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Morning all! How goes the new week? I have nothing exciting to report, but hi anyway!
Hi all! Welcome to another week.
Bioshock Infinite is pretty okay. Worth the $10 price of admission for sure.
Elizabeth makes things pretty easy-mode, though. Whenever I’m short on ammo or health, she just chucks me something. And every thirty seconds, she throws money at me too. On the flip side, I keep forgetting to use my vigors, so combat is harder than it needs to be 😛I was super bummed that the game wasn’t as good as the ads made it be. Mostly because I wanted more of the cool voxpopuli stuff with Daisy Fitzroy. I felt like her character got screwed over :/I haven’t gotten that far yet.
Only just picked up Shock Jockey.Will let you know what I think of the story when it’s done.
Ohhh! Oh no, I’m sorry! Sorrrry 🙁
Hahaha, I’m not worried. If I play a game more than a year after its release, this sort of thing is totally expected. I’m not too fussed about spoilers for this game either, because I think I’ve lost my grip on the story anyway! 😛
Yeah, right around the time that I normally would’ve expected things to be getting pretty meaty with that character, things took a very decidedly turn for the darker. It was a tad unexpected, so I didn’t mind.
I found it handy that she was always finding money. Even though I’m fairly methodical when searching around in FPS games, she would always manage to find something I’d missed!
So what you’re saying is… Bioshock Infinite isn’t an FPS shooter, it’s a pimp simulatior?
I hardly used my vigors in the game, but this seems to be a relatively common experience compared to the original Bioshock so I don’t know what the cause is, but it seems to be a game design issue. The problem is without the vigors it’s basically another shooter. Good, solid game, questionable story decisions, but not really “Bioshock”.
Here’s my theory re cause, and it’s a game-design issue:
The first vigor you get is Possession, right? And you can only cast that once, twice maybe, before you’re out of salts. And if you were thorough with the searching/looting on your way in, you won’t be finding salts for quite a while.Which means that the game is training you to get by without your vigors. Instead of giving you limited ammo or weak weapons, they’ve totally hamstrung the vigor side of things by so drastically limiting their use.
And by the time you unlock the others, you’ve already gotten used to not being able to use them, and so you don’t even think about it.
Since you’re playing it now I’ll assume you’re right – I definitely remember the early vigor usage being extremely limited. Bioshock 1, by comparison, gives you the electric vigor to open a door then you’re immediately able to use it in combat. I mean, 30 seconds later you get give an opportunity to electrocute some splicers standing in water which also gives you an achievement. You get a lot of opportunity to play around and the game reinforces it.
Man, I should replay Bioshock.
Exactly!
I think you’re right. If they’d limited ammo instead, it probably would’ve been a pretty different experience. As it was, I pretty much only used most vigors to get the unlocks/achievements.
Spoilers for vigors Shane doesn’t have yet
I found I was using vigors a fair bit but used them heaps once I got undertow. Mostly because one of my favourite parts of the game was knocking people off the edge of columbiaGood morning everybody, how were your respective weekends?
Mine was fairly uneventful. Shopping, housework, watching footy. The usual, really. Might have been some video games. Probably some Star Citizen.
Speaking Star Citizen, for anybody planning on going to the “Not At PAX” Event, on November 1st, tickets are still available. Pick yours up here: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Event-Tickets/PAX-Australia-2014-Ticket (Ping @pixel_the_ferret_viking @rize @blaghman @aliasalpha @jocon @cakesmith @ynefel @mrtaco)
I saw the announcement that they were going on sale, but they weren’t up when I last checked (Friday?). Cheers, for the heads up!
EDIT: Wait, this is the same night as the meat, isn’t it?
I may or may not have made sure I was next to a computer at noon on Saturday (when they went on sale) hitting F5 over and over again. 😛
It is. But the meat starts an hour earlier
Yeah, it sucks that it clashes with the meat, I’d love to do both in an ideal world. 🙁
Well, you could come for the bowling and then head over. It’s doable but it’s a hassle
I’ll be attending at the early door open (7pm) so not really doable for myself.
As much as I really, really want to go to the Star Citizen stuff I know I’ll hate myself for either missing the meat or leaving really early.
@beeawwb, I’m expecting a full report on how awesome it is the next day! 😛
Ok, but you may not get said report until I land back in Brisbane, unless you want to do lunch or something and bask in the glory or whatever signed crap I come back with. 😛
Now I just wanna give you a bunch of crap to get signed… 😛
Ah well, still got the Friday thing!
I feel terrible now D=
Don’t, you got in first. You’re in the clear 😛
Yeah, what @mrtaco said. TAY meat bowling/karaoke was organised way before SC was even thinking about going to PAX-AU. I’ve known it’d be a conflict for quite some time, and even then it’s more important since only a small subset of the community are going to be interested in SC.
I would go but will probably be too drunk/busy singing in my trademark squeely voice due to karaoke meat 😛
Hah, I wish. I was hoping to have had a job by now or at least have finished saving for my new laptop rather than be less than 40% of the way there. Sadly no chance of this happening…
Hello ginger cats.
My weekend was sad and nothing went right and it was all very disappointing 🙁
I know that feeling. My mum’s back in hospital again, and everything else went pretty whack with my weekend after that :\ Hopefully this week will get better!
I really hope your Mum comes home soon and is well.
Unfortunately, it’s not very likely. She’s fairly terminal. Not sure how long she’s got left. Will treasure every moment I can spend with her though!
Oh, I’m so sorry, I didn’t know. Then yes, do that. Treasure and celebrate her and create memories to keep forever.
It’s ok. No need to apologize 🙂 We’ve known about it for a while, so we’re kind prepared as we can be.
sucks my friend. I hope things turn around soon. remember to look on the bright side of life 🙂
Yes my weekend was like that too.
At least I’m not on call this week 🙂
Here’s hoping to a happy Monday for you to kick off a better week!
Also – i hope it gets better 🙂
I know how you feel.
We couldn’t get past the 3rd encounter in The Vault Of Glass on Saturday.
And then my dog shit on the new Riverwalk in front of a bunch of people!!!
haha I saw your tweet or fb post about the poop! Was the guy you tagged in it involved in the building/designing of the Riverwalk?
He’s either a foreman or a forearm.
I forget which one.
That made me laugh more than I expected. Thank you Dan, thank you Dan-Dog.
Upvote for not being pumpkins or bins today!
It’s a shame your weekend was sad, though. Hopefully your week will be happy. *hugs*
Played a bunch of Theatrhythm with @greenius last night.
Well, he played. I struggled along behind him. I’m way too rusty at this for the competitive side. I did win twice at least. So I stayed up until 3am until I was getting S Rank on Ultimates. I now have all the regrets going to work.
I regret going to work too!
Is Theatrhythm a bit like guitar hero? playing beats along with music?
Yeah, but on the touch screen. From memory, you’ve got symbols for tap, hold and directional strokes. Dunno if they’ve got new stuff in this version, but it gets fun on the harder levels.
It’s more along the lines of Elite Beat Agents / Ouendan really.
mm well that doesn’t help.. I haven’t played them either! 😉
Maybe watch a gameplay video, it’ll show you better than anyone can explain it.
If you like FF music at all, or if you have any nostalgia for the franchise before they set about trying to ruin it recently, then it’s a must-play game.
FF in general bores me to tears. This does look kinda cool though.
Like what the others have said but this new one (Curtain Call) also has button input if you don’t feel like using the Stylus.
Amazing game for fans of Final Fantasy and its music, a good game for fans of rhythm games but kinda bad if you like neither of those things. Be prepared to put up with A LOT of Final Fantasy tropes and random stuff irrelevant to the actual music gameplay part of it.
I dun even have a 3ds, so I wont be playing it anytime soon. Was just curious as they’ve been speaking about it a lot 🙂
Buh? Sounds lame 😛
Do they at least separate the two, so scores using buttons aren’t grouped in with scores using the touch screen?
Kinda! You can swap on the fly and there’s just a little icon that says whether you used stylus, buttons, or both
Still gutted there’s no co op.
They took co-op out? 🙁
Fuck that shit. I’m not remotely good enough to want to play against other people.
I’m not sure if I was terrible or @greenius is just an animal.
Probably both.
I haven’t ever been able to play the first game co-op because Squenix are giant cockholes and decided they should region-lock the multiplayer so that two people in the same physical space with different region versions of the same game can’t play together. 🙁
UGH I CANNOT STAND THAT
Star Fox 64 3D does the same thing too. Aside from only allowing download play even if you all have the game (wtf even is that??), you can’t play it with an out-of-region system. And then you have games like Shinobi where StreetPasses (albeit not particularly useful or important for this game) are region-locked, my friend has a US 3DS and copy of the game but we can never get hits off each other for it.
WHY. THERE IS LITERALLY ZERO REASON FOR ANY OF THESE THINGS TO TAKE PLACE. AT ALL.
*punches wall*
Based on playing him in bishi bashi I would say the later. Which isn’t to say you aren’t terrible as well
BEAST MODE
Theatrhythm! So much fun!
I tried a few Ultimates but could only get S ranks on some of them. I use the thumbstick + ‘a’ button to play, is it easier with the touch screen?
I’ve only ever used the stylus so maybe? I have no idea. Buttons and thumbsticks sound awkward when running through it in my head though.
I see, I’ll have to give it a go tonight.
Good morning all. I managed to finish the second difficulty of One Finger Death Punch… barely! As in I only had one health left in the final fight. Such an epic finishing blow! But the bad news, is that there’s one final difficulty, Grandmaster… ;_;
You can do eeeet! (this is not a guarantee. Questions WILL be asked and no money back)
I’ve twisted around my skills to make it easier on me, but some stages… so fast, soooo fast…
Am I the only one keen on The Evil Within now that Alien Isolation is releasing a few days before?
Your my only one, Jums.
Your my? That’s so cyclically vicious it makes my head hurt!
I’ve been selected to represent the school at the national grammar rodeo at the Sheraton Hotel in Canada.
Im lost
It should have been You’re my..
Even with a grammar fix
hahaha Dan was merely making a joke about how good his grammar is, by saying he’s selected for the grammar rodeo. 😉
Sure, but why is I ‘is only 1?
oh well that’s a question only @dkzeitgeist could answer I’m afraid! I have no knowledge of his crushes and obsessions! 😉 Clearly he thinks highly of you though!
I have a crush on everyone for one reason or another.
@dkzeitgeist
*heart breaks*
Nope.
I’m a bit wary about Alien Isolation concept being able to carry an entire game.
Yep, What has that developer done? I know Mikami has dun good before…
The Creative Assembly? They’ve been around for like 20 years. Did the Total War series.
Oh ok. Never heard of em
I was really interested when they were originally pitching it, it sounded like they’d basically taken Amnesia and transplanted it to Alien.
But recently I’ve been hearing them talking about stuff like shooting sequences. So I assume they’ve taken an awesome concept built around one of the best and most iconic SF horror films ever, and instead decided to turn it into a shitty one-note dudebro AAA shooter where periodically you have a stealth sequence involving avoiding an alien. 🙁
I’m keen, but I’ve no idea when we’ll get to it. My wife is pretty heavily into playing the balls off of Destiny.
Good morning friends, hope you guys had a fun weekend.
I’m off to the Australian Uni Games next week, so I’m trying to get a bunch of work done so I don’t feel as if I am playing catch up (ergo, no gaems :C )
Here’s a question I thought of this morning when I was musing how to get myself going this morning, how do you get yourself through a Monday morning at work?
TAY.
Have something to eat and go through the emerging new TAY 😛
Sacrificing a small part of me that dies every Monday I work until my being is entirely consumed by the corporate machine.
Lots and lots of coffee.
Are you competing? In what?
No unfortunately, I’m coaching MEns & Womens Futsal for the Uni. An ex-AFL player stole my position as girls footy team coach from last year so I’ve been shoehorned into a new role 😛
On the advice of a punter on the ‘what are you playing this weekend’ thread I set aside some time and played a good chunk of Spec Ops the Line.
Glad I did, it’s so much more than it at first appears..
That game really surprised me. I only played it last year, and everyone was telling me I would be surprised… and I was still surprised. One of the best games I’ve played, hands down.
It’s a clunky arse masterpiece
So many of the best games are in spite of their mechanics rather than because of them. Look at Shadow of the Colossus for example. It plays like shit.
A surprise hit, one of the best games of the last few years. I think it would have been extremely popular if the shooting mechanics had been tightened up a bit but then again I feel that contributes to the difficulty, and the difficulty does a lot for the narrative.
10/10 for your handle.
I can’t remember who praised it but I played through a bit of RE: Revelations on the weekend and I’m enjoying it quite a bit. Definitely worth the dollars that I threw down on it and a nice return to the older style of Resident Evil games. Getting a bit hyped for Revelations 2 now.
I dunno if it was me but that is a thing I like to do.
WOO REVELATIONS!
(Now just put Rev2 on a Nintendo platform Capcom, you stupid dumb poo poo heads.)
DOWNLOADED SMASH BROS DEMO!!!
PLAYED SMASH BROS DEMO!!!
Weird how the home screen music is the BttF theme.
Weird how there’s no Kirby.
Weird how the controls are confusing.
BUT HOLY SHIT DOES IT PLAY WELL!!!
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!
How good is Villager though.
SAH GERD!!!
Bug eyed yellow shirt Villager is the best.
So much Hyrule Warriors over the weekend.
SOOOO GOOOOOOOD.
it’s so pretty too, I really like how 2 player co op lets one person use the tv and the other the game pad. Having a great time with it so far. Question, do you know what to do with sealed weapons yet?
Those second controls suck balls!
yep, will be getting a pro controller, who puts motion controls in a Warriors game? MADNESS!!
Greenius mentioned he was having issues with the pro so I may hold off a little though,
It gets better! 😛
Disappointed it wouldn’t let my wife use the Wii Classic Pro, but fortunately she wasn’t worried about having to wave at people to kill them.
Pro Controller has worked famously for me! No issues. Maybe he’s comparing it to other Warriors games? I wouldn’t know either way.
he mentioned having glitches and weird things happening, good to hear you’re doing fine with it, will probably grab one soon.
It’d be good to have regardless. It’s a pretty schmick controller! I use it whenever possible.
(@gutsoup)
I just replied but seems to be a hardware issue for me with a semi-faulty controller. I’ve never had this happened before on any controllers for any systems :/
Are you coming at it as a Zelda fan, a Warriors fan, or both?
Both, it’s pretty OK.
If you aint a Zelda fan, it doesnt offer much different except boss fights
Both, but by far a bigger fan of Zelda. Actually, this is the best experience I’ve had with a DW-esque game…it’s a lot of fun doing this stuff in the Zelda universe
It’s really fun! But how long are they going to make me wait before I get to play as Agitha!? Ugh. (Don’t answer this 😛 Rhetorical complaining)
Sheik is my favourite character to play as so far, but I’m not very far in yet.
Might have to check out the next Warriors game after all… (@greenius)
I’ve gone through something like 14 levels. I know I’ve seen her, but I’ve been playing each level as the recommended person so I haven’t tried her out yet.
However, I don’t think I want to… 😛
Sheik has a Song of Storms button. IT IS THE BEST.
Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate just came out but I haven’t played them before (my copy is on its way). Samurai Warriors 4 comes out soon but Warriors games generally have a “SUPER BETTER THAN THE EDITION YOU BOUGHT LAST YEAR” version so I’d hold out for that.
Dynasty Warriors 8 had its BETTER EDITION come out recentlyish and it’s been fairly cheap a few times on PS3/PSN so check that out! I’ve played that one and it’s fun :D. SO MANY CHARACTERS THOUGH. Hyrule Warriors definitely has more variety (as they should with only a handful of characters :P)
I think I did the first 3 levels and then mucked around a bunch more in adventure mode so I could make a few more badges.
It’s pretty much exactly what I expected, which is exactly what I’ve been wanting for years – a DW game with a little something extra. Only been playing solo with pro controller so far.
Question: what’s the difference between DW and Zelda controls?
From what I saw in the settings menu, it looked to just swap some of the ABXY buttons around.
It’s a little weird that A is a ‘sometimes button’, maybe I’ll switch it up before I get too used to it.
Actually the only thing I would’ve liked in Hyrule Warriors is full voice acting during the fights. They’re trying to follow Zelda’s example but it somehow feels a bit old fashioned in this game. (Plus it’s pretty hard to read text bubbles during fights)
But I’m one of those people who wants Zelda proper to be fully voiced, so I’m a bit biased 😛
It’s a bit strange when someone does a reaction shout while their mouth is moving with the text 😛
I don’t know if I would have liked it fully voiced, purely because it is a Zelda game. Maybe I’m just wary they’ll pick voices that don’t match the characters? Regardless, I’m content with letting off the ol’ Ganondorf chuckle once in a while.
The observation was made while I was playing: “So they’re not speaking, just making sex noises?”
I got the exact same thing from my wife whenever Lana would be in a conversation 😛
Morning all. How were your weekends?
Mostly work for me again, weird how quiet it was at work now school holidays have started (not that I’m complaining). Got a little bit of gaming in, thought I’d try out Costume Quest as the sequel (that I’ve pre-oredered) comes out in about two weeks, turns out it’s a pretty cool guy, I found it quite enjoyable @dc. So I’ll more than likely be splitting my time between that, Disney Infinity and Destiny this week.
Noticed you got Disney Infinity @beardymcmuttonchops, what do you think of it?
I went to @Gutsoup ‘s and played Hyrule, it made me waggle to attack T_T
Went home and Remote Played some Orochi 3.
it was fun, except for waggle controls, I’ll make sure next time is better.
Costume quest is great
Me and Mrs Tigs played through that together and while not difficult at all it is lots of fun.
Hopefully it will be a good this time round as well
DOUBLE FIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Yeah, only had a few hours with it so far, and it is quite fun.
I’m really enjoying it! It’s pretty much the perfect game for my wife and I to play. She’s not a huge gamer, but she loves playing co-op. And Disney Infinity is pretty much the best of both worlds for both of us.
I haven’t played around much with the Toy Box mode yet, but the Guardians of the Galaxy campaign has been really fun.
The toys themselves are really well made, but unfortunately there are a couple of sloppy paint applications on some of the figures.
But this is the first game I’ve ever been able to fly around the Avengers Tower as Iron Man, so that’s a big win in my book!
Yeah, it’s a lot of fun, I just have to get a second controller so my son can join in for some co-op goodness. I haven’t messed around much with the Toy Box yet either. Just completed the Guardians Of The Galaxy playset this morning. Going through the Avengers playset (for the second time) now. Gonna pick up the Spider-Man playset on Friday.
How are you going with collecting the crossover discs? I’ve just collected the last one in the Avengers playset (again), and I’ve only got one more to get in the GotG playset, I know where it is, but I just can’t get to it, I’m sure I’ll figure it out soon enough.
Just a tip, make sure you save to a USB or the cloud regularly, I didn’t and bam, I got a corrupt save and had to start all over again, pretty much straight after I’d completed the Avengers playset too.
Yeah, the figures are pretty good quality for the most part, my, that said my Captain America’s got a bit of overspray.
I don’t want to drive ever again.
I have to drive down to Adelaide in about a month for my sister’s wedding.
From Dubbo to Melbourne and back in one weekend? I estimate out of 48 hours you spent about 28 of them on the road.
Just under 20 and we left on Friday to get back this morning. Still sucks though.
Road trips \o/
Hope you don’t end up with any speeding fines.
I’ll find out some time this week if I did. I wouldn’t be surprised. There was a lot of speeding, although never by a lot.
There’s also a horrendous amount of cameras more so on the way up ive noticed
My weekend was weird. I was going to have a “friends come over and hang out” weekend in two weeks but last thing Friday night one of my friends is no longer free that weekend and we decide he’s going to come and hang out this weekend instead.
We had planned to do some couch co-op Diablo III but instead wind up spending all Saturday night watching my wife play Destiny, then all Sunday morning watching my friend play Destiny while I try in vain to engage someone in conversation then mostly give up and decide to play Minecraft. We did play a little Diablo III, at 2am on Sunday morning, but we didn’t make it far before we all decided it was time to sleep.
And now it’s 5 days until I get another weekend.
All in all I consider the experience unsatisfactory. I mean I like Destiny and I like spending time with friends but I kind of feel like it would have been a more productiove weekend if my friend just stayed home and we communicated via Xbox Live.
I remember in early primary school I once got to go visit a friend at his house, and he had a NES. We did not have one.
I spent the whole day glued to it, even to the point of staring at the pause screen while eating lunch.
After I got dropped home I got flogged by my mother for being so rude and completely ignoring my friend, and I was assured that we’d never be getting one because of that.
I’m glad I learned that lesson early, at least.
The weird thing is I apologised to my friend when I was giving him a ride home and he seemed completely unperturbed by it. He enjoyed taking turns on Destiny and talking about it and generally just hanging out/being social even though there was less multiplayer/couch gaming or roundtable discussions like usual. I mean, we did go out to dinner as well so that’s something.
It seems I’m the only one who felt put out by it, I guess because as host I felt like I had failed?
Ah, hosting pressure.
My last birthday I made everyone else play a board game while I sat out and made sure drinks were readily supplied and that everyone was happy. And it was … satisfying. Whereas if I’d done something I might have felt like I was ignoring someone. Also why I hate being responsible for large gatherings since that nagging obligation will always be there (unless I get drunk, then it just manifests as guilt the next day)
After 15 hours, I have to say that Wasteland 2 is pretty damned impressive. It’s a bit on the clunky side in places but it’s bloody good fun. I’m liking the fact that it’s one of those games where you can just wander wherever you want and find things you’re woefully unequipped to deal with and if you’re careful you can just manage to struggle through.
I stumbled into an attack site where I bumped into a trio of robots who each had collectively as many hit points as my entire fairly low level party. I planned to run away as one would when confronted with 3 huge robots with more than 1500hp between them but I’d recently saved and had a few grenades so I thought I’d have a crack at them. Took all of my explosives and 2 of my party went down in the fight but damn if I didn’t manage to take the mechanical bastards down! Made me wish I’d bought the AT weapons from that wanker travelling salesman who had his head up his arse, it’d have been quite handy in that fight. As would the robot ally I found afterwards, reprogrammed and ended up wasting on the far easier fight in that encounter. The fight I rather amusingly skirted around thinking “I’ve never fought robots before and those guys look small, I bet they’re actually horribly dangerous”…
I’m probably just intellectually and common sense challenged, but I feel like sometimes it doesn’t explain things very well.
Maybe I just need to get used to the ‘freedom’ Wasteland 2 offers though.
I saved Highpool and couldn’t progress with the election because I was supposed to heal the patients at the Doctor’s even though when I asked him if he needed help he said no.I moved onto AG and wandered around because I was under the impression I would be able to limit the growth at AG any further but apparently it was a lost cause.
Good times, just a little rough.
Wasteland 2 is out?
I like how I kickstarted it and they haven’t actually sent me an update on it releasing, let alone my access key. 🙁
Have you done the survey thing they sent you on kickstarter months ago? Signed up for the ranger centre website? If you have, you should have the beta key accessible from there and that’s also the steam key for the full game
I think it is another of those annoying,
That was how I got mine, think there was an update saying we are now launched through the standard kickstarter page but nothing other than that.
Oh right, another one of them.
I hate having to sign up for other sites just to get the thing I paid for. I have zero interest in backer forums or participating in their development or anything.
Are the recommended specs high and does it play like Fallout Tactics?
In answer to both questions: Moderately. There’s elements of Fallout Tactics in there, enough that if you don’t use cover you’ll be at a disadvantage but not like playing X-Com on ironman impossible where if you don’t end your turn in full cover you’ve pretty much lost the entire game. It’s not Fallout Tactics to the extent of having the option to go prone (unfortunately) or having loads of miscellaneous stuff you’ll only use in extremely rare circumstances but you do benefit a lot from playing in a tactical manner rather than standing still and shooting like mad.
As for the specs, you won’t be running it on a netbook or complete piece of crap laptop but a low grade gaming machine should be able to run it well enough
Recommended:
OS: Windows 7/8/8.1 (64 bit)
Processor: Intel i5 series or AMD equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or Radeon HD 5770 (1 GB VRAM)
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Hard Drive: 30 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card
Waiting for Christmas for it then and gonna play tactics instead until then because my laptop cant run it
Ugh… so tired. Roadworks outside all night, and no way to close the freaking louvres, so “slept” to the peaceful sounds of jackhammers and sirens. Come back tomorrow, Monday, I’m not ready yet.
I’m dubbing this “find a (better) job week” for me, cause I hate my job, and am determined to try and find something better while Christmas casual jobs are going.
Some people should join in (I ain’t even gonna bother tagging, cause you know who you are).
Also, it’s Christmas soon(ish)! 😀
(don’t any of you try to tell me otherwise)
I believe @freezespreston is well aware that Christmas is coming. I’m still some time away from that revelation, thank goodness.
Good luck with the job hunt, man!
As an insomniac, this frightens me! Only 2 sleeps to go! :0
So… you’re saying you’re santa?
This weekend I tried to get Mr. Strange to buy us Diablo III or the kids Disney Infinity 2.0 but neither happened. He wouldn’t even buy himself Infamous: Second Son. He has JB vouchers but is all paralysed with indecision. So I spent most of the weekend doing quilty things. I think we’ll be getting the kids Disney Infinity for Christmas, though. 😀
Good thing you spent the weekend doing quilty things because it is @masha Monday!!!
I been playing Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate and realised there is very little reason to use the recommended team. Apparently all it changes is in fight dialogue which I miss anyway because it’s in Japanese and I don’t have time to read during an action game.
It’s quite good though, lots to do.
Fantasy Life this weekend though, FANTASY LIFE!
I had an ok weekend. Went to an engagement party on Saturday night. Was pretty boring, not a lot of people I knew. Good food though, and I didn’t have to pay for drinks. Also Hawthorn got into the Grand Final for the third year in a row. Missed the final quarter as I was at the engagement party. Was able to keep an eye on the score though. Closer than it should have been. Also in the afternoon, I watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which was awesome.
Sunday I didn’t do much, went to church and also watched a replay of the UFC Fight Night from Japan, which was a pretty great lot of fights. Hunt vs Nelson was as good as I expected. Apparently a friend of mine was actually there, sooooooo jealous.
Anyway, that’s pretty much all I did on my weekend.
The football was extremely close towards the end. If there were an extra 30 seconds on the clock, Port Adelaide would have won.
@lucifer9783 thanks for your patience in explaining shit to me in Minecraft over the weekend. I haven’t seriously played it for a couple of years (I think I quit playing it regularly just prior to the enchanting table/potions update, whenever that was) so the progressive updates since then and especially the recent 1.8 update have left me in the dust.
I now have a butcher AND a cleric in my storeroom and you’re welcome to visit as often as you like. \o/
There’s potions and enchanting in there?! Last time I played was just after they added horses!
I thought potions and enchanting were way older than horses. I think they added horses about a year ago, when @zetrox2k first started a server? I found some horse armour but never found a horse – then again I didn’t stay on the server long because I had some horrible lag. The current server is great though.
mm perhaps they did? I never really followed closely along with the game too much. I certainly never came across enchanting or potion stuff when I played though. Whether it’s because I didn’t play long enough or not I can’t say though.
I think enchanting came it around the same time they added the XP bar – killing mobs, breeding, fishing, mining drops and smelting ores all give you XP, which you can then use to enchant weapons, tools and armour – to make an enchanting table you need obsidian, diamonds and a book.
And after that you need to surround your table with at least 15 bookcases to max out enchantments at level 30 – and books are now a huge pain in the ass to make since you need leather for the covers instead of just paper!
breeding? fishing?! fuck me… there’s a lot in this game I missed I think! 😉
It’s a whole different game compared to even when I started which was only 2010.
I’ve been thinking about Undad a lot recently.
I think I’ve figured out why I’m having trouble letting it go. Why it’s sunk its diseased teeth deep into me and won’t let go. I got my first clue on Roo-ock Day. I started writing something that said “I’m not okay. I’m drowning” about a dozen times, but couldn’t find the right words or the courage to post it.
So, in the vein of this blog post, in which I briefly outline the ways in which my writing reflects my own life and experience, I present the unexpected Undad-update:
Undad – 20142014 was not a good year for me. The depression with which I had been struggling on and off for several years was amplified significantly by a series of writing-related setbacks and a sudden significant increase in workload caused by the arrival of my third child. My ongoing wrestle with depression is something that, for whatever reason, I am really struggling to share with friends and family. I don’t want to burden them, I don’t want to risk rejection, whatever it is… reaching out for help is beyond me at the moment.
It’s almost exactly what Brett Buckley is going through.
His condition (he’s dead inside, haha #clevermetaphor(notreally)) has created this rift between the man he is and the man he wants to be, and is driving a deep wedge between himself and his family. He tries to distance himself from them, to protect them from himself, but that obviously is a path doomed to failure, because in his heart, he doesn’t actually want to lose them. He seeks solace and answers in medicine, psychiatry and religion, but they all lead to dead ends.
In the end, Brett will realise that there is no one out in the world that can help him. He will have no choice but to seek remedy and redemption at home. He fears they will flee from the monster he has become, that they will despise his weakness. This is what rock-bottom feels like.
No one will think any less of you. You wouldn’t think any less of any of us if we had the same issues, so don’t think we’d abandon you.
What’s happening with Undad?
sucks to hear you’re not doing well, I hope things improve for you (I can relate, I cannot share and bottle everything). Did you find writing a character you can relate to so much helped you or made you dwell on issues you have?It’s a way of dealing. Writing the story helps me pretend I have control over things I really have no control over. I think it helps more than it hinders.
And re: what’s happening with Undad.
Coming soon
oh good, well if it helps you keep it up, I look forward to the next issue. I thought from your message you might have canned the project.
You’ll be OK mate, just stay strong keep TAYING, keep active, try new things and socialise. Keep pushing through and with time things will get better. I’ve struggled with Depression for 16 years and I think I finally have a handle on it but the bastard sure is tough to break out of when it gets it’s hooks into you.
Everyone here loves you, Shane.
Internet hugs inbound.
Oh, I also managed to make it to level 25 in Destiny, but have still yet to experience coop :'(
I feel a little silly, cause I went out and bought a headset and everything… :S
(only a cheapy, but still)
Leper of TAY represent’
Crash my games, bro! Crash my games!
I shall seek you out next time.
I hate the idea of “crashing” someones game :3
It seems rude to me, haha!
I’d rather be invited to join someone else’s game, or have them crash mine :3
But the invite takes me out to the PSN menu out of the game, causing thirty seconds of inconvenience! …I’m totally going to crash your game. On the plus side, you’re 20+, so I know you’ve finished the story… that’s cool.
(Personally, I think doing the story solo is the best thing to do, anyway. It’s much more atmospheric and tense that way, allowing you to go at your own pace and drink in the gorgeous scenery.)
I was 20+ before I finished the story :3
I finished the story at lv 23 on Saturday 🙂
Destiny is fantastic, Manchester United are not. :'(
Had a good weekend of Destiny (got to L23), paintball (really fun, Sydney’s largest course – just too hot), drinks, BBQ and more Destiny. It’s the first game since maybe Halo 3/MW2 where I(‘ve) really want(ed) to quit my job/school just to play more. 😛
That’s not a very aesthetically pleasing, flowing or correct paragraph is it? Sorry.
Well I hope you all had fun as well and Monday morning isn’t too taxing on you.
On and up.
http://youtu.be/457nGTf4fsQ
What’s the most popular word used in titles of games? I noticed that the word “dead” was very popular:
Dead or Alive
Deadly Premonitions
Deadliest Catch
Deadliest Warrior
Red Dead Redemption
CSI Deadly Intent
Dead Rising
The Walking Dead
Dead Island
Deadpool
Dead to Rights
Killer is Dead
Neverdead
Dead Space
Left 4 Dead
Deadlight
Deadfall Adventures
And “dark” was also popular as well
Dark Souls
Alone in the Dark
Dark Sector
Dark
Darksiders
Dark Messiah
Transformers Rise of the Dark Spark
Transformers Dark of the Moon
Operation Darkness
Risen 2 Dark Waters
Dark Void
Darkest Days
Perfect Dark
The Darkness
DarkStar One
Darkstalkers
Dead Dark 2: Darker than Dead.
Kudos for putting Dark Souls first in the list!
I think the word “Sim” still outnumbers them all.
But on reflection, I think Two/2/II has got to be the most common by far. #WorldOfSequels
Let’s see how many I can get without googling or wikipediaing:
The Sims
Sim City
Sim Golf
Sim Ant
Sim Tower
And if we count “simulator” as a usage of sim, there’s:
Farm Simulator
Surgeon Simulator
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Goat Simulator
And a ton of others that are indie shovelware cashing in on the absurd [thing] simulator fad (such as Car Mechanic Simulator), but still.
Rock Simulator?
Antiquing.
http://tinyurl.com/mjslsme
“Call” and “Duty” are right up there. 😛
Dead and Dark are definitely two of the greatest hits. I remember back when I discovered One Must Fall 2097 and read the FAQ/manual (which was actually super interesting) the developers at Epic Megagames actuall said they made a determined effort to find a name that didn’t have something like “dead” or “blood” in the title because back then (the mid-late 90s) there were just way too many games like that around. Ever since then I’ve always had an interest in uncommon word usage for names (for instance: Binding of Isaac) or games that put forward their premise with a carefully thought out name (e.g.: Rogue Legacy) because it’s a kind of casual cleverness. In contrast Shadows of the Damned was the most generic possible game with the most generic possible premise but still turned out to be one of the most unique and fun gaming experiences of the last few years.
So I was on target to make some progress on my pile of shame over the weekend. Finished Contrast, pushed towards re-finishing Super Mario 3D World (after the boy deleted the 4 star 99% complete save file)… but the I went to JB on Sunday and accidentally bought Lego Movie the Videogame, South Park: Stick of Truth, and then Assassin’s Creed IV on eBay last night. Oops.
South Park is great, it’s like one giant episode!
Yeah. For all the problems surrounding it the game itself was really solid. Probably one of the best TV show/movie/comic to video game adaptions in the XBOX 360/PS3/Wii generation.
It’s been on my watchlist for a while. Figured I couldn’t go wrong for $31! (That’s $39 less 20% for the “Sign up to JB Hifi Now music service” voucher)
What did you think of contrast?
I really liked it and thought it was sweet and fun game. I think it got way too much bad press as it was a launch title for the PS4 but wasn’t built or designed a a next gen game.
Had some good sections, but felt like a solid idea that failed to engage when stretched out over several hours. The story was sweet enough but tacked on. All in all, I guess I’m glad I played it, but also that I didn’t pay for it (directly).
New Dr Who was good. Me likey
Perhaps I should watch more then 5 minutes of random episodes when they are on TV.
Perhaps … one day.
*stares off into distance*
I really enjoyed last night’s ep! Such a great ending!
This doctor is a clever one.
I liked it. The season seems to be getting better with every episode. It felt like Ocean’s 11 (4?) set in space. The Teller was a pretty interesting monster. I’m not sure whether the new season is really Doctor Who yet, but I’m enjoying it for what it is.
Spoilers
If the male monster was the Teller, does that mean the female is the Penn?ZING! That actually crossed my mind believe it or not
I missed it due to a terrible dinner with annoying in-laws. On the bright side, iView tonight!
I’ve got three episodes to catch up on because I’m always driving on a Sunday night and my internet connection has been shit for the past couple of months. But its fixed now \o/
Curse you, No Snack September.
Someone tell lunch to hurry up.
No Snack September?
It’s No Oxygen October soon.
I think we should make it No Outrage October.
No Omelette October
I’m out.
I’m on board with this. My indulgence in Internet Outrage is going to give me a frickin’ heart-attack before I’m forty.
No Snacks and No Swears?
Talk about life in Hard Mode.
I agree. So I’m off to the kitchen to get a fucking biscuit.
Dark Soultember
And now I’ve piled on an over-ambitious (do I do any other kind?) costume making project that is going to demand every ounce of free time I’ll have til PAX.
Obviously I just hate myself.
DESTINY! It’s ok!
I believe in free will!
I believe that beauty magazines promote low self esteem
I believe in a thing called love
JUSLISSENTOTHARHYTHMOFMAHEART
…GUITAR!!!!
What is love?
Baby don’t hurt me.
So, anyone going to get Fantasy Life? I literally knew nothing about it until @blaghman mentioned it a couple of weeks ago. Looks pretty cool, might finally brush the few layers of dust off my 3DS and buy it.
@jimu is, seemed pretty keen.
he did
Yo.
I mentioned briefly on twitter that I’m interested – got to weigh up my options as I just picke dup Curtain Call and will get Hyrule Warriors today.
I do get paid at the start of Octobo, so maybe I’ll just wait a week and grab it then (probably just in time to be well and truly behind everyone else! \o/)
It’s on my radar. Factors against it are time and money, since I haven’t got enough reason to rank it higher than any of the currently planned purchases.
Shows how little attention you pay my twitter account then *heart breaks*
So, in my (attempted) week long TAY break, it has come to my attention that I missed some AMAs.
This is unacceptable, so I’m retroactively asking questions that need to be answered.
@mrtaco
– If you could have any animal made horse sized so that you could ride it around, what would it be, and why?– Why don’t you ask any of these girls (that are clearly interested in you) out?
– What’s the most embarrassing thing to happen to you?
– Where did you see yourself today, five years ago?
– On a scale of “babies-bottom” to “shag carpet”, how hairy are you?
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
@stickman
– Would you rather have disproportionately long arms or legs? (assume 3x longer than they are now)– How would you react if you were to get mugged?
– If you created a new sex-position, what would you call it?
– What’s the scariest thing to happen to you?
– If you had the chance to punch a celebrity right in there face, who would it be?
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
@highperformance
– If you only had 24 hours to live, what would you do?– Which do you think is more important, length or girth? I’m asking for a friend…
– What’s your biggest regret?
– Shoot, shag, marry: @strange, @cookingmama, @janexo.
– If you died, and could haunt one celebrity, who would it be, and why?
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
@35
– Where do you hope to be in 10 years time?– On a scale of “albino in the snow” to “black man in the night” how tan are you?
– What’s your biggest fear?
– If you found a genie, what would be your three wishes?
– What is the most annoying aspect about you?
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
@rocketman
– When are you quitting your job?– What’s your most cherished childhood memory?
– What is the worst thing about yourself?
– Using only the names of food, describe your style of sex.
– How does it make you feel being known as “the awkward one”?
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
Also, this isn’t a question, but I saw that tweet about the horrible text message that that guy sent.
When you’re out of there and away from him, you give me his mobile number, ok?
It’s been far too long since I’ve had my claws out, and I’m very keen to sharpen them (there are many reasons why I’m a “lion”).
I got some things planned for him 🙂
And one for all of you:
– What two words would your best friend use to describe you? (bonus points for asking)
That guy.
“Is dick head one word or two?”
My wife is my best friend and just last night she described me as “filthy” and a “pervert” but in fairness to me, she’s the one who wanted to have a conversation while she was in the shower.
I get that, how is it perverted to stare at your wife’s arse in the shower?
i for one, approve sightseeing in the shower….
Fri…end?
I think he means fiend.
FYI @highperformance I’ve already chosen two of the actions for one of your options, and if choose the third then I’ll shoot you, so, yeah… probably best to let that whole (not especially cool) question slide?
Oh jesus, I knew when I mentioned some of these names it’d come back to bite me lol. @liondrive for this question I would like to nominate myself as a pacifistic, asexual commitment-phobe!
There’s no such thing you filthy liar 😛
Oh, right, probably not a question to ask a straight guy, hahaha! 😀
I view it as a joke (plus it was a joke), cause none of them interest me (sorry ladies 😉 )!
My mistake, I forget every now and then where some boundaries are :3
Apologies if I offended anyone!
cc:
@highperformance @strange @cookingmama @janexo
I’ll kick your butt…
… at Nintendo.
I’m 6’4!
I go to the gym 5 days a week!
I’ll kick your butt!
…at Nintendo!
I’m a fierce Mario Kart 8 player 😉
Remember too that some of these Tay people are married. Like CookingMama and BatGuy are. To each other. So yeah, it’s asking who wants to shag this guy’s wife which is… kind of weird.
Oh, I seriously did not know that!!! :O
Now I feel like an arse!!! :O
Like, a huge arse!!! :’O
I’m so so sorry @batguy and @cookingmama!!!
Like, I deeply, deeply apologise!!!
I was just playing, and was not aware at all that you two were married!!!
(that’s awesome by the way though)
I think I’ll retire the Shoot, Shag, Marry question for the future :\
Crap, now I feel really bad :'(
I can’t begin to apologise enough!!!
I dunno, the thought kinda weirds me out. Like, nobody has any problem with it when it’s the guys. So shouldn’t they also not have a problem when it’s girls?
It also depends on how you view the question I guess. To me it’s not so much a declaration of who you want to do what to, it’s a thought experiment in reasoning. You’ve got three subjects and three actions that MUST be paired up, what conclusion do you reach and why. And it’s the why that usually makes it an interesting question, not the who.
I like the game, and I agree that it’s more about reasoning rather than actions, but I think the reaction here is more than appropriate.
I would never have asked that to a guy about a guys wife in front of the husband.
That’s rude, and though it was in no way serious or intentional, I still think that it’s not something to say in those circumstances.
In my defence though, I did not know that those two were married, and it was only intended as a game / joke. I acknowledge I unintentionally crossed a line though, and kinda hope that they realise that I didn’t know, and that I whole heartedly didn’t mean to offend anyone or anything.
I was just messing! :’O
(also, like I said before, it’s less weird for me to play this game having to choose women cause err’body knows that I don’t roll that way anyway, so it’s obviously a joke for me)
Heh. Perspectives would play into too I guess – mine makes me wonder if I may be a bit too easygoing for my own good. I mean I once sat next to my girlfriend at the time making out with another guy and it didn’t particularly bother me 😛
“Don’t bother”
10 years – finished a law degree & starting a new career in which I punch politicians with policy for payment.
tan – I’m so pale, my veins make me a light shade of blue.
fear – the helplessness involved when someone / something I care about is in the shit & theres nothing I can do about it.
genie – 1 lifetime supply of puppies. 2 comfortable life for me & my friends. 3 more wishes.
annoying – for me its my lack of confidence, for others I guess it may be a combination of being stubborn & opinionated & loud.
junk – Feb29. coz it only comes once every four years.
2 words – Fuck. off.
firstly holy fuck you have a good memory.
1) I have no set date, it does really depend, hopefully my work is going to transfer me to the melbourne branch next year but thats up in the air ATM. So Im not really sure yet. I should probably figure that out huh?
2) My dad died when i was young, i have precisely 2 memories of him, One is when he stopped everyone at the farm we owned working for the afternoon to play cricket with me. I really love that memory. The most precious however isn’t a actual memory, i mean i think it is but i am not sure. Its a haze, but im lying in my bed and i am half asleep and my dad’s sitting on my bed and singing me “you are my sunshine” Even to this day, that song makes me cry. But its special to me.
3) I have a temper, nobody sees it because i usually keep it in check but i get angry A LOT, mostly when im alone because i am scared of what people might say if they see me freak out.
4) Passion fruit
5) I play it up a fair bit, in a lot of situations im not awkward at all, I use it as a sort of identity which probably isnt great. It doesnt really bother me though, i make people laugh and thats all thats important to me that my friends can laugh and enjoy my antics.
6) My girlfriend calls it princess Sofia, a reference to how to lose a guy in 10 days. So i guess that.
7)Probably soul mate. Seriously me and him are meant to be 😛
Aww dude, ahaha.
See my response to @batguy’s comment, you’re in the clear! lol
lazy shit
( @gutsoup named his first Snorlax jim)
– If you could have any animal made horse sized so that you could ride it around, what would it be, and why?
Assuming it’s also tamed and safe for me to do so… a scorpion. Because scorpions are badass.
– Why don’t you ask any of these girls (that are clearly interested in you) out?
Because I am a coward! And too scared of destroying what is usually a decent friendship by making things too awkward to ever see them again by approaching them and being rejected.
Also it depends. The only one I can think of that was clearly interested (from what I could see anyway – I know, not saying much:P) was Climbey, and I held back with her because I was too head-over-heels for Sketchbook at the time, I didn’t think it would be fair to pursue anything with her when I would just be constantly thinking of someone else. I guess the only other one would be Pillowmaker? But I don’t think there’s anything there, we’re just friends. Also she lives too far away, I’ve done the long-distance thing before and have no intention of taking that path again 😛
– What’s the most embarrassing thing to happen to you?
Life. Any time I’ve seen myself in video form, especially the Gamespot interview thing and that Save Point TV bit where I didn’t actually say anything in the end.
I can’t really think of any of those mortifying stories like losing your pants in front of the entire school or anything like that. I think I’ve avoided most of those things, if anything I tend to approach situations with the aim of embarrassing others with my behaviour (see what Mark said in his recent article about the sleeping bag suit :P). I’m pretty sure I’ve linked here before the pictures of me in my Sir Arthur costume (“costume”), ie the strawberry boxer shorts. Stripping down to those in a packed club for the Capcom event was a little nerve-wracking but it didn’t take long to settle in. Especially once it becomes established that people are entertained 😛 It was far harder the first time I wore it, out in the middle of this park with Cosplay Girl helping me out by taking pictures for the competition I’d made it for. Was kinda pussyfooting around for a bit til she yelled at me to just do it, and I got on with it 😛
– Where did you see yourself today, five years ago?
I didn’t! I have never had plans for the future that have extended beyond maybe a couple of months away. What was five years ago… September 2009? Oh geez. So at that point, I was nearly a year and a half out of uni and still hadn’t found a job, still hadn’t even got a REPLY to any of the applications I’d sent out (that didn’t happen til November I believe, telling me I was unsuccessful). So yeah, I wasn’t in the best of headspaces then 😛 But hey, that was the year of HotD Overkill, so it wasn’t all bad.
– On a scale of “babies-bottom” to “shag carpet”, how hairy are you?
“Sufficiently manly”. Despite what my scalp may lead you to believe, I am extremely proficient at growing hair 😛 I often get comments from my friends about my arms, mainly since they’re the only part of me that is always visible (especially with the head usually ending up in a beanie). And it’s not that it’s overly dense or anything… I dunno. It’s just long and of reasonable darkness. I’m happy with it though, I would hate to be like… that terrorist guy whose name I don’t remember but had that picture of him being captured that was sprawled all over the newspapers of him in this shirt with a stretched-out neck and you could just see all this dark, thick, curly hair going down his neck and shoulders and obviously extending well beyond. Yuck 😛
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
The Gookanhammer. Or Gookin’ Hammer. I haven’t decided on which spelling I prefer, they both sound basically the same though. As for why – obviously I love wordplay, and this is entirely that (being based on my username). Also it gives room to reference Captain Hammer, which is a plus.
Guesses: Smart arse. Obnoxious git. Terrible puns. Virtual Boy.
Tried sending a message but he’s complaining that two words aren’t enough. Something about it limiting him to generic-sounding niceties 😛
– Would you rather have disproportionately long arms or legs? (assume 3x longer than they are now)
Legs. Long arms means you have to carry them everywhere. Legs means fast transport!
– How would you react if you were to get mugged?
Depends on the mugging and what they are taking. If they had plans to take everything and beat me up then if gladly attempt to kill them. If taking one item at gunpoint, then I guess they can have it. Anything less than gunpoint and I’ll put up a fight.
– If you created a new sex-position, what would you call it?
I don’t know the ‘new’ ones have exotic names already. Care Bear Pound, I dunno.
– What’s the scariest thing to happen to you?
Not sure. Perhaps getting chased by a shark.
– If you had the chance to punch a celebrity right in there face, who would it be?
Miley I guess, telling her to wake up from the dream? Bieber is always a good choice though.
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
I have no idea, I usually leave the nicknames up to other people. Haven’t really had any for manhood.. Er.. Mr Winky soubds pretty okay, if boring?
I’m actually crying at work hahahaha
Sorry! I thought you were someone else!
Haha you have a good memory Stu, I’ll give you that!
– 24 hours to live I’d jump out of a plane and bungee jump because the idea of doing them scares the crap out of me. I’d eat Reeces Peantu Butter Cups until I was in a food coma and hang out with my adoring better half and my family. I’d sneak in a nap too as well lol.
– I think girth is more important, with no bias whatsoever. *Slides height improving shoes on the floor’
– My biggest regret occurred in year 3 when I was struggling to find some friends and some cool kids told me to fight a kid whom I had no problem with whatsoever. I didn’t fight him but I kicked him, and I remember to this day the look of betrayal on his face and asked ‘Why would you do that?’. So shameful.
– See below response lol.
– If I died I’d probably haunt Oscar Pistorius, I’d actually find out if he did it!
– Manhood nickname; Duracell, because reasons.
*looks for below response, can’t find it anywhere*
Also holy crap am I glad I didn’t get landed with that question 😛
Actually, probably not that hard to reason out…
Fucking Arsehole would be my guess!If I even had a best friend, he/she would say… Human… male? Homo sapien? Shark horse?
Reply fail
Word up to yer, brudda
You. You get me.
brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
All right, my name is Shane. I’m the father of three, writer of books, reluctant office drone, living through Molasses Monday.
AMA.
Why Shane? (I guess the point of this question is generally around handle origins, but in your case, why the lack of handle?)
Favourite Pokémon?
1. I’ve had a few handles in my time. None particularly inspiring. canberra_boy is probably the one that stuck the longest, but its genesis is actually from a part of my life I’d like to leave behind me (got it during the application process to ADFA – that was a near miss, I tell you!) I used Shanus as a gaming handle for a while, reflecting just how big an asshole I am when I compete.
Eventually, at about the time when I was trying to launch my writing career, I realised that a handle would work against me. So I just took my penname and made it my handle everywhere.
Why Shane? It’s better than Alfonse.
2. What is Pokeyman? Benny bought me my first Pokémon game, and sadly, I am yet to take the plastic off it. Sorry!
Google image (safe) search Pokémon, pick the one you like the look of.
“Safe search” being the key here. You don’t want to see the other side…
Is there one that always, always looks deeply confused? Because that one would be insta-fave.
Here
Givre it back! Or sell it for cold hard cash! 😛
I know. I suck. Sorry, man 🙁
I’m just messing. Enjoy life!
Squirtle
(thanks for the shinie )
still never seen a shiny
What’s YOUR favourite?
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Spr_b_5b_007_s.png
Squirtle Squad 4 Lyfe.
Why don’t I eat more molasses?
Cause it still hasn’t poured out of the bottle yet.
I understand it’s not all that healthy for you.
Also, whenever I think about it, I imagine (probably incorrectly) that it’s the kind of thing that would just stick to your insides and gum you up big time.
Actually, an American town drowned in Molasses when the container wasn’t properly checked. It exploded and smothered the town. On hot days, you can still smell it.
Yes, people did die.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster
Yikes.
@rize, here’s your answer.
Also, I don’t think your imagining is incorrect. It probably does gum up your insides
What a way to go.
Because it’s just sugar with the bitter stuff left in. It’s good for making boston baked beans, or bbq sauce, but that’s about it.
Hehe. Mole asses.
When are we going to collaborate on a novel?
Tomorrow!
What’s the morning routine in the life of Shane?
Because my wife is co-sleeping with the new baby, and the two older kids still aren’t sleeping all that well at night, I sleep on the lower bunk in my daughter’s room. My morning usually begins with one of the kids opening their extremely noisy bedroom doors. I then have to bolt out there and put the TV on for them so they don’t venture down the other end of the house and wake my wife.
Ten minutes later, I’m dressed and out the door. Read/write/game on the bus for half an hour, head into work (recently, McDonalds have had some great breakfast promos, where I can get a S&E muffin for $1, so I’ve been doing that every morning for a while).
Jump on TAY.
What is your favourite thing you’ve written?
What is your favourite thing about your job?
Which is your favourite child? 😛
1. I think The Game is my favourite. It’s got an emotional gutpunch towards the end that still affects me whenever I read over it. It’s the only thing I’ve ever written to which I have an emotional response.
2. Freedom to TAY.
3. Whichever one is being quietest at that moment.
which kid wakes you up in the morning?
They take turns.
A Canberra question: are roundabouts really that useful?
I don’t get into circular arguments.
Holy cow, man.
Come to Toronto. They don’t understand how roundabouts work, to the extent that I’ve only seen one roundabout in two years.
Canberra may be roundabout central but they roundabouts keep the traffic flowing smoothly. That may be partially because Canberra is a desolate hole and there’s no traffic, but you know, still.
Did you always want a family?
It’s one of those things I never gave much thought to. I just wanted a girlfriend. I got one who wanted a family. I was never against the idea. Things turned out good. That’s how it happens.
Want a PS4?
No, not really. My plan is this: buy the most expensive edition of Bloodborne that’s available at launch, and just press it really hard against my forehead for six months.
why not your forearm or foreman as @dkzeitgeist mentioned earlier?
Don’t want to get covered in dog crap 😛
Gent 24/7.
Who is your daddy, and what does he do? I think I’ll make this my standard AMA question, so if you could all save some trouble and address this in your intro in future, that’d be great! kthx! 😉
My daddy is retired. He was a public servant. I always swore I would never follow him into that, but I’m slowly making my peace with turning into him. I could do worse (and at least I’ll probably get to keep my hair).
Do you know any of the other TAYbies in real life, and if so who?
I actually knew @strange pre-TAY. That was quite a surprise finding her on here, especially because she had a different username and it took me ages to put two and two together.
Since then, I’ve met quite a lot of TAYbies at meet-ups. They’re a pretty revolting bunch, and I wouldn’t recommend it.
Agreed. I’ve heard that welbot guy’s a real cunt!
What would you title your (auto)biography?
I’ve already written several!
That’s about as close as I need anyone getting to my life’s story.
I’m not late to this AMA party! 😀
Ok, questions (I’m almost all questioned out! D:)
– What are your main hopes / dreams for the future?
– What is the one thing you’ve always wanted to do, but haven’t?
– If you could choose any person to be the Prime Minister of Australia for a full term, who would it be, and why?
– Shoot, shag, marry: @blaghman, @rize, @beavwa (not sure who Canberra TAYbies are, cause who really cares about Canberra, amr’ight?!)
– Why didn’t you make the trip up to the Gold Coast / Brisbane to meet me!? 3
– If you could command a pack of wild animals to do your bidding, what would they be, and what kinds of things would you get them to do?
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
Eep. (Also, Melbourne)
…Will you answer my two standard questions?
What are these two standard questions?
The two pokemon questions?
If so:
I’ve always loved Electivire, such a good pokemon! Soft spots go to Luxray (so good, but not very usable), Arcanine, Greninja, and Sceptile.
And I like the look of this one
If these weren’t the questions you meant then ask again 🙂
Handle origin and favourite Pokémon.
So you like the most recent 3rd form for electabuzz?
Handle origin:
I haven’t had many.
My first was Stewbie-doo, which I scrapped immediately, then Stewie747, which I scrapped in a matter of months.
I chose liondrive cause I wanted “lion” in the name and no number, underscores, hyphens, etc, but there wasn’t many words to combine.
I ended up with “drive” cause I thought liondrive sounded pretty cool, and I’m genuinely really happy with it 🙂
I think it suits me too 🙂
And I love Electivire!
Great stats, good movepool, great ability, and I love his design!
A fast / strong Electivire with Ice / Thunder Punch, Earthquake and Thunderwave / a buffing move is terrifying!
It’s a shame that Electabuzz is so ugly 😛
1. Quit my job, kick depression, be a good husband/father, and write books until I drop dead at 40.
2. Go into space.
3. My two-year-old son.
4. I’ll marry them all!
5. Because I’m poor and shackled and I didn’t really want to meet you. Obviously.
6. I don’t care what kind of animal they are, but I would get them to do the artwork for all my comics. Let’s say dolphins, because I saw a dolphin paint a picture once at SeaWorld.
7. Stupid Boy.
So hyped and anxious at the same time and it’s only Monday…..
So I have a nationwide university level kendo competition this weekend. My uni won last one so the expectations are high. Not to mention my club has been doing really good in the past couple of years.I was lucky enough to make the team with only 10 months of training but I have a habit of screwing things up at worst possible moments….
Gonna go dig myself a hole so I can hide in shame later… /o\
Fuck expectations.
Go have fun.
If you’re worried about how you’ll go, replace the bamboo with a blade and I think you’ll generally win a lot of matches.
Just don’t tell anyone you did it, though.
I’m sure all the blood splatters will go unnoticed if I wipe them with my feet!
First of all good luck
secondly, fuck everyone else, you dont compete for them, you compete for you. Have fun and try your best.
Son/Daughter, you are asian. It is in your blood. Have faith.
If that doesn’t calm you down, just know that if you get anything less than first place, you will bring shame upon your family and be disowned. So make it count.
@popdart5 @tech_knight @sernobulus @tigerion and whoever else has the game downloaded/is interested:
I still need to get to Ceres in Warframe to finish the final event mission. Anyone keen to help me unlock some levels towards it/taxi me there if you have it? I think it only has about 3 days left.
I have no idea where I’m up to so I can’t say if I could taxi you there. I might only be as far as Saturn honestly.
All good. If you’re keen to smash through the levels to unlock it I’m happy to do that. I can’t get there fast enough on solo because I’m awful at solo and getting randoms on some of these levels is hard.
Saturn is actually on a separate path to Ceres (yeah, there’s totally 3 unlock paths). I am, of course, just reaching Uranus.
Unlock order, if you wanted to know: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140901222328/warframe/images/e/e8/Warframe_planet_order2.png
EDIT: Oh yeah, fun fact – the boss to unlock Uranus is a giant arsehole.
If you need help you should hit up transientBro
After a long hiatus, TAY RPG Pathfinder tonight starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
So many potential things could happen tonight. It’ll be interesting to see what you guys do.
Probably hang around town getting drunk and addicting random people to hard drugs. Summin like that.
And being knocked out in random alleys
It was just alcohol. How was I supposed to know he was a recovering that was on the precipice of relapse? We just met.
Oh man, I think I might need a recap…
Also, I’m going to be checking my character well before we start tonight. With the amount of times updates break our character sheets in both campaigns I’d like to try and be prepared this time 😛
It was mainly Drewan and I were at the university for our own reasons, Abelas got KO’d and pressured into getting something back for the KOer, and the rest of you were at the bar drinking yourselves silly and Lundgredolph got our newest potential party member addicted to an alcoholic drug within the same hour that he met the guy.
Oh yeeeaaah…
😀
Something something get Keldar addicted to something something. =P
Given we talked about changing levelling speed, does that mean we’re at 3? Did we go through with that?
Just watched that TGS trailer of Final Fantasy Type 0 and while I was only barely aware of it before now I must have this in my life.
I pirated a dody PSP version on my craptop and it seems pretty good.
Even though its a high school thing there is blood and sad death, which is actually a rarity in the old FF.
Oh and it seemed to play ok too, but it died before I really got to the meat of the gameplay
Is that the Xenobladey one that Greenius made me watch? Looked pretty cool!
Nah that’s Final Fantasy XV, Type-0 is a kind of spin-off thingie.
Eeyup.
Things you should know:
– It’s a portable game. Its designed as such. The gameplay will be a bit weird on a non-portable.
– The actual combat from what I played is a bit obtuse. Throws you in and likes to tell you about its systems without actually explaining them properly. Also later on it apparently gets brutally difficult.
– All the characters are named after a deck of cards. The main character is Ace, and then there are eight others with numeric names (Deuce through Nine), Jack, Queen and King.
– If that whole L’Cie nonsense from FFXIII annoyed you, prepared to be annoyed again, because the game was developed as part of the XIII metaverse so it has the same teminology and concepts. Crystals and shit.
– It’s an action game, basically extending the ideas they came up with for the gameplay in Crisis Core FF7. The game’s director was Hajime Tabata, who was also the Crisis Core director and is now the main director (previously co-director) for FFXV as well. So there will be a lot of similarities there.
– Once you get past the opening, the game is basically a sequence of missions. You talk to a dude and get a list of available missions to do and then go and do them and periodically you can do a story mission instead of a side mission.
– Game will be Dual Audio \o/ The Japanese cast is absolutely stellar, but the US dub was basically all recorded back in like 2011 for the PSP localization that the fuckers have been sitting on and never released. So if the XIII dub annoyed you, this is probably good news?
Brutally difficult action games are my thing which drew me to it.
I really wish they’d release Crisis Core on the EU PSN. I never played it and really wanted to but could never find a copy that wasn’t $Stupid+ while I still had my PSP.
Hola Tay
Had an ok weekend. DMed on @Saturday morning (that autocorrected to “died,” which would make this literally a post mortem) for a special guest group, then went to the magic prerelease where we got slaughtered twice, drew one (two headed giant games). Then on Sunday started getting sick, so watched movies and played a bunch of Destiny, including calling for mercy help from @masha2932. This week: more job searching. Yay.
A Monday morning question: one of the films I watched was the Hollow Crown version of Shakespeare’s Henry V. Favourite Shakespeare adaptation?
Can’t remember who directed it but the King Lear version with Brian Blessed.
Brian Blessed was so suited for that role.
I’m a fan of Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet.
Said no high school student ever.
12 Angry Men and To Kill A Mockingbird were the best.
10 Things I Hate About You as an adaptation of Taming of the Shrew.
I’ve enjoyed the Kenneth Branagh “Much Ado”, but granted I haven’t watched it in a few years so my memory may be rose tinted.
Sons of Anarchy as Hamlet.
*looks up from totem pole carving*
….
*goes back to totem pole carving*
Does Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead count? 😛
Merchant of Venice, the 2004 adaptation with Al Pacino – hands down my favourite Shakespearean play, and that’s the only adaptation I’ve seen.
Forbidden Planet is a pretty cool guy, based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Lion King as an adaption of Hamlet?
Day off work today, so I’m taking my son to McDonalds for lunch, then to watch Planes: Fire And Rescue, should be good.
GET LARGE MEALS!
Yeah, I did, won the only thing that is useless to me, a cinema voucher.
GOTTA GET THOSE MONOPOLY STAMPS WHICH IS FUNNY BECAUSE MCDONALDS HAS A MONOPOLY ON FAST FOOD PROMOTIONS AT THE MOMENT HAHAHAHAHAHA LIKE THE PROMOTION THAT THEY’RE RUNNING RE: MONOPOLY.
YES I’VE BEEN EATING MCDONALDS 24/7 SINCE THE PROMOTION, WHY DO YOU ASK!?
Hungry Jacks are accepting the instant win coupons from them.
WELL I GUESS THEIR MONOPOLY IS GOING TO END FITTINGLY WITH A FIST FIGHT!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
DOES ANYONE ELSE SMELL COPPER!?
This post prompted me to go get a Filet O’Fish meal since it’s the only thing I can fit into my calorie plan for today and I got Liverpool Street Station on both my drink and fries. So I’m guessing that’s not the rare one that will actually win me the laptop then.
Hey everyone. Hope all your weekends were great. Played a load of destiny. I am now level 20 and have to do all the Mars missions. Playing on Xbox one. Anyone doing that feel free to add me. Wouldn’t mind some people to team up with.
Foxriver is my gamer tag.
Besides that just installed a bunch of pc games last night so will play them when I am not playing destiny.
Enjoy your days
Thanks for the add on Steam!
Weekend Wrap-Up:
Fun times on Saturday playing board games basically all day. Also Costco pizza regrets. It left me in a slightly odd mental state though, which may have contributed to the poor life decisions I would make on Sunday.
I woke up having having slept in way too late, and when I awoke I had a strange, powerful desire to play Hyrule Warriors. So I went off to a nearby shopping center and proceeded to visit BigW, Target, JB and EB and compare prices. I also wanted to grab Theatrhythm Curtain Call, but of course it looks like they didn’t make enough copies and so no one had it in stock except EB. Purchased it there. When asked if there was “anything else or just that” I asked if they’d price match a Wii U with JB / BigW. Was told no. Their loss.
Ended up buying the Mario Kart 8 bundle from BigW. JB had it for the same price, but I saved $5 on Hyrule Warriors. Took it home, plugged it in, then discovered that Nintendo are absolutely fucking shit at this whole hardware thing.
Started the initial setup wizard, and discovered they decided it was a good idea to put it in without a back button, but put a cancel button where it should be. Additionally they’ve implemented this amazing, wonderful thing where it’s able to see your WiFi network until it tries to connect to it, then magically it doesn’t exist any more! This is while my Wii U has direct line of site to the router which is about 2m away from it.
After about 15 mins of frustration I was able to figure out that I needed to turn off DHCP and manually specify an IP address that was high enough not to be inside my router’s DHCP pool but inside the right range to communicate through it. Fantastic first impression! This was the most annoyingly complicated network setup I’ve had to do on any computing device I’ve used in the last decade or so, and I used to run Linux at work. :\
Eventually got the thing to run. It locked up completely during initial setup and I had to yank the power plug. That was a fun experience. I also liked the bit where I had to attempt to turn it off after sitting on a completely white screen for 5 minutes upon leaving the store, and then that magically made it start working again.
The whole thing runs like complete ass too. Why does it take 30 seconds to bring up the settings apps? Why can’t I turn off the goddamn fucking irritating music that’s all through the menus?
The update process was amazing fun too. Downloading that huge update over slow, congested wifi because it doesn’t have an Ethernet port. I liked the way it would randomly and inexplicably drop the connection and abort the whole process and dump me back to the main menu again. All three times. To be fair, I muted the gamepad thing after about 10 minutes so maybe it wasn’t silent. At least it was able to resume the download I guess.
Took me about 3 hours to get the update downloaded and installed. Went to play Curtain Call instead, but realized my 3DS hadn’t been charged since before I went away to NZ for my grandmother’s funeral in July. Hadn’t missed it. Put it on the charger.
Went back to reading Brandon Sanderson’s “Words of Radiance” instead. Excellent book, miles better than the first of the Stormlight books (which really plodded badly for the first third or so). Finished it last night.
Have not yet been able to play Hyrule Warriors. Pathfinder tonight will take precedence too, and I’m betting that my copy of Fairy Fencer F will arrive today or tomorrow. So I may not actually even touch my new Wii U for a while. You win this round, Nintendo. 🙁
Anyway, I now have a Wii U. I haven’t purchased any accessories or games. There’s not much that really really excites me in the current line-up but I knew I’d need the system eventually for –==xxXenobladeXx==– and the new LoZ and I had the spare cash to buy it (not really but let’s pretend I did) so thought I might as well.
Are there any must-own games for the system? And is it worth getting one of those ‘pro’ controllers so I don’t have to use the gamepad since it seems pretty awful to hold for extended periods?
Only Wii-U games I’ve played are Mario Kart 8 and LoZWW(HD). Of those, Mario Kart is the only must-play.
I’ve got a bunch of games that I can’t even get to because Mario Kart keeps blocking my way. But I hear good things about Pikmin 3 and decent things about Zombi-U.
Monster Hunter
Wonderful 101
Pikmin 3
Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze (? Don’t have it myself)
Pro controller has been well worth it for me, that’s my default controller when possible (even for off TV play)
I might just throw my thoughts in here and say Monster Hunter might not be worth it if you can wait for Monster Hunter 4 … whenever we are getting it.
Next year. And I have MH3 for 3DS, didn’t really get much out of it so that’s a skipper for me.
You can read the text, use a nice controller, and go online with the Wii u version!
Hi all. Does anyone have any good recommendations for cheap/F2P multiplayer games?
I’m having a couple of friends over on Saturday for a bit of a LAN day, but I’m new to the PC master race and am drawing a blank as to what we should play.
Quake live just came out on steam. That’s F2P. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a lan though!
Most other F2P games I know of are mmo kinda games.
Loadout is pretty ok. F2P on Steam
edit: also, Alien Swarm.
I second Loadout. I haven’t played it yet but it looks like a lot of fun.
There’s also Team Fortress 2 but I personally stay away from it. I feel like it’s only fun if you’re obsessively good at it, bot really a “pick up and play” kind of thing.
yeah, Loadout is pretty much a 3rd person TF2. with less hats.
Alien Swarm is pretty great, me and a mate played through all the missions a few times.
Team Fortress 2 is like the ultimate F2P game.
STARCRAFT. Still amazing. And you can play it off backup CDs, so only person needs to ‘own’ it.
#IsItStillTalkLikeAPirateDay?
I wouldn’t know how to organise it all, but I remember playing CS:1 (or maybe 2, but I digress!) and had an awesome time on LAN shooting each other in the face. I think it is relatively cheap, I think it’d be about $6 each on Steam!
Garry’s Mod is a great game. Absolutely hilarious once you know how to do things.
Warframe is perfect if you have 4 players.
Blacklight Retribution or Loadout.
ugh… reply fail to @negativezero Sounds more like you have issues with your home network than a problem with the wii u. I connected mine first go, and downloaded the initial update without dropping once.
Go have a google for it, it’s a massively widespread problem, not just my home network (which, by the way, works fine for every other device I have).
It’s a bit flaky because I’m in an area where there are about twelve other wireless networks visible and they use the entire 2.4ghz band so I’m always getting competing noise. Plus the house is L-shaped with a massive carport with a steel roof that covers out the inner square of the L, if that makes sense, so that introduces a lot of signal quality problems, even for 3G.
So, Hype-rule Scraf Scarf is a pretty cool game. Only done the first 3 missions but am falling in love with it.
Damn right you are!
WOOOO!
Hi.
Hi!
Hello, how are you?
Ok. So Destiny has like 9 ‘races’ which are made up of about five societies, and even the least advanced of them use hovercrafts for everything, so why are the moon, Mars and even parts of Venus covered in fresh tire tracks?
Because
reasons.To be fair, tire tracks on the moon would look fresh even if they were 300 years old.
Unless there’s an atmosphere in Destiny (I don’t know – I haven’t played it).
EDIT: OH WAIT I KNOW. Everyone has those little wheels in their shoes, and that’s how.
That’s not quite true. The moon’s surface does shift, as the heating/cooling cycle from the sun expands and contracts the regolith and cosmic rays hit it. It’s a very, very slow process, but it does happen.
All right, so you’re saying it’s definitely the wheels-in-shoes thing then?
Also why does the moon have full earth gravity?
MagicScience.
Oh man, I would love it if in like 1 in 10,000 Crucible matches it put you on the moon map with proper moon gravity. Everyone spinning off into space when they bounce and shoot. =P
this, first thing I did when I got to the moon was jump and get sad.
I don’t understand who was driving all the rotting cars on Venus for much the same reason. SPEEDER BIKES.
Also that it’s 462 degrees on the surface of Venus and nothing seems fazed by that fact.
SCIENCE atmospheres! Blocking more rays!
I can buy that with terraforming.
So, Big W has Disney Infinity (1) Starter Packs for all consoles for $30.
I can’t afford it, and I’m not sure I even really want it. Please talk me out of it.
You don’t need it. Plus, it’ll probably drop in price as it gets closer to Christmas
(is this helping?)
If you have any plans at all for 2.0, you can get the 1.0 starter figures and playset cheaper off the EB second hand shelf.
Submission fail.
I got it because wife and kids were interested and turns out they all hate it.
That helps! I was thinking my eldest might like it.
Splinter Cell BLacklist is $4.50 on the Humble Store right now. I’m rebuying it, you should grab it too for co-op/mp shenanigans. https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/tomclancys_splintercellblacklist_storefront
That’s a good price for a good game. I will investigate further.
I picked it up on Wii U for $10 at Big W the other day.
Just noting in case that’s of interest for any one else.
Wii U \o/
That’s where I played it the first time!
I just got it on 360 about a week ago and it’s gone onto my pile of shame. By the time i’m ready to re-play it on PC it’ll probably be 80 cents.
I just had to send a tweet to an author (who I am actually on speaking terms with), to find his mailing address, so that my grandfather can send him a letter about his novel.
I think I’m doing the Internet wrong.
EVERYONE! ENTER! FREE DAWN OF WAR MASTER COLLECTION! 5000 to give away!
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/09/19/were-giving-away-five-thousand-steam-keys-for-dawn-of-war-master-collection/
Even if you don’t want it, enter and share the codes with those who don’t score it. Then we can all go to WARRR!! 😀
Already got the whole collection, can always just install it again 🙂
Necrons (Or my army, Techrons) unite! 😀
There. I entered. If I win, I’ll post the keys up here.
I’d prefer if you PM’d to an individual, it might get taken randomly before the person you’re gifting it to can use it. 🙂
Of course, yep, that’s what I meant.
… even if it’s not what I said.
LOOOOOOPS.
It asked me to enter my email twice, then said “YOU ARE ALREADY WAITING FOR A KEY FROM THIS CAMPAIGN”
Instant win Big Mac!
Eating like a king tonight!
did you buy a Big Mac to win it though?
A Burger King?
Male TAYers who are married: did your wife take your surname or keep her own? Was it like, no discussion? If she kept hers, did you mind?
Yeah, we decided that ultimately she’ll take my surname if she knows what’s good for herMy wife, for whatever reason, was pretty keen to take my surname as her own. She did bring up the idea of keeping/combining/double-barrel, but then realised she hated the idea.
I wouldn’t wish my surname on the person I was going to marry! That said already had this discussion with my gf and she’s only taking my surname if I change it =P I’m happy for her to keep hers for as long as she wants!
She took my name. Wasn’t really any discussion and she seemed pretty keen on the idea. She is pretty traditional with things like that though.
Recently married, my wife and I are in the process of both double-barrelling our names together.
It was a mutally agreed upon decision. I’m pretty sure the discussion was “Hey, how about we just stick our surnames together?” “Ok, cool.”
She was Walsh. I was Smith. It’s hard to find two more common surnames.
She definitely didn’t want to be a Smith. I didn’t particularly want that either, tbh.
So we double-barrelled. We considered other alternatives like Smalsh (which, a little amusingly, sounds like it should be a verb for the action of smashing two surnames together), but in the end Walsh-Smith has a good ring to it, and we’re happy sharing a surname.
Edit: it was the product of much discussion (read: planning), but there was no disagreement at any point in the process.
is that what the W stands for? I assumed it was your middle initial.
I thought his first name was Shanew.
You know it!
It is! My middle name is William. My pen-name pre-dates my married name. It’s just a happy coincidence.
(…middle name twins)Another William-middle-named person reporting for duty. o7 Unimaginative, but better than some things people call their kids…sweet, that worked out well then. I saw you discussing your handle earlier, my initials are SMG (my real name is Sub Machine Gun :P) so I naturally went with Smeg as my handle which evolved into Smegmata which I thought was hilarious.
Shane W-Smith. It’s more sci-fi that way.
She kept her own. I’m not attached to my name so much as to foist it on her, plus we don’t plan to have kids – if we were going to have kids she’d probably have taken my name, but that’s a non-issue. She prefers her own name. It was never really a discussion.
I’m not married anymore, but my wife didn’t take my name. Didn’t phase me, and probably for the best anyway given the way it worked out! 😉
Not married but we’ve talked about this and I think at the moment she’s leaning towards keeping hers for professional reasons. Or taking mine and still using hers for work. I don’t remember, all I know is that I’m adamantly anti-hypen because someone has to think of the children.
My eldest likes having a double-barrel surname. Just saying.
We won’t be precious about it when it’s time for her to get married. She can do what she wants, the same way we did.
I don’t like it, so I’m going to make damned sure that my kids don’t like it. That’s how parenting works, right?
Soon we will have people with twenty hyphens in their surname.
I like how you have no idea about my opinions on this matter. I tried to talk you into taking mine but apparently that’s not okay.
Current discussion is – she’s not keen on double barrel or kids having a different surname than one of the parents,and has been looking forward to changing hers.
I’m not attached to mine and was willing to change. Celebrant stopped our conversation there and pointed out that under current marriage law, legally we both get both surnames.
So I’ll probably change myself on the electoral roll so I can finally be sent the racially profiled ‘happy Chinese new year’ letters from politicians, but personal / professional / kids will end up as my current name for all involved.
You both get both names? So, if you’re Smith and she’s Jones, and she wants to be Jones Smith, you both become Jones Smith? Am I read that right? That’s so weird.
Not quite. Legally, can be Jones OR Smith.
Your birth certificate gives you one legal name, your marriage certificate gives you a second.
Double barrel or other changes require further legal name change processes.
So if she is Jones, I can now choose to be Jones if I take my Smith ID and marriage certificate and ask for a replacement. And she can choose to do the same with Smith.
Also why people can keep one name for professional reasons, but use the other outside that.
I don’t have my heart set on anything (other than finding someone to marry in the first place. =P ) but I think I’d lean towards your partners reasoning. I wouldn’t want the kids to have a different name to their mother, but I also wouldn’t want them to have a combo name.
I could be talked out of that pretty easily though. I mean if the only difference is that one style makes my would be wife slightly happier than the other that’s more than enough justification for me.
Ultimately, my fiancée has stronger feelings about this than I do, so I’m rolling with what she wants.
I do like the small opportunity to screw with politicians at least.
I totally have no reason to think about this at all for a long time, but I’ve got a bit of pressure-that’s-come-from-nowhere-but-my-internal-thoughts going on. In that assuming traditional standards follow through (I don’t know that my sister has any intention of not taking her boyfriends name
ifwhen they end up getting married), I’m pretty much the end of the line. In this country, anyway. My grandfather only had the two sons, and my uncle never had any kids with his wife. I have no idea what we have in terms of family overseas, but as far as I know they spell it differently there anyway. It’s never been brought up by anyone else (yet) so I don’t know how they feel about it at all, but it feels a little important to me to see that it continues.See, I’m very different. Maybe it’s because I’m a woman, or because I am not sentimental, or because my family is a mess and just all over the place, but I don’t care about family names. Like, it’s just a name; these days so few people have some great lineage. When people (men) talked about keeping the family name – back in the old days that was kind of a way of keeping it alive to scare off enemies, with this great mighty army of Taco, you know?
I love my family enough, but what I really, really care about is the new family I want to make, you know? My husband, our children. I don’t know, that’s just me. I’m still in a sad mood, hah.
Why the sad mood? Are you getting pressure or grief about this issue?
Yeah, it’s kinda weird actually when I stop and think about it. We’re not particularly close to Dad’s side of the family at all, his parents were never as interested in us when we were little as Mum’s were. Definitely more “family” with them than the others. Also I am stupidly sentimental, if I could I’d probably keep every old thing I had ever (which I seem to be making a pretty good effort of anyway :P). If anything I should be adopting their surname, since that’s my Italian side and I identify with that more readily than the other. Though I guess by now I’m also attached to it in that it’s become a part of my identity in another way – having such a unique surname is one of the biggest influences in my keeping internet life and real life separated, avoiding teh scary social medias etc. I imagine that if I was just a John Smith or something I mightn’t have cared as much.
I’m not male, but I am married and didn’t take my husband’s surname. There were a few reasons for this. One, I have a daughter from a previous relationship who has my maiden name so I didn’t want her to feel left out, name-wise. Two, my Dad is big into family history and he only had daughters so I’m doing my bit to keep his name around for a bit longer. Thirdly, I didn’t get married until I was 33 so I kind of got used to my name, and lastly, Mr. Strange’s surname is silly. 😛
So my daughter and I have one surname,and my son and husband have a different one.
I have discussed that same thing with my partner and her parents after we get married (won’t be for a few more years) we will go through all the paper work to get my partners daughters last name changed to my last name. If I remember correctly it was my partner or her parents that brought it up.
lol I was gonna say.. wouldn’t have anything to do with what his name actually is would it? 😉 lol
She took mine.
Now I’m playing torment as the nameless one
Actually had a bit of a discussion and we wanted us both to have the same name as our kids which was the primary reason to change. My family does large family gatherings which her’s doesn’t so for me I wouldn’t really feel like I was joining a family while she was. That and tradition basically the choice we made
Wife kept hers. Our daughter has mine.
No real discussion, I’m not fussed and always said my wife was free to choose. Also, given my surname becomes the butt of bad jokes quickly I was surprised when she wanted to give our daughter my name.
Same as what @beavwa said, wife knows she can use both at anytime but we can’t see a reason to change it.
Sunsoar’s name is Seymour Butts confirmed.
Oh cool, a message from mum. Something about a suspected bomb not too far away from our house. Lots of helicopters going around. Residents evacuated (don’t think she means us, looks too far away for that).
Good stuff.
That’s a bit of a bombshell.
I replied telling her to be sure to get video if it goes off.
I don’t think she was impressed.
What a blast it is being on TAY for these jokes.
They’re really booming.
Sorry, it’s a bit early for puns I suppose. I had my chance and I blew it.
That’s ok, I’m sure you were just confused.
Ah, stop banging on about it.
I know, right? It really ticks me off.
Ugh I feel so seedy after last night..
Had a BBQ/Piss up at my mates place last night I took my slushie machine, so many Jägermeister & coke slushies along with Captain Morgan Spiced Rum & Coke slushies which melted cause I used half a bottle of rum for only 3 drinks..
Then there was the Johnnie Walker Double Black, Chivas Regal 12 year, Jura Superstition Scotch & something else I think.. Good fun.
And we also plaved Chav.
I want that game!
And I want those slushies!
It’s awesome. My mate bought it a few years ago, first time we’ve gotten to play it. Way better than Monopoly.
@welbot (also other MPQ players)
Yeah, I’ve been playing for a bit. My daily reward says I’m up to day 331; I think I started before daily rewards began but I also know I’ve missed 2 days, so it’s somewhere around that number.
Can definitely recommend selling Yelena to make roster space if you need it. Black Widow (Modern) can have uses, with her stun, but since that power scales only with covers and not levels, you’re probably not going to be too badly off if you need to sell her too.
Juggernaut is now easily the best 1*, and I would definitely say he’s worth levelling all the way up to 40. The change to Storm’s “Mistress of the Elements” power greatly reduced her effectiveness; I’d still keep her around but probably wouldn’t advise on focusing her levels.
For 2*’s, Black Widow (Original) is still top tier even after the True Healing change, she’s just not #1 anymore. That probably goes to Ares, even with his self-damaging moves. I’ve seen a lot of people sing the praises of Johnny Storm since 2* tier otherwise is pretty devoid of active Black abilities. His red is brutal at 3* tier, so I imagine that it’s going to be pretty useful in 2*. Daken and Thor probably round out the rest of the truly useful 2* group.
Feel free to ask if you want my advice.
I took a screen cap of my heroes!
http://steamcommunity.com/id/welbot/screenshots/?appid=234330
I’ve had to get rid of a few heroes that I really would have preferred to keep (like Bagman – Bit pissed I had to let him go) but the others haven’t been too hard to let go of. Iron man and Black Widow were probably the hardest though. Top tier stun from Black Widow is just awesome! Stuns front person for 5 turns, and other team members for 2 turns! Helps a hell of a lot!
also my daily gift count is up to about 138 I think. So far to go to catch where you are!!!
Oh yeah! just got an upgrade for Polarity shift for Marvel Now Magneto! Now I can change 5 tiles to blue in one hit! BAM!
Ah, I forgot about MN Magneto. He’s also somewhat decent. He pairs very well with 2* Storm, but providing her with a lot of Blue for her AOE attack + single target stun.
yep! I’m loving using her and magneto in this event! both boosted, so with Storm, I’m doing over 1200 damage to each team member, plus 2 turn stun! So good!
I will save my coins up to increase the number of people in the alliance I have have made so you can join us that is unless you are already in an alliance. Only due to it being 600 coins to go from 5 people to 6 people.
it’s a damn shame we can’t all pool our coins to do it, cos 600 is a lot.. enough to open 2 more hero slots!! Also, that sucks if it only increases the allaiance by one member 😐 you’d think for that kind of coin, they’d at least open up 5 new slots..
It is a lot and I do need more slots for covers but it will also be good to have @mawt in the alliance.
ya would be good. Does seem a bit silly that doing something for the alliance, can’t be contributed to by all existing members. I’d gladly donate 100-200, but I’m over half way to 2 new hero slots atm, and I dun wanna lose new characters yet!!! Perhaps after this batch i’ll add another slot if there’s still the want.
Nah that’s alright. I have an iTunes card somewhere around the house I need to use. Shall make good use of it.
Save your coins – I’m currently not sure if I’ll even be playing by next week.
My play time dropped significantly after Season 2, and in the week or two since Destiny has come out I’ve come close to missing days entirely. To me it feels like the beginning of the end.
Edit: If I do stick around, then I have a bunch of coins I can spend. So it might be an idea if someone steps out and re-joins after I pay for the roster slot.
I can jump out of a slot once the event ends to do that if you want. I just don’t want to lose any bonus stuff I might have acquired. Not sure if leaving the group would negate all my hard work or not!
Event participation is still tied to you. Points from each alliance member are tallied once the event ends to work out the alliance score, so you can swap people in and out but doing it right after an event ends is probably the best way to do it.
So it turned out I wasn’t charged right for the material I grabbed yesterday from Spotlight. The girl scanned the red through twice and didn’t do the white at all (which was the one on special).
Mum went and sorted it out for me, got $7 back now. Woo!
Fool. She intentionally scanned it through twice so you would return to the store, not your mum.
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Ooh what are you making?
Friends.
A costume!
…that must remain secret because @greenius did something or other.
So you’re making a life sized @greenius
inflatablius? O_o
Well there is a lot of green.
But far more red and white.
You’re going to cosplay as Hyrule from Hyrule Warriors? I love that guy!
No I am going to be Warrior from Hyrule Warriors.
Hyrule is the horse.
I’ll just assume it’s a giant taco costume or something. The colours match up!
If the tacos you eat are red and white I don’t think it is a taco.
300 Rise of an Empire was pretty longwinded.
The fuck scene was funny though
something’s missing today.
@dc where are you?
*circles wagons* nope not there
*kicks tumbleweeds* not there either
*checks in buildings* Don’t he stupid dc hats buildings
*gives up*
Edit: Since you’re tagged already, Have you been watching Boardwalk?
He wrote a blog post today. My guess is he’s stuck in the Wasteland … 2.
According to my Steam friends list, yes.
aah, good. He’s doing what he loves. Carry on then.
He’s going to be gone a while, there is so much post apocalyptic urban decay in that game
I’m missed! :’)
Yeah, buddy. It’s pretty great. Almost like a reset. Perfect time to jump in if you haven’t seen previous seasons. Love the flashbacks in particular.
Boardwalk Empire Season 5 spoilers
gives some great insight into the characters backgrounds. I knew Nucky’s dad was a prick but he was worse than I imagined, I feel really sorry for young Knuk, on one hand he has an abusive father figure and on the other there’s a corrupt official, poor kid didn’t have much hope of making an honest living. Also interesting to see Capone moving up in the world, I like all the yes men he’s surrounded by, it’s like they all share 1 personality, p.s you’re always missed, you’re one of the few TAYbies I don’t feel like I’m being intrusive with when I comment on their stuffAnd you know the Commodore ain’t good, especially from what he did to Gillian. (Jimmy’s mum!)
YOU’RE AWESOME, BUDDY! NEVER INTRUSIVE. EVER.
http://gematsu.com/2014/09/final-fantasy-xv-director-talks-development-open-world-combat-demo
So Hajime Tabata (the new director of FFXV) says stuff that sounds very, very encouraging:
This is why Nomura getting yanked off and replaced by Tabata is a good thing. Nomura sat on Versus XIII for years and years. Tabata comes in, has everyone start over, and 2 years in they’re nearly done and it’s looking pretty good. And he’s doing it with a much smaller team that doesn’t waste time and resources and is working toward a clear goal with a clear plan in mind.
Actually sounds a lot like what happened with FFXIV when they fired the director and put Yoshida in place there instead. FFXIV is still doing really solid numbers, exceeded expectations and pulled Squenix out of a fairly dire looking hole.
They need to get Kitase back in the helm.
They need a Kitase and The Gooch to do something together again.
Oh god yes.
Anyone wanna play some quake live tonight? We can schedule an event or something in steam?
I got pathfinder on tonight with Popdart and the gang but I’d be up for it afterwards certainly.
Hell yeah!
Call me “Cannon Fodder”.
What time?
how’s 7? When suits you all? I don’t have any where to be tonight, so I’m happy to wait until we get a few more peeps if we can! What time’s pathfinder likely to finish @tech_knight?
Also, if you log in, you should be able to add me as a friend in the game (has it’s own friend list). You’ll find me as welbot
I’ll be there! 😀
well let’s see when TK will be ready. if he finishes around 9 or something, we might be better to wait til then. Might have some others from my steam friends to bring along too. We’ll see!
cc @crazyguy1990
I’ll be done around 10pm, so don’t wait for me I’ll join in later on 🙂
haha well I don’t think we’ll play for that long somehow 😉 But I’m up for a few rounds now and some later
Good hustle today, kittens. Time to be sad in a big bubble bath and eat chocolate. Till tomorrow xo
Fuck the sun with an axe. 🙁
Alright, I’ve waited long enough.
I am GingerChris86, AMA
Are you really the head of the Kwik-E-Mart?
As long as you dont ask any more questions, Yes
If a large dog had your dog in a death grip, would you stick your finger up the large dog’s bum to save your dog?
I’d probably complain about it, and only if I had a glove or plastic bag, but yes…. O wait, if I was walking it I’d have a couple of plastic bags, so hell yeah, only with protection though, cos ick
You have a choice: You can shoot your partner and live the rest in your life in misery while the world becomes a utopia or you can not and live a perfect happy life wanting for nothing but the world falls into its final days.
Oh god… I’d have to ask him first, thats how our relationship is done. I’ll ask him later and let you know…
Why GingerPeopleEater? Do you only eat Ginger people or are you a Red head with a penchant for cannibalism?
*squeak http://www.australiantimes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Luke-McGregor-comedy.jpg
Up until October last year I was just plain ol’ Gingerchris86. people started doing halloween nicknames. The only slightly horrific thing I could think of was a play on the purple people eater.
I’m late to this party due to work, but I’m here! 😀
– If you could have any animal as an obedient pet, what would it be, and why?
– How did your parents react when (if?) you came out as bisexual?
– What is your biggest fear?
– What’s your secret talent?
– Do you have a preference with males or females (sorry, I don’t know any bi people other than you, and am curious how it goes :3)
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
-Giant Turtle, BECAUSE TURRRRRRTLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEE!!!! (also so I could ride it like a horse)
– Well, relief I think, because the sentence before that was I have a boyfriend. Initially they danced around it but weren’t critical about it. Lately they’ve been lovely, Buying a Blow up double mattress for use by Anton and I (for that exact reason).
– Spiders
– Being able to silently dutch oven people. Also being able to start excellent projects but never Finish them
– I have a preference with personality generally. I ‘ve had 1 more boyfriends than girlfriends but the last 3 have been boys. Sexually I’ve been with more boys. But I like to think I appreciate them equally. The attraction is certainly even, but the attraction to me is more in the boy camp, if that makes sense. But that isnt to say I take what I can get…
The fire hose – because of it’s unpredictable aim!
Aliens land and the fate of the world rests on your dancing ability. Do you do the YMCA or the Macarena?
Macarena. Because I’ve poked my own eyes with my fingers doing the YMCA
RPG TALK!
Thought I might as well repost this here because I think @redartifice’s reply to @popdart5 got lost in the madness of previous page TAY. Did we ever make a decision on the whole leveling thing we were talking about a week or so ago? Are we going to shift over to the “fast” leveling system?
A trillion XP per game.
Infinity XP or no deal!
@popdart5: Also, I want a pony.
…
No really, I think it’d be pretty useful to have a pack horse rather than lugging a backpack full of stuff.
Ponies are imba.
Shhh >:(
I suggest you each roll a d10 after every battle. You add that many zeroes to the XP you gain.
Totally balanced.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251653277083&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en
Used 3DS for $100.
I finally managed to download and pay for Minecraft.
Currently, I need to write a speech, but all I can think about is Minecraft. I NEED IT.
I’m refreshing the user profile page every 30 seconds in the hope that zetrox2k messages me the server details.
Have you tried hitting him up on Twitter?
Don’t have the tweeters.
Also – server is 43.245.160.22 if you’ve been whitelisted. 🙂
Thanks. Turns out I’m not whitelisted yet. Hey, @zetrox2k ! Whitelist plz!
Sending him tweet – does he have your minecraft username? if not post it here – i’m including link to your comment. 🙂
Username: Phlanispo
My day so far:
Wake up at 4:15am, struggle to turn off the alarm. Drive from Wagga Wagga to Dubbo. See an oddly specific sign. Took Freya to work. Nap time. Watched random Youtube crap. Coated my very sore legs in tiger balm. Contemplated more naps before picking up Freya from work.
You should slow down before you burn out.
But if I slow down, what hope have I got of finding $10?
TAYKART? TAAAAAAAAYKART?
Pathfinder! PAAAAAAAATHFINDER!
I will join you at 8:30
Thanks, but sadly, I won’t be around then. Thanks, though!
Sorry =( I was eating dinner and knitting
No need to apologise. I kind of suspect that TAYkart is dead. At least until the DLC drops in November 🙂
Steve-o asked me about taykart so it seems at least 3 of us are jumping on at the wrong times
Urge to replay a Final Fantasy game again is getting more insistent but I have no idea which one. Everytime I start to decide on one something remembers the awesome parts from another and I get confused again.
Goddamn Theatrhythm…
Final FantaXenoblade!
Or FFIX because Vivi.
New Fanta flavour ?
I have an urge at the moment to buy FF13 on Steam, even though I already own the game on PS3 and never finished it.
Dorkly fixed the ‘terrible’ poster for Guardians of the Galaxy.
@NegativeZero Is Sakura Spirit any good?
I cracked and bought it anyway.
Oh my god. Holy shit I’ve been waiting 10 years for this.
11 years ago, I had a friend with the original Xbox. Since I only had a PS1 at the time, it was the most advanced shit ever. I remember I played this 3D platformer game where I was a cat with a gigantic vacuum cleaner. It seemed pretty fun at the time. I never got the name of the game, but I really wanted to play it, or at least know what the title was.
A few years ago, I set myself a campaign to find the name of this game. I scoured the internet. I googled several variations of ‘cats with vacuum cleaners video game’ multiple times to no avail. I gave up about two years ago.
Then, I read this Dorkly comic about dead Microsoft properties. One of the jail cells read ‘Blinx the Timesweeper.’ I was curious. What was this game? I googled it, set it to images because I couldn’t be bothered reading the Wikipedia article.
I gasped. I had found it. It took 11 years, but I found it. Blinx the Timesweeper.
If you’d asked me I would’ve told you. It had an insane difficulty curve if I remember right
Man, if you asked here I could’ve told you. Blinx was the shit.
Blinx 2 was ass though.
As @scree said, all you had to do was ask, I’m sure a fair few of us would’ve known. Hell I remembered the name of it from your description, and if I recall correctly I only played an hour or two of it years ago when it first came out.
I already thought of Blinx when I read that and I’ve only played it a few times on Xbox demo units in-store 😛
You should’ve asked!
Are you unfamiliar with Remember This?
The Kotaku community knows EVERY GAME IN EXISTENCE. All you need is ask!
Z For Zachariah.
I had that very same dilemma. I remembered the plot of this book that I read in school and crowdsourcing TAY helped me figure out the title; namely @redartifice. Thanks again, Red.
Hey @greenius, You obviously haven’t been banging on about how everybody should buy Xenoblade enough, Ozgameshop still have it in stock.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/wii-games/xenoblade-chronicles-solus-game-wii
Time to get those second copies people!
https://twitter.com/JoelGreenius/status/514018438155481089
Ok, time for an MQFT
D1
T
D2
L
I
D3
And yes, @liondrive, I know you’re gonna vote for the D, but which one dammit! XD
Xenoblade… !
Ha! Joke’s on you. My copy hasn’t arrived in the mail yet XD
You can’t have sex without 2 D’s, so D2! 😀
(don’t any of you try to argue that with me >:3)
D4!
If I could afford it, I’d buy an XBone right now so I could play D4. Why is D4 not on your list with all the other Ds?!
I haven’t got it yet. Was gonna buy it on Friday, but it wasn’t on the Xbone store yet, then I ran out of money. Probably pick it up this Friday.
I finally got Dishonored working again! \o/
I just had to enable Cloud synchronization in Steam.
😀
TAY RPG Pathfinder completed for another night.
GM Summary: Looks like next time will be a party to remember.
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
Sent you an updated copy of my char sheet.
@redartifice we should probably also go over our plan for this little caper prior to next session.
I had completely stuffed my character by not leveling any skills or taking any feats whatsoever so I have rectified that and fixed it up to what I should have with the help of @rize, @sernobulus, @negativezero and @tech_knight so if any of it is wrong blame them 😛
Keldar really wanted to fight a dragon but he knows how these things go. You’ve gotta prove yourself before the real adventuring starts!
Sorry guys I really did next to nothing in that session 🙁
I didn’t do to much aswell. I was thinking I should have gone to the Adventurer’s guild and try to talk to some of the professionals.
I’m really not sure what else I could do, since my search in the university didn’t really help much, not sure where else I could go for anything Dem’nion would actually want to do, he’s a bit of a loner that way I guess.
Maybe next time. It’s always handy to have a few things floating around in your mind of what your character wants to do when you’re not currently in the middle of an adventure.
Well my character is the always excited/thinks he can take anything on type. Buying a round of drinks and maybe getting a few pointers from real bonafide adventurers would seem like the kind of thing my character would do. Although he did just get over being drugged *glares at @freezespreston* so I think try to sleep that off is a good idea. =P
I spent most of that session playing Theatrhythm since there literally wasn’t anything for my character to do.
Next time if you feel as though your character is being left out, mention to me if you want to do something in particular. It could be as simple as going out and training a bit.
They’ve had their share if the spotlight so I’m not really worried. It’s a group effort.
Thanks for being a team player Freeze. I’ll make sure that something interesting comes your way soon.
The only downside about watching the Brownlow Medal is having to deal with the Channel 7 ads.
Even if you were watching it on Fox Footy. 🙁
I just checked /r/afl after it was all over. Much saner. The Brownlow count is a bit of a wank.
Still, Priddis… definitely one of those years that nobody could pick it. Damn you, Gaz. Getting injured and making the Brownlow impossible to predict (and the two next best players this year are two players the umpires loathe and never give votes to).
…aaand 3 hours of diablo is quite enough for tonight.
Amateur.
There’s still 9.5 hours until the work day starts. Don’t give up yet.
PS4 version? I need people to play with now that everyone has jumped on the Destiny bandwagon.
Yes! I haven’t played with anyone else yet other than @batguy. I have a level 15ish Demon Hunter and a level 20ish Crusader.
Sounds like a diablo party shall need to be made. If so and it is a time I can make I shall be able to join. I have a level 68 demon hunter and a 70 crusader
I think @stange was getting Diablo soon too and might be keen for some smashing&looting.
\o/ smash smash stab stab bash bash loot loot.
Woof woof
*30ish crusader
Have you tried playing with the apprentice mode? I have done that a couple of time with my other half using a level 1 while I used my level 70. It boated her attack to 175k. If you ever need a boost like that I could always join ya and then kill all the things
I’m definitely not in any rush. Happy to just cruise along with our moderately leveled guys, growing at a natural pace.
She’s welcome to do whatever with her alt, though.
We’re up to level 30 already? \o/
@phlanispo
I’m trying to find that write up you did on that Pokemon game you love. Is it Mystery Dungeon? I picked up the game (Explorers of Time) today for $4 and I wanted to re-read your post about it. If that was the one, of course.
OH MY GOD SOMEONE ACTUALLY BOUGHT IT
Give me a bit, I’ll go find it. I made several posts re-iterating the exact same points. You will not believe how much adrenaline is coursing through me right now.
@jajabinks2 We did it! We convinced someone to play it! I know, I can’t believe it either!
EDIT: Okay calm down Phlanispo. Calm down. You can’t explain the awesomeness of that game without completely spoiling the plot. In fact, every explanation you’ve given spoils the plot. Just tell him outright, in a non-spoiler fashion.
I finally tracked it down. Whilst not spoiler-heavy, it does ruin some of the magic. I have edited it to make it less spoiler-y
1. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Time I Didn’t Want To Say GoodbyeTears. Manly tears, of course. Followed by girly tears. Followed again by infant wailing.
This is a sad, sad game protected by a gelatinous layer of happy-go-lucky adventure.
But what kind of game is Mystery Dungeon, anyway. Simply put, this game is a rogue-like dungeon crawler that uses a turn-based structure on a tile-based floor from an isometric perspective. It’s pretty hard.
I will spoil as little story as possible in my song and dance routine on why I love this game.
The first half of the game is rather happy. The big bad gets captured, and all seems well. You wait for the credits to roll. SUDDENLY [bad thing happens]. You escape of course, but the feeling of happy-go-lucky adventure never returns, instead replaced by desperation, fear, distrust, sacrifice, grey morality and of course, the [very, very bad thing]. What did you say, dear reader? That doesn’t sound like my Pokemon? WELL THIS IS CHUNSOFT’S POKEMON, MOTHERF***ER! YOUR GODS HAVE FALLEN TO INSANITY! GO AHEAD AND CRY, WEAKLING!
I have way better explanations, but it took so long to find this one that I can’t be bothered looking for them. Basically, it’s got a good story, good music, fantastic atmosphere, some real tearjerker moments. The best and worst thing is how long it takes for the story to get really interesting. Good because it contrasts with the batshit-crazy feels later on, bad because you might give up before then.
Okay, cool. Thanks. I did play about half an hour yesterday and it does start off a bit shit.
Explorers of Time for $4 is a steal.
It starts off kinda slow, and there’ll be some sections where the story doesn’t progress – just keep playing. And don’t be afraid to spend time levelling up either.
The story, once it picks up, is one of the best I’ve ever experienced though, and is definitely far better than any in the main series. There’s crazily good post game content as well.
But for $4, you’ve picked up an amzing game.
°
Maaaaad. Got to the Portals section (second to last) of the Vault of Glass.
All credit to Piat and Co, was good fun.
Argh I can’t believe how close we got, Bungie are some sick sadistic bustards. I got the timers wrong so it actually does reset tonight, so we won’t get another shot at that until we clear it again but at least we won’t be spending and hour in the gorgons maze next time! Probably Wednesday or Thursday night, I think a few people aren’t available tonight, including me.
@piat
No worries, hit me up whenever.
Really like to do a weekly/ L26 summoning pits sometime as well for my exotic bounties if anyone is game.
@ynefel @transient_mind @Saturday ?
If you’re willing to wait till Friday morning I reckon I can hit 26 by then and come help you?
@pupp3tmast3r
Don’t worry man, there will be many more runs to come, especially as more peeps are starting to hit 26.
I’d like to do the weekly sooner as I then need to do 25 strikes by Sunday. But I’ll hit you up on Friday and we shall kick some ass.
Awwwww I want to come for the raid too!! D= Dammit guys can’t you run it on a weekend >.
I believe the other TAY guys are running on the weekends, I think mawt is organising that team
I’ve been running with Mawt and co. Had pretty great success on Friday and Saturday night without any guides, figuring it out ourselves. Will likely have a crack again with them this week.
Haha we were only using general tips up until we spent almost an hour on the Gorgons maze only to find out we had been walking right past the exit
Took us a few goes to get it right as well.
Who do I need to add to join in on the raid over the weekends?? =O I reckon I can get to 26-27 by Friday this week =]
Driving test at 6:30 tomorrow. Better start panicking.
am? Jeez!
Good luck young grasshopper.
Don’t forget to check your mirrors before indicating!! You can do eeeeet!
Don’t forget pedestrians give you bonus points.
Good luck. Try not to stress and just relax while you do the test.
Don’t forget to shut the driver side door. I did, and it came open as I turned round the first corner. Still passed though, so the rest was obviously super awesome.
Here are some US commercials for Smash Bros.
You weird, Nintendo.
well to be fair, they turned 125 today.. I think that justifies at least a little bit of weird!
I like them.
I was all WOO KIRBY until she snapped the 3DS shut and then I died a little inside.
To be fair, this is the company that advertised the Game Boy as being more fun than a ferret down your trousers… weird has been their bread and butter for a very long time.
@crazyguy1990 @tech_knight sorry about last night. There was a fire around here somewhere last night, and I had to clear out of here for a while. Thanks for the games we did have though Crazyguy! I was hoping I’d get back to play more with you all, but by the time we were all allowed back in, it was a bit late. Next time for sure!
Due to levelling up a spellcaster character in Pathfinder, I wasn’t finished until about 11pm anyway so I should be okay for another day or even tonight 😛
cool cool! Last night I discovered why it’s a bad idea to live on the same block of land as a petrol station. When there’s a fire anywhere in the general area, they evacuate EVERYONE!
Pretty fair, I’d be worried if they didn’t do that
yeah. I’d glad they knocked on my door, rather than letting me sit here oblivious until it exploded or something! 😉
@phlanispo @sunsoar77 –
Im sorry guys!!! was on Destiny last night and didnt notice my twitter /o\
just whitelisted you \o/
Thanks, man! \o/
So I found out that Mum had never had pop rocks last night. Luckily I had some in my showbag.
She wasn’t too impressed. Mainly because she was eating sherbet before that.
oh man pop rocks are the bomb…. love em….
I see what you did there! 😉
glad someone did!
I made chocolate truffles with pop rocks awhile ago. They were awesome.
Today’s dose of feel-good
Still the very best thing on Youtube.
so seeing as @scree got me thinking about candy (thanks for that) my childhood favourite is getting harder and harder to find, and as such i shall use the power of the internuts combined with the powers of TAY!
If anyone sees these things anywhere, let me know. i will litterally buy like 20-30 packs. But the orange ones… ONLY THE ORANGE ONES….
they are dirt cheep (like 50-80 cents a pack) so if you run across them i will reimburse you and be in your debt!
Where are you located? I’m 99% sure they still sell these at the Confectionery Warehouse at Hendra (in Queensland).
Melbourne /o\
Daymmnnnnn, I’ve note seen those for a while. I’d chance my arm at The Sugar Station in Elizabeth Street or Souther Cross station (you can ring to see if they stock them as well), my buddies always seem to find crazy chocolates at Costco as well?
That place is awesome. I need to limit how much money I take with me when I go.
WE TOTALLY HAD A PACKET OR TWO OF THOSE HANGING AROUND FOR SOME REASON.
As in the empty packet. I think we got them in a showbag or something, and then threw the empty containers in with the play kitchen stuff because they were like little milk cartons. Wonder if they’re still there… (Mum works with kids, so a whole load of our old toys are still kicking around)
they are AMAZING…
I think I have seen them at those imported candy shops with candy from the UK and the USA also other places.
I’m sorry D=
Good morning kittens.
Sorry I was such a grump yesterday. Feeling much better today. I cooked the wild boar last night and took some – I think – decent photos of it, so that’s cheered me up. Yay.
Wild boar? Are you Asterix?
Mm, more like Vitalstatistix.
…dammit, must resist easy sexist joke opportunity 😛
Woman, get back in the kitchen? Pfft, fine, I’m a better chef than all the men I know anyway 😉 Go do something useful, and mow the lawn, haha :p
Well I was gonna go with “36, 24, 36” but I guess I have work to do 😛
Haha, oh that’s cute.
Only if you’re 5’3″.
@freezespreston
*makes whipcracking sound*
@evilmonkey
Dammit! Now I’m going to have that terrible song stuck in my head all day.
@freezespreston Well I’m not too far off >_>
Pretty sure you only have yourself to blame for that one @freezespreston
@mrtaco hey gooky she thinks your cute!!
*grabs popcorn*
You haven’t had one of my creations yet.
And despite his protestations to the contrary @Blaghman is a pretty amazing cook.
Wish I could cook the. I would cook all the tasty foods stuff
Boar is amazing
Are you sure, I fail to see links to said photos?
Mm, I get shy about sharing things, but: https://static.squarespace.com/static/52a474b4e4b0d82de8bb5240/t/542090a5e4b07b5243b79be7/1411420327446/
That looks delicious! And it’s a really good photo too 🙂
Thank you 🙂
*tummy gurgle*
Damn that looks good. I’m having buyers regret staring at my $12 Steamed Vegetable salad.
Haha, thank you. But steamed veggies are great! I make them often; add a little Himalayan pink salt and they’re wonderful.
Thanks, looks great and nice work with the photography as well
Glad I’m eating lunch now cos that is making me hungry. Maybe if I look at the screen and not down I can trick myself into thinking I’m eating that
Ooh, awesome photo! I think somebody polluted your otherwise tasty dish with celery though. D:
Mmm… four hours’ sleep.
GON’ BE A LONG DAY
what 4 hours isn’t normal. I think I’m doing it wrong.
Remember those days when we had more than 4-5 hours of sleep?
I don’t
As I only got two responses from my MQFT (one after I was in bed, and the other this morning), I’ll keep it running throughout today.
Here are your choices
D1
T
D2
L
I
D3
Have at it.
I’m unsure which one is The Lesser Evil :\
Have at it.
What is this?
*cheesy game show host voice*
It’s everyone’s favourite game …
*audience*: Mystery! Question! Fun Time!
*cheesy game show host voice*
That’s right, the rules are simple! We all vote on one of the options and whichever one gets the most votes is what our lucky contestant is going to do. Doesn’t that sound like fun folks!?
*audience claps and cheers*
D2: The Mighty Ducks.
You guys are funny, but I honestly don’t know why I bothered. Would be easier just going eenie meenie minie moe.
L
Looks like Target is the cheapest place to get Smash Bros. 3DS. Just got the latest catalogue in the mail. They have it at $44.
And $44 for a whole bunch of other first party titles. $59 for a bunch of first party Wii U titles too. Pretty good.
Oh hey, new girl being introduced around at work.[/obligatory]
Gah, I didn’t really feel like popcorn today. *grabs popcorn*
is she hot? *grabs popcorn*
Ha. Well, seems alright I guess. Has an attention-grabbing red coat 😛 Wearing way too much makeup though, dunno why people do that. Looks so yuck once you get close enough to be able to talk to someone.
Actually I think I vaguely remember overhearing something about someone coming over from Perth for a marketing position or something, must be that.
ugh, starting to get sick after eating all this popcorn.
*slowly shovels popcorn in mouth*
It’s a war of attrition!
It’s a war on nutrition!
Hey guys, Mario Kart toys in Happy Meals next month.
Sucks because, when the Skylanders toys were out I tried collecting the set from the only McDonalds in this stupid town, and they could never tell me when the next lot of toys was coming in (as they normally only have two different toys per week).
“What toys do you have this week?”
“I don’t know”
“What toys will you have next week?”
“I don’t know”
*buys two happy meals and gets toys that I’ve already got*
“Have you got any different toys?”
“Nope”
Hell, I bought a couple of Happy Meals once and got toys that they had in the first week.
I swear it’d be easier and cheaper just buying them off the ebay scalpers.
Noooo, I’m trying to break the McDonald’s habit.
Also, most places will sell you toys separate from the meals for a few bucks. I think there’s an option for it in the registers.
Yeah, my friend was saying just the other night about how she went in and bought all the pokemon toys on their for two bucks each.
Even though she always eats McDonalds all the time anyway. Dunno how the hell she stays so tiny.
Morning, TAY! I had an… odd experience on the train last night.
I go to sit down next to this unassuming looking guy, but he puts his leg out to prevent me from sitting down. “Bit rude,” I’m thinking. When I don’t move immediately on, he looks around the carriage and sees that there are no other free seats (it is peak hour after all) and then moves his leg back. I took this as him saying “fine”, so I sit down. Straight away he turns to me, gives me a total death stare and starts swearing.
At this point I’m pretty shocked. The guy didn’t look particularly rough. He had a nice jacket on and such. But he stands up to leave, so I let him out while he mutters swears the whole time.
Okay, that was weird. I sit back down and straight away someone else sits next to me (again, it’s peak hour). The guy comes back from the opposite direction (I guess he circled the entire carriage looking for another seat and didn’t find one), but now there were no seats anywhere.
Over the length of the journey, he kept walking past periodically and pausing in front of me and staring for a second. Then standing at the end of the carriage and turning back to face me. Now I’m starting to get a bit nervous thinking “Is this guy going to try and do something?”. He had to be pretty unhinged to get so worked up about something so minor.
Thankfully he didn’t try and follow me off the train or anything at my stop, so all was good. But it was such a strange thing to happen! He must’ve really loved that seat to himself 😛
It was probably more you than the seat.
But I even showered that week!
Maybe you smelled too girly, and he was disappointed by what he saw vs what he smelled?
I don’t think anybody would expect me to smell manly after looking at me 😛 Like stale Lynx deodorant, maybe.
What a nut. (Other) People on public transport are the worst.
Agreed. I went to great pains to change my working hours to non-standard just so I could avoid crowded bus commuting during rush hours.
I finished reading Perfume last night. Man, what a ride.
First time reading it? Personally I thought
the ending was a bit of a cop-out and just felt jarringly out of place given the rest of the story. Not saying I wouldn’t recommend it based on that but it left a sour taste in my mouth.Yep. I wanted to see the movie when it came out a million years ago, but wanted to read the novel first. I happened to find a copy at the markets for two bucks at the weekend, so I snapped it up.
I quite liked it, but
I know what you mean about the ending. I guess one ravenous orgy wasn’t enough.Just read the wiki for Das Parfum, damn that’s a ride and a half.
SO steam has been updated and it looks interesting
The big news is that you can finally choose to remove early access games from the list of new releases. Although it looks a bit flacky once you click through, I seemed to then get early access games in the list which kinda defeats the purpose.
Dangerously the homepage just keeps scrolling with recommended games. Nice feature but will need a bit more work on linking them. For example I was recommended Counter strike due to my time recently playing other strategy games. Which is actually probably a user driven tag causing it.
The search seems to have been improved as well, being able to decently filter by tags and other elements.
The steam curator aspect could be good if it ends up working. People like PC gamer or totalbiscuit having a list of games that they recommend. Finding somebody with similar tastes and you can follow them and see just the curated list that they have put together.
All in all interesting but might still need some work. Oh and blue, so much blue
I’ve been logged in all morning, and didn’t even see it! I was like.. blue? there’s no more than usual. Til I clicked on store.. BLUE!
Remember when popular music was all about love and freedom and getting along together?
Now it’s all “Check out my buuuuuuuuuuttttttt!”
What happened?
Edit: Can you imagine “Booty” as performed by George Michael and Cher?
We saw the butt.
Letting teenagers have singing careers rather than waiting until their puberty is finished?
At least we’ve stopped actively stopping their puberty. Society has come so far since the castratti.
The prophecies of “Idiocracy” are slowly coming to pass and the overabundance of dim witted sheople are easily pleased?
This is how Freeze remembers the song http://imgur.com/gallery/b3SEY11
*looking at the previous comment*
Risky click! 😛
All nice and safe 😉
Any TAYbies with Destiny on PS4 want to organise a raid night or something for Vault of Glass? I’m keen to try it out, and you are the only guys I know with the game.
I’m keen, but I think there’s a few others running on the weekend? If you do get one together keep me posted!! Jo and piat be too cool to run with me now =,=
If you see me on tonight invite me.
@dire_wolf Do I have both of you on PSN? Gimme your ID’s!!!
Went to Q&A last night. Apparently the camera focused on me TWICE. I’m assuming this is because I was probably the only white male under 50 there.
I always laugh when a question is about some sort of race/age/etc issue and they always manage to find that one person in the audience that fits the group to put on camera. I bet they watch people walk in and are like “Ooh, him! Take a note of where he sits!”
I had a feeling this might happen when I looked around the audience. It made me make sure I didn’t noticeably react to anything being said as I figured it could easily be misconstrued into “look at this man with all of his social power representing the white community on this issue”. I’ve now seen a screenshot and I just look mad with a caption tweet saying “No one cried discrimination for the bikies #qanda”.
Did you attempt to punch a politician? I can’t even watch the show any more because it makes me want to punch the TV… I don’t know how I could possibly behave myself if they were right there.
Tony Abbott is actually the very first PM where I get physically ill whenever I see him on the TV. I can’t stand him that much it’s affecting my comfort levels in my home! 😛
Still preferable to Clive and Jacqui.
I am so ashamed that my home state voted Jacqui Lambie in. (Not me though).
I know your pain. Cory Bernardi is Senator for South Australia.
hahaha glad to know I’m not the only one who feels that way! I’ve never been able to watch more than about 5 mins of it before without wanting to throttle someone on the panel!
theres always this option
Is it throwing a shoe? Please tell me it’s throwing a shoe…
Yes, it was throwing a shoe.
I don’t go to a recording because I could be that guy. I assume he’s living on Manus Island or something now.
“Living”….
I originally typed “rotting” but decided it was too politically loaded.
Oh my god, can you imagine if Jim Halpert ever attended a Q&A session?
Lunchtime Roll Call!
400g Steamed Vegetable Salad
Not that!
Coffee.
3 donuts (not frozen), coffee, and maybe some sausage rolls or rice soon. not sure yet.
Nice, KK’s?
nah shit woolworths ones, but they were 12 for $2!
Toasted sandwiches x 3.
Nice, we have a rooftop cafe at work that does like a sourdough wholemeal Toasty with cheddar, tuna and capers. It’s a bit of work to do that at your place of work I’d imagine, but I’d give 10/10 would eat 3x Tuna Capers & Cheese again.
cookies
Awesome lunch, I had some peanut butter oreos last night. 10/10 if you’re a cookie fan you haven’t lived yet.
Just woke up!
I’m thinking…either half tuna pasta/half spicy portugese chicken salad OR singapore fried noodles with extra chilli.
The first one sounds unbelievable!
It’s looking less and less likely that I’ll get lunch.
Does that entitle you to overtime rates? Most awards will have a provision to that effect.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!
Oh Shane. I’ve worked hundreds of hours of overtime for this company and yet to see a cent of overtime pay. And I rarely get lunch even though they document half an hour each day for it.
You need to start working at a University, don’t know about the overtime part but my supervisor is at pains to make sure I eat lunch every day.
Mine isn’t… but then again, I prefer to have the option of getting it at 10-11 and leaving at 6 every day. Besides, no lunch is only a problem if I fail to remember breakfast. 😛
Well, hold on. That’s illegal. I know it’s easy to get used to dodgy practices, but that’s straight-up illegal. You should get the Ombudsman in on this.
You know how I know you work in the public sector?
My refined manner, my peerless work ethic, and my unwavering devotion to duty?
That too.
Seriously, though, I spent a decent chunk of my life working in the private sector. Eventually I decided I’d had enough of being exploited for free work. I straight up told my manager that my wage was low enough, and from now on, if they wanted me to stay back, I’d like to be paid for it.
They only get away with it because people are okay being exploited.
I got a preemptive talk a few weeks back where my boss told me that “lots of people work longer hours than we do” and that my colleague gets paid less than me (Surprise, surprise, that guy probably averages 11-12 hours every day. I wonder what he was hinting at there…)
No idea what triggered the little lecture. I hadn’t mentioned my work hours, or pay, or anything like that. He just felt the need to assure me that I’ve got some kind of sweet deal working here.
By the way, I wasn’t taking a jab at public sector work. Seriously considering shifting across myself.Oh I didn’t refresh.
HAMBURGER!
Box curry and rice meal dealio
Dunno. Some mess of rice, tuna, vegetables and sadness.
Plus a few of chunks of dark chocolate.
Bacon pieces cooked until crispy, quartered cherry tomatoes and chopped up snow pea sprouts.
Very healthy!
Tooooooonah meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelt!!!
Shit yeah, this is my new fave lunchtime food. SO good
Last night’s leftover curry.
I’ve never been a curry person, is it a bit like pizza it tastes better out of the fridge? I might like it then!
Sounds like you simply haven’t had a good curry before.
Now I want curry. Hmm, should I fantasise about Katsu Curry or Green Curry? Decisions, decisions.
When Katsu Curry is an option it is always the correct one.
Leftover moroccan meatballs with chickpeas from last night’s dinner. Eaten out of a microwaveable mug so I don’t have to wash another fricking thing.
Yeah that’s awesome. Whenever I’m at home I tend to keep a water bottle to drink out of and eat my breakfast/dinner over the sink so I don’t need to wash things… For shame!!
@dire_wolf
A regular night might be useful. Tho people tend to post on the bungie clan messages when getting a group together.
Warning: Destiny ranting.
So, a couple of nights ago, I got my first exotic bounty. “Cool!” I thought, finally, I can get an awesome weapon! Finally, I’ll feel like I’m actually doing decent damage in the raids and high-level strikes. First Objective: Kill Phogoth. Easy enough – found a PUG and took him down. Second Objective: Kill 500 Hive on the Moon. Umm, okay, that’ll take a while… Four or five runs through the Temple of Crota later, done. Third Objective: this. FML.
Back to farming marks, coins and shards, I guess.
I don’t get it.
VIDYA GAMES!
something something grind grind
The current step is the wonderfully ambigious “Use Void damage to defeat Guardians in the Crucible. Death will slow your progress.”
Apparently this translates to “Kills are worth 3 points, but you lose 2 points each time you die; now get 500 points.”
Each Exotic Bounty has both PvE and PvP requirements, and this is probably the hardest PvP requirement. By contrast, my first Exotic Bounty had the PvP requirement which amounted to “Get Kills, Hunters and Titans are worth 25 points, Warlocks are worth 75 points. Now get 10,000 points.”
So worst case scenario is you need to kill 400 Hunters or Titans. If you’re reasonably competitive each match and get ten kills you’d need to play 40 Crucible matches. That is way too grindy for me unfortunately, I’d rather sit by the loot cave I think lol
Not so ambiguous an objective, but my brain just isn’t wired for competition. I understand PvE and learn encounters and enemy positions to be able to take a considered, careful approach to most engagements. Tried some PvP last night – it’s a clusterf**k. Reminded me of that old RedVsBlue episode where they get teleported into the middle of a multiplayer match.
More and more I am learning that I am “fortunate” to enjoy PvP.
Indeed you are, mate… indeed you are.
Same, SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!!!
Yup, one of the big reasons I’ve quit Destiny for now, the game is built so heavily in favour of those that like to do PVP that people that only want to do PVE get completely left in the dust.
@os42
It’s not as bad as it looks. Void shotgun on rumble works well – you get 10 points for a kill -5 for a death or something like that. Haunt the hallways and ambush people and you can make good progress.
I have one void shotgun. It fires so slowly I can get off two shots before I die. The only way I can kill someone with it is if I ambush them round a corner – that opportunity doesn’t present itself much. Might try again if I find a better weapon, but as it stands it’s simply not fun.
I use the shotgun exclusively in PVP and I can say it’s not really about ambushing, it’s all about running about, going tight around the corners, sticking to walls, and giving the ol shotgun-melee combo. Some of the maps play very well for close quarters combat, but the larger maps leave you completely useless. Then again I’m a hunter and having blink strike/invisibility helps immensely.
@os42
Fair call man. It’s a rough gig if pvp is not your thing.
You on ps4? I can feed you kills in a rumble match if you like.
I’m on PS4, and thanks for the offer, but I feel I have to decline. The annoying thing is I don’t even like using hand cannons – it’s just it was my first exotic bounty, and would have been my first exotic anything had I completed it, so I felt compelled to at least give it a shot. Upside is I only need 11 more coins to get an exotic weapon from Xur… only 11… two weeks of level 26 weekly strikes… or a month of level 22 weekly strikes… *sigh*
If it were working towards Pocket Infinity or a primary rifle of some sort, I’d probably take you up on your offer, but to me a hand cannon is not worth the bother.
You get a Strange Coin for completing your first public event at gold level each day. Hit them up and you will have enough in no time.
I recommend going to the loot cave: all the farmers there will do the heavy lifting for you when it drops.
Afternoon errbody hows every little thing?
I was originally gonna do this yesterday but I got side tracked.
How about this weather huh?
Sure is!
I just punched a dude in Wasteland 2 and his legs exploded and he died.
This sounds like a Steam Review, have you posted it yet?
10/10?
I give it 27 Bishes.
Fantasy Life is only $44 at Target, fortyyyyyyyy foooooooooooooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
But the nearest Target to me is all the way over there!
Over there? Oh shish!
This is another Saturday release, right?
Yep, will have to fit it in, weekdays are so much easier.
Too much.
Hype? Sorry, I’ll reign it in a bit.
Money.
I know, failed attempt at humour
Not enough Jim.
There’s only so much jim available at any one time
Stop ruining my Fantasy Life.
I haven’t charged either of my handhelds since February. I keep wanting to play something, realising they’re out of charge and just doing something else instead of charging them.
I freak out if mine get empty, what will I do on the train!!!??? D: D: D:
RPG Talk for those who are curious.
So doing some Mathhammer after last night, I came to the conclusion that I really should properly understand a sense of scale when using Imperial units of measurement. I ended up creating a manor house that is the size of a football field while the estate around the manor house is approximately the size of three fields side by side.
Eh, I’ll work with it. Just what I thought was a rather large McMansion of a manor is more like the stereotypical Pride and Prejudice super-opulent, gigantic mansion estate.
Honestly, sounds about right for most of the Manor Houses I’ve visited.
I’m perfectly fine with those sizes for the Duke of Decadence.
Also, having grown up in America I still mentally convert things between Imperial and Metric, so any unit of measurement gives me pause. My rules of thumb:
1 inch = 2.5cm
1 foot = 30cm
1 yard = 1 meter. For rule of thumb purposes this generally suffices.
1lb = .5kg, .4 if I’m feeling nice (again, for rule of thumb purposes this generally does ok)
You have a lot of thumbs.
17 thumbs up for this comment.
Usually I’m alright with it but yards kind of threw me off how gigantic the estate ended up being. I tend to round 30 feet up to 10 metres for simplicity and everything else kind of runs from there. I know 11 pounds is almost exactly 5 kilograms because I had an 11 pound bowling ball at one time.
I actually did the calculations to determine how far you guys travelled when you went to kill those ogres and I estimated that it was roughly the distance from Brisbane to Rockhampton or, funnily enough, about 500 miles.
And then you made us walk 500 more? I proclaim this to be cruel and unusual.
Just to be the man that put you to sleep and exploded your head.
*launches into song*
I generally avoid yards – I feel if a foot is roughly the size of some old king’s foot, a yard should be the size of his yard… I recall making a map for an assignment in primary school, and drew a bay “5 yards across”; and got very confused when the teacher told me they could literally jump across it on foot… surely no-one could jump five backyards in a single bound?
I always convert stuff to metric, cos it’s easier to remember the conversions than to remember the weird numbers that seem to centre around multiples of 3, 4, and 1760.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally for the metric system – it’s the most logical, consistent and all-around great system we’ve got. I think Imperial units are completely arbitrary and should be banished. But when you’ve grown up thinking “body normal temperature is 98.6 degrees” and “I’m 5’9″ tall” it’s hard to get out of certain habits.
In day to day life I have no need to think in yards, but if I hear the measurements I find I’m automatically doing the conversions in my head. Old habits die hard.
Oh, I’m not criticising you, just commenting on the lack of intuitiveness and consistency in the system in general (like 1760 yards to a mile seeming oddly specific). Sorry if it came off that way.
All good! 🙂
And yeah, 5280 feet to a mile has just always seemed so arbitrary. It’s one of the weirdest ratios I can think of.
Maybe it’s really tall? Like, six stories or something?
DIY hamburger for lunch. Aww yis.
Same here. Home made bread rolls too. MMMMmmmm.
Hi everybody, sorry I haven’t been around. Been having a shite time wrapping up my soon to be given to somebody else job.
In the meantime, I downloaded some crack. And by crack I mean Marvel Puzzle Heroes. And by Marvel Puzzle Heroes, I mean crack.
Also, the wife really really wanted to try Minecraft but got scared and froze the second she saw a zombie at nighttime (on the demo you can’t turn it to just creative mode) and she died. She said she would only play more if I played with her. So we bought two games and I’m running a local server just for her and I.
The game is so rudimentary and the graphics suck. The AI pathing is terrible – they get a glance at you and then follow you to the ends of the earth. There’s little to no explanation of game mechanics, crafting mechanics. My pickaxe keeps breaking and it’s only through trial and error that I can figure out that I need a better pickaxe to get things, even though I don’t know what to DO with those things because there’s no information in game.
I give it 1 out of I’ve already built a castle with a giant watchtower and a tunnel leading to a second home in the mountains with a minecart and rail where I’m farming chickens and I’ve got pure iron armour and I found a village and watched them get massacred by zombies and I felt bad but still stole all their crops and building materials and I killed a number of pigs and figured out how to make mushroom soup and now I plan to built a hamlet in a nice little plain surrounded by cows and horses and I hacked into a mountain and made a waterfall that flows into an underwater cavern where I’m currently conducting subterranean farming and mushroom growing and neither of us have gone to bed before 1am in the morning in the last week send help I tried to collect my work laptop to move offices by punching it and the thought just occurred to me – I wonder if I can harvest clouds and if so could I make nice things out of it I may build a tower as high as I can make it tonight just to see if I can. help me.
Guess I’m over my gaming slump.
One of us! One of us! Join TAY server!
So much crack. I have two versions of the game going right now. My steam version is only just getting up to a usable level. Unlocked 3 more hero slots over the weekend.
It’s on Steam? On PC?
This changes everything.
For the worse.
I wonder if I have the RAM to run both Marvel and Minecraft at once. I think I might OD if I do that, but I’ll die a happy man.
I think you mean for the better. Recommended RAM is only 1GB so yeah, you probably can.
omg! my application for newstart has been approved! 1 week before I run out of money and can no longer pay rent! crazy miraculous things do happen!!
I’ll only get a months worth of backpay due to my redundancy money, but better than none at all!
I thought you’d found a good job? What happened there?
nah.. just had some promising sounding interviews.. some of which I’m still waiting to hear the results about 😐
“Congratulations, your Newstart application has been approved. Once you have served out the requisite six month waiting period, you will start receiving payments. In the meantime, start staking out your favourite parking lots for yummy dirt.”
If you get a note from your real estate, they’ll pay your rent though.
Happened to a mate of mine after he fell asleep in the back room at work.
Ha ha! Champion effort.
My sister only just got notice of her approval the other day for whatever it is she’d applied for, for while she’s doing the whole Brisbane thing. Basically not going to have got anything for the entire semester, payment will only start once it’s over and she’s back for the holidays :/
What? No. I clicked on the thing for @shane! Stupid TAY.
haha I’m 36 this year, so that wont apply to me
oooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllldddddddddddddddddddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yup.. don’t I know it! #oldmanwelbot
You are one of very few people I get the chance to do that with so I gotta take the chance when I can 😉
Just had 2 twelve year olds come up to me at maccas and ask if i was collecting the monopoly cards and if not can they have them, i said i was, they proceed to glare at me and walk to the people at the next table and ask them…crazy scab children
i would have then took one of the non winning card and put it in the bin
*glares*
It’s a bit odd that I won’t buy some games I’ve been anticipating for a while because the went digital only in my region (SMTIV) but happily purchase another game because digital is so much cheaper (Batman Blackgate).
Atlas have been going nuts with discounts on the NA eShop store. About a year after release it dropped to half price, and now it’s regularly popping up on sale every few weeks for that price.
There is hope yet, Jimu.
Yeah, I keep seeing that on Siliconera, they often do sales on US PSN as well, I think P3P cost me 5 or 10 Ameribucks.
In /r/afl, someone asked: if all players left all teams and then there was a draft for everyone to rebuild their lists, who would go in the first round?
There was some other stuff about not necessarily being the best 18 players but honestly, in what world do the clubs not snatch up the best 18 players in the competition with their first picks? I think the problem is that people assume that means the best 18 midfielders. I don’t. I think players like Franklin, Roughead and Tippet would easily go in the first round. But Ablett, Fyfe, Gray and Rockliff would definitely go too.
With 18 teams picking 40 players each, there are going to be All-Australian players not going until the fifth round or later. Top class defenders might go fairly early but there will still be a lot of very good defenders after the first few rounds.
It’s a silly question.
Sooooo, “What would happen if Supercoach Draft Leagues were implemented in real life but not quite because Supercoach doesn’t take in to account actual best players just best at Supercoach players”?
That’s a mouthful.
“Hmm… I have first pick in this draft. Do I take Gary Ablett or Gary Ablett?”
How on earth do you try and plan a draft in the first few rounds? It’s ludicrous to say you’d focus on defenders when someone like Tippet or Selwood could be available to you with your first pick and you can take Ballantyne or Fyfe with your second.
The first few rounds would definitely just be taking the best available player.
I like the question, my uncles a recruitment scout for an AFL team.. I’ll put this one back to him and report back with findings.
I sat down with my uncle tonight who said the same thing:
‘You pick the best 18 players based in talent’, but when I mentioned to him that he’s trying to rebuild a list he thought you should be looking at drafting the best key forward you can and building your side from there.
Admittedly though he said if he had the first pick, he’d choose Nathan Fyfe because ‘he could be anything’.
So after the Splinter Cell Blacklist lovefest yesterday, I happened to noticed a copy of said game in the EB clearance sale.
$12 for a steelbook version – interestingly, $6 cheaper than its ‘ordinary’ counterpart.
It’s not that great a steelbook, but it’s all right, and it’s got the game title on the spine, so it wins enough points there to justify the purchase.
The friendly cashier reminded me that I’ve got a seven day trial and can feel free to bring it back. Maybe he knows something I don’t. Either way, I appreciated the reminder.
I really dug it. XBOX I assume?
You know what they say about assuming.
When you assume, you often make a correct guess.
Wanna hear my awesome EB games experience?
Picked up Pokemon Explorers of Time yesterday, new for $4. Except for one thing, the staff couldn’t find the flippin’ case. Are you fucking shitting me?! It’s not a fucking new product if I get a damn pre-owned case with no sleeve to go with it!
So then; I decide to seek out another copy, just for the case.
I ring the only other store in the state that supposedly has one. The staff there proceed to tell me that that game is on lay-by. Are you fucking shitting me?! On a $4 game! Who can’t pay the $4 in full that they need to take out a damn lay-by?
Urge to stab very much rising.
That sounds like code for the staff member didn’t realise the price until you called and then promptly put it aside to buy it themselves.
I hate EB.
Okay so the lay-by bit is an exaggeration, the customer had no idea it was currently on sale. Still, the thing that gets to me is that I previously purchased a copy of said game from JB a few years back for a measly $5. In a nice, brand spanking new case, too.
Just one thing; the actual cartridge was faulty and didn’t play. SO I THREW IT ALL OUT
I’ve always been told by my local EB that they don’t layby games, only consoles.
P.S. That sucks man. When I bought my Wii U from EB it came in a bundle with 3 games, the guy (not one of the usual staff) told me to take the cases off the shelf, so I do, except I can only find cases for Nintendoland with pre-owned stickers on them, I tell the guy and he says “that’s ok, just grab one of those”. I was like “What!” I’m paying for new, I want new goddammit!
You can never have too many copies of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers or Darkness and Time. By the way, how’s that going? Which dungeon are you up to?
Hahahahaha. Ha. I’ve played like half an hour, sorry.
I’m getting back into the main series games at the moment, and migrating Pokemon over generations.
Is this your favourite game of all time?
Probably. It’s the one that’s had the most impact on me, for sure. One of the only times I’ve cried from non-pain reasons. The music is stuck in my head to this day.
When I made my list for GoodGame, I chose the games that had the most impact, so PMD Explorers, Katawa Shoujo, and Pokemon Gold were at the top.
Melboune TAYfolks:
http://www.cinemanova.com.au/catalogue/studio-ghibli-showcase/
Anyone interested in going and watching some Ghibli stuff at some point between October 9 and October 22nd?
They’re playing:
– The Wind Rises
– The Tale of Princess Kaguya
– My Neighbour Totoro
– Grave of the Fireflies
And also two documentary films, one following Takahata as he was making Princess Kaguya, and the other a general look at Studio Ghibli as a whole.
I’d be potentially interested but it’s heavily dependent on pricing because money :P, couldn’t see much pricing information but to be honest i only had a glance because I’m at work :P…
Yes *single tear*
I’ll be getting Kaguya on BD in December and the rest of them are already in my hands (aside from Ocean Waves which I’m suspecting now that they’re going to skip over for the BD treatment, and When Marnie Was There because it only left Cinemas in Japan recently) so perhaps once I’ve moved to my own place we can arrange a viewing.
Keen
Im interested but ill be moving just before that and so i dont know how available ill be 🙁
@35 was posting on FB about this or something like it, I believe.
indeed I was. just.. not the Melbourne one.
In today’s episode of “Year of the Hermit“, @dc goes ahead and recommends every single Wii U game on the market, even the ones he doesn’t like
DAMNIT DC. I’m trying to stop spending money.
Well-written and fun, though. Makes it hard to be mad. I really had to work at it.
He’s so busy writing and exploring post-apocalyptic urban decay. It must be hard being e-famous.
Then again, it seems to be a Dan thing.
<3
Big list of games that are better on other platforms then a HD remake and sequel to a game I didn’t like. Who the heck would even consider buying a Wii U?
I don’t understand how you could have had so many problems setting up the Wii U.
Mine worked first time; found WiFi even though my router is nestled behind my desktop tower and being shared by about 4-5 other devices in the same room. IP assigned by DHCP and everything.
Conversely, my old PS3 used to lose network connection and it was only ever connected via ethernet.
My Wii U could connect to the internet okay, but it took hours of router reconfiguration to be able to get online for MK8. It happens…
Unlucky I guess.
Took me about 3 hours to get the thing connected and working right.
Been working flawless since then but I was ready to throw it in the creek at one point.
*slaps myself*
Yep, totally the sook thing. Most well-adjusted people don’t miss their departed loved ones at all.
Sorry to hear, man. These sort of changes are always hard to deal with. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with taking some time to process it all, and think about the good times gone by.
Most don’t get in a near panic about it a quarter of a century later.
aaaawwwwww I missed my chance to slap you
Oh, damn, the steam discovery queue is scary dangerous. I can feel it tugging on my wallet…
PAX peeps
Jetstar have a 48 hour sale on now.
I just looked at how much that would cost. I’m starting to think that driving might be the better idea. Dammit.
Take a week holiday and hold boardgames after PAX
Arrrgh. The dates are all Nov 4 onwards.
I got all excited too. Boooo.
Guess it would be silly of me to expect anything cheap from Melbourne Cup weekend. Been looking at hotels and for the 2 nights about $600 is the cheap end.
Yeah, part of me is kicking myself for not booking hotels and flights sooner, could have saved some cash, but then I needed to be sure I didn’t have any other holidays (e.g. Grand Final) that needed to be accounted for first.
🙁
I planned to drive from the beginning, and then some kid had to go and cut out in front of me yesterday morning on the way to work and destroy the nice front end of my car. D:
Yikes. Hope you’re all right, man. Is their insurance gonna cover it?
I have full comp, so I organised all that jazz yesterday – don’t have to pay excess either – and hopefully the assessment results are good. It’s just another waiting game.
The kid was driving his uninsured mate’s car. Possibly under the influence of drugs.
Anyone know where I can get a simple 3.5MM female to dual male splitter cable? You’d think it’d not be a hard thing to find but everything I’m looking at online is for converting 4 TRRS combination mic/headphone jacks into separate jacks or far more commonly just being the wrong way around and being 2 female to one male.
It’s getting to the point where I’m starting to consider making my own and I know full well that that always ends in 3 things; swearing, injury and wasted materials because I’m shit awful at soldering.
So you have a cable that is 3.5MM combined microphone and headphone, and you want to split it out to headphones and mic separately?
EDIT: Misread, you just want a straight 3.5mm splitter that allows you to patch one input to two outputs? http://mycablemart.com/store/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=1802
Bloody hell looks like EXACTLY what I want!!! Thank you!
BWAHAHAHAHA, looks like we’re the new Nigeria…
LOL
Maybe a lot of people have been reversing charges as a protest over the Australia tax
cablechick.com.au
S’where I get all my doodads from.
Seems sketchy by the url but they’re real good.
Snice site! Never heard of them before! Seems to have a good range. Are prices competitive?
Uhhh, I think so?
I bought a few XLR adapters and it was only about $15 or so.
Only in Australia would an invoice with the word ‘Wagga’ on it 9 times be considered normal. Yes, I’m at work and concentrating like there’s no tomorrow
Wait, 9 times?
It’s odd that it’s odd.
There’s only 1 Wagga in their email address
What were you buying?
Just a work invoice for the Wagga Wagga city council. Wagga. You know those words that don’t look like words after you look at them for ages? Wagga
Man I’m peeved off with Marvel Puzzle Quest atm. I got to the end of the Heroes section of the current event. One battle left. If I win that battle, I’ll get myself a Black Panther card!
Only one problem.. You need Black Panther to fight the fucking battle!!! WTH!>!>>!!>>!>
EDIT: Nevermind.
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Cornholio.
Banana Man!
So I went and put an audio CD into my PS4 the other day..
ARE YOU F***ING SH*TTING ME, SONY?!Had a date the other week with a girl, we went to a vegetarian restaurant. She thinks she’d met me once but I swear I never met herbivore.
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strange #didn’tactuallyhaveadate #sadsack #searscatalogueSears catalogue? At your parents place? Must be hard..
parents place?
Just messing. Thought it would make for a good joke.
I noticed you write that you pop by there over the weekends from time time to time?
Yeah, sometimes. They’re up at Kapunda, so it’s not far for a visit. Would go mental living in proximity though.
How many Freudians does it take to change a lightbulb?
One to screw it in no wait one to slide it into place no wait one to put the lightbulb into the socket he he no wait one to INSTALL the lightbulb, and one to hold the penis NO WAIT
What kind of shoes does a chicken wear?
Reebuks.
(Courtesy of my six year old)
Ree bok bok boks.
Yesterday I was involved in yet another traffic collision, less than a year after my last one. Both instances neither my fault, both instances my cars have been pretty much totalled. I’m not seriously injured fret not; merely sore. Starting to think I may be cheating death here, a bit. And then my mother in law had to go and inform me that everything bad happens in threes. Thanks for that.
I just needed to inform of the main reason behind all my explosive expletives, all of a sudden.
My car that I got new not all that long ago has thousands of dollars worth of damage to it and I haven’t caused a single scratch yet.
I was so proud of having a new car for the first time too.
Can anyone recommend some good game related shows/channels?
A few people here recommended Game Sack and Metal Jesus Rocks which are great channels on youtube.
There used to be a few goods ones on Gamespot, IGN and Gametrailers but not anymore?
I quite like PBS Game/show
Ah that’s a good show too. Too bad it’s not a longer show.
I think it’s the right length- get in, make the point, get out.
If you like that it has a sister show, Ideas Channel, which is even better.
Ah man Ideas channel and game/show are the shit.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.com
Just kidding, don’t click that.
Just kidding…
How’d you guys manage to get Christopher Walken to read poetry at the beginning ill never know
-taps nose-
Maximilian_DOOD
Potaku is hosted by some TAY folks!
TotalBiscuit for PC stuff, Jim Sterling for random weird stuff, Jesse Cox for Let’s Play stuff, Rooster Teeth for every niche desire possible, Angry Joe fro 40-minute long reviews, (although he barely uploads these days) and it’s hard to go wrong with the people from NormalBoots or HiddenBlock.
Is there anyone going to PAX that still hasn’t organised accommodation? Looks like family can’t afford to go down so I’ll be by myself and wouldn’t mind splitting something purely for I can’t afford a room all to myself reasons.
Haha, good one!
Oh wait. I just saw what you’re doing there.
*sigh* Dammit Pow.
Now I’m curious what was there before the edit 😛
Mild panic.
I wish I could help you out but not sure if I’ll be in a new place by then or not. 🙁
I’ve been trying to round up my friends I was organising to go with, so far we’ve only been able to get the three of us. We were looking at staying at the Space Hotel, they’ve got four person dorms there which look to be somewhere around $200 per person for four nights (if staying that long). I don’t know if they’ve been checking up on others who are still looking, but I could check if they’re up for it if you like.
If your friends wouldn’t mind some random older weirdo sleeping in their room. I’d only be there 2 nights but happy to pay for the 4 to cover costs.
Well they’re already putting up with one, what’s another? 😛
I don’t know what the plan was, whether to stay for three or four, still yet to sort that bit out with them. Would it just be the Friday and Saturday?
Yeah, Fly in Friday morning and out Sunday evening.
I was going to ask what carrier etc you were flying, maybe catch the same flight (since those are my dates as well) but then I remembered you fly from the “Gold” “Coast”
It’s about $100-$200 cheaper flying from Gold Coast than it is Brisbane.
Reeeeeeally….. Hmmm, I’d consider it but there’s no easy way to get to that airport. Ah well!
@beeawwb
Train to Varsity and my car from there?
@freezespreston I did consider that but I A) was planning on getting in to Melbourne as early as possible due to a Cloud Imperium (Star Citizen) BBQ at 12:30 that I must attend! and B) imposition and all that. 😛
@beeawwb
My flight leaves at 7:15am.
No imposition.
@freezespreston OK, I’ve got all my preliminary details saved at work, will work out the feasibility (e.g. train schedules and whatnot) tomorrow when I get in an get back to you. Cheers regardless!
I was thinking recently about funeral arrangements, and I might have an open casket funeral.
Remains to be seen #Page6Truthfully though, please don’t. Open casket is awful.
Truthfully it’ll be cremation or perhaps alkaline hydrolysis. Burial seems needlessly inefficient for my tastes.
I wish to be removed in the most inefficient way possible.
Launched into space, with a ship that will mostly burn up on re-entry, but so that there’s enough of my burnt husk in a ship left that they have to bury that.
Stay molten, Ponyboy.
Outsiders reference? Ten points to gryffindor!
Depends on your cause of death…
No, it means that no one at your funeral has a choice whether their final memory of you is seeing your corpse or not. Some people might need that for closure, others not so much.
When my Grandmother died a few years ago, a lot of my cousins and uncles & aunts suggested we should go see her body, and I was like “hell no” because while they had seen her recently when she was barely there due to Alzheimers, and she had been in poor health, my last memories of her were really positive. That would have been taken away from me if it had been an open casket funeral. Horrific IMO. Let people choose.
On some levels I disagree, I mean a lot of Western tradition used to mean that we held wakes and really had some understanding of what death is and that it exists and what it’s like to be around a dead person. Now there’s been a certain amount of cultural change but people seem to think more that they are invincible, that everything can be cured and that dead people are terrifying in some respects…
“We don’t serve time travellers here.”
OUR FOXTEL CONTRACT ENDS TOMORROW! PRAISE THE LORD!
Seriously, none of us have watched it in the past like 6 months. It just sits there. Wasting money.
200 channels of reruns and advertising. Worth it.
“400 channels and only 150 have anything good.”
We’ve only watched it for Fox Footy and the cricket. :\
Now you can forfeit what you would normally pay for one month’s worth of Foxtel on one year’s worth of Netflix! 😀
Me: “Dad, why isn’t the snake moving?”
Dad: “I don’t know son, it must have a reptile dysfunction…”
I remember the first time I saw a universal remote control… I thought to myself, “well this changes everything”.
I’ve deleted the phone numbers of all the Germans I know from my mobile phone. Now it’s Hans free.
What’s the most commonly misspelled blood group?
Typo
Q: Why do bees stay in their hives during winter?
A: Swarm.
Me: What’s on the TV?
Dad: Just some dust.
No page 7 yet?
🙁
Couldn’t sleep last night and ended up playing several hours of Theatrhythm Curtain Call. Generally has improved from the last game, which was also great. Still has that just-one-more compulsion loop. I like that they’ve expanded the song list significantly. Still feel like there’s a few missing though (maybe they’re unlockables?). EMS stuff still sucks crap. Music from FFXII onward is still absolutely awful for a rhythm game too.
I jumped onto the DLC store and discovered that they had Shuffle or Boogie, the FF8 Triple Triad music, as DLC. Best $1.30 I’ve ever spent.
Probably won’t get back to it for a bit though. Just got FFF, Ar noSurge shipped, Destiny still not finished and I still haven’t even had a chance to play Hyrule Warriors yet. 🙁
So it turns out that the Humble Bundle login page now has “Unredeemed Keys” as a thing. My account has far more than I realised not yet redeemed. Including a bunch of stuff for Origin and Ouya. I don’t even have accounts for those!
Soooooooo… anybody want some Steam stuff?
Amnesia Fortnight 2012 Steam Key
Amnesia Fortnight Prototype Steam Key
Batman™: Arkham Origins DLC
Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians
Brazen Prototype Steam KeyBrazen Prototype Steam Key
Brazen Prototype Steam Key
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising Steam Key
Crysis 2 Maximum Edition Steam Key
Dead Space Steam Key
F.E.A.R.
FEZ
Gotham City Impostors: Professional Kit
Guardians of Middle-earth
Guardians of Middle-earth: Smaug’s Treasure DLC
Medal of Honor Steam Key
Mirror’s Edge Steam Key
Mortal Kombat Kollection
Out of the Park Baseball 14Starseed Pilgrim
The Lord of the Rings Online: Steely Dawn Starter Pack
May I please have Out of the Park Baseball?
Messaged the link to you on Steam. 🙂
Beatbuddy is an awesome game!
Ooooh. What’s Guardians Of Middle Earth?
*googles*
Yeah, I’ll be right. You can keep that one.
But everyone loves MOBAs right … RIGHT!?
Of course! *starts crying*
Brazen looks like good dumb fun, can i have one of them please? 😀
Can do, though I’m noting it’s listed as “Prototype” – I’m not sure what that’ll mean as far as Steam goes. It may be the only version that exists, or it may have gotten a commercial version after AF.
That’s cool, i checked some footage of the prototype and it looks pretty fun 😛
Okey doke. Have added you on Twitter, will prepare the link and DM it to you?
Sounds grand, thank you so much!
Heh, my mate who works at the local Dominoes as the delivery bloke was saying the girls at one of our local brothels (the one specifically dubbed the ‘super brothel’ by the council & media) know him by name now since he delivers that much pizza to them. Sounds like the script to a stereotypical porno.
@crazyguy1990
New South Park tonight or tomorrow right?
Should be Thursday for us, if you’re looking to sail the seven seas for it that is. Since it premieres on the 24th in the states.
Either tomorrow or thursday.
Marvel Puzzle Quest people. I seem to have hit a wall in the current event. I’ve never been unable to finish an event unless it’s had a required character, but this third event that follows heroes.. damn! 3rd match in and all 3 characters are lvl 103! Even with the boost on characters, my highest (Punisher) is lvl 133, but my next highest (Storm and Magneto) are only 85. Now I know with the right boosts and stuff it might be possible, but I’m curious, do you guys ever run in to difficulty walls during events?
Also, damn this game’s brutality! It’s so random! I took 3 lvl 55 heroes up against a lvl 46 Yelena and Daken(Maybe wolverine?), and got my ass handed to me on a silver platter. That’s 3 lvl 55 heroes, vs 2 lvl 46… I got Daken down to about half health, and then they busted out the ass rape.. started with yelena stealing all my gems, followed by 4 attacks from both of them, followed by a 30 chained match combo… so long and thanks for all the fish. P.S FUCK YOU!
I get that there’s got to be a certain element of randomness to it, but it seems to me, that when this happens, it happens for the following 4-5 matches. Every single fight for the next bit, no matter what level heroes I use, will just be obliterated. Do you guys find this too?
/edit 2 for tags, lest it get lost in page 6.
@tigerion @mawt @platinum-urchin @strange what’s the other tag? I’m thinking @phoenix for some reason..? Sorry if I’m wrong 🙂
I have noticed the same thing. For all the randomness in the game for them to get 20+ matches in a row in the one turn and wipe out ya team. I just think fuck why can’t I ever get something like that in one turn.
Funnily enough, I just had a match like that! Second time it’s happened. First time was earlier in this event, where I wiped out the full team in 4 moves, but just had a great round then. Took longer, but I went for that battle with 3 lvl103 characters, with a 50% crit bonus. Something gelled, cos I got TONS of great matches and got to use magneto and storms best powers about 3 times each within seconds! Was so great! I expect I wont be so lucky next time though! 😉
Now that is awesome. I have not used many of those boosts. Maybe I should start to use them.
Some of the events just aren’t possible at lower levels. I haven’t been playing the gauntlet event really so I’m not sure what the deal with that one is.
I’ve actually been playing a bit of the normal ongoing season event thing. Figure there should be some easy hero points in there. And the hulk event doesn’t really have any awards that I’m interested in.
As for the randomness it seems ok to me. Have had situations where I’ve been smashed but it happens occasionally and as you say I’ve done the same thing at times as well
Oh, my 3DS needs a system update? I’ll just quickly do that before playing it.
Said me an hour and 5% ago. How goddamn big are these updates?
it shouldnt be that big, maybe your kids are watching youtube???
Welp. Looks like it’s Argentinian, not Italian.
Also I do not learn. STALKING, BAD. That was stupidly easy though, just a name google >_>
Queens Reef limited event on Destiny.
Color me intrigued 😮 anyone else excited?
Did not read that as “queens reef”.
I was… but it looks like it’s just bounties at the moment. Hoping we’ll see something a bit meatier soon.
There’s also level 24 hard versions of a random story mission that end with a legendry gear reward and the events area in the tower is open and has a dead ghost near the new vendor
Yeah. The hard modes are kinda interesting, even if all of them have only given me the Queen’s Guard Helmet. Oh well… yay for dismantled ascendant shards?
Two down last night, got Queen’s Guard Hood and Robes. That makes 4/5 gear legendary. Level 27, here I come… eventually.
I actually got body armour which was handy since it was the thing I decided earlier in the day to not buy a legendary of from new monarchy since I have enough motes of light to take a punt on Xur’s exotic lucky dip when he shows up at the sunday markets, both times so far it’s been a body armour engram, knowing my luck this week it’ll be an exotic class item…
Went to buy a Flash watch today, the assistant said “there’s one thing I must tell you before I finalize the transaction”
“It always runs fast” XD #hi@dcEdit:
Turns out the joke’s on me with the timing XD!@evilmonkey that’s ok. I will also break #page6 into #page7 with a timely, yet true joke.
What’s the difference between in-laws and out-laws?
Outlaws are wanted.Harsh but fair.
I’m going to head to bed. Night.
Wow! Early night for you! Rest well sire!
You are a man after my own heart with an 8.30 bed time, well played!
Woolworths have gotten rid of their Homebrand long life milk so they can push their disgusting Woolworths Select milk (albeit cheaper than what the Homebrand milk cost) and it sucks cos that WW Select milk is vile >:( NOT HAPPY, GONNA COMPLAIN TO CHOICE!
I hate Woolies (and coles) as much as the next guy, but I don’t see what the problem is with the Milk, It looks like Milk, it smells like Milk, it tastes lke Milk. What’s the problem?
The woolies select one doesn’t taste like milk. It tastes watered down and just… gross :S
The homebrand one on the other hand tastes no different to Devondale long life milk or any other good milk.
(PS Woolies and Coles are great, IMO. I honestly don’t understand all the hate they get. I will happily not pay $3.70 for a box of shapes from independent stores when they’re usually $2 or less at WW/Coles)
(PPS I should also add that the majority of Homebrand stuff I’ve tried is actually great. Have you tried Homebrand ice cream? Try Homebrand ice cream 😛 Bar the stupidly expensive ones it’s probably the best ice cream you can get)
I only ever have it in Coffee, or on the odd occasion on a bowl of cereal, never by itself, so maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about.
Yum, artificially flavoured vegetable gums & fats in a frozen sweet treat!
I tend to avoid Woolworths milk all together if I can. It tastes rather sweet for some reason.
But what’s the difference between it & the previous homebrand version apart from price & label?
It used to be that the Homebrand one was the cheapest one and the WW select one was like 20c more. I bought it when it was on sale for like 90c once and it tastes watery and horrible. I dunno how to describe what ‘bad milk’ tastes like. Imagine what milk tastes like. It doesn’t taste like that, basically 😛
It’s ok you’re not crazy, I totally get you! Mum would always get the various light milk variants, they’re always horribly watery and gross but ESPECIALLY the long life stuff. We started getting the A2 stuff for my sister, I think the other stuff irritated her eczema or something. Started drinking that and it tasted great. Full cream only though, still not a fan of the light. Though it’s still better than the long life milk.
Not that I even have milk that much anyway.
Full cream 4 lyf. *fistbump*
Ha! I’ve found a lot of the long life milk like that tbh. It’s very watery & generally shit.
Speaking of milk, I just saw that Norco won the Coles contract again for the next 5 years to supply 60 million litres a year to them here in my area (Northern Rivers) and in South East Queensland.
Just saw a sneak peek on 9 for Gotham, well colour me intrigued.
The first episode is out if you want to sail the seven seas.
I would but I get boat sick.
Narrrr, I be a landlubber.
Full speed ahead Mr. Cohen!
Medium Dry Sherry to Port!
This place is even fancier than last time! (Fraser Suites)
And then I found out Monday is a public holiday in Perth :O! I might have to work then though since I’m technically working in Melbourne… (boo!)
Apparently the Brownlow winner was on the same plane as me today… SPORTS!
Haha working on a public holiday bahahahaha
I’ve finally streamed something on Twitch!
I’m considering doing some streaming of racing games, so come down and join in!
http://www.twitch.tv/simracer1990
I thought you were going to bed? aint no rest for the race driver…because hes going the distance!
I’m going to start it properly tomorrow evening.
Probably around 6:30pm VIC.
He’s going for speed…
And she’s all alone…
In her time of need…
Because he’s racing and pacing and plotting the course
He’s fighting and biting and riding on his horse…
Take it home…
He’s going the distance!
You know whats annoying about steam..you’d think they would allow you by now to download and install a game whilst playing a seperate game on steam but NOPE thats too technical!
you can download it, but it’s a bit risky to install something while playing a game I would think. Especially given it may likely apply a directx update or something. Doing that while games are running would be bad. You can enable downloading while playing in the settings though.
I just noticed this…DAMMIT why isnt it auto ticked! its something I feel should be auto ticked..gahh I was gonna try out Warframe tonight since so many taybies are playing it and decided to do some payday 2 while it downloaded
I guess it’s to avoid people trying to play online games and not being able to connect/play well due to there being no bandwidth. By default, steam is set to use 100% of available bandwidth, so at times, it can even be hard to get a web page to load while it’s going. They’d probably be flooded with requests from idiots wondering why they can’t play 😉
This is probably true, I restarted the download so now watching UFC 177 I will start warframe at some time tonight haha
Add ‘Transientmind’ and ‘Arktoom’ to your friends lists in game. Arktoom’s on more than me (little brother) but you mention you’re one of the Kotaku peeps and he’ll help you out.
Will do!
Oh boy, an AFP officer & an officer of Vic Police have shot & killed a bloke because he made threats against Tony Abbotts life toward them, he then proceeded to stab both of them.
Media is already labelling this bloke a terrorist, now lets give him the benefit of the doubt he could easily just be one of the many millions that this gov’t has screwed over in some way in recent times, I know many are not impressed and wish for the PM to drop dead for what his gov’t has done to their work status, financial status, their kids education etc..
But still, all I can see now is it being some big thing in the media how terrorists are here and are gonna kill us all.
This is why we can’t have nice things people /sigh
Yeah I can see it being more so about how the government has been acting over it being an actual terrorist threat, but thats how it will be labelled now, I can see the headlines already “Terrorist killed after threat on PM’s life” I just found it abit amusing that Abbott said hes serious about protecting australians from terrorist threats and will do everything in his power to protect this country, so he puts the AFP in charge of security at parliament taking those officers off the streets
Andrew Bolt would be furiously masturbating to this news whilst asphyxiating himself.
So I realise that you made this post when there probably wasn’t a huge amount of information available yet. I will note though, that it turned out the guy had been called in for an interview as he had his passport banned as he was planning to go to Syria and had been marching around earlier in the week wearing an ISIS flag. He then stabbed two officers and then he was shot.
The only info I found was “2 officers had been stabbed, bloke shot, said he wanted to murder abbott” so yeah 😛
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-23/one-person-shot-dead-two-stabbed-endeavour-hills/5764408
They say that they are still confirming details on the ISIS flag incident.
Yeah read more about it not long after saw your reply.
17 degrees outside right now…
No wonder I can’t sleep… 🙁
That ain’t hot, that’s beautiful.
A bit more cosplay progress. Frilly skirt. http://instagram.com/p/tShkfsgSX-/
Swishy \o/
Spent the last few nights looking up performance parts for my car. I’ve already spent a bit of money on it since I bought it (new windscreen, roof lining, water pump, fuel pump, battery, tyres etc) Just have to fix the rear demister, heater and air con. New radiator and hoses should fix the overheating problem (already replaced the thermostat, water pump and radiator cap). Then I’m thinking of doing a few performance mods (already has a 2.5″ Redback exhaust) Extractors, stage 2 cam and Memcal chip, and a new heavy duty clutch.
What do you guys reckon? Hope I didn’t lose too many of you 😛
Should cost me about 3 and a half grand all up if I get my father in-law to help me install it all.
It’s a VS V6 Commodore by the way. Some of you might think it’s a huge waste of money, but I’m bad at saving money, so it would be harder for me to save up money for a new car than to buy parts bit by bit. Also, don’t know what problems the new car would have, this way at least I know that I’ve got a car that’s mechanically A1.
I need about three k to fix the suspension issues on my Territory. Well, that was the first quote, anyway. Ugh, cars.
Damn, that’s pricey. You got the RWD or the AWD model.
AWD. Quote includes;
RHF Lower ball joint $195
Front differential mounting bushes $850
RHF Outer CV Boot $150
Rear lower trailing arm bushes $450
Rear differential mounting bushes $1100
Is that including labour? I’m no expert, but a quick search tells me that you’re getting ripped off, I would say they’re only using genuine Ford parts at those prices too.
Always get more than one quote. That said, cheapest doesn’t always equal best.
Cheapest labour for any mechanical work is always any mates that are mechanics. Then all it costs are parts and a good carton of beer or 2 depending on the work that needs to be done
Parts and labour at Auto Masters. Definitely need to get more quotes.
Have they said exactly what is the problem that they have to fix with the suspension? Or are they replacing with brand new?
nope did not lose me at all with that. But then I did a trade as a heavy duty diesel mechanic 😛 I don’t see it as a waste of money as long as it something you enjoy doing.
Lol, you probably know waaayyy more than me then, I’d consider my mechanical knowledge to be fairly basic.
some mechanic shops like repco and super cheap auto have manuals that detail everything you can do to a car repair wise and the list what tools you need for what jobs. Try and see if you can find one for your car. It will make understanding any problems and ways to fix them very easy. I have 3 or 4 for different cars.
I try and do as much as I can myself, I use google and youtube, as well as a Gregorys manual.
Worst comes to worst, my father in-law’s a mechanic, so I’m pretty safe.
They are the best ways to learn. your father in law teaches you while your doing work on the car?
If I’m not sure he’ll give me advice. When I had to do the fuel pump he came around and basically just directed me on how to do it (was a pain in the arse to get the thing out), which I prefer because I actually learn how to do it rather than just let him do it for me.
3 grand is nearly what a new set of tyres costs for mine so I hardly see that as a waste.
And that is why I drive a Yaris $400 for four new tires
I used to have an Echo (which was the older model Yaris) – I loved that little car! I used to call it the TARDIS because you could fit in an amazing amount of stuff in the back when you folded down the rear seat.
Not much space in the boot with the seats up. I could not fit the disney infinity 2.0 collectors edition in the boot. Had to stick it on the back seat.
What size tyres you got on that thing 22’s?
I’ve got 16″ VE Interceptor rims on mine and tyres are only about $100 a pop.
Edit: Would love to put a set of these (or something similar) underneath it.
http://www.tyresales.com.au/buy/tyre/KUMHO/ECSTA_SPT_KU31/245-45R17/104967?&utm_source=googleproductfeed&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Auto+Parts&utm_term=KUMHO_ECSTA_SPT_KU31&gclid=CJzyq8TI98ACFYcIvAod8X4AbQ
245/40r19. Bit over 500 a corner. Nearly had a fit when I found that out.
Damn!
I’m enjoying the PvP element of Destiny quite a lot (particularly Control matches), but the randomised rewards at the end of the matches are really annoying me.
Four times I was the top of my team, in a row, and four times I got nothing. I’d have the best KD ratio, most kills, highest score by far, and nothing, whilst people who did far worse than me get the rewards.
I don’t get it :\
Luckily I think I’m one of the few here who is playing PvP for fun rather than for grinding.
Other than that, I’d give Destiny a 7.5 / 10.
It’s good, but I can see the appeal of it running thin quite quickly.
Still no coop.
Still a leper.
@liondrive
I too enjoy the PvP, tho I usually jump in when I have a bounty or something.
In the same boat with rewards – mvp the game and get little to show for it. Played 5 rumble matches last night with the same 5 guys: 4 legendarys dropped, but not for me. 🙁
That said, the loot system doesn’t bother me that much. I’ll just earn my purples.
Oh don’t get me started on the fucking loot system, the number of times I’ve seen a bunch of greens and the occasional blue and then seen a message pop up saying “@Longjocks has found a legendary engram”…
Yeah I’m enjoying the PvP a lot more than the PvE. PvE is only fun when you’re with a group of friends! PvP is more fun in a group of friends!
To summarize play Destiny with friends or you won’t enjoy the game for long =P Much like vanilla WoW!
Also lion in terms of gear in PvP matches it’s more or less random but if you were the worst player in your team you have a higher chance of getting loot at the end of the match. I believe the MVP across both teams also has a higher chance of getting loot! But once again still completely random… much like the those stupid effing engrams.
*Looks at 0.34 K/D ratio* Worst player has a higher chance of getting the loot, eh? *rubs chin in thought*
😛 Still not going to leave PvE ever again, especially now it has missions that can just about guarantee legendary loot.For the next week or two anyway.
I will be running as many of those bounties and subsequent missions as I possibly can. Need those shards…
Yup, me too. Soon as they refresh, I bet.
If you want to go through a few of her story missions, feel free to hit me up – more people makes it much easier.
Definitely. Though I noticed you both have to have the bounty turned in if you want to get a legendary. I crashed Blaghman’s game where he was doing one of those, and I didn’t get anything for it. I was trying to invite people to join mine, too, which I’d nearly completed, to see if they could get free epix for turning up, but no takers.
On the plus side, as long as you’re careful and lucky with the mission selection, the damage type modifiers can sometimes make the missions laughably easy. Like the Black Garden one, where all the goblins and hobgoblins shoot solar, but the damage bonus was to void damage, meaning the only enemies who ever presented any threat whatsoever were the minotaurs and hydras… each of which were swiftly dealt with by a single round of void shotgun.
The 3x statue bosses took literally 3-4 fusion rifle shots to kill. Most of them didn’t even get to summon adds.
@transientmind You get the reward for completing the mission token in your inventory not for completing the story quest on epic. You only get the tokens as rewards for doing Queen’s bounties which is why you’ve found that everyone doing the quest needs to have the tokens =]
@transientmind Yea, that must have been it – for my first story mission, three of us went through the mission, but only two of us got the reward – the other guy must’ve not had a finished bounty.
As a voidwalker, Black Garden with the Void-boost modifier is so much fun. Void sniper rifle + grenades obliterated just about everything… including me at one point (“misadventure” by grenades). I could get used to dealing 8.3k damage per shot 😛
I’m not that tanky, tho, and mostly long-range, so had to hide on the ledge below the boss arena and spam grenades. A super as they spawn, then another 2-3 grenades per boss… cheap, but extremely effective.
Ohhhhhh, that makes sense. I’ve never even checked the inventory to see one of those.
Me too, man.
You should come play some with me & my bud some time! Us three on a Skirmish/Salvage team will clean up!
I like Control it just goes on a little too long. Especially on that massive Mars map with the vehicles.
That massive Mars map is my favey! 😀
You can’t snipe very well on the smaller maps, but my Hunter is so useful sniping in the open on that map, then arc-blading at the control points 😀
Such a good map :3
You say that’s a problem, but IMO it’s a good thing – I’m absolutely shit at competitive FPS multiplayer, and I tend toward a play style that doesn’t work well in PVP either, so the idea that I wouldn’t get anything for my time investment because I wasn’t good enough means I’d never want to play it.
Instead I’ve actually been kind of tempted to give it a go. But haven’t been able to play Destiny recently (or anything else actually).
Like I said, if I was grinding for gear or bounties or whatever, I’d be pissed.
Lucky I just play for fun 🙂
You’d think it’d still be random though, but the better you do, the more likely you are to get a reward.
Being the top player 4 times in a row while watching the team that you carried get rewards is kinda disheartening.
It just seems like the randomness is a bit too far off.
You’d think they’d maybe have a chance for a better drop in addition to the normal stuff for the highest performers. But the issue is that sometimes, especially in a team-based game, the most important player isn’t necessarily the one with the highest score or highest K/D ratio.
Case in point: when I used to play Halo MP with friends, I’d often come pretty high up in the actual score for CTF esp. on Hang em High. But that was because I had a rotation going with some friends where one or two would be running interference, and then a pair of us would grab the flag and cap it while the others were keeping the enemies busy. Worked really well, but actually the guys that were coming in toward the bottom in the ‘score’ were the ones enabling everyone else to cap.
WAR
HUH
YEAH
Is someone going to say what is it good for or do I have to?
DO IT!!
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR??!
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
SAY IT AGAIN!
WAR
HUH
GOOD GOD
D’:
First impression of Destiny PvP.
I fucking hate it.
I was confused at the implied de-make, pre edit.
It’s a bit laggy which upsets me, but it’s like a faster version of Halo.
Small team games like Salvage or Skirmish are the way to go.
Much easier to get points & there’s revives so team work is pretty necessary.
If I’m on when you’re on, send me a message & I’ll play a few rounds with you.
Salvage or Control are the only modes worth playing. Straight Deathmatch is pointless until they balance the weapons/powers better and start matchmaking for skill.
I like clash and rumble myself – glorious chaos, less dependent on teamwork with randoms.
While it is probs unbalanced in places (titans :p) I don’t think it is so much that it makes it not fun.
Destiny PvP is much like any other FPS PvP. If you didn’t enjoy CoD or Halo PvP you definitely won’t enjoy Destiny’s!
However that said not getting into PvP is going to curb your gear options something fierce as all the faction vendors (i.e. Future War, Dead Orbit, New Monarchy) use crucible marks! Not to mention the exotic bounties all have a PvP quest involved!
Well, now that the Queen’s Wrath bounties have started you’ve got some non-PvP options. If you can complete one of the Epic kill missions, the armour that you get as a reward has fractionally better stats than the DO/NM/FWC armour.
They Queen’s armor all come with Strength which is basically useless if you’re a warlock so it’s not the most ideal armor for me =[
Hey TAY can you guys wake up and strike up a conversation already?!? I’m bored at work =@
Hello. My name is Zapz (not really my name isn’t Zapz). I have nothing to say.
Thank you for your contribution Zapz, who would like to go next?
Which (if any) is your favourite Rush Hour film?
Rush Hour 2, cuz Miyi Zhang
Yeah she’s stunning.
Rush Hour 2, because Roselyn Sanchez. 😀 And because it was the most fun of the three.
Also gorgeous.
Rush Hour 2 because reasons. ^^
Why PuppetMaster?
What’s your favourite Pokémon?
puppetmaster because I watched the Godfather around the same time I made my first online name =]
And it would have to be Blaziken!
Edit: How did you know I’d have a favourite pokemon?!
Everyone has a favourite, or should at least do a quick google image search to humour me.
Will you be joining in on the inevitable Dawn of War shenanigans that @chuloopa triggered that I know will happen? 🙂
That reminds me that I still need to pick up Soulstorm.
Quiz time for DoW: what’s your army? Mine alternates between Orks and Chaos.
Necrons, is that really a question? 😉
I guess not then. Mechano-men are a pretty good fit for you. 😛
I do play Tau and Chaos every now and then too, but mainly Necrons cuz those guys are badass, especially the whole recycling of your own troops using Tomb Spiders 🙂
Come now… It has to be Tau for me =P Why would I even be a Fire Warrior otherwise =P
When are these Dawn of War shenanigans happening??
Well I couldn’t be a Necron in the 40K, 1: because it’s next to impossible to RP a mindless slave without making it predictable and boring and 2: we’ve got not one, not two but three Eldar, being mortal enemies of many thousands of years could kinda throw a spanner into the potential party works. 😛
You can chill with us Tau, we’re all down with evil as long as its for the greater good =P
All the conversation you’ll ever need can be found right here.
You could phrase it a little more ambiguously, like “After listening to Dan And Karl’s Zeitgeist, you’ll never want for conversation again!”
“Now, I’m not saying Dan and Karl are sun gods or anything… but I listened to Zeitgeist last night, and the sun rose this morning. You do the math.“
My computer won’t turn on.
I set up my Roxio capture device to test it for PC capture, and there’s power going to the mobo & graphics cards, but it doesn’t start.
Any beeps or anything? Does it plug into the video card via HDMI? You might have shifted it out of position just enough to stop it registering, pushing it back in should fix that problem if its that
No beeps, no POST, all the ):.
Okay, first thought is video card then, working on the assumption that it’s not just a loose cable. I’d suggest popping the case open and reseating the card & checking the cables for good measure
Anyone planning on picking up DrveClub?
Was just thinking about it, and we’re really gonna be spoilt for choice over the next couple of months with driving games, Forza Horizon 2, Driveclub, The Crew, and Project CARS. Can’t wait for all of them. From what I’ve seen they’re each gonna be a lot of fun in their own way.
So yesterday was the day my wife and I caved and bought a second Xbone so we could play games together again following the death of split-screen co-op. Obviously we’ll still use “Xbox Prime” as our main unit but anything we want to play together I’ll use the second unit. There’s always the possibility I might want to play something else. The world has exploded with options and all it cost was all of the money. \o/
I post this not to humblebrag about my fiscal recklessness but instead to remark upon just how much I’ve missed playing co-operatively with my wife since the popularity of Halo 3 waned. Running patrols on Venus, doing a high difficulty story mission when the Queen’s bounties went live last night… us re-learning how to play together and backing each other up is something we’ve missed. We tried it in Borderlands 1 & 2 but it was never really the same. We were always going to have to get a second console but I guess I’m glad we did this now instead of waiting for a price drop – having this extra time from close to the launch of a popular multiplayer title is worth it, I think.
Do you and your wife have near identical TVs to play on or who ended up drawing the short straw?
The first place my brain went was trying to work out what TV could be as a Destiny in-game acronym, given that two players playing cooperatively would want a near identical value…
Think I’m ready to check out for this week.
She gets the better TV since she plays from the couch and that will remain the main TV since I will still game from the couch most of the time since she buys all the digital titles, DLC, etc. I have a secondary TV set up on the computer desk which I think I will also use as my monitor if I can get a graphics card that does HDMI out.
That’s awesome man I’ve often thought you’d end up doing that considering how much you both love it. Will make playing the Halo:MCC even more enjoyable with a screen to yourselves!
We assumed Master Chief Collection would support split-screen but since we’ve become crazy people we’ll probably get seperate copies of that, too.
Yeah, just continue the craziness.
+1 for “Xbox Prime”.
What’s the other called? Xbumblebox?
(And i’m talking the original Beetle Bumblebee, not the sacrilegious re-telling that Mr Michael BAYSPLOSIONSEVERYWHERE did)
I had not thought that far ahead. Who was even second in command of the autobots?
*googles*
God damn it I’m 31 years old and just googled “autobots chain of command” which took me to a Transformers fan wiki listing the ranks of the Autobots in exhaustive detail and honestly I’m more confused than I was two minutes ago.
Xbone Magnus. That’ll do.
Maths nerding here, but technically wouldn’t ‘Xbox Prime’ be the other xbox? I mean, Xbox’ is the set of elements that are not in Xbox…
… Oh goddamnit.
Damn you maths, you may have won this war but you’ll never win my heart.
If my wife ever mentioned the idea of needing a new computer to co op something together, I’d run off and spend $1500 for her. What I’m trying to say is
YOU’LL NEVER OUT-CRAZY MEthere’s not a single issue with buying a second console if you have a use for it.Just enjoy the fact that you probably made a bunch of people here jealous because your wife loves Destiny as much as you do 😛
Sometimes I feel like people might think I discuss my wife’s gaming passion/habits too frequently, like I’m rubbing it in that my wife is into gaming. Like, every week in “what are you playing this weekend” I frame it in terms of “well my wife will be tying up the Xbox so I will probably do something on the PC” or whatever.
But that’s just how it IS, man!
Wait, you’re not bragging? 😀
Considering my wife and I have put about 8 hours into Hyrule Warriors co op so far, I get what you mean.
I’m jealous…I have to bully my husband into playing games sometimes! 😛
It never occurred to me that this would even be a problem with the genders flipped.
I’m jealous starting at the level where he says he has a wife, it only intensifies from there
Tell me about it! Man I’d love it if my gf was into gaming and co-op stuff >.
I’ve had at least two people I coop with contemplate the exact same thing for destiny for much the same reasons. I’d be real happy if they did, because then we could get even closer to a properly mic-ed up raid team on ps3
I think a big part of it was the raids, since you need a real TEAM of six people and there’s no matchmaking. With me, my wife, one of my high school friends, and two other people my wife and I used to play a lot of Halo 3/MW2 with (brother-sister team who used to live together and share an Xbox but got their own when the sister moved out) we now have five. \o/
Nice. In my case it’s both wanting to play with their partners. One of the guys is a nightfiller, so at about 7:30 we get a shift change and play with her.
Since my wife isn’t able to work she pretty much gets to play games at her discretion, whenever she isn’t studying or visiting/running errands for family, then she hands over the Xbox to me after dinner. While I guess this is a fair distribution of gaming time, she’s much more passionate about games at times compared to me and I always feel guilty about playing when it obstructs her from doing so.
Downloaded Marvel Puzzle Quest last night from Steam. I’m actually doing better on my phone than on the computer, but you get a lot more information about how the game works on the computer.
While waiting for the heroes to get back up, I started to play Gone Home. I know, that came out ages ago, but I’m a patient PC gamer who also has almost no money and time to play games (plus I’ve been in a gaming slump).
Holy shit. Just…Holy shit. That…that was good. Good good. That’s the closest I think I’ve ever come to experiencing an interactive novella. The story telling made me look at my writing and hang my head in shame.
Speaking of (serious spoilers):
Surely I wasn’t the only one who thought they would find Sam hanging in the attic? I moved as quick as I could to the attic just murmuring “no no no no no” to myself, only to feel relief that she had run off instead?I was expecting something nasty throughout that whole house. After a while I realised the other shoe was never going to drop, but I still did not want to go in that attic.That entire game made me feel so unnerved. It was just masterful storytelling. Just the setting, the everything. I was half expecting a) she murdered her parents b) they murdered her or c) the father had a breakdown and was holding both the cheating wife and his daughter hostage. Cue thunderstorms, rain, TV’s being on in a far away room – gods, that was perfect level design.pretty sure her parents would have come home to the main char sitting in a corner with all of the lights onA little bit of excite hype! A little facebook friend of mine posted an announcement today! (You may know him as John Romero!)
He’s making a new HD Dangerous Dave!!! Kick ass!!!!
A time traveller walks into a bar.
I get it! This coincides with your other, ‘we don’t server time travellers here,’ comment. Brilliant!
You sunofa
Oooh, oooh, I know this one! “All You Zombies” by Robert Heinlein?
Had my driving assessment yesterday. Had to wake up at 5:50, which was fun. I struggled to keep my eyes open on the drive to the driving test place, which filled me with great hope. Once I got to the driving test place, I started to freak out. My stomach was screaming at me. Quite loudly.
When the driving test person showed up, he asked if I had any questions. I asked if there was a toilet nearby. 10 minutes later, I emerged, somewhat confident. On the walk from the toilet to the car, I made sure to walk slowly to show I was a careful person.
I did the driving test. I wasn’t sure if I passed. I parked, and the driving test person told me the results. He spent 10 minutes talking about how I was inconfident, never made a decsion without asking him, that me walking from the toilet to the car slowly showed that I didn’t want my license, that I had been coddled by my family and driving instructor, that I would never get my P plates driving like that, and that I would get into an accident if I were ever to drive alone. Then he told me that I passed. Didn’t expect that.
For the rest of the day, people showered me with praise, but the words of the driving test instructor stayed with me.
I was told I drove too fast and didn’t slow down around corners (both a complete load) during my red P’s test, and I got 100%. So, don’t expect to understand everything when getting your licence.
EDIT: Also, grats 😛
Dude, that driving test is the most anxious you’ll ever be behind the wheel. I recommend you go on a few more drives accompanied to work out the kinks now that the pressure is off (throw out the pineapples, to coin a bowling phrase) and remember you’re the license holder – the other person is just there as backup. Don’t let your mum or whoever tell you how to drive, make it clear you don’t need the distractions and that the best thing they can do for your confidence is stay quiet.
You’ll probably make some mistakes, but if you’re anything like me (and I consider myself a fairly typical/average driver) you’ll recover from them before anything critical happens. I can tell you that there were two occasions in my first month of driving where I’ve nudged the accelerator instead of the brake while parking and thankfully I had time to recover before plowing into anything. I learned from those errors and haven’t done it since.
Take it slow, take it easy, drive when you’re comfortable to do so and never before. When you’re driving without being “coddled” is when you really learn what kind of driver you are so all that practice you’ve had is really only a platform for the basic rules for how to use the road.
Wow, actually assessing the way you walked. What a guy.
But congrats! Driving alone will be terrifying, but the more you do it the easier it’ll get until you don’t even have to think about it.
Just like killing.
Congratulations
one day, if I can get over my crippling lack of self confidence I might get one of those,
Edit: Considering I’ve Spent $10,500.00 on cars in the last 12 months it’s probably a good idea.
Hah. I passed my driving test.
By one point.
On the third try.
There’s always room for improvement, for all of us.
It’s all confidence and experience from here on out, and you’ll get more confident the more you drive.
Congratulations, you’re a licenced driver! Don’t forget that when you think about that feedback.
Good work little Phlanispo!
Now you just got the logbook to do, and the Hazard Perception and you’ll be a full fledged licensed driver 😀
They’re both the easiest parts of the process, so don’t stress 🙂
Good work passing on your first go by the way 🙂
Happy the hardest parts are behind me.
Wait what?
If he took a drive test isn’t he a full fledge licensed driver? I’m confused
The order goes:
– Theory (get your L plates)
– Practical Driving Assessment (get your second phase / logbook (still L plates))
– Hazard Perception Test (get your P plates)
The PDA and the HPT should really be the other way around.
Maybe it’s just WA where it’s this order though.
Yeah I think it might be a WA thing. Over here it is
– Theory (get your L plates)
– Driving under instruction and keeping your logbook (150 hours)
– HPT
– Practical Driving Assessment (get your Ps)
So you actually need to learn to drive, well enough to take a test before you start tracking hours to show that you have learnt to drive. Weird
You need six months + 25 hours to do the Practical Driving Assessment.
Congrats.
Also that’s basically exactly what happened with my driving instructor when I went for my Ps. “That was an absolutely shocking drive” and then proceeded to talk at length about how many mistakes I’d made and how I’d be lucky if they passed me.
Then the actual assessor told me I’d passed and actually done pretty well. I think it’s some kind of driving instructor hazing ritual.
Guys, that let’s play I promised is in post-production. Expect it sometime today or tomorrow.
Just remember to include scare cams, regardless of whatever game you are playing.
Whatever game?
“Here’s my playthrough of Hello Kitty Island Adventure and OHMYGODARRRR”
🙂
The new Dota balance patch is about to hit.
They’re changing the map.
Hold on to your hats people, shit’s about to get real.
EDIT: There’s a post on the front page about this now. It’s terrible 🙁
ALL JUNGLE MONSTERS REPLACED BY TECHIES
ALL ANCIENTS REPLACED BY TECHIES
ROSHAN IS NOW TECHIES
@tech_knight IS NOW TECHIES
If I was in that game I’d wipe out entire teams with my speed, fury, blaster and lightsabre 😛
Techies got buffed :p
Whoa… the map?! I thought that was sacred to DOTA players. Have they revealed what they have in mind?
LoL updated their brushes for this season and next season they’re giving the map a complete makeover, which I really like the look of.
Rosh pit got moved so that it wasn’t accessible from Dire mid. It’s a huge late game advantage with competent teams.
That moved the Dire ancients and the paths around the Dire secret shop. They also changed the paths to the Radiant secret shop and altered the trees around bot lane.
Here are some screenshots.
This is a huge patch. They added another rune type and made it so that new runes will always spawn after 2minutes (potentially overriding the existing run on that spot) and now runes will spawn at both rune spots (one will always be the new rune type).
Damage types were changed somewhat and magic immunity was changed to spell immunity (and items that gave magic immunity now give 100% magic resist to make up for it).
Most importantly, the courier now changes based on who used it last. The last person to use the courier changes the courier to their equipped one. Lets you know who is controlling it and also lets everyone show off shiny cosmetics.
The whole magic immunity change is confusing me – does the change mean that whilst under black king bar, you are still targetable by spells but just don’t take any damage?
Magic immunity: Cannot be targeted by spells and immune to magic damage (from AOE etc)
Spell immunity (the new one): Cannot be targeted by spells. Also, you get +100% magic resist, so it should be effectively the same right now unless they have ways to bring your resistance down (ET aura?).
That’s a neat new spot for Roshan, I always felt that the spot it was currently in was really clunky at first impression, especially with line of sight. That courier change is a great idea and I’m surprised this wasn’t done sooner, shows more clarity to the team and also as you said, you get to show off your courier swag every game now.
Vision around the Rosh pit was very hodgepodge. They deliberately added line of sight blockers at points that shouldn’t have them just to try and reduce the advantage Dire had from the placement.
Not sure how the new one will play out but there is definitely harder access for Dire and easier access for Radiant.
Yeah, they’re always very forthwith with their balance patches. It really looks like a doozy, too, ward game is gonna change up a fair bit, among other things.
Ah I never figured out the best warding spots while I played initially anyway :P, with LoL it’s more straight forward cuz it’s just walls, no such thing as “sight through elevation”
Warding in Dota isn’t that hard once you get your head around it. Ward where you want to be or where you think they’ll be coming from. Get high whenever you can.
High ground vision is pretty simple.
Indeed, keep in mind I didn’t play that many games of it. I was always overwhelmed by how many entry points there were for ganks, which made ward position decision making so stressful.
CJ is a bad influence on you.
OH GOD SO MANY CHANGES
I’m watching a stream of some pros talking about the changes. They’re talking about the damage type changes. They pretty much creamed their pants when they realised how much this nerfed blink dagger (HP removal is gone, which means that a LOT more things cancel blink).
Ugh… roadworks last night too. That makes it every night since Sunday night. 10pm to 5am. Hey, @saturday, can I borrow your time machine? I want to skip to next week, this one’s terrible.
Technically my time machine only sends you a day behind. 😛
Guy! You guys! My Internet is back in business.
It only took 9 days, 5 calls to Internode and several emails to my real estate/strata, but it’s all back! Apparently a technician had not only disconnected me and used the ports for someone else, but they had cut my phone cables in my buildings cable box (as in, physically snipped them!)
An ordeal, this was!
That’s me!
Guys like me?! I’m a guy like me!
I’m not.
lol
NO IT’S ME BACK OFF NOBS!
Huh? Reply fail? What you talking about? YOU CRAZY!
Well I may aswell turn this into a proper post now that I have some prime real estate here on page 8.
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uhhhh…
Hype-Rule Scarf Scarf is a pretty amazing game, only problem with it is it has no online coop. =(
It doesn’t? I thought my friend was bugging me to play it online with them or something.
I told you guys that the Warriors franchise wasn’t known for it’s online coop, but you guys were all like “Of course Zelda Warriors will have it”.
I told you, but nobody listens to Ol’Liondrive :'(
Actually the last Warriors game (Dynasty Warriors 8) did have online coop. One would think when you release a new game you wouldn’t remove features.
I’m well aware that 8 has coop, but I warned you guys that Zelda wouldn’t.
It’s a selling point.
It was never mentioned.
If it’s a selling point and it’s never mentioned, it doesn’t have it.
Plus being one of their first major forays onto the Wii U, it was probably to be expected that they’d stick with regular splitscreen coop rather than try to get online running on unfamiliar hardware.
Nintendo made them take it out because “what’s an internet?”
Although, there is an online component, which is just weird.
You should start Adventure Mode. That way, we can have each other’s characters turn up on the adventure map. If you help another player (AI controlled version of your character) you get big rewards, and moreso if it’s a NinFriendo.
I really should finish Legend mode so I can start on Adventure Mode.
You should… 😀
A not-really-gameplay-spoiler for after the end of Legend mode (but spoilered in case you want to know nothing):
Once you finish Legend Mode it unlocks an extra Gold Skulltala to get in each level so you need to replay it all, so you might as well cross off the story and then go back for bonuses 😛Still a bunch of FREE games available from yesterday. Take some of these Steam keys off of my hands!
Amnesia Fortnight 2012 Steam Key
Amnesia Fortnight Prototype Steam Key
Batman™: Arkham Origins DLC
Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians
Brazen Prototype Steam KeyBrazen Prototype Steam Key
Brazen Prototype Steam Key
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising Steam Key
Crysis 2 Maximum Edition Steam Key
Dead Space Steam Key
F.E.A.R.FEZGotham City Impostors: Professional Kit
Guardians of Middle-earth
Guardians of Middle-earth: Smaug’s Treasure DLC
Medal of Honor Steam Key
Mirror’s Edge Steam KeyMortal Kombat Kollection
Out of the Park Baseball 14Starseed Pilgrim
The Lord of the Rings Online: Steely Dawn Starter Pack
I’ll grab FEZ off you if you’re just gonna be giving them away =P
I am! I’m so crazy I’m just GIVING these things away. CRAZY! *head explodes*
Nobody take this key that I’m leaving here for the Past0r, ok?
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=bDZFvbGs4aCvA88cI’d love a copy of F.E.A.R.
You shall have it, in that case!
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=tkeUzHkWSC6WYVSMI held off a first, but I wouldn’t mind a Steam Key for Mirror’s Edge. I’ve been meaning to get that for years.
No need to hold off, it’s yours if you want it!
NBXJE-8GJ5T-XJQPDTook me a while to figure out how to redeem it, but I figured it out in the end. Many thanks!
It’s a Steam key. You redeem it on Steam. 😛
Its midweek and work is slow.
Screw it
Im Cam “ColdCamV” Veitch
I do random things and work with my hands Ask Me Any of the things!
Work with your hands, eh? Have you ever been consigned to the pits of cubicle hell, and if so, how did you escape? How does your current job compare? If not…
Standard 3:
1) Crunchy or smooth?
2) Folder or scruncher?
3) FF8 or FF10?
Please be aware that these are pass/fail. There are no valid opinions here, only facts.
I havent worked in a cubicle per se but I have built cubicles on several occasions, however I will most likely be in a cubicle in a month when I get new work.
1. Smooth, Crunchy is the devils peanut butter
2. Half and half depends if im running late or not
3. FF8 its one of my favorite games of all time
We can no longer be friends.
Yes, I’m sorry @coldcamv but you failed the test. The Illuminati immortality project is closed to you forever, now.
It was a good looking project but I dont want to be facing the end of the world with the decrypit zombie skeleton that is immortal Walt Disney
So we just best friends then? Its a set back but ill live with it
Oh comeon that’s not even fair. He fails the 3rd question regardless of how he answers because there is no FF7 option.
Oh, it’s not about the best FF ever, just between the two. That’d be like comparing crunchy vs smooth when nutella is in the running.
Ahhh I see, in that case it isn’t fair to include FF7. Carry on.
Nutella over all other things ever
What would an “I am unfamiliar with either” have netted me? 😛
Us holding you down and forcing you to no longer be unfamiliar with either.
And no toilet breaks.
YOU CAN’T MAKE ME
Why are you cold?
Are you feeling unwell?
What was the last drug you took?
Im not cold at the moment but i do have a cold
So yeah im not well
Last drug..umm i had a panadol this morning but recreational drug was about 3 years ago.
Why ColdCamV?
What’s your favourite Pokémon?
Because I was looking for a new online handle as Cam289 was too simple and people were using it more and more online so I was looking for a new name for Battlefield 2 originally i was thinking CamV but I thought that was boring then I thought “hmm cold eyes of a killer” ColdCamV \o/
Fave Pokémon hmm probably Growlithe
Ooh, unique Pokemon choice.
What happened to ColdCamI through to ColdCamIV?
If you were to be put into a fantasy story, what kind of character would you be?
They didnt make the cut *stares into the distance*
I want to be the guy who comes in last minute who saves the heroes then disappears only to be found again as the blacksmith
Ooooh, I’m liking the trend of AMAs coming around again! 😀
– What is the most embarrassing thing to happen to you?
– If you could have one super power, what would it be, and why (and what is your superhero name)?
– If you had three days to live, what would you do?
– Would you rather: have good length but bad girth, or have good girth but bad length?
– What’s your biggest secret?
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
– I fell off the top of a playground slide trying to do parkour and shattered my leg.
I would like to fly just simply because it would — be easier to get around then walking or driving and I shall be named “Flying Bastard”
– I would not sleep and just do everything I can and spend as much time as I can with family and friends.
– how bad of a length we talking?
– It used to be that I had cancer now I don’t know what it is
– I reckon I’d call it Jimmy Recard because women be throwing their bras for Jimmy Recard
I’ll let you determine what a bad length would be 😛
Imma go with length over girth
You are the best at questions. Ever.
I ask the hard hitting questions others are afraid to ask that the people deserve answers to!
Plus, why would I waste an AMA with boring questions? That ain’t fun 😛
Got some Red-eye?
Giovanni’s always got Red-eye!
Star Trek or Star Wars?
Star Wars, never really clicked with star trek
New Steam!
“Strategy games Due to your recent playtime in other Strategy games:
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike: Source
Space Engineers”
Um.
Th… thanks, Steam.
Who the hell do you think you are to question Gaben?
Shun the non-believer! Shuuuunnnnnn.
*finger quotation marks* “Strategy”
Well that is how it has been tagged by the players. Also as survival *sigh*
They’ve included an option that removes games already in your library from the list, but it doesn’t seem to apply to free-to-play games, resulting in Steam telling me I might like to play these games which I already play a lot.
Gee, Steam. Y’think?
Yeah, their ‘disoverability’ update didn’t seem to give me any recommendations that made any sense.
And then I looked and it was like “recommended because it’s popular”. Not because it has anything at all to do with games I owned/played. :\
There also needs to be a way of telling steam “I already own this on another platform, so I am interested in games like this, but I don’t want to wishlist it or follow it”
Also, a, “Get this shit out of my sight, I don’t know what you’ve been told, but this has no place anywhere near my library, the people who said it is similar are LIARS,” button. Preferably with some kind of clever algorithm that can find out who is responsible for thinking things I like are similar to things I don’t like, and implementing a 3-strike-then-immolation ‘thermal feedback’ system.
Oh my god, is that out already? God, I WISH it would recomme–waitaminute!
I think if you don’t tick anything and click next, that’s sort of the same thing? Not perfect, but then the system is new.
you can hide early access games! FINALLY!
It’s flaky in my experience so far
This “The Legend of Legacy” 3DS RPG has a completely daft name, but it looks pretty interesting. Designer and Illustrator were both SaGa veterans, writer also worked on FF7 and Chrono Trigger, and the music’s being composed by the Final Fantasy XIII guy (FFXIII wasn’t a great series of games but the music is pretty good IMO)
There is some faulty wiring in my head that keeps telling me I need to fire 13 up again and ‘just give it another chance’ because of the art, the music, and the hinted-at potential for the story, characters and voice-acting to develop into something other than a migraine.
I am always, always, always wrong. SO WHY DO I KEEP FEELING THE URGE?
I’ve fallen for that three times now.
Me too! I don’t understand!
I wonder if it’s related that my day-one purchase of the game was actually a pre-owned copy, bought late in the day.
“Wait… why is this label cheaper? Launch special?”
“Oh, no, it’s… huh. It’s preowned.”
“Really?”
“Let me just check. Huh. No, that’s legit. I have no idea what’s up with that.”
@saturday, I’ve pinpointed the chronography where I need to borrow your time machine for a bit. (Apparently chronography is not a real word? It should be. We’re going to need that in future. Or the past. Whatever.)
You know you’ve got a keeper when there’s a preowned copy on the same day as the game was released.
There was a period where EB was offering something like $85 credit for first week on big releases (games that had RRP $119, I think). Anyway, I know that I encouraged a few customers to go down to JB HiFi and buy as many as they could because they had it for $79 and trade them in for $85 + %10 trade bonus from the member card and then use that credit to buy a copy from me as well as pay off some preorders.
And I used to work at a store near to the Offical Playstation Magazine guys, who would often come in and trade in games that hadn’t been released yet. They traded in games still sealed from Sony on more than one occasion, so there’s your HASHTAGGAMERGATE right there.
But does this gamer gate affect the mens?
Are we being oppressed by the wimmins?
Hm?
No?
Nah, won’t catch on then.
I’m a chump and Platinumed that thing, Spent more time killing the same Adamantoise than anything else. I may have also Platinumed XIII/2.
Edit: I think I have burnt myself out on that world, I got Lightning Returns, heard it had time restrictions and lost the will to ever play it, have not even opened the case.
I’VE PUCHASED THAT FUCKING GAME THREE TIMES NOW.
Every time I’m like MAYBE IT’S NOT THAT BAD but it really is.
I’ll be doing that next month when it’s released on PC. Honestly, I don’t think I gave the game a good enough chance the first time around and as a huge Final Fantasy fan this bothered me.
For like $13 on PC, you know you’ll cave 😀
I’m a huge fan too, I spent the whole game saying “surely it’ll open up and be awesome at some point” it didn’t. While it is easily one of the weakest entries in the series I can’t bring myself to not like it a little bit. Maybe it was the music that kept me plugging along… I don’t know.
Everyone kept telling me that it opens up at one point where you do the Cie’th bounties but it’s still a damn corridor just widened a bit.
Although X was essentially one big corridor but it did a great job of never making it feel like one.
I was told the same thing, it’s a lie. Yeah X disguised it well, I never really felt confined, XIII was frustrating but I still somehow got a little enjoyment out of it.
Just looked it up now. I like the art! Hopefully we get a localisation.
ps. I want to say “surely they’ll change the name if they bring it out here!”, but we did get Bravely Default, so…
Bravely Default actually made sense since it was using terms from inside the game. Also did you ever notice that the Templar,
Edea’s fatheris Braev Lee?Hell, even that weird Flying Fairy / Where the Fairy Flies subtitle ends up being really, really clever at the end.
Take away the FF and everything changesYeah, it did actually turn out to be a great name in the end! At the time it was announced though it certainly sounded like a weird choice.
Apparently the name is a sort of meta hint or something. Spoilers below.
Only by bravely defaulting to your standard course of action, which is repeating the same thing over and over again, will you overcome the great evil. This is despite so many things in the game telling you to rebel and of the terrible consequences if you don’t, you are being brave by defaulting to your original goal.That’s actually a pretty good point too.
One of the most disappointing experiences in life: Getting food from a place and discovering they only have PepsiCo drinks.
Heartbreaking.
HERESY!!!
KFC is like that isn’t it? It’s one of the few places that I know of that consistently sells Mountain Dew so it gets brownie points for that.
The weird thing is I prefer Pepsi to Coke but KFC Pepsi always tastes kind strange to me.
Hello!
Guzman y Gomez always breaks my heart.
How can frozen sangria break your heart!
…unless it freezes it solid I guess.
I’m normally eating there at lunch during the week so booze isn’t normally an option… All I want is a Coke Zero…
But it’s only PepsiCo drinks and I’m too lazy to buy just a drink from another store… So I end up with a Sunkist instead.
#firstworldlunchproblems
Ah, there’s the heartbreak.
EB are having a sale on a bunch of pre-owned stuff so I picked up Dragon’s Dogma, Thief, and Lost Odyssey for my sister’s birthday for the sum total of $78. Not too shabby. Now all I need to do is peel off the pre-owned stickers and she’ll be none the wiser.
WHAT!?
Means they’re pricing games at an affordable price =P
Well I never!
Eucalyptus oil gets rid of the gunk from the stickers if you weren’t aware.
Don’t be silly EB would never have a sale, nor would they inform us about 5 times a day via their EB World email list 😛
@highperformance So me and Mactash both L24 now, thinking we can give the Heroic Strike a shot, but need another L24 or above…how you travelling and fancy this Friday night?
Hi gang, Dan here.
I’m always keen for Strikes etc. l26 Hunter
Unless you’re on Xbox. In which case, I can’t help you. 🙁
BUT IF YOU’RE PS4
Hit me up, my deets are on TAYnames.
http://potakudotcom.wordpress.com/taynames/
Xbone gang here. ^_^
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Yeee sorry mayng we only roll with Xbone homies
I’m trying very hard to get to 24, I’m still a lowly 21 at this stage lol. I’m knocking off work early tomorrow to get some time in 😉
Shweet. I’m gonna try get in an hour or two tonight just to farm for Helium Filaments. -_-
Oh rad, the guy behind old JP point & click horror adventure game series Clock Tower is making a new game. It’s for iOS, Andoid and Vita, but I’m okay with that, since point & click is fine for that sort of platform.
The Clock Tower games were pretty rad too. I suspect the guys that did the Corpse Party games were massive fans of that series, given their obsession with creepy little girls carrying scissors.
Also apparently the character / monster designer from Silent Hill is attached to the project, and it’s being written by the guy who directed Ju-on: The Grudge. Weird side note: that guy is also directing the live-action Kiki’s Delivery Service film…
Interesting side note, opposite ends of the spectrum, good luck to him.
re: Silent Hill, is he designing the monters in Silent Hills (or whatever the Kojima/ Del Toro things will be called).
Side note of my own, watched “Mama” for the first time the other night and it made me more hyped for Silent Hills.
Mama minor spoiler
those kids freaked me out way more than Mama@dire_wolf @evilmonkey @saturday and 2 others playing Destiny on the PS4. I’m looking to start a fresh group for Vault of Glass this weekend (let’s try for Saturday – timeframe to be decided by everyone’s availability).
Reply if you’re interested!
Edit: If any of you TAYbies in existing raid groups can’t make your usual run, feel free to jump in just for this Saturday.
I’m only 25 atm, but I’d be willing to give it a shot (should hopefully be 26 by then).
I got a 26 Titan on PS4, more than happy to join, I just hope you know a decent RL to avoid a lot of stress.
@blaghman and distantdrop give me your PSN ID’s so I can add you guys =] I used to RL in SWTOR and did a bit more RL at MoP release so I’ll give this a shot if we can’t find a more experienced RL.
What times are you good for you guys on Saturday? Bear in mind I am going into this raid blind since I’d like to figure the strats out on the run =]
Also blagh I’m 25 myself at the moment but I’m fairly confident I can hit 26 by Sat.
it’s redrathi
I work early Saturday mornings so i’ll be available on 2:30pm UDT10+ after that i could stay on all night, 2am might be pushing it though.
Edit: I actually might be available as soon as 12:30 pm as far as my calendar shows, depends if anything else gets booked =/
In a shocking twist, I have defied all standard procedures and logic, and my PSN ID is Blaghman.
So far as I know, I’m free all day. We may have issues if @saturday wants to join us, since he’s Canadian, and so usually won’t play after 5PM or so, but I’m happy to give it a shot in the daytime.
I’m down to put aside 4-5 hours for this raid on Saturday so if the evening is easier we can aim for that! (@evilmonkey I imagine the afternoon or mornings are easier for you though aren’t they?)
@distantdrop what does UDT10+ transfer to in Sydney time =P
On a similar note I think everyone interested should make sure they have a minimum of 2 types of damage between their secondary and heavy weapon i.e. ark/solar/void. This way we can avoid getting stonewalled against shielded enemies.
Vault of Glass is all Vex so your main threat is Void shielded Minotaurs.
Might encounter Arc shielded Harpies later on but did not see such in the first fight. Vex don’t generally have solar shields so wouldn’t worry much about that.
If you need a sixth come raid time I’ll be up for joining you, if I’m not committed elsewhere.
Also I is sad to have somehow ended up in a raid group where I don’t even know anyone, except Piat whom I can’t chat to half the time.
Sounds like you wish to enter a duel to the death with evilmonkey for the 6th spot! =P
*dramatic music*
NOW FIGHT! =P
Jokes aside if you do want to join us and we have a free spot you know you got it! I think half the reason I got to 25 in basically a week is because you and piat helped me through a lot of the stuff!
If I could claim that spot, hopefully on regular basis that would be great.
I was only ever a last minute extra for that other group.
I’m in Melbourne, so should be same time zone as you.
I heard its recommended to bring void damage fusion rifles, apart from that we shouldn’t be running into many shields on normal.
I’m interested. If you don’t have me on psn already, my ID’s Direwolf029
Cool so that makes 4 of us! Now we just got to wait on monkey and saturday =]
I can do it. Saturday is fine for me, oddly enough. I can do that. Should be fine concerning time, but I’ll need specifics.
Sorry man, but I’m working all day Saturday till about midnight, day off on Sunday, but I won’t be able to get on Destiny till probably 8:30pm – 9:00pm. Can’t play any violent games when my son’s home and awake.
*shakes fist*
*Looks in bank account*
Still not enough for a PS4.
Soon. Soon, my lovely. Soon.
Damn my progeny for needing to do things like eat and be clothed.
Don’t worry, studies have shown that children are an illusion created by feminists, with the sole goal of stripping men of their hard earned cash.
Well, my illusion last night had a tanty night. Including throwing a fit that I dared turn off the shower we’d been in for 45 minutes.
“RAIN GONE HOME DOWN DRAIN NO NO RAIN STAY RAIN STAY DADDY”
Yeah kid, but I need to pee and I ain’t gonna do it on your head, alright?
Think of all the money you could save by moving to a nudist colony.
Just remember to buy sunscreen in bulk to make the savings worthwhile.
Looking through the recommended by steam queue I think I need multiple wishlists although it kinda defeats the purpose of one
I can see my wishlist growing out of control as I flag stuff that pops up
Maybe what I need is a number of lists
– Games I really want
– Games I will consider on sale
– Games that could be of interest if other people play
– Games that could be interesting further down the track but I’m flooded with that genre right now
– Ongoing developing game that needs more content before I’m interested
– I have no idea why but I want to keep this game on my radar
– Hidden listing of troll gifts
it could be handy to categorize them, but at least you can order them. I tend to break mine down in to that kind of thinking. Things at the bottom of my list are things I’d love to try someday, but not in a hurry.. will wait for sale. Things higher up I would love to play if I could and would likely spend significant time playing, and top few are ones I really really want to play asap! 🙂
Yes. Tags for the wishlist would be very useful!
Catching the lift down at lunch with a burger in my hand (woo, two days in a row! Also I accidentally brought snow peas for it) and I think Andrew Hansen standing next to me. Then trying to continue to not notice once I’ve noticed.
should have gotten him to sign your burger.
Then eat the signature in front of him telling him it’s a part of you now.
And he didn’t know who you were!?
He was just trying not to show it.
Oh so hey since I bought a new Xbone and the best deal doing included Destiny and Black Flag, I find myself in the same situation as NegativeZero two months ago, having a sealed copy of the game that I don’t need and is probably better off going to someone else than being traded at EB, so if anyone with an Xbox One is yet to play Black Flag or otherwise desires/needs an Xbox One for some reason, let me know and we can sort something out.
Not keen for Black Flag multiplayer with Mrs. Kermi?
We considered that as an option but I don’t think either of us was that fussed. Maybe we’ll reconsider if I can’t offload it!
9 hour drive tomorrow with cranky guy from work who doesnt like me. Pokemon for 9 hours ?
Speaking of which my team for pax is half complete. I need a flareon with guts which is kind of hard to get i think. I have been having a fair bit of fun learning about the intricacy of pokemon after my entire strategy used to be
1) Get charizard
2) FLAMETHROWER
Toxic/Flame Orb with Guts and Facade is such a fun setup to use. I used a Guts Ursaring for a while which was monstrous.
That’s the plan with flareon, because flareon is the only member of the team with decent attack.
My Charizard strategy used to be “wow, Fissure killed me in one go! Oh hey, I found Fissure. Now the rubber band is on the other claw! TEACH IT TO CHARIZARD AND KILL EVERYTHING!”
Hey, the new games added a lot of depth to the strategy
1) Get Charizard
2) MEGA EVOLVE
3) MEGA FLAMETHROWER
Gotta agree that learning the intricacies of the system has been quite fun, the tools are there now to make it a bit more accessible.
Urgh, on the one hand I like the intricacies of the system, but on the other hand, I hate them >:(
I can’t just capture a pokemon and be happy with it any more.
It needs to have the right nature and the right ability, which can take so long sometimes! :’O
I soft reset so much trying to get the perfect Froakie for my X play through.
At one point I had around 10 pieces of paper all covered in scrawlings of pokemon names, stats, attacks, type coverage, tactics, nature’s, abilities, items, etc.
I’m pretty sure I went crazy for a while there :\
I had the best team ever, but the amount of time I put into figuring out my team was ridiculous.
I haven’t been caught up with the EVs/ IVs yet though! 😀
This is why I usually end up hating RPGs. All the number crunching and everything to make sure I have the best gear or whatever, gets to be too much like hard work.
Glad I can still make it through Pokemon with the “this guy looks cool I’ll keep him” method 😛
All my pokemon have to look cool too! 😀
I cannot play with an ugly pokemon, no matter how good they may be. That’s why I’ll never use a Chesnaught, Delphox, Venasaur, Meganium, or Infernape.
Ugliest starters 😛
Luckily Greninja is the best 6th gen starter anyway 😉
Um. Chestnaught is the best. Mighty armadillo tank!
So incredibly ugly 😛
Better than Delphox, but they are both so, so, ugly 😛
Greninja is the only good looking 6th gen final starter, which is funny, cause Froakie is the ugliest 6th gen starter :S
CHESNAUGHT SMASH
What’s your favourite Pokémon?
Until recently, Charizard.
Now? HAWLUCHA!
You are a good man.
He fights with flair.
every time I fought one of them I got music from Guacamelee in my head, it was great 😀
You’re not crazy until your notes start being covered in red string
For my last competitive team I constructed an elaborate family tree for each Pokemon, describing the stats/moves/etc I needed to be passed down through each generation…
Have you ever constructed breeding chains to jump game generations?
I’m not as crazy as some!
I don’t entirely understand what you just described.
Ok, for example in Gen 5 the best moveset for Roobushin (3 evo pure fighting type. I can never remember English name) had both Mach Punch and Superpower (iirc).
The only way to get both of those moves was through breeding. The only possible parents that could learn those moves in Gen 5 through any means was: Roobushin, which needed to learn them as Egg moves… hmm…
If you extend your search to include Gen 4 however, you could breed a Machamp to have both Mach Punch and Superpower. Again, iirc, you needed to actually raise it to Machamp and then teach it MP via move tutor. So then you get your Machamp, transfer it to Gen 5, and then breed it to get Roobushin with MP and Superpower.
It was totally worth it, because pretty much the only counters were Ghost types and possibly Sigilyph.
Edit: Now that I think about it, I’m almost certain that you needed to breed Mach Punch onto Machop via Hitmonchan, then raise Machop until it learned Superpower, then transfer and breed with Roobushin. That definitely makes more sense as a “breeding chain”.
*blinks*
Can that still be done in gen 6?
I got the impression move tutor attacks aren’t egg moves in X/Y, so you can’t have them on less likely to be hacked Kalos mons.
@beavwa
Ah, I hadn’t investigated really. It’s always a pain, so I try to avoid it whenever I can.
Of course, one of the other uses in Gen 5 was to have a larger selection of Stealth Rock users. It was removed from TM list and move tutor in Gen 5 leaving a much smaller list of possible SR users. Some of those Pokémon cut from the list didn’t really get anything in the way of major changes to stats/movepool that really made it worth training a new one. Since the move wasn’t “banned” from transfer, you could still raise those Pokémon in Gen 4 and transfer them over.
I still think that cross-gen transfer should only be introduced at the end of a Generation, not at the beginning. Upset the metagame in a big way.
No red string, but I did draw lines between the different types to show weaknesses and strengths to see where my team was too vulnerable and where too many of them covered the same type :3
There’s many things to do this for you! http://www.marriland.com/tools/team-builder
Hahaha, I lived on Marriland, Smogan, and Bulbapedia for a while there :3
I found it quicker / crazier to make my own charts, since I knew roughly what I wanted out of my team, and was including attack types as a strength (ie, Electivire was an electric + ground + ice type, with only the weaknesses of an electric type, etc).
My crazy scrawlings made sense to me :3
I also made a full 6 team of baton passing, sand-attacking, sandstorming, stat raising, power swapping Shuckles! 😀
You can’t use 6 of the same pokemon in a competition though :'(
Why worry about natures if you’re not going to worry about EVs/IVs?
I’d argue that natures are the most important factor to consider, effort training or not.
id argue that mawts face is stupid.
😛
I also despise natures.
Hmmm, in my recent learning’s I saw a bigger difference in min-max IV than hindering-beneficial nature. At L50 anyway.
I am shocked how much difference EV training has made too.
At L100, Effort translates into Stat points at a rate of 4 to 1. So as the maximum worthwhile effort in a given stat, 252 effort grants 63 stat points.
Individual or Difference values range from 0-31, which apply at L100 at a rate of 1:1.
The benefit from a positive nature grants a 10% bonus to “stat growth”.
The importance of natures, IMO, comes from the fact that missing out on that 10% – or worse, taking a 10% penalty to growth because you’re training a hindered stat – actually adds up to a significant advantage.
So for Effort trainers, nature is absolutely vital. And for people who are taking it a little more casually, they will likely see the most significant growth in the boosted stat.
Also, since standard competiton environment is now level 50, that 10% is really interesting, since you’re not getting that full 4:1 or 1:1 conversion rate.
I don’t inherently worry about EVs/IVs.
I still want them to have the nature that best applies to the stats I want them to have higher / lower, since they still typically end up with those stats being higher / lower regardless of how you train (I find).
Regular training still typically favours / ignores the respective stats if a particular nature, though not as much as it would with EV/IV or focus training.
End game EV training is pretty easy with hordes, it typically takes 20 minutes to train ev’s and it makes a massive difference. I was shocked at how crazy the difference was.
I don’t want to get sucked into EV training though! :’O
That’s the one part that hasn’t sunk it’s claws into me! :’O
You’ll see the
lightdarkness eventually.Yup, EV training is a cakewalk now. It’s great. With the EV-boosting items from the Battle Maison (or was it Chateau?) and PokeRus you can fully train something in like ten minutes and easily check your progress with the Dojo ‘app’ thing. Such an improvement!
I am glad that the dojo thing exists because fuck counting ev points 😛
That is basically how natures work.
Exactly.
If I was doing professional competitions I would IV breed and EV train, but I’m not gonna bother with that just for playing the game 😛
Of course, the trainers in the challenge zones like Battle Tower/Battle Frontier/Battle Subway/etc. in-game have properly EV trained Pokémon, eventually even with egg moves and such.
So if you want to do well in those you probably want at least nature and EV training. 😛
Sorry.
I’ve never really cared about those to be honest, and even then, I think a good team with good tactics and good type coverage should be enough to pull through most of those fights 🙂
@liondrive I was just being picky because I’m like that.
Definitely agree that you should be able to get to the 50th trainer challenge with correct type coverage.
Everything past that to the 100th trainer challenge ramps up in difficulty quite quickly.
*opens “Contra” file on company network*
*gets disappointed*
Stupid accounting terms, where’s my side scrolling shoot ’em up 🙁
Access denied: file is Probotected.
It’s Contraband!
Well, thanks a lot Welbot and @mrtaco. You’ve basically eliminated the need for any more internet. It might as well be shut down to avoid the disappointment of failing to live up to this.
lawl
Your company is secretly providing arms to Iran?
Am I the only one that calls Gary Abblet by the nickname Gabblet rather than Gaz?
I don’t really talk to him often enough.
wtf is gary abblet?
Sportsball guy.
Fun Fact:
Gold coast played a pre-season game in townsville this year and i nearly ran him over because he crossed the road without looking.
I still prefer to call him Jesus. It’s funnier because he’s super-Christian.
my gran calls him the same.
son of GOD 🙂
Yeah, I tend to use Gabblet far more than Gaz or Gazza. Sometimes GAJ.
If he upgrades his TV big enough will he have to change his name to Phabblet?
Top 11 Avatar episodes.
I’m not a huge fan of this sort of thing but it has Dante Basco running around as Zuko and shouting “honor!” constantly. He also humpbends.
The list:
11. Ember Island Players (s3 recap episode)
10. The Chase (Azula and co chase the Gaang)
9. The Firebending Masters (Aang and Zuko’s happy holiday adventure)
8. The Day of Black Sun (s3 mid-season super epic battle of awesome)
7. Zuko Alone (Zuko finds out that people hate him)
6. The Puppetmaster (Bloodbending)
5. The Guru (buildup to s2 finale, Toph learns metal bending)
4. The Southern Raiders (Katara and Zuko’s less happy holiday adventure)
3. The Crossroads of Destiny (s2 finale)
2. The Storm (Flashbacks of Zuko and Aang’s lowest moments)
1. Sozin’s Comet (Grand finale)
Let’s be honest, we knew what number 1 was going to be. The Storm being so high up there was a surprise but honestly the biggest change I would make would be putting The Southern Raiders at number 1 and Sozin’s Comet at 2. The grand finale was amazing but The Southern Raiders was just ridiculously good in every way.The fact that Tales of Ba Sing Se is missing is a bit of a thing. I mean, come on, just Iroh’s bit was amazing and the rest was neat.EDIT: For reference, here is their list of the “worst” 11 episodes:
11. The Boiling Rock (Prison break, Suki rejoins the Gaang)
10. The Serpent’s Pass (The one with the baby)
9. Jet (The one where they realise Jet is kind of a dick)
8. The Cave of Two Lovers (The one with the hippies singing and Aang is awkward around Katara)
7. The Waterbending Master (Pakku is a jerk to Katara)
6. Sokka’s Master (Sokka makes SPACE SWORD! I don’t think this guy likes the Sokka character growth episodes much because this is the third one of them on the list)
5. The Swamp (Hillbilly water benders. Pants are an illusion.)
4. The Painted Lady (Katara pretends to be a spirit lady and Appa eats the purple berries)
3. The Headband (Aang goes to school and has a dance party. Wang Fire.)
2. Bato of the Water Tribe (The Gaang meets a friend of Sokka and Katara’s dad. June and her lizard show up)
1. The Great Divide (The one everyone hates)
What’s the episode where Zuko, Azula, Mai and Ty Lee crash that fire party and hang out on the beach? I remember rather liking that episode.
The Beach. It’s rad but probably wouldn’t make my top 10/11.
No sparky sparky boom man?
He’s more of an arc but The Western Air Temple (the one where they take him down) is pretty amazing. The visuals where you see the temple for the first time are mind blowing. And then there’s actual mind blowing later on.
I’m surprised the season 1 finale or the Winter Solstice episodes didn’t make it in in the top 10.Or just anything involving Roku. That flashback to his and Sozin’s friendship breakdown was pretty good.
Yeah. There’s a pretty obvious bias towards the stuff towards the end. Admittedly, the production quality did dramatically increase as the show went on but the season 1 finale was still rad.
The Avatar and the Firelord was a good episode too. I don’t think anyone would have complained if it was on this list.
It’s been so long since I watched that show that I’m not sure I even remember most of those episodes.
From what I remember I quite liked the swamp.
Omission of Tales of Ba Sing Se was unexpected.I enjoyed Sokka’s Master.
A lot of the bottom 11 have some really good qualities. Whether it’s story, gags, animation/choreography or whatever… but I guess that could be said about every episode.
Holy crap, I am bored… 🙁
Do something crazy, guy!
Got to the final boss on the Destiny daily. Connection dropped.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFuck.
Let’s play finished!
http://youtu.be/TQzwHlR3tg4
Also, help me decide the next song to play
Pretty cool.
However a suggestion I would make is to have a intense song at high difficulty as a “This is to give you a basic idea, this is what it gets like”
The game looks a little simply from that and the video drags slightly without the change in arrows and colour.
Yeah i was planning to do the next song the next difficulty up
No scarecam? I am disappoint.
In all seriousness, that is way better than any of the tosh I offloaded on my Dailymotion channel.
EDIT: Just a word of advice, probably add capitals or something to the title to make it more professional. Change it to Melody’s Escape – Livin’ on a Prayer or something.
I’m only really doing it for you guys. =D
Scree’s review of Hyperule scarf edition.
The scarf is awesome, it’s knitted.
The game? DO I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING MYSELF AROUND HERE? FINE, I WILL MURDER EVERYONE AND STEAL ALL THE KEEPS, HAPPY? Is how I tend to feel. It’s like, fight this boss, but this keep is falling oh and this captain is in trouble and they’re all on opposite sides of the map.
I find co op so much less stressfull, you can split up and keep multiple people happy at a time, single player is a bit of a crazy balancing act with everyone screaming “why are you over there? we need you here….. and here, oh and there, oh and go help that guy he’s dying.” If you have a co op buddy I’d recommend it, plus co op gives one player the whole tv and the other uses the game pad :D.
I have no (local) friends D=
Time to train Sid (Cid?), he’s smart right 😛
Sid. But I don’t think that will work. He’d rather look out the window that’s next to the TV
I can finally stream my Xbox games!
Also, I bought a cheap Component cable for my Wii.
Time to stream all of the Wii games! 😀
Want that Pokemon demo but am not willing to pay money for it if it requires a pre-order from an over-priced store :-/
Oh good, jimu being a tightarse is a pageget, woopty-poo!
Wat demo?
Similar to BDFF, different stuff to do, not in main game, can send items across.
THIS WEEK IN COMIC BOOK TV SHOWS
Gotham (S1E1): Eh, it’s OK, got potential. A couple of wedged in shoutouts, probably about three too many, but the two leads (Gordon and Bullock) look like they’ll be fun. Als, props to John “Rawls” Doman as Falcone. Pretty cinematography though a little handheld shakycam in fights, but it’s a style at least.
3 and a half murdered waynes out of five.
Agents of Shield S2E1: Pretty lame, I thought. Similar issue I had last season- it’s shot without much panache and other than Clark Gregg the regulars can’t really handle the dialogue (except for May, who’s gven little to do, and the new guy from the end of s1). New Macguffin, yay. Villain was cool though, and the effects for him worked well. Thy also set up the Agent Carter series and the big bad, so there’s that.
3 Fury eyepatches out of five.
COMING SOON: THE FLASH, ARROW and CONSTANTINE
SO HYPED FOR FLASH AND ARROW!
Mainlined ARROW and it was over way too soon. Thinking I might have to hold off until the season is finished then binge it so I don’t get all antsy at the end of every episode.
Constatine looks pretty great but it has ever potential to be awful so reserving judgement.
Love Arrow. Also, eyepatched up for the leaked FLash Pilot, it’s gonna rock
Just finished Gotham: Who the fuck thought that it was a good idea to put a camera pointing directly at Gordon’s face in a chase scene? Looked so bad.
Also, felt super contrived, particularly the opening.
Will probably keep watching it though.
Hold on.
3.5/5?
70%?
You should have docked it 3.33%.
That would have made it 2 murdered Waynes out of 3.
This made me smile. 🙂
Finally put iTunes on my laptop so I can start updating my iPod.
I kinda want to start getting into the habit of actually buying my music *gasps*
I feel a little guilty downloading all the time :\
Especially when I really like the music.
So I’m gonna format my iPod and start again! 😀
No pirating music for me for as long as possible!
I already bought a bunch of music and err’thang! 😀
Nice!
I never download music unless I’ve already bought the album and am waiting for it to arrive. Not that I even need to do that anymore, with all the subscription based music streaming things around. Downloading used to be handy for “trying before you buy” though.
I don’t like subscription based things :S
I’m scared of commitment! :O
I was just looking through my iPod going, “pirated, pirated, pirated, pirated, pirated…” and started to feel guilty :\
Like, there was only 300ish songs on there, but they were all pirated :\
Even the artists I love were pirated :\
Made me feel kinda guilty, haha!
Gonna have to start my CD collection from scratch! It’s kinda exciting! 😀
Already got some pretty good song recommendations too 😀
+1 for the CD collection. Yay for physical media \o/
I sold my cd collection a couple of months ago in a garage sale. Some guy took them all (about 400) for his son who’s just getting into metal. Hopefully he’s found some bands in there he likes.
I miss my collection now though 🙁
Fuck I hate Hotmail. All I want to do is access my email and they’re making me provide an additional email for them to send a code to to verify my account. But the email they want to send the code to is another hotmail address, so it won’t let me access it without a friggin’ code. Talk about a vicious circle. So they want me to give them a phone number to send the code to, that ain’t happening, why the fuck would I give them my phone number.
Not to mention the fact that I already provided them with an alternative email address (yahoo) to send a code to a while ago for verification.
Looks like I’m gonna have to change my email, anyone got any suggestions (I’m assuming everyone’s gonna recommend Gmail).
Man this is gonna be a major hassle notifying everywhere, and changing my email for everything (XBox Live, PSN, Ozgameshop, JB Hi-Fi etc etc).
Fuck you Hotmail, fuck you in the arse with a claw hammer.
I got caught up in that a while back. Ended up creating another trash account on my yahoo for it.
Also found out that you can’t create a yahoo e-mail without a phone number now. Glad I was able to create an alias account :/
If you don’t want to update all your logins just create a gmail account for the hotmail code and keep your current email
The phone number lets them enable two-factor authentication: you log in, then they send you a text with a code to prove you’re the owner of the account. It’s vastly more secure than another email address is. MS won’t use it to spam you with SMSes or anything, it’s only used for authentication purposes.
I don’t care what it’s used for, they ain’t getting it.
Google, Microsoft and eBay all have my phone number for 2FA. I’ve never received a single text from them outside of me trying to login to my account.
Also Gmail is a cool guy. I love that I can create additional alias’ on the fly just by adding a + and a word after my default account and it still lands in my inbox.
From my perspective (programmer working in a security field) I think you’re a bit nuts about this, but if you don’t want to use the feature, then swap to gmail.
Just be aware that gmail without two factor authentication (using your phone, either via a key generated on an app on your phone or by receiving a text from them) is just as insecure as Hotmail was and will have the exact same issues if you try and recover the account.
Question: Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Steam supposed to be making all their games compatible with Linux? I was under the impression that they were trying to make this happen before the Steam Box is released.
The reason I ask is I want to get rid of Windows and only run Ubuntu and Steam games compatibility with Linux is something I kinda need to make the switch. I don’t want to all of a sudden lose access to one or two hundred games in my Steam library.
Also, anyone here run Steam OS? If so, what are your thoughts?
Valve is making their games work on Linux. Things like CS, TF2 and Dota.
Most of your Steam library won’t work on Linux and possibly never will unless the publishers feel like it’s worth their time. It probably won’t be worth their time until Steam Box is an established platform.
By the look of this the list is up to almost 700 games so far. That’s a pretty good start.
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=&sort_by=_ASC&os=linux&page=1#sort_by=_ASC&category1=998&os=linux&page=1
Yeah, there’s a lot of indie content there. I was thinking more of the AAA titles.
Yeah, it’s sucky that there isn’t more Linux support for “AAA” games.
This is why I initially got really excited for Steam OS and then realised that non of my games will be playable on it
Rewatching Dollhouse.
Man, the first episodes are terribad.
whyarewewatchingthisitisterrible
You two.
You deserve each other.
Now get the f*** out >:(
Diss-ing my Dollhouse >:(
The NERVE!
But the first episode is stupidly bad, it gets better but for a first episode it just didnt deliver on racking people in for the long haul
the first episode was enough to scare me away.
Oh good, wasn’t just me.
Fairly sure it was everyone but the most diehard Whedonites.
Eliza Dushku is just amazingly untalented, the writing is mediocre at best and well… I’m only sticking around because I liked Sierra, Victor and Topher.
I was a diehard Whedonite until that show. It was soooo bad. Kind of knocked the scales from my eyes, and now the only Whedon I can even only half-enjoy is Firefly/Serenity.
The Epitaph episodes were the only really good parts, but you needed all the other eps for them to make sense.
I liked it! I ain’t even a hardcore Whedonite 😛
Second season was good, shame it was cut so short.
If I ever do a rewatch I’m skipping the entire first season. Or at the very least the singing/dancing one. That was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen on TV, and that’s saying something because I used to be addicted to Days Of Our Lives and The Young And The Restless when I first left school. 😛
It’s weird.
I’ve been feeling more like the person I want to be lately 🙂
Feels good 🙂
I think this two week uni break came at the perfect time for me 🙂
Someone I’ve known for four years told me today that they were a Collingowood supporter.
I… I don’t think I even know who they are anymore.
EDIT: Just realised I misspelled Collingwood. I’m keeping it, Collingowood sounds way cooler.
I guess it’s been nice knowing them. It’s ok, you’ll find a new friend.
I am going to jump on the bandwagon.
I am mad king Freya, midget doctor extraordinaire.
AMA!!!
Midget Doctor, eh.
Is this a pimple or a boil?
Came here to post this.
Let’s lance it and find out! Anyone got a leech?
Why Freya?
Favourite Pokémon?
I thought I answered this question because I was trying to do them in order. But let’s just say I left the best til last!
Freya because I have a slight obsession with Norse gods and it also means “The lady”. I also use the masculine spelling because it means “The lord”.
Favourite pokemon is probably…Jigglypuff? Because she is fun in Smash Brothers. I never owned (and therefore never completely finished) any other pokemon games. I also like Marowak because it was cute.
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women, or to play board games, drink tea and hear the lamentations of some other people?
That is a difficult choice. Can I crush my enemies and drink tea whilst listening to lamentations of women?
Why did you think it was a good idea to do an AMA at 10:35 PM, when nobody is here? Was this in fact your plan?
Do you have any views on Overseas Trained Doctors? Have you experienced much (or anything) to confirm the negative view of them, or do you think it’s present because Australians are xenophobic dickheads?
In light of your recent job applications, what do you think makes you suited for working at *hospital name here* in the position of *job title misspelled slightly here*?
Have you ever found that your tiny stature makes life difficult, or does it more easily allow you to engage in Fantastic Voyage style shenanigans?
How’s the bandwagon holding up? The last time somebody jumped on something we ended up with bits of broken couch flying across the room, and I don’t think we want a repeat of that.
I’ve been needing to go to the doctor for a while, but keep putting it off because I’m afraid. As far as I know all the doctors in this town are immigants (intentional). The one my wife takes our son to doesn’t seem to be able to speak a hell of a lot of English, so I have an irrational fear that they won’t understand what I’m on about. Also, the last few times I’ve been to the doctor they haven’t been able to find anything wrong, so I’m paranoid that I’m just going to look like an idiot and that I’m wasting their time. I’m also paranoid that if they find something wrong that it’ll be serious, and I don’t know if I want to know, or if I could even handle news like that.
Yes, I’m fucked up.
Ehh, language barrier is definitely a big issue, and certainly I can understand reticence due to its presence. As it stands, they get import Med Students at ANU who barely speak English, and you have to wonder (aside from wondering how they passed the interview) how they plan on treating people when their bedside manner is to stare at you slightly confused.
Anyway, I am unwilling to go to my Doctor because medical professionals scare me. Which given I work in a medical clinic is probably a worrying state of affairs.
My opinion on overseas trained doctors is pretty complicated but basically:
– many overseas trained doctors are from countries with more rigorous training requirements than ours!
– many overseas trained doctors are fantastic and are severely hampered by the 10 year Medicare moratorium
– some Australian trained doctors are in fact not very good and I think lots of Australians forget that because they may be able to build a rapport more easily
– I have met bad overseas trained doctors, and fantastic overseas trained doctors, and bad Australian trained doctors, and good Australian trained doctors and in essence you cannot really generalise
– Australians don’t seem to know that you can’t just fly in and wave a medical degree from Buttfuck, nowhere at the Australian government and be allowed to practice – they actually have quite strict testing criteria and supervision requirements that they have to adhere to. In at least one obvious case the Australian side fell down on properly assessing an overseas trained doctor who wasn’t competent but that could have easily been an Australian doctor too.
oh god I think I just kept saying “having worked at both regional and metropolitan hospitals, I want to work at your hospital because it offers (one or the other) and I have heard it is a supportive environment for trainees.” I also talked about the length of accreditation and similar things.
Yes, it is actually quite difficult to be short, female and young looking in general. It’s very hard for people to believe I have any actual authority or knowledge and I think my stature has a bit to do with it.
The bandwagon is fine. Don’t ask.
Are you sure the bandwagon is fine? I mean, it’s a little fragile, and you do sort of have… thick arms.
DAMMIT @rocketman!
Oooh, girl AMA! 😀
I’m not going to hold back just cause you have lady parts! >:)
– If you weren’t a doctor, what would you want to be?
– Where do you see yourself, or want to see yourself, in 20 years?
– Are you more of a Meredith, Christina, or Izzy, and explain why.
– What’s your most embarrassing story?
– What’s your idea of a perfect date, then what would ruin said date?
– If you had to name your boobs, what would they be called, and why?
I know what would ruin the perfect date: me!
Oi, I was trying to get her to spill what kind of date you could take her on, then have her say what not for you to do! 😛
Try’in to subtly help you be all romantic and shizz, then you go and ruin it! XP
Somebody asked me this question before and as I said, I actually can’t think of another career I’d want. This is so open ended and has so many aspects I love about it. Although, I got asked the question in a job interview and my response was to stammer out “professional esports player”.
I have no idea where I will be in 20 years really. Hopefully fully trained with a full time job and with a full time Bun.
I only watched the first season or two of that show because it is awful and I honestly dislike those characters. According to a buzzfeed quiz, I am most like Lexie.
My most embarrassing story is probably not safe for Kotaku.
Bun would easily ruin the most perfect date by being awkward but it’s okay because he’s handsome and snarky.
If I had to name my boobs I’d call them B1 and B2.
Eww, you’re a Lexie! 😛
Now I want to hear this embarrassing story even more though! 😀
My childhood memories are ruined, and I don’t care. 😛
Did you fix qwirkle yet?
Was it broken?
I remember being told that I broke it (or maybe just ruined), though I can’t at all remember how or what I did 😛
Why only midgets?
No, I’m the midget, not a midget specific doctor.
Oh!
If there was only two people left on Earth, you and another girl, would you hate her?
It depends on the girl?
I met you once at Trjn’s. Are your eyes still burning? Sorry if my vision caused any discomfort!
I did need to get glasses afterwards but it’s probably not related…
did I have long hair when we met? Like was my hair in a pony tail? Trying to figure out how long I’ve been growing it. All I remember from that night, was meeting new faces, @dkzeitgeist hugging me, and dem ribs! (from ribbets)
Yes, you did have long hair in a pony tail.
wow! I didn’t think I’d had it that long! Thought you might have seen me in that annnoying phase right before it’s too long to tie back!
aah that awkward length, the only time in my life I wore a cap regularly.
Bandanna for me.
Those were the days…
I have a rash..what do you do when your not saving lives and do you have any funny stories about your work?
I play games or study or do courses…Doctors are really not very interesting people. Funny stories tend to be gross rather than actually funny and probably don’t maintain appropriate patient confidentiality.
They do if you refer to the a patient x and doctor z
A more serious question, are you trying to become a surgeon, or a different kind of doc? If you do hope to become a surgeon, at what point did you decide you’d be comfortable cutting open people and seeing horrible things?
I used to want to be a surgeon, but I’m currently heading down a critical care pathway instead. I don’t mind cutting people open particularly, but I couldn’t deal with other aspects of the career.
Do you remember the first time I called you “mang” and the you said you weren’t Vietnamese and then I was all “Wat.”?
Because I do.
Hi Freyr!
I do and I mentioned it to Bunny recently.
Who else is gonna be watching the Alien movies in anticipation of Alien: Isolation?
*puts hand up*
That reminds me, I still have to grab a copy of Prometheus.
I (re)watched the first two with some friends a few weeks back, saw the normal version of Alien, which cuts the super goofy part, and the director’s cut of Aliens, which makes the last act of the movie actually make sense. They held up well, though the models look dated, and some of the transitions and stuff in Alien look a little bad. Still great movies though.
I always liked Prometheus because it was ridiculously pretty, even if its plot had more holes than a good piece of emmental cheese.
It would be odd if they didn’t look a bit dated by now, it’s been so long. But as you say, still great movies.
Oh, and if anyone’s interested, if you order the Nostromo Edition on PS4 from Ozgameshop they’ll chuck in a free copy of the Alien Anthology on Blu-Ray. Pretty sweet deal for 80 bucks if you ask me.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps4-games/alien-isolation-nostromo-edition-ps4-game-with-alien-anthology-blu-ray
!
EDIT: Awww, bluray is region-B locked 🙁
Ordered blu rays from them before, region b works fine on Aussie players.
Of course it does.
I don’t have a Region B bluray player! I’m all Region A (US/Japan).
Terrible shocking admission: I’ve never seen all of the first Alien film.
You have to fix that right now.
Go now, we’ll wait.
I can one up that.
I’ve never seen any of any of the Alien movies
I tried to watch it, but Video Ezy only had Aliens and I didn’t want to watch them in the wrong order. So I rented a film of a similar genre; Die Hard.
Then i found 5c. I didn’t bother to pick it up.
Huh. My single player world on Minecraft got deleted. Cool.
My controls were reset. Cool.
I guess this is what happens when you try to rename the Minecraft folder to ‘Minecraft folder’ from the ‘.minecraft’ file name it had previously.
Fixed it for the most part. Still annoyed.
Well, uh, yeah, would imagine that would do it.
So, I’m guessing that means that your payment went through then.
@liondrive and Perth peeps, we still doing stuff on Friday night/weekend?
I’m still good for weekend 🙂
You wanna try for the movies rather than casino on Friday though?
Still not sure about Friday (I’ll probably be super tired from work). Casino isn’t that high of a priority though but we can always briefly hang out.
I’m thinking movie on the weekend only because Boyhood is like what, 3 hours? So it’ll be hard for me to keep awake if I watched it Friday evening 😛
Also, you free Monday? I dunno if I’m working or not
I’m working all day Monday till 7pm (maybe 6pm) :S
@perthius.
I would but I have my engagement party that for some unknown reason I have to be a part of. Sorry greenie maybe another time when your are back out this way
Didnt you hear? He lives there now hes perthius!
;_;
I said this earlier, but I can’t come because my mother is out of town.
Thank you YouTube for giving me an ad for a video of a live stomach surgery. Much appreciated.
Check out ctfxc… Guy vlogged his brain surgery.
What the hell is up with Ebay? Do a search for stuff in my postcode and it gives me results for the whole freakin’ country, WTF!
I see your post code is in Victoria, here, we have a nice fridge for you in Townsville. Pick up only.
I’ve finally figured out how to use Open Broadcaster Software!
Now all I need is a good mic, and I can do my Sim Racing streams. 😀
should have just asked me for help! I set it up for myself while I was playing Risen 3! Streamed a bit of my gameplay on twitch!
The Blaghs quick review of the GTX 970:
Why did I buy a new Graphics Card when I only use my computer to play Civilization? I may not have thought this through.
Speaking of, anybody want a GTX 580 with non-functioning fans? Cost of shipping to a good (or perfectly mediocre) home.
I have a 580, also with 1 non functional fan! But I blu-tac’d another case fan to my vid card yesterday, so it’s all good for now!
I’ll trade you 2x 580s with working fans for the 970 you don’t want. 😛
Yeah i’d be really interested in that. Where about are you located, i’m in Bris.
Blagh is in Cantberra, on the shores of Lake Curly Gherkin!
Cool thanks. (:
Hey man, sorry for not respondingquicker, wanted to write things up properly, and was too lazy to do so on my phone.
As Welbot said, I’m Canberran. For more info: It’s a Gigabyte Super OC series GTX580. In a well ventilated system it could probably run at default 580 clock fairly well (which is what I’ve been doing to it for the last few months, though since I have heat flow issues I’ve had it shut itself down a few times), but its middle fan is completely dead (jammed, I assume thanks to dust, but I’m no expert), and I think the other two are on their last legs, if they aren’t dead already. The middle one’s also missing a screw, because I lost it while taking it apart to see if I could fix it. Aside from the fans, so far as I can tell it’s running fine
If you’re still interested after my best attempts to warn you off it (just want to make sure you know what you’re getting yourself into), chuck an email to blaghman(at)gmail(dot)com, and we can hash out everything else.
Did they skip 800s?
The Titan’s are kinda the 800 series. Just didn’t get an actual number
I think they made mobile 800s, but no desktop cards.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter! 19 hours away! *flails arms like crazy person*
Yours really excited to see some guy disappear..is david blaine involved?
Ethan Carter is the next name on THE LIST!!!
@DC’s the Blacklist!
Ethan Carter is a hobo.
@dc likes to vanish hobos.
It’s the perfect game for him.
Makes sense when you put it like that
Man, that Old Mario video was a downer.
D: , it really was.
w00t! I got a job to do from one of my customers today! yay!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-295/comment-page-8/#comment-2958972
So I need people to give me ideas for the next song to play on medium difficulty!
Not sure which song next, but you should work on the audio a little. The volume was so low on that vid that I can’t hear the music at all!
Really? The volume was ok for me
Agreed the sound levels were a bit low but I managed to compensate when I watched it
I had no issues with volume. that’s a bit weird
Volume was fine by me 🙂
I vote for Clarity by Zedd ft Foxes! 😀
Or if you’re after something a bit less pop song-ish (though Clarity is really good), I’ll put a vote in for Rolling in the Deep by Adele 🙂
I honestly don’t mind. I just have to source the song
I imagine the Evil Twins battle theme from Crash Bandicoot Twinsanity would make for some nuts rythmn thingos.
I inherited a 6970 from a friend who said it kept on cutting out for him during games and on taking out my old 7750 it’s over twice as long and takes up 3 times as many slots 😀 it’s working ok for me so far, left Skyrim running with a few mods and it was still running ok. The only thing is, the card bends under its own weight a little. Is this normal for these cards, or another question, will this damage it in the long run? I’m assuming it did the same in my mate’s PC but don’t know if there’s anything I can do to give it more support without laying my PC on its side (no space to do this)
some towers/graphics cards come with support brackets that attach to the inner side of your card and attach to the motherboard to keep it straight. I can’t find my bracket anywhere, so I can’t show you a pic, but they do exist.
I’ve seen a couple of forum posts about using plastic ties to give it a bit of a boost so might look into that. It should be fine though, it’s screwed in fully on all 3 slots and isn’t budging in the PCI-E slot
the bracket I have for mine loops over the PCB on the inside (opposite end to where you plug in monitor etc). It’s just like a little face plate cover for the other end, except no face plate, and rather than a 90 degree angled side, it goes at 45 degrees with a hole in side (to slip the corner of the PCB through. It then hooks to either the back of the motherboard, or the case, to stop that unsupported end from bending.
There was totally a Sketchbook lookalike on the train this morning. Not to the same extent as my pornoclones, but similar enough features to make me keep glancing over. Guess it isn’t as gone as I thought…
Wonder if she’s going on the weekend >_>
*Grabs Popcorn*
*Burns hand on popcorn*
*Cries self to sleep*
“…and the ring in my ears, from playing too loud!”
I enjoyed myself some live Veruca Salt at The Zoo in down town Brizvegas last night. It was most awesome!
An odd memory came to me this morning.
One of my teachers in primary school, I think he was subbing for my usual 5th grade teacher for some reason, was a bit of a hardass and had a habit of punishing students who were fidgeting with something by taking the object and pretending to throw it out the window. I don’t know how effective he thought this would be as a long term strategy since he was clearly just placing it on the windowsill out of the student’s sight and would then blatantly retrieve it and hand it back, without any further pretense.
I’m sure I must have figured this out the very first time I saw him pull this stunt, so one day I’m being a shit and fiddling with my eraser (at least I must have been, I don’t really remember) which causes him to take my eraser and perform his “throwing it out the window” stunt. I was actually sitting right next ot the window so the instant he turned his back I half-stood out of my chair and peeked out on the sill: sure enough there was my eraser. I grabbed it back and tucked it back in my pencil case before he returned to the blackboard to continue the lesson.
Ten minutes later when he assumed I had suffered enough without my precious stationery he returned to the window to retrieve my eraser and then, after a moment’s hesitation and apparently concluding it must have fallen, directed me to go downstairs (we were on the second floor) and find it, so I went downstairs, walked around for a few minutes, then came back without a word.
He never admitted he hadn’t really thrown it, I never admitted I had already taken it back. But I think he knew, and knew that I knew.
Morning all, I’ve awoken with Pokemon Fever! Well, actually, I’ve had it for about fifteen years now.
Rummaging through some old magazines last night, I found some old Pokemon Power issues that were supplied with a few issues of Nintendo Power back in 1999. I have the first two and would love to share them with anyone who may be interested? I can scan them to pdf and upload, shortly.
Also, here’s a brief four page Red/Blue walkthrough from an old Hyper mag that I kept. Enjoy!
Oops, forgot the obligatory ‘Fifteen Years Ago! It’s a thing!’ 😀
I used to buy Nintendo Magazine every month for about two years in high school, becuase I assumed at some point in the near future I would get a Nintendo 64 and wanted to be “ready”, whatever that means. I lined my bedroom walls with the posters, read the guides and reviews and other articles, and obsessed over N64 stuff.
I first owned an N64 (well, sort of) when my wife (who was then my girlfriend) bought one off of ebay for $50 in 2004. We played Mario Kart once, and it’s been packed away ever since.
That’s neat, thanks for sharing.
I had an issue of Pokemon Power back when I had Pokemon Yellow…
I’m not sure what I’ve done with it… 🙁
Try to find it! I only have two out of the six issues!
I wonder how Final Fantasy VII would go if it was newly released today considering the opening of it has you joining a radical terrorist group and blowing up a power plant.
Best. FF. Ever.
Sorry what was the question again?
It would be interesting. CoD did get away with making you shoot up an airport full of civilians right in the midst of all the terror crap going on. It’s funny how some games seem like they’re just using them as an example, like the censorship board has a quota of games to ban per year to remind us they’re there. *shrugs* I’unno censorship is inconsistent.
Edit: I always assumed Activision/Infinity Ward greased the right palms.
If it was released now, everyone would ignore it because it looks like arse by today’s standards.
Dear Vault of Glass’ers,
@saturday @dire_wolf @distantdrop @blaghman @jocon
So we have confirmed this Saturday for our first run into the metaphorical wall which is Destiny’s raid. According to more experienced peeps we will require void damage and possibly ark damage for harpies, please make sure to have both these damage types readily available.
Final order of business is figuring out the time frame for Saturday. I’m good for 4-5 hours at any point between 9am to 9pm. If everyone tagged can share their ideal time-frames we can finalize when we’re starting and expected end time. If we aren’t able to finish the raid on Saturday (most likely) we might reconvene on Sunday if people are willing!
(Honorable mention to our comrade @evilmonkey who couldn’t join us this time around!)
Right, well, we’re not exactly going in blind, yeah? So we’ll attempt to complete this in one sitting and in a good 2-3 hours, maybe?
I’m normally quite active from noon to 5pm Sydney time, but I can play until 7pm (this’ll mean playing into the wee hours of the morning for me, and I’ll most definitely be plastered by then.)
I dunno about Sunday. Will have to check work schedule for that.
Ok so we’re down to 12pm to 5pm for Saturday! Which is good for me and Jo as well it seems. @dire_wolf @distantdrop and @blaghman just need your go ahead and we’ll lock this time frame in!
Those times are fine for me.
Works for me!
That can work, I might run 10 minutes late? but most likely won’t happen.
I’m easy on.the time.
Apparently you do extra void damage in the Vault which is why it’s useful but the Harpies have shields which are vulnerable to arc, is that correct or do I have it all ass-backwards? I’m not going to try and group for it until I have more legendary gear which means I plan to grind out the Queen’s bounties and spend this weekend cashing in my mission tokens to try and score her legendary weapons before the emissary leaves.
Then I will consider tackling the Vault. If my wife and I can find four willing victims.
Yeah, many void shielded Minotaurs. Harpies come with Arc shields so may encounter that in later fights.
I wish I had been able to keep up with you guys. Still only level 15 or so. 🙁
Would anyone be interested in some GMOD multiplayer tonight around 8:30pm EST?
Very excited for the New 3DS this year! I’ve been feeling like it’s time to upgrade as soon as the announcement came out (funny how that works :P) so I’m glad we’re getting it early. But I really, really wish the black normal one was coming out… Not sure if I want to try and wait for it yet.
I’ll be looking forward to getting Pokemon on the same day too. It’ll be good to get the smaller N3DS to play it so I don’t have to lug around my XL on the train. It’s going to be great being able to import (possibly exclusive) Japanese/limited edition face plates too in the future.
I’ll be annoyed if I miss out on a 3DS because of a wave of European importers though. I might have to actually pre-order for once!
Yeah, I’m hyped. I hope somewhere starts offering custom faceplates, so we can make our own designs. But that’s probably a bit wishful.
My daughters 3DS just stopped reading carts so I’ll probably grab a New XL and give her my current XL.
Yes I’m a size queen.
This wacky New 3DS thing has made me very glad I never got around to buying an XL. Now I’ll just get a New XL.
Oh man, I thought “Wii” was a stupid name but “New” is worse.
Yeah, think I’ll go preorder one of each tonight to avoid export shenanigans, but I’ll save final judgement for hands on time at PAX.
Should hopefully mean no more lugging around the CPP for Monster Hunter.
As far as being able to pay for them, looks like I’m raiding the PS4 fund, and it’ll be future me’s problem to deal with once Bloodborne gets released.
I’m considering trading in my PS4 console to fund this new 3DS handheld.
What does EB offer for PS4 consoles these days? If it’s not much, I’ll outbid them by $5.
Shane bids $10!
Yeah, I’m expecting EB to say something along the lines of ‘your PS4 trade value is less than the cost of the new handheld. Will you be paying the difference in cash today, sir?’
Maybe I’ll just flog it off on eBay.
Probably wise.
My only concern is the Network ID linking fiasco; for when I decide to keep my blue 3DS XL, purchase the new white one and interchange playtime between the two of them.
The NNID can only be attached to one console at a time. My plan is to do the transfer to make the N3DS my “main” console, then keep my old XL around as an always-offline one if I ever want the bigger screen for certain games at home (unless they force you to link an NNID to the system these days? Then I’ll just make a throw-away account to never use)
I’m watching to see how much of a clusterfuck this could turn out to be when the Japan launch happens – previously the XL was an upgrade, but now that there’s two viable form factors, people might want an XL for home and a normal for out and about.
The concept of having a portable home console seems so strange to me.
Then again, I am a bit of tight-wad/missing the boat person as I don’t have a home console whatsoever.
Japan also had some ridiculous (50+ ?) number of special edition variations of 3DS consoles, so there’d be a decent market there for owning more than one, theoretically.
True that. It actually kind of feels like handhelds are mimicking mobile phones a bit what with the seemlingly endless variations and different versions and the often incremental upgrades.
I can play it in any room! Any!
In bed!
It all stemmed from the GameBoy craze; did you have one?
I did have one of those and the main reason I played mine was because I kept getting kicked off the TV. Now that I’m an adult (hah!), I can have the TV/computer all to myself for however long I want.
I think I am going to wait for a special new 3DSXL. I would love that shiny Monster Hunter one that Japan is getting.
Did you know that the wooden-looking N3DS face plate is actual wood! And another one has a fabric texture! And another one is embossed!
I think you should buy both! And an extra for display purposes and a spare one just in case.
but I like money …
Morning lovlies. Today is very slow at work, so I’m playing The Oregon Trail in another browser tab. I made 128 days before all of my Oxen died and now I’m trying to trade my way to freedom and liberty. This friggin’ game.
I was playing this one for quite a while – http://store.steampowered.com/app/233740/
Haha, oh man, that looks so good!
TAYBIES, ASSEMBLE!!!!
AMAZON QUESTION…
Just looking at buying a headset through amazon and am confused by the international shipping rates.
they are as follows:
ETA 10 – 20 business days
per Item $0.00
per Weight (lbs) $30.00
per Shipment $149.99
so how much is shipping going to cost me??? $0, $30, or $149.99???
Specifically im after the PDP Afterglow Dolby Prismatic Wireless Headset
any ideas where i can score a good deal? oz gameshop doesnt have them, neither do mighty ape
$179.99
Seems about right. Amazon shipping outside America is fucking ridiculous.
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. It cost me about $30 to get my PS4 couriered from the US via Amazon.
i think i got it….
they must be on drugs….
Estimated shipping & handling: $9.48 when I added to my accounts cart
Based on my amazon experience, it’ll be $0 because when you go to the final stage of the checkout they’ll notice it’s something electronic and say “Ohh… sorry, you wanted to buy this? You’re outside America so we’re not allowed to ship it to you…”
PAX Flights booked, it’s all happening now!
I’m not needed?
No one ever needs me.
Oh yeah, I was going to message you re: your kind offer. I looked in to flights and it only ended up being approx $40 saving, so it was more worth it for me to go Qantas from Brisbane.
Right I should probably do that whole booking thing …
Haha, yeah… :/
Oregon Trail update: I finally traded up to an Ox! Eff yeah. I hunted and got a bunch of food and off we go. Then some bandits stole our clothes (but so what, I keep getting told the weather’s hot) and friggin’ Oates keeps getting bit by snakes.
pfft. who needs clothes?
not me.
No no, please keep your clothes on.
Please.
@35 Ignore this man, he knows not what he is saying! Keep removing them, but maybe slightly slower.
FUCK YOU. YOU’RE NOT MY REAL DAD. YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO DO.
*STRIPS*
All according to plan >:)
*tents fingers*
None of these sentences relate to death by Dysentery. Are you sure you’re playing The Oregon Trail?
She’d reply but she’s died from dysentery.
I always ended up breaking my legs.
Breaking your legs from dysentery seems like a horrible way to go.
Someone JUST got dysentary. Doing pretty well. One member of my party died, but really, who cares, he was a jerk and that’s just one less mouth to feed. Friggin’ Oates has typhoid now.
Give Oates some oats. That’ll sort him out. 😛
Yes. Wonderful. The prophecies are coming to pass!
Game over. Everybody died, and then I got friggin’ MEASLES. Pfft.
Doing another run; my wagon had an explosion almost straight away and now I have no clothes and no one wants to trade with me 🙁
You’ve just given me a killer story idea. *scribbles many notes*
If it’s any consolation, your misfortune caused me to laugh at my phone, to the confusion of the poor sod sheltering himself from the rain in the bus shelter with me.
Last night Mr. Strange finally played Rock Band 3(my birthday present for him) again. He used his Pro Guitar for the first time, too which had been a present for his birthday last year from his brother. He had fun and is all excited to play again when he gets home tonight which was exactly what I’d hoped because it’s been a while since he’s been excited about something and was getting really down due to not doing all the things he used to find fun, and instead just refreshing the internet all night waiting for something new to happen. It’s good to see him looking forward to something, again. 😀
And then we played it together (I just used a normal, not pro guitar). Ow,my hands! I forgot how brutal it is when you haven’t played for a while!
Huzzah! I know that feeling. Lately I’ve been watching my wife play stuff while I endlessly browse reddit or play Binding of Isaac.
So my phone official died during the night. It’s been giving signs lately so that was kinda expected. However, that meant I didn’t have an alarm to wake me up so I woke up 2 hours late on a work day /o\. As I’m usually the first one in the office, people expect me to be there if the alarm has been disarmed.
However, last night, someone forgot to arm the alarms so when my colleagues arrived and couldn’t find me, they thought something happened to me because of recent incident in the area where a guy was found dead in a car boot.
It was really awkward explain to everyone I just overslept.
At least they’d be relieved and not angry! \o/
Totally couldn’t remember how to regular expressions. Must have had my stupid pills this morning because I still had no idea what I was doing even with a whole bunch of googling. Managed to get it to do what I want in the end, but still got no idea.
I suggest more fibre in your diet if you’re having trouble with regular expressions.
Is that how you express yourself?
More carrots!
Man, i never had proper instructions on scripting or coding so I’m all self-taught, and regular expressions are so god damn powerful but wrapping my head around then is a freaking pain 😛
So… Found a random $25 Coles Myer voucher around the house. With this plus the Targrt deals coming up, here’s the question:
$19 fantasy life or $19 smash?
Smash!
I miss the days when people just found $10…
People clench their money so tightly these days…
Joe Hockey took em all. 🙁
Colleague just found $50, on the street!
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*lifts Pow into the air as happy taco music plays*
Theatryhyththththtythm Curtain Call.
Haven’t played enough FF for the last one to have been meaningful.
$31.50 Smash and Fantasy Life!
Ok, figured that wouldn’t work. Page has gone funny and lost all formatting.
New 3DS… hmmm… should I get one?
Probably
If you have to ask, you probably don’t need it 😛
The region lock is the main reason I’m hesitating 🙁
Do you have a 3DS console already? No? Then the answer is yes!
Has anyone played Rome 2 since they updated it to the Emperor’s Edition? I’ve been hearing positive things about it but haven’t had a chance to boot it up.
Also, new Total War game announced today. Hopefully it’ll be released in a better state than Rome 2 was
Rome 2’s initial version was kinda soured for me. The combat and battles were nice but the campaign felt incredibly lacklustre.
Edit: Should mention that I haven’t played the EE yet either.
No upvotes, no replies… what am I even supposed to *do*?
Well, you can always go on a murderous rampage \o/
Storm’s a-brewin’. Thunder sounds really weird here, the way it echoes between the buildings. Thought it was a truck or something at first.
Just had a mini heart attack when I saw my bank balance going dangerously low. Then I realised my week’s pay hasn’t come in yet.
In my continued writing of the Numenera recaps, I’ve just completed the section where @blaghman offered his body as payment even though he had actual money.
I’m not making that up either.
Hey, just because I have the money doesn’t mean that I want to spend it.
*sigh*
Preordered a New 3DS.
*sigh*
Also Preordered a Playstation TV.
Hi. My name is Freeze and I have a problem.
At least it’s not alcohol or smoking! Or is it..?
Por que no los tres?
Hi Freeze!
Is the problem that you have to wait until November for the PSTV?
Does anyone know anything about writing press releases? I’ve just started trying to write one for my upcoming Undad Kickstarter, and I’ve already described the book as brain food and said that I hope to bring the project to un-life.
I can’t help myself.
Hi. My name is Shane and I have a problem.
#ProblemPageTen
Hey kids! Radicalise your life TO THE XTREME with the gnarliest comic this side of bodacious, UNDAD!
TOTALLY NOT HEINOUS! *chugs Mountain Dew*
Tomorrow’s headline: “Queensland Man Arrested for Attempting to Radicalize Australian Youth”
@NegativeZero
Not sure if this is something you missed or not but Sunrider: First Arrival is available and free on steam. Just checked the page and it looks like you have wishlisted it somehow, so I assume that was before release?
The new discovery thing lets you wishlist free games. It’s a bit odd.
I didn’t know it came out.
I’ve been prompted (it doesn’t take much prompting) to listen to the entire Steely Dan discography in chronological order.
So let’s play the “What’s the last song you listened to!?” game.
Steely Dan – Bodhisattva
Last song in general or the last Steely Dan song?
Edited for clarity.
I have Silverchair’s Diorama playing in the car for the ride to and from work.
Smile Like You Mean It – The Killers
(cc @dc)
Great sooooong!
Cups – Anna Kendrick
Yessss, I might have watched Pitch Perfect again.
I think it was Oh Lord by Foxy Shazam or somethin’ by The White Stripes.
I’m not sure. I’m never sure. Most likely it was either something off Coldplay’s ‘Ghosts’ (which has really grown on me as an album after a few listens) or it was one of the tracks off the single with the two Aldnoah.Zero ending themes, because I’ve been listening to those & the soundtrack quite a bit recently (super excited to hear Hiroyuki Sawano’s soundtrack for Xenoblade X based off how good his work on this is, too)
Paul McCartney- Hope For The Future (Destiny Credits Song)
It is a glorious, glorious song.
Animal – Neon Trees. On the bus on the way home.
Atlantic City – Bruce Springsteen.
<3 Nebraska. What an album!
Sex & Religion – Steve Vai. Doubly awesome cos the vocalist sounds like Weird Al.
Over My Head – The Fray
21st century – Bad religion
Elder Princess Shroob (Final Battle) – Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
It’s rare that you get a final battle theme that is just wholly depressing. Instead of emphasising the HOLY CRAP YOU ARE FIGHTING A GIGANTIC PURPLE MUSHROOM WITH TENTACLES, it adopts a more ‘Yeah man, you can’t beat her. She has like 20 digits worth of HP’ kind of thing. A bit weird to hear that in a Mario game, but it’s something different, I guess.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-09-24-how-a-passion-for-zelda-is-driving-dynasty-warriors-to-fresh-audiences
This is an interesting article, but I think this is the most interesting part:
WHO DO I NEED TO SLEEP WITH AT DISNEY TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN?!
Star Wars Dynasty Warriors? oh dear god, that sounds like the most amazing thing ever!
The instant you start thinking about it you realize just how perfectly it would work too.
I wonder if people who are aching for a Battlefront 3 really just want this… build your own Jedi then tear through legions of Storm/Clone troopers.
As someone who is aching for Battlefront 3 I can say you are half right. I wish I could have both.
Oh my god. I get into work (working Thursday late shift) and they have a little petting zoo full of baby goats, piglets and ducklings right next to my store. .
THEY’RE SO ADORABLE!
Sounds delicious.
Name them before you eat them!
Steak, Suckling and Peking.
Billy, Peking and Sir Francis Bacon
Perfect size for the spit roast on the bbq too.
I’m on the latest Potaku ep! Welcome to Phantoms and Podcasters, as I take them through the new D&D Starter set! http://www.pixel-otaku.com/podcast/potaku85/
Thinking of doing a Let’s Play of Spelunky. Mostly because I’m already playing a lot of it and I’m kind of at that stage where I’m going to make a successful Hell run sooner or later.
Almost made one just a moment ago. Didn’t know how to do the Yama fight without paste or a shotgun, so I just kinda fucked up instead.
I’d watch that, mainly for the frustration I know you’ll get from that game 😛
Bonus frustration: I made a clean save file and screwed up backing up my original save. It’s lucky that my save file ended up in the recycle bin so I could restore it, otherwise I’d have a lot of unlocking to do. Again. And I’m already planning on doing that for the LP.
By the way, Christopher Pyne won the gold Ernie award this year, so pretty much everyone here is in august company.
Oh dear what did he say now?
“Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne was the overall winner, taking out the Gold Ernie for claiming that increases in uni fees wouldn’t disproportionately affect women because “women are well represented amongst the teaching and nursing students. They will not be able to earn the high incomes that dentists and lawyers will earn.” (In fact, women are now a majority of law and medicine graduates.)”
It seems this whole political party is infected with foot-in-mouth syndrome.
He’s just trying to get a mention on Mad As Hell.
I don’t advocate violence against anyone but Pyne really needs to win a Fast Travelling Fist In The Throat Award.
Kinda sad, because he’s the most senior South Australian politician in government. Probably why the current gov is so keen to fuck over the submarines, as he’s the only one whose vote it really affects.
Personally I don’t see why Australia needs to build its own submarines. Considering we don’t really build any other military hardware, why should submarines get the special national treatment and not, say, destroyers or fighter jets? The only large-scale military equipment that is made/developed in Australia that I can think of is the Bushmaster.
We build ships (Anzac class, Armidale class, LHD*, AWD*), land vehicles (Bushmasters, soon Hawkei, ASLAVs*), systems (Aircraft systems, Radar, radio networks etc), and have built submarines in the past.
*from OS designs
More to the point, we can either be a vassal state at the whims of others for our military equipment and modus operandi, or we can recognise that our capability is unique and deserves primacy. Subs should be built here.
In a sense, I wouldn’t mind if that was the case. New Zealand seems to be doing alright in that regard and Australia has historically latched on to a bigger power anyway.
I understand the need to modify and upgrade equipment, ships, and vehicles to suit Australian needs but the special status that submarines seem to occupy is a little odd from my perspective. Ships and above-water assets seem far more diverse in their capabilities than submarines although I will admit that submarines can do a lot of things that other ships cannot. Considering it’s such a specialist capability that needs to be filled, I don’t see any major reason why reconditioning or modifying foreign-built submarines would be inferior to custom-building our own.
I admit my understanding of military requirements is vastly inferior to yours however Australia does not seem to have a natural advantage or a strategic necessity to develop and build our own submarines.
Here’s the thing though- foreign subs aren’t built for an australian context. Soryu (Japanese sub) is close, but it doesn’t have the operational range that an australian sub needs- what’s a long journey of r a japanese sub, in a japanese context, is a nip around the coast for an australian one.
We’re an island nation. If we don’t have the ability to control our sealanes, we’re in trouble, and subs are one of the best ways we can do that. That’s the strategic necessity. Come a crisis, we need to be able to maintain and rebuild them. Beyond that, it just seems silly to give billions of dollars to foreign governments only to be placed at the back of the queue should something happen
(Used to argue this professionally 🙂 )
I would argue a larger anti-ship missile capability, a stronger air force, and more advanced monitoring stations would provide greater security over Australia’s ocean territory however this is something that would get argued about for years by the Defence and military boffins so I’ll agree to disagree.
In the end, I imagine these things would come down to a committee that would consider all of the strategic implications that we could come up with and then some.
@popdart5 the real advantage of a sub is you can’t be sure where they are- even if you know one’s in the area, if it’s operating correctly they could be anywhere. Uncertainty is a terrible thing in conflict, and that’s the real advantage.
Surely the Souryuu-class can be built with extended range?
I believe that Japan and Australia have some kind of agreements in place for defense technology exchange, I could see them licensing the Souryuu design and then modifying it a bit and building them locally. That’s basically how the Collins happened, right? IIRC was licensed from some company in Sweden.
I’m just waiting for someone to protest the plan because the whole ship class is named after one of the four fleet carriers that made up the strike force that attacked Pearl Harbour.
Also I bet that if we did build them, they’d lose all the rad dragon names they’ve used and instead name them after politicians or something. Because nothing strikes fear in the hearts of our enemies like the approach of the HMAS John Howard.
The fact that he looks like a weasel makes it all the harder to put up with him.
Also doesn’t help that George Brandis looks like John Howard 2.0.
Hi, I’m Freeze, broken shell of a man.
Ask Me Anything (But Don’t Ask Me That)
Why does the Channel Seven chopper chill me to my feet?
If you
couldhad to pick your kids’ career for them, what would you choose?Can
we hang outI monopolise your PS4 and Bloodborne in April when I come up for Supanova?Guilt.
I know it’s a cop out answer but what ever makes them happy. Too much of my stress and self doubt comes from external pressures to be something and live up to my potential that I would never with that upon them. If forced to choose I’d say something in the creative industry.
Sure no problem. What’s mine is my guest’s while they stay.
Thanks, but I already have a wife and kids. #OffColourJoke
Oktoberfest!
…
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Time off organised, buying ticket tonight. Going to find somewhere to sleep even if it’s the street so I can actually have a drink.
http://youtu.be/sS_cAAAhgPM?t=3s
What day / night is it? My place is across the road from the showgrounds.
Friday 10th. You coming?
Certainly not averse to it, and the night is free. Got a link to where tickets are available?
http://www.oktoberfestbrisbane.com.au/about/tickets/
Ok, consider me tentatively in, and regardless of that mi casa es su casa.
Why Freeze S Preston?
Favourite Pokémon?
My last name is Winters so cold = Freeze and Bill S. Preston was played by Alex Winters. Sounds stupid? It’s all @strange and @rocketman’s fault.
Favourite Pokemon? Probably Scyther as it’s as bad ass looking as it is useless. Or maybe Psyduck. He’s an awesome little stressball and I can relate.
upvote I always hoped the S. Preston came from that. Good man, carry on.
Where were you on hte night of the 17th? A likely story. A girl is DEAD and you expect us to believe that? Don’t make me bring my partner back in here, he’s so angry and I can’t be held accountable for anything he’s done. Just answer the question, or you’ll be going away for a long time.
Probably at home playing Destiny looking at the calender.
Shotgun, machine gun, sniper rifle? What is your favourite weapon?
Shotgun. I’m too inaccurate with snipers and machine guns never do enough damage. Plus the amount of cursing you get from people when playing CoD with sprint and a Shotgun is hilarious.
Other than Earth, what is your favourite planet?
If you had to non-fatally torture someone today, who would be that individual?
What (if any) conspiracy theory do you find the most credible?
Mars has always fascinated me. It’s tantalisingly close, theoretically we could settle it and possibly terraform it. Or Uranus because of its hilarious name.
See earlier comment up there about Christopher Pyne.
Oh god. I have no idea. The whole idea behind how people get into them intrigues me purely because they are so ridiculous. I guess some of the ones involving banks would probably have the biggest kernel of truth as very large sums of money make people do some pretty disgusting things.
Dogs or Cats?
Favourite sport to play and favourite sport to watch. How intensely do you follow that sport?
Do you need a section of my floor to sleep on during PAX?
If there was such a thing as crunchy nutella would you prefer it to smooth
What would you do if one of your kids caught you and Mrs Freeze while you were getting intimate? bwahahahahaha
You know you have made the list. How many exclamation points do you guess are against your name?
If Christopher Pyne and Tony Abbott were both drowning and you could only save one, which game would you play?
Dogs. Cats are evil bastards and mine hates me.
Truthfully I love playing all sports. Just getting our and playing is fantastic but I never get to as I have no one to do so with and joining a club full of strangers terrifies me. I love watching NRL but I’m not super passionate about it. Enough to attend some games and keep up with the table and watch when it’s on TV.
Quite possibly. I wouldn’t say no to offers at this point.
Crunchy Nutella? Like chunks of hazelnut? Gross.
Pretend it never happened…
Guessing there’s a second book purely for them.
Something simple and not requiring a lot of attention. Wouldn’t want to miss anything.
“Pretend it never happened” – Didn’t it already? I seem to recall some hilarious anecdote involving a chair. Which never happened.
Yay, Freezy! 😀
– Was I an alright house guest? (be honest!)
– What are your dreams for your daughters?
– Would you rather: Have passionate sex with Kevin Rudd, or have dispassionate sex with John Howard?
– What’s the most embarrassing thing to happen to you?
– Where do you want to be in 10 years time?
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
You were pretty great. Mrs Freeze said she’s happy to have you back and the kids were sad to see you go.
To be happy what they’re doing and only do what they want to be doing.
Cold and mechanical with Howard. The guy did a pretty good job with a lot of things and just royally screwed the pooch with Work Choices. Rudd would be too demanding.
Hard to say. I make a general fool of myself as a matter of course so it’s pretty hard for me to embarass myself. I usually wear and own any mistakes I make.
Still alive would be nice. I’m struggling to deal with day to day at this point so it’s difficult for me to think that far ahead.
Early Access. Everyone gets excited for it but ultimately they all leave disappointed.
Follow up question! 😀
Are you alright Freeze?
You were down there for a bit, and one of your answers is a little concerning is all :\
How many Raditz’s are you worth?
The equivalent of three Raditz.
It was free dress day at school yesterday. One guy cross-dress cosplayed as a character from Madoka Magika
Rad, which character?
The female one.
…
Man, Ellipsis is my favourite character from Madoka Magika which is a show I definitely watch.
Does that really happen? That kid would not have lived out the day at my school…
Millenials are different apparently.
Comic culture (and related geek industries) are waaaay more acceptable nowadays than they were ‘back in my day’
That’s it. I’m officially old.
*flips desk, injures hip*
This is progress though. It makes me happy. Don’t be one of those people who shake your fist at the next generation! 😀
Edit: Not saying you are, but it’s something to celebrate instead of feeling old. 😀
NO! They should suffer in silence and hide their fads in shame the way I had to.
Millennials prefer to silently hate you.
There’s a cross-dressing superhero show on ABC3 that is one of my son’s favourite shows. Things are a bit different these days than they were in the old days (yours) and the oldest days(mine :P).
You mean SheZow?
Example of a fun fact I learned today regarding asbestos – watch the following video and replace the word “drugs” with “asbestos”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyhZkSsE40c
Good news: Canberra should have less Blue Asbestos than any other state in Australia!
Bad news: There was supposed to be none, but someone done goofed, and that still leaves the majority of asbestos, which is just sitting in people’s walls.
(not very) Fun fact! Brake pads used to have asbestos on them, because it’s nigh indestructible when in tiny fiber form, but because when they wear down the asbestos would be released into the air (only dangerous for mechanics, essentially), they replaced it all with other small, nigh indestructible fibers. Genius!
(Aramid is relatively harmless if inhaled, since the body can break it down, but this wasn’t really proven until it had been in use for like 20 years)
10 homes were confirmed to have blue asbestos in the ACT. There might be more but at this point it’s deemed unlikely. There’s still a shitload of other colours all over the place, and is surprisingly prevalent in it’s worst form (Mr Fluffy…dust, basically) in Queanbeyan.
We also have some of the dumbest tradespeople in Australia when it comes to asbestos removal and disposal, based on the examples used in the training that were all from Canberra.
I did a bunch of training on that shit when I worked in roof insulation this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenoom,_Western_Australia is a great example of how some idiots handled asbestos.
We were also shown some funny/scary advertising from the 40s and 50s with slogans like “When life depends on it use asbestos” and they made oven mitts, aprons, firefighter suits and all kinds of household goods. Interesting fact: The twin towers in new york had one of the largest concentrations of asbestos in it, to the point where engineers claim that fire would not have been able to naturally spread from floor to floor. Also makes me wonder how many New Yorkers will develop diseases from it later down the line, that was a huge dust cloud that erupted when it came down.Wittenoom was brought up a few times, as was the WTC. The building wasn’t asbestos all the way up, it stopped at something like the 64th floor so fire spreading is perfectly possible. Also, there’s a lot of people that were affected by the asbestos dust when the building came down(including one confirmed case of Mesothelioma related fatality a few years later) but there’s a big argument over who’s responsible/etc.
Fun fact: the Pyro from TF2 is wearing an asbestos-lined suit.
Story my father has from… I think it was a Queensland hospital.
They were doing renovations, on old Asbestos walls, so all the tradies were in wearing big masks and whatever to prevent asbestos dust from getting to them.
In their breaks, they’d go around the back of the hospital and smoke… :/
Also, only ten homes?
From the fuss I heard on the radio I thought it was actually, you know, a problem.
Asbestos ain’t so bad, so long as you use common sens- Oh, that’s where the problem is.
http://www.boredpanda.com/tree-root-growing-concrete/
o_O
Those are so cool
Ugh. Attempting to find a supplier for bulk plastic plant pots around the 125mm size wanting to pay around $0.35 a pot, just isn’t happening… Damn you internet!
Try little local nurseries, particularly ones that supply mainly native plants, we used to get them cheap from places like that and franchises tended to charge a fortune.
Yeah, most of our local nurseries have gone out of business sadly due to bunnings & masters. I’ve found one mob who manufacture just gotta email them for a quote lol.
sweet, that’d be the way to go, straight to the source.
Yeah, downside is may have to buy 3000 at once 😛 But that would keep us in supply for a little while haha.
So I’ve been playing Minecraft on zetrox2k’s server. Been having some fun. Kotaku got talent. It was bit hard getting resources at first, since I didn’t want to kill any wildlife in case someone purposely set up a free range farm or something. I survived purely on the eggs that hatched from other people’s chickens. I knew the eggs would despawn before the owner showed up, so I only felt slightly incredibly guilty. I made sure to replace every tree I cut down, and I would only collect dirt on uneven terrain to make it less obvious. I couldn’t collect cobblestone because other people’s mines were everywhere.
Sunsoar told me to check out his stuff, so I walked over. I showed up just as he started brutally murdering cows. Good first impression. My food woes were solved when sunsoar77 blessed me with his meat. He also let me take 3 stacks of dirt, which was pretty nice. I found Numbers’s free chicken thing, so my food woes were well and truly over.
With the dirt I needed, I constructed The Isle of Phlan over the ocean next to the guest house and Kermitron Enterprises. It was a 6×6 plot of dirt with a 5×5 wooden house. It was glorious. Since I didn’t have any wool, I still had to swim to the guest house every night so I could sleep. Eventually, I killed enough spiders to make my own bed.
Zapz invited me to take a tour of his everything. He has some impressive shit. During a tour of his desert castle, Zapz started idly shooting at mobs. I couldn’t be shown up by him, so I ran into the throng of zombies and started punching them, only to have Zapz shoot me and my everything to explode from me. I was very adamant to get my wooden tools and twenty pieces of cobblestone back. When he gave me my stuff back, I gave him a tour of the Isle of Phlan. He was quite impressed. He decided to cover every block on my island in torches. (He only needed 20)
Eventually The Isle of Phlan grew to a 12×6 plot of dirt with a 5×5 wooden house and tree saplings. Since I needed boats to get around, I created the Phlanisport. (A U-shaped bit of dirt) Using sand, I managed to create a safe entrance to the ocean floor so I could start mining. Yet to think of a pun name for my mine.
Zapz was so impressed by my dirt island that he let me borrow his silk touch shovel so I could put some grass on it. I made sure to return it.
The Sebastian Mine.
It’s under the sea.
Where’s everything better, everything’s wetter, take it from me…
DONE. Kinda disappointed I couldn’t find some way to combine my username with a word for mine. The best ones I could come up with were the Phlanispit, the Phlanislode, and Trenchispo. All of them terrible, but not terrible enough.
EDIT : Grammar
Sea-Bedgar Ballin Po? (Edgar Allen Poe)
I read that as Sea Badger be ballin’ poo.
Free one for when you start farming: Phlantation.
I actually built that guest house with the intent of making a small village of free accommodation but then I decided to built a giant fantasy castle instead to replace my floating platform/tower which I lost interest in when I realised it looked stupid.
I’m now collecting stone bricks various types of wood for a completely unknown future project that will probably start with me tearing down everything I’ve built to date to make room/reclaim resources.
Thanks for making it, it was a lifesaver.
Well you’re welcome. I might dump some of my copious food stores in there as well, since that might also be of some assistance.
Shout out to free chicken!
Seriously, I have an infinite cooked chicken machine, anybody can take a stack or two to get them started or fed or just grab a couple feathers for books or arrows or stuff
Out of context my wife would be horrified.
And apologies for witnessing the slaughter of… more than 60 cows.
Woo, assuming I was understanding ScoreEvents wrong when everything wasn’t working but it was actually that I had syntax errors in my rules, forgetting to put quote marks around the tags so that was the real reason the correct modes weren’t being activated. Well, that and I still had the ScoreEvents around the wrong way.
Is it home time yet?
Bored at work and it’s been a while since last time so fuck it. AMA.
DO YOU REALLY EXIST?
Or are you just a mathematical impossibility?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_zero#Representations
Do you ever worry that a mathematics professor is going to slap you for your username?
As a number person, is negative zero a better number than @lucifer9783 or @masha2932?
When Jimi Hendrix asked if six was nine, was he on to something?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_zero#Representations
It’s far more exceptional.
Yes, he was on heroin.
Why NegativeZero?
Favourite Pokémon?
I actually don’t remember where it came from. I’ve used the name for years.
I have never played or otherwise experienced pokemon so I only know like four or five of them via osmosis because of them being memes or the like. I dunno.
Google image search and pick one to humour me?
Snorlax
Nice choice
You have a million dollars to make the small/indie game of your dreams. DESCRIBE THAT GAME.
Only a million? Not much you could make with that. Maybe a shitty phone game.
I had an idea a while back to make a completely procedural JRPG-style game, where all the characters were randomly generated, the plot was put together from a bunch of story elements, the enemies and locations and gear and everything all built up procedurally.
It would be a nightmare to implement though.
Out of anyone, living or dead, who you would you most like to spend a day playing darts with? (You have to play darts for 8 hours straight (2 X 15 minute breaks permitted.) Beers are also allowed if interested.
Other than a giraffe, what is your absolute favourite animal?
Who would win in a fight: lion, tiger, grizzly bear, gorilla?
I am absolutely shit at darts so I don’t think I would want to play that with anyone. But if we were talking just hanging out… I still don’t know. There’s people that have existed who would be fun to hang out with or who could answer a bunch of interesting questions but I couldn’t pick one.
I don’t really have a favourite animal. Cat I guess?
Assuming we’re talking a big-ass silverback mountain gorilla, I think I’d probably bet on either it or the bear. Probably still a bear. Bears are big and heavy and huge, only take one or two paw swipes connecting to take out a Lion or a Tiger. It really depends on who moves first though, and the circumstances of the altercation. If they had the element of surprise, I’d think a Lion or a Tiger would beat a bear provided they could get on their back or something. They’re ambush predators, don’t really rely on brute strength like a bear does.
A bigger question might be how the hell you managed to find a place where those four animals actually encounter each other. Grizzlies are native to North America and there’s no Lions, Tigers OR Gorillas there.
Lions and tigers and bears.
No silverback, but…
The only place I can think of that had all four is Stranglethorn Vale in WoW. 😛
Also those animals all are best buds and are all so happy (just look at them) so they don’t need to win at a fight because they already won at life.
What makes you happy?
What is your favourite childhood memory?
I wish I knew 🙁
I can’t think of any specific ‘favourite’ memories really. Nothing that I can just go ‘that was the best moment ever’ or anything. I can think of lots of specific things that are relevant but it depends on context. I think one of the personally defining moments though was the time my Dad first brought home his brand new Mac Plus. I would have just turned three years old and it was cutting edge, he spent a fortune on it (they were something like $8000, in 1986 money) and it probably ended up putting me on the road I am now, because even back then I wanted to understand how it worked and how the games I was playing were made and everything.
Err’body doing AMAs while I’m at work >:(
Good thing I’m on break! 😀
– If you were haunted by a celebrity (living or dead, your choice), who would you want it to be, and why?
– If you found 1 million dollars in cash, what would you do?
– Would you rather: Have only a left testicle, or have only a right testicle, and explain why! 😀
– What’s the scariest thing to happen to you?
– What’s your biggest shame?
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
– Carl Sagan because he was rad. 🙁
– Take it to the police because it’s probably drug money. If I suddenly legitimately gained 1 million, not just found it, I’d use it to buy a decent house or something and invest the rest.
– That’s a question I’d never thought about. Dunno. Maybe the right one?
– I moved from New Zealand to Australia when I was 15. Australian kids are mean and made fun of my (in retrospect stupid-sounding and totally justifiably teasable) accent. Which is to say, I’ve never really had anything that scary happen to me. A few car accidents here and there.
– I’m nearly 31 and I’ve never -not- been single, and still live with my mum at the moment 🙁
– Sir Francis Bacon because that got some upvotes further up the page, and also I find the name amusing for some reason.
Brisbane is kind of smokey right now. Now that I think about it, Smokey Bear would be absolutely useless in Australia.
“Only you can prevent forest fires.”
“Not when the trees can spontaneously erupt into flames in extreme heat due to their naturally flammable eucalyptus oil.”
it’s also about to be wet, severe thunderstorm warnings are going out on BoM
“Only you can stand up for complete deforestation. For the children.”
People around my office are talking about a grass fire causing the smoke. I’m not paying attention enough to care.
awww, shiiiiit. fire is next to the highway, they’re closing it, fuck every time they shut that thing it takes me 2 hours plus to get home, I’m bailing on work now. *dives out window*
haha, beat the traffic (if there even was any). Just got to leave early for nothing 😀
My daughter has reached the point where she thinks she’s above doing what she’s told and I’m kind of at my wits’ end. So I took her mattress out to the garage and told her she’d be sleeping there tonight (with the spiders D:) if she didn’t do the things I’d been asking her to do. She doesn’t believe me. She’s going to get a rude awakening at bedtime. (And I’ll probably lock myself in my room, crying about how mean I am.)
It’s not you, Strange. It’s the monster gene. One you might’ve accidentally passed on. D:
You tend to clash most violently with the folks who are most like you. Batman knows it best.
On account of the monster gene. *folds arms stubbornly*
It might help you to know that there have been no deaths in Australia from a confirmed spider bite since 1979. So it’s not that mean.
It’s also a good reason not to be responsible for increasing the statistic though.
That’s what they want you to think.
Meanwhile the dead walk amongst us as marionettes. Manipulated by teams of sinister, eight-legged puppeteers.
I think I’ve seen that movie.
My sister locked me and my other sister in the shed once cause we weren’t doing what she asked.
We ended up building a wall of junk in front of the roller door as high and wide as the door so she couldn’t get in, and started playing Playstation (it was like a kids zone shed).
She got mad we were having so much fun and that she couldn’t join in >:)
Then a hornet flew in and we were stuck in there screaming :’O
Karma is a funny thing! =D
I hope I’m not saturating this page too much with this, but this is my 1000th post and I’d really like to use it to answer some of you fine people’s questions. Please be creative! AMA
Also, my dad is a Psychiatric Nurse/Drug & Alcohol/Addictions Counsellor.Why jackunit13?
Favourite Pokémon?
I was 16 years old when I came up with that I think and my very poor sense of humour/originality fused ‘Jack’ with ‘G Unit’ to make jackunit. 13 would be my fav number/birth date.
I’ll go with Machamp.
For the record, I am not a fan of G Unit.
Is your name actually Jack?
Favourite game so far this year?
First country you ever travelled to outside of Australia?
Yes!
Destiny.
Born and raised in England, I had the fortune to go on quite a few holidays when I was young so I’m not certain, but I think it may have been Portugal.
What is a Jack unit a measure of?
A measure of Jack Daniel’s Whiskey. I drink my Jack in units of 13 (standard drinks.)
My dad is also a (retired) psych nurse and kind of got around a bit in the 80s. Are you my brother?
I don’t think so.
I know so, brother.Someone I don’t know that well…
I can break out the really inappropriate questions, try to freak you out! 😀
– Would you rather: Have a sex tape of you and Julia Gillard go viral, or a sex tape of you and Sarah Palin go viral?
– Shoot, shag, marry: Tony Abbott, Clive Palmer, Rupert Murdoch.
– What’s your biggest fear?
– If you could give either 10 people $100,000 or give yourself $50,000, what would you choose (assume the people can’t share with you).
– If you only had a month to live, what would you try to cross off your bucket list?
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
-If possible, I’d rather a threesome of us go viral. Be a bit more enjoyable that way.
-Shag Tony Abbott (but I’d make it horrible for him.) Shoot Clive Palmer (would probably take a few shots.) Marry Rupert Murdoch ($$$).
-It used to be Christopher Walken in Sleepy Hollow and Bilbo Baggins in the LotR 1 where his face goes crazy after Frodo takes the ring away from him. I still don’t like either, but I can watch now. A more real fear though is that my mum will one day ‘successfully’ commit suicide.
-I guess if I could choose the people, I’d give the ten people $100,000. If it was just random, I’d take $50,000.
-A month is quite a while and I’d hope to get quite a lot done…
1. Bungee jump
2. Go to an NBA game.
3. Catch a fish.
4, Travel to England/New Zealand to see family.
5. Busk.
6. If possible, go wingsuiting.
7. Try some drugs I haven’t had before.
8. Have a threesome (with my gf involved of course.)
9. Get in a fight.
10. Get more tattoos.
– The Sperminator EDIT: Because it’s the first thing that popped in to my head other than ‘Jack Jr.’
NOFX are coming!
omg!
NOFX are touring with Frenzal Rhomb!
oGM OMG!
Also touring with Bodyjar!
OMG OMG OMG!
All NOFX shows in brisbane supported by the Bennies.
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Soo the local pound has this awesome 8 month old Kelpie cross Border up for adoption and I am highly tempted to get him, cause I think Chilli (my 2 y.o Kelpie cross Border) needs a friend. Would be awesome having 2 dogs again as well. I miss having a 2nd.
I have to say, those are some damn nice teeth.
Yeah, beautiful looking dog too, looks to have a little more border due to the fluffiness of that tail lol.
Aw man that is a reallllly nice and friendly looking dog. If you have the space/money for another dog that would be so cool.
For the price they’re asking for it ($250) I can’t say no, since all dogs come, registered, desexed, microchipped & vaccinated. Such a bargain. I think it cost $250 alone for us to have Chilli desexed.
That’s awesome. Go for it!
I think I will, first I’ll have to clear it with the old man, but mum supports the idea so hoorah and she thinks it would be good for Chilli to have a friend and it may calm her down a bit too.
Chilli & Bruce – ffl.
Haha. Chilli’s mum’s name is Peppi (or maybe it’s peppy) she’s an awesome dog also shows where Chilli gets the whole licking every single thing from.
I also have a theory when she was a pup she was around a few joey’s which would support why she thinks she is a Kangaroo sometimes and acts like one haha (hi @strange!)
Aww she sounds like a lot of fun. If you get Bruce, please post some pics of the two of them!
My sister has a Border cross Kelpie called Bazil. He’s black and white.
Haha, best! This one the pound has for adoption his name is Bruce.. How Australian is that.
Very. My sister’s dog was relinquished by his original owners because he was more work than they expected. That was 7 or 8 years or so ago now. I remember when I went to see my parents at Christmas 2010 and he hadn’t seen me for 2 years, but he still remembered me. 🙂
Dogs are awesome at how loyal they are and how well they remember people. One reason why I reckon some of them are brilliant at protecting property they remember who is good & who is bad.
That dog is adorable. You should adopt him, don’t even think about it. =P
EDIT: How well does Chilli get along with other dogs?
Dad said no cause he says Chilli would be too jealous, most likely true sadly. If we had gotten another dog when she was about a year old things would be different but it mostly wouldn’t go down well with her and he’s right oh well.
oh, that sucks but it is understandable.
Yeah, i’m a bit bummed honestly! She’s a good dog, just past experiences with other dogs has left her a bit cautious & skittish of them 🙁
Last day of my traineeship. I guess I should be sad. End of an era etc.
Which means last day of crappy traineeship wages \o/
Well, my mother takes all of that anyway, so I’m not bothered.
Since we’re doing AMA’s again I guess i’ll board the wagon of bands.
I’m Virus AMA anything, I guess. But don’t make it too complicated you may break my brain.
What are your thoughts on Slash’s new album?
What’s the best live concert you’ve been to?
It’s not bad, but to me it’s not as good as Apocalyptic Love, I feel the album should’ve been around 12-13 songs, not the 17 they ended up with. There’s solid tracks then there’s ones I always skip cause I find them “meh”
Best concert, that’s honestly a tie between Slipknot (Riverstage at Brisbane 2008), The Living End Retrospective Tour (The Corner Hotel, Melbourne 2012) & Metallica (Soundwave Brisbane 2013)
They were all amazing, and just phenomenal. All for different reasons as well;
-Slipknot was middle of my HSC & it was my first real gig and they were my favourite band, still are to this day as well.
-The Living End, they played all 6 of their albums live over 6 nights and one of my best friends had a spare ticket to all 6 shows so she gave it to me and they’re just one of the few bands who deliver live no matter the crowd or venue. Also very nice guys always up for a chat and laugh.
-Metallica, well it’s Metallica one of the biggest bands around and put all in every show, plus I got 2 picks & a Metallica branded beach ball 😛
Interesting. I actually like World on Fire better than Apocalyptic Love. Don’t know why, but I’ve found the more I listen to World on Fire, the more I like it.
Just for fairness, my favourite gigs are Slash at Hisense Arena in Melbourne in 2012 (supported by Rose Tattoo) and Muse at Bassendean Oval in Perth in 2010 (supported by Biffy Clyro). Two completely different gigs, but both amazing.
Different horses for different courses! I like about 9 or so songs in total the rest i’m a bit eh on still lol.
Oh nice, yet to see Slash solo, seem Myles twice with Alter Bridge though.
Why Virus__ (especially the two underscores)?
Favourite Pokémon?
Not really sure, sounded cool basically. Underscores cause they looked cool 😛
I uh, don’t have an answer for that probably cause it’s been 15 or so years since I watched Pokemon.. Never really got into the games, probably cause I was a Sony kid not a Nintendo kid lol.
Google image (safe) search and pick one to humour me?
Well I do recall some of the original 151.. Would probably pick something like, Eevee, cause it always looks so awesome, and the name reminds me of a cute girl I once knew 😀
You guys, like, seriously, I’m running out of questions to ask! Scraping the bottom here!
– What is your dream job?
– If you had a celebrity as a stalker (like, the crazy kind), who would you least like it to be, and why?
– If you had the choice to be immortal, what would you choose, and why?
– Would you rather: Have too much girth, or too much length?
– What’s the most embarrassing thing to happen to you?
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
Haha, barely any questions have been asked! 😛
-Dream job: Audio Engineer/Producer for sure. I love music, I love playing it & i’ve always wanted to work in that industry. But I never ventured down that path due to the crazy HECS debts I would’ve had to incur to do a bachelors in it, would rather find a studio and do some work experience and learn the ropes that way, especially if old school analogue recording (2.5 inch tape) was involved.
-Now that’s an interesting question. Tom Cruise seems pretty crazy..
-Too much length for sure, heard too many girls (friends and ex’s) bitch & moan about guys being “too wide” for them & that it hurts too much.
-Hmm, not overly sure D=
-Most embarrassing, not really sure, I guess it was kinda embarrassing telling a girl when I was in err (year 8 I think?) that I fancied her & she was also a friend, that was kinda awkward once that got around the rest of the grade x.x
-Hahaha, oh man I am so bad with naming regular things like pets, I have no idea what i’d name my ‘manhood’ I do recall a mate named his ‘Lil J.J.’ cause his initials are J.J. his GF said she begged to differ calling it ‘Lil’ hahahaha.
If you had to streak…would you rather do it in the middle of the NRL Grand Final OR a Miss Australia pageant?
What bone would you least like to break?
If you could produce/sound engineer music for anybody, who would it be?
Oh god. Neither? NRL I guess, since I don’t like football haha.
Probably something that inhibits the use of my arms & hands with ease, so like a collarbone or similar.
Hmm, that’s a tough one. Maybe a band like The Living End, they just give off the vibe they’re easy going at all times. As much as I love Slipknot, 9 guys in a studio? Nah fuck that for organised chaos, ha!
Destiny PS4 fronds. Looking for three level 26+ for the raid on Saturday afternoon. Would like to play with no prior knowledge or experience of the raid if possible. Sound off if you’re interested.
I’m interested but nowhere near 26 🙁 I don’t think I’ll ever get a chance to raid.
Same here. Which is annoying as Vault of Glass looks like what I was hoping Destiny would be but by the time I get to 26 there’s no hope of me getting 6 people together to run through it.
I am in the same boat! I’m level 27 now but never seem to be on at the right time for an attempt and I feel like I’m missing out.
Apparently I am going to be spending an hour of work tomorrow afternoon testing the latest build of World of Tanks.
Sigh. Such is life.
D=
Poor guy.
Don’t let Flu know! He loves that game!! 😉
Tanks for the memories…
#ThrowbackThursday
#Hashtags4Harli
I’m not at all jealous.
…
But I would be if you were testing World of Warships as I really want to try that.
That will probably come eventually. Main reason for WoT is that it supports the latest and greatest server-side software, so that’s what we’re putting through its paces.
We tested Warships a couple of times before @batguy started! It’s pretty good! A lot more calculated than Tanks and certainly Planes.
I’m so deflated. Looking more than likely at my second written off vehicle in less than 12 months, confirmation probably coming tomorrow. Wrong place, wrong time. Twice.
You’re okay though and that’s good news, right there. 🙂
ouch, at least you’re ok, I know your pain, I’m paying off my second one now. Good luck I hope it all works out.
TAYlist for the 25th of September 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by Minecraft, distracting individuals from work since 1.8Mark Morrison – Return Of The Mack
Motley Crue – Dr Feelgood
Pink – Sober
Fun – Some Nights
Noiseworks – Touch
Merril Bainbridge – Mouth
Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend
Depeche Mode – Just Cant Get Enough
Choirboys – Run To Paradise
Late TAYlist, I blame the CraftMine,
notsorryI’m not even mad about not getting to chooseanything. That’s a pretty great list.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/sep/25/senator-foetuses-abortion-miscarriage-understanding-chris-back-video?CMP=fb_gu
Seriously, where the fuck do these people come from and how do they get as much power as they do when it’s surprising they don’t hurt themselves attempting to put their pants on?
Is this one Tasmanian? We have the lovely Jacquie Lambie and The retarded fuckstick of a shithead Eric Abetz, so we’re representing here.
As to how they come to power… I like to think that most people are decent, but when you go half an hour out of a city and (in the context of Tasmania) get to places like Longford/Cressy/Perth/Gagebrook/Bridgewater/Claremont/Somerset (okay that one’s like 5 mins away from Burnie but i think we can just include the entirety of Burnie anyway, which is where Miss Lambie is from), these places are full of the most backwards fucks you’ll ever come across. And they’re the people voting these dickheads in who actually believe in what they believe :l
No, this guy is Western Australian.
WA represent’
Wait, no, we don’t want him…
That’s alright. I’m from the state of Clive….
Hey, at least ICAC isn’t picking off your gov’t one by one every other week 😛
It’s because they put their pants on their head, which is safely devoid of brains. Therefore they don’t hurt themselves.
Thanks to @shane up there asking about it, I’m actually seriously thinking through that whole procedurally-generated JRPG thing again. God help me.
EDIT: Holy crap pageget.
The way I had it in my head was that you would probably have to start by building characters. What I was thinking here is that it would probably start by generating the protagonist and the antagonist, then deciding on a motivation for both. It would then start a process where it either adds a trait to an existing character (reducing the probability of adding a trait each time it does so), creates a relationship link between two characters, or adds a new character, and this would continue until certain thresholds are hit. Traits would be simple character things, but maybe would have gameplay implications as well as story implications. One possible gameplay-affecting trait I thought of is ‘secret’ i.e. they’re a character that’s only available via a sidequest. Characters would also have their classes etc. generated such that there’s a good range of healers, damage dealers etc. and also such that everyone uses different types of gear.Second part would involve generating a random world map. That’s not hugely difficult, lots of ways to do it, but want to have something that generates fairly decent landmasses. I’d then have it randomly place a bunch of towns and cities throughout the landmass (using various rules around distances apart, number etc) and then each of those would be assigned some kind of profile based on the terrain they’re surrounded by. Probably at this point there would also need to be some factions generated for the game to represent different countries, so that one town in each faction area is designated the capital. I had some ideas about doing some simple history simulation here where you do like 1000 years of simulated events to build up the history of the areas which can be used for plot points later on, but that might be getting into Dwarf Fortress levels of overkill. Not that this whole concept isn’t there already, mind you.
The other thing that needs to happen at this point is that you need to generate some kind of structure in terms of towns and cities that will be available at a given time. The way I thought of this was basically generating a DAG, sort of something along the lines of the travelling salesman problem. Basically want it set up so that there is a path from a starting point to every town in a sequence. This is important because you need to build a basic ordering that these locations are to be able to be visited in. In some cases there might be branches where two or three areas become available at once, but this complicates the story generation step. You also have to generate a heat map for the areas to divide them into three parts (which is why you need the sequence to be generated first). The way I see it, the sequence gets divided into three parts: In the first part, you’re traveling overland by foot. If you have to move to another continent it’s via a ferry system or similar. All of the locations of the first part, even if they are not blocked from each other, need to be blocked off from the second and third parts by mountains or seas, so the terrain is adjusted accordingly. This should comprise about 30-40% of the town sequence of the game. A further 30-40% of the sequence should be separated off for the second part such that it is accessible via water travel, for when the party gains a ship. The final part of the sequence is only available via airship. Obviously the proportions also get randomized and there might be 0% of it with a ship and you get the airship early, but there should be at least a third of the game toward the start where you follow a set sequence.
Alternatively and this might be easier, could throw away the big epic scope and instead go more micro-sized, set in a small number of towns and surrounding areas where the towns work as hubs, and you move from one to the next, a la Trails in the Sky. This is probably much easier to implement really.
Anyway, once you’ve got the sequence down, you also need to take the party characters and scatter them through the town locations, as these are where they will join the party. You always start alone or with one other companion and then build a group up as you go. At this point it’d be about generating the plot sequence. This would involve generating a motivation for the antagonist (rule the world / destroy the world / control the world from the shadows / summon some evil monster or deity to take over the world etc.) and then based on the protagonist’s traits and the expected starting point, generate a Call to Adventure. The story sequence I envision would roughly follow the Monomyth as it works great for these sorts of games. At this point also, it would pick locations to place dungeons. Sometimes they’d be nearby a town – there’s a chance you’d start in one! – and sometimes they’d be on the path to somewhere else. Generally the plot would be built up by generating a sequence of plot points or plot twists. Basically building up an expected sequence of things. Characters joining you, betraying the party, dying. You need a macguffin from the dungeon for some reason, or you need to beat the boss here for another reason. This basically needs to string together the town sequence built up earlier. There’s probably a major plot point for each town, and that major plot point will cause you to either visit a dungeon near that town, or other plot things will happen and instead you’ll visit a dungeon on the way to the next town. The dungeons would be automatically generated around some kind of appropriate theme for the area they appear in, with no repetition of those themes. Each one of them would involve a boss.
Also, each dungeon would be scattered with gear. For each dungeon, there would be a gear tier which progresses upward. There’d probably also be a crafting system involved, where you can build gear up to several tiers higher by using monster trash drops and combining it with gear dropped. Major towns in the sequence would have higher tiers, but the best tier would only be available via crafting, drops in the final dungeon, or sidequests.
Sidequests would be the final thing generated. Each town and dungeon would generate a few extra things for you to do, probably mainly kill and fetch quests. Each party character would also get a sidequest or sidequests that unlocks their best gear. Sidequest generation might also involve adding extra dungeons or towns to the map in the final part that’s only accessible via airship.
Kickstarter? 🙂
That aside – sounds like an amazing idea!
Agreed, sounds smashing. I’d back that and not at the lowest tier either.
And quite frankly, very maths intensive so I’m glad it’s @negativezero having this idea.
It’s not extremely maths-intensive but it is extremely computation-heavy. The only part that involves complex mathematics is building the DAGs and heat maps you need for the terrain and structuring the adventure.
What it is, though, is a fuckton of work to do, and I wonder if it might not be better used as an initial tool for structuring something that you then fill in manually to make an actual game. My main worry is that the core ‘pull’ of a JRPG is the characters and their interactions with each other, and I’m not sure you can procedurally generate something that would work in that case.
Maybe something more along the SRPG lines, a la Fire Emblem, FFT, Ogre Battle etc might work better. Much bigger cast, but mechanics around them getting close to each other and stuff. If you’d built up an interesting relationship graph between everyone then that might allow for some pre-built interactions and stuff, plus the idea of randomly assigning traits and things might come into it too. Perhaps adapting the bonuses and penalties that Valkyria Chronicles had, eg character gets a stat disadvantage when they’re too close to someone else, or character gets a bonus if they’re by another girl, or the like.
Some of you may recall that my father is getting a payout and he’s going to shout us a trip to England with him. As far as I know his plan is to spend a week in London. he’s a big musical lover, so I expect that he’ll want to be going to see a show every night, which depending on the show might be ok with me, but it ain’t gonna fly with my wife and son. After that I think the plan is to go to Paris for a day, which is fine, and then (this is the part that I take issue with) spend 3 weeks in the English countryside. I’ve done a quick search and there doesn’t seem to be a hell of a lot to do, especially considering that my Dad is a bit of an old lady and would be happy just sitting down sipping Tea, eating Scones and talking to old ladies all day about the Queen and the royal family. We would be bored out of our brains within a couple of days. We really appreciate his offer, but the closer it’s getting the more I’m thinking that we’ll just go for the week in London and that’s it, if we go any longer we’ll just end up at each others throats, and bored shitless.
It’s a long ass flight. I’d stay for more than a week. Atleast two. XD
There’s some pretty awesome stuff to do in England and best part is it’s not a massive country, so you should in theory be able to get around sort of easily. Apparently their train system is “fucking awesome” according to my friend from Melbourne who was there last year.
Yeah, no doubt there’s plenty to do in London, but in the little country towns? He wants to spend 3 weeks staying at B&B’s. Please enlighten me as to what there is to do. Keep in mind that my father isn’t interested in anything that’s the least bit masculine e.g. cars, fishing, sport etc etc. He doesn’t even drink, so if you’re thinking pubs you can get that thought right out of your head.
Depends where you’re going, but England is ripe with historic castles & towns! There’s also neat theme parks like Thorpe Park (Chertsey/Surrey) & Alton Towers (Staffordshire).. They’re pretty awesome, not that i’ve been my friend who lives in England loves both parks, she’s a rollercoaster junkie 😛
Depends what you’re into honestly, but there is some nice scenery and stuff lol.
Ok that sounds alright, but my Dad wouldn’t be into theme parks, and how many Castles would we drag our 6 year old around to before he’s saying he’s bored. My guess is 1. The English countryside is not really the place to take a 6 year old child.
Shame 🙁 but yeah doesn’t sound ideal for a small child sadly!
Why don’t you just hire a car and go exploring? Best holiday I’ve ever had was three weeks, a camper van and no plan.
If you go over with the attitude of folding your arms and insisting it sucks it’s going to. Go and soak up the culture and experience new things. Something as simple as discovering a small pub or Cafe in a small town and chatting to the owner can be pretty great.
You don’t know my Dad, he’s not the adventurous type, and staying with him for more than a couple of days would drive anybody insane. If we went we’d basically end up leaving him and go and do our own thing, I appreciate that he thought to invite us, but honestly the more I think about it the more I think that it’d be better if he just went by himself, or just used the money to pay off a bit of his home loan, update his car and maybe buy himself stuff that he wouldn’t normally have been able to afford.
Edit: My wife wouldn’t go for the no plan thing either, she very much likes to plan out everything that we’re going to do on each day every time we go away (usually to Adelaide).
Did your six year old like Thomas at any stage? You’re going to the home of the steam engine, so see if there are any railway museums, preferably ones that do rides – Mr 6 will love it.
To be honest, sitting in a country english pub drinking pints is pretty good – always ask for a pint of the house beer, there’s so many and they are amazing. It’s a place with a really rich history and loads of diversity – just remember that it’s like Melbourne weather. Don’t go anywhere without a jacket and umbrella. I probably could have spent three weeks just in London alone.
I’d love to do the Pub thing, but my Dad wouldn’t because he doesn’t drink.
In response to your other comment, he used to like Thomas, I do still see him watch it on the odd occasion, but these days he seems to be more into stuff like Scooby Doo, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, Batman etc.
But even if you don’t drink, pubs are often the best place in town to eat. OMG pork pies.
You know what I really liked about England. The grass. It’s so green it’s unbelievable. You just can’t get used to the greenness of the place if you’ve grown up in Australia where everything is shades of grey and brown.
And Mr 6 will flip out the first time he sees a squirrel.
Lol, he more than likely would. The trip itself might not be so bad, the major thing is that I think my Dad wouldn’t be interested in any of the things that we want to do and we’d end up either leaving him to do what we want or sit around and be bored. He can get quite annoying after extended periods too.
Ok, talking about it has just confirmed what I was already thinking, that a trip with him is a bad idea. I’m just gonna tell him thanks, but no thanks, and that I’d rather he spent the money on himself.
Can you not just go, spend the week with him in London and Paris and then go off with your family to explore England’s more fun things whilst your dad does his thing? Surely he’d understand! It would be a shame to pass up on a free trip like that! Hell he can take me if he wants?
My lawn is currently a rather nice shade of green 😀 though it’ll probably be back to a nice shade of dry cripsy dead brown in a few weeks.
Visit St. Peters Basilica. There’s a hell of a lot of stairs to climb, but the view at the top is fantastic (even better than the London Eye).
No comment.
Dollhouse definitely improves at episode 6. If only for the random exclamations of “porn!”
Oh Yes!
Heh, (Baby I’ve Got You) On My Mind by Powderfinger just came on that takes me back, was the first song I learnt in full on bass. Good times. Shame the “friends” at the time I was in a band with turned out to be nasty horrible people :/ Well apart from the drummer, he’s still a good mate of mine.
So… White Destiny PS4 Bundle… The PS4 looks amazing but dat white controller!?
Still have eyes out for bundles and am tempted to grab this bundle… but that controller…… ლ(´∀`ლ)
Personally I’m not a fan of the white PS4 but man, that white controller looks SO.DAMN.GOOD!
Kinda tempted to just buy a white controller by itself.
What’s wrong with having a white controller?
Nothing wrong with having one.
To me it just looks… Ugh… The touch pad and dpad seem so out of place… Makes my eyes hurt.
Will likely get a black box because kids. White things are mess magnets when kids are around.
They get filthy soooo quickly, too 🙁
I have a white PS3 system – 40gb fatty, got about 9-10 months after the system launched – and both of my dual shock 3s are white. Neither is particularly dirty. They use plastic which doesn’t discolor like the older beige systems.
What’s the difference between horse shit and Christopher Pyne?
Horse shit loses it’s stench after two weeks.
Just want to apologize, I think I’ve been very negative lately, don’t want to bring everybody else down with me, so I think I might sign off (for a while at least).
Also, maybe I’m just being paranoid, but I can’t stop thinking that I’m thought of as a bit of a weirdo/moron.
Don’t worry @shane I’ll send your game back, along with the money I owe you for the books.
I think of you more as an evil monkey.
I haven’t noticed you being down or negative, and you’re far from the weirdest person around here too 😛
(I like the weirdness around here, it’s not “yeah keep this guy away from me” weirdness :P)
I like to think that people around here don’t think of others as “stupid” or “morons” either, we’re all friends after all. Though you don’t come across like that at all, so I don’t know why you’d think that 😛
You seem really friendly and we’ll adjusted, and like a good fit around here too 🙂
Are you alright man?
Sounds like you’re a little in your head a bit (speaking from experience).
Better to talk about things rather than cut yourself off (learnt that from a couple of other TAYbies 😉 ).
No stress, man. I think you’re pretty awesome. No hurry for the stuff.
Aww no. I think you’re funny and nice, and a little bit weird, but in the best way (as in, interesting!) But maybe take a few days to clear your head and come back fresh 🙂
You usually bring loads of positivty to TAY (not that it isn’t already.) I always like reading your stuff. Don’t go. 🙁
Hey, there’s nothing wrong with being thought of as weird. Weird is like strange. And strange is good, right? Right?! 😛
Oh hey, sister’s back home again.
Nobody ever tells me anything. Ever.
Hey, gooky, your sister’s home
Really?
Did you know that the African “Ringworm” is the only type of its species to have clearly attempted communicated with man? There are multiple examples of individuals writing what are clearly letters into the skin, over the period of the last 40 years. Scientists believe that I have a lovely bunch of coconuts, diddly-doo, and as such you’ve been told something, even if it is wrong and rather, well, nonsensical.
Ever.
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The only team I literally hated watching in The Amazing Race are in Survivor? What the fuck! I almost want to quit watching… :/@sughly @powalen @masha2932 @phoenix @mrtaco @strange @f4ction
Post yo your thoughts plz
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I liked the part where they did the thing in the trees.
ok they’re less bad when split up and have significantly less screen time. Looks like there’s no Redemption Island either? Interesting….I liked the part where the guy was saying the things. Also when the baseball player was noticed and the dude was all “we’ve got this secret now so we’re cool” cut to “yeah, he knows my secret so I’m voting him off”I guess youd be pretty happy with the vote then ^^ but yeah, I was happy – Dale is the best. Socially excluded Dale making fire, whats not to love! But still in the warming up to ppl phase, need another couple of eps til we really start seeing who is whoSurvivor Ep 1
Yeah, it’s too early to have proper discussions yet. Gotta wait a little while longer for the groups to form!No Redemption Island is interesting though… that was kinda one of the best bits in the last Blood vs Water and what a lot of the good strategy was formed around. We’ll have to wait and see I guess! Maybe they’ll try and do something similar with Exile Island?
@greenius @masha2932 @phoenix @mrtaco @strange @f4ction
I’m off to bed… night.
Noooo I’ve run out of Zeitgeist to listen to!
Let the healing begin.
I ran into this problem on Monday – finally caught up on 11 weeks of absence. But there’s a new fix today! \o/
The Queens Wrath event on Destiny is pretty awesome, each one of them bounties is fundamentally = 3 Ascendant Shards, just chain orbit the epic missions until you get ‘restoration’ which is the fastest and easiest kill order.
yeah, about that…
also loot cave now nerfed. RIP, we hardly knew ye.
Actually no, we spent too much time with you.
Just read the hotfix I guess it makes sense, I got 30+ ascendant shards in just a few days of the event =/
So this whole breeding Pokémon for IVs is not as bad as I thought it would be. Seemed rather daunting while reading up about it, but started having a go last night, got up to 5IV parents, and got my first perfect this morning.
In related news, I have a box full of 5IV charmanders if anyone’s interested in one.
Yeah, this generation really made it super easy to breed for IVs. Perfect time to jump in!
I might have some good-IV things I can trade you for a Charmander!
I have 25 of them at this point, and there will be a lot more since I’ve been setting the base for a masuda method run. No need to trade anything you wouldn’t be willing to just toss out.
Nah, they’re all breeding rejects anyway! 😛 Most of them do have 4 or 5 IVs, but not in the right stats I wanted (I usually stop after I get my goal and keep the rest for trading fodder)
Sure, I’m interested. Be good to get some more breeding fodder.
Heh, now that I know what I’m looking for, I just realised I already had a 5IV Japanese char just sitting in one of the PC boxes. That could have saved some time.
Ah well, it’s been a learning process.
Screw the 5, I’m rolling enough 6s that you can have one of those if you want. Think I’ll just dump all the 4s at this rate.
I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a 6IV Poke!
How good are the odds on your Masuda methoding, do you know? Better than random encounters?
I think it’s down to about 1 in 300ish these days, last more officially accepted number was around 1 in 800…
Given that hatching 5 eggs is a similar timeframe to maybe 20 encounters, it’s not that favourable.
I’ve never successfully MM’d a shiny, looking forward to my first. Only 15 eggs in so far.
I guess the other side is that at least there’s no chance of encountering a shiny you don’t want using Masuda (plus getting IVs/egg moves) so it probably works out better in the end anyway.
Yeah, MM gives you a lot of control to get a ‘good’ shiny,but it is more time consuming. Should mean rolling a bunch of perfect 6s on the way too, which can be valuable trade stock.
The grinding isnt that bad once you get into a pattern of it. Its just understanding what you have to do and how it works.
Now the idiotic grind begins, since I want a shiny, but figured I’d set up a proper base if I’m going the Masuda way.
The four horses broke me from continuing to grind the safari.
By the way, are you playing X or Y?
Y
Cool. All the chars are timid, so I might switch it up to modest for a few batches. Hoping to get an extra shiny for you, any preference on nature and naming?
for me? name it friendship and the nature should be friendly.
but seriously timid is where its at.
I swear my mum’s losing her mind more and more everyday. I had to pick her up from Garden City yesterday at dad’s request. (What should normally have been a 20min thing turned in to a 3 hour ordeal cos mum’s in a wheelchair and has a lot of trouble moving.)
Today she rings me at 7:45 asking if I can take her shopping up there again.. noooooo way Jose!
Apart from not having time to waste standing around for half an hour at a time waiting for her to get in/out of the car, she used to HATE Garden City with a passion (I’m not a big fan myself, especially now they charge for parking.) Don’t know why she’s so obsessed with going there now. Ever since she first went to hospital after breaking her hip, all she wants to do is go there… like EVERYDAY!
Dad’s taken away all her credit and debit cards cos she can’t be trusted to not spend money, so I don’t know why she even asks.. getting really really annoying though :\
On top of that, Dad’s going up there to look at getting a new microwave this afternoon (which mum knows about) so I don’t get why she’s asking me to take her when she could just go with him. Le sigh…
I’m just gonna say it, but it sounds like your mum is lonely.
It sounds like she just wants to spend time with people. Sounds like she wants to spend time with you.
That’s what I get from this anyway.
Being in a wheelchair would be tough and frightening.
It seriously sounds like she just wants to be around people.
We see her all the time. Plus she’s got dad around all day now as he’s not working any more. Looks like he’s going to get a carers allowance from the govt, so he’ll be home all the time now which is great.
The problem with mum is, her liver isn’t working, and when the liver doesn’t work, it effects the brain in ways similar to dementia. She is completely oblivious to their financial situation, and thinks they’re sitting on a massive wad of cash, but they’re not. They sold their house, but they need to buy a new one, but mum just wants to buy tons of shit cos there’s money there. The repetitiveness of it all comes down to the dementia like symptoms. You can tell her something today, and she’ll have no recollection of it tomorrow for instance. Sometimes it feels like she’s living out a groundhog day. There was a time where for 3 weeks in a row, she rang me every morning asking to go to Garden City, but she’s got no money to spend. Now the house is sold, there’s money there, so it’s started again. The other problem is, she keeps drinking 😐
She’s been back to hospital like 4 times in the past month to have a blood transfusion because she’s had alcohol and the liver can’t get rid of it, so she’s been like 24/7 drunk :\
I don’t think it’s cos she’s lonely. She’s had lots of visitors and stuff. I always call her or go and see her when I can (usually call every day at least). She’s just killing her brain and it’s annoying because she could heal (not completely, but enough to be more comfortable than she is now), but if she keeps having sneaky drinks and shit, she’s just gonna kill herself quicker 🙁
I’m so sorry you have to deal with this. My father was an alcoholic (and honestly I don’t buy into the “it’s a disease” bollocks) and killed himself from it eventually, but your situation sounds so awful. Are you the only child, or just the one who gets the burden of phone calls from your mother?
The mental health side of things makes it super difficult too. Please don’t let yourself feel guilty about any of it – you very well may not, but that was something I suffered with for a long time.
I’m not the only child, but my sister is married and has 3 kids, so she tends not to disturb her too much. I’m much more “convenient”. On top of that, I’ve always been pretty close to mum, so I think she thinks she can get away with more if she asks me 😉 She’s pretty sneaky.
I suggested that she’d be better off smoking weed than drinking yesterday, and she didn’t even bat an eye-lid. “If you can get some I’d try it” LOL
Sometimes I feel bad for having to say no to her, but at times it’s easier cos I can just use dad to justify it. Just some days I feel like I’M beginning to live out groundhog day! Getting the same phone call every morning around the same time… arrr!! And it’s not even cold outside! 😉
Do you have any idea where she gets the drinks from? It’s great that your dad can stay home and watch over her now. It might be good to advise him to be strict to your mum and everyone around her about the alcohol.
My dad used to be quite an alcoholic, a violent one too…. At one point I almost quit studying (I was in Aus then) to go back and get mum away from him. Then he suffered a stroke and temporary lost most of his memories. He couldn’t remember anyone except my grandparents and mum. From then on he would listen to mum and I’m pretty sure he hasn’t touched a drop of alcohol.
Even now he still suffers from slight memory loss. He sometimes asks me same thing several times a day. Have patience.
I think she just get in to the piss while dad’s asleep. Dad wont lock up or get rid of the booze, so he’s as much to blame for it really. Not really something I can do anything about though. I’m ok though. Just… ugh.. that’s all! 😉
🙁 That all sounds terrible.
Alcoholism is a nasty thing, and unless your mum is willing do do something about it, and your dad is willing to help her do that (and that means no booze in the house at all) then you’re right, she probably will die from it. And that’s very sad.
Make sure you look after yourself – if things are getting tough for you, please go and see a counsellor (get a referral from your GP and Medicare will pay for it)
If your mum has dementia (or even just a severe mental illness), then she may not remember that she went to the shops yesterday – to her it might feel like last week. It can be very frustrating dealing with dementia patients, but remember that it’s frustrating for her too – she’s lost her mobility and freedom and may not be able to comprehend why. Sounds like talking to some health and care professionals might be of help for you and your dad.
yeah dad’s got people lined up to help and stuff. We’ve already been down this path with my grandmother, so it’s not really anything new to us. Just gotta take it day by day.
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It was a hug but it got eaten by some punctuation
**hug**
awww thanks! hugs are always good! 🙂
What’s 5.5 inches, bent and in my pants?
An iPhone 6.It probably shouldn’t bend like that.
Haaaaaaaaaa.
Pfft, the new bend campaign implies it’s a feature not a defect!
Okay TAY Babes, I need help! I bought this dress (http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/1d/f8/b3/1df8b307ff2f4af286d239570d97b22d.jpg) and that’s a big deal on its own (I wear jeans almost exclusively – weddings, funerals, whatever) but I don’t know what shoes to wear with it?
(I also have to wear stockings too, because my legs are shocking, haha. Like, just covered in gnarly scars and cuts and bruises all the time because I am awkward and clumsy in a very unattractive way, and a combination of dogs and silly belief that I’m good at climbing trees.)
Helpppppp me.
TAY babe? This sounds like a job for
baby @phlanispo!Hawaian shirts for all!
Because no one knows fashion like straight white male gaming types! 😛
Haha, well, someone might surprise me! You spend enough time playing Bayonetta you start to think, “Yeah, gun heels, that’s a good look!”
Wait… What’s wrong with gun heels?
Not as good as laser heels.
Not as good as pogo heels.
Think about how much time you/others here spend in a character creator for most games (that have one), messing around with hair styles, makeup, clothes etc.
We’re perfect for the role.
I’m all about making my guy look handsome though. That won’t translate to lady folks. 😛
But it does give you a decent fashion sense.
Okay! This outfit will work if you had a scar above your eye. AND LOTS OF STUBBLE.
It’s a… Lady-guy!?
Some of those character creators (I’m looking at you Skyrim) you can come up with some ladies that look like they’ve had a rather extensive course of testosterone therapy.
Yeah, I really need a Sims-style interface if I’m going to be any help at all.
Aw, why the downvote @strange? You know I joke. 🙁
I didn’t mean to imply that they were the only folks here or that guys don’t know any thing about fashion. Just went for laugh off stereotypes. Sorry Strangey.
I downvoted because to me, stereotyping is worse than puns. And because you should know better. 😛
I’m no expert, but I’d be saying either black shoes – flats or heels, whatever your preference – or something in a similar (i.e. close match) colour to the magenta, but probably only flats if that’s what you’re going with.
I was adding links to stuff from Witchery (anecdotal experience that they’re good quality and wear well) but got myself in to moderation. So here’s the heel I was linking to. 😛
Oops, that link doesn’t work 🙁 I agree about Witchery too though 🙂
Failing at linking, failing at fashion. I’m superb today!
http://www.witchery.com.au/sale/woman/shoes/60166001/Simone-Block-Heel.html
You can’t really go wrong with black flats.
Unless you’re me in a dress. Then no shoe will ever help.
Would pay good money to see this. 😛
Flats with a dress that shows a lot of leg? Goes well if you’re six years old….
I’m just not a fan of heels in general. Like I said, no expert, but my own personal taste is for a rise of no more than a couple inches, wedges over heels.
Vast vast vast majority of shoes I get in are quite high heels. Some to the point where you wonder how they manage to stand let alone walk. Flats went out of fashion a long time ago for anything but casual wear.
Ehhhhhhhhhhhh fashion smashen. 😛
I don’t have a lick of fashion sense either. I mean, I am absolutely terrible at buying new clothes but I’m creative with what I have. I once converted old socks into makeshift gloves because I didn’t have any. 😛
I have no idea what any of that means but it sounds smart so I’m upvoting you.
There are shoes in the picture. They don’t look silly. Clearly the best option would be to just get those shoes.
But then my little stockinged toes would stick out the end and look goofy :/
black flats from Kmart, they are like 9 dollars. My sisters and girlfriend wears them all the time, the go with everything without taking away from the outfit by looking overly flashy.
PAGING @liondrive, PAGING @liondrive, FASHION ADVICE REQUIRED IN AISLE 6, @liondrive TO AISLE 6 PLEASE
(edit: all jokes aside, and all stereotyping aside, the dude seems to really know fashion and could probably help. My advice is not to go with chunky toe’d black like the photo. If you did want chunky toe, hit up a Mary Sue style. Other option is to go skater chic/urbanite and wear some low cut sneakers, preferably canvas, like skater shoes.)
Liondrive once took me on a shopping montage!
You look very nice in that shirt, and uncomfortable in general. Thumbs up.
The uncomfortableness is my default state. Thanks. 😀
He looks like the bouncer you’d underestimate.
Like Ben Foster in Alpha Dog
So I need to watch Alpha Dog apparently.
@dc should have linked to this, not just one photo 😛
Dude, that actually looks really good.
He picked the shirt himself!
So proud :’)
I bough the pants without him knowing >:)
Made the shop assistant, a random guy, Strange and I all swoon too 😉
fucking edits 😛
Black strappy wedges.
Yeeeees, along the lines of the Athena/Classic Greek (not sure of the modern term) straps, not those piddly one strap oh look it’s a strap shoe shite that some big chains fob off.
…is it lunchtime yet?
Black tights + black suede flats
(You could go yellow/mustard tights if you’re comfortable with that much colour)
I think skirt, grey stockings, black ankle boots would work.
None of that open toe business with stockings.
I’m impressed guys. I’ve misjudged you. You’re making it work! FIERCE!
VINYL LEOPARD PRINT BOOTS WITH FURRY ZIPPERS.
You’re welcome.
It’s on trend this season!
You want something that looks stylist and is still comfortable. It sounds like you don’t wear heels much so stay away from anything too high.
Something like this might be what you are looking for.
Looking through
my collectionMrs Tigs collection something along these lines could also workDon’t wear thick black shoes like in the picture.
That dress needs accessories (a simple loose necklace, watch / bracelet, maybe a thin waist belt, etc.)
Match your shoes to your clutch / handbag (I’d go a clutch, personally). I’m thinking a light grey, thin, strappy high heel, or simple light grey flats (it’s hard to recommend without seeing them on).
Also, hair.
The cut of that dress screams hair down.
@janexo
Also, go skin coloured stockings (match your skin tone). I wouldn’t go black stockings with that dress either. Too dark for the look, and the dress isn’t long enough to carry the look.
It’s a shame you have to wear stockings, cause that makes most strappy high heels difficult to wear. You could cut out the toe section of the stockings so it doesn’t look so weird though having your toes poke out of heels.
Otherwise go an enclosed toe heel.
Simple and sleek with a thin heel would also be good (still voting for light grey).
Don’t go a shiny material though. Swade would be nice.
Definitely do not:
– Wear thick strapped shoes (like in the picture)
– I’m even gonna say wear black shoes. It’s too dark for the dress
– Match your shoes to your stockings.
– Wear the same coloured shoes as either of the colours in the dress
– Wear your hair in a bun
– Over accessorise
– Use a big hand bag! (small satchels and clutches only!)
Skin coloured stockings are gross, Lion. And that dress is screaming for thick-strapped shoes. Especially if she’s not usually a girly-dress type. The cut of the dress is really modern and strong so strappy high heels will look out of place with it.
Strangy! Why you gotta be like that!?!
Those thick strapped shoes in the picture look horrid! When I say “strappy” I don’t mean too strappy either. The simple dress would suit a simple shoe, I reckon. Thick straps would detract from the simple shape of the dress.
I’m casting my vote for a simple sleek mid-high heel.
I’m not a fan of tights at all, but I’d rather see a natural skin coloured tight than black tights with such a pretty dress. Black tights would look bad 😛
No tights would be best though.
I love the cut of the dress, but I think thick straps wouldn’t go wel.
I reckon keep it simple and sleek 🙂
(with a matching clutch, cause I love a nice clutch :3)
I agree with simple and sleek,and that the shoes in the picture aren’t the greatest. Still think a fierce shoe with thick straps would work well, though. Thick straps wouldn’t detract from the dress’ shape, it would be a nice complement and balance it out. The dress’ strong silhouette needs a strong shoe to balance it. 🙂
Oh man, discussing this makes me wish I could afford a whole bunch of shoes. I love shoes but I only have a couple of pairs!
Hahaha, how do you think I feel 😛
Women’s fashion is so much more interesting than men’s fashion :'(
Have you ever had to carry around a clutch? They are stupid. If it doesn’t have a shoulder strap I don’t want to know about it.
Hahaha, yes, I have had to carry around a clutch before :3
They’re so pretty though! 😀
I’ll allow a thin strapped clutch (so long as the strap is detachable :P)
Oh wow, that dress is amazing!
Long boots, ankle boots, edgy sandals(as in not thin and strappy and flirty, more of a solid kind of trendy sandal), heels. All would work. (Preferably black, but that’s maybe just my own taste creeping in. :P)
It’s kind of hard to tell if the colours in the picture are accurate. Is the dress grey and magenta? If so, grey shoes would work really well. It’s really kind of a fierce, edgy dress so don’t wear anything too…girly. More something like those warrior-woman kind of shoes there’s a lot of around, now.
Nice dress!
This sort of pretty skater dress can be worn in a few ways. You can definitely wear it with strappy black sandals (If you’re worried about blotchy legs, little bit of fake tan can help even them out, but seriously, no one ever notices anyway). Or you can go vintage style with some block heels or ankle boots (like they have in the picture). Don’t feel like you have to buy sky high heels to look nice – only ever wear heels that you can comfortably walk in. A pair of low wedges would also look lovely. Add some pretty bangles and maybe a thin belt at the waist.
Destiny rant. feel free to ignore.
So the last couple of weeks I have been working my ass off in this game, grinding out marks and faction rep to get the legendary gear I need for the high level content. I skipped dinner for a week to play more.
On Monday I finally made it to 26 and was proud of my efforts, even got to go to The Vault of Glass just hours later.
Spent 5 hours or so in the vault but only got a few Ascendant Shards for my trouble. But it was fun and that’s still helpful right?
The very next day this Queens Wrath event hits.
Free fucking purples for everyone. A single afternoon of doing those missions gave people the same rewards as a week and a half of hard work and a bloody raid.
What a kick in the teeth.
And now they just changed it so those queens gear does not dismantle into shards, making the 4 I have sitting in my inventory from last night’s work completely worthless. Thanks Bungie.
And hey, Pvp. I joined a game last night halfway through. I kicked ass, turned the game around to a victory and ended up with a decent score.
My reward? Nothing.
Some scub who did practicaly nothing the entire game? Gets an Exotic Sniper Rifle.
I really want to play this game, I really want to like it.
But it is becoming so very hard when all it gives me for my efforts is a giant middle finger. Every. Single. Time.
If its any consolation if you haven’t gotten the sniper rifle or ship yet its still worth doing.
Doubt it. You don’t understand how unlucky I am with loot.
I have a bounty that requires 10 rare fusion rifles.
I have found 3, ever.
There’s a rare fusion rifle selling at the gunsmith right now according to bungie.net for the next two hours, go buy 7.
I stocked up on those in advance, knowing about that bounty.
Literally half an hour later, I got that bounty.
…The 200 fusion rifle kills from Weekly Nightfall is kicking my ass though.
Goalpost shifting like this is frustrating enough for me when single player games get patched (which is why I don’t like playing Day 1). I don’t think I would have lasted as long as you have for this.
I get your frustration, but when I see people complaining about the fact that the Queen’s Wrath missions give away purple items other people had to work really hard for I can’t help but get really annoyed. Firstly, you get those items too. Secondly, youp layed the game your way and got your gear. Well done! cookie for you. But it also reeks of the sense of entitlement like other people don’t deserve to enjoy the game as well because they’re not as good at it as you are.
The fact that I don’t have to be a consistently high performer and max out my vanguard/crucible tokens every week should not preclude me from having a fair shot at at least SOME upper-tier gear, which frankly I will probably need quite badly if I am going to survive the Vault of Glass.
Successful gameplay has to be it’s own reward. I don’t play in the Crucible because I don’t find it rewarding (i.e.: I suck) but generally speaking I enjoy playing the game regardless of that. Don’t you?
This. The 15-20 hour campaign to get to endgame, the patched Queen’s Wrath mission rewards, the PvP reward structure, the whole attitude Bungie seem to be taking is that of keeping all players on a relatively level playing field, regardless of time spent. I love the fact that I have the option of playing other games without worrying about being underpowered and underequipped the next time I play Destiny.
And I get the feeling Bungie will continue to do this – they’ll release the next tier of content, allow people that really want to to grind their way to be the first few to experience it, and then a few weeks later give everyone else a way to experience it so no-one’s left out. It’s like buying a game second-hand vs buying it on release – is the early adopter’s experience devalued by other people having the option of waiting for a price drop?
I haven’t even touched the crucible because I find multiplayer really scary as I am a cowardly weak antisocial person or something but if I did do it, the fact that I can be shit at it but still get rewards for participation is actually really good.
Also you get extra crucible marks for placing high in each match don’t you? If not, I wonder if that might not balance out the complaints.
I also wouldn’t be surprised if they were increasing the loot drop chance a bit for higher performance, but because humans are absolutely shit at probability and statistics on an intuitive level, I bet that the diff is probably like 5% at the most and people simply don’t see it as a result.
Nah, the winning team gets 3 marks and 25 rep, the losing team 2 marks and 10 rep.
No particular gains for individual performance.
I’m extremely thankful that I dismantled my extras immediately last night (thanks for the group, btw) – why didn’t you dismantle them immediately? ;_;
I’d been doing something similar, playing every night for about 4-5 hours, and was stalling due to a lack of ascendant shards – I just couldn’t find any outside of the raid. I’d found no legendaries for my class outside the two I’d bought from the vendor, and lacked the shards to be able to upgrade those I’d bought. I viewed the legendary rewards as an intentional equaliser – a way for more people to be able to gear up to experience the raid. The PvP rewards seem to follow that same trend – give the loot to those doing poorly so they can catch up, rather than letting the disparity increase.
Unfortunately, the Queen’s Wrath loot backfired horribly, with people farming the missions for shards instead of doing practically everything else. I understand why they stopped people from doing that asap – same reason they fixed the loot cave; however I just find it hard to believe that they’d not have foreseen this happening in the first place.
Yeah, I was exhausted last night (as you could probably guess with all the dying) and was just all: screw it, I’ll deal with loot tomorrow.
That will teach me. So angry at Bungie, and me, for that.
I’m mostly pissed that I still have 4 of those mission tokens in my inventory.
Kinda feel like there’s no point in doing them.
Better than 4 of the actual Queens Guard armor, now useless.
I reckon they should have maybe just reduced the amount of shards you get from scraping the gear. Even just one shard per mission would be at least some incentive.
Yeah, ANYTHING other than a pathetic bit of glimmer and some plasteel. I have enough plasteel to build a fucking house out of it, I don’t need or want any more of that, and the glimmer amount is pitiful. You’d get more from hitting the three hive yellows under the Steppes in Cosmodrome. Five minutes and you’re done, boom, better reward than slogging through a difficult epic mission.
I’d really love for the rewards to be at least somewhat commensurate with the effort expended.
Yeah, you don’t even get Queen rep from doing the missions :/
Not that the Queen rep gets you much even if you take the time to grind it.
For some reason my abdominal muscles are sore/feel strained. I have no idea why, the most strenuous thing I’ve done since yesterday is like… sit down? :/
Maybe it’s a tumor.
It’s nada tumour!
Stop whining! You lack discipline!
He claims, but when he takes a washroom break during the day, he finds himself poking his stomach, trying to see if what he’s touching is a tumour or just his rock hard abs.
“Oh my god, six tumours”
Well that’s a relief. I hear chemo makes your hair fall out.
You’re terrible, Flu.
Never change.
Not my beautiful arm hair! D:
Also it’d be super weird to not have eyebrows.
MQFT time! This is RPG related so be forewarned. I plan to create a character of my own choice, create one you guys pick, and create one randomly. And then I get to pick one of the three randomly and play with it. So there’s a 33% chance your choice will be important!
BH, C, E, HG, S, T.
HG because I imagine a wise-cracking sports commentator in your party which would be hilarious.
“Yes, he is a bandit and yes, he has a broom, but the question must be asked Roy…can he Curl?”
S because it’s obviously the best letter by far.
E
HG because S is a terrible letter.
🙁
T
C is for Cleric, that’s good enough for me.
BH, because I immediately thought “Bounty Hunter”
E
I’m going to vote for C because I think I know what every letter stands for except C
Take a gander at what they are if you want. I think you might know what system I’m referring to here.
Hg, cos mercury is more interesting than Carbon or Sulphur, I don’t know anything about Bhorium other than it exists, and E and T aren’t elements.
!SCIENCE INTERLUDE!
Bohrium (named after Niels Bohr) is a synthetic element. It only ever occurs during fusion reactions between Bismuth and Chromium, Americium and Magnesium, Berkelium and Neon, and also observed in the alpha decay chains of some larger radioactive elements eg Roentgenium, Ununpentium.
Not much is known about it because it’s highly unstable, with a radioactive half-life measured in milliseconds for most of the isotopes, and a few dozen seconds for the most stable isotopes. So most of its chemical properties are inferred based on its position in the table and electron shell configuration it has.
Gah… I probably would have made the Bohr connection had I not horrifically misspelt it – who doesn’t know about Bohr’s atomic model, after all? 😛 Thanks for the facts!
Hi all, I’m new, anyone seen first ep Gotham yet? Thoughts? I think it’s pretty fantastic myself, Ryan from the OC really seems to have sorted his life out after he left which is nice, but seriously the show is pretty great, also new Agents of SHIELD season 2 ep was quite good too, I mean
Xena the warrior princess..lost her freaking hand…so much for chakram mastery being introduced to the marvel universe..unless she’s a leftyNew guy!
Sorry, this is a no-Shanes club.
We’re allowed to have one.So tell us something about yourself!
Also, prepare yourself for the initiation. Did we ever sort out who has the Oar of Thorns?
I think Rocketman had it, to add lasers to it or something…
Since there are 2 Shanes you will now have a battle to the death.
Or become the best of friends, Dan-style. (While a secret cold war runs beneath the surface.)
Highlander style please.
TWO SHANE ENTER ONE SHANE LEAVE
Bye.
I really like a lot of parts of gotham, mainly the acting. they have set up a lot of story lines too, maybe a bit quick for my liking. The writing is decent but just a little off. 7/10 will watch all of the series though because batman is my fave thing ever.
I agree..it was lightning fast..and Jim Gordon guy was a little “off” but it was first episode..hopefully the recent concussion he suffered on-set will help him calm down a little..it was foreshadowing to the hilt..
but I just wonder how they progress the characters because two of the major “villains in waiting” are child age..so’s batman for that matter..so they gotta age pretty quick..unless we get a whole season of penguin evolution..also my favourite touch..they made up the character Fish Mooney..what eat’s fish..penguins….well played writers..”Is Alfred supposed to be Australian?
He’s got a bit of a brash attitude some might associate with Australians.
And considering that apparently people outside the UK and Asia Pacific cant tell the difference between Aussie and English accents…
S’bit weird.
I have hopes for Gotham like I did with Agents of SHIELD.
But while Agents of SHIELD started off with something with a bit more punch, Gotham was no different than a lot of crime procedurals until the last 15 minutes. I’ll stick with it for a bit, but it needs to do more to standout and not just be some crime drama that name drops all of the future villains in one episode.
Welcome! @dc, you still got that bottle of Rye?
Course I do!
@Distantdrop
I have a full time job. I am working. And the Destiny app does not work properly.
well it works..if you want to show people your character, and spin it a bit, or look at the back and lovely sides of a sniper rifle..but would definitely better if you could equip loadouts etc from the app and then they be there when you go back to play again..Borderlands does this best I think with letting you tinker with the skill trees before the game is released..pretty sure it’s in the new one too..which is only on past gen..for god knows what reason..
Ooh a welcome wagon..and with a simpsons reference…nice to see the “no homer’s club” has expanded to exclude even more namesakes from it’s secret treehouse meetings..umm me..I’m 31 work in web and graphic design..long time listener first time caller..what you would call a “balanced” gamer for last few years..but am in a renaissance of feeling like a child again and losing many hours in gaming sessions due to “that water..and fish!..real fish!..” in Assassins Creed 4 and “oh wow I just danced with a real person..holy crap the clouds move..and I can sit down and watch!..hey why can’t I pause..I refuse to go to that loot cave because I’m a purist..ok so it’s pixel art I’ll give this “retro” game a shot..oh man I can rewind time..over and over again..that guy is meant to be def leppard..oh and I can watch my whole level back in replay..ok I’ll stick with this a little bit..WOW is that guy actually meant to look like denver the last dinosaur..the future is so bright and the draw distance just keeps getting better”….so yeah back into games heavily and there goes the paycheck girlfriend and social life..it’s the end of my world as I know it..and I feel fine….but yes you all seem cool so I’m stepping from the shadows maybe once or twice a week..no I’m not Xur sadly so keep your strange coins..there is no legendary armour to obtain here sadly….yet….
@Zaps hence the phoenix part..I might lose..but I’ll come back and rise from the ashes….more like take the doona off my head and roll out of my bed-fort to menace society once again..I’ll be back to wear you down..like that murkel fella from that new heroes of the storm game..great concept..dies over and over and comes back from an egg to chip away at you..sadly no PC ever so know he’s from that Warcraft business or some-such..heard it’s kind of got a few people into it..
Now I’m totally hyped for the weekend’s competition!
I don’t think there is any doubt left in my heart \o/
Many thanks to everyone who encouraged me.
Bring us back some trophies. Or if they won’t let you keep the trophies because they need to be re-attached to their owners’ bodies, then at least photos.
Okay, everyone else is doing it, so let’s just get it over with:
IAMA TrjnRabbit AMAA.
Any secrets you would like to disclose now?
Yes.
I am a TrjnRabitt Armenian Missionary Association of America?
No.
Why trjn?
Favourite Pokémon?
Because AIM suggested it after Trojan Rabbit was taken. It was 2002, don’t judge me too harshly.
I don’t really have a favourite pokemon. It’s been so long since I played, I can’t remember if there were any that I actually liked. Gardevoir was kind of rad, I guess?
Whhhhy?
Because I want to focus on RAMPART.
When are you and frey frey getting hitched and can i be the ringbearer?
After she wears down my resistance. I’m a pretty resilient dude.
Definitely not this year though. It would be kind of tough to plan a wedding in three months.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
Is that different from where you would like to be in five years?
Long term unemployment has really lowered my sights here and the nomadic nature of Freya’s work doesn’t help.
So I’m aiming for stable employment and a puppy. If you asked me that two years ago, I’d probably have a different answer for where I’d like to be in five years.
EDIT: Oh sod it, I was going to not say it because Freya would pester me incessantly but she’ll do it anyhow: I also want to have the start of a family going. Not just a puppy. But there will almost definitely be a puppy.
Awesome.
Nothing but kids boardgames like boggle and trouble…god i love boggle
How did you first find TAY?
Apart from games, what else is in your pile of shame?
I got banned from Kotaku US and migrated over here. They banned a lot of people that day after a somewhat prominent community member got banned and then posted a thing about what Kotaku is. People were annoyed. I found out you could get around disemvowelment by posting everything with hashtags.
It was a bit silly.
Non gaming pile of shame? I guess the Dune books count. I’ve kinda faltered on my second reading of the first Dune and need to make my way through to Dune Messiah and whatever comes next.
There’s also my online TAFE course. I’ve been super slack with that after it took me two hours to complete the first unit.
If you were an actual rabbit, what colour would you want to be?
What one musician/band do you like that you consider a guilty pleasure?
What are you going to do this weekend that you wouldn’t want recorded and played back to your parents (excludes going to the toilet)?
White. I’m pretty much as pale as you can get without suffering some sort of illness.
No guilt. I like Hanson and I like to annoy people around here with that. I don’t really think of things as guilty pleasures. I don’t define myself by the music I like or the movies I watch, so why would I be ashamed if I liked something that people didn’t?
Also, Hanson are genuinely rad.
I’m unemployed, live in Dubbo and my girlfriend is working all weekend. So I guess it’s a matter of just how bored I’m willing to make them.
What was the game that started the board games craze?
There’s a couple of possible answers:
I used to play a ridiculous amount of card games in high school. Magic the Gathering was one of them, but also Big 2, 500 and Warlords/Scumbags (aka President, aka President and Asshole, aka Asshole, seriously this game has like a bajillion names). So the general setting has always been something I was keen on.
When I first moved out of home, I played Mahjong with my friend, his sister and his girlfriend practically every day until we finally got an internet connection. That took a solid month. Thanks Telstra.
Then finally, Wil Wheaton started doing Tabletop. After watching it for a few weeks, I bought Ticket to Ride, Munchkin and my own Mahjong set (still unused by the way). Munchkin was kind of rad but wore out its welcome pretty quickly. So I guess Ticket to Ride is the big winner there.
Then again, it wasn’t until I moved in with Freya and could buy a ridiculous amount of board games in Sydney that it went from being interested to being obsessed. The games we played the most during that time were Pandemic and Ticket to Ride: Europe.
Seriously, I’m running out of questions!
I’ll do my best though!
– If you could have any animal as an obedient pet, what would it be and why?
– Would you rather: have Tony Abbott as your Father, or Julia Gillard as your Mother?
– Where do you see yourself in a year?
– What are your dreams for the future?
– If you had to nickname Freyrs boobs, what would they be called, and why? (Hahaha, you don’t have to answer this one :P)
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
I hear dogs are pretty rad and if I could train one to play board games, I’d never have to worry about convincing Freya to play Agricola again.
Gillard as a mother, no question about that. I actually really respect her as a politican and I’m a dyed in the wool labor supporter anyway.
In Canberra.
My nightmares for the future involve giant insectoids. My dreams would be anything that doesn’t involve giant insectoids.
Boob and Boob-B.
Wang. Because it’s a wang.
Canberra needs more TAY-folk who never hang out or see each other. You’ll be very welcome here.
You realise that I would force people to come around for regular board games? It’s pretty much what I do. I’ve even managed to get people over for board games while I live in Dubbo.
Well, I guess I can’t really stop you from coming to Canberra, so I will just have to live with it.
Top 10 board games that last at least 45 minutes and best with 3+ players?
What’s your favorite board game element (deck building, worker placement etc.)?
Top 10 games under those criteria, not necessarily in order: 7 Wonders, Agricola, Pandemic, Galaxy Trucker, Village, Battlestar Galactica and Seasons.
That’s only 7 but the 45 minute minimum is actually a bit of a problem for me. I have a preference for snappier games and most of my collection reflects that.
Favourite mechanic is easily card drafting. It just scratches a certain itch.
Whats your favourite board game?
What would you rather live without..Boardgames or MOBAs?
If you had 3 wishes what would they be?
Can i get an amen?
7 Wonders. MOBAs. More wishes, to be the world’s greatest sorceror and an everlasting pack of Tim Tams (after more wishes, I’d make a point to rules lawyer the genie so that I don’t get screwed over for my infinite wishes). No, don’t be silly.
This is what happens when i leave my shield token right side up
Anyone know where the best place to buy a morphsuit is?
Zordon probably will have some. IT’S MORPHIN’ TIME!
MASTADON!
*sigh* it’s too early and not enough caffeine. I actually googled that to have a look…
Spotlight sells them. Also, costume places too. Ozgameshop. Lots of options.
Sweet. Ozgameshop had them for $30 so I got one from there. Everywhere else wanted $60.
While I’ve got you, freaking gloves? They look like a nightmare to make and hard to find what I need. Help?
Gloves aren’t actually that hard to make, just a bit time consuming. As it’s getting close to summer, it’s going to be harder to source.
Also, knitted or cloth gloves?
Cloth I’m pretty sure would be best. Need the cuff to be relatively loose and come about a third of the way up my forearm.
Can you get me an image?
http://www.amethyst-angel.com/gallerypictures/dbzarmor/gloves.jpg
Yup, cloth. Okay, I can source a glove pattern for you. Do you have anyone that can make them for you?
http://sew-ing.com/make/gloves.html Here’s a pattern and tutorial. I have used this pattern myself and can vouch for it. As for the cuff, you can either do that separately like in the image above, or add it to the pattern. Also, use a stretchy material, makes it easier
@scree, thanks. Think I can work something. Also looking at maybe buying some white cotton gloves and adding the cuff. No idea why I didn’t think of that.
I haven’t given myself a lot of time here…
@freezespreston
I just remembered. Mum used to buy cotton gloves at the supermarket. Next time you’re there, have a check.
Vegeta?
During the recent meat, @f4ction was talking about how rad it would be if a bunch of us rocked up to PAX as the Ginyu Force, but I think it’s a bit late notice to get it together. 🙁
@negativezero
Great Saiyaman.
Jace and Recoome wouldn’t be too hard but Burda, Guldo and Ginyu would be difficult?
(Or as my phone insistently wants to call them: Jack, Recommendations, Burma, Guido and Gina)
Morphsuit 0.o
About that offer to stay at my place……
Consider it as a plan B if you need it. It is literally just going to be a chunk of floor and you will be constantly woken around feeds and nappy changes. But if you need it then it is there.Thanks man. Not relying on it and trying to find something less imposing on people.
Hello
Hi?
That is my “I have a place in North Melbourne that is available, if you’re happy with a couch”
If you would be happy to have me a couch is like a familiar second home. I’m married remember 😛
I’ve seen them at Spotlight in adult sizes.
I’ve also seen kids sized ones at Big W for $20 if you think you can squeeze into one of those.
I’m 6’1 and uncomfortably close to 100kg.
They’re stretchy right?
If you want a lend I have a green one with some milk stains on it.
http://youtu.be/qih_Ib62fkg
That was actually pretty great. 🙂
I’m at school, but I need to send an email to my traineeship trainerperson so I can get all my work cleared. But I can’t email him, because the school’s browser is too outdated to run regular Yahoo, forcing me to use the basic mail format. Did you know that the basic mail format doesn’t have a ‘send’ button, at all? I can’t upgrade the browser to run normal Yahoo because the school blocks such things and forces you to run on the old browsers. Kind of at an impasse here.
Does Ctrl+Enter work as a shortcut?
No, sadly it didn’t. However, I managed to change computers to one that had the latest version of Firefox. This let me load normal mail mode, allowing me to send off the emails.
So, theoretically… would anybody (or 2 anybodies) be interested in picking up either or both of my GTX 580 graphics cards? I dunno what they’d go for these days. $125 each?
Oh why not, I feel like everyone else has done them, and I’ve got a few hours to kill. 🙂
I’m Nova, your friendly taybie travel agent. AMA
Where do you see yourself in five years?
Is that different from where you would like to be in five years?
Also, you’d know the ins and outs of finding cheap interstate air travel. What recommendations can you make to someone who is desperate to avoid spending money?
I see myself as being still employed full time, hopefully still in the travel industry. I’d also like for Ash and I to be married and living together. Having been to a few more countries would be great too.
Sign up to airline mailing lists, to get notifications of flash sales. Be willing to fly early morning or late night. Avoid flying between 4pm Friday and 10am Monday. You pay less (usually) to go Jetstar or Tiger but be aware that they quite often cancel flights with no warning and no compensation
Did you always want to be a travel agent? Or is it something you just fell into?
Top 5 places/things you want to see before you die?
No, it was definitely something I fell into. I was university studying geology for 2.5 years, but was feeling less and less enthusiastic about it, and couldn’t see myself doing it as a career. I dropped out in my 3rd year of a 4 year degree amd had no idea where my life was going. I had done a fair bit of travelling, but it was my mum who suggested I do a tafe certificate and become a travel agent. Within two weeks at tade I was happier there than I ever was ay uni.
1 Northern Lights
2 Canadian Rockies
3 African safari
4 Eat my way around Spain
5 Round the world cruise
In your years as an agent, which customers holiday made you the most jealous?
Anytime people can drop 40, 60, 80k on a holiday. Doesn’t matter where they go, I’m jealous that they are in a position where they don’t have to worry about the money side of travelling
Realistically, what’s the earning potential as a travel agent?
What’s your best physical feature?
How much oil could a gumball boil IF a gumball could boil oil?
If you had the opportunity to go back and visit any year in the 20th/21st century, what year would you go to? (You can remain there for the entire year and then come back to where you left off.)
Honestly its not fantastic. It takes years to build up a regular clientele that are travelling often enough to earn some decent commission on top of your salary
I get told that I have nice eyes, so I’ll go with that
Enough to put the middle east out of business the greedy buggers
1969 to see the moon landing
Is this Japan trip really an elaborate ruse to get us to a dodgy alley to steal our vital organs to sell on the black market so you can fund your crippling Tazo addiction?
I’m Nova, your friendly taybie travel agent, AMA except that
Which nickname works better for your girlfriend, NovaLasscade or NovaAshcade?
I’ll get back to you on that
Oh god, too many AMAs! I like it, but my question pool is seriously diminishing! :’O
– What is one thing you would change in your part of you could?
– Would you rather: have a threesome with Obama and George Bush, or John Howard and Kevin Rudd?
– What’s the scariest thing to happen to you?
– What’s the most embarrassing thing to happen to you?
– What’s more important, having good length and girth but not knowing how to use it, or having less length and girth but know how to use it?
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
I wish I could have more time. Never enough hours in the day.
You know what they say about going black….
Doing the skywalk at the grand canyon. I don’t care if its built to withstand 10,000 tonnes. Its a glass walkway over a 300 odd metre drop. I’m going to freak out
Last time I was in Japan, middle of winter, a car slowed to let me cross the road so I tried to walk faster. So naturally I slip on the ice and fall square on my butt. My friend Rachael was in stitches for hours.
Its all about how you use it.
No idea. Never thought about it
Why NovaCascade?
Favourite Pokémon?
I was into space stuff as a kid and supernovas are awesome. My best friend introduced me to half life 2 before I got onto steam and I thought the resonance cascade sounded cool. So I combined them.
Can’t narrow it down so I’ll copy a post I made on a pokemon forum naming my top 6 of each type
Normal – Porygon z, Swellow, Meloetta, Lickilicky, Cincinno, KangaskhanWater – Lapras, Lanturn, Slowking, Crawdaunt, Empoleon, Vaporeon
Fire – Blaziken, Houndoom, Infernape, Chandelure, Volcarona, Reshiram
Grass – Roserade, Torterra, Leavanny, Leafeon, Cradily, Tangrowth
Electric – Magnezone, Rotom, Eelektross, Lanturn, Electivire, Heliolisk
Flying – Togekiss, Crobat, Yanmega, Skarmory, Swellow, Mantine
Ice – Mamoswine, Glaceon, Froslass, Lapras, Weavile, Dewgong
Fighting – Gallade, Blaziken, Toxicroak, Hitmonchan, Infernape, Mienshao
Psychic – Espeon, Gallade, Deoxys, Slowking, Jirachi, Chimecho
Rock – Kabutops, Cradily, Aurorus, Aggron, Rhyperior, Relicanth
Ground – Mamoswine, Torterra, Gliscor, Rhyperior, Flygon, Steelix
Bug – Yanmega, Vespiquen, Leavanny, Scyther, Volcarona, Scizor
Ghost – Mismagius, Froslass, Spiritomb, Chandelure, Dusknoir, Drifblim
Poison – Drapion, Crobat, Roserade, Toxicroak, Seviper, Arbok
Dragon – Salamence, Latias, Haxorus, Dragonite, Reshiram, Flygon
Dark – Bisharp, Drapion, Weavile, Absol, Houndoom, Crawdaunt
Steel – Mawile, Bisharp, Magnezone, Jirachi, Skarmory, Aggron
Fairy – Mawile, Togekiss, Sylveon, Gardevoir, Clefable, Florges
Comprehensive.
Did those jokers in Japan ever get back to you re: extra days stay?
Friday Question
Do you have any unusual talents?
For me it’s card throwing, I can throw them with dangerous force, I’ve drawn blood on several of my friends (cause I’m a nice guy :P) and lodged them into various pieces of fruit, once even got one stuck into a door frame, it actually split the wood slightly.
I’ve got a tongue, that’s 10 inches long, and I’ve learned to breathe through me ears!
O_o breathe through your ears? That’s amazing and 10 inches, is that longer than Gene Simmons?
Alright Gambit, calm down and stop boasting already.
As for me – I can do card tricks. Really well. Like, almost professional level. I don’t know – I just seem to be able to do make it work really well.
Unusual tricks? I can fit through a coathanger and I have a permanently broken finger that clicks every single time I move it in a certain direction.
ha, it’s about the only talent I have, gotta talk it up 😛
Does being unusually untalented count?
Remembering numbers. I once learnt Pi to about 110 places and think I could have gone further. I only remember it to about 50 places now though. Also pretty good with phone numbers and number plates.
I’m not bad at card throwing, but I’d love to be at your level.
my memory is terrible, that’d be a handy skill.
I’m really good at page gets.
thems some mad skillz!
I can knee myself in the head.
No joke. 😀
I saw a guy attempt a guiness world record for kicking himself in the head recently, he failed, it was funny, he kicked himself in the face dozens of times for nothing. Hey, maybe you could try for a record 😛
I have the power to make every photo taken of me look like a mugshot.
Should I not desire a fair reward for my efforts? Should the people who do make the time and effort not have more to show for it than people who just rock up for a few easy missions or afk in pvp?
Bungie was all: You have to EARN your legendary gear. But then put in stuff like the PvP slot machine and events that completely invalidate that.
I am happy that more people can enjoy more content, but when it is done in such a way to make other players efforts to play the game as initially suggested pointless it’s kinda a jerk move.
Sounds like you’re enjoying the game as a nice wind down after work…
This may come out wrong, but…
If you’re not enjoying the grind and don’t think it’s okay that the fun has been prolonged a bit for you, why grind? Why play at all?
If you’re happy earning the gear, why should you care if other people exploit their way to higher levels? Who’s having more fun in that circumstance, you or the slot machine folks?
#IPossiblyDon’tGetMMOs
I know Jo’s a higher level than me so this might not apply as much, but there’s some content that’s pretty much impossible without Legendary gear (like the raid and some bounties at the moment), so I’m trying to work towards those.
Between you, me, and nob, we can form a trifecta of seething hatred towards Destiny.
…
*goes back to playing Destiny*
I’m glad the pvp is a slot machine, means even someone awful like me can get loots
I have to agree here. If it was only the top player got loot i would pretty much never get any.
I’m with you. For me, everything seems so exhausting and fruitless.
I think I’m going to echo Shane’s sentiment.
I had already put in plenty of hours grinding rep and currency and experience and resources in order to be level 26 to enter the Raid as soon as it opened. I really did have piecemeal gear that was just good enough to meet the minimum requirement but didn’t really support a build.
Now, over the last week or so, I’ve actually ended up replacing a lot of that gear I worked hard for with very similar gear from a different vendor that I worked hard for. And now the gear from the Queen’s bounties is easily obtainable – but for me that means being able to make slight tweaks to my build.
I have a good Pulse Rifle and Sniper Rifle, so all the armour I worked hard for that has +Scout/Auto Rifle/Shotgun ammo reserves is not really providing any benefit. Thankfully I could swap helmet and chest out for Queen’s Guard pieces with significantly better affixes and the right stats that I wanted. I’ve gone and spent all my Crucible Marks again buying a replacement set of boots from the faction I should have simply started getting Rep with in the beginning.
If only you had pants that make you go faster.
“Is a man not entitled to the Legendary he worked for? ‘No’! says the man in the Crucible, ‘it belongs to the guy who came last’. ‘No!’ says the faction Vendor, ‘It belongs to those with the currency’. ‘No!’ says the Legendary Engram, ‘I only ever drop blues’. I rejected those answers: instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose… to play something else”
Gold.
Part of my enjoyment in the game is in achieving things. Reaching milestones and goals and the satisfaction of doing so.
But when the devs then add a shortcut to those milestones it cheapens the achievement.
It’s like climbing a mountain for the view and to say that you did, only to look over and see a staircase being built.
It’s not that I don’t like more people making progress – means more to play with. Nor that I have not enjoyed playing.
Just that it’s a bitter pill to try and achieve something only to have that achievement made redundant within hours.
And I apologise to all tayers for my constant reply fails. Shall stop taying during the day I think.
Oh yeah, anyone interested in Wonderful 101 (aka BEST GAME ON WII U)? Eshop code I ended with but don’t need, would rather on-sell (discounted rate, of course) to fund something else. It expires at the end of the month, so has to be claimed soon 😛
How much you want for it?
I’ve been told it goes for $80 on there. Would $40 be reasonable?
not trying to be cheap but….
https://ebgames.com.au/any/any?q=wonderful%20101
Oh wow, never thought it’d actually drop at all.
Don’t seem to have much in the way of stock though 😛
If you’re desperate, I’ll offer $20. I know that’s not much at all, but I can’t swing more than that, sorry, so feel entirely free to ignore me.
Also in popcorn related events, there seems to be a farewell for someone this afternoon. Which probably means cake! But also likely means socialising. Then tonight marks another return to Wollongong for a couple of days, featuring Wingman, probably Pillowmaker and possibly Sketchbook (haven’t actually got any details other than “be here at this time”).
Kinda would rather just stay at home and hermit it up, get cracking on the costume. Stupid obligations 😛
pillowmaker AND sketchbook.
fucking hell
They’re both part of the same circle of friends 😛
WE’RE GONNA NEED MORE POPCORN IN HERE!
I’M GIVING IT ALL SHE’S GOT, CAPTAIN!
Or… fucking heaven?
Wollongong? I’m sorry.
It’s not Canberra.
“I’M DROWNING IN POPCORN SEND HE-“
Here, I have a pillow you can use.
*canned laughter*
That’s our Gooky.
@jimu
I got a Pro troller, no more Waggle Warriors, lemme know if you wanna come round again some time.
No!
well FUCK YOU!! too
In the bot bot? 😀
I guess, unless you have any other suggestions 😛
For some reason I have Blue Danube in my head today.
It keeps randomly morphing into the the overworld theme from Mario Galaxy though.
I really enjoy listening to that song, especially the part where they pluck the violin strings 🙂
Morning everyone!
Just landed a new job and want to buy myself a treat. Tossing up between a Ps4 or a WiiU! As much as I love Mario Kart, Zelda, and Smash Brothers, I am a bit over the single player experiences Nintendo offers. I’ve been out of the loop with gaming for a while now, so getting up to speed with the Last of Us, GTAV and others seems like a good idea!
But I can’t imagine anything on PS4 will ever offer the same level of multiplayer fun that Nintendo will. Hrmmmm decisions…!
Apples to oranges.
Don’t just look at the systems, weigh up the games now and in the future, and then look for where your priorities lead you.
Also budgets!
PS4 games are likely to come down in price quite rapidly (if you can wait a year after release), but Nintendo games retain their value (esp 1st party titles), which might mean you end up buying fewer games for the same amount of money.
RE the MQFT from the previous page.
Well, the HGs have it. Looks like I might be playing a Hired Gun in Star Wars this weekend.
Yesssssss, I knew it!
What race? A Wookie?
Klatoonie Paddy Frog.
Haven’t decided yet. May do another MQFT for that. Core rulebook only for the moment.
B, Dr, G, H, R, Tr, Tw, W.
People who answering anything other than W are wrong.
Then I don’t want to be right, fuzzball 😛
Those who are answering Dr are actually correct, because it means you can make a knockoff of Cad Bane who is one of the coolest characters added to the Star Wars universe in the last decade or so.
Dr actually stands for Droid. I don’t believe the core rulebook (in isolation) actually has rules for Duros however I am probably wrong there.
Oh, my mistake. Duros are in the Age of Rebellion core rulebook and IIRC were added in one of the Edge of the Empire supplements, possibly the explorer-focused one (Far Horizons?).
B for Bothan? Hired to retrieve information? What could possibly go wrong?
Dr
B, M, MS, E, D, H?
I’m just using the core rulebook specialisations so I think that is restricted to B, M, and E I think? I’ll need to double-check later. I’ll probably pick randomly or have you guys pick one yours.
MQFT based on B-ob’s list. K go.
Hi, TAY. 🙂
Hi Crazyguy1990! How u doin’?
Howdy!
Reading through some of you straight guys fashion advice.
Hahaha, some of it actually isn’t bad!
Some of it is, umm, bad.
Overall I was impressed though! 😀
Like your fashion advice is so great, I mean, some of the things you wear? A half lip stitch on china silk? You can’t wear something with a half lip on china silk, it’ll pucker.
Oh, go take your $8 K-mart T-shirts and $20 Target jeans elsewhere Blaghman.
I don’t have time for petty bitches who look cheaper than a $2 hooker giving out free samples.
OOHHH GUUURRRL *z-snap*
Better than being the child trying to wear Daddy’s clothes in a futile bid for attention.
Side note: Trying to be sassy is hard, I have no idea how people can handle this sort of mental pressure.
I think you insulted yourself more than me with that comeback, hahaha! 😛
I’ve long accepted that my only talent is butchering quotes from musicals, but I needed some sort of response to what you said, I couldn’t just leave it hanging, man.
ily
I love that you can pull off long hair really well! 😀
You’re alright too, I s’pose.
THANK YOU!
SOS is all, “Get it cut you look like a fucking joke of a human” and “Dan, I hate you, I just want you to know that.”
If you ever need someone who appreciates you and your long hair, you know where to find me 😉
I don’t think the world is ready for the amount of dirty dancing across tables we’d unleash.
Give us some feedback then you smarmy bastard.
You’re the worst!
Mustard tights?
MUSTARD F***ING TIGHTS!?!?!
I can’t even!
CAN’T EVEN!!!
You love it!
Mustard tights was an awesome suggestion. It’s all about style not fashion. And mustard tights paired with that magenta dress would be an awesome style statement. I’m even tempted to buy that dress so I can wear it with mustard tights. So there!
MUSTARD IS THE DEVILS COLOUR!!!
I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE MUSTARD!!! >:O
Mustard tights sound like the nastiest fashion statement to ever crawl out of the hell that is forgotten 70s trends >:P
How about yellow, instead of mustard? 😛
Coloured tights are an awesome way to show indvidual style and not have to stick to the colours that are in fashion right now.
So this page is pretty much a nightmare for you? 😛
Hot dog we have a weiner!
UUUUURRRRRRRAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!
THE DEVILS COLOUR!!!
If it’s any consolation, I don’t go out wearing mustard tights often.
My hero.When were we talking about straight guy fashion? If you feel comfortable that’s all that matters, granted i did rock a grey long sleeve shirt with a sleeveless hoodie that had black leopard print with some maroon chinos and black vans..yep
Hahaha, Janexo asked for fashion advice as to what shoes would go with a dress she bought.
Some of the guys did alright in there advice.
Others didn’t however 😛
I was quite impressed over all though with their advice 🙂
Hi Sanegal2014
And Hi Replyfail. We going through this again, are we?
Presently eating the Zinger Stacker burger from KFC.
It’s gurrrrrrrd.Here’s a Leopard trying Marmite for the first time
’cause it’s Friday, I’m having trouble concentrating and I don’t want to do anymore work.
Oh that is so good and not dissimilar to how I reacted.
Edit: Here’s a dog undergoing an exorcism in Russia.
Yeah, because Marmite is disgusting compared to Vegemite.
Side note: my old cat used to absolutely love vegemite. She was abandoned as a kitten and the person who found her was a bit eccentric, would let her lick vegemite off toast. My mum continued this and periodically would give her toast crusts with butter & vegemite.
Hahaha, thanks for sharing that. Perfect Friday fodder.
Hey @blaghman
Not sure if you would still care but I know you used to play this guy a lot in LoL, he’s been reworked, just got revealed today
Yeah, saw it earlier this morning. Sadly it’s all far too little, far too late for me. *Single emo tear runs down face*
Fair enough, I’m pretty much one of the only TAYbies that still plays it.
I love his new ultimate though, Hecarim’s E charge on crack, apparently that can go almost half way down a summoner’s rift map’s lane in distance
Nooooo! Good ol’ cake feet!
Still got pizza feet Mordekaiser though 😉
They combined his old w and e into one ability. That alone is fucking rad.
They’ve really upped the frequency of reworks recently, they’re putting in reworked Viktor and Soraka into the game next patch, and they both look pretty cool now.
I still prefer old Karma but I’ve warmed to reworked Sivir. That said though the lore changes are getting a bit ridiculous.
Agreed on that bit, I was fine with the old Xerath’s lore, but in the end it’s still their game to shape it in the way they want.
Edit: Also, we need to start tagging up for games sometime, we haven’t been doing that and I have no clue why that is 😛
I usually only really play with a few friends and even then that’s maybe one or two nights a week. I don’t bother playing ranked at all so I mostly just do it because others are.
My pile of shame won’t diminish if I keep playing LoL. 😛
I got a decent sized circle of friends I play alongside, enough for a 5 man fairly often too, they are basically Silver level, like I am. Ranked I still do every now and then, I got specific people I tag up with on Skype to make it better coordinate.
I totally get you about the pile of shame though 😛
Piles of shame don’t diminish. They grow only larger and the composition of the top layers changes. Like stalagmites.
Are we supposed to have the PAX tickets yet? Seems to be getting awfully close…
I tweeted* them recently and they said early October… That’s going to be cutting it fine if there’s any problems.
Edit: grumble grumble autocorrect
People have apparently started to receive them. So, expect them soonish I guess
Sorry I haven’t been too present today – I didn’t realise how many meetings I had today, oops.
Thank you everyone for your suggestions! Some were very good, others just made me laugh, which is just as useful, though. Especially big love to @liondrive @beeawwb @quiz_b and @tigerion <3 (I’m thinking low grey or nude heels).
You’re welcome 🙂
It’s hard giving advice without being there to see stuff on though, so take all advice with your best judgement!
I’m glad you’re going with grey / nude shoes though 🙂
Pretty dress by the way 🙂
What’s the event?
LAst night i went to the shopping centre near my house for sushi and saw something not quite right in my book. Myself and the lady friend were crossing the road at the same time as some aboriginal kids, the kids weren’t doing anything wrong, they were just talking about the football if i remember. We get to the entrance and there are 3 police officers just at the front of the door. I had noticed them when we were finding parking and they hadn’t talked to anyone. Until these 2 kids try and get inside. They stopped them asked them for ID and then started being quite aggressive to these two kids. I didnt stick around but i know the kids ended up being told to go home. As far as i could tell there wasn’t any good reason why that should be the case.
Now the police could of had a good reason for acting that way towards those kids, but thats not my issue, i told this to the guys in the workshop and my god, the sheer racism that comes out of people is horrible. After they had had a go at these kids for walking while black, they decided to talk about how muslims shouldn’t be allowed in the country. I feel horrible because i want to tell them that they are fucking morons for thinking that way.
But i don’t, i hear racist remarks all day and i want to protest, but i don’t. Im just as bad as everyone else in this town because regardless of my intentions im just as bad as everyone else in this shithole of a town because i never say anything.
Well, no, you’re not as bad as them, since you don’t believe the things they say. If you stayed quiet because you felt like every relevant point had already been raised, then I’d consider you as bad as them, but your silence was due to not wishing to cause unnecessary conflict with your dickish co-workers.
I mean, you are as bad as these people, just to be clear, but for very different, at least slightly endearing, reasons.
^This guy! Nail > Head
Trying to decide if that’s a “greater than” symbol… or whether it’s an arrow and you think we should hammer a nail into Blaghman’s head.
He wants to lodge a nail into Blagh’s head, monster!
lol i couldn’t be bothered figuring out a way to say “Hit the nail on the head” so I ended up with that! 😉
Do be careful, my attempts at self-trepanning have left my skull rather fragile.
You’re not as bad though. Just because you know them does not mean that you share their values and beliefs. Regional towns seem to have a higher level of bigotry and general intolerance so don’t feel tarred by the same brush. You’re exceptionally tolerant to put up with idiots like that so you’re already better than them.
God, prejudiced people are the worst. Making unfounded generalisations and all that stuff. They are ALL THE SAME. >:(
Seriously, though, it’s pretty hard to convince people that their bigotry is unreasonable, especially if it’s being reinforced by their various circles. And it’s exhausting to try. I don’t blame you for not getting involved. I’d do the same. I have done the same.Even with reasonable people it becomes stupid, because as you say every group that people are part of is filled with a majority of bigotry. I guess i dont say anything because i dont think it would change anything. A passionate speech from me isnt suddenly going to undo 40 years of racism.
Same here. I used to try to argue with them but gave up a long time ago.
Nope. You’re not as bad as them. I get what you’re saying, but do you really think anyone’s life would improve if you called your colleagues out? Their opinions wouldn’t change and you’d cop a tonne of flak.
Many of the people who say otherwise don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. Sure, it’s noble to stand up for what’s right and, if ever there was a need for stamping out racism in Oz, now is the time, but you still have to be careful about speaking up. You gotta pick your battles. This one is best avoided. I picked the wrong battle with a bunch of racists once and wound up in hospital.
Family and friends? Sure, set them straight. The meatheads at work? You really must crave the abuse.
(EDIT: I understand that non-white people in Australia don’t always have the luxury of picking their battles and that’s a horrible fact. However, I still stand by what I said. Every conflict has a cost, and one has to consider the costs involved in each unique situation before acting.)
as dan would say
ily
but seriously you are a wonderful person, we should have beers soon and sing billy joel
You haven’t been here for the longest time.
Someone set me straight, ’cause my white male privilege is hanging out and I’m feeling foolish.
That’s a weird nickname for it.
I feel you mang – Mackay is also pretty bad. I swear, if I see one more shared “ban the burqa” post…
those things are everywhere. just so stupid.
Fighting against bigotry can get pretty tiring. My mum made some racist comments a few months ago and I challenged her on them. She fought back, making me seem like the ignorant one. Then my sister joined in and started backing up my mum. With the odds 2 against 1, I gave up.
Two weeks ago, my mum was talking and began a sentence with “because they’re Asian.” I cut her off before she could say anything she would regret, and my mum got mad about that. She said I was attacking her for her beliefs that she had the right to express and I was being disrespectful.
Racism is weird. I live in a Gen Z/Millenial bubble where racism is barely a thing, (my school prides itself on its multiculturalism) and then I talk to adults and realise the difference in attitudes between the generations.
Man I was at a Subway in the CBD having lunch the other week and at a table outside was a black guy, also eating his lunch. It’s 12:30 on a weekday, it’s pretty busy.
Couple of cops walk past, then double back just to ask this guy for his ID and hassle him. Totally random tho, total coincidence he was the only black guy around.
Another time I was being shown around this Myer store by security, getting some doors unlocked ect. Black guy walks in, looks like he is just passing through to the back exit.
Security guy is immediately on his radio and gets a colleague to unsubtly shadow the guy until he left the store.
People man.
Guys!
HEY GUYS!
I did it.
I was not terrible at Spelunky.
This kind of ruins my plans of doing a Let’s Play of me trying to get my first successful Hell run. Oh well.
You can always do another 😉
I’m not going to jump on the bandwagon (again), since I’m worried that all of D.C.’s circling has worn down its structural integrity, but I’ll attempt to gingerly hop on, while tripping and faceplanting into the ground.
My name is Blaghman, or Sean, or Blaghs, or hey dickhead, or something, I am an idiot, AMA.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
Is that different from where you would like to be in five years?
Working a boring job somewhere, dreaming about ideas I have that I’m always too lazy to put work into, thanks to the pervasive fear that I will dedicate all my time and effort to something, only for it to turn out awful.
Obviously enough, I’d like to kick myself into gear, start working on projects, and realise that hey, I’m pretty amazing, and find enough success there that I can live off my weird passion projects.
WRITING A MUSICAL WITH ME?
thats what i want too. 🙂
Would star in.
I’m very available come 5pm.
Why Blaghman?
Favourite Pokémon?
Long story involving the over-active imagination of a child, and a need to move beyond the screen name I used while destroying relatives in multiplayer games of N.O.L.F. (Fragman).
This is a tricky one for me, since I consider myself a Pokemon fan, but I never watched the TV show, I only ever played the older ones via emulation, and the only one I’ve finished was the first one I bought, Black. So on any day you could ask me this question, and get a different answer, but today I’m going to say Trubbish. I love Trubbish, yes, in a mostly “ironic” sense, or whatever, but there’s something overwhelmingly charming about a Pokemon made out of a pile of rubbish. It’s blisteringly self aware, and I find all the hate for it disappointing.
I don’t get the hate for Trubbish and Garbador either. Well, other than my own personal hatred of Garbador never showing up for me to catch (along with Rotom) during my mission to catch everything there was to catch in Y. But otherwise they’re pretty much in line with Grimer and Muk imo.
I think the ice cream or Chingling are better candidates for that kind of hate 😛
Chingling maybe, but I will hear no words against the beauty of Chimecho
I didn’t know that was a thing. Upon googling, it looks ok though.
THIS SHOULD NOT BE HERE
More porn dopples?
You gifted me Arkham Origins, you’re the best. No further questions.
That doesn’t sound like me.
I propose that you are spouting lies and slander, designed specifically to tar my name, and ruin my stellar reputation. We won’t abide by that sort of thing here. Hmph.
He gifted me OoT3D and a Dark Souls 2 poster. He’s a god among men for sure.
Dark Souls 2 poster? What does that one look like?
Further lies, further slander. >:|
@Blaghman has also gifted me non terrible things!
Why did you put your AMA on page 13? This is page 14.
Because I love to ruin everyone’s fun. Nothing makes me happier.
Except lying to people. Lying to people is really really fun. It might be second though, actually. I’m not sure.
Summer or Winter?
Worst habbit?
Favourite song?
Winter, definitely. Combine the fact that I’m an obese blob who sweats at the slightest hint of warmth, and that I love skiing (great combo right there >.>), and it’s an easy win.
Oh man, I have more bad habits than you can… shake a stick at? My old worst one was that I’d always place 2 spaces after a full stop, which was only ever a thing thanks to crappy ol’ typewriters, but I’ve mostly managed to stop myself from doing that now. Since I’m super indecisive, and bad at self analysis, I really don’t know how to answer this question properly. I’m sure you could open it to the people of TeamSpeak and find that each of them thinks I have a worst habit, which is far removed and exponentially more annoying than what the last suggested.
Like my favourite Pokemon, this one changes on a daily basis, but as of this moment, I’m going to say For Good, from the Wicked soundtrack.
I used to do 2 spaces, but it would seem I stopped at some point in the last few years.
Riveting.
I deserve that.
Do you worry that all of these AMAs are just a plot by @dc to fill out his files?
I don’t worry about it, since I know it’s the case, and I have far greater things to be concerned about, like the imminent invasion from the Reds.
I mean. Uhh. Hi Red. Hello. Yes, you’re great, you know that. Hahahahahahaha.
KGB, GET THIS MAN HE KNOWS TOO MUCHHi Blaghs, I am pretty great, yes.
When are we going to team up and record a music video of us rapping about our booties?
I don’t know why we haven’t done this already. You’ll have an evening free at PAX, right?
Can we expect more Christmas carols this year?
Cheeze TV or Aggro’s Cartoon Connection?
If you had control of a game dev studio and no concerns about profitability, what type of game would you produce and why?
Definitely.
Wasn’t allowed to watch either, but I’m gonna have to give it to Aggro.
Whole lot of ideas, but something I’d really like to make was based on an idea that I think Notoriousaur talked about, which is a walking simulator sort of game, but for the Oculus Rift. Add in some light story elements, and dedicate a whopping great art team to creating the most fantastic and wondrous environments they can. I’m a strong believer in the power of VR for virtual tourism, and I think that fictional virtual tourism could be wonderful.
Oh man – I remember reading a Myth book (can’t remember the name but it had a kid who was taught how to write the worlds by his dad and ended up not getting along with him) and thinking how awesome it would be to see those places. I would pay money for an immersive VR experience for something like that. Add in some network code to explore with friends and it would be pretty rad.
Edit: Myst*. Because I am typing like I have a lisp this afternoon.
wanna live together?
Yes, obviously. We’d grow to hate each other so much, it’d be rad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUrrFVfQQfc
Questions.
So many questions!
I’ll do my best!
– What is your least favourite animal?
– What’s one thing you’ve wanted to either say on TAY, or say to a TAYbie, but haven’t?
– If you were in prison for life, and you succumb to basic urges, do you think you’d become the man or the woman?
– What would you like to do, and are you working towards this?
– What would be your prison name?
– If you had to nickname your manhood, what would it be called, and why?
– At the moment? Mynah birds. Fuck those little pricks.
– Hmmm, I, uhh, I don’t know if I should go through with this, as there is a lot of spite I often feel, and keep buried. For the relatively safe version, there have been multiple times where I’ve wanted to ask people to re-read what they’ve typed, and understand either just how good they have it, or just how ignorant they’re being (or at least, to try and understand how much it looks like that from someone else’s perspective), and to pull their heads out of their fucking arses.
I also want to tell Rocketman how much I love him (no homo), but I’m afraid of commitment, so I can’t bring myself to do it.
– With my rippling physique, dominant personality, and generally likeable attitude, I would be relegated straight down the chain to “entire prison’s bitch”.
– I’d love to work pre-production through to an overseer position on games. And in short? No, but I sort of wish I was.
– If it was last name based, I’d probably just end up as Richo, or something equally insipid. Based on what I’m actually like though, would probably involve some words that I’m not willing to type on TAY.
– Well, my middle name is Nicholas, so I’m sometimes called “Seany Nick” by some relatives, so I’d probably be really creative, and just go with “Seany’s Dick”.
Not really a big fan of driving games although I don’t dislike them, but man Forza 2 is sounding/looking really fun and may warrant a purchase.
Some people are nice. One of the members in my group in my info systems management class is in her mid 20’s and has had multiple business analysis jobs and project management jobs, and she wants to be my mentor and help me in getting a BA job at Deloitte or KPMG down here. That would be awesome!
Maybe she likes you. *wink*
She’s married with kids. Even if she does like me, I don’t want her kids 😛
Abort them.
She just wants to get down to business.
I know when she says “Is that it?” she’s saying “oh yeah that’s it”.
It’s business! It’s business time!
To defeat the Huns?
Did they send me daughters
When I asked for sons?
Man, haven’t been here in days! Freaking life getting in the way! Who needs it anyway amirit? o/
…
o/ anyone?
… Ooookay then, what have i missed? Anyone miss me?
Nope. Who are you again?
Oh wait, you’re my doppleganger/twin guy! I wondered what this gaping pit of loneliness was. Never leave again.Oooouch my heart muscle! How could you say that? *lip quiver*…
i try not to leave cause i love you guys, but life gets in the way sometimes… Ling story i don’t really want to get into at the moment but yeah 😛Sending generic “Hope all is well” thoughts your way!
Thanks man, just silly things in my mind but I’m getting through them… All is well 🙂
No.
….
…….
OH GOD YES! NEVER LEAVE AGAIN!
Love you too mang! Remind me to buy you a beer when you’re here for PAX! gotta make up for snobbing you last time!
I had it coming from when I asked @Blaghman who he was after spending two weeks sleeping next to him in the same room.
Yes.
\o/
I used to miss you, but since I got some contractors to install a whole bunch of cameras in your house, I rarely go a day without seeing you.
So Yahoo have only just reported on the potato salad kickstarter.
*slow clap*
I had not heard of this. Looked it up. Proceeded to accidentally inhale/swallow the 20c-coin-sized lemon drop I had been enjoying for the past few minutes. Now for the
ten45 minutes of discomfort as it slowly descends… Thanks for that.Also, people apparently like potato salad. Or they like encouraging other people to eat potato salad…? People are bewildering,
at timesoften.I realised a couple of months ago that I hate writing, but love creating the framework for stories. I love world-building in particular. I’ve been creating a fantasy(ish) world every now and again called Impasse for the last two years. I posted the concepts on TAY back in January, but everyone’s probably forgotten and it’s changed so radically since then. I’ve been working on lore, rebooted some stories, created flags for most of the independant nations, and have started creating maps. I’m content that this universe won’t become anything now.
Things are coming along pretty nice. I still have yet to create new lore for the stuff earlier in the timeline, after declaring the stuff I already created had too many plot holes. And the characters I’ve created still have no personality whatsoever.
The offer still stands for you to buy the rights, @shane.
http://imgur.com/pDFetdq
i just pitched him this and he turned it down so im pretty sure you got no hope kid.
Take my money.
Quick take that down, it’s so brilliant somebody will steal it off the internets!
Of course, it’s too late: Tomorrow’s Buzzfeed: 25 reasons to hate Islandi represented by cat pictures
To be fair Islandi is a dick place, run by some guy who has banned something. Fuck that guy, the people are to scared to fight back too, because of reasons.
So it’s Australia?
ZING
So if you like world building but hate writing, have you considered turning it in to a pen-and-paper RPG? Then your players do the writing for you. Sort of.
I don’t know anyone that plays Pen n’ paper RPGs, and I’ve never played one myself. I wouldn’t have a clue how. I think if I were to GM I’d get mad at my players deviating from the story.
I’d be too embarrassed playing Pen n’ paper RPGs with the TAYfolk.
Yeah just speaking from experience, story deviation is part and parcel of RPGs simply because you can never predict what players will do.
If you like world building, you can always do what Tolkien did and just do massive collections of informations and fictional histories for your world. That way you can still create a world without having to get stuck into an actual “story” type of writing.
Newest episode of South Park involves Kickstarter and the Washington Redskins and is one of the better episodes in recent memory. Plenty of razor sharp satire covered in juvenile dick jokes without being smug about it. Been a while since they were in this form.
SQUELCHY LADY IS GONE
Dagnabbit @strange Artillery have been announced for 70,000 tonnes. I’ve only recently gotten into them but they’re fast becoming one of my favourite thrash bands. I hate no money 🙁
Argh, want to upvote for 70K but can’t because it looks like you can’t go. 🙁 And yeah, no money sucks. The only reason we get to go again is because of an incentive bonus program thing from a company Mr. Strange makes deals for.
After being burned by Assassins Creed III, I swore I would never, ever, ever, ever, ever pre-order again.
I just pre-ordered Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor.
I am worried the same issue is going to happen.
Justify my purchase, TAY. Please?
It does look pretty rad. I usually only Preordered if there’s a special edition I really want or stock is going to be a concern.
LET BROKEN GEHM GERNALISM DO IT FOR YOU!
IGN – 9.1
Polygon – 9.5
Kotaku – YES
Dan – 7/10 (as in, that’s what Dan is rated. I’m R18+ after 9am, too.)
Dan is rated PEGI18 for:
Crude Humour
Alcohol Use
Sexual References*
(*We stopped counting at 28 references within the first two minutes)
Eurogamer (who tend to review low and I find are usually spot-on) gave it an 8/10 which is pretty good too.
The Kotaku US review on the game recommended playing it.
Justified?
Justified
I find with open world games that I just end up getting bored because I can do all of these amazing things but nothing really feels like it changes in response to my actions.
Shadow of Mordor seems to feel like it changes when I do things. And that’s a good thing.
It looks SICK.
Bought some razors. Thinkin’ of shavin’ the beard.
Shave the head, keep the beard. You know you want to.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
I see your
And raise you a
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
Are you prepared for those kind of levels of self loathing?
Obviously, this is a cry for help and I need to be talked down off the ledge of beardlessness.
Just, y’know. Kind of mired, feelin’ the need for a change. Might just go back to swimming instead, perhaps.
Nah, get rid of the beard.
You know you wanna 🙂
Just do it >:)
Fo’ serials though, I think you should shave.
Might be fun to watch your beard grow back in 🙂
Plus change is good.
And why would you have bought some razors if you didn’t want to do it?
On some level you want to shave.
I vote do it (and do a twitter before and after picture).
:/
These pineapple m&m’s are pretty disappointing.
Why not just buy pineapple lumps?
These are pineapple flavoured chocolate not chocolate covered pineapple candy.
So why get them instead of chocolate covered pineapple candy?
Curiosity? Now there’s no further reason to.
So pointless when pineapple lumps are a thing that exist?
They sound pretty disappointing. I love pineapple but pineapple m&m’s? Lets stick to keeping them on pizzas shall we.
I thought they were nice. Tastes like the pineapple in Cadbury Snack!
I CAN’T FIND THEM ANYWHERE 🙁
Coles sell ’em…
Going through the announced game releases for the rest of the year to build a list. Created one by taking all the games coming out, assigning a desirability ranking from 1/5, then sorting by date and then by desirability. Then I threw out anything with < 2/5 ranking. Result:
Shadows of Mordor PC 30/09/2014
Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus PSV 14/10/2014
Tears to Tiara II PS3 14/10/2014
Civilization: Beyond Earth PC 24/10/2014
Akiba’s Trip PS4 4/11/2014
Tales of Hearts R PSV 11/11/2014
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd PSV 18/11/2014
Dragon Age: Inquisition PC 18/11/2014
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth 3DS 25/11/2014
So that’s my to-buy list sorted for the rest of 2014. I may even drop Dragon Age and/or Civ if I can’t get them on the cheap somewhere.
Huh, turns out that Double Dragon Neon has a awesome credits sequence.
Also, Knight Solaire is in the Special Thanks section.
The new Dota patch has some interesting changes.
To try and reduce snowballing, make comebacks easier and whatnot, they changed how bounties work.
It used to be that when you killed someone, you got money based on their level and a bonus if they were on a killing spree. Now, the money is based on the difference in net worth. If someone has a shitload of gold and gets killed by someone in rags, it fucking rains money from the sky.
This is kind of nuts. I don’t know if I want to play right now.
EDIT: I’m watching a guy streaming right now. His team is disgustingly behind. If he lives through a team fight where the rich players on the other team die, he ends up with more than 3k gold. This genuinely breaks Dota.
WUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTT
That’s redonkulous. I’m not sure if it’s game-breaking, but that’s definitely a game-changer. It’d be easier to just throw in a bonus based on net worth difference, no?
Here’s the relevant bit from the patch notes:
This change only affects the extra Gold given if within an area after a kill.It does not affect the natural Gold received for killing a hero of a certain Level/Streak.
Old:
==============
VictimLevel = Level of the Victim
1 Assist: Gold = 125 + 12 * VictimLevel
2 Assist: Gold = 40 + 10 * VictimLevel
3 Assist: Gold = 10 + 6 * VictimLevel
4+ Assist: Gold = 6 + 6 * VictimLevel
New:
==============
The player that got the last hit now also gets the area of effect bounty.
VictimLevel = Level of the Victim
VictimNW = The victim’s Net Worth
EnemyTeamNW = Enemy team’s total Net Worth
AlliedTeamNW = Your team’s total Net Worth
NWDifference = ( EnemyTeamNW – AlliedTeamNW )/ ( EnemyTeamNW + AlliedTeamNW ) (minimum 0)
NWFactor = NWDifference * VictimNW
1 Hero: Gold = 40 + 7 * VictimLevel + NWFactor * 0.5
2 Heroes: Gold = 30 + 6 * VictimLevel + NWFactor * 0.35
3 Heroes: Gold = 20 + 5 * VictimLevel + NWFactor * 0.25
4 Heroes: Gold = 10 + 4 * VictimLevel + NWFactor * 0.2
5 Heroes: Gold = 10 + 4 * VictimLevel + NWFactor * 0.15
In combination with these changes, the gold for ending a spree is in turn reduced, from 125->1000 to 100->800.
Kill a high level enemy while the other team has a big advantage in net worth and the game can swing violently in your favour. Watch some of the games Beyond the Summit has just posted on Youtube. The net worth graph looks the heart rate of someone having a seizure.
Here’s a cosplay-related rant. I have made myself a truly fabulous skirt for my cosplay, and it needs a shirt. I’m planning on getting a plain white business shirt (happy to recycle one) and do a bit of cutting and sewing to turn it into a frilly blouse. Problem is a) there aren’t many shirts at the opshops that are the right colour and size and 2) since when do white shirts at vinnies (Narrabeen) cost $20!?
I actually found a white medium Oxford shirt with a pink stripe that will look great, but I have the problem now that it’s actually a super nice shirt and it only cost me $4.50 – it’s got french cuffs (girly cufflinks go!) and I actually want to keep it just to wear as a winter shirt with some trousers or a wiggle skirt.
If vinnies Brookvale fails me tomorrow, I am buying a new shirt at lowes/target and cutting that.
*Edited to remove excessive and unnecessary use of the word “so”.
Who are you cosplaying as?
Princess Unikitty! (from The Lego Movie)
http://instagram.com/p/tTv8XgASba/
My tiny companion will be cosplaying as Emmet
http://instagram.com/p/szjV2uASZh/
What the fuck?! You can buy brand new mens white business shirts at Lowes for that much!!
I work at the Salvo’s & we charge $4 for all shirts. That’s a total joke 20 bucks for a shirt from an op shop. It’d wanna be spun bloody gold or something.
I love my local Salvos store – I was there during the week and walked out with a Dora The Explorer Jaffle iron, a set of genuine tupperware measuring cups, a new carry-on case and a vintage enamel brass thimble for less than $50.
How awesome is it being able to spend that much and actually feel like you spent well?!
We get sooooooo much tupperware, I swear we could host tupperware parties at least once a month!
I also like to collect vintage blue corningware. Almost bought a teapot to match my coffeepot
Ah awesome! You should’ve 😛
Success!! the other vinnies had some ladies shirts that will do nicely!
Score \o/
And 25% off!
That’s even better!
Cufflinks are awesome!
Err..that is all. I have nothing constructive to say.
@jocon89 sorry man I can’t reconnect to PSN 🙁
So I’ve pretty much finished school now. I have an exam in 2 weeks, then I have to go to school to get all my work signed off, but I’ve pretty much finished school now. There is this weird unreality to the whole situation.
I remember back in 2006 when I was a year 4 student, the school let us use school computers for the first time. I started creating files for every year to organise my work. This level of future planning was unprecedented for myself at the time. I created a file called 2006. Then I created a file called 2007. I went down the list until 2011, where I said to myself ‘whoa, stop there. That’s so far away, the world probably won’t even exist by then.’
Now it’s the end of 2014. I’m almost double the age I was then. Whoa. Whoa…
Meanwhile, in 2006 I dropped out of university.
For the second time.
I was in grade 10 in 2006, damn..
When I was in year 4 schools didn’t have computers….
We were just getting computers when I was in year 4 I think \o/
I think we might just have had a couple of Apple IIe ones when I was in year 4.
My first classroom at Snowtown (year 1) had a commodore 64 in the corner.
Computer room was on win 3.1 pretty soon after that.
The school I moved to got a new vice principal during Year… 6? (New Zealand didn’t use ‘years’ for grades when I lived there and also you officially start school at 5, not 6 – no ‘prep’ year) and he was a massive proponent of computers in schools, so we got brand new Macintoshes in most of the major classes. Wasn’t a big school so there was only one class in each grade and it was in a pretty wealthy area. They had had old Apple IIs before that but they didn’t really work well.
School I went to after that for intermediate had computers, one in every classroom, but they were all Acorns. You’d be forgiven for not knowing Acorn were a thing as they were absolutely shitty. That said, the ‘A’ in the ARM processor that’s in everything from phones to fridges now stands for ‘Acorn’…
School after that, in secondary, they were very very proud of their ‘modern’ computer lab where they had ‘brand new’ 486es which ran DOS and which they used to teach kids to type. That was the entirety of the computing at that school. Then I moved to Australia and they actually had new machines running Windows and everything.
But yeah, possibly around Year 4 I didn’t have computers in schools either, maybe in some of the secondary classes they might have been filtering in. Amazing how much things have changed.
Our school was one of the first to get a computer. I was in Year Four and one of the few chosen to get to use it. Back then the mouse was a cursor we got to make move with typed commands.
2006 – I finished uni for the second time that year – that one was my grad dip in education. Also my 10 year anniversary since finishing high school!
Okay okay, I get it you’re all old. 😛
There’s a reason I don’t like bringing up my age on TAY. It makes it harder to relate to you people.
I finally found the joystick I was looking for! (My old Logitech Attack 3) 😀
Time to use it as a handbrake/ stick shift for my sim racing! \o/
Also, I thought that had deleted my rFactor mods and tracks, but fortunately, they’re still there!
All 15GB of them! 😀
I just finished The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, really great game. Definitely recommend you play it if you like really pretty Walking Simulators / Adventure Games.
Didn’t that judt come out today…
That must be really short :\
I played it for about three and a half hours, and I think it’s well worth the $20 price of entry.
Tried soloing the weekly heroic, kept dieing on the 3rd or 4th add waves from completely avoidable deaths, after the 3rd death I got frustrated and quit =/ which sucks i needed another 2 strange coins for that chest from Xur this week.
Might try it again on Sunday as defender, might yield better results.
That would be hard.
Vex Lord you mean? only thing that would kill you is not getting the Hob Goblins fast enough/waiting to long to re-position or not realizing your poorly positioned during the add phases. Not to mention having a class with no ranged super energy attacks really sucks.
Apart from that vex lord is probably the easiest to solo on weekly heroic.
So yeah.. only got frustrated because of rookie/lazy mistakes.
Blaghman did an AMA? I should do an AMA!
Who put the bom in the bam shebang shebang?
Was it you?
Why did you do an AMA at 2 past 12 in the morning?
Do snarzberries really taste like snarzberries?
How many pics of Pyreans bicep have you received so far?
I didn’t do an AMA, I merely stated I should.
Yes.
None, despite my best efforts. Now I’ve barred MMS’ I fear I never will.
Well even if you don’t I’ll ask something anyway! How did you first get interested in 3d modeling?
I used to hang out at the H2World forums (namely the mapping section). Then I saw people teaching themselves and I was all “why the hell not me” so I started to make stuff so I could make map details. I made a bunch of models for some mods (almost all dead now, as mods are wont to do) then stopped since I didn’t want to commit to learning organic modelling.
I have like $900 worth of d’artiste modelling books sitting around gathering dust. They are some damn fine books though!
how long ago did you start? I’m guessing a while ago, but how many years approx?
13? I started to get back into it a few years ago after such a hiatus, went to some Maya courses etc (previously I’d only really used 3dsMAX) but it didn’t take off. Now I just use 3d modelling programs to tweak stuff for Pepakura etc.
Honestly, I prefer to draw. But I’m just generally too lazy to do anything at all.
you’ll probably dig this when it’s released! I for one an pretty hype!
I just finished Bioshock Infinite and now my brain hurts.
I think that’s pretty much how everyone felt after finishing it.
I finished Bioshock Infinite this year. I remember nothing about it. That should say a lot.
It sure was a doozie. Especially if you got all the Lutece recordings.
Oh man. I wonder if someone’s done a video showing all of their appearances, so it can blow your mind now that you know the ending…
Yup. Someone did, alright: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzteglDuAwg
I may have a head cold….
*sniffles*
🙁
PSA for Destiny people:
http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/26/6852027/destiny-patch-loot-system-engrams-legendary-rare
There will be a patch next week. After the patch:
– Engrams will only drop gear of the matching rarity or higher (so blue will drop blue & purple, purple is always purple etc.)
– Higher chance for a Rare engram (blue) to drop a Legendary (purple)
– DOES NOT APPLY RETROACTIVELY TO OLD ENGRAMS
– ALL OLD LEGENDARY OR RARE ENGRAMS WILL BECOME RARE ENGRAMS SO DECRYPT ANY LEGENDARY ENGRAMS YOU MAY BE HOLDING ASAP
I like the phrasing in the Bungie post. “Cayde-6 took the Cryptarch aside and showed him a sack of doorknobs. He decoded that mystery pretty quickly.”
I liked this one more:
“Legendary Engram items that exist in your inventory will be demoted to Rare quality when the patch goes live, so decode them while you can. But let’s be honest–even if you don’t, we all know they were blues already…“
One step in the right direction.
My main complaint with the 3DS is the volume and I hate it. Stop looking out for my health Nintendo. If I want it so loud I start bleeding from every hole in my face let me.
Play Theatrhythm with meeeee
@saturday @jocon @blaghman @distantdrop @dire_wolf
Vault of Glass today at 12pm gents! Be there or miss out on a few hundred in game deaths! Also make sure to have ample supply of void damage. Ark might be needed further on.
@jocon (sorry man tagged you by your psn ID xD)
half of us are already playing!
because we’re sad, sad people.
I probably don’t need to mention it, but bringing special and heavy ammo synthesis’s can be crucial as well.
Something may have gone wrong when I accepted your friend request, as it didn’t seem to add you as a friend, and it now seems determined to not let me accept it. I’m sure we’ll survive, but I wanted you to know that it’s not just me being a lazy prick.
Tried to add my brother’s partner today. No go. According to The Internet, PSN is being a dick, today.
The weather is so bad in Perth today :/
The weather is so good in Perth today 😀
It’s not outdoor shopping weather!
I’m bringing you a goddamn umbrella Greeni-arse 😛
Not with my engagement party on tonight. I will stand by myself saying the weather is crap
Phlanispo’s Random Opinion Poll of the Unspecified Timeframe
So who’re you going for in the AFL grand final?
I think I’m going Sydney.
Better question.
Is it good weather today little Phlanispo, or bad weather?
Bad weather because of rain that slows the Internet.
Good because it means summer isn’t here yet, and the rain is a testament to the fact.
The guys who done kick the ball good.
The Hawks are ranked higher in kicking efficiency, so I guess you are going for them.
Cheer cheer the red and the white!
I’m in Sydney, I’m allowed to jump on the bandwagon.
Cool, shake down the thunder from the sky with me.
I don’t feel like lifting that noble banner high, though. It seems heavy.
Sydney has never interested me, whatsoever. Guess that means Hawthorn by default.
Actually I’ll say Hawks. David Hale was in most of my classes at school so there’s that.
Whoever scores most homeruns.
Going for a team just because they score the most homeruns is a little short-sighted. You have to factor in how many touchdowns and slamdunks they score, as well.
PERTH!
Boyhood at Event Innaloo at 8:10pm. Also doing stuff during the day (dunno what). Keen for Sunday and evenings on the weekdays too.
@fled @grandmasterb-funk @hindenlagen @liondrive @phoenix @thecracks
BE THERE
7 man TAY meat Innaloo… sounds gaaaaaaay! :p
I organised it…
Aaaawwwwkkkwwwaaarrrddd…
Gawd damn it.. everytime i try to reply to this, is says duplicate comment.
Yeah good one.. of course that one posted.. *grumble grumble* LOL
Wait, Bayo 2 has online coop?
People need to buy it first.
I’m going to buy it so that makes 1 person …
It takes 2 to tango
It’s the only reason I’ve held onto the Wii U and the main reason I got it in the first place so there’s two!
Apparently it’s selling very poorly in Japan.
I heard the same. I never played the first one, but I’ll likely give this one a go at some point.
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/98514569111/27-september-2014
Wrote some non-spoilery words for The Vanishing of Ethan Carter if you’re interested. (cc. @powalen.)
YOU’VE BEEN SUPER QUIET THIS WEEK AND IT’S BEEN FREAKING ME OUT!
He only pops on to promote his blog. I see how it is.
Damn self-promoting TAYbies.
Ugh, fuck Hawthorn.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Twentieth Session Recap (3rd September 2014) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Scrappa aka @tech_knight the mechanical Jack who talks to machines, and
– Storyteller aka @redartifice the awesome GM who weaves tales.
Unfortunately absent:
– Nova aka @novacascade the stealthy Jack who explores dark places.
Temporarily saying farewell to:
– Ranger aka @mawt the rugged Glaive who lives in the wilderness, and
– Russef Volarskii aka @popdart5 the mechanical Glaive who murders.
And introducing:
– Elandar Kintan aka @popdart5 the foolish Nano who controls gravity.
The party rested after their arduous ordeal in the Field of Towers however more problems arose for them. Phetys was nowhere to be found, Blaghs had contracted a mysterious “muscle flu” as he called it, and they were still stuck on the extreme fringes of civilisation. They still needed to find the Impossible Blade and a chemical solution known as Gharolan so that the Devona could cure Phetys however someone had to go and find where he had wandered off to. Ranger and Russef volunteered to venture out into the wildness to try and track down Phetys while the rest of the group agreed to recover the Impossible Blade, which was supposedly located near the city of Uxphon in the northern Steadfast. Blaghs, Scrappa, and Nova bade farewell to their companions and to the Aeon Priests of the enclave as they started trekking north.
Read more here.
Thanks @liondrive!
Boyhood is an awesome movie :D. We actually got kicked out of a museum… what! The second it hits 5pm they’re all “sorry we’re closed GET OUT”… man, a warning or a please hurry up would’ve been way better. Didn’t even see everything :(, I want my money back!
Any time! (when I’m not working :P)
Agreed, Boyhood is really good 🙂
I almost cried three times though :'(
I think I made it a bit awkward when I said “Good thing we didn’t eat at Innaloo, otherwise we would have recreated one of my dates”, hahaha! 😀
Sorry Greenius! 😀
Still coughing and sniffling. 🙁
how long you been that way?
Since Friday.
Lolwat Perth.
Y things open at 11am today? :/
You should count yourself lucky that any thing’s opened on Sunday. 😛
I should’ve bought this game yesterday so I don’t have to go outside today :/. It’s ALL @POWALENs fault!
Dammit @powalen !
Pow-whale-en
You seen Boyhood yet? 😀
No, really want to and went to the city with intention of watching it but wasn’t playing any where but the suburban cinemas. NO SPOILERS!
There’s a Boy and he grows up.
From memory WA doesn’t really do the whole Sunday trading thing.. So yeah be lucky as @dc said.
The fact that shops even open on Sunday at all is a recent blessing.
Our retail laws are stupid.
Okay, this is getting ridiculous. Before, my YouTube videos would default to 360p, as that the only resolution that won’t bring my internet to it’s knees. But now, it’s set to automatic resolution, which means it starts off a 480p, then drops to 144p after five seconds. The only way to stop this is to go to the resolution options and set it to 360p manually. I have to do this for every video, and it’s getting annoying. Is there a checkbox I need to tick somewhere to disable automatic resolution. This hasn’t been a problem until last week.
There’s a browser extension called Youtube Options that lets you set your resolution for all videos (and lets you make the layout less sucky, amongst other things).
Thanks, but sadly that add-on isn’t available on the Firefox extension gallery.
*circles the wagons*
omg! he lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Xenoblade!
Okay.
Nah.Breaking my heart :'(
who is this etc…
Oh you!
UP WHERE THEY WALK! UP WHERE THEY RUN! UP WHERE THEY STAY ALL DAY IN THE SUUUUUN!
UP THERE THERE IS SO MUCH ROOM
WHERE BABIES BURP AND FLOWERS BLOOM
EVERYONE DREAMS I CAN DREAM TOO
UP THERE UP WHERE THE SKIES ARE OCEAN BLUE
I COULD BE SAFE AND LIVE WITH OUT A CARE
LIVE WITH OUT A CARE
IF ONLY I COULD LIVE UP THERE
Working Sunday sucks but it got made up for by a customer coming in and asking me to engrave Punisher skulls all over a bracelet. That was fun.
it’s sunday?! Shiiiiiiiiiiit! I could have sworn it was Saturday!
That’s okay, it’s a public holiday tomorrow!
Oh, wait, only Canberra has “Family & Community Day”.
I’m still on a “permanent” holiday atm, so it doesn’t effect me really. Just weird that I was so convinced today was Saturday!
Wait, so the jelly in a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich means jam? I never knew this.
hahaha yup! Silly Merkans! Bit like the way they called Scones Biscuits
Jelly & Jam are different. Jam has pulp in it, jelly doesn’t and looks like what we call jelly and the Americans call jello..
Holy crap.
I thought I’d go to the shops to see if they had a game I wanted. They told me no. I decided that, while I’m at the shops, I may as well withdraw some money. I go to the ATM, notice that the bank itself is closed. Stupid lack of Sunday trading. Oh well, all I need is the ATM. I put my debit card in the slot, and try to withdraw $40. The transaction fails, and I get a message to insert my card. Oh shit.
I start panicking. My card has been swallowed, what do I do? I call my aunt. The call won’t work for some reason. I try 3 more times, to no result. I check how much credit is left on the phone. $5.00. That’s like, 20 minutes of talking, right? I dunno, I only use my mobile for emergencies like this. Telsta calls probably don’t cost that much.
Then someone walks by the ATM. I tell them about the situation. She says to ring the support number on my debit card. After a few awkward seconds of nothing, she pulls out her debit card and points to the support number. I thank her, and call the number.
After talking to the customer support person, I get transferred to a second person. I explain everything again. I have to answer a bunch of security questions, half of which I don’t know the answer to. I answer enough of them quickly to where I think some progress is being made. My phone makes a weird beeping noise. The battery? Can’t be, I charged it only a week ago. Then the call cuts off. Out of credit.
Total despair grips me. I hang around the ATM, in the vain hope that my card will be spat out if someone else tries to put their card in the ATM. No such luck. Utterly defeated, I walk home.
I guess I have to call the support number again, this time using the home phone. I’ve already gone through 4 out of 5 stages of grief. I’ve already experienced denial, fear, anger, and mild acceptance. I’ve yet to start bargaining. Something to look forward to.
And I don’t even have that game I wanted to buy to get through my misery.
You’ll probably have to get a new card sent to you.
Make sure to get a pink one, or else you’ll instantly regret not getting a pink one, like I did :'(
I was with a bank a while ago that had a design your own card thing and ended up with a card with Kratos on it.
Oh, I’m going to see if my bank offers that!
I have a design in mind and everything! 😀
My favourite of those was a young lady who got a picture of her father looking disapproving.
So if she was ever making frivolous purchases she had to see that and it helped here reign it in a bit
Commendable!
(It still wouldn’t save you, in His presence.)
Hopefully the same thing that happened to you will happen to me, when my card got eaten on the saturday night i got a phone call on the monday that they had retrieved my card from the machinr and to come pick it up they usually really nice about it
I think they offered that same thing, but I think I screwed up somehow, and now a new one is getting mailed to me.
I’m going ti buy Valiant Hearts tonight I think 🙂
Great, great game. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is my current game of the year, Valiant Hearts comes in second.
I’ve been meaning to get it since it came out, but haven’t had the time for it.
It looks really good, and I feel like playing something a bit more emotionally attaching 🙂
I’m still waiting for the console version of the Vanishing.
It seems like a game better suited for consoles, to be honest (mire immersive experience.
I find it hard to immerse myself in a game when playing on PC. It’s not immersive playing a couple inches away from a screen, clicking your mouse at everything.
Yeah, I agree. I ain’t waiting six months though. 😛
100% Mario Kart! Even 10000 coins!
Then it just goes to the menu and does nothing. :'(
I’m scared to race against you D:
You buying the DLC?
I’ve already bought the DLC. Yellow Yoshi is my new favourite. Don’t be scared, Greenius. Shane kicked my ass at Mario Kart this morning. @shane! (ily)
So is Target the cheapest for Smash Bros 3DS at $44?
It’s 28 degrees today and it’s amazing.
Called the bank. My card has been cancelled my card, and will mail me another one is five business days. Rather disheartened by the whole experience.
/edit
… I’m not sure how to respond to this, to be honest :\
/edit
Well, at least if she’s not drinking (even if she doesn’t have long), she’s more likely to spend the remaining time she does have out of hospital and at home with you and your dad…
I’m not that familiar with THC metabolism etc (although it is hepatic) but if it helps her cut down her drinking… I mean, it sounds like her disease is very end stage and she may not need much of anything to make her a bit happier and pain free.
Exactly my thoughts. We can’t always afford to go see her/spend time with her in the hospital as the parking fees are just ridiculous. If it helps her to stay at home more so we can enjoy what time we have left together, then that’s all I can ask.
As long as it’s purely medicinal, I”m okay with that.
It’s hard to say it’s purely medicinal, but my intentions were directed that way. I’m sure if you read above you’ll understand
…might not be the best thing to talk about on a public forum. The Internet is forever yadda yadda.
yeah i know. I just needed to vent more than anything. I’ve got no one else really 😐 Forever alone
I’d suggest editing it once you think everyone has read it. At least then it won’t be findable by third parties.
You aren’t alone, you’ve got me! I’m like four friends in one!
So I may be able to start earlier on Elsa than I thought I would. Stupid Melbourne weather
Awesome.
I’m still yet to start on Link, unfortunately.
I’ll probably go with the Wind Waker style.
How are you planning to do it?
Just get the materials and throw something together, pretty much.
I checked my local Lincraft, but they didn’t have the materials in the shades I was after.
I might check out Spotlight next weekend.
Pretty much if Lincraft doesn’t stock it, spotlight does. Also, if it were earlier in the year, I would suggest sourcing your fake leather from Korea.
Ah. good to know.
Thanks a bunch. 😀
No problem? I don’t feel I did anything though
Tuesday I’m heading to Spotlight to get the stuff I need and try to figure out just how the hell to do everything.
Watch me screw up the dying completely and utterly.
What are you dyeing?
A karate gi top. Need to make it green.
If it’s made of cotton, just get one of the washing machine dyes.
Just read the instructions and watch lots of youtube videos first 😉
Monty Python is on SBS ONE right now.
Flying Circus? Life of Brian? Holy Grail? Meaning of Life? And Now for Something Completely Different? Live at the Hollywood Bowl? Fliegender Zirkus?
Monty Python Live (Mostly): One Down, Five to Go.
I feel like this has been a good week, so thanks for helping to make it a good week 🙂
I like to think I played my part by not posting at all. 😛
I talked to you a bit on twitter at least, so that was nice 🙂
Why weren’t you posting as much, if I can ask?
Even though I did nothing, you’re completely welcome. >:|
We were bitchy to each other, which I thought was fun! 😀
You need to up your game for next time though XP
Alright, but next time I’ll be asking Saturday for advice, okay? I cannot manage being bitchy.
Attempting to destroy someone at every fibre? Fine. Bitchiness? Beyond me.
You can ask whoever you want for help, it won’t save you ;P
Nothing can save me, at this point. I’m so beyond a lost cause that it’s probably laughable.
This took a serious turn quite quickly :\
You ok buddy?
Never.
But that’s okay, because I’ve been like this for years. 😛
I choose to believe it was entirely because of me and how amazing I am.
You’re pretty cool Freezy 🙂
You definitely contributed to making it a good week 🙂
I don’t believe that. Freeze is a terrible person who doesn’t remember you. 😛
Me and Freezy shared a night in a hotel room together, so he better remember me 😉
We went camping together, and slept in the same room for a few nights, and he still forgot me. You’d better hope that you’re memorable as all hell!
What happened in the hotel room in one, I have to assume sleepless, night must have eclipsed several nights in a tent.
Fistbump for the Destiny raiding peeps.
…You know what you did.
DId you win? You guys won didn’t you.
We did. The final wave I got dumped out of the party on PSN and was left not being able to hear anyone, opening the wrong gate and hoping it was the right one before rezzing the two dead people outside who COULD hear. …And who were probably trying to figure out why I was opening brown when I should’ve been opening green.
Haha, similar thing happened in out first Templar victory.
Congrats man, that’s awesome. Any tips?
So many. Were you guys reading strats or going in blind for the sense of discovery?
We went with the latter, which was pretty satisfying.
Spoilers for tips:
Everyone needs to bring a weapon that can bust up oracles quickly. The sooner they’re dead, the sooner you’re buffed. Scout rifles and hand cannons just don’t seem to have the DPS. Once the ‘away’ team gets teleported, first order of business should be landing some hits on hobgoblins to get them to blow their shields early, so the relic-holder can do a jump-smash attack when they’re available. After that the focus is just on cleansing and saving a decent whack of it for getting outside.The relic-holder’s super does RIDICULOUS amounts of damage to Atheon, so whoever brings it outside should be spamming that attack. Supplicants are a pain in the ass, but I had some success in blowing them up by running past them with the striker bubble on. Also good is standing on high platforms. Their explosions don’t seem to reach there, and you can activate the vex timegates while you’re standing on those columns in the middle of them.
The buff from killing oracles seems to give ultra-fast cooldown on grenade-tossing. My sticky grenades did more damage to Atheon than my primary could ever hope to, so anyone running low on special or heavy should probably stick to lobbing their most powerful grenade over and over.
Also, we figured out that his time-rifting is time-based, not health-based. So it’s a complete waste of time for people to risk dying and waste their ammo trying to chip away at his health while the buff’s not up, in the first 20-30 seconds of the fight. People being dead just makes the rest of it so much more difficult. Also, the Sunsinger’s Fireborn ability is a literal life-saver.
Bastards.
But congratulations.
I wish the group I was in had more time for Atheon :S chatterwhite is pretty sexy.
Congrats on the clear.
Sunday Night Tunes!
Dosed – Red Hot Chili Peppers
I now have 3 concurrent exotic weapon bounties running on Destiny, now its starting to impede my ability to do daily bounties efficiently =/ now I’m debating myself over abandoning one of them =/
Why do these bounties have to be so stonewall-ish and time consuming :X
Haha, I had that. Was so glad to finish Thorn and free up a space, only to get given The Super Good Advice one the next day. Thankfully that one is easy as.
Yeah, I’ve currently got Thorn and Bad Juju on the go. Not TERRIBLY keen to finish them up thanks to the PVP, but who knows. I used to have four, which was seriously hampering my bounty-doing. Fortunately one of them was PVE only, so I was able to belt that one out quickly enough (Pocket Infinity) and one of them had a ludicrous requirement so I gave it up.
Yeah we are mostly winging it till we get stuck. I’ll keep your post handy for probable frustration.