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Edit: TAYget!
how are you all enjoying Monday work?
(MOM I DID IT) *frails arms wildly*
eugh dont be the first guy. Nobody wants to be THAT guy.
Also good morning hope you had a lovely weekend.
We don’t say FIRST, around here we call it a TAYget.
Edit: Oh, and I’m not at work, I’ve got the day off \o/
Work is great today – I have a day off (cuz the kids have a public holiday) then I have my own public holiday on Wednesday! Ahh the magic of Brisbane council boundaries at Ekka time
Happy Monday TAY!
Went and checked out the Bushido exhibit at the NGV this weekend
Small exhibit but awesome!!!
Highly recommend it
Oh, and I highly recommend Guardians of the Galaxy too :o)
Did you stay for the extra scene at the end?
Normally I would but the credits these days are almost as long as the actual movie
The credits weren’t actually too long for GotG.
Bonus acting credit goes to Fred for a stand out performance.
That’s why I always go in and ask everyone if they would like me to skip through the credits so they don’t have to sit there waiting. Funnily enough they always say yes.
There was an audible “woah” in the theatre when the credits came to the special effects part. There are a lot of names there.
And credit where credit is due, they did an amazing job.
I agree
The overall production was awesome!
The music in particular, it actually complimented the scenes, rather than take the focus away from what was actually happening
I’m wondering whether TAY might be easier to keep track of if we actually had real forums to post on. TAY is great, but due to how the Kotaku commenting system works it can get very messy very quickly and it becomes difficult to know who is replying to who especially when it reaches the indent limit on replies.
Has this been an option that’s been considered?
I have been here 4 years, we have considered most things. In short i hate change dont make me please please dont make me 😛
We haven’t considered sandals with socks.
Because that is an atrocity that should never have been conceptually imagined in the first place.
i wore thongs with socks the other day because i didnt want to get my socks wet walking on the grass to my car where my shoes were.
This guy. Living on the edge.
Did you not consider just taking your socks off to wear your thongs?
It’s been considered multiple times and each time shot down
To expand on scree’s point, it’s been deemed that this loose commenting system is just how we, in this community, interact on this site.
Yeah, it gets a bit messy sometimes, but this is how we were raised in TAY, and this consistent flow of these new, irrelevant comments that prevent us from lingering on the one subject is kind of integral to how this works.
There’s nothing wrong, per se, with having forums, but we just go forwards, not backwards. Upwards, not forwards. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
Thanks for expanding that. I was busy sending a strongly worded letter to the Herald sun.
They get so many complaints against Andrew Bolt already surely they do! The guy was so sour about the backout of the Racial Discrimination Act changes 😛
he’s just a terrible person all round
You know what im gonna write a letter! Why are you writing a letter?
The DVD promotion. We couldn’t get them. Turns out a newsagency only ever gets 20 dvds. It’s stupid.
It gets brought up every now and then.
Usually gets dismissed due to:
1) Effort required
2) Fear of change
3) Losing that ‘stream of consciousness’ rambling nature of a long-running conversation that doesn’t have any neatly-defined boundaries, lending a very casual, ‘drop-in’ vibe that a lot of folks actually quite like.
If it helps when the max-indent on replies is reached, people usually reply to the latest-possible-to-reply-to post (or an earlier one, if it’s one of their own, to avoid sending reply notifications to someone who’s not directly being addressed), then @tag interested parties.
Con: Difficult to get too in-depth.
Pro: Difficult to get too in-depth. Keeps things moving.
Usually it’s brought up by people new to the community, or who don’t post much. And then they jump right in and forget they ever wanted a forum in the first place.
Part of what makes this place special is that it isn’t a “real forum”.
I came 10th in a tournament of 33 players.
That was Warmachine IIRC? How was the waking up at an abominably early hour?
I woke up at 6, then woke up at 7 to rush through leaving at 7:30. Managed to get there at 9.
Still got pretty far in that competition, congrats sir!
Thats awesome man congrats does that mean you win something or just the smug feeling of being better than 23 other people
Well I won a $25 dollar gift certificate for having the best painted huge-based models for the Combat Company website (although, I was one of few who brought huge based models and mine were the only ones painted).
If you didn’t chant “De-fault” repeatedly after winning, I’ll be very disappointed in you.
No, I should have done that during my fifth game where my opponents Wargame app crashed and he lost all data, meaning he was forced to forfiet (although he assures me I had the game anyways).
Hola neighbourinos and fellow TAYers, how were your weekends?
Pretty average for me again, plenty of work, managed to squeeze in a few hours of Forza 5 though.
What about you guys.
Also, my weekend was okay, but overnight my Dad was admitted to hospital. He’s been fighting cancer already, and he’s contracted an infection of some kind that’s done a lot of harm and made him cough up blood. Not good. Hopefully he’s able to make a recovery from this, but then there’s still the problem of the cancer, which is refusing to go away.
That really sucks man, HUGS
Shit dude, that sucks, hope your Dad pulls through man.
Sorry to hear that bud. I went through the whole cancer thing with my dad and I’ll just say I wouldn’t wish anybody to have to go through that
Damn that sucks. If I were you I’d march right up to your dad’s cancer and punch it repeatedly until it fucks off!
That said, my sister did die from her cancer so perhaps my medical advice may not be the best to follow…
Coughing up blood is definitely ‘go to the hospital’ time. Sorry to hear it. Hope he gets better.
That’s not cool. 🙁
My Nan is currently getting Chemo for her cancer but she’s 80-something and feels like it’s just making her last days not worth living and would rather just go with the cancer.
Hope everything works out for your Dad though.
The infection should be dealt with, but at the same time, don’t become too complacent about it. It should be okay and unless the hospital staff tell you otherwise, try not to worry.
As for the cancer, they are making a lot of progress all the time. If one treatment doesn’t work, they’ll try another.
Hey TAY, hope everyone’s having an okay monday while once again the Melbourne weather report is bogus where “isolated showers” meant “it’s going to pour this morning”. I may be going a little mod crazy for Torchlight 2 and I’m going to test out a collection of packs in one shot tonight. So I may or may not have tried adding almost a dozen new classes along with Synergies and other things to go on top of it :P. I may have sentenced myself to death by Torchlight 2 mods.
So how is everyone?
Be careful you might accidentally mod yourself into that game techy. THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.
I could think of many worse ways to go certainly. 😛 If I had modding skills I’d try to make my own class the Tech Knight (Real original I know).
Also I’m getting close to Silver 1 promos in LoL, 1-2 more wins needed. Highlight of my last ranked match was saving our jungle Amumu from death (And First Blood I think) by ignite with a Command: Protect as Orianna, it was glorious.
Jungle ammumu and Orianna is a sick combo of ulti’s.
Indeed that was the idea, he and I were duoing and he made the suggestion especially against a ziggs I thought, why not? Haven’t played Orianna in SR in a while but I got the gist of it quite quickly. My personal favourite ult combo with Ori has to be Fiddlesticks though, did that in an ARAM recently where I timed my ult perfectly with Fid’s ult blink and caught three immediately killing them all in under a second. Fid looked like a gravity grenade
If you have good timing, try Ori+yasuo combo. the execution timeslot is small but the dmg is crazy
Well yeah, but I’d never be the Yasuo, so that’s his problem ;). But I see that champ banned often anyway
did you get FB though? 😀
also, Ori’s op
Sadly our enemy top laner got it, Riven took out our Nasus (I think with Vi’s help can’t remember). He finished 1/3/1 against her, wasn’t great. We had a rough start but we caught up sharply at around 11 minutes with great engages killing two at a time, getting first dragon and first turret.
Or as Olli puts it “ITS GON RAIN!”
Thanks Olli
I had big tonka toys in my yard over the weekend. Retaining walls are sucky to build, but awesome to tear out! 😀
Also, Mario Kart tonight TAYsters!
Oh, hells yeah.
Super Keen!
How about those Llamas, hey.
LOOK OUT! THERE ARE LLAMAS!
I started another new game of Dragon Age Origins!
I really should try to be an Elven Rogue again now that I know a more optimal direction to go without getting my arse kicked :P.
What character are you running?
I’m a male Elven Mage.
I just wanted to be male to romance Morrigan so I can
Follow her into the portal at the end of Witch HuntAlso, I’m in spelly mood for whatever reason.
Had a lot of fun as a Mage in DAII.
Rogue, city Elf was my first game. I play on easy though cos I’m lazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Yeah I was Elven Mage on my last playthrough, I play on easy too cuz to hell with friendly fire, I want to blow everything up! >:D
With friendly fire you get more options to do comb spells bouncing stuff of your own characters though. Can be pretty fun.
I went with a dwarf warrior who totally hooked up with Morrigan in what can only be described as the most awkward sex I’ve ever witnessed, which given my previous performances is really saying something.
I made an old looking human noble warrior with white hair and beard who layed with Zevran. That was pretty great. 😀
The oldness made it better!
I really should play this. Have to wait until i’ve finished Divinity: OS, can’t be playing two time sink RPG’s at once. Otherwise i feel like i’m not progressing very far in either one of them.
How is Divinity? A mate and I are eyeing it for possible future coop
It’s really fun. Co-op is great, we were using Skype for good quality voice chat, which definitely livens the shared experience. I love the style of the game, love the music, dislike the constantly looping loud NPC chatter in the city. Gameplay is very tough, but forces you to learn and think about what you’re doing, using combinations of the elements is a must. My mate just moved, so won’t be playing for a week or two until he gets his internet. Oh well, plenty of other things to play in the meantime.
Yeah, it’s my fave game of the 360/PS3 gen.
Played it through a few times now.
A bit of a repost from yesterday’s TAY but Greenmangaming are running a 50 games you must play before you die sale, they’re adding 10 games every 3 days and discounts are 66-80% off so it’s definitely worth checking out. X-Com is 10 bucks so if you don’t own it you really have to.
They’re also doing a similar thing with 30 indie games
Cheers for the heads up man, but ain’t got no money. How long does the sale go for?
According to the blog post, their #1 pick will be revealed on August 23rd and they do say that the list will be expanding so that implies that it’s all on sale until at least then. Given the way GMG sales tend to go I’m guessing #1 will be on sale for a minimum of 48 hours and it’ll be the 23rd UK time so I’d say you’ll probably have enough time to plan and pull a bank job. Just be sure not to put the mask on too early since they seem to have glue on the inside.
Morning, TAY! My weekend was super eventful for once.
Helped out with Doc’s movie filming on the Saturday, which was fun on a bun. You’ll all see my film debut later this year as Thug #2, Gang Member #3, Innocent Bystander #5 and various other high-profile roles.
Also saw Guardians of the Galaxy that same night with a bunch of TAYbes. It was really good. I enjoyed it, but… It’s made me more worried about Jurassic World, not less 😛 Chris Pratt is a decent actor and all, but I still can’t see him playing a mostly-serious character. So it kinda makes me think that the script is a lot more comedic than I want it to be. (I’ll probably still see it five times anyway)
On Sunday I baked cookies as a trial-run for the Can’d Meat. I put too much batter on the tray so it all kind morphed into one enormous cookie. Still tasted good though. Take two this coming weekend!
I keep trying to work out what I’m going to make for the Can’d Meat. There are far too many choices, and I’m too mediocre a cook / too much of a cheapskate for a lot of things. The good news is that I’ll have to trial stuff, so at least I’ll be able to feed myself in the leadup.
I CAN HELP
You always do, little Rocketbuddy. *Pats you on the head condescendingly *
Pizza? Yeast, flour, water, and ask them what they want and dump it on?
You’re a goddamn genius!
But that has too much personalisation. I want everyone to remember that they’re just a soulless husk in the machine of life.
Just put whatever toppings you want them to have, and skip the asking part. Pineapple for everyone! \o/
Tacos? Cook up a big pot of mince and/or beans (slow cooker even?) and then just have lots of bowls of toppings.
Yes?
Oh.
OMG! Only 4 and a bit days til Risen 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET HYPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wouldn’t mind picking it up, still haven’t started 1 and 2 yet, they’re all standalone games with no story continuation though, correct?
Also, $80 is a bit much for a last-gen game, if I were you I’d get it from Ozgameshop, they seem to be the cheapest at $55.
Risen 3 is $49.99 on steam pre-order atm. Risen 2 is only $19.99.
Story for 3 is not a straight continuation, but it’s set in the same world, and has many elements from the first 2, as well as some throwbacks to the likes of the original Gothic series!
Risen 1 and 2 were more linked than 3 is to the rest of them, but even without playing the first one, the second one is still kickass, and you wont really feel like you’re missing anything.
I miss the Gothic series. I never got around to playing the Risen games and from what I heard Risen 2 is godawful. And that attempted reboot of the Gothic series (Arcania/Arcana/whatever it was called) never seemed to get off the ground either. Dang it I want my hardcore German CRPG. 🙁
Yeah Arcana was actually pimped as being Gothic 4, but it was pretty shite. They gimped the whole skill system so bad :\
Risen 2 on the other hand, felt more like Gothic used to. I really enjoyed it! It took a while for it to gel with me initially, but it was a great game! Apparently Risen 3 is taking all the good aspects from both previous Risen games, and the Gothic series, and mashing them all in to a new game! Sounds sooooooooo awesome!! (There’s a 6 part trailer for it where they talk about various aspect of the game, and it got me super hyped!!)
I’ll have to track down these trailers and see if the hype bug gets me too. My main-hype for this year was pinned on Witcher 3 but ever since that was pushed back I’ve been having some solid RPG cravings that can’t be sated on Bioware or Bethesda offerings.
Looks like IGN has crammed all 6 parts in to one vid!
I haven’t played the previous 2, which is sad because Risen 2 has pirates in it. PIRATES!
Indeed it does! so worth it! DO EEEEEEEEET!
I went to Ekka yesterday and I brought toys and showbags and ate lots and lots and had ice cream and candy and we went on so many rides and one of them had a scary clown but another had a ball pit and some went really really fast and I was all like zoom zoom then we saw some monster trucks go brrrooooommnmm and then there were all fireworks go bang bang bang then we went home but we had hungry jacks on the way home and we had lots and lots of fun *bounces up and down*
Why did mrs Freeze let you eat so much candy???
She’s gonna regret it, he’ll probably be bouncing off the walls for weeks.
She’s not the boss of me. I’m a big boy. I wipe my own bottom.
And did she forget to give you your tranquilizers???
I’m going to school today even though I’m still sick. This can only end well.
It did not end well.
Morning TAY,
I had a reallly good weekend overall. Wife was at a conference on Thu & Fri night, so got some good gaming time into Mario Kart 8 & Divinity: OS. 😀 Had to take my brother to the hospital early Sat morning for another op (he nearly cut his thumb off last week), helped my best friend move just down the road in the afternoon and stayed late helping unpack and having spontaneous wars with ball pit balls just because. Sunday was pretty lazy other than church.
Hope your brother’s thumb gets fixed up OK. I had to go to hospital for some glass-shard lacerations, and while I was there getting dozens of stitches and feeling all hard-done-by, a fella set in beside me who had just been in an ‘industrial accident’. Fingers chopped off. He was sitting there holding the whole mess together, waiting for a specialist surgeon to get out of bed to come do some microsurgery to get him back together. Amazing what they can do, these days. Definitely put my pain into perspective.
Yeah that is completely insane. Crazy what they can do, they had to reopen the thumb and clean it out, as it had tiny metal fragments and it was going to get infected, now they have to leave it open for 3 days and keep cleaning it everyday before fixing it up. Possibly putting a metal wire next to the bones to hold them together. Makes me glad that i work in such a low risk environment.
Okay, okay, I’ll stop complaining about cutting a small chunk out of my thumb with a serrated knife the other week. I know when I’ve been beaten…
Good morning TAY!
So, it’s been a while… How’s things?
Hola Tayberinos
I had a good weekend- Guardians of the Galaxy on Friday (Enjoyed immensely), a housewarming party for a friend Saturday night, and board games and pub last night. Just what I needed after last week’s…unpleasantness
A Monday Morning Question: Sure, the Guardians of the Galaxy may have been great, but they’re hardly the only protector of the universe. Which SF hero needs a movie next?
Howard the Duck reboot.
oh hellz yes! Howard the Duck would be super awesome! Not even a reboot.. just anything new howard the duck would be supremely mega awesome!
Roger Wilco.
FLASH! AH-AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
SAVIOUR OF THE UNIVERSE!
GORDON’S ALIVE?
DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE
Weekend was good. Stayed up all night Friday working on Shredder… incredibly slowly. Way slower than any of the nights of the week where I was actually limited for time. Got everything I wanted done though, even had time to whip up a new face mask for the thing. Had some slight problems starting off the sewing because the material was too soft and I was starting too close to the edge for the teeth to pull it along, had to remove a huge wad of knotted thread several times. But other than that I got it pretty much perfect! All nice and neat, and sat well on my face. Although I had to shave again, left too much time between doing it the first time and having to actually wear it >_>
After that though, it didn’t get pulled off by talking like the last one would, which was good. Because I kind of figured out I could do a half-decent Shredder impersonation. And then proceeded to stay in character for most of the day 😛 Which was pretty fun, got some good reactions from it. There was one group of guys who walked past, and one of them just goes “Turtles…”, to which I responded “WHERE??”. Got a good laugh 😛 Also would randomly start humming the theme tune but then butcher the lyrics, it seemed to provide Wingman with an endless source of amusement. Had loads of people ask for photos which is always nice. Wish I could’ve taken it to Supanova instead, maybe next year. In the meantime though, really itching to go for Hawlucha, I think that’d go down well if I managed to pull it off. It’s even more satisfying building the whole costume from scratch, rather than piecing it together from existing items found at op-shops (not that I don’t enjoy that too).
The rest of the weekend was spent grinding away in Elite to work my way up to a Lakon 9, which I then used to pretty quickly build up the funds for an Anaconda. It’s pretty fun to just barge your way through the station hatches not giving a fuck and destroying anyone in your way (even NPC Lakon 9s), but otherwise they’re both pretty cumbersome. Gonna downgrade and play with some of the other ships.
To avoid that sewing problem in future, there’s a couple of things you can do. Start sewing at the middle of your seam, sew to the end, turn it over, start in the middle again and sew to the other end. Or, start a couple centimetres from the top, stitch backwards towards the top before coming back down to complete your seam.
Couldn’t really do the middle thing, since that area was super small and fiddly and I definitely didn’t want to be starting there. Though with the other one, wouldn’t that have the same problem once I got to the top and had to come back again?
Oh also I should add that this machine’s Reverse is broken, while it doesn’t pull the material backward any more it also doesn’t pull it forward either. So I just have to kind of manually do one at a time and hop the foot up so I can pull the material back myself 😛
Hey everybody! It’s my first comment past 2000. 2001, a comment oddity. Blah blah blah. 😛
Weekend can pretty much be summed up in 2 things: Being at hospital, and playing The Last of Us when not at hospital.
Hospital:
Things are good in those regards. Partner got discharged from hospital yesterday morning, but is still in large amounts of pain. She commented on how it’s funny that you get sent home from hospital not when you’re well, but when you’re “well enough.” She’ll need looking after for the next week, so I’m working from home today and maybe tomorrow, and then have got the rest of the week off. Hopefully by next week things will be back to normal. Also, thanks for the messages of support, they’re greatly appreciated. She thought I was joking when I said the Kotaku people send their support. 😛The Last of Us – I finished it last night so I can finally decide whether I liked it or not:
I liked it. BUT, only after Summer finished. The aptly named Fall was where things really took off for me. Spring felt telegraphed, Summer felt like it was trying too hard. Once things got moving in Fall / Winter though, and then the final act, I was playing as much as possible to get to the end.Things I liked: Is it odd if the first thing I mention is the sound design? I was really impressed by how detailed and rich the sound environment was. Maybe it’s because I was playing in DTS 5.1, but I just felt pulled in by the sound and it enhanced the experience by a huge degree. I don’t think I’d have enjoyed the game as much if not for the sound. Also the graphics, even on PS3, were gorgeous. I can see why a remaster would be so appreciated, and there were many times I found myself stopping to look around. And the ending. The ending the ending the ending. I know I’m about 18 months too late, but I’ve been able to avoid all spoilers for that long. That’s how passionate I am about spoilers. So I’m sure everything I could say about the ending has long been said. I’ll just say I sat staring at the credits trying to figure out how I felt. That’s the sign of good storytelling. More games like that, please.
Things I didn’t like: Combat. The clickers, for one, just felt cheap. An attack that can’t be countered? C’mon, that’s just… I dunno. I guess a lot of that is my play style though. I avoided using guns like the plague. But it does lead in to my next point. I never felt like my characters were in danger. It felt like every checkpoint was only 30 seconds away, so any time I died (frequently, at first) I’d just try again. I prefer my games a little more brutal. Make me work for it. Don’t let me run screaming in to combat just for the sake of it, knowing that I can reset and lose nothing. However, I did end up with some cool moments out of that, surviving by the skin of my teeth. And finally, the “Toolbox” upgrade system. YAWN. I get that it’s to encourage scavenging, but seriously? If you want to limit the power of weapons as the game goes on, I’d prefer … I dunno. Something different. I liked upgrading weapons, yes. I just hated being limited by whether I’d found some hidden toolbox or not.
All in all, I enjoyed it. Would perhaps play again if / when I get a PS4. It was a long payoff, but worth the experience.
Glad to hear she’s doing well enough to be released at least! That’s a good sign. Hope her condition continues to improve! 🙂
The ending is quite possibly my favourite game ending ever. Just, the sheer ambiguity of it.Except maybe the ending of Journey.
I only got my PS3 a few months ago. Haven’t played Journey either. 😛
PlayJourneyPlayJourneyPlayJourneyPlayJourneyPlayJourneyPlayJourney!
Shameless Plug.
Psh, I ain’t reading no stinking review. That could contain
spoilers.You should do so, it’s fantastic.
Really have to get to Journey. Puppeteer is another great one I abandoned for some reason (more than likely because I got something new and shiny), really need to get back to it.
Also,
Glad to hear she’s doing better man.Jumping on the Journey love train. Even though I’ve seen a Let’s Play of it and sort of knew what was going on, the experience of playing it myself when I finally did a few months ago was something else.
Glad to hear your partner’s feeling better man!
@redartifice So…. The Strange is a pretty cool book I must say. Some of the background material is really dark and disturbing, particularly the Tales from The Strange short stories. But oh man, I can’t wait to run a game of this with a few IRL friends as they’d get an absolute kick out of some of the places they could go to.
Mad props to the writers for a great book so far. Also some of the enemies are delightfully sinister.
My favourite:
Professor Moriarty as a recursion-travelling, evil genius crimelord.Wait, that’s official in the book?Goddammit, I was going to have a group fight the evil Mohri Ak Tee and see if they caught on.
Oh yeah, one of the supported recursions was 221B Baker Street as a general Sherlock Holmesy setting. But Professor Moriarty has discovered The Strange and has acquired himself an artefact cane and pistol that he can take anywhere.Plus they gave him rules that he can instantly translate to any recursion he’s been to once per day so even if characters manage to corner him he can get away scot free.
Who doesn’t like The @strange 😛
I try not to tag Strange as I’m sure she’s quite over us tagging her when it’s not even relevant.
So in advance, my apologies Strange.
My comment was totally relevant though, we all like @strange 😛
That’s because you’re all crazy! 😀 (Hi @crazyguy1990!)
All the notifications \o/
What a shame it’s not @saturday and we’re not talking about @dc Comics! 😛
*crushing disappointment that Strange isn’t talk to me*
@dc Maybe we should discuss @evilmonkeys of the colobus type?
Edit: dammit! 😛
*looks up from canoe carving*
… Hullo.
*resumes canoe carving*
I don’t mind!
The initial disappointment of “Oh. They’re not talking to me.” gives way to “YAY! At least they’re thinking about me!”.
So last night my wife decided to give ACIII another try, realising she’s in a gaming slump and is finding it difficult to commit to another game while it remains outstanding in her pile of shame – also since she wants to continue with the franchise she feels like a missing chapter will always bother her. Plus since she’s better at games than I am, I think deep down she figures if I can do it, it can’t be that hard.
I think what threw her off was an early stealth mission where you insta-fail if “discovered”, and that annoying chase sequence where you had to shoot powder kegs ahead of you to avoid them blowing up and knocking you off your horse. When I assured her those were the worst two missions in the game (not counting the final chase which is universally abhored) she got through a couple of homestead and story missions before she reluctantly conceded “I’m less mad at this now”.
\o/
Also last night we watched an Achievement Hunter “Go!” where Jack mentioned how “obsessed” he was with ACIII, another disturbing similarity between him and me alongside liking the movie Hackers, and some other bizarre thing we both do or like that no one else does that I’ve forgotten.
She’s asked me kindly to, if I have to be similar to one of the Achievement Hunter guys, to pick literally anyone else. Apparently if I grow a beard we’re getting divorced unless I ALSO get a septum piercing to balance it out(?).
Hey, I know this runs counter to how most of you feel about PAX, but if someone is getting RID of a ticket, let me know, I’ve got a friend who’s kicking herself that she didn’t grab a 3 day pass and would snap it up.
I have a friend who has a 3 day ticket but isnt going. Shall I enquire for you?
Yeah, if you could, I’ll ask her.
He’s saying $160 (to include postage and such)
The tickets get sent out in late September so He’ll post after that point if She’s interested 🙂
If she’s interested let me know and I’ll pass his email address on 🙂
Cheers, I’ve put it through to her, will let you know
MY SISTER IS IN TOWN FOR 2 WEEKS WITH HER BF AND THEY ARE BOTH AWESOME
Im in a bit of a weird mood though. Im happy my sister is staying with me but she is quite demanding of my time because i see her rarely. AT the same time the lady friend is dealing with the loss of her gran and the terrible family drama that is ensuing. I have a fine line to balance i think. I dont want to abandon my sister but i also feel like im needed in another place. Oh well i guess i just have to deal with the situations as the pop up and hope everyone understands. Thanks for letting me vent.
“lad friend”
I leave it to someone smarter than me to make a joke.
Oh, and my solution would be to lock myself in my room away from everyone, so that they all get an equal share of my time.
THAT IS YOUR SOLUTION TO EVERYTHING
THAT’S BECAUSE IT GETS RESULTS!
I’m getting mixed messages. I feel like I want to play Journey, but nobody is really passionate about it or thinks it’s worth playing. 😛
Sarcasm?
Literally everyone likes that game
Sarcasm.
Thanks. im a little off my game today.
😛
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JOURNEY!
http://www.polygon.com/2014/8/8/5982995/crytek-employee-pay-withheld-save-company-cevat-yerli
This guy seems like the biggest d-bag known to man.
Top comment there has it spot on:
Nah, they should look at it like they’re lucky to still have jobs in the industry.
/sarcasm, obviouslyThey should be happy for the exposure…
You know, to the elements they get from being evicted after not being able to pay their rent…
Too many companies live by the thought that the employees owe them, forgetting employer and employee rely on each other as much as the other, if not the employer owes the employees more since they’re the ones that everything tends to rely on at the end of the day.
How’s that leave approval going?
Leave? What’s that?
Don’t they fall from trees?
Isn’t that apples?
So how long til’ they’re dead? They can’t be here too much longer. Worst part is they still own the Timesplitters IP.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-13971-New-TimeSplitters—We-Will-Figure-Out-Something—Says-Crytek.html
At one level, I understand the thought process behind it, but at the same time, it’s clearly not something you do.
If I had to make that decision, I would have asked upper management (who are more likely to have savings, and thus could survive) if they were able to take a pay delay.
Other than that, if the money still wasn’t there, then it’s time to start selling stuff (Stock, property, IPs, etc).
You don’t withhold workers pay.
Well, in the full interview he says that some of the higher ups (himself included) gave their own money to try and keep people getting paid, and they were attempting to sell stuff off at the time (well, sell off their UK studio and the Homefront IP), so that option was already being used.
I’m not trying to defend him, and particularly not the words he used and how it’s phrased, but the company was clearly trying to avoid it already, they just did it badly.
Yeah, but there’s a line you don’t cross, ie, withholding pay.
Maybe ask people if they can willingly take a delay, but other than that I’d think it’d be quite illegal to forcefully withhold pay from employee’s.
There would’ve been more that they could’ve done.
There would’ve been more that they should’ve done.
I’ve got $20 here, I’ll buy Timesplitters off Crytek.
I obviously value it more than they do.
I disagree, there are several members of our current government that would easily beat him in a biggest d-bag contest. Including our PM. :\
But anyway, the best thing to come out of this whole Crytek fiasco is that all the leads at Vigil have said ‘fuck this noise’ and left Crytek to form their own company again, hoping to pick up the bulk of their old team later on. And they’re in serious talks with Nordic about doing Darksiders 3. \o/
TAY! \o/
That is all.
TAY20!
Squeeee! Just got a call from someone who had one of my flyers dropped in their mailbox years ago! Off to make some moneeeeeeeeeeeys!!!!
If i didnt know your line of work that comment could be a bit scary.
I don’t and it was =P
*pushes muffin button*
I just bought a muffin as I had to skip breakfast this morning, delicious!
YOU HAVE A MUFFIN BUTTON???
Techy can you man a muffin buttton for me???
i will pay you in hugs from both me and @blaghman
I wish I actually had one at my desk, would be the best perk xD
One of those tubes that the supermarkets have for money but muffins instead?
Yeah, it could just come up from the cafe on the ground floor! I tap my paypass and up comes a muffin, it’s groundbreaking!
If I had one of those, I’d be broke within a week.
If I had one of those for cans of coke I’d be broke within the day. 😛
best idea!
If he man’s the muffin button does he become the new Muffin Man?! WHO LIVES ON DRURY LANE?!
“Where did you get that muffin?”
“Muffin Button!”
“But there is no muffin button”
I have a duty-to-do. *swipes card for muffin*
Don’t tell @markserrels, he doesn’t like muffins.
That’s just because he has a faulty muffin button.
Too much work to do, and none of it the interesting stuff that I like doing.
I just want to sleep instead.
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was quiet but good, Cathryn is doing better she has to take quite abit of medication but so she now takes 9 pills a day over the course of the day so she slept alot over the weekend which gave me time to watch tv and movies. I finished watching The Blacklist as well as getting upto date on Bleach and watching stand up comedy.
And this morning on the way to work I saw car crash and pulled over to help get the car off the road and give details to the police about what I saw.
This took me 30 minutes to write because im getting hassled at work by a guy who does nothing and my phone hates writing on TAY so it keep making mistakes
We have a small child in the office today who is playing Minecraft on a TV I can see from my desk.
I want to play too. *sobs into pile of work*
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Really enjoying TLOUR so far, particularly since I’ve restarted at Easy difficulty. It’s interesting watching the relationship between Joel and Ellie develop, and I particularly like that Ellie is not a helpless damsel in distress.
SPOILERS for where I’m up to:
Into the school with Bill after finding out that the truck was empty.A sign that I’m really enjoying the game: I played for two hours without looking at the time.
Where’d you get up to before restarting?
I got up to the museum and I was just getting really frustrated with it, so I decided to give up and try again on easy. Good choice, as I’m already further through the game on this playthrough.Glad you’re enjoying it again. Its one of those games you’ll find you’re way better at by the end.
Pretty much how I felt. See previous page. 🙂
Don’t think I’ll read your post until I’ve actually finished the game. Don’t want to spoil the game yet.
Yeah, don’t. I tried to keep it as “actual” spoiler free as possible but there’s still bits that spoil things.
Summary without spoilers: The game gets massively better as things go on. Where you gave up the first time I was also frustrated and annoyed. Pressed on. It gets better. And better. And massively better.
Auto aim on easy is a godsend
Good morning TAY!
I had a great weekend! I did the City2Surf! For the non-Sydney Taybies, it’s when 80 000+ people run 14km from the CBD to Bondi beach and it has a bunch of hills. 14km is the furthest I’ve ever run (previous was 10km) and I did it in just under 2 hours, which is what I was hoping for (I’m a shuffler, not really a runner). Today everything hurts but I’m super proud of myself!
\o/
Congrats. So awesome. Hope you added those points to Fitocracy. 😀
Nice! \o/
Congrats, runningmama!
Next challenge is the four minute mile \o/
Actually my main goal at the moment is go do 5km in 30 minutes.
I too ran (aka jog/walk/jog/walk etc) the City2Surf yesterday. Finished in a little over 2hrs (which for me, as a fat guy, I’m proud of).
Today, I’m also hurting in places I didn’t even know could hurt.
But, I did meet Lego Batman. http://instagram.com/p/rgmDbXMVL6/
Congrats, JogWalkJogWalksmith!
Congratulations! And it’s a race that’s a challenge even if you walk the entire thing, so you did well! 🙂
Lego Batman was very cool. I also saw a couple of mario kart dudes in the orange group!
My favourite costume was definitely these guys
http://i.imgur.com/NMmWLWa.jpg
Awesome! Apparently there was a Lego Spiderman too. C2S really has the best atmosphere 🙂
A guy died. That totally could have been me. Running is clearly far too dangerous to take part in.
But hey you survived! \o/
Well done for making the full 14km, I was in Sydney this weekend and when I was wandering around I saw Heartbreak Hill… Nice effort for the 14!!
What happened to that guy? I was working out at Livingwell when I saw on Sky that somebody had passed away…
It looks like he was actually a pretty fit guy. Very sad.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/runner-who-died-after-collapsing-near-city2surf-finish-line-identified-as-chris-head-20140811-102sj5.html
That’s awful, I was told by my partner that apparently his girlfriend was on the track too when he passed away.
Been on here for about 3 hours, time to do something productive. Right, get up for a wizz, Coffee, Lunch, Coffee, Games, sorted.
GOOD MORNING TAY!
How are we all?
My weekend was decent with a healthy amount of Evochron Mercenary, ended up spending waaaaay too long charting uncharted star systems…
Sunday i had a blast watching Guardians of the Galaxy… Went in with pretty high expectations of this movie and I’m pretty happy to say i was not disappointed one bit… SO DAMN GOOD!
Crazy people in the cinema applauded when the credits started to roll.
That’s… Weird 😛
A bunch of people were hanging out for the ending scene after the credits. Oh so slight spoiler follows:
More than a few people said that it wasn’t worth it and I’d agree. Considering every other Marvel movie has made a neat little bit at the end of the credits and this was one was really lame.Post-credits scene spoiler
Oh, I totally agree. I had no idea who that even was 😛 Unless you knew the reference, it was a nothing scene.Even then the reference was to a painfully bad movie that I imagine most young-ish people had never even heard of. Considering they could have done a reference to so many other things, like even just seeing the Aether for a brief second or a tie-in to Thanos again. Anything would have been better.As an aside, I didn’t like that Thanos had eyebrows. It seemed too out of place for his character design and kinda threw me out of fearing him as an all-powerful being.
I thought the end credits scene was ok, the worst one would definitely have to be the second end credits scene in Thor 2, thought it was a huge waste of time waiting around just for that.
True that was a waste of time but at least it was kinda funny. This one didn’t gel with anyone in the cinema.
I did that once.
*dodges tomatoes*
Does anyone know where to go to get pieces of proper nice wood (no page six or eighteen jokes, please! :P). I only need a few smallish pieces so maybe somewhere I can get cut-offs.
It’s Mr. Strange’s and my 5th wedding anniversary this year and we usually got the traditional route for our gifts so I want to try and make him something with wood.
I don’t know where exactly, but I do know when. In the morning. 😀
Also, happy wedding anniversary!
Yes, Mr. Strange should be able to provide her with some 😛
Seriously though, congrats and maybe try Bunnings, or a Lumber Yard 😛
My guess would be hardware store. They might even have some scraps you can have for free, but they’ll cut to size whatever you need.
Edit: P.S. No fair denying us the opportunity to make all the crude jokes.
Bunnings would probably have plenty of offcuts, if not they definitely cut the wood they sell so you could buy a piece and ask them to cut it into correct lengths
If you go to Bunnings you can get some off-cuts of just plain timber/floorboards/skirting boards if they have any (you’ll have to ask though). I used to get a bunch of them for random projects in high school. You can also get some sample pots of wood stain for cheap if it’s not the right colour!
Bunnings has wood and I think they can cut to size for you.
Some Mitre 10’s have wood places near them or with them for the same thing,
Building supply places often have a good selection of Off cuts.
My only contribution here is a jingle I heard time and time again.
“Narangba Timbers where we cut the prices down!
Come over to Narangba when you shop around!”
Maybe they’re a good place?
I recommend going to someone’s house, preferably one that’s a nice old Queenslander, and just cutting yourself a chunk out of it. They won’t mind, it’s for a gift after all!
Go to a lumber yard. They usually have a big bin full of offcuts they’ll happily let you take for free.
You could try a demolition yard? I got an off-cut of some mango and turned it into a bar sign for my dad a few years back and was pretty cheap too. There was some work with cleaning it up, but it still had natural edges which looked really good.
I know where there’s some nice wood
*slow winks*
*motions to crotch*
… 😉
You can ask, but I never get go page 18 😛
I get the feeling she’s planning to carve stuff into it…
I’ve got some you could have.Distance is probably an issue.
That’s not what I’ve heard!
Who have you been talking to? >_>
If you lived in melbourne my garage is filled with cut off wood from jobs otherwise bunnings or local hardwares are the place to go
What are you thinking of making? It’s good to get an idea of what tools you’re going to need before you start the project because if you need to get any special tools odds are you can get cheap off-cuts at the same place.
eBay is also a surprisingly good place to pick up scrap material. When I built my deck rather than paying to get a skip in to clear up all the leftovers and junk I’d taken out I stacked it up neatly in groups and sold it. 1m x 1m of bricks is useless to me and expensive/time consuming to get rid of, but it was perfect for someone’s BBQ area. I threw all my merbu timber offcuts into a wheelbarrow as I was working and sold it as a bulk lot. I still had to get a skip for a few things but it was half the size.
So not only did I save time and money on the cleanup, I made some drinking money and helped some people with their projects.
He collects picks from a lot of the metal gigs he’s been to so I wanted to make him a couple of stands to show them off in. I was going to grab some cheap ugly wood from the hardware store to practice on, and then make the real present out of some really lovely wood. I was thinking of keeping it really simple and just making a kind of groove in it for the picks to sit in.
Edit: The other idea I had was to make kind of a stand like they use for Scrabble. But it seemed a bit too involved for my rusty skills.
You might be able to use some trim for your purpose – it’s already been routed/moulded into a nice shape, so might just need finishing,
That sounds like a pretty solid plan. What about something like a Scrabble thing but deeper and tiered. Sort of like a row of seats in a theater?
http://www.usadisplay.net/classicsite/ring.htm
The ‘stadium’ displays on this page are probably over complicated, both visually and in terms of the skill required, but if you’re confident with your skills I think you could make a really nice looking simpler version. Especially if you got your hands on some of that nice fabric they line ring display boxes with. Maybe do three or four increasingly thinner planks (like a staircase) with a groove for the tips, then book end it with some nicely routed ends to bring it up 10mm off the ground, then make up back and front plates designs on them.
I’m no master craftsman (quite the opposite) but I think you could probably find a tutorial on YouTube for engraving or routing out a nice pattern or message.
Maybe even make it so the next ‘tier’ has a matching groove notched out the front edge so they stand nicely leaning back with the tip at the bottom.
Also if you want to go metal I recommend demonic church pew as a rough stylistic theme.
Your information has been really helpful, so thank you so much for taking the time to help me. I really appreciate it. 🙂
First Strangest itches and now strangest wood?
Too many blogs to follow
:-p
All the best, that’s a great idea for a gift. Maybe Freeze can engrave it for you tooThanks for the help. Especially @freezespreston, @steve-o_the_deve-o and @dogman.
And yes, I’m obviously aware you can get wood from a hardware store like Bunnings. But I specifically asked for proper nice wood. Which you can’t get at those. Like some Myrtle or Huon Pine or something nice like that. I want to keep it natural and finish it nicely without staining it. It needs to be special, not just some awful Bunnings pine covered up with stain. I guess I should have been more specific like that this morning. 🙂
Go to the woods with an axe? 😛
Morning all, Hope you all had a great weekend.
I decided to run an RPG with some friends for the first time. I had finished describing the situation, and said “what would you like to do?”
“what can we do?”
“Anything you want”
This was a mistake as one character realised that they were a Lion Man.
He then goes on to act like a cat and try to lick his own genitals.
I was not prepared for this…
Oh gods, never let them roam free on the first time.
That’s how you end up uniting the townspeople against you.
Tell that to @popdart5, we almost had 2 dead people in the first session 😛
Almost being the key word.
Alternatively, free reign is when players start plotting to conquer kingdoms and commit dragon genocide.
You get used to it after a while.
To be fair that was as left field as it got. except for where they tried to push a spaceship off a cliff…
Sounds like Star Wars and the guy being a Cathar. Or am I way off the mark?
Close? Lion Men (cat-like humanoids native to the planetary fragment Simba; possess a strong code of honor)
I’ve never heard of them at all. Then again, I’m not surprised as my general sci-fi/RPG lore skill isn’t that great. 😛
This is the setting I was running
https://www.peginc.com/product-category/slipstream/
Savage Worlds is a fine system and the setting sounds pretty interesting. I hope you guys are having fun. 🙂
Sounds like a Dexterity check, everyone else that sees it takes a willpower save check
Next time I will be prepared for that
If they seriously consider doing something silly like that you should make them do a check to make it potentially even more hilarious (read: Blaghs rolling a 1 on his flex check to impress a young maiden)
That is a great idea. so did he pull a creepy old man instead?
No, I uhh, I sort of flexed so hard, that uhhh, the universe warped itself around me, and I suddenly found myself lying on the pavement, blood streaming from my face. It was, uhh, really manly, guys.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I’ve fallen down the deep, dark hole that is Spelunky.
My computer kind of exploded and I had to reformat my boot drive a few days ago. Literally the only game in the Steam folder on that drive was Spelunky and I lost my save file. So I’ve been working to get everything back.
I unlocked all of the shortcuts fairly quickly and got a few Olmec kills along the way (the standard way to complete the game). On top of that, I’ve managed to unlock all but three of the bonus characters.
The problem is that one of the remaining characters (listed as Cyan on that link) is both my favourite and can only be found towards the end of the game. The way the unlocks work is that Yellow, Lime, Purple and Cyan will randomly spawn in a coffin in the Mines, Jungle, Ice Caves or Temple. Once you find one person in one area, you can’t find anyone else in that area. I’ve found people in the Mines, Jungle and Ice Caves.
I spent a good few hours just using the shortcut to the temple and grinding that area in hopes of finding Cyan. I have not. /o\
Disregard previous comment, I’ve found Cyan.
So last night when putting the bins out I heard a scurrying sound, looked across the road, and saw a possum climbing a tree opposite my house. So I rushed inside, grabbed my camera, and tried to take some photos of it.
Since autofocus won’t work with that little light, I had to try and focus manually when I could barely see the damn thing. So this morning, upon reviewing my photos, what I have are a bunch of blurry-arse, stupidly lit shots from the flash, and in one of them I managed to focus perfectly on the leaves behind the possum.
Thankfully, I thought to take a picture of the moon, and I must say, it was looking pretty super.
Ugh.
😀
Love that moon 🙂
I was chuckling stupidly as I made it. I’m an adult.
But it’s not even page 6 yet =S
Dear Evil Monkey,
I find that restricting ourselves with arbitrary rules over what a page may – or may not – be, is counter productive to the sort of community we wish to engender here. As such, I take it upon myself to cast off those page based shackles, and let loose a myriad of thematic elements whensoever I desire.
As the youths would say, “Fight the power.”
Yours Truly,
Balgenab.
Melbourne Taybies, the time is nigh!!!
We’re closing in on the time for Can’d meat the HD remake of the sequel to the sequel of the original remake of the sequel to the original cult classic… And i am planning a road trip to Canberra for that… So far i have one confirmed passenger (HI @f4ction) and have 2 more spots available…
the plan is:
– depart Melbourne Friday morning 29/08
– return either Sunday afternoon/evening or Monday depending on peoples work requirements
register your interest here or dm me on the twitter verse, or email me on Jacob.didriksen at the gmails dot com… At this stage im also putting together a music list for the long drive so shoot me some requests, otherwise you’ll be stuck with my god awful taste in music 😛
**** REAL NAME ALERT ****
TWENTY THREE NINETEEN
@dc
ZOMG IRL NAMES
Dat souns lik one o dem immigant names. Git a propa Ozzie name.
It’s those bloody boat people!
#doingitright?Too coherent, it’s all spelt correctly and the grammar is also correct.
2/10 Try harder.
Immigants, I knew it was dem, even when it was the Bears I knew it was dem.
NOT THAT I’M ON THE DRIVE BUT YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ABBA, BOTH TO PREPARE YOURSELF FOR MY HOUSE, AND ALSO BECAUSE IT’S YOUR NATIONAL MUSIC, OR SOMETHING!
Are you implying this wasn’t already going to happen? 😛
I’d be interested! I’ll email you later today.
Huzzah! \o/
Oh wait Friday morning? Agh can’t 🙁 sorry
Will changing the times help you? I’m happy to move stuff around to suit
Well I’ll be working on the Friday and again on the Monday so I could go either after dinner or I head to your place for dinner there but I’m probably going to be late, I don’t want to shave a whole day off of your trip.
I’ll have a think but yeah being a 8-9 hour drive we’d be getting in in the middle of the night which i think would suck :P… Not trying to push you, but you can’t pull like half days at work or anything? 😛
No, unfortunately it’s not possible, oh well go on without me
I am fine with leaving Friday morning and returning Monday. Yay for not having work 🙁
Also, if your music choice is shit I will just play games on my tablet 😛
Does anyone know what tracks come with the Theaterhtym Curtain Call preorder from EB? is it worth getting or is there somewhere cheaper?
No idea but it didn’t stop me ordering it.
Hey everyone! Hope you all had a good weekend. Mine was mixed. Spoilered for text wall/consideration for anyone that doesn’t care about my hermitty adventures* on weekends.
I was intending to play some more Dark Souls 2, fight Smelter Demon, Gargoyles and Vendrick, but I couldn’t muster the enthusiasm. Don’t know why, just went in a spiral of “I feel more like playing a 4X game… what do I have? Civ, EU4, AoW3, Warlock, Warlock2… oooh fantasy… now I want to play an RPG… Witcher 2, DA:O… but I won’t have the time to finish either…”My Saturday morning was paralysed by simultaneous desires to (a) play everything, and (b) do nothing. So I watched Mad Max 2 and 3, which had been on my list of movies to watch for a long time. 2 was amazing (better than the original, imo), while 3 felt like a Disney adventure movie for no apparent reason, and felt really out of place considering the tone of the first two.
I did end up playing the rest of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, as I felt I really should finish it after starting it when it first came to Steam. Man, that game is awesome! As some might say, “teh feelz”. And so beautiful…
Following which, I gave up on trying to find something to play on PC, wiped the dust off my 3DS and played Pokemon Y for the rest of the weekend. I swear that game used to be harder – I walked my way through badges 4, 5, 6, and 7 with no problems. Flare were almost universally one-shot by my Lucario’s hadouken, with the exception of the occasional dragon or fairy type completely destroying half my team cos I never remember their weakness. But I can’t shake the feeling that mega-evolution makes this a great Digimon game… (*hides behind door frame and waits for backlash to subside*) They’re cool the first time, but take way too long.
Also interspersed hours of Pokemon with all 5 hours of Red Cliff, which I’d long had on my list but always put off for lack of time. Holy crap that movie is astounding… seeing the strategists getting into each others’ minds was incredible. Fight scenes are amazing, and the love stories were heart-wrenching. And I couldn’t stop seeing Zhang Fei as a Chinese Brian Blessed, which made it even more enjoyable. :3
So, yea, productive weekend as far as doing/seeing stuff that I’ve been putting off for months (years, in most cases).
Also, woo! iiNet are activating my internet sometime between Wednesday and Friday, and the modem should arrive around the same time. And, as is my luck, my REA told me on Saturday (the day after iiNet started my contract) that the owner was organising building-wide internet access cos apparently some people find it rather useful, which should be connected in the next week or so. Too late to cancel my contract with iiNet without major financial repercussions, unfortunately, but I suppose having a backup connection if I go over my quota could be handy.*Disclaimer: Adventures guaranteed to be hermitty, but not necessarily adventurous.
I remember reading about your building situation a while ago, good to hear you can finally have the internetz!
DA: O update
I’m in the Circle Jerk Tower
Said this on Twitter last night, but in 100 years people will still be playing Tetris.
Yep. Tetris is the video game. It’s on everything, nearly everyone has played it or knows it, and it still continues to be just as good now as it was when it first appeared.
Simple geometries made iconic.
Reinstalled it on my PSP yesterday, so good.
Still waiting on next gen Tetris.
Only at 60fps. Anything else is a terrible port.
That is a game I will play constantly
I love that it’s a game that was pretty much perfected first go- everything that has been done to is since has really been a minor refinement.
one that I liked (which many people hated because of how different it was) was tetrisphere, But normal tetris is still my favourite
100 years from now people will still be playing Korobeiniki.
My most played app on my iPhone is Tetris Blitz. It’s a fun game, and it’s really evolved since I started playing it.
My phone is about the only device I’d never put it on.
Remedied that this morning
I love the theme music made famous by the original GameBoy. In my mind, Tetris goes hand in hand with that song.
@greenius: continuing discussion from Old TAY, with HobbySearch I can add stuff to my monthly order whenever, they have a recombination service.
However if I add something for you to one of mine, then you only have a couple of weeks to change your mind. After that it’s locked in and they will charge a significant restocking fee if you cancel. So you have to be sure.
This figure thing seems like something I could get into but golly gee it’s gonna get expensive. I’ll wait for my order to arrive (early – mid Sept) before I decide to buy anything more. Kinda keen atm though if there’s only $5 or so more shipping costs per item.
Once you start you can’t stop. I didn’t realize the horrible beast that I was unleashing when I bought that Asuka figure at EBGames The Glen when it first opened for $25. I certainly didn’t know that when I ordered Nendoroid #9, Haruhi Suzumiya it would lead to a collection of more than 180 of the things. 🙁 But then again, I doubt that GSC expected they’d make a series of more than 400 of them at the time either.
Eventually you stop noticing the price as much too. You’re preordering 5-6 months ahead of time and everything.
The worst thing is when they do a series of stuff from something you really like. The siren’s call of the Complete Set will make you do things that are utterly foolish. I have all of the Figma and scale figures from Madoka Magica and I don’t even know why. I’m buying way too much Kantai Collection stuff and I’m still a bit angry that they started doing Touhou and Strike Witches stuff only to never finish what they started with either line.
One day soon I shall have my own Den of Iniquity and I shall be able to put all these back on display again
and guarantee that I die alone.Mr. Strange has a bunch of figures, mostly half-naked anime girls. They’re on display in our bedroom. If he does end up dying alone I’m pretty sure it will have nothing to do with how many figures he has on display. 😛
Mr Strange does not know how lucky he is.
I can resist the temptation!
First you get Luigi. And Luigi looks kind of sad on his own, needs a Mario. Then you’ve got both and you have that Link over there too, because why not? Then they do a Zelda and you need one of her to go with the rest. Or maybe it’s a Peach. Or a Bowser or a Toad. Maybe it’s all of them.
And then they do some Fire Emblem ones or a Samus and you start to think “this is a bit like Smash Bros”.
And then at some point you look around and you’ve got 30 of them and you don’t know how you got to that point.
Maybe if they were cheaper and easier to acquire but at this rate it’s still kind of difficult.
I’m still after a Pokemony thing (Bulbasaur or Pikachu) but I couldn’t find anything worthwhile :(. My desk just needed some basic decorations but that Link is so badass. I’m actually getting kind of scared they’d get damaged or stolen at work but it should be unlikely… (I hope)
This is almost exactly how it happened. “Oh hey, Samus and Link are coming back. Oh and look at that, someone’s selling Pit and Dark Pit together for a reasonable price. Hmm, that Mario looks pretty good, he’d go great with the others. I guess I should get the extra parts to go with him…”
Enter Luigi.
Lunch: two Hotdogs and a roll of Garlic Bread, in your face Fitocracy challenge.
Does anyone here use Internet Explorer? FireFox seems to be more and more of a hassle as time goes by. I use it on about four machines and not one of them has been running it smoothly lately. I’m not huge fan of Safari and Chrome, so I’m thinking of running an experiment and only using Internet Explorer for the next week. I mean now I think about it I’ve been dismissing Internet Explorer as a bloated piece of junk for almost a decade. I’m sort of curious to see if they got their act together at any point.
You’re a braver soul than I.
So far it’s not that bad. Although I think this whole treating me like an idiot thing is going to get old after the millionth ‘your computer is at risk because you’re browsing a website that wasn’t made by Microsoft’ alert.
I use Opera and Chrome Canary, Firefox is a back up browser on my phone.
I find it best to have a range to cover all eventualities.
I’ve been using Firefox primarily with Chrome on the side but I’m starting to question why. If something doesn’t work in Firefox my default stance was always ‘well, just load up IE since it’s already installed and making something IE compatible is usually the source of the problem anyway’. What am I really gaining by having Chrome installed and keeping it up to date? I’m trying to cover all my bases even though I’m not doing anything complicated.
Even this early I’m getting the impression I won’t make it to Friday using Internet Explorer, but I’m beginning to think after this whatever browser I settle on will be my one and only browser. I’m only really bloating my system.
I used just Opera for years, but now it isn’t as compatible with my comp as it once was.
I’d prefer to just use one, but find it just isn;t an option anymore.
I’ve only ever used Firefox and IE, but neither one is perfect. Both seem quite hit-and-miss with different sites these days, but security-wise, I believe they’re on par with each other these days.
I only use IE, the one and only use any other browser gets is firefox exclusively for the youtube downloader extension.
Browser wars are the apex of pointless tribalism, they’re all borderline identical and IE11 is as good as any other
@popdart5 paths and the finding thereof is tonight right?
I’ll be in Brisbane next week. Freya too. Things should be done.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Disco?
Let’s put a pin in that one.
:,-o
\o/
It seems Neg stole my thunder here. *pencils in horrible, unspeakable torment*
Uh, I mean Pathfinder tonight at 8pm AEST.
A shocking secret has been revealed. Find out more tonight.
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
🙂
A shocking secret? Why is everyone so surprised about elves having retractable claws? Isn’t that normal? @SerNobulus
No.
It’s one of those rumours that makes people spit at elves on the street and SO much harder to steal bracelets, as people won’t shake your hand.
Lundgredolph is just surprised that neither of the small pointies have stopped to eat a baby yet.
Don’t worry red. I don’t hate all elves just the ones that throw spells around and converse with demons.
I hate them too.
While my character doesn’t hold many views of his Hobgoblin brethren he does share their viewpoint about Elven sorcerers being incredibly stupid and are just walking portals for demons. I seriously don’t see how my character would stand to stay in the group after this reveal. >_>
I’m more worried about how dangerous stuff has been. That last engagement nearly got us all killed. Not enough coin to be worth it.
Bring on the danger Karvurk says! It builds strength and power, however gaining powers from demons is the quick way and it always ends badly (and usually with many, many corpses). He’s seen it happen before.
All will be revealed tonight, but I am enjoying the reactions right now 😛
Anyway, maybe I should start working on a second character sheet. My character wouldn’t stand to work with a demon blooded elf again (even if the first time wasn’t by choice).
OoooooooooooooOOooooooooooh!
I actually have no idea about your backstory so this one of the first snippets I’ve gotten. Mysterious Hobgoblin Magus indeed.
So… there’s going to be a very one-sided fight happening eventually or one of us leaves? Great…
I’m pretty sure that I mentioned at the start of all this that I, as GM, reserve the right to tap into people’s backstories for potential plot arcs and stories. It was only a matter of when i decided to throw that screwball in the mix.
So congratulations in a way. You pre-empted my GM meddling. 😛
And @popdart5 would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for those meddling
kids@tech_knightYeah that’s true, kinda role-played my way into this, my own fault. Kinda getting used to being the punching bag for the rest of the party regardless
@tech_knight Role-playing into party conflict is an interesting turn of events. You’ve played Dem’nion as an actual character rather than just as an extension of yourself as a player which is something to be commended. Don’t feel too bad about how things have turned out.
In my current state it’s easy for it to be taken personally, sorry about that.
I’ve actually got some mechanics I want to add regarding Dem’nion’s “gifts” that I want to discuss and I’ll email tonight about it, nothing stats wise just for role-playing benefits only for now, other things later on though.
Side note: thus far I suspect I am the only one of us that has managed to go through every combat engagement without taking any damage at all. Not that you should see that as a challenge or anything though.
Haha, I liked how at the end of the session everyone said “Oh man, that was brutal” and I said “What? That was nothing!”. It probably helped that I didn’t get hit once in the last battle.
Anti-Dem’nion.
If Dem’nion is the Yamcha, I’m imagining Izumi will be the Mr Popo. Will sit it out on the sidelines and be really happy until a Majin Buu event happens and she gets killed horribly.
Edit: Actually a better analogy is Bulma. Goes through a series of dangerous situations with nary a scratch. Will get knocked up at some stage. *takes notes*
Well, hopefully next time I won’t be Yamcha’d to actual death, I’ve been extremely lucky at this point
WHO IS THE FATHER? IS IT ABELAS? KARVUK? LUNDGREDOLPH? DEM’NION? NARSHAK? DREWAN?
ALL WILL BE REVEALED IN THE NEXT EPISODE “EXAMINATION’S PROOF! THE MYSTICAL ARTS OF FRONICK PROVE COSTLY!”
THE OGRE MATRIARCH WAS REALLY YOUR LONG-LOST SISTER!
*zooms in on everyone’s face*
*Karvurk steps forward* “She was to be my wife. We were in love!
*Drewan looks aghast*” She promised me her heart belonged to me,
Well, half elves are a thing.
Just sayin’
Let’s just say there would be quite a lot of potential issues requiring at least some GM fiat in making that happen.
tbh it’s not something I’m particularly interested in roleplaying.
I’m single, I’m not THAT single.
Honestly with her current HP pool it wouldn’t take much to wipe her out completely. A stiff breeze could almost snap her in half.
Hey Dem’nion took two hard hits and he’s still alive, and the later one of them was after doing something incredibly stupid 😛
Granted he got one shot both times but he’s still alive.
Izumi has 8 HP. Fairly sure you took a 18-damage crit? That would be literally an instant kill from full health.
Only 8HP? O.O Did you get a bad HP roll when you levelled up?
On the upside you’re not going in harms way like I am with my character so I think for the most part you’re safe. There’s always ways to up your maximum HP even temporarily if you really are worried about it happening.
@tech_knight: 6 base HP (10 CON, no bonus) and you were there when I rolled my HP for level 2. Rolled 1, then 1 again, then 2. 🙁
Unigames squad selection is this week for me, so hyped! \o/
But also worried about being selected because I have a bruised heel 🙁 hopefully can last through Unigames
What the heck is a unigame?
http://www.unisport.com.au/Events/AUG/Pages/Home.aspx
Basically sport competition events for universities all over Australia. hosted in Sydney this year
Reposting from the last page:
I’ll be in Brisbane next week. Freya too. Things should be done.
Stay home and play video games?
Just like the prophet foretold!
But my video games will be in Dubbo 🙁
Like fly to townsville and party with me???
How about you fly to Brisbane. Getting there from Dubbo was expensive enough.
I have no idea what, and I’m definitely not planning it, but whatever is done, I’m in. 😀
Something during the week would be rad. Freya gets in on Tuesday (I have to be there this weekend because I’m part of the wedding party and we’re going up there for a wedding).
Maybe some sort of hanging out and having lunch on Thursday? Maybe catch a movie or generally hang out for those that don’t have to go back to work after food is consumed?
Some sort of hanging out and food on Thursday. Sounds like a plan. See you guys next Thursday!
Okay. Let’s say Wednesday (20/8) at noon. Meet at Post Office Square (I want to get some curry from Mr Curry if it’s still there).
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @sughly @transientmind @welbot @virus__
Thursday the 21st, is that what I’m seeing? Will depend on how the work day is going, if things are quiet I can probably make it.
Yup, Thursday the 21st. Wednesday the 20th is also an option and the time is pretty malleable.
No idea what my schedule is like for that day at this point. All depends on whether I have a new job, or an interview at that time. Will see what happens! 🙂
Can’t do Thursday. Work.
I’ll be free on Wednesday though if you guys don’t have anything on.
Let’s make it Wednesday then. Editing the post above.
Should be able to make that.
Okay, fine! Just change it on me and think I won’t notice! 😛
It was more hoping that you would and planning to put a reminder comment up in a few days.
Wednesday should be doable!
Hullo from sunny Canada. Yes, Canada has sun. Mentioning Canada might make you go “Hey, how’s Canada?” And once again, I’ll have to reply with “Why would you ask that? nothing ever happens here. Ever.”
Me? I’ve led a exciting life these last few days. I wanted a desk in the corner of my apartment moved so I moved it slightly to the right only to realize it was better where it was before. Riveting stuff, I’ve sold my life story to Lionsgate.
So how are those Mooses you got there? Are they getting along with the rocks?
they were quite literally the most exciting thing about Canada. One tripped slightly on a rock and attempted to brush it off casually, but we all saw.
We all saw.
I don’t know what the fuck the rocks are doing, there’s like, what… hundreds of them? we can’t watch them all.
How did the trees feel about the Moose tripping? I know how they feel about rocks, do they think that something’s afoot?
The trees just scream. I don’t know why. They scream all the time.
The mention of Canada only makes me think, ‘Blame Canada!’ in a sort of jingle tune.
-Fart-
[kicks baby]
Just came across this track. So awesome.
Didn’t realize that Joe Bonamassa had been around for so long (2000), thought he was a new up and comer. One seriously good guitarist, love everything the man does, he can really make that thing talk, never heard him play anything this fast though, real toe-tappin’ stuff. Notice that Jimmy Barnes has done a few collaborations with him too, smart move Jimmy, smart move.
New desk sucks. Air conditioning vents run the length of the windows, so I have a constant stream of cold air moving down into my face. Squinting at everything.
My old desk meant that the vent would blow straight onto my face. It dries your eyes out sooo bad. Sucks buddy
Time to buy some goggles!
The goggles do nothing!
Eugh, picked up a chocolate milk today (climbing fuel :P) because they were all out of iced coffee. It tastes like McDonalds chocolate topping mixed in milk. Gross.
Why didn’t I grab vanilla ;_;
True story, my best friend though for 19 years that all milk was vanilla flavoured. he made me a vanillia milkshake once by putting some icecream with milk. I laughed for a good while about that.
Also Oak makes decent choc milk
I was just thinking to myself “it tastes like cocoa and sugar in water, mixed with milk”. Got back to my desk, looked at the ingredients: milk, sugar, cocoa powder, flavour, salt, vegetable gum, colours.
WELP.
VEGGIE GUM
ewww can you imagine celery gum?
The Snozzberries taste like Snozzberries.
Oak chocolate milk is AMAZING. I haven’t had it since 2008 though when I was up in Queensland cos they don’t sell it in Tassie D:
Classic chocolate milk is almost as good. I think it might be a Tasmanian thing though.
Where have you been? 😀
Just haven’t felt like I’ve had much to post, really 🙁
Happens to me, too.
That’s Bens for ya.
Vanilla malt. Best flavour.
Woo! Interview done! Really hope I can pull this off! Sounds like one of my dream jobs! Great bunch of people I met today, and fantastic location with free parking! All kinds of win! Just have to keep my fingers crossed that I get a call back now!
You are a wizard im sure they want a wizard working for them. good luck bro.
Cheers for all the well wishes! Few days and I should know if I get to the next round!
Good luck man, hope you get it.
Good luck matey 🙂
Good luck, welly!
Well if that doesn’t land you employment…
Holy shit, the Baldur’s Gate 2 novelisation sex scene from this article is amazing. I am actually having trouble breathing right now. Gotta file this one away for any fanfic I write in the future.
“weakness and openings”
I read that like he was fencing with his dick
Isn’t that how it works?
I’ll admit that this is all a great mystery to me, but my analysis of bedbugs has taught me a lot that I’m sure is related.
Lets find you somebody soon before you start sharpening you’re penis in a pencil sharpener to appear more available.
Or takes a steel from a barber shop to it.
#finelyhonededge
Got Game Dev Tycoon in my head. That’s a really good game. Very ‘one more turn’ish. There’s a small selection of games that when first played keep me up until the next morning. Game Dev Tycoon is one of them.
Was just thinking… in my very first playthrough, maybe my second or third game was reviewed as a perfect 10. I got that rating by instinctively creating my perfect dream RPG.
I’ve read game guides and experimented since, but no matter how clear the formula, in multiple playthroughs, it was almost impossible to replicate that early success, by formula. The only times I was able to get perfect 10s were with huge, cult followings, and predictable ‘game-changer’ title emulations – like a blockbuster piratey adventure in the style of AC4, or a Dance Dance Revolution clone, and similar, just going with my gut on the prioritization of resources.
Uncannily accurate depiction of the game industry, I think.
Have you ever played Industry Giant 2, or Europa 1400/The Guild? Those are some games I have played for literally days on end! So damn addictive once you get in to the swing of things!!
I have yet to get too deep in to game dev tycoon, mostly cos my tablet shit itself, and it runs like ass on my phone. One day though!
Actually, NONE of them. Though I’ve been hearing great things about The Guild 2, and have been meaning to pick that up sometime.
And yeah, I only played Game Dev Tycoon on Steam/PC, had no idea it was on tablet/phone. I might actually have to pick it up… Ta. 🙂
The Guild 2 is great! So much fun, especially multiplayer, and especially if you have a looong time to play 🙂
Also, apologies in advance for pointing out there’s a portable version of gamedev tycoon! Hope it doesn’t ruin your life!! 😉
That tyre ad looks all kinds of awkward sitting there.
It’s wheely bad.
*sigh*
yeah, that joke didn’t get much traction.
It really is running a bit flat
I wanted to spin it into a conversation yet as usual Pow left me deflated.
Left you tyred?
Maybe a little skiddish…
I dont even wanna tread on this
Yes.
Man, this semester is harrrd. Well okay, not hard, but time consuming! The plus side though is that I finally get to do what I wanted to do in the first place. Instead of wasting time on programming classes and all that, I can finally do business analysis classes and info systems management and that kind of stuff! Y’know, the kinds of classes I expected to be doing in the first place when I enrolled in Information Systems and not computing :l
The plus side is I don’t really have much in the way of assignments this semester. I have 4 altogether. The down side is that they’re all due this month which is kinda weird but oh well, frees up the rest of the year. There’s also heaps of researching involved in my benefits management class which is the time consuming bit.
So yeah. Busy! Also, I’m making a game for those who haven’t seen on Twitter! I don’t seem to be getting much time to work on it lately, but I’ll get something done and talk about it soon hopefully 😛 I’ve tried and given up many times though on making a game, but eh. We’ll see. I have a much better grasp on what I’m doing this time round.
Hey, I’m posting in TAY for the first time in ages. Started reading the random banter and brought back so many memories.
Hello all, with work and family and me trying to become a YouTube celebrity (totally not!) i get very little time here. Actually it’s all works fault, new job and tons of responsibility and all that..
Anyway.. posting here because Trials.
I’m announcing a new Trials Fusion competition tomorrow via Kotaku AU. I’m working with Ubi AUS to get prizes and stuff and I hope some of you can get involved. I’ve been able to create the format how I want it and I hope it works. Essentially, every Trials comp only the top guys get stuff, so everyone who isn’t the top (most people) stop having fun and/or participating. My comp will have one track with a week to do your best, but I will randomly select 10 names from a hat and the winner of that sub group wins the prize. So even if you are 50th, doesn’t matter as long as you are lucky enough to be the winner of that group. Still has an incentive to ride your best but increases the chances of winning for the majority of participants.
Details and me being an idiot in the article tomorrow, but would love to see some of you participating.
Anyway
TAYbies4Lyfe
Sweet! Oh, and welcome back man.
Thanks
Predict to see a lot of anger from top people who get nothing.
You know what, I don’t mind that. I’d rather upset a few people to ensure that everyone has a good time has a chance to win stuff. My channel has always been about the majority rather than catering to the hardcore super riders.
Also, people know what this is going into the comp so I don’t see anyone getting upset. If the top guys don’t like the rules then they are welcome to not participate.
I’ve actually run the idea past the dude who is arguably the best rider in AUS and he’s keen to get involved. I think the bragging rights alone would satisfy that group.
EDIT: Oh and I am planning something for them. I have a freaking sweet hoodie, can’t get them anywhere from what i’ve seen and I was planning on having a ‘best in AUS’ competition once this builds up momentum. That should give those guys something to work toward.
Good to see you poke your head in! Miss you round these parts! Boourns for Trials Fusion though! I only have Trials 2!!
You’re a PC gamer right???
I’m any anything gamer! But yeah. Primarily PC if I have a choice
Check your DM’s 🙂
I’m afraid as a rule I find Trials too infuriating to justify paying for.
Give me a code for a free copy of the game and I will participate in your little tournament, possibly at the cost of my mental health. 😛
Edit: I am worried that it is not clear enough that this is a joke and came across as legitimately demanding and rude. I do not want the game. Blessings be upon your house.
Do you have a 360?
See my edit. 🙂
OK, dude who wants to pass up on free games.. You just lost some TAY points right there. No probs man, I know you.. you can now say whatever you like and I know it’s all good 🙂
It’s not that I want to pass up free games, I just don’t want to be a demanding asshole. Now it’s weird.
So what about someone like me who sucks completely at it and can’t do better than silver in Fusion? 😛
Honestly, fanboyism aside, I got to where I am because of participating in comps. It’s just the type of thing to push you past the normal effort and really pay attention to what you’re doing and your skills will increase very quickly.
Also, failed to mention above that my comp will also give a short tutorial of sorts to show where to save time. It’s difficult to address anyones questions but I suspect that if I get time mid comp I could also go over the track in more detail?
Either way, I’m really hoping people like yourself get involved if for nothing else than the fun of competing and pushing each other to get better. I find that to be the most rewarding part of Trials and I wish I would go back to when I was only getting Silvers..
If I remember i’ll give it a go, first time ever playing Trials too, it’s a pretty good game. Love it on the PS4!
I was primarily playing on X1 but started getting used to the PS4. I’m all about self promotion so take this for what it is, but if there is only one of my vids you watch, search for University of Trials bunny hop. I made a detailed tutorial on that and once you learn this technique you’ll start having a better time. There is heaps to learn but master the bunny hop and I guess the analog controls (being gentle and going slower at the right time) and you’ll get golds in no time.
Oh man i’ll have to check that out cause I cannot for the life of me grasp how to bunny hop without fail!
Oooooooh, FatShady. \o/
(Sorry, I have nothing to add to a Trials discussion, I just love it whenever you pop your head back in here. :D)
Dammit. Now I feel like a fool for not reading the comments. Ha.
Damned @blaghman and his songs.
That sounds awesome any idea what the prizes include?
Trials Fusion shirts are the regular prize, along with a poster and sticker pack that I have. The ubi guys have said if they have anything else lying around they may chuck it in but thats the prize for now. I show the shirt briefly in the vid so you’ll see them. They are pretty sweet 🙂
“Oh yeah, we also had this jar of expired mayonnaise, a cowboy hat with a hole in and a stuffed donkey leg”
Are you getting the shirts from them to order or have you already got them? Just thinking of sizes
They have them all and will be shipping them out. Unfortunately for people like me they are all M or L and there is no way to change that. They have a box of them already 🙁 They seem to be pretty forgiving sizes though so hope they fit most people.
Ooooooh FatShady.
One job interview down, one to go..
Hope it all went as well as could be expected! Best of luck!
Thanks man! I’ll know probably by the end of the week if they want a face to face interview with me!
Good luck man! I wish you well in spite of your horrible advice for Friday night =P
Cheers! Haha, at least you knew that was a joke, right? 😛
Went and got my tax done over the weekend, and apparently I have a HECS debt even though I paid all my uni fees up front as I went. Looks like its been against my name for a couple of years but neither me nor my tax agent noticed it. Its only a bit over $1000 but I still have no idea where and when it came from. Has any one had something like this happen before?
PhoTAYgraphers! Started up a flickr account if you wanna talk or check my photos out. https://www.flickr.com/photos/126024137@N02/
Edit: ALSO LET’S TALK PHOTOGRAPHY! What have you all been shootin’ lately?
Got a good eye, man. These are awesome. Keep it up!
Good dogs, too!
You’ve gotta send me that gun juggling photo so I can update my profile picture! Pretty please.
I knew I forgot one! I’ll post it now.
You don’t have to put it on your Flickr if it doesn’t fit the theme. Email or Twitter or whatever is fine too! Thanks bud.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126024137@N02/14883122692/
EVERYONE EXCEPT POW CAN READ THIS. NO POW’S THOUGH.
He’s pretty handsome, huh? He mustn’t know. It will go to his head!Not pictured: after the gun went off.
Tax-manz on mah properteh!
*rocks back and forth on chair nursing shotgun*
Oh, you meant photos?
I tried to take some photos of a possum last night http://i.imgur.com/m49hsFO.jpg
Turns out I suck at manually focussing when it’s really dark. I also took a photo of the super moon because I am far too proud of myself for this and oh god someone needs to stop me.
It sucks that possum one turned out the way it did cus it would have been AWESOME. But practice makes perfect right?
Damn right. I really need a lot of practice with focus, I have so many where the camera’s decided that it should focus on the wrong thing, and I’ve only noticed once I check on my computer. Thankfully, if I take thirty photos there’s usually one good one. 😀
NO! >:-(
Very little, I usually only take photos if im going somewhere unique or different #hipsterphotography
My dog, mostly.
Trying to take photos for the header for my blog! It did not go well!
People in costume on the weekend. Not many though, because it was largely characters I will never recognise.
Oh man, I forgot to vote in the Good Game top 100 games of all time countdown.
I can still bitch about whatever comes in at #1, right?
*grumble grumble CoD, no doubt grumble stupid teenagers grumble*
I didn’t vote, but here’s my top 50! (Not in order!)
1. Gabriel Knight: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (PC)
2. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (PC)
3. Day of the Tentacle (PC)
4. Full Throttle (PC)
5. Beyond Good & Evil (PC)
6. System Shock 2 (PC)
7. Grim Fandango (PC)
8. Heavy Rain (PS3)
9. Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (PS3)
10. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)
11. The Last of Us (PS3)
12. Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (PC)
13. Red Dead Redemption (360)
14. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (PC)
15. Mass Effect 2 (PC)
16. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
17. Yoshi’s Island (SNES)
18. Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES)
19. Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive (PC)
20. BioShock (PC)
21. Batman: Arkham Asylum (PC)
22. Deus Ex: Human Revolution (PC)
23. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge (PC)
24. The Curse of Monkey Island (PC)
25. Mirror’s Edge (360)
26. Maniac Mansion (NES)
27. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
28. Prince of Persia (2008) (360)
29. Portal 2 (PC)
30. The Colonel’s Bequest (Amiga)
31. SWAT 4 (PC)
32. Fallout: New Vegas (PC)
33. Scratches (PC)
34. Space Quest 5 (PC)
35. King’s Quest 6 (PC)
36. Freedom Fighters (PC)
37. Pikmin (Wii)
38. The Walking Dead (PC)
39. The Longest Journey (PC)
40. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (PC)
41. Theme Hospital (PC)
42. Roller Coaster Tycoon (PC)
43. Dragon Age: Origins (PC)
44. Psychonauts (PC)
45. Stacking (360)
46. Dishonored (PC)
47. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 – The Sith Lords (PC)
48. Fahrenheit (PC)
49. SSX (Original) (PS2)
50. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (PC)
Courtesy of this thread. If I expanded to top 100 there’d be stuff like Rayman Origins/Legends and Valiant Hearts and etc.
You could only pick three.
NO ONE TELLS ME WHAT TO DO!
What if we ask really really really really nicely?
What about strongly worded suggestions?
Except me. 😛
I just did.
NO ONE!
I’m telling not to pick a top three. You better not do it. I command you not to.
…
*shoots self*
You included KOTOR 2: TSL, we can be friends 🙂
Add Final Fantasy VIII to 51 and we have a deal >:-(
@strange don’t get crappy wood to practice on before using good wood. It’s a world of difference in methods and tools. If you’re going to be using a good hardwood practice on a good hardwood. Otherwise you’re going to have a bad time.
I feel like freeze is baiting people with this post….
Edit : Obligatory – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piVnArp9ZE0
immature giggling
I don’t get it. I’m just stating it’s hard to get a satisfactory finish with soft wood and it’s far easy to work on hard wood.
I’ve gotta say, even I’m impressed with this one. 😛
Grudging respect. The best kind of respect!
So… Turns out a coffee shower is not good for any keyboard… Also I’ve learned not to read your comments while drinking…
*standing ovation*
Mostly I just wanted to get crappy wood to test out which design out of the few I have in my head looked best(or even worked!). I see what you mean, though. Things to ponder. Thanks!
So for those of you who followed my drunk post from Friday night I followed her lead with the “I can’t remember what happened on Friday night?!”. I think it’s serving me well so far ^^ It kind of threw me off guard because this was someone I saw just as a friend… (God if high school me could hear me say that now he’d probably punch me).
I meant to ask if you’d even gone to work today or had just decided to avoid going to work ever again. (Note: I totally would done the latter) 😛
I’m not going to lie… I had planned on mysteriously coming down with influenza =P
Edit: Also I’ll shoot anyone who tries to grab the damn popcorn =@
Haha, too late, I’ve already got it!
http://i.imgur.com/1Mi9hTw.gif
All popcorn stock is used up every week with some series named “Mr Taco”?
I hate that show.
TLOUR Update (WARNING!!!!! MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS)
Got through the High School and got into the car and made my to Pittsburgh. Spent ages trying to get onto the bus in the flooded section before checking a guide and realising that I could go through the Truck trailer into the cafe and get up there that way. Felt like a doofus. Now I’m in the hotel.Shaved for the first time since May 11. My face feels all cold. :'(
GUYS! Someone kidnapped DC and is pretending to be him! (looks kind of like Sylar)
Your face feels all cold …
Checks temperature for Brisbane, checks temperature for Launceston.
You don’t know what cold is.
You would say that!
*looks at ontargett’s beard, that would get you through the a Siberian winter*
HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED A SIBERIAN WINTER? BECAUSE I HAVE. BEARDS DON’T DO SHIT. THEY JUST GIVE ICE SOMEWHERE ELSE TO SIT.
Relatively
Is this anything to do with the friend you’ve been playing Rayman with? Do I need to explain the definition of monster to them and point at them dramatically?
Friend likes beard, Freeze. 😀
*shifts finger towards DC*
D.C. has a girlfrienddddd?
All the non-beardies should do a beard growing challenge! 😀
*in high-pitch voice*
“Good idea Liondrive! Count me in!”
*in low-pitch voice*
“Count me in too!”
See, there’s already three people in (plus DC and Blaghs from Twitter).
Beards for all! 😀
I’m already growing one, and it’s horrible
They all start off that way! You’ve done good! 😀
I’ve got gaps everywhere, just singular whiskers growing over 1cm long and nothing else between
Shave em over and over again! they’ll get better =D
Is that actually true?
Like, the more you shave, the better your beard gets?
I thought that was a myth…
Well it’s kind of true. But probably because more time has passed with every shave so the hairs have just matured like they normally would have 😛
Also beards suck. Even after passing the hump of the the 3.5 weeks of itch, it’s just further instances of pains and aches in the face that you can’t get to properly because there’s all this damn hair in the way.
Well it could be age and shaving, all I know is when I was 15-16 I had whiskers and kept shaving everyday and the beard got rougher and more hairs formed!
Worth noting I was able to grow a whisker beard since I was 12 but it never got any better until I started shaving regularly so it’s possible!
If i didn’t look like a rabid Chinese hairless runt everytime i attempt to grow a beard, I’d be keen 😛
Just do it Pixel.
Be a team player.
You don’t want to be that guy, do you?
Do you?
I’ve been considering it for a while but I always chicken out during that unsightly unkempt stubble phase in between and end up shaving it off because I look like a slob.
That’s the point! Everyone can look horrible, together! 😀
Ugh, now I’m forced into this. Thank god I have a four day advantage, so I will look slightly less pathetically neckbeardy at the end.
*shakes head*
hehe makes you look almost as young as Lamboman!!
Trying to decide between getting either Transistor, or Valiant Hearts :\
I won’t have much time for either, but dammit they’re too pretty to ignore! :’O
Also, I’ll hash out the details for the WA movie meat when the Garden City movies release the session times for Sat/Sun (so probably tomorrow) 🙂
Go Transistor. Better game in nearly every respect, in my opinion.
Valiant Hearts is my game of the year at the moment, but Transistor is the more complex satisfying game play.
They’re both good games but I was overall disappointed by Transistor. Didn’t enjoy playing it very much. Valiant Hearts had more feels.
Started both, need to finish both.
I love Supergiant and their art style, and the soundtracks are amazing, so I’d say Transistor.
Though if you haven’t played Bastion, get that one first.
Blood Dragon.
Get out.
Genius.
I haven’t played Valient Hearts but I loved Transistor. It’s still marked as one of my candidates for GOTY.
I asked this exact question last week! 😀
I ended up getting Transistor
I’ve eaten nothing today but most of a 500g bag of Chocolate Habanero beef jerky.
My guts are none too happy at me.
Get some KFC into there, stat.
There’s no KFC regret. You made that up for the attention, just like the time you cried wolf.AMEN!
Didn’t even know that was a thing.
Ohmygodohmygodohmygod guys guysguysguysguysguysguysguys GUYS! GUYS! OH MY GOD YOU GUYS OH MY GOD. http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/08/steam-might-be-getting-tv-shows-movies-and-music/
MY DREEEEEEEAAAAAAAMS ARE COMING TRUUUUUUUUUUUU
This could change everything.
Edited out cynicism cause this is great news and I like the possibilities. 😀
More than likely this. I’ve always wondered if the unavailability of everything here is less due to bone headed ignorance and greed from the studios and more they’ve written themselves into a corner with overly intricate and overly long termed contracts with distributors.
Edit: Now I look like an idiot, DC. I don’t need your help to do that. Quite capable all on my own. Why do you hat me so much?
Ah, sorry for editing out the context of your post Freezey.
I basically said it’d be blocked for us because of local distribution deals.
To be fair, I am bookmarking both https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgI2ZQVyrBo&index=2&list=RDHUBWxiu5cOo (“NOOOOOOOO” mix) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiZNSzWIaLo (“You were the chosen one!”) for when it gets released with nothing but one or two studio’s ‘not quite new’ releases for blu-ray prices with a brand new restriction on type and number of devices which can be registered, with region-locking and Australia tax.
(Edit: in 720p only.)
Man, this was @phlanispo’s business plan!
It was a business plan for a school assignment which I put way too much effort into. I just chose to publish the business plan on TAY because I thought @transientmind might like it. Even while writing the plan, I knew that such a plan was not feasible without millions of dollars in investment backing.
But still, I deserve 10% of transientmind’s royalties for, uh, advertising.
Aw shucks. 🙂 Yeah, that’s worth 10% of what I’m getting, for sure!
Legit Q: Why?
(Not havin a go)
Because Steam is pretty good at library management, reasonably consumer friendly, and has a well entrenched infrastructure?
wouldnt have a clue
Or instead of a thousand word [censored], what Red said. 😛
No, I needed yours. Remember, Ive never purchased a single thing from Steam.
(they were all gifted to me by @greenius & @negativezero )
The short version is that they will usher in the future.
IF they can run this thing the way they run the rest of the service, the results will be inevitable. I’m sure it’s relegated to deep and distant memory but Steam’s inception was a rocky one. Practically no range, online requirement for offline games, it was basically unwanted DRM that took gamers’ time and inconvenience and offered little in return. But it has made leaps and strides since then and you don’t have to look far to see everyone from AAA to indie getting on board the Steam train. Choo choo choose discounts and fast download servers and unlimited access to any device you want in any available platform without buying twice and etc, etc, single-handedly making the strongest gains against video game piracy for an industry labelled ‘unviable’ due to the denizens of the seven digital seas.
People were not always on board. They got on board when Valve proved with rock-solid facts and figures the undeniable profits to be reaped from a consumer-friendly platform, from huge sales, from social network inclusion, from reliability and quality. Extensive testing allows Steam to vet builds that 99% of the time ‘just work’.
If there is any industry that needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the digital world it’s TV/movies, and If anyone has a hope of doing that with an initially-tiny range but massive brand power and unprecedented accessibility/reliability/affordability/quality, it’s Steam.
This is how things get better for everybody. Maybe not overnight, but the studios will go where the money is, and Valve is very, very good at showing recalcitrant studios where the money is.
I see, I thought you were saying the all-in-one service was attractive. But you’re more about the quality of service being improved by a trusted provider.
Right. Big sales and discounts, flexible and reliable access, and huge library are some of Steam’s strong points, where currently piracy has the edge in almost every area over legitimate purchases.
When you download a movie, you just get the movie, no ads and warnings and other studio bullshit, not linked to some crappy DRM, system or only available in certain countries or only on certain devices, etc, etc.
Studios complain that you can’t compete with free, which is horse shit, because everyone knows people will pay for convenience and reliability, none of which the studios currently offer.
If the gap in service can be closed – such as is already seen with Netflix – the people will follow.
Not that there aren’t pitfalls. Steam already has regional pricing and some games denied access. It’s not immune to regional distributor fuckery. But it’s a start in the right direction.
Noone will be safe from steam sales now.
NO.ONE.
Im still mr physical.
Love dat shelves!
You will be left behind in the past grandpa!
Too late for that, sonny.
*plays pong*
If anything I’d be even more safe. I watch movies way less than I play games, and I hardly even play games.
Oh God, Steam Sales are hurt my wallet enough already! This could be cool, though. 😀
What, for download? What kind of regressive backpedaling move is that? The future is streaming, not downloads.
Also Steam’s UI is cluttered and horrible as it is without shoehorning utterly irrelevant stuff in.
Part of the reason I still pirate movies on occasion is because I tried Netflix and the fastest internet I can get where I am couldn’t handle it. I’ll take download over streaming any day.
Yeah, but that’s just because Australia’s internet is shit. That’s not going to be the case 5-10 years from now.
TV and Music is such an enormous hunk of shit when it comes to regional licensing, costs and so on too, I’m surprised Valve are even considering it.
You’re optimistic.
I’m actually not. I’ve got a non-NBN 70-110mbit connection at home at the moment, it’s not like the tech doesn’t exist.
10mbit connections have exited for a decade or more but doesn’t mean I get more than a fraction of that.
About 1.5mbit is about the fastest I can get and I’m in the middle of the fifth most populous city in Australia.
I download most of the stuff I watch anyway, because I prefer to watch it in Plex. 😛
You are a lucky man then.
I cannot get a wired connection at all and a relative of mine cannot get any internet. This 30 mins from the CBD of a state capital.
I’ll believe HD streaming will be viable in Au when I see it.
I’m looking to move out soon and this sort of thing terrifies me 🙁
@negativezero
Yeah it’s a mad pitfall and something that can be hard to find out about until after the fact. It shouldn’t be like this but, Australia.
I got fairly lucky, get about 2mbs real download speeds on my Wimax dealio, which is better than the net at most of the rental places I’ve lived at.
I’m hoping that whoever they can get on board will see such massive ’cause the board of directors to simultaneously climax’ numbers that the rest will see some value in tearing up what contracts they have and setting new benchmarks.
Eg: Can you imagine the kind of money a TMNT/[insert nostalgia for 30-somethings cartoon] series release would see on Steam? On property previously declared dead and over with? If they saw ‘better than new show’ money from their old shit, there will be a reckoning for the contracts department, to be sure.
Can you imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth when it turns out only people in the US are allowed to download it and it’s DRMed and not playable in anything but some shitty player built into Steam?
Because that’s what will happen if it’s not streamed.
I have my https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgI2ZQVyrBo&index=2&list=RDHUBWxiu5cOo link (and “You were the chosen one!”) ready. 🙂
My wife uses a streaming app that actually allows het to download files into it which is great when we’re both trying to use the net.
Just streaming still doesn’t work out my way.
Just a question; What are your internet speeds? I wonder how good they must be for streaming to be viable for you.
http://www.speedtest.net/
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3685340404.png
Holy shit, that is 68.5 times faster than my internet speed. Yeah, sorry Neg, but you are definitely in the minority here. The average internet speed in Australia is, what, 4Mbps?
Yeah, but that was in the morning on a good day. When it’s wet in the evenings on eg a Friday Night when everyone’s hitting the cable hard, it’ll drop to around half that. And I realize I’m lucky here.
‘Average speed’ is not a useful metric for a country like Australia, because all the terrible rural areas get shoved into the same bucket as the metropolitan areas with FTTP or Cable. My old house was a 6mbit ADSL2 connection and it was nearly good enough for streaming. I think if you managed to find a 8-12mbit connection it’d be more than enough. Netflix is highly optimized too, so that helps a lot.
The median speed on ADSL2+ in Australia is around 8-9mbit, and on Cable it’s 5-10 times that. FTTP NBN is 100mbit too. Things are getting better. Just because our averages are shit now doesn’t mean they’ll be shit forever.
Steam summer sales just became a whole lot more painful. @evilmonkey I insist you hide your wallet away next year.
I miss games… 🙁
where they go?
Deleted.
Buy more!
And don’t play them! Just keep them there in your library, beautifully preserved…
Last time I did that, I ended up selling the console they were played on…
BUT STEAM!
BUT HARD DRIVE SPACE!
Right? I just went to install Mass Effect 3 to play the Citadel DLC finally, only to find out I only have 4GB left. WHOOPS. All those games I installed during the Steam Sale to get cards…
What kewl desk decorations do you guis n gals haveeeee?
(werk + home)
my home one doesn’t really have (or need) decorations but my work one needs some fancy’n up
Mental illness!
BOOOO!
I’ve got that AND dust!
Up until I cleaned on the weekend, a fucktonne of discarded wrappers/garbage/coke cans.
Portal turrets, plush X-Wing, diecast delorean 😛
You, I like you.
A 7-11 slushie cup, wallet, iPod, a ballpoint pen, iPhone, bus ticket, 2 felt tip pens, nail file, documents of random origin, portable hdd, acoustic guitar pins, name badge, loose change, extra spearmint flavoured chewing gum, nail clippers.
I think that covers it.
Work: 2 dinosaurs (one wearing a tiny sailor hat made from a post-it note), one Genesect figure, one Great Saiyaman, one LEGO Ninja turtle/Gollum sitting in a boat and one paper aeroplane I made one day when I was bored and started decorating with various highlighters whenever I got bored again.
Home: Little Pikachu toy, Ho oh statue, another dinosaur, and one (usually empty) cookie jar.
I need to get a couple of dinosaurs and palm trees, so I can re-enact a sudden but inevitable betrayal.
Kmart has some decent ones for cheap in the toy section!
No decorations on my computer desk at home, or at work.
My decorations are reserved for the gaming room, displayed in the TV cabinet shelves.
Mainly gaming figures and whatnot.
My work office is a beat up old van.
So mostly food wrappers and dirt.
Home desk is ornament free: have better places to put stuff.
Work desk is like a communal desk for everybody, so nothing there. At home A Lego Bespin Twin-Pod Cloud Car and a plush Evil Monkey (of course), want to get some more stuff to display on it in the future, but probably after I get a new Computer & desk.
Edit: I do have Smeagol and Minas Tirith Statues, as well as Statues of Aiden Pierce and Edward Kenway and various other knick knacks, including a K*Nex Diddy Kong which has gone missing since I put it together, conveniently my son has no idea where it is. But there isn’t really any room for any of that considering I’ve got my PC, 360 and Xbone on the desk.
Work desk is shared between lots of people, so nothing. At home I just shove everything on the top shelf of my desk. Actual desk space is the usual mishmash of files, crap, water bottle, controllers, console, microphone held up by coathanger, and so forth.
LEGO minifigs.
Stuff
Mine’s clutter
South Park: One Angel Kenny( 8″), One Doctor Stan(8″), One Regular Stan (11″).
Ren & Stimpy, One Ren, One Stimpy (Both belonged to my older bro.)
Powerpuff Girls: One Blossom.
Adventure Time: One Jake.
Crash Bandicoot: One Crash Bandicoot. (Got it along with a plush Spyro, that which I gave to my sister, at the Melbourne Show.)
AFL: One Geelong Cats mascot circa 1997.
Spice & Wolf: One Holo.
Sonic: One Tails. Received as a 20th Birthday present.
Misc: One Teddy Bear.
Oh! I totally “forgot” about stuff I liked but thanks to your unintentional reminder, I can totally get some Adventure Time stuff to decorate my desk. It’ll be a lot easier to buy locally too 😀
Medical textbooks, a sock, a Mario Question Mark Lamp, camera, Sims 3 Collector’s edition, a lemur toy…
Bun has lots of Luigi stuff.
I love how the sock is just casually thrown in the list with no explanation. 😀
It’s in case I get a cold foot!
I have…
– A Zinogre
– Yukiko from Persona 4
– Izanagi from Persona 4
– Kurisu from Steins:Gate
– Skyward Sword Link
None.
Because you’re always clearing it to make love?
;D?
No because my computer desk is covered in papers and dust and assorted other crap and game controllers and then my room desk is covered in I can’t even begin to describe what also it’s not even accessible due to a billion boxes and other crap piled up in front of it and my work desk is bare apart from a notebook and a bunch of sticky notes with scrawlings.
One of the “stories” I spilled to my sister and her friends the other weekend was maybe vaguely related to this >_>(;
I have no desk to decorate :'(
I probably could have answered this while at my desk but oh well:
– Large-ish Luigi figurine
– Giant cushion Luigi hat with Bunny Puppy (the little toy rabbit in my display picture) and a large Sackboy sitting on it
– Journey artbook
– 3 toy Deloreans (one from each BTTF movie)
– Doc and Marty Pop vinyl figures
– Claw alien bobblehead (from Toy Story)
– Obiwan, Darth Vader and Yoda Mighty Muggs (the Yoda one is a mini mugg, so it’s half the height of the other two)
– Ryu figurine that came with the special edition of SF4
– Framed print of this Penny Arcade strip
Gonna buy the Luigi Nendoroid?
I think I’ve got enough Luigi stuff.
At work I have tea.
Australian Afternoon Tea.
Twinings Earl Grey.
Cookie tea.
Chocolate tea.
Vanilla Rooibos.
I think some sort of mint tea too?
All our tea is in the cupboard…
The wall above my desk has some framed pictures: my kids, things they’ve drawn me, my Shadow Of The Colossus print from Gametee and some setlists from Haggard and Gloryhammer (and Epica and Eluveitie when I find where I put them for “safekeeping” :P). On the wall is also the painting Anna Murphy (hurdy gurdy player/vocals in Eluveitie) did for me as a reward tier for backing her solo album’s Kickstarter.
On my desk is my Dark Souls bonfire and soapstone, Mordin, Pop Vinyl Garrus, a bunch of pretty fabrics(mostly Tula Pink designs), the plastic sleeve the Dishonored special edition came in, and a little red bear Mr. Strange once got me for Valentine’s Day that I don’t want but can’t exactly throw away. 😛
Edit: Oh, and a Dragon Age coaster for the inevitable cup of tea in a Sabaton mug, or can of Coke in a Majesty Of The Seas canholder thing.
A stress-ball ship and a french Little Big Planet sack boy.
@evilmonkey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVUG4EA3dfU
BWAHAHAHAHA! Oh man, the sweat was just pouring off him.
Should see some of the stuff The LA Beast puts himself through.
I watch far too mucj Spicks & Specks because it comes on after Giggle & Hoot :'(
o/
oXo -miss!
Brilliant!
Also,
Mif’s bewbs!So while I spent the best part of 2 hours hurting myself at the city2surf, I was thinking about cosplaying (as you do…) and I just don’t think I’m going to get a satisfactory Moxxi costume ready in time. Plus, I don’t want to look too scary for Mr 3 (who will be Batman no matter what)
soo…. I’ve changed my mind, and I’m going to be Princess Unikitty instead. Much simpler colours to work with and I’m good at STAYING POSITIVE! 😀
I see glitter, fluffy legwarmers, pink and blue hair…
Absotively posilutely!
Will it be like one of those horse costumes where you are the front half and you put someone you don’t like as the back half? 😛
No, much more like a cross between a Harajuku girl and a 90s raver 😉
That’s gotta be some seriously fluro outfit!!
Hey Powalen, I just got this great PAX cosplay idea for next year…
We can go as Catdog.
DO IT.
Goddamned Spelunky.
I was on a very good Hell run (basically getting the proper ending to the game by doing the last secret section). I made it to the City of Gold (which has the last requirement to get to Hell) and killed myself with a bomb that I placed to make a path to the exit.
So.
Damned.
Close.
I’m sad now.
I’ve been playing Puzzle Bubble (Bust-A-Move 2 Arcade Edition PSX) for around 15 years now!
Good to know.
I just sort of realised.
Been thinking about what my top 50 games would be after seeing @DC ‘s post.
Puzzle Bubble 2 is def in my top ten.
I think it was actually my first PSX game and one of the few arcade games I often played.
When it was hideously scratched, I bought it again on eBay and now I run a pirate eBoot on my PSP (does it really count if I’ve purchased the game twice?).
After all these years of playing Mario Kart off and on, I still suck at it.
Ha ha! I been playing since Super and I’m maybe a little above average.
I just don’t have the competitive gene.
Was prolly my fave franchise up until (and including) the DS version
The Wii one did indeed blow chunks.
I’m still kinda newish to the series but I do alright! (somehow)
I properly started at 8…
I dabbled at 7, but not much…
:3
Yay, I finally won one, the last race when there were only two other people left, but hey, a win is a win.
Thanks for the races guys.
In one round I had a super horn in first AND smashed a blue shell with it!! That’s a win/win in anyone’s books!
Not for 2nd-12th place!
Sorry I didn’t stay on long. I felt guilty that I wasn’t working on cosplay stuff
Oh my gosh guys! I watched a vid showing Nendoroid Luigi and oooooooomgggg
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
I must have all of them.
ALL.
SO KYOOOT ^-^ :3
…WHAT HAVE I BECOME
But nah, seriously, man. That Luigi was pretty sweet and it comes with a bunch of accessories and whatnot. I think $40ish is still a bit pricey but at least it’s justified by how awesome it looks. Oh my god!
@negativezero you might as well prepare to throw in a Nendoroid Snake, maybe a Figma Samus oh and a couple of things here and there… (goodbye money) – if the offer still stands and stuff is still open for pre-order in Septemberish I’ll probably order some more stuff.
I’m sure this hype will die down in a couple of days 😛
Don’t say I didn’t warn you about this.
I haven’t bought any more stuff yet 😛
Some game just got announced…
So. Damn. Proud. :’)
For those of us who check TAY before Facebook, here’s a relevant link
CONGRATULATIONS @Sughly! Amazing news!Got The Walking Dead Season 3 coming in the mail (hopefully this week), so I’m gonna re-watch season 1 & 2 to refresh my memory, starting now.
I hope this works
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/luckydogofdeath/library/Knight%20solaire
Praise the Sun! \ [+] /
I don’t entirely know what I’m looking at but it looks like it’s gonna be toasty 😛
It’s the process of the breastplate. Half done atm. However, I don’t want to paint it until Nob has tried it on, in case it needs adjusting
TAY Pathfinder GM Summary
No one was killed. And there was much rejoicing.
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
Close run thing though.
Just realized we were at the village of Solaire, where the local church was devoted to the god of the Sun. This probably should have been a warning about the difficulty involved with the combat that was incoming…
Just…. God…damn… EVERYTHING…
Decided to see what that new Marvel Heroes 2015 was all about, and I have to say, if you ignore the fact you’re online, and close chat things, it’s a pretty cool game. dunno how far you could go full free, but it’s not bad for nothing!
So I purchased a PS3 console from someone on Gumtree, YLOD etc. I managed to power it using the fan test and Hey Presto! A free copy of Black Ops 2 as well! Score! 😀
$50 for a 40GB toaster model FYI.
I have two YLOD PS3s lying around. What is this fan test of which you speak?
Fan test won’t repair your PS3s, but will remove discs that may be stuck in them.
Simply flick the rear power switch to off, press and hold the eject button whilst off, keep holding and then flick the rear power switch back to on.
It should then power on really loudly for about 20 seconds, and turn off.
Additional: apparently it won’t work on first-gen 60GB models. Cannot confirm.
Ahh, okay. Yes, I had to do that to one of the PS3’s, but wasn’t aware of its name.
Are you going to repair the one you bought?
I don’t want to spend any money on repair, so I will open it up and give it a big dust blowout and see what happens. If that fails, I may attempt that reapplication of thermal paste method. Maybe.
Cool. Let me know how you go!
Super old post, had this in a tab on my phone, but it definitely works for first gen 60gb models.
So over the weekend a friend and her boyfriend of my housemates moved back to Italy and I got some of the guys expensive fashionable Italian clothes that he didn’t have room for. High fashion realllly doesn’t suit me, I discovered 😛 I’ll take my hoodie and jeans/trackies any day.
The clothes are really nice though. And expensive. So I probably should wear them or something.
PS don’t eat an entire tray of chocolate iced donuts in one go. Still feeling it from lunch time :S My god were they good though
Dammit @powalen.
You can make yourself feel like more like you wearing the expensive stuff if you break it up. Like wear an expensive top with your regular jeans, or a t-shirt (when the weather’s not so cold) with expensive pants.
Pathfinder peeps: New snazzy Google Docs character sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uKXKrwlragJ5LzcEk7_S9ipdNfeN1V94a777I1AsC9Q/edit#gid=1867984558
Hey WA crew, ( @liondrive @thecracks @phoenix @grandmasterb-funk )
For the meat sometime this weekend (we should probably set a solid date) one of the cinemas mentioned was in Warwick. Due to me not having a full license, I can definitively say that I cannot get to Warwick, having discussed this with my mother. Could we try another cinema? If Garden City’s too far south for the Northerners, I can get to Innaloo easily enough. But I have no idea how far south TheCracks is! He could live in Mandurah or Rottnest for all I know! It could be inconvenient for him.
To tell the truth, I’ve been trying to find a way to write this since 5:00pm. I didn’t want this to come across as a threat or something. It just seems so rude to demand another cinema. I’m sorry! Don’t hate me! At least wait until you’ve met me first!
Right, this 8 minutes I’ve spent scouring this text for any signs of rudeness have been well spent. I can post this now.
i mentioned warwick because i work there haha.
i honestly don’t mind, i’d prefer if it wasn’t event, as i think they are the only cinema chain i can’t get cheap tickets to. but on the other hand, i don’t care either way, it’ll just be weird paying full price for tickets.
(also i live in east perth, so anywhere suits me! CITY LIFE!)
As in, at Warwick cinemas? I go there close to once a week 😐
i’ve probably served you, i’ve been working there for nearly 4 years haha
I was looking at Hoyts in Garden City, but couldn’t set a firm date cause they haven’t got session times up yet. They should be up tomorrow hopefully, so can pick a date 🙂
Also @fled and @platinum-urchin
(@fled @platinum-urhcin @phoenix @grandmasterb-funk @thecracks)
From the Hoyts website, here are the times for Garden City:
XS = Xtremescreen CC= Closed Captions AD = Audio Descriptions (?)
SATURDAY, 16th August
-10:00AM (XS)
-11:20AM (CC, AD)
-12:40PM (XS)
-02:00PM (CC AD)
-03:20PM (XS)
-04:40PM (CC, AD)
-06:40PM (XS)
-07:30PM (CC, AD)
-09:20PM (XS)
SUNDAY 17th August
-10:00AM (XS)
-11:20AM (CC, AD)
-12:40PM (XS)
-2:00PM (CC, AD)
-3:20PM (XS)
-4:40PM (CC, AD)
-6:40PM (XS)
-7:30PM (CC, AD)
-9:20 PM (XS)
It was an effort to get the formatting right so I could publish these times, so can’t be stuffed posting the 3D times or the times to other cinemas.
Question: Should we tag HindenLagen in these meat discussions? His lack of response to the initial invitations make me think he won’t receive any further messages.
Curse you, keyboard! I meant to tag @platinum-urchin
I’m pretty sure @Hindenlagen lives in Canada now, but we can still tag him, just in case 🙂
4:40pm Saturday or any time after works the best for me, cause I’m driving up from Dunsborough that day, so earliest I’ll be home is around 1-2pm Saturday 🙂
In Ireland, actually.
Close enough
Apparently you can download all of the classic Trials games for free on pc.
http://www.redlynx.com/games/pc/trials-legends
@fatshadylive
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @popdart5
First thing I see when jumping into Xcom after our session tonight.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=299028038
That is too perfect.
Bet you couldn’t kill it in that game either. 😛
It ran off before I was allowed to equip a weapon…
Life imitates art imitates life imitates Pathfinder.
Well tonight I caught a real glimpse of what the article today was talking about with the DOTA 2 community, but it was the low priority queue though so it’s not surprising.
@steve-o_the_deve-o sorry you had to experience that on my behalf, will be doing my best to avoid suffering though that again once I’m out (one more game)
Got a random call while I was driving to climbing tonight, so couldn’t answer it. Just looked up the number though, and apparently it was Kitchen On The Go, Kensington.
I can only assume that I missed an offer for some car-to-car dinner delivery. Dammit.
It’s raining… and I can’t sleep… 🙁
Also, the next issue of Sex Criminals is out August 13th! 😀
You seem awefully excited about that! Are you on the cover or something? 😉
It’s a really good series. I’ve been enjoying it a lot.
And no, unfortunately. They had to use my body double. 😛
So much hype so far this week! Today is hype for curry with @sughly! w00t!
On a slightly related note, I may have contracted Risen 3 hype. I want it now.
I can’t wait either! I know what my weekend will be spent doing! :0 and probably every spare minute of every day!
Melbourne train rant incoming… cuz I”m really angry at them right now
Metro trains, screw you, seriously screw you!
My normal express train in the morning was altered not to stop at the station I was waiting at, so rather than risk a mega crowd I took the next all stations train, takes longer but I can just get off in the city loop getting me much closer to work so I don’t lose that much time. The full train I’m in gets an announcement “This train has been altered to bypass the city loop and go direct to flinders street”, I almost cursed loudly in the packed train and I couldn’t be bothered going onto another train where it’ll be so packed I can’t even be guaranteed entry onto that next train should I choose to switch so I just sat there. THEN when we ended up waiting an extra 10-15 minutes for a platform to become available at the destination. Only with something like our train system in Melbourne where even your backup plan gets turned to shit due to crappy management and poor maintenance. Seriously guys, you changed your timetables a few weeks ago and already you can’t match it?! Geez!
/rant
…Also hi all!
There are reports that Robin Williams is dead by suicide. D:
So sad, easily one of the most personally identifiable and brilliant comedians in my book.
I always looked up to him at how he struggled with everything (drug addiction, depression and alcoholism) and overcame it.
Vale Mr Williams. Sometimes, no matter how hard you struggle and fight, you may just end up not being able to win. I hope nobody thinks less of you for what you’ve done.
Suicide? They didn’t say on Channel 7
Death by asphyxiation. Nothing’s been confirmed yet but they suspect suicide.
Really sad. =(
Apparently, his publicist refuses to confirm or deny it. That’s all that’s known, but his long struggle with depression is well known, and people are leaping to all the conclusions.
A very sad day. I think tonight calls for a rewatch of Man Of The Year.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/robin-williams-dead-at-63/story-fn907478-1227021334663
What? No 🙁
Ffs sad get.
OMG NOOOOO!! D=
Robin Williams Page 5.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOD MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORNING TAY! *cries*
🙁
From me on page 4 :
So sad, easily one of the most personally identifiable and brilliant comedians in my book.
I always looked up to him at how he struggled with everything (drug addiction, depression and alcoholism) and overcame it.
Vale Mr Williams. Sometimes, no matter how hard you struggle and fight, you may just end up not being able to win. I hope nobody thinks less of you for what you’ve done.
Jesus, he went out via suicide. One of my favorite actors, too. I hold a soft spot for comedians who can also play some genuine, serious roles; I’m sadly remembered of the notion that comedy and tragedy go hand-in-hand. Apparently his last role is Night of the Museum 3- might watch it solely because of him.
I nicked one of those promo OoT3D boxes with him and Zelda on it, purely because it was just really really nice for a promo box. Also he had that awesome beard and totally looked like he should have busted out a “mah boi”.
Nope, looks like this will be his last film, filming wrapped about 3 months ago apparently, and is due for release next year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolutely_Anything
With Simon Pegg and the Monty Python crew, should be a riot, and a much better last film than Night At The Museum 3.
Such a legendary comedian, and one of my favourites of all time, never thought he’d go out like that, and I only just re-watched Popeye for the first time since I saw it at the cinema as a kid the other night too.
Oh man, that’s going to be so bittersweet to watch, especially as Terry Jones says in the wiki that Robin’s character is likely to steal the show
Might have to watch it.
Everyone will remember him for his roles. They’re iconic. Can you imagine anyone else being Genie from aladdin? I can’t
Mrs. Doubtfire too. What a classic.
So many amazing roles. He’s the only Pan I ever really enjoyed! Also, my favourite American president (yes, even more than Jed Bartlett).
BANGARANG!
That cast alone makes it sound brilliant. 🙁
I will see this in the cinemas and goddammit I will give a standing applause at the end for the life he lived and the joy he brought to millions
This is unbelievably sad. Such a shame he felt he had no other option to get by in life. I’d say everyone has found some form of entertainment from his work
Carpe Diem
🙁
Man, that’s super depressing.
One of my favourite comedian actors while I was little, just seeing that smile of his was always a great way to cheer me up. I’m always going to remember him for that
Live On Broadway is always the first thing that comes to mind for me now >_>
I’ve got that one, and A Night At The Met too, so goddamn hilarious.
Robin Williams’ comedy has been a staple of my life for as long as I can remember. I’ve never met the man but his passing feels like the loss of a dear friend.
I just remembered Dead Poet’s Society =\
O Captain! My Captain! The ending to the movie seems sadly fitting 🙁
That is… ultra depressing.
:'(
🙁
In way happier news, @sughly’s adventure game Anna’s Quest was shown at GamesCom by publisher Daedalic. (Basically the modern day Sierra/LucasArts. Deponia, Night of the Rabbit, etc. This is huge!) Music in the trailer by TAY’s own @anonymous_pessimist, too. Congrats guys. This is incredible. So damn proud.
Here’s the trailer.
I thought I was hype for this before, but I think I’m passing beyond that into some sort of hyper-mega-global-ultra-[expletive]-hype mode. If I ever return, I’ll let you know how it was.
Sierra’s coming back, no? the stars are aligning; obviously this means Anna’s Quest will become a flagship, series-spanning franchise.
I heard a rumour that The Odd Gentlemen are making a King’s Quest game. (And speculation that the Gabriel Knight 20th Anniversary remake will be published under the Sierra banner.)
OH MAN.
NEW KING’S QUEST.
THAT ONLY MAKES ME MORE HYPED FOR ANNA’S QUEST.
(andy’knowking’squestisgoddamngreat)
If Anna doesnt make a guest appearance in the new Kings Quest they dun goofed
My expectations have sky-rocketed!
But no pressure.
I wasn’t around when @sughly started work on this. I met @sughly in Brissie and was interested, but I haven’t followed the progress on TAY because it all happened before I turned up.
I watched that trailer and it hit the right notes inside me. An adventure game, gorgeous artwork and the hint of underlying darkness, with a nod that this game will have some decent humour in it.
In short: I’m separated a bit from the whole “ZOMG THIS IS A GAME BY A TAYBIE” – and I’m stoked by what was shown and going to buy it simply because it looks really damn good.
Haha! Yeah, weirdly I had that same out of TAY thing too. We both used to post on the Adventure Gamers forum way before I ever met him and I remember seeing the first screenshots thinking this looks amazing! And now we’re pals. Life is strange. (How good does that game look too?)
I’m one of those people who will usually buy something by a friend, because I like supporting the creativity of mates. I originally bought Part One under this umbrella of obligation.
But goddamn if it wasn’t just amazing fun to play. It won’t be out of place in Daedalic’s catalogue of titles at all.
Is it gonna be PC only? Steam?
It will be on steam, and I *think* the intention is to go mac and ios as well. All the user interface has been keeping ios in mind, so I’m pretty confident about that one. Don’t quote me on it though!
Cool, no doubt I’ll pick it up when it releases. If it does well enough do you think you’d port it to consoles, or just leave it as PC only?
#firstworldanarchist
Sughly. 2014. Kotaku Australia. Available at: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-289/comment-page-5/#comment-2875457. [Accessed 12 August 14].
Aww thanks guyyyyss ^^ was all ready to wake up and make today a positive but damn is it a massively sad one instead :'(
Out of interest, are you going to be showing it off at PAX AU?
Nah doubt it, that’s up to Daedalic and there has been no discussion on it.
That’s a shame, you can count the number of quality adventure games like this made in Australia on one hand. And possibly one finger.
Sad?
Robin Williams :'( first thing I checked this morning was twitter to see if I got some messages to see the news. Last thing that needs to be seen is me pimping my game today
What happened? He dead or something? D:
I disagree. Best thing that needs to be seen is great news. Besides, we didn’t know Robin Williams personally, but we do know you personally. Pimp away!
Yeah, I feel legit sad about Robin Williams and the your game announcement genuinely cheered me up. This is good news and you should share it Sughly!
Brilliant bastards
Hey this looks cool.
I don’t think I’ve ever actually checked out anything on it before, it’s always just been something I saw mentioned around the place 😛
HOLY FUCKING CHRIST!!!
KRAMS!!!
JESUS!!!
-melts-
Well, I didn’t know this – Nas Campanella, one of the Triple J news journo’s – is totally blind.
Big respect to her, how she goes about reading the news looks damn damn hard:
Wow I never knew this, huge respect boost for her! I hear her reading the news almost every morning, incredible!
Shes actually one of the better ones. THe afternoon newsreader is terrible. She actually dropped the c bomb earlier this year by accident.
Whoa which one did that?
I knew about her being blind when they did a segment on Hack and had one of the other reporters try user her setup and they failed miserably. Huge amount of respect for the way she works!
My only gripe with Nas is her intro… “G’day Nas Campanella with Triple J news…” it so rarely changes!
Dear @strange, whenever I discuss the upcoming adventure game Life is @strange, do you object to being tagged? (This post covers both bases. I’m talking to you and jokingly using your name out of context! WOOO!)
I do not object. I will not be tagging my self when I discuss it, though. 😛
We need to get you playing the @strange. Then you can have all of the tags, especially if we discuss it on page six.
The more I read about what ISIS are doing in Iraq the less hilarious their name becomes. Unconfirmed reports of them beheading children. Just…. Fuck.
Yeah at first I thought “those martini sipping bastards when will Mallory learn!” Now im thinking “thats fucked up!”
Just going through Robin Williams’ filmography, and I can’t believe how many of his movies I haven’t seen.
Movies I have seen
Popeye
Hook
Toys
Aladdin
Mrs. Doubtfire
Jumanji
Nine Months
Jack
The Birdcage
Flubber
Fathers’ Day
Insomnia
Death To Smoochy
One Hour Photo
Robots
Man Of The Year
Night At The Museum
Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian
RV
The Night Listener
Happy Feet and
Happy Feet 2
That’s only 22, up until this year according to Wikipedia he’s been in 66 movies, so I’ve only seen a third of them, better get on that.
Watch Dead Poet’s Society first.
Then Good Will Hunting, it’s his award winning performance
I remember when it first came out on video my older sister was pretty obsessed with it, but for some reason I never watched it.
That was one thing I loved about him though, is that he was great in both comedic and serious roles. If you haven’t seen them already, do yourself a favour and watch Insomnia, One Hour Photo, and The Night Listener, great films.
Yeah, I’m not big on comedy so I only really came to appreciate him through his non comedy-oriented roles. I haven’t seen The Night Listener though, may have to check it out.
Haven’t watched it since it first came out, but I remember thinking that it was quite good.
Dead Poets Society and Good Morning Vietnam should be your priority
In no particular order (basically the order I remember them in):
Good Morning, Vietnam
The World According to Garp
Aladdin
Hook
Mrs. Doubtfire
Awakenings
Toys
Death to Smoochy
Dead Poet’s Society
Flubber
The Birdcage
Jumanji
Jack
While he had some poor films and I’m not compelled to watch each and every one of them out of loyalty, I do think I should really watch One Hour Photo, Bicentennial Man and Good Will Hunting. Good Will Hunting in particular is one of those movies everyone seems to have seen but I somehow missed it.
Bicentennial Man is a reasonable adaptation of the short story. Too long and ponderous as a film.
My wife and I watched Good Will Hunting again recently. It has surprisingly aged well.
One Hour Photo was one of his best. He pulled off terrifyingly creepy a little too well.
Yeah, it’s difficult to rewatch something like Patch Adams soon after seeing that. Puts a whole new spin on things!
I totally forgot Death To Smoochy was a thing. Randomly chanced upon it once on late night TV.
Saw it on the shelf in a Civic Video one night years ago, saw it had Robin Williams in it and instantly grabbed it, from what I remember, it was very weird.
I’m still so sad about him going. You know those celebrity deaths where you don’t realise how much you’ll miss them until they’ve died? I think the last one that really hit me was Dimebag Darrell. Just someone who was always there growing up creating entertainment like a lifelong friend.
I remember as a young kid my sister watching Mork & Mindy. I didn’t have a clue what was going on half the time, but Mork always made me laugh with his fast paced lines and comedy timing. He just had an air of being a comedy genius about him and that’s so rare. A few months back I looked up an old (80s) stand up of his and while some of the jokes don’t really age well, his sense of timing and improv really was second to none
As for films to watch, Dead Poets Society is a must. Absolutely beautiful film
I’ve seen maybe half of them. I’m going to be watching his films this week I think
He’s made some fantastic movies that are classics but the majority of what he’s made is pretty mediocre.
Edit: I should add the caveat that it is not through his efforts. They were just not great movies in general.
I know I’m gonna cop it for this, but fuck it, and screw you if you don’t like it! 😉
What Dreams May Come.
Sure it’s not perfect, but there’s something about that movie that is amazing!
I enjoyed that one.
If you enjoy total head fuck films, it’s a good’n!
I’ve never seen that but always intended to.
So the first challenge for Sewvivor is up and I’m glad I didn’t get in because with the combinations of my son being sick and then generously giving his germs to me I wouldn’t have been able to finish in time!
Having said that though, looking at the 16 entries I would have been kind of in the middle of the pack for this round. There’s a bunch of awesome and exciting entries, but there’s also a few uninspired “I used so and so’s pattern, with so and so’s fabric collection” ones.
My favourite was an Australian lady’s one: http://twolittleaussiebirds.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/sewvivor-nautical-inspired-quilt.html
She made a freaking iceberg! I’ve never seen anything like it and it is spectacular. 😀
Just the tip…
Phrasing.
I like that pillow with the signal flags on it. Looks cool!
Yeah, it was kind of funny how many people used nautical flags. If I’d used them and then saw that so many others had the same idea I’d have been sad. 😛
Oh, and almost forgot this one: http://blog.pennydog.com/2014/08/11/billy-bass-mini-quilt-sewvivor-round-1-plus-a-tutorial-on-adding-sound-to-quilts/
She made a quilt version of those annoying Billy Bass fish things, and even included sound! So cool.
Just think how much toilet-infused air that thing is going to soak up.
Forgot to say this earlier, but: It’s pretty cool that you can fairly (I’m assuming :P) assess yourself compared to others in a similar field. I have real trouble with that.
Hellos
O hai!
How are you, good sir?
Yeah, not bad, you?
Really angry at our public transport system in Melbourne, but otherwise I’m good, my Pathfinder RPG character still lives! \o/
OK!
Hellos!
😀
John Romero is making a new FPS.
Incidentally a few months ago, he checked in on Facebook from id’s main studio…
Yes, the game we’ve all been waiting for.
Daikatana 2.
It couldn’t be worst than the first… could it?
I’d want to see it made, if it were done by a decent team… otherwise, uh-uh.
He’s going to make us his bitch again!
Damn, I was going to say that
Bitchin’.
Time for Curry with Sughly! Be good to each other while I’m gone! 🙂
Cannibal
Every time I scroll past I’m pretty sure it actually says Tim Curry.
No.
This anime kickstarter seems pretty interesting. Just backed it.
Interesting plot but $20 for one 24 minute episode?
I think not.
I very rarely get emails from my daughter. I just got one from her, (from school!) telling me about Robin Williams. I didn’t even know she knew who he was, let alone enough to feel the need to send me an email!
Because she saw some old actor died and since you’re super old she figured you might know who it is.
OK, so I’m finding out Robin Williams died in TAY?
Woh!
He was here when it happened??
:-O
http://www.9news.com.au/entertainment/2014/08/12/03/30/game-of-thrones-actor-dies-just-days-into-filming
Wow! According to Wikipedia they’re not going to re-cast his role, so they must be planning on wiping out the character completely.
It’s not like he was super integral to the show though.
I have all these games here and a ton of stuff coming out starting this week, but right now I am instead seriously considering going back to Dark Souls. Apparently I need to remind myself how awful I am at games and how badly Ornstein & Smough flattened me every time I attempted them 🙁
I’m also seriously considering getting back into Kantai Collection. There’s an event going on at the moment. I kind of want to get some of the new ships. God help me 🙁
If anyone is in the mood to be really pissed off, looking up #Ferguson on twitter would be a fantastic way to go. Spoilered just because…
Fucking appalling behaviour by American police hitting an entirely new level. Murder an unarmed black guy by shooting him 10 times for shoplifting (the shop never called the police) and resisting arrest (by standing still and having his hands up), leave his body in the street for 4 hours and then when the inevitable protestors show up to peacefully demonstrate, they deck out in riot gear, threaten them with dogs, literally call them animals, shoot rubber bullets at them and go down every single fucking street in town and dump tear gas to force them off the streets. They’re quite literally an occupying army.And how are the fucking news reporting it? “Angry black mob…” Ooh maybe not for much longer, they’re threatening to arrest journalists and a fox news person got tear gassed, wonder if even they can keep up a totalitarian bent after thatIt’s despicable.
Is this really surprising when one of the opposition parties in America is basically racist to anyone who isn’t white, heterosexual and male? I know that’s an over-simplification of the situation but the republicans have been increasingly moving towards more extremist fanatical views in their attempts to distance themselves from the democrats.
If you take a look at the prison/incarceration statistics (in relation to the ratio of hispanics/african americans vs white americans) in the states you’ll be just as pissed off.
Oh I never said it was surprising at all…
On a more board game related note, Freya and I played our second ever game of Agricola last night.
Playing as farmers that are working hard to not starve is pretty rad. We first played the game months ago and then put it aside. I get the impression that it’s going to happen again which is annoying because each time that happens, I have to pore over the rule book to work out how the game is played.
I’d love to get a proper four player game going at some point. With a card draft for minor improvements and occupations. We just dealt out a hand of seven each this time and I got a few things that meant I had a giant house taking up half my farm and it gave me lots of points. Points! I like points!
We also played Tzol’kin several times over the last few days. Once with the two of us and then once with a friend added into the mix. Tzol’kin is confusing. It’s so much harder to work out how to manage your actions to get the things you want done to happen. On the other hand, the board is made of giant cogs that you get to spin and you end every turn by putting a piece of corn on the cog.
Pretty sure there’s a whole bunch of people that would disagree which you there…
Playing as opposed to being.
The aim of the game is to not starve long enough to get points.
I could sure go for a can of Agricola right now.
Ag-Ric-O-la, not Agri-Cola.
Latin.
Agricola: Farmly and refreshing!
The thirst crusher
Levi-oh-sa, not levi-o-sah.
Dragon Age origins:
I just got the random map encounter where
The Kents find baby Superman and I collect some Kryptonite from the crash site O_o*tilts head*
Whaaa… is that for real, never ‘eard of it.
It’s a Warden’s Keep thing, so if you didn’t have that, you wouldn’t get it.
Otherwise, well, there’s a lot of content in that game.
aha, explains it, I didn’t get the DLC. I made sure I did everything I could across my 2 playthroughs.
I’d tell you to get the Ultimate Edition but apparently it’s broken for PAL PS3 (unsure about US).
The DA O DLC is all mostly solid. Dunno if theyre worth the price individually though.
you think they would have patched the Ultimate edition by now?
I heard that you have to email and they send you a code, the prob is one of the DLCs just doesn’t work off the disc.
Apparently though it’s just very buggy.
I was trying to buy it when my 360 broke and I bought a PS3 and nobody stocked it at all, it was less than a year old at the time (that version).
I think the Americano version would be the way to go but then you’d have EA account difficulties I think (promotional DLC).
Wow, I’m so not getting the reference and I played DA:O three times. 😛
(And thinking about a fourth! JUST to create the ‘perfect save’ that reflects the world as I really want it for the perfect DA2 run. Which, in turn, is to establish a perfect narrative in preparation for DA3. Which they’re not calling DA3 because game publishers are fucking allergic to proper sequel-numbering for some bloody reason.)
That’s exactly what I’m doing.
Bit easier to find the motivation. when all my original saves were lost
I never saw it through my 3 playthroughs either, seems to be linked to the DLC.
I wish DA2 wasnt called 2, would have been an easier pill to swallow if it was called Rise of Hawke and been a side game.
Apparently it was called Exodus for a long time then they changed it :-/
Also, with this new app Dragon Age Keep, you’ll be able to set up the perfect run anyways i think. Unsure if it will even support save migration or not since it’s still in Beta. I’m so glad it’s coming cos I have DA: O & 2 on 360 and am buying Inq for PS4.
Hah! *360 brofist* Yeah, I actually bought ME and DA franchises on 360 AND PC, with separate saves. The 360 run was usually the virginal run, and the PC the ‘proper’ run, even though the first one always feels like the true one.
The ME1/2/3 ‘choose your options’ one was pretty crap though because it didn’t cover the hundreds of side-quests. It was very jarring to see a character make a reappearance who any self-respecting renegade Shep would’ve splattered.
Hoping they really do cover all the angles for the DA one.
I have it on PC too (thanks to a generous @freyja gift) but my craptop can’t run it.
In time I will buy a new putener, in time.
Yeah, choices in ME didnt feel very distinct to me, there are certainly diferences, but overall I didn’t feel it was world changing, more just reaction changing.
Hoping DA Inq has some semi major differences depending on choices made in the first two.
It’s sounding to me like Hawke and The Grey Warden may actually make an appearance in Inq…maybe.But I imagine choices you made regarding mage treatment in both games would somehow show up in Inq, surely.
If you are playing on PC you can get a save game generator that lets you do that.
Used one for the start of DA:2 cause my Origins saves got lost somehow.
Whoa, I played over a hundred hours of that game and never saw this scene.
Same, fourth (full) playthrough!
dammit Jim now I’m considering a third playthrough, maybe I should just try and get through DA:II before Inquisition. I need to pretend it’s not a Dragon Age game, maybe then I’ll get over myself and beat it. Although I still have to play Dergon’s Dergma. Dammit I’m too indecisive.
Edit: Typo, wrote Dragon Ape, that would be a pretty scary beast.
I did DAII first, the patch of not having to spam the attack button improved gameplay tremendously. Worth a try.
also, the ending is great, almost made all the repetition worth it.
I actually really enjoyed my second try having had a few years to cool off.
Play as a Mage, they’re more fun in II, I reckon.
To help you get through, just do the main questline and Companion quests I reckon.
Otherwise you’re just doing the same shit over and over.
In the same fucking cave/warehouse.
Really, whoever was responsible for that hopefully spent a really long time in introspection, wondering where they’d gone wrong in life.
In my heart I like to think that an EA exec was trying to push them to pump out a sequel so the Biowares thought fuck it, lets do just what they want,, call it part 2, watch the fans explode then we’ll make the best DA 3 ever because EA will be off our back with this cutting corners shit.
But the story was good and the art was good and and and…. I liked so much of it and hated so much of it!
pretty much why I gave up, got very tired of going to the same places & after the epic quest that was DA:O, I judged it really harshly far to quickly and refused to touch it for years. Maybe now that DA:O is a bit faded in my memory I won’t remember how great it was & will be able to push through 2 in preparation for Inquisition. Now to choose which save to import, my goodie two shoes playthrough or my manipulate everyone and be as evil as possible playthrough (on a side note if you go all out evil the last boss was a little harder because I had no ranged back up as I’d pissed off the elves & mages).
BTW, most of the promotional DLC is free for all now:
http://social.bioware.com/da2/dlc_bundle/
So tired of this post-lunchtime slump business.
I get into a post Christmas break slump that lasts all year long.
Easy there, Dad.
hitches up pants & snaps suspenders
Thatshh Grampthhh to you Sonny 😛
Sounds like you need more exciting lunches.
Or less exciting lunches.
You should come have lunch with me. Then you’ll really want to get back to work!
Maybe I am just yet to actually make it there before turning back 😛
Just watched Guardians of the Galaxy. It was really good! Liked it much more then The Avengers (which I loved).
Hrmph. If people keep talking this movie up, I might actually have to go watch it. 😛
(And then end up disappointed because I’m expecting it to be good, unlike the movies I’ve enjoyed that were pretty terrible, because I watched HISHE/CinemaSins which made fun of all the plot holes, allowing me abysmal expectations which could only be surpassed!)
It’s good but temper your expectations. It’s still a Marvel Comics film. It’s well-made and generally pretty enjoyable but I have no idea why people are treating it like the second coming. Roughly on par with the recent Thor and Captain America installments IMO, maybe slightly better.
Hmm, GotG was more fun, I think Cap 2 has a better plot. Also, Robert Redford.
I don’t know why but to date GotG is the Marvel film I’ve enjoyed the most and probably the only one I’m going to end up watching a second time =\ All the others were good fun but they never did enough to get me to that stage where I’m like “Whoa I gotta watch that again”.
Ah who am I kidding, Rocket Raccoon was what was missing from all the other marvel movies =P
Rocket was great.
So was Groot.
And Bautista. And Pratt. And Saldana.
They were all great.
For some reason a lot of people I know really dislike the actor for Rocket Raccoon and the main guy. I have no idea why because I thought they were both great.
In hindsight, Avengers wasn’t actually that great *dodges tomatoes*
Like, yeah, it’s still a good movie and everything, but I think it’s praised probably a bit more than it should be :\
YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH
YOU SHUT YOUR [censored] MOUTH!
(I really just wanted to be the first spokesman for that point of view because I haven’t got good and properly angry about fandom stuff and I miss it. You’re wrong, though, the movie is cinematic perfection unrivalled by anything past or present and with the exception of Avengers 2, future. All praise Whedon.)
Whoa, do you need to unleash your fandom anger before it boils over into real life?
Ok then.
I preferred Ed Norton as the Hulk.
YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH
YOU SHUT YOUR [censored] MOUTH!
I recall quite enjoying The Incredible Hulk. Not sure I’ve seen it since being in the cinema though.
Hm. I can’t really comment on that one, as I haven’t actually seen the Ed Norton versi– wait. I’m doing this entirely wrong, aren’t I?
Damn. Red beat me to it.
Avengers does what it needs to very well- unites all the big superheroes on screen and makes them work. The first hour is a little sluggish, and I hope that Ultron has a better plot than Loki.
I’m a little worried that Avengers 2 is going to be overstuffed though: all the original avengers, two new villains and at least 3 new heroes means that it’ll be walking an even thinner tightrope.
Yeah you can’t have too many heroes in one movie which can disconnect the audience from caring about any one of them…
That said curious to see the Scarlet Witch in action and how they explain her power set to the general public…. Hope they don’t just go with “here guys red sparkly fireworks!!”
Scarlet Witch is really, really tough.
I actually think they should kill one of the Avengers for realsies. I think they should kill off Stark.
Killing Stark would be a real downer (heh).
Doesn’t she basically calculate the probability of an event occurring and then messes with quantum physics to ensure the event she wants has the highest chance of taking place? So the less likely for something to happen the more it takes out of her in terms of energy and time to set up the spell?
Eh, that’s magic.
….. I don’t believe the Sorcerer Supreme indulges in quantum mechanics to cast his spells =,=
Edit: Nor does Magik for that matter! I only know of the Scarlet Witch who mixes magic and physics!
That would be cool, if perhaps a little dark for a Marvel film. They will never do it though.
Also not Stark: he is too big a character. Arrow dude however is just about perfect for a tragic end.
I remember reading somewhere that they’re just going with “magic”/telekinesis” rather than chance manipulation and hexes. I’ll have to see if I can find the article when I have some more time.
I actually have to agree with this.
Simply because the individual (first) Thor, Cap and Iron Man films were superior.
Thor?
Better than anything?
I… um. Ok then.
Better than Avengers.
I thought Dark World was better than the first by leagues tbh… Though I don’t think they did justice to Malekith, I found the one in the Thor comic serious more dis-concerning where you can never really tell if he’s sane or insane.
Never got around to seeing that one either. Though with how underwhelming Thor was, I wasn’t really up for it 😛
Also Thor’s upscaled 3D was pretty shitty. Cardboard cutouts everywhere. But that said, the 3D for Avengers was massively improved, couldn’t even tell it was magically inserted.
3D. There’s your problem right there.
Nah. The main problem I had with the movie was the weird pacing, and how by the end of it I felt like it hadn’t really gone anywhere at all.
When I watched The Avengers in 3D, I couldn’t tell any difference. Things were a bit darker. I took my glasses off 20 minutes in.
But then everything is blurry and duplicated and a million times worse than with them on?
@mrtaco argh, I meant to say couldn’t tell the difference.
Man you’re a weird kid 😛
@mrtaco NO U
Decided I needed to take a break from TLOUR as I didn’t fancy facing even virtual deaths today. Instead, I’ve been playing Trials Fusion in preparation for the comp. I’m trying to get used to the Pit Viper so I can get faster times. So far so good. Got silvers on the first 2 hard tracks, and I’ve been able to improve my times on the easier tracks. Glad I bought the game when it was on sale at EB. $36 for the game and season pass was money well spent.
Go work out! now! =P
I’ve already done 4 sets of exercise today. But your wish is my command (puppet)master.
I just binge watched Intial D Second Stage, I really need a job.
On a poorly timed note this is pretty funny if you’re a Sean Bean fan http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/76e05c074e/tnt-legends
I’ll trade you.
Trust me, you wouldn’t
You don’t, really. I have a job and I’d much rather binge watch Initial D.
When I had a job, I totally thought the same, but not having a stable income to support your family while more then half the nation rallies against people in my situation isn’t as fun as it sounds.
Bah people, sadly empathy is not one of the strong points of mob mentality and a profit driven government. Keep looking for work though man! Persistence defeats resistance =]
You’re probably right.
Freaking hell! Looks like my TV has died, why did it wait until I actually got my PS4 to die? SO INCONSIDERATE! Oh well, at least it let me play it for (almost) a week before dying.
doh! mine went not too long ago too. What’s yours doing? Anything at all, or just no power at all?
Power light is flashing between red and blue. I looked it up and apparently that means a problem with the power supply.
power supply issues are likely to be the cheapest to fix. The lot that I got mine done through said they would fix a power issue for the $145 pickup/diagnose fee. Might be a bit different depending on what brand, but my understanding is the power supply issues are common and reasonably cheap to fix.
What brand is yours?
Did you turn it off and on again?
Ha I am in a similar boat, mine died on Destiny Beta launch day, so frustrating.
Now I have to consider a repair or a major downgrade, neither of which is convenient. For now my PS4 resides behind my monitor for small screen gaming.
Maybe your PS4 got jealous and killed it.
MQFT:
Yes?
No?
No. Just no.
*throws just received copy of The Last of Us Remastered out the window*
Well I guess I’m not playing that tonight!
Good choice
The Witcher :D!
Mostly the “throwing the Last of Us out the window” bit. Playing The Witcher is also good!
I meant I’d be playing The Witcher instead!
I did like The Last of Us (PS3) though so I’m not a complete monster like you.
Ugh Ser Monsterulus
Always say yes!
They’re making an official Pokemon Monopoly set! 😀
Now if only Monopoly was any fun at all to play.
Yes.
Is Powalen the best?
Y…
*explodes*
Woot!
http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/are-people-bracing-themselves-for-the-fact-that-robin-williams-will-die-soon.454158743/
Holy what the fuck o_o
ARE YOU KIDDING ME???
Why do you do this to us? :'(
I blame @powalen.
That is some black magic voodoo shit right there and I want no part of it
I am cursed 🙁
Someone get me a priest. Or witch doctor. Or John Safran!
Illuminati
Me or them?
I suspect both.
That’s creepy.
I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.
#robinwilliamsjokepagesix #hi@strangeHyperule warrior scarf edition pre-ordered!
Scarf \o/
The scarf isn’t even that pretty
*dodges tomatoes*
Like, maybe as a decoration, but not to wear around
*dodges more tomatoes*
Doesn’t like Avengers, doesn’t like the Hyrule Warriors scarf, looks like we have a new number one for my list.
*writes @liondrive’s name above @powalen’s name*
I like Avengers!
I just don’t think it’s worth all the praise it receives!
And the scarf is ugly.
Blue and Orange?
Really?
It’s pretty nasty 😛
I was hoping for a Red / Grey / Black scarf to go with my inFamous beanie 😛
Buy some new shoes and you’ll be right.
Oh ho ho, don’t you tempt me Freeze! 😀
I was thinking of going on my own little shopping spree soon! :3
*Puts 5 exclamation marks next to @liondrive’s name*
Actually blue and Orange are complimentary colours. They are opposite on the colour wheel
I know, but just because they’re complimentary colours doesn’t mean they necessarily work together (in a fashion sense).
You wouldn’t (or at least, I wouldn’t) wear red and green 😛
It’s all about colour schemes when it comes to fashion 😉
It’s just a gross colour combination to work with (in my opinion).
Not saying it’s ugly, just saying, I find it ugly 😛
I wear red and green. For example, if you wear an outfit with a combination of reds, but have accent’s of green, it can really make the outfit pop.
You’re just too young to have developed a proper sense of what’s tasteful or not yet. 😛
Complementary colour schemes absolutely work well, especially in a fashion sense. I thought you had fashion sense?! You lied !:P
My sense of style is impeccable, Strange >:(
Never question that again >:(
Oooooooooo cat fiiiiighhhhttt
Raphael would.
Hey all. So that fucking sucks about Robin Williams. He was in so many films I loved as a kid. Aladdin, Jumanji, Flubber, Hook. The fact that it was – allegedly – suicide is just eugh. I mean, dying at all sucks, but as someone who’s battled depression it hits close to home. But anyway, cheers, Robin Williams, for giving me laughter as a child, and for continuing to do so as I grew up. RIP.
‘It was you. You were my happy thought.’
I’ve got a 60% off Broken Sword 5 and 66% off Chaos on Deponia if anyone wants it.
I have a 50% off Fist of Awesome, and 20% off OlliOlli (if you own hotline miami).
If anyone wants either, let me know!
Completely unrelated… And the price I pay for randomly browsing reddit…
Nightmare material: http://i.imgur.com/77pZ1Xe.gif
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_aphroditois
That’s right… They average a meter long
Never swimming again.
Lamprey teeth are scarier!
One of the best parts of King Kong.
I like this bit:
Omfg that’s freaky >.< *shivers*
Fuck yeah Blinky Bill is getting a movie, that will be in cinemas!
Even though there was that one in the 90’s that was direct to VHS I think. I loved it as a kid.
the 90s one def went to cinemas, I still remember seeing it!
So the media is full of shit! I only ever remember owning it on VHS 😛
I remember going to see it at the cinema.
I totally can’t remember anything about it other than him using a slingshot to break a lamp.
I remember that movie, the lil shit. It’s gonna be like the new paddington bear movie isn’t it
Did you hear about the cheese factory that blew up in France?
There was nothing left but de Brie.
And hundreds of grieving families :'(
#page6
I’m well aware 😛
Continuing my tomato dodging, I’m not a fan of page 6
*dodges tomatoes*
Saying “I’m not a fan of page 6” just causes page 6 to grow stronger.
You are the worst Stuart.
Not even. He’s a Stewart. They’re all a bit untrustworthy.
BRITISH Stewarts. As someone with scottish ancestry and whose first name belonged to the scottish royal family before Elizabeth I lopped off her head I’m doubly suspicious.
In my defence, I never proclaimed to be trustworthy, so the blame there isn’t on me.
I’m not a fan either… I’m a monkey.
Hiyoo
More like it bleu up.
Hey @shane, did you end up grabbing that Lone Wolf game? Just gave it a spin and it’s pretty great. Little bit cranky that not long (like a day) after I paid for it it became free but that’s life. I got all the other games in the bundle and charity as well.
Yes I bought it, but I have to run it on an Android emulator on my PC, and that doesn’t work. Glad you’re enjoying it, though!
Is it really free now? The whole season pass?
what emu are you using? I was using Bluetstacks for ages, but it was shit! Then I came across Genymotion! Soooooooooooooooo good!
Tried AndyOS.
*shrug* It didn’t play Lone Wolf. It’s the only reason I got it. So I guess I don’t like it.
genymotion is super! it runs on Oracle’s VM platform, and it lets you choose the type of device you want it to emulate. It’s the most up to date and functional android emu I’ve ever come across! it’s only downfall is last time I used it, multi point touch emulation was kinda buggy, but it’s not too often you need to do stuff like that.
Should also mention, it’s completely free! Or it can be. You can also purchase stuff, but you don’t need to 😉
I’m gonna try it now. Thanks, man.
Sadly, I had to give up. Way too confusing. This is why I don’t PC-game.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/stories/s4065784.htm
pfffffft….Chrono Trigger at 77? GG, you’re dead to me. *stamps foot and pouts*
Skyrim and Last of Us as 1 and 2? Really?
GTA V as the fifth makes me very sad.
By far it’s probably the 2nd best GTA game, the best being Vice City…
That’s not how you pronounce GTA2 😛
Eh, GTA & GTA II were alright. They were two of my most loved games on PS1 along with THPS2, but they didn’t have the soundtrack and awesome 80’s references that Vice CIty has, I mean Miami Vice is possibly the best 80’s cop buddy TV show to exist & the 1983 version of Scarface is just awesome 😛
Run that poll again in 2 years and that top 20 will change considerably I suspect. The age of the voters and how fresh the games are in their minds will count for a lot.
Yep. GG’s audience aren’t old, they’re mostly under 18 I swear. So I expected a pretty pathetic list.
I stopped watching after @junglist left, Hex is kinda hawt, but it wasn’t enough to keep me watching.
I dunno, Junglist never appealed to me, he always seemed a little on the elitist side of things. Hex is cool and all, but her tastes in games isn’t what i’m into, Bajo he’s about the only one who seems to dig a lot of the games I liked/like when I used to watch GG back in the day.
I was very pro Junglist but Hex grew into the role and she works well with Bajo, so while it sucks Junglist got ousted I guess it was probably the right decision for the show.
Not that I watch it anymore. I feel like it’s not really *for* me. I’m old.
The hosts are too much alike which nullifies the point of having two opinions on the same review.
I kinda stopped watching after P-Nutz left.
It really says a lot about the audience that GG now has. A bunch of underage kids, who haven’t played anything other than 5 years ago.
WoW & Ocarina of Time are the oldest games in the top 10, and WoW is only 10 years old this year… So yeah says a lot imo.
Hmm, the only one I don’t think deserves to be up there is Bioshock Infinite, and maybe GTA V
The rest are all pretty good games.
Yeah Infinite isn’t a good fit, I think a lot of people only liked it cause it was pretty and wasn’t set in dark & gloomy rapture. Which is to me what BioShock is. But that’s me.
One of the few games I 100% agree on being there is Fallout 3, I played the shit out of that when it came out, it was a brilliant game.
Age isn’t really a good indicator of quality. Some newer games absurdly deserve the top 10 (Red Dead and Portal 2) just feel that Skyrim and Last of Us aren’t near 1 and 2 positions. They just aren’t overall good enough (Skyrim is super bland and LoU combat is awkward and clunky).
Well yeah sure, and I totally agree with you. But top 10 was basically made up of games from the last 2-7 years, which to me just wasn’t right.
It’s a list of “favourite” games, not “best” games
Which is why it sucks 😉
I’m just surprised that Battlefield 4 is #56 how did that even get on the list
I’m surprised to see Pokemon RSE well above GSC. I going to assume its based around hype for the remakes, since Gen II is more regularly on top of ranking lists, and Gen III down towards the bottom
I’m not surprised. Remember, people that played Gen 1 also played Gen 2, and will probably vote for Gen 1 based on nostalgia, rather than what is actually better. (gen 2 by a long shot)
For a lot of people, Gen 3 was their first experience with Pokemon.
Also, over whether Gen 2 is better than Gen 3: I will admit that Gen 3 has better mechanics, but I think Gen 2 has better design (and more Ampharos)
That makes sense. Personally I’ve always found Gen IV to be my favourite. Loved the Sinnoh region, Cynthia is the most challenging champion, loved getting new evolutions to old favourites, and the physical/special split was something that NEEDED to happen. I don’t understand the flack that it cops.
Gen 4, eh?
*backs away slowly*
*trips, gets back up*
*runs away, screaming “HE’S MAD, HE’S MAD!”*
To be too honest, I don’t know if I ever finished that game legitimately. Every time I get close to the end I get bored and start again. Then it became me quitting at Floramora Town and starting a new game every six months. My most recent attempt was in December, I think. I don’t think I got out of Floramora without quitting.
I think the game’s biggest flaw is that the Pokemon you can catch up until you reach the third gym are deathly boring. I don’t want to use any of them. For the areas around the first gym, what Pokemon are there to catch? Bidoof? Starly? Budew? Kriketot? I don’t like any of those. At least you can catch Psyduck after then.
Plus something about the movement in the overworld is just… off. I can’t pinpoint why. Maybe there’s a delay or something, maybe the graphic style clashes with what is essentially tile-based movement?
I have used unbelievable restraint to prevent me going into full-on rant. But hey, you’re free to like what you like.
If I had to bet, this would be the main reason. The audience of Good Game seems to skew younger. Gen 3 is their Gen 1.
(Plus the hype for the remakes probably did help :P)
Clash of Clans… seriously?
I’m glad Persona 4 made it in the list, but yeah that list could of been better. The episode was enjoyable though. I voted for Halo, FFX & Persona 4.
So for people who watched, witch tomb raider was it, the reboot or the original? Given the age of the other games I presume the reboot.
Another reason they need to stop just having the same bloody name for things!
No way GTA5 was better than 4. 4 was a tighter story all around and when viewed as a complete package with The Lost & Damned & Ballad Of Gay Tony, had far more content and dramatically better characters than 5.
Watch_Dogs at 68? Sure it was reasonably fun but that’s all it was.
No Grim Fandango. No TIE Fighter. No Planescape Torment… This list is clearly incorrect..
Just 44 more days…
UNTIL??
Survivor S29! You’re joining us for the discussions.
Maybe. Depends how much attention I pay/if I’m around when Mum decides to watch it 😛
YOU. ARE. JOINING. US.
Psh. That’s what they said about facebook. Then they said the same thing about twitter.
STILL WAITING.
Except you’ve never joined them (to my knowledge) but you’ve been a Survivor bro in the past!
I had friends sign me up on my behalf.
The accounts didn’t last long 😛
Day 2 of going to school despite being sick. Violently coughed to the point that some teachers told me to leave the class. Violently coughed to the point that I became short of breath on several occasions. Hacked up gelatinous phlegm for some reason.
I may have possibly infected some people. Or at least, people are blaming me for getting sick. Everyone is telling me to go home. Yet mum won’t let me because I have work to do at school.
I really think going back to school on Wednesday is a bad idea. I’m definitely doing more harm than good.
The more stuff you try and do instead of resting, the longer it will be until you get better. And you definitely need to stay home if you’re contagious. There are times when sharing isn’t good,you know! 😛
The problem is that I already have hacked up the mountain of phlegm by the time I’ve gotten home. Mum doesn’t see any of the bad stuff from this sickness. I coughed extermely violently and for several minutes at a time (hard to breathe while coughing) at school, but I don’t think I’ve coughed since 3:00. The same thing happened yesterday. The same thing will happen tomorrow.
You could keep it all in a special phlegm jar and show it to people! That wouldn’t be weird at all.
Late reply is late. Also kinda pointless…
I’m free Saturday afternoon I think. I’m in the Morley area, but happy to travel wherever 🙂
@liondrive @thecracks @phlanispo @grandmasterb-funk @fled (anyone else?)
You even live around my area, you huge stalker! :O
Nah, I can give you a lift if you like 🙂
Not allowed to change my songs, not allowed to interrupt my dancing, not allowed to mock my singing, and there is absolutely no screaming, crying, or panicking about my driving.
Me good driver.
Me drive good.
Hey, where’s Steve-O, that guy with the complicated tag, been?
I can’t remember his tag either.
PS: Congratulations!
@steve-o_the-dev-o
Dammit!
@steve-o_the_dev-o?
Wait no it’s @steve-o_the_deve-o isn’t it?
\o/
Picked up the new Cage The Elephant album today.
I’m liking what I’m hearing so far.
Success!
I spent the last two hours pulling apart and putting back together a Playstation 3 for the very first time. Midway, I put the main board into the oven for ten minutes and then applied new thermal paste to the CPU and GPU after it had cooled.
As I powered it up.. no beeps.. MAGIC! It is alive again! \o/
OMG I am so ecstatic right now but it’s time to sleep. I brought a YLOD PS3 back from the dead. It runs so quiet now, too; I’ve never heard a PS3 this silent. I am almost tempted to ring the guy I bought it from and ask him if he wants it back – there’s a shitload of save games on here that he is probably missing.
Or fuck him. I could just format it and use it for myself. Hmm.
@strange
\o/
You could just ask him if he’d like you to copy his saves onto a USB for him.
I will do this.
But then he’d ask for COD back!
What COD disc? I never saw any COD disc. 😛
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/Purchase140811.jpg
So this is that thing I accidentally bought the other day. I am an idiot.
Also deeply saddened that there is no analogue TV signal to tune into with that extra dongle there any more.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/B-NEW-Laser-3-5-Pocket-Digital-TV-In-Build-Set-Top-Box-/111236434192?pt=AU_Televisions&hash=item19e6354910&_uhb=1
That’s as close as you’ll get to a digital version.
Yeah but that’s dumb and totally nowhere near as cool.
Gotta get those Turbo grafx.
Oh, I forgot to mention, although it was 12 hours ago:
Skyward Sword Get! \o/
Still haven’t got around to playing that, now that I have a Wii U though I don’t think I have much of an excuse. In light of recent events I probably should make it a Zelda weekend and buy Wind Waker, but I don’t really want to pay 80 bucks for it.
I predict pre-orders for Smash Bros. to go through the roof after todays news.
Is it possible to transfer digital content between consoles? Because I have Wind Waker (digital) on my Wii U, and would be happy to share it if you like (happy to share the dummy account it was ‘purchased’ with as well, if that’s necessary).
Thanks for the offer man, but I don’t think that’s possible. Besides, you already gave it to me on Gamecube anyway, I just don’t have a Gamecube to play it on, and I need to get new AV leads and a Gamecube controller for my Wii.
I love that game.
@greenius
My desk has two sticks of faulty laptop RAM resting on a ‘all-in-one pliers + nail file combo’ thing that doesn’t work because the pliers got stuck somehow. Behind that is a broken SSD, a retractable magnifying glass, some blu-tak, the inside-thing to a biro pen, and a portable flashlight keyring that fell of my keys and can’t re-attach. All of these things are on a piece of paper. This piece of paper was a contract I made my sister sign so I had proof I lent her $10.
To the left of me is my printer with 12cm (just measured) worth of paper forms and stuff stacked on top of it. Next to the pile (still on the printer) is my childhood leopard toy. It’s just…staring at me. Constantly…
To the right of me is my computer. There is a ruler on top of it for some reason. Directly to the right of me is the desk’s slide-out desk. On it is a mug of medicine I forgot to drink, several pieces of folded paper, a piece of paper on top of the case my 3DS came in on top of of a shoebox on top of a book I’ll never read on top of another book I’ll never read.
Above my head is a dream catcher thing. I dunno what it is supposed to do, (catch dreams maybe?) but it looks pretty and has feathers on it.
In terms of things that are not decorations on my desk, behind me is a bookshelf with an old woodwork project, several pairs of sunglasses I never use, LCD screen cleaning equipment, a t-rex toy I had as a kid, more folded pieces of paper, a shoehorn, and a wooden castle fortress I build when I was 11 that was lovingly assembled using tiny wooden bricks, and features a drawbridge that I can’t close. That drawbridge has been turned into a really handy place to store my belt. The inside of the castle houses a penguin plush toy, a dragon toy, and a door handle. The dragon appears to be wearing my old shark-tooth necklace without the shark tooth.
Also, behind me is an awesome battleaxe replica thing I found in a skip bin. I only sandpapered the rust off one side because lazy, I’m beginning to think that hanging that above the bed was a bad idea.
And people tell me I need to tidy my room. Pfft.
@greenius
All right, let’s do this.
At work:
Family photos.
At home:
A C5 envelope with this year’s tax deductions stuffed into it in no particular order.
I really know how to party.
@greenius
I have an eclectic array of decorations both at hoem and werk:
Home
I mostly have old European trinkets I picked up in my time in Europe, like small model Arc de Triomphe and an Eiffel Tower Spinner next to a Venetian mask. Couple of throw pillows on the bed and that’s pretty much it, I live in an old Federation house so it seems to match the room with it being kept nice and simple lol.
Work
I have a couple of shades of green on my desk with some fake plants from Ikea \o/ a toy moose on the front of the gym bench and a little frog with a pot belly doing a bicep curl.
I thought I had more stuff than that 🙁
@greenius:
Desk at work:
– Masterpiece Soundwave
– Masterpiece Starscream
– Warbotron WB-01-A ‘Air Burst’ (third party Blast Off from the Combaticons)
– Warbotron WB-01-B ‘Heavy Noisy’ (third party Brawl)
– Warbotron WB-01-C ‘Sly Strike’ (third party Swindle)
– Yamato 1/60 scale Macross: Do You Remember Love VF-1A Valkyrie, Max’s colors
– Nendoroid #167, Cirno
– Some stupid soft toy hammer thing I got given at some point which is shaped like a plush Mario head and if you bang it against something it makes a noise (trash I want to get rid of)
– A plaque thing that everyone gets which you affix metal panels to whenever you ship a product
– A black cube trophy thing I got as a result of patenting something for the company
Desk at home:
– Nothing, I have my decorative trinkets elsewhere, on my desk they’d get in the way.
All SA TAYbies, not sure if I’ll be able to do a Royal Show Meat, my sister’s asked me if I want to go with her, and as of yesterday we’re a staff member down at work, so I may not be able to get time off. I’ll keep you guys posted.
Also, Melbourne TAYbies, looks like there’ll be no PAX for me this year either, with renovations, bills, rego, a possible SA Meat, a PS4, the flood of games that’s coming, Christmas presents and the inevitable Steam sale I’m not gonna be able to afford it. Definitely going to Supanova next year though.
SUPANOVA! \o/
I am booked in for that. Though it’s the same weekend as the Aurealis Awards ceremony, and I may get shortlisted for that (fingers crossed!)
I know, that’s one reason why I’m going, @shane Meat \o/
No probs. I’ll still go and splurge on your behalf. Best of luck with the financial side of things.
Bedtime.
Goodnight.
*yawn*
PS4 peeps, Journey and The Unfinished Swan coming to PS4.
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/08/12/journey-unfinished-swan-coming-ps4/?emcid=social_20140812_29588156
Yay, I might get to play them one day after all!
Still need to get a PS4, but that’s just details.
Just gonna put this out there, since it’s hate on Liondrive week apparently, but I much prefer the Unfinished Swan to Journey.
That opening.
I cried.
Only a little…
Such a beautiful game :’)
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/08/12/new-geometry-wars-and-kings-quest-coming-from-sierra.aspx
Jane Jensen’s been trying to get Activision to green light another Gabriel Knight game for years. Looks like this vault might actually be opening. Arrrrgh! Exciting news!
OMG NEW GEOMETRY WARS! @BENJ GET HYPE
Sooo much hype! No joke I’m more excited about this now than any other game on the horizon 😛
WOOO GAMESCOM!
Hellblade, Bloodborne, Quantum Break, WiLD, Rime!
and…
Anna’s Quest!
White Xbox One looks kewl and I’d be keen since it comes with a game I’m actually interested in (Sunset Overdrive). The Tomb Raider news adds one more reason for me to buy an Xbone but I’m sure it’ll come to over platforms eventually (unless Microsoft paid them a HUGE amount).
Anna’s, Bloodborne, WiLD and Rime are the highlights for me out of what I’ve seen. Michel Ancel! DANE KRAMS!
Early start to work and a bit of free time between end of early work and start of normal day:
Didn’t watch that GG list stopped watching ages ago no point starting now but ran some numbers on the list:
56% of games post 2007 release.
81% of games 2000 or later release.
19% of games pre-2000 release.
Top 10 post 2007 – 80%
Top 20 post 2007 – 75%
Top 25 post 2007 – 80%
Pretty much sums up their demographic (which is obvious by the shows production).
Dark ages of PC, SNES, MEGADRIVE, SATURN and even Playstation 1… We lived in such a poor time apparently.
Really surprising that Good Game has a younger audience, since the younger generations watch far less TV on average to the older generations.
Tinfoil hat with the word “EKENOMIKZ” written on it in crayon being put on my head: Wonder if Tomb Raider being Xbone exclusive is a strategy to get around Uncharted 4, being released about the same time and being absolutely a system seller, giving the Xbone something similar to compete with, hoping to placate Xbone owners into being happy with that instead of rushing out for a PS4.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The sad thing is Tomb Raider does stuff that Uncharted doesn’t and Uncharted does stuff that Tomb Raider doesn’t. I want to play both, damn it. :'(
There’s always Lara Croft and the temple of Osiris at least that’s what squenix is saying also if your a true fan and care about the series in anyway you’ll go buy an Xbox one and the new game Rise Of The Tomb Raider otherwise you probably kick puppies and spit on babies, your not like that are you?
I was probably going to get Temple of Osiris any ways.
I loved the Tomb Raider reboot but it’s not enough for me to buy an Xbone yet. There’s some cool stuff like Quantum Break that might do it eventually, though.
Now I’m considering getting a PS4 and now the Xbone is getting some good games too.
Fuck.This TR announcement makes me sad that I didn’t pick up an Xbone when CotD had them for $400.
I decided to be “responsible” with my money, and look where that’s left me.
NEVER be responsible!
Well the XB1 will be under $400 one day and that Tomb Raider will be cheaper then too, it’s a win-win!
Also Microsoft don’t own the developer, it’s probably safe to assume it’ll be a timed exclusive when that happens
Microsoft don’t own a lot of developers, huh? They own 343, and, uh…. Black Tusk.
I just bought a PS4 but now I want an Xbone too. D=
Won’t bother me none, I’ll have a PS4 soon, so I’ll be getting both games. It’ll more than likely only be a 6-12 month wait before Tomb Raider comes to PS4 anyway.
I think Square will definitely release Tomb Raider down the line on the PS4 and probably PC, we just won’t have it at launch. Also given their track record in re-releasing games it becomes a near certainty that it will make it to the PS4 but wcs a year after release on the Xbox.
Square haven’t locked an IP to a single console since the glory days of the Final Fantasy franchise.
Rise of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition exclusive to PS4
After Uncharted 3, I wasn’t really interested in more Uncharted, but I was quite excited for new Tomb Raider.
After this move though, I’ll probably be skipping it. Fuck them. I want to choose the platform I play it on, not have it chosen for me, And besides, it’ll come out on PS4 & PC 6 months later with all the DLC added
It will come to the PS4, there is no doubt in my mind at this stage. Sqenix is notorious these days for flipping on exclusives and I can’t see them sitting through this backlash even if they didn’t plan to in the first place. Even if it was planned for a late release i think 6months is a bit generous, I would say 3 at most.
Nice hat. Definitely not an entirely unrealistic business decision that you’ve theorised there.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan fuckin steam and their pre-loading! I have a Risen 3 icon on my desktop, and it does NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGH!
Hack it! *starts mashing keyboard rapidly*
Hack it! *points phone at screen and presses a couple of buttons*
Awww, fuck.
*joins Freeze at same keyboard to hack faster*
Man, there’s a lot of crap on TV, so lame.
and that’s apparently the world’s number 1 show. This is why we can’t have nice things.
(cc. @evilmonkey, @dc)
I’d like to draw your attention here: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/f2i7t/ive_written_for_tv_shows_like_csi_and_numbers/
Enjoy it for the silliness that it’s meant to be.
There’s a reason I turned off “place desktop shortcut”. I would be a shambling mess if I had to wake up each morning and see The Witcher 3 desktop icon staring at me, mocking me. “WHAT!? YOU THINK YOUR BETTER THEN ME DESKTOP ICON, WELL I GOT NEWS FOR YOU! YOU NEED ME. THAT’S RIGHT, WITHOUT ME YOU’RE NOTHING!”
And then the icon starts telling you to burn things! WHO NEEDS THAT?
and then I do start to burn things but the police call me crazy so I go to a special place for people like me, but it’s not too bad because I’m away from my computer and the icon can’t get to me there.
Everybody wins!
Need to look up famous people in the field of science, and have it fairly balanced between women and men.
This is friggen hard. I don’t know any of these people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie ?
Ok now how about another dozen more? 😛
Have a look on youtube for a radio show called Helen Keen’s It Is Rocket Science. There’s a few episodes dedicated to women scientists in space exploration.
That’s not one of them but it’s the first episode and it’s rather amusing. Also they’re only 15 minutes long so they’re good for a quick listen
Only?
Quick?
Anything on youtube more than three minutes is looooooooooooong 😛
Cosmos had lots of interesting segments on women in science. They usually got none of the credit despite doing all of the work. WATCH COSMOS.
What channel is that on?
Was on Nat Geo on Foxtel. It’s out on Blu-Ray/DVD now too. Very good.
If you’re struggling maybe an episode guide will help you find some of these ladies. (I forget what episodes they appeared in so… uh… *flees*)
Also, maybe check out some of the women astronauts?
I don’t have/use either of those things.
*never watches it ever*
Emmy Noether.
Also Lise Meitner and Annie Cannon.
Rosalind Franklin.
Hedy Lamarr
Ada Lovelace
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Ada E. Yonath
Elizabeth H Blackburn
A South Australian one: Tanya Monro
These are all super helpful. Especially being able to add another Australian one in there, only had four of those.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Nobel_laureates
This might be helpful? Just look for the sciencey ones.
What sort of notability do you need? Do they need to be famous, or just scientists?
Another aussie one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Wood
Trying to build a pool of cues for a sort of trivia-based pattern deduction game. So each person has a number of traits that can be compared like male/female, living/dead, the field they’re known for, etc. Getting ones for acting was easy, writing was ok although more male-skewed. Sport was sort of ok except the women seemed to mostly be made up of tennis players. And scientists are apparently almost entirely dead 😛 Music should be pretty easy to get a good mix. But it seems like I’m also terrible at knowing/finding/recognising artists too.
Oh, OK
That makes it very tough- not because the women scientists achievements aren’t exceptional, but because they are certainly not well publicised.
For scientists, in a general knowledge trivia sense, there’s pretty much four you can rely on: Einstein, Darwin, Newton and Galileo.
Maybe Oppenheimer, Feynman, Sagan and Neil de Grasse Tyson if you’re really lucky.
Dr Karl if you’re Australian.
Tesla.
*spoodges onto an Oatmeal printout*
Tesla was a loon who got some things right and other things very, very wrong.
He was also paranoid and non-collaborative, which makes him a shit scientist.
Red what the hell do you do for a living to know all of this information?! 0,0
Had to look up a couple of the above- I knew that Elizabeth Blackburn was australian born, and I knew there’d been an israeli woman who’d won a nobel. Found Goeppert Meyer at the same link.
I just like science.
Da Vinci.
Sure.
Hmm. Already got him in under art.
Shit 😛
You can also go for the people that have SI units named after them: Ampere, Watt, Volta, Kelvin, Pascal, Coulomb, Faraday, Hertz, Joule, and if you’re in a room with a lot of nerds, Ohm, Sievert or Becquerel.
Faraday is the most remarkable of them I think, in terms of the whole story and how important his work was to modern life.
They’re all important scientific figures, absolutely, but I wouldn’t rely on their public recognition- except maybe Watt.
Massive pet peeve: Augusta Ada King or Ada Byron. She was the countess of Lovelace, but that’s not her name.
So I just went to start up Forza 5 to play a bit before work, and it came up with an update, it’s not a massive one, but apparently I’ve used 90% of the hard drive space, so it looks like I’ll have to get an external pretty soon.
Just thought I’d ask, how much space have you guys used up on your new shiny next (current) gen consoles?
On a side note the DLC they announced last night is available, there’s the Infiniti Car Pack, 2015 Ford Mustang GT, 2014 Renault Spark SRT_01E, 2014 Rolls-Royce Wraith, and the 2013 Vauxhall Astra 1.6 Top Gear Edition, and it’s all free.
I’ve used 31% so far, I had the likes of Ryse, Dead Rising and Titanfall beta on there. I forget if you are able to delete stuff yet, I remember reading something about a patch upcoming that could let you manage your space.
About 83% of of downloading my free copies of Crimson Dragon and Strike Suit Zero. My other digital-only titles are Tomb Raider DE, Thief, Plants vs. Zombies, Spartan Assault and Guacamelee. I also recall having huuuuge updates for DR3 and Forza 5.
I’m going to have to start being selective about my hard drive space soon, but an external drive might not be a bad idea.
If I’m finished with a game and don’t plan on playing it again any-time soon I delete it from my hard drive on the PS4, so far I think I’ve used about 40-50% of my space on there?
About half of each, iirc.
Wow, today is a heck of a day for vidya gaems.
Especially because of Silent Hill(s.) Based Kojima.
Got e-mail from friend saying he’s home sick today. Now got e-mail from boss saying that he’s home sick too.
WHAT DO I DO WHAT DO I DO
Git sik.
Fully.
Nap?
You can dance if you want to.
I could leave all my friends behind.
Brisbane people having a good day off today? Anyone getting up to anything exciting?
At work… But I got Monday off in lieu… And then played Minecraft for a stupid amount of time.
It’s tricky for me due to where I live (Underwood). I’m right on the border of Brisbane and Logan, so half my world had holidays on Monday, and the other half today! Hell of a week!
I used to work around Wynnum and same story there with Redlands/BCC boundary.
Tell you what – the drive to work this morning was out of this world… So little traffic that it felt like I was leaving for a road trip at 4am except it was light!
I’ve been in bed all morning watching Season One of The Great British Sewing Bee. Because I can. But mostly because I’m too sick to do anything else. 😛
aww well at least you’re comfy and hopefully enjoying yourself! Get well soon!
I slept in to 1pm. \o/
This screening of Guardians of the Galaxy isn’t in 3D.
*high fives self*
You know what you can get at cinema’s now? Aviator designer 3D glasses, it is the stupidest thing ever.
I imagine they’re a lot more comfortable though.
Man, screw all the haters. I’m super keen for Expendables 3. Looks like a tonne of fun just like the second.
I think it will be a good movie to just turn your brain off for a couple of hours because let’s be honest, everyone just needs to do that every so often.
Some people, the opposite.
I’m really looking forward to it. Ronda Rousey!!!!! Also Mel Gibson chewing the scenery as the villain should be fun.
Keen for The Expendabelles too?
Is Expendabelles a real thing because that would be amazing.
Apparently! Who knows if they’ll ever follow through with it though.
I read they’re gonna wrap up the Expendables as a trilogy and then move on to a Expendabelles trilogy, seems like it’s going ahead.
Edit: Pretty sure it’s going ahead Robert Luketic is signed on to direct.
I would be super, super keen on Expendabelles, that is awesome!
Should be good, I’ll watch it today or tomorrow if I get time.
I’ll watch it just cos Blade.
Expendables is absolute shit and I love it.
There are people who didn’t enjoy the cinematic masterpieces that are the Expendables movies? I mean… I GUESS there’s some talky bits that maybe people didn’t like, but they do keep that shit pretty slim and it doesn’t hurt to have toilet breaks FOR THE WEAK.
Isn’t high fiving yourself basically clapping?
*freeze gave himself the clap
Man, reading through all these lists and lists of people who have gone and done something significant with their lives… How depressing 😛
Cheer up. Mediocrity’s not bad. It’s not GOOD, but it’s not bad. It’s just OK.
Ha 😛
Mediocrity I’m not so much worried about. I know there’s plenty of things I kick arse at, it’s more just the sense that none of it has any particular use or contributes to anything at all. Probably doesn’t help that the slowdown here at work has meant that I’m not being distracted by tasks at hand that easily keep my attention any more and it’s been replaced by boring/hard bits that leave me open to being more contemplative about stuff.To be fair, practically nothing anyone does as an individual makes a jot of difference. In a planet of currently over 7 billion people, which is only the people CURRENTLY alive, and a history several times that, dead, when it comes to counting truly massive contributions to move humanity forward, you’ve probably got more contacts in your phone than individuals making changes. We push forward as the aggregate of our efforts, so as long as your efforts are positive, you’re helping. More or less is like claiming you’re moving the ocean one bucket at a time instead of a teaspoon at a time. 🙂
Feels more like I’m just sitting back, soaking up the sun and keeping dry, watching the others go off and get wet 😛
Someone has to keep the rest of us organised.
Vote 1 @mrtaco
It feels like the more letters someone has in their name, the fewer syllables it is likely to have.
On my way home after a quick visit to Sydney for the Doctor Who World Tour. Early screening of the new season opener, and a Q&A with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. It was totally worth it!
No spoilers, just impressions:
Capaldi is looking to be an amazing Doctor, and the first episode was brilliant, and…I can’t say more without spoiling it…Fuck you, Rize.
I mean, uhhh, I’m glad you had a good time.
Jerk.
If you saw a real life TARDIS while you were there: my friend made it. \o/
How much would it cost to get your friend to make me one of these real life TARDISs and more importantly, will it have a working chameleon circuit? I don’t know if I’d always want mine looking like an old police box.
There was one on stage, and one down the road in a pop-up shop at World Square. Both looked pretty great!
Yep, both would be theirs. http://iconicstudiocreations.com/
Mmm Jenna Louise Coleman. If I had to spend eternity by her side, I wouldn’t complain!
@transientmind @gutsoup
I went through everything on the Inq website last night & it looks goooooooooooood.
I should go look but I’m afraid my hype levels might overload and I’ll had an aneurysm. I actually don’t know much about it beyond a couple of trailers. Are you getting the “I’ll need to get a bank loan edition”?
Nah, I can live without all that, grabbing the middle one. $250 is too much.
yeah, it really is too much. I’m a chump, you can come over and laugh at mine & me for forking out for it.
And steal bits what I like
:O
Not if I lock it up with the dodgey lockpicks or something
Saw Guardians of the Galaxy last night. Was a pretty cool guy. Best part is that I can now listen to the discussion about it from Dan and Karl Zeitgeist (requisite plug).
Also, I appear to have crippled my foot. Again. Feels similar to the stress fracture I got last year, though I’m hoping it isn’t, since that left me minorly crippled for months.
Also Also, just watched the Micro*dollarsign*oft press conference.
Ori looks rad, I’m totes gonna have to play the crap out of Halo, the new Calladooty looks pretty a’ight, Tomb Raider being an exclusive is a bit balls, but hey, that’s how the industry works, and Sunset Overdrive still look boring as sin to actually play. So, not a bad show, all up.
Time to make a Strawberry Smoothie, and then it’s on to *dollarsign*ony.
Oh god, all I’ve eaten today is a punnet of Strawberries, a Banana, a Kiwi Fruit and Sultana Bran. I’m not sure if I’ve become everything I’ve always hated, or if a diabetic attack from all the fructose will kill me before it’s a problem.
Eh. It’s only 10am here, and I’ve already consumed a truckload of sugar. A 500ml bottle of Ribena, and most of an 85g block of Cadbury Caramello. I am such a responsible adult.
Hey guys, when was Bioware supposed to be making that announcement? Was it today?
God I hope they get it over with soon, they keep sending me cryptic promo emails that I’m sick of deleting every morning.
Is this for the mystery IP they’ve been releasing live action videos for?
Yup.
According the you’ve been chosen website the announcement happens at 11PM Sydney time so we probably won’t hear about it till tomorrow?
EA’s conference is 6PM tonight, I think, so I’d expect it to appear then.
Based on what they’ve shown so far, I’m not sure I even care.
They’ve not shown anything…
They’ve shown some supremely shitty live-action-ish non-info videos. To increase the hype. Except it’s done the opposite.
Not for me, I’ve taken what I can from those pissporr vids and tried to figure out what it is that they may be going for.
Imagine a horror game with all the conversational stuff from DA or ME.
Maybe you have to butter up demons (kinda like the bits in the Fade), so there’d be these fun conversational bits where you have to suss out which demon/ghoul/entity/poltergeist/whatever will help you progress.
And imagine it set tomorrow (today but with internet that works etc).
I am still cautiously optimistic, who knows whats coming, perhaps a shitty open world attempt at Dead Space 3 in the burbs?
My point being, they havent said much at all really. Could be anything.
My point was that the way they’ve gone about teasing this has been pretty awful. If you want to get people excited, then show something worth getting excited about, not cryptic live-action crap.
Nah, all ads is ads.
I’d rather they just did some proper screen shots and a walk through vid with narration by someone developing, like they do with DA: Inq.
When they finally do announce it, you just know it’s going to be a live action or CG trailer that shows nothing at all :\
It’s kind of stupid but a few companies have taken up this marketing practice where they hype up the announcement that’s actually meant to generate hype. The trailers don’t show anything because they aren’t meant to, they just want people to be aware of the announcement coming up later today.
Personally I think it’s a stupid practice that wears out my hype early on =,=
There’s a Legend of Drizz’t audiobook collection free on audible atm. Hell of a list of narrators (Wil Wheaton, Ice T, Weird Al) too
http://www.audible.com/mt/Drizzt?bp_ua=yes&source_code=AUDORWS0811149AIN
Office is quiet. TAY is quiet.
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Dammit gooky I was sleeping here! Your stupid statement woke me up! =P
Mah exbawks jus crashed! 🙁
Did anyone get hurt?
My feelings
Oh ok at least it was nothing serious.
🙁
so Divinity Original Sin.
still loving it.
combat is brilliant, though there’s not enough of it.
only gripe I have after ~60 in it is that its a tad… obtuse at times. especially when it comes to the puzzles.
I sorta maybe broke it a little bit though. My tank character is sorta immortal. like, literally cannot be killed.
oh well…
how’s stuff over this way?
I just started it last night and am enjoying it so far. Currently trying to find out who stole a body. They’re trying to imply it’s some manner of conspiracy but I suspect necrophilia is afoot. I blame @Longjocks.
If we play it co-op I’ll make sure necrophillia occurs in the game so you justify your theory. That’s the only reason I’ll do it, I swear…
That’s the only reason you’ll do it in the game
Guardians of the Galaxy was pretty great.
Post credit spoiler:
I made that Howard the Duck crack the other day not having a clue. I mean… Seriously?I was with five other people when I saw it, but we were split up so that I was sitting next to the comic-book fan guy (also known as the cool friend), and the other four were in front of us. When it appeared he and I were both like, “REALLY?” and cringed, and the four in front all went “who the hell is Howard the Duck?”I love him!
RED’S RUNNING RAMPAGE REDUX 2: THE RAMPAGINING
PROGRESS
1 @Liondrive 13,441
2 @Bish 4,010
3 @aliasalpha 3,562
4 @NegativeZero 2,492
5 @CookingMama 1,579
6 @ontargett 1,484
7 @blaghman 1,187
8 @Redartifice 667
9 @FreezeSPreston 544
10 @BJ1 487 (unsure of proper handle)
11 @grandmasterb-funk 402
I’ve been so slack, but got on last night and did a 70 minute run. Feels good man.
Hey, I got it right!
@Liondrive does in a day what takes me 5 sessions. 🙁
Yeah what the hell @liondrive you’re hacking fitocracy!
(jokes aside what’s your routine everyday to be pulling 3 times what everyone else is doing!)
WWWEEEEIIIGGGGHHHHTTTTTSSSS.
Their scoring is stupid as balls.
Out of laziness I’ve been logging my weights as 2 reps of 20, 1 of 10 (When it’s really 5 of 10, because HA, like I could lift anything heavier than a beer more than 10 times in a row). I noticed the other day that this meant I was getting 15 points total for 1 set of 10, and 17 points for 1 set of 20. For undergoing twice as much effort (in theory), I get 2 more points. 😐
Also he does lots of leg weights, and I reckon their scoring is even more ridiculous, but if I continue to talk like this I’ll just sound petty and sad, when really I’m just sad.
It’s definitely weight centric.
Yeah, only 800 points for City2Surf. 😛
Kind of makes sense but I’d imagine sets for leg weights and back and chest muscles to be scored evenly though as they both burn roughly the same amount of energy when worked out and they are the largest muscle groups in the body.
I can also understand it being weight centric as weight training increases muscle mass which burns energy for you throughout the day, while cardio is kind of what you give in the moment is what you get.
(I was just curious as to his routine as it seems to be quite intensive and wanted to see if I could incorporate any of it into mine =P)
– 85kg Chest Press (5 sets, 10 reps each)
– 105kg Leg Curl (5 sets, 10 reps each)
– Pull-ups (5 sets, 5 reps each)
– Bent Leg Raise (5 sets, 5 reps each)
– 155kg Seated Leg Press (5 sets, 10 reps each)
– Repeat above
– Sit-ups (5 sets, 20 reps each)
– Push-ups (5 sets, 10 reps each)
– Ski Machine (10 minutes)
You do 70 sets a day?!?! and 50 reps of an 85 kilo benchpress?!?!
Edit: Is this your part time job?!?! How long does this take you??
Double Edit (because I’m mind fucked reading your routine) : I only manage 20 sets with no break with weight training in 30 minutes and I thought that was decent :@ HOW ARE YOU DOING 70 SETS A DAY?!
@dc @strange is liondrive like 90 kilos of pure muscle?!!?
It takes usually around 1.5 hours from start to finish, dependent on how much I’m feeling it, kinda thing.
I’m deceptively strong, despite looking like just skin and bones :\
My aim is to max out the weights I can do on the machines, so I have to up my Chest Press by 50kg, Leg Curl by 20kg, and Leg Press by 30kg.
There isn’t an option on Fitocracy to show it, but I also hold a 10kg ball while doing sit-ups for extra resistence / weight.
Also, I don’t know how to exercise. I kinda just, started doing things on areas that I wanted to work on, and this is what it ended up being :\
My boobies are getting big though, which is what I wanted 🙂
Also I haven’t put this morning’s in yet 🙁
oh crap, i totally haven’t been updating this…
I have had a few days off for recovery this week. Should be back into it by Saturday.
Got the right handle there, bro. 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_composers_by_name
Ok cool. Don’t recognise a single one of them.
The category is composers? Or musicians?
Musicians in general. Searches kept turning up lists of singers only, so I started trying to discount the term “singer” and thought that one might have some good stuff to add in. Either I was wrong or I just don’t know enough. Probably the latter 😛
Look at Opera. Figures like Melba, or Joan Sutherland, or Kiri te Kanawa.
Also a bunch of Jazz musicians- Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone.
Bjork.
We’re talking about musicians, not seige weapons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_musicians ?
A few subcategories there if you’re looking for specific guitarists or keyboardists or whatever. A few well known examples that came up were Stevie Nicks, Shakira and Amanda Palmer.
Oh modern musicians, or pop/rock singers, much easier.
Madonna, Shania Twain, Sinead O’Connor, Kate Bush, The Runaways, Britney Spears, Sia.
I’m only assuming modern/contemporary because I probably wouldn’t use the word “musician” to refer to anything pre-20th century. I’m probably wrong to exclude on that basis but, oh well.
Good point, in that the notability switched from composer to performer with the rise of recorded music.
Yeah, on that at the moment. Annoying that it doesn’t show any of the subcategory pages on that page. Also holy crap there are a lot of subcategories. And sub-subcategories. And subsubsubcategories. And
You can click the arrows by each category to expand and see the subcategories.
Oh, I meant as in the pages contained within each subcategory. Rather than having to click through to each one I want to check out.
Ah right.
Whoever came up with the ability to take selfies in Wind Waker HD is a genius, prepare yourself for the adventures of link: The Inappropriate Selfie taker!
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYQHAAABAACaU2yT-lWCZw
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYQHAAABAACNUKEaIxoqFg
Spent 30 minutes this morning dicking around with VPNs trying to remember how to get into DMM to refresh my Kantai Collection API key. Eventual success.
I wish this sort of stuff wasn’t such a pain to get working. The game and site’s completely in Japanese so I’m not sure why they lock everyone out of it, surely even if it wasn’t region-blocked, the amount of non-JP traffic would be minimal.
EDIT: Luckily you only need to do this once a month and can then just copy down the API key and use that.
I’ve just spent the last 20 minutes trying to find a way to download the Ragnarok Online soundtrack without downloading the full game client.
So far, I have failed.
Now I’m just listening to a Youtube playlist. Damn the music from this game is rad.
That was one main thing I loved about that game while I played it, I could just sit down in a certain area and just listen to the calming music next to a river, bliss
Is this what you’re after…?
How did I forget Kickass torrents?
Thanks.
Yes, how could you, shame on you Bunny! and you’re welcome.
Anyone an illustrator or artist with stuff online?
There’s a few here. I don’t have much of my stuff online any more though. What sort of stuff are you after? What’s it for?
One part just curiosity to find new artist or illustrators, one part considering getting some commissions done. I do a bit of illustration myself, but there arent that many people in my RL that do the same…
http://shanewsmith.com
You looking to get some work done? I’ve never worked on commission before! 🙂
Really great stuff! I really like those Triumviratus pieces!
Um, I have been considering getting some commissions done, though its just a thought I’ve been toying with for a little while now. I do some illustration myself, though (at the risk of sounding like a ‘nigel’ lol which i totally am not) I don’t really have any illustrator/artist friends, so i dont really get the chance to connect with other artists.
Do you have anything online to share? What’s your style?
Are you a member of any artist groups? There are a few on Facebook and a few on LinkedIn. If you work in comics at all, there are plenty of groups for comic creators too.
I have a style that ranges, but generally just cutesy stuff. I have a blog of characters at : http://www.wilheminaandfriends.com that pretty much nobody visits. lol. Needless to say I’m not good at promoting myself.
Not really a member of any groups. But possibly am looking to join something that involves a physical meet up, cos like, i feel that would help motivate me a bit more
YEP! See here. You can be the first visitor! It’s fucking awesome, I know, right.
Lol, You now have 1 watcher. 🙂
Thanks! 😀
I occasionally draw some stuff, best examples being here and here. Haven’t done much that’s noteworthy for a while though, and I’m a little crap.
I’ve been dabbling with the Paper iPad app for a while and I’m really liking it. It’s helped me to get back to illustrating ‘manually’ rather than digitally, even though it’s kind of a cheaty way to do it. ;P
http://digitalchet.deviantart.com
What do you mean it’s only 3pm?
OH COME ON
Let someone else have a turn, you bully.
:O
http://www.taytags.com/
I like the link to TAYNAMES. That’s a great little feature. Very user-friendly.
If you guys would rather it just link directly to the spreadsheet instead of that page, let me know. Wasn’t sure what people would prefer.
Thanks Pow!
Don’t thank me. Thank the good folk down at The Natural Confectionery Company. With no artificial colours or flavours, they keep me high all day long.
There’s no “I’m in Canada, why even bother?” tag. That’s a serious oversight.
Can I swap? I’d like to be in the Brisbane one, please.
Just put together the most violent scene I’ve ever done, and I feel like a terrible person.
Anyone know where I can find one?TRICK QUESTION. I live in Canberra. I know the building where all the terrible people work.So there’s every possibility that there are only two second year info systems students at UTAS… That’s concerning. But it makes sense why they ditched the degree and folded it into ICT.
Works for me though. In the major project next year my role is analysis and telling the computing kids what to do 🙂
Whoa, didn’t realise that they aren’t rolling you into the BICT, but then again, either way you’ll be in an incredibly tiny class.
Also: Why have I not seen you at the Unibar yet?
We got the choice of either staying in the old structure or migrating to BICT, but I’m way more interested in the business side of IT so stuck with IS, even though it’s a bitch to work out what classes I’m actually meant to be doing each year now.
And I’ve never been to the uni bar outside of exams and the concert at the start of the year 😛 I can come in some time I guess!
What degree are you doing btw?
I’m one of the faceless, bureaucratic drones hiding in an office pouring over paperwork to ensure you guys get to keep going to Uni.
UniBar sometime when your degree isn’t hammering you for assignments and studying? Pick a day and I’ll be there, aside from Wednesday!
Haha, sounds fun 😛
I’ll get this assignment finished and then have a look at what works. Should be good for next week some time!
Anyone going to My Geek Rules tonight? Combine that with a Bitcoin breakfast seminar I went to this morning and this has been one of my geekiest days in existence.
It’s 3:30.
By my own arbitrary rules, I am now allowed to eat chocola*NOMNOMNOMNOM*
I could sure go for a can of Chocola right now.
Wait, is that a thing?
If not, why not?
Or is it a form of chocolate milk?
I think I may have an addiction problem brewing.
Well, I once had a conversation that somehow found its way to “coke and milo”. We only had pepsi max in the house at the time so I tried it with that.
It wasn’t too bad, actually.
Finish your Agricola first.
It’s that farm fresh manure taste that kids love
Have you ever had rice milk?
I can only describe it as tasting “farmy”. And then Mum looks at me like I’m crazy.
I was eating chocolate before 10am.
I am a terrible person.
PT, the demo game for Silent Hills, is driving everyone insane. True to Kojima fashion, everything is random, disjointed, and unfortunately since it’s Silent Hill horrifying as all hell. Streamers are tearing their hair out due to the fact that getting to the end of the demo appears to be a completely random process. I can’t finish it myself, and after looping through a endless hallway for the 50th time with endless baby crying and ominous whispers in the background, I decided ‘nope screw this I’m a wussy of the highest magnitude.’
I implore you to try it out by searching ‘PT’ on PSN. It’s just.. grah.
Looks like it isn’t available yet on the Aussie PSN.
So I’m downloading it from my US account.
Okay, so my review of it in three haiku.
Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope,
Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope,
Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope.
Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope,
Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope,
Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope.
Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope,
Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope,
Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope.
(8/10, would recommend)
I saw you were playing for a while.
I got stuck in a bit and then the wife and son came home
is it finishable?
It is, but the last puzzle is so obtuse that Kojima himself believed it would take players a whole damn week to figure out.
Will do, ta!
PT demo is great, thanks for the heads up! 😀
Best news out of gamescom is that Journey is coming to PS4. I’ve had it on PS3 for ages and never played it despite wanting to. Now I think I’ll wait and play it on the newer system.
I’m glad it’s crossbuy.
Not that I wouldn’t have rebought it for the PS4, but I guess, well, because I know I would have rebought it for the PS4.
Now I just get to play Journey another four times, in EVEN MORE HD.
Yup.
I’ll be getting a PS4 eventually and this just means that I won’t have to worry about keeping my PS3 out to play Journey again.
Because Journey is so damned rad.
Yeah, apart from a brief time playing Journey at Games Masters in Melbourne, I didn’t play it. I am looking forward to playing through it properly.
Remote Play, i will play it on the crapper!
Blllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllitzpooooooooooooooooooppppppppppppp
More like POOurneyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Think I might buy an Xbone later this year.. Seems to be a few exclusives i’m still interested in.
My resistance is starting to crumble a bit too. I know I’ll want one eventually for Gears of War at least (I don’t care it’s average, I like that series) and probably Halo 5 as well, assuming it’s less shit than Halo 4 was. The re-releases of 1-4 are interesting, and Sunset Overdrive looks okay (though I wish people who clearly have never actually played Jet Set Radio would stop comparing it to Jet Set Radio) and there’s probably a few things in the pipeline.
Waiting until Christmas though, going to see if they offer a deal for us to buy one for a discount (has happened before) or if there’s a system + Master Chief Collection bundle.
EDIT: Wait, they’re doing a white one? Holy shit. That might be the incentive I need. D:
I was just thinking today I sort of regret getting a PS4 so early when I could’ve had the white Destiny one and the white Sunset Overdrive Xbox One 😛
Yeah, I’m the same. I don’t regret owning a PS4, but I do wish I’d waited like I had initially planned, because the white one is so much nicer.
Yeah, I love the PS4 and think it was a great investment, but damn white would’ve been awesome or silver cause it’d match my silver PS2 😛
I have a white PS3 as well, I’d have liked to put them together.
Yeah that’d look good having all white consoles haha.
Care to share which exclusives? I honestly can’t get anything more than mildly interested in Sunset Overdrive, other than that all the other exclusives seems to be tech demos (project spark)
I love the look of Quantum Break with the FMV/TV show tie in. Then again, I’m an Alan Wake fanboy.
Edit: Corrected the name, thanks Puppet.
You mean Quantum Break?
Oh yeah, all day I’ve been telling myself not to write Conundrum. *shakes fist* XD
Oh yeah Quantum Break looks slightly interesting, but its the tie ins that make me skeptical about it, it definitely did not work in Defiance’s favour
Titanfall (also on PC), Rise of the Tomb Raider, Halo 5, Gears of War (4? 5?)
Isn’t Titanfall all but dead these days? Plus I’d be playing that on PC if I had any interest. Also none of the Xbox exclusives franchises have ever gotten me going, I never even played more than 10 mins of any GoW despite owning a 360 and Halo has been meh since Bungie gave it up.
I’m sure there are more but those few were off the top of my head, and I also copied and pasted NegativeZero.
That’s the thing though, is there? I mean I don’t follow xbone news all that closely, but I can’t think of much more on the horizon than you or others have named above. As for current exclusives other than TF, which isn’t really exclusive, Ryse and project spark is about it that I can think of, unless you want to include dead rising, which is in the same boat as TF
Things aren’t any better for PS4 though. Exclusives on the horizon? Uh… the Order: 1886, if that doesn’t turn out to be a shitty QTE game. The Last Guardian, if that’s even a real thing any more. Uncharted 4. LittleBigPlanet I guess?
There’s a good pile of multi-platform stuff and I’m actually seriously considering buying some of them on PS4 instead of PC, simply because IMO they’re better played on a couch, but there’s nothing enormously exciting on the horizon as of yet.
That said, TGS is next month.
The Order, Bloodborne, Rime, The Witness, Uncharted, LBP plus a couple of new ones announced today. Yes its a good slew of indie titles, and sure if you’re of the opinion that indie doesnt count that’s fine, but to me its a strong showing.
Agreed that both line ups aren’t stellar, but I think the PS4 has got the definite edge. I only have one because my PS3 died, I still wouldn’t have bothered yet (at least until Bloodborne.) But I find it genuinely hard to get interest in the Xbone.
@piat: well, if indies are your thing then both platforms have lots and lots of them. But those aren’t system-selling games (though Rime looks amazing). I was just mainly thinking of the big AAA stuff. Which honestly I’m getting fairly sick of anyway. AAA has gotten so one-note and repetitive and risk-averse, there’s not much that stands out any more.
Well, nothing has really changed in terms of the type of exclusives MS gets and they’re going to be a non-starter in Japan (where the console market is basically dying anyway) so unlikely to get a lot of interesting and quirky niche titles i.e. don’t expect to see Trusty Bell / Eternal Sonata turning up on it. So yeah, if the 360’s usual output leaves you cold – and that’s the case for me, in the last 24-36 months I used the system to play through my old copy of Nier and Halo 4 and that was it – then I don’t think anything much is going to change on that front.
And for reference, I own 3 separate 360s.
Forza, Ryse, Dead Rising 3 (don’t care for the PC release), Quantum Break, Rise of Tomb Raider along with probably Gears of War & Halo. Never owned an Xbox, so it’s tempting to get one to actually get into it. Saying that i’d probably go for a pre-owned one since they’re 450 with kinect from EB.
There’s also the fact a lot of friends went Xbox one for games that came to both PS4 & Xbone and would like to play MP with them if I wanted to go that route.
Even if you don’t care for it its still not exclusive, even if it was a system seller, I wouldn’t go buy a xbone to play it if its a slightly superior version, but that is just me.
I feel MS are really riding the Live members thing hard (people already having a sub so going straight into xbone) and the MP tag along (your situation.)
No one said Scalebound… YOU ALL SUCK!
I haven’t heard of this one, looks interesting enough
There isn’t much info on it but Platinum Games are great. Seems Monster Hunter-y too 😀
I got that impression myself, but platinum are better known for more fast paced games, so who knows
I’m gonna do what I did last gen, stick to my first buy for about 3-4 years and then jump consoles halfway through if there’s enough exclusives on the Xbox one. Funnily last gen I started with the 360 and jumped ship to the PS3.
Ok. I have compiled a list of 208 people, plus 81 Australians.
Need a few more to fill out the international artists section, but otherwise it seems to have a pretty good spread.
*dies*
Artists- painters/visual/performance artists? Gender?
Mostly male, one female. Gonna get the others to pitch in, because I obviously don’t know anything about artists at all 😛
The annoying part is that when I tried searching specifically for female artists, it kept trying to give me singers.
Lots of modern ones, but again it’s an issue of name recognition.
I have finished my exercise program. I’m feeling sad that it’s over, but happy because I now know some exercises I can use as part of my routine. 20 weeks after starting a genuine effort to lose weight and get fit, I have lost 15 kilos and I’m seeing real progress with my fitness as well. 😀
Wow, congratulations man, that’s a huge achievement!
I’m also doing a heck of a lot better in this Fitocracy challenge than the last one. Exercising every day helps.
So proud!
Have you been taking progress pics for your own reference?
Not really, but I’ve got a photo from May taken at a wedding, where I was wearing 6XL clothes. My stomach sticks out like a sore thumb. What I really need to do is measure my waist and see how many cm I’ve lost.
Could the very first Tas meat be coming up soon?!?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-289/comment-page-8/#comment-2880692
You mean the very first Hobart meat.
:OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Tas meat? We all know what that means…
Favicon disappearing again for anyone else?
Not on Chrome’s bookmark bar!
Hmm seems like it’s back now. Had it missing on a tab at work too, will have to check tomorrow I guess.
I was trying to ignore TAY / Twitter again, but you guys have your hooks in me >:(
The silent treatment, eh? :'(
I had a dream that I had 46 Kotaku notifications, and that they were all hate mail from TAY :\
It made me cry in my dream :\
I wake up to find 3 notifications, so I freaked out :\
Silly, I know 😀
Hahahahaha. WHY WOULD YOU GET HATEMAIL?
I don’t know, that’s why I freaked out and cried! :’O
Then freaked out in real life! :’O
We only talk badly about you in secret TAY. The other TAY. I’ve said too muc-
*tranquilizer dart*
You mean the one that Blaghs found and linked to in last TAY?
Well, he does have some pretty crappy taste.
I mean, I just pity him, but someone out there might take it personally.
Scarfs.
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave!
I wasn’t angry but complimentary colours do go together. If you don’t like it, that’s up to you and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise
Hahaha, nothing to do with that 😛
I know I would never ever wear complimentary colours together because they’re too bold together for my more subtle tastes 😛
What other people wear is none of my concern 😛
I’ll trust my own fashion sense when it comes to what works for me and what doesn’t, it hasn’t led me astray yet 😉
That is fair enough. I am lazy and just chuck things together. I just effort for cosplay
Everyone I met could tell you how much I stress what I wear, haha! 😀
Gotta look my best! You never know when you might need to make a good impression! 😀
I love how you guys are calling them complimentary colours, like they give you compliments. How can you not like colours that give you compliments, LionDied?! 😛
Because compliments are horrible and make things awkward. I mean what are you supposed to say back to them? Just kind of meekly let out a “thank you” and stand there being awkward.
Compliments are jerks.
New BioWare game announced. It sounds sort of like Fable Legends, but with a The Secret World skin. I want to be interested in it, but I dunno. Something’s just holding me back.
Where are you seeing/hearing/reading this?
Aw, poop. It’s a multi-palyer action RPG 🙁
http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/gamescom-2014-shadow-realms-is-a-new-rpg-from-bioware/
cc @negativezero
PASS
Sorry BioWare. Wake me for the next Mass Effect.
My sentiments exactly, I’m not too chuffed about Fable Legends let alone one dressed up to be a modern day setting ARPG. Also it doesn’t seemed to have captured what I liked about The Secret World which was it’s eery atmosphere 0,0
Weee! Here’s a list of upcoming console exclusive stuff I’m interested in:
PS4:
BloodborneInfamous First Light
LittleBigPlanet 3
The Order: 1886
Rime
Uncharted 4
WiLD
Xbox One:
Crackdown 3Halo
Quantum Break
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Scalebound
Sunset Overdrive
Wii U:
Bayonetta 2Captain Toad
Hyrule Warriors
Splatoon
Star Fox
Super Smash Bros
Yoshi’s Woolly World
XENOBLADEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Zelda
Pretty good stuffs! There’s also a bunch of exclusive to console stuff I’m keen for like Metal Gear Solid V! (the cardboard box trailer was sweeeeet)
Overall I’m looking forward to the Wii U lineup the most. It’s basically all Nintendo which is fine because that’s the reason I bought the thing :D. The PS4 and Xbone have a lot less first party offerings (at least ones I find interesting) but out of their lineups I’m really only super interested in Bloodborne (still waiting on some solid Scalebound info).
Yay games!
I’m only keen on RIME so far.
Obviously Tomb Raider when it gets “ported” to PS4.
Rime looks great! But I have a feeling it’ll be one of those “it’s over too soon” games :(. So pretty though and I love the whole Ico/Wind Waker vibe
Yeah, it looks mad.
Fingers crossed it has a substantial length or good replay value.
Is it a full retail release or a short digi only, do you know?
Pretty sure it’s a PSN (digital) title which probably means short.
Obviously it’s too early to tell what the game will be like and I know there’s the whole quality over quantity thing, but dammit I want more! 😛
The vid looks very Ico gameplay (minus the escort), did ya see it?
Yeah man! The facial expressions reminded me a bit of Toon Link as well.
(for anyone interested)
Yeah, Ico gameplay, WW graphics. Nice!
Not keen for that “Wild” game? I thought it looked pretty schmick!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-289/comment-page-6/#comment-2878893
Oooh! I must’ve forgot it was a PS4 exclusive 😀 (I don’t think anyone updated the “List of PS4 games” wiki article yet! :P)
I can’t wait for that, looked fantastic. I always enjoy playing as animals, I played way too much Tokyo Jungle.
At the moment, Destiny is pushing all else from my mind.
Getting hyped.
Just forget the PC exclusives list why don’t you >=[ lol
I only got a Wii U cos of that half price sale at Dick Smith last year as a complete impulse buy, but like every game I’m looking forward to at the moment is for Wii U, so yeah! Glad I bought it whilst it was dirt cheap now 😛
HYPE!
Inquisition
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2014/08/13/gamescom-2014-ea-releases-new-dragon-age-inquisition-trailer-enemy-thedas/
Not sure if work puter being a jerk, error 404 page not found 🙁
Just go to the DA YouTube channel, theres a few.
@DC
Left Behind
Did the brick throwing contest, I am loving this DLC, there hasn’t been one dood to shoot yet! 😀It’s so, so good. Plenty to do with excellent, focused story.
Well okay D.C., I guess I’ll go play The Last of Us now 😀Or not! NEVERMIND!
I need to stop starting games and finish the ones I’ve already started first 😛
Coalition Party meeting:
Ugh.., that rice is giving me bad gas….
I knew it was gas.
Whoever created QcHills in Trials 2: SE is a sadist.
Whoever created Trials full stop is a sadist.
*shakes fist*
But it’s oh so satisfying when you finally beat a track that has been giving you a lot of grief.
That feeling..you just drop the controller and walk around smug like thats how its done!
I do it every time I knock someone out in UFC
Oh man. Just went and skimmed through all my photos from 2009 through 2012.
Too much nostalgia. And then a bunch of sads. I miss all the everyone 🙁
I’m off to bed… even though I’ve already had three hours sleep earlier…
Goodnight, TAY!
AWWWW YIIIIISSSSSS MGS5 IS GONNA BE ON PC
Wow I didn’t expect that. The only core MGS game to be on PC was the first wasn’t it?
MGS and the sequel Sons of Liberty both made it to PC.
I have @shane’s PC copy of MGS 2 for some reason.
We all have @shane games for some reason…
First two MGS games were PC. That’s how I got into the series. Then I bought a PS2 specifically for MGS3
..and now I no longer have use for my PS4. That I bought four days ago.
Buyers regret just sank in
SURE YOU DO! UNCHARTED! THE ORDER! RIME! WILD! INFAMOUS!
Yeah, but will Uncharted 4 come to PS3? That’s the question.
It appears not. Looks like I’m keeping the console for the time being, then.
I doubt it. Trailer looked pretty damn amazing. 😀
I’m scared to watch the trailer, I only just started Among Thieves and I probably would love to get into Drake’s Deception too but I don’t want any spoilers.
It’s just a brief teaser, no real spoilers if I recall
Question guys.
What exclusives on PS4 and Xbone are you all interested in? I’m considering it for the future, but I’m not sure if that there are enough games to warrant actually getting it.
See above for my PS4 interest that is no longer exclusive. I think the Wii-U is about the only next gen console I really have interest in for the exclusives, I’m afraid.
Bloodbourne!
No exclusives come to mind per se and im not really hanging out for anything, I keep telling myself i have too many games so i dont buy then anymore until i beat some haha
and with that this comment is useless to your question sorry /o\
None. [/fanboy]
From the top of my head on PS4 …
Rime, Infamous + First Light, Bloodborne, LittleBigPlanet 3, The Order: 1886, Uncharted 4, WiLD
I may have to check out rime and bloodbourne. I saw a horror game on kotaku yesterday that interested me.
Bloodborne is basically the new Dark Souls.
I haven’t really been keeping tabs on the exclusives and there’s even fewer I care about (for instance I just can’t get hyped about Sunset Overdrive no matter how hard Microsoft tries).
XBone
Halo: Master Chief Collection
Rise of the Tomb Raider (lol)
Fable whatever
Gears of War stuff
Quantum Break
Crackdown 3 (maybe)
PS4
PT/Silent Hills(?)
The Order: 1886 (I could really take it or leave it but I’ll check it out if I happen to have a PS4)
That’s about it really. There’s a bunch of other exclusive games the PS4 has but I haven’t really given them a lot of attention so I’m not in a position to consider whether they’re system-sellers or not.
I just checked out a few. I only really was interested in sunset overdrive on the xbone.
I’m leaning more towards the PS4 atm.
MGS….. uh, never mind
… Destiny on PS4. Uncharted. The eventual definitive version of persona 5. Bloodborne.
BLOODBORNE.
Marking with 1-5 *s depending on level of interest
XB1:
– Halo 5 ***– Gears of War ***
– Sunset Overdrive **
– Below ****
– Quantum Break ***
– Crackdown 3 **
– Rise of Tomb Raider *****
PS4:
– Journey ****
– LittleBigPlanet 3 *
– Natural Doctrine **
– Ryu ga Gotoku/Yakuza Ishin **** (if it gets localized)
– The Witness ****
– Rime *****
– Bloodbourne ***
– Hyperdimension Neptunia VII ***
– Omega Quintet *** (assuming it gets localized)
– The Order 1886 **
– Uncharted 4 **
PC/PS4/XB1:
– Destiny *****– The Witcher 3 *****
– Cyberpunk 2077 *****
– Arkham Knight ***
– Assassin’s Creed Unity ***
– Final Fantasy Type-0 *****
– Final Fantasy XV *****
– Shadow of Mordor ***
– Mighty No. 9 **
– Lords of the Fallen **
– Lara Croft & the Temple of Osiris ****
– Grim Fandango *****
– Dragon Age Inquisition ****
– Far Cry 4 **
– Doom ***
– Galak-Z ****
– Nidhogg **
– No Man’s Sky *****
Wii U:
– Hyrule Warriors *****
– That new Zelda ***
– xxXenobladexx ****
Actually was going to get most of the stuff on PC where I can, but increasingly thinking I should get a lot of it on PS4 simply to have a reason to own the system.
I’ve definitely got more games I am interested in on the PS4
Time for…ColdCams “This comment may sound racist but its not meant to be racist so please dont say its racist” comments!
Meghan Trainor the lady who sung the current hit All About That bass, I didnt know she was white I alway pictured her as black or spanish looking similar to Jlo but bigger because she said she was big in the song
Oh god whyd it have to be a page get!
Huzzah!
Lol I remember listening to Iggy Azalea for the first time, I was sure she was black!
This.
Also I didn’t realise she was Australian.
Yeah but dat ghetto booty tho.
I remember thinking that about Anastasia back in the day (the “I’m Outta Love” woman) – just that tone and amazing power in her voice made me think it was an african american.
I get it – and I don’t think it’s racist.
Think.
Uhm.
Ok is that racist?
#almostasracistas@dc
#almostracistsuperstar
Addicted to Bass. Don’t ask me why.
NSFW!
How U Like Bass
Phat Bass
Is AssCreed:
Pirates 2Rogue coming to PC? I mean I would prefer to play it on console but I can’t be bothered plugging in my old consoles.EDIT: Hmmm, looks like console only. Oh well, I’m sure it will get a “HD remastered” version as soon as it is released.
Since I still have AssPirates to get through before Unity comes out I’m going to hold off on buying Rogue in the hopes they port it to XBone. I want it, but I think it’s insane that it’s a last-gen exclusive. I guarantee they’ll have announced a current-gen/PC port by the time I’m finished with Unity anyway.
I was really disappointed to find that it’s old-gen only too. Unity’s plot summary and everything so far has sounded boring as shit, because the French Revolution is boring and I studied it in high school and that leeched away any possible interest I might have had. Rogue sounds really interesting. 🙁 But not so interesting that I’d go back to broken old PS3 or 360 to play it.
I’m glad they’re doing this split approach this year though. Better way to transition than making Unity on all platforms.
By contrast, MY only exposure to the French Revolution has been incidental references and The Scarlet Pimpernel miniseries, which was freakin’ awesome, so I don’t mind the idea of the setting that much.
The interesting thing about the French Revolution is the thing Yahtzee Croshaw said:
(completely paraphrased)
“Assasin’s Creed is all about the battle between the Assasins and the Templars. The Templars believe in peace through total control, the Assassins believe in total freedom.”
In the French Revolution, the Assassins got their way. The monarchy was overthrown and people were free. And then people started getting beheaded. The Assassin’s viewpoint becomes harder to defend”
Just ran the numbers on my Big-Ass List of People™ and… they’re weird.
Male/Female: 158/133
Living/Dead: 138/153
Number of syllables:
-First name: 66, 160, 47, 16, 2
-Last name: 66, 163, 42, 16, 3, 1
Acting, Music and Sport all ended up with 48 people in them, with Science on 46 and Writing on 42.
I mean I roughly aimed to have things look like they were vaguely equal, but I didn’t do any counting or anything. And the name/syllables thing is super weird regardless.
Wow, that’s a bit shallow. Solely making a list of people with a “Big Ass”.
=PThey make the rockin’ world go round.
Morning, TAY.
I finished my PAX costume over the weekend and finally got around to posting a picture on Twitter last night (maybe I shouldn’t repost things here. That way Gooky will have to join Twitter eventually!)
It’s very basic compared to the costumes you guys have made, but I like it. Turned out exactly how I wanted! It’s comfy and easy to wear.
…Okay fine, here’s the damn link.GREEN PANTS! You’re alright, Pow.
There’s a guy that catches my train who wears green pants every day. You’d like him!
Now I’ve just got to pray that the heat-setting (only the black outlines need it because they’re a different paint) and the first wash I’ll be doing this weekend don’t destroy it D:
Man I have everything crossed for you. Had the heat setting fail on a shirt I slaved over for a good week or so, was absolutely devastated.
On the bright side, at least I’ve got plenty of time to do it all again if it explodes? D:
If you hear a faint scream from far in the distance this saturday, you’ll know it didn’t work.
That looks amazing 🙂
What is this, some kind of non-Twitter?
where’s the mustache & top hat? 😛
We should have a TAY-only PAX where everybody has to dress up as their avatars.
The best part about this comment is that you said it to one of the few people that doesn’t have an avatar 😀
*forms body into K shape*
That was easy
… I’m not sure that’s a good idea.
K.
This seems a little… simple.
Fuck yeah, Squirtle.
Thank God I changed from my rocket avatar.
*puts on gloves*
I’ve got some gene splicing to do.
Absolutely brilliant, and doubly so for a Bug gym leader costume.
Holy wowasaurus! It may be “basic” (I don’t really think it is, by the way) but it is really well executed. Nice work!
TAYlist requests! Yeah, music!
Ween – Ocean man..failing that Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden
Blue Oyster Cult – Dont Fear the reaper
or
Magic Dirt – Supagloo
Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack!
Pick a song dammit not a soundtrack =P
(Cherry Bomb please)
Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force – Planet Rock
http://www.mixcloud.com/ClassicHip_Hop/rock-steady-crew-30th-anniversary-official-mixtape/
When the Going Gets Tough – Billy Ocean
Because this week is tough and I find the song strangely hilarious
Give us a Miles Davis cut.
Maybe “So What”
It’s all about that Bass – Meghan Trainor !!!
You just had to do that, didn’t you 😛
Don’t call me dude – Scatterbrain
Piano Man – Billy Joel
In memory of Robin Williams
Don’t Worry Be Happy – Bobby McFerrin
Unlikely request:
Thinking About You – Calvin Harris ft. Ayah Marar
More likely request:
I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor (Priscilla)
Paperback writer – the Beatles
Mental As Anything – Live It Up
Run of the Mill – Judas Priest
Probably a bit long though 😛
Requests are now closed, thank you all for your requests.
Stacy’s Mom by Fountains of Wayne.
Just because.
What a great way to start a morning, apparently our security team reported a test virtual server was confirmed compromised and doing an RDP IP scanning/hacking attempt across a wide range of public IPs… and the offshore team didn’t do anything with it for three whole days, just drops it into our queue.
No wonder Telstra gets such a bad rap, and it’s only going to get worse… -_-”
Abandon ship! I actually have no idea what any of the things you just said ment so I can only assume thats the same for the offshore team
– Server got hacked
– Hacked server tries to hack other servers
– Offshore team that’s meant to easily have the experience and capability in networking and IT to be able to respond to this swiftly and decisively in terms of security concerns, yet they do nothing for two-three days while this server attempts to infect others
basically 😛
Been preeeeetty unimpressed with the quality service provided by the programming team off-shore with Telstra, lately. They very well might know what they’re doing, but only if you communicate it in the most absolutely form-standard way possible. When it comes to collecting information about something or identifying something weird and non-standard, you’ve got buckley’s. I used to work with a lot of the guys who got the chop in that move. They knew what they were doing. And in some cases, they were the only people who knew what they were doing. It’s no wonder they’re trying to phase out Spectrum.
I remember when I did my eight week product training to hit the phones with Single Bill, the trainers and management were all very proud and insistent on making sure that we were aware and could state with certainty that Telstra only had in-country call centres.
Eventually when the IT contract went out to IBM, that changed to ‘only internal services are off-shore; everything customer-facing is in-country’. Now not even that.
Indeed, personally I’ve lost all respect for this company being hit so close to home this time around with the next round of job cuts. I’m losing a lot of valuable resources and great people, including a close friend of mine, she is incredibly good at what she does and really nice.
We’ve been complaining for months about how horrible their quality of service has been. Put it this way, 90% of the work I do is fixing faults they cause by screwing up service activations. Despite all our noise, this was the decision that went down (As you saw in the paper).
Telstra have really dropped the ball on leading Australian cloud services and I really doubt they’ll recover from it…
It’s why I left. They were doing everything they could to unscrew every second bolt on deck while the ship was still flying. Insignificant cost-cutting celebrated with self-indulgent conferences and other managerial masturbation.
Before I went to Service Assurance, I dealt a fair bit with a small team who handled CIDN merges and manipulation. This was about 2005? The small 2-3-person team we dealt with was facing the chopping block and not being replaced. There was knowledge there that was going to die and be lost, though they insisted it would be ‘passed on’, grandfathered into the team taking over those responsibilities, amongst others.
Fast-forward to 2014 and we’re making CIDN-manipulation-related requests and being told by our account exec et al that, “The system doesn’t allow it.” It fucking does. I DID IT WHILE I WAS THERE. Just no-one works there who knows how anymore, because they fired the only people who knew what they were doing. Same thing is happening all over the company.
What a clusterfuck of mismanagement, incompetence, and corruption.
Including outright illegal shit. You know they set up key-loggers on the advertised ‘public’ internet-access machines, saying, “If you need to use the internet, like net-banking or personal emails, don’t use the test machines, use these.” They registered – ACTUALLY REGISTERED – the key-logger software in the team leader’s name who installed it. It was trivially easy for us to pull up the bank login details of anyone who used it on those machines, once we knew. I wish we’d reported that, because it’s actually a breach of federal law – surveillance act. And let’s not forget the centre manager who took ‘extended leave without pay’, after rejecting a medical claim filed by one of the staff, thanks to the medical records being falsified. Which was the most bone-headed idiotic move ever, considering that after the rejection, that staffer checked with her doctor and got him to his files vs the stored/rejected files and noticed the discrepancy. She got a huge payout and laughed into retirement. And there are records even more scandalous and illegal that I dare not mention on a public forum. That place was uniquely vile at the managerial level.Fantastic people to hunker down in the trenches with, but make no mistake they were ugly, muddy trenches in a psychological warzone. One of the worst places to work for I’ve ever been, and I’ve done damn near every entry-level job that exists.
And yet, if you’ve got Telstra on your resume, anyone in the industry loves your ass. If you can wait out a sweet redundancy package, you probably should, Techie.
That’s my plan actually. I’ll keep trying to do the good work I’m known for (Seriously I have a small fan club in Sales from all the great work I do and lightning speed fault fixing, I once fixed an issue in 10 minutes where everyone else couldn’t do it in 3 whole days). I’ve also got lots of reward and recognition points which I could use to get massive rewards with. I honestly would never recommend this company either to work for or order services off, considering I know first hand how important it really is to them.
I work for a… large… bank that uses Telstra. Our team ran into a weird issue not being able to save changes to Office files to networked drives. Only affected our site and if we attempted saves from different locations, for the same files, it worked fine. Very very weird.
After weeks of complaining it finally got referred to Telstra to investigate connectivity at our site. What’s really weird is that the weekend after our first teleconference hookup the sites routers were all rebooted apparently as a result of a power failure which “cleared” all the logs from them so they couldn’t review any of the previous traffic.
Hey presto issues resolved as soon as Telstra got involved. I’m super suspicious about the ‘power outage’ as we’d normally see our ATM’s flailing on Monday morning as a result…. but they were fine. We got our issue fixed but I’m sure someone wasn’t entirely clear on what actually happened to get it fixed.
Wat? Test virtual server infected… Surely they could just pull the plug on it?
The system goes on-line August 11th, 2014. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Telstra begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. AEST, August 14th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Ideally yes, but they didn’t…
Much like Pow, I too have been working on my PAX outfit. Yes, I have donned the spandex.
I’m also still deciding on which hero I will be as Cyclops is proving difficult but the blue works in my favour as it can be moulded for use with a variety of characters. Anyone want a sneak peek? It’s not as bad as you’re thinking. My gut is barely noticeable, surprisingly.
It’s not the gut I’m worried about seeing! 😛
(So you haven’t decided on a character yet? Hm… I can’t even think of any game character that wears blue spandex outside of superheroes)
It will indeed be a superhero. One whose image will forever be tarnished after I’m done.
Interestingly, when I place underwear on top of the spandex, the bulge disappears! So no need to be worried on that front. It was merely the Batman outfit that exaggerated things. Or thing.
Mystique!
Maybe not that tarnished. 😀
Could always go with Mistertique!
http://oglaf.com/mistertique/
probably NSFW btw
I don’t know if I want to click this at work…
EDIT: Ah, a NSFW tag. That made the decision much easier!
…*click*
Captain Falcon sorta?
Sonic? 😛
Superman 64.
Oh god.
Do the new red cyclops!! He’s so cool ^^
Also Virgil from Devil May Cry wears blue!
I stuffed my back helping my daughter jump around like a madman. It hurts. 🙁
bummer man. take it easy. back pain is a bitch, and so easy to re-hurt it. have a nice hot bath!
Ugh. Work.
Been playing XCOM: The Bureau a bunch. It’s a pretty decent game, not anything new but a decent enough third person shooter, with a bonus point for being XCOM.
It’s really making me want to jump back into Enemy Unknown/Within.
Did you hunt down and slay the deer, or did it slay you? 🙂
I haven’t yet, but I swear I will soon.
Sometimes he drops his hat and when you walk back over it he picks his hat back up and puts it on GOTY
I don’t think I have a hat any more. It changed my outfit to a jumper and I have no idea how to change it back.
Does your sweater have a turtle neck?
I hear those have potential as tactical garments.
The tactical turtle neck. The tactleneck.
better than the dactylneck
you can’t diffuse a bomb in just anything
But the question is: do you go with black, or the slightly darker black?
Last I played The Bureau, I DID immediately then go play Enemy Within.
But yes. The Bureau is a fair and decent game which I did enjoy playing and my library and memory experience is better for having it than without.
Transferred my Skyrim save from my PS3 to my PC last night (wouldn’t have bothered, but I grabbed the legendary edition in a Steam sale)
I thought it was already pretty, but wow
I’ve still got Skyrim in its wrapping after buying it months ago 😛
On PC?
Yep on PC!
I have an idea on what you can play tonight…
Haha well, I want to play and finish the Witcher 2 first, whenever that game decides to stop randomly crashing to desktop.
Ha! It never will, like all my games crash
Is this the donor PC? From moi?
Certainly is! It’s working great, thanks again man
It lives! So happy!
Lives and thrives! It’s run everything I’ve thrown at it so far
So last night I was driving and listening to the radio and Jonsey and Amanda were interviewing some writer about some book she’s writing or some shit. They were asking her about how she’s connected to George Clooney and she was saying how weird it is that her husband (a human rights lawyer) works with George Clooney’s fiancee (who is also a human rights lawyer) because when she (the writer) was working on a TV show back in the 80s or something George Clooney asked her out and she turned him down.
Anyway, that’s not the point because who gives a fuck.
The next thing she’s asked is “what’s it like to be married to a human rights lawyer” and she starts moaning about how they’re always working really hard and how they work for free a lot because of the nature of their work. Now, I think that comes with being married to a human rights lawyer but I can understand how that might bother you, and anyway she was clearly just kidding around.
But then she capped it off with this corker, which I’m afraid I had no choice but to commit to memory:
“My two least favourite words in the english language are ‘pro’ and ‘bono’.”
I wish I could remember who this writer was so I don’t accidentally read one of her books.
Kathy Lette, author of Puberty Blues. You can thank me in chocolates.
Edit: Or you can just thank google for when I searched Amanda and Jonesy author interview =P
It honestly didn’t occur to me that I could find current information about a radio show on the internet. Like, those two worlds just don’t really seem to ever collide.
http://tinyurl.com/q2ml9n3
I’m anti-Bono myself.
http://tinyurl.com/kvdobw7
I couldn’t find a decent on of him crying…I don’t mind his music, but as a person the guy seems like a complete prick.
Good aftermorning TAY
Had such a fun morning after 3 hours of sleep.
I somehow managed to leave my luggage bag containing training gear on a bus and only realising it after I got on the train. Rushed back to the bus stop to find the bus left about 5 minutes before.
Luckily the bag managed to arrive at the depot so I will have to go pick it up before going to training.
Whenever someone uses “u” in place of “you” in any messaging format (emails, SMS, forum, whatever) I can’t avoid reading it as “oo”. It’s equal parts hilarious and annoying trying to read it.
That’d be ü.
(ALT+252 for future reference.)
Now you can teach others! \o/
Got sent this article by a workmate and all I can see is the photo of a guy trying to plug an Ethernet cable into the front of a hard drive (second photo).
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/the-internet-broke-yesterday-and-it-was-all-because-of-the-number-512/story-fnjwnhzf-1227023949109
So it can access the cloud, of course.
That was probably a specific guy I know from work… or someone very similar 😛
Network-Attached Storage
Well, a friend is interested in buying my PS3, as well as all of the games! 😀
Also, I realised I have 57 games…. on disc. D:
Upside is, he’ll get a lot of gaming out of it! 🙂
(I accidentally posted this in the Female Link article. D:)
DO YOU HAVE AN ORIGINAL 60GB LAUNCH MODEL?! [HUFF HUFF]
No, sorry.
No probs.
I’m coughing up gross-looking things and I have lumps in my throat and armpit. It’s either bubonic plague or aliens are trying to take over my body. 😛
Edit:
In case someone worries, it’s just a plain old infection, I’ll be okay. Unless that’s what the aliens want me to think….:PBubonic plague? That’s not even a real thing. 😀
I feel like Europe may disagree.
There’s no one left to disagree. ! D: *lightbulb flicks on* It’s real!
I wouldn’t worry until you feel the Chestburster moving around inside you 😛
Seriously though, hope you feel better soon Strangey.
Did anybody else watch Utopia on ABC last night? It’s a new comedy in the same vein as Frontline/Hollowmen. Was pretty good, I enjoyed it!
I need to get back into some good TV. Haven’t watched anything for ages (still got Mad Men Season 6 to watch if I can ever get a hold of the special-cover DVD – they better not have stopped selling them!)
Forgot it was on. I did watch the first episode of The Knick, which is pretty cool.
Damn it! I totally forgot it was on. I love those guys, too.
Thank god for iView, huh!
It’s less mockumentary style than something like Frontline, but the same sort of comedic pacing. I dig it!
ogm! the time is upon us!
Risen 3 IS OUT!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOh gods, that yell made me imagine what it’s like to have tinnitus.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
EDIT: OK, this backfired and is really annoying my ears…
MAWP! … MAWP! … MAWP!
Meep.
OH MY GOD. BUNSEN HONEYDEW.
Had to look that up, nice lol
I bought Risen 2 like 6 months ago in a Steam sale and haven’t tried it yet. Based on your hype I guess I should give it a shot some time.
Apparently (Disclaimer: haven’t played it) it is pretty buggy. Then again, I played Gothic 3 which was pretty bad and glitched out constantly and yet I enjoyed it.
I missed the boat with most of the Gothic series. Tried going back not long ago and it was all a bit…aged.
I’ll have a look around and see if there’s an unofficial patch for Risen 2. So many buggy games have them these days.
If you can put up with graphics like the original Xbox Bioware RPGs, you should try Gothic 2 if you can. It’s such a great game and has aged much, much better than the original (it doesn’t look nearly as old as the first game, despite there only being two years between the two).
i never had any issues with risen 2 myself. I played it to the end and loved every minute of it!
Risen 2 is buggy, the combat is unforgiving and resources are scarce for a good first half of the game. Basically it’s more likely to stop you from playing risen 3 =P However Risen 3 is supposed to be more polished and easier to jump into and a lot of fun with not a lot connection it to its previous games!
@redartifice I can’t quite recall but you’re quite the D&D 4e player aren’t you? My apologies if I’ve got that wrong. What’s your opinion on 5th ed?
Personally I like that they’ve brought it back a bit and made it seem more familiar to 3rd/3.5 but keeping some of the cool abilities and stuff that they introduced in 4e. I might actually start consistently playing D&D again for the first time in a few years.
I read over it quickly, the advantage / disadvantage system seems really cool.
That’s something I quite like as well. Reduced the often confusing mechanic of keeping track of all of your bonuses and penalties into just saying advantage/disadvantage. It actually makes things harder too as you can work around say a – 4 in something but rolling twice and picking the lowest as the potential to be absolutely brutal.
I started in 4e, haven’t played it extensively for a while.
I like it- I think it works together quite well, I think the maths is neat. I’m a little disappointed they changed the Monster stat blocks- as someone who began DMing in 4e, they were really good.
Not sure if I’ll get to DM it much
Yeah 4e was quite a refreshing change from 3.5 in that everything was convenient and made sense without having to decipher obsure monster entries and figuring out stuff. Personally I prefer the 3.5/OGL/Pathfinder system simply because I like all of that fluff stuff but 4e is good just to take a break and not get caught up in the rules.
I know a few people don’t like 4e as it can boil down to practically a card game but there’s a certain coolness in knowing that your character feels and is powerful.
I hope I get around to playing/GMing 5th edition but it’s a bit hard to convince people to buy into a new system when the books are anywhere from $40 to $60 each.
I bought the starter set, and I’ll run that sometime soon. Advantage of the basic rules is that the buy in is effectively zero, at least to try it out.
True that. It’s a shame the basic rules are rather limited but from what I’ve heard the Player’s Handbook sounds pretty great and I have high hopes for the Monster Manual and Dungeon Master’s Guide.
They did just update the basic rules
One of the things that really stood out to me as a great idea in 5e was the advantage/disadvantage thing. Such a simple mechanic (roll 2xd20 and take the higher/lower roll) but has such an interesting effect.
Wish I had time to play some sort of D&D!
I remember when I was much younger I read my dad’s copy of D&D rule book (no idea what edition but it must have been super early as it was at least 15 years old 15 years ago!), I had no idea what half of it meant but had me hooked on RPG’s ever since.
Wait so the new Bioware game is basically an MMO where everything but instancing/dungeon system has been torn out?
That doesn’t sound inherently bad.
Man, there’s a tonne of negativity in the comments of the article on that game. I feel like I’ve missed something.
I never said it was a bad thing and PvE instancing was my favourite part of MMOs. I will probably keep an eye on this in the future.
It sounded sort of like you were disappointed.
I think I just assumed you were cause every other comment I read was something along the lines of “This game is now confirmed to be shit” 😛
Personally I am inclined against it already without knowing anything about it other than that they spammed my mailbox with ‘cryptic’ teasers I couldn’t give a shit about.
Bit unfair, but there ya go!
At least you’re willing to admit it 😛
No, because one player is controlling the minions. It’s asymmetric team-based multiplayer. Evolve or L4D is closer.
Ahhh, fair enough.
Ok, let’s commit to this WA Meat!
No more beating around the bush with vague details!
What:
Going to go see Guardians of the Galaxy, and then I dunno, we’ll see what happens after. I’ll happily grab some food or whatever if people want, but if people need / want to go, then that’s all good to 🙂
I’m easy for whatever 😉
Where:
Hoyts Cinema, Garden City.
When:
Saturday, 16th of August.
Session time at 4:40pm.
Who:
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @hindenlagen @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks
If there is a better time to go, let me know, but I’ll only be able to make that session or later personally.
Hope to finally meet most of you guys!
I promise I’m not the internet killer! 😀
*hides shiv*
Why: ?
So we can all bitch about Powalen behind his back.
Tickets to Perth purchased!
lol @ this given recent revelation
Oh you!
@LIONDRIVE secret @powalen bitch sessions pls!
Is that a shiv in your pocket or are you just an Internet killer?
I’ll never tell 😉
*stabs Rize*
@thecracks you’re WA?! Man I thought you were a pretty cool guy D=
*disappointment*
Edit: context because liondrive is always picking on us NSW folk =P
*glares*
TheCracks used glare!
@puup3tmast3r is paralysed!
What will pupp3tmast3r do?
Can't escape!
pupp3tmast3r used Poke Doll!
pupp3tmast3r fled!
Wait, since when can squirtle use glare?
Why bring me into this? 😐
It tool me a long while to figure out what you were talking about.
If it helps, I was born in Queensland…
This works for me.
Sure.
First we take their meats, Then we take over the world!!!!
and 4:40 works great for me, i’ve got a friends birthday that night, so sadly i wont be able to stick for too long after, but yeah i wanna see guardians again so i’m hyped!
Count me in 🙂
Wait, is this 2D or 3D?
You’re the one who looked up session times! I was going off your info! 😛
Okay, good, I only told you the 2D session times in an effort to ensure we all saw a 2D movie. 🙂
I have influence over the meats, eh? Heh. Heh heh heh. Ha ha. HAHAHAHAHA!
*coughing fit*
You did take over for a bit there, haha! 😛
And you’re the one who didn’t want to socialise either 😛
Sounds fun! But I won’t be there as I don’t live in the country anymore haha.
I’m still a Perth man though!
Obsidian have secured the rights from Paizo to do games in the Pathfinder universe. They’re starting with a simple one though, simply porting the (pretty rad) Pathfinder Adventure Card Game to tablets, but I think given that it’s Obsidian, we might see something pretty interesting there. Perhaps they’ll be able to re-purpose their Pillars of Eternity engine for something?
Considering there is already a Pathfinder MMO in the works, I think we can safely rule that out.
Maybe once they’re done with Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian might do another game in the vein of Baldur’s Gate but using the Pathfinder ruleset. That could be pretty cool.
How come people are whinging like crazy about the Tomb Raider timed exclusivity but no one’s said anything about Bloodbourne, which apparently is a straight-up PS4 exclusive, not just a timed one?
Possibly because of the whole multiplatform release thing and whatnot.
Because for one, Sony is publishing it outright.
Haha, almost said something about Platinum. But that’s Scalebound. Names are too samey 😛
I think Mark put it best in his article.
It’s one thing for a company to get exclusivity in exchange for putting up the money to make a thing happen, offering ground-floor support. Halo, Uncharted, people see this as being as close to ‘first party’ as it gets for even 3rd party.
But to take something which has historically been multi-platform, and was indeed likely to be again, and have it scooped up with a gesture of, “Nice game. Think I’ll pay you not to let the others have it,” isn’t constructive, it’s purely negative.
Ow.
Well, shit.
My lower back feels sore. 🙁
EDIT: Found a pillow! 😀 Back isn’t as sore! \o/
Christ, America, this Ferguson thing is insane. How does a town of 20,000 people have so many policemen anyway?
Because of the Second Amendment and what might happen if shit metaphorically hits the fan, apparently.
Second amendment has no bearing on the way that police are armed though.
Actually, I’ll clarify: They may be armed that way because of the threat of weapons, but the second amendment doesn’t place a limitation or exemption on how a police officer is armed.
Hence why I put the “apparently”.
They’re trying to justify this guerilla bullshit with the civilians by claiming what they’re claiming.
It’s fucked up, if you ask me.
It kinda does in a way. The Cold War idea of brinkmanship and always having more dakka than the other guy seems to have become pervasive in the US and so everyone needs more and bigger and better guns than the other guy. And so police need a metric tonne of dakka just to keep everyone else at least partly civilised.
I’m more surprised that a state or county hasn’t tried to pull a Texas and secede. They’d probably get away with it too as each state would probably have more guns than some nations have people.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote a novel set in the future where the US has been “Balkanised for it’s own good.”
They’re just collecting metadata.
PayDay 2 starts making a lot more sense now.
It doesn’t, they have to be bussing in cops from other places which pretty well makes the governor complicit in this. What I want to know is what the fuck is Obama doing? Oh wait, standing by while civil liberties are being destroyed, same as always.
Other than “appeal for calm” there’s little he can do.
Check update now. State Highway Patrol is now in control. Things are actually looking good for once.
Empty lunchbox + instant boiling water tap = hot water bottle to take back to my desk and huddle over.
OK SERIOUSLY THIS ISN’T FUNNY ANY MORE
Taco Amongst Yourselves.
http://tinyurl.com/ntqkmpp
@markserrels
Can we pretty please get this as a tag on next weeks TAY?
I’m creating next week’s post right now so I don’t forget!
4/10 TAYgets. You need to step up your game. 😛
I have made a terrible mistake. I logged into Kantai Collection again last night at about 9pm. Suddenly it was midnight. And then I played another 30 mins this morning.
The event currently going is what kind of lured me back, though I’d been tossing it up for a while anyway. The problem is that my choices when playing it last year and earlier this year have screwed me. I didn’t realize how lucky I was early on in the game to have gotten Hiryuu at low levels and to have gotten all the Kongou-classes quickly. As a result of those things, I never really spent much time leveling up any heavy cruisers or light carriers, as I had full carriers and battleships to use instead. The fact I got Ooi and Kitakami early on also means that I focused on them instead of any of my light cruisers. Additionally my rush to level up Shigure and Yuudachi to Kai-2 has left me with a pair of nicely matured level 60+ destroyers and a whole bunch of low-level ones, though at least there I have a few in the level 30 range due to needing them to defeat world 3-2. I’ve done a lot of power-leveling so my HQ level is 72 and I have some big ships in the 75-85 range, but I don’t have much in the mid-range.Anyway, the event currently running scales with your HQ level. 60-90 gets higher-difficulty and 90+ get really high difficulty. So I’m into the harder threshold. The thing is, there are six event maps, taking place on two battlefronts – simultaneous AI and MI campaigns (AI was the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, MI is Midway). Ships you send to the AI campaign can’t go to MI and vice-versa, so you have to split up. And the MI campaign requires you to have a core strike fleet (Carriers and Battleships) and an escort fleet (cruisers & destroyers) that you combine.
I attempted AI a few times last night, and so far it’s resembled the actual Aleutian campaign. I’m getting screwed. 🙁 Really limited in what I can take to it. There’s two routes to the boss, and I don’t have the right ships to do the northern route. Southern route takes you to a node where there’s a giant trolly submarine that ignores usual placement rules and constantly kills one of my ships with torpedoes. When you get past that, there’s a night-only battle node, then a battle against 2-3 carriers, then the boss (which is a heavy cruiser). I got to the boss twice so far – one sinking, one near-sinking. Need to sink 6 times to progress.
But anyway, I’m really screwed in what I can pick. Limited to one battleship because of the branching rules – you won’t get to the boss with two. Limited to one full carrier as well, ideally they suggest two light carriers. The night battle node means you really need heavy cruisers in the mix, as they are best at night. I need enough air power to maintain air superiority for artillery spotting (new mechanic that lets your ships equipped with recon planes to double-attack or do cut-in attacks like they do at night) and I need enough radars and recon planes to have a high Line of Sight range to get to the boss. But if I make it through the two AI maps I go to Midway, and those maps are harder so I need my top-end ships.
What that means is that I can’t run my two Kai-2 Kongo battleships, I have to run Haruna as flagship instead (only 68). I need to save my carriers since you need four of them for MI. I can’t run Kaga, she’s simply too low at level 20 (I got her late) so I’m actually running my second-lowest carrier, Zuikaku, who is only level 39 (Saving Hiryuu (86) / Souryuu (49) / Akagi (47) / Shoukaku (34) for MI). I’ve only got 4 leveled cruisers, and I don’t want to commit either of my Torpedo Cruisers to AI because again, needed for the MI escort fleet, so I’m limited to picking between Yura (44) or Kiso (62) and am running Kiso with a dual-cannon and radar. Again, I need destroyers for the escort fleet, so I’m alternating between sending Shimakaze (35) and Yukikaze (34) and am holding my two best destroyers for MI. I’ve also been forced to commit the only heavy cruiser I actually have any levels in, Atago, but she’s only at level 31. I have two others, Suzuya at 30 and Choukai at 28, but saving for MI escorts as well. Light Cruisers tend to be crit magnets and don’t field many planes so my only CVL available at reasonable level is Hiyou, at 40.
So in the end I’m running a fleet with two ships in the 60s and 4 in the 30s, into an event map that has level 50-60 enemies. And funnily enough, it’s not going very well.
While I wasn’t playing, they put a whole focus onto night battle-oriented cruisers and boosted several of the heavy cruisers. Used to be that common wisdom was that the only cruisers worth spending significant time on were the Kuma-class torpedo girls, and Isuzu and Yuubari for anti-sub usage. However while I wasn’t playing, Naka, Jintsuu and Sendai were all given Kai-2 remodels at level 48-60 that make them into basically ninjas that can ruin other fleets in night battle due to the equipment they get – flares and searchlights. My Jintsuu, Naka and Sendai were at level 9, 3 and 1 respectively 🙁 They also gave heavy cruisers Haguro and Myoukou (previously modernization scrap materials because of how often they drop) Kai-2 remodels which make them the strongest CAs in the game. When I was playing last, Kinugasa was the only one with a Kai-2 remodel, and in stats that remodel was on par or slightly worse than the Takao-class standards, so I put my time into Choukai and Atago instead 🙁 My Haguro and Myoukou were down at level 1. 🙁 Tone and Chikuma also got Kai-2 remodels into Aviation Cruisers and got amazing art updates, but again, mine are down at level 1. 🙁
So I think I’m going to struggle to make it through the two AI maps. I could divert some of my better ships to it, but that would mean missing out on MI. Such a terrible decision 🙁 I don’t think I’d be able to clear the whole event but I was kind of hoping I could get at least deep enough into MI to pick up the new carrier, Unryuu.
After some runs at the event map I ended up spending most of my time grinding the first node in 3-2 to try and get some levels into my cruisers. Got Suzuya to level 30 (from 21), Tone to 9, Haguro to 13, Chikuma and Myoukou to 7. This is the other reason why I haven’t spent a lot of time with the heavies – they’re a pain in the ass to level. Battleships do enough damage to get MVP sometimes. Carriers and Torpedo Cruisers get it fairly often too. Heavy Cruisers usually have less range than battleships so fire last and don’t get to clean up what the carriers softened as often. They will knock your fucking head off in a night battle, but you can’t grind by going to night battles. I think there must be a better map for grinding them, but it’s probably in World 5 and I haven’t unlocked it yet. 🙁
This was pretty cool today. Adam and Jamie from MythBusters with Dr Karl.
Hah, my boss ran across the office to crank up the radio for it. I think he might be a fan…
So, lots of people talking about this “P.T.” PS4 demo on Twitter.
By the sounds of it, I would literally die if I played it. I get spooked enough in games that aren’t even meant to be scary, thanks 😛
I jump when I see a solitary scouting unit approach my boarders in CiV.
Like hell I’m going to play this.
Choked on drink. Thanks.
There is definitely something to that sudden tight grip on the mouse at the sight of that unit. A widening of the eyes and the sharp intake of breath… the desperate, whispered, “NO.“
Hey @redartifice you missed a Civ mention!!!
*clears throat* Cccccciiiiiiiiivvvvvvvvvv
P.S. I know the feeling, I’ll usually start cranking out an army at the first sign of another faction =P
M’lord we’ve sighted a filthy foreigner on the horizon, they appear to be headed in this direction.
“How long until they reach us?”
Well it’s currently the bronze age and they’re 6 hexes away, so we estimate contact in 150 years.
“Keep an eye on them, how are they armed?”
Pointy sticks m’lord.
“Pointy sticks? My god. What do we have?”
Fifteen legions with short swords, a dozen archers and a rudimentary cannon that has reduced some promising barbarians to dust and ash.
“Mother of god. Send out settlers north and south, establish new cities. Start praying for a miracle from that religion we invented. Recall our great generals and have them establish a citadel.”
THEY’RE HERE M’LORD THEY ARE MAKING WORDSOUNDS FROM THEIR FACEHOL-
“Heeeey buddy, we just wanted to let you know that of a list of the top five civilizations you guys are the richest, most well armed and happiest!”
“YOU MEAN THERE ARE AT LEAST THREE OTHER CIVILIZATIONS OUT THERE?!”
Fuck yes you rock but I now have coffee down the front of me.
I don’t usually get scared by games. I laughed at Amnesia: The Dark Descent. But P.T. is so bloody scary.
Goddammit…
I found the movie “Mummy” terrifying the first time I saw it.
This game is in my head.
It’s, broken, me.
Personal Trainers sure are scary.
I’m a P.T and I find this offensive! 😛
*cowers*
I’ll have to try to remember to download it when I get home. It’s still available, right?
You know it. If you can’t find it, it should be under the GamesCom section in featured games.
I’m downloading it now. I’ll play it late tonight for added atmosphere.
R.I.P Dire Wolf
DO EET. DOOOO EET.
And then chicken out immediately. Despite how much I love it, I’m not gonna finish it.
Yay for the next Tomb Raider not being Xbone exclusive. I suspected as much, but it’s good to have an actual confirmation. I think Microsoft has really shot themselves in the foot over the whole thing. Rather than get people to want an Xbone, it’s just pissed a lot of people off, and now their credibility when it comes to “exclusives” is completely destroyed. After Ryse and Dead Rising 3 it was already pretty low, but now that another game has been added to the list I can’t imagine anyone ever believing “exclusive to Xbox One” ever again, except maybe with Halo, but who knows, that might come to PC too.
The Xbox does have some decent exclusives though and I’m definitely keeping my eye on Scalebound and Sunset Overdrive but so far those are the only games really making me wish I had an Xbox, I’d still rather have Infamous and Uncharted over those two.
See, I’m the opposite: after Uncharted 3 being a piss-poor, repetitive, frustrating and unfun string of respawning enemy kill-rooms, I’m far more excited for new Tomb Raider since the reboot of that was much better.
D: I wanted to play that one.
While I’m impressed with Sunset Overdrive there’s something in the game that’s urging caution on my part… Going to wait for release and see how it goes, personally I would’ve been more excited for a Ratchet and Clank game exclusive to the Xbox.
But yes I’m looking forward to the new Tomb Raider more than the new Uncharted! Want to see how Lara’s evolved from the first game and hopefully they have multiple locations/digs all over the world to explore as opposed to being stuck on a single island.
What’s the point of timed exclusives? Do they really think people would be that desperate to play a game slightly earlier that they’d buy a $500 console purely for that?
I figured it was more that Square Enix didn’t want Tomb Raider going up against Uncharted on the same platform that holiday. (Plus I’m sure any kick-back cash they can get from Microsoft along the way wouldn’t hurt.)
Normally though, yeah, they’re pretty dumb.
In the case of some games, I’d say it’s probably a factor. The ultra-competitive clanners playing CoD, for example. Hell, I heard even timed DLC had an impact for those guys.
Super competitive games like CoD I fully understand. If you don’t get in early you’ll fall behind and get dominated. Something like Tomb Raider though…
I have tried googling it, but can anyone actually tell me what “holiday 2015” actually means? Or are people just saying it cos they’re pretending they know what the hell they’re talking about.
(I know, it’s probably something super obvious I’m missing.)
For the Yanks it normally means Thanks Giving/Christmas… So November through January sometime I guess?
Cheers, that makes sense. I’d forgotten about Thanksgiving and all that.
Done basically nothing since this morning other than fight a nap attack and try to ignore the faint little voice that sounds like it’s saying “I don’t want to be here any more”.
http://youtu.be/KIiUqfxFttM
TGS is next month! That sneaked up fast.
The Console market in Japan is basically dying right now (16% contraction last year) and the PS4 has been struggling, less than 1 million of the 10 million PS4s sold so far were sold in Japan (!). Microsoft is launching Xbone there next month as well, not that they’re really a major player or anything, but it seems like this TGS is going to be a make-or-break conference for the console market going forward.
The current president of Enterbrain (who publish all the sales figures and everything there) had something interesting to say in Famitsu: “I heard from a major game maker that they’re going to have a big announcement around the time of the Tokyo Game Show that should help the [PlayStation 4]’s growth.”
What are your crazy predictions? What would be cool to see being announced or shown at TGS? (Aside from The Last Guardian, which we know isn’t happening). What could this ‘big announcement’ be?
Potentially will be showing off Silent Hills. (Since P.T. was supposed to stump people for weeks apparently. XD)
Yeah but after the trajectory that Silent Hill has been on recently, you wouldn’t think it’d be heralded as a game that could help the PS4’s growth.
With Hideo Kojima and Del Toro behind it, and the P.T demo, I’d say a lot of people are stoked for it.
True. I’d just be disappointed if that’s what it was since I’ve never found Silent Hill to be remotely worth the hype around it.
I’ve never played a Silent Hill game.
I’m petrified quite easily.
I played the P.T demo.
I chickened out 6 times:
– Upon the first loop of the house (that corridor was freaky– When the bathroom door opens
– When you get locked in the bathroom
– When you get killed
– When the radio tells you to turn around
– When the chimes just wouldn’t stop, and the demonic voice started
I hate it. I hate it I hate it I hate it.
I’m gonna buy it.
True next gen Monster Hunter returning to playstation for PS4 with some sort of integration with the Vita?
That would be amazing. I wish it were that.
MH would look like dirty arse on PS4 though. The reason they keep it to portables largely is because they can get away with low-poly models and bad textures there. I suspect that factored into the decision to go 3DS actually, since they didn’t have to re-do the assets to look a bit less fugly.
I don’t mean another port. I mean fully new one designed ground up for PS4.
….
You said crazy ideas, not likely ones.
Actually, thinking about it, does Japan even have any big system-selling Console franchises any more? Aside from Nintendo stuff, and maybe MGS and Final Fantasy (both of which have announced installments) I can’t really think of anything. There were big franchises in the past – Dragon Quest used to be huge on consoles but it’s moved largely to portable now. Sakura Taisen used to be a juggernaut for Sega in that market, but that declined with the end of the Dreamcast. FF is probably still big enough to sell systems, but that series has declined a lot in value as well. Ryu ga Gotoku / Yakuza was doing pretty decent numbers still, but there hasn’t been a new console-oriented franchise really take off there in a while, and the old ones seem to have largely declined or died entirely…
I legitimately don’t know but I imagine one of the fighting games might be a system seller. It’s around that time for another Soul Calibur isn’t it?
Street Fighter V might be big enough, and Smash Bros. certainly is, but probably not anything else.
Namco’s gone full retard with Soul Calibur. After killing off the bulk of the cast in SCV and replacing them with a new set and making the characters even uglier and upping the size and pendulous motion of everyone’s tits, they decided that they should release it as a free-to-play game on PSN and dribble the characters out one by one. On the upside they seem to have somewhat learned their lesson and several of the characters they’ve shat out into the game so far have been from the old cast.
Only big, popular Japanese game I can think of is Persona, although I’m not sure if it can be classified as a “console seller” because there hasn’t been a new core game released for what … 6 years?
Persona 5 next year!
…
On PS3 🙁
Don’t worry, when the PS5 is out we will get Persona 6 on PS4.
Persona 5 Golden on PS4. You know it’ll happen, we all know it’ll happen.*
*probablynotbuthere’sstillachance
Maybe for Vita as well, since P4G seems to be doing consistently well for them.
I love the Persona games but my god do Atlus like milking them out. People give Sega / Nintendo shit for milking out their games but there are what … 3 versions of Persona 3 and 2 versions of Persona 4 that’s not counting the ridiculous amount of spin offs that Persona 4 has. I’m kinda tempted to just skip Persona 5 and wait for one of the inevitable re-re-re-re-releases that Atlus shovel out.
Aside from Bloodborne?
New Tales game, PS4 exclusive.
Zesty tales isn’t out until 2015 though is it? I don’t think they’ve ever done two mainline Tales at the same time.
So instead, how about a port of Tales of Vesperia PS3 with even more added stuff, so that this time they can localize it and dual audio it and I can finally finish it.
Ooh, that’d be nice. I’d settle for a cross play multi platform release of zesty dragons as well, too.
PS4 port of Zestiria would certainly hasten the end of my PS3 usage. At this point it looks to probably be the last PS3 game I’m interested in (Persona 5 going to skip, I like those games a lot on paper but I find them too stressful to play)
TAYlist for the 14th of August 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by warm regards to Robin Williams’ family in these timesAngels – Let The Night Roll On
Billy Joel – Piano Man (Requested by @quiz_b)
Bon Jovi – Have A Nice Day
Mental As Anything – Live It Up (Requested by @freezespreston)
Black Sorrows – Hold On To Me
Billy Ocean – When The Going Gets Tough (Requested by @gutsoup)
Robbie Williams – Let Me Entertain You
Police – Every Breath You Take
Blue Oyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (Requested by @gingerchris86)
Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive (Requested by @liondrive)
Savage Garden – To The Moon And Back
Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy (Requested by @evilmonkey)
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen
Bowling For Soup – 1985
Runaways – Cherry Bomb (Requested by @pupp3tmast3r)
The Living End – Song For The Lonely
Scatterbrain – Don’t Call Me Dude (Requested by @gemini)
Hello daddy, hello mom..
Ch ch ch CHERRY BOMB!
Wow… From Every breath you take to don’t fear the reaper, Creepy, then to I will survive? CRAZY AWESOME!
Dear sir or madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look?
I know I’m going to hear crickets at this request but I’ll throw it out there any way, anyone interested in levelling a toon together in WoW in prep for Warlords of Draenor? It’s probably only 2-3 months away at this point and it’d be casual questing/dungeons over weekends!
I could get behind that. What server and faction were you thinking?
I’m pretty established on Horde Barthilas (2 90’s with max profs and 1 85 with cata profs) but if you’re keen for another server that’s cool too!
I can’t be alliance though =P I was Alliance all through BC and WotLK and now I can’t go back >.<
@negativezero Join us…. *cue menacing music*
I’m happy being Horde. I’ve been primarily Alliance so far, and figure it’s time I leveled a Horde character.
Cool! Add me on bnet (tag spoilered) ^^ Let me know when you’re up for it because I need to re-sub =P
@negativezero Yeah I only PvE but went to Barthilas when my Cata guild migrated due to population problems in our original server, they long since disbanded so now I’m a Warlock without a home 🙁 I have too much invested in Barthilas though to abandon it completely, I think my Monk is maxed on all profs primary and secondary and I don’t want to think about the time I wasted getting some of those achievements…. and mounts >.<
Chyrone # 1100Friend request sent. Any time is good for me. We can start this weekend, or tomorrow afternoon, or even this afternoon. Whenever you have the time.
Saturday morning or tomorrow evening! \o/
I’m keen to check out a Warrior, Pally or Priest!
I think I might try a shaman.
I don’t really have anything cool on either of mine. I mean, I have some stuff that was fairly rare at the time (Green Protodrake for example, and the Cenarion Hippogryph) but nothing hugely cool.
Do they let you take all the professions now?
Nope. You can take all the secondary profs, but still only two majors. WoD’s going to do something about that with Garrisons though. I don’t think you’ll be able to take more profs, but it sounds like you’ll be able to benefit from your alts having profs or something like that.
Also, all mounts and most achievement are bound on account now, so rolling a new character doesn’t mean you’ll lose out on all your work put into your main character anymore.
Oh interesting. Does that include race/faction-specific mounts?
@negativezero faction/race specific mounts become the equivalent mounts of the other faction. So if you’re an Alliance character and buy a gryphon mount, then roll a Horde character the mount will be a wyvern on that Horde character.
I have two 85s but both are Alliance. And on a different server. And I wouldn’t really want to play on a PVP server.
EDIT: Though FWIW I was Horde originally, swapped to Alliance when I joined the server I was last on in order to play with friends through WotLK.
http://instantrimshot.com/index.php?sound=crickets
Don’t tempt me back. I’ve been clean for years now 🙁
(By which I mean I’m addicted to worse things, see further up the page)
You mean a Japanese browser game about anthropomorphic WWII battleships is worse than WoW?
Nah.
It’s better and worse at the same time.
Costs me nothing but my time and my dignity and sometimes my love.
EDIT: But if they added an XP doubler or something to the game I would be broke 🙁
Never played WoW in my life.
My condolences.
=PPossibly… >_>
(Stop looking at me like that, uni assignments!)
Play WoW for inspiration and finish them 1 minute before midnight for submission =P
It’s how I got my BBus =]
For me, any thought of returning to WoW is full of joyous nostalgia…followed by a hint of fear.
So … Do I buy Hohokum or do I wait for it to appear as a free game on PSN+
Both! 😀
We aren’t all rich like you Richius
=PSo @welbot, how is Risen 3? I want to grab it now but I’m going to try and hold out for the weekend and have a monster session.
lol I haven’t actually touched it yet. Wanted to make sure I was done with my tasks (job hunting, washing etc) before I started! Plan to start in the next half hour or so, so I’ll keep ya posted!
ok, well now that I’ve played it a little, I need to stop and have a breather, cos I just totally crapped my pants! I was exploring a little creek leading up to a waterfall, and I got almost to the fall, when a humungous alligator did a sneak attack on me! Almost killed me instantly! lol
I just ran like a girl, til I got far enough away to shoot it, but it worked! win! But man is my heart racing! totally wasn’t expecting that at all 😉
Does it still maintain that feeling that all their previous games have? Yes!
It even looks similar after the little intro sequence, when you start off on the beach. Clam shells around, Scavengers, Skullcaps… All look the same as they did in Risen 2, except nicer!
You start off as a nameless pirate/sea captain, and who knows where it will progress to! There’s a decent looking skill set, with everything from thievery and magic, to special arms combat and more! No doubt I’ll find something I borked stat wise in about 2 hours, and end up restarting because of it, but I do that EVERY time I play an rpg 😉
Looking like it’s gonna be a real gem so far! Can’t be far off first level up now! Must go back and trip it!
I’m using my Steam installing powers now to prepare for the weekend. The hype is approaching critical mass I tell you.
http://ala-derive.tumblr.com/post/94501190771/australian-cosplayer-scene-alert-bryce-dulaurent
Just want people to be aware of this. I know that people have friends and I would hate for anyone to have to deal with this leech. Please keep an eye out at pax, just in case.
Ugh, that gave me chills.
What a creep.
Jesus, what’s with those creeps out there. =/
I guess shit like that happens outside clubs too =__=
Worth noting there are probably plenty of others out there like him but without the infamy he’s gained himself; good reminder to be wary of people who can’t respect you or your personal space and not to entertain them.
Going to suggest that that’s easy to say but hard to do.
Pepper spray \o/
Jokes aside I know what you mean, but sometimes just keeping in mind that there are people like that at cons can help to avoid them!
Edit: I feel like I should elaborate. It’s one thing to blacklist this guy for what pretty much constitutes sexual harassment and possibly sexual assault but he’s probably one of many out there who probably avoid the limelight more than he does and ergo get away with it. Watch out for people who keep slowly trying to push your boundaries because that’s how PUA’s work, they don’t start off with something uncomfortable, they start in your safe zone and slowly work you out of it into their comfort zone where they have control. It becomes much easier to avoid if you make a mental note in your head to keep an eye out for it and if you’ve got a few friends around you to watch out for you because they more likely to notice than you are. This is me speaking from experience dealing with guys like this in clubs where they can be a lot worse.
It’s not just a PUA thing. It’s a creep thing.
Someone should probably pass that on to the PAX AU organizers too. That’s just gross.
Would someone be willing to do it? I don’t quite now how to.
I don’t want anyone’s con destroyed by someone such as this guy.
I’d happily report him to staff and the police if I see this pathetic excuse for a meatbag at PAX
What a slime.
Just a friendly reminder to Brisbane TAYbies (@DC do your thing) that there shall be food consumed at noon on Wednesday. Meet at Post Office Square in front of the escalators or something.
Bookmark this sucker! http://taytags.com/
oooh, that’s pretty cool.
I prefer to summon the power of DC.
These days that power is just copy and paste from Pow’s link anyway. I’m a lazy man, Trjn. A lazy, lazy man.
I’m okay with that.
In fact, I approve.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @benny @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
HAHA
Ah dang! I’d love to come but I don’t think I can get off work.
Lemme know if there’s an evening event planned, but.
*head-desk*
Yeah, so work’s a downer sometimes. My team seriously earned some criticism. Sigh. Home time. Walk it off.
*terrible Patrick Stewart impression* It’s already too late. I saw everything.
I think I condensed it about right.
And the scene you reference was awesome.
Silent Hills, Warriors OROCHIIIIIII 3 Ultimate, Fantasy Life, Dragon Age Inq, etc, etc!!!!
XENOBLADEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
no
I was just listing a game I was interested in :'(
You were harrazing me *sobs*
SHOUL SHILVER
Approved.
BEST BUDDIES AGAIN
@greenius o/
\o
Reading on the Joe Hockey fuel comment:
I thought the reason the poor drove less was because they couldn’t afford fuel?
Wait what. I just found a Bluray copy of Footrot Flats – A Dog’s Tale.
I.. don’t think I can not buy it.
Willpower… eroding…
I have it on DVD and never bothered to watch it.
I’m a monster. D:
So at the request of a friend, I’ve created a monster.
http://i.imgur.com/B4WVu63.jpg
Taken two nights after my picture of the Super Moon, it’s the Green Lantern Moon. Because it’s just a crappier version of it.
If you need me, I’ll be off in the corner, giggling like a lunatic.
I’m surprised you didn’t go the more obvious route.
More obvious?
About my only other idea was to photoshop the death star in and have the “That’s no Moon.”
Well when I think DC (hi @dc) and a bright light in the sky…
It wasn’t really a dark night, though.
H-uh.
Yeah.
But then, it doesn’t fit the joke of Super Moon, and not as super moon.
Well, shit. Oldskype’s been locked out.
*kills self*
Skype’s password retrieval is pretty bullshit. I set up an account in something like 2003 and they wanted to send my recovery email to the original address and get dates and receipt numbers for all of my credit purchases, along with the user IDs of my friends’ list. None of which I could access without… Y’know. Logging in.
Oh, not that kind of locked out. Turns out they’ve gone and retired the old versions, I was running 3.8 and now have to get 6.14 if I want to get back on again. I freakin’ hate Skype so much, the newer clients are so awful. Also can no longer do the whole dual computer thing mentioned in the post below.
On the plus side, there’s still some decency in the world. (Warning of slight humblebrag, but it’s kind if necessary for context.)
Fella at the Gabba Central ATM, kinda stressed on the phone about the redi-teller eating his card and being busted. I asked him if he was going to need help getting out of trouble, money for a ticket home or something and he declined, saying he still had other cards he could use.
Turning down an offer for free money. Could’ve taken advantage, didn’t. People are alright sometimes.
Also the offering of free money. Hooray for mutual decency! \o/
That would be the brag part, aye, and you see why the rest makes no sense without it. But being stranded sucks, so.
Following a Youtube sidebar journey is always an interesting journey. Started on Elvenking and somehow currently on Kenny Rogers.
Wow. Procol Harum performing A Whiter Shade of Pale with the Danish National Concert Orchestra and choir at Ledreborg Castle. Really digging it.
Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and Sting doing Money For Nothing.
Brilliant.
So good.
Alright, so a question for the tech heads. Is there a way I can make one computer act like two?
I’ve been using my two computers together for ages now, with the new one on my left and the old one on my right, a pair of keyboards and mice in front of me. I find this way better than just having the one machine running on two screens, in that I can instantly switch between tasks and don’t get caught up having “focus” on the opposite screen to what I’m looking at. Plus I can play a game fullscreen on one machine and still have chats and whatever else going on the other, with no need to pause or alt-tab to change from doing one thing to the other. Just reach over and use the other set of controls.
So now with Skype locked out I can’t really do much of anything with my old machine. But the monitor is still there doing nothing, so surely there must be some way to replicate this on a single machine?
Chop it in half!
That’s our resident tech head right there!
The only way you can really do anything like that is by either hooking 2 machines up to a KVM, or running one of them in a virtual machine.
Yeah, I know of the the KVM thing, used to do it a while back. But it’s like… the inverse of what I need 😛
Virtual machine has me wary, since attempting to use one just a couple of months ago went and destroyed my computer.
how did it destroy it?
Somehow corrupted the hard drive’s filesystem, made the whole thing disappear.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/finally-get-two-functional-desktops-with-actual-multiple-monitors/
This looks like it could maybe possibly be what I’m looking for.
Except I can’t find anything about dual controls yet.
I’m not sure that software does what you think it does. It essentially works the same as a spanned desktop, except you can have a start menu on both screens, and independent wallpapers. A few other trimmings too, but if I understand you correctly from your description, it doesn’t sound like what you want.
I think you want something like this.
http://www.umart.com.au/umart1/pro/Products-details.phtml?id=&id2=25&bid=4&sid=36517
Nah, it’s the opposite. That thing lets you use two computers with the one keyboard and mouse. I want to be able to use two sets of keyboard and mouse on the one computer, as individual pairs. So if I’m playing a game on one screen with one keyboard and mouse and someone says something in a conversation on the other screen, I can just reach over and punch something in with the second keyboard without even having to pause or minimise the game, like I currently would now using two separate computers next to each other.
mm yeah that aint gonna work. no matter what you do, to do it on one pc, even in a virtual machine, you’ll still lose focus when you want to do something different.
It seems like it might be a possibility. I’ve found a couple of tools so far that look like they might be able to do that. Gonna keep on searching.
Try using the Synergy open source program?
Having dinner with my Dad tonight. Showed him a photo of my PAX costume alongside a picture of Caterpie, half expecting him to be a bit weirded out (I can’t remember the last time I talked to him about anything nerdy – we’re basically opposites when it comes to our interests :P)
His response: “Oh, Centapie! Cool!”
How in the world did he remember this!? And to get the name so close! I haven’t brought up Pokemon with him in… ten years I would think. I’m impressed 😛
Parents are weird like that. My mum successfully recalled the “Atari Lynx” after a good 15-20 years, and I never even owned the thing. Totally can’t remember the context of it or anything, but I was similarly impressed.
So close and yet so far
Anyone want 66% off of Chaos on Deponia on Steam?
Never mind.
@Tigerion, it’s yours.
Thanks for the offer crazyguy but I already have 3 of them in my inventory for some reason 😛
Facebook feed is full of Vegans congratulating themselves by proving that brocolli has more protein per 100 calories than beef.
Wondering how much anger I’ll get if I jump in and point out in terms of weight/calories a 250g steak is equal in protein to about 4kg of brocolli and you won’t get any protein due to puking up brocolli or being rushed to the hospital for ruptures.
Do it. Reddit (or was it someone on Imgur? idk!) did this last week and the comments were amusing.
Holy fuck new skype is so horrible
I don’t know what I’m doing
How do I fix it
I want to cry
SDFKUHSFDP(*YW$IHOTSDP(GFUOW{${OJW:GPYPW($*YP(W*#IO:U%HATRGWET
My hero. 🙂
This wouldn’t happen if you posted on Twitter.
Ah this is glorious.
5/11.
So my Google Cardboard turned up the other day, and it’s pretty damn cool. Resolution is crap (my phone’s screen is similar to a gen 1 Rift, but since it’s not optimised for it, it loses out), but there’s some nice stuff in the Cardboard app.
Also, the magnet/button thing doesn’t seem to work properly all the time, but that could just be me.
Anyway, sot my parents asked what the mail that turned up for me was, so I showed it to them. It was amazing seeing them both react with wonder to the VR experience, even in such a primitive form. My Mum followed around the critters in the Windy Day thing for ages, and my Dad loved looking at Google Earth and the Street View thing (My Dad’s a techhead, my Mum’s not).
In fact, they liked it so much that tonight while my sister was around, they made me grab it to show it off (and she was equally impressed).
It’s great seeing, I guess, non hyper-nerd (Well, okay, all of my family are hyper-nerds, but only my Dad and I are computer nerds) reactions to cool tech stuff.
Also, I think there’s huge potential in the virtual tourism market with this sort of thing. If only for rich people who want to re-live where they’ve been.
I HAVEN’T EVEN RECEIVED MINE YET, THIS IS THE WORST DAY EVER.
EDIT: I checked the website and “One or more of your items are temporarily out of stock.” …but I ordered it before you :'(
Despite my comment, I actually got impatient and ordered one from a different site before you replied, because they had a discount code. Cost more, but hey, they delivered faster! 😛
Htu.
Where did you guys buy yours? @greenius
I bought mine from Unofficial Cardboard. Can’t remember the link that Greenmang posted, but it was like $10 with shipping, so was way cheaper.
I ordered mine from DX. They ship from HK though so I knew it would take a while.
Some people who ordered a few days before me have received theirs but I think mine hasn’t even shipped from them yet so… 😛 I’m not in any rush though so I shall wait…
Saw The Expendables 3 today. Much the same as the first two, just a dumb action flick. Was pretty cool though.
Was glad that Arnie got more screen time in this one. My favourite part of the movie would have to be when he said “Get to the Choppaaaa!Sleepytimes now.
Night-night…
Zzzzzzzz……..
P.T. was pretty creepy. It’s also made me pretty hyped for the next Silent Hill game, which I guess was the point.
Pretty creepy?
That shit’s going to be in my nightmares for the rest of my life.
It made me feel physically ill.
I thought I was going to throw up after playing it.
I couldn’t open doors for the rest of the day without my heart beating faster.
I’ve been paranoid that there has been someone watching me all day.
I didn’t even finish the demo.
I’m going to buy it too 🙂
Best endorsement for a horror game, right here! 😀
liondrive courtesy of Silent Hill. Sounds like it should be a Steam review =P
So you sensed my presence.
Did you finish it? the apparent solution to end the demo is kinda wacky.
The customer service some online stores offer is just so pathetic, it amazes how they have repeat customers :/
2 months and counting still waiting for an album package I pre ordered 8 months ago. No contact info on the website, had to go to the artists Facebook to lodge a complaint/ask. Since he never responded on Twitter a few weeks ago.
So, that nostalgia hit I mentioned last night. Found I’ve still got some of the old pictures up, including one from back in 2009.
Oh hey who’s that guy in the middle up the back who you probably can’t actually see all that well because the pic is kind of tiny and dark and a little blurry but still 😛
Also I really need to stop getting sidetracked so much.
So much hair, Gooky. 😀
Yeah.
Yeah…
Don’t worry, man. You’re still getting all the ladies and your skull is excellently shaped for a shaved head. 😀
Psh, there haven’t been any ladies for ages 😛
Nor does there seem to be much on the horizon. Much of anything, really.
:'( You feeling a bit down?
The beauty of having a job is you can save up to do some crazy ambitious things if you want. Got to course correct if you’re not entirely happy and make yourself happy. *decisive and hypocritical nod*
*smacks DC upside the head*
Yeah, the bank account’s looking a little healthier now which is nice.
I have no idea what to course-correct to though.
*dies*
eep! Naked Powalen!
*disappointment*
Naww, that’s really cute, and really awesome!
4 weeks without soft drink!!!!! \o/ I can’t believe it. I think I might have given it up for good. I don’t seem to be craving it anymore and I think I’m better off for it. 😀
Getting off the soft drink treadmill is awesome. I did it a while back but I’ve found that terrible shit like Coke Zero has sneaked back into my diet 🙁
At the moment I’m just trying to see how long I can last without soft drink. So far so good.
So my heat gun died last night. I only had it since Thursday, last Thursday not yesterday.
This means I can’t work on Nob’s breastplate or certain aspects of cosplay. Ugh.
How will I defend myself from my enemies!?
Hmmm, maybe I’m just being paranoi-*gets hit by an arrow*
You forgot *in the knee*
I used to be an adventurer like you but then I took an arrow in the heart
hang on…
*dies*
Anyone had a look at the NA PS store and done a connection test for Playstation Now? I got a result of my current network speed will make PS now unusable.
Gonna work good.
when it says it’s unusable, it’s not kidding. Take any ol’ PS3 game, consume over half your body weight in whatever alcoholic beverage you desire, and play said ps3 game through a kaleidoscope. But that doesn’t account for the stuttering, so, I dunno, get a friend to whack you in the head repeatedly with something blunt so you black out every few seconds.
Hyperbole aside, it’s very finnicky even with solid internet.
So a standard North Queensland meat then?
The laws of physics state that you’ll have a bad time.
I think when/if they roll it out here, it’ll be running in more local data centers.
Where is everyone?! Why are you not all here entertaining me while I’m sick? *goes back to bed*
All the people who played P.T. are cowering in various corners. D:
I could barely even watch @dkzeitgeist ‘s stream without wetting myself and I wasn’t even playing.
It’s so weird how addictive being scared like that can be. I was terrified and freaked out but just wanted to play more and more and more. Can’t wait for full release. 😀
You can have it. I’ll go back to my happy, wuss-friendly games that don’t cause me to poo myself with fear.
EDIT: I do know what you mean though. I always get way more curious than I should then immediately regret it once I start playing. I’ve had Alan Wake installed on my PC for ages but haven’t started it…
Ooooh, Alan Wake’s pretty great. You’ll be running to street lights for safety after that.
But it can be frustrating at times.
Is PT ps4 only?
The demo is at the moment, yeah. No idea if it’ll be an exclusive game or not, though.
I wasn’t even controlling it and I was terrified.
The composure my sweet lady shows in moments of extreme stress explains how she’s been able to stand me for so long.
I must admit, I pictured you cowering behind the couch with only your eyes peering out from time-to-time.
That game is a big ol’ cup of nope for me. Probably with some poached nope and a side of nope. Maybe some nope toast too? I don’t know through, I’m not really that hungry.
I already posted an adorable photo of a plush toy I bought, what more can I do!?
I’m here. But I am feeling like a zombie. Probably going to bed around 2.30 this morning and being awake at 7 or there abouts has done that, but whatever.
Check back again, some of the TAYbies are being pretty damn hilarious up there. Best start to the day. (Esp Liondrive, Saturday, Freeze.)
I’ve only just woken up! I’ll do something entertaining in a while
Sorry that I have gainful employment. I will rectify the situation immediately.
But probably not. I like moneys.
@welbot and other HOMM fans
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/08/13/might-and-magic-heroes-7-gathering-troops-for-2015-siege
Hmm.. interesting, let’s hope this one isn’t so much of a buggy wreck like VI was eh? 🙂
Wondering if we should attempt another game sometime soon or just wait for this.
I’d be up for trying again certainly, so many connection issues we had though 🙁
Edit: Actually our biggest issue was game version, one or two of us didn’t have the fully updated client, now I remember!
I gotta update mine, but I’ll be there this time around (wife no longer has flu, demanding Star Trek or Wolf Among Us, so I can play HOMM)
*squee*
Yeah version was our biggest issue. For some reason HOMM VI doesn’t update properly for some people, one of our guys had a lower version and kept getting kicked from the game cuz of it.
Yeah I’ve got to update mine as well, but seriously Ubisoft what kind of retarded patch requires you to completely uninstall the game then reinstall it then manually patch over because your game client sucks balls =@
my favourite will always be 3 XD spent half my childhood playing it
3 is my favourite too. It was like combating with paintings it looked that gorgeous for its time.
I think 2 will always be my absolute fav. followed by 3. high hopes for 7 being great again! 6 wasn’t too bad for me, and I never experienced any bugs really, it was just insanely hard in places! But it always has been in some ways. really hope they can return it to its former glory though!
I think they went a little overboard in simplifying the resource system for 6. But yeah my main issue was I kept getting black screen issues in transitioning between exploration and battle screen where it would never emerge out of a black screen yet I can hear the battle music. It got so bad I literally couldn’t continue the campaigns, and I only just scratched the surface with the story 🙁
sounds like your pc has issues.. :0 I’ve run it on several machines and never had any problems with it :\ Hope it doesn’t effect 7 for ya.
I’m running a nVidia GTX 580, and the game runs really smoothly in framerates, so it’s not like it’s struggling or anything. It was reported by many people but I never found any fix that worked for me. I tried turning down all the graphics regardless and it didn’t change anything.
same card as me! I’d say it’s something hardware causing it, but what it is would take a full break down
@welbot
If you want to help out that’d be great. I have yet to try a reinstall, mainly because it’s a huge download and I don’t want to waste my monthly quota (parents would get real pissed at me). If it really comes down to it I can do that too later on down the track.
if you have a spare drive, or space elsewhere, copy your steamapps/common folder. it contains all the downloaded game data. when you re-install steam, you can copy it back, and it’ll all show up again
I really enjoyed what I played of 6, when it wasn’t crashing -_-
I hate to be that guy, but doesn’t HOMM seem like the perfect game to release for free and have microtransactions and an energy system or something attached to it?
I am going to a funeral today.
I hate funerals
Stay strong bud!
Sorry to hear that, Rockets. 🙁
They are just the worst.
On the bright side, food at the wake! (cc. @bish)
So Benjamin Sisko has grown on me since mainlining Star Trek DS9.
We’re up to Season 4 so far.
Gotta love Worf, but I have to say this time around I’m really enjoying the villains as much as the “good guys”.
Dukat and Garak are actually all kinds of awesome. In an evil way.
Worst. Captain. Ever.
Captain Over Act. Captain Annoying. Captain Bland.
I like almost all the cast of DS9 except him. XD
Sorry DC, but I prefer Sisko to Janeway. Janeway always rubs me up the wrong way for some unknown reason.
And now she’s in prison! :'(
Red is an infinitely more interesting character than Janeway.
The thing I didn’t like about Voyager compared to DS9 is that they always pressed the reset button. There weren’t any arcs and they didn’t utilize their premise as much as they could. Can’t say that about DS9.
I think I only liked Janeway because of Chakotay… On her own she was too rigid in her Starfleet ideals!
Chakotay was my least liked Voyager character. Man, we’re starting a rivalry for the ages today! XD
*throws tomatoes at dc*
I mean out of all the Star Trek captains I guess he’d be my least favourite but he was still a solid captain! Also bear in mind technically he isn’t captain till halfway through the series… Just a commander =P
However I liked that DS9 was a stationary platform, it made for a nice change of pace after you watch TNG and Voyager.
Yeah, I loved DS9. Just not Sisko. XD
DS9 is underrated. Sisko is a good captain and there’s some really interesting characters on board. I think it’s a better show than Voyager. (Waits for storm of abuse and downvotes)
Haha, I remember when DS9 was airing it was generally agreed upon that DS9 was the better show. I disagree, but I don’t think there’ll be storm of abuse and downvotes. 🙂
I liked what DS9 tried to do with the arcs and non-moving location, but feel like Ronald D. Moore did this way better on Battlestar Galactica.
I haven’t watched enough Battlestar Galactica to be able to compare the two shows. I’ve been meaning to watch it, but never gotten around to it.
Awh. Well, if it helps, I’ll jump in with the storm of abuse!
Battlestar Galactica was tense and dramatic, with flawed, relatable, compelling characters and nuanced conflicts.
Y’know… EVERYTHING THAT DS9 WAS NOT. I swear, I’ve seen far more episodes of DS9 than I ever want to (like… 5 eps), thanks to my Mum’s boyfriend being into it when it comes on daytime free-to-air TV when we’re visiting. Token, cardboard cut-out characters, preaching The Moral of the Day.
Coupled with the entire Star Trek universe’s infuriating 10yr-old-child’s concept on how a military does/should operate resulting in cringe-worthy combat scenes with actors who would probably be outclassed in agility and lethality by a 10yr-old-child, there is damn near nothing to recommend DS9 with the possible exception of drunkenly laughing at 90s hair.
(Edit: And dammit, but I think a couple of the episodes I watched featured Worf… the Galaxy’s Whiniest Klingon. Who, as far as I can tell, exists only to be a white-faced clown to quirky humans, and to carry around a reputation for badassery which always proves to be embarrassingly undeserved. It says so much about the universe that he seems to have travelled between so many of the shows.)
omg! I can’t believe there’s someone out there who feels the same way I do about DS9!! I love all the other star trek series, but man. DS9 was a snore fest for me.
The problem with Worf (I agree, it seems he’s only there to get beat up) is that the showrunners defined his badassery as an informed attribute then promptly forgot to fill in the gaps later. We’re not supposed to take away that Worf never wins a fight, we’re just supposed to take his martial prowess at face value so when someone beats him in a fight we’re all like “whoa, that dude must be super badass if he can defeat WORF” but they relied on this narrative crutch so often that Worf became a joke. Beating Worf in a fight is basically a rite of passage for any aggressor, much like finding a way to critically cripple the Enterprise or capture Picard or steal Neelix’s organs. It’s just something the show has happen to establish a conflict before the opening credits.
It’s not so much a DS9 problem as a “we’re doing the same goddamn thing for 25 hours a year for seven years” problem. It doesn’t matter how hard you try, you either recycle some content or you run out of content.
Yeah, and I suspect a lot of it suffered from being the 90s, with low-tech/low-budget.
I mean, there were some very cool ideas there. My brother (who is a trekkie-in-law) explained one of the alien races in one of the episodes which were basically the servant/warrior caste of an empire from another dimension who had been genetically modified and shackled with a drug addiction. Vat-grown ‘total warriors’ who brag of being up to years old, with the eldest of them dying in battle before they reach double-digits, feared for their lethality.
That is such a frickin’ cool concept, but in practice it was a bunch of extras with the acting range of a wooden ruler, shuffling around in fear of breaking the cheap, shitty, movement-restricting costumes and make-up which were nonetheless obviously worth more than their not-yet-started careers.
Additionally, it was impossible to take them seriously with face make-up that immediately put me in mind of anthropomorphized Thwomps from Mario.
I dunno, maybe it’s just the impressions my memory has left me with, but I just remember thinking that maybe if these walking Thwomps hadn’t been terrified of smudging their make-up and had gone to the zoo to study how big cats move, they could capture some of that ‘relaxed alertness’, the lethal poise of a pure killer, instead of being, “Duh, I’m big,” (but also not that big). Maybe then they might have been more convincing, but just like damn near everything else I saw the series try, it was an amazing failure to reach potential.
DS9 is the best Trek!
When I was a kid I liked Voyager > TNG > TOS >>>>>> DS9. I saw a few episodes of DS9 and thought it was the most boring shit ever.
I recently watched all of TNG and DS9 back to back and while TNG still wins out, DS9 runs a lot closer. TOS only has nostalgia value at this point. Much like the really old episodes of Doctor Who, they’re important from a lore point of view but 90% of them are rubbish.
I’m not sure how I feel about Voyager because it’s been years since I watched it. I suspect there’s probably some valid reasons why most people dislike it. I still consider it a personal favourite.
HOW GOOD IS STAR TREK! 😀
Somewhere between okay and fantastic, depends on the episode
Well, so’s your face! *runs off crying*
That may be the best review my face has ever had! *runs off crying with joy*
Sad thing is, that’s actually true…
Oh my god, steam is different!
WHAT IS THIS!? I NEVER SIGNED UP FOR THIS! OH GOD WHAT DO I DO!?
*falls to ground in fetal position*
Here’s a song that might help you out with things being different from usual. You’re welcome.
Haha, I remember that show. Good times
Wait, games that need updates have BLUE text now?
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!
I really like new Steam. So pretty.
Oh yeah, I actually think it is much neater.
I can’t even get on to Steam at the moment for some reason.
Neither can I.
The reason is I’m at work.Should be signed up for BETA son! Daily restarts of Steam due to updates which may or may not break the system, woo! That’s NEVER inconvenient!
Hurt me more, Gaben.
I joined the beta because I wanted to be in the group that was trialling family sharing so my wife could play my games in her own profile. I’d drop out of the beta but I honestly don’t know if family sharing is still a beta-only option and can’t be bothered investigating.
The daily restarts to install every goddamn patch they roll out haven’t become that intrusive… yet.
I’ve been beta testing with Steam for years, I just accepted it as a normal Steam thing 😛
I only just opted in for the pretty new colours and hiding games I have no intention of ever playing.
I honestly don’t really mind the regular updates and have yet to experience any issues with the thing either.
I prefer the grey buttons. They fit the aesthetic better and didn’t look so ‘2D’ as the blue buttons.
They’ve put COLOUR into steam???
Old Steam had colour sorta! Games that needed updating were yellow!
I’ve still not got anything different in mine
I brought this up a week ago and everyone thought I was insane. Then I realised I’d been in the beta for 4 years…
So I said before where I went nuts with Torchlight 2 mods. Welp I managed to clutter a few together alongside Synergies and get it working last night. It’s fricken insanity now, talking around 20 classes and over one hundred choices of pets. Also I think the mob count has drastically increased. It’s absolute chaos now and I’m loving every bit of it xD. Apparently there are miniguns you can equip in this game, yet to find one but I have this sort of “scroll” that reduces heat generation from minigun use… I have so much to discover now it’s like a whole new game! 😛
@tech_knight
Does multiplayer work with mods?
I think it can, considering you can still select “Single Player/LAN/Online” when starting, but I think you need to match the mod and load path 1-1 for it to work properly I think. It’s utter chaos in my mod list right now. Put it this way… you can even play the game as one of the game’s bosses, and pets include mobs and even some bosses (Obviously not as powerful as them though, and not having the abilities) :P. I’m playing as something called “the Descendant” right now (An offshoot of the Destroyer from Torchlight 1 apparently), which is a huge batch of passives (Including scroll passives incorporated into the class like Dual Wielding) with several active abilities.
How about that “Blues and Bullets” game that got announced at Gamescom? http://acrowdofmonsters.com/news/blues-bullets-at-gamescom-2014/
So. Cool.
Oh god, I feel the call of WoW… Someone stop me before I renew my subscription please!
STOP!
Buy Divinity Original Sin. It’s cool, it’s a solid time sink, it’s hard as hell and a good thinky game to boot.
OoooOOOh I like thinky games…
It does also have coop so if your boyfriend also likes thinky games…
I take it you watched the new trailer =P
Give in chris.. GIVE IN! You know you want your own fortress to manage in Draenor!
Oh god… That could do it…
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/14001702
Yep… this could be very bad, who wants to explain to my Boyfriend Why I wont be in bed for a while?
Just show him the blog and get him to join in and make complimentary fortresses =P
Bloody hell. Local cop came in with two of the new recruits fresh out of academy. They’re both still in their teens, a head shorter than me and wrists the size of my thumb.
Really? That’s what they’re hiring?
Young minds, ready to shape with corruption and links to organized crime! IT’S THE GOLD COAST WAY!
Young malleable minds, yo.
Edit: what DC said.
Look on the bright side, in 10 years you won’t be the one standing in body armour spraying tear gas into someone’s yard and suddenly think “hang on, when did we start doing this shit?”
http://www.polygon.com/2014/8/14/6003533/rollercoaster-tycoon-world-pc-atari
Interesting, considering Frontier and ScreamRide.
Frontier has street cred with the third RCT game too!
Alright, Pertharinos! (@fled @grandmasterb-funk @liondrive @phoenix @thecracks)
To identify myself at Garden City, I announce that I will be wearing a red shirt with a tiger (not a lion) thing on it, light brown shorts, and grey shoes. If that is not enough information, I will be holding up a sign that says @phlanispo with size 130 helvetica text.
Also, I should probably warn you guys about my sideburns. I don’t want anyone to go into cardiac arrest from shock (or laughter)
Shave those sideburns.
@beeawwb currently is the standard to be judged against on the sideburn front.
Those are some third degree sideburns.
Give me time, and I can beat @beawwb .
NEVER!
Perth? I thought we’d established that it was properly announced Pers, just you all had lisps?
That’s not how you say Perf.
Thut up, Red.
I have glasses, and a ginger beard.
Probably also my brown beanie.
Probably a hoodie – either black or grey+green.
Why not a lion? Just in case someone tries to drive it?
@dire_wolf 7pm tonight, assorted questing and killing of NPC’s in WoW? You can watch the trailer just before we start to GET HYPE! xD
Dammit.
Last night, Freya was obsessing over cosplaying as characters from Avatar. Now the idea of making Mako’s super rad jacket is stuck in my head.
What’s worse is that because he’s poor, the idea of it being fairly rough and not well made makes it more interesting and possibly easier.
Good thing I can’t sew.
JB has some pretty decent $16 blu-rays in their buy 2 get 1 free sale at the moment. Last night for $64 I picked up Pulp Fiction, Princess Bride, Book of Eli, The Man with the Iron Fists, Terminator 2 and The Wizard of Oz.
I also seriously considered Expendables 1 & 2, Dredd, Her and Argo but decided to prioritise. Point is, there’s actually an alright selection in their blu-ray bargain bin for a change.
We grabbed Despicable Me 2,Cloudy With A ChanceOf Meatballs 2, and Megamind.
For the kids, of course. 😛
I didn’t see any of those! Selection probably varies from location to location depending on whatever excess stock got dumped.
All these new horror games coming out. There’s a chance that one of them will be good right? Haven’t played good one in a long time.
#gookysave
Yeah, just give me some nice slow burn atmosphere. 😀
Well if you’d actually play ZombiU… 😛
They all seem to be on PS4 too. I will buy the games, me thinks and worry about the console later
Yeah I’m going to at the very least be recording my reactions to Alien Isolation
Silent Hills demo is rad
LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
Sesame Street/Good Vibrations – Kasabian
Maps – Maroon 5
This is the best Maps song http://youtu.be/oIIxlgcuQRU
Guns N Roses – Yesterdays
Reverse Running – Atoms For Peace
Will It Go Round In Circles – Billy Preston
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDehYXKI31g
Sia – Bring Night
https://soundcloud.com/welbot/shorter-pop-song
And the Hero Will Drown by Story of the Year.
Old Man – Neil Young
Nostalgia – Control Machete
Always Look On the Bright Side of Life- Eric Idle
D do. D do d do da do.
Still got Run of the Mill going in my head from yesterday.
Not sure if it a cause or an effect.
Believe it or not, Dancing Queen – Abba.
As in I actually played it on trombone.
Afterlife – Arcade Fire
3 hours of Arcade Fire today. Great driving music! 😀
I almost drove off the road trying to change albums :S
Have you got Funeral yet? GREAT ALBUM! 😀
How many albums do they have?!?!
I have Reflektor, the Suburbs (the best driving music), and Neon Bible (that I haven’t listened to yet.
Four, so you’re only missing Funeral. Got some good songs on that. 😀
Like this one:
There’s also the EP.
https://soundcloud.com/alt-j/every-other-freckle
I dunno about you guys, but I’m really enjoying Arkham Origins. I think it’s been unfairly slammed. I haven’t played either of the other Arkham games all that recently, but on its own, it’s damn entertaining.
I feel like it doesn’t end well and is not as polished, but I liked it too.
This was my main gripe too.
It was fine. Weight of expectation was pretty high, and the MP isn’t worth it at all, but to play through it was entertaining enough
Had its fair share of bugs on launch too. (Like all Arkham games, really.) Unable to 100%, game breaking, etc.
“On launch” suggests they got patched out. I had a few game breaking bugs when I played months after release…
Felt it was poorly balanced, paced terribly, camera was actively causing problems and the combat timings were just awful to the point thought it was just me being bad until I loaded up asylum and had no problems.
i’m fairly certain we have actually had the same discussion in person but yeah, I basically had the same problems as you with Origins.
I liked Asylum but not City and origins sounded more like City so I didn’t bother.
Dammit I hate websites that demand some utterly complex password. Energy Australia requires 9 and 12 digits, a combination of letters (uppercase AND lowercase), numbers AND symbols. Since when does someone require a symbol?! Wtf energy Australia?! You think someones going to start hacking into my account and start paying my bills for me?
Hey Energy Australia, if someone wants to hack in and pay my bills, YOU LET THEM!
Send them a complaint:
“I can’t create an account with you guys. Your password requirements are too strict, and to try and get something that works…well, I just don’t have the energy.”
Next bill has a $400 charge for password energy.
That’s the big new thing, now. Lotta MMOs, game sites, and even the government and our various providers are all insisting on symbols. Hell, one of the new ones actually refuses any password that includes a dictionary word.
Sometime I’m thinking I’ll have to go through my Important-mail, useful-mail, and junk-sign-up email archives and figure out how many fucking passwords I have.
When I have a full list, I’ll submit a complaint to The King of The World (America), and ask him/her/it to fix it.
My favourite one was how when I set things up for my banking, they *refused* letting you have any kind of punctuation. More or less meaning it’s easier to get into the bank itself than my paypal?
My bank password is the most un-complex password I have lol. It’s my money, but I don’t give a shit cos it really isn’t my money.
Wait, everyone is forced to have a password like “5g1Qv$Pf_/>rs” ? So it could potentially deem passwords like “thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazywhatchamacallit” unsafe?
Despite what xkcd says about password strength? Yeah.
Not that it changes a hell of a lot. Friday becomes Fr1d@y and such.
Unintentional t@g ging is the best.
Intentional tagging is the @worst .
Got an SMS yesterday afternoon from iiNet – internet activated! Picked up the modem on my way to work this morning, with any luck it’ll be all good when I set it up tonight (hopefully with speeds similar to the old Optus line). Home stretch! Woot! \o/
Also, I kinda may have sorta bought Risen 3 and Demonomicon in celebration, so along with the few I got during the Steam Sale where my internet first died, I have about 8 new games in my Steam library that I’ll at last be able to play. And only a month until Destiny… And I want to check out PT on PS4, given what I’ve heard. Busy weekend ahead.Woo celebratory spending and finally having internet! It’s always a joyous occasion to break the internet drought.
Destiny hype!
What the hell, the new Assassin’s Creed has micro-transactions?? No details yet but apparently it’s meant to unlock gear if you don’t want to get them by progressing….
Enh. Those sorta things are fine by me. If it keeps them from doing something Pure Evil(tm), I figure, let people pay for cheats.
I think Dead Space 3 did that, where cheats are now micro-transactions instead of just codes. As long as the game’s difficulty isn’t dictated by it (e.g. difficulty spikes up to the point where you have to buy X to get past it with ease), I wouldn’t care as I wouldn’t use it anyway myself
There are people that complain that Dead Space 3 forced micro-transactions on the player but I didn’t get that at all and I finished the game on the second hardest difficulty.
I guess it really was a clever marketing move as it allowed the players who were struggling feel like they were doing better but you could soldier on without it.
I just have a stigma with anything that uses the words micro-transactions. Feels like game companies use it to test the waters before doing something even more under handed =@
Pretty sure Black Flag has something similar. I keep seeing ads for “time-saving” DLC that unlocks stuff if you can’t be bothered finding it properly during the game.
Yes, I remember seeing those! And thinking, “This is for someone who is very much not me, because to me, hunting down all the upgrades and sidequests IS THE GAME.”
Exactly! 😀
I was not upset that you could go into the stores in the game and buy the whale / shark bones and animal skins and stuff though. The whaling goods especially, doing that made me feel way too wrong and I just paid for the stuff rather than doing it.
Yeah, actually, I was so not keen on hunting the whales. Ethically.
Yeah, that was good. I felt uncomfortable doing the whaling and hunting, basically just did two of each until I found out you could buy that stuff instead of hunting. My son actually cried when he saw me hunt a deer. 🙁
That doesn’t bother me too much. Hell if they are going to put in micro-transactions i think these kinds are best. Ones were you can still unlock the item if you fulfill some kind of requirement (As long as it doesn’t require something stupid like “Kill 1000 enemies in a row without touching the ground while balancing a glass of water on your head with your eyes closed”)
Let’s hope ‘progressing’ isn’t a horrible slog to convince you to buy stuff.
Heyo! How is everyone? What have I missed?
Been busy at work and life all week, so haven’t had much fun tiems and gameplay. Maybe I’ll catch up this weekend.
^ Who’s this guy?
Some derpy fellow, ionno!
Hey guys, believe or not but i still live \o/… Been crazy busy at work though so i haven’t had much TAY time…
MELBOURNE TAYBIES, DONT FORGET PIXEL’S EPIC ROADTRIP IS COMING UP SOON… Still got 2 seats available, so if you feel like putting up with @f4ction and me in an enclosed space for 8 hours to go to the can’d meat let me know! Everyone is welcome!
Don’t let him bring any photon grenades!
I must now shoot you in the next RPG session. Soz buddy. https://twitter.com/f4ction/status/496638187486199809
I swear I will keep the seduction to a minimum (unless I am encouraged).
Breastplate if I finish it?
Deal!
Mmmaybe
DOOOOO EEEEEET!
DOOOOO EEEEEET!
Greeniyes.
Erggh, I don’t want Greenius at my meat.
Let’s see if you’ll be convinced to come out of spite. 😛*holds breath*
Geez you’ve been holding your breath since 1:22pm… You okay buddy?
“…buddy?”
But nah srs, gimme the deets :D.
What’s the plan? Which days? How long?
My boss came down from Sydney today and seemed pretty happy for me to take annual leave whenever so I just gotta see when…
Leave Melbourne Friday 29th august, morning… Ish… And at this stage return Sunday because work… We can work on departure times from Melbourne to suit better
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
So I’d only need to take the Friday off? Would you come by my house? (it’s totally on the way, I swear)
I live in Lysterfield (3156)
We’re still working put best ways to collect people, i think @f4ction is catching a train into the city and I’ll collect from southern cross or something along those lines… I live near Essendon station so if you guys can make your way there that’d be really easy :P… But I’m happy to work something out that works for everyone
Don’t plan anything around me yet, I’m just wonderin’ 😀
Man, every time I see a gameplay video / trailer for The Witcher 3 i get all kinds of excited. I wish it was out now!
Same for Dragon Age: Inquisition for me!
I wish they hadn’t postponed it!! D=
It’s sad, but it also gives me enough time to re-complete DA:O + Awakening + Witch Hunt + DA2.
i can wait. we get Wasteland 2 before those two.
WASTELAND! WOOOOO! (And Alien Isolation.)
gonna be a great couple of months, pretty hyped for a lot of stuff,
Destiny, LOTR: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, DA: Inquisition, Hyrule Warriors, Far Cry 4 (which I hope they follow up with Blood Dragon 2) and I’m sure I’m forgetting a few *hyperventilates from over stimulation & passes out*
I wish I could just go on a 3 month holiday after Destiny comes out =P
yeah pretty much, going to have so many games and not enough time to play them, I can see myself neglecting other things for more game time.
I am thinking I’ll probably still take some time off for that. I burned out on the beta, hoping there’ll be more longevity with more to do.
The trailers have made me hyped for DA:I, but I’m sort of wishing I’d done a media blackout on the game because by this point I feel there aren’t going to be any surprises left for me in it.
Anyone have any experience in custom building a gaming desk? I’ve had this idea lately that i want to build a cost effective setup that’ll allow me to comfortable while playing my flight games (FSX, Evochron, Star Citizen) but is easily adapted to mouse/keyboard setup for standard gaming… I’ve looked at the Obutto gaming cockpit but can’t afford something like that… I’ll probably take inspiration from it though cause it’s pretty epic… Any ideas or experience on that field?
milk crates, lots of them, then you can interchange bits as you like, it’s like the Lego of furniture 😛 . Seriously though, no idea, I’m going to be looking into getting one too soon.
Lots of bean bags.
…. I LOVE IT! Beanbags AND milk crates!
The designer of Ikaruga is working on a new shmup for PS4. Awesomeness.
what’s a shmup?
Oh wait (lightbulb turns on) Shoot ’em up?
Yes. Hiroshi Iuchi’s stuff (eg Radiant Silvergun, Ikaruga, Gradius V) is generally under the ‘Danmaku’ or ‘Bullet Hell’ subgenre. Ikaruga is a rad game.
I got twin packs of chocolate mousse at coles today for 30c! Love a good bargain!
Just remember… A minute on the lips is a lifetime on your hips… =P
Yeah I know I’m a buzzkill =PI lost 20kg in the past 2 years, so that’s the least of my worries 😉
@pupp3tmast3r 7pm tonight sounds good. I’ve already seen the trailer. I was up at 2,30 in the morning watching the stream, which is why I’m only just replying to you now as I just woke up.
@saturday re P.T
I’ve gone through all the stuff available, except for getting the phone to ring. I’ve looked it up and tried every guide I could find but no luck.Sold! 7pm assorted spell casting/shield bashing/feral spiriting and general kobold slaying shall commence!
Just so we can start in the same area, what race were you going to play?
Let me know what you had in mind for your class, wcs I power level to level 10 and make it to your starting area! I was thinking either Tauren Paladin or Blood Elf Pally (probably blood elf although I hate their starting area). I’ll play tanking till WotLK expac and then dual spec to Healz.
Probably spend an hour gearing out my new toon though, with bags and assorted boa gear.
I was probably going to go shaman. I can go heals then if you’re tanking and we can get dungeon queues really fast. We could go tauren together, if you wanted to do that, or I’ll just go whatever and meet you up in the Blood Elf zone.
Ah go for whatever you want dire, ele and enhance are really fun to play and I found shammy heals to be the most boring out of the lot especially early game where Earth Shield basically does all the healing for you!
I’m definitely going a tanking spec as pally to start and settling on healing/ret for late game. Want to give raid healing a try for the new expac =]
plug in a mic. People don’t know exactly what to say or even if you need to be in a specific spot to say something, but you most definitely need a microphone connected to finish it.I can’t stop myself from singing “In Just A Moment’s Time” from the Skullgirls soundtrack.. Except I’m at work. So I have to sing very quietly.
If there is ever a karaoke meat in Perth, don’t invite me.
haha, I was just caught singing in the office, nearly everyone is gone so I’m cranking music in headphones singing along, turned around to see one of the managers giving me a weird look so I responded with a cheesy grin and “nothing to see here, move along”, he didn’t say a word and walked off so now I’m back to singing,
I sit at the back of the reception area at work, right near the radio.
Thankfully, most of what plays on it is awful, but there have been quite a few times where I’ll be mouthing along and dancing to a song, glance up, and from the look on someone’s face, realise that a patient has seen me singing and dancing along to Call Me Maybe, or Poker Face, or whatever other crappy enjoyable pop is playing.
It’s good, because it’s not like there’s lots of people who go to their GP frequently or anything. Hahaha. Haha. Ha.
Anyone here use Instagram? In an effort to appear more social, I got back my account and I’m posting random useless junk to it that may or may not entertain you. tehstickman
NZ Manly Facial Hair Update, Day 4
I feel like a slob. This is the point I’d normally chicken out. 1-2mm stubble on chin and upper lip, so not enough to look like anything of relevance, but enough to look unkempt. Have not yet decided on beard style.How can we be sure this isn’t parallel universe Negs?
The trick is to shave the edges into a shape. Beginning stubble can actually look very good if shaped properly
As freeze has said! Clean up any parts around the edges where it’s shabby and you’ll look like a hunk in no time!
#grooming
Whoa whoa, I’m already amazingly attractive. Don’t want to overdo it or I won’t be able to go out anywhere without people swooning when I get close. 😛
I can manage that without doing anything 😎
#lazy
Yeah, I should do that soon, it’s getting thick enough to be worth it. I’m thinking that I should probably shave the stuff on my neck as well.
I shave my neck and near the cheek bones to make mine neater, not sure if I should trim any split ends sticking out the sides of my face.
Shaving your neck will do a lot to make it look like an intentional style vs just having not shaved.
This. When I first started growing it, the only thing I allowed myself to shave was anything that grew over the edge of my lip (to keep it out of food) and the neck. Everything else all the beard-growing sites said to leave for 4wks til you have some thickness before starting to shape.
@Negativezero I actually go to a barber who I get to do mine, and shave my head. Total, ten bucks. He’s started to get really quite good at shaping so that there are kind of defined lines, keeping the thing looking pretty sharp. Just ask the BrisTAYbies.
*swoons*
😛
So, I started watching Attack on Titan last night. Ended up going to (I think) the 10th episode. Gotta say, ultimate impressions is that I really like it but I kind of feel like I can’t explain why…also, sometimes an episode would end and I’d be surprised because it felt like nothing had happened for the past 20 minutes.
I should mention, I watched the majority of it in dubs and it was far better than I though it would be.
Replace 20 minutes with ‘rest of the series’ and you get the current state of the manga. And kinda the overall tone of the show as well.
pretty much this, there is so many plot lines blowing in the wind its just frustrating
Yeah, the show has typical Production IG pacing. They make really well-animated shows with usually terrible, terrible pacing. Most of the time this is enough to make their stuff boring as shit, but Attack on Titan was strong enough on other fronts that you can forgive their inconsistent pacing.
Also it feels like a throwback to mid to late 90s shock and gore stuff with all that bloody ultraviolence. That sort of thing is a lot less common in anime nowadays, at least at the intensity level of Titan.
I don’t know if I could call it ultraviolence compared to other stuff I’ve seen lately (Elfen Lied I’m looking at you) because they do a lot of off screen cut-aways. Unless there’s a toned down version and I have it?
Where are you watching it? If the answer is Netflix, I’ve heard that that’s censored. Also has shit subtitles as well apparently.
Elfen Lied was like the producers were seeing how far past the line they could push things without anyone shutting them down.
The opening scenes in Elfen Lied definitely traumatized me. 😛
Hey naked lady, how you OH MY GOD WHY.I’m watching it from a completely legitimate source.
I wouldn’t say it’s not violent, but (as an example) if someone is about to get eaten they’ll do a dramatic close-up of their face.
Bought the dvd, so I’ve only seen the first half of the first season. Waiting for the next ones to come out in October.
So yeah, watching in dubs also. Not too bad, to be honest. I mainly watch anime dubbed, because it’s easier to deal with minor distractions – I can still follow along with the show while not directly looking at the screen.
Attack on Titan is very enjoyable. Very brutal.
Ergh. I deleted my facebook account a while back, but I guess I need to create a new one for one of my traineeship modules. I feel dirty. I wish there was another social media tool I could use that would qualify. Hell, I’d use the Rooster Teeth website if I didn’t already have an account for that.
Argh, I have been frozen on the account creation screen for the last 10 minutes. I don’t want to do this!
I tried telling facebook that my name was ‘Temporary Account’ during account creation, but Mark Zuckerberg was having none of that shit. What if that was my real name, Mark?
Fine, Mark Zuckerberg, you got me. My real name is John Citizen.
I live in Jinnah Antarctic Station, Antarctica. I went to Midwich Elementary at Silent Hill.
You happy, Zuckerberg?
It’s not that hard to create a fake name that’s plausible enough to get through.
Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to Phlan Ispo!
And re: Facebook, ultimately it can only exploit and damage you to the extent you allow it to. If all you’ve got on there is your name and your module, there’s not a whole lot that can go wrong. It’s when the network begins to balloon out and the drunken regret photos begin to surface that things go wrong. Or when you forget to log out and it begins to track your interests.
How do you know my real name? O_O
In all seriousness the thing I’m most worried about is the whole ‘forever’ thing and the ‘selling your soul to advertisers’ policy. Back when I had a real Facebook account, I was the only one in my age range who was careful about what they wrote down. Apart from this one incident where I threatened to unfriend someone unless they used correct grammar and spelling, I have nothing to regret. I’m even a little careful about what I post here. I still have a policy of not swearing in posts.
But selling my info to advertisers… that shit gets to me. I have to post where I work for my traineeship and upload photos of myself. (something I never did with my old account)
You know, I think Rooster Teeth’s social media website might have been a better idea.
tl;dr I hate social media.
Put a cartoon smiley face over your face.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Laughing_man_logo.png
I’m Stick Man on FB. I’m StickMan here. I’m also known as Stickman IRL.
COINCIDENCE?!?!?!!?!
Many sympathies.
Thank you for sticking with me during this difficult time.
I feel dangerously close to a situation where I may have to delve into the faceberk. It makes me incredibly uncomfortable, but there’s seemingly very little in the way of alternative options.
It’s becoming harder and harder to maintain a separation of online and real life.
Stick to your guns! Stay away from the book of faces and the tweeting birds of terror!
My guns are all I have!
That’s why you’re meant to stick to them!
Twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter…
I have some remote family to keep track of now, so I reactivated the one that a girlfriend convinced me to take up.
Initial take-up was pretty typical. Accepting friend requests from fucking everywhere for any reason, people known only tangentially til it was several hundred times past my Dunbar number, pokes, superpokes, apps, quizzes, stickers, photo tags, 2am status update cries for helps, peoples’ babies’ facebook accounts, people talking incessantly about the baby, pictures of peoples’ food, adverts, friend requests from clubs I’ve been on the door list to, event updates, event planners, people who hadn’t done any friendship maintenance in several years only poking when they wanted some support in their latest venture to try and escape their 9-5 grind into stardom, ‘supporting’ charities by ‘joining’ them which resulted in ‘groups’ that had hundreds of thousands of members and had raised about three bucks fifty, emails all the fucking time even when you swear to god you’ve hunted through the labyrinth of account settings to untick/turn off every conceivable agreement to get ANOTHER FUCKING EMAIL OH MY FUCKING GOD HOW IS IT THAT PEOPLE ENJOY THIS VAPID MINDLESS PIECE OF SHIT!?
I cancelled the account. When I reactivated to get access to the services being used by family, I went scorched earth. I deleted fucking everyone and everything, INCLUDING people who I knew I was only going to add again. There’s maybe ten people on there now, just family. There will be no more. I powerfully resent every single email, but some things you do for family.
Jeez, you just gave me a Vietnam-esque flashback. Oh god the pictures of food were unrelenting. Did you have family members who would clutter your feed with psychic readings daily ?
I set it so all my facebook emails went directly to my spam folder.
I tried the scorched-earth approach, but I deleted the account 3 minutes later, simply because I wanted it to be done. All that info is on a database somewhere, but at least I can’t access it.
OMG there’s a guide dog puppy in training in the centre and it’s just the most adorable thing ever I just want to hug it forever.
Man, screw psychs and heads pace centers, just have a room full of puppies I can visit on occasion.
It’s torture really, you want to hug and pet that puppy but since it’s a guide dog in training you know you shouldn’t 🙁 I’ve been there
Not quite the same, but in Japan, Cat Cafes are an actual thing that exists.
How do they deal with the smell?
Cats are usually pretty clean animals. Their leavings might smell but the animals themselves don’t. Presumably they have the litterboxes etc. in a separate cat-accessible area and clean it regularly?
Just been to dog park. Australian Shepard puppy, Hungarian Viszler puppy, Chocolate lab, Poodle, Sid and several others.
Seeing someone else’s dog so happy to see you is heartwarming
They’re so friendly and happy…
Some overseas Universities have puppy spaces during exam times, so students can go play with puppies to relieve stress.
I could use a puppy right now. Or a beer.
Looks like I’ll have to settle for chocolate again.
I read that as “Or a bear”, no idea why 😛
Some overseas Universities have bear spaces during exam times, so students can go play with bears because fuck’em, that’s why.
Can’t do that with Australian animals. Our cuddliest animals are more likely to maul you, piss on you, or rip an appendage off.
You know what I want? Turtle/tortoise space. Because they’re awesome.
I thought you might’ve been referring to Russian Universities.
Relieve stress by fight bear.
This sounds like a queer community space…
Well, fuck em, that’s why…
Why has it been 45 minutes and I’m yet to see a photo of these cute puppies?
Will this cute puppy suffice?
Question for all you PS4 owners out there: is the dashboard plastered with ads a la the 360’s dash?
Nah, not really. Here’s a shot I took yesterday.
*redacted*
AAAAAAAH REAL NAME
I really hope they bring back the background that changes colour according to the time/date from the PS3.
Or just do something with it, ANYTHING!
There are ads on the wall from time-to-time, but no where near as horrible as 360.
Just stuff like THE LAST OF US, THE GAME OF A GENERATION. Which will take you to the store, etc.
Cool, cheers.
No, it’s plastered with annoying irrelevant shit that the UI vomits out everywhere. There’s no ads but it’s still an utter pain to get to your stuff once you have more than 5-6 games installed.
No, but it’s a shitty UI overall. Better than Xbone though from the looks of it.
I don’t understand how anyone could come up with such a dysfunctional UI and think it was an improvement. It’s XMB without categorization and with three times the mess and clutter. Even the Vita’s shitty bubbles UI is miles better.
The other thing I don’t understand is why next to no one actually complains about how bad the PS4 UI actually is. It’s fucking horrid. At least you don’t have to see it much once you get into your games.
Yep. And lack of features comes across to PS4 in general. We only just got 3D support. No bluray options, no audio options, no media server, no USB playback. If I just had the PS4 I’d be mad.
I don’t understand the issue, sure its not the best UI I’ve ever used, but it works fast so you barely spend any time with it. I think it is generally a non-issue
Just had a meeting with the boss, he wanted to check how I was going and if I was having any problems with things. Seems to be happy with how I’m going, and with the dynamic we’ve got going between me and my friend here. We both kind of approach things in opposite directions, so it actually works out fairly well.
Kind of actually feeling a little better now.
keep up the good work sire!
Alright, my parents have left.
Time to look into getting a cat.
>.>
Dogs > cats.
My backyard isn’t fenced.
FRIDAY FRIDAYYYYY. I’m gonna go home and drink some stupidly expensive Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Only have one left, dammit.
Screw you, time difference! GMT + 8? More like GMT + Hate!
Lmao
Stupidly expensive beer?
http://www.jimscellars.com.au/_product/search-products?search=Crown%20Ambassador%202013%20Reserve%20Lager
Expensive beer that’s actually worth it:
http://www.jimscellars.com.au/_product/view-product/rochefort-trappistes-10?id=ee59bb10ebf012f6244c75837d0b1360&key=F7tfa1
I’m yet to try Trappist. Almost bought a good value gift pack during Christmas, but maybe next time.
You need a proper glass for it and everything. It’s a lot like drinking a good red wine. Rochefort is the best I’ve tried, but Chimay Blue is pretty good too. Not a big fan of Chimay Red, it tastes like vegemite.
Yeah ill grab the gift pack this time. Came with a 4 pack of some Trappist (not sure exact) and their glass.
So good! It’s payday weekend, think we need to go buy some again.
$9 a 6 pack in USA, or 22 here. Heh.
But all beer in Australia is stupidly expensive.
Yeah well we have a stupidly high tax on booze as it is. I mean in the states you can get 1L bottles of vodka for like under 10 bucks from Walmart and such I am told. That’s just insane.
And yet, do we enjoy what all this bullshit-tax money is used for? No. No we don’t. And therein lies the fundamental problem. 🙁
Basically! Damn gubinments ruinin’ our things!
Plan for the weekend:
– Gaze at my enormous backlog
– Look at the copy of Akiba’s Trip I purchased earlier in the week
– Look at these other games on my Vita that I haven’t touched
– Play more Kantai Collection
– HOT DOGS FOR LUNCH
I had hot dogs for lunch today, and probably tomorrow as well. They are sooooooo goooooooood.
WoW?? Watch new trailer get hype??
@dire_wolf hey bro running a little late! Should be back on by 7.30 latest!
Edit: fml pageget now?!? Dammit gooky you’re not commenting on purpose!!
I’m all commented out!
Got all excited to check out the new look Steam everyone was talking about and… it looks exactly the same.
Dude slight colour changes, obv you gotta get your knickers in a knot over small things, jeez!
Man, it’s like @freezespreston doesn’t know how to internet. =P
I picked up your mother last night at 6:30pm and we had a lovely dinner at an Italian resturant then went for a quiet walk through the park, I thought to hold her hand but decided it would be disrespectful, then got her home at the respectable time of 10pm. I’ll probably call her later to see how she is doing too.
Yeah.
Take that.
I had a friend bitch me out because I didn’t call her sister after I’d been on a date with aforementioned sister, to make sure she got home OK. I had no idea idea this was a thing people do.
I thought it was a thing only mothers did.
BLUE, FREEZE. BLUE.
*decisive nod*
Ba da di ba da ba.
Aw man, it is too. I was hoping it was completely redone.
It does look nicer though!
Circle instead of square!
That freaked me out when I first saw it.
I have to admit, I got confused.
Pizza regret.
No such thing.
Impossible. Unless you mean NOT having pizza.
Pizza regret… from not getting two pizzas!
Phew, nice save.Just spent $8 on Tomb Raider GOTY. Thanks GMG! *adds to backlog*
Play it right now!
That would require downloading it. I’ll get around to it…
I love pasta
As do I.
My colleague here in Ireland stated that pasta was his least favourite carb. In my rage I told him that potato was my least favourite carb. It almost came to blows.
I went out for curry in Yorkshire and my great aunt refused to eat rice.
She got chips with her curry
That is a thing here too.
“Would you like ketchup, mayonnaise or curry sauce with your chips?”
Wait, what?
Was it chair-punching rage?
So full. Had takeaway from a middle eastern place and damn do they know how to food.
My brother can’t eat red meat (I know, right?) so most of what we cook is chicken/pork/fish. I’m thinking of taking advantage of his weekend absence to (after getting done with some Risky Business style underwear dancing) order foods with red meat. I’m thinking Chinese… mongolian lamb and beef and black bean.
Apologies, too busy laughing at the mental image of you Risky Businessing to pay attention to what else you said. 😀
Hey, I finally have tiled floor to slide on for the first time in years. What would ANYONE do?
Oh man, the upstairs of my house is relatively new varnished wood, so I just slide across it in socks all the time.
Or at least, your feet do 😛
…
Quiet you.
That floor has it out for me, I swear.
Grill’d in belly… so full right now.
*content sigh*
Hey dudes, cheap stuff at Dick Smith online at the moment. $15 off if you spend $49 or more (with the code FRIDAY15) and there’s free shipping too.
I know some of y’all have had issues with Dick Smith (online and eBay) but they’ve been fine for me. There’s stuff like FIFA 15 for $55, Destiny and The Last of Us Remastered for $45. WEEOWWWWWW
I’m getting hyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyype!!! I pick up my new sewing machine tomorrow!
And then I’ll probably spend all week figuring out how to use it. 😛
PLEASE MAKE ME COOL STUFF!
…PLEASE MAKE ME COOL
Sewing Hype! \o/
Nono, just ‘sew hype’.
New stuff is always so fun!!!
Read the manual AND watch the instructional videotape!
So that’s why it was delayed? TAY Quilt can only be made with a new sewing machine :-p
Started reading up on the Ferguson stuff.
Holy shit, Edrogan was more peaceful than Ferguson’s chief of police.
Playing through P.T with wifey. She’s doing okay. Only had about 3 panic attacks so far and dropped the controller refusing to play more twice.
It’s pretty radtastic although a tad confounding.
Promising. Quote from Kojima:
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/08/13/kojima-discusses-collaboration-with-del-toro-for-silent-hills/
Ha ha. Now I can’t get her off it. She figured out a puzzle part and is firmly gripped by it.
I think you may need to stream this
I think your eldest is old enough for her first horror game.
She’ll be fine, she’ll love it! 😀
*glances at @dc*
Alright, MQFT for what I’ll watch tomorrow night, because erggh, decisions.
D
H
M
R
T
F
A
I would like the record to state that all but one of these are unwatched Blu-Rays in one general genre, because shut up I don’t have a problem.
Twelve Angry Men!
… Not quite.
R
M
R for Rubber!
While I do intend to watch that at some point, I’m afraid in this case the R isn’t for Rubber. 😛
The Raid
Not even close.
C’mon man, this is me you’re talkin’ to.
Ratatouille!
Much closer. Still wrong, but still, much closer.
D for dick.
Let’s not beataronhd the bushfire people, D is for dick.
He said unwatched Blu-Rays.
D. Always the D.
(DARK SOULS)
Watched the new animated Batman movie tonight. It’s ok, has some really good moments but plenty of cheesy and cringe worthy moments. Kevin Conroy kills it (the good way), as usual but some of the VAs really phone it in. Lots of sexual content for a Batman story too, which is unusual, it’s not even really present in the Arkham-verse games.
Also Princess Bubblegum as Harley is really weird.
Finished Arkham Origins. Story was solid, set pieces were pretty great (the svtug ba gur oevqtr jvgu Sversyl was my personal favourite). Very rarely had issues with the controls (the ‘counter’ button keeps sticking on my controller, but I don’t think I can blame the game for that), and this was the first Arkham game I was ever able to get a 50x combo achievement on!
So despite being reasonably thorough in my playthrough, my completion percentage is 44%. Sadly, I think Gotham City is just too broken for one man to fix it.
I never finished the anarchy stuff, but I did collect every Riddler trophy, even if at launch that required breaking the game (which was half the fun).
One of my favourite moments was
the first fight with the electrocutioner (?), because you hit him once and he just falls over, and it’s like “is that it?”Hahaha, yep, I liked that, too.
And he escapes almost immediately after that, and you spend the rest of that section assuming he’ll be back. And then, nope. Then you have to track him down later in the game, but then Joker just up and kicks him out of a high rise window before you can face him. 😛I’m so fancy! Ypua already jomoiiw! I’m interested fast lane! From Last to Tokyo!
*twerktwerjtwerktwerktwerk*
Step it up!
*checks rot13.com* Huh. That’s even worse…
…Attaboy. Do us proud, tiger.
I’ll mskeyou proud, papa :’)
So I definitelythibk I bought arsrlrss ll essential underwear, or at least mesh undertyie 😀
Drunken online shopping is the heat things to ever happen yo me! :F
Imgonna kopen a club andcall it Tramp Stamp 😀
Whys D I get so much hate maio?!??
Maybe I’ll gift fksfh a bit if leg till yiu fall in lovewithd. E 😉
Mornin!
Eyyyy
Ive been tweeting Kojima, why doesn’t he tweet back?
:p
Tweet in (Google Translate) Japanese!
G(r)e(e)nius!
I prefer Greenius the Genius.
Don’t get too cocky, Starrrr Fox!
Ha ha! That Thrustmaster ad, they always break. 😀
Just checked out the the kotaku article on PT. The ghost video made me jump.
I can’t help but think Mum would love watching me play quite a few of the games on the playstation 4. I seriously need to make some room but…Stuff has to be made, ugh.
Oh, speaking of which, I will have to get rid of my legend of Zelda beanbag that I made because it is massive.
Changed from may, to will. I will have to get rid of it, it’s just too big
How much would you want for it?
Nothing. I need to get rid of it as it’s taking up too much room. I have to wash it first though. No beans, if that’s okay
Post each bean separately.
At Australia Posts prices? It’d be cheaper to buy the beans overseas
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Is there anything you can’t attempt to connect to Metroid?
You obsession with Samus seems Ernie worthy.
I think it is because…. hmmm….. how should I put it… metroid influenced a lot of things, BUT you should know that by EXTENSION influenced by the alien series, which fans should know influenced the metroid series. Maybe it is because this series influenced generations of fans, thus enabling the creation of characters who have similar properties to samus. This makes metroid a fountain of expies
Hmm, if argue that samus had no characterisation in her early appearances, and any characteristics that she has were grafted on later and are inconsistent
But you should know that in 1986, the alien movie was still fresh in people’s minds, thus influencing the main setup of metroid game. But the year 1986 is important for nintendo fans, because it was that year that legend of zelda was made & believe it or not, according to the samus aran article on wikitroid, metroid was going to be the gamers link to the sci fi world, much as loz was a link to fantasy. Now as I previously said in the comments section of the linkle article, samus was going to be a man until that faithful vote. Now, like alien, metroid was dark, unlike the other 3 games released by nintendo that year (l.o.z, kid icarus & muramuse’s castle) which were light, that darkness combined sci fi horrors (dinos & rampant AI) with 2 creatures whose creation were inspired by the xenomorph & whose appearance were of 2 awesome reptilian creatures (dragon:ridley, dino: metroid’s later life cycle). Now onto samus, 1 of the things that made metroid suited to older gamers back then was the 1st appearance of the 0 suit, both it & the armour were influnced by 80’s fashion, as for characterization I should point you to captain n & the game masters, in which she shows she is ruthless & calculating, plus this comic was done in the 80’s. Metroid 2 showed that she was also caring to the baby metroid. Fyi both she & ripley have similarities, but she also in turn influenced a male counterpart in master chief, which in turn made both samus & mc launch a fountain of expies, clear enough for ya @redartiface
Um… Sure.
No rot13 is complete with a “htu” and the only “htu” you have is in the middle of another word :'(
Round 2 of ‘Try and make stuff to take to the Can’d Meat’… STARTO! New recipe, new hopes, new mess that I have to clean up because nobody will do it for me!
Round 1 was a disaster. Well, not a total disaster. I still ate everything I made. It’s for a test, you see! A trial run. To make sure my food is up to Blaghs’ standards.
Ahh yes, my truly lofty standards of food. *bites into an onion*
hahah glad to know I’m not the only one who watches Vs Arashi!
Hey hey! On the vaguely related topic of Can’d Meat food, Stroganoff is pretty easy to make in a large batch and great tasting to boot!
Braise some cheap chunks of beef for an hour+ until tender as desired in sauteed onions, red wine, beef stock, water, thyme, throw in some mushrooms too. Season. Get some sour cream. Boil up a giant pot of pasta. Go!
Don’t forget the paprika! it’s not really strog without it 😉
Beef jerky so hot that it’s nothing but pain.
I am unreasonably excited for Silent Hills. Silent Hill 1 & 2 were two of my favourite horror games, genuinely terrifying and creepy. The fact the new one is a Del Toro/Kojima team effort is like a wet dream come true.
I’ve only played Shattered Memories and P.T. has instantly made the new one a must play game. 😀
You need to play 2. Not just the best Silent Hill game or the best horror game but one of the best games.
@sughly was saying the same thing!
WHICH ONE OF YOU IS TELLING THE TRUTH THOUGH! 😛
I am.
Seriously, Silent hill 2 is the best of the series and I’ve played them all. It’s a subtle mindf**k
I’m too much of a coward to play horror games so that’s a Nope.jpg for me.
I’m too much of a coward not to play horror games so that’s a Yeah.jpg for me. 😀
Those are words I see but that comment makes no sense.
I’m scared of missing out on awesome fun and adrenaline rush even if it means being legit terrified. Haha!
I remember being too scared to pay attention to Year Walk so I’d talk to my buddy D.C. during the scary bits!
We’d talk about our feelings and hopes and dreams for the future! Was pretty magical! :’)
😛
Cowards unite!
No! I’m to scared!
There’s safety in numbers!
Unless you’re the black guy.
Or the promiscuous teen!
Hiding in the closet is the best idea!
I’m excited to see what happens when Kojima finally says “Yeah, you know what? I’m not gonna passively screw with the player’s mind, I’m going to make it my main goal.” Worse case scenario is we get modern day Eternal Darkness, best case scenario…
Wait, so the new Silent Hill game is called Silent Hills? I haven’t checked the news in a while.
Phlanispo, when you wrote this four hours ago, you should have pressed submit. You shouldn’t have closed the laptop and turned on your main PC.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Trip around Australia thing at the end of the year/start of next year… good idea? Bad idea? 😛 …expensive idea? 🙁
I think the last time I went interstate barely counts since I was just canoeing across the VIC/SA border, but before that I’ve only been to SA and QLD when I was younger and I don’t really remember anything.
My boss said she’d try to think of a business reason to get me to fly up to Sydney so at least that might happen sometime!
Oh hey… Melbourne to Tasmania meat ever going to happen? 😛
Good idea. Expensive idea. Travel always does good for one’s soul.
Except if you go to this place called Australia.
….
wait
Oh, Steam looks different…
SO DOES YOUR FACE!
New haircut? Looks nice.
BLUE!
Seriously, the only annoying thing about the UI change is the circle logo. It just doesn’t look good.
I thought I’d play Euro Truck Simulator 2’s demo.
I named my character Lavernius Trucker, (yay references!) and spent 17 minutes trying to think of a business name. I eventually settled on the generic Falchion Enterprises. (patent pending)
I got through the tutorial okay. Then I accepted my first job. I dented the truck a bunch in a few isolated incidents, but I was mostly okay.
Then this happened. If you observe the video, you can pinpoint the exact second I said ‘balls to it.’
I made sure to use turn signals though, so I must be a responsible driver!
I see you finally decided to drive on the correct side of the road…
Took a while for me to see reason.
I go to Yahoo to check my email, and what is the first thing I see?
Granted, given that it’s Yahoo, this has a 13% chance of being legit.
Given it says “a church”, I’d say it has a 95% chance of being the Westboro Baptists again.
It is indeed those bigoted, narrow-minded, life supports for rectums.
WOO! I just ran (…mostly walked :P) 6km and I don’t feel that bad. My times are getting better compared to last time as well 😀
It’s super hilly around my estate though so it’s tough, but running outside sure beats the boring ol’ treadmill
Keep it up man, it’ll only get easier/better/more fun!
I’m registered to run the city to surf in like 2 weeks, but that’s just insane.
I’m more of a sprinter, but I’ve always wanted to get my stamina up. It’s been hard though since I have asthma 😛
Just (exercise) biked 5km as well!
Go do 1000 steps a couple times youll be right
I’ve watched Coach Carter about 8 times, but I never realised Samuel L. Jackson was the main character.
How did I get here.
You mean dailymotion? No idea 🙂
(Talk Amongst @Phlanispo)
I only ever seem to comment on Weekend TAY. On normal TAY, I am the Silent Upvoter (TM etc)
Okay, Perthians. I’m heading off to Garden City in 5 or 10 mins, so should be there by 4.10/4.15ish.
Will be in brown beanie, jeans and light green Zelda shirt. Maybe black hoodie, if it’s cold when I get there.
I’ll aim for about that time as well. I’ll be wearing a piranha plant (or a brown hoodie).
HOLY SHIT SOMETHING IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING!? :O
Y’all better meet up again if I come to Perth!
I have stuff planned on that day, sorry!
Maybe next time though 🙂
Stop treating me like I’m Powalen!
Blah. Was supposed to go to the drive-in to see GotG, but now it’s raining 🙁
Romantic!
Inconvenient!
I was going to bring my 3ds to the meat, (so people could tell whether I was in the area via streetpass) but it’s flat.
REMINDER: I am wearing a red shirt with a tiger on , light brown pants, grey-green shoes, and atrocious sideburns. I will also have a gigantic sign with my username on it.
Liondrive said:
He said that last week, so he may have changed his mind.
He never changes his wardrobe choices. He ruined his white jacket before Brisbane meat and bought a new identical one.
It wasn’t identical, thanks 😛
It was just similar.
Pretty very similar.
And I wore exactly what I said I would 😉
It’s mandatory for new meaters to do a big write-up/essay with lots of pictures.
Shave those Sideburns hippie.
Sorry Perthians (@liondrive, @phlanispo, @thecracks not sure who else), but i’ve run into a bit of a family emergency (Long story short, my brother has broken his jaw) so i won’t be making it to GotG. sorry it’s a bit late notice.
Fuuuuuuck. Poor guy. :S
Bugger. Hope everything works out okay.
I suck at directions, but I’m almost there
Rest of us at entrance.
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Got invited to come to a friends graduation. SO BORING. But afterwards SO MUCH FREE FOOD. Currently bent over my keyboard cos my stomach hurts so much and sitting up straight is hard.
The next time I go to a graduation I think I’ll tone down the amount of free food I eat 😛
What? I didn’t even get food and mine was boring as
I never went to mine because I never graduated
Alright, and the votes for my MQFT are in. With 2 Ds, 2 Rs, 1 M, and sort of a T from Greenius not really, I shall watch Despicable Me, and feel a little sorry for Rise of the Guardians, but not all that sorry. As it stands, Mulan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tarzan, and Frozen will all remain unwatched in Blu-Ray form. And Aladdin will not get a re-watch.
#Helping
Still, I would’ve watched Ratatouille anyway 😛
I don’t have a copy of it. I’m actually really lacking in Pixar stuff.
I’m surprised to find you aren’t watching Aladdin on tv! Figured you’d be all over that!
Hahahahaha.
Watch a lower res version of something I own with ads during it? Not to mention I’d have to leave my room.
Finally finished Wolf Among Us.
Killed Georgie. Figured Bigby was harsh but not a monster.Took the Crooked Man back for a trial. Very nearly didn’t. The guy was irritating me past the point of reason.
Proceeded to throw him down the Well. I gave him the trial I promised him. Kept my promise. Didn’t mean he was going to live.
Accepted TJ’s gift for Snow alongside 98.5% of players. What kind of monsters are the other 1.5?
Told Nerissa I’ve made a lot of mistakes. Because god damn did I just feel like I was stumbling through the story.
Not entirely sure where they were going at the end there. Nerissa was the big bad? Maybe? I took off after her but it stopped.
Feel like this would be an episode where a lot of people’s choices might have differed?
@dc @Blaghman @Powalen @greenius
Ooh. Special Stats.
Lied to Beast about seeing Beauty
Impressed Beauty with Detective skills
Fought Bluebeard after interrogation
Offered protection for the Butcher
Gave Colin a drink and helped him avoid the Farm
Gave Faith money after Woody fight (deceased)
Smashed up Georgia’s place (deceased)
Burned Greenleafs tree
Drank with Green after Lily’s funeral
Gave Nerissa a cigarette at final conversation
Brought Snow to the Trip Trap
Waited for Tiny Tim
Accepted Beetle from TJ
Slapped Toad during interrogation but stood up for him to Snow about the Farm.
From memory:
Killed Georgie (was hoping for a quick nip in the head or something to put him out of his misery, not dive into his wound making things worse for those last few seconds :P)Took Crooked Man to trial (surely it would have led here anyway though, you’d miss an awfully big scene if you didn’t)
Put the Crooked Man in jail
Accepted TJ’s gift
Can’t remember what I told Nerissa
There’s been some speculation about the ending bit around. The theory I like best is that you never actually met Faith in the whole game – Nerissa was glamoured as her in the first episode (there are a couple of call-backs to this thrown in throughout the episodes that make sense – like “Faith” and Nerissa both using the ‘Do you like my ribbon?’ line with the same pose, etc.
Can’t wait for Season 2!
Did you get dragged towards the well by the Crooked Man? Not ssure if it was meant to happen or because I waited too long to make a decision.Also, whose head was Faith’s then?
Yeah, I did. Probably happens to everyone 😛 Didn’t push him in though.Faith’s head is Faith’s head. The real Faith (who you didn’t meet) was murdered off-screen by Georgie pulling her ribbon, then Nerissa put it on the step afterwards for Bigby to find.
I’ve never played it! (but want to)
No spoily clicking for me :'(
Aw, sorry. Could have sworn you had played it.
Included anyway \o/
I still haven’t played the final episode… I’m the blurst.
Even I’ve played the final episode.
I don’t believe you.
You don’t complete anything.
I complete everyth
*shakes fist at @dc*
You’re supposed to engage in discussion not just up vote.
*shakes fist more vigorously*
I went much the same way as you by the look of things, only a few differences
I went with the imprisonment option for the crooked manDidn’t burn the tree because I’m not an arsehole!
Not sure I’d call Nerissa the big bad, more that she was the one who got the investigation started because it was her only remaining option.Also, how cool was Bloody Mary? I’m only sorry that she’s (probably) dead.
Just almost cried with relief. I’ve been so worried about spending so much money an a new sewing machine, feeling guilty and wondering if it was really necessary or I was just wanting it instead of needing it.
And then I plugged it in and started playing around with free motion quilting. All the things I’ve been stubbornly struggling to do on the old machine are suddenly super easy. So it wasn’t my skills I’d reached the limit of, it was my machine. So much relief. 😀
I’m digging how happy this machine is making you. You can see it in your instagram posts, on twitter and here! It’s nice! 😀
Have you put viking horns on it yet? I seem to recall suggesting you should to make it look more metal
Bleh, back down in the blehs again.
Gordon Bray is losing his voice!
And New Zealand lead over Australia 12-9 in the 61st minute of the first Bledisloe Cup game.
Perth Meat!
It wasn’t until I got to the cinema that I realised my sign that said phlanispo in size 130 text was a social oddity. I found the TAYbies (or at least people pretending to be TAYbies) pretty easily, though. @liondrive is tall. I made the horrifying discovery that there are more Bens among us.
Guardians of the Galaxy was pretty good, but the people that say it’s the best Marvel movie ever or that it’s the new Star Wars are overreaching a tad . I dropped a bit of chocolate on the cinema floor and couldn’t find it again. I had Red Rock Deli chips and professed my hatred of popcorn, forever condemning me to monster status.
Watched the post-credit scene. Joined in with the ballad of groans coursing throughout the cinema. Tried to find a coupon for kebabs, but it had been sucked into the void of my bag. Realised the food court had shut down anyway. Everyone started talking outside the entrance to the closed shopping centre. @phoenix and @thecracks launched into some in-depth conversation about things, so I tried to converse with Liondrive. Me are good at talk.
Fate deemed I was needed elsewhere, so I left the rest to their own devices. I will never know what happened next. Probably sexytimes. Definitely sexytimes.
11/10 it was pretty good. Definitely in the top two Perth meats ever.
Ballad of groans. That is not nearly as exciting in context.
Well, @greenius wanted pictures, so…
Phoenix’s reaction to the trailers
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Oh god ASCII does not like Kotaku. Screw it, I’m leaving it like that.
Yyyyeeeeeeeesssssss. *backs away slowly*
I swear to god, I literally thought the exact same thing. Word for word.
😐
*runs after Freeze*
What are we running from?
I don’t remember telling no jokes…
I can confirm there were no sexytimes.
Glad to know I didn’t miss anything.
You. I like you, we can be friends. Popcorn is the devils food
And you. I can like you too. Popcorn! *shakes fist*
Really glad you Perth folks are meating!
You, @phlanispo & @dc are all mad, you’ll never know the joy of popcorn with mccormicks lemon and pepper seasoning and for that I feel sorry for you.
Yeah, but that Ben plays Monster Hunter with me so he’s cool!
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Hahaha, Pillowmaker found another porno doppelganger (doppelbanger?) of me. Even funnier than the last one.
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Relatively SFW 😛
Lol. The resemblance is uncanny.
Almost too uncanny. *hard stare*
Also, why is Pillowmaker spending her free time searching for porn with someone that looks like you hmmmmm?
*grabs popcorn*
Just chanced upon it during the usual tumblr porn browsing. I hope? >_>
But yeah it’s pretty damn close. Had another friend manage to dig up the actor’s name. Looking at a google image search of him is pretty disconcerting. Real uncanny valley shit.
*clicks link*
I’ll be in my bunk.
;D
… I’m twelve years old and what is this?
Are you closer to the one with or without the baseball cap?
The one on the left.
But not as ripped. Or as tanned. And got way more arm hair 😛
Is Pillow a mahn or ladee?
An itty bitty laydee.
Time to ask again!
Anyone else buying Xillia 2 at launch? I was gonna wait but whatevs, I think I might have an OGS voucher that’ll make it reasonabler so I’ll probably order it tomorrow.
@negativezero Are you planning on playing it immediately? I know you’ve got Destiny hype. I need a buddy!
The Witcher is nearly done so I can move onto The Wonderful 101 again. That should give me time to start and finish The Last of Us before THEATRHYTHM, HYRULE WARRIORS AND FIFA 15 in Sept! YESSSSSSSS! I’ll try and make some Xillia 2 time 😀
I want to play Wolfenstein too! Pew pew
Yeah, I will probably try and knock it out when I get it. But when Destiny arrives, it gets shelved even if I’m not done.
EDIT: Also if it turns out to be shit – and I have a strong suspicion this will happen – then I will bail on it too.
OGS said they gave me $5 but it’s not there :'(
I was planning on buying Xillia 2 with that credit :P. Hopefully they can credit it to me anyway and I’ll make an order for it soonish. Otherwise I guess I’m skipping it… *shrug*
I’ve got the sniffles, and my nose feels like it is dripping like a tap… 🙁
I’m sick of console wars. if I want to play forza. I have to buy a XBONE. the game. a good wheel decent set of headhones
now I want to play GT7 on the PS4. Ohh I cant! they developed GT6 too late, now they dont have a launch title. they probably wont have GT7 for another 2 years..so now I have 2 get a PS3 and GT6. plug my wheel n headphones in, what a surprise They dont WORK. Xbox and exclusive periphials man Loosers. ao now gotta go buy all the same stuff just for PS3, Just to play ONE FRICKING GAME.
Sony and MS need to embrace the fact that we will emulate both systems. because them being X86 64bit. and the cpu/video card being pretty much off the shelf. Both companies would see it fit to launch their own operating systems and allow people to run them as option boot. they can still retain some Digital rights, make money from sales of the OS and games etc.
Otherwise ppl will hack it as they are trying to and then we all take MS and SOney to cleaners lol
If you’re after a PS3/360 wheel, go for one of the Fanatec wheels.
You can check prices here:
pagnianimports.com.au
The one POSSIBLE advantage of the PS4 is that it might support PC compatible wheels. The PS3 supported the Logitech Driving Force GT which was a PC wheel and I very nearly taught myself to drive with that and Gran Turismo 5 (more accurately I got comfortable using a wheel and pedals to control a car).
That’s not to say for sure that the PS4 will have the same level of support but at least there’s slightly more reason to be hopeful
To be fair, Gran Turismo is developed by Polyphony which is part of Sony Computer Entertainment, likewise how Turn 10 Studios who develop Forza is owned by Microsoft.
Sure if the mob behind the game wasn’t owned by the makers of the console i’d say it’s unfair and should be on both consoles. But exclusives are there to retain customers and give a bit of a leg up to that console, no one seems to get upset Nintendo have dozens of their own exclusives. So why can’t Sony & Microsoft.
I think exclusives are a good way to keep the brands competitive, cause who is going to want an Xbox One is the PS4 is cheaper and has all the same games..? I know I wouldn’t!
Whilst I understand your point and it is valid in this day and age. It just seems like a lose – lose for Sony & Microsoft. Whilst we’re at it, all of them should be brought to PC if that was the case, fuck console exclusivity in it’s entirety!
He’s more upset at peripheral exclusivity rather than the games as I understand it.
Oh yeah, fuck that bullshit. MY BAD.
Logitech should just have it so all theirs are compatible across the board, that would be lovely.
Last song played: Weekend Edition!
Hear You Me by Jimmy Eat World.
wow Jimmy Eat World! Haven’t heard those guys in a while!
They’re touring in November.
Turn The Page by Metallica
Metallica never does a bad cover I swear, thanks to their covers i’ve gotten into some pretty decent bands,
Warp Room – Crash Bash
Started playing The Stick of Truth last night. Man it’s pretty great, it’s just like being in a South Park episode!
Don’t overly like the mute hero shit though, would prefer if they spoke.Also
I was a bit shocked when I unlocked Mr. Slave as a summon and the first fight I used him in was against the Kindergartners that his move was to shove an entire person up his rectum, I know it’s South Park, but holy shit, was not expecting that, the poor kids were terrified was quite glorious as well.Blegh. Had another driving lesson. Last lesson, I finally seemed to be improving. I had reached the prestigious level of mediocrity. I can’t even achieve that lofty goal any more. I have gotten worse since then. I made a megagram of mistakes. I have regressed even further!
Mediocrity is already better than half of the fully licenced drivers on the road so if you’ve regressed you’re probably still as good as many of the people on the road.
Though in fairness that’s not saying much.
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Good Will Hunting it is!
Good movie, that.
I remember so many homage/parody/whatever episodes to it from a bunch of shows I watched as a child.
D
Hmm, Classic Game Room has been running for 15 years. Damn.
Inactive for 8 of those years though?
Rest in peace PC gaming and space sims in particular. It was so sad to see you die but when a genre is so unpopular that a game like Star Citizen can only raise a mere 50 MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS you know it’s time to declare a genre and indeed an entire platform dead and buried and get back to formulaic console FPS games about shooting foreigners again…
It’s a travesty. If it had a full billion dollars to it’s name perhaps it’d live up to the PC standard.
Yeah, they ought to be ashamed of themselves, what are they thinking just making a game that looks like it’s going to be really good? As if that’s good enough in this day and age!
Bleh…
What to play, what to play….
Xenoblade!
Some I have, preferably…
(Monster Hunter Tri is better. :P)
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate is better than Tri!
Achieved peak weaboo?
Last night I spent like 5 hours grinding in Kantai Collection in one window while watching anime in another. And then today I spent several hours ripping people’s clothes off in Akihabara while my resources recover in KanColle.
What am I doing with my life? 🙁Uguu, I hope Zero-sempai notices me, desu~
there, now we’ve hit maximum weeaboo. Here is a pistol, shoot me between the eyes, please and thank you.
You’re all the way over in Canada so I think you’ll need to complete the mysterious transfer student story arc first.
Well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiba%27s_Trip:_Undead_%26_Undressed
Hey guys! Weekend TAY is terrible! Weekend twitter is terrible! I miss people!
…
Is what I would say if I wasn’t a hermit.
*cough*
Weekend is terrible!
So many things that I feel like I have to do, but so little ability to recall even a single one.
Make porn, it seems. *stares judgmentally at Gooky*
Nah, we all know that is Mooky. Who will inevitable steal your identity.
I think Mooky was the other guy. This one’s a new guy.
Unless the last guy was another imposter, and this is the real Mooky. Hmm…
Clearly not giving Mooky enough credit.
Isn’t it cute when DC thinks he’s still a hermit… 😛
Pretty sure he’s like the most social one here 😛
You are, Jobius. I haven’t hung out with TAYbies since Jimu’s shindig!
And I haven’t for over a year… 😛
So, YOU ARE! 😀
Perth people meat up like every weekend now.
I prefer handsome. Isn’t it handsome when DC thinks he’s still a hermit. 😛
Hey I talked to you yesterday!
I’m pretty sure I dreamed that.
Nah, we were talking about tactics for a tough fight in Divinity Original Sin that I’m planning to have another crack at later tonight since I’ve gone up another level since
I got him by the way, the extra level and a bit of luck with him not spamming his bullshit attack at the start did the trick
QUICK THERE’S SOME WAGONS THAT NEED CIRCLING!
*circles the wagons*
I watched Robin Williams movies today and now I’m feeling kind of sad.
Man of the Year was pretty decent, @shane. Thanks for recommendation.
It was pretty solid, wasn’t it? Barry Levinson doesn’t turn out too many stinkers.
The last Robin Williams movie I recall watching was RV…
His stuff is a bit before my time, unfortunately.
Still need to watch Aladdin :3
He was in that TV show though (whose name escapes me) that was pretty good though.
Maybe I’ll watch that properly 🙂
Dude no way! I’m like what… a couple of months older than you? but Robin was in plenty of stuff in the 90s.
I thought you were a couple of years older :\
Still, I didn’t see most of his early stuff, or was too young to really pay attention / care about who was in what :3
You’re like 20/21 aren’t you?
That age exactly 🙂
348 days old?
Hahaha, hilarious…
(I have no idea how you got 348 by the way)
20 turning 21 😛
@liondrive
(20/21)*365
Watch Hook and Jumanji and Mrs Doubtfire and Aladdin!
Oh wait, I’ve seen Jumanji!
I recall not liking the little boy, so that movie was kinda tarnished for me :3
I dunno, I think I was too young to really care about his work (more so, care about who was in what I watched) :\
Hook is my sister’s favourite film so I’ve seen it dozens of times. Still holds up amazingly well, one of the best films of that era.
I was obsessed with Toys when I was little. I’m not even sure why, I think I only saw it maybe once as a kid.
My wife was the same. That one doesn’t really hold up well, though…
But he has a smoking jacket!
Toys was awesome. Especially that song at the end.
I don’t feel personally affected by Robin Williams’s death since I didn’t watch a bunch of his movies when I was younger. I think Flubber and Aladdin are the only ones I’ve seen. I haven’t seen Aladdin in about 8-10 years, so I want to re-watch it one of these days. It was on Channel 7 last night, but it had already started by the time I got home from the meat.
Watching movies on free-to-air TV is terrible anyway, more ads than actual movie. (I really wanted to rewatch Mrs. Doubtfire the other night but not on Ten. Not like that. :S)
Same.
I might sound cold, but I can’t think of any celebrity whose death would affect me greatly :\
Not even my beloved Lady Gaga!
Like, yeah, it’s sad and everything, but death is unavoidable.
I’d only be affected if it was someone close to me I feel (friends, family, etc), not someone I don’t know.
Also (potentially arsehole-ish, but unfortunately it’s how I think)…
The fact that it was suicide made it less sad for me. I get he was severely depressed, but I dunno. It makes me mad, to be honest, how someone could hurt all those around them like that. How they can’t think of how it’ll effect others.Arsehole-ish, I know, but I can’t condone suicide.
Yeah, I’m pretty much the same. Though I think it kind of depends. When Hiroshi Yamauchi died, I actually found myself quite saddened by it even though I never would have thought that’d happen. Especially when reading a whole bunch of stuff about him in a thread on neogaf that someone linked.
Don’t think I’ve ever really felt it as much as that for anyone else though.
Tbh, that attitude towards suicide really annoys me. It’s the judgement of someone who doesn’t have the slightest comprehension of depression.And I’m glad for you, but don’t condemn people for what you don’t understand.
I really do know it’s not the best attitude (hence why I called myself an arsehole), so you don’t have to make me feel like shit about it.I’m not judging or condemning anyone though, don’t get me wrong.
I would never ever judge anyone for having depression, and I’m pretty offended that you think I’d do that.
I’m not that pathetic of a person.
I just, it’s hard to explain, but I’d be mad losing someone I loved to suicide is all.
I’d be mad, and sad, and angry, and it would hurt me. It would break me.
I’d want to be there to help them, cause I love them.
You’re right, I don’t fully understand depression, but I’m not completely devoid of sympathy and compassion.
As for celebrity deaths, they just don’t affect me is all.
Like, yeah, it’s a little sad, but I don’t know.
I don’t know them.
Blame my apparent lack of sympathy for that one.
I don’t think you’re an arsehole or devoid of sympathy man. Just that the view above does not really take into account the suicider’s perspective.And yeah I agree on the celebrity deaths thing. Tis sad but I never knew the guy and everyone dies sometime.
I guess I could have conveyed my perspective a bit better, but it’s hard to explain without coming across as an arsehole :S
Of course I sympathise for him, and those close to him, and for the fact that he thought it was the only way out.
And of course I would never ever judge anyone for being depressed, or condemn anyone for feeling as though suicide was the only option.
I just think of how I’d react is all if someone close to me did it.
Part of my grieving process would be to get mad, that’s all I meant.
Probably not healthy, but we all grieve differently.
I’d only be mad cause I loved them though.
Blame my naive view of the world if you want, but I’d rather believe (or hope, at least) that people suffering from depression get better is all.
That’s what I’d rather see.
Naive, I know.
I think people get more affected by a public figure dying if the work they’ve been involved in helped get them through tough times, or inspired them to change their lives in some way. These kinds of experiences have a profound effect and can cause you to feel a connection to the public figure.
As for your spoiler: imagine feeling so bad that you think the world and the people you love would be better off without you, and then tell me how selfish you think suicide is.
Please don’t put words in my mouth.
I never said selfish.
I’m still pretty shocked that people seem to think I’m completely devoid of sympathy.
Nice to know how I’m seen, I guess.
If someone close to me committed suicide, I’d be distraught.
I’m sorry if part of me being distraught is getting mad.
I’d only get mad cause I loved them though.
But again, apparently I have no sympathy or compassion, so I guess I’m just a horrible person.
Please don’t put words in our mouths. Nobody at all said you have no sympathy or compassion, we’re just trying to get you to understand that its never as black and white as you may think it is. Depression is a terrible thing that skews people’s perspectives and I truly hope your life gets to stay sunny forever so you don’t have to go through anything like it. *hug*
In relation to your spoiler:
Depression can be bad. Really, really, so much more than you can ever possibly imagine. There are people so depressed that they won’t move. They will lie there, wasting away, because everything is so unbearable. These are people who you have to be very careful medicating, because if you make them too comparatively hyper, they will gain the energy to commit suicide. Now, obviously, Robin Williams was nowhere near that part of the spectrum. But based on the details of his death, this wasn’t a “oh, maybe I’ll just try and kill myself.” He would have thought long and hard about the pros and cons, because the way he acted was that of someone who at that moment, was very sure that they did not want to come back.I’m slowly learning the intricacies of Transistor.
I love the art / gameplay, but the levelling system. I’m not a fan of the levelling system :\
Also, inhibitors. Even though they’re optional, if they’re there, I’m gonna use them.
Probably making it much harder for myself :3
Next up when I finish, Valiant Hearts! 😀
Oh, and I almost finished P.T, but gave up at the last puzzle (too scary).
As far as I can figure, you have to wait for midnight, find Lisa’s ghost, avoid getting killed by Lisa, and then…I still haven’t made the baby laugh consistently yet :\
I thought it may have something to do with the touch-pad (since it’s PS4 exclusive).
I swear I got the green torch (if it actually changes anything) more often when I swiped the touch pad while going down the stairs to the basement door, but can’t confirm.
I’m kinda scared that the game won’t live up to the demo :\
managed to work out how to consistantly get the first laugh, no idea about the second & I kept getting a blue torch, also I screamed like a girl twice while playing the demo, holy hell it is creepy,
when you peeped through the crack in the bathroom door and Lisa looks at you I was looking in saying “she’s gonna look back at me and try and scare me hahaha,” then she did and I totally screamed, even when I know it’s coming it’s scary. Second one was when I hadn’t gathered all the pieces of the picture so Lisa attacked me and I pooped a little 😛Still got the sniffles…
Trying to set up my Roxio Game Capture HD PRO to record PC footage.
Trying to sit and watch some tv for a while to just get off the pc for a bit, and every time I go past Pirates of the Caribbean, I just wanna go back and play Risen! It’s Similar in so many ways!
So, another secret shame of mine has been fixed.
I’d never actually seen Tarzan the whole way through until ten minutes ago (I’d seen basically all of it in bits thanks to the Disney Channel, and I’ve seen a lot of the Tarzan TV show). It does not hold back with Clayton’s death, geez.
Also, its ludicrously high budget shows. While it has some issues with any 3D Cel-shaded stuff, the “background” stuff in 3D is ludicrously good. Stands up well today. That said, the Blu-Ray conversion isn’t perfect, there’s a coupla instances of obvious interlacing, and some stuff (mainly the Gorillas’ fur (even though it’s just a flat colour)) looks… compressed? Dunno. It doesn’t resolve itself to a neat colour, stands out when most other things do.
I haven’t seen it at all.
I do remember seeing a couple of drawings of it or something during a tour at Disney World or wherever it was exactly, since they were working on it at the time. That’s as close as I’ve gotten though 😛
Secret shame movies that I haven’t watched, yet want to watch, but always forget to watch:
– 12 Monkeys
– 21 Jump Street
– A Clockwork Orange
– American Psycho
– Donnie Darko
– Gran Torino
– How to Train Your Dragon (both)
– Monsters University
– No Country for Old Men
– Pan’s Labyrinth
– Predator (all of them)
– Pulp Fiction
– Slumdog Millionaire
– Smokin’ Aces
– The Expendables (all of them)
– The Lego Movie
– The Raid (both of them)
– The Silence of the Lambs (or any Hannibal movie)
– Wreck-it-Ralph
These are only the ones I can remember :3
Tarzan was only a secret shame because it’s a Disney movie, and well, it’s me.
I also knocked Grand Budapest Hotel off my normal list today. Can’t actually remember most of the rest of the list, though.
Go watch Gran Torino. Now.
Holy crap this is the funniest thing I’ve seen this weekend!
https://vine.co/v/M37F1mB5IzB
Apparently it’s bird poop! Hahahaha!
Grossssssss
(Thanks @masha2932 :P)
That is horrible.
Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew yuck. Ew.
that’s some bad luck, made me laugh a lot though.
Just caught up on The Leftovers. It’s not something I could exactly say I enjoy, but it’s pretty damn good. It’s also weird seeing the twins from Teen Wolf be just regular teenagers instead of teenaged werewolves.
Love Leftovers but have fallen behind a bit. Compelling show.
Heading to bed.
See you all in new TAY.
I fear I’ve unintentionally made an arse of myself for not being able to convey views properly :S
Hopefully not though (but I know I have)…
I got unreasonably defensive / aggressive also, for which I apologise (to whoever may read this)…
Blame me being sick.
Being sick and feeling like you need to defend yourself aren’t a good combination.
Whole “animal backed into a corner” situation.
So yeah, chances are that this’ll go unread, but I didn’t mean to be insensitive / an arse, and I’d be remiss to not apologise.
I’ll forgive you if you watch Gran Torino. 😛
Erggh. I posted a whole big thing here (basically saying that you could be worse, I mean, you could be *glances through names on this page* Blaghman. I hear that guy’s a prick).
But then my net carked out and it was eaten.
The short version is: Having been in a really shitty mental place at times, I know what it’s like to see only one option going forward. And so I don’t think I’d ever get mad at anyone for killing themself. It’s a shit thing to do, sure. But I’d just be sad that I didn’t hug them one more time.
I read up on this. You’re fine, man.
Hey old TAYers, Ozgameshop has a 10% everything code that expires today sometime? so use it quick!
Just got Xillia 2 and a DualShock 4 for about $50 each 😀
geez man.. I might be 36 in a couple of months, but I’m still young at heart! I swears it!!!
Huuuuuh?
Oh I just got it! Babby TAYius
Also, it’s f4ction’s Birthday today! Make sure y’all make him feel special!!! 🙂
@liondrive Hit a roadblock. Apparently I can’t see you until my mother has met you in person. Don’t have a clue how this is going to work. Not wanting your son to go to a club with a strange man is fair enough, but I’d assume the son being 18 would change the equation. Kind of funny when you think about it. I can’t go because my mommy won’t let me. 😛
I can take you on a date before hand.
Show up on your doorstep in a nice suit and tie. Give her a rose, tell her my little Phlanisbro has told me so much about her (I’ll just leave out its mostly bad stuff…).
I’ll act extra flamboyant.
I can be quite charming when I need to be.
This is gonna be fun… 😀
Why are you commenting in such an old TAY?!
My hilarity is wasted here! >:O