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After 9-10 months of fighting, my Dad lost his battle with cancer over the weekend and passed away at about 7:30am on Saturday morning, surrounded by myself, my three brothers, our wives and my mother. He was 62.
He was a much loved father, father-in-law and grandfather and his death has impacted me and the rest of my family greatly as we come to terms with the loss of him.
Thanks everyone for their support over the last couple of weeks. It’s going to be a tough period of time coming up for the family.
I’m so sorry for your loss. You’ll never be the same again. 🙁 *hugasaurus*
I am so sorry to hear this, my friend. You and yours will be in my thoughts today. *hugs*
I”m sorry for your loss.
Sorry to hear that, *hugs*
Some would say that this would be a depressing way to start off TAY, but I think it of it as just sombre, you know? As in we should dedicate this TAY to everyone’s lost loved ones. I mean, it’s a odd way to honor someone’s death, just posting about video games and the like, but I think it’s mostly about just living, you know? living in honor for ’em.
That might be hard to understand, but, yeah. I’ll gladly pour one out for your father.
Never going to stop saying it, cancer is a dick.
Agreed
I’m really sorry to hear this, but I’m glad you were able to be with him until the end. Focus on the best parts, and try to celebrate rather than mourn. All the best xoxo
What a crappy weekend, sorry to hear that man. Try to remember the good times you had.
Condolences. 🙁
I’ve been through exactly that with my dad. Sorry to hear about your loss. I’d like to say it gets easier over time but the fact is, 10 years later I still miss him every day. I like to remember all the good times we had though and that makes me smile as I’m sure your memories will do the same for you. Be strong for your family when they need it and they’ll be there for you as well. All the best
That’s really rough man. My condolences.
Losing a family member always hurts, but does get better.
Sorry to hear this WP. Sounds like you have a close family which I hope can help each other in this sad time. 🙁 X
Im sorry for your loss my friend, atleast passed surrounded by family which is in my opinion the best way to go. If theres anything we can do we are here
Ahh, man. 🙁 My condolences.
Sorry to hear that buddy. Stay strong for your family.
First of all. Condolences. Cancer is a bastard of a disease and put people through a lot. You may have lost him, but at least he isn’t in pain any more.
Sorry to hear mate, we only lost our grandfather not quite a year ago, it’s definitely not easy to cope with, but as long as you’ve got family around, you’ll push through, I’m sure.
Sorry to hear about your loss. 🙁
My condolences, here’s hoping that you have many happy family memories together.
So picked up my PS4 in the weekend, not quite sure what to think so far as I didn’t get any games with it was relying purely on PS+ games and F2P/demos which were all a bit meh, not into Indie. I was only getting 1mbps via wifi on my 130mbps connection, I wired it eventually and got 80mbps which was better but still not great. After an hour or so I muted my Home Theatre and the ps4 sounded like a vacuum and was getting pretty hot, is this normal?
Controller is nice, leagues ahead of the DS3, will pick up some games this week and hopefully put it through its paces.
Looking at your video, it doesn’t look like there’s a whole lot of ventilation for the PS4. Mine hasn’t gotten quite as loud as yours, but mine has a whole lot more space around it.
How much does it need? my xbone has similar space right next to it and is whisper quiet and never gets above warm. I’m not too worried about the heat so much as the noise is a bit distracting. I’m gonna buy some rubber strips to raise it above my home theatre, if that doesn’t work I may have to remove it from the cabinet all together.
There’s your problem. Run your home theatre for a while and then put your hand on the top. Warm? Almost burning.
You’re then putting a PS4 which is engineered to quite thin thermal profile due to size (unlike the MASSIVE MOTHERFUCKER XBOOOOOOOOOONE) and you’re gonna have a bad time. Don’t put anything on the HT.
As for wifi, it’s probably your router. PS4 has wireless N I believe and it’s fine for me with a good-quality router.
As for noise – if you mute stuff you’re gonna hear it while gaming. You’re gonna hear it while gaming and hearing idle sounds (birds, forest, etc) only, too.
No, the Home Theatre runs pretty cool, cooler than my xbone, but I am going to raise it anyway.
The Router is brand new from vodafone they upgraded it this year when I changed to 130mpbs warpspeed, I get 128mbps on my xbone wired, 60mbps wirelessly to laptop and 40mbps wireless to the ipad so the 1mbps to ps4 is a bit weird, I have removed my smart TV wired connection and the ps4 is now wired also.
As for noise when I mute everything I cannot even tell my xbox is on its that silent even with hours of gaming. I can handle a little bit of noise but a hairdryer/vacuum noise seemed a bit excessive.
HT – mmk, hard to tell what you have from the video. It could be a slimline unit which runs decently cool these days. Full-size units not so much. I still say you shouldn’t put anything closer than 5cm on top of it.
Wifi – router, modem, sometimes they are one box sometiems they are not. I assume Voda upgraded your modem-router combo to take advantage of >100Mbps connection. That doesn’t mean that the wifi component of it is high quality. Try moving PS4 out of the cabinet (wood etc will block signal) and see if it improves.
Noise – PS4 is gonna get noise, even if you cool room to 10C. It’s tiny, more powerful than Xbone, and has a power supply inside. Xbone has MASSIVE amounts of room for heat dissapation and a big-ass heatsink/fan. That thing isn’t overheating any time soon. It’s also gonna run a hell of a lot quieter. That’s just how it is.
Here is the HT so yea pretty slim, I bought it a year ago I think it was their latest at the time.
http://www.samsung.com/in/consumer/tv-audio-video/home-theatre/home-theatre-system/HT-E6750W/XL
I have a seperate modem and Router, I cant remember the brands or model numbers off the top of my head, I think I’ll keep it wired from now, I wired up my whole house with cat cables so its not a major the TV will have to be wifi from now on though.
Yea I am willing to accept some noise, will try a few different scenarios.
Ah cool, the vacuum tube HT! 🙂 Cool stuff.
My PS4’s not super noisy but it’s also not quiet either, I’d put it about the same noise profile as my fatty PS3. I sit far enough away that it’s a non-issue though.
As for wifi, it’s not a big unit so the antenna’s probably not great. Other things around it might also be interfering with the signal.
If you’ve got a 128mbps connection (I assume you’re in NZ based off your username, where they actually rolled out fibre correctly and didn’t fuck it all up like here in AU) then you should get way more than 80mbps to it on wired unless your router is really struggling. A lot of routers have crap memory management and slowly overwhelm themselves with fragmentation etc. so sometimes a power cycle will flush all the tables and that and make a huge difference. You might want to try that.
It’s also possible that your router has some kind of dumb QoS shaping or similar going on that causes it to cut bandwidth to the PS4 for some reason. The PS4 also runs its own wifi hotspot (for remote play to Vita / Vita TV) so it’s entirely possible the router doesn’t deal well with that. Check they’re not competing for the same WiFi channel!
How do I flush the tables, sorry bit of a newbie with that sort of thing.
Power-cycle the router.
I.e. turn it off / unplug from wall, wait 20-30 seconds and turn it back on.
Power cycled the router and modem, didnt seem to make any difference, I wonder if the recent Sony attacks had anything to do with it?
You probably picked a bad time for PSN-related stuff, yeah.
I raised the ps4 above the HT about 20mm last night and it seems to have solved the noise and heat issues.
http://1drv.ms/1vGRzs6
Nice. That 2cm helps a lot.
Mine gets pretty loud but nowhere near that. It’s sitting in its own section of cabinet by itself though. Played it non stop from 9am to 1am yesterday and it didn’t get to that level.
Its only gotten that loud once I was downloading about 5 demos and playing at the time, I turned it off after making the clip, still louder than I would have liked I thought perhaps it might have been running itself in? Like a new vehicle.
Based on the others’ comments I’d say it definitely seems like a ventilation issue. I haven’t heard a peep out of mine and it’s sitting up by itself on a little portable metal shelf that’s full of little holes.
Here’s a pic: https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/487827732500201473
Hate to sound like a broken record, but yeah as the others have said mine barely makes a peep itself. It currently sits behind my computer monitors and I can’t here it sitting an arms length in front of it.
Like @strange said, I suspect ventilation. The less ventilation is working, the hotter it gets, the hotter it gets, the faster it detects it has to spin that fan, the noisier it gets. Mine’s quiet as a mouse and it’s sitting out on the open on the coffee table.
Also, I bought games with mine, but if I hadn’t, yeah, I’m pretty sure I’d be playing a lot of the PS+ games I grabbed in advance as soon as they allowed me to get PS4 ones while I was using the PS3, and demos. Apparently the P.T. demo is rad, haven’t tried it yet though.
Yea sounds as though if you have it in a cabinet expect a little bit of noise otherwise have it out in the open air, not ideal for my unit would have to have it on a vertical stand outside of it.
I got P.T. demo, scary as F! I’m not really into scary games and that was bit too much for me haha, I got pretty much every demo off the store, Blacklight was like a poormans CS/COD mix, War Thunder was pretty crap, the 2 indie titles did nothing for me, I think the pick of the bunch was WarFrame, definatly could see potential with friends but looks like most of the gear is locked behind a paywall, hopefully there is some better stuff coming with PS+ in next few months.
I play the shit out of Warframe on PC with my brother and it’s pretty great. I’d play on PS4 if you could log in with your PC account, but that’s not possible yet.
It’s actually pretty generous on the F2P aspect. The starter frames and weapons are legitimately good, not just ‘newbie models’. That bought the game a lot of respect from me.
Buying stuff is basically a short-cut, everything can be found/crafted/bought using in-game resources. Most of the blueprints come from being online at the right time and catching the special ‘alerts’ that pop up periodically.
Also, since there’s not really a lot of PVP (it’s primarily a co-op game), having a paid advantage is pretty much a non-issue. You don’t ever really compete with your squad for anything, everyone gets the same drops.
It’s just a shame that walled-garden console bullshit is keeping the patch/updates behind and making it very difficult to merge accounts.
All of my PS4 mates have either never heard of it, played it on release and said it was crap or watched a trailer and have no interest. Its coming to Xbone next week and all my xbox mates are hanging out to play it, so I sorta don’t want to put heaps of time into it and then start again on xbox. I went with the Bow and Staff, is there any way to get a rifle/katana without buying them now? What is the best way to get Platinum I don’t think I have unlocked any in my 2 hours of playing.
Nah, platinum is cash shop only.
Credits are what you find in-mission, and you use them to buy blueprints for weapons off the market. You collect crafting mats in-game to fulfill blueprint requirements then set the foundry to craft it, and get your weapon a day later. Some weapons can be bought outright with credits.
Fitting a ‘reactor’ into an item doubles its mod capacity (which is where the real power comes from), and reactors are bought with plat or crafted with alert-dropped blueprints. Pretty much anything you can buy with plat is craftable or dropped in random alerts, but it’s so random that if you actually care about it, you’ll save a LOT of idling time by just paying. I think there’s a phone app which monitors alerts, if you’re especially dedicated to ‘truly free’ without buying anything ever.
One of the daily log-in rewards (I think for 5 days consecutive) is 50% off plat purchases, so if you want to drop some cash on the game but want best value, you may wanna wait for that bonus.
…or at least, that’s how it works on the PC. I don’t THINK they’d make huge changes to that model on the PS4 but I wouldn’t rule it out entirely.
War Thunder is pretty reasonable on PC, but the controller just doesn’t have sensitive enough input. It’s also pretty Pay-to-Win in its monetization, sadly.
I’ve been using a stand for my PS4 and don’t really hear a peep from it as that gives it loads of breathing space and minimal contact with my tv unit
I get, like, 900 kbps, on a good day, maybe?
But soon… Soon I’m getting that sweet FTTP NBN all over my apartment. Just, so much innernette. IT’LL BE COMING OUT THE WALLS!!!
Yea I hear Aussie internet isn’t that great, I get 128mbps on my xbone, $115 a month for 130mpbs unlimited here in New Zealand and thats not even Fibre.
Lol our ‘NBN’ plans start at like $50 a month, capped at 200GB downloads (peak too!) and capped at 20Mbps download and 2-5 up.
FUCKING’ RETARDED YO
F that, my street just got fibre installed, think that is 200mpbs down and 50mpbs up but the price difference vs speed difference from what I have wasn’t worth upgrading…..yet. My usage shows 75gb used the day I got my ps4, dam those updates!!
Heh yeah I remember looking at my usage graph the day after I got my PS4 and thinking “Well, looks like I’m on rationing for the rest of the month”
As usual, New Zealand takes good ideas and actually implements them correctly and completely while looking at the shambolic mess going on in Australia and shrugging in bemusement.
I read article the other day on how NZ is on track to a nice surplus in 2015. When GFC hit, they just restrained spending and weathered the storm, unlike AU who gave out money to increase sales etc.
AU’s response was appropriate because we actually had the reserves to do it. NZ didn’t so their approach was valid, though it hurt them with a recession. Also the fact they’re going back to surplus is because of Joe Hockey-style bullshit, they just did it earlier, so I’m not sure it’s a good idea to hold that up as a comparison.
Dang.
Roughly what it costs me for High-frequency cable here, though that’s limited to 500gb transfer. I barely use half of that though.
Wow, 128mbps. Live the good life sir, I will be living vicariously through you!
my bad, 126
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3714787189
Still living vicariously!!
This makes me want to wait for the next edition of PS4. I remember they tinkered with heat and sound during PS3/X360 releases.
My PS3 Slim was ten times louder than my original one!
Note to self: avoid slims
X360 slim actually has a new chip in it that had disabled features and/or was downclocked. That’s how they got a reduction in heat/noise.
PS4’s APU isn’t getting reduced until late 2015 at best. Also the engineering is impressive, and there really isn’t much to play with. There may be a slightly improved internals to aid heat transfer, but there’s no way to improve that AND make it smaller (unless they are wizards. Which they probably are).
From a tech perspective, the PS4 is perfectly normal.
I shall make some firm decisions when Witcher 3 comes out. By that stage it will be less likely that the latest generation of consoles start imploding on themselves.
The real way they’ll make it smaller will be the same way they do with CPUs, a shift to a more compacted construction process. Instead of 28nm they might get down to 20 & manage to reduce the size of various other components along with it. Heat is still going to be an issue unless they get some magic going there.
Yah that’s what I meant with “APU isnt being reduced until late 2015”. Agreed on the magix. I saw the tardown, it’s pretty awesome.
Happy anniversary day of vaginal expulsion @novacascade!
Happy… birthday?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY @NOVACASCADE
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday @novacascade.
What everyone else said.
Happy birthday @novacascade!
Have a great day Novahkiin
Hippy bathday!
Happy birthday!!
Canberra in 2 days.
Excited. 🙂 🙂
WHAT.
WHAT???
WHY ARE YOU HERE SO EARLY.
Cheapest flights, also we have dinner with the lady friends cousins on friday and she wanted to have a look around because she hasnt been before.
Don’t you mean you get to leave Canberra in 4 days, excite?
Canberra is like townsville except more cold and has more friends there. I like Canberra
SOS reckons Townsville’s dope.
But she wants to live on a houseboat so, you know, take that with a grain of salt.
Hey, houseboats are frickin awesome and if it weren’t for their absurdly disproportionate cost and intensity/frequency/URGENCY of maintenance, I would be all over that shit. Houseboats rule!
I should add, she’s enamored with anything that you can live in that’s not a house.
Caravan, tent, shed etc.
Whether igloo, hut or lean-to, or a geodesic dome…
hey so you should move there next year because I don’t know anyone else who is moving there…
for the purchasing of those great man made vertical launching multi coloured flashbangs? or maybe naked women on DVD’s? 😛 lol
Weekend?
What weekend?
Next weekend?
Leaving my 2DS in my car in sleep mode is paying off.
.. You post on TAY?
Because dude I see your posts all the time in regular kotaku posts but never on TAY
I feel weird now
I share your feeling of weirdness. Does that make it less weird or more weird?!
Only when I catch it. If I miss the first hour there’s too many response to bother creating one.
I wouldn’t worry about keeping up with the thread. Literally every other post at least is a new subject, a new conversation, and if you think one’s worth digging into in more depth, most folks get notifications of replies.
Literal street passes?
Played some Crisis Core, played some P4G. Twas a good weekend.
Have you guys been watching Going Deep with David Rees? Holy moly, new favourite show! This guy is so funny, and the show is really clever – it’s on NatGeo (ahemtheinternetahem), and is basically just going deep into questions like, “How to tie your shoelaces”.
I wore velcro shoes until 11 because i couldnt tie shoes.
Its unfortunate for me that steel cap velcro shoes dont exist.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00M4A0R4S?pc_redir=1407795941&robot_redir=1
Now only if i can find steel cap converse that are velcro
Surely such a thing cannot be.
Motherflucker. DAMN IT KERMY HOW DOES THIS EVEN EXIST
Loop, swoop and pull. \o/
NO NO NO NO NO! RABBIT EARS ALL THE WAY!
I like you, but you crazy man. You crazy.
Upvote because I just noticed you said “holy moly”.
Haha, yeah, I’m trying to cuss less these days. I call people “dingus” a lot, and everyone at work thinks I’m like, quaint or something.
I believe the word they’re looking for is “radical” 😛
I kinda miss my whole not-swearing thing. Uni was a bad influence. My ex, even moreso >_>
“I say radical! That’s my thing that I say!”
I called someone a “dumb idiot” a little while ago, and I think it was more cutting than a swear would have been.
I made a sniper elite video a bit ago, be keen to get some thoughts if that sort of thing is allowed here.
I was gonna post a rant on how self promotion isnt allowed but who am i kidding every 4th member of this forum has some product they promote.
This comment is sponsored by Ross-O’s The cereal of this guy
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
http://www.shanewsmith.com
http://www.dankarlszeitgeist.com/
Don’t forget to pick up your copy of Metro 7 by Matt J Hellscream.
http://www.amazon.com.au/Metro-7-Matthew-J-Hellscream-ebook/dp/B00JHSJS54
This one has the hottest pix.
You sure about that?
Not now.
Meh I can delete it if it’s that much of an issue. But go through my post count. I’ve been here for quite some time and this is the first time I’ve ever posted anything like this.
I’m pretty sure everyone’s (badly) attempting to say it’s actually a non-issue. 🙂
You are fine buddy, i was having a go at some of the other members here. 🙂
Don’t fret, he’s just being “funny”.
Why put it in inverted commas
I AM FUNNY
http://www.dankarlszeitgeist.com/?p=139
Last time I did this someone chucked a tantrum and left. So this has gone much better.
Probs because it was unnecessary.
I just changed handles
Excellent.
I haven’t played the game, but it was a pretty cool video… though, correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the 2nd guy fall the wrong way?
He sure did haha, I didn’t realise until far too late :p
That’s well done. I think the football was the best
Hey guys, had a pretty boring weekend, mostly worked (again), but I did get to watch Taken 2, and play a bit of Lego Marvel and Risen 3.
That Risen 3 is a pretty cool guy, haven’t had a lot of time with it, but am enjoying it so far, the graphics aren’t top notch, and the voice acting is pretty bad, but I’m enjoying it. About to plug into the HDMI out port so I can play on the big TV \o/
I find Risen 3 to be one of those games where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Taken separately, some parts of the game are pretty terrible compared to other stuff on the market but I find it enjoyable and fits a style of RPGs that I really like.
I admit though, the voice acting ventures into the “it’s so bad it’s good” territory for me. 😀
Edit: I’ll remember to start tagging you for any Risen 3 discussions in the future.
Cheers buddy.
Aww just read that Richard Attenborough passed away 🙁 He was 90 though, so a good innings. Farewell, Mr Hammond.
The Great Escape at Christmas will be that bit more sadder now 🙁
One of the finest actors of his generation.
Yeah, I was sad for a moment then I had to double check to make sure this wasn’t old news. dude was ooold.
Sad to see him go but he had a good run, and he’s pretty much immortal.
That’s like a double whammy for Mara Wilson. First Robin Williams (Mrs Dobutfire) and now Richard Attenborough (Miracle on 34th Street)… So, I guess watch your back Danny DeVito?
Oh great now look what you’ve done.
Need to bookmark this for future reference.
Just call me Cassandra
WHAMMY!
it happens in 3’s……robin williams, next day lauren bacall and now Lord Attenborough…
I misread it, and thought that it was David and not Richard. I was like “who is going to narrate all the nature documentaries now?” because I can’t imagine anyone doing that better than David.
Richard passing is a huge shame, though. He’ll be missed. At least he lived a pretty full and long life though.
i woke up and thought the same thing. but, if the world goes to crap and everything ends, i wouldnt want anyone else to narrate it but sir david
Weekend consisted of MarioKart 8, Supreme commander on friday night with some mates.
Saturday night was BOARD GAMES Managed to convince people to play Betrayal at house on the hill. It was a great experience. Though I probably wont be able to get one of the players to play it again (he doesnt like superstitious/pagan/satanic stuff) but everyone enjoyed that one.
Sunday was hangover resting day and convince the brother to play more WoW. and dinner with one of anton’s mates. I made Apple & Rhubarb Crumble and we made a roast.
All in all a good weekend 🙂
@welbot
So I made a magic/enhanced weapon in Risen 3 over the weekend. The crafting recipe required goddamn forks. I knew hording those were going to be useful at some point. I still have 23 spare forks but I’m keeping them just in case. 😛
Currently on Thunder Isle and I’m having a blast. There are some really nifty quests although the expectation that the player just steals everything is a tad annoying for completing certain quests.
There is usually a way you can get things without having to steal them. (Except for the odd quest with some of the Gnoo, where the quest is actually to steal)
As for the hoarding, I too have been hoarding a lot of stuff, though I’m starting to figure out what will be best to hang on to and what to sell. How many forks did you need for the weapon? I was just thinking of getting smithing to make a new weapon for myself. I’ve hoarded glory up until last night too. Still haven’t spent all of what I have as I dunno where I want to use it yet, but I looked last night, and i had 45000 Glory, so I figured I might as well use some of it at least 😉
I got all my hunting skills at last (was missing the big game hunter and pull trophies) and I finally got monkey trainer last night! (Mostly thanks to a recipe I found for a potion that permanently boosts your dex! Only found one other recipe like that so far, and it’s a toughness one. Still a hell of a long way to go though I think.
Really, after all your play time, you’ve only got 45,000 Glory? I’ve only been playing for an hour or two, and I had about 3-4,000 (can’t remember exactly).
I’m hoarding stuff too, correct me if I’m wrong, but you can’t get over-encumbered in this game, right?
that’s correct. You have no limits on what you can carry. And as for my 45000, that’s not me hoarding right from the word go. I have spent points in bringing stats up already, I just always forget to check when I level up, as the way it notifies you is very… easy to miss. I went to buy some skills last night and needed a few more points in one of my stats, so I checked how much glory I had so I could boost it, and found that much waiting for me! 🙂
Ah, gotcha.
I think I needed about 5 forks for the sword. When I looked at some of the other potential crafting stuff I saw some really odd requirements like a silver goblet. That’s why I’m hoarding absolutely everything, even the really pricey stuff that sells for a lot. I’ve also been hoarding the glory too because I’m yet to throw anything into improving my magic and I want to buff that up once I join a facion.
I too grabbed monkey trainer and had some fun with that. Still need to get big game hunter but I think I have everything else. Regarding the stealing, it was only really in regard to a few quests in particular.
Spoiler for Tacarigua (the quest we spoke about before):
Specifically the governor Di Fuego quest. I went back and looted everything there was and I found the other half of the Commandant’s sword in a random chest just outside of the guard sleeping quarters. I didn’t loot it before because I didn’t have sneaking but that would have helped with that questline. Oh well.hahah yeah I found that one right away. A little tip… if a chest/item is outdoors 99% of the time, you can steal it without any consequences, even if you’re standing right next to someone when you do it. They only really bitch if you steal things inside buildings. I always quick save just before I open one in any area where I’m not 100% sure, but general rule, if it’s outside, it’s yours for the taking, even if you have to pick a lock.
I was really disappointed to see a backlash against the Assassin’s Creed franchise in old TAY, since I so recently loved playing ACIII and am really, really enjoying the first few hours of Black Flag that I’ve played.
Is it just AC-fatigue or does Black Flag get terrible later on? Are these games actually just bad and I don’t see it? Because I’m super pumped for Unity and I’ll even pick up Rogue once they announce the inevitable current-gen port. I know they’re far from perfect but the fact that a new title comes out each year doesn’t seem to actually make the games bad, I just feel swamped by them between the general bloat of the games and the fact I don’t have a lot of time to play them.
Admittedly I didn’t finish Revelations but again, that’s probably more on me than the game (apart from their stupid tower defence minigame that thankfully didn’t make it any further than that one game).
I like the visiting of historical eras but more and more I’m swept up in the intrigues of the “present day” content too, which is interesting and has a fun tongue-in-cheek self-awareness.
I really feel like the dev team knew what they were doing when they set out and aside from a few missteps are still on the right track, consistent with their overall vision. Granted, they probably didn’t expect to have made this many games but I’m not going to criticise them for continuing to make games in franchise that has proved so extremely popular.
Fairly certain, correct me if I’m wrong here, that you are allowed to Luke or dislike whatever you happen to do so. They just don’t offer any sort of gameplay that appeals to me.
Yeah you can Plunkett in either pile. Just depends on what floats your boat.
Me, I got fatigue of it all after one game.
I never meant to indicate otherwise, I still like the games. I just can’t figure out why I’m the anomaly. I mean, I liked ACIII. ALL of ACIII. The story and the sidequests.
I’ve always loved the games which is why it’s a big deal for me to say I’m done with the series. It’s a huge problem when the only part of your games people enjoy are the parts that are optional. You’ve even said yourself that you like the extras better than the story missions.
I’m not criticising them for continuing to make games, I’m criticising them for making games that are only fun when you’re not actually playing the main part of the game that pushes the story along.
And does it really matter what other people think about stuff that you like? If you enjoy something, what other people say about it shouldn’t hamper that in any way.
I have no intention of not liking things because other people say so nor did I mean for this post to come across as critical of the discussion – I just wondered what I’m not seeing that other people are. After the hugely positive respose to Black Flag I was a bit stunned to see people saying they’re done with the series and wondered why!
Its just that you said you were disappointed to see the backlash.
I mean that I was disappointed to see that there was cause backlash, it seemed to come out of left field. I’m not critical of you and Freeze etc for having opinions that differn from mine, I’m just puzzled about why our experiences are all so different.
I feel like this is a good thing for you, though. I wish I was like you! I loved the first game so much I bought a sewing machine just so I could make my AC t-shirt into something I could actually wear!
I hope this all makes you even more determined to love Black Flag all the way through. 😀
I’m nothing if not a rebel. I’LL SHOW YOU. I’LL SHOW ALL OF YOU.
Oh and yeah, Black Flag does get kind of terrible later on. You can actually finish of all the extras and collecting a long time before the actual game is done so it’s main mission after main mission of the worst kind and no more pirate fun. And don’t even get me started on some of the real world stuff!
That’s why I get mad. I had so much fun at the start of the game. The games have the potential to be incredibly good so it makes it even worse when almost all the main story missions are incredibly bad and deliberately designed for maximum frustration.
That’s interesting. I’ve got a feeling i’m going to wind up liking Black Flag more than my wife in that case – she obsessively finished every single side activity on Havana before starting the story missions whereas I was like “meh, I’ll come back later, right?” and moved on. I have a feeling she’s going to get worn down by the grind of story mission after story mission or possibly overwhelmed by the sheer volume of side content, whereas I’m going to just sort of go with the flow.
Also having just done the first batch of “real world” stuff after finishing sequence 3, I was enthralled by the possibilities. I’ll be interested to see how it goes downhill (or if I wind up being the anomaly again).
I liked the first couple of real world things. It was really cool just wandering around and grabbing post-its. There’s one later thing that keeps popping up that makes me mad. I get even madder when things start out fun and then trick me into doing unfun stuff. 😛
The thing that keeps annoying me about the real world stuff is the silent protagonist, give them a bloody voice! It’s not cool or clever to keep them silent, it makes no sense and breaks immersion
I think it’s supposed to be you/the player, though.
and noone responds when I ask a question so it kind of breaks immersion again.
^ This. The most fun I’ve had in AC games has been outside the story, especially in Black Flag 2. I think AC Brotherhood was the best game in the series for me story wise and open word wise with Black Flag taking up second place. I remember placing the Brotherhood disc in my PS3 and then losing 2 days without realizing it 0,0
I think it’s more AC fatigue than anything else. Also the general feeling about Black Flag seems to be that it is a great game but the traditional AC elements bring it down, rather than enhancing the experience.
When are we getting an RPG pirate game that uses the AssPirates naval combat system?
For one of the major franchises around the controls are still way off. Black Flag is the first AC I’ve liked and I think that’s down to the setting more than anything. Being a pirate suits the gameplay more than being an assassin imo.
Tbh though, I’m not a fan of the modern day stuff. It just makes you aware you’re playing a game and while that might’ve been what they were going for, it doesn’t work for me
Frankly since the end of AC2 (I never finished the first one) I’ve always kind of felt like I’ve been the person “playing” Desmond who is “playing” as his ancestors. I figured that’s what they were always going for.
Black Flag has played into that perfectly for me so far.
Oh, yeah, that’s another major point. It’s a massive franchise with a buttload of games already, and it still can’t get basic shit right.
I’ve always loved the series myself, I played I, II, and Brotherhood back to back, tried to go straight on to Revelations, and found I was burnt out on the series, then I took a break from it until IV came out, and I really enjoyed it, the break must’ve done me good. Still got Revelations and III sitting here, I must get to them one day.
Edit: Really looking forward to Unity.
I really liked Black Flag! I’m sure the trick was: I took twenty months off between AC 3 and AC 4.
My sequence of events:
1) Start AC at release, get stuck on an annoying assassination mission and fruistrated by some of the clunkier gameplay elements but love the general style.
2) Start AC2 at release, get blown away by the improvements.
3) Start Brotherhood at release, love it even more, but feel AC-fatigue and get sidetracked by other games.
4) Revelations comes out. I rush to finish Brotherhood. Have a blast. Start Revelations, suffer AC-fatigue again.
5) ACIII comes out. Try to find motivation to care.
6) Buy ACIII on sale, try to play Revelations again. Annoyed by tower defence, quit.
7) Black Flag launches. Promise myself I’ll finish Revelations soon. since I’ve heard ACIII is dogshit, decide to skip it.
8) Finally get around to trying to finish Revelations. play for an hour and make no progress. Quit. Try ACIII “just to see what it’s like”.
9) Finish the BALLS off of ACIII, thoroughly enjoy the entire 35 hours I sank into it.
10) Start Black Flag. Super hype for Unity.
11) 11th hour old TAY discussion says series is terribad now and no one likes it anymore. Scratch head in confusion.
You basically had a two year break between AssBros and AC3. That’s why you’re not sick of it.
I’m pretty sure people are just sick of the bullshit Abstergo stuff. After the first game it’s been said they have no idea what they are doing, so they keep making up random stories. They are also pretty redundant.
People would be happy to just play as an assassin person, with some variations. Mass-market doesn’t care about Paris vs London, as much as pirate vs assassin vs ninja or something something.
Also they can’t get basic stuff like controls and gameplay down after how many games? It gets tedious to see the same problems as from AC1.
I played a couple hours of 1, a chunk of 2 (got boring eventually because of fetch quests) and finished story on 4. Was fun.
I’m not so sure about that, the setting is a huge selling point of the game. I play them with my wife and one of the major things is she loves looking at all the buildings and experiencing the city.
Yeah. One of the best parts about AC2 was the fact it did Venice really well. All the major landmarks are there and in their correct places (even if not historically rigorous).
Also something they lost from AC2 onward was those hidden puzzles. That was so cool, finding those things in the world on major moments and then getting fairly difficult puzzles to solve and having that count toward unlocking a tantalizing video clip. WHAT DID IT MEAN?!
Turned out it meant fuck all and they’ve never done that sort of thing again. Just have dumb collectibles scattered around for the explorer types and think that covers it. It doesn’t!
Well, I still love ’em too. 😛
I played the first AC and loved it. Then I played AC2. I really enjoyed it at first, but the enjoyment waned pretty quickly. It had shifted away from, you know, assassinating, and was far too easy. Somehow, Altair seemed to have more character to me than Ezio did. At least Altair had a character arc.
Ezio does, but it’s across three games. And I checked out of the last chapter there.
I don’t know if they always intended to have AC2 split across multiple titles instead of just one or if they brought Ezio back due to popular demand.
If I did have one criticism of the series (and I have several, just none that have killed my interest) is that in the 11th/12th century being part of the Assassins is this huge deal, like a full on secret society with a rich history and a rigid structure. Then later on everyone just kind of bumblefucks into it. Ezio only found out his father was an Assassin after he died and then it was up to him, some uppity youngster, to rebuild the order from scratch. Connor was the son of a Templar and joined forces with the only living Assassin in the American colonies because the Templars (working alongside the Redcoats) were being slightly more douchey to the natives than the “Patriots”. Then you find out Haytham Kenway’s father was just some pirate who posed as an Assassin/Templar turncoat for all of a week before being discovered which begs the question of how he’s linked back to Ezio and Altair (assuming he is at all).
I guess it helps to drive home the fact that the Assassins have been oppressed/suppressed for generations and their order has been in ruins most of that time, but jeez.
Haytham would have been a vastly more interesting protagonist than Connor was. 🙁
I enjoyed the first few hours of AC:IV, but by about halfway through got absolutely bored out of my mind doing the same few side-quests ad nauseum, and lacked any drive to continue cos the main character seemed determined to be an apathetic prat for the game’s entirety. I soldiered on under the assumption that it must get better, as so many people were raving about it, but eventually stopped playing for… it’d be about 8 or 9 months, I guess. Anyway, I picked it up again yesterday, started the last quarter of the game’s story and vowed to completely ignore optional side-quests. Enjoying it much more because of it, too.
So, your mileage will most definitely vary, depending on what you like about AC games, and whether you enjoy the naval sections of AC:IV or not.
One of the main reasons I’m excited for Unity and couldn’t really give a toss for Rogue is Unity doesn’t seem to have the naval gameplay that ruined AC:IV for me, and seems to be going back to its AC roots.
Black Flag is fairly consistently good throughout. They got the sandbox:mission structure fairly spot-on. The sandbox is way more fun than a lot of the missions though, because there’s a lot of insta-fail forced stealth and those terrible eavesdropping missions in there.
AC is at its best when it’s like “go to this location and stab this motherfucker in the face. I don’t care how you do it.” I.e. when the game lets you fuck up, get spotted but recover. AC4 has a lot more of that. AC3 was the low water mark, where you almost never got that at all. AssBros was the last time where the balance was as good as 4 is.
The problem with Unity is just straight up franchise fatigue. It’s hard to get excited about it, because it doesn’t seem to be doing anything new. In fact, it feels like these games take a couple of iterations before they respond to feedback, which is because of how pipelined the development is – Unity likely started planning back when AC3 was mid-cycle. :\
The other issue is they have two games at the same time, and you can’t play both, but the old-gen one seems far more interesting in concept than the new-gen one!
But really, it’s just that Unity looks really fucking bland. Boring historical period that a lot of people will associate with high school history classes. No competitive multiplayer. Unnecessary co-op tacked on. Blandy McBlanderson lead character. Just… there’s nothing remotely worth getting excited about. It feels incredibly by-the-numbers. And this is the fourth game in a row that’s felt that way. This year will be the seventh and eighth AC games in six years! At least Black Flag had some elements that people could get interested in. Pirates! Pirates are pretty rad. Plus it was heavily Naval-oriented and quite sandboxy due to the involvement of the Far Cry 3 team. But even then, the fact that Black Flag is good came as a surprise to most people. We’d largely written it off before the positive buzz grew, because AC is done. It needs a rest or a radical shake-up.
They need to retire AC for a year IMO. Bring back Prince of Persia. If you have to annualize franchises, do PoP and AC on alternating years. Or come up with a new franchise. Rotate them. Ubi should be easily capable of it. Hell, I’d probably go for a game that took the naval combat from AC and expanded on just that.
Sounds like a forking good idea :p
I’ll show myself out.
Edit: CRAAAAAAAAP!!! replyfail to @popdart5, I need more Coffee, stat!
Fork handles?
“Use…the…forks.”
“Use the Force?”
“The forks! Use the forks!”
The forks are strong with this one.
fork-bomb?
Do you mean andles for forks?
http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/pict/171425482215_1.jpg
RETURN THE FORK OR I WILL COMMAND IT TO DESTROY YOU!
Hi. Weekend was pretty alright.
Saturday was Sugar City Con, the first comic-con-esque expo in our little city. It was much better than I expected. Massive turnout, huge amounts of cosplay, and generally a great day.
Sunday I went on a bike ride and somehow (physics, that’s how) fell on a bend on a footpath (even though I go 45kmph+ down mtb track hills at night……. go figure) and I grazed my ribs/hand/knee. Stings a bit, but no real damage to bike so it’s aaight.
Played some Star Munchkin with friends Sun night. I had the whole party in on a fight, and I messed up a card and they would have had to pull a “make monsters flee” card to save themselves. They won and one guy got 6 levels out of it (needed 3) and won.
Now I’m at work a little sore and with patches on me. 🙁
Hola Tay
Hope you all had a good weekend. On Friday went to a mate’s place (he’s a doctor, back from his rotation in NSW). got dragged into MP Magic the Gathering shenanigans, where my cobbled together standard decks stood little chance against some of the multi-hundreds of dollars decks that some of his other friends were running, but I held my own long enough to wipe out a couple other players and enable a boardwipe from the other end of the table, fighting to 4th place. Second game switched decks and pretty much controlled the game, until the last two players teamed up on me and knocked me out
Took a day off from job hunting Saturday, played a bunch of Transistor and finished Fez. Neat little game, shame that Phil Fish has been subject to what he has. Sunday, went and saw the new Doctor Who in the Cinema, thoughts in spoiler tags:
I enjoyed it. Thought it was a bit slow to get started, and the ep spent too much time at the beginning on slapstick until the scene with the homeless guy, after which it snapped into focus. I think Capaldi is gonna rock, and I think they’re starting to write Clara better. I thought the villain was pretty creepy too.Then I went and shortlisted a couple of jobs to work on during the week.
A Monday Morning Question: If you were a Doctor Who villain, what would be your evil plan?
i would just dress up as batman and graffiti the tardis
I’d confront him and tell him I am his father and he’d be all NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO then Scotty will beam him up where Dave Lister and Jack O’Neill will cheer him up with a Companion.
I may not have watched Doctor Who before.+1 for Jack O’Neill
Didn’t even know Doctor Who had villains, my knowledge of Doctor Who consists of knowing the names Tardis, Dalek, the word exterminate, and, this.
What, you think it’s just a dude wandering around?
Nah, I remember something about that he travels through time, I thought the Daleks were the bad guys, didn’t know there were actual villains.
If you haven’t heard of The Master, you’re doing it wrong.
Same here, didn’t know Doctor Who had actual villains. From the episodes I’ve seen the enemies are often some faceless alien race. Granted, the only episodes I’ve seen are the Tennant bus portal thing, the water zombies on Mars thing, the Roman rock monsters thing, the Full Circle episodes from the scarf doctor, and the Smith pilot. I suppose you could consider the invisible prisoner thing from the Smith pilot a villain.
I had a pretty great weekend. Friday night I walked into town and met up with some friends for tea. It was really good seeing friends I hadn’t seen for ages. Uni friends, two of whom have moved to Korea (husband and wife).
Saturday I walked into town again and had a coffee at a new place called Shots on Wax. Combination cafe/music shop. Coffee was really nice and I had a piece of salted caramel slice, which tasted amazing.
Saturday night I watched the Bledisloe Cup 🙁 and then the Hawks come from behind to beat Geelong :D. Also watched the UFC from Macao, which meant I didn’t get to bed until 1, so I stayed asleep and missed the simulcast of Doctor Who.
Yesterday I had church. After church I watched 28 Days Later, which I enjoyed, and will have to watch it again. Also watched Doctor Who which was a very enjoyable episode, not perfect but still pretty damn great.
And that’s my weekend.
Sounds fulfilling, my man.
Was pretty great. I can be a bit of a hermit at times, so it’s great to get out and do stuff. Since giving up soft drinks, I’ve been enjoying going to different coffee places and trying their coffees. There’s at least 8 different coffee places I really like going to, and I don’t even have to go to the franchise places (Gloria Jeans and Hudsons).
Salted caramel slice, holy crap that sounds awesome!
It was. I love salted caramel and the slice was great. It was also a good size piece and the coffee and slice cost only $6.50.
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN VIDEO GAMES WERE KILL?
I’ve been gaming for 34 years so I was probably the one pulling the trigger
Are you high??
THIS ISN’T MY ORIGINAL POINT. STOP BRINGING ME DOWN
http://bit.ly/1smak1r
>:|
WHAT’S UP STRANGE.
YELLING.
icantalkquietlyifyoulikeORREALLYLOUDTHECHOICEISYOURS(CAPTAINPLANET.mp3)
You miss me. And my yelling/swearbotting. Admit it. No one will judge you.
I’ve never been ashamed to admit I’ve missed you. I like you, dammit!
Dawwww… *shuffles awkwardly*
No-one will judge… out loud. 🙂
The 90s
Probably stuck at work.
I was there *points*
NO
I was here *points*
I was hoem and watched the TVs.
Sigghynintendoy called on my phone
“vido gaem are kill”
“no”
SANICBALL
I was sat at home drinking brain fluid when fred ring
‘video games is die’
‘no’
and you????????
This was meant to be a response to shiggy’s post.
I mean, not that it makes any more sense, but yeah.
THIS GUY GETS IT
Are you sure you two aren’t high?
http://bit.ly/XKKEmH
Damn. My friend has pulled out on shaving my head because she has to shoot queen tomorrow night 🙁 This makes it harder to shave without the boyfriend being able to stop it. 🙁
(also shoot with cameras not guns)
Queen the… band?
Is she stalking them or?…
Yes the band.
She’s a concert Photographer and got it last minute
I hate your friend
She often sends me text messages telling me when she’s shooting a band I’ve only ever dreamed of seeing. When she shot the cure, I didnt talk to her for 3 weeks.
You did the right thing.
When Robert Smith says “thankyou” after each song it sounds like he’s saying “The Cure” really fast.
Wait… you want to shave your head, but your friend can’t do it for you, and your boyfriend won’t let you? Am I reading that right?
He wants me to keep my hair, And my friend was going to do it, but can’t now.
And it had to be tonight or tomorrow, as he’s working late right now.
Righhhhht right right! Do it yourself, friend! I used to shave my head and you get pretty savvy at doing it on your own. It’s fun!
Do it yourself man, I usually do mine, but get the wife to do the back for me because we don’t have a second mirror. Wanted my head shaved before work yesterday, but she was busy vacuuming her car, so I did it all myself, jumped in the shower and asked her if it looked alright after I got out and she said it looked fine. Nobody’s been laughing at me, so she must’ve been telling the truth.
*Note to self, must get second mirror*
Go to a barber and ask for a 1 or a 2 all over. Should be like… ten bucks, tops.
(Edit: Shit. Forgot you live in Sydney. OK, make that sixty bucks, tops.)
His boyfriend, quite rightly, thinks Chris will look daft if he shaves his head.
And just like that I’m second guessing myself again
With good reason. Anton is right about this one. Listen to the man.
Weekend. Girlfriend’s birthday, Sabotage Social (for Brisbane peeps) is still great.
Also, Doctor Who 😀
http://imgur.com/r/TheSimpsons/znIC4
-@Rocketman
http://bit.ly/XKK1JH
Never have I partied so hearty!
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was alright, on Friday night cathryn and I went out to celebrate getting my certificate in real estate. We had a lovely dinner at Schnitz then we went to the movies and saw the Inbetweeners 2, it was pretty great.
Saturday night we went to an Asian Beer Cafe in the city For a friend’s 21st then went to pancake parlour after for deliciousness.
http://youtu.be/2KbX-06M19w
That sums up my game plan. .walk in and tell everyone to stay off my side
You’ll have yourself a red blazer in no time!
Ugggghhhhh but I don’t wanna do an ice bucket challenge.
Sooooo, donate $100? Isn’t that the point of the whole thing?
I figure if I was challenged I’d donate $40, and just make it a room temperature water bucket challenge.
That’s how this sort of thing works, right?
Yeah…but I don’t wanna look like a wimp. I’ll just suck it up. It’s just a hassle because I am gonna have to go out and by a bucket. -_-
Wait, you’re supposed to donate $100? I can’t really afford that. =(
Only if you don’t do the challenge. If you do it it’s usally $10 or $20.
I didn’t want to do it. ugh. =(
I can afford ice AND a donation..luckily I dont think ive been nominated
someone nominated the entire Melbourne Cosplay Community
That bastard!
Honestly, I don’t think the amount really matters. Donating anything is better than just posting a video on Facebook.
I guess I will donate $5. Had two massive bills and a whole bunch of cosplay stuff I need to fork out for
If you don’t want to/can’t afford to donate, don’t.
I feel bad though. Normally I donate to the major ones like Cancer council and stuff, but it’s been a little hard this year (because I keep making cosplay mistakes)
Don’t feel bad. If I got nominated I probably would ignore it. Not because I don’t believe it’s a worthy cause, but I put my charity dollar elsewhere atm.
Why not? It doesn’t seem that bad.
That’s fantastic!
Do like these guys.
Heh I watched that over the weekend.
Then this happened. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=573765992733846&set=vb.106356299474820&type=2&theater
Those vertical videos gave me herpes.
As much as it’s a shit idea, it actually is getting people to think about and donating to charity. Yeah people should just do what Charlie Sheen did and just give money to the charity, but it has raised a shitload of awareness of ALS, even if most people still don’t know exactly what it is.
Has this come up yet?
http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/arts-and-culture/newsreader-beautifully-shuts-down-ice-bucket-chall/600a2c06-7dec-4f27-a74a-1ab99a534c75.htm
mmmmmm hard nipples
My God, what a champ. That’s fantastic.
(Edit: I especially love the bit about donating blood. It’s an outstanding point that even if you don’t think you have something to give, you quite probably do… the stuff running through your veins.)
What’s the worst that could happen
Check this out for shits and giggles:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/northern-beaches/no-more-ipad-baysitting-parents-warned-its-time-to-start-gaming-with-the-kids/story-fngr8hax-1227033443880
Bad bad games! Poor Mario I never knew that he was a dopamine peddling creep!
Man, they love the term “fraught with danger”, don’t they? That said, I don’t like seeing parents who just give their (tiny little) kids an iPhone or iPad and ignore them and play on their own phones instead. It’s horrible 🙁
And then the parents complain when their kids spend hundreds of dollars because they forgot they had connected their credit card to their Apple store account.
Then they generally blame the game or the app store for their own dang fault. Genius.
I agree… But the whole “being rewarded for effort” as a con? That’s a bit harsh… How many human beings do something for no reward willingly?
It’s called volunteering – summer would be a lot more awful without life savers and rural firefighters.
Maybe, but I like to think that kind of behaviour is the result of taking stock of what your priorities are in the world, and if you’d like to leave it better than you found it, and what shape that might take…
I dunno where the studies are to back it up, but outside of the occasional generous “D’awwwww!” gestures that melt hearts, for the most part I’m pretty sure younger kids are motivated by reward. Survival programming, as it were.
(That said, I’m not sure where seeing my mate’s 2yr old wander up and hand over toys because he thinks I would like to play with them, fits in. Apart from y’know. Making me want a kid.)
Being generous and putting others first is something that doesn’t come easily. It’s very easy only to worry about yourself and not others.
If you stop and thing about it for a minute, so many organisations would simply cease to exist without volunteers working for them. St John Ambulance, The Surf life savers, the SES, rural fire brigades, Playgroup, almost all sporting clubs, Meals on Wheels, the majority of charities, churches, political parties, public schools, and every major event (hello PAX enforcers).
Even if it’s just helping pack up at the end of a sporting event, it’s a great idea to volunteer or something on a regular basis. It’s a great antidote to feelings of entitlement and consumption. And then you notice other volunteers and appreciate their hard work too.
I managed to get some time into more Witcher 2 yesterday. Now up to chapter two.
Humans are still dicks 😛
Which path did you take? I took the “I” path.
If it is what i think you mean, yes I did
I didn’t want to bother with a spoiler tag so I thought I’d reduce it down as much as possible.
I went that path as well. It just seemed more natural for Geralt to go that way when I was playing it.
I’ve had to tear down the difficulty back to easy, I’m too bad at this game’s combat. 🙁
Really? The only fight I had to turn it down was with the
enemy Witcher in the end of Part 1. All the other fights from then on are fairly manage-able as long as you potion up and keep good weapons which shouldn’t be too hard given the game throws money and experience at you in Part 2.Which fights are you having trouble in?
I’m just really bad at coordinating slicing and dodging, especially when I’m against multiple enemies.
Upgrade your stamina and quen and focus on either blocking or dodging while levelling up. Personally I go for dodging buffs since a good dodge = 0% damage while a good block = at least 5-10% of the damage. Quen at higher levels basically makes you invincible especially once you get 4 bars of stamina going. I also can’t emphasize the usefulness of grenades in fights as well as Aard and Igni at the higher levels.
I defeated the last boss in chapter 2 basically thanks to Quen and Aard, otherwise I would’ve been steam rolled on Normal.
Did you play it in the original release or the expanded one?
Because the original release
krakenboss was insanely hard.Expanded and I’m OCD when it comes to completing side quests and collecting things in RPG’s so I managed to
do all the bonus stuff needed for the Kraken fight like the trap and potion which made it easier. I did die a few times though because I didn’t know what to do once he swapped to Phase 2. But once again Quen saved my ass heaps of times. I think the fights get easier after level 15 onwards? Because Geralt gets powered up enough to actually fight like a Witcher.I had the same problem. I resisted the urge, but the combat in that game can be really tough early on. It’s kinda like Dark Souls, but not as, uh, clean, for lack of a better word.
I took the R path but honestly both sides are dicks in different ways.
@dkzeitgeist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJYXJP1SRCU
I love the sound effects / voice acting in that game. It’s so bad.
http://youtu.be/W3LI5KHyDqw
http://youtu.be/NO8V72pDw1o
http://youtu.be/rS0VQOHX7lM
http://youtu.be/uPSb8yFGZ-E
That’s my childhood right there.
@rocketman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2YgZX9Thm0
Morning, TAY.
My weekend was quiet.
Finished Far Cry 3! Man, that story, huh? Those characters. Just… horrible 😛 It got to the point where I just avoided as much dialogue as possible (something I never do in games) because it was so cringe-worthy 😛 Other than that though, great game.
I also watched two movies: Still Walking and Departures. Both really good. Both really sad D: Why did I watch two depressing movies in a row? (But I enjoyed them a lot anyway) Speaking of: you (yes, you) should join @sughly and me in the Foreign Film Club! We sit on our arses and watch movies in silence, it’s the perfect social activity. Then we gush about them on Twitter. It’s great!
Far Cry 3 is soooo good. Like, I mean, yeah, most of the characters are just the worst people who are not worth saving (I liked Vaas, though), but it’s so fun! What were your favourite parts? My favourite mission was the dubsteppy one, hahah, and my favourite thing to do was take down the outposts; sniping two guys at once, or releasing a komodo dragon on them… ohhhh so satisfying.
Vaas was pretty great, I agree. The shining flower of a decent character amongst the trash of the rest 😛
The dubstep mission where you have to burn the crops was pretty good, though the music didn’t suit my play-style at all haha I’m sneaking around the side trying to be stealthy with this thumping music playing. Taking the outposts was the best bit of the game, I thought. And just how pretty the island was! I wish they’d made exploring a little bit more rewarding though (by the last half of the game it wasn’t worth it because I had a full wallet with nothing left to buy).
Haha, I was stealthing during the crop burning too, and this music starts and I freaked out, “Stop it Damian Marley, you’re going to get me caught!” I actually didn’t even have the flame-thrower on me for that mission. I got it, went and did some other stuff with other weapons, then came to this mission, haha. Oops.
The island, and the animals, were super pretty. The islanders too, actually made me laugh so much of the time. Their accents and bad AI.
Vaas was a good character, but the way you kill him…..grrrrr.
im friggin stuck in the game trying to get the uniform on hoyts island. throwing rocks annoys me , rather just walk up behind and get a grenade takedown 😀
I enjoyed the game and story until halfway through when it suddenly decided to be something else and I lost interest.
It could have done without all the spiritual tribal nonsense shoehorned in though I thought the tattoo thing was kinda cool.
Far Cry 3 is a great game wasted on shit, pointless characters.
Everything before the second island is dynamite.
Dat glide suit though
The best part of Far Cry 3 was Blood Dragon. Damn that game was so damn good.
It’s the next game on my list! Going to finish Dishonored first, then Blood Dragon, then Witcher 2!
That’s a good list!
Which will get horribly interrupted once Hyperule Warriors, Bayonetta, Pokemon, Fantasy Life and a million other things hit D:
Or, if like me: also a bunch of indie stuff that turns up on Steam.
Halfway through it at the moment! So fun ^^
Especially when you get the feel for the bow and start pulling of these crazy long distance shots by anticipating where the arrows are going to fall!
I might be the only person who didn’t like Blood Dragon? I don’t know. I just thought it was kinda dumb. Like, it’s probably just not my style; I just don’t think that kind of humour is funny anymore, and I can’t enjoy things ironically. Plus, it was so dark! Ugh.
Yeah the lighting actually drove me away from the game first time around but I persevered this time and after a certain point you learn to get used to it. I basically use my binoculars every 30 seconds to see properly =p It also helps that enemies glow red.
You know you’ve gotten used to the game when you take out a helicopter pilot in the sky with your bow =P
the quotes…..oh the quotes…..
“I’m tucking you into your death bed, and your blanket is six feet of my shit.”
Far Cry 3? More like HA! Bye me! Because I didn’t play that game.
So many Far Cry 3 replies, so little Foreign Film Club attendees :'(
Foreign Film Club doesn’t have pre-order DLC
I’m so down for Foreign Film Club.
It’s easy to join! Just watch the movies that another club member has watched recently then talk about it!
That sounds like a lot of work.
Someones got to do it!
I was going to watch Departures last night…. but it didnt work straight off my tv usb and I got lazy and put on Moteki on a whim instead. I thought it would be light hearted and funny and decent since it had good actors in it, but it was TERRIBLE.
Woo! Join us in tweeting every now and then about a film we liked. Thats about the extent of it. Current favourites have included ‘Linda! Linda! Linda!’, ‘As One’, ‘Still Walking’, and ‘Air Doll’. I might also recommend Chronicle of my mother, and Solanin.
Er… also by foreign film club its pretty much Asian film club :3
Those DVDs you lent me are just sitting there. Waiting.
Soon, Sughly. Soon…
Harumph! Future you will thank me for them when you finally see them/fall in love with them.
I watched Tai Chi Zero and Shaolin the other day. Does that count?
You need a recommendation see or avoid, then your part in the club is official!
Tai Chi Zero is pretty well into avoid territory and Shaolin is recommended.
@alexandhispants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_QYsHTR388
SOMEONE GET THIS TO PANTS
Dude I can’t YouTube at work!
(he said, on TAY)
I got this video just for you. I see how it is. I SEE.
Just hold on for a feeew more hours.
On Friday night I started Diablo 3.
On Saturday night I finished Act 1.
On Sunday morning I started Act 2 and [scene missing] Sunday night I killed Diablo.
I am having an absolute blast with it. Great fun multiplayer with @SerNobulus and @bdkiaf. We should try to organise some full 4 player games, I still have 4 other characters to start.
This game is going to eat up a good portion of my life like Diablo 2 did, isn’t it…
Holy shit. When I left we’d just finished Act 2. How long did you play yesterday?
Uh…. Until 1am….
Havent played that much in a long time and won’t again. Bit of an anomaly to have that much time.
Oh.
I don’t think I have @bdkiaf on my PSN account.
What’s your PSN id!
B-G-S-
I think it’s probably time I went through TAYnames and added all the new PS4 owners.
I would add you but the PSN is still down.
This is why Diablo 3 is my next game. More and more when I play games it’s because I need to unwind, and have some fun. Diablo has never let me down in the fun department (except when I tried III on PC and the the always online thing caused so much lag it was unplayable ), and I played the PS3 demo to death and back with each available class and still wanted more.
I’m thinking I won’t need another game for at least the rest of the year once I buy Diablo 3. 😀
Yeah I might end up getting it on PS3 as well. I never got it on PC because I was afraid of exactly what you experienced as I knew my internet connection is not reliable.
You should try the PC version again, they’ve had australian servers for quite a while now, so I regularly sit around 60-80ms ping.
I’ve been waiting for the PS4 version because I prefer consoles, and I didn’t get the PS3 version because I knew the PS4 version was coming. It’s kind of pointless to buy PC games when I only have a crappy laptop, but I have shiny new consoles sitting there waiting for great games.
@powalen http://amzn.to/1pvtPXj
I don’t understand!
http://bit.ly/YSoPSk
Never change, Shigs.
All I know is I’m having a great time.
Don’t mid him, he’s just high.
http://bit.ly/1zpiPf1
Maybe he’s suggesting you’d look hot in it?
He’s been talking to me about kimonos for a while.
Well, yeah.
HA!
Ok, enough dicking around on here, on to Risen 3.
http://bit.ly/1vd4NiK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxSEW3sUitA
I have one, I just don’t work 9-5, Monday to Friday like most people.
What does that have to do with anything? I was just giving you a cool tune to listen to while you play.
Exactly, just go down to the job store and pick up a job!
It’s just that easy!
*shoots self*
See, unemployment is already on the decrease.
SHOOTS SELF WITH THE HUG GUN
I must ask, whereabouts are you up to in Risen 3? Do you at least have a new pair of clothes?
Just met bones and got off the island.
Prepare to always be scrounging for gold, things can get quite expensive at times.
Did you manage to find the adventurer’s hat and coat near the beginning of the game?I can’t remember who I nicked it off, or where I found it, but I have yet to find any better clothes. the hat give you +3 bulletproof and bladeproof, and the coast gives you +20 for both! Have you come across anything better yet? I assume there will be some better garments once I actually join with a faction, but usually it doesn’t take this long to find something a little better than these kind of “bonus” items you can often find early on.
Dang it, I missed that too. I could always go back and pick it up but I’m just too lazy to head back there.
Weddings, amirite?
I’m so damned tired but it was great to spend some time in Brisbane.
Weddings are a rite, true.
The best part of my wedding was holding it at a piece of land with scout cabins on it so I could get completely smashed the night before, wake up at 11:30am and still spend three hours in my jeans and a t-shirt before putting on my suit.
My wife on the other hand woke up at 8am and had to spend her morning straightening all her bridesmaids’ hair.
@dkzeitgeist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seGfo_IcBQU
http://youtu.be/DIelsJEj_zw
Well that’s unbeatable.
Why is spiderman a power ranger?!
I recently played through portal 2 co-op with a friend of mine, and we finished it the other day, along with the extra missions at the end. We both feel like we’ve been left wanting more, so I’m calling out to all Portal 2 co-op people, to recommend some new levels/packs for us to play. Anyone had any experience with the stuff in the steam workshop? Is there a pack that’s widely considered to be the best co-op map pack?
So many YouTube links and no work access allowed. D:
Weird thing at my work: YouTube itself, blocked. YouTube videos embedded in websites, fine.
So I have a script to generate an embedded webpage for a given YouTube link. Unblocked YouTube! \o/
My work tends to do random reviews of internet viewing history, however this only seems to ping if you use a high bandwidth or volume of data.
Mind you, I doubt my work internet is even capable of YouTube considering how slow it is.
Mario Kart tonight. Place your bets!
My money is on @dc.
Can’t tonight, got work at 6.
Poo.
I might be there! I hope I can connect this week 🙂
Work is super quiet and chill today.
ENTERTAIN ME PLEASE
Shiggy if you spam reply me with pics of Ted Danson i will fuck your shit up
or hug you.
*does the Truffle Shuffle*
IM TOO YOUNG TO GET THAT REFERENCE
You’re too old to not have watched the movie from which the reference comes!!!
So you will either fuck him or hug him? Sounds like a win win for Shiggy.
it is.
Him and i have a close bond.
Entertain you? BAH, I am not your monkey!
(@evilmonkey may be your monkey. He’s someone’s monkey, at least)
TAY Pathfinder tonight at 8pm AEST.
Change is in the air and some of you will be born anew. And new plots shall arise.
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
I’ll be joining from my partner’s place, so no NBN for me. I may end up accelerating.
Things have gone pear-shaped at work and I may be late getting home. Hopefully not.
I need to send you an email re: character details around the trinket I obtained, whether it is what I think it is and how I’ll go about confirming and so on. Hopefully will have time to take a long enough break to do that, otherwise it might have to wait until session after this.
You guys spent about 3-4 weeks on the road back to Xondol so you can ponder the trinket and ask a few questions about it. There are many ways to find out more information about it in session, including @beeawwb the walking Wikipedia :P.
Wikia Ex Machina.
Looking forward to it, is my character sheet looking okay for you btw Popdart?
I outlined my changes in the email I sent to you but I haven’t got a response yet. Just wanting to make sure it’s all good 🙂
Oh yeah, sorry about that. That was just me being lazy and not bothering to respond so my bad. I’ve just done a blanket approval on character changes as long as they’re not too out there. Switching from a Sorcerer to an Arcanist is pretty tame and I have no issues with it.
Well it really just comes down to I’ve got the almost same daily arsenal as a Sorcerer in terms of the variety of spells I can cast, but I can change what that arsenal is each day. Are we going to use the new spells as well? If that’s the case I might just use the site for spells instead of wasting the time filling in soooo many level 0 spells 😛
Just be aware that you now need to prepare spells as an Arcanist rather than casting them on the fly. The casting is similar to how a Sorcerer does it (in that you don’t need to allocate x number of available spells to magic missile and it is finite) but you can learn new spells by finding the correct instructions and copying them into your spellbook (whereas the Sorcerer just inherently knows spells and it is quite tricky to increase your known spell list).
New spells are in but I do not have a definite list of the new spells from ACG so just bear that in mind. If you’re ever unsure, email me and just double-check. As far as I know, Roll20 is still being weird with spells and general combat rolls so it might be wise to keep a separate record of all of this stuff.
Yep I’m aware. I’ll keep to the original spells list for now and use the Arcanist mechanics. I’ll copy them to a new local pdf of the character sheet tonight anyway. Half the reason I went Arcanist is so I can use spell scrolls, therefore if we find any, at least one of us can use them :).
I stick to using standard /roll commands when doing my damage/attacks anyway
I just need to put some finishing touches on the Roll 20 character sheet.
Oh gods, I haven’t even looked at mine.
Sheeet. I was going to give you some added character info that you can play with at will before tonight. Oh well, next time.
I’ll be there.
https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/entertainment/andrew-bolt-insists-indigenous-australians-werent-/e416a69e-af6c-4bc2-b3c2-bd58ce3afc29.htm
Andrew Bolt is one of the people most deserving of a kick in the junk.
So in other words a kick on the forehead, right?
“a” or “multiple”? 😛
Depends how hard I kick the first time.
Why did I just read that? Andrew Bolt is an idiot.
To cancel out Bolt’s horrendous negative stupidity, I now present Westborough Baptist Church’s horrendous positive stupidity.
http://www.advocate.com/politics/media/2014/08/22/westboro-baptist-church-says-it-will-go-iraq-protest-isis
Hahaha, wow. Did not expect that to happen.
Those people make me think dark, uncharitable thoughts which conflict directly with my higher philosophical ideals about tolerance, harmony, and not shooting people in the mouth.
Page 2 and TAY is Twitter. @mrtaco you can now experience it without making an account!
I have no idea what is going on I am very confused 🙁
@gingerchris86: Shaving your head is doable with one person. Just takes a little bit longer. Shave it down with clippers and then finish it up with razor in shower under water. Works well.
I thought a razor over the sink was the accepted way of shaving your head.
That’s fine for close shave, but I feared there would be blood for complete shave. XD
Anyone have access to The Crew beta that’s starting tomorrow? I’ll be playing with Pez, and would be keen to play with more people.
Hey all, hope you had a good weekend. I seemed to have had a caffeine-withdrawal crash – slept about 10 hours Friday night, then needed another 2 hour kip around noon on Saturday, slept until 10am on Sunday, and felt like crap all weekend. Decided against more Dark Souls 2 DLC, as I knew I’d get frustrated and angry; decided against Wolf Among Us marathon because by the time I felt like playing anything I knew I’d not have the time, but I did play a little Rocksmith… at which point my calluses decided to moult, which put an end to that. Played a little Skyrim, and discovered a bandit hideout under a house that I’d had no idea was there. I love that even 90+ hours in, I can still find stuff I’ve never seen before, and there’s even a little story attached to the place.
Then, out of apathy for everything in my Steam library, I watched the Great Gatsby. Man… either they screwed up the music in that movie extremely badly, or Gatsby was a time-traveller and managed to get hip-hop performers back to the 20s. Tobey Maguire was his normal dazed self, but the rest of the cast was alright.
Had an extra hour last night after that (I coulda sworn that was a 3 hour movie last time I checked), so I played a bit of AC:IV’s last quarter after an 8-9 month hiatus – Seq. 10 and 11, and started on 12. Finally, Edward is starting to redeem himself, and the story is getting a bit interesting… although I did get one mission bugging out – my target refused to stop answering questions about his estranged wife, which was hilarious, but annoying as I couldn’t kill him there without getting discovered. Going to focus on finishing the story this time round, as the naval stuff and sidequests burned me out last time, and should be able to finish it tonight.
Nothing beats a nap on a Satuday. TThe only thing that could have made that better is turning the 2 hours into 3 hours XD
I wish I could do it on demand… only ever nap during the day when I’m ill, normally. Every other time I try, my brain just keeps churning on something else, song lyrics normally, preventing me from sleeping. Seems like it’d be a nice ability to have… to be able to just put your head down and sleep. If only I were wired that way… I’d probably be a much happier person.
It’s tough you’re right, best advice I ever got about sleeping is to close your eyes and ‘think about the colour black’. Works everytime for me!
Man, why is Destiny coming out just when I’ll be unemployed?
I’m supposed to be using that time to jobsearch dammit.
I missed what happened so I’m probably a tad ignorant here but how come you quit before you found another job? Unless it wasn’t your choice?
It was not my choice.
Ugh. That sucks. Hopefully it won’t last long.
Applications are in the process. They’re officially announcing it tomorrow, so I’ll hopefully get some enquiries after that.
You are a pretty positive guy red. i like you
Well, someone has to be about this fucking thing, and if not me, who else?
Ummmm me??
nah im too grim.
lets say its @dc
@dc! Stay positive for me for like a day while I go off and mope about!
hi TAYpeeps. long time reader, first time poster.
spent this weekend playing skyrim again. i would of spent it playing crysis or just cause 2 but sometimes when im in offline mode in Steam i get silly EULA requests and not being able to play some games. this happen a lot with other people who use steam offline?
Also been waiting for my copy of Final Fantasy Tactics A2 from dungeon crawl’s eBay store. 4 weeks later it hasnt arrived. sometimes i hate eBay.
Skyrim!
I don’t tend to use Steam offline- is there a reason you’re disconnecting?
a lack of the internet at home. i use my laptop at work while working for…….i want to say nefarious means lol but for stuff like this. it annoys me, but it is what it is
Correction: “I always hate ebay”
Also welcome 🙂
nah not always. i picked up a last starfighter T-Shirt 3 weeks ago for $8.
That’s a good deal.
Hello!
I used Steam ages ago in offline mode a lot, but I guess I only really played Skyrim and RAGE, and they worked fine bar their achievements (and game clock time), which doesn’t really help.
id rather not see how much time ive sunk into a game lol. i like to keep up appearances of actually having a life while not having one 🙂
man, the oar has been getting quite some use recently. But we must indulge all new members, so.. get out the oar!
Offline mode used to be perfect; I find nowadays it’s just.. really finicky. I haven’t had EULA requests but i’ve had the same problem where some games just can’t open when offline.
ive found when in offline mode and they refuse to open to just go through the program folder and find steam and launch the game through there. but EULA requests wont allow that and i still havent gotten 100% in just cause 2 after 2 and a bit years
Welcome! 😀
Some Steam games need to check-in every so often when in offline mode, or they won’t work. I don’t know of a list.
Welcome \o/
Initiation.
Buying everything makes you a part of the secret inner circle.
Whenever I need to use Steam in Offline mode, I’ve noticed that most games run fine as long as I’ve run them at least once online, for the ‘activation’. Like punching in a CD key, as it were. The only ones that have ever given me shit were some that refused to STAY offline and wanted me to connect every three months or something.
in my library ive found its just cause 2, crysis. stalker clear sky and mafia 2 that do it. it does get infuriating
have you played the game online first? I think the first time you launch the game you need to ensure you are online. Otherwise it should be ok, haven’t used offline mode for ages, it was fairly flakey a couple of years ago
i have. but after while the EULA request comes up…..for just cause 2 its been every 5 months or so. just annoys me that ive bought the game, installed it their way, but still need get it online once in a while for some stupid request
Yep, had it happen with Civ 5 and a couple of others. Was forced into offline mode the last couple of months while my internet situation was screwed up, but most games I tried had no problems.
Also, welcome!
Welcome! The only issue I have is sometimes when I try and save some games like Europa Universalis 4, and even though it’s supposed to a ‘non cloud’ affected save game I still can’t access that particular save file.
I’ve had that same issue, I found that I was able to log in and play the game after trying to sign in offline somewhere in the region of 7-8 times though… sometimes more lol.
Welcome! eBay can be a bitch but when I’ve ordered from dungeon crawl they took nearly 2 months for my game to arrive so could be that
im hoping im getting it. living in melbourne it was really cool walking up the stairs on elizabeth street to see a small gaming outlet that wasnt EB. shame they closed the store down.
So is anyone watching Outlander? @dc?
I watched the first episode and it was really slow. But the scenery was so beautiful! As was the music. The main guy in the episode had wrinkles in his face that were vertical which really distracted me, too. I guess I’m easily distracted, but I couldn’t pay attention to anything he said because I was too busy wondering how his face got like that. 😛
It is one of my sister in laws favourite book series so they have been very excited about it.
Haven’t watched any of it myself
I will watch it. Just haven’t started yet. They had me at Ronald D. Moore though.
Don’t forget Bear McReary!
Oh man, him and Scottish music goes together well! Remember this from Battlestar? SO GOOD!
I kinda miss being all head-over-heels for Sketchbook. Even if it meant a whole bunch of drama and other assorted dumbness, it was otherwise pretty nice. Now everything’s gone quiet, it feels like I’ve gone back to being all dead inside like during previous slump modes. Not a fan.
…
Sigh 😛
I find that the pursuit of mates is often one of the best parts.
HERE WE GO AGAIN
*laugh track*
So… Stand outside her window with a boombox.
Nah, it’s not that. It’s that I don’t care any more, so couldn’t even be bothered to do that if I were up to it. Or something.
I dunno, I feel like I’ve checked out on most things and am just going through the motions now.
Membership card is in the mail.
This makes me sad. You two are two of my most favouritest people ever.
Attempting to draw three roses with names and dates inside them on something the size of my thumbnail and still make it all readable because a customer refused to accept it’s a near impossibility and threw a tantrum until I did it.
Fuck sake.
PROOF THAT TANTRUMS ALWAYS WORK
You’re a retail serf, do what I say! The fact that you’re an experienced professional who knows what he’s talking about means nothing! NOTHING!
Oi! @rocketman! Sort Freeze out with some o’ them laser doohickies.
I dont think its the tool he is using that is giving him grief more that the fine motor skills needed to do that job don’t exist in people
Computer it, poindexter.
YOU KNOW I DONT WORK WITH THAT SORT OF LASER, YOU BIG MEANIE.
I believe in you, Rock.
Well you are a idiot for doing so.
Sometimes it sounds like you’d be better suited to childcare. At least there you know people are going to act like spoiled brats.
I’m dealing with an imbecile at work who keeps postponing his site induction because to quote him “he’s clearly the busiest out of all the new employees” even though I’ve done 6 of them for people who started here at the same time as him =@ Let’s see how busy he gets when I de-activate his access rights and escalate it to his supervisor.
Ahh passive aggression, what a beautiful thing you are.
Ha. I totally would. It’s an OHS thing that can cause some big fines if he doesn’t do it right? I seem to remember them being ridiculous, like six figure ridiculous.
yep depending on the jobsite it is crazy.
Yeah normally I get these done the day someone needs access to the site but this guy has re-scheduled 4 times now and basically his access gets de-activated today. I’m hoping I can get him to escalate the matter himself cos I’m on good terms with his manager =P
(I’m such a conniving bastard)
Gauntlet has been remade?
It’s being remade by the guys that did the Magicka games which is a surprisingly good fit.
i loved magicka but that game and the expansions were glitchy as hell.
I did notice it was basically focused on 4 player co-op now which makes sense. I’d love for a single player campaign like was in Gauntlet 4 though
It’s called Diablo.
touche 😛
Nah, Gauntlet was always different to Diablo. Diablo is at its core a Rogue clone, where Gauntlet is more an evolution of Golden Axe or D&D: Shadow Over Mystara.
Man that Australia tax article and the piracy one over on Gizmodo peeve me to no end. It’s the same with books too. It’s the same with a lot of things really. I remember when I used to work at Woolworths that a cafe owner came in and purchased the cheap milk in bulk because it was cheaper than purchasing it directly from the farmers and the normal supply chain.
If that’s the way the world is, we are well and truly screwed.
Woolworths is good at nothing if not supply chain optimisation.
But a quick glance down at the latest Gizmodo articles and Doctor Who will be simulcast here all season which is awesome…if I could stay up at 5am it would be awesome anyway 😀
But yeah, the way things work over here sometimes you have to wonder how we were one of the only economies in the World to get through the GFC relatively well off
There was a cafe near where I used to live and I askedthe owner why a 600ml bottle of Coke was $3.50 there but I could go across the road to Franklins and get a 600ml bottle for $2.50 – not to mention that a 1.25L bottle is even cheaper with 2L bottles being the best overall value. He said the Coke reps know a store like is his desperate to have Coke in their stores but only offer a small volume so they’re completely over a barrel when it comes to negotiating rates – he HAS to charge $3.50 for a bottle of Coke because it costs HIM $2.70 each whereas Franklins probably get them for $1.80 each, if not less.
“So why don’t you just go across the road and buy them from Franklins?” I ask.
“Because then the supplier will blacklist me and I’ll never be able to order from them again.”
Plus I could be wrong about this but I think that they supply the Coke-branded fridges as part of the supply contract – if he breaks his contract, they take the fridges and he has to buy replacements.
I hate stuff like that. It’s such an abuse of power by the larger companies that it’s no wonder there aren’t many small food businesses any more.
Yeah Coke supplies the fridges, I used to work with Franchise restaurants and I’ve seen their legal agreements in regards to those fridges. Basically the drink companies supply the fridges as well as the drinks at an agreed upon price. If you want to get a different price you have to lose the fridges which can be pretty painful for smaller establishments.
Same with a lot of fixtures in stores. We had to pay out John Sands for our greeting card stands once we switched.
EDIT: When I worked at Toyworld, not here.
Yea, I remember getting confused when I worked for my parents’ corner store, about why we couldn’t use the under-utilised space in the Coke fridge to add extra rows of Schweppes bottles, as we seemed empty the Schweppes fridge every day as it was in higher demand, and having five rows of 1.25L Coke when we sold maybe five bottles a day seemed like a waste of space. “Can’t do that, the Coke reps will get mad at us, and we won’t be able to sell their stuff anymore.” Same thing with Dairy Farmers. Sad, but that’s how these things work, I guess.
It’s called man in the middle. THis country is ripe for the picking.
a 600ml coke out of a vending machine is now $4…….
This story is about five years old, but yeah, I couldn’t believe it when I saw that. One time I actually tried to buy a drink because I was thirsty and had $3.80 in my pocket. Couldn’t believe the machine wanted $4 from me. I was desperate enough that I tried to use my card because some machines have the smart chip readers on them. Nothing happened!
After trying half a dozen times I got a flood of texts from my bank advising my card was now blocked for suspicious activity. Turns out the area I was in was a known “hot spot” for identify/card theft so any vending machine purchases were automatically blocked by my bank. I got them to reactive my card asked them to remove the block and they said they couldn’t just unblock that one machine, they’d have to deactive all vending-machine related security on my card. By that time my train was coming and it seemed like more trouble than it was worth so I told them not to worry about it.
That was like 2 years ago and that was the last time I went near a vending machine.
yeah, thats a bit rough. if im thirsty ill go to a 7-11 for a cheaper slurpee than a vending machine coke.
So there’s a squenix press release or something happening at 2100 JST tonight (that’s about 12pm Australian Eastern time I think) where they’re going to release some details about Bravely Second.
Coming soon to a mobile phone near you!
All The Bravely Default : Give Us Your Microtransactions edition.
It’s sad that Bravely Default actually had a microtransaction which was pretty tame by Squenix’s standards.
Now that they actually have more control over the development of the game, chances are it is likely to be even worse.
I don’t know if it’ll be that much worse, it will depend on whether they actually made money on that, and also it would depend on Nintendo’s back-end infrastructure actually not making it a pain in the ass. And I suspect that given how clunky and horrible it is for the end-user, it’s probably even worse for third parties trying to get money through it.
Fingers crossed, at least.
YOU SHUT YOUR DIRTY MOUTH.
It’s so plausible 🙁Sleeping Dogs 2: Rise of the Triad
Sleeping Dogs 2… actually screw it, Shenmue 3 crossover with Sleeping Dogs 2.
I would be quite happy if that happened.
Wei Shen and Ryo Hazuki trawl the Hong Kong slums in an epic quest for sailors.
I’d play that.
Who owns the rights to ROTT now? There was that updated re-release a year or so ago…
Some company called Interceptor entertainment and published by Apogee who… apparently still exist. Apparently they were creating Duke Nukem Reloaded but production on that was halted – presumably becuase Gearbox bought the licence to Duke. I’m guessing that Reloaded would have been a lot like RotT had they been able to finish it.
Apparently Interceptor own 3D Realms now, and this isn’t noted on the wikipedia entry but IIRC there was some recent controversy over the ownership of the Duke IP because 3D Realms started work and teased a new Duke Nukem game which Gearbox quickly shut down, reminding 3DR that they didn’t own that property anymore. I guess they got sold to Interceptor quickly after so they could reboot other former 3DR/Apogee titles – I personally am super excited to see Major Stryker back in action.
We are way past due for a Secret Agent reboot, surely.
You know who was way cooler than Duke Nukem? Blake Stone. They could reimagine him as some retro-futuristic space action hero like the Flash Gordon serials.
Blake Stone would be awesome. I wonder where the rights to that went.
According to Interceptor’s Wiki page they were remastering the originals for inclusion in an Apogee “classics” pack of some kind but I didn’t research any further than that.
Personally, I’m hanging out for a new Nevada Smith game.
Urgh, floundering.
Floundering floundering floundering.
*acts like a fish out of water*
This is my descent into madness, isn’t it?
*continues acting like dying fish*
Don’t make me come over and schedule a meeting with your course advisor for you!
Silly liondrive
You are a Tuna dying fish, not a Flounder.
Magikarp? Is that you?
*exhales*
Gather yourself, Liondrive.
This is not the time or place for a breakdown.
Just pick up the jigsaw pieces that are your life, and just keep going.
Everything will find its place, eventually.
Just gotta keep going is all.
You can keep going, right?
Right?!
Yes. Yes I can.
Yes I will.
*exhales*
This won’t be the week I go crazy.
*grabs popcorn*
(Jokes aside if you need anyone to talk to or an entertaining distraction I’m there man! Alternatively so are @dc and @strange)
I probably need some grade A psychiatric help right now, but I’d rather just pretend like nothing’s wrong, and keep plodding along, pretending like I know what I’m doing :3
Well if you ever need to talk to someone there are many on here you can talk to. Not me though I am an arsehole
Add me on steam if you ever want to talk man – pupp3tmast3r007
Remember sometimes the best course of action is realizing you need to ask for help.
Well, some days, that’s the best you can say.
One foot in front of the other, and all that.
You’re the best! Around! Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down!
*Places pan on stove*
I made sandwiches and they were nice and I ate them and they were nice and now I need to tell you all about my nice sandwiches.
What did the sandwiches have on them?
White bread (yeah yeah..normally wholemeal), 4-leaf salad mix, haaaam, cheese slice, garlic aioli!
lots of it?
A little over minimum only. 🙁 Gotta ration the packet for tomorrow lol.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Phone too big to shove down throat. 🙁
TRULY THE FUTURE OF VIDEO GAMES. IN THE YEAR 2015 ALL VIDEO GAMES ARE SHIT. BUT THERE IS ONE TRUE HERO… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU7EHKFNMQg
So.. Don’t open that with headphones on.
DONT LISTEN TO THIS MAN
I read your comment before clicking the link, so I lowered my speakers to 10%. It was still a really loud.
I loved the youtube commenter who said, “I want this played at my funeral.”
THAT DUDE IS LEGIT
Mor- Afternoon everyone.
So, new Doctor Who yesterday. My thoughts on the episode:
I liked the episode itself. Loved the steampunk feel of it. There was one part that bothered me though. For about half the episode the Doctor is completely out of it and confused, then he meets up with Clara in the restaurant and he’s suddenly perfectly fine. It just didn’t feel right after the last shot we saw of him was him crawling around in the garbage and complaining about his eyebrows, and before that he didn’t even really know who Clara was. I liked the Matt Smith thing at the end. It felt like a much nicer transaction between Doctors than the last one, with David Tennant saying he didn’t want to go.As for Capaldi as the Doctor, once he’d got over his initial crazyness and started being like the Doctor I really liked it. I think he’s going to be a fun Doctor and I’m looking forward to seeing more of him.
Doctor stuff:
I really liked it. the first 10 mins or so, were a bit heartbreaking though. Capaldi was doing a pretty accurate portrayal of a dementia patient. it was a bit sad. especially the scene with the tramp where he couldn’t remember the right words to say that he was ‘cold.’ even though 12 doesn’t seem to be a hugger, I wanted to give him a hug right then.seems to be quite a bit of focus in that episode regarding a) his face & why its familiar (especially loved the lines about ‘this face has lines, but I didn’t do the frowning… who frowned me this face?’
and b) the episode Girl in The Fireplace & how he couldn’t remember it. I dunno if they were just playing on his post-regeneration amnesia, or if there’s some significance to that, but I’m sure that’ll be explained… probably.
I thought the bit about his face being familiar was a hat tip to Capaldi himself having appeared in The Fires of Pompeii. But yeah, I thought the robots rebuilding themselves sounded very familiar to the clockwork men in the Girl in the Fireplace. Are they the same creatures, just less advanced?I’m also interested to find out who the woman at the end was.
PS Vastra, Jenny and Strax are always fun, especially Vastra. She’s one of my favourite side characters
yeah, there is the Fires of Pompeii thing (he was also in Torchwood), but the way it was mentioned several times makes me think its gonna be a thing. (also, Moffatt said Capaldi’s other roles would ‘be addressed’)yeah, they’re the same creatures. right at the end when the Doctor pulls out a bit of a fuse or something he reads ‘Something-or-Other, sister ship of the Madame du Pompadore. So yeah, same type of robots, but they’ve been rebuilding themselves with human parts, rather than their ship.
also, regarding the woman….
just a personal theory, and I’ve got nothing to base it on. its just conjecture.
I think its Clara. one of he millions of spin-offs who’s gone a tad weird & is collecting people as they die so she might one day meet the doctor again & get ‘her boyfriend’ back.like I said… that last bit is just conjecture. so I dunno.
Oh really? Haven’t had a chance to watch Torchwood yet. Barely got caught up on regular Who before this season started. Yeah, it certainly seems like its going to be a big-ish deal. He did play it really well, the way he was freaking out in the alley way.I wasn’t sure if they were the exact same creatures or not, I guess thats what the Doctor was talking about when he said “This looks familiar, I’ve seen this before”. I think it was the SS Marie Antoinette that was written on the fuse or whatever it was he pulled off.
Hmm… interesting theory. Certainly fits with the ad being placed by/for The Impossible Girl. I doubt the robot man would have known about that. I also heard someone theorise that its a new incarnation of The Master, but I’m skeptical about that one.
Took a few photos of the dogs my dog Sid plays with yesterday.
Atlas
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/WP_20140824_16_50_38_Smart.jpg
Atlas is an Australian Shepherd. He’s only about 9 months old and was the runt of his litter.
He has a stumpy tail that is naturally occurring and just has to be in the centre of everything.
Harvey (the Chocolate Lab) and Gus
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/WP_20140824_16_40_04_Smart.jpg
Harvey is about a year and 2 months old and he loves Sid. In fact, his owner will often say “where’s Sid?!” and he’ll go looking for him. He’s a bit of a bull in a china shop and loves a good wrestle. Also, open hand when you give him treats or else your fingers may be gone.
He’s currently in the play bow pose, to tell Gus he wants to play.
Gus is a Hungarian Vizsla and he is 8 months old. He is a very vocal dog which is common for the breed. His owners like to call the noises he makes “devil worship” because it’s quite loud. Gud enjoys getting dogs in head locks, somersaulting onto his back and laying on top of dogs as part of play. He also likes to go under dogs and lift their back paws off the floor.
He is a strange dog.
Your dogs are great! I love labs.
Not my dogs, they’re dog friends of my dog.
Ever since mythbusters did ” bull in a china shop” it just means “surprisingly graceful” to me.
He is sometimes, actually, but he just runs at things other times.
What an awesome dog! Good photo too!
Wow yeah that’s a really intriguing looking Aus Shepherd. V nice.
What sorta dog is Sid? He gets on with them all well then?
A fat lazy, ball obsessed dog. He’s border collie cross lab and has traits of both.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/P5290143.jpg
Haha nice pic. Those glasses make him look so old 😛
So… GMG doesn’t (can’t) sell DA:I to Australians. Gamers Gate has it for GBP50, which is marginally more expensive than through Origin directly. And it’s EA, so no Steam release. Seems like EA is doing it’s darnedest to make people buy through Origin, so…. OzGs it is, then. Thanks, @aliasalpha, for reminding me they exist, and assuring me their digital side aren’t crap. Still deciding about Civ:BE, but as my only option for DA:I thus far seemed to be Origin, I’d been holding off on it.
Yeah EA won’t let GMG sell to us for some reason, seems kind of odd since they could just insist they jack the price up like other publishers do
After Blaghman conviced me it was worth buying the collectors edition of the Wticher 3 I went down to EB and preordered it.
I was just salespersoned more then I’ve been salespersoned for years.
Me: Can I preorder the collectors edtiion of the wticher 3 please.
Salesman: Xbox one?
Me: PC.
Salesman: That’s only $200 (because “only” is a word I associate with $200…), That’s not out until Feburarly. Is there anything coming out this year you might like to pre-order as well?
Me: No.
Salesman: Would like like to order any strategy guides or art books? They’ve just announced one.
Me: That comes with an art book.
Salesman: “Oh yeah, it probably comes with a small one (implying they one they will be selling will be fantabulicioius compared to the one included with the collectors edition.)
small pause
Salesman: Keep in mind the if you trade in games before then end of the month before you get a bonus. You can also trade in iphones and ipods even if they are broken.
Is this a normal thing at EB these days? I don’t go to EB that much any more.
Pretty much what I dealt with when I went in to preorder Destiny a while back. Several mildly passive-aggressive “No, thanks” seemed to get my point across.
They used to be far more laid-back a couple of years ago, but over the last 18 months or so they changed all the staff at my local store, and are now heavily pushing sales. It’s creepy.
I went in the other day and they started salespersoning me before I’d even bought anything. I awkwardpersoned them out instead.
“Would you like any art books or strategy guides?”
YES! That would be AMAZING!
“Oh, what were you looking at buying?”
Well, I just luuuuuuurve those hidden object games, the ones over there.
*Sound of gears clunking in salespersons head as they switched from robot to human mode*
“What? You know you can buy them off the internet for half the price, right?”
Oh, cool. Thanks. Seeya.
Then I walked out. I was only burning up a handful of minutes until the next bus came anyway.
In short: Yes, EB now replaces their staff with capitalist upselling cybermen, but there’s a shred of humanity left in them, somewhere, that you can sometimes reach through sheer stupidity.
Ohh, you just gave me an idea. Next time it happens I’ll ask them if they have an artbook for Monster Monpiece. the PS vita masturbation game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Monpiece
I’m upvoting you, but like hell am I clicking that link at work.
I’ll click it later. 🙂
I didn’t get hard-saleseded when I went to pick up some games for the new PS4. Nothing more insistent than, “Game guarantee?” “Noop.” “Cool.”
Possibly because I had already just picked up three games and two pre-orders. Quota: DONE.
If you’re regular enough that the salespeople know you, they probably won’t push too hard.
It also probably helps that I’m an ex-employee, so I know all the tricks and half the staff, and I’m only ever buying 3DS games, so they can’t game guarantee those.
Nah, first time at a new store which is directly across the road from where I live. But I’m totally going there again, now. The girl who served me was real friendly, had an opinion on the games, which is always cool, seemed to be on first-name basis with a few customers who passed through. Did seem to laugh nervously a bit, but people do that when faced with these gorgeous blue eyes of mine.
Yeah, they’ve got a bunch of new staff at my local EB, when I bought my Wii U a few months ago, it was a bundle that came with 3 games, he put the sale through, and proceeded to tell me that he’d put the game guarantee on all the games for me. The regular guys there know me, and know not to even ask that, because they know I don’t want it. Was quite pissed off that this guy added it to the sale without even asking me, but I didn’t have time to waste arguing about it because I had to get to work, so I just payed it.
Reckon this has anything to do with the legbreaker impression that you mentioned you gave off?
I always forget that as a possibility. 😛
Depends on the store and the people. If it’s a new person, they’ll sell aggressively or if the manger is on their backs, otherwise most employees will ask and not really care. A simple no gets through
Just keep in mind it’s usually not because the staff member is a pushy dick and more their job depends on them doing that for every customer.
Eb makes far more money off of anything that’s not a new game.
Yeah I got pretty sales personed last time I was in there which was when Watchdogs and Wolfenstein were out. It’s kind of annoying because before I could go in there and just have a conversation with those guys but now it’s all a bloody spiel that makes me feel like I should get in and out of the store as soon as possible >.
Depends entirely on the store and the staff. I’ve never had that happen to me. But I also almost never buy at EB, and if I do put a preorder down, I do it online and choose store pickup. That way I don’t have to interact with a human.
EDIT: Maybe having one of those member card things helps? Like, they know they don’t need to do the spiel for you if you’ve just handed over a level 2-3+ card.
I’m regular enough at my local EB that they don’t salesperson me at all. I was in there on Saturday cancelling my Witcher 3 CE preorder and the sales girl was happy to have a chat about why, and then she said her stats would look good anyway since I put the credit through to other things.
It depends from store to store. My local EB is pretty good, but once they convinced me to get the preowned version of Metro 2033 instead of a new copy because it was $2 cheaper.
I’M SORRY I BANKRUPTED YOU THQ
Aww yes! Just managed to score two tickets to The Lion King for Christmas Eve! 😀 😀 😀
Nice! I got tickets for Brisbane in October. Can’t wait.
I REQUEST THE HIGHEST OF 5’s
ROCKET YOU CAN’T JUST REQUEST HIGH 5’s IT HAS TO BE NATURAL
I can do what i like,
HAVE YOU MET ME???
I HAVE BUT YOU’RE COMPLETELY MISSING THE POINT
Oh man, it’s so good.
Bunch of TAYbies went and saw it in… errr, I should remember when it was since I booked the tickets, but apparently not. Earlier this year.
So good.
Coming up on 4 weeks of on/off sickness with a handful of somewhat healthy days scattered amongst it…
So my weekend was pretty blerg… Daughters swim class Saturday morning, cleaning in preparation for guests, some study and taxi wife into party in the valley – I had Saturday night to myself (kid in bed early!) and was intent on finishing Tomb Raider… played about 30 mins and just had to give it up and goto bed at 9pm. 🙁
Friends over Sunday arvo for food and catch ups, back into bed after they left at 9:30pm.
Why can’t I just be healthy!?! Most of the time I can only squeeze my games in after everyone is in bed… but being sick I just collapse in a heap after dinner…
*sigh*
Maybe summer will be better?
That’s what Joseph Gordon Lovett thought.
But we all know how Summer turned out for him…
Handsome?
I thought you watched movies?
I got lost in his eyes.
I think his girlfriend’s name in 3rd Rock from the Sun was actually Autumn.
And he cheated on her when he found out she wasn’t a virgin.
I think 3rd Rock from the Sun is a much better show when you treat it as though the family is sharing some kind of delusion where they only think they’re aliens from another planet, and their behaviour isn’t because they’re ignorant of actual human interaction but because they believe that humanity is so impenetrably obtuse that aliens would be baffled by us.
Ha!
Just had flashbacks of watching 3rd Rock… and laughed out loud at my desk. Someone asked what was funny, decided quickly I couldn’t possibly explain…
Considering William Shatner played “The Big Giant Head” I’m prepared to believe Dick just met him one day while grocery shopping and started calling him that, and he just rolls with it and drops by once in awhile because the Solomon family is hilarious.
So, here’s a long story.
Years ago when I got my PSP I created a PSN profile with my usual email address which is really long, and used my preferred nickname of “kermitron”.
Later I got a PS3 and tried to create an account using my super long email address which didn’t fit in the email field, so I used another, shorter email address. Of course “kermitron” was already taken but by this time I forgot it was me, so instead of fixing my account to have a shorter email address I substituted for “kremitorn” and used that.
Still later, I realised my error (around the time of the PSN outage in 2011 or whever) and fixed the email address on my “kermitron” account, assigning it to my PS3 but never using it since my trophies and friendslist were already on “kremitorn”.
So i’m thinking I’ll probably be getting a PS4 early next year (unless an unmissable opportunity presents itself before Christmas) and i’m thinking that I’m going to kill off my old “kremitorn” tag since I have bugger-all trophies anyway and will basically be starting fresh when I move to a new console anyway so the legacy isn’t really important since I’m really not interested in my PSN ID like I am my Xbox gamertag.
Alternatively, does anyone know if it’s possible to change a username on a profile? Like, can I change kermitron to something else then change kremitorn to kermitron? That would be preferable, I guess, but if it’s even slightly difficult I won’t bother.
I suspect in the long term I am going to be much more invested the PS4 than my PS3 (otherwise I wouldn’t be getting one at all since my PS3 has largely been a waste of space apart from Heavy Rain, Uncharted, and the sensational Journey) so one way or another I want to get this ID issue resolved now.
Nope, not on PSN.
What you’ve got, you’ve got.
Herpes style.
Righto. Ditching my Heavy Rain and Uncharted trophies in favour of having the correct PSN ID then.
Or do what I do. My username on PSN is ‘TSquare82’ but my ‘real name’ is the very unusual but totally legit ‘Transient Mind’.
oh, you’re TSquare82! The scales have fallen from my eyes!
I have a whole bunch of TAY people but I don’t recognise the nickname nor the real name. 🙁
I only JUST twigged who @sernobulus was today, after he posted a D3 screenie with his PSN ID in it.
I still have no fucking clue who half of the people on there are. 🙁
I’m easy! I’m tehSt1ckM4n! Real name: Stick Man
I’m red_artifice.
I know, I know, I had to make it difficult…
Email address can be changed, profile/user name cannot. I believe.
Yeah, I’ve changed my email address to something shorter so I was able to recover that account to my PS3 console but I’m thinking going forward I’ll use that one full-time (at least for any future games I buy on the PS3 and if/when I get a PS4).
Another question: If I sign up for PSN+ now I’ll get access to PS3 titles which are made free, but say I get a PS4 in January, will I immediately have access to anything that was a PS+ bonus between now and then or only from the time I have my PS4 console? Because I’m tempted to start maintaining a PS+ subscription just to reserve free stuff for the future.
I only got a PS4 now, but I’ve had PS+ with the PS3 for the last 9 months or so. As soon as ‘free games’ started turning up for PS4, they were visible to me on PS3 and I was able to activate them against my account with attempting to download them. Fast forward to today, I check PS+, and even though those titles are on PS+ anymore, they’re in my list.
I’ve been doing the same thing with the vita titles on the very, very, very, very, very remote off-chance that I get a vita.
Cheers, I might start doing that then. Hell, if paying for PS+ and logging in to claim free games a couple times a month I might actually get around to playing something on the PS3 for a change.
@kermitron: you don’t even need a PS3 for this, if you have the Playstation smartphone app you can ‘purchase’ the PS+ stuff though that.
The coolest thing is that if you do it, you can tell it to automatically download to whatever device and on PS4 and Vita the next time they check back with the mothership they’ll initiate downloads of those as long as they’re registered as your account’s primary devices. The PS4 does it while in standby mode which is pretty cool. I think PS3 will do it the next time it boots up to do its regular Plus sync, which is less useful.
Neat! That’s far better than the Xbox One Smartglass app which, as of yesterday, doesn’t appear to launch at all when I tap the icon on my iPhone.
I had to make a similar sort of choice.
I had atomicstrawberry on PS3, and it was good. Then I started getting US content which I needed a US account for DLC and shit for. So I made a second account, Atomiclemon. (I also have similarly irradiated fruit usernames for JP and HK PSN).
Then the Vita happened, and it was one account only. The US store is so much better for PSP and Vita releases so I swapped over. And then I got PS+ for it.
And then when the PS4 came out I realized I needed to pick one or the other of my accounts as primary. So I decided to ditch my AU Atomicstrawberry account because my US one has Plus, has more recent games on it, will allow me to cross-play games with the Vita and so on. Plus US prices on digital stuff, plus I’m isolated from real impulse purchases on PSN because I have to go to Amazon and buy a point card to buy anything.
But it did mean leaving behind a lot of legacy stuff. And also means anything where I want to play on PS3 and carry data over to another game (Tales of Xillia to Tales of Xillia 2 for example) I have to play on my AU account. So I’m not completely free of it yet.
Yeesh, I’m glad I’m not so invested like that, never really bothered with all that cross-region business. It sounds like a logistical nightmare.
It’s not. You can actually put multiple accounts on your consoles and as long as the console is the ‘primary account’ for that console, all the accounts can access everything, even DLC. It’s just the Vita that’s the fly in the ointment 🙁
Same here. Got a PS3 in 2010; “Some bastard’s taken my default username ‘omegastealth’, surely only I’m that unimaginative and immature. Fine, I’ll put an underscore in the middle.” Years later I realised I’d registered omegastealth on PSN with an old (now defunct) email address, way back when I got a PSP. I mean, they’re both moronic usernames, but at least they used to be consistent.
*glances at username/account name*
Yeah that’s a pain.
So, Watch Dogs on PS4 is pretty OK. Playing it immediately after Second Son isn’t doing it any favours, though. But at least it’s a bit more involved, a bit broader. So much to do I don’t want to do any of it.
So far the most fun I’ve had in the thing is the VR digital trips. Spider Tank was a blast. Not that I would really want any more of that without some additional depth. Completing it was enough, for me. The ‘Alone’ game was pretty damn impressive, too. Loads more atmosphere that I wasn’t expecting, though it probably could’ve done with, I dunno… some AI pathing that wasn’t transparently cheating bullshit, creating ‘fake difficulty’. I finished that out of spite, not eagerness, but there was something really powerful lurking under the surface there that I wanted to enjoy, in the ambience and themes. I’ll have to try the other two trips, later.
Predicting this one’ll get tired pretty fast. Also, there is DEFINITE ludonarrative dissonance for me that I really thought I could get past, on the whole vigilante thing. It’s proving harder than expected.
*gravel-voice* “I will stop this foul, criminal, no matter the costs! Even if it means brutally smearing a family of four into an indistinguishable, charred meat-puzzle in the ensuing car chase and firefight, at least the city will rest safe in the knowledge that this criminal scum has paid the ultimate price for evading his parking fines. Now, on to my murderous rampage in pursuit of the people who caused the accident that killed a member of my extended family, which excuses not only my abject neglect of my immediate family, but anything else that I do to anyone else, ever.”
I really thought I could get behind that train of thought. Also, what the fuck is with passerby recognition?
Citizen: “Oh my god, that’s totally the famous vigilante!”
Aidan: “Bloody hell, how can you tell? ctOS is supposed to scramble my image whenever it’s detected! Please don’t tell the cops, though. I don’t want vigilant professionals out looking for me to have the same basic awareness of events as penetrates the facebubble of average joes.”
Citizen: “Hm? Sorry, did you say something? I was uploading a pic of you to my Twitter.”
So, that shit aside, I don’t think I’ll be 100%ing this one like I did AC4 and Second Son.
Too much boring shit to do.
I got sidetracked after starting Watch Dogs at launch (after convincing myself I needed the DedSec edition with the Aiden statue) and plan to revisit it after Black Flag so I suspect I’ll have a similar Ubi-fatigue by the time I’m done with it. I think I will stick as much as possible to the story unless the side missions unlock useful upgrades/bonuses that will make the story easier. Then again after playing ACIII for far longer than necessary I might just be a sucker for Ubisoft games and wind up sinking 50 hours into it. Who knows.
Sadly, the side-missions do unlock upgrades that make things easier. Which is a shame because I love upgrades and chase them with a fierce compulsion that forces me to endure gameplay activities I don’t enjoy. My brain is very, very faulty in some ways.
Don’t forget the stupid “crime in progress” missions. I caught a guy pointing a gun at a civilian and the game was just “NOPE! You failed because you didn’t jump out when we told you to. LOSER!”.
Yeah. The guy will be recorded as saying, “I’m going to go kill this guy.” You track him, find him, see him pointing the gun at his victim, but if you DARE leap out and tackle him before he’s had a chance to plug six rounds into centre mass, you’re a terrible, terrible, terrible vigilante, damn you!
It’s a fun sand box imo, nothing more and nothing less.
Edit: And as trans said playing it after Infamous doesn’t do it a lot of favours…
I got over that game incredibly fast. Something about it that just didn’t click at all with me.
Starting to realise I just don’t like Ubisoft produced open world games.
I really enjoyed AssPirates but didn’t really like Watch Dogs. I quit pretty early during a forced stealth mission. I don’t understand why developers seem to think that forced stealth sections are fun.
Why create an open world game if all the story missions are going to be linear sections where you have to do it the way the devs want! It’s why I’ve stopped doing story missions in AC games 🙁
Maybe it was just a shit game. A game where we got lied to. Don’t be afraid to say it. 🙂
The graphics thing? Didn’t really bother me. It looked pretty nice as it was. Not Second Son nice but not as bad as people were making out.
The game was just boring and the story didn’t interest me at all.
Yeah I was aiming more for the gameplay
Have you tried a drinking game in it yet? Try one and then have a look what you need to do to get the trophy for it
Heh. I have heard about that one. I haven’t tried one of those minigames yet, though.
So, at work I used to use a CoolerMaster Storm QuickFire Rapid keyboard (as an aside, why does the name need to be so long, CM?) which recently died. Hence the past tense.
What happened is, from what I can gather, the USB connector on the keyboard itself (the female USB B-Mini port) connection has come loose or degraded or something. See, half the keys still work, but the other half (including keys like T, Y, Tab, among others) don’t. In the past moving the cable around would cause the keys to stop working but that’s no longer the case.
So now that my keyboard has been replaced (Corsair K65 for those playing along at home) I thought it might be interesting to dismantle the keyboard to have a look at the insides / connectors etc. Maybe mount it on my wall at work with other dead electronics. Problem is… I can’t find a single screw head anywhere on the keyboard. Have taken off the rubber feet on the bottom, popped out the keys……. nothing.
Any ideas how one of these things it put together? The curiosity is getting to me.
Faith.
Ok, so I need to find a keyboard paladin or cleric. Shouldn’t be too hard.
Our father, who art in Dvorak, Qwerty be thy name…
Thy spring doth come, with buckling done,
else Cherry, Alps or Topre.
Give us this day, our clackety-clack
And forgive us our chiclets.
As we forgive those who chiclet against us
And lead us not into the touch screen
But deliver us from membranes.
Amen.
You don’t just build a keyboard, man…
Upvoted for the laugh, downvoted for the lack of “OneDoesNotSimply”…
A hammer
Hmmm. Does it have a seam around the sides? If so, perhaps get a knife in there and pry the two sections apart. Generally with that sort of construct there is clips holding them together that you will need to lever open.
Seems like a reasonable assumption. I tried prying between what I assume is the PCB and the plastic but limited success. Will try a game of knifey-spoony tomorrow, see how that goes.
Weird. I’ve got all the clips off the plastic and I can lift the cover 99% off but there’s something in the centre of the board (between the F4 and F5 keys that’s preventing the cover from being lifted off. Further investigation required!
I feel like a total idiot. You know how you look at something a million times and it just fades in to the background and gets ignored by your brain so you forget about it?
That bit near the centre of the board that was preventing the cover being fully lifted… turns out there’s a sticker on the bottom of the keyboard. “OK – Do Not Remove” … Covering a screw. A single screw, holding the cover in place once the side clips are lifted.
“Lucky” for me the plastic clip it was holding down wasn’t very strong and the clip eventually broke. At which point I discovered there was a screw, saw the sticker, facepalmed.
But now I have a nice blank keyboard PCB and switches. Will clean it up and stick it with my other dead electronics.
And thanks @jocon for the suggestion of looking for clips along the side. 🙂
I have that exact one at home. If I can remember, I’ll have a look myself.
Aaaarggh noooo! WHY, peanut-butter Tim-Tams, whyeee? What should have been a Reese’s-Pieces-or-better treat tastes more like someone farted in my face. Bleh. Bleh! Ptooie! Ugh, I’m going to have to find someone to donate this packet to…
I wouldn’t go so far as to say fart, but certainly a touch of dirt to them. A bit disappointed. Good thing they’re Coles exclusive and I shop exclusively at Woolies. (Coles advertising has the opposite effect on me. Every ad makes me less likely to shop there)
WHO DAT WHO DAT?
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That’s not how MQFTs work!
Hey @redartifice, are you in Sydney? I still don’t understand your job and this might fall a bit below your usual pay grade, but a position for a “Risk Engineer” just opened up in our office.
Job Category Loss Control Posting City Sydney, AustraliaDepartment Loss Control Band 5
Relocation Benefit No Status Full-Time
HR Mgr. [redacted]
Hiring Mgr. [redacted]
Education
Engineering Degree, Science Degree or other relevant tertiary qualifications or experience
Competencies/
Tech Skills
The successful candidate will possess the following skills and experience:
3-4 years relevant industry/business experience
Prior engineering, building or insurance industry experience is an advantage
Strong computer, communication and analytical skills
The discipline to work effectively in a telecommuting environment
Ability to relate to people at all levels within an organisation
Position
Description
This position provides support to underwriting departments with regard the evaluation and control of exposures, in support of corporate profit and growth goals. This requires developing and maintaining good relationships with underwriting departments, producers, and insured’s.
The incumbent is required to undertake on-site surveys for both prospective and existing accounts. In addition, comprehensive reports which document underwriting information, identify hazards/loss exposures and include a thorough evaluation of controls are required to be prepared following site surveys. Recommendations to address deficiencies are developed as part of the report process.
Existing accounts are also visited to verify the status of previous recommendations, evaluate changes in exposures, and provide continuing client service.
Send Email to [redacted]
Closing Date 08/29/2014
This is the last day you can apply for this position.
Job Posting
Code 3082 Date Posted 8/25/2014
He’s here with me. In Adelaide. Well not with me with me but yeah.
Ah, I knew he wasn’t Qld but I was also like 90% sure he wasn’t Melbourne, and apparently only the east coast exists as far as I’m concerned.
Thanks man
I’m still working through my options here in Adelaide, but I’m not averse to looking further abroad. Little bit outside of my expertise, but if you’ve got a link to the posting online I’ll have a thnk
It’s an internal posting at the moment so I’m not sure if there’s even anything I can link you to online unfortunately, but I can DM you the HR contact if you wanted to ask her for more info directly.
And my mom said I couldn’t get a job by playing games! Probably not what she had in mind but I’ll take it!
Thanks Man
After reviewing your spiel up there, I’m not sure it’s quite what I’m looking for, but thtnk’s for looking out for me. If there’s anything else you spot though, I’m all ears.
No worries, I don’t imagine there are a heap of roles in insurance that relate to your usual line of work but if I see any other opportunities I’ll let you know.
@popdart5: Pathfinder things, I noticed a pretty amusing build you could do with Oracle. The ‘Waves’ revelation has this:
“Water Sight (Su): You can see through fog and mist without penalty as long as there is enough light to allow you to see normally.”
And the Cleric spells at level 1 have:
“Obscuring Mist
A misty vapor arises around you. It is stationary. The vapor obscures all sight, including darkvision, beyond 5 feet. A creature 5 feet away has concealment (attacks have a 20% miss chance). Creatures farther away have total concealment (50% miss chance, and the attacker cannot use sight to locate the target).”
So you could take a few levels of Fighter or Ranger to grab some bow specializations, then oracle for a bit and use it to make a dude that basically surrounds themselves in mist that only they can see through, then shoots arrows out of it. Then basically focus on making buff spells and stuff for your bow.
That does require multi-classing at least once to accomplish so it’s not too broken. It is pretty funny though I can think of a few things that completely destroy the idea. Air elementals for one thing or Druids.
Fireballs apparently can burn off the fog as well. And the fact that the fog is centered on the caster and probably where the arrows are coming from makes targeting pretty easy… 😛
Andddddddddddddddd back to Perth
…tonight
😐
They told me this afternoon >_>
<_<
I’ll be staying in Fremantle this time (Pier 21) so no idea if any meet ups can happen.
lol wtf
This time I’m taking offense!
You never answered my q! Wtf do you do! You’re a graduate position a month in with no industry exp (that I know of) so why are they getting you to ‘help’ in Perth?
Because I’m DaBest
They need help on a project so Im going on site to help. I guess I’m the only one with so much free time who’s able to help on short notice.
Ah, free time issue. Cool, good for you I suppsoe if you’re in the position to be able to do it!
This might be my new favourite XKCD comic. I can’t stop laughing. :’D
http://xkcd.com/1412/
So Crusader is pretty cool, seems to function a lot like the monk but with armor instead of life steal.
Finding it hard to apply enough damage to hold my own against elite mobs though. But I am playing on expert I guess.
You playing on PS4? I don’t think I have you on PSN friends.
Really? Totes thought I had you.
I’m Jocon89 as usual.
Threw you an invite!
Sweet!
Can’t actually play with anyone as I don’t have PS+ at the moment and PSN is being screwy.
For a second I thought you were talking about the old isometric shooters Crusader: No Remorse and Crusader: No Regret by Origin.
Presumably that’s another good franchise that EA are sitting on and not using 🙁
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Nineteenth Session Recap (20th August 2014) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places,
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders,
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
Unfortunately absent:
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness.
And temporarily saying farewell to:
– Phetys aka @mythamphetamine the mechanical Nano who fuses flesh and steel.
In the midst of the group’s ascent of the Spinneret, Phetys felt that he should keep his promise to Edorana and ensure the safety of Dro. While the rest of the group surged on to destroy the Insidious Choir at its source, Phetys helped to secure the lower levels of the tower from any intrusion by the roaming viral hosts that had swarmed over the Field of Towers.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
Wow, today has been awesome.
New Slipknot song released along with the new album details.
Soundwave finally emailed me to tell me that an album I won last year in October during a fan chat with Alter Bridge will be mailed out to me somewhere between September & November..
And the best news of the day, my friend in the UK has told me her & her mum are planning a holiday in Australia for 2017!! Since they have friends in Perth and she wants to spend a week or so with just me here and stuff, which I honestly cannot wait for! The trip was entirely her mums idea, since her mum likes me which is a huge bonus apparently & she didn’t want her to take out a small personal loan to come over in Feb next year for Soundwave & Me, heh. Not that it worked with her hectic work & other personal commitments in March.
So to say today, was good, is a total understatement. I’m pretty happy, which is rare currently given it’s hard to stay positive when life keeps throwing shit in your face employment wise.
So how is everyone else?
I’m good. How’s your Kanga-dog? 😀
She’s good! She’s all shiny & fluffy and not smelly cause I bathed her yesterday, after she rolled in something unfavourable the other week haha.
Sick *sniffle sniffle* spirits are alright but health is shithouse at the moment.
Sounds like a positively excellent day in your part of the world!
It really was. Much needed positive news for once 😛
I also may be accompanying said friend to New York sometime in the future to see Slipknot at Madison Square Garden 😀
Why yes. I will cook myself an eye fillet steak with my own brandy cream peppercorn sauce to counteract a stressful day. Followed by either hitting things very hard or twiddling my thumbs and making a nuisance of myself depending on what @Popdart5 has in store for us.
I think a Four Pillars may also be in order.
I fucked up cooking schnitzel. .that was a highlight..should buy your cooking book
Nuisance it is! 😛
Brandy cream peppercorn sauce?!
You’re going to need to share the recipe for that.
I’m feeling oddly restless. Like I feel like I want to do something but I have no idea what. I just tried out a couple of PS+ games but they didn’t capture my attention. Maybe I’ll just go cook some dessert. That’s doing something! And I get to eat it,which is also doing something. And by that time Mr. Strange will be ready to watch something.
Okay, so I’m going to cook something. That’s decided. Now, what something should I cook? I probably don’t even have any handy ingredients! 😛
I’m reheating Mavrou that I cooked on Saturday.
Chile en Nogada or Beef Wellington.
I had to look up what chile en nogada was. Looks tasty! I think I’d want someone else to cook it for me, though. Seems like way too much effort.
I’ve only had it once and it’s amazing. Not sure I have the skills to make it however.
Tried making Beef Wellington a couple of times and haven’t been satisfied with the results yet.
I have apples, puff pastry, custard powder, sugar, and milk. I think I see apple turnovers with custard in my near future. \o/
Completely the opposite to what you have… but for quick easy desserts I want to share… 🙂
Best Mars Bar Slice (from memory so measures may be a little off)
1 x Block of dark cooking chocolate (55% is good for this reciepe)
3 x Normal size Mars Bars
2 x Cups of Rice Bubbles
50g Butter (I think)
Melt mars bars & butter in microwave, mix with rice bubbles, spread in biscuit tin lined with baking paper. Melt chocolate and spread over the top of rice bubble/mars mix. Chuck in fridge until set.
CONSUME
Mars Bar Slice is indeed awesome. But I never ruin it by putting chocolate over the top, it overpowers all the awesome Mars Bar flavours. Try it without the chocolate and see how much better it is!
Oooh, yum, I might have to have a crack at making this.
A microwave chocolate nutella pudding in a mug.
EVENIN’ TAY. SIPPIN COFFEE CHILLIN WITH BROS AND BROETTES. WAT UP
I will join you for coffee as long as it is decaf.
@strange ARE YOU SURE YOU LIKE ME BEING HERE YELLING. ARE YOU SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT?
I can handle yelling better at night than first thing in the morning. 😛
Also, it’s not about what I want, it’s about what you want. If you want to rampage around in here and yell, go for it. 😀
Strange, I like to have fun and party. I assume everyone else does too. Let’s get to have then fun yes now
Just completed my 300’th quest in Risen 3, and I haven’t even chosen a faction yet!
Damn son! Was just looking at your progress, your 60 hours in and you still haven’t finished yet, you’ve only got just over half the achievements too. Must be doing a hell of a lot of exploring.
haha yeah! I do explore a lot! It’s one of the best things about their games. The worlds are so uniquely hand constructed. Nothing is ever somewhere at random. I’m a bit of a sidequest perfectionist too! Between running around doing those, and exploring pathways as far as I can go (either by way of running out of room, or running in to something dangerous!) it’s certainly kept me busy 🙂 I’ve pretty much finished off Thieves Island as of this morning. One or two people left to talk to, and I’l off to settle the leftovers with the demon hunters, and then I’m becoming a mage!! getting SO HYPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feeling, calmer.
Sorry for ac’in like a fool 😛
I might write up what’s been messing with my head if it comes around again, see if I can get some opinions.
There is something I need opinions on though.
How formal do you dress for a group interview?
I have two outfits planned.
One smart casual, one loose formal.
Formal, or casual?
Group interview for job?
I’d always err on formal side… but I’ve worked in Finance since school so my view may be a little bit skewed. 🙂
Guess it depends on combination of industry/company profile/company position within industry.
I’m with Sunsoar. There’s no such thing as overdressed*.
*I once wore a suit to go and watch a movie for shits and giggles, so I may be biased.
WHat’s the company and the position? The typical group interviews are usually for retail low-end positions, so I’d go with: jeans/pants, straight cut; button up shirt, long sleeve.
This is for EB right? You’ll be expected to wear a button down shirt and dress slacks on the job (barring sales time when they print up t-shirts) so I’d dress like that to be on the safe side.
That’s the advice I’ve always been given – dress for the job you are applying for.
If TV is anything to go by, and how wrong can it be? id shave my head. seems to get people jobs no sweat.
Guys, I may have acted like a complete dickhead today what with the amount of stupid stuff I wrote and or said, but I meant it all. Please do not judge me, for I am one of you. kthnx
Dis guy…did @dkzeitgeist hack your account
New Doctor Who:
This is going to be the Angry Eyebrows season, isn’t it? The thing that really bugs me about Moffat is just how much pandering he works into things.EDIT:
Oh good, there’s the Sherlock reference. Right after the boobs.Sherlocks been referenced before in the show. its also implied that Vastra & Jenny are who Doyle based Sherlock on. so it sorta makes sense in that context.Wow, just wow. During a marathon of John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, specifically on the Tomodachi Life video, I decided to look at the comments. What is the first thing I see? Some arsehole named Theonealwayscella’s homophobic comment, with 109 replies. I decided it would be a good idea to read them all.
Wow. Theonealwayscella is not a troll. The guy’s 100% genuine. Screw that guy. Read the comment thread if you want to get angry, then sad that people like this exist.
Also, when I googled the guy’s username, one of the first suggestions was contributions to http://www.celebrityilluminati.com.
Was this on Youtube? Were you reading the comments on Youtube? Are you starting to see where things started to go wrong? Somewhere around the point where you started reading the comments on Youtube.
I’m soooorrrrrryyy @sernobulus. I didn’t realise that was the black tar heroin of the Pathfinder world.
I feel so bad at the moment.
But you don’t have a jumped up frenchie gunning for you, so there’s that.
You’re the one dealing with low lifes like Con the Fruiterer. You should be more careful.
Hey, lowlifes are my people. They tend to know when they’re beaten, unlike de Clamerie.
I thought he was the one beating you?
Oh, he’s beaten, he just doesn’t know it yet.
Haha, it’s all good man.
Although from a rollplaying perspective you did basically trick my character into partaking in something that the Deity he worships doesn’t really favour so I have a feeling my character is going to be pissed at you from here on out. =P
If anything, since it was one and not an excess, I was just facilitating a service to your god.
I have a feeling that the particular ale would be something he would steer clear of.
Dwarven ale. Strengthening the bonds between Caden and Torag.
Dwarven Ale that can cause addiction. Kinda goes against the whole “not drinking in excess”.
I dunno… Cayden “willingly accepts challenges when they are issued” – You accepted a challenge of constitution, and came up short. You shall spend the next year testing yourself.
We always did need another rivalry 😉
For when Dem’nion gets a spear through the back?
Well, it won’t be entirely one way now that he’s an Arcanist. He’s not as defenseless as he seems in melee anymore, so long as he plans ahead.
Luckily we’ll have a priest with us now!
Praise to drunken Jeebus!
Oh god, band girl reply, I now have a Skype name to add.
But I don’t like adding “real” people to it because it uses my internet handle. WHY DID I DO THAT.
At least now I can run a concurrent instance of Skype. So I cooooould create a second account. But that is possibly dumb.
Also oh god realtime interaction. I need to go hide somewhere.
*grabs popcorn*
Why do you continually take pleasure in my discomf-
Oh. Carry on.
Mate, he’s putting my kids through college!
*wheels away his popcorn stand*
Popcorn business is still strong for this series!
Hey @welbot & @evilmonkey, I’m just curious how Risen 3 performs on your computers. I actually went and checked and I’m averaging around 30 FPS although that tends to tank near heavy smoke or waterfalls and such. My computer isn’t the best though so I’m just wondering if that is a common thing for Risen 3. Piranha Bytes track record of producing stable games isn’t that great. :S
I’ve had zero issues. smooth as silk.
Hmm. dang. Guess I need to look at upgrading then.
what are you running atm?
I could not tell you my specs off the top of my head aside from my CPU which is an Intel i-3770K (believe it’s a dual-core). The only reason I can tell you that is because I’ve been looking at replacing or improving that CPU as all of my performance identify that as the weak link.
I’ll try tinkering with the files as you suggested below and hopefully that makes a difference.
One thing you might want to try, is going in to your steam/steamapps/common/risen3/data. In there you’ll find a file called configDefault.xml
Open it, and search for FPSLimitToRefreshRate. By default it’s set to True. Try setting it to false, and see if that makes any difference for you.
I’ve only got a cheap laptop. How do I check the framerate? I have no idea.
You’d probably have to use fraps or something similar, as I don’t think they’ve quite discovered the commands for the ingame console yet.
I’m only checking by running Xsplit or Fraps but those programs tend to have a bit of an impost on my framerate as well. All I know is I’m definitely not getting anywhere close to 60 FPS.
there’s a few settings which might help to lessen the burden on your GPU, especially where water/smoke is concerned. What model card are you running?
I think it was a Nvidia GTX 650. Not entirely sure though. My PC is about two years old at this point and I haven’t changed it since I bought it.
I’ve also bumped all in-game settings to as low as they go and I max out at about 35 frames. Not great by any means.
Just downloaded FRAPS and started the game with it running, I get 60fps on the menu screen, which goes down to 30fps on the loading screen, and then down to 22fps in-game on medium settings, it’s playable, but obviously could be better, putting all the settings down to low only gets me a few fps more.
I’m running a Dual Core 1.6 GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM, and Nvidia Geforce 720M.
My guess is it’s the processor really bringing yours down. Dual Core 1.6 is like a Pentium chip. No where near as much grunt as the i3’s etc. (They’re now using them to replace celerons I think)
Hard to say what the issue might be, but it doesn’t sound right. Might be that you need a driver update perhaps? I’m running it on a GTX580, and it’s really smooth for me. Don’t suppose you know what sort of cpu you’re running?
Drivers have been updated and I’m fairly certain it’s my CPU that’s dropping the ball. I’m looking at either replacing or upgrading to a quad-core but I’ll also need to install a proper cooling system as well.
In other words, I have no idea what I’m doing.
if you buy an i3, i5 or i7, they will come with sufficient cooling, unless you go for the higher end socket 2011 cpu’s. They don’t come with a heatsink/fan, but all the rest do.
@welbot My current CPU is an i7 3770K and I find that it does actually overheat on occasion. It could be the internal organisation in my tower that’s obstructing proper air flow that’s causing that or maybe my CPU has a fault somewhere. My knowledge of PC components is criminally deficient so I can’t really give you too much detail even if I wanted to.
might be worth opening it up and giving it a good dust out. Have you ever done it since you got it?
@welbot No I haven’t. I shall look at rectifying this oversight.
Your processor is a quad core btw. with hyperthreading, so virtually 8. It’s faster (3.9 vs my 2.6) and newer than my i7, and my computer runs like a dream 99,9999999999% of the time.
I dunno how you are about malware etc, but it’s always worth a try scanning with malwarebytes or something. Some malware can cause massive amounts of background usage. Might not notice it so much when using windows, but when you try to push things, it doesn’t have the grunt. Or one of the cores is just being hammered, holding things up.
It’s possible that it’s due to your 750. I’m guessing it doesn’t have a huge amount of memory on board. It may be that there’s too many particles being generated by the engine.
In the configDefault.xml file, you’ll find a line like this:-
“Effects_Small=”1750.0″ Effects_Medium=”3750.0″ Effects_Large=”6250.0”
somewhere under a section called scene and then something about presets. Those presets correspond to the low mid high and ultra settings in the game. If you try changing these values for whatever preset you are currently using to like.. 1500 (like change all 3 to the same number) does it make the issue any better? (So if you’re using the Ultra preset, make the change to the line in the ultra section under ) If not, how about 1.5? (Obviously make a backup of the original file in case you mess things up 😉
HAI EVERYONE.
UNDAD ISSUE ONE. IT’S A FINISHED THING.
IT’S ALSO FREE.
Really keen to hear thoughts on this one. Let me know what you think.
Nice. I already hate the Mother.
Maybe bolden up the text slightly? A touch hard to read.
That wasn’t exactly my intention 😛
I wasn’t particularly invested in making her especially likeable, but I’m curious: why do you hate her?
Smug, self righteous, preachy, forcing lifestyle and opinions on family despite them hating and resenting it.
Can the dad just snap and eat her very soon please?
I’m not all the way through, but isn’t Brett doing exactly those things?
“No I’d rather not, you guys go on ahead” is a far cry from the mother.
I’m only 20 pages in so maybe he gets worse?
Hmmm, not really. I’m basing this on the conversation between Brett and Jason in pages 2 and 3.
Ooooooohhhhh. Now I get it. I thought the chick in the power suit at the start was the Mother…..
Uh.
Hmm.
Sorry @shane.
@freezespreston I thought the same thing to start with. The suit looks very feminine.
@freezespreston: No probs. Mrs Shane thought the same thing when she saw him, so you’re not alone at least.
Yeah I’m actually kind of annoyed by Brett more than the mom, eat meat you crazy bastard! If god wanted us to eat grass he would’ve given us 4 stomachs!
Oooh no, I’m not getting sucked into an argument about the ethics of eating.
Brett’s problem isn’t that he’s a vegetarian – it’s that he’s a control freak who annoys people with his rigid and evangelical code of ethics.
Is this like Octodad? No one suspects a thing? There’s a rancid smell throughout the house and the dog keeps chewing on scraps of flesh but the father figure in the house is perfectly normal?
It might be. I’ve already decided that being dead makes him impotent.
SAUCY COMPLICATION.
So he’s like Geralt?! Does he get super powers later on?! No no don’t tell me!
Geralt is far from impotent – he’s just sterile. 🙂
I haven’t played much of the Witcher games at all, but I thought Geralt went around banging everyone he could get his hands on…
no rigor mortis?
That could be kind of funny, if he wakes up one morning and can’t bend his leg. The secret wouldn’t last much longer after that, though! 😛
FILED AWAY.
Enjoyed the story, to a degree, but the art style kept putting me waaaaaaaaay off. The shading in particular makes all the characters look like they’ve got a weird layer of fur. For example, on Page 33 the Mother is more manly than the man your man could smell like.
Just personal taste though.
I’m liking it so far. I second Freeze on the typeface: not a huge fan of the cursive font. Something a bit more clear and distinct would rock. Story’s decent. Taking time with pacing is pretty good.
I really like that you’ve made the characters distinctive in that cartoonish style. It really helps distinguish them, where in Peaceful Tomorrows I found myself doubling back just to check who was who. Big thumbs up on style.
Backseat driver words:
Some of the expressions are a little fish-eyed blank, though. It may seem like overkill, but some exaggeration really helps with expressiveness. Eg: Check stills from any pixar/dreamworks movie. They’re over the top, but they get the emotion across. (It’s kind of like what I got taught in theatre, as an actor on stage, too – the director kept reminding that stage isn’t TV, which is why we had heavy make-up on, and even though it feels unnatural, the only way anyone past the first couple rows will see your expression is if it’s exaggerated a bit. It felt unnatural, but once implemented, audiences responded very well.) A lot of writing is really about the nuances not contained in dialogue, and some somewhat exaggerated expressions will totally convey the tone not carried by text. I can probably re-read back home to point out panels as examples if you think it would be helpful.Pretty happy with most of the storyboarding too, like uh… whatever the graphic novel version of cinematography is. Framing, angles, etc. Some of them don’t work great, but for the most part they’re effective. Also? I’m a fan of colour.
Pretty impressive, guy.
Agreed on all points! Faces are HARD to get right, but I am working on it!
Best frame:
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
Thanks! I was pretty pleased with how that reveal turned out 🙂
I usually love your stuff but this one just didn’t do it for me. Maybe because at least at this early stage everyone seems to be a stereotype. Not sure if you meant that or not, because I’m actually not even sure what you’re trying to say with it all yet.
I also have a major disconnect with his rantings about food and then just being vegetarian, not vegan. There’s no way someone who feels like that eats dairy. Or eggs. So this makes his principles, and him as a character less believable to me.
But I’ll still read more when you put it up and see where it leads. I might just be having a bad day.
Oh, by the way, I do really like the time thing. The way you put the time in random parts of the scenery. It was a really great touch.
You’re right – nothing’s really fleshed out in Undad just yet. Broad brush strokes at best. If you’re expecting something with the depth of my previous work, I think you’ll be disappointed. This isn’t much more than a bit of fun, though I do have some intention to tie in some thematically-relevant cheesy sitcom-esque lessons to each issue.
Re: diet. I did consider making Brett a vegan, but in the end I decided not to. The line he’s drawn for himself stops at the sanctity of life. It’s a line consistent with his faith (page 15 or so mentions that he’s a regular church-goer), and one that ties a little more easily into the ethical tension of becoming a zombie.
Although this is never mentioned in the comic, I always figured he’d be okay consuming ethically-obtained eggs and dairy products, but would never be okay eating the flesh of a creature that had to die before it could be eaten. I’ve known quite a few people for whom this was their line – and (as you know) a few folk who took it further into veganism.
Thanks for your comments! Hope you enjoy the next issue a little more.
Ugh…
Tried to go to bed at 8pm…
Woke up 45 minutes ago…
Can’t sleep…:-(:-(:-(:-(:-(
🙁
Play Risen 3! :p
Entire roster, and a good chunk of game info, for Super Smash Bros has been leaked. It was just pictures before, so doubt was naturally liberally applied- but then honest-to-god videos appeared today, taken down by ninty to add the proverbial cherry on top.
So, ah, if you didn’t know about this and don’t want to be spoiled (The article’ll probably hit the front page soon enough).. Well, honestly, put on beer goggles when viewing the internet.
DOG FROM DUCK HUNT!?!?!#RideTheSwan
As long as the actual reveal videos for the new characters haven’t been leaked, I’m good! That’s the only thing I want to see.
#RideTheSwan
Shulk is an interesting choice. Although I would have liked Reyn so I could spam his taunt. HA WOT A BUNCH OF JOKAHS!Still a chance for him to be an assist trophy! Comes on screen, says “It’s Reyn Time!” and topples everybody.Ah shit.
I’ve got serious Smash Bros excitement.
GOTTA CATCH ‘EM ALL!!!
DAN YOURE MEANT TO ALWAYS HAVE IT. YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO….
#RideTheSwan
That’s my secret, Bren’, I’m always #RideTheSwan.
OFFICIAL SWAN SONG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkysjcs5vFU
Dio with that sword will never be topped, ever.
We are Ronnie James Dio in that clip. Just for context.
Natch.
Went to Dan Murphy after work yesterday. They have like zero beers and infinite cost. Went to cool room to check if they had other stuff. Saw a whole shelf of cartons stacked sideways, like they just don’t give a fuck. Weeped because I realised that the biggest alco chain doesn’t give a shit about beer.
Oh and Dan…don’t close your stores at 9pm on Friday/Saturday.
Almost saw a car get side swiped this morning cos the dickbag in a right-turn-lane thinks he has a road train and must jerk the wheel left over to the other lane.
Get email from EB in my inbox this morning, for father’s day deals. Let’s check it out:
– Full price UFC, $100
– $49 last-gen, $69 current-gen game. Get fucked.
– Full price ($79) MK8
– Another repeat of point #2
– Full price Watch_Dogs and AC4, $99. LOL. AC4 is $49 on last-gen.
– Another repeat of last-gen games being $20-30 cheaper.
Get fucked EB, that’s not a sale.
Will this do?
Aw, very nice. 🙂
I almost got taken out by a complete moron last night. I’d turned right from left of two turning lanes the at the lights, and just up past the set of lights that immediately brings you to, I saw someone parked in my lane with their hazard lights on. Looked like they might have just dropped someone off there, but fuck knows why because there isn’t actually anything there at all. Either way, I move into the right lane to prepare to go around them, then almost immediately with no indicators and their hazard lights still on, they pull out. Which is bad enough on its own, except they sharply pulled out INTO THE RIGHT LANE, RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.
Fucking god damn idiot.
Sometimes I regret not buying an H1 and just ramming the shit out of people.
Having a tank would be nice.
“Oh you collided into me when you refused to give way? Well you scratched my paint so you can pay for that!”
*grabs popcorn* no wait.. dammit Gooky this isn’t drama related! :@
What are you talking about I could have been written out of the series!
But yeah like @stickman said. So tempting to avoid using the horn and just accelerate to ramming speed instead.
Abbott government is giving $60m to community groups to fight indoctrination of our youths into radical youth jihadists roaming our cities streets…
Has this guy finally completely lost it?
Because up till now we thought he still might be okay…?
Wait. I know this one.
Ummmm…
Shutup.
Don’t tell me….
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
…
…
… yes?
WAIT I MEAN NO!
SHIT! NO!!!
Dammit.
I blew it.
My big shot and I blew it.
…
…
Dang it…
It’s ok, it happens to a lot of guys.
When did he have it, is the question I would ask
Sure, stop people joining radical groups like ISIS, Golden Dawn, the Young Liberals…
Damnit Red. I just had to serve the next customer while uncontrollably giggling.
Luke sure gets around lately.
So, time for a government-funded war on Muslims then? Fuck this guy beyond recognition.
This is simply an allocation for the previously announced $600M funding (which is actually just less of a reduction in budget cuts). $13.4M is going to community group activities to discourage youth to going to extremist groups. The rest is going to local/federal police and budgeting for the legal costs of prosecution.
What these group activities are, I have no clue. I don’t know what sort of problems there are facing groups where they have lost people to extremist groups. I’m guessing the government has received feedback where these funds could be useful though.
That makes things sound more sensible.
A big part of the problems in Ferguson are being attributed to a disconnect between law enforcement and their communities with absolutely no links or communication between community leaders and officials. Even if it’s funding programs RUN by community leaders, at least that means enforcement even knows who those people are and already have a line of communication open – even if it’s just holding purse-strings.
Good cause/recipient, ignorant reasons? Who cares. Take the money and run.
Source? That seems ludicrously out-of-touch even for ol’ Abbey.
Wow, the voice actor for the main character in Risen 3 is just awful. So very awful.
hahaha it’s kinda bland isn’t it? First time I heard it, I couldn’t stop picturing a very poor imitation of Christian Bale’s Batman!
Awfully good, amirite? Eh? *shooty fingers at Nob*
Seriously though, it’s so bad that it warms on you after a while.
I’m really enjoying Diablo 3. On to Act III now.
Only problem is villains are of the mustache twirling variety who tell me all their plans. “While you were doing this, I was doing this… AND THERE’S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.” Then I go take care of what they just told me about. If they piped down they would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for us meddling kids.
How are you, friend?
They’re hell demons, not known for their subtlety
Demons and Angels in Diablo lore in general grossly under-estimate humanity. Also Nephelim haven’t been around in Diablo lore for centuries which is why you’re able to knock them on their asses after they grossly under-estimate you!
(It’s all connected to the ending of Diablo 2’s expansion as to why Nephelim are now cropping up)
Some of the dialogue is really dodgy but then other bits are really well done, it’s really all over the place, I’m also enjoying it thoroughly, I’ve gotten my sister addicted to it :D.
Yeah, I’m digging it just from gameplay/graphics. Story is basic fantasy stuff but that’s what I was expecting.
The complaint about the villains in Act III is a pretty standard one.
Also Blizzard completely failed on being subtle in Act II for the reveal of the main villains.
And loading screens & trophies/achievements give away the story and plot twists. Oh so Person X is not only alive after all but obviously turns out to be a baddy since we have to kill them? Gotcha.
I need to vent a little guys.
So since Thursday, I have not been able to get one cosplay element right. It’s been a series of time wasting and failed issues. It’s made me very frustrated and I was incredibly down yesterday. And angry. Ugh, I was hating myself for most of the day.
I wish someone could kind of help me get through the backlog.
Remind me to never do this sort of stuff again D=
Scree you know that the only person putting pressure on you is yourself.
Just calm down a bit, whats the point of doing the cosplays if they arent fun to do.
Thats my 2 cents anyway
I wish that were the case, but you know what’s really stressing me out? Time. Time is stressing me out.
Draw a face. Put this face on some paper. Put the paper on a pillow. Punch the face.
Punching faces solves everything.
Just take your time, better to work slowly and get it done right than work quick and potentially have to redo it all
Ah, fuck. I got a shiny new refurbished 3DS XL from ninty’s online store- it was $150 and it was a shiny special edition 3ds (the year of luigi one.) Straight out of the box it’s prone to freezing and locking up on the main menu. Not in-game, not in the options menu, but just idling on the main menu will inevitably make it fuck up. Updated it; still freezes. Wiped it clean; freezes.
TAKE BATTERY OUT AND PUT IT BACK IN after 10 minutes.
then try again.
already on it, bossman.
If its still stuffed there isnt really much else you can do, sorry sat 🙁
@saturday You can call Nintendo.
In fact, you should 😛 Don’t be like Gooky!
“Don’t be a Gook” has been a long-standing rule in a chat with a group of my friends for a good few years now. It’s good to see it making its way over here now 😛
Two choices:
1. Eat the loss
2. Contact Nintendo Customer Service
I recommend option 1. @mrtaco probably would agree.
It’s $150. That’s a nice chunk of change. Contact Ninty, or use consumer laws and/or ccard insurance to get it sorted.
I will give it a viking funeral and then straight up eat the burning remains.
I’m assuming you mean literally, and Saturday will have to do something like this?.
*vomits*
I have a The Crew for PC beta code that I probably won’t use. Anyone want it?
In the Year 12 assembly yesterday, some dude played the piano. He serenaded us with a really awesome, yet familiar piano song. It had to have come from a video game. Based on the way the song flowed, I can narrow the song down to either coming from Touhou, Final Fantasy, or Xenogears. It has to be from a Japanese game; it’s melodic flow betrays it.
Because the guy faced away from the audience when he played, I have don’t really know what he looks like. I don’t even know his name. However, his Year 12 leaver’s jacket had the nickname “Prince” on it.
I can only really figure out where that song is from by talking to the Prince in person. It is my mission to track down the Prince.
I know a few people who learned to play the piano just so they could play the piece from Final Fantasy X. Was it that one?
So, once you find him and learn who he is, he’ll be the pianist formerly known as ‘Prince’?
I was all ready with a witty quip, then I realised it’s not page six yet.
I hope you find your prince, @phlanispo.
#it’sALWAYSpagesixI’m more surprised that you don’t know who this person was who is in the same grade as you 😛
Yeah, my graduating year level was 40 people. But I hear tell of schools which have hundreds of students in just one year group. Madness!
My year group was about 180 so it can get pretty ridiculous.
Even 40 seems big to me. I went to a pretty small school for year 12, I only had one class of 24 students!
Right? I had a year of 180, and I could name them all, and tell you something about them, and I am bad at names(though in a lot of cases it would be like “Mickey: She has a funny accent. Sarah: Never spoken to her, hangs out with the ‘plastics’. Jamie: He threw food at me.” and so forth.)!
Pretty much. I had about 150.
Although some of the high schools here have 400-500 students per grade so…..
Just checked. PBC State High School around the corner from here has 2100 students across five grades.
True dat.
I don’t remember how many people where in the same year I was when I left school let alone anyone’s name. But then that was 15 years ago. Also I have better things to remember then school like washing my hands after going to the toilet :/
I think my graduating class was about 120 and I could probably name them all but I also hated about 95% of them.
I have a bad memory, so names are hard. I can’t name more than four people from my year of the top of my head. And the only reason I remember their names is that I had partnered with them for a few weeks as part of a school task, and they demanded I remember their names. Earlier in the year, my class found out I didn’t know anyone’s name, and were rather offended.
But can you blame me for not knowing the name of everyone in my year group? There’s about 150 of them, and we are the the smallest year group by a very long margin due to half-year cohort stuff. There’s probably 300 students per year group these days.
Hell, I’ve already forgotten everyone’s real name from the Perth movie meat a few weeks ago.
If it sounded like Xenogears it could also be just about anything that Yasunori Mitsuda composed, his stuff always sounds pretty similar. Check out his stuff from Chrono Cross especially. ‘Radical Dreamers’ is one that gets piano arrangements really often. It was one that Eminence used to commonly do in their concerts back when they did them.
Finally checked that video out. It may well be that song, but the song played on Monday is so far gone from my mind I have no idea if this is the song the Prince played.
Risen 3 stuff
I’ve never smiled so much when a main character died. Now I’m sad because the main character isn’t actually dead and I have to keep hearing his voice. OH MY GOD JUST SHUT UP!The whole game feels like a B-class game but I am really enjoying it. You just have to let it play out and see if you can get into the “Yarrr pirates” feeling again.
“Look out!!! Bones is coming!”
I’m going to make a hat out of you.Yeah, the voice acting’s crap, but it’s a fun game.
So I slept in until 9am today. I didn’t actually get around to work until 10:15 when I’m supposed to start at 9. Thankfully no-one cared.
My ability to sleep through multiple alarm clocks will probably come back to bite me when I end up sleeping through a smoke alarm again. >.>
I did the same im now at work straightening a fence with little results
I haven’t even been to bed yet. I was about 10 mins away from dozing off on the couch this morning at about 8am, and my dad rang up to say he needed me to take him somewhere. Now I’ve got my second wind, so I don’t think I’ll be sleeping anytime soon!
so what happened with the last smoke alarm 😛
People can disagree as we all have our own tastes, but frankly I still consider Aeris/Aerith’s Theme to be the best piece of video game music written.
If it counts id say My Sanctuary from the beginning of Kingdom Hearts 2 otherwise im also particulary fond of a song from Bastion..I thibk it was called Mother im here
Tell me, does it physically hurt being so wrong?
Well, considering my number two is Baba Yetu (Civ IV opening theme) it tempers the pain. A little.
Baba Yetu is a good answer
That’s not from Journey.
Even though it’s basically a variation of Celes’ theme from 6? 😛
My favourite music from FFVII is the Cosmo Canyon music. As for favourite video game music…I can’t think straight atm. Rome Total War gets me in the mood for a long session and when I put it on, Civ IV/V. MGS is also a classic especially when it cuts out and all you can hear is the cold wind
Yesterday I stayed home, ate donuts and played games.
I miss yesterday.
Funny as that is actually what I want to be doing every day.
me too, maybe I should try get sponsorship from a donut company.
Will eat donuts.
Will enjoy donuts.
Will tell people I know the above.
Pay me please?
Where do I sign up? =D
So I think my laptop is on its last legs..its over heating even when nothing is predominantly running, I was watching a tv series on it and pretty much every 3rd episode I watched in a row the laptop would freeze and nothing would work except a hard reset..I cant afford a new computer so I wont lie this is shit
I can send you my old one if you like. It still runs, just a bit slow.
Nah its alright, thanks for the offer though. My game plan is to buy one late october when ill have more money, will most likely buy a desktop then
Well its there if you want i.
Sounds like a format and a cleanout is in order.
Doubt that will fix it, laptop’s gone through hell, including having lemon lime and bitters poured over it into the screen and inside circuits
Oh damn, maybe not then.
go to officeworks, buy a can of compressed air and open the laptop up and spray through it. You dont have anything to lose and laptops often overheat from dust accumulation.
Staring at a 3 inch pile of paperwork trying to get the motivation up to do the mundane task that is required of me and all I have in my head is “This is your life” by the Dust Brothers
Head desk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U2zJOryHKQ
@negativezero
The brandy cream peppercorn sauce I make doesn’t really have an exact recipe of amounts. I tend to work on instinct and judgement while cooking.
That said ingredients are
Eschallots (half a bunch)
Thickened Cream (about 300ml)
Brandy (half one of those little hip flask sized bottles)
Dijon Mustard (half a small bottle or more if you want a bit more tang)
Green Peppercorns (one small can)
Cook your steak/veal/chicken/whatever, remove from pan, throw in some butter and Eschallots and fry for a little bit. Add cream and peppercorns, cook for a little bit longer stirring around. Chuck in the brandy and mustard and simmer until thickened.
Thanks! Going to try it this week.
Hey guys, just got the Target catalogue in the mail $499 for a PS4 and Trials: Fusion, or $479 for an Xbone (sans Kinect) with Trials fusion.
I know Dick Smith still has that PS4 dealie till Saturday, but after that, these seem like the next best deals for current-gen consoles.
Sale starts Thursday if anyone’s interested.
Hi all, first time poster here 🙂
So I haven’t played much games this year because I’m currently going through a seperation/divorce with a 20 month old son involved 🙁
I’m currently in the best fitness level of my life though, I’m now doing half-marathons, play tennis and just last week started ballroom dancing 😀
I’ve had a long 15 year long battle with depression to get to this point and damned if i’m going back there. Bring it on life, you can’t take me down again!
I remember you, from the thread the other day. Glad you came here.
Welcome! Always good to meet new people and hear their stories, join us around the fire and tell us about yourself whilst someone fetches the new initiation device (the oar of thorns was retired due to someone misplacing it) im sorry to hear of your divorce and hope you are doing alright my friend, atleast fitness and kicking depression to the curb are positive notions. Alot of us have started taking fitness seriously and we have an exercise program that @redartifice has set up.
So again welcome to the community
Haggis! You made it!
Welcome to TAY! Hope you can stick around. People here are good for keeping you happy, they do it for me all the time. 😀
Hi @Haggis
Strange is right, but don’t go and read her posts in old TAY from page 15 onwards 😉
Don’t be silly, there is no old TAY. 😛
Welcome! Watch out for hugs and gifting monkeys during your stay!
Well occasionally the monkey is evil but other times he’s pretty good.
Also beware the wild hugasauruses that appear from time to time. They are downright heartwarming if they catch you.
I believe I was already caught by one in my other post, I may have accidentally hugged it too hard 🙁
Welcome! You found the single best place on the internet.
But before you can participate, there is the small matter of the initiation. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. But I did make a discount code: TAY20.
Welcome, my friend! I’m DC! Congrats on the fitness stuff!
@haggis Don’t listen to him! That’s not his real name!
OK @pupp3tmast3r! Wait, are you sure that’s your real name? WHO SHOULD I TRUST?
Trust @pupp3tmast3r – @dc’s real name is Dudley Chesterson
Dammit you got me… Fine my real name is mast3r, you may call me that from now on. You may pronounce the 3 as an E.
=PThanks all, I feel all warm and fuzzy inside – oh wait… that’s just because I swallowed a fur ball.
You’re in danger of it getting stuck in your throat. I’d recommend setting fire to it to prevent future injuries.
Welcome! You can join in on our next fitness challenge on Fitocracy! 🙂
Welcome! I’m a marathoner as well, it’s great fun when your body lets you get that distance! 😛 Keep up the good work!
thanks! It’s even better when you lose 30 kgs doing it 😀
Massive effort, nice work! If you’re totally addicted, I reckon one of the most fun runs I’ve done has been in Dilhi, East Timor: http://adhm.procamrunning.in/
40 degree days and some of the nicest people you’d ever meet, definitely something to do before you cark it!
Longest I’ve done so far is 14km – part of me says I should try a half-marathon next, but I think I’d rather aim for a faster 10km first 🙂
Was that the city to sea in melbourne? I did that one too 🙂 I found that with training for half-marathons, my 10km distances were faster as it greatly improves your fitness. I reckon you should give the half-marathon a go 😀
Sydney City2Surf – I did it in just under 2 hours – I’m a shuffler 🙂 But that’s ok, because a year ago I would have struggled to even walk it.
My main focus is to speed up my 5km Parkrun. Starting the Couch to 5km program again.
Longest I’ve ever done is 623m.
PSA: Dick Smith appear to have a new Vita bundle deal. Limited stock, might be in-store only.
$249 for a Vita slim, 8gb memory card, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, Injustice, Playstation All-Stars, Killzone, God of War.
http://www.lasoo.com.au/offer/psp-consoles/ps-vita-bundle/4zrdbmcns.html#offer_popup
Ill take the games and no more for $60
And in case you want to justify getting one, here’s 20 upcoming/just released reasons why you need a Vita:
http://www.gamerassaultweekly.com/2014/08/25/20-reasons-buy-ps-vita/
Cool, will read. I took mine to work to update/dl games. Poor baby was flat. 🙁
Shit, that’s a good deal
DAMMIT. I just GAVE them a bunch of money!*
*gave/purchased goods at an excellent price, whatever.
Anyone found any info on when the preloads for Destiny on PS4 starts?
PSN pre-order preload? No idea, but I assume they’ll give you at least 24hrs.
A ‘pre-load’?
Pre-orders via PSN let you download the game before launch date.
Thanks! Don’t think they are doing this for Xbox but I think I ordered a physical copy anyway lol
I’ve never done a pre-load on a console, did not know they even let us.
Pretty sure Destiny is going to be one of the first times it’s possible.
XBone as well?
No idea, sorry.
Haha thanks, no problem!
oh cool, I was thinking it was weird I hadn’t heard of it, I’m assuming digital only.
Digital pre-orders only, but yeah Destiny is the first to get it for PS4, then they plan to have all pre-orders have pre-loading. Not sure about the xbone
My Google Cardboard came today!
I put it together at work, so of course it had to get passed around for everybody to look at. Hooray, sharing a cool thing together! How fun!
…except now the cardboard between the two lenses is discoloured due to everyone’s horrible forehead juices D: *throws it in the fire*
*throws petrol on fire just to be sure*
Forehead…juices? Just where do you work?! D:
random fact: that green gunk that builds up on the bridge of glasses, if you’ve owned a pair of aviators you’ll know it, in the optometry bizz its called “nose jam”
I have that green junk everywhere on my aviators though…
…Facial Marmalade?
i only get it in the bridge area on mine, its quite horrid. I;m glad i dont work in that industry anymore
I’m so gald to be rid of this now that I wear plastic frames and don’t have those little rubber feet.
Also my sweat eats through metal frames until they’re all jagged and the dissolving copper stains my skin so it looks like someone has taken a mouldy razor to my temples.
Sounds like you may have a case of being a xenomorph, please wait while I inform the colonial marines.
Know that you are sending innocent men to their death, human.
it’s ok, its was a terrible game…
In a horribly greasy office apparently! Please help!
Oh my god.
CAKE BATTER FUDGE
I WILL MAKE THIS TONIGHT AT HOME
(untested) recipe as follows:
Ingredients:
2 Cups white cake mix
2 Cups powdered sugar
1 stick of butter (1/2 Cup)
1/4 Cup milk
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
1/2 cup sprinkles
Directions:
Combine dry cake mix and powdered sugar in a mixing bowl.
Combine butter and milk in a large pot and heat at low until butter is completely melted.
Pour butter/milk mixture into cake mix/sugar mixture and stir until combined well.
Add in chocolate chips and thoroughly combine them.
Fold in half of the sprinkles.
Spread fudge into a greased 8×8 pan.
Top with remaining sprinkles and press them lightly with your hand to make sure they stick on later.
Cover and refrigerate until cool. (I waited an hour, tried a piece, wasn’t totally cool, so I waited another hour and they were good)
Cut into 1 inch squares.
….yeah I’m removing sprinkles and adding more chocolate, because it’s chocolate and that’s why goddamnit.
Sounds like something I’d take two bites of and immediately be on the verge of hurling.
…I think you’re meant to exercise self-restraint and only have one in a sitting.
In saying that, yes I will probably end up hurling because of my own stupidity and greediness if this is as good as others have said it is.
\o/ cos chocolate!
Food thread?
Food thread!
Yesterday I went to the CNE with Aleph, and I think the highlight was a bacon caramel cheesecake.
It was a no bake cheesecake and whilst it lacked any cheesey-ness or cakey-ness, it really was quite wonderful how the soft caramel just melted into the cheesecake and had the same texture. And surprisingly enough, not overly sweet, also helped by the salty bacon top contrast.
I would really love to replicate it at home.
I think I found an equivalent recipe – are you talking about something like this?
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/community/maple-bacon-caramel-cheesecake
(apologies for the pop ups, but very few websites have that recipe)
It was this!
http://scontent-b.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t51.2885-15/10617108_332319773595992_668573214_n.jpg
Main difference is the baking element. The eggs and baking really bring out the cheese flavour and the cake structure. The cream cheese was super subtle, so the whole cheesecake element was very liberal in interpretation.
You just dug into this and it all melded into the one spoonful.
Right idea though!
Thinking I might just cobble a few recipes together and tweak the flavours over a few iterations.
Oh man that looks so good…
I was subjected to sugar and fat free muffins this morning. I think I need to bake some chocolate ones this afternoon just to get rid of the taste 😛
Sugar and fat free muffins?
Were… were you just eating flour out of a bag with your hands?
Who would do such a thing?
The “I Quit Sugar” movement has a lot to answer for.
Huh. I forgot Aleph was in Canada. Say hi for me.
Also, the CNE! How is it? The west coast version, the PNE, sits right next to my province’s *only* amusement park, and still manages to be absolutely boring every year.
Food was a bit disappointing this year.
Literally the only reason I go.
There was a Mario Kart 8 Toronto vs Vancouver thing!
I don’t think anyone cared.
Aleph is is Canada? That makes a lot more sense than my assumption that Bish moved to Middleofnowhere, Northen Territory.
Hey guys just letting everyone know my possible cousin-in-law Josh (cousin-in-law is a thing right?) Is raising money for Camp Quality by entering the 1000k4kids endurance ride. Basically they are riding from Mittagong to Newcastle with the aim of raising 300k for Camp Equality, so far Josh has raised $2000 of his $4000 goal so im asking if anyone has any change they wish to donate follow the link below.
http://www.mycampquality.org.au/events/1000ks4kids-2014/1000kms4kids-2014—indi-fundraiser?tab=0&frsid=3902
Do it for the beard!
Working up all the courage he had available Dire Wolf asked TAFE girl out.
Turns out she has a boyfriend.My Facebook stalking didn’t reveal this. Seriously, what’s the point of Facebook if not to find out whether or not you’ll be embarrassing yourself asking someone out.At least I asked and can stop thinking about her now.Who am I kidding, I’m not going to be able to stop thinking of her.At least the three love songs that are an anthem to my love life can remain the same. Rain, You’re Beautiful and You Can’t Hurry Love (that last one is to help keep the depression at bay).Boyfriends are the biggest jerks.
Edit: Secret boyfriends, even moreso.
Manhug.
*grabs popcorn* wait… dammit you’re not Gooky! =@
Edit: Boyfriend is just another way of saying try again later… ok maybe not but really it depends on how serious the relationship is.
If you really like this girl maybe just get to know her as a friend. Best case scenario she likes you, worst case scenario she stills like the bf and you can now walk away knowing you gave it a shot. This is honestly how I started dating one of my ex’s after a few weeks of just hanging out I found out following the “I have a boyfriend” rejection she was actually unhappy in her relationship. Few months later post break up we started dating!
Also cheering up song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJmKkU5POA
Just Haven’t Met you Yet – Michael Buble
I’m starting to think who needs a girl when I’ve got bros like you guys *awkwardfistbump
Speaking of, when are you next free to play WoW?
Let’s do this Saturday? I’d say Friday but I’m supposed to have drinks after work this week and I can’t keep track of time once the rum starts to flow =P
I should be good to start at 10 or 11 in the morning! I’m gonna get my 4th 90 before WoD dammit :@
Sounds like a plan. Hopefully the servers won’t be DDOSed again.
Kick his arse publicly and in front of her. Then she’ll have no choice but to marry you instead.
This. In the 12th century. All the rage.
No I didn’t mean to type 21st century.I was thinking of going a bit more retro. Just club her over the head and drag her back to my cave.
Wait until they’re at the beach, and then kick sand on him.
Good work for asking, though!
May I ask how you reacted when told “Boyfriend”, or is it too embarrassing?
I’m hoping it’s “Oh hahah you thought I was talking TO you?! Sorry I was just rehearsing to ask someone else out and you just happened to be in the general vicinity *awkward topic change*”
Well, she immediately went on to say I could still come hang with her and her friends when they go to this place in the city they go to. I sort of nodded and said “yeah” and then said in a light hearted, jokey manner that I had no idea what the place she was talking about was. Then she told me, then she stated to talk about WoW again, which we’d been taking about before I asked her, and I just went along with the conversation and we both sort of went on like the whole thing had never happened.
Well done.
Tough break on that one but it sounds like she does like you but it wasn’t to be. Realistically sounds like you guys can stay friends which would be a good thing.
Also has the added bonus the people hang with like minded people so her friends probably have similar interests and personality to her (which if single could give you a pool of potential partners)
You played it like a champ, nice work!
If there’s anything I’ve learnt about chatting to the fairer sex when they are embarrassed/uninterested in a proposition they change the topic very quickly and don’t necessarily invite you out places after. Without knowing your friend it doesn’t sound like she was perturbed about the thought of dating you, I think maybe in the future if she’s single there might be an opportunity to hang out and see where it leads!
If she was single I’d say not to take the rejection to heart because unless you lay down the groundwork with girls (i.e. flirting, avoiding friend zone, etc.) asking them out of the blue will just catch them off guard and that earns you an automatic rejection as a defensive reaction. Yes I get friend zoned a lot, shut up. I’m just too damned nice to them ok?!
How concrete was the “I have a boyfriend” response? As in how much detail surrounded the response and is there any surrounding evidence to the statement (i.e. calls and texts she’ll take during lectures, mentioning of plans with someone over the weekend, etc.) because if it was just a knee jerk “I have a boyfriend” it could also be the usual defensive reaction.
At the end of the day if you really like this girl and depending on the situation I’d say don’t give up. Follow your heart and all that jazz! At the very least you can keep getting to know her!
there are lots more girls that share your interests and dont have boyfriends.
You’ll be alright.
As the old Whitlams lyric goes: “She was one in a million…which means there’s four others just like her in New South Wales alone”
For those interested in my sammich skillz.
http://instagram.com/p/sJVA-fLtdc/
Pretty tasty looking sammich!
…is it time for second lunch yet?
Yes
Second breakfast? =P
Last night on the drive home, Screaming For Vengeance came up on the album rotation. I’ve listened to it a billion times now, but this time with all the headthought swirlings, the lyrics to Fever really leapt out at me.
Still weirded out by this crazy new idea of lyrics having meaning and being relatable and stuff 😛
Most of my favourite bands have lyrics that are open to interpretation and thats why i love those bands. ANy song can mean anything you want it to.
That’s why I love the Bloodhound Gang. Their lyrics are actually pretty deep.
😛
Now that I think about it, humans really are mammals. But not at all like battleships, so I don’t really understand the “capsize on your thighs” metaph….oh.
Load up on guns, bring your friends
It’s fun to lose and to pretend
She’s over bored and self assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word
a mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido
Yeah!
Nonsense lyrics are fun.
Lesser-than-three
Thanks Shiggy, since I assume this was directed solely at me.
You’re the only one who responded. It was fate.
I love it when you discover music from a band I like that I didn’t know about. My afternoon just improved thanks to the awesome healing powers of music *bops along to newly discovered music*
Slow TAY is slow.
*sprinkles water on tumbleweeds in hopes they’re really ressurrection bushes, no luck. Kicks tumbleweeds*
Just recommended in a support ticket that someone get Portal, Antichamber and Fez.
They asked about non-violent/gory FPS games because they want to improve their spatial rotation. Strange ticket, but hey 😛
Haha, just thought to actually check up on their profile and see if they filled out the DOB bit. I just made those recommendations to a nearly 70 year old woman.
Fez isn’t an FPS! You’re fired.
You’re not thinking outside the box, Pow! You’re fired!
Do walking simulators still fit the FPS requirement? How about The Stanley Parable?
The thought did cross my mind after having sent off the reply. But then I haven’t really gotten around to playing any of them, so I don’t know what they’re like/how much spatial stuff is involved.
Define spatial stuff…
Well she said she wanted to do better at spatial rotation games, and so was looking for an FPS video game. So I figure anything that involves spatial awareness, orientation and any mental rotation/manipulation of those would be in order. So puzzle-based games seemed like a good fit, especially for catering to the non-violent/no gore bit.
Biggest FPS spatial awareness thing I can think of is *shudder* jumping puzzles.
There was some puzzle game thing a while ago from that swifty portal person that had jumping puzzles that people complained about, I think. Could be the kind of thing you want?
NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Update 26 August Edition, in which he annoys all by likening the game to an abusive relationship
Seriously though, this game. It acts like a complete dick to you most of the time but then it’ll stop and apologize by doing something okay for once and you’re like maybe it can be redeemed after all. Then it knees you in the balls.So I’m basically out of resources. My lack of preparation for the event, plus re-starting the game a few days in meant I was always going to struggle to clear through the doable bits (the final map is for masochists only anyway). I had hoped I could clear through to E5 and get new carrier Unryuu, but I think I’m going to have to give up on that.
The new combined fleet mechanic in the Midway maps is really cool, but it’s a huge resource sink. You’re basically sending off two entire fleets on a long sortie every time, one of them with at least 3 carriers and some battleships as well. This also means that you’re going to get damage on multiple ships every time, with your enemies able to target 12 ships instead of 6.
I’m pretty sure a big amount of the scratch damage would be automatically mitigated for most admirals that played in the previous event, because they would have gotten repair ship Akashi. I didn’t play back then, so I don’t have her. 🙁
So the situation is that I’ve been running out of fuel. Battleships and carriers are thirsty girls. Obviously the battleships chew through ammo as well, but I’m deliberately not using Yamato so the drain on that front is a bit less (like in reality, Yamato costs so much to run and is so expensive to replace that I only use her in practice exercises and often as my flagship). I started running the best expeditions for fuel gathering and have been having some success with that, but it means I get enough fuel every 3-4 hours for another single run through an event map.
The bigger issue is that I’ve run out of instant-repair items (‘buckets’). This event has been pretty tough on them. I went into it with over 100, but now I have less than 10. I blew through 20-30 early on in the event while leveling up some heavy cruisers to use for the rest of proceedings, and then E1 and E2 ate tons of my buckets. The shift to fuel-based expeditions also means I’m not getting new buckets in as often (I was previously running expeditions just to get them).
Net result is that when my ships get damaged, that’s it for the night. If a carrier like Akagi takes a heavy hit and gets damaged into orange or red, her repair time is 9 hours or more. 🙁 This wouldn’t be a problem if the event was lasting longer, but it’s finishing on Friday. Friday morning will be my last chance.
So anyway, the abusive relationship thing. One of the good things about the event maps is that the boss nodes often drop rare ships. I’ve gotten a few so far, including a couple from last event that can’t be obtained any other way in the game. E3 drops one new ship that I really want to get, Taigei, who can be remodelled into light carrier Ryuuhou and is ultra-cute. E3’s boss node is the only event spot she drops, and you need to do an S-Rank clear to have a chance, meaning you need to destroy all enemies including the boss.
So I’ve beaten the node multiple times over the weekend, being careful with resource usage and only using buckets on the really long repairs and just waiting out anything that was on a 1-2 hour timer. Took me a while. A few drops had come out of it which were nice ships, but I had all of them already (I got Kaga twice in a row!). Had knocked the boss health meter for the area down to the point that a single defeat would clear the map. But to clear a map even if the boss health for the map is 100% depleted, you must still sink the boss.
So I go into battle. Things immediately are going shit. The opening air exchange doesn’t produce any major damage to them, but takes Shoukaku into the orange zone, disabling her ability to launch aircraft. My pair of heavy cruisers take out one destroyer between them, then the light cruiser and destroyers proceed to not even hit anything. Then the battleships and carriers open up and things start to even out, but I’m left with both Wo-class carriers, the boss, and one battleship enemy still functioning.
Go into night battle and my cruisers and Destroyers come into their own. Yura, my piddly little light cruiser, somehow gets a 190-damage crit on a battleship and sends it down. The carriers go down to my heavy cruisers and destroyers. Then Shigure takes a crit from the boss that drops her to 1 hp and unable to respond fire. Murasame was the only one left, she fires, gets a really solid hit… and the boss is left on 1 fucking HP. A-rank clear, boss didn’t get sunk so I haven’t cleared the map. 🙁
Yell “fuck this!” and throw some buckets at the two badly damaged ships to bring them back up, put everyone in repairs. Come back an hour later and they’re ready to go again, another tilt at E3. Maybe this time I’ll have a chance at Taigei or something decent from the boss, this time I should clear it.
Battle basically goes about as terrible as the previous one. I don’t know what changed at all, it just suddenly all went to shit on me. This time both Wo-classes and the Boss are still up going into night battle. Tone opens up, sinks the boss. But Suzuya took a hard hit right before night battle and it gimped her damage completely, couldn’t get a good hit in at all. Combined scratch damage across the two Wos (including another nice crit from Yura, I forgot that she used to be one of the best cruisers in the game before others superseded her!) took out one Wo… and I’m left with the other Wo-class sitting there on 3 HP. Another A-rank clear, and I’ve completed E3. But no good drops. 🙁
This morning after healing up and checking out some guides, I sent a slightly different fleet to E4 (Choukai into 2nd fleet, Suzuya replacing Shoukaku in the 1st, but armed with the new Carrier Maintenance Crew I got from E3 that seemed shit on a carrier, but turns out are an insane buff for CAVs like Suzuya, because they increase her shelling range to battleship range!), pushed through it with relative ease, only 3 ships even got damaged. There’s a sub node on the way which apparently is going to be an utter shithead though, 50% chance to get a formation there that will wreck your escort fleet. Anyway, beat the boss easily. S-Rank! And out drops Kumano, one of the two rare Mogami-class Heavy Cruisers that I’d been wanting to get back last year and had never been able to obtain due to her being a Large Ship Construction-only drop. MAYBE THE GAME DOESN’T HATE ME AFTER ALL.
Of course, the fact that Akagi and Soryuu were sent to the repair yards with 9 hour repair timers as a result probably suggests that the game hates me a lot 🙁
Still waifu with Yamato or have you moved on?
I haven’t gotten any of them to 99 yet, so haven’t married any of them. Hiryuu and Kitakami are the two closest at 88, but they’re lower-priority, just got that high due to getting them early and at the time they were really powerful. Metagame has changed twice while I’ve been playing – Carriers were the best when I started, then Torpedo Cruisers came into their own, and now you want to load everyone with scout planes and get double attacks during the day, and that ends up meaning that Heavy Cruisers are awesome.
I’ve been alternating between Yamato, Kongou and Haruna as my main flagship, with some stints with Hiryuu in there when doing certain crafting stuff. Kongou is a bit too loud and needy though and the random English can get a bit irritating, but she’s a consistent performer. Haruna is great but she fell by the wayside a while back due to not getting a Kai-2 remodel until a long time after her sisters (due to the fact Haruna is the most popular of them). Yamato is nice, but she’s so expensive to run…
The thing that I struggle with the most is actually that there’s only a few where personality / line content, character design and voice all align nicely. Tone for example, her Kai-2 remodel has awesome art, but her voice is average and her lines are annoying due to using an archaic dialect. Hiyou has great art but her lines drive me up the wall.
tldr; a game shouldn’t knee you in the balls. *nods head*
There’s a lot of new people arriving here lately. Is it coincidence that this has happened while I’ve been absent from TAY?
…
*dives out the window*
ILL CATCH YOU BABY
DO A FLIP!
I’d say I’m still relatively new 150 posts in, I came here from Flipbook and figured I liked most of the articles I might as well start going straight to the source.
I read the comments and everyone seemed really cool, and there were a few times I had a good pun lined up and couldn’t use it because I wasn’t logged in to Kotaku XD
My expectations of you are now high.
You’re in luck. Page 6 is only a few hundred keystrokes away…
Hey IT people who know one or two things about…IT stuff. I could really use your help.
Due to job problems and having a toddler and all, once my contract comes up as expired in two months I’ll work temporary/casually and I’ll be taking over the reins next year as HOUSE DAD (wifey goes back to being a science/maths high school teacher – yep, we’re a pretty nerdy household).
Yep, going to be the primary carer for a 2 year old. Surely that can’t be that hard, right? Right?
…I am so screwed.
Ok, onto IT related thingies. I’m also looking at doing an online course during the house husband year – notably this one that is a Graduate Diploma in Technology (Business Systems) from Swinburne Uni (done through Open Universities Aus, which is a portal of courses that can be done totally online). I have a background in program and project management, but will this allow me to jump across into the IT sector and do project management there?
In short, the question is: Is this an ok idea, or am I about to make a really costly mistake that will end up with me having an expensive piece of paper and nothing else?
Please help me TAY, you’re my only hope. Well, not completely my only hope. But you’re a pretty damn big help.
Just as long as you don’t turn into one of those horrible things they use in the Open Universities ads. They haunt me.
EDIT: But more on point: I have no idea 😛 But some certification is better than none, I would think.
I’ll make sure they code my pop-up ad to appear on everybody else’s computer and not yours.
No, wait.
The opposite of that.
I have a diploma of film.
It’s worse than none.
But hey, at least you won’t ever be stuck without toilet paper.
I’ve got a Degree in Communications, Journalism and Media with First Class Honours in Communications.
I’ve got toilet paper AND a hand towel!
My uncle’s a househusband (he milks cows on the weekend, but that’s more to get out of the house than for cash), and he seems to manage fine (kids are… I don’t know the ages of my cousins. Like five and… two? Three? Whatever, and they’re pretty good kids). By extrapolating from this one point of data, I can only assume that everything will go well for you!
I do know a lot of people who recommend not studying while you have little kids (because things always come up), but generally that’s in the case of kids, plural, so in that sense you should probably also be right doing studying things.
In terms of the meat of your question regarding how useful said Diploma thing is? Call me John Snow, because I know nothing.
There was a decent chunk of my Bachelor of IT based around Project Management (funnily enough, especially the Project Management subjects) so you should manage.
Cool, thanks. That makes me feel a little better about it.
Same with mine.
I don’t have a lot of experience with job hunts (im on my 2nd only), but I understand my industry thusly: you need a paper, but you need experience more. Having just the paper will allow you to get exp.
Hurr.
Oh gods how did I miss that one.
I’m honestly not sure…
Only a two year old and nothing else? Pffft. Amateur.
Hey!
Give me time.
And candles.
Some wine.
A nice meal.
A promise to hold me in the morning.
And a bit of time and I can have more than one, ok!
EDIT: How many have you looked after @freezespreston? I need a personal best to aim for.
3 six year olds and a 3 year old last school holidays for about 7 hours.
Well by the look of that link that’s a postgrad course, whats your undergraduate degree in?
The subjects look like they’d at least be the right kind of area to cover at least a moderate amount of project management, the first 4 optional units feel quite project managery and the electives like leading & managing people, organisational design & supply chain management would be the kind of thing that might be more valuable as to and employer looking for a project manager
Of course whilst I’m IT qualified I’m still unemployed since there’s no IT jobs in wagga so most of my suggestions are speculative but I think reasonably sound
Go onto Seek or Career One or something and do a search for IT jobs, country wide, in the kinda pay bracket you would expect for an entry job in that kinda field.
Then go through them and see what qualifications they are asking for and if that course would fit the bill.
I can almost guarantee most will be all “X years experience required!” though because the job market is brutal at the moment.
Man. House-husband duties as an opportunity to study… that’s kinda genius. AND looks pretty brilliant on a resume. Good thinking, 99.
*whisperwhisperwhisper*
What did he say?
“You’re kneeling on my chest”
Upcoming generations are not going to get any of these references. And we’ll be the daggy old people still making them anyway.
Found a copy of Virtua Tennis 4 on PSVita for $7.
No way I’m passing that up.
Kilometres Davis was never the same musician after metrication.
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeForty point two three three kilometres from home girl…
Nah. Doesn’t have the same ring to it.
And I would walk 804.672 kilometres…
22.86 Centimeter Nails.
Operation ground and 0.45359237 kilograms?
9.144 Odd Meters Of Grunt.
Or @shane’s favourite show: 1828.8 Millimeters Under
How many ethnic minorities does it take to change a lightbulb?
Just enough to reinforce my negative stereotypical view of them!
@strange #loveyoupagesixDamn it TPG I need my net back >:(
So my home net’s been down since Sunday. Strangely, before I could call TPG, they called me saying that they have detected suspicious activities from my network. I told them that my net hasn’t been working since afternoon and asked if they knew what was going on.
They told me the connection with my router is still online and if it’s not working I should try “turning off/on”. Then they went on to tell me my network was being DOS’ed (which my router log didn’t show) and suggested IP address change. When I sent them the log, they told me (via email) that it is not DOS and instead my machines might be infected and being used in DOS attacks.
On Monday , with all devices disconnected from the network and clean laptop connected through cable, they told the that the email sent to me was incorrect and that I was still being DOS’ed and I have to change my IP address.
When I asked for the log of the attacks because I wasn’t seeing anything on my side, they rejected it because their logs are for internal use only. (it’s only a log why do they have to hide it :(). The technician then muttered something about a bug on the server that could be causing the issue (I was not supposed to hear that).
Anyways requested for IP address change which will take 1-3 working days. Meanwhile, I have to camp out in uni.
To IT peeps, does the issue sound like I’m being DOS’ed or it is something else?
It sounds like your issue is that your internet is with TPG and you’re expecting some semblance of customer service or competentcy from them.
but… but.. it’s $60/m for unlimited bundle 🙁 and this is the first time this has happened
maybe you can recommend me a better bundle 😛
Club Telco 40 bucks a month for unlimited..? 😛
I’ve been DOSed before (not sure why, I blame my brother) and it came in waves. The router logs clearly showed a lot of junk requests over a period of time, then silence before things renewed again.
It also completely destroyed our download quota, using more than 5x our monthly limit in a day. Had to spend a lot of time on the phone to Telstra getting our usage written off so that the periods we weren’t being attacked were tolerable.
So yeah, something is up but I don’t think it’s a DOS unless things have changed.
It sounds like TPG server issues to me.
I had my net shut off by TPG when someone was sending a sh*tload of spam purporting to come from my address. Phone call to them sorted it out but took a day or 2.
To this day don’t know whether someone got my credentials or was somehow bouncing it off my address.
ISP is supposed to protect you. After 48 hours ring them back and get them to expedite the IP address change and/or credit you.
So remember* how after I finished Dragon Age II, I decided to go back and finish Dragon Age Origins for the fourth time?
well, I did that and all the DLC and the expansion.
First thing I did was spark up another game of Dragon Age II.
I may have a problem, AN AWESOME PROBLEM 😀 😀 😀
*Ha! I doubt it :p
Who were you again?
You guys had a videogame music conversation without me?
Anyway: Terra/Tina’s Theme (FF VI) and Dancing Mad (FF VI) > all other Final Fantasy musics, but The Moon Theme (Ducktales) is the best videogame music ever.
Honorable mentions to Frog’s Theme (Chrono Trigger), Baba Yetu/Calling All Dawns (Civ 4), and Ice Cap Zone (Sonic 3).
[a href=”linkgoeshere”]textgoeshere[/a] should help you with that list.
Just replace all instances of ] with > and all instances of [ with <.
I was quite tired otherwise I prolly woulda just thrown titles in somewhere.
Also, I was excited. Love game music
cc @greenius
Sorry for the spamattach, no disrespek, brudda 😉
OK last one, sorry
THERE’S SO MANY MORE
This isn’t the best one but I have to go (lucky you!)
@jimu
Some good picks, in particular
Entire SotN OST – This is the only non-Final Fantasy soundtrack which I have a physical copy.
Sky Sanctuary Zone – YES, YES! This is the Sonic franchise’s “Moon Theme”.
I’m also going to add PPPPPP, the VVVVVV soundtrack, which is all incredible, all the time. (And you can listen to it all here: http://souleyedigitalmusic.bandcamp.com/album/pppppp-the-vvvvvv-soundtrack)
Edit: I forgot to say: Someone else played FF:CC?!
I played it. Briefly. Namely because my friend had it, and agreed to let me harvest its barcode so I could cash it in for the Zelda Collection promotion.
I found it wholly uninteresting and concluded that Final Fantasy sucks 😛
D:
Me @gutsoup and Old Snake did multi!
I played it a fair bit but never actually finished it, Guts did!
Fuck it was good, just wish Gameboys weren’t compulsory for multi
CC was so good, loved that intro song, it was such a pretty game for the time too. Kinda wish they’d made another one, hopefully without compulsory gameboys for multi.
Hmm… Dark Souls 2 DLC or Rocksmith Classical DLC… Apparently they’ll both be out by the time I get home… Decisions, decisions. If Rocksmith’s out on time, I’ll not resist the call of the metal valkyries…
Define classical DLC?
I should play more Rocksmith.
“Bachsmith”
Grieg, Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Mozart. Classical.
Ah okay, hmm.. If it was say Yngwie Malmsteen’s take on it might be interested, cause he based a lot of his playing techniques etc around classical music, and is awesome at it.
Ah, crap, I misread the timezone. It’s not out until 3am…
Thai green curry tonight but I only have a blue and red one
#dadjokespage6
Yellow is da best Thai curry 😀
Red is pretty decent, though.
2 things…
1) Google Cardboard arrived from DX today. Very cool, except my phone (HTC One M7) doesn’t seem to like the magnetic clicker and have to run it across top edge to get a ‘click’. Getting some weird double-vision happening which is kinda ruining the sense of immersion. Quickly had a play with the tour and Youtube… I think Youtube was very cool, being able to swing your head to see new videos etc.
2) Added my handles to the taynames google doc. Feel free to add me on platforms I’ve listed… Fair warning with Twitter I don’t use it a whole lot. 🙂
Oh, and one more thing… toasted baked bean sandwiches with cheese are goooooood.
Yeah, I have a similar issue with the magnet (I’m on a Nexus 4), I think it works more reliably if I press my phone into the cardboard more? Dunno. I checked, and the magnetometer picks it up super clearly, so I think Google just need to make the requirements for a “click” less strict or something.
Are we twins? I got my Cardboard today and have the same phone and had the same problems with the ghosting and with the magnet 😛 HTC One doesn’t have a magnetometer apparently (not exactly something I thought I’d need when I bought the thing…)
Next you’ll be telling me you also have a permanent dark-patch between the lenses of your headset from your excitable co-workers forehead juices.
Oh there is a dark patch! But its all mine!! I was using it in the bathroom whilst my daughter was in the bath (bad nerd parenting =P) – so warm room, heater lights on… I broke out in an excited sweat.
I managed to get it to ‘click’ by popping out the magnet and running it over the top left corner – really not ideal but it was functioning. I think the double vision may be the lenses being a bit skewed or something… will need to spend a bit of time playing.
Kinda wished I worked at EBGames
(tune of do you want to build a snowman)
Do you wanna make a pre-order?
We know you want some games
How about Middle earth: Shadow of mordor?
It’s gonna be insane!
Or is the order, more your thing?
It’s exclusive to PS4!
Do you want to make a pre-order?
Or take out a subscription to game informer?
None of that? Okay, sure.
I would be the best/worst employee
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!
I have no idea what is wrong with me tonight. I’m sorry.
Now do Classical Gas!
That riff was fantastic and inspired me to look up where it came from.
I was disappointed. 🙁
I logged in just to upvote!
Hmm. The Intruders looks interesting. First episode is out. Might give it a look see.
@dc More Bear McReary.
How come everyone leaves out the C. It’s McCreary, damn it! *runs off crying*
Man, that was a douchey post. HEY FREEZE! YOU’RE AWESOME! NICELY DONE ON BEING AWESOME SO CONSISTENTLY! *high five*
Because no one likes the big C.
When I posted his name the other day, it looked wrong so I checked the internet, and the internet told me I was right. 🙁
Tricksters!
Because without, it makes it sound like it’s about butts.
And butts are funny.
I haven’t had much to talk about lately, and realise I’ve been swinging between normal, depressed, crazy, and crazy depressed moods lately, but how about them video games, hey?
Actually, scratch that, how about them TV shows, hey?
Hannibal?
So good! 😀
True Detective?
Nah, gimme Hannibal! 😀
The Killing?
Oh boy, it sure isn’t Hannibal! 😀
If you couldn’t tell, I love me some Hannibal :3
Good man.
You’re maybe only the second worst Stuart.
I think it’s been well established that I’m the best Stewart 😛
There ain’t no other Stewie like me 😛
I’m unique! 😀
You on the other hand…
You’re the worst Stewart 😛
I can vouch for him. He’s the best one I’ve met. (The only one too.)
Awww, thanks! 😀
I set the bar pretty high for Stewart’s everywhere 😉
Out of the three Dan’s I know, you’re definitely in the top 3 🙂
You might even be my favourite Dan 😉
Except for Daniel Craig.
Daniel Craig is my favourite Dan.
*swoons*
The people who keep the ‘iel’ are in their own group. Thems the rules Stewie!
Yay, now I can have a favourite Daniel, and a favourite Dan! 😀
Thanks, favourite Dan! 😀
Oh man, Daniel Craig…
That’s because you haven’t come to Adelaide to see me yet DC.
Hannibal is amazing. And it should be returning soon! I really cannot wait
Which reminds me I need to watch season 3 of Homeland & Season 4 of Boardwalk Empire and the rest of season 7 of Mad Men..
Sons of Anarchy returns in TWO WEEKS! For the final season 🙁 @shane
Hmm WHAT ELSE IS GOOD. I should finish Miami Vice at some point, that is a fine show.
Archer should be back in a few months hooray
The Walking Dead too, I like that unlike a lot of people for some reason.
Dave Grohl’s new show on HBO starts soon, even though I don’t like Foo Fighters or Dave Grohl that much (he seems too smug at times) the show itself sounds amazing because of all the amazing musicians that involved!
Ah I love TV show season. Just sad that Burn Notice won’t be back, it won’t be the same without it 🙁
I’m just gonna put it out there, but I hated the new season of Archer (Archer Vice).
It was so bad! :’O
I’m loving the Walking Dead though, and accidentally fell behind, so I’ve still to get through season 04! 😀
I really should get around to playing those games at some stage :\
So many good shows on lately, but I can’t go past Hannibal at the moment.
It’s so dark. So disturbing. So gripping.
I haven’t been this enthralled in a show in quite a while, and I love it! 😀
Controversial, but season four of The Walking Dead is my favourite. (Give or take a few plot developments.) So good.
BUT THEY HAVEN’T EVEN FINISHED SEASON 2 YET!
I swear you hated the show when it first started :\
I did! That was the other personality though. The one who burns things.
Your arch-nemesis C.D.?
You hated Archer Vice?! It was AWESOME. You’re the worst!
Watch Sons of Anarchy, you may just like it.
Eww, bikers! 😛
Get a real job, you bums!
*shakes fist disapprovingly*
I guess being mechanics aren’t real jobs 😉
Archer Vice, while no less excellent, felt more like a spinoff than a continuation which was slightly jarring but from what I understand it was more or less intended that way so they could reboot back into business as usual next season.
Which is what made it awesome I thought. Breaking away from being a government agency to being rogues of a sort in South America, was cool.
I have to agree here. It was awesome
This apartment hotel is DaBest!
Place is nice, the food is fancy, there’s a tennis court, gym, pools and a good view (apparently)
Defs gonna stay here next time! (which is next week… maybe… D:)
Boy Greenius, you sure love Perth.
No other cities want Greenius after we tainted him. We’re the best he can do now! 😀
There’s an old Perth saying, after all…
Once you go Perth, you lose all your worth 😉
“we”? I never met you!
That wasn’t my fault! :’O
I’ll catch up with you either this time or next time though! 😀
Wait……what @greenius is in Perth?
DO YOU EVER CHECK YOUR NOTIFICATIONS! 😛
I tagged the Perth TAYbies in like 5 posts when I was first up here last week. I’m back in Perth until Friday this week too and maybe next week also >_>. I’m staying in Fremantle this time so I probably can’t hang out.
What are notifications? And do they make noise? Ahh you can’t hang out cause your in Fremantle and no one likes Fremantle?
It’s like half an hour or less isn’t it? Go for drive or bus!
Well, tripled my damage and health in Diablo 3 with just a couple of items.
Handy.
\o/ it is awesome what that happens. I need better loot in diablo 3
yeah I got a legendary drop for the plans to make a set of legendary gear at the blacksmith, 4 pieces of armor with almost 400 defense on each piece, my previous stuff was mid to high 200s so it’s almost doubled my defense. I didn’t even know that was a thing till i saw a green item drop with a green pillar of light coming of it.
…so I thought I went through and claimed the free game from the MK8 promo, but then that it was taking a while for the code to get sent through or something and forgot about it.
Just remembered about it and went back to take a look, and it seems like it never went through at all for some reason. And now I’ve ended up with a Wonderful 101 code instead. Oops.
Is that of no interest to you? I’ve heard decent things about W101. Mostly from shiggy, though.
Let me know if you want to offload. Might be a trade we can do.
(Or you can sell the code on eBay for like $40, which is more than I’d offer :P)
Oh it is of great interest. Number one game on Wii U!
But I’ve already got it on disc, as well as no interest in even touching the eShop 😛
I do have one friend who is quite keen on the game but doesn’t yet have it, I’ll have to try and catch them.
The important thing is though, I didn’t have to call up Nintendo to get anything sorted out.
Call Nintendo!
:P, ahh the good ol days!
Blurst.
There is more Vodka in this piss than there is piss!
..aaand of course I watched Gattaca again tonight. Sooo good. I never told you about my son..
Today I picked up Metal Gear Revengeness ($20) and Dead Space ($12) for the 360.
So you can probably expect Dead Space to be a giveaway game in the near future. This will be the third copy of it that I’ve bought, and probably the third copy I’ll get too freaked out to finish.
Nooooooo, finish Dead Space! 😀
Such a good game!
Horrifying, but great!
It was my first real horror game too! 😀
I’m gonna try, man. I’m gonna try.
I’ll make you an ultimatum.
Either finish it, or you ain’t getting any of this *points at self*, ever.
…
…
…
😉
I don’t think that’s what they meant by unitologist. Or worshiping the marker come to think of it…
But yeah, top game, finish it @shane or necromorphs will get you in your sleep!
You can do it.
Man I still have to play this. Got it on my SteamBox now I think, because I can’t be assed getting mouse to work.
Revenenananenanenananenenanananananengence is great.
Completely insane. But great.
Dude just pour all your upgrades into the Plasma cutter and play it on normal difficulty. You get to enjoy the creepy aesthetic and story while not literally pissing your pants every time you see a monster.
Eww, no. Pulse Rifle all the way, man. The Plasma Cutter is crazy inaccurate and runs out of ammo really quickly. Plus, it’s wayyy more fun to shoot.
Ooh, where was Revengeance? I’d bite at that price.
Local 2nd hand place. I think they had another copy. Want me to pick one up for you?
Also, you might get this one if/when I get sick of it. Not really enjoying it so far.
That’s ok, I’m in no rush. Probably won’t even get around to playing it for years if at all 😛
I would like to direct you to puppet’s horror game survival tips –
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-290/comment-page-11/#comment-2898197
Thanks, but for me, it’s the proper experience or nothing. Total darkness, celebrate the ambient noises. ‘Buy into it or go home’ type of thing.
Dark room here, plasma, surround sound. I’ll probably let the kitty inside so he can jump at me and scare the shit out of me even more.
MGS REVANGANANG
Weird. I scare really easily in real life, but Dead Space didn’t phase me at all, really. I realised 30 minutes in that I wasn’t scared at all, and I was trying to fool myself into thinking it was scaring me.
I think the major thing that prevents it from being scary for me is how damn fun the combat is. Unless I was low on health, I was happy to see enemies.
Still loved it, though. I’ve been meaning to get around to Dead Space 2 since October of last year.
I watched Totalbiscuit’s video on Lethal League. It lookes lie it could be really fun.
I kinda wish it had been designed by the same artists that did skull girls. Also, some maps that were more then a box would be cool too (though they might be there somewhere and just not showcased.)
AHAHAHA HOLY SHIT MARIO KART DLC HAS BEEN LEAKED APPARENTLY AND IT IS GLORIOUS
Mario Kart 8 Pack 1 – Released: November 2014Pack 1 includes:
3 Characters: Tanooki Mario, Cat Peach, Link
4 Vehicles
8 Courses
Mario Kart 8 Pack 2 – Released: May 2015
Pack 2 includes:
3 Characters: Villager, Isabelle, Dry Bowser
4 Vehicles
8 Courses
As a bonus for purchasing both packs – as a bundle or separately – you can get eight different-coloured Yoshis and eight different-coloured Shy Guys that can be used right away.
My thoughts
S’ not even Wind Waker Link, It’s goddamn regular size link twice the size of everybody hunched over in a little kart. ALSO F-ZERO TRACK YEAH BOIIIIIStore page for pack 1 with screenshots
http://store.nintendo.co.uk/wii-u-ddc/the-legend-of-zelda-x-mario-kart-8-aoc-pack-digital-download/10991121.html?utm_source=Affiliate&utm_medium=Tradedoubler&utm_campaign=VigLink%20UKCould format my posts way better but I’m tired, yo.
Store page for pack 2
http://store.nintendo.co.uk/wii-u-ddc/animal-crossing-x-mario-kart-8-aoc-pack-digital-download/10991122.html?utm_source=Affiliate&utm_medium=Tradedoubler&utm_campaign=VigLink%20UKOh god damn, I really want
Cat Peach and Link.I don’t even own a Wii U yet I’m happy Dry Bowser is in there. Best character of MK Wii (Funky Kong is second)still no Dry Bones? *cries* but the rest of that actually sounds pretty great.WHERE THE HELL IS MY KING BOO ;_;that’s my girlfriend’s character, she was so sad when there weren’t any Boos, let’s hope they eventually include themAnything about real battle mode in there at all?
I wanna know what the tracks are! I will probably buy the DLC.
Tracks spotted in screenshots:-Wario’s Goldmine (MK Wii)
-F-Zero course
-Excitebike course
-Animal Crossing course
-Zelda (Skyward Sword?) course
Ugh, no more wii tracks. I hated the wii version
I don’t mind the Wii version but Double Dash was clearly superior in every respect so the downgrade hurt all the more.
This guy gets it!
Whoa what?! On the official Ninty site too 😛
Woah. That… sounds pretty great, actually.
Ew.
Here’s hoping they’ll release all the DLC on disc like that Luigi expansion for New Super Mario Bros. 16 new tracks sounds very appealing. NO DIDDY! *shakes fist*
Yeah, unless it hits a disc I’m not going to be seeing any of it.
Though I doubt it’s gonna happen, not for something like this.
So on the bright side, the DLC packs look great. However, the fact that Nintendo still don’t have a proper account system makes me wary of purchasing it.
So @rize is like the worst* person around… That jerk** decided to gift me Guild Wars 2! I’m sure it’s a conspiracy to completely eliminate any kind of social interaction and personal relationships I’ve ever had… On the plus side it’s a pretty rad freaking game… I have countless hours in GW1, and 2 is just so much better!
*best**god amongst men
The game is too awesome to be missed. It’s so easy to just run around doing nothing in particular for hours and still have fun.
I can’t believe I only have like 120 hours in it.
Do we have a guild yet? We probably should!
We do, can’t remember the name but it referred to the Thorny Oar
Schweeeeet, will have to get in on that!
Keepers of the Thorny Oar iirc
Coolies, how does one score an invitation to said guild?
I don’t remember who the leader (or whatever the term is) was… I’ll have to check when I get home.
If you want a tag team partner in that game I’d be more than happy to join in 🙂
Just be ready for your monthly cap’s worth in updates 😛
Lol I’ll probably take you up on that! Only lvl 8 at this stage but it’s so much fun exploring 😛
I got an Asura, Norn, Human and Sylvari at the beginning almost so that won’t be an issue unless you go Charr xD. My Charr is in low-mid level areas now, with rocket turrets and artillery strikes 🙂
Oohh nice… My main is a Norn at the moment (she’s huuuuuge) because Vikings… Yeah! :P… But probably will roll alts in the other races (a mesmer Sylvari could be good fun)… Still getting to grips with all the mechanics, but my ranger is pretty cool ( Ranger was my main in GW1 since, well, ever :P… Current age 10 years and counting)
My main in GW1 was my warrior and assassin, next to completely unkillable, my assassin never loses in melee combat, even if it’s 1v6 as I’ve proven in pvp :P.
You like your women large do you? 😛
Apparently so :P… I forgot how tall Norns are, until @rize showed up with his teenie tiny thief, which was baretall enough to head-butt me in the stomach!
*barely tall enough…
apparently i can’t edit comments now :/
Do you play very often, @tech_knight?
I played pretty hard at release, and off-and-on since then but mainly just solo… meaning I’ve missed most of the group (dungeon) content. I’m interested in trying to get a (fairly casual) group together to have a go sometime…
(lvl 80 norn ranger here)
ping @pixel_the_ferret_viking, too 🙂
(I think you need to get to lvl30 or above before you can try that content?)
Not a lot. I did for a time but League of Legends pulled me back in as I got a lot of friends playing that. My Charr engineer is around level 25 I think… can’t really remember. I think it’s just much better with friends, even more so than Guild Wars 1 was. I still absolutely love the look of the game though, it’s so gorgeous to look at.
I’ve still got it installed, just needs a large update first 🙂
Just a heads up – it’s worth logging in every 2 weeks!
They are releasing new (post-end-game) story content on roughly a 2 weekly schedule. If you log in during the launch period that a particular set of content goes live, you get the content for free added to your account. After the 2 weeks, I think they move to being sold on the market for gems or something.
Crap! Okay thanks for the heads up
Taylor Swifts new song is my jam
I have been dancing for like 20 minutes.
What song would you say is your peanut butter?
Anything by arcade fire
Appropriately bland.
Arcade Fire really doesn’t do it for me.
Quite enjoying New Dorp, New York by SBTRKT (although that is a stupid name, the song has quite a funky bassline and is good for car dancing)
Oooh, I’m so cool cause my music only involves screaming and emo feelings. So edgy.
😛
This is just the best.
You are! 😀
I like to read @bdkiaf’s comments as if he’s singing them.
“Appropriately… BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!!!“
I’m allergic to everything in the Top 40! \o/
good man, me too,
I prescribe a daily dose of Double J. It really is Triple J for old people.
Your Vegemite?
Nah man it’s his Nutella.
Did anyone else see Taking Back Sunday and The Used last night in Melbourne? It was epic but my ears are still ringing. Nothing like a bit of rock to make you forget about your problems… briefly anyway 🙂
LIKE THE BIRD AND THE WORM?????
thats the only used song i know 😛
Box full of sharp objects, if they didnt play that id demand my money back
They sure did, it was the last song they played 😀
Oh man I thought Taking Back Sunday broke up.
This is good news for 19 year old, angsty Dan.
They didn’t but they’ve had a lot of member changes. Their lineup is back to the original one though now 🙂
Sick.
I just fell down a Taking Back Sunday private Spotify session sized hole.
Good stuff.
I only know one song by The Used – Blue and Yellow, but I used to listen the shit out of that when I was 12 and some girl I had a crush on got me in to it. Still like the song though.
It’s barely just after 9am and I am already $250 poorer, yay!
Vita?
Nah. Slipknot merch 😀
Hoodie, Shirt, CD, Litho & Vinyl bundle for the new album and then the Japanese edition >_>
On top of that I also have an iTunes pre order and i’ll pre order from JB too, cause no doubt we’ll get neat little goodies!
Hey writers of TAY, I have a question if you would kindly so indulge me. Regarding your storyboarding process and signposting, how much depth and detail do you go into in the planning and framing of your story? Do you have a clear idea of most major plot points prior to commencing the writing process or do you jot down ideas as you write and don’t tie yourself down?
I ask because I used to do writing at uni and I always seemed to come unstuck when writing long pieces of prose due to a lack of planning. I was pretty decent at short stories and novella but I was not very successful doing anything larger due to the story and my idea-train running out of steam.
Typically, I have a start and an end (though I haven’t written anything in forever). Since the end should give you an idea of what happens in the latter third of the story, it’s then a process of just making stuff up until I hit that point, then sprinkling the magic edit dust over everything.
I tend to write and improvise as I go along with only a very general idea of what I want to happen. Doing a George R R Martin and having multiple plotlines over several books would be cool but I’m just too lazy to accomplish that.
But yeah, I guess I’ll pray to the writing gods for a burst of inspiration and for the magical editing fairy to pay me a visit.
This is going to help not at all, but here goes.
It depends! \o/
My last novel, I wrote in three stages:
1. Short story, not more than a single scene.
2. Wrote the first third of the novel around that scene, with only a vague idea of where it was going to go. No real planning.
3. After that, I meticulously planned out the remainder of the novel on the back of manilla envelopes before continuing.
I can’t help you re: length. I’m actually the opposite – my stories tend to resist getting shorter. But one piece of advice: don’t force it. If it’s meant to be a short story or a novella, forcing it into a novel means that you’re just adding a lot of padding that you’ll have to carve out in the editing process anyway!
Haha you sound like one of my lecturers. “Everyone is different so do your own thing.” 😛
I haven’t seriously written anything in a long time but I used to be good at doing a very focused short story or novella. I don’t know how well I could work it nowadays as I’ve kinda lost the drive to write anything too formal. The Numenera recaps that I’ve been writing are the most consistent writing I’ve done since graduating and I know that I’m churning those out to meet a self-imposed deadline so the quality isn’t quite as good as I would like it.
The last major work that I attempted got to 30 handwritten pages before it collapsed due to a lack of ideas. It’s actually a little ironic that doing a creative writing course at uni kind of killed my drive to be a writer.
Theory: Figure out basic scenes and key plot points. Take each singly and write short story/novella on each in same universe and characters. Go back through and edit together rewrite g where necessary.
I’ve found that constructing a set of scenes and trying to tie them together doesn’t quite flow as nicely as I like. That’s just me personally though so your theory may be applicable to other people. I tend to write and write and write until I hit a brick wall and stop.
I usually start with the facts, then based on evidence provided to us by our insured categorically deconstruct the allegations against them in order to compel the third party solicitor that the claim they’re putting forth is baseless and speculative in the extreme and that if his idiot of a client insists on proceeding on this basis we will see to it that their only escape from a lifetime of paying off our legal costs will be to sue them for malpractice for fuelling their fever dream delusions that there was any liability to any party other than their own unobservant, clumsy, drunken, drug-addled, unemployable, fraudulent and chronically stupid ass.
Maybe not the kind of writing you meant.
I come up with something dark and depressing.
Then I think “How can I add boogers and poo to this?”
After that it just flows.
My process is typically
1. Create concept of story
2. Craft beginning and end
3. Find a way to get from one end of the story to the other that makes sense in the context of the universe you have built.
I’m inexperienced and have little ambition to do this full time, (I have way more fun crafting the idea to a story than I do actually writing it.) but I thought I’d litter in the pile of responses with my own recipe for mental diarrhea.
EDIT: Holy crap I spelt diarrhea correctly on my first try! I really am a writer!
Slow Tay is sloowwww
Spent last night watching Korra and sewing something for my Raz costume. I know, I know, this hardcore thrillseeking lifestyle will kill me one day.
How about them board games?
I’m about to go into a 2.5 hour training session on Victorian Workcover Authority recovery claims because the one claims guy we had located in Melbourne recently retired and none of us Sydney people know how shit down there works.
So my day is going to be quite the rollercoaster.
Some board games turned up for me in the mail today!
Nothing too special, just Shadows Over Camelot, Pandemic and Hanabi, but I figured I needed to start somewhere before remembering that I have no friends to play board games with.
HANABI
All good choices, though I’m less familiar with Shadows than the other two (Played it only once).
The traitor mechanic is pretty cool
Shadows over Camelot is a freaking brutal game unless you follow exactly the right path… And even then, once you throw a traitor into the midst, its freaking unforgiving again… Great game!
That’s actually a pretty good starting point.
Hanabi!! \o/
Managed to pick up three new games while in Brisbane: Quarantine, Coup and Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective.
Quarantine is a pretty meh game with two people. You run a hospital and the cured patients are used as currency to expand your hospital. There are grey disease cubes you can use to shut down rooms and with two players, that can shut someone out for a while. It can probably shut someone out for a while with more players but the effect is pretty irritating with two players.
Coup is just rad. It’s Love Letter on steroids. Glad I’ve finally got my hands on this, although it probably would have been smarter to wait for the kickstarter version with more cards to show up.
Sherlock Holmes was more of a “didn’t expect to see this, might as well get it” purchase. After the Shut Up and Sit Down review, it turned into a fairly hard to find game. Seeing it at Mind Games in Brisbane for something resembling a reasonable price was just weird. We’re going to try and work through a case or two next week and see what happens. It could be rad, it could be terrible. Either way, once we’re done with it there’s a good chance we’ll sell it on.
Also, could Suburbia just be available somewhere? Seriously, me wanty.
I have Coup coming from KS, super keen to give it a shot.
We played a couple of games with some TAYbies and it seems like not bluffing from the start was surprisingly effective. Then we played with my brother and sister’s fiance(e?) and mostly we just learned that Finn is really bad at this game. Also that playing with different people drastically changes things.
I’d like to think being willing to call people out is a good idea but it looks like the people willing to let others call people out tend to win.
Fuck you, SharePoint.
That is all. Resume normal programming.
I shouldn’t, but I concur.
Why shouldn’t you? I think you should.
Let’s just say that my employer might not agree.
You think I use SharePoint for fun?
SharePoint is a Microsoft product.
Neg’s employer might not agree with his disdain towards SharePoint. A Microsoft product.
SharePoint.
Microsoft.
Neg’s employer.
Ohhhh durrr. I failed my logic roll. 🙁
It could be worse.
You could be running your intranet through Lotus Notes or something.
It’s been 10 years since we did that. 😛
Seconded.
I have a hour left of work till im on holidays and there is nothing to do.
I downloaded Sword Art Online Hollow fragment for vita last night and played a little. Its pretty fun from what ive played but my good SO MANY TEXT BOXES THAT ARE UNSKIPPABLE. THE TEXT ISNT EVEN IMPORTANT CHARACTERS CMON
Do you have to have watched the anime to understand the game or is it not necessary
Probably not necessary but it would help a heck of a lot in terms of understanding who the characters are and stuff.
*emerges from heating vent under your desk*
REMEMBER AND HONOUR THE GLORIOUS DICKMEN, YOU SWEATY SHITLORDS! PEACE AND GOODWILL TO ALL! URRRRPAGOODFALKAJAAA!
*leaps out nearest window, into commando roll and scrambles up nearest tree*
hi nef
bye nef
YOU WILL REMEMBER MY NAME AND UNQUENCHABLE THIRST FOR UPPER CASE
First Shiggy now you? It’s spreading guys and gals, you might want to get yourselves tested
Damn, you guys have forgotten me.
Always use protection
Back vile fiend! Back to your heated slumber
Given that my nearest window in 9 floors up, and the nearest trees to the impact zone are lucky to be a meter high, that’s quite a funny mental video playing out for those actions.
If I actually had a desk I’d be freaking out right about now. 😛
An evening with Dark Souls 2 (Crown of the Iron King DLC) – yes, I’ve not finished the Sunken Crown yet, but it was so dank and mouldy, and I’d found like five bonfires and was completely lost. Plus, CIK’s first area seems much more suited to my sword-and-board playstyle.
So… I encountered quite possibly the strangest NPC invader I’ve ever seen. Maldron “the Assassin”. Quite possibly the worst assassin I’ve ever seen, considering he was in what seemed to be full knight armour, carried a lance, and ran away after I stabbed him. I waited, expecting him to heal and come back for me… Nope, never saw him again. I did spend the next hour or so with this stuck in my head, tho, which was a plus:Bravely bold Sir Maldron rode forth from Camelot
He was not afraid to die, O brave Sir Maldron
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Maldron
He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp
Or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken
To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away
And all his limbs hacked and mangled, brave Sir Maldron
His head smashed in and his heart cut out
And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils raped and his bottom burnt off and his penis…
He is brave Sir Maldron,
Brave Sir Maldron who…
To fight and……………
Brave Sir Maldron ran away
Bravely, ran away…away…
When danger reared its ugly head
He bravely turned his tail and fled
Yes, brave Sir Maldron turned about
And gallantly he chickened out
Bravely talking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat
Bravest of the brave, Sir Maldron
Almost disappointed it wasn’t this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UThSVB_4Hqs Almost.Would’ve likely been that, had he not fled in such a comic manner. I stabbed him, he got up, turned round, stared at me for a moment as if evaluating his options… then turned and bolted down the stairs.Finished Lonesome Road for New Vegas last night at last. Thoroughly enjoyable. Now to figure out if I should quest around a little bit in the Mojave or do one of the other DLC
Lonesome Road is pretty great. I like that it tells the story of the Courier, where he came from and how he impacted the Mojave. Old World Blues is also pretty good, very funny 80’s movie science fiction movie feel to it.
If I remember correctly Old World Blues has Dr Venture (well, James Urbaniak) in too, that makes it worth playing right there
I gotta pay my old mobile bill but I can’t log in to pay it. Is that enough of an excuse? 😀
You’ve made a bona fide attempt to pay for the service in a normal way. You’re sorted.
Well that means he has to give them a positive write-up now.
Credit? Aaaargggh…
So the next round of cosplay making has officially begun. I pulled out my overlocker today and I’ve been trying out different edging techiques like a narrow rolled hem and a gathered ruffle. These words only mean something to people who sew, but HOLY CRAP IT IS SO EASY ON THIS MACHINE!
http://instagram.com/p/sLvBFUASSy/
Hah, I’m handsewing stuff onto my Raz backpack. I’m awful at sewing.
I’m not great at hand sewing, but I try to learn 1-2 new things each time I make a new project.
My new sewing machine actually came with a rolled hem foot and I’m too scared to use it!
I’m so impressed with the amazing things you’re doing with your overlocker though, it’s inspired me to ask my Nan if I can borrow hers to overcome my fear of them.
I have a rolled hem foot on my machine too but haven’t has much luck with it. The overlocker was just a matter of removing 1 needle, and flipping a lever.
Overlocker is such a badass-sounding name.
Also they are magical and I love them. Chop chop, sew sew, chop chop, sew sew…
Last year, I finished 3 games. I thought that was pretty disappointing. So this year, I’ve been making an effort to get through my substantial pile-o-shame. doing much better this year.
finished Enslaved : Odyssey to the West the other night (first third is great, second third is average & boring looking, final third is epic. though I’m not sure how I feel about the out-of-the-blue ending)
& I finally finished Far Cry 3. damn that was good. Think I could just keep resetting the outposts & clearing them forever. Started Blood Dragon last night as well…. it’s good, but I’m not in the mood for that right now.
still got a whole bunch of stuff to get into. Baldur’s Gate is next up I think…
Edit : also, hello.
Did you play the Enslaved DLC? It was a fun little side chapter. Very different from the main game. It was nice though, I liked it.
the Pigsy one? no, not yet. But i’ll get to that eventually.
I pretty much agree with this assessment of Enslaved. The first few levels were glorious.
really loved the outdoors environments in the first act. but once it gets to the junkyard & onwards, its just…. brown.
but the last chapter was pretty impressive. at least in terms of scale.
Idle thoughts! I really wanna get home and play some co-op Warframe. I’m kinda having a ball, there, these days. The co-op helps.
Having trouble getting into Diablo 3 on PS4.
Couldn’t import my PC characters, so I’m basically repeating a campaign (on expert) I already repeated several times. Done Act 4 maybe twice, done Act 1 GOD KNOWS HOW MANY TIMES I JUST WANT TO SKIP IT.
I probably will get more enjoyment after pushing past the second act where stuff seems a little faded from my memory, or complete a run-through to get acccess to adventure mode, but damn that’s a hell of a lot of investment to start enjoying something. (Dammit Blizzard. This is why you don’t completely obliterate the ability to mod/cheat in games.) Shame about not being able to bypass the shit with a PC character import. Seems like a real oversight, that.
Might actually return that one, no matter how much better it is on PS4 than PC, I’ve been there, done that, buyer’s remorse settling in. First time in years I haven’t been comfortable with buying multiple copies of Diablo. (Yeah, I’ve got several copies of D1 & D2 + expansions. Go go multi-CD games and missing CDs/CD keys etc. Digital libraries definitely have some advantages.)
Unrelated realization: PS4’s ‘Option’ button is too far away from where my thumbs/fingers rest, I need to contort my hand a little to reach it. Not a lot, but enough that it’s annoying to do. Starting to actively HATE when developers use it for anything important in-game. Anyone seen any custom controllers that put it somewhere convenient?
Nah, it’s probably because you just can’t transfer beta characters over to the full version..
😛Today’s announcement of Patch 2.1 for PC makes me feel really glad that I didn’t end up picking up D3 on PS4. Some new content and new “Season” mode.
They have said they’re putting the patches on the console versions, just not as fast. Whether that means never and they’re just trying to placate people or just a week or 3 late I’m not sure
But PS4 and XBone is getting the patch. (Excluding the leaderboard / ladder thing because it requires Bnet)
It was a bit odd that they let people import previous console versions of characters for Diablo 3 (even 360 to PS4 like I did) but not PC ones, I can only think they’re just different enough that there’s a reason they can’t. I mean I know blizzard can be dicks at times but just to arbitrarily not allow a transfer has a bit of a hashtagmasterrace feel about it so I gather there must be a technical reason.
Now that you mention it, I don’t think I’ve seen a custom PS4 controller at all yet. PowerA don’t make one yet and from what I’ve seen they’re the only ones who’ve made an aftermarket PS3 controller that wasn’t a piece of shit.
I miss the ‘Start’and ‘Select’ buttons. 🙁
I hate that stupid ‘Options’ button. I usually end up pressing the touchpad button instead when I go for it.
i have hit “share” an uncountable amount of times, I’m used to it being for map or inventory. So many useless videos and screenshots.
Well, it’s only been what 4 weeks since I joined up with Fitocracy and I’ve only just done my first workout. As they say, better late than never I s’pose.
Did some sit-ups and some bicep curls, it’s not much, but it’s a start, feeling good. Might do another set tonight when I get home from work, and I might even go for a walk or bike ride tomorrow.
Edit: Entered my workout into Fitocracy and I got 98 points, only 2 points off hitting level 2, so close.
Hehe if you want to stack the points, do weights. Cardio gets sod all on fitocracy
The stuff that gets points and the stuff that doesn’t on that site tends to focus toward the usual hunched-over gorillas you see in the gym that think all that matters is being able to bench their own body weight a couple of times. :\
It really shouldn’t what with being called fitocracy rather than freakocracy. I mean the only way I’m competing with @liondrive is with my weights but even so, they’ve clearly not thought it thorough as well as they should.
I haven’t been to the gym in 2 weeks (I’ve been sick), so you guys should have caught up by now 😛
I’m gonna start going again though, and hopefully up my weights too! 😀
Well I managed 60KG cleans today even though it messed up my back so that’s what you’ve got to beat
Yeah, I don’t get many points with my runs but I don’t care, I’m getting back into my 3x a week routine and that makes me happy.
What’s a fitocracy?
https://www.fitocracy.com/
I don’t use it but apparently it turns your workouts into a game of sorts, giving you points for everything you log with them,and you can have competitions with your friends.
ok, quick question.
Did australia ever get copies of Syndicate for sale after the whole R18+ stuff?
Don’t think it ever sold well enough for them to bother paying to resubmit it.
Pretty sure it never went on sale here, you can pick it up from New Zealand though.
I don’t know for sure, but my guess would be no.
id try dungeon crawl, but im still pissed off that its still a bit after a month that i havent gotten final fantasy tactics A2 from them…..
https://cdkeys.com.au/products/Syndicate.html fairly sure that’s the place I got it from (probably only of use if you’re after the PC version of course)
I got it from some online key store when they had it on sale really cheap and I was really bored. Unless you have a thing for excessive bloom & disappointment you’re not missing much but since I was able to redeem it on origin without any buggering about with a VPN, that would probably be an avenue you could explore if you really wanted to.
Pretty sure it didn’t. I bought a copy of eBay, and activated the key in my Origin account just fine though.
EDIT: While it wasn’t a great game, it wasn’t as bad as people made out either. Worth a play, particularly if you’re a fan of the series.
Hey guys, The Walking Dead Season 2 (game) is 60% off on Steam right now, only 10 bucks. If you haven’t picked it up yet, you best get on it while it’s cheap.
Yup, and the finale for Season 2 is out.
Already?! Really?
*logs on to XBL*
Especially since the last episode comes out/is out soon/now
http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/7-gross-foods-your-grandparents-ate-that-we-taste-tested/
I think this may be the best Cracked article in a long time. Been a while since I laughed out loud at one but this had me in stitches.
Oh gods, they all looked awful.
I think I’ve figured out why my father, as a child of the 50s, has such an aversion to jelly.
Struggling to contain the laughter. Dear god, that pineapple.
the replica fish with the olive eyes was the best one
My Mum gave me a set of old Cordon Bleu cooking class books that are full of that gross stuff. It’s tricky to sift through all the yuck to find the good stuff but some of my favourite recipes come from the same books as those which never ceases to amaze me.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the problem comes from the fact that many ingredients are different today than they were fifty years ago.
I’m pretty sure it’s just because gelatine, aspic, and making food in shapes and molds was fashionable.
Jeez, must be young grandparents, mine grew up in the 20’s & 30’s so the great depression was in swing back then, so bread & dripping was very popular…
All that gelatine sorta stuff was very 60’s & 70’s i’m sure… I’ve seen Heston do a lot of that stuff with his messed up take on it all.
That Gizmodo Burger Day article just saved me. I couldn’t think of anything awesome to make for Mr. Strange’s birthday which is on Monday, but now I’m going to make this: http://pornburger.me/2014/03/25/the-pickleback-burger/
I really needed something over the top because he’s already had his birthday present (which was plane tickets, accommodation, airport parking, shuttlebus ticket and show ticket for the Vanishing Point album launch in Melbourne the other week) so his actual birthday was going to be a bit boring. Not anymore. 😀
i hate u so hard right now! :p
I want to click that link… but won’t because I’m viewing on my work machine.
Is this one better? It’s the article I found the burger in. I’m guessing the site name “Pornburger” is the problem.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/08/17-of-the-worlds-best-burgers-to-help-celebrate-nationalburgerday/
Was going to click link. Realised it was for a site called pornburger.
Will wait till later, don’t want to have to discuss THAT in my exit interview.
Now that is a good site to spend my lunch break on. The peach fuzz looks interesting so does the Bao-sers castle
Not sure I like they style of burgers they do, a burger shouldn’t be so much higher than it is across
But half the fun of burgers is squishing it down! 😛
I liked the look of that Peach one, too but it really does look impossible to eat.
Holy shit, Vanishing Point! I haven’t heard of that band for years.
They actually went through a whole bunch of problems so they haven’t done anything much for years. But their latest album, ‘Distant Is The Sun’ is awesome and one of my favourites of the year.
So, remember that time that they added Australia Tax to the upcoming Civilization: Beyond Earth on Steam and made it crazy expensive?
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/sid-meiers-civilization-beyond-earth-pc-game-code-by-email-with-pre-order-exoplanets-map-pack-dlc
OGS selling download codes with the pre-order DLC for $48
And some time tomorrow they should credit my player points so I can get a $10 off voucher… hmmm whatever should I spend it on?
Just finished the second season of The Walking Dead. I think I need a hug.
IOU
DONT SPOIL IT!
I’ve never spoiled Walking Dead for any one. I think saying I need a hug isn’t a spoiler either, cause I could say something similar after every damn episode. 😀
This is true..ill hug you when I beat it aswell
YOU RUINED EVERYTHING! *punches hole in wall*
Actually, YOU saying you need a hug means it’s pretty much the very worst thing ever. EVER.
http://www.indianmotorcycle.com/en-us/scout-silver-smoke
*heavy breathing*
*slight drool*
Uuuuuuurgh just finished reading a 150 page techspec document for a new system that i am a support rep for…. Now i need to reread it to make sure I’m comfortable enough with it to create support procedures for it….. Yaaaaaaaaaaaay /o\
Apparently the Mario Kart 8 DLC will be $10 each or $16 for both the packs. Not bad considering what you get in the packs.
Really good, I think! I was expecting $20+
Workplace convos:
“Argh! NOOOO WHYEEE. Every thing I type types over the other things I’ve already typed! This is a nightmare! Stupid computer!”
“Did you accidentally hit ‘insert’?”
“What? I don’t know! Maybe?”
“Hit insert and try again, it should put it back to normal.”
“Which key is that?”
“It’s the key with ‘insert’ written on it.”
“Oh. Duh. OK. So… CTRL+insert?”
“No, just insert. It’s literally the only thing that key does.” (Outside of video games.)
“Why would they have an entire key on a keyboard dedicated to something no-one, anywhere, ever uses or wants?”
“Well… hm. You know? I really don’t know. All I can say is… it used to be a LOT harder to manipulate text than it is now.”
I would’ve said “The keyboard gremlins are in your PC, haven’t you heard of them before? They steal letters from your documents as you type new ones. They eat letters, numbers, symbols, pretty much anything your keyboard can provide onto e-paper”
Only way to fix it is to buy a whole new keyboard I’m afraid
Offer them the curtains of your computer system, that will cause them to leave your computer alone 🙂
Oooh. Now, see, I like that line of thought, but I want something that’s still ludicrous, but almost plausible. Like…
“It’s some module IT installed that kicks in whenever you’ve made too many typos or errors. One of those efficiency things like the forced typing tests everyone had to take. Pretty sure it was on the intranet a few weeks ago. You always read those updates, don’t you? [No-one in the department reads the intranet news page. Ever.] I dunno, I only skimmed it. What I gathered is it switches over to get you to be more careful and assumes your old stuff needs to be overwritten because it was drafted so damn often. I forget what the limit was, but when you hit some kind of word-limit without having to re-structure your paragraphs and shit, it goes back to what it was. I dunno… a thousand words? A couple thousand? You could ask IT.”
(Edit: Twenty minutes later I would likely get my skull bashed in by an embarrassed co-worker.)
HAHAHA that could really work, but I know I’d get into tons of trouble here xD
Worth it
Back when computers were first a thing, the insert key was a bit more useful for some programming uses. Now we’re stuck with it.
(Edit: Right? I read something about Apple getting rid of it on macs, though.)
Hell, I remember in the days of WordPerfect as the premiere word-processor that OVR was on by default, and people weren’t expected to move the cursor around much because they were so used to type-writers. Back-spacing was revolutionary enough. 😛
I don’t see any “ANY” key, I see ESC, CTRL and Pig Up. Whew, all this work’s making me kinda thirsty, think I’ll order a TAB.
Blaghs’s adventures in too much free time present:
“Will you please stop singing? You’ve already sung this song.”
Since I was never happy with the original version of this I made I figured I’d make a new version that I’m unhappy with for another dozen reasons. So, I present the updated and not any better version of “I Lost My Souls.”
In related news, I’ve discovered that not playing for ten years has not improved my piano skills.
Better piano skills than I ever had!
And in an unrelated area, after nearly 3 weeks I feel like I should do something with my shitty facial hair. Any suggestions? Was considering just burning it to the ground, but last time I set myself on fire was rather painful, so maybe that isn’t the best option.
I shaved last night. Now my hair once again is longer than my beard.
VIKING FUNERAL.
It is always a good look! I was surprised to see BeardyMcMuttonchops rocking the shaved head and beard this morning. But it totally suited him.
*sniff* what is it with this forum and the smell of burning hair?
Keep growing it!
Errggh, but it’s so patchy, and my cheek coverage is so bad!
Give it another month or two and you might surprise yourself. 🙂
THAT’S TOO LONG. I AM SO IMPATIENT, AND IT LOOKS SO BAD NOW.
mine’s patchy too
I ended up aborting mine a second time on Monday night because the itching was driving me utterly crazy. Shaved it off and my neck was all red and irritated from the scratching. 🙁
I don’t get much itching, maybe 20 minutes of it being a little annoying every second day, but it’s not so bad. I can only assume that I’m a wizard.
She’s so excited for your debut album.
You’re a monster.
Why are you looking at me like that.
Pffft you- you call that piano? More like pianLAMEO… *Plays the knuckle song*
seriously though that was pretty damn rad!Mate, mate, I will show you. *Plays Chopsticks*
Oh yeah? Well, *mary had a little lamb*
@redartifice @popdart5 and other RPG guys.
How do you distinguish time in your games? is it important? I’m finding only loose references to how long a turn should be, but am finding more reference to how long things should take?
any ideas? experiences?
I’m using Savage Worlds, but from memory this happens in other RPG’s too?
Smartarse answer: It’s how long the GM says it takes.
Actual answer: A round is generally six seconds in D&D. A turn should be enough time to
– React to the current situation
– Do something about it and
– maybe one other small thing.
Now I’ll play loose with that for narrative purposes- if someone says something like “I tie a rope on x” I’ll let them do it as an action, even though a rope probably takes more than six seconds to unloop and tie.
And this is the most important thing. Even when it causes weird inconsistencies, like when you get a job request from the adventurer’s guild to go rescue some people from some ogres that attacked a town that’s 3 weeks travel away…
And the fact that the request probably took 3 weeks to reach Xondol…
We love you popdart!And the people in that town specifically react with surprise when you show up because they didn’t think anybody was going to respond to their request.
Ah but here’s the reasoning. The town is three weeks travel away by foot. The town sent the request for aid by horse which can halve the travel time and they were hoping that whoever came to help them also came by horse. Hence why they were surprised as they expected someone to reach them almost two weeks before you guys rocked up.
I can get behind that.
The question for Dem’nion will be: Will he purchase a horse or will he attempt to learn the Mount level 1 spell and use that while travelling? 😛
@tech_knight Mount spell is overrated. Don’t take a spell that can be replaced by suitable amounts of money.
Yeah you’re right, needs more zappy zappy! *rubs hands together manacingly*
The magical postal service didn’t extend coverage to that hamlet as the cost benefit analysis deemed it unprofitable. #dealwithit 😛
Also: Only track time intimately if it’s important. only track ANYTHING if it’s pertinent. I don’t tend to track things like rations if characters are moving through populated or forested areas, as I assume characters find something to eat. Characters marching through a wasteland, however, it’s suddenly more narratively interesting.
Awesome, that’s extremely helpful, Only track time if I need to.
That then makes me question other stuff I’m seeing. Does that mean I shouldnt be putting stipulation on how far they can move unless its in a particular encounter (ie a battle or other such situation?)
Movement is only limited in battle phases, unless there is reason for the GM to intrude on how far they can go before they need to roll or something like that.
Edit: Examples would be climbing up a ledge, going around a corner the characters have never seen the other side of yet, etc
Excellent
Again: Only if it matters for your story.
I understand Savage Worlds is pretty loose with its stuff- it’s not like (some forms) of D&D which adhere to grid or feet based movement. Numenera works on an immediate (touching distance)/near (within throwing range)/far set of distances, with some effects only able to work in some of those zones.
Call it as you need to: Say “your character can get close but not close enough to hit this round” or “You can get up in his grille right now and strike”
Great, THank you so much 🙂
No prob man.
I’ve never run Savage Worlds- good? My understanding is it’s pulpy?
pretty much. The one shot I ran the other week was well recieved but I had no idea what I was doing.
Now they want to move further with it and so I have to actually understand rather than just read.
Basically the pulpiness depends on which Setting you run. I’m running Slipstream which is a Pulp Sci-fi/Space Setting (Think flash gordon) where they are stuck in a smashed galaxy on the other side of a black hole ruled by an evil queen.
I’m planning to run a character creation session with my group this weekend and see where it goes from there. Maybe even run the prologue from the Slipstream setting Core book.
Sounds awesome.
My 3 best GM tips:
1. You’re not the player’s enemy, you’re their facilitator
2. The rule of cool is the best rule
3. Mechanics are always, always abstracted. Don’t take them literally.
Yeah, I’m with Red, in that it’s really just how long the GM says.
That said, in Shadowrun, your average turn is 2-3 seconds, so you can charge a coupla meters and stab someone, or fire off a rifle and bolt-actionify it, or cry in the corner for 12 turns because you’re scared of combat You know, the usual.
Is that why you are always CHAAAAAAAARG-ing? To cover up your own fears and inadequacies?
I’m sure it’s because charging is awesome.
Make players account for every second of their time. Count 3 seconds to make a swing but another 2.5 to 4 to recover. 2 more seconds to look around. 1.5 seconds to make a decision. If they haven’t got folders full of actions and time logs they’re out of the game.
Hey, only if you’re using the H.E.R.O. system.
Or F.A.T.A.L., but no one should be going near F.A.T.A.L.
What the heck is F.A.T.A.L?
*googles*
…..
“The Date Rape RPG without the Dating”
….
So, how great is Pathfinder? Rogue Trader is also pretty great. Been having a blast playing them.
http://www.blogcdn.com/jobs.aol.com/articles/media/2010/03/cosmetic-counter-salesperson-200nm-getty-images.jpg
Ha.
God damn phone keeps changing all my words even if I’ve spelt them correctly. Typing in F.A.T.A.L is a nightmare.
FATAL is infamous in gaming circles for being rape obsessed and over statted.
Basically this is best summarised by the fact that the book has a table you roll on to determine anal circumference.
If you look around you can find examples of people actually attempting to play it for shits and giggles. All who have tried find nothing but a certain kind of despair, and it’s not an exercise I’d ever attempt. Product of a diseased mind.
Hehe.. a blast. It’s cuz you got lots of hits with your rockets. Also aren’t those rockets going to be HARD to find more of?
Just as planned.
I have the ability to adapt standard ammunition to my launcher at a slightly reduced efficiency.
Reduced efficiency in terms of ammunition capacity and also firing rate. But, it does enable you to use different types of missiles rather than just your standard Reaper Missiles (frag, krak, haywire, etc, etc).
Bwahahahahahaha. One day, I might just do this.
I used to use a program for D&D 3.5 as a campaign manager that also had a battle and turn manager. Pretty sure it tracked / logged time increments down to that level.
The general rule is one round of combat takes six seconds but Savage Worlds might use a different timescale for combat. Outside of combat, time can move as slowly or as quickly as you want. Certain actions or skills will invariably take longer but that depends on your ruling at GM.
For instance, in one of the games I run I quite literally had to calculate distances and the time it would take to travel because the party was interested in building a road from Town A to Town B. Time is more important in that regard but for long-term travel you can basically summarise it as it takes X number of days to get here.
Got called out for casual use of ‘groovy’ in conversation. Who doesn’t use ‘groovy’? This is normal, dammit!
I got called out for using ‘rad’…. WHAT’S WRONG WITH PEOPLE!!!
Right? Totally bodacious lingo like that is ubiquitous! It’s probably a campaign by all the ‘cool’ kids to rarify their own gnarly words by dissing the tubular ones the mainstream use.
Like, primo to the max.
Radical!
Who’s a radical?
lol yep, the meaning of the word got changed over the years, thanks media!
Didn’t radical mean now what it meant back in the 60’s? If anything, it was the 90’s that perverted the word, and only know has it been able to recover.
I use rad all the time 🙁
I got called out for using “crack-a-lakin’”, by an old man no doubt too! :’O
It is a pretty fetch word.
Word!
(The saddest thing is no-one gets it anymore when I respond to ‘how are you’ with ‘hip and froody’. Dammit… Douglas Adams, we’ll never forget you. But we will die too, and the younger generation… they will forget you.)
Hey, you dig that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a cool frood who really knows where his towel is
Bruce Campbell should have a word with them.
Between him and Duke keeping it fresh, I don’t think anyone’s ever STOPPED using the word!
Don’t forget this guy.
Right on.
Kk, dat use of ‘groovy’ in convo is so banter. You so extra.
…Slang sucks now.
I’m fairly certain Diablo 3 isn’t entirely clear on what the term Rare means. I miss the old days where even standard items could actually be better than your current Legendaries.
It was like that at launch.
Everyone complained about the drop rates, the weakness of legendaries, and so on and so forth, so it got patched to where it is today.
Misread that as “lunch”
Was thinking “Where the fuck has blaghs been eating?”
Oh good I wasn’t the only one.
It’s Blizzard. In the current WoW expansion there’s these so called “rare mobs” in every zone, in the 85-90 panda land. Each little zone of which there’s like 6 or 7 and they all have something like 6 or 7 rare spawns which once killed respawn somewhere between 30 minutes and 4 hours later depending on the loot they drop. Which is usually green bind on pickup armour and some gold, or if you’re lucky they only drop useless cooking materials worth a few copper!
Man, I got blue upgrades from those when I was leveling in Pandaria! But I was a blood DK. Didn’t need to wait to 90 to ninja them.
Always a nice upgrade, I never saw rogue gear from them when levelling, only ever useless plate or mail 🙁
I once got a purple BOE from a regular mob whilst doing a daily quest, man that sold for a pretty penny on the AH. I think I netted 50k from that one and 30k in cata from one I looted on Tol Barad.
I got a legendary book/plan thing to make a set of legendaries (green ones), they are so stupidly OP when I equipped them my I got worried that I’ll never find anything better and look the same forever, they were literally more than double the stats of the gear I was wearing.
Wasn’t Aughild’s set was it? It had near triple the armour of anything else. I’d lose a lot of attack power with it though so I crafted it all and sent it to @bdkiaf.
nice work, I didn’t realize I could gift them, might have to send a couple out. I can’t remember the name, but it was only lvl 41 gear. I have gotten so many legendaries as gifts from people, I swear every time I go back to town someone has sent me another one (I do have a lot of people on my friends list though)
They may not be actually sending them. When you kill a Nemesis and on rare occasions a gift for someone will drop and you just press X to send it.
They mean that if you cut open one of the copious quantities of yellow items, they’re still pink on the inside
Damn you Gridland.
Productivity is about to go negative today…
My friend put in a request for me to get admin rights to my computer the other week. Earlier this week, I got an e-mail back asking for reasoning as to why I need admin rights. I couldn’t think of any, so called my friend over to talk to him about it and still couldn’t really come up with anything that sounded like it justified it at all. So we decided eh, got too much other work to do, just leave it.
And now I’ve received an e-mail saying that the request has been reviewed, actioned and approved.
The “Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing” method pays off yet again! \o/
#gookyget
GET ON TWITTER THEN YOU’LL UNDERSTAND HASHTAG JOKES
No I won’t!
#Clueless #HashTagsForHarli #LookAtThisGuy
#TooOldForThisShit
#NeedMoreFibreInYourDiet
Boss: “My back hurts, I’m just going to go lie down for 5 minutes”
It’s been an hour.
He never said they would be five consecutive minutes.
Bloody hell. It’s been 14 minutes and the Diablo 3 credits are still rolling. I think they’re up to the people the QA Testers saw out the window while daydreaming.
Some of the Kickstarter games have credits that stretch on for what seems like eternity. It gets pretty ridiculous at times.
Sounds like Rayman Origins’ credits.
Well, the music wouldn’t I imagine.
You should see Skullgirls’s ‘Contributors’ list. Even when I pressed the speed up button, I still saw 10 minutes worth of names before I quit the game entirely.
NegativeZero’s Daily KanColle Event Progress Update No One Cares About.
I’m about halfway through Map E4 now, have sunk the boss five times and I estimate I need another four clears to beat the map. Have tonight, tomorrow and Friday morning to get this done.Sub node on the path I’m taking with my fleet is a massive troll. So far only had to turn back once, but had a touch & go run where Murasame got hit to orange damage. Proceeded to then dodge all attacks until taking a hit during the boss fight, but there was no risk to her going into the night battle because I’d already sunk the enemy fleet and the boss was below halfway. So that was good. Turning back sucks.
Drops have been really good. I mentioned previous update that I got Kumano from my first run. Subsequently got Hayashimo, which is one of the two new destroyers for the event which only drop randomly from event maps. Also got another Hiei, a second Amatsukaze (which I have kept, because she comes with a super rare steam boiler engine and gives you a unique upgraded turbine if you level her to Kai) and Yuugumo. Unfortunately already have Yuugumo, but nice drop either way.
Noticed that my Bauxite has been taking a massive hit from the runs I’ve been doing. 400-500 per E4 run. Very unsustainable. This morning I re-allocated my carriers such that I have Reppu fighters on the biggest slots, which should mean more fighter cover and consequently air superiority which in turn should mean lower bauxite hits, less damage from enemy aircraft, and artillery spotting support for my cruisers and battleships. The downside is that it may mean I struggle to take down the Boss fleet as easily. Will have to see tonight.
I’m down to next to zero buckets now, so I’m not confident I’ll manage to beat E4 before my deadline, especially since I can’t play tomorrow morning to do some quick dailies etc. as I have a 10am meeting. But hopefully I will, so I can add Tokitsukaze to my list of destroyers I never use because fuck destroyers. 😛
I also finally managed to build another Shiratsuyu. She’s a super common Destroyer so when I ditched the one I had months ago to make space, I thought it wouldn’t matter. But it’s taken until now for me to replace her again. So that’s nice. Want to get her to Kai level so I can get her upgraded artwork.
Going forward after the event is over on Friday, my intention is to first get Kiso the final level she needs to get to her badass torpedo cruiser mode (still probably the best art in the game) and then my focus will move. Will be aiming to try and clear out World 3 and World 4 maps, which means I need some good heavy cruisers. Luckily the event forced my hand on that, but I want to capitalize a bit. That means getting Tone to 60 and ideally remodelled, as well as Haguro and probably Myoukou to 60 as well. Haguro’s a lot of the way there already so I’m hoping this won’t take too long. I’m also very close to getting Chitose and Chiyoda to their final forms, so that’ll also be on the radar, but I’ll probably do that just as a side effect of leveling the others – same for my Subs, who are about 30 total levels away from being able to do the expedition that will unlock German ships. A bigger long-term goal (because of the levels involved) will be to get Souryuu to 78 so she can get her Kai-2 remodel as well. I’d also like to do the same with Haruna, but will probably aim to just sub her in for Kongou or Hiei in PVP exercises for a while and that will do the bulk of it. My Haruna’s already 74 so not far to go, where Souryuu is still down in the mid-50s.
Finished the walking dead.
I’m just… done.
Killed Kenny. Stayed with Jane. Let family in. Played through all the endings- it really, genuinely feels as if both Kenny and Jane didn’t feel the consequences of what they did. Really wish there was a option for Clem to give them a proper, verbal thrashing about, especially with Kenny- if you understand what Jane did and with the question of Kenny’s sanity still up in the air, it makes you feel a hell of a lot more hollow than if you straight up kill him. His ending(s), however, is just… it’s bullshit. It’s the perfect Walking Dead ending. Jane’s endings feel like a question mark. Kenny’s endings just feels like a bloody mark on the ground.You bastard!
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People. What a bunch of bastards.
I only read the first bit then closed it. Also have never watched the show or played the game and have no idea what’s going on.
Read the comics? Happiest medium of the walking dead so far. That’s saying something.
I don’t think I’ve read a comic book since getting those X-men ones in showbags from the Easter Show as a kid.
You’re missing out!
Maybe. I kinda feel like I don’t “get” them though. But then since internet happened I’ve become pretty crappy at reading books too, don’t think I’ve done that since highschool, except for the various Harry Potter entries that came out after that.
One friend lent me his paperback copy of Watchmen when someone gave him the Absolute edition for Christmas. I ended up giving it back to him a couple of years later as a 21st “present”, still unread >_>
I shot Kenny and regret it. The moment I found out Jane’s ploy I ditched her. Why would anyone trust someone who has people killed to prove a point?Kenny was nuts too, but he was kind of a contrast; more of a good person who did bad things because of his past, whereas Jane was a bad person who only did good things when it served her.
Kenny dying and Clem’s dream got me in the feels more than anything else this season.
Jane certainly played Kenny but I have a feeling it spiraled out of control for her. She put her knife away and everything and Kenny just attacked. It was brutal and horrible but he reacted poorly. Think less of Jane after learning what she did but I can understand why she was so desperate to show Clem how dangerous Kenny had become.This was exactly my thinking.
They were both horrible, really. It was just a case of the lesser of two evils, and that’s subjective. For me, it was Kenny.Excited for season three!
Jane pretty much admits she sticks around for you; I imagine she’s just as dedicated as Kenny as to your survival. Doesn’t excuse that she did something insane, though.She has all that baggage with her little sister too that she just left behind. She had no history with Kenny and only ever knew him as this crazy guy who seemed to have power over Clem.Lots of projection going on- Kenny raising a kid, Jane with her little sister. Now that I think about it both characters are a bad influence on Clem. The problem is, I don’t think it’s the idea of abandoning Kenny the madman as it is abandoning Kenny the human being. This is the first time Clem has had to straight up abandon the high moral ground, and the fact that people are willing to subject Clementine to it so easily is disturbing; again, I’m talking about how there seemed to be little consequence felt by Kenny/Jane after it all went down.EDIT
To expand on morals, it’s sad that we can make Clem into a paragon and give her the ideal of holding unto her humanity over surviving, but she cannot enforce this during conversation. The only time she can force these ideals is in the spur of the moment or if she has to make the decision herself, but even then everybody’s set in their own ways since it’s been a long, long apocalypse and their judgement often than not is harsh. It makes me think that if she were older and experienced and actually larger in stature, she could actually talk her way into defusing moments, like Lee did once or twice.Yeah, I was just as annoyed as you of how limited the dialogue was. Here’s hoping we get a chance next season. I think they had a good group there for a moment. The night at the power station. Luke was the glue that held them all together and it imploded after he died. Arrrrgh. Poor Clem.About your edit:
The cool thing about that camp fire is it reminded everyone just how young Clem was. When they were talking about Luke and Jane having sex they realized how inappropriate it was to discuss it with Clem there. When they offered her cigarettes and alcohol. Clearly they didn’t think of her as a kid but it reminded me as a player that she was. Kind of changed how I saw her in that group. When Bonnie kind of scoffed when Clem said she felt respected, I felt a little powerless for her. :'(Fuck, there were far too many “LET’S REMINISCE ABOUT THE PAST HUR HUR DEATH FLAGS RAISED EVERYWHERE” moments.And your edit
The more I think about it, the more I realize Bonnie’s existence just straight up makes you inadequate as the protagonist. Straight from the get go she attempts to appeal to you desperately and treats you as a kid, but never actually converses to you on a normal level. This episode was chock full of “You’re a kid” and “You’re a kid and I’ll treat you like one but your actions will still be weighed as much as a adult’s!”Semi-related, but I think the Jane-Kenny kerfuffle made you appreciate Lee as a character more, and Telltale probably knew it, what with the dream scene and all.Amazing game.
Spoilers for the season two finale of The Walking Dead. Read at your own risk:
I protected the baby. I figured for Clem this took her all the way back to the season premiere with Omid and Christa, pregnant one minute and bitter and broken the next. This in my mind had haunted her the entire season. How good intentions can end catastrophically. Live or die, she was going to make it right and save the baby. Also had an inkling the Ruskie wasn’t going to shoot Clem. Who would shoot a little girl? A monster, that’s who!
Didn’t drink the alcohol. Didn’t smoke. Said they were being gross when talking sex. XD
I went to help Luke.
I had just told him the night before that I would go back for him. Bonnie was right, Clem was light and had the best chance of helping him out while Bonnie covered the two. This was utterly horrific and I felt terrible. This was the first group member in a long time that felt like a blow to Clem. That she and everyone else was mourning. It’s not that the others were expendable but you pick yourself up and carry on after something horrible happened. Was different with Luke.
I had no intention of leaving with Mike and Bonnie and Arvo either. Clem was beginning to think there was no going back for Kenny but she wasn’t going to leave Jane and the baby either. There was still an idea that she could stop things from escalating further. I tried to show some good will and gave Mike my gun but Arvo shot Clem. Holy fuck, man. That was so tense. That flashback to Lee and Clem too nicely framed the argument for Kenny without feeling gratuitous.
I shot Kenny. This was awful. I might have cried. He was more dangerous in this world in the state he was in then zombies. Clem was in a terrible situation where it was him or Jane. She chose Jane. She wouldn’t allow Kenny to murder her and could understand everyone else’s opinions on Kenny. They had a history but he was broken and disturbed and genuinely scary to the others and Clem. My Clem is seriously pissed that Jane put her in this situation, but felt it hand to be done.
I left with Jane but things in my mind aren’t good with those two. I didn’t answer any of Jane’s questions. A first for me. I rarely let the timer run out. Clem was pissed but she also knows Jane’s a good person and there’s safety in numbers. I can’t wait to see how this plays out next season.
I let the family in. Clem wasn’t going to let the world destroy her like it had with Kenny.
Brilliant season.
Yeah, he was just.. crazy. Heart went with Kenny, mind went with Jane. I dunno if Clem really thought to kill Kenny because he would get them all killed- she killed him because he would, at that moment, kill Jane. Don’t think I’ll ever forgive her for it, though. Story wise, it was admittingly very easy to see where the finale would end, but I expected to choose between Luke & Kenny. Did not see the betrayal coming at all.My Clem was mentally preparing to leave with Jane any way. It was just finding the time and place to do it. She had no intention of killing him though. That was horrific. Will be interesting to see where season three ends up with all our versions in different places.
Loved the whole conversation about Carly/Doug/Lily. Put the whole season in perspective.
Bonnie too, man. What a screw up. She’ll always choose the wrong thing to do given a chance. :'(
Same choices as me \o/
Twins! 😀
Jane really isn’t a good person. Most of her “benevolence” throughout the game outside of Clementine seems to be a means to an end (hell, she even used Clem to prove a point) and she’s very calculating and manipulative. That isn’t a good thing to do, and based on her record there’s a chance she could turn on Clem should an event happen. So, I left.I think they’re more broken rather than bad. Messed up by the world. I see your point though.I got the baby. Luke was all “Holy shit, I didn’t even see him there.” Yeah, good one, Luke. You seemed like such a competent survivalist in Episode 1. Why are you so dumb now?I tried to help Luke. I knew it was dumb the second I did it. Horrible scene. I’m assuming he died either way, but damn. All the guilt. Very bad.JANE! KENNY! THEY’RE ROBBING US! Didn’t have any sympathy for Bonnie or Mike. They didn’t even leave half the supplies behind. That was the ultimate decider. I’d already ‘ranked’ the remaining people in my group, and Kenny and Jane and AJ were the only ones I’d go to the wall for.Oh my God, I killed Kenny – I’m a bastard (someone had to say it). I hated doing it, but he was out of control. I told him he’d be seeing Katjaa and Duck soon. It was all I could do for him.Wept with frustration when I realised that Jane had totally set him up. Fuck you, Jane. You’re out of my life. I let her have the rough side of my tongue (Clem swore for the first time and told her she was FUCKING NUTS). Walked away alone. Jane begged, Clem kept walking. Sorry Jane, you’re the one who prepped me for this. You’re the one who said I could make it on my own.Final scene was Clem walking headlong into a pack of lurkers with AJ in her arms, all smeared up with guts. Kind of bleak, but very Die Hard. Are there different endings?What’s all this letting the family in stuff? Must be one of the different endings… I dinna get that one.Yeah, I went with Jane. I wasn’t happy with it but you end up going back to Carver’s place. A family arrives at the gate and you have to decide whether you let them in. Tense scene. Lady lunges at Jane but turns out to be hugging her. They notice the guns on the survivors, share a look, but let them in any way. Fade to black.So about that nail polish that detects date rape drugs.
I think it’s a great idea. However, some of Kochie’s angels completely disagreed and said they shouldn’t have to watch out for date rape drugs.
Uh, wth is wrong with you woman? In a perfect world, yeah, it wouldn’t be needed, however, the point is it does happen and this way women can protect themselves.
They should make a clear one or some kind of temporary tattoo version for men, is it’s not as common, but it does happen.
I like the idea of the detectors but I have no clue where the nail polish idea came from. I’m thinking this is more something that should be freely distributed and readily available, like condoms.
I’d say the idea of the nail polish is that it’s subtle.
Disregard. I have no idea what I’m on about.
Date rape drug detecting condoms? Might be a little after the fact there.
You’re twisting my words! Argh!
I dunno if they’d work. Granted, I didn’t read the article. I’ve heard tons of stories of drinks getting spiked with who-knows-what. Not sure if it’s a ‘selection of date rape drugs’ every time ..
There about 3 or 4 that are most common and easiest to get hold of do they’re concentrating on those.
Yeah I’d have imagined that, but are the majority of the ‘drink spikes’ even date rape drugs? Let alone 3-4 of the most common?
Completely unknown to me, but I’d say that a bunch of drink spikes are just some random shit like a mix of eccy’s and other trash. Do you know?
It really depends on the motivation behind it. Generally if it’s a woman being spiked 90% of the time it will be by a man looking to take advantage and will be using those general ones. Men happens to as well but a lot more “prank spiking” or trying to hurt them then women.
Alright. I don;t know much about it, most just from a couple cases while at uni. A few times it was the females (they were out for 16+hrs), another few times the dudes drank the girly drink and felt like shit (body can handle it better).
She’s right, though. People shouldn’t have to watch out for date rape drugs. It’s another form of victim blaming, putting the onus back on the victim to protect themselves when in reality boys should be taught that they have no dominion over other people’s bodies.
Yes, it’s a good idea, but yes it’s also a bad idea in that it’s not a solution to the problem.
You should be able to walk down a city street at 2 am with $1000 cash in your hands without getting robbed but you’d be stupid to do so. It’s not victim blaming in any way. It’s more not diving into shark infested waters in the middle of a feeding frenzy without a cage.
People suck. They’re always going to suck. Best thing to do is take precautions against them.
Ehh, it’s not really the same thing.
It’s more like a guy going out on the town and bumping into some drunk dude and getting punched in the face.
Said guy was not stupid, just maybe should have been more aware of those kinda situations and careful of his surroundings. Maybe take a boxing lesson, just in case.
*Insert a whole bunch of things that I should be able to do with no repercussions.*
Can’t control the world, only yourself.
Have you met the kind of dick heads that would consider using date rape drugs? Trust me when I say engaging in any kind of rational conversation with them is a lost cause, let alone expecting them to show any form of empathy to another living creature, let alone a human being.
This way we give a form of defense to their victims, until society gets their head out of their arse and stops shoving rape cases under the proverbial rug.
Edit: Also what freeze has said.
I find that trying to find a solution to the problem of date rapists is akin to trying to fix people intentionally go out to king hit. No matter how much education there is or community condemnation of the activity, there are some people who are just so utterly amoral, malicious, and sociopathic that they will never change their behaviour.
For those few incredibly despicable people, things like the nail polish are useful to prevent against those sorts of predators.
As much of ‘teach them not to rape’ seems like the best course of action, it’s already being done, and it doesn’t work. The kind of people that rape other people aren’t likely to change their minds. I would assume most rapists are wired through genetics to have a dominant personality/mindset, and there isn’t any real way to stop arseholes from being arseholes, unfortunately. Rapists probably know they are doing wrong, but they obviously don’t care if they are raping people.
Besides, ‘teach them not to rape’ is already part of the sex ed curriculum. Although, from my experience, what I was taught was less about ‘don’t rape’ as it was about ‘don’t assume you have been given consent.’ Really, the way they taught it was really weird, come to think of it.
I do feel a rather sad that this is necessary, though. This is something society has gotten to, and that is freaking terrible. People definitely should not have to fear such things, but have to anyway.
I don’t know if I have the best perspective on this. I grew up when the ‘fear white vans’ craze reached its peak, and I basically interpreted the campaign as ‘assume all strangers are rapists.’ I was terrified of being raped whenever I walked the streets. A part of me still does. I took an alternate route to avoid walking opposite someone just today. This is the first time I’ve done that in months.
Hell, I’d probably be the first person to use the product everyone is talking about when a men’s version comes out.
Anyway this ramble is now (thankfully) over.
So how does that work anyway? Presumably it requires contact, but isn’t sticking your finger in a drink someone gives you and then staring at your fingernails going to be a bit obvious? I would expect the social pressure around it would be such that someone would only bother using it if they had reasonable suspicion, and in which case the answer actually should be that if you’re hanging out with people you suspect are going to try and drug you that maybe you should try a different social circle? It also assumes that someone is going to be in a state that they can check, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you see a fair number of people that put the magic nail polish on but get handed something by someone after their 4th or 5th one and don’t check because it doesn’t enter into their minds.
I’d also be worried that if it’s effective it pushes people away from common stuff to things that might be more exotic and possibly more illegal or having more dangerous side-effects.
That said, it doesn’t seem like a terrible idea. I’m just not sure how practical it will actually be.
Nah, women very frequently go to bars to meet new people, and pick up even.
The problem with date-rape drugs is that, y’know… the drug facilitates rape, which is the violation of choice.
A woman can drink a drink bought for her by a stranger she thinks is cute, and even consider sleeping with him, but there’s nothing wrong with taking the precaution that ensures that sleeping with him is HER decision as well, not just his alone.
It wouldn’t help if your drink was spiked with extra alcohol, and that’s a common tactic. Your vodka and diet coke suddenly becomes a double or a triple.
Hell, people can do that to THEMSELVES if they’re not careful.
First time I turned down sex with someone I really wanted to do it with was because she was trashed.
Enh. It’s a good idea. ‘Shouldn’t have to do it’ is pretty pointlessly naive thinking.
I shouldn’t have to lock my door without worrying about people stealing my shit, but it’s a precaution I can take that I’ve incorporated painlessly into my life.
I mean, sure… People on some trip about ‘the principle of things’ can traipse blithely through life as if the world is the way it should be.
…I’m sure their family and loved ones will miss them.
Edit: Moral: Take the world as it is not as you wish it was, change what you can, protect against what you can’t.
“Why should women learn to protect themselves when we could just teach men not to rape?” is like asking “Why do we need locks instead of just teaching people not to steal?”. It’s the kind of logic a five year old uses because the concepts they’re trying to comprehend are completely new to them.
For otherwise rational adults, that’s just not good enough.
Most people don’t rape or otherwise set out to harm. Whether by instinct or social upbringing we understand these are bad and we don’t do them. But there are bad people out there, and it’s in everyone’s best interests to take precautions against those dangers. I’d love to live in a world where you don’t need to watch out for people spiking drinks, decking people in the back of the head, stealing, raping, murdering, abusing children etc. but I’d rather be prepared to identify and deal with those issues that do exist instead of throwing my hands up and refusing to educate myself because the world isn’t how it should be.
So I’ve just gotten round to pre-ordering Destiny from JB Hi Fi (with my $100 gift card I won \o/) and am getting really excited now!!
I didn’t play the beta, but got a resounding feel from everyone that it is pretty awesome.
Just wondering if there are many TAYbies who will be picking it up on Xbone? It’d be great to have some people to run around with in the AEST timezones as most of my friends are a couple hours ahead in NZ.
Also, is the loot distribution similar to that of Borderlands? Where it’s just a free for all sort of thing.
Destiny \o/
I’m getting it on PS4. Suspect that’s the case with a lot of people here but maybe not everyone.
Fairly sure that loot only drops for you. Chests are a free-for-all, first to grab it, gets it. You can’t trade items between players either, apparently.
I like the loot being like that, but the no trade thing is a bit of a bummer. I thought most here would be PS4… :'(
BTW, I watched first half of Particle Fever and it’s awesome.
Chests seemed to work like this:
Me, you and Jumpman are in a squad: you and I are in a room looking at a chest, Jumpman is outside shooting stuff.
You open the chest, you get loot.
To me the chest is still there and closed and I can also loot it. But if I turn around it will vanish.
To Jumpman, not being at the chest as you opened it, it will be gone even if he comes in the room just after, even if he saw the chest before you opened it and then left the room.
Ah, that makes sense.
I didn’t get to play MP with anyone (no one was on on my friends list as my friends list is pretty bare) during the beta so didn’t get to experience this properly 🙁
Ahh ok that’s cool. So if you are with a party, whoever sees the chest can call everyone over to it before they open it and effectively everyone can get its contents.
IMO game looks bland. But it’s something that should be fun to mindlessly grind on my own and (primarily) shoot shit up with friends on the mic.
PS4 is console of choice, mainly because it’s the console of choice in general. But I know a whole bunch with Xbones and I’m sure you’ll bump into some here.
Loot – it’s been explained, I guess. Loot drops when randomly fighting are for you only.
Trading – I’m not too fussed. As I said, the game is bland. There isn’t a good reason IMO to enable trading. You can literally spend another half an hour max and just get what you want.
Similar thoughts, here. Getting it anyway. 🙂
I’m just hoping for a new Borderlands sort of experience. If it can deliver something close to that I think I’ll be happy. The fact that it also has the versus multiplayer mode is a bonus for me.
Many people have compared it to Borderlands, so I’m sure you’ll like it. I played a couple hours of BL and it feels familiar.
I’m getting it on Xbone. Don’t have a PS4 yet and the Xbox is my preference/lead console regardless.
Trusty Kermitron. I thought you would and I suppose @black_dahlia_nz is as well although he’s NZ.
I have so many ideas buzzing through my head right now. Chances are one of them will end up in a RPG in the future and a few of them are guaranteed to show up in the TAY RPG games. 😀
I also enjoy putting on personas way too much (although I still need to work on being more Orky for 40K).
I can’t help but laugh at whenever the Orks talk cuz I absolutely love their voice/dialect. I think I need to try and make Dem’nion’s persona/voice more consistent.
At least you’ve got Nigel Thornberry I mean Jarallius down pat. 😛
Well… I’m thinking about going back to my original voice for Jarallius. It felt like attempting Nigel felt very forced when I tried it 😛
Edit: Is it good to you guys or very cringeworthy-kind of bad?
Considering it’s 40K, I don’t have an issue with it. The setting is filled with larger-than-life characters and well, commissars are certainly guilty of having outrageous accents. Ham and cheese is perfectly acceptable.
Well, if you did this with your hands…..
Considering how I was rolling last session in my attacks, I thought I was…
Dick Smith online currently has an Hour of Power! Cheap(er) red and blue DualShock 4s!
Crap, that hour went pretty quick.
10 minutes is the new 1 hour. Did you not get the memo?
Powalen’s Adventures with Clients at Work *jingle*
Got another batch of photos for use on an all-boys private school website. They’re all photos of boys being absurdly happy with arms around each other being all chummy and such.
One of the photos is of a boy literally choking another kid and they are both laughing like they’re having a whale of a time.
“Come to our school! Violence is a laughing matter! :D”
Yeah. Everyone knows that when you’re being choked you should just look really, really, bored.
Your work stories are hilarious and totally wtf at the same time.
Time for ontargett’s infrequent, sporadic and rare weightloss update
Had my final assessment for my exercise program today. Had to do a couple of physical tests including a modified beep test. My performance improved in all those. Had to weigh in, and I’m down to 151 kg (after hitting 168 kg 22 weeks ago). My body fat has gone from 54% to 44%, and my muscle has increased too. I’ve also lost another 5 cm around my waist. The trainers were really pleased with me and I’m really proud of myself. \o/
Well done! 😀
Grats!
All the zig zag track runs! 😛
That’s awesome. 10% body fat is a huge amount, you’ve probably lost way more than the raw 17kg difference because of that.
Dude that’s awesome work.
You should be very proud of yourself. Keep going with the awesomeness!
Great work man, keep it up.
Just killed my first shadow lord in risen 3!! well.. 2 actually!
I used a thief’s potion to open 2 100 and 120 strength chests I found, and inside was a sword!Spoiler tag in case you dun wanna find out what it was!
Spirit Sword 55-85 Damage + 10 Piercing!! Hot Damn!Found it on Calador btw!
Anyone interested in watching if I was to attempt streaming it?
I’ve killed two shadow lords already and I acquired the bonus shadow heart that you can get.
I think I’ve got a 45-70 sword with +10 Pistol. It glows blue as well.
i think that’s the mages foil? Pretty sure I have that too! Nice to find some decent equipment at last! I was thinking of going with that later, but not sure yet. I found a kickass crossbow too! Does 70 damage and I have a ring that gives +5 to crossbow, so gonna try that out soon 🙂
I’m on Calador now, and it seems that every chest I come across is “locked”, haven’t learnt how to pick locks yet.
There are a few out there that are unlocked, but you really should learn some level of lockpicking, certainly if you’re not going to be a mage.
I wanna play Mario kart and Rayman Legends, but I also wanna play with people. *pout*
Rayman is so damn fun to play with people, but Mario Kart multi is still fun with strangers. 😀
2015 Movie Release Schedule
http://www.firstshowing.net/schedule2015/
There’s an Assassin’s Creed movie due in August with Fassbender? Apparently the release date is still holding even though they have yet to write the script….
Doesn’t look like there’s anything that’ll interest me until May.
Another Friday The 13th Reboot, so much for the reboot writers & director getting their sequel like they said 🙁
Can only spot a few there and by few, like 3, that being Fast & Furious 7, Friday The 13th & Goosebumps.
Maybe The Hunger Games along with Jurassic Park too.
They’re making another Hitman movie? Why?
Huh, so turns out we’re going to see Queen tonight.
Good to know.
So quiet around these parts these days :\
It’s kinda, sad :'(
What am I supposed to do while I’m at uni without you guys to talk to?! :’O
Just wanted to let you guys know that you’re all pretty cool dudes (even the ladies, you’re the coolest of dudes), and that I’m glad I stumbled into TAY all those months ago 🙂
Are you on twitter? Most of us chat on twitter if not on here.
I am, but err’body being quiet there too 😛
I blame being 2 hours behind :\
I miss all the discussions these days :'(
Edit: That awkward moment where I’m already following you, but you’re not following me…
:'(
I am now (at least I hope that’s you I followed).
Don’t worry, y’all get distanced with us by another hour in about 6 weeks!
:'(
I already feel separated from my friends, this just extra sucks :'(
Don’t worry all the Qld TAYbies will still only be 2 hrs apart. Only us jerks in NSW, ACT, Vic & Tassie will be 3 hours ahead.
I did sound quite rude before, I do apologise man, I never intended to be rude to you cause you don’t deserve that. I know your pain with time zones, I wish they didn’t exist lol. My pain with them is there’s 9 hours difference between me & my friend in England so it makes talking to her hard, we some how make it work, even if i’m up until 3 or 4am lol. Whilst we can get a fair bit of time in to chat each day, it would suck way less if we both lived in the same or similar time zones.
Hahaha, no need to apologise, it’s not like you can help the timezones or anything 😛
I kinda just wish I was closer to my friends (you guys) sometimes is all :\
It’s weird not being able to see my friends is all, or even communicate meaningfully :’S
I’ve been pretty quiet all ’round lately, been at work a fair bit this week.
Am I one of the cool dudes or the pretty ones?! I need to know dammit!
Ugh…
The lack of fucks I give right now is just way, way too high…
Why does everything feel like such an effort?
New batch of Dreamfall Chapters 4K screenshots are just beautiful. Can’t wait to explore Stark and Arcadia again! :’) http://imgur.com/a/pQlSQ#1
Could you run it in 4K?
The dev has been all week and says you can’t go back afterwards. So I’m assuming it’s possible. I won’t be able to, though. :'(
This is the sequel to 2006’s Dreamfall, btw. Episodic. First ep out in November.
Will fill The Walking Dead void nicely. 😀
Huh. Didn’t realize it was that close.
There’s still time to open The Fringe Cafe with your brother! The plan was a good one!
Tor Linkladen (orwhateverhisnameis) music was fantastic.
I need to go find that again. I swear I had a legit copy somewhere…
Although I think I bought one copy of the soundtrack that had all the ambient shit EXCEPT the cafe tracks.
I gotta admit… I never finished Dreamfall. Neither Zoe or her world gripped me the way April and the first settings did. I gotta get back and do that. The story looked like it was going to bend a lot more complicated in a pleasing way.
Red Thread Games have said they have plans to make an April centric The Longest Journey 2 after Chapters, just so you know. Point and click too.
Bouncing off @quiz_b ‘s conversation of best piece of music from a video game, here is my succinct response.
It changes from week to week, but no matter what, the answer will always be from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Time. I’m typically say I Don’t Want To Say Goodbye, but I don’t feel like crying today. So I’m going to say the Time Gear theme, purely because 3/5 of the soundtrack is just a remix of that theme that they someone how make sadder with every iteration.
EDIT: This is were I went completely off the rails with my rambling. Enjoy.
I suppose it’s also a reflection of the game itself. When you first encounter a time gear, it’s not really a melancholy experience, but rather a period of curious awe. But as you go through the game, they slowly become a symbol of every hardship you’ve suffered through.
The more I think about it, the song itself is a representation of the game. When you first hear it, the song is mostly mysterious, but there is a tiny melancholy section in there. You are somewhat perplexed when you first hear that melacholy section, because this Time Gear is a thing of beauty; there’s no sadness that could come from this thing. Then, as the game gets on and this theme gets remixed, the melancholy section becomes more prominent, and the mysterious section that was once the dominating force of this song becomes mere memory. The Time Gears aren’t a mystery by this point. You know them well, and the mere sight of one is a painful reminder of, well, everything. Hardship, sacrifice, and the true cost of your actions.
Oh my god, you sick bastard, are you even considering the consequences of what you are doing? When you finally die there will be a long list of everyone that you screwed over. That list probably comprises millions, you sick f*ck.
Ahem, so yeah. I think it’s pretty good and representative of the game as a whole. I think listening to this theme as I wrote this was a mistake.
I’m gonna go with the Crisis Core OST. Huh, Deja Vu; I think I’ve said this before.
You know I think I should tag @jajabinks2 just to see his thoughts on this.
It ‘s such a simple song, but somehow it just manages to capture everything about not only the mystery of the time gears, but about the adventure that takes part on the game.
One of my other favourites was the march/Treasure Town theme. The woodwind tune always got stuck in my head.
If we are to draw up a list of what separates man from animal, toward the top of that list will be hot showers.
Scalding hot showers, enough to lobsterfy anyone in under a minute. With powerful, powerful water pressure, strong enough to cut a phone book in half.
I fucking love scalding hot showers. I mean, I can’t step into one, but by the end the cold water tap might only be turned a millimetre 😛
I got out of the shower once and Oliver’s just like “fucking hell, what happened to you? You’re bright red!”. He thinks I’m insane 🙁
Those two, and wearing pants.
In some respects we have lost more than we gained, with that advance. OH TO BE FREE FROM THE TYRANNY OF PANTS! Telecommuting… one day, I swear.
You look too much into it! I was just referencing Pearl Jam’s Do the Evolution! 😛
Best. Music video. Ever.*
(*Not actually the best ever. But pretty good.)
Well, if we’re talking best music video ever I’d have to say Duran Duran’s Girls on Film.
Guy at my work in a different team/office stay’s home sometimes when he’s only got videoconferences on… throws a business shirt and tie on. Sits at kitchen table in his undies. Bastard.
Just has to remember to turn the selfie cam OFF when getting up to go to the toilet though, am I right? 😀
Was just watching tv when my wiiu woke up and showed 3 new vehicles for mario kart 8 for free!
The Mercedes ones?
yeah that’s the ones
So… Five Nights at Freddy’s looks pretty interesting, eh?
*hides under bedcovers*
Never heard of it… What is it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Nights_at_Freddy's
A point and click survival horror game where you play the role of a security guard at a family restaurant with animatronic robots, who appear to take on a different light after the lights go out…
Demo here:
http://www.indiedb.com/games/five-nights-at-freddys/downloads/five-nights-at-freddys-demo-113
Now that looks like a interesting game. Will have to give it a try.
Oh, I always assumed it was a Freddy Kreuger tie-in game.
Fifteen years ago..
I would listen to Triple J religiously. Then, up until not that long ago I would alternate between Triple M and 5AD depending on wheat song was currently playing. I would always leave the station playing if they pulled out a classic; Bowie, Queen, Beatles. You know the rest.
This month I made the change to Cruise1323. That’s right, AM. It’s the frequency that sounds fuzzy as fuck. But eight times out of ten the songs are fantastic so there’s that. No more alternating. Last song played: Ichycoo Park! Am I getting old?
So! Fifteen Years Ago… it’s a thing! Let’s hear it from everyone! 😀
Fifteen years ago…
I was eight.
Need more information. 😛 Come on! Let’s make this fun and share some interesting stories. Otherwise we’ll all just become boring fucks that regurgitate the latest world news over TAY.
I played mostly PC Format demo discs on our Pentium 100, as well as Where’s Wally at the Circus?, Stunts, Cricket 96, Manic Karts, and others I can’t remember.
It was also the year we got a Playstation with two Dualshock controllers and a copy of Gran Turismo.
No effing way. I totally played Stunts, too!
Fifteen years ago I was also eight. It was also 1999.
A bit bland, needs work.
Look, it doesn’t have to be fifteen years to the date. Merely a story or two that’s a window in time to your perhaps different self. Something we don’t know about you maybe?
When I was 10 or 11 I owned Chocolate Starfish & The Hot Dog Flavoured Water by Limp Bizkit, those were the days it had lots of swearing so it was cool!
Also in 2000 I got a postcard from the Norwegian Olympics team, it was signed by all 5(?) of them! I still have it.
I still love Limp Bizkit.
I don’t mind them these days. But only in small doses. Only a few bands from my young days stuck with me, one being Slipknot and the other Green Day. The rest I sorta just left behind.
Their best of is actually quite a good collection. The last few songs on that compilation take an interesting mellow turn that works really well but my favourite will always be My Way. And Boiler. And Take a Look Around. And Rollin ..crap, they’re all good.
I only ever liked few others of theirs outside of Chocolate Starfish, that being Break Stuff, Nookie & Gold Cobra heh.
Fifteen years ago I was 17 and in year 10 also was my last year of high school.
Very honest! Not everyone could have admitted that. Thank you!
15 years ago I was in prep. My teacher was Mrs Bennett and I still find her daughter attractive.
My parents bought me a blue walkman that year and I listened to my cassette of The Wiggles on it constantly, and also my audio cassette of The Lion King. I was pretty awesome.
That’s more like it! Walkman! Fark yeah!
Fifteen Years Ago I was listening to music on my rad new MiniDisc player that I had meticulously recorded from the radio.
I think I was in grade 10 or 11?
OOOOOOOOOLD MAN FREEZE!
<3 you dudeOh man, the MiniDisc craze! I was there! Nice one.
15 years ago I was 6.
I don’t remember what I was doing while I was 6 😛
Probably sucking on my thumb, being adorable and stuff ;D
Now I’m feeling old though :\
I totally remember having a Peter Pan t-shirt that my mum bought me when I was six, Hook had just been released in cinemas. They also bought me the action figure and I still have it.
Of course you can remember things from six years of age!
I remember the Agro Album on cassette tape was my favourite thing ever as a six year old
…nope, can’t remember a thing :\
My earliest memory is probably from when I was 4 though (a rogue, blurred memory).
I was in the back seat of my family car, with my sisters and my mum.
We were on our way to the movies to see Anastasia, when my dad called my mum telling her it was snowing nearby, and that we should go to the snow instead.
We went to see Anastasia, since we weren’t dressed for snow.
That’s the earliest memory I can remember 🙂
It’s a good memory (for me, anyway).
Memories are the best.
Except for the ones that, you know, suck 😛
I think I have more bad than good memories, like my father leaving (which happend probably around when I was 6, now that I think about it. Repressed memories!).
Other highlights include:
– Shredding my foot open on bike spokes– Feeling different for most of my early years
– Breaking bones, frequently
– Worrying about a medical condition for years (not gonna discuss)
– Feeling outcast all through highschool (obvious reason)
– Hating all my jobs
– Etc…
Good memories are good, though there’s plenty of bad memories too 😛
All those things make you you, good or bad.
True story. I read about Nathan Lane today regarding the first time he told his mother that he was gay. She replied, ‘I’d rather you were dead.’ He replied, ‘I knew you’d understand.’
Such an hilarious guy!
Oh yeah, I know it’s all what’s shaped me into who I am 🙂
Doesn’t mean they’re fond memories though 😛
I more look forward to the memories I’m yet to make 🙂
Triple J was awesome fifteen years ago. So many awesome Aussie Bands. Pretty sure I went to Homebake that year and saw Something for Kate. Machine Gun Fellatio, TISM and Sonic Animation all on the same bill. Good times.
Holy crap I think I have a crush on you. Don’t tell Batguy. Crushes! They were totally a thing!
That’s so awesome! Thank you for sharing!
Hehe. It was @Batguy who introduced me to TripleJ and took me to Homebake ^_^ I just looked it up and Custard played that one too, which is why we would have been there.
He bought me a copy of Custard’s Loverama album. It’s still one of my favourites.
Theophilus Thistler is still one of my favourite songs by an Aussie group.
Edit: One of my favourite music videos ever too.
oh man it is nostalgia trip city time now! *youtubes!*
Sonic Animation were awesome, although I think my favourite bands were the ones I got to see live the most often, and they were Regurgitator, Machine Gun Fellatio and Custard. Sooo many songs etched into my brain.
Also. If I ever met myself from fifteen years ago I’d probably kick his ass.
Same. Me from ten years ago, though… that dude’s a little scary. Not confident I’d win that one.
Fifteen years ago I was 11 and was heading off on my first overseas holiday, with the family to NZ. Being so young and the first time on a plane, I got a bit hot during the flight and asked my dad if I could wind down the window. His response was to burst out laughing. I was a kid, how was I supposed to know!?
(Should I be mentioning this when I am responsible for a group of people travelling overseas???)
😀
Haha, don’t sweat it. ! Totally intended!
Triple J has taken a shift since their “hottest 100 of 20 years” last year. Way more stuff from the 90s is being played again.
And Double J is great. Triple J for old people 😉
Fifteen years ago …
I was 16. Grade 11 and a real band geek. I was in the school jazz band, school concert band and church band. Probably too busy playing music to listen to it. September 1999 was particularly great as I got to do a big band workshop with James Morrison. I also played a bit of cricket and in one match faced a bloke by the name of Ben Hilfenhaus, who you may have heard of. Also the end of the year brought a big change as my family moved to WA. Also made my first overseas trip to NZ. So a pretty big year.
15 years ago I was, wait for it……. 23, and living in Adelaide.
Fifteen years ago… I was in year 7. I would have just started in the school concert band, and I got asked to play in the orchestra for Pirates of Penzance. Think I was only on second clarinet, with the other “main guy” being on first, but he was in year 10 or something so it seemed pretty cool to be to be in a kind of high position ahead of other older players from the band.
Totally can’t pinpoint anything else that would have gone on then… actually I know that the Christmas just before was when we got our Game Boy Colours, as well as Banjo-Kazooie and Bomberman 64. But no idea where things would have been at eight months down the track.
Fifteen years ago was about the point I was getting into anime heavily. I think. Had been living in Australia for over a year by then. Probably still spent a lot of my spare time playing FF7 at that point. I know I moved to FF8 the instant it released, but that was toward the end of 1999.
EDIT: Checked, that was definitely start of the anime phase that never ended. I got into it with Evangelion during its first SBS run from Jan to March 1999, and I started at episode 18. So by august of that year I probably was on about my fifth time through and was seeking out other stuff to watch. As I recall, it went from that to Tenchi Muyo, Bubblegum Crisis and then I think I got into Rurouni Kenshin. A few others in there too, but Kenshin was the point I switched to subtitled anime instead of dubbed because it was far easier to pirate.
This was in the days of 40-50mb 320×240 RealVideo files being the best shit imaginable. I would download them on 56k. Got disconnected from one ISP for using too much bandwidth 😛 We got cable a little while after that and I started getting early DivX stuff and it looked amazing in comparison.
1999-2000 was also about the time when DBZ and Pokemon were both on TV in the mornings.
Pretty sure DBZ was in the afternoons, because I watched it and I never was allowed to watch TV in the mornings.
You’re probably right. We were at uni and taped both so we could watch them when we got home.
Definitely was on in the morning, as part of Cheez TV.
Must have done both? Or maybe it varied state-to-state.
Ah, CheezTV. They changed it to ToastedTV a year after I started watching it, and replaced all the good shows with mass-produced shite.
15 years ago I was in grade 10. 14 years old. Probably the peak of my stuck up little shit side of my personality.
It’s interesting, as far as high school went, that’s the ‘nothing of note’ period in the middle. Just coasted through, occupied the computer rooms at lunch time playing Telnet MUDs. Sport, interests, achievements? Meh.
In perspective, grade 8 I came in to the school, played tuba, hockey, also did kayaking. Full of promise and potential.
Grade 12, rugby, rowing, actually had musical interests, went to BDO, part time job at a video store, looking forward to the future.
But yeah, 15 years ago is probably that big gulf between doing what we’re told to do, and making decisions for ourselves. Definitely just a coasting period, nothing really significant in the grand scheme of things both through actions and physical/mental growth.
Didn’t even get that second growth spurt until grade 11.
15 years ago I was 16, in year 12, probably playing Tony Hawk or Final Fantasy 8 or listening to angry metal like Sepultura and probably giggling to myself about something stupid because I would have been way too sleep deprived.
That’s me today!
Yeah, 15 years ago me was an alright guy, if we met today he’d probably punch me for not living up to his expectations.
Fifteen years ago… I was two. By Arceus, that puts everything in perspective, doesn’t it? I don’t have any memories from when I was two. I remember when I was four that I arbitrarily decided I hated bananas and haven’t eaten one since! That counts, right? I remember calling the teacher ‘mum’ when I was six.
I know I used to listen to the Macarena and all that 90’s stuff on a Discman when I was a kid. I was always five years behind technology back then. Quite literally. I didn’t get a PS1 until 2003, a PS2 until 2007, or an Xbox 360 until 2011.
Crap.
Internet appears to be at a crawl.
🙁
Sounds like the average Australian internet connection.
There’s an Australian Crawl joke in there somewhere too, I am sure.
Don’t be so reckless?
😛
And downhearted.
Walking Dead Season 2. Done.
Other news: XBL deals.
Bought the season pass to Wolf Among Us for $10.01 (currently 33% off).
Got Dishonored for $0.00 (GAMES WITH GOLD).
Walking Dead Season 2: Worth it?
For context, I liked but didn’t love season 1, and actually enjoyed Wolf Among Us more.
I really enjoyed it. It’s different from Season One. More of a character study than an action story. And some really interesting character dynamics.
SOLD! to the man with too many games to play already!
Tried to play the Five Nights at Freddy’s demo…
Uh-uh, man…
Too damn scary.
Horror game page 9!
What are your favourite memories of horror games you’ve played over the years?
I don’t, generally. Not a fan.
That said, Bioshock was great.
Yes, Bioshock is not a Fan, it’s a game.
I’ll show myself out.
The most recent would be the moments I had in ZombiU, where I was so certain that I could see a trap just waiting for me and would spend ages psyching myself up for it… only for nothing to happen at all. Absolutely loved that.
Not sure I can think of any other favourites. Mostly because I hated them 😛 In reverse chronological order:
-Attempting to play REmake on Cube, after having made my way through RE4 a few zillion times. Couldn’t do it.
-Regenerators in RE4. Nope. NOPE. Wasn’t too fond of the Ashley section either.
-The zombie level of Conker’s Bad Fur Day
-ReDeads and Gibdos in OoT and MM. The Gibdo mask was the best thing ever.
-Pac Man
First horror game I truly played was Dead Space.
I love it. Horrifying, yet spectacular.
I love the sound design, character design, and the environments in particular. Not the greatest story ever, but the overall design of it was amazing 🙂
Dead Space 2 lost a lot of its charm, but stepping back onto the Ishimurra gave me chills and heart palpitations 🙂
Last horror game I played was P.T.
It still features in my nightmares! 😀
Definitely a day one pick up for me!
I missed all the “classic” horror games unfortunately though (all your Silent Hills, Dooms, and Resident Evils).
I’m getting into horror stuff more and more lately though 😀
There’s nothing like snuggling up to someone while watching a horror movie :3
I still get antsy when i hear the whine of the doors opening… Fantastic game, only horror game i completed on the hardest difficulty for maximum scare!
The Ishimura part in Dead Space 2 is exactly how an Alien game should play.
Holy shit it was good.
That was literally an 11/12 of the game. I don’t think it should be considered a ‘part’ by that point.
I think the earliest game that I can remember that creeped me out is A Nightmare on Elm Street (PC 1989), it was really hard, had creepy music and Freddy was scary and chased you at random intervals. It was too hard for young Gutsoup and I never finished it 🙁
Hugo’s House of Horrors!…
…Well not really, but getting chased by the dog after blowing the whistle scared the crap out of me as a child.
sneaking around the dinner party with the mask on scared me, I was always like “what if they realize it’s me”
I got killed so damn much in that game.
Can’t forget the music, though. No matter how hard I try.
I still remember the credits:
Written by: David P. Gray
Produced by: David P. Gray
Directed by: David P. Gray
etc.
Stupid how I retain facts about games but can barely remember what I ate last night. My sister and I sat down to play Diablo the other day after not playing for close to 24 hours, as we went to go out questing I stopped her and said “hey you better go stash some stuff, you have 27 items in your inventory” she checked and I was exactly right, she just looked at me, shook her head and said “how the f$#@ do you remember that”. If only I retained actual knowledge that well, I’d be a genius.
Not my favourite but probably worst moment was one of the jump scares in Outlast near the beginning of the game, made me scream like a little girl
Outlast’s best feature was being able to sprint and look over shoulder… Outlast’s worst feature was being able to sprint and look over the shoulder :P… So many times did i run into door frames or furniture while running away from someone… Great game 😛
I’m still only about 20 minutes into amnesia… So many nope moments… Keep thinking “i should really play that” play for 5 minutes and then shut it down again… I COMPLETED F.E.A.R DAMMIT WHY CAN’T I PLAY THIS?… my favourite would have to be Alan Wake though… I have a fear of the dark, and plunking me in the middle of the woods, at night, with a torch and the gentle rustling of leaves, just made the perfect atmosphere to scare the crap out of me
The lake in Resident Evil 4.
Hooooooooooooooooooooooo boy.
So good. And tense. And fun.
Good stuff.
My favourite part was going to show my friend how you can shoot the fish swimming around in the water. And then I missed one…
Both got quite a shock.
The maze in the Land Before Time Activity Center game put me off horror games. God damn it Sharptooth.
Amnesia. The amount of atmosphere in that game was amazing.
For the scariest ones? Uninstalling them. 😛
Favourite moment? Bioshock, where you go into an alcove to get a recording, spend a minute or so listening to this account of the twisted things Sander Cohen did to people in the name of “art”, then turn to leave and there’s this plastered dead person pretty much right in your face – that jumpscare was the mostwell-orchestrated jumpscare I’ve seen, before or since. In fact, every Bioshock scene that included Sander Cohen and/or his creations – he was “delightful”. Every so often his “masterpiece” comes up in my music library, and I remember…
Silent Hill. I was playing, and my sister was watching. I pretended to be wayyy more scared than I actually was, and thus made her even more scared.
*evil laugh*
So I’ve read some reviews of the latest Walking Dead chapter, and
it turns out there are a number of different endings you can get. Does this mean that Clem’s story is done? It seems like it would be extremely difficult to assimilate all those endings into the next season of the game.Also, is anyone going back to view all the different endings? As much as I want to, I don’t think I can do it.I think Caturday did. Based on what I know (which is limited), I think they could continue her story by simply time-skipping, but personally I don’t want them to continue with her, as much as I love her as a character.I just watched one of the Kenny endings, and from that I think it might be fair to say that it may not be impossible that Clem makes it to Welly in the end. That could be a common starting point.EDIT: Apparently, this is wrong. In two other examples: Jane takes Clem back to Carver’s camp; and there’s also an ending where Clem decides not to enter Welly.I honestly don’t know what to hope for in season 3. I was dead-set against them using Clem again in this season, but they nailed it as far as I’m concerned. At this point, I’m happy to hand over all my trust to Telltale.Queen was rad. Adam Lambert does a great job. Brian May’s hair is crazy. Lady Gaga crashed the show during Another One Bites The Dust. Wish she hadn’t though, her singing was kinda gross. Also she was in severe danger of shaking herself out of her bra. She is one trashy lady.
Only real disappointment of it all was they didn’t do Don’t Stop Me Now 🙁
Left my phone running on record again, gotta see how this one turned out in comparison to Hugh Laurie. Much louder this time 😛
My sister saw them in Perth on Friday and sent me some videos. Adam has a completely different voice than Freddie, but he is as good a singer. If I could have afforded tickets to see them I would have been there in a heartbeat.
I would love a copy of that mp3 if it ends up being okay.
Sure! Just gotta figure out where to stash a ~250MB file 😛
Dropbox!
Yeah but then I gotta set up an account and think of a password and… wait. I think I might already have one? But totally have no idea what the password was or what address it was tied to.
I hate accounts.
Could always use Mega Kim Dotcoms new version of Megaupload 😛
good to hear (not about Gaga), seeing them on Monday and the excitement hasn’t quite hit yet but I’ve been waiting for this for 25 years or so when I first grabbed my sister’s Queen tapes 😀
I can’t think about Don’t Stop Me Now without thinking of this.
I always forget that was in Shaun of The Dead, where as I always think of this heh.
Okay, what the heck is this ‘Google Cardboard’ every one is talking about? I thought it might have been some meme that’s a remnant from some Twitter conversation I wasn’t part of, but the amount of people talking about Google Cardboard suggests it’s an actual thing.
From what I gather it’s a cheap cardboard frame with lenses that lets you use your phone as a rough approximation of a VR unit. There’s similar commercial products out there (or due to be out there?) like the Durovis Dive.
That sounds
like the worst idea in the history of everlike a neat idea.It’s a bit of a gimmick, but it drastically reduces the cost barrier of entry to get a feel for the tech.
I’ve had a bit of fun with mine and feel like the 10 bucks was well spent!
Correct, apparently you have to download the Google Cardboard app for it to work.
Personally I think it’s a stupid idea and a waste of money, I can think of many things I’d much rather spend my money on, but hey, that’s just me.
Yeah, I don’t get it either. But then I’ve got a Rift, so I don’t really need one 😛
Let them eat cake
Sorry Risen 3, you’ll have to wait till I’ve finished till I’m finished with The Walking Dead before I continue with you now the final episode is out (well that kinda snuck up on me).
Gotta get through both seasons, finished season 1 on PS3, but I own season two on 360 and PC, so I have to get through S1 again if I want my choices to carry over, got halfway through it on 360 and it was giving me all sorts of problems, so I’ll give it a crack on PC.
Downvotes are crazy on Kotaku. People got tons on the Mario Kart DLC article for giving their opinions, I got one when talking about Walking Dead story plot points on page eight. Most of the time it’s just civil conversation. Why down vote? :'( I take them personally. Haha!
It would be ok, if it didn’t mean that your comments go into moderation. Upvoting means you agree, downvoting means you disagree, just because you get downvoted doesn’t mean they hate you, hey I downvoted @mrtaco once, but still think he’s a pretty great guy. That said, it sorta gets me down when I get a downvote too.
When it’s civil conversation it feels like a way to instantly dismiss someone. Downvoted. Your opinion isn’t mine so it doesn’t matter. *shakes fist*
Don’t shake that thing at me!
In an up/down system it’s supposed to mark low-quality posts. Just because you don’t agree with it doesn’t mean you should downvote.
If the post sounds like complete bullshit, is totally against your views, but it’s got a bunch of explanations and supporting facts then it’s not a bad-quality post.
E.g. “I feel like killing babies is okay because xyz”. Downvoting that because you hold the (majority) belief that ‘killing babies is wrong’ is incorrect use of the downvote button.
YOU DID WHAT? 😮
Yeah, saw I got a @scree downvote, felt bad. Seems to have since disappeared though 😛
But hey it’s just imaginary internet points. Doesn’t have to really mean anything.
Don’t you remember, it was about Transformers: Age Of Extinction.
We cool, right?
Cucumbers.
Wait, I did what? I don’t usually downvote people. Ah, I did in the mario kart one because I felt people are being very…rude about it. However, I went back and read the first two I downvoted, realised they weren’t mean and changed it. They didn’t deserve it. You too Gooky. I completely disagree with you and the tracks are making me super excited but I respect your opinion.
The only one who was rude about it was patrickbateman. He’s the only one with a downvote from me now.
Damn, I’ll have to try harder next time 😛
It’s the best and worst system… I know it means nothing and even still i feel hurt if i get down voted :/
Here have a downvote :p
No, now I feel like an arsehole, here have a hug to make up for it.
*HUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
*whimpers* i feel like that guy in Star Wars after the rancor dies ;_;
Hey, you’re alright pixel, have an upvote.
Ily
Hey, whoa man, back off the gas a little, I don’t get down like that.
ily too <3 <3 <3THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS! you buy me games and then slap me (with downvotes)… THAT’S THE DEFINITION OF AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP!
😛@pixel_the _ferret_viking
PLEASE DON’T LEAVE ME, I SWEAR I CAN CHANGE!
Man that scene bummed me out so much when I was little. Totally felt for the guy.
Yeah I know I would get downvoted to hell since I’m a robot that’s very anti-DLC-that-splits-your-community, so keeping quiet on it
Yeah, I’m personally looking forward to these new tracks but don’t understand downvoting someone who isn’t.
You say that now until I force you to play them =P
It’s not about whether or not the tracks themselves will be fun, that’s not my problem with it
It’s not their opinions but rather the way they’re going about it.
I, for one, am super excited about the DLC and while I do like nintendo a lot, I resent the fact that people are suggesting I would blindly buy anything Nintendo.
God I hate this so much. Been hit with it so many times over the years, even though these days it seems like I do more complaining about Nintendo than anything else 😛
People seem to assume if you like anything Nintendo, you’re a fanboy/girl. It couldn’t be further from the truth. There are some must buy games in the Nintendo franchise for me, but then there are others that…they’re okay. They’re usually always fun, but they’re not must buy.
It’s fucking bullshit when this happens:
A) It’s a legit post.
B) You get downvoted because people don’t agree with you.
C) They never reply.
D) Ends up in downvote bombing of high-profile posts.
E) Ends up in the poster being sent to auto-moderation.
F) Means that the hive mind effectively silenced an opposite viewpoint, rendered their ability to explain further null, and further protected their hive mind illusion of knowing what the fuck they are talking about.
Basically it’s a shit system when it’s not used right (90% of the time).
I tried to stop myself. I really really did.
No you didn’t. Jerk. 😛
That Freeze jerk is an enabler. I don’t know why I’m still friends with him.
I get my revenge by influencing you to buy expensive things when we hang out. >:D
I’m just so, so glad that we don’t have a Reddit-style system where upvotes float your post to the top of the page.
Down votes only make me stronger.
@effluvium-boy
Yeeeeeeeeeeees…
And people wonder why some would rather stay out of or ignore certain topics/disucssion threads rather than voice a controversial opinion… Especially when mob-mentality can mean getting downvoted into moderation faster than you can blink, effectively silencing those with opinions that differ from the majority.
Edit: What @stickman said.
D.C. rambles about stuff:
I’m sick of constant video game controversies. One passes and a new one arises. I feel like I’m not apart of this community that constantly feels the need to have their pitch forks out. I’m also not one of those people who disrespect women or lives up to the stereotype of white male gamers out there. I find it incredibly annoying to the point where I feel like coming to game sites less and less, following gamers on twitter less and less, etc. Just me?That is why we come here my friend, TAY is our refuge.nope I’m the same… Too much drama, and too few fucks i could give… I concur with mr. @evilmonkey, this is our haven where none of that seeps throughFor the most part, I think Kotaku does a pretty decent job of compartmentalizing. Most of the authors refrain from infusing politics into articles which are about something else, and the trouble spots are pretty clearly highlighted for you to steer clear of.
I’ve stopped reading some other sites where the authors can’t resist any opportunity to soapbox.
But the feeling you describe? That feeling… well. That’s what’s wrong with, ‘you’re part of the crusade or you’re part of the problem’. Alienation.
That’s how everything is now, not just the game industry.Remember what everyone was outraged about during that week in April? The thing overseas? Or was it in Melbourne or something? Neither do I, and I don’t remember the thing everyone was outraged about mid June, or the week after. Nobody does, but I’m sure plenty of people thought it was very important at the time. So much information is so readily available we can’t help but be distracted by things, and then have our attention drawn away from those distractions by something else, something more immediate.
There’s a limit to people’s giveashitability. Beyond that limit we don’t have the capacity to care, one thing gets replaced by another. Adding to that, the transition is usually so acute because the easiest thing to stop caring about is whatever it is we’ve been caring about for the shortest period; last week’s bullshit.
And so it continues…
I suppose video game controversies seem so torrential because it’s usually just revisiting the same small handful of issues (Important issues though they may be), so the cycle of outrage is more repetitive.
The way I try to deal with it? Just get zen. Tune it out.
If you care, pay attention. If not, don’t.
I read an article or two if it interests me, or to understand what everyone’s carrying on about, but I try to leave it at that. Even if I have an opinion on the matter, that opinion doesn’t require “maintenance”. If the opinion is encouraged to change naturally it will, but I don’t want to waste energy on it unnecessarily.
Lately, with the game stuff, I’ve found the complaints about all the controversy more tedious.
It makes things twice as hard to ignore.
But I’m gonna get zen.
‘Cause fuck ’em.
I realise this is a bit like that “reduce stress” nonsense you see all over the web, as if there’s some kind of On/Off switch for stress/anxiety.Woah, a rare long post from Flu. That’s cool.
You posted a picture of yourself on Twitter too.
Great :-p
It was an accident!
Holy moly, couldn’t get even a third of the way through Gizmodo’s ‘dangerous toys’ article without having to back out and run away. Sympathy panic, yo. And I’m not even a parent.
Sit them in front of the TV and draw the blinds. No toys. Only darkness and video games.
This explains a lot.
Especially my dungeon tan. 😀
I am not going to read that article. I’m anxious enough.
Working in a toy store it was always interesting to watch angry parents’ reactions when you told them why their child’s favourite magnetic toy was no longer available.
I always thought those cabbage patch kids were creepy as f***. Now I know why…
So I’m sensing a pattern where there is one week with a TAYlist, and one week without; I’m going to try and change that.
Speaking of, TAYlist requests?
Party in the USA – Miley Cyrus
You heard me. It’s been stuck in my head all morning and I don’t know why.
D:
May God have mercy on us all!
Ned Flanders? You’re sure? … No, no, no, I’ll come right over. And may God have mercy on us all.
Honey, there’s an emergency, where are my shoes?
I think they’re in the Den.
The Den! May God Have Mercy On Us All.
I read this entire thread to the tune of that blasted song.
What’s the opposite of Miley Cyrus, to counter @dc’s villainy……….?
Gotye – Hearts a Mess?
Oh God yes, I love that song.
I’d also accept “Learnalilgivinanlovin” off that album if @lucifer9783 is looking for something a bit more upbeat.
Don’t Stop Me Now – Queen.
It’s the one Gooky wanted to hear at the concert last night.
And the one that’s been running in my head ever since 😛
A Bowling for soup song please
Sandman by Beatallica
It combines two great songs, Enter Sandman by Metallica and Taxman by The Beatles.
Failing that in keeping with the sandman theme
Mr. Sandman – The Four Aces.
Ride Of The Valkyries – Wagner
In honor of last night’s discussions on the awesomeness of aussie music from the late 90s, I will be requesting the following (any will do)
Theophilus Thistler – Sonic Animation
Isaac or Fuzz – Machine Gun Fellatio
Kung Foo Sing – Regurgitator
(He’ll never be an) Old Man River – TISM
Apartment – Custard
That is all.
Apartment is a cool song as is Theophilus Thistler
Kung Foo Fighting? Oh, I read that wrong…
It’s a holy scripture.
I heard the word. I got the picture.
Ancient wisdom in a crunchy treat!
The place where the faith and the flavour meet.
One of These Days – Pink Floyd
I Believe in a Thing Called Love – The Darkness.
Anything Silverchair.
Ooooh, Straight Lines. Best song.
NO NO NO NO NO! That is without doubt one of their worst songs, when they went all weird and shit.
Anything from Frogstomp will suffice.
Hey man, this is the guy who requested Miley Cyrus. I never said I had good taste in music. 😀
Nobody else said you had good taste in music either. 😛
Pipe down, you! 😀
True, you have a point there 😛
This guy gets it.
Something from their “We’re not ripping off Nirvana” days?
WAKKA WAKKA!
MUSIQUE!!!
-aggressively starts finger gunning-
Freak!!
Noooooo. That’s after they went terrible. Freak, Tomorrow or Suicidal Dream.
That’s the only song of theirs I like. XD
Well in that case, I think you may enjoy Waiting All Day – it’s the second best song on that album, have a listen. I’m a Silverchair fanatic, I love all their songs.
Heart shaped Box – Nirvana
My Sharona – The Knack
As a combined request from Rocket and myself, Toto’s classic, Hold the Line.
Pig & Elephant DNA Just Won’t Splice – Lover Boy
Lovin’ you, is easy cos you’re beautiful…
Paperback Writer – The Beatles.
All the young dudes – Mott the hoople
You mean Bowie? Or is that one a cover?
Bowie wrote it for Mott the Hoople- they recorded it first.
Bowie has since performed it live etc, but the original recording (and the one that crops up more) is the Mott the Hoople ver.
Ah.
LONG OVERDUE HIPSTER REQUEST :
Phantom Limb – The Nation Blue
SERRIOUS REQUEST :
Something by Regina Spektor.
But not “You’ve Got Time” … Please?
fair enough. I was thinking something from 11:11. maybe Rejazz or Braille.
I’m just complaining / shell-shocked after finishing OITNB Seasons 1 and 2 in fairly quick succession, that song is grating on my nerves now. 😛
I’m just a hipster. big fan of her earlier stuff when it was really bluesy & smoky & strange. & a lot less poppy.
Saxon: Denim & Leather
See You In My Nightmares – Kanye West ft. Lil Wayne
No Doubt – Just a girl
or
30 Seconds to Mars – Hurricane
Closing requests a little bit early due to the volume of awesome music, sorry guys.
*shakes fist at clouds*
I’ve got it, you’re a hermit and you hate clouds, you’re clearly Ermit the Hermit from Skylanders in disguise masquerading as a human.
-doesn’t watch where shaking, knocks beer over Dan, DC looks down barrel, smiles and shrugs, theme song-
I believe I almost cried, there was no smiling. 😛
One day I’ll make you cry, Dan.
One day…
On my way to work I saw a ~50yo lady riding down the street on a bike designed for 3yo girls. Totally a rebel, she wasn’t wearing her helmet either.
I wonder if today will be a good day.
She was negative 50!?
What did she look like?
A GLINT IN MY DAD’S EYE!?
A glint inside a glint in your grandpa’s eye.
Glintception
A few years back now on one of my first pub crawls, as we were waiting outside the bus for a few smokers to finish a pale lady in a massive dress (think old-school victorian style) rode past on a bike. A little bit weird, but the kicker here was that she was wearing one of those oversized comedic Sombreros and up on the tip of the hat, her bike helmet sitting on top.
We all laughed, but I admire the lack of fucks she gave.
Surface Pro 3 just arrived. I was expecting to spend the entire morning waiting for the courier so I cleared my morning. Not sure if I should play with it for a few hours or go to work so I can get home early and play with it. It’s a hard life.
Oh man, I’m jelly. It looks delicious.
Oh, crumbs. I put my home address instead of the work address! NOOOOOOO!!!
Wait. You don’t buy things. Who is this!?
Oh, believe me, this purchase has involved countless hours of rationalisation.
Upon placing the order my hair turned white like Rogue’s in the first X-Men film.
Owch. Call Toll, figure out where it’ll go, then head down there on the way home from work. Just bring the tracking number and some ID with your home address on it.
*kicks rock*
Ughh why do I have to work its cold and wet and I want to be at home with a hot chocolate playing video games
Because you touch yourself at night?
If that were true I’d be running the world.
It’s getting out of hand!
Or… it’s not. That’s the problem.
Slippery devil
See kids thats why masturbation is a crime
I was just looking at the TAYlist post so I read the first line as Kid Rock
Whatever happened to that guy?
Sounds like he has moved into more of a country rock direction but has still been releasing albums. The latest in 2012
Speaking of up/down votes, I wonder if buried somewhere in the Allure system is a running total for all their users.
Or at the very least a link to your Highest / Lowest post.
I think I know what both of those are for me though.
I reckon my highest would be a rant about wanting to buy things digitally and then publishers complaining I’m not buying them when there’s no way I can, I got into the high 30s for that. I imagine my lowest one would be that time I forgot not everyone actually knows me and how I have a horrifically dark sense of humour and I said something or other that I thought was darkly amusing and everyone else took as just me being an arsehole rather than an amusing arsehole which was what I was aiming for, I think I was close to -10 for that
Highest: +76.
Lowest: … -4? … Huh. Could have sworn it was lower. Maybe there’s another I can’t remember.
Did you have to search for ages to find that or is there some way to actually check quickly?
I knew specifically which comments I was looking for, so was able to Google for them.
+76? Woah that’s a 35-got-the-first-post-on-a-piracy-article level of upvotes. Congrats, man.
Something like that. :p
TAY’s an elaborate game. There will be a winner. I’m thinking it’ll be Strange.
I’d upvote this post, but I don’t want to disrupt the delicate state of balance we’ve reached.
Don’t vote for @strange! I hear she eats puppies and steals candy from small children.
Vote 1 Freeze for Glorious Leader to lead TAY into a new Golden Era of Prosperity!
I’ve just signed a tell all interview with 60 Minutes about the time she called me a Doofus. There will be tears.
Your cheque will arrive in the mail once the interview airs.
I dunno, I approve of your Dad joke policy over hers, but what’s your position on being @rocketman’s mother?
Why should being @rocketman’s mother be purely an entitlement for the privileged few? I say ENOUGH WITH THE GOVERNMENT FATCATS! @rocketman should be for everyone and everyone should have the chance to be his mother!
I’m gonna tuck him into bed so damn much.
Oh God, we have another contender, now it’s @transientmind vs @aliasalpha vs @freezespreston in a fight to the death.
Whoever wins, I am your humble servant, ALL HAIL MEGATRON! erm, I mean Transeezepha!
Merge with me, my children, and know the wonder and power of The Belonging. Embrace the bliss of Unity.
We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. You will be assimilated, resistance is futile…
Hah, that’d be interesting.
I’d love to see a leaderboard.
If there is I hope we never, ever see it!
Oooh! Tiny Bang Story is 90% off on Steam $0.49. Great little game, have at it.
Fabulous, wonderfully beautiful game
Highly recommended
Shortest sex game ever?
Suburbia for Android is available in the Amazon app store! It says tablet only but it works on my S4.
Hooray!
This game is so fucking hard to find on shelf and there has been an iOS version (and Kindle Fire for some reason) for a long, long time. Now there’s a version I can actually play.
BOARD GAMES!
Suburbia!
You’ll love it.
For a bit I thought you were referring to the ISP that Julian Assange created in the 90’s.
Destiny soon.
keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen.
So keen! Was watching gameplay vids from the Beta on YouTube last night for an hour. Hype factor is high.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWmGtieOcLg Watch that beta video, it has me in it. Also @Longjocks but he’s much less interesting
Intense!
Strange how he wasn’t really getting shot at at by other enemies.
Yeah… “Strange”… I call it cowardice!
PS4? If I don’t get my tax refund by release I might have to cancel my PS4 pre-order and get an Xbone copy.
PS3 for me
BRISBANE PEOPLE!
Can we organise a thing on the 4th of October so we can all hang out and play some Smash on 3DS?
Maybe get some beers and talk shit, too?
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @benny @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__ @janexo (@ anyone I missed who’s gonna get butt hurt)
HAHA
???
Ehem, I mean, see you there?
Keen!
I was still keen to try out Miel Burger at some point if you (and everyone else) were? 4th October sounds good to me wherever though
Yeah man! Sounds grody.
I haz no 3DS. 🙁
Well you can’t come then.
Ok. :'(
THAT WAS A GOOF!!!
You should get a whole troop of them together.
They usually are stuck that way
No.
Ok.
But only because I won’t be getting the game, and I’ll be doing that other thing on the 10th.
😉
that’s 10 days before my b’day! But I don’t have a 3ds 🙁
So come anyway and write 3DS on the outside of a burger containter.
NO ONE WILL KNOW THE DIFFERENCE!!!
hahahaha Well if there’s ramen on offer, I’ll do what I can! I could always bring my DS and draw a 3 on the front somewhere! 😉
I wont be getting smash caus I dun get how it works, but I dunno I can sit in the corner and enjoy smash vicariously through you guys while I play picross or something
Wait, wait, wait.
You don’t know how Smash works or you don’t know how Smash 3DS works?
Have you never played a Smash before?
Neither have I. Had some mates who were always banging on about it on the 64 or gamecube or some other archaic piece of junk. 😛
Yeah I dont get the franchise, I played 64 with friends in high school and Ash has Brawl, so I’ve played it plenty. All I do is button mash and then its game over and I dont understand what really happened, I dont feel like I am any happier as a result of this process.
I don’t know what to think…
You’re shattering my world, Sughly…
But you can play as the Animal Crossing Villager in this one! Animal Crossing.
He’ll be in Mario Kart now though so, my crossover fix is met
Completely agree. I don’t get the series. I can admire the pretty graphics but that’s about it.
Also… no 3DS. Also, I dunno? Also hey Sughly!
Hey!
4th… Saturday, eh? Well, those’re always better for me than weekdays. No 3DS, though, but I’m sure that doesn’t matter much.
On a scale of 1-4 with 1 being confirmed no, 4 being confirmed yes, this is a 3.
I would, super keen for it, but Victoria.
YOU’RE KILLING MEEEEEEEE!!!
I may be up for beers, if I fully recover by then (dying for one, it;s been months, MONTHS!)
But I could give 2 shits about Smash Bros. I don’t see the attraction at all.
Tekken?
Tekken he says!
TEKKEN!!!
Tekken
In.
Got to meet @rocketman’s other half last night. Pretty sure she called him a racist.
HAVE FUN AT THE ZOO, KIDS.
Well, I guess she really knows our @rocketman then.
I find this whole airline seat reclining thing both maddening and hilarious.
Zero facts from the authors. Zero research. They think that “basic liberties such as using laptop or reading book” come before basic comfort.
I’m 192cm. 6ft 3.5 inches. I’m a tall motherfucker with long legs. I do not give a shit if someone reclines their seat. I can still eat my meal, I can still do what I want. I paid, expecting a seat to recline on me. I will also recline my seat slightly ASAP, and all the way if napping. Why?
– Because fuck you, I can.
– Because I am so tall, that the headrests on the seats push my shoulders forward so that I am almost falling out of the seat (the hilarious part is that the authors are always like “hurr, try being 180cm+ and having seat reclined on you”)
– Because the default seat angle on planes is designed for safety, not for comfort or posture. [No source, get your own. Seats are angled to allow maximum movement efficiency when evacuating plane. Designed so that take-off angle is supporting the weight and keeping you in the seat. Designed to limit seat movement in cases of turbulence or rough landing. Designed to be safer when crash landing.]
– Because if I recline, you can recline. Rinse and repeat down the aisle. Oh look, everyone has equal space! *rainbows*
This, this is why we can’t have civil comments on bullshit articles like the above.
lol, civil comments.
Not my problem. It’s a valid response to a “fuck you, don’t recline” comment. And even more so if they try to use knee guard gadget or something.
hahahahahahaha.
Cool man.
Great attitude.
What’s your problem?
“Fuck you, don’t recline, I wanna use my laptop. I dont give a shit about your comfort”. Where do you go from that? There’s nowhere to go, you can’t reason with that, obviously.
No problem, but if someone’s argument is “Fuck you I want” I wouldn’t give them the time of day.
I admire you’re ability to care so much about anything, I don’t even think I could muster that much text about Metal Gear and I LOVE Metal Gear, but man, you even see the fact there’s no reasoning with them so why lower yourself to their level?
Just because the innernette’s a toilet doesn’t mean you have to be a piece of shit.
And wtf are you doing? You obviously don’t care about my opinion or the whole matter, yet you still shit on my thread and make ad hominem attacks based on cherry picked statements.
I thought this was Talk Amongst Yourselves.
Look, I don’t want to be a dickhead or nothing, but you realise you’re being an arsehole here, right?
*grabs popcorn*
@bdkiaf
I’m being an asshole? I put up a post with info on a view, it gets repeatedly shit on, I point this out and I’m an asshole? Explain it to me like I’m 5.
Woah woah woah guys! We’re all friends here, let’s all take a deep breath and change the subject.
@evilmonkey SO HOW ‘BOUT DEM VIDYAGAEMS?
*twiddles thumbs so fast smoke starts to rise*
Yeah, okay, I’m not having this conversation.
That’s what we’re doing, talkin’.
I don’t have to cherry pick statements, you’re post reeks of bad attitude. Saying things like
isn’t gonna help people see your point. Talking like that is gonna win you zero points with people who you should want to hear your argument.
It’s like starting a rebuttal with “Welp” or referring to a group as “Sheeple”, it’s lame and only works to undermine the good points you might make.
But, as always, that’s my interpretation of your writing. Without inflection and me looking at your head I can’t make a 100% call on what your attitude is.
Plus, you know, I mostly drop in to talk about farts or plug http://dankarlszeitgeist.com so who gives a shit what I have to say?
And as always man, I hope you don’t feel put down or anything by this. I’m sure if you and me were having this discussion face to face it’d be way easier for us to see each other’s points.
@evilmonkey @pixel_the_ferret_viking its not worth the risk abandon ship!
*jumps out window *
It’s more amusing if you parse it as if he were speaking like Yoda.
I am 6’2″ (6’2.5″ if you want to be pedantic), so I’m not as gloriously lofty as yourself.
I don’t like people in front of me reclining unless it’s only by a small amount. In accordance with that, I usually don’t recline and on the odd occasion when I do it’s only up to 10cm or so. Obviously if there’s no one behind me I’ll be leaning back like a cigar chomping big shot. When there is someone I show them the courtesy of not shoving my skull in their face.
Yeah, It’s what I do too. Recline like 1/3 to 1/2 way to get comfortable. After they’ve eaten meal etc I have a quick look behind and recline fully (if I’m gonna sleep or something).
I think I agree that cheap airline seats shouldn’t recline at all, especially if the plane is used for sub 5 hour flights. There’s so little room on them regardless that a fully reclined seat can literally ruin your flight. More specifically my flight as I’m 195cm. -_-
I’m 6ft 7.5inches.
You recline on me, I’m going to stick my knees right into your back through the seat. My bony, hard, pointy knees.
Not because I want to.
Because I have no other choice. *sob*
BLAGHMEAT. What’s the details? It’s this Saturday, right? @blaghman
Tickets are $50. Or $60 at the door.
Turn up Saturday.
…that’s pretty much it.
Not too much though. Don’t want him to bother the neighbours.
Also, wear a funny hat.
Oh hey that thing. I forgot.
The piano is sitting there waiting for you. DON’T DISAPPOINT THE PIANO.
I haven’t played in months. IT IS ALREADY DISAPPOINTED IN ADVANCE!
Funnn. Fell asleep at like 11 last night, so I’ve had since 10am to write 1500 words of a 2000 word essay on Tor due at 3 😛
Luckily it’s fairly easy. Already at 1200 words. I should be able to get it done by like 1 or 2. I even shaved like 7-8 minutes off my normal routine this morning by making instant coffee instead of good coffee. Yep. Next time I’ll happily sacrifice those 7-8 minutes to avoid drinking instant coffee.
One positive thing about not being able to sleep properly is I can text with my friend in England at 3am and be happy and forget I feel like shit from not being able to sleep \o/
In other news apparently the employment agency I am with can now bribe employers by subsidising them of something like 25 hours of work a week to have me.. So that’s cool if they bite. Wouldn’t mind it if EB say yes to it.
Yes, but in my experience, as soon as the subsidy runs out they dump your arse.
Eh, better than nothing 🙂
True dat.
I’ll probably end up with Christmas work there again anyway 😛
Oh yeah so something something road trip tomorrow, AND I’M COMPLETELY ORGANISED!!
@blaghman i should probably grab an address, as someone pointed out that is apparently important when travelling… Can you message me on twitter or somethin?
kthxbye
Once you get to Canberra just keep turning right until you forget left even exists then you’ll be there.
You, I like you.
Ok, time to make something for lunch to take to work.
Question: What are y’all having for lunch? I’m having Salami sammiches with Lettuce, Cheese and Tomato, also taking an Apple with me.
Lunch!
I have Nissin cup noodles today. Tom Yam flavour.
Probably gonna be a toasted corn beef sandwhich
I think I’m gonna skip lunch. I’ve got a beef casserole in the slow cooker. It smells incredible. I want to be so hungry by the time it’s ready and eat so much. 😀
I just bought a huge slice of chocolate indulgence cake (cake is a healthy lunch shuttup) from a lunch truck that looked like it was straight out of a B grade horror movie. If I die bury me with my gold.
Gold, eh? Where is this grave site going to be… so I can, uh, mourn you? *buys shovel*
doh, I just realized I’ve been misquoting something for 23 years. I say that a lot and just went to find the source only to discover the dude says money not gold D:
here, have some context http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1eNW7GG_Q8
I don’t believe in context.
I’m getting pretty hungy now. Lunch in 45 minutes and I forgot to bring my leftover Chili from home.
I’m thinking of going to get either a make your own thai noodles sort of thing or a Lamb/Pork hot pot roll. OR a big piece of snapper with rice.
Update: I had a combination of steamed rice, ‘Beef and Mushroom’ and ‘Beef Rendang.’
I gave it a 6.5 out of 10.
Something pork. Either pork roast leftovers, or Guzman Y Gomez pork nachos.
Oooooh! This post made me hungry, you monster! YOU MONSTER! *runs off crying*
Fried rice and a couple of honey soy chicken wings.
FUCK THE JACK CHALK!
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
I don’t know?
Can you repeat the question?
You’re not the boss of me now!
And you’re not so big.
Life is unfair.
Best. Pageget. Ever.
I’m waiting
Tad breezy outside today.
’tis a bit, this morning a bush in our yard was blowing around and shaking so much my dog thought it was alive and proceeded to growl and bark at it, I went to grab a camera and he stopped 😐
Maybe the dog was warning you of something lurking that’ll make its presence known come nightfall.
And you laughed at it. YOU MONSTER.
I’ll have to go home and burn it to the ground. Just to be sure.
It’s the only way.
The burning bush, wasn’t that a biblical story?
Sssssssh. The prophecy is about to come into play.
I feel unliked
YOU CANT OPPRESS ME!
OKAY MAYBE YOU CAN OPPRESS ME
OMG DAVID LOST HIS SEAWEED BEFORE … IT WAS AMAZING!
I challenge you all to a dance off.
*flips cap backwards, folds arms in pose*
Pops and locks.
POPS and LOCKS
*bobs for effect for five minutes or so, thrusts arms upwards and slowly kneels down while wiggling fingers*
Spirit fingers
Whitest dance off ever! Word! (Things just got a whole lot whiter!)
You aint seen nothing yet
*launches into an Allemande*
I raise the stakes with
*charleston*
*stands in the corner doing the sprinkler*
*takes shirt off*
*pole dances on street sign*
He just came in like a wrecking ball!
Commence twerking in three… two… one…
Twerk twerk twerk! 😀
Best memory from that night! ;P
I approve of you liking Miley Cyrus’ songs, by the way 🙂
I blame Pitch Perfect. :'(
I just remember us touching our chests, as if we were each other’s reflection?
Yaaaaaaaay. @dc is twerking again. My life, which once was complete, is now even more completerer again.
GOD KEEP OUR LAND, GLORIOUS AND FREE. OH, CANADA WE STAND ON GUARD FOR THEE!
@dc I was looking for the clip where they sing that on The Simpsons, and I found this one… In Spanish. But then with English singing. Which is probably funnier.
And suddenly The Simpsons is back to it’s glory days. All it needed was no more English.
https://tremorsintoronto.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/1jim-carrey.gif?w=545
like this?
*forms a circle around gutsoup as he takes the floor, we all clap enthusiastically to the beat*
*Puts right hand in, takes right hand out.*
*Shakes it all about.*
*Does the hokey cokey.*
This has all the emotional resonance of a Step Up movie! How do we top that? Can anyone top that?
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^( ‘_’ )v
*pulp fiction dance*
:D\-<
:D|-<
:D/-<
:o>-<
:(–
I think @shiggyninty is corrupt!
WHAT MADNESS! DAMMIT!
I’m enjoying page 10 better than page 9. There’s 100% less tension. Except for the sexual tension. One day we’ll get together, mysterious stranger. One day.
I’m not… Page 10 should be full of my awesomeness but isn’t
Haha
I’m neither mysterious or a stranger.
I think that’s what he’s telling you man.
I’m sorry. I know you had your hopes up.
quick, win them over with your dancing skills, they’ll swoon for sure. Either that or just use your rugged manly charms.
To the charm store! Enchantment?
Enchantment!
Just hold your breath, it gets better!
Didn’t you even read my profile. Not into that.
Darling it’s better,
down where its wetter!
Them’s fightin’s words, DeeCee.
*shoves Alex*
What you going to do about it, huh?
*shoves Alex again*
SUMMON THE RANCOR!
*grabs rancor size popcorn*
So violent DC
Angry, angry young man.
Stranger in the tub
Ok, I’ve figured out what I’m gonna do 🙂
Next semester I’m going to drop my Games Programming major, and instead fill the empty units with things that do actually interest me (drawing, graphic design, business, etc).
While programming did slightly interest me, I’ve never wanted a career doing games programming, so I’m not too concerned about giving it up.
I’m just gonna stick with my Computer Science degree, Information Technologies major.
I’m also gonna only do three unit semesters, as it’s not going to add any time, and will make it easier.
I need to figure out what I actually want to do with my life though :\
thats the hardest part. working out what you want to do 🙂
These days I more worry about just being happy, you know?
Having good friends, having a job I don’t hate, having a house, etc.
I also spend far too much time thinking about relationships 🙂
I wanna make someone happy 😀
No idea what I actually want to do though :S
Very few people actually know what they want to do. I coasted into what I do now, and I never really said that that’s what I want to do. It’s just something I was good at, and happened to have someone take a chance on me.
as for happiness, I think I’m pretty much there these days, well, contempt at least. That took 10 years of torment, Drunken blackouts and lots of pain.
I wouldnt give any of it up though, learning it all has helped me become who I am today 🙂
What I’m trying to say is you’ll get there, one day. some of us aren’t even there yet, try not to beat yourself up over not being there yet.
*hugs*
I’m 26 and still haven’t worked that part out… Don’t stress man you’ll find your niche automagically one day
I’m 30 and I don’t know that I’m any closer to the answer to your final question there than I was when I was 20.
Jeremey has to pee!
I regret nothing .. maybe
Edit: Removed because moderation and derp.
Awesome, thank you! It’s like I’m there! 😀
Almost as if I had your head sitting in my lap the whole night 😛
HeyTAY, I’m having an absolute *expletive* of a week and the only thing getting me through it is the thought of hugging people to death in Canberra this weekend. Prepare yo selves.
MY BUDDY IS READY *pulls in @rize from the side*
YAY DOUBLE KILL
Headshot
I’m going to buy a whoopee cushion and squeeze it really slowly whenever someone tried to hug me.
“Wanna hug?”
*Fffffffffffffffffrrrrt…BLAT*
And the TAY killer makes his presence known. All those hug victims in the morgue. All those TAYbies who have mysteriously vanished. I thought for sure it was Scree, but Alex. Who would’ve suspected him? What would he have to gain?
I’m reclaiming my Most Handsome TAYbie title by eliminating the competition.
Remember that when I come to Brisbane, boy.
Oh man, Transientmind’s gonna have to watch his back!
Oh, I’ve been preparing for this day.
I am so ready.
(Tissues, 90s rom-coms, buckets of ice-cream, and an available pet to hug as I cry myself to sleep? Check, check, and check.)
Oh…I see…I see how it is. 🙁
I don’t
Also Shiggyninty.
You’re alright buddy. I just don’t want to be left out DUE TO REAL LIFE COMMITMENTS!!!
NEITHER DO I!
HAVE FUN WITH REAL LIFE, SUCKAH.
Pants. I am very upset right now. How dare you attack me…ON THE INTERNET
Yay, Pants hugs!!!
Is this better?
You let @mrtaco put apparently pirated content here, yet not my comments?
Probably a more eloquent way of saying it…
Do what you love for work, or do something else for work and use it to facilitate the doing of the thing you love.
Also, don’t think about it too hard because you’ll forever get stuck thinking and won’t end of up doing anything to get started.
Aaannnd reply fail to @liondrive /o\
Deep. Possible reply fail or TAY’s got a new sensei.
Haaa, that’s the problem, I don’t know what I love :\
There is plenty of things that I like, but I can’t think of anything I love, or would love to do :\
I’ll figure something out, hopefully before it’s too late 🙂
It’s never too late. I had no idea what I loved or was good at until my mid-thirties.
You young people need to stop stressing your lives away.
I run on stress these days, Strange.
It’s the uni way 😛
*chants and sways*
Stress is life.
Stress is me.
Stress for all eternity.
I’m not far ahead of you in years but you shouldn’t be stressed!!
I’m working full time, nearly 2 year old daughter and doing my degree at nights… It gets stressful at times, but I just remember that I’m working a job I’m interested in for a company I’m proud of for a family I love.
Still don’t know exactly what it is I want to do but it’s mattering a little bit less each year because I’m having fun now.
And now I should go back to studying for my statistics exam on Monday. *stress*
In my mind, this page of TAY is set to this music:
MUSICS REPOST! Because I am dumb and sent the original into moderation.
I totally don’t know how to dropbox or if I’m doing the right thing for it, but I have a share link for the Queen concert. Still haven’t listened to it yet to see if it’s any good, but hey. If you wanna guineapig then go for it 😛
And while I was there I also put up the Hugh Laurie one.
(@benny)
Edit: Also have a bonus photo.
Who are those jerks having a conversation during first song? Haha!
Awesome man, I am jealous.
Arrrrgh, really jealous now. My sister and parents are going next Monday. :'(
Actually that reminds me, I should send those to my sister since she missed out.
Good quality too.
Hello
*racially profiles FTJC*
DC WHY ARE YOU RACIALLY PROFILING PEOPLE?!
Why did you leave us Sandeep?
Cause I’m a jerk, that’s why!
Yes you are
And knowing is half the battle!
*thumbs up, teeth gleam*
Don’t forget to strike the Captain Planet pose!
Oh i forgot *winky-face*
Hey mate, welcome. What’s the story behind the name?
Last Played Song Game:
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
…
Not really. XD
I mean, that wasn’t my last played song. Jesus is just alright with me!
Chaka Khan – I Feel For You.
Chak-chak-chaka-chak-chak-chak-Chaka Khan. Chaka Khan.
Lemonworld – The National
Eleanor’s Lullaby – Gary Schyman. So beautiful…
Olmecha Supreme – Megaman
Queen concert! 😀
Bored posting time!
@liondrive
You, like most people will probably still not be sure “what to do with your life” at 60.
Sure some people out there can say “I’m gonna do This!” and then they do it and are all “aww yeah, everything going according to The Plan”. But generally life is not like that.
Mostly life is just a bunch of stuff that happens and our only goals are short-medium term plans to make more better stuff happen. And that’s fine.
So don’t stress over not having a Plan or a Passion. You don’t have to Be Someone. Just live as best you can and keep eyes and doors open.
As for Uni, to be blunt any course that does not lead to you getting a job is a waste of time and money.
Whatever you study, make sure you come out of there with a shiny piece of paper that will make some employer hire you for lots of moneys. Otherwise you have just wasted 4 years and tens of thousands of dollars.
Study for knowledges sake can be done free on the internet in your spare time. Now is the time to secure future income so you can do things later on.
That’s why I’m sticking with my Computer Science degree, IT major 😛
I’m bound to get jobs off of that 😀
I’m only dropping the Games Programming major because I don’t want to program games 😛
I figured, while I have to study something else, I may as well study things that do actually interest me, like drawing, and design, and business, so I can do those as electives.
Maybe that’s where I’ll find what I want to do, after all 🙂
I just don’t like feeling, directionless.
I’ve always had a plan, but now I don’t, and it feels weird.
Oh, and I’m definitely going to be somebody 🙂
Don’t worry about me though, I’m remaking my plans, and feel pretty good at the moment too 🙂
I’m looking forward to next semester where I’m doing interesting things 🙂
\m/
Just having the degree is often more valuable than what it is, though. You show you can start something and finish it, know how to learn on your own and stuff.
Yeah but is ticking a box on your resume worth the time and money?
I dunno, I don’t have a degree but I do know that every job ad out there is asking for specific relevant qualifications or experience.
Some other degree might make you look more favorable than someone without, but if it’s not directly relevant then it won’t get you in the door.
I mean, how many people do your hear compare their degree to toilet paper? I’m gonna hazard many. I have known truck drivers, laborers and retail workers with degrees.
If it’s not gonna land you a job, better to spend those 4 years actually working or maybe learning a trade imo.
Multiple choice time! Because I felt MQFT would be too vague. Yes this is RPG related (but of course).
Fringer, Scoundrel, Noble, Scout, Tech Specialist, Soldier.
S
TS be a survivor not a statistic
Fringer!
Scoundrel.
Scoundrel!
Fringer
Tech Specialist
…I may be biased here 😛
You want him to know you?
Like, knooooow you.
I have no idea what a Fringer is, so that.
Cleary its a guy who does nothing but give the rude finger
I suspect Fringer gives you extra stats in ‘Fringe fan.’
Scoundrel.
…
So, Star Wars d20?
Yep. Pretty obvious isn’t it?
It’s the only system I know of with classes named Scoundrel, Noble and Scout. 🙂 Scoundrel instantly brings up Star Wars for me mentally, and then I know that FFG used different class names for Age of Rebellion & Edge of the Empire.
Yes
Scout
Feels like page 10 came and went all too fast. :'(
Page 10, we hardly knew ye.
*passes Kleenex*
Not that kind of came.
I don’t know about everyone else, but it seems to me like Page 11 misses Page 10, too. 😛
An email from Amazon told me that Skulduggery Pleasant 9: The Dying of the Light just unlocked! Woot!
…If only I had my Kindle with me.
Oh man, I haven’t read that series in years. I keep meaning to get back into it because I keep getting email updates about it but keep getting distracted by other books.
It’s a pretty great series. It’s worth reading for the adventures of Scapegrace and Thrasher alone.
How many of the books have you read? The series goes Skulduggery Pleasant (original), Playing With Fire, The Faceless Ones, Dark Days, Mortal Coil, Death Bringer, Kingdom of the Wicked, (the best in the series IMO) and Last Stand of Dead Men.
If you quit after the Twilight-esque love triangle in Mortal Coil, I can understand why. It’s like it was trying to be a parody, but kind of forgot about that half the time.
I think I read the first three. Or maybe it was the first two. As I said, it’s been years.
I found Kingdom of the Wicked to be hard to read because it felt like introducing a few too many elements at the same time and the story felt cluttered.
I can definitely see where you are coming from. There was a lot of stuff in that book. I felt Derek Landy did a decent enough job ensuring it didn’t be too overwhelming, at least in my opinion.
How many important plot were there in Kingdom of the Wicked? Hang on, let me count them.
1. Agreddion2. Kitana’s gang
3. Darquesse.
4. The reflection
5. The threat of war between the Sanctuaries
6. Dimensional shunting
Holy shit, Kingdom of the Wicked had 6 core plot points that had an undeniable effect on the story. Jesus. The standard is usually one core plot, and one sub-plot.
I’m still currently reading Last Stand of Dead Men so I don’t really know where The Dying of the Light will pick up from but I hope Landy finishes it with a bang. I’ve also been meaning to check out a few of his shorter stories as well as he’s carved out a nice little niche that helps fill the gap left by Harry Potter. I imagine that once the main series has truly ended he might start shopping around the movie rights so here’s hoping.
Last Stand of Dead Men definitely ends with a bang. I’m curious to see whether Dying of the Light is going to resume immediately, or resume six months later like it always does.
As you read Last Stand of Dead Men, feel free to gush/rant about it on TAY. Curious to see your thoughts on the way the first two hundred pages are structured. Also curious to see your thoughts on the amazingness that is FemScapegrace.
I don’t think I want Skulduggery Pleasant to be a movie series. Not just because book adaptions are often unfaithful, but because it just wouldn’t work. Skulduggery would just be creepy to watch on-screen, and they’d probably cast a shitty child actor to play Valkyrie. Not to mention that the Irish accents would get grating pretty quickly. And the fact that the actors would age over the course of the production, when they are supposed to look the same age throughout, would get annoying.
The Crew beta, on PC.
8WBH-JXAD-C7VC-GMCD
I would take it, but I checked the system requirements, and I can’t run it.
Is this through Steam? Was claimed if so, pity want to give this a try, need a new racing game and Driveclub just seems to get further and further away
I have no idea sorry. Looks like a Steam key, but I got it off EB Games with no other instructions.
It was a uPlay key of course, I forgot it was Ubi, 15gb will have to wait till the weekend to download.
Also thanks!
Np. 🙂 Let us know how it plays!
Slow Tay, huh?
OK, a thursday afternoon question: How would you solve a world issue if given sufficient cash? I’d roll out easy access to vaccines and contraception internationally.
Military dictatorship allowing me full control of global resource distribution.
Why military?
Uhhh… who wouldn’t?
Respect through fear resulting in obedience.
Harmony for the world. Power-trip for me. Everybody wins! Except the swiftly-executed dissidents who are largely unpopular anyway thanks to ‘their’ (nudge-nudge, wink-wink) sloppy and indiscriminate acts of terrorism which catch innocents just trying to get by.
(Honestly? Military because… I can’t see any other non-futuristic means of controlling a populace long enough to install some meaningful global infrastructure and resource-allocation. The haves will want to fight back to prevent themselves from become ‘have-somes’ just like the have-nots, but they’ll also be the most keen to preserve their relative comfort. Internal squabbling will be our collective downfall, and as long as we can unify against something – myself, the rube colonists of other planets, demanding independence from an Earth they don’t feel is relevant, alien contact… whatever. Everyone – EVERYONE – wants to get ahead of everyone else. It doesn’t matter that they have enough. What matters is they have more than the other guy. If the entirety of recorded human civilization teaches us anything, it is that THAT is human nature. And it must be stomped on with steel-capped boots. The greatest and most advanced of our empires succeeded thanks to their militaries, and they fell when there was nothing left to fight.)
Do the words “bloody coup” or “revolution” mean anything to you?
This is why you need a well-funded and effective secret police who everyone is terrified of, willing to wage secret and utterly unethical campaigns of feeding strategic information to militant resistance that harms more than it helps, along with an effective campaign of PR lies (redundant).
(Edit: Also, find and/or invent enemies for the collective to unite against. 1984 was fairly clever in that way.)
I hate to say it but if we’re looking at the most efficient way to exact change this’d be it.
Not sure how lasting it would be though since the human race has consistently defied any aspect of life it’s forced even if it’s better or worse in the long run, it’s the act of being forced into it.
All I’d need is 2-3 generations. No-one would know anything that wasn’t the groups I segregated them into. Living memory’s a funny thing.
Tis sad but you are probably on the money.
The more you tighten your grip Tarki… er Transientmind, the more star systems will slip through your fingers…
The only harmony for the world is my method involving a doomsday device!
Upvote for Tarkin.
When you become world dictator, can I be the secretary of language? There’s a few words and grammatical inconsistencies I’d like wiped off the face of the Earth. I promise I won’t do a Starscream!
Create an international system of pipelines & filtration systems to transport water globally. The idea being to give everyone access to clean water & assist in floods. What’s that you say? You’re flooding, we’ll ship that over to Africa they’re having a drought.
I know it’s dumb, unrealistic and poses a lot of other issues like viruses or parasites etc. getting shipped around, it’s a nice thought in theory though.
Edit: I Think this could be incorporated into transientmind’s plan.
But given unlimited cash, still completely possible.
That is exactly why we need global governance.
(Under my iron fist.) To avoid the inevitable petty squabbles about who controls what pipeline, where their resources are going and how they will be compensated, and at what rate, for whom, based on alliances and treaties and OH MY GOD, YOU WILL ALL BURN UNLESS YOU PLAY NICE.
Your iron fist?
ew, no, then I’d have to play everything on a PC.
On the plus side, I’d also eliminate pre-order/retailer/platform-exclusive DLC, and the console wars would be over, with everyone playing on the same cutting edge technology.
You take the bad with the good, my friend. 🙂
Hrmm, jackbooted thugs and no day one dlc, or status quo.
Sorry man, status quo
Awh. So much hate for global peace and unity, and unlinking the survival of the species to this single, vulnerable planet. 🙁
(Mind you, I just realized my not-serious hypothetical is basically lifting the rough plan of the ‘villain’ from The Watchmen. So I guess maybe that way could be viable as well.)All hail Transientmind! *bows*
ReNeducation Program.
*eats a rope of sausages*
These weiners will give me the energy I need to escape rize’s plan
Orbital solar power. Harness the sun to do our bidding. Fulfill all our current and perceivable future energy needs with a clean energy source that will last for millions of years.
And soon after you achieve that big oil, big coal and big (insert rich energy based conglomerate) will rally the people against you with false allegations! Yes I know, I understand humanity too well.
Put Tay in a deep shielded bunker then glass the planet.
Free internets for everyone!
Send landfill waste into the sun?
Haven’t you seen Futurama!?
Hmm maybe not that episode!
Out of curiosity, what’s the motivation behind solving that issue over others? (Or something more comprehensive.)
Less disease/death, less growth in population?
Easiest solvable problem, easiest way to improve quality of life.
Ah. Efficiency/realism. Fair’nuff.
Microloans and education for women are shown to increase life expectancy and quality of life very effectively (because then they know the value of education and push their children to have it…and educated women tend to have less children).
TAYlist for the 28th of August 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by an effort to break the fortnightly schedule I’m falling intoScatman John – Scatman (The first song of the 12 o’clock hour)
Silverchair – Freak (Requested by @benny, song on recommendation from @freezespreston)
Bon Jovi – Wanted Dead Or Alive
Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now (Requested by @benny)
Bowling For Soup – High School Never Ends (Requested by @scree, we only have this, 1985, and My Wena, not the best selection if you ask me)
Toto – Hold The Line (Requested by @Blaghman and @Rocketman, the first ever double request)
Regina Spektor – All The Rowboats (Requested by @35)
Miley Cyrus – Party In The USA (Requested by @DC, little did I know, the version I added to the playlist was some shitty remixed version, making the experience double shit)
Spin Doctors – Two Princes (The first song of the 1 o’clock hour)
No Doubt – Just A Girl (Requested by @gingerchris86)
Hall & Oates – Rich Girl
Mark Williams – Show No Mercy
Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box (Requested by @coldcamv)
Darkness – I Believe In A Thing Called Love (Requested by @ontargett)
Santana ft. Rob Thomas – Smooth
Grinspoon – Premonitions
Roachford – Only To Be With You (Requested by a local)
Choirboys – Run To Paradise
Knack – My Sharona (Requested by @tigerion)
Mott The Hoople – All The Young Dudes (Requested by @redartifice)
Is there some spotify playlist or something that this works off?
Red used to do spotify playlists, and apparently now is doing google play playlists, see below.
Ah, so red just updates it every time you release a new one? I never knew how it worked heh.
I sporadically do them.
Work put a ban on streaming music sites, but at this point…eh.
Alright. I checked the google play one but it’s samples only, so I guess spotify worked better.
Probably different because I’m a subscriber to play music, sorry
I don’t use spotify much anymore
Ahh right, all-access. Yeah I haven’t signed up to one of those services (yet?).
@stickman I’ve only just signed up. Thing that pushed me over the line was the ability to upload my own music, for all those weird one-offs I have. Also, the google integration is pretty good.
On google play
Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look?
Fun fact: Before I requested Gotye (*shakes fist*) I was going to request some Hall & Oates. But it was going to be “You Make My Dreams (Come True)” so… 1/4 points for mind reading?
Were none of @cookingmama’s available? Wow.
I’d never heard of any of them, and I couldn’t find them in the computer anyway.
High School Never Ends, that song seems to true at times with people I still know from school..
Not one of my awesome suggestions on that list.
Sir! I am offended! (not really offended)
@cookingmama’s Awesome List of Songs that Weren’t on Taylist today:
Isaac or Fuzz – Machine Gun Fellatio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rS8Pm15E0A
This was the song that gained them some notoriety. I know some of the German dancers in the video clip (family of an ex-bf)
Thephilus Thistler – Sonic Animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6s5L28Igg
They used to wear those costumes on stage.
Kong Foo Sing – Regurgitator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWAMsIxwt60
The moshingest song ever written about fortune cookies.
Apartment – Custard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Dsq41LY28
One of their best songs, although my favourite is Girls Like That. Their song Hit Song was written about Tim Freedman and how he got all the best lyrics for No Aphrodisiac from Pinky Beecroft of Machine Gun Fellatio – see the link!?
(He’ll Never Be An) Old Man River – TISM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-mLIdLZZeI
TISM were so offensive they had to wear masks and use psudonyms so they wouldn’t lose their day jobs as high school english teachers.
More like @cookingmama’s Awesome List of Songs that
Weren’t on Taylist todaya small-town community radio station on a shoestring budget can’t affordOh man did I love TISM. Saw them a couple of times and their shows were fantastic.
Edit: Now I’m just making myself sad that Festival Hall and The Playroom aren’t around any more.
Brisvegas is responsible so much awesome aussie music.
OMG Classic MGF – and Custard. I officially love you.
Nice list, apart from Miley Cyrus haha.
Special awesomeness for Toto (Go @blaghman and @rocketman!) and for Bowling For Soup (@scree is a legend).
Also, @coldcamv picked a good Nirvana song. Heart-shaped Box is awesome.
Music mixing takes such a long fucking time…
Totally worth it, though. 🙂
So, past few days, US cops have managed to shoot and kill two victims who were trying to escape from someone trying to stab them in an apartment because they got confused.
At a different place more US cops shot and killed a crew member of COPS filming them because they got confused.
Not a cop this time, a nine year old girl shot and killed an instructor at a shooting range with an Uzi.
Man, no one will have to worry about the US as it won’t be long before the last person alive in the country shoots the second last.
An eye for an eye leaves the world blind. …Except the last guy.
Then, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
I remember reading somewhere that some Jews were debating how Gandhi had misquoted the “eye for an eye” part and how he had insulted the Torah. I felt like they were being a bit too self-righteous though as I’m fairly certain eye for an eye originally occurred in Hammurabi’s laws which predates the written Torah.
Of course, arguing religion is never a good idea so I decided not to comment on that article.
Huh. What’s funny is I never even knew it was a religious quote (/misquote, whatever). I thought it was just a saying. 😛
Hammurabi? He was a Mesopotamian
(another random fact I learned by listening to They Might Be Giants)
Let me preface this by saying that gun violence in the US is waaaaaaaay too high.
That being said, let me put this forward:
An estimated 8000-14000 gun-related deaths occur each year in the USA.
While it’s a staggering number of unnecessary deaths, that represents around 0.005% of their 350,000,000 population. When you look at it that way, it’s actually a statistically insignificant number. Even triple that number of deaths is basically insignificant. It’s certainly lower than
motor vehicle fatalities.
(site cut off my last sentence)
That’s not an apt comparison- motor vehicles have a greater public utility and, if operated properly (and several other caveats- in working order, blah blah blah) don’t kill people.
Aye the underlying purpose of a motor vehicle isn’t to take a life!
Hold up.
8000-14000 gun related deaths- the question is how many of those wouldn’t have happened without guns?
A gun has one purpose- kill things. I refuse to believe that removing an easy way to kill things (deliberately or accidentally) won’t have a positive impact on death rates.
Apparently there is as many as 300,000,000 guns in the hands of the public in the US. Gonna be pretty hard to remove them!
At any rate, keeping them out of the hands of kids would be a good way to start. That story about the 9 year old with an Uzi and the “branded” guns with things like Hello Kitty is just absurdly ridiculous.
Good luck trying to take their guns away, most Americans love their guns and would be all second amendment this and it’s my right to have guns that. If I didn’t have this gun, the king of England could walk right in here and start pushing you around, do you want that, huh, do ya?
You’re discounting suicides in those figures, which nearly triples them. Remember that the thing about gun related suicides is the immediacy and detached ease of it. So many suicides are averted because of time to think about it or hesitancy in carrying through something painful or scary (fun fact: speaking from personal experience here).
Tunneling exhaust fumes into the cabin of a car seems scarily easy. Also, I’m really sorry to hear about your ‘fun’ fact.
Easy? Yes. But it takes time and sometimes that can be enough to let it sink in and realise what you’re doing. If you’re hell bent on going than nothing can stop you but it stops that desperate instant where everything seems hopeless.
Honestly, I know someone who is still alive today because of that time.Easy suicide is one of the many reasons I appreciate Australia’s gun laws.
I think I remember the number of suicides dropped after the gun buy-back in Australia for exactly the reason you describe. I know that suicide and murder by other methods has increased as a result of this but it’s pretty hard to deny that the difficulty in acquiring a firearm has made these sort of crimes A) harder to accomplish; and B) reduced the risk of accidental deaths when these crimes take place.
This is one of the things I heard argued when people were comparing fatalities in the US to Australia and bringing up Australia’s gun ban.
It wasn’t just that GUN suicides went down… ALL suicides went down. They weren’t be (entirely) replaced. So… something done right. It would seem.
Edit: ORRRR what popdart already said. Dangit. Stupid page…
What’s even more interesting is in 2014 we have more guns in the hands of private citizens than we did pre serious business gun laws in ’96
But hey, gun control? Totally not going to solve anything and you’re an idiotic liberal pansy for thinking otherwise.
FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS
I really hated that guy. He’s dead now, so there’s that. Charlton Heston was one of the few ‘classic’ actors that I really despised. Yes, I’ve seen Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes. Importantly, I also saw Bowling for Columbine and learned of his true nature as President of the NRA.
Never liked his acting, either. Planet of the Apes was great because he gets shot in the throat at the start and doesn’t talk for most of the film.
Guns don’t kill people, Apes with guns kill people.
Edit: Whatever happened to Michael Moore anyway, haven’t heard anything of him since he did Sicko.
This voter suppression ad is the last thing I’ve seen from him.
You know the bloke the cops murdered that started the whole ferguson thing? The people set up a memorial where he was killed, the cops took one of their dogs there and let it piss on it.
http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/ferguson-st-louis-police-tactics-dogs-michael-brown
I think this highlights the difference in views between Australia and America rather nicely
Bought Watch_Dogs from Target for $59. AC:Black Flag is the same price and Diablo 3 is $64. I went with Watch_Dogs because it’s still $99 at EB. Came with the DLC too, which is great.
Is this PS4 pricing?
Yes indeedy. And XBone too.
Ooo! Everyone seems to be playing Diablo at the moment.. Maybe I’ll jump in too.
Doo eeet! It is funzies.
Train naps can’t come soon enough.
Not if I have anything to do with it!
Monster.
I might play mario kart tonight and take a break from the cosplay stuff. Normally I would motor on, but I’m bloody sick again so I might just relax
Funnily enough, stress taxes your immune system, so relaxing is probably just what the doctor ordered. 🙂
Page 10 page 11! Super broken!
Well we didn’t have a #gookyget to shepherd us into the proper order of things
WHY DID YOU FORSAKE US
Wait, look at Neg’s post’s permalink. I FIXED IT!
You’re welcome 😎
Oh god what have I become
I brought my laptop in to work and tethered it to my phone so I could open it up a couple of times today and quickly jump into Kantai Collection and set some expeditions going / put more ships into repair after my horror run this morning, so that I can finally knock out the map I’m on when I get home.Apparently the game runs okay on high-end Android tablets & phones with a bit of effort too, and I am in need of an upgrade for my phone (which is my sister’s old cast-off iPhone 4S)
You need to go to a WJFTPGA meeting
(Weird Japanese Free To Play Games Anonymous)
Waifus Anonymous?
EDIT: Also I’d argue that in the wide spectrum that is Japan, it’s actually not that weird.
True.
It just dawned on me, but I hope people don’t think I’m depressed or anything :\
I’m just a natural worrier! 😀
Always worrying about something or other :3
I’m happy enough though 😀
Beware, there’s much talk of suicide on this page.
Don’t get any ideas!Scrap that as I’ve already given one idea. Try to forget!
Woah, that’s grim :\
I like life, I think I’ll stick around for as long as I can 🙂
All those donuts aren’t going to eat themselves, after all 😀
I don’t think it would matter if you were. One of the problems in diagnosing clinical depression is how we’re socialized to assume that we’re just down a little today, need to cheer up/harden up, ‘things aren’t so bad’.
If that happens to be a point of truth for you, then that’s awesome, but if not? Can totally be worth getting some professional advice.
Haha, I just realised that I’ve been all “woe is me” and “I’m so down” lately is all 😛
I was feeling down, but not depressed or anything.
Didn’t want people to think anything was wrong with me was all 😛
I’m a worrier and a stresser is all :3
It’s my nature 😀
Just didn’t want people (potentially) worrying about me was all 🙂
I got professional advice. He was quite insistent that I just hated my father and brushed off anything else I wanted to talk about. Sure, I don’t talk to my old man but it was my concious choice and I’m quite comfortable with it. But nope, no other stresses or worries matter. It’s my dad.
Only other time I saw someone they told me it was because of video games and metal music….
Er… Well. Can be worth getting professional advice?
I would say that every profession has its share of Jayant Patels, but I don’t exactly have the figures or experience to go in to bat for the psychiatric profession. Just anecdotal evidence of friends/family who found it useful. Sooo. Grain of salt, perhaps.
Yikes! Only reason I’m still around is because of video games and metal music….
I guess sometimes it takes going to a “professional” to realise that they’re the ones who are really crazy and feel sorry for them. 😛
Find a professional professional. Unless you’re in obvious hardcore denial, any psych who has a modicum of intelligence would at least explore other options rather than assume the validity of a predetermined hypothesis and then look for evidence to support it, that’s rampantly unscientific.
Depressed, no. Anxiety? Yes.
There’s a difference between being a bit of a worrier and letting your anxiety get out of control. In time it will become disabling and that’s when the depression sets in (your fight/flight brain chemistry gets out of whack if it’s contstantly being told you’re under attack when there is no physical threat. Anxiety causes tummy problems, headaches, heart palpitations….
Anxiety is itself a mental illness, and learning how to keep a lid on it can require some help. Good news is that cognitive behavioural therapy is very very effective. Asking for help can be hard, but it won’t go away if you just ignore it.
We never get rid of the black dog, but he doesn’t have to get in our way.
I only get anxious about important things, in my defence.
And even then, once the crippling fear sets in (if it even gets to that stage (it’s only gotten to that stage once before)), that usually spurs me to make a change about what’s making me anxious 🙂
I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s anything serious 🙂
I have a good habit of breaking a bad stream of thought before it gets too out of hand (being down, being anxious, etc).
Looking at my release calendar again.
This week was Neptunia Rebirth (Vita). Next week is Danganronpa 2 (Vita). Week after is Destiny (PS4). Week after is Fairy Fencer F (PS3) and Theatrhythm Curtain Call (3DS). Week after that is Natural Doctrine (PS4/PSV) and Ar noSurge (PS3) and week after that is Senran Kagura. Then Shadows of Mordor the week following and then finally there’s a couple of weeks without any releases I’m considering or definitely buying.
Too many. Got to cut back or something. Or invent time compression so that I can make every day last for 2 weeks.
Not buying Warriors orochi 3 Ultimate or Fantasy Life *heart breaks*
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/475384/miyamoto-explains-nintendos-renewed-passion-for-the-core/
This was an awesome interview with Miyamoto. Favourite quote:
“”Their attitude is, ‘okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.’ It’s kind of a passive attitude they’re taking, and to me it’s kind of a pathetic thing. “
They’re going to have to release some actual games that appeal to the core audience then.
Maybe this is me as a generally non-Nintendo person, but a lot of their stuff for the most part just doesn’t feel like things I should be paying full retail price for. Like, everyone was going nutty about Splatoon during E3 for example. But it’s a team-based shooter with a cartoony look? If any other company was behind that they’d be selling it as a $20-30 downloadable thing.
Some of Nintendo’s stuff actually is substantial enough to stand on its own as a full offering, but I feel like a lot of it is still very simplistic and basically just one or two simple gameplay ideas iterated on. Like a lot of them are basically not that different to a bunch of indie games except they’re by Nintendo so they’re celebrated games released at a $60 US price point and everything.
Maybe it’s just me.
If Nintendo announced a Hyrule Warriors Wii U bundle I would probably buy itIt’s an interesting angle that I hadn’t considered. How does AAA/brand-name title stack up in gameplay/quality/polish to available indie offerings…
I can think of a number of games that are better than the popular choice but nobody bothers to give them a chance.
It’s hard, because you kinda think you can rely on what you know and mostly it seems to work, mostly.
I found it overly negative from a normally positive guy.
Just picked up a copy of the PC Powerplay Hardware & Tech Special 2014, on the cover it says “Build A Console-Killing PC For Only $700” I’ve been thinking about how much it would cost to build a PC that would be equivalent in power to the current-gen consoles. Flipped through the article and it says “Total price at time of printing was $854”, what! So the cover is very misleading, went on pccasegear.com and added all the components they listed to the cart and got a total of $882, now that’s approximately 50% more than what it costs for a new console, but if you buy lots of games like I do, it’s worth it, especially if you buy them from Steam, plus PC’s can be easily upgraded.
Thought some of you might find this interesting.
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=shopping_cart&sort=20a
Fanboyism aside, I’ve never found price to be a convincing argument in favour of PC.
You can make excuses, such as that console manufacturers are getting wholesale discounts you wouldn’t get from building something yourself, or that the manufacturers are willingly taking a loss just to get the product out there and win market share for the long haul, but the ‘why’ doesn’t matter as much as the ‘what’. And the ‘what’ is: console tech could be cheaper than its equivalent without some SERIOUS wrangling and potential compromises.
That’s arguing price. ‘Value’, however… is a different story. If you can bump up storage space significantly with an extra fifty bucks worth, or double the GPU’s power for a mere $200-300 more after the initial console has started to face obsolescence after a couple years, to the point that you’re getting visibly better results for a similar – if not same – investment, then value starts to win out.
Comes down to your priorities.
My priority is plug it in and it goes.
I havent the foggiest how to build a computer.
Basically you just shove components into whatever slot they’ll fit into and make sure there’s a cable from the power supply going to everything.
There are Lego sets more complicated than most PC builds.
what is a power supply? What does it look like?
It’s the bit with all the cables coming out that has the bit to stick into the wall.
I like cheese 😀
But seriously, no idea.
In the words of Eddie Izzard…you take the instructions and you throw them in the trash!
Cost is actually a big factor in favour of PCs but it’s a long term investment thing, your final costing on a 5 year PC based gaming experience will be dramatically better than a console equivalent. Even if you spend 2 grand on the PC and $500 on a console, the fact that the games on a console cost double the PC price and you can generally not get them cheaper with stuff like GMG coupons means that you’ll end up paying more over the years for the games than you ever would on PC. Add steam sales and GOG to the equation and you’ll end up with far more games at lower prices than you’ll ever see on consoles for the simple fact that console games bottom out at about the $20 mark and even that’s normally after years rather than months.
PCCG shopping carts aren’t shareable. You gotta use public wishlists.
No idea about the magazine etc, but it is indeed possible to build a console-killer for $700, even in Australia. But that’s just the tower, no controller, no kb/mouse, no OS. You usually have to buy Windows on top which is $100, but people building these things probably have spare keys lying around.
To beat console: i3 + mobo ($220), case + PSU ($120?), RAM ($100), HDD ($80) and then the rest on GPU ($200). Just over $700. OS and controllers makes it over $850 though.
I can show you what I built. It’s a beast, and can function as HTPC (media server, streaming, encoding, recording TV, etc).
Slow TAY is slooooow.
It’s a trend lately that I do not like :\
Thursday arvo question!
On a scale of 1-10, how much do my eyes sparkle? ;D
3 normally.
5322 if donuts or chocolate is mentioned.
That’s like, 3x higher (or 5322x higher) than I’d give my dead little green eyes, so I’ll take it! 😀
I didn’t notice, not a fan of eye contact
Just an update on some of the stuff I’ve been doing
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/luckydogofdeath/library/Knight%20solaire
The elements are coming together nicely
I’m worried it’s too blocky. Not sure what else I can do. Wait and see what Nob says
It’s official, I just upgrade my dragon Age Inquisition to the Inquisitor’s edition!
😀 😀
😀
Thinking kind of warily about getting a console version of DA:I, myself. I have doubts. Such doubts.
Why console? Is this version lacking things on PC?
Looks to contain the same shit for a tenner less
https://ebgames.com.au/pc-201676-Dragon-Age-Inquisition—Inquisitors-Edition-PC
This is part of my doubtingness. PC is the obviously superior platform. However… ‘true’ Hawke and ‘true’ Warden are on console. The PC versions will be ‘ideal’ Warden and ‘ideal’ Hawke. Emotions are in play, what do I DOOOO? I never advocate for making decisions based on emotion! ONLY LOGIC!
Also, my later attempts at replaying were plagued with known issues of crashes to desktops which were declared never to be fixed. One of those rare instances where something might actually be better off on the console. Going to have to play another round of DA:O & 2 on PC to see.
What is this true and ideal thing? Link?
Oh, no, it’s about personal emotional attachment for me – no link available.
I explain: My first playthrough of DA:O was on console, which makes it – in a weird part of my heart – the ‘true’ Warden. Any Warden after was just a pretender, including the PC one later. And because I wanted to import my ‘true’ Warden and his decisions into DA2, I also played that on the console first.
It is silly human squishiness to blame.
You know about DA Keep?
None of that will matter anymore, you’ll be able to recreate those saves on wherever system you like.
I’m going from 360 to PS4.
…
This is of significant interest to me. Linky?
(Edit: I mean, I have working google-fu, but anything that cuts out false positives is a blessing.)
@transientmind
http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Keep
https://dragonagekeep.com/en_US/
I signed up for the beta, no luck….YET!
Pretty much an app you use to set up a history.
I think there was just too much trouble with the change in Gen not to do this.
@transientmind
Spoilers for 1 &2
http://www.vg247.com/2014/08/20/dragon-age-inquisition-keep-leaked-screens/
Follow up question!
On a scale of “Errr, I’ll pass” to “Oh my god, you have no idea”, how badly do you want a piece of aaaaallllll thhiiiissss *motions to self* 😉
I’m super bored at work btw.
I’m married … so, OH MAH GAWD YA HEF NOH IDEARRRRRRRRR
I miss the days when I could TAY at work 🙁
How about “how badly do you feel the urge to throw things in every cleavage you notice?” 😛
What else is cleavage good for? 😛
Oh so many things… *stares into the distance*
Motorboating?
Maybe, if you’re into that kinda thing 😛
Every time someone says that I think of going out on a speedboat and people using girls boobs as floatation devices
Subtle.
I saw a girl use her cleavage to hold her glass of vodka while at a party
Goddammit, I keep hearing little peeps about this story, but not the full thing. I demand answers! (Especially when cleavage is involved)
Bonus points for anyone who would “climb you like Everest”.
How about like a tree
That could work, too.
12.
WHERE DOES THAT SIT ON YOUR SCALE HUH?!
Converting mine to a 1-10 scale, 12 would be like, “I dream about you every night, and long for your touch every day”.
It was just a joke though Alex, I’m sorry if I got your hopes up :\
Playi7ing with my emotions huh? You monster.
I don’t know how that 7 got in there but it’s stayng.
What about the extra i?
Absolutely intentional.
I have a jar full of Killer Pythons lollies…
Someone stop me from eating them!
D:
Bought the Mario Kart DLC. $16 for 16 tracks? Seems worth it to me! *decisive nod*
Also the $7 credit I got for using eShop thing with Mario Kart free game made this DLC technically only $9 for me. WOOOOOO!
Wait, is it already out?!
I might give it a skip, purely cause I can’t play with you guys often enough to warrant buying it (cause I only pay with you guys).
Nah, you can pre-order now. First 8 tracks are November, second 8 tracks are May.
Oh! I might get it then! Those dates fall into my uni holidays quite nicely actually 🙂
Thanks! 😀
Any time, Stewie.
Also I imagine the release of new tracks will spike the amount of TAYbie interest in the game again. I picture a week of awesome racing.
I HAVE ESHOP CREDIT. I didn’t realise you could pre-order this. BRB
Yes. We’re gonna race on so many new tracks. So. Many.
I forgot how awesome Super Paper Mario was. Then I was reminded.
Super Paper Mario OST – The Ultimate Show
You know who make the best music videos?
These guys
Ramstein are pretty great
Rosenrot for me.
Mein Land video so fucking good.
So not sure how Twitter etiquette works… and if such a thing exists I may have stomped all over it.
Just started following a bundle of you all… So… errr… Hi?
Please be nice as I figure out how to use twitter…
I followed back, friend. I didn’t know you were a Brisbane guy too!
My phone has gone a bit crazy as everyone is following back, so I’m slightly reassured that not everyone thought ‘Who the hell…?’ and clicked ignore/block.
And yes a Brisbanite!
Ohhhhh, right that was you. Gotcha. 😛
http://mikatan.goodsmile.info/en/2014/08/28/yamato-kai-heavy-armament-ver/ holy crap
Loved this from Frankenweenie. <3
Music Appreciation Thread?
Is it bad that I kind of love this train wreck?I wish I could look half as glorious as the two guys here
There’s still time!
And no to the spoiler. I super super love early 90’s Techno Pop and that’s probably far more sad.
Like this amount of sad.
Hahaha! I bought their album in the ’90s. It was one of my first albums. XD
I remembered that I have two fight sticks…
You know what that means…
Robotron 2084! \o/
Why are you hitting yourself?
http://37.media.tumblr.com/2668e12d760d45b04fd7e8168726ea7e/tumblr_n259p6bbjJ1qh59n0o1_500.gif
Walking Dead Game Season 2 Final Episode Discussion, etc!
Choices:– Ran for the baby (Obviously someone else would’ve picked it up even if I didn’t though, surely)
– Did not try to help Luke out of the ice. No way! Though I did end up getting dunked anyway 😛
– Didn’t ask to leave with Mike and Bonnie
– Shot Kenny. Not an easy decision this one! In the end I just thought Jane would be the better option (I’m assuming Jane dies if you don’t shoot him). Kenny is spent at that point and while it was extremely obvious that Jane just hid the baby somewhere as a test (such a stupid thing to do), she’s less broken than he is.
– Ended up with Jane, the baby and the new family back at Carver’s place in the end. (That kid is totally not that guys son :P)
Overall a good episode, but the ending was really lacking for me. Had none of the impact of the first season ending. I absolutely hated the final decision with Jane. Either “I hate you now!” or “That’s okay what you did, I don’t mind at all!”. I wanted a “What you did was insane, but I’m not about to walk away from an able-bodied adult with this kid so shut up and take me somewhere warm” option.
Also, where did Bonnie get that cigarette from? 😛
http://www.gog.com/movies##sort=bestselling&page=1
Huh. Interesting.
Just finished playing The Walking Dead season 2. I really liked it. It was a great final episode to the season. Spoilers for The Walking Dead season 2 episode 5 (game):
Fuck you Kenny for making me shoot you. And fuck you Jane for making me shoot Kenny. Also, Arvo is now officially the worst character. Bonnie is a close second. I knew I couldn’t trust her.I really liked the Lee flashback/dream part. Clem (well, mine at least. I don’t know how it went for other people) had grown steadily harsher over the course of this season, even if she was still generally being a good person, and after the dream part I felt it was a good way to bring her back to being a more altruistic person. Which is why I invited the family in at the end, cause you gotta help people and trust them, else you’ve already lost.
After the end of season 1 I really wanted season 2 not to be a continuation on of the previous season’s story. I wanted a brand new cast of characters. I’m glad that’s not what we got, and now I really hope season 3 continues Clem’s story.
Oh no another broken page.
SAVE US @NOTBENWHITE!
That’d be right, my tax refund finally goes into my account, go to buy a cheap PS4 off the Dick Smith Ebay store and they’re friggin’ sold out.
Thanks a lot Dick.
Oh well, probably a good thing I s’pose. Might wait till Christmas and see what bundles are around.
Get a Destiny bundle! They’re a different color. You will be more special.
Goodnight, folks.
I’m back in Perth next week too. This isn’t fun anymore, guys send help. ;_;
Nah it ain’t tooooooo bad. But I miss being able to just sit and relax :(. Flying in and out is still kinda crazy though.
Enjoy your Canberran adventures friends. I hope to join a TAY adventure one day (Tasmania ferry meat!)
Next week we’ll hang out!
You’ll see! 😀
You’ll all see! >:D
Maybe I dun wanna
Little green jerk >:'(
All those frequent flyer points, just live in perth for the next 2 weeks
@transientmind for some reason when I was playing diablo 3 earlier tonight, it gave me a present to send to you. No idea why, I assumed you had to be playing with the people in question to get gift drops for them but check your ingame mailbox for some probably underwhelming unique item.
Sometimes you get gifts for defeating enemies that killed your friends. Will usually say it under their health bar. (ALSO THANKS FOR THE GIFT, GUYS! :D)
I can’t say I’ve noticed any mention of a monster being a friend’s nemesis and @Longjocks has been getting presents for me left & right and I’ve never been defeated on account of being awesome (and possibly because we should be playing on the next difficulty level up). That’s why getting the present for transient was so weird (and also funny) since LJ got something like 3 gifts for me in an hour and I got 1 gift and it was for someone else.
Got any topaz you don’t want? The game seems to hate my mage and takes the piss by giving me every other type of gem except the one she can use. You’re playing a monk aren’t you? What do they use, dexterity? I can swap you some emeralds
I don’t have PS+ so pretty sure I can’t gift… maybe. Also I accidentally sell all the stuff I’m not using. Including legendary weapons.
I should up the difficulty. That said my health did dip down to half in one or two of the big fights with a bunch of those ‘elite’ enemies where I lost myself in the clutter of all the flashing lights on the screen. I think the main thing that would kill me on higher difficulty is just not being able to see where I am or where I need to move to. It would give me reason to go back to using the Steed Charge power.
Steed Charge sounds like some kind of sex euphemism.
One of the reasons I like playing ranged characters is that I always know where the enemy is, “over there”. In the case of coop, they’re also around you so there’s not even a problem with friendly fire what with the fact that I don’t like you (also not being able to damage party members but mostly not liking you).
I have not noticed that. Time to die from all the enemies then \o/
Thanks! All the incentive I needed to give the game another go on the weekend instead of returning it! That, and I missed the return window.
Are you on ps4?
That gift should be mine, damnit! I’m the one who had to put up with… uh… had the pleasure of playing with you.
Hey I’ve given you heaps of rubies, what more do you want?
I’ve been watching Season 4 of Dan and Karl’s Zeitgeist sporadically the last couple of weeks. Don’t have a clue where Season 1,2 or 3 are, so I began at Season 4. It’s stunning that I am literally half the viewcount on certain podcasts.
I’m pretty sure they just migrated all their old eps onto Soundcloud recently. Before that it was all on Podbean. Listening counts would’ve been reset.
I listen on Stitcher, so it doesn’t add to the playcount there.
I just had a great moment on Warthunder. I was on my fastest light tank trying to work out how to get around behind the enemy. Went flying off a ledge and wound up stuck on top of a bunch of rocks. I was trying to get myself unstuck and for a few moments when an enemy light tank came flying down apparently following me. We then spent the next 30 seconds wobbling around on our backs like stuck turtles trying to both wright ourselves whist shooting the other one. The round finished before we found out who won though.
Almost, almost caught up to people in D3. Level 50 and just starting the Sin Hearts.
Are people generally down with someone randomly jumping in? Would the couple of ~30 peeps want someone higher level to come smash things? Are there newcomers desiring co-op action?
So many questions.
You’re on PS4 aren’t you, I might not be picking one up for a while, but I’m considering getting it on Xbone today.
Level doesn’t matter unless you’re trying to crash a lvl 70 Torment endgame. Then you’re going to have a bad time.
If you join or are joined by a higher level player the game scales to the higher level and boosts the state of the lower level player temporarily to make the game even. It’s a pretty neat system. Just crash anyone’s game. Even loot isn’t shared. Each player gets their own.
Ah excellent. I shall crash all the games.
Started playing Valiant Hearts last night. Really loving the game.
Played for quite a while last night and during that time completely forgot about my sore throat
So beautiful and well constructed.
Feel like I’m learning a lot. I don’t know much about the First world war, so I’m glad I’m learning now.
Plus, doggy.
Yeah, it’s humanizing a subject that sometimes is too damn huge to comprehend. Loved it.
He’s such a lovable little fella.
I’ve been listening over the last few days to the latest ep of Hardcore history: http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh
All about Verdun and the Somme.
Are you like some kind of shadow version of me or something? Because I have also been listening to the same series. Just finished the latest one.
I really like the way he puts his stuff together. Focusing on the human side of these things, and not just the events or the battles in a super dry way. WW1 is a particularly interesting conflict in that regard, since it’s literally the worst conflict humans have ever engaged in in terms of loss of life, and it was so utterly fucking pointless at the same time. WW2 has a definite ‘bad guy’ and was an ideological war. WW1 was just a bunch of countries throwing away their best and brightest because fuck those other guys.
I got put onto it by Serrels the other day. My only criticism is that I’d love for them to be chopped up into hour blocks
The way they worked historical facts into the game with the photos and stuff I think was really well done. It constantly breaks you out of your comfort zone if you read the stuff, telling you “you’re playing a game, but this shit actually happened. Here’s some photos.” Also because stuff is appearing as you’re playing and collecting stuff and as the war is progressing, it puts all those things into context.
I’d almost argue that if you were a history teacher doing WW1 in school, it’d be a great thing to get the students to play through, just for that. It makes things consumable and human, makes you realize the reality of the conflict in a way that a dry history textbook never could.
I’m not a fan of Child of Light, the other non-Rayman UbiArt game, but Valiant Hearts made me wish Ubi made that engine available to other developers, because I want to see more artistic projects like it.
I was thinking the same thing. Especially in high school. I imagine they would learn more from the game then being talked at.
awesome, I loved every minute of it. Enjoy 😀
Any Diablo 3 Xbone peeps? Considering picking it up today, so I might be looking for co-op buddies, I’ve got no mic though. @kermitron
Also, I’ve just got a free copy of Defense Grid: Awakening, and two copies of P.A.M. (Post Apocalyptic Mayhem), who wants ’em? You like Post-Apocalyptic stuff @dc.
Nah, I like a very specific kind of post-apocalyptic stuff, but thanks for thinking of me buddy. 🙂
I haven’t gotten around to playing Diablo III yet because I’ve moved onto Black Flag and it’s consumed all my play time this week. Hopefully over the weekend though!
Cool, I’ll hit you up if I get it.
Ah public holidays. A day off where I don’t have to do a thing and get paid for it. And I think I may be the only one on here that gets it which means it’s all mine. Hahaha haha. Suck it fools….. Uh… I mean… That sucks. Sorry.
Pow doesn’t get a holiday!
And that’s the most important thing in the end. So happy. :’)
What public holiday is this? Police Corruption Day? 😀
Gold Coast show day, I think?
That’s every day.
I’m on a holiday of sorts!
GUYS! I JUST BOUGHT DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN, EVEN THOUGH APPARENTLY I CAN’T RUN IT… WHAT AM I DOING!!!!!
*cries*
Anyways, I bought the special, wizz-bang edition, so I’ve got a free copy to give away as well, (includes: Divine Divinity, Beyond Divinity and Divinity: Original Sin) Who wants it?
Also, don’t forget the other games I’ve got to give away in my above post.
FREE GAMES, HAVE AT IT!
I would love D:OS if I had the time to play it, I’m sure.
So… you’re saying you… don’t want it?
I’m saying I do want it but somebody else should probably get it.
If B-ob doesn’t want it me me me me me me! I’ve been eyeing it for weeks but keep spending money on other games (Damn you 2k discount weekend).
Also dammit monkey it isn’t christmas or steam summer sales yet! You need moneyz for your PS4!
Edit: ONLY if B-ob doesn’t want it though!
@evilmonkey should give it to you, Pastor of Muppets.
Hahahaha, Pastor of Muppets, that’s funny right there.
Seriously though, are you sure you don’t want it? I’ll give it to the Pastor, but only if you’re sure.
“Not to be confused with the Master of Puppets, I’m the plush preacher, Father Felt, the Pastor of Muppets.”
Hahaha, that was awesome.
It’s Muppets of Pastor not the other way around. No… wait that’s not right >.<
Dammit B-ob you should take it (edit – Or coldcam), thinking about it I’ve got enough on my gaming plate with WoW, Marvel Heroes and Endless Legend.
(Seriously I’m not doing the whole you take it, no you take it thing here, I actually am pretty strapped for time until the end of September, also why I haven’t been on TAY much this week)
(@evilmonkey how’d you find marvel heroes btw??)
Goddammit! Why won’t you guys let me give you games.
RE: Marvel Heroes, started it up, but that’s as far as I got.
Why won’t you let us buy you something better than an Intel Core2 Duo E6600 or equivalent?
@beeawwb, If you wanna, I won’t stop ya 😛
What have you got currently? 😛
@beeawwb, A Core i5 4200u 1.6GHz, it’s in a Laptop though, so I don’t think it can be upgraded.
Hmmm, yeah that’s … well, it’s a CPU. I suggest a desktop.
@beeawwb Yeah, I’ve been planning on building a gaming rig for quite a while, hopefully it’ll happen next year.
*closes browser tab with Dell OptiPlex 3020* 😛
*emerges from the shadows*
Did I hear someone say free games?
OK, last call, @beeawwb, and @pupp3tmast3r, do you want Divinity: OS or not? Let me know please, if you don’t I’ll give it to ColdCam.
I’ll pass on Divinity if you jump on Marvel Heroes this weekend =P ok ok fine i’ll pass on it either way!
I’ll try.
You can’t run it as in there’s an error you’re troubleshooting or you can’t run it as in you’re below specs? The minimum specs are really quite modest
Below specs, apparently my CPU isn’t up to the task.
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/divinity-original-sin/11952/?p=a
What’s your CPU? Are you running on a crappy lappy?
Yup, it’s got a Core i5 4200u 1.6GHz CPU.
That would have to outperform a Core2Duo and that speed would be a rating per core rather than as a total of the processor. If you’ve not tried running it yet and are just assuming it won’t work based on that website, I’d definitely suggest giving it a go
Ok, I’ll give it a crack, I’ll run FRAPS at the same time too to see what sort of performance I get.
Edit: I’ll start downloading it now, so I can test it out when I get home tonight.
It’s actually a better idea than I thought, I just had a look and there was a youtube video of someone with an accent I couldn’t quite place doing a review of the game on a laptop with that exact CPU
The game may not run flawlessly but seems to run to an acceptable level by the look of it.
@aliasalpha, cool, it appears all is not lost. Thanks man, I’m running the 720M though, surely it won’t make too much difference. I’ll let you know how I get on.
Did the game end up running?
@aliasalpha, Yeah it ran, but at something like 16 FPS, and took ages to load.
Well it’s been a while since i had a major PC issue but here goes: My PC wasn’t able to boot up at all last night due to an I/O error on the drive that has the Boot BCD file. It’s one of my older drives so I’m guessing it’s finally copped it to the point that it doesn’t work properly anymore. I got two operating systems set up on my PC, my 500GB having Windows 7 and my two 250GBs that were using XP. The 500GB was added on later with my 2x250s that have been there since I first built this PC 7-8 years ago.
My plan once I get home is to try and build a brand new BCD onto my Windows 7 partition and just have that going as my one and only boot setup, as I don’t really need XP any longer. However I will need to grab files that were on the XP drives so I hope I can still do that. Hopefully google can show me the way on how to do that but I’m surely certain such a thing is possible.
On the plus side, this gave me an excuse to play the PS3 again. 30 full minutes of system updates later I decided to try out AC4… almost 1GB of updates, yeah no thanks, we’re near our cap already! So I put in Metal Gear Rising and gave that a bash… I knew it was going to be fun but oh my goodness, so much fun. Absolutely love the soundtrack!
METAL GEAR RISING IS LEGIT FUCKING AWESOME STUFF
That first boss fight! OH MY GOODNESS!
Yo. YO. How far are you? It only gets better.
Going through the sewers, I just beat the three “thundersaur” guys before going to bed… and dealing with that kid, that made me cringe so much. I’m calling them that cuz they were big, two legs each and were using these purple electric attacks. I love that robo dog with the chainsaw, that was just screaming badassRULES OF NAATTUUURREE
AND THEY RUN WHEN THE SUN COMES UP
WITH THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE!
THHHE LIIIINNNNEE
Right as you fricken suplex’d the darn Metal Gear!I HAVE NEVER FELT SO POWERFUL!If you’re getting an I/O error on the drive, there’s a 99% chance you’ll need professional data recovery to get your stuff back (I know cos I used to do data recovery for seagate at my last job)
Well shit… I’m guessing that’ll be expensive. I don’t need much, just documents, photos, etc. The rest I can afford to lose
I’m still able to browse the drive via CMD when I was troubleshooting last night. I did the chkdsk,, couldn’t find issues and for some reason sfc /scannow never works, says it’s because it’s in the middle of recovery (Which I guess is because I’m doing this on the Windows 7 recovery console)
it can be. most places will charge over $1000. I do know of a guy in Melbourne who will do it for a flat fee of $990 (If recovery is successful). I can try to find his number if you want.
O_o yeah no kidding that’s expensive. Not sure if it’ll be worth it…
indeed! and $990 is the cheapest you’re likely to find. If it’s an I/O error, there’s likely to be something broken in the circuitry, and if they can’t replace it, the only way to get it back would be to open it up in a clean room.
Only way you’ll be able to get it done cheaper, is if it’s a seagate drive, and it’s still under manufacturer warranty. It wont be free, but from memory, it’s about $600-$700.
Given that I was able to browse that drive that had the issue I might be able to get what I need out before it becomes completely inaccessible.
Woke up at 5.00 so I decided I’d play Watch_Dogs for a while. Fast forward to 9, and at least two of those 4 hours have been spent playing Spider-Tank. Such a fun minigame, tooling around destroying things in a robotic tank. Love it. Watch_Dogs is a really great game, and I’m glad I was able to buy it.
Spider Tank and Alone were some of the most fun I’ve had in that game so far. (Although Alone’s AI pathing is vindictively and maliciously frustrating.)
Haven’t given Alone a go yet. Spent too much time playing Spider-Tank. I will give all the minigames a go though. NVZN actually helps to unlock a skill too.
You should totally give it a go when you’ve got some patience. It’s oozing atmosphere, aural, visual, and narrative. I suspect they did the best they could with what they had, but there’s definite moments of immersion-breaking where they ramp up fake difficulty by spawning enemies to pincer you and altering patrols to deliberately fuck with your movement instead of being, y’know… patrols. But if you can get past that controller-throwing bullshit, it’s definitely one of the better minigames, just for the theme and atmosphere.
Cool. I’m just enjoying wandering around Chicago and seeing what’s going on at the moment. It’s pretty fun.
I can’t help but feel like Spider Tank was the audition piece for a different game, either something that didn’t make it to full game status & got repurposed or something that someone wanted to pitch and thought they’d shove into W_D in as a minigame and see how people liked it. It has a very Destroy All Humans feel to it, just needs more anal probes.
There’s a game that needs a new entry, Destroy All Humans could be awesome if given some love with the contemporary systems and enough time & money to be a good game.
I get that feeling about many aspects of Watch Dogs. 😛
(And yes, the original Destroy All Humans was damn awesome, but I didn’t play any of the sequels. Which… might be why they’ve stopped making them.)
From what I’ve read, the sequels were really not worth playing which is a shame. Path Of The Furon was I think $3 on XBL a few weeks ago and I nearly picked it up until I read some reviews of it and then it sounded like a hot mess of crap. When it doesn’t sound like it’d be worth $3 you know it’s bad…
Hell yes Destiny needs beards! My wizard will need something along these lines:
http://thirstyroots.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/african-american-dreadlocks-beard.jpg
EVERYTHING IS BETTER WITH BEARDS! @beardymcmuttonchops
This monkey speaks truth.
I normally play female characters whenever given the choice, but a manly beard and a shaved head always makes that a little more difficult a choice. Especially if the character is potentially going to be viewed more as an avatar than a unique character with their own narrative. (Which seems the case in Destiny – the cut-scenes in the beta conveyed all the character personality of a cardboard box.)
I don’t play for self-insertion, but if my voice is going to be coming out of a character in VOIP, then from a female avatar can be a little jarring for folks I play with.
Reminds me of my WoW guild leader days. The fellas knew I was a guy, but something in the subconscious kept mentally re-wiring their brains to assign a female ‘voice’ to everything I said in gchat, to match my elven lady toon. Right up until we started raiding a little more seriously and we agreed that everyone get on VOIP. (Even if only to listen to direction.) There were reports of some mental adjustment required, there.
I could imagine the initial confusion factor would be high for your guild haha.
I always play as a male character and although I’m not overly fussed about having a beard, I’d hate for there not to be an option to have one if you want. I’ll usually change hairstyles upwards of 5 times throughout the course of playing a game and that includes facial hair so having it there is good.
Also, I’m told my voice is kinda deep and manly. So there’s that, too.
“She’s a bass!” [/spaceballs]
I’d be happy if I could get a ponytail of some sort. I hate the thought of having my character look like a fashion model, a member of the Brady Bunch, or an overly zealous punk rocker. I have a beard and a braid; normally a game has one or the other, so I can kinda adjust… the underrepresentation in Destiny is saddening. :'(
Surely they’ll have pony tails?! I thought that was quite standard in terms of hair styles.
Well, they didn’t in the alpha (well, there may have been one for female humans, but I hate playing human), and I wasn’t able to play the beta. Which is weird, cos they had long hair for male characters, just no tidy ones.
http://collider.com/friends-reunion-video-jimmy-kimmel/
This is pretty amazing. Jimmy Kimmel recreates Friends with Jennifer Aniston. XD
It’s funny, Jennifer Aniston just kind of keeps appearing in stuff.
I liked the wig.
Disappointed by the lack of Gunther.
S’pose I better buy a 3DS XL today while I’ve got the money, so I’m ready to go when Smash Bros. comes out.
You guys know of any good bundles?
Buy two give one to D.C. bundle! It’s pretty great! All the cool kids are doing it! You wanna be cool, right? 😀
You’ve never had a 3DS? What is this madness!
THIS IS SPARTA! *kicks*
Actually, I’ve had two, but ended up trading them both in after a while, so maybe it’s a bad idea.
Bad idea to trade them in, I totally agree.
I’ve never had one either! Been wanting to get one to play Link between worlds and Animal Crossing!
I saw a bundle at target a couple of weeks ago where you get 2 DSi games with the 3ds (One was pokemon x or y I think, and can’t recall what the other game was, but they strangely weren’t 3ds games.. only dsi. Still good value though considering it was the same price as the 3ds by itself.
Wait for the inevitable Smash Bros bundle?
Hopefully there’s going to be a special decal-version like they did with Pokemon. That would be pretty sweet.
The only special thing I got with my 3DS was a Donkey Kong tie (not complaing though).
http://www.vooks.net/limited-edition-super-smash-bros-3ds-xl-is-coming-to-australia-minus-the-game/
If anyone’s interested the PS4 Limited Edition white console with Destiny bundle is now 50 bucks cheaper at EB now at $549.
Awwww man, I’m so tempted, if I cancel my limited edition copy of the game I’ll have another 30 bucks to put towards it. but I don’t know if I like the white. I’m so conflicted, what should I do.
https://www.ebgames.com.au/ps4-162904-PlayStation-4-White-Destiny-Console-PlayStation-4
Are pre orders transferable? If you decide to cancel it I might be interested in grabbing it, I was too late to the pre order party (because I didn’t leave my hermit cave and go to any shops for ages). Or was your pre order for the digital version?
Nah, it was for the Limited Edition disc version from EB at $130.
well, keep it in mind if you do decide to cancel. Otherwise I’ll likely go with the limited digital one.
Will do.
Are you in Adelaide at the moment?
Nope, I wish. I’m about halfway between Adelaide and Melbourne.
The white is super rad and also you will be cooler than the 10 million people who have a black one.
Hahahaha I know a guy who ordered one from them 2 days ago. Ahh poor bastard.
Cancel the game order, get the PS4. Then you can actually PLAY the game when you get it! Genius! The limited edition stuff is probably just going to be forgettable stuff or the usual early game advantage gear that’ll be useless when you hit level 5 anyway. You get the season pass thing with it if I remember rightly but that can be bought later, on your PS4 which you’ll have.
Nah, pre-order is to pick up in-store, trust me I want it on launch. Picking up a Trials: Fusion PS4 bundle tonight, so I’ll have the console ready to go.
You’ll also have trials fusion and that’s got to be considered a plus. Be sure to look at the university of trials on youtube and not just because I have a tutorial on there (but mostly because of that)
Is picking up in store not usually reliable?
COMMENT 1200 BETTER MAKE THIS COUNT…
ily all <3
I dunno, it’s no #gookyget…
we love you too, but I have to ask.. what’s with the twitter rampage this week? Is it just a temp thing, or did you get some wires crossed? Hope everything’s ok man
Welbot my man, thanks for the concern, but I just want to be as legit as possible. I’m really just letting my hair down and just having fun. I’m doing well! So no need for concern, it’s just great to let loose I guess.
Never stop.
#2legit2quit
Just for you Freeze.
*sings*
TOO LEGIT, TOO LEGIT TO QUIT (HEY HEY).
great stuff man! Was wondering at the beginning if you may have been hacked, or possibly just doing some kind of social experiment 🙂 Glad to hear everything is ok 🙂
Are you..whipping your hair around aswell while letting it down? Possibly back and forth?
That’s good to know. You suddenly seemed kind of angry and I was a bit worried as well.
Sorry dude! Didn’t mean for it to come across like that.
What? You only have 1200? You were posting years before me…
I HAVE 37087!
I ventured a lot onto TAY when I first started, but then just never really posted. But it’s fine. IT’S FINE.
#dickmen
Err, Canberra Meat final reminder?
Um, people? Yes. People.
Place. Things.
Consider yourself reminded. *nods head*
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/816/511/965.gif
Considering Shiggy’s post, sharing the love page 13 is now in session.
All of you guys and gals. Yes, all of you. You’re pretty great, not going to lie. Thanks for being a great community to hang out with and chat about stuff and I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I do. 🙂
I like this.
It’s still only page 12!
You’re pretty great too! It’s nice to finally have someone I can talk to bout a game I actually play for a change too! Usually I’m rather alone in my games of choice, as I’m a bit of a weirdo, so it’s been great having others loving a game as much as myself for once!
Legit.
You’re amazing too, especially in all the RPGs we play in 🙂
Post-Apocalyptic Urban Decay @dc
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/08/see-the-worlds-end-with-these-wallpapers-of-dystopian-ruins/
Also this just popped up in my feed. Post apocalyptic pandas.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/08/abcs-first-iview-only-drama-is-about-post-apocalyptic-pandas/
One day. One day. :’)
Means there’s no power which means no adventure games. Which means you’ll be stuck with board games.
The world will be my adventure game!
I give you two hours before you’re sitting in front of your inert computer, desperately hammering the power button through a haze of tears.
No, he’ll be trying to combine a stapler and an old vegemite jar to open a tin of beans.
ADVENTURE GAMES
Combine an ipecac flower with some pancake syrup.
6 weeks. 42 days. 1008 hours. 60,480 minutes. 3,628,800 seconds. That is how long I have gone without soft drink. The longest I’d ever gone previously was a month, but I was back on soft drinks after that month. I think I’ve finally broken my addiction. \o/
Now you can move onto the meth addiction!
I’d have to develop one first …
Cocaines a helluva drug
Cocaine is god’s way of saying you have too much money.
I mean have you seen how much that shit is per gram?!
I aint made of money ill stick to getting high on life..its a context high and its free
I was gonna say petrol is cheap and gets you high, then I remembered 98 octane is like $1.80/L that ain’t cheap.
180? Geez. Generally goes around 155-165 here.
@mrtaco out 95 is about that that lol. 91 E10 & regular 91 isn’t much cheaper heh.
Wtf Kotaku, stop this shit. I do not appreciate replies when it says I am starting a new discussion!
LEGIT AS HECK
Celebration Day! [cracks open can, skulls Pepsi Max.]
PEPSI MAX SKULL?!
Better believe it.
http://youtu.be/NnP5iDKwuwk
Uh, probably a little inappropriate for Tay and not usually the kind of thing I talk about or share but it’s kind of funny/have no idea what to do…
Wifey and I got a little intimate this morning, heard a noise and there’s my eldest daughter sitting in the computer chair staring at us with a confused look on her face. Mortifying is an understatement. We have no idea how long she was sitting there and completely unsure how to address it.Wrestling. That’s the go-to answer isn’t it?
*high five* for you, psychiatrist appointment for daughter!
When a man loves a woman they wrestle and sometimes they win a prize in the form of a child
Is that prize what you get if you win, or if you lose?
Thats up to the ref to decide
Let me be legit as fuck here for a second. Just sit her down and be calm and explain maybe? Wait how old is your daughter?
Six. We tried to explain what gay meant a couple days ago after she asked about wife’s friend and she didn’t understand.
Sit her down with this.
Honestly?
Kids absorb what they comprehend. I’m not saying sit down with a biology textbook, but be honest.
Ah ok. I wouldnt know exactly what to say, but Id be honest I guess. But that’s just my opinion, Indont have kids so I’m not really experienced on the matter!
IMO that’d be hard to explain if she doesn’t get the whole sexual attraction thing yet. Good luck man. Let us know if any lol’s come from it. 😛
Tell her about it when she’s older…
Inappropriate? You’re forgetting Disney dicks and horse-love.
What’s this about your love of horse dicks?
😛
That’s a cool story for another day. Or not.
Maybe leave it at ‘kissing and breathing heavily’ depending on how much she was subjected to?
Exorcism. That won’t mess her up at all!
My dad sat me down when I was 6 or 7 and explained how men and women have complementary parts and that is a private personal thing between two people who care for each other etc. etc. and not something we really talk about in mixed company so while it’s a normal healthy thing we understand you might have questions and some of those questions might have to wait til you’re a bit older.
I guess it went pretty well but the main reason we had that talk was because I’d just recently learned the words penis and vagina and this was the morning after my infamous cocktail party incident.
This is the second best.
Hahaha. Oh you poor man.
Edit: I sound like a jerk, sorry man. But man that sucks.
It’s our job as his pal to laugh at his embarrassing situations.
You’re a good man @dc
If she decides to discuss what she saw with friends at school, she is going to learn the whole disgusting truth. And then some.
This is just the best.
I say this with no personal experience in with that specific issue: best bet would be honest but not detailed, but clear this idea with your wife first.
We told our 4yo that men and women have special cuddles to make babies. Then she hugged me and asked if she was pregnant yet.
That’s not helpful at all.
D:
My mum had a book (one aimed at explaining it to kids) for exactly this occasion which she showed to both myself and my sister, and then passed it to other people who had kids so they had something prepared for answering The Question.
Of course by the time she felt it was appropriate for me to know, I was able to read well enough that I’d flicked through an encyclopedia at some point and figured it out anyway. But whatever. I can get the name of the book if you’re interested?
It could have been worse, you could have been saying “who’s your daddy?” and the first you knew about your daughter being there would have been an excited voice saying “It’s grandpa!”
LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
Stars are Blind – Paris Hilton
I’ve had this stuck in my head since last night. Been singing it all morning. Neighbours must be concerned. XD
This Is How We Do – Katy Perry
Dont judge
Katy Perry is awesome so we won’t.
>_>
Err ignore this.
Too Legit To Quit – Hammer
*turns hat backwards and folds arms.
sounds like a theme song for @shiggyninty!
Frenzal Rhomb – Mummy Doesn’t Know You’re A Nazi
Rocket Queen – Guns ‘N’ Roses.
Ashes to Ashes – A Perfect Circle
Edit: Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap
Can I be a complete noob and ask how one goes about including a hyperlink in a set of text? I.e what you did above…
Also, I was pleasantly surprised when I first heard that song when it came out! It’s pretty damn catchy.
< a href = ” link ” > text < / a >
Without the spaces. (There’s a space between a href, but that’s the only one)
^_^
Every time I do that Kotaku adds a “nofollow” to it. It’s driving me nuts.
I seemed to have a handle on them but lately something always goes wrong so I just shove the whole big link in now, like a jerk.
The reason it adds rel=nofollow is that it instructs search engines that they shouldn’t assume that links in their comments are the site itself linking to that page and it shouldn’t affect their page rankings.
Otherwise posting a link to your random shit on a high-traffic, high-ranking blog like Kotaku would cause those random shit sites to get massively bumped-up in rankings because the reputation of one site follows into the things it links to.
https://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080218120010AAdELQG
Powderfinger – I don’t remember
Err, Paris Hilton had or has? A music career? 😐
The Devil In I – Slipknot only up to 113 plays this week, pathetic effort on my behalf 🙁
She had date with an autotuner. 😀
Well then. I learnt something new today!
Ben Folds Five – One Angry Dwarf (and 200 Solemn Faces)
Italobrothers – Stamp on the Ground
I just recently heard this song and it’s become the go to on youtube when I need something to pump me up in the morning.
Still – Daughter
Sea of Madness – Iron Maiden.
Man, my library is being really all over the place lately… Last few songs have been alternating between soft melodic stuff and really heavy metal… Maiden was a sort of welcome middle-ground.
@evilmonkey … damn you are quick! Thank you very much for the State of Decay pack! I shat bricks when I saw 3 emails in my inbox, but thank you it put a smile on my face. 😀
My pleasure, enjoy.
Also, @tigerion check your inbox.
The gifting monkey returns! Your evil side could not win forever. 😛
Thanks monkey man
No idea when I’ll get to it but hopefully not to far away. Does it play co-op or better as a single player?
Wouldn’t know, haven’t had any time with it myself. @coldcamv
Which game is this we are talking about?
State Of Decay. Weren’t you the one that gifted it to me.
Yeah I think I did haha its fun although I think its single player only which is a downside because it would be amazing if it were coop
DayZ, or Rust mebee?
@evilmonkey I havent played Rust but was always interested as for DayZ im letting that develop more before giving the standalone a shot
State of decay is an awesome game
Your turn.
Can I get a job where you work? Seriously you must work at the Australian north pole giving gifts like this. Thank you my friend your amazing
Maybe we should all organise a time to play online. 😛
I gifted him Divinity: Original Sin, but I’m sure he’s got State Of Decay too.
I definitely do its one of my fave zombie games
So I herd @dc lieks post-apocalyptic stuffs … http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/08/abcs-first-iview-only-drama-is-about-post-apocalyptic-pandas/
Oh, @popdart5 beat me by a long shot lol.
@redartifice So I got my The Strange book finally (it said it was posted on 06/08 but I didn’t get told about it until last week because of GenCon). It’s a pretty slick book and the map is once again pretty awesome. Did you get a personalised character card in your backer tier? I was supposed to get one but I imagine it might be coming later or something like that.
I did- it was about the size of a playing card?
Did you specify it at checkout?
Yeah I did. I’ll double-check the box when I get home in case I missed it. Was it just loose or was it hiding in the book itself?
Loose, my book was shrink wrapped
So what is the go with every time I post being sent back in time to the previous page..? Am I special, or is it happening to everyone?
Yup, me too.
You’re a time traveler. Most reasonable explanation.
Oh good. Brb going back further in time to make better investments with my money.
I hear that Google thing is really going places.
and that fruit based computer company too.
Or a wizard..your a wizard harry
I think you’re special.
And so am I!We’re ALL special!
Ergo, no-one is. Congratulations.Aliens.
They mostly come at night. Mostly.
So, TAY appreciation page?
You’re all wonderful people. And thanks for your support while I’m going through this… employment interregnum.
Soviet arcologies!
I’ve abandoned that, but I was going to put a nod towards that in my dispatches from tomorrow (which I have been remiss on too)
I totally had to Google interregnum. I had some clue, just needed clarification. You’re helping make me a smarter guy, Red! Appreciated!
You’re a Developer aren’t you Red? We need a developer at work!
Downsides:
– You have to move to Mackay
– You have to work with me
– Mackay
– Did I mention Mackay?
Upsides:
– Ummm…We have beers and nachos on Fridays?
Aw man, beer & nachos. 🙁
My office average age is a lot higher than me, plus many females. Social outings don’t really happen. 🙁
I am not a developer. Thanks for the offer.
Omg beersandnachos. Sign me up. For the beersandnachos. Not the developer thingy you mentioned.
You’re a good man AND a smart one. Wish I could help.
-leans in for kiss-
Careful, I think @freezespreston’s kid is watching.
Slightly odd and very unimportant question that I just felt the urge to ask: is red your favourite colour?
I think he mentioned before that it is not.
I think he did, too. But I don’t recall if he actually said what his favourite colour is and that is my real question.
Because why ask the question you actually want the answer to, that would be too sensible. 😛
It is not.
Favourite is probably green, but the word red sounded better when i was like 13 and signing up to hotmail (and honestly still does)
YES! Green club. 😀
I think at the time we discussed this I didn’t name it so I didn’t summon @greenius.
What do you do?
Until next Friday I work in economic development for the defence industry.
Jeepers there’s a job I have zero understanding about. I thought you may have been IT in which case I could have been able to have a look/pass your CV around the consultants in my (IT recruitment) office.
Job market is quiet at the moment. Seems to be a bit of a trend towards contract roles in IT at least.
Thanks anyway man.
I have a pretty wide skill base, so anything market analysis/strategy/writing is in my wheelhouse.
TAY NOSTALGIA THING:
First Kotaku meat? What was it like?
Here’s my write up!
This was the first Melbourne one!
Oh you got your own article and every thing! 😀
I remember reading that!
Yep, I still remember that feeling dual wielding the Uzis and winning the bloody game with them! The left gun was calibrated too low so I had to aim that slightly up to make them both hit the same target.
My first one was @scree’s BMO cake meat where cathryn and I met @scree @tech_knight @pixel_the_ferret_viking @Tigerion and missus Tigs and it was a lovely afternoon I had taquitos and fun times were had by all I believe
I want some Taquitos.
Taquitos are saaaah guuuud if your coming to PAX we will get some
Lol, I was quoting a Simpsons episode, won’t be coming to PAX unfortunately, but planning on going to Supanova next year, we could totally do it then. Never had Taquitos before, but I love Mexican food.
Then we shall have taquitos at supernova \o/
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-107/#comments
Snippets scattered throughout referring to the first ever TAY meat.
We never set out to be pioneers.
Thanks for the link, Bishy! Time travelling is fun. I just upvoted a bunch of stuff in there because it looked weird with nothing being upvoted. And I found my first meat write-up: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-107/comment-page-3/#comment-254991
was that before or after the meat at my place?
Before! It was the very first ever TAY Meat.
ah when you met in the city in Syd?! I think it was a week or 2 before I had mine!
I remember like it was yesterday, it was a warm summer morn, back in the year of 2012, the day was a Saturday, in the month of February which acquires its name from the latin term ‘februum’ it was the 25th day, I was meeting with the infamous @freezespreston and we were off to attend the annual event of international music artists gathering at the showgrounds in the city of Brisbane to play their musical hits for some few thousand people. It was a glorious day, we shared many laughs and discussions of various natured topics, whilst enjoying some of the fine culture that the rock & metal genre of music had to offer, afterward we feasted upon the culinary delights of the one of the country’s finest chain restaurants which had a mascot that was a clown, we bid farewell not long after that encounter, which soon became many more.
Edit: I don’t think I ever did one about Soundwave, so what I wrote here will have to do.
I totally forgot that I wrote a whole load of stuff about mine. It feels weirdly like both forever ago and not that long ago at all.
Same with mine. So much has changed too. People who didn’t have families now have families. People have come and gone. The feel of TAY has changed, some for the better, some for the worse. So many subtle changes. D:
I’m too old for change! D:
Oh good, I’ll take it then *gets out wallet*
*groans* Daaaaaaa-aaaaaaaad!!
‘There’s a quiet from inside and I can hear someone approaching the door. @masha2932 has come to greet me, and now the true awkwards can begin 😛 ‘
Ha ha, I remember that. Awkwardness follows me everywhere.
My first one was pretty fun – Wandering around Sydney, got to have beers with Harli, Pez, Bish, Dawdle, Crabjiffy, Doc Wat and Flu from what I can remember. Got quite drunk, went on bumper cars and found a LAN place at 3 in the morning and had a 1v1 dota challenge.
Is that where you climbed on roofs and broke furniture?
No, that was my 3rd meat I think? First time meeting Pyrean though.
This sounds like fun? 😛
Went to Opeth with @trjn.
He made me sign up to Twitter.
I was probably there too if it was a Brisbane show.
\o/
First TAY Meat.
hung around outside a backpacker lodge with Hugo for a while. other people turned up. Chatted to Bish for a while. Impressed by Flu’s voice. did other things. got foods. went to Galaxy World. Got a call from my mother saying that my Grandmother had just died. Made awkward excuses. left.
8/10 Would Meat again.
I gave @jimu a copy of Pokemon something or other.
Emeraldy
Well, one day I was posting pics of my bike ride on TAY, and someone by the name of @steve-o_the_deve-o shouts: “hark! I recognise yonder hills! Be that be the harbour at le ole Mackay?!”. Yes, yes it was. We shat bricks at the curiosity of two Mackay living people being on TAY, and swapped emails. Steve-o invited me over to his place garage under his house that week to play some casual board/card games.
I didn’t die.
Blaghman’s house. Stayed too long. Wore out my welcome. Got too competitive in LBP2. Left within an hour.
Your world is a scary alternate reality that I want no part of.
Can’t find my post, but here’s @trjn’s write up about the first Brisbane meat! (well first group meat.. I think I met @strange a little before when we saw Alestorm? Not sure if it was before or after)
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-119/comment-page-1/#comment-281087
Alestorm was before your Meat. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t have gone. 😛
I got food.
… and, uh…
food.
…. I forget the rest.
TAY appreciation page indeed.
Thanks to everyone who’s been there for me during these dark times in my own life where even my own family didn’t care. I’m still trying to find reason to continue pushing on, but you’ve been the reason I keep trying to find that reason, rather than just giving up.
*hugs* we all here for you man rain or shine just like the postmen
You’re a much loved TAYbie and a good guy who deserves good things. Just keep keeping on.
There’s ALWAYS a reason to keep going my friend, it may not be apparent at the time, but there is.
Sent you a Friend Request on Steam.
Keep on keepin’ on TK! Tomorrow is another day, and another chance for things to get better! You can do it dattebayo! BELIEVE IT!
Rad.
Still got some games to give away guys. Put your hand up if you want ’em.
Defense Grid: Awakening
Gun Monkeys
P.A.M. (Post Apocalyptic Mayhem) x2
Mount Your Friends x2
Request away.
In the spirit of TAY appreciation, I would sincerely like to say that you guys are the friendliest, most helpful and closest community I have had the pleasure to come across on the internet.
I never formally introduced myself (nervous about getting paddled :|), but have been active here for a couple of weeks now I think. Briefly for those who are curious, my name is Jack, I’m 24 and live in Sydney. I’m English having lived away from there for 9 years now in NZ and AU. I play my games on my Xbone and phone.
Fun fact: I’m picking up one of these tomorrow morning and I’m gonna learn the piano. http://au.yamaha.com/en/products/musical-instruments/keyboards/digitalkeyboards/dk_-_piaggero/np-v80/?mode=model
Hey Jack! Good to meet you!
Hi Jack! I’m Jack’s son! Not your son obviously, given I’m 12yrs your senior, but yer… my dad’s name is Jack too! Nice to have these new faces coming in and saying all these wonderful things about our little community 🙂 Gives a little glow inside!
YES!
I’m about to have ample free time and intend on learning the ivories too!
We should, like, talk about it to keep each other motivated.
My aim is to be able to play all of Little Richard’s catalogue.
Yours?
Yeah I’m really excited! I’ve been a guitar player for a long time and recently gave the drums a good go, but they weren’t for me.
I can play some basic tunes on the piano, but here are 3 songs I’d love to be able to play in full:
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
Yiruma – River flows in you
Beethoven – Fur Elise
Uh-oh.
You’re gonna have a way easier time than me.
This has become a competition now.
And I intend to win.
By any means necessary.
Do you have any knowledge of music theory? If not, then yep, this is gonna be quite a one sided competition and I’m not holding back!!
Does anyone know a good person to break someone’s fingers?
Oh man. reply fail.
Vicious beast!
Lack of introduction? That’s a paddlin’.
😉
Noo!
Denying the paddlin’? Thats a paddlin’
-_-
We knew you were new but didn’t want to scare you away =P Well I knew anyways!
*insert jumping jacks joke here*
It’s too heartfelt in here.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.com
<3
-grabs at neck as if choking-
Re-post
Still got some games to give away guys. Put your hand up if you want ’em.
Defense Grid: Awakening
Gun Monkeys
P.A.M. (Post Apocalyptic Mayhem) x2
Mount Your Friends x2
Come on guys, doesn’t anyone want to mount their friends.
Also, @freezespreston check your inbox, it may or may not help with your predicament.
Also Also, @techknight, accept my FR so I can gift you some games to cheer you up.
Shit! @tech_knight
Dammit! Was hoping it’d be a pageget, oh well, just have to re-post again shortly.
When I’ve fixed my computer at home I’ll happily accept the FR, sorry! -_-
That’s cool, let me know when you’re back up and running, got a few games in my inventory that I bought especially for you.
Thanks, you didn’t have to do that. With luck I’ll be back online with my PC by the end of tonight.
TAYpreciation?
Lots of love.
~ Pants
My mathematical mind interprets that as lots of love minus pants.
The best kind of love.
Also AC Unity has been delayed to November 13 which is cool beans with me because now it’s not out two days before PAX where I won’t be able to play it! Little victories!
One sucky thing about purchasing preowned games online through EB Games is the gamble whether or not your item will arrive missing a manual, or even a proper cover sleeve. Or both.
What did you buy?
Previously, I bought a few Wii games when they were at clearance prices. Now, I really have to think twice about whether to just pay the extra and buy new.
Is there anything in particular you’re looking at buying currently?
Nah, not so much. Ken’s Rage 2 preowned is $17 but not sure I want to risk it.
It’s apparently really bad, and copy+pastes a lot of stuff from the original.
You know, despite the “fuck this town is shitty” mentality that people my age have here, it’s not too bad. It’s got a decent population so you can get lost. It’s got major shopping centres and plces to buy stuff. It’s got some entertainment.
But I just realised – it takes 10-15 mins to drive somewhere and meet up with friends. All these capital city meats have at least one person that can’t make it, cos it can be 1.5hrs+ just to get somewhere! So in a way, regional cities can be more social places!
Where abouts are you, all I know is you’re FNQ?
Mackay. Not exactly FNQ, like … NQ .. 😛
Still you’re like 1200km from where I live on the border of NSW & QLD lol. Spose Cairns/Townsville would be more so FNQ…
Yeah, it’s a long trip heh. One day I might be assed to drive down to Bris again ….
It’s not the town that’s shitty, it’s just a lot of the people in it.
Hah. A photograph I took of some graffiti that I’ve made sure to keep with me is some scrawled text: “This town sux but its ours”.
Just went to the Steam Store page for Five Nights At Freddy’s, watching the video of the reactions of the guys playing it, so funny, I had to buy it.
@crazyguy1990 Thought you should have it too, commence shitting pants in 3.. 2.. 1.
You evil, evil monkey.
Thanks a bunch. 🙂
That Bloodborne gameplay trailer looks sooooo good. Still, going to be cautiously optimistic after playing Dark Souls 2
EDIT: TAY appreciation? Uhhh, that @freezespreston and @shane are pretty cool guys because Dark Souls.
TAYpreciation? You’re all a bunch of jerks. Most of you only own ONE COPY OF EACH OF MY BOOKS. Step up already. I want a Ferrari. Christ.
ILY allSHUT UP. I OWN TWO COPIES OF THE LESSER EVIL.
WELL…. I BOUGHT TWO. THERES ONE IN MY LIBRARY NOW.
Edit : Volume 1, by the way, has been out on loan 6 times this year.
that’s a) 2nd highest loan count for a graphic novel in the collection for the year (behind Sandman vol.1) &
b) mainly coz I occasionally refuse to let students leave until they’ve borrowed it.
I told Rocketman to make a Turducken while he was at Blagh’s.
He said no.
I told Rocketman to tell Blaghs to make a Turducken for his company.
He said no.
I don’t even know who you people are anymore.
What’s wrong with turducken?
Lettin everyone down @rocketman
wait, Rocketman said no to asking blaghs or blaghs said no?
Yes.
About f*cking time! GOG has a mobile friendly format.
One more barrier out of the way to buying more games I’ll never play.
I may or may not be late to this party…
I got one of their emails this morning telling me to quickly grab at 80% off (or whatever) a bunch of their titles that were leaving the catalogue.
Which, y’know…
First thought: OH MY GOD I MUST GRAB ALL THE GAMES QUICKLY
Second thought: Uh… why are they leaving the catalogue? Isn’t that… kinda the entire point of GoG? Old-game curation for ancient treasures which are past their use-by date?
This, coupled with their (quickly-reversed) decision to engage in regional pricing in order to get more big-name titles kind of rattles my faith in the company and what they’re trying to achieve. Just a tad uneasy.
Apparently it has something to do with the pricing
My guess is the contract they have is for a static price, they’ve kind of gone back to regional pricing in a way but letting you select your currency for some reason and if the contract only allows pricing in USD it might be the problem. It’s like they committed to making a change and then had to do something different even if it was a bit mental.
They’ve had games leave the catalogue before and come back, of course some have left and not come back as well. The ones that came back were a case of rights changing hands, the ones that didn’t were stuff like racing games that had licences for cars & such that would still have to be paid for because of course driving a low poly Ferrari is ever bit as good as the real thing and if Ferrari didn’t get some cash out of every sale of a decade old racing game they’d go bust in hours…
That makes a bit of sense.
Also…
Fucking lawyers.
Well if that guy had only fought the law a bit harder, perhaps the law wouldn’t have won and we’d not be in this mess. Slack bastard.
I bought Drinking Quest and I don’t really know what it is. It’s like a casual pen&paper RPG (we play D&N and Munchkin) mixed with drinking games, so I don’t see how it could be bad. 😛 Looking forward.
Today is Wear It Purple day, apparently. And I’m wearing a purple shirt. Yay accidental participation!
hmm, does that mean if co workers I don’t like aren’t wearing purple I can give them a black eye so they can be a part of it? I’ll assume the answer is yes. *clenches fists*
…yeeeees, your understanding is correct .. 😛
I like you 😛
I almost wore my purple shirt today but then I didn’t.
True story.
When can I see the film adaption of this riveting tale? 😀
When I get around to it.
PS. call Nintendo
Purple on my socks. #nailedit
Why do the peanut butter Tim Tams taste more like coffee than they do peanut butter? So gross!
And why don’t they smell more like peanut and er?
They’re very gross. I tried to offer some to my little brother like I was doing him a favour, and he wrinkled his nose almost immediately after biting. A minute later he accused me of a noxious fart I didn’t actually make, so my initial (admittedly hyperbolic) claim of ‘a fart in the mouth’ might have a bit more truth to it than I expected.
Pretty much everyone I know loves peanut butter everything, but to me the only way peanut butter works is on bread or by itself. Peanut butter + chocolate = gross
Peanut butter oreoes are where its at.
Peanut butter on celery plus alfalfa and sultanas. 😀
The kids will love it! I remember we did this back in my first year at school, I must have been no older than 5. THERE YOU GO, @liondrive! MORE MEMORIES FROM A YOUNG AGE! 😛
Just cause you can remember lots from a young age doesn’t mean I can 😛
Re-re-post
Still got some games to give away guys. Put your hand up if you want ’em.
Defense Grid: Awakening
Gun Monkeys
P.A.M. (Post Apocalyptic Mayhem) x2
Mount Your Friends
Please take them, if no-one puts their hands up for them by the time I get home from work tonight, I’ll just gift them randomly, I realize I could just do that now, but I’d rather people that are actually interested in those particular games get them than me just giving them away willy nilly.
Mount your friends! That totally sounds like something @jimu would be in to! :p
You think he’d be on top of it..
“I sleep with all my good friends”
Err…… What is Mount Your Friends about?
Something like this I imagine.
I totally gifted Freeze a copy :p
Floppy dongs, mostly.
That should be a tagline for the game.
Mount Your Friends. Now featuring: floppy dongs and homoeroticism.
Overactive flaccid dong physics and stacking hilariously well endowed men in thongs on top of each other to create the highest tower of pulsating man flesh.
Glad I asked first.
That’s beautiful.
I think @negativezero was interested in mount your friends at some stage. I vaguely remember a post
I mentioned it in the context of ‘this looks like an amusing game to play with a group of friends while drunk’. As in, playing the game, not engaging in the activities depicted in the game.
It is a very hard game to discuss. Kinda like that movie “Her”
One copy for you then.
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vqgSO8_cRio/hqdefault.jpg
Because I don’t have any friends?
solonely.jpg
Hey @novacascade, is there time to squeeze one more activity into the Japan trip?
*sees Freeze mention something for Japan*
*hopes to see something legitimate*
*scrolls up comment thread*
OH HELL NO!!!!!!!
😛
Some of the Steam comments for Mount Your Friends are hilarious;
Do I question my sexuality because of this game? Eh, kinda.
This game is the answer to the question “are games art”
Ok, so I’m gonna go and pick up one of those PS4 Trials: Fusion bundles on my way to work (sorry @gutsoup), so I’ll be playing Infamous: SS and Trials when I get home tonight, first thing I’m gonna do though is start downloading New ‘N’ Tasty and P.T. Any other freebies for PS+ you guys can recommend?
All good, my own fault for being king of the hermits.
I think Road Not Taken is still the PS+ game for another week. It’s pretty rad.
Wait, you’re getting PS4? 😀 There’s a trials bundle? Excciiiiitteeemeeeeeeent.
Add moi on PSN. 🙂 tehst1ckm4n, I think.
Will do man, yeah, PS4 with Trials: Fusion in the latest Target catalogue for $499.
http://www.target.com.au/p/playstation-4-5-gb-console-trials-ps4-game-bundle/56734683
WAIT IS NEW n TASTY FREE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I don’t think so.
I wish. Just saying that I’ll be getting it because I love all the oddworld games.
GET THE CURRENT PS+ STUFF ASAP
Because it leaves the store and gets replaced with crappy September stuff early next week. September lineup is shite IMO.
@evilmonkey
You monster.
Thanks.It’s what I do.
Enjoy the floppy dongs.Anyone here got both the Xbone and PS4, what’s your preference controller wise? I’ve always liked the XBox controller, but I have high hopes for the re-designed dual-shock.
PS4 controller. I’ve said it before, but to summarise:
Xbone pad messed up the curvature of where your index finger rests. The curvature is more shallow, which means that my index finger is hardly touching the (already weird) bumper buttons. Which means I have to stretch fingers oddly to hit bumpers. And I have huge hands, so wtf. Also the Xbox light is super-bright for me (no kinect so it’s 100% brightness always – it dims with kinect I believe?).
PS4 controller is just awesome. It just sits in my hands all nice and sexy like, no need to stretch and everything fits like a glove for me.
PS4 by a mile. Xbone controller is a regression from the 360 in every way IMO. It feels constricted, turns your hands the wrong way, your fingers don’t rest naturally in the right places and it just feels wrong. It feels like an original Xbox controller S, almost.
I’ve got a PS4, an Xbone controller for my PC, and I’ve been using the 360 pad since it came out, and used the big Xbox controller before that.
The DS4 is an enormous improvement over the DS3, in terms of ergonomics – the triggers are actual triggers, the sticks are on par with the 360’s, the grips let you hold it comfortably, and everything’s within reach with little effort (touch-pad aside); my only gripe is the options and share buttons aren’t raised enough, so it’s hard to locate them by touch alone.
The Xbone controller feels almost exactly like a 360 pad, in my experience, except for a few things: the thumbsticks are amazingly grippy, the D-pad is better than the original 360’s (though I understand the later controllers fixed this)… but the shoulder buttons are even more terribly designed than the 360’s (seriously, how hard is it to design a button that only depresses in the direction required to close a circuit?). The triggers took a bit of getting used to, as they stick out far more than they did on the 360 pad, and have rounded sides that match the contour of your finger, which felt weird for a while.
I don’t really have a preference – they both have their pros and cons. I’m more used to the 360 pad, so the DS4’s sticks still feel oddly placed, but they’re not uncomfortable or give me hand cramps like the DS3 does. And I managed to finish Dark Souls 2 with the Xbone controller with no major headaches, so for all my complaints about the bumpers, once you figure them out, they’re not that bad. Not a verdict, but hopefully some useful information nonetheless.
Not used the XB1 controller but the PS4 one has impressed me mightily. The PS3 was a nightmare to use with my giant freak hands, I couldn’t use it for more than 20-30 minutes without my thumbs being in agony and I spent $200 on aftermarket controllers with the 360 pattern before I found a really good one that had all the functionality of a dual shock 3 and managed to not suck.
The PS4… I don’t feel the need to buy a replacement at all. Surprising what a few subtle changes do to a controller.
That said, it’s still not quite as good as the 360 controller in my book but then the 360 controller isn’t quite as good as the original original xbox controller because as I mentioned, I have giant freak hands and that enormous bastard was made just for me.
I’d love to see more of this happen:
http://games.on.net/2014/08/readers-threatened-by-equality-not-welcome/
TL;DR
Editor at games.on.net wrote an article asking people if they don’t like the idea of equality in games, please stop coming to the site.They do good work there.
Brilliant.
Be interesting to see how different the gaming landscape would be without comments on the internet or social media. Better (no child like tantrums and horrid abuse), worse (no one can voice actual problems) or exactly the same (people just suck regardless)?
My understanding is that every comment increases the view count, on sites with commenting systems like Kotaku, where page reloads after you comment. If we assume that to be correct (I could be wrong..), then … we need to have a closer look at how things are happening.
Kotaku should do something like this.
This bloody Sarkeesian and Quin thing has left a bad taste in my mouth for the gaming community out there.
In a way, that’s a good thing. You don’t go along assuming everything is good when bits are horrible and full of arseholes. Then when you hear about something like this happening, you won’t be inclined to disbelieve it because you’ve never heard of something so awful happening before.
I have to write 300 to 400 words as to why I want to study Postgraduate Information Technology.
How do I politely say “Because despite my qualifications and history as a Journalist, Radio Producer, Insurance Broker and Academic I currently get treated as an unimportant hack and want to jump over to a career where even if the job sucks, I’ll be working in a field that I enjoy rather then either soul sucking monotony of office administration or soul destroying immoral sales practices/public hatchet jobs driven by ideology. Also I like dem games.” ?
Thats about 70 words so…. copy paste 3 times?
Pad it out at the end with “screw Flanders screw Flanders screw Flanders…”
Insert a couple “I’m gonna be paying you some good money, you know you want it.”
I like that. I’d almost hire that. If you were then to say, “Or, if you prefer:” and add something professionally conventional that proves you can convincingly play ball, I’d definitely hire that.
This is probably why I’m not in charge of hiring, and it’s easy to provide career-ending advice when it’s someone else’s career.
I’ll list some dot points that you can expand:
– You have a passion for IT
– It’s a rapidly growing industry
– Large amounts of future possibilities
– An IT qualification complements your previous qualifications and experience
– You want to challenge yourself to learn
– Studying IT allows you to move up in your current career
– IT will soon become common place, so you want to get into the field while it’s still a relatively a young field
– Studying allows you to broaden your knowledge
That’s just a couple of things you could say.
Good tips, though I’d massage these two a little more:
First one: IT is commonplace, saying otherwise is a little weird.
Second on is a little wishy washy. First six are + + great
Oh, I know it’s commonplace, I just meant you want to study it and get into the field before it becomes the most commonly studied area at tafe, universities, etc.
You want to get into the area as soon as possible, kinda thing.
The broadening knowledge part just shows that you want to learn, are eager to learn, and therefore will try your hardest when studying, and that you want to learn as much as you can.
Just suggestions though 🙂
There’s rather a few synonyms and slang terms for the word ‘money’
I sleep in once and miss a whole appreciation page.
That’s fine, I don’t even care.
I DON’T EVEN APPRECIATE YOU GUYS ANYWAY >:'(
I love you guys 🙂
I miss everything these days :'(
I miss you too.
You’re my everything, Gooky :’)
I finished Diablo 3. It was fun. I had fun. Fun was had. Fun.
Click.
Click.
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And then a life time of arthritis.
Finished the game as a Level 59 Monk. Not sure if I want to do adventure mode. But it’s so close to 60. So close. D:
Keep going. 61-69 the game is very different in terms of gear drops and gameplay. 70 changes it further.
But it’ll just be the same places I’ve already played only without the story. D:
Yes but the gear… ALL THE GEAR!!!!!!! !@$ @!#! @!#$$
*ahem* sorry I might have an ARPG problem.
Were you playing on normal? I’m wondering if Reaper has substantially increased the XP you get, my demon hunter was level 34 or so when she finished the game, my mage is now level 36 or 37 and am only part way through act 3
I started on normal and turned it to hard after act one. Even that wasn’t too tough.
Did every thing, though. Every dungeon, every inch of the map, etc.
I don’t think you understand. You can never finish a Diablo game!
I saw credits, Strange. Credits.
Then again, I see credits on Mario Kart after ten minutes. 😀
I shaved my head completely bald this time last week and you wouldn’t know it. It’s grown back crazy quick. D: This is me one week later!
Should have electrolysed it
DON’T ELECTROLYSE ITAre you going to keep it shaved though?
Nah, never planned to keep it shaved permanently. Just decided it’d be cool to watch time lapse on my photo of the day thing. Also all the dudes on my mum’s side of the family are bald so I wanted to see if I could pull the look of if the worst were to happen. XD
I think you look better with short hair, to be honest, though you don’t look bad bald (just, older :P).
From best to worst, I like your hair:
– Short
– Bald
– Shaggy
I don’t think you’ve ever had bad hair though (except for that time you combed your shaggy hair, but you looked so proud in your photo about it :P)
Stop judging me! D:
8
I’m not judging! D’:
I said you have nice hair!
If anything I was admiring!
yousa hairy sum bitch! long way to go before you catch me though! 😉
I thought this was a joke! That is an insane amount of growth.
Haha! That is a joke. That’s from earlier in the year. It’s grown back heaps but not that amount. XD
PS4 get, got Trials: Fusion, The Last Of Us Remastered, and Diablo 3 with it \0/
Now I just have to wait till I finish work at 9 to play with the damn thing /0\
@pupp3tmast3r
Oh man, The Last of Us Remastered! So great! Enjoy, buddy! 😀
Funny story! I bought Last of Us for PS3 today. Okay, so it’s not that funny.
I laughed.
Because I’m a cheap arse that opted for PS3 over Remastered? Yeah, I’d laugh too.
When people say funny story I laugh no matter what comes next cause I want to be known as the guy who gets jokes.
Funny story, I eat babies.
Chris Evans, is that you?
r/mildlyinteresting ?
Cool man! Hope you planned the purchase and your wife doesn’t kill you on your stream tonight. 🙂
Me, plan, you must be joking.
D: Everyone say goodbye to Evilmonkey .. :'( I hardly knew ye.
Hey what happened to Infamous?! What the hell monkey! =@
(Yay you can join us cool kids in Destiny now!)
I bought infamous months ago.
Oh ok then =P You’re back in my good books =P (Am I doing the fanboy thing right?)
Have fun tonight man! You’re probably not going to get any sleep. For the next three months. xD
Also Destiny’s out in 10 days!!!!
You bought a PS4 just to not play Diablo with me. I get it.
Alright fine, I’ll buy it on Xbone too.
Nooooo I was joking please don’t throw more money away.
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
Overactive flaccid dong physics and stacking hilariously well endowed men in thongs on top of each other to create the highest tower of pulsating man flesh
Phlanispo’s mum should definitely see this.
OMFG you @$!# You had a TAY appreciation page without me?! All because I was too busy at work?! You guys are awful! Never coming here again!
*storms off*
Ah who am I kidding I can’t stay mad at you guys =PAs I’ve said before. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave! #HotelTAY
I’m really drunk right now and pasting this here took like 4 triesDawwww! This guy! He’s alright hey?! 🙂
@blaghman So apparently it’s World Bacon Day tomorrow. Now there’s totally an excuse for eating a tonne of it!
Including the double baconwich? A sandwich with bacon instead of bread!
Replace the butter with extra bacon grease and you have a deal.
Really?
I unknowingly planned to bring the most appropriate food ever!
Wait….. You need an excuse?
I’d say any day ending in ‘y’ is excuse enough.
Tired…
Don’t know what to play…
Hungry Hungry Hippos.
Five nights with freddie, that’ll wake you up.
Mate, I actually want to sleep tonight.
NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Status Update and Waifu Troubles That No One Cares About
Cleared E4 yesterday. I predicted that the game was going to troll the shit out of me since that’s the way it rolls, and I was not disappointed. Needed a single clear to get rid of the boss. Only had time for a single sortie in the morning, so I made sure everyone was prepped properly then threw straight into it. The second node with the subs predictably fired their torpedos and hit one of my ships, but it was Yura and only knocked her down to orange so I was able to push through.Got past the subsequent air battle node (I loved these combined fleet maneuver nodes, as an aside, I wish they were in the normal maps too) and then rather than redirecting me to the boss, it sent me to an extra battle node which had never happened before. Sank all them – happily it was a bunch of heavy cruisers and destroyers – then got to the boss. Immediately knew I was in for a rough one – the extra battle node meant everyone was on 0 fuel and low ammo which confers an accuracy loss. Took a lot of hits, but I beat the boss… down to 8 hp. Need to sink it to clear the map!
Set everyone to repair and checked in a couple of times from work to re-add more of them since I was out of instant-repair buckets. 🙁 Got home, got everyone ready and set out on E4 again. Hit the sub node and this time Yuudachi takes a torpedo to the face and is knocked to orange. Then it redirected me to that extra node again, this time with a Ru-class battleship in the mix and Shigure took a salvo, knocking her to red. Had to pull back right before the boss. Fuckage. Used up the last of the buckets I’d gained during the day from expeditions repairing the two. Then set out again once everyone was ready. This time I got the easier sub formation, got straight to the boss – which was now the powered up version. T-cross formation for added damage, torpedo planes took out both installations first go, cruisers and battleships took out everything and the boss is down to 50 hp during the day battle, then easily sunk by Chikuma in the night phase. E4 Cleared! Got my Tokitsukaze.
Decided that given I only had a few hours before the event ends, I wouldn’t bother trying E5. Needs about ten boss sinkages to beat it and I knew I couldn’t do that without spending about $100 on resources and buckets via microstransactions. So instead I went back to the usual grind. Cleared out world 1-5’s boss which is really easy now that I have leveled up a light carrier properly, so now I have 3 of the 4 medals I need to get a blueprint for turning Tone into an Aviation Cruiser when she hits level 60 (currently at 50! She was at level 2 when I re-started the game). Sent in Kiso for the first few sorties, finally got her up to 65 and her Kai-2 remodel which is still amazingly badass. Didn’t get any good drops from 1-5 – the big issue I hit now is I only have 3 open ship slots, there’s 4 fights including the boss, and I usually clear the nodes with an S or Perfect S ranking so I get drops at all nodes. And then I’m full up on the boss and can’t get anything from the boss node. Boss drops Hachi (I-8) who I wish to obtain.
Then I had a crack at world 2-5. I haven’t done it before, it was added earlier in the year when I wasn’t playing. Taigei and a couple of new destroyers (Urakaze, Hamakaze) drop there so that’s of interest. First run at it, get to the boss easily but they chewed me to pieces – everyone hit hard due to three battleships in the set but you have to use at most two heavy cruisers. But Tone came through with the goods, sank the boss in one hit with an amazing shot, 360 damage in a single attack. And then I got Urakaze as the drop. \o/
Also meanwhile I found out you can grind 2-3 using subs and basically do all the sortie quests with them really fast and they level up fairly quickly doing it too. Didn’t know about this so found subs quite hard to level before, though I think they all need to be 30+ to have enough durability to do this and I’ve only recently hit that sort of level. Anyway, got Chitose and Chiyoda that way, which is nice because while I have both and I’ve nearly got them to Carrier Kai-2 levels where they become the best light carriers in the game, I never noticed that you need a pair of Seaplane Tenders (their unmodified forms) to be able to do expedition 36. So now I’ve cleared that, and unlocked 37 and 38 which are the best expeditions for resource gathering. Wish I’d been able to do that last week for the event!
So anyway, new ship gains recently:
– DD Tanikaze (E1 boss drop)
– CL Agano (E1 boss drop)
– DD Harusame (E1 clear reward)
– DD Amatsukaze (E2 boss drop, E3 boss drop (got two))
– CL Ooyodo (E2 clear reward)
– CA Kumano (E4 boss drop)
– DD Hayashimo (E4 boss drop)
– DD Tokitsukaze (E4 clear reward)
– DD Urakaze (2-5 drop)
So I think there’s currently about fifteen ships I’m missing, not counting remodels. Didn’t get through E5 or E6 so no Unryuu or Isokaze (rewards) or Kiyoshimo (random drop). Still don’t have Yayoi, I-8, Maruyu, Musashi, Z1, Z3, Bismark, Hatsukaze, Akigumo, Hamakaze, Mikuma, Noshiro, Sakawa, Akashi, Taigei. Some of them are currently impossible to get, or are only via Large Ship Construction which is very expensive, or I haven’t done the necessary things to unlock them. Hachi is my white whale and will probably be the last thing I ever obtain.
Planning to play more this weekend, hopefully finish 2-5 before the monthly reset so I can then clear 1-5 and 2-5 again for more medals. Don’t like these medals and blueprints things, means that even if I get Taigei at some point I can’t upgrade her cuteness to maximum until October at the earliest. 🙁
Ok, so two things:
1) The new incoming uni system here has been branded “SaSSY”. Seriously. That’s the acronym for the program. So now my position description will be blah blah blah enrollment within SaSSY, including incorporating aspects of SaSSY into student applications.
2) I applied for the Info Tech Postgrad Cert. I will now go away into the corner and melt into a puddle of anxieties, while I wait the 2-4 weeks to be assessed and told “NO” (or perhaps yes, but I’m preparing for the worst)
MmHmmmm
Oh no you didn’t!
Don’t get too caught up on acronyms at a Uni.
Where I work, acronyms either refer to archaic systems they’re replacing rather than describing what they do, don’t actually stand for what they refer to (iNEXT has no words starting with N, E, or X, and ends in “Services and Applications”), or there are three systems with the exact same acronym (or a homonym thereof) distributed around the uni that all stand for and do entirely different things.Any of you lot got Xcom Enemy Within on console?
Can you play Enemy Unknown without the Enemy Within content the same as you can on the PC? I’m trying to get a mate to play it and I’m thinking the console version would be more likely to be his kind of thing but Unknown is a better introduction than Within since the latter seems to approach things assuming you’ve already played Unknown (which seems fair enough for an expansion but it’d be his first introduction)
I believe there is an option to play Unknown alone.
I think the two are intentionally separate. I have a copy of XCOM on 360 which hasn’t been updated to Enemy Within, it plays as normal.
…so you’re saying you don’t have the expansion so you can’t play the expansion content? Isn’t that kind of normal?
Sort of! My normal copy is normal but I don’t know if Enemy Within is stand-alone or if – once installed – it’s treated as DLC that you need to uninstall to not use.
Oh right, I wasn’t sure if it was ever sold as DLC for the console versions, I’ve only ever seen it sold as a disc version (it’s called a commander edition which says it has the original but that could just mean it’s integrated like playing EW on PC is). I was just wondering if maybe it was like those multi-game XBLA discs where you put the disc in and select the game you want from the title screen and can pick if you want to play vanilla or EW. Weirdly it seems they culled the initial mission from EW which is really quite important story wise (especially since the sectoid commander makes an appearance and that is specifically referenced later in the game) as well as tutorial wise, even with enabling the tutorials I’ve never been able to replay that mission unless I load the base game
Also, email or twitter DM me some deets and I’ll see if I can find my copy to mail to you.
Eh? Nah no need for that, my mate can buy his own copy if he wants to play it. He never listens to me when I tell him to buy things on sale and then a week later finally gets around to looking at the videos I send him and says “Oh yeah, that does look cool”. If it was for me I’d say “woohoo thanks” but nah, just thanks for the offer.
Little Creatures Pale Ale + Hot Chips = yum!
😀
I… Uh… Love
youyour choice.Should also add… The new White Rabbit Pale Ale is delicious. Undecided where it ranks… Or if it’s just different. Good different.
I hate not having the words to express something I think, and I particularly hate the assumptions people make about me in their responses to important things I try and say.
Here’s someone who expressed what I was attempting to say in my response to Scree about the rape-drug detecting nail polish, miles better than I could ever have expressed it. http://mic.com/articles/97362/11-ways-to-solve-rape-better-than-nail-polish
I won’t be responding to any replies here, by the way. I already had more than enough of people implying I was stupid and naive in the original thread. I just needed to clarify because it seems almost nobody understood what I was attempting to say and it was very saddening.
Hi Strange
I like you, do you like me?
The silence is very telling, Jimu. I’m sorry.
😛I was hoping @strange would start a new thread and be all ” I do, jimu. But you can’t trick me. I said I wasn’t responding *here* and I meant it!”
Words are stupid. People need a way to just instantly convey ideas already, without the need for prior conversion.
I intentionally stayed out of and away from that conversation because I knew it wasn’t going anywhere good :\
I don’t think anyone would ever intentionally imply that you are stupid or naive though, Strange.
You are far too respected for that 🙂
If anyone did intentionally do that though, they’ll get some harsh words from me 😉
BE WARNED:
Nobody hurts my Strange’s feelings intentionally and gets away with it >:(
On the subject though, I agree that it is not the solution to the problem. It is a band-aid, at best, to a serious problem.
Saying that though, if I was a girl, I would use it (for safety reasons).
I mean, I’ve been drugged before. It wasn’t fun :\
(luckily not date-rape drugged though)
If I was a women I would take extra precautions because, unfortunately, it is more likely to happen to women, which is sad, very very sad, but unfortunately there are scummy people out there.
It’s not the solution.
It’s nowhere near the solution, but at this point, I feel that any precautions are better than no precautions.
(and no, you don’t have to reply :P)
Dear @strange,
I just want to say I respect your opinions however they are expressed. To date you have made me consider more points of view than my own more than any other person in TAY. So thank you for being you, I appreciate it a lot as it lets me grow as a person.
<3 pupp3t.
(dear god I can’t type properly) @#!~!#%@!@# I read this comment thrice for corrections.
I am sorry if I implied that there was any intention of you being stupid in my previous post. I can’t even find the damn thing to figure out where I went wrong. Hell, I can’t even remember if I was replying to you or whoever the OP was.
I was, and I assume the majority of people replying to you, merely giving their thoughts on the issue. It is indeed an interesting issue that could have significant effects. It is likely to significantly reduce rape, but propogates the view that it’s the job of the raped person to prevent the rape.
I merely thought I’d contribute my viewpoint, since I thought that my viewpoint took nuance into account and was a different outlook to what had been said by other people.
Something that one must always remember is that the Internet is a place for absolutes. Such a discussion requires several stat points in nuanced debate.’ You’re with me or against me’ attitudes are rather prevalent on the Internet, and I’d rather that attitude be abandoned in favour of nuance.
Personally, I hate absolutes with a passion. It’s something for the Sith to have fun with. This hatred of absolutes has actually stemmed into real life. Whenever someone asks me a yes or no question, I always say either ‘probably’ or ‘unlikely.’
Oh god I hope this post doesn’t offend you further. I’m sorry!
I only just realised that this was posted on old TAY, which means that this was a waste of energy. Even though you won’t reply to this, I at least hope that you read what I’ve said. And hey, since this is old TAY, you can reply to me and no-one would know… right? Right?
I just did one of the dumbest things in Dota that I could think of.
I started up a custom lobby, turned on cheats and then tried to see how fast I could destroy all enemy buildings in WTF mode with infinite gold and max levels. The best I could do was 1:35 as Windranger.
Backdoor protection was the biggest hurdle. I’m trying to see what I can do to get around that and get under 1:30.
EDIT: Down to 1:28. Might call it there.
@welbot
Apparently u mentioned me in a comment but when I hit the link it just takes me to the top of page 13 :-/
ahh yeah @evilmonkey was giving away a game called Mount Your Friends at the top of this page. I commented that it sounds like something you’d be in to 😉
Melbourne TAY:
http://www.madman.com.au/news/the-tale-of-studio-ghibli-showcase-celebrating-the-genius-of-hayao-miyazaki-and-isao-takahata/
We should do this.
I’d be keen
*Keenius
That sounds fun im down for ghibli shenanigans
Would love to but think it is unlikely I can make it
I did it! I finally chose a faction in Risen 3! Well.. chose is the wrong word. I knew I was gonna be a mage/guardian, but I actually signed up!
Got me some sweet ass spells now! w00t! Good times ahoy!
I’ve only been to the tribals island and the demon hunter island. So far I am thinking of joining the Demon Hunter/Shadow Warriors.
oh my! so much more to explore! Now I have magic, I feel like I’m really progressing at last! I’ve found tons of legendary items too!
Came across this looking for stuff on Dragon Age Keep for @transientmind
Spoilers for DA 1&2 and Keep I guess
http://www.vg247.com/2014/08/20/dragon-age-inquisition-keep-leaked-screens/
Dear Tay,
I’m about a 7/10 on the drunk scale and I’d just like to say ya’ll are pretty damn cool.
<3 you all, never change.
Best Regards,
pupp3t.
Edit: Also I’m liking every comment on this page just cos!
Yes I’m a very friendly drunk.You say 7/10, but your grammar and punctuation are far too correct and coherent.
I’d put you about a 0.5/10 on the Liondrive scale.
Drink up 😀
hahah if you drink like you did at the meat all the time, he’s got a looooooong way to go! 😉
I feel like I should tell you I backspaced a LOT, even for this comment.
I may have an OCD problem but we’ll leave that for tomorrow morning oki??
OKIII!!!
Leave Oki out of this hes just tryna have a good time like the rest of us @dc teĺl him to lay off Oki
With all this talk of Zoe Quinn and Sarkeesian and equality in games I’d just like to pay homage to Mulan for teaching me as a child that women can do anything.
(I am tipsy and listening to a Disney playlist and loving it!!! =D)
And now I’d like to pay homage to Hakuna Matata for teaching me that in life nothing is ever as bad as it seems!
(Sorry if I’m spamming TAY D= )
Dear @jimu,
No, I don’t like you.
I love you!*barf* 😛Mushy stuff is gross, but I still love you Jimasaurus.We all love Jimu san! Some just more than others!
Jimu san! Doodbro 4 lyf!
DO I GET A SAURUS VERSION OF MY NAME?!?!?!?!??!
Dear Pupp3tMa3ter Rex,
I couldn’t find a way to make it work. Have a Rex instead.
-Strange.
#ErryPageIsPageSeven!DONE!
*takes rex*
Nah, I like what @beeawwb called him earlier today better, The Pastor Of Muppets.
Like this?
Awesome 😀
And here’s your new Gravatar.
AGH! 😀
Jesus, today was definitely a thing. I should be salty about this, but I am merely amused.
I pretty much had nothing to do at work, so I mostly completed homwework from school. It wasn’t until work finished that I realised I had the opportunity to slack off all day and read Skulduggery Pleasant. Golden opportunity missed right there. At least I read TAY intermittently
I get picked up from work by mum, and on the way home, mum decides sporadically that she wants to pick up my sister from her friend’s house that she went to after school. She rings up my sister right before she arrives at the friend’s house, telling her that she’s picked me up, and plans to pick her up. We arrive at the friend’s house, and wait. And wait. It’s bucketing rain, so I can’t go get anything out of my bag to entertain myself. We wait some more. Jesus, we’ve waited 10 minutes and she hasn’t come out of the house.
Getting rather irritated by this point, Mum rings up my sister. Turns out my sister had misinterpreted the previous call. She didn’t think we were coming for another 20 minutes, so she didn’t bother to pack.
We wait another 5 minutes. Mum beeps the horn a couple of times, then rings my sister to shout at her. The rain must be messing with the call, so not a single word spoken by my sister was inteligible. My mother shouts “I don’t care” at the phone, despite not being able to hear a word my sister is saying.
Another 5 minutes pass. My sister’s friend emerges from the house. She’s confused why we’re here. It turns out my sister had left this friend’s house early to go to another friend’s house an hour ago, and didn’t tell Mum at the time. I guess the garbled nonsense that was the previous call was my sister trying to tell Mum that she was at the other friend’s house.
Mum rings my sister up to shout at her. The call is intelligible enough for them to have an argument. Mum tells my sister that she isn’t picking her up anymore. Mum drives straight home. On the way, Mum announces what my sister’s punishment is to be. Since the entire incident is the result of a lack of communication, her mobile phone is getting taken away for a bit. Genius!
When we arrive home, Mum tells me to bring the bins in. It had stopped raining for a moment, but fearing that the rain will start again, I grab both bins and run. Naturally, I injure my left foot. I have to carry the bins whilst limping. . And let me tell you, I don’t have a clue how to limp. My version of limping is more akin to hopping on one foot. I probably caused more pain by trying to limp than if I were to walk normally. It would have been nice if my mother were to help in that situation, but I guess not.
After a tortuously long time spent moving the bins, I get myself inside. I open the door to the hallway. Odd, there’s brown stuff on the floor. I tell my mother. Turn out the dog was EATING THE DOOR and that the brown stuff I found was wood chippings. Okay then.
EDIT: Intelligible, not ineligible, Phlanispo
Sorry to hear your Friday’s been shit man =[ At least it’s the weekend?
(I’m not liking this comment 🙁 )
Eh, it’s not that bad for me. I’m taking it in stride. After all, I didn’t do anything for half the day anyway.
I GET TO LIKE THIS ONE!!
Also – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB2gPZRsz0Q
<3
Oof, my sister and my mother are arguing, and it’s getting pretty heated. As with every argument, Mum is shouting “I have the right!” at the top of her voice. I wonder how many hours Mum is going to give my sister the silent treatment for. My money’s on three.
She should go all night ive done that but its hard if they yelling
Wait, your Mum decided on the spur of the moment to pick your sister up, didn’t bother listening to anything your sister tried to tell her, and then decided to punish your sister for the whole kerfuffle? Yikes!
Keep your head down, dude. You definitely don’t want any of this spilling over onto you.
@strange @cookingmamaau
I’m having issues trying to figure out how to do the shoulder things. Would either of you have any idea? I feel like my brain is melting just thinking about it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/legendofgalacticheroes.jpg
@cookingmama
Thank you!
The shoulder things are called epaulettes, and are pretty standard in military uniforms. I’d start by googling some tutorials – there are few, esp since Lady Gaga has dragged the shoulder pad back into fashion. You can probably make them as an attachable piece to the shoulder, and have the cape as a separate piece again.
eg: http://shannonmakesstuff.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/epaulettes-tutorial.html
Ah, that wasn’t what I was talking about. The red and blue parts attached to the shoulder.
Sorry for not being clear.
You’ll have to drape them. You may even need some interfacing to make them kind of stiff instead of droopy. (No innuendo intended, apologies in advance to you if anyone makes juvenile puns about this, I just couldn’t figure out a different way to describe it. :P)
Teehee doodles 😛
@scree I thought that’s what you were getting at before the other post happened, so then I wasn’t sure. I was going to say that it reminded me of what my scarf thing for my Falcon outfit does when I put it on. I don’t actually seem to have a picture of it though, but I do have this other (terribad :P) one where it featured. I guess you’d have to try and do something similar to that, but then hold it in place on the strappy bits that go over the shoulder?
I see …ok @scree, here’s some things I’d I’d try (you’ll need to decide what’s reasonable in terms of time and materials)
1) Make an underlying structure out of sausages made out of polyfill and then drape+glue the fabric over the top so you get that round billowy shape without having to rely on the fabric doing all the work.
2) @strange’s idea of stiffening the fabric, but intstead of interfacing, you can soak the fabric in liquid starch, or some modpodge, and drape the wet fabric over a mould into the desired shape. Once it dries, it will still have a bit of move in it , but it will hold the shape.
Either way, you’ll be attaching it to the braid that sits over the shoulder and connecting it to the jacket.
Good luck – draping is tricky!
I was very confused for a minute there, because I thought you meant actual sausages.
Thank you, though. I think the sausage idea may be the way to go
HAHA – no.
Easiest option would be to stuff pantyhose with polyfill and mould into shape.
I get that I have to drape it, but I don’t know what shape to go with, whether to make it rounded or something. I really don’t know what to do.
I don’t understand what you mean by “make it rounded”. The shape in the picture is pretty obvious. And the shoulders give it the shape. Just drape it over something approximately shoulder-shaped and play until you get that kind of layered shape from the picture. I’m unsure what else you’re asking.
I’m just having trouble taking it from 3D to 2D, that’s all. I think I’ll use Gooky’s knee idea.
I think overall the material would be kind of a semicircle shape, possibly with the flat edge actually being slightly curved upward. I just put my dressing gown over my knee and hitched it up bit by bit by pinching the parts down next to the top of my calf and pulling it up next to my knee, and it seemed to make the material sit the way it does on their shoulders.
I have no idea how this ended up here.
Because you’re the worst? =P
Because broken TAY. For sure >_>
I for one am glad you ended up here!
#drunkhelping
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/eastern-suburbs/musicians-artists/millionaire-world-traveller-artist-girlfriend/1055450705
…
Well, good luck to the guy I guess.
Anything of value obtained without being earned loses its value.
*more wine*
So true. Infinite money cheats just ruin games.
Just found a “Broom of Destruction” in Risen 3! According to the description, it has the word ‘Nimbus’ scratched in to the side of it! LOL!
My first thought was of the Hoe of Destruction in Ultima 7!
I just found a sexy new sword too! You can’t really see it in the screenshot, but it’s got lightning all around it! And it’s called Lightning!
http://steamcommunity.com/id/welbot/screenshot/566646974630330216
@blaghman and other Canberra Meat folks.
Mrs Shane is laid up with a bad spasmy back. I’m suddenly a very unlikely maybe for tomorrow’s meat 🙁
Bring the kids to the Meat! What could go wrong?! 😛
I’ve tried that before! It… wasn’t ideal.
Move meat to your premises.
But look at how much fun we’re having!
In all seriousness, that’s fine, but I will cry about you not being here.
Holy shit. New 3DS!
– 4.88 inch screen 3DS LL
– 3.88 inch screen 3DS OG
– ABXY Buttons color coded
– A new stick like button (a fucking TrackPoint??)
– No need for circle pad pro
– “no” 3D sweetspot thanks to eye tracking???
– NFC embedded in device
– HTML5 Support
– Faster CPU for faster downloads and browsing
– MicroSD Card support
– Customisable with skins
Just… wow. What.
Waitwaiteaiywait…..
They’re
portingremaking Xenoblade over to it???@greenius @negativezero
Edit:
….
Wel played Nintendo….. Ergh.
Buying new games for the 3DS is gonna get REAL confusing real fast :\
It’s faster and better hardware that will have games that won’t run on older ones. It’s not a new handhold we swear. It’s still called a 3DS. but New! Not like the other 3 new 3DS’s or the 2DS. New 3DS. That older 3DS’s won’t play the games of.
Simple.
Kinda surprised. The DSi thing didn’t really seem to work out or amount to much, wouldn’t have thought they’d go for it again. Goes to show what I know, I guess.
Actually.. Goes to show what Nintendo knows…
(You idiots just name it a new handheld and I’d buy it!!!)
This from the people that thought 2DS, Wii, Wii U and everything else were good branding.
Trust me it already is confusing having to explain to mum & dad or grandma & grandpa that there’s different versions and they all do not work together, likewise the Wii & Wii U, my god Nintendo you just hate people who work with video games in retail Q_Q
Fuck. You. Nintendo.
I already have two of these goddamn things and I hardly ever touch either of them because of the utter lack of good games.
Even less now because new games won’t run in the two you have.
Yeah. And because of the damned region lock I’ll probably have to replace both of them too. Nintendo are assholes.
I think you’re forgetting the real big news of the night.
Shulk’s new model looks amazing in Smash Bros!
Who’s that guy?
Reyn time pls
Is 3DS region locked? I’m going to be in Japan in November… tempted…
It is.
However there are rumblings of an incoming homebrew channel that I haven’t looked into. But I guess it’ll be a while before we know if their exploit would work on these.
Region locked so hard that you can’t even claim that you live in a country that isn’t part of the system’s region, i.e. I can’t say my Mii on my US 3DS lives in Australia. :\
Right then… Scrub that plan!
Okay, that finish Dota fast thing got a bit silly.
I managed to destroy the enemy ancient in 28 seconds and could destroy all enemy buildings in 1:15. There’s probably a little bit of improvement there but my framerate dropped down to about 10fps with the destroy all buildings method I was using.
what the- you got faster at it?
and… 10fps framerate… what the hell did you do?
I think I need to show you.
@evilmonkey
Not sure if you added me or my brother, but I just tried adding you anyway, I’m in the Kotaku Australia Steam group
@evilmonkey if it helps his steam name is Tech Knight
#helping
Ok. Got my old MSN account set up on a secondary instance of Skype. I *could* go and add the band girl to it now.
OR. I could procrastinate yet again.
You should paper your walls in Nike advertisements. 😛
You’re right. It would be the perfect way to block out the world and stay in hiding, wouldn’t it?
Dammit Taco Man! Just go and add band girl. Better to regret something you did, than something you didn’t do. Live your life, and stop procrastinating it away before you end up a grumpy old lady like me! 😛
Too late!
On both fronts!
#oldladygooky
I do lady things.
I am a lady.
Ok I closed my eyes and did it >_>
NOW TO HIDE FROM MY COMPUTER IN CASE ANYTHING HAPPENS
*grabs popcorn*
Because I know you’ll have to look at your COMPOOTER! =D
secondary instance? my msn and skype contacts load in the same window. why you need a second one?
Because when I first got dragged kicking and screaming to Skype, I created a new account for it (it being totally separate from MSN at the time). I grabbed my usual username for it because it was just for chatting with a specific group of internet friends, but now I can’t really use it for any “real” people without opening up direct access to my internet life. Which is a problem for me because I still operate under the principle of maintaining a separation between the two (though there have been a couple of breaches, funtimes were not had).
I didn’t want to merge my MSN account with my Skype account mainly because of the whole flooding my contact list with 200 odd people that I don’t know who half of them are, but that separation thing is a big factor too. I couldn’t previously run two instances of Skype because I was on the old client where that didn’t work, but now that one’s been locked out and I’ve been forced to upgrade I’ve got that feature available, so I figured I may as well use the MSN account as a secondary that I can now use for realfolk.
TL;DR because I’m crazy.
Oh wow, just did a search on my old address. Somehow all the sites where it used to be listed have fallen off the internet, there was only one result which was a chatlog I posted up once years ago. Now removed, of course 😛
Aaaaaand did a sweep of other identifying in formation. Seems a whole load of stuff has fallen off the internet in recent years, everything’s pretty secure now. Only got three main things to get results from, one of them was for a thing at college last year so has a whole load of game sites reporting on it, and another that used to be traceable back to other things is no more because the linking site has been eaten by time. And the other is probably fine to just leave as it is. Victory!
I think when you sign in to both, it shows you as whatever contact they’ve been added under. So if like someone adds you by your skype name, I think it will always show you as your skype name to them. Totally get where you’re coming from though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOQSTzCYi6g
😀
Shulk confirmed for Smash!@strange: Go see Guardians of the Galaxy. Best movie. BEST. MOVIE.
Funnest scifi I’ve seen since Firefly.
I support such a decision.
Holy shit I just predicted the end of Skulduggery Pleasant:
It’s not Valkyrie/Darquesse that murders the Edgley family, it’s the reflection. Dr Synecdoche just handed the reflection a black gauntlet the same type of gauntlet seen in the seer Casandra Pharos’s vision.I typed this as soon as I read it. With my luck though, the characters are going to bring this subject up by the end of the page.
Yep, the characters brought it up two sentences later. I should have read ahead before posting.
Skulduggery Pleasant’s Kindle version doesn’t have page numbers for some reason. All I’ve got is that useless location thing, time until end of chapter, and time until end of book. Is there some settings I need to mess around with? I’m sure I had a the same issue with Dead Space Martyr at one point, but it definitely has page numbers now.
So I nearly went to Brisbane today! Mr Pilotman said if the fog was too bad in Melbourne he’d go to Brisbane instead.
Good to be back in Melbourne yisssss, but it’ll be over too soon :(. They better not extend my Perth stay another week after next week.
Your gonna have to start forwarding your mail to perth now
Perthius.
I can’t bring myself to play Five Night’s at Freddy’s…
Yes you can. DOOOOOO EEEEEEEET!!!!!
Urgh, doing all my group assignment by myself again.
Had to make a definition for each item on our list of tasks to do.
There were 133 items… :\
133. Seperate. Definitions.
3 hours of work later and I’m finally done \o/
Now to start my next assignment… /o\
I think you’re doing “group” assignments wrong D=
What? No, @liondrive has found the one and only reliable way to do a group assignment, use the only person you can really depend upon to actually get shit done. The only caveat is to make sure you show the lecturers your notes to ensure no one else can take credit for doing the work you did and pass based on not doing anything
Finally got my PS4 set up, downloading, Road Not Taken, Fez, Hotline Miami, Flower, P.T., Oddworld: New ‘N’ Tasty and finally redeemed my code from the Child Of Light Deluxe Edition (now I own it on Xbone, 360, PS3, and PS4, yet I haven’t finished it on any platform).
All that, Trials: Fusion, The Last Of Us Remastered, Diablo 3, plus Infamous: Second Son should keep me pretty well entertained all weekend.
Add me! 😀
PSN: liondrive
(offer is open to any and everybody)
I do believe in one day you bow have more PS4 games then I have in the months ive had it haha
Oddworld is on PS4? Okay I’ll have to look at that, I thought that was only coming out on last gen consoles
Yup, it’s on PS4. Don’t think you’re on my friends list yet, I’ll send you a FR shortly.
Hey, TAY, any idea whether Kindle books have the ability to be patched?
Because I hope the publisher will put page numbers in Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light one of these days. It’s getting really annoying. Apparently I’m in Location 738, whatever that means. So I guess I’m on page 60? 90? 110?
My kindle app has page numbers.
Try changing the font size.
Or, y’know, cope.
Yes, they can be updated. It’s up to the publisher, though. Might not happen for this, though…
@blaghman, send the hookers home. I’m bringing my kids for five minutes. Got some stuff I need to drop off. Also, want to say hi and all that stuff.
He has hookers at 9 in the morning? Hes living the dream
Five minutes? That’s totally lock-them-up-in-the-closet time.
Can you no longer buy Rock Band DLC on PSN? I just went to the PC version of their store and couldn’t find it. I wanted to rebuy for Mr. Strange some of the stuff we had on the US account that Mr. Strange stuffed up by not remembering the password or date of birth that he put on there so we couldn’t even password reset. 🙁
Edit: disregard. Apparently they don’t exist if you search for them by clicking on the categories in the menu but you can find them by doing a search for ‘Rock Band’ which I probably should have done in the first place. 😛
It’s been an odd week for me. Work, off, work, off, work, off, work, off.
It’s made the week drag right out weirdly. Not sure I liked it at all.
Work on, work off? Who’s your boss, Mr Miyagi?
“WELL THERE GOES MY 3DS XL SENT OFF TO BE REPAIRED. I’M HAPPY I UPGRADED TO THE HOTTEST NEW MODEL”
“NEW FROM NINTENDO IT’S THE EVEN BETTERER HOTTEST NEW MODEL”
“…..”
My feelings..actually thats just my feeling for anyone who splurged for one in the last month
Oh, did I miss that part out? It was brand-new. Broken straight out of the box. 🙁
That sucks, they should just send you a new New 3DS
Ha, I’d not like to bother with the wait. I bought it to replace my old 3ds, which has a face button or two broken.
The worst thing is they’ve effectively scuttled sales of the current one for the next 5-6 months because the new one’s not releasing outside Japan until 2015. Nintendo UK was blabbing on about how they have wonderful bundles and shit coming up, but why would you even consider buying those?
? having new iterations of any product announced for the future hasn’t stopped people from buying the old/current product in pretty much… all of history.
EDIT: Sales will still be gimped than if there were no 3ds psuedo-successor announced, but scuttled ain’t the term to use.
iPhone would be a great example. You always know there will be one better
Not really a new iteration since a bunch of new games won’t run on the older ones? Essentially a whole new console.
true; the point still stands, though.
The problem isn’t the new system, it’s the fact they’ve got the shittiest branding ever.
So just to recap, you’re going to have on the market systems called 2DS, 3DS, 3DS XL, New 3DS, New 3DS XL. DS games work on everything, and so do new 3DS games, unless they’re New 3DS games in which case those games will only work on the New 3DS and New 3DS XL and not on the 2DS or 3DS or 3DS XL because those are old.
*shrugs* nothing new with nintendo. Maybe they’ll rename it to something else in the US, but I doubt it. 2DS is distinct enough to take it out of the equasion, so it’s just about the New 3DS and the 3DS. I find it hilarious that Ninty decided “OK GUYS WE REALLY NEED TO ADD SOMETHING TO MAKE IT DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT” and decided on “new,” of all things. “Super 3DS” would’a been half-decent.
2DS *isn’t* distinct enough. Lots of people don’t realize it will run 3DS games. We do, because we know this shit inside-out and can actually make sense of it. Hell, a lot of people (like, grandmothers and stuff) have trouble even understanding the difference between DS and 3DS, but at least the system’s backwards compatible.
It’s the exact same problem as people not understanding Wii U wasn’t a tablet peripheral for the Wii.
Super 3DS would be fine. 3DS Advance. Whatever. Really it just needs a distinctive logo compared to the other games. ‘New 3DS’ doesn’t cut it. Nintendo think they’re Apple and can pull a ‘new iPad’ thing but Apple sells an order of magnitude more devices and there’s already an expectation set with Apple’s stuff that there’s a refresh every year and your device will slowly fade out in terms of what it can run. But also there, there’s a proper digital store that will be like YOU CAN’T RUN THIS ON YOUR DEVICE and you can’t go and buy a physical copy of a game that doesn’t run on your old hardware.
I’ve never understood the details of the whole ‘brand awareness’ problem with Nintendo. If the 2DS “isn’t” distinct enough, then that must mean “lots” of people must mean the “majority” of people in order for that to make sense. It certainly makes sense that it can be “more distinct,” but for the sake of argument I think you’re arguing straight up people don’t know the difference between the 2DS/3DS. I think it’s a generational thing that applies to all people to a lot of tech products, and not one well documented enough, so I can’t really argue the specifics of it. I’ve always thought that, well, it looks quite physically different, and that the name manages to separate itself- 3DS Lite would only incite similar scorn from the gaming community, and naming it completely different from the ‘DS’ theme would risk amplifying nintendo’s usual brand awareness problems by a thousand. Same with the logo.
It’s a solid argument, but I can never tell the severity of it. For the 2DS, as well. We’ll have to wait and see- We don’t know how Nintendo will bring it to the west. Maybe they’ll advertise, maybe a name change’ll be in order.
And I really wouldn’t give apple’s app store too much praise, considering the quality of it’s apps and the fact that you *can* buy apps not meant for your generation quite easily.
@saturday: the 2DS is a side thing though, because it doesn’t actually make any difference from a software perspective. You can run any ‘DS’ software on it. At least until the New 3DS comes out. But surely you can agree that they have manufactured a stupidly confusing situation for themselves for no good reason?
@negativezero
Oh, I’m certainly not denying the fact that Nintendo has major marketing problems, but I’m mostly concerned on how much of an effect it really has. But it’s not as if they invented the marketing problem- Nintendo’s problem isn’t that they’re trying to be detrimental, but that they’re flat out ignorant on a lot of issues, which has led to the ‘bubble world’ Nintendo we love and hate today. I’d say it started with the absurdly named console that was called the “Wii.”
So how about that new 3DS, so glad I decided not to pick one up yesterday. Anyone know when it’s being released here, and how much?
I want to play Xenoblade on a Yoshi 3DS. *shakes fist at having no job and being poor*
Looks so cool.
Yeah I want the new 3DS for the new Monster Hunter but who knows when either will come here
Xenoblade
😀
It does look way better on Wii/PC though based on that 3DS trailer! One of my favourite parts is the prettiness
You haven’t seen it running on a good PC. There’s no way in hell that it will look better than it would on an underpowered handheld.
To be honest I think I’d prefer to play it on the 3DS. Hard to go back to Wii after playing HD Wii U and even though it won’t look as pretty it’ll be crazy good for 3DS.
I’ve never been able to get it running properly on PC 🙁 The cutscenes always go spastic.
Definitely not 2014.
…. Ohhhh god, it’s gonna be, what was the 3ds originally, $249 american, 349 Australian? They might be crazy enough to do that again.
If they can overprice it, they will. It’s Nintendo.
s’ funny because we all know it’s gonna drop a cool $100 later on. Ninty’s funny like that.
I might grab one simply because my 3DS the R button broke. Plus, better battery life
Currently no plans to even bring it over. If they do it won’t be this year at least.
Also its about $180 in Japan so I’d put money on $249.
I was actually planning in replacing my 3ds with the SSB custom decal that EB Games were selling, but I was one of the unlucky ones hit by the processing errors and automatically refunded, now I’m sort of glad that happened.
Told you PS4 was the way to go…
Oh hey totally turned my alarm off in my sleep. Oops.
I got my Nendoroid Luigi and S.H.Figuarts Mario yesterday. They’re kinda cool but not worth the money I paid IMO :P. I don’t think I’ll continue buying figurines but I still totally 100% want the Nendoroid Link hnggggrhhhhhhhhhh must have.
I’m not sure where to store all the bits and bobs though… There’s so many accessories D:
But if money wasn’t an issue I’d get a full SSB set of all these Nintendo dudes 😀
I’ll wait for amiibos.
Then I’ll have all the crap D=
If I decide to throw away a Nendoroid box (I stopped doing it a while back) then I put all the spare parts into a ziplock bag i.e. one of the sandwich bags you can buy at supermarkets in a pack for a few dollars. Then I label which thing the parts came from (super important when you have more than a few of them) and put the bagged up parts into a plastic container.
One of the really cool things about Figma if you got into that is that they include a bag for spare parts in the box.
Well I just had another round of weird dreams. I think this is the third time I’ve done this. This should be regular segment. I think I’ll call it:
DREAM CHASER: The Phlanispo Dream Collection
*overly-dramtic jingle*
Alright the first dream I’ve… forgotten. I was spending so much time trying to think of an awesome title that I forgot. Oh well.
The second one took place in a moss-ridden swamp-creek thing. I’m not me, I’m some Crocodile Dundee bloke with black hair. There was a lot of water, a lot of moss, and a couple of stampeding lion-wolf-rancor things. Let’s call them wolioncors. I was on one side of a narrow creek. This side of the creek had a shack. I picked up a stick in the shack. Now remember this little detail, because the stick is never brought up or used whatsoever in this story.
To get to the other side of the creek, there is a dresser floating in the water that be hopped on to get to the other side. I prepare myself to jump across. Then another stampede of wolioncors run past. One wolioncor spots me. It turns and growls. Then it runs away with the rest of the pack because dream logic.
I hop across the creek, and follow the same path the wolioncors were running for some reason. I get to a big house floating in the water. Half the thing is covered in thick clumps of moss. I meet a guy. He also looks like a Crocodile Dundee person. We talk. He claims that the moss is taking over the house on the will of some magical bird or whatever. I dunno, I was only half-listening. I look through a window. Yep, the moss is taking over the inside of the house as well.
A gigantic goldfish, the the size of your average 10 year-old swims by. I make a move towards it. The other guy reminds me that these goldfish like to wrestle. I have a flashback to my six year-old self wrestling a gigantic goldfish as part of swimming lessons. The dream sort of fizzles out into nothingness after a while.
The next dream is a weird one. You know what Let’s Drown Out is, right? It’s that podcast/discussion thing with Yahtzee Croshaw of Zero Punctuation fame and some guy called Gabriel. They usually talk over gameplay of some boring game. Well, anyway, for some reason Yahtzee wasn’t here. He had been replaced by some chick. And they weren’t talking over gameplay, they were talking over the anime Kill la Kill. And not just regular Kill la Kill footage, porn Kill la Kill footage that my brain made up and could swear was legit.
Gabriel and some chick were talking over this footage like it was a grand piece of art. They were discussing the symbolism, and what it means for Ryuuko’s character. By all rights, this should have been a wet dream, but my brain took it 100% seriously.
It wasn’t until I woke up that I realised my brain was making fun of me. Kill la Kill is an over-the-top fighting anime. However, I tend to take it really seriously. I analyse symbolism. I analyse character development. I consider the entire anime to be a gigantic allegory for femininity as a whole. And the majority of people see it as a brainless fanservice anime about people fighting. My brain was making fun of me. I feel foolish.
However, there was another dream after that. I was at home. I was me for once. I found single-serve pizza. Weird, Mum had never discussed buying pizzas. I got really excited, and chucked one in the oven. Then I started to panic. What if the reason Mum had never brought the pizzas up is because I wasn’t meant to eat them? What if they were for charity or something? Then a voice reassures me. The voice then asks when I plan to leave for TAFE this morning. Okay then, this dream must take place in the distant future of 2015. I say that I’ll leave as soon as I’ve had my pizza. Pizza takes priority. I turn around. Who knew that voice talking to me belonged to Hermione Granger. Hermione Granger was in the kitchen. Okay then. Then I woke up.
tl;dr My brain made fun of me, I wrestled a giant goldfish as part of my childhood swimming lessons, pizza can mysteriously appear sometimes, and Hermione Granger likes hanging out in my kitchen for some reason.
Don’t fall asleep listening to @dkzeitgeist , kids.
Gotta be better than falling asleep while holding a cup of coffee like I did this morning!
Ah, irony. How I love thee.
tell you what though… i didn’t love waking up to find myself soaked in coffee!
Why didn;t you call it dream catcher? Why dream chaser
A catcher catches stuff. A chaser attempts to catch stuff. It would be false advertising to call myself a dream catcher.
I think I want a lion-wolf-rancor as a pet if they’re small enough, bury their poo and won’t worry my rosella.
Do not listen to this advice.
There are no scientific or medical records stating that Dan And Karls Zeitgeist is bad for the mind.
The only thing listening to the sweet and sultry sounds of my voice may result in is spontaneous pregnancy.
So how bout that Xenoblade, huh?
With xenoblade X coming out will I have to play the first game to understand whats going on?
It’s completely different. Like how Xenoblade is nothing like Xenogears. 😛
Oh good thats good then because I havent played xenoblade and I tried xenogears but couldnt figure it out haha
More of a spiritual sequel than a direct sequel I think. But you’d want to play the original anyway just because it’s a friggen rad game.
I shall take your word for it @scree do you still have a second copy of xenoblade?
Yeah it sucks that the game is rare now and goes for big $$$ on eBay :(. Makes it really hard to recommend to people!
It’s apparently a reasonable price on Mighty Ape.
So my copy of Sunset On The Golden Age finally arrived. JB had major issues revolving around the supplier since the CD’s were being pressed locally and they couldn’t meet demand :S
But saying that the acoustic bonus disc is awesome! @strange have you got your copy yet, if so what do you think of it?
I didn’t get into the main album but loved the bonus disc. The main album didn’t hook me as much as the previous ones have, but I’ll give it another few listens before I figure out whether I like it or not.
That bonus was totally worth it, though. So fun. 😀
I hear you there. I really liked; Drink, 1741 (The Battle for Cartagena), Magnetic North & Hangover.. Saying that, that’s 4/10 songs so I guess it’s a few. But wasn’t overly keen on the rest.
But the bonus CD is sooo good. The acoustic songs are really well done!
It’s hot in Melbourne… what happened D:
Ryan Gosling’s in town?
NO U
When are we Mario Karting again? I’d be keen to Mercedes it up 😛
YELLOW YOSHI!
Been beautiful weather today, be interested in some TAYKart tonight if you wanna.
Sorry, but I don’t feel like playing it tonight. Maybe tomorrow if we can get numbers?
Send some it up to Sydney. It’s been freezing all day!
The Walking Dead Game Season 2 Episode 4:
I’m only a couple of minutes into Episode 5 but I just had some questions about stuff during Episode 4 which doesn’t seem like it was resolved yet?
So what caused the shooty thing at the end again? From what I recall it was because Jane (or some woman) supposedly stole medical supplies? When the limpy Russian kid came to us I told her not to steal anything and I’m pretty sure neither of us did, so what the fuck happened?! I assumed she stole it on her own when she left the group but now she’s back and no one is mentioning anything after the opening? WHAT? I am confus?Jane stole his gun, so he gets miffed about that. Never said if Arvo leads his group solely because of the gun or just to ambush Clem and the rest.She took the gun regardless. Also roughed him up. It works better if Clem stole the meds though.Thanks! I forgot about the gun. Stupid Jane. I told her not to!god damn arm wrestling in Risen 3!!
It’s easy enough, but apparently one of the demon hunters has a legendary item, which you can only get by beating him in a few rounds of arm wrestling, but I’ll be damned if I can find a time when he’s actually in the right spot to wrestle :\
Only annoying thing I’ve found about the game so far!
hah! just after I posted this, I returned to the game, and the guy finally started walking to the arm wrestling area! w00t! Legendary item is mine!!!
I’ve posted about this before, but it’s got a long way to go still and not much time to do it in and I don’t understand why it’s not funded 100% already:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1300298569/under-the-dog
So basically, a SF anime OVA directed by Masahiro Ando who is an animation veteran (Key Animator on a bunch of stuff eg Evangelion, Jin Roh, Ghost in the Shell, and also more recently director of a few pretty decent productions, probably the best of which is Sword of the Stranger), with character designs by the guy who did Fire Emblem: Awakening (!), Story written by the producer of 999 (!) and writer of several Dragon Quest and Layton games at level 5 and animation production by Kinema Citrus, who are a small studio comprised of veterans from Production I.G.
It looks super rad. Strong Cyberpunk feel, very obvious Ghost in the Shell and Akira influences. It’s also pretty much the first proper original anime to be funded through kickstarter. The only other one I know of was Little Witch Academia 2, and that was doing a sequel. It rocketed past their goals and I’m not sure why this isn’t.
I’ve been following this for a bit as well and I’m particularly worried about if it’ll be funded, but I’m hoping the usual last few days rush that kickstarters tend to have will make the donations shoot past the goal. LWA was pretty viral, and had only a $150,000 goal, so I’m not too surprised about how that went.
LWA had the bonus that it was a bunch of huge names (Yoshinari especially) and because it’s a sequel to something that had just come out and was doing the rounds at that point in time. Trigger put it up subtitled on Youtube right beforehand and it was an inspired move because so many people saw it and loved it so a sequel was an easy sell.
This looks so good though. Really hope it makes it.
Stupid back pimple…
🙁
Thought that said black people for a second O_O
Me too! 😀
We’re bad people 😀
Glancing at it I thought the same.
:’-(
I… what?
http://www.modernnerdapparel.com/
On a related note, where’s a good place to find a cool wallet? Mine’s falling apart a bit.
I dont get it..those people dont look like nerds..more like hipsters
Everything on that site is making me cringe…
Well now you know you cant be a nerd till you get two full sleeves and a neck tattoo
Thinkgeek always have interesting ones. Normally if I was buying one for Batguy I’d just go to Myer or a luggage shop.
They sell a neat duct tape wallet and one made from aluminium mesh iirc?
They’re pricey and basic – but I’ve had 2 J-Fold’s in the last… umm… 10 years? Excellently made wallets. http://www.jfold.com
Hand stitched proper leather – so you need to give them some TLC every now and then!
Ooh those are nice.
I posted this on twitter but has anyone ordered a 3ds game from Mighty Ape and if so did it work on AU 3DS’
I don’t think I’ve ordered a 3DS game from them before but they’re a NZ based site (with an Australian website too) which are under the PAL region, so they should work fine on any PAL 3DS (EU/AU/NZ).
Which game in particular?
Project X Zone as ozgameshop is sold out and they the next cheapest at $40
Just finished Valiant hearts. Cried. Couldn’t help it.
At least Walt survived.I cried too.
Me too.
You pretty much knew that you’d end up doing that from the beginning though. It’s a game set in WW1.
Maybe, but I think it’s the way it happened that got me.
My stupid pretentious Diablo III wizard has this ability to duplicate himself into 4 copies, so there’s 5 pretentious little dickhead wizards running around, and I call this move “the One-man Boy-band”.
Goddamn do I hate my wizard, but at the same time it’s kinda fun hating his stupid pointy little wizard hat, and his whole, “my daddies soooo rich” voice and attitude.
I don’t think playing another character would be as fun, cause I’m enjoying hating him :3
Haha! I liked my holier than thou Monk too!
Oh man, you have no idea how much I want to smack my pretty-boy wizard :3
He’s so infuriating!
But that’s part of the fun.
I’m hoping he dies at the end 🙂
But don’t forget the ultimate philosophical question.
If he has sex with his double is it gay, incestuous or masturbation?
It’s gay.
Sex with a man, be it with yourself, or not is gay.
NEXT QUESTION! 😀
Ahh, you should have been lady Wizard! Playing as Azula never gets old.
Also that is why I rarely play male mages – they usually just seem like pansy douchebags.
Ugh…
want to do some game recording, but my recording software isn’t co-operating. 🙁
I’ve been super happy lately, despite things not necessarily going my way 😀
I like being happy 🙂
I hope you’re all happy too! 😀
Somehow I ended up at neoclassical shoosh 🙂
Store recurring doesn’t work for me drink 🙂
Good night 😀
Super happyatelu ;)Fd
@pupp3tmast3r
You should drunk with ol’Stewie some tinr, I’ll doghouse you bow to party ;D
Well shit.
I got a 64gb memory card for my PS Vita. It seemed the easiest way to copy my saves over is to back up my current card to my PS3, swap card over and restore the back up.
I plugged the Vita in and it said I need to update the system software. I told it do do that and it said there was a corrupted file when it restarted itself. I restarted it and it seemed to go OK. I told it to back up. It seemed to start OK. Said there was just over 200 min for it to complete. I left it for about 4 1/2 hours and it still said there was 8400kb of 3300mb transferred and 201 min remaining. Was not promising. Had another look 30 min later (5 hours in) and it was still showing exactly the same. : (
I pressed cancel since it seemed to be frozen. It came up with a please wait window and the spinning “I’m still doing something” icon. It’s now been 40 min and it’s still on that.
It also has the usual warning about unplugging or switching off while it’s doing all this.
It seems trying to back up my saved games may have destroyed all of them.
after googling the problem I decided to risk restarting it.
Seemed to go OK. I tried backing up again and it got to 12mb before locking up again. I tried again and it go to 9mb before locking up again…. Anyone else had this issue? I can’t seem to find anything useful via Google.
edit
It may have been the USB cable. I tried plugging it into the computer and the computer kept making the plug/unplug sound and wouldn’t stay connected long enough for it even to detect it was plugged into the computer. So then I tried backing up via wireless and that seems to have worked fine.
Good night!
My forbids t hi ibkhe they’re way cooler than they are, buy they a’ight! 😀
You guys are better though 😀
My bed is eo warm, and toasty, and comfy, and you should all* cone find out fir youresekfces 😉
*no women allowed.
That’s sexist.
You’re the problem with gaming these days.
You know the no women allowed part is a lie all the women are allowed
I haven’t had a drunk post in a while. I really should drink more.
No time like the present.
Considering buying Transistor off PSN, what’s it like?
Does it matter? You’re not going to end up playing it anyway 😛
Hey, shutup :p
Ended up buying it anyway, as well as
Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Valiant Hearts
Stick It To The Man
Don’t Starve
The Last Tinker
Rogue Legacy
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition (upgrade)
OlliOlli
Steamworld Dig
Flow
Doki-Doki Universe
Sparkle 2 and
Puddle
I reckon that’s enough for now.
Rogue Legacy I can vouch for as being awesome. OlliOlli comes highly recommended by raygunbrown. The rest I have no idea, but doubt you’ll regret those two at least! 😉
I find it interesting that the PS4 downloads multiple games at once instead of one at a time.
ugh.. just realized this was a reply fail! Glad you picked up on it!
So who’s picking up DriveClub, The Crew or Project CARS?
I might get The Crew on PS4 just because I like racing games, I suck at them but I like them
I think that’s one we’re gonna have to co-ordinate on to make crews. It’s not gonna have cross-platform multiplayer, is it?
I doubt that it will have cross platform, microsoft would never work with sony and vice versa PC is the neutral ground but apparently the crew is meant to be power hungry on PC so you really need a high end rig that alot of people dont have. We will have to wait and see
Yeah, be getting it on Xbone or PS4, depends on what platform the most TAYbies are picking it up on as to which one I get it for I s’pose. Trailer looks like it’ll be lots of fun.
well DriveClub is still getting the free PS+ version as far as I know so will be getting that. Going to try out The Crew beta tonight, so will see how that goes, but I’m not too confident in Ubi these days
Achievement List has been released for Destiny, I assume Trophies will be the same along with the usual Platinum.
http://www.xboxachievements.com/game/destiny-xbox-one/achievements/
@pupp3tmast3r
SO MUCH HYPE.
I think next week I’ll once more start pimping the group/clan I made.
Isn’t that kind of not using weapons?
More PvP things than I’d like but hardly a surprise really.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/08/wandering-the-wyoming-wilderness-waiting-for-it-to-burn/
Oh man, I’m in love. *swoon*
They’ve captured the tone from the concept art beautifully. Love the atmosphere of this.
And this:
http://www.gog.com/game/the_vanishing_of_ethan_carter_special_edition
Looks pretty good man, reckon I’ll buy it for sure.
Edit: Have to get Kentucky Route Zero first though.
But is there a game you wouldn’t buy, friend? 😛
Probably, but can’t think of any right now 😛
Was going to point to this and say Mount Your Friends… then realised it was you who was giving them away… =/
Still got one copy of that left to give away.
Just started Chapter 3 in Risen 3! Progress!
*squee* I opened the big gate, so now I can finally get rid of Mud!! Happy Days!!!!
Well, Die By The Sword doesn’t want to launch for me…
Fuck. 🙁
it’s a bit of a bitch. you using dos box?
I figured it out.
I had to have it running in 3dfx mode.
🙂 good ol 3dfx! love it! also love die by the sword! such an innovative game! albeit very bloody difficult!
Ack! God damn Alligators!!!! I’ve been ambushed 3 times in the past 5 mins!! Major heart/panic attack!!
Also, if you’re playing Risen 3, you should take Jaffar around with you everywhere! If he picks up a bag of gold, when he gives it back to you, he gives you 10,000 gold, no matter how much money is in the bag to begin with!
That seems like a very big game bug.
That’s what I thought when I first read about it, but when you do it in game, it makes me wonder if it’s an actual buff on him. When you get gold from people, or from chests etc, it says Received 200 Gold or whatever the amount is. When you get it from Jaffar, it says 10,000! (with the exclamation mark)
10,000 just seems like way too much. On Risen 2 the most you ever got from a pouch of gold was something like 150 gold.
It might seem to much when you’re starting out, but there’s a lot of expensive stuff to buy. Some skills are 4k. Now I’m in chapter 3, I’m starting to see weapons and such for sale at merchants, there are in the range of 3-4k too
Sweet, I’ll have to remember that.
Put a pre-order on Hyrule Warriors (Scarf Edition) today.
Dammit im meant to be saving but there’s so many games I want to buy and @evilmonkey and his buying binge made me turn on my Vita for the first time and theres now 4 games sitting in my cart..must resist..
If it helps to ease the temptation to purchase something, you’re welcome to gift me something, that way you get the thrill of the purchase without any of the guilt! 😉
Can you even gift PSN games? So far im eyeing off:
-Disgaea 3: absense of justice (started it on PS3 but never finished as brother traded it in)
-FF tactics WotL (just because)
-Tactics Ogre: LCT (was interested in this but never got to play it)
-breath of Fire 3 (its a fun game)
no idea. i dun even have a psp! Only a ps3!
Thanks to everyone who turned up for the Meat!
I had fun, hope you did too.
@rize, I think I still have your blow-up mattress, and 2 tokens from Card Wars, but I’m sure we can organise something.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking I think I have your phone charger (someone said they thought you had a Nokia, and it’s a Nokia charger)? Assuming it’s yours, is it alright if I’m lazy and just give it back to you at PAX, or do you need it quicksmart?
Other people play Card Wars? :O
@rize owns a copy of the game.
Did people play on the weekend? What’s everyone’s favourite deck? 😀
(Swamp is the worst!)
Blue is OP!
Blue IS OP, but I can see Sandy or swamp surpassing it with a tiny bit of luck.
meaty goodness! Sounds like fun had by all! Wish I could have been there!
Ah shit i did too, that’s fine, i should have some spare android chargers around, I’ll let you know… Anywhoo, thanks for an awesome weekend
I’ve found the perfect comic to sum up what I was like in the kitchen, too: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3464#comic
I totally left the biggest and most obvious bag there…I’ll get it eventually.
I had fun! Hope everyone poked through the bag I left there. There was some decentish stuff in there.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.
Xenoblade goes for like $130 on eBay now >_>. Stop making it hard for me to recommend to people! >:|
Shulk looks shiny in SSB though wowweeee. Makes me want a proper HD Xenoblade (Xenoblade X will have to do!)
Shulk looks super awesome!
Switching his Monado powers depending on the situation seems like a lot of fun.
So uh… what happens if you miss a flight? Are you able to catch a later one for a small fee/free or do you just have to pay for another whole ticket?
I always plan to leave early and get to the airport an hour before the flight departs but I always have a little bit of doubt or worry that the taxi will just not show up, or come really late or something, so I’m just curious as to what would happen should the situation arise…
@novacascade ?
You know you can book taxi’s to arrive at a certain time, that would get around that part of potentially being late!
Saying that I always try & be 90 minutes to 2 hours early to avoid that lol.
That’s what I’ve been doing but the last 2 taxis I’ve booked have both been late by about 15 minutes :/. I still planned to get to the airport much earlier than needed, so I got there with time to spare, but late is late.
It’s more me being curious of what the worst case scenario would be and I missed my flight (taxi doesn’t show up etc.)
It totally depends on your airline/fare rules. If you’re flying on a super cheap fare on a low-cost airline, if you miss it you’re stuck with buying a new ticket. Premium tickets probably come with a bit more flexibility, which is why you should always give yourself plenty of time. Better to be sitting around waiting at the gate than to be panicking at the check in.
Virgin/QANTAS – they’re considered higherish aren’t they? (I’m assuming the low ones are Jetstar and Tiger)
QANTAS yes, but again it depends on the fare you have. Even QANTAS would sell cheaper non-refundable fares.
Also, check the details on the ticket. Regardless of the time the flight is scheduled to leave, you are usually required to check into the flight up to 60 minutes prior. So even if you arrive with half an hour to spare before the flight leaves, the check in might be closed and you are out of luck. Book your taxi early, know exactly which gate you are heading to, and keep an eye on the flight details in the 24 hours previous in case there are changes to the flight.
A few new bits of gear appear in Chapter 3 of Risen 3! I just bought myself a sword called Bone Breaker. Upgradeable to Captains Sabre! 45-105 damage +10 Slashing weapons! Combine that with my ring that gives +15 slashing weapons, and I’m set to kick some serious ass!!! 🙂
Just became a master mage too, and fully mastered crystal magic! Getting super exciting now!
I went for a driving lesson with @beavwa today. Constantly pushing me to get out of my comfort zone (which is a good thing) so he decided to get me to do a hill start.
Apparently I aced it. And then I apologised for it.
Well done Scree, for acing it I mean, not the apologizing bit, to that I say bad, bad Scree.
Seriously though, you did good.
That’s our @scree!
*theme music plays*
Seriously though that’s awesome!Nice! Did he get you to do it with the handbrake? I could never figure that one out, it just makes it harder for me. Wasn’t sure if I was “supposed to” actually do it that way so did it for my driving test, nearly completely screwed it up >_>
yes. according to the qld road rules at least, if you stop your car, and take your foot off the brake, and the car rolls either back or forward, you’re supposed to put the handbrake on.
Also, if you don’t use a handbrake to do hill starts, remind me never to drive behind you 😉
Well if you’re going to be sitting so hard on my tail that it’s going to be a problem, then I don’t want you driving behind me either 😛
i don’t tailgate. I meant at a set of lights. i’ve seen people roll back a long way due to not using handbrake before. you really should practice it. It’s really not that hard, and much safer!
But it totally is hard. What’s easy is just easing off the clutch to stop the car from rolling anywhere after releasing the brake.
Yes, I used the handbrake
Good stuff! I should learn how to drive a manual one of these days…
I FINALLY finished The Wonderful 101. Been trying to get through it for months 😛
@mrtaco sorry to disappoint you, but it didn’t become my favourite Wii U, or Platinum game (but also not the worst!). It was fun though… at times, kinda :P. I love me some Platinum Games games but it got really tedious at times and the controls can get unresponsive.
At least it was free 😀
Next up: The Last of Us Remastered and/or Tales of Xillia 2 before Hyrule Warriors, Theatrhythm Curtain Call and FIFA 15. HYPE!
but all that after Perth :/ 🙁
Monsterius!
Hey Mr Nintendo, what didya think about the new 3DS? Gonna get one?
Well I’ve got to, don’t I? 😛 Might even send my old Vanilla down to get transferred over to it… *cries*
The real question though is whether to get the regular or the XL.
XL!
But the smaller one has the changeable faceplates! And is smaller! Also the coloured buttons!
It does look nicer compared to the old one… hmmm
SPORTSBALL RAMBLING
So the AFL finals series starts next week. Disappointed that most of my favourite teams (GC,GWS, Adelaide, Melbourne) failed to get in, but that life. Weirdly, I find myself wanting to support Richmond, not because I care that much about the team, but I really like the underdog story they’ve had this year.
And my favourite teams didn’t do that bad, (except for GWS and Melbourne, but I didn’t expect them to do that well) it’s better than 2008, where my 4 favourite teams at the time were in the bottom 5. Sure, I would have liked Gold Coast to do a little better, but shit happens.
TAY, due to spending half the weekend at my grandparents with no internet I fell several pages behind on TAY. Please recap everything between page 12 and 17 as nonsensically as possible.
Man, we were 4 posts away from page 18. I promise to spam more next week.
After 6 hours, I got as far as I was allowed to in the Euro Truck Simulator 2 demo. Considering getting the game next time it’s on sale, purely because of how well that game works with podcasts.
So GOG sell movies now. Huh.
That Diablo III: Reaper Of Souls is a pretty cool guy.
Really enjoying my PS4. Only had it for about a day and a half, but so far I like it better than the Xbone.
Page 18 get \o/
@phlanispo
My unintentional spamming saved the day!
@greenius: while I’m still a bit iffy on aspects of it, I think we don’t need to worry about the change of composers for Xenoblade X to Hiroyuki Sawano, at least of his Aldnoah.Zero soundtrack is anything to go by. If we get something like that I’ll be more than happy.
I was never really worried :P, have faith Neg!
Still on the fence about buying it? Going to buy the new 3DS and Xenoblade?
I was never on the fence.
Not buying new 3DS just for Xenoblade. Will if there’s other games to make it worth it.
The fence question was for Xenoblade X on Wii U, my questions kinda got mixed up I guess 😛
No, I was never on the fence about getting Xenoblade X. I think it’s going to be disappointing primarily because of the heavy focus on open world and the mute player-created protagonist who will just sit on the sidelines while everyone else advances the story, disconnected from everyone, but I’ll still buy a Wii U for it. 🙁
Good man!
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE! (man, machine, THE FUTURE!)
@rocketman @blaghman
Nearly 1am and I’m watching gaelic football…
Male Genetalia.
Anuses.
Combine the two and what do you get?
Politicians.
Man @liondrive is missing out on all the fun.
“Hey you’re not not meant to be in Page 18, you’re underage!”
*flashes fake I.D.*
“Oh, move along.”
as a gamer for over 15years the past few weeks of this industry have depressed me with the passive aggressive press focus mainly here on kotaku insulting my entire gaming identity while trying to cover up their own lack of integrity has lead me to finally say, im out
this will be the last time i come to kotaku, so i thank a great community and hope you can change what this industry has become and if you dont know what is going on because no news site will report it please research the zoe quinn debacle/zoegate
one again thank you awsome GAMERS
and dont listen the the neckbeard insults of these so-call journalist
@crazyguy1990 Here you go, you can have it! I put it in old TAY because it might reveal my email address.
https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=7aSVXurhynqmAkvE