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Morning! Weekend was full of study for my exam and birthday cake, rainbow birthday cake to be specific.
Tried to start The Walking Dead Season 1 but getting BSOD crashes that I can’t seem to resolve on my laptop. Really need to revive my desktop machine.
Now playing the waiting game…
Exam I’m 30 mins… /o\
Good luck, buddy. You’ll do good.
Good luck on your exam man
How did you go? 🙂
Good good. One question I drew a blank on (was multichoice) and on checking text when I got home I got it right.
Maybe 5 other questions worth 1 or 2 marks each that had me scratching for answers.
So overall I think I’ll do okay! Thanks for asking 🙂
Morning fellow TAYbies, how were your weekends? How was the Can’d Meat @pixel_ferret_the_viking, @others.
My weekend was pretty good, for once I actually had the whole weekend off, bought a metric shit-tonne of games, and believe it or not I actually played some of them \o/
That Diablo III: RoS is a pretty cool guy, didn’t want to turn it off and go to bed, so addictive.
Tried out the P.T. Demo too, man is that messed up. the scares were good, but I’m too dumb to solve the puzzles by myself, had to look up a walkthrough and still didn’t even get to the end. Also,
That screaming/crying baby was almost too much for me, almost stopped playing a few times because of it. I guess things like that are different when you’re a parent.Also bought, The Guardians Of The Galaxy soundtrack (Ooga Chaka), my very first Pop Vinyl (Heisenberg) and the first 3 seasons of Falling Skies, haven’t watched it before, but I’ve heard good things, so I’m pretty keen on getting into it.
Sorta got another day off today (might have to go into work for a few hours a bit later), but other than that I’m looking forward to a day filled with D3, The Last Of Us: Remastered, and maybe some TAYKart tonight.
DAMMIT! Why can’t I get your tag right Pixel, what am I doing wrong?
I still don’t think anyone really solved P.T on their own. I think Kojima had plants on twitter, haha.
Kojima has always had troll logic in his games but now that he’s making a game with actual puzzles, it’s going to be downright bonkers.
I know! It’s going to be one of those things that goes on for yeaaaars with mad theories – especially if it really is going to be randomly generated so every player has a different story. At least Del Toro will keep the monsters interesting*.
*Terrifying.
Ah, I see the problem, it’s because I’m stoopid.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
I enjoy Falling Skies. Not super amazing, but it’s well done, and Noah Wyle is always awesome.
Good morning, good morning lovelies! It’s September! It’s Spring! I’ve been very keenly following Double Fine and FanGamer on Twitter on this PAX Prime weekend. Sooo much Costume Quest 2 goodness coming, hurrah!
Oh man, I can’t wait for Costume Quest 2. The first is a thing of beauty. It’s also available to pre-order on Steam now as well. (Leaning towards playing it on the consoles, though.) The trailer for Campo Santo’s Firewatch looked crazy stunning too.
You see Double Fine’s Grim Fandango preview?
Edit: I forgot to mention pre-order. Too early to write coherently. XD
You’ve just mentioned three of the best things about this PAX, my friend 😀 Grim Fandango on PS4/Vita? Dreamy, haha.
Never played Costume Quest before, so I just bought the bundle that comes with both games.
You’ve done good It’s up there with my favourite Double Fine games with Stacking and Psychonauts and Broken Age and… well, all of them, I guess.
Crap, just looked it up and saw that it’s coming to Xbone and PS4 as well, oh well, I’ll just have to buy it again.
I don’t know what it is, but I find that even when a PC game has full controller support I still prefer to play on console. I know, I’m weird.
Costume Quest is one I definitely like playing on the couch too. It’ll be good either way though.
I think that one of us is the other’s evil twin…
I won’t buy games more than once, and even if it started life as a console game I’ll only play it if it’s on PC,. I’ll also doggedly use a keyboard and mouse no matter what.
Brutal Legend was the only one I really didn’t like. And I wanted to. Loved the concept and the aesthetics and everything, but the gameplay wasn’t fun for me.
Yeah, I wasn’t a fan of the stage battles. Everything else I loved.
It’s adorable! Hopefully you’ll enjoy it. You probably will if you like things that are good and adorable and fun.
DOOOUUUUUBBBLLLEEEE FFFFFIIIIIIIINNNEEE!!!
Hey guys,
Despaerate to get this message on the move.
There’s a link attached to my link, but pretty much, Square Enix wanna hear some noise before they’ll localise Dragon Quest VII for 3DS.
Pretenders welcome 😀
https://twitter.com/PstiDrdn/status/506209586685038592
Is it less boring than V or VI?
Morning everybody, how were your various weekends?
Mine was good; Fremantle beat Port Adelaide and there was copious swearing (both positive and negative) on my couch watching the game. Very enjoyable. Now considering flying in / out to Sydney on Saturday to catch the first final. Considering.
Yesterday broke out 7 Wonders for games night, lots of fun. Took a little explaining (“So, what do I do if I want to build the first part of my wonder.” “Well, if you have the resources available you choose 1 card from your hand and place it face down under it to show that it’s built, in place of building something else.” “I don’t get it.” “Ok, well what is it that you don’t get?” “I don’t know. I just don’t get it.” *tears hair out*) Everything went much better after the first game as people got used to it, and the second 2 games ended in a tie (54 to 54) and a 1 point loss (52 to 51) which had me running frantic calculations in my head on the last turn. Do I build my 3rd Wonder stage to get 7 victory points, or do I build the military structure to get a 5 point victory instead of a -1 point loss. I think I calculated wrong. +7, -1 to me. Opponent who beat me by 1 point gets +5 (-5 against me, net gain +1?). Vs. +5 to me, opponent gets -1 (net gain +4?). That’s part of what I’m really enjoying about the game. Can’t wait for the next session.
Sounds like how I’d be if anyone tried to teach me to play something like that, tried to learn how to play the Pokemon card game about a month ago, so I could teach my son to play, which you think would be pretty easy because it’s for kids, but nope, no matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t get my head around it.
Card games are deceptively complex. Also, probably best you don’t try and get into Pokemon as it is such a drain on your bank account.
Yeah, we got there in the end but it took probably a lot longer than it should have. But once the basic mechanics are down everything else kind of falls in to place. Part of my problem is I’m very linear and I sometimes have trouble stepping back and figuring out why somebody isn’t understanding how I’m explaining something. I think the problem is with step 7 or 8 in my head, but it’s really with step 2 which maybe I’ve glossed over.
Learnings!
To be fair it took us three or four attempts to get it right.
Exactly! It was just frustrating because the only feedback I’d get was “I just don’t get it.”
By the third game we were ticking along smoothly, and were able to avoid the mistakes we made figuring it out too.
7 Wonders is great, but you always have to play 2 games of it to really get it down pat.
3. First game to go through all the minutia painstakingly. Then 2 “real” games to get it down pat.
It’s just a bit big to actually explain. Too much to wrap your head around. Easier to learn by playing. A lot of good board games are easiest that way.
Best example: played Power Grid at PAX with @beavwa and @tigerion and there was an amazing leaflet in the box which said ‘fuck the manual, follow this script and we’ll play a game and you’ll understand’ and it worked amazingly well. But that game is sheer brilliance in terms of how finely balanced it is.
I am willing to try out that game simply for the sheer chutzpah of that leaflet!
Power Grid is seriously an incredible game. All the mechanics are so amazingly balanced and interconnected. It’s seriously a thing of beauty how mathematically precise and balanced it is.
That appeals very much to me, and possibly to 1 other of my regular board game peoples. But beautifully balanced mechanics and precision only get us so far.
What’s it about / how does it play?
It’s about building a power grid and power stations to meet demand for your network and make more money doing it than the other players. You have to buy and maintain power stations, manage your resources for running them, build a grid and then make sure you have everything powered at the right point in the game so you can score points. One of the coolest things is that the resources fill in a market that has limited space, and as more of the spaces fill in the cost of each resource decreases, but it replenishes at a fixed rate so if everyone builds coal plants then the price of coal will go up and possibly run out and you won’t be able to power your stations. But when that happens the cost of gas or even uranium might be low enough to be worth it.
Renewable power stations cost the most but also generate power without consuming resources.
Also stations beyond a certain age break down toward the end of the game and have to be replaced, lowest value first, so basically the cheapest plants have built-in obsolescence and you also need to manage that so that you can bowl them down for bigger and better plants to meet your larger demands.
The base game has you building power grids for the USA and Germany, but there are tons of expansions that add different maps, so eg if you really want to play a game where you’re building your power grid in Russia or Korea or Australia or Japan or Quebec that’s all doable too.
Sounds very interesting, my only concerns is that it might be too in depth for my current crowd.
BRISBANE BORED GAMES FORTNIGHTLY OR MONTHLY MEAT CLUB?
I went out and bought that after PAX and it is still in the shrink wrap on my shelf 🙁
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was alright, I spent Saturday and Sunday lounging around the house and I think I only left the house twice in the 2 days, we just spent the whole day watching tv and movies, it was nice.
Also id like to hand in my man card…I..I like a one direction song ive had it stuck in my head all day the last 2 days
I’ll be taking your badge and your gun, come back and see me when you grow a pair, and stop behaving like a 13 year old girl.
You don’t need a pair, friend.When I was going to the gym earlier this year they kept on playing That’s What Makes You Beautiful on loop. It was a nightmarish time for everyone.
Ive got that You and I song stuck in my head the chorus is just good!
I don’t even know who you are any more! D:
*cries and jumps out window *
*hands over badge and gun* goodbye old friend *single tear*
I’ll take your man card, as I learned how to replace ALL the o-rings in my bathroom. By myself. With a wrench. And a little bit of Google.
And I only broke things twice and had to run to the hardware store leaving my house without water for two hours.
Not only did I fix something, I was frustrated while doing so and exasperated my wife.
I AM MAN, HEAR ME SWEAR AT STUCK TAPS
It’s like watching an old TV serial play out in real life! Almost as if life were imitating art imitating life! 🙂
Master of Taps, commodore of the O ring
Did changing the O ring fix your problem? Or did you need to change the washers too
Just the o-rings, but I changed the whole kit and kaboodle to be sure, mainly because the washers and o-rings came in a pack together.
I learnt the following though: If water is dripping out of your nozzle, then it’s the washer. If water is tripping out of the actual tap handle, then it’s the o-ring.
The more you learn.
*rainbow*
This is some dark stuff. I think you have to hand in more than your man card for this one.
Have you heard the Chorus of You and I? Its good!
I blame @rocketman but I really dig Taylor Swift’s new song. So damn catchy and nice beat and she’s got amazing voice (but I don’t like pop country, alas). Is You and I the Lady Gaga song? She’s pretty cool too.
*Checks for presence of testicles*
http://youtu.be/4yWVUcsA1u8
Ah, haven’t heard that I don’t think. I’ll check it out later.
Popdart5’s Weekend RPG Recap! Starring WH40K Only War (with me as a Stormtrooper Sergeant):
So we’ve been bunkering down in this ruined hive city for about two months while we wait for a Khornate warband to strike at us with their looted Baneblade and other assorted vehicles. We’ve mined all of the approaches and reinforced our defensive batteries and we also sought to remove any and all potential allies from the warband in our immediate vicinity and to slow down the warband as much as possible.Then one of our players (our Psyker no less) had the bright idea of antagonising a few nearby Ork tribes into attacking the warband to potentially deal with it before it even got to us. Of course the Orks were led by a collective of Freebooter Kaptins so we had to convince them it was worth it. So we offered them land rights and exclusive trading deals with the hive city if they were able to smash the army and capture/destroy the Baneblade. Which they tried to do but failed quite badly. We later heard that their attempt to capture the Baneblade revolved around charging their Deathroller straight into the army and ramming the tank. Gotta give them points for trying.
While all of this was going on, our Techpriest had the brilliant idea of building a gigantic statue of the Emperor (literally the size of the Statue of Liberty) in the centre of the hive so that it could act as a rallying point for the defending forces. He then attached flamers, heavy bolters, and plasma cannons all over the statue and then whacked on a void shield we had looted from a crashed ship for good measure. He then adjusted the statue so that the Emperor’s head can now pivot and fire lascannons out of its eyes.
So yeah, I think we’re all set for that Baneblade now. 😛
Now that’s a good use of a statue xD
Now they just need to hide det charges inside it’s knees so that, if all else fails, they can head-but the Baneblade into oblivion!
So to summarize you have a giant automated emperor’s statue to fight the Baneblade? Why don’t we get toys like this in our W40K RPG?!
@tech_knight Make one for us dammit! =P
There wasn’t a statue at the orc ship! Also I got a lot of work to do to be a master of such heavy weaponry, as my last attempt at using a mounted gun was… “I’ll do this with my hands”
Edit: In addition to this, my character will be able to make stuff like weapon batteries and other cool destructive toys in time.
It can’t move though. It’s not a Titan, otherwise if we had that capacity we would have just tried to build a Titan. Also this was two solid months of the Techpriest and a small army of serfs and servitors constructing this so you guys have a way to go before you can pull that off.
If I was playing I’m pretty sure I could have built a small wooden model of a titan in that time.
Does this mean I’ll have a horde of Earth caste tau to do my every command? *eyes sparkle*
BUILD ME A RIPTIDE SUIT NAOW! =P
Dammit, I just received a notice that I’m overdue paying my phone and I only just realised it must be because I didn’t update my cards details when it expired and replaced with a new one.
Also came second in a Warmachine tournament of 10. Giving me store credit and putting my total up to 90 bucks.
I can’t remember the last time I paid my phone bill, which means it’s probably time to pay it. Man. Vodafone are so damn chill about my payments. 😛
(Also, grats on tabletop victories.) 🙂
I’d say congrats on the tabletop victories, but from memory, you play Menoth? and I hate those guys 😛
(I only hate them because I play Cryx and mass aoe templates make me cry)
I’d say congrats on the tabletop victories, but from recent memory, you play Cryx? and I hate those guys 😛
(I only hate them because I play Menoth and everything of Cryx make me cry)
You’ve almost got enough to buy one thing!
Freeze, crushing dreams since 1984. 😀
Are you implying I was a disappointment to my parents from the start?
Because you don’t need to. It’s just common knowledge.
No, I spent 40 bucks of credit to pre-order the new Monsternomicon. Still undecided what to buy with the rest. Was thinking of a second unit of Knights Exemplars.
Morning TAYbees. Did you guys have a good weekend?
My weekend was pretty great, got a bit of sleep in, when out for coffee and a lil shopping with the wife. We picked up Super Mario 3D World and we’ve been having a blast with that, we’re currently up to World 4. It’s a fantastic co-op game, i only wish there was an option to disable the competitive scoring/crown toting side of the game. Nevertheless, loving it.
Went to the drive in on Sat night for a second viewing of Guardians of Galaxy (fantastic, fun movie, a must see) and we also watched Sex Tape (Trashy comedy, probably not worth seeing). On another note we watched Blended on Fri night and we loved that, funny and had some decent feels imo.
Sounds like a great weekend. Thanks for reminding me about SM3DW, I gotta play some more with gf and friends.
Is Sex Tape worth it to rent for $1 on bluray, or is it just total trash?
I guess it’s worth it for $1 if you have nothing better to do/watch. *shrugs* There a few moments worth seeing. Definitely a great weekend. How about yours?
Alright cool, I’ll just get it when we have nothing better available haha. My weekend wasn’t great, unfortunately, but it was … okay.. 🙂
I just picked up PL vs PW, which marks the beginning of a long season of various game purchases. Next up is Destiny; upon reminder my wallet breathes a long sigh, knowing it cannot take the next few weeks, let alone the winter. It is calm for now, though.
for now.
What’s PL vs AA? =O?!?!
Professor Layton Vs. Phoenix Wright. I can see how that might be confusing. If you’re still never heard of it, it’s a mix-up between a damn good puzzle series and a adventure/logic solving game.
Dammit Saturday you eddited your post to correct Ace Attorney to Phoenix Wright!
I’ve played both games too and now I look stupid *shakes fist* Only played the first two laytons and the first Ace Attorney, loved my time with them but never had the time to finish either >.
Love your new Gravatar man, also check your Steam inbox.
I picked it up on Friday and ermagerddddddddddd
Pirate Lovers vs Pirate Warriors?
No, but I’ve had the honor of seeing that particular porno.
Why is it Monday already? Q_Q
Hear hear… >:(
I was just about to upvote, then realised I’m on leave for the next two weeks. \o/
You’re the worst!
But ily
You say that now, but in 6 months time you’ll dump for someone who seems better but never will love you the way I did!
😛
Last night:
Last day of August. Tomorrow might be a good time to start that health kick you’ve been thinking about.
This morning:
I’ve had a bag of CCs and two Pepsi Max for breakfast. D:
I approve of this breakfast and believe you should write a fad diet around it.
Yes, but what flavour CCs?
Cool Ranch. I didn’t know a place could be a flavor!
Thanks for the gift, @evilmonkey. I hope you don’t mind if I decline. That’s not a game I want in my steam inventory. Haha! Thank you though. I appreciate the thought so damn much. You’re one of the good ones but I don’t want to mount my friends. 😛
Yes you do. You just don’t know it yet.
Fine, I’ll give you something else then. Thanks for making me spend more money, jerk.
ilyDoesn’t anybody want to mount their friends?
Holy crap, @evilmonkey just gifted me Costume Quest 2 on Steam. Thank you man. You so kind. (Though I feel it’s getting to the stage where we need to hold a game buying intervention for this guy.)
It’s at the stage where he can’t even play the games he buys himself because he needs to get a new PC but can’t afford it because he’s buying so many games for other people.
Excuse me, I did actually play some games last night, albeit on PS4.
Consarnit, you’re proving my point! *stamps on hat*
I was disappointed in that game. A button on the bottom of each limb but none on the tip of the fifth limb. Wasted potential.
Ain’t that that there game with dem dere phalluses flopping round errwhere
Man.. that guy! HE dun gifted me sumfin too! What a champ!
@evilmonkey didn’t try and gift you Sakura Spirit did he?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/07/sakura-spirit-according-to-steam-reviews/
The worst thing about that game is how small it is. If you look at the pics on the steam page that’s basically everything in the entire game that the target audience would be interested in.
I decided that since I could get it for $12 with a combination of steam wallet credit & “you already own the original so we’ll give you a better deal if you preorder” discount, I’d take the plunge and get Metro 2033 Redux because you can never have enough ducks. From what I’ve played so far, it seems to be a dramatic improvement in pretty much every area.
There’s a handful of very vague spoilers so I’ll tag the relevant areas to be on the safe side
I went through the section with Bourbon when you’re trying to sneak through the bandit tunnels when you’re leaving Riga station and I managed to stealth the entire lot, the pistol with a suppressor works beautifully and reliably, headshots from medium range are as lethal as you’d expect a shot to the head to be and the enemies no longer immediately and randomly notice when someone in deep shadow out of their line of sight dies which is a fucking dream compared to the original.Further along I’ve gotten through the nazi/communist battle line without raising an alarm but that was bloody hard and the DShK technicals do sadly seem to have super vision but it is also possible that the gunner might have NVGs and the mounted light could be for general illumination. They’re also exactly the kind of thing you’d expect to be on the lookout for anyone trying to sneak through the lines so I guess I can let it slide even if it did get a bit frustrating.If there’s one general negative it’s that throwing knives aren’t a weapon you select anymore, they’re an item you use and they have an animation that takes a bit of time to start so it can be a bit tricky to get the hang of using them. It’s not a long thing by any means but it does mean you can’t expect lightning fast throws to take advantage of a split second opportunity which in a way is good since you really shouldn’t be able to throw that fast anyway, I’d just have preferred if they’d kept the knives as a selectable weapon. That said, I’ll gleefully exchange that for making the melee a button press rather than the cumbersome switch to the knife slot and press fire version the original had, it makes using the knife as a backup weapon in a fight actually practical.
If anyone was thinking about it, I’d say based on my impressions so far I’d say that it’s definitely worth getting. I didn’t end up getting the Last Light one since I didn’t really see much in the way of benefit from it but I’d be interested to hear if anyone has got it & what they think
I thought about buying it, but that’d be restarting Metro 2033 progress for the third time… I’m at least 2.5hrs in right now. Unless there’s a save game merge feature?
Not that I’ve seen but I can’t say I thought to try copying the save games over and see. Might not work given that it’s a different engine and all (it’s a different product in steam rather than launching the original an selecting an upgraded version like Trine enhanced did) but I’ll give it a crack (assuming I still have my old 2033 saves) when I get back from going down the street and see how it goes
Unfortunately it looks like they’re not compatible, I copied my redux saves out, copied my old 2033 saves back in and loaded the game up and there was no continue option. Where were you up to roughly? 2.5 hours isn’t that far into the game really, it might be a handy thing to replay a familiar section to get used to the altered mechanics so you’re not dealing with 2 new things at once
Alright. thanks for checking. Eh I think I’ll stick with my old game, I’m pretty time poor. 🙁
Ugh, turned my alarm off in my sleep AGAIN. Which meant it was too late to be able to drive anywhere, so no climbing today. Super pissed. Then managed to just miss my train and got stuck on an all-stops one instead…
In vaguely related news, after an exchange with @janexo the other day I thought it’d be nice to attempt a No Swear September. Only hours into it I was already dangerously close to failing 😛 My hopes aren’t high.
Can’d Meat was good. Seemed a little quieter than last year. Just as much difficulty waking the next day though, probably should have had some water before going to bed but I was way too full (also tired >_>) to be able to even try. I swear the drive got longer since last time though. And was even longer on the way back. Maybe was a little too tired to have been driving 😛 I managed to calculate fuel usage perfectly though, had just enough to get me back to my local petrol station. Still, it was a tense end to the trip, staring at the fuel light for the last 83km 😛 Also stopped by the train station to buy one more weekly ticket, now I just gotta get around to grabbing an opal card some time this week >_> Stupid things.
Move your alarm clock to the other side of the room. This worked with me during the high school days
I did that back in uni. Well, first I switched from using my clock radio to using my DS, since I was sleeping through the radio entirely but the DS’s alarm could actually penetrate my sleep and wake me up. But then the turn-off thing happened, so I moved it across the room. That only worked for so long though, after a while I was crawling across the floor, turning it off, then crawling back into bed while hardly waking up (if at all).
Have it high on a shelf so you actually have to get up and reach for it to turn it off. By that time you’re up and walking.
Walking dead.
Add caltrops, those will wake you up.
That or a phone with 2 or more alarms a few minutes apart
That only works for a couple of weeks. Then you get to the point where you wake up, turn it off, and “trip” onto the bed. Then is 7:40 and the panic is almost enough to get you out of bed but not quite.
Hey Gooky! Hope you’re well?
I’m just throwing it out there, @janexo is an awesome addition to TAY. 😀 @sunsoar77 too. The fact they’re both from Brisbane? Even better. 😀
Boo, Brisbane 😛
Eh, could be worse I guess. You?
I am decent. Decent, I tells ya.
De Cent
Does this mean DC is secretly an underground Aussie rapper that’s about to take the world by storm?!
Edit: *cue over the top music video featuring DC, I mean De Cent*
Aussie rapper, you say?
*exaggerates accent and starts rapping about bogan stuff*
Descent?
Dessicant.
Docent. Beat that!
@phlanispo I left my whisk at home.
Aww you just made me blush <3
“no swear September”
ha. hahah
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA….!!!!
etc.
no chance.
@35 attempts No Swear 8:00am to 8:01am.
Critical Miss.
Words beginning with F and C are some of the most utilized in my vocabulary. 😀
Don’t be such a friendly cat.
DUDE! WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE!
Falutin’ and consternation?
I totally wouldn’t have picked it! You’re always on your Best Behaviour for meats, huh?
You haven’t been around Drunk C enough.
Except for knuckle taps a-plenty. That was embarrassing. XD
…by which, I think you mean ‘awesome’.
Get a baby! They make the best alarm clocks. As long as you don’t mind them waking you up when you don’t want to be, and not waking you up when you need to be.
I dunno. I saw @rize’s in action over the weekend, they seem… gooey.
And then they turn into small children who make sure you wake up because they jump on top of you.
Hahah yay! Welcome aboard. You can still swear under your breath, in your head, and, I’ve found, swearing very very slowly and quietly is pretty effective and amusing. Plus, coming up with last second swear-substitutes can be pretty funny.
Gosh darned poop-nugget.
Funny thing is, scientists have found that swearing actually acts as a pressure valve for stress-relief, AND a mild pain-reliever.
BUT. They theorize that this is due to breaking taboos. So if you swear habitually, you run the risk of trivializing your swears, reducing their effect. No-swear September is probably a great way to restore the power of swears in your life.
Substitutes can be fun. At work, typically, I use: mo– …ngrel. Or b… other.
Sometimes ‘son of a squirrel’.
I get that, about the pressure valve, but I grew up in a really bogan small town, where everyone cursed like it was their native tongue. Because of that, I associate too many swears with being small-minded, ill-educated and aggressive. Like, don’t get me wrong, I’m no prude and still swear and totally get it (time and place for everything), but I especially try not to swear on the Internet, where it’s already very easy to be misunderstood.
That certainly is the danger. If it’s the native tongue, there’s no taboo to break.
Same… kinda goes for the Internet.
Good job on your efforts! I probably need to do a swear-remove past on half my posts, too.
Haha, I already read your posts with good humour because of your little icon. Lookit that happy duder’s face!
You need that alarm clock that flies around your room screeching. And then you need to solve a puzzle.
You can get one that fires off a mini helicopter and won’t turn off until you catch it and put it back on the base station.
*swat the helicopter into the wall and smash your fist through the base station.
Then go back to sleep.
So… good news is my PC is now back online and I managed to copy my game files back so that I don’t need to redownload a ton. Bad news is Windows still downloaded a ton and capped my internet 😛
Ah well, not that bad since the tickover happens today and my step dad discussed and agreed with me to go to unlimited in exchange for a higher rate to pay per week to compensate for the new costs. Fair deal considering I’m the one that uses the internet the most by a wide margin within the house, and this means I can now watch twitch without worry! \o/
Hope everyone’s weekend was better
Your weekend sounded good and hooray for endless streaming
great to hear your pc is ok now! w00t!
I didn’t lose anything vital either, and I have an excuse to get new drives so double win!
Life now proudly presents: Two weeks in the life of Quiz_b
Two weeks ago: My job is ending! I don’t know what to do! I keep getting rejected for job applications! All the time! Only one interview in four months!
A week ago: Ok, I’m going to be a house-husband next year, and do a Graduate Dip in IT – I’m moving careers and looking after my little boy! I’m excited! My contract may finish in two months, but we can make things work until the wife goes back to work!
This morning: Oh hey, two emails from HR! Ok…I’ve…got a job interview for a permanent position. Oh…and work are wanting me to sign a twelve month contract.
Only in the life of Quiz_b, where good luck becomes bad luck because timing.
*laugh track*
*fade to black*
Sounds like whatever you choose, things are looking up for ol Stan. Congrats, bud.
the fade to black is you drinking yourself into a stupor, I assume.
And you’ve earned it, buddy. Not the alcohol-fueled blackout, I mean. Well, maybe you earned that. I dunno.
Actually it’s a rad videogame from when I was younger.
And an awesome Metallica song.
That’s our Stan!
I have a one-on-one ‘getting to know the staff’ meeting with the new director this afternoon.
this can only end badly.
Sleep with the director to get the part you want! It works in the movies!
Then @35 realises that the director actually is the boss of the area he wants to get to and he breaks up with them.
*intro theme plays*
Casting couch.
We made the same joke. Flu gets more upvotes. We all know who’s more loved around here!
*runs off crying*
😛
It’s because he’s so efficient with his words. 😀
He’s got a voice that lets him get away with that. I’ve got to awkwardly ramble my points across. 😛
Well it looks like you spoke too soon, Mr. Popular.
What’s really going to bake your noodle later on is, would they still have upvoted if you hadn’t said anything?Ok, @tech_knight, @pixel_the_ferret_viking, @aliasalpha, @gutsoup, and @pupp3tmast3r, check your Steam inboxes.
Also, who would like to mount their friends, still got one copy left, it’s the last game I’ve got to give away. Any takers.
*unfolds intervention sign*
This is a safe place. You’re among friends…
Sounds like you want a copy of Mount Your Friends.
Also got a copy of Gun Monkeys to give away too.
Why is it so hard to give you guys stuff?
Monkeys can’t be trusted with guns. DIDN’T DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES TEACH YOU ANY THING.
I actually never got around to watching that. I know, I’m a bad monkey.
Maybe even the worst! D:
dammit monkey!
<3 thanks man =]
*shakes off warm and fuzzies* seriously though I’m with DC on the intervention! =P
Hah, one finger death punch! Thanks Monkey!
Thanks man! You’re freaking crazy but thank you!
A window into my madness.
Nice of you but I don’t play anything adversarial, except arguments
Phew what a weekend, aside from being completely smashed on Friday it was just me and Marvel Heroes all weekend long ^^ Oh I did manage to play the last 2 episodes of Walking Dead S2 though so S2E5 spoilers below –
What really annoyed me with this episodic crap is I played the first 3 episodes in a particular mind set (survival of the fittest, etc.) and when I jumped back in for 4 and 5 I felt a complete disconnect to the type of Clementine I was playing (more emotionally connected to the group). I’ll probably start over this week and do the whole game in one sitting. I did however end up killing Kenny and leaving Jane behind for setting me up that crazy bitch. =@ However the ending when you’re alone seems kind of half assed when compared to what happens if you decide to leave with Kenny or Jane…I think however the ending I would’ve liked is an option where neither of them have to die, I really did think Kenny could be saved, he wasn’t as far gone as everyone was saying and Jane wasn’t cold and distant either. Just felt like everyone else in the group was mentally retarded or had no decent judgement left in episodes 4 and 5. Like wtf Bonnie and Mike the two nicest people in the group can justify stealing the truck, all our supplies and leaving the baby to starve?? Just one day after this bonding session in front of a camp fire?? It just seemed a bit forced to create a messed up ending for the sake of it being messed up?Finally the last thing I don’t get, this season is supposed to be 6-7 months after the outbreak, meaning by this point any people left should be hardened survivors well aware of what other groups are like. So I don’t get why everyone is super compassionate to Arvo 2 seconds after he leads his group to basically gun us down?? It was like all of a sudden Bonnie, Luke and Mike were all in support of this new guy and forgot he almost got us all shot? I knew the season would have to end with most of the group dead or gone but at least last time around the reason that happened felt like a natural progression of the characters involved, this time it felt like it was done just for oohs and aahs.tldr: I was kind of let down by the last episode in S2, which sucks because the E2, 3 and 4 were a blast to play.
Oh, hey, I did those two episodes this weekend, too.
I screwed up more than you did, tho. Tried and tried to keep Sarah alive, managed to get her and Luke both back to the group, but she died anyway, eaten alive and likely crushed under the observation platform’s deck. I did, however, rob Arvo… figured the pills would come in handy, but I kept waiting for the option to use the museum rather than the observation platform, as I thought Arvo’s friends would ambush us there. Later, crossing the ice, I didn’t go for Luke, believing him to be able to get himself out, and didn’t expect Bonnie to rush in like a moron and trap them both under ice. He drowned, and she got pissed at me for not trying to save him. So, Bonnie and Mike tried to steal the truck with Arvo (I suppose Mike went with them because I was trying to support Kenny, believing him to just need a bit of time, after he was so harsh on Arvo). I stopped them from getting the truck, but got shot by Arvo in the process…Woke up later in the back of the truck, Kenny and Jane arguing in the front seats. This wasn’t going to end well… Anyway, as soon as Jane walked into the rest stop, saying it was an accident, I saw what she’d done, but kinda understood why. Kenny wasn’t seeing straight, and he wasn’t going anywhere as long as AJ was around. Tried to break up the fight, but it got out of hand, and I had to shoot him or let him kill Jane. I shot Kenny. Not because I thought Jane chose a good way to show how far gone Kenny was, but because it didn’t matter if Jane was telling the truth or lying, his reaction would have been the same. He was a timebomb, and I’d been denying it ever since Serita died. I forgave Jane, not because I agreed with her methods, but because she did what needed to be done. That said, I can’t help but feel that delaying playing the last two episodes meant I was less attached to Kenny than I otherwise would have been…I did feel like a bit of a dick refusing the family entrance, tho. That did confuse me a bit – we got back to Carver’s compound, Jane says there’s plenty of food for a while, at least that’s what I thought she said. A little while later a family shows up, and she whispers to me that we don’t have much food left (dafuq? Where’d it go?)… So I turned the family away. I am a monster /o\I actually let them in but the guy in the group really gave me a bad vibe? Like a really bad vibe… Anyways always better to have more bodies to throw towards the zombie hordes in case shit hits the fan. I think the official ending should be with Kenny and finding Wellington and being turned away, all the others just left a bad taste in my mouth =\I have been messaging my friend’s girlfriend way too much over the last couple of days. Over 40 sent each way, pretty sure that’s more than my usual entire monthly expenditure.
Nothing suss. Honest 😛
For some reason I read that as massaging =S
Still? Nothing suss. She’s got neck tension, okay?
*grabs popcorn*
*grabs popcorn* How’s skype?
Well the number of messages probably wouldn’t be so high if she had Skype 😛
It’s… there. Band girl hasn’t shown up on it yet. Also it’s a pain in the arse to sign in on both because I have to type out usernames individually each time, it doesn’t save them in a drop-down box like the old client. Also it’s slow switching between the two interfaces for logging via Skype account vs MS account. The individual instances don’t seem to like to remember their own particular settings.
Everything sucks 😛
QUEEN TONIGHT 😀
that is allMy sister and parents are going too. I declined a free ticket cause I didn’t want to be a moocher. I now have moocher remorse.
You fool!
Dammit DC.
…
So what you’re saying is I *should* grab you that PAX ticket…
No, I like the remorse. I can milk it for sympathy. Woe is me! See? SEE?
Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhy? Being a moocher is acceptable to see Queen 😛
You are the worst. It’s Queen … QUEEN!!!!
Doofusasaurus.
Atleast I’ll have the house to myself while the sisters away. It’ll give me ample time to cry myself to sleep!
Hang on, Queen is still going? I thought one of the members died? Unless you are talking about your 7:30 with Lady Elizabeth, in which case I’m jealous.
I wish I had time for games, I haven’t switched on any of my consoles in about 3 months 🙁
I’d rather spend time with my little boy though so that’s what I’ve been doing 😀
How old’s your babbbbby?
he’s 2, i’m currently separated and i’m lucky enough to have him every weekend. The other nights I tend to do as much stuff outside the house as possible for distraction. By the time I get home, i’m pretty buggered and can’t be bothered playing games 🙂
Do you have a blanket “no games/tv” rule for your kid?
We’re expecting our first in a couple of months, and we’ve decided not to let him watch tv or play games for a few years for developmental and attention-span reasons. I lead a very digital lifestyle at the moment, though. It’s going to be a whole new experience finding new ways to fill up time while he’s awake.
Development and attention span have very little to do with screen time.
My five-year-old is one of the most advanced kids in his Prep class, even beyond the ones who did Kinder first and he’s been a very TV/movie/game oriented kid.
Limits are good for encouraging family interaction beyond the virtual space, though. Taking your kid out to see the world is one of the best educational tools at your disposal. 🙂
Nice to hear from an actual parent on this. There’s a lot of speculation about overstimulation in young children. All I can say for certain about my impending parenthood is that it’s confusing.
We figured this was a good time for us to to re-assess our technology use anyway, and to focus on more family-social activities. Balance is key.
Parenting is definitely confusing! But you learn as you go. You also just have to figure out what works for you and your kids as every kid is different, as is every family.
You’re off to a good start though, with your focus on balance. You’re right, it’s the most important thing.
One piece of advice for babies…when they inevitably have one of those crying fits that never stop and you can’t figure out what’s wrong (it’s usually nothing,by the way. Babies just like to cry sometimes), baths can sometimes really help when all else fails. It’s different enough that it might sort of distract the baby out of their crying fit.
When it comes to toddlers, playing outside works just as good as giving them a bath. 🙂
At the moment, he’s not really interested in TV or games so I haven’t had this problem yet. However, I will be limiting his time later on when he becomes interested in such things :). Don’t worry about finding things for him to do, kids will find ways of entertaining themselves, plus it’s fun coming up with ways to spend time together with your little one. There’s nothing better then seeing them smile 🙂
You don’t need to ban everything, you just need to be discerning. ABC2 has an amazing array of programs that aren’t just age-appropriate for under 5s, but are actually good for them because it reinforces their language (singing songs is great for toddler), and early concepts such as letters, numbers and reading. Playschool, Bookaboo, Sesame Street, Peg+Cat are all fantastic shows. And Peppa Pig is hilarous and will keep sleep-deprived parents entertained too. Also, there is NO ADVERTISING on ABC2 (not even for ABC products). I think this is far more important than anything else.
It’s just about teaching appropriate behaviours when using technology. It’s a good idea to set limits early, like not letting your toddler play with your phone without your permission and supervision, setting limits for TV viewing times, and rules like “no tv during mealtimes”. Each house has its own rules and yours will adapt as your child grows.
But having a 3DS or a vita or a phone game or a tablet with movies is a blessing when you have a bored toddler on a long bus or plane trip, and at 5pm when everyone is tired and frazzled, Peppa Pig can be a godsend. The last 10minutes of In The Night Garden can help a grizzly, teething 14 month of to relax for bed.
The truth is that you will start out with the best of intentions, and then turn on ABC2 one day and marvel at the delightful quiet that ensues while your little one watches Octonauts. Then you will run and go have a shower and do the same thing tomorrow.
Man… Dreadnought is looking really cool 0,0
Why cookie Rocket?
Why biscuit Rize?
Hola Tayberinos
Had a quiet weekend. Progressed stuff for my PAX cosplay, played some Psychonauts and Civ, swore at my internet all yesterday while attempting to jobsearch.
A Monday Morning Question: What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
Hermit. I did work in archiving medical records at a hospital during high school. Alone in a basement. At lunch time this nice cleaner would come and talk to me which is cool, but she used to smoke right at the entrance and the room would smell for the rest of the day. (Then again, it allowed me to buy a PS2 on launch, so it wasn’t that bad.)
Literally being the milkman at a super busy Woolworths. This place was too small (it was big already) for the customers, so my weekends shifts were 80% restocking the fucking milk and eggs.
Holy shit, milk fridge smell still haunts me.
Omfg :'( I had that all forgotten….. thanks … D:
Oh man, and how everything would have that dried, white milk skin on it, even if you never spilled a thing?
Hell.
*Dry retches*
my current one HURHUHRUHRUHRUHRUHURHUHUHU
face-to-face fundraising, I guess.
*puts on headphones and increases pace as I walk past Saturday*
you would think that having such a job has made me sympathetic to those I currently see with that profession on my morning walk to work or while I’m about in the city. I can sense that they’re slightly bored, a bit weary from dejection or outright hostility sometimes. It’s genuinely not easy, so even if I don’t contribute to their cause, I can at least shave a few minutes off their mental timer in their head they’re no doubt lingering on.
…
wait, no, that’s all wrong, I avoid them like the plague still.
Face-to-face was my first ‘job’ when I moved to Australia. Doing it for Optus, 100% commission, I signed 2 people up over 3 days and just chucked it in after that as I was spending more on travel and lunch than I was making. It helped so much that they sent me to Woodridge (bogan as fudge) where people really aren’t going to have the credit history to sign up to a 24 month contract. Fun times
all things considered, the company/charity I was working for set some very agreeable terms concerning how everything operated, My co-workers were relatable as they were all in the same boat as I; more like boats adrift at sea, technically (most, if not all were backpackers.) They paid for travel as well- but in the end, it’s just shit work.
yeah, even if it did have a base salary, the only perk to it was being outside all the time. I happily took data entry jobs after that 😀
Charities. Paying people to attempt to collect donations.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
S’ wack, isn’t it? Especially when you get into the nitty gritty of where the money charities get go to.
Yep. This is my major problem with ‘charities’.
This, my wife did some work at a well known SA based charity, she wasn’t there long before she saw collectors divvying up the donations they got between themselves. She left straight after that.
I hate charities, and will not donate to them. If I knew for a fact that 100% of the money was actually going to where it was supposed to then yeah for sure I would, but people are too greedy and corrupt, so no.
I personally don’t donate either. I just keep the money. Then I know that I stashed the money and it’ll go 100% to the family member (or whoever) instead of some slimy middleman.
All of them.
But really though, they haven’t been that bad. First one was at Super Cheap Auto, I guess that was probably the worst. Especially the part where they just stopped giving me shifts.
Actually I changed my mind. The scratchies one was the worst. I mean the pay was great, and it was good being able to drive in the opposite direction to all the other traffic in the morning and evening (and laugh at/pity all the poor saps on the M4 going absolutely nowhere). But otherwise having to deal with the constant nap attacks and filling out timesheets and generally being stuck with a whole bunch of old people who I couldn’t relate to at all made it suck.
Junior Accountant – hands down. Without a doubt the most soul sucking, mind numbing, hope crushing *stares off into distance*. Yeah worst job I ever had.
Don’t know if it counts, I did a month long placement as a student at a rehab in-patient care center in outer west suburbs Melbourne.
Incredibly rewarding but there was a big personality clash between my supervisor and I, I would work at 5am and get to placement by 9am and then crash at about 2.30pm which would drive him up the wall when he was trying to teach me stuff. I’m usually pretty good with people and I just couldn’t work out how to win him around, toughest one month of work I’ve had so far lol.
Pizza delivery for Pizza Hut, man that was the crappiest job, no hourly rate and only $3 per delivery, only made 5 deliveries on my first night, so I made 18 bucks for about 4 or 5 hours work, I swear I used more than that in fuel, never went back.
Yeah those jobs are BS. I see some advertised, and it’s own car own fuel. Not counting the fact that you’re running up KM’s (and thus depreciating your car more, and going quicker to next service) and you’re not covered if you crash (unless you have business insurance)…… the pay wouldn’t even cover fuel unless you had a smart car. :S
Probably not for the squeamish:
It would either be working in a solicitor’s office for a really shitty boss, or fisting dead cows.…
…probably the second one.
… wait, I don’t get it, you only listed one job twice?
We were asking what your worst job was, not your shittiest.
What do you mean? All my jobs have been amazing.
Your face is amazing! *decisive nod*
Finally. The recognition I deserve.
He says, eyes twitching and teeth biting into his lower lip hard enough to draw blood.
I’ve never had a job I consider “bad” – even when I was a good receptacle relocation engineer (trolley boy) I enjoyed the work and took pride in doing it.
Job I enjoyed the least? 3 month stint in the “recoveries” department of an insurer. Except I quickly worked out that most of my time would be better spent chasing insurers rather than uninsured debtors. They (the company I worked for) didn’t like that too much. We had differing opinions.
Depends on ‘worst’.
One was disabled care for a woman who would wake up crying every morning because simply being awake meant being in pain. Helping with morning ablutions (going to the toilet and showering), some cleaning, getting coffee, setting her up for the day and gone. She didn’t want a carer at all, she wanted her husband to keep helping her, but he was finding it difficult to manage his work responsibilities with taking care of her in the morning. So take that baseline conflict, working some place you’re not wanted, doing tasks that don’t leave much room for dignity, combined with witnessing all that suffering… I lasted maybe two weeks. Couldn’t handle it.
Jeeeebus
Can’t imagine the emotional pain you were feeling seeing that, let alone the pain she was in.
Yeah. Bailing on that was probably a cowardly thing, but man.
Some people are cut out to be carers. I am not.
I think that’s a pretty awesome realisation you came too, it takes a special set of skills to do that sort of job. Definitely not cowardly, I think sticking it out for two weeks took some guts!
In terms of physical ‘worst’ definitely the 7 years I spent at McDonald’s. Still got scars and I don’t think the smell will ever entirely come out.
For sheer mind-numbing soul-crushing tedium coupled with the mindfuck of total permanency, it’s gotta be my current job.
7 years. Holy shit.
It was part-time, but it got me through high school, college, and most of uni.
Working in a pet store was probably my worst job. I would never buy an animal from a pet store (RSPCA forever), but I was desperate for work. First up, they put me in the aquarium even though I told them I knew nothing about fish, and would probably kill them all (the fish, I mean), because no one was willing to teach me. I killed (accidentally!) about 18 fighters before they transferred me to the PUPPIES.
And that was great, until… this is so horrible, you guys. They had this miniature Schnauzers come in, about six of them. I told my boss I thought they were too small, but she insisted they were 12 weeks old and just little. I kept an eye on them, and then realised, the next day, they weren’t eating. I picked one up to check it, AND IT DIDN’T EVEN HAVE ITS TEETH THROUGH YET. They were still little teeny babies. I bottle fed each of them and then called a vet. She had to put them all down because of malnutrition. I cried and then quit and called RSPCA. They went out of business a little while later.
Aw man. :'(
Aww, that sucks.
*upvotes*
I haven’t had many jobs, but one rotation was particularly horrible – my seniors didn’t care about the patients as long as they got to keep operating, they had no medical knowledge (despite being surgeons) and therefore no understanding that no, a patient who is in intensive care is not appropriate for discharge to free up a bed so you can continue your operating list.
They also panicked and called me when a patient in clinic had a medical problem instead of calling someone who would be able to do something about it…
I had to plan their operating lists and continuously call patients to make sure they were ready to have surgery despite very little prior warning of their being placed on the operating list (hey, that sounds like a job for perhaps a secretary, not a doctor!).
They also expected me to run their clinics.
Oh and did I mention how much they prioritised private patients in a public hospital? Yuck. Anyway, I’m out of working for them now.
Good effort getting out of there for a while, if there is a system that needs a lot more help than it gets it’s the health system. I was sitting in emergency in Newcastle and somebody was waiting to be admitted for 4 hours when they were bleeding out of their tracheostomy tube.
The being called when somebody has a problem would have been the worst, like pure fear to receive a phone call when there’s nothing really you could do about it. Hopefully you’re doing something better now!!
File clerk. It was boring, 20% mail handling (collecting and sorting as well as sending mailouts), 30% data entry, 40% filing and delivering physical files, 30% whatever other bullshit the office manager decided to delegate to me because she thought I worked for her. The reason that adds up to 120% is because I was regularly expected to be there first to pick up the mail from the post office box and sort it before anyone else arrived so they could settle finance deals ASAP, and stay back to collect everyone’s mailouts and deliver them to the post office. One time I got written up by my manager’s manager because someone told her they saw me somewhere else in the city (like some other street) smoking at 10am. I counter-interrogated her on this as sometimes I would have a smoke while making a delivery (one of my ad hoc duties) but had never been to the street in question and had no idea what they were talking about. It turned out it was a day I had been on leave the month prior, but it was still recorded as a complaint in my file. I was also pulled in for a “discussion” because I’d been seen by the HR manager in a collared shirt and tie on a day I was supposed to be on leave and they extrapolated that I must have been attending job interviews. There was no reprimand, but they made it very clear that they were aware I was planning on leaving and took the opportunity to remind me that I was worthless to them, didn’t do my job properly, and could be replaced in an instant. Of course that didn’t stop the bitch begging me to reconsider when I handed in my notice two weeks later.
My worst was only worst because the division of the company got purchased by people who didn’t know what they were getting into and didn’t understand how to run it properly, and we were slowly whittled away by attrition until I left for better pastures myself. And even then, I liked the work and the people, just not the management and the extreme uncertainty. And the creeping sense of dread that it was going to all disappear on me at some point was making me pretty stressed. In the end, they sold off the division and closed it down about 6 months after I jumped ship.
public libraries.
nothing is worse than the public.
Worked at a sawmill for a year and a half. Back breaking work in a giant tin shed. Lifting things heavier than myself and the noise was ear piercing even with ear plugs and ear muffs. Lets not forget an average of 10 splinters a day. Job sucked.
Worst job? 13 weeks in a food processing factory.
6am starts, 6pm finishes, Monday to Friday. Non-stop rotations of two roles: pumping out ravioli meat by the pallet load (16 pallets per day) and all were spares for San Remo in case they ran out (San Remo were pumping out 24/7.) The second role, coating spices over chickens in the coldest fridge known to man. Both, the stuff of nightmares.
My lifelong career as an unemployable bum, the pay sucks and you get no respect or prospects for promotion. The only positive is the job stability since it seems like it’ll never change…
Hey all. My weekend was okay I guess, venturing into shit territory for a while. Ended on okay note.
I don’t even know what I did on Saturday. Sunday we went for drive to nice beach village, then I went for solo drive (with go pro) up to mountain rainforest area. Hopefully footage is good.
Bought a small pack of MtG cards, so now I have another deck to play with and potential for another 1-2 to be made. Gives me more fun potential with @steve-o-the-dev-o on Wednesdays.
I was hoping someone would mention a go-pro in TAY! Do you happen to be a man who knows about using a go-pro when surfing/mud running?
I want to wear a go-pro and advertise my fitness classes for a tough mudder like event we are doing for work, would you recommend a certain type of case to make sure the camera survives? I realise I hit you up for a lot of advice, you see like a man who know’s his stuff is all so apologies if it is grating lol.
Ha no problem man. 😛 Happy to offer advice! I’ve made a whole bunch of vids – I usually go bike riding, skating, driving, and other misc. entertainment stuffs.
The standard underwater housing that comes with it is fine to handle surfing and the rough hits and mud of mud running (I’m assuming that’s like the Navy SEAL type stuff where you run and dive through mud pits, scramble up stuff etc ..?). For surfing, you can use the provided stick-on mount and use a safety string to attach it twice (just in case). That’s been proven to hold even in tough surf.
For the mud running, perhaps chest mount is the best. Point it forward and it’ll get an awesome POV of most things. Problems: if you’re crawling on all fours mud will get on lens and it’ll obviously protrude a tiny bit from your chest. Also you’ll get footage of the ground or obstacles sometimes.
Alternatively, if you wear helmets during this even you can get a helmet mount. It’ll allow you to get a better view most of the time, but it may bounce a lot.
The best option IMO, and what’s been proven to make best video: get a short pole mount. You’ll have to hold it out sideways during your run (can increase fatigue), but you’ll get the ability to rotate pretty much all around you and adjust your angle when on all-fours. Means you’ll have to hold it somehow while scrambling up walls, but you have the most control here. Chest mount is my 2nd choice.
I never thought of the short pole mount, but it’ll get you much better shots of people getting up the walls and the like.
I had originally used a chest mount when I was running in the worlds toughest mudder a couple of years ago, and snapped part of the case with mud getting everywhere which led to a really poor quality of video lol. I think holding a pole for 10km could be OK, I’ll just put it in my hand for the boring parts of the run so I can get a rest lol. Thanks so much!!
You must have smashed up somewhere hard to break the mount! 😛 They are pretty damn sturdy cases, but human weight onto a wall or ground at the correct angle could break it, yeah.
Yep, by this stage I was 60km into the race so I fell pretty good lol.
I would like to do the tough mudder one day. Way to go, friend!
It’s great, would definitely recommend!
Hi 5 for GoPro TAYbies. StickMan did an excellent job of everything so I can’t add much more. I’ve done the surfing and scuba side of things, along with a bunch of other stuff. I have 2 X GoPro H3 blacks and for a small camera, a box full of accessories.
Didn’t see the floaty back door mentioned for surfing (on top of water sports) so I’ll add that here. Also do yourself a favour and get the 2 X charger
http://shop.gopro.com/APAC/accessories/dual-battery-charger/AHBBP-301.html#/start=1
Easily the best investment in gear. I have about 5 batteries and getting to charge them via one camera at a time was really difficult. This little baby is great for holidays etc where you want to set and forget overnight, not have to swap batteries a few times. Just FYI.
Also, I have been looking into stabilisation technology for some time and a week or two ago sunk a stack of cash ($350). I have spent close to $200 on passive stabilisers (counterweight/gimbal) over the past 2 years and was never happy with the results. Finally decided to join the big leagues.
Can justify it as a business expense so I guess that is cool, but man even on my first time out I LOVED the footage.
For those interested, here is the product.
http://skytechinnovation.com.au/shop.html?feiyu=138
Any quetsions please let me know.
That’s great footage! I love the hip-hop music in the background lol. I’ve favourited that link, I’m tossing up about the chest strap and Handheld Axis, I think the battery is a good idea too.. It’s only a 10km event though so hopefully I wouldn’t need more than one battery 😛
haha that music is actually from a fellow TAYbie. Just realised I forgot to add that in the comments.. JamesFlamestar on bandcamp!
The handheld stabilisers are not a good idea for you, not waterproof and easily damaged. You only want that for safer environments.
Im calling dis here page two #redneckpage2
Yall better redneckonize this and mosey along now yahear *spits in a can*
Mosey is a word for everyone. I’m shocked and disappointed with you.
Kind regards,
DC
Well looky what we dun ave here, we gots us one of those fancy letter writting people
Dear Cold Cameron.
I am hoping this letter finds you in good health. The continued march of the seasons has been kind to me, and the talk in society has all been of the bountiful harvests in our holdings.
I note with amusement your call for a “red-necked” page in this forum. While I delight in the concept, I’m afraid that participating in this endeavour is counter to my tastes. Still, I wish you every success in this activity.
Yours Sincerely
Red.
Oh man, this is going to escalate and become a Deliverance-like mishap soon. D:
[strums guitar] [turns into duelling banjos]
I didn’t know you were american.
it’s cool I’m canadian that means we get to make fun of america even more somehow
Just a reminder that with Pax just under 2 months away, there is a meat happening on November 1st at 7pm at Crown Casino’s Kingpin. As it’s closer, I need to finalise the numbers of attendees and payment by October 31st, so if people could pay the day before, that would be awesome.
If people want to attend but are unable to pay, please let @tech_knight or I know and we may be able to figure something out for you. Payment covers a meal, room hire, free drink and a game of bowling. The cost is $48 per person.
If you’re still a maybe, please let me know at least the day before.
If you’ve already paid, you’ve confirmed. I will wait until we have a few more and then I will work on organising the menu.
I don’t have to post on twitter or facebook so please spread the news along.
Oh and @markserrels did confirm but I will double check
Stop everything! I don’t remember writing a cheque for bowling!
“Ah, sir, that’s a cheque for your bowelling.”
Ah, yes, that’s very important.
“Yes sir, remember that month you didn’t do it?”
Yes, that was unpleasant for all concerned.
I honestly can’t remember if I paid or not. I remember intending to but not sure if I followed through. 65% sure I did.
You did. No worries.
Sorry, we don’t even have accommodation yet. Or a rental car. Or anything for the week that we’re there for. :\
I’ll bring this up when we eventually book stuff, so hopefully I give you answer soon. Otherwise it might just be a tentative +2 ..
Ill most likely be there atleast I aim to be there anyway
Look for the guy in the 1D t-shirt.
Nothing can come between you and I!
I have no idea what I have and haven’t paid at this point.
You’ve paid for you and Pip.
This was the thing where you needed to pay a deposit in advance right? IIRC I chipped in enough for a few people, but I’m not bringing anyone else.
Yeah, don’t worry, you’ve paid. You actually paid for 3 people, including yourself.
That’s what I thought. So I dunno, consider yourself and @tech_knight paid for as well? Or two lucky viewers will win the evening of a lifetime?
I’ll be paying for myself on the day 🙂
I’ll also be paying for myself. I’d rather people who may otherwise miss out be covered.
Thank you though.
Oh cool! I did not know about this. Can you put me down for two? Plus babbie. I can send you a payment via Paypal if you let me know your email?
I can give you my spare bank accounts details. It’s how everyone else paid.
I’m keen. Not sure about my brother.
Will advise, and pay, well before Oct31.
Thank you.
Just spoke to him. Put us both down 🙂
If you DM me the details on Twitter, I can forward the money sometime in the next couple of days.
Sure, I will do that now. Thanks
Good morning homies!
I had a relatively relaxing weekend, I took my partner to a friends birthday on Friday, only to to find the place didn’t open for 2 hours after we were told to be there and they wouldn’t answer their phone which I was pretty disappointed about. We ended up eating at Stalactites (An awesome Greek restaurant in Melbourne).
I had intended to play Monster Hunter after buying it last week, but after @evilmonkeys suggestion to give Hearthstone a try I am a man addicted.
Pretty hype for destiny too!
Hey buddy! That’s all I’ve got! *decisive nod*
*Launch Risen 3*
*Load save file*
*Screen loads in and remember I am being followed around by Mud*
“GODDAMMIT!”
lol I’m just about to get rid of him! I finally made it to the temple!!!
Things I Did On The Weekend
by DC, age 29
I played video games. I watched movies. It was the best.
Same update applies for every weekend of my existence.I did see Guardians of the Galaxy though. After a disappointing year of blockbuster movies I found something I completely loved. Amazing world building. Fun. Great sense of adventure. Pretty.
Oh man, Guardians of the Galaxy. SOO GOOOOOOD!
http://www.theladbible.com/articles/it-s-officially-the-end-of-an-era-for-msn-messenger
Saddest news.
Wait, it was still running?
It hit forrest gump levels of tenacity. Even now I feel like the only reason it ended is because somebody at microsoft who managed all of it said “I think I’m tired now.”
Yes! Sort of. I’m not sure it actually works with any of the clients after 7.5, but my 7.0 one still gets on there just fine.
What kind of sad loser was still using MSN Messa……. Oh.
I got sad when I lost all my emoticons I had saved on my MSN, after that it didn’t seem the same and I’ve never used it since.
MSN & Myspace, the early-mid 2000s seem so far away
My job has a messaging service that uses the MSN emoticon assets! It’s so great. (PI) Pizza forever.
It (somewhat) lives on as a Microsoft Office program:
http://products.office.com/en/lync/
Nope, Lync is the client formerly known as LiveMeeting, it’s an entirely different piece of software. It’s also actually very good. But I wouldn’t be surprised (completely speculating here) if its functionality gets folded into Skype in the end.
We obviously use it extensively here. All our meetings are done through it, phone calls are routed through to it (which is awesome, if someone ever calls my desk phone it rings me through Lync, then if I don’t answer it records a message & emails it to me) and use it for IM chatting with people I work with in other locations as well.
All the Kool Kats were using ICQ, anyways. 😛
I totally missed the ICQ days. Didn’t get internet til it had fallen out of favour.
Morning, TAY!
Can’d Meat Episode 4 was fun on a bun. The closest thing to a vegetable I ate all weekend was a shred of lettuce on a KFC burger.
Lots of board/card/video games. Got to play some local multiplayer Mario Kart 8 for the first time too.
My bacon cookies didn’t turn out very well (compared to my practice batch) but people were polite enough to say they were nice anyway (and were kind enough to wait until I left the room before spitting them out :D)
Thanks @blaghman! And to @alexpants for driving!
Also @sernobulus now has exclusive, intimate knowledge of my breakfast cereal-eating regime.
and Pow got first hand experience of my classic Mario skills and my quitting skills! \o/
Did everyone find out how you cheat in Mario Kart in person?
So bitter.
In person? Stand in front of the other players so they can’t see the screen. Punch them until they drop their controller and remove the batteries. Throw the WiiU out the window so nobody can play. Get intimate with their significant other so they get mad and come after you.
Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast!He hacked the megabits so that his kart got the most hertz which allowed the CPU to accelerate his kart faster then all of us.
Aw man, it all makes sense now. Thank you, Nobs.
IT was indeed very very fun.
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE!
I read the part about the cookies and my mouth started watering.
I’m not kidding.
You should probably get that checked out.
Wait, when was there Mario Kart?
I got there before you and left after you and the only games I saw were Guitar Hero, Rock Band and PT.
You were asleep in a chair in the kitchen 😛
Bah 😛
How long was I down for anyway? I could’ve sworn it was only like a 20min nap…
My favourite part was every time you screwed up the FM transmitter.
Morning all…
My weekend included running the RPG for friends… That was interesting. I need to start enforcing the way the rounds work. I got caught up in what was being said that I didnt realise they weren’t going in order… also its really hard to try and push people to the next point in the storyline if they go,”Why the fuck are we helping her? lets just steal the pirates ship!”
I also played a lot of Diablo, that was fun.
And discovered that the local german club is 10 minutes walk away (LOTS OF BEER AND SCHNITZEL WAS HAD!!!)
Managed to impress the boyfriend by fixing a Helpdesk call without leaving the bed
During sexHow was everyone’s weekends?
Have you tried turning him off and on?
Well, obviously he’s tried turning him on.
Heyo. Next point in storyline: this is where it shows if you’re a new DM, IMO. Since you’re starting, you’d probably be making up semi-linear story lines that don’t allow much room for whacky things to be done. My suggestion is to either find clever ways to deny it (“nah need to roll 25 to steal pirate ship”), since you’re the DM after all. Or, slowly start expanding so that minor plot points can get derailed off your pre-made storyline. Of course this will come with experience.
I’ve personally got broader and more-overarching storylines rather than a more rigid plot that my groups need to follow. It’s a bit tricky though as I’m actively expecting plot derailments and deviations so I keep track of the world around them where it will eventually force them into doing certain stuff by necessity.
Example: group ventured into a nearby kingdom to explore it and develop good relations. They proceed to piss off the local established religion, resolve to muster an army to conquer the kingdom, then decided to go off and slay dragons for the prestige, loot, and general one-upness over the local king’s forces.
Or instead of meeting up where they’re supposed to they refuse to talk and half the group end up getting arrested?
I concur. Rigid plotlines only end up in players being forced in to situations and resenting it. Broad storylines allow you to be flexible with where things go. And if things don’t pan out as you want you’ve got multiple backups and at least until the next session to write new stuff.
Excellent, thats good to know 🙂
Re your first point, it happens and it’s just a matter of learning how to justify stuff. I still make those mistakes at times of ham-fisting a justification for an adventure/story but it all comes down to a matter of experience and how the players interact. The first session is usually the hardest in that regards as you need to provide the players with a reason for getting together in a group and adventuring. Sometimes you do have to reel people in from derailing things too much but other times it’s fun to let the players drive the story.
For instance, if they wanted to steal the pirates ship, carefully explain what firepower the pirates could bring to bear to prevent that. If they still wanted to try it, let the dice do the talking and have the players be captured and have to escape somehow. Show them that attempting something like that has consequences rather than just putting out a blanket “No” to their ideas.
Yah the 2nd para is what I’d recomment if you want to start expanding DM skills. For things like that, it’s pretty easy to figure out a generic story path to bring them back to where you want them. I’d say have a pencil and pad, map our your planned story. Anything that goes sideways, jot it down and start thinking of ways (like 2nd para) to get the group back onto your path.
Yeah thats sort of what I’m thinking. As it’s a tiny ship with no other pirates on board I have a couple of ideas… one is a second pirate ship shooting them down to go with the main ship they’re moving away from…
On the other hand, letting them take over the pirate ship and then pissfart around incompetently, fail hilariously and then get shipwrecked and picked up by a passing merchant vessel that takes them to the destination you want them to go is also a pretty decent option.
They steal the pirate ship which results in entire pirate and local Navy fleet coming after them. They all die. Roll new characters with lessons learnt.
As far as I see it as a player, if another player wants to do stupid shit, either warn them as that would be something your character would do, or let them do the stupid shit and pay the consequences, this being the key here. You shouldn’t really stop them from doing it, unless it’s completely impossible (e.g. I want to make a titan out of this motorcycle cuz I got enough tech use skill points right?!), just emphasize it could make things very difficult for them, and if they still do it and in the unlikely event that they succeed, make things very difficult for them because you did warn them it could happen!
I think that they’ve seen the fact that the ship they are on is going to crash, and have decided theres a better way. Which unfortunately I can see the logic for, it just makes it harder for me to work out how to still get them down where I want them.
You didn’t have an initiative order to track? We used to have some small whiteboards which we’d post the player initiatives on.
One of the best tricks you can have as a DM is the false choice. Give them two paths that lead to similar destinations.
I did but I forgot (first battle)
Saw the first episode of Defiance last night.
GOD DAMMIT IT’S SO DAMN GOOD WHY DIDN’T SOMEONE TELL ME?!
Enhh. I was playing the game at the same time, so I got a little disappointed with the cross-over fail.
Also, it seems (to me) to run out of steam pretty quick.
Haven’t tried the game but I’m generally pretty jaded around cross-overs like that anyway.
The first episode seemed to tick all the boxes for what I was hoping for in a modern sci-fi. The CGI is actually pretty good for a tv show as well. I can imagine the budget for this thing is pretty hefty, so it would suck if it drops off and then gets cancelled and then networks steer clear of big budget sci-fi’s.
Awww yissss! Guys, I just got Employee of the Month at work! That’s like, a pretty big deal around here. I also get a Visa gift card 😀 😀 😀
*Holds back witty comment about a bordello*
huehuehuehuehue
La Maison Derrière 😉
The heart and soul of Springfield!
I was only in there to get directions on how to get away from there!
I remember my first visit! The service was exquisite!
WEE JUST HEARD THIS PLACE EX-ISSSS-TEEEEEED
Without it we’d have had no fun,
since March of 1961!
To shut them down that would be twisted!
Grats! If you’re comfortable sharing, where abouts do you work?
Also, gift card! Now do the right thing by yourself.
Who am I kidding.
BUY ALL THE GAMES
I won’t disclose the company name, but we build business software.
Serial killer? D:
Well when you really think about it, the best serial killers you never actually hear about, right?
*taps nose*
Congrats.
We used to have employee of the month of a $500 bonus awarded by our area manager. The same girl won it every month without fail for nearly two years. She left and he said we weren’t doing it any more. Nothing suss.
Your area manager sounds like a grade-A high-tonnage ocean-faring pillock.
#NoSwearSeptember
Yes.
\o/
So check this shit:
I find out last minute my aunt is having a birthday lunch for my grandmother and I have to pop over to Wenty Leagues which is fine, my grandmother deserves some of my time, I’m not a total asshole. Then driving home from Parramatta some dickhead changes lanes in the intersection to try and zip past me into the new right line that’s appearing – must have been doing at least 90km in a 70km zone. Anyway, because he pulled his bullshit as I was starting to merge I only just swerved in time to avoid a major accident and his passenger side wing mirror clipped my driver-side mirror. Of course he’s uninsured and I felt like I was probably partially at fault for not checking my mirror better before starting my merge, so we decide to shake hands and go our sperate ways. Of course it’s Saturday evening and the service centre isn’t open til Monday morning. I finally get in touch with someone this morning and the replacement part is in Melbourne. It’s going to cost $418 to have it brought up to Sydney, painted to match the car, and fitted to our car – and this can’t happen til Wednesday. My wife is deathly afraid that even if she can bring herself to drive it the police will fine us for the “defect” so her anxiety is through the fucking roof because her independence she’d come to rely on the car for has suddenly vanished.
This is karma. I have a kind of internal karma where my life is in a sort of balance with itself. I got a pay rise earlier this year – and then for a tax bill for an error I made two years ago which was picked up in a random audit, which is going to eat that raise for the next two years, prolonging the time until I get to enjoy it. After having financial troubles a few years back I just recently got back to thep oint where I can rebuild my credit rating and literally just received a new credit card (the first I’ve been eligible for in years) on Thursday which we wanted to keep aside purely for emergencies – and this happens.
Maybe when I’m 40 all this will balance out. I swear if I ever win the lottery I’ll be diagnosed with cancer the next day.
That’s some shit and a half alright. 🙁 Sucks man.
I kinda think like you too sometimes, regarding the karma thing. It’s probably not that great for my mind and I really should cut it out… but whenever bad shit randomly happens to me I think/whisper/yell at myself: “fuck you StickMan you fucktard” or something along those lines. 🙁
A very small paranoid part of me is thinking I caused the accident because possessing the new “emergency” credit card was a mark in the “positive” column and I was waiting for the emergency to happen to balance it back out.
I’m just glad it wasn’t like, a medical emergency or something happening to one of our cats.
Yep, I’m the same I suppose. A pretty unhealthy though pattern huh.
REAL NAME!
Shhhhhh… 😛
I don’t get car parts.
My brother slightly dinged the front bumper of his car. It’s hardly noticeable, but he checked with insurance to see how much it would cost to get fixed, how much for the excess.
The replacement bumper would cost $8,000.
The car costs around $10,000.
Someone, somewhere, is being a fuckhead about that.
My car was listed for $16,000 (though with interest on the finanace I’m paying waaaay more than that). If one mirror is $418 then two is $836 and that’s like 5% of the value of the car. When you consider everything else that goes into the car, 5% of the value being derived from the goddamn wing mirrors doesn’t make a lick of sense. Obviously there’s the painting and labour to factor in, and obviously a replacement part is going to cost more by itself than when it’s incorporated into the overall value of the car when it rolls off the assembly line, but still.
Speaking from experience with Automotive and Security installation, insurance jobs are almost always quoted at double what the job would cost anyone else.
Like ‘wedding rates’ on… anything.
Getting married was the third most expensive thing I’ve ever done.
Yeah, that’ll learn you from making a million dollar bet on beating me in a dance off.
*turns around cap, folds arms*
Freezy-E never backs down from a challenge.
Really?
…
Hrm.
And the first two were?
House and new car.
MILLION DOLLAR DANCE OFF.
Buh?
My ~$8000 car’s bumper problem got quoted at around $2000. And that was with some actual structural damage to the front, the whole bonnet section was askew :/
Any chance you can pick up standard black side mirrors? They shouldn’t be more than $100, you can grab two and just switch them both over and forget the colour matching?
I consider it unlikely but I’m not well informed on these things. Really, I’d rather just have the right mirror. The car’s only a year old and I think it would drive my wife nuts if we compromised.
Really enjoying Watch_Dogs at the moment. Having a lot of fun moseying around Chicago and taking in the sights. Apart from that, my weekend wasn’t all that exciting. Got a couple of t-shirts and went to church, and watched a lot of sport as well. Pretty typical weekend.
Morning TAYpeppoids.
saturday morning, armed with a wallet full of cash, i ventured out to local garage sales looking for ‘video gae/pop culture esque’ wares. first place i arrive at im 5 mins early for the start. lady says to have a gander, so i did. found 3 laundry baskets FULL TO THE TOP with retro gaming goodness. i offer her $150 for all 3 cause im looking at the complete in box Earthbound. fine she says, ill throw these in for you as well. unopened Killer Instinct SNES console, and a Master System 1 with light gun and 3D glasses unopened. dont mind if i do!
oh, and ive been playing skyrim, batman:arkham city and Crysis.
hope yalls weekends have been as fruitful as mine 😀
Oh wow, nice score!
yeah, her son moved to canadia for work and she wanted to get rid of them. i want to be a fly on the wall when she tells him how much i paid for it all lol
I was chuffed for you up until I read the “son moved to Canadia for work” part.
Now excuse me as I ring up my mother dearest and inquire if she has recently received any profits from selling gaming related paraphernalia.
Bahahaha!
GET OUT! You got a boxed copy of Earthbound?! Dude, that’s the garage sale holy grail! Whoa. Well done!
Oh man, jealous.
I thought the only place to find an unopened Killer Instinct SNES console was on a Darts VS Balloons sideshow at school fete.
Tis a damn fine find indeed!
Holy Jesus that’s a nice score.
Freakin’ sweet haul man. So jelly.
Boxed copy of Earthbound is probably worth most of $150 on its own. Amazing score.
Wouldn’t want to be the Moved-Away-To-Canada son / @bish
the master system ive seen on eBay like it is selling for ten times what i paid. i think ive used up all my good luck until the start of 2018 now
…urge to stab, rising 😛
What a haul.
So jealous right now.
Hype factor is approaching maximum capacity.
Have just read through all of the sub-categories here: http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Destiny
I’m pretty hopeful for this. However, I was burned the last time I got my hopes this high (Titanfail.)
Good morning Tayberinos…
Weekend was pretty damn amazing, Pixel’s Roadtrip Extravaganza was a great success.
Picked up @f4ction from Essendon station, and was completely worried that i would turn into that quiet awkward dude for the entire trip… Fortunately that was not the case, we ended talking the entire trip up, and trip didn’t feel long or arduous at all….
Saturday was fantastic, my slightly more mature and handsomer alter ego showed up (HI @SHANE!)
and did his usual HAVE ALL THE THINGS trick… As the gracious hosts we were we proceeded to awkwardly look around going “Where’s Blaghs” and then not talk for a while… SOCIALISING \o/…
Then we played around of Sentinels of the Multiverse (TACHYON FOR THE WIN YO!) and some people from Sydney showed up in droves… (how the hell it took you guys 5 hours to get there i still don’t know)
The rest of the day was playing a crapton of Rockband and 3 hours of Cards against the Humanity (@novacascade and @rize you 2 are the worst people, the game proved that!)
and drinking…
Sunday i drove @rocketman and partner to the airport and headed home… the trip home was slightly more silent because i think both @f4ction and me were completely exhausted 😛
Overall, top weekend!
Next time it will have to be a Melbourne invasion of Canberra though! ALL THE TAYBIES!I’m still not sure how I beat Rize, I was sure he had more. But apparently I’m the worst \o/
/o\
Tachyon is the one that does more and more damage the more of a certain card you have in your discard right? So she’s all about cycling through the deck faster to get more stuff out? I really enjoyed playing with her if it’s the one I’m thinking of.
Sentinels is a great game.
Yep that’s the one :P, won us the game thanks to that ability, won with everyone else dead and me on 1hp
Also thanks to Faction stacking the deck a bit towards the end 😀
Really enjoying D3: RoS at the moment, started playing last night and just got my Barbarian to level 12 and defeated the Skeleton King. Playing on normal though, how long does the campaign usually take?
Lots to do as long as you go in every dungeon and explore every inch of the map.
Hit the level cap on my Monk last night. Wooo!
20ish hours.
The game has some serious replayability though just with all the classes. Rolled a Demon Hunter last night and it played completely differently. Different strategies and all that. (Don’t think I could play the story through again back to back though. But I will eventually.)
That’s what adventure mode is for. Means you don’t have to bother playing the bland and mediocre story again. 😀
I’m trying to get the Gibbering Gemstone to drop but the effing thing just refuses to. Run that part in Act III for nearly 6 hours now.
Got a wizard and Crusader on the sides as well.
Hey guys. Just a heads up again that the wife entered our daughter into one of those cute baby competitions. Would appreciate any and all votes we can get. Apparently up to 10 a day.
https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/practical-parenting/cover-cutie/458/
Cheers all.
Broken link!
Doh. Thanks for letting me know!
Paste link again. 🙂 GL
Should be working now. Thanks.
40K Rogue Trader RPG Tuesday night at 8pm AEST. Starring:
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @sernobulus @f4ction
Having fought off the Orks, now you can get to the task of acquiring the energy source from the crashed ship.
Shoot it with missles. Critical hit.
How much ammo have you got left for that thing, cuz you had more missiles than a cruiser hitting last week!
About 60 in a clip and I have 2 spare.
So many missiles… where does this guy store-… actually I won’t ask that question 😛
Ohhh this is gonna be fun! 🙂
“I’ll do this, with my axe!”
*swings axe at energy source* voice in the distance “level up!”
Is it time for me to shoot something yet?!?!?
So apparently nude pictures of Jennifer Lawrence have been leaked, now lets watch the internet go crazy over them.
Also Gizmodo are rather contradictory in their article about it..
Next sentence Luke says;
So instead of linking them you just let everyone know specifically what to Google instead. Good work.
Ah, poor girl. 🙁
She’s so adorable, why do people have to go and ruin her adorableness Q_Q
She’s so trashy when she’s flippin’ the bird.
Rule 34 in full force lol.
I’d wager Googling “Jennifer Lawrence Nude Photos” is about as specific as you’d need to get.
Tag Imgur or Reddit and you get the albums heh.
Don’t even need the photos part. Just type in Jennifer Lawrence and one of the first Page results is a subreddit called The Fappening which is just amazing.
By now it probably comes up as an autofill when you get as far as “jenn”.
same thing happened to Christina Hendricks a while back. she had her mobile hacked and it had a topless pic of her on it. i love christina and got mad when i heard about. poor mrs reynolds
I’m not mad, i’m just appalled at Luke for doing what he did when he said he wouldn’t.
Here’s the thing: Privacy issues aside (i.e. private, personal photos being stolen, and this is wrong) I feel like so much of the “interest” just boils down to “Celebrities: They have boobs and vaginas, and even penii, just like the rest of you! Shocking details revealed for the first time, here!”
Or is that just me?
Nah you’re not alone.
Also if they were leaked by someone she sent them to, or someone who took them, then fuck them for breaking that trust she obviously had with them. Been there before (not with nude pics) but other really personal shit and it fucking hurts and you lose faith in people and makes it hard to want to trust people ever again.
Mornin’ all!This took me so long to write that it’s afternoon already. :/
You know what we need? A good ol’ fashioned Meat Write-Up. This is also known as “I really want to waste time this morning”, so anybody with the patience can slog through the treacle known as my writing to, I dunno, look at pictures or something?
There’s food pictures. That might help, right?
Album here, you can hopefully work out how to follow along.
Wednesday, the 27th of August
I started by staring at my reflection. I feel that you can only truly know yourself if you know your greatest enemy, and knowing that my greatest enemy is just how handsome I am, I know I must learn to know myself, before I can truly know myself. After many hours of this, I knew that it was time for a trial run, so I got to cooking, preparing some things to make sure that I didn’t simply set fire to my house whilst attempting to feed people over the weekend. With great timing, I finished a trial run of food 9:30, just in time to continue not having guests, due to the delay to @rocketman’s flight. So I went back to staring at my beautiful reflection.
Thankfully, it’s shockingly easy to lose myself in my own eyes, so in what felt like only a few sparse moments, there was a knocking at my door, and the 43rd most rugged TAYbie appeared [1], along with @rize [2](his lift from the airport, though this photo was taken on Friday), and Mrs. Ho-Tross (Out of focus in [2], and I’m sticking with this naming convention for partners, even though I’m pretty sure I could spell their names). Fulfilling the “awkward prophecy” as laid out in 2005, I was sure to make a good first impression on Mrs. Rocket, by introducing myself with “Wow, Rocket wasn’t kidding. You really are tiny!” Thankfully, I rescued myself by walking into the kitchen, transforming myself into an Italian Grandmother, and forcing them to eat because they’re all “far too skinny” while ignoring their protests that “No, no, I ate like 10 minutes ago, oh god please stop.”
With their bellies further filled, I of course decided to shove my foot further down my throat, so my first direct question to Mrs. Rock’n’Rolla was “So he isn’t gay?”
Thursday and Friday, the 28th and 29th of August
My time here was spent equally been admiring my intelligence, and being a terrible host. It was lost in a whirlwind of walking to the shops, eating bakery food, playing Hanabi, going to the milk bar, watching Disney movies, playing Mercenary Kings, going to dinner with a friend of Mrs. RockSolid, and being WELCOMED TO THE FUTURE, MAN, MACHINE, THE FUTURE!
Later on Friday, the 29th of August
As the other pair prepared themselves for more dinner shenanigans, I sat around some more, and while being a King of Mercenaries I answered the door to find some sort of @pixel_the_ferret_viking, accompanied by @f4ction. Much Man, Machining, and the Future was encountered, until Rizzlekins appeared again, and after much delaying, we organised dinner.
Following Dinner we started playing Pandemic, only to discover that as a group we were terrible at saving the world. Just after we started our second game, who should appear but a wild @novacascade, accompanied by an equally wild Mrs. Nova (I can only assume they got lost and wandered through some bushland to find my house, based on the twigs in their hair). After losing to diseases all over again, we decided to play in some sort of rock band, believing ourselves to be guitar heroes [3], while I messed around in the kitchen trying to make myself less rushed for the next day.
Saturday, the 30th of August
Since I knew I was in no rush to do anything, I decided to lay in bed doing nothing until well after 3AM, until eventually the sweet release of death found me. Or sleep. One of the above, I get them confused sometimes.
After ignoring my alarm, I was woken a bit before 10 by the pitter patter of tiny feet running around my house. Who should have appeared but @shane [4], accompanied by Offspring.Shane.1, and Offspring.Shane.2! He quickly got to business, failing to sell anything of his because he offers them for free before you can object, signing them in his natural writer pose [5]. As is his norm, he left a pile of stuff to
take up space in my housebe loved by many Tayberinies, and also as per usual, he left far too soon.While the Rocketpair were out, my guests began to play Smash Up [6 & 7] as I fretted in the kitchen over trivialities, until the return of Rize, who brought gifts of food and the game Sentinels of the Multiverse, bought for F4ction. He was followed by Mrs. Rize, and Offspring.Rize.1 [8], who is the cutest honourary Taybie, and second youngest after Rocket. She is also a little menace, who refused to sit still for photos. Kids these days, honestly. After we had gotten sick of being entertained by this small thing, we put her on the floor, at which point @cj arrived. And while a game of Sentinels was played [9], @alexpants, @cakesmith, @powalen and @sernobulus arrived from Sydney. Pow was particularly well received due to the food he brought [10].
I busied myself with the first food of the day, my signature dish of fried chicken and green sauce [11], and pork sausage rolls (made with some assistance from Rocket). I’m bad at exact timing, but at some point Mrs. Rizette and the MiniRizette left (partway through their game, too, leaving everyone else to have fun [12]), and @mrtaco turned up. I decided to take a break from cooking, and played a game of Sentinels, where we lost horribly, mostly due to the repeated appearance of Krakens.
I returned to the kitchen, and started preparing for dinner. Onions were chopped (with help from Rocket, the poor sod), and while they started to cook, I began making pancakes. Starting with the Pants friendly version [13], that seemed to be circular in the same way that Liberace was straight.
Since I was worried about how badly they were turning out using my own mix, for the less dietary restricted people I started using a pre-mix. Results from this managed to be awful to an all new degree, so I switched back to mine, which while still only related to circles via 14 lots of incestuous relationships, actually cooked.
There was of course a disaster at this point, as I realised that my onion soup required two litres of stock, where I’d only bought one. Thankfully, Gooky was a huge help in the kitchen, by laughing at my failures, and with some help we found some stock cubes (one chicken, one vegetable), which helped to pad it out. Finally, at like 8 PM, the entrée was served [14]. It looks terrible in that photo, but I think it worked.
While I prepared the actual main meal (that I was making the recipe up for as I went along), Cards Against Humanity was played [15], while I think some Guitar Hero was played in the lounge room.
Dinner was served [16] (Basically enchiladas, but with pancakes rather than corn bready stuff. I think they needed to be at a slightly higher temperature to crisp up the cheese some more, less time cooking the filling beforehand because it was a little too dry), though by this point people didn’t seem to be super hungry (though that may be my cooking). And then while I made dessert, more Cards Against Humanity was played [17].
Dessert was, in theory, sort of a Strawberry Tart [18]. But in practice there was nothing tart about it. I think it worked pretty well, but nobody really ate it except for CJ. This was probably a good thing, since I’d woefully undercatered the previous Meat, so it was better this way.
Mario Kart was pulled out [20] while Gooky took a nap [19], which was fair since the hour by this point was late, at least for me. After what I can only assume was Pow winning a lot while I made a token effort at cleaning the kitchen, everyone retired for the night.
Sunday, the 31st of August
I don’t actually have a way of saying “and people slept in beds, or on couches, or whatever” that’s even the slightest bit amusing, so have a photo instead [21]. While more Man, Machining, and Future was played, a group went off for Maccas, and managed to return with a miniature Rize all over again [22]. Cakesmith was excited about this, because he was the second cluckiest man at the Meat who didn’t have a child [23], but in his defence, look at this thing [24]. It has anime hair and everything! Pants showed his jealousy of the fact that the Babbsicle was getting lots of photos of it taken [25], and after some stuff, everyone trickled off over the day, leaving me by myself, crying and alone for 9 hours.
Good Times.
*Waits to see who I forgot to mention*
You didn’t mention me Blaghs.
@rize, @shane
Since there’s pictures of your children here (well, sort of in the latter case), I just would like to confirm that it’s okay that these are uploaded to the internet and stuff. It’s a… hidden? album, so you have to be looking for it to find it, but thought I should confirm for privacy reasons and stuff.
Nobody else gets a choice about appearing in photos though, because shut up.
OH GOD YOU’VE STOLEN HER SOUL.
Yeah, it’s cool. Thanks for checking, though.
I don’t like how you’ve rearranged our family living room, brother.
Also, oh my god, you know what’s an amazing sausage roll recipe?
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/13975/sausage+rolls
FYI I am judging your food.
Oh man, those look good. The ones I made this time were lazy (from a Jamie Oliver Recipe), but I’m gonna keep those ones in mind for next time.
Dynamite book end photos to that album.
10/10, would look at while on the toilet again.
No photo of you crying at the end there? This is the worst.
Blaghs you’re a lovely host and I thank you for taking care of everyone.
Gooky sure likes his naps.
Too little sleep, too much cider and too much Rock Band. Poor little guy was all tuckered out 😛
I like the wooden floors. You’ve done good Blaghs house, you’ve done good.
Oh man, last time I was super anal about the floor, but this time the table got all my loving.
So many coasters thrown at people.
Also you all look so young. I feel old now. Comfort me, Blaghs. :'(
It was a pretty young group.
Usually there’s @strange and @bish to bring the average age up to 1/8th of the age of the universe.
All the old people seem to be in Brisbane. We’re all late twenties, early thirties here. So old. So, so old. Especially @sernobulus. So old.
I’m 29 :\
I like that first Cards against Humanity picture. Sums it up perfectly in one image!
Right? I’ve got a series of four from there, and it’s great watching people completely losing it.
OH MY GOD RIZE’S BABY IS UTTERLY ADORABLE. THAT HAIR.
There are not really any photos of Shane’s children though and that makes me sad as I do not get to look at their cuteness 🙁
AND the meat sounds like a lot of fun.
(were you the cluckiest man there, Blaghs? I think the answer is yes with how many pictures you took of Rize’s babby)
I TOOK SO MANY PHOTOS OF HER. SO MANY.
So, yeah. Yeah, I totally was.
Now I’m really sad I couldnt make it. As it turned out I had no sleep friday morning so would have been zombie like by time we got there. but I promise to come down soon.. maybe over the long weekend…
WHY DOES THAT PHOTO OF ME LOOK LIKE I HAVE NO EYEBROWS
The first one?
Where you’re doing The Denis?
Looks like awesome fun, good stuff on the photos!
Hey guys, so Sony has a pre-TGS press conference scheduled for 3pm Tokyo time today, which is 4pm Australian Eastern time. Presumably this will be the point where they announce a bunch of new Japanese stuff for PS4 to try and bring people over to the system.
What do you predict they’ll announce?
My predictions:
– Disgaea 5
– Maybe Something Tales-related, maybe an updated port of one of the early Tales games (Destiny II?)
– Resurrection of an old franchise, like Shadow Hearts or Dark Cloud.
– Gravity Rush sequel for PS4
– We know it won’t be at the show, but I suspect we’ll see a quick tease of Last Guardian
– Dates for FFXIV and FF Type-0 HD
Dark Cloud was a awesome game!
Dark Chronicle I loved too 🙂
New Disgaea would be nice. NEW DARK CLOUD WOULD BE FUCKING RADDDIICCCCALLL
That Sony have purchased the rights to Crash Bandicoot and there is a new one being released next week that will be out for the Playstation 1 because I can’t be bothered to buy a PS3 or PS4 (the idea of it releasing on Xbox is simply ridiculous) and will only cost $10 and the disc case will spew streamers every time you open it.
I pride myself on my realistic expectations going into these type of events.
Just bought a $6.50 dog whistle. I’m gonna attempt to do what the lousy owner can’t – train this POS dog.
Tactic: take a chair, tablet, headphones and whistle. Sit at the fence line. Dog will bark like a madman, employ whistle payload. Rinse and repeat – hopefully it’ll learn.
It’ll think you’re playing with it and start barking louder.
Usually dogs that run around barking in their back yard are either bored or lonely. Or both.
Point-of-Sale dog? Sound like an amazing sitcom. It could combine the likes of ‘Open All Hours’ and ‘Are You Being Served?’
*head-desk* Save me from executive assistants.
Someone needs to train these people in the difference between ‘important’ and ‘urgent’.
If it only takes two days to do, and only needs to be done by October, I don’t care if the request has come from the fucking POPE, it can wait a few more days to be processed in a queue.
They probably found out how to set the default as important AND urgent. 🙂
I used to have an email rule, If importance is “High” and sender is “Person ABC” then clear due flag and set importance to Low.
Screw you, Person ABC. I can manage my own schedule.
No way I totally beat those other guys there!
Oh. OH. I SEE HOW IT IS.
Eh I would have just lost anyway 😛
Also I assume these numbers refer to photos that are somewhere that isn’t here.
REPLY FAIL GET
Fantastic.
Stole my thunder. >:|
Oh I see the album is there, I just can’t read.
/quit all
Sorry!
#scree
#gookyget
TAY has been a barrel of laughs this morning! You guys are the best.
I’m on two weeks leave so I may not be around here as often. Though feel free to tag me in anything and I’ll hear a ‘bing’ from my phone and should be able to respond rather promptly!
Wait… you get “bing”s from your phone when you get mentioned?
What an age we live in!
I get an email at 8am each day if I have any outstanding notifications from the day before.
Brisbane meat @benny XD
I will tag you if there’s any Brisbane meats. Even if there aren’t. Cause you’re worth it.
So what you’re saying is we have permission to spam @benny at all hours of the day and night, so you are never without the bings?
Brilliant 😀
how do you fit a laugh into a barrel?
Alchemy. Always alchemy. Same way you fill a barrel ‘o monkeys.
Same way you fit a monkey in.
We get each other! :’)
Gattaca brothers, me thinks.
I’m now scared of you two 😛
Hey, you guys ain’t shovin’ me into anything!
Dearest @shane
It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you I have left a present for you in the clutches of the evil (but lovely party host) Blaghman, for you came and went before I even had a chance to get there. You fiend. If you can pry it from the obstacle maze of death that I left Blaghman specific instructions to create, it is yours.
Sincerely,
Bringing letter-writing page 7 around too early
I can understand the desire to post something in plenty of time for it to arrive when relevant, but AusTAYlia post is actually quite speedy!
One time I mailed Doc What a birthday present and it didn’t show up at his place until about a month later, 3 weeks after his birthday.
Not in this instance. This present is a year and a half late.
Nono, not Australia post… AusTAYlia post. Which delivers the letter-writing page 7 letters. 🙂
Cool, thanks! I’ll pick it up at the next Can’d Meat. Probably August next year.
Page 3 already?
FIENDS.
FRIEND
o/
FRIEDS
BISH RHYMES WITH FOOD.
IN HUNGARIAN.
I THINK.*
*have no idea.
Pretty much most things are better when fried.
fried chicken tastes a hell of a lot better when it’s fried
Fried lettuce not so much though.
Fried Lettuce is okay, but you’re better off frying up cabbage instead.
So we’ve got our monthly staff night tonight (our second one ever), our first staff night was a group decision, we watched Guardians Of The Galaxy and had Pizza.
This time however one staff member has taken it upon herself to pick the movie for us, as well as nominate another staff member to cook for everybody.
The movie she picked is, The Man From Snowy River, which according to her is “the greatest movie of all time”, totally wouldn’t rather be playing D3 or TAYKart at all.
Don’t want to go, but I don’t want to be rude and not turn up either. S’pose I could always just sit up the back and play something on my phone.
Rude is deciding everyone is down to watch The Man From Snowy River.
Also nominating someone else to cook for the group.
That’s rude?
Oh.
Is that why you were so surly at my meats?
Haha, I kid. I know that that’s just your way (I totally told people to get out of my kitchen at one point at the meat, it was fun!).
Isn’t it just?
You’re all “Haha! You see this doorway? That is where we draw the line at places where you can and can not be! because i have a knife and i will cut you so you can just relax and hang over there! Take a load off, friend! 😀
*stabbing motions*”
He totally did the thing with the knife and the stabbing motions.
Just spoke to the one that was supposed to be cooking, funnily enough she won’t be able to make it because “she’s sick”. Didn’t sound to sick to me. She also said that apparently they were both supposed to be cooking.
Our lot does that all the damn time.
“Hey, everyone… we’re having a moral-raising morning tea! Make sure you bring a plate of yummy stuff for everyone to enjoy!”
Because it always raises morale to decisions made on your behalf without your consent, especially when those decisions are to volunteer your time, effort, and money.
One of the best things about where I work is that we have an actual company-provided budget dedicated to morale-boosting events. Best was when we had stockpiled too much and it was about to be reset (end of the year) so we went out to an expensive buffet and then blew the rest of it spending the afternoon at a beer garden drinking Trappists.
Where do I sign up? Do you get a referral bonus?
No open headcount in our organization and it’s kind of specialized. There’s probably openings in the company though.
It’s actually a decent movie if you haven’t seen it.
Haven’t seen it, but I’m a bit stand-offish about it. Don’t know why, but I’ve always been of the mind that Australian movies, at least up until the last decade or so pretty much all suck, except for Mad Max. Only other pre-2000’s Aussie movie I can think of that I’d be interested in watching (besides Mad Max) is Romper Stomper.
Dude. There’s so many.
Like this one.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0849475/
Like I said, pretty much all the pr-2000’s stuff sucks (with a few notable exceptions).
Also, How have I never heard of that.
Chopper is my favourite Aussie film.
Yeah, that was pretty good, but it was made in 2000, so my theory still stands.
Strictly Ballroom, Prinscilla, Razorback, Bad Boy Bubby, Romper Stomper, Crocodile Dundee, The Castle, Proof, The Piano, Muriel’s Wedding, Babe, Idiot Box, Breaker Morant…
There’s like so many pre 2000.
@freezespreston
Strictly Ballroom – No thanks
Priscilla – Seen it, was a bit meh from memory
Razorback – I’m actually kind of interested in this
Bad Boy Bubby – Seen it, was kinda disturbing
Romper Stomper – Would watch
Crocodile Dundee – Haven’t seen it, not at the top of my list, but would watch if there was nothing else on
The Castle – Seen it, classic
Proof – Never heard of it
The Piano – meh
Muriel’s Wedding – meh
Babe – No thanks
Idiot Box – Never heard of it
Breaker Morant – Never heard of it
Wouldn’t mind watching Shine though, love Geoffrey Rush.
@freezespreston Gallipoli
@freezespreston: amusing The Castle reference: one of my high school camps as at Bonnie Doon. Guess what we started singing in the bus on the way there?
@dkzeitgeist failed his spamming on that one.
You got my back.
We have some alright post 2000 movies in my opinion, like;
The Loved Ones
The Tunnel
Animal Kingdom
Snowtown
Charlie & Boots
Red Dog
Crackerjack
The Man Who Sued God
Wolf Creek 1 & 2
Beneath Hill 60
Rabbit-Proof Fence
The Nugget, Proof, Malcolm, Chopper, Priscilla, The Castle – probably my favorites.
The Nugget, Chopper, The Castle, all great. One I completely forgot about that I liked Two Hands.
Malcolm is genius!
Dude, I was having this exact conversation about a week or 2 ago.
I’d force everyone to watch Hackers and talk exclusively in 90s skater lingo.
Hey all, hope you had good respective weekends. Mine was rather uneventful – finished AC:IV on Friday night – ending was alright, I guess. I am, however, even more burned out on naval combat… ugh. So will be staying away from Rogue until it arrives on a Steam Sale (assuming it ever comes to PC).
Started going through Walking Dead S2E4-5 on Saturday morning, deets here. Um… spent Saturday evening in Dark Souls, made a bit more headway the first DLC, got into the ziggurat… man those knights in there are tough. I think I’ve found most of the bonfires in the DLC, but I’ve not yet had to fight a boss… although I think I’ve found two fog doors that lead to bosses. Maybe I’m just procrastinating, as I’ve heard the bosses are annoying, and I’m subconsciously hoping for a nerf.
Then… I started playing Minecraft again. Wanted to try the 1.7.10 unstable FTB pack, but I get like 2 FPS for some reason – seems like the only thing that changed since I last tried it was a minor Java update, so unlikely it’ll become playable until the next update. So, downloaded another pack, and decided to try out the Mekanism tech tree… holy crap this is OP as hell. One day in, I have a hydrogen-powered jetpack (omg, this plus an OpenBlocks glider is amazing for mobility), fall-damage-negating boots, effectively infinite hydrogen and power thanks to a hydrogen generator, an electric pump and electrolytic separator, and the capability to triple my ores. Takes a butt-tonne of iron and coal to get started, though… so much steel… but I think I’ve only used four diamonds, three of which were towards a pick to get obsidian. I maintain: “So OP.” 😛
I can feel those hooks digging in again…
And the gaming season begins soon, too… I can’t afford to get bogged down in Minecraft again. One week until Destiny, four until Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments and Shadows of Mordor, five until Alien: Isolation, seven until Civ: BE, ten until AC: Unity, twelve until Dragon Age: Inquisition, and then peace again until February.
Not that anyone’s counting, or anything 😛
Realistically, It should be pretty manageable, Minecraft aside. Destiny for three weeks, Sherlock for one or two, Alien for one (not expecting it to be long), SoM for three or more, faff around for a few weeks until AC:U, two weeks to finish AC, then as long as required to finish DA:I. Leaving Civ:BE until after reviews, likely until inevitable Gold Edition.I restarted AC IV again this weekend. Looked at the date of my last save file aaaaaaaand February. Yeah, I’m not picking up a save 6 months after last playing it.
Destiny in a week and a tiny little bit 😀 hooray for midnight openings
I started AC4 from the end of Seq9 after a 7 (-ish? honestly don’t remember) month hiatus, myself. Focused on the story missions when I resumed a week ago, as I’d burned myself out on the side-quests. Didn’t take much to remember the controls, and get back into the story… but it was pretty average imo. Connor may have been a character with a single focus and all the emotional range of a teapot, but he was miles ahead of Edward for 95% of my time with AC:IV.
Ah midnight openings… I remember when a friend convinced me to go to one. I think it was for Twilight Princess, for some reason… we stayed up until 4am playing Zelda. Never again, especially post-Uni. I’d much prefer to work longer hours on Friday and Monday, and take Tuesday afternoon off to enjoy it.
I spent all morning searching for an Australian copy of Rock Band 3 for Mr. Strange and it was rarer than I thought. I searched 5 stores and had them check their computers and in the end JB found one in Tweed Heads (Hi @virus__!) and are sending it up here for me to collect. $8. \o/
Except now my plan to get Mr. Strange playing Rock Band again on his birthday has failed. His birthday is today. 😛
We imported the original Rock Band from the US on release and grabbed a crapton of DLC, so when the subsequent games were released we had to continue buying the US ones. Except Mr. Strange forgot our US account’s password when the console we had it set up on (with auto sign in) died and we couldn’t reset the password because he’d forgotten what date he’d put in as his birthday when creating the US account and was too much of a doofus to use an important date so we can now never access any of our hundreds upon hundreds of dollars worth of DLC.
He used to play it almost every day before this all happened, so I decided to buy him a bunch of AU DLC for his birthday, as well as the AU version of the game but unfortunately left it until the last minute and I won’t have it in time. Doofus central around here! 😛
Wasn’t your birthday present from him also late? This is the universe balancing it out.
Haha, good point!
Only problem is, he’s already had his proper birthday present (flights, parking, accommodation, transfers and ticket to Vanishing point’s album launch in Melbourne the other week) so this was the ace up my sleeve to make his actual birthday special.
With you as his wife, everyday is special. *music begins to stir*
😀
Oh man, auto-sign in is the best and worst.
For some reason my PS4 logged itself out of the PSN, so in front of a group of people I got to input three different passwords until I got it right.
same thing happened to my sister & I, took us both about 3 attempts, I wonder if sony wipe your stored passwords every so often for security of something (maybe it was cause they just got hacked again)
What a Doofus
Hey look I got a mention! GO ME!
Ha an old mate of mine works in games there too.. He never gives me discounts though, what a jerk =(
Are there any copies of Rock Band that still come with the equipment or do they just hope that anyone who wants to play Rock Band already has the necessary gear despite the original game barely warranted a release in this country?
Remember @shane? He’s back! In Canberra meat form!
Is he that Aurealis award winner? I like that guy! I buy all his books! 😀
I once stalked him at a con. I went to his table seventeen times and tried to put my hand in his pocket. TRUE STORY.
…
That reflects poorly on me. D:
I went to the Adelaide con a year or two back (the one with Shatner) and I saw Shane at his stall but was too scared to go and chat with him. Maybe next time. This also reflects poorly on me, too.
True story.
Nope, that’s not him. But maybe next year.
I managed to arrive on Saturday not long after Shane left, so I never saw him. It wasn’t on purpose, I swear!
The gent crouching in people’s kitchens?
Classic Shane behaviour.
Last played song game!
Rage against the machine – Killing in the name of
This may be on repeat for the next hour…
Ah, do I lie… I don’t know… I just don’t know…
People were talking Pokemon on Twitter and this song popped in my head. I remember it was on the trailer for the Pokemon movie back in the day. XD
Never seen it, but this is the best Pokemon related song ever.
Weird Al is the worst.
MONSTER!!!!!
It’s often been said! Usually about my face, though!
I know the lyrics to that from memory. It makes me feel like a tweenage girl when I sing it aloud. Then at the end when I open my eyes, everyone is totally looking at me weird.
Okay, so how do I go from that previous statement to having Metallica as my favourite artist? I have no clue.
Same way I got from there to loving Ozzy and Maiden, I guess.
In other words, no idea.Seven Seas Of Rhye – Queen
Totally not getting excited for tonight
October Tide – Watching the Drowners
Fade To Black – Metallica
This guy is the best. This guy. I need another Metallica friend on here, I think I’m all alone.
TISM – Greg, the Stop Sign.
Bababababababa,babababababa…
Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg the stop sign, Greeeeeeeg the stop sign
now I want to listen to defecate on my face….
Ohh, ahh, Glenn McGrath
Ohh, ahh, Glenn McGrath
Naughty By Nature – O.P.P
Apache (Jump On It) – Sugar Hill Gang
The New Year – The Getaway Plan
Yes – Homeworld (The Ladder)
That’s the end credits theme from Homeworld, if you weren’t aware. Epic song from Yes.
Straight Outta Compton- N.W.A
Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Iron Maiden, a live version (which I think is slightly faster than the album version). Thirteen and a half minutes of pure awesome.
Some garbage music for jerks.
Iowa – Slipknot
I could have it on repeat for the next hour but would only hear it 4 times =(
Paramore – Misery Business. I may or may not have kept hitting ‘back’ on my car’s stereo to listen to it multiple times while doing a grocery run last night.
Kill by Jimmy Eat World.
The Oneups – koopa beach.
yeah cause im truly geeky and listen to video game cover bands.
Reply fail.
Talking about charities, here’s something humbling. (? Another word?). Check out dat expense breakdown. And here’s the cool $300K the CEO made last year.
Nothing out of the ordinary for a company, but IMO a charitable orgu should be a bit leaner in the admin side …. 🙁
Administrative bloat is a problem for all companies, not just charities. As the company gets bigger, the need for admin increases and then the admin needs admin and it all gets a bit cross eyed.
If they trimmed it down, there’s a chance that it will cause other areas to suffer.
Just one of those necessary evils. Someone has to file the forms.
Which was the indie studio that blew up bigger than expected and took on more staff with it, needing a major harrassment blow-up/PR nightmare before realizing that with all the extra people instead of six mates in a garage, it really probably needed a HR department?
Practically every studio that has had a kickstarter that made more than 10 times their goal?
Burrrrrn.
I kind of wonder if @blaghman is excited about us moving to Canberra because BOARD GAMES.
Look, don’t get me wrong, board games are pretty cool, but if they come with the additional cost of having you and Bunny around?
I just, I dunno if it’s worth it.
Too bad.
Hola fronds!
Been riding the Destiny hype train hard, 8 days!
I don’t remember being this blindly hype for a game in a long time.
Also current PAX has me hype for PAX AUS!
HYPE! HYPE! HYPE!
All the cool kids aren’t going to PAX. Atleast that’s what I tell myself.
If that’s the case, being gloriously uncool is gonna rock
HYPE HYPE HYPE
@scree not sure if you saw this: with finished stripes: http://instagram.com/p/sUniYKib-Z/?modal=true
That looks great.
Cheers man!
Gotta say, awesome pose!
I figure the pose is half the character for cosplay.
Deal time! PS4 Destiny bundle for a currently-unbeatable $519! And get a free AC4 to boot! https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/159259
Whoa! PS4 deals just keep getting better and better!
Wondering why I suddenly have a headache and then I remembered I had one this morning but took something for it, and the drugs must have just worn off. #oldladystrange 😛
Morning sickness is the worst.
Yes, I’m bring this joke back. *decisive nod*
Idiot.
DC, I mean. Not Strange. Never Strange.
Idiot.
*ruffles DC’s hair*
You’re adorable.
No hair. I shaved it off. Specifically for these situations. Also, not my real dad. My real dad’s a jerk.
Idiot.
*slaps DC’s arse*
Cheer up sugar tits. Make yourself useful and fetch me a beer.
Men are scum.
#notallmen
#justthisone
That would have been an entirely acceptable response to me in this case. 😀
I do things like forget to take drugs for my headache and wonder why it hasn’t gone away yet…
Oh wow comments calling Luke out on the Jennifer Lawrence article are being deleted, like mine. All I said was he shouldn’t have said he wouldn’t provide any link, and he went on to mention where you can find them with ease. Hypocrisy at work!
You mean this comment, that’s not deleted?
No on the Gizmodo article about it all lol. I commented asking Luke why did he say he wouldn’t share the links only to directly tell everyone afterwards what to do Google, so did a few others now those are deleted mine is greyed out saying I “breached” the community guidelines.
Perhaps he was speaking in generalities re reddit etc, and you were making it explicit?
That’s how I saw it. You’d have to be pretty new to the internet to not know those places would be where to look.
Well he did say “We won’t link to the 4chan thread or the imgur thread or the Reddit posts about any of these photos. ” Why would you even mention specifically what websites have them when you’re against their privacy being invaded?! Better yet why fucking report about it..? It’s only giving the low life who has obtained these by illegal methods the recognition he wants.
It was like a local paper who did an article of John Lennon’s killer the other week, they only called him “John Lennon’s Killer” and stated they didn’t use his name because that would glorify him & the crime he committed… Those who do not know his name will only go and Google “John Lennon’s Killer” and find out it isn’t helping the situation, best way is to just not report about it if you’re so against it.
There’s also the potential, as a media outlet, that if you link to these things you can be complicit in publishing them, which can lead to lawsuits.
I understand that, but you shouldn’t even advertise WHERE to find them, but that’s just my opinion.
Is that Luke Hopewell? He has kind of a short fuse. I don’t like what I’ve seen of him very much.
It sure is. He’s become really unfavourable in recent. At one point during the federal election he was even putting his own political bias into his articles. I remember one bit of an article he was going on about Malcolm Turnball and all it read was that he was in favour of Turnball. Turned out he lives in his electorate and even announced on social media he voted for him, not smart given his job :S
The Allure Media network isn’t a hard news site. It’s a blog full of personal opinion pieces, fluff and yes they do comment on news stories. People so often forget that.
But it is owned by Fairfax 😛
To be fair the Giz commenters can be a special breed of person at times.
That’s true, but as Dr. Green once said on ER: “You set the tone, Carter.”
Pretty simple reason, I expect: if he linked directly she could sue.
They said that. But why be all disgusted that someone would do that, then go on to say that 3 popular internet sites have them..?
NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Update That No One Cares About – Weekend Progress Edition
Does anyone even read this crap?Basically didn’t do any gaming all weekend. Instead spent the entire day feeling low on energy due to doing a low-calorie detox diet over the weekend to try and get the weight loss going again. This meant that I spent most of the weekend sprawled on a couch, watching PBS documentaries on Netflix and playing Kantai Collection on my laptop. And I played a lot of it.
Leading into the weekend, I was coming off the event and I’m closing in on the 2nd remodel point (level 60) on Tone, so I needed to get her a blueprint for that remodel. Blueprints were an item added to the game that are required for certain remodels where the ship either was changed massively from how they were originally built (eg Sub Tender Taigei’s rebuild into a Light Carrier) or where the remodeling was theoretical-only and was planned but never carried out, as is the case with heavy cruisers Tone and Chikuma, after losing a bunch of carriers at Midway the IJN planned and actually carried out refits of some of their older cruisers and destroyers, replacing rear gun turrets with flight decks & catapaults for launching floatplane bombers.
The issue is that to get blueprints, you need to get 4 medals. And to get a medal you have to clear Extra Missions. There’s 3 extra missions in the game – one for World 1, one for World 2, and one for World 5, and they unlock by beating all the standard maps in that world. I’ve not cleared 3 & 4 yet so haven’t even unlocked World 5. You can only clear each of these maps once a month (which kind of sucks since it means you can upgrade 1 ship which requires it every 2 months or so, they don’t let you buy blueprints for cash!). 1-5 is an anti-submarine map where you have to send a battleship, cruiser, destroyer and light carrier only (i.e. a limited set of ships) through 4 nodes. It’s pretty easy and I’d cleared it once before when they first added it. I also had a medal that I got for clearing the Aleutian campaign section of the event that ended on Friday. I’d never cleared 2-5 as it didn’t exist when I stopped playing earlier in the year, and it’s much harder, requiring a fleet of 2 light carriers, 2 destroyers and 2 heavy cruisers to guarantee getting to the boss. Luckily as a result of the grinding I did to clear the event maps, I have some reasonable-level Heavy Cruisers & Light Carriers, and I already had Yuudachi and Shigure at their Kai-2 remodels at 65+ as well. So I wanted to clear out both of the extra maps on the weekend before the reset today.
Started by clearing 1-5 and it was pretty much trivial. Sent in my best group for it. I started this on Thursday actually, when I got Kiso to her Kai-2 remodel. Subsequently swapped her out as my anti-sub cruiser for Naka, as I had decided to work on getting Naka to Kai-2 because of her low remodel level (48). I was also hoping that 1-5 would drop I-8/Hachi, the sub that I’m missing which I’ve been trying to get for ages. 2-5 I found much harder, because you’re expected to beat a trio of battleships at the boss node. On the upside, 2-5 drops a bunch of awesome stuff including some new destroyers (Urakaze and Hamakaze) and Taigei, my White Whale.
My first go at it, I managed to get Urakaze, which was a nice bonus. Then I was really struggling. Was getting the boss down but coming through very badly damaged. So I sparkled the whole fleet and had them go line abreast for added shelling power and suddenly my Haguro and Tone were chewing through everything. I also re-arranged planes on the carriers to use more torpedo bombers and less fighters, which seemed to make a difference as well. Managed to get a couple of great drops from 2-5 while clearing – got Hamakaze to go with my Urakaze, and got a Hiryuu who I already had (highest-level ship!) but is incredibly rare, this is only the second I’ve ever gotten I think. During this period I also finally got Chiyoda to her Kai-2 remodel, so I now have two level 50+ light carriers and one of them is one of the two best light carriers in the game. Chitose is nearly there as well.
After doing that, I spent a long time grinding World 2-3 with a sub fleet, doing some PvP dailies, and working a bit on Naka as well. At some point on Sunday afternoon I realized my subs were getting really close to a collective level of 200, and so I put in a huge amount of extra effort and finally managed to hit that milestone. They were around 150 not that long ago so that was rad. Finally was able to send a fleet off on the Tokyo Express expedition and clear that for the first time, and also finally was able to send a total level 200+ sub fleet on the Foreign Seas expedition and unlocked my first foreign ship, Z1 Leibreicht Maas. She’s kind of androgynous, talks like a guy. Not sure I’ll use her much, but as she’s one of the few destroyers with a Kai-2 (‘Zwei’ in this case) remodel, I might need to work her up to that. Attempted to build Z3 this morning (Z3 construction is unlocked if you have Z1 as flagship, and Bismark can be built when you have Z3 as flag) but no luck yet.
The other thing that happened is my HQ level has gone up hugely. I was at 74 before the event, now I’m at 82. The downside is that this puts me into the ‘hard’ difficulty bracket for events and extra maps. I struggled to clear 2-5 in the normal difficulty bracket, so don’t know how I’ll go on hard.
This week my plan is to run PVP and stuff so that I can get Haruna up. She’s currently sitting at 76, and has a Kai-2 remodel at 80. Not far to go. At the same time I’ll be working on getting both Tone and Haguro to 60 and remodeling (though I may just leave Tone as a normal heavy cruiser since it’s really hard to get the blueprints and if I get Taigei as a drop I’ll want to use it on her more) and also working on getting Souryuu to 78 for her awesome remodel (currently at 60, long way to go). I don’t think I’ll make it that high with them this week, but we’ll see. Tone is close. After that, I’m thinking I need a decent level cruiser. I was working on getting Naka up, but I had another look at the gear she has at her Kai-2 and it’s not worth the time. So I’m probably going to swap to Sendai or Jintsuu instead. I may also look into Isuzu as well, as she’s great for anti-sub work at her Kai-2 remodel. After that I’m going to want to work on a Destroyer – leaning toward Ayanami at this point as she has a strong level 70 remodel and she doesn’t have a distractingly enormous head like Hibiki (seriously, her crap art is why i haven’t bothered with her, plus everyone has Verniy now). I may simultaneously start work on getting My other goal this month after clearing 1-5 and 2-5 will be to start working toward finishing world 4-3 and 4-4 since both need heavy cruisers or aviation cruisers and as a result of the work I did and am doing with Suzuya, Tone, Haguro and Atago I should end up being pretty much ready for this as well. I have all the other ship classes, Heavy Cruisers were my big weak point aside from only having a pair of good destroyers and a bunch of middling ones.
Crossing my fingers that my higher level doesn’t make 2-5 impossible, and crossing my fingers for an I-8 or Taigei drop in the extra missions.
Re: Spoiler one: Yup. 🙂
Look, I know I’m never going to jump through the hoops to do it, and it does seem a tad grindy/life-sucking, but it’s kind of interesting. I don’t mind people talking about things I’m mildly curious about, because it lends an insight.
I wasn’t going to stop, just curious if anyone’s reading 🙂
Thanks everyone and specifically @blaghman for the meat and letting me and ladyfriend stay with you.We both had a really good time and she really liked everyone, she said everyone was really funny and nice and she said that i have never seemed happier then when i am around you lot. I feel so much happier knowing there is a group of people who like having me around.
Hmmmm but the most important person, me, Dan, wasn’t there.
That’s why he let his lady friend go with him.
I said you liked “the mindy project” the other day and she freaked out with delight. Then when she asked if you would be there and i replied “no” her heart sunk.
you are in
Therefore the two must never meet.
never
I think the fact that she was the only person to keep their sense of decorum in this series of pictures sums up why she’s pretty much perfect for you. 😛
She was nice, so she gets the Blaghs seal of approval. Because I’m positive that that’s why you brought her down. 😛
Amazing.
So many manly bears.
Yes typo. But it’s an awesome typo so I’m leaving it.
I like to think @powalen is staring blankly, completely unaffected.
Nobody will ever know.
I like how you get the full motion of Rize’s laugh in four photos.
Wait, shit, I mean:
“GGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Phew, nearly ruined everything there.
But I was going to say you’ve never seemed happier than when you are around Rocketlass.
Now which one of us are you going to believe?!
@stickman missed it last page, but wooooo Magic! The upcoming set looks crazy
This one?
Needs more bear punching
Ha, I’m not really in the loop at all with it. 😛 I have a Born of the Gods blue/black starter my gf purchased for me. The set I bought recently was the M15 deck builders kit, so it contained one booster from the latest one. I’ve heard cool things about the upcoming, though.
Deck builder’s kits are a good place to start.
I draft, but I’m starting to look at Commander as a format (multiplayer, deck of 99 cards, each card other than land is a one-off, and you have a commander, who begins in a special “command zone” and can be recast once he dies)
KHAAANNNN!…..sss
Literally the only thing that I’ve seen about it is that there are going to be more fetch lands.
Fetch lands are fucking rad. One of my favourite mechanics in MtG.
It’s a wedge set, so lots of 3 colour shenanigans, which makes fetch lands super relevant.
And it has mongols.
I haven’t been playing that long, but what is so good about fetchlands? From what I can see it gives you a choice of two colors, but once you ‘fetch’ that land, you’re locked in. Wouldn’t a land that offers both be better? I know there are some where you pay one life for them to enter untapped, and can be tapped for either.
There are two things that make fetch lands fantastic:
1) Deck thinning. Imagine playing a mono-colour deck and running 8 fetch lands. You’re effectively playing a 52 card deck. Even in dual/tri colour decks, they get you what you need right then.
2) Dual lands. There are special lands out there that produce two colours which count as the basic land types that the fetch lands can fetch. Combine that with 1 and you’ve got something just plain silly.
Other lands that produce two types of mana are rad but fetch lands offer a special utility you don’t normally see in lands and that’s why I love them.
I didn’t think of the deck thinning component – whilst small, I guess you’re slightly increasing the odds of drawing non-land things that do stuff. Also, I’m sure I’ve seen some effects that trigger based on the number of lands in your graveyard so that’s a thing too.
One of the khans of tarkir effects is delve, where you can exile stuff out of your graveyard to cast shit cheaper.
That plus your now used fetchland will be great.
I can’t be bothered doing the maths on it but the deck thinning aspect of it can make a big difference in the mid to late game. After you’ve got enough lands out to be efficient, you really don’t want to see many more lands. Fetch lands help with that immensely because if you’re running 24 lands in a 60 card deck, you’re only really running 16 (if you do the maths, it’s probably something like 18-20 if you draw a fetch land mid to late game).
Not drawing dead lands can really help with your tempo.
Then when you get to faster decks, that small percentage of hitting the right cards can make your deck just that little bit faster.
Don’t get me wrong, these aren’t the most game breaking thing in the history of Magic. They’re just really neat. They give you little edges. It’s playing that little bit more optimally and I’m a massive nerd, so I enjoy that.
For modern, they’re great.
In the current standard? Who knows.
You have to remember that the last time I really played was at the Mirrodin pre-release. What’s a modern? :p
Anything post eighth edition is allowed in your deck (some bans, but you get the idea)
I know what modern is. Mostly what I don’t know is anything whatsoever about the metagame.
I miss UG Madness.
*Sigh* Man, I’m feeling so burned out, not necessarily with work only. Just life in general. I’ve got so many negative thoughts floating around my head that it keeps interfering with what I’m going. It’s taking a lot of energy just to keep it semi- under control. I haven’t even really played a game in over two weeks, nor watched a movie or TV show – my usual chill-outs. So many things to do, so many things wanting my time, not much time for everything.
I dunno, maybe I just need a ‘life holiday’. Take a week off work, have plenty of time to catch up on the ‘lower priority’ stuff, maybe do something else I haven’t had time to do yet. Regain my energy.
Do many people here do stuff like this?
I used to take a random sickie here and there, to catch up on gaming and relax. Or there’s always beer and pizza Wednesday night?
Yeah man, Weds are pretty cool and I appreciate those fun nights.
Also, I read somewhere once that “beer is an antidepressant”*.
*Think I’m only 80% correct here, but close enough.
I take sporadic day offs every once in a while. When people ask me what I’m doing, they can’t quite seem to comprehend that I just laze about and recharge my batteries without going out and doing something “exciting”.
Then again, I’m one of those people who has no real interest in travelling overseas so I could just be odd.
I can usually trace bad moods and bad thoughts to diet & exercise.
It sounds super lame but if you eat healthy & exercise frequently you’ll notice a massive increase in your mood and outlook.
Unplugging is also a great way to adjust your mindset. If shit’s really getting you down, just try to limit your social media use. I’m not saying go cold turkey but when you wake up, don’t immediately jump on Facebook etc. Fight the urge to get your phone out on the bus.
That’s what works for me most of the time.
Dammit, yes, exercise. The inrease of hormones and stuff is a good way to get over bad thoughts etc. My knee has been scabbed since I stacked it 2 weekends ago, hopefully I can go ride again. Thanks for the prompter.
I’m not too much of a social media user really, but thanks again for unplug thing.
Man, good shit, thanks to you and @popdart5 and @steve-o_the_deve-o
Mate, I’ve had the worst year of my life this year but also one of the best if that makes sense. If there’s been anyone who has been a master at negative thinking it would have been me until last year. The best thing to do I find is to first get those negative thoughts dealt with. You may need a counselor for this – trust me they work. If you haven’t become a fan of CBT yet, you will 🙂
The next thing to do is to get out of the house and do lots of exercise/social things. This will naturally make you happy plus you get to meet the glorious epicness of people or at least just people.
Good luck mate, it’s tough work but I believe in you! 😀
Closed Beta Test?
hahaha, yes… yes that’s it!
But not really – it’s actually Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It’s basically a way of countering your negative thoughts with logic and replacing them with slightly positive thinking instead. It works wonders on the old noggin.
*checks CBT on Urban Dictionary to think of another acronym*
…I don’t think I’m going back to that site for a while
Hah, I thought like Neg below with Closed Beta. 😛 Counselor etc has been strongly suggested to me, and I see it works for many. I don’t know, I’ve never done something like that nor do I use my family/friends as counselors really …I’ll think about it. Baby steps, heh. Thanks for input.
No worries. I was the same before I started seeing one. They do work, you just have to take that first step. You may have already read it but I was depressed for 15 years before I was finally able to grasp and deal with the issues that I had. That was a long time to deal with negative thoughts.
Good luck, if I can do it, anyone can 😀
I have done in the past.
I’m getting an involuntary one from next week, if that counts?
Heh, I’ve heard that sometimes those things can come at opportune times in your life (with the ability to look back on the experience). GL.
I haven’t done it in a while because I’m stockpiling for PAX and the TAY Magical Japan Safari Extravaganza 2015 but I used to be the only person in my team who didn’t have a lot of leave accrued, because I would take days off here and there to unwind a bit. I’m actually quite tempted to do it again at some point soon. Feeling a bit like you at the moment I think, just really flattened out and negative (ha!).
I have a few times. It’s also the reason I’ve met the majority of the Tay folk so far. Take time off and go explore an unknown city, find rad food and socialise with people. It’s what I like to do and something I don’t get to do anywhere near as often as I should so I get restless and down. I find if I just stay at home just playing games and movies I’m fairly happy but end up with even less motivation and resent being dragged out of it.
Organise to do something you love. You like MTB right? Look into saving for a trip to Canada or US and go through the Rockies on your bike if it’s viable. Or even Blue Mountains in Sydney.
I’ve tossed up the idea of taking a couple days off and flying in to one of the capitals to meet with TAY people and just explore the cities. It’ll probably happen sometime, but time isn’t right yet.
Likewise with Canada/USA thing, just gotta save some more. I definitely wanna check out that section of the world!
Cheers for feedback, some good ideas to re-affirm what I was thinkin
I go through stages like that where I wont play games or something for a few weeks. Sometimes you need to just take a step back and do nothing for a while. You’ll no doubt come around again. Hopefully whatever’s bringing on these negative thoughts will sort itself out soon. Let us know if there’s anything we can do for you!
This is kinda me most of the time. Though I don’t really do the take-time-off-work thing, since that’s generally my default state 😛
Been meaning to get back into playing some games for a while now but still haven’t managed to get a start on it. Maybe next month.
Taking a month for it, myself.
SD: Hey Quiz_b, why haven’t you done such and such?
Me: Oh, I’m sorry SD, I know I was meant to look at that three weeks ago. Here, let me call it up.
We both look at computer screen.
Me: Oh, I…did do it three weeks ago. I just never told you. And forgot about it. Heh. I must have early onset dementia.
SD: My mother has dementia.
*I look at him waiting for a joke, or a smile. There is none. He walks off without another word.*
Idiot.
Idiot.
Idiot idiot idiot.
EDIT: Reply fail. Sorry, Quiz_b!
So he totally understood where you were coming from, right?
*punches day at work in the throat, curb stomps it into a fine paste, walks off looking smug*
*sharply turns around with a piercing stare*
“You want some more?”
*sets fire to the paste*
Adele comes on stage right “I set fire to the paste”
@dkzeitgeist Any progress with the whole piano thing, sir? I picked mine up Sat morning, really nifty keyboard, but wayyy bigger than I thought. It’s lightweight though and has some cool functions.
I’ve found a series that I think I can get in to on YouTube. I think I’m gonna start from scratch and get all the basics spot on (scales, fingering, rhythm, etc.) I do enjoy just messing about on it though and accidently learnt the intro to “What I’ve Done” by Linkin Park. 😛
I haven’t started yet but I’ve seen that series too!
I remember much of the basics but I haven’t even seen a keyboard since primary school let alone played with one.
I’m planning on learning in earnest come October.
I’m bored, and these were fun when we did them, so:
I am a redartifice, ask me anything
If you could only live on one dish for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Preferred gaming device?
Guiltiest video game pleasure?
one dish? Probably beef madras.
Preferred gaming device is PS3.
Guiltiest pleasure? does Just Cause 2 count? A lot of that game is wonky, but it’s so fun
Who’s your favourite celebrity who was active between 1823 and 1827?
Alexandre Dumas.
I read the novelisation of the three musketeers movie and it was shit. He’d have you believe horse-drawn carts don’t spontaneously explode when they crash, and I feel like he didn’t capture Charlie Sheen’s performance at all.
Dream job?
Not sure. Is professional GM a thing?
Yes. Yes it is. Kind of.
Wizards of the Coast would have something along those lines in their dev teams and Fantasy Flight would have something similar for staff at their games centre thingy.
How did you get to be so awesome?
Do you think square shapes are better than round ones?
What’s your absolute most favouritest ever (pen and paper, not video game) RPG?
If you could be someone else, who? Or are you happy being you?
1) Hard work? That said, most of you know me through text, I’m probably much more of a jerk in meatspace
2) For what? Squares are good for regularity, and packing efficiency. That said, a perfect circle is much more beautiful.
3) At the moment, Numenera. I love it to pieces. That said, i’ve still not had a chance to play Fiasco and genre-wise it’s like beef madras to me (@quiz_b will get this)
4) I’d take holidays from being me. I wouldn’t want to stay not being me, because I’m a better me than anyone else would be, they’d just screw it up.
Shall we do another Duel Shock? I’m keen if you are.
I’m keen, if @alexpants wants it on Pixel Otaku
Not that I don’t really enjoy reading those, but the writing side of the whole PO thing is kinda dead in the water right now
That’s what I figured
Favourite fighting game?
Do EndGets inspire a sense of despair?
Soul Calibur 3.
Thought I’d add a few more, but I think editing the previous post might mean that you miss the extra questions.
1. Favourite MMO?
2. What’s the most obscure console you own? (Think Turbo Grafx 16, 3DO, Jaguar, Gizmondo)
3. Dance for me?
4. Does the power of current-gen consoles worry you?
5. What’s more important, resolution or framerate?
6. What country do you think has the best flag?
7. What country do you think has the most appealing/coolest shape, based on how they look on maps? (I’d vote Chile)
8. What is up with South Australia’s timezone?
I’ll stop there, I think.
Ugh fuck today.
Our washing machine is currently dead, and it’s going to take a week for the replacement part to arrive (mainboard, it stopped communicating with the door lock so it wouldn’t initiate a wash cycle) you think for something that is just on a year old and cost the better part of a grand and is made by Whirlpool (even though it’s branded Daewoo) it would last longer. At least it’s all covered by warranty, stupid though.
Just tired as all hell, but that’s pretty normal when you can’t seem to sleep before a certain time and are awake automatically at a certain time every day.
Also haven’t spoken to Kat all weekend, which makes me sad, cause her company is the best 🙁
Hopefully it’s not the start to a shit week is all I can say :/
…
Don’t let them mess you around with getting the machine repaired.
http://www.consumerlaw.gov.au/content/acl_resources/downloads/industry_guides/electrical_whitegoods.pdf
Yup, I was going to post but didn’t for some reason. 🙁
A major failure means you can choose an instant replacement.
Well it’s being repaired under warranty, their warranty guy came the same day mum rang (yesterday) and quickest he can get the part is about a week if he ordered it yesterday, and he that as he left our place. Would more likely see it by the end of the week. But yeah cheers though! 🙂
Turns out a replacement mirror for my car exists in Sydney so I can put it in tomorrow instead of Wednesday. I told my boss I wanted a day off to go put my car in for the replacement mirror and he said “I’m sure you’re probably due for a flexi day by now” so apparently I don’t have to use any of my leave. I didn’t know we had flexi-days and I certainly haven’t been logging my overtime hours. \o/
I’m not counting this in the positive column because at the end of the day I’m still down four hundred bucks, even if I will get to spent most of tomorrow palling around with Blackbeard instead of talking to solicitors.
This conversation was happening on Twitter but it makes sense to bring it over here.
BOARD GAMES AT PAX!
@redartifice is pretty keen to get an 8 person Magic the Gathering draft going. I’m technically banned from playing MtG but I’m sure I could sneak away for an hour or two for a proper draft.
NegativeZero has a ridiculous host of card games he wants to bust out.
I just want to play as many things with as many people as possible to be honest but I think it would be a great chance to get people together to play Warhammer: Conquest. We could also try and get some Android: Netrunner going.
More importantly, I think a massive game of Two Rooms and a Boom should definitely happen. Seriously. Just like, every single TAYbie in existence needs to get roped into this one. The more people, the better. I’ll get the print and play version running or something if I have to.
I am up for all of these things.
Also, RPGs. I will bring Fiasco if anyone wants to Fiasco, I can also GM Numenera off the top of my head.
I’d be cool with bringing along the bits and bobs to run an intro adventure for Edge of the Empire or Age of Rebellion too.
Ooh, colour me intrigued
Sounds good.
Im keen teach me the ropes Trjn sensei
The wierdo Japanese card games I currently have that I’d be happy to bring:
– Heart of Crown (Dominion-style deck builder with a lot more strategy to it, needs way more love)
– Kunitori Kessen (though I haven’t played it, it’s basically the battle of Sekigahara but all the major generals on both the Tokugawa and Toyotomi sides are girls. Because being turned into a cute girl is a sign of affection in Japan or something)
– Tanto Cuore (only the base game, getting the expansions in the current Kickstarter but that won’t be delivered until later)
– I have El Alamein and may have Barbarossa by then but the art in those is probably a bit too racy for playing at PAX.
I’m hoping to also have a couple of board games by then: Machi Koro (check out Shut Up & Sit Down for a video review, it looks ace) and Tragedy Looper.
Sorry if this has been talked about before but it needs to be talked about.
What i wrote in reply to the article “We might be facing the death of an identity”
We are not seeing the death of “gamers” we are seeing the death of game journalists.
I hope i don’t get banned for this comment, if i say it over US Kotaku i pretty much would but here goes. Note that US Kotaku is one of the main players in all of this shit-storm.
The “Streisand effect” coming into play here, the more someone is trying to suppress information the more that information becomes available and the more interest it gathers.
So why is no one talking the whole catalyst into the death of gamers, it’s the biggest scandal to hit gamers and nearly every popular gaming news site hasn’t touched it. Why is the really interesting part.
So really the whole story is, Zoe Quinn sleeps with “5 Guys” in the game industry for good publicity for her game Depression Quest, case in point is an article by Nathan Grayson who “COINCIDENTALLY” after the article is published started a sexual relationship with him. Her now ex releases a blog post pretty much calling her out on all allegations that she is being harassed by a group called “wizardchan”
Zoe Quinn ruins a competition run by a group called Fine Young Capitalists in which they were throwing open to women who have ideas for a game but don’t have the know how to get it going. FYG would create concept art and then pitch the idea to the internet and the most popular would get made. Creator would get 8% royalties and the rest will be donated to charity. In comes Zoe Quinn, ruins it by saying it’s oppressive to women only to promote her event called Rebel Game Jam.
I fully suggest if you have an hour to burn watch a youtube video series called Quinnspiricy Theory by InternetAristocrat (NSFW, lots of swearing) and see that this shit-storm implements nearly the whole games journalism industry and certainly paints Gawker Kotaku in a new not so good light.
Also read Know Your Meme for a history of “GamerGate” -http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/quinnspiracy
Clearly this is all a conspiracy manipulated by the strings attached to Zoe Quinn’s magical vagina.
Also to be quite honest I’d rather not see the death of games journalists, because as a doctor, death is actually quite an unpleasant thing to watch. Perhaps you meant the death of games journalism?
I think he’s referring to the Kotaku article a few weeks back “Death of Gamers”?
If being a gamer means being aggressive and sexist and engaging in illogical derp, I’m out.
But… but… you have psychonauts cosplay!
Always thought of myself as a gamer.
Apparently I was using the wrong word, because fuck that noise.
This whole thing is a case-in-point regarding how shit humans can be to one another. It’s sickening.
This is my first (and hopefully only) comment on the matter.
There are magical vaginas? That explains why sex and leather seems to be so closely related. Everyone knows light armour provides better spell protection.
What you’re saying is completely daft.
She didn’t sleep with dudes to get good publicity, she slept with dudes because that’s what people do. Now gamers are up in arms because they don’t understand this basic concept that people who know each other tend to have sex. It isn’t unique to the games industry. Pick any industry you like and there will be people sleeping together.
What then happened was a jilted ex decided to throw a live grenade into Zoe Quinns’s life and people lapped it up.
You want to talk about corruption in games journalism, why not look at the money? Geoff Keighley and his Doritos shows much more corruption than any of this nonsense and he didn’t get anywhere near this vitriol.
Right now, there was meant to be a protest at PAX Prime about this whole nonsense. Nobody showed up. The reality is that most people don’t agree but a few people are getting really worked up about it.
Also, GamerGate is a daft name. It’s non-descriptive, lazy and is trying to make this into a big deal when in fact it’s a bunch of asshats harassing a woman for having sex then trying to say that they’re being noble and “saving” an industry from corruption.
Isn’t gamersgate a digital distribution service they tried to set up in response to Steam?
YES! I remember that! I signed up and they sent me spammy emails and then…nothing. You are 100% correct. Upvote for you.
I agree with what you are saying but disagree with your first point.
We don’t know she din’t sleep with any or all of those guys with furthering her career in mind. Only someone how knows her very well or a psychologist who’s studied her extensively, or teenagers (who I’ve been assured know everything) can really have any idea if that’s true or not.
However even if it is true it’s still just something people do. It’s not a good thing but it’s something that exists everywhere there are humans. There are people doing immoral things and corrupt things all over the planet in every industry.
I’m not supporting either of these I corruption in particular should be discouraged as much as possible but this whole thing seems to be just an excuse for trolls to have a field day at the moment.
If people are going to assign motive as a reason to crusade, I’m going to assign motive to show that they’re daft.
I don’t like this “nobody knows” bullshit because it makes it look like both sides have a point. But the people rampaging about corruption don’t have a point.
The whole thing is a non issue. It’s a bunch of people who got tangled in some messy relationships and slinging insults at each other. Who the hell cares?
Anyone who lists know your meme as a source deserves to be laughed out of existence
I’ve asked this before and I’ll ask it again. Please give me the link to Nathan Grayson’s article talking about Depression Quest.
Please, help me out here.
I’m trying to figure out what you hope to achieve by posting this. What do you expect will happen?
What do you want to happen?
It’s a storm in a teacup, honestly, but the teacup is currently filled with people spouting bollocks.
Here’s the thing. I’ve never met Zoe Quinn. Until two weeks ago, I’d never heard of Zoe Quinn (well, I read the game jam write up that went around, and it seemed a bit bullshit). What Zoe Quinn does or does not do with her sex life is none of my business, and any issues of fidelity are frankly still none of my business.
People are slinging around things like there’s some big conspiracy, but there really isn’t. It’s paranoia, and ad hominem bullshit, and a degree of frenzied fingerpointing, and people connecting 2 + 2 to make 38, and they’re bringing along a whole raft of stupid misogyny with them. If the people putting this out there are “true gamers,” and true gaming stands for being paranoid and sexist and hateful, then I’ll have no bar with that culture or that label.
People want some sort of redress here? What’s the end goal? Do you want kotaku to run a banner headline reading “ZOE QUINN IS A SLAG?” People are calling for “justice”- what needs redressing? It sounds just like old testament judgment from on high, and frankly (to continue my metaphor) I’m much more amenable to a new testament kind of turning the other cheek.
I don’t frankly, give a shit wha some people put on youtube, but I suggest to you this: If you’re unhappy with Kotaku, or Polygon, or Games.on.net, don’t go to their sites. That simple. None of these sites have a monopoly on video games, and people can get their news elsewhere.
Urrrrgggghhhhh, stuff like this makes it hard to ignore TAY.
There’s a couple of things I’d like to say regarding this topic:
1) While being a games journalist, I can see why sleeping with a game developer may be seen as a conflict of interest. It shouldn’t matter if the games journalist has any integrity in the first place though, which I naively assume people do, rather than don’t. You can sleep with someone and not give them any special treatment in return. But at the end of the day, who really cares. People can sleep with whoever they want.
2) Even if this was for publicity for a game, the main bulk of the publicity came after this blog denouncing her surfaced. I’d never heard of this game, or Zoe Quin, before this shaming blog appeared. All that did was give publicity to her game (hey, any publicity is good publicity, right?). But again, who really cares.
I know I don’t care that a person I don’t know cheated on another person I don’t know allegedly with five other people that I don’t know.
I don’t know why I should care.
3) Why is the subject of someone’s social / sex life all of a sudden causing all this drama?
This whole situation has gone to the point of being a joke. One big joke. It was already a joke when it started. All people need to do is stop bringing it up, stop acting like it’s a big deal (when it really isn’t), and like every other event that’s been blown out of proportion, people will forget about it and move on.
Because honestly, who really cares about the social / sex life of someone we don’t know.
4) [This is MY opinion]
Don’t bring this into TAY. I like this as a drama free zone. I’m pretty sure most people here are along the same lines as me, and really do not give a flying f*** about this issue. At all. It’s pointless. It’s not interesting. It’s not thought provoking. It’s a non-issue.
All it does is make unnecessary drama about something incredibly stupid, and make gaming culture look bad.
I don’t think this issue should be given the time of day. It’s not getting any interest from me, at any rate. Because, and I don’t know if I’ve made myself clear here, but I really. Do. Not. Care. About this. At all.
5) Depression Quest is a horrible name for a game. I’d never heard of it before, and I wouldn’t buy it anyway just because the name is stupid. Depression Quest
Really?
And lastly…
6) Who cares about this anyway?!?!
Can we please, PLEASE, just let this subject die already?!
That’s my rant done.
All opinions are my own, and you can disagree with them all you want, but at the end of the day, I find this “drama” boring, and stupid, and unnecessary, and I really don’t care for it.
Alrighty, I’m going back to distancing myself again now for a bit.
This sums up my feelings 100%. @luke all you’ve achieved by posting your little ‘rant’ is making yourself look like a complete tosser.
Nooooo. Come back. :'(
Why you distancing yourself, @liondrive? :S
Just feeling a bit out of place around here lately is all.
But we’re all a bunch of weird outsiders. That’s what brings us together. Unless you think your weirdness makes you better than our weirdness. Then I say good day to you, sir.
…
STAY.
If you’re all outsiders, than I’m feeling like I’m the outsider of the outsiders lately.
If you go to TAY around the time I started posting every week I would censor myself, delete posts, disappear for extended periods. I felt like an outsider. I felt like I was constantly wrong or looked down upon. Realized some time later it was mostly all in my head. You’re a great guy, my friend. You’ve never done any thing wrong here and I enjoy your posts. When you feel like coming back, you’ll be welcomed. People speak very highly of you at meats too, for what it’s worth.
🙁
So that makes you … an insider. Ooh, got any good gossip?
I like reading your posts!!
I don’t think the issue is that they did it, moreso that it creates a conflict of interest and there was no disclosure of the fact in the articles, nor avoidance of it by having someone else write it up instead. You always seen in other (AU) articles on here or Gizmodo, there’s a disclaimer at the end saying “[author] attended [event] as a guest of [company whose product the article was about]”.
I dunno if it’s just that I’m a sucker for plausible conspiracy theories but it does seem like there’s something going on here. I find it hard to watch InternetAristocrat’s videos (the ones @luke mentioned) and disagree with what’s presented.
Of course you do. That’s what its intended to do. Make you believe. It’s well-constructed irrelevancies tied together with big red conspiracy lines with just enough nuggets of truth in there to make it niggle at you.
What you need to think about is if it really does make any sense once you’ve gone away and researched the other side as well. Don’t draw conclusions from just one nutty conspiracy side of the story.
Oh, also…you are not required to disclose that you’ve had sex with someone when writing about their game. You’re not even required to disclose that you’re friends. And let’s be completely honest here, most game writers and game devs are friends. they move in the same circles.
And if by some chance she was sleeping with people to try and get coverage for her game…it obviously didn’t work because almost nobody here in TAY (who are a bunch fairly well-schooled in the gaming world and games) had even heard of Depression Quest or Zoe Quinn before all this.
So you need to ask yourself, who is really benefiting from all this? Because it’s sure as hell not Zoe Quinn.
I fully suggest if you have an hour to burn, sit down and down and think about how ridiculous this whole thing is.
It doesn’t “need to be talked about”, just like nobody needs to talk or know anything about your sex life, either.
Also, Depression Quest is a game that helps people who have depression. Think about that for a minute. You’re villifying someone who makes games for the express purpose of helping people deal with tough circumstances. The game maker’s gender and sex-life have nothing to do with that.
Newsflash: feminists have sex!
OH MY GOD DO THEY REALLY???
WAIT I’VE BEEN MISSING OUT!
… So what do you keep @trjn around for? 😛
Tea making duties and a board game opponent.
The board games!
okay, hang on, let me make sure i get the tone just right for this…
…
alright here goes: Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh!
nailed it!Day one of my week to myself.
I’m really bored. However I started playing Enslaved on PC the other day, and it’s still pretty awesome, so I’m gonna try and finish it this week! I also have a week to work on my game without having to stress over the mountains of uni work I have to do each week which is good. Gonna try and get some drawings and environments done so hopefully I can have something to show for it soon 😛
Edit: Also, I thought I’d throw it out there that Lipton green tea with jasmine petals is pretty great, albeit a bit weak (like all Lipton tea)
Green Tea anything is awesome.
The Dilmah Moroccan mint one is my favourite. I was only introduced to green tea this year, but I think I prefer it to black tea now
So I am probably a little bit of a tea snob, but I really highly recommend T2’s Sencha Peach if you’re getting into green teas :).
I am not really into brands like Lipton (although they do work) because they’re kind of…bland? But maybe I’ll have to try the jasmine.
Lipton ice tea is mostly sugar.
Lipton teabags are mostly sawdust.
Yeah I haven’t found any decent Lipton tea, but it always shows up in the house so eh 😛 There’s also like 15 boxes of T2 tea in the kitchen (not mine) and I think there’s some green teas amongst them so I might steal a bit whilst nobody else is here 🙂
I have bought so much T2 that I’ve reached the second tier of their loyalty club.
Lipton’s gunpowder green is pretty nice, though I think T2 have a nicer gunpowder it’s not in teabags so a bit less practical for a quick pot of tea at work.
T2’s tea bag range is sadly limited but still some quite nice teas in it! http://www.t2tea.com/index.php/shop/tea-2/tea-bags/
I’m a white tea fanatic!
Mix it up every now and then with a homemade 80/20 jasmine/oolong blend. All loose leaf too… Can’t stand tea bags.
Not a huge fan of the floral/herb infusions as they tend to hit a bit hard for my taste.
You need to try The Tea Centre’s Stockholm Blend. So good! It’s what got me into drinking tea in the first place.
Stockholm Blend is awesome. It is a black tea though so I was looking for green recommendations ;). I like the Japanese lime from Tea Centre.
Are you sure it’s good or do you just have… Stockholm syndrome?
#everypageispage6
Japanese green tea with toasted rice is my absolute favourite green tea. But I’m all about Earl Grey Tea. The T2 French Earl Grey is like drinking perfume.
Persona 5 has been confirmed for PS4. Possibly the best news I could have got from the Play Station conference!
HAS IT?! OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG.
(I love SMT games) When’s the eta?
2015 for Japan, which presumably means it was delayed, I’d assume first half of the year there, and based on previous games… 2086 in Australia.
Dammit… you’re right… In typical Western fashion we’ll probably get the game 3-5 years after Japan if it sells well in Japan.
*swears silently*
Maybe I’ll start studying Japanese now and be done by 2016… This plan has merit.
Do you have a windows phone?
My phone has a screen, does that count as a window?
(Ok i’ll stop being cheeky!) No I don’t 🙁 Does it translate SMT games?!?!
It has an app called Tango which is very similar to rosetta stone and free.
So at the rate I’m moving through P4G I’ll finish it just as 5 hits our shores. Sweet.
*Increases number of ps4 games to 6*
I can’t afford this. Damn you playstation!
You are going to buy 6 copies of persona 5?
I knew you liked persona bit I din’t realise how much. I didn’t think you even finished 4!
I mean there are 6 games to buy for the PS4. My rule is, a console is not worth buying unless there are at least 5 games you want to play on it.
PURSEOWNERRRRRRR 5 SO HYPE!!
That metal slime edition ps4 looks pretty damn snazzy. Pity there’s bugger all chance of it being sold here.
That’s actually a really nice looking PS4 being silver and such, ugh I want it.
Just as well the system is completely region free and has a universal power supply then! You can import it and replace the power cable and it’ll work fine.
Bonus: your buttons will be the correct way around (circle confirm, x cancel) and you’ll have a Region A bluray drive!
The pictures so far depict the X & O in the positions they are on ours, though..?
Edit: you’re talking about the PS4 software I just realised 😛
For some weird reason when they released the Playstation in the US they changed the function of the two buttons in all the system menus. In Japanese, a circle is a ‘good’ mark and an x is a ‘bad’ mark. I guess they felt that the colors were wrong for the functions they did in the US or something. Dunno.
But all the JP stuff still has the functions of those buttons reversed vs the US/EU.
WOO!
I was not looking forward to having to play it on a PS3.
One more reminder about the Pax Meat.
Please let me know if you’re interested. Or let @tech_knight know, please.
I am interested, but I need to play things by ear atm.
As long as you let me know 2 days before hand
That I can do
Is this the only PAX Meat planned? If so I’m sure I’d like to come and I will ask folks like Doc and Shiggy who ain’t round here much.
Thanks, I tried twitter but it’s hard with suck few characters.
I think others are planning more, but we’re hoping this one will be the biggest
So it’s the 2014 equivalent of last year’s totally rad karaoke meat? Most excellent!
Pretty much
I have interest.
Just let me know as soon as you can.
I still need to hassle my friends about what we’re doing for accommodation. So far the only concrete thing is that I’ve bought my pass. And someone else’s, actually. Hope he can pay me back for it…
Be careful. Accommodation will dry up fast. It’s a holiday in Melbourne on the Tuesday so people will be booking up for that
Yeah, that’s what people keep telling me 😛
It’s hard though, several times now someone’s stood up and said “ok we’re going to get this sorted out now, I know we’ve got X, Y, Z, etc coming…” and I figured they were going to go and book something, but then I never heard anything more of it. This has been going on pretty much since tickets were released. We’re great at organising things.
Pick a place and tell them if there are no complaints you’ll book it. Give them 3 days then book.
I hope you are counting me in. I’m terrible at making plans and stuff though.
Just filled in my friend’s girlfriend on the whole band girl situation. Six-message linked SMS. New record, I think the most I’d ever done before was maybe three. I’m out of control 😛
Band girl? What band girl?
*popcorn*
A few months back I started looking for bands to join and found a jazz band looking for a clarinetist. Messages have been going back and forth on this website at the rate of about one a month so it’s been slow (mostly thanks to the whole out-of-the-way-account-being-forgotten-about thing, on both sides of the equation), but recently they suggested a facebook add to make things a little less delayed. Which was a no-go since I don’t facebook, so now it’s been revised to a Skype add. And now it’s all fear because realtime interaction with a stranger and potential rejection etc.
The usual stuff.
About to go for a run. Why do I hate myself so much?
Edit: I forgot how short these running pants were. This is why I run at night.
There’s a joke in there about running in the dark and short shorts and not wanting to scare the general public…
My pasty white leg skin is a good reflector.
Yay Freeze!
I’ve been exercising for the past couple of weeks (first in a while), now I just need to get the junk food under control… No problems really with how much food I eat, but more with the type of food I eat. Mega chocaholic. Toffee and caramel are also massive weaknesses.
But yeah, I’ve been doing running and the like, and using a TotalGym. Thank you, Chuck Norris.
I’ve got a similar gym thing but mine has Guy Leech’s name plastered all over it as if he’s been relevant in the past 20 years.
Get yourself onto MyFitnesspal. One of the easiest way to convince yourself to choose better food is to log everything. When you’ve run for an half an hour and burned less calories than a mars bar, you think twice about your snacks. That’s not to say you can’t eat chocolate and lose weight, but a food diary makes mindful eating much easier.
Run Freeze, run!
Man, I only just got home. Crunch time sucks 😛 I’d hate to be in a job where overtime is expected. Luckily it’s pretty rare for me to have a set-in-stone deadline.
In happier news, this week is going to be totally cruisey because 2/3 of my bosses will be away for the rest of it! \o/
where you working?
A web design/dev company.
I’m lucky that my deadlines are usually pretty flexible! I don’t envy people in software/game development 😛
I’ve just never heard anyone really use the term ‘crunch time’ outside of the game industry. Figured you must have been doing coding of some sort. Hope you manage to get it sorted 🙂
Well… I borrowed the term 😛 It was never officially called that here! haha
We do apps and things too, so I jump between front/back end stuff pretty often! Keeps it interesting I suppose.
Well, shit.
I had a headspace appointment. I discussed how I basically sent an email to Dad saying how I didn’t want to see him anymore. The psych pretty much suggested that I instead send another email saying that I will only see him if x, y, and z improve. The psych said that my dad’s reply email had traces of apology, and there was some acceptance that mistakes had been made.
I told Mum that I discussed the email with the headspace counsellor. Mum automatically assumed that the counsellor took the side of ‘screw him, you should never see him again.’ When I told Mum her presumptions were incorrect, she launched into a tirade about how Dad never pays for anything. Dad is always talking about how he payed too much maintenance, so I don’t know who to believe. When I told my mother that I don’t know who to believe and that I take the road of neutrality, I was met with 20 minutes of the silent treatment.
She didn’t really speak until we arrived home, saying that she was disappointed I didn’t see her way, and that I always side with Dad, even though I remain neutral 80% of the time and side with Mum the rest of the time for the most part. She expects me to completely see her side, or I’m against her.
You know what I have discovered in the recent months? Whenever Dad claims that Mum is trying to take his kids away from him, he’s right. He may misinterpret my mother’s intentions, but he’s right.
Screw this shit. Goddam I hate the constant lies and manipulation that goes on. And the worst part? I completely fall for the manipulation a good chunk of the time. If I’m not going to see my father anymore, it’s going to be on my terms, not my mother’s.
It sucks when relationships break down and the folk involved can’t seem to leave the kids out of it. Hang in there, Phlanispo. None of this is at all your fault. Hopefully you can go off to Uni or something soon and get some distance between you and your parents’ ongoing conflicts.
*hugasaurus*
Take a risk then. Go live with your dad for a while. Go with the flow on everything. See what happens with your mother.
Phlan, you cannot change your Mother or father. They have to want to change. That’s kind of what the counselor is saying.
It’s very unfortunate that she’s trying to take the “It’s me or nothing” stance. Perhaps you should tell her that you won’t discuss these things with her unless she understands that you are not taking sides and that it’s not about sides. You want to have a relationship with both of them, but that’s very hard when they use you to get at each other. Have you told the counselor about this?
@pixel_the_ferret_viking is evachron mercenary any good? And is it anything like freelancer?
I never played freelancer so it’s hard to compare :P… I enjoy it for what it is, while it can be very flawed at times… I mainly trade and explore and it’s fantastic for that… Combat is very difficult and anything but fast, due to the Newtonian flight model used, and a lot of people don’t like it for that, i just avoid it when possible :P… It’s hard for me to recommend it despite loving the crap out if it… Its very slow paced but if you’re just after a space game with limited to no narrative and want to noodle around with trading, mining and exploring then I’d say go for it 😛
I hope that helps somewhat
Thats basically how I played freelancer. Im just looking for a space sim thats fun, deep, potentially co-op and wont break the bank (looking at you star citizen) and probably a game thats controls are fun (looking at you EVE online)
It’s very good (in my opinion) on the whole “fun controls” thing… There’s a lot of concepts to learn, like using the inertial dampening system efficiently… and the tutorial is looooong and boooooring :P… but once you get into the meat of the game it’s pretty good if that’s what you’re looking for… I really enjoy exploring at the moment, because apparently there’s 150+ uncharted star systems… The only way to find them at the moment, is start using your jump drive in a random direction, and pay attention to when the light direction in your cockpit (or on your hull) Changes, then point it towards the light source :P…
can take a long time to chart anything…
But i like that sort of thing…
It has full multiplayer capabilities, and there’s 2 permanents servers (at the moment) up, but there’s not many people on at all….
You will need a joystick though, and you will need to remember lots of Keyboard buttons as well :P…
And always keep in the back of your mind that this game is a labour of love from 1 guy that does this in his spare time… because it is rough at the edges… maybe watch some online videos first to see if it caters for what you’re after?
I’d hate for you to waste your money if you find out that it’s not for you
Elite: Dangerous! \o/
Anyone playing Risen 3, have you found many teleporters? I’ve opened 23 so far, but I still have 14 teleporter stones! where the hell are the teleporters!?!
I started off hoarding them because I thought the teleporter stones might be limited but nope. I’m finding stones like someone’s poorly stored candy they’re that common.
I don’t have a number of teleporters at the moment but I’ve easily unlocked a dozen or so.
I’d found 4 or 5 before I left the first island I think! After posting that message, I found another 2 teleporter stones, but still no damn teleporters!!! BLARG!
@beeawwb
Yes. Yes please.
If that is a serious thing then I am very interested!
Serious enough that I’ll break out the TAY tags!
@beardymcmuttonchops @benny @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
I’m keen for whatever, whenever. Just not too far southside 😛
I can’t commit to a regular thing, but if it happens I’d sure go to as many as I could.
Yeah, my intent is more to gauge how many people would be interested in such a thing in the first place, and then try and set something up (maybe) recurring so people could plan ahead, but it’s board games; No regular commitment required.
I’m interested but not sure how much I can commit on the reg’.
Keep me in the loop, though.
I don’t like board games and am not fun to be around when others are playing board games. I’m out. Buuuuut, I propose a meat that runs concurrent with board game meat where we bad mouth all the participants and their poor life style choices! 😛
Boourns.
I’m with you!
Bored games? More like board… uh… carry on.
This would be great.
This Playstation conference was the best thing that could have happened for my PS4 and my Vita. OMG ACTUAL VITA GAMES TO LOOK FORWARD TO! And my choice to buy a PS4 instead of an Xbone is VINDICATED. \o/ \o/ \o/
Stuff what was announced that I shall buy on PS4 and/or Vita:
– Purseowner 5. Presumably this was the big shot in the arm announcement that was being teased for PS4 a few weeks ago
– new Ys! OMG IT HAS DOGI! AND YOU CAN JUMP AGAIN! AND IT’S IN A NEW PLACE WE HAVEN’T BEEN TO BEFORE SO IT’S PROBABLY YS EIGHT!! YES!
– Whatever this new Touhou Project game Zun is working on. Holy fuckballs, a Touhou game on a console? He’s finally sold out and gone commercial. It looks like this might be some kind of user-created thing where people can create levels and share them around and stuff which would be amazingly rad, plus it looks like it might be porting multiple entries in the series at once. Which is also rad. And they didn’t get Zun to draw the characters and instead got someone with artistic ability \o/
– Senran Kagura: Estival Versus. This is basically a sequel to Shinovi Versus on the Vita, will probably get it on Vita as well but PS4 is an option too because why the fuck not?
– Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force. This is apparently a new game, though the subtitle is kind of HD port-ish, it’s not a port. I may not get this depending on how FFF actually is, releases in English later in the month.
– God Eater 2: Rage Burst. Last time Bamco decided to wait until God Eater Burst before doing a localization, and I think with this being PS4 and Vita together it probably has a much better chance of it as well. I WANT IT NOW NAMCO
– Earth Defense Force 4.1. EDF! EDF! EDF!
– DISGAEA 5! YES!
– Luminous Arc for Vita! I always wanted to like the other Luminous Arc games, they’re good solid SRPGs, but the DS was a shit system choice and it always felt constrained by it
– new vita Phantasy Star looks rad as well but I have no confidence it’ll get localized 🙁
Best games press conference for me this year by far.
EDIT: Also Dragon Quest Heroes: is this a Musou / Dynasty Warriors game with DQ stuff? Interest piqued.
So, my fellow Guardians, Destiny launches in a week.
Time for me to start pimping the unofficial Kotaku AU group/clan.
PSN and XBL both welcome. Clan stuff proper goes live with launch, but join the group anyway.
For those already in the group, remember to do the clan part at launch.
http://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/100780
It may take up to a day for me to actually approve new applicants, but I check it (mostly) every day so don’t freak out if you aren’t immediately approved.
Going to be a very casual sort of thing, perhaps with clan raiding aspirations. Mainly just a good way to get a bunch of people on a list if you’re looking for teammates for the game.
Note that it’s not TAY exclusive. Bunch of people in there from the main site who either lurk or don’t read TAY. Basically, play nice 😛
Massive hype building for me. So much hype.
So what’s the go, do we have to join up with the Bungie site?
Couldn’t we just invite people on our friends list to a game, rather than having randoms from the Bungie site join as well?
Will it work without a mic? Obviously it’d be better with mics, so you can co-ordinate, but I’m not sure how to hook this headset up to the PS4, and I feel weird about talking online, besides I can’t talk at night without keeping my wife and son awake. Not keen on buying a new headset either.
Hell, it’s all too hard, maybe I just shouldn’t bother and do it solo.
It’s funny, because sometimes when I see other people on my friends list are playing games that I also am playing, I have a number of different thoughts. Like…
Sometimes I just want to play alone. Because I’m kinda… well, ALL about the story, so I like to take my time sometimes, drink in details. Or, if I’ve already seen the details, skip ahead. So there’s pacing issues. Then there’s not wanting to be a burden to higher levels. Or utterly eclipse the lower levels, so they don’t feel powerful. There’s the hurdles when repeating content so someone can get caught up, then maybe them having to do the same…
There’s a lot of problems with multiplayer.
I’m thinking… if anyone has those thoughts and thinks they don’t want to bother me, or don’t want to impose with their higher/lower level, or whatever?
1) I know those feels.
2) Even knowing those feels… Don’t worry about it. Just holler and let’s do this. I wanna be more social for this thing, I think. More co-op.
High levels players in lower level content get scaled down a fair bit. Huzzah for parity!
Joining the group requires joining the Bungie site. Of course, just joining via friends list is also viable.
Regarding voice comms, most content (based on beta experience) doesn’t require it. Raids supposedly will, but whatever.
And if you’re worried about story pacing problems in multi, do the story missions solo and party up for the strikes (3-player instances dungeons) or for explore mode.
Mics definitely help in the fun. First time I’ve ever mic’d up was for the beta with my housemate. PS4 controller makes it so easy as well.
That said, I’ll echo what Transient said, if you see me online send an invite my way. I wanna make the most out of Destiny and that i cludes all the co-op 😀 it’d be cool to organise some 6 man firesquads for Crucible matches as well
Just come join us in matches, if you know the fights for fireteams you don’t really need any co-ordination from what I’ve seen. PvP is usually a free for all unless you’ve got a strategy in mind with other people in your group. That said the capture point maps aren’t actually conducive to much besides capture all points and defent =P
So It’s not really a must have. almost all my play time in Destiny was done without a headset plugged in. Only used one when I played with piat and…. and…. stickman? Yes stickman!
Dats me! 😀
The provided mic plugs into controller. Then in Destiny options you set chat audio to only go to headset. It works okay, it’s neat for people to yell “supress that guy, I’m outta ammo!” or something.
I need to go through TAYnames and add people since at least in the beta, being in the same clan didn’t mean you could see what others were doing or easily play with them, so I didn’t get to try MP stuff at all.
Haven’t really ever participated in TAY, haven’t been commenting much either however I sent an application.
I’ll be looking for some cool people to play with, whenever possible. I have a feeling this is one game playing alone wont be nearly as much fun.
Welcome!
You know what’s weird? As the early-teen hormone stuff fades with time, I find myself dipping into near-asexulaity. Odd conundrum, if it even is a conundrum.
Could be related to your aspergers?Hmm, maybe. Hadn’t considered that.EDIT: Note to self, don’t confuse the quote button and the spoiler button.
But in all honesty, there’s nothing wrong with that if that’s the way you’re wired.It doesn’t bother that much, one less thing to worry about, but I bet it’s going to be an annoyance in later life. The “why haven’t you gotten yourself a wife, dear? I want grandkids, damn it!” comments from family are going to get annoying.I personally thin it would be one less thing to worry about. “Why haven’t you gotten yourself a wife yet” stuff happens to straight/gay/bi/whatnot people too. Though probably more likely to happen to someone who’s asexual.I’ve said it before – just because things are as they are now, doesn’t mean they’ll change.
I could probably have described myself as asexual during my late teens (15-20). I just didn’t give a shit about females, because I had more important stuff to worry and stress about (which sounds like you). Then I got my first girlfriend and had my first sex and all fell into place. And even if I didn’t, so what?
Stop stressing about this side stuff man, just finish school. 🙂
It’s probably just a temporary hormone imbalance, most likely. Even then, I’m not completely asexual at the moment.This is the best thing I’ve seen on TAY today.
@phlanispo sorry to hear, here’s hoping you come to a situation you feel comfortable with soon. I feel like it’s a pretty normal thing to go through though, I went through times where I thought that people were attractive but didn’t necessarily ‘feel‘ attracted to them. I think the stress comment the guys are making might be most helpful!
Yeah. Yeah they do.*clenches fists*
Might also be a symptom of stress/depression. Totally normal, there, too.That’s a thing? Never heard of that, but then again, I’ve never heard of a link between asexuality and ASD, either. Then again, I might just be having a temporary hormone imbalance or something. Things to ponder.Stress is very linked to hormone balance, which is heavily linked to sexuality.
Sex is pretty good though
Pretty damn good. That said, if you’re not keen on it, you’re not keen on it.
I’ve heard people say that about liquorice though and that stuff is terrible.
Though I’d probably eat my way through some if there was sex at the end of it.
Actually, probably not. I really don’t like liquorice. I’ll have to do some maths later and work out an acceptible sex to liquorice ratio.If I had to choose, I’d probably go the bag of liquorice tbh. Especially if it was the good stuff 😛
How much exercise do you get?
Fitness / metabolism / hormones tend to be one big stew.
So, just got home from that work thing, straight after the movie finished she asked me what I thought of it, she seemed so keen to find out, and that she was expecting me to say that it was great, I asked her if she wanted me to be honest, and she said yes, so I told her that I didn’t really like it and that I wouldn’t watch it again. She said “Oh”, and I could see that she was finding it hard to believe how anyone could not like that movie. I mean, it’s not the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but it sure as hell wasn’t good. There were some epic beards though. I think there were only probably two guys in the whole movie without a beard or a moustache.
Also, on our way out, I said “so I guess we’ll be watching Star Wars next time”, to which she responded “Oh, I’ve never been into Star Wars”, hmmmm.
*grabs popcorn*
’bout time you were the one grabbing it.
…That’s what she said?
I went to the movies today. The Popcorn was stale and stupidly expensive. Decided to go with lollies instead
What did you see?
Deliver us from Evil.
Oh, spooky?
Not really. I think it kind of tried too hard to do too much.
Fun fact when I saw Deliver us from Evil the popcorn was also stale.
What did you think of it?
I felt the movie would of been better if it didn’t have the supernatural feel that comes from exorcism movies, if it was a movie based on a serial killer it would of been better in my opinionI felt that it was okay but there was like 3 jump scares and no tension. It was enjoyable but I wouldn’t call it a horror movie.Its more a thriller in my mind then a horror, I judge everything based on Sinister levels of evilSee, sinister was okay and it was a better horror movie but… I dunno. It’s hard to find good horror movies.
She just said, it was stale!
Everything is stale! My kingdom for freshness
Product placement!
I always choc-top at the movies.
Village was doing a new orange choc top it tasted like a jaffa candy
I bought an entire packet of White Wings cookies last time. I was pretty popular.
Next month your watching The Notebook or Dear John
Nicholas Sparks marathon!
No fucking way man!
The heart wants what the heart wants.
How bout A Walk To Remember
I had to look that up, you’re a funny guy.
Ily monkeyman
I, too, watched movies today. Guardians of the Galaxy. It was pretty neat.
I don’t know why you guys aren’t watching Jaws every time.
Seems like a waste, really.
Man this is going to be a long September. So many near-misses in trying to avoid swearing already.
Should start reading the thesaurus on my train trips or something.
Maybe take a nap… we’ll wake you up when September ends. Just like the song foretold.
How long has this No-Swear September thing been going on, I’d never heard about it till today.
What a stupid fucking idea 😛
It started today. And it’s totally a thing,
That I just made up myself.
Oh ok, don’t worry, I’ll do enough swearing for the both of us XD
I’ve burned no-swear September to the ground and cursed at the ashes til they turn blue.
I didn’t even last a few hours.
Fuck the fucking fuckers!
Good luck, man. That’s not for me. I’ve already sworn about a hundred times today. Even a few times at the kids, which gets me extra hell points.
I had a friend who decided that he wanted to break the swearing habit. Kept a rubber band around his wrist so he could snap it if he ever slipped, and I got him a pocket thesaurus for looking up alternate words.
I got a pocket thesaurus right here for ya buddy XD
If you really want to stop swearing so much, have kids. That’s what did it for me. Because I was home all day with my kid, talking to to her all the time, I kind of got out of the swearing habit. Because you kind of just don’t swear when you’re talking to a kid all day, without even thinking about it.
That said, I stub my toes and run into things a lot so there’s been a whole bunch of exclamations like “fudging fudgasaurus!” that my kids have copied. 😛
Bah, that’s you guys’ solution to everything. Trouble sleeping in? Have kids! Trouble swearing? Have kids! Want kids? Have kids!
I should be clear here…I do not really recommend having kids as a solution to anything.
Kids are difficult and if you’re not ready for them, super scary! And by the way, nobody is ever ready for kids. No matter how much they may think they are. 😛
Don’t worry, I gotcha 😛
And I know I can’t take care of kids. I can’t even take care of me, that alone is a scary enough prospect.
im very fond of the ‘fudge knuckles’ expletive….
My swearing usually just stays in the car while I’m on my own. Every other time it’s “Frack”
Make up a whole list of new ones, I suggest radgewhacker & midgepoker. They sound rude but don’t actually mean anything
QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
So happy to see my first ever hero drumming and that Brian May ain’t too bad on guitar either 😀
I’m not jealous. *runs off crying*
I won’t rub it in…yes I will, it was simply amazing
SOMEBODY!
FIND ME
SOMBEBODY TOOOOOO
LOOOOVE!
Dear TAY,
Yesterday I ran* a marathon. Today my legs hurt. I didn’t train as much as I should have, but I finished it.
Yay! \o/
*ran/walkedWell done, friend. You did good.
Thanks friend!
Nice!
Sometimes I marathon TV shows!
I have great respect for you, as a fellow marathoner.
Impressive stuff. I want to do a proper 42km run one day but a 10k is dreadful enough for me. What time you clock in?
5:17:35. Was hoping for sub 5 but hey, I finished 🙂
not shabby at all! anything between 4-5 would be pretty damn tops for anybody, so the fact that you’re just a little bit further than 5 hours is a great goal to surpass.
Congratulations! That’s an awesome achievement!
awesome stuff. I’ve been trying to run to work but made the mistake of running downhill and now my knee is buggered. Gonna be interesting playing indoor football on Thursday.
Jealous of you though, finishing a marathon is where I wanna get to
Awesome work! I’m aiming to run one next year. It sure is tough to get to that distance though, I’m only up to the half-marathon stage so I’ve got a ways to go 🙂
This was my first marathon, and I’d only run two half marathons before it. With a bit of walking, you could totally do it \o/
Loving the PS4 right now, should have picked up one of these at launch instead of the Xbone. InFamous is so damn pretty.
Isn’t it great?? ISN’T IT?! =D
Man what am I going to do once Destiny comes out… I’m already behind on my games as it is >.< Dammit world… why aren’t there more hours in the day?!
I hear ya man.
I want to play InFamous. I’ve been waiting for it to drop in price, but so far it hasn’t.
60 bucks cheap enough for ya?
http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps4-games/infamous-second-son-ps4-game–
At the moment, no. Because I bought Watch_Dogs, my gaming budget has been spent for now.
If you want I can loan it to you when I’ve finished with it.
Thanks for the offer, but I think I’d rather own my own copy. Watch_Dogs is taking up most of my gaming time at the moment, and I’ve probably got enough games to tide me over until NBA 2K15 comes out.
Grab First Light instead!
It’ll scratch the InFamous itch while you wait for Second Son to go on special.
Can’t even afford First Light at the moment. Sucks not having much money.
Told you so. 😛I hope that February 5th release date for Bloodborne will be worldwide and not just Japan. It would be perfect timing to help me get over my inevitable post 70000 Tons depression.
Would be nice, but I doubt it.
Dark Souls and Dark souls 2 were multi-console worldwide releases. If they can pull that off, surely they can pull off a single-console worldwide release? 😛
I’ve been lurking around NeoGaf the past couple of days, mainly on the Destiny threads. Someone just put up a link to a bit of work they did. I’d love to be able to do stuff like this.
Man that’s really cool… I think the left side of the painting was neglected though! But still amazing work, just level of detail that went into the parts he focussed on. And all that with a Wacom and Photoshop.
Didn’t notice that at first, but cannot unsee now. He seemed to have just skipped the detailing on the left side. That’s one of about 27 speed paintings he’s done on that channel. Very talented!
Today will hopefully be a good day. 🙂 I’m feeling pretty good, post yesterday’s chats about time off and various tactics people use to help. Good info, cheers.
Yesterday afternoon I had to go fix some I.T. type stuffs for someone. It went better than expected, so got that done. Then I arranged a dinner with my girl, met at the place. Super-busy, but somehow we still got a table (even though I stole someone elses table haha). Dinner was great, steak to our liking, beer and lemonade good too. A really nice dinner. Drove home, had a shower, felt nice and refreshed, and then we crashed in bed by 9:20pm. Woke up this morning all G.
Ah yes, when I arrived home I was in the driveway with car windows up and music playing, and I already heard the damn dog barking. I parked, still barking. Thinking, “YOLO”, I then pulled out and set the car to be facing the fence. I gave a couple blasts with my horn and the dog was quiet! Parked my car again… dog still quiet! I didn’t hear a peep from that mofo since I honked horn at him 😀 I’m still a little hype from that actually working LOL.
So yeah, touch wood that today will go good too *knocks desk* and thanks again for the good chats. 🙂
It will go good if you believe it will go good 🙂 Go!
Oooh! Massively articles about Warhammer 40k new MMOey thing, ‘Eternal Crusade!’ I saw footage of the EA thing when it was in development and it looked frickin’ sweet. I wonder what that’s up to!
*click to open article*
:C
*click to close article*
hehe chaos.. I see what they did there.
Also, I’m still willing to look into that game when the time comes just for the hell of it. It’s Space Marines, Eldar, Orks and Chaos fighting over one planet, so basically Dawn of War: Planetside 2 😛
I mean… I don’t know why I’m surprised/disappointed.
Look at the table-top game. It’s 100% PVP. And Planetside 2 was pretty OK.
Actually, thinking about that… and how they want to avoid the jump-in chaos of PS2.
Forcing unit cohesion by making it brutally punishing to do anything but is interesting. There will undoubtedly be people who get on board with that, I don’t think it’ll be long before they’re seeing rival clans rising and clashing and good times had by all involved.
But when the ‘casuals’ come, are punished, and leave in boredom rather than adapat, I strongly suspect the devs and publishers are going to be very, very surprised at just how niche their target audience is.
Kind of like Wildstar, proudly declaring, “We are going oldskool, dungeons with brains, for teh hardcoerz, no casuals allowed!” followed swiftly by wide-eyed, “Holy cow! Teh hardcoerz is… SUCH A TINY MARKET we are making nowhere NEAR what we thought we would! WHAT DO? INCREASE DROPS AND STUFF we’re haemorrhaging subs!”
From one perspective, at least they’re trying to create something new with this sort of approach. Not just generic MMO 101.
If their vision is player controlled heavily regimented armies, it should be interesting to see.
Whether it will be fun or financially viable is another matter.
Considering a lot of the devs came over from Funcom where they worked on Secret World and Age of Conan, pretty strong prospect of it going completely F2P.
And the fact they are citing planetside 2 as a major influence even if they want to ‘fix’ some of the issues
If they were going to do PvP I wish they hadn’t made it an MMO 🙁
As much as I love the Warhammer universe I have come the the conclusion that there should be one MMO that you just buy skin packs for for whatever universe you want. They all blur together at this point.
“…the chaos of PlanetSide 2 as something that they wish to avoid”
Planetside 2’s chaos was brilliant.
“…mostly PvP”
I’ve lost most of my interest in this game.
“What’s this about a Warhammer 40K MMO!?”
Reads quote
…
oh
Yeah, I dunno, when I think MMO I mostly think PVE and and an expansive world to explore, not battle arenas.
40K’s world lends itself just so perfectly to an MMO… the mythos of most of the powerful characters is of slaughtering hundreds and thousands of enemies, awe-inspiring figures dealing death by their code. Fantastic architecture, ruins and hive cities and space hulks oh my!
You can’t do that in PVP, you don’t get the same power fantasy. A 1000:1 k:d ration never happens. Or if it does, it’s only one or two people in the world who get it. On AVERAGE, if the game is balanced and any good, the average k:d ratio is going to be around 1:1. Anyone who’s consistently below will get bored and quit, so balance is important. You cannot have PVP where everyone is above 1:1. It’s maths, and maths doesn’t budge on this. Wolves need sheep to feed on, but sheep don’t have infinite patience/stupidity. For every player who gets a power trip, there’s a player who feeds that trip. There’s no give in that equation, it’s ironclad.
PVE offers the power fantasy so inherent in all the lore. WH40K is a game where in theory, Space Marines are the Emperor’s finest, battle-hardened veterans of dozens, hundreds of battles… who are n00b scrub feeders? It doesn’t gel. At all.
So, while it makes sense compared to the tabletop, I’m just disappointed at the lost potential to do more, to explore that world, to indulge in that power fantasy.
The only way they could possibly manage to do something where you could get a higher than 1:1 K/D is if they implemented something akin to titanfall where the number of players were comparatively limited and acted as champions amongst regiments of AI regulars. Add rudimentary squad command mechanics where it’d be ‘point at a context sensitive thing and press one of 4 keys’ and they attack, defend, take cover or move there and some well designed and highly detailed maps and that could make for some really quite interesting gameplay. To make it a decent sized game you’d need maps approaching a few square kilometres but that’d be doable on contemporary consoles much less moderate level PCs.
That approach would be both interesting and satisfying, it’d allow for the more inexperienced players to still get the fun of slaughtering the regulars in a massed battle and the more experienced to engage other players directly in straight up champion on champion action (sounds kinda hot) while the regulars fight it out amongst themselves.
Hell, make game modes and smaller maps specifically for people who prefer straight up solo combat for killing on a more personal level and it’d play more like the team based adversarial MP in Space Marine and the army mode could be about the epic scale combat where kills would be a lot easier but possibly less satisfying if you’re after a bigger challenge.
Of course, that design philosophy doesn’t lend itself well to an MMO or to a Games Workshop licence which seem to come with a clause which requires them to sabotage almost everything they make with some kind sucky element or half arsed “eh, that’ll do” attitude to development.
Actually I’ve just now thought of the way they could milk the money out of the audience by making that a standard game and not having a subscription; sell armies. The base game is space marine vs orks the same as the 40k boxed set is (or was when I bought the versions of it I have), if you want Eldar, you buy the eldar DLC, if you want chaos, you buy the chaos DLC, if you want necrons, you buy the necron DLC. Everyone would have to have all the DLC downloaded anyway for synchronisation purposes so they’re effectively selling unlocks which would appeal to GW’s nature of charging as much as they can for as little as possible. There’s at least 14 armies they could field if they revived the squats as a force so that’s a full dozen packs to sell after the 2 in the core game. Hell, being GW they could even sell purely cosmetic wargear packs so your eldar Striking Scorpion exarch could have some swanky looking exarch armour festooned with spirit stones, topped with a scary looking helmet and accompanied by a badass chainsword, wouldn’t perform any different but it’d look awesome. I’m far from the kind of person who’d normally buy cosmetic stuff but if I was playing a space marine champion and was offered the chance to buy MkVI Corvus pattern power armour, I’d buy it without a second thought, I love my beakie armour. It was my very first image of Warhammer 40K and has stuck with me for more than 2 decades as somehow both awesome and kind of naff at the same time so hell yeah I’d have that.
Shit, another thing that could make that game great, give the characters the ability to gain experience and become more powerful but very slowly, none of this 70 levels in 3 days like in Diablo 3 rubbish so you really have to earn it. Take one thing from Diablo 3 though, Hardcore mode, if you die, you’re dead. To help bolster team spirit though, make it that you only die permanently if your team loses, if you go down you’re critically wounded and can be resuscitated but only if your team wins the battle. You’d presumably suffer an XP penalty for going down, say lose almost all the XP you’d normally get from winning the match, you’d still get a bit if you manage to survive (maybe even have a recurring injury system akin to blood bowl, each time you go down you take a roll and perhaps lose a few permanent HP or something) but you’d have a hell of an incentive to not die next time. If you ragequit when you’re down then you die but if you stick around and watch your team, you might just get lucky and watch them pull a lifesaving win out of the bag.
I want my game instead damn it.
Personally I’m quietly excited. I like the look of it at the moment and they’re aiming for a lot of things that I like in MMOs (yes, I’m one of those strange people who like PvP).
The comparison with Planetside 2 is good but the times that the side I was on had an actual idea of what we were doing were few and far between.
Planetside 2 had a ranking system in terms of giving orders but people would frequently ignore or not use it. It sounds like they’re trying to enforce it, which is potentially great but will definitely piss off a lot of people.
I like to think that the history behind the brand will make people understand that it’s going to be a different game. It certainly won’t appeal to the casual CoD/BF players and even then I’m sure that some people will get right into playing as Orks who will be random and completely defy any attempt to control the WAAGH!
The game is going to be niche as hell but I think that the 40K enthusiasts will enjoy it and spend money on it (because all 40K players have oodles of money hue hue).
Something I totally only just came to mind for some reason. I remember last time I did the drive down to Canberra and back, I noticed that there was hardly any roadkill on the way down. But then on the way back, a whole load of it. This time? Same thing again. On the way down all I saw was maybe a cat and a fox, but on the way back I saw at least seven roos, a couple of foxes and even a wombat sprawled out on its back. Also saw a bird get taken out by a car – it swooped down across the road in front of the car ahead of me, and I saw it keep going… except it wasn’t the same trajectory it was on before, it kind of went upwards and did a cartwheel in the air with its wings kind of all messed up.
Do animals only get killed on or after Saturday night or something?
It’s because people are taking their time and driving careful on the way to Canberra. On the way out they can’t drive fast enough.
Thanks for the mental image! 😛
Possibly due the time if day you are driving?
Also, does Australia employ people to clean up road kill or do we just rely on scavengers? It might be that they have Sunday off.
We employ people.
You sure it’s real employment? I’d not be surprised if it wasn’t some work for the dole thing. “Hey you’re worthless scum, go & clean up dead stuff and remember you’re only just slightly better off than them, all it’ll take is us having a bad day for you to end up just like them“
this is abbots new ‘work for the dole’ scheme in action?
Ugh. Radio on the way to work played Call Me Maybe. Now I’ll be singing it all day.
In my defence, all the other boys ARE trying to chase me.
Stop making milkshakes in your yard, @freezespreston. Then they will stop hanging around.
You’re just jealous because, damn right, it’s better than yours.
Do it again Griffin.
What flavour milkshake is it? This is a very important factor. Also is there ice cream?
I feel like I’ve let myself down. I was single when this song came out and never used it as a pickup line. 🙁
Directly from the words of a single lady friend that I know?: “I got so sick of people using that fucking song. I just wanted somebody to talk to me instead of drunkenly quote/sing at me.”
So you probably did yourself a great service by not using it!
It’d be a nice way to whittle down the people not to date. 😛
Yeah I know, that’s why I never did it. There’s a time and a place. Plus I did wanna do it once just for lol’s. 😛
It’s true 😉
Why listen to the radio? Don’t you have a CD player in your car?
CD player? It’s not the ’70s any more! 😛
My car also has bluetooth streaming, full iPod integration and an internal hard drive to rip CD’s to.
Sometimes I like to listen to the radio.
I too, like to live dangerously.
160GB IPOD YOOOOOOOOOO. Was my treat when I purchased car lol. Full integration. :3
If I didn’t listen to the radio I wouldn’t know ANY songs that came out after the year 2000.
It really works. I don’t know anything that’s come out over the last 5 years, and I hardly knew much before then either 😛
I listen to triple j. There is the odd time that I go “gah, this is horrible” but I feel like the moment that I surrender and only listen to the old music I liked when I was 20, is the moment I’m old.
Same reason why I don’t listen to talkback radio.
I grew up listening to 2WS, then 2Day FM, then by around highschool we’d gotten sick of that and moved over to Triple M. But then they changed formats several times and once I started a fulltime job after uni, I got totally sick of what I was hearing every morning and afternoon and gave up on radio completely. Never been a fan of what I’ve heard on Triple J, would rather just turn it off and listen to nothing. I always used to like listening to Spoonman when he came on after my night classes at uni.
Now I only listen to old music but it’s nothing that I liked or had even heard of when I was 20, I only discovered it after the getting-sick-of-radio thing. Therefore it’s ok. Right? 😛
Here’s an improved version for you
Best version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5meWI3iX1sE
Ok, I do not understand half the words in this article, nor do I understand the nature of the experiment itself, but I understand what they are attempting to look at: http://www.iflscience.com/physics/universe-hologram
Scientists have begun an experiment to see if our universe is a hologram/computer program.
If this world is a computer simulation, then geez somebody has been punching out the DLC packs over the last couple of centuries.
Edit: Or, if you can understand even bigger words and concepts, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle (thanks to @freezespreston for pointing this out)
Frankly all I’ve learned from reading both articles is that no way in hell do I have any talent as a quantum physicist.
Oh man, I thought my troubles might have been a holodeck malfunction. *shakes fist at Moriarty*
That’s a pretty poorly written article.
Try en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle for a better explanation.
Last night, Freya and I played Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective with a friend of hers.
It’s a board game (kind of) where you’re members of the Bakers St Irregulars trying to solve a case that Holmes is working on. You follow leads to get information and then when you think you’ve got it, you answer a series of questions. Holmes then does his “it was the baker because he didn’t have flour on his hands at 4am!” thing, you feel like an idiot and points are rewarded for correct answers and subtracted for following more leads than Holmes.
It’s really fun but the last hour of the first case dragged on forever because we didn’t feel like we knew enough and started shotgunning leads. Instead of just committing to what we knew from the first five or six leads, we chased a whole range of other paths that told us nothing. Nothing! That got frustrating.
In the end, our score was -30. It could have been as high as 50 even without solving the murder.
People should look this up but it’s a bit hard to find.
Is this something that could be played via Teamspeak?
Yes! Possibly!
It definitely could be but there’s continuity in. If you wanted to play with us, you’d have to catch up a little (or possibly a lot, depending on how much we played in the mean time).
EDIT: Mostly, it’d just mean that I’d have to scan all of the newspapers for the game. The rest can be done with only one person having access to the relevant stuffs.
New discovery on how to irritate Bun! SUGGEST THOUSANDS OF ALTERNATIVE LEADS and follow them.
Man, that was fun.
Stop it.
HURRAY
Noted.
Holodeck malfunction! *flails arms around crazy-like*
Did…. Did we lose something there?
Holodeck comment in moderation!
Damn you Moriarty! Or perhaps Vic Fontaine! Either of you!
EDIT: I stupidly put Freeze’s link into my original comment, so there were two external links, so it went into moderation. 🙁
I’ll be in ten-forward talking with Guinan until Geordi figures it out.
Yessss. Picard is finally taking me on an away mission! I will put on my finest red shirt!
Neeerd.
*Does the Picard tuck*
I may or may not have started yes another run through of Next Generation… It’s pretty bloody great
I was in JB hifi yesterday and saw they have a pack of the entire series of STTNG for $188, all 7 series! It literally cost me more than that for series 1 when it came out… Granted it was in a slightly fancy plastic box instead of cardboard but even so, I can’t help but feel ripped off.
Riker’s gotten it wet again?
This time next week I’ll either be congratulating myself for taking the day off work to play Destiny or staring at the clock waiting for clockoff time so I can go and play Destiny.
I really want to play Destiny
DestinyWait… you rostered a day off for the launch of an online-only game? Wow. I, too, like to live dangerously, but that’s one hell of a dice roll.
Dude what, CTRL + F for “dangerously”. D:
Well. It’s not unplugging your USB without checking the ‘safely remove device’ option, but we can’t all be daredevils.
I mean, I posted the same line above… then scrolled down here to see you say it heh.
when I say taking the day off, I mean pulling a sickie in the truest Australian style 😉
I think he is talking about the likelihood of server overload and being unable to play it on the day you took off.
Yeah, I know, but I’m still undecided whether to take the day off or not. Probably not and then join the after work crowd in crashing the servers 😀
Yes. This is exactly what I was talking about, @cufcfan616. Online game launch days are typically… ‘troubled’, at best.
It is not uncommon for online-only games like MMOs to be entirely unavailable on the launch day and for several days afterward. Especially if they’re popular from beta and pre-orders. The connection attempts when the gates are opened is basically a non-malicious DDOS attack.
Prepare for down-time. Set expectations accordingly.
Considering they’re claiming it to be the most pre ordered game ever it will probably take a week to settle.
This isn’t EA though. But yeah, I get what you’re saying. The good part of it is that there’s not a great deal of players in each instance, definitely not hundreds or thousands like might be on some MMOs so hopefully it won’t be a great deal of strain on the servers. Also, if Bungie don’t get it right it’ll be a massive fail on their part and with $500 million on the line with this game I don’t think they’ll be cutting corners on the servers.
However, lots of developers say they’re prepared and then the week after launch they come out apologising saying they didn’t anticipate how popular their game would be
Heh. EA were actually some of the better ones. Even Blizzard – masters of the game – have routine issues, and the smaller guys such as funcom and NCsoft’s are notorious. I really don’t think there’s been a single MMO immune to having people complain, “I took a day off for this only to stare at ‘connection failed’ errors all day!” It really is like a DDOS attack, it’s no joke.
But you’re right that Destiny seems designed to handle it better than some. The problem seems to be connection to the Tower, which connects more players. When they were doing the stress test, that and match-making were where everyone was falling down and getting connection failures.
Hopefully that stress test combined with the pre-orders will allow them to make the case they need to have ten times the launch day infrastructure that they would need at any other time.
Given the size of the stress test, this is about the only online game I’d have a degree of faith in working at least some of the time on launch day. After all the whole point of the stress test was to see exactly where the problems were so they could fix them so in a way, it was a great thing to get those connection issues so we can be sure that bungie now know about them. Whether they’ll get them fixed is another thing but they know and that’s what matters.
Destiny \o/I’ve been struck by the sickness! I’ve been a paragon of good health amidst diseased co-workers for the past week but my defences have finally fallen D:
How about that new 3DS, huh? I’m actually considering “downgrading” to a normal-sized one rather than get another XL. I love the XL but with the amount of streetpassing I do I really just want something easier to carry. Plus I’m a total sucker for those customisable faceplates, they look awesome.
I’ll keep my XL for home use and use the new3DS for on-the-go.
ps. @greenius I’m also highly considering buying the Xenoblade new3DS port even though I said I wouldn’t… I have been wanting to re-play it before XenUblade… 😛
Might you say that you are… down with the sickness?
I would never say that.
Not near legit enough?
Get up come on get down with the sickness!
*insert crazy monkey noises here*
You mother get up, come on get down with the sickness
The new ones put comparable hardware in the smaller form factor, so yeah, it’s viable. Our house might end up with one each way.
I’d probably buy it anyway for easier replayablility :P. Although I really want to HD it up on PC…
This. Also it has the cool coloured buttons!
The only thing about it is I don’t really like the horizontal strips on the case, I wish the custom covers went across the entire thing like on the current XL. It’s actually got me considering picking up a white unit, since they stick out less on that one. And I’ve always absolutely hated the white models of anything.
I’m getting black! With orange faceplate on the top and yellow or blue on the bottom! I saw they had some clear ones too, it’s a shame you can’t see all the way through to the circuitry or I’d get those.
I haven’t been able to find any pics of the inside of the black though. The coloured buttons look great on the white, so I hope they do on the black too.
EDIT: Nevermind, just found one. Yup, black it is!
Actually yeah, one thing about the white one is that it’s going to end up turning kind of greyish or brown. Why couldn’t it have a black inside…
Or, you know. Why couldn’t the XL just have the coloured buttons and changeable faceplates >_>
I tried engaging someone on twitter (who actually approached me) with one of Thunderf00t’s videos. He just wanted to tell me that Anita Sarkeesian is dumb and doesn’t belong in our community. Like, that was the extent of his discussion.
Also that STEM degrees are the only ones important to the marketplace. I wonder how many video game developers have STEM degrees….
Because someone with a STEM degree is an excellent person to run a business. /sarcasm
Oh god, my degree is either ultimate STEM or not at all STEM and either way I would be terrible at business management.
Yeah I see far too many examples of really intelligent people (engineers, lawyers, doctors) who try to get into business and realise that it’s a terrible idea because they have no idea how to manage a business.
Just because a piece of paper says you’re really smart at one thing, does not make you automatically good at every job ever. You don’t need advanced civil engineering to run a business, stack shelves in a supermarket, or lecture (oh god, the number of people who think they’d be a good teacher because they have “real-world experience” are too many to count).
The saddest thing is that my uni employed lecturers based on the fact they were good at the topic and didn’t seem to bother checking if they were actually good at teaching
ONTARIO REPRESENT
(It wasn’t me)
Always fascinated me how upset people get over her videos. I mean, it’s an internet video of someone giving a different opinion on something than you might have. There’s literally millions upon millions of other videos doing exactly that. Don’t like it? Ignore and move on. It’s not hard.
Edit: Not saying the issue needs to be ignored. Just that if it angers you to the point of issuing death threats maybe it’s better to just not watch them?
Because THEM WIMMINS are in MAH GAEMS
Because the people who had previously been pandered to at the expense of others are no longer being pandered to, and that makes them saaaaaaaaaad.
It’s really weird. Anyone else says something you disagree with, you just say they’re an idiot, mock their obvious stupidity, and move on. Well. Unless you’re a politician in which case you just get used to the death threats, I guess? It’s very visible when someone’s main presence and audience is twitter, but I’m now starting to wonder just how many death threats politicians actually get…
I suppose it’s because Anita Sarkeesian’s videos can dip into extremism at times. Some of her views can be a bit detached from reality at times. I also think a lot of the people that donated to her Kickstarter were disappointed by what they got.
In my opinion, the fact that she put other people’s gameplay on her videos without crediting them bothers me more than anything else. It just doesn’t seem right to do that.
Here’s the thing about those STEM types, from someone with a STEM degree: Sure, STEM, might lead to employment, and productivity, and wondrous technology. having all of those things with a shit society? Ew.
The arts are important.
As I said above, my degree is either considered STEM or not at all STEM (thank you lovely artistic parts of medicine). But I would die without TV/video games/art/photography. They are so important.
The way I see it, we can all be scientists and engineers and mathematicians, and then when we get off work we… stare at the wall?
It’s a stupid, narrow view of the world. I’ve made snarky comments at my fair share of arts students, but never dismissed the value of the arts.
And who do they think makes the games and films and comics etc that they’re into?
OH MY GOD exactly
Never mind the fact that the arts and the “soft” sciences have inspired generations upon generations of scientists. Look at the number of scientists that were inspired by Star Trek, or Jules Verne, or paintings, or anything.
These people seem to think that the Vulcans had it right, but even they had a fucking aesthetic sense.
Not to mention the fact that the Vulcans were just scared of their emotions and were taking the irrational position of trying to suppress them rather than learning to master them. Somewhat illogical really…
I can’t wait for the STEM, the Hydra was cool enough as it is but this is gonna be even better!
“The files are in the downloads folder of user xyz”
*Receive confused email from I.T. dude asking if he’s connecting correctly??*
Said guy has full admin access and is just using another account.
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Anyone else see Hunter X Hunter? I realise I’m probably late to the party but this series constantly surprises me. The ONLY thing I don’t like is the character design of Gon. Everything else is fantastic.
It’s ending soon 🙁 Current arc will be the end of it.
I really like it too. It started out kind of hit-and-miss but it steadily improved. Enjoying it heaps. It hit its stride right at the point that Fairy Tail stopped, which was my previous regular dumb fighting show, so good timing there too.
So it’s going to keep getting better?
They’re currently still in the prison and whilst I’m a bit over a few episodes stuck in the same spot the dialogue is way smarter than it has any right to be. A random thoughtful discussion on an issue with democracy and how the minority will always feel suppressed and then a talk about the merits of voting anonymously are the few times I’ve ever gotten anything profound out of a tv show.
Yeah it doesn’t really get good until the Yorknew City / Phantom Troupe arc which is about episode 40 or so.
SO EXCITE
URRRRRRRRRK
Bloodborne 1st Print Edition (Feb 15, 2015):
http://www.play-asia.com/bloodborne-paOS-13-49-en-70-7vv7.html
Japanese edition comes with artbook and mini-soundtrack.
…must… resist…
… don’t even… own… PS4…
@freezespreston @sernobulus @SoulsTAYfolk
HNNNNNNNGGGGG!!!! No, i don’t need* a ps4, i don’t i don’t i don’t i don’t i don’t i don’t
* i do, i really really doBe awesome if I understood a lick of Japanese.
HNNNG! I.NEED.THIS!
DIRK SEARLES
I mean…
BLOB BURN!
BOB DOLE!
Ahhhhh, Bob Dole doesn’t need this.
BLERB FERN
Bob Byrne.
So tempting… but I know just enough Japanese to be able to guess/bluff my way through half* of it, and get confused by the rest. Given the obtuse way the Souls games told their stories, I’d be better off with the English version, which can be confusing enough, at times.
Alternative solution: buy both!
😛*Disclaimer: may be slight exaggeration^
^Disclaimer: is definitely as slight exaggeration
Wait for the English version, you’ll at least have a chance to understand what’s going on (unless you speak Japanese in which case you might well understand it). Also having a PS4 might be handy, post christmas sales might be a good option there if there’s any left by then of course.
@negativezero I require your sagely advice, if I may so bug you.
You seem pretty knowledgeable about FFG Star Wars RPGs (Edge of the Empire and stuff) so I was wondering what your number one tip for a new player would be.
I ask because I’ve somehow been roped into playing an EE game live on stage at Oz Comic Con this weekend, despite never playing it. :S
Use the force, Carol.
Shh we’re not allowed real names here B-ob.
Your real name is Carol?
Yes Reginald, it is indeed Carol.
Huzzah!
Never tell anyone the odds?
I haven’t actually played it!
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
WHO WILL RED TRY TO THROW OFF A TOWER NEXT?
WED 7:30 SA TIME
cc @popdart5 @novacascade @mawt @tech_knight @blaghman
Mario Kart multiplayer isn’t fun with strangers any more. They put me in with 4000/5000 rank people when I’m only 3000. It’s brutal. Constant barrage of items. Getting slammed off track. :S I’ve just been playing Team Vs mode in single player with my yellow yoshi. We should try team multi for TAY Kart! 😀
Can you be hit by teammates’ items in team multiplayer?
Some items. Things like lightning though will only target non-team mates.
Ah, excellent. I assume blue shells as well.
Would be good if there were other ways of promoting teamwork too. Like only getting anti-gravity boosts from teammates or maybe being able to swap/pool items or something? Exclusive items on that mode that affect everyone on your team? I dunno!
EDIT: No! Team-wide shared coin collecting! Or maybe being able to ‘spend’ collected coins to give all teammates behind you a temporary speed boost?
I think it’s just a cool way of making it fun for inexperienced players too. Levels the playing field, etc. Assuming the teams are balanced properly.
Play TAYkart again. There were only three of us last night, and it only went for 20 minutes.
Jerk.
I went online at 8:15pm. No one was there. I ended up playing single player.
Unleash the fury!
I showed my gf something quickly on my phone about the PAX Meat. She looked at it: “…we can’t go.” What? Why?? “we can’t be friends with people that spell meet like that.”
She was joking, but still funneh story I thought.You’re not going to be friends with us, you’re going to be fronds with us! \o/
“Every party needs a pooper,
Mobile Tay everyone, love that guy *facepalm*
“Every party needs a pooper, that’s why we invited you
Party Poooper,
Party Poooper
…Lord Guru…
I keep telling you people, it’s all about cannibalism. SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!
After playing hannabi in Canberra, the gf asked me to buy it so we could play, what are some other card games besides netrunner. Seriously netrunner is way to fucking complicated for anyone besides bunny and freya
Obligatory 7 Wonders.
Also Coup was pretty rad.
Smash up! Is great… Cards against humanity? :P… Tsuro is a great tile based game, so is Carcassonne
Boo, no to Cards Against Humanity. It’s alright like the first four times then gets bad.
It’s fine as a conversation piece at a party (once), it’s an awful “game”
Hmm i didn’t have an issue with it during the 3 hours we played it at the can’d meat :P, just need enough terrible people and alcohol
Mechanically, the game is just plain terrible. But most people don’t want to get dragged into a discussion about game mechanics.
The point of the game isn’t the mechanics though, it’s about getting a laugh out of saying things that are dirty, wrong and whatnot. The problem there is that there really isn’t much creativity involved. The cards dictate things and there are cards that are seen as trumps. No matter what the question, playing that card is considered enough.
So it devolves into “doh ho ho ho, look how naughty we all are by saying this thing!”
Most board gamers prefer games like Dixit or Apples to Apples which are very similar mechanically but allow for more creativity. They aren’t deliberately dirty so when you come up with something truly wrong, the experience is more organic and thus more better.
The short version is that I don’t like that sort of humour when it’s forced.
Fair enough
I dunno, I think there’s still a degree of playing to the cardmaster (??) like you get with Dixit. Whenever I’ve played it with my friends there’s always been a whole lot of strategy involved because some of them just don’t get things and you need to change how you play depending on who’s judging.
…I totally need to get Dixit.
Buneeples!
Love Letter would probably be about your speed if you liked Hanabi.
Hah! Love Letter is amazing!, played it for the first time last week
Card based games?
7 wonders
Love Letter
Dominion
Guillotine is OK
Munchkin…. can be fun?
DON’T GO ANYWHERE NEAR FLUXX
Munchkin was fun the first few times but now I can’t stand it.
I’m a bit the same. I’ll still play it, but I won’t choose it.
After my last game, I’m done with Munchkin.
More explanation:
7 Wonders is a card drafting game. You are given a hand of cards, choose one to play and then pass the rest on. Rinse and repeat until the hand is exhausted then do it again another two times. The whole point is to build a great civilisation focused around an ancient wonder. It’s my favourite game but it’s not a 2 player game. Great for 3-7 players but it takes a game or two for people to learn the scoring system and really get into things.
Love Letter I explained below.
Dominion is a deck building game. Each turn, you’re going to draw a hand of cards from your deck and then take one Action, Buy one card and then Cleanup by discarding your hand and drawing a new one (It’s explicitly called ABC in the rules). Cards can give you additional actions, buys or draws which can chain into each other to let you buy a lot of shit. The aim is to add a lot of point cards to your deck but first you have to buy cards that let you do other things otherwise you’ll be drawing a lot of point cards that do nothing. It’s much better if you just sit down and try it.
Guillotine is a card game where you’re killing French Nobles for points. There’s a queue of people lined up for the chop and you take the person at the head of the queue (pun intended). You have cards that can change the order of the queue in order to get the head of the people you want to get more points. It’s okay but fairly shallow and I feel too dependent on luck of the draw.
Munchkin is a 30 minute game of backstabbing that takes 2 hours and only ends when everyone has exhausted their means of dicking each other over. Winning is more a case of falling over the finish line first than outplaying people. It’s kind of funny at first but wears out its welcome quickly.
Fluxx is a game where the cards change the rules constantly. It can take 5 minutes or it can take 5 hours. Not a fan but there are some interesting theme versions of it.
I’m not sure if you’re after card games specifically or smaller board games like Hanabi.
Netrunner is pretty much the extreme end of card games.
Hanabi is considered a micro-game. Other card based micro-games are Love Letter and Coup. Both of them are focused on knocking out the other players with some bluffing elements. They do not work with two players but are fantastic with 3-4 people.
Hive is a great Chess like game where you lay tiles down and move them to try and surround the other person’s Queen.
Qwirkle is another tile laying game that is very simple. It’s basically Scrabble but instead of forming words with letters, you’re forming patterns with colours or symbols. Works well with 2 players and is just generally rad. Plus, Qwirkle is a really fun word to say and if you complete a set of a colour or symbol, you form a Qwirkle giving you a chance to say “Qwirkle”. I like games where you can say the name.
Sentinels of the Multiverse was pretty amazing, despite the fact that our team got completely stomped when we played it!
So Warframe has arrived to the Xbone…I’ve never heard of it. Would anyone recommend it?
I found the PC version to be really quite boring. but then again, I’m just not a fan of slowly grinding for in-game cash to upgrade gear. typical FTP model.
Still, space ninjas are pretty cool at times.
Opposite to @35 I love the PC version and play it all the time. 🙂
Ho wdoes it play. Can you jump in a play for 5 minutes and then sit for 30 minutes. or is it set time areas with other people relying on you?
Easily solable for the most part, though some missions are hard enough that you might want to do them with a friend or in a public pick-up group. Those are very easily drop-in/drop-out without being considered rude and most sessions would run around maybe 20min. Faster if you’re with an over-powered group (which many are).
(Edit: If you play in ‘solo only’ mode, the game is pausable. That’s the only mode with a pause function.)
It’s kind of like a horde-mode game, only instead of sitting in a static location, you run/slide/parkour your way through the level like some kind of space ninja death god. (With a very creepy organic-tech aesthetic that I really dig.)
There’s a pretty heavy ‘collecting’ element to the game. You have blank-slate suits, guns, and melee weapons which accumulate experience. The more levels they get, the more slots they get to fit ‘mods’, which are collected through the levels and form some kind of card-collecting metagame. Mods have various effects and through fusion (combining, sacrificing cards), they can be levelled up as well.
There’s a pretty hefty variety of types of missions and tilesets/biomes (unlike ME3 multi, the levels are randomly generated every time), and weapons/warframes (suits), so it can be pretty damn grindy. Which I don’t actually mind, because the playing and levelling is more fun than relaxing with the max-level. (You can actually prestige – or ‘polarize’ – your max-level gear, resetting it to scratch with a lingering bonus, such as the ability to fit more mods for cheaper.)
It’s almost purely PVE, with a few little token PVP options here and there. If you get heavy into the social part of the game with clans and so forth, clans can lay claim to sections of the solar system, defending installation with clone armies that you can then opt to either defeat to claim the territory yourself, or defend to claim bounty rewards from the defender’s bank.
The F2P is very civilized. Just about everything can be acquired through free play. Doling out cash just saves you some grind and eliminates the randomness from needing certain drops.
Interesting.
Looking for something with kinda grindy with no story that I can play on and off between feeds with the little one. Brain not working for indepth games and I don’t want to play anything too stroy oriented, I’m half-way through sleepy dogs and waiting until I’ve got some time to play that before I start again.
Considered planetside again but reaction times aren’t great right now. There is only so much Marvel puzzle quest I can play and NG++ in rogue legacy is brutal
Yeah, I’d recommend it. There’s no real story to speak of, just lore left lying around in places for you to find (a la Dark Souls) if you care, otherwise, just shoot evil empire space marines in the face.
I might get this too since I’m now on unlimited internet I might download this and try it out sometime
I’ve got friends who love it.
I don’t find it all that great to play but when you’ve got some buds in co-op it’s a bunch of fun.
You play as a space ninja. Do I need to say any more?
…
Oh, you want more convincing? Huh, didn’t expect that.
It’s made by the same people that made Unreal Tournament.
…
Do you really need more convincing? Urgh. It’s also free.
Lol I actually wasn’t going to download it, but now I am.
Ok, seeing more posts about board games / card games. So far @cufcfan616 @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @sernobulus and @strange have expressed interest in some bored gaming, and anybody else who might be interested…
How’s the 14th (next Sunday) work for everybody? Too short notice? I was thinking maybe somewhere like Escobar in New Farm during the afternoon could be good. They have a bunch of games already (and they just got Cards Against Humanity if we’re really stuck) and it’s neither North or South. I don’t have many games myself but I can bring 7 Wonders and/or Catan (+6 player expansion and plastic holder) as needed.
Alternative venue I’d be happy to host but my apartment is rather small, any more than 6 or 7 (total) and we’d be struggling.
Alternatively alternative, suggest something else.
bored gaming? that sounds… fun?
It’s @dc’s favourite thing
There’s a place in Stones Corner called GO Lounge that has a pretty good range of board games. Costs a couple of dollars per hour to be there (or $10 for all you can play all day on weekends) and they’ve got a fairly impressive library to choose from. The staff there can help run you through games too.
Freya and I stumbled across it after having brunch. It’s rad.
GO Lounge sounds pretty sweet, ya’ll.
http://www.golounge.com.au/
New Farm works for me. 14th should be good as well, just gotta check with the missus if there are any plans that I’m unaware of 😀
My place is big enough for 5-6 people let’s say as well, probably more tbh but will run out of tables and chairs at some point, space isn’t an issue. Not sure if Alderley’s a bit far to go for some people though but it’s not too far from the station.
not got much in the way of games bte but I can pick up some card games somewhere if needed
New Farm sounds good
I won’t be able to make it on the 14th. Don’t let this influence your decision though, I’m not sure if I’ll even be free at all over the next couple of months.
I’m keen!
Lemme make sure I’m free but New Farm/Metro area is perfect for me.
Sounds good! I have a copy of Munchkin and Smash Up! which I may aswell bring with me.
EDIT: I’m also pretty tempted to pick up Sentinels of the Multiverse, that game was great.
I’m not normally one of those people who quits the Internet but the last couple of weeks have just been….uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggh.
On the bright side, I’m back up to spitting out babies in my second FE: Awakening playthrough.
Sorry, i won’t send you pictures ever again! *runs out crying*
The thing is, if the good people quit the internet, that means the terrible people have won.
Shhh or you’ll ruin the plan.
Babby Making Simulator! \o/
Wait, shit, how did nobody make a joke about you spitting out babies in real life, or jokes about how your wife should have spat to avoid this mess or something (clearly I have less than 0 knowledge about how babby is formed)?
I’m sure there’s a joke here that a smarter man than I could have made.
Last Played Song Game:
Landslide – Stevie Nicks
James Taylor – Carolina In My Mind [1976 Version]
Russian Circles – 309
Where The City Meets The Sea (Acoustic) – The Getaway Plan
I FUCKING LOVE THAT SONG
I FUCKING LOVE YOU.
I mean.. erm..
You aight.
Nailed it.NAiled it.
Also good luck for your show this weekend.
🙂
FUneral – Arcade fire
the whole album.
It’s a good one. You’ve done well, friend.
Movin’ Out – Billy Joel.
Danger zone – Kenny Loggins
Save Me – Queen
Sorry @dc 😛You’re not sorry. You’re not sorry at all…
Dammit, you cracked my code 😛
That is my most favourite Queen song ever.
I’m a fan 😀 Innuendo’s my favourite though
Bye Bye Sweet Pain- The Pillows
I heard Ramona sing – Frank Black
Who is Ramona and why is she/they singing Frank Black?
Ramona is a Belgian art rocker, Francis Black was an early impressionist. It’s a classical inspired impressionist rock fusion piece.
No relation to Jack Black? 😛
His grandfather
Dumb song for jerks.
Children Of The Sea – Black Sabbath
This is getting a bit samey, next time make it a last played game song. Everyone has to write a song (or at least verse) about the last game they’ve played
Decided to try and get fit again because after playing a few games of indoor soccer I feel like death after 4 minutes. So far..im in pain and cant feel my legs
Indoor soccer sounds like fun. I’ve never played soccer before though and am not a team player. *files soccer idea into same folder as swimming*
Be the goalie then. You just need to stand in the way of things!
I don’t like confrontation. Especially with balls.
Indoor soccer balls are not the most oppressive of sportsballs.
I used to play hockey, now THAT was a ball that hurt to get hit with.
Indoor cricket balls aren’t all that different from a normal cricket ball except you’re standing a couple of meters from the guy with the bat.
They still hurt when they hit you in the face
Wukka wukka.
2 years ago I was goalie for my previous team that made finals 2 years in a row..only reason I got back into it
Swimming’s pretty damn great, just… maybe don’t go into Competition. I can’t remember the quote, but I think it was Kieran Perkins who said something like, “You gotta understand. These kids are spending eight hours a day with their heads underwater, staring a black line while they make their lungs and heart explode. It’s not normal.”
To be fair, diving probably uses your leg muscles way differently than regular running and stuff though.
And kicking shins, oh so many fouls
I know this pain exactly. We started up about 8 weeks ago, I’m still unfit as hell and now my left knee is giving me strife. In my few minutes that I can run around in though I’ve scored a few goals which cheers me up
It’s more of a workout than 11 a-side on a full size pitch but that’s because you have less space to hide and relax on a full pitch.
Exactly if they get the ball and your walking and they score off that your gonna feel it. I haven’t got the best kick so I’ve only scored 1 in the past 4 games.
End My Agony – Illuminata
Mr. Strange suggested I check them out and I couldn’t really do a whole album of them at the time, but peppered in amongst my current playlist they’re not bad.
FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL
I LOVE YOU ANYWAY
I hadn’t even noticed because I hit ‘Submit’ and got sidetracked by a different tab in my browser for a few minutes. Oops. Oh well, failing builds character, right? 😛
Thats what winners say who want losers to carry their bags.
😛
Being miserable builds character!
ignoring the reply fail 😛 judging by the band picture (all I could be bothered to look up), gothic rock? I like gothic rock but too much of it is very samey for me to properly get into more than a handful of bands
It’s a little heavier than rock, but still kind of gothic, I guess. I’m really bad with genre. 😛
Just got free Lions Club mints. Lady at work walked around handing em out. Neat.
First kid charged with ‘swatting’ just got 25 years to life in prison. I’ve never read that the streamer’s father got critically injured in the raid either!***
I got trolled hard myself, it’s a fake. 🙁 Didn’t realise, sorry!
Good.
This now makes it look like you’re happy @stickman got trolled. Stop being a sadist Freeze 😛
Holy s-
…wat.
I feel sorry for the kid, his life is ruined by a thoughtless prank. But the judge is not wrong in making an example of him. These kids need to learn that consequences are real.
I
don’twouldn’t.TheIf a kid was willing to possibly kill someone and nearly did because of a hissy fit about being beaten in a game they deserves everything he gets.Amended for story being untrue.
In the US, people get shot in the face for answering the door with a game controller in-hand as it is. Swatting is going to get someone killed and it’ll be entirely the wrong person.
CC @mrtaco
this turned out to be fake. 🙁
BadAssDwg69. Just.. goddamn.
Not sure if the future holds more transparency or less by way of technology. I feel as if he was caught because he made a direct call with his cell phone or something, the article doesn’t exactly state how he was caught.
EDIT: Wait, is this a parody site? The articles there are… of interesting quality. Not exactly ‘The Onion’ quality, either.
EDIT: http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/swatted.asp
A google of “Paul Horner” reveals that and the same article being posted on various news sites, but no major publications. S’ fake, folks.
http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/swatted.asp
So it didn’t happen.
shoulda caught it sooner. Here’s a quote from a article on the same site about a Sorority member whose sorority was fined for wasting water on the ALS challenge in california, being hit by a drought-
I gotta admit the second bit is slightly funny.
Fake.
It’s from the National Report a “satire” website except their satire isn’t funny or satire.
Lol I see now, googled it. I’ll update the post.
If you can’t beat Poe’s Law…
Bring it @mrtaco! I’m going to go all woolly on your arse in that comments thread!
Awww that was a baaahd way to get a pageget.
Wait.
It’s #pagesix.
BEST PAGEGET EVER
IT IS ON
LIKE
SOME KIND OF VIDEOGAME
DAMN RIGHT
Damnit, he won.
I bow to @mrtaco and his pun abilities.
He is a dad among gods.
At least that’s one thing I don’t need kids for.
I had an encounter with a ghost in an elevator once, it really lifted my spirit.
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeNot actually a joke, it happened this morning. My mother told me this morning she’s going to a job interview with a “Printer” today, and I responded with “Didn’t know they could speak english now… usually all I get out of them is ‘beep…beep’.”
It was really a printing company 😛
Did you groan and tell her to leave the Dad jokes to Dad?
PC LOAD LETTER??
I thought printers only spoke demonic because they are pure evil.
Ohyeah. I’ll take a crack at any random family/workplace tech support under the sun… EXCEPT PRINTERS. I DO NOT DO PRINTERS.
Random workstuff:
Co-Worker1: Ugh. Headache. And I don’t have any neurofen…
Co-Worker2: How about panadeine?
CW1: Oh, no, that always knocks me flat on my ass.
CW2: Just take one?
CW1: I meant with just one.
CW2: Well, you could always just break one in half and take that…
CW1: Hmm. I guess.
Me waking up: Huh? Wait… what? Break in half… Nowait don’t–
CW1: BLAAAAAAHRGH! Yech! Bleh! Bleh! Pfffffft! Pteh! Pteh! Pteh!
Me: Yeeeah. Soooooo… Codeine and paracetmol tastes really foul, but you usually don’t know thanks to the protective coating they give it. If you break that, it’ll taste pretty horrible, so you probably wanna take it with something like coke instead of water and be prepared to get some bitterness anyway.
CW1: BLAAAAAH! WHY DIDN’T YOU WARN ME?!
Me: It seems my sense of ESP thought it would be funny.
I like to imagine Panadol make those unflavoured effervescent tablets with directions to “dissolve in water” purely for the joy of imagining people putting up with the taste…
You mean aspirin? It’s nowhere near as awful tasting as codeine-based tablets.
@transientmind I can’t use codeine stuff either. Opiates along those lines all seem to hit me way harder than most people, make me feel completely off the planet and drowsy.
These, I think – they used to make them unflavoured… I guess they don’t anymore. But even flavourings don’t normally work – Lemsip consistently tastes like arse, no matter what flavour you choose.
I actually like the taste of lemsip. Tastes like lemons? I guess you must have taste receptors that pick up the bitterness of the paracetamol more easily?
Apparently. When I was a kid, I remember actually liking Lemsip, but nowadays all I can taste is the paracetamol and a bit of artificial sweetener – there’s a hint of the flavouring, but it’s just about completely drowned out by those two. I just assumed Lemsip had started skimping on their flavouring, combined with taste-buds naturally changing over time (kids prefer sweets, adults prefer savoury). Huh. That would explain a few things…
@steve-o-the-deve-o where are you? Come prove your mettle in page 6. 🙂
Son of a gun what kinda username does he have. D:
@steve-o_the_deve-o
I got a downvote for saying I stand away from the doors on the train?
Gosh, what the dickens is wrong with these… dickens?
Yes, I get unreasonably mad about downvotes. It’s my Achilles heel. Don’t remember that. 😛
What about spelling errors?
*heel. If Achilles had healed, we wouldn’t have this problem!DAMMIT @DC YOU AND YOUR EDITS YOU FRIGGIN NINJA CHANGE IT BACK SO I CAN CONTINUE TO MOCK YOU
I fixed the spelling mistake three seconds after posting. Don’t be that guy, Red. 😛
I WAS MAKING A POINT ABOUT GREEK MYTHOLOGY IT WAS FUNNY AND RELEVANT
cc @batgirl
you say so huh??
I saw that downvote. You’ve made the list, Rockets.
I’m so tempted to downvote this comment just for shits and giggles! 😉
So tempted to downvote this.
Unseemly gents, that’s what they are. Those gents.#NoSwearingSeptember
>:(
Okay, I’m good now. I am sorry for the swears. It’s just been a rough day. You know how it is, too much video games and no responsibilities. But we all got it bad. 😀
…
I had to wear business clothes for a meeting today. 😛
Bad language! 1 downvote
Darn! You’ve made my list too, Cam. If that is your real name!
Change that to a frack and ill remove the downvote
No! You should count yourself lucky I took a certain C word out of the post! 😛
Curs?
Colobus.
ColdCamV.
Communism
No be sad. Be happy smiles.
Now what are you gonna do?
Kill myself. This is all on you.
You’ve always been the Juliet to my Romeo
Anyone here employed in the Victorian Public Service?
More to the point, anyone here employed in the Victorian Public Service who has any do’s/don’ts specific to their applications?
by applications, do you mean job application, or software?
Job application
not being victorian, I don’t know if it’s the same, but I’d guess it’d be at least similar. When applying for public service jobs, you will normally be asked to submit a selection criteria. It can seem daunting, but they’re really quite easy. Just address the points they outline, and relate any real world experience you’ve had that demonstrates how you achieved said criteria.
Cheers
I’ve done selection criteria before, it’s just that some govt stuff can be a little idiosyncratic
Are you looking at moving to Victoria permanently or just in the short term?
I’ll go where the jobs are. I’m amenable to Vic solely as I have relatives there.
And because it is better than other places
I concur
It is known.
Don’t mind me. I have caffeine withdrawals.
Best cure is more caffeine!!!
\o/ helping
It’s #helping!
Time for a cup of tea!
Urggh legal stuff makes my brain rot. I’m an accountant damn it!
No, you’re not! You’re the guy fated to save the world from a long dormant evil!
…
We haven’t told you yet? Oh, disregard! :S
Spoilers. D:
Who was asking about pinball FX2 the other day. To add to my previous message I have to say I am really enjoying the Thor table which I picked up recently
Might have been me? Might not too. I could be tricked as I just purchased 2 tables for it the other day! Plants Vs Zombies and a Marvel one. Both 74c each! Bargain!
Having the core game be free makes purchasing tables for that price super tempting!
I generally grab a pack or a couple of table each sale. I have basically all of them now, only a few of the newer tables that I’m missing (Soccer, Guardians of the galaxy, deadpool)
it’s a fun little distraction, been playing a fair bit since Tiglet came along as I don’t need to think and if I ‘die’ then it isn’t an issue.
On the plus side you give me somebody else to compete with for high scores
haha it’ll be a while before I’m any kind of competition for you 😉 Been a long time since I played pinball. Need to figure out how the tables work too. The other one I got was Captain America btw.
Also I discovered this afternoon, that if you quit mid game, it asks if you want to resume your previous game when you come back!
Well just in case you haven’t worked it out yet if you hit the start button (providing you use a controller) it gives you the option to view the table guide. Tells you all the jackpots and how to start game modes and what they do.
i dun have a controller, but I was hoping there would be something like that in there. I shall try to find what to press to bring it up on keyboard
Probably Esc, just what you would use to pause the game
I would just like to take a moment to say that as my modem slowly died today, struggling to hold a connection for more than 5 minutes at a time, I continued to play Diablo III uninterrupted. It’s almost like they didn’t assume I’d pirate or hack the game the second they weren’t looking. Crazy stuff.
So I’m doing this 18.8km run on the 14th of this month to raise money for brain tumor research and care and and development for those affected by them. If you like, you can help by donating a tiny bit of cash to this page:
http://connorsrun2014.gofundraise.com.au/page/IanGielen
Any help is appreciated! 🙂
Running for a cause, that’s something I can get behind.
Thanks mate, that’s my primary reason for running longer distances now. I won’t do them without a reason and a cause I believe in.
I’ve run a couple of events over the last few years. Pretty much just because I can and I wanted to. But there’s a lot of people who can’t. And why not, while doing something I enjoy, try and help out some other people in need at the same time?
I have some ground coffee that’s getting a bit old, so last night I thought I’d give making iced coffee a go. Pour 1/3 cup ground coffee into 1 1/2 cups cold water and leave overnight, run it through a filter, add milk (I went half coffee half milk) and sugar, done. Srsly try it (if you have any beans/ground coffee lying round), so good! So much better than Farmers Union and the like.
Hahahahahahaha no. Nothing is better than Farmer’s Union.
Nothing
Alright, better than Dare iced coffee.
And the one owned by Coca Cola. Barista Bros or something stupid
Yeah, I described that barista bros stuff to someone this week as methadone to my heroin addiction.
Barista Bros. is kind of gross.
I dunno, Farmer’s Union is the only GOOD commercial brand. But this mobile coffee guy who comes to work every day, my god, best iced coffee I ever had. Just tastes so good, not full of sugar either which is the best part.
I’m unabashedly biased here, coming from one of the only places in the world where a local beverage outsells coca cola (other places include Peru (Inca Kola) and Scotland (Irn-Bru))
haha. Farmer’s Union do good products, it’s just a shame they’re now not Australian owned, but owned by the Japanese.
Actually, what you’ve created is basically Cold Press Coffee
Yeah that’s exactly what it is, turns into the same thing pretty much 😛
Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of The Light
Woo! Valkyrie’s back! Darquesse is forever defeated! Peace on Earth forevermore!I’ll give it fifty pages before shit hits the fan.That was like… ten pages. Good twist though, I didn’t see it coming. Definitely explains how… off Valkyrie seemed.Two flies land in my father-in-law’s wine on the weekend. My wife says ‘Dad, there’s two flies in you’re drink!’, father-in-law deadpan seriously responds “it’s alright they won’t drink much.”
I have sooooo much to learn!
#dadjokepagesix
hate to be the grammar nazi, but your not you’re!
Upvote for funny though! 🙂
People who say they “hate to” do something but do it anyway, don’t really hate it. 😛
I do hate it though. I feel so nasty, but I feel the need to educate as well.
Was just trying to be helpful without coming across as a total ass hat.
But quite often it’s a typo, especially if someone’s using their phone. Mine “auto-corrects” apostrophes into where they shouldn’t be all the time. So now you’re feeling nasty for no reason. 😛
I used to be a grammar nazi but it’s exhausting as you have to quadruple check your own posts all the time to make sure you’re practicing what you preach!
Yeah, I’ve given up correcting people. Lord knows, maybe there’s someone out there who takes offence at my egregious overuse of commas, and the fact that I still struggle to only place a single space after a full stop, thanks to years of conditioning to the wrong way. Not to mention the huge number of other stupid mistakes I make.
Nailed it. Was on my phone and not really paying attention.
Apologies, wasn’t trying to make you feel bad.
All good. Just wanted to make sure people didn’t think I was being a prick! 🙂 Merely a friendly tip! I never think about auto correct doing things like that cos I disable it on my phone for that very reason! Never quite know what it’s going to spit out!
Hate should be capitalised and you have not expressed who the hate would apply to.
well naturally the hate applies to the act of being a grammar nazi. Capitalization and typo’s and such I’ll let slide, but your/you’re and then/than and the likes, really gets under my skin!
Autocorrect on my phone. I’m normally a bit of a pedant about it myself but I’ve had a shitty afternoon and wasn’t paying too much attention.
So, was having trouble getting my ethernet cable working on my router…
Turns out I just had to stick it in a little further.
#PageSix #HashtagsForHarli #NotReallyAJoke #MoreOfAnAnecdote
Also, my net is back up to normal speed!
\o/
Hooray for working internet! That’s cause for celebration! Cheers!
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DRM on coffee cups?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/09/rival-coffee-cup-makers-have-already-cracked-keurigs-drm/
They’ll try anything to make a $ :\
How is that even legal, forcing someone to buy a special cup to use with an over priced pod machine.
Why would you buy one of those machines then? Would have thought that would put people off
@gingerchris86 and I are the greetest detectives!
Thanks once again @trjn and @freya!
You guys were disturbingly good.
That’s because we’re good atdetectoring
Red and @gingerchris86: Freelance Detectives, coming to ABC in 2015
That was a lot of fun 🙂
Thanks @trjn and @freya for facilitating 🙂
So, you know what’s weird?
I’ve known @rocketman for over three and a half years, and known him under that name for all this time.
After less than 4 days of hanging out with him and calling him by his real name, I now default to thinking of him with that name.
Downside is that I can’t #OhRocketman him nearly as well.
#OhBalgenab.
I have a tough time calling Sughly and Freeze by their proper names even though I’d consider them to be some of my best pals. Nobs is the only TAYbie with their real name in my phone cause I don’t want a contact for Nobs. What would someone think if they found my phone? I like to shorten Strange’s real name cause it riles her up and I’m a monster. >:D
TAYbies with long names like Transientmind I use real names though.
Rocketman explained that everyone should be introduced by real names, since he didn’t want to introduce Nob as, well, Nob, at the meat.
So of course we explained that to his +1, to her amusement.
When we meat new TAYbies I have my line well down: “I’m Dan, but call me D.C. cause we’ve got another superior Dan.”
Nailed it too. 😛
Makes sense. I go by Blaghs now, since nobody cares enough to add the extra syllable. And it’s not like I ever meet new people anyway, plus I assume that everyone knows who I am.
Which is a terrible idea.
Just ask Mark, or Scree, or Freeze.
If in doubt sing a bar from For Good. If he responds, it’s Blaghs.
I’ve heard it said that people come into our lives…
For a reason, Bringing something we must learn…
It’s him guys. Not a replicant. This time. We must remain vigilant though.
And we are led, to those who help us most to grow,
if we let them, and we help them in return.
Have I ever told my year 12 drama story about that song?
So like, we were supposed to give a quote to someone else, then we split into two groups (which basically just ended up being year 11s and 12s), and we had to read them out.
The quote I got (from Edward, who was the sole reason I didn’t murder someone else in my class) was from Winston Churchill, and was the “fight them on the beaches” thing. The one I gave to him was “Like a comet pulled from orbit, as it passes the sun. Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better? Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.” You could tell when he read it out, because all the girls in the other group went “Awwww” and it was followed up by questions relating to where I’d gotten such a good quote from.
Broadway, that’s where!
Also, don’t call the other Dan superior.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, he’s better than you in like, 40 ways, but he’s a bit of a gent, and he doesn’t have nearly as much… heart as you?
He’s not as endearing? Yeah, yeah, that’s it. Maybe.
Dan’s got way more heart than end game Link (VIDEO GAME REFERENCES, WOOOO!), you just have to get to know him. And who among us can say we’re not gents? XD
True dat.
Fine then, he lacks your spirit (in the sky).
Woo, unmemorable name!
…actually I can’t even remember what I was introduced as. Was I introduced? I don’t think I even talked to Rocketgirl other than to ask how tall she was (classy), and didn’t even know what her name was til after everyone had left and you guys were referring to her by name.
I think you were introduced as Gooky, but I may well be wrong.
You guys still mostly tend to favour Taco though I think?
Yeah, I think both were mentioned, maybe. Or my memory’s just making shit up.
Damn it Sean.
No-one ever uses my real name 🙁
Shut up, Alfonse.
La Funar!
I’ve started to remember most of the songs from Rocky Horror…
Huh.
Horrible story. Amazing soundtrack.
Hey man, don’t diss Rocky Horror.
It’s… astounding.
I like the score enough to consider it a classic and worthy piece of film. Just don’t actually want to watch it any time soon. 😛
TIME IS FLEETING.
*folds arms stubbornly*
MADNESS, TAKES ITS TOLL!
Never seen Rocky Horror, only thing I know about it is that Tim Curry is a transvestite called Dr. Frank N. Furter and the song The Timewarp.
Only saw Little Shop Of Horrors for the first time ever in the last few months and I quite enjoyed it.
You should watch the Italian dub.
You know how whatserface, the love interest lady person has a sort of lisp/Brooklyn accent speech impediment?
Well she still has it in the dub, and it’s glorious (at least for “Suddenly Seymour”).
Haven’t watched it in like, 5 – 8 years, so I think it’s time for a re-watch,
Home made fried rice with lemon chicken & steamed veggies in oyster sauce is awesome.
Dear Dice Gods,
With respect to No Swear September: Go fuck yourselves.
Love
Karnath
Find some beat up mismatched D6s that look like they should suck. My ones roll well disproportionately often but not quite often enough that they look loaded. It’s perfect
For the love of Arceus Facebook has reared its ugly head again.
I thought I had completed the social media module for my traineeship, the one that required me to create a Facebook account. I got a message from my instructor-person that I need to rope more people in to meet the requirements of the module. I guess I need to nag some teachers and my manager at work to post on the Facebook wall or something.
Curses.
Add me, I’ll post shit if you need me to
I’d rather not, it has my real name attached to it. Plus, I think random people posting may actually impede marks. But thanks for the offer.
No problem.
HAHAHAHA. You’re screwed.
Sock puppet accounts perhaps? Any detail that says they have to be real people or just numbers to validate a numerical requirement?
So, while I’m here, and while I should really be in bed:
If there’s one thing I’d love to do, it would be to direct a TV show or movie rendition of some books I’ve read. I always imagine how I’d frame things, set things up, and whatever else while reading a good book. Which is a little sad, since I have enough original ideas that don’t go anywhere, but there are so many worlds which I’d just love to bring to life in a visual sense, so many stories to tell.
That said, I know my weaknesses, and I’d need a brutal as shit editor to cut that crap down.
I haven’t really been posting because I’ve been at work, but damn TAY is slow today. Almost 9 hours and we’re still on the same page o.O
That’s because nobody wants to leave the glory, the magnificent ecstasy that is page 6.
This page has everything, hilarity, rivalries, @dc baiting, #hashtagsforharli, Balgenab. All quality.
Man, I dunno about Balgenab. That guy’s a bit of a prick.
Upvote for perfect timing.
So here’s a few fun snippets from the last few days:
1. When putting on a suit to attend my daughter’s baptism, I was rather alarmed to learn that I’d put on a couple of inches around the middle (for the first time ever) and could no longer fit into my suit pants. I wore a jacket all day to hide the fact that my button wasn’t done up. Last time I wore this suit was four months ago.
2. Hot water randomly stopped working the other day. Our water heater is 13 years old, so after quickly checking with the kids that they hadn’t been playing with the switches, I assumed it was on its way out. After booking a service guy to come and fix it, I checked the manual and it recommended switching the device off if it wasn’t working. I headed outside, and… it was off already. My kids lied to me!
3. I’m back at work in five days. Had a nice time off, and will be sad to see it end. Though on the other hand, I’m now 10 weeks behind in all my favourite podcasts… and 11 weeks behind in Dan and Karl’s Zeitgeist.
4. It was my sixth wedding anniversary on Sunday. We recognise the need for a romantic dinner on these days, but in deference to our long-term budget tightness, we’ve developed a compromise in the form of pizza-by-candlelight. Last year it was takeaway store pizza. This year it was Domino’s. Next year, I think we might just be dumpster diving.
If you’d like I could make you some pizzas…
Then again, based on my cooking, you might be better with dumpster diving.
I MISS YOU, SHANE!
Play it cool, DC. Play it cool.
I miss you Shane is what I’d say if I even liked you. But I don’t. So whatever.
I MISS YOU, SHANE. NEVER LEAVE US AGAIN!*shakes fist at inevitable baby #04*
Remind me and I will random act of pizza you next year.
I’m not convinced your water heater isn’t haunted. The Mystery Inc. teens are on their way. Zoinks!
Jinkies!
Something something meddling kids!
Wouldn’t be surprised if your hot water is on its way out. Ours went a few months ago, when the guy was replacing it we noticed it had the install date on the inside of the little door, it had lasted 17 years. The guys said that it had had a very good run, because they don’t normally last anywhere near that long, he reckons about 10 years or so is the norm.
Haunted. >:|
I guess this has just elevated Evil Monkey to prime suspect. He’s got everything to gain.
Dagnabbit, foiled again.
I would’ve gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids.
Yeah, that’s my understanding too. But in this case, it was all down to those meddling kids *shakes fist*
Wait, shizno, I’m really slipping this week.
Putting on weight? OOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*Waddles off*
Do you think we should audition a younger, fresher faced Shane?
@pixel_the_viking_ferret (or @pixel_the_ferret_viking) this is YOUR CHANCE TO
SHINESHANEThe foreign angle might alienate some of our bogan viewers. Maybe girl Shane? It worked for Starbuck?
I’m all for alienating bogans. Besides, Pixel probably knows more about Australia than I do now!
I’ve heard this “Pixel” guy is a pretty good replacement.
Edit: Shit, beaten by a minute. Usually it’s beaten in a minutes, if you know what I mean? Ladies.
Not as ‘rad’ and ‘in your face’ as he could be! Maybe add a backwards cap?
Also maybe change his book series to L3SS3R E>!L
Or maybe, Lesser Evil Monkey.
Monkeys do sell books!
@dc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_elVGGgW8
But he has a dark and shady past, and a mysterious accent! Perfect.
Catch ya on the flipside dudemeisters.
http://images2.dailykos.com/images/user/3/Poochie.jpeg
DUDE THAT’S OFFENSIVE CALLING HIM A SHIZNO LIKE THAT
@evilmonkey LOOK WHAT YOU DID NOW WE’VE HAD TO LEAVE PAGE SIX INTO THIS UNCHARTED TERRITORY
*Uncharted theme kicks in soothing everyone’s ears*
I had that as my ringtone for ages. Now it’s a piece from Splinter Cell Chaos Theory.
I’ve learnt from my 2007 Arctic Monkeys ring tone that it’s a terrible idea to have good music as your ring tone. It’ll ruin it forever. To this day I can’t hear Riot Van without feeling the need to get out of bed/answer my phone. :'(
And by answer my phone I mean hide under my bed until the ringing stops.
When I was a residential tutor, occasionally I was on duty, meaning I was on call for crises/lockouts/weird shit at night. The duty phone had a specific ringtone that we never changed and by term two all reacted instinctively to.
So of course some wag found it and could play it on command from his phone in a room of tutors just to see them all jump. Bastard.
Sorry, but to be fair I am evil.
40K TAY Rogue Trader RPG. Starring:
@freezespreston @tech_knight @rize @sernobulus @pupp3tmast3r @f4ction
Watch it here.
GM Summary: And now they know why Warhammer Roleplay is so bloody.
Did one of us finally kill @tech_knight?
I reiterate: I am not gunning for you in anyway. As DM, anyway, Abelas is. a bitHe’s borderline with 0 wounds at the moment. All because @pupp3tmast3r has no subtlety or self control.
Hey! Bigger picture guys! I blinded a room full of Gretchin and subsequently blew them up!
Besides… How was I to know my weapon sets things on fire, they don’t call it a Flame rifle it’s a PULSE rifle. The damned description basically makes it sound like a ballistic weapon with the shockwave from a particle doing most of the damage as opposed to a flame inducing weapon =,=
Pulse Rifle is just the Tau version of a very advanced Plasma Gun. The science behind both weapons is the same in that it fires superheated and very-concentrated plasma.
He has 0 hp and has taken 6 critical wounds to his chest.
I got off lucky with 1hp, 1 critical wound to the head and 2 critical wounds to the chest!
Also that he spent the majority of this session on fire.
Or blind.
He just had the absolute worst rolls though! >.< He took 3 tries to stop being blind and never put out the fire 🙁
TLDW: @popdart5 takes off the “nice guy GM” gloves and smashes our team something fierce.
Still, it was a lot of fun.
The funny thing was it was Gretchin that did you guys in. Gretchin!
We managed to kill something like 50 orks but we can’t handle a dozen Gretchin.
RNGesus was not on your side.
I had to roll under 82 on a d100 four or five times.
I managed it once.
On a scale of 1 to NOPE! how many swears were shared when that happened?
Is there anything higher then NOPE!?
A drunken redneck jamboree
So when are the PS+ games meant to change over? I thought it was meant to be on the 2nd, but I just checked and they’re still the same.
Play Station store doesn’t update until Thursday i think.
Oh ok, thanks.
Not that I don’t have enough games to play, I was just curious.
Wednesday or Thursday..either way by the weekend you have new games \o/
MFQT! \o/
(Mario) K(art 8) – 1 vote
C(omic work) – zero votes
W(olf Among Us E2) – 2 votes
T(rue Detective E4) – 1 vote
Voting closes at 11:30.
Wubble-you.
The Leftovers, cause it’s a great show that I think you’d dig. THAT IS ALL.
I’ve already got a huge list of shows you’ve recommended that I’m trying to ignore.
Eh, what’s one more. *makes careful note*
Strange likes this one too. That’s got to count for something. Strange is the voice of influence around these parts. Once she told me I was a doofus that should jump off a bridge and I did. It was a turning point.
I might have dreamed that. Dream Strange is mean. :'(
K for Kotaku?
…
Scrap that, Kotaku sucks.
T for TAY, I guess.
Krusty’s Komedy Klassics.
Wolf Among Us it is.
Best choice.
I had four pretty good choices, though. It would’ve been hard to lose out.
True detective E4 is the best episode.
WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY GOD WHY
All right. New plan. I never get any sleep ever again.
The last part of that ep is one of the most ambitious TV segments I’ve ever seen.
You’re absolutely right about that. Incredibly complicated and damn impressive bit of choreography.
@shane It’s the bit that made me really think True Detective was a bit exceptional, though I certainly don’t think it’s the second coming on TV like some people seem to think.
Wolf Among Us is probably my favourite game this year.
I’ve played the first ep twice, and thought it was pretty cool. Not getting pulled in the way I did with The Walking Dead, although objectively, I can appreciate that it’s more smartly constructed.
Heads up, episode 2 is almost certainly the worst.
Agreed. All up hill from there though.
I actually didn’t mind this. This might bode well!
I struggled a bit with Walking Dead mostly because zombies are so sad, tired and worn out. Also because it all seemed so hysterically overwraught with obvious setups for DIFFICULT CHOICES(tm). Wolf Among Us never felt like any choice was the right one either narratively or morally and the whole thing was Bigby blundering his way through something he didn’t understand. Which was supposed to happen. Loved it.
W because it never gets enough love.
Hi Freeze!
Damnit…
@shane
http://gematsu.com/2014/09/kan-colle-kai-delayed-spring-2015-japan thank god, this game sucks enough of my time as it is.
Nighty-night.
Is it Tuesday? Wednesday? Friday?(please be Friday). Jump on the train and everyone’s staring at their phones, me included.
Speaking of phones, the Galaxy Note 4 gets announced today 😀 hopefully not too long before I can finally upgrade from my slow as fudge Galaxy S3. It used to be good until Android bloated their OS to use twice as much RAM as before
I have nothing else to add, I’m going to slip into zombie mode for the next 8 hours of work. Don’t mind me if you find me sleeping on the floor
Sounds like you could use one of these.
When I read that article all I could think about was how damned comfortable it looked
4.4.x actually reduces memory usage. :\ But then you probably have a carrier, so it’s on 4.2.x at best?
4.3. 4.4 not available apparently 🙁 ah well, just a few more weeks of perseverance and then Note 4 😀
Leaks show a pretty neat device.
Note 4 eh? I’ll look out for that. I think that’ll be my next move once my contract for my S4 comes to an end early next year.
IM getting my tax done today, i forgot to do last years and im bring both to the tax guy. Its gonna be fun explaining to them i simply forgot.
🙁
They’re usually fine with it. I’ve had friends who haven’t done their tax in 5 years do them all at once. Not sure if they got as much back in the one go as they would’ve if they’d’ve done them all on time though
So, it looks like a Beyond: Two Souls Remastered PS4 version is coming.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-14219-Beyond–Two-Souls-Seemingly-Confirmed-For-PS4–as-Trophies-Emerge.html
Starting to look like all the popular games from last-gen are gonna appear on current-gen, at least the ones from the last year or two anyway.
But this was never popular. I loved it though. Ah, I think I’ll probably get it. If it came with Heavy Rain too, that’d be an instant buy, friend.
What did you love about it? I don’t know anyone else who played it that I can talk to about it? I hated it 🙁 I really, really wanted to enjoy it. I looooved Heavy Rain and Fahrenheit (well, loved their high hopes and goofy execution).
I summarised Beyond to a friend as
“Ellen Page gets wanged in the head a bunch, and then cries alllll the time.”Also, I think a big problem I had with it was (ending spoiler),
basically every ending is just like, “I need a boyfriend! Oh boo hoo, I don’t have a boyfriend!” Like, that was such a cheap thing to do for the writers. This whole big journey, and she’s just a wuss at the end like that. The ending with the baby was pretty weak too, because how long had she even been with those other hobos? A month? Two? It was weird. But just SO MUCH CRYING! Hahah, oh man.Okay, your turn! 😀
I loved everything except for that chapter escaping on the train. XD EVERYTHING. 😀
Haha, yeah, that was pretty bad. Was it suuuuper dark in the forrest for you? Like, really tricky to see the prompts? I kept falling over things, haha.
I now have a theory that you love seeing Ellen Page sobbing. When she had to pack up her room, I left it idle to see what happened… She just gets louder!
@dc is our resident David Cage nut.
Yeah, we all like things that others don’t get though. I don’t get Dark Souls but it doesn’t make you a nut that you do, Freezey. *shakes fist*
That’s not what I meant.
Sorry Freezey, I get defensive. Something I got to work on. 🙂
Oh the crying was also something I didn’t like. Not cause of Ellen Page though but how it was implemented. There was no transition. Just no crying one minute, sobbing the next. That was all on Quantic Dream, I think. I seriously loved it all though. I loved how it was a character story that spanned a long time, I loved how it was out of order and we saw contrasts of her as a character…
I particularly loved the Navajo chapter. Sprawling desert, mystery a-foot. Also her singing Lost Cause in the homeless chapter.You should know I’m a Quantic Dream fanboy though. 😀
I wrote some thoughts about things I loved here. You’re not obliged to read. XD
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/76419598516/12-february-2014
I usually don’t like to talk about the things I love. I get too defensive. 😀
Oh cool, I’ll read this, thanks! I am a big Quantic Dream fan, too, but I think I had my hopes too high after Heavy Rain. Speaking of which, even though I love that game, I can only see all the goofy dumb stuff in it now. Like, this is so, so bad, but when I play it, I pretend the two kids are… special. And that makes it better? And then I just mock people. Mostly the effing wife at the beginning. ETHAN!
MONSTER! 😛
You love loving things! I totally agreed with you about The Last of Us and Tomb Raider 😀
Thanks for reading! Yessss. One whole hit count now. This blog is getting too popular. 😛
Press X to emotion! (In HD)
Oh good I might actually play that too.
Edit: they should bring Heavy Rain to PS4 cause I loved that so much.
So, The Black Keys are coming to Australia in April next year. I really want to go and see them, but anything like that for me requires the purchase of airfares and accommodation. It’s also a couple of days before Supanova, so I’d want to do that as well. It sucks not having money.
Tell me about it!
Black Keys touring in 2015!! \o/
Not coming to my city in 2015!! /o\
No worthwhile band ever comes to my city. That’s one of the drawbacks of living in a small regional city.
Morning all,
@redartifice just so you have the gist of what went down, I helped the team get to the target energy signature after failing twice with a tech-use check so I ended up doing an “I’ll do this, with my axe!” swing and cut through it in one shot (Max damage roll). After that I shut down the engines so I can get a reading on where the rest of the ship’s inhabitants were, without warning at all because it was really dark inside, Puppet drops a blind grenade down to the gretchen below and got me blinded as well in the process because I didn’t see it coming. It gets better though, he shoots a few gretchen, the resulting shots from his plasma rifle set the gretchen he hit on fire, and they were two of the few holding a burna, which then exploded in flames. I got hit with that too and was set on fire. After burning the last of my daily fate points, I still was unable to succeed two consecutive rolls to 1: Act normally instead of running around screaming cuz I was on fire and 2: actually putting my flaming self out. So I pretty much took so many points of fatigue I passed out and also I took 6 critical damage to my torso, then after that the battle was over so the guys pat the fires out on me.
So in short, I took the most damage of the entire team… and I didn’t get shot at once by the enemy. So yeah I got horrible luck in our RPGs still to this very day xD
PS: I fracking hate fire in W40K (After seeing it happen in RollPlay Dark Heresy considering how hard it actually was to be able to put your flames out, his character almost died too), I mean I did before but this just sealed it.
PULSE not plasma… I still don’t get how PULSE rifles set stuff on fire 🙁
Edit: Stupid Pulse rifles.
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Pulse_Rifle
D= Hence my Edit =P
I’ll just assume that’s how you wiped out an entire floor of Tau.
“I didn’t know Level 54 Emergency Fusion Vent button would do that. How should I have?”
😛
Not going to correct that on my post, yeah it’s Pulse you’re right. You still did it though 😉
I’m gonna ask my Tau Water Caste contact back at the hive for a mini fire-extinguisher that we can attach to your mechanized back or something. Between me and faction we run the risk of setting someone on fire =P
I swear I was just in tears that last 30min at how badly we were all doing. AGAINST GRETCHIN. God forbid we fight tyranids or chaos space marines. We’ll be dead. DED.
Edit: Honorable mention for Nob who killed the meatbag thingy even though he was near death, lord knows me and freeze couldn’t handle 3 gretchen.
I didn’t even fight a bloody gretchin and I almost died! 😛
And now, join us for a magical journey in to the land of “why Bob is cranky and tired this morning”
My network at work has been slowing down a lot lately, and one of the big reports I prepare weekly is taking 3 or 4 hours to update instead of the normal 1. Not sure what the cause is but it happened last week. This week, for extra fun, the data sets driving the report which are supposed to update Monday didn’t update until after noon, and THEN the largest set (which is borderline at the limits of what COGNOS can deliver to me) timed out for an hour. So I didn’t start updating the report til around 4, and I finish at 4:30. Being that the report is supposed to go out on Tuesday, I’m the kind of guy who will stay behind to make sure the report compiles correctly before going home. So I wait.And wait. And wait. And wait. 7:30 and the report is still updating. Tear my hair out, leave my computer running and go home. I can’t wait any longer.
But it’s nagging at the back of my head all night. So, at around 9:30 I log in to my remote access and make copies to start the report updating from home. Around 11:30 it finishes, and I breathe a sigh of relief. I start my proofreading check (of the nearly 250 pages) when I hear this gurgling sound coming from the living room / kitchen area. Thinking to myself “the dishwasher isn’t on…?” I go out to investigate.
Ohhhhh, it’s just pouring rain outside. Wow, it’s really heavy! Ahh, the sound is the drain on the (enclosed) balcony. That’s weird, it’s never made any noise when it’s raining before… Must be super heavy! Crazy! Oh well, I’ll shut the balcony sliding door. Noise gone.
Back to the office. Continue work and then at the back of my mind the following takes place… “What’s that beeping noise? Not my PC… Nothing else on… Wait, is that…. an alarm?” I stand up and place my ear to the window and yep, it’s an alarm. “Emergency. Emergency. Evacuate as directed. Whoooop whoooop whoooop” I recognise it at the building’s fire alarm, but since it’s not happening in my building (the building is split in to Building 1 and Building 2) I just think “Boy, I’d hate to be evacuating in this downpour! Poor saps in Building 2!” and finish my work to the sound of sirens (by now it’s around midnight).
Which is when I realise the people evacuating from building 2… are all staring upwards at building 1… And are completely dry. And that the rain must be the fire sprinklers from the apartments above mine. Finally, at around 12:30 or so everything quietens down, the alarms stop and I get in to bed. And as soon as I do the alarm in my apartment goes off. And then immediately stops. So I’m paranoid.
In the lift this morning, the rumours are that an esky caught fire. How the hell does an esky catch fire? What the hell were they doing up there?!? I can’t see any damage from the outside of the building though, and building management hasn’t sent out an email (as they loooove to do) so I dunno. Anyway. I get to work and the copy of my report I left running has “encountered an error and must quit. Please restart.”
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH.
Poor B-ob. Almost the weekend (almost Christmas too)
I have a theory on the esky catching fire. Find out if the owners of said esky are whiskey fans. If so, they might left…
a fireball…in the esky.
Page 6 is <– thataway CUFCfan616, stop being stupidOhhh no! I hope today is better for you.
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#noswearseptember
Good effort on not going postal, I don’t know what I’d do if I went to bed at 12.30am and my report wasn’t finished in the morning!
Edit: Reply fail lol
I very rarely go postal. I’m actually quite chilled out but just need to vent every now and then. TAY is great for that! 😀
Someone at work has Darude as their ringtone so I just had a solo dance party.
Dodidododododidodidododido
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#noswearseptember
Good effort on not going postal, I don’t know what I’d do if I went to bed at 12.30am and my report wasn’t finished in the morning!
Has anyone been watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine? It is surprisingly good, I gave it a go because it had Terry Crews in it and it turned out to be really funny, marathoned all 22 episodes and want more.
Yeah its really great, one of the best comedies on tv, andy samberg is a good actor and the whole cast is great.
yeah, they are all really good, I was a little creeped out by Boyle at first cause he played a real sleaze in something, but even he has won me over. Really happy they’re getting another season.
2 people like it? I must check this series out
I recommended you do, I’m glad I gave it a chance.
Love that show. I was a bit worried that Andy Samberg would be a little too over the top, but he is pretty great in it. It’s a good ensemble cast. Can’t wait for the next season.
yeah, I don’t know why but I didn’t like him immediately but he won me over within the first episode, he’s got some great lines, kinda reminds me of Fry from Futurama with his stupid outbursts.
So good. My favourite comedy on TV. Season two is so close now.
Glad I was late to watch it, I don’t have to wait very long.
Something about Terry Crews just makes everything better. His Old Spice ads were pretty hilarious as well.
I honestly didn’t think I’d like Brooklyn Nine-Nine because I never really liked Andy Samberg’s stuff but it’s surprisingly funny. Definitely worth watching.
those old Spice ads are the best thing ever. “Flame Sax!!!!!”
Yeah, we’ve just been watching it on TV and it’s silly, but the cast work together well and there are plenty of laughs.
Good lord, just read up on the Gigabyte X99 mo’board and now I must have it. Nevermind this throws compatibility spanners into the works for my planned CPU or RAM, I’m sure I’ll just be able to dig an extra $900 out from the sofa or something. Two seconds…
Looks pretty sweet. Maybe it’ll drive the prices down on other stuff and make my planned build cheaper.
Who am I kidding. I’ll buy it instead.
Exactly. That’s what I was thinking, “I should maybe ask fellow TAYers when they reckon prices for last gen graphics cards, CPUs, MoBos et all will be brought dow-…fuck it I’m buying this.”
Good thing I’m waiting until the new year to do my build. There might be other options for me to say f*** it to. 😛
Yeah I’ve been planning (and saving up for) this build for two years. Ideally I wanna get it done by the end of this year, but might wait til after Christmas. I’ll hopefully have $5000 to play with when the time comes. This is how it currently stands: http://nz.pcpartpicker.com/p/BmKFmG
That build looks remarkably similar to the parts list I’ve got. Except mine’s in Excel so I can’t link to it, and it’s also in AUD.
Partpicker is amazing. If you haven’t used it before it’s a great place to keep all your notes and research, and of course your current parts list. Best thing is that it automatically compares all the prices for the part you’ve picked from various stores and shows which place has the cheapest, while it also makes sure you don’t have any compatibility issues between the parts you’ve picked. Give it a whirl au.pcpartpicker.com
Cheers, I will! Sounds like a more awesome version of StaticICE. 🙂
Damn you Diablo 3!!! 9 hrs of Hardcore Seasonal Level 41 Monk died last night… Guildmember joined my game, NPC companion disappeared who usually heals me all of a sudden dead…. Hadn’t used a potion all game…
After staring at the screen for a bit… Archived looked at stats… Killed by “unknown”… Awesome
Started new character….. Diablo 3 punishment mode.
I couldn’t do it, all that progress gone in an instant. nope not for me.
Its a cool feeling, frustrating but accepted (except for that unknown bit I have a suspicion of lag freeze)… It’s the second monk I’ve lost at the same level… She was decimating all, and taking no damage then boom dead… Must have walked in front of a Diablo bus.
So I can, share PS4 images to Twitter, but for some reason it will only let me share videos to Facebook, why? Is this normal?
I think it’s because Facebook has videos natively and Twitter doesn’t. (Got to use outside thing like YouTube or Vimeo or something.)
Correct me if I’m wrong, though. I might be. D:
You can transfer captured footage on a USB though and copy to your computer for editing/uploading. 🙂
This is my understanding also.
I think they’re still working on bringing Youtube integration to it. Other than that the only option is Twitch streaming. It’s been a while since I shared anything and haven’t uploaded a video at all. I’m pretty sure everyone on my Facebook wouldn’t watch a video of me playing anyway
Anyone watched/watching Black Sails? I’ve watched the first two episodes so far, and I’m really enjoying it. Plus the music is composed by Bear McCreary (@dc). That and The Strain are the two shows I’m really enjoying at the moment.
Not watching Black Sails but it gets instant street cred in my eyes for McCreary. 😀
Fallen behind with The Strain. Only seen three eps. Only just caught up with The Leftovers.
The Strain is great. I watch it Wednesday nights after basketball and it’s one of the more interesting things on tv at the moment. The mythology that Del Toro and Hogan have developed is fascinating. As for Black Sails, the theme and incidental music make use of the hurdy gurdy, which is a really interesting instrument.
Hurdy gurdy is awesome. Have you heard much Eluveitie? Folk metal band. They have a hurdy gurdy player. I actually got to be right in front of her for their Brisbane show last year which was pretty damn cool.
If you haven’t listened to them, and do want to give them a go you’ll need to probably listen to a whole album to get a feel for them. Because they have some songs that are complete clean vocals(Anna Murphy sings as well as playing hurdy gurdy) and some that are complete growls. Plus, their albums are usually based on a concept so the songs flow really well into each other and balance the feel out. I think their album ‘Helvetios’ is a masterpiece(‘Alesia’ is one of my most favourite songs ever), but you really can’t go wrong with any of them.
I haven’t heard any Eluveitie. Might have to give them a listen at some stage. Your recommendation of Gloryhammer hit the spot, so I trust your recommendations. I’m assuming they’re completely different types of bands though.
Very, very different bands. But both with an epic “feel”. Eluveitie is much more of an acquired taste than the immediate accessibility of Gloryhammer. They usually require a few listens before they hook you.
Looks like there’s quite a bit of Eluveitie on Spotify. I think I’ll give Helvetios a listen at some stage. Trying to conserve bandwidth at the moment. 8GB a month is no longer enough. I must upgrade!
Oh, and I’m also quite liking The Strain. The most recent episode really felt like a movie.
I watched the first episode of one piratey show but I’m not sure if it was Black Sails or not because I think there’s two pirate shows that started this year.
I’d also go along with @dc and highly recommend The Leftovers. Not really enjoyable as such, but so very compelling.
The Strain is great. The most recent episode I saw was episode 6, and I’m not sure how far you’re into it.
EPISODE 6 SPOILERS:
The eclipse was pretty amazingly done. Great episode and seeing the Medical Examiner come out during it was cool.Watching Episode 7 tonight. Can’t wait.
DESTINY HYYYYYPE!!!!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/09/destinys-planet-view-lets-you-explore-the-universe-through-google-maps/
Less than a week to go now 😀
Two hours sleep and I get to go to my least favourite site today. Woo!
On the bright side, lunch is going to be filled with makin’ babies.
…in Fire Emblem: Awakening.Kotaku’s not that bad!
I dunno..with the latest surge of downvotes this place is starting to look like a war zone of votes
But close to blaghsies house.
Dear @popdart5
Keeping in mind the brutality of the 40k RPG and the likelihood of our characters dying horribly, I’m putting in that my next rolled character is one of these.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:Wraithknight.jpg
Thanks in advance
Freeze
I have two words to say to you: Fate Point! Your characters are less likely to die horribly as they are to be crippled or amputated so you’ll be fine.
In any case, I think you and @rize have been the most fortunate and have taken the least damage out of the entire party so far.
I’ve taken 1 so I’m doing pretty ok, considering I have to hang around in melee range a lot.
The great Avatar of war getting killed by Gretchin xD
It can happen. I’ve seen (in the tabletop) an Avatar of Khaine get pummelled to death by Imperial Guardsman with the stocks of their lasrifles so death by Gretchin is not that impossible.
@redartifice I’m not going to lie, if I have to fight anything larger than a Broken Hound tonight, Russef is in serious danger of dying. Last I checked I had only about 16 points across all of my pools and I could very easily become debilitated.
Without giving too much away, I’mma say conversation might be option one.
Well that’s unfortunate considering I murder people. 😛
Favourite scene in Beyond: Two Souls. <3 (Spoilers!)
The lighting in that scene is really odd though. Day one minute, night the next. QD aren’t good at this transition stuff. 😛
FAVOURITE MOMENTS IN VIDEO GAME PAGE?
Broken Sword 1 when you’re in Syria. Just all of that sequence but particularly figuring out the last section.
That hand buzzer was such a lifesaver. And then George jumped off the cliff like a baws.Ah, I loved that jump from Europe to the Middle East. Was a nice contrast. Felt like George was an over-the-top American tourist until you meet Pearl and Duane. XD
“Il alkl kab.” I’ll remember that line for a long time to come. 😛
The opening of Mirror’s Edge (well, after training)
When you first go “Wow, this game is so pretty”
Oh yeah, just the clean colours and cityscape. So amazing. Fell in love with the world in an instant, enough to forgive almost all the flaws that came after. Great game.
I really dug the potential of the story as well, that setting and world-building. Not necessarily how it panned out, but god… that aesthetic. And the music. I left that menu open on the 360 for a very, very long time, just for the music.
I liked the whole Dark Angel-esque courier aspect.
Ok, I’ll bite:
Most favourite moment in a game was playing with my sister and two childhood friends playing mario party (Can’t remember which game it was from :C) on the mushroom mini-game when the platforms would go up and down and the winner was the last person standing. Friendships and family bonds would break every day, but totally worth it!
Got a couple:
Mass Effect 1, when you first take control of the Normandy and you’re staring at the galaxy map and you just say to yourself “…I can go anywhere on here? And land on planets and explore?”
CiV, when you hit that point where you just know your long term strategy gambits are just within turns of paying off, and you will be THE superpower.
X-COM Enemy Unknown, that opening tutorial mission – you just know this game will be great, but also tug at your heartstrings in a manly way.
Almost all time absolute would have to be Final Fantasy VII, when you return to Midgar after the plate incident. Just…the destruction of it and how it affects you.
Absolute all time: Shadow Hearts Covenant/Shadow Hearts II. The ending. Keeping it spoiler free…when Yuri wakes up and sees the train and knows he’s been given a second chance to spend time with his beloved.
That Mass Effect one, it was the Normandy that hooked me. I wasn’t feeling the game on Eden Prime. I think the weight of expectations was there. Is this as good as KotOR? Is this as good as Jade Empire? Do I like this? What if I don’t like this? Once I got to the Normandy all that left and I fell in love with the game.
Macbeth. The Forever Train. The first time hitting all the switches and sending the train into the supply depot.
Fists punching the hell out of the air.
In no particular order:
1) “Would you kindly…?”
2) Playing a Dreadnaught in Firefall, planting feet and unleashing the fury of the heavy machinegun while bug bits fly everywhere.
3) Getting emotionally invested in Deus Ex: HR enough to get pushed so far over the edge that I abandon my non-lethal policy.
4) Moments of loneliness, picking your way through ruins in ODST.
5) System Shock 2 Polito reveal.
6) System Shock 2, hiding in a warehouse of supplies, carefully counting ammo, doing triage on repairing weapons, and hearing enemies roam closer while listening to creepy-ass audio logs.
7) DA2: Finding Hawke’s mother’s suitor.
8) Starting a new character in Dark Souls and realizing that you have completely mastered movement and combat.
9) CLEM DON’T EAT THAT
10) Bloat Stare Bob Float Rot Order Hint book
I totally don’t know any of those.
Except the last one! *high five*
Damn. Some of the finest moments in gaming, right there! Bioshock, System Shock 2, Deus Ex: HR, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Halo ODST, Dark Souls… C’mon, man!
Too non-Nintendo for me 😛
I’ve tried maybe an hour or so of Bioshock, but hated it. Which was disappointing since I’d always been so interested in it based on what I’d read about it. Otherwise all you lot talking about Dark Souls has made me curious to pick up a 360 copy if I saw it cheap, though I haven’t seen it/really been looking in a long while. Then I’d have to get around to actually playing it >_>
The Dig: when you discover the asteroid is more than just some rock.
Mass Effect 1: the ceremony where Shep is elevated to Spectre.
Mass Effect 3: Garrus and Shepherd BFFs
Assassin’s Creed II: the end scene where Minerva is talking to Ezio then turns and talks to the camera, leading to a WTF moment from the player which is then immediately echoed by Desmond.
Escape from Monkey Island: trying to insult sword-fight the Australian land developer and losing because you can’t understand any of his insults.
There’s more but nothing springs to mind right now.
– That scene with Thane in Mass Effect 3
T_T– Playing FF7 for the first time and experiencing a complete shift in expectation about what a game can actually be.
– The galaxy map music in Mass Effect. Also exploring uncharted worlds. Also meeting Sovereign for the first time. That filtering they put on his voice is amazingly cool sounding and sinister. Harbinger was pathetic compared.
– The last stage of the final boss fight in Twilight Princess
Man to man swordfighting duel, no gimmicks– Final stage of the last boss & ending of Ar Tonelico II, largely because of the music. Bonus: Jakuri’s route epilogue.
– When that happened in Portal 2.
– Altago Ring in Ys Seven.
Adol captured, beaten, then sent into an arena against a massive monster with no armor and nothing but a knife. Then Crossing Rage starts playing.– Uncharted 2’s train sequence (defining moment of the entire last generation, technology-wise IMO)
– Finishing Marathon 2 end-to-end for the first time. Bonus: All Roads Lead to Sol on highest difficulty in co-op.
– The Dig’s soundtrack & atmosphere.
– Baldur’s Gate: talking a bit fresh with the dude that captures you about halfway in and having him casually kill off a companion (Imoen in my case). So unexpected.
– Baldur’s Gate II:
Convincing Viconia to change alignment. Also that whole questline to resurrect and de-vampire the character you’re in a relationship withProbably more that I’m not thinking of too.
Huh. Email from Nintendo Australia: “Positions Vacant.”
Damn their clever game advertising.New Level 5 game, tho… hmm…No, stop it. You have work to do, and you’d not play it for long, anyway. Damn their clever advertising!Fantasy Life! @jimu
I keen
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/09/new-html-is-about-to-make-your-phone-way-better-at-using-the-internet/
Or Allure could stop filling their articles with 100 gifs on top of the source video? Wonder if that would have an impact?
Hey, look, out the window. Is that a pig I see flying?
List of things that really, really need to die:
gifs
Flash
Westboro Baptist Church
Java
Java can stay. Project Zomboid is made in Java. Therefore I’m ok with it.
I want Java to go away.. But I don’t it’s going anywhere soon; as their updater tells me far too frequently it’s used in more than eight hundred and ninety billion devices.
I’ve been kicking an idea for a web series around in my head for a while now. Really want to make it. Small cast. Focused setting. Something I can do with minimal of crew/actors. Just needs to get me some money so I can buy the equipment. I’m really missing the whole film school stuff lately. Holding a boom mic, adjusting lights and using gels, building sets, writing, directing actors… even stuff like cable pulling. Madness, I know. *ponders some more*
Can you hire it for cheaper?
Yeah, but I want my own equipment. I always feel incredibly nervous around other peoples stuff. XD
Where can you even hire a Colobus Monkey?
Every respectable costume shop has a gorilla outfit. Then we just shoot on a green screen, reduce the scale and… next best thing? #WorstWebseriesEver
I would be pretty okay with kickstarting DC’s TAY mockumentary.
Hahaha! Nah, cause then I’d actually have to make it happen! Too much pressure! 😛
I’m keen.
And I’ve got gear.
Email me about it and let’s do it.
You should develop it a little and put that stuff up for crowdfunding. That’s what it’s for, after all.
I’d be happy enough to read a script and imagine it all in my head. ^.^
Can’t act, will participate.
God knows how that would turn out!
@spaghett’s last song played game!
Happy Idiot – TV on the Radio
Heart Beats Slow – Angus & Julia Stone
I’m going to get this off my chest: Angus and Julia Stone are just awful.
I respect your opinion sir, I can see why folks don’t like them. I remember listening to them on the radio doing an interview, and it was painful listening to Angus speak because you can tell he is painfully shy. Julia seems pretty awesome though, which I think makes me like this song because she was pretty down to earth.
Shall we still fight though?
Their music is so friggin dull though.
Life’s a Happy Song – The Muppets OST
DAMMIT DC!!!
No Excuses – Alice in Chains
The Confrontation – Les Miserables.
Everytime someone mentions Les Miserables One Day More gets stuck in my head! YOU MONSTER! XD
“Another day, another destiny… On this never ending road to Calvary… These men who seem to know my crime will surely come a second time…”
That said, when ever someone else mentions Les Mis, I end up singing either Javert’s Soliloquy or I Dreamed a Dream.
“Who is this man what sort of devil is he to have me caught in a trap and choose to let me go free it was his hour at last to put a seal on my fate to wipe out the past and wash me clean off the slate, all it would take was a flick of his knife, vengeance was his but he gave me back my life…” *collapses, tries to recover breath*
Will you join in our crusade
Will you be strong and stand with me
Beyond the barricades, is there a world you long to see?
Then join in the fight
that will give you the right to be freeeeeeeeee!
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the song of angry men
it is the music of a people
who will not be slaves again
when the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drum
There is a life about to start
when tomorrow comes!
<3 Les Mis. All from memory 🙂
I always get patter songs stuck in my head from musicals. Closest in Les Mis is Master of the House.
Oh.
Great.
Now I’m going to have to go look that up.
Ev’rybody loves a landlord…
Everybody’s bosom friend…
I do whatever pleases but Jesus won’t I bleed ’em in the end!
It’s the BEST ‘happy’ song sung by a villainous character ever in a musical.
I thought Sacha Baron Cohen was a rubbish Thenardier in the film. Thought Mme Thenardier was great though
You’re probably the very model of a modern major general.
With information vegetable, animal, and mineral.Yes.
I’m also the very model of a scientist Salarian.
I’ve studied species Turian, Asari and Batarian…
Oddly enough signing Modern Major General and One Week by the Barenaked Ladies are party tricks of mine. I should’ve been an MC in life, except I’m a geek.
I laughed to the point of tears when Mordin started on that.
And a lot of the time when I’m cooking poultry I start talking about how I’m making chickity China, the Chinese chicken, you have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin; watching X-files with no lights on, we’re dans la maison (I hope the smoking man’s in this one).
So, just like Harrison Ford then.
But damn you, now I’ve got One Day More stuck in my head, too. /o\
Holler High – Sort Sol
Aaaaand no one has a clue who this is \o/
Coming Down – Ball Park Music
Gonna see them in a couple weeks. YAY!
Have you seen them before?
They’re so good.
No I haven’t. They’re coming down to the local Unibar here in Hobart.
I’m one of those people who knew their name but never knew their music until about two months ago. Now I know all their music.
So excited!
You are in for a treat.
They’re no Hives but they’re good.
Wanted Dead Or Alive – Bon Jovi
Dubstar – Stars
Garbage music for chumps.
Kate Miller-Heidke – Words
ROCK LOBSTER
This always comes up when I’m at work and can’t check! 🙁
Call Me In The Morning – Taking Back Sunday
Mrning all!
ATT: MINECRAFT PEEPS!!!
@sernobulus @steve-o_the_deve-o @rize @coldcamv @beavwa @zapz @gorzilla
and anyone i missed!
With the new 1.8 update being so massive, is everyone ok with starting a fresh seed on my server? im happy to pack the old seed into an archive and stick it on my FTP server for anyone to download it if they want it.
Aaaaaww no love for pixel /o\…
I’m okay with that mang… Never got very far with my building anyway 😛
Im sorry pixel!!!!
I was actually going to bring this up today 😛
Suuure. Fresh starts are nice in Minecraft.
Speaking of favourite gaming moments, remember that time we got stuck for hours underground exploring, didn’t wanna die and finally made our way out? BEST FEELING
We should do that again.
Oh god I’m starting to juggle too many games again.
I keep telling you, ditch the baby, this is more important!
I must ask, how exactly did you get stuck underground? Couldn’t you have just gone the way you came?
Well we started exploring dungeons and got lost, and decided to turn it into an adventure
This wasn’t digging so much as taking existing paths, and we were down there for over an hour, just constantly exploring and grabbing expensive stuff. Got totally spun around countless times.
God it was fun.
“Dig up, stupid!”
That sounds fine
With the amount of changes for 1.8, fresh start makes a lot of sense. I have no objections, chalking the current base up as shaking out the cobwebs.
Next map should last for a while, at least.
Can I get the details again in case they’re not stored in my game? I got discouraged from playing originally due to a bad connection and losing all my stuff early on due to death/lack of a bed, but I wouldn’t mind jumping in again if we’re doing a fresh start.
tayserv.fusionpcteq.com
…could you whitelist me? >.>
all done buritoman!
Yeah go for it, I had a cave I can always rebuild that
I jumped in a few times and had no idea what to do or where to find stuff.
I’m comfortable with Minecraft mechanics now… Can someone give me pointers for multi and I’ll dive in and live in a cave like I do I SP.
it’s got to the point now where I have to pretty much treat my mother like a child :\
She’s been begging me to take her shopping for the last fortnight, but Dad doesn’t want her to go cos they have no money to spend. Just had to tell my mum that when dad calls me and tells me it’s ok, then I’ll gladly help her out, but until I hear the words out of his mouth, I’m not doing anything.
Dunno how much it’ll sink in though. Hopefully she wont just get the shits and make her own way up to the shops without telling anyone again.
Sorry to hear that, man. 🙁 Is it just her physical troubles that’s getting her down or is there more going on? I feel for you guys!
Well physically she has trouble with walking etc due to her hip replacement and fractured spine disks, but mentally she’s been a bit unstable too. Mostly due to her cirrhosis. When the liver fails like that, it does things to your brain which kind of act like alzheimers/dementia. It’s slowly getting better, but it’s still hard to tell half the time, whether what comes out of her mouth has been dreamed up by her brain, or if she’s actually relaying real information.
On top of all the bugging me to take her shopping, she keeps changing plans about it too. She had a good cry yesterday (and just about every other day) because noone would take her shopping, and I said to her last night (in front of dad) “Just ring David Jones, and ask them if they have what you want. If they do, tell them to put it aside, and I’ll drop in and pick them up for you as soon as I can.”
That was like the 10th time I’d told her that this week, but it was in front of dad this time, so I knew I would know for sure if he was happy to let it happen. He didn’t say no, so that was the plan. Mum was going to ring me this morning and say “Yep. You can go to DJ’s and ask for my stuff anytime”.
So she rings this morning, and says “OK I’m ready to go”…
“Go where mum?” – “David Jones” – “You were going to ring them and get them to set stuff aside so I could pick it up” – “Yeah well change of plans. Physio told me I need to walk around, and shopping centre is perfect place for it”
Well nah sorry… I planned for a quick drop in ad pick up. I don’t have time to spend 4 hours getting to you, getting you in the car, getting t the shops, walking at snails pace and then repeating the trip home.. I might be unemployed atm, but I still need more than 10 mins notice to waste away half my day doing nothing, instead of looking for jobs :\
🙁
It sounds like regardless of confusion or anything, she actually wants to get out of the house and go somewhere. So maybe compromise by just taking her out somewhere that doesn’t necessarily mean spending money.
Hell, if I can’t get out of the building for a ten minute walk twice a day, I start to go stir-crazy and I’m relatively healthy.
yeah well the problem is, that she’s only interested in going out to spend money. Or has been up to today at least. Perhaps now she’ll settle down.
She’s been out several times with dad already but she always complains about how bad the pain is after about 10 mins, so they come back.
She’d be better off walking up and down her street (it’s a quiet st, so hardly any traffic). At least that way, if she gets sore, it’s not so far to get home.
Will see what dad says when he gets home. If he’s cool with me taking her shopping, I’ll do it, even if I have to push her round in a wheelchair. I just don’t like being stuck in the middle of 2 parents with drastically different ideas.
For the Hyrule Warriors people: which character do you think you’ll play first/most?
When is it out again?
20th!
Agitha, duh.
(really I’ll just play them in the order they come up in story mode)
Pacman.
The one with the sword.
Tingle
Is he a playable character? I would so buy that game if he was.
That was my logic, but then there was a snazzy scarf so I got the game anyway. No idea if he’s in it.
I want there to be Tingle so badly.
But not as much as Linebeck.
Goron, I wanna smash things. I loved rolling around as one in Majora.
Zelda, seeing as he is the main character of the series.
This, have my upvote sir.
Zelda!
I wish they’d gone through with that planned girl link, I’d pick her first without hesitation. I’d suggest maybe DLC is an option for her, but then I remembered it’s Nintendo 🙁
So yesterday I went to the dentist because my tooth was kind of falling apart.
It was definitely completely ruined but the dentist told me that the way the cavity had formed it was pretty much going to happen anyway.
So instead of working on cosplay stuff last night I was nursing a sore mouth.
Thaaaaats why you seemed quiet when i dropped by :P, sorry to intrude and hope it’s better!
It’s fine. I’m glad you brought the stuff back
My office stockpile is sorted. About 20 KitKat bars. Mints. 4-pack muffins. Various sandwich-making ingredients. 1kg coffee still holding strong.
Dress my youngest in a pair of overalls and she starts running on the spot squealing “Oh my god I’m so cute”.
At least she has confidence I guess?
Hah yeah if my three year old is particularly happy with what she’s wearing (proudly it’s usually when she’s in either her Casper/Gozer the Destructor mash-up tee or Jurassic Park t-shirt) she’ll say very matter of factly, “Daddy I am a beautiful princess.” I envy her credence.
If my 6 week old is is particularly happy with what she’s wearing she’ll very matter of factly puke all over it
When dad used to take myself and my brother in to work to show us off he had to dress us in the same clothing so that they didnt know if they were picking up me or Steve, who was a projectile vomiter. After 2 minutes he’d vom over whoever was calling him cute.
Hey, TAY!
I need recommendations from you PC types. I want to get a new headset for PC games! Nothing too expensive (less than $80-100 would be ideal). Any particular brands?
At the moment I’m just using a pair of regular headphones, which are great, but I have no microphone. Would it be worth just getting a standalone desktop microphone instead? What do you guys use?
Just a smidgen beyond your budget but solid and reliable Logitech G35s currently for $109 http://www.mightyape.com.au/product/Logitech-G35-71-Gaming-Headset-PC-USB/3120331
I’m using a G35 and can completely recommend it,
Same, they’re great.
You should be able to get them cheaper than $109 though. I think I paid <$100 for mine half a year ago
I’m using a Steelseries 7h which I’m absolutely loving. Got it from @aliasalpha
Actually, would you be interested in my old headset? As new Turtle Beach XP7. Just sitting in a box now.
I use these things –> http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=116_371&products_id=19910
they’re pretty rad.
Pc case gear is currently selling the Sennheiser U320 for $99 down from $189… I’ve been eyeing those babies off for a while… Sennheiser is my go to brand, I’ve never had a bad set of cans from them
Edit – oh and plus side, they’re compatible with consoles as well… Didn’t even know that was a big deal… Apparently
At the lower end I would recommend logitech or plantronics
I have a set of plantronics Gamecom that are really good, although some people with bigger heads don’t like them
Yeah, I’m awesome and I don’t like them.
I had an old Razer headset that worked well on Day Z (which is a good sign!), when I get home I’ll find out what model it was. I got it for around 90 bucks I believe!
Every time this comes up, I have the same response: Steelseries Siberia v2. Super comfortable, light and the sound quality is the same as everything else in that range (at least, anything specifically mentioned as for gaming).
You can get better if you look at actually headphone brands instead of gaming brands. Then grabbing a desktop mic would be a good idea but if you want something that does the job and is comfortable, I’d go the Siberia.
Seconded. Only pair of headphones I can wear for hours without problem.
This. For the price range the Steelseries stuff is fairly good. Also echoing the suggestion of separate mic and headphones, I want to do that myself eventually because the ‘gamer’ headsets are usually low-quality overpriced cans coupled with a shit mic. Though I’ve heard a lot of very good things about the Audio Technica ATH-ADG1, but those are nearly $300.
Thanks cool dudes. I’ll give the brands you mentioned a once-over tonight!
Conservative estimates of my personsal library are in the order of at least $1,200 worth of books. Not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing but I think it’s a bad thing because now I need to buy a new bookcase.
My pile of shame refers to my book case rather than my gaming pile, I have a small book case and large three tier book case filled with books (many never read, but I will do it one day damnit!).
You’ve read all of yours right? I need some inspiration that somebody has achieved it!
I’ve got a pile of unread that’s 10-15 books deep, and a shelf of read that’s probably 150+ books? so it can be done (doesn’t include ebooks)
I’m in about the same boat personally. There are some books I own but never read (usually hand-me downs from family) but I like to think I’ve read most of them.
There’s a few that have been shelf stalwarts that I’ve dipped into but never finished, but my shelf is pretty much read.
I have the unread ones on a second shelf.
I’ve read all but about 3 or 4 of mine. It can definitely be done. I read pretty quickly so I find it very much easier to stay on top of a book pile of shame as opposed to a gaming one.
I have four bookcases around the house with the books stacked horizontally so I can fit more in, And quite often there’s two layers, so one stack of books behind the stack you can see. Almost all Fantasy/Science Fiction novels. And then there’s the fast filling up bookcase in my sewing room of sewing/craft/design/reference books. Not to mention two entire cupboards in the kitchen full of cookbooks.
If I didn’t mostly switch to digital for books a few years ago, you probably wouldn’t be able to move anywhere in my house without knocking over a stack of books.
As it is, we have about as many CDs, Blu-Rays and games as we do books…I think we need a bigger house. 😛
Personally I prefer books but I understand that owning books outside of an e-reader would get rather ridiculous. I don’t have the time to do what my mum does either by going to the library every few weeks and getting a few books out at a time. That would probably be the best way to read a lot but owning physical stuff does feel nice.
Yeah, I still really prefer books. They’re kind of…comforting in their physical form. Probably because growing up I was almost always with my nose in a book.
Although I have slightly soured on the physical book now, considering my recent wrist injury that took me out of action for far too many weeks was triggered by reading “A Dance With Dragons’ in bed and trying to hold that enormous volume with one hand. 😛
I would probably estimate my bookshelf to be about $2000.
Only has 7 university textbooks in it.
I hated how expensive some university textbooks were, particularly the ones that were written by the course coordinator. I already give them enough money, I don’t need to spend $200 on a book when they’re not even good lecturers.
I would challenge you based on the cost of my textbooks but it’s not a competition I think I want to win.
My artbook collection probably is getting toward that sort of figure. Have a bunch of paperbacks in boxes with no space for them – at some point Ikea is going to make a killing selling me Billys.
Tay I need your expansive knowledge.
Mum has lost information on her Dad’s time in the army. All I really know is that he was an English Rat of Tobruk. The only other thing I really know is his name. Where can I get the information that she’s lost?
The Australian War Memorial.
Go here, search the name: http://www.awm.gov.au/people/roll-search/all/?preferred_name=&service_number=&unit=&conflict=0&op=Search&preferred_name=&service_number=&unit=&conflict=0&op=Search
He’s British though
Go through here then: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/
There’s a record of medals there, but not knowing your grandpa I’m not sure what I’m looking for.
Yeah I got lost :
My mother in law is a family history buff that can dig up all kinds of stuff… Do you want me to pass some details on to her to investigate?
Yes please. Full name: William Reginald Pope
Just want military history or more?
If you can get what medals he earned as he lost them, that would be awesome
I’ll have a chat with her and see what can be uncovered
Thank you
If you can’t find anything there, go to the national archive here: http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/BasicSearch.aspx and search by surname. My pop’s navy record is there
I need to track down whether there’s something like that for NZ at some point. My grandfather was in the NZ military but served with the Royal Navy. Watched a documentary over the weekend about the British sinking of the French fleets after France fell to the Nazis in WW2 and I have a suspicion that he was involved with that as he was a radar operator on Ark Royal at one point and that particular chapter of Naval history was one of the few things he’d talk about regarding the war, often in a way that kind of sounded like he was trying to justify it to himself, so I’d be curious to know if that was something he actually participated in.
I just had a quick look and this website (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-subject/secondworldwar.htm) might be handy. It looks like you might have to pay a fee to recover some more detailed records and it looks like it might be limited in how you go about getting that information. Sorry I can’t help out more than that.
@trjn @powalen
Just got a Siberia v2 and while mostly good, due to the lightweight headband design they do not fit snugly over my ears with my glasses on.
If you wear glasses I’d recommend something heavier/ more adjustable.
My previous Plantronics were good but sometimes had issues with the mic.
No glasses on these peepers!
Huh. I’ve found them to be the most comfortable with my glasses.
I find if I wear them for long periods they tend to dig the top of my ears into my glasses’ ear bits (what’s the technical term for the bit what fits over your ears to hold your glasses on your face?) and that can be a bit painful, but I haven’t found them to be too light. If anything I prefer them over my other pair (some Sennheiser ones) because they’re not as heavy and hot.
However I did have an issue that the wire bit holding the headband part of my old pair of Siberia v2s snapped away from the housing, so that’s definitely a stress point.
@sernobulus @steve-o_the_deve-o @rize @coldcamv @beavwa @zapz @gorzilla @pixel_the_ferret_viking
All done guys! new random seed and Vanilla 1.8 installed!
@kermitron –
tayserv.fusionpcteq.com
anyone else wanting to join and needs to be whitelisted, pm me!
if peeps didnt missed it, this is Minecraft related
must… not… give in… again…
its too late… the desire is already burning inside of you. just let it go
Maybe you should add “powalen” to the whitelist… You know, not for any particular reason or anything…
For science..
And geography…
Cartography!
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Oooooooh…
Screw going to a specialist appointment this afternoon, I don’t need what little hearing I have left. Maybe I just go straight home and play Minecraft.
man i really need to get a hearing check done… it sucks being 100% deaf in one ear…. alas as per my last two visits, ill never hear from my left ear….
i mean ive lived with it my entire life but anyways :/
Yeeeeeeiiiiiiissssszzzzz
Can you add me? I should be Blaghman.
added..
Hey man, I don’t seem to be whitelisted, FYI. 🙂
is it Kermitron? if so i just added you, otherwise give me your userid!
It is kermitron, cheers!
Add batto61 and i will pop on it when i have the chance.
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Hey bud can you whitelist Sythian, its my brother and I wanted his help on my island cave
Brisbane people, who’s going to Oz Comic Con this weekend? Because I’m doing a favour for a friend and manning her booth/stall thingy on Saturday and need you all to visit me so I’m not bored!
I’ll be there but I’ll also be manning a booth/exhibit sort of thing for both days so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get away much. I’ll be at the Four D4 area for most of the day though.
I read this today and just wanted to punch something. Preferably his face.
http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/city-east/fat-and-lazy-mums-using-babies-as-an-excuse-to-let-themselves-go-says-personal-trainer-allan-trinh/story-fngr8h22-1227045233259
He can get stuffed.
Fit culture gives me the shits
Bro, do you even lift?
No, I don’t, so fuck off.
(dudebros who use this line, not you, freeze)I too want to punch his face, and I’m not even a mum.
Yeah let’s all punch Max Markson.
Him too.
What a dickhead.
One of the worst things about that article was that close up picture of a woman’s lower half and the caption talking about “overweight” mums. That was just a regular sized bottom.
And to call Mums lazy, especially when you don’t even have kids yourself is so laughable. A lot of Dads don’t even know what the mother of their kids actually gets done until she goes away and leaves them to do it all. 😛
Size is no indicator of fitness level. Healthy bodies come in all shapes and sizes, and muscles are not in any way an indicator of healthiness.
I’ve been super-scrawny thin, I’ve been regular sized, and I’ve also been larger than regular sized. And when I was thin I was eating the least healthiest of my entire life and getting the least exercise. You can never tell how healthy someone is just by looking at them.
And you should certainly never judge someone on their appearance.
I’m torn between wanting to punch him and wanting to punch the webdesigner of that page! I might pick up the webdesigner of that page by the ankles and use them as a club to hit him.
I thought that, does it kill someone to use a high res image?
Mobile site.
Remove the m. from the front to convert it to the regular site and my opinion of the web developer didn’t improve.
I’m sure he has no vested interest in people going to trainers to get fitter and it’s purely a personal concern for their health. It’s just coincidence his business name and location are mentioned repeatedly
It’s sad that advertising and news are pretty much the same thing these days.
I’m 100% confident he does not want any overweight, tired, unfit, wobbly mummies with leaky boobs to be his clients. They look terrible on the promotional posters.
It was a pretty uneducated view of how the human body works, exercising after three hours of broken sleep isn’t particularly good for people from a chemical perspective.
Agreed with @strange ‘s comments about health at every size, so many personal trainers get into the business thinking they are going to make people ‘lose weight’ and forget not everybody wants that. Most clients I see come to me and tell me that they want to ‘lose weight’ but with some motivational interviewing, they tend to want to feel better about themselves by being more physically able. They have external influences; mass media, friends and family, etc. pressuring them about their weight and needing to be an ideal size which makes them come and see me.
It’s a bitter pill to swallow I suppose, the mass media that fat shames people and pressuring family members keep the bills paid.
Ugh,don’t even get me started on mass media fat-shaming. Women do not exist just to look attractive, media!
Yeah, a guy’s gotta eat too!
Apologies if too far >.>Forget I said anything…
Well you won the fitocracy challenge, that has to make you feel a bit better surely
It makes me feel like shit…
I feel like the biggest of jerks about that.
Everyone else was in it to get fit and healthy, and I was only in it for incredibly vain reasons.
I didn’t want to “win”.
I never wanted to “win”.
I even tried to pull out after the first day cause it made me feel horrible seeing how the points were distributed for weights compared to cardio…
As I stated at the start of the challenge: The point was never to win, the point was for TAY to inspire one another.
Your colossal effort was certainly inspiring, and for that I thank you. Circumstances prevented me from committing strongly to this iteration, but next time I’ll be looking at your regime for pointers.
The fitocracy challenge was about fun – I certainly had fun! Let’s do it again!
I had points like you the first time we did it but this time I was just incredibly lazy.
Oh bollocks, it made me work harder trying to keep up, if I’d not hurt myself with a poorly executed lift one time when I got the grip wrong and had to take it easy for a few sessions I MIGHT have managed to catch you.
The weight/cardio thing is a bit mad though, half an hour of kickboxing can be beaten by one set of bench press? Yeah I reckon that’s probably a bit wrong…
*awkward fistbump*
Well… I don’t think any of us have the instruction manual to perfect harmony, but y’know. We can try.
How’re you doing on the meatspace front? Uni was always a pretty decent place for that as I recall.
I have no idea what a “meatspace” is…
Real world.
Yeah, like @freezespreston said, the opposite of cyber-space. It’s basically the same as ‘in real life’, which is the traditional way of saying things, but a friend pointed out to me that this implies that online interactions aren’t ‘real life’, and are lesser in importance or value.
That seemed pretty fair to me, so I took it on board and just use the term meatspace when I can remember to. Old habits die hard, though, and I haven’t accounted for the term not being ubiquitous outside certain circles.
Redacted…
Ah, it didn’t seem that bad to redact. Hm. Wish I could help. :/
Let me just say: none of us fit in here. That’s what makes it so special. We’re all different but all friends. Family-like even, in some cases.
stop being so “strange”, Strange!
Don’t EVER stop being Strange 😛I think I take feeling like I don’t fit in far worse than others do, understandably…
Hey, there’s lots of boys here, lots of other young people here, and at least one other gay person. You fit in more than I do. There’s no other old ladies here! 😛
Lots of people who I don’t have anything, or very little, in common with…
And I more meant that spending around 7ish years feeling out of place means that it effects me a lot more…
Dunno how things stand in meatspace for you but you fit in here man. A true a TAYbie as any.
And fitting in does not mean having to be just like everyone else and have all the things in common. It’s just about finding people who like and respect you for who you are, similarities and differences alike.
One day I’ll be an old lady! Really old! Like, 90 years old! I doubt I’ll be on TAY though 😛
Aww, title revoked 🙁
Oh no, I forgot! #oldladybrain
#oldladyGooky is still a thing!
Many Agreements with Lady Strange here
Hey buddy, just wanna say I am missing seeing your posts over the last few days.
If you need to chat or anything I’m here.
*hugs*
Blergh. See so much of me in you, Liondrive. Wish I could get through to you about stuff, but I know I was stubborn about these things too. Don’t know what else to say other than you’re well liked, nice and awesome.
Ahh America…
https://storify.com/DKShan/backoffice-politics-and-misdealings-in-missouri
Fucking appalling levels of obvious corruption and sod all chance of it being fixed
Nothing says America like corporate greed and government corruption.
http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/2f6sb0/for_anyone_who_has_played_ed_and_was_still_curious_about_star_citizen_there_is_a_free_trial_open_until_the_end_of_the_week/
Saw this last night. Might have to check it out.
Eh, Arena commander is still not quite where i want it to be (because combat is not, and will not ever be, my main focus)… When the Murray cup module drops though \o/, sweet sweet racing…
It’s still pretty rough around the edges but fairly fun. I imagine Elite has more polish simply because it’s had a lot more work done on it what with being kickstarted quite late into development and it’s not had the scope massively expanded as loads of people have suddenly thrown 10 times the amount of money they were expecting to get at them. After all Star Citizen ended up with 4 million & has now got 45, I have a bad feeling they’re getting scope creep from getting too much money and it’ll make the game take way too long to make.
At the current stage, Arena Commander feels like it’s halfway between proof of concept & game, fun but obviously not close to done.
*prepares air of superiority*
*also smug*
Well it has had a few more years in development as I said. That said, I’ve backed both so I’m set both ways whenever either of them bloody well come out so I can actually play the damned things
How are we supposed to fanboy war if you take BOTH sides?
Think of me as a war profiteer playing both sides against the middle for my own ends!
CIG and Chris Roberts are geniuses at creating hype around the product as well… I think it helps, at least for me, that they’re so transparent with the development, with all the new videos and things that if you want to, you feel really included in everything… Arena commander is very much so an alpha product and yet still feels solid in what you can do… Plus i still go in on a daily basis and drool over my 315p…
It sounds like I might be able to play even though I never have played before!!! XD
Gah… I am a weak, weak person. Went to TWSBI’s site thinking of getting another stub-nibbed mini to expand my daily writing palette, as I’ve only got one stub, and I’m starting to love it… twenty minutes and $180 later… :S
I keep trying to convince people that fountain pens aren’t that much more expensive than a decent ballpoint… and they’re not: the hard part is being satisfied only having one pen.
I’ve been in love with fountain pens ever since doing Calligraphy as one of those extra things you do at school. Haven’t owned one for a very long time, but every time I see one I feel the old covetousness returning.
Fountain pens are awesome. I’d use one all the time if they were a little bit less messy.
I admit, I have nightmares of accidentally knocking over a bottle of ink… That said, I don’t find them very messy – the only mess I have is a bit of ink on a paper towel once a month when refilling (very occasionally accompanied by an odd-coloured finger for a few days :P).
Feeling pretty overwhelmed at the moment,
My sister’s been put back in the secure ward for involuntary patients. She’s doing pretty bad and can’t really be trusted to not hurt herself. Meanwhile her abusive ex-husband is basically negating any chance of her recovery by using this as an excuse to take control again, and won’t take their kids to see her.My Nan has cancer and is getting chemo but the chemo is making her quality of life so bad that she’s wondering what the point is.
My Dad’s neurological problems are still a mystery and his behaviour has changed so much that he’s become really not a nice person to live with, apparently. That’s if he’s even able to get out of bed due to the headaches and dizziness that he’s having constantly.
My Mum is getting all this stress heaped on her and not coping very well. About all I can do for her is distract her every now and then, and make sure I don’t add to her stresses.
Mr, Strange’s Dad (who had a heart attack and major heart surgery last year) told Mr. Strange on Monday that he’s not doing too good healthwise again, and we haven’t been able to reach him on his phone since then (he lives in a pretty rural area, with no internet and is very hard of hearing,so we don’t know if he’s just not noticing the phone, or something’s happened).
So yeah, I’m the lucky one in all of this but it’s very difficult to not just get bowed down by the sheer number of things happening at once with nothing I can do about any of them. I’ve mostly just been switching the world off, the music on, and sewing away.
Firstly
MASSIVE HUGS because you situation is horrible and its really the only thing i can do.
Secondly
Mum its really hard to see the goofd things going on when drowned in the shitness which is life. But there is good and even if its horrible you will get through it all. You are impossibly strong.
SO HUGGASUARUS
i never spell that right but it doesnt matter cause your my mum and dont care if i spell it wrong.
Spell it however you want!
Technically it should probably be *hugosaurus* anyway, I just think it looks better as *hugasaurus*. 😀
Wow. That sounds like a tough lot of stuff to deal with. Megahugasaurus your way.
I’m not going to go much into it, but I’ve learned a LOT more than I ever wanted to recently about involuntary admissions and all I can say is I feel really horrible for everyone involved, there. And yeah… I felt some pretty seriously bad mental switches flicking and did pretty much a similar thing. Tune out, distract self with video games, internet, whatever. Embrace the trivial. Y’know. Anything else. I’m really lucky my brother is living with me, too. It’s very grounding, not spending most of my time alone to reflect and visualize worst-case scenarios, going around in mental circles.
I’m gonna go ahead and give you a *hugasaurus* for what you’re going through, too. *supermegahugasaurus rex*
Thanks. Not really me going through it, just… ahem. No, I know what you mean. Thanks.
Also, cancer is a dick.
Sometimes the people who love the ones going through stuff need hugs as much, if not more than the ones actually sick.
I feel so guilty about that.Kinda know what you’re going through. *hugs* hope things improve on all fronts, but I’m sure even one would be nice!
*hugshugshugshugs*
*hugs* Sorry to hear this, buddy.
Big *Hugs* Strange, We’re here for you
*Big hugs* you’re a great voice of reason for many on TAY, good to see you’re able to reach out and get some help too 🙂
*hugs* Good to get it all out there. Sometimes you need to switch off the world.
*Hugs*
You rarely post such a string of bad news. Sorry.You’re always encouraging people and it’s good you were able to turn to TAY for help (I hope just posting it helped a bit)
Super interesting excerpt from Console Wars on the Mario Bros Movie.
http://www.slashfilm.com/super-mario-bros-movie-console-wars/
Has anyone read the full book? I think Ima have to track down a copy post haste!
Does anyone know anything about those Chemex coffee makers? I know nothing about coffee so opinions from people who actually drink the stuff would be helpful as I was considering getting one for Mr. Strange for our Anniversary next month. The coffee makers come with a “polished wood collar” so I thought it might be handy, considering it’s our “wood” Anniversary.
http://www.chemexcoffeemaker.com/support/instructions.html
The instructions look pretty straightforward, and they really are pretty so one would be a nice addition to our cupboard-top. I might just go ahead and order him one, regardless of if they work good or not. 😛
Something called “Chemex” doesn’t sound like something I would want to drink from! 😛
Personally never really liked filter coffee so wouldn’t go for one of those, but I think it looks okay. I’d rather get an Aeropress if I was going for filter / plunger style coffee though.
But what would I know? I mainly drink pod coffee recently because it’s cheap and quick but not made of dried feces like instant.
Then why the heck would you be drinking coffee instead of a multitude of other drinks?
Why the heck would you drink filter / press coffee at all? It is a mystery.
We have an Aeropress. I bought it for him a few years ago, but it’s nowhere near as pretty as the Chemex. 😛
Soooo many jokes I could make…
Oh wouldn’t you just.
*cough*. Hi, @strange. #pagesixforlyfe
I kinda need to marry my girl so I can commence a long-running series of anniverary gifts which are creative variations on the theme of the SNL ‘dick in a box’ sketch.
Create a life-size mould of it and then each anniversary you deliver something made in or encrusted with that substance?
Why not just do random present days with that theme? It’s a Thursday in November where the date starts with a 2 and as we all know that’s the traditional time to give someone you love a replica penis made of jellybabies!
Ah crap. You just made me realise it’s my anniversary in 6 days. Maybe I should organise something…Bronze? The heck would someone want in bronze?
Buy someone who came third in the Olympics, they’d be going cheap
Apparently you can get bronze mirrors. Bronze is actually quite a pretty colour, too.
Or just go down to Warehouse 13 and grab a bad guy to give to her. 😀
@zetrox2k
I tried to log into the Minecraft server but it said I’m not on the whitelist. I don’t think the whitelist carried over from the last server.
http://i.imgur.com/iOZfwbr.gif
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
Create a life-size mould of it and then each anniversary you deliver something made in or encrusted with that substance?
Sorry kids and grandkids. You won’t have an inheritance since Grandpa gave Grandma a solid platinum replica of his penis for their 70th Anniversary.
That is their inheritance.
Pity it’s not of his arse, then it could have truly been preserved for posterity.
His family would be in arrears for generations.
2.5 pairs of testicles, for a newton’s cradle with balls.
I’m going to go watch the opening ten minutes of The Muppets on loop. *decisive nod*
Last I checked most of the series was on Youtube
But ninja Swedish chef!!!!!
Always so decisive! *appreciative nod* 😉
I was browsing the resume’s of the guys who applied for what is essentially my job, fuck me some of these guys are younger than me and way more qualified for a job that i have had for 6 years. its literally insane.
Its made me feel a little shit about my job prospects if my company hadn’t hired me back and approved a transfer for me to our melbourne branch.
There’s qualified and what you would actually hire. 6 years experience is worth vastly more than any number of courses or qualifications.
Also i give better back rubs
Well Jules, the funny thing about my back is…
I’ve worked with plenty of people who were over qualified for their positions yet were utterly useless at the job, like freeze says experience is worth a lot more than qualifications.
I was talking to somebody who is incredibly high ranking at my workplace. Honestly, she’s a strategy analyst for a higher education provider – think about how much she is getting paid…
She failed to get a job she was qualified for because the person who got it came from high up in the public service. Like, incredibly high. Like, he took a pay cut of over $200,000 per year so he could have job security.
The economy is apparently doing well. So, that may be the case, but seriously – the job market is completely and utterly fucked. Unemployment and underemployment is getting higher. People who are overqualified are applying for jobs far below their level so they can be sure of security. I know this isn’t exactly the point you’re making, but it does leave people like us – with experience, but not qualifications – up shit creek.
Don’t feel shit. Think about the economic circumstances surrounding all of these applications.
That’s funny, I don’t get the same feeling at all.
I quit my job a couple of weeks ago, and am just taking some time to give some love to a side project of mine. (if it goes well it may become a permanent thing.) Since I left I’ve had about 7 job offers and I haven’t actually applied for anything. People finding out you are available seems like enough.
I don’t have a degree either, but I must say several years back I took lesser jobs just to get into a better position experience wise, now that people can grasp your potential there’s no shortage of jobs on offer.
It’s not just me either, some of the guys I used to work with at the previous job are also looking, and they’re getting offers pretty easily. Experience is key at the moment, they crunch you on education only when they want to keep pay rises down 🙂
Depends on the industry I guess.
Almost half the people I know outside of work are in between jobs at the moment or scraping by on temp work.
Is there anything worse than getting on a train full of high schoolers?
High school full of high schoolers.
No. That’s okay because they’re all corralled away and not bothering me.
no, they’re bothering me.
& I’d much rather they weren’t.
Getting on a train full of bogans that smell of Jack Daniels
Getting on a train after a major football game. Full of drunken fans. D:
Getting on a train after a major football game that is also the same time that school lets out. And the train is delayed and on fire.
Getting on the train at Penrith.
Getting OFF the train at Penrith.
Getting hit by a flaming train full of football fans and bogan high-school kids.
The train breaking down
Whilst it being the middle of a stinking hot summer, the air con has ceased functioning and it was school sports day.
Being one of those high schoolers? 😛
Getting on a bus full of them on a 40 degree day when they’re just on the young side to realise they have BO and just old enough that they won’t sit quietly?
Yarr, not a looker among ’em.
Ever been on a train with a weedy white guy wearing thick gold chains and listening to 50cent on his ipod and ‘rapping’ along with it at the top of his lungs, yelling about killing people and fucking bitches and so on?
Because I have. And it was worse.
That’s the part where you try to out-obnoxious them by singing even worse music even louder than they are, right?
Sunday night.
And he was wearing sunglasses.
Actually, worst public transport experience was being on a bus at 3 am with several female friends while drunk scum up the back of the bus reeking of bourbon made catcalls and borderline rape threats.
We got off three stops later in a well lit place and caught a cab.
Getting on a train in general?
I feel it would be remiss of me keep it to myself that I just overheard someone get introduced as having just started today and when I looked over it was the girl I passed in the hallway earlier whose face I didn’t feel like I recognised. Can’t remember now if it was Agustina or Augustina I heard them say.
Just in case anyone had a craving for popcorn.
Reaches for pop-
Oh, thanks, you’ve provided some for me.
Popcorn! Get your popcorn here! *wheels in trolley*
‘scuse me mate, got any peanuts?
I’m really not kidding, I’ve been craving microwave popcorn all afternoon, your comment is a sign i gotta make a stop at woolies before heading home
“Hey Transient, can you help me out with this? It’s giving weird results.”
“Ugh. Another one? Right. I’ll just take the number down. Bloody figures. Everything is going to shit today. I swear, if one more thing…”
I grab my pen, and the pen literally explodes as the spring turns out to be stronger than the casing.
I spend the next little while staring dourly at the remains of my pen as co-worker raises hands and backs away slowly, saying, “Yeeeeah, this can wait til tomorrow.”
Edit: I am taking that advice. It is home time.
I may have just bursted out laughing in the office 😛
You need a new pen… a good one.
Do you prefer 0.7mm or 1.0mm?
Black, Blue or Red?
For any combination of the above I strongly recommend you check out Uni Jetstream 101 in Fine (0.7mm) or Medium (1.0mm). Smooth rolling, quick drying, precise, no bleed, no need for extra pressure, works until the ink literally disappears from the plastic cartridge.
I picked one up about 3 years ago from a newsagent and now I order them in bulk when I run out. Hands down the best pen I’ve used. Ever.
Only draw back – they are a little pricey – coming in a around $2 a pen.
Man. Best pen ever is… one I can’t find any trace of. It looks like this one, but that’s a newer version that has a stylus. Bic 3-in-1, a blue and red pen and a mechanical pencil. The pens are really good, they last for ages and don’t dry out or go awful or anything like that, and they’re also really nicely weighted (I kinda got into the habit of doing this thing where I twirl it between my fingers, the size of the grip and the balance it has from that point suits it better than any other I’ve tried in the meantime. Also really easy to switch between functions). Been using one ever since late highschool, though they discontinued them ages ago I think – was lucky enough to have enough of a stockpile to last me since then, good thing I don’t do much writing any more,
Buy a pen… that’s a novel idea. Usually to get a pen I have to sign half a dozen requisition forms and send them up the chain in a shotgun scatter approach, hoping at least one will make it through, to receive (a few months later) a box of pens so cheap that the box they come in is worth more than it’s contents. Then undergo a process of elimination to determine which of the supplied dozen actually works. (Usually a success rate of 3 out of 12.)
We have to lie and say we’ve run out, because if we waited for replacements when we DID actually run out, I don’t know what they’d expect us to do while we wait. Cobble together some make-shift ur-pen scratching out our markings by dipping toe-nail clippings in an improvised ‘ink’ made up of discarded coffee grounds and the tears of new hires at the moment of their dissillusionment.
As a government department, the rules on transparency have actually changed such that we can’t even accept promotional pens as gifts from charities or vendors. At least, not without declaring it. (I wish I was making that up. The first part is embellished VERY slightly. The declaration part? Noop. That’s legit.)
Holy f*ck…. you need to declare all gifts regardless of value? I work at a massive company and gifts < $100 no questions asked you can take it.
Fact-finding/relationship-building junkets, failed projects, multi-million-dollar and utterly pointless rebranding as the departments change their names as an act of incoming minister marking their territory like a dog pissing on a tree (only in this instance it’s the pollie pissing on the public sector)?
Nobody bats an eye.
Someone accepts a couple hundred dollar gift, and people lose their fucking minds, and the entire system has to change so no-one can accept anything. We get clients offer to send chocolates and things all the time, for excellent results. Have to say ‘nope, sorry’.
Risen 3 possible spoiler? Calador – The nameless one.
It’s the hero from the first 2 games! lol! When I spoke to him, I asked about working together, and he responded by telling me to deal with the shadows, and then he would consider working together! Makes me wonder if this is a hint from the dev’s about Risen 4!FORCED CO-OP CONFIRMED.
man oh man that would be FUCKING UBER!!!!!!!!!! I know a friend who would love to journey through a game like that with me in co-op! 🙂
I haven’t met him yet (didn’t read the spoiler) but when I hear the nameless one I immediately thought back to the original Gothic games.
Which since it’s on Calador makes it doubly hilarious because of all the rune magic.
Half hr ph call to someone for some brainstorming on what could be wrong with a videoconferencing system. FML. Everything could be wrong.
At nearly 5pm? Go home man and deal with it tomorrow lol
@evilmonkey I just remembered that you were going to lend me South Park, yeah? Please tell me that you forgot and never sent it, otherwise it went missing somewhere in transit!
Speaking of which, if the offer’s still open… 🙂
Yeah, sorry about that man, I’ve been really slack on the game lending front, I’ll try and remember to send it off to you tomorrow or Friday. You still at the same address you sent me?
Also, @shane, I’ll send Deus Ex back to you at the same time, and I’ll put Watch Dogs in there for you to borrow as well. Sorry for taking so long.
How dare you not send me stuff that you own, for free, immediately!! You really are evil!!
I had obviously forgotten myself, so no sweat. If/when you can. And yes, same address.
Eh, it’s fine. I didn’t miss it. Keep it until you play it!
Man. Whole train trip this stunningly gorgeous and supremely elegant looking woman is sitting next to me. Meanwhile I haven’t tidied my beard for a fortnight and I’m sitting there watching Dragonball Z in a Batman tshirt.
Never felt so schlubby.
Everyday I don’t have a shave when I probably should, either my boss makes a surprise interstate visit or some absolute babe walks through the gym to have a look. It’s Murphy’s law, but respect for watching DBZ!!
I’ve always loved DBZ but lately I’ve felt a bit weird about it after finding out its extremely popular amongst the MRA mob. It almost feels like an embarrassment to admit to it.
Ridiculous I realise but can’t help it.
Men’s Right Activists? There’s infinitely worse shows to like, DBZ is based on the premise of testing ones self in hand to hand combat after ridiculous amounts of training (hyperbaric time chamber ftw) and eating healthy (sensu beans lol).
Apologies if the acronym is wrong 😛
Went to see the doctor yesterday, was wearing a Batman shirt. Felt very self-conscious when he mentioned it, then started rambling on about some guy in Japan who dresses up as Batman and rides a Bat-trike… or something.
Some doctors wear Batman shirts when they aren’t at work.
Oh sure, I get that, but this was most definitely a ramble. There were many other pointless topics of conversation, including “Kids and video games”, “No matter how hard we try, we can’t replace these paper forms with computers”, “Infected USB sticks from China”. Basically he talked about many non-medical things, then didn’t really listen to anything I offered in response.
It was a fixed cost, so guess I got my money’s worth for the time.
I hate when people comment on the shirt I’m wearing. So then I have to take a moment to look down and figure out what it is I’m wearing, then figure out why on earth it warranted a reaction and what I’m supposed to say in response.
Especially when it isn’t even a shirt that has some kind of pop culture relevance for them to seek common grounds over, it’s just a generic shirt.
And then Gooky realizes they asked him to put a shirt on!
This has happened several times.
Though usually only after being told to wear pants.
Went back to work today after three weeks of being lazy, and- wait, is that a new receptionist?
After a little while she introduces herself to me, but I’m listening to D&KZeitgeist, so I don’t hear her name.
Later on my boss asks if I’ve been introduced to her, I reply that of course I have, and make a mental note to remember her na- oh shit I’ve already forgotten it.
Get to lunch, her name gets mentioned again, promise myself again to- NOPE, GONE.
This wouldn’t be a problem normally, but in the afternoon I was handed a file, thanked her, and you know how you say “thank you” differently if you’re going to follow it up with someone’s name, than if you were using it as a standalone statement? Yeah, yeah, totally did that, then had the awkward silence afterwards. Smooth as sandpaper, Sean.
real names. they’re weird.
especially that one.
That’s ok, you can totally get away with talking to people without using their names at all.
Get her to email you something, read her sig.
I don’t even need to do that, I just have to look at the name of logins for Bulk Document Import. 😀
Stalking solves all life’s problems!
May also create them, use with caution.Feeling a little better after the gym and uni.
They’re good distractions.
I’m gonna write down what’s been on my mind lately, cause even that brief bit of talking earlier helped a bit…
I just mainly feel like I don’t contribute much, or having anything worth contributing.
You all have your little groups (groups of you who like board games, card games, you all play a game / watch a show and discuss it, even just groups of people who are close friends, etc), which I like seeing, it makes me happy, but then I feel like I don’t fit in with any group, kinda thing :\
I don’t have anything to discuss, or talk about. I’m not as interested in the things that you guys are, and I don’t have time to play the games that you guys discuss, which I’d love to do…
Then even in my life I don’t have much to talk about.
I just don’t have much in common with you guys is the main thing. I like you guys, but I just can’t see why I would be liked…
I just feel that I’m too different is all…
It might be / is probably in my head, but I’ve been conditioned to feel like I’m different…
It’s something I need to work on…
Then I feel like I have even less to offer, cause I’m not particularly funny, nor witty, nor clever, nor insightful. I’m not opinionated, or interesting, and I don’t particularly care about most issues (I care about you guys though)…
I don’t feel like I can jump into a conversation cause I don’t have anything worth contributing, so why contribute at all…
All I do is whinged about uni and my life lately :\
Then I get in my head a bit and start feeling down about this stuff, and usually when you feel down you’d go hangout with your friends or something, but all the friends I want to hangout with are you guys, which makes me more down…
That’s why I was trying to distance myself (again) a bit, but that just made me feel lonely as well, so I’d rather not feel lonely and down :\
I kinda realize that most of it is in my head now that I’ve written it down and can see what’s getting at me…
I can’t help it though…
Like I said, I’ve been conditioned to feel like I’m out of place (even when I know I’m not)…
Don’t worry too much. I often wonder why people on here like me, so you’re not alone in that respect.
Do we really need a reason to like you and like having you around? Also, whinging is fine. We all do it.
Because your funny, you do awesome cosplay, your basically the matriarch of the melbourne TAY community to name a few reason why your liked, but like you said we dont need a reason to like anyone we just do it because we care and people should feel happy and welcomed here
I just organise stuff because everyone else is too lazy too =P
Wait people like you? Dammit guys in our secret TAY meet you said scree was on the “don’t like” list!!
I KID!! we <3 you.Look, man, about all I can say in response to this is: I value your contribution, and would like it to continue.
Man, those are all thoughts I have a lot of the time too. But then people still manage to like me for some reason. You’re fine 😛
you give me an excuse to eat popcorn.
thats why I <3 U
you’re rad. your contributions are rad. stick around & stay rad.
or else.
Also, obvious question, but: If you’re into something that you don’t think we are, why not discuss it? You may find that someone here is into it, we’re a diverse bunch (in some ways)
MY WHITENESS IS A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT SHADE TO YOUR WHITENESS!
LOOK, I’M MORE OF A CREAM WHILE YOU’RE A LIGHT PINK
I’ve mentioned stuff I like before.
It always gets dismissed / ignored cause no one else likes it :\
I kinda stopped trying after a couple of attempts.
Never stop trying!
I always talk about quilts and sewing and power metal even though other people don’t talk about it with me.
Pretty good example actually. I’d never even thought about quilts before now, let alone read the odd blog post about them 😛
Point is, enthusiasm is infectious!
Yeah, just look at Neg and his “Kantai updates nobody is interested in”. I dunno about you guys but I still usually give them a read-through, even though I have no idea what’s going on most of the time 😛
I find those fascinating. I have nothing to add to make it a conversation, though so I always feel bad that Negs thinks nobody cares about them.
At least now we have Upvotes. I remember how much consternation myself and a few other people went through, wondering if people even were reading what we were posting!
I read all of Neg’s Kantai updates… I talk about games more than I play them because of my time constraints… Reading those updates reminds me why I enjoy playing games (as limited as it is) because people are so passionate about their own thing.
@Liondrive – I’m the new guy here and I love reading all the interactions on here. I’ve learnt that with little time to get out and meet people (same as you work, uni plus tip in the kid) that finding a community like this where everyone is so welcoming makes me feel better. Next step for me is to actually meet some people in Brisbane… @dc @transientmind @strange @freezepreston et. al.
Also I have several excuses to go over to Perth like seeing aunts, cousins and their new families, I want to ride in the Cape to Cape Mountain Bike Race at some point… so many reasons for so many years now and never made it yet… Maybe meeting a sort of stranger from the internet will help me convince wifey we should visit sometime.
Pls keep commenting so I have another thing to do if/when I visit Perth? :’)
@freezespreston? Is there a sneaky s in there?
Indeed! He is Freeze S Preston. Esquire.
@transientmind Icequire
I always post weird stuff
“SO TAY, HOW ABOUT DEM F1 BROOM BROOM CARS”
*crickets*
Something at some point will spark a good conversation, as Strange said, never stop trying!
I like the part where the wheels go round in circles.
I used to be obsessed with F1. I was a Ralf Schumacher and Williams fan. I think once they were no longer a thing it became less fun for me, because I didn’t have anyone in particular to go for anymore. And then I just became too old to stay up that late anymore. 😛
I never really was into F1, and then I started watching Mark Webber. Now I’m all GO DANIEL RICCIARDO and it’s great seeing karma kick Sebastian Vettel around.
Oh my goodness, Vettel and Hamilton are two of the most tantrum throwing grown-arse men I’ve ever seen. Worse than babies!
Doofus.
… :'(
True story. @Strange would say this to my almost word for word post back in 2012.
I know it probably sounds like I’m dismissing what you’re saying but it’s not that at all. Resonates with ‘Classic DC’ posts so much. Even editing the post away like you did earlier. I did this constantly. Your angst is shared. 😀
We can bond over that if you like? I assume everyone hates me!
Maaaann… You make me smile and giggle occasionally with your posts. No way I could hate that. <3
<3
Just to make it clear, there’s no way I could ever, ever, hate you.
I just didn’t see this before posting my below comment was all.
I know it is meant as endearing, I’m kinda just taking most things far too personally at the moment is all.
While “feel like I’m being judged” thing and all.
Also, I like how you say that that’s the last you’ll say on the subject, then edit your comment 4-5 times (I saw every edit) 🙂
Please, never change Dan 🙂
Hahaha! But… I was being stealthy! *runs off crying* 😛
I know it’s meant as endearing, but it kinda hurt… :'(
Well that wasn’t the intention. I’m sorry. I was just making jokes about how I used to post the same stuff. But I get the feeling this is a little bit on deaf ears until you feel you’re in the right mindset. Just know that you’re liked, you’re wanted, you’re cool, people like hanging with you, people are only replying because they care and no one likes to see you down.
I’ll also say you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be right now. You’re studying. You’re working. You’ve got a social life. Feeling a bit lost also comes with that age. This isn’t me speaking down to you, this is me speaking from experience.
The cool thing about having older friends? (And yes, we’re friends.) They can help you through rough patches they experienced themselves only a few years earlier. This isn’t any one thinking you’re young or need babying or any thing, it’s helping a friend with specific expertise we’ve acquired through fucking up good and proper like everyone does.
I feel you have things way more together than I do. I don’t know what more I can say, so I’ll stop. I personally find this a little frustrating cause I know exactly how you feel and can’t get through to you. 🙁
This is the last thing I’ll say on this matter. Feel free to contact me any time you want to talk. You’ll be feeling better in no time. The end.
Maybe Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s handsomeness will help?
Doofus is a term of endearment, doofus. 😛
I find there are a lot of conversations here that I can’t/don’t contribute to. There’s only a few things that I seem to immediately have in common with people (Survivor! \o/ @greenius). But one thing I have found from lurking around here the last 3 years or so, is that the people who do frequent TAY are some of the most thoughtful, kind, caring and open individuals on the internet. And for a lot of us this is without even meeting face to face. I check TAY once or twice a day, read through the latest page, upvote the comments that I find positive/amusing/whatever, and if there’s anything I feel like sharing I might post my own comment. Sometimes people respond, sometimes they don’t.
We all get stuck in our own heads too much sometimes. And even when we realise it, it can be tricky to stop. Just remember that everyone here is more than happy to be an ear you can vent to, or share your story with (no matter how amazing or inane it may be). You’re a pretty cool guy and stuffs too 🙂
So yeah, don’t know if this helps at all, but I get it.
I always think the worst thing you can do when you’re down is distance yourself from the people you’re most happy around.
You are who you are, and people like you for that and like you being here, whether you think you’re making a meaningful contribution or not.
I’d just like to clarify.
I don’t know what feelings you guys associate with “out of place “.
I kinda assume it makes you feel a bit weird / awkward / uncomfortable.
That’s not how I feel.
It eats me up inside.
I feel horrible.
I start judging myself, looking down on myself, start questioning my worth, worrying how I’m seen, worrying that people don’t / won’t like me, worrying that I’ll do something wrong. I feel pressured, and anxious, and dazed, and like trash, and a myriad of other horrible horrible feelings that I can’t put into words.
That’s what feeling out of place for almost all of your teen, and for almost all of your life in general, can do to you.
I still don’t feel 100% “in place” at all in day to day life.
I’m working on it though.
I’m no expert but that sounds a bit like Anxiety. Perhaps look into that.
I thought these feelings would of been diminished after “Stewies super awesome amazing Queensland trip” 🙁
Mate, that’s exactly how i felt for about 10 of the 15 years I was in depression. The best thing you can do for yourself is to get help by seeing a counselor. It’s great that you have recognised all the issues that you are having, that is an important first step. The thing is, it’s not healthy to constantly critique yourself and worrying about how others see you.
I always doubted myself and thought that I was worthless and that there was something wrong with my by seeing a counselor but the reality is, when you feel like you are feeling, there’s not much you can do unless you learn the skills to counter and deal with the issues you face.
I’m now probably in the worst situation in my whole life with the end of a 13 year relationship and having a 20 month old boy and hardly any friends because of the depression and social anxiety issues I’ve had over the years but I have the tools now to deal with my thoughts and feelings and despite the shit situation i’m in, I also find myself in the best mental state I’ve been in years.
Yeah, because I contribute so much meaningful content to this community….
I thought highly enough of you to open my house and family to you. That’s not something I’d do for just anyone.
aaawww /o\
*puts away axe, unpacks bag and starts crying*
Yeah, I do kind of feel a lot of your problem is your own thoughts getting in the way. I’ve been there, too. Our brains are tricky things that sometimes like to sabotage us. I’ve found following my heart rather than my brain has led me to be more happy with who and where I am.
I’m not sure if you’ve properly noticed, but your posts have been getting a lot of responses, which should be proof enough you’re wanted around here.
You are definitely interesting, funny, clever and insightful. In fact, its your unique perspective on things that makes you an interesting addition to the community. Don’t feel down for being different around here, celebrate it. It’s the differences in people around us that make our lives richer.
Just remember, however bad things get, you’ve always got a place here…
I went on TAY hiatus due to work and personal issues 6 – 12 months ago, and that was a dark time for me… whenever i lurked around, i saw you becoming more and more of a mainstay here… You’re a bigger part of this community then you realise…
It wouldn’t be the same without you man, and i mean that…
I know you and i don’t talk that often mainly because i’m a terrible person and don’t talk that much either :P, but you belong here, just know that…
If you ever need to talk about anything, issues etc. we’re here… you’re part of the TAY family, for better or for worse :P…
I had a period where all i ever did was whinge, and we all go through those times… in that time it’s nice to feel like you have people to turn to, and we’re those people (if you want us to be)
So spill all your emotions onto us… DM someone you’re comfortable with on Twitter, Teamspeak, Facebook, Whatever is your preferred method, if you ever need to talk about stuff you don’t necessarily want to share with the public. Again something i’ve done on multiple occassions… It truly helps
Oh, also I really want to stress (without making it appear I’m dismissing your experiences. Hopefully. Because I’m not at all trying to do that, just trying to get you to understand you’re not alone) that the way you described “out of place” is something I know from various conversations here over the years that a great deal of us have felt or still do feel. There have been a lot of people with various problems growing up and at school, and that has affected them in a similar way as you, judging themselves overly harshly, and making them anxious about people’s thoughts about them.
I think one of the things I admire most about you is that you’ve come through your own trials with a seemingly good knowledge of who you are, and that knowledge of oneself, especially at such a (comparatively to me :P) young age is rare, and something to be proud of. Keep on being you, Lion!
Dude your part of this, I rarely get to contribute as well alot of us dont. But what you do contribute is worth reading and thats why I and so many others do read it.
Mang in the year since you started posting you have posted about half the number of posts I have in the almost 5 years I have been here, and generally of more worth.
You contribute.
Also, I dunno man, you seem to have this idea in your head of what it is to “belong” and how it is supposed to feel, but maybe reality does not match up to that and that’s why you cannot find it – you’re chasing a feeling and situation that does not exist.
I mean if you don’t feel welcome here, with every man, woman and their pets declaring you a pretty cool guy and chatting to you every day… what are you looking for?
(Seriously, it might help if you sit down and try to write out exactly what it is you are trying to find, if only so you can better understand what drives you.)
You are never gonna find a bunch of people exactly like you who like and agree and feel exactly the same as you do. Not because you are different, but because everyone is different.
You belong when you find a group of people who accept you for who you are; people you can laugh with and fight with and talk shit with and piss off and whinge to and then come back the next day and all is good because they are your fucking friends and that’s what they are for.
But I also know that nothing any of us say will really help, because in the end all of this is driven by what you feel and words cannot pierce that.
But emotions are not rational, they often don’t make sense and come from nowhere. You should not live by your feelings – listen to them, acknowledge them, but do not let them blindly drive you.
Control them, don’t let them control you. Put your feels on a leash and follow your reason and I think you will find things fall into place.
And try to make peace with yourself. You seem to care so much about what other people think of you, to the point of basing your self worth on those opinions and that’s not good.
First you need to accept who you are. Be able to say, at least in your head “I am who I am and screw what that guy thinks.” (Fake it till you make it – pretend you are self confident and it will eventually stick.)
And I know my stupid rant above probably comes across as judgmental or something but I don’t mean it like that. Just I know kinda what you feel and maybe you might find a nugget of use in my experience that can help you overcome it.Sorry to hear you’re feeling down man, if I lived in Perth I’d come around and cheer you up, but I don’t, and totally don’t know where you live *shifty eyes*. So instead I’ll give you a TAYHug (patent pending)
We love you man, never forget, you’re a great person, and even though I haven’t met you I consider you a friend. Cheer up big fella, life’s too damn short to be down all the time.
*hugs*
I thought I’d play the original Gears of War. I’d rather I hadn’t.
I played Gears of War 2 about three years ago. I mostly enjoyed it. About a year ago, I bought the original, and it remained on my pile of shame up until today.
Gears of War’s pacing is horrible, its art style looks like someone smeared a turd over the screen based on how brown it is, and the experience of controlling the protagonist is about as pleasant as discovering a floater in the public pool.
I had once heard someone say that it had aged badly. I assumed they were referring to dated graphics and minor control issues. I didn’t think it had aged this badly. The pacing is one of the things that kills it. I don’t think I’d even know what the story was if I hadn’t skimmed the manual first. Any semblance of story is explained in one of the worst pieces of exposition I have seen in a while. It decides to combine frenetic action and quietly sitting down to listen to the school teacher talk.
Plus, every cutscene either tanks the framerate, or runs at 0.75x speed. Despite all this, every cutscene seemed rushed. It’s like going to a romantic dinner, but having your date hurry the conversation along so their parking ticket doesn’t expire.
Let’s get to the gameplay:
It’s not very good. Maybe it’s because I haven’t played a shooter with a controller for a while, but aiming sucks. The reticule seems to simultaneously move to fast to shoot at anything, yet it is agonisingly slow when you are trying to move the reticule more than two metres to the left.
Can I talk about the art style? No? Fine then, thirty minutes in, I’ll put forward my conclusion:
This game has aged badly, but it lacks the charm of a PS1 game.
9.3/10 – I don’t like it.
On the topic of PS1 games, I beat Crash Bash on the weekend for the first time since I was a kid!
Getting the crystals and gems to fight the boss was damn challenging. The boss itself was not.
I forgot that Warp Room 5 requires you to unlock more crystal, gems, and freaking relics, in order to unlock the rest of the minigames. I managed to scrape together enough crystals to unlock another minigame. It’s the one with the dragons and moving targets. Great fun. Really want to unlock the rest of the minigames, the medieval ones especially.
Damn do I love that game, I just wish I had someone to play it with. My sister only likes racing games.
PS: Rilla Roo should be in more Crash Bandicoot games
PPS: Bearminator should be in more Crash Bandicoot games.
PPPS: There should be more Crash Bandicoot games.
Wait, you don’t like it and you gave it 9.3/10?
Who are you, IGN?
No… I don’t know what you are talking about…
*eyes dart rapidly around the room, looking for an exit*
*fails to find exit, decides to talk away the problem*
I mean, I could say that Gears of War is like Skyrim with chainsaws, but I won’t.
Aahhh Gears of War, my guilty pleasure of dude-bro shooty shooty bang bang… I still love it to this day, as much flaming as it gets… maybe it’s because i have fond memories of co-op (HAH, like i have any real life friends) but i still love it
Haha, glad to see I’m not alone 😛
I played through the entirety of it in co-op with a couple of friends while we were away on holiday a few years ago (five?? Geez…), I remember my response to it was that it was the most uninterestingly boring game I’ve ever played. Also it was ugly. And I don’t actually know why I persisted with it through the whole thing.
Defs wouldn’t give it a 9.3 though.
9.1, TOPS.Same, thought it was pretty mediocre. Was probably neat back in 2007 though. I played co-op, and I’ll still play through 2, 3, Judgement co-op too. Gotta justify xbox somehow heh.
I mildly enjoyed Gears. The controls were a bit annoying and some of the contrivances set up to make it more of a ‘game’, but the lore and in media res storytelling seemed really rich, and the aesthetics were almost one of those greyscale art projects that insert random splashes of colour for contrast.
Playing in co-op helped mitigate many if not most of the game frustrations and it was over in pretty much two sittings.
That said? I tend to derive a lot of my enjoyment of games from the things that aren’t actually there. When a game hints and teases at delicious mysteries and stories is when I’m happiest with storytelling. Or rather… Story-finding I guess. Piecing things together is the best. Gears had plenty of that to start off with.
Hows everyone going?
Another mandatory once ever 3-6 month check in after lurking around.
I have been flat out busy lately, not enjoying my new job and would desperately like another one.
My nanna is now in hospital, she has pneumonia and was acting loopy, but now they think she may have early dementia after she has been hallucinating and forgetting things. She also has the starts of parkinsons disease, so really it has been a terrible week for that. Hopefully the dementia part isn’t true, and its all just side effects of the infection.
Finally sold my car though which is better news, and am now looking to buy all the parts for my new shiny PC. Will have to post a list at some stage of parts to make sure I have everything working.
Hope everyone else is doing great.
Sounds rough man, hope the new PC brightens things up for you some.
I kind of want to play Mariokart and minecraft but I need to work on cosplay stuff.
I postponed us going to the shops today so I could work on cosplay and I didn’t get much done due to my gum still being sore, I struggled.
I need to persevere.
Do you have any particular music that motivates you, and makes it easier to get lost in what you’re doing so you can put the pain to the back of your mind and just get on with stuff?
It’s amazing how the right music can affect your mood, productivity and even pain levels.
Yeah, but my sewing machine and my computer are too far away.
It’s one of the reason I would love wireless headset.
Walk into class (lol, student talk) and get handed 3 massive handouts full of super complicated looking diagrams and half page long names and formulas. We’re doing Organic Chemistry. I start to freak out but it doesn’t take me long to realise that I’m effortlessly picking this up. Huh. Maybe this path deserves a closer look.
I HATED organic chem
HATED HATED HATED
It like a big puzzle involving geometry and numbers. It’s great.
You say that now…
Organic chemistry’s OK, but I like quantum chemistry. Gloriously incomprehensible, but once you start to understand bits and pieces, it basically explains everything you’ve ever learnt about chemistry to date.
Also, you’re studying chemistry now?
Yes. Sort of. Bridging course to make up for my refusal to do any work in high school so I can start a Science degree to do….. something? Haven’t figured that part out yet but just starting this course has made a considerable difference to my outlook on life.
Neat. Good luck. Science is cool.
Just watch out for laboratory explosions while handling the monster gene otherwise you might end up like @strange!
Pfft, DC, it’s chemistry.
Monster formula
Qdot chemistry is best chemistry
but I was a chemistry flavoured physicist more than anything,
You smart. Me dumb. Pals?
Always.
:’)
I would be master of the universe by now if I didn’t have to do Organic Chem in high school. Organic Chem ruined my life. True story.
I loved organic chemistry when I did it in Year 12, found it really intuitive and interesting as well.
Never quite sure how to take reviews on this site. Eisenbeis comes across as a sneering cynic and Yannick seems to have made it his mission to like what everyone doesn’t on principle.
*laughs* I dunno if you can be an academic, man… Way too succinct and concise. 🙂
*hugs to any one who needs it*
*must be wearing pants, hands stay above waste…
TOO LATE, NO PANTS, HANDS ALL OVER YOU!
Blergh. I know someone who’ll be scrubbing away skin tonight!
AND I’LL BE THERE TO HOOVER IT UP!
Hmm, that may be too far even for me.
I’m torn between a giggling upvote and an aghast downvote.
The fact that I got that from you means so much to me.
WHAT DOES EVERYONE HAVE AGAINST ME I MEAN SERIOUSLY
NO, NO, ALLCAPS MEANS THAT THERE’S NO PANTS, BUT THERE’S LOTS OF PANTS. I WANT TO HOLD YOU, FRIEND!
WELL YOU SHOULD HAVE HELD ME ON SATURDAY.
Not Sunday. Sunday was no good for me.
Damn, I guess I won’t mention what I did while you were sleeping then.
So that wasn’t just a really vivid dream…
That’s the first time it hasn’t been called a nightmare.
I don’t need a hug, but as long as you’re offering.
Ugh. Hugalen.
I’ve got to stockpile while they’re good!
*hugs*
I’m all alone this week and haven’t had a hug since Sunday and it’s making me feel depressed, or something 😛
Oh, I almost forgot to mention. Something shit on me this afternoon.
I was walking to one of my classes, and walked under a tree. I felt a leaf fall on the back of my neck. I walked a few metres before stopping. Weird, I should have seen the leaf bounce off in my peripheral vision, and it feels like there is something on my neck. It must have gotten stuck between my collar and neck. I try to pick off the leaf from my neck, instead of grabbing something solid, I grasped at something a little less solid. Oh god a bird defecated on the back of my neck. I look at my finger. It’s stained brown. That can’t have been a bird.
I run to the toilets, pushing people away with my not-shit-stained hand. I think someone tried to engage in conversation at some point. I run past them and get to the toilets. I try using water from the sink to rub away the dung. I ask two guys at the urinal if my shirt is still shit-stained. They nod. One of them recommends using the disabled toilet, as it has its own sink.
I thank him and go in the disabled toilet, rip off my shirt and start running it under the water and start furiously scrubbing it. By some miracle, the toilet had a soap dispenser that actually had soap in it.The majority of the brown gone, I wash my hands and casually leave the bathroom, buttoning up my shirt as I go. Then I realised my adventures in shit have made me late, so I run all the way to my classroom at the other end of the school.
There was no hiding the fact that my shirt was sopping wet, so I told the teacher a half-truth. I said I’d gotten some foodstuffs on my shirt, and had to wash it off.
I still don’t know what excreted on me. Was it man or beast? I shall never know. Perhaps I wasn’t meant to.
EDIT: Fixed some weirdness with the italics
some cultures consider it good luck to be shit on by a bird! Thing’s might be looking up!
It definitely wasn’t a bird.
Pray it’s a beast… I’d hate to think I’d ever been shat on by a person. I don’t think I’d be the same after…
10/10 would read again.
I like the part picturing you telling the teacher that you had an incident with some wayward foodstuffs.
Lets file this one away next to Bermuda Triangle and Loch Ness monster =P
I label it “man-bird creature poop mystery”
My basketball team had a glorious victory tonight. 56-45. I didn’t score, but had a couple of offensive rebounds and made some decent passes. It helped that we had 8 players, so we could rotate properly. Summer roster starts soon, and we’ll be doing training when we can.Really enjoying playing at the moment.
TAY is slow again, 7 hours and still on the same page.
It’s ok everyone I’m back now, you can start posting again 😛
I didn’t want to make about 7 posts about my gum hurting
How are your gums? Are they feeling any better?
Still can’t really eat on my right side. I keep accidentally knocking it and it hurts.
Ouch, have they given you anything to use on it to relieve the pain?
Nope, I’m using panadol
2 posts! 5 to go!! WE CAN DO IT!!
I refuse. D=
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
The party killed a nasty beastie and its boss super, super fast! That’s good!
Blaghs failed to kill a forcefield with his axe and it dissassembled into its component elements. That’s bad!
The party has destroyed the Spinneret! That’s Good!
But when they went to find Phetys (@mythamphetamine) he’d disappeared. That’s Bad.
Tune in next time for more tales from the ninth world!
cc @mawt @novacascade @blaghman @tech_knight @popdart5
Also: Your homework: Have a think if Wednesdays are still good for you, and also decide if you want to pursue the impossible blade or the gharolan next!
Outsider vote! Impossible blade sounds like a challenge
Getting my “good” playthrough out of the way before I do my proper “evil playthrough on Infamous: SS. I just ran past this woman in the game, and I swear I heard her say “I wanna have your babies”. So the two times I’ve ever had a female hit on me are from a woman that was about 20 years my senior about 15 years ago because she thought she’d be able to get me to shout her drinks, and from an NPC in a game. How sad is that.
But you’re married, roght, so something must have worked at some point…
Here’s a new topic. This week I was given a very unusual gift – a Herman the German Friendship Cake! It’s a sourdough batter that you feed and nurture for 10 days, then you divide it up, use 1 part to bake a lovely cake, and then you give 3 parts away to friends so they can have a go. What a lovely thing to be a part of!
http://www.hermanthegermanfriendshipcake.com/
That’s a really cool idea. Sounds like it would be a nice cake too.
The friend who gave him to me said the cake is amazing, so I am looking forward to it. Part of the fun is definitely the waiting.
“Is it food time yet?”
“No.”
“Is it food time yet?”
“No.”
“Is it food time yet?”
“No.”
“How about now?”
“No.”
“What about now?”
“No.”
“Are we in India yet?”
“No.”
“Can I eat it please?”
“No.”
“Is it ever going to be ready?”
“No.”
“I am going to eat it.”
“No.”
“Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?”
“Here you go, make it yourself.”
“I don’t want it.”
It’s more like – “Please don’t wash out the bowl on the counter with what looks like a bit of leftover cake batter in it. It’s Herman and he is growing.”
Oh god @blaghman @tech_knight I engaged him again. What is WRONG with me…
Is this STILL an issue for people?
Apparently so. All this started with was me commenting that Adam Baldwin is a conservative wacko who’s picked up the shitty hashtag anti feminist stuff.
So which one of the Baldwin brothers is he? 😛
Oh, Baldwins
Actually, even though they’re not related, Alec Baldwin and Adam Baldwin would probably yell at each other, Alec Baldwin is a bit of a lefty.
He’s the president of the Film Actors Guild 😉
He’s the man they call Jayne.
Still a twat though.
Woah. I went and looked at your feed.
Actually ended at a reasonable point. I still haven’t got a statement of an end goal anywhere here.
Alls I know is this: People need to learn how to fucking argue properly. Everywhere.
No u.
Yes it is
What is this “feed” and where can I find it so I can thrown in my obligatory 2 cents =P
Twitter. Not worth it.
Ugh. Social Media.
Tonight I made steamed pork buns for tea. Except I used beef instead of pork so I guess you could say they were steamed beef buns except that sounds weird so I’ll call them steamed buns for short.
They were pretty good. I have no idea what inspired me to make them (I had no idea they were so easy to make until tonight either) but I’ll probably make them more often!
They sound pretty awesome!
@phlanispo
1.Not big on MMOs
2.I don’t own many consoles, nothing particularly obscure. My console history started with the PSone
3.Dance? Like a tango?
4.Not particularly. I’d rather consistency and a little less oomph to crazy power and a fractured market
5.Probably resolution, though I’m not picky. Give me a nice, simpler art style executed cleanly and I’m happy
6.The best? Dunno, but I have the flags of Peru, Bolivia and Chile hanging on my wall. Bhutan’s flag has a dragon on it, that counts for a lot.
7.Norway has that neat crinkly edge, though the funkiest border in the world has to be the border between the Netherlands and Belgium in the city of Baarle-Nassau/Baarle Hertog :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau#mediaviewer/File:Baarle-Nassau_-_Baarle-Hertog-en.svg
8. We tried to have it both ways and failed miserably. I actually think we should align with the eastern states, but those who live in Whyalla and Port Lincoln would whinge too much
Reply fail, but it was a failure to a necrothread so I’m sure it cancels out?
Fuck feeling down.
I’m gonna feel better now.
You guys know how to help cheer a guy up 🙂
that’s the spirit 🙂
Can I keep my pants on?
Yay! 🙂
Good to hear 🙂
So Justin Carter is still on trial. Wow. How has this not been thrown out of court yet?
What did he apparently do again?
Oh..*backs away*…thats..yep..thats something alright..life imprisionment in a mental facility is too much to ask? Or maybe just a court appointed shrink to deal with whats going on in his head.
Edit: yes I regoogled Justin Carter and actually forgot about that story as I thought it had been dropped already
To be fair he was being abused and got called mental on a League of Legends Facebook page and it was a sarcastic response to a troll. Someone in Canada saw it and called the local police as if it was a real threat.
Thats true, wonder if his family will sue the police, the court and the county jail he was being held in for abuse of their powers and not throwing the case out .it seems like something people do now. Also because he got sexually abused in jail
Looks like we found a new housemate after a bit of stress for a week or two with one of ours suddenly leaving. Ah well, hopefully all can return back to normality soon.
Today, I know I should shower and go to work but that’s all the way over there and I’m wrapped up at my computer all snug in my duvet, sorry, doona. Gotta get these words right if I’m to take my citizenship test
I believe the correct word your looking for is “blankie” as opposed to “duvet”
you leave my security blankie out of this 😛
*throws blankie over head* if I cant see you you cant see me
the urge to build a blanket fort when I get home tonight is considerably high now
Oh man, when I lived in London I had the opposite problem. All these crazy words you English folks used for stuff. SO CRAZY. And then there was the time I was in Tesco’s freezer section giggling at the meat faggot boxes. XD
Don’t worry, if you go back again, those different words change from town to town 😀
also, everyone giggles at meat faggotsBut then you get used to it and no longer shy away from a mouthful of spotted dick.
Went and watched Guardians of the galaxy
THAT MOVIE IS DOPE
Then went home and casino royale was on.
That movie is also dope.
Also got my tax done for past 2 years and it went great got a rather large return and i decided im going to spend it at least a bit on myself.
Spending your tax return on dope is dope!
Come back to Canberra! 😛
Rockets, give us the dope. This is for your own good.
ITS MY DOPE
but sharing is caring! or at least entrepreneurial
Am I missing something… Why would someone be strutting (this was not plain walking) through the city on a busy Thursday morning wearing what I think are these?
http://www.razerzone.com/au-en/store/razer-kraken
I’m all for enjoying music to its fullest but surely there is a better option for use out and about?
http://bit.ly/1lArFW5 <– that’s why.
edit : also, I don’t see what wrong with wearing them out & about. the colour is a tad nausea-inducing, but whatever.
I think you meant to say “the colour is a tad awesome”. Didn’t you?! 😛
Green’s a pretty fine colour!
I hear if we say green three times @Greenius will make his triumphant return!
Green.
I bought a new phone cover/shell/thing last night that is green. Oh, the shame!
You’re okay, Pow. You’re okay.
It’s also yellow.
Just like my new favourite character in Mario Kart. YELLOW YOSHI! (Who has green shoes. GREEN.)
Green
I…think I need a pair of those!
I’ve been wanting some for a while but I already have several pairs of headphones…
Those are super cool. I for one am sick of earbuds.
http://www.gog.com/game/dreamfall_chapters_season_pass
Oh man, it’s so close now. So close. Balance be praised! WOOOO!
Minecraft! Wooooo!
Last night I built a shitty wooden house for my staging base, got enough iron for a full armour set, fell in lava about 10 minutes later.
About an hour later I sited my primary base, and now I can start building.
My base is usually a box. Then i dig underneath it.
im constructed 50 bases like that. I am original :/
Sounds like my bases. Although, sometimes if I’m feeling creative, there won’t be a box – I just dig a hole.
Setting myself a bit of a challenge this time – base will be on the corner of a coastline so I can set up some sort of fortress with a port.
I found a cool natural arch with a nearby river that I’ve claimed as my own! All I did last night was clear some trees around where I want to build and tried to find coal (why is it so rare in this map! :P)
Okay so here’s a dumb question… (I really need to take a Minecraft Multiplayere 101 class)
When you say claim – what does that entail and does it stop me from digging near you?
Feeling particularly dumb today… *slinks away to avoid more attention*
I just mean I put a couple of signs and torches up so that people know someone has obviously ‘been here’. There’s nothing stopping anyone from destroying it all and building over the top.
But generally the TAY servers are pretty good with respecting people’s stuff so I’m not worried 😛
EDIT; I guess the rule of thumb is: if you find something that someone has started to build, just give it a bit of space.
This is why I don’t play Minecraft. I wouldn’t be able to stop myself from clearing your house and building a giant penis house in its place to greet you upon your return.
This is why you’re a monster.
I always carry a healthy stockpile of signs so I can leave creepy messages in peoples houses 😛
now I know who to bomb when I see creepy notes left in my house
Back on the Potaku server someone started stealing my diamonds so I hid them (along with most of my iron) in a chest under my floorboards. My wife called me crazy.
you can dig 1 layer under Pow’s house if you have 2 stacks of TNT to fill it back in
Do not do this! 😛
getting 2 stacks of TNT is quite a feat in itself 😛
It’s more a matter of respect than hard claims – if you want to set up near someone else, just ask before you commit. You’ll likely get crossover when mining underground, even if the surface structures are separate.
Generally, if I see signs of someone in an area, I keep walking. The map is infinite, why compete for the same resources?
On happy servers, you might end up with a bit of a communal area near the spawn. I normally try to walk a few km from there before setting up, but I’m the kind of player that likes to do my own thing. Mostly the multi thing means occasional visits and seeing if someone else needs help from my side of things.
Ahhh… I think I might walk a bit further than I did last night then! Although I’ll get a bed before I go too far.
Out of curiosity, you said you prefer to go a fair way away, how many blocks did you go?
Staging base was about 2 clicks. Main base is a bit closer but hopefully still far enough.
Just to clarify: We don’t expect you to be out in the middle of nowhere or anything! (unless you want to be of course). Just don’t build super close to someone else’s thing and you’ll be fine!
@sunsoar77 Indeed this. I err on the side of caution but I’m also a ‘middle of nowhere’ style player.
I like to avoid people mining into my underground rooms.
are you playing on new patch?
MUST RESIST URGE TO PLAY >:(
There’s rabbits! Rabbits!
*reach for the bow and arrows*
STOP IT!
I normally make a little hut (read “wooden box”) on a plain somewhere near the treeline… In my current play, I couldn’t find a flat plain, so I just set myself up in a cave partway up a hill by a river. Covered up the entrances with cobblestone, lit it, put in a door. Mined down from there to find four intersecting ravines, and an abandoned mine. Score! \o/ Kinda sad that I got enough resources after a couple of trips that I’ll never need to go down the mine ever again…
I may never be able to find a “pretty” location for my base, but I’ve rarely failed to find an optimal one for progression.
Eh, I mostly level an area and put a big wall around it. Nothing pretty about that.
Co-worker: “Ew. Messy… Oh well. Transient or his boss’ll have to lodge it as a project.”
Me: “Dibs not ‘It’.”
Boss: “Good of you to volunteer!”
“That’s… that’s not what I said. That’s the opposite of what I said.”
“And that’s how you volunteer!”
“But… but… Booo.” 🙁
OHWAIT RALLY TIME
“Ooh. Actually, I retract my objection. I will cheerfully take ownership of this urgent and important task, because I am an enthusiastic and goal-oriented team-player who takes initiative.”
“OK, that was like someone’s walking over my grave. What’s your game? I’m not seeing it.”
“Remember how I’m on leave for a month, a day from now? Obviously this critical task can’t be left for a month, but I’m more than happy to establish the vital ground-work and let someone else fill in the details and do the busywork, while I claim the credit for the actual hard work of, y’know… creating a ticket.”
“God dammit. Why did I approve that, again?”
“Because if you only approved leave requests when there was nothing horrible lurking on the horizon, no-one would ever get leave approved.”
“Touché.”
I like the verbal jousting in your office.
I usually just swear and be sarcastic all day.
I like to think all these conversations are just in the guys head, muttering to himself all day and occasionally laughing at his own suaveness.
Heh. If I posted THOSE, I’d never stop posting. I am sooooo witty in my own head!
Although the stuff I replied to Sunsoar about the pen is pretty close to that kind of thing.
(Eg:
Buy a pen… that’s a novel idea. Usually to get a pen I have to sign half a dozen requisition forms and send them up the chain in a shotgun scatter approach, hoping at least one will make it through, to receive (a few months later) a box of pens so cheap that the box they come in is worth more than it’s contents. Then undergo a process of elimination to determine which of the supplied dozen actually works. (Usually a success rate of 3 out of 12.)
We have to lie and say we’ve run out, because if we waited for replacements when we DID actually run out, I don’t know what they’d expect us to do while we wait. Cobble together some make-shift ur-pen scratching out our markings by dipping toe-nail clippings in an improvised ‘ink’ made up of discarded coffee grounds and the tears of new hires at the moment of their dissillusionment.
As a government department, the rules on transparency have actually changed such that we can’t even accept promotional pens as gifts from charities or vendors. At least, not without declaring it. (I wish I was making that up. The first part is embellished VERY slightly. The declaration part? Noop. That’s legit.)
My mechanical keyboard broke recently so I needed to get a new one. I thought I’d do the nice thing and put together a list of stuff for my boss to see so he could approve it. Called him to discuss.
“Why are you even asking? Just buy it!”
I thought in government jobs you were supposed to pen your name and stuff in blood, sweat and/or tears?
When I was a file clerk/office bitch one of my duties was handing out stationery. I made the mistake once of giving one of the sales guys one of the sweet artline rollerball pens instead of a regular bic and suddenly everyone in the office wanted them, so we went through our supply in like a week. When the office manager took stock she was all “where are the fucking Artlines?”.
“Well, I handed them out…?”
“Why?”
“People asked!”
“People, what people?”
“Like.. Scott and Hayden in sales… then everyone else…”
“No, sales don’t get Artlines. Those pens cost $7 each. Artlines are for the settlements team because they sign off on all the contracts and need the higher quality ink.”
“Well, I didn’t know that.”
“You should have.”
“How, exactly?”
“Listen, it’s not my job to hold your hand.”
When she restocked the stationery cupboard I took a box of Artlines home with me. I like to think in some small way this contributed to the company going bankrupt, but it probably had more to do with the CEO absconding overseas on board his $3million super yacht after several key directors bailed.
Oh god. I love it. ONLY MANAGEMENT GETS THE NICE PENS, YOU KNOW THIS.
This is something I don’t understand – do people put up with all this malarkey over a biro on the principle that it’s not the employee’s responsibility to supply stationery? I mean, I’m kinda out of the loop on office stationery – I buy my own notebooks and ink, and haven’t really needed a new pen since I invested in a good Parker in my second year of Uni. (Not meaning to be snobby, just genuinely curious, as it seems the hassle to get stationery is disproportionate if all you’re after is a Bic)
Because you get paid while you’re filling out those bullshit forms, so the only cost is to your sanity and productivity! Spite probably plays a large part as well.
Ah… I think I get it. Never had a paperwork-heavy job, myself, and really only ever had to write at work to keep my own notes. I s’pose if paperwork is a big part of your job, being able to rely on stationery being readily available would be important.
Hey so we are meant to only reorder stock when we are running low on things. Can you imagine if we realise we need something (like a drug that is going to be used a lot) and we order lots in advance?
“Why do you guys need so much of this drug? Isn’t there, like, an alternative?”
“Well, yes, there are alternatives but they’re not recommended for this patient due to life threatening allergies.”
“Can’t they wait?”
“Well if we wait they might die”
etcetcetcetc
So anyway we possibly way overorder things sometimes 😉
Urgh. I can just SEE the gears mentally churning in some caricature beancounter’s head at, “Well, if we wait, the patient might die,” as an obstacle to get around or evaluate for cost:benefit. >.
The boss is clearly feeling a little feisty today.
Systems vendor (over the phone): “Hey, just wanted to let you know that the planned release wasn’t able to be rolled out last night.”
Boss: “Ah, that explains why the systems are still functioning normally. Well, let me know when you do roll it out, so I can schedule lunch and not have to handle the chaos.” *hangs-up*
Me: “That was… unkind.”
“Maybe, but knowing how every patch has gone so far, am I wrong?”
“Touché.”
Has anyone ordered online from JB before? They’ve taken the funds for my Destiny preorder (which is comforting) but the site simply says that they will ship the product one day before the release date, from Melbourne. Since I’m in Sydney I doubt this means I will actually get it on the actual release date – but I’ve also previously seen reports of people actually getting their games early when they’ve ordered online.
So I guess I’m wondering: what’s the likelihood of me getting this game on time?
I got Mass Effect 3 about a week after launch. 🙁
Diiiiicks.
I know I ordered something from them, but I forget what. I think it might’ve been Ni No Kuni. I got it within, like… 1-2 days or something absurdly fast compared to the 3-5 days I’d been warned of on the website. But I didn’t get a launch title, I only got it after getting saturation-bombed by the gaming press being unable to shut the hell up about it.
…Dammit. Now I kinda wanna play Ni No Kuni.
I only really got as far as the second town (I think) where you get access to the job board.
I’d say the likelihood is around the area of 2 potato.
could you see if you could change it to be picked up instore?
Seems unlikely, but I suppose I could ask.
Edit: Nope, they can’t switch home delivery to in-store pick up. :/
Shout at them for being lazy
Dicks 🙁
Post between Melbourne and Sydney is generally overnight so the only thing stopping it from being there on time is your local post.
Oh dear god, you’re screwed.
You don’t even know.
So the contractor in our area writes the “sorry I missed you” cards before even starting his run and then dumps his shit at the LPO at 4:55pm. Then the NEXT morning, pops around to everyone and drops the card in the mailbox telling them they can pick up their shit “from 4pm” the PREVIOUS day. I know this, as I always check the mail at 6:15pm when I get home and there’s no card – my wife finds it the next morning. One day when I was off work and KNEW I had a delivery coming that day because my wife checked the delivery status online I went to the post office at 4:45 and told them I had a receipt saying it had been delivered. The guy at the LPO had no idea what I was talking about.
We argued for about ten minutes (me mainly complaining about the service of the driver) until at 4:55pm the delivery driver turns up starts dumping everything, including our package. I take it and go after complaining about how he never bothered to attempt delivery when he allegedly came by at 10 that morning – to which he asserted they’re not required to attempt delivery to units (this is a lie, according to my wife’s aunt who is the manager at the parcel distribution hub in Chullora) but could not even offer an explanation for why there was no pick up notification card left to tell me I could pick my package up, and it was only because my wife is obsessive/diligent that I was even aware that delivery had been “attempted” that day.
Sure enough, because he had no way of knowing I’d already taken possession of our delivery, we had a pick up card in our mailbox the next morning.
They do that around here sometimes too. Other times they walk up to the door, knock (don’t ring the bell), and immediately start to leave so if you’re not right at the door at that exact moment you’re getting carded.
And when stuff gets carded it goes to one of the most annoying post offices in the entire world, one that’s only open 9-5, in a busy shopping center, and which half the time is closed on weekends as well.
So nowadays I’m getting more and more packages sent to work instead, because stuff actually gets signed for and delivered here, none of those shenanigans.
I usually do that too but I was expecting Destiny would arrive at our home so my wife could commence playing immediately instead of waiting til I get home, especially since there’s no split-screen.
I got my InFamous 2 collectors edition about 3 weeks after launch.
Maybe they’ve improved but I ordered a blu-ray that was in stock recently and it took almost a month to get here.
Sooooooooooo…
/o\
My wife is going to kill me. We’ll probably wind up buying a standalone copy to tide us over until our Ghost edition arrives.
I have a JB on the way home so on days of releases I just leave work a little early drop by and call in sick for the next 3 days =P
I hope this idea gives you ideas?!
I don’t know – the only thing I ever ordered from them was The Witcher 2 Dark Edition and they cancelled my order because they didn’t want to sell it at the advertised price :\
Won’t be shopping JB online again.
@sernobulus – all good with the whitelisting now?
I saw him online last night!
sweet 🙂
Yeah managed to log in and die repeatedly. =P
I can’t believe I totally missed making the obvious joke with the MSN shutdown – how the hell am I ever supposed to get another girlfriend now?
Man I’m getting sloppy.
asl?
18/f/syd, u bb?
18? TOO OLD
You wanna be my msn girlfriend??
I wouldn’t have had a girlfriend for 6 years if I didn’t have MSN, I’ll miss it, I really will.
Yeah, it’s a scary thing to realise that without it I would never have had maybe 90% of the significant female relationships in my life, let alone the “actual” relationships.
That’s what she said.
Or at least, she would have, if she’d met you in the first place which she hasn’t because no MSN.
Smooooooooth, B-ob. You still got it.You have skype! *grabs popcorn*
NOT THE POINT!
Dammit gooky, my life drama has died down. How will I sustain myself if yours is dying down too?!
I don’t know, I’ve been on the search for someone to live vicariously through too.
Okay, leave request for two weeks next month for my birthday sent off and approved! \o/
NOICE
what are you gonna do??
Nothing planned, probably try to get to Gold in LoL or something, if nothing else
COME NORTH AND VISIT MEEEE
why do none of you bastards visit me 😛
it’s really hard for me to go to the airport, it really really is, on the other side of the city and parking is atrocious.
motoroized scooter???
😛
I could try a shuttle but I have no idea the average time of those in terms of both pickup and arrival times.
Where are you living anyway I thought you were southwest side
Nope, I’m in the southeastern suburbs
No kidding, I was way off. Should come visit @greenius and I
@coldcamv Where are you guys?
Eastern suburbs 😀
@coldcamv Yeah maybe I should visit you guys once in a while, not sure what we’d do though! 😛
Games with the possibility of alcohol
I visit …
:`(
Also have any of the characters i used to play been nerfed into oblivion, i was gonna reinstall but i feel like im gonna play lux and final spark is gonna do 20 damage and have a 100 second cooldown
Lux got buffed recently, her passive now scales with AP.
I find her really good in outranging enemies like Ryze but sadly mid lane has still got a fair amount of mobile champs which makes Lux a little tricky to win lane with.
you could always go bot as support and transition into mid-lategame nuke because people expect supports to not do any damage
Yeah that too, she’s my go-to mage support when morgana is banned 😛
COME TO SYDNEY! hang out with us cool kids!
Previous statements might be misleading in level of coolness involved.Man, i forgot how much fun Borderlands 2 is… Thanks @rize, @cakesmith, @sernobulus… Same time tomorrow? 😛
Speaking of Borderlands? I’m unreasonably psyched for Tales from the Borderlands and not at all psyched for The Pre-Sequel.
Psyched for both.
All Borderlands, all of the time!
Pre sequel looks good, but the real question is: Will i still be playing Destiny?
Nah, you’ll be playing the PreSequel. After all…
…it’s your Destiny.
*whacks Rize with a wet newspaper*
No!… No! Bad!
“Butt Stallion says hello!”
Yeeeeessssshhhh so psyched… Well for both… Probably won’t by either at launch because money (god damn I’m sick of constantly whine about money) but I’ll definitely get both at some point
Same time
tomorrowtonightFIFY
But but irl commitments and stuuuuuuuuuuffffffff :-\
Ughhh, the WORST!
\o/
GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
@saturday @blaghman @cj @trjn – Sorry bout the dota last night. My router at home died.
Wait….. @sernobulus, I can’t even remember who was playing.
To be fair though, all you had to eat yesterday was like… 6 gummi bears and some scotch.
Don’t worry. It ended horribly.
I only felt about the same amount of self loathing I usually feel every night.
So horribly.
question :
new 3ds. any word in if digital purchases on current models are gonna be transferrable to the new one? coz if bought games are still locked to your console, then that’s really shit.
You can transfer between systems. The new one essentially becomes your old one and the old one goes back to factory settings.
cool. now there just needs to be a decent trade-in program & I’m almost on board.
I really wanna play Xenoblade.
You also need to be able to connect online to do the transfer. I know some friends who had to take their laptop and a wireless net dongle in to EB and sit there for two hours while the whole thing transferred over.
But then some other EBs are cool about it and will let you take the new one home and bring the blanked old unit back when you’re done transferring. Depends on the store. No idea what other places are like, haven’t heard any stories.
Have they actually specified if it’s going to be the shitty system profile transfer deal for the new ones?
I mean, given how they’re still status quo for region lock, it’s likely.
They haven’t officially announced anything, but I don’t expect it’ll be any different to the process they have now.
@f4ction I sure hope you post about the shenanigans that take place in the Sims home for hilarity sake xD
Guardians of the galaxy OST has to be one of the best ones out there… Have been listening to it all morning… So good!
Watched it last night and hundred percent agree
I’m hooked on a feeling!
That reminds me, my friend said yesterday he had a copy of it with him and I could grab a copy on a USB drive. Should get around to that.
Get your scally waggin’ away from ‘ere.
I liked it better in the movie, actually. Less than half the tracks are great as standalone tracks, for me. 🙁 Still bought it lol.
I grew up with sooooo many of these songs, so it’s sending my nostalgia into overdrive! 😛
Does anyone else find that lawsuit against Gearbox to be firmly on the idiotic side? Movie producers would be fighting new case daily if they got sued for every trailer that misrepresented the film.
On one hand… true.
On the other hand… maybe they should.
Edit: Calling out major bullshit might be Sisyphean, but the world is probably a slightly better place every time it happens. Or might be, if it causes people to be a little less blatant in their bullshitting in future.
Disregard.
Considering the rather stark difference between what was shown prior to release and the actual game, I feel the lawsuit is warranted.
I reckon it’s more of a case of picking on the big target to try and make the smaller and less blatant examples of misleading and deceptive advertising pull their heads in. Movies are a completely separate point (usually) as the trailers are generally comprised of footage from the film. I imagine a similar case for the movies would be watching a high-tech, CGI extravaganza trailer and the actual movie being pretty poor in comparison.
Wolverine Origins?
The movie was bad but whether the trailer was misleading is debatable. Sure it made the movie look like it was going to be awesome but that was simply a clever arrangement of snippets of the actual movie arranged in a trailer, which is something all film studios and a lot of game companies do. You come to expect a bit of embellishment in the trailers.
The Colonial Marines case is different because they showed a playable demo that was incredibly polished in comparison to the final game. The general consumer expected that the final product would be similar to the demo when that was not that case. To me, that seems like a stronger case for misleading or deceptive conduct.
*not indictitive of final product
Hey, problem solved. Can show whatever now.
Not to be facetious about it but that is pretty much all a company needs to get around the issue. As long as they clearly show that the trailer/demo/whatever is not going to be indicative of the final product in any major way, the courts would be likely to side with them.
That was my point. In the end its going to achieve nothing but more bullshit. Hell, that Doctor Oz guy got pulled in front of the US Senate and admitted he doesn’t believe half of what he spruiks and all he got was an admonishment.
Going to an engament party on the 20th, and the dress is cocktail. I have absolutely no idea what I should be wearing. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Pants, shirt, suit jacket if you’re cold. Tie optional.
Tarocash stuff.
Probably won’t be needing a jacket. I have a few really nice shirts that I can wear. I’ll probably wear the one I wore to a wedding in May.
obvious. wear a cocktail umbrella.
and nothing else.
Wait, where exactly would you plant this umbrella? Wait…. oh….. OH!
in your hair / behind your ear, you sick stick :p
Gee, cover up you hussy!
Right?!
Casual suit with rooster feathers coming out the back of your pants.
My go to for weddings/related shindiggery is: black pants, black shirt, black tie, black vest, scowl.
I went with a friend who was all dressed in black to a wedding once, we were late because trains put us on buses. We slipped in just as the bride started her walk down the isle (to music from FFX/2, trying to be as inconspicuous as you can when running down the isle ahead of the bride then the groom yelled at my mate in black “it’s not a fucking funeral!”. It was a classy wedding 😛
Fedora.
Short red cocktail dress should suffice.
Prawn?
Oh cool. According to this e-mail, I can take a course here at work to learn how to use an iPad. Or Facebook. Or Twitter.
Why not take all three?
Well looky at you mister intelligent, only do it if you get a certificate
You might find that third one pretty helpful.
Why? I already know everything I need to about all three of those things.
For catching up on sleep while apparently ‘studying’. 🙂
(Honestly, I get sleepy in ANY form of training, though.)
I get sleepy in any form of air conditioning.
Although having someone stand there and talk sure does accelerate the process.
I think I’m declaring a lifelong vendetta against anything related to Village Roadshow. The CEO is an imbecile the likes of which I can’t even find a suitable reference for.
Given he believes people should happily spend $200 for a night at the movies I can’t believe the government can take anything this clown says seriously. Goodbye movies, you were fun while you lasted, hello Twitch and webseries.
The sad thing is Burke used to be alright at one point in time. I learned only recently that he was one of the influential people at Village Roadshow that convinced the company to help produce Mad Max when not many other companies would take that risk.
Capt. James Norrington (Pirates : CotB) – ‘One good deed is not enough to redeem a man of a lifetime of wickedness’
I feel this is an appropriate response. He’s a man with resources and a singular view that benefits his and only his industry at the cost of the general public. Give us an alternative to $40 tickets to seeing movies and I’ll take it. Give me movie rentals at the same time they become available on piratebay and I’ll take it. Give me bloody fricking movies releasing on the same date as the rest of the civilized world and I’ll bloody take it. But don’t justify your inability to stay competitive in a global landscape by reducing the options available to the public. I call that pirating our rights to function and obtain goods in a free market.
Three years ago I used to go to the movies every month without fail, back then average ticket prices were $20-$24 in Sydney and most movies had normal screenings at peak times. This year I’ve noticed Events has a majority of its screenings during peak hours for popular movies in either VMAX or Gold Class. Just one instance where you could make movies and cinemas more accessible given I can’t afford to spend $80-90 (for 2 people) for 2 hours of entertainment. It just doesn’t reflect any kind of value and it’s outright extortion when you take into account how they’re changing available screenings. So instead of giving us more options they’re trying to reduce the ones we have in order to protest this blatant price gouging.
Worst part is that half the time with these people it feels a lot less like inability and a hell of a lot more like unwillingness
How much is his own personal view and how much of it is what he is expected to do as his position demands? Imagine if he didn’t pursue it so much his shareholders would find someone who would.
Nor saying he doesn’t think like that but it’s entirely possible he doesn’t care near as much as he makes out.
He compared pirating movies to pedophilia.
Literally.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/09/village-roadshows-submission-to-the-copyright-crackdown-consultation-is-bonkers/
I’m out, they can keep their movies while I look up how to subscribe to a VPN.
Anybody that compares the stealing of a commercial product to the destruction and scarring of another human being for life at their most vulnerable stage of life should be ashamed, resign and hermit himself in the outback wearing the pheromones of an in-heat red kangaroo.
He also said that the argument of ISPs not being responsible for controlling the conduct of their users is akin to the government saying that just because they build the roads that they’re not responsible and cannot control the actions of the users of the roads.
Straw man arguments are among the lowest forms of argument and whoever wrote and signed that submission should be ashamed.
If you find a reliable one keep me in and let me know? I think it’s time I swapped out as well.
I made my submission to the public consultation. Pretty much all I can do, really. That and, y’know. Prove the point of the disconnect between market interest and consumer interest by pirating movies, I guess.
“Public consultation” => “we’ve already decided what the outcome will be, but we’ll request comments from the ‘public’ and then cherry-pick the ones that agree with us”
I just stopped consuming them entirely. I’d been losing interest for years and as soon as more barriers were put up I just gave up on the whole medium. Fuck em.
#NoSwearSeptember
New-thread fail, wow.
If you buy Apple TV ($109 RRP) from the website you get a free $30 iTunes voucher, making it $80. Which is about the best it’s ever been. Good deal for some.
Apple TV is such a missed opportunity. If they made it run proper iOS and let you develop apps for it it would be an amazing device, but because of how locked-down it is it’s really only useful if you can jailbreak it.
The new ones can’t be jailbroken (apparently) so I didn’t even look into that. But, for me, it’s useless as I have a HTPC. So it’s $80 for the convenience of doing some things via a remote, rather than a kb/trackpad combo. If I had a 2nd lounge room or something that’s another matter ..
I’d rather buy a Vita TV
you can get remotes for media pc’s. I’ve got one here I don’t use if you’re interested
Ah thanks. I have a Windows (xbox-style) one here, but it only works out of the box on Windows Media Centre and the media controls. Even then, there’s my whole music and video collection accessible via remote … so apple tv isn’t very appealing to me.
My dying phone is scaring me. I need to be able to contact and be contacted whenever. Thinking of moving on from pre-paid to getting a phone on a plan as well.
Is $40 a month with a phone and 1.5G data a good plan?
The data seems a little low, but if it’s Telstra/Optus that’s also about as good as it gets I’d imagine. Business casual standard for our guys is $30/3GB data, $10 voice. Cheaper if contracted but we never do. That’s the same as available to the public.
It’s Virgin, and it’s actually a triple data deal at the moment. Usual is 500mb.
Bleh. That’s pretty horrible. Although… I don’t know how you use your phone. What I do know is that a LOT of the capped plans with the providers these days are including calls and SMSes pretty much unlimited for free.
You can also try and wrangle some bonuses by shopping around between carriers. ‘Winback’ teams love to poach customers from other providers and usually have a bag of goodies to do so by way of discounts, etc. “Will I get anything special if I port my number from another provider?” is a good question to ask when shopping around.
My husband, parents and daughter all have Virgin, and we get free calls and texts between each other. Which is kind of how I survived on around $15 every three months or so for the past 5 or six years. 😛
I’m more paying for peace of mind, and the option to be able just check Twitter or something while I’m on a bus. Plus, I can’t really afford to buy a phone outright at the moment so it seemed like a good compromise.
Thanks for your feedback!
I would say it’s a good plan. Do you know the model of phone that’s being offered?
My contract is a hangover from older times and it’s $30 per month with 200MB. They gave the option to upgrade to a new phone and 500MB for an extra $10 but I declined. I’m with Vodafone though so the deals they have aren’t great compared to everyone else.
The day I got out from Vodafone was one of the best days of my life. I even tweeted them to let them know that fact.
I’ll be getting a Sony Experia Z1. There’s others I could choose, but I love the Sony phones.
Nah 200MB is fine with Vodafone you can only connect to the network about 20% of the time so it’s actually impossible to use up that much data
I pay $59/month for my iPhone 5S and I only get 1.1 gigs of data because Telstra are a rort, but mostly a reliable rort.
$40 for 1.5 gigs doesn’t seem bad but I guess that depends on the provider and what kind of phone you’re getting in the deal.
40 a month for 1.5GB sounds pretty good to me.
EDIT: That’s assuming calls/texts are bundled. If those rates are high to compensate then I take that back 😛
I’m currently paying $40 a month and I get like $500 of voice and 3gb of internet? Through optus, but mine’s a business plan. Not sure if they have same for consumer lines.
I’m on Amaysim which runs on the Optus network.
$45 per month, unlimited calls, 5gb of data.
Just buy a $100-200 smrt phone and jump on that.
BARGAINZO!!!
Also, their customer support is top notch.
That’s a pretty tempting deal! If I could afford to buy a phone outright I’d definitely do that.
Okay, thanks for your input, everyone! Seems like it’s a not-awesome, but not-terrible plan. Mr. Strange is taking me out to sign up tonight so hopefully they have the phone I want in stock so I can have Twitter to entertain me while I’m helping out in my friend’s OzComic Con booth on Saturday. 😀
Aldi have android phones on sale pretty regularly for about $200.
Thanks, but like I said to a couple of others I can’t afford to buy a phone outright. I can do $40 per month, but I can’t do $200 in one go right now. And I need a phone ASAP, so I can’t just save for a few months to get it. It’s all good, Iike I’ve said here before…I don’t just want any old phone, I want a Sony. This is the way I can get what I want. 🙂
Alright, I didn’t write up the Brisbane meat I attended (although it was one of the best nights of my adult life), I haven’t explained why @dc calls me Stan (it’s in reference to Stan from Monkey Island, with the plaid jacket, because I own a loud plaid jacket) BUT what I can do is fulfill the promise made ages ago of an AMA, on a Thursday.
It’s Thursday.
I’m Quiz_b.
One of the four (?) Taswegians on here.
Ask me absolutely anything.
Will you marry me?
In a heartbeat, but the resulting family mish-mash would put the Brady Bunch to shame.
Actually, that would make an awesome sitcom.
What I am trying to say here is: I THOUGHT YOU WOULD NEVER ASK FREEZE LET’S ELOPE TO PARIS WHERE EVERYTHING IS IN SEPIA TONE AND LOVE LASTS FOREVER
We’ll be together forever, two hearts as one.
If you couldn’t call yourself a Taswegian, how would you refer to a denizen of Tasmania?
I’d go with either a Mapper, as in “Map of Tasmania”, or Lice, for the same reason.
Yes, I did just call all other members of my state a type of pubic insect infestation.
…then again, we gave Australia Eric Abetz so frankly it’s kind of fitting.
If you could eat one cuisine for the rest of your life, what would it be?
As a Quizmaster, do you know Jack?
I would eat Asian. Totally stir-fry Asian. Satay Chicken, Thai Green Curry…gods, I would be in heaven.
I know Jack. I loved Jack. I used to play Jack by myself so much, that I would occasionally pretend to be three different people so I could screw myself while playing Jack. I am sad.
Taswegian? Where are you from originally?
absolutely anything eh? What’s your pin number and all your passwords?
Taswegian – originally from Hobart, have lived in Hobart almost my entire life (lived in Edinburgh for a few months running a hotel/hostel) and will continue to be a country bumpkin and die here probably. I like the cold.
My pins are 1234 and 9876. My passwords are ****** and **********f***82. I am a simple man.
It’s Thursday; we’re staffing you on a telecommunications project in Calgary, Canada, on Monday. Your flight and hotel are booked; your visa is ready. What are the top five things you do before you leave?
1) Kiss my wife
2) Kiss my child
3) Drink a bucketload of water days beforehand to cleanse the liver and kidneys because the only way I can sleep on long haul flights is to get completely and utterly schtonked.
4) Finish Far Cry 3.
5) Gently cradle my PC, weeping, telling it that daddy will be home soon, not to worry, he will update Java, I promise to update Java, you be strong for daddy, he promises to spend quality time defragging you when he gets home.
Do you wipe sitting down or standing up?
Standing up. I’m so tall that in most toilets, any significant amount of time spent on it makes my legs dead. The first chance I get to stand up, I do.
Does Tasmania miss me as much as I miss it? 😛
What school did you go to?
What’s your favourite colour?
Do you finds curves or angles more aesthetically pleasing?
What do you want to be doing when you’re 60?
a) Yes it does. There’s talk of erecting a monument to you in Franklin Square.
b) I went to Cosgrove High School. Not so much now, but at the time it staddled the boarder between two suburbs – Moonah and Glenorchy. Both were working class, low socio-economic suburbs. As I wasn’t the Adidas wearing, sneaky smoking during recess punch the lower graders kinda guy, I had a horrible time. Bullied and physically assaulted every day. My whole life changed when I graduated.
c) Orange. I love orange.
d) Curves are far more aesthetically pleasing. No matter on what – be it person, product, building or in nature. I especially love climbing the local mountain here and watching the curve of the river as it flows down through the city.
e) I wish to be alive, in my right mind and signing copies of the final book in my epic series. I ignored the call of writing for too long and I hope that, somehow, I make it to being published (don’t care about fame or fortune, just to be published). I WANT to be alive, in my right mind and waking up everyday with a smile, a coffee in my hand, about to go and do work that I do not find soul destroying.
You answers are pretty cool!
I used to hate orange, but I’m kind of going through a phase where I’m obsessed with orange fabrics at the moment.
My parents both went to Cosgrove high. I don’t think it was quite as bad all the way back then, but my Mum sure did tell me some stories! *hugs* for being bullied. 🙁
When my parents moved back to Tasmania we lived with my Grandmother in Glenorchy for the first year while we were waiting for our house(in Blackman’s Bay) to be built. I remember she had raspberry bushes, peach, nectarine,and lemon trees. And there was a creek down the bottom of the street we used to play at. And on the walk to school (Brent Street Primary) we’d stop in at the corner shop to buy lollies for something like 10c a bag.
I can’t wait to read your epic series! Don’t wait too long or I’ll be dead before you get it finished! 😛
Oddly, I’ve ended up back in Moonah, three houses from the boundary to Glenorchy. Literally ten minutes walk from my childhood home.
It’s nice here now. Don’t know if horrible high school clouded my memories, or if it really has changed, but it’s changed for the better.
I just realised I reckon I know where abouts you lived.
Sad to tell you – they closed Brent Street Primary a few years back. 🙁
I hated it there, anyway! It was for Grade 3 and what I remember most is being picked on by my older sister’s friends, and when we had to grow plants and someone stole my sweet peas I’d so carefully tended.
I guess I can ask some questions… >:)
– If you had to be a Disney villain, which one would you be?
– What’s the most embarrassing situation you’ve ever been in?
– If you were a ghost, and you could haunt one celebrity, who would you want to haunt?
– What’s your biggest fear?
– Shoot, shaggy, marry: @transientmind, @freezespreston, @dc (since I assume you met them all)?
– If you had to give your “manhood” a nickname, what would it be, and why?
– If you could erase one food from existence, what would it be?
– What’s the worst thing about yourself?
Oh man, I had to censor some of my questions so badly just then :3
Even then, one slipped through ;D
If you shoot me, you better kill me…
I mean wait, no! No kill! Just a flesh-wound somewhere conveniently cool-looking but not impeding general mobility!
If I ever had to answer that question I’d think of shooting with a camera, not a gun. 😛
…Still probably me, either way. 😉
*daggy finger-guns*
Never change! I love your questions 🙂
Alright I may have to bleed into another comment. Spoilered for mobile readers sakes.
1) Jafaar. If I really tried, I could look like him (tall, lanky, facial hair), plus Jafaar never dies – he becomes a genie, which means he has a chance – a small chance – of being let free like Genie at some stage in the future. Or I’d be Gaston. Because there’s never been a man like Gaston *sigh*.2) Once, in high school, my friend was busting to go to the loo at the end of class and the teacher wouldn’t let him. He…had an accident in front of the entire class. Peed his pants. This was grade eight. His parents couldn’t/wouldn’t come get him as they were working/drunk (his dad was a dropkick and his parents split within two weeks after this incident). He lived four blocks from the high school and had to walk along a main road, whereas I live two blocks away and walked through suburban streets. So…I gave him my pants. I walked home in my underwear.Turns out the girl I had been crushing on was moving in across the street from me. She hadn’t heard about the accident, so all she knew is that I was that kinda ok kid that liked her. That quickly changed to being the weird kid wearing TMNT undies who walked home in his underwear after school, who waves at her and runs up to talk to her in his undies.Lets just say that neither my friend or I got away from that incident with reputations intact. He moved cities two months later and I lost touch with him.
Or it was the time that I got kicked out of a lovely young ladies apartment at 4 in the morning and she wouldn’t let me collect all my clothes, so I had to catch a cab in my undies and jacket. I eventually got my shoes back.
3) Stephen Fry. Totally Stephen Fry. That guy would shit out interesting life changing anecdotes and philosophical quandaries over breakfast.4) Losing my mind. Unfortunately, it’s a very real fear. I suffer from Bipolar Disorder, an incurable mental illness. If I’m not careful with myself I can either completely lose it and believe that life is terrible and I’m worthless (happens about twice a year, just the disorder playing up, but it can drive me to the point of suicide) or I can literally leave reality and see shit and believe God is talking to me or somesuch (actually, the worst I had was the belief that my television set wanted to kill me at 3am in the morning a few years back). The disorder can progress as I age, so I can begin to totally lose it continually, at which point I would be placed in care for the rest of my life. I’m medicated, I look after myself (somewhat) and it should never happen, but I still fear that my mind will go on me when I need it the most.5) I’m a lover not a fighter, so shag and marry the lot of them and we can live in a bohemian lifestyle in Paris. Paris: IT’S SEPIA TONED IN MOVIES WHAT’S NOT TO LOVERest coming shortly.
More! MORE! MOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!
Then YOU damn well ask one!
(That came across far harsher than I wanted it to, I should have put it like “Please ask me something good sir”)
All the stuff I’d wanna know has been taken.
Ummmmm…
Would you recommend Tasmania as a place to live?
Yes. Totally. It’s brilliant down here for a number of reasons. Like everywhere, there’s cons – a conservative society, not much of a decent night life, wages are about 10% lower here than on the mainland – but the food, the vistas, the relaxed laid back lifestyle…
Did I mention that I can drive 2 hours to reach 8 different beaches, three national parks and 2 zoo’s?
Oh, and sometimes I wake up at 8am. By the time I’m dressed and eating breakfast, it’s 8:20. I get in my car and drive to my work, which is on the other side of the city. It starts at 8:45am.
I walk in the door at 8:40.
Holy shit that sounds amazing.
And I love the cold.
Hmmmmmmm.
Actually Jafaar… ok risk of spoilers just watch Return of Jafaar.
Awwwww man.
Good answers, except for the shoot shaggy marry answer.
You answer that question properly >:(
I know who I’d pick for what, after all 🙂
Oh Fine.
Marry @freezespreston
Totally shag @dc
I would shoot @transientmind, but with a camera. That guy is dreamy.
You still got it, DC.
Totally.
6) The yardstick. 🙂7) Tripe. My parents used to eat that stuff and it would stink the house out. It’s sheep stomach, people. Urgh.8) My crippling need to eff things up for myself. I always feel like the shoe is about to drop when everything is going well. So I attempt to stop the anxiety of waiting by doing something stupid myself.Since @dc won’t, can YOU twerk more?
I don’t have the butt to be able to do it. Like, I almost don’t have a butt. I have a vague hump at the base of my spine that could, in the right light, look like a butt.
So no, I can’t. It would just look like I’m attempting to do a weird chiropractic stretch.
Dammit Stan, I was going to do an AMA today because I have literally no work to do! D:
Okay, fine. Here’s one:
You’re spending a lazy saturday afternoon laying in a grassy field, looking up at the sky. SUDDENLY a UFO flies overheard, pulling you up in its tractor beam! The bright purple aliens lay you down on a steel table and say “Tell us the best thing about the human race. If we don’t like your answer we’ll blow your planet up to harvest its delicious innards!”
What do you tell them!? (show your work)
That the best thing about the human race is the sheer variety of ‘good’ that each person has. That a bunch of sapient, hairless (for the most part) ape’s have this amazingly complex and varied moral and ethical system that they apply to themselves. Even when they adopt that system from a religion, or a philosophical standpoint, or life experiences – each version of ‘good’ is different depending on the person you talk to. There’s billions of us and somehow we have the exact same number, if not more, personal definitions of ‘good’. You should talk to as many humans as you can, and you will realise how even the least self-analytical and unassuming person has this intricate web of “Do’s and dont’s” encoded into their very being.
Or Return to Zork. That was cool.
“Renovator’s delight.”
Ok, I can’t hold this question in any more.
Using only the names of stationary / office items, how would you describe your style of sex?
i.e.
the clicky-pen: clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick…
the stapler:
crunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunch…
The printer:
Eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-ehhhhhhhhhh
HA!!!
I’m the office chair, rises with no one around, immediately deflates when someone sits on it and presses its button.
Hahahaha, oh man, I don’t think I can ask a better question! 😀
I’m the office fire extinguisher.
I’m always there, waiting, ready to go, but hardly ever see any action.
People acknowledge that I’d be fun to play with me though 😉
Bwahaha! Waiting for a haircut and just laughed out loud to a few strange looks.
I’m the office printer/scanner/photocopier.
I’m an allround solution, with a great variety.
…unfortunately I have a habit of crashing at the worst possible moment.
I’m also the photocopier. Super quick and no one is ever really happy with the results.
I must be the office printer then… TONER EVERYWHERE!
I should be asking stuff about THE MAN HIMSELF, but most pressing is…
1) Tasmania. I kinda wanna live there because I love cold weather, rain, mountains, and sea, and I think it has them all in relatively close proximity. Advice? Warnings? General thoughts?
2) No joking, completely serious, we live in a Star Trek style uptopia-society where you don’t have to work for money and just do the work you love… what job(s)? And which one that you think people wouldn’t get?
(By that, I mean, Playboy Photographer? Pornstar? Professional gourmet food-taster? No shit. But completely serious, when riding the Brisbane ferries, I have wanted to work on one, just being on a boat all day.)
Sorry mate, I will answer this tomorrow – work snuck up on me when I wasn’t looking!
Family money stuff is the worst
feel guilty for not helping vs them becoming dependant
like i understand people can get behind on their bills but my mum is asking for money every other week and its not like $100 here and there which would be not great but more acceptable than what the current situation is where i give her large sums of money for bills. I just dont understand what she is doing with her money, I mean shes a banker, she tells people about saving and only spending what you can afford. SHe preached it to me for years and thats why im so frugal with my money and why i spend well under my means.
Me neither. If their kid is out of the house and they managed before, how the hell are they not managing now. Major assumptions here, but I’m sure you know what I mean.
Sounds like you’re being asked for $400+ on regular basis, which is pretty shit. It’s your mother, but IMO you gotta nip this in the bud.
i am understanding up to a point, its wearing thin quick.
Also it’s money man. That can tear families apart. I’d be working on it.
I got stuck similarly for a couple of years and it’s why I still haven’t been able to afford to move out of home 🙁 Though going to start looking at places this weekend probs!
Tell her you’ve run out of money. 😛
Seriously though, while I usually advocate truth in all situations this really might be a time for a lie. She needs to stop counting on getting money from you, it almost seems as if she’s included money from you in her imaginary budget, so she’s not being as careful as she otherwise would. She figures she can always fall back on you if/when she gets in trouble.
you’re damn right family money stuff is the worst. I’m going through a bit of it with my mum at the moment, but her excuse is more understandable given her trauma etc. With a supposedly sane minded individual, it’s made harder by not wanting to hurt their feelings and such. It’s a bit like trying to talk to my mum about being an alcoholic. :\
Probably the best thing you can do, is just quietly ask her what she needs it for, and perhaps offer any assistance you can to help improve the situation. When I say quietly, I just mean away from other people, so she doesn’t feel super pressured and more awkward that it already would be. Give her a big hug and tell her you just want to help, but need to know more so you can plan your own future better.
Whatever you do, I hope you can work it out somehow man.
I can’t offer advice that wouldn’t offend, so I’ll just say: it’s a shit situation to be in. Find a way out. Nicely if possible.
I’ve never understood parents asking kids for money. Neither mine or my wife’s parents have ever asked us and I could not imagine asking my kids for any. It’s like parents are supposed to look after the kids not the other way around. I’m probably wrong but it’s how I feel.
Same but ehh.
I feel much the same, but at some point the dynamic changes and I kinda wanna pay for dinner or whatever when one comes to visit, and want to be able to support the parents in their dotage. Like… I dunno. A return on investment? They’ve been good to me, my parents. But they’ve definitely never asked for anything and I can’t imagine them doing so.
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Tell her that she should understand interest, and that you recommend she stop getting money from you before you make her sign a form, and start charging her 4.6% P.A. compounded twice daily.
Has anybody had to make an anniversary speech before. I’ve been asked to do one but have no idea what I should be saying or what is said.
Helps?
Who/What is having an Anniversary and what is your relationship to the… Aniversarees?
The folks, 40th Anniversary with a big dinner get together thingy and friends/family in attendance
Roast them real good!
“Thanks for putting up with this fucker for insert_years_at_home and keeping it together *point at self*”
I’ve done various speeches and MCing of events. Mostly weddings, but I imagine an anniversary party would be pretty similar.
Pick a message, tie the bullet-points to the message. Don’t get hung up on the exact wording and written speech/palm cards as much as knowing which bullet points you need to hit, why you want to hit them, how they relate to what you’re trying to communicate.
Message probably pretty predictable… ‘true love is forever’ or ‘it’s not easy, but it’s rewarding and impressive’. ‘Great journey, better together.’
That kind of thing.
If you want to keep it brief, I’d say… memorize an inspirational quote, explain how the quote reflects your folks’ life, touch on or hint at an anecdote of a challenge overcome, follow-up with something lighter and/or hilarious (another anecdote or gentle fun-poking observation, “Oh, that Dad…”), and something sappy and heartfelt to finish, expressing how inspirational what they’ve achieved is and how it gives hope to the rest of us.
Keeping it loose and modular makes it much harder to screw up your lines. 🙂
Gotta do a 21st speech for close friend in a couple of months. Totally need to remember to come back to this.
Flee to Mexico, shave your head and grow a beard. Wait a few years until everything blows over.
Just make sure you don’t come back on an anniversary! D:
D.C.’s spoiler filled thoughts on season two of The Walking Dead game!
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/96514793751/03-september-2014
D.C.’s spoiler free thoughts on season one of The Wolf Among Us!
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/96590063281/04-september-2014
Unlicensed use of in game screen shots. DMCA take down notice incoming.
I do what I wanna!
Nice!
I wish they’d given us the option to kill Arvo, something about him seemed very off even at that first encounter with Jane. Like really really off.I was waiting for the ‘kill arvo’ option as well lol
Also you’ll notice my ‘reviews’ are all fanboy praise with no negativity. I only write about what I like. *puts on uncool guy glasses*
Apparently that means you’re IN THE POCKET OF BIG GAMES RAH RAH CORRUPTION
Yes, one day they’ll send me some of that sweet, sweet money.
I’m still waiting for my cheque from big pharma.
…wow.
We picked the same choice for every single big decision.
So, soul mates? Should we be running away together?
I guess I don’t really have a choice.
Meet halfway and live there? So like, Newcastle or something?
BOARD GAMES!
That is all.
ADVENTURE GAMES!
BOARD GAMES
ADVENTURE GAMESFortune and Glory – Adventure board game
Why not both?
PEN AND PAPER RPGS!
MIND GAMES!
VIDEO BOARD GAMES.
GAEM VIDEO BOARD!
BOARD GAME VIDEO?
So apparently my wife and daughter have to go stay at a live-in infant health place for a couple of days (starting tomorrow) for some monitoring.
There’s no way I can say that that doesn’t sound like I’m an abusive partner… 😛
Hope all is well, friend.
Me too! 😛
Daughter is waking up and crying a lot lately so she’s going to be sleeping where someone can see this stuff happening. It’s either nothing/normal baby stuff, or she’s going to need surgery on her digestive system…sooo…here’s hoping it’s the first one 😛
Here’s hoping it’s nothing and you’re all being weird and over protective parents! 😛
Weeeeeeeeee! Colic. It’s always a blast*.
*living hell.
It’s actually silent reflux, so on the (not really) bright side at least it’s an identifiable thing. Still can’t do a great deal to help though.
You’re not abusive. You’re just stressed and get…. upset at times.
And then turn green?
But at least he keeps his pants on.
Sleep school?
Sort of?
It’s partly diagnosing and resolving medical issues, partly behavioural adjustment.
Hope you and wifey and new bub is okay.
Your
Hope they’re both ok man!
Told you that you shouldn’t have let them into Blagh’s house…
My wife and boy had to do that last year but for 8 weeks 🙁
The problem was that I was fighting depression and was basically useless and panicking all the time and couldn’t help out even though I wanted to. My wife was going nuts dealing with me and our little boy and she couldn’t handle things anymore and in the end had to get help :(.
Unfortunately for everyone, that was the last straw in our marriage and we are now separated and soon to be divorced.
I’m sure that won’t happen to you though!
Ah, sorry to hear that buddy!
While I still have the scapegoat option available to me: I totally blame @zetrox for getting me back into Minecraft.
…I’m starting to daydream at work again, about what I’m going to build.
I’ve considered installing Minecraft on my work PC about three times today…
I already have it installed as part of a project I’m involved in (Minecraft for educational use etc.). I also opened our firewall to do some testing with it. It’s literally sitting right there staring at me.
Send help.
You’re going to build your Freelancer \o/
Here’s a question for you (bad timing for those at work so I’m sorry), but in your entire Steam, PSN, Xbox Live, or equivalent gaming library, what game/s are listed as your most played in terms of hours?
For PC, I have Blood Bowl at 150 or so hours and I have Fire Emblem: Awakening on 3DS for about 50-60 hours. I don’t have any other platforms to compare so I’m curious what everyone else has ranked up there for play time.
Crusader Kings II.
120+ hours.
Borderlands 2 would be pretty high, but played that on PS3 so don’t have an hour count. Civ V is creeping up there.
Skyrim: 152 hours
Left 4 Dead: 138 hours
Left 4 Dead 2: 334 hours
All on PC.
Fallout New Vegas, 123 hrs. I had such a good time in the wasteland. XD
You should do a Gump run.
Guy I know was doing a run as an NPC.
Hermit run.
Never go into towns.
Dota 2, 636 hours.
I probably have more in Starcraft 2 all up, though I don’t have a definite number there.
Oh damn, yeah I forgot LoL so that’s definitely up the top there somewhere.
I played Starcraft 2 but never really played much beyond campaign. Even then, could not compete in multiplayer because I don’t have the skills.
Just curious, P/Z/T?
Yeah I think it’d be in the thousands of hours for me in LoL…
Protoss for 1vs, Random for group games (of which I played a ludicrous number, had over 500 wins as Random).
Didn’t play 1vs much because the pressure got to me. Hit Gold fairly early on, and then got stuck in the CheeseTrench there, so I gave up on those games.
The cheese trench was super strong when I played Zerg and I never got past Silver. Didn’t really try hard though and my APM was terribad for Zerg (like 60 or so).
I enjoyed playing multiplayer for what it was but I prefer the more tactical strategy games so I’ve been playing a lot of Company of Heroes 2.
Protoss all the way!
Apparently my hour count on LoL is 977 while in OCE, 417 while in NA totaling 1394 hours. Doesn’t come close to my 2000+ hours on Guild Wars though.
Link on how to get hours spent: http://wastedonlol.com
Huh, according to that I’m at 121 hours
Cool, 290 hours.
Weird thing searching for my steam name I found this…
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=221672964
For my answer, Mass Effect – 382 hours
Mass Effect 2 closely behind at 363 hours
Rogue Legacy. Says I’ve played 168 hours, but that’s possibly because I had a bug which meant it wouldn’t close properly. Not actually sure how long I’ve played it.
Dark Souls has around 500 hours on the PS3 (based on character times. Some of that is idling while I did other things though.)
Steam’s tracking is unreliable. According to Raptr’s tracking, it’s FF XIV at 92 hours, but I know for sure that that doesn’t count hours played during 1.0, Alpha and Beta and probably missed many hours of 2.0 as well. Highest on Steam is Dragon Age Origins at 84 hours but I think that’s also wrong.
PSN doesn’t track hours played so no idea what the longest I’ve spent on something in there would be. If I had to guess I’d say it’d probably be Tales of Graces or Disgaea 4. X360 it’s probably Mass Effect but it might be Tales of Vesperia.
I know for a fact that if it were tracked somewhere, WoW would be far and away the biggest time investment for me, probably in the order of hundreds of days. SWTOR is probably up in the 20-30 days spent too.
Even if the tracker was reliable, there’s no way it’d accurately reflect how long I’ve spent actually playing something and not idling. :/
Also yeah, 300-400 days of WoW for me, actually played.
Borderlands 2, 149.5h
(Via http://steamdb.info/calculator)
Interestingly Steam also has Project Zomboid at 57.2h. However that doesn’t take in to account offline hours, nor the 100+ I put in on Desura / before they even had a distribution platform, so Project Zomboid is actually my most played.
I think all up my Fallout 3 saves clock in at about 130 hours, other than that I have about 120 hours in Binding of Isaac now.
I used to know exactly how long I’d spent playing Halo 3 but Halocharts died off when 343 took over the Reach multiplayer. :/
It was a lot.
Anno 2070, 295 hours last time I checked. Closely followed by Rocksmith 2014 at around 230 hours or so.
I think Dark Souls. I played it for 40 hours on PS3, and then had to start again on 360, where I sunk a further 92 hours into it. In my adult gaming life, this is by far the longest I’ve spent with a game.
As a kid, I’d guess that Star Wars Rebellion, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, Super Mario Kart, Secret of Mana, Ocarina of Time, and Mario 64 would all effortlessly trump that figure, though.
I know my most played game on 3DS was RE Revelations, at somewhere around 150 hours. My most played on Wii is Guitar Hero III at 200 hours, with I approximate about 500 hours for the whole series (GHIII + GH4 + GHM + GH6 + GHII). On Wii U I don’t know what my most-played is, but I suspect it would be Mario 3D World since I was hammering away at that and sacrificed over 6500 lives to the final level.
Puzzle Pirates (1,400 hours)
Mostly Mrs Tigs and a fair bit of that is waiting for enough people to run ‘instances’
Torchlight 2 (700 hrs)
Both Me and Mrs Tigs
Puzzle Quest 2 (390 hrs on record)
Not accurate. A lunch time game and left running often
PvZ (273 hours)
Another Mrs Tigs favourite
Darkspore (237 hrs)
No idea how much of that time was spent in the equip, creature creator dealio
Torhclight (223 hrs)
What I like the series. Clicky click click
My best Steam game is Europa Universalis for 128 hours (Holy hell and I thought I didn’t like strategy games) and Starbound 111 hours.
I’m currently playing Hearthstone though, so no idea what I’m at for that 😛
Edit: I feel like that’s a long time to be playing through Fire Emblem, are you going through to try and get all of Support relationships happening?
I don’t know exactly as time played was not recorded but I have logged over 4500 multiplayer games of Halo 3. Which does not include the many offline LANs, messing around in forge or numerous campaign runs.
Also played WoW for a year but no idea of the hours, and would have put reasonable time into LoL and Diablo 2.
Below that I have around 120 – 150 in a bunch of things.
I’m on my laptop, so I can’t be bothered checking the exact number but I’ve over 1000 hours on Dota 2. Quite a lot of it is spectating but I’ve got about 430 games under my belt.
Excluding MMOs my highest would be TF2 at roughly 700+ hours (unsure of actual total, it reset some time after a couple of hundred).
178 days on my main character in WoW… Ugh.
Next would be GTA IV on PC at 160 hours…
Why can’t it be next week already? I want to play Destiny.
Here i hope this helps ease the wait.
http://destinycountdown.com/
Disclaimer: i can in no way be held responsible if this has the exact opposite effect 😛This helps!
Anyone who likes Science might like to know that the author of XKCD has released his book of hypothetical questions and answers. 🙂
http://whatif.xkcd.com/book/
Also available on iBooks and Play Books 🙂
Screw it. I’m Phlanispo, Ask Me Anything. I’ll try to answer as many of these as I can.
Do you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain?
Corollary: Are you in to yoga, and what thoughts (if any) do you have on champagne?
Ergh, yoga is like exercise, so no.
I think I had a little sip of champagne when I was 8, and I thought it was alright at the time. So yes.
No. I find that getting caught in the rain gets me wet.
I’ve never had a piña colada, but it rhymes with chipolata, and I like those things.
Oh, right, under 18, forgot.
Because no one in the history of ever has partaken of an alcoholic drink whilst under the age of 18.
Not that: A Pina Colada? Under 18? Not nearly cruiser/UDL enough.
I was drinking Red Bear and Woodstock. 6x 440ml cans for $20. Occasionally we’d splurge and spend $25 on a bottle of Smirnoff.Annnnd now I’m running into unprompted reminiscing of the good old days. Just how old am I getting?
I relate more to this comment than I’m comfortable with.
Top 3 favourite songs?
Bottom 3 favourite songs?
You get the ability to turn into any inanimate object, what do you turn into?
Meerkats or Turtles?
Meerkats and Turtles aren’t inanimate. How dare you! 😛
Separate questions :p
1. Top 3 favourite songs?
I don’t really like 95% of music. I find I just hate songs with lyrics for the most part. (Kill la Kill’s soundtrack is an exception) Since I doubt videogame and movie soundtracks count, I’m going to say What Is Love, Power of Love, and I Can Feeling It Coming In The Air Tonight. If it wasn’t from the 80’s, it’s a safe bet I hate it.
2. Bottom 3 favourite songs?
I dunno, what’s popular at the moment? I have a special hatred for that I’ve Had The Time of My Life remix that came out a few years ago.
3. You get the ability to turn into any inanimate object, what do you turn into?
From the research I’ve conducted, toasters can have some pretty fun adventures.
4. Meerkats or Turtles?
Hmm, tough one. I’m going to say turtles. If meerkats get armour plating, you have piqued my interest.
In the Air Tonight is the bomb.
Agreed,
Some of my favourite stuff comes from the late 70s – 80s 🙂
What’s more inportant: Length or girth?
Based on what little context you have provided I assume you are talking about arms.
While having long arms can be important to reach stuff off the top shelf, it’s wasted if you don’t have the strength to pick it up. So girth is more important.
Classy answer.
That’s exactly what I meant.
Of course.
Arrrrgggghhhhhh!!!!!
You’re too young! I can’t even ask you any inappropriate questions!
WHAT’S EVEN THE POINT?!?!
Fine, I’ll do my best:
– Which celebrity would you like to gut punch, and why?
– If you were God, and you had to do an interview, how would you justify making Justin Bieber?
– What animal would you make extinct if you had to choose an animal.
– What would you nickname your “boyhood” if you had to? (I couldn’t resist)
– Shoot, shaggy, marry: @scree, @strange, @cookingmama?
– What are you most afraid of?
– What would you say to Lindsey Lohan to try and get her to turn her life around?
I read that question as “Shoot Shaggy. Marry Scree, Strange, Cookingmama.” It’s a to-do list.
fucking shaggy.
Never sharing his scooby snacks.
Last time he shared them was to this innocent seeming puppy named Scrappy and then he just wouldn’t go away.
1.Which celebrity would you like to gut punch, and why?
Charlton Heston’s still around, right?
2. If you were God, and you had to do an interview, how would you justify making Justin Bieber?
When God finally gets around to causing Armageddon, it won’t seem so bad.
3. What animal would you make extinct if you had to choose an animal?
Mosquitoes don’t really help with anything, right?
4. What would you nickname your “boyhood” if you had to? (I couldn’t resist)
I was going to make a reference to Kill la Kill’s Regalia transformation sequences, but I’d rather not have that on my permanent record. So I’m going to say ‘my penis’ instead.
5. Shoot, shaggy, marry: scree, strange, cookingmama?
I don’t believe in marriage, so we can knock that off the list, and by ‘shaggy,’ I assume you mean solve mysteries with, so every one of them gets equal preference. And if I had to shoot one of them, obviously it would be cookingmama. Her gravatar is a star for Super Mario, so she’s invulnerable.
6. What are you most afraid of?
Shitting my pants in public.
7. What would you say to Lindsey Lohan to try and get her to turn her life around?
I think staring at her with a single raised eyebrow is good enough.
Naw, Heston’s been dead for 6 years and was senile before that.
Anything?
You can, ask anything, but I won’t guarantee that I’ll answer.
You just did.
No I didn’t. You can’t prove anything!
Do you have a sister that blaghman can date?
What’s wrong with your sister?
too prudish.
I was honestly expecting “standards” as the answer.
If he doesn’t mind jail time, sure.
Hey man, all he said was date. Ain’t nothin’ illegal ’bout dat.
Received notification from JB that Destiny has shipped! I was expecting that would occur tomorrow so the prospects of it arriving on time have significantly improved! \o/
Same!! Aghhhh would love for it to arrive tomorrow so can get the install out of the way. Having it sent to my work’s 2000 postcode which I hope helps.
I really hope it breaks street date! MONKEY PAW! Make it break street date!
LATER…
*sits in front of console repeatedly hitting X to attempt to connect*
:C
Yup, lots of people hoping it’ll break the street date don’t seem to realise that all it’ll do is sit there taunting them with its inability to connect to the servers that aren’t online yet… It’d be funny to watch at least
But I’d have my Ghost sitting and talking to me from the shelf!
Today? Dude that’s getting delivered Monday and they fucking know it. (if it’s good courier company)
Edit: YESTERDAY???? You’re definitely getting that Monday morning. 😮
IF my aus post contractor actually delivers it or leaves it at the LPO. I’ll ask her to check the mail in the afternoon and go get it from the post office, that way she can start playing at midnight when the servers go live (or maybe 10pm if the servers are live based on the earliest time zone, which is NZ.
Worst case scenario, she doesn’t pick it up until 9am Tuesday morning.
Given a lot of us are destiny-ing, we should get a roll call of who is on what platform. Reply below with your platform and handle
PS3 – red_artifice
PS4 – MikeyW
PS4 – atomiclemon
I thought you were Strawberry? I think I may have to re add you.
Strawberry is my AU one I used mainly for PS3 and I’m retiring it because it’s annoying to be split between two.
Sent you a request just now.
PS4 – dpclarke
Although I’m a little undecided at the moment. I want to play this but not sure I want PS+, stay tuned!
You can play a lot of it without Plus I think?
Yeah, but not all. It’s all or nothing for ‘ol DC. 😀
One advantage to selecting ‘all’ is that you get a lot more than if you pick ‘nothing’
GameCube – the little black one at the back
One of the few TAY Xboners checking in: jackunit13
XbonersNot many Xboners on this thread lol
PEE ESS FORE – N00Bheadshot
Attempted to add you on my US acct (along with @dc @freezespreston and @transientmind) but it tells me you don’t exist… 🙁
EDIT: TAYnames says you’re actually NooB_HeadshoT on PSN.
Really? Hmmm, I must have got my xbox live account confused.
PS4 – TSquare82 (NO the numbers do not have anything to do with year of birth stop phishing you hackers AND NO I AM NOT OLD DAMMIT)
In the MSN days people would assume I was older than I am because my address ended with an 83.
I had no clue that year of birth was a naming convention like that and was totally confused why everyone seemed to think I was ~20+.
Yeah, totally did not see the connection when I made mine either and now it’s too late to change.
Sooo, you’re not 25?
27. It’s that it’s so close and plausible that makes it annoying.
My friend made his email account when he was 13. It has 13 in it. If he keeps using it for another 10 years, people are going to start thinking he’s a kid.
Mine ended in 000 so I was from the future, yo.
If you’re not really old and you weren’t born in 1982, I can only conclude that you’re wearing a belt that’s way too tight, extremely short and standing next to a swan.
Xbone – No 11 Firrito
PS4 – Blaghman
Fun fact: iOS autocorrect thinks you should be Blah Human.
Brilliant! I use the gesture typing on Android, so I’m usually Bosnian, or Clayish, or something. It’s great.
Blandness
^ gesture typed autocorrect for Blaghman on SwiftKey.
It just knows me so well.
Blackman
^also gesture on my Swiftkey.
I got accused of being racist on Xbox live once because of this name (I’ve probably also been called it a dozen times just because it’s Xbox Live).
Xbone – kermitron
PS4 – batto61
And on the Destiny TAY clan i go by my more recent alias of FatCatten
PS4 – omega_stealth
PS4 – Jocon89
PS4 – liondrive
Probably won’t be on much due to uni and time difference, but I’ll try to join in 🙂
Eh, you’re same timezone as me.
Oh yeah! 😀
I still suspect uni will make it so that I can’t play often though :\
PS4 – HindenLagen
Sounds like you might need to get a PS4 Red 🙁
Seriously considered it, but a) mates have PS3s and b) unemplyoment 🙂
PS4 – Gutsoup
PS4 – TheCracksAU
PS4 – tehst1ckm4n
#MASTERRAAAAAAAAACEEEEE
@thecracks Details of the Destiny KotakuAU clan if possible please kind sir.
http://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/Forum/100780
Thank you very much!
Any idea if you can be in more than one clan at once?
No idea. The UI and everything seems to support it at least for groups, but I’m not even sure what the diff between a group and a clan is.
1 clan at a time only. Multiple GROUPS (which is the first one) though.
Actually, @thecracks, what was that about joining a Xbox or Playstation clan? Is that in addition to the Kotaku AU group?
I would be looking for the PSN clan. Wont let me link my PSN account as it keeps automatically linking my US one and cannot find a way to stop that and link the Aus one. Either way request sent to join the group. Thanks again.
Oh, I had that problem!
Try going to the PSN website, logging out of there, then log into the correct account. Then back to the destiny page, and try again. Worked for me.
yeah that worked. Thanks very much mate. Appreciated.
Clans are disabled until launch. Disregard the post on the group wall that @thecracks made. I think he will fix that. I think the clans were “reset” after he made that post.
This is true. Clans were disabled after that post haha.
Clan is a subset of the group, as far as I’m aware (based upon functionality during beta).
As yet, nobody really knows just what’s going to be on offer.
Clan support re-enabled on the 9th, though, so make sure to head to the group page after I re-enable our console-specific clans to sign up.
Clan = what comes up in-game. You can be a member of multiple groups, but only 1 clan at a time. This is how you can select to invite clan-mates to your party etc ..
Gotye is running for government….
He didn’t have to stoop so low!
In his announcement he basically called Peter Garrett a sell out.
could be worse, clive palmer could …oh
Ooh, I know this one!
*ahem*
…who?
Somebody That You Used to Know.
Lies, I’d totally remember someone named after Game Of The Year Edition.
Can’t possibly be worse than the current madmen running the asylum.
Ugh. Rock and Roll Party? Really? What is with these fringe parties naming themselves thongs that no one in their right mind would vote for? It undermines everything they’re trying to say.
I didn’t see the pre-edit, but did you deliberately edit ‘thongs’?
Let’s say yes and all have a good laugh about it.
They should learn from the 1989 ACT General Election.
Which had the Party! Party! Party!, the Sun-Ripened Warm Tomato Party, and the Surprise Party.
Like how a ton of people would probably actually vote for the Sex Party if they looked at the policies they have, but won’t because they think they’re some kind of sell-porn-to-minors niche group based off the name?
I don’t vote for them precisely BECAUSE I’ve looked at their policies.
Which is the appropriate thing to do. And which probably a tiny minority of people actually do before voting.
I voted for a sex party but the motion was dismissed by my wife and I slept on the couch.
erry day page 6’n!
No matter how many times it happens, I can’t help but laugh when you talk to Jaffar in Risen 3, and he goes “Okie Dokie?” then the hero goes “Yip Yip!” with his deep raspy voice! lols
I can’t dedicate as much time as you to Risen 3 so you’re going to finish it far before I do. I’m still in Chapter 1 and I haven’t even explored all of the islands yet.
That said, once I’ve finished Risen 3 I have strong urge to go and properly play a modded version of Gothic 3. And possibly the earlier games as well if I have the time.
Yeah I’d say I’m not too far off finishing it. I’ve done just about everything I can on all islands except Taranis at the moment.
I bought Sims 4. I got the collectors edition. I know, I know. I’m a sucker.
Now I cna’t play it, so I’m considering making my Mum play it so I can live vicariously through her
Holy shit.
http://freebirdgames.bigcartel.com/product/to-the-moon-grand-piano-music-box
I just. Wow. I need this. As people who paid attention to my house can attest, my family already own a moderate number of music boxes, so this is like a dream come true(There’s also one that plays “Everything’s Alright”, and I’m probably gonna need to grab that too).
I was just going to say “Everything’s Alright” would suit me far better from a “connection” point of view. And then I noticed you mentioned that one too.
You know how people look at babies or puppies and go daww, ‘it’s so cute’?
Well I just did that to the case of a Radeon R7 240 graphics card. I mean, the case was so small! All the text on it was all compressed because of the size. It was so cute. I just want to love it and squeeze it and call it George.
What the hell is wrong with me?
You need a puppy.
In fact, I need a puppy.
Do you want mine?
Unfortunately I can’t have a puppy, small unit.
It would be cruel.
CAN YOU GET IT TO MY HOUSE BEFORE MONDAY?
*cough* Err, I mean… uhh, look over there!
He’s ugly, a complete sook and his jaws are powerful enough to tear a leg off an outdoor table which he has done before along with everything else.
PERFECT!
Sounds like a Staffy to me
U R WINNAR
@freezespreston
Interesting fact. Another person from the dog park and I found a lost Staffy roaming near the local dog park. We took him back to my house, rang the owner and he headed home \o/
Everybody needs a puppy! 😀
Indeed, they’re delicious!
Technosexuality.
I can’t believe that this stupid gamergate shit was even a thing in the first place, let alone that people are still talking about it.
BUT THE CORRUPTION IN MAH GAEMS
A JOURNALIST ONCE LOOKED AT A DEV FROM ACROSS THE ROOM
#FINDTHETRUTH
#RANDCORPORATIONANDREVERSEVAMPIRES
Motherfucking RAND Corporation. They’re behind it all!
Is it because for one of the first times no one is listening to them and they don’t know how to handle it?
Not worth listening to anyway.
They’re handling it like a confused racist Englishman in a shop in Italy.*
By saying the exact same thing they said before but yelling it. Then slowing it down and yelling louder. Because the problem is – obviously – that the people they are telling it to are idiots (not that the message is wrong).
*Yes, I have witnessed this. The shop keeper just kept replying in Italian and shrugging his shoulders. The englishman walked out, I went up and attempted to order in halting Italian, and the guy said “Is ok, I understand English.” Everybody – me included – in that shop pissed ourselves laughing.
That’s the best story I’ve read all day.
Mental image of John Cleese in Fawlty Towers.
Who want’s 10% off at Ozgameshop? Expires tomorrow.
While we’re talking about discounts, who wants odds on Steam’s current price on Dead Rising 3 jumping by thirty or forty bucks in the next day or two? I’d suspect now would be the time if you cared about that franchise on PC.
No contest.
Heh. You mean 45% off Dead Rising 3 isn’t as good as 10% off literally anything else on OGS which already may not have the Oz-tax applied?
…Pretty much, yeah.
OGS seem to generally avoid the Oz-Tax for PC games. Civ:BE is still ~$50 there for example.
OGS don’t have Australia Tax. You’re pretty much paying UK price less their 20% VAT, and unlike some of the EU companies selling to AU out of the UK (looking at you, NISA, you fucking thieves) they don’t charge ridiculous amounts for shipping. So most console stuff is ~$55-60 AUD.
In fact actually, the copy of ToX 2 I got from them earlier this week was postmarked from Tullamarine, VIC, so I think they must have set up an AU warehouse and ship stock into there from the UK in bulk.
They sell steam keys and stuff but I’ve only used that service once IIRC, the prices are good but I’m always a bit wary about steam key resellers since a lot of them get them off the grey market from Russia and stuff and Valve take a dim view of that.
I did OK with my FF14 time-cards off ’em.
Well if you’re sure you’re not going to use it I guess I could do with 10% off Civ:BE
IMBACKSadly I already pre-ordered that just the other day so no discounts for me.
Rather foolishly I completely forgot to check this again until this morning and it’d expired by then. Oh well, thanks for the offer.
All I want to do right now is go home and play KanColle. Haruna’s only 4k experience away from hitting level 80 and her second remodel.
Ok, Japan trip peeps, who art thou?
I have put myself in the awkward position of inviting my mate and my sister along, both of whom are likely wanting to do the trip twin share.
So are there any goers who were planning on solo rooming it potentially interested in rooming it with either I or my mate for fantastic savings?
edit: never mind, I have a solution.
I’m going solo, but not will have to think about whether I want to share a room or not.
Don’t trust us with your sister?
Sounds more like he doesn’t trust his mate with his sister 😛
OTHER WAY ROUND! D:
She did punch my (different) mate in the throat once…
She is pretty kick ass but somehow I don’t think I’ll be asking her to spend 2 weeks living with a stranger I met on the internet.
Hey, guys just got back from work, watched Into The Storm after work, was ok, but I think I’m kinda getting sick of the “found footage” genre.
Anyways, too lazy to read what I’ve missed out on, anything interesting happen while I was gone?
Tigers took over South East Asia
Really! Dayum!
no
Quiz-b calls his dong “the Yardstick”, and Freezy has performance issues in the bedroom.
Actually I can make this recap at least 3x better (cause it is already pretty great).
Ok, on page 11 Quiz-b proclaimed his love for Freeze, stating that he wished to marry him.
Freezy was over the moon, and the two were soon wed.
Everything was wonderful for the newly weds (who are going by the sickening, yet adorable couple name “Queezy” by this stage).
That is, until it came time to “perform”.
Quiz-b was left quite disappointed, stating that the Freezy experience was far too quick, and left him feeling unsatisfied.
Quiz-b decided to cheat on Freezy with DC, who was quite eager, saying that he “still got it”. So Quiz-b cheated on Freezy with DC (who were now going by the sickening, yet adorable adulterous name of “Quiz-c” by this stage).
Transientmind found out about this secret affair however, so Quiz-b decided that it was in his best interest to shoot Transientmind.
With Transientmind now shot, and presumed dead, Quiz-b was able to keep being part of Queezy and Quiz-c, with poor Freezy none the wiser.
Also Quiz-b calls his dong “the Yardstick”.
Geez! You go to work for a day and all hell breaks loose :p
ohforfuckssake
;D
I want to make a site
Wh0 wants to give me tips and pointers?
hear it’s cheap to hire one that isn’t just wordpress or whatver? Or the fact that I have no idea about HTML etc means I shouldnt bother?
Although I do know someone that does and he is unemployed atm
TipS? SuggGestionS?
What are you making the site about?
HTML isn’t that difficult. http://www.w3schools.com/ if you want to learn about it. There’s also a lot of free website templates out there that you can just copy and paste the code if you don’t want to do anything too fancy with your site.
I had an idea for a comic I could write and draw relatively easily so as to fit into my work & family life.
Once I set up the HTML would I have to fuck with it to upload to comics, or would that just be as easy as uploading anywhere else?
That shouldn’t be a problem. Html is easy, it’s cascading code style that is a pain in the rear
I don’t find it easy in the slightest
If you’re making it from scratch you would most likely need to mess around with the code every time you uploaded a new comic. WordPress with a plugin/addon would probably be easier. Comic Easel is pretty good apparently. Then you just tweak the CSS to suit your style.
None of what you say means anything to me…
Layman terms?
Wordspress = easy town.
Other way = a nightmare.
Is turdpress free?
Yeah, I mean you can pay for it, but yeah it’s free. Kotaku, Gizmodo & Life Hacker are all wordpress sites.
@virus__ I think I need to start with a free one to get my head around it.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh
That’s the best way, I think @powalen is well versed with WordPress from memory.
Register a domain name and get some hosting from somewhere.
They should have a control panel with a one click install for wordpress, usually pretty straight forward. WordPress is a blogging-type tool that makes having a website quite simple. It has a dashboard with options of creating a post, uploading images, etc.
There are addons for WordPress that can change the way it shows your posts. One of them is called Comic Easel, designed for webcomics.
In the dashboard (I think) there should be a section to upload new comics. These will automatically update the home page with the latest comic. I’m not sure if there are other steps involved. Here’s a video that might help (I haven’t watched it…) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6feJZJPtD0
EDIT: Or this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9OhG7Wx1CY
it says you replied to me at 8:06 and brings me here. I caint see nurthin
I added a second link. It’s awaiting moderation…
What this guy said! @jimu
WordPress with some sort of Comic plugin + a free theme from somewhere is your best bet if you want something semi-professional.
If you want to go even simpler, maybe a Tumblr would be a better option. Barely any setup to make it look decent and it’s just as easy as posting an image like on Twitter.
EDIT: On second thought, definitely go with the Tumblr if you just want something to casually post on. You can graduate to a WordPress website later if you need to. Tumblr is free and has minimal setup and you won’t have to worry about HTML and such.
What this guy said! @jimu
It’d be way easier, wouldn’t have to worry about hosting anything. Posting new comics would update automatically and the like. Much easier.
I don’t like the look of tumblr, can you help me do the other thing?
TRY SQUARESPACE DOT COM is what all the podcasts tell me.
This looks good and classier than Turdpress
Oh, it costs $120.00 a year to get a personal website going…is that good?
What if I just get my mate to do it and hire a domain name? How much cheaper would that be?
No idea. I’ve had my own hosting which I never use for anything beyond the odd image every now and then, but I’ve been paying for hosting since the early 00s so no idea what’s good and what’s not.
Squarespace has free trials though and I think the idea with them is that they’re quick and easy and offer good tech support. So it’s a good deal if you’re going to host something significant. Includes a domain too I think?
Listen to a random games podcast or two and you can probably get a code for an extended trial, they sponsor games & tech podcasts a lot.
This is doing my head in, I’m going to bed.
JimuGamer? 😀
JimuComicer
Talk to Sughly, he’d have a good idea how to achieve this what with his proctrastoons.
I did
Sick.
Yes
I’ve made some. WordPress is probably your best bet, what’s your problems with it? Find a cool design, and forget about it – just post the content. Done. Easily managed.
So…how does one get involved in this sexy new Minecrafte server? I have things to build…
Contact @zetrox2k
Helloooooo Z….
helloooooooooooooo………………………. ADDED!
….favourrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs
bom-chika-wa-wa!
Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light
Well. I got up to the bit where Stephanie dies. Ordinarily, such a death scene would be absurd, but it was orchestrated well enough that it was pretty tragic. Pretty damn tragic.I assumed that if Stephanie were to ever die in the series, her death would involve the Sceptre somehow. I expected she would receive a quick death. I didn’t expect 5 pages of brutal murder.
Derek Landy really threw me for a loop, I expected that she would be the one to move to Meek Ridge. I guess Valkyrie’s going to move to Meek Ridge instead. But who’d going to give their soul for the Accelerator? I assumed Valkyrie would be the one to do that.
Damn I wish I had someone to discuss this scene with.
I found the death hilariously overwrought. C’mon Landy, you’re not J.K. Rowling, you don’t need to do it that way.Just opened up Sims 4 and installing it.
Still can’t play it though.
This is torture
Well…. The PS+ offerings this month can be politely described as abysmal.
Interested in Infamous First Light but not $23 interested.
Watch Dogs has a price drop from $114.95 to $90.95….bargain?
it’s like $53 at Big W atm
$49.95 at Target.
free on TPB.
I must of missed the memo regarding weird discounts.
$24? Who landed on that number as sensible?
20% off $30?
I’m looking forward to some more interesting PS4 Plus options…eventually.
yeah, i honestly expected Knack to have been added to plus in the last couple of months…
I didn’t want to say anything because it was your gift to me, but yes. I poopoo this months selection: Poopoo.
What are the free games they giving away?
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/08/27/ps-plus-september-velocity-2x-sportsfriends-joe-danger-ps-vita/
I don’t think it’s because the games are actually bad, but the fact that they’re mostly old, repeats or smaller indie titles and not anything big named or worthwhile.
Yucky!
Yeah I see what you mean. The only stand out to me is Playstation all stars and even that wasnt the best
I accidentally have two origin accounts.
I have no idea how it happened.
I’ve got the same thing. I’m a bit concerned because I’ve got some BioWare games registered on one account, and others on the other account, and I’m worried that might come back to bite me when it comes to save transfers and cross game promotions and the like.
I’m asking Origins to move them all to one account and close the other one down. They can’t transfer game saves but they can transfer the games to the other account
There can be only one. /highlander
I think I have three. Also at least 2 Microsoft accounts (I think it’s 3), 2 uPlay accounts, and so forth.
…How?
A lot of them were set up for my xbox, then when I got a decent PC I wouldn’t remember my old details, so I’d set up a new one.
Isn’t one bad enough?!?! Why must you be a glutton for punishment??!?! WHAY?!
(side note how’s your gums feeling?)
i have 3 o_0
one when i registered won pc, one on IOS, and one on PS4
My Sister: “You know, I like being around you Sean. Because it reminds me that I’m not nearly as nerdy as I could be.”
😐
embrace your inner nerd….
It means you inspire her to try harder. \o/
Next season’s anime lineup looks surprisingly good.
– ufotable re-adapting Fate/Stay Night, this time doing it properly. Their other type-moon works (Fate/Zero, Kara no Kyoukai) are excellent so high hopes for this.– Second cour of the second season of Mushishi, which is one of my favourite shows ever
– Second season of Log Horizon, which IMO as a long-time MMO player had a much better feel to it than Sword Art Online does
– Second season of Chaika. I enjoyed the first one a fair bit, felt like a throwback to early-00s anime.
– Another Gundam Build Fighters series. The first one of them had no right to be as entertaining as it was.
– Gundam G no Reconguista. Gundam is 35 years old in 2014, and this is the anniversary series. Tomino’s coming back to direct it and everything, which in all honestly probably means it’ll be shit since I don’t think he’s really done much anime since Turn-A Gundam. Though maybe that’s a good thing?
– Ronia the Robber’s Daughter. GHIBLI! This is a TV series, Ghibli’s first TV production. Directed by Miyazaki Junior, and apparently might be a CG series instead of normal 2D animation so there’s an even chance it’s a steamy turd. But I’ll be watching.
– Bunch of other stuff that I don’t know enough about to know if I’m interested
– Bunch of visual novel adaptions which will likely be shit (though Grisaia no Kaijutsu was good enough that Sekai Project picked it up to do an official release on Steam!) but I’ll watch largely because the games have art by artists I really like and I want to see how awfully they ruin it.
I have much interest in the Log Horizon and Chaika second seasons. Log Horizon especially.
Log Horizon’s probably my #3 in the list in terms of anticipation levels. I’m a massive sucker for Type-Moon and ufotable do their stuff so well that that’s my #2, and Mushishi is one of my favourite things ever plus the first cour was awesome, so that’s #1 most anticipated for me.
Oh yeah, there’s real interesting stuff in fall. Denki-Gai no Honya-san, Nanatsu no Taizai, Psycho-Pass 2, World Trigger, all the others you mentioned already. Gonna be pretty decent. Maybe terra formars, but I’m lukewarm on the manga.
I pray for the new gundam, though. I pray hard.
New Gundam could be amazing but could also be terrible.
Truth bomb: Tomino isn’t a good director. He never was.
UC still best era.
You could argue that the entirety of gundam is average/slightly above average.
Macross is better than Gundam. It is known.
Oh, sure.
But we can all agree that gunbuster/diebuster is the best.
As long as that carries the caveat that Gunbuster is better than Diebuster.
Though the BUSTER MACHINE #7 reveal in Diebuster is one of the most aweseomest things ever.
@negativezero recommend me some anime
Anime I’ve watched:
Dragonball
Evangelion
Berserk
Hellsing
Ellen Lied
Attack on Titan
Cowboy Bebop
Bubblegum Crisis
That’s really about it. I’ve been rewatching Dragonball and just finished Z and GT isn’t that long. Feel like I should try something else.
You looking for a long series, a short one, or a movie? Based on that list I’m thinking something fairly action-oriented?
Another is a good short one
@freezespreston: Another is fantastic if the idea of a supernatural thriller / light horror is of any interest to you.
Either or I guess. If I can sit through 500 episodes of Dragonball I’m guessing length doesn’t bother me.
How do you feel about boxing? Hajime no Ippo if you can find the early episodes in decent quality is a top-shelf boxing anime. Combines anime fighting with a more grounded approach, and lots of focus on guts and determination and stuff that’s more common inside the usual Sports anime formulas. Between the seasons it’s had subsequently I think that’s pushing 100 episodes now, would keep you going for a while.
If you want another long, awesome battle anime I can’t recommend One Piece enough. Great fun.
Bleach if you can get past the incessent build up episodes till the fighting actually begins but otherwise I throughly enjoyed it. Also if you can find a good copy Samurai X/Rurouni Kenshin as well as Trigun are good as well
@freezespeston: Rurouni Kenshin is awesome, one of the shows that got me into anime. It’s probably dated a bit poorly now though, but if you wanted to give it a try it’s not a bad one. Stop after the second arc though, about 60 eps in. They made a filler arc after that to bide their time while the manga was finished, but the ratings tanked so badly because of that filler that the show got shitcanned and they never animated the third & final story arc.
Also there is a 4-part direct-to-video (OVA) special entitled ‘Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal’ which is super awesome and you should deffo watch that. It’s dated far better than the TV series and was better to begin with, more realistically animated and with an amazing soundtrack as well, plus it’s set during the Bakumatsu, which was the civil war that brought down the Tokugawa Shogunate and restored Emperor Meiji to power.
However anything else with that name you should avoid like the plague as they are terrible, shitting on the original characterization of the protagonist from a great height (in ‘Reflections’) or omitting the best parts of the material it’s re-adapting and making it impossible to actually follow if you hadn’t already watched the TV series or read the manga (the recent stuff).
DBZ Abridged.
Death Note is pretty solid but the second half isn’t as good.
The first plot arc of Naruto where they meet a really androgynous dude with ice mirror power things.
I don’t know. Anime is kind of broad.
Actually, there’s a couple of easy options for you off the top of my head without giving it a huge amount of consideration:
Baccano is a really good one. 13 episodes + 3 specials that come afterward. Huge cast, don’t be put off if you can’t follow it at first as it basically involves a bunch of separate plot threads involving each of the characters and the way they intertwine. It’s really good.
Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood is a really solid, enjoyable action anime that’s easy to get hold of, very popular still, and generally excellent. You want Brotherhood specifically. The original series went its own way and ended up in a bad place, where Brotherhood is a complete remake, directly adapting the manga, and it has a much more satisfying ending. It’s 52 episodes so that’d keep you going for a while.
EDIT:
Another one to consider depending on how you feel about lots of shouting and loudness is Gurren Lagann. It’s basically a late-00s tribute to 80s super robot anime, set in a world where the fundamental laws of physics were replaced by the Rule of Cool, and where whenever you think they’ve topped themselves, it turns out they just need to go bigger.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is great
I still don’t know how the first Full Metal Alchemist anime managed to deviate so damned far. It’s weird. And then there was the stuff with the Nazis…
Brotherhood is definitely the go but the mood whiplash in either can be brutal. Skipping episode 4 is a very good idea. Fuck that episode. It’s not poor quality but seriously, fuck it.
It’s the one with Nina and her father, the sewing-life alchemist.I dunno, I think that ep helped instill a darkness in tone to the world that might have been lacking otherwise. Gave things a bit of a serious edge.
My cousin is the type of person who thinks she’s a shit character, and laughs at that episode.I disagree on your spoilered bit, that was a really important bit of characterization.
The dichotomy that Ed finds what happens to her disgusting and everything, yet he arguably used his ability for far worse things.As for the reason why the original series deviated so far, it’s because they got ahead of where the manga was up to. The point that things go a off the rails there is the point where they had simply run out of material to animate and had to start making stuff up. The identities of many of the enemies hadn’t been revealed, the nature of the world and the gate and everything wasn’t known, and so on. At the time I thought the original series wasn’t too bad even if it did get a little odd. The Nazi connection isn’t that far-fetched either.
The FMA setting involves a world with 1940s-esque technology ruled by a military dictatorship that has really swish uniforms and is lead by a guy that calls himself The Fuhrer…@freezespreston
I agree with the FMA recommendation, but I am a massive fanboy, so I may be biased.
“Ellen Lied”
So this is what those banners wanting to tell me the “shocking truth” were talking about!
Are you only interested in the action ones?
I’m sure I should have ones to recommend after everything I’- GHOST IN THE SHELL. Yes, genius.
@freezespreston: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is a complete classic, but it’s also kind of uneven in pacing and episode quality, especially during the first season. 2nd Gig is much better. The movies are visually amazing but they’re very deep and full of philosophical babbling so if you watch them, be aware of that going in. You need to see Ghost in the Shell before you watch Innocence, if you go with the movies. TV series (Stand Alone Complex) is its own alternative timeline. 4-part Arise is a prequel that exists in both timelines basically, but it’s also not very good so fine to watch it once you know if you like the franchise.
If you want Cyberpunk then you can also go back to the classics and watch Akira.
And if you want something that now looks amazingly prescient and forward-thinking and will make you a complete believer in Augmented Reality then go watch Dennou Coil, if you can find it. Underloved SF classic set around a bunch of kids that live in a world where an entire virtual world is projected into their eyes through glasses. So basically Google Glass fast-forwarded about fifty years.
Baccano!
(English dub)I was hoping I’d see a Powalen Baccano! recommendation
😀
By the way, all the stuff (aside from the side-mention of Dennou Coil) I suggested is pretty mainstream-ish so if you want to go something more niche, more artistic or something less action-oriented I can make other suggestions.
A few favorites:
Macros Frontier – space opera with a thing about the power of music.
Black Lagoon – average office joe ends up in a mercenary company.
A Certain Scientific Railgun/ A Certain Magical Index – middle school kids with magic powers.
Angel Beats – fighting for survival in the afterlife and feels.
Trigun – western/sci-fi mashup about a gunslinger with a price on his head.
I’m a huge Macross fan but I think if I was to recommend any Macross installment to someone that was coming in cold, it would be Macross Plus or Do You Remember Love. Frontier after that.
Macross 7 is the one that’s stuck with me the most though, because the music is rad.
Yeah good point, those are probably better to start with.
Could not stand 7 though. Just hated the main character from the get go, barely lasted the first episode it was so cringe-worthy.
Fair enough. I really liked it entirely because of how silly it is. Also a lot of the music has aged really well and even ended up having a bit of a revival when Frontier was running since Ozma in that series was a Fire Bomber fan and he listens to some of it in a few scenes. And also because the timing was just right for it to get popular again.
There’s supposed to be a new Macross in the works, actually. I think it might be next year some time?
Yeah I heard rumblings about that, be keen to see it.
I assume you have watched the original? How would you rate it?
I watched a couple of eps but it just seemed to not have aged well. Worth tracking down and giving it another go?
Original: 8/10
DYRL: 9/10
Plus: 10/10
Zero: 8/10
7: 8/10
Dynamite 7: 8/10
Frontier: 8/10
Only stuff I’ve never watched was Macross II and the recent Frontier films. If you want the definitive version of the original story, DYRL is a better summary and it’s aged amazingly well for such an old film. Still looks stunning.
Samurai Champloo!
It, GitS:SAC and Perfect Blue are the only anime I have ever seen. And the last one is just a movie.
Oh wait I saw Whisper Of The Heart too, my friends were watching it when we were in Japan. Though I fell asleep through the end of it. Also I completely ruined it for my friend by impersonating Charles Martinet at the parts that were totally straight out of Super Mario Galaxy. And Sunshine.
Have you seen trigun, desert punk? It really comes down to what you want to watch. If I remember I will look at what I have tomorrow and throw a few more names your way.
Have you seen any Ghibli movies? Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away are pretty universally adored.
I’ll also recommend FLCL to anyone.
Have you seen Ghost in the Shell? If not I’d highly recommend it, there’s 3 movies 2 series and a new (ish) OVA and it’s all really good.
@shane Achievement Hunter have stopped doing heists, but they are still making some great stuff. A few days back, they put an awesome Let’s Play of a trivia game called Fibbage.
The concept of the game is that you get asked a question, and you have the opportunity to put a fake answer. The fake answers are displayed amongst the real answer in a multiple choice format. The people playing the game are meant to put serious answers that seem legit, but instead the AH crew goes completely silly with it. It may seem like a complex concept, but it makes sense once you stop watching.
Since trimming my beard, messing it up and having to shave it off and start again I’ve been trying to grow myself a Heisenberg, but I just can’t do it, the moustache is driving me freakin’ nuts.
*goes to bathroom and shaves off moustache*
There, just the beard, that’s much better.
Welp, failed No Swear September. Turns out climbing turns the difficulty up to Impossible 😛
Also, I’ve been completely sucking at climbing lately. Just feels like I’ve lost a bunch of strength, haven’t done any top-level climbs for a few weeks now. That said, while I couldn’t do the 4D or 4E tonight, I totally skipped the 4F and managed to somehow get angry enough to make it through my first 5 ever.
Worthy of a double fist-bump, apparently.
No swear September? Fuck that!
I concur. After rolling my ankle in football last night, walking around at work today is going to be a barrel of laughs
JRPG PEOPLE!
For the Vita….Disgaea 3 or Disgaea 4?
4 by a mile.
3 for $10!
😛
Yeah, how do you want me to pass you that?
When we watch Ghibli films? 😀
Or some other potential future meat? (I’m in no rush to play it so I don’t mind waiting)
That was where my heads at but its $20 for 3 or $55 for 4
Should be able to get 4 for less than $55.
Theatrhythm Curtain Call CE preordered! It looks like EB put it back up on their website.
10 hours of sleep…and I still feel rubbish. 🙁
Maybe 4 hours sleep in total and I feel awesome 😐
inFamous: Second Son peeps. How long does the Paper Trail thing take to do? Are there any benefits to doing it?
Oh yeah I never did finish that, probably should. Might buy First Light today too.
I’m waiting till next Wednesday to pick up First Light when it comes out on disc. I know it’s a few dollars more, but I’d rather have a disc than a download any day.
Plus, I still haven’t finished the story yet.
Wait, it’s not out on disc yet? Oh must’ve misread that EB email blabbing on about it.
Just checked my e-mail and I got that one too, definitely says the 10th of September (next Wednesday). you can download it now though off PSN if you wanna. Why the hell are they releasing it the day after Destiny?
Nah fuck digital download.. My downloads are strictly there for obtaining media.
I can’t stop this feeling
Deep inside of me
Girl, you just don’t realize
What you do to me
G’morning TAY, how are we all this morning?
I’m quite okay, finally got to play LoL again last night and it was like I never left, two games, two convincing wins!
Nice! Well done! I have zero skills in MOBAs so that’s pretty cool
I was practising some support Braum, he’s a recent new character that’s a manly man with a massive shield as his main weapon, also has a glorious mustache.
You should come play awesomenauts with me.
Babby’s first MOBA
I’m actually really looking forward to Gigantic… =O
I-I-I-I-I’m hooked on a feeling
I’m high on believin’
That you’re in love with me
Good luck getting that out of your head 😛
Ooga chaka!
omg guys! I’m on IMDB!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343305/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast :0
(In the animators)
Right at the top of the section, fancy! 🙂
haha yeah! no idea why! But I was honestly a bit surprised! Never expected to ever find my name on there!
I don’t see “Welbot” anywhere in there… YOU LIED TO ME!
This totally means it’s official and you’re famous right?hahaha no welbot.. just my real name, which thanks to @techknight, should make it easy for you to all find! 😉 Would hardly call myself famous though 😉
Mainly cuz I remember your name from when you sent me the RAM 😉
DANGER DANGER
There is a “Update information for Welbot »” link 😉
Ok, suspicions confirmed. I’m carrying 3-4kg more than I used to be. No wonder climbing’s gotten harder 😛
I blame work. Getting up early instead of sleeping through the day means I end up eating more than I normally would. Even though I try balance it out by foregoing a lift home from the station and just doing the walk. Although I’m probably guilty of some boredom eating over the last few weeks too >_>
Here’s a tip… put down the fork! (/end family guy moment)
My shirts have started to get a little tight. I’m going to have to start telling myself that for the next little while til that gets back under control.
When ever a shirt gets a little tight I say it shrunk in the wash and go eat a hamburger or two.
So Minecraft is pretty cool, huh?
Why do I always feel the need to build paths and bridges? Every time I play: “Ooh, I can put a bridge here! And then a path to here… to connect to this other bridge!” If you ever see a bunch of useless paths and bridges… Powalen has been there.
We’ll just pull the old Animal Crossing trick on you and build a house right on top of your path.
If you do you’ll get such a bugnetting.
Once I build my fort, I’m going to work on a massive bridge across an ocean. That should keep me busy for at least a month.
I think some people found your fort last night!
Shitty wooden house with overlarge roof?
I dunno! People were just asking “who owns this fortress?” and I thought to myself “Fortress? Must be Beavwa” 😛
The only people I’ve seen are Rize and Kermi!
Staging base is a crappy wooden house a few clicks from the spawn.
Main base is a squared dirt-cave in the side of a hill at the moment.
If the word ‘fortress’ was used, probably wasn’t me.
I need to get my main base marked out ASAP, I like to have *lots* of space.
Back when my wife and I first got into minecraft we bought gridbooks to plan structures and never used them.
I might do that tonight.
I used to do that for Sims houses back in the day 😛
best idea!
I always have a notebook handy for writing down coordinates and sketching out a dinky little map.
I have started mining and building a monstrosity on a small plain which I figured was well away from everyone else. I’m going to have to investigate some recipes because there’s things that I’ve forgotton or have changed. Once I have proper supplies and a map I will start investigating other people’s builds.
I need to plan out a proper build because my current tower/platform is just a mish-mash of whatever I managed to pull out of the ground while hunting for coal and iron, but I needed something to discourage zombies and creepers from trying to batter down my door every night.
My thing always seems to be tunnels and cartography. Build a little hut, then dig a 4×4 hole all the way down to bedrock. Then pick a direction and dig a 4×4 tunnel across the top of it until [blank], then dig another hole upwards and build another hut. Set up a railway from one end to the next for quick travel.
Craft a map in my home base, then uncover the whole thing. Find the coordinates of where I am and go to the centre of the next map over in each of the four compass directions and craft a new one, uncover all of it. Then go and do the corner parts of the 9×9 map grid. Die lots, fight to get back to where I was to retrieve the dropped map before it despawns.
Then get bored and give up on Minecraft for another year 😛
You can help me with my cavern if you like
I generally like to dig my underground tunnels at level 10. Too much cut down visibility for my liking if I go any deeper.
Oh yeah, I forgot they changed that.
I’m mostly talking in terms of playing during 0.7.3 or something, before the adventure update. For whatever reason, that killed it for me.
Join the multi server and give the new version a go!
I find the multiplayer element gives it a lot more longevity, since stuff you build feels like it has more permanence when there’s others involved.
Oh, definitely. Multiplayer makes it, without it it’s deadly boring.
Still can’t seem to get the magic back though, it never seems to come close to the “good ol’ days”. Feels like I’m just done with it.
But hey, you never know. Boredom will probably take hold of me at some point.
I saw your house with the paths and bridges..I ended up building between yours and a fortress…im now the proud owner of a cave on an island
GOING TO DINNER WITH A FRIEND I HAVENT SEEN IN LIKE A YEAR
i love catching up with old friends because they already know im retarded but still agree to go to dinner with me.
I would like to hang out with my uni friends more but don’t because they’ll inevitably ask… what have you been up to in the year since I’ve seen you? Saying nothing is painful every time! D:
Just say exploring your options or wanking.
Wanking goes without saying.
because its weird to talk about.
Depends on the company, I guess. I’m sure Dan and Karl would have no issue with that discussion.
I find myself talking about stuff i usually lock away in my cupboard of weird thoughts with dan and karl. THey bring out the worst/best in me. 😛
Especially Karl, he says stuff which is both dumb and right so i want to agree and make fun of him at the same time.
When I was drinking with Dan once I was about to tell an embarrassing awkward story and right on cue others walked up to us and started talking. It was the universe telling me to shut up. 😀
7 weeks without soft drinks!!!!! \o/
I can’t believe it. Hasn’t been easy, but I’ve managed to do it. YAY!!!!!
Nice job buddy. My morning coke zero is the only thing that keeps me going so i dont think i could ever quit
Switch to coffee. Still get the caffeine boost, but it’s cheaper.
Mmmmmm proper black coffee, no milk or sugar or any other crazy stuff is still my go to drug!
Yeah, I love a good espresso. I’d love to get a proper coffee machine at some stage, but I’ll stick with my capsule machine at the moment.
I got a small one cup plunger at work, and a Nespresso machine at home… Love a good cup from the plunger though… So good!
With all this discussion about coffee, I think I shall have one.
A wise decision, i approve
As will I.
Wow you are lucky. Where I work you can get soft drink that’s cheaper than a cup of coffee. This is Brisbane CBD though so everything is more expensive generally, just that coffee is way more expensive.
It’s cheaper for me as I usually get a short black, most places here charge $2.50-$3.50 for a short black, except for the place closest to me which is $4.00 or so. For a small regional city, we have a pretty reasonable selection of good cafes. I have about 7 or 8 that I like to visit, all within the city centre.
My office has free soft drink for employees. Big fridge full of it. Makes eliminating it really hard.
Awesome. Congrats on making it through, you’re basically done with it now. I’ve been told that the third week is the hardest week. After week 2 you feel like you’re free and then the cravings hit.
I’ve started on a personal plan to eliminate soft drinks from my diet as well. I stopped having sugary drinks a while back but I was having 400-800mLs of Coke Zero every day and I think it wasn’t doing me any favours especially with not sleeping well, so I’ve cut it out completely as of a week ago. Think I’ve been having withdrawls actually, headaches and stuff, but that’s starting to dissipate now.
Yeah, it does take a while to get used to, even if you’ve already switched from full sugar soft drinks to diet soft drinks. The body doesn’t like it if it thinks it’s having stuff removed. Keep at it mate, you’ll get there, and it does get easier once the cravings stop.
Welp, that was my exit interview. Time to just sit for the next 7 hours.
Why do they do exit interviews? To assess if you’re gonna shoot the place up? D:
Seems reasonable
Allow you to make any parting criticisms, tie off loose ends, close off your employee file
Relevant Dilbert
Also Relevant Dilbert
Yesterday’s relevant Dilbert which is the one I was originally going to post until I saw the one I originally went with
I’d have gone with that one. Most accurate by far.
Techies has just been released in Dota 2. Time to uninstall.
I don’t really understand the cause or effect of your statement.
Cause – Techies has been released in Dota 2
Effect – Time to uninstall
=P Basically techies is a pain in the ass hero that anyone can pick up and suicide rush enemy heroes with. He was the cause of quite a few rage quits back in the day.
Edit: Grammar.
Fair enough.
Only 4 days and counting till Destiny people, get hype!
Who’s getting it?
What platform are you getting it on?
Are you buying a hard copy or digital copy?
What edition are you getting?
Are you going to a midnight launch?
Well I’m getting it (obviously). Getting the Limited Edition. PS4 was my platform of choice, but I am considering getting it on Xbone too if it’s cheap enough digitally. Not going to a midnight launch because my local isn’t having one, be picking it up at 9am sharp on the day.
What about you guys?
Also, did you know that apparently there’s a companion app for Android and iOS.
Destiny pageget \o/
It must have been
fatedestiny.Thank goodness you linked to what you did. Because if you didn’t, I was going to.
PS4
Looks like I”ll be going Digital special Edition because I couldn’t track down any hard copies by the time I left my hermit cave. Gonna have to clean up some space, my ps4 is full :\
Not getting. Don’t see the why the hype about it is worth it honestly :/
Me neither but i will not deny people the god given right to be excited about stuff. I AM EXCITED FOR THEIR EXCITEMENT.
Also new pokemon game coming out in november.
Never said I was denying anyone the right to be excited, simply said I am not getting it and I personally don’t see the hype in it.
i know man, i wasnt having a go.
Depends what you’re into, I suppose. Having played both the alpha and beta I completely understand the hype, it became my most anticipated game of the year after the alpha.
I had it pre ordered for PS4 pre alpha, when beta rolled around and I found out PS+ was needed to play it even in beta, I lost all interest..
As I understand it, you only need PS+ for any multiplayer content. You can still play all the story and free roam stuff by yourself without it.
Hmm. Eh, think i’m better off with the $$ in my bank acc or toward my Vita purchase lol.
I’m hyped cause I played the Alpha and Beta and had a lot of fun, too many games these days just aren’t fun to play.
I think that’s because games aren’t fun to play, a lot of them just seem like a chore :S
yeah, that’s why when one is fun to play I get Hyped.
Can’t wait for this and Far Cry 4, I’m gonna suicide wingsuit into so many things.
Oh man I forgot about FC4..
Dunno what game i’m looking forward too next. Might be Warlords of Draenor…
I’ve pre-ordered the digital special edition on PS4. If the price is relatively okay, I might grab it digitally for Xbone too.
I believe it’s $130 so the same as a hard copy version. Not happy but my own fault for not going to shops.
I am
PS4
Hard copy
Ghost Edition
Not a chance.
Ghost Edition, nice.
Also, you forgot the most important question. What class is everyone picking?
It’s between Hunter & Warlock for me.
Warlock because of the “Talk to the hand!” melee and hunter for the golden gun from Goldeneye ability.
It’s a tough one.
I’m torn between Hunter and Titan. I played Hunter through the alpha and that golden gun ability is the tits.
Most likely Titan for me, I pretty much always go for the high strength, high health (armour) option.
Warlock! Loved my time with it during the alpha, felt much better than hunter or titan. The vertical mobility is amazing, especially when comboed with a good sniper rifle and a hard-hitting scout rifle to take advantage of the visibility. Crap for PvP, I’d imagine, as you’d just be a floating target, but for PvE it’s awesome.
Was leaning towards Warlock but I didn’t try any other classes so still a little undecided.
I played Hunter first off, and had fun, but I may need to Titan.
I don’t always play up-in-your-grille roles but dear god the Titan jump is fun.
PS4, hard copy, Limited Edition. I’ll forgo the midnight launch cos I a) I ordered it in the City store, which would mean hoping for a train sometime around 12:30am, and b) I need to work on Tuesday morning. I’ll be picking it up during the day, maybe take the afternoon off work. Won’t be playing late, as work dictates I attend a “morning tea” to “socialise” with the rest of the department on Wednesday.
Used the companion app during the Alpha, it was alright. I’m hoping there’ll be more functionality available after the game launches.
I’m on PS4. I’m just getting the reg’ edition from JB and some PSN credit to get the season pass.
No midnight launch for me. I’m excited but wary due to it’s online nature.
ME!
PS4!
HARD!
LIMITED!
MY EB’S NOT HAVING ONE… 🙁
Xbone! Ghost Edition! Awaiting delivery!
I have the companion app: It got updated automatically from the old Bungie app which I used to use to read newsposts and check my Halo stats from time to time.
Also I played as a Titan in the beta so I will probably continue as one in the real thing. I played as an Awoken originally but I think I might go Exo.
Exo Female for sure.
They’ve got the best heads.
Oh, female for sure. They have much nicer head models. Not that I’m likely to see it very often.
PS3 Hard copy LE
I’m going to my parents on the w’end, so I’ll get it coming back on tuesday. Not from the midnight launch.
Not me.
None.
Neither.
Naught.
No.
/Not Helping
I’m ripping myself off and getting the EB games $129 edition. I’ve got the app, going on PS4… I think we’re pals on PSN.
Yup, that’s the one I’m getting too. Twins \o/
Wait, that’s $129? I coulda sworn when I preordered mine it was $99, which was why I went for it… Hope they don’t dick me over on Tuesday and ask for another $30…
$99 for standard at EB, or $129 for the one with free stuff and free expansion pass.
I know I went for the LE, I was just sure I chose it because it was the same price as the SE. This was right after the alpha, so I’m trying to figure out if it was a promotional price to encourage preorders, or if I’m misremembering entirely.
I…I dunno man. I’ve only ever seen $99 for the standard and $129 for the bundle on eb games. 🙁
Don’t sweat it, man; it wouldn’t be the first time my memory lied to me – it can be malicious at times. 😛
I might have just rationalised it as being cheaper than SE + DLC, which I’m okay with, I guess.
I wouldn’t pay $99 for the basic one dude, pay extra $30 for the pack. JB has basic one for $79 or something.
@stickman Good call… JB’s site lists the SE for $69, so even if the DLC pass is $40, it’s saving $20 on the LE. Time to move my preorder, I guess.
Not at launch
PS4
Hard copy probably
Reg
No
I just wanna belong
Ooh, me, me! I’m getting it.
On PS4
Digital off PSN
Digital CE i.e. the one with the DLC bundled
Not going to a Midnight launch because mine’s a US copy so I won’t get to play it until about 24 hours after everyone else anyway. 🙁
EDIT: Also the companion app has been out since the beta.
I’m getting it.
PS4.
Not sure.
regular ol’ regular ol’.
nah. Might hold back for a bit, actually, wait till the reviews flow in.
I’m getting it.
On PS4.
A hard copy.
Limited edition? Whichever one is slightly upgraded but doesn’t have the toys and stuff.
Nnnnooo, I don’t think I will do the midnight launch.
Me
PS4
Hard
Normal edition 🙁
Yes
APP
Warlock was my class of choice. I’ll be working hard to unlock the blink ability. I forget if it was called that so I’ll use the Dishonored name for it 😀
PS4 limited edition.
I sort of want to go to the midnight launch because I haven’t been to one in ages but I’ve got TAFE the next day so I probably shouldn’t.
PS4 and my copy isn’t the only thing that will be hard!
Wait, what??
I have been aboard the hype train for a while now. I’m buying a digital copy after a pre-order at JB Hi Fi… can’t remember if I ordered it in Essendon or in Elizabeth street though lol. I think I’m getting the regular edition.
Being on a writer on the localisation team for Ace Attorney or Professor Layton must be the best thing ever.
Just sit there writing puns all day.
My bee suit arrived yesterday. I’m ready for anything the world is gonna throw at me.
Prolly just ready for bees though.
I dunno, I think it would be handy against zombies too
Zombees maybe.
Ugh. Fucking kill me.
*reluctantly upvotes*
so disappoint. I was hoping for something like this! http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090417205915/nintendo/en/images/b/bc/Bee_Mario.jpg
Nice! I dunno this thing was $10 so why the hell not lol.
your last name isn’t Patterson is it, you look a lot like a friend of mine.
Nope
At work we’ve got a drawer full of unused computer mice that’s been there for so long it has transformed into an enormous Rat King. Cables tangled with cables so tightly and cemented together with years of dust. They can now only move as one being, the dead dragged along by the living. Whenever an old mouse is added, it is absorbed into the unholy mass, never to be released. Many have succeeded in releasing a single working mouse from the King when the need arose, but no one has ever been able to defeat it for good.
Has it developed genius level intelligence and vast magical powers as more minds have been added to the collective, kind of like Many-As-One from Planescape Torment?
Destiny fronds, you should redeem all these codes:
http://www.ecogamer.com.au/game/destiny/headline/1709
Unlocks emblems in the game. Nothing major but it’s free stuff. They’ve been around for a while so you may have redeemed most of them before, but the first one in that list is new.
Just saw those last night. I think the first one is an emblem, the rest are Grimoire cards which I understand helps unlock certain perks?
Yeah I don’t know what they do or anything, just that it’s free stuff and that’s the best price.
Done, cheers.
Hey, cool. Vita dungeon-crawler JRPG Mind=0 is on Steam Greenlight. Steam doesn’t have many JRPGs at all so even a middling-quality one like that would be nice to have, especially if the end result is that more JP companies start looking at the PC as a viable platform for more than porno games.
Weird that a company with Aksys’ standing has to go through Greenlight though.
Oh cool, I remember this when they were promoting it for Vita. If this gets through it should be a good filler till P5 comes out.
Be warned: it’s not really like Persona at all.
But it’s like SMT though right? I think I remembered it had first person dungeons/battles.
Yeah, though it’s a bit of a knockoff.
Best JRPG attack name ever:
http://gematsu.com/gallery/fairy-fencer-f/september-4-2014/Fairy-Fencer-F_2014_09-04-14_010.jpg.php
So good
So I’ve been having pretty long, stressful and shitty days at work for the past two weeks because of a massive new project. I however did learn something this week, everyone else in the company is as big a fan as I am of being passive aggressive and doesn’t know how to react to someone actually openly giving out orders.
So yesterday something came over me and I basically took a fuck it all attitude to dealing with people and suddenly found they were falling in line even though from an organisational perspective I’m at the bottom of the bloody ladder! Man I wish I’d figured this out a few years ago =,=
(just random thought I felt like sharing with TAY =P)
Managing up is an important skill to learn.
Cardboard box for a whiteboard was getting thrown out this morning. I grabbed a piece before it got chucked, and took to it with the scissors.
I now have a shield to block the air conditioning from blasting me in the face all day.
Feels like it needs something written on the top panel though. Like an arcade machine’s marquee 😛
New girl was on the phone in the hallway when I was taking my lunch to the microwave. I think she might possibly speak Italian.
Hmm.
I hope you were microwaving popcorn!
Ciao, come stai?
si vuole un po ‘ spuntato mais?
…addio
hi, how are you?would you like some popped corn?
…goodbye
*swoon*
Go up to her and tell her “sei bellisima”. It’s how I hooked up with an Italian girl =]
It means “You are beautiful”. It works trust me!
Posso andare al gabinetto per favore? – First phrase to come to mind 😛
WAIT NO
Possiamo andare al gabinetto per favore?
Classy 😎
@transientmind
Is there a way to see challenges? I can see the main ones from the menu (get sword to levle 10, get 3 swords to levle 10, have 5 warframes, etc…) but occasionally in missions I’ve seen progress meters for others (get 10 headshots, kill all the wardens)
I think these might be level/mission specific but don’t know if I can find where they are
Also you didn’t mention that I could be a space ninja with a battle axe. Need to level so I can unlock my Rhino.
Are you doing this on PC? If so, invite me. It’s Transientmind. We’ll get you your Rhino, son. 🙂
Or, if you’re patient… The base blueprint is bought with credits off the market, the component blueprints (helmet/chassis/systems) drop randomly off The Jackal, the end boss of Venus. (It’s random as to which component you’ll get, but it will always be a Rhino component.)There are three types of challenges.
One is a fresh one rolled at the start of every map or sometimes when objectives change – there’s no way to see it in-game apart from the first time it is displayed unfortunately (it’s annoying), and completing it rewards you with affinity. (item EXP.) They’re rolled randomly, and (annoyingly, another bug) sometimes don’t even show up on the start of the map, either.
The complete list is here: http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Challenge_Reward
The wiki is actually a great resource for reading up on mod effects, etc. It’s very well-organized and maintained.
The second and third types you can see in the menu is for achievements – in-game and Steam. Steam tracks extra ones. I don’t know what the difference between them is, other than that you don’t actually need the Steam client to run Warframe. Dunno how this translates to console version.
I already have a fancy Rubedo Plated Rhino, just need to level up enough to be able to use it.
When you say the map challenge is first displayed does that happen at the start of the round or when you do the first of the required actions?
Yep I’m on PC, Tigerion on there but I’ll add you next time I play.
@tech_knight sadly you can’t start with the axe, it is a progression reward. First lot of choices I think are sword, gauntlets or bo staff.
It should happen at the start of the round, then whenever you progress the objective. Sometimes it doesn’t turn up at the start, though, so the first time you see it is when you progress it.
So, if you don’t see it on loading the map, try all of the actions (use warframe abilities, headshots, stealth kills, slide kills, melee, pistol, rifle, etc) until you get a response out of one of them.
But also not stress too much about it, because at low to mid ranges, the average enemy is worth around 100 affinity, and the lowest challenge reward is 1000 affinity, the highest 10,000. Sometimes not worth dicking around and wasting time on something you could achieve with killing ten enemies inside a few seconds, on some maps.
Out of curiosity, did you start as an Excalibur?
Also yeah, are you on PC? I might be convinced to jump back on and ninja around for lols. My Valkyrie hasn’t grapple-hooked someone to death in a long time. 😛
Edit: Herp. Me can read good. But yeah, I’m looking at downloading this again over the weekend so just holla if you need a ninja brother.
Yeah, seemed like the go to for what I wanted. Not really keen of sitting back and spamming abilities and Volt seemed a little, idk off for me.
But looking at them want to get my Rhino in and try that, battle axe FTW.
Interested to try Hydroid as well
I haven’t played in a long time but I’m keen to try out the hunter-type warframe that gets the ninja dog. I hope the drop rate has improved on the missions as some of them could be absolutely brutal if you were trying to put something together.
EVERYONE can get the ninja dog. It’s a companion that you equip independent of your warframe. 🙂
I have a feeling I know what I’ll be playing this weekend as it’s completed the download a few nights ago
Why are so many people suddenly playing Warframe lately? I jumped into the beta ages ago but it’s not much fun without friends…
Then saddle up ninja buddy and get your electric kunai ready. It’s space ninja time!
This sentence is now the one of the main reasons I will be redownloading the game tonight.
Space ninja? I might have to check this out.
I found that too, so I ended up playing War Thunder a lot because you can totally be a kick ass solo ace pilot. Then I forgot Warframe was a thing till it popped up on TAY recently.
A few of us play War Thunder from time to time. You should jump on the TeamSpeak server and hit us up.
Transient mentioned it and it seemed like a good fit for gaming with a young bub.
I’ve just been spamming him with questions 😉
Well, I’ll be re-downloading this arvo/tonight.
All I can remember is that I started as lightning guy, and the game went through several massive changes to equipment and perks while I was playing it.
Warfare is super fun! 😀
I play on PS4 though, where as I think most here play on PC :\
Just curious though, what are people’s main warframes that they use?
I usually use Oberon and Nyx. Both super fun for support / crowd control 🙂
I used to run Excalibur Prime exclusively. Founder thingey.
But my brother convinced me to try Oberon, which I really enjoyed, then Nekros – which is SUPER useful in squads. Energy orbs everywheres!
However, my latest love is the Loki Prime. With the right mods, he can stay invisible for around 20sec per cast, and the havoc you can unleash with ‘undetected’ 4x melee damage with a 30-energy-cost ability is… ludicrous. Especially with a dragon nikana or bo prime. 🙂
I never managed to get a Prime warframe but Loki is downright fun. Especially when you use decoy on a convenient stack of crates against all of the Infected. It’s pretty great.
Apparently the shotgun approach at applying for jobs has somewhat worked in obtaining me interviews. I think. I have three today and one is late in calling me while I type this post.
Hopefully the shotgun approach to interviews will be successful in getting me a good job too.
If all else fails, you can use the actual shotgun approach! \o/
Boo, I wouldn’t do that.
You’re a doctor? Thank god – You’re hired! Some maniac has been going around shooting people with a shotgun and we need extra hands right now!
Just to be on the safe side, you’d best make sure that @freya is a medical doctor and not a “liked maths WAAAAY too much at uni” doctor before surgery starts
*puts on rubber gloves and scrubs up*
That’s…that’s not a continuous function
I’ve made a huge mistake…
I am actually a medical doctor, by the way. @steve-o_the_deve-o has met me hence he knows.
Also made for an interesting first meeting with @serrels, who (after I introduced myself as a doctor) asked me what it’s like being a nurse.
Yeah @powalen, that would just be silly! People would hear a shotgun from way too far off and shotguns are big, heavy bulky things. Suppressed pistol, that’s the way to go. Deadly, subtle and easy to conceal.
So I have spent the past few hours of this mind numingly boring day studying the basics of particle physics and stellar formation. Found it quite engrossing really.
Almost a shame I hate maths and academia; getting a proper understanding could be interesting.
Jealous. Wish I had a slow day at work to learn stuff like that.
YAY!!! The wigs for my PAX cosplay arrived today. Colours are just right. Now I can go start getting fabric to go with it.
http://instagram.com/p/sjDwm-gSXm/
Oooh, lovely! I am pretty excited. PROGRESS PICS PLZ
I totally thought I was looking at exposed muscle for a second there.
I posted some thoughts on Botanicula and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/96675385826/05-september-2014
*moseys off*
I like that picture of Donkey Kong with the frozen banana. He looks so happy! 😛
So furry too. I love that you can see strands of fur in this new version. 😀
Great, as usual.
Oh thanks so much man! 😀
I can’t read these blog posts cause I haven’t played these games, but want to play most of them :'(
It’s good to see you writing again (particularly about things you like) 🙂
Only one I post actual spoilers for is The Walking Dead. The rest are all intentionally vague on the story front.
Oh, good to know 🙂
Today’s blog was great! 🙂
Question though.
Can you play Tropical Freeze without playing Returns?
I might stay away from the Walking Dead / Wolf Among Us blogs though, since those are the two I’m more likely to play.
Yeah, you can play Tropical Freeze without any knowledge of the DKC games. They’re not that deep story wise. You play for the gameplay. 😀 Thanks for reading Stewie, means a lot. 🙂
I didn’t know if the two were related or not was all 😛
I’ll probably pick it up at some stage I need a good, charming, platformer to play 🙂
And I read your blog everyday (except for when it is spoilers) 😀
I thought you knew that already! 😛
Haha, it’s weird. I get no idea on what hits it gets. My self-esteem tells me no one reads it. 😀
Hahaha, I was considering signing up so I could like your blog posts, but I figured there wouldn’t be much point, since I’d like pretty much like all of them XP
You have a lifetime reader in me, DC 🙂
Plus, how else I’m I supposed to point out on what days you look(ed) the best through the month if I don’t keep up to date? ;P
Every day.
Do Dark Souls next.
But I only write about games I have positive things to talk about! 😛
…
Next up? Murdered Soul Suspect! *ducks to avoid thrown fruit*
Hey I liked Murdered Soul Suspect!
You and me against the world, buddy. 😀
Not the best game ever made by any means but a good solid bit of fun.
Speaking of you and me against the world, we should coop divinity
DO.
DARK.
SOULS.
@pupp3tmast3r You want to try for WoW again this weekend (or even this evening?). Let me know if you’re free.
Got an event after work tonight but add me on steam to see when I’m online (since I rarely check Bnet). My steam add should be – pupp3tmast3r007 or just check the Kotaku steam group and you should find me there, I think I’ve got quite a few TAYbies on there as well.
I haven’t been able to find you on Steam. Try adding me: direwolf029
Will do tonight! I’m going to be crazy busy this week and working this weekend as well. I think the earliest I might be able to jump on for some co-op is either on Tuesday next week (if I manage to organize the day off) or the weekend after this one!
Cool, though just so you know, I’m never free on tuesdays. Those are my TAFE days.
Dammit I can’t find your steam add!
Here’s my profile link – spoilered
http://steamcommunity.com/id/ReaperUnleashed/I wonder if Outlook appreciates the irony of spamming me with messages telling me my mailbox is almost full…
Email “Your inbox is full” could not be delivered because your inbox is full.
Email ” “Your inbox is full” could not be delivered because your inbox is full” could not be delivered because your inbox is full.
The first rule of tautology inbox is the first rule of tautology inbox.
Wonder if you could crash a mail server with an infinite loop like that, recipient’s mailbox is full, sender’s mailbox is full and the server keeps bouncing the notification back and forth forever
*rubs hands together with barely restrained evil glee*
Yes, but it would have to be a pretty terrible mail server.
You say that like those are a rare thing to encounter…
You used to be able to do that with outlook and out of office messages if they were setup right
They would bounce out of office messages back to each others out of office messages
That happened earlier in the year when our support ticket system tried to send an email to an out-of-office address. Of course, it replied with “I’m out of office!”, which would create a new support ticket, which would email them a “We’ll get to you soon!”, which would make them send another “Out of office!”… etc, etc.
I came back the next morning to hundreds of support tickets in my queue 😛
My last couple of days:
Receives request for ad-hoc report. Sends email list of businesses to be included as part of the report. Receive confirmation that it’s correct. Prepare report. Send report. Receive request for 1 extra set of data. Prepare. Send. Receive phone call. New data can’t be correct, doesn’t show a vehicle we know should be included. Check data set. No vehicle. Delve deeper. 2 different businesses with similar names. ABC Place was included on my list, ABC House was not. ABC House was supposed to be focus of report with ABC Place part of a secondary data set. Redo entire report.
Prepare regular reporting for monthly meetings. Send out copies clearly marked as “draft” in email in the morning. Find error in the afternoon. Inform boss. “Ok, exec assistant has pulled the report back.” “But I haven’t sent it to her yet.” “I did.” “It was a draft. Hence me finding errors.”
Tear hair out.
I find even clearly watermarking documents with big, bold DRAFT emblazoned across each and every page still doesn’t get through to people.
Human race man. Makes you wonder how we ever made it past fire in the first place.
I used to use big, page-sized, red “NO” symbols (still do on some reports) but this one doesn’t have them. I wonder if there’s a way to set a slide master that can be selectively enabled / disabled without affecting the rest of the slide content. Big text saying “IF YOU SEND THIS OUT IT’S YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT” or something along those lines. 😛
Nooooooooooo, our new vending machines at work carry ice coffee AND you can pay with card… This seems like the best worst combination ever!
Owning a vending machine seems like the perfect opportunity to print money
they have one with soft drinks in it here that funds a huge barbecue every month for the staff, even charging $1 a can turns over like $400 in a month cause they buy them on special at supermarkets.
That’s the thing. Buying soft drink on special can cost you about 50c a can, sometimes even less. Selling them at $1 each as part of fundraising or just as a general thing is potentially really lucrative as it’s already way cheaper than buying it from any fast food place and it is super convenient.
Steam is going to call your wallet a hussy 😛
Ghibli’s Tale of Princess Kaguya Bluray up for order on Amazon Japan. December release. IT SHALL BE MINE.
hooray there was a “see this page in english” button. I was staring at it for a while thinking, how’d you even tell when it’s being released. Man I should have listened to my past self and learned Japanese. Fun fact: I bought Talkman on the PSP to try learn some, it didn’t work out because Talkman was awful, they didn’t even break down sentences so you didn’t get to pick up words here and there, I still have that crappy thing with its microphone somewhere.
Protip: everything is exactly where it would be in the US store, in terms of buttons. I navigate by instinct, not by reading it. However I can translate the important bit!
– Disc is a BD50, main feature is encoded in MPEG-4 AVC.
– Feature is presented in 16:9 Widescreen, 1080p
– Dialogue tracks are:
— Japanese (2.0 stereo, linear PCM)
— Japanese (5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio (Lossless))
— English (5.1 Dolby Digital)
— French (5.1 Dolby Digital)
— Mandarin (5.1 Dolby Digital)
— Cantonese (5.1 Dolby Digital)
– Subtitles:
— Japanese
— English
— French
— Korean
— Traditional Chinese (Mandarin)
— Traditional Chinese (Cantonese)
Just like all the other Ghibli BD releases from Japan, except for their wierdo repackaged release of Castle of Cagliostro which isn’t subtitled or dubbed. 🙁
Cost is an eye-watering 5344 Yen, which is around $55-60 in Austrobucks, and that doesn’t include postage. So fans-only I guess?
Apparently they’re going to do a big packaged thing that has all of Isao Takahata’s works on Bluray for 40k Yen as well. So that’s the films he did for Ghibli (Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Pom Poko, The Yamadas, Princess Kaguya) and also his directorial film works from Hols, Prince of the Sun onward (so presumably both Panda! Go, Panda movies, 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother and Gauche the Cellist as well).
Cheers, you are a wealth of information. I need to check out some of these that I haven’t seen, I should order the big package when they put that up, even though I own a couple of them and am not sure if I can watch Grave of the Fireflies again
So Sad D:I discovered recently my copy of Castle of Cagliostro seems to have gone missing, why is that the one they screwed with 🙁 I need to get it again, still not sure where it went (I probably loaned it to someone and forgot)
Man I love Maddox’s particular brand of angry self assured ranting. Never fails to get a laugh.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=spiderwomans_ass
@f4ction put a link on Twitter this morning to that and my first immediate response was “Holy shit, Maddox is still around?”. I remember discovering his website when I was like 12 and laughing my arse off.
Also, watched that video during lunch. He hasn’t changed a bit, in that he still presents great arguments in a generally offensive way that’s usually really entertaining.
I like his videos more than his written articles. I feel like he does a much better job of expressing himself with his voice (regardless of whether I personally agree with him), whereas his written articles tend to come across as the same juvenile gibberish I snickered at when I was in high school.
@strange, I want to apologise.
I just happened to venture into old TAY and saw your comment about where you linked an article discussing the “rape culture” issue and your opinions being called naive, etc.
however indirectly I was clearly one of the prepetrators and not only did I not mean to cause you personally any offense with my remarks, I also wholly retract them and admit I was wrong to make them.
My opinion of the commentary that “boys should be educated about how to treat women, not to rape” etc. were based purely on my own experience as a male who (I believe) has been properly educated in respecting the personal boundaries of others and I gave very little thought to whether or not other boys/men have similarly been educated. It is something I take for granted because of who I am and those I associate with, so my evidence sample is skewed by confirmation bias, a consequence of avoiding straying outside insular communities.
In light of “gamergate”, the reckless abandon with which people were prepared to attack Zoe Quinn, the renewed vitriol towards Anita Sarkeesian and Feminist Frequency, and the debate around the recent celebrity nude photo leaks, I have had caused to change my opinion (which is why I was looking at my old comments in the first place).
The people I choose to associate, and myself (I hope) seem to have nothing but the highest respect for women: their opinions, their personal boundaries, their bodies and their important role as equals to men in society. But we do not represent all males on our global society, and I am increasingly of the concern that we don’t represent the majority. People as a whole are frankly kind of revolting and pretending otherwise is what is “naive”; instead of acknowledging the existence of a problem and refusing outright to face it.
Finally, as someone who does not purport to have all of the answers, it is unreasonable to expect that any one other person should. Being dismissive of a conversation because it does not have a direct path to the solution is a disservice to any community I would purport to be a part of.
I’m sorry.
Didn’t see the original comment, all I’ll say is this: Self reflection and self-criticism is a sign of strength of character.Oh wow. Thank you for your apology, it means a lot.
I have the utmost respect for you, even moreso now after this comment.
Edit: I think one of the very best things about this community is the difference between us all. I’ve grown so much as a person, and my mind has been opened to so many different viewpoints I wouldn’t have otherwise considered just by interacting with people from TAY.
This post is amazing and you demonstrated true strength of character to a) apologise and b) make a change. You are good people.
Watching Attack on Titan:
“God, I hope Armin gets eaten first”
Everyone but Armin gets eaten in 2 minutes.“… Seriously”
Also, I’m feeling handsome today (new haircut) :3
His uselessness irritated me a fair bit, but the other characters made up for it by being pretty rad. Y’know…while they were alive.Ooh, wow, touched a nerve. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/09/eight-video-game-disguises-that-wont-fool-anyone/comment-page-1/#comment-2932218
What the shit…?
I have to say I loved @rocketman’s comment
AWWWW SNAP!
Hahahaha!
Uh, hi. I’m assuming you’re referring to my comment when you say you touched a nerve, but I’m not really angry in any way over your post.
I was just trying to give an explanation as to why people wouldn’t want to watch the video, because problems with gifs and other large files on this site are frequent due to Australian internet issues.
Incidentally, I’m sorry if I at all upset you with my prior posts. While I won’t change my viewpoints, I believe that the best way for anyone to express them is reasonably, and as such I’ll work to make my posts more reasonable in the future.
EDIT: Disregard the first two paragraphs of this post, I am an idiot and should have checked the time of the posts.
Yes.
He posted it here in response to your comment thirty minutes before you posted it.
Truly a cunning plan.
D’oh, forgot to check the timestamps. My mistake, sorry for being stupid.
Oi mate, you’re not stupid, settle down 🙂
It was an easy mistake to make.
I like how you attempted to bring up your point in a friendly way though, as opposed to being all defensive and aggressive of your particular stance 🙂
It’s good to see people try and engage in civil conversation for a change (there’s been a couple of people through here lately who have been a bit less civil in their approach).
Also, just ignore @blaghman’s jerkiness. He’s the resident jerk ’round these parts.
…I’m the suave one.
Thankyou.
As others have pointed out, it was to do with the downvote brigade, which was weird – probably the highest downvotes I’ve ever got here!
I was wondering what was going in outside of work today.
http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/crime-court/predawn-police-raids-on-the-southern-gold-coast-have-scooped-drugs-guns-ammo-and-cash/story-fnje8bkv-1227048596815
I just thought of a new tourism slogan for the Gold Coast.
“Never a dull moment.”
Currumbin is more exciting than I recall…
I didn’t even open my laptop today until 3:30. I got loads of stuff around the house done. These two things are of course not in any way related. 😛
“TAY is a bad influence.”
Said no one, anywhere, ever. *shifty eyes*
Hey I posted on TAY today and I managed to go to the gym and Bunnings then spend the last hour building a new toy out of cut off branches for my parrot that he’s currently cowering in the corner of his cage from because it’s something different…
NO ONE LIKES CHANGE!
Alright, twenty hours of convention stuff over the weekend coming up. Let’s do this!
Honestly sounds like fun, buddy. Enjoy!
I’m going to be so shattered by the end of it all but it should be pretty great. Thanks DC! 😀
We first met at a con. You seemed in your element there. 😀
I’ve just got 7 or 8 hours tomorrow but I’m kind of dreading it. People will want to interact with me! I may have to handle money and add things up! Eek!
I’m going to be there all day tomorrow and Sunday and I’m going to have to organise random people into playing RPGs. It’s going to be tougher than wrangling pigs but it should be pretty great.
I’ll have to try and get away and wander the floor to see you at some point. No promises unfortunately as it’s likely to be incredibly hectic.
I’m at a con tomorrow too. Nothing as cool as Oz Comic Con, but still pretty awesome.
What kind of con will you be at?
It’s called MAICON (Mini Anime Island Convention). There’s anime screenings, game competitions, cosplay competitions, and all sorts of other stuff. It’s only small scale, but usually pretty fun. I only have $20 though, so I won’t be spending much money. 🙁
Oh, that sounds like loads of fun! Having a limited amount of money at those kind of things can suck though. I usually look at absolutely everything, and then after that I’m too tired to go back and buy anything I saw.
Well, $15 of that will go to entry, so I’ll have $5 left (probably for lunch). At least there’s plenty of free stuff, and browsing doesn’t cost anything.
Has anyone managed to get MKV files running on their XBOX One yet? Preferably via Play To. Everywhere I search I only find people summing up what’s in the update, but I have the update and I haven’t actually been able to get my Windows 8.1 desktop to add Play To to the context menu for MKV files.
I tried Media Player Preview via USB but it kept giving me a vague error along the lines of ‘maybe the file is corrupted, or the format isn’t supported, or whatever maybe it just doesn’t work’.
Spotify vs Google Play Music
I’ve been migrating more and more stuff to Google over the last 18 months (almost ready to divorce my ISP email account after 12 years!!) as I’ve come to the conclusion that if I’m going to see ads and give up most of my online privacy I may aswell try keep it all in one place to make it a tiny bit easier to manage and monitor.
Which brings me to my current descision…
I currently use Spotify with a Premium subscription and have been subscribed for the last 2 years I guess. As a result I’m rather heavily invested with playlists/albums/downloaded content/app/ease of use etc.
I’m considering making the jump to Google Play Music with the All Access subscription but am having trouble objectively weighing up pro’s and con’s because right now there is a huge ‘con’ that I can’t seem to get my head around… I’m using Spotify and change is hard.
So, I ask of you residents, critics, wizards, free-thinkers, hobbyists of TAY… Should I change to Google for my music consumption or stay with Spotify? 3, 2, 1, Go!
I have never used Spotify due to it needing to link to facebook. I tried both Sony’s Music Unlimited and Google’s Play Music and ended up choosing Google. I love it and it’s like PlayStation+ in that I now can’t imagine ever not having it. It was the very first thing I got sorted on my new phone today. I just wish I could buy a yearly sub instead of only monthly.
So I vote for changing. Change is good for you!
Although if you’re invested in Spotify, why are you considering this change? You mentioned ads, do you still get ads in the Premium subscription for Spotify?
I’m the same with new devices and Spotify. It’s typically among the first apps I install.
No ads in Spotify Premium.
Considering the change to bring nearly all of my services onto Google. Use Gmail, multiple Calendars, Keep, YouTube, Now, Photos, Drive, Hangouts, Chrome and Sheets & Docs when I’m mobile. So barring specialised apps for SMS and social media the only thing I don’t use Google for that I could is music.
It makes sense in my head but like most humans change is hard, so I thought I’d canvas some people for opinions.
Okay my vote for change stands, then. Embrace the change! Wait, no…that sounds like menopause. 😛
Might stop @dc making jokes about you having babies…
Google Play Music allows you to upload your music library so you can access them on-the-fly – so there’s that.
I’ve started with Play Music.
I think I’ve only stumped it once, but the upload your own music thing is what tipped me in its favour.
Just payed off my Destiny pre-order, and payed for a copy of inFamous: First Light. Was really tempted to get a Jesse Pinkman Pop Vinyl while I was there to go with my Heisenberg one, it took some effort, but I restrained myself.
How much was destiny? JB only let me put $50 on my preorder because “They didn’t know the final price” which I’m guessing means they plan to undercut everyone else but only by a dollar or so once they see the competition’s prices
I got the Limited Edition for $129.95.
Ahh okay, that’s one they’d probably keep at a static price, I’m just getting the normal edition which is apparently still somehow special
I’ve got Little Sister stuck in my head.
Maybe some dental floss?
Call for a big daddy?
Look, man, whatever you get up to in your own time is usually your business, but I’m a little concerned…
You meanthis?
Nope.
I mean this.
NEEDS MOAR COWBELL!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3307726/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1830713/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2151543/
Jeez….
Wait, Edward Furlong is in this one?
Your link makes me ponder, when has there ever been a time when a rapper has been apart of a good movie?
The Fighter (does Mark Wahlberg count?). Also 8 Mile was okay and I have a soft spot for Friday.
I’m more concerned about all the links to The Terminator these movies have.
Yessss, Friday’s a freakin’ classic man, hard to believe that came out almost 20 years ago.
There’s been rumours going around for ages about them doing a fourth one with Chris Tucker back in it, but I don’t know if it’ll ever happen.
NegativeZero’s Kantai Collection Update that Apparently Some People Care About After All
The last week has been a bit of a blur. Spent a few days earlier in the week clearing out 1-5 to get a medal, and then I need to do 2-5 as well, but the issue with 2-5 is I’m now in a higher difficulty bracket and I’m not sure if I can clear it any more. Additionally I’ve finally started running the Tokyo Express expeditions as they offer fantastic resource gains, but they require a level 60+ flagship, multiple destroyers, a cruiser and a combined level of at least 200 between the fleet, and because I lack spare light cruisers at those levels I’ve had to commit the two destroyers I need for 2-5, Yuudachi and Shigure.So I’m thinking I need to get cracking on getting Sendai and Jintsuu up to 60 and their second remodels at some point soon. While I had resolved to stop leveling up Naka since she doesn’t really give me a lot, I’m only 5 levels away from her Kai-2 remodel so I will probably continue through to the end with that and then drop her out of my rotation for one of her sisters.
Speaking of sisters, yesterday I finally achieved something that has been months in the making: got the third of my four Kongou sisters, Haruna, to her Kai-2 at level 80. Haruna was the last of the Kongou-class to get her 2nd remodel in the game, coming in only at the start of August along with the beginning of the event. She’s actually my favourite of the four of them, so when I saw she got the remodel treatment I started leveling her up seriously again. When I left the game a while back she was down at 68. Earlier on she’d been my main battleship alongside Kongou, but when Hiei got a remodel I leveled her up instead, and then Kongou got her remodel and I was also working on Yamato so Haruna fell by the wayside. She has the highest Kai-2 level requirement in the game right now, her sister ships are in the mid-70s and the only one to come close is Soryuu at 78.
Historical side-note: Haruna was actually the first of the Kongou-class to be modernized. For some reason in the game they gave her special 36.6cm guns (which by the way are shitty, she can use up to 46cm!) with Dazzle camoflage, and that’s reflected in her updated art. Zebra turrets. It’s a bit weird really, Dazzle wasn’t used in WW2 a lot because gunnery systems didn’t rely as heavily on human visuals any more and it actually makes the ship easier to see from the air.
I’ve also gotten within a stone’s throw of having Tone to her Kai-2 remodel level of 60, but I’m still really hesitant whether to go through with the upgrade. Her improved art is great, but it requires sacrificing a blueprint and the earliest I can get another one if I can get through 2-5 is some time in October, so my worry is that if I get my current White Whale, Taigei, then I won’t have a blueprint to turn her into the cutest light carrier. 🙁 But I’ll probably use it up. I’m wishing I had leveled Chikuma instead of Tone though, as Chikuma’s voice lines are less grating (Tone uses archaic pronouns and sounds like an 18th century aristocrat) and her Kai-2 art is just as good.
So anyway, with Haruna Kai-2 out of the way, my PVP fleet is changing a bit. I’ve got an open battleship slot and I briefly considered bringing in Kirishima to get her on her way to Kai-2 as well, but she’s down int eh mid-50s and so that’s a pretty long term project. Alternatively, I have Nagato down at level 14, and Nagato has a nice calming voice so I’m kind of tempted to use her. And I can also use Yamato or Mutsu if I wish.
Meanwhile my next big focus is on Soryuu. She’s currently around 65, needs to get to 78. I’m hoping to get her there over the next few weeks primarily via having her as flagship in PVP exercises, but we’ll see. There’s a fairly good way to grind carriers but it’s not resource friendly.
On the way, I’m most likely going to also get Haguro to 60 – currently at 54 – and once that happens I can start working on Myoukou as well, same deal. Apparently I should also be spending some time with Nachi, who doesn’t have a Kai-2 yet (though the artist did tease it, along with remodels for Shouhou – my first carrier in the game that I still think is pretty nice – and Ashigara) but there’s a monthly quest you can go on that requires taking Myoukou, Haguro and Nachi through 2-5. Might be worth it!
Ok. Today is not my day. Actually, this whole week in general.
At the station, once again a slow person is trudging up the middle of the stairs alongside the other slow people and blocking everyone else from going up, and of course they’re doing it when my train’s there. Before long I’m just going to snap and be yelling “MOVE” at them until they get out of the way. Managed to sprint onto the train as the doors were about to close, and it also turned out to be the same door another guy was going for. Almost ran into each other, I had to jump over his wheelie bag. Both had a good laugh. Then I went to move through the train but managed to go and trip up the stairs – of course on a carriage with fixed seats, so half the passengers staring right at me. Smooth 😛 In doing so I smashed my shin though, still hurts.
And just now I realised that I misspelt “shield” this morning, breaking the link I posted. Jumped onto Photobucket to try and change it… and the layout’s changed again. I can’t seem to find the rename option. Jump on the support pages, I can’t seem to find anything about it there. I can’t even find an option to contact someone about it. Absolutely seething at them now, and the inability to unleash with a barrage of expletives is just making it even worse.
NO SWEAR SEPTEMBER IS BLANKING IMPOSSIBLE AND I WANT TO DESTROY SOMETHING
Oh and on top of that, I jumped on Skype just now and it looks like band girl is finally online. PERFECT.
*throws computer in bin*
Wait wait wait.
This week is not your week cause:
A) You fell over
B) You linked to a website incorrectly, and
C) A girl is on Skype
…
Okay then…
These problems, are, ummm…
They’re, ummm… not… that… bad…
🙂
Actually B is that I couldn’t spell shield. And B2 is that a site that I pretty much rely on is continuing to find new and imaginative ways to piss me off.
And that’s all just today’s suckage, the rest of the week has had its own points of terrible.
Hahaha, I’m sure it’s worse than it comes across as when written.
I get that lots of little annoying things happening all at once can be quite infuriating XP
Well, hopefully the weekend treats you better at any rate 🙂
You should go hangout with band girl 😉
YAY MELBOURNE! <3
It’s good to be back home :D. It was a really nice day today in Melbourne too (except for the morning chillies). Went to a driving range for the first time and I’m rather terrible :P. Better than a normal work lunch break I guess!
At least Perth had pretty consistently warmish weather when I was up there, but I hear it gets hoooooot in summer so …nothanks! There were a lot of black cockatoos where I was working over there. Never seen em’ in person before 😮
We pretty much went out for food every night (FREE FOOD) so I didn’t really get a chance to hang out with y’all again. I’ll list some of the restaurants I remember going to and maybe they’ll ring a bell and we can discuss it and I can pretend I know Perth 😛 Tony Romas, Lapas, Little Creatures, Royal India, Crust Pizza.
GAMES!
I forced myself to finish The Wonderful 101 the night before I flew out but it now gave me time to play other games :D. Started The Last of Us Remastered in the evening but I feel like I should’ve jumped straight into Left Behind since I’ve already finished TLoU on PS3 (but not the DLC) :P… oops. Xillia 2 soon as well but I doubt I’d finish both before Hyrule Warriors, Theatrhythm and FIFA 15 at the end of September. At least those are kind of “don’t need to pay attention and can just derp around” kind of games 🙂
You know what will be good for your constant plane trips?
Portable Xenoblade! Portablade!
Might get pulled up by security trying to take one of those on the plane.
I’ve heard of Lapas, Little Creatures, Royal India and Crust.
Never been to any of them though 😛
How can you have never seen a black cokatoo before by the way? Aren’t they everywhere?
Oh, and this is still considered cold weather 😛
Summer is. Well, every time I see you eastern states guys complain about the heat, I envy you.
Sorry I missed the chance to hang out with you again 🙁
I was actually really looking forward to it :'(
MINECRAFT PEOPLE!
who has a cobblestone hut and has been digging down out behind it? I followed an underground cave connected to my island and I ended up outside it so wondering whos it is.
Cc @zetrox2k @steve-o_the_deve-o @Powalen @SerNobulus @beavwa @zapz @rize @pixel_the_ferret_viking @gorzilla @kermitron @blaghman @batto
Not me, I’m holding out near Nob. I found an End portal or something, I dragged Nob along! I’m just making stuff in minecraft =D
You must show me! Ive gone underground I need an expedition party to explore the crevice ive found
I really need to jump back into this, but sooooo muuuuch stuff to play and not enough time!!!!
I play and watch tv at the same time..its a good thing
Tempting!
Just do it you know you wanna
I need to make some armor then
I can make you iron armour…ive got something like 80+ iron ingot
I have some iron, but I pretty much give everything I find to Nob. I’m just making stuff, really
Well you and Nob need to come to my island and help me figure out this damn cave
Co-ordinates?
I tried it on 360 once and didn’t get past the tutorial. Just bought it on PS4, gonna give it a real chance this time.
I’d never be caught dead building with cobblestone!
Ive seen your wooden houses, nearly got it destroyed by a creeper
cobblestone is only there to rough out where ill be building 🙂
to clarify why i need to outline it, i was trying to work out how much of the mountain i need to level off… already leveled a third of it…
Sounds kinda like part of my stuff but I have signs everywhere so you’d know.
I don’t think I saw any signs but it was a small building probably 3-4 blocks high
thats my mine entrance with the 2 torches in front…
I dug a hole in a wall and cobblestoned it up. Has a bench and furnace out front and isn’t too far from spawn?
Likely to be mine but I’m going to move somewhere else this morning and get a little further away from spawn.
Nah not it it is literally in a fieldish area and one section of the wall is made of dirt
Notta me.
thats me coldcam! ive explored a fair bit underground in that region too. found a few emeralds and very few diamonds…. 🙂
im terraforming the land to build something on top…it is taking FOREVER trying to level down those mountains….
7 days of work left, then i get a weekend \o/
All the alcohol shall be consumed
Hells yeah!
MQFT, and it’s super important too!
R or C?!?!?!
R OR C?!?!?!
C for Cam hooray \o/
Winner!
It was either Pork Ribs or Chicken 🙂
Dinner time!!! 😀
Chickens always good
R
Ugh, can’t stop coughing… 🙁
Well tonight’s been a lark. Friend invited me over to watch the football. I get there and he wants to go to a bar to watch it. But he wants me to pick up a friend so I’ll have to drive his car since he’s already had a bit. As soon as we get to this super crowded bar he meets up with some people and they all disappear so I’ve been sitting alone for about two hours unable to even have a drink.
Yay?
What a tosser.
That’s gotta suck.
That sucks should just go do some doughies in the car park. Not your tyres 😛
It’s a Mazda RX-8 so it would probably be a bit of fun….
Sell it for beer money?
Maybe try and find them?
That’s a dick thing to do to you though.
I’d probably just leave if I was you, to be honest. Pick him up later or even just tell him to catch a taxi.
Or, is there anyone you can invite out to hang with you, or nah?
Nice :\
Off to bed.
Night, all.
I seem to have survived conversing with the band girl. Took a while to get going, and was a little stop start, but luckily it was mostly her asking questions which is probably the least difficult kind of conversation for me to navigate.
Seems alright so far, she types like a reasonable human being for the most part 😛 There’s a vague sense of youth there, but not intolerably so. Maybe this could go ok after all.
OoooOOoooOOOo
…why do people keep doing that.
*Walks in holding a bucket of popcorn*
Doing what?
>.>
That’s our Gooky is filmed in front of a live studio audience
*grabs popcorn*
Oh wait, I hate popcorn.
*gives popcorn to Powalen*
*grabs cashews*
Holy shit guys. Two episodes of the Cox n Crendor In the Morning Podcast in two days. Yaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy
It was glorious. Thanks for asking.
Not Really A Mystery Question Fun Time!
CnCInTheM
SP9:TDotL
I can’t chooooose.
Umm, that, first, one…
I guess…
Cox n Crendor in The Morning Podcast it is then!
I finally finished THE WOLF AMONG US.
Share your choices!
Here are mine:
CHAPTER ONE
– Gave Faith money.– Tried to stay out of Beauty and Beast’s thing
– I went to help Toad before the Prince
– I did not prevent the Prince’s death
– I decided not to guess about suspects to Snow
– I grabbed Tweedle Dee rather than the Woodsman
CHAPTER TWO
– I ignored Crane when he was talking about Snow’s death– I persuaded Tweedle Dee to talk. Used no violence.
– I let Snow make her own decisions about coming or staying. I figured she’d be safer with Bigby than with Crane, anyhow.
– I didn’t hit Georgie, and I only smashed up one part of the club, the bit hiding the trapdoor. It was suspicious when he said “That doesn’t concern you!”
– I didn’t hit Beast a second time.
CHAPTER THREE
– I let Snow finish her eulogy.– I went to the Trip Trap bar first.
– I offered Flycatcher a job, provided Snow okayed it.
– I burned the tree.
– I spared Tweedle Dum.
CHAPTER FOUR
– I didn’t give Colin an answer about The Farm.– I didn’t try to remove Nerissa’s ribbon. She still freaked out.
– I went to the Cut Above butcher first, rather than the pawn shop.
– I tried to take Toad’s side about not going to The Farm.
– When faced with a roomful of cronies, Bigby lit a cigarette. Because what else?
CHAPTER FIVE
– I left Georgie to die. It was more a ‘don’t let Bigby become a murderer’ decision than a ‘let the bastard suffer’ decision.– I brought the Crooked Man back for a trial. I’d be real interested to see how the rest of the chapter plays out with a different decision there.
– I opted to imprison the guy. Like how that turned out!
– I accepted TJ’s gift for Snow.
– Last words to Nerissa were: “…”
– Didn’t chase after her. Mainly because I hit the wrong button.
Solid game. I enjoyed it a lot. Loading times were appalling, though.
I don’t think I got into it as much as The Walking Dead, but I appreciated it for what it was. The choices were definitely more grey-area than most of those in TWD, and that took some adjusting to.
First four chapters were identical with the exception I was a bit more free with punching people. Chapter Five I killed Georgie (Bigby is a murderer under the surface I felt. Started reading the comics and my theory was confirmed) and went to execute Crooked Man. Chased after Nerissa.Intriguing! I’ve actually got the first TPB of the comics here. Guess I should read it, huh? 😛
Ending stuff:
What were your analyses of the ending? Generally there’s two camps, that is that Faith was dead before the game even started and Nerissa pretended to be her when you first met (I’m on this side of the fence), or that Faith pretends to be Nerissa for the game (which is based on Faith’s Fable being about disguises, and the fact that Swineheart want to do more testing on “Faith”‘s head, but it requires far more logical leaps).Console version?
Indeed. Actually, TWD Season Two was really bad for this as well.
Telltale…! *shakes fist*
Yeah, they gave away ep1 of Wolf on 360 and while I enjoyed it, my main takeway from playing it was that I’ll never buy a telltale game on console. Every time an action scene was happening I kept thinking “Well, at least I’m going to have plenty of time to think through my decisions”
Telltale feel like a dev along the lines of Bohemia Interactive, a team who simply need to hire a few new better programmers and go back to the design phase to rebuild their engine from the ground up using the same core philosophy which is perfectly brilliant but using all the lessons learned from why it’s not working as well as it should.
@trjn @freya
I’m thinking of trying to expand my taste in tea beyond what I can get at the supermarket. (I go with English breakfast or honey vanilla camomile)
What ones did you guys recommend from T2? I remember Stockholm blend was nice but I was thinking of trying a couple of different ones.
Stockholm Blend is from Tea Centre if you’re looking for it.
What else did you like out of the teas we got you to try? If you’re going down the T2 path, there’s a lot of range. Honey vanilla camomile is really muted sweet flavours. I’d recommend something like French Earl Grey for the sweet flavours. Otherwise I highly recommend Darjeeling, the chocolate one and the fruit senchas.
Not T2 related, just general tea flavours:
If you’re willing to dabble in asian tea, Ti Kuan Yin is nice and earthy, great for drinking on cold winter nights.
Agree with the Earl Grey suggestion; it’s common enough to be everywhere, but you can get some nice takes on it. Some more plain, some fruity.
There’s something to be said about a good refreshing peppermint tea too.
@popdart5 How far are you in Skulduggery Pleasant: The Last Stand of Dead Men? Curious to see your thoughts.
Still very early in, chapter 7 specifically. I read sporadically so I probably won’t be finishing the book for at least a month or so. Don’t bother waiting for me to finish.
I’m liking what I’ve been reading although the Scapegrace joke is starting to wear a bit thin.
ISAAC REBIRTH NOVEMBER 5TH YESSSSSSS
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I really need a Wiimote charger…
🙁
Always so down and frowny.
Turn that frown upside down!
🙁
Wait…. Turn it back to front!
):
….. Shit.
Turn that colon open bracket into a colon close bracket?
A closed colon doesn’t sound good…
Laxatives would probably help fix that. In dangerously large quantities. #unqualified!
I’m feeling sick, too. 🙁
Feel less sick, problem solved!
See, @Freya isn’t the only medic around here, I’ll do everything cheaper because I’m dangerously unqualified!
I recently bought this:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/250989539742
Haven’t tried it yet, but it’s cheap and compact!
Destiny-wanters who are thinking about waiting till they get a PS4 or XB1 before they get the game may well be cheered up to know that they can get a free upgrade to the next gen version if they buy a digital copy of the current gen one. Valid until the middle of January, presumably to cater for people getting consoles during the end of year competitive gifting festival.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-14261-Bungie-Offering-Free-Destiny-Upgrades-from-PS3-to-PS4.html
It’s a same-manufacturer-to-same-manufacturer thing so not as good if you have a 360 and plan to get a PS4 and not as good if you don’t want to download a digital copy but it’s a free upgrade so you can’t complain too much you picky bastards and your saves transfer which is also pretty awesome. Are last gen digitals cheaper on average? Probably wouldn’t be cheaper than buying the standard edition from a shop having a price war with another shop but it’s possible that stuff like the special editions might end up being a tiny bit cheaper going PS3 digital to PS4 free upgrade.
@redartifice might be interested to know that?
Maybe?
Cheers
I checked it out, apparently the DLC carries over, so I’ll stick with my physical one but switch the DLC and grab a standard edition if I upgrade before Jan.
Excellent news! Myself, I have cancelled physical preorder and switched to the digital.
This is mostly so that I can succeed in my challenge to myself to not wear pants for the entirety of next week.
Pantsless week ftw! You on holiday next week?
Yup. S’gonna be goood. 🙂
Do you have to be on holiday to not wear pants nowdays? I’m so behind the times…
well not wearing pants at work is generally considered a no-no.
Depending what kind of job you do, if you were working in the sex industry I imagine it would be considered a distinct positive.
hence my use of the term generally 🙂
And even then, the reveal is still important. You don’t start watching Breaking Bad knowing that [SPOILERS REDACTED].
Oh great, now I know that someone redacts spoilers the show is ruined! Thanks!
So it actually is cheaper to go digital or is that sarcasm?
Relatedly, I’m not sure when AU copies unlock, but it seems that US copies unlock 5pm on Tuesday and preloading is available from the 8th so only 24 hours beforehand 🙁
I’ve been told that bungie have said you can play whenever it’s the 9th wherever you live but I’ve not seen a 1st hand source on that
Yeah that was what they’ve said, but that’s for physical copies. I’ve got a digital copy from Sony, so that’ll unlock when Sony lets me in.
And the timer it has on the game on my PS4 expires 5pm Tuesday. Note I have a US copy.
I thought I was almost done with Risen 3. I had 1 quest left in my list! Then BAM! Chapter 4, and a whole new island! It’s the game that keeps on giving!
ANIME! I just started watching Terror in Resonance (‘Zankyou no Terror’). If you’ve seen Death Note, the echoes of the cops vs criminal mind-games contest might be familiar, but this is handled much more realistically. Six eps in and I’m a big fan.
Bonus: They had an english-speaking part for a ‘foreign agent’, and my word, it sounds like they used an Australian voice-actor! Amazement!
Oh yeah, it echoes Death Note, in more ways than one. It’s good stuff.
Taking Dad for a chopper flight tomorrow for father’s day.
CrazyNiceGuy1990
I might not be able to to do it exactly tomorrow, but I will arrange one for him.
Man, I hate it when mum does this :l On the one day I’d made plans to myself to spend the day in town, I get a text from mum at like 10:30 saying she’ll be in Hobart in a few hours and whether I was busy or not. Thinking of how badly that would go down if I said I couldn’t see her I said I was free and stayed home.
It’s now past 3. She still hasn’t showed up, and I would have been home by now had I gone out anyway :l What a waste of a day.
Sympathy upvote. I hate when people do that.
2 hours later she’s finally in Hobart on her way here… Could have slept all day
I pretty much did do that. I don’t recommend it 😛
Feeling pretty bleh now.
Fitness-y people! (or even just people in the fitness know).
(I think @highperformance has mentioned he’s a gym guy.)
I don’t know much about fitness, to be honest, like working out and stuff, and want to reevaluate my workout routine so that it’s as good as it can be.
Ok, so I want to work out everywhere (from my shoulders to my calves), so basically an all over workout, so currently do at the gym each day (aiming for 5 days a week):
– Arms
– Legs
– Arms
– Abs
– Legs
– (repeat ^^)
– Abs
– Arms
– Bunz / cardio
I hear people mention leg / arm day though.
Should I be focusing on a particular body part each day, i.e:
– Leg day
– Arm day
– Leg day
– Arm day
– All over day
Or is my current approach alright?
Also, opinions on Whey Powder.
Yay, nay, recommendations?
Any input would be great! 😀
Particular days are better simply because of variety and that it gives the rest of your body a partial rest.
… in my opinion. It depends on how much you vary your regular day and the intensity, of course.
Whey Powder is great for bulking up. Getting into the habit of drinking/making protein shakes is a bit of a pain, as well as finding a brand you like, but it pays off.
But it’s been a while since I’ve taken working out seriously so yeah.
Hmm, okay, so my current routine (in detail) is:
– 85kg Chest Press (10 reps per set, 5 sets)
– 105kg Leg Curl (10 reps per set, 5 sets)
– Pull-ups (5 reps per set, 5 sets)
– Bent Leg Raise (5 reps person set, 5 sets)
– 135kg Seated Leg Press (10 reps per set, 5 sets)
– (repeat ^^)
– 100 Sit-ups (holding 10kg ball)
– 50 Push-ups
– approx 10 minutes on ski machine.
If I was to alternate days, I’d make leg day (same amounts (weight, reps, sets)):
– Leg Curl
– Seated Leg Press
– (repeat ^^ 3 more times)
– Sit-ups
– Push-ups
– Ski Machine
And arm day:
– Chest Press
– Pull-ups
– Bent Leg Raise
– (repeat ^^ 3 more times)
– Sit-ups
– Push-ups
– Ski Machine
I’m more just curious about whether or not alternating leg / arm days is more beneficial, or if it doesn’t matter that much.
And I’m in the habit of taking Whey Powder, just wondering whether it was worth taking or not was all 🙂
Seated leg press or 45 degree incline? You’re strong enough that you’re probably not getting a huge amount out of doing leg curls and a flat seated leg press. Do you know how to do a squat properly? Squats are a whole-leg exercise (and glutes as well) and a fair bit of core too, so if you can do them they’re pretty good.
You’re also not doing much back work and you really should. If you focus on upper arm and chest too much it’ll give you a hunched over gorilla look. I see tons of guys at the gym that don’t do enough back work and look kind of silly as a result. Plus having back strength helps in doing other exercises. Consider adding some lat pulldown, bent-over rows or one-arm rows, or chin-ups.
You could also consider adding some shoulder exercises to your routine. Lateral flyes or shoulder press (or both) are pretty good. Just remember you don’t need to use a lot of weight on shoulders doing isolation exercises, they’re a small muscle and will tire fast.
There’s two general types of protein shake powder. One is for bulking up (and usually called bulk or whatever) and it’s got lots of carbs and stuff, really designed to be a meal supplement. The other is whey protein isolate, and that’s more intended for recovery, want to consume it within half an hour or so of working out to give your body the protein it needs to re-build damaged muscle fibres. Make sure you get a good brand of the stuff too, not some crap supermarket stuff. Health food stores are a good spot to get some.
The machines description said Seated Leg Press.
I think there is a 45 degree incline too (where you push the weights up, rather than push yourself up), but I don’t use that one.
I can do squats alright, but I have a, condition, with my right heel that prevents me from stretching it too much.
I can only do a few squats at a time.
I can’t really do lunges very well.
Pretty much anything that stretches my Achilles tendon too much I stay away from :3
The Seated Leg Press feels like it’s doing what it should though 🙂
As for the arms, I used to do the Lat Pulldown, but thought that Pull-ups were more beneficial, so switched.
I’ll reincorporate Lat Pulldowns into Arm day, as well as maybe Pectoral Fly (or even just free weights) 🙂
Thanks for the tips! 🙂
Re: The habit. What I always heard is that the type of protein shake isn’t as important as whether you think it tastes good enough for you to want to consume it, so that you actually will instead of copping out.
Whey Powder tastes great! 😀
I find Pre and Post workout supplements taste fine.
It’s the during workout supplements that taste horrible :'(
Maybe try fruit-flavoured vitamin water? You won’t really be absorbing much DURING your workout except for restoring fluids. I’ve never heard of anyone recommending much in the way of supplements during workouts. Water’s pretty damn fantastic.
As much as I dislike the casual use of Gatorade and the like, it’s actually good stuff to use for simple hydration. I see a lot of people nowadays using shakes and such during workouts, but I’m not sure if it’s that effective or not. *shrugs*
Yeah, it might just be sugar-water, but sometimes that’s exactly what you need. Sugar isn’t evil if you need it, it’s just so we rarely ever need it. Gatorade and such was basically all I consumed on the hospital’s orders for like… two weeks after I’d come out of hospital for gastro-enteritis.
You don’t need Gatorade unless you’re sweating like crazy doing a really extended high-intensity workout. Like, constantly running or something, playing a full game of soccer for example. Water is better, or water with some salts in it for magnesium and sodium. Gatorade is full of sugar and you shouldn’t need it for a normal gym session.
Not what I want to hear when I literally just bought a $65 tub of awful tasting, during-workout powder…
:'(
Well… uh. There’s probably some super-science high-powered reason to use it, I’m sure. Pretty sure it’s just fine-tuning, though.
Yeah, only thing I ever drank during really long training sessions was Nuun – it was a sugar-free electrolyte with magnesium. Kept cramps under control, great flavour, and no sugar overload.
I’m no physio or sports scientist, but with having a somewhat inquisitive mind and after asking personal trainers similar questions (bearing in mind that THEY are not all sports scientists either), my understanding is:
The reasons for splitting up muscle groups: Your body needs downtime to repair, for maximum efficiency. You still gain while working out, but recovery yields better results. Eg: Two days workout and two days rest in an on/off/on/off pattern will result in bigger gains than four days workout. If you want to ‘trick’ your body into thinking you’re not working out on those off-days, while still actually getting into the gym every day, you split up exercises which target the different muscle groups. So, legs day means your arms are (mostly) getting a rest that day and will bounce back bigger. It’s not true rest, because even just doing nothing at all can be better, but some people love the work-out endorphins or the reliability of routine so much that they don’t want a break if they can avoid it.
Also: Legs day sucks. It sucks hard. Not JUST because some dudes want to look like an inverted pyramid, but because working those really huge muscle groups in the legs (so much bigger than arms) pulls a lot of blood into them, which leaves you feeling more drained and light-headed than you otherwise would. It’s the perfect excuse to spend 4 days on arms/chest/back and 1 day on legs. “It’s not legs day.”
Bonus round: Rapid growth and expansion is not something the body likes to do for a sustained period, and any routine you set will yield diminishing returns over time if you don’t vary your routine. This can be as simple as switching up which muscle groups you’re targeting, or HOW you target them – such as super-sets.
WHEY: When it comes to protein shakes, the general rule is go whey or go home. I don’t know the science behind it, just something about how it’s absorbed. There’s a lot of different powders on the market which vary in composition to match different goals, but the differences between them are so specific and minute that they only really matter to professionals who are competing. To the average joe, it’s just ‘some is better than none’. They’re a convenient way to get a very high protein percentage into your diet without eating 2-3 BBQ chickens after every workout.
Theese ees my understanding.
Hmm, thank makes sense. I’ve been doing my current routine for a while now, and haven’t noticed much difference lately in results as opposed to the first few weeks after I started, hence why I though alternating days might be good…
Sounds like I should give it a go, at least for a week.
I want to go 5 days a week, (Mon-Fri), so do you reckon 3 arm days and 2 leg days should work well?
3 arm/2 leg sounds fine, and it sounds as if you’ve got some good core exercises in your routine, so it’s quite balanced. If you do go specific days perhaps consider a tad more variety instead of repeating what you have planned 3 times over; squats for legs, for instance, or bicep curls for arms. To paraphrase Transient, workouts inevitably gotta change over time.
… I think.
From what I’ve heard, it’s a pretty common way to do things and most of the variety comes from changing to super-sets, conditioning training, max-til-failure, etc. The longest you really want to be doing any one type of routine is 6-8 weeks. Break days are pretty important, so if you can take a day off mid-week and work out on a weekend or something so the five aren’t in one long string, that’s probably even better? That one I’m less confident about, you might wanna do some research. Two days break together could have restorative benefits, but everything I’ve seen on that front is more about only doing heavy resistance training 2-3 days of a week. Set-to-fail type stuff.
Apparently the same goes for diet. If you’ve been ‘good’, apparently your body will adapt to that and start allocating greater percentages of your input to fat reserves, just in case, because it thinks there’s going to be a scarcity. You give it a weekly cheat-food blast to remind it that scarcity is NOT going to be a problem, so it doesn’t need to fill the metaphorical basement with canned food for the apocalypse.
I can’t do weekends unfortunately, but I’m already used to going Monday – Friday, so it’s not a big deal for me 🙂
If I think I need a rest day after my trial week I’ll take Wednesday off to break it up 🙂
Thanks for the advice! 😀
This is true. It’s why training toward a goal like a race is a good way to focus training. You build up for the event, taper for a peak, and then have a recovery period and start over. I am currently training for another 10k race. Hoping to knock about 5 minutes off my finish time.
Man. I fucking hate upper body sessions. Hate hate hate. Vastly prefer legs days! I’ve got far more strength and stamina in my legs than my arms, my upper body just makes me feel weak.
Lat pull-downs! I love them 🙂
I’m pretty good with back exercises according to my trainer. Rows and stuff especially. It’s chest and upper arms that I suck with.
Don’t really like lat pull-down because I set the weight such that I hit my failure point on the last 2-3 on the final set and that always feels bad.
These are great questions to ask the trainers at the gym – it’s their job to set people up with a program. Even if you just sit down with one for a single session, they can help you define what your goals are (actual goals like reps and distances, not just aesthetic ones), and how to go about them. They can also show you how to mix up your exercises. Trying whole bodyweight exercises like burpees, getups and mountain climbers can be more effective than sitting on a machine doing reps, because they activate a wider range of muscles, and work your cardio at the same time.
Even things like adding a yoga or pilates class to your routine can make a massive difference to your balance and flexibility, which are essential for strength. And rather than just running on a treadmill for your cardio, you can do things like a HIIT program which can be much more effective at building speed and endurance.
Protein powder isn’t going to do anything magical unless you’re tracking your calories and macronutrients throughout the day (try http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/) . Get onto MyFitnessPal, log your food, and see how much protein, carb and fat you are eating through the day. Then you can start to evaluate if you need extra protein and how you’re going to eat it.
I don’t have any extra free time for any particular lessons (I can only just squeeze the gym in, after all), and was trying to avoid paying a trainer to help me if I could get help for free (which seems to have worked out alright! :D).
I avoid doing whole body exercises in public, to be honest, because my lankyness makes it super awkward.
So many limbs going everywhere! D:
It’s not a pretty sight :\
I’m not fussed about getting big bulging muscles or anything, more just want to be kinda toned 🙂
Except pecs.
I want me some sweet sweet pecs ;D
sometimes i jog and i am not dead yet so i guess i consider that a win
#fitness
Me too! I also consider it a win if I manage to find running pants that stay up.
So I just had a reply fail and somehow managed to lose all of the advice I wanted to post lol.
You come to the right man, my masters is in Exercise Physiology (Exercise Prescription) so I like to think my 10 grand uni fee has enlightened me with some level of knowledge 😛
OK. so spoilered so that I don’t clog up this page:
In all I think everyones advice on here is pretty awesome, @transientmind and @negativezero advice on splitting your workouts up and working on your back respectively are pretty impressive! You definitely need to let your muscles recover from a workout to enable to them to adapt to a stimulus (this is done when you sleep) and keeping your posture optimized by not turning into a hunched over monkey by doing too much pec exercises!I think what needs to be established first though is what are you trying to achieve with your workouts; are you trying to develop muscular size, improve muscular tone, improve absolute power, improve strength, etc. You mentioned getting some sweet, sweet pecs which I will suggest some ways to do this below.I wouldn’t necessarily split up your days into legs and arms day, the reason for this is your arms only typically need 1-2 isolation exercises as your arms typically are a synergist or accessory muscle in other exercises so they are getting used. I think splitting up exercises is a good way to do it; chest & tri’s, back & bi’s and legs (and a couple of deltoid & trapezius exercises) is a good way to make sure you get an even spread of all of your muscles. The reason for this is so that you keep your body in a good postural alignment and don’t become too chest/biceps dominant.
f your goals are around developing muscular size (hypertrophy) all over, this is what a chest day could look like (I would suggest working out roughly what you can lift up once, and then not be able to lift up again. This is a 1 rep maximum aka 1RM, you should aim to lift something about 65-70% so that you can lift it up around 8-12 times in a normal set)Bench Press 4 x 10 x 65-70% 1RM
Cable Chest Fly’s 4 x 10 x 65-70% 1RM
Weighted Push Ups (Put a 10kg plate on your back) 4 x 12 x 10kg plate
DB Flys 4 x 10 x 65-70% 1RM
Tricep Pulldowns at Machine 3 x 10 x 65-70% 1RM
Tricep Kickbacks 3 x 10 x 65-70% 1RM
Prone Hold 2 x ?1min
Tea Pots Side Crunches 3 x 10 x 15kg
Have about 40secs-1min rests so that in the last part of the set you are shaking in your muscles in the last couple of reps. My last little bit of advice about your exercise program is have Leg Press at the beginning of EVERY workout. A recent Rhodes Island University study found that doing leg press at the beginning of a workout secretes greater testosterone than if you didn’t use it. Testosterone is conducive to muscle gain, so I would suggest adding it to get more sweet pecs!
In terms of your protein powders I’m not necessarily an advocate for them, my philosophy is that you get enough protein eating your meals throughout the day. There are a number of studies coming out that if you eat BEFORE your workout (30-50 mins before exercise) you uptake greater amounts of protein than if you ate 30 minutes AFTER exercise (which was the commonly held belief that it was the best time to eat after exercising). I would suggest eating something high in protein and a moderate amount of carbs so that your body is able to synthesise the protein better,Otherwise congratulations to @cookingmama, @saturday & @bish for some quality advice as well! It warms me to see that there is some good understanding about exercise out there when there is a LOT of misinformation out there.
Upvote for genuine quality knowledge.
Though I kinda feel like downvoting you because I’m not sure a comparison to bish’s advice there was a compliment.
Haha I liked his addition, going for a run and not dying isn’t not the truth :p I didn’t want anyone feeling left out lol.
Thanks @highperformance! I learned at lot of what I know from dragonboat training in my pre-mummy life. Best season was 2008-2009. Went to the World Club Champs (we made the finals), and then the club took home all the premier category gold medals (Open, Women and Mixed, over 200m, 500m and 2k) at the Nationals in 2009. You don’t get results like that from a big team unless your training program is spot on. Our coach was one of the best!
That’s unreal, nice effort! You’re not a Ballarat TAYbie are you? I went dragon boat racing in Lake Wendouree a few months ago, 500m… I have a lot of respect for your efforts doing 200m, let alone 2km lol
Nah, I’m from Sydney – my club is the Pacific Dragons and they train with the other Sydney clubs in the harbour. Did you like paddling a dragonboat? – it’s a very unique team sport. Racing is just the best.
I really liked it, you get the big team aspect like in the 8’s for rowing but your rowing action is similar to being in a canoe. It gets the best parts in one sport! Pretty tough on your core I reckon!
Core and legs. A lot of the power comes from leg drive (exactly like rowing, your legs push the boat past the paddle). And paddlers get to see where they are going – a big plus over rowing 😉
Haha core and legs, that’s probably why our boat came last 😛
Speaking of which, the PD ladies are in the 500m final at this year’s World Club Champs in Italy tonight. 😀
http://www.idbf.org/live.php
…I miss paddling.
Thanks for the (thorough) advice! 🙂
I’m mainly looking for an all over tone, so slightly more defined muscles all over (not gross and bulky though), but kinda want to get bigger pecs and, umm, a perky booty ;D
(hence the all over approach to exercising)
I’m gonna give the arms / legs focus approach a go for around 2-3 weeks, mainly cause I have been doing my current routine for a while now.
I’ll definitely incorporate back exercises (probably Lat Pulldowns) into my routine, as well as start with some leg presses (to get the testosterone pumping ;D).
Also, what would be better for getting a booty: Ski Machine or Jogging / Walking?
Probably the stair climber actually, or better yet, running up actual stairs or a steep hill.
The stair master isn’t referred to the ‘ass master’ in the US for nothing!
The stairs are best as it is an extension movement, you’re extending your legs to get up an incline so running up the stairs/stair master/steep hill runs are good because your glutes are engaged maximally to undertake the movement.
Check out this article to @liondrive, saw it and thought of you this morning!: http://bretcontreras.com/training-for-maximum-muscle-growth-explained/
That’s a great article, and summarises really well a lot of other stuff I’ve seen. Having watched the amazing masters (and grand masters) paddlers, I can vouch for the fact that strength has little to do with muscle size. My MIL is a tiny lady who at 50, could pull more metres on the erg than guys half her age and twice her size.
I’m all for developing the strength you need to achieve a task – to get that PB, to complete a new distance, to get that next bit of bling for the collection.
TAY, is Mortal Kombat (2011) worth getting on PC?
I had it on PS3, but since I gave it (the game, along with my PS3 and all of the other games) to a friend, I kinda miss it…
It’s US$20… should I get it?
@greenius
Dude… GET OVER HERE… and let me give you the biggest thank you hug ever!
You fucking legend! \o/
Thanks a bunch! 😀
😀
D: D:::::::
CRAZYBUY STRIKES BACK! THAT’S NOW HOW CRAZYRECEIVESGIFT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! :O
Thanks to you in return 😀
I have it on xbox, and I picked it up on steam during the last sale. No regrets. Played more of it than I ever did the console version
/edit. must have posted this just after a gifting occurred!
@transientmind (I wonder if this will tag “T” again :P)
You probably forgot, but a while ago I linked some card farming program that someone made. @masha2932 has been using it and it’s worked perfectly for him, so I’m just giving you a friendly reminder/update since I know you love dem cards 😀
Speaking of cards… @rize a friend bought the new Card Wars PB v LSP pack. It’s kinda okay but probably the worst out of the “starter decks”.
Thanks. 🙂 I did read the forum page and testimonials but never actually downloaded it. Mostly because at that stage I was 100% complete on my cards. Now that I have bought new games, though… I should give it another look.
And no, I’m not playing Pixel Puzzles Japan for cards! I am playing it because it is baws. (Also, I got it for my Mum’s Steam account because she’s a frickin’ FIEND for puzzles, but she was asking me how to play and it was like… a buck fifty, so I picked up a copy for myself and am finding it’s actually pretty kewl.)
Yeah, LSP uses a mix of two existing landscapes (Blue Plains and Useless Swamp?) so it’s not as interesting.
PB though, doesn’t she have nice lands? Shitloads of healing stuff so potentially great with Blue Plains.
I’ve got a copy of Harvester to give away on steam if anyone wants it!
I’m catching up on the Walking Dead season 2 now that all the episodes are out. I think I finished 3 and 4 immediately regretting my last decision. Which is a good thing? I don’t even know anymore.
You’re getting numb to the decisions, then? that’s good. You’ll need to steel yourself for the last episode.
Part of the Walking Dead is about tough choices, the game wants you to regret them. I decided I wasn’t going to reload and try another choice to make the experience more personal, because living with bad decisions is a thing that the game wants you to do.
Diablo 3 PS4 peeps! I propose a joint venture.
There is an endgame item – the Hellfire Ring/Amulet – that would be shiny to get and requires a bit of an undertaking.
Firstly, on Torment and above 4 Keywardens spawn in various areas. These mini-bosses have a chance to drop plans to build 4 Infernal Machines and particular keys which are the ingredients for it. (3 different keys for each Machine)
Using a Machine opens a rift to a special area with an uber boss. The boss has a chance to drop a particular Organ. These Organs are the ingredients for the Hellfire Ring and Amulet.
But the Machines are also consumed on use and the keys and Organs don’t always drop, so there is a fair amount of farming involved.
But more than one person can go through a Infernal Rift and everyone has a separate chance to get drops. So the more people the faster, easier, and more fun it will be.
Probably everyone is gonna be consumed with Destiny soon but if I’m on D3 this is what I will be working on and will gladly welcome company to murder things. Or I’ll help peeps level toons if you want, just send me an invite.
I keep trying to join your game and all I get is error messages. I can join everyone else’s fine but not yours.
Also I’ve spent about 10 hours trying to get the Gibbering Gemstone to drop and can not get it to do so. Have everything else for Whimsyshire. About to punch something.
Really? Damn. I’ll try to look into that.
Next time you are on, don’t spose you could help me fix it by trying to join me as I tinker with settings?
Also double check you don’t already have it? That happened to me.
No problem. I’ll probably be on sometime soon.
I think my wizard is level 7!
…I don’t foresee this improving much before Destiny launches and definitely not, after.
Kinda bummed you can’t port from PC to PS4. That sounds like fun.
Yeah that would be nifty.
Would any TAYbies be up for some Torchlight 2 multi later in the week?
Sorry man, but I think you’re gonna find it hard to find anyone to do anything other than play Destiny once Tuesday hits.
Soooo that was interesting.
My brother is studying economics (and paying like 3x what I am per semester. Fuck that!) and got a letter inviting him to stay on and do research cos he gets friggen HDs and DNs in all his classes, and he might be going to ANU to do it.
Other than that…
Mums planning to walk out on dad when she’s saved up a bit more money… Dunno what to feel about that. I’ve been wondering why they’re together for a while now but it’s still kinda sadAnd meanwhile I’m still here, just doing my thing.
That’s rough man :\
At least it’s not wholly unexpected.
It’d be far worse for you if it was completely out of the blue.
Saying that though, it’s only going to get harder when the time actually comes and it happens :\
Just remember that people are here for you to talk to about stuff if things get too heavy 🙂
Just been reading this Storify of some of the stuff ZQ revealed today. https://storify.com/strictmachine/gameovergate
She didn’t even need red circles done in MSPaint. 😛
I don’t know how to read this page.
You spoke to band girl, even though you said you didn’t want to. Therefore I expect I’ll see you on Twitter soon. 😛
To be fair, I use twitter, and I don’t know how to read Storify stuff.
But I avoided joining facebook to do so!
If you don’t join twitter I’m gonna create @gooky2000 as a twitter handle.
That is all kinds of perfect.
Thanks for joining me Nob/Freeze! Was fun.
Today I said to myself, “Shane, you’re going to unlock one of the gold cart pieces in Mario Kart 8.”
So I time trialled every course, racing against Nintendo ghosts, and beat them all. The gold wheels are now mine.
Just don’t ask how long it took.How long did that take?
Wooo Drunk TAY!
Shit, what do I do now. @liondrive, pointers?Slur your typing for starters.
thasss a goo ieea shhaaaaaaane
Nope, can’t do it. That hurt to type.Uuuu c do itanu!
Basically text type everything and write it fast
Umm, based on my experience, I would recommend typing up an excessively long post about how much you love everyone here, and something about how booze is great.
Unfortunately, while my current intoxication level is far higher than recommended, I’m a little too coherent to make a proper drunk TAY post.
*ahem*
I luuuuuve you all. Esp Balgenab, he’s- YOU CHANGED YOUR USERNAME IT’S OVER SEAN
ALSO YOU’RE ALL GREAT
Actually, I wrote my big emotional email on Friday when I finished my job. I’m all unemployed and shit.
Drunk typing lessons:
1) Attempt to spell every word correctly, but get side tracked halfway through and kinda just start pressing buttons.
2) Stare at people’s butts while attempting to type.
3) Type while dancing.
The content of the posts should be whatever is currently in your head while you’re typing.
If it changes halfway through, don’t edit the post to make it fit, just start typing about that instead.
Pretty much just dictate what is happening around you, or what you are currently feeling.
And most of all, have fun! 😀
thatts grate advies liondriev!
I perhaps need more wine to do this properlyThe downside is that if you know how to touchtipe reasonably well, then it doesn’t really matter where you’re looking.
Dammit, made one mistake there, and that’s a three key difference, so it’s pretty bad.
Oh, I’m Blaghman, I can touch type soooooo well when I’m drunk and trying to stare at people’s butts without getting caught!
😛
Oh, I get caught, but you just have to embrace it.
If you’re staring at someone, let them know. Let them take the compliment.
I jumped into D3 to see what rate of levelling I might be able to squeeze out before Destiny… Totally got game-crashed by Freeze, Nobs, and Jo. It was neat. 🙂 I’m glad that setting is on.
So Tonights been mediocre. We have people over and i was tired. My car has carked it, i was enjoying minecraft but I had to turn it off due to company. So instinctively after being called anti social for playing games instead of talking i went straight for the alcohol..now im feeling all blergh…ughhh i need a hug
In the interest of “drunken TAY posts Saturday” as it is now called, I wish to mention – as I did on Twitter yesterday – that I totes love Shake It Off far too much, even though its bridge is bad.
Is that the Taylor Swift song?
Yes.
It is damn catchy
Firefox has been weirdly sluggish and chuggy over the last few days. Someone fixit.
So, it’s 2 am and i have been awake for a half hour. I suspect a infected dry socket is what is causing all this pain. Unfortunately, it has increased in it’s severity.
I recommend punching it.
I would end up in hospital
Punch the hospital.
Punch the world!
I think I should punch the dentists.
Still coughing and sniffling…
Also, I just realised that R U OK Day is September 11th this year…
D:
https://www.ruok.org.au/
ruok crazyguy1990?
Nope. 🙁
awww what’s up dood? anything you wanna talk about?
Just a bit of a cold. 🙂
No biggie.
ahh ok. well I’m here for ya if you need me! 🙂
Mobile TAY actually looks really pretty on this new phone.
Anyway, I’m here for a kind of Snacktaku.
By the time I finished working at Oz Comic Con last night the shops were shut (because Queensland) so I had to go to a convenience store and scrounge around for something special for Mr.Strange for Fathers’ Day breakfast.
I ended up getting a pear to poach, some obligatory bacon, and a pancake shaker thing. But pancake shakers aren’t special so I needed something to make it awesome and decided to grab some cottage cheese as well.
This morning after mixing the pancake shaker with water, I added the whole thing of cottage cheese into the shaker and shook it again. Cheesecake pancakes!
Snacktaku verdict: 10 Bishys out of 11 Rubber Shiggys.
Ooh, I might need to try that, although I never buy pancake shakers because it’s just too easy to make pancake mix in a bowl. I usually get buttermilk from aldi and make fat fluffy pancakes, but your cottage cheese ones sound brilliant.
Yeah I’ll usually make my own but we didn’t have any eggs and the only open shop didn’t sell any. I was super happy with how light and fluffy the cottage cheese made them, as well as little oozy melty bits in there. 😀
Velocity 2X seems to be getting rave reviews everywhere.
…. I hated it and turned it off after a couple of levels 🙁
I’m actually kind of enjoying it. It’s not an amazing game but it’s enough to hold my interest (for now)
It’s solid but it’s not grabbed my attention. But free is free.
But it costs time and there’s THE PILE!
We dont talk about the pile round these parts
We who?
I’m always trying to chisel a bit off mine.
We being me..the pile is a lie! Its a myth!! Oh god it scares me 🙁
THE PILE. 🙁
I was making progress on my pile and then something went wrong and now it’s bigger than it was. 🙁
Me too and then I got a “job” thing where I end up with more money to spend on random games, but significantly less time to play them.
Oh jobs, you so weird!
I’m not partial to shmups OR platformers, so the best thing about the game, to me, is the lead character’s under-cut hairstyle.
Have you noticed undercuts are back in a big way?
Even the 90s is blushing!
…I’m actually kind of a fan. 🙂
I’m not a fan of anything that can’t tell an interesting story :p
No, I don’t care either way. I just noticed recently.
We already know you’re old.
I had an undercut in 1995. I’d tie the top bit into teeny pigtails.
Got back into some Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen last night.
Changed my vocation over to Mystique Knight instead of Assassin which made it easier for me to survive combat cos I’m a bit shit.
The ability to back away holding up a shield so I can stand in a cure spell is sooooo helpful.
Also, signed up @gutsoup ‘s Sorcerer dood Destructor.
He’s double my level and almost the exact opposite of my Pawn which is amusing.
Also, the Reply button is black??
I didn’t realize Peck was your dude, I just thought it was funny so I grabbed him. Destructor was usually a melee guy but I maxed those classes and moved him on to get new skills. I have a pawn that’s lvl 125 called Payne I use a lot, she must be a friend’s too cause I can recruit her for free.
Damn, 125? That’d be nice.
I think youre the only friend Ive got that actually plays.
Something like L30, now. Played heaps today. Waiting on this trial quest that takes 4 days.
I called him Peck so I could say “Outta the way, Peck!” like in Willow
But he’s actually pretty helpful.
I said “Outta the way Peck” hundreds of times while I was using him. What’s the trial quest? I’m up to going to meet the Duke but it warns me that if I take the quest I’ll lose any I’m busy with, so I’m trying to wrap up optional stuff before moving on.
He only means quests he provides, therrs only 4l
The trial quest is the dukes lackey
I was reading that some of the earlier fetch quests get locked out if you see the Duke, I’ve already failed a couple from progressing the story so I’m super paranoid about it.
I failed 2 escort missions & just continued on.
Theres too much to do for me to care
yeah I forgot I was even doing an escort mission and got a dude killed fighting a Chimera, I’m not aiming to get the platinum so I don’t know why I care. I should just leave them and do a new game + if I’m bothered. Pretty fun game though.
New Dr Whoo was fun.
They forgot the villain in The Promised Land scene though 🙁I don’t know, the past few seasons they’ve had a idea and just flogged it to death.Subtle is good sometimes.
Sorry? You mean if they did do it, it would have been too much?
I had a think and
You mean they were presuming the audience is smart enough and knew exactly what would happen and didn’t need guidance anymore?It was a respect think?
“If you were real, you’d be dead in 6 months!” “But I am real!” “Bye.”Vid on Dragon Age Keep
I’ve been marathon-ing CGP Grey videos the last couple of days.
‘S good.
D.C. rambles about Murdered: Soul Suspect!
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/96749958976/06-september-2014
D.C. rambles about Mario Kart!
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/96847656226/07-september-2014
Clicking “Random” is fun!
Got some wii battery packs and a copy of pikmin 2. 😀
I can’t remember if you had a Wii U or not (I think it was no?) but Pikmin 3 is so rad 😀
Over too soon though :'(
Just a regular Wii.
I’ve been playing A LOT of The Last of Us Remastered over the weekend :O
I only started it on Friday evening and I’m already nearish to the end. It’s a lot more enjoyable when playing on Easy :P. I think I’d play on Easy/Very Easy as well whenever I replay the Uncharteds, it just makes sense for all these “shoot waves of enemies” types of games.
The plan was to play it slowly and then start Tales of Xillia 2, but that was when I wasn’t getting Destiny but I think I am getting Destiny now? Now I gotta clear out dem PS4 games!
The Last of Us is awesomes :D. I know there’s some people here who didn’t enjoy it. Out of curiosity, did you all give up or force yourself through it? I find myself hating games more if I force myself to play it :'(
I LOVED THE LAST OF US!
*prepares to take names of those who didn’t*
Suspicious lack of photo mode pictures on Twitter, though! GREENIUS IS A FAKE THE LAST OF US LIKING GUY!
I can’t use the Share button stuff since I accidentally made myself a Sub Account
Your story checks out. *makes a note in file*
Change it in options
You can’t!
Unless you can now?
You’ve been able to since the day i set mine up. Iteven said so during set up
Nope, wrong wrong wrong!
Once you’re a Sub Account, you’re a Sub Account for good! There’s plenty of people complaining about it online.
Did you try? I swear to fuck I changed it. Swear to fuck.
All my accounts aren’t and I swear the third was and I switched.
I’ve tried within the last year (not super recently) but I did a Google search and it seems like nothing has changed. Plenty of people were under 18 when they made their accounts and want to swap it over to a Master Account (but can’t) and Sony haven’t changed anything yet 🙁
http://faq.en.playstation.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/251/~/what-to-do-when-a-sub-account-holder-reaches-18
I still have access to the Master Account (since I made it) but it’s just annoying that I’d lose all my purchases, trophies etc. if I was to make a new account. I don’t use all the Share features anyway but it’s just annoying that it’s so limiting 🙁
@jimu
@greenius
Why are you not just trying riight now? Still in Purth?
I’m eating dinner, brah. There’s no option though, TRUST ME!
Since I’ve finished Black Flag and don’t want to go for 100% sync I decided to take a break from it – having put some 75 hours into Assassin’s Creed over the last month – and finally got around to Diablo III. I knocked over Act I (at least I assume Act I ends with finding the Stranger in the crater) in a couple hours, playing on normal. Even for me, normal is pretty easy, so I’ll probably bump it to hard when I jump back in.
Assuming I even get a chance to jump back in before Destiny arrives.
Actually, Act 1 continues for quite a ways after. 🙂
Ah, fair enough. An achievement popped and I got a cutscene so it felt like a story transition.
Oh! I wanna dance with somebody!
I wanna feel the heat with somebody!
Yeah! I wanna dance with somebody!
With somebody who loves me!
You go girl! Shake that thang!
Now I just need to find somebody who loves me!
Can aaaaaaaaaaanyboooooooody find meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…?
That was like, anybody’s chance to be all like,
“I love you Liondrive!”
And I would have been like,
“I love you too!”
Then we could have had a moment.
But you all ruined it.
I tolerate you, Liondrive!
It’s too late, Sean.
You missed your chance.
You all missed your chance.
Oh.
Then I take back what I said.
Bust out a Shannon Noll power ballad?
“What about me!..it isnt fair..
Oh my god. So much food. Only had lunch, didn’t need dinner. Not sure I’ll even need breakfast.
Gonna explode.
I’m so annoyed. I can’t get any cosplay stuff done because of the pain. I’m trying but when eating and sleeping and just being awake causes a lot of pain, I can’t.
I’m so worried I won’t get everything finished because everything is taking longer then it needs to.
Sorry, I know I keep whinging about this, but I just need to get it out there that I am really really worried about getting all the cosplay stuff done.
Worst part is I’m trying to do it without so much medication. It’s really difficult to persevere because I have a really shitty pain threshold.
Only 16 more TAYs until Christmas! 😀
Please don’t remind me.
Do you know what I’ve done this year?
I have spent time overseas, I have posted 3 videos to youtube, and I have fucked around for seven months.
And not like, the fun fucking around. The shit type, where nothing happens and I cry about how lonely I am.
Sounds about the same as me. Maybe one month of attempting a new course before dropping out, and eventually two months of working. The rest of it pretty much exactly that kind of stuffing around. Didn’t even do any youtube videos.
What an awful year.
I guess, at least I’ve (sort of) been working all year?
But it’s just not fun. I scan files, which is ludicrously dull.
You spent time overseas.
That’s more than most around here can say for this year.
That’s more than a couple can say for their entire lives (I’ve never been overseas before).
Don’t take that for granted.
As for this year.
I’ve spent all of this year studying.
I’ve spent all this year working at a job I hate.
I’ve spent most of this year feeling alone.
But, I’ve had the best 12 days of my life this year, which turned this year around for me.
And I realised that I *takes a deep breath* love you guys.
You should learn to appreciate the small things, Blaghman 🙂
I appreciate the small things, don’t get me wrong.
The highlight of this year was almost certainly when I let a whole bunch of people I knew through the internet into my house, and I cooked for them, and I hung out, and I had a fantastic time.
But I could have done so much more, not then, that time was fine, but with the rest of the year. I have a dozen projects that I want to be working on, but I just don’t, because I am a lazy as shit sonbitch.
it was the year you met me in person! That’s a whole year’s worth of great right there!
yeah i also have so many unfinished projects….
EDIT: I too am a lazy SOB
Yes, yes, but more importantly, we don’t know how many TAYs it will be until @blaghman records some Christmas songs.
Priorities!
I usually start planning in early December, because they take me ages to make for no reason.
I had forgotten how addictive Diablo is.
I LOVE IT! \o/
I still haven’t played 3 yet, but I love a good diablo style romp every now and then!
i have 3 on pc and i havent started it if anyone is up for that at some point… will prob cave in and buy the ps4 version when finances normalise again in november…
I’d be all over that if I actually had 3 :0
MINECRAFT PEEPS!
@alexpants @powalen @beavwa @mawt @rocketman @zapz @mrtaco @coldcamv @sunsoar77 @kermitron @scree @sernobulus @rize @pixel_the_ferret_viking @steve-o_the_deve-o @gorzilla @batto
and anyone ive missed… (IM SORRY!!!! /o\ )
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must be slow tay-day to-day
Old TAY is generally slower than New TAY…
well this is embarassing….. i shouldnt have gotten out of bed…
@popdart5Just testing, nothing to see here.