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Yay for another week closer to Destiny
Oh. So you didn’t see the news overnight about Destiny being delayed until early 2015?
It wasn’t. #MondayMorningHeartstartWell, even though that would suck, the statement would still technically be correct ha
(the best kind of correct)
-_-
Morning all 🙂
How are you all?
My weekend was good.
Housewarming, Exhaustion, and Helping friends with relationship troubles.
I Cooked a Pull-apart for the first time!
And I started the new Wolfenstein. yes I have screamed a few times
EDIT: Sorry Ginger, was meant to post new comment.
EDIT 2: BTW, was it lamb pull-apart? How’d it turn out?
it was a leek and mushroom pull apart. was amazing. except for those who didnt like leek
Oh I’ve never actually heard of that term before…I thought you meant slow cooked lamb that pulls apart easily. Sounds delicious though.
http://sweetandsimpleliving.com/easy-pull-apart-pizza-bread/
I’ve really been having a lot of bad luck with my 2DS. Just found out last night that when I bought Zelda: A Link Between Worlds they gave me the Ocarina of Time cartridge. Another trip back to the store…
I’m also getting really pissed off with my co-worker as of late. Well, I’ve always been, but he’s getting worse over the last few months.
I’m also getting pissed off at my Warmachine league players, again. Bunch of lazy asses who care more about winning than actually playing and if they’re not already determined as the winner at the start if the league they don’t bother playing at all. The winners are obviously going to be the players who live over an hour away. Again.
Thats a lot of rage for a monday. Here is hoping your week turns out awesome buddy.
I’m moving tomorrow.
Well maybe next week then?
Try not to get too stressed
Ah. My condolences.
Well Warmachine Tactics is nearly out, you can always try an electronic version with people who aren’t dicks.
It’s shaping up pretty well so far, the controls are a bit clunky but its rather fun from the bit I’ve played so far.
Yeah, I paid for the Journeyman League models and recieved them a couple of months ago (Giving Tristan the keyes to the Judicator pays off immensely) which means I’ve already paid for the game. But there’s a certain charm you miss when playing the videogame version. It’s great seeing a table full of painted models charging down the field. You lose that when all you’re doing is choosing models to use. There’s no real sense of ownership or personality to your army.
Yeah I do get that, no matter how good a 40K game is, they’re not MY marines that I’ve used through countless fights. It’s not MY tactical marine that got that incredibly lucky shot bolter and destroyed my mate’s dreadnought at exactly the right time and saved a battle and subsequently got battle honours painted on his pauldron. It’s just graphics. The game is the same but the emotion isn’t invested in it.
That’s not to say the games can’t have charm or their own personality. I’ve never really had the time to fully get into the 40k games but when I did I always got a smile whenever I attack with a unit and they scream, “Space Marines, ATTACK!”. It’s just the way they said it.
If anything that was the problem with the “Space Marine” game. There was no real charm or humour (aside from Orks) and everybody was taking it way too seriously.
The videogame will most likely be great, but at the same time videogames are also limited by their rules and programming. You can’t try any twists or go for lucky tactics.
I don’t think I’ll be seeing a match where I move a model B2B with the enemy high-DEF Warcaster,
Have my Exemplar Knight Seneschal charge my own model and kill it,
Have Harbinger take d3 damage to keep it alive,
Attack it again and take d3 damage to keep it alive,
Trigger Smite and smash my own model into the Warcaster and letting it die but also knocking down the Warcaster to have a base DEF of 5,
Dog pile it with range and heavy hitters.
Happy birthday @f4ction?
It is indeed his b’day! I posted in old TAY a little earlier, but I guess it’s lost to the void now!
Thank ye!
Happy birthday my friend hope your day is awesome and amazing
Happy Birthday! May you have an awesome day and a cake so epic you’ll still be finding crumbs in your beard tomorrow!
Happy birthday!!!! :):)
Hooray and all that, by the way you look old now
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Have some cake!
Enjoy age!
I tried to find some Philly related “birthday” clip but I couldn’t find one (except a kind of long Charlie rat stick one) …so instead you get this story.
Happy birthday anyway! 😀
The rat stick is amazing.
Wurmhat
Denim chicken!
Yes, Happy Birthday @f4ction, hope you have a great day.
Happy birthday, @f4ction! You’re a good guy, who’s crazy talented! Hope the year treats you good and proper!
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was alright but kinda indoorsy as it was pretty cold. Friday night we went out to celebrate my dads birthday at a nice new thai restaurant which was delicious! Had massaman curry, red curry, a dish similar to mongolian lamb and a grilled chicken like dish, all in all 9/10 would eat again.
Saturday was spent at the shops all morning buying stuff for the kitchen, got a pots and pans set and some washing baskets and the like, then had Schnitz for lunch. Later on we spent 3 hours at officeworks getting 500 photos printed because the machine carked itself mid way through and had to be redone.
Sunday was a lazy day of doing literally nothing just lounging around watching the inbetweeners and brickleberry, that night we went out to Captain Americas Heavenly Burger Joint to celebrate Cathryn finishing her course and me passing my Agents Rep course.
All in all a good weekend
A question do you play horror games? What do you prefer being able to hide or being able to fight back?
Good Morning
I find if I’m able to fight back I’m not nearly as scared and usually you get more and more powerful so the threat gets less scary as you progress. I still haven’t beaten Outlast because you can’t attack and I was surprisingly scared by it. I also played P.T on the weekend and it made me squeal like a little girl. Not sure which I prefer but not being able to fight gets more of an emotional response from me.
Edit: That’s why I’ve got high hopes for Alien Isolation, I’m hoping it’ll be terrifying
PT made me freak as well that shit be scary in parts, havent beaten outlast since the first and only time I played it I screamed like a little girl
did you manage to finish it? my sister & I tried for ages, that last puzzle seems inconsistent.
I got past the red infinite running room but couldnt find all the pictures of the face so I gave upyeah I’m up to the last puzzle, I used a guide to find the picture pieces after searching for ages with no luck. Really tricky and people who claim to have beaten it have all done it slightly differently to eachother.Ill give it another shot next weekend and see if I can finish it, really looking forward to silent hills noe
yeah me too, I hope it lives up to P.T
I generally don’t find things like Outlast or Amnesia all that scary. Generous checkpoints usually mean being caught is a minor inconvenience and it doesn’t take long to realise they’re a whole game of forced stealth section with window dressing.
Being able to fight but in a limited capacity lends a bit of an edge to it all. A worry about not just everything going on but about your decisions. Do I stand and fight? Will it cripple me for later on?
That said P.T was brilliant. But that was more a puzzle game.
Horror games just freak me regardless but usually I hype up and say “bring it ya *expletive*” and then I cant fight and I cry like a little girl haha.
PT had some scary parts that really got me but I agree it was more about puzzles in a scary enviroment then actually being under pressure
I prefer horror games where you have the chance to fight back but they up the ante over time. It’s why I really enjoy the Resident Evil remake for Gamecube because the monsters get progressively harder and harder to kill.
For instance (spoilers incoming),
The giant snake section was scary because HOLY CRAP IT’S A GIANT SNAKE. Same thing for the giant sharks as well.Lisa Trevor was pretty horrifying too if only because you quickly realised that her backstory was pretty darn sad. Also when the Hunters showed up they inverted one of the things that you had come to rely on and could destroy doors and chase you. It’s the same thing they did in Resident Evil 3 with Nemesis and it works so well.
Massman curry and mongolian lamb would have to be two of my favourite dishes. So good.
…dammit, early morning hunger.
I reckon! The meat just disintergrates the moment it touched your mouth hole my only downside was the potatos were hard and there was only 2 pieces of potato in it it was primarily sauce
I hate it when the potatoes aren’t cooked enough like that. Also hate when carrots are still hard, that’s why I don’t usually bother eating them any more. Well that and they generally taste awful, kind of metallic. My Nonno used to get awesome carrots, I miss those. They were delicious.
Yeah that was the one downside of the dinner but the red curry I swear carried the night it was stupidely delicious I was tempted to order a second it was that good
Massaman with 24 hour slow cooked beef chunks…
drooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
*tummy gurgles*
You cooking? Coz im keen
Massaman is at its peak with a fatty cut of leg lamb that’s been cooked for a long time. Lamb shanks are amazing done up as a Massaman curry.
I find I enjoy both, but how much is really down to how well they utilise the choice. I finished Outlast and Whistleblower without much of an issue, but Amnesia scares the crap out of me because the mechanics counter themselves – stay too long in the dark, you go mad; stay too long in the light, you attract the “monster” – so nowhere was “safe”. Played PT over the weekend, and while the atmosphere creeped me out enough to get nervous walking down the corridor to my apartment later that night, I also got infuriated by the abstract logic it uses for its puzzles (I doubt I’ll finish it, because I’ve yet to hear a consistent method for doing so), and the lack of controls (not having a run button seems odd, to say the least).
That said, after getting my neck snapped for turning around at the wrong time, the radio’s warnings (“Look behind you!”) continued to scare the shit out of me long after I got over the corridor-nerves. As in, the following night, I was still nervous about looking over my shoulder.Being able to fight back can be good when it slows them down, but not when it outright eliminates the monster – the regenerating necromorph in Dead Space is a great example, and I’m sure the earlier RE and SH games have good examples.
I agree I like the idea of being able to do something ANYTHING other than slow walk/run away I mean I get that its meant to make you feel helpless but cmon Im sure if theres a crowbar on the floor your gonna grab it and swing it like a crazy person
I’d argue that grabbing a crowbar and knowing it won’t do squat is even more effective at evoking that sense of powerlessness than restricting the controls. It removes the player’s hope of fighting back, when they’re given the option of doing so in the knowledge that it won’t have any real effect. Siren: Blood Curse did it really well – you could beat the monsters down, but they’d just get back up again and continue to hunt you after five seconds or so, meaning you basically gained nothing, but also revealed your location.
Well I just got my work jacket washed over the weekend, while I was on the way into work today I realised my jacket reeked of cigarette smoke after I was asked by the person sitting next to me “Do you smoke?”.. Thanks for continuing to smoke in the house mum and step dad… -_-
Also my recent ex chatted to me on facebook.. wasn’t the most positive conversation, we’re both in a horrible situation. Still a really uncertain future while looking for jobs online where I’m either not qualified enough or it’s too far away. I really feel like shit today 🙁
That sucks buddy. HUGS
Hey, that’s my job situation as well, it sucks the big one. Feel for ya on that.
Time heals all my friend theres no rush and we here if you need us
Even years later, if I didn’t part on good terms with an ex, bumping into them is a tad bittersweet at best, outright depressing at worst.
This was more “I didn’t want to part at all”, I still love her so darn much it’s killing me. I guess she thought it best for me to move on or something with all the crap going wrong in her life, hence why she did what she did. Unfortunately it looks like we both just got more depressed than ever before.
I’ve stopped caring about what I eat now and lost all motivation about moving out when the apartment is done, I guess the only reason I’d move out would be my family would no longer be poisoning me with their indoor habit, but then I’d just end up living alone.
Get a roommate? Or a pet they are good is your apartment 1 or 2 bed?
Two bedrooms, but my plan was the other bedroom to be our PC gaming “command center”. I might get a pet, not sure if they’re allowed, plus I work full time, isn’t that bad for the pet’s well being that I’m gone for that long each weekday?
That is a good plan specially for lans if the size allows it. As long as they have toys and are trained they are usually fine and will smother you the moment you get home which is always nice
Yesterday I downloaded Pinball FX2 on my Xbone, not having previously played it at all and it was the best decision I’ve ever made in life ever. I’m a pinball convert now and I’m going to look to join some pinball leagues and become the pinball king/wizard. Seriously though, I’ve never really spent enough time on a pinball game to figure out how all the missions and things work, but having the table guides for each table and unlimited credit has been a god send.
Does anyone have any tables that they’d recommend? I’ve only unlocked 8 so far and I think my favourite is the Amazing Spiderman table.
Really! I didn’t know that was out yet.
Yup and it’s glorious. There’s a new Guardians of the Galaxy table as well.
Yeah, I’ve got that table on the 360 version, so that’ll transfer to the Xbone version,
Couldn’t see it in the store, had to do a search for it, downloading now.
Ugh the store is still such a mess. Do you have a fav. table?
Not really, the Star Wars ones and Marvel ones are pretty good though.
Pinball FX2 is awesome, I have a fairly large number of tables for it now
– Epic quest is fun and has on going loot system that is kinda cool
– PvZ is good but confusing to play
– I really like the Ms sploshion man table. So very very pink though
– I enjoy the Rome, biolab, and most of the Marvel Pinball Original Pack
– Get The Infinity Gauntlet, the special effects in that do your head in (reverse flippers or reverse action of flippers, release to flip. As well as gravity changes or turning the entire table upside down)
Awesome, thanks! I did a bit of research and also found a load of people highly recommend Fear Itself as well. I’ve already spent $35 bucks on tables, I’ll probably end up getting them all it is so fun.
I didn’t see a PvZ table though? All I can acccess on it is Star Wars, Marvel and Pinball Original ones.
PvZ was a stand-alone table on PC, maybe not ported across yet
I have all the star wars tables but haven’t played them enough to recommend them yet, although I do recommend star wars starfighter, that is a lot of fun.
I generally wait until a sale and then use the remains of my steam wallet to grab a few more tables.
I’m not a huge fan of fear itself, it’s a really hard table and I’m not that good at pinball
Made some new progress on a media project for school, coming together rather nicely.
@welbot I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I’m enjoying Risen 3 more than I thought I would. It could just be a massive nostalgia trip but I’m having a lot of fun with it even though I’m yet to get into the meat of the game itself.
I’m missing a lot of the references to the previous games which is kinda funny but I’m not too lost in what is happening. I like the levelling system and stuff but I’m finding I need a tonne more gold in general because I keep hording my loot on the off chance I need it to craft stuff.
Out of curiosity, where did you go first after the tutorial section?
I went to Ticaragua first and now I’m on Kina so I’m pretty separate from any of the main faction stuff.I went to Tacarigua first as well. Sorted out Jack and all the missions I could tend to while I was there. I have yet to leave there, but was just about to do so when I quit last.Next for me is likely to be going to find Patty I guess.
I know what you mean about the gold. I always used to start out like that, hoarding stuff, then kept a list of useless items I could sell without fear of not being able to do something, but it’s… different this time! It appears that the sort of stuff you could do nothing with except to sell it, can actually be used in crafting things this time round, so my hoarding is much worse this time!
I know you need them cos I got a recipe for crafting an item, and it requires a silver platter! I have a couple, so I’m not too worried, but it sucks not knowing how many recipes exist out there, and what requirements they have. I’m sure I have a metric fuck tonne of things in my pack that I can sell, but I dunno which I should yet!
As for the references to the previous games, while they are linked in many ways, and it’s supposed to be a continuation of the story, you don’t really need to know anything from the previous games.
It is pretty cool that Parts of the game are still the same visually though! Like Tacarigua, the little town where all the guards are and such, is still exactly the same as it was in the second one (layout and people etc.) The rest of the island is a little different, but the lighthouse was there too! Can’t wait to explore more lands!
I always wait to complete as many side quests as possible before I join one of the factions. If you choose a faction too early, you may lock yourself out of some missions. I’m likely to go with the Guardians when I do decide (The mages,) as that’s always been my favourite!
A tip in case you’re not sure, but at the lighthouse when you speak to that dick who stole Jack’s stuff and put it in the chest under the lighthouse. You should be able to get in there and finish off the mission already. When I first went in there, there was a dragon looking kind of creature that started hurling around fireballs and stuff, but he wasn’t anywhere near as deadly as he appeared to be! There’s some termites and a cave spider in there too, but you shouldn’t have too much trouble with them. The termites are the most difficult, but try to get Bones to do a lot of the work, as he can cop some serious beatings without dying!
Feel free to hit me up on steam if you wanna talk more without spoilerising everything 🙂
Ah, all good. I’ll probably hit you up for some advice further down the track if I get stuck.Yeah I managed to beat the dragon thing by scum-rolling and pistol shooting as much as I could (I’ve optimised my cunning while my sword fighting is pretty crap). I tried to explore certain parts of the island but I kept getting destroyed by some of the tougher creatures so I’ll need to come back at some point.
only thing that shits me off about it at all so far, is the inability to disable douple tap dodging (was the same in previous games :\) and there needs to be a more persistent way of notifying you when you level up. I’m sure in previous games there was an indicator on the UI, or a glow effect on something.. gothic had the same sort of thing too. This just brings up writing on the side for a few seconds, and if you’re in battle at the time, you don’t end up reading it.
I don’t mind the double tap dodging. It’s been in a few games so far and I’ve kinda gotten used to it.
The only thing that stuck out for me was the sometimes hilariously bad voice acting of the main character and the sometimes nonchalant way some of the characters swear. Hearing people regularly swear in a video game is still a bit of a novelty for me.
Oh god, I do this in EVERY. GAME. EVER. Hoard crap in case it’s used for crafting. Or some random guy wants it for a quest. Games really, really need to label shit as junk or make crafting recipes have ingredient lists if I don’t want to utterly fucking debilitate myself with hoarding behaviour.
They make it harder in Risen 3 as they jumble a whole bunch of stuff together as “loot”, including quest items, crafting recipe items, and just general junk. Thankfully you can’t sell the quest specific items as it removes it from your sellable list whenever you go to a shop but it can be kinda frustrating to keep track of everything.
my house in Skyrim looked like someone from one of those hoarders shows lived there, I had so much shit in that game, some of my chests would lag for like 20 seconds before loading the items because I’d hoarded so much stuff. I just started Dragon’s Dogma on the weekend and am sick of seeing “overencumbered”. Stop putting so much stuff everywhere for me to pick up, I can’t just leave it there.
That’s one thing I’ve always loved about Risen. No overencumberance! If that’s what you can call it! You can carry as much stuff as you want in your inventory, and it never has any impact on your stats at all!
I, too, suffered from this problem.
Here’s how I solved it:
Make sure you and your pawn take enough levels in the starting fighter class to get the perk which dramatically increases your carry limit, then both of you switch to the ranged (I think Strider, even?) one which lets you move at one encumbrance speed lower than your current weight.
Additionally, feel free to overencumber your pawns as much as you like, it doesn’t really seem to affect their movement and they’ll hardly ever use up consumables (which is sometimes more curse than blessing), so you don’t have to worry about losing them. Oh, and there are multiple locations which will let you dump everything in storage. Dump everything in storage. All the time. Whenever possible.
Some people might argue that the problem was not actually solved. Those people don’t have as much Stuff as I do.
Yep, my main pawn has the perk to carry more weight, I should get it for my main character. I just use the pawns as pack mules & I’ve unloaded shitloads into storage. Really enjoying it so far, a little confusing at first because they don’t hold your hand much but I really like the freedom they give you. Loving the monsters so brutal and cool looking.
WoW People!
Where are you all in WoW? i.e. servers, I would prefer to be on a server where I know people I’m possibly porting my 62 Shaman over. I dunno yet.
Thoughts and suggestions?
From memory, a lot of people have characters on Khaz’Goroth.
I know there’s a tab in the TAYNAMES doc, which is probably at http://tinyurl.com/taynames or something like that.
I don’t think enough people of TAY play wow often enough to warrant a server transfer, and with CRZ servers being integrated more often to low-high pop servers it’s almost pointless.
If you plan to do some endgame and live in the SEA region transferring to Horde-Barthilas or Alliance-Frostmourne is always a good choice.
I am in ‘Account Frozen’, and I intend to stay there 😛
Is there anything more irritating than ringing somewhere at 930 and just repeatedly getting a message about business hours being 830 – 530 and to call back between then?
When someone tries to ring you repeatedly literally minutes ago and you try to call them back only for it to ring timeout to voicemail.
YES
HOW HARD IS IT TO STAY OFF THE PHONE FOR 10 MINUTES SO I CAN REACH YOU.
The service boss does this literally all the fucking time and i wanna punch him.
This! Oh god so much this!
Mr. Strange is in Sydney all week and we’re all sick. Yay?
Thankfully myself and my son are almost better, we just have to make sure we don’t catch it again from my daughter. 😛
I don’t sleep well at night when Mr. Strange is away so I’m looking forward to catching up with TV shows and gaming every night if I can pry myself away from The Beast (my new sewing machine). It might be time to start up adventuring in the Wasteland again with Boone. I miss Boone.
In my mind The Beast has an appearance befitting its title. Make it so! 😛
I just spent $2000 on it, not really ready to mess with it like that just yet. 😛
Wowthatsalottamoney. What kind of magic does that buy you?
I suddenly feel a whole lot better about sinking $400 on a machine I don’t even use 😛
It buys me quilting magic. And it’s also worth $3500, it was on special. And it’s also the cheapest made-for-quilting machine available. And it’s also the most expensive thing I’ve ever owned. Eep!
I was stressed about spending that much money, but quilting is so much easier on this Beast, you have no idea. It was like the difference between cutting a roast with a butter knife and cutting it with a razor sharp carving knife.
If you want to get technical, though it comes with a crapton of feet (including a quilting foot with three different bases, a 1/4″ piecing foot and a walking/dual feed foot(the most expensive foot, if you have to buy it separately), it enables me to change the pressure of the foot, as well as changing how close to the quilt my quilting foot is, it has a knee lift so I don’t need to take my hands off the quilt to lift my needle, it has 11 inches of space between my needle and the right side of the machine so I can more easily bunch a quilt up in there, and it has a way more powerful motor, built for the stresses constant quilting puts on the machine. Quilting takes a lot more out of your machine than just sewing does.
Next time I upgrade it will be to a mid-arm, with around 16 inches space, and they usually come already built into a table so you have a giant flat area for your quilt. But they’re all at least $7000 to $10000 so I’ll need to sell a lot of quilts to afford one. 😛
Haha, expensive things are scary. But hey, sounds like a good bargain! And like a lot of magic too.
11 inches of space sounds luxurious. I’m jealous 😛
There’s a joke to be made somewhere about 11 inches and your porn star doppelganger but I’m not equipped to make it. 😛
That’s ok @strange,
neither am II totally am.These posts are putting into perspective the amount of money my mother’s spent on her quilting habit.
As an aside, remember how when you first started quilting, you were like “ergh, I don’t even really like quilting, I’m just doing this for a family member”? Funny how things change.
Indeed.
I feel like all my life this is what I’ve been looking for but I didn’t know it. I’ve always been drawn to fabric, and I aways had an addiction to buying doona covers, and I even used to do this thing in high school where instead of taking notes I’d just draw a continuous pattern on the page, without letting my pen stop touching the paper.
If I’d known quilting wasn’t just all traditional muted tones and appliques of cats before, if I’d known about the Modern quilt movement before, my life would have been extremely different. And I’d probably have that $10000 mid-arm machine by now. 😛
To be honest, for that amount of money you’ll get a lot more joy out of the beast than, say, a Thermomix.
Man, don’t even get me started on how much of a waste of money I think those things are!
But yes, the Beast is an investment. It will end up paying for itself. Do not think that could be said about a Thermomix. 😛
Spun!
Hey, Jimu.
Are you better yet, or still sick?
Back at work, but not 100%
*hugasaurus* Hope you get back up to 100 soon!
Hey Jimmy, we always have old page TAY chats, so WAZZZUPPP!!!!!
Phone broke, give me yer old one!
But I use my iPhone when I go running!
POO!
Hola Tayberinos
Had a quiet weekend- was supposed to give blood Saturday, but felt a) cold and b) unwell so I cancelled it and played Skyrim all day instead. Sunday, went up to my parent’s house, got dragged into helping my father clear some dead trees. Introduced my parents to Love Letter and the film Gravity.
A Monday Morning Question: Given I spent all Sunday in the presence of a chainsaw, fvourite video game power tool? The hand chainsaws in Dead Rising 2 were great fun.
Space Marie’s Chainsword count?
Space Marie?! Never heard of that game before. Is it fun?
Dammit Marie, they’re space minerals.
Power Axe is a Power Tool right?
Only if the power fist from Fallout is too
I’m so gonna use that for Jarallius when in melee combat xD
I’m a fan of the Shishkabob / Gehenna from Fallout 3 & Fallout New Vegas.
How about the Cerebral Bore from the Turok games?
Hi TAY.
Hello Mawt.
Hellooooo
St Louis!Mawt!Good morning!
My weekend was miserable from a first world problem point of view. NO INTERNET! Apparently there’s been a full ADSL outage in my area since Saturday morning. Supposed to be fixed by 7pm tonight… Fingers crossed.
In happier news, I made Maple, Chocolate and Bacon cookies! (pics on Twitter if you want to salivate) They’re pretty yum. Not enough bacon though! I think for the actual big bake before the Canberra Meat, I’ll add more bacon and more maple syrup. The dairy-free chocolate that I’m using actually tastes fairly indistinguishable from the real thing too once baked (tastes like cheapo Advent-Calendar chocolate when it’s “fresh” :P)
Also went and saw Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Was pretty cool.
YOUR FACE is pretty co…
Whoa, you nearly caught me there!
Morning all!
I didn’t have much of an exciting weekend. Spent a bit of it helping my parents move unbelievably heavy furniture and playing Risen 2 which has made me ask something.
Why hasn’t there been a game released that combines AssPirates naval combat with a deep/rich RPG game?
Seriously, the developer doesn’t even need to think of the story. They can make a game and say “You’re a pirate, have fun!”.
BECAUSE PIRATES DONT TAKE TURNS 😛
You dont know what rpg is do you??
they shoot rocket propelled grenades?
#ohrocketman
That could he a cool ability. Some sort of scoundrel fighting dirty and sneaking extra turns in.
I saw you playing 2 a bit on the weekend! What are your thoughts so far? I loved it!
It’s pretty good, I think it captured the whole “you’re a pirate” thing pretty well. Also, I just found out that muskets are ridiculously powerful.
EDIT: How is Risen 3? Is it worth picking up?
I’ve only (ha yeah.. only) played 12 hours so far, but I’m gonna call it a definitive YES!
If you’re loving 2, you’ll sure as hell love 3!!!
Nothing quite as satisfying as shooting monkeys in the face with a musket.
Don’t shoot em all though! You can train monkeys! I’ve seen several spots in Risen 3 already, where you would need to control a monkey to get in to!
I had the option to spend gold to get the monkey training skill. I decided against it for gunsmithing so that I can shoot more monkeys. >:D
lol
New TAY!
I’ve been sick with a cold or something since Friday, still feeling under the weather today but I’m back at work anyway.
Been purchasing busted PS3s on the cheap and trying to repair them – something to do that keeps me in the house – though only two out of the four I have brought back to life from the dreaded YLOD. Unfortunately other hardware issues such as drive failures and no video output prevent them from being in perfect working order. So I really only have one fully capable PS3. For now.
I guess you can’t win them all.
Instead of playing adventure games I played Binding of Isaac then spent two hours in ACIII collecting the last of the feathers (which just unlocks an outfit) and realised I would have to sink far too much time in the game hunting achievements which isn’t a worthwhile investment since I have no intention of getting 100% or playing the multiplayer or DLC, so after I got the Spit Roast achievement (assassinate two enemies at once using a musket) that game is officially shelved.
Binding of Isaac was slightly more interesting. After 114 hours:
I beat Isaac’s heart for the third time and chose to go to Sheol instead of the Cathedral and defeated Satan, unlocking my 11th ending! Later I went back and decided to take another crack at the Cathedral and defeated Isaac on my first try, having not previously gotten that far, and unlocked ending 12.I’m probably only at 80 hours rather than 114 since my friends and wife have played on my account but still, I feel like I’m getting to these endings far slower than others have. :/
My wife and I also watched a couple of Asian horror/thriller movies. Don’t Click was a but boring and pointless but Confessions was pretty great. Not really much of a jump scare thriller or gore fest, it was more of a psychological journey. Really got my attention.
You’ve watched Takashi Miike’s films already I presume? Amazing horror, and even his other non-horror is mostly amazing.
He’s one I keep meaning to get around to but never have. might grab Ichi the Killer and go from there. He seems to have a ton of titles under his belt, so any standouts I should put on a “must see” list?
Ichi the Killer is a great place to start. If you’re interested in horror specifically Audition and Imprint are two of his best. Non-horror you’ve got Ace Attorney, Crows Zero, Sukiyaki Western Dargo are amongst my favourites. If you like something a bit more obscure try Visitor Q.
YES! ISAAC! You’re getting pro now! 😀
Mornin’ TAY! Hope you had a good weekend. Spent mine working Saturday, then in the dreary rainy city Sunday. Took some photos too! Wasn’t happy with a lot of them, but here’s some of my favourites.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126024137@N02/14756660120/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126024137@N02/14943359815/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126024137@N02/14756771438/
WHAT UP!
Alot of grey im afraid..im on a roof and it looks like its gonna rain..awesome photography by the way you got a knack for it dude! Im gonna take more beachside photos when I move
Skills to pay the bills!
Decent pics, but IMO you haven’t pulled off the B&W (brutal opinion, I know). Can you UL the original colours too? I’ve seen a couple of your colours and I like it.
Hey dude I’d rather you be honest than not! Can you explain why? I got into the habit of taking black and white, but I’m breaking out of it and making sure I take colour along with B & W. This time unfortunately I don’t have the colours. Next time though!
I saw your link the other day to flickr account and I saw a lot of B&W. IMO you should shoot in colour and selectively edit B&W for photos where it makes sense. Everything in B&W doesn’t make much sense in a lot of situations.
I like the first photo above actually, the tunnel. That one’s pretty cool man. The chess one not so much. It’s too dark, the faces/people are too dark and don’t stand out, there’s not enough contrast between objects. Generally, B&W doesn’t work on this type of photo because there’s just too much action happening.
Note: I’m no pro. I don’t have a fancy camera and I don’t really shoot. 😛 So take my opinion with a grain of salt as it may not be professional. But, I have read a bunch of stuffs on technique and seen a bunch of photos, so I like to think I know a little about it. I just recommend you edit for B&W first. Maybe make all-B&W albums for practise later (and shoot in B&W when familiar) and when you find a suitable target.
Awesome. Thabks for the feedback dude! Really appreciate it and will take your advice to hand.
Second one is steak sauce.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
Awesome.
I like these quite a lot. The second and third ones in particular.
Hey guys! Don’t forget, Mario Kart 8 tonight! \o/
Maybe… I could be lost playing Wolfenstein… Although I have told the Boyfriend he could do with practice…
I’ll be there.
Morning everyone!
First time really participating in TAY.
is anyone else struggling to play games lately, im going back through Borderlands 2, because there is nothing else and im just waiting for Borderlands The Pre-Sequel. I’ve tried going back to Zelda A Link Between Worlds but i havent played it in that long I dont know where i’m up too or what to do.
I tried playing Tomb Raider again but im just hanging for the sequel and impatiently waiting for Lara Croft Temple of Osiris.
I’ve got a gamers block, nothing is satisfying my gaming needs. dear god, im turning 23 tomorrow :/
BORDERLANDS
ATM, I’m back in Skyrim, but I’m hanging out for Destiny. Not really mainlining any other games atm, a little bit of a slump.
Also, oblig
a) FETCH THE OAR OF THORNS
and
b) oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooold.
I had gamers block recently, then I downloaded the new Wolfenstein. It’s pretty awesome. Good for screaming.
Also, Welcome to Tay, 🙂
Let me tell you something, I used to be like you. I thought being 23 was old. It was the end of the world.
But now I can safely say that it definitely is. My bones ache. My jaw cracks when I chew. I trip over nothing. And I get out of breath walking three metres.
Age is terrible, mang.
its something to look forward to then!
You should try 26! I’m like Donovan after choosing the wrong cup in the Last Crusade
Crap. That’ll be me in November.
OLLLLLLLLLLLLL-wait, I’m 24 … carry on.
Right now I’m playing Risen 2 and a little bit of Guild Wars 2. I never would have played Risen 2 without this game drought so it’s not all bad.
hmm. interesting might look into that one.
@redartifice i tried getting into Skyrim, played a good chunk of it but i couldnt be bothered anymore. havent touched it since last year.
@gingerchris86 i havent played any of the Wolfenstein series. is it worth picking up even if i dont know anything about it.
And thanks buddy
23! Oh man, you’re soooo old :p
Seriously though, welcome to TAY, and Happy Birthday for tomorrow.
thanks @evilmonkey
Welcome to TAY!
Yes I think it has to do with the weather I have heaps of games to play and that I tell myself ill play and have yet to play a single one..its gamers block i could be doing anything instead im getting my arse repeatedly handed to me in CS:GO
My middle brother gets gamer’s block every now and then. He solves it by watching shitloads of TV series or playing Warhammer, Magic: The Gathering, or board games (primarily Axis & Allies and similar).
I find that my gaming is in fits and starts. I go for long periods where I barely game an hour a week and wonder if maybe it’s no longer a viable hobby for me, especially I might go and blow a bunch of cash on a handful of games and then not even play them.
Then I find a game I simply can’t put down and sink 40 hours into it in one week and remember that yes, video games are awesome.
I play games in blocks, that’s kind of similar. I went though a block where I played nothing but xcom for about 3 weeks, I now have just shy of 200 hours clocked on it and finished 8 playthroughs.
Most of the time when I get out of the mood for anything I normally play, I look through my steam list and find something I bought on sale or got in a bundle that I never tried and give that a crack. A few weeks ago my usual weekend coop plans fell through and I hadn’t gotten the xcom bug yet, I scanned through my steam list and noticed this indie game called The Swapper that had recently been mentioned on one of the Extra Credits spinoff segments so I thought I’d give a bash. Damn was it bloody fantastic! Incredibly refreshing and challenging puzzles coupled with a weird scifi story and a really nice break from the usual tactical puzzles I tend to favour, still stuff that required careful thought and planning but a totally different style and it made the world of difference.
couldnt get into XCOM.
I have a huge list on my steam account even my PS has a large list, but the thing is ive either played most of it or just not in the mood. I usually go for the co-op games, but i find i cant really play with many people because of the way i play. so its harder for me to play games and as of late ive just been replaying games ive already finished.
I might need some new gamer friends
Hello, welcome. 🙂
I’m struggling with games also. Many things are vying for my time.
WELCOME TO TAY, NIC!
Greetings.
Xenoblade?!
Weekend… was supposed to see Guardians of the Galaxy but had to cancel last minute because it turned out it was at the drive-in, and the rain decided to come along and play. Then had it brought to my attention that I have yet another porn star doppelganger.
Wasted plenty more time in Elite, most of it going to waste thanks to dumbness and death. Realised I’ve clocked up 60.5 hours in it since the beta launch. Maybe not much compared to other people but it’s a lot for me these days 😛 Can’t even think of the last game I pumped that much time into, excluding SM3DW with the obsessive speedrun attempt the other month.
Rain continues to be awful, it was absolutely bucketing down this morning. Could barely see the car in front of me sometimes. And had to fill up with petrol which I forgot to do (thanks to not actually going out on the weekend like I was planning to) on top of somehow turning my alarm off in my sleep, so added lateness plus rain slowdown made a ~40min trip turn into over an hour and a half. Urgh.
Geez, even your doppelgangers are drowning in ladies.
Yeeeesss… Ladies….
“Attention”
Heh… perhaps you should take a look at this 😛
Risky click. Fortunately, no tumblr at work, so I didn’t get caught with a faceful of dong.
‘Sonly shirtless dudes. If you wanted a face full of dong you’d have to search for it yourself.
Wow… Uncanny!
A big thumbs up to all the PS4’ers that have added me to their friends list over the last few days. I’ve finally cracked double figures haha Now I may have more than one time to beat it Trials Fusion.
What’s your PSN id?
My PSN is Matt_3D (totally awesome yeah? I want to change it to something a little less boring.)
Add ColdCamV if you havent already I only get on it on weekends
Will do. I’m mostly on on the weekends too.
tinyurl.com/taynames
God damn last posts when you actually want an answer :/
As in when you’re trying to find info on a problem?
I went to a trampoline place on the weekend. I did a backflip into a pit of foam. IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING THING EVER. I also got tired after half a hour, jumping is tiring as hell. How did i do it so much as a kid.
Flip out in Penrith? It’s so damn tiring. Such a good way to work out though!
Had a pretty quiet weekend, although I walked into town on Saturday morning and had a good coffee. I also went into the Oxfam shop and picked up some really nice chocolate. The brand is Madecasse and it’s a fair trade chocolate from Madagascar. The one I had was 63% cocoa with cinnamon and chilli. I loved how well the three distinct flavours combined.
I also watched a fair amount of sport (not that that’s any different than my usual weekend). My four teams between them had 2 wins, a loss and a draw. And that’s all I really have to say.
What coffee do you recommend? I usually get cappuccino cos I know vaguely what it is … 😛
So, I said this on Saturday but I never got confirmation.
The large Legend of Zelda bean bag I made has to go. It’s too big. I cannot send the beans as it would be too expensive, so it’s just the cover. I will wash it and send it to whoever wants it.
… Photos? 😀
I too would like to see the photos
It’s dirty atm because it’s been stored in the back room but I have to wash it
Man, if this was the current page I could be all:
“We like dirty pics ;)”
and it’ll get like… two upvotes!
If you really want to get rid of it, I’ll take it, but only if you’re sure you don’t want it anymore.
Photos….and if I approve I will fight anyone to the death for it. <3
*starts wrapping barb wire around boxing gloves*
Seriously, it’s not that great
We call that the stinger! They uhh they dont let us use that no more
I’m still interested! 🙂
/o\ Now I feel terrible
Spent 15 hours playing Mass Effect on PS3 last night like some sort of damn teenager who has spare time or something. Had a severe headache by the end and struggled to sleep properly. It was awesome.
It’s good but I’m up to Virmire and it’s getting a frame rate of 1 every second or two and as I get further in it keeps freezing and crashing more and more. Getting to the point where it’s dying every 15 mins and I had to drop the difficulty to casual with full aim assist to just hold the fire button and swing the stuck around. Lots of noise, screen changes frame a few times over 10-15 seconds and hope it gets everyone. Squad has to constantly be manually told to move forward otherwise the follow me command is ignored and they stay there. Characters disappearing during conversations and cutscenes and animations are starting midway through or current off early leaving me wondering what the hell just happened.
Is this just a mess of a PS3 port or did 360 and PC do it as well?
Only issues I had for the first ME on PC was that it hates alt-tabbing, it struggles to catch up to 60 FPS again after about 30 seconds but other than that, none of what you describe :/.
I never had any of those issues on the 360… Sounds really sucky! Did they do a half arse job at porting it across or something?
PC was fine, as usual =P
Master Race etc …
I heard the PS3 was a lousy port but I never heard it was that bad. Ran with no issues on 360 as far as I recall and I played it through three times.
The 360 had some occasional framerate drops when it got to virmire as I recall, might be the same cause making a different result. Have you tried a reinstall of the game just in case it’s gone a bit wonky or hit a seriously fragmented part of your HDD?
You might benefit from trying the file system restoration detailed here: http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Home-Support/Restoring-your-PS3-File-System-amp-Database-Helps-to-Maintain/td-p/37322987
It’s effectively a defrag for the PS3, I’ve not used it myself but I sounds like it might be worth a try, its not like it’s going to make it run any worse. It’s clearly not meant to run like that, even a shoddy port wouldn’t make it by QA running that badly.
@freezespreston: If you do this, back up your saves! Easiest way if you have PS+ is probably to just upload all the saves you care about to the cloud.
Well it specifically mentions that it’s not a data wiping process so it shouldn’t be necessary but better safe than sorry, the menu options that the link says in large red letters to not do wipes the data, this one just rebuilds the file system rather than formats the drive.
Still better safe than sorry. Sometimes shit doesn’t work right, eg I swapped over my copy of Muramasa on the Vita to the PS+ digital version and it wiped all my saves. 🙁
I’ll try it but I have my doubts with the PS3 being two weeks old with only Mass effect installed on it.
Doing some googling and it looks like a lot of people are having a myriad of problems with it from everything I’m saying to straight up game breaking bugs and non existent quests. Seems to be mostly coming from the PSN digital version.
Hmm, okay yeah that sounds less likely to be the problem then…
Dang, that’s lame.
Virmire ran fine on my PS3. Mine was digital, though. Maybe you’ve got a dirty di(s)c?
No, digital here too. Despite the problems I’m still enjoying it. Minor problems throughout but Virmire is a wreck. Hoping it’s just this section.
Yeah, ME1 ran like shit, I think Sharples said it’s well known the PS3 port is garbage.
2 & 3 run pretty well, though.
Have you played it before?
I made the mistake of binging on it and got burned out at the start of 3.
Played through 2 multiple times and 3 once both at launch and never had a problem with either. First time time playing 1, figured I should actually experience beyond that comic thing that came with 2.
I never had problems with me1 or me2 on my ps3, it was me3 (the damn missile batteries) where everything went to crap for me on my first playthrough.
Woke up this morning to the sound of my home phone going off. First thought: “Ehh, someone else will grab it.” No, Sean, it’s a Monday, and you have the house to yourself.
Second thought: “I have to walk past the front door, don’t I? I need pants.”
Third thought: “Why is there someone patient enough to let a phone call ring out, and then call again attempting to contact me? I don’t want to risk it, better stay in my room.”
I’m an adult.
The only phone calls I get on a landline are charities and scammers. Everyone else knows to call my mobile.
I’d get rid of the landline entirely if I didn’t need it for the ADSL.
I simply don’t have a phone plugged in to mine! Problem solved!
Because who else starts off Monday mornings with imagery of Glahman pantsless?
Everyone here, that’s who.
I’m the same as @kermitron.
Except I also have an answering machine. If they don’t leave a message it’s a charity or a scammer. If they do leave a message it’s for my teenaged daughter. Although if they don’t leave a message it might be a boy. 😛
The one time I called a girl in high school she mysteriously vanished. Like I called her the week after tenth grade ended having had a crush on her all year, thinking I’d have a couple months to get over the rejection. She shot me down, apparently already having a boyfriend, and then I literally never saw her again. Maybe she didn’t continue on with years 11 & 12? I should check my yearbook.
That’s an impressive superpower you appear to have!
Impressive, maybe, but “I make sixteen year old girls msyeriously disappear” isn’t exactly something I can brag about.
Well I can to the right kind of people.
Which are not the kind of people I feel comfortable spending time with.
I have a similar superpower! Not just limited to 16 year old girls though.
Anyone I talk to at climbing will disappear. They’ll keep regularly appearing if I don’t, but once conversation has been struck up, they’ll end up disappearing. Only one who seems to have been immune to it so far is my sister’s boyfriend’s sister.
So I take it you didn’t seize the heart of flirty climbing girl and belay her off her feet?
Nah, I was too stuck on Sketchbook at the time to let anything happen. Didn’t think it would be fair to her to just be constantly thinking of someone else. And then she disappeared.
Guten Tag Taybies, something really bad happened on the weekend. I went to trim my beard yesterday, and I messed it up, so I had to shave the whole thing off and start again. It was horrible, I miss my beard.
In other news, I watched Escape Plan last night, wasn’t too bad.
Also, with Destiny only being 3 weeks away from tomorrow, I’m still trying to clear some of my backlog. I’ve still got to get through
Bayonetta
Tomb Raider: DE
Wolfenstein
Thief
Dead Rising 3
Watch Dogs
Dragon Age I & 2 and
Zelda: Skyward Sword
Also, want to 100%
Disney Infinity
Skylanders: Swap Force
Lego: The Hobbit
The Lego Movie Game and
GTA V
Somehow, I think I’m barely gonna make a dent in that list, and my son’s home sick from school today, so I have to either play Disney Infinity, Skylanders, or either of the lego games, until he goes to bed.
I really should finish GTA V.
After my save reset about two hours during the GTA Online launch I kind of fell out of love with it.
I haven’t touched GTA since finishing the story. I really wanted to go buy all the properties but the game spends too much time finding ways to take money away from you. I also find the multiple-protagonist angle distracting when I’m in story-sandbox mode, as much as I enjoyed it for the story aspect.
I could have really loved playing my own character in GTA Online but between the launch issues, lack of heists, and griefing douchebags, I lost interest pretty quickly.
the MP I did play with @bdkiaf and @dc was fun, and I’d love to get back into it… if they had the heists
The heists are coming, they said they had to redesign them from scratch because they just weren’t good enough and frankly I’d sooner wait for quality than get crap fast. Chances are they’ll probably launch somewhere close to the PC version which we should all get anyway
If the heists turn out any good when it gets ported to next-gen/PC I might consider rebuying it on Xbox One and going in with the knowledge that the only way to really make money is to abuse the stock market, which will make me less bitter about how you spend most of the game poor as shit.
My current pile of shame is too long to list from memory but even just my disc-based titles are shameful. My digital titles (including the freebies I get from Xbox’s Games with Gold arrangement) are a whole other level of crushing guilt. And then there’s my Steam library…
Oh, there’s more, there’s lots more, they’re just the ones I want to get finished before Destiny comes out, because I ain’t gonna get a chance to go back to anything for quite a while after that with the flood of games starting in October.
Hopefully Destiny continues to live up to the hype and consumes most of my time, as if so I will be better able to avoid buying any games I do not actively intend to start playing. The only game other than Destiny I plan to buy at launch for the remainder of the year is Assassin’s Creed: Unity (thanks to ACIII getting me hyped for the franchise again), and ONLY if I’ve finished Black Flag by then.
My backlog is so big that I gave up on my spreadsheet after 150+ lines on PS3 alone. 🙁
I started on backlog reduction a while ago but didn’t get very far. Did manage to finish a few games on the pile though, including a few that were getting pretty old.
OH CRAP! I’ve just realized that if we do end up going down to Adelaide for the Show when we were planning to, it’s the same day that Destiny comes out, DAMMIT!!!!
This would never have happened if you hadn’t shaved your beard off!
I know, it’s just horibble. *cries*
Mario Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart
Hey guys! Hope you’re well?
I stopped taking my OCD meds two days ago and it’s amazing how quickly I’m beginning to feel human again. Actually it’s amazing how quickly I’m beginning to feel any thing again. It’s good. 😀 😀 😀This weekend I finished up the final season of The Killing. Marathoned me some Gravity Falls. Started to catch up with The Leftovers. Hooray for amazing TV.
Thats awesome. Really awesome. HUGS
Kick ass man! Glad to hear you’re doin good! 🙂
Did you ask the psych about the not feeling human thing?Good to hear man.
You were on a bit of a “push through it” experiment with that, weren’t you?
Didn’t work out in the end?
It did for a little while and then got worse again. I’m sure it might have leveled out again eventually but would prefer to take my chances without.
Lunch at midday on Wednesday with @trjn and @freya. Post Office Square.
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @benny @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
HAHA
I should probably mention: I’m not really in Brisbane, I was kidding before.
This was a joke that I made but everyone took it seriously. Except Jimu.
I apologise if I upset anyone.
I’m very upset.
Also didn’t even notice your names. it’s in the taytags thing.
But mostly? UPSET!
YOU HAVE ENOUGH TAYBIES
WE NEED MORE SATAYBIES WHO UNDERSTAND TERMS LIKE FRITZ AND STOBIE POLES AND LIGHT’S VISION
I’m assuming Stobie Poles is penis innuendo!
DEVIANT!
Well, it can be, they are a source of power and occasionally unsightly.
Let’s meet at Cafe de Vilis over a Pie Floater to discuss.
Pie floater is poop, I’m assuming. DEVIANT.
Ah, what’s wrong with me today! XD
@dc a Pie Floater is a cultural institution, and I’ll not hear it besmirched
Just look at it in all it’s glory
In fact, I’m seriously considering getting one for tea.
I’m originally from SA, but I agree with @dc, Pie Floater is poop, they look disgusting. Cafe De Villis is win though.
That’s the same pie as the Vili’s Pies they sell at the footy, right? Because they’re kind of the worst pies ever.
@evilmonkey Don’t bother coming back then, you’re not welcome here anymore.
I kid, i kid. Well aware they’re not to everyone’s taste, and they do look bloody weird.@bdkiaf at Cafe de Vilis they’re factory fresh, so generally better than pie-warmer plastic wrapped footy ones.
The pie floater is more the point though. the 24hr bakery on O’connell street supposedly does a fine one, and vale our pie cart.
SA gave you cool stuff like the Pie Floater! (I think..) and me! 😀
AND BALFOUR’S FROG CAKES.
Why are these a thing?! They look like they’re begging for the sweet relief of death.
Sweet is certainly the operative word.
I’m actually not a huge fan, they’re a bit sickly. Fruchocs, however, I’ll eat all day.
@redartifice Frog cakes are yum, Fruchocs… eeeeewwwww!
They look like the tip of a penis.
@redartifice I miss Fruchocs so much. :'(
Understands them outside of the context of making fun of the place, anyway 😛
I swapped him over because his comment gave no indication that it was actually a joke 😛 For all I knew he recently moved!
I don’t think it was taken seriously.
Besides, now that you’re tagged all the time you’ve had plenty of notice and it will be inexcusable when you don’t turn up. 😛
I get jokes! 😀
Haha man, I knew you were joking but I’m surprised to see not many others did D:
@saturday
ijustwannabeincluded..
@Blaghman
I shall be there. Very much looking forward to it.
Uh, yeah count me out.
Sorry gang, I’ve gotta work.
S’lame.
I hope I can be there! My co-worker who needs to cover lunches with me is on leave from Wednesday to Monday, so depends on if my boss lets me take a longer lunch.
Does @freya want that cheese boiga?
cheeeeeeeeese
Boigar
So, last week I mentioned my Dad was going into hospital because of his cancer and things weren’t looking good.
After almost a year of fighting, it looks as though he’s slowly succumbing to it. He’s getting weaker and weaker and the cancer is now rapidly spreading through his body and into his organs. He’s still in hospital and he’s probably not going to come out.
It’s difficult to know exactly how long he has left, but it’s unlikely he’ll see out the rest of the week.
*hand on shoulder* Hang in there, guy. Make it a good week with your old man.
I’m sorry to hear that WhitePointer. My thoughts go out to you and your family.
*hugs*
If there’s any thing we can do for you here on TAY, let us know. Thinking of you guys!
*hugs*
Im sorry to hear that man, my condolences and sending the good vibes your way *hugs* we here if you need us
Your dad, my aunt, my sister a few years back… I can officially say I’m not a fan of cancer. In fact I’ll go one better and say cancer is a dick.
Indeed.
I’ve lost 3 grandparents and an uncle to various forms of cancer over the years. Now it’s claiming my father too. Cancer is seriously a dick.
That’s messed up man, hang in there, make every day with your Dad count.
Sorry to hear, that’s terrible.
That’s rough. Stay strong, champ.
Hugs, man.
Thoughts with you and yours.
Fuck cancer.
Because I upset DC, I now bring everyone gifts as compensation!
$399 PLAYSTATION 4 consoles for everyone! Just use the code CDICKSMITH20 at ebay checkout.
Thank you! We’re all good now! 🙂
But…you already have a PS4!
I do as well. I should have picked up this deal though.
Can you ever have too many?
Yes.
Unneededobviousresponseius
God dammit, I’ve been trying that and it’s not working.
The terms and conditions make it very clear that you need to use a PayPal account with an email address that matches your ebay account’s email address to qualify for the discount. Which is fine by me. Only when I go to put the transaction through, the payment is decline for some reason. I called the PayPal support team like the ebay notice said to, and all they could tell me is that something about that transaction is flagging their internal security system and they can’t fix it or push it through. Yet somehow, a couple thousand other people have been able to make purchases! Damn them! Damn them all to hell!
Has anyone else bought one of these?
I got one on the last deal and had to get a friend to use his accounts because my wife doesnt remember her eBay log in and we only had one credit card in her name at the time which meant it had to all be in her name.
Damn, that’s a good deal.
My PS4 plans aren’t until next year though.
Just a word of warning, I had a heap of trouble with my order through Dick Smith’s eBay store.
I can’t even fucking order the thing. >:(
Can you make a new ebay account or would that take ages to verify stuff?
I could make a new ebay account but I’d also need to make a new paypal account and I’m not sure if I can do that AND use the same financial details as is stored in another paypal account… And yeah, verification sometimes takes a few days. 😛 Going to try and get my brother to do it.
The thought that’s going through my mind is, are they going to honour all 1,300 or so orders anyway? Hmm..
Yeah, I knew about that, but I won’t be able to afford it until I get my tax return in about two weeks.
Nah, I think my wife might get upset if I tell her we’re not eating for the rest of the month.
Nah. Getting upset requires energy. Energy she won’t have, due to starvation…
Hm. There are no immediately obvious flaws with this plan, but I think I’m missing something.
D: Things aren’t that bad, are they?
No no, I jest! I could probably swing a PS4 but it would mean cutting back in other areas and we already have more then enough games to play on other systems. We’ve certainly done it tougher!
Counting down the minutes til lunch. Come oooon…
Totally. Screw it, I’m off to microwave my Mac and Cheese right now. Someone please tell me they taste good – I’ve never had it before.
Hey, I’ve got penne and cheese!
…and bolognese. And prosciutto. And beschamel. And panko crumbs.
Great scene from Mr. Saving Banks. So happy. XD Spoilers, I guess? LOOK, IT’S JOSH FROM THE WEST WING. (Weirdly, Donna from The West Wing has been in The Leftovers!)
Funfact: Rolling Stone magazine readers put Saving Mr Banks in their Worst Movies of 2013 along with Gravity and American Hustle.
Hipsters!
Fun fact: Who the fuck cares what rolling stone thinks anymore?
Not moss-gatherers, certainly.
Have a reluctant upvote, you monster!
TAY Rogue Trader 40K RPG this Tuesday at 8pm AEST. Starring:
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @sernobulus @f4ction
‘ere we go! ‘ere we go! ‘ere we go! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!
Coming soon to an Internet near you!
Rogue Trader looks like loads of fun
If only I had a good enough memory to make a write-up 🙁
Then again it is being streamed and left on youtube for all to
laugh at usenjoy!The way we’re doing Rogue Trader is decidedly un-Rogue Trader-y as a lot of people wanted to play filthy xenos so I’ve had to construct the core setting a little bit to fit the characters. Suffice to say that what we’re doing is likely to be 40K canon-breaking but then again, GW does plenty of that itself. 😛
I’ve found the 40K RPGs to be a blast personally and there are a few different styles of RPG available so it should fit a bunch of different interests. I’ve wanted to try a Black Crusade game for a while but it’s probably the trickiest to get right and get the proper feeling of playing as Chaos.
Oh yes I shall bring on “Da dakka” on their green hides!
Wouldn’t surprise me if the Mon-Keigh shot himself in the face accidental while trying to bash a rock with the gun.
It’s okay guys, I can totally hold all the orks at bay seeing as I am the only melee character we have!
Don’t worry, I swore to shoot puppet!
Hope you can dodge the shelling about to come in your general direction with me on the mounted gun >:)
Before I forget, you will get the chance to use your Mandiblasters in that surprise round before we fully enter combat. @freezespreston was correct and I derped ultra hard on that point.
Aaaahhhh what did I miss?!?! Someone send me the link so I can catch up >.<
Dammit faction you better not have shot me….
(Sorry I missed out guys, been bed-ridden since Sunday arvo with cold and fever hence the absence on TAY as well D= )
There’s an opening for a PhD in chocolate at Cambridge University. The downside is, it’s only open to EU nationals =(
Time to get shacked up in Europe
I do have a friend who resides in Cambridge too. I’m sure she’ll be okay with this brilliant idea.
@tech_knight @novacascade @blaghman @popdart5 @mawt
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
LET’S CLIMB THIS TOWER! WOOOOO
Wed 7:30 SA Time
Just reviewed my notes and it looks like we’ve got two big beasties/guardians of some description coming up on the next floor. This might be deadly.
Two large gelatinous guardians IIRC…
It’s fine guys. I have a strategy. No, no, seriously. It’s totally fine. I’m going to charge at them.
You are currently the strongest and toughest out of all of us and you deal the most damage because of your great stonking axe. Charging is definitely a viable strategy.
I almost certainly won’t be able to make this session. 🙁
I’m going to try and re-arrange things to free up the time.
Hi everyone! Hope all of your respective weekends were awesome.
I have internet again, at last, and so glad I went with iiNet – the Steam updates (and a couple of new games) alone were over 35GB, so having nearly all of that be unmetered is awesome. Line speed isn’t as good as my old 16Mbit Optus connection, only getting 10Mbit, but it’s enough to stream youtube at 1080p, so it’s good enough for me.
Played a bit of the Forest on Saturday morning, to see what had changed, while I waited for PT to download, then swapped to that for the afternoon.
The atmosphere was creepy, the jumpscares were… well, as my general reaction to jumpscares amounts to a quiet “oh, that happened” and move on, they were par for the course. The “make something familiar then make slight changes to unnerve you” worked very well – doing my laundry later that night I got the creeps as I walked the corridor back to my apartment. Also, the radio didn’t really get to me until I turned around at one point and a ghost snapped my neck. Thereafter, every time the radio told me to look behind me, I got the feeling something behind me would kill me if I did so – a feeling that persisted until this morning every time I thought of that damn radio.I don’t like the “logic” the puzzles use, tho – seemed to be find this specific thing, or look at this specific thing in order to trigger something, with little-to-no indication of what I should be trying to accomplish.
Got past the running part and the corrupted video section to a loop where I had a green torch, and stopped. No way I’ll finish that – the puzzles seem too illogical to bother with.
Sunday I played and finished Valiant Hearts – amazing story, interesting (if somewhat contrived) puzzles. And driving along dodging barrels, bombs, and other cars to classical music was amazing fun. Such a sad ending, tho…
Loved Valiant Hearts. So, so good.
Valiant Hearts:
I actually started getting really annoyed and frustrated with it toward the end. That trial and error gameplay, the sequence at the end where you had to charge across the trenches and get everything right constantly and would keep on dying to various things. It felt so terribly hard, like it was stacked against you and you were dying over and over.And then I realized it was deliberate. That literally was life as a soldier in the trenches. You probably were going to die in the first few seconds of a charge.
Valiant Hearts is a brilliant game really. I want to see Ubisoft doing more art projects like it.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/08/taste-test-does-coke-really-taste-better-from-a-glass-bottle-video/
Yes, yes it does.
I drink my coke directly from the microwave!
WTF!!??!!?
I lose most of it when I open the door though. That’s the price you pay for efficient storage!
I dont. coz that’d mean I’d have to take all the bread out first.
Never. Gets. Old.
though it does go a bit stale.
*wipes tear*
That was beautiful, man.
@shane YOU NEED TO SEE THIS
I think it does but not enough to make up for the fact that the glass bottle has 2 swigs and then its finished. Thats why i drink coke zero by the 600ml bottle. SHUT UP YOU HAVE A ADDICTION
It’s all a rip! 1.25L is the only financially viable way!
Boxes of cans is the only financially viable way.
I got 24 cans of pepsi man the other day for $11
less than 50c a can is pretty great
Pepsi is so much cheaper than coke, but every time I try to get it instead I end up drinking twice as much because pepsi just makes me thirstier. 😛
Doesn’t that work out more expensive per L ?
Not if you only buy the boxes on special. The big supermarkets usually alternate weeks where they have them on special.
Besides, with 1.25L bottles there’s always that last flat bit that nobody ever wants to drink that gets wasted.
This is exactly what I do, for exactly the reasons I do it.
Also, nothing beats that metallic aluminium tang of an ice-cold can of coke.
Ew, dat tang. 🙁
They sell 1L glass bottles at the Coles near me.
I want one of those Riedel glasses but can’t justify the money.
I drink cans of coke but not out of the can, I take the can(in a can holder) and a glass with (bought) ice (that I’ve rinsed to get rid of all the little itty bitty frosty bits on the outside to stop it fizzing all up and going immediately flat) to wherever I’m sitting and pour the coke into the glass as necessary. After 20 years of drinking coke this has been the best and tastiest way I’ve found.
Hasn’t this always been the case though?
I have a friend who refills his glass coke bottle with coke from a plastic bottle. He swears it tastes better that way.
Heyooo.
Decent weekend. Still not enough time as always.
Saturday had dinner with friends and saw a black comedy play. It was pretty brutal. It should’ve been called Elevator cos it escalated so quickly.
On Sunday I did something something, had breakfast and coffee with gf, then went on a chilled bike ride with some pals. Took video since I bought a new mount, and wanted to show non-Aus pals what my city looks like.
This morning I dropped my gf off at hospital as she gets to have a two day stay. Irregular heartbeat detected so they’re gonna do those tests where they stress her body to find out what’s causing it etc.
Hopefully will have time for Mario Kart tonight, but doubtful since I have to clean for house inspection…
Saw that bike ride, looked nice and relaxing, I wish I had friends to do stuff with. Hope your Girlfriend is alright man. Probably see you on Mario Kart tonight.
We doing charity ride, so ‘training’ for it. Yeah it was nice, a nice day too (rained Fri/Sat). Thanks, maybe see you on MK. 7:30 still?
Should be.
So that Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Xbone has a 1TB hard drive in it, and it’s the same price as the normal Xbone, plus you get a game.. Tempting to pre order one, plus it looks cool.
Yeah, it’s almost a price drop. Kinda.
Haha, yeah. No kinect though, that’s the only drawback, well if you want kinect, I personally don’t see it being useful for me.
I see that as a plus. I’d rather pay the same price for bigger hard drive and a game and no Kinect.
Yeah agreed. If I had a use for the kinect i’d have the bought the PlayStation 4 Camera by now 😛
Wait, wasn’t there a Kinect version too???? Xbox Kinect COD decals, 1TB, free game, same $599 price as original console?? Or did I see wrong.
If there is no Kinect then it’s not a price drop at all :S
Nope no kinect. It’s 100 bucks more than the kinectless version but comes with larger HDD & a game.
Well that’s not worth it then, at all. MS is actually making a profit from that lol.
Well the kinectless version you get no game and 500gb hard drive. So paying an extra 100 bucks to be upgraded to a 1tb hdd which would retail at around $75-$100 brand depending, since it’ll be a 2.5″ drive and a game which is priced at $99.95, seems like an alright deal from an RRP standpoint, but that’s me I guess.
I’m just comparing to the original bundle, which then later came with titanfall. So they both have free games, take em out of equation.
Then you’re left with no kinect and kinect. Kinect is $200+ standalone. Then you have 1TB HDD vs 500GB, which is a $50 at most upgrade. So you’re missing $150 ‘value’ with the 1TB bundle.
But, if you play many games at once and dont want kinect, it’s alright deal.
You can’t buy the XB1 kinect by itself, I thought? Well I can’t find anything on the EB website in accessories, and haven’t seen it for sale separately.
Not sure if CoD is even a free game given the price of the bundle. I am pretty with the Titanfall bundle EB was being reimbursed by Microsoft for the game since they were making $0 on the bundle. Where as this one is $100 more than the kinectless XB1 and comes with a game. Which retails for $100. Take out the larger hard drive which I am sure costs Microsoft bugger all to put in.
But really it’s a good deal if you’re into that, for me its tempting cause 1) I would never use the kinect 2) I would trade CoD in straight up toward another game, which would see me get somewhere around 70-80 bucks depending on EB World card level i’d say. Bringing total value of the bundle to around 420-430 dollars, which seems pretty decent in the end and could probably pick up 2 pre owned XB1 titles for the trade in credit, depending if there was a sale on or not 😛
It looks pretty cool, been thinking about paying for one with my tax return, and giving my launch one to my friend, or keeping it as a back-up, don’t know if I will though, coz that’ll just mean less money to spend on actual games.
Like you need money anyway! 😛
I’m much more tempted by the white one with Sunset Overdive personally.
I just wish it had an actual physical copy of the game. I’ve heard enough horror stories from friends and co-workers about how bandwidth-intensive the Xbone is if you go all-digital (updates in the several gigs)
Just remember that Sunset Overdrive combo comes with a black kinect, kind of ruins the whole white theme I think lol.
But yeah, bleh all digital would kill my data cap of a measly 200gb a month.
Does it come with a kinect? I assumed it was kinect-free.
I’m cool with that part being black, it’s not like there’s white ones on the market.
EDIT: Yeah, checked and there’s no kinect with it? Unless you’re looking at somewhere that’s bundling one in aftermarket (if so, is it at a discount? Because I actually want one)
Was in EB today and the assistant manager told me there was, I am pretty sure, unless I misheard him, which knowing me is very likely 😛
Yeah doesn’t look like it does, must’ve misheard.
Nah, no Kinect.
Apparently Dishonored is now available for free on 360 with Games With Gold. Have at it. Dammit, I’ll have to get another USB so I can clear some space on my hard drive.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-19008-PSA–Dishonored-Now-Free-on-Xbox-360-Games-With-Gold.html
I’m still surprised at this. On Steam the lowest it ever got was like $11 during the summer sales.
GOTY ed on PC is $10 on GMG atm.
Oh nice, might pick it up. But then I gotta justify $10 for another entry on the pile of shame lol.
Dishonored is very, very good.
Probably my favourite new game that I played during my no new games period at the start o last year (traded a copy of aliens colonial marines on 360 that i won towards it)
Yes I’ve heard good things, and seen good things. I’ve got a Kotaku article from a couple weeks back saved to read later.
Screw it, you peer-pressured me man! 🙁 I’m gonna get it.
Helping!
It’s out of stock…… what …….
@stickman probably a limited key allocation- check it later on, they may have restocked.
Will do, thanks. It’s a great deal.
You know, this is more tempting than the free version for some reason. Probably because Dishonored seems like the kind of game I’d never play on a console.
Question
My sister is staying with me for a while, I’m trying to think of some good 2 player couch co-op games to play. She’s not into FPS. What are some good and fun couch co op games you can think of. Oh should mention PS3, PS4 or Wii U.
Little Big Planet 1 and 2 are the only games I’ve been able to play with my gf from start to finish. Lego and Rayman games have also had some success.
Ooh, LBP2 is a good suggestion, I never finished that and it’s all cute and stuff.
It also helps that they’re actually super great games. I’m so hype for LBP3.
Diablo 3, Scott Pilgrim, Splinter Cell Blacklist
Trying to decide if it’s worth getting Diablo on my PS4 or just playing it again on the ps3, I wish they’d just let me upgrade to the PS4 version for cheap.
Upvote for Scott Pilgrim.
What about New Super Mario Bros U?
I wouldn’t mind getting that, I wonder if they’ll make a version with all the Super Luigi bros stuff included.
It’s standalone.
portal 2
I briefly thought about trying to play that with my partner and then immediately reconsidered.
Smart.
Portal 2 and an ill-timed trip to Ikea nearly ended mine & Sally’s relationship.
In my mind, that goes…
“OH MY GOD ARE YOU SIMPLE? Ugh! Jesus! Do I have to use both controllers because you keep fucking this up? A bloody monkey could do this, Sarah.”
“Who. Is. Sarah.”
“YOU until you give Sally back, who I’m pretty sure had a brain.”
“Right. That’s it. I’m done.”
“Wait. What? But babe… if you do that, we won’t see the co-op ending…”
*glare*
“OK, look, I know that things have been a little tense, some words were said which probably shouldn’t have been, but I’m willing to move past that and forgive you, if– ow ow ow OW, NO REALLY, OW DUDE, WHY–“
Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, Pikmin 3, any of the New Mario Bros or Super Mario 3D World.
yeah we played a lot of Pikmin 3, just wish all the multiplayer stuff didn’t have such short time limits.
Lara Croft & the Guardian of Light is pretty great co-op if she likes puzzle solving with some light combat. Rayman Origins & Rayman Legends are good but they get pretty hard. Portal 2 is pretty great co-op but she might find the controls hard?
Guardians of Light was great co op, played that with a mate and we nearly finished it in one sitting,
Rayman Legends! I played coop the other day with a pal. Was amazingly fun. Also Mario Kart. Portal 2 as well. Renegade Ops.
I saw Lucy on the weekend. Dumbest movie I’ve ever seen.
I could list everything wrong with the movie, but it would take a long time. The simplest way to sum it up is that there is very little that needs to be changed for it to be a complete parody.
I saw it last week.
It was certainly a thing. Just, bizarre.
I saw trailer and the whole movie was wrong. Still seemed like it’d be entertaining.
Not really. There’s never a sense that anything is on the line. Lucy just kind of does her thing until her thing is done.
Alright, that’s a $1 Tuesday bluray hire then!
That’s where they pay you $1, right?
You should see Premium Rush.
That’s next level dumb.
I’m fairly sure I’ve exhausted the amount of dumb I can endure for this month. Possibly this quarter.
Is that the biking one? Was pretty alright but I didnt expect much.
Announcement over the shopping centre PA system
You’re like the anti-@mrtaco. Page-ending king!
It seems to cycle. Some weeks I’m the page-get king, others I’m the end-get king.
Last week was just terrible though 😛
Oh gods, RPG folk, this:
http://iliadawry.tumblr.com/post/94965363725/nidoranduran-lyraeon-patrickat-lyraeon
(Guardians of the Galaxy spoilers)
I remember someone doing something similar with Lord of the Rings as standard D&D (can’t remember the name) and Star Wars as “Darths and Droids”. And then they did them as webcomic adventures.
Good times.
DM of the Rings. Red posted this on Twitter and DM of the Rings was my immediate reaction.
DM of the Rings is the LOTR one
This is too nerd for me.
He posts, on a gaming forum.
So my headset mic has died, to the rejoicing of TS crew.
Can anyone recommend a good replacement?
Prefer Over-ear with mic boom, corded is fine, ideally sub $100 or close to it.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Open back or closed back? My Razer Carachias is pretty awesome, comfy, and still going strong. But not suitable for noisy environments, or where you can’t be noisy.
@stickman
Don’t really know the difference but noise is not really an issue.
I’m yet to have a good experience with Razer products though.
Closed-back: the back of em are sealed, pretty much. Sound doesn’t leak out/in, bass is thumpier.
Open-back: the back of cups are slightly open. Sound leaks in/out. Overall better sound, usually. Bass less thumpy than closed-back. It’ll seem like instruments (and game stuff) is further away from you, rather than feeling like you have speakers attached to your head (technical word: soundstage).
I dunno what else to recommend, I don’t have experience with other stuffs really. I have a pair of audio technical ATH-770COM at work, they are pretty okay for the few weeks use they’ve had.
@stickman
Ah yeah, my current are open back I think.
Cheers, I’ll check out the Carachias anyways.
@freezespreston
Cool, shall check them out too.
I got a Syberia V2 that is very nice. Sounds good and mic hasn’t got any complaints yet. (last one led to people muting me).
I’ve got the Plantronics 780. really comfortable & sounds pretty damn good.
RRP is ~$120, but I got em for $80 from EB during a sale.
Personally in that price range I would look at a decent pair of $100 headphones and grab a separate mic, like one of those ones you can pin to your collar. The mic will be the same quality but you’d get much better sound for your $$$
I have a Corsair Vengeance 1500. I like it. Absurdly comfortable.
Why are Mondays always a write-off? My eyes feel all sandpapery even though I obtained an average amount of sleep last night, and I just can’t find the motivation to do anything. This is a regular Monday kind of thing.
I guess I should be grateful though, typically if I manage to be productive on a Monday, I get nothing else done all week. 😛
Monday-itis is a dreadful thing to have. As is hump day-itis and TGIF-itis. We’re lucky the world functions at all really.
@popdart5: I grabbed a PDF of the new Pathfinder Advanced Class Guide since the physical release is still a while off. Interesting so far. One thing that immediately jumped out at me is one of the Oracle archetypes, Warsighted – lets the oracle use their movement action to instead gain the effect of any combat feat they meet the prerequisites for for a minute, 3 + 1/2 oracle level times a day. Increases to two feats at once at 7, three at once at 11, and at 15 they can gain one feat’s ability as an immediate action or 3 as a swift action instead of a move action. Seems pretty powerful, though on the other hand the Oracle isn’t a big damage class or anything.
The end of the book has a section on designing new classes, archetypes and prestige classes too.
@tech_knight: possibly of interest to you since you were going for an electricity theme in your spells IIRC, one of the new level 1 sorcerer spells allows you to absorb electrical attacks, store them up in your body then release them as a touch attack. There’s also a new spell, Aggressive Thundercloud, that does 3d6 electical damage. Greater version at level 4 does 6d6.
Huh nice. I’ve ordered mine in so it might hopefully be coming in the next week or so as I think Paizo were unleashing physical copies from their own store earlier than everyone else. I’m looking forward to it as I’ve houseruled more than a few custom classes so it’ll be nice to see how they do it.
I’m also really interested in the brand new classes as well. It seems they now have hybrid versions of pretty much all of the core classes plus a few niche ones as well. The Skald draws my eye primarily but the Warpriest looks pretty badass too. I’ve always liked how Pathfinder seem to do the characterisation of the various classes and it looks like they might have outdone themselves here.
Ah shazbut. Paizo updated the PRD so now it is incompatible with my work’s IE7. I guess I’ll resort to the d20 wiki then.
Would definitely sound like good class options for if I have to reroll one day
I’m looking through the new classes now, will give thoughts once I’ve read. Initial skim suggests that the Warpriest is amazing, the Bloodrager is badass, but if I were to re-roll I’d be most interested in the Swashbuckler. Swashbuckler looks to be basically a fencer-type who also inherits the ‘grit’ system of the Gunslinger, where you basically get points for being as awesome as you possibly can at any given moment, and then you can use those points to be even more awesome.
I Googled what you were talking about warpriest sounds beast but id be torn between swashbuckler and brawler just because the idea of punching something in the face sounds so right
Arcanist:
Basically what it says on the wrapper, hybrid sorcerer and wizard. She knows lots of spells like a wizard, has to prepare a certain set of them like a wizard, but casts them like a sorcerer – casts a certain number of spells per day at each level. Also can prepare spells with metamagic pre-applied and that doesn’t increase the level. And her spellcasting memorization etc. is based on int, but the actual casting appears to be based on cha, so you’re going to have to split between those.The other thing is you get a secondary resource pool (Paizo really seem to like this feature for their classes now) which resets every day to 3 + 1/2 level, maxes at 3 + level, and you can use that to perform various extra actions by burning those points. Big list of abilities, you get to pick one every odd level after level 1 (i.e. 3, 5, 7 etc) and then you can use your points on that, also you can burn an exploit point for adding +1 DC or +1 caster level to a spell.
There’s some interesting things in the exploits. Some of them are more bonus-like, eg being able to select a sorcerer bloodline and get the 1st-level bonus ability, or get a familiar. One ability lets you consume magic from items to refil your resource pool which is nicely flavourful. There’s a set of more powerful exploits you can pick from instead once you reach a higher level, and at 20th you can use the exploit pool to cast spells instead of using up slots (cost is the level of the spell, but it’s cast as if you were 2 caster levels higher and DCs are increased by 2!)
Seems fairly standard, actually looks a fair bit like what I’ve read of 5th Edition’s wizard class in terms of the way the spells work. The exploits add a lot of extra stuff though, I’d actually think that it’s probably a fair bit stronger than a pure wizard.
Bloodrager:
Flavour-wise I really like this, but in actuality I can see it being pretty limited. You’re basically The Incredible Hulk. You have a sorcerer bloodline and when you rage, you gain the abilities and appearance of that bloodline, rather than just tapping into it as a sorcerer. So for example, if you have an Abyssal bloodline you grow claws and grow one size larger and stuff, or if you have Draconic, you’ll get a breath attack, grow wings and eventually actually be able to become a dragon when raging. Also a few levels in you get the ability to cast some spells like a sorcerer.Trouble I can see is that you’re possibly too hybridized. You have the same issue as barbarian where your rage is limited to a few minutes a day, and only when raging can you access most of the class abilities. I suspect that this means you’re going to be an average fighter that for a few minutes a day can be a wrecking ball, then you go back to being boring for the rest of the time.
Still, you could make a pretty interesting character out of it I think.
Brawler:
I don’t see the point of this really. You’re basically a fighter that specializes in unarmed combat like a monk. You don’t get any of the Monk’s extra abilities or anything, instead you get the ability to sacrifice move to gain the effect of any combat feat, like I mentioned for War Priest. There’s some interesting buffs as well, eg you can gain a +1 BAB when using certain feats and a few things like that. But I really can’t see any real reason you’d pick this unless you really wanted to build a CQC fighter that isn’t from a monastic order.The one thing that’s interesting is you have the ability at 4th level to knock a target immediately unconscious once per day, which could be useful. But I think I’d rather roll a monk, personally.
Hunter:
Ever wished you could be a WoW Hunter in Pathfinder? Because now you can. You’re basically a ranger with specialization into tracking and movement through rough terrain, but you also gain an animal companion that you have a link with, like a druid. At 1st level you gain the ability to apply an Aspect to yourself (limited duration) and your companion (unlimited duration) like Aspect of the Bat or Aspect of the Wolf or whatever, and each animal aspect confers a bonus. Aspect of the Bat gives you darkvision 60 feet for example, and Aspect of the Falcon gives you +4 to +8 perception bonus and so on. Later on you gain the ability to take two aspects at once. Also you can cast spells. Spontaneous cast from the Druid spell list, up to level 6 spells at 16th level.Good flavour class and I imagine a lot of but doesn’t seem like something I’d be in a rush to roll.
Investigator:
Unsure about this one as well. Basically it’s a rogue that is also really good at playing with chemical substances, working with poisons and extracts and mutagens and stuff like an alchemist. You get the ability to cast spells, but you do that by creating various potions and extracts that have the spell effect incorporated. You have a secondary resource like some of the other classes, Inspiration in this case, but it doesn’t look like you use it toward extra abilities like some classes. Instead you can spend a point to add 1d6 to any ability check even if you take 10/20 on the check. And it’s free on linguistics, knowledge and spellcraft checks, no use of Inspiration required. So basically they’re the ultimate skill monkey, even more than the usual rogue.They also have a sneak-attack style ability, studied strike. The way this works is that you study a specific opponent and then you gain a bonus to hit them or perform a studied strike on them until you land one of those attacks. I feel like there’s another class that does this, but it might be one of the 4e classes? A mark or something? Anyway, the studied strike is basically a sneak attack without the need to be flanking, but you need to have studied the opponent first.
You gain a new ability every few levels, like the rogue talents stuff. Fairly nice mix of stuff in there, stuff that buffs the studied strike, stuff that gives you extra alchemy formulae or talents or whatever. And you can also access a ton of Rogue talents too.
Seems like an interesting class. Again, not one that seems particularly hugely exciting to me. I think I’d rather play a straight up combat rogue or ninja.
Shaman:
This one takes a ton of space up in the book. It’s actually quite an interesting class, a combination of a Witch and an Oracle. Divine caster with full access to the entire spell list, but not a spontaneous caster. She has a list of known spells and has to prepare her daily list ahead of time by communing with a spirit animal. You have an arcane bond with an animal companion like a witch or wizard’s familiar, and you get Hexes like the Witch. These are basically spell-like abilities which don’t take up a spell, but you have a limited set you can use. Like an Oracle or a Sorcerer, she picks a specific source, in this case a Spirit Guide that gives different abilities, bonus spells and so on. The list is basically the core Oracle list – Life, Bones, Battle, Flames, Waves, Stone, Nature, Wind, Lore and Heavens. Each one has some associated bonus spells, extra hexes you can choose from, and gives a buff to the spirit animal (eg the Flame spirit causes the animal companion to be surrounded by a burning aura). You also get a set of bonus abilities as your spirit animal levels up – 1st, 8th, 16th and 20th levels boost your spirit up, at 20th you can manifest the spirit directly. These abilities are pretty powerful. Bones at level 20 for example lets you cast animate dead at will for no material components and once per day get a free use of Power Word: Kill. Even more, at later levels you get the ability to channel a second spirit as well, getting a subset of that spirit’s abilities as well.The only real drawback to the class is you have a very limited set of spells you can learn, though the hexes mitigate it a bit. I can’t see any reason why you’d pick Oracle over Shaman aside from the flavour – Shaman appears to be a lot better than Oracle. You’ve basically only got bonuses, none of the penalties you get from being an Oracle and having to take a curse.
This class also looks like it’s fairly close to archetype I always wanted to see, which is a caster-type based around more eastern-style mysticism like Onmyou. Familiars and spells bound to paper charms and stuff. But I think that concept might make more sense as a custom class. Might have a crack at making it at some point, I think it’d be interesting.
Ooo Aggressive Thundercloud sounds epic, is that AoE or a single target? I’m moving away from touch attacks though (Meaning I’ll switch out my shocking grasp as I never get the chance to use it), as me being melee, not a good idea ever for Dem’nion to be in melee range. 😛
Edit: So far we’ve only faced physical opponents, when would I get the chance to absorb electric attacks anyway? 😛 Also the Abyssal bloodline will eventually give me resistances to electricity and eventually complete immunity against it.
No, it’s better!
Oh now that’s cool! The 20% miss chance is kinda sucky for our highly physical team comp but that sounds like a lot of fun to use. So it can do damage per round if it lasts long enough and the creature doesn’t move out of it? Seems like it does with that description.
Hint: power word: stun. 🙂
ohhh boy! *rubs hands together*
Actually, one better would be metamagic. There’s a metamagic feat that adds a stun or similar sort of rooting effect to damage spells, you could combine it with this and potentially stick it to people for multiple rounds, locking them in place while they get zapped.
That sounds OP, yep going to do that I think if allowed xD
6d6 with stun potential at late levels? Holy crap lol
@tech_knight: it was Dazing Spell I’m thinking of. Adds a Daze effect, but increases the spell level +3 so you use up a level 5 spell slot to cast.
At that damage I’d be fine with it, especially if it has a chance to chain between rounds with a daze effect, that’s an auto hit as being dazed they can’t really make a reflex check right?
I wouldn’t think the cloud needs to surround the enemy and give it the concealment bonus in order to do damage? Surely it would sit above the enemy to damage it but you can surround yourself with it for concealment purposes if you choose? Or am I talking crazy? I have no actual knowledge of this game, I’m just trying to visualise how such a thing would be roleplayed.
Basically the way it is described is a 1.5m by 1.5m sphere that looks like a self-contained thunderstorm. In order to affect and damage the target it must envelop it in the storm and strike it with lightning. The spell isn’t powerful enough to have the lightning strike at the ground or strike a target a distance away.
They’re kinda trying to think up some new spells so it’s likely that some of them will be a bit wonky.
No, fair enough. It occurred to me after posting that it probably damages stuff by enveloping it and it’s only logical that something enveloped by a small angry cloud is harder to see.
Just checking out what I can on the net, some of the classes actually seem pretty interesting (from the little info I can find).
Skald looks neat. Lundgredolph has high intelligence and decent charisma so that would suit him well. Plus Song of the Fallen would come in super handy with our party.
There’s some new rage powers for normal barbarians too.
Skald is a really cool character concept
Just got up to it in the book and it does seem pretty cool. Basically a combat bard.
Aborted Beard Attempt. Stuffed it up by attempting to trim a few spots that looked really messy this morning, made it look worse. Also the feeling of hair on my face was distracting and mildly disturbing so I gave up. 🙁
Going to try again when I have better timing, a proper trimmer and stuff, and just leave it for a bit.
We will give this beard the viking funeral it deserves!
*sniff*
Anyone smell burning hair?
Never get rid of a beard in winter. In summer it’s a refreshing change, in winter it results in freezing to death jaw first. =P
Need to stop reading the news. Nothing ruins your day faster.
Also: I am going to hell but the picture of Australia’s Chief Scientist (didn’t even know that was a title) on the Guardian made me lose it when I saw his name. I am an awful awful person.
Agreed, I flat out refuse to watch commercial television because I feel my brain turning into mush every second I do especially the news. It’s a fine line to walk though, there have been times people ask me my opinion on something and I don’t know what’s going on lol.
I googled it then chuckled.
Then realised that the result that was showing was actually outdated and you were laughing at someone else.
I want to get fit again. I’ve been procrastinating though. My treadmill broke and I would actually have to run outside. Outside is dangerous. I don’t want to be hit by a car or sprain my ankle or have to nod and smile at other morning runners. #firstworldproblems 😀
That why when I went running I did it at 5am. No other people. Get to watch the fog form around you. When I fell and twisted my ankle there was nobody to laugh at me.
Dude.
Parkrun.
Wagga, you & me, boxing!
About this time last week I decided to use Internet Explorer as my only browser for a week. I didn’t think I’d last three days, but I made it all the way with surprisingly few problems.
Right now I use a Chrome plugin to make YouTube auto-generated playlists (like Uploads) play in reverse order, so I stuck with that for the few hours I watched YouTube this week (although to be far technically I watched them on the XBOX One and Wii U). That’s a YouTube design issue rather than a browser specific issue so I let that one slide.
The one major exception I made was that my invoices weren’t printing properly and seeing as it was a work issue I chose to just open FireFox and use that instead.
I would rather a few things worked differently but overall it’s been performing better than FireFox on all the machines I use, which is very surprising. I’m not sure if I’ll continue using it but it’s been a rather interesting expirement.
IE isn’t nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be. It’s not like it gives you aids.
They’ve improved it a lot since the bad old days. It’s still not as good as the others and it would have to be better than whatever setup people have in able to dislodge them.
“Oooh IE11 is out, I’ll give it a shot.”
*Fires it up*
*start typing into address box*
HELLO WOULD YOU LIKE TO USE RECOMMENDED SECURITY SETTINGS HERE? ALSO SIR, THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING IE HERE IS A NEW TAB. ALSO ALL YOUR TYPING IS GONE AND THE FIELD HAS LOST FOCUS. HOPE YOU HAVE A NICE DAY
It’s not so obnoxious once you’ve used it for a few days and moved past most of the ‘recommendations’. Although it does have a tendancy to annoy me every five seconds by assuming everything is malicious. There’s a constant stream of yellow bars at the bottom of the browser with messages like “Warning: You have opened a website that Microsoft doesn’t trust (http://www.Wikipedia.org), this website contains large sections of text, it’s almost certainly some sort of scam, do you want to block this website forever (Highly Recommended)?”
Yeah I agree with your post, those yellow things is about all that’s annoying about it after a while.
Usability wise it isn’t that bad, except for missing some great quality of life features most other browsers have. Where it really falls apart is in performance, it is not nearly as well optimised as a browser like Chrome, Firefox has similar issues.
Reading the Giz article about Deadly Diseases.
“A multiresistant bug or ‘superbug’ is a virus which has developed an immunity to antibiotics.”
Oh no, a virus that’s immune to antibiotics. Whatever will we do? Who could have predicted that viruses could become immune to antibiotics? THE END TIMES ARE HERE!
Also, my copy of Despicable me cut out halfway through. I am very disappointed. I am so disappointed, that I feel the need to express my disappointment in a post on the internet.
Don’t they mean bacteria that’s immune to anti-biotics?
For example: Tuberculosis, which hit epidemic proportions in the US, so much that they had to make entire hospitals built for it. One such hospital was the Waverly HIlls sanitorium
I believe that was the comedic angle Blaghs was going for, yes.
Oh, I ruined it, didn’t I? Sorry@blaghman
Waverly Hills with it’s corpse shoot.
LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
Delicate – Damien Rice
My Immortal – Evanescence
Sing – Ed Sheeran
A Whole New World – The @dc Grand Funk Experience ft. The @bdkiaf Soulista Train.
Dreilide Thrace Sonata Number One – Bear McReary
I can get behind some Bear McCreary appreciation!
Here’s Bear doing the song you mentioned though, Red. Arrrgh, so good!
I just love that the colonial anthem was the original BSG theme
Mother and Father – Broods
Had the house to myself on both Friday and Saturday nights, which meant busting out the accordion twice in one weekend. So now I’ve still got LBW’s Dark World theme stuck in my head.
Moment musical f minor: Air russe – Franz Schubert
LOOK GUYS IT WASN’T KILL LA KILL THIS TIME.
A pox on the house of whoever keeps replacing the toilet paper rolls the wrong freaking way around.
Also, workplace toilets are just the worst. Even lower on the scale than shopping centres, schools and “outside” public toilets like at a local park or soccer field etc. Would much rather go use any of those instead, far fewer and lesser horrors to be found within.
Mine are pretty nice. Building is <4 yrs old and is cleaned daily. I enjoy my pooping breaks.
Sucks when the auto lights turn off when you’re in there too long and waving your hands doesn’t trip the sensor. 🙁
I can’t understand why any one would poop in public. THIS IS MADNESS.
Well I’m getting paid for removing waste from my bowels. So there’s that.
Well it’s not so much the state of them at all. More just the things that go on in there.
A lot of shit going down?
Some of it seems to be going in plenty of other directions too.
Pop quiz hot shot, what’s the right way around?
Pretty sure everyone knows that it’s
Over, not under.Everyone else probably needs to be dragged out into the street and shot. Along with scrunchers.
This guy knows where it’s at.
He knows his shit.
I have no idea which one over refers to, but I’m going to assume it’s the correct one. Have an upvote for probably maybe supporting a good cause.
What the heck is a scruncher?
Theory time: Maybe a scruncher is someone who scrunches toilet paper instead of folding it? Oh god who would do that? Okay, nope. This theory is busted; it’s too unrealistic.Shoot the toilet paper.
Okay! Photos, sorry for the crappy camera.
This one shows the height of the bean bag. That’s me standing next to it and it is rather large.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/WP_20140818_0011.jpg
The large pocket on the side for storage
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/WP_20140818_0021.jpg
The design is not perfect as I had never really stenciled anything before, so there’s a few splotches in places. You can see one on the triforce
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/WP_20140818_0031.jpg
The beanbag is made of a black cotton drill and the design is gold paint, old gold and bright gold. It’s machine washable and there is a large chunky zip on the side.
How much you want for it thats pretty cool and its one of a kind
I wasn’t asking for money
You could sell that but i mean im sure nintendo would want a cut but i guarantee people would pay money for it 🙂 im not big of a zelda fan like others so let them have it
Cc @evilmonkey
Looks cool.
Mine has Darth Vader on it, have now had it for…nine years?
Man, that’s awesome. You were totally underselling it earlier.
It’s really not that good.
Hey @pupp3tmast3r sorry I didn’t get on WoW last night, I ended up being a bit busy. When are you next free to play?
All good man, I ended up getting sick on Sunday and couldn’t log on either! I think I can jump on this Friday at 7 (probably earlier cos I’m skipping drinks this week) and probable Saturday afternoon around 3 or 4? (gotta spend the morning grabbing new furniture and cleaning the house for a inspection next week)
I reckon we can hit 50 this time around! =D I should warn you…. I’m horribly slow once I reach the outlands… I absolute hate Zangarmarsh and Terrokar forest >.
Happy birthday, @liondrive! WOOOOO! *flails arms in air*
On my 21st I went to Movie World. There was no parties or alcohol or any thing. Was a good day. Just do something you like, my friend. Treat yourself to something awesome!
If you can’t do it today, then plan to do something awesome real soon.
The sooner this day is over, the better.
*hugs*
Happy birthday anyways man, hope you feel better tomorrow 🙂
Yeah and don’t let the whole ‘milestone’ of 21 make you feel bad. It’s no different from any other birthday. If you’re not in a good place now, that’ll pass. 🙂
Hooray, you look old as well!
Happy birthday dude hope you have an awesome day and just do whatever you want go nuts
Happy B’day indeed!
No alcohol and was a good day? What is this madness?!
*signs Benny up for AA*
Hi, my name is Benny and I’m from AWESOME ADELAIDE!
AND NOW HE’S CRAZY TOO.
Oops wrong room. Bye guys, have a drink for me.
Oooh, happy birthday buddy! 😀
Happy Birthday @liondrive, don’t feel down about turning 21, you’re in the prime of your life, have a great day man.
I would wager his prime is ahead of him!
Yes – Happy Birthday!
You can also have cake!
There’s a new living card game that just got released at Gencon. Warhammer 40000: Conquest.
It looks amazing.
You play as Imperial Guard, Space Marine, Tau, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Chaos or Ork (apparently Necron and Tyranids are coming soon) and fight over planets to get resources, card draw and fulfil the win condition.
The best time to get into these games is right at the start, before power creep sets in and before the expansions come out that have mandatory cards that go in basically every deck that can fit them in.
I don’t know when it’s going to hit our shores but if it’s here before PAX, why don’t a bunch of us (I know all the 40k guys are going to pick it up anyway) grab it and get some decks ready to use at PAX?
I’ve been so looking at this. I cant wait for the necrons/tyranids expansion (its a deluxe one coming later)
Yeah. The way I’ve heard it is that Necrons can use cards from any faction (normally you can only take from allies. So Space Marines take from Imp Guard and Tau and whatnot) while Nids can only use Nid cards.
Makes for one hell of a balancing proposition.
I should probably look at the spoilers but Eldar/Dark Eldar are the two that stand out to me as the most likely races for me to play.
Is this a self contained game or more pay lots of money and build personal decks ala MtG?
Kind of both.
It’s made by Fantasy Flight games and they’re going to be using the same model as Android: Netrunner and A Game of Thrones.
You buy the core set and that has enough to make a deck for every faction/race. If you don’t get competitive, that’s literally all you are going to need. It will probably cost $60-$70.
Then there will be monthly expansion releases. For $15-$20 you get 3 copies (assuming 3 copies of a card per deck is still the rule here) of each card from that expansion. Basically meaning that you will be able to consistently buy every card available without the massive money sink that you get in M:tG. You can also ignore expansions if they don’t have cards you want and go back for them later because FF is fantastic at keeping these things available.
Expansions are released in cycles that last 6 months. After a cycle is released, they do a mega-expansion which costs $30-$45. A mega-expansion is just an expansion that has a shitload more cards in it.
Expansions are only necessary if you are playing against other people with them. Obviously drawing from a larger card pool gives players an advantage (power creep and more options being the two most obvious ones).
So, like I said: kind of both. Self contained if you just want to play casually, can blow out if you really get into it but there’s an upper limit to how deeply you can invest.
*sigh* You know, if it wasn’t for Tay I wouldn’t spend half the money I do.
BOARD GAMES
ADVENTURE GAMES
CARD GAMES
I’ll most likely be waiting until the Necrons get added in myself, but I’ll definitely be up for it 🙂
Necrons is bestest.
Behold the machine evolution! >:D
Remind me on when there’s more info re: Aus release.
Milsims has it for pre-order with a release date of “August”.
I don’t know how reliable that is but the game is out and Fantasy Flight stuff doesn’t take long to get over here. If you can’t find it within a month, something has gone horribly wrong.
Looks awesome, shame I’m not going to be able to play it with anyone. Also seems a tad out of my rice rance
Rice rance? screw it, I’m keeping it like that.
@redartifice @Popdart5
http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/15/6004733/dark-dungeons-movie-release
Nobody need panic anymore, put the pitchforks and torches away, I have successfully been able to purchase a PS4 from Dick Smith’s at the discounted price. All is right with the wwwwwwaaaitaminute. Oho! No, you won’t catch me out so easily! Er. I mean, nothing to see here, MASTAH RACE RAH RAH!
(Ohboyohboyohboy, Destiny and Bloodborne and Second Son and Lords of the Fallen and Shadows of Mordor and uhm… and, uh… er. Uh, I’m sure there’s something I, uh… hm. Ahh dammit. I just bought a $500 copy of Destiny, didn’t I.)
One of us. One of us. One of us.
You’ve done good.
(And by Us I mean people who prefer PC overall but are happy to go where the games are too!)
Don’t you mean “Last of us? Last of us?”
Geddit? 😉
*high five*
BUY IT AGAIN, TRANSIENTMIND!
Fucking depressingly, that may just happen. I DIDN’T FINISH THE FIRST TIME.
I wonder what’ll happen if I walk into an EB with the PS3 version and try to trade it in for the PS4 version… I wonder if they’ll take pity on me… in a way that I can use, as opposed to silently being judged and found wanting.
I don’t know if I want to be associated with those kinds of people… they sound disturbingly rational and lacking in the mindless tribalism I expect – nay, demand – from the love and enjoyment of video games.
(Next up: mid-2015 for WiiU, followed by late-2015 Christmas sales for Xbone with Halo 5! C’moooon Halo 5! Mastacheef+Cortana4EVA)
The correct term is Carpetbagger.
Don’t rest yet! You might spend the next week or two sending emails to Dick Smiths useless support desk begging them to just send you the thing you payed $400 for.
Nah, it’ll be at Transient’s door tomorrow. THEY CAN’T RESIST HIS CHARMS!
…
That’s not to say you’re not charming too! Did you do something with your beard? It’s working!
UNLESS THEY DON’T DELIVER IT JUST FOR MORE CHANCES TO TALK TO YOU! D:
Nah. Nothing can possiblie go wrong.
Its from Dick Smith youll see it in 2 months at the earliest after alot of hassle
People keep saying these things and it makes me nervous that my rostered month off in September will be wasted. WASTED*.
*Edit: Not wasted in the manner I was planning on wasting it – ie: video games in just jeans on the couch, with the most taxing physical activity being the picking of chip crumbs out of my chest hair.
Jeans!? While sitting at home!?
There are like three different types of much more comfortable pants for lounging! Four, even!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/08/i-spent-an-entire-day-wearing-a-sleeping-bag-because-i-like-playing-video-games/
The only pants in my wardrobe are pretty much jeans and suit pants. I have some shorts, but they’re pretty much for gym only.
You need a pair of track pants but they’re no good unless they’ve been worn for a couple of years.
You need some tracky dacks, man. Bogans know how to laze.
Pyjama bottoms at the very least!
People wear pants when they’re at home?
Or when they’re not at home?
You shame me, peasant.
Psst. Add me on PSN bro.YAY what’s your PSN tag? Actually message me on steam with it! Destiny in a few weeks!! ^^
I can’t remember! I think it’s TSquare82. It’s on TAYnames. I swear I thought I did a mass invite of everyone on there… Also, @stickman – I think you mentioned PSN tags as well?
Heh yeah, in the spoiler. I’m tehSt1ckM4n
The worst thing about working in a small office is that if one person is in a bad mood, it brings down the entire office. No one can joke around today! I brought some bacon cookies for everyone as well but the vibe is way too stifled to start handing them out 😛
On happier thoughts, a lot of the functions I’m writing today totally look like emoticons. Makes me chuckle:
( ‘m’ )
( ‘y’ )
( ‘u’ )
( ‘w’ )
( ‘c’ )
Every time Pow chuckles to himself angry co-worker stares intently with a look.
This is what his angry yelling looks like:
\( ‘K’ )/
Adorable.
Maybe I’ll tell him that next time he yells.
Also, rub his belly and coo. Angry people love that.
Then wink at him with gun fingers.
Ohhhh. National Guard has been dispatched for Ferguson. Tomorrow will be even more interesting.
How the hell is that thing still going on?
*checks news*
*wishes he hadn’t*
Yeah, I thought that they’d realized that it was fucked up and toned down the Shock & Awe approach and just had some dudes out in normal police uniforms instead of full riot gear pointing sniper rifles and mounted machine guns on armored cars at their own citizens and stuff.
How does sending in the national guard help?
They did that over the weekend and late last week. Worked pretty well. Then the governor ordered a curfew. Then they had to enforce it with tear gas and it just went to shit again.
I think it was actually all reignited by the Ferguson police trying to blame the kid for some petty theft earlier that day and insinuating he had it coming. The governor officially condemned the police chief for doing it along with the DoJ.
Yeah, because Americans have always responded really well to being told what to do at gunpoint. They love backing down from a fight, them Yanks.
If guns and violence aren’t working just keep throwing more at it :S
Clearly they didn’t throw ENOUGH, that’s why it didn’t work!
It’s the American Way.
I thought I posted exactly the same thing a few hours ago, only with a sad face and elipses after ‘it’s’. 😛
Just saw an ad on Go for tonights programming, Top Gear, followed by Sharknado. Believe it or not, but I’m actually considering watching it, apparently it holds an 82% “fresh” score on Rotten Tomatoes, I expect bad acting aplenty, but I’m kinda curious to watch it. Apparently their making Sharknado 3 for release next year too.
Well it’s got Ian Ziering in it, so the bad acting is a given from the word go!
It is actually pretty funny, it is cheesy as all hell but it is written to play on that cheesyness
Watch it. It’s so good.
We had an RSPCA fundraiser today. Cupcakes. Yup, ladies in the office on various floors all brought in cup-cakes, which we then bought en masse.
Much like everything in life, I couldn’t decide which would be the best to get, so I tried all of them.
Oh god. Mah belly. Ugh…. No. More. Cupcakes.
Only…
Coworker came around after the drive finished, and deposited one on my desk because it was teh type she made, which she noticed I hadn’t been able to buy because they sold out.
I’ve been sort of nursing it all day, because, y’know. Too full for cupcakes. But I’m not too far away from ducking out to home, so I should probably make a start on Iohhhmygodallthemouthgasm. wat. how? It’s so soft! It melts in my mouth and is the right amount of sugar and the icing is rich and fresh cream/icing and I think I taste a faint hint of raspberries but I have no idea hwere it comes froh god really? Really? There is more of that delicious cream INSIDE it. It is cream-filled. ARE YOU A WIZARD, LADY? I know I asked this before when she brought around the peanut-butter cheesecake, but I need to see if she is still married, and/or just how serious she is about it, because oh my god you have no idea guys.
Glad to know I’m not the only one who showed no restraint today! I decided in all my wisdom, to treat myself to some hot cinnamon donuts from Donut King. 15mins later.. all 6 gone :0 Would have been sooner, but I had to drive the car. I ate one as soon as I got in and one at the lights though!
Did you put any in the freezer?
Dood! They didn’t last long enough to even get close to a fridge! 😉
Of course he didn’t, he’s not a monster.
I had to ask! HOW WOULD WE KNOW FOR SURE OTHERWISE?
Should check out Coles in an evening. Last couple times I’ve been there they’ve been selling ultra-cheap donuts. Like… a buck for a pack of six. Admittedly, probably not hot, fresh, or Donut Kingy.
exactly! Coles ones are cold and cakey, and while you can heat them up, when you do, they leave a disgusting ‘fat’ layer in your mouth 😐 Fresh or GTFO! 😉
Buy them from woolies, they make theirs fresh everyday and are miles ahead of coles ones! Coles if like their bread come in semi cooked and frozen and they finish them off in store heh.
WOAH! Don’t know what’s going on with Steam, downloading Lego Marvel Super Heroes, just went to check how it was progressing, and it says that my peak download speed was 3,435,446,528.0 GB/S. Seems I have the fastest internet in the universe, but the 5.8GB file is still downloading with 3 and a half hours to go =S
Happens sometimes.
Hahaha shit wtf!
My boss’ boss just called me and told me to go to Perth TOMORROW until Friday.
So I guess that’s happening on such short notice!
And they just had their Perth Meat.
… some of them did. v_v
You should have turned up.
I would have if I didn’t have a thing on already on that day!
Wait, you mean you can’t be in two places at once? Scandalous!
Next time.
And if there is no meat, then I’m *sure* that you’ll find something fun to do in Perth!
Yeah! There’s the prison, the bell museum, the… the.. Cottesloe…?
Are you actually going back on the Friday?
Say hi to my family
Who needs plans when you cna be whisked 4 hours away at a moments notice, bring me back a souvenier!
My phone just shit itself and I cant afford a new one, UGH!
Dude don’t be an asshole. These things happen sometimes. Give it a warm sponge bath and reassure it – don’t post this embarrassing stuff all over the internet!
I have a htc mozart that I currently can’t use. Would be happy to do you a good deal! 🙂
I no hava da muneeeeeeee D:
We have a spare shitty phone somewhere, have to find the bastard though …
I’m talkin like $50. But I understand if you can’t. I’d give it away, but it was my ex’s phone, and I got screwed round because of it, so I want to get something out of it at least 😉
Yeah, no. Mrs started a new job that pays monthly and still waitin on first payment.
Was supposed to order Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate but can’t
sadfirstworldface.jpg
well I could always lend it to you til you can get a new one if you want.
Got the piece of shit working. That’ll do for now. Thanks
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PHLANISPO
(Spoilered for intolerable length)
-Some guy
Well, today was definitely a day. Basically, the day was all about running a charity hot dog stand for my Career and Enterprise class. This pretty much consumed the whole day, since I needed to take the session off before recess, and the session off before lunch.
I completed first session class without any issues. I went to the second class, expecting to be let out immediately. Turns out the teacher didn’t know, despite my Career and Enterprise teacher telling me that she would inform the other teacher personally. Eventually I got out of the class and met with my other group members.We had to leave the school and walk across the road to the shopping centre to pick up the food we reserved. It was at this point that I realised the $35 I had set aside had gone missing. I had gathered the money a week before and put it in my bag. I managed to get $20 out of my wallet and gave it to my group. My group spent the rest of the day complaining how I put the least amount of money in.
I let my group go ahead, so that I could go to the toilets in front of the school gate. When I got out, it had started pouring heavy rain. Really heavy rain. Visibility had dropped to Silent Hill levels. I put my jacket over my head and sprinted. In the forty seconds between the school toilets and the shopping centre, I was completely soaked through. The rain was so heavy, I thought I felt hail at one point. The road had flooded within thirty seconds of rain.
My clothes sopping wet, my feet soaked, the paper in my top pocket ruined, I got inside Coles and found my group. They were completely dry. They didn’t even know it was raining. After we collected everything, we went outside. Completely dry. Some flooding still remained, but rain no longer fell from the sky.
We got back at school and started setting up the stall. The proper school barbecue had been left in left in a pitiful condition by whoever used it last, so we had to use the other one. The rain started again. Our area began to flood, I began desperately looking around for a broom to get rid of the water. I couldn’t get one, so I started kicking at the water to get it to move away. Some people thought that was a very stupid idea, but it didn’t bother me because my shoes were already soaked and weren’t drying anytime soon. This proved to be fruitless, so my team told me to get one of the posters for the business. It had to be hung up to display our prices or something. I had printed some a few days earlier and plastered them around the school, but left a spare in my bag. i checked my bag. Wasn’t there. I tried to print another one from one of the school computers. Couldn’t log in. My password had expired. I panicked, and tore one of the advertisement posters off the nearest wall. When I got back to my group, one of the gardeners had shown up with a broom to move the water away from us. My hero.
With recess approaching, everyone was given a specific job. Since my group didn’t trust me with anything bigger, my job was to hand people hot dog buns. I must say, I did my job admirably.
We couldn’t cook the sausages fast enough to keep up with demand, so we had to turn a lot of people away. I hadn’t had anything to eat, so I had to buy a hot dog from my own stall.
The first half of session 3 was simply cleaning up. When I arrived at my class, I realised I had forgotten my keys for the first time in years. I had put them in my other bag that I took to Saturday’s meat.
I got session 4 off so my group could set up the stall again. We decided to simply cook everything at once, and close when we sold out. There was only one glove left, which made giving people their bread unnecessarily annoying. My group wanted to attract more people, so I used my best baseball vendor voice to advertise our stall.
My marketing strategy appeared to be successful, and we sold 70 hot dogs in ten minutes.
Only once the hot dog stall had officially concluded, I finally found the $35 I had set aside. The Phlanispo of yesteryear thought that putting money in the front zipper like he normally does was too risky, so he put it the second zipper at the very bottom.
After spending half of session 5 cleaning up, we arrived at the Career and Enterprise class, the very same class that made us go through this annoying stuff. The teacher let us spend pretty much the entire rest of the class counting up all the money that was earned. After we had reimbursed ourselves for the money we put in, the money totalled $352.00 , and we couldn’t keep any of it. My group took the time to create conspiracy theories about how since the school hadn’t named the charity the money would be going to, the money must clearly be going to the school. My team were not eager to give the money back. One team member accidentally spilled coins everywhere on the walk to the accounting office, and we had to pick them all up.
School ended, and I still didn’t have any keys. I trusted that my sister had keys so that she could unlock the gate and the door. She didn’t. She had jumped the fence, and crawled in through the dog door. I had to jump the fence to get into my own house. Since I am not the most acrobatic of folks, it proved rather difficult for me. When I jumped from the fence to the pavement, I fell over. Or rather, I hit the ground, tried to get up, lost my balance, and tipped over sideways.
It’s been quite the day.
Some guy is Edward A Murphy Jr.
And now you know. Use the knowledge wisely, for with great power comes great responsibility.
If I ever become supreme leader or executive assistant to the supreme ruler of the universe, I will outlaw the the use of the word ‘football.’ Association Football will be called soccer, American Fooball will be called Gridiron, Australian Football will be called Quadpost or something, Gaelic Football will be called “Soccer-Quadpost,” and Canadian Football will be called “Maple Gridiron.”
And yet they will all still be called “footy” by their respective fans. At least, the ones played in Australia. Don’t particularly care about the rest. Let them play Maple Gridiron.
Since there are four posts per side, but eight in total, would it be Quadpost or Octopost? And which sounds more awesome? Questions to ponder.
Association football should still be called football, as:
a) It’s the second oldest game were kicking is the main method of moving the ball forward (the oldest being Aussie Rules)
b) There a penalty invoked for the main players who make contact to the ball with any part of the body that excludes the legs or head.
The only other games that have as much foot-to-ball contact in a game are Aussie Rules, and Gaelic Football.
You know, I really like the name Quadpost for some reason. I’m totally going to integrate that into my daily vocabulary.
TAYKART tonight? I’m up for it.
Sorry to leave so soon after you arrived! Hopefully next time!
I had sooooo many connection issues. Took me almost an hour to get on.
damn! I got dropped once, and it was all downhill for me from that point. not with connection issues, but rather I kept getting picked on by AI. I was like a buffer between the AI and @dc 😉
I missed it. :\ Got home at 7:30, ate cup-a-noodles, cleaned until midnight. Next time!
PERTH REPOST:
Hey dudes so like yeah… I guess I’m going to Perth tomorrow morning (I’ll have to wake up at like 3am ;_; ) and I’ll be there until Friday afternoon. I should be free in the evenings so if anyone wants to maybe catch up then… ? 🙂
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @hindenlagen @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks
Fulfil D.C.’s prophecy of weekly Perth meats!
IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES.
ALL HAIL OUR LORD, D.C.!
You picked like, the worst week for me.
Feeling like crap, but should hopefully be better soon.
I’ll call in sick to work for Thursday tomorrow, and take plenty of pills and get plenty of rest, so I should be better soon 🙂
I’ll definitely hang out with you and anyone else, given the chance 🙂
There’s not much I can think to suggest doing, alas, but I’ll happily take you out to the drag shows on Wednesday 😉
On second thought maybe not…
😛
(just kidding)
I’m not sure which evenings I’ll be free though since I don’t know what work people have planned.
I was only joking, relax 😛
(unless you want to go, cause I wasn’t really joking :P)
I’m keen to do anything, and should be better by mid-week hopefully 🙂
It would be a shame to not meet you while you’re here :S
Don’t get your hopes up, I’m not that exciting 😛
Wait, you’re serious?
Yeppers.
Survivor fans unite!
I’m not doing anything Thursday (I don’t think…)
Keep us posted 🙂
What? Perth is nowhere near Sydney. You goofed, Green. You goofed.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-289/comment-page-9/#comment-2883919
Or maybe everything is going according to plan…
I won’t be there but have fun if you do end up doing something. Are you staying in the city?
Travelodge Perth apparently (417 Hay St, Perth WA 6000)
…wherever that is 😛
Oh, you’re at the gross end of Hay Street :\
Not in walking distance of Hay Street Mall, and not near all the pubs / clubs either.
There’s a train station nearby though, so it could be worse 🙂
I think it’s like, 2 stops and you’re in the city 🙂
Also, your hotel is near Kings Park 😀
DO NOT GO THERE
I can’t stress that enough, you will more than likely be killed :\
I’m not joking, this is a serious warning, especially true at night :\
It’s pretty safe of a day time, if you’re in a group, but I wouldn’t risk it.
Why not? King’s Park has those fun metal slides. Or had. They removed them a couple of years back for some reason. Little(er) kid me was really angry about that.
You know what? Screw King’s Park! Don’t go there!
Thanks for the heads up :P. Any other Perth pro tips?
Dont drink the tap water..but thats a general tip
Don’t go on the armadale/thornlie line late at night on your own.
Thats when the scary people ride the train D:
With the freo bridge closed, maybe “just don’t go SotR” is easiest 😀
Huh? He’s on the corner of Victoria Ave and Hay St… that’s nowhere near King’s Park, and within walking distance of central? (Super close to the Hula Bula Bar if that’s any help…)
/cc @greenius
Oh, that’s weird! When I put 417 Hay Street into my maps it comes up with where I was going from, but then Travelodge is the complete opposite end :S
Stupid maps 😛
It’s the correct address too.
Perth is so confusing :S
That’s good news anyway, means @greenius is at the good end of Hay Street! 😀
:O
I’m free Wednesday evening, and i might be available thursday as well, so whatever best suits the other perth people would be cool.
After a solid week of downloading, (I could only download 3GB in a whole night last week) DC Universe Online is installed on my computer. Anyone wanna form a TAY superhero squad?
Can the PS4 players play on the same servers as PC?
I did a bit of research, and the answer is no, unfortunately.
Reckon I’d be interested in some PS4 DC Universe shenanigans when I pick one up.
The Cyan Osprey got past the tutorial then got kind of lost in the starting area.
Says system requirements are Pentium 4 3.0GHz, I’ve got a dual core 1.6GHz, would I be able to run it? If I can, yeah I’d be down for it. 30GB download though, better start it ASAP, probably take a full day or more.
Sometimes I wonder how all you young people would have coped when the internet was so slow you actually had to sit there and wait for a page to load. Or, for example when a PC game’s demo was 8 Megabytes and took all day and night to download….
/oldladystrange 😛
The important part is you had an onion on your belt.
Hey, I’ve had my share of bad internet. Back when I was with dodo, I had an internet stick. It was took about a minute to load webpages. It would only work if you were directly in front of the window. It wouldn’t work if you were say, three metres away. At least the internet was designed for slow connections back then. This was back in 2008, when websites just assumed everyone had a megabit to stand on.
Ooooooohhhhh. So you never enjoyed the wonders of a 28kbps dial up connection?
The days of having to make sure nobody was expecting a call.
And the beauty of the dial up sound. I still remember it well.
Only because they’re forever immortalised in Skrillex songs, right?
Ah, the naivete of youth.
I remember my father writing in a school newsletter how awesome it was that the school could surf the web for as little as $3 an hour.
That wasn’t my first exposure to it, but it’s pretty funny in hindsight
I feel foolish.
Not foolish, just young. This is back in the days when you would go into the browser options and turn off all images when you were doing research because downloading a nav or back and next buttons on pages took too long.
Ah, the wonders of 700MB of CD storage when it took 4 hours to pull up to 70MB down that dial up line.
Age of Empires or Worms online multiplayer over dialup. Or Runescape.
Demo’s came on CD’s then DVD’s. 😛 We were fine!
So I also caved and bought a PS4.
Yay! I think.
Everythings coming up jocon
Oh wait, it’s Monday. Guess I’d better think about writing Mashaa Monday,then. It’s been a bit difficult this week as I’ve been sick, and if I write too much about the Beast I’ll have nothing to write about for the rest of the week!
And so begins the one sentence blog updates like Year of the Hermit. XD
Guess you don’t stay up to date with my blog, then. http://strangestitches.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/mashaa-monday-feathers-and-beasts.html
Posted before you made this comment. So nerr. 😛
Haha! Nah, I admit I don’t read as frequently as I should. I was just making jokes. JOKES. XD
I was making jokes, too! JOKES!
I don’t expect you to read my blog unless you’re interested in sewing and quilting. Half of it probably doesn’t make sense to people who aren’t interested in that stuff anyway. 😛
@redartifice remember when I made a crack about the next lame villain DC were going to use and I was laughing about Captain Boomerang?
Well, I started watching Assault on Arkham….
Captain Boomerang is not a lame villain.
Mirror Master on the other hand…
He’s pretty lame at his core, but thankfully he’s like Green Arrow in that his power set isn’t as lame as his costume/theme so he can be dragged into modern settings.
@freezespreston @evilmonkey @phlanispo apparently PS4 and PS3 DC universe is cross compatible.
I’d be keen to install and jump in if people were up for it
Don’t have a PS4 yet (still a few weeks away), but I do have a PS3, sounds like a plan.
Also, @pupp3tmast3r
Free to play ey?
I’d be up for dicking around in that, if there’s room for another.
and cc @freezespreston @evilmonkey @pupp3tmast3r d’loading now, tomorrow night?
Should be all good, I’ll let you know what time I’ll be on.
40k with @Popdart5 tomorrow night.
Whoops just reading this now >.< Sorry red I’ll have to pass, just started up WoW with dire and I can only handle one MMO at a time =P Not to mention I re-discovered Marvel Heroes while I was sick so I’ve basically got 2 massive time sinks to juggle now :'(
I’m down. No idea what I’m doing but willing to have a proper go.
All I want to know is if I can recreate the character I used briefly in Champions online: Professor Laceration.
He was a sword fighter who was also a professor
You’ll want One Handed as your weapon which is good because it’s one of the weapons that constantly staggers between average and over powered. Gadgets is both a good power set and thematically appropriate. If you’re playing group content being able to switch to controller role as Gadgets is also pretty handy (controllers do crowd-control and also act like healers for mana bars).
As for the styles that might be a bit of a pain. There are a lot to choose from in the beginning but a big part of the character customisation is getting new gear with new styles attached. You might find the style you want is only available at the high levels, or on the broker for millions (there was an cash exploit a few years ago, not sure how it goes on the PS servers but on the PC even garbage goes for thousands).
Don’t have a PS3 or a PS4, unfortunately. You can build your own superhero/supervillain squad without me, I guess.
I’m happy to jump on with you at some point if my Laptop can handle it, will let you know if it’s up to the task or not. I’m sure we can scrounge up some PC peeps for a squad. I see @pupp3tmast3r, @quiz_b, @tigerion, @rize and @transientmind have played it before.
Yeah, that 3 GHz system requirement is really bizarre. Somethings not quite right. I’m sure you can handle it, it’s an MMO after all; they have to be optimized for potatoes.
Just keep in mind the console is only cross-platform compatible with other consoles. PC players are stuck on their own server.
Oh, also it’s action based combat so running on a sluggish machine hurts. I ran it rather smoothly on my Surface Pro with the settings above minimum.
Kickstarter! Disclaimer: I backed all these things
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1300298569/under-the-dog
Kickstarter for a 25-minute direct-to-video anime being produced by a fairly decent staff and everything. Looks pretty good. They’re tracking to hit their funding fairly close though. Really hope it makes it. I think the biggest issue is you need to back at a fairy high tier to get a physical copy of the anime, works out to be the sort of price you’d pay for an actual JP video release i.e. not very economical. Though I guess this does mean that you’re really backing the production, not just a preorder.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/370924922/tanto-cuore-oktoberfest-edition-card-game
Having exhausted the currently available expansions for their actually pretty fun if stupid and a bit misogynistic game Tanto Cuore, Japanime Games have decided to actually pitch a new concept to Arclight for a 4th set, and had it made under commission. This one re-themes the standard theme of the previous 3 games (hiring a bunch of maids to have the best high-class household) to involve setting up the best Bavarian beer hall by stocking it with cute barmaids. Bonus: can get the previous three games as addons for fairly cheap, cheaper than I’ve seen them sold locally, and bundled with promo card sets. Also if you can get past the inherent silliness of the theme, Tanto Cuore is a pretty fun deck building game in the same vein as Dominion. It’s nowhere near as good as my current fave, Heart of Crown, but it’s fairly good and nowhere near as pervy in the artwork as Arclight’s other stuff (eg Barbarossa).
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1868020927/shinkukan-the-kawaii-steampunk-android-tcg-0
I think this actually has a bit of a naming problem, because if someone says ‘Android game’ that usually would mean it’s something for Android phones. But this is actually a physical trading card game where you are controlling a bunch of Androids. As in robots, not phones. It has really nice art and looks interesting enough, so I backed at the tier that has 3 starters and may up pledge later to grab some extras as well. Their special set really tempted me, just because of the fact it comes with an old Polish vacuum tube. Those things still look rad. If it didn’t suck all the power out of the world, I would totally buy a clock that used Nixie tubes.
Relatedly, I received my first two physical Kickstarter project deliveries today. Most of the stuff I’ve backed before now has been digital stuff, or stuff where the physical releases are pending. Today’s deliveries were a board game, Shipwrights of the North Sea, and a book, ‘The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers’.
Shipwrights really impressed me. I haven’t had a chance to play it yet but it looks really good. Super professional packaging and everything, even came with extra bags for pieces, and properly made painted wood tokens and stuff. This is from a dude that makes indie board games in New Zealand, pretty sweet. Hopefully I’ll have a chance to play it and report back, but the gist of it is that it’s a worker placement game involving building viking longboats.
The book I’m slightly less impressed with, looks-wise. It’s a bit more skewed toward an academic textbook in its general look than I expected. However the content is what matters and it’s absolutely amazing on that point. The author traveled around Japan a year or so ago interviewing dozens of people from the Japanese games industry, many of them people who have never been interviewed before that worked during the 80s and 90s and made some super formative games. There’s everyone in here from guys that worked on the Famicom to Lunar to a bunch of Falcom guys to some newcomers like Ryukishi07 (Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni) and ZUN (Touhou). Heaps of pictures too, shame they had to be done in black & white.
@crazyguy1990 and @evilmonkey
I’m not sure who wants it more. I trust you’ll make a decision, but reminder, the bean bag is massive and needs something like 3 large bean bags to somewhat fill it.
Also, I kind of feel bad that I only have one /o\
Let crazyguy have it, he wanted it first didn’t he?
He said interested, but that was all. I need a yes or a no. D=
If he doesn’t want it, I’ll take it.
I definitely want it.
Then you shall have it.
can you email me your address then please?
My email is scree(at)y7mail(dot)com
I think you should split the difference and send it to me.
Not really.But I made you panic, didn’t I?Sorry./screeYou’re a monster!
A monster!
Three of these?
http://www.kmart.com.au/product/100l-bean-bag-refill/124737
Yes. It’s massive. The pattern I bought was a little crazy on size
That’s a lot of gigabytes. Maybe I should figure out how to check my download cap…
Nah.
Thanks for the Mario Karting tonight. @gemini’s got skills to pay the bills!
sorry I didn’t stay on long. I was working on cosplays after a few races
I completely forgot! I was the one that posted the reminder too! D=
I had almost an hour of stressful connection issues, and then when I finally got on, I raced like a drunk. Fun failure tonight, but will try again next week.
I had connection issues too at the start. Dropped out three times. I’m guessing it was a server thing instead of internet connection. Unless our internet connections are twins too! TWINS!
You had me working for it! The torque is strong with this one. 😉
So lets just put this day behind me and try and start again fresh tomorrow.
HEY BUDDY!
Hello 🙂
How’ve you been?
I have been in a crazy good mood all day. Our moods seem to be enemies! D:
Ahh, I’m feeling a little better.
I suspect I’ll feel a fair bit better tomorrow 🙂
Glad to hear you’ve been good though man 🙂
That makes me happy 🙂
But… your unhappiness sustains me!
…
Not really. 😛
You want another birthday tomorrow? GREEDY.
It’ll be like Groundhog Day. The day will loop until he works out how to love again and play the piano.
No, I’d rather not have to endure another day like today.
My birthdays are cursed, it seems :S
I’ve lost all hope of having a good birthday 😛
I realised over the weekend that PAX Friday is also Halloween. That is all.
MANDATORY DRESSUPS!
ZOMBIE SHUFFLE!
Oh nice. Pressure to be in costume is now higher.
At least it means walking through the city in a cosplay will draw marginally less attention
Assault on Arkham is a decent movie. Some interesting takes on the villains and nice to have a sidestory that focuses on something besides Batman. Some genuine laughs there too when it subverts the usual tropes.
Why can all the DCAU material be solid to great but they just can’t seem to get their shit together for the actual films?
*points to Batman Begins, the greatest superhero movie of all time*
*silently prays not to be asked to provide another example*
I’ve tended to see the Nolan Batman movies more as thrillers that just happen to have Batman in them. Don’t know why but they’ve never really felt like canon?
Edit: or rather, the mind destroying mess of retcon, reboot and handwave that passes for comic universe canon. Probably not the best term but intent is there.
Batman has a canon? :\
Edit: yep, your edit.
Also, while Batman Begins is decent, it is outstripped by The Dark Knight Returns pair.
Sorry. Couldn’t disagree more.
That’s okay. You’re allowed to be wrong occasionally. 😛
Haven’t you learned anything, Freeze? You’re meant to call him a monster and run away crying!
I always feel like the movies are ashamed to be comic related. Like nobody involved can wrap their heads around the idea that the source material isn’t 1950’s Archie looking stuff aimed at 4-10 year olds. Making comic book movies seem to be the one thing that makes Hollywood feel shame. =P
Nolan’s success seems to stem directly from the fact they sat down and looked at stuff like Dark Knight Returns and realised if they used stuff like this as the basis they’d actually have to tone down the grit rather than amp it up from Batman Forever.
On the animated front they’re not aiming for the mass market and they know how well not talking down to the audience works thanks to Batman TAS. They’re also free to just pick and choose the characters included at will. The entire Justice League can show up and it’s no big deal. That relaxed attitude versus complex negotiations just to use the Wayne Tech logo in Green Lantern must be a huge help.
Although all that said they still play it a little safe and stick with Batman and Superman movies. To the point where Assult on Arkham has to sneak by as a Batman movie instead of just standing on it’s own as a Suicide Squad anti-hero heist movie.
…it’s 10pm already?
No, that’s 23 and half hours away! GEEZ!
The Real Newsreaders of Sydney. XD
Lee Lin is fucking amazing!
hahah I just saw that on sbs2! classic stuff! hope there’s more! 🙂
\o/ Sharknado 2 finished downloading. Don’t have time to watch it tonight /o\
Guess i’ll just go watch American Restoration then.
@popdart5: holy shit, the Pathfinder Swashbuckler is an amazing class.
You gain ‘panache’ by getting killing blows and crits, works the same way as grit for the Gunslinger. Lets you do awesome stuff like if an enemy attacks you provoking an attack of opportunity, you can use 1 panache to roll to parry the attack and negate it, then attack. All sorts of targeted strikes, bonuses and stuff through it. Including the ability to demoralize your opponent with an intimidate check after scoring a hit as a swift action.You’re basically Westley from The Princess Bride. There’s no other way to slice it.
One of the archetypes for the Brawler basically turns you into Captain America.
So far this has been a pretty great addition to the library.
I keep showing off my pornoclone to everyone.
I am finding it far too amusing, I think.
This is him, right?
Obvious warning: don’t let anyone tag you in a screenshot and put it on Facebook. Might well hamper job search efforts… :\
Good thing I’m not on facebook!
…that’s how it works, right?
Or help, depending on the job…
Lego Marvel Super Heroes downloaded, played through the first level, wasn’t too sure if the laptop would run it, but it did without a hitch, awesome game, great that I can play it with my Xbone controller too, thanks again @freezespreston.
Hey, TAY…
Would any of you be interested in doing XCOM: Enemy Unknown multiplayer sometime this week?
Also, I’m considering doing a Link cosplay for PAX Aus.
I’ll probably just buy a costume, as I’m too lazy to make one.
Get scree to make one! I’m sure she has plenty of time 😛
I think @SerNobulus and @rize have been playing it abit lately maybe they’ll be interested
20 past 12, normal people would’ve gone to bed by now, but screw it I’ma watch the first episode of The Walking Dead Season 3. Who needs sleep \o/
Aaaaaand the Xbone Blu-Ray drive has decided that it doesn’t want to work for me, Goddamn piece of shit!
Oh well, looks like I’m going to bed after all.
So, goodnight, TAY, sleeptight, and don’t let the bed-bugs bite, because there are literally thousands of them. *whispers* oh, and there’s probably something in your closet.
What is sleep?
I’m going through and listening to some old music. I’m currently listening to Septett E flat major op.20: Therma con variazioni from Beethoven. It’s really damn good. Ludwig knows his stuff.
Mozart’s Andante fur flute and Orchestra C-Dur KV 315 (Don’t know what is up with the name) is also really good.
Oh man. Just had a conversation with the closest thing I have to a “crazy ex”. Like, the proper kind of crazy.
It just… wow. She doesn’t let go of a grudge. Or the crazy.
Are “grudge” and “crazy” nicknames for your naughty parts?
Hm. I wonder which is which…
I hope not. That sounds like it would be quite painful.
Weeeeeeeee I couldn’t sleep properly 😛
I’m going to be so dead at work today D:
@mrtaco Page end master!
Another one in the bag.
Must of been one of those nights, I slept dreadfully myself
See ya on the flip side, homeslices
😛
Quick check of my bank statement
steam
steam
steam
steam
steam
All purchases for Mum’s hidden object games XD
The important thing is that steam is taking all your money.
Pretty much. It’s really hard to find decent ones though. A lot of them are okay, but not great. And price is no indicator either!
What about that fantastic horror game you were talking about yesterday!
It sounded like you were having all the fun! \o/
It’s so slow. SO. GOD. DAMN. SLOW.
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/the_witness/b/pc/archive/2014/08/17/development-wrapping-up-on-the-witness.aspx
WOOOO! Can’t wait to mosey about this island!
Good Morning Everyone.
So I did it, I’m back in Wow. Rolled a Panda Monk last night… I think I’m going to become a Brewmaster 🙂 I Decided I wanted a panda because TURTLE MOUNT!!!!!
Other things, Played a massive game of cards against humanity on saturday, managed to choke on my drink…
I think I’m going to organise a board game night for saturday. I’m so broke and need to play my new games.
That’s nice, organising an entire boardgame night for @saturday
He’s worth it.
BOARD GAMES
I got one of my KS ones last friday, Shipwrights of the North Sea. Card based Euro thing, looks like a bit of fun. Lovely art.
I’m due to start receiving mine soon 🙂
I’ve got Resistance: Coup and Rise to Power incoming.
I did get Province, a “Micro-Euro” the other week, that seems neat but I’ve only had one game so far.
Recently received:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1016374822/kingdom-builder-big-box-kickstarter-edition
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elbowfish/antimatter-matters-a-quantum-physics-board-game-re
Should be sent soon:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/435243061/eons-cosmic-expansions
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magecompany/among-the-stars
Before the end of the year:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1294034747/the-resistance-hostile-intent-and-hidden-agenda
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/820113175/404-law-not-found
I got my copy of Province as well, looks quite well crafted but haven’t had a chance to try it out yet
It’s neat, though there was one rule I needed clarification on (can’t remember what).
I like that the goals shift during the game.
So who’s done a PS3 hard drive upgrade? Which HDD would you recommend?
I have. Any should be fine, really. However I have read that the sweet spot is anything above 160GB or something.
The stock HDD is 160GB, so I’m looking to go larger than that. I was under the impression that they had to be 5400 rpm or something.
Anyone had any experience with these, or know of anywhere cheaper?
I’ve used plenty of those drives in the past, and they’re good drives. I buy them for about $89
This is the same drive, no? I’d rather pay $89 than $110.
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=210_267&products_id=24365
yup! same drive!
Sweet! I reckon I’ll grab it then.
Doesn’t have to be a slow drive, I think people had issues with the noise of the faster ones is all, plus you don’t get any major advantages from a faster drive.
What I’ve heard is that if you want to see a marginal increase, the hybrid drives that have a SSD cache on top of a typical HDD aren’t a bad proposition, though the benefit from having them on PS3 isn’t anywhere near as pronounced as it is in a PS4.
I have a WD Blue drive in my PS3. 240gb I think, it’s been a long time since I put it in there (upgraded from the 40gb it came with)
Cheers for the help, reckon I’m gonna go with a 1TB WD Blue 5400 rpm drive. Might even grab a second one for when I grab a PS4, so then I can have 1 TB from the getgo.
I’ve done it.
I think I’ve got a Western Digital 500 gb?
I’ve had it for yeeeeeeeears and it’s still going strong.
I have. I’d go with a Green or Blue WD (or 5400RPM other drive is plenty). Try getting the ‘eco’ drives … Otherwise they might heat up a little too much or be noisy.
Hm. Found a flash drive. Seems to have some sensitive info on it. But not sure any of it’s enough to be able to return it to its owner.
That’s why you should always leave a Readme file on your flash drives!
And a photo with your contact details on your camera!
I’m quite paranoid.
Haha, say what?
What.
You forgot the ?
!
I found a sd card at the front of work one day.
It had several hundred images of someone doing some not okay stuff to a horse.
Then 2 days later he came and picked it up. I thought it was just random images someone found of the net but nope the guy with the horses was the one who picked it up.
I vowed then and there never to leave my horse porn on SD cards ever again. That stuff is staying on my HDD
Haha, uh.. what?
I would’ve turned it in to the cops.
This is North QLD mate, Horse sodomy is a way of life.
My mistake, carry on.
Lmao I had a friend who wouldn’t get his laptop repaired because of some less than savoury anime images on the HDD. Let his warranty expire and all, pretty sure he still has the dead laptop too.
Ok, here’s what you do. Print off the documents and put posters up all over town. Anyone who recognises the documents as theirs can come to you to get their flash drive back.
\o/
Is it a penis or a vagina?
‘Cause if you can figure that out it will narrow your search significantly.
Oh god. I am retarded.
I just meant it seems like there’s a bunch of people’s financial details on there.
Yeah, I know, but “Which bank? Hurr…” isn’t as funny as genitalia.
Oh it also has someone’s get-out-of-work medical certificate on it too.
DC Universe Downloading on PS3, should hopefully be done by tonight. @redartifice, and anyone else interested in joining.
Sweet.
I think mine completed overnight, or at least it had switched to a different splash screen
Are we going with Heroes or Villains? I’m assuming you can’t have Heroes and Villains on the same team.
I’d like to roll a hero, I’m a sucker for the Justice League
Heroes it is then. Who else wants to join the JLK (Justice League of Kotaku)?
The Cyan Osprey is ready to answer the call!
Just… Not tonight. He has a previous appointment. (nothing to do with horseporn)
It’ll probably take at least that long to do the intro quests. Are you on a specific server, or is it all one server?
I’ve only done the control tutorial before the opening hub. It’s pretty short and doesn’t tell you much before throwing you into the deep end.
Server? Uh, it’s been a fair while since I last looked into it. Think from memory it’s more just areas and Oceania had the lowest ping? I very well could be completely wrong there.
@freezespreston me and @evilmonkey and @jocon will figure it out and let you know.
If you guys are still going after the session finishes I’ll jump in. You can do that right? I’ve never really played an MMO before beyond that one bit.
@freezespreston Neither have I, I’m guessing you can jump in and out as you please. Oh, and I won’t have a mic.
@freezespreston @evilmonkey You can, we’ll just have to run through the quests you missed otherwise you’ll be underlevelled and have an awful time.
What time roughly we rocking this?.
I used to play a lot of DCUO. I’d be down to jump in tonight. I think I’ve got you on PSN?
Sweet, you do from BMX Banditry, you can show us the ropes
Number one tip, pick flight for your movement, everything else is just painful to get around with.
You don’t have to have PS+ to play do you?
Not on PS3, I assume you do on PS4 though. Not sure, I’ve barely touched it on PS4.
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
This is North QLD mate, Horse sodomy is a way of life.
Quote of the day
Saw GotG last night and really enjoyed it, especially considering how hyped up I was for it. Chris Pratt is great and I think I’ll go back and watch all of Parks and Recreation now which I ain’t seen before.
Also:
We are Groot. <3Ugh. Non-stop at work. Let’s take a break and see what TAY is up t– horseporn.
Y’know what, work isn’t so bad after all, let’s get tackle that with renewed vigor.
neigh.
Don’t worry about clicking the link, it’s SFW.
Yeah that was my thought, popped into bunnings, check tay, go home tuesday someones drunk
I went out for like 20 minutes, logged into TAY and came back to … that.
Hehe.
Tackle with renewed vigour.
*gasp* There’s a Donald Duck figure coming out for Disney Infinity 2.0, so hype, spewing he doesn’t have his own playset though. They could’ve totally made Scrooge McDuck, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and had a Ducktales playset, that would’ve been so awesome.
If I played Disney Infinity I think I’d have to do Donald’s voice whenever I’m playing online
So…. Tay got overrun by horseporn .
Wow. new favorite moment
TAY has really hit its hayday.
I didn’t do it >_>
Pixars’ Up now directed by Michael Bay, coming to a cinema near you.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/08/if-michael-bay-directed-pixars-up/
coming to a cinema near you… which will explode later
Hai Perf
NO U!
Don’t let them change you.
Too late. He’s already in Perth.
No way in, no way out !!
Nooooooooo
Sorry guys 🙁
Dont be sorry 🙂
I forgive you screeocketman
…what did you do?
Completely forgot that Gargoyles was a Disney franchise. How cool would it be to have a Gargoyles playset in Disney Infinity.
For anyone that doesn’t know what I’m talking about, this is Gargoyles.
Also Disney now owns Indiana Jones. How awesome would a tiny John Rhys-Davies in racial caricature be?
I would play the hell out of a Gargoyles game.
But I don’t really see anything making me interested in Disney Infinity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyles_%28video_game%29
Sweet, I only missed it by 19 years. I’ll just whip out the ol’ Mega Drive.
How cool would it be to have a Gargoyles anything?
That show gave rise to what I consider one of the best ‘villains’ of all time, David Xanatos.
(http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XanatosGambit)
Dude is cucumber incarnate.
Ah bugger it. Sorry for clogging TAY with more RPG goodness/nonsense but I’m going to throw a bone to all of you Pathfinder folk. Considering that the Advanced Class Guide just came out and a few of you have expressed interest in some of the concepts, I’m going to allow a special, one-time only opportunity if you want to take it up.
I’m going to allow you to modify your existing character to fit one of the new character classes or archetypes of your choice within reason (obviously turning someone like Lundgredolph into a full magic user is a little outside the realm of possibility).OR
You may create a brand new character and slot it into the existing party to replace your current character. This will involve rolling ability scores and everything from scratch, having the exact same amount of gold and experience, and effectively doing a straight swap out with a new character.
So going forward you all have three options: stick with your current character, modify your character to fit something new, or roll a brand new character. This will be pretty permanent so make sure you’re certain about your choice. The Monday Knights will still remain however the cosmic forces at my command can be flexible. 😛
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
I’ll keep Dem’nion as there’s some arcs going with his story and other characters already in the campaign and it would seem like a copout if I just replace him with a new character and start fresh. Besides he almost died twice now, how long will his luck last? I’d be so up to taking on the new spells though, if there are any new level 1 spells in it.
Yeah I’m willing to handwave that and say you can replace any of your currently known spells with anything that is available.
Ah good, I can get rid of Shocking Grasp cuz holy heck I never want to be within touch distance ever again xD. Thanks!
Edit: Now that I’m looking at the classes listed, I might look into the Arcanist class but not being able to see the details I can’t make that decision yet.
I did manage to chase down a “play test sheet” PDF for each of the new classes if you want it.
And @tech_knight, see my response to B-ob below for a link to a publicly updated reference source.
Oh cool, that’s much better.
I’m cool with sticking with the current character. There’s nothing in the Advanced Class Guide that really would work better for her character concept or anything,
If I were to completely re-roll I’d probably pick a healer, but I wouldn’t run a Warpriest or a Shaman. The only class to really stand out as something I’d like to try at some point really is the Swashbuckler. Overall I was actually pretty disappointed with the ACG.
Are the ACG classes up on the Paizo website as OGL? I’m interested in reading in to them at the very least. Not saying Drewan will change or anything, just make an informed decision.
I’m not sure if they’ve been added to the Paizo PRD but they’ve been updated here under Hybrid classes. Just be wary you don’t accidentally select some of the third party material.
Cool, I’ll check them out when I get a chance. 🙂
Ohhhh that’s cool! So with Arcanist I prepare spells but I can use them the same like a Sorcerer, so I have more flexibility in what I can learn/cast, but not as limited to the amount of times I could cast per day like a Wizard is. Downside is it’s now Intelligence being his base stat for spells, instead of charisma and if I want to keep the abyssal bloodline that’s still using charisma. It might be a bit too different for Dem’nion, I won’t know for sure unless I properly study it tonight to make the decision, but some things in there sound really really cool, like the Lightning Lance
One of the Arcanist’s archetypes lets you take a bloodline instead. Whenever your bloodline gains an ability you don’t gain an arcane exploit for that level. So you can still get the bloodline bits while still having a lot of the Arcanist’s stuff.
The big downside is the fact that your spellcasting stuff is int-based (max spell level is 10 + int, DCs against your spells are 10 + spell level + int mod) but all your abilities are cha-based, so you really need to maximize both stats and that’s pretty hard.
I was just looking at the Arcanist myself, and I think it’d be a step backward for Izumi because of that desire to focus on enchantment, charm spells and stuff. I have insanely high DCs on enchantment spells due to gaining +1 to enchantment spells as a racial bonus, +1/4 per level to enchantment spells as a favored class bonus, and a further +2 to the compulsion subschool from the bloodline Arcana, which ends up meaning that right now eg my Sleep spells (compulsion school) are at DC 17 which is insanely high for a level 1 spell (though everything seems to resist it regardless!). If I swapped to Arcanist I’d lose the favored class bonus (only the core races got favoured class bonuses listed in the ACG) and I’d lose the Arcana bonus unless I picked the archetype that gives you sorcerer bloodline stuff. I’d also have to re-roll stats probably.
I actually looked at maybe dual-classing as a bard at some point but Pathfinder feels like it actively penalizes you for not picking a single class and sticking to it forever.
Not exactly, if it is the way I think it is, I can focus on the bloodline enhancements I want and the ones I don’t want I can spend on arcane exploits like the Lightning Lance. I might go towards grabbing the Bloodline’s passives (like resistances and stats if I want them too). IIRC my Int and Cha are my two largest stats already anyway, but I might need to straight swap them to get the best out of the class. I’m still reading as I go but it actually looks like I can really take this on… only if I’m allowed to switch my stats or whether or not I should just straight up reroll my stats for @popdart5’s benefit
Modifying or altering a character can involve swapping ability scores around between the characteristics. I’m not going to allow any rerolls of ability scores as that would require a brand new character.
Yep entirely fair. I think this’ll work! I’ll go over it more intently tonight after W40K, maybe over email or over the hangouts after the session if you have the time 🙂
You gain an Arcanist exploit every odd level (1, 3, 5 etc). You don’t get a bloodline, there’s only two ways to get bloodline stuff.
You can take the arcanist exploit:
Or you can take the Blood Arcanist class archetype:
So basically if you don’t pick that archetype, you get nothing but the base ability, which for the Abyssal bloodline is your claws.
If you do take the archetype, you also get the Arcana (which is +1/2 level DR for your summoned creatures, and holy shit why don’t you have/use any summoning spells?!) and at level 3, 9, 15 and 20 you gain the bloodline’s bonus abilities, which means you will get to choose Arcanist exploits at 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19 (and from 11 onwards you can pick from the Greater Exploits set as well). Also at 20 you’ll gain the Demonic Might power with all those immunities and telepathy at the sacrifice of gaining the ability to use your arcanist exploit pool to cast extra spells. Maybe that’s not an issue for you?
(It’s only DR vs good, so it’s not THAT good.) I will be getting summoning spells, that’s a certainty and if I went Arcanist it’d be much easier to have the spells known along with damage dealing. Blood Arcanist sounds like it’ll really work for me then.
Edit: the sacrifices from the bloodline I can deal with in return for what I get from Arcanist, as I get way more spells at my disposal and I can focus my summoning feats regardless.
Also it doesn’t say I get 20 on the bloodline bonuses, I only see 1, 3, 9 and 15, which still gives me a lot, but the immunities would be really nice if it actually is true on your part
@tech_knight:
Magical Supremacy is the level 20 arcanist power.
May aswell let the cat out of the bag then. I’ve been discussing making a new character with @popdart5 for a while. I’m thinking of going as a Warcleric.
Warpriest looks really good. In fact, I’m not sure why you would want to pick any other divine caster over it, it seems much more useful in a party situation than a Cleric due to being essentially a frontline fighter, and miles better in every way than the Oracle due to not needing to have a curse. In fact, it seemed fairly OP to me.
So go for it!
The only real downsides compared to say an Oracle are
– spells need to be prepared each day (not spontaneous spellcasting)
– only get up to level 6 spells
– miss out on the bonus mage spells
Whereas to counter these shortcomings you get much better martial combat skills.
Oh, I missed the bit where you’re limited in the spells you can cast. That swings the balance quite a bit.
Still as Karvurk, or a complete re-roll?
Complete re-roll.
And with that Karvuk shed a single tear as the door was closed, sealing him in lonely darkness for eternity.
I think it is more like “Karvurk makes a run for it before the circus act of a group we have gets any worse”. =P
Karvurk isn’t too keen on anyone in the group. =P
Circus act? Then what the hell do you call our Rogue Trader group?
A mental institution
Space Circus
Hmm, I might stick with Rogue, but I can see taking a level or two in swashbuckler or brawler later on
Would I be correct in saying it would be extremely easy to make Lundgredolph a Skald, both current character sheet wise and lore wise?
If you want to go a Skald, that’s totally fine. I can’t recall your stats exactly but I think you were fairly well suited as you had a decent Charisma score which helps with the Skald songs.
I don’t think I can ever look at that class and not call it Bardbarian.
Bardbardian.
Barbardian.
Baba Ganoush.
Question: if we were to decide to roll something completely different i.e. a new character entirely, are we limited to the ACG stuff?
Nope. Same limitations as before (core Paizo rulebooks with the Ultimate and Advanced series) however you can select any class and any archetype from any of those books.
I had an idea which is legitimately terrible and would probably be the worst and most annoying character ever.
You’ve played Baldur’s Gate, right? Do you remember Alora, the halfling rogue with the cute voice and the insanely chipper attitude (“I don’t think you are happy enough! I’ll teach you to be happy!”). A lot of people skipped her because she arrives in the fairly late game, her stats weren’t that great and you started with Imoen, so you’re forgiven if you missed her.
But anyway, imagine a caster class. Any caster really but a divine caster might make more sense. Imagine that super positive ultra-chipper approach to everything. And imagine she’s basically a refugee from an alternate dimension where everything is sunshine and sparkles and rainbows and unicorns and every magic spell has to have an elaborate and cute name and incantation like something out of a manga aimed at ten year olds.
Obviously a divine caster would be better because channel positive energy. 😛
I’ve never actually played Baldur’s Gate (shocking I know) but I’m still going to have to veto that character for the sole reason of preserving everyone’s sanity.
Considering there is an actual RPG that is designed for anime cliches and stereotypes, that might be better suited to that style of game.
You’re no fun 🙁
I like the spirit of the idea, but maybe the execution could be a bit lacking. I could see it working where you strip away the alternate dimension crap and delve in to “why” the character is always ultra-chipper, e.g. a mask to hide some trauma from the rest of the world. I’m thinking on the lines of Unikitty from The Lego Movie.
I wasn’t saying *actually* from an alternate dimension. Just like that. And basically yes, that would be the idea.
Hmmmmm, I’m liking the style of Investigator I’m just conscious of the potential for overlap with @redartifice in the Rogue area but I like the idea of limited potion making. Except that I think most of the potions are pretty limited in use, and only applicable to yourself.
I think I’ll stick it out as an Archivist for now. Still toying with the idea of Prestige classing down the track. Got a few options in that regard as we keep going.
If I was going to completely re-roll I’d consider an Inquisitor though.
If I didn’t like Abelas so much I’d be looking heavily at the Investigator
Abelas is very anti-magic, but is alchemy magic? It could fit, to a degree. You’re losing some rogue bits but gaining some alchemy bits which could even fit in lore.
e.g. Abelas + Reduce Person = easier stealing.
He’s not anti magic, he’s anti elves doing magic. That’s why he’s so hostile to @tech_knight, as Dem’nion to him is basically all the worst stereotypes about elves in one- arrogant, imperious, doing magic and cavorting with dark forces, all of which make it really friggin hard to make a living.
The bit I really liked about the investigator is the ability to arse-pulll skills.
Ok, anti-Elves using magic – but the point still stands: Is alchemy magic? I.e. Would Abelas be against himself using it?
I too liked the “inspiration” bits. And as you level you can add more and more skills / actions to the “use inspiration without using your pool” so, free bonuses.
Abelas would be fine using alchemy (and magic items, for that matter).
He’d probably not become an alchemist himself, but he’d use one, especially given he has some skill in forging documents.
Makes sense with the attitude towards him certainly, which is why he’s currently worried that Abelas will try to shank him with the spear or worse
Basically, the nightmare scenario for Abelas is Dem’nion hulking out in front of people, and rather than people pointing and saying “Evil elf!” it’s people saying “Evil elves”
Abelas will put Dem’nion down himself if it comes to that.
I was actually starting to question if I wanted to continue with Narshak, because I was struggling to flesh him out as a character. Buuuut, I’ve figured out a few things using the ogre encounter as a springboard. I’ll email you and let you know about it once it’s formed.
Might still read through the new stuff in case something catches my eye.
Anyone know the digital price for Diablo III Ultimate Evil edition on Xbone is? Trying to decide if I should download it or just pick it up at JB. If it’s not significantly cheaper to buy digitally I don’t really fancy downloading 26+ gigs, especially since I think I only have about 50 gigs left on my hard drive.
Just checked it, it’s $59.95, so you save 10 bucks.
Cheers. Tempting but I think I’ll just go with the disc to save on the download/waiting/hard drive space.
Hopefully there isn’t a 20 gig day one patch or some shit.
Oh man, Mr. Strange put some money in my bank account for “emergencies” before he left for Sydney. Diablo counts as an emergency, right? 😛
He’s threatening the world, sounds like an emergency to me
My purchase is driven by the emergency situation of not having any couch co-op games. It’s embarassing how stingy games are about letting multiple people share all the room offered by modern HDTVs!
*signs up to dating site*
*deletes profile five minutes later*
*refreshes TAY*
So you’re saying TAY has all the potential partners you need?
And horse porn.
😉 Hey
Upvote is wink/nudge?
Well, that’s a surefire way to not get a date on a dating site. Put yourself out there a bit man!
A good way to meet a potential date/partner is to go out and mingle. Like outside.
Out… side?
Isn’t that where the sun is? I’m afraid we’re not allowed to talk about that place here.
It’s not so bad outside. 😀 It’s also an exceptionally good day when there’s sun!
Min… gle?
Keep your profile up, DC!
If you want to date (which you obviously do, since this isn’t the first time you’ve signed up for a dating site), you should go for it 🙂
There’s no harm, after all 🙂
Wow, that’s gotta be a new record for getting a date: Five minutes on, and already found someone!
\o/
You’re doing better than me anyway. I don’t even get to the point of signing up before dismissing it 😛
Oh hay, Planetarian on Steam in 3 weeks. Visual novel fans probably already know about this but if you don’t, it’s a fairly short VN, very well done, and will probably make you cry. I played it ages ago with a fan translation, looking forward to getting it again. Helps that it has art by a personal favourite artist of mine (Eiji Komatsu).
It sounds like this might be a precursor to test the waters on Steam before they release some of Key’s bigger, more well-known works i.e. Kanon, Air, Clannad.
That’s the sort of thing that has me really considering getting a windows tablet that will run steam. If I’m at home on my gaming rig I would prefer to play something a bit more game like but as a distraction while traveling that could work
Several times I’ve gotten kind of tempted by the Surface 3. The full one, not the shitty RT one.
Got back to Dark Souls 2 last night…
Smelter demon down! I feel all the stories about him being hard must have led to me overestimate him, cos he was no match for my Greatsword (NB: I did have flash sweat up, so that may have helped considerably). Died once to an unexpected explosion, tried again being a bit more cautious, and came out victorious.
Used his souls to buy a level and Throne Defender’s armour, cos my levels are about 23k a piece, and that armour looks freaking badass.
Having renewed my confidence, I went to face Vendrick… man he hits hard. That three hit combo absolutely wrecks. Spent ages getting him down to about 20%, 250 damage per swing, then got caught by that combo. Okay, Vendrick, you live… for now. *shakes fist*
Having had my confidence completely crushed once more, I went off in search of something in Black Gulch, lead by vague instructions from a dragon talon that appeared in my inventory… and found a glowing shrine behind the Rotten’s bonfire, that I’m sure wasn’t there before. Thus began my journey through the DLC.
…where I proceeded to get beaten to a pulp by mouldy knights. Got through them the next time by pulling them in ones and twos, and baiting the archers one at a time. Raised a bunch of platforms, made my way through a maze of passages and ledges… oh, look, other players… wait, I’m offline, and they’re very tall. Let’s avoid them for the time being. Go the other way… oh, I can;t go back. And I’m trapped in here with three poison mouldy knights and a caster or some sort… Note to self: take out as many as you can before you jump into that death pit.
And in all that time, no bonfire, no shortcut (that I could see)… I feel I must be missing something there.
Got through to there, faced the ghosts, and took out the caster from range and lured the knights individually. By this time, my sword’s nearly broken, and still no bonfire. A bit more wandering, and got invaded by the most infuriating NPC in existence. Who proceeded to roast me alive.
Back to the only bonfire. Hmm… let’s try that again. Made my way back to Jester Thomas, and in a long epic battle for control of his Warmth pools, and with having to quickly jump into my inventory to swap to my backup Greatsword, he was vanquished. I stood before the fog door, 50k souls in my pocket… and feathered back to the bonfire, then back to Majula to repair and level a couple of times.
This place is hard.
In regards to Smelter
they nerfed him pretty hard. He used to attack 3 times as often and hit a lot harder. Now he sort of stands there and swings occasionally. Kind of disappointing. First time I beat him felt like a massive victory. Second character came to him post nerf and cruised through.Also, go back to his room for a cool surprise!
I figured I just wasn’t meant to fight him at level 140 with mostly upgraded gear. Sad to hear he got nerfed so hard… Seeing as Lucatiel got buffed, too, I wonder if I could have summoned her and just stayed out of the fight altogether… :/D.C. writes something incoherent about his struggles with OCD.
I know I talk about it a lot and I think this will be the last thing I’ll say about it for a while.
Glad you’re in a good enough head space to at least get this sort of stuff out!
🙂 Thanks man!
Time to kick this illness in the crotch, have a shower, and start playing Skyward Sword!
Hmm. Do I duck over and grab a copy of Diablo 3 on PS4 or not?
Very kind of you, man, but could you pick me up a PS4 console at the same time if you decide to go?
No problem. Send it to the usual address?
I keep forgetting how dangerous a joke that is with you.
WITHDRAWN.
do you pull out on Freeze often? 😛
Oh god, @sernobulus was right… Dick Smith’s. They’ve started sending me invoices. IT BEGINS.
Don’t worry. They’ll send you the box in six months but it will be another three before you actually get the contents.
Ha!
Dick’s box!
Boxes of Dick’s junk.
That’s another one for the flyer.
Dick’s package takes a long time to come?
Your best one was, ‘give your mum the gift of Dick’.
Now I have that SNL music skit stuck in my head (motherlover). Damn it’s catchy… but not appropriate to sing on the bus. People look at you funny.
Step one?
No, the follow-up. ‘Mother Lover.’ Meant to be watched immediately after ‘Dick in a box,’ in the same continuity.
(Edit: Which, in turn, is followed by ‘3-way’ (Golden Rule). The videos are fantastic. The clothes! Unbelievable. And the line, “We are so thoughtful and cool,” damn near cracks me up every time.)
This was all my doing.. muhahahaha! Oops, I mean sorry.
PAX accommodation finally booked! \o/
I was waiting for the in-laws to hurry up and organise annual leave but they bailed today so it will just be the three of us. Three nights at the Vibe Savoy! Fun times ahead – I can’t wait! 😀
The bacon cookies were a hit in the office! They got gobbled in an instant.
I’m going to have to make a triple batch or something for the Can’d Meat now D: I’ll recruit @sernobulus to my production line – bring an apron!
You’ll be bacon all day!
#deliciouspage6
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
#dadjokepagesix #Hi@strangePage 6 already? I guess it’s true what they say: Time flies when you’re throwing clocks.
Well it is just over a week (When I started this) since things went bananas around my head and boy are things looking different around here. Taking the chance while both of them are down to put down some thoughts.
I guess it really started Monday night, we stayed with Mrs Tigs parents so we could get into the hospital first thing and just have that support bubble around us. Queue montage of us sitting in a waiting room for 10 hours. Finally we got down to the birth suite and then the made the decision not to induce as Mrs Tigs was already exhausted due to the early start and the long wait.
So I head home ready for another early start. The only upside of the day is I end ranked #4 in the world for the main Marvel puzzle quest event by the time I get home.
Wednesday was as they say “And so it begins” Induction, labour, the off putting realisation that the midwife that got things started is back to see you again for her next shift. Lots of pain, Epidural not working well, the concern at that, finally getting into a good place pain and emotionally when the need for an emergency cesarean is raised.
Such a strange operation and I was just a witness. The first view of my daughter being literally lifted out of my wife’s stomach over curtain. The excitement of telling my wife that we had a daughter, to the strange and stressful experience of cutting the cord. Most disconcerting of all was having a procedure performed on my wife that reminded me far to much of using a snatch-um strap.
I have to say how amazing all the staff were but particularly our last midwife. She stayed with us from the birth suite, through theatre and helping with the first breast feed. Thank you so much Amy.
The feeling of everything changing, that you have a beautiful life in your hands, I really got when I was in the recovery room. Holding my beautiful girl against my chest, feel her warmth against mine was an indescribable feeling. Slightly more describable was the poo running into my hand. But I was too lovestruck to even care.
Heading up to the ward the day became a constant iteration of midwives and doctors, getting what was needed for Mrs Tigs or Tiglet and introductions to the grandparents. Most of that day was a blur but I remember getting home and being in agony. Awake for 40 hours and most of that spent standing, supporting the weight of another person or bending over beds had taken it’s toll. I posted the news on the varies places and went to bed. As I lay in bed I had the odd feeling of missing my little girl, she had been my only focus for 40 hours and suddenly she wasn’t there. Incredible how quickly I was accustomed to having her around.
I awoke and went straight into hospital. A repeat of the day before, with a different cast of medical professionals. Towards the end of the day it was getting very hard to settle Tiglet, Holding her against my skin she settled down and fell asleep. Best Daddy. I stayed like that for hours, well past the time I should have been kicked out. However she started to cry and needed a feed so I has to pass a crying baby to Mrs Tigs and leave. Worst Husband.
Early the next morning I get a call from Mrs Tigs who hasn’t slept all night and had a screaming baby for most of it. Those 2nd nights are a killer. So I race into the hospital to offer what help and support I can. Tiglet starts to settle soon after I walk in the door. Mrs Tigs looks ready to murder me soon after I walk in the door. Now it is just an attempt to help Mrs Tigs sleep that is near impossible in a shared room of a hospital during the day.
Bringing Tiglet home a few days later was a very proud moment, having the capability, willingness and ability to care for every need of another human being is a powerful thing. The days have been merging together, She is now a week old and it feel much shorter and much longer than that.
We are slowly settling into a routine, growing as parents as we move along. Each day getting better. It made such a difference when we finally got the support we needed and expected from the health services, running blindly through the crack in the system we had fallen into wasn’t great.
Moving from jumping at every little sound she makes, and needing to check her every 2 seconds to being able wait while she cries to see if she is just talking or actually upset.
Some things I have come to learn
– Eat while you can and eat what you can. Don’t try and organise full meals or you will never eat and that is bad
– When you get up in the middle of the night make sure you dress and certainly wear shoes or slippers on floorboards
– If you get a chance to sleep while somebody is around take it
– You don’t need to have the entire house heated all day and all night
– Not everything goes to plan and that is ok. Things can be harder than you thought and if it doesn’t happen right away that is something you work through
– It’s a very emotional time and when things don’t go to plan she may feel that she has failed, be supportive
– Always have another nappy ready immediately when removing one.
– You can’t have too many nicknames (Siphon, Tiglet, Fizz, Gelfling, Fizzy, Princess, Houdini, Froglet, Little frog, Kermit, Little Fraggle, Darling, Munchkin)
– A little leo at full roar drives a splitting pain into the very front of your brain within 15 minutes
– Keeping everybody healthy
– Be wary of converting kg to pounds using an online calculator (There is a big difference between 7.9 pounds and 7 pound 9 ounces)
– Find yourself some maternity (or is that paternity) pants. Comfortable that you can wear all day and move easily in, but that you are happy to meet total strangers in. For me it was a pair of black cotton pants with an elastic waist, no belt required
– Everything takes longer than expected. I’ve finally finished week one recap 2 weeks later
:’)
People will ask why you threw your life away.
You’ll ask what the heck do they mean.
They’ll tell you that now you are restricted and can’t do what you want any more.
To which the answer is I am doing what I want. All I want is to spend time with my children.
At work now and wanting to get home.
It’s an odd thing that logic that they use. The other major one is the “omg children are so expensive, your not going to have any money”. When the net worth of a couple with kids versus a couple without kids as around $13,000 over the 18 years, ummmm sounds like neither case has any money.
I couldn’t find the punchline #DadJokePageSix
:p congrats again to you & Mrs Tigs 😀Well, it was about fatherhood, so maybe we’re supposed to go “Ha! Tigs is a dad!”
Fatherhood was by Bill Cosby. So it must be funny, right?
Well it’s always in the last place you look
Congratulations again to you and Mrs Tig. Emergency ceasars are a bit scary and no fun to recover from but in the end none of it matters as long as baby is out and healthy. I highly recommend getting an extra long pair of bbq tongs to help the missus pick things up from the floor (no really, it works a treat, esp if you need to reach into the washing machine). Also tip, make sure your wife has a drink whenever she does a feed. It’s thirsty work.
There are quite a few mummies and daddies here on TAY – we all remember (vaguely, thanks to the sleep deprivation) how exciting and exhausting those first months are. Newborn cuddles are just the best. <3
Newborn cuddles are great but I think it gets better when they get a little older and can squeeze back
True, although mr 3 nearly strangled me today.
*calls police*
😛
Apparently the first poos are really weird and called the “Dad’s Poo” because it’s usually the father who witnesses the event.
Oh, whoops! Almost forgot, congratulations on ranking 4th!
All baby poo is weird but the early ones certainly. Dad’s poo is the oddest, runny vegemite is the best description of it I heard.
Congrats on the new poop machine!! 😉
Glad To hear you guys are getting into a routine and things are doing good. Cant wait to meet the little one!
CONGRATS (can’t remember if I’ve already said that or not)
Happy reading is good reading.
Best wishes to the three of you.
Hot water lunchbox left on seat while going off to do other stuff = best idea.
How do you know it was the lunchbox? Maybe someone came to sit on your chair when you were out. Maybe farted on it a couple times.
Worst part about my job: spending ages explaining to a customer that what they’re asking isn’t going to work and isn’t possible, they refuse to leave until you do it saying just try. Then they get all shirty and abusive when it turns out that no, it didn’t work.
@greenius: was I ordering some figures for you? Because I haven’t yet. You need to tell me what to get 🙂
All of them. He’s globe trotting Jobius now.
I’ll wait until I receive mine before ordering more. I’ve got my eye on Nendoroid Snake though but I think you said it was easy enough to add to an existing order
Yeah, but at some point they’ll close orders on him.
Suuup playaaas!!??
How are we all doing?
Long time no see/hear/type?!
What’s the good word?!
News for me:
– My little girl, Heidi Jade, is now 3 months old as of today! DAWWW!!!
– I am almost 2 months into my new job and fething loving it. So good to have structure.
– I am having my first proper Bored Games day this saturday, Guest staring our good friend F4ction, and a buncha other people you don’t know. Games on the play list are the likes of Smash Up, Sentinals of the Multiverse, Munchkin, Relic, Zombie Dice, X-Wing and my own mash up of 40K with a 1st person shooter to make a much quicker, less anal table-top fun-fest!
So much excite!
Also, i have been playing the HELL outta Hotline Miami on my Vita – HOLY CRAP HOW AMAZING IS THAT GAME?!
You can’t choose to play Relic and then complain about board games being slow and anal.
I’m not complaining at all – i like it. I just wanted to make it light and less confusing for people. Relic is a cakewalk compared to straight-up 40k. But yes – it will be very very slow. lol
I’ve found some light, filler games tend to make these things go over rather well.
Hanabi and Love Letter are both micro games that you can just bust out and play. Very easy to pick up on.
Qwirkle and Carcassonne are a bit heavier (30min to play instead of 15min) but also very simple. Best of all, they provide the “you bastard, you absolute bastard. I wanted to do that!” factor.
As someone who got Love Letter recently, a thousand times this.
Also, Hanabi is the bomb.
I find that that doesn’t happen with Carcassonne unless you’re playing with a few expansions as well, so that there’s a lot more city tiles and more reason to try and build big cities and then sneak your dudes in and take over other people’s building works.
Inns and Cathedrals (which is basically mandatory) definitely helps with the bastardry but you can still pull off acts of dickishness with the base game.
You sort of can, but the game doesn’t last long enough and there’s not enough city tiles that you get the sheer asshole moment where you sneak in the Big Meeple on your mate’s 30-tile city and take the game away from them.
EDIT: Or you’re on the verge of doing it and they pull the tile known at my office as ‘The Anus’ – unconnected city bits on each edge, grass field in the middle.
Not as amazing as Spelunky. It’s the game the Vita was made for!
I’m two days into working at a games company, I said hi to Bajo on the way to work this morning, and I should have a PS4 waiting for me when I get home tonight. So things are pretty good round this way too.
Good to hear life is treating you well.
Also, I’m not saying you should keep an eye on TAY later tonight, but there will be a recording going up where a bunch of us are playing 40K Rogue Trader RPG. @f4ction says he’s going to shoot someone real good. 😛
Yeah @chuloopa you really should try to watch these, it’s so cringeworthy and hilarious with our team composition I think you of most people will get a major laugh out of it
OMG there is hope. Someday my life might not revolve exclusively around work, feeds sleep and dirty nappies.
You are an inspiration Loops
LOOPS!
As part of my super manliness whatever, I have started watching Cardcaptor Sakura. It’s a pretty cool guy. I love that she has lots of different costumes, because I know that if I were a magical girl, I would want a different costume every time I transformed.
Blizzard also sent me an email, saying “congrats, you now own Mists of Pandaria.” So I’ve started downloading WoW again, because I hate myself so very, very much.
Edit: Oh, and I downloaded the Kim Kardashian game, and I am now playing as the starlet diva “Khastity” because it was the stupidest “K” name I could think of in five seconds.
Man, if you wanted a stupid name you should have gone with K’Sean. 😛
Ouch, right in the feels.
Shoulda gone with Khlamydia Kardashian 😛
Also, f*** Willow Pape >:(
random observation : whenever I see someone write the word f***, I get the overwhelming urge to reply with *fuck
Ah, it’s just cause I don’t (or try not to, at least) say “f***”.
That translates to not typing out the word either 😛
I’ll use it occasionally, but not often.
But Sean, we’re not allowed to swear here!
That’s against the fucking rules!
And @liondrive, since you seem opposed to swearing (or at least saying fuck), I recommend creating elaborate insults to get your point across. It’s far more fun to call someone a pointy-nosed faecal smelling trollop than it is to just call them a bitch.
Or to say that you wish Willow Pape would go digest the rotting carcass of a Mara.
Brain donor or waste of good carbon are two of my favourites
I’m not opposed to swearing, at all.
I just don’t use the ‘f’ or ‘c’ words is all 😛
I do get creative with insults, but I have an image I’m trying to maintain around here, so you won’t hear any of them from me 😛
Son of a festering leprous mule.
Only, I now recall that mules are pretty much infertile. So, shut up.
Cardcaptor Sakura is one of the best anime of the 90s and also one of the best (and most subversive) magical girl anime ever as well.
I just got the Bluray release last week \o/ Second time I’ve purchased the whole thing, since I also own all the old Pioneer DVD releases.
I like… want to watch Cardcaptor Sakura because I feel like with the butchered “Cardcaptors” release that was on Cartoon Network/Adult Swim all those years ago I only got about half the story, but I also feel like it’s not so important that I need to watch a show which is at least 25% about a ten year old girl playing dressups.
I’m pretty sure that the Cardcraptors that we got in AU was the ‘international’ version which, while cut a bit and heavily localized, wasn’t cut to pieces like the US broadcast (which cut dozens of episodes, made it seem like Shaoran was the protagonist and basically missed the entire point).
Also it’s not a show about a girl playing dressups, that sort of just happens because her lesbian best friend likes to force her to dress up. It actually cleverly subverts a lot of the usual magical girl tropes too. There’s no transformation sequences, she doesn’t have an ‘i win’ ability that she busts out each time, capturing each card requires her to use the abilities she’s learned and often (at least in the non-filler stuff) requires her to grow as a person or discover something new about herself in order to acquire them. There’s no dark evil entity she’s actively trying to work against, even when there is an obvious antagonist he’s not a bad guy by any stretch. It also has some subject matter that’s pretty atypical for the audience it’s targeted at.
Plus it’s incredibly well animated with about as massive a budget as traditionally-animated TV anime ever got so it looks stunning and will easily give most modern stuff a run for its money in terms of how it looks.
I spent the first episode wondering who was voicing Yukito.
Now that I know he’s Shinji from Eva (Or I guess, she is if we’re talking about the VA?), I can’t stop imagining him whingeing a whole bunch before piloting a mech and screwing everything up for everyone three times over.
Megumi Ogata’s been in a lot more stuff but that particular performance always tends to color her work a bit.
DO YOU WANT THE ENTIRE 2 SEASONS ON DVD? I HAVE IT AND DON’T WANT IT.
I also have a Kero plushie if you;’re interested
Well Twitter just sent me on a magical journey of discovery, showing me what all the Disney Prince’s dicks would look like and explaining why.
Thanks?
Which was your favourite?
Gaston being tiny and completely shaved while taking a selfie in the mirror with a puffed up chest and duck face made me giggle.
But I thought every last inch of him was covered with hair.
Not that last inch.
…link? 🙂
jezebel.com/disney-dudes-dicks-what-your-favorite-princes-look-lik-1621694437
Man, my internet history…. I’ll have Abbott’s Data Police banging on my door within a week of it being implemented.
This week is porno week on TAY.
Well, that was certainly an article that I just read.
Thanks?
You follow much different people then I do on twitter. =P
It was @jimu.
Of course it was.
Was a RT of Phil jimenez, the gay penciller of Wonder Woman!
I guess I know what @jimu is googling during his alone time.
I only could look just now, they are some awesome dicks!
@freezespreston
Bahahahaha
1) This is why we can’t have nice things.
2) Well god dammit, now I’m fighting off curiosity.
The more you fight the stronger it gets.
There’s some awesome boners.
Aladdin has a full-on bush!
Going back through my small sketchbook actually makes me feel proud of my drawings.
Oh hey. Controversial food opinions, one that somehow didn’t come up in all the everything that was going on.
Black jellybeans are the best and anyone who disagrees is wrong.
If hating black jelly beans is wrong, I don’t wanna be right!
Good thing then. Because you’re not.
Black jellybeans are disgusting and I now think even less of you than I did before.
The only thing worse are those “chocolate” flavoured jelly babies.
Chicos?
You are the worst Ben.
I agree with you on this. That makes me think that maybe I should start listening to you about those doughnut things…
I just finished a bag of assorted liquorice lollies.
Black Jellybeans are so, so good.
I always knew you were a man of distinguished tastes.
The second I worked out it was you dressed as Manny Calavera, I knew you were too.
…
http://37.media.tumblr.com/b0d2887859964255f6da3d9fa06e45a4/tumblr_n8hxe6KYjU1rk54eco1_500.gif
Edit: Warning: Check surroundings before clicking >.>
Jesus christ, warn me before I click on something like that at work.
ILYSuperior sees Red’s screen. Suddenly his desk is moving closer to superior’s and his pay goes up with more fringe benefits.
Hah, given I’m working out that last 14 days of my contract that’d be a hell of a turnaround.
Superior sees Red.
Absinth also 🙂
The truth shouldn’t be controversial.
Black as in licorice, or blackcurrant?
Actually, I like both. But for some reason, i need a chaser after licorice. lol
Blackcurrant is the devil’s flavour.
Like, if you took a bite of the devil he’d taste like blackcurrant? o.O
Sure.
Black is the blurst.
YOU are wrong, Lord of Tacos. You are WRONG.
Cutomer: Can I get this keyring and get it engraved with “Mummies”?
Myself: Sure, just quickly, did you want Mummies as in plural or Mummy’s as a possessive?
Customer: *blank stare*
Myself: Uh, that is to say, did you mean a group of mothers or that it belongs to you?
Customer: Oh it’s mine.
Myself: Okay then. So you would want Mummy’s.
Customer: Ummm, no. I think Mummies looks better. I’ll go with that.
Maybe it’s for the key to her tomb.
Face, meet palm.
You’re obviously way, way too good at grammar to be in your current job.
It’s just the people who inhabit the area around here are a little more dense than normal..
You need to share your stories on http://www.notalwaysright.com
/picard
Tonsilitis is the pits… After pushing through 2 and a half days of nurofen shrouded hot-steel-rod-passing-through-my-neck-every-time-I-swallowed pain I finally went to the Doc on Sunday who took 5 minutes and $95 of my money to say you’ve got tonsilitis and you got it bad. :'(
Couldn’t even spend the rest of the day feeling sorry for myself as I went to see Soweto Gospel Choir… can’t help but smile and want to boogey in your seat to their music.
Stayed home yesterday to recover and got through a fair chunk of Tomb Raider (PS3 – it’s been looking pretty on a shelf for a while alright?!) and was chuckling at some of the horrendous ways Lara can die in the QTEs… Thinking I’m close to finished (just finished the Endurance Wreck to get some tools?) and now starting to debate if I should go back and get all the extra’s? I’ve been doing a fair bit of exploring as I go already…
Annnddd… now to finish off the last hour of the work day!
Damn dood. Sounds rather horrid. I had tonsilitis when I was 2, so lucky for me, I don’t remember a thing about it, and from what I’ve been told, I’m glad I don’t!!
Welcome to plastic surgery addicts anonymous! I’m seeing a lot of new faces today and I just have to say I’m really disappointed.
Heh.
hehe that’s pretty funneh!
@popdart5: decided that since basically every idea I come up with for Pathfinder is deemed stupid, unworkable or gets shut down in the end anyway, I’ll just stick with what I have. None of the ACG additions really fit as something I can switch to without wanting a reroll, none of the concepts they have in there really stand out as something I’m interested in rerolling to play. I actually wouldn’t mind a change since I don’t think the character I have fits the sort of campaign we’re doing at all, but I’ve really got no idea what I want to do instead. :\
Pick the stupidest idea you can think of, sit back and enjoy the unfolding disaster.
I’ve only ruled out one option that you’ve thrown at me because I could not see that character (the high-pitched, energetic healer) being workable in the current game. If you think of anything that you might want to play, just buzz me and we can work something out.
I meant that I shoot down my own ideas. 🙁 That particular one was pretty much a joke and not a serious suggestion.
Have nothing ideas-wise I’m really interested in playing that fits with the current group.
Saw this on another website, but a Tuesday arvo question: Which film, once it’s on, can you not channel flick away from?
I’ll sit and watch O Brother, Where Art Thou? every time.
Good question.
I’m gonna go with my guy and say Little Nicky.
Edit: *gut
Back to the future… Any Leslie Nielsen movie… Yep that’ll do!
*nods*
The Naked Gun was on on Sunday night.
My gods, the scene where he tries to pay for information gets me every time
The Green Mile. It’s so damn long though so I sometimes avoid it when I see it on TV, cause I know once I start I’ll have to buckle in for three hours. Must be something about Darabont, I feel compelled to watch The Mist too whenever it’s on.
The worst part of The Mist was that I’d heard so much hype around its ending that I predicted all of it, which ruined some of the fun.
the worst thing about the Mist is that it is awful.
the best thing about the Mist is Thomas Jane.
True Lies.
Oh, this. So much this.
Any of the Lord of the Rings films.
Beverly Hills Cop. The music is just amazing.
There’s a few others, like Pulp Fiction and any Stanley Kubrick movie.
Untouchables.
I am entranced by that film each and every time I see it.
Also, anything Indiana Jones, Star Wars or Back to the Future.
Celtic rock/folk metal is amazing, seriously. Whistles and violins and shit work so well with the rest of the instruments! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AawUSC6hGY
Just a reminder there’s a lunch tomorrow (Wednesday) for any one who can make it.
@freya and @trjn are in town. Midday at Post Office Square, Brisbane!
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot
YOU DARE TO MENTION MOI!
Thanks
YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!
I should be there though. I even got a haircut today for the occasion. @freya and @trjn better appreciate it!
And then we shall be exploring the various board games and tea shops of Brisbane.
Which, as far as I can tell, are along Queen St and in Spring Hill.
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF KOTAKU
7pm sa time?
@jocon @bdkiaf @evilmonkey @others
Are there many paywalls? I always sorta avoided it because I thought I’d be too gimped if I didn’t pay.
Dunno, @bdkiaf?
I’m about to load it up now to get the hang of it again, but from memory it limits your inventory and character slots. You can still do everything.
I know it’s free to play, but there is DLC, dunno how much that effects it though. Be good if you joined in too, everyone’s welcome.
Me and @phlanispo are also keen on getting together a squad for PC too for anyone that’s interested.
We can form a villain team if you want.
Sweet! Heroes on Playstation, and Villains on PC, that could work. Got Thursday and Friday off, so I might start downloading it tomorrow, so I’m ready to go on Thursday.
I’ve already created a character idea. The motif for our villains could be pathetic people attempting to act like gang members.
Character idea
A bunch of the powers are “DLC” at least.
Here’s a pretty detailed breakdown of how the F2P model works.
It’s fairly forgiving. A few of the power sets are tied to the DLC packs but there’s still a lot to choose from. The most notable is Red, Yellow and Green Lantern hard light powers, which happen to be both desirable themes for DC fans and fun/different playstyles. Bases/lairs have a free version, but they’re pretty lame if you don’t have the ‘Home Turf’ DLC. Although League Halls (guild houses) are obtainable as free to play but it’s a bit of a grind to get one.The big thing in the DLC packs is new content beyond the level cap. The classic content is all free so there’s plenty of stuff to do at level cap, but ultimately you’ll want to spend moneypretty soon after you’ve reached T2. If you’re all playing together and not paying it shouldn’t be a huge issue. You can keep going to about T5 I think without paying but it’s not as fun without access to all the alerts and raids (T6 is the current tier, and I think it’s all tied to the Amazon Fury and Halls of Power DLC packs).
If you spend $10 you get an upgraded account. The upgrade doesn’t give you much but it still recognises that you’re no longer a free to play player and relaxes the restrictions a little. From there you can either buy the DLC as you need it or just subscribe. Personally I recommend subscribing, at least until you make it to the current tier of content. It’s better value for money than buying ten DLC packs then zooming through 8-9 of them, and when you unsubscribe you revert to an upgraded free account and keep any of the DLC content you were using (ie, if you make a Hard Light character then unsubscribe you can keep playing that character for free).
Subscribing turns off pretty much all the paywalls and turns it back into a regular subscription MMO. You get access to all the DLC packs and pretty much all restrictions removed. There are a few things like Replay Tokens (they unlock content to get around daily, weekly, monthly lockouts normal MMORPGs have) and Power/Movement Type/Name Change Tokens, as well as some style packs, base themes, etc that you can buy on the marketplace but it’s nothing you can’t live without (except maybe the inventory slot expansions). Just don’t buy the keys to the orange lockboxes. It’s cheaper to gather a heap and just subscribe for a month (plus the content isn’t that great).
The big problem with the microtransactions is that the game has been through some rough times so there’s a little bit of legacy gouging. They were pretty desperate when Hand of Fate and Home Turf were released so both of them are sort of required if you want to play seriously even though they don’t have great content. There are a few styles that would have been better as in-game drops that are paid content. Most of the stuff is accountwide (buy a style or inventory expansion, get it on all characters, past present and future) but there are a few things that are one off items that should be accountwide.
As far as F2P models go it’s not the best but it’s not the worst. It’s pretty much a long, detailed demo that counts on you enjoying the game enough to subscribe.
**Important Note; This is all for the PC version. I’m not 100% sure how the Playstation side works. I think it’s pretty much the same but I could be off.
thanks, that was very informative, sounds like there is plenty to do without paying and if I enjoy it I’d be happy to throw a few bucks at it.
Aight. Hit me on twitter when you’re jumping on.
Not sure when I’ll be able to get on, it’s downloaded, but I don’t know when I’m gonna get access to the TV, worst comes to worst, I might have to move the PS3 to the spare room I s’pose. I might be half an hour or so late, but I’ll do my best.
Also, won’t have a mic this time, trying to hunt down cables, hopefully will have found it by next session.
Oh. Apparently I have a 9GB update. Hm. Will jump on when I can, if ever.
We going Hero yeah?
Created an Ice Tank.
Went Martial Arts as a weapon too, no idea if it is any good.
Yep yep
I haven’t done chargen, will jump on now
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @hindenlagen @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks
Free Thursday night? Maybe do stuff?
Put me down as a strong maybe.
I’ll get the day off work, but I’m still not feeling the best :S
I’m on the mend though, so should hopefully be right by Thursday 🙂
Thursday is definitely the best day for me. We need to figure out what we are doing though. Powalen! Plan stuff for us!
I’ve got some stuff on in the city until about 1830-1900, but should be free after that.
I’d be up for grabbing food.
Ooh, someone else who uses 24-hour time?
Can I let you know tomorrow? I don’t think I’ve got anything on, but you never know.
You didn’t let me know :'(
Doesn’t look like we have much numbers so maybe not, but I’ll check again tomorrow night. I don’t want to do stuff too late though since I have to wait up early for work.
I think I may have just made the worst spaghetti bolognese of all time
No, no trust me, you didn’t.
Having had the “Spaghetti Bolognese” as put together by the Ramin sisters, I am now aware that there is always worse cooking in the world.
@redartifice
How do you team up with people?
The only thing I can see is the League tab that requires a paid membership.
Not sure- I’m in the gotham city hub atm
Oh I see, where you start depends on who you pick as your mentor.
I’m at Metropolis.
I’ll create a new toon with Batman to end up at Gothham, maybe tag peeps and tell them the same
@gutsoup, @bdkiaf, @freezespreston
I think you can go to metropolis via the watchtower?
Don’t know what that us but I’ll look.
Think I’m gonna move the PS3 to the spare room, otherwise it’ll probably be another hour to an hour and a half before I get access to the TV. Give me about 10 minutes and I should be on. If I have problems finding you guys or whatever I’ll hit you up on the twitters.
Is this PC we are talking about now?
Nah PS3
You can join my PC group I’m making if anyone else expresses interest.
I said it on twitter, but I’ll say it again here for those who don’t twitter.
Thanks for the birthday wishes yesterday 🙂
I’m sorry for being such a huge downer for the past couple of days too, particularly yesterday.
That’s why I tried to stay away, and didn’t advertise that it was my birthday.
Didn’t mean to dampen anyone’s mood (if I did).
So yeah, I appreciate the birthday wishes, yesterday just wasn’t good for me was all 😛
Sorry to hear that man, hope your feeling better today. Never forget, you’re awesome, you’re ALL awesome.
My mood was thoroughly dampened, it’s t-shirt got soaked and now you can see it’s nipples!
I can’t tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
Wet T-Shirts are ALWAYS a good thing.
My housemates have decided a Halloween party will take place at my house this year (again). Brisbane people, if you’re keen, 25th October. Drinking and karaoke and..not much else really 😛 fair warning for anyone who might be interested; last year I wore a mankini. I like to think it was a hit
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @dc
…pictures please 🙂
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153476039545347&l=3c3fd289c3
Don’t say I didn’t warn you
This was the year before (I think being Tarzan). You might notice a running theme in my ‘costumes’
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154267200375347&l=fd0409af2d
Porno week continued :O
I was not ready for that.
I was interested until I saw “mankini”. Not because you were wearing it, I just think they’re too silly. I wouldn’t even want to see the likes of Tom Hiddleston in a mankini. 😛
My mankini has been retired except for possible excursions to the beach. It’s not like my Sith robes that I’ve managed to recycle in different costumes for 3/4 years 😀
I see how it is D=
I think he copied and pasted the tags for Trjn/Freya meet which I removed you from cause you said you can’t make it. @dkzeitgeist too.
but that was the easiest way I could think of tagging people. I’m a sucker for laziness 😀 apologies @virus__ & @dkzeitgeist invitations extended
Oooooo I do love a good Halloween shindiggery.
Put me down as a maybe.
Are there rules RE: costume?
as long as you have a costume then that’s all good. I’m sure there’ll be some form of penalty to pay if you don’t appear dressed up
Oh well fair enough then 😛
Sounds like fun to me. 🙂
I gotta do the Halloween thing with the boy this year, sorry 🙂
So today I had confirmation about something I had long suspected: I am terrible at asking women out on dates. Now to spend the rest of the week berating myself before trying to hype myself up to try again next tuesday and do it properly this time.
You can do it man! Fake it till you make it!
Almost everyone is terrible at asking people out on dates. Here’s a tip though, if a person is interested in you at all, it won’t really matter how you ask, just that you ask. They may even find your nervousness endearing. If your problem is getting the nerve to actually do the asking, and not the manner of asking, it’s easier if you pretend to yourself that you’re just talking to someone you’re not attracted to. I still get tongue-tied around people I find extremely attractive. 😛
This explains why nobody has gone out with me.
Probably one of the cooler asking situations, I sort of stammered and stalled and bumbled along with, “So I was wondering if you wanted to, uh… I mean, if you weren’t busy, and y’know of course if you wanted to, maybe uh…”
“Dinner? Love to. Pick me up at 7.”
“…”
I don’t think you can rely on it as a rule, but it proves that ‘endearingly awkward’ is totally a valid card in the deck.
Even more valid when it’s the only card in the deck 😛
http://i.imgur.com/664Jbz1.jpg
Print out and wordlessly hand to her. Dating made easy.
Oh that’s gold, GOLD! I’m totally stealing that. Yeah, I know I’m married, I can give it to my wife. I’m 100% positive that it’ll work*
*not really.
Service charge of $3.75
Valentine’s Day, too. So romantic.
Have you considered not standing on dates while you ask women out? The sureness of footing might help your confidence and not having sticky shoes has to be a plus.
For anybody who has a vague interest in competitive Pokemon, this video from the World Championships is just great:
He uses a Pachirisu (which, for those who don’t know, is a Pokemon that is basically bottom of the barrel. You never see something like that used at the top levels). Turns out it can still be pretty useful!
I’m still opposed to using Legendaries and Pseudo-Legendaries in tournaments :S
It doesn’t seem, sporting.
That Pachirisu was pretty impressive though.
Speaking of pokemon, have you picked your gym team yet?
Double speaking of pokemon, I was gonna start another Pokemon X run, so was wondering if anybody wanted my valuable pokemon from my current save file.
If no one wants them I’ll just mystery gift them away 🙂
I have chosen my team, but I’m not telling anybody what’s in it ;D
Six Metapods!
Pow knows the meta-game.
He’ll be a harden trainer to beat.
Go Pikachu! *throws Metapod*
Man, Pokemon is just the slowest game in the known universe.
Man, fuck Pachirisu. Little bastard took me forever to hunt down.
Hey ladies and gents, vote for my daughter if you think she is just awesome 🙂
https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/practical-parenting/cover-cutie/458/
Wow, nepotism or what…
*places all 10 votes*
Shameless child promotion I know 🙂
I was only kidding 😛
I saw what the prize was after I voted.
Dude, post that link every night to remind me, cause I’ll definitely keep voting for you! 😀
Oh, and cute kid by the way 🙂
Wat.
Such a cutie!
So, @bdkiaf, is flight really the only fun movement style in DC Universe Online? I’m in character creation now.
Argh, I alt+tabbed to post this comment, and I was disconnected! I hope character creation stuff is saved.
SERVER MAINTENANCE NOOOO
My character I was making wasn’t saved…
Oh. Um. Yes. Not that it matters so much now I guess.
Basically, flight is the best because you have completely free movement. Acrobatics and speed are both painful to get around the open world with. I suppose it’s a matter of personal preference, but everyone I used to play with preferred flight.
I don’t know how much has changed since launch, but I found flight to be the least fun but the most useful, super speed was the middle ground and acrobatics or whatever was the most fun but the least useful.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/08/the-tricks-used-by-anti-science-trolls/
Dem comments….
Why did I do it?
Why, Freeze? WHY?!
The final boss of Divinity Original Sin can fuck right off.
Just Sayin’
I’m only up to beating Arhu’s robot in the cave. How far in am I?
Given that was where I was up to prior to my save corrupting, I’m going to say “a moderate amount.”
about half way through act 1…
Edit: it’s taken me 85 hours to get to where i am :/
o.O
Holy shit! Now that’s what I call value for money.
I’ve thought that about several bosses in the game so far. Is this one immune to everything too?
mild-medium level spoilers for the last boss.
nah, the boss has got a tonne of HP & a really high defense rating, so i’ve only got a 5-20% chance of landing a hit, but it takes damage from pretty much anything.i’m withstanding the damage it puts out well enough, but the problem is that it summons a whole bunch of jerks who – each turn without fail – blind, knock down & stun all my characters.
if it was only that, i’d eventually get through it (it’d take forever, but it’d be doable), but you’ve also gotta baybysit an essential NPC. & if they die, its game over.
so yeah…. that last point is whats getting me. every. fucking. time.
Could you buy loads of featherfall scrolls & dedicate a party member to teleporting the quest critical NPC out of harms way each turn?
dont think that’d work. blind mages cant use teleport. they’ve gotta be standing right on top of the target for them to be targetable. & then they can only land somewhere within sight. & when you’ve been blinded, your sight range is only 1m.
method so far has been have 2 summons tank for / defend the NPC while my other tank draws the main bosses aggro. mages heal everyone / debuff when they can & my only real damage dealer is the ranger…
worst part is that this fight is taking 40 mins at a time. get the boss down to ~30% health, then the NPC dies. gotta restart. 40 mins later, same thing… repeat ad nauseum.
I know I’ve seen hats that give immunity to blindness, assuming you can get out of the current location and shop around, it might be worth looking for one (assuming you’ve not already done so). I’ve just re-read the bit about restarting & doing the fight 40 minutes at a time, are you not saving during the fight? I’ve taken to running a pair of Risk-Saves that I use whenever I’m in a fight that’s going kind of okay but is still sort of tenuous, if I’ve gotten a fair way into a boss fight and have done a good chunk of damage and not lost anyone even if I’ve taken a fair bit of damage myself, that’d be when I save. It’s just in case the enemy pulls some bullshit instakill thing like just deciding they can create lava right where you’re standing or create ice that makes you slip over for 3 rounds (seriously, 3 whole rounds?? Do you knock yourself out?) despite the fact you didn’t even move.
It’s kind of odd that there seems to be a few gaps in the spells in the game, you’d think they’d have things that give immunity to blindness and such rather than just the stuff like the doctor scrolls (I think it is) that cure it. That’d get the job done but by the sound of things you’d spend a lot of AP at the start of each characters turn just removing the debuffs they got last turn. Also mass healing spells, I’m only level 13 at the moment but I’ve not seen anything that looks like a group heal. In fact, aside from the extremely high level things that look like the unlock around level 18, I’ve not seen much in the way of AOE spells at all aside from Rain & Fireball, stuff Firefly and Ice Wall might count in a way but they feel like a different category.
The immunity spells also highlight the weakness of the lack of a pause & order option, during one of the major boss fights in act 1 where the boss summons 3 minions and 2 out of the 4 enemies in the fight have a strong emphasis on fire attacks, I naturally tried to pop up some fire resistance and used scrolls to do it but by the time I swapped between all 4 characters, used the scrolls and targeted the character to apply the spell, the first character’s resistance had already run out since it really only lasts 10 seconds or so. If I could have paused & issued the orders to everyone and then unpaused they’d have read the scrolls simultaneously, been protected and I’d have confidently strode into the fight and gotten my arse kicked, thought “okay this is bullshit” and come back when I’d gone up a level and had better gear like I ended up doing anyway.
I have a vague memory of an old isometric Amiga RPG where magic was rune based and you could actually custom build spells as you liked so you could make one that was comprised of a ranged rune, a blast rune, a heal rune & a fire rune, the spell would be a bolt that flew to the target, the point of impact was healed but the area around it was hit with a fire attack. Something like that would be awesome in a game with the magical complexity that Divinity has.
gonna try a new strategy tonight.
the boss has 10 body building & Willpower (that equals 100% resist to status effects) so I never tried debuffing it. But I remembered I’ve got Drain Willpower & SoulSap spells. hit both of them & its resistance to status effects drops to 50%. Soulsap -> Knockdown Arrow (knockdown = 100% chance to hit) -> Oath of Desecration (+50% damage) -> go to town on it -> repeat.
should be doable.
DCU Online Character Backstory – Horace Huxley
The Huxley family was a sorcerer family living in Salem, Massachusetts. The Salem Witch trials were a bit of a bother for the family, so they relocated to a nearby cave. The family continued to live there up until 1991, when the cave was bulldozed to make way for a Wal-Mart. The youngest child, Horace, was the only one to survive the bulldozing.
With his family dead and his home destroyed, Horace tried to integrate himself into society, and stopped practicing magic. Society rejected him, so he turned to gangs. Horace was bad at gangs, but avoided getting himself killed. His gang, the 32nd Street Newts, let him stick around for sheer entertainment value. Horace has sported the corn rows hairstyle since the family cave was destroyed in the hopes of winning the admiration of his gang members.
For one fateful day in 2003, corn rows were in fashion. The 32nd Street Newts gang finally respected him. Horace felt truly accepted. It was the happiest period of his life. Then the fad ended and Horace’s gang members stopped respecting him, Horace became sad. Horace renounced all affiliation with his gang, and moved to Gotham to start a new one. This time, he would use his sorcery to get his way. He got a few teenagers and a man going through a midlife crisis to join his gang. Horace finally had a chance to prove himself. Horace was special.
Then Lex Luthor gave the entire population on planet Earth super powers in the intro cutscene. Poor, poor Horace.
Can anyone think of a name for this character? It has to sound like a boardroom director’s interpretation of ‘cool.’
I’m thinking ‘The Huxster.’
EDIT: Chose Hux as my supervillain name.
EDIT EDIT: Hux is taken! I’ll just go with Horace Huxley, it’s just easier.
‘Hux’.
Short and sweet.
Interesting.
What about Big Hux, to make it more wannabe-ganglinke? Or Da Hux. Or maybe I’ll just call him Horace Huxley. He’ll be one of those villains who uses their real name.
I went with Hux in the end. Thanks!
EDIT: Phlanispo, check to see whether the name is taken first before you comment.
Hang on, what about the Horace Heresy?
My hero is Professor Laceration.
He’s a dude who cuts things. He’s also a professor.
He has a natty moustache
Sounds like a Doctor Horrible character.
Which is a very good thing.
He’s a good guy too!
His battle cry:
WANT SOME LACERATIONS?
Do you have an imagination or what.
My hero’s called Strongarm Jenkins, he smashes things up real good.
All things considered, I thing I could have done better with the backstory. I’ve definitely crafted better backstories, like the Boethiah’s Miinvu thing I created months ago and can’t be bothered finding a link for.
When you say you’ve created a character, have you gone through character customisation? We all need to select the same evil mentor or we’ll have different starting areas.
No, this is on PS3, haven’t even downloaded it on PC yet.
Been listening to Awesome Mix Vol. 1 for the past couple of hours.
Ladies and gentlemen, come and get your love.
Ooh child things are gonna get easier (8)
Song has been stuck in my head for 24 hours since watching it last night. Best soundtrack in a long time.
OOGA CHAKA OOGA OOGA
So… I started playing Civ V again… and I have no idea what is going on… :\
Pointy sticks take down tank
DC Universe Online PC people (@evilmonkey, maybe @tigerion but he probably doesn’t have the time)
What starting area do you want? The mentor determines your starting area. Lex Luthor is Metropolis, Joker is Gotham, Circe is somewhere else.
(also Steam says @zetrox2k plays this game)
Whatever you want man, but I’ve never really gotten into Superman, always loved Joker though.
Not even sure if I can run it yet, I’ll start it downloading tomorrow, and let you know how I go.
Also, @transientmind
Joker it is then!
So who besides @beardymcmuttonchops, and @kermitron picked up or is planning on picking up Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition? What platform? I’m thinking about getting it, but I might order it from JB (they seem to be the cheapest. This’ll be my first foray into Diablo (got the Diablo II Battlechest earlier this year, but never actually installed it).
Picked it up on PS4 today.
I was gonna pick it up eventually for PS4, probably in a week or two though.
I was looking for a majority to determine what platform I pick it up for, so far it looks like I’ll be getting it on PS4.
Picked it up on PS4 this arvo.
Have beaten base game on 360, played a bit on PC.
I’ll be grabbing it on PS4. But I don’t play with people, they’re scary. 😛
Good thing I’m a monkey then :p
In my experience D3 in multiplayer has some hefty cons compared to single-player.
Pro:
* Same as single-player, but with a friend to chatter with to liven up the tedium of running three seconds to the next 1.5-2 second fight.
Cons:
* One player will invariable spend more time comparing gear stats and considering their next upgrade while the other twiddles their thumbs.
* Single-player was easy enough, adding a second player usually results in laughably overpowered fights which result in each player setting off miniature tactical nuclear magic in a bid to get a fucking kill in, which mostly means everything dies off-screen and the bulk of your time is spent running around to see what loot you’ve missed in the process of vaporizing enemies you can’t even see yet.
Worth upping the difficulty a notch or 2 then?
Indeed. Mind you, last time I played multiplayer, you COULDN’T knock the difficulty up a notch without slogging through THE ENTIRE GAME on the boring difficulties. I’m guessing they changed that. I remember some options to choose a ‘hard’ mode when I single-playered the expansion, but it was still walk-in-the-park mode as far as I could tell. I couldn’t convince my brother to pick up the expansion.
Because seriously, I tried playing that with my brother like… maybe six months after launch and we were fall-asleep bored with our godlike invincibility.
We probably could have made things harder for ourselves by not buying best-in-slot-at-level gear for approximately three mob-kills worth of gold on the broken-ass AH because the last time we’d picked up an actual, legitimate class-appropriate upgrade was sometime around level 10. (Fuck loot table to force people to use AH/trade, to justify your always-online quasi-MMO. Wonder why everyone buys gear off AH instead of wearing shittier stuff they find. Good one.)
Heh well no chance of using the shitty auction house now… At least the difficulty level is changeable on the fly so I guess if it gets too easy it can be cranked up a notch until it gets too hard
Playing multi in Diablo is really quite good. Bumping up the difficulty to Expert gives you 150% boost in xp and gold find. Which is really quite helpful. Plus, some Elites will give you hell solo.
It’s SO GOOD.
I’ll probably get it in a few weeks for ps4
I already have it on PC so I guess I’ll be all alone.
It’s okay though as Path of Exile just released a content update so I’m not actively playing D3 at the moment.
For the record I have it on Xbone. Lucky I hardly play online since I wouldn’t have any TAYbies to play it with anyway. 🙁
What’s so good about this new expansion?
Quick question, does the PS4 play NTSC (US) discs like the PS3 does? Reason being, I’m thinking about ordering the Disney Infinity 2.0 Collector’s Edition, tried to order it from EB, but they told me they were sold out, the Gamestop site however still has them for sale, and I should be able to pay for it and get it shipped for less than EB were charging.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-06-12-ps4-confirmed-to-be-region-free
Will have to make a US account and muck around with US PSN cards to purchase any DLC however.
Thought it was, just wanted to make sure. Now that I know though, I don’t know if I can be arsed with it. It appears that it’s not retailer specific in the US, just found it on Amazon too. Fuck EB Games and their retailer exclusives, fuck them so hard. Fuck it, I’ma order it from Amazon.
Oo I do sincerely wish you could see the +/- 1s on mobile.
AGH WHO ARE YOU
I have since figured if I request the desktop site it works.
Carry on.
Boo, taking all the fun out of it. 🙂
That’s me. THE FUN STEALER.
40K Rogue Trader RPG Completed again (with no deaths).
Watch it here.
GM Summary: A lot of things exploded. A lot.
@freezespreston @tech_knight @rize @sernobulus @pupp3tmast3r @f4ction
Boom! *followed by several more progressively bigger booms*
No 40k story is complete without explosions.
Also, I get the shit kicked out of me repeatedly
For the Greater Good! I mean… yeah…
Well that’s how it looked to you, to me it was “The guy with the most damaging weapon either missed or jammed his gun (Even with a reroll it jammed!) until they were right on top of us and I could hit them point blank” no chance of that missing! 😛
So, apparently Steam has a small mode…
Let the penis jokes commence!
I think that service is a bit limp
Played the starting areas to DC Universe Online, just to get a scope of the game. Combat can be a bit of a slog. However, the ability to create guilds/groups may be a subscriber exclusive thing. Hope I’m wrong.
Also, here’s the legendary Horace Huxley
You can make groups, ad hoc. Pay money for leagues, which are proper guilds
Oh cool. In truth though, I don’t know if going through with a PC group is a good idea. Pretty much everybody wants to play on console, and I don’t know if I’m really enjoying my time with the game.
@evilmonkey, just play on console, there’s no reason to divide the community.
But it was your idea to play it to begin with, doesn’t seem fair to cut you out just because you don’t have a Playstation.
I’d rather everyone else had good fun together rather than me splitting the community. Considering your worries about performance, you’ll probably have a better time if you played the console version.
Screw DCUO! Come join me in Marvel Heroes or WoW =D I think it’s about time I levelled my Black Panther anyways =]
What say you @phlanispo, you want to join up with Puppets? Downside is it’s another 30GB download though.
I don’t think so. Sorry.
Well that was kinda funny, unlocked the 1 hour achievement in Beat Hazard while playing Back In Time by Huey Lewis And The News.
Soundwave lineup (mostly) announced. Soundgarden, Faith No More, Slipknot the headliners. Other highlights for me, Slash and Judas Priest @virus__ am I right in thinking you’re a Priest fan? Not really any other bands that scream ‘must see’ at me which is a bit disappointing but the headliners are worth the admission price. Now to hope the bloody thing doesn’t sell out before I can afford it. Soundgarden fans are likely to go crazy over this
http://soundwavefestival.com/
dammit, I didn’t want to go next year but Faith No More means I have to.
#ILOVEMIKEPATTON
*cough* Lamb of God, Ministry, Mayhem, Atreyu, Apocalyptica (@strange), Lagwagon, Butcher Babies, Coldrain… *cough*
I’m thinking I may have to look into tickets this year.
I’d be keen to see Lamb Of God again. I haven’t paid much attention to them pretty much after Ashes. I think I saw them last time when they played Soundwave and it was good but not great. Lagwagon I’d be keen on seeing, Fear Factory, Papa Roach out of childhood curiousity although it’d probably be like when Coal Chamber played Soundwave and everyone only wanted to hear one song from them 😀
I overlooked Mayhem though. They’re gonna stick out like a sore thumb in that lineup 😀 hahaha I don’t think a Soundwave crowd is ready to see Mayhem live. I’d love for another chance to see Hellhammer drum again though. He’s one of my absolute favourite drummers
The latest Lamb of God album is so, so good. Actually, everything has been from them. Also one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen.
CHAINSAW GUTSFUUUUUUUCK!
I’ll be seeing Apocalyptica on 70000 Tons in January. There’s no bands on the line-up that will make being outside and with all those scary people worth it for me.
Holy Crap FAITH NO MORE AGAINNNNNNN!!!! Also Apocalyptica!!!
Between that and Royksopp at the end of the year means I’m going to be broke soon
OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD
I like me some Soundgarden.
Slash & Slipknot & Faith No More, i’m so there! Priest, LoG, Manson are all good extras! I’m only going for the Saturday in Brisbane though, so Slipknot & Slash sold me 😛
My friend from England was even considering flying out here and hanging out with me for about 7-10 days for the festival and any sideshows. But she has too many commitments then to make it so 🙁 made me so fucking excited when she was all “I am looking into flights right now, and does x date suit you?” etc then we both realised a) getting time off work for her is going to be a pain & she is on the planning panel large event the following weekend as well as the events photographer, so whoops.
But yep. I’ll be there getting bloody and beaten on Day 1 in the Slipknot pit in Brisbane!
faith no more, soundgarden, lamb of god, ministry, fear factory, judas priest, apocalyptica… fuck it… I don’t like live music or crowds or outside but that is tempting.
@popdart5
I’ve started on updating my pathfinder character sheet to accommodate the Blood Arcanist, I’ll end up losing the Eschew Materials feat but that’s not an issue, at least it’ll give me something else to purchase while in town :). I’m not finished yet I’ll continue on it when I get home tonight. I’m going to write up a summary of the changes when I’m finished just so you’re across it and I think we should use steam chat or something so you know which spells I decide to memorise for the day.
Gameplay vid for Bloodborne. Looks so good.
Just…just give it to me… now please… we needs its… we wants it…. precious
Oi Destiny can sustain you till then =P
Dang.
Going to sugar city con in mackay this weekend, then canberra next weekend.
WOOOOOOO
You are? Mackay meat? 😛
Haven’t seen her in here for a while, but just in case she’s lurking, Happy Birthday dawdle!
I miss dawdle and bawble
yeah! they was good peeps!
amazing peeps, and very skilled LoL players 🙂
Who’s
thisthatguygirl?Had a nightmare last night.
I failed to provide any food (OR BOOZE!) for the Can’d Meat, and then later on that same day I somehow forgot to print out my tickets for Wicked, so we couldn’t see the show.
I live a really boring life.
Did you wake up screaming in a cold sweat?
No. Even my response to nightmares is boring. I woke up and thought “thank fuck that was a dream.”
Justice League of Kotaku!!
@freezespreston @evilmonkey @jocon @redartifice @bdkiaf @allthoseImissed
What are your characters? I wanna make sure I don’t pick exactly the same as someone to keep the group diverse.
Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness – Motoko Kusanagi
My hero is Strongarm Jenkins, a fire brute, he’s the muscle of the JLK.
Only just got through the tutorial last night, and by the way, make sure you pick Batman as your mentor.
@gutsoup
I made an Ice dude and a fire chick but got bored pretty quickly. Probs won’t end up playing again.
oh really, you don’t think it’ll get more interesting as you level up and gain more abilities?
It doesn’t =P the combat is what kills the game…. Way too bland. Best part about the game is being a super hero, flying, super speed and messing with your costume because you get some really cool looks towards the end of the game!I dunno, the countering system makes combat more interesting/engaging than your average MMORPG even if it is a pain in the butt in end-game. Weapon combos filling in the blanks rather than just constant GCD ability mashing is nice. Some powers are more fun than others and it takes until about level 10 before you get enough abilities/weapon combos to have fun with. It’s much more physical than most MMORPGs which I love.
That said I’ll admit it’s a broken mess of a combat system and when it gets to the highest level and you’re worrying about tactical mods, Weapon Mastery combos, power in, clipping/cancelling, etc it all gets a bit pointlessly complicated, but it’s fun to play early on when max DPS doesn’t matter and you’re free to just smash enemies around.
On top of that in the last two DLC packs they decided in order to force people to bring a balanced group they’d give the bosses ridiculous HP pools that make simple fights take 15 minutes, but instead of making people bring a tank and healer it just made the fights really long and boring even when you’re running with 3 good DPS. They keep trying to find ways to please the ‘everything is too easy (…because I unlock/grind to get the best gear on day one, min-max every stat and refuse to use a power/movement set that isn’t brokenly over powered) crowd’ and it results in more and more obnoxious content every time.
Granted a big part of the reason I praise it’s combat system because at the time of DCUO’s release almost all MMORPGs were pretty much directly copying World of Warcraft’s terrible combat system. Compare it to a similar single player game and obviously it’s not going to hold up as well.
I just found the system tiresome, now instead of targeting and mashing buttons I was moving around and mashing the same default attack button. True the whole blocking and countering thing was fun for a while but it gets really annoying when there’s even a hint of lag.
Yeah it can be frustrating. I’ll admit I enjoy the game lot more when I’m a tier above the content and can just have fun smashing things. When I have to use an optimal loadout it gets as repetitive but when I’m free to just use whatever weapon combo I feel like and throw the occassional ability out I love it.
I think it’d be way more satisfying to play if the trash were soloable so you could have fun brawling and quickly blast your way through non-boss sections rather than getting anchored down every ten steps (or more realistically playing in stupid, game breaking ways to avoid spending an extra 30 minutes in the alert just to fight some random guards).
Professor Laceration
Gadget dude who can fly (controller)
I’m going to train into the city soonish which means I’ll be around an hour or so early moseying about, psyching myself up, romancing people and muttering softly to myself under my breath! WOOOO!
+1 for romance
Which city? Is it Perth!? I bet it’s not Perth… 🙁
All of them!
It’s easy to get to from Perth, just book a flight to Brisbane! \o/
Tickets to Brisbane purchased!
(not really, but the last time I said this I ended up in Perth the next week…so who knows!)
*fingers crossed*
Although I’m already guaranteed to go to Sunshine Coast in November 😀
Any of you who’ve played Risen 3, not sure if you’ve played enough to find it or not, but in case you haven’t and you want a tip for something to do early on, see spoiler tag! (This will require that you pre-ordered I think?)
On Fog Island, in the south west part of the island, is a legendary item that will give you a 10% boost to all XP/Glory! Probably best to grab it fairly early on if you can. I managed to fight my way through to where it was with very little trouble, but you will need to be cautious, as there are some vicious creatures lurking around in parts.I have no idea where Fog Island is. Do you just discover it or is it an actual place within one of the main areas?I’m still currently on Kila anyway so I doubt I’ll leave soon.
If you can’t see Fog Island, it’s likely you only get access if you pre-ordered for now. Fog Island is located just to the left of Kila on the world map. I’m currently on Kila myself at the moment. Just got to the natives village last night before I quit. I finally got all my hunting skills last night too! Skinning, tooth and claw extraction, and horns! w00t! Gold is still scarce at the moment, but I have managed to find a few decent things to sell. Once I can afford the 2000 gold to learn how to brew potions, I’ll have a better idea of what I can sell and what I should keep!I haven’t gotten any of the hunting skills yet as I’ve been buffing up my pickpocketing and lockpicking (so many high level chests and pockets around). I also picked up Gunsmithing so that was 2000 gold that I spent there even though I haven’t found a single crafting recipe yet. Oh well.I’ve also been spending a lot of gold on purchasing new bullets for my pistol. Thank the gods that the merchants refill their stocks after a day has passed.
I don’t think you actually need a recipe for gunsmithing. From what I’ve seen, some guns can be upgraded by the smithing skill, and you can tell which ones by looking at the stats of the weapon on the right. if you can scroll down (you can only scroll down on ones that allow upgrades) you can see a list of ingredients required to do the upgrade. Once you have those ingredients, you can just apply the upgrade if you have the smithing skill. I’ve only seen one musket so far that has given upgrade options as far as I remember. I think I got it off a grave near the sloop on tacarigua. Either that or I pinched it from someone! 😉
Yeah from what I’ve seen I need both Gunsmithing and Blacksmithing to improve my guns which sucks a little pit. I think the only gun that I’ve seen that I can upgrade is the scatter pistol which I think I’m still missing a few components for. I’ll need to look into it and double-check.
Also (spoiler for a side quest on Tacarigua):
Did you fully complete the quest chain for Di Fuego’s corpse? I left the island because I didn’t know how to complete it and it cancelled the quest for me. :SYeah apparently it’s normal. I guess you got the warrant and spoke to sebastiano? If you did, and his dialogue options ended, you leave the island and it cancels the quest, but when you come back, he will be gone? Possibly gone to look for you? Anyway, from what I can tell, it should pick up later at some point after you leave, and then return to tacariguaI never picked up the warrant as I never even found it. I presume that’s in the chest near where the release order is and I, for some reason, decided to not steal from the most powerful man on the island. Bah. Oh well.@popdart5 Surprisingly, you’ve probably done the right thing. If you return to Tacarigua, and find that Sebastiano is gone, then it should be a breeze to steal the warrant.
It’s in the chest in the top floor of his house. Turn yourself in to a bird and fly in if you can’t sneak yet.Once you get it, if Sebastiano isn’t there, then the next time you return he may be back, and you can confront him.Vita’s got no games.
I’m actually going to get a Vita now just so I can try to finish Rogue Legacy xD.
There’s a few titles I could really go for in this lineup too!
The Vita is firmly on the “if I saw a cheap one I’d pick it up” list.
Also the “if I took the train to work” list.
Its roughly $250 but you can probably get it cheaper. I love mine. Its the only thing i play games on any more. mainly because i need a new computer chair and i can play while the GF watches real housewives of boring county.
but I don’t have a great use case for it atm. I live alone, so no TV worries, I don’t take public transport to work, I have other devices.
Until I have a use case, I’ll not get one.
point
I got one because my gf got one and she got one because who knows why.
This is probably why my savings are shit.
Yeah, I don’t use mine anywhere near as much as I’d like because I tend to sit down infront of my PC when I’m at home and I drive into work. Though I intend to move soon to somewhere that’s in range of trains, and if I did that I’d probably start using my Vita more often.
Still, there are some advantages. Like when you drop a bookcase on your foot and shatter three toes, it’s pretty good to have a portable you can play while lying on a couch. Or if you have to travel via air for a decent amount of time.
I also find I get a fair amount of play time clocked up while sitting on the shitter. 😛
How is the gameplay of the SWO game??
You mean SAO? I only just got it this morning, haven’t played yet. Apparently it’s an enormous game. Lots of waifus.
I LOVE WAIFUS
That’s kind of the idea, yeah.
O_O
I’m gonna need a bigger memory card
Latest Humble Bundle has some pretty neat games, including CRUSADER KINGS 2
https://www.humblebundle.com/
They’re really locking away the games behind a paywall recently. I put down some money for the basic three, may increase if the unlocks are worth it.
CRUSADER KINGS 2
Free food!
…too much free food D:
Ha! You’re not dead!
Yay for survival!
Speaking of survival… Survivor soon!
MOAR FREE FOOD! OM NOM NOM!
Seriously though, I would take some of that off your hands if I was there.
Message just sent to Wingman: “OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD JUDAS PRIEST ARE PLAYING AT SOUNDWAVE OH MY GOD I AM SO HAPPY WAIT AM I CRYING IT ALMOST SEEMS LIKE IT OH MY GOD”
I am excited. Literally only recognise the names of eight other bands there and more than half are those are name recognition alone, zero knowledge of their music. And the rest I don’t care about at all. AIN’T GONNA STOP ME!
Hype get 😛
How can you be sure this isn’t an elaborate trap setup by Mooky to get you away from your house for exactly eight hours and twenty six minutes?
I can’t.
But hey it’s not like I’ll need the house for those eight hours and twenty six minutes.
I’d imagine the likes of Priest would have a Sidewave, too…..
I don’t know what that means but I’ll STANDBY FOR EXCITER!
As in shows apart from Soundwave 😛
So what you’re saying is…
I COULD SEE THEM MULTIPLE TIMES! \o/
Yep.
@gutsoup
I had a longer reply that got ate but in short: no, not really.
fair enough, that sux, I’ll still check it out though I guess.
I finished the first thread of the Batman missions last night, and am keen to jump back in- probably thursday
My wife played a couple of more hours of ACIII last night. I’m kind of disappointed she’s not enjoying it and plans to do the bare minimum to get through the game. I found all the side missions, the sailing, the homestead development all really interesting and fun and she’s planning on skipping all of it. 🙁
I think it’s partially because she just wants to get to the next game ASAP because she wants to have her backlog mostly clear by the time the Halo Master Chief collection comes out (we have high hopes of reliving our Halo 3 glory days) but also it’s just not interesting to her and she’s only playing the game to see the Desmond story parts first-hand. :/
In other news I had some of my worst runs ever in Binding of Isaac last night. Trying to finish it as characters other than Cain or Isaac and just couldn’t get a rhythm going.
Your wife is definitely missing the best parts of the game!
I want her to do the homestead stuff and see the ending of the “Encyclopedia of the Common Man” sidequest! I mean, isn’t that where you learn where the amulet is buried? But she finds the prospect of following everyone around to scan their activities too boring. She doesn’t even feel like recruiting everyone. 🙁
The side material in that game is literally the only part that didn’t make me want to throw my computer out a window in frustration. The core plot missions are almost universally shithouse. 🙁
I didn’t mind them but I enjoyed them being intermingled with the world. I feel like I digested the game as it was meant to be.
I think doing all the story missions back to back would have driven me up the wall, especially since you’d go from running and dodging gunfire at Bunker Hill to directing gunfire and cannons at Valley Forge. You need to break that up with the fun stuff!
Solely on the merits of the story missions I think it would leave a very sour taste. :/
Getting smashed at work, first chance to poke my head in this week.
Had my first anniversary on Sunday, went out for dinner with my wife and then came home and drank some really nice wine and played a heap of Card Wars (Adventure Time TCG) . It’s a pretty cool guy, and $30 gets you two full decks including landscapes.
Also, 40k RPG last night was some of the best and worse dice rolls I’ve seen in any tabletop session ever. @freezespreston kept firing critical rockets that would chain explode grenades, ammo, whatever the orks were carrying, @tech_knight was constantly rolling borderline crit fails to balance Freeze out, I got a whole bunch of Orks to kill each other, @puppetmaster (?) came down with a wicked case of poo-brain (and was off sick) so @f4ction had to make up for it by being awesome (which he did), @sernobulus got repeatedly stabbed and managed to not die.
Ultimately the best experience of the night was watching @popdart5 react every time Freeze rolled something. 😀
I should be thankful in a way. If the majority of those Orks had managed to close into melee combat, you guys were pretty much screwed. And it does seem as though the Machine God abandoned Techie and gave all of his luck to Freeze. To be fair, Freeze did fire something like 30 Reaper missiles so something was bound to die violently.
Also, I double-checked how your Sensory Manipulation works. It’s not as brokenly OP as it was last night so you won’t be able to rely on it as heavily as you were. It was still funny as hell so I’m not going to disregard your awesomeness.
What was I missing regarding Sensory Deprivation?
It’s either a single target deprive them of all senses or a much milder selective deprivation of a single sense across multiple targets, not both as we were doing. Also the multi-target deprivation seemed to be written as more of a giving someone selective blindness or deafness to not hear/see you specifically as opposed to blinding someone. That one’s open to interpretation though. I’m not certain how I’ll rule that but I might stick with what we were doing last night minus the single target deprive all senses.
Yeah, I wasn’t quite sure if it was like a selective blindness or general. The way it was written was a bit odd, so I’m still not 100%.
Happy to go along with the rest of your read.
I’m working with Xenos, that’s probably why 😛
I guess I have a quest of redemption to the Omnissiar and the machine spirits! Also I think I do a horrible Nigel Thornberry impression so I’ll be stopping that too
props to @f4ction because the medic usually never gets a mention!
I think everyone except Jarallius was the MVP in that fight, you all did so well holding back the tide, especially @rize with the literal mind games
It’s @pupp3tmast3r git it right! =P
Sorry guys 🙁
@popdart5 this reminds me, what happens to me now that I missed a session?! Am I trapped in a time bubble near the crashed ship while you guys went ahead and cleared everything?! Or did I turn into a spectre and watch aimlessly as you slaughtered those innocent orks?!
We didn’t move from our original spot, you’ll just notice a LOT of dead greenskins next session. You basically were in cover the whole time so you weren’t targetted at all. All you miss out on is the XP we gained from that session
NOOOOO all the XP :'( *pokes @freezespreston* gimme some of yours, I know you got a bonus at the end of that session :@
Edit: Also aren’t you glad I brought up that someone should man the turret on the truck?! 😀
Actually I was double lucky that I grabbed Drive (Ground vehicle) in the session prior, as I would’ve gotten a penalty to fire if I didn’t have it. but yeah, I was averaging 90 in my rolls, it didn’t go well for me. HOWEVER, when 5 orcs came onto the truck I was on, I slaughtered them all point blank with the cannon after multiple rounds, even made one hilariously fly off the truck with a direct hit to its torso making the other orcs have to dodge the airborne corpse xD
You were cowering behind the truck the entire time. =P
You will get some EXP but you missed out on the bonus that everyone got.
+100 EXP to you for the session so that you don’t fall too far behind everyone else.
You’re alright popdart =P I forgive you for killing sparky now.
I find it amusing how so many people don’t know the names of the movies they’re going to see. Lately I’ve been having people ask for tickets for, “Galaxy Of The Guardians”, “The Hundred Metre Thing (Hundred-Foot Journey)”, and my current favourite “The Extendables”.
Maybe they’re time travellers referring to the sequels?
Oh man, I always get tongue-tied when asking for tickets to movies and things.
Same, i get all messed up even if i practice before hand
Every single time, when ordering tickets, I will pause before saying the movie title. I also always freak out when ordering; “oh god, did I order for the right movie ticket? OH GOD I ORDERED THE WRONG TICKET DIDN’T I? I SCREWED UP!”. Also my local cinemas finally moved to allocated seating. I almost had a panic attack when the person serving me asking where I want to sit.
The funny thing is, I am completely fine with everything else it’s seriously just movie tickets I freak out on which is the stupidest thing to ever freak out about.
Order the tickets online. Never deal with a human person throughout the entire exchange!
I just wait for someone else in the group to go first, then follow them with “same again”.
Often results in getting a student ticket, since I let my old (expired) student ID show while holding my wallet waiting to pull the money out 😛
What Grif said! Chupathingie!
I tried to go to see Tom Cruise’s ‘Live, Die, Repeat’ a few months ago lol
So I looked at the new alt costumes for zss & I thought they were very practical costumes, since the super smash bros series were fighting games, these costumes, which were excercise clothes that samus wears in the 100% ending pics of both zero mission & fusion, are very fitting for a FIGHTING game. I mean 2 characters that she has been shipped with (wii fit trainer & little mac, I have seen pics of these 3 being shipped together) are also wearing sports outfits as well. How else are these alt costumes supposed to enforce the notion that there are female outfits that are practical, but also brilliant plus these alt were added in at the LAST MINUTE. Man this has to be 1 of thee coolest last minute additions since mew
I don’t like the boots. Rocket boots are cool and all but high heels are the most impractical thing in a combat scenario, and they remind me of Other M.
Still not annoying enough to detract from the overall experience, though.
Lifehacker has some of the most irrelevant images ever tied to articles.
What does pizza have to do with Australian spam laws???
READ THE ARTCLE IDIOT, ITS ABOUT PIZZA HUT
Ohhh sorry Lifehacker
Don’t apologise, they’ve done enough in the past that they deserve a bit of misplaced ire
Also you could put spam on a pizza if you were a monster
Also, Pizza Hut make the worst pizzas. There’s just something so off about I dunno… their bases? Their sauce? Their toppings ratio? Maybe it’s the lack of grease… I dunno. I’ve ordered from there every now and then, whenever there’s a too-good-to-pass-up(-looking) combo deal with additional bits, whether chicken or desserts or whatever… Some of those sides have been pretty damn fantastic. The pizzas? The worst. I don’t know how they’re still in business.
Some people actually prefer them. I know. Gross, right? My partner’s stepdad won’t eat any chain pizza except for Pizza Hut.
Yo.
Don’t you freeze doughnuts too? Freak.
I’ve always found Pizza Hut to be the one of the better major chains 😛 I only ever get the thin bases though so maybe that’s the difference?
Or maybe I truly am a monster.
Better of the major chains is like saying cigarette burn torture is better than cigar burns. But I agree. Dominoes is too oily, Crust is charging the earth for one step up from Pizza Hut and I can handle a Pizza Hut pizza occasionally if it’s on a thin base. Give me a small local pizza any day though.
Dominos is BARELY OILY ENOUGH. This is probably why they are my preference.
Eagle Boys is the best. It just is.
ps. I’m pretty sure we’ve had this exact argument before.
Man I remember when Pizza Hut had actual restaurants and it was awesome. Their quality has declined since then but I find that they’re about even with Dominoes.
Pizza Capers is the only pizza place I go to that is consistently good but boy do they charge for that quality.
Yes I remember a pizza hut ALL THAT YOU CAN EAT restaurant that has since closed in the latrobe valley, omg all the pizza & self serving soft self ice cream that you eat, brings back memories, especially since the ice cream machine wasn’t fast enough to serve it, so many people pulled down the lever to the lowest it can go & you can have a lot of ice cream. Fond memories
Yeah, to me Dominos is the worst chain pizza you can get and they should be put on trials for crimes against pizza.
But that said, anyone who orders a pan base pizza from Pizza Hut is… I don’t even know. Those oil sponges are disgusting. Perfecto or thin and crispy only.
I’ve always found them to be pretty reasonable too. Prefer Dominos or Crust, but it hugely varies on the quality of your local places – where I am now, the Dominos is average, the Crust is really good, and the Pizza Hut is pretty decent. Where I was before I was between two different Dominos stores and so if I ordered online, half the time it’d be one store, half the time it’d be the other. If you got it from one store it would be a greasy lump, but from the other it’d be perfect and quite delicious. And the Pizza Hut in that area was fucking atrocious.
Also I think a lot of the variation also comes from the type of base you prefer. I always get thin bases. Pizza Hut’s thicker pizza bases are often very doughy and not very good. But that thinness means that if you roll the dice badly at a Dominos for example and get a greasy one, the thinner base makes shit even less palatable because the grease basically soaks all the way through and runs everywhere. 🙁
I usually go for Eagle Boys now when getting Pizza. So much better then Dominos and Pizza Hut.
I usually go here They’re about 20 bucks each, but Goddamn they have the best Pizzas in town.
I WOULD go for eagle boys if they existed in wagga any more but now pizza hut is the closest we have to edible. The alternatives being the greasy mess that is Dominoes or the meagre scattering of near flavourless topping on a piece of cardboard that is Crust
DIY pizza is the only good one in town. Aliaspizza, coming soon to a table nowhere near you because its all for me!
Actually I like Pizza hut, also their online ordering is fricken scary! All 4 times I ordered online from them in so many months, they arrive at my door on the approx time specified, right on the minute!
Dominoes though… urgh you’ll get more out of eating paper with pizza toppings.
Pizza hut’s online is a rip though, they only allow 4 changes and that includes removing stuff so once you de-poison an otherwise edible pizza by removing the mushrooms & olives, you can’t put extra onions, pepperoni and double sauce on because that’s one change too many
Clearly they are punishing you for making a terrible mistake.
This. When I have soccer on a Sunday my go before game dish is the 4.95 Pepperoni.
When I had a local Pizza Hut, back when the New Yorker was a pizza you could get from them. They were great. Now they just suck, cheapened things off for more profit it seems and not training the kid slaves i’d say.
I like when they put hot chicks on stuff for no reason at all.
Yeah, cooked chicken is the best!
@redartifice you should have seen my dice rolling last night. Nearly every hit was a critical. Then I criticaled the critical. Twice. I’ll never roll like that again.
The monster stole all of our rolls. Although I did manage to get a couple of hits.
I think I was averaging around 90 on my d100 rolls, it was bloody absurd!
@redartifice, I had one attack roll where I ended up with a gun jam with both my initial roll AND my fate pointed reroll! 😛
Why can’t you roll those numbers in Pathfinder?
Well for starters dear boy, they’re d20s 😉
I’m just really unlucky it seems in these RPGs. I think only Numenera is where I do decently well especially in combat as I’ve pulled some really sick attacks, including getting a bullseye on this wolf-like beast’s leg to slow him down and save the party from being eaten (Or more their cyphers) 😛
Except for that one time against Raller Kay. Then again, everyone was failing that night.
Look, he was tough, but he wasn’t THAT tough
That was awful
Nobody mentions that… for a reason 😛
So I workshopped some of my writing for my TAFE class yesterday. This consisted of me reading about 1000 words of the first chapter of my novel, and then everyone giving feedback on it. Everyone had their own copy of my writing they could scribble all over with corrections and tips, and I’m going through all that now, and there’s some really helpful stuff, but man, deciphering everyone’s handwriting is certainly a task. I’m just no good at reading cursive, which is what everyone seems to have decided to write in.
The reason it’s named that is because you curse every time you wonder what that squiggle is supposed to mean. Just write normally damnit!
Someone’s drawn a little doodle on their sheet. I can’t tell if it’s meant to be a biologically accurate heart or a strawberry.
I was up to my elbows in fossilised crap last night. Digging up leaking water pipes near an old septic system is oh so much fun. The things we do for home improvement eh?
I get two nights with Destiny then I am going to Gold Coast for the weekend. 🙁 All my fronz are gonna beat my level!
Try not to get shot or thrown off a balcony while you’re here.
I shall try! 😛 Closer to the date I’ll post again, maybe some people wanna meet up.
Don’t worry. Destiny has damage scaling, so high level can play lower level content without being too overpowered. Other way around is not as viable, though.
Add me. I’m super slow to play anything and I’ll probably take forever to get up to a decent level.
Got you already, under atom strawberry. Not sure which of your accounts that is. You gonna play Destin on that one?
Atomiclemon is my primary account now. Atomicstrawberry was my AU account. Used to use them 50/50 but with the Vita being single account and the US store being miles better for Vita stuff, I swapped to US for it, and I continued that over to PS4 as well. Pretty much only use Atomicstrawberry for older PS3 stuff where I need to access saved games etc. on that account.
Alright, I’ll try and remember to do it tonight.
Saturday goes on a Date (Parts I-IV)
Lady Friend- “It’s great hanging out with you like this.”
Me- “Wait, I thought this was a date.”
LF- “What? No, did… did you think this was a actual ‘date’ date?”
Me- “WHATNOTHISISN’TADATEWHYWOULDITHINKTHAT”
Saturday goes
on a Dateto lunch with somebody which he’ll probably avoid for the rest of his life due to embarrassment (Parts I-IV)#OhRocke#OhSaturdayThere really needs to be an instruction manual for this sort of thing.
Step 1) Don’t be Saturday
Step 2) Be a bit more not like Saturday
It’s worked out well for me in the past.
Edit: Dammit Saturday now my comment looks like I can’t read :@
Aww Saturday you should’ve been like “Why is there something wrong with this being a date? *gasp and offended look* “
SHUT UP I KNOW HOW ROMANCE WORKS I HAD A GIRLFRIEND
*scribbles down furiously in notebook*
You could always have said it was August the 19th and that was the date (assuming that was the date it happened)
@pupp3tmast3r, @phlanispo Downloading Marvel Heroes now, should be done by tonight.
Edit: Well that’s interesting, It apparently requires 30 odd Gig of space, but just checked my downloads, and it’s only 13.3GB.
Let me know if you guys are keen to play, I’ll probably log some time in every day. Gonna replace Dota 2 and Hearthstone with this for a week or two at least (I’m all PvP’d out for now).
P.S. I need a tank team mate =P in case any of you are inclined to playing a tanky character as some of the bosses destroy dps characters. Loki killed me like 25 times as cyclops.
Yeah, my playstyle suits Tanks, my favourite Superhero is Hulk.
Yeah he’s tanky, off the top of my head I believe the Thing, Colossus, Cap America, Wolvy and Luke Cage are some of the tanky options!
What, no Hulk! That make Hulk sad.
I guess my next choice would be The Thing… IT’S CLOBBERIN’ TIME!
Oh sorry! I meant on top of the Hulk those are the other tanks =P They have the full Avengers movie team + the Guardians of the Galaxy team in the game!
Compression techniques have gotten better in recent years. Download small file, but will exapnd to x size when installed lol.
Marvel Heroes? I have never played Marvel Heroes in my life.
EDIT: Never mind, I read this comment before your other comment. I’ll think about it.
Dammit world! I’m away sick for two days and you call in the National Guard to take out African American protesters and Clive Palmer decides to fight off an imaginary Chinese invasion because he screwed around with Chinese companies funds to boost his PR budget when running for office.
I hope you learnt your lesson for next time.
So it’s your fault? Well thanks for ruining the world!
Someone should just buy palmer a copy of Homefront, he probably wouldn’t notice the difference between Chinese & Korean anyway
(Side note, why does the auto-correct capitalise Korean but not Chinese?)
Nah, that game is only slightly shorter than his relevancy.
Oh boy, this is overwhelming, I’ve never jumped into a TAY before, but everyone’s being really nice, and I like that.
Sooo… does anybody else just keep suddenly thinking about P.T/Silent Hills and just getting freaked out/overwhelmed/angry? Because I do. I really, really do.
Welcome.
Hey! I like your comments in regular Kotaku. Welcome!
Initiation? Initiation???
INITIATION!!! =D
*sigh*
get out the oar.
No, not the paddling of the swollen ass!
Was it swollen before? I imagine you should have that checked out.
and then go to a doctor HEYYYYOOOOO
eitherbestorworstfirstimpression
Welcome
Welcome
Fresh Meatnewcomer! The state of Tay extends the warmest greetings! Just…. Don’t read back to far or you will get freaked out/overwhelmed/angry. There’s nothing but horse sodomy and Disney dicks there.But today is a new day! Who knows what it will bring!
PS: P.T. was rad. Still trying to figure it out. Between Silent Hills and Evil Within the future of horror games looks bright.
My trick to combat horror is to sing DMX songs loudly and obnoxiously during any moment of stress.
“look behind you..”
“GET IT ON THE FLOOR GET IT GET IT ON THE FLOOR”
My trick to horror games is to weep like a child while repeating the word “NOPE!” over and over then stop playing the game.
I should point out that it took me like… a long time to finish the demo, not because I was bad at it/couldn’t trigger things, but because I had to go change all my light bulbs for brighter wattage, and bring my dogs inside and force them to stay next to me.
You still actually played it, further than I would’ve ever gone. Put it this way, even Doom 3 scared the hell out of me and parts of Half life 2 episode 1, the dark section 😛
Hello, Willkommen.
I found that by having a good long cry after playing it I was able to reduce its overall effects on my psyche.
Fetch the Thor of Oarns!
You mean the Thorina of Oarns!
(see what I did there =P)
no @harli is gone, under my rule no newcomer has to be initiated. Mostly because its bullshit and not super funny any more.
also it reminds me of how @harli betrayed us 😛
Oh holy moly, what was the initiation? Now I’m scared/intrigued!
Well they never did it to me when I started posting here last year but then I’m a giant so they might have been too scared.
A chill wind blows through the castle carrying wisps of tears and pleas for help from the cliffs below. The candles flutter, their eerie glow casting frightful shadows of horrors and demons upon the cold stone walls. A ring of people circle you, hooded and cloaked, chanting in some eldritch tongue.
They slowly bring it out. The Oar of Thorns. They want you to know what you will face, though it’s now far too late to change your mind. As you watch it, its form shifts, twisting in upon itself to appear as new. At first it resembles what you’d expect, an old oar draped in barbed wire. Then a simple bat, crowned with a ring of thorns. It shifts again and again, through forms you couldn’t begin to describe, hints of a flail or staff mix with those of claws, knives or nails.
Finally it settles on something. Its age emanates outward, crippling you. This weapon may be older than time itself. The bearer grunts, and circles behind you, as the chanting rises in tempo and pitch.
You brace yourself as you hear the air whistling around the ancient beast, but nothing can prepare you for the Oar of Thorns. You pray for the mercy of darkness, but it does not come. For forever and a day you feel yourself being beaten by the Oar, until suddenly and finally, it stops.
You have passed the initiation. A Figure to your side congratulates you, and hands you something cold. Something to soothe the pain, you hope. Alas no, you have been given a frozen doughnut, and your time here begins.
I’ll admit PT scares the shit out of me and I can’t bring myself to go past the bit where the door opens slightly and you can hear the baby cries.
oh, you should play just a little further, you’re almost at a bit that made me scream like a lady (I’ve never reacted like that to a game before), I was even expecting it and was making bad jokes about how the thing that happened was about to happen (vague cause spoiler), my girlfriend found it hysterical and my dog ran inside (he’s not allowed) to see what was wrong and whimpered at me.
Welcome!
…
I don’t really have anything else to say because I am a babby and can’t play Horror games.
Yep! Me too! Welcome @janexo regardless 🙂
I hate that game. Yet I’m still doing google searches.
Still looking for Let’s Play videos.
Still wanting to go home and play it again.
Its so masochistic…
Right?! Ughhhh HIDEEEEOOOOOOOOO.
Just so we’re clear, I’m the suave one around these parts who makes everyone swoon with a bat of my lashes, and who has more interesting stories than there are hairs on my head.
Just thought I’d establish myself a bit.
Now that that’s out of the way, P.T has featured in multiple nightmares since I played it, and the first couple of days after paying it were full of anxiety at the smallest things :S
I’mma buy it day 1! 😀
And the way to his heart is with Krispy Kreme.
Also, watch out for that @dc fella, he punches people in the Sternum and steals their shoes.
What? I thought I was the suave one!
I thought i was?
Guys, come on. We all know who the suave one is.
@transientmind, duh.Yeah true
Oh Gooky. Flattery will get you everywhere.
You? Suave? HAHAHA!
Nah, you’re that Xenoblade guy that nobody likes.
Are the number of interesting stories you have directly related to the amount of hair you have? If you go bald will you be down to only a small handful of stories?
Be warned liondrive is prone to fits of delusional grandeur; frozen donuts can cure this =P
Welcome! While I dont get freaked out now I did the night and day after playing it. Also usually if people bring it up ill think bout it and get spooked abit
WELCOME!
Here is your initiation:
http://shanewsmith.com/shop/
Coupon code TAY20 gets you a 20% discount. Just for being one of us. (one of us, one of us)
Since you clearly haven’t gotten nearly enough notifications:
Welcome!
Hi TAY, how are things? Pretty damn busy so i don’t have much time to drop in unfortunately…
plans for my gaming cockpit is going awesome! Now its just a matter of scraping the resources together (money mostly) and its with much regret (not really) that I’ve decided to retire the Thrustmaster HOTAS X in favour of a X-55 Rhino… This is all plans for over the next few months though… Should be done just in time for release of Elite Dangerous and hopefully Squadron 42 \o/
We should really play some
Suddenly BeringJC2MP.I’m definitely up for this!!
This Friday/Saturday?
@sernobulus
I don’t see why not! Should be good for Friday… 8 or 9pm’ish?
The female race is now in mourning.
(Sorry couldn’t resist)
Retire as in sell or retire as in let it gather dust somewhere?
I won’t get the X55 for a while yet, but after that i might sell the old stick because i won’t have much use for it
I’ve been curious about trying a dual-joystick setup, since I’ve seen a fair few people mention it around the place. Right stick for three axes of orientation, left stick for three axes of thrust. Mainly since you can’t really get standalone throttles other than those crazy expensive CH ones.
Thinking about doing this as well… I have an old single stick saitek something something i might use for this though
Ahh damnit, I want someone to buy the X65f so they can tell me what the pressure sensor sticks are like
Sounds awesome.
Train is stopped at a station while men with guns check our tickets….
Think I got on the wrong train and ended up in Ferguson.
Seriously. The one with the go card scanner hasn’t taken his hand from around the grip of his gun the whole freaking time. What? Was he going to shoot the first criminal fare evader he found?
Wait. I think we are on the same train! STALKER!
They have that in Qld too, and it’s really creepy. I feel very uncomfortable being eye-level with a thing that’s designed to end life :/
Pulling into Brisbane. Fellow QLDer? You’re okay.
I didnt know train ticket checkers had guns
Good thing I don’t use public transport no more.
Next thing ya know vicroads traffic inspectors will be as we equiped as a private military
What the fuck, are the cops the ticket inspectors now? I’ve never been checked for ticket on QR before, Metro in Melbourne yeah, but none of them had guns iirc.
There are police in some of the stations sometimes on patrols and they tend to be armed, but I’ve never seen an armed ticket inspector here, no.
Private security contractors aren’t anywhere near as regulated or trained as the police are, the idea of a bunch of them shoving pistols into people’s faces while checking their tickets terrifies me. That sounds wrong on just so many levels.
How ballsy you feeling? Next time, camera phone photo, twitter post, #notjustferguson?
Also still putting a shoutout to any Melbourne taybie that is interested in going to the can’d meat… The pixel train (choo choo!) is leaving Friday morning’ish the 29th…
TAYTAGS!!!
@beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @jordi @negativezero @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @zetrox2kalso @f4ction what music would you like to listen to on the trip? And just for ease of picking up and stuff are you able to get to Essendon station or is that too much hassle?
Again as much as id love to I have to house sit for 2 weeks then so I cant make it 🙁
We’ll most likely be there around lunchtime on Saturday!
Speaking of… Are you still coming @sernobulus? Booked flights, etc? Getting to my place any time after 6pm on Friday night is fine by me (the train from the airport to my place takes about 30-40 mins). Then we’ll probably be back in Sydney on Sunday night by about 5pm at the latest.
My flight gets in about 5pm I think. I might need your address or meet you somewhere in the city.
It’ll probably be easier to go straight to my place (otherwise you have to go into the city, then double back). I’ll send you my address on Twitter. If you tell me when your train arrives ahead of time I can meet you at the station and save you any awkward “Is this his place? What if he gave me the wrong address? What if he doesn’t even exist?” moments 😛
ALTERNATIVELY you can meet me on Platform 22 at Central Station at exactly 5:45pm and catch the same train as I do.
Either way, I ain’t cooking dinner. Pizza it is!
I’d love to tag along, but we’re still a staff member down at work, and I don’t think I’ll even be able to make the Adelaide Show Meat or PAX. Looks like my first Meat will either be in Melbourne in December, or for Melbourne Supanova next year.
I’m stockpiling my leave so that I can take time off over PAX, Christmas and the TAY Magical Mystery Japan Tour 2015.
What time in the morning are you meeting @f4ction?
Undetermined at this time, guess it depends on trains and stuffs
Not sure I can get the time away for this one. Sorry.
So has anyone read about this Zoe Quinn thing?
http://www.thezoepost.wordpress.com
Basically a woman made a video game about depression and cheated on her bf with a bunch of video game journalists (including IGN and Kotaku) who then went on to give it rave reviews. I haven’t read much into it yet to form much of an opinion but apparently discussion is getting blocked on a lot of sites.
Ohhhhh boy, that sounds bad. (The situation, I mean).
It’s a dense read, but compelling enough. Essentially Ms. Zoe Quinn had strong views on fidelity, and broke ’em repeatedly. The boyfriend, author of this relationship dissection picked up on this, and resulted in a roller coaster ride where the two attempt to salvage the relationship-, but the miss not only had a very checkered past of cheating, but her continuing actions of not being truthful and average-to-heavy hypocriticism, along with moments of stringing him along emotionally culminated in a “I’m going to break all ties with you in the hopes that you do not make this public.” Least, that’s what I got out of it.
I’ll give him this, he’s a decent writer. If it was me the blog would be more something like “THAT ZOE MOLE CHEATED ON ME WITH THIS GUY AND THIS GUY AND THIS GUY ARSSDJLWEIWE!@(@#!”
Yeah, it’s definitely a heartfelt rant about how screwy she is, but there’s a fair amount of “this is our relationship and this is what went wrong” rather than “THIS BITCH BE CRAY-CRAY.” It’s all still one-sided, but not nearly as venomous as it could’ve been.
-naivety removed-
Ah Hollywood… No wait this isn’t Hollywood related =__=
Is that the weird game that I saw on here a week or so ago and how it’s masterpiece or something? I didn’t read the review.
-absurdity removed-
Its so long, SOOO FUCKING LONG and the spitefulness makes it hard to read.
I’m only about halfway through. I’m guessing there are a few more bombs to go.
I skimmed the more spiteful and pained parts and just finished. Didn’t read the chat logs after the first few cos they all seem to have the same underlying tone of the guy’s completely taken aback by how she’s acting and she’s saying things she feels she needs to say but doesn’t really mean them.
I read most of it for some reason. Just read the tl;dr up above. The blog post is just discussing everything in detail so it’s believable and using evidence to back it up. It was a decent read for me, educational.
Stuff like that really doesn’t do anyone any favours, especially when the industry is so hostile to women already. Giving people ammunition doesn’t help much with that inequality at all.
Its hard to remember that she is one person and no every person acts that way. for every Zoe Quinn there is a Tracey Lien.
Tracey Lien! I miss her..
I do too, if I remember correctly she told me she still has the crochet Cyndaquil I got her for one of the kotaku christmas thing we did on TAY years back 🙂
I believe we are supposed to refer to her here as “Traceface”.
Just finished reading the blog (skipped some of the chat logs and some sections where the guy just seems to be venting his feeling and shock at whats happened). I’m probably going to cop some flak for this but all in all I’m not entirely shaken up by this story? Relationships and break ups are inherently messy, and one person always and I mean always comes out ahead in a break up. It’s why a break up happens in the first place, because someone in the relationship isn’t happy. How they go about showing they aren’t happy is what makes a break up healthy or messy.This person has lied about so many things in relation to her ideals, her relationship and honestly reading those chat logs I feel she’s lying about her remorse as well because a lot of it feels like she’s saying what she feels she should say in the situation as opposed to anything truly heartfelt (she counters all her remorse with defensive statements shortly after). But none of these things warrant the shock the guy seems to have in response to all this. Reading that blog it just felt like the rant of a teenager waking up to the fact that there’s really shitty people out there. He keeps going back for more even after he knows she’s lied repeatedly and expresses genuine shock and frustration that he got duped over and over again.
I don’t think the situation had enough going wrong for it to deserve going public, she definitely has some underlying issues and he was too stupid to realize she didn’t love him any-more. I couldn’t find any legitimate connections to her sleeping around affecting reviews of her game and even if it did it’s not even a multi-million dollar title! I’m sure EA, Ubisoft and the other big gaming companies engage in much more morally and ethically questionable behaviour to get focus and media traction on their games. And that whole rant about her lying about her ideals and principles… Our world leaders do that on a 24 hour basis. No one’s going to care if a minor game developer does the same.
tl;dr – I thought he was being whiny and she’s clearly a sociopath =\
Edit: Spoilered for length
It is, unfortunately, par for the course compared to a lot of other failed relationships.
This is about the whole censorship aspect that has come out afterwards, which I think is much worse.
I read it and then thought “Why did I read that?”
-absurdity removed-
So, uhhhh, there’s now a public record that someone we don’t know or deal with has a history of being less than 100% trustworthy.
Don’t lend them 20 bucks if you meet them one day?
-absurdity removed-
I didn’t see anything about games journalism in that blog.
Just someone’s documentation and retelling of personal matters.
My initial thought still stands – why did I read that?
Give this a watch. It provides more information on how wide reaching this is.
i think this is getting blown a little out of proportion.
@rocketman
It might be but there is also a lot of censorship happening. Reddit, Giantbomb, neogaf, tumblr are all deleting posts in regards to her. It makes you a whole lot more suspicious.
I made it 7 minutes in, and it made me care even less. Sorry.
BECAUSE HER PERSONAL DETAILS ARE GETTING THROWN EVERYWHERE
its witchhunting plain and simple. Its not a cover up its just moderators protecting a women identity from death threats and bullying. which contrary to popular opinion nobody deserves no matter what social injustice they have done.
@rocketman
This is proving to be false. The only place this was claimed was in reddit and posts that have clearly not been providing any information are being deleted. Any mention on /r/gaming about Quinn is being deleted. Posts in rps have been deleted that had no personal information. Quinn has been submitting DMCA reports for Youtube videos discussing the issue and censorship as well.
Everything wrong with games journalism? If that’s everything that’s wrong with it I’ll take it! I think it’s still miles better than real news journalism in terms of ethical fuck ups.
Two words. Fox News.
Edit: Also I still don’t get where the blog connects the dots to her sleeping around = better reviews? If anyone has the link to the Kotaku or IGN review for this game please link!!
-absurdity removed-
But all of this stuff is hearsay? There’s no causative proof. It’s based off people connecting dots together with lines that don’t exist. Also it’s based off a disgruntled ex who was wronged trying to justify why it happened. Looking at those chat logs it seems like a young a girl who got carried away having a good time and was then fighting with herself to keep having a good time and screwing her bf over or trying to do the right thing by him even though she didn’t want to?
Also isn’t it entirely possible the reason people she slept with were from the games industry was because she was technically part of said industry? Couldn’t she have met all these people via the conferences and conventions she appears to have been attending to promote the game? I’m just saying there’s more possible explanations than just her screwing reviewers to give her game a better reception. While she’s certainly expressed questionable moral fibre in how she’s screwed over her bf, this wouldn’t be the first time in history someone screwed their partners over to have sex with other people and it certainly wouldn’t be the last.
I think she’s done things that are ethically wrong against her boyfriend but I can’t find anything to say she’s done stuff that’s horribly compromised the integrity of the journalists who were sleeping with her. Once again I can’t find any reviews by these journalists outright promoting her game which stops me from jumping to the commonly agreed upon conclusion.
Or buy the game.
The one that’s free on Steam?
Pretty much. If it’s worth boycotting EA over being unsconscionable pricks, it’s worth boycotting indies for the same.
(Also, not getting downloaded even when free is a pretty scathing indictment.)
I’m not utterly convinced about this being what it’s portrayed as.
I haven’t seen terribly much about Depression Quest except for the fact that it exists, is somewhat novel, and could possibly be useful to people suffering depression. So if the developer bought good press with sex, they clearly didn’t pay enough or bought from the wrong sellers.
And despite the fact that the developer is pretty clearly scum in their personal life (which is apparently sometimes enough reason to boycott something), the only thing they’ve done to gamers/gaming is potentially secure biased coverage, and even in that case it’s more a breach of trust from the reporter that would affect me. After all, the developer lied to their partner. The reporter might have lied to me. Pitchforks!
It’s interesting that Grayson is named, given that he really seems to enjoy using sites I read (or read, past tense, in the case of RPS) as a soapbox to be sanctimonious on issues of morality and ethics, which seems somewhat hypocritical.
Or, it would… IF it was a ‘sex for reviews’ type deal.
See, the other factor is that it’s not like game journalists and game developers are entirely separate social circles or segregated by some kind of fraternization code. Get some folks drunk at a convention (at which, surprise, you may find both game devs and game journos), and some pants are coming off and not necessarily for favours.
In the event that there’s been reporting I’ve read where bias could exist, such as RPS reporting on a game their writers were making, or writers getting paid by PR companies to attend a publisher junket, it’s been disclosed up front. So obviously the industry knows how to do it; disclosure, I mean.
I haven’t seen anything disclosed relationship-wise in this case, which is probably an oversight on the part of those involved, but that’s what you get when you’re trying to cover up multiple affairs. “Full-disclosure: I had a one night stand hook-up with the developer of this game I’m reviewing. Don’t tell her boyfriend.”
Shitty situation sure, but the ethical thing is to remove yourself from it and let someone else do the write-up. Anything else, however seemingly innocent, is textbook wrong-doing. We’d hang a politician+reporter out to dry for it, just not an indie developer+reporter?
That’s probably where my annoyance comes in. It’s a double-standard to see this automatically being treated as a harmless personal matter requiring privacy and discretion with any breach of reader trust being purely imaginary, instead of leaping to the conclusion that there’s some sort of foul play occurring, like happens for FUCKING EVERYTHING ELSE in the industry at even the slightest hint of potential sensationalism. Even when there’s absolutely nothing to justify it than some hyper-sensitive reactionary twit’s interpretations.
It’s as if editors across the net are excusing, ‘No, we decided this was just a personal matter, not gaming related. We have someone with intimate knowledge of the situation.’ Which, sure, could generate a cynical snicker and, “I bet you do,” but if it were someone I cared about, I’d probably feel the same. Which is PROBABLY why so many are leaving this alone.
Or at least… I really hope that’s why, rather than this being a case of a manipulative cheater getting their leg up on a credulous press through white/male guilt and the threat of ruinous defamation suits. Because the latter would be… unconscionable exploitation deserving of the deepest, most bitter censure.
I agree with you completely.
The thing about conflict of interest is that you don’t need to have actually have done anything wrong, it is the appearance of a conflict that is the problem.
I haven’t even looked at this in detail beyond the summary as posted in TAY, but IMO if you’re a journalist in the games industry with any integrity at all, and you’re in or were in a sexual relationship with someone developing a game, you don’t cover their stuff. You just don’t. Negative or positive.
Someone please give me a link to where the journalists in question covered this game??? Am I using Google wrong >.
Good point. Hell if I can find it on Kotaku AU from Grayson. (Which tbh, is the only one I’d really give a shit about, I haven’t read his RPS stuff in a while.) Only stuff by Patricia and Phil. Plus some guest stuff covering unrelated shit, and one PhD. Which, like I said above, makes me think if it was sex-for-reviews, it seems like a pretty shitty deal was had. Definitely leaning toward beat-up.
No, just no. That is not the proper story. It’s disgusting what’s being done to that poor woman.
While I agree she hasn’t done anything to deserve the kind of backlash this is getting, I’m not sure it’s fair to call her a “poor woman” given she did sleep with 5 other guys while kind of screwing this guy along for the ride =\
It just seems to be a case of a hurt ex lashing out whatever way he can and trying to justify getting dumped with the facts he has (anyone else get the feeling he was being kind of needy in the blog? Who counts how many days you haven’t spoken to someone?!?). However the more I look at this the more I think it’s a situation of two dick heads being dick heads and one dick head managed to victimize himself and get the public on his side.
Zoe Quinn’s been a target of certain darker parts of the internet (the part that send death and rape threats, and upload addresses to encourage people to carry out those threats) since before her game, and before the latest fuss.
You aren’t referring to that Wizardchan debacle are you? That looks like she made that up for the publicity. Unless you’re referring to something else?
No, I’m not talking about that.
Let me make one thing clear. She never needed any publicity. Depression Quest was never a game made for making money.
The gross part of the gaming internet took offence to the fact that she was a girl who made games, much like they took offense to the fact that Anita Sarkeesian was a woman talking about games.
Anything you see that is written by a hurt ex always has to be taken with a grain of salt, too. I’m unsure why people who had never heard of Zoe Quinn before this are taking everything the ex says as gospel truth.
Depression Quest failed Greenlight first time around. She submitted it again and then made claims about harrassment from Wizardchan to various gaming sites and magically it goes through. I don’t know what other harrassment you are talking about.
Why are people believing the ex? Because he posted proof. Constant proof for every single thing he claimed.
He’s only posted proof of what an ugly break up he went through. But once again if you read that blog you notice he keeps returning for more abuse. This is the usual case of someone who’s unable to let go during a break up and the person initiating the break up feeling guilty and indulging their counterparts emotions. She slept around and he got duped but instead of walking away at this point he kept going back for more and her guilt probably made it so she couldn’t tell him to bugger off. All this is, is a fucked up break up that got made public and connected to her game because the ex is bitter about being an idiot. If someone cheats on you don’t be stupid enough to go back to them and “fix things” and then be upset you couldn’t and make it a public debacle.
She has every right to sleep with whomever just like he had every right to walk away at any point after finding out she cheated. Once again I still don’t see any definitive proof that she slept with these guys for reviews? It’s still entirely possible she was just messing around with people in the same industry as her, people she could’ve met through a number of ways.
P.S. I want to make it clear I’m not defending her because she really did screw that guy over, but there’s nothing connecting the guys she slept with to her game. So if you take that out of the equation this becomes a case of a pissed off and hurt ex looking for some way to get back at her. You even see it in the blog’s chat logs, at one point he figures out what scares her is this going public which is probably where he decided this is how he’s going to lash out at her. She’s an immoral person with no regard for other people’s feelings and he’s a big baby, anyone siding with either of these people needs to go play KOTOR 2 and have a talk with Kreia =P
Now back to Ferguson! =P
@pupp3tmast3r
The ex didn’t claim that she got positive reviews from the people she slept with. That was other people drawing conclusions.
He did point out that she was sleeping with her boss before she got her job and did draw questions around how she got to be involved with Game Jam considering the guy mostly involved was sleeping with her as well.
@phlaiman
In regards to her sleeping with her boss to get ahead…. I hate to sound like a pig but once again… she can’t have been the first person in the world to do that. And while it’s safe to say it’s an unethical practice I’m sure it happens a lot more often than people would like to admit? I mean shit if we stoned every person who was cheating with a married man/woman we’d lose most of our politicians and probably 30-40% of the human race? Likewise with people using sex to get ahead in their career, it’s wrong but in reality it happens. Next we’ll be pissed off at people buying their way into their careers, or using mom and dad’s well placed connections. What she did doesn’t warrant the backlash she got and it certainly doesn’t warrant her ex making their break up a public forum.
Edit: I guess what I’ve been trying to argue is that there’s shitty people out there, it doesn’t mean we have to be shitty people to them though and certainly doesn’t mean the internet get’s the right to give her a metaphorical stoning. She wants to be a shitty person then she can live with it and people who know what she’s like can keep their distance. It doesn’t warrant a public shaming and it doesn’t warrant death threats – all that accomplishes is that it show us that shitty people are drawn to shitty people.
You want Soundwave? I got you some mothereffin Soundwave. I’ve gone through the lineup and picked my favourite track from each artist. So if you’re looking at the lineup wondering who half those bands are, this is for you.
http://open.spotify.com/user/1234998215/playlist/1HaV2RsVLRT2UyKm8Ebgab
Wow
of mice and men seem a little out of place on that lineup 😛
It’s not really my kind of lineup this year. A lot of alt-rock/nu metal/punkish stuff. Good bands, just not really my thing.
BUT BUT AUSTRALIAN PARAMORE … i mean Tonight alive.
Yeah Some of the bands are okay but I havent liked godsmack, all time low, papa roach or fallout boy since i was 15 and thought it would impress a girl.
It didnt.
According to Wiki they’re ‘Metalcore’ so they’re pretty fitting honestly.
woops got confused with the lumineers, my mistake.
Haha, silly Rockets 😛
my head is too filled with 80’s music and hipster synth pop to pay attention damn it.
Probably for the best. Metalcore is weird and a bit much, well for me it is 😛
*stops wondering who bands are, wonders who spotify is*
Oh noooooo. You were one of the main reasons I made this list.
Aw, now I have guilt.
ANTEMASQUE.
Them doing a sideshow is all I need from Soundwave.
Luke Plunkett outside of Kotaku articles is still a giant troll. Follow him on Facebook and now he’s getting in with the kids who’re all “soundwave sucks, the festival is dead” yeah whatever, sorry it didn’t cater to your niche douchebag needs.
Eugh..
I saw the soundwave line up, not my cup of tea, maybe 10 years ago I’d have been hyped as hell.
It’s very reflective on the past 5-6 years of Soundwave, honestly!
FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCTTTTTTTOOOOOOOORRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
YEEEEEEAH! I love Dino, the dudes a badass.
I’ve only seen FF without Dino. I was fairly unimpressed as well, as much as Byron is a great bassist, his stage presence leaves a lot to be desired. But also FF were in that ‘we hate Dino’ mood and didn’t play anything off Digimortal even though that was their most recent album at the time.
Worst! I think it was @gutsoup was tellin’ me he saw them last time they came out, and this dingy little venue in Brisbane. I’d go see them if I got the chance I reckon. I also remember they did this awesome cover of Cars by Gary Numan, which was on some racing game back in the PS1 days, I loved that game cause of their cover hahaha.
http://youtu.be/CSoKp6dRUH0
I managed to see them in 2010 at the BDO, front and centre on a mound of crushed cans. I saw God*.
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*Not necessarily a true accounting of deity appearances
Yeah seen them twice at a little venue at West End, pretty good cause we could get nice and close, I moshed my way up front and got a high five from Burton. Also Cars is on Obsolete.
He’s a very funny guy. Was really friendly when I met him, too.
He seems the sort! He seemed like a top guy in the doco on Roadrunner when they turned 25 all those years ago and did the Roadrunner United album.
But Soundwave does suck! 😛
It can’t hold a candle to any of the European/American festivals
Or 70000 Tons Of Metal…which you’re going to be on, right? RIGHT?! 😛
erm…still struggling for spare money atm. If there’s tickets still available in a couple of months it’s a possibility but I’ll have a newborn niece/nephew to go and visit back home that takes priorities
Oh, and speaking of other festivals. Earlier in the year we were thinking about doing Made Of Metal instead of 70K. The line-up was phenomenal. http://www.madeofmetal.cz/eng/ If Soundwave ever had a line-up like that I’d go to it in every state.
That’s actually pretty damned good. Not much chance of Haggard coming over here which saddens me. Is Pagan Fest still going? Before I left England it had just started picking up there
I think Pagan Fest is still going. I’m pretty sure I hear about it from time to time.
And Asis said that he’s been looking at ways to get Haggard to Australia, because he keeps up with what gets ordered from their online shop and noticed a growing amount of Australian orders. If he ever makes it happen I will go to every single show I can even if it means I don’t eat for a month. They’re so amazing live.
Really depends what your taste is. It appeals to me 😛
So that’s a “nah” to a Mackay meat, @rocketman? 🙁 i r sad
You gotta be cool or you’ll scare him off! =P
Its a im going in not my car and Im not sure if i shall get time. Sorry buddy i would like to have a NQ meet with you and stevo but probably not this time around.
I DO WUB YOU THOUGH
I am going to Sugar City Con too…
HUG YOU THERE
IM going saturday. during the day so you should dm me your number or something??
Yeah it’s 10am-6pm. I’m thinking of going 11am, breaking for lunch, then going back there.
Added you on Twitter, can’t send DM’s until you accept follow request or something.
coollio thanks buddy
@redartifice ! Questions.
What is Crusader Kings II and am I pretty much just going to be playing the Game of Thrones mod on it?
Ok so imagine you are a king of a tiny little european country and now you are in charge of everything and also everyone else is a king and everyone wants to be king and you literally have to manage the expectation of EVERY LIVING PERSON and arrange marriages for them based on how likely they are to one day be king and then cockblock them by setting things up so in five hundred years your descendants are the king of two tiny european countries instead of one.
I need to get the game of thrones mod myself because I feel like I understand the history and politics of Westeros better than that of the real world.
This is pretty accurate, except it’s missing the part where your ruler gets syphilis and all of his heirs other than his ugly daughter die and so now she’s the queen and no-one respects her so you order everyone executed.
The one time I played (and I swear I’ll give it another try when I have time) my wife kept running off to hide in a convent while her family plotted to assassinate me so I sired like a gajillion bastards. Which didn’t make my wife a whole lot happier, for some reason.
I got bloodlines fo’ DAAAAAAYYYzzzz
I cuckolded my own son.
Stone. Cold. I bet you’d raised him to be super trusting too.
Gets better.
She had a kid, so my son’s wife gave birth to her husband’s brother
Crusader Kings: Ghengis Khan edition?
Khan of Khans!
The Mongol Empire is terrifying. Seriously. People kind of gloss over it but they had the biggest contiguous empire ever. It was enormous. And as a result of the fact they were warring with China and the Islamic world (and raiding from them) they were centuries more advanced as well. They’re believed to have turned gunpowder-based siege cannons on some of the cities they sacked. They conquered China, probably the most advanced civilization in the world in the 13th Century. You know the phrase thrown around in the 20th century about bombing a culture back to the stone age? The Mongols basically did that to Islam, and it’s never really recovered from it. They depopulated entire countries and I think estimates suggest were responsible for the murder of something on the order of 80 million people. There’s horrific chapters in the history books talking about entire cities being systematically executed. Usually after every woman below the age of about 40 was raped. Mountains of skulls piled up, roads stained red with blood. So systematic that they’d take a town, kill everyone, leave, and then send back a group a week later to kill anyone that had been in hiding or out of the city and had since returned. At one point they literally killed every living thing in a city, down to the cats and dogs. They weren’t very nice people.
In fact, had they not been split apart by internal conflicts, they would have probably flooded out even further and taken all of Europe as well. They sent a scouting party through western Europe, and that group flattened an entire medieval Georgian army several times its size on the way through, an army that was about to be deployed on a Crusade.
The Golden Horde khanate killed so many people it changed the world’s climate
\m/
I’ve never installed the GoT mod, though I’ve heard it is great.
Crusader Kings is a simulator of being a medieval ruler in pretty much anywhere from England to (with expansions) India. You play as a Dynasty, not a single ruler, and will plot its family across about 400 years.
As a game, it is focused on the relationships between your ruler and other rulers, nobles, and people within your kingdoms. Once you’ve picked your starting province and rank (you may be a ruler of just one county, or an emperor) there’s no goals save the ones you set yourself (other than “don’t let your bloodline die”)
I love it for many reasons, a number of which I put in this blog post I wrote a while back:
http://redartifice.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/the-great-unfinished-work-why-crusader-kings-ii-has-me-suckered-in/
It’s probably my number one favourite PC game ever atm.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
7:30 TONIGHT SA TIME
SLIME MONSTERS? AGAIN?
ALSO STREAMING
cc @mawt @popdart5 @blaghman @tech_knight @novacascade
Woot woot. It’s been a while since I’ve been on the player side of Roll20 so it’ll be a nice change.
Yay! 😀
Looking forward to the long awaited next chapter.
@transientmind
How did you go with the Dick Smith PS4 order?
I’m a little confused. Dick Smith sent me a link with a courier track-and-trace order, which is telling me that my PS4 is waiting at the local post-office for pick-up today.
I am very confused, this is not what I was expecting at all.
😀 Sounds like great news!
Yes. It does, doesn’t it? That’s what confuses and concerns me.
Edit: 😉
I’ve had a quick gander at the comments over at OzBargain and the general consensus seems to be good news.
If you weren’t such a cool guy, I would hat you so much!
Like Transient, my order for one that I put in on monday was apparently delivered today.
Totes unexpected.
How long does this discount last, or has it finished?
Finishes 21st. Use the code CDICKSMITH20 when buying the $499 PS4 from Dick Smith’s ebay store using a paypal address that matches your ebay address.
(URL to get started, here: http://tinyurl.com/nc4ogk7 )
Played that “Coming Out Simulator” game.
While I liked the concept, I didn’t really care for the actual game that much.
Poor guy though.
If what happend in my play through is anything like what happend to him in real life, then that’s one of the more painful coming out stories I’ve heard (dude got punched in the face by his dad).
Also finished Transistor.
That ending! :O
Such a beautiful game :’)
Next game, Valiant Hearts! 😀
transistor ending spoiler :
thing I noticed on my 2nd playthrough –
that bit right before the end, when Red is using the transistor to undo the Process… right before she kills herself, when she hums along to the background music… she’s humming the melody from Paper Boats (the track over the credits) featuring the lyrics “I will always find you…” etc. just got me wondering how long ago did Red actually decide to kill herself? how long had I been playing a woman who was committed to dying? it was a bit unsettling. & really sad.Valiant Hearts :D. Good choice.
I should check out transistor, I hear good things.
I really enjoyed it 🙂
Beautiful design and music, and the gameplay is quite deep and rewarding too.
The story is a little convoluted at times, but it’s definitely a great game 🙂
“Coming Out Simulator”?
Mum, dad, I have to tell you something; I’m a simulator
I received an email today from cnet saying I am one of the winners of a $100 JB HI-FI voucher for participating in a survey they had on their site a couple of months ago. Woop woop! If I can put it towards a game then that’s Destiny all paid for. 🙂
Buying a lotto ticket tonight as I have a feeling I’m going to win.
And if I hit the jackpot – everyone on TAY is getting a share cz you’re all so god damn friendly. BOOM.
This is a test to see if we’re paying attention, isn’t it? 😛
Na – just feeling generous!!
You passed the test.Heh, I laybyed a Vita today…
When will you get your mitts on it? I’ve been needing one to put all my PSOne games from the PS Store on so I can Final Fantasy VII & IX in bed
2 months or a little longer if I wish, since they love me at my local EB (I used to work there lol) they had a preowned last gen model so I decided i’d buy it cause it’s the better one!
HUZZAH!!!!
Have you played Persona 4 before? If not get that, so good. Or if for some reason you’re not into that type of game you’re a monster >:|
😛Nope, my boss at EB when I told her she’s all “YOU HAVE TO GET PERSONA!!!” she’s such a fan girl 😛
I’ve honestly no real clue what Persona is!
It’s a combination dungeon crawler and school life simulator. You spend a year in a rural high school, hanging out with friends, studying, maybe going fishing and so on, so basically it’s all time management. And then periodically you go into an alternate dimension inside a TV to fight demons and try and track down someone that’s murdering people in that world.
What makes it stick for people though is the fact that one of the central themes of Persona is the idea that people create a ‘persona’ that they project to the outside world that they use to mask the truth about themselves, sometimes from themselves. Basically stuff happens and there’s a ‘dark persona’ version of each of the characters in the other world that you need to beat in order to rescue characters that have gotten caught in there, and those dark version characters basically are like the repressed inner elements of those characters dialed up to the extreme. So eg
the badass manly dude who struggles with his own sexuality is confronted by a version of himself that’s more camp than a tent store, and the tomboy has to deal with the inferiority complex she has as a result of the fact her best friend is everything she wishes she was.And that’s the main hook.It’s a huge game too, you’re going to get 60-80 hours out of it if you grab it. Easily the best game on the system from a critical standpoint. I’m not quite as enamored with it as some – I find the time management element of it stressful as I’m a power gamer / minmaxer kind of player and I always want to make optimal choices, which makes it feel like a chore.
There’s some other great games on the Vita too, though. I think if I were to make a personal top ten it’d be:
– Persona 4
– Gravity Rush
– Ys: Memories of Celceta
– Dragon’s Crown
– Muramasa
– Arland Atelier trilogy (Rorona/Totori/Meruru Plus)
– Danganronpa
– Toukiden
– Demon Gaze
– Lumines: Electronic Symphony
Tearaway I hear great things about but haven’t played, and Uncharted Golden Abyss I didn’t like but might be maybe your thing? There’s heaps of other more niche stuff too. Lots of indie games too – I know a lot of people swear the Vita was designed for playing Spelunky. Hotline Miami is amazing on it. I imagine it’d be great for Rogue Legacy if I didn’t hate that game.
Also a great time to have one since pretty much every week from now until mid November there’s a decent new game.
Awesome, cheers man! I’ll defs get a copy. Also gonna get PS+ for sure with it, cause it makes sense especially after seeing @Beavwa saying the other week he doesn’t need to buy games just utilises the PS+ membership lol.
Also do you know if remote play worth using? That interests me.
I haven’t had any reason to use Remote Play but it might be.
PS+ is a must. The other thing you need to do is pick between a US or AU PSN account, can’t have both easily.
Yeah, was wondering what would be the better option. I only have an AU PSN on my PS3 & PS4.. But if I owned 2 memory sticks I could have both!
What’s the advanatge of the US PSN over the AU? Cause i’m not really sure tbh.
PS+ is largely the same over time so the only real differences are availability of some stuff. Some games still don’t come to Europe or take longer to make it.
The other big difference is that the EU PSP stuff is terrible and US has better PS1 range too. This only really makes a big difference if you want to play eg Atlus PSP stuff. The difference is getting less and less of an issue as more actual Vita stuff comes to market though. And most of the PSP highlights – even niche stuff like Ys Seven or Trails in the Sky – are available. One of the standouts I think is still not on EU PSN is Corpse Party but I haven’t looked at that in ages.
GOLDEN IS SOOO GOOD.
i am gonna have to finish it one of these days. i am 10 hours in and its amazing i just cant keep going because i wanna work out strategy and stuff.
The downside to having multiple email accounts? Using the Paypal account linked to the one I don’t check to pre-order Wasteland 2 and not checking in on it or logging into the website to discover I’ve had a beta key for the last month…ho hum
I just forward all of mine to a central account.
Also, after a few months of harassing my manager I’m being made permanent at last 😀 on the same payrate as I’m currently on as well with the added bonus of holiday pay once more. So long being a temp
I just hope this permanent job lasts longer than the only other permanent contract I’ve signed in Australia where the business went into administration. That was not enjoyable but at least I got a payout out of that because I’d put pen to paper a few hours beforehand
Woo, congrats!
Certainly better than my job news, got the rejection letter from the interview I had the other week. Lack of a phone call had pretty well made me assume it but the email confirmed it. Oh well, their loss.
Lol at the last two ‘Most Commented’ articles currently.
“This week in games I have no games”? 😀
Yup and it makes that face (which happens to be one of my favourite expression faces ever) even funnier. :p
Just popping in to remind everyone that …. we still have no public report on either MH flight. What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Hey guys! What you doing? Stuff? I bet it’s stuff!
*suspiciously looks around the office*
How the?
This guy! HAVENT SEEN YOU IN AGES?
What’s new?
I talked to just the worst people.
Did you talk to that @sernobulus guy? I’ve heard he’s quite a nob.
True story: DC totally exclaimed “Nobs!” in the crowded food court as you went past and nobody even looked at him funny.
First @rocketman now you. Excuse me. I’m going to go lie down on these train tracks.
I wish.
I’m doing things. It’s the worst.
DON’T DISTURB ME! I’m working very hard doing I.T… Things…
*mashes random keys and mumbles to self*
You’re like that girl from Jurassic Park. It’s a UNIX system. You know this.
Yeah man, currently I’m working on connecting the central mainframe’s tcp/ip stack to the matrix to ensure the flux capacitor operates at maximum capacity!
Working out if I want a job in climate change policy.
Need those muscles to take on tree loppers?
Working my legs so I can kick Maurice Newman in the junk
Beating yourself in the head hard enough to be able to say it’s a lie with a straight face?
State, not federal, so climate change is real and happening.
Climate change is real? What sort of crazy upside-down world are you living in? Do they also use facts and empirical evidence?
I’m fighting off a killer headache. It must be an allergic reaction to you calling me names. 😛
Rest your pretty head!
So mean! 😛
Mean? Coming from the person that assaulted me with hugs! HUGS!
You deserved it!
Now, now, don’t blame the victim.
Sudden urge to play FFX for some unknown reason…
Been playing around with animations, figuring out how they work. Basically unearthing old, unused features.
I’m doing all of the stuff
I’m slacking off at work and not focusing on anything much, committed a changeset just now and now I’m reading shit on the internet and planning out tonight’s activities. Going to do some Kantai Collection grinding, maybe a couple of passes at the first event map which I still haven’t cleared – did get to the boss again last night, couldn’t quite finish it off 🙁 – and then maybe some Sword Art Online or Akiba’s Trip on the Vita.Sitting here trying not to fall asleep due to exhaustion. FUN TIMES!
I’m reading old TAY pages while I eat breakfast!
I had not considered it before but Battlefield Hardline just seemed kinda silly when I first heard of it. You know, too over the top and unrealistic.
But now, with this Ferguson stuff going down? It takes on a much different tone.
They could have made it realistic by changing the hardened, well equipped criminals to unarmed civilian protesters.
This is America remember – every other person has a gun of some kind, with assault rifles available for the enthusiasts.
Hardline could end up looking like a documentary.
Awesome work Missouri police. Shoot a (reportedly) mentally challenged black guy. I’m sure that will help matters.
You’d think with the political situation and the tension near it they’d be on high alert to avoid exactly that, justified or not, even just to stop any further news stories and upset people. The majority of other developed nations can manage it.
Its all part of the game plan..shoot another black guy to take the attention and protesters away from ferguson to Missouri..and repeat..eventually they gonna get tired of moving place to place to protest
Merica’
Isn’t Ferguson in Missouri?
Yes, it’s on the outskirts of St Louis.
I never claimed to be good at geography!
*jumps out window*
While the use of excessive force US police are so fond of is deplorable there is always more to these stories than you ever get to hear from the media.
That’s what Twitter is for. 😛
Cops rocked up, guns drawn, shot him. No tasers apparently. That’s an odd choice, I guess MO officers don’t holster tasers..?
Blergh. 75% on the test and lost most of the points to stupid inane mistakes.
*beats head on the desk*
Or…
75% on the test! WOOOOOOO! YESSSSS! WELL DONE!
Losing points on tiny mistakes is the worst. Still, 75% is a high pass! \o/
If I labelled 2 questions quantities instead of just the numbers (eg: 1.58dm^3 instead of 1.58) and a couple of other stupid ones that were minor formatting mistakes I’d have 91%…
*shoots self*
It’s anecdotes like this that reassure me about not going to Uni. Would have hated it.
It seems pedantic, but the units are super important once you start doing any remotely complicated calculation. You can often tell if you fucked up somewhere because the units will be wrong.
I know. That’s why I’m shooting myself. I was rushing g through and nor paying full attention.
As I always say to my students, Don’t Forget The Units.
Or become an applied mathematician and nondimensionalise everything!
This is the best idea.
Everyone, do this!
Also, most of my students wouldn’t have the talent for uni maths beyond maybe first year.
I totally understood that.
*picks up a crayon and eats it*
75% is a distinction!
*sings*
Every little thing that you say or do
I’m hung up
I’m hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby night and day
I’m fed up
I’m tired of waiting on you
Well, I would be singing if it didn’t make me cough up a lung currently :'(
I MISS SINGING :’O
You like this song but don’t like Abba, eh? There’s an unpleasant surprise coming your way! D:
I know the general beat is from an ABBA song (not sure which one, don’t wanna know which one) 😛
Madonna makes it work is all 🙂
I love me some Madonna 😀
There’s not a soul out there,
no-one to hear my prayyyyeeerrrrrrr,
Gimme Gimme Gimme a man after midnight,
Won’t somebody help me chase the shadows away,
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight,
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day.
When I sung that in Abba Singstar my cousin cousins were like “shouldn’t you be singing ‘woman’ or something?” And I just laughed at them. Like I’d ruin a perfectly good song with that.
YOU!
HAVE YOU WATCHED PITCH PERFECT YET?!
I FUCKING WATCHED IT AGES AGO.
I TWEETED DURING IT AND EVERYTHING! YOU’RE A MONSTER FOR NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO EVERY GLORIOUS POST ON MY TWITTER FEED!
I WAS JUST MAKING SURE! I’M SORRY IF I USUALLY ONLY SKIM READ YOUR TWEETS CAUSE I DON’T FIND YOU THAT INTERESTING!
I’m only jking bby, I luv u 🙂
Found Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight for $3 at a Vinnies.
\o/
Thrifting FTW!
Yo, @greenius, how you liking Perth?
It sucks, right?!
Do you have any idea what you want to do tomorrow by the way?
Or do any WA TAYbies have any suggestions?
I should hopefully be alright to head out tomorrow.
I’ve been feeling a fair bit better today after all 🙂
Take him shopping, I hear he loves shopping!
Good to hear :). I was just about to do a TAY post.
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @hindenlagen @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks
So who’s available and when? So far it looks like just Fled and I, but we don’t want to do anything too late since we both have an early start on Friday. I’m in the Travelodge Perth so anywhere near me will be fine.
Ugh, I so would have been able to join you this time last year. I worked near the city!
Come back!
I’ll be back for three weeks over chrissy but I assume you will have gone home by then 😛
Oh and Perth seems pretty okayish I guess. .. yeah… :P. I guess I haven’t really done much but I did a quick wander around the city with a friend last night and it’s just like any other ol city.
If I’m up to going out I’m available any time tomorrow 🙂
Tomorrow’s also late night shopping, so we could mooch around Hay Street mall even, go grab something to eat, or go to a pub 😀
I’m keen for anything, but have nothing worth while to suggest, since we missed the drag shows (you really missed out on the Stewie experience there, buddy :P).
I’ve got a meeting right near where @greenius is staying until about 1830-1900. Was thinking about heading somewhere for food after (The Moon?) or if there’s some problem w/ that maybe a pub dinner somewhere.
Ugh, phone TAY is kinda painful.
If you guys are planning a pub dinner, I’ll have to abstain.
You can still go to a pub, little Phlanispo, you just can’t drink 😛
Any food is good by me 😛
I don’t usually go into the city for food, so I’m not sure what the options are (but I’ve heard that the Moon is quite good).
The Moon is good. Billy Lee’s is also good, if you’re up for Chinese.
I’m at uni until about 1700 (24hr time rox) and I can probably head into the city after that. I also can’t stay out too long, uni again first thing Friday morning.
Y U no tag me in this!
SORRY! I thought I was replying to you! Reply fail. @greenius
Charity ambush at the station.
Still keeping up the guise of being unemployed student because… uh… habit. Sure >_>
The girl tonight was nice though. Seemed rather happy that someone actually acknowledged her existence, mustn’t have been having much luck 😛
*grabs popcorn*
*steals a handful*
Thanks.
So when is the wedding, and are we invited?
Last week I discovered that carrying a camera is a good way to ward them off.
Or at least, the ones who were out at that moment avoided me when I had my camera out.
I’ll try to remember to look them in the eye and say “Sorry, I already donate to ISIS” if I get ambushed next time.
Youtube + CommentBlocker
… bliss…
Nendoroid Link’s release got delayed to October 🙁
I just got the email about that.
I am heartbroken.
I just got the e-mail about that.
I am hopeful that that makes it line up with other things waiting in the wings.
It means that August is just two things for me: Nendoroid Kongou and I have Figma Akagi ordered with amiami (missed HobbySearch’s sales period).
Luckily for me, October is also a light month, unless something from September is delayed. September is two Nendoroids for me – Koyomi (Bakemonogatari) and Sakura (Cardcaptor Sakura \o/) as well as the release of Transformers Masterpiece Wheeljack (aka the best character) and October was just Nendoroid Madoka Yukata ver. (Madoka Magica). I think I’ve got some KanColle Nendos on order with GSC directly that are delivering in September as well, might have been Ooi and Kitakami or might be Kaga, not sure.
November is an absolute killer month for me – six things on order – so I’m kind of hoping for some delays there.
Ugh, that delays everything else I ordered :(. My desk needs decorations!
2 and a half months to pax.
How will I finish everything /o\
By taking on more projects!
Man that isn’t much time. I should get started on something.
WAIT WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO AUGUST?
It broke the laws or time and physics just to spite us
I officially started yesterday when I bought a metre of orange fabric from spotlight for Mr 3’s outfit.
Mr 3’s?
PAX will be a family holiday, so I’ll have my little dude with me for the day. I will be Unikitty and he will be Emmet and/or Batman from the Lego movie. I’m happy to buy him a batman costume, but we’re sewing the emmet one. He’ll probably wear it all the time, and not just for pax ^_^
The other days we’re planning to do things like go to Melbourne zoo and aquarium and go riding around on trams.
May I suggest Melbourne museum as well? Free entry for kids and it has a special kids area. It’s also an interactive museum which he may enjoy.
There is also acmi which is a museum dedicated to television and video games.
That sounds perfect! Thank you 🙂
No problem. I would suggest sovereign hill and science works but they’re both outside of Melbourne. Acmi is at Federation square and the Melbourne Museum is in the Carlton gardens. Carlton gardens is a quick tram ride from Southern Cross station.
There may also be stuff happening in the city. Check out the City of Melbourne website a few weeks in advance as they may have free things going on.
Glottis!
I’m going to assume that’s a misreply that was supposed to be in response to @cookingmama buying orange fabric 😛
Nah mang! Grim last year, Glottis this year 😀
Well I am now thinking that if the Friday is Halloween then bringing Manny back would be appropriate…
I was going to say “Finally, a character I can cosplay as!” But I don’t have the legs to pull it off. DAMN YOU GLOTTIS!
Hire a small army of slave labourers to do everything for you!
I’m starting to get mum to help me with a few small things
Good start!
She working on a few little bits for yours. Knitting mainly
I’m gonna try and re-install Dark Souls and see if I can get it working…
*fingers crossed*
I have a confession that won’t go down well in TAY
I’ve had Dark Souls 2 installed on my computer for a few months now and haven’t even loaded it up…*hides*PAX people may be interested in doing something after (if you’re not across it already)… Spiritual successor to Mana Bar Melbourne is launching on the PAX weekend.
http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/beta-bar-launch-weekend-pax-after-parties-tickets-12679836733
https://www.facebook.com/betabaraus
Edit: Clarity.
Oooooh…. 😀
…That’ll probably be:
– Overpriced
– Overcrowded
– Probably just generally not a good experience.
But, open to try I guess… can always move on.
So I am suddenly contemplating reactivating my WoW account now that Panda xpac is cheap…. Someone please talk some sense into me.. please?
*slap*
Ow I said talk TALK
Actions speak louder than words
I resubbed today because Blizzard upgraded me to Pandaria for free. >.>
wait how? are you a wizard? (possibly from the moon)
No idea. I just got an email from them that was like “good work, have a free game, now give us money.”
Right, wizard, got it.
🙁 I didn’t get free pandas 🙁
I’m kind of glad I haven’t actually. No time for WoW.
Right? I was happily resisting Warlords even though it looks rad, but then they gave it to me, and my will was shattered.
I’m tempted to buy Diablo 3 again for my PS4. I’ve heard good things about the console version.
DOOOO EEEEET!
I have it for PS3, it’s pretty great
I’m tempted to do the same, never finished it on PS3 but I don’t know how to justify buying the same thing twice. It does come with the DLC though, what’s the cheapest you’ve seen it out of curiosity?
I ended up buying it from the PS store which was something like $80 not exactly cheap but meh. The game comes with the base game and the DLC
Play Demon/Dark Souls instead!
\o/
I’m not much a replay guy and I’ve thoroughly played the entire series haha
Join me and dire on Barthilas Horde =P prep for the new expac!!!! sign your life away dammit
………………………………….. (<— dotted line)
But…. Frostmourne 4 lyf
Yeah ok I’m gonna go with Powalen’s repsonse *slap*
Sorry No can do, I went back and dragged my brother with me
Two fish are playing Street Fighter. The crowd is cheering for the fish, singing their praises and commending their different fighting styles. Guile’s theme is playing.
This, ladies, and gentlemen, is the peak of humanity.
GO ROBERT GOI watched like 2 matches and saw more action than I have in some EVO games.
I wish that was a joke.
Um… K.
http://www.twitch.tv/fishplaystreetfighter
Nooooo, now I’m watching it
Who’re you rooting for, and why is it Robert the Bruce?
Rooting for fish? That’s almost as bad as the horse porn.
Robert the Bruce was a Scottish dude who fought alongside William Wallace (Braveheart). He’s known for fleeing to a cave after a defeat and watching a spider try and make a web by jumping a gap, it kept falling short but it kept trying over and over until it got there, that inspired him to not give up and he led a fairly successful campaign against the English.
I’m guessing the dude got the name from there 😛
Someone seriously needs to make a salty bet for this.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Despite my best efforts, I was unable to throw either @tech_knight or @blaghman off the top of a tower. They did manage to get a big nasty goop monster to go splat though.
Thanks for playing/watching!
One more session and then we will have (hopefully) cleared the tower. Hooray!
I have no idea what we will do next though as we were going to acquire items to save Phetys who will be absent for the whole thing.
Yeah, I was going to ask you guys that. I mean, you can keep on the path you had set, or do something different.
I promise that whatever you do won’t be as dungeon-crawly
Considering we had just come from an epic mix of intrigue, espionage, and social upheaval, a dungeon crawl was something nice to play with.
Also gave @blaghman many more chances to A & C. 😛
All I could do was aim and shoot 😛
Maybe we get the message delivered with Phetys back via train “off screen” and close it out that way. Our way of saying farewell or something. It was for him to be “cured” so why not?
I think we still need the Impossible Blade and some sort of mysterious chemical mixture or something (just checked, it was Gharolan) to cure Phetys and remove the Devona spawn from his spine. I believe the Devona would only agree to help Phetys if the Insidious Choir was destroyed and those other items were specifically to operate on Phetys.
Oh yeah we do… I’m thinking maybe Phetys goes back to the Devona earlier, maybe his spinal larvae coerced him to go back to the Devona (Like being drawn back to it) and we can still do it out of just wanting to help him regain his free will and we send it back to the Devona via Numenera Post or something 😛
Scrappa would definitely be still up to helping Phetys, even if he’s no longer in the party.
@scree speaking of PAX cosplay, got my turtleneck today for my Raz costume! Now I have my goggles, backpack, and have ordered the badges, I just need the jacket/pants (op-shopping this w’end) and the cap (talking nicely to my mother) and I’ll be all set! Excite!
Did you have a look at some of the paints? I suggest trying it on the inside hem, just a drop, to see if you like the dried colour
Wanted to wait until I had the item- will probably grab some this w’end or possibly even tomorrow (bit waylaid by application writing atm!)
I understand, but try a bit on the hem that’s facing inwards that isn’t visible because stuff always dries a different colour
Yeah, good plan 🙂
Um, so I have a PS4 in the cart on the Dick Smith EBay store, come on ATO, hurry up and give my broke ass the refund you owe me, so I can buy it, Me wanty.
So now they’re releasing a 500GB hard drive for the 360. Only bought a 320GB one about 10 months ago, and it’s pretty much full.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-19036-Xbox-360-Will-Be-Getting-a-New-500GB-Hard-Drive-Soon.html
Woah. I’m still using my stock-standard original 20GB, and haven’t filled it yet! \o/
Started Diablo 3 as a female Demon Hunter for something different and plus she looks cool in that full armour she’s wearing. Game starts…..
…..
Aaaaaaannnnnd she’s wearing not much besides underpants and a boob job.
Hey, she’s wearing more than the Male Witch Doctor.
I was actually disapointed when I started getting too many clothes on mine, I wanna run around as a crazy naked witch doctor
If it’s like the original on PC, there is ‘vanishing dye’ you can buy which makes the nominated armour piece invisible. So you can run around wearing nothing but a tightly-rolled hand-towel and some crazy mask that’s as big as your torso.
:D, That sounds awesome, will investigate. I’ll just run around in a giant tiki looking mask.
The thing that annoyed me most about playing a female demon hunter was that all boots where high heels. High heels aren’t practical demon fighting equipment, Blizzard.
Unless you have guns in the heels.
How long before the fish become self-aware of what’s happening?
Maybe they already did and they just don’t care?
It IS a pretty sweet gig.
Here’s the question: If the Fish were given rewards based on performance (can fish be given rewards?), would they eventually learn how to “game” the system as it were to try and get the most out of it?
Assuming unobstructed vision of the play area, I think Octopodes would, as would your smarter mammals. Though I’d be extremely doubtful for a (household) fish, because they are stupid, stupid critters.
I bet you there are birds that could figure it out too. The Rook / Crow especially, those buggers have been shown to be incredibly smart, probably smarter than most dogs.
Yeah, good point. I think Crows are able to improvise tools, so they’d definitely be up there in the brain space.
Pigs too probably
My grandfather had a pig, on a dairy farm. It was the family pet, it behaved and was treated pretty much like a very, very intelligent dog.
Pretty sure I have unwashed socks that are smarter than most dogs.
#catperson4lyfe
I vastly prefer cats as well, but our old dog was amazingly smart, much more so than our cat.
I vaguely remember watching a show that trained a goldfish to react to certain things to get food. Trying to dispel the 5 second memory thing.
So, yes, they will eventually take over the world.
too late http://cdn01.cdnwp.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/11/snorky.jpg
Damn me and my goodness, I might have to fly out to Perth to help out on this project again D:
Yay! 😀
I’ll be much better second time round! We have to tear up Northbridge!
You’ll get the usual Stewie experience 😉
Start at the Court, then go to Air, then Capitol Amplifier, then back to the Court, then next thing you know it’s 4am and you’re stealing people’s McDonald’s :3
What are you even doing lol. You’re a random graduate who’s been there a month with zero industry experience, and you’re getting sent to help? Either you’re good at winging it or good at BJs. 😉
Productive evening in Kantai Collection finally.
Had a few swings at the first event map since I seemed to be actually getting to the Boss node now, not sure what exactly I changed but I think it was the extra scout plane on Kiso. Sank the boss three times and got to it and damaged it another three so it’s right down to a sliver of life, but then had three runs at it where I things went wrong. Two in a row where one ship got hit down to red in one of the battles beforehand, then on the run when I actually made it there I got a really bad engagement setup (opposing directions) which basically murders your ability to get any solid shelling hits in. All my ships damaged, running very low on resources. I think at this rate I’ll clear E1 but probably not E2, which sucks since it means missing out on a special ship class (Ooyodo) and because from what I’ve heard, E3-E5 are a cakewalk. But there’s still another week to go so maybe if I get some luck things will work out.Also did some level grinding on the side. Now have Haguro and Atago both at level 38, and Atago is tearing shit up in the events. I also already had gotten Tone to 38 and have Suzuya at 35 and Choukai at 32, so I now have a decent selection of heavy cruisers in a useable state. Once the event is over my goal will be to get Tone and Haguro both to 60 to unlock their second remodels (Tone will require some extra work to get medals from the monthly extra maps to upgrade, so that’s a longer-term goal) and then I plan to work on getting Naka, Jintsuu and Sendai to their remodels as well. After that Myoukou and Chikuma are on my list, and hopefully on the side I can get Haruna to 80 for her second remodel, as well as Kirishima to 75 and Soryuu to 78. But that’s all longer-term.
I’m also only about 25 total levels away from being able to send my sub fleet out on the expedition which unlocks German destroyer Z1 and gives you the chance to build Z3 and Bismark. So that’ll be a goal later on.
The best thing that happened so far though is I got a couple of fantastic rare drops. I thought I’d really scored big when I finally got a 22-min timer on a submarine construction project instead of the usual you-built-a-cruiser 1 hour or so, except it turned out to be another Goya. I-58 is the white whale for a lot of players, but this is my fifth. Unlike the previous ones I’m hanging onto her, as having an extra sub for running expeditions and using as bait for leveling up other ships is very helpful. What I really want though is the one sub that I’m still missing, I-8. If Goya is most players white whale, Hachi is mine 🙁
The better news was that a couple of the clears of E1’s boss node that I managed to do involved fully sinking every enemy ship, so S-Rank clear. The drops in E1’s boss node for S-rank are pretty reasonable, and I managed to get two ships I didn’t already have. Light Cruiser Agano was one of the three light cruisers added in one of last year’s crazy hard events, and is currently only available if you luck out on large ship construction. This means I’ve got two of the four available Agano-class, since I already managed to get Yahagi a while back. They’re pretty cute but not that great as cruisers, unfortunately. Stats are no better than most, resource usage is much higher, and no remodels. Rare equipment though.
The other drop was a bit more exciting. I got Tanikaze, While her stats are honestly nothing special (she’s a bog-standard Kagerou-class destroyer, doesn’t have stat advantages or awesome art like some of the other -kaze destroyers) right now Tanikaze is one of the rarest destroyers in the game. She was added in the event in May when I wasn’t playing, and she was only a random drop there, not a guaranteed reward for clearing a map, and she’s also only a random drop during this event as well. Not available through any normal maps or construction right now. Very cool, I assumed she’d be one I never managed to get hold of until they put her into a map somewhere as a drop in 6-9 months.
Going to have a few more tilts at the event map tomorrow, hopefully clear it and then I’ll at least have Harusame from the event and maybe I’ll luck out with some more drops as well.
So I got a gift voucher for some website, and I may have spent it on a raspberry pi. The plan is to hook it up to the TV in the bedroom to stream all my medias through XBMC (Kodi now I guess).
Also the voucher was for my birthday \o/
Happy birthday Phoenix?
Yep 🙂
Happy birthday! 🙂
Hope you had a good day 🙂
Thanks man
We should geek out over Survivor, BEST PRESENT!
Happy birthday for yesterday!
Or… is it today? The timestamps on these comments are confusing!
WA, so yesterday 🙂
I now understand Perth time confusion D:
Happy belated by one day birthday \o/
Happy borthday!
Bort? My son is also called Bort.
Nighty nighty, TAY.
Eyes falling out of head with tiredness. Stupid PS4 and its stupid awesome games.
More liberal media lies?
ALL LIES. I AM NOT ENJOYING THIS
WONDERFULBLOODY NEW CONSOLE. I also totally did not stay up past the point of tiredness wallowing in console peasantry. LIES.You got it!
I did! Let us virtual hug and jump up and down as we spin until dizzy! Or, y’know… say we did, but physically attempt to emulate the ‘super badass’ from Southpark’s WoW episode. 😉
So what did you get with it?
D3 expansion, Watch Dogs, and Second Son. Didn’t seem like much else worth grabbing that wasn’t a remake. Maybe Wolfenstein/Killzone.
Well those 3 games are 3 of the games I have so clearly you have the correct taste. I also have AC4 but that was because I could get the digital upgrade deelie cheap well after the coupon had expired so I thought I might as well jump on the chance.
Now I just have to buy Destiny & PS+ and I’ll be broke. I seem to remember I was saving for a new laptop…
3,200 people are watching fish play fighting games. Let’s get that to 10,000.
More entertaining than politics.
People need to hurry up and get their PS4 Diablo 3 games going. This Demon Hunter seems a pretty rad class but a tad useless for a solo adventure.
I had similar issues with my Witch Doctor playthrough, some of the bigger mobs would just swarm past my minions & kick my squishy ass to death.
That’s why I found wall of zombies to be a pretty great zoning tool. That or the circle of zombie hands to slow down stuff.
Y’know, it’s funny you should say that, because I picked up three titles for the PS4 last night and what do you think one of them was?
What were the other 2? Infamous I hope, the other I’ll guess Wolfenstein? Oh also download and play the P.T demo, it made me poop a little.
Saving Wolfenstein for PC because it is a shooter and there is only one way to play shooters. I may be slumming it with the peasants, but there are some things I will not stoop to. 😉
The others were, yes, Infamous and a cheap, pre-owned Watch Dogs.
At some point I’ll get the HD remakes of last gen’s darlings (TR, AC4, TLoU) but not while they’re still sitting at stupid ‘new title’ prices. Might get Killzone, heard it was OK and the prices are low for pre-owned.
Killzone is a shooter though. >.>
THAT DOESN’T COUNT. Because y’know, console exclusive. Same goes for teh Haloez (<3 Mastah cheef + Cortana) and Destiny. *firm nod*
I remember the days when Halo was on PC. It seems almost ancient nowadays.
If I were responsible for that port, I’d call it an accident, too. c.c
I remember the days when Halo was being developed for Mac.
aah, fair enough, Watch Dogs is pretty fun, the hacking is overly simple but does add a fair bit to the gameplay, I kept trying to do missions without shooting by just hacking things/people actually worked well a couple of times, that game made me paranoid because people invade your game, I was stalking random NPCs all the time making sure they weren’t real people. (because one of the invasion tasks is to just watch other players and if you’re successful they never even know you were there).
Edit: Be sure to try P.T
I ended up caving and bought the game from the Playstation store. Let me know if you want to group together I just got to level 10 on a crusader.
Is it cross platform multiplayer? I think the likely asnwer is no.
Can’t get it, because plasma TV. 🙁
I’m going through and watching all the videos in my ‘watch later’ playlist on YouTube. 103 just seemed like too much.
So I have a Steam backlog and a YouTube backlog to slog through. Yay!
Get one of the youtube downloader addons for firefox and download them, then they’ll be clogging up your hard drive and you’ll look at them and think “well I downloaded it, I’d better watch it before I delete it to recover space”
Oh hey, can Perth peeps DM me their number? @liondrive @fled
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks
Final-y callout. Looks like it’ll just be Fled (past 7), Phlan (do you have people’s number?) and possibly Lion.
Still waiting on a Cracks and Phoenix response! I should be done by 5ish but if we do anything I’d prefer if it was near my hotel, I think fled had a place in mind, but we can do whatevs until he’s free.
And if I have to cancel for any reason at least you can all still meet up 🙂
I can DM you via Steam, but I only just sent the friend invite.
EDIT: For clarification, I don’t have Twitter.
EDIT EDIT: Dammit, none of the Perth TAYbies are on my Steam Friends List.
Steam isn’t really accessible to me. Looks like the app doesn’t have office chat so I couldn’t send you my number, but as long as you have @fled s or @liondrive s it should be okay
You can add me on Steam, DM me your number, then I can Twitter DM your number to Greenius.
Problem solved 🙂
Brisbane people, I had Da Burger yesterday, still not sure whether I rate it awesomely or not. One thing is for sure though, it was bloody massive
It’s not bad. Fab Burger in the Barracks is the best I’ve found
Actually I had a burger at Miel container on Mary St this week – that was better.
A couple of mates have really gone on about Miel but I’ve never gotten round to trying it. Burger Urge was my usual haunt because I used to live in New Farm and work at UQ St Lucia so stores right near by. I think I prefer their extra bit of greasy that seemed to be missing from Da Burger.
I’ve never eaten anywhere in the Barracks though. I should probably change that
Barracks chow is mostly expensive and overrated. Fab and the pizza place are OK in my experience.
Oh man, Burger Urge used to be so good until they changed their menu.
Da Burger was the perfect cross between Aussie & American style burgers for me. It was damn good.
These other places are gonna warrant a visit very soon.
I didn’t realise Burger Urge had changed their menu 🙁 As long as the Zorba The Greek burger is still there though. Grill’d has been my ‘local’ now. It’s good but not the same. Really keen to try Miel though. A TAY meat should be in order I think
Sign me up!
@dc, what say you? You’re better at organising people for TAY meats than me 😛
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
I need times before I can commit to anything. Tentative maybe.
Don’t do it during the week. The lines outside Miel Burger get really long, and there’s barely any seating. I work about 3 doors up from it.
@beeawwb any Saturday from next weekend I was thinking, whenever people are free.
beardy, do you know what it’s like on weekends?
At the day time, yes.
My lungs are too sick for that cold, night time air!
Divinity : OS finally done.
that last fight is a pain in the arse.
rad game though. just needs a bit more direction to its quests. sometimes it felt a bit like a trial & error / point & click adventure game.
like, quest says go to Place X, to open the gate to Place X, you need Amulet A from Place Y. at no point does the game say or even imply this. you just get “This gate is locked” until you happen to have Amulet A in your possession.
that’s the only downside to the game, & it only happens once or twice.
combat is incredibly rad though. so much fun. & it actually requires planning ahead.
Edit : for an RPG though, there’s not a lot of branching quests. in the few branching quests available, you just make different choices in conversations, resulting in pretty similar outcomes. so surprisingly, there’s not a huge amount of replay value. unless you’d wanna bump up the difficulty or try out a different party setup.
tl;dr D;OS is good. hoping for an official expansion at some point. hopefully one that fixes up the small issues I had with it.
anyway… after 87 hours with that game….. what’s next? I was hoping to get into Wasteland 2, but that was delayed, so now I have no idea what to do next.
It’s on my to-play list! I’ll wait for a Steam sale though.
As far as what’s next… What’s in your backlog?
so much stuff. so very much.
Balder’s Gate, Remember Me, Enslaved, Walking Dead (season 1), Deus Ex : HR, Arkham City, Shadowrun Returns : Dragonfall, Kingdoms of Amalur, Witcher 1 & 2, Sleeping Dogs, Mirrors Edge, Krater, Blackguards, Child of LIght, AC:Pirates, Banner Saga, DmC…
That’s just PC. Wind Waker, GTA V & Last of Us on consoles…
The second season of Walking Dead is about to finish soon. Might be a good time to start playing Season one? They’re pretty good for playing in small chunks.
Other than that the only thing I’ve played there is Mirror’s Edge, so, that! It’s great.
… Xenoblade? 🙂
I don’t have it. 🙁
but I’m keeping an eye on the Wii U one…
Yeah, it makes it hard to recommend it to people when it goes for like $100 used on eBay 🙁
I still can’t decide if I love or hate the instakill dick moves the game pulls on you when you sometimes dig up a grave and it explodes into a burst of lava. On the one hand it’s a total dick move but on the other you do kind of have it coming…
Oh noes! My phone (HTC One) died yesterday. It’s been running really hot the last few days and the battery has been draining pretty fast. I didn’t think much of it because I was at home, I just plugged it in to charge. Checked it an hour or so later and… nothing. The LED light wasn’t even on. I’ve tried turning it on, using a different charger, doing the hard reset thing… nothing. Does anyone here know what I can do???
P.S. I could give you my number @greenius, but… you know.
Why did my phone have to die on my birthday? 🙁
Press and hold the power and volume down buttons.
That’s the hard reset thing I tried. Didn’t work. Not sure if that’s because there is literally no battery power or what 🙁
You can use it as an expensive drink coaster? Or a not-very-good hand mirror?
:'(
Still planning to meet tonight? You’ve probably got better things to do on your bday 😛
Oops just realised you said yesterday. Well come celebrate the day after your birthday 😛
Happy Birthday dood!!
Happy birthday!
Take the battery out right away because it sounds like its dodgy as hell and might rupture, get a replacement and hopefully it’ll be fine.
HTC One (both M7 & M8) have fully enclosed cases and can’t remove battery.
Hard reset via power and volume button is an option. But if battery is cactus you won’t even get that far.
Is it on contract with your carrier? I know Telstra has 24 month warranty to match the contracts… So might be able to get a replacement that way?
Well it is possible but is clearly not supposed to be end user serviceable which is all manner of shitty. @phoenix you’d definitely be better off doing a warranty job or taking it to a repair place unless you’ve got a fair bit of experience with delicate repairs (I’m guessing not since you’ve not already just DIY’d it). Be sure to do so ASAP though, if the battery does rupture it could do some nasty internal damage.
Yeah, haven’t messed with phones like that before so not all that confident. Gonna take it someplace this afternoon hopefully, see if they can repair it.
@sunsoar77 – Bought it outright about 18 months ago… 🙁
I was going through all my comments this morning because i am bored.
I have changed soo much in the last 3 and a half years. Im not sure for the better or worse.
I am just different, which makes me wonder how different i will be in another 3 and a half years.
WIll i still post here?
Will i still be friends with internet people?
Will i be dead?
I ask myself that a lot too, about myself, not you
if you are asking wether i would be dead i would be concerned techy. 😛
You mean you’re NOT?! DAFUQ?! I thought I was able to speak to ghosts via TS!
j/k 😛
You’ve changed for the better! Lots of you have! And you weren’t bad to start off with! Just grown up some, got more confidence and have changed your life in ways subtle, but noticeable.
So have you,
a mere 2 years ago you didnt know who arcade fire was 😛
Who’s arcade fire?
Sounds like a tragedy.
when the feelings gone and you’ve lost control.
Then you might need to crack it open and throw in some new Sanwa parts?
Man, I wish I was at peace at myself enough to look through my entire post history. I only made it 9 or 10 comments in before I was embarrassed at myself.
However, I can do the whole ‘self-reflection’ thing just fine. I’m reminded of the Men at Work song, ‘Overkill.’ It’s a good song to sing to yourself, hits all the melancholy notes quite fine. I believe it’s about anxiety, so I tend to have it in the back of my head whenever I think too hard about particular things that have no solid answers. More specifically, though, I think about these two lines.
“Ghosts appear and fade away- Come back another day…”
I’ve always heard it as “Ghosts to be don’t fade away.” I rather like my version better. Couldn’t tell you why…
Probably dead.
Dead sexy.My first post here (kotaku rather than TAY) was 5 years ago talking about the giant dick move that was the ending of Strider. I’m not sure if it’s encouraging or depressing that I’ve not changed much since…
Me from 5 years ago was a bit of a jerk.
Me from 10 years ago was an ignorant jerk.
Me from 15-20 years ago was a stuck up little shit.
Reality is, at my core I am Not A Nice Person. I’d like to think that year to year I get better at suppressing that, and/or channelling it towards good outcomes.
I’m hoping that 5 years from now will be a perspective of being less of a jerk than now, but time will tell.
yeah you are a horrible person.
Oh wait except you arent you and pip are like the lovliest people in existence.
Well, in the perspective of old posts, my first TAY post was me wanting in on the Secret Serrels Christmas thing, since I wanted to be a better person like all of you were.
Man all this talk of PS4 Diablo 3 is making me tempted.
I have it on Pc and all but I had a blast playing with peeps then and I have not played the expansion…
Reaper of Souls is quite a step up in difficulty from the main game. It’s a refreshing change from some of the monotony that I was experiencing when I was playing.
Adventure mode was great, also the patch that basically turned the PC version into the console version helped a lot. (Better drop chances, higher chance of getting stuff for your class, etc…)
Best thing about the console version is the built in dodge button. It seriously changes everything.
You make the worst friends. The worst.
I was gonna make a Jo friend joke the other day but the target audience is very limited 😛
Good to see it’s still kinda remembered!
@rocketman Did you still need a lift from the airport? If so, when are you guys getting in?
YES I DO IF YOU DONT MIND MR RIZE
9:05pm next Wednesday i’m getting into Canberra with the lady friend.
Think of some good questions to ask rockets lady frond @rize =P
I have a list here.
It goes:
1) So he isn’t Gay?
2) Really?
3) But he likes hugging people, musicals, and singing ABBA! (That’s not a question, Sean)
Trying to call you sean for 5 days is gonna be near impossible. 😛
Don’t worry Ross, it’ll be fine.
SEE ITS FUCKING WEIRD NOW MY WORLDS ARE COLLIDING AHHHH
Just to fuck with you, I’m going to act like a normal person while you’re here. See if you can handle it.
@blaghman
can you pull off “normal person”?
It’s easy, just slowly say his name.
See-ann
I hate you so much.
Yes! Like “Do you really call him Rocketman in the sack?!”
I field this one.
no, no she doesnt.
Quick follow up question.
Why not?
The same reason why your gf doesnt say your syllable-tastic handle.
You don’t know that she doesn’t.
@bdkiaf
Out of my curiosity…
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rocket%20man&defid=3923637
I can tell that you’re disappointed.
She calls him “are you done yet? *yawn*”.
Wait, that’s my nickname, and-
oh.
awww SNAP!
Actually she calls me
“Why are you on top of me while i was sleeping”
As long as it’s not “why were you watching me sleep?” or “who are you and why are you in my house?” then things are probably going ok.
The database and ticketing systems we use to shovel shit every day are broken.
So naturally, everyone’s sitting around with coffee and facebook and saying, “Oh man, isn’t it great that we aren’t shovelling shit?”
Meanwhile, I eyeball a towering mountain of unshovelled shit. “Yeeeeeees. Great.”
Tomorrow’s Friday! =] It only needs to be broken for another 24 hours…
Friday morning: “Good news everyone! We fixed the database, so now we can use the weekend to catch up on the work we missed!”
I fixed a VPN tunnel issue in under 10 minutes (Manager called me in on this cuz the customer was getting irate of it getting nowhere after so long), customer didn’t hit the enable checkbox on their router… offshore guys let this fly over their head for over a week again (And closed the ticket without confirming fix!), good start to the morning! 🙂
Now I’m having a choc and peanut butter muffin with a mocha… bliss!
Damn you and your rewarding productivity!
Hey what can I say, I love the being the brilliant smartass at my workplace 😀
muffin button?
It’s not coffee Goku, it’s Cappuccino!
http://38.media.tumblr.com/b0c78b9568e128da4aa096941414248d/tumblr_n9phidNLkl1qh0etco1_400.jpg
And of course: http://37.media.tumblr.com/6919ce8c346e458174a223099ce38d08/tumblr_n9phidNLkl1qh0etco3_1280.jpg to go with it.
Ah Dr Ian Malcolm. I miss listening to that guy 🙂
MUFFIN BUTTON
NODS
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For is reviewing very poorly 🙁
I didn’t know it existed until now. I’m a huge fan of the first one, but dunno if I want to see a continuation (/prequel, apparently?) even if it was reviewing well.
Much like The Spirit did then
My wife seems to be finally actually enjoying ACIII instead of simply tolerating it, but on the downside this means we haven’t gotten to Diablo III yet. 🙁
Threequel page-get it is then!
I love Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, despite what the critics say. Also, A Link to the Past is pretty bloody fantastic if you ask me!
No other great threequels come to mind so easily. Anyone?
Metal Gear Solid 3
Great choice. Kept you waiting, huh? It’s also interesting to note that the first Metal Gear Solid was also actually a threequel if you include it in the ‘Metal Gear’ series.
Return of the Jedi? Best Star Wars movie! Terminator 3? Underrated!
Terminator 3 was unnecessary I felt. Probably a victim of following two absolute classics though
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I thought it was incredibly ballsy of them to actually end on judgement day.Then again, I loved Terminator Salvation and Sarah Connor Chronicles as well, so maybe I’m just easily impressed on the Terminator front. XD
I’ve got to say I’m really looking forward to Terminator Genisys too!
Now you’re okay! Terminator Salvation was awesome; am yet to watch the tv show.
TV series starts off crazily inconsistent but ends incredibly… on a cliffhanger… never to be resolved… :'(
Yeah, I did find the first few episodes a bit average.
I like you less now. Just kidding! But seriously, T3 was pretty crap.
I don’t think so. I think it’s like all those people who hated Temple of Doom until Crystal Skull came out and then suddenly it’s a classic. People judge new stuff unfairly sometimes. XD
All in my opinion, of course. Your opinion is just as valid as mine. 🙂
Definitely! My sentences are more energetic when I end them with an exclamation! Like I’m on something! 😀
well if another Indiana Jones film came out no one will be saying The Crystal Skull’s a classic 😉
Last Crusade was always my favourite. I liked Temple of Doom when I was a kid but I think that’s purely because I only paid attention to/remembered the highlights. Watching it again as a teenager was jarring because I noticed how shitty it was for the first time, and suddenly had a new appreciation for Raiders (which I didn’t really “get” as a kid).
Totally. Also, Short Round is awesome when you’re a kid!
How I remember Temple of Doom:
Cool nightclub shootout
Shortround being an awesome getaway driver
Using an inflatable life raft to escape the crashing plane and sliding down a mountain
???
Monkey brains
Ceiling spikes
Crazy chanting heart-ripping dude
???
?
Credits
@kermitron: No mine carts? :'(
@dc Nope! Completely forgot about them til you mentioned it!
Terminator 3 IS underrated!
Some amazing action in there!
THE FRIGGIN’ CHAINGUN IN THE COFFIN!? AGHHHHH SAH GERD!!!
John Connor was a bit of a letdown in 3.
No squeaky voice changes? XD
That yellow bastard.
John Connor outside of Judgement Day is always weak sauce.
So true…
I like you a lot as a person, but you can be so utterly wrong sometimes it hurts.
Star Wars Ep III *cough cough cough* I feel dirty
What do they say?
That it’s easily the best Indiana Jones?
Agreed! Sean Connery and Harrison Ford together? AMAZING!
Also River Phoenix! *sigh*
DC reminded me about Temple of Doom, I completely forgot about it. I thought Last Crusade was the one critics bagged before Crystal Skull was released.
Oh yeah, Temple of Doom is a bit He-Man Woman Hater’s Club.
Crusade is so good. Best action, best story, best ending. LOVE TRIANGLE WITH FATHER, SON AND NAZI!?
“Indiana was the dog’s name!”
Classic.
One thing I never understood was the snake thing. In Raiders, he hates snakes but in Crusade, River Phoenix picks one up like it’s nothing. Weird.
Wait. He also falls into the train snake pit in Crusade, doesn’t he?
Snakes aren’t a big deal to him when he’s helping his friend with one little snake, but then like five minutes later when he’s in the train the catwalk breaks and he nearly falls into a pit of them. It makes sense that he’s nervous about being in a pit with dozens of cobras in Raiders.
Crash Bandicoot 3 was the best one.
Warped! I played a bit of that one.
It’s surprising how many classic 90s Sony icons have fallen over the years. I miss Crash. 🙁
Wipeout 3!
Crash Bandicoot WAARRRRPPPPEEEED!
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal?
Also, Spyro: Year of the Dragon.
Two great threequels done by Insomniac.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3.
It’s the best one because it never existed and I can imagine it to be truly awesome. 😛
For reals though, Sniper Elite v3 is pretty darn great.
Burnout 3 is the best burnout.
Yes!
So much agreeance.
The Takedowns were so much fun.
Revenge was OK, and Dominator was great for PSP, but 3 really had all of the great stuff.
Burnout 1 + 2 is the best Burnout.
Maths!
1 was a good start (in fact, first PS2 game I ever owned) but 3, once they got away from Acclaim and shacked up with EA was so much better
I don’t know which of my memories are 3 and which are 4, playing no my friend’s PS2, but I didn’t like either of them.
I’m still torn on what I like more of the first two. The first had that European car movie aesthetic that was really cool, and I think had a better sense of speed. Plus the way it actually showcased the crashes with the multiple camera angles and replays, and more focus on the damage you cause. Also being able to drive the big fuck-off vehicles like the bus and tow truck was fun, even if it made it nearly impossible to complete a race most of the time.
The second improved on most of the gameplay, added things like chained burnouts (so much fun doing Big Surf and just trying to burnout the entire race), had the whole crash mode which was AWESOME fun. But then they removed being able to save replays, and took away a lot of the focus on the crashes. You’d get to the end of the race and be told that you had a new top score for insurance damage on a crash, but would have no idea what one it belonged to. Sucked. But then it was loads of fun with a force feedback wheel too.
I dunno, what I played after that made the series feel like it was straying further and further from what made me love it in the first place. Still would like to grab a cheap copy of Paradise if I come across it, since everyone likes to rave on about it.
The Euro feel is about the only thing I think was missing from later burnouts.
The focus on crashes changed- 3 had the crash junctions, a great game mode in itself, and the aftertouch, which meant that you never had to stop playing the game- in Burnout 1 it was a case of “I’ll crash and now I’ll wait to reset,” in 3 it was “I crashed but I’ll take you fuckers with me” and you never had to stop controlling the game.
And that’s why it friggin rocked.
Oh, I hated the items they added to the crash mode. Friggen heartbreakers 😛
For me I found more appeal in figuring out the best way to tackle the traffic, rather than just hoping to line up with the right items/not be unlucky enough to bounce into the shit ones. Had the best crash in 2 where I managed to make two buses hop the guard rails and drive up the curved cliff face, before rolling onto their sides and coming back down onto all the other cars. Got like 70mill or something ridiculous like that.
I have the fondest memories of Tekken 3 out of any fighting game I think,
DoA 3 for me. It was basically DoA 2 with nicer graphics and 4 had a cheating bastard juggling AI.
Also DoA and Soul Calibur are the only fighting games I like so Tekken/Street Fighter/ King of Fighters/Mortal Kombat don’t really make my list.
DoA 3 was awesome. Hwoarang was my dude.
Super Mario Bros 3!
Super Metroid!
F-Zero GX! (although tbh I prefer X :P)
Mario Kart Super Circuit!
Ooh, TimeSplitters 3!
YESSSS
It’s time to split!
*coolguy pose*
My brother would argue though that 3 was the worst because they took out his favourite MP character (the impersonator). They had Harry Tipper still, so I was happy.
For me the biggest mark against it was that they took out the control switching in aim mode. The second had it as an option (default was enabled) but it was just gone in 3, so the Aim button basically became pointless. I blame EA for that 😛
Otherwise my most favourite part was how it actually had a cohesive (and friggen hilarious) story mode, rather than the 2’s hodge-podge of random scenarios loosely tied together by some kind of “story” (more of an excuse than a story, really).
@mrtaco if they announced Timesplitters 4 for it, I’d buy a PS4 tomorrow.
Assuming it still had 4p deathmatch
I… probably would too.
Though I’d really really REALLY hope for a Wii U- oh who am I kidding.
@mrtaco Timesplitters on Wii U would be awful.
YOU WOULD
@mrtaco it’d suck. You’d need a bunch of specialist controllers and it’d sell four copies.
No more specialist than the controllers you’d need for a PS4 or Xbone.
But hey, four copies would be enough for a multiplayer match!
dude look up Time Splitters Rewind, I linked a bunch of stuff about it last year and had zero interest so I assumed there mustn’t have been any fans here.
Edit: Not really a sequel but still sounds cool.
AND PIKMIN 3!
Mortal Kombat IX was the best one and it was 3 multiplied by itself so three times as good as your three.
The third trilogy. Minus the other two.
AC2: Brotherhood is technically the third AC game. AC3 is the 5th.
So it would appear, gaming-wise, that a series really excels by its third iteration.
So many great suggestions by all, ones that I almost completely forgot about.
Mass Effect 3 aka The Weakest One.
Hey, I’m playing that one atm! I need all the motivation I can get! 😀
It’s still really good though, though not everyone was pleased about how it ended.
ME1 had the strongest world-building, they really game out swinging in creating a universe I wanted to explore and get involved in. Gameplay was a bit of a struggle to get the hang of, inventory management was a nightmare.
ME2 had the most streamlined gameplay/power usage at the sacrifice of some of the deeper RPG elements, and the story felt a bit shallow and broad compared to ME1’s deep focus.
ME3 had the same gameplay as ME2 but stopped even pretending it wasn’t just a third person shooter. The story proved to be overly ambitious but was still ultimately quite satisfying as long as you don’t expect the entire game to fold itself in half and turn inside out because you stepped on a bug back in ME1 – you shape the universe you play in and that’s all I wanted. People seemed to expect that if they made the right choice every time the entire story would change and that’s not realistic. I hope the do a remastered trilogy on current gen.
I found ME1 the epic movie, ME2 the great episodic TV series.
That’s not how you say Mass Effect 2.
*ducks to avoid rotten fruit*
You could probably make an argument for sequels too.
Lylat Wars, Paper Mario, F-Zero X, Perfect Dark (totally a GoldenEye sequel), Mega Man 2, Majora’s Mask, Yoshi’s Island (though I think that’s a stretch, more just a sequel to SMW in name only), Donkey Kong Country 2, Warioware: Twisted, Golden Sun 2, Rayman 2, Smash Bros Melee, Rhythm Heaven, Guitar Hero 2, Hitman 2…
Should I say Fallout 3 and piss off old school gamers? 😀 screw it, yeah, Fallout 3 (well, it’s the third numbered game in the series)
STRIKE THAT COMMENT FROM THE PARENTHESES. What are you, some NMA fanboy?!
TAY, I’m trying to get back into art and stuff.
Any tips?
Draw something!
I have.
Here:
http://imgur.com/w6XJfX8
Shit, forget the eyelashes… 🙁
Discipline comes through practice and so does skill. Keep arting even if you don’t feel like it.
*looks at Final Draft icon on desktop, ignores it*
One could argue that art is more about passion rather than discipline 😛
Maybe in wanting to do it in the first place.
I guess it’s passion initially, but to be an artist takes an incredible amount of discipline.
I’m not saying it doesn’t, but if your heart isn’t in it, then what’s the point?
Passion is what drives you to get better.
Passion should fuel discipline.
Discipline on its own doesn’t seem right to me.
It seems almost sad.
Take your quilting, for example.
You’re very passionate about it, and with that passion comes the desire to want to push yourself to be better and to do more.
I feel the same is true for all forms of art.
You wouldn’t force yourself to get disciplined at something unless there was some passion there. Passion might wane from time-to-time but you’re only forcing yourself to create because you fundamentally want to create any way. It’s not like forcing yourself to eat your vegetables or do something you don’t like.
But to push myself and be better and do more I have to practice. And I even have to practice on days when I’m just not feeling it. Your heart doesn’t have to be in the practice (although usually it works out that by the end of the practicing your heart’s back in it again), it’s just skill-building, not necessarily creation.
I understand what you’re saying, and it’s true to an extent, but passion without discipline leads nowhere.
Also to use my stupid blog as an example I started writing one sentence posts for a couple of months because I had a crisis of confidence. I got sick of this. Even though I wasn’t in the right mindset to write again I started to write any way this month, increasingly longer and more elaborate posts. Now I do feel like writing again and I think I wouldn’t have unless I forced myself to press on.
Here, have a downvote for calling your blog stupid. Jeez, next thing you know you’ll be calling your blog pretty! 😛
Waaait, @strange, what’s wrong with ‘pretty’? I like pretty! I call my girlfriend pretty!
@transientmind Nothing’s wrong with ‘pretty’. That was my point in a conversation with DC yesterday, I told him he was silly worrying over what he did while drunk because the worst he did was call me pretty. 😛
I think this is one of these things we’re not going to see eye to eye on (cause I’m pretty set on my stance, as are you).
Obviously to get better at something you do need discipline, but to be your best at something you need passion.
The two should go hand in hand.
Discipline without passion may result in better work, but I can’t get behind dispassionate work.
I think we all agree you need passion as well. Just that on its own it’s as useless as discipline on its own.
There is a theory that it takes 10000 hours to become an expert in anything – art, science, sport. At some point passion and natural talent is going to falter, and grit and determination will take over. The will be the impossible challenge, the project that won’t come together, the perpetually unfinished piece. Heck, even relationships have the same thing. Passion gets things going, but without discipline and determination when it gets tough, you’ll never become a master instead of an enthusiast.
There have been several books written on the subject… http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26384712
This. So much this.
I have near-zero discipline. It’s gotten me exactly nowhere.
So talented too, man. Those piano skills and cosplay skills. You’re an impressive guy.
@dc I don’t think I’ve played any piano at all in at least the last two months :/
Similar thing to what you were talking about before, I think. “Not the right mindset, I’ll leave it til later”. Then later never comes.
Cut your ear off.
That’ll get your creative juices flowing.
That’s what those are?
I’ve been going about it wrong all this time!
For realises answer.
Draw when you feel like drawing.
Draw what you feel like drawing.
Draw for yourself.
I’m opposed to the idea of drawing purely for the sake of drawing.
If you’re just drawing despite not feeling like drawing, your heart won’t be in it, which I don’t think is healthy.
It’s better to draw with passion as opposed to mechanical rigour, I feel
I understand what you mean, but I disagree. If you’re doing it purely as a hobby maybe, but if you want to develop it into something more you need to know how to work come rain or shine. Also crisis of confidence happens from time to time, listening to that voice that you’re no good and stopping until you feel good can take months and months and months.
But without the drawing for the sake of drawing thing you can’t get better, so you can’t fulfill your passion. Sometimes you need to just go through the motions of things to keep your hand in, and then when you do get to work on the thing you’re passionate about, it really inspires you and pushes you to go further than you thought you could go. All the practice means you can just create without having to worry about the mechanics of it.
It’s kind of learning the lyrics to songs you need to sing so that you know them inside out and back to front. So when you go to sing the song you don’t need to think about the words and can concentrate on the artistry of singing, rather than the vehicle.
I was thinking about this in the shower, the other day.
A lot of folks have got a lot of frustrated, unexpressed inspiration and passion.
A coworker approached me once, a while back. The story is long.
“Hey Transient… you seem pretty clued in about things.”
“I’m good at seeming clued in about many things, yes.”
“Do you know anyone in the gaming industry? I need to figure out how to get something done.”
“I know some folk. What’re you looking for?”
“Well, you know how World of Warcraft is pretty huge, right?”
“Yeah. It’s the industry gold-standard for Western MMOs, an unprecedented success which will likely never be replicated.”
“Uh… right. Well, I saw a mate playing a bit of it last weekend, and all I could think was that this would be amazing if they could do something really similar with Naruto. You know Naruto, right?”
“Never seen a full episode, but I know of it, and I know you like it.”
“Yeah! Well, it’s just perfect, right? All the powers and the clans and everything… it’d be perfect! And they’d make SO MUCH MONEY, y’know! I mean, like… millions of people love Naruto! They’d totally play a warcraft kinda game about it!”
“Yeah, maybe… It’s a tough biz, and the licencing would be hell, but I’m sure it’s doable. So what did you want help with?”
“Well, I just wondered if you knew who I’d talk to, to y’know… give them my idea, so they can make it happen. Someone I can give the idea to. I mean, I really want to play it, see it happen? But I kinda wanna get credit for the idea too, y’know? This could be worth a lot of money.”
At this point it was all I could do to keep a straight face. I really felt for the guy. I tried to let him down gentle, but firm.
“OK, well, first thing’s first, I want you to google ‘Naruto MMO’. You might be surprised. Your vision for it might be different, but I’m pretty confident you’re going to find a LOT of people talking about this idea of ‘yours’. Second? Implementation is hard. Really hard. And no-one’s going to be interested unless you’re bringing some more to the table than ideas, they’ll want to see actual work. Informed market research, a working game engine (and don’t think you can buy WoW’s, they’re not selling), a list of talent who can be trusted not to waste the licence, whatever. Put together something to convince people to part with money and invest. WoW has literally dozens of teams of developers, with dozens of people in those teams. There are multi-hundred-person studios who have worked 20hr days for years to create solid-concept MMOs, like Warhammer or original ideas, which crashed and burned. And the licencing is the biggest mine-field of all, because even if you can pull together the hundreds of industry professionals you’d need to make this happen, who won’t work for free, you still have to convince the property-holders to let it go. And there’ll be lawyers involved like you wouldn’t believe. The biggest voice you’ll have with only an IDEA is basically as powerful as an online petition. The idea is easy. It’s everything ELSE which makes things happen.”
His eyes were widening, brow crinkling in despair.
“I can tell you’re passionate, so I can ask around and see if I can help you join a studio to get some work experience, get some contacts who’ll agree to mock up a demo with you, I can get you an address for feedback or PR with existing studios [Ed: Yeah, actually I can’t, but at this point I knew where this was going] who you’d like to do a professional presentation with for your pitch, or just hunt down who the rights-holders are so you can do your research on what they’ve already rejected, how they’re looking to grow the brand, and even just knowing who they are, (because IP rights can be complicated), so you can teleconference with a PA in Japan to try get an interview to get your idea heard… but I’m just warning you. Set expectations low, hopes high, right? Big job, big reward.”
He sort of paled in the face of all the work, the dawning of realization was crushingly depressing. I think he’d kind of hoped that there was a VP of Awesome Ideas somewhere huge, whose door he could knock on, they’d sit around drinking and he’d lay out his genius and walk away with a cheque or a consultant title.
You know any artists? Ever met any who WANTED to be artists, but aren’t? People who’ve dabbled, tried, and in the failing, completely burned any sign that they tried in the first place, burying those memories far, far below their shame?
Failure to meet expectations is a motivation killer. It kills passion, too. This is where discipline comes in. Ask ANY successful artist and they will tell you how they learned: practice. Practice, practice, practice. Even when they didn’t feel like it. Because passion and inspiration don’t create results. They don’t create skill. Skill comes from discipline. And, if it helps, skill enables passion. It provides the confidence that this time – just maybe – what you attempt to create will actually fall somewhere within the vicinity of what you WANT to create. And that will drive you. Because nothing kills passion quite like falling so far short that you wonder why you bothered in the first place. And passion is notoriously fickle; it waxes and wanes. But discipline? Discipline will always be there, filling in the gaps while you wait for inspiration once more. And when you find it… you’ll be ready.
The two go hand in hand, supporting.
tl;dr version: Transientmind kills dreams. Tells you to work when you don’t feel like it so you’ll have the skills you need to shine when you are actually inspired. Because inspiration without skill is worth dick.
You monster! 😛
I felt really bad. He looked so despondent as he walked away, saying, “I just… I just have these ideas, man, y’know? I want them out in the world, not just in my head…”
Yeah.. life’s main attack is “Kick your ideas and plans in the balls” and it’s usually super effective. Happened to me multiple times recently
Too many people don’t understand that creative things take a heck of a lot of hard work. Especially to be successful.
It’s like those people who go on The Voice or X Factor or something, thinking that if they win, they’ll have “made it” and it’s all cruisy from there. And then they wonder why after the fuss from the show dies down, why they aren’t big and a millionaire. It takes constant hard work to have a successful career in a creative/art industry, and even then there’s no guarantee you’ll ever “make it”. Because unlike a lot of other industries, there’s no clear sign of when what you’re doing is working. It’s not like building a house where you know you’ve done good because it’s sturdy and not falling down (a bit of a simplified analogy, but I think you get the point), you could put your whole heart and soul into something and people just don’t like it. And it takes discipline to pick yourself up from that and keep going.
The hand in hand mentality is what I meant.
Passion should drive discipline.
Although it’s hard to relate discipline to your story (what exactly was he supposed to do in that situation, after all).
Passion should be the reason you want to become disciplined at something, and should be why you practice.
I just wouldn’t attach my name to a piece of work I did if I wasn’t passionate about it is all.
You can tell a piece of work that has heart from one that doesn’t.
You can only hone your craft so much with discipline alone.
That’s why you keep your passionless discipline work in your sketchbook only. Or call it ‘studies’, if you absolutely must pad out your portfolio. Or call it, ‘A living’ if you’re doing design work to a set criteria with nothing passionate about it at all. Because we all gotta eat. 😉
We all understand what you’re saying. We’re adding to it, not necessarily contradicting you.
I didn’t think anyone was contradicting me, I just can’t get behind dispassionate work is all 😛
If my hearts not in it, I’m not going to like it, so I’m not going to try as hard as I could, or care as much as I should.
Even if it is just for practice, I’d personally learn more while enjoying myself than I would just going through the motions.
Especially since we are talking about hobbies and not (necessarily) careers.
To each their own though.
Far be it from me to worry about how others go about their business.
1. Draw
2. Draw
3. Draw more.
Draw four.
Suffer!
Goddamn I hate UNO.
It’s no Monopoly.
*reverse*
Build a routine, and don’t give yourself any excuses.
That’ll force you to practice, and getting better comes naturally from that.
I looked online and found some tips
http://www.schoolfundraisingcompany.co.uk/ContentImages%5Cfelt%20tip%20pens.jpg
Not as good as copics.
Felt? Bah just seen someone did that joke already
So I just found out two amazing things at once…. Firstly Wasteland 2’s release date of September 19th *_* That’s Destiny and Wasteland eating up my month there and finally that Super Time Force is coming to PC ^^ wheeeeeeeeeeeeee
Originally I was planning for a week of Wasteland 2 before Destiny comes out, now it’s the other way around 😀 I just downloaded the beta for it last night though and had enough time this morning before work to create one ranger *sigh* I’ll get to play it at some point, not tonight though as football is on the cards instead
For all those ARPGers (so Diablo 3 and the like), what’s the furthest you’ve ever gotten on a Hardcore run?
I’ve personally gotten as far as a level 18-ish Paladin on D2 before dying to Duriel and approximately a level 40-something Witch on Path of Exile before succumbing to bone rhoas.
Even though I’m pretty terrible at ARPGs, I always want to try and beat all of the difficulties with a hardcore character at some point. I need to get a lot better though.
I would never do that for one like D3, mainly due to my internet connection being shoddy, I think my monitor would be thrown out the window because I died during a lag spike and lost my level 30+ character or something like that. I might do it for Torchlight 2 though at some point
I played a bit of D3 hardcore with @f4ction I believe I actually got to the max level and something like 3 paragon levels until I died.
Dayum that’s quite impressive.
I did a solo Voodoo Priest thing (wow, mental blank) and I think I died for the first time near the end of Act 1 by doing something stupid.
I died about 5 times on Malthael though so I don’t think I could get through the whole game without dying.
As Nob said, we did some Hardcore together. I ended up getting to Hardcore Paragon 13 or so.
Master difficulty I presume?
I honestly can’t remember. Though it is tempting to reinstall even though everyone is on console now 🙁
Got to Diablo in Diablo 2 but died because he is bullshit even for a tanked up barbarian.
Lightning hose used to get me everytime.
Played solo, I got up to act 3 of Hell difficulty in Diablo 2 with my Necro. Was level 70 something I think.
I think I’m getting pretty close to the end of Assassin’s Creed IV, so I’m finding myself just sailing the seas burning and looting everything in my path when I play because I’ve done everything except the last few bits of the story so I’ve run out of fun things to procrastinate with.
I’ve found all the collectible things. Apart from one stupid Shanty. I cannot for the life of me catch one from the very first area of the game and it’s driving me nuts! 🙁
Usually when I have trouble with the elusive sea shanties, it’s because I have to come at them from the opposite direction, then I get them in a few seconds and get all annoyed it took me so long to think of trying it that way.
^what alias said. Look at the direction it goes in and then rather than chase it, just stand in front of it instead 😀
If it’s anything like the almanac pages from ACIII (which I assume based on context since I haven’t started Black Flag yet) then wouldn’t it have multiple routes to prevent people from doing exactly that?
Yup. Most of them have at least two directions they’ll go in. Sometimes you can come at them from the side and sneak up on them before they start moving, though.
Yeah, that’s usually the case for me too, (the notion of sneaking up on Sea Shanties is fun but bizarre!) but I can’t seem to trigger the shanty moving by approaching a different way, and it’s perched somewhere that you can’t climb and can only jump to one specific way.
Diablo 3: UEE is a ton of fun. If you’re playing on PS4, y’all should add me. PSN ID: MJHellscream
Hey it’s this comic dude.
I just got it, whoop. I think you added me the other day, I’ll double check (I have about 120 people on my friend list now)
Strange and I were talking about shaving our heads yesterday and the more I think about it the more I feel like maybe I should do it. Just to see what it looks like. *ponders some more* (Full on shave. Like no hair at all. :D)
do it, buy your own clippers and you’ll never need to go to the hairdressers again. Also, was @strange going to shave her head as well?
I think he already has clippers, he just needs to shave with a razor once he’s done to go super-smooth.
I was talking about how I was thinking of doing some wacky hair-dye experiments and if it all went awry I’d just shave my head. Again. I used to be completely bald and smooth in my early twenties.
Do it again 😛 it’d be weird seeing you and Mr Strange in the same place after that 😀
I think the fact that he’s bald is what’s making me so reluctant to ever go bald again, myself. 😛
Make a wig out of your hair and swap!
I don’t actually have a picture of when it was smooth, but here’s a picture of when I was growing it out afterwards.
https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/469407119049908224/photo/1
That should make it easier for you to imagine what it looked like. Because you’ll probably never see it in real life again. 😛
ALMOST BALD. You’s looking like a stroppy teenager there. Totally shave it off again 😛
HEL-lo!
Very nice. I approve.
I used to do that, so easy, then I stopped and let it grow, now I just tie my hair behind my head and forget about it, even easier 😛
Strange shaved her head for years back in the day. I usually shave it pretty close when I get a haircut, but never fully.
I used a razor once but I have a mole (or something) on top of my head somewhere so that time I nicked it and it wouldn’t stop bleeding for a while. All other times it’s been grade 0 so just a bit of stubble left
If you’re anything like me, you will find that you resemble an egg. :/
You can’t really lose. Your hair will be back to its usual clipper-cut length pretty quickly if you don’t like it. And just a warning, smooth-bald is kind of high maintenance.
Only problem is my, uh, friend *cough* doesn’t like it shaven at all. Haha.
*grabs popcorn*
Maybe once they get to run their hands over it when its smooth, they’ll change their mind? 😛
This. A clippered head is, uh… definitely some peoples’ kink.
in my experience, EVERYone loves to rub a freshly clipped head
More so a freshly shaved head. People get a weird fascination with it.
Honestly, I do it myself after I get my hair cut. IT’S FUZZY LIKE A DOG. TOUCH IT. TOUCH IT DAMMIT. SEE? LIKE A DOG.
I’m doing it next week, getting a friend to shave my head. Not telling the boyf. just going for it 🙂
baldchris86
OH SHIT I’LL HAVE TO CHANGE MY USERNAMES D:
Only if you’re shaving absolutely everywhere…. 😛
Thats a very good point, I’ll still be ginger where it counts, I just hope people wont ask me to prove it
Eye brows?
My eyebrows are blonde. What are you trying to say?
I’ve thought about it a couple of times.
But I dunno how much I trust myself with a razor and no clear line of sight. I foresee a lot of blood, were I ever to give it a shot.
Me too. I think I’d need help to do it.
I’m pretty clumsy and cut myself surprisingly little when I was doing it. It’s not like you need to use a straight-razor. I’d probably be dead if I’d tried that! 😛
Yeah I can’t imagine using a straight razor. Holding it off to the side like that just seems like a terrible idea.
Mine is a double-edged “safety” razor, except it’s missing the grill bit that actually makes it safe. So it’s more like using a t-shaped straight razor. And while I’m fine using it on my face, I still don’t trust me to do anything that I can’t directly see 😛
Maybe buy a pack of cheap disposable razors?
I don’t like ’em 😛
I think we’ve still got a bag of a couple dozen of them somewhere from back when I was a teenager. The actual shaving didn’t last long, I got given an electric razor so there was no need for them any more.
Ditto, I’ll be getting help
Enh, I dunno. Last time I was shaving my face, I spent years just doing it in the shower, letting the safety razor follow the contours of my jaw line and cheek-bones. You go slow, you go gentle, you let the shower do its work, you can tell just with a touch of your hand where there’s any left-over patches. They stand out quite noticably when feeling texture, even if you can barely see it.
(Like, y’know how when you reach somewhere to touch an injury that feels huge but you can’t see it because you’re relying on your fingers to convey the data to you, and when you finally see it, it’s piddly and pathetic and you don’t know why you thought it was a huge deal? Touch = Extra sensitivity.)
I think you’d get pretty used to it, especially if going by touch rather than the mirror.
The other thing is I don’t even know if I *want* to go full smooth shave. Still kinda clinging to the hair that remains 😛
That, and electric is kind of easier. Although even going by touch with that doesn’t seem to work out that well, always need to get the mirror out and go over it again because there’s spots I missed or just messed up entirely.
I’ll be going buzzed for as long as there’s still something to buzz. If I start to get ‘the island’, that’s when it’s all fucking coming off.
I used to do kind of a two-step process. Use an electric first, and then use the razor. Even then, there were always spots I didn’t notice I’d missed until the next day. 😛
Haha, that’s exactly what I’d do with my face when I’d get lazy and let it overgrow before the next shave. Always seemed to somehow have a rough patch under the right side of my jaw.
Bleh. I used to have that sort of thing – a couple persistent hair patches on my chin, and just underneath it, thanks to a scar. (I copped the corner of a brick wall on the chin. It was not intentional. On my part, anyway.) Could never really shave it properly.
@strange @gingerchris86 @mrtaco
Do a number 2 or something first and see what the shape of your head is. Many people have uneven or lumpy looking heads which is really noticeable when you go shiny bald.
When razoring your scalp you don’t really need to worry about cutting yourself like you do shaving your face since it is quite firm, however be sure to apply plenty of hot water and shaving cream first to prevent razor burn, especially on the back of your neck.
Also be prepared to shave every which way to get a smooth shave if you have a crown style hairline.
Don’t worry about not being able to see: just do it by touch, it’s hard to mess it up.
I recommend showering immediately afterwards and depending on your skin type you may want to consider applying a light amount of moisturizer or powder to your scalp after to prevent dryness/oiliness.
Also be prepared to bang your head on stuff for a while because you are used to having hair to warn you when you get close to something.
😀
Oh yeah, good point about the back of the neck. I’d forgotten about that. So hurty!
Also a very good point about after care. I always used to put a moisturiser on straight afterwards to help it be all smooth, and also so it could smell nice. Because my hair used to smell nice before I shaved it off and that was the only thing I missed about having hair.
Forgot to tag @dc who could probably use those tips right about now. 🙂
It is done. Man, you’re not kidding about the crown. That was a bitch to shave. I will post pictures tomorrow.
Thankfully I don’t have to worry about that, I keep getting people telling me what a great skull I have all the time 😛
And haven’t had enough hair to warn me about anything for a good while now.
…actually I’m not entirely sure just how thankful I am for either of those things >_>
Hey Blaghs, have you noticed that you haven’t uploaded a hilarious and amazing video of you being fantastic in quite a while?
Oh, hey Blaghs, I had. Which is why I’ve now uploaded this, because I love getting in on internet crazes years after they’re cool!
Fantastic, Blaghs, except for the part where it’s terrible. Has anyone thought to mention that it’s painfully obvious that you fucked up the bridge?
Has anyone thought to mention that you should SHUT YOUR GODDAMN FACE? It was my seventeenth attempt and the closest to a success so why don’t you piss off you whingey prick.
Fine then, I will. I shall go make some muffins. Jerk.
10/10, would consume in food form.
*swoon*
Green!
It’s pretty cool that you can do all that stuff at once. I can’t even do the rubbing your belly while patting your head thing, let alone doing something like that to a rhythm as well as singing.
Also, I like the way your hair looks right now.
P.S: Where’s my muffin! 😛
It’s in the oven now, though I’m afraid you’ll have to come here if you want it.
It took me like 2 hours to actually get the cups thing down at speed, and another 30 minutes to be able to sing even vaguely well while doing it.
Apparently two and a half hours is all I need to achieve mediocrity (it’s worth noting that I used to be able to play the piano and sing at the same time, so this is far easier).
I love you
Who are these two guys? They’re funny.
Excellent Blaghsy, You are excellent 🙂
I don’t know why, but this video reminds me of a chipmunk.
Now do it with this cup
http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/thumb/7/7d/Kupg1.jpg/300px-Kupg1.jpg
Marry me.
Thank you, I’m having a terrible week and that just put a huge smile on my face, well done. Don’t worry I think we were all too smitten to notice any mistakes you think you made 😛
*tosses a few coins your way*
Howdy folks, even though she arrived last week, just thought I’d pop in now to do the standard proud father post – I made a babby!
Eleanor Grace – Or ‘Smelly Elly’ when it’s time to change her. She’s pretty cool, but a bit of a noob – she can’t even hold a controller yet.
It’s really changing my outlook of things. Fatherhood is a challenge (who needs sleep right?), but I’m really enjoying it. Taking her home made me feel like a little kid who had accidentally stolen something from a shop.
Should not have joked about PT’s unborn baby when I was on teamspeak with you last week.
….
CONGRATULATIONS!
Congrats dude 🙂 she’ll get there with the controller, give it time
Oh man, congrats! 😀
Hehe, ‘Smelly Elly’.
Congrats
At this rate I’ll be the only TAYbie left without kids!
Congrats, buddy!
Unlikely, as long as I’m here. \o/
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/o\
Time to play catch-up!
Nah, I don’t want them, also a robot can’t multiply, we replicate, and I doubt that’s happening either
I’m with negz, no babies for me, I’d make the worst dad and my girlfriend is more against the idea than me. On a side note I realized recently that I haven’t held a baby since my cousin who is now 21.
That kind of wasn’t what I meant.
I’ll keep you company powalen!
Oh man, the night I brought my daughter home from the hospital I kind of sat there paralysed with fear. Here was this helpless thing, and to make matters worse for her she’d ended up with me as the person responsible for her survival. She was doomed. And then I cried for about an hour. And then she cried for about an hour. 😛 And then when I got her to calm down I started realising that I could do it, and that the fear of messing up was what was going to make me a good parent.
Congratulations! The controller holding will come eventually. Don’t rush it.
Also, I found some snake skin type trim at Spotlight, not that you’ll have time anymore.
Congrats man!
When you gonna start training her for a Dota team?
Just a heads up to @greenius and any of the other Perth TAYbies (@phoenix, @thecracks, @fled, @phlanispo, @grandmasterb-funk(spelling?)).
I don’t think I’m up to going out tonight unfortunately :’S
I’ll make up for it next time you’re in town though Greenius, promise 🙂
Don’t be intimidated by Greenius! He only acts like a jerk!
What you say, punk!? Give me your lunch money.
Haha, nah, I’m actually pretty sick :\
Haven’t ventured out of my house since last Perth meat :\
Ihy
I read this as ‘L’hy… took me a while to figure out what you were trying to say. I was content with ‘life hates you’, until I realised that’s not actually a thing.
I’m not going to be able to make it either, sorry. Got a bunch of stuff to sort for tomorrow 🙁
LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
Eleanor Put Your Boots On – Franz Ferdinand
(I admit, Steve-O’s baby’s name made this song pop in my head. :D)
Cry- Godley and Creme
Baba Yetu, as performed by Peter Hollens and Malukah.
Forest Of Destiny: Twilight Force.
Still can’t stop listening to these guys.
Rushing – Moby
Noice
All Time Low – Coffee Shop Soundtrack
Punk-edge I know…I think I need to act my age.
Livin’ on a Prayer – Bon Jovi
Dance the way i feel- Oust le swimming pool
Such a sad end to a band with so much potential.
Tight Pants / Body Rolls – Leslie Hall
Stella by Starlight- Miles Davis
Got Tyrant in my head.
Right in Two – Tool
monkeys killing monkeys over pieces of the ground.
Friends in Danger – Magic Dirt
One of my favourite bands.
Dean Turner, their bass player, died five years ago today.
Fix You – Coldplay
Maps – Maroon 5 (yes it’s on my current play list)
Morcheeba (feat. Slick Rick) – Women Lose Weight
If you haven’t heard this song before, have a listen. It’s hilarious. Slick Rick just makes the track shine.
Paramore – Born for This
My wife recently got their albums on sale on iTunes and I finished listening to Riot! on the train this morning. Not bad, Misery Business is the only song of their I recognised and for good reason. I’d consider their music solid but most of it doesn’t stand out. I’ll give each album another couple of listens before I start throwing any weight into my opinions.
Fuckin’ Riot is so good.
Great fun pop-punk tunes.
The rest of their stuff, not so much but that album, man, sooooooooooo good.
Because I’m a sucker for female vocalists and a huge Garbage fan my wife thought I’d go nuts for Paramore, but the self-titled album didn’t really light me up. I don’t want to throw around words like “forgettable” but… well, let’s see how a second listen goes. Riot is definitely the better of the two.
old workmate has :its not faith if you use your eye” tattooed in cursive on his arm, i like paramore and i still laugh at him for it
A supplier at work just started off an email saying “It’s that time of the month again”. I’m afraid to carry on reading in case the rest of the email is rageful for no reason but should I offer advice on painkillers and hot water bottles?
Warning: The preceding comment contains sexist connotationsThat was bad.
There is a slight pang of shame
As a recovering addict of bad sexist or racist jokes. admitting you have a problem is the first step.
I’m not quite at the ‘admitting’ stage yet 😛
I just realized that I never finish JRPGs like seriously i can’t think of any that I’ve actually beaten..its weird
Funnily enough I have a bit of this problem too. I do finish them sometimes, but probably only about a quarter of the ones I have at most.
The only 2 that come to mind are Kingdom Hearts 358/2 and Disgaea 1 if that counts and for both it was storyline only not 100%
Personally, I find them quite difficult to get into these days; I have no idea how I managed to finish Final Fantasy VII and VIII back in the day.
Never finished VII got to the last boss of VIII and then never played it again, i was literally about to do the boss battle and im like “nope not doing it”
Yeah same… I’ve started heaps but finished a fraction of them. They’re just massive time sinks and I just don’t have the free time I used to finish them off 🙁 I even dropped off on Persona 4 after Wolfenstein came out :'(
My issue is literally ill play the shit outta them but when I get close to the end or what I feel is the end, ill just stop playing. In Persona 4 im in the final month, stopped playing and that was a year ago. Bravely default heading to the 4th crystal haven’t touched it since and that was beginning of the year.
Too good to finish? Sometimes I stop myself from finishing a good JRPG because I don’t want to say goodbye to all the characters just yet =] For me FF-X finished when the team reached the Calm Lands, end of story. Nothing ever happened after the Calm Lands =P
Everything Was calm and they lived happily ever after the end
Furthest I’ve ever got with a JRPG is completing the first disc of Blue Dragon. Don’t know why I stopped playing, I was quite enjoying it, despite my aversion to turn-based combat.
For me this can be widened to RPGs in general. Ironically they’re one of my favourite genres to play. With JRPGs, FFVII, VIII & IX I’ve finished them all once but started each game countless times. Vagrant Story is probably the RPG I’ve finished the most. Never finished FFX or XII. XIII I did and still don’t have a clue what was going on. That’s the only FF game I’ve only started once.
Away from FF, Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 and Icewind Dale I’ve never finished. Fallout 1 & 2 not gotten far, 3 & New Vegas I’ve finished both once but started loads of times.
I have a thing about loving tutorials of RPGs. Just that initial period of exploring a new world is awesome
Outside of FFVI Ive never finished a final fantasy game.
Nearly finished Dungeon Siege 2 but did finish 3. Finished fallout 3 never finished New Vegas, again, got to the last main story mission and then stopped playing.
I finished FFX once. I would have finished Dragon Quest VIII if my PS2 memory card slot didn’t gimp out. Really tempted to buy the iPad version but I heard it’s a shithouse port.
My PS2 got stolen with my memory card. 50-60 hours of FFX was on that. I haven’t gotten that far since 🙁
Daaaang.
IIRC I finished FFX in 70 hours. Then went back and did some grinding/secret quests/ultimate weapons and finished it again. 110 hours.
Actually trying to make a list of JRPGs I’ve actually finished off the top of my head:
– FF7 (at least 3 times)
– FF8 (at least twice)
– FFX (twice)
– FF12
– Grandia II (twice)
– Ar Tonelico (2 of 3 routes)
– Ar Tonelico II (2 of 3 routes)
– Tales of Symphonia
– Tales of the Abyss
– Tales of Graces
– Tales of Xillia
– Trails in the Sky FC
– Disgaea
– Disgaea 4
– Disgaea D2
– Chrono Trigger
– Fire Emblem Awakening
– Xenoblade
– Valkyria Chronicles
I guess that’s not insignificant, but there’s a lot more that I’ve gotten halfway or further into and then lost momentum and not finished. Some of them are great games too. Actually makes me want to dig out that list I was supposedly maintaining where I wouldn’t let myself buy new things until I knocked something out of the list, and start working through it again.
My list would be
-FF6
-Disgaea
-Kingdom Hearts 358/2 (if that counts)
-Breath Of Fire 4
-Chrono Trigger
-Front Mission 3 (if that counts)
thats all I can think of
I played Front Mission 3 so much but didn’t seem to get close to finishing it. Did you ever play Ring Of Red on the PS2? Similar sort of game so much that it’s giant robots fighting each other. Not so RPG or story based though
Front Mission definitely counts, and Kingdom Hearts probably counts too though a bit borderline. I should probably add all the Ys games I’ve finished (which is 6 of 8) to my list as well, since they’re kind of RPGs to some degree, especially Seven and Celceta. One of the reasons I really like Ys actually, they’re like a JRPG with a lot of the fat and fluff trimmed away, so you can knock the longest of them out in like 15-20 hours instead of 50-60+.
Celceta is the vita one right?
Yep. Falcom’s internal do-over of the two Ys IV games they licensed out in the 90s. I thought it was fantastic – personal favourite game on the platform, justified owning the system for me – but not as good as Seven which is still the series high water mark.
Has one of the best soundtracks in the entire franchise too, primarily because it’s mainly re-arrangements of the Turbografx Dawn of Ys stuff. If you ever want to year an amazing 90s game soundtrack that hardly anyone knows about, look up The Dawn of Ys Perfect Collection some time.
Rumor has it that Falcom’s working on a new Ys. They’re knee deep in the Kiseki stuff at the moment, Sen no Kiseki II is out in a week or two in Japan. Depending on whether that ends up a trilogy or not we might see some news about whatever their teased Ys project is soon. Excitement! I’m kind of hoping it’d be Ys 8, but there’s a pretty good chance it’ll be a remake of Ys V as that game is completely dire (nearly sank the franchise) and hasn’t been properly updated since the SNES release – the PS2 version was a port.
EDIT: FWIW If I had the time an energy to make a decently complex game, I’d make a Ys clone. I fucking love those games.
So are ANY Perth people free during the day (before 5). I could be finishing early today but @liondrive was the only chump who was free then, but now he’s too sick 🙁
Guess I’ll foreveralone it :P…
This is what you get for trying to meet up with WA folk =P Serves you right for ditching Sydney!
I’ve never been to Sydney…
Even worse!
Thanks for paying for my travel expenses!
Anytime man! Wait… what?!
Lonelius.
So sad.
Feeling blue.
Get out.
To the tune of ‘If you’re happy and you know it.’
If you hate your f’ing job then clap your hands.
*RAUCOUS APPLAUSE*I like my job. Sometimes I wonder why I’m even working so hard towards a possible promotion that’s probably at least a year away, more likely two. Like, do I need more money? Do I want to work that much harder? If I’m completely honest, the answer to both of those questions is no.
I think I’m being driven by a genuine desire to take on greater challenges and contribute to the success of the business.
My inner child is officially dead. *buys 5 grey suits with matching socks*
I’m happy for you! And a little bit envious. I want my company to succeed, mainly because the two owners are family friends, but I’m not motivated by the work in the slightest. It was never something I thought I’d enjoy, but something I knew had earning potential beyond anything else 95% of people my age could find.
I’m solely in this job for the money, but not for selfish reasons. It’s just that it’s been 3 years now and the toll of not liking what I do Monday-Friday is ever increasing. -_-
I pretty much started working as a filing clerk in 2006 after considerably lowering my expectations because I wanted an office job and was quickly becoming too old to be marketable for any kind of “entry level” position. I’ve come a pretty long way in 8 and a half years but it’s not been easy. To my astonishment nearly 4 of those years have been spent at this company. It… really doesn’t feel like it’s been that long.
Hey, Grey is a frickin’ amazing suit colour which is dramatically under-used! I bought one after being interested in one I admired in Ocean’s 11 and got pushed over the edge by Tom Cruise’s one in Collateral. It’s a definite crowd-pleaser.
I went through a couple of grey suits and they’re certainly preferable to straight black for most business purposes, but I’m currently rocking some dark blue and don’t know how I’ll ever go back.
When dark blue stops being so damn fashionable, I suppose.
Mm. Fair enough. I prefer either midnight black two-tone with white, or the grey with… pretty much anything. Maybe a darker grey tie and white. My brother keeps taking me to places with heavily exaggerated flaming dudes trying to get me to wear blue (usually in too-tight cuts I will NEVER WEAR) because it would ‘really bring out my eyes’.
Never really understood that, anyway… when I was wearing a lot of green as a teen, people thought my eyes were green. So I guess there’s something to it… but if I put a blue dot on a blue board, doesn’t it stand out much less than putting a blue dot on a black board, or a white board?
This is probably why I’m best not trusted with anything other than timeless classics and fashion.
If you put the blue dot next to the blue board, though….
Right? Like five minutes ago. Fucking Microsoft Excel… always trollin’.
“Would you like to save the changes you’ve made to this incredibly important practical work-bible everyone relies on?”
“Uh… NO. OH GOD WHAT CHANGES? WHY?”
“Wouldn’t you like to know. Not telling.”
Also… systems still down from this morning. Mountain of shit is looming.
I KNOW HOW TO SPELL, I DON’T NEED A “Z” IN CUSTOMISE!
And for the machine spirit’s sake… I KNOW HOW TO SPELL MY OWN NAME!
😛
You know there’s quite a few really good scary games coming out (Silent Hill, Aliens and Evil Within) which sucks because I can’t stomach a scary game for more than 2 minutes? So this got me thinking as to how I managed to finish Dead Space (the only horror game I ever finished) and I realized I should share this with all you other scaredy TAYbies out there so you can enjoy horror games too! (I know I know I’m so thoughtful)
Rule No. 1 – Only play during the day with the sun shining on your screen and the gamma maxed out!
Rule No. 2 – Turn the sound down to a whisper and turn it up for conversations and cut scenes! Even though you’ll probably die more you’ll be less likely to pee your pants and suffer a heart failure!
Final Rule – Laugh out loud every time something scares you, oddly enough this conditioned me to laugh quite frequently in Dead Space which calmed my nerves and improved my aim considerably =P
Be warned you run the risk of sounding like a lunatic if you live with flatmates.
Last times I was scared in a game was probably Dead Space, a replay of System Shock 2 (HD mod! Kind of disappointing though), and bizarrely, Dark Souls. (First time encountering SKELETON DOG THINGS. Seriously wat. Also, I think getting one-shot eaten by one of those eyeball-hand-tentacle things in Black Gulch pools.)
Games don’t scare me, they startle me.
Played a chunk of Dead Space 2 and jumped out of my skin even though i knew exactly where all the jump scares were going to be.
The biggest jump scare I’ve ever had was in Bioshock 1, in Suchong’s clinic- you go up to a table, listen to a recording, and then turn around and a guy’s just standing there right behind you.
Worst part is, they repeated the EXACT SAME scare in infinite and it still scared me.
that’s the splicer right near the beginning isn’t it? Or am I thinking of something else. You open a safe or something, turn round and he’s just standing there watching you? That made me jump and then panic shoot his face
That’s the one
Any game that has the faintest hint of the horror is an automatic miss for me. Just cannot stand it. Damn near gave up on Half Life 2 simply because of Ravenholm.
Hah, that’s the exact point where I stopped playing that game and never played it again 😛
I think because I played through the demo first I wasn’t so creeped out by it. Maybe if I’d’ve been on a blind playthrough of the whole game it would’ve freaked me out more with he bit of backstory you get beforehand
I played Amnesia. Shit my pants. Then I invited my friends over to my room to also shit my pants. They indeed did. We decided to open the door, turn lights on. Pants shitting continued (all of us, even those not playing).
One friend, at midnight,, got up and started walking away: “fuck this shit man, I wanna get some sleep in my life.”
2K Weekend on Steam!
Gonna get the Civ V: Brave New World & XCOM: Enemy Within expansions! \o/
Ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiv.
Civ Beyond Earth now! =@ gimme gimme.
Played Civ very recently, Publicly denounced one nation for stealing technology with spies, which caused a MASSIVE rift between multiple countries related to this one nation, 20 turns later wars break out, 2 nations ganged up on the perp leader. I still don’t know right now whether to laugh or feel bad about this 😛
Diplomacy in Civ is fucking weird.
Also, Askia of the Songhai is always a dick. I refer to him as Asshat of the Songhai.
It’s their own fault. Spying is bad and you shouldn’t
do itget caught doing it.Yeah I’m being a snitch right now with my spies, jumping between nations again and again if I get some intel I let the other person know. Yeah I want them to fight each other and they can invite me to the bloodbath certainly xD
Also, Skullgirls is $4.99!
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…did I mention you should get it?
Orlando Bloom’s been announced for the Brisbane and Sydney Comic-Cons. It’s actually a pretty decent lineup now
They’re taking the Hobbits to Isengard!
So yeah dudes, I finished early and I’m completely free now :P. Lemme know when you wanna do stuff…
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks
Later…
That pretty much sums it up.
We’ll talk about our love for DAN!EL humour.
I need to head to uni in about 30 minutes, and will be there until 5ish. My phone may be working, not sure, but I just DM’d my number to you 🙂
I won’t finish work until 5:00, so I don’t know when I can arrive. Probably closer to 6:00
Okay, so I didn’t get the chance to take my phone anywhere between work and uni. But at my brief stop at home I figured I’d try plugging it in again. It’s now charging! Don’t know if it’s going to keep working or not, but at least it’s something until I get more time tomorrow to have it looked at.
Got a callback for a group job interview from EB games just then.
Interviews for Tuesday night, so I should hopefully be feeling better by then 🙂
Gonna have to shave my beard though :S
Shame, I wanted to make the full 4 weeks without shaving, but it’s too important to risk :\
Oh no! Not your “beard”!
😛
(Congrats on the interview!)
Congrats!
I did a group interview once, hated it.
I started regrowing mine again so you can live vicariously through me and my facial hair if you’d like.
Let’s celebrate!
😛
hooray for interview, boo for shaving. I’ve shaved my beard completely off twice in the 12 years I’ve been able to grow something more than chinfluff. Once was for a girl, it didn’t work annoyingly, and second was last year when I got bored.
DON’T DO SOMETHING YOU’LL REGRET LION
B…beard? I didn’t see no beard.
EDIT: Or maybe I’ve already forgotten what you look like.
http://zmangames.com/product-details.php?id=1607 this board game sounds kind of cool, I bet it’s going to be an absolute pain to get hold of though. 🙁
That does sound kind of cool, would want to see more of how it works though.
It sold out at gencon apparently. Really popular.
I threw in a preorder with a local retailer. 🙂
Goddamn this upcoming meat is doing my head in. I’ve considered cancelling it so many times due to stressing over it. But I am strong! I can do this!
Don’t think of it as a meat. Just think of it as getting together with friends!
Don’t worry, there’s been many meats and so far no one has turned out to be an axe murderer.
Or left anyone alive to say as much…
*no one yet
Ice pick, kitchen knives and a halfbrick in a sock, yes.
Axes, no.
Argh, my mother is calling me every hour or so asking if anything has ben set in stone about the meat. I NEED DETAILS. I need a point-by-point itinerary of the upcoming meat to avoid turning into stress incarnate.
Sorry. I’m just stressed and frustrated, it’s been a shit day so far. I should tell the story on TAY when I have an hour to spare.
8:00-8:05: Guests arrive
8:05-8:15: Opening remarks & general discussion
8:15-8:27: Craft corner & name tag distribution
8:27-8:37: Cracker eating/tongue twister contest
8:37-8:52: Read aloud from the newspaper comics
8:52-9:03: Eat cake
9:03-9:07: Laughter
9:07-9:20: Running charades
9:20-9:38: Finger puppet theater
9:38-9:57: Charity apple bob
9:57-10:00: Electric jitterbug dance marathon (Ladies choice)
10:00-10:09: Dance your pants off
10:09-10:41: Knock-knock jokes
10:41-10:47: Phlanispo makes light conversation with Greenius
You really think that everyone will still be wearing pants 2 hours in? 😛
Just tell her that @greenius’ windowless van broke down and @thecracks’ drug dealer is running late so you’re hitch hiking your way in and will be able to tell her soon.
Bitch, I am the one who knocks.
I blame @liondrive
Way to kick me while I’m down :'(
*kick*
I’m just playin’ bro, s’all good
Boom
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/106/f/b/known_memes_drawn_by_me_part_1_by_zcoogerchannel-d4wek70.png
:O Lady luck really is watching over me this week. Casino tomorrow!!!
Hahaha…Shelley Craft is now the ambassador for the Craft and Quilt fair. 😛
My Mum idolises Shelley Craft. Back when I lived at home I endured every single Shelley Craft related show on the TV. She would probably marry her if she could.
It’s a source of constant teasing from me and my brother 😛 That, and that one time when she tried to pour a second glass of wine with the cork still in the bottle. That one has had mileage for years.
I have shaved my head. Towel stuck to it like Velcro. So smooth.
http://i.imgur.com/dwhUQjh.gif
Balder than that, Pow. Homers got TWO HAIRS.
http://bit.ly/1AAjbSs
now the fun of finding hair in your clothes for the next week
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvjNmmLCIAEfmc_.jpg:
It looks like your hair migrated south for the winter.
Suits you mate!
Aw thanks, man. 🙂
CUEBALL! BALDY! CHROME DOME!
Who’s this guy?
*swoon*
Haha much better than the half shaved dodgy criminal look 😛
Hahaha, that was a work in progress shot and everyone assumed it was the final look. XD
Max Payne style! I like!
Thanks Benny! 😀 😀 😀
I bought a suit. I am prepared for this wedding.
*thinks about making a joke about another wedding in pop culture but decided not to cause spoilers but I think people can guess where the joke was going to go so… hooray*
Oddly enough, my sister’s wedding invites have the house sigils of the Baratheons and Lannisters on them. Apparently her husband to be’s house sigil is actually a stag and ours is apparently a sleeping lion. I think mostly it’s an excuse for me to hum the Rains of Castamere.
Is this the Adelaide one?
My sister’s wedding? Yes.
It’s something like Oct 18 and we’re heading into town on the Wednesday.
If Hungry Hippo has its own place by then, we’ll def do Adelaide meat.
Even if it doesn’t. Seriously, it might be my only chance to play Suburbia this year.
You know what? Let’s do it.
It’ll be board game meat at Hungry Hippo or at my house.
Your families have house sigils? Are you some kind of rabbit king and you never told us?
I think it’s one of those things where you look up a surname and it comes up with some dude from the 13th century that had a similar name then gives you their sigil.
But yes, I am the rabbit king. I’ve never made any effort to hide this.
Oh right. Closest I get is a few Scottish clans on both sides so I get Azaleas, a Lion and a Salamander.
I have a feeling that you haven’t been entirely faithful.
unlike, apparently THE BRIDE AND GROOM!
This is going to be a fun wedding (for me!)
I don’t know. I think Rob bought a suit.
I live in QLD so I don’t have a suit yet. Job interviews, a wedding, funeral… no need!
Congratulations!
CUBICLE QUEST
BESTEST THING EVER (according to the trailer)
Dick Smith in front of me is closed and everyone left an hour ago. Person walks up to the shut and locked roller door of the dark shop, starts banging on the door and try g to see in. Shortly after he starts screaming obscenities about knowing they’re in there until security turns up to make him leave.
How do these people manage to function enough to stay alive?
I know your in there she-devil you will not escape my wrath!
Forsooth! For thou art truly the keeper of the Pad of Eye and verily shalt I slay thee upon thine throne of unshipped Playstation 4’s if thou shalt not emerge forthwith!
Sounds like one for the folk at NotAlwaysRight.com
@greenius I cannot come to the meat. I simply do not have enough information to go on. I had Greenius’ s number, and rung it 3 times, to no avail. I think it’s the wrong number. I tried texting this to Greenius, but I kept getting error messages. After an hour of trying, I used Mum’s mobile Internet to send this. I’ll explain more later.
I haven’t had any calls or texts come through except for the one with your name in the afternoon.
I know there weren’t much details but it was a really informal meet up invitation and it was more a “I’ll he here, will anyone else be here?”.
All that ended up happening was I spent some time walking around the city with Phoenix and then some time walking around the city with Fled.
A lot of meets are informal city gatherings. My arrival in Perth was really short notice so we didn’t really get a time to plan a proper meat (like the one you guys had last week), and it was on a working weeknight as well.
Apologies for any stress you went through but I genuinely didn’t get any text messages or calls from you and I was checking my phone, and TAY every couple of mins. You can’t have had a wrong number since you sent me a text back in the afternoon, so I’m not sure what happened then. I’m sure there’ll be more proper Perth meats in the future when people aren’t as busy (or sick).
In summary: Phoenix met Greenius. They walked around a bit. They bought Space Invaders scratchies. They walked around some more. Then Phoenix bailed.
Forgot the discussed Survivor bit!
Dammit! How could I forget Survivor?!?
Psssstttt Sydney > Perth for future travel decisions =P
I didn’t exactly have a choice 😛
Although my boss is based in Sydney so I may fly up sometime in the future.
This. So much this.
http://botherer.org/2014/08/20/how-internet-hate-mobs-work-and-why-its-so-insidious/
Also all of this: https://twitter.com/john_brindle/status/502405677927895040
These people are saying what I wanted to yesterday but couldn’t find the words for. And it’s why I was so horrified that people were buying into it all here in TAY, which I’ve always considered my safe place on the internet. I honestly felt like I was about to throw up when I was reading that thread started by @phlaiman yesterday.
I saw that discussion here yesterday too after there was some mention of it on twitter.
I feel now that I should have said something at the time but I’m hardly on here lately and I don’t really know those who were posting about it, plus I always stay well away from any kind of online controversy. But yeah – I should have spoken up.
SmurfyDog! I feel like I haven’t seen you in forever. How’s life treating you?
Pretty good Strange, pretty good. Keeping busy with a full-time job and part time study.
How about yourself?
Also pretty good! Having a ton of fun quilting and sewing, and learning more and more each day.
What are you studying? So many people are juggling work and study, now. I have no idea how you all manage.
Glad to hear it! Was there any progress on the TAY quilt? (I’m not even sure if I remember you starting it – It has been a long time).
I study Auslan – Australian sign language. Maybe one day I’ll qualify as an interpreter. It’s going to take forever at the rate I’m going but at least I have a goal 🙂
Oh, awesome. I think I remember you mentioning that before. Old lady brain strikes again. 😛
TAYquilt was sidelined for a while. Gonna get back into it in a big way soon(-ish :P) and have TAYquilt Tuesdays on my blog. I’ll tag you when I do your portrait.
Wait, what happened yesterday? :S
Thread re Zoe Quinn, got a bit negative and un-TAY-like.
I missed that. Doesn’t sound like I wish to look at it lol.
I purposely did not engage and will leave my statements on the matter there.
That’s the beauty of TAY though, some of us can disagree on things, but we’re all still friends afterwards.
I didn’t even see it here in TAY. Guess I should be glad.
-absurdity removed-
That may well be, but it’s not something that our little corner of the internet really needs to reprosecute, I think it was all covered a few pages back.
I read a few lines of the first post and thought, I have no idea who that person is, and I couldn’t give a stuff what she allegedly did or didn’t do. Didn’t interest me at all, so I just skipped the whole thread.
Wow, I just went back to read the TAY thread…
So.
As a woman who has had relationships that haven’t worked out, can I just point out that people who get dumped occasionally make up vindictive shit? Like, Zoe hasn’t actually told any of us her points of view on relationships/cheating/etc so what has been reported as her position could in fact be misrepresented?
And also we have no proof that she has had all these supposed “affairs”.
Also, people’s personal lives are personal.
Also. As I’ve ranted about AT LENGTH on Twitter (because apparently ZQ’s sex life is relevant to us because journalistic ethics (which I actually don’t think have been messed with here?)) please, show me where ZQ has been advantaged from her alleged sexual escapades?
Also an easy way to damage a woman’s reputation is to go after the extent of her sex life.
I feel disgusted that TAY people appear to have read his blog without thinking about the fact that her ex boyfriend decided to use 4chan as his personal army and perhaps doesn’t have the best of intentions for anyone involved.
PS I LOVE YOU STRANGE SORRY FOR RANTING ON YOUR POST
Why do we keep going around in circles about whether or not the ex-boyfriend has shown evidence of these affairs? He posted screen shots of their conversations and videos to show they weren’t doctored. Even in Totillos retort article he confirmed that Grayson had been involved with Quinn.
Evidence of how she gained something out of this? Well based on the dates (full disclosure: I have not checked these dates myself) she was sleeping with her boss before he was her boss and she was sleeping with the guy who got her involved in Game Jam. Nathan Grayson did not do a review of her game but he did provide positive press to her game whilst at RPS.
I really don’t get why someone should be disgusted that this is being discussed here. I brought it up because I was interested in what conclusions and opinions people would have and I specifically said that I hadn’t decided on how I felt about it yet as I hadn’t even read the entire blog yet.
There are a lot of issues here. A public figure in game development who speaks up for feminism has turned out to be an enormous hypocrite. Game journalists and developers spend way too much time together. It has also brought attention to the fact that she led a war on a forum that bond around their depression with NO evidence that they were responsible for the phone call she received. She also led a war on a charity based on her notion that it was mysognist. It has led to questions about game sites integrity, especially due to the overwhelming silence they have brought to the issue. Remember, Kotaku has written articles about game developers sex lives before and this particular issue is even more relevant to gaming. I seem to recall a lengthy article around a female game developer posting facebook messages as evidence that she was being sexually harrassed by someone else in the industry.
I can see what he is saying but a major issue this has highlighted is that no game journalist has attempted to separate fact from fiction and so you see what happens when SJWs chaotically try to put things together. Even in his own article he claims that there is no evidence that Grayson provided positive press to Quinn, but this completely ignores the fact that he definitely did whilst with RPS (the article is still there) and while with Kotaku he did again when discussing Game Jam. Did they delete their reviews and get it deleted from internet archive? No. What did happen is that an early article discussing this issue was deleted from a different gaming site and it was deleted from the internet archive as well. This is what happens when so much misinformation is floating around and nobody is checking facts.
There should be articles discussing this exact issue breaking this issue down, showing evidence, countering claims etc., but instead all you see are the game sites that have a vested interest simply closing ranks. They’re now all posting similar pieces like what you’ve linked that are simply dismissing all evidence and claims and are acting like it’s misogynist to even bring it up.
Do you seriously believe this? Take a step back and relax a bit.
Even if all of this is true, even if Quinn isn’t a particularly nice person, she is not the one at fault. He *chose* to enter into a relationship with her while in a position of a conflict of interest. Obviously the breakup was messy, but that doesn’t mean that she was some kind of evil succubus out to tempt all the pure, god-fearing games journalists into doing her bidding. If those people covered her work while sleeping with her, that is their issue, not hers. If they don’t know how to handle conflict of interest situations, that is a reflection on their integrity, not hers.
Do you honestly think that all the controversy is justified here? That someone being a possibly mean person according to her jilted ex is justification for 4chan harassing her and her family on every front, sending death and rape threats, posting her personal contact information in public, attempting to track down nude shots and all that is allowed? Because you realize that that is the material that sites are moderating out? That’s the ‘censorship’ that’s going on.
This is a witch hunt. It’s a public trial and mob execution with words like ‘evidence’ being thrown around to try and legitimize their utterly deplorable behavior. WE FOUND A WITCH MAY WE BURN HER?!
The video games community sickens me sometimes. I’m increasingly wondering if I want to be a part of this at all. I look over at other equally nerdy areas, like board games, and people don’t have to put up with this sort of shit there. Why is the games industry so fucking hateful?
Huh? Whilst there are plenty of people going after Quinn, I think you’ll find that the majority of people are going after the journalists who have been going out of their way to cover this up or ignore it and has probably caused far more damage than anything. Please read my post carefully, I didn’t attack her. I’m attacking the coverage of this issue.
Didn’t read it, I know enough about mobbing on teh internetz. Just dropping in to say a couple things:
– It’s not limited to Internet and Internet-based issues.
– You can replace the word “hate” with “love/support” and apply it to many things as well.
Basically, take everything with a grain of salt unless you have proof. And even then, be vigilant that there is more proof and it is correct.
Random question: is “Fair enough.” considered to be a passive-aggressive statement?
I use it a lot irl but now I’m worried I have been giving the wrong impression.
It depends how it’s used. If said neutrally enough, no problem.
But it can also be read as, “This argument is beneath me. Believe and behave how you want.”
Source: family.
Cheers.
I guess, regardless, it’s a substitute for a ‘real’ response and denotes a level of distance or disengagement. Even if that’s not what you intended.
Edit: though it still is better than a grunt of acknowledgement! So there is that \o/
Yeah, I guess if my husband said it to me as often as he says “uh huh” to me I’d certainly not be thinking of it as harmless then.
Hmm true.
I struggle to know what to say to people in conversation and it’s one of the things I often respond with for lack of any better ideas. So unintentional distance I guess.
Perhaps I need to come up with a longer and deeper list of things to fill conversation with, to keep people more at ease.
Fair enough.
Yes, you do.
However, if the conversation is engaging and pleasant:
– There will be no awkward gap for the other party to ponder the meaning of “fair enough”.
– There will be no reason for them to doubt your position if the end of the convo happens and all parties are feeling good.
Most people say it as a confirmation.
Some mean people use it in the way Shane said but you would be able to tell from the tone of their voice
Fair enough.
I have no idea! I guess it’s kind of harmless, but non-committal. I would also guess it’s dependent on the person it’s aimed at, as well as context. Passive-aggressive has always confused me. 😛
So yes, I guess I wish to know as well, now.
Yeah, I spose it is very context sensitive. And could be hard to judge the intended tone when used in text in particular.
It’s more “I have no real argument against what you said that is valid”. It’s acceptance more than dismissal.
Arghh, I turned on the PS4 for the first time in a couple of days and it’s all “Everyone played Diablo III” and “Hey, look what’s new in the shop: Diablo III!”.
Somebody please hide my credit card. 😛
I know right? Turned on my shiny new one for the first time this arvo and stared at the menu screen for a while for lack of anything to play on it.
But all these people are playing D3 and it’s good co-op fun…
But I already own it!
But it comes with the expansion and is all re-vamped and has local co-op that my mate could come round and play…
But $70! And people might not co-op!
But you’re bored.
…
I’m gonna buy this thing aren’t I?
I’ll always co-op if I’m on.
Cool, the whole levels thing can get to be a problem in these games as far as sporadic co-op goes though.
There has been several games I’ve bought for co-oping that just fell flat cause of character level differences and varying amounts of available play-time.
But I’ll get it I guess and hopefully have a jolly good time.
I had that problem yesterday, then I caved and bought it, played it all night last night and it was great fun couch co op.
I’m already about to buy it on PS4. That’ll make 2 PS4 games I have with no console yet.
Trailer for the Fourth (and Final) Muramasa DLC episode! Still need to play the 2nd and 3rd! Oh my god where did my spare time go! Exclamation points!
Wait, Muramasa’s on the Vita, AND it’s getting DLC?
Is this DLC substantial enough to possibly warrant an investment in the Vita?
You didn’t know that it got a Vita port? It did. It has a jump button now too. EDIT: Also it was re-translated from scratch because the Wii version’s translation was pretty awful.
There are four DLC episodes, the ‘Genroku Legends’. Each is a self-contained story where you play as a different character and you run through a fully voiced story with some bosses and stuff. You can access all the main game areas as each character, fight all the main game bosses and so on once you can break down the barriers. You start at level 1 and have a full advancement tree and everything.
I’ve only finished the first one and it was at least 6-7 hours worth just to get through the main storyline, and I didn’t come close to getting all the trophies for it or anything.
The four stories are:
– Fishy Tales of the Nekomata, where a girl, Okoi, who is murdered at the order of a corrupt politician is possessed as she is dying by a demon cat and becomes a spirit of vengeance, tracking down and murdering those who killed her.
– A Cause to Daikon For, where you play as Gonbe, a farmer who leads a peasant revolt against the local Daimyo who is demanding ever more steep taxes.
– A Spirited Seven Nights’ Haunting, where you play as Arashimaru, a rogue ninja of the Iga clan who while fighting off other ninjas shatters a mirror in a shrine belonging to a goddess, Inaraki, who curses him, becoming a white snake that wraps around his neck and will slowly kill him over seven days.
– This one, which doesn’t have a translated title yet, where you are playing as Rajagi, a female Oni. I don’t think they’ve released a plot summary for her story arc yet.
Most likely this last one will be out in English some time next month, Aksys’ turn-around time on them has been very fast, usually a couple of weeks.
Hah, no sooner have I posted that previous post than Aksys dates the final DLC!
“Hell’s Where the Heart Is” will release September 2.
“When former monk turned playboy Seikichi accidentally proposes to Rajyaki, the daughter of the Lord of Hell, he finds himself literally sucked into an adventure he never dreamed of! Already on a mission to recover the sacred treasures of the Seven Gods of Fortune that she misplaced, Rajyaki stuffs Seikichi in a magical bag and continues her mission – all while being the “bestest” fiancée she can be! Play as the formidable Rajyaki as you explore the Muramasa world, all while falling madly and deeply in love with Seikichi!”
Ugh…
Note to self… never eat a whole pizza by yourself.
*I can’t believe I ate the whole thing
*I can’t believe I ate three whole pizzas in one sitting
Neither can I.
Unless they were smaller-than-normal pizzas.
NOPE.
I HAVE DONE THIS MULTIPLE TIMES.
THERE’S A REASON I AM OBESE AS SHIT!
*Never share a whole pizza with anyone.
Get home from the movies, and my sister’s here.
Ok then.
So my son had his very first sports day today, so proud, but all I did was walk around to the different events, by the end of it I felt like I was the one that needed a lie down, and I didn’t even do anything.
My son was supposed to have his sports day a couple of weeks ago. He needed to have a red polo shirt so I spent ages at the shops the day before looking (didn’t realise how difficult it would be or I would have bought one online instead of waiting until the day before to do my shopping for it ) but couldn’t for the life of me find one. So I bought a white one and spend the rest of the day paint-dying it red. And then he ended up being too sick to go. 😛
Damn, that sucks.
Where did the week even go?
Why is time accelerating?
Every day I’ve woken up and had a quick “oh yeah, I’m still in Perth” moment…
But that’ll be over today. Crazy fast week!
How’s Perth treating you? Enjoying working there?
I dunno! I’m definitely missing out on the fun Melbourne work activities. Seems okay but I prefer the Melbourne office and wouldn’t want to work here for longer periods 😛
Pretend you’re a time traveler who’s gone back in time a decade!
Heh. “Accelerating”.
@redartifice 😛
TAY!
Name 28 or more games other than Minecraft, Flappy Bird, or Candy Crush.
Go!
All at once or one at a time?
All at once!
here’s my list:
1. Stunts
2. Cricket 97
3. Duke Nukem 3D
4. Mortal Kombat
5. Wacky Wheels
6. Microsoft Flight Simulator
7. Die By the Sword
8. Crash Team Racing
9. Wipeout
10. Super Smash Bros.
11. Spyro the Dragon
12. Daikatana
13. Game, Net & Match!
14. Age of Empires
15. Quake
16. Need For Speed
17. You Don’t Know Jack!
18. Premier Manager
19. Bugdom
20. Hellbender
21. Monster Truck Madness
22. Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
23. Burnout 3: Takedown
24. 1nsane
25. Dink Smallwood
26. Baldur’s Gate
27. Moto Racer
28. Fracas
29. Gex
30. Ignition
31. Theme Hospital
32. Rollercoaster Tycoon
33. Tekken
34. Homeworld
35. Armored Fist
36. Devil Dice
37. Ape Escape
38. echochrome
39. Deponia
40. Monkey Island
41. San Francisco Rush
42. Tonic Trouble
43. Tomb Raider
44. Max Payne
45. Ratchet & Clank
46. Flatout
47. Tanktics
48. Elasto Mania
49. Freelancer
50. Outwars
51. Pandemonium!
Stunts at number one.
You’re ok, guy!
Journey, Spelunky, Dota, Warcraft 3, Counter-Strike, Gears of War, Halo, Army of Two, Splinter Cell, GTA: Vice City, Tetris, Mario Kart 64, Mortal Kombat, Ultra Street Fighter 4, Sonic Adventure, Civilisation 5, Columns, Rock Band 2, Ragnarok Online, Diablo 2, Baldurs Gate 2: Shadow of Amn, Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Burning Earth, Katamari Damacy, The Sims 2, Tropico 3, Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes, Portal and Journey.
DARK SOULS
1. Industry Giant 2
2. Europa 1400
3. The Guild
4. Gothic 2
5. Risen 3
6. Might and Magic X
7. Puzzle Quest
8. Unreal Tournament
9. System Shock 2
10. Syndicate
11. Realms of the Haunting
12. Phantasmagoria
13. Day of the Tentacle
14. Carmageddon
15. Ultima 7
16. Rogue Legacy
17. Strife
18. Redneck Rampage
19. Doom 2
20. Quake 3
21. Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
22. Super Metroid
23. Capitalism 2
24. Red Alert 2
25. Legend of Grimrock
26. Serious Sam
27. Arx Fatalis
28. Torchlight 2
29. Painkiller
30. Startopia
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XII
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIV
Final Fantasy Crisis Core
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Final Fantasy Lightning Returns
Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy All The Bravest
Final Fantasy Dirge Of Cerberus
Final Fantasy IV The After Years
Final Fantasy XII Revenent Wings
Final Fantasy Agito
Final Fantasy The Crystal Chronicles
Final Fantasy Type-0
Final Fantasy Theatrythym
Final Fantasy The Four Heroes Of Light
And there’s more where that came from!
Dissidia!
Space Quest: The sarien Encounter
Space Quest II: Vohaul’s Revenge
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
Space Quest V: The Next Mutation
Space Quest VI: The Spinal Frontier
King’s Quest: Quest for the Crown
King’s Quest II: Romancing the Throne
King’s Quest III: To Heir is to Human
King’s Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
King’s Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
King’s Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
King’s Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
King’s Quest VIII: The Mask of Eternity
Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero
Quest for Glory II: Trial By Fire
Quest for Glory III: Wages of War
Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire
Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel
Police Quest II: The Vengeance
Police Quest III: The Kindred
Police Quest IV: Open Season
Police Quest: SWAT
Police Quest: SWAT 2
SWAT 3
SWAT 4
Minecra- …FUCK
Off the top of my head?
Civ V, Crusader Kings 2, Europa Universalis IV, Fez, journey, Saints Row IV, Dishonored, Uncharted 3, Need for Speed, Skyrim, Gran Turismo, Age of Empires, Dota, Borderlands 2, Destiny, Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, Braid, Transistor, Assassins Creed, Watch_Dogs, Splinter Cell: Black List, Metal Gear Solid 3, Pursuit Force, Lumines, Tetris, Wordament, Portal
All the CoD’s, Battlefields, Need For Speeds, that should cover it.
Dear TAY. Is Diablo 3 any thing like Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance? They’ve definitely taken out online requirements for PS4, right? Your pal, DC. (Never played a Diablo game, just so you know!)
Yeah, it’s pretty similar to the Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance thing. About online requirements I’m not too sure to be honest. I know you can lock your games and no one can join you. Good thing about that is people on your friend list can sometimes randomly send you items. I know I’ve sent an item to Splicer_Kid and Beardy
Thanks Nobs! Class act!
There are no online requirements for console.
You just said what I wanted to hear! <3
Considering you mentioned Dark Alliance, did you ever played A Bard’s Tale (the early 2000’s version)? I consider that to be one of the best hack n slash RPGs ever.
I haven’t, but I have a copy from when I bought Wasteland 2! *strokes beard*
Loved Dark Alliance though. So much fun had with that.
You really should try Bard’s Tale. The gameplay is almost exactly like Dark Alliance but with extra snark! Everything is better with more snark.
Edit: Oh yeah! The main character is voiced by the guy who played Robin Hood in Men in Tights. It is beautiful. *wipes tear*
And Tony Jay is the Narrator!
When I think back to the NES, this is the first piece of music that pops into my head. So, so good. XD
Soundwave ticket get!
Should be a good couple of days 😀
But hermits don’t go to concerts! :'(
*thinks back fondly to seeing Arcade Fire at Big Day Out*
they’re one of the few things that lure me out of my cave. Been a slow year for bands I like, pretty sure the last one I went to was Primus in January.
I’m strongly considering opting for the Brisbane show rather than Sydney. Would be nice to go and hang with my friend again, also to actually be there with someone I know rather than solo 😛
GOOKY MEAT! GOOKY MEAT!
Not that kind of meat. Mooky’s got that covered!
Meat at PAX 😛
PAX North. It’s a thing!
It’s not!
How can you be sure if you never attend, huh, smart guy?
The same way I know unicorns aren’t a thing!
Go for it, you can hang out with me when I’m not running around all excitedly.
not sure if that’s a deterrent or not 😛Yeah, same here \o/
Was really cool seeing @freya and @trjn the other day! Sorry for being all socially awkward, it’s in my nature! When I vanished for twenty minutes at lunch I was outside freaking out. Haha!
it was lovely to see you even if you did disappear at times!
In fact it was lovely to see everyone even if @trjn bored the pants off everyone by making us go to board game stores 😛
Oh yeah, completely forgot to say how good it was to see you guys!
I feel like horse shit. Im sick but i came to work today. Then tonight i am driving 4 hours in the night time. Yaaay….
If you dont hear from me after today remember me fondly as a odd duck who liked good music and play a arcade fire song at my funeral.
It would have to be from the album Funeral too, I’m thinking.
Wake Up would be inappropriate for a funeral. So I’m thinking Laika?
MAYBE REBELLION (LIES)!
FEEL BETTER ROCKETS!Laika time all the time
It’s for your own good, it’s for the neighborhood!
definitely Laika
You’re alright, Hotross.
I think we should all make a pact that if one of us dies, we all collaboratively write a eulogy for whomever has passed away.
Except we all do it one-word story style.
Rocket- was- a guy-who-was-pretty-cockhead
You are not allowed to die until we embrace passionately in Canberra next week.
deal
How passionately? *grabs popcorn*
I was miffed last night because, as I walked home, I noticed that the place that I regularly get my hair cut near work was completely empty. Lights off, with a “Closed” sign out the front. “Great!” I thought, “Of course the business would shut down as soon as I got mildly comfortable going there! Now I’m going to have to find somewhere new!”
Then, walking to work this morning, I noticed that all the furniture was back in the shop, lights on, “Open” sign.
Last night I was looking at the empty shop next door…
Last night I tried not to get stabbed!
@Liondrive was at home. You had nothing to worry about, friend!
Did you succeed?
Completely shankless!
Atleast you can be shankful for that. *shoots self*
You so crazy! Why you got to be so crazy?
I just crazy.
Crazy 😀 Who knew Dart Vader had such a nice singing voice 😛
Edit: I messed up my link D:
So Soundwave weekend pass ordered.. There goes 197 bucks i’ll never see again! 😀
I wanted just a Saturday ticket for Brisbane, buuuut they’re going on sale at a later date IF weekend passes don’t sell out first. So whatever. 60 bucks more for 2 days versus 1, seems worth it. Plus Faith No More close the weekend here, so that’s worth it alone, if I end up making it to day 2 😛
*high five* should be awesome, I was surprised at the ticket prices, Soundwave is one of the most expensive, seemed reasonable.
Agreed man! Even if there’s only gonna be about 60 bands this year (smallest it’s been in I think almost 5 years?!) but 197 for 2 days is a good price. Hell even 130 for single day is good!
But saying that it’s usually always full of a massive list of bands, some years it’s had 3x as many bands as Big Day Out which was never much cheaper, last BDO I went to (2012) I paid 160 for it, Soundwave that year was 165 and had like 2x as many bands, sad!
@welbot I’m getting rather sick of being told I’m not good enough in Risen 3. Dang it, I just want to pick all of the pockets.
Also I want that monkey thief so badly but my Influence is pretty crap.
There’s a monkey thief?
*buys game*
You can train a monkey in Risen 2
To do my bidding?
If all your bidding is stealing, sure!
yes you can train monkeys to get in to small spaces and windows to steal stuff! You can use voodoo to control other people too!
hahah yeah it’s always harsh to start with. I only just left Kila last night. Did pretty much all I could on the island, and by the time I left, I had 4000 odd gold! Thanks to the lack of reminders in the UI that you’ve levelled up, I checked my stats, and BAM! 25000 Glory to spend! HOLY CRAP! :0
I bumped my Haggling up to max, ability to brew potions, and then decided before I got the monkey training, I’d go and explore another island. I guess in the hope I can find a few more herbs that will perma boost my influence, or perhaps a recipe to make a perma potion to do it. That way I don’t have to spend too much of my precious glory on it!
Wait what? There are herbs that permanently boost stats? How did I not know this?
Also yeah, what island did you head off to? I’m currently on Antigua because I’m unsure about which faction I want to join.
Yeah. Perma stat boosting herbs go back through the while gothic series even!
There used to be one called King’s Sorrell, which you needed to use to make perma potions, but it’s a little different in Risen. If you look through your inventory at your herbs etc, at the bottom of the section you should find the perma stat ones. (Will usually have something like Influence + 2 or something written in the description).
I have yet to find any recipes to make perma potions, but I know they’re in there somewhere. Usually brewing a perma boost herb in to a potion, will give you +5 to the stat, as opposed to +2 for just eating the herb raw.
As for where I’ve been, I started by going to Tacarigua first, then I went to Fog Island to get that legendary item I told you about the other day, then I went to Kila. Last night I was tossing up whether to go to Antigua or Taranis. I ended up opting for Taranis as I intend to go with the mage alliance in the end, so I wanted to see what’s required. Also, being the home of the mages, I’m more likely to find the recipes for potions I want, so I can then know what I need and what I can sell!
Also, not sure if you recall a guy called Mud from previous Risen/Gothic games, but he makes an appearance in this game too!
You found anything cool yet, or need to know something?
Yeah I met Mud and I “accidentally” shot him. I don’t recall him from the previous games but I did note (took a while though) that Jack the Lighthouse Keeper is a straight transfer across from Gothic 2. I thought that was pretty cool. Thanks for the tip about the Alchemy stuff. I picked up Distilling as a skill but I need to get some more hunting skills to acquire specific ingredients. I’m also going to need a lot of sugar.
The hording of stuff is continuing hence why I’ve been super reluctant to sell anything, even though the gold would increase my skills quite nicely.
Spoilers incoming for Antigua & general faction stuff:
I’m definitely getting the sense that I’d be getting a lot more out of visiting Antigua if I had played the previous games. Oh well.Faction-wise, I was also leading more towards the mages as I always tended to side with the Fire Mages in the Gothic games. I kinda want to grab the druid from Thunder Island first though for helping with the Underworld Gates. I’m not particularly interested in becomign a voodoo pirate either, despite how cool Bones is.
I also just want my ship so I’ll be joining a faction soon-ish. Then I can start building my crew up again. Already have Saddek and Patty ready to go as soon as I have a reputation again.
I have those 2 ready to go as well! Getting those 2 to join were some of the last things I did before leaving Kila.
I’ve always started by going with the Fire mages myself in all Gothic games! Magic user of any sort is usually my first play through. They weren’t really there in Risen 2. It was pretty much voodoo or nothing, so I’m glad to see them back 🙂
There’s actually a few characters that span both Risen and Gothic. That’s part of what I love about these games 🙂 Mud has always been a bit of a joke character. Nothing but an annoyance. There’s several ways you can go about dealing with him though. First off, after he talks to you (interrupts you as you’re walking about) you can beat him up, and you’ll get glory for doing it! He wont leave you though. To make him leave, you have to either wait until Chapter 3 (so I’ve read,) or eventually you’ll get some options by talking to him directly, to threaten/kill him, or pay him 1000 gold to piss off. The latter will give you +1 soul, where as killing gives you -1. If you hang on to him until you complete the quest to get through the gate (which will allow access to the temple he wants to loot) you get +3 soul, and probably glory too.
Given that I’ve only just acquired the ability to brew potions, I’m not sure if the Alchemy skill also helps to boost the perma stat potions, or if it’s only for the temporary boosts. I’ll keep ya posted though! You definitely should get all the hunting stuff though. If you’re not going to go down the voodoo path, you’ll end up with a shit load of teeth and claws which you can sell. The earlier you get the skills, the more bits you can loot from dead creatures! (I always try to get hunting, haggling and thieving skills up first, but I tend to only take thieving so far, as going down the path of the magic user, will eventually give you access to the rust spell, which will allow you to open locks without a pick.
Dunno if you’re familiar with the text you see above locks, but if you don’t understand it, here’s an example.
40(50)110
That basically means the lock has a strength of 110. Your current lockpick skill is 40 and the 50 in the brackets, is your magic skill. Either the 40 or the 50 must be 110 for you to successfully unlock.
Also, just a tip in case you weren’t aware, pickpocketing is different. Although you have a strength check like you do on locks, you can still pick their pocket, even if your skill doesn’t match. At the beginning of the game (I don’t remember who it was) I picked the pocket of a guy when I was 20/80 (so i had 20 pickpocket, his check was 80). Successfully picked his pocket first go! It is a bit random based on your skill though. 20 vs 80 will only succeed half as much as 40 vs 80 if you know what I mean, but that said, it’s still random within those confines. If you save the game, and pickpocket, and they catch you, you can reload the game and try again, and you might get it next time. This even works on a 20 vs 120 check!
I went for another night mtb ride last night at the track. Took my go pro chest mount this time that I bought last weekend, to test it out. Haven’t confirmed footage quality, but it’ll have this on it:
– Some nice jumps.
– Fast downhill section.
– One crash where I bail into a semi-leafy bush (it wasn’t very leafy at all)
– Another crash where I handle-and-shoulder-barge a tree.
Got it on 60fps video so once I edit for some nice slow mo I’ll link here for anyone interested.
slow mo crashes, who wouldn’t want to watch that >:)
Red’s Running Rampage Redux 2: The Rampagining
JESUS CHRIST LIONDRIVE ARE YOU A TERMINATOR?
1 @Liondrive 15,826
2 @aliasalpha 7,954
3 @Bish 6,399
4 @ontargett 4,114
5 @NegativeZero 3,022
6 @blaghman 2,694
7 @CookingMama 1,715
8 @Redartifice 1,058
9 @BJ1 933
10 @FreezeSPreston 544
11 @GrandmasterB-Funk 402
12 @gingerchris86 297
yeah that didnt happen at all. I was very lazy the last two weeks
Basically after the red’s challenge started? =P
I’m all recovered from the c2s now. Back to Parkrun tomorrow morning.
Thank god all my Apps sync these stats – but damn I’ve been a lazy little sod over the last week (he says finishing the first bottle of red for the night)
What did people think of Expendables 3? I never got around to seeing 2, and only saw 1 the one time back when it was in cinemas. I remember hugely enjoying it though, the cinema was packed and everyone was laughing and cheering and having a great old time. This one though, I dunno… I think I liked it, but a lot of the time it felt kind of stilted and awkward.
*The Extendables (cc. @evilmonkey)
The Enjoyables!
I enjoyed 2, but didn’t think 3 was great.
2 > 1 > 3, imo
Been here 1.5hrs + now, fire alarm tester guys can’t get the alarm to work. 🙁
2.5hrs still no alarm. I suggested lighting a match.
I FEEL SAFE
I’ll come over and cook some pork chops, that never fails to set off the smoke alarm in my place.
Hey at least your building has alarms… even if they don’t work…
I sit in a back office with no windows (that’s right, no natural light here) and only 2 doors out. In case of fire we’re to raise the alarm verbally and then evacuate. =\
Hah, awesome.
Page thirteen, why can’t you be cool like page twelve? There was a steady stream of posts on page twelve! Don’t you wanna be like that?
JEEZ DC
I TRIED
I’LL CONFECT AN OUTRAGE!
ummm
HOW ABOUT THAT GAME, uh, DIABLO! I HEARD IT HAS DEMONS IN IT
I saw a reddit post claiming that Activision-Blizzard’s WoW servers all became self-aware overnight and took control of drones to construct robot forms for themselves. Now that they’re ambulant, they’re systematically going from house to house killing kittens and puppies, specifically ones owned and cherised by young cancer patients who have now lost their will to live.
It must be true, because what kind of depraved motherfucker could make shit like that up.
I also heard Diablo went into a restaurant and they ate all the food in the restaurant and they had to close the restaurant.
I saw Diablo and Warcraft in a closet making babies and the baby looked at me.
Did you know that the ink on the Diablo discs is mixed with the tears of PC MASTER RACE-rs?
I definitely read that somewhere…
Maybe it something to do with.. Friday Page Thirteenth..
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decent jokes on a Friday are not my specialtyUgh. Wife got called into a meeting with her company HR manager. Needed a support person apparently so she took me in. A staff member who has asked to be kept anonymous because they fear for their safety (wat) has put in complaints about her being racist, abusive, stealing money and property, threatening staff, threatening children and physically abusing children. No prior history or performance taken into account. Further disciplinary action pending.
What.
The.
Fuck?
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Even though I’ve only met B a few times, she seriously doesn’t come across as the type to do ANYTHING like that 😐
Where’s this person’s proof? serious man.. people = shit
The fuck? To make allegations of that magnitude this other staff member must have a serious vendetta, or some severe emotional problems.
Unless of course it’s your wife who’s an unbalanced psychopathic child-abusing racist thief. Unsubstantiated anonymous allegations are, as we are all aware, the most reliable kind of allegations.
They fear for their safety because they know old man Freeze is on the case now.
Wut…? Multiple complaints… or one complaint covering all of… that?
They are some serious accusations and I’d be making some sort of counter complaint if they can’t produce evidence for any of it.
I know they’re old fashioned and a little outdated… but any chance she’s a Union member or there is a union for the industry? They’re very helpful with this stuff when it unfounded.
That is so messed up. It sounds like someone took a shotgun-approach and has tried to fabricate as many complaints as they could think of.
I hope things work out and the truth comes to light.
Yuck.
If they’re accusing her of theft (or any of those things) they’d better have a pretty good rationale. time to document EVERYTHING
🙁
Also, seriously, if your wife is in a union or has some other advocate, you need to bring them in now.
Get accuser to show proof or kindly ask them to suck your collective dicks.
Also child abuse would be instant dismissal. Call them out on their bullshit. Either they drop it, or they continue with evidence. Because if they continue without evidence you can sue. :3
Yeah, seriously, if they have evidence of child abuse, they’d have fired her.
Given what I’ve heard about this place on here before, it could be they’re trying to force her to resign.
I see. One of those places huh. Well known troublemakers? >:(
In addition, I’m pretty sure there’d be mandatory reporting laws governing suspected child abuse, with legal consequences for failure to report (at least that’s how it works in teaching). So, bringing it up like that seems like there has been no reporting, which further suggests the claims are bullshit.
Absolutely it’s mandatory reporting. Anyone in a childcare role is well fucking versed in mandatory reporting guidelines.
IIRC this isn’t the first time she’s had problems with someone else at work. Childcare be a cutthroat industry.
Hope this gets treated the way it deserves, man. Right into the round file.
It’s the last thing anyone needs on top of the bullshit that is work. All the best.
Man this makes me so fucking mad. You better report back here next week with some good news or I’ll flip shit. >:[
I’ve had my gf and a friend get fired etc multiple times recently because of bullshit like this.
Go through the advice in this thread, it’s good. Document, ask for proof, call them out on BS. Also get a 3rd party in on the action if they decide to continue.
That really sucks man, I hope it gets better, but in all seriousness she should document everything, and get the union involved if she is a member. Also start documenting what goes on from now, just in case.
It’s really awful and I hope it gets better.
I hope you guys are okay! *hugs*
Tricky subject to wade in late on the game with. Having a bit of experience in this field I’d advise a little differently. Forget unions or anyone who wants to make a fight of it, as it can bring a fair bit of emotional stress, and I’ve yet to see a union make things less complicated. If you’re convinced you have no case to answer and this is going to become a witch hunt or he said – she-said situation, you may instead being facing what is known as constructive dismissal.
Take your notes, diarize everything, admit and sign nothing, if they push say you are not signing under duress. Then go and get a lawyer. Even one of those no win no fee guys. They’ll help you dealing with fair work and/or negotiating a payout as whichever way this cookie crumbles you’re probably not going to be wanting to deal with this company for much longer.
Keep tabs on him. Guy sounds really nutty/pissed off. See if he does this stuff again, watch to see if he gets increasingly aggressive in his statements. He’s most likely delusional in some way, or he’s got an axe to grind, and there isn’t yet any evidence to prove otherwise.
Edit: should have read further down before posting, good to hear it worked out.
Fantasy book reading people from a few TAY’s ago… @blaghman @dire_wolf @negativezero @beavwa
Anyone seen that Robin Hobb has a new series called The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy (1st book out now: Fool’s Assassin) featuring, you guess it, Fitz and the Fool. According to blurb it picks up their story sometime after the end of the Tawny Man set. Amazon link.
Not sure I’m ready to commit to a new series with only one book out though… The Amazon ‘helpful’ reviews are full of praise and book is sitting at 4.3 stars.
Anyone got it already or going to get it?
I still haven’t read her previous series, the follow-up to the liveship ones. Will get onto this eventually, currently just started the second of Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive.
The only Robin Hobb book series I read was the Forest Mage series (I can’t remember if that’s the formal title for it). I enjoyed it to an extent but there were a few things I didn’t enjoy so I’m a little hesitant to read more of her work.
I think Beardy and ‘Nef over on twitter have picked it up.
I’ve only read the first two Fitz books, I think (I was reading them very late on school nights, so they’re a bit blurry in my memory), so I won’t pick it up unless I make my way through everything else.
Not on my radar at the moment, but the missus might be interested as well. Will look into it. Thanks!
OOh, I will need to read this… I loved all of the Fitz stuff. couldnt really get into the liveship stuff.
Wow, I didn’t see this coming at all. I loved the Farseer Trilogy and how it finished. The Tawny Man series kind of went back and hurt a lot of what I loved about the original series. I don’t know if I want to read this new series.
I’m starting to read the 5th book in the Night Watch series (Russian urban fantasy).
It’s been a while, and the fourth one was not great, but I have hopes!
Haven’t read any Robin Hobb.
Worth trying?
Also, I rather like Trudi Canavan’s stuff. Give that a shot if you haven’t already.
Her stuff is pretty good but it’s not so amazing that you need to rush out right now and buy it all ASAP or anything.
Agree with @negativezero – it’s good, but not earth shatteringly good. Some great characters and interesting settings… but can get a little convuluted between Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies.
Will have to plug that name into Amazon so it reminds me to buy her book(s) at some point.
I’ve read her liveship traders trilogy. I enjoyed it, and was genuinely surprised at times. I’m hoping to read her other stuff soon.
no sorry, I find the books a little too simple. I enjoyed the broken empire trilogy by Mark lawrence but you’ll figure it out about 3/4 qtrs into the second book of the series.
So DMM’s follow-up to Kantai Collection and their in-development Shiro Collection (where instead of battleship girls you collect Castle Ladies) will involve Moe anthropomorphisms of tools and construction vehicles. So your Waifu can be a hoe.
Well, that Mini Excavator thing sure is a thing…
Backhoe?
I believe there’s some JC2MP happening tonight at 8:30-ish.
The more the merrier!
SO HYPED!!!!! New season of Doctor Who starts on Sunday. Not sure if I’ll get up to watch the simulcast, but I am really looking forward to seeing Peter Capaldi as the Doctor. Can’t wait!!!!!
I’m seeing it in the cinema!
But not til 2pm, so YOU LOT BETTER SHUT THE FUCK UP ON THE SOCIAL MEDIAS
Can’t afford to go to the cinema to see it. Don’t mind watching it at home though. I’ll make a decision tomorrow night as to whether I get up to watch it or not. Depends on whether I can avoid spoilers and how tired I am.
I paid for it weeks ago, so that helps
hell yizzeah baby! So hype!!!
so damn keen.
I keep on forgetting it’s this weekend. I’ve been trying to blank out social media on anything Whovian as I absolutely hate spoilers of the smallest kind. People don’t understand that any snippet of info is a spoiler, even if it’s on a trailer, if I haven’t seen it don’t think it’s ok to talk to me about it.
The BBC is the worst for spoilers though doing massive announcements spoiling a whole season by telling you when a Doctor or companion(s) are about to leave. No escaping it then.
But anyway, looking forward to this season so much. Hopefully the writing outside of Moffat’s episodes have gotten stronger and more consistent though. The last couple of seasons of Smith were ropey at best. Also, no lovey-dovey Doctor this time. Capaldi will be fun to watch as will the people only watching it because ‘awwww, David Tennant/Matt Smith’. A few reactions I’ve read so far have been brilliant 😀
Capaldi should be great. I’m glad to see an older actor playing the Doctor after Smith and Tennant. I’ve tried to avoid spoilers as much as possible, although being part of Doctor Who fan groups on Facebook makes it hard. If I don’t watch the simulcast, I might just have to stay off Twitter and Facebook on Sunday to remain unspoiled.
So excited!!! This will be the first time I’ve been caught up to current episodes. Will be watching it Sunday night, so its going to be a blanket ban on all internets this weekend.
HYPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! \o/
So went and Shadowran last night.
I was the only person to be shot, even though I’m the sniper (failed so many stealth checks. SO MANY), and of my ten health, I lost nine, from one enemy in one turn of combat. Drones are dicks.
Also crashed at my friend’s house, so I got to have a good chat about books with one of them (who works at Dymocks), started reading The Lies of Locke Lamora, and it seems pretty cool, so I’m promptly going to forget about it and never read any more. And after a conversation with two people I’m considering attempting to play Crusader Kings again, because I do so love eugenics.
Also, while sleeping on their couch, I was introduced to what energetic cats are like. As it sat on me. And kneaded my clothes. And threatened my crotch. And started purring REALLY LOUDLY FOR LIKE TEN MINUTES AS IT SAT NEXT TO MY HEAD.
And yet I still kind of want a kitty. >.>
Given there’s been a bit of CK2 talk around atm, we should try and run Multiplayer
I’m in…
Oh my god, last week one of the cats was sleeping on my bed, and then when I went to bed, she just sat next to my head purring.
Look, I can appreciate that you find my company acceptable, and that’s cool, but holy poop I just want to sleep and you making both noise and vibrations right next to my head isn’t helping.
Flatmate also brought home a third cat a few days ago.
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Did you say Wiz?
That’s the most important thing
Uhh, yeah.
Yeah, sure, I definitely remembered to. >.>
The new Sin City has not been reviewing well.
A shame, but not a surprise- Frank Miller hasn’t done anything worthwhile in a long time.
Wolverine with Claremont; and Dark Knight Returns were pretty great! Yeah, you’re right though, those two are from the eighties..
He snapped for good around 9/11
He doesn’t look healthy in recent photos, either.
All of that bile.
Okay. Wifey is at her work now packing up all her belongings and starts a new job with better pay and better hours on Tuesday.
Excellent. Because fuck those guys. I’d make fucking sure she’s getting her proper benefits from them too.
They employed all their staff on casual terms so I’d doubt there’s any to be had.
Arseholes.
Sorry to hear that! I really should have scrolled to bottom of the page before posting. All the same talk to a solicitor as depending on the size of her now previous employer they may still have a case to answer particulalry if she was working full time hours.
This is good news. Give her our best, Freeze! 🙂
good to hear theres something greener coming, Give her all the best from us 🙂
Pretty shit what they did to her in the end. =(
Hopefully where she is going has better people!
New job? That was quick!
\o/
New beginnings and hopefully nicer people!
I trust karma will come around and bite the complainer (and HR people) in uncomfortable places… repeatedly.
Good to hear!
Hopefully comes with a nice big reduction in stress for all of you.
So they basically had some unsubstantiated allegations and let her go because even though they can’t prove anything, she’s a casual and they don’t have to.
Was there any evidence presented? Because seriously, casual or not, if her employment ended in relation to completely unfounded allegations (which would be hard to deny given that it followed this completely bogus meeting), it’s still wrongful dismissal.
They didn’t fire her. She’s just had enough, called a friend who got her a job at that place (childcare again) and is walking out.
Well, at least she had options. It’s unfair that she got forced out but at least she doesn’t have to continue to put up with this shit.
I still feel she should report it to some industry body so they’re away of the kind of shenanigans should another unfortunate employee be forced to put up with it in the future.
good on her, sounds like those jerks didn’t deserve her working for them anyway. Also shows what kind of person she must be if someone is willing to pick her up so fast, congratulations and all the best.
This. Even if it didn’t lead to a firing, there’s still a term for it. Adverse action or something. I dunno.
I am not a Laywer, but I believe it’s Constructive Dismissal. Employer deliberately makes continued employment impossible by making the environment untenable in order to force the employee to resign. If it’s found to have occurred it’s considered a termination in the same way that an actual firing would be, and so that employee should receive all the benefits they would have gotten if they were actually terminated, plus any extra penalties imposed by the fact it’s probably also a wrongful termination.
Thats the term!
I hope she can put it behind her and find happiness at the new job. Good luck to you both!
Good to see something positive come out of that bullshit.
That escalated quickly! Yay!
I’d still pursue this. Make double-sure that there isn’t any black marks on her record, especially since child care.
My five o’clock beer will be in honour of you and your wife. Congrats to her! 🙂
All the best to her with the new job 🙂
Sounds like Tales of Xillia 2 has all the same problems that Tales of Symphonia 2 did.
No character development for any returning cast, focus on two people that are boring instead, generally having poor pacing and incredibly linear advancement.I was getting a bit excited to play it and was thinking I’d basically drop tools and rush through it when it arrived, despite suspecting it was going to be a poorer game than the original. Now I think I might hold off on it until there’s a lull I can play it in.
To be fair, Jude was pretty boring, so not much of a stretch regarding to “boring main characters” there!Hah ha! I joke, I joke, but not really.
I disagree with you. At least he talked!
Oh man, guys, I am trying to remember the name of a stupid movie and I cannot! Help! It’s an Australian independent film, probably made/came out last year, or the year before? It was like, a father whose daughter is kidnapped/maybe killed, and then he finds the guy and tortures him or what not? It looked kinda meh, but it’s driving me insane that I cannot think of its name.
Prisoners.
No, it’s Australian, and it’s more focused on the torture-porn side of things, I think.
Prisoners is pretty good though, saw that earlier this year.
Mystery Road?
Nope, but that looks interesting!
Haha, I give up. I don’t have any other suggestions apart from Wolf Creek 2.
I appreciate your efforts!
Sounds like a Taken/The Loved Ones mashup
Yeah, right? Maybe it was more independent than I suspected.
The Loved Ones was some messed up weird shit. Not bad though.
Could try having a look here but none of them sound like what you’re after.. Closest is 100 Bloody Acres and that’s still no where near that description lol.
Edit: now that i’m checking out Australian thriller & horror releases in recent years, some of them sound promising, gonna have to obtain them!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2214941/combined
BAM! Yes that’s it. I was so sure it was called something else while it was in production. Pfft, not even good enough to be on Wiki.
Thank you!
The Horseman.
Made in Brisbane.
Bike pump to the dick?
Ah dang, should’ve kept reading.
This is the one I’m talking about anyway, it’s really good.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060255/
Hahaha, you had me at “bike pump to the dick”.
Whats for lunch?
Me – last nights pizza.
Lunch!
I think I may go with a double combo today. Or a stacker.
Steamed vegetable salad!
Sadness.
A Pie.
Same here! Did you make yours as well?
Normally yes, but I was wrecked after work yesterday so ordered in Szechuan Chilli Prawn for me and Ham, Mushroom and Olive for wifey (with double everything!) from Crust.
Favourite home made is ham, asparagus on a pesto sauce… Or whole tinned tomatoes (drained and then broken up) and pepperoni.
That sounds damn awesome.
The second recipe was in a book that came with a pizza stone. I couldn’t believe how simple it was yet tasted so so good!
Leftover grilled asparagus, mexican tomato+bean saucy thingie and spicy cajun chicken.
Pain in the arse trying to get all the meat off the bones.
That sounds amazing… Your own creation or is there a recipe you’d like to share?
Please?
I think the chicken was a Jamie Oliver recipe.
I dunno, you’ll have to ask Mum 😛
It’s cold and rainy so I’m totally getting hot chips with lotttts of chicken salt. Because fat be damned.
KFC Kentucky burger.
Chris Jaeger must live near the worst takeaway stores in Australia as I’ve never had anything that looks near as horrendous as the stuff he gets and the stores near me are pretty bad.
Grilled cheese sammiches.
Tomato & Feta risotto.
Subway Melt with swiss cheese and honey mustard sauce.
oh hell yeah, I remembered I still have half a pizza left over from yesterday 😀 that’s (half of) dinner sorted
I had a banh mi vietnamese pork roll. With hot chili. Deeeelicious.
Dear Internetz,
I’ve been very busy today so didn’t get a chance to post this when the conversation was going on but I felt strongly enough about it to bring it up now. There’s been quite a bit of controversy brewing over this Zoe Quinn debate and I would like to voice in one last time and never speak of it again because internetz.
Before making moving forward on this topic I would like to remind everyone standing against her that this is a human being. A person with feelings, experiences, hopes, dreams, fears and like all of us very capable of making mistakes and like some of us not always caring about the consequences. Even if she is a sociopath it doesn’t warrant people judging and branding her for her actions. Because once again these were done within the privacy of a relationship, now I don’t know about the rest of you but I’ve done and said some pretty stupid things while in that same privacy and would die of shame if they were made a public spectacle of. I would also ask you to read the blog by her ex one more time and this time pay attention to the tone of the blog as opposed to it’s content. This is clearly a disgruntled ex, even though he tries hard to maintain rational and concise arguments you can still see signs of him being hurt and bitter about the whole thing. You might ask why this matters? Because anything being said or done by someone who’s been hurt by someone they loved needs to be taken with the appropriate filter ; i.e. they will fortify their point of view while degrading that of the other person involved (hell I’ve done it after a break up when looking for support from my friends its completely fucking normal and my friends know that I’m venting as well). However the internetz can’t and won’t know this because internetz; rational and concise thought is hard to find. Now I ask you with these few facts in place (not opinions, facts) how much credence can you lend this situation when these facts basically break it down to the fact this is an ugly break up blown out of proportion by a group of people who can relate to this guy’s situation and are looking for their proverbial scape goat because they didn’t have one in their situation (yes far reaching assumptions but everything being said about her falls under the same category).
For the people in support of Zoe Quinn I ask you to remember that everyone attacking her and judging her are also human beings, a fact easy to forget when they seem like a mob but each of them has individual beliefs, experiences, fears and possibly grievances that bear some similarity to how her ex feels he was treated. Zoe Quinn opened this door herself, instead of disarming the situation with her ex after he talks about going public (easy enough to do, she just needed to stop sleeping with other people for a while, make it a healthy break up and get her ex to be empathic to her situation) she actually exacerbates it by going silent and sounding somewhat frightened and panicked at the prospect of people finding out. She handled the whole break up badly, she kept emotionally leading him on for what seems like a very long time during which she was also with other men and when he finally snapped the recoil hit her hard. So while you are running to the defense of someone being attacked by the internet, you are effectively in support of how she handled the break up. So once again in a situation where she should’ve effectively walked away (if she cared about her ex at all to give him time to heal) she keeps coming back and it reaches a point where he clearly snaps. You can see it in the blog once again the part where she starts ignoring him, you can see something clicked, a point where he no longer gave a damn about her well being anymore. People don’t reach that state of mind all by themselves where they don’t care about the repercussions of their actions if it runs the risk of hurting someone else; they’re pushed to that point.
Finally I would like to remind both sides, all of this is hearsay, everything that she’s said, he’s said and even all of my arguments up to this point. All of it hear say. And none of it really matters because once again this whole situation should’ve been handled in the privacy of their relationship. Not by the internetz because well internetz!
I will say why I chose to type this up. Quite a few people expressed disgust and dismay at this being discussed in TAY but I for one am glad we did speak about it. Debate, conversation and conflicting points of view are how people grow. The arguments from both sides allowed me to paint my own picture of this situation and reminded me that both of these people involved are suffering from their respective actions, where neither side has the moral high ground. I’m not disgusted, dismayed or upset that people in TAY spoke about this, I’m glad because it shows both sides were willing to engage in conversation over their difference of opinion and even if neither side ever decides to agree you can count on the fact they’ve at least been exposed to a way of thinking different from their own and that in itself means they’ve grown without realising it. I’m not going to engage in this topic again or respond further and I’m not spoilering it because I felt this was important to say and for anyone to read (so my apologies for the long post!).
Yours Truly,
pupp3t.
Too long. Did read 😛
I’ve kind of totally missed this whole thing. I get home and jump on Skype to find the group chat flooded with talk about this thing, all I can do is mindlessly scroll through it and have no idea what’s going on or why people are now talking about JonTron and TotalBiscuit. And… really struggle to find the ability to care.
Ignorance really is bliss.
My main objection to this whole thing is this: This is a private matter between a few people. It does not need to be all over the internet, and it’s spurring the worst sorts of mob behaviour.
Basically, the internet needs to act like rational adults. In the end, what are we talking about? Possibly, a few reviews for a tiny indie game, and some alleged (not proven) wrongdoing.
I hate to be that guy, and it’s a crap argumentative technique, but it’s all so petty. There are people dying in Iraq, and the earth is slowly dying, and we’re wasting words and mental real estate on who someone that no-one had really heard of until this week may or may not have slept with, on the word of an obviously jilted and irrational ex boyfriend. At the end of the day, it’s a hill of beans being highjacked as if it’s Everest.
Nerds and sex, amirite?
Congrats on your wife getting a new job man! Hopefully she loves it =]
…well that was some odd comment placement.
I forgot to reply in the thread dammit! Sheesh!
I’d say “and never the twain shall meet,” but some of them really should get fucked.
Me, I see it like this: Imagine someone tossed out an accusation that two teachers had sex in your child’s classroom.
You’d be up in fucking arms alright. “What? Are you kidding me? What’s going on?! I WANT ANSWERS.” None of your fucking business what people do, until you have a stake in the consequences of that? Nah. You have a stake. Investigation later proves that while sex may have been happening between the two teachers, the accusation was false: it wasn’t at school or in the presence of children, and is thus no-one else’s damn business.
There is nothing wrong with your initial reaction to want to know what’s happened, due to your stake in things.
Now, obviously there’s a huge difference in the stakes between being lied to by a journalist (take a minute to laugh if you need to) whose work you rely on for information, and having your children exposed to adults fucking, and in a reasonable world, the reaction would scale appropriately as well. (Feel free to laugh bitterly some more.)
But the principle is the same: You have a vested interest in something, you hear of a violation of it (lie or not, you don’t yet know), you want to know what the fuck is going on.
The fact that you heard it at all is the fault of the muck-raker. And naturally, if the rumour was obviously coming from a jilted ex, your reaction would – and should – be one of skepticism.
In this instance, given the history of the dev in question being harrassed and abused by misogynists for no apparent reason other than daring to be a female indie dev, it’s pretty clear the thing got hijacked and inflated by malicious ****s with an agenda and the people they managed to convince.
…
As for the pettiness/world scale perspective thing… well.
I could dig out last week’s TAY mopey post I made in a somewhat nihilistic bent about the utter futility of attempting to even care, let alone do something, about the disastrous crash course our politicians and business leaders are willingly driving us into for personal gain… but the short version was basically, ‘It’s all so fucked and I’m so powerless, I’m just going to go and get mad about retailer-exclusive DLC or some other bullshit that doesn’t matter.’ I wouldn’t be surprised if half the noise is people applying and extending this to their tiny spheres of imagined influence. Which… mock as you like, I guess.
My standpoint is this: even if the allegations about her promiscuity, hypocrisy, doxxing(?) etc. are true (and I frankly don’t believe they are based on a view reddit posts and the blog of a jilted ex) I frankly don’t care to find out what’s true and what isn’t because it’s first and foremost no one’s fucking business.
I don’t care how justified to be involved anyone on either side of the debate thinks they are because she’s a game dev and they’re part of the greater gaming community or whatever, everyone who isn’t Zoe Quinn or her ex just needs to back the fuck up.
That’s fair to know now. But the first thing I heard about this? Someone was saying that a developer had ‘bought’ good reviews by sex with journalists.
Tell me that’s not a gaming news item.
If there were a shred of truth to this, if this were Microsoft buying prostitutes for Gamespot’s editor, this would be front page shit even outside this tiny little hyper-reactionary world of gaming enthusiasm. Forget who’s involved, that’s gaming news. Or… it would be if there were even a shred of truth to it.
If it had turned out that this was a case of ‘reviews for sex’, as it has been packaged by some, then that’s a game journalism problem that readers have a stake in. Readers would be very justified in expressing their concern at the breach of ethics and trust. But like I said on the other page… if it WAS that, then the dev very clearly didn’t get what they paid for, because I couldn’t remember a damn thing in terms of glowing coverage. Which turns out to be about right after reading Totilo’s bit which was (paraphrased): “Grayson’s published ONE thing about the dev in question, and it was before he met her; nothing since. No case to answer, not gaming news, we’re done here.”
As far as I’m concerned, that’s the best response and only response there should ever be.
But just to say, “What two people do is their own business,” is definitely not the whole picture.
What two people do is only their own business as long as they don’t involve others in it, in the process. Politician fucks a hooker? Not our business. Hooker paid for by a lobby group who he then supports? Definitely our business. Part of a community? Not the community’s business. Influencing the community? The community’s business. The line’s pretty clear, and ‘sex for reviews’ would’ve crossed that line, IF it had been true – which it seems like it wasn’t.
^This
I don’t care who cheats on who (as long as it isn’t my girlfriend or partner’s of family members doing it). It’s been going on since ‘defacto relationships have been a thing and will continue to be so. But if it is done to advance yourself in your business/industry like it’s been suggested in this case then we as a gaming community should be aware of it. Not only (if it is true, I couldn’t care less as the game in question isn’t one I’ll ever play) does it bring the developer into question, but also the legitimacy of the reviewer(s). Can we then trust the word of someone who we’re basing purchases on? Especially if one of the people in question is a reviewer on this website (I’m assuming the American Kotaku though).
No doubt though with the main internet forums being as they are at the moment, they’ll jump on the back of anyone showing a hint of ‘feminism’ and even moreso if there’s a rumour that they’ve done the dirty behind their partner’s back. I don’t really take much notice of what I hear about what’s on 4chan or Reddit, I just go on Funnyjunk, filter out the multiple anime posts to get to the ‘funny’ stuff and on there yesterday I first read about this case which by that time had no doubt been blown out of all proportions.
But to echo transients sentiments, if someone cheats on someone and it’s purely personal then honestly, who gives a hoot asides from the ex? If it’s done as a ‘favour’ for positive reviews though, then that becomes something people should know about. The old ‘scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours’ in business though has been around for centuries though so I don’t know why this has become such a big deal. Like I said before, most likely because she is or someone has labelled her a feminist and in today’s internet society, that’s the thing to target right now
tldr, I’m going to enjoy the rest of Friday and watch some Seinfeld
I just read some twitter history.
So. Yeah. Some other things happened which put everything I said in a completely different light and now… now I’m not so sure.
Context is important… and none of this fits in the context of what’s happened. Not at all. It’s like defending free speech right when someone hides behind it to be a racist. Sometimes? Not sure it’s worth defending.
Ethics. They’re non-negotiable. You don’t demand them from someone and abandon them yourself in the process.
Edit: To be clear. Accountability? Ethics? Public trust? Right now… I don’t even want to be arguing in the same hemisphere as the people who’ve done or supported what I’ve just read about. It’s sick-to-the-gut stuff. Damn near like justifying gun rights after a massacre.
Well, looks like I’m going to be skipping another page. =P
Very superstitious… *bass line*
Nah, man, it’s done.
Er… oops. Well. Me too, now, anyway.
And that’s why I’m not replying to you. It’s not a matter that I particularly want to discuss, here or anywhere else.
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/95429413921/22-august-2014
Musings on shaving my head. 😀
It looks good!
Thanks Jane! 😀
THUG LYF 4EVA
Your move, Shane! >:|
You should have started the blog with.. MY WIFE AND KID ARE DEAD.. MURDERED. And no smile.
😀
I didn’t want to draw attention to my lack of Hawaiian shirt.
Alright, I do want to see your thoughts.
Because when I went full skinhead, a lot of people really acted like I was, well, a skinhead.
Or maybe I just noticed them avoiding me more than usual.
Short hair was great though, people treated me like a normal human being, albeit a hideous one who looks like he’ll eat their child, but at least I won’t molest them like they currently assume.
Also, damn you pull that off. And look at that manly facial hair. What, no, I’m not jealous! *Waddles off crying*
The difference between you and I Blaghs is I honestly have no plans to go outside in my future at the moment. I got no job to go to. I got no one to hang out with. I don’t have any stores to visit. I suspect it’ll be grown back by the time that changes. Haha! 😀
Also, also… if I could grow hair as long as you in that Cups video I totally would and then I would get all the girls. You pull that off nicely. 😀
man, you’ve reached that beautiful point at which you have more beard than hair.
(though I guess you shifted the goalposts in that regard, but whatever. looking gooooood 😉 )
Haha! Thanks man! 😀
Hmm, Luke Plunkett has reviewed Tim-Tams as a Snacktaku article; I guess it was only a matter of time. The focus of the article is something called a tim-tam slam. I did not realize this was a thing. Is this a thing?
http://kotaku.com/tim-tam-slams-the-snacktaku-review-1624837707/all
I’ll say it, Plunkett’s crazy handsome! *decisive nod*
kotaku.com/yeeeees-luke-in-video-format-now-all-i-require-is-lu-1625324649
It’s totally a thing.
Double Coated Tim Tams are better for it, they hold their structure for longer and let you get more drink through before collapsing on themselves. Refrigerating or freezing the Tim Tams first also helps to an extent, but also makes the internal layer of chocolate last longer and may not be preferential depending on what you like.
One question though – do you people bite off the whole ends? I originally learnt to do opposing corners, but haven’t seen anyone do it that way since (didn’t watch the video above).
Double Coat and opposing corners all the way.
Also, caramel, although less effective as a straw, works fairly well since the caramel holds it all together.
I like the way the caramel just snaps when eaten from the freezer.
Spoken like a Connoisseur
ahhhhh I never knew this, the entire time I’ve been here on TAY and I didn’t know this
could it have killed one of you to work it into casual conversation here? Now I feel like I’ve missed out on something.
We even gave you some Tim Tams when you were here!
I did everything with those tim-tams except in the way described above!
EVERYTHING!
everything.
I’ve never understood the Australian obsession with the Tim-Tam. I mean, they’re okay I guess. Where I grew up in New Zealand there were tons of varieties of chocolate-covered biscuit which I’d go for ahead of a Tim-Tam though.
I lived in NZ from 2006-2011 and ate quite a few Tim-Tams in my time. I thought they were one of the most popular biscuits over there, although the obsession factor isn’t as high as it is here.
Same. Also go to Europe or anywehre that isn’t Australia. 50% of the selection decimates Tim Tam.
it’s also only been in the last 5 years or so that Tim Tams changed their recipe from fucking disgusting shit to hmm this is pretty decent
HOBNOBS
I don’t get the obsession either… and I grew up here.
They’re a bit “meh” for me.
Mint slice on the otherhand – I’ll hoarde those in my pockets so I have more for later.
Mint slice are the shit, man.
The article is so amazing that refuses to load.
And the RPG book collection goes up to 23. With more on the way. \o/
I’m going to need a bigger bookshelf. /o\
The @strange?
Not quite. I bought another Pathfinder book, NPC Codex. The Strange and another Pathfinder book are still on their way.
I still have no idea when I’m going to get Strange as it’s still being processed. Hopefully they get back to me soon about it. Btw, did you see the conversion book they put up? Works quite well in linking the two systems.
I have a claim where a guy was injured in a fire because the house he was renting didn’t have batteries in the smoke alarms and he’s holding the landlord responsible.
This suggests that he didn’t think to test or replace the batteries for his smoke alarm at any point in the three years he was living there prior to the fire. Now, I can kind of understand this, if there’s no battery at all then it’s not going to beep to warn that the power is low so you just don’t think about it. But it also means that no one tested the smoke alarms in those three years either, which seems to be something a real estate or managing agent is required to do at least once a year if not twice (based on how often the alarms get tested in my unit) so I strongly suspect either:
1) the real estate are a bunch of cowboys who haven’t been doing their job properly and will go down faster than Traci Lords on her 16th birthday, or;
2) the claimant is telling porkies and removed the battery because it went off while he was cooking or whatever (like I do).
I think if I could wish for a superpower it would just be to know the truth, like:
“Hey universe, who took the batteries out of the smoke alarm?”
ALIENS
“What?”
ALIENS. THEY STOLE THE BATTERY. THEY NEEDED IT TO POWER THEIR SHIP.
“A 9 volt battery?”
THEY ARE VERY SMALL ALIENS.
“…can you ask them to provide a statement?”
THEIR LAWYER HAS ADVISED AGAINST THAT
“…thanks. Thanks a whole bunch.”
I’m premeptively christening Page 14 to be stress, drama and negative free Page.
I’m preemptively storing urine in jars to really fuck page 18 beyond all comprehension.
If I get my act together I’ll have more stupidity for it, because lord do I love stupidity!
Please do.
got in before hand awww yiss
That’s not very nice to @negativezero. 😛
Here is Negative Zero.
Now?
PLAIN ZERO!
Work is mad at me
Both sisters are mad at me
my mum is mad at me
my ladyfriend is mad at me
my gf’s mum is mad at me
4 of those parties are mad because im sick. What a wonderful day.
Also i apologise in advance, my problems are not yours to take on and i should be thankful. Im just having a rough time when my whole world is mad at me
I’m not mad at you
AM I NOT PART OF YOUR WHOLE WORLD ROCKETS OK NOW I’M MAD AT YOU
fair call. that rocket guy is a ass.
Hey Rocket!
We get to hug each other in less than a week!
Then I can stroke your beautiful hair, and tell you that everything’s going to be okay!
And then I’ll realise how awkward I am, back off, and not talk to you for like 36 hours.
I would like that.
I’m mad at you, too.
not really. I think you’re pretty mad. is that still a young-people word for ‘good’? I don’t know. I’m old. shut up.you cant be old, you are a hipster.
that just means I’ve had the opportunity to be into more stuff before it became cool.
GLASS SHATTERS
IT ALL MAKE SO MUCH SENSE
Mad old is what you are. 😛
Judging by @liondrive they’re still using hell and sick.
I’m mad you’re not here in my arms.
me too.
ALso i hope the wifey is okay. Give her a hug from me. Just dont tell her its from me.
Just hug your wife freeze.
If you’re sick, then stuff ’em.
Is it because you’re sick and still driving down tonight? 😛
we love you rocket and again @trjn will give you hugs if you need them
I may delegate to Jake, my parent’s half-blind, half-deaf 14 year cocker spaniel. He’s very friendly.
Started playing Baldur’s Gate (Enhanced ed.) last night.
never touched D&D stuff before, but I think I finally get how THAC0 works. that’s a breakthrough.
anyway, after D:OS, I don’t know if I’ve got the stamina for another 40 hour game right now. might not commit too much to it. especially if Wasteland 2 is coming out in a few weeks.
Hah
aha
THAC0 was ditched with the introduction of 3rd ed. Don’t put too much effort into learning it unless you’re likely to play 2e.
yeah, I know. but whatever. BG 1 & 2 are based on the 2nd ed. so if I wanna play them, I’ve gotta know that.
You don’t truly understand THAC0. No one without a degree in differential calculus does.
Building Latin Squares now. Puzzle making is kinda fun.
HAPPINESS
LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
Happy – Pharrell Williams
The same as it was yesterday.
Bloodbuzz ohio-the national
No Excuses – Alice in Chains.
Sunshine- Mos Def
Happy musics!
Best game!
Damn straight!
Wasn’t fond of the sequel though. Took the motion controls away and it’s one game I thought was served incredibly well by motion controls. 😀
Are you me?
That’s the exact line I’ve been parroting since it came out. It’s the ONLY game I’ve ever played with waggle controls that I both liked and thought were practically essential to the experience. Even meant to write to the devs to tell them that, in the hopes of having it reinstated (at least as an option) in a future third game. Of course, I never got around to doing that until the day I found out they were closed and now it’ll never happen… *heartbroken*
That said, I still loved the crap out of the sequel anyway. Think I liked its soundtrack even more than the first, though took a little warming to. Used to listen to the pair of them endlessly, been a while since I threw them on actually.
Autumn Leaves – Cannonball Adderley
Hooked on a feeling – Blue Swede
Raz Razlog – Midget
amazing band to see live.
every time they played that track, the lead singer / guitarist (bass player sings lead on that track) would ask to borrow a lighter from someone in the crowd. on two occasions, he took mine. I got neither of them back.
last time I saw em, there was a guy, front & centre of the stage goin on & on about how great the bass playing was. he was really drunk & was getting really into it (good on him). half way through the set, he takes his shirt off & starts swinging it around & screaming along with the songs.
guitarist got sick of this & nabbed the shirt off him & threw it back stage.
this didn’t stop the guy. no, he really wanted to be swing something around his head, so off with his trousers. within 30 seconds, this naked man was there. swinging pants around his head jumping around like a complete champ.
great night.
You got me thinking about awesome soundtracks, and now I have the HotD Overkill theme playing in my head.
Demon Alcohol – Ozzy Osbourne
YES, LEAVING PERTH IN AN HOUR! HAPPINESS!
😛
Aww… 🙁
We can still discuss Survivor!
I mean, YAY! Greenius is leaving Perth!
Sunshine, lollipops! Rainbows everywhere!
Well, I’m happy because I’m going out to tea with friends tonight. Two of them live in Korea and are over here for holidays. The others that I know are coming I haven’t seen for a while either. It’s good to catch up with friends.
Job application sent!
I can talk about Climate Change for a living, right? I blagged my way through 4 years talking about defence…
Climate change is caused by the chem trails left by vaccinations which of this one weird fruit that doctors hate can cure if you soak it in hemp oil.
You’re hired!
I happen to be home with the kitten this weekend as the lady is going away to the wops for a couple of nights with some girl friends.
We wanna watch at least two really good films that we haven’t seen and would really appreciate your help TAY!!!
One similar themed to Requiem for a dream would be good (not Trainspotting.)
The other one is an open floor, but I’d prefer if it was from 2010 onwards and either funny, cinematically epic or a real thought provoker. Even a doco.
Does anyone have suggestions because my brain is shot after this week…
Children of Men. Lars and the Real Girl.
Will watch Children of Men. Heard nothing but good things and never gotten round to watching yet.
Unbelievable movie. I’m a really tough movie critic, but I find it hard to fault this one.
Black Dynamite.
Can you dig it?
Sold.
We watched that at yours that time, hey? Man that was a good movie.
The perks of being a wallflower
Oh that was a great, great movie. I loved it.
Me too. It was overflowing with both win and awesome
That looks good too, cheers!
Rubber!
Or if you’re in the mood for some subtitled stuff: @sughly and I have been watching a few goodn’s lately! Air Doll and As One are two I’ve watched recently that are both really good.
And if you haven’t seen the latest Ghibli flick The Wind Rises, that. It’s great.
“When Robert, a tire, discovers his destructive telepathic powers, he soon sets his sights on a desert town; in particular, a mysterious woman becomes his obsession.”
…Really?!
It’s a movie about the audience, really. It tries to make a statement but kind of falls short. If you really want a movie to fuck with you, I recommend Funny Games.
It’s really good.
This comment gets the Sughly tick of approval
If you want a doco movie then you should try Jiro Dreams of Sushi.
Wow, 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Doco? Man on Wire!
Phwoar…perfect score on RT! Will give both of these a go at some point.
Yep! it’s a fascinating film.
If you haven’t seen them already there’s a few good games documentary films too. King of Kong is fairly good. Indie Game the Movie is one most people know about but I don’t recommend it at the moment due to recent events that won’t be mentioned on POSITIVE PAGE 14. Ecstasy of Order, about Tetris, is fairly reasonable too.
One that I really want to see at some point when I get a chance is Particle Fever, which follows the scientists at CERN as they power on the Large Hadron Collider in order to search for the Higgs Boson.
Oh NegativeZero I think you just took the top prize with the Particle Fever suggestion. That’s right up my alley.
Holy shit balls does it deserve that 99%
Yeah Jiro was super great. A recent fave of mine is Cutie and the Boxer – seen it 3 or 4 times almost directly after seeing it the first time, really love it. Every time the film ends I’m sad I don’t get to spend more time with them
Go?
Far more lighthearted than Requiem and Trainspotting, mostly comedy, but generally well regarded.
Ah wow I forgot about that film. It’s pretty cool, I saw it years and years ago though so prob worth a rewatch.
I really enjoyed Pain & Gain. Funny, and based on a true story.
Hmm.. Hobo With A Shotgun, watched it last night. Brilliant and just so wtf. Also Filth, was written by the writer who did Trainspotting, black comedy, but also has feels.
Both are quite recent and awesome.
I’m gonna be doing some stuff tonight:
a) Enjoying a well made steak with some nice beer, patting a kitty to sleep, have fun playing and streaming TLOU and making grand progress.
or
b) I’ll fuck up the steak, pasta will be bleh, kitty will attack me, I’ll die multiple times to zombies.
Which is it gonna be?
PAGE 14 SAYS OPTION A
A. Always A.
A little bit of A, a little bit of B..
but…but… option A doesn’t include pasta!
other than that A with the last bit of B!
Ah, my bad. 😛 A is with pasta probably, just like B heh.
Hey, I think I just saw the crazy hair Wolfmother singer guy at the QANTAS lounge. Kewl
shout “YOU’RE A SELLOUT, STOCKDALE”
if you get stabbed, it was him.
I saw that guy play once, at the Governor Hindmarsh. Back in 2005.
His voice is something..
Cool dude though.
HAPPINESS PAGE!
Friday next is a public holiday and I don’t actually have to work this time! *dances*
HAPPINESS PAGE!
Freeze’s dancing makes me happy.
It’s not a public holiday for me! I thought you said this was the happiness page!
Your unhappiness sustains us!
Pow doesn’t get a holiday!
*happiness*
Because now there’s a chance of seeing him on the train?
*happiness*
Just in time to book a last minute $1200 ticket to Canberra for the Meat. 😛
Wow, when did Canberra get so fancy?
Fancy? Never. Just overpriced to travel to.
It’s only $450 to go from the Gold Coast to Canberra and back (assuming leaving on Friday, returning on Sunday).
Flying Business could set you back $1700 though!
I should probably apply for leave… HMMMM
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @f4ction
DOOOOO EEEEET!
https://twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/502701162173190145
o_O
I don’t have to work Friday either \o/
Though I have to do stocktake Monday & Tuesday /o\
WWTD? (What Would TAY Do?)
With my phone being temperamental at the moment (battery seems to be screwed), should I buy a new phone or try and get this one fixed? No warranty that I’m aware of, bought it outright from a local shop about 15 months ago. I also don’t have a spare that I can use in the mean time.
What would TAY do? Hmmmm. *strokes beard* Upvote your post, that’s what I’d do atleast!
It’s what I would do too, if I could.
Can you buy a new battery??
It’s an HTC One, all enclosed. Would not be easy.
Honestly, I would probably just buy a new one if it is over a year old or so and not in a contract 😛
Disposable society, etc!
That’s what I’m thinking. I was looking at Mazuma and I could even get about $180 for my current one (because it totally works “fine”…)
What carrier are you with?
TPG. $17 a month, bought the phone outright last year.
Nexus 5 k go.
I actually really like the HTC. If anything I’d probably just go for the M8.
Alright. It’s a solid phone, my gf has one. I just don’t like the massive bezels and in particular the bottom one. Also other phones beat it on camera if that’s important to you.
I don’t take a lot of photos, so camera isn’t a big issue. I guess I’ve gotten use to the Sense UI as well, and now I fear change.
Be my buddy, M8
Well… Check out the The Australian HTC Warranty Document and it appears that hardware comes with a 24 month warranty (see point 2 on page 2).
You will need proof of purchase and I’m going to assume it applies to AU handsets only and not grey-imports.
Maybe get a new one or fixed for free?!
…yeah. About that… >_>
I bought it from a phone shop near me, so not a grey import (at least, not that I know of), but pretty sure I threw out the receipt a while ago.
The police report lodged by the person you stole it from would work too! 😀
Also, “shop near me” doesn’t necessarily imply it’s an Australian handset. It’s entirely possible they grey-imported a box of them to on-sell.
Your receipt would likely specify a model number which you could use to figure out what country handset was intended for.
My rule for receipts – if it costs more than I’m happy to spend again inside 12 months to replace in the event of breakage (accidental or otherwise) I keep a copy of the receipt. If you bank with CBA you can even store your receipts in NetBank and attach them to specific transactions on your account, or just use cloud storage.
Unless you paid cash… and that “shop” was a guy on the corner…
Haha, thanks for the reply 🙂
I tracked it down, turns out it was an Allphones store. I had the receipt in the box that it came in but it must have been thrown out when I did a spring clean a few months back. My own fault really. I must have just figured it was almost/over a year and tossed it. All good, can’t change that now.
So I’m considering buying an Hyundai i30 and wondering if the hive mind of TAY had any feedback for or against this action
Depends on the colour you want.
Green or GTFO!
Lime green *swoon*
Wiser words have never been spoken.
Mum has a 2011 model i30. I happen to think it’s gutless, has no feeling in the wheel, a shit ride, horribly uncomfortable seats, and a shit interior that doesn’t make sense (first thing you should do is figure out where to plug in an ipod and see how it defies any kind of common logic). Yeah. I don’t like them, but apparently lots of people do!
hmm sounds like they haven’t improved too much :\
The no feeling in the wheel bit is a big part of what I meant in my comment below!
Oh man that comment reads so bad that I’m gonna hop in my car in 20 minutes, stroke the seats and steering wheel gently, utter some nicities to it while using the wheel iPod controls, then take it for a spin before going home.
My ex had an excel, and it felt flimsy and toy like in parts. That was ages ago though. Dunno how much they’ve improved with their new ones. I’d say if it has one of those fancy 5 star ancap ratings or whatever the hell it is, you’re doing ok! 🙂
I think Excels have more guts than i30’s, if that says anything
Close friend of mine has one and he adores it. It rides very nicely too.Mrs Freeze wants one (or a Qashqai, dang they’re nice) once we can afford a second new car.Disregard. Thought you said ix35. I have no experience with the i30.
Seems like a lot of money to me for a HYUNDAI with a tiny motor and tiny car in general. But the overall package is pretty okay I suppose.
Both of my aunts have one, and have no complaints
How does the car keep them from talking. What does it have on them D:
It was a dark and stormy night…. also known as every time my aunts are in the same room, especially at Christmas
I have an i20. It does the job. That’s about it. Nothing fancy, but comfortable and gets me where I want to go reasonably cheaply.
I have driven one for work a few months ago for the duration of a couple of weeks.
Hyundai’s used to be horrible but are getting significantly better year on year. The old Getz’s are utter shite. i30s are not terrible. Gutless but all hatches are.
That said, they are still lacking as far as build quality and reliability go. Debatable whether I’d pick one over a non German euro car but in the end cheapness is still really they only thing Hyundai’s have going for them.
There are really only two decent options for cars: German or Japanese, and German brands are expensive not just to buy but also to maintain.
Buy Japanese, Toyota or Subaru if you can afford it. It will be worth it in the long run.
My golf would disagree with you.
Turbo or n-a?
Have not driven one but I have heard good things.
Mk 6 with the 1.4 TSI engine, so Twincharger rather than just a turbo. It goes like a rocket, which you wouldn’t expect with the tiny displacement of the engine (1400cc).
\m/ Sounds awesome.
I wish I had a nice car, though a free work vehicle is pretty rad.
Might get my bike back on the road now the weather is getting better.
TSI if fucking amazing!
My MKVI Jetta goes like stink with a measly 1.6, and the economy is just awesome!
The Mk 7’s somehow get even more power & efficiency out of the same displacement. It’s witchcraft.
Seriously wish Volkswagen would release the Golf W12 they showed on Top Gear ages ago.
Test drive the other similar cars. We looked at the i20, Cruze, Cerato and Golf. You’d be amazed how different they can feel.
That being said, the Hyundai seems to be pretty good these days. Pretty much everything is.
Get a Golf 😛
Ah yeah, Impreza auto is like $25K if you get demo or talk them down on price. That’s IMO a better purchase.
Impreza are great cars. Owned one for many years and I will probably never buy anything else.
Seriously thinking about buying a WRX next year, won’t be able to afford new though.
They’re probably fine, but I am a devotee of Toyota and Mazda for the fact that they are always cheap to fix and run forever.
Toyota parts are the most expensive items we sell by a massive margin. In some cases they’re five times the price of anything else.
Even BMW, Merc, VW ect?
I can sell you two VW remotes for the price of one Toyota. BMW and Mercedes are comparable. No idea where everyone gets this idea that Toyotas are cheap because after 13 years of working on cars I can say without hesitation they are far far from it.
Good to know.
I knew they were more expensive than most but not by how much.
Plans for the weekend:
– Look at Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment on my Vita. Don’t play it.
– Look at Akiba’s Trip on my Vita. Don’t play it.
– Spend all weekend (if resources allow) attempting to clear the 2nd and maybe 3rd event map in KanColle
– Beard growth. Don’t fuck it up this time.
I feel like I need an inspirational food-related thing to add to this. HOT DOGS last weekend were pretty good but I don’t know that I want to repeat that.
BUTTER CHICKEN PIES!
SOO GOOD
They’re a bit of a pain to get hold of. 🙁
Nothing worth having comes easy.
Truly you are wise in the ways of the pie.
Wait, what? Those are a thing?
…
OH MY GOD THE MORE I THINK ABOUT IT THE MORE AMAZING IT SOUNDS.
Earlier this year I bought an SBS food magazine that had a feature on fried chicken from all over the world. I’ve been cooking
Korean Fried Chicken and Taiwanese Fried Chicken as much as I can since then. I’m completely addicted.
Japanese Fried Chicken is always good.
Car talk and page 14 requires me to express my love for my car.
– It’s sexy as fuck. Limited ed, limited rims, window tint yo. Gets dem girls. (yes my gf likes it a lot).
– Interior is delicious. Leather trim, touch screen control, full iPod and phone support. No tickets for me!
– Ride quality is a little on the hard side due to the suspension set up and low profiles, but it allows me to feel the road a bit. Also dat cornering grip.
– Nice hefty wheel, I feel like a man when I one handed cruise around.
– 6sp automatic. Don’t feel the shifts when I cruise, but can shift to manual mode with a flick.
– Mmmm dat power. RWD, big 6-cyl naturally aspirated. Nice throaty tone when I feather the throttle.
– I treat my baby right with some RON98 fuel. Gotta give it the energy it deserves.
Uh.. I dunno what else. I didn’t know where I was going with this. On kinda a high cos it’s 10m till home time and I’m playing music and
PAGE 14 YEEEE ALSO I LIKE MY CAR LOTS
My car was blue.
My car has wheels.
4 of them.
*nods proudly*
Mine is faster-coloured.
What kinda car is it?
CC @coldcamv
2013 Ford Falcon XR6 Ltd
http://imgur.com/0nfvZ8l
Disregard the female in the pic. 😛
Oooh.. me wantie. I have an 05 XR6.
I had 04 base falcon before. Great cars.
The chick or the car?
Ooh.. I thought it sounded a lot like mine but mine’s a six speed manual…
But then you show…. That…..
2012 Holden SV6 Z Ute here. Gotta defend the tribe cos ‘Straya mate.Hahaha I was thinking holden before I clicked the spoiler. 😛
Are they still worth defending now?
It’s the end of an era.
Honestly don’t think I’d buy one again. It’s a nice car with *a lot* of power but for the money I could have gone with a lot nicer.
Nice choice.
More of a Subaru guy myself.
Nice, I like them too. Unfortunately I don’t fit in an WRX, so that’s WRX out for me (also wtf did they do to the 2014 model :'[ ). Liberty turbo is a bit outta my current price range. Parents got an Impreza recently, good purchase.
Yeah I have not been a fan of their looks for the last few years.
But I’m not in the market so eh.
I’d love a 86/BRZ actually but no way I can afford to blow that kinda money for a while.
Very nice I have an 05 XR6 its…not going so good lately haha
What you driving?
I love my car also. Nothing special, just a 2000 Civic. But kinda special in that it fulfils my stringent criteria, a set which seems to be increasingly harder to meet:
-manual
-rear windscreen wiper (ie basically no sedans)
-indicators on the right god damn side of the steering wheel
It’s also awesomely open inside, nice and spacious. I really don’t like newer cars, they’re getting more and more claustrophobic and harder to see out of. Mum’s got a newer model civic and I can’t stand driving it. I’m terrified of losing mine and having to try to find something that I don’t hate.
So to celebrate my certificate arriving today (anything to celebrate) cathryn and I are going out for dinner and a movie, unsure where we eating but going to see The Inbetweeners 2 which should be good.
HAPPINESS TAY dont worry be happy
You two crazy kids! :’)
It was a good night the only let down was the cinema was packed and the group of guys sitting next to us were all texting through the movie and one was breathing so heavily it was weird
..but Galaxy of Guardians!
Thanks for the invite :'(
I thought you were still in perth! How was it by the way? Didnt drink the tap water I hope
I drank the tap water /o\
..Pass on my condolences to your family..
Huh? Is there something wrong with Perth tap water? I suppose it can vary depending on where the tap is, but my tap water is freaking delicious. Tastier than most soft drinks.
I stayed at a friend’s house in joondalup and you could taste the copper from the piping it was terrible
Man, this has been a shit week. So much to do, so much stress :S Had to do a presentation today that gets assessed individually but it’s a group effort to research and collate information. My group members gave me nothing until 30 minutes before class. I’ve been asking constantly for it since Tuesday, but got met today with “didn’t check my emails sorry” :l So that was a clusterfuck of a presentation. If I had to take a guess I probably got a credit on it, but that’s not my standard. If I’m doing something I’m gonna do it fucking good.
So there was that, and stressing over the rest of the work this week for the class (Information Systems Management/Benefits management. It’s my first third year class and fuck it’s a lot of work every week) and a group assignment on software design for my software design and development class (which I REALLY hate cos programming), and a 2000 word essay due next Wednesday for my data networks and security class (tutorials are really interesting, the lectures put me to sleep), and on top of that all the readings and activities for my business analysis class. Ugh.
The other day I kinda had a bit of a breakdown cos I got so stressed. From memory I did the exact same thing this time last year, if anyone remembers brownie night 2013 😛 Well we don’t have them anymore but Oliver and I are all stocked up on alcohol for tonight… May as well make the most of having the house to ourselves for a while. He’s looked after me well whilst I’ve been completely down in the dumps and stressing, cooking for me, cleaning up, making sure I’m okay, trying to point me in the right direction, and holding me (a lot) to try and cheer me up. He’s a pretty amazing friend. Dunno what I’m gonna do when we’re not living together anymore.
So yeah. Urgh. Shitty, stressful week. I’m going to go drink and put it behind me. Uni’s starting to suck. And I’ve learned that people fucking suck too.
HAPPINESS PAGE 14
Ben didn’t get the memo 😛
Typical Ben.
Boo.
I bet he feels happier after getting all that off his chest though. :’)
I do, very muchly 🙂
Bless your heart for turning this around. 🙂
My son is playing Little Big Planet 2.
HAPPINESS PAGE 14!
Actually, I’m not happy right now, I really fucking hurt the back of my ankle and I had to wait in the rain for a 20 minute late bus with my overtired son so screw your stupid happiness page 14 making me feel unwelcome because I’m unhappy! 😛NO ONE LOOK AT THE SPOILERS OH GAWD THIS ISNT WHAT PAGE 14 IS ABOUT D:
you can post cranky things on angry page 15 😛
Little Big Planet 2 is great!
I’m not a huge fan of LBP put the new puppy sackboy character thing in LBP3? SO ADORABLE.
Hope you feel better, Strange!Post for Happiness Page 14!
I have job interviews, and A JOB OFFER DAY 1 POST INTERVIEW. Totally rad. Bun is trying to come to terms with moving again.
Hurray! Employment! Career advancing employment! Gainful employment!
Was it an in person job interview? Should I get psyched about Brisbane homecoming meat? 😀
Congrats again! Crazy good news!
Ha, no, it was a phone interview. I won’t be working for QLD health until they get themselves sorted out. Which will probably mean – not for a very long time.
If ever. Oh well, whichever city gets you two for meats will be lucky! #HappyPage14
In other words, never. =P
Current, insider info says… this is wise.
You’re already a doctor. What else is there to advance to? 😛
Super doctor!
Doctor-in-Chief-Supreme-Commander
Surgeon General
No, Sturgeon General!
#waitthisisn’tpage6
Time travelling doctor!
Yay for being wanted!
Okay, now I’m happy.
Dammit, @freya, I was really looking forward to angry page 15, but now I’ll be happy on angry page 15! 😛
Just be contrarian! ANGRY PAGE 14 FOR STRANGE and happy page 15!
Where are you moving to now?
Double Dubbo
Please no.
Its like dubbo but combined with another Dubbo they found in a warehouse
Congrats!
\o/
:`D
I’ll never eat cheese pizza again!
#HappyPage14
That’s depressingly sad though! D:
Ah well, more for me.
Hopefully, you don’t end up like this…
Monster Hunter Get!
😀
Both PSP and Wii versions! 😀
Wii U!?
Pls new PS4 and vita MH pls pls Capcom
So, this is happiness page 14, but isn’t happiness HARD to find.
*Snicker*
@dire_wolf WoW? at 7?
Yep. I’m level 30 btw, so you can jump on your paladin.
Sounds good! Tank and heals q = gg? I reckon we can hit 40 tonight easy.
Sorry dire I didn’t finish up stuff today till later and missed your messages! Are you up for tomorrow ?
Yeah. Just tell me what time.
HAPPINESS PAGE 14
… has made me grateful for there being some beer in the house, even if it is basically swill! Woo!
You just reminded me of the fridgeful of beer I had.
Edit: Not so great is the John Boston I decided to try isn’t very nice.
Ah Melbourne <3
I did social stuff every night in Perth though :P… *crawls back into hermit cave*
I wasn’t going to join in, cause I wasn’t happy, but then my arse-less underwear and my mesh underwear came in the mail, so now I’m happy.
And before you ask, yes I was drunk when I bought them.
And yes they are comfy 🙂
Thanks drunk me! 😀
>:|
???
confused…
You got sick on purpose!
>:P
Yes, cause I definitely didn’t want to hangout with my friends on my 21st…
Or go out for dinner on my 21st either…
Or even leave the house on my 21st for that fact…
But no, I definitely got sick on purpose. Definitely.
…happy birthday!
and …friend? 😀
Don’t worry, I spent my 21st working and I didn’t tell anyone :3
Ahh, I didn’t mean to seem angry or anything 😛
Fresh wound is all 😛
And being sick suuuuuucks 🙁
Hey me too! Working a late event as a waiter way back then =P
I did however get shit faced about a month earlier as a celebration though xD
We all remember you saying you bought them. You forgot? 😀
I though drunk me would have messed something up on the ordering part (credit card info, mailing address, etc).
You’ve seen my drunk typing after all 😛
Dammit! Just checked whether or not my laptop can run Divinity: Original Sin, and it can’t, the only area that was below the system requirements was the CPU. So disappointing, I was totally gonna buy it.
Edit: Apparently it can’t run Divinity: OS, but it CAN run Risen 3, go figure.
See, happiness page 14 works…now you get to be a pirate! (Err, an “arr matey” kind of pirate, I hope. Not a “paying for stuff is for doofuses” kind of pirate. :P)
Pretty sure that’s Risen 2. Does sound tempting though.
I’m not good with numbers. 😛
Love for Car Page 14 eh?
VW JETTA 1.6 TSI MY12 FTW.
Gutsy and economical, and the boot is just as big as my old BA Falcon…
Freaking love that car!
…
That’s it, go back to whatever you were doing
RACE YA FOR PINK SLIPS BRO
Mr. Strange should be home within the next few hours. I’m cold and being cold makes me hungry so I think I’m gonna get him to drive through McDonalds and bring me ONE OF EVERYTHING! Except the cold things. Go away cold things, nobody wants you. It’s happiness page 14, not cold page 14! (Oh god, I should have counted posts…what if it’s not page 14 anymore when I post this?!)
Phew! 😛
Don’t know about there, but hot Apple Pies are $1 now \o/
@negativezero mentioned on Twitter that he used to be able to get hot Apricot Pies from McDonalds and now I’ll never be satisfied with an apple one again!
They discontinued them a long time ago. About the time I moved out of the country actually.
Also the internet just told me that apparently they were never actually apricot pies, they were pumpkin stewed in apricot sauce so that they tasted like apricots. Much cheaper that way. They discontinued them because of legal reasons. I think this is bullshit as I remember getting big chunks of apricot in them, at least as a kid. Maybe they went south later.
New Zealand actually had a whole fast food chain that did pies, Georgie Pie. I think there’s still a few left. They were really good. Announced plans to expand into Australia but ran into financial problems and McDonalds freaked out, purchased the company and shut down any store that was within a certain distance of a McDonalds outlet. 🙁 They did amazing proper dessert pies, not crappy turnovers like Maccas.
Well considering the apple pies are mostly potato I wouldn’t be suprised to find out that the apricot ones were pumpkin. Certainly because the US consider pumpkin to be a dessert and ignore the wonderousness that is roast pumpkin.
You are so very close to the next page.
I now feel like I’m in “There’s A Monster At The End Of This Book” for some reason….
DON’T YOU TURN THAT PAGE!!!
But what about the ice cream with hot chocolate sauce? That is pretty good.
Ooh, self-referential End Get!
AND SO BEGINS ANGRY PAGE 15!!!
Success \o/
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┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
Yay! Go away, cold things. Even angry page 15 doesn’t want you! 😛
What did I do?! Awww :'(
FUCK YOU ASSHOLE, YOU CAN”T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!
GET WRECKED KID!
The thing that’s making me the angriest lately is being treated like I just fell out of the womb.
I’m not a baby, I don’t need to treated like I’m helpless.
I’m a grown man, I can handle myself.
So yeah, that’s what has been making me angry lately.
Aww, baby want a bottle and cry some more?
Dude, not cool!
I thought obvious joke was pretty obvious, and page 15 too. I also checked up with him on Twitter.
Do you have hair on your face? If so your a man so fuck shit up manly style
I think he shaved recently though 🙁
For every minute he doesnt have hair on his face he is a boy..that will teach him
I am angry at my inability to take my own advice I readily give out to others.
I’m usually like that, but I’ve made two stupid videos in the last two days, so I feel like I’ve been productive!
Speaking of which…
I just saw Cups!
😛
So what if someone else gives you the same advice, would it work then? 😛
(also I am right there with you)
The only person that can make me angry is my little brother. I don’t think I’ve raised my voice at all since moving out 😛
(thoughts Page 15!)
…PERTH!
It wasn’t too bad and it was definitely an interesting experience. My first business trip (I’ve only been working there a month :P) and my first time in Perth. The whole thing happened really quickly and I just got randomly asked to go to Perth in the evening and I was flying out 12 hours later.
The first day was absolutely dreadful since I was on about 2 hours sleep and got off the plane and went straight to work. At least we finished early and I got a chance to catch up with a friend. Did more socially things on Wednesday and Thursday as well, and Perth had two more meats! Did a walk and talk with @phoenix and as soon as he headed off, I met up with @fled for another walk and talk before trying to eat an exploded meatball Sub. Wait …I’ve been in half of Perth’s meats? D:
The work itself wasn’t too bad since I was just there to help someone else out on short notice. It was interesting to go on-site though and see how good the Melbourne office is compared to Perth :P. It’s good though since the person I was helping was reporting this to the CEO of the sector I’m in and my boss’ boss. Everyone else seemed pleased with my work too ;D.
The sector I’m in is mostly split between Sydney and Melbourne so I could end up in Sydney at some point (either for a business trip or 8 months+). My boss flew down from Sydney last week and we had a quick chat on Friday where I mentioned wanting lots of free business trips. And in less than a week, I end up in Perth :P. She seemed happy to think of reasons for me to fly up to Sydney though so that’s a thing that could very likely happen (free tours pls @powalen)
I didn’t really get a chance to see much of Perth though but I’m not really a fan of cities in general (suburbs represent’). Noticed a lotta crazy folk out even at reasonablish hours (8pm). The worst part of the trip was not winning anything in the Space Invaders scratchie 🙁
I’m going to the Sunshine Coast in November and it’s only like 40mins or so from Brisbane isn’t it? If anyone feels like driving up there to pick me up then I guess we can have a Brisbane meat 😀
Ok fine, I’ll post some angry thoughts:
I was watching Captain America 2 on the QANTAS flight and it just cuts off randomly during the ending scenes… WHAT?! WHY!
🙁
Yeah, I’d be angry too. Sounds like they cut it off waaaaay too late 😛
Nobody ever said free.
5 cents!
Dunno how I replied to you when I never even clicked reply :/
I am terrible at angry page 15, I’m more just curious… A question of ETHICS, good people!
Sitting on the bus, men and women packed into standing-room-only, front to back. Plenty of women nearby, but can see one is older than the others. Got some crow’s feet plus a little more to spare, but not really sure if crossing into ‘old’ territory. Probably younger than my mother.
So. What to do? Get up, displacing/ignoring nearby younger women to offer seat to older woman, or stay, avoiding the blow to the ego when it becomes obvious it’s totally not a nod to gender, due to all the other women available, and is definitely an age consideration?
(Or, option 3: offer seat to literally anyone available who’ll take it, so that the penance of standing absolves all guilt?)
Not lose-sleep-worthy, but it was bugging me. It was such a simpler solution when a student… offer seat to ANYONE.
Bring a fake leg cast and you’ll never have to stand up for anybody.
On buses that are at all crowded I usually just stand.
Mostly because I’m too fat to sit next to anyone who is at all overweight, and I don’t want to get into someone’s personal space. But still.
Hey dude,
I generally work off the principles of fluid dynamics. If my standing, sitting or disembarking order should impede or expedite the flow of people into the vestibule.
Funny how a little bit of physics could make everyone’s day a little better. Don’t lose sleep over it. if you consider how a funnel works and then try to follow the theory when getting off the bus you’ll find there is always a blocker throwing your example out the window. Do what I do and start humming “Let it go”in your head 🙂
That’s not how you say “be asleep therefore unable to offer anything to anyone”.
I get up for anyone who is older then me. Most people will take the seat, especially if they have a long trip.
I tend to only really take short trips, so it’s not a huge issue
I WANNA BUY SOMETHING FROM STEAM, BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT DAMMIT!
STUPID BRAIN!
HELP ME!
SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW!
RAAAWR CIV V IS A GOOD DEAL AT THE MOMENT IF YOU DON’T HAVE IT, JERK.
NEVER HAD THE URGE TO PLAY STRATEGY GAMES, THEY DON’T SEEM TO DO ANYTHING FOR ME GRRRRRR!
X-CAWM!!
IN CART NOW.
I would have warned of the size of X-Com, especially if youre not on unlimited internet
I think he is though so… WOOO! 😀
@evilmonkey I’ve wanted to give X-COM a go again for some time (only played it for a couple of hours) so if you ever need a buddy I could be yours! <3
Yeah, I’m on unlimited, so it’s not an issue. Which one? I picked up both.
Also, *swoon*
Enemy Unknown. I probably won’t be playing it any time soon but I’ve recently re-installed it so I’d be willing to play it sometime within the next year :P. My “buddy” system isn’t really anything more than just maybe playing the game around the same time and discussing it on TAY 😀
Heh, that’s alright, it’ll be a while before I start playing it anyway.
Quite a few people are playing it at the moment..im tempted to reinstall with long war mod and do a taybie run
Risen 3!
ALSO IN CART!
Quite enjoying Infamous: Second Son, up to tackling the South side, but I am uncertain that it is as disappointingly short as has been claimed… I think it might just be the right length. Terribly much longer and I feel it may outstay its welcome.
Yeah, I liked its length. I loved the first Infamous when I started it, but I was bored of it by what I assume was about halfway through. :/
I loved the South Side fortresses as well! They really forced me to use all my powers to their full extent =]
HAPPYNESS PAGE
No, wait, too late. And I misspelled happiness, just to get the angry juices flowing.
Sorry, not gonna work. I’ve spent almost the entirety of today watching home movies of my kids being adorable and destructive, and I feel pretty amazing.
WHAT SHOULD I GET, SACRED 3 OR RISEN 3? GO!
EDIT: RARRR, GRRRRRR!
haha i just posted risen 3 as a suggestion in your earlier comment 😉
HOW GOOD IS IT? SCALE OF 1-10.
well I’m a fanboy, so it’ll always be a 10 😉
On a scale of someone completely new to the series, I’m giving it a 7 or an 8. There are issues but the game itself is pretty fun.
Risen 3 because….. pirates?
As I said to @strange, isn’t the pirate one Risen 2? @welbot.
Edit: doesn’t really matter anyway, I bought it.
3 is still about pirates!
Gathered that from the opening sequence, my bad.
Sacred 3 is out?
I really should get back to Sacred 2. I played it on both 360 and PC and finished neither. But having Blind Guardian in a game was awesome.
Should co-op together, I’ll let you know when I pick it up.
Everyone hates Sacred 3, so don’t buy that,
I already regret making this.
lol i wanted to see worms! what kind of a douchebag puts an empty jar back in the cupboard?
Honestly? My father.
He’s so bad at it.
lol seems weird. perhaps he has an emotional attachment to the jar!
How’s the spine?
Well what a few weeks its been. only came back from o/s conference recently and times have been a bit hectic. Wife in hospital, work being work, side business growing, friends in the lurch. It’s occasionally fun to take a step back and think how amazingly hectic life can be at times. It helps add perspective.
But this is gaming so look lets talk recents:
Lone Wolf – Ahhh Joe. I loved the books as a kid. The game is a nice idea but geez that was poorly executed. For those who don’t have it I’d give it a pass.
Played some xcom enemy unknown – not bad tbh but those persona-less characters did it for me. I’d rather play jagged alliance. I ran around with my pre-generated aryan stormtroopers and just couldn’t like any of them.
Also would like some help on this one: Yu Gi Oh on the miniclip site. Just bought some of the series, so I was hoping to play along and by god every version I have seen is horrendous. If anyone has some good PC/PS3/4 options I may have missed I wouldn’t mind a recommend. The miniclip stuff is ok but oh-so-bland.
I’m also never gunna pay to play or build a deck as the cost is absurd. If it’s non permanent and worse than the card game Why would I pay a higher price?
Also brought back a surface 3 and a samsung s5. for the samsung I’d rather have a sony in retrospect but the surface kicks ass.
Surface or Surface Pro? The pro is very tempting.
surface pro 3 sorry. really kick ass installing office and then using active directory is awesome on the device.
I was looking at getting an MSI ghost laptop but the wife loves it and I can see why, it’s quick, quiet and runs like a dream
Aussie tax hits it a bit so you’d be better off buying from frys and having it shipped over
I was pretty sure the US prices and AU prices were pretty much in sync with no AU tax. Will have to look into it.
It’s probably a little bit underpowered for me. I want to replace my broken old Macbook Pro so I’m leaning more toward the MSI Ghost as well.
The Lone Wolf game is pretty great until you get into combat. That part truly sucks. Sorcery! was far better done.
in regards to XCOM, try adjusting the characteristics of them slightly (my squad requirement was a moustache) and name them after friends (we generally had TAY squads here). You’ll be surprised how attached you get to them.
Got a message from Wingman at the end of work today asking if it was Guardians I saw last night. So that we could see it tonight. Which would be great and all but there wasn’t enough time to get home and then to Blacktown before it started, but could train it there and have them pick me up. Which would have been great but they got so totally lost when trying to find their way to the station to get me. And then we almost got lost trying to find the drive-in. But we got there, just in time to have missed the opening scene. Miracle 😛
Movie was awesome! Totally don’t understand why a couple of my friends hated it so much (yet to read their in-depth impressions), but they have a reputation for being joyless pricks at times so I’ll just put it down to that.
Love that movie. Seeing it again tomorrow.
Went to buy Just Cause 2 on Steam, and apparently I already own it. Oh well I’ll buy Just Cause 1 instead.
In the last 12 hours I’ve bought
The Raven: Legacy Of A Master Thief
Marlow Briggs And The Mask Of Death
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
The Escapists
Risen 3: Titan Lords
Euro Truck Simulator
Darkwood and
Just Cause
Only got a few hours before work, what should I play first.
The stare at games and not play anything game!
I got the Raven ages ago on @dc’s recommendation shortly before he told me it was terrible and not to buy it.
I still haven’t forgiven him. 😛
Well, I only payed $6.24 for it, so if it’s crap it won’t bother me too much. Weird that it’s got a metascore of 74.
XD
Play the game that came out the most recently. Otherwise by the time you actually get around to playing it, Steam will will have it for a ridiculously low price and you’ve wasted all that extra money by not playing it as soon as you got it.
Good thinking 99. I ended up doing that anyway, playing Risen 3.
Oof! It’s one of those “I can’t be bothered doing anything” days.
I’m going to a work BBQ in the evening but the weather is surprisingly good, so I’ll probably go for a run. It’s oddly better than Perth weather :/
I’ll try to play more Wonderful 101 as well 😀
You came to Perth at the worst time. It never rains here, and yet it rained for a whole week. It’s odd, since Perth in August is more akin to spring everywhere else.
Eh, still better than Perth summers, at least Perth winter doesn’t have FREAKING FLIES EVERYWHERE and GODDAMN ANTS EVERYWHERE.
Highlights of the week in gaming:
5. slowpoke + reggae= cool duude
4. Sleep mode ssb4 turns your 3ds into an mp3 player playing ALL THE MUSIC YOU UNLOCKED
3. Silent hills trailer for how to be a conspiracy theorist
2. Wait playable ghirahim wasn’t enough, so they made him into an assist trophy
1. note to self, do not bring up zss’ design for her original design & new alt costume until they bring 1 of the redeeming features of other m: the military dress or you will get very HEATED debates about her.
The SSB4 3DS sleep feature sounds cool, I didn’t know about it.
SSB always has awesome music.
aaaaAARRGHHH ANGRY PAGE 15!! I GOT WOKEN UP AT 7am TO GO TO THE TIP!! I HATE THE TIP ON A GOOD DAY IT STINKS AND WEIRD BIRDS FREAK ME THE FUCK OUT! ARRERRGHHHH RAAAAAGGGGGEEEEEEE!!!!!
WHEN WILL IT BE CHILLED-AS-FUCK PAGE 16?!
D:<
I’m too angry!!! 😛
*looks at angry page 15*
well, ah, I made tea and forgot about it for a little bit so when I did drink it was only *slightly* hot. That was mildly infuriating, I guess.
The Canadian version of angry.
@zetrox2k
https://mojang.com/2014/08/minecraft-1-8-pre-release-the-bountiful-update/
Thoughts? I’m not *that* concerned if you want to dial a new world. I’ve had my fun with what I’ve built but I’m not excessively emotionally attached.
More holes?
Can never dig enough holes.
If he restarts the server im calling for a digging race
So I jumped on steam to continue pondering buying civ beyond earth… only to find it jumped by $40 overnight… I am ever so pissed… gah! angry email time…
G2Play.net
Tis the bomb diggity.
ozgameshop mate, 45 bucks for the code by email version if memory serves
bwahaha Risen 3 Antigua Spoiler. fuck I lol’d
After getting Griffith’s gear back, he offers a pair of old socks, or some liquor and gold. I asked for the socks. Then Griffith says “Ahh yes.. I used them to wipe my ..” Then my character goes “Wait a minute.. I think I’ve changed my mind! I’ll go with the gold and liquor!” LOLDammit! Now I’ll have to bookmark this page so I can come back and read the spoiler when I’m about 40 hours in.
lol well you could do it early on. It’s not a story line spoiler. Just funny 🙂
Started Risen 3: Titan Lords, enjoying it so far, was just getting into it, now I have to get ready for work, THAT MAKES ME SO ANGRY!
Will resume tonight when I get home.
hahah it’s like pringles in video game form!
Sorta angry page 15. I went to parkrun and it rained almost the whole way. But I almost got a PB so I can’t be too mad. Lesson: Running in the rain really does make you go faster.
Angry page 15: I’m angry that I couldn’t buy any of the books or dvds I found. Not having much money suuuuuuuuuucks. Also angry that my sister got to see Queen last night.
Actually, not really angry, just jealous.
Did some reading into the anime of black butler, turns out that (spoilers)Gung sebz frnfba 1 svanyr gb frnfba 2 svanyr, vg vf gur znyr rdhvivyrag bs zntvpn znqbxn, jvgu pvry cynlvat gur ebyr bs ubzhen gbezragvat fronfgvba, gnxvat gur cynpr bs xlhorl ol rgreanyyl freivat pvry SBERIRE, guvf nsgre gnxvat cynpr nsgre fror rngf pvry’f fbhy nsgre svavfuvat gur pbagenpg. Abgr gb frys nsgre fvtavat n snhfgvna pbagenpg, znxr fher gurer vf ab fhopynhfr gung gheaf gur fvtare vagb na rivy zbafgre gung jvyy qbbz hf nyy. Cyhf znxr fher gung gur fvtare qbrfa’g gbezrag gur svraq jubfr pbagenpg lbh whfg fvtarq.
It’s implied in the manga that eventually Seabastion’ll get what he wants- Ciel’s soul- But Ciel just don’t give a shit.Ended up watching the 2011 American version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo last night. Whilst it stayed mostly true to the 2009 Swedish version, it just felt it was lacking in places, but overall it was good. It was good they used a lot of the original locations from the Swedish version.
Even though I liked it, i’m not a huge Daniel Craig fan I felt he isn’t the best fit for playing someone who is meant to be Swedish, but he just has this very English accent..
Just saw on IMDB The Girl Who Played With Fire has been announced, will be interested to see how well they go about this version, if it’s as good at The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, it should be fine.
Whoa! Dane Dehaan does not look 28! :O
@greenius – apparently I can’t DM you…
This is the one: http://www.happyjar.com/
Oh, I thought it was this but I just realised it said 2000 comments and 20,000ish likes :P. Got them mixed up!
Coles has Tim Tam packs for $1.50 at the moment.
Must Resist.
Must Stay Strong.
*Sound of door slamming, five hurried footsteps, and of someone collapsing to the floor from exhaustion*
Yeah, friends have been going on about the peanut butter ones for the past few days. Ended up getting to try some last night.
I don’t get the hype. I mean they’re better than Reese’s (not hard to do), but they’re still pretty eh. Good god do they smell strong though.
Would much rather the dark choc + chilli ones. They were nice.
The peanut butter oreos are alright.
This, just polished off a packet then lol
*looks at 3 unopened packets of dark chocolate tim tams on my desk*
*looks at 2 empty packets of dark chocolate tim tams on my desk*
*remembers the 6 packets of dark chocolate tim tams I bought when they were the same price last week at Woolworths*
:S
Can I also say that the Adriano Zumbo ones are amazing. Especially the white chocolate ones with the red filling. Omg.
I was watching a Video Game Glitches video and this was shown. I had that happen to me a couple of times on the PC version, but it’s good to see I wasn’t the only one :P. Such an odd glitch…
So who’s getting up in the small hours to watch Doctor Who?
I think I’ll just watch it tomorrow evening.
It’s on at small hours?
There’s a global simulcast at 4:55am Sydney time.
Oh.
Actually I think I never got around to catching up on the Christmas special, because I didn’t hear about it being on until after it had happened. Guess I should put the machine on to record, then get onto that.
And hoyts are showing it during the day tomorrow with some bonus goodies if that floats your boat.
Man. Just decided to switch monitors around and put Elite over on my “proper” one. Even though it’s smaller than the other one (22″ 1680×1050 vs 23″ 1920×1080), everything looks so much better. I mean the other is just a crappy $200 Aldi TV instead of being an actual monitor, but still. Wouldn’t have thought there was that much difference between the two.
I don’t think I’ll ever replace my 22″ 1680×1050 monitor. It’s so much better than 16:9 screens. It’s like 6 years old now and still going strong!
16:10 master race!
Vertical height is far too underappreciated.
I also have a 19″ 4:3 monitor sitting next to it that is pretty great for doing any coding on 😛
Can you even buy 4:3 monitors any more?
I’d probably rather have one as my secondary. Had one for a while at work til they moved me to my new desk with my own computer, but now even though I’m on 2x 24″ widescreen, the two or three inches on the sides of my screens generally go unused. I run most of my things windowed, having a web browser full-screen is annoying. The lines of text go far too long to be comfortable to read.
Doubt it. I found it at the tip shop for $15 about a year ago. It’s exactly the same as my primary monitor (http://www.polyu.edu.hk/sao/e-Portfolio/image/luckydraw/Dell%20E228WFP%2022%20LCD%20Monitor_1.jpg) other than being 4:3. It’s even exactly the same height which is great. Best $15 I’ve ever spent 😛
Edit: Dell still have a 19″ 4:3 monitor for $259 :S
Edit 2: Oh shit they still have a 22″ TN panel monitor on there too! Seems like everything’s IPS these days. At the prices they’re selling them for I’m guessing it’s not proper IPS
Interesting. They’ve disabled comments on those odd list articles.
Uh, elaborate..?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/08/the-most-expensive-video-games-ever-made/
Yeah, I noticed that, I made sort of a snarky comment about buzzfeed/cracked and then comments went bye bye.
I wanted to make a snarky comment about people still calling Destiny a $500 million dollar game when it’s actually a ten-year contract between Bungie and Activision wherein they’re expected to produce multiple games in the Destiny franchise.
but.. big numbers… that doesnt make the numbers sound… as big
Yeah and a lot of that is marketing. Plus probably rolling out server infrastructure for everything.
It’s apparently the most preordered game ever, so they must have done some stuff right.
They’ve also tagged it as ‘Australian Stories’ and put one of those hideous ‘next page’ buttons so I have to view each item in a list one click at a time… Very #firstworldproblems, but those are the problems I care most about.
Not to mention the last item is basically an ad.
Fucking hate those multi click article things, I’m here because I’m a lazy bastard damnit, I don’t want to keep clicking buttons to read new stuff that’s not interesting in itself and features no analysis at the end. Put it all on one page so I can say “yep, that’s a list of stuff that’s evidently not leading to anything” and get on with my day.
Urgh, I hate it when lecturers expect you to be able to do stuff that they haven’t taught you!
Worse than that, haven’t even pretended to teach you!
*looks at assignment*
*throws laptop against wall*
Seriously, I don’t know how to do the stuff he wants me to, yet he’s acting like this is all common knowledge.
It’s bullshit is what it is.
That’s exactly what happens in my info systems management class. It’s research based and we get introduced to stuff that’s never been brought up before every week that we have to learn about ourselves. It sucks.
I got this bro. *kick flips skateboard over half pipe while chugging a mountain dew*
Did that help?
Ahhh university… It’s the gateway to the professional world where you’re eased into the fact that everyone around you is incompetent and you’ll have to learn to do everything yourself
I have to write a 2000 word essay on either crypto-currencies or Tor. I don’t know a single thing about either of them. Fun :S
Dogecoin and Coinye.
Nuff said.
Surely there are enough crypto-currencies out there to write a big long list and be done with it? 😉
If you buy crypto-currencies youre gonna have a bad time. ctrl+c, ctrl+v, ????, profit
Is that like cryptozoology? Money used by yetis and big foots?
Tor is a magic browser that hides you behind seven proxies so you can use cryptocurrencies to buy child porn and heroin.
Well I decided to take after @welbot and just had a massive game of Rogue legacy
Went from having one boss defeated to completing the game with a single character.
barbarian queen with a chakram FTW!!!
I just realised, I was playing Xena
well done sire!
Now I just need to decide if I want try for all the equipment or complete NG++
or if I’m done with the game
if you mean equipment from the blacksmith, the quickest way to get them is to find the compass. it points you to a room where you will get 2 chests, and usually both equipment!
Just finished Risen 2, I went in not expecting much but I really had fun. It’s not the most polished game but for the most of it, it was a fun game. Now I want to play Risen 3!
do eeeeeet! 🙂
Although they may not appear to be the most polished games, they are some of the most fun game worlds to explore!
What what?
http://www.edition.cnn.com/2014/08/22/showbiz/tv/mythbusters-cast-members-leaving/
🙁
Aw. I pretty much haven’t watched since it was on SBS on Monday nights with Top Gear, but still.
Aww, I liked the B team.
I saw this news too. Seems like they’re being edged out, rather than leaving of their own volition. Very sad days.
Wow, that’s really weird, considering how much better they seemed to make the show.
Not really. Adam and Jamie were on Dr Karls show the other week and they said that the show is getting a major reformat, which is not surprising given that it’s been running 10 years.
If you had seen the last few seasons all they did was use explosives on stuff, honestly as much I like Kari, Grant & Tory. It was boring seeing them having to blow things up every episode. Plus the show is now going back to its roots of where it started with Jamie & Adam which I rather liked.
Kantai Collection Update That No One Cares About #1541515
CLEARED E1 AND E2!AL (Aleutian Islands) campaign finished \o/ Got my Harusame and Ooyodo as rewards. I also lucked out on the boss on my second clear and got Amatsukaze, who was one of the two ships I really was upset I missed out on in the previous event. Hoping my luck holds out for the MI (Midway) campaign, because the other one I really want, Taigei, drops from E3 and E4 I think.
E2 ended up being not that hard at all. I found E1 much harder, due to the annoying single sub in the first node, then night battle, then three carriers. Meant you could easily be fucked over on the way.
E2 was basically only possible because of the grinding I did last week. Took my freshly level 40 Haguro and my Atago that I’d pushed through E1, Yukikaze and Shimakaze (who I had been alternating between for E1, basically had them running anti-sub gear to sink the one sub in the first node before it could sink someone) and then my freshly level 45 Chiyoda Kai. Turns out that the grinding I did to get some Heavy Cruisers up to scratch had a knock-on effect of getting me a bunch of level 30-50 Light Carriers.
The way I cleared E2 was basically exactly as the staff suggested on twitter. Take it careful, use lots of support expeditions. Luckily I found out that the support expeditions didn’t lock those ships to the campaign so I was able to utilize some that I’d earmarked for Midway like my two high-end Destroyers. Basically did normal-node support on all my clears except the last clear, where I did normal and boss support both. Twice, because just to fuck with me, Shimakaze took a battleship round to the chest in the first node when I set out on what should have been the map clear sortie that knocked her to heavy damage and I had to pull back. In the end it wasn’t too bad. I only had to pull out twice, and every time but one I got to the boss I sank everything (the one where I didn’t, I had her to 30 hp) so took me 9 sorties total. Lots of resources though and heaps of preparation time since I was sparkling everyone in 2 fleets, 3 for the last.
Had a couple of goes at E3 and it’s pretty rad. You take two fleets and combine them together and all the battles on the map are different to normal. Your main fleet has big ships, up to 4 fleet carriers (at the moment I’m running Hiryuu, Soryuu, Akagi and Shoukaku, because my Kaga was too low to be able to run the full Midway force. Probably a good idea since that campaign worked out badly for those four) and two heavy ships (running two battleships) then your second fleet is an escort fleet of at least 1 cruiser, max 2 heavy cruisers, and 3 destroyers. I’m still a bit fucked here because I assumed I could use a Torpedo cruiser in the light cruiser spot, but turns out you can’t. So I took my highest-level cruiser, trusty old Yura (my first cruiser and my flagship from back when I started the game!) instead. Also have a big hole in my destroyer fleet, my highest was Murasame at only 30. Guess which ships end up being critical hit magnets? 🙁
Anyway, I got through to the boss twice, and it wasn’t actually that bad. Third go, Murasame got hit badly on the second-last node, where you fight a Midway Princess installation boss. Had to pull back as I didn’t want to risk her going into an even harder boss fight after it. Murasame isn’t a rare drop by any means, but it’d take me a few days of grinding to get another to 30. I know this firsthand because my previous Murasame is the only shipgirl I’ve had sunk, ever (I fucked up and clicked the wrong button, proceeded on an expedition and she got eaten by a Wo)
While I was waiting for repairs to complete I ground Kaga up to 30, remodelled to Kai, and I now have her as a backup for Shoukaku. Also I’m worried about the fact I have no decent backup cruiser for Yura, so I pulled out Naka. She’s annoying as fuck but has a Kai-2 remodel at only 48 so that’s within grinding range before the event ends, and she drops some great gear and becomes one of the better cruisers in the game so seems worth it. I’d rather work on Jintsuu or Sendai, but both of them need to get to 60.
Problem I’m hitting now is that I simply don’t have any resources left. Below 2000 in fuel, and below 5000 in ammo. Because you’re using two fleets and having to pay for damages on two as well, E3 seems to be pretty costly. I think about 400 fuel and 600 ammo per run for my combined fleet, plus repair costs. I went into the event with 110 instant-repair buckets, and I’m down to 32. And that’s while running expeditions constantly to get more, and doing quests that net 10-12. So realistically unless they extend the event an extra week, I can maybe see myself clearing E3 but not getting far in E4 before Friday when I assume the event ends. Going to run expeditions and keep as lean as possible in the mean time. Annoyingly I can’t access the two best expeditions yet, as I have to clear one that requires me to send two seaplane tenders – I didn’t know, and always just used my spare Chiyoda and Chitose drops for remodeling 🙁 My primary two have advanced well past being seaplane tenders now, they’re remodeled to full carriers and close to hitting their top point where they become the best light carriers in the game 🙁 So kind of hoping to get them drop again at some point while I’m grinding or doing the events.
Anyway, so far the event has given me:
– DD Tanikaze
– DD Amatsukaze
– DD Harusame (E1 reward)
– DD Yayoi (already had, but cool drop)
– CL Agano
– CA Suzuya (already had 🙁 )
– CV Kaga x2 (in a row… I hope that E3 doesn’t drop her forever from the boss if you’re not running the classic Midway Strike Force!)
– CL Ooyodo (E2 reward. She’s special! She’s the one that pops up in the Quest dialog. Also I think she remodels to a special class of ship, but not sure. The other one like this from last event turns into a repair ship…)
Not too bad a haul so far. I’d love to be able to clear through to E5 and get Unryuu esp. since she’s apparently voiced by Ayako Kawasumi, but I can’t see it happening.
*bleep bloop* -Hermit Mode Disengage
I’ve got out nearly every night since Tuesday D:
WHAT HAVE I BECOME?!
(Does that make me the second worst hermit behind D.C.?)
Depends, who else is standing there with you?
Huuuuuuh?
HI!
I’m saying this on an older TAY so it’s less likely to be seen :P.
But the man himself …TIM SCHAFER follows me on Twitter! :O. SAY WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!
It totally doesn’t count though because it’s for a stupid reason :D. Basically, I saw something I shouldn’t have and he kinda followed me to direct message me to delete some tweets. If you remember the Amnesia Fortnight documentaries, in one of the episodes of the latest one I saw a few things written down on a whiteboard and tweeted about them. He probably wouldn’t have seen it but I thought I’d do the right thing and tag him and Double Fine in case they did want me to take it down :P.
I knew about Costume Quest 2, months before the official announcement ;D
You’ve done it now, he’s got his eye on you 😛
Haha Sughly and I used to discuss DF stuff all the time but other employees started following him, so now we keep our discussions outside of Twitter 😛
I mean yay twitter! Join! 😀
😛
Whoa! @dc got retweeted by Tim! 😀
Party at Partius’ place!
I just had to send a painful email to my father telling him I didn’t want to see him anymore. This will likely come as a shock to him, and and is likely to incite an anger so ugly that I have decided to keep my phone off for the next couple of days as a precautionary measure.
If you allow me to indulge in a little blue-collar language:
Fucking hell that email was hard to type. It’s the culmination of everything that has been brewing for years. The worst thing? I can never recover any sort of relationship with my father again. My sister made the decision not to see him for years, and my father would complain about her whenever I was there. He said he had removed her from his will. Then, my sister started showing up again. Even though my father pretended to act nice around her, I could tell that his grudge was never going away. My sister wasn’t ever getting back into his will.
Scratch that, the worst thing about this is that my father probably thinks he’s done nothing wrong. In his eyes, he didn’t drive his children away from him, they were stolen from him by my mother.
Things not to do half an hour before midnight.
I’ll say.
You’ve gotta wait til half an hour *after*. That’s when the productivity really kicks in.
The happy news is your relationship with your parents is almost certain to get better once you leave home and are self-sufficient. You start to forgive their flaws and see them as people. They start to see you as something other than their kid too. They make an effort if they want to be in your life. Things might suck now but it could improve and if it doesn’t? That’s okay too!
I dont know this story personally, but am very familiar with it. A very similar situation my wife was in with her mother. It is definitely not something pleasant to go through, but you will be happier for it.
Respect for going through with a hard decision man.
I hope things improve for you now.
Hmm, it’s 1AM and I haven’t even tried to go to bed. I am going to regret this come Sunday bight, aren’t I?
I preordered Skulduggery Pleasant Book 9: The Dying of the Light from Amazon earlier today. I have no idea how this process works, but I hope the ebook is installed to my Kindle rather than saved to the cloud like Dead Space Martyr was.
Hype is fairly steady. I’ll be interested to see how it all ends. It’s so rare to see a series with 9 installments, they all seem to be trilogies.
TAY! Can you think of any other Ennealogies?
The Dark Tower had 8 books so not quite 9 but close, A Song of Ice and Fire will probably end up in 9 parts. There are plenty of YA novel series that 9 parts and more, though im not reading them personally heh.
There’s 40+ Discworld books, though of course it’s not as serialised
I think I’ve fallen quite behind with the cosplay stuff. It’s a pain. However, I did have a lot of fun yesterday when @tech_knight and @pixel_the_ferret_viking came over for a doggy meat.
Laika and Odin met Atlas who is an Australian shepherd puppy. They regretted it a short time later when he wouldn’t stop annoying them.
Pictures?
My phone takes crappy photos. I’ll see if I can get an image of Atlas another time
No pictures, it mustn’t of happened. WHEN WILL YOUR LIES STOP, SCREE.
What if Pixel and Techie corroborate my story?
It did happen, human. You call me a liar too and I’ll call you a meatbag for the rest of your days. There were many lovely and adorable dogs at the park, and lots of “squee”ing was said by me. Atlas was bloody adorable, such a lovely white and grey fur coat, and its eyes :).
Pixel’s two dogs were really friendly giant puppies, Odin kept trying to lick my face.
After we met the dogs Scree and I spent the afternoon playing Rayman Legends (I think that was the game name), we were doing this challenge of kicking a ball through a gauntlet and I accidentally kicked Scree off the platform we were standing on… okay may have been twice, but I was the one that got the target!
Still don’t believe you! We’ll need some decisive photographic evidence.
So be it… meatbag
We were too busy having fun to take photos!
Wait, who named their dog Laika?
(@tech_knight @pixel_the_ferret_viking)
YOU’RE THE BEST!
’twas meeeee 😀
…
Actually both Odin and Laika are mine 😛
But there’s no Arcade Fire song named Odin!
I knew you were cool, Pixel 😀
I was up early for Doctor Who this morning and enjoyed the slow cooked steel cut oats with nutmeg and cinnamon I had pre-cooked the day before. They were so tasty, I’m surprised @markserrels wasn’t beating down my door.
Watched a super comprehensive video about the drama going on
Hey hey heyyyyy
Has anyone played the Diablo 3 expansion on PC and PS4? Which one was better?
I played Diablo 3 on PC and it was fun, but it seems like the TAY hype machine is all over the PS4 version. I’ve heard good things about the console versions and I never got the chance to play the expansion so hmm… HMMMM! Is it that much different?
I was waiting for a price drop on the expansion for PC but I feel like I won’t have any buddies left to play it with :'(
I think the game has changed buttloads since launch. Oh yeah! Console versions have offline play too don’t they? No more forced lag-fest for me! HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Despite being a PC master race person I am really liking the console version and yes, the game has changed heaps since launch.
Just started PS4 version this morning and am loving it. So much like Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance.
My character is called Moose. *decisive nod*
Farts is a better name 😛
Farts is the best name!
Also, Bobbies
You should get it on PS4, then play with me 😀
It’d also be good if you actually accepted my friend request some day :'(
(anybody who wants to add me on PSN, my name is ‘liondrive‘)
I sent you a friend request.
I accepted it like a week ago 😛
I shall add ya when I turn my PS4 on if I remember
Get it on PS4 and join everyone else who has it on PS4 for demon killing fun
I’m tempted! But I’ll have a bunch of other things to play soon so by the time I get around to it everyone might have moved on 🙁
Nah with the 5 different classes to max level and then the adventure modes and what not a lot of gaming can be done so I will be playing for a while.
Does Diablo 3 on PS4 have local online play?
Can 2 players on the same console play online with others? (like MK8 for example). Or is it split up into either local co-op, or online co-op?
It did on PS3- we had two people on one PS3 and two on another.
I think I might switch my Games Programming major to a Computer Science major next year.
I like the idea of games programming, but the reality is I’m just not good at it :\
Computer Science will be able to get me jobs though, and if I switch at the beginning of next year then I won’t have to add any time to my course.
Hmm, I got some thinking to do, it seems.
Oh, and the Wizard in Diablo III is way OP.
I will have to make a wizard after the crusader of course. I find my demon hunter is op. But then I am only playing in normal atm but I did just kill diablo solo hmm
I ended up bumping up the difficulty to hard, I found I wasn’t using any of the Demon Hunter skills as they had a tendency to clear the screen with one press.
Still overly easy. Did die once to a Nemesis enemy while playing with @bdkiaf. Good god are those things tough.
I will have to do that on my next run after I finish act 5
Wizard is the bomb.
Female Wizard’s voice is done by the same actress that did Azula in the Last Airbender. Totally made the game for me.
Is the coding the problem or just the particular language/algortithms? Just wondering, because Computer Science comes with a lot of coding in a range of languages, depending on the subject.
It’s hard to describe.
I enjoy coding. Coding and programming isn’t the issue.
The issue is more that I’m not getting taught how to program a game.
So it comes time for me to code / program, and I have no idea how to do it because I haven’t been shown :\
This happens every week.
It’s kinda draining my enthusiasm for it, since I’m not learning anything.
I’ll stick with it, and try my hardest, but if I fail this particular course at the end of the year then I’m not going to beat myself up about it.
I’ll just look for alternative majors.
The one that caught my eye was Computer Science (since I’m not interested in Software Development, or Computer Forensics).
A business one would be good, but they don’t offer it as part of my degree :\
Is info systems a thing at your uni? That’s essentially business in the IT department. We can talk about benefits and requirements elicitation and lateral thinking and all the fun stuff together!
No info systems, alas.
Closest I could find was a Bachelors degree of Information Technology, but IT is already one of my majors, and a Bachelors degree of Computer Science sounds more impressive, in my opinion 😛
Maybe I’ll just fill my second major with a bunch of electives, rather than do two majors :\
I’m not sure what you mean by Computer Science if you’re not interested in Software development. Software Development is just part of what Computer Science is (which covers everything from machine hardware design, to networking protocols, search algorithms, to data encryption and AI algorithms). Computer science is usually your whole degree (or if you’re @batguy – a phD). I did a year of computer science as part of my Engineering degree and did subjects in all of the things I mentioned.
The Bachelors degree is Computer Science, but I’m talking about majors.
At the moment my majors are Information Technology (which is fine), and Games Programming (which kinda sucks).
My other options for majors are:
– Computer Science (which I would pick if I changed from Games Programming)
– Computer Security (which doesn’t interest me), or
– Software Engineering (which doesn’t interest me).
I’m gonna stick with Information Technologies, cause it’s broad and good to have, and I’m relatively certain it can potentially get me in the door to jobs that I want.
My first preference was Games Programming, but I’m just not learning anything, and am finding it quite difficult :\
Other than that, I could do one major (Information Technologies) and fill the other required units with electives, but I figured having two majors would be more valuable, so I should do that.
I’m gonna stick with the two majors I have now, but if I fail the games programming course I’m doing now (introduction to 3d games programming), then I’m gonna reevaluate what I’m gonna do :\
I could do Computer Science, since the units seem interesting, and it won’t add any length to my studies. It also seems like a good major to have.
The main thing to gain from a Bachelor of Computer Science are some solid programming skills in a major language (C++ or Java, plus scripting), and a good understanding of software development and systems architecture. The reality is that the projects and hardware you’ll be working on in ten years time probably don’t exist yet, so you have to learn how adapt and apply general principles to specific systems.
Also, don’t be afraid of adding an extra semester of studies if it’s what you need to do. University isn’t a race – you’re better off taking a little extra time and being satisfied with what you’ve done than rushing through and feeling like you’ve missed opportunities. Going back to uni to study is much more challenging once you’ve started full time work.
(btw, I did Computer Science and Electrical Engineering over 5 years…)
Sounds like a typical ‘games programming’ degree actually. Most of them are a bit shit – you’re better off learning pure CompSci and then doing hobby projects in Unity or similar to learn the frameworks and stuff.
<– Bachelor of Computer Science btw 🙂
what kind of programming issues you having? is it learning the language, or understanding OOP as a whole?
It’s not so much either.
The language isn’t so hard to pick up with use, and I’ve only ever done OOP.
It’s more just, my lecturer doesn’t teach you how / why to do things, so I have no idea how to do what I’m supposed to do :\
That, and I’m not enjoying myself any more.
I can’t see myself programming games, so might change to something more general / interesting.
yeah i totally get where you’re coming from! I’ve been down the path of both! I started working in IT young because in the late 80- early 90’s, there was not a humongous scene for computing here. Since I’d been teaching myself all the stuff by using it at home, I passed tests they threw at me to see if I had the skills. This was back in a time where you essentially had to know a bit about everything, or you wouldn’t get very far! 😉 I’ve learned about hardware, software, windows and other operating systems, and will never stop really! I did a diploma of IT when I finished school as a quick way to get some sort of legal recognition of my skills, and then found myself getting more jobs. I do I often find myself in support kind of roles because I have such a broad knowledge base, but I always keep my 3d stuff and other projects going too whenever I can. I did a different Diploma of IT in 2000 which was Software Development (Games). If you think you’d like to work in any area of games, I would suggest following through with it. You’d be surprised at how many doors it can open for you, especially overseas.
I may have already asked you this, but do want some help with a specific language, or case that they are asking you to analyse/create? I have a number of good tutorial links for some languages, and they’re really easy to learn with in terms of lesson structure and descriptions etc.
If you don’t want go the way of games, then think about the kind of job you might want, and I can help you determine the kind of course that might be best.
Thanks man 🙂
I think I’m in my head a bit at the moment is all :\
I’m having trouble implementing something called a VBO (Video Buffer Object) into a game we were given, and it’s bumming me out since I haven’t been able to ask anyone in my class for help (since I’ve been sick), and it’s worth 5 marks :\
I’ve definitely got at least one mark, but I’ll just ask for help next lecture, and see if I can submit it a bit late.
I should be fine, but I’ll more than likely definitely need some help when it comes time for me to actually make my own game :\
That’s not for a while though, thankfully.
My other major is Information Technologies, but I’m severely hoping that I learn more when I get in the field, since I don’t feel like I’m learning anything :\
yeah doing the courses can feel that way at times. In so many ways it’s better to teach this sort of stuff in a hands on manner. It’s kind of like trying to teach a doctor how to do a surgery, without opening up the patient! Good in theory, but inside can be terrifying if you’re not used to it.
Also, VBO. You mean vertex buffer?
Yes! That!
I missed that lecture due to illness, and have no idea how to put it into the code I was given.
Something about initiating, something about running it, something about clearing the buffer…?
(VBO code)
…
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(my head)
watch this and see if it has what you need!
I would think computer science would be more challenging than games programming surely? I’d rather try and get my head around OOP than trying to get a grasp on algorithms and core architectures 😛
You can’t truly appreciate OOP and all the stuff that it gives you for free if you don’t know your algorithms and data structures properly. And IMO, every good programmer needs to know what their stuff is actually doing on the hardware.
That was probably the thing I enjoyed most about my combined Engineering and Computer Science – got to learn how a computer worked right down to the physics of a transistor. Fun times.
Ok, Diablo 3 get.
Someone pick a class.
Also, what levels are people up to?
Ok. I say Physics!
..oh! not that kind of class?! When in doubt, always go magic user!
Physics user! By swinging this weapon I can deposit a large amount of energy into a enemy’s body, randomising the affected area, thereby acquiring his loot.
Have played a Wizard already on PC. Maybe Witchdoctor.
Crusader is a lot of fun!
I’m level 58
I will be making a crusader as my next class enjoying demon hunter atm.
That’s like a Paladin right? Tanky but low on damage I imagine.
They have alot of abilities that turn takiness into damage. Plus they have one of there best passives which allows them to use a two handed weapon in one hand if they are using a shield. I’m playing on Expert right now. I’ve only died once and that was pretty close to the start.
Wicked, might do that or a monk. Feel like smashing things in the face.
Yawn.
*actually yawns when reading that*
D:
well they do say yawning is contagious!
So impressionable 😛
Does the Crusader Kings II DLC add to the game significantly?
(ie. is it worth the extra $13 on GMG’s top 50 -revisit?)
Which DLC package?
The Republic, Islam, India, Viking, Byzantine ones all add a bunch. The cosmetic ones not much, the Sunset Invasion is a cool idea but only good for another challenge.
Looking at this: http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/rpgs/crusader-kings-ii-collection/
So it adds… all of that stuff you mentioned and a bucket load more?
Has 3 of them, though my favourite is the Viking one (The Old Gods).
Prob worth it, though they go cheap during Steam Sales if you’re on the fence.
My bad thinking they were all there! A bit tired and sick and not reading properly. Sorry!
Think I’ll grab the base edition and flag the rest in Steam until they pop up on sale.
Heyyyyyyyyyy
Anyone make their own figures? (or know about it?)
I’m not talking about 3D printing but some form of moldable material that can be easily painted over and possibly reshapen. I’m sure there’s something like that out there since you always see the “homemade/custom figurine” pictures on the net.
I wouldn’t mind making some small things cause it’ll definitely be cheaper than buying something similar 😮
I know there’s stuff like Sculpey, which is kind of like a bakeable plasticine. It kinda smells though, not sure if it goes away after time but I know it was still pretty bad within a couple of weeks of baking.
Sat down for a nice relaxing game of Assassin’s Creed IV to unwind and made the mistake of starting up a mission instead of just sailing around causing mayhem. I ended up ragequitting (I almost never ragequit!) because it’s a jumping section and instead of grabbing onto the things he’s supposed to be jumping to, Kenway is kind of bumping into them and having them make him fall to his death. HE’S RIGHT THERE! Ugh.
The past two Assassin’s Creed games make me wonder who on earth thinks of the kind of things they do in the missions and decides they’re fun and a good addition to the game? And who thinks it’s okay to have really cool exploratory areas like the divespots, but have a bazillion sharks that will go for you in a heartbeat so you can’t have fun exploring because you’re trying to avoid the unavoidable sharks? Seriously, who signs off on that shit?!
They have that thing in this one where you can rate the main missions and if I could rate most of them -5 instead of just 1 out of 5, I would. It’s such a shame, because like ACIII the exploration and the missions that aren’t main missions show promises of what could be incredible games but then they they shove these missions into them that seem rather pointless and intentionally aggravating.
Every page is Angry Page 15! 😛Yeah, I’m done with this series. It’s just not fun outside of the sandbox and the sandbox isn’t enough for me. I needs me a good story too.
I have very close to zero interest in Unity.
Only thing that was keeping me going was the modern day section leading to something and then it just fizzled out and my interest in the series with it.
I wanna go to the alternate universe where everyone didn’t complain so much about the original Assassin’s Creed and Patrice Desilets completed his original intentions for the series. And then the series ended, instead of Guitar Hero-ing itself into oblivion.
But complaining about original Assassins Creed led to 2 and Brotherhood which were joys to play.
They just disappeared up their own anuses after that. Peeked out with 4 but looks like they got scared and retreated back up there.
It’s not that. After Brotherhood they annualized it by throwing a billion studios at it that each work on a separate piece. It sucks the soul out of it and their momentum is such that if stuff is shit they still have to use it for that game because there’s no time to scrap it and do over.
And so you get shitty tower defense minigames and that godawful stealth stuff where you have to tail people. And the shitty underwater stuff in 4 – that would have been rad if not for the double need to avoid sharks and also get air.
I found the original more of a joy to play than any of the others. It all seemed like it was leading somewhere, and the gameplay made sense in the context.
I think I’ve been playing all the others hoping for that same feeling but they just keep getting further and further away from the promises of the first game.
I quite liked the story of 1. I didn’t even bother with the collectibles and shit, I just pretty much barreled through to the finish with just picking up whatever was along the way. It was pretty enjoyable. When 2 rolled around, I was out of love with the xbox, so didn’t pick it up until Brotherhood, which was awesome but left me REALLY confused about 2, so I ended up with some muddled up clusterfuck of continuity and self-spoilering, to the point that I didn’t even bother to finish 2, redemption, or 3. Just 1 and brotherhood.
4 was like a fresh start, which I loved, but instead of rushing to devour the story, the exploration/sidequests were too fun to ignore. Ended up the opposite way to 1. It takes story to make me care, or something really damn fun. Piracy willy nilly kind of really damn fun. I’m not sure how ‘really damn fun’ the French Revolution can be. Probably not piracy fun.
I only just started Black Flag and so far my only problem with it is that Kenway feels clumsier and slower than Connor ever was, which makes some of the chase sequences (even shanties) incredibly tedious because even running at full tilt and cutting corners you can’t keep up with the target.
Otherwise, I enjoy it. I like the exploring and collectible hunting. Of course, I don’t have the diving bell yet, and I’ve probably only scratched the surface on the islands.
I think Black Flag will be my first and last interest with the Assassin’s Creed universe. I solely bought it because pirates and so0lely enjoy it because of pirates. The bullshit they’ve tacked onto it like you have described makes me hate what is otherwise an amazing.
I really wish they had more eavesdropping and following type missions!
That’s the first time that phrase has ever been spoken.The AC series do a lot of things right, but so many things wrong 🙁
I’m still not against picking them up when they’re cheap for the eye candy though. I did study the French revolution a bit so I’m somewhat more interested in the setting this time around :P. ACIII nearly killed all my interest in the series but I didn’t find IV too bad since I didn’t go in expecting much 😀
Decided to start listening to some 12th Man albums…
Marvellous effort that!
F yeah HD on my business analysis report!
So glad to actually be doing what I wanted to be doing at uni now.
You mean you didn’t enjoy accounting?
😛
Don’t even go there Greenius. Don’t even go there…
By the way way, this is going off-topic but when are the racey cars in Singapore? I’m apparently going there at the end of the year again. Maybe.
I was looking at that yesterday funnily enough 😛 21st September
I’m going to try and make the effort to get there in probably 2 years time I hope. The plan is to save up around $10000, go to watch F1 and also buy the Omega watch I want over there cos it’s heaps cheaper than buying it here. I’m getting there, slowly. Almost got enough for the watch itself!
Ooooh I’ll totally make it to Singapore one year! That’s the plan anyway… Until then, grandstand tickets to next years Albert park grand prix is secured \o/
Welp, ignorance is over. Ended up sitting through a couple of videos on the whole Zoe thing.
Man. What a rabbit hole.
Don’t. Just don’t. If you didn’t know anything about her before all this, and you didn’t know anything about what was going on last week, you would have been better off for your own sanity in staying ignorant.
That’s what I’m choosing!
Yeah, that was supposed to be the plan.
But then boredom happened and I remembered I hadn’t been to check on that guy’s videos in a while and those were there and… yeah. Too late >.>
Yep.
Big pile of nope
lol was wondering where this story had gone. tbh I won’t comment because I could do without the flamewar on a forum I like to read. All the same, maybe I missed it, but it would be surprising if kotaku didn’t place a regional link re the story. I’m not going to comment more; re the previous, but you have to look at individual behaviours. SO rather than focus on what kotaku have done, I would say that, were this my company a simple thing to do rather than denial would be to open up message blogs and email archives that showed there was no written conspiracy. From experience the more you let people ruminate on a subject the further their imaginations take them.
What is curious, is that normally the left always ask for similar from their governments, but in an area where they are a legitimate force, they enact behaviours of which they are meant to despise.
fun to watch anyway, but lets not leave it here. Has anyone played Yu Gi Oh on Miniclip yet?!?!
Miniclip is still around?
Now that’s longevity!
lol I must be out of date as I just found it. I miss go2play and their euchre tournaments tbh. Fancy a game as now I seem to have played all PC and online versions and I confess that I think they are terrible. They’re a use case in good source material being employed badly.
all the same happy to have a tourney or two to justify my opinion
Thoughts on Doctor Who, everybody? Not sure if it was because I was in a bad mood from ACIV, but I just didn’t feel it.
My main problem, and what was causing the most disconnection for me was that Clara’s seen practically every incarnation of the Doctor so her behaviour here just didn’t make sense. At all. So instead of being all “hey the new Doctor’s kind of different” I was all “why the heck is Clara the one acting different?”.Oh good someone else brought up Doctor Who. You’re not alone there, dad felt the same & so did my mate who bothered to watch it. Personally I’m not entirely sure if I actually want to bother with it.
Since I stopped watching well before Matt Smith was even half way through his term as Doctor. I just wasn’t feeling the series any more. But more than I ever did with Tennant who is my least favourite Doctor. Yep I am popular amongst the fanboys & girls when I say I don’t like him 😀
Saying that, I do have the new episode sitting there to be watched if I so wish…
I kind of get it. Because it’s not her doctor! She’s used to travelling around with one version, and although she’s seen the others come and go, I wouldn’t think she would harbour the same feelings for them since they haven’t been around long enough to develop that kind of mental relationship between who he really is and what he looks and acts like. When she’s left with a new doctor who she’s never seen before, with new mannerisms and accent, it would be a bit jarring!You’re a monster. 😛 In all seriousness, I agree that Clara was a disappointment throughout the episode, but I feel like the rest of it more than made up for it for me.I think I still gotta get around to catching the Christmas one before getting onto this.
So maybe I’ll see it next year or something 😛
it was on iview last time I checked about a week ago I think
Interesting… *scratches chin*
Chances are by the time I get around to looking for it it’ll be gone 😛
It felt a bit wobbly at the start, but I enjoyed watching Peter Capaldi immensely.
I’m not certain that Clara remembers everything that happened when she entered the Doctor’s timeline, so I don’t think she necessarily remembers what the doctor used to look like – feel free to correct me, the whole Trenseloar storyline was confusing. Also, the prospect of being stuck with angry old guy versus cute young guy is a bound to be a bit of a shock to the system. Rose initially freaked out and really, she got an upgrade! Martha never had a doctor regenerate, and either did Donna – he left before he regenerated. Amy only ever knew one Doctor – he had already regenerated when he crashed into her garden.So really this is only the second time we’ve seen a companion react to a regeneration in the new series. I actually really liked the vague and confused but understated beginnings – I loved the scribbles on the walls – he’s a thinker, this Doctor. The main thing was that the Dinosaur bit just felt clunky.
To me it felt like some of the writing suffered from ‘insert companion here’ syndrome, but nowhere near as bad as Day of the Doctor. I’m interested to see where they go with Capaldi.Heh, now that I think about it
I think I just put my finger on a main reason why I liked Rory so much. He wasn’t a ‘standard’ companion and couldn’t fall victim to the fallback scripts that sometimes get dusted off.Yeah, my wife is convinced Clara is an imposter or something, but I guess it was just so they could have an opportunity to discuss judging in appearances as a character trait then handwave it after a few minutes of forced drama.
Overall though, I thought it was a good series return and the most comfortable I’ve felt with a new doctor right away, but that’s probably just because I never warmed to Smith.
does anyone feel like some game of thrones conspiracy theories?
Just make sure you spoiler it up!ok let me give this spoiler thing a testThe finale is going to be Darth Vader in a climatic duel with Harry Potter as the ghosts of the cast of Family Ties cheer from the sidelines.
Read between the lines in the books. They’re all pointing to it.
I prefer the idea (not really a spoiler, but ehh)
that the name of Shaggy dog points to the whole thing being, well, a Shaggy Dog Story, so the whole thing will wind up with a character making a really cheesy one liner.We just realised that no one wants to be king after all. Let’s all go home and have milkshakes.But seriously, who wants to even sit on that stupid throne? It’s made of real swords! POINTY, SHARP SWORDS!I suspect that’s the whole point (pardon the pun). Being the King of the Seven Kingdoms is not supposed to be comfortable.
Oh I know it’s the point. In the books it slices people if they get too comfortable on it. The show one is all smooth and way more comfy-looking. Joffrey looked okay on it, where he was supposed to look all small and insignificant on it.
Lol nice work 🙂
ok theory below
Curiously, I haven’t read too much on the online theories, yet one thing that has struck me from all of them has been the ignorance of the seven pointed star. in addition to all the other talk, does it not strike you that amongst the series characters their is a parallel amongst characters and the seven pointed star? The Mother = Dany, the stranger = arya, Catelyn = the crone, The smith = gendry, the warrior = Jaime, the maiden = sansa, etc. I think I have figured out where he(GRR) is going from the story. anyone else feel the same?Oh man The Sims 4 is out reallll soon!
I didn’t really care for it but I’ve been watching Robbaz’ Sims videos the past couple of months and they’re the best and now I totally want to get back into The Sims. I enjoyed my time with 2 (and 3 to an extent, but it wasn’t as great :P).
I dunno though, seems like EA will (or already have) screw(ed) up 4. If it ends up decent enough I’ll give it a buysies. Anyone else getting it?
I missed out on the free Sims 2 offering on Origin, so out of spite I pre-ordered The Sims 4.
>.>
Nope. I am getting Disney infinity 2.0 instead and yes i will be getting the collectors edition from EB \o/
I am so tempted to pick that up, even though I will probably never play the actual game.
I got the first one and mainly played that with the daughter so this will be more for me due to marvel and only one controller for the PS4
Euro Truck Simulator 2: Tales of a Trucker
Episode Two – Falchion Reforged
After the failure of Falchion Enterprises in Luxembourg, Lavernius Trucker burned all his assets for insurance money, and moved to Innsbruck, Austria. His new business just so happened to also be called Falchion Enterprises.
The business was far more successful in Austria due to Lavernius learning a new skill: save-scumming. Anytime he crashed, he would reload a save.
Lavernius traveled across Austria, and successfully delivered his wood.
When I went to the video to link it, I noticed that I had a comment. This comment said that they enjoyed the video, and were now following (Dailymotion equivalent of subscribing) me. I looked at the sharing options. 1 person had tweeted the video. I checked the viewcount. 25 views. Holy shit, 25. That’s 9 more views since I last plugged the video on TAY. The guy had tweeted my video, and netted me 8 extra views! The best thing? The commenter wasn’t just any random, it was EuroTruckSim, the premiere Euro Truck Simulator 2 mod showcase person on Dailymotion! Dude has TWO followers!
I’m the Dailymotion equivalent of famous! I guess it’s time to monetize the videos and do them full time. Goodbye school, we had a good run.
So, I’ve started playing Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment…
It’s…okay… I guess.
My internet is a bit slow today.
Mine isn’t.
😀
Late night Sunday TAY is the pits, so I’m going to regale you all with the songs of my people.
*sings*
Are you brave enough to let me see your peacock?
Don’t be a chicken boy, stop acting like a bi-atch
I’m a peace out if you don’t give me the pay off
Come on baby let me see
What you’re hidin’ underneath
Are you brave enough to let me see your peacock?
What you’re waiting for, it’s time for you to show it off
Don’t be a shy kinda guy I’ll bet it’s beautiful
Come on baby let me see
What you’re hidin’ underneath
I wanna see your peacock, cock, cock
Your peacock, cock
Your peacock, cock, cock
Your peacock
I wanna see your peacock, cock, cock
Your peacock, cock
Your peacock, cock, cock
Your peacock
That song is about as subtle as a car crash.
*sings*
If I was rich girl (na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na nah)
See, I’d have all the money in the world, if I was a wealthy girl
No man could test me, impress me, my cash flow would never ever end
Cause I’d have all the money in the world, if I was a wealthy girl
I’d get me four Harajuku girls to
Inspire me and they’d come to my rescue
I’d dress them wicked, I’d give them names
Love, Angel, Music, Baby
Hurry up and come and save me
Money Money Money,
Must be funny, in the rich man’s world,
Money Money Money,
Must be sunny, in the rich man’s world.
A-hoooooo, awwhooohooooo,
all the things I could do,
If I had a little money (whah-ho),
it’s a rich man’s world.
*sings*
Promiscuous girl
Wherever you are
I’m all alone
And it’s you that I want
Promiscuous boy
You already know
That I’m all yours
What you waiting for?
Promiscuous girl
You’re teasing me
You know what I want
And I got what you need
Promiscuous boy
Let’s get to the point
Cause we’re on a roll
Are you ready?
*sings*
Baby, can’t you see
I’m calling
A guy like you
Should wear a warning
It’s dangerous
I’m fallin’
There’s no escape
I can’t wait
I need a hit
Baby, give me it
You’re dangerous
I’m lovin’ it
Too high
Can’t come down
Losing my head
Spinning ‘round and ‘round
Do you feel me now
With a taste of your lips
I’m on a ride
You’re toxic I’m slipping under
With a taste of a poison paradise
I’m addicted to you
Don’t you know that you’re toxic
And I love what you do
Don’t you know that you’re toxic
I know your game.
Still got a ways to page 18 yet.
It’s too late for page 18, I just don’t want to do assignments any more 😛
*sings*
And now we lookin’ like pimps
In my gold Trans-Am.
Got a water bottle full of whiskey
In my handbag.
Got my drunk text on
I’ll regret it in the mornin’
But tonight
I don’t give a
I don’t give a
I don’t give a
There’s a place downtown,
Where the freaks all come around.
It’s a hole in the wall.
It’s a dirty free for all.
And they turn me on.
When they Take It Off.
When they Take It Off.
Everybody Take It Off.
There’s a place I know
If you’re looking for a show.
Where they go hardcore
And there’s glitter on the floor.
And they turn me on.
When they Take It Off.
When they Take It Off.
Everybody Take It Off.
Ooo I’ve actually heard that one before! No idea what any of your other songs are 😛
In order of what has appeared:
Peacock – Katy Perry
Rich Girl – Gwen Stefani
Promiscuous – Nelly Furtado
Toxic – Britney Spears
Take it Off – Ke$ha
Jump – Rihanna
Live for the Night – Krewella
Donatella – Lady Gaga
*sings*
Tell me that you love me when you know you don’t love me
But I guess I guess I guess it’s all good
You can play the game, I’ma still do my thing
Ain’t no better way for it to be put
When you fuck them other girls I bet they be wondering
Why you always call my name
You think I’m gonna wait around
I ain’t got all day
You don’t need another lover
Don’t you let it go
I already got it covered,
Let the others know
If you want it let’s do it
Ride it, my pony,
My saddle is waitin’,
Come and, jump on it
If you want it let’s do it
Ride it, my pony,
My saddle is waitin’,
Come and, jump on it
Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump…
Sit on my face and tell me that you love me
I’ll sit on your face and tell you I love you too
I love to hear you oralize
When I’m between your thighs
You blow me away
Sit on my face and let my lips embrace you
I’ll sit on your face and then I’ll love you truly
Life can be fine if we both sixty nine
If we sit on our faces in all sorts of places
And play till we’re blown away
So TAY has devolved to singing? Okay, two can play at that game.
HUAH, HUAH, HUH!
HUAH, HUAH, HUH!
HUAH, HUAH, HUH!
HUAH, HUAH, HUH!
HUAH, HUAH, HUH!
HUAH, HUAH, HUH!
HUAH, HUAH, HUH!
HUAH, HUAH, HUH!
HUAH, HUAH, HUH!
Dovahkiin, Dovahkiin, naal ok zin los vahriin,
Wah dein vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal!
Ahrk fin norok paal graan fod nust hon zindro zaan,
Dovahkiin, fah hin kogaan mu draal!
Huzrah nu, kul do od, wah aan bok lingrah vod,
Ahrk fin tey, boziik fun, do fin gein!
[loud whisper]Wo lost fron wah ney dov, ahrk fin reyliik do jul,
Voth aan suleyk wah ronit faal krein
Ahrk fin zul, rok drey kod, nau tol morokei frod,
Rul lot Taazokaan motaad voth kein!
Sahrot Thu’um, med aan tuz, vey zeim hokoron pah,
Ol fin Dovahkiin komeyt ok rein![/whisper]
Dovahkiin, Dovahkiin, naal ok zin los vahriin,
Wah dein vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal!
Ahrk fin norok paal graan fod nust hon zindro zaan,
Dovahkiin, fah hin kogaan mu draal!
Ahrk fin Kel lost prodah, do ved viing ko fin krah,
Tol fod zeymah win kein meyz fundein!
Alduin, feyn do jun, kruziik vokun staadnau,
Voth aan bahlok wah diivon fin lein!
Nuz aan sul, fent alok, fod fin vul dovah nok,
Fen kos nahlot mahfaeraak ahrk ruz!
Paaz Keizaal fen kos stin nol bein Alduin jot,
Dovahkiin kos fin saviik do muz!
Dovahkiin, Dovahkiin, naal ok zin los vahriin,
Wah dein vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal!
Ahrk fin norok paal graan fod nust hon zindro zaan
Dovahkiin, fah hin kogaan mu draal!
NOTE: I actually sung this, but I mispronounced a good chunk of the words. The line naal ok zin los vahriin gets me every damn time.
EDIT: On my second attempt I was waayyy more accurate. The whispering section can really throw me off, though.
*sings*
I’m the grim reaper when I’m blarin’ out your speaker
Killin’ off the weaker welcome to the final feature
My head is in the clouds, you can say that I’m a dreamer
But I play it super loud turn that bitch into a screamer
I’mma do what I want, whatever
I’mma rage til the dawn, all nighter
Don’t hold your breath you know I’ll sleep when I am dead
I live for the night
I live for the lights
I live for the high til I’m free fallin’
I live for the night
I live for the lights
I live for the high til I’m free fallin’
*sings*
What do you wanna wear this spring?
What do you think is the new thing?
What do you wanna wear this season?
Donatella
(I’m smokin em on full tank of gas)
Mi-Mi-Bella
(I’m a rich bitch, I’m the upper class)
All of the day
(I’m the pearl to your oyster, I’m a babe)
I’m gonna smoke Marlboro Lights and drink Champagne
(I smoke Marlboro Reds and drink Champagne)
Donatella
Cause she walks so bad, like it feels so good
Listen to her radiate her magic
Even though she knows she’s misunderstood
Voodoo, Voodoo, Voo-Don-Na-Na
Check it out, take it in
Who’s that bitch, she’s so thin (Ooh nah nah nah)
She’s so rich, and so Blonde
She so fab, it’s beyond
What do you wanna wear this spring?
What do you think is the new thing?
What do you wanna wear this season?
Donatella, Donatella
All of the day
I’m gonna wear designer and forget your name
Donatella, Donatella
So, we’re singing in code now eh?
Snfg naq shevbhf,
Jr evqr gur havirefr,
Gb pneir n ebnq sbe hf,
Gung fyvprf rirel pheir va fvtug
Jr nppryrengr,
Ab gvzr gb urfvgngr
Guvf ybnq jvyy qrgbangr
Jubrire jbhyq pbagraq vgf evtug
Obea gb yrnq
Ng oernxarpx fcrrq
Jvgu uvtu bpgnar
Jr’er fcvggvat synzrf
Serrjurry oheavat
Serrjurry oheavat
Ba jr pngnchyg,
Jr’er guehfgvat gb gur uvyg
Harneguvat rirel snhyg,
Tb urnqybat vagb nal qner
Jr qba’g npprcg qrsrng,
Jr arire jvyy ergerng,
Jr oynmr jvgu fpbepuvat urng,
Boyvgrengvbaf rireljurer
Obea gb yrnq
Ng oernxarpx fcrrq
Jvgu uvtu bpgnar
Jr’er fcvggvat synzrf
Serrjurry oheavat
Serrjurry oheavat
Ybbx orsber lbh yrnc unf arire orra gur jnl jr xrrc
Bhe ebnq vf serr
Punetvat gb gur gbc naq arire tvir va arire fgbcf
Gb or gur jnl
Ubyq ba gb gur yrnq jvgu nyy lbhe jvyy naq qba’g pbaprqr
Lbh’yy svaq gurer’f yvsr
Jvgu ivpgbel ba uvtu
Serrjurry oheavat
Serrjurry oheavat
Serrjurry oheavat
Serrjurry oheavat
Surgery Overheat!
I only just realised that the ‘we are speaking in code’ thing was directed at me. Dovahzuul, man!
A-googly boogly to you too!
*sings*
And all your makeup
Just take it all off
I’ve got to find you
Before the line is lost
I know I hurt you
I won’t deny it
When I reach for you
You say, I’m over it
But I know
You can cry I won’t go
You can scream, I won’t go
Every man that you know
Would have run at the word go
Little boys with their porno
Oh, I know they hurt you so
If I don’t know what I know
It can be so little that we know
But the cup it overflows
Little boys with their porno
But this is their world
Where can we go?
Makes me feel like something’s wrong with me
Makes me feel like something’s wrong with me
Can you see me?
*opens door and enters TAY*
“Hey guys what goin-”
*slowly backs out of TAY and closes door*
*serenades*
I been lying here, staring at the wall
Since I met you I’ve been so messed up, it’s critical
I want your everything
But you ain’t giving back
It’s getting deep now
It’s getting deep now
I was crazy, so-so naive too
You mean everything to me
But I mean nothing to you
Never should’ve said hello
Never should’ve let my eyes turn back
I was happy on my own
I never should’ve said, said, said hello, hello
Alas, we did not make it to page 18.