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Morning fellow TAYBies, how were your weekends?
I hereby rename this weeks TAY as DesTAYny.
Only one more day to go.
GET HYYYYYYYYYYYYPPPPPEEEE!!!!!!
I would like to purchase one hype please
Me too. Also, I like your hype idea and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter Evil Monkey
I’m hyped for Destiny because TAY will either be empty or full of Destiny talk so I can ignore it easily and get some work done. 😛
Nearly downvoted for lack of hype 😛 You didn’t like the beta or aren’t a Bungie fan?
Didn’t try the beta because I’m not a shooty fan or a playing with other people fan. Looking forward to watching my husband play it if we ever buy it, though. I’ve heard it’s super-pretty. 😀
Yeah, I have to say I’m not much of a playing with other folks kinda person either in an MMO game. Oh crap, don’t make me self aware after buying the special edition!!
Been riding that hype train for a few weeks now…….counting down the stops……….only one more to go ! Whooop Whoop !
Still considering pulling sickie Tuesday lol. But alas, Thurs onwards I am on holiday anyway… so no Destiny…. :'(
Destiny Week!
*Destiny month
Destiny Lyfe.
What’s up parTAY people?
the sky
it’s not yet page six is it? crap#errypageispage6
Sick on a Monday. What’re the odds? A thousand to one.
Destiny tonight 😀 hopefully I’m ok to go to the midnight launch
Looks like you’ve come down with a case of hype-glycemia. Better take two days off just to be safe 😉
that sounds like a plan. Still temping atm though (going permanent at the end of this month) so no work no money unfortch 🙁
My sinuses do feel full of hype though 😀
Anyone have problems downloading the Vanguard Armory preorder bonus thingy on the PS4? It gives me an error code
Might not be available until the game is actually out
Definitely a case of bruised pancreas.
Me and my wife are thinking of moving to Melbourne, I read allot of comments on here about how bad Australian internet or NBN is, I’m currently getting 130mpbs cable connection here in New Zealand will I get anything even close to that over there?
if you get on Telstra Bigpond cable you can get “up to” that sort of speed but whether you actually get that on a regular basis will depend on who your neighbours are, if you have everything connected by wire rather than wifi and whether it’s raining or not (Melbourne not so good for that :-P)
Or find an area with the NBN already in it. Areas without it aren’t going to be upgraded any time soon and when they will it’ll be inferior connections thank you Turnbull, Abbott and Murdoch
Ok sweet, I mean up until I year ago I lived with 15up 2down and had no issues but I read on here people are struggling to get 1up? The wife doesn’t think she cares, she has never seen a buffering symbol.
on cable I’m lucky to get 2Mbps upload. If no-one else is online it’s enough for me to game. Uploading videos though, put the kettle on and put your feet up 😛 unless you’re in the NBN as said though. 40Mbps uploads I can only dream of
sounds like a nightmare
Melbourne is a great place to live, lots of places to eat, drink coffee, great arts district and lots of cool stuff to do.
Your internet if mine is anything to go by will be 140x slower than what you are experiencing now. That being said, my workplace has around a 100mbps connection so you might be OK.
Cool man yea the wife loves it over there her sister currently lives there, we are coming over in couple weeks to check the place out, never been myself. Sounds quite allot like wellington which is where we currently live.
Can’t really give you much advice on the internet here but if you’re going to move to Australia Melbourne is the place to go. Although the prices here aren’t great.
Melbourne is awesome but good luck finding internet like that.
Melbourne is fantastic but yeah, those speeds ain’t happening here XD… That having been said, most places its very stable, so you at least get consistency for online streaming and gaming, which I’ve always believed to be just as important as speed, so at least there’s that!
‘NBN’ 2nd tier plan is 25 down 5 up. So it starts lower than that. It’s heavily capped. Pretty sure I saw on-peak/off-peak somewhere too.
I really don’t think I need to say anything more.
Yea its not a deal breaker just wanted to know really, I didnt expect 130mps, like I said I could deal with 15 down 2 up unlimited.
To put it in perspective, since I moved away from my crappy 1.7Mb connection in QLD, I’ve had the following in various houses down here (all ADSL):
First share house ~7km from city, 7Mb
Second share house ~15km from city, 12Mb
First non-share rental ~2km from city, 20Mb
Second rental ~25km from city, 6Mb on a good day
House build in progress ~25km from city, 100Mb FTTP. Can’t wait for this to be done!
Cool man, not really sure where we are looking to be honest, I’m guessing near the city but I’ve never been there, here is one of the places http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/west-melbourne/property-for-rent/lease-break-1-bedroom-3-level-apartment-with-rooftop-terrace/1054867567
A lot of rentals are pot luck with regards to internet, and you don’t find out until you move in.
True its handy when you own the place, had my driveway dug up for cable and have run cables all under my house so everything is wired over here.
unlimited? What’s that?
Seriously though, after moving over from England back in 2008 where we had unlimited packages based on speed rather than data, moving over here was a ‘wtf’ moment when you find out the cheapest deal you can download 5Gb a month up to (at the time) 120Gb. Australia is seriously backwards when it comes to the internet. Don’t mean to be down about it, just don’t expect great things if/when you do move over 😀
Where in NZ are you moving from? Culture-wise especially around arts, cafes and coffee and so on, Melbourne is very similar to Wellington, though obviously much bigger.
Telstra and Optus cable can get you theoretically > 100mbps. Sometimes my cable connection will peak above 100 but it’s usually closer to 85, but I’m in a fairly high-traffic area and the wiring quality is average.
NZ in general has better internet infrastructure because of the much smaller geographical area and the fact that the NZ government invested into a fiber infrastructure program and it didn’t get treated like a political football so shit actually gets done.
It can be a crapshoot whether you’ll end up in an area with good cable or an area where your only option is crappy ADSL2 that you end up getting 2-3mbps. I’m running into this issue right now myself as I look for a new place 🙁
We are coming from Petone which is about 15km from Wellington City.
I’d be happy with 85, I’d be happy with 15 to be honest, does being closer to the servers make much difference? I imagine I wont get much gaming in for a while anyway, I have gone all digital this generation cos it was so fast and easy.
I lived a few years in Wellington before moving to Australia, mainly around Johnsonville / Churton Park. IIRC Petone’s not that much further around the bay. Bottom of the Hutt Valley right?
Distance to the exchange / cable box is the big thing, and it’s also wire distance rather than distance as the crow flies, so if they routed the cable through the streets in an odd way you might be several km further away than you expect.
Average connection around Melbourne on ADSL you’re probably going to be pretty happy if you get 8gb. If you’re in a cable area you’re laughing. Optus and Telstra both run cable networks.
Also in addition to cable and NBN fiber which is in some places, some apartment buildings and newer housing developments have fiber connections from TPG or from iiNet, but it’s really hard to figure out where those spots are.
Yea that’s the one, ok well sounds like I could be in for some fun times haha, thanks for the intel.
Just completed the District Showdown in Uptown on inFamous: Second Son and one of the rewards was “X-Bone Custom Jacket” XD
I finished evil karma playthrough on expert on saturday, prob took about 6-8hrs and at times really tested my patience, done now platinum in the bag.
My plan was to do a good playthrough, then an evil expert playthrough straight after, I’ve only just hit level 5 good karma and finished all the side mission stuff, just got 2 Tracker Drones left and story missions.
Might take a fair while to do my second playthrough though with Destiny coming out tomorrow, and First Light on Wednesday.
Yea thats exactly what I did, good playthrough on normal and did all the side missions etc, then evil playthrough was purely main story and evil related side quests on expert, evil is definately easier to gain than good, I prob should have spaced it out a bit but got on a role and did it all in a day, thank god its over!
Kinda rolling my eyes at the result of the recent Warmachine League. Basically the two winners were the only two players to participate. Meaning it was impossible for me to win.
I also started recording Halo 2 for my next project.
Morning all.
Low key, low activity weekend for a change – played lots of Minecraft. Spent a bit too long bringing cows to my base from the other side of an ocean. Also finally set up a basic farm.
Pokedex bank project is also progressing well, have crossed the 500 mark now.
5 more days until i get a day off \o/
hi TAY how are we?
jumped back in Minecraft over the weekend because why not? Having much fun despite realising i have no creative bone in my body compared to everyone else…
Also started doodling different logos for our organisation in Star Citizen… Got myself a rough draft, but my photoshop skills are at its limits… Anyone here amazing with image editing? Would anyone like to halp? 😀
Dunno about you, I just build square boxes and dig holes.
Oooohhhh I’m digging a hole tooooo \o/… Regretting making it 30×30 though, takes FOREVER 😛
Good time to make an elevator then. 😛
Iiiiii didn’t even know that was a possibility… Stairs are old fashioned now? 😛
I just use waterfalls as my elevators, keeps the aggro mobs out without the need for a button-activated metal door. I don’t know if pistons and redstone are more sophisticated than they used to be but there is a way to make an elevator. It’s a fun novelty but more effort than it’s worth.
For mining i usually use water as elevator and lava as material disposal for when i run out of room in my inventory
I should get myself a lava pit for gubbin-disposal. I usually throw my unwanted blocks (generally dirt and gravel) into a large body of water whenever I return to the surface, but large deposits of underground gravel and dirt have been pretty scarce on the server so far – maybe that’s a thing since they’ve added the other minerals. I haven’t played Minecraft for ages so I’m a few updates behind knowledge-wise.
Everyone needs a pit of gubbin destruction. I remember building a pit of gubbin destruction with cactus a while back, but I think lava is the way to go.
Admittedly I haven’t even set up a hole digging project yet on this server… I’m a bit behind. Only just covered the ‘food’ bit as of Saturday night.
I went straight to digging, my goal now is food XD, that might happen tonight so I’m not constantly running around with half health :P… Also met a witch for the first time… Our meeting didn’t go well
My early play was:
– walk a few km from spawn
– set up staging base with shitty wooden house, dig straight down to rush a few resources
– site main base
– build shelter at main base
– set up food supply
Forthcoming plans – guess I start building towers on the corners of the island, then extend walls between them…
I really should start paying attention to the survival aspect of the game instead of just building things XD… Now that my build is done I can start doing that
I like to rush enchantments, since the sooner I have a fortune 3 pickaxe, the sooner I start getting 20+ diamonds from 6-8 diamond ore. Makes a huge difference.
I was poisoned the first time I saw a witch or wizard or whatever those things are, but only because I thought as a non-zombie villager they might be friendly. In my second encounter they tasted my cold iron blade. And then a creeper blew up my watermelon patch.
I did some mining, found a chasm with an abandoned mine running through it and got a ton of coal and iron.
Now I’m digging a 10×10 pit down to bedrock because I wanted lots of stone/granite etc for a big build and I’ve burned through nearly all my iron and coal. On the upside I have a ton of stone bricks.
Did you start work on the Pillars of Nosgoth again? Or is someone (unwittingly) cribbing your style from many moons ago?
That is most certainly NOT why i was constantly dying by plummeting from high heights due to building something really tall with no means of getting down… Okay yes, the pillars have been reconstructed 😛
ahhh minecraft. first world i made in the singleplayer i spawned in an ocean and drowned. worst. world. EVAH!
We had a server like that at some point… Everyone was told that as soon as you join “HOLD SPACE” with :P… Was a shame, because the rest of the world was beautiful
Just another plug for my daughter or the wife will kill me :\
The wife entered our daughter into one of those cute baby competitions. Would appreciate any and all votes we can get. Can vote up to 10 times a day for the same child.
https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/practical-parenting/cover-cutie/458/
Thanks.
Managed to turn my alarm off in my sleep. AGAIN. Urge to destroy everything, rising.
On the other hand, I have monetary confusion. Down in Canberra last weekend, I realised I had no cash on me. Along with my ~$20 of cider, I asked the guy to get $80 cash out. The only other money thing I did since then was get an opal card with $40 on Wednesday. Opened up my wallet now, and it has three 20s in it. Victory?
Things I learned at Oz Comic Con on the weekend.
1. The proper name for Orlando Bloom fans is “Blossoms”, not “Whorlandos.”
2. Participating in a RPG with an audience watching gave me great licence to do a whole bunch of crazy stuff. It does not mean I should attempt to leap off a cliff and try and land on the back of a gargantuan creature because “I can totally Attack on Titan this *rolls a 7*.”
3. Rogues in D&D 5th edition are really quite broken/overpowered.
4. I like the look of Super Smash Bros WiiU. The 3DS version is okay but I much prefer the controller.
5. The Exhibition Centre at South Bank is both a great and a terrible place for a convention. Having to walk all the way to the other side of the building for panels and shows was poor planning to say the least.
@strange, sorry I couldn’t get away on Saturday to see wander around and see you. I was run off my feet for most of the day but I hope you enjoyed it as well. 🙂
I had a wander for about half an hour but didn’t see you, or anyone else famous for that matter. I too was run off my feet. When I got to the booth and found there were two others helping I wondered why I was needed but we were so busy we could have used a couple more people. I’d forgotten how exhausting being on your feet all day is!
Also, I learned that the most popular pop culture icon at the moment is Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon.
Huh, that’s interesting. I saw a lot of Star Trek stuff because of William Shatner and on Sunday I saw a small group of people that had dressed up as the main characters from HTTYD so that was pretty cool.
There was a lot of cool cosplay this year and I’m a little sad (but thankful) I didn’t buy anything because nothing really jumped out as buy-worthy for me.
I was stationed in an area pretty much directly next to the main autograph area and the flavoured ice stand, as well as the general PAX fighting games stuff. We had so many people come in that we had to turn people away because we lacked the space for them all.
I saw someone dressed up as Data but I couldn’t get a photo because I was serving a customer. I’m still sad about that.
And in the booth we were mainly selling T-shirts, which were all cross-over ones. Anything with Toothless sold out in the first couple of hours except for one ladies size small that was up on the wall and made people keep asking for it in sizes we didn’t have any more.
That dragon saved a nation *single tear* bless his golden heart
lol whorlando’s! classic!
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was sufficient? Yeah lets go with that.
I played as much minecraft as i could Friday night and part of saturday. I had to restart new little kings story after my 10 hour save file got corrupted.
and here comes the saturday rant:
I had probably one too many Saturday night when cathryns friends came over and they annoyed the shit outta cathryn and I because they are a new couple so they all lovey dovey and kissing like crazy in front of us all night and basically dry humping on the leather couch ughh..then they slept in the spare bed didnt get out till 12:30 when cathryn and i had to be at her dads at 12:30 So finally as we got them out they had no way to get home as neither of them can drive so we had to drop one at the station and the other at home because she told her dad we were going to because her parents don’t know she’s dating someone and the entire drive she was angry at us for “rushing them out of bed so early” Didnt even say thank you for driving them home or letting them stay the night. When we finally did get home they had left the spare bedroom a mess, didnt even try to make the bed urghhh.I’m guessing them making the bed wouldn’t have mattered…don’t you want to set it on fire? I would. 😛
Its tempting, its just they left stuff everywhere like they had chocolates and left the rubbish on the floor and even in the bed pillows were everywhere its like cmon do you not know how to clean up after yourself
Urk. People suck. Make them come over and tidy up and do the washing or else you’ll tell her parents about them. 😛
She wont, this is a girl who literally has been handed everything so she wont turn out like her sister i swear shes never done the dishes never made her room. We went camping once and she didnt even know how to light a match
That is some massive parenting fail right there. 🙁
Yeah her dad is gonna sell his car and buy a second hand Car thats auto so he can teach her to drive and she gets to pick out the car because hes giving it to her after as her first car. They also give her money for whatever she wants but tells everyone she has no money because she hates having to spend her own money like we went out to dinner and she wanted us to pay for her and her bf at the time (now her ex) because she had no money even though it was her idea to go out for dinner.
Woah. Now that’s some kind of sheltered.
Its all because her sister is like hated by them because shes 24 and has 5 kids to 2 different people
My hardcore Diablo III character died on the weekend at level 63, to rare mobs in open world. One second I was at full health, the other I was dead. I think I may have been slammed by an expansion bubble. I was only replacing my gear as new gear game in, so odds are I had a bunch of 59-60 gear on.
Back at work. Which means I’m back on TAY!
*prepares for avalanche of Dad jokes*
https://twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/508739360691204096
Had a funnish weekend for once. Kids woke me up on Sunday to give me a home made cardboard tie, a feathered pet rock with googly eyes (which I promptly named Barry) and a Deathstroke and Tidus
toyscollectible action figures.We went to grilled for lunch because the girls begged to go there then proceeded to tell us the burgers were yucky and refused to eat them.
Game of bowling which my wife was handily beaten by a 3 and 6 year old.
Off to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It was awful. Had a few good to great parts (downhill chase in the snow you see parts in the trailer is fantastic, turtles had a real physicality to them, Shredder didn’t look near as stupid in motion than the stills had led me to believe, Megan Fox wasn’t terrible somehow, few one shot jokes landed and got a few giggles from me) but the terrible terrible writing, non existent structure and the wtf reasoning for the villain (richest guy on the planet is enacting his plan to….. get rich. Wat) put it just on the side of unwatchable. Pity. There was some glimpses of what could have been a great movie under all the awfulness.
Our fire alarm speakers were very faintly beeping and alarming for about 5 minutes. Then, they blasted full volume with lights n stuff. Then we evacuated.
…Then we found out people are just pulling wires from building panel to get that shit under control. I feel safe…. and toasty..?
I think Mr. Strange thought Father’s Day sucked yesterday. He was cranky all day. 🙁
I did make awesome soft white corn tortilla and pulled chicken tacos with three different salsas for dinner though, and my Dad (and Mum and Nan) loved them.
I literally spent almost the entire weekend watching Hunter X Hunter with my gf. Exceptions were: Saturday morning my gf went rockclimbing so I played Borderlands 2 for a few hours. Around 7pm my friend moved in, so I helped him and then walked him around the area to show him where things were and ate out.
We’re about halfway through season 4 and I regret NOTHING.
I couldn’t get my missus into Hunter – Gon is just too annoying apparently.
My gf was surprised at how non-annoying Gon is compared to most young anime protagonists. She doesn’t like Attack on Titan due to how damn emo the main kid is.
No matter what drama happens, Gon just bounces on with an idgag attitude.
Black Flag – Diablo III – Minecraft. So many gaming hours this weekend!
I also destroyed my Razer headset by tripping over the cord and eating shit. I usually leave the microphone jack plugged in so I can find the cord easily and plug in the headphone jack as-needed. So the cord ripped straight out of the jack. I never really used it as a proper headset anyway, but it really shits me that a bunch of its functionality has just been diminished because my washing machine has a really irritating alarm that goes off when a load finishes which means I always do a mad dash to turn it off when I’m in the middle of something.
RANT INCOMING
My weekend was pretty great. I watched anime and spent time with the ladyfriend and played with our dogs.…that sounds awful! Hugs?
Thanks man.
With all of your love i will get through this hard time.
well.. i just… wow.. dood… *hugs*
Aw man, all I want to do is be at home… playing Mario Kart. Or writing, I suppose… I should get back into that too.
Even worse, the browser my work uses (IE8 [I know, I know]), is no longer able to open up Dan and Karl’s Zeitgeist through Stitcher. I also cannot access it through Soundcloud, ITunes, or the DKZ website. All my plans are crashing down. (cc @dkzeitgeist)
OH MAN
I planned this elaborate prank where I stream Dan and Karl’s show through the work radio and make the old men who i sit with listen to it. Ok, it wasn’t elaborate i just want to listen to their show at work.
WE ALL NEED DAN AND KARL IN OUR LIVES
BUILD OUR AUDIENCE HO-TROSS!!!
BRING THE MEN TO WORSHIP AT MY FLAT, DEFORMED DEMON FEET!!!
Smrt phone & Soundcloud app?
Get chummy with the IT department and they should be down for installing Chrome or whatever you need.
Hell, I have a friend at work who would use her work laptop for WoW. Some guy in IT just used his admin overrides so she could install it.
Is there anyone here who likes music I like who could suggest me something new to try?(@cufcfan616?)
I think some new music might be just the motivation I need this morning to get some things done.
You could try some synth pop, its like power metal but less epic and more dancey.
listen to CHVRCHES -the mother we share
“Less epic”? “More dancey”?! I need motivation to get stuff done, not motivation to self-harm. 😛
I need “More epic” and “Not at all dancey. Ever”.
Your loss mum
***dances the night away
Chvrches are pretty damn great though. I’m with @rocketman on this
Turbo-Laser! \o/
I’m listening to a song called Planet X. It was going well but then the vocals kicked in. The lyrics are funny but I’m finding the vocals annoying. 🙁
Yeah, they’re a little on the whiny side. Some other songs aren’t quite as bad I don’t think, but I enjoy them all enough to put up with it 😛
Actually the main thing that bugs me about them is the drum machine. Wish they had a real drummer.
I hear the kids are all talking about this upcomer Nicki Minaj.
You’ve never let me down yet, I’ll just look it up on Play Music….Oh gods, Freeze! Why? WHY?!! 😛
are you a Devin Townsend fan? He has a lot of amazing stuff that can be rather heavy at times (Especially Strapping Young Lad)
Loved SYL when I was younger. Not a fan of much else Devin-related and never could understand his near-godhood status amongst certain circles. Your suggestion is much closer to things I like than anyone else’s though. 😀
Have you listened to Ziltoid? Might be a good one to try kinda catchy, pretty heavy and very silly because it’s a themed album about Ziltoid the Omnicient who is an Alien who is also an amazing guitarist and he comes to Earth for our Coffee. Captain Spectacular is the hero who attempts to save the World. But if you didn’t like his stuff you might not like it anyway :P. What else…… I know you like Tool, do you like Puscifer? They’ve got a few albums and an E.P out now.
Not fond of Ziltoid or Puscifer. Looks like our tastes don’t cross over very far. 🙁 I really appreciate the recommendations, though!
what’re you in the mood for? Most of the stuff I’d recommend I’d wager Mr Strange has already tried 😀 are you much into prog metal at all? Not so much Dream Theatre, more Vanden Plas sort of stuff?
I’ll reel off a few bands though 😛
Pagan’s MindRedemption
Shadow Gallery
Time Machine
Time Requiem
Winds
Versailles
Pyramaze
Madder Mortem
Kalmah
Ewigkeit
Eldritch
Eidolon
Adagio
If you ever wanted to listen to thrash though, I’d be able to help a lot more 😛
Oh wow, I hadn’t had any viable suggestions yet so I looked up some suggestions from Play Music and was actually already listening to Pagan’s Mind when I clicked on your spoiler. 😀 Enjoying them so far.
Which also reminded me the new Aeon Zen is out(it was listed in the ‘Similar Artists’) so I can listen to that, too. \o/
Enigmatic Calling & God’s Equation are my favourite albums. Saw them all too briefly supporting…it’ll come to me…*looking it up*….Sonata Artica. Forgot they played that gig 😀
Circus Maximus also coming up in similar searches, they’re fairly decent
I quite like Circus Maximus. Their vocalist is pretty incredible.
Have a feeling our taste differs in some respects, but my cousin turned me onto these guys. Some of their stuff ain’t too bad. :3
Moonspell are pretty good. I prefer more uplifting stuff these days though which is why I mainly go for Power Metal. I think I even caught a bit of Moonspell live on the first 70000 tons Of Metal, though.
what are your tastes?
I’m in love with power metal, also extremely partial to folk metal. Vocals are my hook into things though so I need at least a mix of clean and growl vocals to be able to listen to a lot of something. Like I love Amon Amarth’s music, for example but can’t listen to more than one or two songs in a row because my ears find the vocals exhausting.
My favourite bands are Sabaton, Haggard, and Eluveitie. My current can’t stop listening to bands are Twilight Force and Pathfinder.
ahhh. things i have no idea about lol.
i keep listening to bands like almost human, powerglove, the one ups, NESkimos etc. yes, im truly geeky 😀
I recently heard about a band called Machinae Supremacy who apparently do game-related music as well. Thanks for reminding me about that…I can add them to the list now. 😀
What are the kids listening to these days? Uhh… well I broke down and listened to the Kill la Kill soundtrack last night. It has bagpipe metal, Strange! Bagpipe metal!
…
Okay, don’t want to listen to that? Erm… What is Love is pretty good. The Back to the Future soundtrack is good.
I have Kill la Kill here ready to watch but I keep forgetting. I should watch it, shouldn’t I?
Oh yes. Definitely yes. Just don’t be put off by the, uh, costume design. However, I think there is a valid reason for them being there. Some people won’t agree with me, but I think Kill la Kill is an allegory for body image and society’s view of what people should wear. I think there is some very nice subtext there that some people might miss. There is also some kickass female empowerment stuff that I quite like. Most people love it for the action.
Oh yes, the action. Magnifique. The action is made all the better by the superb pacing. The action starts out rather low-key, then goes more balls-to-the-wall crazy increasing increments from episode to episode. You’ll watch the final episode and wonder how the first episode was about a boxing match.
There are a few problems though. The budget is spread unevenly, so the fourth episode looks far far worse than episode three, for example. There is also the main character. Sure, Ryuko Matoi has a lot of character, (I even compared her to Max Payne, minus the alcoholism at one point) with some complex motivations and multi-layered psyche, but she doesn’t have a lot of personality.
However, I should probably create a trigger warning for episode 16. That episode is messed up. Don’t read the Crunchyroll comments on that one, the commenters completely missed the mark.
I should also inform you that it incredibly easy to get spoiled on YouTube. You should probably watch it before it becomes ruined for you.
Regardless of the problems I mentioned, there is a gigantic list of pros I haven’t scratched the surface of. The end credits music is incredibly mundane in a good way, as it juxtaposes against the awesome battle sequence you just saw.
Also, that soundtrack. It’s the most multi-genre soundtrack every created by man. Bagpipe heavy metal, techno square dancing, traditional Japanese, riverdance, James Bond-eque marching band symphonies, sweeping orchestral, french horn blasting, and a club song entirely in German that I have almost memorised the lyrics to. I should mention that I listened to the entire damn soundtrack yesterday for the fifth time since April.
WATCH IT.
Please?
I am going to watch it. Which Is why I didn’t really read your comment, just skimmed through to end so I could still go into Kill la Kill fresh and without any preconceived notions about it. 🙂
Good idea. Perhaps bookmark the comment to see whether you agree with me once you’ve seen it all?
You know, I should get around to Attack on Titan.
In my mind there is an epic heavy metal band out there somewhere made up of a bagpipe, an accordion, a banjo and a harmonica.
Excluding the kazoo players, are ya? No, no, it’s fiiine. No feelings hurt. None. Honest.
*turns away to get something out of eye*
That’s what they get for fraternising with the tambourines.
Talk about super suck. One of the fans on my video card fell off yesterday 🙁 Dun think I can fix it either 😐 Typical that it’d happen just AFTER I can’t afford to buy a replacement any more. Thankfully I still have 2 fans on it, but no doubt it’s gonna put some stress on the card 🙁
I hear mini desk fans at hi speed will fix that problem. 😛
I was thinking of digging out one of my old case fans, and using blutac to stick it to the underside of my card like I did with my 6800 ultra. it worked well (actually cooled the card more efficiently than the original fan) but I have to see if I still have one that works, and then hope it actually fits.
Out of curiosity, is it a Gigabyte “Windforce 3” style card? I’ve just heard a not insignificant number of stories of fans falling off those.
as a matter of fact it is! this is the first time I’ve ever heard of a fan falling off one though!
Back when I used to hang around on OCAU I saw a number of instances of that specific fan type having issues. To the point where I saw documented evidence of one card with the fans being solely attached by some kind of glue and nothing else. Under load / heat the glue melted, the whole fan assembly fell off, the card died. The thread was about them trying to get a refund from MSY.
I’m in the market for a new GPU (2 weeks until the 970/980 presser!) and every time I see those Gigabyte cards and feel tempted I wonder to myself if they’d fixed the issues. Sounds like maybe not.
well mine’s an old gtx580. I’ve used the windforce cards in quite a few builds in the past, and I’ve yet to hear anyone else complain about losing a fan. Considering they have 3 fans on them, they are really quiet, and cool much better than most other models in the same range. I was looking at getting a 780 a few weeks back. I’d still go for the gigabyte if I could afford it. I’ve had this card for probably between 3 and 5 years now, so I’m not surprised it’s starting to have little issues like this. I’ve found in the past, that the fans on my gpu usually warp and seize up before I get to this stage, so if anything, this has actually been one of the best graphics cards I’ve ever bought.
Oddly enough it was the 580 specifically that I saw having issues because that’s what I was looking for at the time. Ended up with a couple MSI cards instead. Might have just been something weird with the 580s. 🙂
All the other windforce ones I’ve put in have been 670’s – 780’s. (All done this year I think). Haven’t had a single complaint from any customer who’s got one thankfully!
Rumour has it NVidia are announcing a new line of cards this month (the GTX9x series, skipping the 8 for some reason) and that usually drives prices down, if you can hold off buying a replacement for a few weeks you might save a bit of cash
In the short term, you might be able to bolster the cooling with something like this http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Slim-Single-PCI-Slot-Combination-Graphics-Card-Fan-Silent-Running-240mm-x-15mm-/321401686752?pt=AU_Components&hash=item4ad5088ae0
yeah well technically the titans are the 800 series I think, hence the jump. I’m gonna have to opt for the old blutac method I think. Can’t even really afford to be spending the $18 for something like that atm. Waiting on centrelink to pay me something, but until that happens, I have like $300 to live on. Hopefully comes through soon, cos I got rent due in the 21st, and I can’t pay it unless they pay me! Eeep!
Presser/reveal is on the 19th from what I’ve seen. From how I understand it they’re skipping the 800 series because of the architecture being used for the 800M series being the same as the 700 series or some-such nonsense.
Weekend stuff. Stayed up way too late Friday. First, Band Girl was online that night, ended up surviving that somehow. Then friend got his girlfriend to get Skype which I said was going to be a bad idea and I was right. Stayed up waaaay too late talking. Saturday was lost to the kind of exhaustion+boredom combo where you don’t feel like doing anything, everything’s just dissatisfying.
Sunday was up early to visit Dad’s parents, that was surprisingly ok. They’re usually pretty down and stuff especially with failing health and all that, but this time it wasn’t all that bad. Nonno got all talkative again going into one of his spiels (The Professor, as Nonna likes to call him when he gets in a lecturey mood :P).
After that it was up the coast to have lunch with the other side of the family. Sister was down for the weekend, which I wasn’t expecting. She and her boyfriend weren’t in the door for five minutes before my cousin, while listing his birthday presents, announced that one of them was a blowjob. Family gatherings, hey? 😛 Ate waaaaay too much. His girlfriend made this bearded dragon shaped cake which looked great enough as it was, but then when cutting into it it had “guts”. Chopped up strawberries and snakes and sour worms. Pretty good. Also we had mars bar slice, and mum made fritoli that turned out pretty well (even if there was a minor disaster at the start when she tried to move them about in the fryer with a plastic spatula, destroying it). So explosively full afterwards, certainly not helping climbing tonight.
Also, cousin’s girlfriend has her dog from Melbourne up here now, she was along for the visit too. A sausage dog. Those things look silly, and like they shouldn’t exist. Completely different personality to their other dog though (dunno the type, but she’s much bigger), funny watching the two of them together. Especially the little one’s bewilderment at the larger one spazzing out and doing laps of the verandah. Also also, showed off my pornoclone again to the others who hadn’t yet gotten to see 😛 Aunt’s reaction was best – she was visibly taken aback, hand to mouth and everything.
I must have missed the bit where “pornoclone” was explained. o_O
One of my college friends found on tumblr a couple of gifs of a gay pornstar who looks exactly like me. Albeit far more ripped, and tanned, and lacking in arm+chest hair.
Ah, yes. Now all that’s left to do is find your “Ted Mosby: Sex Architect”
I bought limited edition of Destiny online.
Realized I was not financially stable enough at the moment to buy limited edition of Destiny.
Cancelled order of limited edition of Destiny. Last in stock, too.
Living is expensive, guys. 🙁
And uh, then I found 10 dollars!
yyyyyyyayyyyyy.
I remember doing the same thing a year or so ago. I suddenly had this overwhelming sense of dread associated with spending aaaaall that money on my preordered game instead of other stuff.
The great thing is after awhile you realise how silly all this collector’s edition tat is and feel kind of better without it.
*throws out MW2 night vision goggles to make room for Destiny Ghost*
JUST BOUGHT DESTINY LIMITED EDITION YOU GUYS
OMG IT WAS THE LAST ONE LEFT TOO! PHEW, SO LUCKY HUH! 😛
Why’d you buy a copy all the way from Canada is beyond me, but if you’re happy with it, who am I to judge?
Actually, I am yet to buy/preorder. That midnight launch tonight crept up fast!
Maybe I’ll pick it up from Target later this week.
Morning, TAY!
My weekend was a total wash. Didn’t do anything exciting. Just wasted time on Minecraft and ate food, so… yeah actually it was pretty good.
I also spent most of the weekend looking at bike websites and fantasising about riding to work every day. Turns out my trip to work would be halfed by riding rather than getting the train. Who’d’ve thought! Plus saving money and exercise and the ability to easily go to the shops on the way home… it seems like a good choice!
Besides the whole timidness thing and the fact I haven’t ridden a bike in about 8 years 😛
Time to get you some lycra!
Yeah… no. Sorry, everyone 😛
Oh.
Are you sure you don’t want to wear lycra? You only need a little. In fact, it’s probably better that way!
Don’t worry, you’ll get your pictures. Just be patient.
wasted time on Minecraft? you mean wasted time in real life and didn’t spend enough time digging holes?
A roadie is the way to go! It takes me an hour to drive in peak hour traffic when it takes me 20 minutes to ride 10k, should definitely look into one.
I use the lycra for the chamois in your pants, it helps with your butt if it feels sore after a while 😛
The good thing is that it’s basically all suburbs between work and home, so I can just take back streets 99% of the way. I’ve just been looking at some cheapy flat bar road bikes with a rear rack (seriously, my cargo-hauling options are severely limited with relying on walking everywhere :P)
I’ll have to go to a bike shop and get some proper advice before I get my heart set on something!
Minecraft!
You and your signs out visiting places, eh?
Time to pump some iron!
pumppumppumppumppumppump
pumppumppumppumppumppump
pumppumppumppumppumppump
pumppumppumppumppumppump
pumppumppumppumppumppump
pumppumppumppumppumppump
I will be handsome… 😀
Mine’s less iron and more wet noodle.
Silly Freezy, I’m giving that up for a week 😛
Oh, potential overshare, yadda yadda…
;D
“A week”
More like “2 days and then you’re bored for some reason and whatever.”
Mate, you can be fit, but I have some bad news for you. Being ripped won’t make you handsome.
Now, normally this would say “because you’re already handsome”, but I have a reputation to uphold, thank you very much.Wait, the weights are over here, what exactly are you pumping?
Your meant to go back and forth in a smooth motion if you pump it your gonna have wrinkles everywhere!
In my experience handsomeness has little to do with buffness. It’s about face alone and how someone carries themselves. Gym just makes for hotness. 😛
Great…
*looks in mirror*
I’ll never be handsome :'(
I will be hot… ;D
Now um curious…
How did I carry myself?
It needs work, right?!
Uhhhh, paranoia! :’O
You did fine! 😀
Oh good! 🙂
That puts me at ease a bit 🙂
Now just gotta work on getting toned ;*
Dude, I hate to break it to you but you’re already handsome.
Idiot.
So Destiny is getting a midnight launch, does that mean Australians will actually get a head start or will people get the game at midnight tonight only to find they cant play it till tomorrow afternoon (US release time)?
Bungie said on Twitter a couple weeks ago that you can play as soon as it’s the 9th somewhere in the world – when you personally get to paly is between you and your retailler.
I assume that means if you get it early (my fingers are crossed for it arriving in the post today) you will be able to play as soon as the clock ticks over to 12:01am in New Zealand and not before – same goes for people in the US even though they’re 15-17 hours behind us.
Good to see that Australia Tax pay off on something, pity I won’t be able to play till US release time.
My browser at work is gimping out so I can’t edit my post, but here’s the tweet I’m referring to:
https://twitter.com/Bungie/status/503357717566599168
Even earlier than that, I think. Samoa are 3 hours ahead of us. There’s a +14 time zone, but I’m not sure where Bungie are calling it.
I assume anywhere the game launches.
Nah, they’re turning on the server’s today in prep for all the time zones.
Come on Gang, that shit is Destiny fanboy basic! BASIC!!!
I have a US PSN preorder and it has a very specific timer telling me 1d 5hrs till available, so I haven;t been that interested in following other times.
Oh, yeah, the PSN digital versions will unlock when it hits 12am in the region you’ve purchased it from. Mine’s an AU one and it’s set to unlock at midnight tonight. Physical copies should be able to be played at 8 or 9pm tonight if you can get your hands on one.
So the “$5” 360 -> Xbone upgrade for Minecraft is $6.65 after Australia tax, which isn’t that bad. Also any texture/costume packs you purchased on the 360 will carry across as well, but you’ll need to visit the store page and download them again (the ones you own already should be listed as free).
I was playing Minecraft on the PC last night while my wife went achievement-crazy on the XBone so I didn’t get a good look at it, but my wife tells me the increased draw distance is excellent.
it was $5.95 on the PS4, pretty rude they’ve slapped an XBone tax on there too.
I had no idea! I’m trying to remember if the 360 version was cheaper than the PS3 version in case that explains the difference. I can’t remember what we paid for the 360 version originally but the standalone Xbone version is $26.95. I originally bought Minecraft on the PC for about $15 so I know it’s gotten more expensive with time as it’s been more and more updated. I think $26.95 is the standard PC pricing now?
One of my every ‘few months’ TAY posts to say hi – Hi! Hope you’re all well.
I know everyone has an opinion, BUT…I just want to convey my excitement for Destiny. Sure, I might be let down….but I don’t care! I’m just loving the starry eyed thrill of being genuinely pumped for a game. It doesn’t come around that often. 🙂
Hi TAY.
I was busy all weekend, now it’s the week again and I’m already tired.
But that’s ok because Destiny comes out this week and I understand that it will cure all my woes.
I hope we can make our Dinkbots kiss.
Isn’t that the whole point of this game?
Idiot. IDIOT. I just wiped my phone completely, didn’t back up because who knows why. Now I’ve got a crippled phone and gotta try and either revert to where I was or hack an update onto it. 🙁
My weekend: Drove to Penrith to do parkrun with my sister – it felt a bit odd being at the regatta centre and not paddling! But it was a nice flat course and I feel good about the 10k run I’m doing there in a few weeks. Then Sunday was Father’s Day, and I cooked Katsu Curry for @Batguy. And we played Diablo 3, which was super fun.
Katsu curry! @batguy is the luckiest person.
Katsu curry?
*looks away to hide drooling*
For some reason my phone battery drained ridiculously fast since yesterday. No idea why, it’s not doing anything :/
That happens to me too sometimes.
I like to blame gremlins.
2 guesses:
1. You had your phone in a hot environment
2. Aliens
Since it’s Gooky’s phone, it’s always in a hot environment.
*canned laughter*
Announcer: “Gooky’s Sitcom will be right back after these messages.”
Feeling ill 🙁
I was feeling crappy last night and just feeling worse today. I originally thought it was a hangover. Now I’m not so sure. 6 beers shouldnt give me a 2 day hangover.
How was everyones weekend?
Damn, that sucks, I remember having a similar amount of beers once and still felt kinda rough a couple of days later (sleepy, grumpy, etc.). Maybe you’re hangover is nursing a flu or something?
I had a cool weekend, I tried to teach my girlfriend to play minecraft with me but she just couldn’t get a handle on putting blocks down in lines and had this fascination for trying to fight me when I had an iron sword lol.
Maybe you’ve got a case of hype-glycemia for Destiny? 😛
I kind of want to get this Wakie Alarm thing.
Not for whatever it’s supposed to be used for, but just so that I have an excuse to sing at random people over the phone. As I’m sure LepLep can attest to, singing phonecalls from me are the best.
Make a Tay joke on Twitter. Now by far my most favourited and retweeted tweet only a tiny fraction are Taybies and are all looking at the comic and not my witticism.
Lesson: Steal everyone else’s work to profit off. It really does work.
If it helps, I was favouriting it for the TAY witticism, since I’d already seen the SMBC the day it was posted.
SMBC is great. I can’t get the Superman one out of my head, it nags at my brain on a regular basis.
My personal favourite. “My hands have five fingers; what’s your point?”
Where “profit” is a very loose term…
Hey guys, hope you’re well! Destiny hype! WOOOOO? (That’s how it’s done, right?)
D.C. rambles about Diablo 3!
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/96929412506/08-september-2014
Now get PS+ so we can crawl through Nephalim Rifts and Inferno Rifts to get even sweeter loots.
PS+ and Destiny incoming! D:
You… you got your symbol around the wrong way. It looks like sadface.
I’ve finally started playing again and am kicking ass at level 6. What level do you need me at before I can be of any use to you guys?
Any. I’ve got characters ranging from 2-70. We tend to just crash whoever games when they’re on.
Well, the missus and I are trying to play through it. Feel free to join in if you see us playing.
Jeez… Walking to work this morning was surreal. Going through Central station and saw about 8 screens all synchronised, playing ads for Destiny. I expected ads on buses, but in Central Station with such exposure? Are we… are we mainstream? D:
I liked video games before it was popular. *flicks fringe*
Oh, you’re playing Destiny.
Oh, yeah. I’m sure it’s great and all.
I just prefer Bungie’s earlier stuff, before they sold out.
*flicks fringe, adjusts lenseless glasses*
That said… I could really use an Oni remake.
It hasn’t felt like BioShock Infinite levels of advertising saturation.
Did they do much in Australia? I remember hearing about a superbowl ad, which I thought was … peculiar… to say the least, but I don’t recall anything beyond the usual bus-side ad for B:I.
There were a lot of ads on Foxtel and Youtube, I know that much. Playing that ‘Beast of America’ ad.
Ah, that would explain why I never saw much. Been using Ghostery ever since I got fed up with sites literally covering themselves in ads such that you couldn’t even click what you thought was background whitespace but turned out to be a full-length background link to another site (/rant, note to self, allow youtube ads through Ghostery), and never had a Foxtel subscription.
The advertising budget for Destiny must be absolutely ridiculous. This is in Times Square.
I think I recall that Sony is the one who is really pushing Destiny in the marketing department. I can’t imagine Bungie splurging this much money.
I’d have assumed it was Activision. I don’t think they’re hurting for money.
*Activision.
$500 Million Trillion Mega-Space-Bucks or something.
Ah herp-derp there for me. My bad. Just thought it was Sony because I keep referring to Destiny as Playstation’s Halo. My fault though.
> Playstation’s Halo
That’s Killzone.
I know Playstation have Resistance and Killzone but they never really felt like they were in the same ballpark and seemed to be doing stuff differently enough to never be compared to Halo. Destiny, to me at least, seems a much more direct competitor in the sci-fi shooter space. Killzone always felt more near-future type of shooter rather than straight up sci-fi. That’s just me though.
Killzone was supposed to be Sony’s big “Halo-Killer” back in the before times – not that the games were ever similar or anything.
We need to keep in mind that the $500 million figure is what Actiblizzion have devoted to the franchise, not just to this one game.
0_o
That said, I remember the chaotic melange that was Times Square during the PS4 and Xbone launches. That’s relatively tame, by comparison.
Damn it, I was going to post a pic of the huge Borderlands 2 billboard that graced a 20ft section of wall in Town Hall station last year but I seem to have deleted it.
I love seeing video game advertising in the real world.
I played a hell of a lot of Warframe last night with @rize and @tech_knight
It seems like a pretty cool guy but at the same time it feels like a very “B grade” Multiplayer shooter. Not that it’s bad but there is just so much more that they could polish.
F2P generally means a B grade game. That said, when half the game is shooting and half the game is flailing around with a sword/axe/staff/fists/etc, I have to give it points for doing something that not many games do. Plus I feel that it is still a romping good time.
I played it a bit last night and I feel that the mission select UI is a pretty bad downgrade on what they had before. Sure it’s more thematically appropriate but it was so much easier about 8 months ago to select the mission that you want to play.
Yeah, by no means is it a bad game. It’s just a little (for a lack of better term) ugly. For fans of space ninja’s and/or third person shooters I couldn’t recommend it enough. Just don’t go expecting the most polished gaming experience.
Heh yeah. It’s fluid and flashy and is pretty cool so that’s enough for me.
I don’t know whether that says more about the game or my low standards. 😛
F2P and B-grade doesn’t mean you can’t have hundreds of hours of fun with it though. I know this first-hand.
My main irk with the game so far is the lackluster approach to rewarding exploration. There are plenty of rooms and paths to take but there’s next to zero incentive to looking around. Rize, Nob and I mainly just rushed through each mission going straight to the objectives.
Most people play that way. I think the problem is that the ‘reward for exploration’ is really just… more crates. And all the crates have equal odds at dropping kewl shit like Oxium or Argon crystals etc. If the odds improved based on how hard the room was to get to, it’d be more rewarding. But I know I take deviations when playing with my brother here, and frequently call out, “Treasure room! …with no treasure. Boo.”
Well I still play it cuz chain lightning a bunch of marines with red lightning never gets old… ever
I’m kinda in love with the Loki at the moment. So fast. And I’ve buffed my invisibility + duration + energy cost so much that I can pretty much play perpetually invisible and scoot around almost faster than I can control, which makes clearing out treasure rooms pretty damn fast.
Beanie smells, needs wash. But that means leaving beanie at home to get washed and dry out. Don’t want to go without beanie.
Dilemma!
Wash the beanie, and let it dry on your head.
Bonus: You don’t need to wash your hair!
I already don’t. There’s none there 😛
All of your problems would be solved by just buying a second beanie.
Or getting a less sweaty head.
Lets go with the second one. This head’s stupid anyway.
I know someone posted a link to some of the Destiny codes last week, but here’s a list with all 25 of them: http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2fmp4u/all_25_codes/
Also even though i dont go on reddit, the Destiny one has some really cool info on it.
Oooh, there’s more!
Morning TAY!
Had an ok weekend. Saturday was spending mainly on house cleaning and hole digging in minecraft, kept crossing other people’s tunnels which I may or may not have set traps to (please don’t get angry at me >:) ). Sunday was spent on more hole digging. Went with family to a relative’s house for dinner. Spent most of the time on my tablet because I’m very social (not really). Went home for some more minecraft and jumped into lava with full inventory of goods after which I cried myself to sleep.
I swear I do not spend THAT much time in minecraftSo I go round to my mum’s to pick up some washing to do for her (they don’t have a washing machine in the rental place yet) and I arrive to find my mum being showered by one of those blue nurse/arcare type people. I opened the door and the carer stuck her head around the corner to see who it was, and DAMN! She was HAWT!!!! First time I’ve felt jealous towards my mum in a looooong time! 😉
Yeah I’m jealous, will your mother be your new wingman? hehe
hahaha I don’t think so! She’s not really all that mobile yet. She wanted me to take her to the old house so she could do washing by herself, but it would take me 2 hours just to get her in the car and out again, so much easier for me to just pick up the clothes and wash them myself.
*grabs popcorn*
Oh man, leaning towards getting Destiny but am frightened. Frightened because Wasteland 2 is about a week away. Frightened because The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is two weeks away. I guess the drought has broken? *cowers*
give it a month, you’ll be bitching cos there’s NO games coming out! 😉
A month I’ll have Alien Isolation and Costume Quest 2, two months Dragon Age Inquisition and Dreamfall Chapters Book 1. *flails arms around like crazy*
So Psyched for Isolation and Inquisition and Destiny and Far Cry 4 and Hyrule Warriors and …. and … *passes out from over excitement*
HYPERULE WARRIORS in a couple of weeks!
Oh, you reminded me.
@jimu what are you doing on Saturday the 20th? You wanna check out Hyrule Warriors?
I’m going to say yes without consulting the Mrs because my father’s day was absolute shit.
A WEEK!?!
shit. I was hoping to finish The Witcher before that hit…. better get my gaming into gear.
I think it’s the 17th? A little more than a week. I’m just exaggerating for effect. 😛
The 19th, I believe.
Might manage afternoon of 18th due to time zones.
Either way, DC is a dirty liar.
I prefer trickster.
You’re going to love Destiny so much. Those open world environments are so pretty, perfect for moseying.
I’m thinking about writing a blog about my experiences. I will call it Manifest Destiny, just like the 700 other articles that are almost certainly going to go by that name. XD
@dc: the Russia level in the beta was full of post-apocalyptic decayed buildings and rust and stuff too.
Sssssh. You had me at “the”… 😀
Wasteland 2 will probably keep just fine. I bought it when it came out in Early Access on Steam and it’s definitely improved for the time it has spent in the oven since. I imagine that will improve somewhat, and being a single-player experience, you don’t have to worry about the server populations or being flavour of the month dying off in six months time, because… it’s just you and your game, buddy. Special time. Together.
Well, I had my first fathers day without my wife (soon to be ex pending divorce). That was tough 🙁
It was hard seeing all these happy families around at the parks and shopping center’s but at least I was given the whole weekend with my little boy.
I hope all the other fathers here had a great day, you don’t know how much I envy you (those with happy families). Spend your days together with love and laughter as it is something extremely special to have a loving family unit.
It sounds like you and your ex are on reletively good terms. Some would deprive you of the weekend out of spite. I’m glad you’re still part of your kids life. 🙂
Yeah, we are. She is an amazing lady and she put up with me and my bouts with depression for 13 years but she couldn’t handle it anymore when it happened again when my son was born 🙁 and she kept trying until this year but her heart was already well and truly broken. I have recovered now but it only makes it harder knowing what she had to put up with when I was going through so many tough times.
At least I have my little boy which I will forever be grateful for.
I’m sure she’s happier you’re doing better too.
Ah man. 🙁 The feels. I don’t even have a kid and I can somewhat empathise. Keep on keepin’ on, buddy.
Will do mate. Nothing will stop me from being the best father ever despite what’s happened 😀
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
I’m not feeling 100% up to scratch right now so I don’t know if I can fully commit to running Pathfinder tonight. I can do it if you guys want but I’m just feeling drained after the weekend. There is also the impending Destiny tsunami so I don’t know what plans you guys might have regarding that but I don’t want to tread on anyone’s toes.
Let me know if you still want to play tonight otherwise we could give this one a miss and reconvene in two weeks.
I’m at my parent’s house so it would have been tricky for me anyway. Rest up and we’ll go again in 2 weeks
Yeah we can do it again in two weeks, no worries there
All good to reschedule, take care of yourself. 🙂
I’ll run it for you.
Lundgredolph triggers a landslide and kills an army of orcs and gains 100 undecillion XP. *dusts off hands*
1 Million XP? That won’t even get you to level 17.
Better?
Better.
“and gets Kaldar addicted to every drug in the game including some I just made up”
=PAddicted to eating fae folk.
That actually makes things easier for me, as I was probably going to have to abort it due to helping my sister move house.
All good, rest up for the next time.
Cheers guys. Much appreciated.
Since I’m not punishing myself enough with this whole swear-free month dealie, I’m also going to try and force myself to ignore the hungerfeels until it’s lunchtime. And then for the rest of the day until it’s dinnertime.
This ain’t gonna end well.
how the fuck are you going with the no-swearing thing?
general success with a few lapses? or absolute shit?
For the most part, I’ve been ok. It’s been interesting though. The first surprising part was becoming aware of just how frequently and I do it. The next was just how easily it slipped out at climbing last week, gotta see if I can keep myself in-check tonight. The most interesting part though was when I was getting pissed off but had to restrain myself from going on the verbal tirade that I usually would. It made things even worse just keeping it all pent up inside, so I ended up going to my bedroom and punched up my pillows for a bit to vent. Felt better after that, but a little scared though 😛
Is that not how people usually eat? Am I the weird one here..?
The whole joke from the first Lord of the Rings movie about the hobbits enjoying multiple meals outside of breakfast, lunch, and dinner is pretty true for a few people I know. I call them grazers because they never seem to stop eating.
Preschoolers eat like hobbits. There’s breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and usually dessert. Miss one of them and hell breaks loose.
Normally, I guess. I used to pretty much only have breakfast, lunch (sometimes/usually, depending on how late I got up)and dinner with minimal or no kind of snacking at all. But these days now that I’m awake for fulltime working hours I seem to be getting hungrier more frequently, and snacking throughout the day. Already starting to get heavy enough for it to affect my climbing, so I want to try and curb it before things get worse.
weekend was rad. watched Protest the Hero. drank beers. ate tasty foods.
played bass a whole lot. played the witcher a bit.
dropped in on Flamestar’s recording stream. that boy has talent. you should all tune in next time.
considering getting a new bass. but one set up for D standard tuning. playing D drop C on my current one feels like the strings are made of stretched out chewing gum. or perhaps a bit more like one of them old coiled telephone cables. either way, its not good.
whats happening with you lot?
Wouldn’t you just be able to restring your current bass with different gauge strings?
I could. but I don’t wanna have to keep re-tuning up to E standard.
besides, its an excuse to get a new bass. I’m pretty bad with that sorta thing.
actually, you just reminded me. Arteries supported Protest on Friday night. their singer reminded me of you a fair bit.
less attractive, of course, but yeah.
Hola Tay
I’m at the ancestral home atm, generally being an unemployed bum (writing application and about to work with mum to make my Raz hat for pax).
Had a very busy weekend. Friday was farewelled from work, Saturday went to a mate’s wedding, which was lovely and nerdy (they’re both chemists at the CSIRO) and caught up with some people from uni. Yesterday, fathers day stuff at Kapunda, some of you may have seen photos on instagram of both of my grandfathers in my Raz goggles.
A Monday morning question: what is your favourite element on the periodic table? Mine is probably selenium.
Mine is Baloneyum!
Gotta agree with selenium, mostly because of the movie Evolution.
EDIT: Honourable mention to boron, because nobody does it like Molten Boron.
Plumbum because its fun to say… Aaaand i just learned it’s just “lead” in English… Well that’s boring
Fun fact: My mum’s nickname in high school was Lead because her initials were PB.
My mum’s nickname in high school was “Titswobble”, I think because she had such a fun and bubbly personality.
“Drop the weapon or I’ll fill you full of Plumbum”.
See? It’s an amazing word… OH NO, I HAVE PLUMBUM POISONING!
Caesium for its explosive personality. Honourable mention to Molybdenum, cos it sounds funny.
Is that because it kills the aliens in Evolution, the second greatest movie of all time after Hackers?
My favourite element is surprise. It’s not on the periodic table, which is part of what makes it so effective.
Right up there on the list with unobtainium
Aluminium. Because it’s aluminium, not aluminum. Dang Americans.
Also because Aluminium used to be more precious than gold at one point and I thought it was funny.
Hydrogen because of its whorish tendencies.
Yes I’m slut shaming Hydrogen. Have some self respect H.
Thought about sodium, since it tastes great on chips, but Na.
sodium by itself on chips would be a taste explosion.
I’d have made a better joke but all the good ones argon.
Adamantium. Serious answer? I dunno. Nitrogen.
I like the ones that explode when they’re mixed with water :3
I never remembered their names cause I was too busy making things explode 🙂
Lithium, sodium, potassium, francium, caesium.
Why selenium?
(See, me, I’d have gone with Hydrogen for its elegance and simplicity.)
Because it’s half of a Cadmium Selenide Quantum Dot
On the plus side, I understood at least half of those words… on the downside, it was only the first half of the sentence. TO WIKIPEDIA!
Well, helium is the simplest noble gas. So probably helium.
Unsure whether to say Helium or Ununtrium. On one hand, nobility! On the other, 20 second half life!
I had a pretty cool weekend. Well, Saturday was cool anyway because I went to a convention. MAICON (Mini Anime Island Convention) which is an offshoot of AICON which is held in Hobart in March every year. Unfortunately, I had no money to spend, which meant I wasn’t able to buy a set of Nuka Cola and Sunset Sarsparilla bottle caps that I saw.
There was some pretty amazing cosplayers at the event, including Belle (who I tweeted a photo of), Ellie (The Last of Us), Azula and Toth, and plenty of other characters that I didn’t recognise, but still impressed me with the detail that had been put into the costumes. I didn’t cosplay, but two of my friends went as Atsushi Murasakibara and Ryota Kise from Kuroko’s Basketball.
I entered an Ultra Street Fighter IV tournament, but got knocked out in the first round due to the fact that I hadn’t played the game for ages and was woefully out of practice. I was exhausted at the end of the day as I walked into town to catch the bus out to the Uni (the venue for MAICON). It was pretty great getting out of the house for nine and a half hours, and meeting new people and getting fresh air.
A co-worker caught me buying chocolate from the vening machine. On the upside, I was able to comfort myself with the chocolate I had just bought, so avoiding the shame spiral.
Anyone else here into mountain biking? Seems like only me. 🙁
I put my bike in for service on Saturday and took the opportunity to pick a couple of upgrades for it. The, uh, total cost of this is … quite high…. 🙁 Although the upgrades should be awesome.
Gf was interested in a carbon-frame road bike + package for <$2K which is alright deal, so she’s gonna look at options this week.
Much like all things exercise related; i like the theory behind mountain biking 😛
Well i just spent $300 dollars on new rims for my DH bike which ive been putting off since i cracked them last year while in NZ… i feel your pain.
Ooh, damn son. DH, nice, I want to maybe eventually buy a DH bike but there’s not really any places around here that I know of to ride it. 😛
My amount is reaching $1K lol. Shit’s cray. But I’ve been told (and read) that everything will be a HUGE improvement. If interested: clip in shoes, pedals, adjust seatpost, convert to tubeless.
Is this for general cross-country riding? If so clips can increase pedalling efficiency though don’t start with them too tight, ive seen (and done it myself) many people who are new to clips forget about them when they stop and just fall over on the spot.
This times a thousand.
Loosen your clips all the way until you get used to them. I’ve eaten it several times at traffic lights because I couldn’t get out.
I got the reversible Shimano clip pedals, http://99bikes.com.au/pedal-shimano-a530-silver, due to riding to work in heavy traffic.
This way I can unclip, flip them over and keep pedalling without having to freak out when I have to stop in a hurry.
CC @dkzeitgeist
yeah It’s a cross-country bike. I ride some trails sometimes, and feet just bounce off the pedals. Also can’t keep up with other clipped people.
I’ve been told the same thing, regarding traffic lights etc lol. I’ll be having them super loose (just like yo momma) and practising a lot, for sure.
I ride road, mainly because commuting to work on a shitty K-mart bike was how I got serious about cycling.
I didn’t really go bananas with customisation on mine. Just pedals & wheels for me.
I’ve got carbon forks which are pretty dope. They’re nice and light and apparently, I dunno how true it is, reduce vibration so I’m not holding on super tight over bumpy roads.
Do you ride a lot of tracks? I’m super keen for hill climbing but downhill gives me the willys.
Not much road here, i find them to be too bumpy and make my ass/balls too sore. 🙁 I think I’d need at least carbon fork (I’ve heard the same, and technically the absorption properties should be legit) or even frame, on a road bike.
There’s a local mtb track here. it’s got a tiny downhill straight section, but it’s mostly windy-type trails through a forest on hillside. It’s pretty cool. Apart from that, I ride around anywhere I see fit, cos I got the bike to do it lol.
After I get all my stuff I’m planning on making a nice day trip and going to the local rainforest national park. I’ll go on the longer walking trails (no people) and just take it easy and ride around. Should be fun.
So this game exists. You are a human, the FIRST human, accepted into a school for pigeons. And you have romantic options to pursue. Of the pigeons. While being a human.
I know @negativezero suggested it to @serrels and I’d love to hear a review.
I’d download it, but I’m afraid it may awaken something disturbing within me.
Man, Dem pigeons!
There’s been a few articles on KotakUS about it in the past.
I’d love to see a @markserrels one, though.
I think Luke Plunkett is planning to play and write about it. Might have to skip this one. I did think about doing it though!
Coo’ story.
http://tinyurl.com/nwgkwpw
Good afternoon kittens. I actually had a lovely weekend, but only slept for like, three hours last night, so I have no energy to be excited or happy about anything, haha. It’s raining and all I want to do is go home and play Grim Fandango.
But, but… HD version coming soon. It won’t be fresh. YOU MANIAC!
And by that I mean, hey Jane! Hope the week treats you nicely!
I know, but Schafer hasn’t said whennnnn it’s coming out! Probably not till next year, I think?
I am torn on this too. I feel like I should play it to completion (I am a fraud every time I put on that costume :P) but I also want to wait for the shiny version. Can’t do both!
I would wait for shiny new version. It’s going to be incredibly loyal and you’ve waited this long already.
I dunno if I’d call it “waiting” 😛
You just didn’t know you were waiting. 😛
KITTIES!!!!
Grim Fandango? you’re okay Jane, you’re quite okay!
Three pages!? I can’t keep up with this! Someone do a TAY summary.
Destiny, Destiny, some talk about being handsome, Destiny, Destiny, and here we are 🙂
Aw, you guys took time out of Destiny-talk to say a few words about me? So kind…
Previously on TAY.
*explosion*, *car chase*, *crying*, *sex scene*, *baby born, father hands out cigars*, *SETI detects signal from another world*
…
*HBO logo*
BUT WHO WAS THE FATHER
We’re saving that for sweeps week, but I think it’s safe to say all the foreshadowing is leading to Gooky and that infamous trip to the popcorn warehouse.
TAY SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8th 2014
Stuff.
TUNE IN NEXT WEEK FOR MORE GRIPPING ADVENTURES IN THE TALES OF TAY!
SAME TAY TIME. SAME TAY CHANNEL.
Well, different TAY, really.
I’m betting next week is 294. And then 6 weeks later, TAY madness.
Madness!?… THIS IS TAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
*kicks @beeawwb into bottomless pit*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…cool!…HHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Oh, also, I bought Minecraft on PS4 on Friday night and was like, “This isn’t that good, it’s pretty dumb… ” but then I played it more on Sunday afternoon and now I keep thinking about it a lot.
Then you’ll start your projects. “Maybe I need a better house.” “My house is nice now, so why don’t I recreate Rome’s Pantheon?” “The Empire State Building is impressive, but I feel like I could make The Galactic Empire State Building!”
And so forth, until your life is absorbed by the construction of fake buildings in a game that’s essentially just a tactile-less Lego.
Did you say goodbye to real life?
This is how I got started with Demon’s Souls.
BEWARE.
Oh good lord, no. I’m not a total masochist!
I just meant that the “This isn’t that good, it’s pretty dumb…” feeling is a BIG RED FLAG and you should watch out!
Or it might be too late. Way too late. You and all your time are about to be swallowed.
PS4?
You should totes add me as a friend. Totes.
PSN = liondrive
You won’t regret it.
*slooooow wiiiink*
@janexo
I just wanted to apologise, because, while this post was intended to be semi seedy, I forgot that you don’t know me that well, and may not have realised that the seedy-ness was purely intended as a joke.
Sorry for any weirdness!
I’ll tone it back till I know you a bit better 🙂
And the “totes” were a joke too.
I’m not a 16 year old girl 😛
Aww haha, no no! Don’t apologise, it’s fine! I didn’t take it creepy at all.
Writing is the best. I’ve spent the week just writing. It’s fun. I don’t even care if it’s good. (Yeah, I care if it’s good, but I’m getting something from the process any way.) I feel happy. LIFE’S A HAPPY SONG.
I really want to get back into writing. Glad to see you’re having much fun with it!
Hate to break it to you but you’re writing is good.
Really good.
Idiot.
You say the kindest things.
Idiot.
Only online.
Never face to face.
Well, aren’t you being all passive-uplifting today.
Mmmmmm…
I hit 50 days without soft drink on Saturday. Went out for an early Fathers Day lunch on Friday and Dad asked me if I wanted a soft drink but I decided I’d stick with water. Also, at MAICON on Saturday, they had Ramune drinks for sale, and it was tempting, but I didn’t yield to temptation. \o/
I woke up this morning and was like “Remember Dan, one flavoured milk a week.”
Cut to lunch and the intestinal distress inducing combination of Friday night’s curried sausages and a chocolate milk.
Point?
You’re doing good.
I wish I had your resolve.
Mate.
You cycle like a maniac daily.
Shut up and drink your milk.
Okay
The latest line of Dudders are a work of art.
Good work!
Spelunky is a whore.
I’ve been trying, and failing, repeatedly to kill King Yama and get the true ending. I keep fucking it up, either in the Black Market or shortly afterwards. My favourite death was in the Ice Caves where a falling platform rock thingy landed on me, blew up my jetpack and ended a very promising run.
So I took a break from Hell runs and went for the Speedlunky achievement (beat the game in under 8 minutes).
This went a lot better. It still took a few tries but I managed to find a shop on 3-3 with a jetpack, compass and mattock. Getting to Olmec from there was trivial. I managed to make a little pit for him with the mattock, which broke a few layers from the bottom, so I bombed the rest of the way and flew out.
Olmec fell into the pit but didn’t die so there was a slight mad scramble to collect all the bombs on the level and just start chucking them in there so that the bastard would fall down. It worked!
Now back to failing Hell runs because Spelunky is a whore.
Errgh. Superannuation headaches I didn’t need. Work recently got a new super account manager from Colonial to AMP. AMP guy was calling me 5 times a day harassing me to change over but a quick google showed that the plan they had won several “Worst Of” Industry awards. So I kept telling him in no uncertain terms no. Get my super report in the mail and it’s an AMP one where I got a $100 return in exchange for nearly $2000 in fees meaning they’ve taken over a quarter of my years Super with me authorising them to touch it. Speaking to my head office it turns out this guy has done the same to more than a few coworker so now I’m beating my head against AMP playing phone tag trying to sort it out.
Good luck, man. Super woes are so much worse than ordinary woes.
#HiStrange
#I’llDoBetterNextTime
Probably because everyone’s super is a mess to start with and barely anyone has an idea where to start.
Edit: *sigh*
“When you joined you were default put into Defined Benefit 1. You do have the option to change to Accumulation Benefit 3 if you so wish. Please refer to this 30 page booklet filled with jargon to find out more!”
I’m 24, I can’t touch that shit until 60+. My number of fucks are pretty low.
While I understand how superannuation works and why it is needed, I would much prefer having control of my money without being forced to deposit it into a specific fund. I wish I had some sort of access to super and what people have to go through before the funds will even consider an early release is borderline ridiculous.
Now is the time to make literally tens of thousands of difference though.
@stickman – listen to Uncle Freeze and Auntie B-ob. The sooner you start caring about your super the better life you’re going to have down the track. I’ve been managing / contributing extra to my super since I was 23, and I look forward to a healthy retirement. The last thing you want to do is suddenly get to a stage that you’re thinking about your retirement and it’s too late to do anything about it.
Yeah I know. Things make a big difference over 40 years. But my pessimistic thoughts say:
– Company will go bankrupt.
– Some kinda gov ruling to take a lot of it away.
– Something else will happen that will make it irrelevant, e.g. world war.
– I’ll die before seeing 60 or more likely 70.
I’ll definitely be looking at it in the next 5-10 years though, when I sort other stuff out.
Just to pass on the advice given to me; take it with many grains of salt… I quote
“From age 25 you should contribute 15% (made up of employer and self contributions however it needs to be done) of your salary to retire comfortably when you’re 65. So, if your employer gives you 9% you need to contribute 6%. If you employer gives 13% you only need to do 2%.”
But you’re right. Super requires a certain level of trust and optimism, and for some (e.g. those who die young) it might all be moot. Still, no harm in hoping for the best so long as you’re planned for the worst.
Particularly when it’s supposed to grow, not shrink. When I was working at resorts on the islands, the major group who owned a bunch of them put everyone through MLC. I didn’t know any better, so didn’t look at it, and it wasn’t til getting material from my new employer’s super fund about rolling over old super that I bothered to check…
$0. All eaten by fees. All of it.
This is why I don’t and will never make any personal contributions to super. Such a fuckin’ rort.
Really depends who you’re with and being real careful with what you agree to. I’m with QSuper now, and that’s actually a pretty damn good one.
The next person you get, clearly state your complaint, give them a timeframe of 5 business days to fix it and contact you, and get a reference number (and drive this set of expectations by saying the reference will be for the financial ombudsman).
Then if it isn’t fixed by that week of elapsed time, call the ombudsman, give them the reference number, and let them chase it for you.
Don’t even call them back when the week is up. Make it clear that you won’t be.
Setting clear expectations and outcomes is the best way to take a bit of control. Good luck.
This is the best advice.
It’s good advice on how to be an asshole, but it gets results.
They’re a bank. They deserve that treatment. You won’t get anything out of them otherwise.
How is all you?
Pretty okay, Jim-Jim. Pretty okay. (Can people who’s not Sughly call you that?)
Apparently I’m old now. Mostly I need to shower and buy some groceries.
He’s dead, Jim.
Okay, I have PS+!
…
Now what?
Start collecting free games.
Download the games!!!!!
They all look terrible! D:
I’m mainly in it for my Manifest Destiny (Patent pending.)
Yeah, this month’s selection is legitimately terrible. I guess Sony knew they’d get a bunch of new PS+ subscriptions for the month because of Destiny and they didn’t want to give away anything that’s actually good.
Do you have to do any thing to redeem the games?
If they’re genuinely terrible, nothing will redeem them.
Never change.
But… I want to wear pyjamas to bed 🙁
HA!
Serious Answer: You need to go to them in the PSN store and press on the buy, or download, or whatever it’s called button, I think it usually starts downloading them immediately if you do it via the console, so you then have to go and cancel them, since the whole point of this is to own lots of games, not to actually own lots of games to play.
Thanks friend!
Playstation Plus – GOTTA DOWNLOAD ‘EM ALL.
No way, you have to emulate the good old days of having to go out and buy games, so when you think “I really want this game” you have to download it, and wait around for a while, thus killing all interest you had in playing it to begin with.
Good times. Good times.
Just put them in the cart and buy them. Can do it through the Playstation app on your phone, even – and if your system is set up as primary for your account, then you can even set it up so that the stuff automatically downloads to your console (assuming the thing’s in idle mode) after buying it with your phone which is some futuristic shit.
Admittedly, I have this whole stack of PS Move controllers here specifically for JS Joust, but I hadn’t got around to acquiring Sportsfriends.
PS+ – once again proving that I should never buy anything digitally on PSN, ever.
See, I consider myself a cynic, most of the time, but that one just sailed right by me til you mentioned it.
it is pretty much the worst selection since PS+ started. At least it can only get better from here…… right?
I look forward to pointing and doing funny dances in your vicinity.
Don’t kill the atmosphere. Unless it’s to do with a descent into madness. Or if we catch dance fever from a long abandoned quarantine facility.
Oh I just remembered you didn’t try the Alhpa or Beta
you can make ur dude dance, sit, wave or point. I used them way too much, like in the middle of a fight I’d climb to the top of the tallest structure I could and dance while getting shot at.The best is:
during the first Strike, after beating the Spider-tank running to dance on it’s broken frame and then getting killed by the squad of baddies that come through the door behind it.Velocity 2X is s’posed to be pretty good, haven’t tried it myself yet though. I’ll give it a crack after tea.
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-au
Add errything from PS+ to your cart and check it out (even Vita stuff or stuff you already own). All you need to do is “buy” it while it’s on PS+ for it to be added to your library. If you don’t do this you’ll miss out!
I know a bunch of people who have stockpiled games for systems they don’t own by doing this 😀
I thought Totilo was doing the right thing by refusing to comment on that. Guess it all got too loud. Sad.
Hypothetical: @dc loves David Cage games. @dc gives them the benefit of the doubt because he really enjoys them. Are @dc’s reviews of David Cage games biased and a conflict of interest?
Or is the entire gaming industry a giant ball of subjective opinion on luxury toys that really only exists to make a few people rich and/or an outlet for someone creative expression?
Ah, I can still remember when I was flown out to Paris and our eyes locked in the lobby of that hotel. I invited him up and…
10/10 GAME OF THE YEAR
Beyond: two
million dollars in bribessouls#dcgate
TUNE IN NEXT WEEK. SAME TAY TIME. SAME TAY CHANNEL.
I can confirm I have bedded everyone who ever worked on an Assassin’s Creed.
Well, I only tend to read reviews from people who I’ve learned have similar tastes to myself.
Example: Jim Sterling’s reviews for Dynasty Warriors games. He likes them, I like them, I like his reviews.
I think there’s a confusion here about what criticism constitutes.
People are putting an inordinate amount of weight on game reviews, where a review is by its nature subjective. I just don’t get it.
What’s the nightmare scenario? We all spent $10 on an indie game on the basis of one review we read without doing our due diligence and it wasn’t the second coming and…
It’s absurd. And I’ll continue to think it’s absurd
It is absurd.
Im probably one of the few who doesnt know what GamerGate is (i thought it was a place to buy cd keys online) and after reading what people have said im glad i dont know and want nothing to do with it
Yeeeeeaaaaah i stay completely clear about things like that… Sometimes it’s okay to be sheltered 😛
*grabs tin foil hat and blankie*
Oh man, I caught dance fever from a long abandoned quarantine facility/discotek. *dances*
…
*dances some more*
STAY AWAY, GUYS. IT’S CONTAGIOUS!
I got immunised when the Macarena was a thing.
You’re the macarena Typhoid Mary!
I think Greta Gerwig from the Afterlife video was patient zero.
Haha, jokes on you, I already have it. *Salsas over*
*Spins you three times*
*Charlestons away*
*Charlestons Away* is the new mic drop.
Checked out Angus’ lifehacker thing on the Van Heusen Move suit… this and especially shirts intrigue me. Crinkly suits are the worst, and so many don’t travel well. And one of the guys on the lifehacker article linked the store page, and they’re actually pretty cheap. Has anyone tried one? Seen them in a Myer/DJ’s? I might have to go for a mosey in that direction while I count down the Destiny hours. (9h 33m.) Or just sleep again.
Angus tried one.
And he was very positive about it! But I value the opinions of friends over reviewers, generally. 🙂 Especially friends who don’t especially feel the need to be diplomatic.
Seriously though, I do like the sound of those suits/shirts.
Yeah, I’m thinking I may try one out for fit, give it a road test next time I’m headed south. Plane, bus, tram, no certainty on when you can get dry-cleaning/pressing or what quality… Travel can be hell on a suit. It’ll be interesting to see if it wears hard.
(And if so, could even replace the current work-gear. Public transport is also generally not the place for a nice suit.) Only ones I’ve seen on the store are slim-fit, though. So… dammit, @strange, this is why I need to lose weight! Slim-fit suits and shirts!
(Too late today, though. The maxi-bon has already been consumed. I can only hope I will burn that energy with a Destiny launch marathon.)
Lost another 10% battery in the last three hours. It should have been 3% or less.
This thing’s not even gonna make it home :/
Have you left your GPS turned on?
There isn’t anything running at all. Only thing I did was take a couple of photos yesterday and sent a few messages, I’ve done Close All Apps several times as well as Close Maps (to kill some of the services on those that linger), and it’s still doing it. Mobile data off, 3G off, everything.
I figured I’ll just leave the battery to discharge and give it a full recharge tonight after a reset.
Siri’s jealous you’re not giving her your lovin’…
if it’s android, I could help.
Nay. They mighty Symbian 😛
SSsss….SSYYYYY……..
BYE
how olds your battery?
Just got it the start of last year.
So it’s almost two years old? Replace that shit, it’s obsolete.
#NoSwearSeptember
I am powered by obsolete :p
I just meant buy a new battery. They don’t have very long lives.
Misuse of a hashtag is just as bad as swearing, Shaaaaane.
#awshit
yeah, my old Galaxy S2 was looking like this after 18 months
and like this after 2 years
might be time for a new battery?
It should be more gradual than that though shouldn’t it? Slowly getting worse and worse rather than just keeling over one day.
(also I clicked the links and it complained about protected something or other)
you don’t follow me on Twitter?
you’re missing out.
I don’t follow anyone on Twitter.
I’m too cool for that 😎
I was being sarcastic by the way.
you’re not missing out on anything.
my whole feed is pretty much politic rage, all caps swearing, puppies & horrible jokes.
You tried any ‘battery learning’ techniques for symbian? I’m not sure how to do it exactly but same concepts should apply.
I’ve always been unclear on what the best practise is for batteries. Sometimes people say you should keep it to a minimum, others say do it a lot, etc. I’ve mainly been keeping use to a minimum (not that I do it intentionally, that’s just how it goes) and recharging it every night, since the most recent thing I saw said that doing frequent small charges is best for prolonging battery life. Up until Saturday it’s been giving me a sharp loss of the first 6%-9% within 15min of unplugging, then averages out to about 1% per hour loss over the course of a day. Although over multiple days averages out to be less than 1%.
Li-Ion, Li-Po: Keep between 20-90%. Charging past 90% (and keeping at 100%) damages the cells [depends on how much safety margin the phone sets]. Letting drop below 10% often also damages cells. Allowing phone to die or nearly die, then charging to full, takes up one (of a limited set) of ‘charge cycles’ – charging it twice half-way uses less than 1 charge cycle. Yes, frequent small charges is the best.
But, then if your battery is being whack, this is what to do:
– Clear the battery info file, if there is one.
– Allow to drain completely via idle. Then charge completely while off.
– Maybe repeat this a couple times
Sudden drop after unplugging battery is usually sign of ageing battery. 6-9% isn’t anything excessive. 1% loss per hour is higher than normal, yes, but depends on your usage and what you have running in background, etc.
Yeah, lots of people get battery stuff wrong, because they apply Alkaline rules to Lithium-Ion batteries, which is a recipe for disaster.
From memory, the optimum charge cycle for Li-Ion is to use charges of about 50% of their total battery, and it’s best not to fully charge them, so the theoretical best would be something like charge it to 90% whenever it reaches 40% (unless of course you need every moment of battery life you can get).
NegativeZero’s Shipgirl Weekend Progress Update
Had actually a really productive weekend. Friday progressed as normal, just ran some PVP and some expeditions, did some sorties into World 2-3 with my sub fleet (I had no idea that running a sub fleet like that – cruising through Orel Sea – was so efficient for clearing daily sortie quests).Saturday was a bit more exciting. After doing the usual PVP work in the early afternoon, just before the PVP lineup resets (which happens at around 3-4pm) I decided that it might be a good idea to finish off leveling up Naka to her 2nd remodel. She was sitting halfway through level 46, and needed to get to 48 to remodel (the 48 is a reference to idol trouple AKB48 – Naka is the fleet ‘idol’ because she’s ship number 48 in the fleet). So 4-3 was ground a bit, sub hunting with Naka, and I got her to her 2nd remodel. Not really worth it – her stats are average and the gear she unlocks is nothing special – but she’s now my highest-level pure light cruiser, since I remodeled Kiso last week into a torpedo cruiser.
Following that, I was doing some light reading about World 2-5. I wanted to try and clear it this weekend if I could, but wasn’t sure I could do it thanks to having been bumped into the higher difficulty bracket recently due to experience gained during the recent events. I’d been planning to take the same fleet I used to clear it last month – Heavy Cruisers Tone & Haguro, Destroyers Shigure and Yuudachi, and Light Carriers Chiyoda and Hiyou (because I still don’t quite have Chitose at 50 for her Carrier Kai-2 yet). Then while doing some research, I found out that there is another viable option for clearing that map: 4 Fast Battleships, 2 Fleet Carriers. That changed everything. Where the fleet I was intending to take were mid-50s in level, a 4 FBB 2 CV fleet is another matter entirely – it let me take the four Kongou-class battleships, plus Souryuu and Hiryuu. Kongou, Haruna and Hiei are all at 81-83, Soyruu at 67, Hiryuu at 91. Only weak spot was Kirishima, but she’s still at 55.
Turns out that that fleet was able to completely tear apart the enemy fleets. S-rank clear of every node including the boss node. Required 5 sorties in the end, because one of the attempts I got directed away from the boss, and it certainly wasn’t that resource-friendly (had to use some instant-repair buckets because of the amount of time it takes to get a carrier or battleship back up from mid damage, which can be 12+ hours). But 2-5 easily cleared. Unfortunately while I got a few good drops, nothing new appeared. Taigei continues to be my white whale.
Sunday started off really well too. The past week or so, every morning I’ve done the usual construction quests with German destroyer Z1 as flagship, spending quite a bit of resources in the hope that I get a rare destroyer build because with Z1 as flag, instead of the usual rare DDs (Shimakaze and Yukikaze) you will get Z3, the other German DD. Z3 then unlocks the ability to build Bismark when she’s flagship. Finally got Z3 during Sunday’s dailies, which made me quite happy. I’ll still probably need to spam that build for a while (there’s the possibility of getting I-8 from it, and I’ve been trying to get Hachi for months now) but will be taking a break for a bit now, try and get the resources up nice and high and then have a crack at Bismark. And probably will fail and get Musashi or another Yamato and feel terrible. Fun!
Anyway, flush with the feeling of victory, I decided to have a go at clearing World 3-4. This doesn’t have any special branching mechanics, just needs a strong fleet of ideally battleships and carriers. I basically took my triumphant 2-5 fleet, swapped Kirishima for Yamato, and had a tilt at it. Got to the boss and cleared her easily, so all of World 3 is finished. 3-4 is actually supposed to be more difficult than 4-3 and 4-4 so I think I need to start working on those as well, though the catch there is that they need smaller ships to clear (cruisers and destroyers).
During PVP for the morning I got Tone within striking distance of level 60. Decided to do some grinding, and finally got her there. Since I didn’t get Taigei I was thinking I’d use up my blueprint and turn her into an Aviation Cruiser, but turns out I got confused. Tone doesn’t get her Kai-2 remodel at 60, it’s at 70. So another 10 levels away. “Not to worry”, I thought. “I’ll just get Haguro to 60 now”. Haguro doesn’t need a blueprint and she turns into the best heavy cruiser in the game right now in terms of raw firepower and torpedo power, a reflection of the fact that her real-life counterpart had a reputation so fearsome that a British task force was assembled specifically to sink her – Sank in the very last surface combat action in WW2, actually.
So I sat down and ground Haguro up to 60, thinking that sounded pretty doable. Turns out I got her wrong too, she gets her Kai-2 at 65. I think I got 60 in my head because that’s the level that Sendai and Jintsuu need to get to. Anyway, means I probably won’t get Haguro to Kai-2 until later this week, maybe next week depending on Destiny. And Tone is probably longer – she’s more effective as a fighter than Haguro in her base form so gets MVP more often, but has further to go in level. I started working on Myoukou as well, got her up to 24 now. She needs to hit 70 for her remodel so that’ll be a long-term project too. Once Haguro as at her Kai-2 I’ll be swapping her out completely for Myoukou and bringing in Chikuma again.
Plan for this week is to take it easy a bit. Destiny will mean I don’t get a lot of time to play KanColle anyway, but I’ll still be aiming to do expeditions & PVP as much as possible and hopefully at least get Haguro to 65. If I get time I’m also going to have a pass at clearing 4-3 and 4-4 so I can unlock World 5.
This week’s updates (on Friday) are apparently going to add some new stuff. At this point they’ve only revealed that it’ll be adding world 3-5 (and I just cleared World 3 to unlock that!). Assuming I can clear 3-5 easily, and if I can get into world 5 and clear that out too, then it’s possible that between 1-5, 2-5, 3-5 and 5-5 I can actually get a blueprint every month rather than every 2 months, meaning that I won’t be looking at waiting two months between remodeling Tone and then doing Chikuma or Taigei if I ever get her.
I’ve been thinking a lot about writing recently. Feeling this weariness, dissatisfaction. Not really about giving it up, but definitely about a change in direction.
http://shanewsmith.com/blog/2014/09/08/popcorn/
Dude, instead of writing for us, how about you write for you. You seem to spend a lot of time and energy thinking about how others view and judge your work. The bottom line for creative endevours is that its a really hard industry to get into, like ridiculously, look at how many TAYbies have creative projects on the backburner and we are only a small group. I think you need to stop worrying about awards and publishing and start enjoying writing again. Write what you want,write because its fun, write for any other reason than you want to sell books. Thats just my opinion anyway. I love your stuff, but you need to stop judging yourself by how far along other people are. They arent you, they havent lived your life.
Easy to say….
It took me like 5 minutes to write that, it wasnt easy either i mispelled like 40 words.
*wasn’t
*I
Popcorn? This isn’t about @mrtaco’s love life at all!
honestly, man, I will say this. The way that tv creators get where they are is by putting themselves out there. I know you don’t like sales, but to get to a position to do anything like this you have to sell yourself and your skills and there’s about one person who can do that. Sit down, write a goal, and then work out what steps you need to take to get there, whether it’s get an agent or get a story or two published in a ‘zine or whatever. If you ever want this to be a living and not a hobby, you have to treat it like a business.THat joke will never ever get old. At his wedding i hope the buffet is just popcorn.
Wedding cake made in the shape of popcorn?
Well then.
Popcorn would be a great title for @mrtaco’s biography.
Mine is going to be called “Oh Rocketman”
THe Ross Story
And his body double’s biography: CopPorn.
*grudgingly* Okay, that was awesome.
Comes with its own theme song too!
Change is good, creatively.
I do think with very young kids to be responsible for, everything is difficult though. They take up so much focus that guilt generally comes into play when parents do something that’s purely for themselves.
I don’t agree that you haven’t improved, I have a feeling that’s your inner critic kicking in who is always a bastard. Everyone’s inner critic is.
Maybe you’re a bit burned out on comics but that’s okay. You’ll never get better at the things you always dreamed of doing if you’re just doing comics which to you were just going to be a temporary diversion from your path. Put all your comics on hold. Follow the path that empty feeling in your chest is leading you towards. When you come back to comics you might have a fresh perspective, anyway.
Also, I see a lot of younger than me people getting worried because someone the same age or younger than them appears to have it more together than them. And it needs to stop. Everyone travels their own life path and if you had a glimpse into the life of the person you think has it together you may find that aspects of their life that you enjoy in your own life are missing from theirs.
I’m having the best time of my life right now and while I may have some small regrets about not figuring out what I’m actually good at until my mid-thirties I wouldn’t change it because it’s my path. My life is richer and more grounded due to the bumps that I’ve encountered on my path.
It’s never too late to go for what you want in life, and just because other people appear to have what you want already it doesn’t mean that their path is right for you. Go your own way, and don’t be afraid of change.
*standing ovation*
1. Nothing good is going to come from comparing yourself to Nic Pizzolatto. Dude is some kind of super-freak genius writer.
2. It may not seem like it, but you’re in the perfect position to make the change from comics to what you truly want to do. Presumably you’re not reliant on the income from your comics to stay afloat, so what’s stopping you from doing what you really want? Fear of failure? Fuck. That. Noise. I’d rather fail than wonder if I ever could have succeeded.
AND he’s way handsome. It’s very depressing.
Right? This would be like me comparing myself to Jim Morrison.
Or me comparing myself to Michael Munro
he is the best laser calibrator in the world. Its like watching an artist.
And he won a Logie! Some people have all the talent.
Eek, no he’s not! He’s actually kind of smarmy-looking.
That’s on trend right now. *applies for PopSugar job*
I read a good quote the other day
“Fear kills more ideas than failure ever will”
Or something like that, i dont know its probably paraphrased. SHUTUP RYAN LIKE YOU ARE PERFECT
Hunger strikes again. SHUT UP, STOMACH!
Is it because we keep tagging you in posts about popcorn?
Drink more water!
EDIT; This isn’t a joke, by the way 😛 Apparently a lot of people mistake thirst for hunger. Get a drink bottle and use it if you don’t already!
I kinda do. Always have a 1L bottle with me though I usually only have around half of it throughout the day, if that. Also it’s not water because I can’t stand the taste of plain water, so it’s cordial. Though I try to make it fairly weak so there’s just a bit of taste and I’m not chugging down too much sugar all day.
This is the killer with losing weight, right? My shirts have started getting a bit tight and while I appreciate the extra upper-body weight, I’m less pleased about the thickening around the trunk, so it’s ‘put down the fork, fatty’ time for me.
Naturally, all I can think about is eating. My body does not LIKE thinking it’s going to starve. It panics. 😛
Yeah, I wake up and I need to eat. Immediately. Like, sometimes I’m actually kind of painfully hungry. But weirdly at the same time I can’t eat much for breakfast otherwise I’ll feel terrible by around 10.
At least I have my afternoon climbing fuel of an iced coffee milk to look forward to today >_>
Meh, just buy new shirts. 😛
…Strange would never lead me astray! That’s all the justification I need to go grab a maxi-bon. WHICH I AM CRAVING. (They were on special at coles. Bless them. Bless them so hard.)
MAXIIIIIBOOOOOOOON
If you cut down too hard on food, your body thinks it’s some kind of famine and will actually stockpile more fat reserves and make you feel like shit at the same time. Balance is key.
Ooh, I saw What We Do In The Shadows at the weekend. So so funny.
IS that the vampire documentary flight of the conchords thing???
I WANNNA SEE THAT SOO BAD. TO THE INTERNET
Yeah! It’s so good! Really well made.
Oh man, so keen!
Is it a departure from the Eagle VS Shark & Boy style of movie?
While I love them, they’re both thoroughly depressing.
Destiny! Okay, just a quick one; what platform are people getting this on? This talk may or may not influence my decision of picking it up for either PS3 or PS4. Have at it! 😀
If you’re tossing up between the two, you get a free upgrade to the PS4 version if you buy the PS3 version.
Edit: http://www.destinythegame.com/digital-upgrade
Verrry interesting, did not know. Thank you. And Neg, too. Thanks.
Only if the prev-gen purchase is digital, I believe.
Is that right?
If you get it for PS3 digital, you get a free PS4 upgrade copy later.
The BEST platform. 🙂 Because we should always pursue prettiness.
That said, seems like a fair few TAYbies picking the thing up on PS3, so if you had any particular reason to do so when PS4’s an option, you’ll still be in good company.
PS4 because that’s the next-best MASTARRR RAAAAACEEEE after the godly PC.
Praise unto gaben and sony electronic entertainment division.
PC!PC!PC! oh wait…..
PS3 will be me, faction, mcgarnical and Masha at least, ps4 is like errybody. If you need help deciding we did a platform rollcall in last week’s tay
Ah, will check out. Thanks.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-292/comment-page-13/#comment-2931716
I’m on PS4.
PS4.
I wasn’t planning to, since I’ve got TAFE tomorrow, but seeing as I’ve slept most of the day I might head to EB for the midnight launch of Destiny, and then play a few hours when I get home before trying to get a few hours of sleep and then dragging my tired, zombie like body into the city tomorror for classes. I feel this is both the best and worst idea I’ve ever had.
I’m tossing it up too. Got work in the morning…. with…. potential after-hours stuff too…. 🙁
Be wary of server issues. You may not be able to play the damn thing for several hours.
While so many people seem to be hyped for Destiny, I’m just sitting here waiting for Slash’s new album World on Fire. The two songs I’ve got from it so far are really great, and I can’t wait to hear the rest of them. I’m assuming @virus__ feels the same way.
You can listen to it in it’s entirety on JB HiFi’s streaming service ‘NOW’ actually!
Edit: not overly hyped, excited is a word i’d use. I’m way too hyped for new Slipknot in a month though 😀
I preordered it from iTunes. I’ve got to wait until Friday.
But anyone can listen to it from JB, they’re allowed to stream it for some reason. All you need to do is sign up for a trial. It won’t allow me for some reason since I apparently have an account, they can go jump 😛
Sudden extreme urge to play more Warframe.
I guess I know what I’m doing tonight.
knitting?
It’s not destiny, then?
Minecraft?
Guild wars 2? Borderlands 2? Jc2mp? #helping? 😀
Card Wars with Greenius?
:'(
http://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/
Is warframe any good? I have no idea what it is but I have it
It’s ok, really think you need a group for it, it is very grindy if you arent playing and can get a little repetitive. BUT if you can get pleasure out of what is basically a FPS Hack n Slash you might like it, I’d get into it again if it wasn;t for Destiny releasing.
Destiny JB Hi Fi order said it was shipped on Thursday. Is not here yet. Can’t focus. Going. Destinsane.
My wife is going to check the post office this afternoon because our dodgy contractor never tells us when shit is delivered. He dumps it in the evening then maybe puts the notification in our mailbox the following morning.
What a useless guy.
Reporting in: My wife has checked with the LPO and it wasn’t there. >:(
:'( I was really hoping to install it tonight. Grrr
You have Parcel Lockers nearby?
Ever since a Post Office on my way home from work got them I’ve not had one way-laid parcel or missed delievery. Even better I get an SMS and email when they arrive so I can collect.
Only draw back I know of so far, is when a parcel arrives in the afternoon it sometimes doesn’t make it into a locker until around 9am the next morning.
And that’s when he gets violent! *takes off sun glasses*
I wonder if other hobby industries have their own xgate? Like to model railway enthusiasts have their #railgate or #chugginggate? Do people into garage door openers have #gategate? Or #nuggetgate for when aficionados of chicken nuggets from Nugget’s Day were to have found to have eaten a tenderloin and everyone started screaming at each other across the crumb divide.
Computer enthusiasts have logic gate… #terriblenerdjoke
That was amazing XOR was it???
true.
Or Gregories at conventions. #congregate
Or professional mules #promulgate
Or coal. #colgate
Edit: Or lower-caste drinks vessels #subjugate
Or Gregories on the farm #aggregate
Or tsunamis #floodgate
<3
Deleterious revelations? #delegate
Propaganda machines? #propagate
Fencing dispute #sidegate
Celebrity British spy caught with Swedish penis enlarging pump #elongate.
There have now been multiple variations of xgate that when I recently heard the original term Watergate being thrown around, I had no idea what it referred to – I totally blanked out. And then it hit me. Gate closed.
No, I’m fairly sure you’re talking about Watergate-gate because you’re meant to add the suffix “gate” to the name of the scandal “Watergate”.
Therefore the scandal at the Watergate hotel must be called Watergate-gate or the whole thing is just silly.
The Watergate’ car park gate WAS NEVER LOCKED!
#watergategategate
That’s actually a great point. All these new variations are bullshit, as they’ve just gone and divided the original word. It makes no sense.
This reporter suggested “Waitergate”, but was howled down at the press club.
Yeah. Watergate doesn’t appear to have been about water, so…
I honest to god hate the [INSERT KINDERGARTEN-FRIENDLY TERM HERE] out of the [x]gate terms. Makes me want to punch things any time something new happens and the news makes up another one.
Before GookyGate happens?
Hey guys! I got some clove oil and all tooth pain has magically disappeared. \o/
Hopefully I’ll have a chance to take some photos of progress I have managed to make and show you all!
Glad you’re feeling better scree-scree.
*workshops scree another nickname*
I suggest Screedle-ey-dee, the ey is important because otherwise she just sounds like a bunch of small rocks shaped to look like Tweedledee.
Might I suggest Scree-Scray? That way it makes it sound like Weequay who are one of the cooler Star Wars races out there.
Screeby-Doo.
Screeper!
Alternates:
The Grim Screeper
The Screeper of Souls
Don’t Fear the Screeper
They make take our extra lives, but they’ll never take..
OUR SCREEDOM! 😀
Screebie Jeebies!
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scree
I Scree, you Scree, we all Scree for..
Itchy and Screechy.
I Screemed a Screem of time gone by!
I am having too much fun. 😀
Screen
Screek
Screeze
Screepy crawly
Screetlight
Disascree
Screetings
Screeloader
Screedom
Screelancer
Screestyle
Sunscreen
Screengrocer
Smitherscreens
Corroboscree
Always Screener on the other side
Screeze is like an amalgamation of two TAYbies. And a little weird, thinking about it.
Sreeizzle the mac dizzle
why not keep it simple with screee
I am very good with nicknames…
This thread has gone completely out of control.
I’m not complaining.
Gone Screzerk.
Lets get Screediculous!
Hey guys, built my new computer, now ready to play some games. So please give me a giant list of games to play on it. It is good enough to run everything now so YAY! Still got to move all my junk over from my old computer, but other than that, should be all good soon.
Also the GTX 780 wasn’t in, so they gave me a placeholder 750 ti for the time being til the 780 comes in.
So if you want to play with me either add me on steam at toadthebrute, or let me know your steam name and I can add you.
Wow, what shop is giving you loaner GPUs until stock of the higher end stuff comes in? That’s pretty good of them.
CentreCom in Bundoora.
Great guy, really helpful. Gave me a few better parts because the lower end parts were out of stock for the same price. I guess when you spend like $2500 they tend to look after you.
Very nice. Always something to be said for personal service. 🙂
GO BACK TO XENOBLADE!
So what are the details for getting into this Minecraft server, or where can I find them? I feel like wasting an evening before Destiny.
Give your username to @zetrox2k for the whitelist!
URL thingy to add is: tayserv.fusionpcteq.com
ps. My house is a thing of beauty. Beauty I tells ya!
@zetrox2k
my username is rossfear12 if you could whitelist it
pow make this shit happen
@zetrox2k
my username is ArucardEcks ad I would like to get in on some MC action plz.
whitelisted, but can’t connect anymore. Keep getting a timeout error.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Already whitelisted!
Now to move into your home while you’re not looking.
SORRY BOSS, I GOTTA GO HOME RIGHT NOW. NO TIME TO EXPLAIN.
YOU DON’T HAVE TIME. JUST LOG IN FROM THERE.
PLEASE DONT ENTER FROM UNDER HIS HOUSE!
Pow if any explosions happen it was not my fault
Luckily for everyone I spent the last hour fiddling with my settings before the game would even run for me again. 😛 No explosions (that were my fault)
@gutsoup: Season five of Boardwalk Empire started today, buddy!
:O, I had no Idea, thanks buddy, will watch tonight for sure.
What a weekend… So so busy! Not much time for games (as usual)
Friday night: Harajuku pop-up night at Sake Bar/Restaurant – delicious sashimi bar food, too much beer and excellent company. Moved over to another bar and had bartender make a ‘Southside-something-something’ with ingredients swapped – I have no idea but it smelt like bubblegum and tasted like rainbows!
Saturday: Wifey and I spent most of the day feeling sorry for ourselves. Handling anearly 2 year old when both hungover is dreadful. Got pizza for dinner, played Minecraft on the couch (trying to decide if I should move base, or hollow out the hill behind me after taking inpsiration from the Dr. No Bond film end sequence) and ate good pizza.
Sunday: My day! Had breakfast, gifts and fun times! Lunch at Newstead Brewery with friends and got drunk again on excellent beer and ribs. Felt sick later that night. In bed at 8:30pm.
Also, page 4 already!? And it’s all Destiny hype!
Page 4 by end of Monday. Tomorrow will either be DestinyDestinyDestiny all day or everyone will be too busy playing Destiny. Or potentially porque no los dos.
It’s okay, I’ll hold the fort while you lot are off playing Destiny.
*pents fingers*I’ll be there with you Pow! No Destiny for me because I have no current gen system.
I suspect it will be a quiet week. Apart from twitter getting filled with ps4 share screenshots of Destiny.
I’ll be here too… Saving for a trip to Japan precludes me from even mentioning buying a new console. 😉
Glanced at your spoiler and thought it said penis fingers.
Sounds like an excellent weekend! The food and drinks bit especially.
Hiya TAYpeepoids.
quiet weekend. got myself a boston bruins jersey from a chechnyan guy down in dandenong markets. happy time with that. got woken up yesterday morning by loud race car like engine sounds and a siren going around my neighbourhood then it suddenly stopping and a lot of “GET OUT OF THE FUCKING CAR!!” fun times.
oh, also, im not excited for destiny. just saying 😛
[Cops’ theme music plays]
*cop shoots cameraman “accidentally”*
Too soon. Too soon.
Bad boys bad boys
What you going to do
What you going to do
When they come shoot you
Freya, Gingerchris, Red and I played more Sherlock last night.
The game is really fun and despite the fact that we solved the wrong murder, we somehow ended up with 55 points. Yay for points!
These are not the bodies you are looking for *waves hand*
I founds them and I’ll do as I likes with them!
Points!
Oh hey. I passed 20 000 comments and didn’t realise.
As true today as it was when it was written.
Good evening TAY.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the fun times over these past few months, as a long time reader and relatively new poster it was fun joining in with you particularly on Page 6.
However the time has come where Destiny will soon overtake my life, and I fear that this may be my last time I can post before I level up my Guardian.
Goodbye, sweet, sweet TAY.
High performance? More like Bye Performance!
You can never escape.
He’s crossed the event horizon.
Jesus, 4 pages already. I was only able to get up to page 7 last week.
Decided that I’ll do a weekend wrap-up for the first time, because there aren’t enough of those on Monday TAY.
The weekend was mostly spent watching AFL. No video games were had at all. Some of the teams I wanted to win won, some didn’t. I hope Port Adelaide’s prison uniform is temporary. It’s a fun idea if it’s only used once, but it is so damn similar to Collingwood’s guernsey that it should be a once-a-season occurrence. I realised the only reason I was supporting Richmond was because I like their underdog story, not because I like the actual team.
I read some more of the ninth Skulduggery Pleasant. It’s definitely good, but I get the feeling that people who didn’t like Kingdom of the Wicked’s 6 simultaneous plot points (I counted) aren’t going to like the Dying of the Light’s 8 simultaneous plot points. (I didn’t count them)
I’ve been having some weirdness with my health that I can’t be arsed going into, so my grandmother tried to get me to drink tonic water because home remedies are always the answer. I was very resistant to this idea, because tonic water is atrocious.
After several hours of nagging, I caved, and accepted the glass.
I took a sip, and I was instantly barraged by an incredibly ferocious headache. I managed to find a sofa to collaspe onto, and I lay there for the better part of 4 minutes, clutching my head and suppressing my screams.
I’m such a lightweight that I can’t handle tonic water. Makes you wonder what would happen if I drunk scotch. I’d probably pass out before I could even swallow. (insert borderline offensive jokes here)
The Port prison bars guernsey is an institution.
Also, tonic water contains quinine, and people can genetically have a very low tolerance to the flavour.
So what I gathered from that is that the entire Port Adelaide football club is comprised of convicted felons. Thanks!
Googled quinine, turns out that stuff can have some nasty effects that match my symptoms. Might run this though snopes, though.
That’s entirely correct, also their supporters.
Also for Adelaide in general.
Heeeeey!
Some of us aren’t convicted.
The evidence was circumstantial at best.
Actually, it’s you lot in the eastern states that are all of convict stock, we were a free colony
Should have asked for some Gin with it.
I don’t know. Anything that pisses off Collingwood is alright by me.
Anyhow, the prison bars were only used because the AFL fucked up. They decided that Richmond could have a clash guernsey that is basically the same as their home guernsey. This meant that when playing against West Coast and Port, the home team was forced to wear a clash guernsey because their home guernsey clashed with Richmond’s clash guernsey.
Port was offered the chance to play in the prison bars and latched onto it. Those things are going to sell for a mint.
It was definitely a one off thing though. They normally wear it in heritage rounds. The chevrons are better anyhow.
@shane @SerNobulus @strange
https://twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/508886850136588289
Unrelated: People are lining up outside EB already (only 2 but still).
6 HOURS!*
*I’ll be in bed.
Man, I was just gonna rock up to my local EB like half an hour before 12. Those people have some dedication.
Gotta be first.
I’ll be in the virtual queue with the online people all waiting to collectively DDOS Bungie’s servers on the stroke of midnight.
I have a cartoonish mental image of several million people all trying to cram themselves through a door and getting hilariously stuck so that no-one can get in.
So what you’re saying is I’m invincible?
Excellent.
http://i.imgur.com/b6tFM.gif
Like that, only there’s so many of them trampled to death that the passage becomes impassable for the others.
Every major online game launch ever. This is what happens.
Today was the day of group pictures for school. I wasn’t aware of this event until this morning. I rushed to shave my fledgling neckbeard, creating much bloodshed in the process.
It wasn’t until I got at the school that I realised that the group photo cut into class time. I had a Powerpoint presentation to make, and the class definitely wasn’t waiting for me. It’s a year 11/12 mixed class with 97% year 11s, so it definitely hadn’t been put on hiatus for the photo.
Everyone had to be ordered roughly in terms of height, and be put into a long-ass line so everyone could get sit on the bleachers. While in the line, my anxiety also started to act up.
At some point I said ‘screw this’ and left. The year co-ordinator tried to coax me to stay by shouting a lot, but I left anyway. When I arrived in class, the teacher hadn’t even been notified of the group photo stuff, and marked me absent. The class that seemed so urgent at the time turned out to be almost a complete waste of time. The teacher didn’t even remember the Powerpoint presentation until the last 5 minutes.
The big question is whether this was a good idea. My reasoning at the time was ‘Education over memories.’ For me, photographs are a complete waste of time. They are supposed to remind you of what happened at the time, but my memory is so bad that when I look at a photo, all I see is a photo of someone that looks like me in a place I don’t recognise, surrounded by people I don’t remember.
I still managed to do the single-person photograph for the Yearbook, since the photo-taking took place at recess. The photographers kept trying to get me to smile. It’s a shame I don’t have a donkey’s clue how to actually smile on command. So my Yearbook photo looks like a prison mugshot.
The school photos thing is mostly for the parents.
So the bigger question is: does your mum care?
Time will tell. She’s probably not going to be happy.
Looks like Warhammer: Conquest is available on OCTGN.
Anyone keen to work out how to play the damned game?
Ill give it a test for no reason other than to say i tried it
I have Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway installed on my computer from last night. Surprised my internet was able to download the 5GB in roughly four hours, considering I’ve had times where an entire night’s downloading only installs 3GB.
Probably a local server. Anything I get from games.on.net’s steam mirror rockets.
Brothers In Arms passes the ‘awesome main menu music’ test, but fails the ‘awesome main menu aesthetics’ test. It’s a zoomed in shot of a guy. Surrounded by an awesome burning windmill, sure, but it’s just a guy. It would have been better if the guy wasn’t there and it just showed the burning windmill.
Hard-hitting critique from Phlanispo
The opening cutscene is a complete mess. All I know is that my character is called Baker and he is a liar and a Desert Eagle can kill Superman and some guy we didn’t even see the face of died. Since I didn’t see his face, I’m going to assume he was aliens.
‘ang on, why was there a Superman reference? Action Comics #1 was released in 1938, so I don’t think Superman was the cultural icon he is now.
Superman was pretty much an instant hit.
Though The Phantom predates Superman by two years in terms of costumed superheroes
Man, the FoV is annoyingly low. I got no periph!
Destiny peeps, how do I find/join the TAY clan on the Bungie site?
@thecracks
http://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/Detail/100780
Cheers, sent a join request.
Accepted.
Curious…
Do people think of me as a boy, young-man, or man?
(or something else (relevant)).
Just curious is all…
Lion.
re-owwww
‘A lion? I’ve never though of myself as a lion…’
I don’t?
I tend to think of most people around here as just people. Years of experience on the interwebs and all that makes me think it’s the simplest approach.
This.
I assume most people are bastard coated bastards with a bastard filling.
wearing a bastard hat
Taybie.
Young man, same as any guy in their twenties.
But, you’re in your twenties, and I’d think of you as a man…
:\
I don’t feel like one. 😛
:'(
Stop crying, old man. So old.
I’m grasping onto my twenties while I still can. 😛stop making me feel old…. i just hit my thirties this year 🙁
Young man. Which you will be until you have a solid beard and a buzzed/shaved head. And some difficult-to-define facial hardness/weathering that indicates you have continuously failed to shelter yourself appropriately from the death-star which both slowly kills and sustains us with its deadly, live-giving rays.
(Edit: Also, a meaty, rippling physique with washboard abs. Because, y’know, if you’re going to strive for something… it should be gloriously superficial.)
I almost have a beard 🙂
And you could argue that I do have a buzzed head. Number 2 on the sides, number 5 on top, but it’s still buzzed 😛
I don’t think I have facial hardness though… :'(
Almost a man! I was joking, with the obvious stereotypes (and partial self-description) by the way. I don’t think there’s any useful criteria to set.
Being considered ‘a man’ has a lot of psychological stuff tied up in it. And we are all different things to different people. Parents, for example, will pretty much always think of their kids as… well. Kids. No matter how old they get. You can be in your thirties and your Mum will still probably see you as her ‘boy’.
Without meaning to imply that something you were just curious about might actually be bothering you, I think… sometimes when guys are concerned that people aren’t seeing them as a ‘man’, it can be a real source of self-doubt, wondering what rite of passage you need to achieve, what revelation or criteria you need to match to gain what you may be perceiving as a different level of respect. I’ve definitely felt that, working in places with grizzled veterans and maternal matriarchs.
Respect comes in a lot of forms. Anyone who thinks all respect is equal has never known the respect that comes from being feared. Or the grudging respect of envy for achievements, as opposed to the respect of admiration for your intrinsic qualities or beliefs or presence. People can treat you with ‘respect’ in their way, but if you’re feeling like you’re being seen or treated as ‘a boy’ or ‘just a little guy’, there are elements to that display of respect which may not be meshing with your ideal self-image. That can be knotty stuff to untangle.
I still feel weird when people refer to me as “the man”.
You da man!
Imagine how I feel when people refer to me by my title 😉
(And @liondrive)
When I was younger (17 to 21 or so), I worried about what people thought of me, particularly in regards to thinking I was an adult, and by extension, a man. Certainly, it was a point of pride for myself at the surprise some TAYbies showed when my age was first revealed.
The downside is, all that pressure to act like an “adult” also made me a bit of a tosspot, and a boring person to be around (now I’m a prick, but for entirely different reasons). I now don’t really care how people see me. I want them to like me of course, and I care what they think of me, but not what they see me as. At the very worst, it means they’re seeing parts of me that are shit, but they’re still parts of me.
I was purely just curious 😛
I mainly just didn’t want to be seen as still just “a boy”.
I can live with being seen (by a majority) as a young-man though 🙂
As for respect.
That’s not something that I was thinking about at all.
I’d hope that I’d be respected like you do a friend. I respect everyone here like I would a friend, after all.
Yeah, totally. I mean, what Trjn said covers it, I reckon.
But I also figure it probably didn’t really answer the question in the requested frame of reference.
I say young man.
THERE’S NO NEED TO FEEL DOWN, I SAID YOUNG MAN; PICK YOURSELF OFF THE GROUND. I SAID YOUNG MAN, ‘CAUSE YOU’RE IN A NEW TOWN THERE’S NO. NEED. TO. BE. UN. HAPPY.*prepares to do arm movements reluctantly*
You take Y, I’ve got M…
Whose in for the last 2?
C
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA! /O\
@dc @sunsoar77 @cookingmama @evilmonkey
You’re all fabulous in my books!
\o/ ^o^ o( /o\
Well first I’d think of you as a young adult like most of the others on here but then I still feel like I’m just a kid but then I realise that you’re younger than me so YOU must be just a kid then I realise I’m old and I don’t want to keep thinking any more make it stop YOU DID THIS TO ME!
DESTINY HYPE!!!
Ah, ah,
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow.
The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!
Dum dugga dug um
Dum dugga dug um
Ahhhahaaaaaaah ah!
Raging at dumb university lecturers who don’t understand the systems they are using.
Incoming rant…
Download lecture audio/video from unit page for Week 1 (in 2 parts) early last week. Saved down no issue. In MP4 format files came in around 100mb for 50 mins. Playback is fine in MPC and VLC. Sweet – I can dump these on my phone and watch in my lunch breaks. *high fives self*Go back today to find the Week 2 files – page has gone? *looks high and low thinking what the f*ck? they were here last week*
Oh – there is a new platform/player… that is utter fucking garbage… Start to stream a lecture, audio/video stuttering every 45 – 60 seconds whilst it buffers more content. Yep let’s try and learn while having the audio cut every minute, NOT!
Root around for a download option, finally find it in tiny text (they obviously don’t want them downloaded) get my file started… *that’s odd chrome doesn’t know how big file is* *looks at speed*
35 – 65KB/s!!! ARE THEY FUCKING JOKING?!?
All of a sudden explains the buffering… FARK! So pissed about this!
TL;DR – PG Version – My current subject conveners are poo-nugget-munching-imbeciles who want to make students lives difficult for no good reason.
Yes I realise some f-bombs are barely censored and others are out there for all to see… *simmering rage*
Oh… Now that’s silly… looks like they artificially cap bandwidth on a per-file basis.
No worries, I’ll just queue up 12 weeks of lectures in Chrome. Each of them get a paltry speed – but hey at least I won’t have to deal with this shitty system again in the next 3 months.
Just trying out Velocity 2X, pretty fun, but dammit my reflexes aren’t that fast. Like the platforming sections the best. Not bad for a free game.
I nearly shat through the eye of a needle just now…
Still feel crook. 🙁
Trying to play Pikmin 2 and getting stuck on the first level.
So it turns out that ruminating about writing looks an awful lot like watching Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars.
*rolls up newspaper*
BAD SHANE! THAT’S A VERY BAD SHANE! >:(
GO WRITE SOMETHING!
*smacks Shane on the nose*
I watched two good episodes of TV tonight. Been a while since I could say that (except for when I watch two episodes of Teen Wolf in a row :P), most things I watch have been going downhill. But tonight was the latest episode of The Strain, and the finale of The Leftovers. The last two episodes of Leftovers have been kind of brilliant. In the beginning it was compelling but I wasn’t sure if it was good or not, but it just kept ramping up.
We’re a couple of episodes behind on The Strain now 🙁 really enjoying it though. I just haven’t been in the mood recently to watch the gogglebox
Dagnabbit.
I missed my fourth Anniversary for posting on TAY by 1 day, because I thought it was tomorrow. I was going to make a video to commemorate it and everything.
I am so disappointed in myself right now. Oh well, four years is unimportant. The fifth is the one that matters.
4 years in a row, I’ve barely posted on Reddit on my cakeday. Because it is also my birthday.
You know you’re probably a bit too obsessed with Reddit when you start believing the day you joined Reddit is your actual birthday.
Oh man! The Left Behind DLC was so much better than I thought it would be and I really enjoyed it :D. I had no idea what to expect except that I thought it was about Ellie and Marlene (which it’s not :P)
Still, I’m pretty sure something fishy is going on at Naughty Dog with all the news around people leaving, so I don’t have that much faith in them anymore …which sucks 😛 🙁
I’m a sucker for anything with a good story!
Well, then, I’ll just leave this here.
PATCHES.
I should have known.
How big’s the patch?
Damn you Transientmind!
*shakes fist*
Edit: Nevermind, did a quick search, apparently it’s just under 300MB, which is nothing compared to the 5 or 6 Gig for the Forza 5 day one patch.
http://www.psu.com/news/24580/Destiny-PS4-day-one-patch-is-nearly-300MB
Yeah, it was tiny. Done in a couple minutes.
Just looking around on the Xbone store, for some reason the full price of $26.95 for Minecraft is crossed out and it says $6.65 instead. I know that’s the upgrade price, but I never bought it digitally on 360, I had it on disc.
Probably not gonna play it for a fair while, but what the hell, I’ma grab it while it’s cheap.
Apparently the upgrade counts if you have a retail copy as well. I guess if you’ve played Minecraft at all, you’re good for an upgrade.
Sorry about random posts / mood swings lately.
I kinda get self-conscious around people I genuinely like is all (not that I didn’t like you before, it’s just I feel closer to you guys lately for some reason).
I couldn’t care less what random people think of me, but I tend to value what friends / people I like think of me quite highly.
You’re alright man, don’t stress.
Nah man, you’re like one of my favs!
But we’re already your friends, which means we obviously like you, so that’s all you really need worry about. So yeah, stop worrying before I have to call you a doofus again. 😛
\o/
^o^
o(
/o\
Really confuses me, and makes me angry how we pay more for games digitally in Australia.
Destiny: Digital Guardian Edition
US Xbone Store
$89.99
https://store.xbox.com/en-US/Xbox-One/Games/Destiny-Digital-Guardian-Edition/9932f28d-399c-4501-b59b-0a8cc6fe6009
Aus Xbone Store
$130.20
https://store.xbox.com/en-AU/Xbox-One/Games/Destiny-Digital-Guardian-Edition/9932f28d-399c-4501-b59b-0a8cc6fe6009
$40 more for the exact same product, more than likely downloaded from the same location. What a load of bullshit, an extra almost 50% just because we live in Australia, sure their dollar is worth slightly more, but not that much. It’s beyond me how they can get away with this, when there’s no shipping or anything involved.
Shut up, that’s why!
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Some of you are playing Destiny already, ey?
Well, that’s fine. I’m not jealous or anything. It’s only a day away for me anyway.
*looks longingly out window*
only 9 hours until I can play Destiny :D……….:)…………..:\…………..:(…………….D:
*head desk*
I was sick yesterday, dragged myself into work today. Was planning on waking up to go to the midnight launch last night but slept right through it so I’ve given the task of picking up my copy to my missus. Don’t fail me woman. The plus side to this is it’ll be all patched up and ready to go when I get home 😀
yep, I’ve got my sister staying at my place so she has orders to make sure it’s patched up and ready to go when I get home. I really should have booked the day off, it’s going to be a struggle.
PS4 does that automatically if you set it up right!
yeah I have mine set up to do auto updates, but something went weird with destiny, not even sure if It’s pre installed right seemed too small.
8 hours
There will be BLOODBORNE at Tokyo Game Show later this month (18-21). Presumably that means fresh trailers/gameplay vids.
Get hype.
I’d bloody well hope there’s some video for it, it’s releasing in 5 months!
There’s already been a 6 minute gameplay video. This and one extended trailer would be the ideal amount for me. I don’t like being saturated in previews. I prefer the way they advertised forthcoming games 10-15 years ago.
RE: Destiny
Morning all! so Im guessing everyone is playing with the big D?
no, not that D you filthy bastards….
$49 left on my preorder picking it up Friday, aka, PayDay.
also, ignore my twitter feed war ive started with Dick Smith, the preorder thing didnt piss me off half as much as their dodgyness and sheer arrogance…
i do expect an answer from them. What annoyed me the most is the fact that they have been – right up until yesterday – pushing a Destiny pre order promotion for $59, through email, TV, as well as catalogues, including the latest catalogue that ended yesterday. Yet theyve been refusing preorders for the last 2 weeks.
staff have been quite rude about it, and stated “low margins” as reasoning, which breaks consumer law on all sorts of grounds.
RE: Minecraft
if anyone needs anything minecraft related (ie Whitelisting/issues/etc… best way to reach me is via twitter. Im on and off TAY right up until about 3:30-4pm each day so i may not see some messages till next day!.
All whitelisting requests are done!
Is this PC minecraft Zetro? I’ve not played minecraft before with buddies so I’d be keen to give it a try lol
yeah pc man…. give me ur Minecraft ID and ill whitelist you…
I’ll get Minecraft on my PC and let you know what my ID is 😛
I’ll just drop this here
tayserv.fusionpcteq.com
P.S. say goodbye to real life because you will be focusing on outbuilding other people.
Now that I have abandoned my shitty tower and got the basing elements of my fantasty castle underway I’m back to mining. I don’t know who owns the small wooden shack in the middle of the water next to the fountain/dome thing but I borrowed their enchanting table for unbreakable/fortune tools until I can get my own library built. Books are so much more of a pain in the ass now that you need leather, which means I need to find some cows and get to farming, I guess.
I wont be. Playing Destiny that is..
At work while sick because I need the money instead of sitting at home in blankets playing Destiny. Today could be more productive for me
I’m sitting here at work using Excel to work out whether it would cost me more to eat 4 ham and cheese sandwiches or 3 tuna and cheese sandwiches for lunch today.
Spoiler:
The four H&C sandwiches are marginally more expensive than the three tuna sandwiches ($1.83 v $1.70).Hurrah for productivity!
Tuna leaves a lingering aftertaste, I’d go with the ham.
I’d say that 4 more expensive sandwiches would always cost more than 3 less expensive sandwiches 😛
Also, you eat a lot of sandwiches 😀
A tin of tuna costs $0.80 at Aldi, but will cover three sandwiches. A slice of ham comes to $0.16 (32 slices for $5 at Aldi). The tuna is more filling than ham, so you need an extra sandwich to get the same satisfaction from ham, which of course means you need extra bread and cheese.
The maths gets complicated!
Edit: my morning’s work.
I now regret not making a roast chicken, salami and cheese toastie with kewpie mayo for work 🙁
What, no pivot table?
I am dissapoint.
I guess I could factor in the frequency with which I’d need to purchase new ingredients and a range of other variables, and create a sandwich matrix.
Weh, uh, alright just stay calm B-ob. These babies will be in the stores while he’s still grappling with the pickle matrix, bhay-gn-flay-vn.
Conditional formatting?
Flag green best value options green, bad value red.
Introduce new ingredients you can use to build your sandwiches. 🙂
PS: I spend way to much time in excel at work… And I want to conditional format the world! Mwahaha!
So who’s playing Destiny? Give me a sliver damnit, I don’t know how I’ll contain the hype for another 12 hours 🙁
I’m still in bed, but when I do decide to get up – I’m heading out to pick up a PS4 copy.
Today, I hate people like you 😛 Also, why would you not be out of bed already? I hate you 😀
Is this when I say that I’m at home, my copy is sitting right next to me, but I haven’t even plugged in my PS4 yet?
D:
Second week of my annual leave. Plus most stores open at 9am, here.
one more month until I can start to accrue annual leave. The Witcher 3 might be a good time to take a few days off
I played for five or six hours after the servers opened (which, incidentally, is about as long as it took to reach the level of progress achieved in beta), and now I am awake again, bleary-eyed and powering the console back up again.
Sooo… some Destiny, then? Some Destiny, yes.
Did you get any content apart from Beta content?Yeah, did some moon stuff. Pretty.
As some of you may know, I lost a fan from my video card the other day. Now my 256gb ssd has decided to pack it in! Grrrr! I was using it as my steam drive, and thankfully I managed to make a backup of it, but damn… why is everything dying all of a sudden?! DON’T YOU KNOW I HAVE NO MONEY UNIVERSE?!
I wish I had a money universe
Speaking of big games and things: I just started Red Dead Redemption for the first time ever.
Thoughts so far:
Eh.
I knew I couldn’t be the only person in the world for whom that game was “eh”.
<3
For me it wasn’t instantly grabby but the more I played it the more I got sucked into the gameworld. Much more so than any GTA I’ve played except maybe SA. Now it’s one of my most favourite games. It’s hard to go back to it though as the opening missions are a bit of a drag
I played it through, but (for one thing) there was just too great a disconnect between the gameplay and the story for my liking.
The implied urgency of the story worked to undermine the appeal of roaming an open world and doing random activities, and I ended up stuck in the middle, unable to totally enjoy any of it.
A lot of Canadians found the game, eh?
I would have been more engaged if I didn’t have my wife in the peanut gallery saying “this looks boring” “oh my god you’re not even doing anything” “seriously are you picking flowers now what the fuck”.
I love my wife but sometimes she makes it really hard to enjoy things, then she gets mad at me when I turn off the game/TV show I’m watching to enjoy later in my own time. And don’t even get me started on what happens if I don’t enthusiastically enjoy everything she enjoys.
Agree on the eh, never found it all that compelling.
Just seen the Arkham Knight special editions on EB Games…Why make two different statue editions? Money grabbing bar-stewards. I might get both
Super expensive version seems to be xbone/ps4 only.
But yeah, interesting approach having multiple expensive collector’s faff editions. That’s not really going to cover two different market segments.
So many publishers now do it I’m guessing to try and get people to buy as many editions as possible instead of having one super-duper edition with everything in it. I want a Batman statue but I also want the Batmobile edition.
But yeah, poor masterrace Batman fans only get the Batman edition
@dc, don’t think I’ve mentioned this yet, but I’m digging the new blog entries. CONTENT \o/
Also, your enthusiasm is infectious. Particularly enjoyed your Wolf Among Us write-up, and agree with it.
I wish I could read the blog entries, but spoilers :'(
The Wolf Among Us post doesn’t have spoilers. I didn’t care about being spoiled for Murdered: Soul Suspect. And I don’t think it’s possible to spoil Diablo 3.
But if you haven’t played it yet, avoid the post about The Walking Dead S2.
Indeed I have not played it yet. Installed, but not started. And I’m so anti-spoilers I’m avoiding the whole blog as a result.
Thanks Shane. This is for you, then.
D.C. rambles about Wolfenstein: The New Order and P.T. and Sarah Connor.
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/97009663526/09-september-2014
Drama upon drama with this car. My wife started it up this morning and was faced with a “code 82” error. Searching online tells me it could just denote that an oil change is needed (which seems odd since it was only serviced ~3,000km ago) but apparently the guy at the service centre had no idea what a code 82 even is and recommended she bring it is for checks as it could possibly mean faulty injectors?
Either way, I really hope this is covered under our warranty because otherwise I’m going to hurl myself out the nearest window.
So the service centre tells her it is just the oil thing. Chances are, based on what I’ve read online, was they didn’t reset the mileage counter when they changed the oil at the last service, giving my wife a freakout for nothing. GG, Holden.
Nice error code Holden.
Only you, can make this world seem right
Only you, can make the darkness bright
Only you, and you alone, can thrill me like you do
And I fill my heart with love for only you
O-o-only you, can make this change in me
For it’s true, you are my Destiny…
Damn, where can I get one of those at this point in time?
It’s quiet. Too quiet. It must be
destinyfate.Gonna be a lot of tumbleweed around these here parts in the next short while.
*cracks knuckles* time for the PC master race takeover >:D
NINTENDO MASTER RACE! \o/
Porque no los tacos.
Badadadadada dadadadada
Minecraft?
Minecraft.
I think I’m Master Racing wrongNo @dc to circle the wagons either
Today I have been married for 8 years. We both forgot this morning. I felt guilty about not buying her anything but she told me my present was Destiny.
Which I had already paid for.
With my own bonus money.
Married life yo.
well you can always organise dinner now and make it a surprise to hide the fact that you forgot 😀
Two young kids makes a dinner out more of a logistical and literal nightmare without babysitters.
Strap one to each of your backs \o/ and off you go!
(Happy Anniversary man!!)
If you’re gonna brab her something, get something in bronze or pottery. Apparently that’s the thing for 8th anniversaries!
A bronze manly helmet for… erm… reasons!
A bronze sword to help her in the slaying of her paleolithic enemies.
Nobody suspects the bronze weaponry as it’s usually the level 1 gear, if you don’t count the wooden swords of course! 😉
I forgot my wife’s first Mothers Day until one day before.
Thank God for the Internet, florists who take orders on the internet and deliver, and takeaway.
My ex actually got pissed at me because I didn’t get her anything for mothers day the first time. We don’t have any kids though, so wtf?!
What? Seriously? Did the conversation go like:
“Give me stuff for Mothers Day!”
“But…you’re not a mother. Are you?”
“That doesn’t matter!”
yeah pretty much… she kept harping on about it all day too :\ made me feel terrible. just cos all the other women in my family were mothers, I guess she felt a bit left out, but kinda shit me off.
My wife and I celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary in July. When I saw celebrated I mean we had a nice dinner. She doesn’t really believe in buying gifts for special occasions when it’s two people who live together and just buy whatever they want when they want, plus without her own income it’d be a little one-sided.
I’m still going to do something special for her next year though, completely blindside her.
7th is wool if you don’t know/care to know!
Pfft, rules.
I’ll get her something nice and sparkly, take her for dinner at someplace other than the local Catholic club or Sizzler. Since 7 is a special number to Bungie maybe I’ll try and get her a Halo-themed gift, or Destiny if it turns out to be any good.
Happy anniversary, Freezes!
This is your chance to prove you’re better than her by buying something that makes it look like you were just pretending to forget this morning. 😛
Trying to prove I’m better than her usually works out poorly for me.
Do not try. Just do!
Happy anniversary, friend.
Off to JB to pick up
DestinyRock Band 3!Rock band 3? I thought you had it already?
/or did I miss a joke somewhere else?
We had the US version but Mr Strange locked us out of our US account so we can’t use the DLC. So I grabbed him some AU DLC for his birthday and hunted down an AU copy of the game.
oh cool! can you play multi player with 2 local copies? Can you even do rockband online?
I guess we probably could. But considering the point of the game for us is to do something fun together, we’ll probably just stick to playing together in the same room. 😀
haha well I wasn’t thinking of detracting from the real local fun, just curious if it’s possible. I never thought about it before, and if you don’t ask, you don’t know! 🙂
Rock Band 3 supports up to seven players on one box (drums, keyboard, guitar, bass, vocals x3) so there’s really no reason to use two copies.
ummm i think you misunderstood what I meant. I was referring more to the compatibility of local vs US for online play. I know there are often issues surrounding using US accounts, so I wasn’t sure if you could play with someone who’s playing a different version. Then I realized I’m not even sure if there is online multiplayer in rb3
There’s online MP and it works cross-region fine.
ahh cool!
Taylor Swift’s new album!
Shake if off. Shake it off.
yes.. yes… take your own advice sire! Sounds like you could do with a cold shower! 😉
Dammit everyone’s playing Destiny while I’m pulling my hair out at work!! >.
I’m with you…except I already have no hair…*tugs on beard in annoyance*…ow
Gift cards have been dispatched! Rewards from my great work on the way \o/. Now to figure out what I should get from JB when the time comes… definitely a Vita and maybe a tablet as well
Any plans for using the tablet? I’ve been debating getting one lately but I feel like any reasonable use for it would involve signing up for another data plan >.>
Reading and taking notes mostly so I won’t get anything crazy expensive, unless I can get a tablet that can run Civ 5 as it has Windows 8 tablet support, just need something powerful enough.
If you’re going for a high-end tablet then you’d be crazy not to get a Surface Pro 3.
I may be biased.
Way too expensive for what I’ve got in my gift card budget sadly 🙁
I maybe could go for Surface Pro 2 though… but how good would that be?
A lot less good than the Pro 3, which fixed some of the design issues of the Pro & Pro 2.
Stuck in bed with the flu….
No, not that flu.
Obligatory hi @effluviumboy.
You’re never stuck in bed with @effluvium-boy. You only get stuck having to leave his bed.
#SueñoBarco
Destiny talk
1. I have a spare code for an ‘upgraded red sparrow’, that EB exclusive thing. It’s maybe 1 pixel faster … anyway, who wants it?
2. If on PS4, this is the process: insert disc and allow to install. Launch, DL 300MB patch. Install, launch – game needs an additional 20GB of content from disc and small patch before it’ll run. So be aware, it’s a good 10-15min before you can launch the game.
3. I’ve played an hour (actual playing, minus loading/installing/waiting), this is what I’ve seen:
Zero new content. I’ve been playing the Beta. I’m not kidding I see absolutely nothing new in the game and I have an eye for detail.4. Reflection upon Alpha/Beta:
I guess Bungie knows what ‘beta’ actually means. They released a proper one, not a scaled down demo and limited version.5. Reflection on my 1hr gametime.
I’m scared. I see no new content. I’m sure there’s more moon/mars/venus missions, but holy shit why am I playing the beta again? :\ The same broken shit, the same issues, everything the same. Hopefully the two expansion passes round out the game more (but they are a LONG time away), because I can actually see where they stopped making the game world and left a connector open to slot in this DLC. I’m just gonna try hard to maintain positive outlook on this game, and have fun by myself and with some people online ..6. Overall, as it as I thought it would be?
Yes, exactly.Yeah, that’s what I thought would happen but it’s still disappointing. I didn’t really enjoy the alpha/beta but still ordered it anyway. Disappointing to hear that nothing much has changed 🙁
I will still give it a shot when my copy arrives though.
Yeah, this is what I said elsewhere:
It’s what I expected. I expected a bland game with no depth (didn’t we talk about this, you and I? :P). It’ll still be fun to mindlessly shoot stuff, it’ll still be fun with friends, and I’m sure the mars/venus and expansion stuff will add on a bunch more hours.
tl;dr I expected a highly mediocre game that’ll be fun to play with myself and/or friends, and the ability to easily expand. I think, so far, I got what I expected.
cant help but notice you spent ONE HOUR playing the game yet seem to have spent much more than that trashing it at every opportunity. one word: troll
wow you played a whole hour? bet you spent that long writing your “review”. pathetic
I met a guy and his kids crazy enough to start lining up for the midnight launch Destiny at, oh, 2 in the afternoon? We shot the breeze; I pass a midnight launch line once or twice on my way to work for a night/morning shift, so there’s something to talk about.
“I’ve a few mates in australia. Since they’re ahead one day chances are they’re playing it right now.”
“Ah. Lucky them.”
We both stared out wistfully into the sky.
Hmm… woke up uncharacteristically early today… got to work an hour earlier than I normally do… worked 3 hours extra over Friday and Monday… to go home early, or not to go home early, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the back and eyestrain of excessive coding, or-
Oh, who am I kidding. Destiny awaits! [after lunch]
WISTFULLY INTO THE SKY.
… well, that was bad timing… Sorry. *looks sheepish* :3
Ah, totally self-promotion. I’m sorry. (Though probably not if I’m about to post it any way.)
New blog entry on Wolfenstein: The New Order and P.T., minimal spoilers for both.
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/97009663526/09-september-2014
WHY DO YOU TORMENT ME SO?
Don’t be sorry about self-promoting, silly 😛
Except, maybe you should promote somewhere broader (if you want more readers), since I’m sure most people here already read your blog 😛
Still promote here though too! 😀
There’s an account on Twitter that promotes stuff, right?
Maybe see if you can get them to plug your post.
Use hashtags in tweets also.
Also, you’re a good writer, and you’re blog is very interesting and well written.
You should promote it more so more people can see your writing 🙂
Thanks buddy!
You’re not gonna promote more, are you? 😛
I didn’t mean to offend, if I accidentally offended you :’S
In hindsight, it was probably not something I should have said / asked :S
MY DEEPEST APOLOGIES!!! :’O
No accidental offending. 😛
You know I just found out that Karl Marx had an intense dislike for Earl Grey. Kept saying that all proper tea is theft.
Actually replace Karl Marx with Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Stupid facts getting in the way of my #page6. Grumble grumble.Took me a while. Thought I was just not smart enough 😛
He didn’t #page6 it so it’s not your fault.
I wonder if it’s a tautology to say #Page6 when it says comment page 6. Might have to ask at the next meeting of the tautology club. The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.
I take it you got that joke from here?
AFAIK it’s a fairly common joke, but yes, XKCD illustrated it perfectly
Ugh I got end-page-get! Destiny talk at the bottom of previous page.
In other news, I’m not feeling too bad after attending my first midnight launch. 😛 It was pretty alright, 50+ people in the shop. Pretty much just talking with friends about various things and checking out white PS4 controller. Was okay.
I was going to make a joke about the dinner I have planned for tonight, but steak jokes are a rare medium well done.
I don’t get it.
Get your own dinner.
Huh?
Phew, good thing I literally used this one last night (as in, actual talking) or we could have had quite the faux pas. Imagine, showing to page 6 with the same pun!
But it you really want to see a faux pa, just ask any stepdad.
They’re best if just out of the blue.
Cribbed this one from the wedding I went to on Saturday, but what do you call a joke involving Cobalt, Radon and Yttrium?
CoRnY. #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangesodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium
LEADER!BATMANI saw a shirt with that on it on the weekend. It was nicely arranged to in a periodic table as well.
Barium Thulium Americium
It’s like Batgirl but more matronly.
KATAMARI DAMACY
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no?
I’ve been slowly working my way through Jormungand and I think I’m really starting to like it. Jonah and Koko’s relationship still weirds me out but other than that it’s pretty good.
Can’t remember if it was @transientmind or @negativezero that recommended it, but points to whoever it was 😛
Thought for a second that said Jormungandr… We should really play Magicka again 😛
We should.
So many old games to play, so many new ones to add to the list…
Hey! Listna!
Wasn’t me if it was a recent recommendation. It’s a decent show but I forgot about it fairly quickly after it was done. Great action sequences in it though, and reminded me a fair bit of Ghost in the Shell:SAC at times.
That was a while ago! But yeah, I enjoyed it. It’s pretty cool how the grins of the team in dangerous situations indicates that as normal as they may seem they are all extremely damaged goods.
Disappointed to see the doughnut shop here has closed down.
Apparently the owner was sick of the hole business.
You should have made it a pimp joke.
YOU should have made it a pimp joke.
Actually heard this one at the station the other day. For some reason the announcer was saying things and decided to throw that one in there, had me actually thinking that Kirspy Kreme had closed.
…not that I’ve checked whether it’s still there. Hmm.
Mustn’t have been making enough dough.
Maybe he’ll have batter luck next time.
Page six reminds me every week that you’re all terrible people.
Especially Shane, grandmaster of terrible.
I’ll upvote that.
I MISSED PAGE SIX FOR ELEVEN WEEKS I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW
..Is this a joke? I don’t get it?
Indeed, ’tis but a joke.
But excellent TAYbies.
People who tell really bad puns shouldn’t just be banished, they should be drawn and quoted.
I like you too, DC! 😀
Terribly GOOD AT JOKES
I’m trying to learn golf, but I’m not that good. I still have a fairway to go before I master the hole thing.
You just need to get your skills ironed out to drive your way to victory.
You do that while I go eat my sandwedge.
Could you have putted anymore golf references in that?
I guess I didn’t keep my eye on the birdie, apologies
Just remember: If golf puts iron in your backbone, you’re doing it wrong.
Don’t feel too bad. A lot of green people struggle to bring their talent to the fore. It’s par for the course!
Just need to have the drive to get better. Also the Iron will.
Err’body (except for @saturday) playing Destiny while I’m just here, doing my squats.
Work’in on that booty.
I’m not even jealous…
WISTFULLY INTO THE SKY
BOOTY BOOTY BOOTY BOOTY ERRY WHERE
It’s dad joke page six and the sad thing is, my heart just isn’t in it today.
I have a job interview, everybody is off playing Destiny and I’m in an office with fluorescent lighting. I feel scared and terrified.
*Feel self* Odd, I feel more like a human than terrified. #pagesixforlyfe #nevarforget #somebodyhelpme #Ithinkimintrouble #ohgodsinterviewsareterrifyingJust remember: every question can be answered with “Because you touch yourself at night”.
I am literally dry heaving through too much laughter right now
Because it’s always true.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
I ran into this vegetarian the other day, and she seemed to recognise me, but I swear I’ve never met herbivore.
Boss just rung, “can you go into work half an hour early”? Goddammit!
Not sure I follow. Which part is the pun?
I don’t get it.
It was Charlie Sheen’s Birthday the other day. He had a raging party, shit loads of drugs and alcohol and hookers!
And then someone told him it was his birthday!Even though, I’m still going through the same content as I did in the Beta, I’m really enjoying my time with Destiny.
Can’t wait till I get past that and get to explore other planets.
Excite!
I can’t wait to go to uranus.
Really, Commander?
*sigh*
Probing Uranus.
A three-legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West. He sidles up to the bar and announces: “I’m lookin’ for the man who shot my paw.”
A scientist cloned himself but the experiment created a duplicate who used very foul language. As the clone cursed and swore, the scientist finally pushed it out the window, and it fell to its death. Later the scientist was arrested for making an obscene clone fall.
A ship carrying a cargo of red paint collided with a ship carrying a cargo of purple paint. Both crews were marooned.
Is it lunchtime yet? My tummy wants it to be.
is it home time yet? my everything wants it to be.
Counting down the seconds until you get to eat can be very time consuming.
I was just thinking about moving to Moscow but there is no point Russian into things.
Exactly. You’d really want to Czech all your options.
You’ve gotta be sure to look at it from all angles though. No matter how much Ukraine your neck you can only see so much from the one position.
Actually after some research I’ve decided it might be best not to move. I was just reading about an old Soviet cross breeding program that was seeking to mutate Ursus arctos and Enteroctopus dofleini. I’m reliably told that several of the hybrids escaped and they’re still on the hunt for red octobear.
I lived in Russia for a short time. I smashed my Sudan though, Iran and never came back. Norway will I ever go back.
/reply fail
oooooooooooooooogh goddamnit install and update faster so i can spend the next 2 hours perfecting how my guardian looks!
Mine’s some hot babe with pink hair. YOLO.
same but with green :3
Purple, here.
Never try to hook up with a photographer in their dark room. It will always be a negative experience.
It has arrived. Roll on 7pm finish. -__________-
You’ve contracted Boneitis and it’s terribly contagious and you should head home immediately. The best medicine is bed rest and Destiny.
“I need to assume the role of a guardian and assist in the prevention of the destruction of the universe” is a valid excuse to leave work early right?
Just say that you’re going to be a Guardian of the Galaxy and waltz out to one of the songs.
I’d say waltz out whilst staring them directly in the eyes, chanting “Ooga chaka, ooga chaka.”
“I can’t stop this feeling.”
It’s the one I’ll be using 😛
Why do bears have hairy coats? Fur protection.
damn, missed page 6 by one comment 🙁
You could say….
you missed it by a hair.Bearly missed
I got myself into a hairy situation but just bearly.
errypageispage6!
Our company is looking at moving towards a completely cloud pased document management system i.e. no printer. The service is managed by a third party at a fixed monthly cost. I think I prefer to paper print though.
#Page6getfailWhat’s soft, brown, and loves honey?
Winnie The Poo.Hi.
Dear Page 7,
What ever happened to letter writing, anyway?
Typing too much to operate a pen,
Gooky
Dear Gooky,
Sadly, page seven is always a distant memory by the time I arrive. I have failed in my duty. I ask for your forgiv- Hang on, you orchestrated page seven’s destruction! Traitor!
So has anyone flipped their work desk yet and gone home?
I’m close. I’ve got literally nothing to do and the minutes are crawling by. So quiet.
I have things to do but I don’t wanna.
Same here! I’ve already done my sandwich spreadsheet and I’m out of ideas!
Can’t, it’s securely locked to the floor itself 😛
They knew.
I wish. Wonder how early I could get away with leaving today?
I’m trying to come up with an excuse, that I haven’t used recently.
11:25am?
No matter how much I’m willing it to happen, the boss hasn’t suggested I go home early.
Suggest it to him in a way that makes it seem like it was his idea.
It’s proving quite difficult to get the suggestions in between people asking me to do stuff for them. Ah well, keeps me in the job for a while longer at least.
Even if I did, the game doesn’t unlock for another 5 hours 🙁
That sucks man. 🙁 I hope that you get shoved onto our servers though after the unlock…. 🙁
So do I. Very much so. It would be dumb for them to use system region to decide rather than ping, hopefully.
The box for the Ghost edition of Destiny is kind of crappy. Made from undyed recycled cardboard or something. Guess it’s environmentally friendly?
better than the box I got
Digital 😛The Limited one is pretty neat.
They’re going for $300+ after a quick look on ebay… Hmmm. *stokes beard*
Nah.
I wish I was at home right now. I can feel my Awoken Hunter calling to me.
Great! I finally get to go to the Moon and I have to get ready for work >:I
You have something to look forward to when you get home, that’s what I’m telling myself lol
Maybe you’re not a wizard.
Damn it Hagrid, you lied.
Hey, Valentin Zukovsky isn’t exactly trustworthy.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/dolph-lundgren-what-schwarzenegger-stallone-and-van-damme-are-really-like/story-e6frfmvr-1227052471024
I love this guy.
Dammit Tay. I’ve got the quietest day I’ve had at work in a long time, I want to go home and you’re completely dead.
You’ve failed me for the last time Tay. *tries to force choke Tay, fails miserably, cries*
Yeah what is this, I’m actually getting work done.
Inconsiderate jerks.
Hi Freeze! Call your wife!
Why, what do you know that I don’t?
If I tell you, the answer to that question becomes “nothing.”
so it turns out im an absolute tool…. wondering why TAY is so quiet…
Thanks for pointing that out @beavwa lol
was posting in old TAY… /o\Both TAYs are quiet. Going to be one of those weeks from the looks of it.
If you are ever in that situation, compose a sonnet, like I did.
Still sick in bed, though I’ve gained a pair of pooches for emotional support. 😀
awwwwww…………….. pets are so awesome… one of my kitties comes and lays down on my arm every night…
While I was
playing tennis with a ghastwalking home on a bridge through the nether Iwas blastedfell off into the lava below.I didn’t particularly want to lose my gear, so I logged out, leaving myself in a lava-y limbo. I’d appreciate somebody’s help in acquiring some magma cream in order to make fire resistance potions so I can have Nos, or me using Nos’s account to mount a rescue operation.
I plan to fill in a portion of the lava lake, a 10*30 block area below the portal to Nob’s house. I’ll probably border the drained area with cobblestone, of which I have plenty of in my house, but the drainage will probably require quite a few resources.
@zetrox2k can you please whitelist MagicalCorkscrew on the server so I can mount my rescue.
Your life has definitely taken a turn for the weird.
I’ve got quite a few stacks of gravel and can probably help out if I get time tonight.
I’m sure that’ll help, but fire resistance is gonna be top priority, then setting up the drainage area, and then filling that in to remove the lava.
How will fire resistance help? You’ll probably die before you get a chance at a potion someone throws you.
Top priority at this point is making sure your stuff doesn’t melt in lava when you die.
The potions are for the people setting up the thing, so it doesn’t happen a second time.
I have to get from a bridge suspended over lava to the lake which is like 30 blocks below.
The plan is to hijack nos’s minecraft account, gear up with stacks of cobblestone, and fill in a lava lake, the fastest way down would be to jump in with fire resist and set up a return path.
Fair enough. I was going with a far more simple plan of just walking to some coords carrying nothing but a few stacks of gravel.
Using potions to jump into the lava makes that task a bit easier.
addedd!
Ill help out if i can get on tonight to assist
A new game development school opened up in my work building. Someone should enrol. We can do lunch!
Frozen doughnuts for everyone!
I’ve never been good at sharing.
What’s it called?
My rivalry senses are tingling.
I think it’s a new branch of AIE? I’ll have to double check when I leave tonight.
Repost from old TAY cause im a tool:
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\ )
If you are having trouble logging on using the tayserv.fusionpcteq.com address, you can use the direct IP 43.245.160.22
You can add me to that list of Minecraft peeps, thanks.
im sorry!!!! and i thought i got everyone /o\
Don’t worry about it, I only started on the server last Friday.
Been using the IP address since you first added me… Didn’t know there was a url-y type one.
Although… I was stunned that there was a massive boat just sitting across the bay from my shack the other night!!
Feel like a peasant as the Spanish navy floats into my hovel.
Still so much to learn… although I think I’ll do something with that hill behind me…
yeah thats my brother in laws ship, (unloyal)… he works part time so has PLENTY of time up his
arsesleeve…You missed me!
But I don’t play Minecraft, so I guess it’s okay this time.
joooooooooooooooiiiiiiiiinnnn us……………………….
I wholeheartedly endorse this action.
I made a terrible mistake.
Last night I went to bed super early due to being pretty tired. Sister has just moved out, and so she calls me at 10:30 to get advice re: internet plans. Woke me up just after I got to sleep. So of course that meant insomnia time, made doubly bad by the fact that it was windy as all fuck last night and our gate was banging in the wind and the bogans next door’s shoddily-built patio roof had once again disconnected from its moorings and was flapping in the breeze.
So anyway, I decided after trying and failing to sleep for about an hour that I’d get up and play something. So I grabbed my Vita. My LE for Danganronpa 2 arrived on Friday so I’ve been feeling a bit pressured to play the first one properly. Finished chapter 3 and now I pretty much want to go home and play more of that instead of playing Destiny. 🙁
I still think that the mini-games you have to play during the trail sequences are absolutely shithouse by the way. They seriously hamper my enjoyment of what is otherwise a great game.
When the random words start appearing in front of your truth bullets i wanted to punch dicks. The controls for the end part of the trial arent really explained all that well either.
The fucking stupid awful rhythm game thing? Every time I’ve gotten to one of them, it’s been weeks after the previous one (I am bad at finishing games ok) and I’ve forgotten that you need to alternate – x is aim, triangle is fire. Triangle being fire is fucking stupid, by the way – that button should never be an action like that, it’s just unnatural. Anyway, the explanation of that system is fucking terrible and doesn’t explain things well at all. But the whole trial thing is really crap to the point of not being fun. Hard enough to figure out what combination of stuff it wants you to do sometimes without having the pressure of a clock / life bar and all that junk, let alone all the stuff they throw in there just to get in your way.
I played it through with the missus and i had no idea how to do the rythme thing, on the 4th try she said she could do it and she passed it like straight away so i just did all the pre trial stuff and let her do the mini games because for some reason she liked them.
If you play through trials a few times you get the hang of it but its pretty annoying. I kind of just want the story without the crap mini games. Because the story is compelling and really interesting
The fool strikes again.
So I have a loaf of bread at work. The shitty knives there didn’t cut it very well, so I wrapped up my bread knife this morning and took it. I now have sandwich materials at work. What I don’t have, is ham/salami/something because I forgot that. -_-
Subway is half-hr trip just to get it, deli across the road will probably give me aids from their lack of hygiene.
Solution? Work until super-hungry, then go home and eat and play Destiny! 😀
You aren’t taking the train are you? You might get done for having a knife in your bag!!
Haha nah, luckily. 😛
Sooooo turns out that due to a management error (read: my fault) I actually have somebody covering the gym this afternoon at 3pm rather than me working ’til 7pm…
Destiny Hype Engaged
For those of you TAYbies who work in any sort of IT support capacity can you do anything to weed out the dopey ones like the guy I just got off the phone with?
Printer at work runs out of yellow toner, extract dead cartridge, follow instructions to the letter for loading a new one. Machine fritz’s and decides it still needs new yellow toner.
Attempt installation about 4 more times.
Use cleaning-wand-thingy to see if it helps. It doesn’t.
Try the old turn it off, turn it on trick. Doesn’t work.
Call service desk…
Me: Our printer serial number xxxxxxxx won’t load from the new yellow cartridge I’ve attempted 4 times to install.
Tech: Yellow cartridge?
Me: Yes, a yellow toner cartridge.
Tech: You said cartridge, and now you say toner – which is it?
Me: *sigh* It’s a yellow toner cartridge.
Tech: Have you replaced it with a new yellow one?
Me: *sigh* *deep breathe* I’m not sure how silly you think I am – but yes, as I said, I’ve been trying the new yellow full cartridge for the last 15 minutes and it won’t load any toner.
Tech: What’s the message?
Me: *rolls eyes, this one must be special if he hasn’t figured it out yet* ‘Add toner.’
Tech: Have you tried turning it off and on?
Me: Yes.
Tech: Please hold…
…
…
Tech: So it’s this model printer, at this location, is it an MFD or just a printer?
Me: It’s an MFD
Tech: I’ll get a job in and company rep will attend to resolve. Your case number is xxxx. Anything else you need help with today?
Me: *is he serious?!* Nope, thanks.
Me to colleague: I’ve just about f*cking had it with that support desk!! I don’t need to be asked if I’m trying to put yellow toner in the f*cking yellow toner cartridge slot.
After my post last night about uni… I think this week is shaping up as a bit of garbage… Karma for having such a good weekend no doubt. 🙁
Whilst you might not be, generally everyone you receive calls from when working in IT support is an absolute fucking idiot.
Really… I worry that there are people who wouldn’t try put a new cartridge into a printer when it says ‘Add toner’ and clearly points out it’s the yellow one…
Is this why we can’t have nice things?
Yes.
“My printer won’t work, I’ve tried everything”
Is there an error message on the printer?
“I don’t know…yes. It says out of paper. Can you fix it now?”
Exactly this, being in support myself, there are those out there too, so we get taught to “make sure” you did all the basic checks on everything, all the way down to “Is the interface connected and on?” cuz I had one where we got an incident that a client lost connectivity on their server… turns out it was just a disabled NIC on the OS.
Well recently I discovered there is an infrastructure architect in my area that doesn’t even know how IP subnetting works.
Subnetting is pretty great, i miss setting those up… Well we used virtual lans but the concept is the same
but yeah… this guy tried using x.x.0.0, 10.0, 20.0, etc on a /22 and he was wondering why the software said no
From a support perspective, there’s nothing wrong here. You wouldn’t believe the idiots in the world that exist, hence the questions being asked. And even then, sometimes, lusers will lie to you.
A computer tower is a hard drive. A monitor is a computer. An MFD is the phone on my desk.
At my old job, the person who used to do the IT stuff called towers hard drives.
As someone that works dealing with customers, yes. You do really have to ask 9/10 of them if they’re doing the stupidly obvious thing because they usually aren’t despite insistence.
Only a few hours ago I had a customer asking for a battery for a commodore key. Commodore keys are sealed and don’t come apart and the battery is soldered in. She tells me no it wasn’t and it came apart easily and I don’t know what I’m talking about. She then produces the battery which is nearly torn in half from being wrenched away from the board.
It’s not you. It’s near everyone else.
I’ve become extremely patient with phone support people after having worked in a similar role 😛 Easiest thing from their perspective is if you just calmly go along with the checks they have to make. Some people stumble on the most stupidly obvious things that it’s unbelievable.
I once had someone call us saying they couldn’t see the update we just made to their website. Turns out they hadn’t refreshed the page first…
When I was on the tech end of the call, I’d normally joke about computer gremlins and get them to go through the basic troubleshooting “just to see if it works this time”.
It’s amazing what you can get people to do when you’re united against a common enemy, in this case a fucking printer. Fuck printers.
I am generally pretty good at being patient… got the vibe this guy just didn’t want to be there today… Wanted to play Destiny maybe??
Or it was me at my wit’s end with our stupid printer… It’s nickname is Bob Marley… cause it’s always jammin’
#imissedpage6
I know this seems obvious but most cartridges have a little ribbon that you have to remove to open them up and let the printer actually use them. So have you tried turning it off and on again?
Unfortunately yes, most users are not knowledgeable or intelligent enough to do all of that, and some think they are but haven’t actually done the right thing even still… I understand it’s a frustrating thing to go through as a user, but in the same way it’s just as frustrating for the phone jockey… We’ve had so many incorrectly raised tickets due to the user claiming they’ve done stuff they clearly haven’t… I don’t miss answering phones, and i never want to go back 😛
Oh yeah, I’m 0 for 2 with climb nights and No Swear September. The two seem highly incompatible.
No Swears September.
We’re allowed to have one.
#HELPING
I’ve got three ;_;
ONE… AT A TIME \o/
Unless you have two larynxes, you’re all set for success.
I choose to believe I’m allowed to have one……hundred…
…thousand.
Ok, if I can pump out 1,000 quality words (of a 2,500 word report, of which I have done none) by tonight, I’ll let myself play a bit of Destiny.
Motivation for doing assignments!
Plus I’m scared of falling too far behind everyone else’s level to coop with them :3
PS4?!
Why yes indeedy 🙂
Aww yiss.
Added.
So I’m going to Turnbulls piracy forum tonight. Should be a fun time.
Current opinion: I understand a lot of the piracy measures and think that some of these proposals are reasonable but only when our current market makes tv/movies cheaper and more accessible (eg. Netflix roles out and it’s a fair price).
Let’s see if my opinion changes after.
Regardless of your stance on the matter, I would very much appreciate if you could wee on Turnbull for me.
If you get arrested, pass it off as a political statement on streaming or something.
Can you stream your stream if you do?
I wouldn’t want to pirate a copy.
Well if there’s a better way of marking my territory/dominance then I’d like to hear about it.
How’d you go? What’d you think of the forum?
Hey Destiny peeps. I tweeted about this, but figure I’ll put it here too.
My co-worker doesn’t have many PSN buddies, so he’s looking for people to play Destiny with on PS4. I’m notoriously bad at syncronising my online sessions with people, so even if I get the game I’ll be near useless for him.
So you should all add “Naaxx” and invite him along to your party if you see him online. He’s a good guy (well, personality-wise… can’t vouch for his skillz)!
Added him.
I love this. 🙂
I work with some real intelligent people, I often receive e-mails like these:
Spoilered because work bleh, also sorry, I’ve been trying to keep work whinging to a minimum but this is kinda funny.
“Hi Gutsoup
I need you to book me a flight for tomorrow, flying back the next day
from Simpleton #17”
I’ll respond with things like
“Anywhere in particular or should I just pick somewhere?” and am usually met with a cold stare.
Another prime example from today
“Hi Gutsoup
I need accommodation in Darwin for 2 guys
from Simpleton #23
Me: “I’ll need some dates and the names of who will be going, do they need separate rooms, what time are they due to check in etc.”
Simpleton #23:
“I’m not sure, it’ll be Worker #14 & someone else, I’m not sure what dates but it’ll be about 3 weeks”
Me: “Well what do you want me to do?”
Simplton #2 “Book it in”
Me: “Sigh”
Simpletons! \o/
Powalen’s Adventures with People-in-Other-Offices-Who-Share-Our-Bathroom At Work! *jingle* (okay that didn’t really work)
The urinal in the men’s bathroom on our floor is clogged up. It has a sign saying “Do Not Use” and is clearly clogged with a bit of water in the bottom of it every morning.
Every time I go to the bathroom, the level of this water gets higher and higher and yellower and yellower.
People are peeing on top of other people’s pee! It’s disgusting! It has hairs floating in it!
I’m using a different bathroom for the rest of the week.
*outro jingle*
Thank god this wasn’t a page get 😛
Saw it anyway. No longer going to enrol at the new game development school that opened up in your work building because I’m afraid of all the germs your coworkers are spreading around.
people in Offices can be really gross, our kitchen gets really bad some days. I just use it for Coffee making and clean up after myself.
I once worked with people who came from a culture that felt it was appropriate usage of the toilets to pee on the floor, not flush after dropping the most dank logs imaginable, wash their mouth out in the basins and spit phlegm everywhere around it, and generally make a horrible disgusting mess. One time there were feces left in a urinal that caused the thing to clog up and had to have a plumber come in and remove the thing from the wall so they could get into it to unclog the shit that was caked into it.
They also would steal your food out of the fridge, even if it was labeled.
And these weren’t even people from another business that shared our offices, they were part of our company, just working on other contracts. 🙁
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Office toilets are the absolute worst.
Oh I almost forgot. Does anyone know who Omega Stealth is on PSN? S/He added me last night and a few taybies are on their list but I have no clue who it is.
@os42
Edit : whoever that is.
Ahhh. Cool.
Mystery solved. I, too, wished to know who this person was. 😀
Hi @os42!
o/
\o
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oXo
XoXo
– Gossip Jimu
@liondrive
I don unnerstan
:'(
Why is every guy here so straight?!
(it’s the “xoxo, Gossip Girl” line… from Gossip Girl)
@liondrive
You mean if I were gay I’d watch more TV?
o/
Sry for brevity, was on mobile. To clarify, I added a bunch of people from the Destiny discussion last week, and from the article yesterday. Always been a bit more passive with friend-requests, so felt a bit awkward sending out requests yesterday.
Feel free to remove me if you don’t want me in you lists; I won’t take it personally (this goes for anyone else that got a request yesterday) – the last thing I want to do is impose. :3
Nah, all good. Just had no idea who you were. I get so many randoms adding me constantly for some unknown reason. Saw you had a bunch of Tay folk on the list and was wondering is all.
My Destiny character vaguely looks like @shane. Coincidence or foreshadowing of something more sinister!
Is he constantly plugging his weapons in the chat?
He prefers to use the knife. It’s the lesser evil. *nudges everyone unseemly like*
*blocked*
EVERYPAGE6!
It’d be more a shotgun, each shell being one of his novels and each shot being just as impacting as his stories within!
Seems a shame to give him such an ineffective weapon.
Oh man. Cherry on the top. I opened transaction dispute about my bee keeper suit, cos the merchant said they didn’t get payment. I got the item last week, but turns out my bank already refunded the charge!
Free bee keeper suit FTW! 😀
Yay! My copy finally arrived in the post! I know what I’ll be doing tonight!
Reading, duh. What, you thought I meant Destiny? Not even interested.But, but MINECRAFT!
It’s like they don’t even have
an addictionfun!To be fair i still haven’t even seen anyone else, other then on chat… I’M THE BEST AT MULTIPLAYER
I like to do the hermit thing in Minecraft. Feel free to come visit if you’re up for a walk – I try to build a sufficient distance away from other players.
My interest in Minecraft is lower than my interest in Destiny.
I already knew I needed a copy of that, but is that a T-rex being air-dropped into the sarlacc?!
Hasn’t that always been part of the logo? http://what-if.xkcd.com/
Holy shit…
Hahaha, awesome, I really need that book now.
Having followed the original blog it was based on (book contains 51% new material!) it’s going to be a hilarious and thought provoking read.
glad to know I’m not the only one who cares not for destiny!
Me either o/
Destiny shmestiny. I’m in control of my own fate.
o/
So if anyone is ever wanting more people to join on Destiny, feel free to add me to party and we can shoot stuff up!
@powalen & @shane don’t liek me. 🙁 Friend requests pending still …
What console is this? 360? I haven’t turned it on in about a week. I’ll make sure I accept, though, the next time I switch on. Have no plans for Destiny, though, sorry!
Or Wii-U? I’ll check that tonight.
If it’s any other console, I don’t own it 😛
Playstation! 😛 So who the hell did I add LOL
I used to own a PS3 but it died. You probably added me, but you’ll never hear from me again…
Un
lesstil I buy a PS4Edit: Consider this in-principle approval of your friend request, though! 😛
The last time I turned on my PS3 was for Dark Souls 2, let alone logged into PSN! Maybe one day 😛
EDIT; Wait, it’s not for PS3? WiiU then? I thought you were talking about a Destiny console. And I don’t own anything else!
Yeah PSN.
Want to go home and DESTINY but… meeting at 2, meeting at 3:30, meeting at 5, meeting at 5:30 🙁
Tuesday ლ(ಠ益ಠლ
Have I just not noticed or has Patricia not written anything but fluff pieces since that article of hers that got completely rewritten about the Cards Against Humanity guy?
Considering all the shit floating around lately, I’d say her usual stuff has been temporarily withheld.
No point running around the woods quacking in the middle of duck season.
… QUACK!
What a majestic creature.
Wabbit season!
I think there’s been a couple. I like her ‘normal’ stuff, like the Sims article. That’s good quality shit.
She wrote a pretty cool thing on the (american) PAX Pokemon League a bit ago, but looking for it now it apparently didn’t make it over to the Aus site.
http://pocketmonster.kotaku.com/meet-the-people-who-are-pokemon-gym-leaders-in-real-lif-1625108684
Out of curiosity, how are you going with preparing for your PAX AU Pokemon gym? It was you, wasn’t it? Sorry if I’m getting mixed up.
Yup, me and Mawt.
It’s all good! I’ve got my costume all done and have ordered my badges (they’re so shiny). We’re all getting our portrait artworks drawn by the PPL team at the moment which should be fun to see.
Now I’ve just got to actually breed/train my team before it’s too late… 😛
How does it work? What levels will all the trainers be? 100?
The latest games actually handle the levelling for you for multiplayer. If I remember correctly you can set it to either 50 or 100 and it will scale both teams accordingly (stats and all).
All the proper rules are here! http://paxpokemonleague.net/rules/
I have noticed that Tina Amini can actually write good articles when she’s no longer blantantly spoiling a game in the article header/byline/title image/all of the above.
So, if I can pump out 500 quality words on my 2,500 word report (which I haven’t started), I’ll let myself play Destiny…
Wasn’t it 1000 just before?
Might as well just pump out 250 kind-of-okay words and play Destiny.
Looking at what I have to do for the report counts as working on the report, right?
Maybe I’ll just do that! 😀
Briefly think about your report and play Destiny.
Play Destiny…
…
…
what report?
Liondrive? More like Lion-lack-of-drive!
I have plenty of drive.
Drive to get pecs and a booty, and drive to play Destiny.
My priorities in life are in order.
I would write 500 words, and I would write 500 more, just to be the man who wrote a thousand words for liondrive’s report! DA DADA DA DA DADA DA!
Deal.
It’s on the Ethical problems of Knowledge Management.
It’s due on Monday, so have your 1,000 words done by tomorrow.
Use at least five peer reviewed journal articles as references.
Thanks Welbot! 😀
there were no promises made!
I WOULD..meaning if I wasn’t too lazy! Soz man *brohug*
Do you wake up, and know what you wanna be?
Destiny has words in… Just saying…
Urggh. My work has devolved into writing reports by opening template documents and filling in the blanks. Woo. Hoo.
That’s a lot of my job. Until I automated the templates. More time for TAY \o/
I could get up and do some drawing, consindering it’s literally a foot away… but I’m so comfy… and still sniffling… 🙁
Baw, just found out the missed call I had on Friday was from my friend who was going tosee TMNT.
How the hell am I going to find ANOTHER other person who wants to see it?
I kind of want to see it. If we go at similar times in different cities that still counts, right?
Does it really count if you can’t put your hand in each other’s pocket?
When?
Iunno. Any time between now and when it stops showing?
Actually wait, doesn’t it only come out on Thursday?
I saw it last Sunday?
Thinking about all the Collector Edition crap I have floating around the house. So very much of it stuffed into boxes not doing anything except taking up space. I only ever want the game and statue.
I kind of regret almost all of my collector’s edition purchases. Arkham City for example. All the Assassin Creeds (though I have since given those away). GTA IV (now gone). inFAMOUS 2 (now gone).
But I have mad love for all my Souls stuff (Including my Demon’s Souls Black Phantom stuff, which IIRC, you sent me)
This is why I’ve largely stopped buying CEs. So much of the bundled stuff is trash. Especially most bundled statues. If it’s something I’d like I’d rather pay extra and get a professionally-made one rather than a cheapie pack-in, and I have yet to see a pack-in that I’d pay for on its own. I pretty stopped with the statues ages back when I got the Bioshock CE and it had an enormous, heavy, poorly made and ugly cast-metal statue with it that was utterly not worth it. Made the mistake of getting Bravely Default’s CE last year and that pack-in managed to be even more poorly made. 🙁 I possibly have high / different standards when it comes to figures though.
Every now and then I get suckered in by the promise of a good artbook or soundtrack or something, though they’re almost always disappointing. The one time that I got a CE that actually had a truly good bundled soundtrack (as in, it came with the entire 4-CD OST) it was FFXIII-2 and I never got around to playing it anyway 🙁
I’ve found the statues a bit hit and miss. The Assassins Creed ones are remarkably good quality. The Duke Nukem Forever bust was nicely detailed and solid. The Arkham Origins Joker TV is all over the place like it was sculpted and painted by 8 different people. Dark Souls 2 is the worst paint job I’ve ever seen on one but the statue itself is nice. Chris Redfield from RE5 fell apart without being touched. Arkham Asylum batarang looks like someone took a box cutter to it. Haven’t had a chance to look at Destiny’s Ghost yet.
The only statues I have are Assassins Creed ones. Going by them I always assumed statues in CE’s were actually pretty good quality. If they’re generally not though that’s a shame 🙁
I only let myself buy the Assassin’s Creed CE’s these days. Like a guilty pleasure. Or a reward. Or something.
Can I have some?
sexytimesI’ve only ever bought 2 collector’s editions in my whole life. Darksiders 2 for the cool Death Mask and Infamous Second Son because I really liked the beanie. I know where the beanie all the time 😀
I’ve always wondered how peeps who buy heaps of CE’s have the space to show the items off =\
Well I was going to play some Destiny sometime tonight but I went and got a bunch of coffee so I guess I’ll be too busy with sexytimes. #lifehack
Fun fact: My phone autocorrects sexytimes to sedatives. Why you gotta judge me like that phone?
Sounds like helpful advice.
Woo! \o/
*Grabs home-made, locally sourced and imaginatively spiced popcorn*
I’m sure she’ll be happy to sit down and relax with a cake and coffee followed by sexytimes while the drain is flooding the house with sewage.
Well of course.
Wouldn’t want to kick up a stink.
Well there’s your anniversary present. 😛
Your phone makes you sound like a sex offender
I feel too scared to join my friends parties in Destiny. I worry they will yell at me. D:
I won’t yell at you.
Because I lost the microphone plug-in thing that they shipped with the PS4 🙁
did you check the box? its where mine is, because I will never use it. ever.
Indeed, that’s where I found it and got it out for the Beta.
And then didn’t use it.
And lost it. 🙁
Nice!
If it’s anything like Diablo I don’t think they’ll care and will be more welcoming. Crash all the games. It’s an online shooter. What else are you supposed to do?
Shoot motherfuckers in the face?
don’t worry, @dc, I will yell at you anyway
I mean won’t, I won’t yell at you. If you are playing a Titan I will whisper words of encouragement about your gear and loadout. If you are playing a Hunter or Warlock I will whisper “do your class skill thing which I have no idea how effective it really is”.
Lucky we never got the microphones for Mario Kart working, huh?
Lucky for you. You’d never return after hearing all the names you’d be getting screamed at you.
Fine then, I’ll just jump into your games, and make you yell at me!
I don’t think you can crash other peoples games, either that or I am blind (which is pretty damn likely)
EDIT: Yup, blind. In my defense I didn’t realise I had to go into the “invite” page to join people’s games.
I was waiting for you too. Had headset on and every thing. 😀
Oh.
Now I’m disappointed in myself.
Bah, boring old headsets are for boring people, you and @blaghman should get something like this and then you can use Skype and a good PC headset and mix the sound levels between chat and game to your liking. Free yourselves from the oppressive yoke of low quality cellphone handsfree microphones and automated volume assignments! Join the admittedly-slightly-overcomplicated-but-awesome-when-it-works-desktop-mixer-master-race!
It may well have taken months of research and started with us buying the wrong stuff numerous times in an attempt to make a dodgy solution to record xbox live chat but @Longjocks and I finally got this setup working and damn if it’s not the best thing that’s happened to our gaming in ages. Hardly ever a voice dropout because the game and comms are using the exact same bandwidth, no occurrences of the chat being drowned out by sudden jumps in game volume (or if it sounds like it might be we can just turn the chat channel volume up with a quick fiddle with a knob then giggle because that sounds a bit rude), it’s all smooth and helps coordination no end. Now the only reason we fail is because he sucks so much.
Joooooin ussss!
I only left you because joining halfway through that mission would break my sparrow getting.
Thanks for the fun times (you too @gutsoup…)
no worries, dunno what was going on with my mic,I could hear you but not jo. Might need to buy another or just see if the one I used for my PS3 still works.
I’ll definitely be engaging in yelling, especially in PvP =P But it’s ok cos my mic won’t be connected xD
@virus__ Couple of new songs from World On Fire available on iTunes. 30 Years to Life is an 80s glam rock style song and Safari Inn is an instrumental. Both pretty good songs.
Did you ever end up checking out Devin?
Did I already ask?
Haven’t yet. Devin’s a priority and so is Eluveitie (hi @strange). I will listen to them at some stage. Just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Eluveitie are amazing. I was a bit cautious when I read about them but their music is so friggen cool.
Edit: Is that Devin Townsend by the way? He’s pretty awesome too through all the different things he’s done.
YEP!
Automatic Overdrive is probably my fave followed by The Dissident. Such a good groove to both those songs. Stone Blind is also another good one.
30 Years To Life, reminds me of Paradise City with the drums in the intro. Good song. Safari Inn the bluesy feel to it, makes me wonder how much of that is Slash and how much of it is Myles, since he’s an pretty amazing and accomplished guitar player.
30 Years to Life reminded me of a Scorpions song. The guitar work was great and so were the vocals. Safari Inn is cool, great riff.
@gutsoup
Yes, yes it is.
“Is Xenoblade awesome?” for 100 points, Alex.
Anyone else had trouble with the Destiny preorder bonuses? I preordered digital guardian edition from US PSN, but haven’t got any of the preorder or guardian bonuses besides access to the expansion pass
I don’t know if my preorder has even gone through yet. 🙁
Mine worked perfectly. Pre-ordered the Limited Edition from EBGames
I got some more sewing done today. The vest needs re-doing, but the pants turned out well.
http://instagram.com/p/st45WEASaH/
Emmet! 😀
Yes, for Mr 3. I noted today that there is a certain practicality in dressing him in high-vis at PAX. I won’t lose him easily! 🙂
Nothing quite like seeing one of your heroes looking studly:
https://cdn1.lockerdome.com/uploads/e1c3016fec338dc1a5115d12121627ae67ecafd233f5c8daed9559d843c5518b_large
Who’s that? Ekin Cheng of Young and Dangerous fame?
THE GOOCH!
The dude from A Better Tomorrow?
What’s that?
I’m trying to guess that actor you linked. I think I’m in over my head though, I have no idea what’s going on here.
The Gooch.
I dont think I consider any actors as myy heroes… Neg has it!
Anyone thinking of going to the royal Melbourne show this year?
I’ve registered to run the Fremantle half marathon and I figured I would try and raise some money for Diabetes WA while I’m doing it. Any help is appreciated.
https://freohalfmarathon.everydayhero.com/au/running-for-those-who-cant
Just finished collecting all the legendary items in Risen 3! w00t! I’m unstoppable!!! mwooohahahah!
I just sold all my stuff I’ve been hoarding, and I now have over 100,000 gold, and I got an achievement called Miser!
I have now finished Risen 3! 111 hours!
D: I’m only 15 hours in. I’ve got a long way to go.
hahaha yeah. you could complete it in much less than that if you stuck to the story, but I always do as much as I can in one hit. Only achievements I’m missing are a couple for boosting stats to 100, and a couple of story ones that I got locked out of due to my choices in game (if I’d chosen differently, something else would be locked now instead). Also done 6/10 arm wrestling and drinking games, and 8/10 knife throwing. I can’t seem to get any more though. Not sure if it only counts when you play against different people, or supposed to count each game, but I played 3 rounds of arm wrestling in Taranis last night, and it only gave me 1 count in the achievement :\
I’m not too bummed though. At least I found all the treasures and completed all the missions I possibly could! End boss was a nice challenge too!
Only downer was the ending. I’d say I don’t want to spoil it for you, but there’s nothing to spoil really.. you literally sail off in to the sunset and the credits roll 😐 Thankfully the journey of getting there is second to none, so as much as it’s a shit way to end it, I’m still satisfied! 🙂
Hey hey, has anyone bought Destiny digitally on PS3 and intends to play it on PS4 immediately?
Has the upgrade thing worked? Doesn’t seem to be showing up under the PS4 Library at the moment for me ;o
I thought it was an upgrade system that was coming out “x” amount of time in the future.
That was my understanding anyway.
http://www.destinythegame.com/digital-upgrade
I assumed it would be instant but they added a new “FAQ” on the website saying “We anticipate the PlayStation®4 version will be ready for you by Wednesday 9/10 at 6pm PDT”, so I’m just curious if other people have it yet.
@masha2932 and I are kinda testing a thing out so I don’t technically have access to the PS3 version 😛
Oh man, sorry, that means Thursday for it to be available and maybe a day to download it so Friday or Saturday for you to start playing. /o\
You should have finished Last of Us and maybe the DLC by then though so it’s not too bad :-p
I finished all that on Monday 😛
YEEEEESSSSS!!!!
Turns out my report is actually an essay, and it’s only 2,000 words!
That’s hella easy!
I can do that tomorrow!
…I should start it tonight :'(
Still, better than a report! 😀 😀 😀
Do they have to be 2000 different words? That makes it harder
You obviously didn’t see my twitter post 😛
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Twentieth Session Recap (3rd September 2014) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders,
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
And unfortunately absent:
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places, and
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness.
The party gathered themselves together and pressed on to the highest level of the Spinneret. They followed the ramp along the outside of the tower until they came to a large and imposing solid metal door leading back inside the tower. The door did not appear to have any mechanism or other way of opening it so Blaghs shoulder-charged into it, heavily denting the door and loosening it from its hinges. Charging into a heavy metal door was not exactly the wisest course of action as Blaghs staggered back from the impact and stars formed in his eyes. The buckled door had been dislodged from its fitting and Blaghs was easily able to push the door open, grinning at the rest of the party as he had triumphed over the mighty door.
Read more at http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxFbg-_CAAAIEwZ.jpg
Game of the year! (cc. @gutsoup, @jocon)
… Jealous :'(
Stupid uni >:(
Stupid time difference >:(
PS4?? WHY DONT I HAVE YOU GUYS AS MY FRIENDS?!?!
because you hate us :'(
Ah dammit, ok you got me there =P
Blizzard gave me a beta invite to the new WoW expansion. So that’s 3 expansions in a row now. Guess i’ll see what Warlords is gonna be like tomorrow afternoon, since servers are down for maintenance atm 🙁
From the mouths of 9 year olds…
“So I was asking everybody at school if they had the Minecraft book with the sword on the front and I was the only one who had it so everybody was buggering me all day for it.”
Lucky chap!
Hey guys, I have a bunch of unclaimed stuff from Humble Bundles to gift to people. Let me know if you want any of the following.
Crusader Kings II
Crusader Kings II – African Unit Pack
Crusader Kings II – Russian Unit Pack
FTL: Faster Than Light
Fez
Legend of Grimrock
Mark of the Ninja
So if you want anything, let me know and I will add you on steam and send it your way.
Also, played maybe 30 mins of Destiny tonight, really enjoyed it so far. Game feels good and polished. I had no hype, despite being a massive Halo fan, and had not played the Alpha or Beta due to laziness. Will play a lot more of it tomorrow.
Invite Sent.
Could I please get the african and russian unit packs for crusader kings 2?
Steam ID is same as TAY handle.
If anyone doesn’t have mark of the ninja, they’re wrong and need to fix that. It’s a bloody fantastic game.
I’m super late but if Legend of Grimrock is still available I’d love a copy.
Sorry mate, it is gone.
Do people even bother with The Last of Us’ multiplayer? 😛
I don’t usually bother with the multiplayertackedon kind of games, but iunno… it’s there so I might as well play it sometime I guess :P. But everyone’s all busy with Destiny so I’ll ask for buddies later on if I can still be bothered 😀
___
@beavwa reckon you’d be in the Monster Hunting mood sometime closer to the release of MH4U? I really want to get back into it one day. One day…
I’ve always felt it’s kind of weird because The Last of Us is so heavily marketed and sold for its singleplayer story and everything’s about Joel and Ellie and what does it really mean to be the last of us? and oh yeah we have a multiplayer mode too. It does feel like too much of an afterthought.
Although, I haven’t actually played it myself, and a lot of people seem to view it quite favourably. What I’ve watched of Achievement Hunter playing it looked like a lot of fun, too.
So to answer your question I don’t know.
I bet its as good as the multi on DK64
Hell yeah. I can jump back in any time someone else wants a hunting buddy. Solo play has been hibernating for a little while.
Going to have to shake out a few cobwebs in time for PAX as well.
Hope we get a MH4U CE like the US one. Although I suspect it will release similar time to the new 3DS, so a bundle may be in order.
Holy crap, I just had seven-ish minutes of cutscenes in Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway. They weren’t even good cutscenes, and they barely explained how I got in a cemetery. So far, the story is a confused mess that isn’t in order half the time. The continuity would be easier to follow if the big red text at the start of every cutscene telling you the time and the date would stay on the screen for longer than half a second.
There are about 20 different characters that it expects you to care about. I thought the Italian bloke was called Paddock, but the next time I see him, he’s call Roselli. Is this the same bloke? And why should I care about him? Who is Kevin Legget, and why does he keep showing up in my cutscenes, but not in any part of the actual game? Are all the cutscenes with him flashbacks? And why does he look like Harold Ramis?
Have you played any of the previous Brothers in Arms? HH is the third in the trilogy so it kinda/sorta builds on the barebones story from the first two (not really though, it’s a WWII shooter so there’s barely any story).
First game I’ve played in the series.
Anyone want Warlock: Master of the Arcane? It’s free!
Yes, please.
I’ll have it if no-one else wants it…
Check your notifications. It’s in old TAY.
Thanks, mate!
🙂
I just died suddenly in a Dragons Dogma boss fight D:
Seemed to come out of nowhere , thought I was winning!
I just had the most delicious dinner! Felt like toasted sandwiches, but had no bread. Had some left over tortilla’s from taco’s though..
Grated cheese straight in to non stick pan, and tortilla on top of cheese. spin the tortilla and wait 1 min. flip tortilla. cheese is golden and crispy!
Top with chopped tomato and chopped triple smoked ham, crack of black pepper and some tomato relish. Eat like a taco! BAM! As @dkzeitgeist would say… SAH GERD!!!!!!
You basically invented the quesadilla?
mmm almost, but not quite! was more like toasted sandwiches taco style!
Very first trophy that pops in Destiny during the tutorial and it’s a Very Rare one (Bane of the Kell). The heck did that happen?
That was my first too.
How’s it looking so far? Should I bother with it?
I have no idea what I’m doing. There’s people running around in my game and half of them are called spartanxxxx and I feel incredibly self conscious.
Mechanically the shooting is very good. As far as I’ve figured out.
No idea what you’re doing, hey? That’s not exactly a glowing recommendation!
I keep pushing it, but you guys should add Naaxx to your friends list. He’s too shy to hunt down people to play with by himself, so I’m being his agent 🙂
Done
The last game I played that had guns that felt and sounded so good was Black. I think that was 2 generations ago….
Anyone doing crucible yet?!
What’s that for? I got Ship Rite (for finding the jumpship), Dragon Slayer (for beating the Archon in the level 3 mission) and New Steed (for connecting to the vehicle grid). For some reason my wife has four achievements and New Steed isn’t one of them even though I think she’s played more of it that I have.
25 precision kills on Fallen in one mission without dying.
Ah, I think I’ve only gotten around 15. Might be one to go for when I roll a sniper character!
smash smash stab stab loot loot
I love Diablo
I love 2 as much as I love Torchlight 2, honestly.
Playing as a Barbarian was so much fun.
Don’t know what it is but there is something about getting loot that is very satisfying. But it only gets better when the loot is better then what you currently have equipped.
My essay has taken a turn from being about how Ethical Issues impact Knowledge Management, to about how big organizations are evil for hording knowledge.
Where do I get weed and a rastafarian beanie?
I fear I’ve gone full hippy…
I can hook you up 😉
Ah… uni assignments and weed. I swear that’s how I got through my Bachelor’s.
Well as they say knowledge is power
So… uh… I don’t think I’ve actually been charged for Destiny. Either that or I got charged for the preorder when I placed it, but I thought it worked like you had to have funds in your wallet when it launched? I was $3 short so I topped up yesterday, but nothing’s gone out of my wallet since and I have all the DLC and stuff (figured out just before that I need to download it separately)
So odd. I must have paid it when I preordered somehow.
Your Destiny is free
Ugh…
So it appears that my webcam doesn’t want to behave for some reason…
Oh, VGX awards, you thought I had forgotten about you?
I love how McHale just hates Keighley and treated the whole thing as a complete waste of time.
He wasn’t wrong.
I just bought a pair of slim fit jeans… On the internet…
We’ll see if this works out.
I’ll prepare the ice-cream.
no popcorn?
Porque no los dos?
Ewww. That flavour combo should not exist.
One of my sister’s friends used to stuff a cone with popcorn before putting ice cream on it. Absolutely swore by it. Got my sister to try it once, apparently it was pretty good.
I disagree, having tried the popcorn ice-cream at Esq.
http://www.foodservicenews.com.au/news/esquire-hybrid-minds
Coles has caramel popcorn flavoured ice cream….
I’ve been trying to fix this webcam for the past hour…
Bupkis.
I might just head to bed and try to get it working tomorrow.
Goodnight, TAY.
Fix it how? what’s happening with it?
It keeps getting this little red light that only turns on when he’s getting intimate.
It’s morning, I left thecomp on ALL NIGHT.
So hello.
Hi Jimu!
Hi Welbo
so uh i dunno if you heard about this ‘destiny’ game but it’s pretty rad
I mean it’s been under the radar for me so I wouldn’t have known
Nope, never heard of it.
Whats a game?
Are you still staring wistfully or are you finally playing?
Level 11, going though the paces in pvp. Still kinda skewered as it was in beta, makes me shudder at the thought of Iron Banner matches.
Lemme tell you, though, lots of melancholy going around while I was waiting. Violin music and all that jazz accompanied by single tears being shed. Great stuff.
The wolf among us is $10 on humble bundle if anyone is interested
So apparently Lego Batman 3 is gonna have a season pass… what! they must be joking.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-14279-LEGO-Batman-3–Beyond-Gotham-Season-Pass-Announced.html
Also, apparently APB is coming to PS4 and Xbone.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-14280-APB-Reloaded-Coming-to-PlayStation-4.html
Destiny roll call.
I’m a level 5 Exo Titan.
Now you.
I’m a level 6 human Hunter. (On the PS4.)
I’m a level 3 Exo Warlock! Ok I only played for 20min…. stupid updates and installation took the other 20min of my play time 🙁 I’ll be on more today!! ADD ME :@
Kronos013 – PS4
Will do man, I have to go to work in a few hours, but I’ll be on tonight.
I’m a game design intern.
Also comedian Extraordinaire 😛
You flatter me so 😛
Level 6 Human Titan
Level 3 Exo Hunter
I’m pretending that my little robot dude is looking for a way to become human so that he can find love 😀
I’m playing this game wrong :3
Far as I’m concerned, there is no “wrong” way to play it.
Level 12 Human Hunter PS4 yo \o/
Level Loser 🙁
Level 12 Human Hunter Mayne
Played Destiny almost until midnight on a work night and upgraded my Arkham Knight pre-order to the Batmobile edition without consulting the missus first.
I like to live dangerouslyHoly crap, the difficutly in Destiny has really ramped up, think I only died once in the first few hours of play, but in this mission, I died like 10 times in about 5 minutes.
Edit: Correction, looking at the end of mission stats screen tells me I died 7 times.
Yeah I decided to do all missions on the harder difficulty since I aced Beta and I’ve noticed I couldn’t be as rambo as I was previously.
I did the first mission on Hard and the end boss nailed my ass to the wall, I had to camp in that corner room. Sticking to normal for now.
I got killed once on hard by him, then I just took my time killed adds, and kept head shotting him with my scout rifle. Took about 3-4min? Since he only uses a shotgun you’re never in any real danger if you keep your distance from him!
Yeah, I did that but sometimes I’d get cocky and lose my shields/health and get swarmed by his minions when I went running for cover.
I got killed by him yesterday because I thought I’d be clever, close in and shotgun him in the face. He turned around and smashed my face in for an instant kill 🙁
Yes a boss that uses a shotgun is likely to be able to “smash you in the face” =P
I was expecting it to be a bit dangerous but wasn’t expecting to be able to be insta-killed with a melee attack.
Speaking of melee, whoever designed the fucking stealth fallen that rush right at you and stab you is an asshole.
Thats why they give you fusion rifles and double jump!! =P
@pupp3tmast3r: fusion rifle is useless against guys that rush straight at you in groups of 3-4, doesn’t fire fast enough. Also double jump while underground and in a corridor?
@negativezero then fusion rifle and run away! Also what class are you? One hunter knife usually makes short work of them as well!
@pupp3tmast3r: Titan, and using a Scout Rifle which is the exact opposite of a good weapon when hordes of dudes are running straight at you. 🙁 Also I was a level below the requirement and that didn’t help.
I’ve died once so far, when I was level 3 and tried to take a level 7 reaver solo, but I was just doing a patrol to grind up to level 4 before taking on the next story mission.
The first strike has been tuned up, especially the first event, Shanks now hit much harder and stealth Vandals are now much more aggressive, making it a pretty intense fight
The mission on the moon sword of wossname was the first time my hunter had died but damn did she die a LOT in that mission. Introducing a completely new combat mechanic into a boss fight in a no respawn area was a bit of a dick move. They give you a checkpoint which is at least okay but it’s a hell of a hard fight when you have to learn how to do new stuff while also fighting off a horde and 3 elites (though the elites at least show up one at a time but damn do those bastards hit hard)
The difficulty is pissing me off. I usually play games on Very Easy or cruise control, it suits me as I hate a challenge in shooters and like to finish games as quickly as possible due to life’s time constraints. With a kid and all I really don’t have much time to game.
That said, I’ve had my arse handed to me say fifty times in Destiny so far? Not happy. The Knights are real pains in the behind when they’re up close; I really need to nail those fuckers from afar.
Maybe get one of us to jump in and help you if you’re stuck? You could also try doing some exploration quests to get 1-2 levels ahead of the curve for the story missions.
Thanks, but do I need PlayStation Plus for that assistance part?
Not sure if you need PS+ for everything MP or just for strikes & crucible.
I’m not finding the Knights too hard, just try and keep your distance, and use cover when your shields start getting down, and if all else fails and your shields go into red do what I do and run away!
So I played a bit of One Finger Death Punch (Thanks again @evilmonkey!), by the machine spirit this game is amazing! So much fun for such simple controls!
Glad you’re enjoying it mang.
It’s starting to get really challenging after a little under a half hour and I’m not even past the first difficulty out of 3 yet, it’s insane!
Pokedex Bank project is on the final straight.
Generations 1 to 5 are fully banked (excluding some event legendaries), now to work through gen 6. Also going to be the most annoying set with scarce evolution items and weird evolution methods.
You’re a madman!
Seconded. I once did a mass exodus of all my pokemon on Red over to my sister’s copy of Blue so I could get all the starters, and that was bad enough.
I already had a lot of them sitting randomly in the PC from finishing the pokedex, so it’s mostly been a methodical resorting via dex number and filling in the gaps with breeding and xp farming.
Good train trip grind.
Amazing.
Boring grind mostly. Doing way too much at work, so my leisure computing time has pretty much reverted to effortless grinding of things like this and Minecraft. Don’t have the effort for full on or new stuff.
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/97092756736/10-september-2014
D.C. rambles about his first day with Destiny and his experiences with Halo.
I’ve finished almost every Halo game, I don’t have any issues with reading/my eyes, and I always default to Master Chef even before the show was a thing. Still no idea why.
Also, this post made me actually think about Destiny. I reckon if it was released on PC at the same time or shortly after consoles I’d sink tonnes of time into it. But if it comes out in a year on PC? Not sure if I’d still be interested.
That’s the thing. If GTAV released on PC a bit closer to the original console release I would be more excited about it. Now I just can’t care because it’s been so long.
I sent my (no-gaming-ever) Mum a picture of a delicious-looking meal I made once and she replied “Wow, Master Chief!”
It goes both ways 😛
When we used to have Foxtel and I saw “Master Chef” in the program guide I always went “wtf there’s a show about Ha- oh no it’s just some cooking thing”.
I think that’s was back before there was an Australian one so I’d never watched it.
I reckon it’d be a great handle for online play in Destiny! 🙂
The best gamertag I’ve seen (apart from Ulterior Parsley, because i’m a sucker for anthropomorphised food items) was Agent Washingtub, a refreshingly sly reference to a Red vs Blue quote.
You guys aren’t the first and certainly won’t be the last.
How are you finding just writing in general? Not feeling burnt out at all?
Not at all, I have an insatiable love of it at the moment. When I’m not writing I feel bad. Already got tomorrow’s entry brewing. (Psst, it’s about the shambling corpse of the point-and-click genre.)
Glad to hear you’re still enjoying it DC.
I’m guessing tomorrow will be about Walking Dead then (it’s totally a point-and-click, be quiet). 😛
I think things would be different if I had other things to do, but I’ve got nothing but free time at the moment and feel like honing this discipline thing will translate to other aspects of my life. 😀
I too have never played a Bungie game until destiny 🙂
I thoroughly enjoyed reading that. Excellent distraction from my slow day at work – thank you!
Thanks for reading, buddy. 🙂
Oh, man the music… I don’t normally fanboy over people, but Marty O’Donnell is a god. Everything he composes just has this amazing feel; he could make a tuna sandwich seem epic purely though musical accompaniment.
Wow that’s nicely written man! I really enjoyed reading that, felt more like having a conversation than a read which is what I look for in gaming articles =]
Edit: For a hermit you have a very welcoming style to your writing!
Thanks alot for that, man. You so kind. 🙂
You make this Destiny sound like a good guy.
I really liked the prose, the taking it step by step before opening the game and then it felt like a flurry of cool things happening once you were in the throng of playing online. The short, rapid sentences do that for you. Look forward to reading more!
Thanks for reading, man. Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate that more than you know. 🙂
Minecraft was pretty fun last night. Just went around exploring everybody elses creations.
Then Gooky signed in for the first time so I of course felt compelled to stalk him. I’d walk directly behind him for as long as possible, then run away when he saw me. It was fun 😛
Also leaving messages on signs whenever possible for people to find. That is fun too!
Who needs Destiny, am I right? …guys? D:
I had at least three people drop signs at my place yesterday. You were one, Nob was another, and no idea about the third one.
I dropped one outside your house a few days ago. Also put one at sunsoar’s ranch IIRC.
Yup… my outback hut. I’ve left your sign intact. Maybe i’ll build up a collection?
Unloyal’s diving experiment was also quite fun to listen to.
If it was the one in your hidden passageway… then that was definitely not me. Nope. Not I.
Creations?
Pffft, I levelled a bunch more terrain to prepare for things I’ll probably never get around to building.
I actually found someone else doing the same thing in the other direction to your base.
Unless that is also yours 😛 It did have a Nether portal in there…
I haven’t even built a nether portal at my main base yet. I’m sticking to that area, but it is quite a large area I want to work with.
might be zetrox’s coz he was flattening a mountain
I’ve flattened the top of the mountain over looking the boat and zetrox’s base…
Putting some walls up around the tip of the hill… Pretty sure it’ll be finished by Unloyal by the time I log back on in a day or 2.
Theres a boat? Last time i logged in there was zapz 4 towers, a water temple things, @powalen light house. @zetrox2k prepping house and i didnt see any others. All my stuff has signs on the entrance like my underwater adventure hut and my main base
Unloyal (Friend/family of zetrox IIRC) built a badass, 3 masted, multi-deck, sails and everything pirate-ship-looking-boat!
Is your base on a mini island with door looking back towards Zetrox’s joint? I may have crossed some of your mineshafts recently.
Thats the one..now comes with a nether portal floating in the sky
Thats me pow…. that was an entire mountain i leveled off.. about 8 double chests fullof dirt/rock and any other things… gave most of it away… still have spare dirt i think…
What weapons are people using in Destiny? I’ve ended up with the single shot rifle as the semi auto seems to lack punch and the full auto is a bit inaccurate. Yet to try a pistol.
Auto rifle all day.
I tried a pulse rifle in the beta because of how powerful the BR was in Halo but I wasn’t satisfied with it. Decided to stick with autorifles for now.
Scout rifle!
That’s the one.
I’ve just been switching to which ever of my current weapons is strongest. I’ve yet to run into a situation where I’ve had two different types of weapons that are the same level and I’m forced to choose between them.
Scout rifle, sniper rifle and tossing up between rocket launcher and machine gun. I like the impact of the scout rifle, but am finding the … thralls? … a bit hard to handle. So easy to get swarmed.
I did have to stick to the auto rifle for the first few levels, tho – too long since I played a console shooter, so my aim was too unreliable to make the scout rifle effective.
I find the best thing with thralls is toss a grenade, headshot the ones that survive and then as the remainder get close, melee them. They’re quite weak and do tend to die to one hit if you can land it, you just have to be careful to not back yourself into a corner
Yea, I can melee them to take one out in one hit, but it only takes out one at a time. It takes a little while between melee attacks, though, so I really need to thin them out before they reach me. My attempts at using grenades to do this has resulted in them all just running through it (warlock, so vortex thingy), taking most of their health but not really killing any, so I get swarmed by 5+ thralls with low health. My weapons aren’t suited to that – they deal high focused damage… I need AoE…
/facepalm – my Grenade is essentially lasting AoE damage. Might try just tossing a grenade at my feet when they get close, and jump/float above them until they die in it.
Hand cannon for PvE because it’s the most fun also headshots.
Pulse rifle for PvP because i like it
For PvE Scout Rifle and Fusion. For PvP depends on the map!!
Hand Cannon erryday.
I went on Minecraft last night and I found an alien.
I tried throwing eggs at him but he got away.
You should have screenshot it
You’re right. Next time I’ll be sure to arm myself with a camera.
THE WORLD HAS TO KNOW!
His name is @powalen and he’s not an alien just funny looking.
Who was the one to suggest I am an alien? That is factually incorrect. I am an ordinary Earthling just like you and your favourite television personality or nearest person of authority. I inhale oxygen and expel waste on a regular basis.
What up TAYbies?!
Have been extremely slack in my Taying, so quick, catch me up on every single thing that has happened 😛
Recently I have become, re-become?, obsessed with Dragon’s Dogma.
Holy Carp, I am loving it and I have no idea why I stopped playing it in the first place.
Nice level and gear, near the end, just don’t understand why I stopped or why it has taken me this long to get back into it.
Oh well, enjoying it now so that’s all that matters, however it also lead me to wonder…
What games have you played, only to stop halfway through, only to pick up again months or even years later, then start loving again?
P.S. SKYRIM!
(that wasn’t another example, I could never stop playing that game, I just had to SKYRIM!)
Red dead redemption… Keep playing a bit, leaving it for a year, pick it up again and thinking “WHY’D I STOP PLAYING THIS?” and then not play it for another year 😛
what are you playing it on? Me and Jimu are playing that at the moment on PS3, if you befriend us you can hire our pawns for free.
I stopped playing Saints Row 4 because I tried it on the highest difficulty and the challenges had ridiculously low time limits that annoyed the crap out of me so I gave up, months later I realized if you drop the difficulty all those ridiculous times tripled and I had a blast from then on.
@freezespreston
Prefer the scout rifle but I only seem to find Pulse rifles so that’s what I’ve been using.
@dc
Good write up man.
And not having played Halo is a shame but nothing to be ashamed of. Some boats you just miss.
@hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian
Dragon Age:Origins, Fallout 3 and even Demon’s Souls.
Hope you don’t mind being featured in one of the ‘better with people’ screenshots. 😀
Thanks for reading, Jo!
C’mon QuizB, be cool, be cool, be cool. Don’t let them know that you’ve been so tired that the only thing you can face playing at the moment is Sims 3, and that you’re on your second generation of sims, and they own half the town and you’re really excited that one wants to become an artist. Be cool otherwise these guys won’t like you.
I LOVE BUILDING HOUSES IN DESTINY BUT JEEZ I HATE IT WHEN A CREEPER COMES UP TO MY HUNTER AND THEN MY CONNECTION DROPS OUT.
*stares*
*jumps out window*
…but seriously, how’s errbody doing this hump day?
The Sims 3? Fucking casual. All the real gamers are playing The Sims 4.
But but I thought I was being funny by making a Pakistani Doctor that’s a workaholic and doesn’t like socialising and is a loner except she met this guy at work and before you know it she was a world-renowned surgeon with two kids with a stay at home award winning artist husband.
What have I become? WHAT HAVE I BECOME?
*sob*
YOu’ve become Harlequin Romance’s next hire.
Fuck it, there’s money in that kind of thing so why not.
It’s kind of only just started, but I think I’ve got the thrust of it.
Booked Japan flights. About $400 each way per person ex Gold Coast. Not too bad. Flying in 19th and out on the 6th. Payed a bit extra for the extra legroom of emergency exit rows because fuck spending 9 hours or whatever it is in a cramped little seat.
@novacascade @transient_mind @jocon @negativezero
@transientmind
CBF looking at the magical mystery tour dates, does this mean you’re staying a bit longer?
I was considering staying an extra day or two in Tokyo to do the Akihabara pilgrimage, maybe go to the Ghibli museum. But I don’t want to be the only one sticking around there either as it’s a bit of a scary spot to be on your own when you don’t know the local language that well.
Any of you guys staying longer at the end?
I get my bonus in my next pay so was going to pay off everything at once. Doubt I can get tickets for as cheap as $400 each way from Melbourne. 🙁 Also I’d rather chew my own leg off than fly Jetstar if there’s any other option.
@negativezero
I and my +2 are staying an extra day in Tokyo, no plans for what we are going to do yet tho.
@freezespreston
Good deal, who is that with? Not that from sa could get that cheap.
@dc
No worries man! Should play again soon.
2 days early and 3 days later. The 4th is my birthday so figured we’d stay on for it. And it’s Jetstar (@jocon) which yeah, ugh, but it’s saved us near a thousand dollars we can put to better use.
Sounds like it’d be worth staying an extra day or two then. \o/
Still super sore from climbing. I don’t think I went particularly hard at all, so all I can conclude is that Thursday and Monday are far too close together.
So the copyright piracy forum was pretty interesting. I think you do gain some perspective when you see some of these people in person. Some notes:
*Graham Burke (Village Roadshow) is way nicer in person when compared to what he writes.
*David Buckingham (iiNet) is the complete opposite. He was giving one word answers and was actually pretty rude. He’s often seen as a voice for consumers but he was horribly disappointing and utterly unconvincing. It’s lucky Alan Kirkland (Choice) was there as he was the only person voicing anything from the other side with any enthusiasm.
*Lots of debate over how effective a Graduated response is. Until I do more reading on my own, I’ll just mark that as inconclusive.
*Lots of talk about who pays for graduated responses. Honestly completely uninteresting to me but from my casual view it should probably government + isp + rights holders
Questions I wanted to ask but didn’t get a chance to:
“Richard Freudenstein (Foxtel), I applaud your recent efforts in pricing models and think it’s definitely a step in the right direction. However, I assume that your new pricing model doesn’t make Foxtel run at a loss so why did this take so long? Would you acknowledge that prior pricing models of you and your competitors have significantly contributed to an environment where piracy is now seen as a social norm?”
“Malcolm Turnbull, what can the government do to influence fair pricing from local distributors and would you ever consider implementing them?”
Overall, my opinion hasn’t really changed. I think it’s fair to look in to piracy measures after the market is more fair to consumers. I think the market is definitely making progress but tbh, this is probably mainly due to piracy and not due to any healthy competition. I think I have a better understanding of Graham Burkes perspective now as well. His comment to David Buckingham that iiNet is bigger than all local distributors put together (I haven’t verified this) paints a picture of a huge corporation unwilling to help a smaller industry that it profits from. I know that there is a lot more to it than that, but it might give a little more context when reading Burkes submissions.
@highperformance
Took about 3 seconds of googling financial reports to find out Village Roadshow and iiNet are about the same in terms of profits. Village took a massive dive from a poor investment in Wet N Wild Sydney which has zero to do with piracy. Graham Burke is an idiot and has no problem with flat out lying on a public stage.
On the face of that, yeah he’s a dirty rotten liar. It makes me wonder if I heard him correctly.
I’d imagine that Buckingham was a bit rude because he knows this entire debate and consultation is an utter sham and our wonderful semi-fascist government will just ram through whatever the fuck the copyright lobby tells them to, because they have to due to the fucked up treaties they’re signed into.
There’s literally no excuse for Buckingham to be rude – this was a perfect opportunity to voice and discuss opinions in public and called for everyone to bring their A game.
Graham Burke is the devil. I rest my case.
Would people be interested in seeing stuff people have made in minecraft?
Yes! (Even though I’ve already seen most of them)
“scree and powalen sitting in a tree…” :p
Is that a no?
haha not at all! I’d probably take a look if it was live somewhere!
I would
I’ve considered getting the game but I can just live vicariously
I would!!!
I actually started screenshotting my progress today. So many half-done things… 😛
I should screen shot my stuff too but, lazy
I’d be down… I really should head back towards spawn and around a bit to see what everyone has built.
But if you’re going to put it all in one place… I’ll happily stay at my little shack and watch my cows and rabbits.
Mental note: Find chickens, pigs and horses to complete outback shack feel.
I have made some good empty areas.
Screenshot: yeah, there used to be some trees and more hills here.
I should get to the actual building part at some stage.
I still love you iPhone 5S. You and me, buddy. You and me.
How can you even stand to look at such an old phone?
It reminds me of myself… a faded beauty… 😛
Look at phones? I thought you just stuck them in your pocket and left them there.
*phone sniggers as it sucks a little more of your soul.. heh giggity*
Mr. Strange’s phone is an iPhone 4 that his work makes him use. You should have seen how jealous he was when he saw my new phone. 😛
No wonder he was grumpy on father’s day. MONSTER! 😛
A think a decade of old school Nokia makes the charms of a smart phone hard to kick. 😀
I miss having buttons.
Would honestly drop back to an old button Nokia if it weren’t for wanting to have my current one’s camera handy all the time. Not that I even use it much, but you know. Just in case.
+1 typing was soooo much easier!
Plus you can do it without looking at the screen, just going by feel alone!
I got my old phone out not too long ago to check through some of my contacts (had some duplicate entries that didn’t transfer properly, couldn’t tell which number was current), and it just felt so ridiculously good to be using it again. And I was fast! The old habits were all still there, instinctively knowing which words would come up wrong with the dictionary function and require a change with the * button. So much faster than I am now, too.
I still use the T9 layout for typing on my phone, I find qwerty to make things so much slower when punching in by thumbs. Although it’s handy to have there for when the dictionary doesn’t have the word I’m trying to type, or for special characters. But that’s what a quick flick to landscape is for.
#oldmangooky
If practicality is being old, then I don’t wanna be young 😛
You! I like you! T9 for the win! Blind typing! So good
They’re killing the iPod classic? As one of the three people who still uses theirs, 🙁
It’s even more classic now, Red.
Does anyone remember that red and black iPod from like 10 years ago?
Now that was a classic collectable.
But not really at all.
My 4gb lime green ipod mini with the monochrome display is still alive and kicking today… Is that a collectable?
I know somewhere that collects them!
I think it was called “The Garbage Dump”.
yeah, that really sucks. I use mine everyday. There’s not even a replacement that comes close to 160GB 🙁
WHAT? FUCK THAT SHIT.
the classic is the only music player that has a high enough capacity for what i use…
this really disappoints me.
Commercially, I totally get it. Sentimentally, 🙁
I dont even get it comercially.
its got the high capacity market cornerd. there is literally nothing else that’ll hole more than 64Gb. just…. wha…. i dont… aah…. FUCK.
I still have my original iPod!
I can’t actually use it though since it needs a Mac with Firewire 😛
We have one we leave in our car because we’re 99.9% certain no one will bother breaking into our car to steal it.
So it turns out doing a 15km run after having a beer and also having a cold wasn’t such a good idea 🙁
You’re with Jesus, now.
At least you’ll probably be able to enjoy that beer twice?
I felt like it at the end. Luckily, the hops didn’t hop out of my mouth.
morning TAYpeepoids…..
so, yesterday. where i work the company owns a cafe downstairs. while sitting in my office we all hear a commotion and then lots of laughter. turns out some junkie with a syringe full of red cordial try to hold us up. one of the wait staff is a burly big bloke and looked at the guy and said “get the fuck out, you arent gonna get a damn thing” and the guy ran off. cops came twenty mins later, late as usual, took statements. came back at 6pm as we were all packing up and told us they caught the guy trying to hold up a sixth place. the things people will do for a quick buck.
also, id like to say that the retro game collecting ‘scene’ in this country is downright criminal with the prices that people ask for for games. even the salvos now are looking on eBay and pricing accordingly. its very depressing.
one more thing. is it ok to solicit game trades amongst TAYpeepoids? i have a still wrapped copy of street fighter IV for 3DS that is a second copy and wouldnt mind making a trade with someone for a 3DS or DS game, if the price is right?
so have a good day one and all
Greetings
Speaking of things people will d for a quick but be careful around these parts. Some of the offers would make a sailor blush.
I haven’t had much to do with the retro scene, I’ve held on to a few games I really liked but that’s about it. Tried to get rid of an atari 2600 recently but ended up being too hard so stuffed it in a corner again
Feel free to solicit game trades but try to join in the conversation as well. We are good folk round here so don’t worry about if you are allowed to reply to somebody, just jump in and have your say. As long as you are polite nobody will mind.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/9/6126539/sega-dreamcast-commercial-murder-retrospective
“Sonic the Hedgehog is behind the wheel of this hatebox, and his justice is supreme and unwavering.”
The boss of the office next door to us is yelling again. All four people in our office, being the sticky beaks that we are, have dropped work, grabbed cups from the kitchen and holding them against the wall to try and make out what he’s saying 😛
Other ideas that have been floated in preparation for next time are:
– Drilling eye holes in the wall and putting a Scooby Doo-esque portrait on their side for us to look through.
– Printing some large smiley faces, sticking them onto the end of long poles and holding them out our window to show into theirs.
I do actually feel bad for the staff though. He’s always yelling at them (or, at someone. We assume the staff) 🙁
What’s a good excuse to eat a jar of cream?
Why
dowould you need one?“I need a refill after playing Destiny”Mix it with a jar of Nutella. No one questions people eating jars of Nutella.
Truth. I had to stop buying jars of Nutella because I kept taking a spoon / finger to them and just eating it straight out of the jar and it was making me even fatter
Yeah I’ve been guilty of doing that for quite a while in college…… Dammit Nutella now I know why you’re only served with toast =@
Make some kind of dessert?
I swear we had a “need to use all this cream before it expires” dessert that got whipped up just recently but cannot think what it was at all.
Was it whipped cream and chocolate sauce?
I did whipped cream and fruit salad about a year and a half ago for that reason. Cream:fruit was about 3:1. I was very sick.
“I’M AN ADULT YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO” should about cover it. 🙂
Tip it into some sliced potatoes and pretend it’s a healthy vegetable dish.
Do you need to throw up? Because that’ll do it.
“I want to eat a jar of cream”
Whip it and then combine with pikelets & raspberry jam
A bet
Thanks @stickman for a cool afternoon in Old Russia, and for bearing with my incurable lack of conversation skill, and my initial lack of headset. Thanks also to shadowwarrior (@twogirlsoneleica) and @batto for a good time on the coast. If anyone feels like dropping in on me when in game, feel free.
And thanks to you too, it was much fun. 🙂
So After day 1 hows everyone’s guardian looking?
Post-apocalyptic space fashion parade GO!
http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/2/4611686018430692031/2305843009215375341
http://imgur.com/Zt7zXGw
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t choose warlock mostly because of the long coats… so badass 😛
http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/2/4611686018428965183/2305843009215494218
http://t.co/XpeJJHRwiJ
http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/2/4611686018430398762/2305843009215535053
Woo, bunny crew represent!
Super boring level 6 character
http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/2/4611686018430142196/2305843009215391899
http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/2/4611686018429425622/2305843009214945126
Made my own Ravioli yesterday. Amazing! So cheap too. 2 cups of flower and 3/4 cup of water.
Ended up filling it with Mushroom, onion, bacon and fetta. Very happy with that effort.
Do you have a machine thing to roll it out or just do it manually?
Also no egg?
I found half the ones I looked at said either egg or water. Plus I have a vegan friend so thought I’d test that recipe before telling him about vegan ravioli 🙂
I did it manually, just rolling pin it 🙂
Interesting.
Might have to look at doing something myself. We have a store bought ravioli in the freezer that is our go to easy dinner. Just a tin of tomatos and a zuchinni for sauce.
Will have to see how Mrs Tigs feels and what she thinks about doing our own.
I like your sauce idea, so simple!
I have a cool trick with pasta sauces that are tomato based where I blitz up some frozen or “Steamfresh” veges into a frozen powder and mix them in for a hit of health without making the flavour much different. If my kids hadn’t seen me do it one time, they’d never have noticed. 😀
You sneaky devil.
Yeah we really like it because it takes near enough no time to make so it’s a quick and easy meal. Depending on how we feel can throw some herbs in as well, normally depends on what we have fresh.
I thought that Mrs Tigs wasn’t able to have pasta due to gluten? Or are you using potato flour or something instead?
Gluten is something to limit but not a big issue for Mrs Tigs. She can often have sourdough bread and real pasta on occasion. Most of the time when we have pasta it is the gluten free variety
Rice flour I am told is a good replacement for gluten free 🙂
just re-read them, with xantham gum or something similar, so that it can hold shape 🙂
Even with it having it hold any sort of shape is really hard. Certainly for a ravioli or similar as it become really crumbly. Might just do the normal one when Mrs Tigs is feeling up for it
Ah, I was under the impression she was completely gluten intolerant too.
If we are out and far from ‘facilities’ then she will normally try for a gluten free meal.
But the is far down the list of things she needs to avoid
Man, I’ve run out of Kotaku to read before I’ve even finished eating my lunch. What’s going on?
Destiny.
Okay, that Apple Watch is really ugly. I like the idea of smartwatches but it’ll take some really good design to get me to buy one. The look needs to be as covetable, if not more covetable than the tech inside. I’m interested to see the results of Fossil teaming up with (I think it was) Intel.
Yeah, I was surprised. Thought they’d make it a lot more stylish looking.
(Not that I’d ever wear a watch these days, but yeah)
BOOM. Level 20 (edit: this is not max, can get up to 25!) in Destiny.
As I take a break to massage life back into my left thumb, this might be a good moment to spew out some Destiny Tips that the game itself doesn’t appear to teach you.
– Patying with others is cool. When you party with a lower-level character, all your drops are still roughly equivalent to your current level. This actually applies anytime, anywhere, even soloing. So if you really like Earth or the Moon and don’t want to grind things in Venus or Mars, you will still get rewards.
– Shiny dodecahedron orbs are loot. This can be weapons, armor, or engrams (patterns which you take back to the tower to get identified for loot).
– When you party with someone, you do not both get the same loot. From chests, or drops, or usually mission rewards. Sometimes one member will not even see the drops that another member gets. So don’t worry about stealing anyone’s loot – if you can see it, that’s yours, go get it buddy. (Not sure if this applies to ammo, but I assume so.)
– Go get it fast, too. Loot CAN fade over time (but it’s a pretty generous timer, several minutes at least), and dying or failing a mission and leaving for orbit will not remove any of the gear you have picked up. So if it means dying to go get it, don’t worry too much.
– Chests will spawn in random locations, but usually in hard-to-get-to or out-of-the-way nooks and crannies. Chests will disappear after being opened, even if not all fireteam members have opened it. HOWEVER. All fireteam members can open a chest if they open it while it’s being opened by someone else. If someone else opens the chest while you’re not near it, you won’t get to. So in a group, alert each other to chests to share the love.
– When people die, you can revive them, but it’s probably not worth bothering in the open-world areas where respawning is available within 5 seconds. In ‘respawn restricted’ areas, though, it’s usually worth it – the respawn timer is up to 30 seconds in those areas.
– Sick of your dodgy old newbie ship and/or speeder? Save your money, don’t go replacing them as soon as you can afford to. The story missions reward you with a speeder, and your choice of a number of ships.
– Heavy weapon ammo is purple, and it’s also kinda rare. Save your heavy weapon for those, “Ohshitohshitohshit what the hell is that” moments, to make the scary thing die.
– Headshots aren’t called ‘headshots’ but are called ‘precision shots’. Because not all enemies experience that type of damage from the head. The evil robot aliens called the Vex usually receive their critical damage from the glowing pale crystals in their waists.
– Random peoples’ icons will be blue, friendlies will be green. If your friendly icon has an exclamation point on it, they are taking fire. If it has a yellowish flashing border around it, they have a supercharge ability ready.
– Supercharge abilities charge naturally over time, but their charge can be spead up by doing precision shots. And I think melee and regular kills also yield some increases. When you use a supercharge ability, the more enemies it kills, the more ‘orbs of light’ it will drop. The caster of the supercharge can’t see these, but everyone else can. Collecting them adds charge to their supercharge bars. You can combo off each other in a fireteam, this way.
– Enemies with yellow health bars are harder, higher-powered enemies. Killing them will give you cash. (Glim.) You do not have to be the Guardian who lands the killing blow, however – it’s enough if you damaged the enemy.
– ‘Attack’ rating is basically hit-chance and broad-stroke damage evaluation all packaged in one. The lower your item/attack rating and the higher the enemy, the reduced amount of damage will be done to them. So don’t go thinking you can whittle away a higher-level enemy if your gun isn’t powerful enough to even scratch them. They can and will resist or be immune to lower-level guns.
– Do bounties. Do story. Story missions in particular. You can repeat these with someone else, and they will still see their own character in the cut scenes and so forth. The average story mission will yield 2500 experience. The average enemy kill yields around 25 experience. Do stories. It’s faster, and you’ll be killing JUST as much as you would’ve been in explore mode, if not more, anyway.
– When you hit level 15, you will be able to choose a different sub-class. BE WARNED: Doing this will start you off from scratch in terms of class skills. Your kewl jumping ability, grenades, supercharge, etc? ALL GONE. Gaining experience will gradually restore these abilities one by one.
– Working, sleeping, bathing, and eating will all impede your progress. Eliminate these from your routine where possible.
(OH! Also!)
– If your favourite gun has become obsolete, don’t dismantle it. Go to the storage units in the Tower and put it in storage. Your alts will be able to retrieve your cherished heirloom and advance its distinguished heritage of alien-murder.
Ooh, I found the stash last night (I don’t think it was in the beta) and wasn’t sure if it would be shared between alts.
it was in the beta, I put all kinds of stuff in there hoping it’d be there for me in the full release 🙁
Aww dang. Nah, I didn’t find it. I stumbled across it randomly last night.
Still a skeptic with Destiny transient? =P
Very likely. In one day I finished the story and hit ‘max level’. (25 is ‘light’ levels, which can only be gained through gear. Gear-grinding, more accurately.) All that’s going to be left is repeating content with friends. And the DLC, whenver that comes out. It’s basically hopping onto the traditional WoW gear treadmill, only as a shooter instead of a third-person affair.
That’s good enough for now, but I’m uncertain if this thing’s got legs.
My Nan is having emergency surgery this afternoon and I’m finding it difficult to find things to distract me.
I even looked into doing someone’s TAYQuilt block but discovered I’d already stolen the background fabric for TAYQuilt for something else. Past me sucks and Mashaa is gonna be sad, and mad at me! 😛
I’m also waiting on an Australia Post package from a half-hours drive away that was posted on the 1st of September that’s been “In Transit” this whole time. It has my applique glue and milliner’s needles in it and is what I need to continue my current quilt but I think Australia Post have hired Serrels’ Josephine to deliver it.
1st? Er… that’s an awful long time. Surely they’d let you retrieve much sooner than a week after it arrived?
I emailed the place I ordered it from yesterday and they checked up on it for me and found out the “In Transit” bit. They were as surprised as I was that it hadn’t arrived yet and will send me a new package if it hasn’t arrived by Monday.
Order something online that has the option of top-notch tracking.
You’ll just be refreshing all the time, so you won’t have time to focus on anything else.
I’ve bought so much stuff online the past couple of weeks that I’m almost certain the guy at the post office thinks I’m some sort of shopaholic. I’ve been thinking that my flat is incredibly bare on decorations, so I’ve been on ebay constantly 😛 It’s not an addiction, honestly!
On the plus side, I now have an awesome wall clock made up of (cosmetic) exposed turning gears and one big one that rotates to tell the time 😛 So cool, Strange! So cool!*hugs*
Don’t know what to say, so
*hugs*
i must echo the *hugs* Hope all goes well!
I’m sorry to hear about your Nan.
*hugs*
Given the situation I’d never be mad at you.
Hope your grandma makes a quick recovery*
*I really hope there’s good news in the next few pages of TAY as I catch upGasp! New page… helpful advice will be lost. REPOST FOR TIPS:
BOOM. Level 20 (oh! Not max! Can still do 25!) in Destiny.As I take a break to massage life back into my left thumb, this might be a good moment to spew out some Destiny Tips that the game itself doesn’t appear to teach you.
– Patying with others is cool. When you party with a lower-level character, all your drops are still roughly equivalent to your current level. This actually applies anytime, anywhere, even soloing. So if you really like Earth or the Moon and don’t want to grind things in Venus or Mars, you will still get rewards.
– Shiny dodecahedron orbs are loot. This can be weapons, armor, or engrams (patterns which you take back to the tower to get identified for loot).
– When you party with someone, you do not both get the same loot. From chests, or drops, or usually mission rewards. Sometimes one member will not even see the drops that another member gets. So don’t worry about stealing anyone’s loot – if you can see it, that’s yours, go get it buddy. (Not sure if this applies to ammo, but I assume so.)
– Go get it fast, too. Loot CAN fade over time (but it’s a pretty generous timer, several minutes at least), and dying or failing a mission and leaving for orbit will not remove any of the gear you have picked up. So if it means dying to go get it, don’t worry too much.
– Chests will spawn in random locations, but usually in hard-to-get-to or out-of-the-way nooks and crannies. Chests will disappear after being opened, even if not all fireteam members have opened it. HOWEVER. All fireteam members can open a chest if they open it while it’s being opened by someone else. If someone else opens the chest while you’re not near it, you won’t get to. So in a group, alert each other to chests to share the love.
– When people die, you can revive them, but it’s probably not worth bothering in the open-world areas where respawning is available within 5 seconds. In ‘respawn restricted’ areas, though, it’s usually worth it – the respawn timer is up to 30 seconds in those areas.
– Sick of your dodgy old newbie ship and/or speeder? Save your money, don’t go replacing them as soon as you can afford to. The story missions reward you with a speeder, and your choice of a number of ships.
– Heavy weapon ammo is purple, and it’s also kinda rare. Save your heavy weapon for those, “Ohshitohshitohshit what the hell is that” moments, to make the scary thing die.
– Headshots aren’t called ‘headshots’ but are called ‘precision shots’. Because not all enemies experience that type of damage from the head. The evil robot aliens called the Vex usually receive their critical damage from the glowing pale crystals in their waists.
– Random peoples’ icons will be blue, friendlies will be green. If your friendly icon has an exclamation point on it, they are taking fire. If it has a yellowish flashing border around it, they have a supercharge ability ready.
– Supercharge abilities charge naturally over time, but their charge can be spead up by doing precision shots. And I think melee and regular kills also yield some increases. When you use a supercharge ability, the more enemies it kills, the more ‘orbs of light’ it will drop. The caster of the supercharge can’t see these, but everyone else can. Collecting them adds charge to their supercharge bars. You can combo off each other in a fireteam, this way.
– Enemies with yellow health bars are harder, higher-powered enemies. Killing them will give you cash. (Glim.) You do not have to be the Guardian who lands the killing blow, however – it’s enough if you damaged the enemy.
– ‘Attack’ rating is basically hit-chance and broad-stroke damage evaluation all packaged in one. The lower your item/attack rating and the higher the enemy, the reduced amount of damage will be done to them. So don’t go thinking you can whittle away a higher-level enemy if your gun isn’t powerful enough to even scratch them. They can and will resist or be immune to lower-level guns.
– Do bounties. Do story. Story missions in particular. You can repeat these with someone else, and they will still see their own character in the cut scenes and so forth. The average story mission will yield 2500 experience. The average enemy kill yields around 25 experience. Do stories. It’s faster, and you’ll be killing JUST as much as you would’ve been in explore mode, if not more, anyway.
– When you hit level 15, you will be able to choose a different sub-class. BE WARNED: Doing this will start you off from scratch in terms of class skills. Your kewl jumping ability, grenades, supercharge, etc? ALL GONE. Gaining experience will gradually restore these abilities one by one.
– Working, sleeping, bathing, and eating will all impede your progress. Eliminate these from your routine where possible.
(OH! Also!)
– If your favourite gun has become obsolete, don’t dismantle it. Go to the storage units in the Tower and put it in storage. Your alts will be able to retrieve your cherished heirloom and advance its distinguished heritage of alien-murder.
Additional tip, perhaps obvious, but: Playing PVP in the crucible gives you XP. Crucible + PVP bounties levels you up quite quickly
I feel as though you could change a few words here and there and you’d have a general advice page for people playing new MMOs.
Oh, btw, is anyone receiving vanguard marks from completing bounties? I did five or six yesterday, and each time it said I got 50 for each, but the counter in my inventory still says 0. Bug? Or am I looking in wrong place?Nvm. Conflated rep increase with currency. Coulda sworn you got marks for bounties back in the alpha… Oh well, mystery solved.I had a similar issue, just thought I was doing the wrong thing
Yea, I think you get +50 Vanguard rep for doing bounties, and that works you up the ranks. Then you get to around level 20 and can do the high-level stuff, which will assumedly also give you marks with which to buy legendary gear.
Compilation of Arnie quotes and one-liners. Got a big grin.
Every person Arnie has ever killed on screen.
The 100 greatest movie threats was amusing
Had this woman go “Is that homemade?” as I put my lunch in the microwave. Almost in an accusatory tone, as if how dare I bring non-junk food in to eat.
Another reason to have lunch early like I usually would – means you get to avoid people.
“It’s not homemade, I constructed this lunch in my personal foundry”
“This wasn’t made, it was created”
Another job application submitted- if I get this one, I’ll be a VicTAYbie
\o/ Good luck buddy!
Cheers man
I have to find at least one more role to apply for today, then I’m allowed to play more Destiny. Priorities!
Then you got only 38 left to apply for within the month 😉 haha
Hah, I’m not on centrelink yet!
That meeting’s tomorrow. Including with a job search provider, who I know will be just as useless as last time – they’re not geared for people like me.
You mean people who actually want to work and have a valuable skillset? Yeah they’re not geared for that at all…. (Sorry just had bad experiences with them =,=)
What sort of stuff are you looking at? I don’t know if it’d be remotely relevant but I can check if there’s any openings here that might suit…
At the moment, anything in the strategy/policy space, connections to technology or industry (esp Defence) I’m good at. Gov relations as well.
I’m good at relations 😛
Sega announces a new RPG for Vita that’s directed by Shinji Motoyama (Valkyria Chronicles!), character designs by Katsumi Enami (Ys Seven, Baccano!) and music by Hitoshi Sakimoto (Tactics Ogre, FFT, Valkyria Chronicles, every Vanillaware game)…
The catch? It’s also for smartphones and it’s a microtransaction-based free to play game.
щ(ಠ益ಠщ)
Oh god whyyyy!
Neg!
Why do you have to get my hopes so far up only to dash them in the next sentence!
D:
YES YES BACCANO!
WHAT
NO!
STOP
BAD NEG.
🙁
dammit, with every sentence my eyes grew wider and I was thinking “wow, that’s good”, Why waste all that talent on a pay to win game. Makes me sad 🙁
I know I’d probably spent more if it was a proper release instead of FTP but I just can’t bring myself to pay for micro transactions so I wouldn’t get enough out of it.
Funny, that’s the kind of thing I would expect Square Enix to do.
The Japanese smartphone market is something like double the size of the handheld and console games market combined.
Wt…f
*ragequit*
Oh Flu, that will never get old
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/09/use-a-broken-metal-fork-as-a-quick-door-lock/comment-page-1/#comment-1824656
My second favourite running TAY joke.
Behind @dc hats buildings.
@crazyguy1990 sorry! I planned to send off the bean bag today but then i remembered that i wasn’t happy with the quality of the zip so i want to fix it before sending it to you. Postal bag is addressed and all ready to go once i fix it =D sorry again about the delay
No worries. 😀
Stop being slow TAY, you’re supposed to distract me from the fact that I’m at work unable to play games, not be a constant reminder that many are fortunate enough to be doing fun things.
😛This.
So bored at work… :'(
Reading DesTAYny stories and wanting to run out and get a PS4 without approval from my financial controller, but then realising a) I’d be sleeping with my dogs for the next month and b) I don’t have the time to give that game the attention it deserves.
yeah that sucks, I don’t think I’ll be playing with many TAYbies as I’ll be super under leveled and my usual gaming friends have already maxed at least 2 guardians each. I really don’t like working full time, so much of your life is just work.
Can I just go ‘This’ again?
Plus tip in picking up uni study at nights too… /o\
“Maxed 2 guardians already”, damn son, that’s a pretty big effort right there.
I’ve only got my first one up to level 8 so far.
they’re all unemployed and do nothing but play games. When I played GTA online with them they were all over level 100 within a couple of days (I was still only about lvl 30 or so and I”d been playing a lot)
How about that destiny, such amazing gameplay
Just had my first experience with pop rocks, Ever… That’s certainly… Something
quick drink some coke, it’ll settle them down.
If that doesn’t work, try eating some Mentos.
I think you forgot to finish that sentence, Mr Ferret.
“Something awesome. Something unparalleled in human existence. The very thing that separates us from the animals.”
Now find someone else who hasn’t experienced them… Then offer it to them a minute before they dial into an important teleconference they are running.
Now buy the chocolate bars that are fill of them and jelly.
Someone made me try the Freddo frog with pop rocks in it… It was better 😛
Gf has some small boxes, I never tried em either I don’t think. her neither. I suggested she
perform some oral servicesto try them out. I’ll report back with results.
I imagine this is what happened.
nah it was more like this 😛
My review of Destiny in a completely unbiased, objective and transparent form:
Destiny was purchased from EB Games. I know the staff there and talk to them regularly. I also purchased my PS4 from them upon which I played the game. My internet connection was my own payed for from my own pay check which is in a field unrelated to the gaming industry. The game disc goes in the console. It starts and runs. You make your own character and play. Game play consists of moving the controllers sticks and buttons which translates to movement on the screen. It is set in space. You can play with other people which I did. These people are from a gaming website but have nothing to do with the creation, marketing or distribution of it. The graphics are images on the screen and the sound is in correlation with what is happening on screen. Sometimes there is music. I have no affiliation with Activision or Bungie. I have met people who were members of Bungie fan forums and once dated a girl in high school who now is a receptionist for a local distributor.
You’re as corrupt as they come.
Goddamn corrupt game reviewers these days. Can’t trust any of them.
Be prepared to be the new Zoe Quinn!
I feel dirty for reading that
YOU CLEARLY HAVE A MASSIVE BIAS TOWARD GAMES PURCHASED FROM THIS RETAILER AND YOUR OPINION IS NOT OBJECTIVE AT ALL.
NegativeZero’s State of the Fleet Update
Even though Destiny happened, I’m still making sure that I maintain a close working relationship with my waifus. Haven’t spent any time the last few days running any sorties, but I’ve been doing a twice-daily log-in to do PVP and also complete the daily construction quests.For a long time, pretty much since they made her obtainable via construction in January or so, I have been doing the 250/130/330/30 build as often as possible to try and obtain I-8. Hachi continued to elude me. Aside from some event maps and 1-5 (which I spent ages grinding, only to find out recently that subs only drop from 1-5 if your HQ is level 80 or above!) she doesn’t drop anywhere, and as a gold-rarity ship, she’s the rarest of the constructable submarines. And submarines have about a 2% drop rate.
A few weeks ago I finally got my existing Submarine fleet (Imuya/I-168, Goya/I-58, Iku/I-19, Shioi/I-401) to a combined total level of 200, allowing me to obtain German destroyer Z1. At the time, I did some trawling through Japanese sites, because I knew I’d need to obtain Z3 (buildable only if you make Z1 the flagship when you build and luck out and get a rare destroyer, normally you’d get Shimakaze or Yukikaze instead) and it turned out that the build I had been using was actually inefficient, 250/30/200/30 is a better formula for both rare destroyers and submarines.
So for the last three weeks I had been building that formula about 4-6 times a day (at least 4 for the daily quests, plus sometimes a couple more). Most of the time this resulted in heavy cruisers which are great remodeling fodder, and I obtained multiple Goya and Imuya from the process, but Z3 eluded me. Finally the game relented on the weekend and gave her over. In the mean time I obtained a second Goya and Imuya and began leveling them up a bit, because as both of my actual ones are getting high level and are remodeled, they’re nowhere near as efficient to use when grinding.
So this morning I was thinking, with Z3 done with, maybe I should swap to just building with the minimum formula (30/30/30/30) for a bit. Only drops common destroyers and the occasional cruiser, but those are fine for remodeling and stuff. And the quests mean a net gain in resources if you do it. I wanted to stockpile materials for a while to have a crack at building Bismark via large ship construction, now that I have Z3 and have unlocked the ability to build her. Same recipe also has a good chance to get Musashi so that’d be nice too.
But what about Hachi? She’d eluded me so long I was on the verge of giving up. But I thought, maybe I’ll just do one or two builds with the 250/30/200/30 formula, since I just got Myoukou to her first remodel and need some heavy cruiser fodder to buff up her attack power a bit. Start the build. Pop the resources in. 22 minute timer. Fuck me. 22 mins is a submarine with that formula. But I’ve had this happen before and it’s been Imuya or Goya, so not that excited.
Turns out I should have been excited, because this happened. So happy. I believe I now have every Shipgirl available via standard construction. \o/
In other news, Haguro at 63 as of this morning, not far off hitting 64. That means I’m on track to hopefully get her to her Kai-2 remodel level of 65 by the end of the week and achieve another personal goal in the game. This weekend in between Destineering I shall attempt to clear 4-3 and 4-4 as well. And maybe have a crack at 3-5 as well, when it’s added in the Maintenance on Friday. My resources should also be up far enough to have a go at a Bismark build by Saturday as well. \o/
Side note: this was my 18,000th Kotaku AU comment. I-8 000th 🙂
Argh, I’ve been busy at work and forgot to confirm if people are still wanting to play board games this weekend!
@cufcfan616 @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @sernobulus @gargamel – other Brisbanites who haven’t already said they can’t make it / aren’t interested…?
Shall we say 1pm, at Escobar in New Farm (though for the next event I’d be keen to check out Go Lounge) as previously discussed? Once I get a firm handle on numbers I’ll call and book a table.
Games for consideration: 7 Wonders (I’ll bring), Catan (I’ll bring), Cards Against Humanity (Escobar has).
I’ve actually got something on this weekend. Won’t be able to make it.
That establishment looks really good. I wonder if there’s anything like that around here.
Apparently the place we have had the last couple of meats (optic bar) have a selection of vintage board games but I haven’t seen them
What I recall of Optic’s general ambiance, lighting and furnishings isn’t really great for playing board games though.
Yeah, probably ok-ish during the day but not if it got busy and the sun goes down.
Otherwise a few places in Brunswick that I have heard of but never been to.
If it’s still on I’m game (pun). I’ll need a run through of any games being played though 😛
AGH! I only just saw this!!! Work’s been insane.
Obviously today’s probably out, but I’m keen for the next one!!!
DANGIT!!!
Yeah, lack of response so nothing eventuated which is probably good because I have the mental capacity of a small rock today. A very small rock. Will set something up soon-ish, with at least a week or two notice.
Also I thought I’d posted Friday night that I assumed nobody would make it, so sincere apologies to @cufcfan616 if (as the only “yes”) you went anyway.
It’s all good, completely passed my mind until this morning but figured nothing was happening today as no notification 😀 Late night Destiny session and seeing my friend’s newborn spawn means today has been taken up anyway 🙂
Still keen for whenever though
I played some co-op with Freeze in Destiny before. It was so fun and reminded me that Freeze is one of the best damn people. Easy to talk to. I am lucky to have him as a friend. *decisive nod*
WHEN YOU HAVE A FRIEND LIKE FREEZE YOU CAN SHOOT FOR THE MOON.
…
We shot things on the moon. Best moon adventure ever.
That’s no moon!
We could’ve had adventures on the moon! But you’re too cool to add me on PSN! *dramatic gasp*
Send a friend request and I’ll add you. I’m too terrified to add people on my own. I don’t have those kinds of social skills!
What’re your PSN ID!! dammit DC how else can I yell at you on Destiny!? D=
dpclarke
I haven’t gotten to the moon yet. Missed the opportunity in beta and yesterday I completed exactly all the missions in the beta.
Also, add me 😛
You’re not on Taynames
how will we know what you’re called? Is your username bob? WHAT KIND OF USERNAME IS BOB?
Call me Kate. It’s short for Bob
He’s okay.
I need to coop with someone lowish levels so I can level up my new sub-class thingie.
How does that work? Can you switch between them or once you swap you loose progress on the original?
You can swap freely between the two. It’s easiest to think of it as an upgradable item. It has an experience pool separate from your actual “level”
New iPhone interests me I must say. Anywhere here with a phone with a screen around the 5.5 inch size, if so what do you make of it?
I have a Nokia Lumia 930 which has a 5″ and I think it’s the perfect size. Whenever I see a iPhone it looks so tiny to me now. To me those massive 6″ phones is too big and wouldn’t like to try and fit it in my pocket.
I used a 920 for a while and the size was great. iPhone 6 seems a little bit to small still comparatively, and iPhone 6 Plus looks too big. 🙁
I migrated away from the Lumia to an iPhone 4S (got sick of the lack of apps) and it’s so clunky and horrible by comparison 🙁 I’d been holding off to see what apple unveil but not sure what to get as my next upgrade, whether to go iPhone 6/6+ or try an Android.
I have LG G3. I have big hands. Phone has tiny bezels but I wouldn’t go any higher. I’m definitely digging this over 4.7inch Nexus 4 though.
Also lololol I have over 500ppi fuck iphooooooooooooooooooooooooone ANDROID MASTAH RAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEYeah that’s what I am wondering I have large-ish hands. Guess i’d be better to play with both see what feels more natural lol. The 6 is an inch larger than my 4 so yeah, but 1080P is way more attractive than 750P
Got a 5 inch Galaxy s4 and the size is brilliant.
Speaking from the perspective of someone who’s never owned a mobile phone larger than a driver’s license, 5.5inch seems ludicrously large. Would that even fit comfortably in a pocket?
My jeans have good sized pockets and likewise my work pants the mobile pocket on them is quite reasonable!
I mean it is the size of a Vita the 6+ model and the 6 the size of a regular 3DS. So yeah.
So Destiny’s story improves a lot once you hit Venus (well, so far anyway). I’m glad for that. Earth and the Moon were fun gameplay wise, but the story that went with them didn’t feel that engaging.
Sadly, Venus is about 75% of the way through the story. c.c
Destineers: should I obtain some kind of speaking apparatus with which to communicate my thoughts aurally when engaging in social entanglements? I have misplaced the article included with my purchase of the hardware so if I wish to pursue this line of inquiry I’m not entirely sure what the specific requirements for such a device might entail.
I hear the ps4 gold headset is of, well, gold standard (if you’re playing on the PS4, anyway.)
you can use a headset or any headphone with an in-line speaker eg. apple earbuds
Like i just use my music headset which just have an in-line mic on them
Which would be cool if I had some. 🙁 Maybe I’ll have a hunt around.
I use apple earbuds! To poor effect…. but to some effect nonetheless!
Not if you speak like that all the time. 😛
It’s very useful to have when ‘shit gets real’. There is no real apparatus in-game for conveying, “Behind you!” “Shit, more wizards,” “Save your supercharge, there’s a mass of knights coming,” or, “I’m about to drop a shield, if you’re in trouble, head to the entrance,” and such that keeps you alive.
All you PC peeps interested in Shadows of Modor – It’s on steam now for $49.99
This will probably get changed to the usual Australia Tax amount so grab it now before it reverts!
Or you could get it from GMG, use their 20% off code, and get it for $40. Same disclaimer re Australia tax, tho.
… I guess I have an extra thing to add to my Todo list for tonight!
Oh yeah, I’m going on holiday from tomorrow! 😀
I’ll be on Gold Coast with my gf from Thursday afternoon to Monday morning. We have Friday night booked out but that’s about it. Anyone wanna meet up? I know it’s a tough ask to break away from Destiny…. 😛
If only lol, my old man lived in Surfers Paradise for 6 years so you’re in for a treat I believe (especially if you are near the beach)!
Thanks man, yeah we staying a block from beach. In bus now heh.
You just reminded me, there was something on the ABC this morning about there being a man in a Gold Coast Hospital with suspected Ebola… Stay away from the the healthcare system!!!
Yep, saw that. :/
Hey guys, reminder the following is free to be gifted to anyone that wants it.
Crusader Kings II
FTL: Faster Than Light
Fez
Legend of Grimrock
Mark of the Ninja
I wouldn’t say no to Legend of Grimrock … Steam handle is carnhawks.
Mark of the ninja is outstanding and anybody who hasn’t played it should grab it
WOO! CRUSADER KINGS!
ObligI was going to reply yesterday that you would probably want it. 😛
Did you want it?
I’ve got it, man.
I just use any opportunity to champion its virtues.
YOU CAN BE THE KING OF FRANCE AND PISS OFF THE SPANIARDS!
Seeing as everyone is raving about it I’ll take Mark of the Ninja off your hands! 😛 My steam handle is archsinc
Hey man, I couldn’t find you on steam for some reason. Just double check everything is ok with the username you gave me, if not, find me, toadthebrute.
So turns out I didn’t have a Steam I.D lol. This is my user profile: http://steamcommunity.com/id/n_s_mclean hope that helps!
1st semester last year in my business info systems class me and another guy did one of our assignments on some travel company (identifying problems and improvements and such). We suggested they work on their website.
Today I get an email from them basically saying “hey, wanna volunteer to build us a new website?”
…no, not really. I just told you what the problem was, I don’t do the development stuff 😛
It’ll be great exposure for portfolio stuff!
Just like being a professional, minus the part where you get paid for your work!
Did anyone get (will get) Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate?
Is it rad?
I finished Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light. Anyone else finished it? (@blaghman ?) Thoughts?
Was disappointed at myself. From the start of the book I was predicting Skulduggery sacrificing himself to contain the accelerator thingy, and I was so smug and satisfied that I didn’t realise how he was going to get out of it until like, 1 page before it was revealed. Very sad with myself. Also, didn’t like their way of getting rid of Darquesse, was kind of lame, but I felt like the bit all in her head was painfully obvious that it was all a delusion. That said, overall I enjoyed it.Well, I think the illusion thing was supposed to be obvious.A part of me is a little underwhelmed by the way it ended for some reason. Not sure why. Seemed a bit abrupt. I have no idea whether Sacaren Rue survived, or whether Scapegrace actually went through with becoming the king of the dead. I think it could have used with a bit more closure.
Although I liked the book, it definitely suffered in terms of agency. Oh no! Darquesse is a super-threat! Let’s spend three days preparing for her! Also, Darquesse had way too many near-death situations. It’s like Derek Landy thought about 4 different ways to have Darquesse die, so decided to include them all, but omit the dying part from all but one of them, and have her (presumably) die off-screen.
Also, having Darquesse be the one to summon the portal to the Faceless Realm sounds like a risky move. Fletcher could have gotten a piece of the Grotesquery or grabbed Skulduggery’s face or something to use as an Isthmus Anchor, and open the portal himself. That way, Darquesse doesn’t learn how to open portals herself.
Wonder what’s going to happen with the franchise now. The little teaser at the end revealed that Derek Landy will be creating new IP next year. Will movies get made? God, I hope not. The reflection plotline alone is borderline unfilmable, and there’s no way the big studios are going to have Tanith and the Black Cleaver fight naked, for example. And it will be PG-13.
*(anton) shudder*
I should get around to reading the short novellas Armageddon Outta Here and The Maleficent Seven.
You know, I think one of my eyes may be bigger than the other. Hmm.
I had high pressure in one eye once. #relatedbutnotreally
Smooth Mcgroove just did an acapella of the final boss theme for Final Fantasy VII. It’s 7 minutes long. It’s glorious. Why are you still here? Go watch it.
EDIT: Forgot to put a full stop.
Because I haven’t played FF7?
i have, but the music means nothing to me :\
Destiny max! Story completed. Guess it’s time to grind strike missions to get sweet Vanguard gear. Daily heroic completed! It yielded 5 marks! Let’s check gear cost. 150 marks. Soooo, in 30 days of dailies, I will be able to acquire one piece of gear… out of 5-6 slots. I guess this is how they reckon it’ll be ten year lifespan?
Apparently marks can be acquired faster through the roulette-wheel strike missions. I certainly didn’t get any by joining specific ones with friends. Bit of a concern, though.
How many hours did the story take to complete? So far I have only played about an hour, but am enjoying it so far. The gameplay is great, not much to the story so far.
With so many days off, I have lost all sense of time. Maybe 16hrs? 20? It is hard to say. Does the PS4 have some sort of ‘time played’ feature?
(Edti: I don’t think I’d have put in 20hrs in total, and I definitely hit finished up the content long before my current playtime total. Just been running a mate through Venus and Mars, since. So maybe 10-15hrs to finish? Not bad mileage. And story isn’t everything. I don’t play Warframe for its story… sorta. It has an ongoing thing that’s pretty cool.)
If you’re connected to a Bungie account, it should give you game time there.
Thanks for playing with Nob and I, Transient!
I hope you know how inferior my voice feels (also, the first half was fun when I was just communicating things to Nob, and getting him to pass them on).
I didn’t notice a thing, man. Your voice sounds pretty normal to me. 🙂
Yeah, my voice is pretty normal, but next to yours it’s the screeching wail of a thousand banshees.
I’m trying to overcome my aversion to joining in on things by joining in whenever I can. It started with auditioning for Sewvivor,and now I’m forcing myself to join in on the Instagram quilting community by commenting on a lot of others’ pictures. And I’ll be joining a “quilt-along” as soon as I have money to buy fabric again.
Most recently(like five minutes ago), I just joined a mini swap where you get randomly assigned someone who also joined up and you check out their blog and their Instagram pics and things to get an idea of what their taste is, and then you make a mini quilt just for them. Should be fun but also scary. Some famous quilty people are also joining in and I’m scared I’ll get one of them!
I get it…
Finding a new community to hang with…
No no, it’s cool…
TAY not good enough for you, ‘ey Strangy?
What can I do to make you stay, Strangy?
WHAT MUST I DO TO EARN YOUR LOVE?! :’O
Start by not calling her strangy 😛
WOO SURVIV… oh…
That starts soonish, I wonder if Strange will join us this season >:|
(Let’s just call it Sewvivor to trick her into watching the first episode. Genius!)
So bored…
Do I have Tales of Xillia 2 buddies?
🙁
I should probably play Tales of Symphonia some more but … Destiny.
I’ll play the first one at some point!
Once I’m clear of Destiny and also have knocked out Ar noSurge when it releases (Ar Tonelico series is way more important to me than Tales)
FINALLY got a chance to see Guardians of the Galaxy. I know I’m many weeks late with it, but holy crap that was amazing.
Resume your Destiny playing now.
Fact, Guardians of the Galaxy is better than Destiny and would make an amazing KotOR-esque RPG.
Given that I found myself saying “This feels like Mass Effect” at times, I wholeheartedly agree.
I’m hearing lots of good things about Guardians… lots of good things.
But I hated The Avengers movie. What are the odds I’d like this?
I disliked Avengers as a whole. This is better. Funner. Prettier. More ambitious.
The best part is how far removed it is from the extended Marvel universe. Feels like its own thing.
INTRIGUING.
Everything @dc said and then some. There’s enough callbacks to existing Marvel connected universe properties that you “know” it’s part of it if you’re paying attention but the movie itself could not give two craps if you understand them. It stands on its own very solidly.
I guess The Avengers is an ensemble superhero movie that relies on the popularity of its various franchises to function. GotG relies on sheer awesomeness and referential humour and just being plain good to function.
Laugh out loud moments throughout, was not bored or wandering for a single moment of the 2+ hours run time.
“Iron Man 2.5: Now with Mark Ruffalo, and Cobie Smulders is around there somewhere”.
Agreed with Deece. I didn’t like The Avengers (or really, not many superhero movies :P) but Guardians was good.
It’s more of a straight-up sci-fi movie than a superhero movie, basted in cheesy jokes and character banter and probably one of the most fitting soundtracks in recent memory.
Would you go as far as saying you’re Hooked on a Feeling? (man, that soundtrack!)
It certainly was an Awesome Mix.Decided I wanted to try and take @powalen and @mawt down at the Pax Pokemon League. Just realised I’m only at the 2nd gym on a restarted play through. Going to take a lot of work. If @beavwa or others could help with some breeding stock once I’m through the elite 4, I’d be very appreciative
I can help facilitate most things, although I’m not perfect IV breeding mad. Yet.
“Try” being the key word here! >:D
Only do, there is no try.
Do we get any hints on what yours and @mawt’s team will be composed of? I’m guessing a Bug typing for you and for some reason I’m going Ground for Mawt.
The only hints challengers get are short bios that get released on the website in the lead-up to PAX (similar to how the American PAX have handled it in the past here: http://paxpokemonleague.net/). Usually it’ll have things like typing/gimmick/etc.
So you won’t actually know specifically what we have until the battle (and most of us have backups to sub in/out to keep rematches interesting)
Those character bios are pretty cool and it helps that everyone is going with a clearly identifiable theme. I can’t wait to see yours (although now I’m imagining your backstory to be like The Pain from MGS 3 and you field nothing but Beedrills). 😛
@Powalen is fielding an entire team of level 100 Metapods that only know harden and IV/EV trained to the max in defence and HP. He also has a bag full of hyper potions.
After an hour of Struggle (all PP and restoration items ran out a long time ago) you finally knock one out only to face another five. You mutter “this is stupid” and walk away giving Pow the default win.
Shhhh
Pfft, you and your puny bugs will be no match for my awesome team of…. well, thats all part of the surprise isn’t it? 😛
Oh god twitter trolls bahahaha cc @cakesmith
“If you turn a blind eye to all the worst cases of abuse, all of the abuse is directed at us!”
The delusion is strong.
After a full day at work, come home, have a shower, eat tea, catch up on TAY while Destiny sits on the menu screen, finally start up Destiny and jump into a story mission and get booted within a couple of minutes.
Fine, I didn’t really want to play with you anyway, stupid game.
*cries self to sleep*
Everyone is raving about their Minecraft creations, and I’m sitting here, not willing to build anything because I know I’m going to lose my world in just a few weeks when I have to give my laptop back to the school. This’ll be the third time I will have lost a Minecraft world, but the pain will not get easier. So I spent 90 minutes just collecting screenshots so I won’t forget. I took 42 screenshots. Wow. I don’t think I’ll upload any of the screenshots, since I lack any sort of account to photo-uploading websites, and it’d be too much work, anyway.
I shall list all of the awesomeness I built, (in survival) to see how it compares to everyone else.
-Gigantic farm will all the animals and all the vegetables
-Giant spire to the top of the building limit
-Floating islands
-Three gigantic mines
-Giant treasury, with a chest for almost every item in the game
-Railroad (called the Matlock Expressway, of course) that goes from one end of the world to the other, comprised of several stacks worth of gold.
-Castle with battlements (more akin to a cobblestone house with a cobblestone fence) that I used as a holiday home
-Secret treehouse
-Room made entirely of magenta and purple wool
-Large floating cobblestone formations in sky used to spell out the location I was in
Another thing, am I the only person who names all their locations? The biome were I spawned I named Peranna, the hilly biome was christened Yorippa Hills, and I called the grassy biome with the treehouse Saturnalia.
Join the multi server. That won’t be lost based on a physical PC.
Or, alternatively, can’t you throw your map file on a USB stick or something so you don’t lose it?
I think once I finishe the inside of my house, I will upload images =D
Phlan, try imgur or photobucket or imageshack
I’ve tried that in the past, and it never seems to work.
Just copy the entire save folder and you should just be able to drop it (as in overwrite) in the same place when you install Minecraft on a different computer.
I used to keep a backup of my single-player world on Dropbox so I could play it from anywhere!
Join us! Join us! Join us!
So I think I’m playing Destiny wrong, but I’m enjoying it far more this way :3
I decided to give my guardian a backstory, and motivation for fighting.
My Exo Hunter wanted nothing more in life than to be human. He wanted to feel genuine emotions, be treated like an equal rather than just as a machine, but most importantly, he wanted to feel love, which his programming would not allow.
Tired of being merely a machine, he decided to set out after the Traveller, hearing about the vast power it controlled, hoping that it may grant him his one true desire of being human.
Unfortunately, my poor Exo arrived during the darkness’ attack, and was shot down on his approach, falling to earth before he was able to meet with the Traveller.
Upon being resurrected by his ghost, my Exo picks up where he left off, brandishing his sniper rifle and unwavering resolve, the lonely wolf he is, determined to fend off the darkness so that he can gain the Travellers favour, and hopefully be made human so that he can find love.
Will he ever be human?
Will he ever find love?
My Exo steely determination, and burning desire drives him forward, not sure of his outcome, but determined to find a way.
It’s kinda fun pretending that my Exo has his own motivation for fighting :3
It makes it more personal, weirdly.
My character is @shane… but in space.
Driven by a pressing need to get a copy of his book on every planet of the solar system, whatever it takes.
Whatever. It. Takes.
*renegade option flashes, Shane kicks DC out window*
*@shane falls out after him due to hands entwined in pockets*
This is a high concept, sci-fi Romeo and Juliet except with murder/suicide instead of mutual suicide.
“If I can’t have you, no one else can.” DC mumurered, his eyes squeezed closed to hold back the tears as he placed his hand over the large red button that would trigger detonation of the station’s fusion reactors. “But I’ll die knowing that I will never find anyone I will treasure more than the time we’ve had together.”
Then he felt another hand atop his, and his eyes locked with Shane’s one last time and there was no need for any more words as they pushed the button together.
:’)
I’m a lumberjack and I’m ok. I sleep all night and I work all day!
I call my guy ‘dandy.’ He’s a dandy guy… in space.
Skirting close to copyright territory there.
I see you too like to live dangerously.
I’ve had a very similar conversation with @f4ction about back stories etc, and trust me there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being a “Narrative Player”… I do it for pretty much every game i get my hands on, anything from Skyrim (because come on, that just has to be a thing) to my Gunzerker in Borderlands 2… My latest focus is going to be my currently unnamed Star Citizen character… I reckon that it’s a wonderful thing to flesh out a game with your own motivation and agenda, it feels… Richer in some way i guess…
Thanks for the games again @dc & @mjhellscream , sorry about my mic woes, not sure what is going on there, I seem to be really quiet and if more than 1 person joins the fireteam I can only hear one at a time. I tried connecting my official PS3 head set, it can see the device but doesn’t “recognize” it :(.
Thanks for playing, my friend. Was a good time. Might be worth investing in new headset? Freeze and I both got this one and it works fine. (If a bit uncomfortable.)
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/games-consoles/platforms/gaming-headset/ps4-mono-chat-headset/466406/
yeah, I better get one, that’s why I was standing around being useless so much, I was fiddling with settings trying to get the stupid thing to work,
For a change EB has it cheaper.
https://ebgames.com.au/ps4-163712-PlayStation-4-Chat-Headset-PlayStation-4
that is a surprise, thanks.
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/97169364511/11-september-2014
D.C. rambles about the shambling corpse of the point-and-click adventure game.
it’s not dead! @sughly is here to save us all!!! 😉
Ooo what was the retweet??
https://twitter.com/TimOfLegend/status/508883318826213376
(Thanks for reading too, Sughly. <3)
Whaaaa thats so cool, only time I ever got a reply from a double fine person was from Greg, and it was a joke he misunderstood :'(
I remember that! Hahaha! You were so pained! 😀
So cool!
New theory: @dc is the ghost of adventure games. We should have known when he began saying “Want some rye?”.
P.S. You write goodly, my friend.
Thanks for reading Strangey. You so kind.
BUT NOW THAT MY SECRET IS REVEALED, I MUST GO! *flees*
Glad you’re a)getting back into it and b) enjoying it.
Thanks Red. 😀
This Kickstarter may be relevant to your interests
Well last night I had to force myself off the computer or else I would’ve been stuck playing One Finger Death Punch all night… that game is really addictive
@highperformance Good playing with you yesterday! Was fun doing that Strike, got there in the end. :p
Lol it was worth calling in sick! Was good fun, are you thinking about doing the Level 12 strike mission on the moon soon?
Def was. I’m really enjoying it and craving more today! Hmm that’d be a good idea. I was thinking about doing a couple of story missions tonight with Mactash, but will see if he fancies the strike. If not tonight, tomorrow night is good for me. I’ll be playing quite a bit tomorrow night.
Yeah tomorrow suits me as well, I’ll see if I can tear myself away from the ball and chain long enough to put some play time in lol.
cc @jackunit13
You probably want to be at least level 14 to do The Summoning Pits, the boss encounter doesn’t appear to have been balanced/tested appropriately.
Ok, better grind tonight to make sure I can play!
Edit: I died the most out of the fireteam as a level 7 trying to do the Devils Lair Strike Mission so I better listen to this advice lol.
Oo cheers. I should be by tomorrow night. Hopefully the loot we get from it will still be useful..
After yesterday after work being out for drinks and to see lady parts (and on a work night), woke up early this morning to get my first taste of the Moon missions and to flex my new auto rifle. Now I’m back at work and am totally concentrating hard…
Hard.
Lady parts.
One of my buddies loves Halo. Only has Wii U. Wants to play something Halo-esque.
I was thinking about recommending Mass Effect 3. I wonder how it stands on its own without the first two?
Any one got other ideas for something Halo-esque?
Going back a while now but Conduit 1/2 for the Wii might satisfy his Halo cravings. It’s a decent enough shooter but it’s more grounded on Earth fighting an alien invasion.
If they can get it: The Metroid Prime Trilogy (kinda rare). Metroid Other M would do as well (it’s mainly the disappointed fans who complain about it. It’s not a bad game if you have no idea of Metroid’s lore)
Those are Wii games though, there’s not much sci-fi stuff (or really shooters in general) on WiiU besides Mass Effect 3.
Thanks man. (You too, @popdart5.)
ZombiU isn’t really Halo-esque at all but it’s a kickarse FPS for Wii U that I would totally recommend to anyone and also goes for quite cheap.
I’d suggest Conduit if I wanted my friend to suffer. No, sure, they’re great games with a ridiculous story, but Conduit 2 leaves on one of the biggest cliffhangers in gaming, and there will never be a Conduit 3.
Sega! Come on! Where’s Conduit 3? You don’t end a game like that and never make another!
Sega has a history of doing that with games. Shenmue 2 being the biggest example of a cliffhanger ever.
There’s nothing like Halo on the Wii or the Wii U. There’s some Science Fiction FPS games but they’re either not actual FPS (Metroid), Steaming piles of shit (Other M), RPGs (Mass Effect) or utterly mediocre (Conduit).
If he loves Halo why the heck does he only have a Wii U?
Hasn’t played a console game since original Xbox.
I started playing Marvel Puzzle Quest yesterday. It’s pretty cool.
Free to play, as a genre is wacky though.
Just a heads up, the only game that I’ve seen try to gouge customers for cash worse than MPQ is Candy Crush Saga.
MPQ can be fun, but it has deteriorated significantly over the last 10-12 months. Developers have stated on numerous times that they are not interested in creating a balanced game, as uncertainty/instability “encourages” players to spend money on IAP in order to preserve the old status quo as long as they can.
It’s okay, I can not be gouged as I have no money to spend. And when I do have money, I’ll be spending it on Diablo III and forgetting all about Marvel Puzzle Quest. 😛
Man this program looks old. *checks history to see when it was created*
2003. Sounds like public sector to me.
A terrible year for me. Thanks for the reminder! *runs off crying*
I’m currently attempting to get a shitty educational flash program from 1998 to work on a Windows 8 machine…and this is private education.
My preferred image editing program is Paint Shop Pro 5 (v7 is probably better, but seems more unstable). It’s from 1998, but thankfully still seems to run ok from my USB drive on Windows 7.
My friend got them to install Photoshop for me but bleh. It’s awful
I use PSP7 for everything. It’s amazing.
*bro-five*!
I gave PSP9 a try, since it was the latest version that worked on 98. While it had some cool features and stuff added, good god that interface was horrible. Also sluggish.
Man the day i walked into one of the libraries to find a computer still running win98 se, was the day i realised that private education didn’t mean anything XD
Who needs current technology when you can have three pools and an ostentatious music centre amirite?
What were you doing in my house??
I’m considering volunteering at my local Vinnie’s shop in Geelong.
Just have to fill the form out and drop it in. 🙂
You the man, you can get some good deals there!
$40 foosball table, need I say more?!
Ill offer you 1 dollar for it
Had to give it away for a prize at the gym, if it makes you feel better it’s in a happy home!
Is it your home?
The thought crossed my mind, many times. I lost the tournament in the final though so had to give it to the winner 🙁
@freezespreston Thanks for tagging me to let me know you’ve booked flights. Would you be able to email me the full details, flight times etc, or a copy of the ticket? Just so I know where you’ll be and when
/stalker
…the hell is roo-ock day?
Roo-ock, Rize?
I relatively oo-ock.
Oh, Coo-ock!
*grabs by the scruff of the neck* Bad Pixel! BAD! Go outside and think about what you’ve done.
I honestly don’t even know what the above is related to, I JUST WANTED TO BE INVOLVED *jumps out the window*
HEY! You get back here! *jumps out window*
Wait, what’s happening? *jumps out window*
Glad to see that I’m not the only one that doesn’t like the name. Don’t get me wrong, a day to ask people if they are okay is a good idea but do we really need to act like we are teenagers using MSN messenger?
I no, rite?Ugh. It hurt to type that.
Yes since they shut down msn messenger..roo-ock?
No.
RIP MSN 🙁
*hugs*
If you really felt bad about MSN dying you wouldn’t have offered a hug, you would have put 34 heart emotes…
S2 s2 s2 s2 (L)
I have never seen S2 before and it took me a while to figure out what was happening.
I was going to make that joke, but decided it was in bad taste. Glad you were able to come through with the goods, man! 🙂
It’s a fantastic campaign marred by a shitty name. But hey, it works.
You’re all talking about it…
Hence “it works” 😛
Still can’t find any reference to what Roo-ock is :P, all i find is references to tumblr and twitter accounts, but i feel that it may be important and that i should feel bad for the above joke 😛
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUOK%3F_Day
Oh good, and mobiletay will not let me edit the comment *head desk*
What makes it worse is that it’s a subject that i feel quite strongly about due to having been having those thoughts myself for a while and dealing with a wife that was suicidal but luckily didn’t carry through with anything…
Actually we’re talking more about the name than we are about the issue.
I guarantee it’ll change into discussion about the issue, though.
I dunno, to me it doesn’t seem like all that fantastic a campaign. The idea behind it is all well and good, but does it actually work at all?
I mean if someone asked me if I was ok, I’d just say “yeah, I’m fine” or some other kind of neutral statement that shrugs off the question, and continue on with things. Even if I was nowhere near ok at all.
You are not the target market for the campaign.
Based on the amount of popcorn consumed in these parts you have no issue stating what is going and and how you are feeling.
The main reason for the day is to give the general blockhead who might be worried about a mate who is struggling but has no way of addressing girly things like feelings. It gives an excuse to say “you seem a bit different lately, are you ok?” and they can answer without losing their concept of manhood.
The popcorn stuff is just innocuous fluff, usually just thrown out there for a laugh or whatever. The “real” stuff tends to stay inside and only get occasionally vented to (increasingly unavailable) close friends. That’s another thing too actually – it’s far easier to type that sort of thing out onto a screen. Most of it I would struggle to actually say if asked verbally, even with my best friend when we’re hanging out it’s a struggle to talk about things I’d have no trouble typing.
But yeah, I guess it just feels to me like it’s one thing to get people asking others how they’re doing, but another to get the others to overcome the “it’s not their problem, I don’t have to hassle them with it” feeling.
The real kicker isn’t in the fact that people ask, it is in giving agency to the other person to be able to say “No, not really”
I get what you’re saying. I’m exactly the same. I don’t even like telling my wife when I’m not okay.
So ive decided to close my portal in the sky..only because I want to make it bigger!
Im gonna open the Senkaimon on this world!
\o/
So the baddies in Destiny are The Darkness. Do they believe in a thing called love?
JUSLISTENTOTHARHYTHMOFMAHEARTThey want you to get your hands off their woman
Motherfu-…hmm.
GUITAR!
*SQQUUUUUAUUAAAAUUUUEEEEELLLLLLL*
Me and my mates drunkenly decided to make a tribute band to Steel Panther – we were going to call it Rusty Kitten. We’ve never actually taken any action on the plan but it comes up every time we catch up.
I’m disappointed they didn’t get Mike Patton to reprise his role. 😛
Whenever someone talks about how The Darkness is the villain, I keep expecting Jackie Estacado to show up.
Destiny stuff:
Hit 18 last night and I think I completed the campaign, I did the mission where
you go to the Black Garden.There are still a few missions I haven’t done yet, so ????
Some of the Strikes seem a little unbalanced – quite possibly they had their difficulty tweaked after the beta.
Everyone keeps saying that Venus looks really good. Personally, Earth + Moon were the best.
Looking forward to getting to 20 then grinding some XP to fill out my Defender subclass so I can start tanking some of the harder Strikes and get ready for raiding.
That’s cool! You’re a PS man right?
PS4 (Mawticus)
I’m xbone 🙁 if I get a ps4 I’ll remember lol
So, after two nights of extensive testing… it appears as though my headset, which I’d not touched since I got rocksmith (at which point I had to switch cos it didn’t like an external audio interface) is infecting me with some sort of uncontrollable sneezing within minutes of putting it down. Never while it’s on – Tuesday I had it on for a few hours, and had no issues until I swapped back to my comfy headphones, at which point I was sneezing until nearly midnight. Last night I picked them up again, as the delay made me sceptical that it was the headset. No reaction until a few minutes after I took them off. Seeking to test exposure, I picked them up and handled them for about twenty seconds this morning, not even putting them on, this morning. Within a minute, sneezing, albeit less intense than last few times. Either they’re exuding an infectious miasma, or they’re cursed, or they’re getting revenge for being neglected for nearly a year.
Seeing as I have no idea how I would properly clean/exorcise/placate it, I’ll be getting a new headset today. While battling a stuffed up nose. Ugh…
Sounds like mould to me, man. I don’t think you can save them.
Figured they were beyond redemption. Also… eww… I had that on my head for hours… I have the sudden urge to rush home and disinfect my head. :S
How do you tell the difference between a plumber and a chemist?
Ask them to pronounce “unionised”.
#13isatypeof6kindof
Just picked up my copy of inFamous: first Light, I’ll have to try and force myself off Destiny for a bit on the weekend and try it out.
While I was there I swapped my Dragon Age: Fancy-ass Collector’s Edition and Skylanders: Trap Team Dark Edition from Xbone to PS4.
I think the PS4 is definitely the best console this gen for sure. Last gen I liked the PS3, but hated the controller, and for some stupid reason I was more addicted to achievements than trophies, so the 360 was my goto console.
This gen however, the Playstation controller is so much better, and it actually feels miles better than the Xbone one, it just seems like it’s a better console overall too. Think I’m gonna get all my multi-platform games on PS4 and just keep the Xbone for exclusives. Loving the PS4 right now.
ALL HAIL THE NON-MASTER RACE MASTER RACE
Lord of the Flies?
One of the only books I ever read for school that I HATED.
Managed to dodge that bullet. I remember that we had to read an excerpt once, but that was it. Also managed to dodge of Mice and Men, which is apparently really popular with English teachers.
But those books would probably be preferential to the dogshit I had to read like ‘The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian’ and Sarah Mussi’s tinfoil-hat conspiracy toss book Siege. Apparently the government caused Columbine because… money?
The only one I remember liking was Holes. Good prison book, and an alright movie to match.
I like books, but schools rarely pick good ones to force us to read. It’s especially terrible when they force you to read the classics, and you realise the classics aren’t very good. Take Dracula for example. Terrible book with terrible pacing, terrible characters, and no sense of agency whatsoever.
Rant over.
Going back a long time, but I liked That Eye, The Sky by Tim Winton, and I didn’t mind The Messenger by Markus Zusak, though I thought (and still think) it was slight.
Managed to dodge Shakespeare, which I don’t regret, as I think coming to The Bard later gives me a different appreciation.
Self Promotion \o/
JAPAN GROUP TOUR – MAR/APR 2015
Mostly for newer members of our great community, but also just in case anyone else has decided to come along. I work as a travel agent and will be leading a group trip to Japan next year in March and April. @freezespreston, @jocon, @transientmind and @negativezero have already booked, so it is bound to be a great trip. I’ve got the whole itinerary spoilered below. Check it out and if you’re interested, let me know.
Itinerary:
Day 1 – 21st March 2015 – Arrive Osaka
Upon arrival into Osaka airport you will be met and transferred by private coach to your accommodation for check in
Day 2 – 22nd March 2015 – Osaka
This morning visit Osaka Castle & enjoy a cruise on Osaka River. This afternoon we will be attending the Final Day and Closing Ceremony of Osaka’s Annual Sumo Tournament. The afternoon of the final day is when the best competitors and the most important bouts take place.
Day 3 – 23rd March 2015 – Osaka
Full Day at leisure
Start of 7 Day Japan Rail Pass
Day 4 – 24th March 2015 – Osaka-Hiroshima
Today make your way to Osaka train station to catch the bullet train to Himeji. Tour of Himeji Castle with English speaking guide. After the tour, and some time for lunch, we will catch the bullet train to Hiroshima. On arrival into Hiroshima make your way to your accommodation for check in
Day 5 – 25th March 2015 – Hiroshima
This morning you will take a short tram trip to the edge of the Seto Sea. Here, board a ferry for the ten-minute passage to Miyajima Island. This tranquil island is home to Itsukushima Shrine, partly comprised of an offshore red ‘torii’ gate – one of Japan’s most famous and photographed sites. In ancient times access to holy Miyajima Island was through this ‘floating’ gate; you will arrive more conventionally, gliding into the ferry terminal. Take some free time to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere of this pretty island, mingle with the wild deer, and sample some Japanese snack food. Take this opportunity to try a traditional okonomiyaki pancake lunch before departing this unique setting and re-board the a direct ferry for the trip back to the mainland to the Peace Memorial Museum, dedicated to the events of 1945 and the aim of a war-free world. A visit to this exceptional museum is a sobering, yet educational experience. You will also see the famous Peace Memorial Park and a poignant cenotaph inscribed with all the known victims of the Hiroshima bomb, and the eerie A-Bomb Dome, a tragic city-symbol, left standing in a ruinous state after more than 60 years. In the evening, explore Hiroshima, a truly ‘reinvented’ city.
Day 6 – 26th March 2015 – Hiroshima-Kyoto
Today make your way to Hiroshima train station to catch the bullet train to Kyoto. On arrival into Kyoto make your way to your accommodation for check in
Day 7 – 27th March 2015 – Kyoto
Spend a delightful morning walking through the streets of Kyoto where you will discover some of the lovely temples and shrines in this ancient city. Begin at JR Kyoto station at 1.45pm and take a bus to Higashiyama, for an exploration of the beautiful Kiyomizu temple, with a panoramic view of Kyoto. Walking down Sannenzaka and Ninenzaka streets uncovers quaint shops in traditional Japanese buildings, and this walk has been described as one of the prettiest in Kyoto. Stop at tranquil Kodaiji temple, surrounded by formal gardens, and then continue on to Yasaka shrine, a Shinto shrine in the Gion district. Roam the Gion district, with traditional restaurants and tea houses (ochaya), and maybe spot a geisha scurrying along one of the many alleyways to her next performance.
At 6.30pm you will be met by a representative of Travel Indochina in the lobby of your hotel. Leave for the restaurant by taxi or train. Arrive at the restaurant where you will be taken to a private dining room to start your kaiseki meal. Kaiseki is a type of art form that balances the taste, texture, appearance, and colours of food. To this end, only fresh seasonal ingredients are used and are prepared in ways that aim to enhance their flavour. Finished dishes are carefully presented on plates that are chosen to enhance both the appearance and the seasonal theme of the meal. Dishes are beautifully arranged and garnished, often with real leaves and flowers, as well as edible garnishes designed to resemble natural plants and animals. The Maiko/Geisha will come to your private room to perform a traditional dance and to talk with you for up to 40 minutes. A geisha with her elaborate kimono and ghost white make-up, is one of the most enduring images of Japan. This is a fantastic opportunity to experience a highly exclusive service that is usually only available through a personal introduction. After enjoying dinner and the performance the evening is yours to enjoy at your leisure.
Day 8 – 28th March 2015 – Kyoto
Today is a full day at leisure. Spend a day exploring the many sights and sound of Kyoto, or possibly take a day trip to Nara, famous for its parkland, wild deer and temples. Visit stunning Todaiji Temple, made without the use of a single nail, and the shelter of a massive bronze Buddha. Also see the smaller yet equally beautiful 8th century Kasuga Shrine. The entrance is lined by stone lanterns, creating an atmospheric approach. Spend some time mingling with Nara’s free-roaming deer, before your return to Kyoto.
Day 9 – 29th March 2015 – Kyoto-Takayama
Today make your way to Kyoto train station to catch the bullet train to Takayama. On arrival into Takayama make your way to your accommodation for check in.
End of 7 Day Japan Rail Pass
Day 10 – 30th March 2015 – Takayama
This morning set out on a walking tour of some of Takayama’s main attractions. As an introduction, visit the Festival Floats Exhibition Hall, home to colourful floats which come out annually during one of Japan’s most famous festivals. You will also visit Takayama Jinya, formerly a government building and home to some wonderful insights into Japan’s past. Your walking tour will include a stroll past some beautifully preserved wooden houses on Kami Sannomachi Street and a venture past some enticing sake rice wine breweries. This evening, continue your encounters with Takayama’s friendly inhabitants and explore the local eating options.
Day 11 – 31st March 2015 – Takayama-Hakone
Late morning you will leave your hotel and travel by coach to Hakone. This picturesque town is famous for its proximity to imposing Mount Fuji, a symbol of Japan and the highest mountain in the country. Before checking-in to your Japanese-style hotel you will enjoy a short boat trip on peaceful Lake Ashino, and an exciting cable car ascent (weather permitting) to the top of Mount Komagatake for majestic views of Japan’s most loved and famous geographic landmark. After a sumptuous Japanese dinner, you will sleep tonight in an atmospheric tatami-floored room, on a futon mattress.
Day 12 – 1st April 2015 – Hakone-Tokyo
This morning you will travel the short distance by private coach to Tokyo. This afternoon is at leisure
Day 13 – 2nd April 2015 – Tokyo
Following breakfast meet in the reception area of your hotel for a tour briefing before embarking on your exploration of the city. Today you will explore some of the city’s highlights on a carefully created tour. You will begin with a short walk to nearby Hama Rikyu Garden, dating to 1654 and once the private respite of the Tokugawa Shogun. After a stroll through this tranquil garden, after which you board a boat (shared service) for a cruise on Tokyo’s Sumida River. This short trip will take you past the headquarters of some of Japan’s most famous companies and will end near bustling Asakajusa Temple, the oldest and most beloved temple in Tokyo. Here, be introduced to the influences of Buddhism and Shintoism on Japanese culture. Around mid-day, travel to serene Meiji Jingu shrine and Harajuku. Here, mingle with youngsters dressed to the hilt in colourful cult fashions. Later, take in mesmerising sky scraper views of Japan’s major city from Tokyo Tower. Towards the end of the afternoon, return to your hotel by train and foot.
Day 14 – 3rd April 2015 – Depart Tokyo
At proper time you will catch the airport transfer vehicle to Narita airport for your onward flight
Hotels and Inclusions
Osaka – Mitsui Garden Hotel YodoyabashiHiroshima – Hotel New Hiroden
Kyoto – Mitsui Garden Kyoto Sanjo
Takayama – Green Hotel Takayama (ryokan)
Hakone – Hakone Yumoto Hotel (ryokan)
Tokyo – Park Hotel Tokyo
Holiday Price Includes:
All Accommodation
Breakfast Every day, 2 Dinners in Kyoto and Hakone
Transportation and touring as per the itinerary with entrance fees
7 day JR pass
1 Local English speaking guide on touring days
Exclusions:
AirfaresVisa if necessary (If travelling on an Australian Passport, a Visa is not required)
Meals not listed above
Personal expenses (laundry, telephone, drinks, tips…)
Travel insurance (Possession of adequate travel insurance is a compulsory condition of travelling with Travel Indochina)
And all this comes to the price of….
$4,331.00 per person twin share or$4,905.00 per person single room
Deposit is $500.00 per person, with final payment due in the middle of January.
Flights are currently sitting at around $1100-1400 depending on who you fly with.
Extra accommodation before and after the tour can also be organised if you would like to extend your stay in Osaka or Tokyo
There you have it folks. If you have any questions feel free to respond below or email me at peter(at)weknowtravel(dot)com(dot)au
Thanks again everyone
I like that you put in some random person’s email address after posting that, so that they get ridiculously detailed inquiries about travelling to Japan, questions so detailed that they couldn’t possibly think it was just some prank email and are instead wondering if they actually did organise some Japan trip without realising it.
Brilliant.
I know, this Peter person won’t know which way is up when I’m through with him 😀
I’m looking at staying an extra 2 days in Tokyo at the end of the trip too. Want to make the Akihabara pilgrimage at least.
Also, wondering if anyone else going (@transientmind, @jocon, @freezespreston) who are also thinking of staying a bit longer might also be interested in visiting the Ghibli Museum?
If so, perhaps we can get nova to arrange tickets for us since I think they need to be booked via a travel agent. 🙂
Sure, let me know how many tickets I need to organise and I’ll get it done 🙂
When were you thinking of doing those two things?
I’d be down with joining you to Akihabara on the third – show me how to be a true Otaku 🙂
Asking sister about the museum as she expressed interest, will let you know. But it is not really my thing, especially as it is a whole day tour I believe.
Nah, no go on the Ghibli Museum.
@cakesmith
Just had a look at Sannenzaka Ninenzaka and what it is. My wife is going to die of a joygasm there.
That looks very reasonable, nice stuff! I’m taking my gf to Europe instead otherwise I’d have checked this out, she’s very interested in Japanese traditional culture.
Do both 😀
I’ve got 1712 Glimmer, been saving it up. What should I buy, or should I keep saving it to buy better gear later on?
Also, don’t know what it is, but for some reason whenever I read/hear the word glimmer I automatically think of Glamour from The Wolf Among Us.
Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer!
Somethings that you can spend Glimmer on:
– Gear from your class trainer. Their stock scales to include gear from around your current level whenever their refresh timer ticks over, so this should always be appropriate. Usually there is 1 item that has a level requirement slightly above your current, and I think this item is usually the best investment, since you’ll be able to equip mid-mission as you level up.
– Upgrading gear. There is a small glimmer cost associated with unlocking the upgrades on your gear as they gain XP.
I don’t think there’s necessarily a large need to hoard glimmer. There are items that grant bonus glimmer from killing each type of enemy (Fallen, Hive, Vex, Cabal), so it becomes very easy to farm glimmer if you really need it (Ether Seeds + Patrol mission on earth to farm Fallen, for example).
Lastly, of course, you can also spend glimmer on the most important thing of all: cosmetic novelties. There’s a lady in the North section of the Tower who sells emblems. It’s all well and good to be able to kill baddies and fight in the Crucible, but you wouldn’t want to look shabby, would you?
Worth keeping around 2500’ish in the bank in case you see a blue weapon available for sale at the weapon vendor.
Something that happens at 20 is upgrades become rare as hen’s teeth and nothing green will cut it. You don’t want to rock up at the tower and see a perfect upgrade you can’t afford.
I spend all my money on engrams. Hoping my gamble will pay off with higher engrams level.
@negativezero
@novacascade
I’ll get back to you about Ghibly.
It’s R U OK day so I’m just going to throw this out there.
I’m not okay and haven’t been for some time. Even back when I lived in Brisbane, I struggled with a mild depression. It’s gotten worse over the last few months. Often I’d wake up in the middle of the night with a surge of adrenaline. I get irregular (but thankfully very mild) anxiety attacks that I manage through meditation. 18 months of unemployment has shattered my confidence. Applying for jobs is just painful at this point.It was only last week that I started talking openly to Freya about this and I’m going to seek help.Glad you’re getting it sorted, man. It’s a hard thing to do.
Glad to hear you’re taking steps in a positive direction and seeking appropriate help. That’s sometimes the hardest part, I reckon. A+ For you!I know how you feel with regards to the job front. I was seriously hoping after I started my last job, that it would be the last one I had to look for, for a long time. 4 months out of work prior to that job definitely brings on the pain. Looks like I’m heading for the same thing again 😐
I don’t talk with you often, but you’re a great guy, who’s clearly loved.
It’s good to hear that you’re aknowledging the problem, and that you’re facing it.
That’s the first step in dealing with it.
I hope for all the best for you.
I know you’ll pull through 🙂
And just remember that you have friends here 🙂
*hugs* I know how that is, brother. The shattered confidence that comes with unemployment too. I’m glad you’re seeking help. 🙂
I’m glad you are working on it, even admitting that there is a problem is sometimes the hardest part *big Hugs*
Supportive upvote. Totally with you there on the joblessness thing, even though I have one at the moment every time I hear a friend talking about his efforts in trying to get one it just makes me start feeling awful all over again.
Dear Bunny,
I am so goddamn proud of you for having the balls to admit you need help & even more so because you’re gonna go get it.
it’s a very hard thing to do. but you’ve done it. doing it. whatever. point is, that from now on, things get better. things always get better.
if you (or anyone, for that matter) want to talk / rant / yell / whatever, I’m happy to be yelled at.
*Highest of fives.*
I’ve got no answers, I’ve only got heartfelt thoughts: I hope things get better soon.
Don’t worry, I’m not after answers :p
The point of today is to get this stuff out in the open. Fuck the stigma. I’ve got a problem and it turns out that I can’t solve it with a cup of tea, although tea is just super rad and generally helpful.
Thanks for the support everyone.
Are you sure it can’t be solved with a cup of tea, maybe you just need to try more tea!
Hugs and thoughts heading your way. Speaking with Freya is a huge deal and will make a big difference. Communication is key.
I don’t think it’s possible to have more tea. Trust me, I’ve tried.
EDIT: I guess I could try injecting it straight into my veins…
I hope things get better for you man. You really deserve it.
Sorry to hear it man, I had no idea.
I’m sure there’s nothing anyone can say you don’t know – you have someone in your life who cares about you, and your employment situation has more to do with the market than you personally, etc. – so all I can say is keep on keeping on. You’re about to move interstate (again) which is stressful in and of itself so one reassurance I can offer is that feeling anxiety about that is if you feel shitty to try not to in internalise it out of fear that it’s abnormal.
Once you’re settled, try and view it as a fresh start.
Being a wise lady, I bet Freya already knew and was very relieved when you finally started talking to her about it.
Just, *hugasaurus rex*
I know you can do this, you can do anything.
A colleague of hers pretty much spotted it as soon as she met me and Freya has bought it up several times in the past. I just wasn’t ready to talk about it then.
Glad to hear your getting help man. If theres anything we can do to help just say *hugs*
Group hug!
I cant do anything beside hug
you hate hugs so ill just say i love you and you are a massive reason for my personal growth in the last 2 years. Im glad you can talk about it. you are a braver man than i.
Had great fun last night in Destiny with @stickman and @piat. Killed some wizards on the moon and also ran the first strike. My first strike, since I didn’t get to do it in the Alpha or the Beta.
We did run into an odd problem though, which is that while I could hear both fine and everyone could hear me okay as well, neither of my companions could hear each other talking. Has anyone run into this issue as well? We all tried re-logging but didn’t fix the issue.
Amusingly, prior to that I was playing on my own through the Russia story level where you’re activating the array. Gets to the climax bit where there’s the rush of Hive dudes and stuff, and I’m shooting away and it’s all noisy and stuff, and toward the end there’s this roaring sound and the house shook. I’m like “That sounded pretty loud, I could feel that. Didn’t think I had the volume up that loud!” And then I’m in the post-game and it happens again. Wierd, loud booming explosion sound followed by a loud hissing noise. From outside.
Go out into the street as I keep hearing it and I’m getting even more freaked out. Repeated booming explosions, roaring hissing sound like the sound you hear when they run the burners in a hot air balloon, or when firing a flamethrower. At first there’s just this sort of echoing roaring sound like a jet engine, but coming in bursts, and I started wondering if maybe there was a passenger jet that was in terrible struggle, in some kind of death spiral or something.
Low cloud last night and in the direction of the major highway near my house there’s a big burst of orange light reflected on the cloud, and I’m thinking there must have been a plane crash and I’m hearing the damaged engines still firing. But it kept going and with that weird hissing sound I was thinking perhaps it was a hot air balloon that had gone down nearby and was trying to get back up, but that big orange light had been too big and the initial boomy explosions seemed wrong for that too. It was in the direction of the highway so maybe a fuel truck had tipped over and caught on fire and I was hearing high-pressure hoses from the fire engines. But there were no sirens or anything at all. So it must not be an emergency because surely an event making explosions big enough for me to feel inside the house would be something the police and/or fire department would attend. Especially if it was an aircraft crash.
Turns out that in that direction is also one of the larger churches in the area and they were having some kind of ‘mens conference’ where they had a V8 ute mounted with an enormous jet engine and had been firing it up basically in afterburner mode and had it shooting out flames for like 20 feet.
A V8 ute, mounted with a jet engine? Bloody hell, could you get any more stereotypically yobbish AND FREAKIN’ AWESOME I WISH I HAD BEEN THERE TO SEE how horribly irresponsible and unnecessary that kind of immaturity is, let alone dangerousLY AT RISK OF SPONTANEOUSLY CAUSING BEARDS TO GROW ON ALL CLEAN-SHAVEN ONLOOKERS.
http://instagram.com/p/sw4W5UNa7g/ videographic evidence!
Yeah it was fun! The mic thing has happened in my presence at least another two times. We forgot to try just using PS party chat… 🙁
@negativezero I think I found the issue and it was me, it seems that either there is a bug in the UPnP with the PS4 or it just doesnt like my router and I was getting nat 3 type (the bad one, which can cause restricted online connectivity) so I have manually forwarded all the ports and now have nat type 2 so hopefully that fixes the issue. Stramge it never was a problem in the beta.
I’ll jump on tonight and maybe we can test it again? 🙂
I’ll be around
thinking of installing Diablo 3 again. probably not the best idea. so much other stuff I wanna be playing, but I think I’ve caught the bug. & I’ve not touched it since….. a very long time ago. since before they changed it at least.
Starting to get that too. I was pretty underwhelmed by the game at release, then got hacked (with an authenticator on my account) and decided it was time to move on.
I think it’s a case of wanting to get as much fun out of the game that I did with D2, but regardless I have so many games on my plate right now that something will drop off if I try to add any more.
I can’t remember the last game that I properly finished without dropping it halfway through for something different. Sometimes it feels like I need to take a gaming holiday simply to cut through my pile of shame.
The expansion made a lot of really significant and worthwhile changes. I recommend trying out the bounties and adventure mode and upping the difficulty a few notches.
I bought the bundle when the expansion came out and I immediately set it to Master difficulty. Even then it was a piece of cake and I very rarely died until I got to Act V when the difficulty spiked.
Question for the Destiny people: do you think the game is going to have the issue most MMOs have these days? That is, you’ll get to max level, do everything that unlocks there, and then realise there’s nothing to do till they update it in the future.
Or, whether you get to max level or not, do you think you’ll still be playing the game in a month/two/six?
Well, it’s been 2-3 days now, and I am running out of motivation to do much else in there except play with friends. Maybe go grab some of the chests/ghosts I missed for completion’s sake, fill out some more of the grimoire… but that’s pretty familiar ‘treading water’ territory in MMOs. It’s a gear-grind treadmill from here on out. Looks like there’s an extra slot for another sub-class, so I expect that’ll be fun to level up for another 2-3 days after the expansion comes out…
Longevity in this is really just going to be playing with friends, I think. There’s nothing to do, solo.
That’s a pretty speedy playthrough, even if you were doing 8 hours a day 😐
Bit of a shame to hear that it has the usual issue of treading water until new options open up.
I’m going to wait for the sequel I think (next year perhaps?). It feels like I’ve already missed the boat for this one.
Are they going to do a sequel, or will be be an evolving game like WoW, GW2 etc.?
I dunno! I just assumed because Halo had direct sequels.
(And @powalen) From memory, the original franchise plan was something like a main game every two years, with a “major expansion” in the year in between. That said, there’s at least two “expansions” for Destiny, first one of which is out in December, so that plan may have been changed (or they’ve just split it up a little), but I’d still expect a “new” game in 2016 or so.
According to their contract, they intend to do four games, alternating each year between full release and expansions.
Edit: Contract was dated April 2010, so no guarantee that it’s still the same, but it’s the most info I’ve been able to find.
Why do you feel like that? A lot of the guys are just starting – not everyone had time off and was able to play 8hrs a day to consume the story content like a locust.
A bunch of the TAYbies are all at low levels, and I susect a lot are really just chillin’ in patrol mode (endless exploration, no defined mission), enjoying the mechanics of run, jump, shoot, explore, blast afterburner on wicked stormtrooper-style-speeder-bike.
I don’t know to be honest. Just kinda sounds like the sort of game that you want to progress in at the same time as your friends.
Don’t mind me! I was never particularly excited for it, just getting swept up in the TAY Marketing 😛
Your mileage may vary. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife is always in play – veterans will see past the smoke and mirrors faster than others.
I got a random invite from a guy in SA who was suggesting that it’s a kind of complicated game, difficult to understand. We hung out for ages on Tuesday night, some of Wednesday night, just exploring shit without any particular point to it – seeing how far we could go and what we could see.
You can draw out a lot more time doing that, because the scenery is sure pretty. It’s just a shame there isn’t more littered around out there to give you a little nod to your exploring, some kind of lore tid-bits that aren’t tied to putting down the controller and going elsewhere (PC or phone on the internet).
Vault of Glass hasn’t even opened yet (September 16th), so you’ve got that to look forward to.
It’s a raid with minimum level of 25 required. And progress resets weekly. It sounds very much like old-school WoW (on paper at least).
Plus there are rolling daily and weekly normal and heroic challenges.
Plus there’s PvP. Part of my decision to really buy into the concept that is “Destiny” was knowing that I’d get a new Bungie multiplayer game. I don’t know if you played much of the Halos, but Bungie have always had a good community focus. I know that they’ve said The Iron Banner is returning, but will not be the only “event” they have planned.
I think my only real complaint, so far, is that most worlds feel quite “linear” or “full” already (even despite the large open areas on The Moon and Mars). I feel as though there’s not much that can be added to the existing areas. I know that there are a number of “attach” points that are basically prepped to open into new/DLC content, but I think I would have prefered larger worlds to explore and then during DLC have new mobs/bosses “move in” and take over abandoned complexes, etc.
Now I’m rambling.
Heh. The raiding gear treadmill is my marker for when to stop playing in WoW, and I don’t dig the PVP. So that’s pretty much my priorities laid bare. Thinking this’ll be a little different, already having enough friends to import into the thing and play with, rather than doing the whole guild-recruitment dealy-o.
The last part’s interesting… enemies ‘moving in’ to the empty areas might make the world feel a bit more full, like there’s something of note in these areas, but I think I would prefer new areas instead of new bosses in old areas. Guess we’ll see.
Whether I am playing after I have finished the content and hit max level will depend on how many other games I have to play and how good I am at the PvP.
I don’t mind “finishing” the game then going and playing other stuff for awhile until the expansions come out.
I guess part of my view is that people are treating this like it should have endless exploration potential whereas I still think if it as it’s own game with some MMO elements to it. If you blow through the content in a week then… so what? People did the same with the Halo games then stuckaround for the multiplayer.
I haven’t hit end game yet, so I can’t really comment on what there’s available to do at end game, though I will say I’m a bit disappointed that the game feels like it’s trying to rush you to end game with really fast leveling and not much in the way of story.
Also, keep in mind that while this might be an “mmo”, it’s also a shooter. You could get through Halo 3’s single player in about 8 hours, but the game stayed alive for years because people were jumping in and shooting each other in multiplayer. Might end up being the same thing with Destiny.
This is I think the most important thing for people to keep in mind.
In the beta there were three times as many vendors and bounties for PVP than there were PVE, and now that the game has launched, you can see even more than that, with all the various PVP factions and armor sets. I don’t think there was ever any doubt they planned on PVP being a major longevity-extender.
As long as they don’t start scaling difficulty with the idea that most people will have spent months between expansions getting top-tier equipment through PvP. I couldn’t give a toss for PvP, and I just don’t want that to hinder my enjoyment of the PvE as it gets released.
@trjn / anyone else:
Have you played Betrayal at House on the Hill? Is it any good/fairly replayable?
I think @gingerchris86 has it.
There’s a brief review of it in this video. The general impression I’ve got of it is that it’s an interesting idea that’s more about the story that unfolds (both organically between players and from the game mechanics) than the game itself.
yes I do. @rize I think its alright, I’ve played it once, I would like to play it again. had fun with the people I played it with 🙂
On a semi-related note, seeing as Sherlock Holmes is working alright for remote play, maybe we should consider some other games. Games we can just play with TeamSpeak and possibly a webcam, instead of using an online platform.
Yeah I think thats a good idea 🙂
@trjn FYI, Tabletop Sim is surprisingly good for online play, with the obvious limitation of either waiting for people to port a game in or making it yourself.
I generally don’t buy early access games, but that does look neat.
@sernobulus @cakesmith @blaghman and I played a game of Pandemic on it. Other than learning how to use it all properly (and occasionally breaking the laws of physics) it went pretty smoothly.
The table-flip button is pretty great, too.
also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgbQwxQIhbw
I played it, I didn’t really like it. There’s not much of a “game” in terms of structured play experience, it’s more of an “and then THIS happened” story telling engine. Pretty replayable, I guess, but I don’t really want to.
COuld just have been because I was playing it a) blind and b) with annoying children at a game day though.
YES.
We’ve had some awesome sessions with it, since it starts cooperative, then a haunting will randomly happen that may turn one player against the others.
Lots of possible scenarios, and it’s been a great balance between cooperative and competitive for our regular group.
I can talk more about it once I have a keyboard tonight.
Just had boss come and ask me if I’d signed a contract at all when I started here. Totally don’t remember at all, but I don’t think so. Oops?
Dear games release dates,
Why must you all come out one after the other?? How am I supposed to manage gym, work, relationships and obtaining the necessary amounts of sunlight if I can barely finish games that were out a month ago. My wallet has equally pressing concerns to voice but I shall keep this short and sweet. Next time please endeavour to be released closer to Christmas holidays so we may avoid all of this unpleasantness.
Many Thanks,
pupp3t.
(Also I’ve re-discovered X-com Enemy Within after the 2k sale on steam…. I think I love that more than Destiny at the moment so you guys won’t be seeing me on Destiny until 2 weekends from now! It’s just an easier game to put down, whereas with Destiny I’m always thinking just one more mission….)
I’ve probably been playing too much Minecraft when someone sneezing in the office sounds like an enderman.
Hey at least you’re not constantly punching trees yet, THEN I’d be worried
Can you just sit still in minecraft? Or do zombies or something come and kill you if you do? And what is the penalty if that happens?
If you’re in a well-lit indoors you can sit still ’til the cows come home!
The main penalty for dying is losing the items you were holding. But you can go back to where you died and pick them up.
Ok, so if I am building something and stop I might get killed but as long as I go back to the at place I was building then I don’t lose anything but the time to get there.
Also if I log out do I return to the place I was or is there a load point?
Well if you want to stop for some length of time in an unsafe place, you can just log out. You keep your position in the world when you do! (and it takes all of 5 seconds to log back in)
hmmmmm TAY marketing is strong right now
Unless it’s lava. Then the dropped items melt.
Lava swimming is much worse for business than the average death.
@tigerion
RPG talk. Everyone feel free to chip in if you want, including non-players. Spoilered for length.
I’ve been thinking about the games that I’ve been running (40K Rogue Trader and Pathfinder) and I just want to make sure that the players are getting what they want out of it. I’ve been straddling the fence between railroading and sandboxing however I think that, especially considering the size of the groups, I’ve been catching a few people offside with the way that I’ve been running things. I’m trying to accommodate a lot of different playstyles and what people want to achieve and I think I might have failed in making the games enjoyable for everyone.So basically this is everyone’s chance to let it rip at their occasionally merciless GM and let me know what you think, if you’ve been enjoying it, et cetera. Kind of like a performance review of sorts. Here are a few questions that I particularly want to ask but don’t feel limited to just these:
– Do you want options and free-roaming or do you prefer a more tightly-woven adventure and story?
– Are you happy with how things have gone so far, as a player and as your respective character/s?
– What do you want to see more of? What do you want to see less of?
I’ll try and take everyone’s feedback into account and craft each of the separate games in a way that suits you guys as players and fits in with what I already had planned.
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize @pupp3tmast3r @f4ction
My only real criticism is this: With big groups, we probably don’t need to roleplay shopping trips, which we’ve done a few times. Would rather just hit you up between sessions for non plot based goods.
Yeah that’s a valid point. I’ll try to avoid that from now on.
So far the Pathfinder campaign has been fairly good I think. The biggest thing I’d like to see are some situations involving alternatives to fighting. Stuff involving bluffing or intimidation or impersonating someone or stuff like that. Even if it’s just so we can set up combat to be in a more advantageous position. We’ve had a few dialogue-heavy sessions but they haven’t involved opposed checks or anything.
The other issue I can see is one of simple progression. We’ve only had four combat encounters in… eight? … sessions. That’s fine, but I’m wondering if it’s worth upping the XP gain rate a little bit otherwise we might end up playing for a year or more before hitting level 5 or so. The bulk of our classes don’t really start to get interesting options until you get into the 5-8 range.
Regarding the dialogue, the main reason that I haven’t asked you guys for rolls is because you haven’t really been in a situation that’s required them. I’ll try and throw a few more social encounters in there to liven things up and keep you guys on your toes.
I’ve been going by a fairly standard rate of experience gain so I don’t think I’ll change the rate. What I probably will do is change the speed of advancement so I’ll look at swapping you guys from Medium to Fast. That should make everyone gain levels a bit faster.
Edit: That might mean you guys get bumped up to level 3 in the next session but I’ll double-check and confirm. I’ll try and keep the scale of adventures commensurate with your guys and give out a bit more loot as well.
I prefer a woven story that has room for free roaming elements. We shouldn’t feel like we have only 1 choice of ABC, I’d probably like some branching options. Kind of like @negativezero mentions some alternatives would be interesting. The dialogue sessions are lots of fun, and I enjoy them, but it would be great to see them have some kind of payoff. Apart from my attempt at talking down The Ex-Lord Tallone I can’t recall any other plot points like that.
Things are moving slowly, that’s granted with a large group. Personally I don’t mind so much, but it does feel like it can take a lot of time to get anywhere.
All said and done though, I’m having lots of fun.
Let’s just say that I have payoff coming for the group’s combined actions however I’ll try and mix in a little more short-term payoff so that you’re not waiting for over a month for something to come to fruition in the background.
I think I chose the wrong word “payoff” but it’s good to know there’s stuff in the pipelines. 🙂
I was kinda going about the consequences of your actions a little bit wrong anyway. There’ll be more immediate results from your decisions and stuff but there will still be stuff that might affect you guys for a long time to come.
Yeah I agree with this, for Pathfinder at least. I think a big framed narrative would be cool but when we are faced with a challenge we have multiple ways to overcome it.
The big narrative is coming soon and I hope it will be suitably epic. 🙂 I just had to get you guys established as a group and get some adventuring out of the way before HEAVY SERIOUS PLOT ™ starts to ruin your fun and happy adventuring.
We do have several “faces” in the group, so anything that lets Abelas, Drewan and Izumi talk at people would be fun.
Plus, if Freeze is going skald, we’re halfway to a theatre troupe.
I’m also considering roping the group into a con to rid Abelas of his Kraalnacht problem.Let’s just say it was fortunate that we delayed this week’s session as I had plans for a very talky scenario.
I haven’t really got any complaints at all. I’m still trying to come to grips with playing D&D, W40K, pretty much the whole concept of being a character in D&D with friends ina live voice chat is brand new to me. If I seem uncomfortable or something during our sessions it’s mainly just because I’m nervous with acting out a character, sort of a stage fright kind of thing.
If i have to pick out one personal gripe, it’s that I’m still trying to figure out what I’m doing with Dem’nion as a character and his position in the team. I don’t know, I think I kinda created this character and put him into a corner based on his backstory, he hasn’t really got a goal or anything to reach for. I had some ideas based off last session but that was just on the fly, there is no real “plan” on what to do with him, if that makes sense.To be completely honest as well, being the “Yamcha” of both W40K and Pathfinder is not really helping my mental state right now, but that’s in no way your fault, I just wish everyone would stop ragging on my character (Especially Dem’nion) like that every session
Backstory-wise, I have stuff planned for pretty much everyone in Pathfinder, less so in 40K but I’ve got a few decent general framing ideas. So I will probably come along and poke and prod Dem’nion along with a few other people in the coming sessions.
Regarding your last point:
Shit man I’m sorry about that. I can’t really help the dice rolls but I’ll try and reign things in if it starts getting out of hand. I can’t really fault you for roleplaying effectively and the Ogrekin and the Hobgoblin were just super, super lucky to one-shot you both times. Once you start getting access to more powerful spells you can start laughing at all of the puny mortals.You weren’t so much Yamcha’d in the last 40K but just the end result of a collective series of screw ups, primarily perpetrated by Puppet. Plus the whole failing at aiming thing was an issue for everyone else except Freeze and even then RNGesus came back and abandoned him in the second session. Everything that goes around comes around and Jarallius probably has the best non-combat abilities of anyone except Rize although he’s a Psyker so he’s cheating. 😛
Yeah that Compel psi ability of his, so fricken OP especially against that Ork Horde in the beginning :P. That’s cool on the planning for Pathfinder, happy that’s going down. I was enjoying the part with Abelas happening, that seemed quite interesting so I’m looking forward to it.
I wasn’t Yamcha’d like before that’s true but that blinding and fire made it completely impossible to contribute to the fight, really sucky for me and I spent all my fate points for the day only for it to still fail, I was 2 dmg from death and I never even took a shot from anyone. I think it just comes down to this, I’m just really unlucky in general and it’s spilled over to RNGesus itself. Numenera’s last session was like all of the good suddenly flooding back in one session, getting two hard hits and quickly killing the final boss and his pet, but really that’s been the only time I felt like I’ve had impact in RPGs especially combat-wise.I’m trying to get Jarallius as being the guy that can work with anything mechanical while still being
Nigel Thornberrythis maladjusted incredibly awkward party member being of the cult mechanicus. So basically a W40K Scrappa except way more mechanical in both a physical and mental nature (Being not so good talking to fleshlings for instance) and definitely not as direct as Scrappa is. With Dem’nion, I think you would’ve caught on what he was doing in the university’s library, with being no records of his tainted lineage in Nolania, he wants to find out why. And becoming an Arcanist helped him immensely, I can build defensively with spells now, even prepare for duels with net +8AC and claw use for fighting, rather than wait a lot of levels to have a large enough spell arsenal to not be such a glass pistol (He’s not even close to a cannon yet)If it makes you feel any better I’m supposed to be a melee class that got hit once by orks and had to run. Spent all my fate points healing and basically did nothing in the first fight. In the second one I got oneshot by a gretchen and was lucky that I rolled higher initiative then the other gretching to escape the explosion.
Also on another note, I may have laughed when you charged in to the ogrekin for Pathfinder but I think it’s cool that you were playing on what your character would do.
I’m actually glad Dem’nion didn’t get killed after both that fight with the ogrekin and the standoff with Abelas. I’m also really liking the uncertainty that everyone has about their opinion of Dem’nion after that, some are thinking he’s actually a pure evil freak, others seeing him as a misunderstood outcast. The funny thing is, he isn’t an evil character at all, just out for himself for the past few months as he thinks everyone is out to get him for being what he is.
In regards for the backstory, that’s why I scrapped Karvurk. I had a few ideas for him but never got anywhere. However with Kaldar I am going to be a cocky adventurer that thinks nothing can stop him.
I encourage everyone to talk to me if you ever feel like you’re not getting the most out of your character and I will try and introduce a few things to energise the situation. It’s unfortunate that Karvurk had to leave but he is very much still a person in the world that you guys may or may not see again.
Also I was tempted to play Karvurk as an evil character but because everyone was good I didn’t really want to ruin things for everyone.
You just had to be evil in a way that nobody was expecting. Lawful Evil is an excellent way of being an evil person in a group of Good or Neutral-aligned characters because he/she acts to their own personal code/reason for committing evil. It’s certainly doable and I don’t intend to dissuade people from building their characters a certain way.
I’m really enjoying it. Most fun I’ve had doing something in a long time and really look forward to every session.
That said I’ve never played any of it before so I don’t have anything to compare to so my opinion probably isn’t weighted terribly much.
First off let me start by saying – Thank you for taking the time to run these RPG sessions. I’ve only read a small portion of the Rogue Trader rulebook and that tiny bit in itself was an ocean of information. Given as a GM you need to know the whole book, well man just wanted to let you know I appreciate the time and effort you take to set up these sessions and make them fun for us!
Ok now I’m getting pulled away at work but personally I like a bit of direction in the sessions and I think it makes it easier on you as well having a general plan for how the RPG is going to roll out? I do have one complaint…. I WANT A NEW DICE ROLL SYSTEM! =@
Oh and I also enjoy more conversation based encounters as opposed to straight out fights! =]
But other than the dice rolls I’ve been loving the few RPG sessions I’ve attended man!!!
Am I the only one that doesn’t like that “R U Ok” day is spelt like that?
It’s a good idea for a day and everything, but I hate that it isn’t “Are You Okay” day.
Saying that though, I hope everyone is ok 🙂
I don’t like it either, both because seeing words spelled like that just naturally annoys me, but also because I feel like it’s devaluing a serious subject.
That’s exactly my feelings towards it, on both fronts.
Something as serious as this shouldn’t be abbreviated into teenage texting grammar.
It kinda undermines itself, in my opinion.
I get that it’s a way of making it more approachable (cause asking if someone is ok can be difficult), but it undercuts it’s seriousness.
I dislike that there’s a day where we’re supposed to check in with each other because doing so feels forced and ungenuine (the same way my wife feels about celebrating Valentines or anniversaries). However, it’s given some people the courage to stand up and be counted as needing to speak their mind and seek support and I think that’s a good thing.
As to the spelling, I guess it’s supposed to appeal to the Gen Y/Millenial txtspk generation and it probably works – maybe not in the people I know, but I’m old and out of touch so anything I think is silly is probably super hip and groovy amongst all the kewl doods.
As I said in pages past the main benefit isn’t the fact that people ask if you are ok.
It is giving agency to the other person to be able to say “Actually no, I’m not really ok”
Maybe that’s what they were aiming for? Making it seem less serious to get more people to admit stuff? Dunno.
I’m not OK, okay? 😛
I’m actually very okay, considering everything not fun happening to the people I love. That is because I have three things to keep me sane: metal, TAY, and fabric. I hope everyone who is not okay finds the things that get them through.
Are you okay, Lion?
Besides having a bad face day, having to cut leg day in half, and being jealous of all the people playing Destiny together, I’m surprisingly good 🙂
Going to the gym is making me cheery 🙂
Makes me feel like I’m in control of something 🙂
Plus it’ll give me a killer body to show off next time I’m in Brisbane, or any other city where TAYbies are ;D
Bad…face day? How is that possible?!
Either he cut himself shaving or he’s having an acne flair up. Sorry if I’m guessing too much Lion.
Go away with your logic! 😛
I was trying to imply that it’s impossible for @liondrive’s face to be bad.
Aww, you’re too kind Strangy :’)
But you can’t see my face today 😛
Neither, I just don’t like my face today 😛
Didn’t sleep well, and it’s showing on my face 😛
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-293/comment-page-12/#comment-2941288
Oh, haha, oops!
I’ve always missed a page by the time I wake up (being 2 hours behind), so usually skim read what I’ve missed, stopping if something interests me :3
I skim read “roo-ok” and thought you guys were talking about WoW or LoL or something, so kept skim reading :3
It’s daft but clearly I support the idea.
Ruok day sounds like some kind of pagan festival involving worshiping some kind of giant crow god or something.
Ah, that explains the “roo-ok day” earlier. Noted. I was wondering what that was about.
Incidentally, yea, txt-spk was useful when sms messages had limited space. Now, it’s just encouraging lax spelling, and it needs to go away.
Even then it wasn’t that necessary. The vast majority of my messages had plenty of space for full words.
Depends on the user, I guess. I find I’m seeing a resurgence of txt-spk on twitter, which I assumed was because of the character limit, not because people were lazy. Maybe people are just lazy. The attitude of “my spelling and grammar don’t matter if you understood my comment” seems to prevail, unfortunately… conveniently ignoring the five minutes it takes to decipher said comment, of course. -_-‘
People suck 😛
Though from what I understand, twitter is only 140 character? Not the 160 of an SMS. That 20 characters would make quite a difference.
I still generally try to squeeze my messages down into a single SMS. Maybe a force of habit, maybe frugality, or maybe just OCD. Or all of the above.
I did that too for a long time, mainly an old habit from the days when I was on prepaid, and got charged per SMS. Not to ape the four Yorkshiremen, but when I were a lad, 25c was a lot of money, doubly so when I only needed an extra few characters.
Not that I’m old now, I was just flat broke then.
Oh man, don’t get me started. When they upped the price to 28c per message?
Fury.
omg… i was so close to throwing coffee all through my computer a minute ago!! :0
Went to lift my mug, and figured it’d been a while since my last cup, so went to get up to go to kettle…start to swing mug up and catch a glimpse out of the corner of my eye and see the cup’s half full! Now I have coffee on my desk, but at least it’s not IN my computer! *phew*
(I should say had coffee, cos I cleaned it up already!)
eeeekkkk I can relate to this
I did that to my desk with my water 2 weeks ago. What I do is after I drink it all I flip the cup over so it doesn’t collect any dust over time, but this one time there was a few gulps of water left and got it all over the desk and next to my keyboard. No damage thankfully!
@trjn I do like how we’re the hive mind when all we’ve seen is the same regurgitated crap.
It’s really cute.
“It’s Embezzlement”
“Sure, you’re alleging that. Got credible proof?”
“It’s Embezzlement”
“How so?”
“It’s Embezzlement”
“right.”
“Only GG folk are being abused.”
“Sarkeesian had to leave her home because of fear of violence.”
“That didn’t happen. Also, she deserved it because it’s embezzlement.”
“You’re a typically abusive, brainless SJW and gaming journalist”
“u guys incapable of calmly talking about something without dipshittery?”
Amazing.
Oddly enough, the latest barrage seems to have shut him up. For now.
At least he hasn’t brought friends. One inane kook is bad enough.
Like talking to an 8-bit JRPG NPC.
That is so accurate it’s frightening.
http://www.dorkly.com/post/67912/why-rpg-npcs-always-repeat-themselves
Referring you to this conversation thread on the Kotaku re-post of that very same comic:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/09/why-npcs-always-have-the-same-one-liners/comment-page-1/#comment-2941590
You’re starting to enjoy it aren’t you.
Starting?
I always enjoy a good argument.
This isn’t one. It’s a series of canards spouted by a dullard.
I know people in the UK think the Royal Mail is as sucky as we think Australia Post is, but a dress from my sister in the UK just arrived for me, and it was posted two days after my applique stuff from Queensland that I’m still waiting on. 😛
One thing I’ve come to dislike is courier services that refuse to drop your parcel at the local post office if you aren’t home to collect. The only option (without paying an extra) is to get them to re-deliver to the same address during business hours on a different weekday. Those are the exact times that I can’t be home!
Damn you, FastWay Couriers! 😛
Oh, that’s far from cool! I always wondered what would happen if I wasn’t there to sign for deliveries. No wonder people get stuff sent to their workplaces.
dunno which courier it was, but if im not at home, this one company wont leave the thing with the post office 100m down the road, no they leave it with the 7/11 in the next suburb.
of course they do.
Think maybe they left it there by accident while getting a Slushie, and decided to make it look deliberate? 😛
Then to make it look deliberate each time after, they forced themselves to get a Slurpee even though they really didn’t want one and it’s the middle of Winter and the 7/11 attendant starts to get a bit chummy with them and they can’t say they only come by because of their social awkwardness and politely smile through their conversations while their deliveries get pushed back later and later.
Crows Nest Australia Post just waits 2 weeks and then leaves the first, second and “third & final” notifications all at the same time, usually with the date/time stamps out of chronological order.
And they don’t actually knock or try to deliver anyway, just walk up and leave a bunch of notifications somewhere in the general vicinity of the front of my building.
I buy soccer jerseys all the time from the UK and get them in 10-12 working days, love it!
I finished off my xth rewatch of Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars last night.
I love that miniseries so damn much. It’s so big and loud and epic, and so emotional as well – it’s such a triumph, and although it pushes the logic circuits to their limit, Farscape was never really celebrated for its coherence.
It’s ten years old now, but it still looks incredible. I love that they completely exhausted Australia’s entire supply of pyrotechnics to make this series.
I have my wife to thank for having seen Stargate amd Farscape and to a lesser extent Buffy and Angel. Even though I was a huge nerd in high school I completely passed these shows by and I feel like my life is enriched for having seen them. I should express my gratitude to her somehow. I mean I already married her, but maybe I should do something meaningful.
Babies.
Good idea, I’ll offer to impregnate her tonight. If I play it right she might only stab me once.
Kermitron: It’s a second wedding, honey. I had to make it up to you. I really love you.
Mrs K: Oh, Kermy. I know you love me. We don’t need to get married again.
Kermitron: Yes, we do, I got us a divorce this afternoon.
This is an entirely original scenario.
Am I the only one that heard Mrs K’s words in Miss Piggy’s voice?
It’s a complete mishmash of popular culture references!
No
You mean it’s not a scene from the Muppet Babies?
Entirely original.
Having the nickname Kermi in high school did not make it easy to find love.
That and my looks, weight, and personality.
My Gift cards arrived in the mail last night, which means shopping trip on Saturday, a Vita, some games to go with the Vita, a tablet, and more if I still got funds left.
Weren’t you just recommending One Finger Death Punch? Well, I see how it is.
Can’t play that while I’m on the train ;). That’s more for home time spending and I definitely won’t stop playing that anytime soon
And he keeps recommending it even in the face of his corruption 😛
Buenas dias TAY…I’ve just come in to possession of an iPad (3?) My boss upgraded his and I asked for his old one. So I’m in need of some useful apps/games for it and would really appreciate any help. I’ve done a bit of research on top games and stuff so have some ready to download. I’m quite excited actually as I think I’m going to use it mainly as my main platform for reading books and I’ve been meaning to read more lately.
In terms of apps, I can’t help, sorry. But I do know of something better.
I’m just gonna *crunch *slam *crash leave that there for you.
Use coupon TAY20 for 20% off.These games look pretty okay.
Super Hexagon \o/
The Room and the Phoenix Wright trilogy.
In all seriousness, I’ve heard good things about the ports of Hearthstone, FTL, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. I’ve heard some good stuff about the Halfbrick games, and Republique is supposed to be alright.
A quick google search yielded this.
FTL FTW!
I also found that. Cheers.
I’ve been quite enjoying Lionheart on my phone. It’s a little F2P grindy, but fun little tactics RPG. Another Case Solved and Marvel Puzzle Quest fall into a similar category, being great little puzzlers.
Plague Inc is fantastic and I powerfully recommend it.
Mm Plague is on my list to get. I’ve never played it actually, but heard all about it. I’m also thinking of getting a game called Blek which looks quite fun.
…
Wow, I had great timing.
Edit: That is to say the upvote was supposed to be for the stuff that was there. Not for the removal of it 😛
I’m much the same dude. I still have meltdowns over the most inane unimportant things.
Hah! I read your post pre-edit… And just know rocketbuddy that you’re not alone, you can always talk to us…
Oh I was upvoting for the three dots, I didn’t see what was edited sorry! Sounds like a rant of sorts, here’s hoping it has sorted itself out for you!
ways to know you’ve been playing too much Destiny #75: You’ve broken your R2 trigger from going way too hard on the scout rifle.
Well it still kind of works but sometimes something slips inside it and pulling the trigger has no response. Luckily its a replacement warranty so just gotta get it to EB and get it swapped out.
Plunkett is right. Desert Golf is both amazing and horrendous. So far at 20 holes with 60 shots. Sand is horrible. Balls can hit the bottom of the cup and bounce right out.
Argh, TAY is so slooow. When I manage to read the entirety of TAY by Thursday, you know we’ve got a problem.
I’ve got something that’ll take a while to read. You’re welcome.
We’ve missed you. Self-promotion just isn’t the same without you.
shanewsmith.com
NegativeZero’s State of the Fleet Update:
Yesterday I speculated that I would get Haguro to her Kai-2 remodel by Friday. Turns out this estimate was highly conservative, as she managed to MVP all the PVP combats I did last night prior to jumping into Destiny, leaving her a scant 1500xp away from 65, which I promptly ground out with a couple of trips to 3-2-A.Her new art is such a ridiculously massive improvement over her original art that it’s almost funny. Pose is better, equipment is better, detail of her uniform is improved…
Anyway, I’ve swapped her out and I’m now working on getting Myoukou to her Kai-2, which requires her to get to level 70. Currently at 29, quite a long way to go. In the nearer future I will be aiming to get Tone (currently 65) to 70 and then probably Souryuu (69) to 78 for their Kai-2s.
I also had enough accumulated resources to have a crack at Large Ship Construction and try and build Bismark. Failed. Got another Haruna instead. 🙁 I suspect that the LSC is going to be once a week for quite a while before Bismark (or Musashi) drops for me. That might be a good thing though, gives me time to concentrate on other things.
Maintenance tomorrow is adding a new bonus map to World 3. Nothing else announced yet other than some BGM additions. Kind of hoping for a new Kai-2 though. Trying to anticipate who it’ll be – my suspicion is they’ll need to re-balance the carriers at some point soon. The two rarest are still Shoukaku and Zuikaku, but the cranes are now the worst of them all – Akagi and Kaga have their niches, Souryuu and Hiryuu used to be the weakest but most efficient to run, and are now the strongest due to getting Kai-2s. There’s also an argument to be had that Mutsu and Nagato are past due for a Kai-2 remodel, since the Kongou sisters and Bismark all have Kai-2/Zwei rebuilds that make them hit just as hard as Nagato, they’re faster so better dodging, and they no longer have the disadvantage of not being able to use AP shells. Also with Yamato and Musashi filtering out to the general playerbase, the Nagatos have basically lost their value. 🙁 I don’t even use my pair, neither are even at their Kai remodel, let alone at decent levels.
I can’t quite decide why I think @markserrels is a champion, but I think this might have something to do with it: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/09/when-you-take-a-players-money-that-player-wants-some-fun-in-return/comment-page-1/#comment-2942105
Okay… Work is slow… It’s Thursday… I still haven’t done one of these yet…
My name is Powalen, I think. Ask Me Anything.
I’ll try to be honest. Unless you set me up for a ripper of a punchline.
If you had to eat one cuisine for the rest of your life, what would it be?
What makes you a fancier caterpie than the rest, other than the top hat and moustache?
I have way too many favourite foods! Hm. If I had to eat one dish forever, I would probably choose something boring taking into account health benefits and such… like a chicken/rice/salad combo because I always feel super gross after eating junk too many nights in a row. Having said that, Pizza is pretty great so probably that 😛
The clothes make the Caterpie. And the facial hair, I guess.
Where did your screen name come from?
Why Caterpie?
Powalen is the japanese name of Castform. I had quite a couple of screen names before this one, which I have vowed to never reveal due to their ease of being used to find incriminating teenage-Powalen posts on various message boards 😛 Those are better locked away where nobody can ever read them again.
I chose it because it was English-enough to say, but unique enough that I could use it on most online things without having to add numbers and such. The only thing that has thwarted it is Twitter! (damn you, Mr Powell in America somewhere you doesn’t even use his Twitter!)
Why not Caterpie! Just look at it, it’s adorable! I had a Caterpie in my very first team back in the first generation and it just kinda stuck. It’s the best evolution line in the games as far as I’m concerned! An interest in real-life insects also kinda added to the fandom. I wanted to be an entomologist for the longest time in primary school 😛
That isn’t a bug type, it’s like I don’t even know you anymore
O wise Sensei, how do you we defeat you and claim your badge?
Man, I would love to show you my Achilles’ heel. But I really can’t 😛
I’ve got to save that for the post-match speech to help people in their rematches! Sorry!
How do you deal with freezerburn on your doughnuts?
I’ve never had to deal with it because I eat them too quickly for freezerburn to form!
The whole frozen doughnut running joke thing is pretty hilarious, by the way. It was just an off-hand quip at first and then it snowballed. They really are delicious though! The local supermarket actually doesn’t even sell doughnuts so I’m going to have to haul them in from work or something once summer proper hits. What kind of supermarket doesn’t sell doughnuts? Honestly.
I tried to eat one of those bacon cookies frozen and it was disgusting. Definitely only works with ‘nuts!
When can we let the secret out and stop living this lie?
You know why! I just can’t live like this anymore!
Freeze and I… have…
actually met each other before. A couple of times.THE SHAME!
who was your best friend growing up?
I won’t name names, but: I guess I’m lucky enough to say that my best friend growing up is actually still my best friend now, even though we live pretty far away from each other these days. We’ve been friends for… 16 years or so? (I guess I’m showing my age here to say that that is most of my life :P) We still see each other occasionally, usually for events like birthdays and things and it’s great to see how easily we slot back into friend mode after months of not talking.
I dunno, it’s just really good to have a couple of people who really get you and you don’t feel at all awkward around.
Why are you always smiling? What is your deep dark secret that allows you to remain so friendly and positive and jazz?
Thoughts of brutal murder
Hm… I don’t think there’s some dark secret 😛 I guess a positive outlook comes pretty easily to me (which, while I’m being serious, I personally think is my best quality. Which is kinda embarrassing to admit out loud [out loud? out type? out click? I dunno]). I just feel like there’s no point dwelling on something that doesn’t feel good or that I can’t change. I suppose some people would say that that’s being ignorant or something but I don’t think of it that way.
I like to make others laugh and feel happy and I can’t do that if I’m not, I guess.
(Having said that, it’s not like I’m never not happy. I’ve just got a bit of a policy of not wanting to vent it online. I’ve been bitten by that before, unfortunately – see reasoning for not wanting to share my previous screen-names :P)
EDIT: I feel like I need to add here that I don’t mind other people venting online at all. Especially if it helps. Just wanted to clear that up in case anybody got the wrong idea D:
With things like Honedge being added what inanimate object would you like transformed into a pokemon
Name one thing you hate about a job you have had
Do you enjoy physical work when you get out to do it
Which sport do you follow most closely
If you were forced to go on any reality TV style show what would it be
1. I want to see new Rotom forms in new appliances! (for those who don’t know) I’ve actually been naming all of my electronics around the house after new Rotom forms that I imagine at the time. My router/wifi name is Rotom-Net, my computer is Rotom-PC, etc 😛 As far as entirely new ones… I don’t know. What else is typically used in horror films for posession by ghosts? I really like the Ghost type for that reason, they can get away with ‘uninspired’ designs based on inanimate objects because of that! One of my favourites is Chandelure. It just wouldn’t work as a pure Fire type!
2. With my extremely limited working life (only one “real” job… I’d have to say calling people I don’t know (moreso than answering the phone itself). Especially if the person has a tendency to be a bit irritable. I’ve gotten better at it as time goes on (it actually helped immensely with making personal calls at home – like to the bank or tech support or something. No worries, now!)
3. Physical work as in moving/building/etc? Yeah, sure. I’m not particularly strong so I’m never all that much help, but it’s good. I’ll always help out if someone asks me to help them move or something. I helped my grandparents build a new path in their garden a while ago which was pretty fun. All I did was lift bricks and do what people told me, but it was fun 😛
4. Tennis, of course! That was the entire reason I was in Melbourne that time I met you guys! There’s actually no other sport I follow at all, though I will watch it if I’m with other people who are interested. As far as sports I’ve actually been involved with, I can’t say there’s many. I used to love Athletics back in school. Chyeh, don’t mean to brag (I totally do) but I wasn’t too bad at the ol’ High Jump back in the day. Went to Canberra once to compete in the State carnival. But those kids were roided up or something so I didn’t get any further (they weren’t roided, I just wasn’t up to their level. Literally.)
5. Reality TV… It would have to be Big Brother, right? All you have to do is sit around all day and not have any particular talent at all! Perfect! So yeah, that, unless they come up with “So You Think You Can Web Develop” next year or something.
EDIT; WAIT! IF YOU ARE THE ONE! God dammit, how did I forget that? 😛 Actually, maybe not that because I don’t speak Chinese. If they brought a version of that show to Australia, then that. Potential to get a girlfriend out of it and everything, it’s win-win! (unless you bomb out, I guess…)
Haunted carnivorous piano.
I would be all over that.
Yay! 😀
Ok, some questions >:)
– If you had to be a piece of furniture, what would you want to be, and why?
– Shoot, shag, marry: @greenius, @rocketman, @mrtaco?
– If you had to give a nickname to your manhood, what would it be, and why?
– What’s the most shameful thing you’ve done?
– What’s the proudest moment of your life?
– What sets you apart from everyone else?
– If you could, and had to erase an entire cuisine from existence, what would it be, and why?
– Grower or shower?
You don’t have to answer that last one, it was a joke 😛On my way to dinner at the mo’ so I’ll continue answering once I get home! (I don’t think mobile TAY could cope :P)
D:
Okay, sorry for the delay!
1. The best piece of furniture to be is clearly a hammock. Who doesn’t love a hammock? You just get to hang around all day in the sun all comfy and such. It’d be the best. If a hammock doesn’t count as furniture… then… a coat rack! I already resemble one anyone so it wouldn’t be too difficult a transition.
2. Marry @greenius (he would treat me right), Shag @rocketman (he knows what I like), Shoot @mrtaco (he knows what he did)
3. Prince Ali, fabulous He. Ali Ababwa.
Make way
For Prince Ali!
Say: “Hey!
It’s Prince Ali!”
Hey clear the way in the ol’ bazaar
Hey you! Let us through-
it’s a bright new star
Oh come be the first on your block to meet his eye!
Make way!
Here he comes!
Ring bells!
Bang the drums!
Ah! You’re gonna love this guy!
Prince Ali – fabulous he – Ali Ababwa
Genuflect, show some respect:
Down on one knee.
Now try your best to stay calm,
Brush off your sunday salaam,
Then come and meet his spectacular coterie!
Prince Ali – mighty is he – Ali Ababwa
Strong as ten regular men definitely
He faced the galloping hordes!
A hundred bad guys with swords!
Who sent those goons to their lords?
Why- Prince Ali!
(the rest of the song doesn’t really fit the joke, but I hope I’ve ruined enough of it for you)
4. Shameful… To be completely honest, I wouldn’t really describe anything I’ve done as overtly shameful. More shame towards myself for things that I haven’t done, you know? Or things I’ve thought. It’s a bit hard to explain. I guess I feel most ashamed when comparing myself to others. Not ashamed of myself for not being like them, but ashamed that I am even thinking like that in the first place. Like a pang of jealousy when you see someone being celebrated for something I also take a lot of pride in or when seeing a really good looking person 😛 I have the thought, then I feel bad for even thinking about it in the first place. It’s a very first world answer to your question I suppose.
5. Proudest moment would probably be finally getting my first real job out of Uni. The last couple of years of Uni were just horrible, I couldn’t wait to leave, but the graduation itself wasn’t a particularly proud moment. I’d gotten to the point where I didn’t care anymore and just wanted to leave. I knew I would graduate so it never really felt like an “accomplishment”. I left feeling like I’d wasted 4 years not learning anything useful but finally landing that first job in my field was amazing. My life is pretty different now for the better! I’m still very proud of myself over a year later.
6. I think other people are probably better equipped to answer this than I am! From my point of view, it would probably be a similar answer to the one I gave Blaghman earlier. Ever since frequenting the Internet I’ve come to value being positive and patient as my best qualities. I know taking your standard Internet comment probably isn’t the best way of comparing myself to the general population, so I don’t think I’m some paragon or anything, but yeah. I like that about myself.
7. Peanut Butter. Easily. That stuff has zero redeeming qualities. The smell, the taste, the look. It’s just all around horrible! Sorry, peanut butter lovers!
8. Is a shower even a common thing? 😛 I can’t imagine it would be very desirable to be in day-to-day life haha
Will you be my Xenoblade?
Good answers!
Though I think I gave you easy questions (I was in a rush :P).
Hahaha, I can’t believe you answered that last one though! 😛
It’s a common enough thing apparently to be a well known term 😛
I don’t think it’d be very practical either 😛
You have the chance to be somebody else as a result of one of those stupid Freaky Friday-esque swaps. Who is it?
What is the worst injury you have ever sustained?
What TM will you give out upon defeat at PAX?
1. Who wouldn’t I want to be! Can I control it freely? Because I would just walk down the street and bump into everybody just to see what it’s like 😛 But then I might run into a Futurama-esque conundrum where everybody ends up in different bodies than before and I have to invent a new mathematical equation to set everybody right again.
2. The worst (and really, only serious) injury I’ve ever had was when I broke my wrist in high school. The story that goes along with it is a little embarrassing so I usually just tell people I broke it during PE class. Which is technically true. But the actual story is that I broke it while warming-up for PE class… – Spoilering for PG13+ squeamishness
We were playing some warm-up game that involved running around a group of sitting people, then sitting down on the floor. Anyway, I ran, went to sit, put my hand out to catch myself on the way down *snap* (except I didn’t hear a snap) I noticed when I pulled my arm back, kinda felt something wasn’t right. Couldn’t move my fingers… Okay, something’s definitely not right. Looked down, had snapped both the ulna/radius clean in half at the wrist and they were stuck in sort of a Z position if you looked at it side on. Didn’t hurt at all. Held my hand up for the teacher, she came over, I sheepishly held my wrist up, she screamed and rushed me to the front office (where, along the way the pain started to set in and it wasn’t so good after that :P)
So yeah, that’s my story. I never lived down the reputation as the kid who broke his arm by sitting down for the rest of my time at school.
3. It’s not a TM… but maybe Quiver Dance. I can teach the dance to humans too! I’ll bring a soundtrack and everything, it’ll be great. It’ll be like a disco/waltz, I can see it now.
It’s more like the typical body swap movie, learn something about someone and only then can you change back, but all kinds of awkward and ‘hilarious’ things happen along the way.
Also I once broke my finger on a balloon so, you know, can’t judge you. 😛
In that case: someone super good looking, then purposely never learn anything about them and move away so they don’t find me again.
😛
RPG TALK!
People on Twitter were interested, so: Who other than @trjn and @gingerchris86 are interested in a session of the RPG Fiasco? It’s basically Coen Brothers/Lock Stock in a single session RPG. You would not be required to make an ongoing commitment, it’s a one-shot type deal, and if there’s lots of interest we can run multiple.
Currently looking for a player list and to set a time to try it out- would be Google+ and Roll20 based, and is probably a 3 or so hour commitment. I’m capping each session at 5 players, though 4 is probably plenty.
Also, should mention: No RPG experience necessary, and genre is flexible- the demo “playsets” in the book include Midwest America, the Wild West and The Antarctic, and there’s a bunch of different sets on the website: http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/games/fiasco/
I just realised, with Anti-Chris we already have 4.
When’s good to do this? I can do any day this week after 8pm or any time next week at all.
Hell, why wait, tomorrow around then? DM me your emails and I’ll set up a Roll20 session.
Twitter account @gmail.com
Antichris is playing magic tomorrow and i may have to be a boyfriend tomorrow night. I’ll know more in an hour 🙂
No prob- I’m setting up the table, after that we can go whenever.
I played it once with a few friends and the setting was ancient, mystical China (Kung Fu Panda-esque). The story ended with me committing to a homosexual relationship with one of the other players and setting an ancestral tomb on fire.
I think you’re all going to love it.
I’ve had the book since PAX last year and haven’t got it to the table yet
Another RPG boat miss.
Alas.
There are multiple scenarios to play out and if this first one is successful (or more likely unsuccessful in the right ways), odds are we’ll run some more.
also AntiChris is hard to pin down so we could run with other people too
It’s a one shot RPG, so we can go again.
Seeing as Chris and his brother are out tonight, I don’t see why @jocon and @beeawwb can’t sit there and listen to us complain about not having enough people now.
I’ll go in for a “missed the boat” session with you. That’s 2…
Went to post for @jackunit13, but putting on newpage for anyone else interested.
You can get Hitman Go for free on iOS at the moment. Helped my sister grab it the other night, it was a little weird since it seems like it doesn’t quite work properly or something. There’s details in the first comment thread:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/160025
Damn back to $6.49 on iPad now. Must of just missed out.
Did you click on the Go To Deal link? It comes up with a bunch of text which at the end has a part that says code: [whole bunch of numbers and letters]. If you copy that code and paste it into the Redeem section of iTunes, you get the game.
Ah…all sorted, thanks Gooky.
Getting a tad overexcited about this Japan trip now I’ve booked the flights and everything is organised. I’ve always wanted to go there and a holiday with a group of friends has always been on my bucket list. I don’t think I could ask for a better group of people to to it with.
The Beatles?
Fox Force Five?
Thunderbirds?
No, you’re right, those would all be horrible groups to be on holiday with.
Travelling to exotic locations with friends is a simple if not oft-forgotten pleasure.
Also getting hella drunk in exotic locations with friends, that’s mad ballin’.
wanna goo to london and get shitfaced?
If I wasn’t in near-crippling poverty, HELL YES!
instead I’ll just cry in this corner drinking moonshine out of these mason jars!
I plan on pressuring everyone to put on suits and get drunk on sake while singing sad songs at a karaoke bar.
\o/
I’m glad you’re excited. We have got a great bunch.
*whisper* Just as long at that @dc guy doesn’t catch wind of what we’re planning. Mum’s the word *taps nose*
I just booked in my leave and going to pay flights & trip next week \o/
Excitebike \o/
When are y’all going?
Post on last page. Join us!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-293/comment-page-13/#comment-2941438
What Jo said. 21st March – 3rd April.
Become one with the Magical Tay Advetureganza.
Especially now that you are Jobius 🙂
@jocon @freezespreston @novacascade
hmmmmmmm
Oh, I always thought it was at the end of the year.
Since I’m new to working(ius) I didn’t know most companies make their employees take leave during the Christmas/New Years break, so I wouldn’t be working then anyway. I’ve been to Japan before with friends but we kinda just went there without a proper plan and didn’t get much done. I’ve always wanted to go back sometime and do all the usual touristy stuff and this seems a lot more structured now that there’s a Xenotravel Xenoagent involved :).
The $4ish k doesn’t include the flights does it? I’m not sure about the $ of the trip but it does sound good. This job is cray and I don’t even know what I’ll be doing in March-April so it’s a bit hard to plan ahead *shrug*
Does sound amazin’ though so maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe
@novacascade I was thinking of maybe going to New Zealand sometimeish since it’s close and I assume the costs aren’t too bad? When’s a good time to go?
Yeah, flights would be on top of that figure.
Depends what you want to go for, and for how long. Probably summer would be better considering how cold it can get there (unless skiing is your thing), but then again, you’re from Melbourne and thus immune to cold and rain 😛
How much are flights generally? 1k each way? (random guess :P)
I’ve always wanted to try skiing and snowboarding but I’ve been told it’s probably better to try it somewhere easier first (like Melbourne :P). It’ll be more for the scenic stuff I guess, so Summer would be better. When are airfares and accommodation usually cheaper? I’m guessing anything not around big public holiday periods? (Christmas, New Years, Easter, School Holidays)
Usually a return ticket is around 600-700ish. Though I have seen them under $500 if you get lucky. Yeah, avoid the school holidays and you’ll be fine. New Zealand the easiest way to get around is to hire a car and drive, though there are plenty of bus tours you can do too
Whoops! I was also interested about the NZ airfares but that question was supposed to be about Japan flights, how much are they generally?
Oh right. They are hovering at between $1100 and 1400 at the moment depending on airline, which is more expensive than they were last year I think. I thought they were around $1000 last year
New Zealand is an awesome awesome place. If you’re heading to the South Island go during winter and head to Queenstown. Place is just plain rad. Go North Island during summer and head up to the Bay of Islands. Some truly beautiful places up there.
I go there semi regularly and one of my favourite places to visit.
Awesome. I’m meant to be planning a trip to the south island for July next year. Already got accommodation, and the main activity I want to book in at some point is dog sledding.
I just looked at that. Didn’t know it was something they did. Would be a tonne of fun.
Ask your work if you could possibly book that time off now, that way you will at least know if it is possible.
http://evolveskateboards.com.au/
I want a electric skateboard. I will never use this electric skateboard. I just want to try it because it seems fun. Also australian company 🙂
The specs on these things are crazy too, 30kms/hr and 30 km range is massive
30km/h never sounds fast until you’re standing unsecured a few inches above the ground on a thin plank.
it sounds fun
Ive been on one it is fun but hells scary especially downhill also they have terrible grip on anything with more than a drip of water on it
I remember back when I did one of those Advanced Driving courses (Fus Ro Car!!!), and when we did the practical side of it, the difference between what a car can do at 30km/h and 40km/h was quite alarming. I don’t think I could handle it on a skateboard
What you really want is rocket-boosted skates so you can maim and/or kill yourself horribly while listening to the Jet Set Radio soundtrack.
You just get me
New headset get! Decided to give Razer one last chance to impress me, and buying from MSY meant I didn’t get fleeced. It’s surprisingly hard to find a headset that is simultaneously a good pair of headphones, that has that single 3.5mm audio/mic jack the DS4 uses.
What’d you think, any good?
Pretty good so far. Sound is as good as my older Sennheisers. The seal on the ear covers is pretty much airtight, which will take a bit of getting used to, but they block out almost all other noise. Not sure on mic quality, as I played solo yesterday. But my original megalodons were amazing right up until the right speaker died, so only time will tell.
Walking home from school yesterday. Some kid, no older than 15, walks up to me and says:
“I challenge you to a rap battle!”
“Uuh… wha… Yo yo yo?”
“Yo, I bring all the bitches to ma crib.”
“Ma.. Make it rain?”
“You win. Hey, I like you. What’s your name? It’s [real name], right?
(shocked that this complete stranger somehow knows my name, I make one up)
“It’s… Kieran. Kieran… Joneswood.”
*kid walks away*
Well, that was one of the stranger things that has happened to me recently.
Drugs are bad.
mmmkay
U gotz dem mad skillz.
Maybe it’s like a really tame version of fight club where you boost someone’s ego by picking a fight and letting the other guy win. Only, rap battles instead of violence.
On the weekend, the doctor determined that I had low blood pressure, and needed more salt in my diet. Fast track to today, and my mother plans to subject me to a vegemite-heavy diet. At the end of this, I’ll be more Australian than everyone here combined.
Couldn’t you just have some extra salt on your food? Not that vegemite is that bad
My mum is on a low-sodium diet, so complications would arise.
Sprinkle it over your food before you eat it? It’s not like she takes her portion and divides it in half and then feeds it to you right?
Maybe she chews it up and regurgitates it like a mother bird.
She makes you eat the same food as on her diet? No wonder you’re low on sodium.
sounds like @dc’s dream diet! just live on chips!
Salt & Vinegar Kettle Chips!
There’s alotttt of sodium in vegemite, so don’t go overly heavy on it 😛 Should do the job fairly well though.
Urge to wear thongs and board shorts rising….
The little packs of Tim Tams are $1 at Woolworths right now. Everyone go stock up on the Adriano Zumbo Raspberry White Choc Tim Tams! Go go go! They’ll change your life!
Thursday afternoon question!
What three songs do you most remember from your youth?
Mine are:
When You Look at Me – Christina Million
All the Things She Said – T.A.T.U, and
We’re in Heaven – Do (DJ Sammy remix)
Sigh… I’m gonna be honest here. (By ‘youth’, I assume you mean pre-adolescence)
Macarena – Los Del Rio
Oops I Did It Again – Britney Spears (Not because I liked it, but because it was played all the time)
YMCA – Village People
I had a weird upbringing, it would seem.
Shania twain- pretty much all her songs, we had one cd for car trips and it was best of shania twain
I listened to this so many times in grade 12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFx6GIpsZNI
Go goo dolls-Iris was my go to song for years. i hate it so much now its crazy 😛
Keith Urban – Days Go By
Shania Twain – Man, I feel like a woman or whatever it’s called
Simple Plan – Untitled (urghhhh…)
The first two mum played ALL THE TIME and the other song that will never be named or thought about again I was obsessed with for quite some time 😛
The Cruel Sea – Better Get A Lawyer (My aunt loved the Cruel Sea and lived with her for a while)
The Prodigy – Breathe (Fat of the Land was the first album purchased with my own money)
Rammstein – Du Hast (Sehnsucht was my first real introduction into what different types of metal there was besides Metallica/Pantera/Obiturary. Started a love affair trhats still going.)
I imagine your aunt as a pirate, and when you stayed with her, you’d pillage merchant ships together.
Foo Fighters – Learn to Fly
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Around the World
The Offspring – Why Don’t You Get A Job?
Dorothy The Dinosaur – The Wiggles
Thomas The Tank Engine Theme
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme
If we’re reaching that far back-
The Agro Rap off the Agro Album
Fat Cat’s Fat – remember the song and lyrics but not who did it
And… Uh…. Shit. I don’t think there was any kids bands back then. At least none that I can really remember. It was all TV themes and Play School songs.
I don’t think I understood the question >_>
Mine would be
‘Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight’ and some Patsy Biscoe songs that we had on a cassette.
Oh you are just my least favourite.
What did I do? 🙁
Hahaha, I was only joking! 😀
I just didn’t mean that far back was all 😛
To me that is “youth” 😛
The only music I remember listening to was the two Simpsons albums we had. Used to have them playing while doing my homework in early highschool, could pretty much recite the lyrics to every song and in order too. But then I stopped with that and didn’t listen to anything else for the next decade or so.
I am bad at music.
Homeless – Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
500 miles – The Proclaimers
Pour Some Sugar On Me – Def Leppard
All from around the same time, when I first started noticing music and being allowed to listen to the radio.
I have so many, but here’s the first three to come to mind, at your request.
The Distance – Cake
Kitty – Presidents of the USA
Gone Away – The Offspring
I need Destiny buddies plz
Have you upgraded to PS4 yet, or are you still on PS3?
I was never on PS3 and I’m using someone else’s PS4 upgraded version :3
(which is available now)
I picked it up today so ill try and get on this weekend
It’s lonely (and crappier) when playing solo :(. Defs need to get a low level group going!
I am Tsquare82! Crash my game! Send PS4 messages and stuff!
But you’re a super high level! 😮
Ah, it’s OK, the levels don’t make toooooo much of a difference… some.
By the looks of it I think Aliasalpha and Batto started new characters!
haha i did to play with my friends who couldn’t play at launch
I’m only lvl 11, keen to group up for some strikes. I played alone last night, it just makes everything take ages, I killed that big spider tank thing solo, it took like 15 minutes.
REAL NAME ALERT
benbonniciIt’s also my PSN profile name.
I’m pretty sure we’ve been PSN friends for months!
Oh shit, I think you’re right. I haven’t seen you on when I’ve played this week?
I haven’t been playing it much (only got it on Thursday).
I’m swapping between that and Tales of Xillia 2 on PS3 at the moment.
Phlanispo ‘s Random Opinion Poll of the Unspecified Timeframe
Baryonyx or Ankylosaurus? Which is more awesome?
I want to say Baryonyx just because it uses an X in its name, but come on – TAIL CLUB!!
Ankylosaurus. Baryonyx is to a Velociraptor what Clint Howard is to Chris Hemsworth.
… bigger?
I’m going to begrudgingly say Ankylosaurus. While I love ol’ Barry more, it cannot complete with TAIL CLUB.
I was obsessed with ankylosaurus as a kid. Like the others have said – TAIL CLUB!
Meanwhile, never heard of baryonyx before. Also, firefox offers tyrannosaurus as a spelling solution for ankylosaurus.
I was obsessed with Baryonyx as a kid, but had a mild love for Anklyosaurus. As an adult, I have seen the light, and know that Anklyosaurus > Baryonyx
Ankylosaurus, it was my favorite Dino Rider, you just can’t beat an armored lump with a whacking club.
Oh, in case you’re too young http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino-Riders they were awesome
I just realised it’s been half a decade since I last used a spork. I should remedy this immediately.
w00t! I was a top 50 finisher in the most recent Marvel Puzzle Quest event!
Dunno who of you even care about that game.. perhaps @tigerion? Either way.. was a nice surprise! 🙂 Got me some nice goodies!
I think @strange mentioned playing it.
God I’ve put some time into that game. Mostly on mobile but looking I have something like 30+ hours on steam as well.
Not sure how you are progressing but right now my go to team is max level Thor, Max Moonstone and around a 104 level Hulk.
Also which event? Are you part of an alliance, if not just join one, you can get a nice little bonus and occasionally get a nice prize for alliance results.
I played it on iPhone for a while, but it got to the stage that I was spending too much time on it, so I uninstalled. I enjoyed it while it lasted though.
Yeah I’m part of some random alliance. Didn’t know anyone who played when I started. Steam says 83 hours for me, but a good possibly around 10-20 of those would be alt-tabbed out of the game 😉
I’ve been playing for ages, but when I first started, I didn’t play much for a month or two. Just didn’t grab me at the time. Then one day I played it and it gave me some goodies I liked, and I can’t stop since then!
Considering I’ve only payed $5 to add some extra hero slots, I’ve got a hell of a lot of mileage out of it. My top level hero atm is only lvl 55 Thor and lvl 55 hood, followed by a lvl 50 Black Widow, Ragnarok and Hulk. Been a long road, but I’m getting there! I have like 18 heroes in total! All except for the $5, paid for by playing single player and earning coins!
Sometimes I don’t like it when a game forces you to wait to play again, but these guys have got it right. If you want to wait, and hot use instant heals, you can. The instant heals recharge which is good too! Keeps me coming back for just another 10-15 mins at a time! 😉
Nice one!
I just started playing it yesterday.
Ah cool! It does take a while to really open up and get fun, but once you get through that initial grind, it’s great!
I got HEAVY into it on the mobile. Like… heavy. I actually got first place in a couple events. Got wicked ass wolverine shit before they just started giving it away.
Then one day I wasn’t able to download an update and the momentum was lost and NOW I AM FREE. FREE DO YOU HEAR ME.
lol You sound like a reformed World of Warcrack addict or something! 😉
…Pretty much. 🙂
Watched episode 8 of The Strain last night.
Spoilers follow:
Damn, that was a cool episode. The group trapped in the petrol station and meeting up with Vasiliy Fet. Finding out some more about the strigoi and what they’re capable of. Also Jim’s death was pretty gutwrenching. What was done had to be done, but it didn’t make it any easier to watch.Why didn’t anyone tell me Humble Bundle 12 was out? Luftrausers!
Also that $65 pack thingo is interesting.
That $65 pack IS interesting!
Still a bit pricey for me, but I remember when they introduced weekly bundles and they had a similary $20ish physical reward tier. I was hoping they’d keep it up (they didn’t :P).
I totally don’t remember that. What was in it?
http://creative-gaming.co.uk/introducing-the-humble-weekly-sale/
(only site with pictures I could find from my brief search)
It was for Bastion and came with some small physical things. I recall the $25 including worldwide shipping too which is what made me happy. I wouldn’t mind paying $20ish for a t-shirt and other small goodies.
Vinyls and floppy discs are kinda useless to me now :P.
EDIT: I do love me the green Zac Gorman t-shirt though (and I don’t wear geeky/gamey clothing)
Ahhh, that’s right. I wasn’t that interested because I was all like “eh what even is Bastion?” 😛
I totally have use for floppies AND vinyls. As shelf-fillers! And I did only pay the bare minimum for pretty much most of the bundles…
1 cent?! MONSTER!
I usually go at least $1 (semi-monster) for the Steam keys so I don’t feel THAT bad. But I’d say I go for BTA the other half of the time.
DOESN’T EVEN KNOW WHAT BASTION IS? OR TROY BAKER? WORST. GUY.
1c? Nah, $10. Gotta get dem bonus gaems 😛
Troy Baker? That was the one that was Dr Who, right?
But you said bare minimum! Way to make me look like the monster now…
:'(
The arc blade special for the bladedancer subclass in Destiny is pretty cool. I’m glad for that, because I wasn’t really a fan of the gunslingers special.
I’m a big fan of the Storm Fist. Punch everything!
Oh god. The English translation of this hotel’s website is just the best thing ever.
http://i.imgur.com/gK2wrEC.png
You probably should have hidden your bookmarks before taking a screenshot. 😛
TEEN DOG IS OUT!
AND THEY HAVE IT HERE
I know where I’m going tomorrow.
To the supermarket?
To the local pool?
To jail?
In that order!
In further TAY marketing, Mum brought home some of these. Just tried one of the green ones, apple flavoured.
Wow they’re good.
Gooky got kisses from Mummy and is happy now
How sweet
I got a Golden Gaytime Krusher from KFC. It was the worst Golden Gaytime Krusher I’ve ever had. It wasn’t even glorious. It wasn’t even a religious experience. It was merely great.
What a gyp.
#firstworldproblems
http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2014/sep/11/brutal-oppression-nerds-geeks-david-harding-n-word
wat
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130710154045/cardfight/images/thumb/6/60/Facepalm.png/463px-Facepalm.png
Geh?
Thoughts on game I playd:
– Silent protagonists are lame
– Battles aren’t as fun
– …why am I paying off debts?
Verdict:
Tales of Xillia 2 ain’t as fun as the others (so far based on the first 90 minutes). Bleh.
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Theatrhythm Curtain Call comes out in like a week though! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Destiny Question:
Grimoire cards? How do I use them?
Better or worse than the first one?
Xillia? Worse so far 🙁
Theatrhythm? I’m expecting it to be wayyyy better since it has pretty much all of the original’s songs, the original’s DLC and MORE! HNGH
HNGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Pretty hyped for Theatrhythm, glad I managed to preorder the collectors ed.
Oh, based on the notification, for a second I almost thought I had a Xillia 2 buddy!
Y U no Xillia 2?
haha sorry! I haven’t actually played a Tales game before D:
But now that I have a PS3, I can play most of them now 😀
Theatrhythm is still the most fun game on 3DS IMO 😛 Might have to buy the new one!
MIGHT?!
Damn, I still need to preorder Theatrhythm…unless they actually have enough stock for normal purchases this time around?
I didn’t risk it this time and pre-ordered :P. Free bonus or whatever as well, so might as well!
Yeah, and this is exactly what I had heard about it too, which is why I was saying I wasn’t that excited to play it.
Xillia was great and I didn’t see much reason to need to go back to it, especially not with a silent protagonist. And it’s a lot of why I’m equally worried about xXenobladeXx. Silent Protagonists in RPGs, especially player-created ones, feel like they’re disconnected from the story. They sit on the sidelines and watch the other characters interact and the plot unfold around them, rather than being directly involved. It takes special narrative tricks (like Revan in KotOR) and/or a LOT of choices in your dialogue to make it not feel that way.
I have come to a simple conclusion in Dota 2: Lycan is the most brain dead hero in the game.
Summon wolves and farm. Team fight going on? Hit W, then summon wolves and go back to farming.
Sounds perfect!
I think my sewing has leveled up today. Vest 2.0 is nearly done, and I am very pleased with it.
http://instagram.com/p/szjV2uASZh/
The stars on the inside are a nice touch!
Thanks! I found a great tutorial. It’s actually a reversible vest 🙂
After reading the manual and looking at trailers I’ve decided I really want to get Wasteland 2.
I love that style of gameplay since Fallout Tactics which to me is arguably one of the best Fallout games ever made if not THE best! It is my fall back Fallout game whenever I feel like post apocalyptic fun. So I guess I should ask those who have played the game already is it anything like Fallout tactics?
I really want this game as well, I’ll stick my reply here to see if anyone else has played so I can see what they think 😛
Cc @dc
I’ve pre-ordered Wasteland 2 but haven’t actually played it yet. Saving it for full release, buddy. From what I hear it’s more like the Fallout 1 and 2 than Tactics, but I’ve been media blacked out.
And no one mentioned Jaws died today either!
🙁
I did.
On Twitter.
Hint hint.
Oh, I got the hint.
EXCLUSION AT EVERY TURN
Nonsense, Twitter is super non-exclusive.
Even morons can get on there and bang on about Anita Sarkeesian.
You too could he one of those people @mrtaco!
I heard she manufactured claims of dismissive policemens!
Also it really bugs me the way they grey everything out and put a “HEY YOU SHOULD SIGN UP!” popup over everything whenever someone links me to a twitter somethingorother.
You know how to fix that….
Never click a twitter link again.
GET A TWITTER ACOUNT.
I WANNA SEE YOU LIVE TWEET POPCORN PREDICAMENTS.
I agree with this sentiment
Then you just gotta remember to tune in – same TAY time, same TAY channel.
nah.
My thoughts exactly 😛
As above.
Caught a new shiny Pokémon before bed.
Got excited that it can actually form the basis of a quite functional shiny battle team.
Struggling to sleep.
Probably doesn’t help that it follows too much coffee at work day.
What was it?
I don’t know whether I want to show my hand on the team I’m building now, since we have gym leaders to challenge. Team shiny favourites is starting to look viable though – especially since shinies and favourites are concepts that run opposite to serious competitive play. I’m just aiming for viable with a team I like, and not seriously competitive. Could be a good way to dip my toe in this side of the game, as I’ve never done or enjoyed the battle other players thing much.
Fair enough, don’t want these nasty gym leaders counter teaming our counter teams 🙂
My dex is done, so let me know what you want me to stock up on for your trading pleasure as well.
Google Images is weird. I decided to do an image search for a bloodhound, because I’ve only seen them in cartoons and don’t know what they look like in real life. I look at the dogs, admire their cuteness. Scroll down to see more cute dogs. SUDDENLY TITS.
What the hell, Google?
Scroll down further, see Rule 34. Okay, I’m ejecting from this webpage, despite the abundance of puppy pictures.
Turn Safesearch on, and you should be right to avoid Rule 34.
Don’t forget to turn it off again when Rule 34 is what you’re after, though.
I always left it off by default until I searched for Garrus Vakarian.
So much alien dong.
(Now suddenly reminded of http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=108 – “Face full of alien wing-wong.”)
you just know that someone out there has made Safe Search porn just so that Rule 34 remains unbroken.
So, wait, hold up… You found what you were after AND saw a pair of boobs in the process? Sounds like the definition of win/win to me!
Only one pair of Tits.
Disappoint 🙁
Bloodhound Gang maybe?
“Dear Chasey Lane,
i wrote to explain,
I’m your biggest fan”
r/fiftyfifty with no bad option?
So, I got a set of these: https://ebgames.com.au/ps4-201550-Turtle-Beach-Ear-Force-P12-Amplified-Stereo-Gaming-Headset-PlayStation-4
They’re a corded headset with mic. They are phenomenal. Best sound I’ve heard out of headphones pretty much ever, and using the bass boost with Destiny magically transforms everything into some kind of theatre experience. Y’know, how they have the bass up too loud and the seats shake when there’s explosions? That shit.
I should’ve been playing with these from the start, this changes everything.
I got the PX22 headset for my PC, best sound quality I’ve had yet with a really good mic as well. If you watch any of the RPG sessions Popdart or Red have posted I’m using it there 🙂
Somebody should buy these off of me now that I’m not using them http://www.turtlebeach.com/product-detail/xbox-headsets/ear-force-xp-seven/340
Work with PS4 / XB1 / PS3 / 360 / PC / Mobile / Etc.
Going cheap. Like me. I’m cheap. And easy.
Wow, they’re purdy.
Hmm, I could be interested, since my current headset is starting to fall apart.
How much would you want for them?
Say $150, including shipping? (Completed ebay listings)
They look pretty awesome. Can you clarify something as I’ve never owned/tried a decent pair of gaming headphones…If I am to use them with my Xbone, what cords would go where? I.e In my mind I see two cords from the headset (1 to the controller and one to the audio out on TV?)
Optical (TOSLink) cable goes from the XB1 to the DAC box. Plug Control unit in to the DAC box and headphones in to the control unit. DAC also has a TOSLink pass-through so you can have both headphones and speakers plugged in at the same time.
Very easy to set up. Might even have a spare TOSLink cable lying around if required.
Hmm, might have to pass. Got all my car rego and insurance coming up in the next month or so. Probably not the best time to be spending money on other things. Sorry man
All good, they’re just sitting in a box collecting dust. No skin off my back. 🙂
So…. Titanfall just sorta disappeared, didn’t it?
saw it for sale on Origin last night & was all like…. oh yeah. that used to be a thing. everyone was all hyped for it & then…. nothing after a few weeks.
what happened there? just didn’t have the staying power? or other stuff came up? or was it just not worth the hype?
It’s a great game but a lot of people complained it didn’t have the longevity of other multiplayer games. Personally I think this is a load, but to each his own.
It’s a hell of a lot of fun, especially with friends. The main reason I haven’t played much lately is a) I’m juggling too many games right now and b) with a baby in the house I gravitate towards things I can walk away from at the drop of a hat.
It actually stayed popular for a good amount of time and still has an active community. It’s a very good game but for me personally it didn’t have that “gotta log in and play every night” appeal.
I’ve put 50 hours in, but the enjoyment factor definitely decreased after the 30 hour mark. It doesn’t have the ‘gotta play every night’ thing going on, but it has the ‘feel like playing a multiplayer shooter tonight, guess I’ll play this one’ thing.
I think people over-hyped it for sure. I expected a very competent shooter with well-done mechanics, and that’s what I got. But a lot of people expected it to be god incarnate and would revolutionise FPS forever.
The community (on PC at least) died down a lot faster than I expected, though. Now you can only play Attrition mode. The poor matchmaking system early on probably helped whittle the community down.
I would definitely come back when/if a mod kit comes out, because that game is dying for an Unreal Tournament-style mod.
At the end of the day, it was a good game, just not the game people were expecting.
So, I’m thinking of doing a small let’s play for an early access game. Just a couple of 5 minute sessions
what game?
also, do it! 😀
I concur!
Melody’s escape. I bought it yesterday after finding out I had some extra money.
I really love it and I think if some people see it played they would like it too.
Never heard of it but id check it out, better to do a lets play on something you love rather than something mainstream brand new like everyone else
I need to pick songs to play though =P
What choices do you have?
Any song.
Pretty fly for a white guy – offspring
In LoL related news (To anyone that cares haha), a new game mode was released called Ascension. I played 3 games of it last night, lost 2, won 1. First impressions so far is it’s pretty fun with an organised team, no laning or farming required, just fighting with extra mechanics like a boss mob in the centre that whoever gets the last hit on that gets major buffs to lots of stats and gets their team extra points if that buffed person gets kills, however they have healing reduction and if they die, they lose the buffs and have to wait for the mob to respawn. First team to get to 200 points wins.
Sounds interesting. I might try jump on this weekend at some point.
That sounds cool. It’s a shame that game doesn’t work for me anymore. Damn you patching client!
They updated the patching client as well quite recently. Not sure if it’ll help your situation but yeah..
Hmm, miiight give it another shot, but I think my time with MOBAs (or ARTLOS games as I like to call them) have come to an end. I really enjoyed my time with LoL but being unable to play the game for 10 months has drained all passion I had for the genre.
When Ultra Rapid Fire mode was realeased, I tried my damndest to get the game to work again, to no avail. I missed the opportunity to throw 3 Lux lasers a minute! Such pain can never be healed.
Well URF did get annoying within hours because a “the team with the most brokenly OP characters on URF wins” meta (Ezreal, Lux, Nidalee, Lulu, Ziggs, Jayce, etc) formed very quickly and it got stale and just stupid tbh. I wasn’t a fan of it after the hype wore off 😛
island holiday with the ladyfriend this weekend. Okay its only 20 minutes away but it counts
Doesn’t matter if it’s a cheap motel 5 minutes up the road. A holiday is a holiday.
+1… Anything that gets you out of the house and away from daily routines/surroundings is a holiday… Oh god i need a holiday :for
This is why I greatly prefer my US 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise holidays than family ones. With the US/cruise ones I don’t have to do any cooking or cleaning or washing, but the family ones are all same jobs, different location so I’m the only one who doesn’t actually get a holiday on our family holidays. 😛
This is exactly why I am looking forward to PAX. We are in a hotel – no cooking (other than making some ham&cheese rolls for lunch), no washing, no cooking dinner for three whole days.
Magnetic?
Yeah, havent been in ages.
I went there when I was about five or six (we lived in Townsville for a year). I remember being seasick for the first time, and scared of heights due to the steep steps up to our accommodation cottage thing. I hope your trip is better than mine was. 😀
seriously has everyone lived here at somepoint 😛
Magnetic Island? Been there. 20 years ago though.
i was there about 7 years ago :/
My family went to visit my uncle and aunty in Townsville in 1991 for a holiday and we went on a day trip to Magnetic Island. It was hot and one of the resorts opened its pool to the public. I remember it because I burned my feet on the bricks around the pool. I was 8, and I realise it’s actually 23 years ago.
1991 was the year i was born :/
Yeah, I’m old. Deal with it. 😛
I flew over it once!
Sounds amazing my friend, enjoy yourself!
So I’m probably going to get Smash Bros on 3DS and buy a WiiU for the express purpose of more Smash Bros.
Seriously, Smash Bros is looking pretty darn fantastic from the demo and the early access in Japan.
DUCK HUNT DOG
No seriously, that guy was one of my arch-nemesis in primary school.
MR GAME & WATCH was the one I was most surprised to see. I’m very happy about that.
The roster is seriously huge this time and it should be pretty fantastic.
Palutena!
Dark Pit!
Shulk!
Linebeck!
D.C.’s love letter to full motion video and indoctrinating impressionable young minds!
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/97256748701/12-september-2014
GAAAAAAY
also I love your writing, it reminds me of my writing if I could spell and form sentences that make sense.
Time?
Thanks for reading, Rockets. 😀
Yay for no cliffhanger!
Thanks for reading, Welbot. I’m not opposed to cliffhangers as long as you make sure you can actually get another one made. 😀
hahah yeah cliffhangers aren’t the blurst, unless you have to wait for ages til the next installment 😉
If it doesn’t end on a cliffhanger what does it end on?
What a cliffhanger for a blog post!
A dance number, I didn’t want to spoil things though. 😛
GOTY
Small typo I thought you might like to know: ‘It was the logical next step of the series’. Otherwise me likey! It’s cool seeing the agenda you push on here and then write about it like Tesla, it feels real!
Thanks buddy! Did not even notice that and I read through it multiple times!
And that’s how highperformance became my editor! 😀
Thanks for reading.
He’s not allowed to edit, though. He has to live with it. It says so right up at the top of his site.
(I wonder how many times he’s broken his rule? :P)
Rules are made to broken. 😀
Here‘s one for good measure.
You spoke about Alan Wake… I love you!
THANKS FOR READING, BUDDY! WANT SOME RYE?
‘COURSE I DO!
I love your paragraph about memorable christmases, it feels familiar. 😀 Love you, buddy.
Thanks for reading, Benny. 🙂
Thanks for reading, brother. FIFY.
Played multiplayer again with jocon and Hellscream last night. So, so fun. A guy could get used to this voice chat thing. D: We should play Diablo sometime!
Jo’s voice is so smooth and soothing .
Yeah, I get lost in it. 😛
what level are you guys now? I need fronds to play with but am falling behind cause of work 🙁
I’m level 13, but Hellscream was level 10 and was fine. We backtracked though. Was fun. 🙂
sweet, I’m not falling behind too much, hopefully we can team up again. I’m going to try pick up a mic asap. I still can’t believe PS3 official head sets aren’t compatible, you could just use any old bluetooth one with the ps3s, I used to use a shitty old motorola one.
(and @dc)
It’s worth noting, that since levels mostly give you armour piercing, it’s still fun for a high level player to go down levels to play.
Made mention of Teen Dog to my friend and now he’s asked me to pick him up a copy when I go.
I should charge Jake a commission.
Just listened to Slash’s new album World on Fire. I’d heard 4 of the songs already, but the remaining 13 (!) were new to me. I’ve been looking forward to the album for ages, and was pretty hyped for it. Glad to see two of my favourite musicians didn’t let me down. 78 minutes of diverse music, with some amazing guitar work and vocals. It’ll be on high rotation for the next few days/weeks.
Any of the minecraft people know where a jungle biome is or have some vines I can steal?
I really want them to make mossy cobblestone. I’m starting to struggle to find more and I am not even 1/10th done.
You can MAKE mossy cobblestone?
What an age we live in.
Yeah, cobblestone + moss, then baked in the guts of a CREEPER THAT IS BURNING IN HELL LIKE IT BLOODY SHOULD = lovely mossy cobblestone for your creation.
In my day you had to find mob spawners in dungeons
Mossy cobblestone isn’t made.
It’s earnt.
Come to my island base tonight ive got some
Thank you. Scree ended up finding a bunch for me and I know have them growing away.
Vines can be easily farmed if you have at least one in your inventory. Build a wall, and put a vine on it. Give it time, and that wall will be filled with vines. Farm vines, repeat.
Attempting to write a blog post but I’m just not feeling it. It will be the first one I’ve posted in weeks and it’s kind of boring. Think I’ll just leave it until later. Maybe I’ll feel like writing then and can make it not so dry.
zazz it up with buzzwords like pep and zazz.
Awesome idea.
“Make your binding peppy by folding it in half lengthwise and pressing it. Zazz your strips together to make one continuous strip!”
Are you in marketing? because you would fit in 😛
THE TABLES HAVE TURNED! 😛
In all serious, I get that. You’ve got to feel what you’re writing about. 🙂
Write the basis. Then go back to it later when you’re feeling fresh and make it more interesting. With at least the bare bones there, it’ll be easier when you go back.
Even if it’s dot points. It’s better then nothing.
Yeah, I have a note pad with just one liners and sentence hooks. I just construct it from that later.
Sewing blog post?
Yes. I’m mostly talking to myself on it though, because I only began blogging a couple of months ago so not that many people read it.
Just think of it as an excercise in discipline. @kermitron gets more likes on his photo of the day stuff and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Haha! XD
I don’t think of it as an exercise in discipline. I think of it as a place where I can talk as much as I like about quilting and sewing without having to see whoever I’m talking to’s eyes glaze over with boredom! 😛
It’s just because I tag it #selfie and whatever day of the week it is. They’re probably really active hashtags but it was never my intent to generate notes!
Sorry I haven’t been actively liking your posts. I’m still not tuned into this tumblr mindset that likes and reblogs are the only kind of feedback visible to the poster, and I’ve been enjoying your posts (except the ones I skip cause spoilers).
Thanks buddy! Oh, I don’t mind not getting notes either. It’s just Tumblr’s only real way of telling you if any one is actually reading. Sometimes I wonder if any one is. I’m on there atleast once a day so am happy to upvote your latest post but don’t expect the same. 🙂
Do you post it here? I’d be interested in reading, I’ve liked reading @dc has been serving up! I have a blog myself, but I go through phases about finding things I’m passionate in writing about!!
http://StrangestItches.blogspot.com.au/
I see what you did, you monster! 😛
I sometimes link my new posts here, but not often because I feel odd spamming sewing/quilting posts in a gaming space. 😛
Here’s the link to my blog: http://strangestitches.blogspot.com.au/ I’d be interested in reading yours, too!
There’s an assassins creed reference in there straight up even before clicking ‘read more’, I like where this is heading lol. Once I put a couple of more up to date posts I’ll put it up, the photos I have on there are a few years old of me so I think I should do with some updating of them so people don’t think I’m 21 anymore lol.
POST NOW! >:|
It has my mobile number and everything god damnit, the joys of running a business/blog in the same spot lol.
http://nathanmclean.com.au/introduction/
The site needs a lot of work, but now people might read it could actually be the inspiration I need to put some effort into the thing!
Luckily now that @greenius doesn’t post any more there’s no stalker types here. 😛
I think it might be because it’s difficult to make binding sound fun and interesting. I might just write a different post and save the binding one until later.
Look on the bright side, tomorrow will be easier with TAYquilt Tuesday!!!!!
Hit level 5 is Destiny and jumped into the crucible last night.
Still finding it really, really hard to enjoy online multiplayer shooters. I seem to have lost the knack for it. Half the time I don’t even see people before they’ve already half-killed me.
I hope that this changes. Otherwise, I hope that my old Halo 3 skills transfer over to the re-released version in the Master Chief collection. I miss Halo 3.
I wasn’t a fan of PvP, I prefer cooperating with buddies instead of shooting them right in the face. It’s also more forgiving against AI.
I’m yet to try PvP in the full game. I thought it was an absolute shambles in the Alpha but was really fun in the Beta. I’ll be keen for some strike missions and PvP this weekend, I hit lvl 11 last night.
I haven’t tried the crucible because I know I hate PVP shooters, especially with a controller. The last online shooter against people I played was Counter Strike.
S’one of the reasons I know I’ll never give it to the hype. If it comes out on PC though, we’ll see what happens.
Ugghghhhsadasd I can never tell if it’s hilariously unbalanced or not. and yet PVP is a damn good way to level up/get good loot quickly.
I sucked at multi until I got into the habit of sticking to my motion sensor, don’t get me wrong, I was still awful after that, but less awful.
you should join me, I need to play with awful people so I look less awful 😛
Hi guys,
I’m doing this 18.8km run this Sunday to raise money for brain tumor research and care. Brain cancer is the number one killer of children and young adults in Australia and having a young boy myself, I couldn’t imagine how hard it would be having to deal with this myself. Please donate if you can.
http://connorsrun2014.gofundraise.com.au/page/IanGielen
Couple of weeks ago I would have dropped something for ya, but can’t in my current situation. Good luck reaching your goal though!
No worries, mate 🙂 If I can raise awareness just by this post, i’m happy as well.
Dammit, so much hype for Smash Bros on the internet. I WISH I HAD IT NOW!
Watch the twitch streams!
Shuuuuullllllllkkkkkkkkk
Does any body have any random trivia facts about 40 yeras. Looking for a couple of things to build into my speak.
Might have to do some calculations or similar.
40 years is the time it would take to walk around the world x number of times
40 years ago the ABBA entered eurovision and hadn’t sold a single one of the 380,000,000 albums they have now sold
The world population has increase by 75%
If anybody is bored and wants to come up with some stuff I would be happy
40 years ago I was a young, bright-eyed fool at the tender age of 62.
#Helping
There was a website that would pull random facts about things that have happened relative to a date input. Can’t remember the name of it though…
EDIT: I should say, there’s a particular website that has an output exactly like what you’re looking for.
it’s how long it took Moses to lead the Israelites from Egypt to wherever they were going. Why I remember this I’ll never know.
Nice one, that’s one of the sort of thing I am after. A 40 year reference that isn’t date specific
“Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973 but your average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever.”
#helping
40 years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Aha! QuizMaster to the rescue.
40 years ago Stephen King published Carrie – his first novel.
40 years ago Tricky Dicky resigned due to Watergate (you can work in a tricky dicky innuendo if you are brave/foolhardy)
40 years ago the Rubiks Cube was invented (something something puzzle about marriage something)
Gimmie a specific date or something that ties in well with the anniversary/their likes and I’ll pull up more for you.
Nice. The speech will tomorrow but the anniversary is the 21st of September
September 21, 1974 US Mariner 10 makes 2nd fly-by of Mercury
Ooookay, let me find something further to what @popdart5 did.
Countdown (the TV Show) started in Australia (November 1974)
AC/DC gearing up to begin touring with Bon Scott (they premiered in the first week of October)
21st of September is also:
The International Day of Peace
International Day of Russian Unity
Independence Day in Belize (leaving U.K.), Armenia (U.S.S.R.) and Malta (U.K.)
Also the ‘Feast Day’ of Matthew the Apostle in Christianity.
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974
40 years specifically? That’s hard.
40 units of time is a bit easier, or 40 just as a number is even easier still.
40 years is what I was after. As a comparison to how long they have been married
Htu.
Did…did you just spit on TAY?
*wipes corner of mouth with sleeve*
No >_>
Tell me your cosplay! Jeeeeez
Also pls use twitter
It’s not ready yet.
Htu.
Red dead redemption sure doesn’t tell you how to do anything.
“Hogtie or threaten [woman]”
Uh, okay… I guess I do that from the horse mission with the lasso?
Oh great, for some reason they have fallen to the ground and everybody else is now screaming.
Do I carry her? How do I carry her?
No, that’s run. That’s jump. That’s… I don’t even know what that button does.
Ah here we are, the quit menu. Yes, I would like to quit.
doesn’t it pop up with prompts? I have a terrible memory but can’t remember having problems with buttons. 🙁 it’s such a good game, don’t quit *cries*
It does, but then it fades away?
In the case of Bonnie’s mission where you break the horses in, I kept L2ing and R2ing like it told me to, but I don’t remember being told to hold up and let the horses kick about for a while. I spent a long time trying to lasso them in motion and the rope would always break.
Ball is in… parking lot.
I suggest a putter.
You selected Wood
I suggest gentle tap
You select power drive
Would you like to play again?
You have selected: no.
yeah bad memory, i never quote anything right from memory, at least I got your reference 😛
Why werent you shooting a can. Shoot more cans.
Last time I shot a can I got a $40 bounty on my head?
I guess it was someone’s favourite can.
Oh wait no I think it was a person.
Yeah, I think I shot an innocent person or something.
Wanton destruction of precious antique cans.
MY CANS! MY PRECIOUS ANTIQUE CANS!
OHHH LOOK WHAT YOU DUN TO THEM
I’m about to shoot a full load at your cans :p
Star Citizens! (@rize @jocon @cakesmith @pixel_the_ferret_viking @ynefel and any others)
Start your engines, the countdown to Arena Commander 0.9 (with Murray Cup racing!) is officially on. https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14144-Arena-Commander-V09-Status-Update
“Arena Commander V0.9 will release tomorrow!” – Being that it’s currently evening / night in California I’d say we can expect it either tonight our time, or tomorrow morning. And with co-op friends play I’ll finally be able to see you in the verse!
Dang, I never got around to trying that free demo thing.
This was the first time they’ve run a free demo but I daresay it won’t be the last. Got an email today saying “thanks for trying the demo” (because, reasons?) and it sounds like they consider it a success so my guess is that we’ll see a similar promotion at PAX Australia, since they’re attending. Only 7 weeks away!
*deep breath*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
*passes out*
Seriously though, I can’t wait till I can use my Freelancer in Vanduul swarm. In the mean time, I’m keen as hell for some co op and racing in my loaner Hornet.
Yeah, multi-crew ships is going to be crazy. Did you catch the bit at Gamescom where they demoed multi-crew Connie play?
Still, I’m really jazzed for racing. Cannot wait to open up the throttle and then crash in to things because I suck at flying. Time to get a joystick.
I sure did 😀
I think I’ll enjoy racing with friends, but it remains to be seen if I’ll get involved with the full stuff.
HNNNNNNNNNGGGGYEEEEEEESSSS… Sorry about that, i swear I’ll clean it up
Wow, I need to really download that thing and take a look. All I’ve seen was the early iterations of the hangar module. I really need to see my Cutlass in the flesh.
oooohhh you have a cutlass? i’ve been eyeing that off, but i’m currently in the process of convincing my missus that the Connie Taurus package is a good idea due to the physical goods you got as well 😛 (got a feeling it’ll be a christmas present)
I bought the 325a Origin Fighter (?) and the pirate pack. Loved the sound of the Cutlass, but still no model last time I checked.
Is this turning into the new EVE?
I’ve done some brief googling and reading… For a game that’s not out it (for me the uniformed) appears really dense and pricey!
Feel free to educate me if I’ve missed the mark… It looks fantastic!!
So… Bioshock Infinite got a 5GB update yesterday – so glad Steam is unmetered… and now I’ve remembered Dragon Age will be an Origin key… so the second half of my November will likely be experienced at 256k. >_<; Dammit iiNet, hurry up and make a deal with EA.
Jeez, what on earth is BSI updating 5 gigs for? Did it release in another country and need a language pack update that they inexplicably launched as a patch instead of optional extra?
Yep. They localised Burial at Sea in a bunch of different languages, apparently. So I ever feel like playing it again, I can spice it up with the French version, I guess. Language packs should really be an option, not a mandatory DL.
They really need to knock that kind of crap off. I think Wolfenstein: The New Order had something like a 16 gig patch a couple of weeks back because it got released in Russia or something.
Indeed.
If iiNet has the same deal as Node (they’re one company, but they have separate deals) then it would be unmetered. It’s not Australian Steam content servers that are unmetered, it’s just Australian servers.
I know how to do this for steam, to force it to use the 3FL servers (and because of the way Steam’s distribution works, it can pull everything through those servers), but not sure how to do this for Origin. It’s metered by default, it seems, as last game I downloaded through Origin took a 6GB chunk out of my download allocation.
Can you buy a data pack?
I wish there was a convenient way to share my cap… On a grandfathered TPG plan and generally have 350GB of quota go unused every month!
I could get data packs, but I’d rather avoid that if possible. On a 100GB plan, but I watch a lot of Youtube, which eats through about 3GB a day on average. Might just download it at work and copy the files across from my laptop…
How are you supposed to deal with your kid being bullied at school? One of the girls who is twice my eldest size is telling she can’t play with any of them because she is too small and is telling everyone else not to play with her.
I mean the teachers don’t really seem to care and hand out a wrist slap with a wet noodle at worst. And society tends to frown upon a 30 year old man suplexing a 6 year old girl. Doesn’t really leave me with many options.
Don’t put yourself down, man. You have tonnes of options:
Half nelson, tombstone, elbow drop…the list goes on.
Seriously though, speaking from personal experience most teachers either a) don’t give a shit or b) give a shit and can’t do anything due to angry parents looking for an excuse to litigate.
If it continues being an issue, best thing I can suggest is to organise with the school to have a conversation with the parents of the other girl on school grounds in the presence of the teacher and/or a member of the exec staff, like the principal or assistant principal. But for the love of god, if you do this (as hard as this will be) leave your emotions at the door. Getting the shits at the parents of the bully will get you nowhere, and will almost always make the matter worse.
Not getting the shits with unreasonable idiots isn’t one of my strong suits.
nice response, I was going to suggest talking to the kids parents but then thought about how badly that might escalate, great idea meeting on neutral ground with a mediator.
Yep, very important to have a school mediator and it also means you can have reliable records of stuff.
Schools are required to have an anti-bullying policy. Even if it doesn’t stop the bullying, it’s a good idea to make the school (your child’s teacher, the exec) aware that there is a problem and that you’re not happy with how things are.
In most cases a) it’s going on under the radar and the teacher might not be aware that there is a problem. Particularly when the behaviours are exclusion, rather than intimidation (girls can do a lot of damage very quietly) or b) the school is aware that this child is causing problems, and have plans in place to manage the problem behaviour that you may not be aware of.
Keep in mind that if a child has problems at home that are causing them to act up at school (abuse at home, family breakdown), then the school cannot disclose any of this to other parents. It can make it very hard when a child’s behaviour is adversely affecting others, but the cause isn’t that they’re a bad kid, just a kid in a bad situation.
There are some other things to think about. Nasty behaviour is usually learnt. The old saying “chip off the old block” and “the apple never falls far from the tree” often ring true. What’s important is to help your daughter learn not to base all her self esteem on the approval of others. Walking away and just getting on with your own thing is always the best option.
“Raising Girls” by Steve Biddulph has some good strategies – there are other great books too on raising confident girls.
The other thing is to make sure your daughter is socialising in circles that are separate to school. Bullying from a twit at school matters less when you have other friends to hang out with after school and on the weekend. You get a break from the twit and your whole world is less likely to cave in when school friendships get fractured. I’m speaking from personal experience on this one – I had school friends and that was about it. It was devastating when things when to shit and I found myself with no one to even eat lunch with. If I’d had friends from sport or music or cousins or something to bitch with outside school, it would have been easier to cope with the twits.
I would be very surprised if the parents of this little darling actually gave two shits about her, let alone what she’s doing to other kids.
Size doesn’t always mean they’ll be a bully though, my son’s pretty much the biggest in his class, probably twice the size of the smallest kid (who he happens to be great friends with) and to my knowledge he’s never picked on anybody. He’s actually been picked on himself by older kids, we spoke to his teacher, and they made sure a teacher was out in the yard before school, as well as at recess and lunch and it seems to be working. That said one kid in his class has already been suspended twice this year for bullying, and they’re in friggin’ prep.
I agree with this…bully the parents and they will tell their daughter to lay off because you keep egging and prank calling their house and work place
Let it fester for another decade and then your daughter will develop Carrie-style telekinetic powers!
#helping
That story ended so well too. I mean I always fall asleep just after Carrie gets asked to prom but I assume everything works out for the best.
When you figure it out, can you get a time machine and do the same thing for high school me?
Judging from the “High School experiences” thread (which I tried to stay away from with a 10 foot clown pole) there’ll be a lot of DeLoreans required.
So you’re saying beating up a six year old girl is out of the question?
Can’t help you.
Teachers can’t do anything. They’re not allowed. Not just no physical discipline, they’re not even allowed to make kids feel intimidated or threatened (I know one teacher who had to take leave pending investigation for ‘intimidating’ a boy who grinned and promised to deck him, knowing there wasn’t going to be a thing he could do about it). Even making them feel bad is borderline unacceptable. Word from teachers I know is that now, schools aren’t handing out grades anymore, because of that. Too judgmental. They’re marking to ‘criteria’ and provide constructive feedback on how well the students are ‘addressing the criteria’.
No idea what you can do except be very belligerent and shrill to the principal. Apparently that works for some.
Or, I dunno, teach your eldest some nasty and vicious street-fighting techniques and a couple pressure points.
My wife’s solution was for her next time she’s told she’s too small to play is respond with “Well yeah, but you’re too fat to play” which… Yeah. There’s problems with that.
Yeah, but if it was a boy I’d suggest telling him to punch the bully in the face – make it known he is not someone easy to pick on.
But girls don’t fight physically, they fight with words and with peer pressure. But the goal is the same – your kid needs make themselves seen as someone who can hold their own.
So yeah, I’d hit up some ladies for advice in teaching your little one how to fight like a girl.
edit: also, going to the teachers will not really help – nothing adults can do will stop bullying directly – worst case it will just give the bullies more ammo.
imo, best you can do is teach kids how to help themselves.
For work, one of my jobs is that I occasionally build computers when the other technicians are busy. I have been doing this since around July last year. I have built more computers than I can bother to count. I never considered myself particularly good at it, but I rarely considered myself bad at it, either.
Over the last couple of builds, I have been working to improve my cable management. I was getting (relatively) good at it. Then today’s computer build happened.
Oh god my cable management was truly awful. It was such a cluttered mess that I couldn’t even close the case. It’s on the level of when I first started building computers, and that is utterly unacceptable after 30-40 computer builds. This is the first time in years that I have felt genuine shame. I created that monstrosity. It was entirely my doing. Eventually, one of the technicians offered to fix it. He had to undo everything and pretty much start the cable management from scratch. I watched him fix it. With every fibre of my being, I wanted to flee the work area and take lunch an hour early. But I exercised all my restraint to stay in the area and watch my co-worker fix my mess. I had to stay there, or I would have learnt nothing from this experience.
I hope this is a lesson to myself. I would hate to repeat this again. The only reason I wrote this spiel is to reinforce my shame, in the hopes that this is never repeated.
We all make mistakes. Even on something you’ve done a thousand times and know like the back of your hand you’ll still screw up. And you’ll look at yourself and say “What the F*** were you thinking, man!?” and you’ll hate yourself.
But you want to learn from the experience. That’s the best part. You’re not standing idly by. You say this post is a monument to your shame. I say this is a monument to your glory.
i can’t even count the times over the years I’ve finished putting a computer together, and spent the next 10 mins wondering why it wont turn on, all cos I forgot to plug in the 12v rail 😛
Dude dont reinforce shame, just learn from your mistakes.
First time i repaired something at work as a apprentice i cracked a $2 grand touch screen. When i was learning to solder cables i was horrendous and had to redo them and redo them over and over. I just kept at it because i wanted to be better. Now i consider myself one of the best technicians, solderers and troubleshooters in my company. It took a lot of time and stuff still stumps me but as long as you arent too hard on yourself and learn how to fix your mistakes or not make them you will be fine. Also one of my modules in TAFE was cable management, you wouldnt believe how shit electricians are at cable management.
I thought you might appreciate this:
http://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn
I’ll click that when I’m no longer at work.
It’s not actually porn, it’s pictures and discussions of cables being tied nicely together. If anyone gets suspicious and checks your usage after it being flagged, they’ll probably be appreciative.
I just don’t want that web address on my record, regardless of the actual content.
Just checked it out, I’m hella jealous of those people on there. Thanks!
@beeawwb @jocon @trjn so @gingerchris86 can’t make Fiasco tonight- Fiasco?
What Bat-time, what Bat-channel?
7:30 SA (8 Eastern)?
Works for me. It’s cool that I’ve never played Fiasco (and am reading about it on Wikipedia for the first time right now) yeah?
Yep, it’s all self contained.
Righto. You need any details from me for Roll20?
DM me your email just for completeness’ sake
I like games.
Cool. @freya also?
She’s working night shifts. That’s why I’m free after 8, it’s when she goes to work.
You sly fox..if she found out that would cause a fiasco
Sure, I’ll give it a shot.
What do I need to know/do?
1) flick me your email
2) be good to go at 7:30
I’ll explain everything once we’re online.
use jormungand_xix(at)hotmail(dot)com
Bllllaaaarrrggghhh! I read that Life hacker article about putting your pet down. Why did I do that? *cries*
@blaghman Bllllaaaarrrggghhh!
ahaha, I’m very easily amused at work. Guys were trying to find a plank for a job but most of them were too flexible for what they needed it for, I turned around to see a young apprentice run over with excitement holding a plank,
He exclaimed “I’ve got a stiff one for you here” I started laughing, he stared at me for a minute until he realized why I was laughing and said ” I’m talking about wood” I laughed louder, then a co worker pointed out that his pants were torn by saying “that wood tore right through your pants”.
I had to leave before I choked to death from laughing.
You’re not just easily amused. That’s the funniest thing that’s ever happened.
I’m still chuckling to myself.
Almost wetting my pants. Read it out at work and got deadpan stares.
Some people just have no sense of humour.
You know, I hate the MOBA acronym. What does it stand for? Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. That broad label could be applied to Dota, Call of Duty, and Anarchy Reign’s multiplayer.
So I created the ARTLOS acronym a while back. I think it explained the genre way better.
Action Real-Time Lane-based Online Strategy
They’re only called MOBAs because Dota has a trademark on Dota.
Not quite. The whole Dota trademark thing is disputed between Valve (claiming through their employment of Icefrog) and Blizzard (because it was all done on their platform). That’s why Dota 2 is not DotA 2. No really. That capital A matters.
Riot is the ones that coined the term MOBA as a way to say “we’re like Dota but we’re not Dota”.
Riot also hired Pendragon and got him to turn the DotA All-Star website into an advertisement for LoL, destroying a popular community site.
The bickering between these companies is almost as fierce, and occasionally as petty, as the bickering between the fanbases.
Another suggested acronym is ASSFAGGOTS: Aeon of Strife Styled Fortress Assault Game Going On Two Sides.
The whole thing is nonsense. A name is a name. You can call them lane-pushers for all I care.
It’s a trademarking thing like Red said. They couldn’t call it “Dota-style” games because that just implies everything else is just behind the shadow of DOTA and not worth your time, so Riot Games had to make a new name and that was what they came up with and it had weight due to LoL’s overall popularity and influence that followed. Not the best name I agree, but it is a necessary evil for a new genre based off a custom map in Warcraft 3 could have its own identity without making a monopoly out of DOTA.
Oh, I forgot. They’re called Hero Brawlers now. Thanks, Blizzard!
Like Marvel Ultimate Alliance? :p
EDIT: It’s also a dig at Riot, who call their characters “champions”. Admittedly, only Dota and Heroes of the Storm use “heroes”. Everything else has their own specific name because of reasons.
You mean they’re online bowling games?
Just spent the last few hours compiling information to prove that a student sent numerous death threats to a classmate. They’re both 9.
Living the dream, folks.
I believe the children are our future, Teach them well and let them lead the way!
Children are the future… Today belongs to me!
*sharpens axe*
heh close enough. i hate that song so much.. but it got drilled in to my head from my sister playing it over and over and over and over
My comment was a Simpsons quote! Maybe a bit of an obscure one though I guess 😛
i think I know the one. I thought you were just correcting me on my wording!
If todays children with the hippin’ and the hoppin’, and the bippin’ and the boppin’ are our future, then we’re screwed.
Students: Children, children,
Future, future.
Milhouse: Are you ready for the…
Students: …children, whoa whoa whoa!
Lisa: The future is a…
Students: …coming, hey hey hey!
Children, children,
Future, future
…
Students: Children, children,
Children are the future!
Kids!
Man, that was hairy! Just did the Chamber Of Night mission on the Moon on hard (level 12). was a level 12 Titan, and I just scraped through by the skin o’ my teeth, almost died so many times.
Must be getting better though, my first run through on normal this morning I died about 7 times.
xkcd doesn’t seem to load properly when I’m at my workplace. I need my webcomic goodness!
I always get a bit of a giggle when I sign into something that uses gravatars with my main email address (my Kotaku account is tied to a different one just because I can).
Some reason, many years ago, I decided that this derpy profile picture of former AFL player Nigel Lappin would be perfect. It still is but I do kind of use Bunny Puppy for literally every profile picture ever.
I finally changed it. Don’t fret though! I can always change it back.
Im the only person who recognizes that photo on TAY besides you. i feel old
I’m sure others might from when people used to pretend to be each other. Seeing as that’s what people got when they pretended to be me. Totally not intended but rad nonetheless.
The
Evil Monkey
Needs
Money
For
More
Games
Fund
I’m bad at this @shane
Anyways, I need moneys otherwise I’m not gonna be able to afford Disney Infinity 2.0, Hyperule Warriors and Forza Horizon 2, and I’d rather not take them in to EB and get ripped off.
This is what I’ve got, make me an offer.
All Xbone and in pristine condition
Lego: The Hobbit
The Lego Movie Video Game
Trials Fusion (Season Pass redeemed)
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
Thief
Rayman Legends
Watch_Dogs
Wolfenstein: The New Order and
Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare.
How about you don’t buy any of the games at release, and wait for them to drop down to $30 apiece 8 months down the line? You have plenty of Steam games to tide you over until then.
EDIT: I mean, none of them are multiplayer games with communities that will die off quickly, what’s the harm in waiting?
I’m talking crazy again, aren’t I?
Yes, yes you are.
Sorry.
Finished Destiny last night. Still not level 20 (I’m half a level away), but I did all the story missions. Overall I would rate the game good, but disappointing. The shooting is fun, the graphics are nice and the way the multiplayer works is pretty cool, but there’s a lot I felt could have been done better.
Mission design is a major one. Whether you’re doing the star/story missions on the map, or just doing beacons in free roam there’s not a lot of difference to how they’re all laid out. I think there’s only about 4 different types of beacon missions (kill a bunch of guys, kill a bunch of guys and collect what they drop, kill a specific guy and stand in a specific location while a bar fills up), and 2 of those are pretty similar to each other. Story missions sort of felt the same. There’s a vague evil plot to stop or item you have to collect, and then you just shoot through guys until you get to the end where you kill a few waves of enemies or take down a boss.
Granted, it is a shooter, so of course there’s going to be a lot of shooting, but I would have liked a little something more to the missions to help break them up a bit. There’s one mission on the moon where (spoilers)
you get a sword, go into third person and then fight guys with it.I would have liked to see a bit more of that.Boss design in strike missions is also another point I take big issue with. They’re all the same. Boss walks around arena firing off their mega attack why periodic waves of smaller enemies flood the arena. And while the bosses start off interesting, they’re such massive bullet sponges that the fun quickly fades away and the fights just start to become really tedious.
They really needed something to break the fights up. Stages to the fight where the boss themselves change, or the arena changes or something. And different ways to take down bosses rather than just shooting them. Like you have to lead them into certain areas to damage them or something.
Story was poor. I’ve mentioned before that is starts to get more interesting once you hit Venus, and it does, but then it goes back to being a bit meh once you hit mars. I feel like it had potential, but the way the narrative was told wasn’t paticularly engaging, and I also feel like maybe they held off too much because they’re planning for future games. Holding a bit back to tease players and get them speculating is fine, but they really needed to give us more of a taste of the direction of the overall story of Destiny.
Other entirely subjective thoughts:
– The maps are pretty boring. Earth is okay, and Venus is interesting, but the Moon and Mars are just yawn.
– I would have liked to see more of a use for your personal ship than just something you look at while in menu and loading screens. Maybe a space combat section, or the ability to walk around inside the ship.
– More Sparrow designs would have been cool. At the moment the only difference between them all is the colouring.
– More variety in armour design would have been nice. Maybe it’s just my bad luck with gear drops, or maybe all the good stuff is being held back for max level, but a lot of the time the only real difference between the gear I equipped seemed to be the colouring. Which leads me to my next point: the ability to dye armour would have been cool.
– Some recognition of your race and/or class in the story would have been nice. Nothing major, but just a couple different lines from NPCs depending on what you rolled would have really helped add to the story of the game.
– The ability to join strike missions or PvP from The Tower really, really needs to be added in. I like hanging around The Tower because it lets me see my character and lets me see other people, but at the moment it doesn’t feel like there’s much of a reason to go there aside from a quick visit inbetween other activities, which is sort of annoying because it’s just an added load screen, and the loading times are pretty long.
So Dynasty Warriors is still a thing. Hell, Hyrule Warriors is apparently a thing that people are genuinely interested in.
I do not get it.
At all.
Every time I see any footage of that style of game, it looks like a jumbled mess of mooks walking towards the protagonist and then falling over. If you took Progress Quest and animated bad guys falling over en masse, I’d have the same reaction.
It can’t be about the feeling of power as you wade through a horde of enemies, because there’s no weight to it. Warhammer 40000: Space Marine had a feeling of power. Gears of War had a feeling of power.
I just don’t get it. People are free to enjoy them, I’m just baffled by it all.
I liked DW4:Empires because the persistent territory control etc was fun. Then I tried DW5 and it was boring as shit despite being the same basic gameplay. I left the series alone after that and chalked it up to DW4:E being a fluke.
There has to be something about them that gets people to buy them. They wouldn’t be so damned persistent if there wasn’t some success driving them. I just cannot think of what the hell that something could be.
It’s kind of like the catharsis from completely clearing an instant scratch-it panel, only instead of grey gunk, you’re murdering hundreds of people.
It’s a great stress relief.
Sometimes you just need mindless fun, you know?
Nothing you have to think about, nothing intensive, absolutely nothing stressful at all.
I love Dynasty Warriors (and all the Warriors games).
It’s probably one of my favourite franchises 🙂
I was watching the latest Giant Bomb Quick Look (which is why I bring this up) and they called the Warriors games “podcast games”. So I guess I kind of get that aspect but not why Dynasty Warriors seems to be so successful at it when there are dozens of games released each year that do that just as well.
Is it simply that it’s a known quantity at this point? The old blanket and cup of tea on a lazy weekend that you default to?
I don’t think it’s default, I just personally really enjoy each game 🙂
There’s enough new between games to keep it interesting, new characters to the roster every iteration to play around with, and I just find it a genuinely enjoyable game 🙂
It gets a bad rap for being the same game each release, but there’s enough new each game to keep me coming back to it.
Plus, I know what I’m in for when I get the newest release.
It’s not like I’m expecting more from it. I know what it is, and I know that I like it 🙂
Also, it is very therapeutic killing 1,000+ enemies with ease when you’re having a bad day 🙂
Like I said, sometimes mindless fun is all you want out of a game 🙂
Yes, but why male models?
Because Male Models are (usually) hunks ;D
But nah, I really just like them cause they are fun games is all 😛
You don’t have to find them fun, but I find their mindless-ness quite enjoyable.
It’s nothing ground-breaking, but it doesn’t claim to be.
It’s literally just a fun, mindless, stress free way to wind down is all 🙂
It’s better to not over complicate it and ask why it’s fun 😛
If you find it fun, then great! If you don’t, then oh well, plenty more games on the shelf 🙂
it’s also about not pursuing Lu Bu
There’s an art to pursuing Lu Bu 🙂
All about that red-health true musuo spamming, followed by running away till its recharged 😉
What’s worse is when an NPC gets the killing hit in on him after all that work! >:3
Are you hyping Hyperule Warriors with us? You should be!
I don’t get hyped for anything these days :\
I’m dead inside…
Well, I’m kinda looking forward to Night in the Woods, but even then, I wouldn’t say I’m hyped for it :\
It’s about the fun of being able to basically switch off and wade through a million dudes and chop them all down in one hit.
You know when you’re playing some RPG and you level up really high and go back to the starting areas to giggle at all those enemies that gives you trouble getting stomped into the ground just buy looking at them?
It’s a whole game of that.
Which yeah, gets old quick but is a great pick up and play distraction between things.
Like most things it is much more fun co-op. Also when you make it a challenge.
But yeah, I too am surprised it’s still going.
Wife’s got the afternoon news on the telly.
“Breaking news, Australias’ terror threat level is now high”.
Ooh, I’m so fuckin’ scared.
Would you say you’re terror-fied?
I’ll pay that.
Don’t.
I just imagine a bunch of dudes in balaclavas passing a joint around.
Australia’s terror level is now distract from budget problems, and corruption problems, and people linking Breast Cancer to Abortions prob…sorry I mean it’s high. Like really high.
LOOK OVER HERE MUSLIMS …BOAT PEOPLE MUSLIMS HATE THEM HATE THEM QUICKLY BEFORE THEY REALISE HOW SCREWED YOU ARE
No wait, specifically don’t look at the boat people, because we need to figure out what we’re doing with the several thousand of them we have had in detention for months as the high court decided that that wasn’t constitutional in addition to being generally shitty.
FRIDAY!!!
*dances a crazy friday dance*
I’m gonna drink all the caffeines, eat all the sugary lollies, play all them games and hide from real world commitments. I’m an adult 😛
Adulthood can be pretty great some times.
Oh god, I just read the alt text for that strip and applied it to the ball-pits that I played in as an infant at IKEA. HYGIENE.
Randall Munroe actually had a ballpit: http://blog.xkcd.com/2007/11/19/growing-up/
Glorious weekend!
My plan for the weekend was to catch a train to a bike shop and have a browse. I’d finally be free from public transport!
But… there’s trackwork this weekend and I can’t get anywhere by train. They knew.
Right, big massive meeting of all the division, like ninety people crammed into a lecture theatre. Big boss talking about budget problems, portfolio changes and the ilk (i.e. bullshit to disguise the obvious downsizing they are going to have to do). I’m in front row and every time she spoke about how the impact will be minimal on people’s jobs, she deliberately averted my gaze.
Why are people who make these decisions chicken shits?
Ah well, she’s going to go get in her BMW and drive to her cushy large house and take home more money in a week than I do in a month, while I just go and get horrendously pissed tonight.
Like, leaving in a handful of minutes to go get pissed instead of waiting to 5pm.
#fuckit
I don’t get a lot of the decisions that they make at UTAS. I really don’t. One of my classes (information systems management) is basically all about their strategy and investments and budgets and all that shit, and I can’t help but think there’s so many more useful things they could do with their money, especially with all the budget cuts.
As with many institutions that get very big, it’s top heavy in management. Trust me: most of us working here don’t understand their decisions either! And knowing what the school you’re enrolled in went through, I reckon that unit you’re doing is a not so subtle dig at the higher ups…
Nothing quite as satisfying as earning $85 cash to download a malware scanner and run it, while I sit on my ass playin vidya games! FUCK YEAH!
Is there a better way to while away the time at work than Chaos Faction 2’s survival mode? I can’t think of one.
Minecraft!
In Chaos Faction 2, my chibi gladiator was killed by a polar bear wielding a flamethrower. When I tried to get revenge, the polar bear starting to throw tridents at me. I managed to grab the bowling ball powerup, but got caught in a mouse trap. This allowed the polar bear to knock me off the stage.
I tried to get my revenge again, but the polar bear hit me with a gardening rake so hard I was flung off the stage.
Three lives down, I managed to capture the polar bear in a net, and managed to punch it to death.
Does Minecraft have these features?
I builded a bridge.
Other than TAY? 😛
Mastureeeerrrrrrring the fine art of your job skills….. Yes. That.
Woo! 10 kills!
EDIT: 11 kills now!
I unlocked Mechalo! I was wondering why he hadn’t appeared in the game until now.
TEEN DOG TIME!
TAY is super dead, so I’ll start writing up about my stories in Chaos Faction 2, just to have something to do.
-I faced off against a monkey with a fox’s nose and lava hands. I threw a bowling ball at it, but the animal activated its shield at the last moment. The bowling ball rolled back at me, and knocked me off a cliff.
-A cyborg started attacking me with a rake. I tried to hit it with a slingshot, but every shot missed. Right before he killed me, I managed to grab a cannon and carry it around. You know, the type of cannons they have on pirate ships with horrific recoil? I shot the cyborg and the cyborg went flying into orbit, never to return to Earth again. However, the recoil from the cannon was so massive it launched me backwards, off a cliff.
-A vampire shot me with a taser multiple times, then pushed me off a cliff.
-A pirate started attacking me, but I managed to grab a shotgun. Whilst trying to shoot the pirate with a shotgun, it lured me into a field of cherry bombs. I exploded spectacularly. However, the field of cherry bombs also killed the pirate. The next enemy was another polar bear. I grabbed the shotgun, but it only had two shots left. Both shots hit their target, but it was not enough to kill the polar bear. I alien laser pistol spawned, and I used it to shoot and kill the polar bear.
Take note that all of this took place in what looks to be a recreation of Onnet.
Love you TAYyyyyyyyy
Hey buddy! Hope you’re well?
I am better than I was the other day, that’s for damn sure!
Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaants, i saw a bird!
Stay awesome man! i will always cherish the memories of awkwardly shoehorning in DBZ:Abridged quotes in whenever we had the chance 😛THERE WILL BE PLENTY MORE TIME TO SHOEHORNING QUOTES.
Also, if you’re looking for a good time, hit up Earth. I hear they have their own Dragonballs. You could probably take them over easy.
Sincerely,
Your Evil Half
Hey! It’s that cool guy that we road-tripped to Canberra with!
COOL GUY?! WHERE?!
So uh…
I was told this afternoon that I’m needed back in Perth next week so I’ll be there from Monday-Thursday. 6:30am flight ;_;
I’ll be staying in the city again this time so I should be able to do stuff in the evenings/night? I’ll be at Four Points By Sheraton Perth (707 Wellington Street) but I dunno how close that is to people. Work will be pretty death though so I don’t know whether I’d want to do much in the evenings :P.
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @hindenlagen @liondrive @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks
You appear to be turning into a Perth TAYbie. One of us, one of us!
That means there’s a vacancy opened in Melbourne, huh? Hmmmm! Melbourne TAYbies. What would that be like?
*montage of no meats* 😛
We just make sure our meats are special by not doing them every other day, okay. >:(
I’m good for Tuesday and Wednesday nights 🙂
Keen to do anything 🙂
Greenius sure does love Perth!
Fun fact:
I hate my job. I hate the work I do. I hate the people I work for. I hate the quasiliterate apes I work with. I hate the clientele I deal with. I hate the centre I work in and the people in it. Everyday the thought of having to return brings me near to tears. If anything is going to push me over the edge into doing something stupid it’s going to be this. And I’m trapped. I can’t afford to leave. My children can’t afford me to leave. I have no other prospects that aren’t a decade in the future. I’m not sure how much more I can take.If my business was busy, I’d happily teach you stuff and employ you!*hugs*
Hey, that wasn’t fun at all!
Seriously man, you’ve taken the first step by going back to study. I know you’ve had some of your dreams dashed re police etc, but you’re on the path.🙁
Fun fact: we care deeply about you and will offer any help we can. Hang on, mate.
Any thing stopping you from looking for another job?
You’re a good guy and loved and one of the best people I know.
There’s bound to be something else out there for you. 🙂
Mate, you’re one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met in my life.
Who opens up their home to a complete stranger after all? Not only that, who makes them feel welcome?
You’re an amazing person Freeze, and you have an amazing family too.
It hurts to see you so down, Freeze.
You deserve to be happy, Freezy.
You should try and find something that makes you happier at least while you’re studying.
If it’s making you feel this way, you definitely need to get out of there.
Going to university is a great thing to do, it’s great to see you working towards your future, but for the here-and-now you should try and find something that you’re at least content doing, because the way you describe it makes it sounds like your job is doing nothing but harm to you.
I’m not one for virtual hugs (I’d rather give an actual hug, or better yet, go have a beer with you (and drunken hugs)), so just know that I’ll be thinking of you, hoping for the best for you, Freezy.
You’ll always have my utmost respect, and I value your friendship amongst those of my dearest friends, Freeze 🙂
– Love Stewart
(>^^(>00)>
SURPRISE HUG.
(>^^(>Oo)>
Surprise something anyway.
I will not lie, that was what went through my mind when I first saw the emoticons.
It’s really rough. Just remember that there are plenty of people who love you and care for you. You’re definitely not alone.
@jocon so are you going to Fiasco with us?
It’ll be a catastrophe.
Sent you an invite.
At 7:30ish, I’ll set it up as a Google+hangout so you will get an email link to that. cc@trjn
Also, if you have a webcam, set that up too, always nice for RPing to see who you’re looking at.
Just added you on Google+. Haven’t done a hangout thingy on there before, so that might be an adventure.
So I need a google+ account as well?
No webcam though.
I think if you have the hangout link it should work. If you need google+ and don’t have it we can use the native chat, we’ve just found the hangouts more reliable.
Headset only will be fine.
Eh, forget it. Computer problems.
Just unexplode your computer. Problem solved.
Ugh, that’s no good
You missed a good session. Look forward to the next one!
It’s not page 6, but here’s a joke:
What’s red and bad for your teeth?
A brick.#Alwayspage6inourhearts
Oliver: “I’m gonna teach you how to play Mastodon (on guitar)”
Me: “…”
10 minutes later and my fingers have never been so sore in my life… My pinky is still indented 20 minutes later!
PTERODACTYL
We need Mastodon Power!
*cue awesome Power Rangers guitar rift*
Anything from Leviathan? That album is insane.
Haha yes actually, he was trying to teach me how to play iron tusk. He’s a bit better than I am though 😛
Perth TAYbies!
We should do, like, a Royal Show meat, or something!
Unless you guys are too cool / old / dead inside for that kinda thing :3
@PerthTAYbies (<< We should request that these be actual tags, or something, cause I ain’t gonna bother tagging all, like, 5 of you)
I was gonna say I wouldn’t be in Perth then but knowing how short notice all my Perth trips have been, who knows what’ll happen 😛
If you’re in Perth around the 27th (I think), I’ll take you to the show! 😀
It’ll be like a man date if it’s just you and me! ;D
We can go on rides, and eat fairy-floss, and go to the petting zoo, and makeout, and get our faces painted, and eat churros, and have heaps of fun! 😀
I’m not sure I want to do all of those things…
(the fairy-floss part)
Sifn’t want fairy floss.
I want fairy floss.
I too want to floss with fairies
I’ll be in Perth/flying on a plane for most of Theatrhythm Curtain Call’s release day which means I can’t playsies it.
Worst news.
:'(
It’s just a kick whilst your down, I mean not being allowed a game on release day is one thing, but to be IN Perth as well, ouch.
Playing Theatrythym now and I’ve gone from SSSing Ultimate to struggling to getting an A in Expert. Got some catching up to do.
I haven’t played any Theatrhythm stuff for over a year (before this) but I managed to get Ss after jumping straight into Ultimate on the two Curtain Call demo songs. Not baddddd!
I reckon I’d start on Expert on CC though. Otherwise I’d be done with the game too quickly :P. 200+ songs makes me happy though 😀
Hopefully they let us play all of them whenever we want. I really just want to play Mambo De Chocobo at the moment but I haven’t got a Dark Note with it since I had to restart.
Yeah, I’d love to jump straight into some old favourites or try out some of the new ones without having to play through unnecessarily long series with weird “tap to win” intro and outro songs o_o
You can tell Apple is run by men because what they call the 6+ is 5.5 inches.
It’s not what you’ve got but how you use it.
Wait…….
That’s not for smartphones. =/
I thought you were better than bad jokes from Reddit, Freeze? 😛
Nope.
You’ve crushed me man 🙁
I BOUGHT MY FIRST COMIC BOOK
It’s all pretty and colourful and cool.
What is it?
Teen Dog. It’s something by a friend of mine in Melbourne, he’s been busy getting all tumblr famous over the last few years but now he’s got an actual thing out on the shelves and it’s super cool and I’m excited for him.
Well, The Lesser Evil does have a striking red cover, I suppose…
I scrolled past this fast and I thought it said “I BOUGHT MY FIRST COCK!” and I was all like.. whaaaaaaa???
That was ages ago.
Ugh, spent the last 5 days at a “course” about “unemployment” it was possibly one of the dullest things i’ve done. All the stuff we covered, the course trainer told me I was brilliant in, interviewing, way I dress, my resume was great, the way I introduced myself for an interview for a group interview kinda deal. The only thing I took away from it, was application letters, even so I was just writing a way more condensed version before :S
So, despite saying back in May after one failed campaign that I was done with Kickstarter, it turns out I was lying. I’ve almost finished setting up another project that will go live in the next few weeks.
Get hype. Any feedback welcome.
Pledge $1000 or more
Tier 5: Dinner Date with the author. No tongue.
Dutch treat.
Edit: nowaitaminnit, that’s Pixel, not me 😛
$1000 and no tongue?!
Worst hooker ever.
Negotiable extras.
“No tongue” is a warning, rather than a restriction.
Think he just messed up the punctuation. Should’ve been
Pledge $1000 or more
Tier 5: Dinner Date with the author, no? Tongue.
There, fixed.
Wait, no, I’ve got this
Dinner Date’ with t,he “author,” No; tongue
Nope, I don’t have this.
Will you have an artist lined up before then?
Royalty split for the artist or pure work-for-hire?
How are you going to promote this one differently?
Who are you and why should I trust you to complete this project?
Zombies? Again?
Yes, I’m working on lining up an artist right now. When I find one, they will be providing some sample artwork for the campaign page before the project launches.
It’ll be a work-for-hire arrangement, funded by the KS campaign.
I’ll try to. I’m working on some ideas. I’ll take any and all advice on this, though.
I’m just some guy, and I have a terrible track record for completing projects. Last five years, no books finished. I’m hanging out for that one big break, but I’m sort of hoping it just falls in my lap, because I’d rather spend my writing time playing CoD.
Yeah, I know. Believe me, I know. It’s the one genre I promised myself I’d never write in. I’m not entirely sure how this happened, to be honest.
I don’t like the idea of a different artist for each issue. It will make it even more difficult to connect with the characters.
Sweet. Rockstar just announced the release dates for GTA V. Along with some “exclusives” as in extra cash & some cars for GTA Online and story mode.
November 18 for PS4 & Xbone, January 7th for PC.
Hi everybody! I’m Becky Hardcastle, and I love getting the scoop!
You ruined me! You ruined my life!
And it’s awful cold up north
I don’t speak so good now. Especially when it’s cold.
It always so cold.
The second we hit upon Alaska I knew someone was going to end up there.
I’d like to take full credit for that one. Probably the best thing my character did was bring that up so it could get turned on him.
Was it you who also came up with the charity for overprivileged children? That’s the most gloriously dark idea for a charity that I’ve heard in a long time.
I think that was Dan’s.
Pretty sure that was one of mine, actually.
THE CHANNEL SIX FIASCO
Characters:
@trjn as Jeff Herbert, local news anchor and serial sex addict trying to end his career in peace
@beeawwb as Becky Hardcastle, ruthless and ambitious reporter for channel eleven, previously fired thanks to Jeff
Myself as Horace Bergman, Journalism professor at a local university. My best days behind me, I’m having a torrid affair with Becky and paid for her breast implants. I’m also considering Jeff for a Peabody award which I’m on the committee for
and my mate Dan as Redmond Herring, Herbert’s protege and junior anchor who’s trying to take Herbert’s job…and his wife
Highlights: Herbert convincing Rupert Murdoch to have Becky reposted to Alaska
Becky confronting Herbert about their fabricated lovechild…and being introduced to Jeff’s sex swing
Bergman confronting herbert in the make up chair only to be rebuffed, then trying again live on air to much better results, only to be screamed at in the parking lot by Becky
Redmond sweet talking Herbert’s wife Mitzi into leaving herbert for him and convincing Becky to back him for the anchor chair
Key plot points:
Becky’s new jacked up “plot points”
Mitzi’s charity for overprivileged children in New York
The remarkable Ham sandwiches they serve near city hall
The Peabody awards and their use as a missile weapon
The football team’s Rohypnol party
and the result?
Herbert posted to Alaska community radio, slightly brain damaged and syphilitic
Becky a rising star on the talk show circuit
Redmond got Herbert’s girl and his job
and Bergman? well, he stuck to his guns on integrity and had the schaudenfreude of watching Herbert’s downfall. He also kicked Becky out, but his wife Maude has questions, as do the tenure board at the university…
I think the swings were fairly important to the plot.
Got bored and jumped back on Elite. Actually had some human presence around Freeport tonight, but not much happening. Went to the nearby resource extraction site to start shooting things, and a human-controlled Anaconda shows up. I’m kicking around in the Sidewinder still, but ends up taking a shot at me. Alright, it’s on.
Lost the battle spectacularly, but went and tried again. And again. And again. It was a constant game of cat and mouse, hiding behind asteroids while trying to take pot shots at him and dumping heatsinks all over the place to try and stop him from getting a lock/seeing me on his radar. On the last go though, managed to get his shields down and knock his hull down under 80%, before he ended up retreating. Victory!
Although I’m not sure how he did that, since he was still right next to an asteroid and should have been mass-locked and unable to jump to supercruise… either way, good fun.
I should go to bed.
Goodnight, everyone.
My gum is getting better! Last night I had wedges for dinner. WEDGES! I’d only been eating Ice cream for dinner.
\o/
So we’re at a high terror alert but there’s nothing for us to worry about as there’s not really a threat but there really really is one but we shouldn’t concern ourselves.
Did you see that raid the afp did on that shop in underwood? I used to work in that shop years ago! Of course, back in those days it was a lifeline store, not a muslim.. whatever it was.. :0
But we’ll fall to the commies!
Last night I heard a quote from a politician on the radio.
Fuuuuuuck you.
Here’s a guide for when to say that
After a major terrorist attack: Okay to say it for the most part.
When the terror alert increases for know reason: Not okay.
EDIT: Found a better video to deliver the point across.
I don’t care of you like Team Four Star or not
This is freaking gold!
Not sure of TAY’s political persuasions… but this is hilarious: http://www.abbottsimulator.com/
Acquired daughters scholarship. I lost it at that.
Dat Pauline Hanson! i couldn’t stop laughing at the music 😛
Yesterday:
“Right, I’m going to play Destiny till 2pm, then start assignments”
*2:05pm*
“I guess I can play till 3pm”
*6pm*
“FUUUUUUUUU…”
Needless to say, I did not get my assignments done :'(
This has been me since release 🙁
D.C. won’t shut up about his love of Valiant Hearts: The Great War. http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/97342415306/13-september-2014
Realised that Humble Bundle merch pack thing’s price included worldwide shipping.
Welp, can’t argue with that 😛
But we talked about it including worldwide shipping!
You talked about the *last* one having it 😛 I didn’t notice it on this one on my first read-through.
New Slipknot video premiered last night for The Devil In I, which was an awesome video, not sure if they worked with director Paul Brown again, but it looks like his style, as in awesome \o/
But damn, Corey Taylor’s new mask creeps me out /o\
I don’t like his new mask. sure it goes back to the whole leatherface/ghoul thing he used to have but I liked the crudeness of the most recent one.
Then again, it’s just a thing and it’s been a long time since I cared about Slipknot.
It’s just plain creepy.. But yeah I guess it does reflect the self-titled/Iowa era mask now you mention that.
I think I just found the ripped version to be a little comical.
Smash Bros 3DS plays surprisingly well! Was a little skeptical of how well it would run on the 3DS, but it hasn’t stuttered yet. Villager is awesome. The best of all the available demo characters!
The only downside is that I’m not very good 😛
clearly you’re overthinking things. Just mash the buttons to win. Guaranteed results!
Which button do I bash to win!?
All of them.
Diddy, @dc! Diddy!
(not in the demo though :P)
Monster.
how u play?
waattttt no demo code emails for me? :(. Howwwwwwwwwwwww
Got sent a bunch of download codes by Nintendo Aus! Check your email.
Booooo, now I’m sad that I got nothing 🙁
The email said “to share with your friends” so maybe they didn’t think you needed one!
friend?
:’)
(classic @dc line!)
Dammit, I meant that they didn’t bother to send you one because you’d have no one to give the codes to.
Stop taking my hilarious jokes the wrong way!
Going around to my friend’s place to play Smash.
It’s just like the old days all over again.
Smash 3DS?
Yup! Looking forward to some Mega Man action.
Play SHULK!
and I don’t want to hear excuses like “but you can’t play him on the demo version”.
I played Random.
He wasn’t very good.
My friend is insane.
Holy crap, this Skullcandy Headset is boomy.
That’s the last time I post on Twitter about having codes to give away. I said that I had codes for the Smash Bros. 3DS demo, and bang, I got a heap of responses from randoms. If any TAYbies want one let me know and it’s yours, I’ve got four to give away.
What worries me with these randoms is, how do I know that they’re not gonna just put it on ebay after I give it to them.
Oh, I will take one if you are giving them away! =D
Cool, it’s yours. I’ll send you a DM on the Twitters.
Sent, let me know if you didn’t get it.
I got it, I just need to charge my 3DS. =P
And straight to eBay Nob goes!
Yeah, that happens all the time! It’s weird knowing that randoms could be seeing our tweets D:
Pow Pal already gave me a code, but it seems like everyone but me got an email from Nintendo! :P. I oughta walk down to their HQ and give em a good ol’ shoutin!
That’s kind of exactly the reason I steer clear of it >_>
You could protect your tweets, but then you don’t get the random replies!
Sugs, Pow and I were discussing The Amazing Race when one of the contestants randomly replied :3. Sughly also ‘dissed’ a game’s trailer and the developers replied to him too >_>
They’re watching! D:
But due to a little something something, I got to talk to a very famous game developer :-). So there are kind of positives too!
Talk to famous people? What a horrible notion :P)
(The few times I’ve done that have been terribly awkward)
All the negatives are too great for me to get over, with all of these sorts of things. Hence my general digital hermitude. I mean I know anything I say on here is just as out in the open as it would be on there, but it’s different. Like the difference between doing something inappropriate on a main road versus in a back street. Sure they’re both streets, but one’s going to have far less traffic than the other and only at certain times too. Or something.
Yeah, I posted saying I was giving away mine on Twitter this morning and within a few seconds I’d had ten people asking me for it. Was almost tempted to put them up for sale myself!
I never knew Powalen was such a hit with the ladies ;D
#PageR18+
#SexyPage18
hey man, any chance you’ve still got one left? i’m super desperate for one 🙁
Sorry dude, haven’t checked TAY for a little while, was having tea and shit. Sent you a DM with a code, enjoy man.
sorry i was a bit of a pain haha, thank you so much though
Not at all. I’d use one myself, but I don’t have a 3DS at the moment.
I’d love one if you still had codes. Like Greenman, I too never received emails from Nintendogs.
DM sent.
Hmmm, might be fun. Any codes left, by any chance, man? 🙂
Yeah, one left man, it’s all yours, I’ll DM ya.
Thank you!
Ugh… I’m not sure what I want to play… 🙁
Five Nights At Freddy’s.
My friend gave me Worms Clan Wars today, so I been playing that! You can also use steam workshop, so I’m making a hat for my worms too!
…how about, yourself?
#PageR18+
That game got boring a while back.
I’m looking for something enjoyable.
That is one game that’s more fun when someone plays it for you 😛
To go out tonight, or to do assignments :S
Go out and do your assignments while out?
Hmm, an essay in my drunken writing…
I can pull that off! 😀
Thanks Freeze, you’re my new ideas man! 😀
This guy! An answer for everything! Is there anything he can’t do?!
Perform in the bedroom, apparently…
HIYOOOOOO!
My secret shame!
Well, not so secret.
Nobody even asked you!
You just told everyone about it! :O
Never gonna let you live it down though 😉
buuuuuuurn!
Startopia is on sale at gog for $1.49! Such a good game for that price!!
Oh my god, this is the perfect place for it, since it’s page 18!
Someone on Twitter yesterday floated the idea of having a “Men of TAY” calendar made up.
I don’t care if it was a joke, I want to be apart of that.
I want this to happen!
Nay, need this to happen!
I even own arseless underwear and everyhting! 😀
Oh jezus…
I was drunk when I bought them, shuddup 😛
They’re comfy though 😉
I also own mesh underwear! 😀
I was pretty drunk :3
(not sure if you’v experienced a drunk Liondrive yet…)
Oh, and in case you weren’t aware, page 18 is sexy page 18 / page R18+, so I can talk about aresless underwear as much as I want, and say whatever I wanna!
Stud 😉
Not in the flesh, though I’ve read some stuff on TAY…
Sounds like you should go shopping online drunk more often given how satisfied you are with your purchases! Also – mystery mail deliveries!
Only a handfull of TAYbies have seen Ol’Liondrive drunk in the flesh ;D
it wasn’t pretty…
And online shopping while drunk will be the death of my bank account :S
Sounds like you have a lot more fun shopping online drunk than I do 😛 The last time I did that I bought… audio cables. Riveting stuff
Oh dear. I was looking at the Abbott Simulator @sunsoar77 linked. Completely and utterly lost it when the Titanic with Clive’s face on it came in and the music changed to “My Heart Will Go On”. Can’t breathe…
It’s great isn’t it!
I was trying to study and all of a sudden 30 minutes just disappeared…
So a combination of bigger than expected tax returns, bonus and government payment refunds has resulted in a some play money and a vaguely worded tentative approval for PS4 purchase from the financial controller.
I feel I’ve missed some of the best deals, and shockingly based on a bit of research this arvo EB Games appears to have the best deal with 3 games + console for 598.
Anyone seen other deals around?
eBay has 15% off pretty much everything tomorrow, so hold out until then 😀
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/160631
PS4 with inFamous: SS, Killzone: Shadowfall and Destiny for $600 is a fairly good deal.
DOOOOOO EEEEEEEEET!!!!!!!!
Watch Dogs, Last of Us remastered, console, $548 at Big W!
Oh, I love page 18! 😀
Love it, love it, LOVE IT! 😀
It’s Clive Palmer that’s getting you going isn’t it?
I bet back in his day he was a real stunner ;D
Still got 2 Smash Bros. 3DS codes to give away, I’d rather give them to TAYbies than Twitter randoms. If you want one just ask.
Hey man, if you have a spare I’ll give it a crack.
Sorry man, gave the last one out to @shane last night. The other 3 went to @sernobulus, @grandmasterb-funk and @benny.
No prob man, enjoy the smashing
http://talesoftay.tumblr.com/post/18176857832
Good times.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-161/comment-page-30/#comments
Page 30 is @greenius Page 30.
That was my special place! 😛
Whoa… that page is borked. *high-five* o/
\o
I think that was my “see if I could break TAY page” 😛
There’s not enough penicl in TAY these days.
DUDE! I was on here the other day, too.
So many memories.
Provided the seller doesn’t jack up the price tomorrow when eBay have their 15% off thing, I’ll be welcoming these to the family tomorrow! http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419U-mHVjCL._SY300_.jpg (Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro’s)
I’ve wanted a good pair of Beyerdynamic headphones for a while but never wanted to spend that much money on headphones, but I can justify $195 for them. I’ve grown quite fond of my UE 6000’s (especially their design) but it’ll be nice to have something that isn’t as bass heavy
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2014-Singapore-FORMULA-1-Grand-Prix-2×3-day-tickets-2x-tix-F1-afterparty-/131286972713?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_15&hash=item1e91503929&_uhb=1
? 😀
I think I’m going back there at the end of the year. Not sure if there’s any car stuff on then though 😛
I don’t think I can get a passport in a week unfortunately 😛 The broom broom stuff is only on for the one weekend over there, so maybe mark next year or the year after in your calendar!
It’s like you don’t even want this to happen.
;_:
🙁
YOUR THOUGHTS ON DESTINY.
TELL THEM TO ME!
I still haven’t played the full game much (maybe 90 minutes?) but my opinions on it haven’t changed since I played the Alpha.
I wasn’t hyped at all (just because I knew nothing about it) but I expected it to at least be good based on Bungie. I wasn’t planning to buy it at launch but I figured the Alpha would be a good way to see what the game is like and whether that would change. Even though I had basically no expectations, I wasn’t a fan and I just felt like the things it did were done better in other games. There was nothing severely wrong with it and I did had fun, but there was also nothing that really stood out to me.
So I just wanted to know what everyone else thought about it :). One of things I haven’t really done yet is play with a group of friends and I’m sure that’ll make it extra awesome (even Onion Dinos was fun when playing with TAYbies :P)
It’s fun. I’m enjoying it but I really don’t feel like it’s something I’m going to stick with all that much past the finish. I already passed on it last night in favour of Theatrythym and kind of itching to go back to Diablo 3. Single player when Warstats drop is pretty pants.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT MIGHT BE FUN AND IT LOOKS PRETTY BUT I DON’T KNOW BECAUSE I DON’T ACTUALLY OWN IT
I’m enjoying it, but nothing super praise worthy so far from me.
I never have enough ammo for my Sniper Rifle, which kinda defeats the point of going a Hunter, and the missions aren’t super fun at the moment.
I’m still only at the moon though, so I don’t think I’m that far into it.
Around level 12. PvP is fun, but most of the stages aren’t equipped for sniping I’m finding, and the Hunter ability (golden gun) is kinda boring 😛
I’m holding out for the Blade-dancer sub-class though 😀
I think I’ll enjoy it more then 🙂
Solid game, I’d give it an 8/10 so far 🙂
(Disclaimer: I have not played coop at all. I hear it’s much better in coop)
Wait… you haven’t yet? I was totally thinking about crashing your game this afternoon!
…Then someone crashed my game and we did Strikes for three hours and my eyes are bleeding.
(Also, some of the gear you can get has bonuses to sniper ammo reserves.)
Well, DC joined my game for literally around a second, then got kicked, so I don’t think that counts 😛
Other than that failed attempt, no coop with TAYbies at all :3
I see people playing, and consider crashing their games, but then I’m like, “they probably don’t want me playing with them”, or, “I’d just get in the way”, or “They’d probably think it was he’ll rude if I joined their game uninvited”, so I’ve never joined anyone’s game :3
And with the sniper rifle ammo.
The only way it would help is if it granted 100+ ammo, cause I use my sniper rifle for everything 😀
What’s the point in going the Hunter class of you don’t use your sniper rifle? 😛
Golden gun and blade-dancing, basically. Get yourself a scout rifle, maybe. It’s basically a faster, less damaging sniper. Or, a hand-cannon. Which is a shorter-range only slightly less-damaging sniper.
Also, crash my game. I’m totally up for whatever. 🙂 I’ve already done everything there is to do for the week, literally nothing I do will yield any more reward than hanging out with other people, even doing low stuff, thanks to all the drops being random and set to your current level, not the mob’s level. I would worry slightly about stealing all your kills and stuff, but there’s really not that much of a power difference between 17 and 25. The extra damage isn’t entirely ‘damage’ as such, it’s more like armour-piercing, which doesn’t really matter much on enemies that are too low for armour to be a factor.
I like the prettiness and I like the lore at its most purest level and I like playing with TAYbies. Don’t like the writing or mission structure though. Feel like a setting this cool needs a Mass Effect-style gameplay to do it justice.
By gameplay you mean the RPG part, not the shooty, right? (I rate Destiny’s shootiness much higher than ME1, 2, or 3’s shootiness.)
It is fun, and sure is super pretty, and I must admit that I enjoy listening to Peter Dinklage’s voice, but after I finish the story and grind out the platinum trophy I don’t think I’ll play it any more, at least until the first lot of DLC comes out (I think in December).
I find Dinklage’s voice pretty bad and way out of place in-game 😛
I don’t know what it is about it, but I enjoy it.
To each their own.
It’s okay, but like Freeze, I’m distracted by other things at this moment. Namely, footy.
FOOTY!
Who’re you rooting for?
My family are Power supporters, I just like to enjoy a good game.
Weirdly, I find myself supporting the Kangaroos, despite hating them for my whole life. I guess this is what happens when my favourite teams fail to get in the top 8.
I too like to enjoy a good game, as long as Collingwood isn’t winning.
Enjoying it quite a bit.
Playing with other TAYbies is far more fun than running around alone, to the point I don’t really do PvE without others anymore.
Remains to be seen how much longevity there is in the PvE end game. Fun for now with all the fronds to play with but how long can you really grind strikes for?
A dedicated Horde Mode is truly a missed opportunity.
Enjoying PvP more than I though I would. Not quite a smooth as Halo, a bit more messy and frantic.
Again, dunno how much longevity is in it. Don’t think it has the kind of staying power or unpredictability of something like Battlefield. Nor the long/deep progression.
But shall see, is fun at the moment.
I tried half a dozen rounds of PVP. I would have to do three times as much to get a piece of gear for my trouble, and regardless of the sunk cost, I don’t think I’ll bother. I don’t like it. I’m kind of annoyed that there are four PVP factions and one PVE one. It’s more of the focus than I thought it would be from beta.
Also annoying: mark caps. So it turns out you can only get 100 PVE marks per week. Want a 150 mark piece of gear? Two weeks, pls. Want to buy more than one piece of gear per week? PVP and get one of those, too.
They talk about raids dropping next week, but literally the only way anyone can be geared for that is to have been PVPing andPVEing max tokens, AND had some lucky epic drops from engrams. It’s otherwise completely impossible. This is the kind of shit that makes me quit MMOs. Why did they think it was a good thing to put in Destiny?
That said?
I like the co-op PVE a lot. I don’t even mind repeating the limited number of Strikes to do it. I played with os42 for a few good strikes, and a friend from SA (who doesn’t Kotaku), and I’d probably do that again even without any kind of reward. Just… not in huge sessions or too frequently. And I’l probably level up some alts, one for each class/race.
Oh that mark cap thing is balls 🙁
And yeam more PvE focus would have been nice.
But I’d play PvP mostly for the fun of it, lootz is a bonus.
Yea, that was fun. 😀 Very annoyed that Destiny wasn’t detecting my mic, for some reason…
Up to 30-something marks, but a little miffed that, cosmetic class item aside, pretty much the cheapest equipment is >60. At 3 marks a piece for 22-strikes, that’s 20+ strikes for one piece, which sounds like it might get tedious when you’ve only got a pool of about seven missions.
Edit: At 80 marks now from Vangaurd Strike playlist, but even more miffed that I can’t actually buy anything until I get another 1000 Vanguard rep… which will take another 40 strikes, or 100 patrol missions. That’s just silly…
Just finished a good 2 hourish session with @coldcamv and @alexpants. Thanks dudes! That was really fun (sorry for dying so much against sword guy, Pants :P)
The game is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY better with friends (as expected) and the Moon stuff was awesome :D. The general gameplay still doesn’t change that much but it REALLY makes a difference when others are helping out. Enemies become less of a chore and random dancing is always fun :P.
(I still prefer Borderlands and Halo though :P)
It was fun definitely have to do it again 😀
I’m really loving it and would keep going but I doubt I will. I want to do raiding but people probably won’t play it that long. It will be me with Borderlands 2 all over again. I want to do super high level raid bosses but have no one to play with. =(
I love it.
@Mawtful and I did the Heroic strike last night and it was great fun.
Bungie gameplay is some of the best and, I guess because it’s my first MMO experience, all the RPG elements & loot & endgame stuff is really exciting.
There’s a tonne of stuff I didn’t know until Mawt explained it last night, like factions & light armour & even a bunch of story points and we agreed that there is a tonne of content still there they just haven’t opened up yet.
Exciting.
Having fun PvE-ing (especially in co-op), but I can’t help but think that there was a “Shared world Halo shooter” project going through the works when the Upper execs at Bungie sold Halo to MS/343i. There are so many nods to Halo – the legionaries are essentially brutes, the Phalanxes require the same technique as shielded Jackals, the Vandals dodge exactly like Elites, the Hive are essentially the Flood…
I kinda feel like they shouldn’t have used such iconic voices for such mundane characters – I will never make a titan, cos I know I’d be calling the trainer either “Broyles” or “Abadon”. I’d imagine GoT fans would feel the same about Ghost. ESO did the same thing with John Cleese – the character was completely unmemorable, save for the fact he was voiced by Cleese.
That aside, PvE is a blast, even if endgame strike missions are a bit repetitive due to the limited pool. It seems to have turned into Diablo at level 20, which is… strange.
Nathan Fillion is wasted as Cayde-6. Hands-down one of the best voices there, though.
I love his line when you’re done talking to him as a hunter, where he whispers desperately, “Hey…. take me with you.”
And Halo is full of nods to Marathon (Spartan project, Mjolnir armor, UNSC, ONI, SPNKR rocket launcher, TOZT flamethrower, Traxus stuff on Earth, the Covenant are basically the Pfhor, the enemy types are largely the same, there’s all that stuff about AIs going ‘rampant’ in both…)
In fact there are strong elements of Marathon Infinity’s plot in Destiny. In Infinity, the alien race you were fighting (the Pfhor, a conglomeration of many races) used a device to cause the star of the planet you found yourself on to go supernova. When that happens, they release an ancient evil that had been sealed inside the star. The game opens with you activating a station at the behest of Durandal (an AI). The station was built by an ancient alien race, the Jjaro, and it allows you to jump between dimensions searching for a sequence where you could avoid the release of the thing. One of the subplots in Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity involved you uncovering the mysteries of the planet you were on, the homeworld of the S’phit. Their mythology had it that the Jjaro came to them like a god, building many of the installations you find scattered about, and that two of them stayed in the system, but they attracted the notice of a powerful enemy that devoured worlds, and the two Jjaro sacrificed themselves to seal it away.
So basically it’s the same thing as the Traveler and the Darkness in Destiny. I wish they were better at expanding on this in the game itself. There’s so much scope for interesting lore that just isn’t accessible.
I’m getting really bored with it honestly. It’s great fun to actually play, but it feels like it wants to make getting to the fun as hard as possible. Story’s not engaging, environments are sterile, gear that’s actually an upgrade doesn’t drop anywhere near often enough and the gear grind is too artificial, like it’s been tuned to make it take forever for the sake of taking forever, not because it’s actually worth it to spend your time doing that grind.
Being in a clan is utterly pointless. It doesn’t open anything new for you to do in-game. Way too hard to just hook up with friends and do a strike. I’m level 14 and so far have done one strike total, which was great fun, but then I have no idea how I can in-game go about finding people to do the Moon strike or the Venus one. In any proper MMO, you’d jump on guild chat and be like ANYONE WANT TO DO or LF2M or whatever and usually find some people. If you want to do that in Destiny you’re going to end up on Twitter, or matchmaking with randoms. That seems utterly broken to me. It’s going to make raiding even worse, since that doesn’t have matchmaking at all. No matchmaking for raids would be fine if they had a proper system for communicating, but it’s just not there and it seems like a massive oversight and the inability to quickly jump into strikes with TAY / KAU people that are interested is massively negatively impacting my experience.
The other big issue is that I have zero interest in the Crucible, I just want to do PvE stuff. There doesn’t seem to be much of it and more importantly, there’s nothing to really strive toward. Why do I want to get to level 20? So I can… run the same instances? Do the story zones again in hard mode for bounties? Go to some area and grind for ages and hope some blues drop? What am I actually supposed to be doing? I need a goal to work toward and there doesn’t seem to be anything at all like that in the game. I need a reason to spend that time. I’m not going to grind mobs forever for the sake of grinding mobs.
At this rate I’m not sure I’ll even make it through the story. I really want to like it too, I was super hyped and it’s Bungie and I love Bungie but I don’t love Destiny as much as I wanted to. It makes it so hard 🙁
May end up giving up on it and going back to playing random JRPGs and stuff instead. Maybe I should have started ToX2 after all.
Yay potential Xillia 2 buddy 😛
Oh shit, @greenius, didn’t realize what the time was, I’ll be on very shortly.
Edit: Damn, 4000th Kotaku comment and I didn’t even realize it.
Sorry man! You should’ve joined my team when I had the numbers, or let me know earlier :(.
I only noticed you were online just as I was leaving.
Oh well, next time.
MARIO KART 8
I have achieved a star in every single cup in the game, and now have Gold Cart unlocked (I now have the cart and the wheels!)
Now I have to get used to driving a cart again (instead of a bike), because how could I not drive it?
Confession:
Even though I’m quite good at the game, I still have yet to unlock any gold kart part, and haven’t even unlocked everything else yet (in fact, I still have a lot to unlock, looking through the list) :3
I’ve still got heaps to unlock, too. I’ve got 2600 coins collected so far. Only 7400 to go before I unlock everything.
But the time trials race vs ghosts, they’re pretty good fun. Really useful for developing your skills and learning the courses.
After the couple of games I played tonight, I just broke the 2,200 coins mark :3
I don’t play that often, only really when TAYbies play :3
My friend’s girlfriend’s dad apparently just randomly bought him a pair of tickets to Sci-Fi Classics concert by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra tonight. Picked out the best seats right in the middle of the thing, because “that’s where it’ll sound the best”. Bit of an audiophile apparently. But she ended up sick the other week and has gotten worse over the last few days, to the point where she decided she just couldn’t go today. And that he should take me instead. Woo?
It was really good though. Right in the middle and everything. The conductor is really good, plenty of jokes and stuff throughout. Even came out in a Thunderbirds costume for the theme song after intermission, and did the whole thing loose-legged and swaying around acting like a puppet. Also I’ve never heard the Thunderbirds theme before, but it totally has to be the inspiration behind the music for Spaceport Alpha in Diddy Kong Racing.
Also, that friend was the one who got Smash codes. So we were there at his place playing all afternoon.
The default control scheme they’ve given it sucks, thank god you’ll be able to modify it in the actual thing. It’s all just… inside out.
This Smash is different. It’ll take a fair bit of getting used to, I think. Seems solid enough though.
Any know if there is likely to be any special Bayonetta II wii-u’s? I’m getting closer to giving up and buying one. Stupid mario kart talk.
Given that it’s supposed to be a wii u exclusive, I can’t imagine them not doing a bundle of some sort.
So, to justify this purchase to myself I’m keen on Bayonetta and Mario kart. Probably likely to get Smash Bros (and then be terrible at it with my grand strategy of PRESS ALL THE BUTTONS!)
What other games are worth looking at considering I’m not a Zelda fan and I’d rate Monster Hunter somewhere around Aliens: Colonial Marines.
It depends. What sort of games do you like?
I’m thinking you might like Pikmin or Wonderful101
I played a little of the previous Pikmin and it didn’t really appeal. I have heard wonderful 101 is quite good. I’ll have to look into it.
I just occurred to me. Do you think they’ll have bayonetta as a general in Hyrule Warriors?
In terms of exclusives, there’s not too much around at the moment that make it worth justifying a purchase at the moment.. unless you’re a kart or mario fan in general. Pikmin 3 is pretty good, but it’s not for everyone. Smash brothers is not my cup of tea either really. There’s not enough strategy to keep me coming back. When my button mashing, controller steering sister can beat me at a game like that, it’s a good indication that it’s for the more… casual.. game player.
You can however get Earthbound from virtual console now, which almost makes it worthwhile getting a wii u just for that! 🙂
Smash bros has a certain art to it. Once you get timing down in it you can easily beat people that button mash.
EDIT: Also, the game is played in World Tournaments. I don’t think that really qualifies as casual. =P
Admit Nob. You’re a dirty dirty casual.
it still lacks that depth that I like in a fighting game though. I like having to execute certain combinations to do special moves etc. Fighting games that play with 1 hit button and 1 jump button just bore me :\ I wish it didn’t, cos I love the idea of the game.. it’s just not executed in a way I find fun for very long 🙁
@welbot
that’s fine, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a game for the “casual gameplayer” =P
I didn’t mean it was a casual game through and through, but I think the aim was to have it be as simple as possible so it could easily be played by the usual casual gamer type.
@welbot
When you mark the game as “casual” you make it sound like it’s not as good as the other games. When playing fighting games I would beat my friends just by button mashing however like every competitive game once people practiced and got the timing down they could wipe the floor with me, and as for the non-combination moves I hardly think it’s fair to call a game for casual players just because it doesn’t follow the formula of every other fighting game in the world.
Sure Smash Bros can be newbie friendly but it can also be an incredibly complex game.
I’m not saying it’s total shit, nor saying it’s just a casual game. I’m merely saying that the casual market was considered at great length in creating this game. I’m aware there’s complexity there, but just not the kind of complexity I like. You certainly can learn to wipe the floor with most players by timing things properly, but for me, I like having the extra complexity that other fighting games offer, by having to combine that good timing, with having to execute moves and such. I’ll still play the game and have fun while I do, but it’s not a game I’m going to go out and purchase for myself, as it wont have the replayability desire that would make it worthwhile for me.
The Super Hero Squad Show is weird. M.O.D.O.K and the Abomination are dressed as pirates and arguing about a stuffed parrot while Stan Lee puts Scarlet Witch on trial for being a witch.
BURN HER!
@tigerion I just scored myself a Legendary character in Marvel Puzzle Quest! Level 70 Invisible Woman!!!!!
Score, congrats
what’s the highest level character you’ve been given so far? over 100? what’s the max level of characters from the upper end? apparently Invisible woman can go to like lvl 290 or something crazy!
Invisible woman and xforce wolvie are my to highest ranked.
Both can go to 270 but are only 94 and 90 right now
My current highest level is my Hulk at 104
ahhh ok. Trying to figure out why I got such a high level character. Last time I got a legendary, it was the Modern Thor I think, and he was only level 40. My highest character was 55 before getting Invisible Woman!
A while ago they increase the base level for all characters. The starting level depends on the number of stars
Wow, I mention that I liked playing Smash Bros 3DS and within 2 minutes some random asks me for codes.
Welcome to the block button random person!
RE: yours and @powalen’s thoughts
I agree, the controls took a while to get used to (I still don’t think it’s as precise as a proper controller) but the game feels just like smash and it’s sooo smooth! I’m surprised the 3DS could handle it and didn’t explode 😛
It’s a really good demo since it didn’t show off too much but it really, really makes me want to play more AND buy it again on the Wii U. Good business decision to delay the 3DS release, Nintendo >:P
I’m having the most fun playing the Villager at the moment too. They so whacky! I’ve got pretty much no interest in re-playing the old characters too (at least in the demo) 😛
You know what the bestest thing about Destiny is? Being kicked back to orbit every 5 minutes with some ridiculous error code like Vulture or lion or centipede or something. It’s amazing fun.
Sounds like an NAT issue. Have you got NAT 1, 2, or 3? If you jump into your PS4’s settings and check out the network connection, it’ll say. 2 is OK. NAT 3 is bad. If you get that, you may want to set up a DMZ on your router for the PS4.
I periodically get some shit about my account not being allowed to access user-generated content or network features when I first log in. Quit & reload and it goes away. Maybe related? Never seem to have issues in-game.
So my Diablo 3 addiction is starting to kick in. Managed to spend a pile of hours yesterday with my second character, a Demon Hunter. I was struggling a bit though, I was finding that I was getting surrounded and just wasn’t able to deal enough damage to get out of trouble. I currently have a long bow, but suspect the style of game I play needs a crossbow for slower shots but serious damage.
Anyone else have tips for playing a demon hunter? My other character is a Crusader and I love her to bits.
I’ve been tempted to dive back into some D3.
Demon Hunter is all about mobility and kiting because they are really only a step up from wizards in squishy factor. You should avoid getting surrounded and always have a skill on that lets you move quickly out of range if you start to get surrounded.
I leveled using a mixture of double 1h xbows and then end game switched over to 2h xbow. Been far to long since I played D3 (Have played 2.0 patch but not RoS), but from memory I had a mixture of caltrops/smoke screen/leap type skills – alternate fire was bear shot i think….. could be wrong. Get in deal damage, drop caltrops to for dmg/CC leap out pile on more damage and repeat. Smokescreen was a get out of jail card and from memory had a rune on it that refilled (or accelerated) hatred regen.
I’ve got a lvl 70 Demon Hunter and she’s a heap of fun. I always preferred the hand crossbows due to higher rate of fire with more chances for effects and crits. Don’t be afraid to abuse Sentries and spam Rapid Fire like crazy. Drop Caltrops everywhere to slow everyone down so you can get more shots in. Run. Run like the wind.
D.C. reflects on his time in the unassuming Colorado town of South Park and his quest for the Stick of Truth. http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/97429610476/14-september-2014
I’d read it, but I haven’t played it yet. That’s one of those media blackout games where I want to know absolutely zero about it going in!
Yeah, I understand and it’s all the better for it. Do it! 🙂
I was thinking about you today, buddy. I’ve been reading your blog posts over the last week or so and today I had an idea. An idea for you, really. Wanna hear it? Of course you do! 😀
You should write something! Yeah, that’s it. I was thinking that you should write something full, aim for say fifty thousand words or so and then polish it up. Step two can be deciding what you wish to do with it when you’ve finished. It could be a little piece that ends up be beneficial to you in future.
It’s on the cards, friend. 😀
NaNoWriMo? I’ll be doing it.
I’ve thought about it, but maybe not novel. Got some writing ideas on the horizon. 🙂
There’s a whole sub-section of NaNo called the “Rebel” forum, where folks work on whatever kind of project they want. I’ve been hanging there every year ever since I jumped to comics in 2011.
Oh nice! *keeps detail in mind* Hoping to start before November though, but might give some content to write about on blog. Writing about writing. WOOO?
Continuing projects already begun makes you a Rebel! Wooohooo!
Anyone up for some Destiny on PS4 tonight? @greenius? I have a level 15 Titan and a level 5 Warlock.
I’ll be playing during the day but I probably can’t do tonight (6:30am flight tomorrow which means a ~4:30am wake up time >_>)
That sucks.
It sure does!
I’ll be on tonight, in all likelihood. Feel free to hit me up. Level 22 Warlock, but I wouldn’t mind trying to level my other subclass. PSNID: omega_stealth
Cool, I’ll send you an FR tonight.
Friend Request sent.
I’ll be on sometime tonight for sure. I’m level 17.
I’ll try to.
Depending on the time, I have a low level Titan I can join you with.
I would of been but my PS4 is at the weekend house so i can only play on weekends when im not being yelled at to stop playing games because im being anti social /o\
“You last defragmented this drive 2584 days ago”
*grabs popcorn*
Might wanna grab one of those gigantic gobstoppers instead. This is gonna take a while.
Also holy crap that was 7 years ago.
Why are you still running such an old OS? From Win 7 onward, defrag happens automatically once a week if the machine’s on.
Also on modern drives with smaller cluster sizes and with modern file systems like NTFS, fragmentation isn’t an especially bad thing any more.
Because I started using it back then and just kept using it and had no real reason to move away from it and it’s full of stuff and I don’t really know where to put any of it other than exactly where it is and I don’t know reasons.
So Brisbane Lions football club want a live lion to be part of their pre-game shows. Thoughts?
I mean, the West Coast Eagles bring a live eagle to their games, so why can’t a lion be part of it, too? /sarcasm
@liondrive?
Liondrive could very well become the next mascot for the Brisbane Lions. I mean, he doesn’t look that different from the current one.
I’ll make catty insults at the other teams 🙂
They better be big catty insults…
#page6forever
I’d pay to see that 😛
It took less than a day for the club to come out and say it was just a rumour. It also took less than a day for a lot of people to condemn the Lions for being complete idiots for even considering it.
It was a rumour? I read this on the official AFL website. Why would the official website make articles about rumours?
Because the rumour spread around and people had a bit to say about it.
Anyhow, if you don’t think the official website should bother with rumours, wait until trade week.
I reckon all teams should bring a real version of their mascot to the pregame
Sydney can bring a live swan
Hawthorn a live hawk
Geelong can bring a cat
And the gold coast can blind everyone with a solar flare
The whole point of GCS is that they’re a new team in Queensland. Moving them to Docklands stadium would just mean more bloody Melbourne based teams.
Why would they move them to docklands
It’s the only stadium that runs East/West so there are constant complaints of players getting the sun in their eyes. The Scott brothers (Geelong and North Melbourne’s coaches) are somewhat infamous for complaining about the roof never being closed.
Technically the Suns is a buff lifeguard I think? Or was. Or was going to be. I’m not entirely sure, I just remember him plastered everywhere for a while.
@trjn?
Every team has a cartoonish AFL house mascot. The buff lifeguard is the Gold Coast’s. The Lions one is called Bernie “Gabba” Vegas. I hate him. These are the dudes in costume that come out before the game and entertain the kiddies.
West Coast Eagles also have a real life eagle they bring out at home games. We’re basically just building on that idea.
EDIT: AFL house is the admin building where they run things. Mascot Manor is the place for the cartoonish mascots.
St Kilda are going to struggle to find a real life mascot to bring to their games.
‘Course, it’ll be easy for Melbourne.
OH GOD FIREFOX IS DIFFERENT
You guys failed page 18…
*shakes head dissapointedly*
Oh god, they downgraded the plane to the smalled cramped one again without any screens :'(
I guess I should pack my 3DS or iPad or something. Ugh, more things to carry and worry about D:
Buy book at airport?
Ya know, the last time this happened was the one week I didn’t bring a book :P! While typing that above message I realised I could bring a book 😀
The book I’ve bought for my Perth trips but have never read, (but been meaning to read for a while) also happens to be your favourite book. Slaughterhouse-Five!
All this happened, more or less.
Great book but it really does struggle to keep up to the standards set by that first sentence.
It’s actually pretty quotable.
And so it goes
Automated cab booking system based on voice commands o_O
That’s not worrying at all!
Check.
“I’m sorry I didn’t get that”
CHECK.
“I’m sorry I didn’t get that”
LET ME CHECK MY BOOKING! ;_;
So do any Destiny peeps know what the Warlock Sunsinger super actually does?
Reduces cooldowns on all of your other stuff. Basically lets you be a grenade slinging dude puncher on speed for a couple of seconds.
I think there’s also an effect it can have added that causes it to reduce everyone else’s cooldowns, meaning… GRENADE SPAM WOO!
Once you level it, it boosts the party. get the feeling it’s a very fireteam focused build.
I’ve been digging the titan defender which lets you spill out orbs for all kinds of things. Melee kills, heavy weapon kills, and any time your shield-ward takes damage. When people figure that out, it’s fun times – they get to use theirs more, which lets me use mine more, which… yes.
I spent the afternoon reading Gamasutra’s article on the TurboGrafx-16. It’s a pretty good read, if a bit frustrating when you look at all the mistakes NEC made.
I’m really peeved off at destiny right now. I’ve got a bounty / quest to get an exotic weapon. I’ve done a few stages of the quest but am now forced to do PvP. The worst part is that I need to kill 500 people with a specific weapon type and any time I die I lose some of the kills I have accumulated. I’ve loved Destiny up to this point but I can’t stand games that force you to do PvP to get equipment if you want to just PvE.
That’s kinda balls.
Edit: This is also one of my grumbles.
That’s complete bullshit and stuff like that is why I’m really losing interest in the game 🙁
Cancelled the Foxtel Play free trial today. The one with the PS4?
Kind of a shame, actually. So close but so far. Obviously, it wasn’t worth it. But y’know, it has so much promise. The movie service is really good. High quality, decent range, streamed fast…
Pity it costs $50/month and comes saddled with their basic channels package. It’s good, but it’s not $50/month good.
eBay 15% off. Just bought a printer I’ve had my eye on for ages. Outfitting it with archival ink and high quality paper soon. Gonna start selling A3 prints at conventions. Hopefully make some money at last.
See you at Supanova ;P
aaand ebay has just gone down
Ugh, good job Shane!
@mrtaco – Didya buy the $65 tier? I’m still kinda tempted for the novelty but PRICEY! I wonder what size the shirt will be too…
I’d be more interested if I didn’t already have half the games in the bundle 🙁
Yeah, bought it. You get a choice of shirt size too, and the site’s got a size chart to work from. Worked out to about $75 in the end.
What? Why the $10 more? D:
Because $US->$AU 😛
Good point 😛
Yo, @greenius, is there anything you wanna do while your in Perth?
Like, is there somewhere you’ve walked past that you wanna go to, or is there a movie that you want to see, or anything?
I’m keen to do anything while you’re here, just trying to think of things to do is all!
I couldn’t stand the heartbreak of missing you again :'(
xoxo, forever yours, Liondrive :*
I want to avoid you for as long as possible!
(just kiddinggggg :D)
I don’t think I can do much touristy stuff in the evenings since everything closes at like 5pm (lolwtfperth?) and judging by this project, the hours will be long :(. I do want to see Boyhood though! If we do, do stuff I can’t be full on Liondrive party animal mode since I’ll have to wake up early for work and I’ll be super tired (old man Greenius)
If you happen to be free on most evenings I can just let you know whenever I’m free and we can work something out? I’m staying at 707 Wellington Street (Four Points by Sheraton) so I dunno how close that is to stuff/you. Are there any cinemas near there?
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @phlanispo @phoenix @platinum-urchin @thecracks
(if anyone else is interested)
Doesn’t have to be anything full on 🙂
Movie sounds good 🙂
Like I said, I’m keen for anything (but Perth doesn’t offer much :S)
I can do Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays 🙂
I know a place to get cheap pizza and cheap cocktails and beer on Wednesdays too, if you want! ;D
Nothing full on, relax 😛
I’ll have you in bed before 10pm 🙂
Then I’ll leave in the morning 😉
#EveryPage18
I actually really want to see Boyhood also, but the 3hr run time is imposing. I feel like I really need to be at this meat purely as an apology for not coming to see you the first time you came to Perth. I could explain why I couldn’t come quite easily, but I’m too embarrassed for some reason.
If memory serves, there is a cinema in Perth, but I think it’s been closed down recently. Regardless, a quick web search reveals that the only theatres that show it are Leederville, Carousel, Inaloo and Fremantle. I doubt this pleases the Northern TAYbies, as 3 of those are south of the river. (if my geography is correct)
I pitched this to mum, and she seems pretty receptive to the idea. The biggest problem for you is transportation. There are no cinemas in walking distance, so you’ll have to catch a bus/train. However, my mother has pitched the idea of taking you from your hotel to the cinema, and I will be there of course (It really sucks not having a driver’s license) If you are okay with this arrangement, it’s going to have to be Tuesday, though.
Just pitching some ideas and trying to get a conversation going. The big problem here is going to be communication, since the phone number you gave me before doesn’t seem to work at all. Time is also a big problem, so we need to plan stuff quite quickly.
But you texted me your real name and that seemed to have worked :/. I don’t mind a lift arrangement but we definitely need communication for it to work. Unless @liondrive wants to take us?
Do the cinemas in Perth at least open until reasonable times? 😛
hi
Greetings.
I won’t get an exploding Subway sub this time…
*misleading emphasis added*
I see, not singular – maybe two this time?
Not going to be able to during the week 🙁
Got work meetings and sports and things 🙁
So distracted… Sunday night study was never a good idea…
“Country A does what it does best – gets beef.”
But with who and why!?! These are important questions that I don’t have answers for after 75 minutes of droning.
Smash Bros hype!
Also I totally forgot Australia randomly gets Hyrule Warriors a week earlier than the US. WOO!
Hope I’m gonna have enough money to get my Scarf edition and my Disney Infinity 2.0 Collector’s Edition, traded in a bunch of games today so we’ll see, got bloody rego this week though.
Get home after being out all day, and the defrag’s still going.
Turn on the monitor, and it’s at 4%.
Tell Dad what it’s done, look back and it’s now at 0%.
:/
I’m no expert, but sounds like a format may be in order.
Defragging does that, especially if the drive is nearly full.
So, I managed to find Mr. Driller online, and it has gobbled up a fair bit of my time.
It was an arcade game released in 1999 by Namco, which saw an Arcade and a PS1 release, and I hadn’t played it since around 2000, when I had it on a demo disc, which I lost at a friend’s house, who moved out of the country. 🙁
…so I just pulled apart my ID card for work. because it was stupidly thick and I was curious. Saw another logo underneath, so kept going and it’s someone else’s card? With photo and everything. What.
Edit: And there’s yet another underneath. Same guy, though a bit younger looking. Well, “younger”.
That is… fascinating. What possible reason could they have for doing that?
1 word. Cheap
Fuck off @cj
😉