if you like listening to the Cantina song over and over again repeatedly you should totally buy the Han Solo table in Pinball FX 2.
Edit: If anyone’s interested the Guardians Of The Galaxy table has just been released for PBFX2, downloading now.
The Lesser Evil pinball table.
Holy shit! Launch my first ball on the Guardians Of The Galaxy table and straight away there’s multi-ball,
Also
Can’t believe Star Lord totally did Biff’s joke from Back To The Future.That’s about as funny as a screen door on a battleship
Why don’t you make like a tree, and get out of here!
I’ll hunt you down and shoot you like a duck!
That’s the one.
Spoilers.
If you haven’t seen Back to the Future by now i may have to disown you 😛
Not that one the other one!
@mrtaco i figured, but i was just trying to crack a lame joke, because that one was simply a reference to the first one…
*re-reads sentence*
yep that makes sense
*nods*
I don’t think @coldcamv has seen it.
@evilmonkey I have seen it i was just very young and remember absolutely none of the jokes or references or anything
@coldcamv Sorry man, don’t know why I thought you hadn’t seen it. You totally need to re-watch it though.
@coldcamv
DEAD.TO.ME!
jk ilyJust something Star Lord says, thought I’d spoiler it in case anyone was gonna buy that table.
One of my fav real pinball tables is called The Getaway. Also Lethal Weapon 3. Only thing that shits me about LW3, is that it’s always blurting out “What Leo wants, Leo gets”. Apart from that though, great table!
I haven’t played many themed pinball tables in real life, however the best pinball themed game is Sonic Spinball.
The AC DC table was fun is only because it was slightly crazy. Sure I’ll take a multiball. Another one? Okay. Goddang, another one? How am I getting this many?
ALREADY HAVE ONE[/brag]
But yeah the Addams Family one is pretty awesome.
One of these specifically the one on the right. Just I don’t have a spare 10 grand and the space for it 🙁
Oh yeah, the Terminator 2 one is rad also. Mostly I’d just like to have the other Mario Bros one, thankfully it’s generally much cheaper than most of them tend to be.
TGIF! My cold has gotten so bad I’m literally walking around with tissues up my nose to stop it from running so much. Couldn’t take time off this week because too many people were away and too much needed to be done.
Currently debating whether or not I really need The Last of Us remastered. I know DC speaks quite highly of it.
Also Supergiant Games released an extended soundtrack for Transistor today with all the humming tunes and glitchy songs, and they’ve made it free for people who bought the original soundtrack on Steam or their website. Super nice thing to wake up to!
Also, the game is 33% off right now so if you haven’t played it you better play it! … OR ELSE!
My time to shine!
Sorry to hear you’re not feeling well, hope you feel better soon man.
In regards to The Last Of Us Remastered, I’d say if you didn’t play it on PS3, yeah pick it up for sure, I really enjoyed it.
I’ve played it on PS3 and really enjoyed it. It’s more rationalising ‘do I need to play it again now or can I wait until it gets a bit cheaper’. Which I’m very bad at.
Wadding up tissues and stuffing them in my nose is one of the most effective ways I’ve found to death with persistent, annoying, thin, runny nasal dripping. It means mouth-breathing, which is rarely fun to keep up, but better than rubbing your nose raw so that even the most gentle, aloe-soaked gossamer tissue feels like sandpaper.
…I’m so buying that soundtrack. The humming was one of my favourite things in the game.
You just get me, man.
Man, there’s really been some slow periods here this week.
A Friday morning MQFT
D1
D2
D3
D4
D5
Ha! I’ve really stuffed you up now @shane :p
If one of those Ds is for Darksiders, play that.
Alternatively Diablo, Disgaea, Deuteronomy, Duck Tales, Da Last of Us, Dassassins’ Creed, Destiny, Dalo, Day Life, Dead Island, Dead Space.
Sorry, none of them are Darksiders, one is Dark Souls II though, but which one mwahahahaha!
Well it’s clearly D4 because saying D2 is Dark Souls 2 is just too easy and you’re a devious evil monkey. 😛
D3
The Mighty Ducks
Deponia? Diablo 3? Dhearthstone?
Nope, nope, and nope.
Didn’t ask to guess what each one was, just pick one. All will be revealed.
IT WAS NEVER REVEALED!
>:|
Yeah, sorry about that, I was waiting for more people to vote. I’ll put you out of your misery.
D1 was Disney Infinity
D2 was Dark Souls II
D3 was Dark Sector
D4 was Deadly Premonition and
D5 was Dead Rising 3
Who won? 😀
D5 roll for damage
These look like price group codes of customers at my work!
Based on the customer I’m going with… D3
The Darkness?
D2
Disco Dinosaurs Destroy Detroit Dealing Dangerous Disquiet 2: Darkness Downpour
It didn’t work last time, but I’ve got a good feeling about this one!
I love having a lime tree. I didn’t have any ice for my breakfast can of coke, but I did have frozen lime wedges. Instant tasty ice-cubes. 😀
You put the Beer in the Coconut, you throw the can away.
D:
I’ve been playing alot of Final Fantasy 3 and I’m not sure why. Probably because of the job system but all it does is remind me of Bravely Default (yes, I know the job system in Bravely Default was based off FF3) which leads me to the question … why am I playing Final Fantasy 3 when I could be playing Bravely Default which is the same as Final Fantasy 3 except it has extra stuff.
FFV’s job system was so great.
PLAY THAT.
Did you finish BD? I got a few hours in FF3 but it was pretty difficult and the saves were way too infrequent 🙁
Nah haven’t finished BD, only got to the first town (non-starting town) then stopped for some reason.
Go play that instead.
Truth talking: FF3 kind of sucks. FF didn’t hit its stride until FF4.
FF3 wasn’t too bad but I liked BD more (…until the last part :P)
but I am already like 10ish hours into FF3. I CAN’T QUIT NOW.
I picked up the first issue for the Path of Exile comic that they released earlier this week. It’s pretty good and it ties in pretty well with the story of the game.
On that note, I figured I’d ask if anyone here had bought one of the associated novels or books for a game before? If so, what’d you think of the quality? The last one I remember being impressed with was the comic you got with Darksiders 1 which was really kickass because of Joe Madureira’s style.
I bought the Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag book, still haven’t read it yet.
I think I read some of the Doom novels by Dafydd ab Hugh when I was younger. Don’t remember anything about them though. Also the Mass Effect comics weren’t too bad, all things considered.
Yeah the Mass Effect worked pretty well. Probably my favourite novelisation of a game property would probably be a bunch of the Halo books. My friends and I got really into them when we were younger.
I read the first comic that came with injustice and I also read the Countdown to War Battlefield 4 book they werent bad
The Injustice comic series is supposed to be really good.
Written by an Australian too.
Well, I just finished reading the 4th Witcher book, but that’s a bit different.
I have a starcraft novel somewhere, never really got into it.
The Witcher books are really good. It’s a shame that they’re taking their time to translate it but from what I’ve heard Polish is a tricky language to work with in a literary form.
I owned most of the Halo books at one point, they weren’t too bad.
Best book/game combo though was when I preordered Neverwinter Nights at EB way back, and I went in to pick it up and they were like WAIT WHILE I GRAB YOUR PREORDER BONUS and I get handed a hardcover copy of The Silent Blade by RA Salvatore. Didn’t even know I was going to get it!
I read the Mass Effect prequel book and enjoyed it.
I read Assasin’s Creed Revelations because an aunt bought it for me. I enjoyed it enough on my first go, but my recent attempt to re-read made me realise it kind of sucks.
I read Dead Space Martyr earlier this year. Pretty good, despite pacing issues in the middle. The first bathyscope scene was really tense. It was from the position of the guy that turned insane, and it is delightfully twisted. Brian Evenson (who wrote this under the name BK Evenson f/or some reason) did a pretty good job. Who better to talk about the formation of a religion than someone who was booted out of the Mormon church? Also Michael Altman was a pretty cool character. There’s a very neat writing thing that happens at the end of the book.
The first chapter depicted a nameless bloke getting murdered by a Brute necromorph. The rest of the chapters never acknowledge this scene. The final chapter depicts the main character being locked in a room with a Brute necromorph. Basically, the first chapter you read is the last chronologically. Trippy.I don’t think I’ve read anything else.
My internet story has a happy ending!
I convinced the real estate/building owner to let me get a contractor I work with out at mates’ rates just to get a quote to see how re-wiring the building would go. Turns out it was just a really shitty MDF (distribution frame – the termination point from street cable to building). Poorly-wired, aged/worn cabling, covered in grime and crap. He cleaned off and replaced my connections, then all was good. Free of charge. (Which will probably make the owner happy.)
16Mbps straight off the bat. All is right with the world, once more. (YOU HEARD ME. ALL. FORGET POVERTY, WAR, AND INJUSTICE, I HAVE FAST INTERNET SO IT’S ALL OK, DEAL WITH IT. Hm. Moving on…)
Because no good deed goes unpunished, I’m trying to get a quote to get some real work done, and see if I can convince the body corporate to pay for a thorough clean-up of the whole MDF. Our guy already mentioned that he saw there was an Optus tech out seeing to another unit’s connection as well; but he wouldn’t have had authorization to clean/replace jumpers on the MDF at all, so that unit’s pretty much fucked til a private tech goes out. Should be a win:win for all involved. My guy deserves to get paid, and it’s about due; either the body corporate’s got away without any maintenance or cleaning whatsoever for thirty years, or they paid peanuts and got monkeys.
Probably a case of paying shit all at initial installation and then not worrying about having it maintained.
That said YAY! You can join us on Destiny in September! =P PS4 or bust.
Sadly, thanks to the beta, my enthusiasm for Destiny has waned. 😛 It’s not the no-brainer system-seller that I thought it would be.
Don’t get me wrong, I devoured all the PVE content like a locust and my first play session was somewhere around 8-12 hrs (I can’t remember), and I had great fun.
…But once it was done, repeating that content over and over gave me too much time exposed to all the flaws, which I can’t un-see. The veil has been lifted, I’ve seen behind the curtain, whatever colourful analogy you care to make. (The hazards of being an MMO veteran.)
I’m sure it’ll still be ‘fun’ in its way; the novelty factor alone will provide for a few hours entertainment, so I’ll probably pick it up at some point, but this isn’t a guaranteed launch-day purchase for me. I just don’t have any degree of enthusiasm for it anymore. My appetite was sated, not whet.
You burned yourself out on it! You need to take breaks from PvE with PvP! =P
By the flaws I’m assuming you mean under the hood it’s all just a redressed MMO?
More like under the hood it’s a lobby shooter pretending to be a redressed MMO. It doesn’t do ‘MMO’ terribly well. If you were to convert it to something top-down/3rd-person clicky instead of FPS, it wouldn’t compare at all well to any MMO out there. Its primary strengths at the moment are that the shooting feels good and it’s pretty. Which, for some folks, is going to be enough to keep them there no matter what meta’s going on.
I don’t think you can make an FPS game fit right into the an MMO genre, it just wouldn’t mesh in terms of the number of abilities and standard MMO mechanics. A reverse argument would hit the same snag of where a 3rd person or top down MMO wouldn’t translate well into FPS.
That said with Destiny the key to keeping people in the game is going to be their end game plans. I absolutely loved GW2 and then I hit level cap and had nothing to do…. And everything said and done I’ve been completely parched for a fresh FPS game that wasn’t some brainless derivate drool of CoD or Battlefield. It’s refreshing to play and I think that’s the biggest draw in with Destiny.
You should come give it a try with Kotaku clan in September if you change your mind though =P
I really think it would fit, with the number of abilities and such. Don’t you remember the gaming classics (and a few successful titles since Halo/CoD decided that ‘two weapons max’ is the future of FPS)? Massive arsenals are a huge part of what was great about Doom, Duke, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Painkiller… And something you’ll notice in most MMOs is a huge selection of weapons, skills, spells.
(Edit afterthought: Something you’ll also notice, now that I think about it, is that huge arsenals don’t work on gamepads, and neither do MMOs with a broad and varied range of spells and abilities. A limitation of the system, and the reason behind the rise of Halo/CoD’s success where other FPS attempts failed.)
I think the enjoyment of Destiny is going to come down to whether you’re after a lobby-shooter with some very, very light MMO trappings, or if youre an MMO fan looking for a brain-worm MMO (which relies on clever implementation of skinner box mecehanics) viewed through the lens of a FPS. Fans of the latter are going to be uninspired or disappointed, fans of the former will probably have a blast.
When criticism lands following launch (ohhh and it will, and it will be noisy, mark me now), I fully expect to be able to divide critics along those lines of expectation and delivery. MMO veterans seeing nothing to impress vs console shooters who have never had anything like this before.
There aren’t too many games in any given year where critics all tend to agree on whether a game is good or bad. I however have a feeling that you’re going to see mostly positive reviews for Destiny. It’s just the fact it’s an incredibly polished game and everything it aims to do it does well. I definitely have some minor gripes with it but nothing I can’t overlook and nothing they can’t fix in a patch.
That said I consider myself quite the MMO vet, hasn’t been a single year where I haven’t played an MMO as soon as I could afford paying for them. I feel as though Destiny captures enough of the MMO feel to keep people looking for PvE in a shooter coming back to it and it has a PvP that could compete with CoD if they get the sense of progression right (I can’t tell just from Beta).
The biggest mistake I think Bungie have made in this scenario is possible over-hyping. They’ve got people expecting too much, and they haven’t made it clear how much of the game they showed us in the Beta. That said to each their own! Everyone has their own taste for games =]
At least with the info about the raids being friends only, it was confirmed that the level cap is more than 20 so it might take 3 days to hit rather than 2…
Out of curiosity, how old is your complex/building? It sounds like it’s at least 30 years old.
It looks like a very modern building, but there are a few bits and pieces here and there which lead me to suspect that it was a 70s (or earlier) building which got a comprehensive and impressive facelift sometime in the last 5yrs.
Fuck yeah ‘straya, where the age of buildings isn’t known to renters/buyers!
Yeah it sucks how there are a lot of old buildings, particularly close to the city, that just get the facelift without anything being done about the interior or the actually wiring. I estimate my place is about early 80s with still original fitting for the bathroom and kitchen. Needless to say, it’s not that good.
Oh, and our telecommunications wires literally hang freely from the access box because the lid has been lost. Quality maintenance by our body corporate.
\o/
Also, 16Mbps, damn son! The fastest I get is about 1Mbps.
Contrary to popular belief, I don’t work for peanuts :p
1Mbps or 1MBps? 😛 If you only get 1Mbps download, I weep for you.
1MBps or 1024KBps.
700kb 🙁
*busts out the Whispering Jack* “ONE…. IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER”
I get 1.7Mbps these days.
Hot damn! I don’t even get that kind of speed! Most I’ve got out of the connection where I live is 14, and usually when it is that high, I get DNS issues. Most days mine sits around 9-11. Doesn’t really bother me much though, but someday I’d love to see what a fast connection is really like 😉
Come fight me IRL buddy, I’ll turkey slap you with mah gigabiiiiiiiiiit.
See, the Abbot government fucked themselves over by screwing with the NBN. They underestimate the contentment that comes with fast internet access.
It would definitely explain why ‘download to drive and play at your leisure’ is more popular than ‘stuttering failure to stream as you lose the buffer race on your shitty internet’.
Pointing out legal streaming services that offer low pricing and decent range/availability is only step one. The services need to be fucking usable in-country, as well, otherwise no matter WHAT the price is, they lose any advantage they might have on points of quality, accessibility, or reliability.
“You can watch game of thrones exclusively on foxtel go at 360p and it’ll only take 12 hours to watch in 10 second buffered bursts and will cost you a mere 12 dollars per episode so what’s your excuse now you filthy fucking pirates?”
8Mbps over here. It ain’t no NBN, but sure could be worse.
The day before the day when you get moneyed is really annoying. I’m watching a class and it has inspired me to want to go out right now and buy stuff so I can put to use all I’m learning. But I have no money until tomorrow. And then tomorrow when I get money I’ll probably be all “yeah, can’t justify spending money on that” and sensibly not buy anything. 😛
Yeah it sucks when that happens. Hanging out to get paid today so I can go and buy a new drill to put our new Kitchen together with and more Disney Infinity Power Discs.
Also considering re-buying The Last Of Us on PS3 seeing as I bought the season pass, then promptly traded it back in when I finished it.
Also, you get paid on a Saturday… weird.
It’s technically Mondays, but it comes through on Saturdays.
I initially read your comment to mean you were decorating your new kitchen with Disney Infinity Power Discs. 😀
Lol, somehow I don’t think Mrs. Monkey would be too happy if I did that.
They’d make good splashback tiles! 😀
I’ll suggest it, but I don’t think she’ll be very keen :p
Yeah this whole fortnightly pay thing bugs me also. Although not so much that I’ve now built up a bit of a buffer 😛
Must totally suck to be paid monthly.
I was for a time, I just used to split it in half and pay myself fortnightly.
Was good for bills though, you had a fair bit of cash on hand.
Mr Strange gets paid monthly. It’s dangerous because at the start of the month he’s all “Woo hoo, moneys!”, but by the end of the month he’s all depressed, and then when he gets paid again he spends too much, out of excitement at having money again.
So glad I get paid weekly, If I got paid monthly I’d probably have the whole lot spent in the first week, and then have nothing to live on for the rest of the month.
see comment below 😛
Or to not get paid at all because you just missed the monthly pay cut off date when you started :'(
Woo kinda Monthly pay! 😛
I kind of like monthly. Having a longer wait period between payments sort of forces me to be a bit more frugal and not buy as much junk.
it’s gonna be fun for me when I get made permanent at my work and I go from weekly agency payments to monthly payments. Yay. I haven’t been paid on a monthly basis since I’ve been in Australia. It’ll be interesting to say the least. People can be assured though that for a couple of days after payday I’ll be living like a king and then living like a peasant for 3.5 weeks until the next payday. What’s a savings account?
Make a second account (most banks let you do that free), dump half your pay into it as soon as you get it and then try to make the first half last as long as you can. Then when you need it you’ve got double the amount you started with
Ccards, wee.
I do have a credit card, but it’s technically not mine seeing as it’s linked to Mr. Strange’s moneys so I don’t like to use it except in an emergency or for food or stuff for the kids.
Somehow I don’t think I can convince myself that fabric and paint is an emergency. 😀
One thing I will be able to justify spending money on tomorrow is renewing my Google Play Music subscription. I’m looking forward to being able to listen to Twilight Force and Pathfinder again.
I’m also looking forward to having my sewing machine paid off so I have money to buy those guys’ albums and never have to be stuck without them again. 😀
I have a working internet connection again! Hooray!
It looks like there was an outage at the exchange yesterday. It lasted almost 24 hours. It was a sad 24 hours.
Who’s this guy?
*leaps through what I thought was an open window but turns out it wasn’t, glass shards scatter everywhere, land on my feet due to cat like reflexes & attempts to hide bleeding cuts in a manly fashion *
Hi TAY, I shouldn’t be here cause I actually have work to do.
*Stealthily blends into the group*
But perhaps by using stealth I can still check out TAY.
What’s going on with you folks? I’m reasonable aside from trying to shake a bad cold that doesn’t seem to want to go away. Been a busy week, events occurred that were of an interesting nature.
Has anyone watched Attack on Titan with the english dub?
It’s pretty bad, I watched it in Japanese originally and thought it was great, the english dub is weird, I don’t like some of the voices especially Eren’s (he’s a whinger but it didn’t get to me in the Japanese dub) and they changed the names of things (maybe just a translation thing) but things like the Survey Corps are called the Scout Brigade in the english dub, c’mon man Survey Corps sounds cool, Scout Brigade sounds like a bunch of kids tying knots, orienteering and trying to avoid molestation. And they call the 4 dimension movement system something really lame. Only started watching in english cause I’m showing someone who refuses to watch it with subs.I was about to say it wasn’t that bad and they didn’t change the names until I remembered I never watched the dub. I have this weird thing where I completely forget I’m reading subtitles and would have sworn they were speaking English.
I do that too.
yeah, I do that too, seriously do yourself a favor and avoid the English, it’s really rare that I actually care about dubbed versions, just really hated this one. It put me off that much I actually started watching it in Japanese on my Vita while it was playing in english on the TV for the other person.
So how much longer is it until our government provokes a war with Indonesia?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/01/indonesian-president-calls-on-australia-to-explain-wikileaks-gag-order
Let’s try never? =P Australia’s foreign policy when it comes to South East Asia is to maintain good relations at any cost and to make as many free trade agreements as possible.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia–Indonesia_spying_scandal
Australia’s military policy is to avoid a war as well. 😛
Because you can just see how it goes down…
Indonesia: “Fucking REALLY? Alright, that’s it. Your people come over here and act like ****s at every available opportunity, you fucked up our country with helping Timor fragment off along with all the good shit they were holding, you don’t play the bribery and corruption game properly, and all we do is endure insults from you and one-sided trade deals. You know what? It’s on. It’s fucking ON.”
Australia: “Woahwoahwoah, let’s be reasonable here… this isn’t WAR-worthy, it’s just low-grade hostility, haven’t you people heard of a cold war? Let’s just keep it free of murder, shall we? We don’t WANT to fuck you up, but if you come at us, bro…”
China: “Hey guys. Whassup? Sooooo… Heard you guys are at war and stuff, and, well… me and Indonesia are pretty tight, hey. Soooo…”
Australia: “Uh. That’s… uhm. Yo. US. You, uh… you wanna chime in here anytime?”
US: *sucks air through teeth* “Awk-waaard. Yeah, those guys are really big, we only fight little guys. No can do, buddy. Put it on our tab, we’ll pay out our contract, whatever, but that’s a negatory on war with the Dragon.”
England: *wild-eyed* “Oh… My god. I JUST heard. WHAT DID YOU DO. WHAT. DID. YOU. DO? Oh… my god, seriously? Everyone spies, everyone knows that, but not everyone gets fucking caught all the time! MAYBE if you can’t spy without getting caught then maybe just fucking don’t do it! OH MY GOD now I have to deal with this? This is such a bad time for me right now. I really can’t deal with this. GOD. JEEZ. DAMMIT Australia, seriously? You know what? I don’t even know if I can do this. I think this might be ‘hard lesson’ time. I really want to help but, I just… Oh my god. Really? Seriously?”
China: “Yeah, that’s right, that’s what I thought.”
North Korea: “YEAH EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID”
China: “Shhh. Quiet time now.”
North Korea: “IMMA GONNA BOMB THE…”
China: “Shhhhh. Take your meds, North Korea. Take them now. Good boy. See, sleepy time now. Shhh, only dreams now.”
Lol, war with Indonesia.
Tongue in cheek.
Still, they’re not really endearing themselves.
Plans for the weekend!? Tell me now!
I envision going out for a movie on Saturday and either playing more Ranked in Hearthstone OR getting lost in Endless Space/Witcher 2.
@redartifice Finally managed to beat the Very Easy AI in Endless Space the other day by being really aggressive >.< You should give in and play it!
Working! \o/
So sayeth the puppetmaster, so shall he get.
Got a 3 day weekend \o/
Gonna be assembling the new kitchen. On the entertainment front I’ll be doing a bit of Tenpin Bowling with my son, playing a bit of Hearthstone, Disney Infinity and whatever else takes my fancy, maybe some Pinball FX 2.
Also want to get my arse into gear and catch up on movies I haven’t seen yet. hoping to see, in no particular order Sex Tape, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, Hercules and Lucy. Also gonna be watching Guardians Of The Galaxy on Monday night.
Drop me a line on Steam or Bnet if you’re having trouble with Maexxna, I’ll give you the details of the deck I used to beat her! (Though I think it has some cards from expert packs because I’d played arena with my farmed gold quite a bit to unlock more cards!)
Will do, most of my heroes only have basic decks, so I should probably just play the normal game to unlock more cards before I go back to the expansion.
Make sure to clear the first wing before 2 weeks are up since its only free for the first month! Next tuesday will be week 3.
I recommend levelling your priest, druid and warrior. (Priest and Druid are well on the way to dominating the next ladder season!)
As long as I beat Maexxna before Tuesday I’ll be right, cos nothing else unlocks until at least week 3, correct?
You got till the Tuesday after the next! So the 12/8/2014 would probably be the last day!
Guardians.
Of.
The.
Galaxy.
Shit, dawg.
Cannot effing wait.
Seeing it next Friday.
HYPEHYPEHYPEHYPE
Monday night for me.
TOMORROOOOOOOOW FOR THIS COOL DUDE EXPRESS!!!
Jelly.
You’ve just told me which movie I’m going to tomorrow =P
Shopping, then Catan and maybe 7 Wonders (see what you started @freezespreston?) on Saturday. Then probably some drinking and live jazz on Sunday. \o/
man.. i had to read that a few times. My foggy brain kept reading that as “Then probably drinking some jizz on Sunday!”
Well that’s only if it’s a good night.
Gonna play soooooo much Warframe with my brother.
Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god…
There was basically Digimon Rumble Arena 3 announced! :O
Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god…
How do you get Pikachu on a bus?
You poke him on :p#dadjokepagesixisnowdadjokepage13hi@strange
Everyone shut the hell up.
There’s a trailer for the new Spongebob movie.
And it looks wonderful.
Never seen any Spongebob before, but for some reason I feel I should before this movie comes out.
Dude.
Spongebob is incredible. Seasons 1 – 3 are on high rotation in my Saturday morning cartoon extravaganza.
The first Spongebob movie is the best jumping off point for n00bs as they’ve already established their style.
First Spongebob movie was great!
YEAH IT WAS!!!
Oh man, just watched the trailer. It looks so good!
I think we’ve hit a waaaaall.
Thanks man, I’ll make sure I get on that. I’m sure my son will love it too.
holy shit that looks great, I’l have to take my lady friend to see that, she loves Spongebob
So it’s like the David Hasselhoff scene from the first movie, but 90 minutes longer? I could get behind that.
Wow, the Japanese games market is fucked.
The Mobile games market was valued at $5.1 billion USD in 2013.
The Console market – that’s games and hardware, both home consoles and handhelds – was only valued at $4 billion. 3DS software and hardware makes up nearly half of that. 🙁
So basically the Japanese gaming market consists of 50-60% mobile, 20-25% 3DS and 25-30% Playstation.
That is a sad state of affairs.
Isn’t the Japanese mobile gaming market a very different beast to Western though. They actually get some really cool mobile games that we don’t.
Not really, the bulk of their phone games are shitty card battlers and the like. Stuff like Puzzle & Dragons or Million Arthur is about as sophisticated as it gets in the phone market. :\
Actually, want to see a really typical Japanese mobile game? Go grab Rage of Bahamut on iOS.
I dunno, doesn’t seem too surprising? Everyone has a smartphone and spends a ton of time on public transport.
Used to be that that was where people played handhelds.
I got to bed late last night, and only ended up with maybe 6 hours sleep. Yet somehow I have a million times more brain powers and awakeness than I did yesterday.
Every time I think I get me, it turns out I don’t :/
Iachievedthisthroughgratuitousamountsofcoffee!!!!!!
WEEEEEEEEE
*Jumps through the windows*
Oh god, it’s so wet and windy…
D:
…what is? D:
Melburnians, my brother is performing an improvised set at Friday Night Comedy at the Butterfly Club tonight
http://fncomedy.com.au/
Go abuse him to your heart’s content
You might want to specify verbally in case someone thinks that’s an invitation to go for physical or sexual
I wasn’t excluding that.
*sigh,* fine, don’t sexually or physically abuse my brother.But are you sure he wouldn’t like that >:)
I would, but I can’t justify the 3 and a half hour drive just to heckle someone :p
It’s one of those “please talk to me” days 😛
When are we having our @pixel_the_ferret_viking celebratory Australian Citizenship meat? 😀
When I’ve become a citizen? :P, which at the rate the government is moving will be in about
*looks at watch*
3 – 6 months 😛
… That having been said you should totally jump in the car with me and @f4ction for the can’d meat!
It sucks that once you’ve passed the test you have to wait until the schedule a ceremony to actually have it take place. I got my “approval” on 22nd Sept, 2009 but had to wait til Australia Day to actually get my citizenship. Not that I mind, makes the day more significant to me.
Yeah, hopefully the waiting list isn’t too long at my local council, but I’ll have to wait and see… And i still have to wait on the background check from “The AFP and various third party agencies” to come back 😛
That bit amuses me. After all the rigmarole and hoopla of getting the permanent residency portion you’d think they have enough background checks on file for you! Or maybe that was just me. 😛
If he has to wait til Australia day, we can do a dual meat and everyone can buy me birthday presents too 🙂
Oo when? Deets?
Sorry, are you asking when the road trip is happening? Because that’s at the end of august… Thinking Friday the 29th at this stage
Oh yeah, I was asking about the road trip :P. I haven’t taken leave before but month end is pretty busy :O
Well keep me posted, you’re welcome to jump in with us for Canberra shenanigans
Greenman!
o/
Guycrazy! \o
You feeling better? Going to PAX?
Yeah, I’m feeling better.
If you mean PAX Aus, definitely. 😀
I accidentally shorted a broken PCB switch and it turned on. Thats how i troubleshoot dawgs.
BY COMPLETE ACCIDENT
You troubleshoot dogs? WITH LASERS… That is possibly the most manly thing I’ve ever heard!
He troubleshoots like a pro. That is, he finds trouble and then he shoots it.
INCOMING ANOTHER JAB AT IGN, so earlier this week, I spotted an articles by ign about the supposedly incoming phoenix wright vs professor layton game, MONTHS after it was released in australia & this is the aus version of the website we are talking about. But you know what is worse, the fact that they mainly do 80/20, 80 represents western audiences, while 20 represents eastern, plus they aren’t as critical reviewers. But the fact they ONLY JUST play the aavpl game JUST a week ago is a problem. That is why I added some years ago another website for gaming news: siliconera. But does anyone think that ign should themselves be reviewed by the chaser boys?
Well, given the game only comes out in the US next month, I’m not surprised.
The Aus ver of the website syndicates content from the US, just like Kotaku.
Why would The Chaser ever bother to look at IGN?
The chaser because 1 of their shows the checkout, which is about consumer affairs. Now as you might remember angry joe made some comments about their ratings after titanfall, about how exagarated the ratings were. so they might look at it, comparing their ratings of both movies & video games to the ratings of at the movies & good game, which are critic shows. Plus who wouldn’t like them pulling a prank on them
A rating on a gaming blog, one of many, is not a consumer affairs issue. It’s a subjective opinion. Same with Good Game or At the Movies- both state subjective opinions on games.
I don’t know who Angry Joe is, nor do I particularly want to.
Angry joe: part of the guy with the glasses critic stable, known for being angry at games or features he hates, also known for being critical at practices done by he video game industry that keep on popping up ie 4 hours of gameplay & the downhill of quality of the stories of video games based on tv shows & movies, he is a must if you are into gaming
He’s one guy. There’s no “must” when it comes to gaming.
“Angry Joe” Vargas is pretty great. He’s known for his 40-minute video reviews. There is a slight chance that those kind of reviews aren’t your style. The cool thing about Joe is how passionate he is about gaming.
However, he is probably most infamous for his Mahor Nelson interview at E3 2013 about the Xbone’s DRM. It’s where the iconic phrase “we can’t just flip a switch, Joe” was created.
Australian version of the website, but was it by an Australian author?
It hasn’t released here in NA yet; August 29th.
So, one could perhaps assume that the AU IGN site are getting articles from their NA counterparts, much like Kotaku AU.
BOOBS!
You condense sooo much content into a paragraph, it really blows my mind.
Red’s Running Rampage Redux 2: The Rampagining
STARTS MONDAY
SIGN UP
https://www.fitocracy.com/group/14940/?challenge
NEEEEEEEEEEERDS
I’ve decided that I don’t need to lose weight for PAX to look okay in lycra – I need to bulk up! Therefore the gut stays, and I maybe do a few push ups now and then to beef up the arms.
I’ll be playing XBox fitness, also, gonna bust out the barbell and sit-up bench to pump up these scrawny arms and hopefully turn my carton into a six pack. Might start riding my bike to work, the operative word there being might.
I’mma gym err’day! 😀
Well, days I can be bothered.
I’ve gotten slack lately XP
I like your thinking! About the operative word.
Question, I just joined up on Fitocracy I selected Group and it automatically signed me up with a bunch of groups. I only want to be signed up to the TAY group, so how do I remove myself from those other groups?
I dunno. I’m probably still too lazy to do that.
That looks really cool, well done guys! Gamification of exercise is a great idea, I love my exercise so levelling up and unlocking achievements sounds unreal lol.
‘Achievement Unlocked: THIS IS SPARTA’ (300 non-stop crunches)
Lift passes $100 a day LOL.
http://www.perisher.com.au/buy/25-Aug-2014
Season pass costs $1. Glitch? Errbody get on that.
Tried to check out, discount code doesn’t apply. 🙁
Code works from 25th August. But the normal price for adult season pass is just $1 …. :\ Odd. I’d try to check it out.
On the purchasing page the Season Pass price is $1,612.00. Suggest it’s just a typo on the sale page in that instance.
🙁 Dem prices tho. Pretty insane.
Blast from the past, Guido Hatzis is still hilarious
@greenius @negativezero @anyoneelsethatplayedbravelydefault
If I start a new game in Bravely Default will I lose all my village population?
Mang, if you just want more games with job systems:
Final Fantasy Tactics / Tactics Advance/ FFTA2
Dragon Quest 9
Disgaea, as I know you have played
Tactics Ogre
Titan Quest
Golden Sun
I’ve played FFTactics, Golden Sun and Disgaea. I just want to finish off games that I already own, hence playing Bravely Default. =P
Tactics Ogre is rad if you have a Vita or PSP to play it on though. The remake they did for PSP is great.
Yeah but that would make the “not finishing games I already own” problem I have worse. =P
Dunno.
I would assume yes? But even without streetpasses my village filled up rapidly from randoms so it shouldn’t cause you too much of a problem.
Randoms you streetpassed? Because I get no streetpasses now that I don’t work. =P
Nope, Spotpass. Got a whole bunch from Japan early on.
Having started a new game, yeah you lose your village population.
The best way around that is connecting to the internet once a day and getting an update friends or something that’s just underneath when you save. That nets you four random friends from around the world.
I’m sure part of it is experience with the game already but I’m sure the graphics and PS4 controller have improved my accuracy in The Last of Us. Doing way, way better than I did last time. Getting head shots easier. Planning strategies better. Really, really digging it.
Also areas I found crazy hard first time through I’m doing in minutes. 😀
DC is a pro in all games now!
ALL THE GAEMZ EVERYHERE!
It’s probably the higher framerate.
I hope my weekend will be good. It may even be better than yours.
Well done, thanks a lot, now I want to go out and buy Lego.
20% off at Target. 😛
The whole police station is only $95! I know this because we now have it. I had to convince @batguy to put it on layby so that the three year old doesn’t cotton on that you BUY ALL THE LEGO from Target.
Dark Souls update:
The Crypt is awesome! Well, except for those two pike(?)-wielding dudes that won’t move from in front of the boss door. Got past those giant shield knights – turns out they’re not so tough, hitting them around their shields is not too difficult, and you only have to get past them once… if you get through the next section intact. But I love the ringing bell mechanic. Also, Velstadt wasn’t too bad – boosted my poise as much as I could so he couldn’t get through my shield, and stuck to his right leg.Vendrick’s presence surprised me, though, and as I didn’t want to fight him yet (despite that tempting item he seemed to be guarding, I homeward boned and went back to Majula to level up. That done, I spent a while wandering around, wondering what I should be doing…
At a loss, I figured I must actually need that item that Vendrick was guarding, so I made my way back to the boss chamber and prepared myself for a tough fight, estus, lifegems and charcoal resin at the ready… and he ignored me. Well, okay, then. Grab the King’s ring, and head back up the stairs to get some vague instructions to go back to “open a gate and go east” from the Emerald Herald, who seems to be stalking me now. I look at the King’s ring description, which mentions the King’s Gate… hmm. Is that the blue-green door near the Mastadon and the three archers in the castle? Doesn’t seem to open.
Time to think… where have I skipped over a side road…
DORY SHOALS!
Pork rolls.
Yes please!
make sure you’re wearing the ring. Also, that room in front of Velstadt, try lighting the bonfire to NG+. Tonne of fun…
So after spending like 6 months complaining about the lack of space on my 2TB hard drive, I finally bought a new one, so I have another 4 TB of space to deal with.
It’s beautiful!
Well, it would be, if it wasn’t taking 300 years to copy my TV Show folder between drives.
I’m also living in fear that I’ve still somehow managed to balls it up, and in like ten minutes I’ll get to watch my computer explode.
Oh, also, I discovered something fun last night, and that’s that shards of glass are really, really sharp, and they cause you to bleed a lot from what was really just a trivial cut, you guys. No no, it’s fine, I’ll clean all that blood off the floor just as soon as I stop releasing a torrent of plasma all over my bathroom. Yeah, yeah, we cool guys, we co- *thud*
That’s our Blaghs
*canned laughter*
hope you’re alright!Yeah, it was a tiny cut, and I left a trail of blood from my bed to the bathroom (I cut my foot, decided that nah, I hadn’t really cut my foot, hopped into bed, and was like “why is my foot wet?”), but it stopped bleeding after ten minutes, so it was more or less the equivalent of donating blood. To the ground.I slit my finger once with a stanley knife. Bled profusely for about ten minutes then I hit it with betadine and a band-aid. I figured it would be fine.
After hobbling to my bathroom I was like “alright, now I’ll just clean it, then grab a band-aid!”
“Oh, I don’t have any band-aids. I have a gauze bandage, but that somehow seems like overkill. Guess I’ll just… let it bleed for a while?”
Should have used the bandage and gained mad sympathy from the ladies! Make a cool story about how you saved Canberra from terrorism John McClane style! Missed opportunity man!
What kind of 4tb Drive??
A Seagate ST4000DM000. I was too lazy to shop around, so I got it for $190 + shipping from PC Case Gear. It was my tax return gift to myself.
Not that I’ve actually done my tax return yet, so it may have been a bit premature.
6TB or go home.
1PB or peasant.
Pffft lightweight, 10 EB or GTFO
I encode all of my storage directly onto the universe.
/god.
Every day I use a computer with an 80GB hard drive 🙂
Wow, that’s some nice game dev tools they gave you!
Nah this is my personal computer!
I hear Teracopy is a pretty rad program.
I love Teracopy. It’s amazing.
So who else is planning on consuming bulk amounts of junk food and Beer over the weekend, before the Fitocracy challenge starts? Because once it does start there’ll be a severe lack thereof.
Nobody, only me, fair enough, carry on then.
Must remember to buy some Bathroom Scales over the weekend too.
It’s just running I thought (I did check) sooo… 🙁 I’ll keep on cycling.
Far as I know it’s any kind of exercise.
Bah, what. Link pl0x?
https://www.fitocracy.com/group/14940/?challenge
Anything you like. goes off Fitocracy points.
How’s it work? I’m trying to look and see if I can connect GPS tracker apps to it .. hmm
Runkeeper connects directly I think
Yeahhhh. I found a comment by Fitocracy from Sept 2012 saying they’re planning on adding other services. Looks like they don’t for now. I don’t think I can use it, since everything will have to be logged/calculated manually. 🙁
If you have a routine, it’s pretty easy to log.
Heh, no routine here. 😛 I am tracking steps atm, but then I’d need to manually calculate the distance too. Meh, another time.
Not anymore 🙁
Wait, are you not allowed to eat junk food on the fitocracy challenge?!
Are you supposed to measure your calories or something?!
I’m out if that’s the case.
Well I just assumed, I mean what’s the point of exercising if you’re gonna keep eating junk food.
The point is to get fit, and lose weight (for overweight people) isn’t it?
Oh, I thought it was just exercising in general, not just running / weight loss :3
I want to bulk up, so eating lots while exercising would be better for me :3
If it’s weight loss / running focused, I’ll happily step out though 🙂
I have a routine that’s focussed on bulking up the upper body lion if you’re interested (just swapped back into it this week actually). It’s really intense though (18-20 sets in 40 minutes)…. And you need to eat large amounts of protein and carbs and definitely need minimum 8 hours of sleep every night.
(Oh god I sound like a gym junkie)
As I said to pupp3tmast3r, I don’t run. If you wanna bulk up fine, but I’ve got to lose the weight around my gut.
It’s exercise focused. It’s not a weight loss challenge, nor is it a running competition.
Exercise, however you like. We do it as a group to encourage one another. and have a friendly competition. And beat @wilbur.
Thank you, this is what I was trying to get across.
Dude it’s whatever you want 😀
Here’s the thing with getting fit and losing weight. You’ve got to make it enjoyable, if you look at it like a chore and start counting calories and stopping yourself from eating things you enjoy your routine isn’t going to be sustainable.
I have really healthy lunches and brekky and splurge a little bit in terms of carbs and fat when it comes to dinner. Also I have hot chocolate flavored protein shakes which are awesome 0,0 So have fun with this challenge! Don’t make it a chore =]
That said I’m getting KFC tonight cos its Friday! :@
Thing is I eat too much junk food, like almost erryday, if you count pies, and I love it, but if I want to lose weight and get in shape, I need to cut down on that dramatically.
Also, that’s the reason I’ll be playing XBox Fitness, to try and make it fun and less of a chore. Also considering getting some of the other Kinect fitness type games.
Well, in the first challenge I was exercising like a champ, and eating like the obese blob I am, until I hurt myself.
Then I was just eating like the obese blob I am.
Fitocracy only tracks activity, not food.
I might join the challenge as well, but logging into the site and mapping the exercises I do in can be an absolute pain since many of the weights exercises I do end up not being in their database which is immensely frustrating.
What kind of things are you doing? They usually just have different names for stuff
From what I understand, you do exercise, you get points. So I’m just aiming to do a focused exercise every day during the challenge – either going for a run, getting on the treadmill, or lifting my kettlebell/doing core exercises. Hoping to score about a million points with the C2S on the 10th!
Don’t put yourself on the back foot! Start running now so you can ace the challenge come Monday! =P
I’m willing to do other kinds of exercise, but I don’t run, or swim.
Cycle? You need some form of cardio for any effective routine! =] Start gearing your body up for it now! Otherwise you’ll find it harder to keep the routine after the first few days cos you’ll be really sore!
Yeah, I know I need some form of cardio, I’ve been eyeing off one of those stand things that you can hook on to the back wheel of your pushbike to turn it into an exercise bike, so you can still do it when it’s miserable outside.
Also, I’m gonna be sore no matter if I start today or Monday, I figured I’d give myself one last weekend of debauchery before getting serious about this shit.
Walking is great exercise. Get on a treadmill and jack up the incline to 5% and watch your heartrate go!
Do you have Myfitnesspal on your phone? Top notch food diary app.
No I don’t, thanks for the tip.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/07/31/rayman-creator-michel-ancel-founds-new-studio-will-continue-at-ubisoft.aspx
Michel Ancel starts his own studio!
Damn! Didn’t expect that, I thought he’d be at Ubisoft forever.
Still working on a project at Ubisoft though. (Please be Beyond Good & Evil! XD)
http://www.vg247.com/2014/07/31/beyond-good-evil-2-is-finally-happening/
I WILL NOT BELIEVE IT UNTIL I SEE DEFINITIVE PROOF AND IT’S IN MY HANDS AND I’M PLAYING IT AND IT’S AWESOME
Ok, it seems everybody is totally missing my point about the Fitocracy challenge.
I’m under the impression that this whole thing is to encourage people to exercise, lose weight (if they need to) and get in shape.
Now, everybody is different and has different requirements and different goals, if you wanna bulk up, fine you need to be consuming more calories for that. For myself, I need to lose weight, hence my comment about cutting out the junk food.
The fitocracy challenges aren’t programs. They’re a motivational tool.
YOU are a Good guy,
and a motivational tool 😛I am a perfectly normal weight i would only really want to get fitterer. Because i can only run like 20 steps before i collapse. 😛 SO in my case i would just keep eating regularly. Also Liondrive is a perfect speciemen of a man so i dont think he needs to lose weight either. 🙂
People can be skinny, but still be unfit, in those cases you’d need to keep your calorie intake up so you don’t lose weight, and do more cardio.
Also, Isn’t it true that muscle weighs more than fat? so you can still weigh a bit and have great muscle tone, but according to your BMI you’d be considered overweight.
A perfect example of why BMI is a load of shit that needs ditching
I disagree; on a population level, it’s quite useful and in fact on an individual level it is effective for ranking risk for various diseases. Yes, your situation might be different but many many obese people do in fact have higher risk of OSA/cardiac disease and that is not due to their large volumes of muscle mass.
Okay, how about “BMI as a tool is badly in need of refinement because it fails to take into account significant variables that can provide what appear to be unhealthy readings in healthy individuals”?
It’s why you shouldn’t use one tool to determine health ever. I am pretty sure BMI has never been promoted as the only way in which you can define health.
You haven’t even seen me 😛
I need to put on weight!
Can I do, like, un-fitocracy, where I get points for eating junk instead? 😀
Yep.
The goal is just to get people here exercising for whatever purpose they like, and to provide encouragement and a bit of friendly competition, nothing more.
If you’re doing it just to be fit (like I am), great!
If you’re doing it to lose weight, great!
If you’re doing it to bulk up, also, great!
Why, you could even dance if you wanted to.
You could leave your friends behind.
Because your friends don’t dance, and if they don’t dance, well.
I feel like I need to watch this
Fitocracy gives you points based on the workouts you record, nothing else. Doesn’t matter if you’re losing or gaining weight or just improving / maintaining your fitness, it only cares about what activity you did and how much.
And seems really biased towards weights so don’t be surprised if cardio feels underrewarded
@greenius is coming to the Can’d Meat!?
http://i.imgur.com/uYcG12G.gif
You didn’t do that when I came to Sydney. Why all the hat Pow? Why must you break me down piece by piece?
http://i.imgur.com/eYj7yT1.jpg
So you’re saying Freeze is a woman?
All the hat
Also all the hat
Since if I add it to the other post I get moderbated.
I still need to book flights for that. Guess I am flying direct to Canberra.
Yes, yes you do… Who else am i going to go “hi Nob” to?
we REALLY need to play jc2mp again 😛SUDDENLY A BEARING
Ask Pants. He’s driving me (can’t promise anything though, it’s not my car obviously :P)
I DON’T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE ANYWHERE BUT TO MY LOCAL TRAIN STATION AND TWO SHOPPING CENTRES AND CASA DE FLU HOW AM I GOING TO GET TO CANBERRA?!
Oh I’m sure it’ll be fine.
PANIC KICKING IN
Trust me, you’ll be fine.
You get one one road. Then you follow that road.
Then you keep following that road. Yup, yup, keep going. A little further, yup, wait, shit. No, dammit, that was wrong. Now you’re in Yass. Goddammit Pants.
Don’t worry, I’ll be there to yell at you if you get it wrong.
(It’s a super easy drive, you’ll be swell!)
But i am the light at the end of that tunnel 🙂
Haha man, that pretty much sums up my solo driving experience as well…
Look at Mr Moneybags over here.
I am gonna do that to him also.
I am? 😮
I’d like to but we’ll see! Month end is a busy time for us business dudes.
Although my boss did just call me earlier and mention me maybe flying up to Sydney soon 😀
Nendoroid Solid Snake up for preorder for those that were interested. 3750 yen + shipping (I’d estimate 1200-1500 yen EMS, maybe 800-900 for SAL)
@evilmonkey Sorry if I got over-enthusiastic and stepped on your toes bro! I just wanted to warn you about cutting out the things you like to eat because it’ll wear down your self discipline and I’ve done that to myself before.
For those of you doing the fitocracy challenge hit me up if you need any advice! If any of you are sore following Monday couple of things to remember. Stretch regularly after sets especially if you feel your muscle group feels worn out. Stretch the following day whenever you get a chance as this increases blood flow to the muscle group helping in recovery and it’ll stop the pain from getting worse the following day and make sure to up your carb and protein intake to help them recover.
For anyone doing weight oriented routines (especially free weights), if you aren’t sure about the movement and posture you need to be in look it up, it’ll save you from getting injured. Finally remember to take rest days!
That’s cool man, I was just a bit frustrated that it seemed that no-one was understanding what I was trying to say.
Stunned to discover packaged Kumara soup imported from New Zealand at the IGA near my office. Lunch sorted.
Tastes like home. Everyone here tries to tell me it’s just a sweet potato, but it isn’t. It’s a whole different vegetable.
IGAs are great for their imports, they actually seem to pay attention to who is in their community. I found one a while ago that had some South African stuff in it, so I threw money at them :D. The one down the road from my work reckons it’s full of things from New Zealand (haven’t been in there myself).
Edit: No idea what Kumara is but I’m glad you’re happy 😀
AU can’t grow good potato cos it’s too hot. NZ potato are like potato²
I beg to differ. Tasmanian potatoes are amazing.
I thought it was common knowledge that Tasmania isn’t part of Australia?
😛
They’re better than mainland potatoes, but you haven’t truly lived unless you’ve had potatoes from Southern NZ.
There’s a South Australian Potato grower’s association that’s apparently quite good.
You hear things when you’re in the economic development space.
Yah that area might be cold enough.
Root vegetables and dairy produce are just miles better there. And I’m not just speaking from some kind of nationalistic pride or something.
Yup. NZ dairy products get shipped out to europe/Russia even, they godly.
Kumara chips are rad.
And Kumara is not sweet potato. Just like yams aren’t despite everyone’s assertions.
Even Wikipedia repeats the myth that it’s another name for sweet potato, but it’s not! Almost certain that kumara is a type of yam.
But the funny thing is that what’s called a yam in New Zealand isn’t a yam at all, it’s one of these weirdo things which are also delicious.
Kumara chips are awesome though, especially with sour cream and a bit of bacon.
At work, we have a lady who comes in to do accounts/finance stuff only on Fridays and then wishes us a good weekend as she goes home. She’s essentially the weekend Santa, you know something good is coming when you see her.
Except she’s not here today.
Can… can I still have a weekend? I don’t know how to feel D:
As I’m about to make myself my usual post-lunch coffee and am thinking about picking up one of those capsule machines on my way to work, I thought it might be interesting to see what you guys prefer.
So what’s your favourite type of coffee?
I’m quite partial to a Caramel Latte myself.
I’m full of questions today aren’t I :p
My favourite type is no coffee.
You like frozen donuts and don’t drink coffee? You really are a monster.
His one redeeming feature is that he likes capsicum.
Still a monster, but not the worst monster 😛
And my dashing personality.
No, I took that into account.
The capsicum thing is the only thing going for you.
The only thing.
It’s half not liking the taste, half not wanting to become dependant on it. I know so many people who talk about needing a coffee every morning and I’d rather not have that 😛
Caramel latte with lots of extra suger is the only coffee I can stomach. Normal coffee is just way too bitter for my tastes.
So sugar is your favourite coffee.
A single origin, preferably from South America as they typically have the robustness (not quite as robust as Middle Eastern beans, but their own type of dark aroma nonetheless) but typically with hints of citrus or vanilla. If vanilla, then I get it made into a latte. If it’s citrus, it sits particularly well as a short black, or a long black.
The best bean I’ve ever had was one from Bolivia (I believe) that was like a journey through my psyche in a long black form – it started off bitter, moved through to a multi-coloured layer of citrus and berry flavors before ending on a cliff note of sweetness in the final sips.
…
I fucking like coffee, alright? Stop staring at me.I had a luwak coffee once. Probably one of the best coffees I’ve had but I still wouldn’t pay $80 cup for it.
Nor would I, I mean I like coffee, but damn.
I just wiki’d that, I think I’m gonna hurl.
I was in a little Balinese family home with the civet cat sitting on the table next to me when I tried it…
Brings a new meaning to the term “Home produce”
Don’t be self-conscious. To be so enthusiastic about food and to properly put that into words, that’s an art right there. When you can articulate exactly what makes something so delicious, the overall experience can be heightened, as if now you can savor the words to go along with the drink/meal. I very much consider cooking and eating food a hobby of mine, and I’ve never had a good enough meal to elicit anything more than a “it’s good!”, much to my chagrin.
… I take food a bit seriously myself, now that I’ve read what I just wrote.
Vilino coffee? They’re good.
Pilgrim. Vilino are number 2 in my book.
Haven’t tried Pilgrim. Don’t think anywhere in Launceston has Pilgrim. Tassie has some really good coffee roasters though.
Mother
Oh, you drink that shite.
It’s cold, full of caffeine and doesn’t make me poop as much as V.
Everything else is secondary.
Long black.
Sah gerd.
YES! Everyone looks at me weird when I order one without sugar.
Bunch of savages!
It’s just the best.
Maybe with a nice danish or cinnamon scroll on the side?
DYN-O-MITE!!!
I too enjoy my coffee in the same manner by which I like my men.
Also Ltd. Espresso in the Valley… Totally the best.
During my time in Australia I was always partial to a tall black. Now as my preference of coffee, I always made do with a short black. I always did enjoy how coffee was taken just a tad more seriously than the starbucks glamourized what-the-hell-is-a-chocolate-chip-mocha-frap-i-probably-know-what-this-is-but-it’s-not-real-coffee-damnit stuff in Canada and Lower Canada.
Short black, no sugar. Capsule machines are great. Make sure you get one that is compatible with Nespresso capsules because then you have more options for coffee brands.
@cj
A tall cup of CJ?
Mmmmmmm.
Im the new taste sensation
A tall black African with a strong body. 😛
(Bog-standard latte, no sugar. I like a fairly strong roast generally, but not hugely bitter. One of the better roasts I found when I was bothering to make my own instead of just buying pods was Gravity’s ‘6 degrees darker’)
Good and regular attendance coffee: long black.
Great coffee: long macchiato
Random coffee: cappuccino
I prefer Vanilla Lattes, myself – I find caramel too sweet, and though black coffee is nice too, paper cups lead to burnt fingers. I’ve stopped having coffee at home, as there I have access to tea…
I like questions! Saves me from coming up with things to say…
I have the Aldi machine and I love it. They have a good range of coffees from weak to strong, some sweet latte things, and hot chocolates. I generally prefer a strong flat white, and only add sugar if I’m buying coffee. I do like a Caramel or Vanilla Latte, but I try to avoid drinking too many calories.
I have the milk frother but I don’t bother using it. I just warm up 100ml of milk in the microwave and do a long shot of coffee on top. Makes a good cuppa.
I bought myself a Delonghi Dolce Gusto capsule machine today. It has a few advantages, it can do hot and cold drinks (Iced Coffee anyone), and you can also get Tea capsules, and the one flavour of Tea they have just happens to be my favourite for Iced Teas (Peach). Also, I don’t think they make a milk frother, because most of the coffee flavours and the Hot Chocolate come with an extra milk capsule, The one disadvantage is that with the ones that come with the extra milk capsule it works out to about $1 a cup because you’re getting half the amount of coffee capsules, I know that’s cheaper than a cafe, but still. Not sure if it takes other brands of capsules, but I’m looking into it.
I avoid the capsule machines myself as I find them no fun. However everyone I know who has one is satisfied with them. Personally I’d recommend an Aeropress and picking a good bean. But given your favourite is a Caramel Latte I take it your not a big drinker of Black Coffee.
Or if you tell me roughly where you work and its somewhere in Sydney I can just reccomend a place for buying afternoon coffee.
I can drink it black, I drank nothing but black coffee for about 5 years straight at one point, I usually add an extra sugar if I’m having it black though.
Sorry, don’t live in Sydney.
I’d say check out the Aeropress if you dont mind taking 3-5 minutes to make your coffee.
Either long black with no sugar, or white with sugar if I’m feeling fancy.
But the poops, they beckon. So Ecco barley-based coffee-substitute.
I find myself really interested in Australian Football now. I spent a long time reading the AFL website last night.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?
Nothing. Nothing at all.
AFL is awesome.
I will admit that it is one of the few types of sportsball that is consistently interesting.
But the fact that I’ve suddenly started to get interested in AFL for the first time in six years surprises me.
The only good thing about watching AFL is watching the guys (don’t judge me :P).
Actually watching it is kinda boring.
Playing Football for fun is alright though.
From age 14 to 17 i could name every player on every afl team. I now rarely watch but i wish i remembered too more. AFL is awesome. Lions are my team even if they are in a rebuilding phase ATM
I used to really be into it between the ages of 8-10. My two favourite teams, West Coast Eagles and the Port Adelaide Power, were doing really well. The 2005 and 2006 grand finals were nail-biting stuff when I was a kid. Then Port Adelaide changed jerseys to that stupid V design and I gave up on the entire sport.
I used to be pretty good at naming players. But it’s a lot harder now, because when someone was getting ready to score a goal there used to be a fancy graphic telling you the player’s name. They don’t do that anymore because the matches are broadcast live, and there isn’t enough time.
The games were broadcast live back when they did that too. It was just on set shots, so they normally had a bit of time to cue the graphic.
Also the Port Adelaide chevrons are one of the best guernseys in the competition. Then again, as a Lions fan, the idea of no longer supporting a team because they went from a good design to a terrible one is hard to imagine. Dammit, I’m enduring the Paddlepop Lion!
Its soooo fucked
We’re getting the proper guernsey back next year! Probably!
Eh, Port Adelaide changed jerseys a little after the time I stopped caring about AFL. Since my brain can’t accept that I gradually lost interest over a long period of time, it’s just easier to blame that stupid blue V.
EDIT: Also yeah, what happened to the Lions’s jersey? Blergh.
Booooooooo Port.
How’s that “pride of South Australia” working out? I’m thinking an elimination Showdown in the first week of the finals is brewing.
As long as we beat Collingwood into the 8 I’m happy.
Because Fuck Collingwood.
It is known.
Calm down, I like the Crows as well. They have one of the most aesthetically pleasing team colours in the whole AFL.
From age 14 to 17… but you’re only 12!
I spent last night yelling at the TV and nearly having a heart attack, and then being so worked up from the game was unable to go to sleep. Would have been even worse if “they” lost.
Fremantle supporter, I take it? Oh man did I hate you guys as a kid.
I only tuned in (by accident) 4 minutes before the end. Seemed like a missed a good match.
Yeah, now a long distance Freo supporter doing my bit from Brisbane. It was a good game in that it was close for most of the match, and there were significant hurdles to get over (wasteful kicking, injuries, lack of effort at times) and it came down to the wire. Still, bank the 4 points and get ready for Geelong next week.
“Hate you guys as a kid…” Eagles supporter, I take it? 😛
Very much so, but I liked Port Adelaide better. I don’t care about the Eagles at all these days, everyone I loved is gone.
What Red said. Every single word
Uhhh, hey TAY. Uhh, thanks for your heartfelt support last week during my meltdown on Twitter. Life hasn’t been easy in the last few weeks.
I argued with upper management until I was blue in the face that I should get an extension of contract. The union rep was literally walking up to the building when they recanted and extended me for three months.
So yay, I have a job for three months longer. Boo, it’s no extendable after that. Yay, I’ve coped ok with all this terrible shite that’s occurred over the last two months now (since I came back from my amazingballs trip up to Brisbane). Boo, I’ve coped a little too well and the red flags are going off around me that I may not actually be coping, rather I’m being delusional about the whole experience and if I’m not careful horrible things will happen.
Still haven’t quit smoking. It’s like a warm hug* on a cold day and I just can’t give it up.
Sorry I’ve let you guys down by not writing up my trip. It will happen. I promise. I just need to be in the right frame of mind to do it.
And can somebody get the “Gaaaaaaay” seal picture ready? Thanks.
I love you all.
*cough* right, I’m going to go hide over here in the corner again, only jumping in to make witty yet safe comments.
*granted, it’s like a warm hug from a fallout ghoul, laced with radiation, that only feels warm at the time until you realise that in the long run these hugs are going to slowly kill you.
It sounds like you’re coping as best you can, given the tough circumstances.
Three months is something to start with.
That gives you plenty of time to start looking for a new job, and to start planning what you are going to do once you’re contract is up.
Something will come along for you man 🙂
You just have to keep at it and not give up.
And no one is disappointed by the lack of a write up. You’re busy, stressed, and have a lot on your plate.
Don’t worry about that 🙂
If I was the kind of guy to hug strangers, I’d offer a hug, but instead you get my respect. That’s far more valuable for me to give out.
Plus I’m sure everyone else will offer hugs 😛
*pats Quiz on the bum*
There there.
*awkward silence*
See? such a way with words!
I mean, in context it’s a tad depressing but, y’know.
…..
GGGAAAAAYYYYYY.gif
Since I can’t hug you rught now, this will have to do:
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg246/LDOWG88/Hug.jpg
*hugs*
Oh wow, man, you shouldn’t even worry about trip-writing-up stuff if it’s a stressor, I mean hell, I’m pretty sure it’s just a thing people thought would be cool, out of curiosity and enjoyment of your writing, but with no special dependency on it.
At any rate, at least ‘not extendable after that’ sounds like a degree of certainty. Certainty, you can work with.
I’ve gone two weeks without soft drink. \o/ I’ve been drinking only water and coffee and finding it surprisingly easy. I had a bottle of iced tea this morning for something different and enjoyed it even more than usual. I don’t drink hot tea, but I love iced tea. Anyway, my next challenge is to get through August without soft drink. Wish me luck.
Well done! I’ve just done a week without my beloved coffee and lots of hot (mostly herbal) tea instead. It’s true that you get used to the change pretty quickly. I don’t drink much soft drink, but I find in winter I start drinking coffee and not much else, so now and then it’s good to break the habit.
I don’t think I could give up coffee. I’ve been drinking coffee a bit more since I gave up soft drink, but I’m only drinking 2-3 cups a day (one decaf). May as well keep having something nice to drink seeing I don’t drink much alcohol.
I’ve done the being pregnant thing, and giving up coffee (because it made me ill) and alcohol wasn’t much fun (thank god for non alcoholic beer in summer). Giving up alcohol is pretty easy, but I do like my coffee. I’m not giving it up permanently, just having a break for a week or two and then going back to 1-2 a day instead of 4-6. For me it’s also about weight loss – too much coffee and beer means too many extra calories that I’m just drinking.
I only drink short blacks, so there’s not too many calories consumed. I don’t add sugar either. I use the Coles Finest coffee capsules which are actually pretty good and work out to 40-50 cents a cup. So I basically only spend $1 a day on coffee, unless I go to a cafe when I’m out.
I went full nerd and started looking at soldering videos on youtube. Some of these guys are crazy.
Some are fucking awful too.
You went full nerd a long time ago.
You wanna fight M8?????
Also i am posting on a gaming website forum to people who i talk to everyday.I did go full nerd a while ago and i love it.
I don’t fight, I only battle.
DANCE BATTLE!
@rocketman is light years away from facing @powalen!
Light years isnt a measure of time but distance. 😛
trainer in the pewter city gym 🙂
Second best trainer in the Pokemon game series. The best being the “shorts” trainer obviously.
3rd best being the guy at the end of the battle bridge who tries to convince you to join team rocket.
I always wanted too.
My Rattata is in the top percentage of Rattata.
@powalen It’s still a stupid rattata, though.
Neeeeerrrrdddddd!
I did this yesterday.
Now shit I don’t post online is getting stolen.
The curse of popularity. We all agreed not to let on that we’ve been watching you in secret, but some fuckers just can’t help themselves.
I did a bit of soldering / electronics work when I was in high school but I wasn’t that good at it, should really sit down and learn the skills again properly.
Its really great skill to have.
Also pretty easy the most important part is to have a good iron and to properly care for the tip. I dont do PCB work much these days but its pretty easy as long as you have decent solder and a good iron. Also people who say that you shouldnt use leaded solders are morons. It works waaaay better than the non leaded shit.
Just the tip?
nah the whole wand should be cared for too.
ohhhh
Lead-free solder has been responsible for a lot of bad computer problems recently. Especially high-power, high-heat stuff like Macbooks. It’s just not up to snuff compared to the leaded stuff.
It’s a very useful skill and it’s on my list of Life Skills to acquire at some point, but I was thinking about spending some time learning to sew properly first. Being able to repair, alter or even make clothes and other stuff seems super useful. Also I kind of need a creative outlet.
OH MAN I CAN SEW AND KNIT TOOO. we need to spend some time together knitting, soldering and watching anime neg 🙂
Are you still thinking of moving to Melbourne? BECAUSE THAT COULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN.
YEAH BRO 🙂
we will have to hook it up
Anyone who’s had the NBN installed.
About how long from construction started to it being finished does it take?
My ‘burb is apparently under construction so I wanna start getting ready for the better but still not as good as my mate who has fibre to the home innernette I can enjoy soon.
http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=3yoS_oiaAJA&p=n
Looking like about 3-4 months here.
But that includes a house.
What suburb?
I’m looking at moving and having had Telstra HFC at my current place I don’t think I can go back to shitty ADSL 🙁
HAHA NBN DOESNT EXIST U FUNNY
My connection begs to differ 😛
I’m kinda joking, but I’m really not. It can still be called the NBN as a project name, but the abomination isn’t anything that was promised to us. So that’s my personal refusal – to call it ‘NBN’.
The website said it had commenced early last year. I only saw the NBN guys starting around my suburb in March/May though and I am still waiting. It’s meant to be fully hooked up on 28th of August though.
Old news here, regarding Destiny-Activision contract. I’ve never seen it.
*****
So apparently Destiny #2 will come to PC (March 2016, since 1yr delay?), there’s $2.5mil (equiv to a year pay) for the game getting 90+ score, etc. Maybe the next Destiny games are the ‘expansion packs’.
http://documents.latimes.com/bungie-activision-contract/
Hola TAY!
I’m going jetsetting around the country next year! I’ll be in Melbourne for Supanova on the weekend of 10-12 April, the Gold Coast for Supanova on the weekend of 17-19 April, and Sydney for Supanova on the weekend of 19-21 June!
Will also be booking in some Oz Comic-Con dates when those become available. Hoping to hit up Adelaide one more time, and maybe Brisbane and Sydney, if the times are convenient.
It’s gonna be a massive year.
… who wants to put me up? 😛
Check with me once you know Adelaide dates, this could work.
Will do. Does Adelaide have a different calendar to go with its non-conformist time zone?
Ooh, I might go to Supanova in Melbourne next year then. Haven’t been to one before.
Awesome! There will hopefully be at least one meat that weekend as well, so we’ll definitely cross paths.
No love for WA…
No no, I get it…
We’re not good enough for you…
We’re not good enough for anybody!
*cries hysterically*
Someday you’ll take us seriously :'(
You’ll all take us seriously >:'(
No. No, we really won’t.
Still waiting on WA to make good on their continued threat to secede.
We’ll do it! DON’T PUSH US, MAN!
-_-
I really, really want to see Perth, but do you know how expensive it is to fly there from Canberra, let alone transport 60kg of books and stuff? There’s just no way I can afford to lose that much money. Sorry, man.
Yes. Yes I do know how expensive it is. I just flew from Perth to the Gold Coast, remember? 😛
I was only kidding, Perth suuuuucks, don’t come here, haha!
Obviously you don’t love me enough.
It’s okay. I’ll get over it.
*sobs*
I’ll put you up for the Gold Coast part. I’ll even make sure I have time off and transport you.
Very kind of you to offer, man! Thank you. I’ll let you know closer to the day, and if so I’ll pay my way with Supanova tickets and books (and some $$).
As for the actual supanova part, you can always crash here. Though I might need to do something about a better couch, what with there being no guest bedroom. (Yo, @freezespreston, how would you rate that couch?) It’s conveniently close to the venue by public transport.
The couch wasn’t bad at all.
Although Supanova is at the Gold Coast as well and I think that’s the one he’s talking about.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. RIght.
I’d offer but you’d just turn me down. 😛
You live an hour away (I just googled it to be sure)! I think I have a good excuse for turning you down this time. But thanks for the offer to offer! 🙂
Next year is so far away!
EDIT: Oh and yes 🙂
It’s only eight months! That time will fly by now you’ve got a job.
Or go by extremely slowly when I’m sitting at my desk doing nothing! 😛
I need to stop checking the time every 60 seconds >.
MQFT:
M, L, T, C?
Which one is Dark Souls? 😛
That’s the super secret mystery bonus option that no one can choose. (I don’t have a PS3 or Dark Souls).
Luckily Dark Souls is on PC too! =D
That’s okay, Dark Souls is on 360 and PC as well!
I decided I wouldn’t play Dark Souls as I have a bad habit of throwing controllers when I get frustrated with a game. Also, I don’t have a 360, and my Mac probably wouldn’t run Dark Souls.
Milo, Tea, Coffee or something starting with L?
Nope. If it was those, it would be C all the time. Trying to decide what I want to do tonight.
Masturbate, Lie Down, watch TV, eat Curry? 😛
Nah. TV is involved in three of the options, but not those options. Eating Curry sounds good, but I’m having Lamb Chops instead.
Perfect night.
Yeah I was going to say you don’t need a MQFT for that, the answer is all the above, probably in that order too.
C!
I caught a cold from TAY…
Commented here last night.
Woke up with a sore throat and have been sitting at my desk with snot running down my face since lunch.
Should be a good weekend!
I’m sorry.
D:
All good!
On the plus side Codral + 2 rum and cokes and I’m drunk!
I have recently been reading the first book of Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archives series, and I’m enjoying it a fair bit although it’s a ponderous.
One thing really stands out though, which is that it’s full of stupid made-up fantasy terms that look like the sort of thing that you’d see lampooned in a Penny Arcade comic or something. THE OATHPACT and stuff. It’s actually kind of distracting, because the terms are so hard to take seriously without sniggering at them.
Man, I got mad into those books. They do suffer a little from being “Epic Fantasy” and they do fall into a lot of pitfalls of the genre, but at the same time, they’re pretty damn good. I ended up only getting 2 hours of sleep when I was reading the second one, because I was like “I’ll pop a chapter or two before bed,” and then after four chapters I reached the final act, and I couldn’t put it down until I was done, so I was mad tired at work the next day.
I feel like the second book is likely a lot better than this first one, since apparently he’d gone through multiple drafts on it over like 15 years. His usual writing is much tighter and less ponderous.
2nd book certainly doesn’t wander like the first and was a great read. Although he does introduce more silly terminology.
Apparently it’s a 10 book story… So it’ll end up another Wheel of Time waiting 20 years to finish the series (hopefully we don’t get a repeat of Robert Jordan’s fate though… Was devastated when I found out he’d passed away).
He writes fairly fast, so hopefully it won’t be that long a wait.
Well, at least Sanderson’s like 38 and looks reasonably healthy, so he’s not too likely to drop off at any moment.
But then, he also keeps picking up new projects, so who know how long it will end up taking (I’m not complaining too loudly, for a kid’s book Steelheart was pretty good (though it was no Mistborn))?
I’m reading Mistborn at the moment. It’s okay. I think I probably should have read it before reading The Stormlight Archive though, because it feels like a less refined version of that, and I find myself wishing I was reading The Stormlight Archive instead.
See, I read Mistborn first and I enjoyed that overall a bit more than I’m enjoying this. Much tighter and punchier, less exposition and better at laying out its fundamental rules and everything (Sanderson has some really interesting ideas about magic systems).
See, I think the lack of exposition is part of my issue with it. The world doesn’t feel as interesting as Stormlight’s does. Also, the pacing feels off to me; like too much happens over a short amount of time.
Allomancy is top notch though. It’s a really interesting system he’s set up, and the action scenes that happen because of it are great.
(cc. @dire_wolf)
I’m with Neg. Mistborn is fantastic, best Fantasy series I’ve read in recent memory. Stormlight is good, and it really is “compelling” but I miss the tightness of Mistborn.
As a note, are you guys aware of the idea (I think it’s confirmed from above, not just epileptic trees), that all of his books share their universe? Apparently Stormlight is essentially the basis, and everything else is an offshoot from there, or something.
@blaghman Yeah, I heard that. Apparently it’s all going to tie together into some big cosmic story. The character of Hoid is meant to be an important figure to the whole thing. He appears once in the first Mistborn book, but it seems clear this was before he’d decided to join everything together so the character doesn’t really do anything (or maybe he’s more important later in the series. I dunno, I’m only a third of the way through the second Mistborn book.)
@blaghman: I’d say actually that the three books he did to finish of the Wheel of Time are the best fantasy I’ve read in the last few years. That ending was truly magnificent, came together beautifully.
And I’m the opposite. I read Mistborn and enjoyed it. Great magic system and some great characters but didn’t really grab me. The action scenes were great and my mind was playing out those scenes in my head.
However, reading Stormlight Archive was a completely different experience. I just fell head over heels with the world and the magic of it straight away.
I love that Stormlight is a limited yet renewable resource that is naturally occurring that theoretically anyone can get access too. The history is rich and still somewhat unknown. The description of the world via Shallan’s drawing and Jasnah’s study makes it so captivating. Felt all of that was missing from Mistborn…Book 2 Spoilers
Towards the end of the book where you learn more about the Knights Radiant and the difference between them and the powers granted by the Honorblades. The story arc beginning to form between the different factions and their competing factions. Just so much “stuff” to explore in the coming books that I can’t wait forTL;DR – Like Stormlight Archive more than Mistborn.
@dire_wolf: I haven’t seen this character yet, but basically most of Sanderson’s books exist in a shared universe (Cosmere), and he simply hasn’t pulled the curtains back far enough that you can see how everything fits together fully.
@negativezero
Wait, you’re going to get this as a reply anyway. >.>
I’ve been considering reading Wheel of Time, thanks to a friend who’s a fan, but I don’t know if I can stomach all the crap (my sister’s a pretty good metric for what I’ll like, and she gave up in the first book). Would you recommend it enough for me to give it a go? In all honesty, I’m mostly interested in the Sanderson stuff at the end because I’m a mad fanboy.
@blaghman
I enjoyed the last 5 books the most… If you want ‘tight’ and ‘punchier’ you’ll struggle with the mid-section of WoT books. After reading the final 4 that Sanderson was involved with I feel the only reason he needed to split the last book into 3 was because Jordan had left characters scattered all over the world and hadn’t anticipated how much… writing… it would take to bring characters together in a way that made sense.
Also the whole guys not getting women and women not getting guys trope wears super thin by the time you get a bit passed halfway. If you can get passed that you can enjoy it for the long extravagant story that it is.
@blaghman: your sister’s weird man, the first five books of Wheel of Time are straight up excellent. It was only after that that it began to get ploddy. Stuff happened but it was very slow, I think he basically got stuck. There’s one whole book (Path of Daggers) which you could skip and probably not miss much because nothing really happened. After that though, he started bringing it all together, and things looked to be really picking up again. Then he got sick and died and Sanderson took over and wrote three amazingly good books concluding with what has to be a landmark: a conclusion to an epic >10 book fantasy series that was completely satisfying and resolved almost everything and which I could find almost nothing I would have wanted changed.
I’ve read the first few books multiple times and always enjoyed them. However I should also probably admit that I first read The Eye of the World through Lord of Chaos (1-6) when I was about 13 so my judgement might not be fantastic, and it also means I’ve got some childhood nostaglia and everything. But it should also tell you something strong about that ending, considering that I’d been waiting for the conclusion for more than half my life and wasn’t disappointed in it. And you know how I easily I get disappointed by shit not being quite up to scratch!
I’d kill to see Sanderson go back and write some more stuff in the setting. He added a bunch of details and hooks to the backstory that really intrigued me. Also his more cinematic, videogamey action description made me even more surprised that there’s only ever been one Wheel of Time game and it was shit. It’s a setting that should be capable of some amazing work.
@blaghman if you really want to read wheel of time, I have the whole pre-sanderson series on my bottom shelf along with other crap like eragon.
I only keep it to inflict it on others that are thinking of reading the series, so they don’t waste their money. I’ll have to find some way to get them to you.
He puts out something like 3-4 books a year compared to Jordan putting out 1 every 2-3 years if you were lucky. Also he’s much younger and isn’t GRRM-style obese and subsisting on a diet of glazed ham.
The series is insanely good at making you want to read just one more chapter.
If you want another page turner check out The Name of the Wind (plus The Wise Man’s Fear) by Patrick Rothfuss. Can’t recommend it enough.
That’s the only incomplete series I’ll ever recommend to anyone. Fantastic writer.
I’m reading Dune right now. Frank Herbert does the same thing but in Arabic (or Arabic looking words, I’m not fussed enough to look up the difference).
Just spent the last few hours sorting a thousand gift cards and backings and a whole bunch of other stuff out to be distributed across 54 ABC stores.
Cannot wait to go home and not count anything.
So no Rhythm Heaven Fever? 🙁
Speaking of which… @negativezero did your copy arrive? Play that!
And definitely not any trading in Elite 😛
Have got the final level of Strike Suit Zero to return to though.
Arrived a few days ago, haven’t had time yet.
JOYSTICK IS READY FOR COLLECTION
FUCK YES
Instead of creating a new post for every AFL thing that pops in my head, I shall list a bunch of stuff from the perspective of someone who has been out of the loop
-Port Adelaide are using the stupid V jersey, huh? I miss the old one.-WHAT HAPPENED TO BRISBANE’S JERSEY?
-WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BULLDOG’S JERSEY?
-Why are the Kangaroos still using the same old jersey!?
-Melbourne still suck, huh?
-When did the Dockers get good?
-When did St. Kilda become horrible?
-There are 18 teams now?
-The Giant’s seem pretty cool, despite being bad at football
-Half the games are behind a Foxtel paywall!
-Goddamn does the new Brisbane Lions logo suck
-Melbourne’s logo is a complete mess and looks terrible at small sizes. What was wrong with the old logo?
-Having 18 teams has kind of messed up the ladder. Instead of having a top 8 and a bottom 8, we have a top 8 and a bottom 10.
-Why aren’t there pink teams yet?
-I still hate Collingwood
-I should get back to work, huh?
-If there is a team I haven’t offended yet, let me know
-I just realise I end a lot of sentences in the same way, huh?
-The Giant’s theme sounds like a Disney villain song if the movie were set in Oktoberfest
-I really want to play AFL Premiership 2006 for the PS2 again
-The AFL website really needs a ‘Hide Spoilers’ button. If Riot’s esports competitions can do it, why can’t the AFL?
The Port adelaide V is pretty traditional.
Of course, if Eddie McGuire wasn’t such a cock they could wear the Prison Bars one more often.
– I like it. Simple is good.
– “Modernisation” + marketing to kiddies. Also, it’s guernsey, dammit. We’re getting the real one back next year and the one off promo guernseys worn this year have been closer in design to the traditional design than the current.
– I like it. Simple is good.
– I like it. Simple is good.
– Before they were tanking to get draft picks, now they’re just terrible.
– A little while ago. Having Ross Lyon as coach seems to be a pretty good thing, even if they play far too defensively for my liking.
– Expansion teams yo.
– The Giants are … something.
– All of the games can be found through streaming sites if you know where to look. Bring a Brisbane fan living in Dubbo, I’ve very definitely found out where to look.
– I don’t mind the logo so much if it was just a logo.
– Oh dear Jebus is that thing a mess. It’s like that brief, terrible period where teams thought that gradients in guernseys were totally radical. Except so much worse.
– It takes some getting used to but anything other than 8 teams in the finals is weird and the rest are just the rest.
– Umpires wear pink. During Women’s Round, Melbourne wears pink to raise money for breast cancer. A little while ago, the umpires wore pink while Melbourne wore pink. The AFL still does not really understand the concept of a “clash”, despite forcing most teams to have a clash guernsey.
– That’s the spirit!
– Nah.
– You could have thrown in something about supplements to annoy Essendon or ducking to annoy Geelong.
– I like it. Simple is good.
– The Giants have a theme? I thought teams had to win to have their theme play.
– I don’t.
– Sports reporting tends to not care about spoilers.
On the spoiler point: Why care about spoilers when most of it is televised live? Most people don’t wait for timeshifted streams, unlike LoL where it’s half the business.
Besides, I guarantee that for every fan complaining about spoilers there’s be two who whinge that they just want to see the results without clicking through.
It’s one of the odd things about sports vs esports. Sports is almost always live, with few exceptions that are constantly rallied against by the fans (not going live against the gate, grrrr). eSports relies a lot on VODs because the audience is all over the world.
International sports is rare enough that true fans will stay up to see it live. International esports is so common that people only stay up for the big events.
Because 2/3 of the games are only on Foxtel, and I have to go to the website to watch them.
As a Saint Kilda fan, it was when we lost Ross Lyon as a coach.
Was also when Fremantle really started making waves
@crazyguy1990
Hey, were you still willing to throw that old joystick my way?
It’s cool if not.
Oh, yeah.
Sorry man, I totally forgot about it.
email me your address, and I’ll try and post it in a couple of days.
Send to:
crazy(underscore)guy(underscore)199096(at)hotmail(dot)comCheers!
Sorry to be a bother, but I won’t be able to send it to you until next Friday.
All good man.
Just an FYI, I think ill be sitting out whatever’s going on on fitocracy atm. So don’t worry too much about rallying the troops against me.
So my uni cancelled one of my units, and now I’m only doing three units. I checked, and there is no other units I can fill the empty spot with…
I should probably call someone, right?
Though a three unit semester sounds, relaxing…
Maybe it’s fate! 😀
The difference in workload between three and four subjects is extreme. I did three subjects per session ever since my second year because I didn’t like the workload*
* Do not follow my lead if you want to graduate on time.
I want to graduate on time, but there is no unit I can fill the empty space with, except for maybe an elective, but those are supposed to be done in third year :S
It’ll only add another 6 months to my course if I do a 3 unit semester…
I’ll call someone :'(
Just… try to avoid doing summer session.
That is the worst. Christmas right before exams…
i’ve got this problem next year, i should technically be finishing my course next semester, but annoyingly they don’t have all of my units in the same semster, so i might be doing 2 units a semester, which i’d rather not do…
My enrolment is all over the place.
Like, all over the place :S
I should be fine though, hopefully :S
Otherwise an extra semester with one unit won’t be the worst thing ever.
You’re Perth, right? What uni are you at?
Curtin, whom i hate with a passion, they’ve messed up stuff with my course so many times….
Hey, my brother is at Curtin.
Hey, I live in a suburb of Canberra called Curtin!
Hey, I used to have these things on my windows…
Glass?
Give him my condolences.
Ah, ECU, who I hate with a passion.
Leaving me to do my own enrolments, cancelling units, not telling me which unit to do, changing times. They absolutely suck!
Don’t worry. They’re all like that. My brother’s doing his BEng at UWA, and hates it with a passion. So much seeming incompetence in management and administration roles.
Hey @liondrive, I forgot to mention, seeing as I’ve been through this before, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
There’s a few people on here who make their own games too.
Thanks 🙂
I’ll probably need some help with my coding soon, but right now (other than enrolment issues) I’m pretty confident 🙂
Just gotta learn how to use Visual Studio and I’m set 😛
And once you’ve learned it, you can use the VS plugin for Unity, and make megabuck (singular). 😛
Urgh, I have some experience with Unity. Not a fan :S
That was importing models into it though, not coding.
Of my brief experience at hacking things together, I preferred using the UDK to Unity, though I’ll admit my time in both was rather brief.
Never mind…
Yay!
Red, Red wine….
Gets me so pissed….
Turns me into a drunk lout…
Hence why I don’t drink….
Ok, I think I’ve planned out my enrolments, but want some feedback on whether it sounds like a good idea or not.
Ok, so I’m going to leave it as a three unit semester, cause my programming course seems quite hard, so having an extra day to work on that would be good.
At the end of my course, assuming I pass everything, I’ll have one unit to do in one extra semester in order to get the amount of credits needed to graduate.
If I fail my coding course though, I’m going to switch majors from Games Programming to Computer Science.
Assuming I pass everything else, I’ll still have to do an extra semester, this time with two units as opposed to one, as I can use the courses I completed in the Games Programming major as electives in order to reach the credit limit.
In the extra semester, I’ll transfer to a Melbourne university and still move over to Melbourne, as I’ll basically have a degree in one field, so I can start job hunting, and a 1-2 unit semester will be super easy.
Alternatively, I could enrol in an elective this semester, hope I pass everything, and graduate on time. If I fail the coding course though, that’s a redundant elective course done :S
(I’m not worried about my other courses this semester, to be honest).
If you do every semester as three-unit, you can pick up a whole extra six months of Centrelink payments as a full-time student.
#WorkTheSystem
#Helping (#You’reWelcome)
Yeah, but that would add another year to my course, which I don’t want to do XP
This way I’ll graduate with two majors under my belt before I’m 23, being Information Technologies (guaranteed to get me a job), and either Games Programming (Gets me into the gaming industry) or Computer Science (doubly guarantees me a job).
My goal was to finish next year, but doing an extra semester with only one or two courses is fine by me. Just preferably not another year XP
“Before 23”
*Looks at current situation*
*cries*
Im 23 and earn the least out of all my friends the same age..its saddening to say the least
…sounds good!
#Helping
But doing less units will definitely help, especially if one of them is difficult. I always did 4 units a semester and it was a bit shitty, especially around exam time or when all 4 unit leaders decide they hate you and want assignments from each unit due in at the same times :/
Have you had a look at the course you want for Melbourne and the requirements for it? I don’t know what you’re after but Melbourne is tough to get into!
Just be smart about your units :). If some sort of assessment seems “insignificant” at 10%, just remember it all adds up. I had a unit where we had to do a quick multi choice quiz online each week for 1% (10 quizzes for 10% in total). You literally didn’t have to get anything right and just had to attempt the quiz to get the mark, but I was amazed at the amount of friends who couldn’t be bothered 😛
EDIT: Oh and definitely apply for jobs in your final year or something. That way when you finish you can go straight into a job :D.
…that was my plan but I just ended up applying after I finished :P. I got lucky though and it only took me about 4 months to find a graduate job, but it WILL take a while.
Oh, I do everything, haha! I’ve never failed anything, and I’ve never missed a deadline before 😛
Even if the grade is low, I’ll still do it. Every mark counts after all 🙂
It’s less getting into a Melbourne uni, since I’m already in one, it’s just transferring.
I’m in good standing (distinction average), so I should be able to transfer pretty easy.
If I can’t, a couple more months in Perth hopefully won’t kill me 😛
Oops! I read it as “getting into Melbourne Uni” rather than “A Melbourne uni” 😛
Good luck, (hopefully future Melbourne) friendo!
Computer Science! \o/
I take it that means you did a Computer Science major?
Would you say it was worth doing?
Well, I enjoyed it and learnt a whole load of stuff. Dunno how worth it it was though, which is hard to say since it might just come down to me being terrible at finding work etc 😛
@negativezero, @beavwa, @sunsoar77
I usually don’t like bringing existing conversations into their own thread, but the length we were at was a little stupid.
Beavwa: I generally just get, uhh, magical copies of books, from the Internet, in special guilt-free forms. But if you’re willing to throw books at me, you should come up to Canberra for my meat (ignore the fact that Pip has work on weekdays (and say hi to Pip for me!)).
Neg: My sister and I share a lot in taste, and generally we like complication free, fun little stories. My two most anticipated books of this year are the last Skulduggery Pleasant, and the last of the Percy Jackson books. YA fiction is my jam (and my sisters’), and there’s something about the relative simplicity that both my sister and I love (that said, Sanderson could make the paint drying on a picture of growing grass as seen through church look interesting, so I’ll read almost anything of his).
Sunsoar: I mostly just included you here to keep you involved, because you’re saying cool stuff that I like, but have absolutely nothing to say to you directly.
I know what you mean about YA novels, and there are plenty of fine authors – have you ever read any Victor Kelleher novels? Still one of my favourite authors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kelleher
I’m pretty sure I read one of his books back in year 7 (I think), but for the life of me I cannot remember its name. So I don’t really have a comprehensive knowledge of his works. If I wasn’t godawful at reading about 90% of the time (the other 10% I will smash through 12 books in a week and a half) I’d make a commitment to give him a look.
At one stage, his book Taronga was on the school syllabus. That one is a post-apocalyptic vision of Sydney where bands of tribes roam, but he’s written plenty of fantasy and sci-fi too. Often quite dark themes. Some of the older ones might be tricky to get a hold of, but there should be some at your local library.
I never got into YA stuff for very long, I burned through that strata really fast and was mainly into adult fiction by the point I was 10-11.
Anyone played Crown of the Sunken King yet? I just got it but later realised that my saves are gone and going to have to start again.
I’ve started on PC.
Discovered that my PC character (who is a pretty measly spellcaster) was only up to Huntsman’s Copse (note: Sunken Crown is entered from behind the Rotten). Powered through Huntsman’s, Harvest Valley, Iron Keep, Grave of Saints and the Gutter in one sitting, absolutely plowing through everything in my way (having beaten these areas in NG+ on 360 helped, as did summons).
Hit the DLC.
It’s freaking hard.
I’ve been in there for a couple of hours, and haven’t even made it to the first boss yet.
The enemies hit hard, and have high hp, and I’m ashamed it took me longer than it should have to get back into the dodge-counterattack cycle again. Very cool looking place, with great atmosphere.
Bring a bow and plenty of arrows, as there are many switches that activate upon being struck, and can be remote activated (some pretty much require this).
Might play a little more now.
I haven’t yet. I’m questioning the wisdom of tackling it with my NG++ character when it’s already being touted as legitimately hard.
How’d you lose your saves? That stinks.
PS3 died and the cloud saves for Dark Souls 2 specifically aren’t transferable between machines.
At least I got to make this happen.
https://twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/495186679292899328
Apparently there’s no difference between NG and NG+(etc) modes for the DLC. So, go for it.
Intriguing! I’ll start saving my pennies.
Well I’m going to play a proper Sims game for the first time with the Sims 2: Ultimate Edition. I don’t think the Sims 2: Pets for the DSreally counts because it’s more of a vet simulator game than anything else.
Well, this game does not like alt+tabbing.
When I am Glorious And Most Benevolent Supreme Dictator of the World, games which do not play nice with alt+tabbing will be put up against the wall and shot.
…As a warning to their developers, so they make a better patch. In case the same thing happens to them.
I’m so confused… I played the tutorial even though I already knew the basic mechanics. But I have no idea what to do now. All I see is a city with a bunch of people in it. When do I get to make a my own sim?
Also, the building tutorial doesn’t work. It tell me to build a wall, but then the game tells me I don’t have enough money. So I’m stucl
motherlode
I think it’s crtl+alt+c It’s a cheat and you’re welcome =D
Wind Waker HD was all right! An interesting experiment with the formula. Controls were much too floaty for my taste. Lock-on was waaaay too imprecise. Glad I played it once. Will probably never play again.
Toon Link’s facial expressions are the best.
There were a number of times where I was stuck, knowing that I was missing something obvious, so I’d just turn Link on the spot, and see if he looked at anything specific. >.>
I love the music. Possibly some of the best music of the Zelda games.
Except Dark world. Dark world is awesome.
Man, another Elite patch already. That’s three in the three days since the beta launched, and the last one already came out earlier today!
Also I spent at least half an hour just mapping buttons to my joystick. And have totally unlearnt everything I knew about using it thanks to the long stupid break, almost enough to want to switch back to gamepad. But am persisting. Kinda feel like I need to write out the buttons and combos I used though, I keep forgetting what’s what. Probably need a little tweaking still.
Which joystick?
I have a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro *somewhere* in the house…
Also, I have no idea what Elite is. Care to give me a quick summary? Joystick has me intrigued.
Just watch this
Space combat MMO with 400 billion star systems.
Thrustmaster T.16000M. It goes pretty well, though I do miss having a second analogue for lateral thrust. But on the flipside, I now have yaw control.
And yeah, the others pretty much covered it. Fuckhuge space sim 😛
So keen to play this, but not going to pay for beta.
Also, what be your steam name?
Mr. Taco hates gaming with us 🙁
I think he avoids Steam too 😛
Yeah, don’t have Steam 😛
🙁
He. Hates. Us.
🙁
I don’t discriminate!
@braaains is still awesome. I just read the PSNow pricing article and this part of one of his comments made my day:
😀
New Slipknot \o/
Niiice, seems like they have returned to their darker sound. Shall have to pick it up.
Only thing i’m not digging is the drum sound and lack of bass in the mix :/
Also this cover of some rappers song ‘Hangover’ by Alestorm is just awesome. Music is awesome.
Metal bands do the best covers.
Agreed! Their In The Navy cover is so good as well.
I believe that one also features The Immobiliser from Brisbane’s Lagerstein, as well. 😀
YESSS
He should totally do his own rap album. His breakdown was AWESOME. I would buy a pirate rap album..
Better remove it then, you don’t want anyone tripping on it.
That was a bad joke and you should feel bad 😛
Had my first coffee in a week this morning. And I stopped at one! Hooray! The beast has been tamed (…for now)
You’re a better person than I! *makes his 4th for the morning*
That’s what prompted me to try a detox for a week. I was drinking coffee all day and not much else.
Tried out my new capsule coffee machine this morning, Mmmm, so good.
So The Last of US Remastered is pretty rad. Ellie is quite the sassy little bitch though!
Did you play the original release? If so, worth the upgrade?
Nope, I did buy it on PS3 ages ago with intent to play it, but ended up trading it toward the PS4 version. @dc would be the person to ask on that I think!
It looks really pretty, when you can get a nice panoramic view of things. I just find it hard to believe that a world would become overgrown so fast when disaster like this occurs 😛
Chernobyl overgrew in 20 years. Looks very similarish to how the game’s overgrown.
Definitely worth the upgrade for me. One of my all time favourite games made even better with spiffy visual upgrade and DLC on disc. Not sure if it’s cause I’ve played before but the accuracy with the PS4 controller seems a lot better. (Can do headshots easier, etc.) I’m digging it!
Yeah but it’s been what only a few years in the game since things went south?
It does look nice also seems to look and run better than every other PS4 games so far too.
Says twenty years later before it cuts to Joel again after opening.Really? He hasn’t aged much if at all D=He goes from 30ish to 50ish, and if anything I’d say his life has aged him more in that time.So I spent the better part of 1.5 hours dodging lighting on FFX. So far the best I managed is 20. I’m sure I remember this being easier.
Are you playing on Vita? I think @jimu had a problem on Vita as well but was able to do it easily on PS3.
Yeah, the Vita has this weird micro delay that throws everything off. Was doing my head in.
Ohh, that crater trick might be what I need. I am doing it on the Vita and it is so much harder then I remember. I figured It was just getting old and slow. May be both though.
I was shit on every system. There’s just a point where my brain gives up.
I had to use your trick and take breaks.
I never managed it on the ps2 so if it’s harder on the vita no hope
Use @greenius trick and its waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay easier. You actually control when the lightning drops by your own movement.
Skulduggery Pleasant 9: The Dying of the Light will be released in 27 days. Cannot wait! I’m considering pre-ordering the thing.
Okay so here’s a sentence I never thought I’d type: I’m contemplating buying Dance Dance Revolution.
Whenever my brother & his lot visit, my niece & nephew are a pain in the arse and I tend to placate them by sacrificing my 360 to shut them up and whilst that does tend to work to a degree, it largely changes the nature of the arguments to who gets to use it. What I was thinking is that since I have a PS4, my PS3 is sitting mostly underused (it was anyway since it was always my tertiary gaming system) and I could easily sacrifice that if I had something cheap & easy that could distract my niece and DDR might well do it.
I’m 100% out of my element here, dancing is a concept I fundamentally can’t understand thus it’s a game I’ve obviously never looked at so I’m in need of advice from people who aren’t disabled in this area. I know you obviously need the game and the mat thing but I’ve seen reference to using the PS Eye camera, is that essential or an addon? If optional, what do you lose if you don’t have it?
@scree, I seem to remember you collecting singing games a while back, have you got any experience with the dancey side of gaming as well?
I’ve only been thinking of DDR since it’s the one I’ve heard of (and isn’t based around kinect) but as I said my understanding is limited, in this situation I’m like that parent who thinks all computer games are still pacman. Is there something better than DDR on PS3 that has a similar physical controller mechanic and doesn’t come with just one song and assume you’ll spend 500 bucks downloading more?
DDR on the PS3 has terrible music, unlike the ones in the arcade. There is the Just Dance games which are so much fun, but I think you need the move controller for them. You get a set list of 30 songs and if you want to download more, you can.
i have DDR mario on the gamecube, best mario game ever.
I also have it. Bought the wii one and had two player \o/
…there was another one on Wii? When did this happen?
DDR on Wii, not a Mario themed one. That would’ve been awesome.
Got the soundtrack to that, love it.
Do you own move controllers?
If not you could consider getting at least 2 and like Scree mentioned get some of the Just Dance games. They are easy to play and you can even get in on the fun. Other move games are great for kids too, stuff like Sports champions is regularly on sale so look out for deals on PSN or at EB/JB. Joust that’s part of the sportsfriends bundle is also a great party game that adults can enjoy.
Of course all this depends on the cost of the DDR mat compared to the cost of move controllers+games but in my opinion I’d go for the move controllers since they allow you to try a variety of games. Also just before I left Australia there were deals for $15-20 move controllers at places like Kmart and Target so they can be affordable.
Oh, lucky you, I just had a look at the EB site and they have a bunch of sales on move stuff.
https://www.ebgames.com.au/any/any?q=move
You can get the move starter pack (1 controller+ camera) for $47 , new controllers for $19 (even cheaper for preowned) and games like sports champions for $7 . I think you should go for the move stuff, you can buy a bunch of games + controllers for under $100.
Hahaha nooooooo there’s no chance of me joining in. Aside from the whole not getting dancing thing, the entire point of this is to keep children as far away from me as is possible. I am thinking the just dance & move controller idea may well be the cheapest option available
Woah, someone is fixing Thief 3!
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/08/01/thief-3-mod-mid-level-loading-screens/
No loading screens?? It might be playable!!!
I left the house! 😮
Decided to catch up with a friend who I haven’t seen for a year or so and hah! he got fat 😛 (typical Ben!). We went and saw Guardians of the Galaxy and it was pretty kewl. I like the less serious tone of it, but it’s super random for someone who doesn’t read comics or know anything about it.
It’s been a while since I went to the cinema and I think the last movie I saw in a cinema was Journey to the West with Beavwa and Pip over a year ago 😛
I also decided I’d start running more and bought some ASICS running shoes from Amazon a couple of weeks ago. They arrived yesterday and I ran with the Kayanos 20 and OMG! feels niceeee. I don’t think I can go back to cheaper runners ever again. Maybe I’ll run a marathon one day 😀
I bought Sauconys earlier in my year – so bouncy! I have no interest in running a marathon, but I’m having fun entering 5k and 10k runs. This from someone who only started running last october.
The asthma will definitely be a problem but we’ll see what I can manage :P! I was never good at long distance and much preferred short distance sprinting (100m :D)
Have you tried a couch-to-5k training program?
I haven’t, but I’ve just been building up slowly on the treadmill. I’m keen to do some running outside though since its easier to control my speed and a changing scenery will be good 🙂
Just stop having asthma.
Problem solved.
#DramaQueenius
Why didn’t I think of that before! 😛
Reply fail!
Was browsing dx.com and found this.
Man, that’s funny.
Lol, gonna order one of these.
What’s so funny about a geoduck stress toy? 😛
Aaand now because I edited my comment and added a second link, my comment’s now in moderation. Man this system fucking sucks.
Take the second link out?
And buy it dinner!
Maybe it’ll put out 😉
That’s always been the way it’s supposed to be. You can just reply to your original comment with the other link …
Dream Time with Phlanispo
Last night I experienced 3 dreams in quick succession. They made more sense than your regular dream. Considering my last dream was about Agent 47 disguised as Corvo disguised as Scooby-Doo in a wheelchair raiding my grandparent’s basement.
Dream 1
I was watching an AFL game. One team in red was winning. One black-team member, a gigantic brute, was on the benches, getting extremely agitated that his team was losing. The red team scored a goal. The black-team member got off the bench and ran towards the field. All the players on the field were completely oblivious to the behemoth running towards them. A red team member marked in front of the goal and was getting ready to score. Then the brute ran up to him and tore both his arms off. The dream ended here. I never found out who won.
Dream 2
I was in an arcade, playing some racing game. I got out, and looked at the rows of claw machines. I asked the owner what the most popular claw machines were. He said the second-most popular one was filled with heroin needles. Then he said the most popular one had needles with laundry detergent in them. I tried the claw machine, and won a needle filled with laundry detergent. I tested it by squeezing just a little bit out. Yep, definitely laundry detergent.
This will make cleaning clothes so much more stylish!
Dream 3
I was at my job, talking to my manager about how a football player got 18 months in prison for ripping a player’s arms off. Then a guy tried to rob the shop with a trained lion. I saw them coming through the back door and quickly closed it. Then I grabbed some sheet metal and tried to use it to keep the door closed. I was pushing at the door to keep in from being kicked in, so the guy turned the doorknob and pulled. I came tumbling forwards, and the lion jumped a me. I quickly used the sheet metal as a shield. The lion destroyed it, scrunching it up like paper, but I was mostly unharmed. The lion morphed into Lemo, my childhood leopard toy, and was picked up by the robber. Now that he was in the store, the robber started stealing all the screwdrivers. Which was weird, because the shop was filled with expensive laptops, and my manager’s water-cooled tri-SLI Titan computer with a net worth of $10,000 was in full view. Carrying a mass of tools in his right hand and a leopard toy in his left, he departed the store. I noticed that the robber hadn’t stolen my favorite screwdriver. Yessssss!
So here I am, typing everything up. Lemo, my childhood leopard toy that was used in the robbery in my dream is half a metre away. Sitting on the printer. Staring at me. It knows.
But I know Lemo’s secret. If I ever see a lion in my backyard, I will knows it’s him.
…
I’m awake right? I’m really staring down a leopard toy? Okay then, this is my life.
That lion dream sounds like it’s a sign that you should hang with me sometime ;D
Seriously though, my dreams are usually just about sex. Or food.
If it’s not about those things, I usually don’t care / remember them XP
Or having sex with food.
That was one dream freeze.
One recurring dream.
Every week.
Twice a week.
It’s normal.
Was it chocolate? It was chocolate wasn’t it? And it wasn’t a dream, was it?
All i get in the Bravely Default streetpass bosses are level 99’s. My level 30ish party doesn’t survive very long against them. =P
Not even with @jimu’s booboos be gone?
No amount of healing can cover the amount of Booboos they take.
So fight them when you get to 99? Once you get into ch 5 you can grind to 99 pretty quick.
Go to the world map area in Florem toward the spot where you fight Mephilia the first time, and there’s an area where you often encounter fights with 6x mandragoras. Have everyone use Valkyrie as their second class, brave once and do 2x Crescent Moon. With a growth egg equipped and the JP+ skill from Freelancer you should get 999 JP and like 20,000 XP from one fight. Put it on 200% exp, auto-battle at 4x speed. Spend a couple of hours watching TV while idly swirling the analog nub and hammering B and you’ll get to 99 pretty fast. Helps if you spend some time doing something like this to get gold to get the eggs and afford some of the really good gear from the streetpass shop too.You can also grind using the Obliterate skill from Conjurer but getting that job requires you to beat a bunch of fairly hard bosses, have all the jobs and be in chapter 6 IIRC. I was already 99 when I got it, I maxed out levels way before I maxed all the jobs
Was gonna ask where you did all your grinding.
There were no guides when I played so I just dumped it down to easy.
Ok so that whole “go easy on Elite and work on fixing up Shredder outfit” thing didn’t exactly pan out.
Forget shredder, cosplay as a Cobra MkIII or Coriolis station
How’s the joystick going, playing better with it?
Yeah, it’s pretty awesome. Took a whole load of tweaking but I think I’ve pretty much got the perfect button setup now, there isn’t really anything left out at all. Only thing is I really didn’t like using the full-range throttle, I guess it might be alright if I could feel the midpoint to hit zero, but at the moment I’ve just got it set to be forward only with a key combo to make it change directions.
Only thing about that is that it’s bound to the button that, by itself, activates boost. And the way they have buttons working at the moment means that if you use chorded button binds, releasing your “shift” key first will make the other button also perform its solo function. I may have accidentally blown up a ship while trying to adjust backwards for docking, thanks to that.
I just point myself downwards and use lateral thrusters if I need to go backwards in there now 😛
Finished The Last of Us Remastered. I miss it already. :'(
Play it again on hard.
I’m tempted to buy it myself so I can play the DLC more conveniently but there’s no way I can justify the comparatively stupidly large amount of money when I could just buy the DLC for my PS3 version. Really I’m mostly curious to see the enhancements but not nearly enough to spend money on it while I’m trying to save for a new laptop.
It’s times like this I actually miss rental shops.
I loved it on the PS4 and it’s cool having the DLC on disc. I will most certainly play it again, just not straight away. 😀
You’re really not helping… I’ve got the money right there…
Unlike every other PS4 game i’ve played so far, it actually looks like what I expect of a PS4 game, it’s sharp with beautiful colour and no jagged textures! It seems to utilise the PS4 very well. It may also be true 1080P, I did laugh when I saw you could lock it to 30FPS.
How the hell?
Did you play it 24/7 or something?!?
I’ve only just gotten up to where I stopped playing last time (just left Lincoln).
I’m enjoying it far more this time, though taking pictures is very distracting :S
On a side note.
I think I’m going to need to upgrade my TV to appreciate next gen fully :S
I’ve been playing it for multiple hours a day since Thursday. Good times. 😀 (Plus I’ve played it before and was more efficient in more time consuming areas.)
Wait you can take pictures?!
Press pause and there’s a screenshot editor you can turn on (L3) that lets you move around the camera, adjust focus and all that. It’s pretty great. I’ve taken 70 pictures. XD
I’ve posted fifteen of them on my blog, but they span a good portion of the game. Nothing too spoilery, but you might want to avoid until after you play.
I’ve never seen this smiling guy in-game before!
Neat! Ima take pics now. I wondered what that feature was for 😛
If you want way higher quality than the PS4 allows uploading to twitter remember you can transfer all screenshots manually to a USB drive and copy them to PC. (Much higher resolution.)
Oh! I didn’t know that! I was wondering why mine were so ugly compared to others!
Gonna upload so many high resolution Joel butt-pics ;D
PS4 really does a disservice to its games with that twitter resolution.
*covers butt*
D:
Silly @greenius, your butt-pics are for my, private, collection 😉
Cheers man, had no idea 😀
Finished ACIII. Really enjoyed it. Not sure if I can be tempted to go after all those collectible after buying the maps and seeing aaaaall those feathers in the Frontier. I thought I read somewhere there’s a secret ending if you have 100% completion or 100% sync or something but I hope that’s not true because I don’t think I can do it.
Now to take a small break before moving onto Black Flag. My wife has reconsidered her ACIII position and has been tempted to give it another try so I wil have to avoid starting Black Flag while she’s around.
MARIO KART 8 TOMORROW!
DON’T FORGET!
(I did)
I’m getting better against computers. Slowly.
Sorry, won’t be able to make it tomorrow night, it was that or watch Guardians Of The Galaxy.
You are excused.
I forgot already.
I won’t forget.
I won’t participate either!
=(
Monday nights are taken 😛
Too busy thinking about how much you hat us? ='(
Too busy harvesting reasons for you to eat popcorn!
I’ll be there!
(probably)
I knew I could count on Shane!
(maybe)
I’ll be there right after that Sonic Race you promised me
“It’s free on PS+”
Wahhhhhh
indeed
I’ll play MK8 witchu
No you won’t
Yeah, cause Jamesu won’t buy a Xenoblade machine 🙁
Jamesu can’t afford one!
Totally can’t remember how to sewing machine any more.
thread the bobbin, spool and needle! sew!
Sew what?
Hey. Buddy. This is page sixteen.
Thinking about calling this week on my blog ‘Shark Week’. Is that lame? It’s lame isn’t it? Oh well, guess I’m lame. I can deal with that. 😀
Lame like a shark!
There’s nothing lame about alerting the populous to the constant thread of sharks!
Hey. Buddy. This is page sixteen.
Discovery channel can have shark week, so why not you? 🙂
Screw you, apathy. Screw y-
Oh forget it.
Just spent about eight hours making translation paste-ups for a card game expansion. Productive!
Also the GIMP is a horrible horrible piece of shit and its interface was built by someone who is clearly made of liquid compressed hate.
EDIT: Also during this burst of creativity I have been listening to nano.RIPE’s three albums back to back on repeat. Not normally something I’d go for (I actually don’t listen to a lot of JP music) but I enjoyed their opening from Non Non Biyori so gave it a go. Turns out going through I realized I recognized a ton of stuff and it was all stuff I liked a lot too. So I guess I’ll have to obtain legit copies now.
Mum’s decided to make apple pies. I can smell nothing but baked apple and cinnamon.
*drools to death*
mm I was thinking of having apple pie and custard for dessert tonight!
@greenius
That trick to trigger the lightning made it 1000 times easier. Got Lulu’s ultimate weapon easily. Now I’ve only got Wakka’s to go. I think I’ll wait until after I’ve killed ark valefor though as there is a player I want to recruit from Besaid.
Wakka’s is where I gave up to come back later.
I really enjoyed Blitzball on PS2 but it was boring me this time.
I never really gave it a go outside of the one game you have to play to move forwards (so that’s only two games I’ve played now) but I did win both!
Blitzpoop
Shitzball!
No new TAY yet?
Sidni time travelling again?