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Morning fronds, how were your weekends.
Mine was pretty average (again). Mostly work, got a bit of time in with Skylanders: Trap Team on Friday, it’s a pretty cool guy. Also, played some Forza Horizon 2 and read some more Game Of Thrones.
Also, my son broke one of the Skylanders, he said it fell off the couch, (still works though) obviously they don’t make ’em like they used to.
Hype for Alien Isolation tomorrow! Who else is getting it?
Gonna have to decide between picking up Shadow Of Mordor and DriveClub on Wednesday due to not enough money, and pick the other one up on Friday. I’m leaning towards DriveClub, because I figure I’ll be too drawn in by Alien Isolation to start another campaign driven game, and it’ll give me more time to finish it before I get stuck in to Shadow Of Mordor..
A bunch of new games, and Bathurst at the end of the week to boot, so hype for this week.
Edit: WHOOOO! TAYGET Thought surely someone would’ve posted by the time I’d typed up all that.
For once I’m fir…oh damnnit.
EvilmonkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhn.
Weekend was good. Did tonnes of housework. My Mother-in-Law had a real shitty birthday on Sunday (her partner didn’t even get her a card or anything, even though he knew it was her birthday) so my wife and little one are heading over to Melbourne this weekend for 5 days (EDIT: To cheer her up).
I hereby dub this upcoming weekend “Pantless Pizza Filled Gaming Time” which I haven’t had for over a couple of years.
http://i.imgur.com/rNC56eA.png
I’d suggest you pick up Shadow of Mordor first and then try the PS+ version of Drive Club first and then see how you like it.
It’s only 60 bucks, so I’m prepared to take a punt on it.
Sorry to do this, but I’m gonna taint the 1st page with sad. Some of you may be aware from my tweets last night, that my mum has taken a turn for the worse. She’s back in a coma again as she was in too much pain, and the doctors suspect she only has a matter of days left.
So yeah.. if you’re wondering why I’m a little quiet this week, that’s probably why. To those that messaged last night, thanks for your support. It’s great to have friends like you all out there in the world. I’d rather not tie up the front page with all my sad, so rather than fill the page with messages of hugs etc, just give it an upvote and let this disappear in to oblivion.
Geez man, that sucks. Don’t know what to say except where here for ya man.
I’m giving you hugs dammit, just you try and stop me.
*HUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGSSSSS*
Hey man, sorry i missed the tweets yesterday, I truly suck at keeping up on social media… Screw the risk of “tainting page 1 with sad”, some things are just more important. I was in the same boat about 11 months ago man and i know its not easy.
I hope you guys are ok, if you can, try get some time off work just to spend with together with your mum and the rest of your family. You are all going to need each other. We’re all here for you if you need an outlet to vent off some steam/thoughts/whatever.
Our thoughts are with you guys…
***hugs***
I’m actually still unemployed atm, so time is not a major issue atm. My dad and uncle are going to see her today (even though she wont be awake to notice). I’d go with, but I have one of my customers coming to pick up their new computer today, and I don’t have a contact number for them. Lucky for me, I saw mum just a day ago while she was still awake. In some ways, I’d rather preserve that memory as my final image, rather than see her comatose again. I’d love to spend time with her if she was actually able to acknowledge our presence, but I think it’d probably mess me up even more if I saw her that way atm.
Just be sure. Dont put yourself in a position where you find yourself wishing you had spent that extra time with her. You never know, maybe she is able to acknowledge your presence. Its not unheard of. Best of luck man, hope you’re all ok…
I’m pretty satisfied with the last time I saw her. Told her I loved her and gave her lots of hugs and kisses. I would be ok with that being the last interaction with her. It made her smile, and considering the pain she’s been in, that’s the best I could hope for! I’m sure dad will call me and fill me in once they’ve been out there. If things change, and they decide to bring her out again, I’d be there in a snap though for sure.
Thats good to hear man. Great memory to keep.
What is the pain from? is it not something they could control with painkillers/epidural or something? to at least give her a chance to speak to you guys?
Combo of a failing liver, and trying to recover from a hip replacement. Even with morphine she was still hurting apparently.
what about an epidural? they can localise it and it is tons more effective then morphine…
im not a doctor and im sure they would have thought of it :/
I got no idea. I can only go off what I’ve been told.
No can do welbot dude! *HUUUUUUUUGGGGGGSSSSSSSS*
That’s terrible and I’m really sorry all this is happening. Just know we all here to lend you a shoulder *gives prosthetic shoulder* an ear *I don’t know if they make prosthetic ears* and our support and love to help you get through it
Bonus hugs *HUUUUUGGGGSSSSSS*
Ignoring your last sentence! All our love <3
So, someone made a comment that they were reset in Gears of War 3 and lost all their stats. Our of paranoia I decided to check on mine. Thankfully I haven’t been reset, but I decided to play several games and I forgot how much fun it is. Especially when you’re going for a no-shotgun victory.
Also I’m thinking about dressing up as Bigby for PAX.
Bigby is a fantastic character and I would LOVE to cosplay as him. I’d need to replace my forearms with legs of ham, though.
I got my hair styled after his.
I would need to wear a wig to manage that. The only character whose hair is similar to mine is Max Payne from 3. 😛
Hey guys. Busy weekend helping out friends and family so didn’t get a chance to play games or anything. Good news that my Nanna got out of hospital last week and is a little better considering they think she has had 2 or 3 strokes. Sadly she has early signs of dementia. Things have showed signs of improvement though since getting home.
Last night picked my 16 and 14 year old cousins up to show them my new pc. They loved it and one of them is saving up to build one after getting his first job a couple of weeks ago. Have yet to enjoy it myself but hopefully will this week.
How is everyone else?
Glad to hear your Nanna’s doing better. Hope you get to enjoy your new PC soon. What are you gonna play first?
I am thinking Shadow of Mordor. I got it for $37 on GMG as I was going to pick it up for Xbox but really couldn’t pass up that price.
12 hour shift. Got home, took shower. Realized I hadn’t fully stripped and was in my Underpants and T-shirt. Took shower anyway.
That was not a mistake.
That was multi-tasking washing clothes and yourself at the same time.
At least, tell everybody else that was what you were doing.
So in Shadow of Mordor, I killed a Captain Orc by lopping it’s head off.
It turned back up after a little while, having clawed it’s way back to the lower rung of Captains.
He has a sack/bag thing over his head. His motivation is now “Hoping other orcs don’t see his weaknesses”.
Dude, you have a bag over your head and a scar right round your neck. Pretty certain even Orcs can put two and two together.
5/5 would easily inflict psychological terror on the Mordor populous anytime.
I just felt sort of bad for one of my captains. I killed him like 4 times in the end, and he just looked so pathetic. I wanted him to give up, for his own sake.
“HEY MAGGOT! I’M GOING TO GUT YOU”
“Dude, I killed you four times.”
“I’M GOING TO GUT YOU”
“Dude, do you remember that time I jumped off a freakin’ tower and landed on you from 60 feet up in the air? Or the time I poisoned you at your own feast?”
“I’M…I’M…please. Please let me win one. The other orcs look at me funny. Just once. Just…just let me gut you once.”
“*Sigh* Alright, I suppose I owe you one then.”
I had to keep killing one orc, at one point I think he actually suffered brain damage when I defeated him because he only said like 4 words. I felt kinda bad for him.
Good morning all,
On Saturday, Scree and I got a good look at the room we are getting moved to for PAX Karaoke. Gotta say, much better than what we originally had. I put an album together to give you all a better idea. So all in all, thanks RoosterTeeth for taking our original appointment! 😛
Right here
Much larger than last year’s venue, which is a huge boon for us, we were like sardines in that one 😛
Also to all of those that are attending, the bar will be filled but we need to choose what they should stock up with, and I don’t know which beers we should have, I don’t even know the names of them to save my life as I don’t drink ever. Even if you don’t have special requests, help us get a general idea what to add to the list so that we can cater for as many as we can. Already can see a few from last week’s TAY. I’ll be including fruit juices (Mainly for my benefit :P)
cc @negativezero @scree @freezespreston @powalen @novacascade @coldcamv @cookingmama @bdkiaf @thecracks and @anyothersI’vemissedI’m happy to stick with beers – being from NSW I can never rememebr what “nice” beers are available in melbourne, but for a basic cheap beer, I’m happy to drink Carlton Black. Is tap beer an option or is it just bottles?
We are not sure. I didn’t see any taps, but I wasn’t really looking
Hey Scree, can you drop an email to them to see if we can get a full drinks menu so we know what they do have?
Just remember @scree and @tech_knight, you’re stocking a bar for 3 hours, not a bottle shop. Less is definitely more.
Yep I’m aware of that, hence why I wanted to go down the “general” route initially. All good we got it covered 🙂
Seemed to be mainly just fridges there, I didn’t see taps at all
It’s a bit hard to come up with suggestions without seeing what they have available, but if you stick to a simple range it’ll be cheaper for everyone and if anyone wants something exotic they can go find it after the event. The list below is based on what Carlton Utd supply, so they should be no problem.
Carlton Draught or Carlton Cold
Carlton Dry
Maltilda Bay Fat Yak
Matilda Bay Beez Neez
Matilda Bay Dirty Granny
Cascade Light
If I was going to choose wines, I’d probably go with a sparkling white, a semillon sauvignon blanc, and a cabernet merlot. All easy drinking wines. Then soft drink, juice and water.
I reckon that would cover everyone.
Only other thing I’d add would be some premix drinks like vodka cruisers/Bundaberg+cola/Jimbeam+cola
But I don’t drink those 🙂
@beavwa @nomad @sernobulus @negative_0 @gorzilla @blaghman @rize @steve-o_the_deve-o @markSerrells @rocketman @trjn @freya @pixel_the_ferret_viking @ruffleburg @shiggyninty @alexpants @docwhat @cakesmithWhy did I write all these out
As I mentioned earlier, I know a few guys around that’s happy if Heineken is available… Also Melbourne is lucky enough to have the Matilda bay brewery nearby, so some Matilda bay beers would be awesome (minimum chips is pretty amazing)
Beers off the top of my head that i can remember
Asahi
Crownies
Hanh premium
Carona
Thats all i can think of right now so ling as i can order a bourban and coke I’ll be right
Heineken
Corona
Crown
Vic Bitter
Carlton
Mythos
Singha
Cascade
Cooper
Stella Artois
Pabst Blue Ribbon
Hahn…
Think that covers the common ones here in Ausland
Pabst is common?! We were selling it for $57 a slab at Dan Murphy’s, never saw anyone buy it apart from the occasional can to see what the fuss was about. Once had a US tourist tell me back in the states the stuff was about $12 a slab, and usually $0.50 a can in the southern states.
XXXX Gold & Tooheys New are also popular dependant on where you live.
I don’t think I’ve even heard of Pabst. Most bars in Sydney are Lion Nathon – so you get Tooheys and Squires.
That’s why my list above is all CUB stuff – we’re going to be in Melb (even though Matilda Bay is a Perth Brewery, they’re owned by CUB so available everywhere)
It’s a redneck US beer, only started to be sold here recently I think.
Tooheys New & XXXX Gold are the popular ones here, shame since I can’t stand either of those 😛
seems to be quite common nowadays… pricing seems to hover around $39 – $49 for a slab nowadays. It is a god-awful tasting beer imo, its referred to as redneck beer over in the states as it is so cheap and appealing to low income households. What happens when you ship it overseas though? you sell it at a premium, and label it as an imported beer and people buy the shit out of it…
you’re right XXXX gold is very popular over in QLD, its sold here, but i dont think it is very common… kind of like a state beer like Vic Bitter.
Tooheys is pretty common here in melb though definitely.
See: Fosters.
Oh wow it’s come down, still not worth it when I can pick up a carton of Coopers pale ale or sparkling for a very similar price 😛
VB is pretty popular up here. Saying that it’s apparently it’s the most common beer in Australia & you can get it with ease over seas apparently as well heh.
Throw in Little Creatures, Flying Brick, and James Squire.
Gin and some half decent scotch.
Four Pillars and Glenfiddich would be nice but Tanqueray is more likely than Four Pillars.
That would depend on us having bar staff who will be mixing drinks, rather than just opening bottles. The event ends at 10, we can always find somewhere else that does the proper drinks for afterwards (and if you’re buying, I’ll have a Hendricks) 😉
Now you’ve said that….
You & gin 😛
Gin is the best. Grown ups drink gin.
If you get a good gin, yep. But i’m more of a whisky person.
Speaking of gin I wanted to try this when I was in Tassie but the distillery was shut because it was a public holiday when we were in Hobart =( he also does a sloe gin which is apparently awesome…
Wow – that looks amazing!
His whisky is amazing, I must say. The Irish bar we tried it at didn’t have the gin sadly. But I tried some lovely Whisky’s that morning.
Also found a winery on the way back to Launceston that sold his products, but I wasn’t gonna pay $165 for 3x 200ml bottles or $295 for a 500ml bottle of whisky. They marked stuff up so much made me wonder if they sold any of it.
Now I want to have a G&T
I want a Pimms and Lemonade.
Wow, it looks great!
As far as alcohol goes, I don’t really know much about beer. Some cider would be good though if possible!
+1 for ciders.
Have you tried the James Squire Orchard Crush? It’s pretty ace.
I had that on tap it was pretty awesome. Then again I was expecting nothing less given I like James Squire in general.
I don’t think so!
It’t not bad, and I think it’s better than the Dirty Granny from Matilda Bay. My favourites are probably Magners Pear, or Monteith’s Crushed Apple, or Kopaberg Elderflower and Lime (if I want something really sweet)
What brands after you after though?!
Strongbow
Castaway
Three Oaks
Magners
Bulmers
Montheith’s
Toohey’s
Rekorderlig
James Squire
Matilda Bay
Mercury
Somersby
Savanna
Monteiths is usually the one I go for if I’m buying for home but I’m really not fussy. Usually just get whatever they have when I’m out.
I am patiently waiting on the release of Monteith’s Summer Ale.
Would probably rank those at Rekorderlig (though only for the non-apple/pear ones) > Montheith’s > James Squire > Strongbow >Toohey’s (that’s Five Seeds, right?) > Three Oaks (not entirely sure if I remember this one) > Bulmers > Magners. As a rough guess.
Don’t think I’ve tried Castaway, Matilda Bay, Mercury, Somersby or Savanna.
Kopparberg’s is pretty good for one of the cheaper ones, I quite like the elderflower and lime one. Old Moot is good too, especially being a stronger one for the same price 😛
Castaway is pretty good, it’s also cheap. But downside is, it’s only available at BWS, Woolworths Liquor & Dan Murphy’s since it’s part of the Sail & Anchor brand which Woolworths own or partnered with one of the two.
Mercury is rather good too, Tassie made cider. Best draught cider i’ve had!
Edit: Savanna Dry is alright, South African cider, again only available from BWS, Dans or Woolies Liquor given they have the rights to it or some crap.
Napoleone & Co are one of the nicer local ones here, from up in the Yarra Valley.
Try Kirin they make cider now too rather nice apple and ginger, apple and ùme (plum)…….enjoyed both immensely
Another +1 for some cider. Not much of a standard beer person.
I don’t drink alcoholic beverages, either.
Water sounds good to me 😛
there is also Soft drinks and ginger beer
Holy shit that place looks nice…
Ooh it looks great. Really can’t wait. As for drinkies, I’m completely not fussed. I like the majority of the suggestions up here already.
Also, thankyou both for going to so much effort to organise this. I’m sure you’ll be hearing that a lot! 😛
Morning guys! Hunting for a couple of PAX 3 Day passes if there is anyone around who cant make it! let me know! 😀
@gutsoup – are you still getting rid of your pass?
http://www.showclix.com/event/3776089/
This only lists the Saturday ones as being sold out, still shows 3-day passes as being available. Have you tried ordering one?
must have just been added!
They’ve been there for a couple of weeks now, since they put back all the Enforcer tickets I think. I was wondering if it was just a glitch, but they’ve stayed there. I guess either demand isn’t that high, or people just haven’t noticed 😛
I have a 3 day pass that I’m not planning on getting rid of.
:>
sorry dude, I never had a pass to get rid of? (I’m not going) Good luck hunting though
Morning errbody hows every little thing?
My weekend was stressful oh god so stressful. The entire Friday night was spent packing boxes and moving them from my house to Cathryn’s house. Saturday was then spent moving the boxes from Cathryn’s house to our NEW house and then unboxing all the boxes oh god so many boxes. Sunday also included more unboxing and general stressing out that the new house has enough storage if we only moved one of our stuff in but because we both moved in there is no room for all of it. So its been stressful with yelling and fights because there’s just not enough room for anything, we don’t even have a linen closet.
A Monday morning question, if you had to open something “gaming-themed” what would it be?
A complete, factory sealed boxed copy of Air Raid for the Atari 2600
If im going to be realistic, maybe an Origin gaming PC thats ships packed into one of these wooden crates, using a crowbar that has been personally hand delivered to me by Gabe Newell, whilst having a poached eggs/sausage/bacon/grilled tomato/toast breakfast.
Yes that is being way more realistic than the first option…
I may have to settle with option two without Gabe Newell.
Gabe will never do that if your house is or is equivalent to the number 3
oh shit it has three steps…. and i have three pcs… and three tvs… HL3 confirmed?
Someone contact IGN!
I make a mobile arcade that runs out of a van like a chippie, that you can hire for a function/fair/fete/party.
Pay a flat fee, I provide the equipment. Pay a higher fee, and all machines get free play enabled.
Id hire you..maybe make it a trailer like the ones used to move race cars around that folds open..that would be sweet
Last week Cam’s thoughts were “Moving in together, I’m going to get so much smexy times next week”
Now Cam’s thoughts are “Moving in together, I’m hoping I survive next week”
Been there and done it, you will work it out. Just compromise and realise that just because you think something is a waste of space and not important doesn’t me she feels the same way. Mrs Tigs loves wrapping presents and things so we have bags and boxes of wrapping paper and ribbons and what not. I would get rid of it all but that idea really upsets her. It’s just god damn wrapping paper that you can buy for a couple of bucks when needed is my opinion. But that’s not the point.
I would love to open a gaming themed pub. Although it would be more a gaming friendly pub. I wouldn’t want the drinks and food and the decor all gaming themed. If there was something cool then certainly have it in the pub but don’t try to shoe-horn everything in. A collection of different boardgames to play, some arcade and pinball machines.
A couple of those really coll gaming tables for Warhammer or the like to sit alongside the pool tables.
“Two mana potions please!”
I don’t have a problem with ‘gaming themed’ bars but it seems very self contained. Just a ncie old style pub where gaming is welcome. People can still come in and play some pool and grab a beer and a group might be playing WH40K next to them.
The guys watching the footy on the big screen might be doing so next to people playing 7 wonders. So basically just the kinda place I would want to go
This! Oh god all of this haha.
That would be sweet you could have a cocktail section of gaming themed drinks and charge premium just like EA muahahaha
Adding ice to your drink is DLC 😛
The glass is DLC will be available next session
I’m still saddened at the lack of a good board games cafe in Melbourne. So that, I guess.
Im saddened that theres no where to buy board games on the mornington peninsula
you could always make the trip into the royal arcade on bourke street. find your board games there, then go into the russian doll place that im shit scared of going in cause its all expensive and creepy and i dont wanna break anything……*feints*
Not gonna risk it ill just order creepy russian dolls online
I also would like to do the whole gaming bar thing. But like someone mentioned back when Insert Coin(s) was a thing, it needs to be somewhere where you can play games that happens to also sell alcohol, rather than a place that sells alcohol that happens to have games. Because there’s already plenty of places for people to go just to get smashed, they don’t need another. People need a place they can go to hang out and have fun with their friends.
Yesterday I decided to cosplay for PAX, so I started buying a ton of stuff off the innernets. They all have to be shipped from overseas so I am cutting it a bit close, hopefully everything arrives in time.
I am going as the guy (MC?) from the Persona 5 trailer so it’s pretty straight forward.
To the people cosplaying going to PAX with 3 day passes: are you guys going to be in cosplay for all 3 days? I’m not sure if I should or just do it on the Saturday.
Im uncertain if I should do it just on the Friday or the Saturday or both it depends on how I feel I guess
I will be! But mine isn’t really a ‘cosplay’. More like “I’ll be wearing the same clothes for all three days” 😛
Sounds like a good idea to me!
That reminds me: I better buy some undershirts or something or nobody will want to stand next to me by day three 😛
All three days for me!
Yes, although only one costume will be elaborate, and that is Saturday’s. The other days are more like fancy outfits than costumes.
Ah yeah, wearing my older cosplays on other days is another option I could consider.
Last year I wore Manny Calavera on the Friday, Movie/Mansion Luigi on the Saturday, and recovered on the Sunday. It was good being able to just move about freely on the Sunday and do whatever, but then the day before I was lugging a vacuum cleaner while stomping around in ski boots, so i was quite sore by the time the day was over 😛
Haven’t decided what I’m doing this year. Whether to do two costumes again (feel like Manny would be apt for Halloween…), or just wear the one costume on the first two days or even all three. Though I worry about it being stinky after the first day.
Wearing that for the whole weekend would be a bit too much haha
I should be fine since it’s just a school uniform.
Oh, Manny all weekend would be the easy option 😛 Save for the constant opening and closing of the helmet for photos and such. But yeah, he’s my old one. Working on a new one for this year, I imagine it’s going to be quite toasty. Just did a test last night on the fabric, it becomes obviously different in colour when it gets wet. So either gonna have to douse myself in anti-perspirant, or look into getting some of that spray that protects shoes from sauce and line the inside with it (ah, NeverWet [/google]) 😛
Are any TAYbies who will be at PAX on the Sunday?
*raises hand* I’ll most likely be at the League of Legends area most of the day 🙂
Yep, although by that point Mr 3 and I might be getting bored and might go to the zoo instead.
Mrs Tigs and I have 3 day passes so probably but we are in the same boat as @cookingmama and the decision isn’t really up to us
I will be! All my non-internet friends are only going on the Saturday so I’ll be all alone ;_;
I should be, might only be there for 1/2 a day because I need to actually fly out of Melbourne Sunday night.
Yup.
I think last year we pretty much spent the last day just playing board games and didn’t bother with other areas.
I’ll be there for all three.
Whoa, it’s new TAY. But… I’m at home.
This is weird.
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.
Finished season one of Transparent yesterday. Was pretty damn great. A little confronting. Sweet. Funny. Likable. Just an excellently produced show that will make you rethink your prejudices, if you happen to have any. Compelling insight into a different world. Probably not quite as good as Orange is the New Black but definitely Amazon’s first real contender. Jeffrey Tambor was amazing. By the end of the season it wasn’t even the trans stuff that carried the show. Just interesting character stories. If you’re a TV fan? This has a D.C. fanboy endoresment!
I finally managed to get a full look at the Warhammer 40K conquest card game last weekend, how it works, etc (I also saw it’s been updated to include Necrons and Tyranids, neither have allies to call upon! \o/) and I really want to get my hands on this now as it looks like a ton of fun!
I’m interested but have noone to play with.
There are a few here I know will get it but it will need a long drive from me to get to play with those guys, I hope an online version gets off the ground too at some stage.
*cries*
I thought you were more interested in the figures then the card game.
I’m pretty keen on the card game. Looks like it could be fun.
I’ll have to actually take a proper look at it, then.
There’s a full video on the fantasy flight website that takes you through how a round works from start to finish.
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=5105
Edit: The guy’s voice sounds like the narrator from the Stanley Parable too xD
And now I’m going to buy it.
Ill have to check it out..granted anyone who wanted to play it here would have to come by a long drive or by boat (looking at you geelong taybies)
Milsims still has it listed as pre-order. I’ll definitely be picking up a copy and I know that it’s going to hit shelves soon.
Eldar still look really good to me. Love me some control decks.
I’ll be mainly playing Necrons first chance I get, cuz undead machines 😀
Is there a site that has the race comparisons for this game?
Had a bit of a movie watching weekend this weekend. Friday night was Metallica: Through the Never. Amazing concert film, for me the highlight was Orion being played through the end credits. Saturday I watched The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Two Guns and The Naked Gun 33 and a third. Sunday I didn’t watch any movies, but I watched Doctor Who, the NRL Grand Final, Chelsea v Arsenal and the Australia v Pakistan T20.
Apart from that, I had a weigh in on Saturday morning, and I lost 800 grams. I should be under 150 kilos in the next couple of weeks. I’m happy that my progress is slow and steady, and it’s really nice to have people noticing my weight loss. 🙂
Through The Never is pretty awesome, very well done. Did you have a legit copy, if so did you watch the making of it? Pretty interesting stuff.
Watched it on Foxtel, so it was a legit copy. Definitely considering buying the Blu Ray at some stage.
Ah fair call.
Yeah man, the special features on the blu-ray are pretty cool. The way the band was even rigged to be recorded was really interesting 😛
Watching Lars up close was pretty spectacular. Dude is a hectic drummer.
Don’t let the rest of the internet hear that 😛
Albeit him becoming a bit lazy over the years (the dude is 50 or whatever I don’t blame him) he’s still a pretty decent drummer. Even though he’s no Dave Lombardo lol.
Nice work with the weightloss!
Man, these Barn finds in Forza: Horizon 2 are hard to find. Just spent about 20 minutes looking for the second one, finally found it and it’s a freakin’ Kombi van, yay.
This weekend in summary:
– Played a fair bit more Destiny. Decided I am completely done with that shit. Once you hit 20 there’s no way to gear up solo other than grinding boring repetitive quests over and over. I still enjoy the actual act of playing it, but everything else around that is all kinds of un-fun. The breaking point was when I tried to do the daily heroic story thing so maybe I could possibly get some gear, but after failing repeatedly on both day’s story missions I realized I’m simply too shit at the game to progress any further. So fuck it. I’m done.
– Started Shadows of Mordor. Plays okay, looks really nice and I was enjoying it quite a bit. Then I progressed the story a little and they introduced spearchuckers and dickheads with shields and all of a sudden the combat is fucking horrible and I die every time I get into a fight. I assume now that if I advance it any further I’m going to get the dagger fuckers where you have to pull back the opposite direction to dodge their attacks, since the game is basically Batman’s combat down to the same types of guys.
I also really, really hate this whole nemesis thing. Every time I’ve felt like I’m making some progress, kill a captain or two, suddenly there’s new guys rolling in. Half the time I can’t beat them anyway (or I get one and then another one rolls in during that fight and finishes me off) and they just get stronger when you fuck up and die. How is this fun? It feels absolutely Sisyphean; every time I roll the boulder up the hill and get it to the top it rolls back down to the bottom. And the biggest thing that gets to me – and it is something that irritates the shit out of me in the Arkham games too – is the fact the enemies taunt you when you die. Fuck. You. Not sure I’ll continue playing it either. I thought it was going to scratch that Assassin’s Creed itch, but at least in AC you feel like you actually make tangible progress as you play and don’t have everything fucking reset and undo your work all the time.
– Watched a bunch of anime. New season started but I was still behind on finishing some of last season’s stuff so I focused on getting the older stuff out of the way. Almost clear of that now so I can spend some time checking out the new shows. Last season I wrote a bunch of initial impressions on TAY as I finished stuff, was that of any value to anyone?
Anime impressions were good reading.
Hahahahahaha yeah, the patented Destiny grind. I’d be happy to jump on and help you, if you want- I notice you’re on a few times but I don’t know if it’s alright for me to jump in. Honestly though, there’s nothing new past 20 except the raid, and, well, getting there is a marathon in itself…
I always enjoy your anime posts. Was thinking of doing a initial impressions post for the current season since there’s a lot of good stuff, but I’m just too damned lazy.
Thanks, but I’m pretty sure I’m done with Destiny now. The moment-to-moment fun is still there, it plays amazingly well, but I feel like I’ve consumed what little meat there is on it, and unless they vastly improve the grouping stuff (why can I not put a marker on or something that tells my friends I want to group up and do strikes or something, for example) I don’t think I’ll be back until the expansion content drops. And if that requires more than level 20 to do the story bits then I’ll probably not even be back for that.
Still don’t understand how they could have spent so many years working on the game and only have this to show for it.
I like the anime impressions
Since moving and having no internet the itch to play Destiny has subsided.
Where do you get your animes from? I enjoyed your impressions just never got to watch any of the shows as i couldnt find them
I obtain them while sailing the seven seas, matey.
A lot of it is streamed on Crunchyroll. I may or may not obtain CR rips for a lot of it (though I do have a CR subscription!) because of regional locking bullshit on some of them and also because I use Plex and like to have everything in one place.
There’s also usually a few shows every season which aren’t streamed anywhere or where the streams are censored or the subs are straight up crappy.
I see, any animes off the top of your head that are a must watch?
Depends on:
– Whether you mean recently (current/previous seasons) or all time
– What you actually like watching
EDIT: Also if you’d like I have a 48-hour all access guest pass for Crunchyroll I can give you. I probably have several.
Give us the list for both. All time and current/previous seasons
Id accept but I have no internet so as long as it doesn’t automatically start the 48 hours upon giving it to me then yeah ill take one
I think it starts when you redeem the coupon, but the coupon only lasts a few months but I’m always getting new ones (one free per month) so just ask me when you’re available.
In terms of all time, it’s really tricky. I could give you a list of my personal favourites but they’re not necessarily the best shows because I have been described by some people I used to hang out with as having pretty weird and/or shit taste in anime. 😛 I’ll happily watch stuff that’s undeniably garbage if it entertains me, or if it has really nice art.
It’s also tricky to give recommendations because anime is a medium rather than a genre, it’s like “recommend me a US live-action TV series”. Depends what you like.
IMO the best show last season was Aldnoah Zero, however that comes with the significant caveat that it is a ‘split-cour’ show. TV in Japan in general uses an approach which divides the year up into cours, which is a French term that basically boils down to meaning 13 weeks. So a single-cour show is run in a 13-week timeslot. They don’t do ‘seasons’ per se – a show runs for a specific amount of episodes and then it finishes, and if they want to do more then a bit later they’ll do another series as a sequel or whatnot. Two-cour shows used to be the norm, but recently (last 4-5 years) single-cour is more common, which means that getting a contiguous 26-week timeslot is hard. The net result is a rise in what’s referred to as ‘split-cour’ shows, which is where a show that would normally have run 26 weeks is split into two 13-week runs with a gap between. Aldnoah.Zero is a split show, and it left on an insane cliffhanger and we won’t get to see the rest until January. 🙁
I’ll get back to you on a list of my ten personal favourites. Spoiler: Evangelion is on there. 🙂
I have much to learn sensei..also I await your list
If you’re looking for a time-killer, I recommend giving Sunrider a go on Steam. It’s free for some bizarre reason. Probably a fan-made labour of love like Katawa Shoujo? It’s a visual novel blended with a light turn-based tactics game. I’m quite enjoying it. I’d have paid money for it.
Always interested to see another write-up of upcoming anime. It’s good to chop that stuff up with you.
Re: Mordor. The rapid replacement of dead captains with new ones was a huge disappointment to me because I really missed those rivalries and personalities. See too much of anything and it starts to blur – I miss when the captains were distinctive and unique, so I changed tack. I don’t kill them so much anymore, but carefully manipulate the hierarchy instead. I actually kind of WANT to die to them now, to give them some more personality and a connection.
I found that after I advanced the story to the point of being able to brand orcs and control them, things got very interesting. It’s pretty great having an overpowered badass captain and his followers on your side and setting him to go betray his warchief, then watching from afar to make sure it goes well. After a point it becomes less about combat and more about carefully curating your collection of kept captains, pruning troublemakers and the weak like trimming a bonsai.
If you do all the side-missions first and upgrade your abilities and runes, a lot of the ‘special’ enemies (like the dual-axe beserkers who deflect normal attacks and need to be stunned first, or the shield-users who can’t be countered but need to be dodged instead) become pretty trivial with rapid focus-build-up, rapid counter-build-up, and getting double the number of finishers or combat-branding on combos, all sort of stacking into this mix of overpoweredness. Especially since if something’s giving you trouble you can roll out of the way and rapidly use bow and focus time-slow to headshot the troublemakers.
Also, if bosses give you trouble, the wraith stun works on pretty much everyone and should let you get some decent hits in – just making sure to avoid doing stun-flurry combos if the captain is resistant or immune to combat finishers. (It’ll heal him if you do too many hits.)
I definitely am not short of things to play, I’ve got three big JRPGs waiting for me to have some spare time. Sunrider is on my list at some point. As I understand it it was a kickstarted game and I think it’s episodic with the first episode available free and subsequent ones planned to be paid (which is a good approach IMO).
So my problem with Mordor is just that I need to progress a bit and do some side content before trying to seriously challenge anyone? Hmmm.
If you’re finding it frustratingly difficult, then yeah, I’d recommend it. Eagle vision and scanning for ‘X’ targets helps make sure you don’t run into any unexpected surprises while doing that. Especially since the orcs seem to have no peripheral vision whatsoever, making sneaking pretty easy.
Branding orcs is a game-changer, giving you combat-worthy minions. Extra focus, extra arrows, lower threshold on combos (down from 8 to 5) to start finishers, two finishers per combo streak… they all make a pretty huge difference. Stacking some healing/focus runes in all your gear makes a difference, too. I’ve pretty much filled out the ability table and it feels ridiculously overpowered.
I’m surprised that Sunrider is episodic… I’ve sunk maybe 8hrs into it so far and feel like things are really coming to a head, it feels like a full game, there’s been tonnes of stuff happening. The writing isn’t the BEST, but it’s also not the worst and I’m finding myself caught up in the story despite myself. Think I’ve gotten locked into a love route, though, which is mildly disappointing, but y’know. No guides for the first run is my general rule.
Sunrider is planned as a trilogy, I think they made the first part, then kickstarted for 2 and 3. What’s on Steam (for free) is the first two episodes I think. I didn’t kickstart it – it was up at a bad time for me, simultaneous with some expensive board games IIRC, plus the game was funded so I thought I’d just buy it when it released – but it looked pretty cool.
Ooh, I should give Sunrider a go, then. But I think I’ll need to finsh the last two routes in Katawa Shoujo before I go onto another visual novel.
EDIT: I accidentally a word.
Hi everyone,
Hope you’re all having a swell Monday lunchtime. After working as a coach for a full week at Olympic Standard venues I am now sitting at the underground gym reception writing operational documents and now having a massive come down lol.
I had my first TAY Meat up, hanging out with @jackunit13 at a bar having a few beers in inner city Sydney. I can attest that I am about half his height and is pretty good company,
So my Monday Musing for you all today would be, what was your first Meat up like and who was it with?
http://talesoftay.tumblr.com/post/22105843788 !
(There’s also some really great posts on that website from TAY Classic if you’re interested)
That’s awesome, I loved it! I’d be pretty scared meeting 16 people all at once, well done lol
Woo, I’m in a TAY write up \o/
That was a fun day.
I went to another town, to a location that google maps showed as a vacant lot and wasn’t murdered. So all in all a positive result.
I met all the Brisbane TAYbies at once at Movie World. Here’s my write-up.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-192/comment-page-21/#comment-849363
All?
*dies*
That deecee guy huh? Friendliest friend one minute, forgetting you exist the next.. what’s a guy to do? 😉
P.S. I still love you @dc *hugs*
*decomposes*
still love you too jimu! I’d never forget ya!! 🙂
Liar! I wasn’t at movie world with you was i? I honestly don’t remember! haha I think I’ve only been to dreamworld with taybies though..?
Damn, I’m feeling inadequate now about mine 😛 Next time I do one I’ll give it the love it deserves, as you can see blog writing is not my forte even though I want it to be!!
I just like to fill every silence with rambling. Even on the internet. XD
My first meat was with Strange and Mr Strange. They had extra tickets to see (I think that time was Alestorm?). Not too long after I had a meat at my place! First major gathering of brisbane taybies! #oldmanwelbot
Finntroll!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-243/comment-page-3/#comment-1931367
This was my first. Drove down to Canberra to hang with a whole bunch of people I’d never met before 😛
Lol that’s a good read! The knocking on the door trick when it’s quiet is an old favourite of mine as well lol
Are you aware of the after pax meat? I don’t think I tagged you or jack unit
I’m pretty flattered to be invited, I was aware of it but not sure when or where lol
Kingpin Crown at 7pm on Saturday 1st. =D
That sounds really cool, I’d like to throw a few bowling balls around. I’ll tag @jackunit13 to see if he fancies a trip down to Melbourne!
it’s $48 for a round of bowling, food and a drink
Thanks for tagging me and thanks @scree for letting us know the details. I won’t be able to get down to Melbourne unfortunately, but I’m sure you guys will have a blast!
Edit: Spelling mistake.
Sorry to hear that. Maybe next time?
Yeah hopefully!
Opeth concert with @trjn.
Was Soundwave 2012 with @freezespreston that was a good day. Which was also the last time I saw Slipknot as well, it has been too long Q_Q
Haven’t yet met anyone from here IRL, but I’m in Sydney for work and on my tod tonight so if anyone’s in striking distance of the CBD I’d be happy to have a beer somewhere around the CBD or the Rocks and talk bollocks.
First meat was @scree’s cake tasting meat, I had taquitos and laughs were had all over it was a good day
I want some taquito’s!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-289/comment-page-14/#comment-2889343
Also includes “pictures!”
I like Prince of Persia Warrior Within but I find it so frsutrating.
Odd checkpoint syestem etc makes me so angry that I have to re-do and entire long bit then fight a bunch of cheap cocks at the end.
Im playing on easy too.
The enemies just sponge up damage and stand there blocking. BAH!
Heh. I just watched my dog attempt to round up one of my cats like she was a sheep.
Makes me wish I had sheep some days to keep her occupied 😛
How about ducks?
Nah, she likes to just chase the birds thinks it’s a giant game xD Bush turkey’s especially haha. Similar with ducks but they don’t come in our yard as much 😛
Saying that we’re probably going to get chickens at some point which could be interesting heh.
Unlocked the Classical radio station in Forza Horizon 2, and one of my favourite pieces comes on. The reason I like it so much is probably because it’s used in one of my favourite Bugs Bunny cartoons.
http://www.funnyjunk.com/movies/3172/Rabbit/
Also, Doom 3 BFG, slowly I make progress but eventually I get tired. Shooters is my kryptonite
l like my SP shooters but doom 3 was pretty bad. From the lack of light to the dodgy, suddenly a monster behind you even though you cleared that room. Maybe I’ll try it again one day but don’t have fond memories of it
I dont mind any of that, the monster appearing behind happens so often I expect it, so it doesn’t seem cheap anymore. I just keep my good ear open for noise.
The light hasnt been an issue, this is the BFG edition, so you can use the torch at the same time as the gun, I believe it was one or the other originally?
All shooters do this to me. I’m just not a shooter guy. The odd shooter does interest me though. Half Life 2 was great (if if I didnt *quite* finish it). And this new Wolfenstein seems pretty good.
You know, I can melee for hours and hours and feel fine but having to carefulling aim does my head in. That’ swhy I love VATS so much!
PEWPEWPEW!!!
That small change with the torch might make a difference. Was bloody annoying to need a torch to work out what to do and then suddenly have enemies appear while you are practically unarmed.
Have you tried the metro shooter, they are very, very good. Are you playing on console, that is probably a huge thing as well, shooter are more annoying with a gamepad.
You say that, but you havent seen how my left hand wanders while *trying* to mouse & ‘board
Went to test costume’s pants, didn’t realise that heel would need a whole lot of space to make it through the ankle. Mildly painful with the pins 😛 Also this material isn’t as stretchy as I thought.
Turned on the PS4 only to be hot with sudden realisation that I forgot all about the final day of the Bloodborne Alpha this morning.
Excuse me while I go drown myself.
You bring shame upon this family.
For some reason I’m watching a Smash Bros tournament on Twitch right now. One of the players is covered in nerdy tattoos (including Fox and Falco). Made me wonder if there was anything gaming related I would ever tattoo on my body if I ever changed my mind about getting a tattoo (unlikely).
Then I remembered Journey and knew that it would have to be one of these.
I’m bored.
I’d probably get something Commander Keen related, that series was really where my love of games came from
Ugh one of those would look terrible as a tattoo, I’m sorry.
Shut down.
Sadly enough they wouldn’t be that bad, I mean I’ve seen worse tattoos, these would be seen as obscure indie tattoos that intrigue and confuse people especially if you tell them “its an indie thing you wouldn’t get it”
TAY RPG Pathfinder tonight at …?
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
So I kinda forgot to try and sort this out beforehand but I have no idea what a good time is for everyone now that daylight savings is in effect. Half of us are in Queensland where we’re apparently backwards and stuff so I don’t know what suits everyone. 8 pm in Qld will be 9 pm in the southern states and 8:30 pm in SA whereas 7 pm Qld will be 8pm and 7:30 pm respectively.
So let me know what works for you guys and what doesn’t and we’ll hopefully figure out a happy medium.
Anything earlier than 8pm AEDT is really tricky for me right now as I work until around 6:30-6:45pm, have a 45-50 minute commute and have to grab dinner. Trying to move a bit closer to work (hoping to hear back about the place I applied for soon) and once that happens, 7:30pm might work.
Oh also, @redartifice, we’re going to probably need a basic outline of the little caper we were planning to undertake. Can discuss it here (which means that @popdart5 will be able to see it) or via email.
Be sure to use spoilers if you discuss it! I don’t want the surprise ruined. =P
plan is,-Blag our way into the party
– knock out or otherwise waylaid de Clamerie
– You replace him
-Either lift or appear to lift the amulet
-Make a big pubic showing of de Clamerie being in possession of the amulet
– Substitute the real guy back
Trickiest steps are getting de Clamerie out of the way and the first lift
I’m assuming that given that the whole party is to show off the dude’s collection, the bulk of the actual event will occur in a main room with one or more objects in display cases. We need to frame derriere or whatever his name is so that it looks like he filched the amulet.Do we want ‘him’ to be seen doing it? It would be so amazingly blatant that it seems a bit reckless.
Basically the requirements are that the item needs to be ‘stolen’ and then our friend needs to be found with it. Additionally during that time, I need to have an alibi or it’ll look like *I’m* the one that stole it.
So I think the sequence of events needs to be something like:
1. He’s seen at the party as himself
2. Somehow we separate him from the party for a bit
3. I return to the main party area in disguise as him
4. … somehow theft?
5. I’m somehow ‘found out’ as having thieved it, while still disguised, and do a runner?
6. Once out of eyeshot, the item is passed back to the real guy, who we then immediately capture
The bit at 4 seems to be the tricky bit. I’m no thief. I think I could probably lure the guy away from the main group easy enough (my character *is* supposed to be a pretty girl after all, and failing that there’s always charm person) but we’d need him occupied for long enough to enact the heist and then pin it back onto him.
The other alternative would be for me to be ‘caught’ but that seems pretty risky since the real guy would appear without the thing and it would be obvious that I was posing as him to steal the treasure.
I’m the thief, so I can filch it. Steps 1-3 are right, step 5 I figure I am the “party guard” who makes the discovery and we swap before we hand him off. Recover the amulet within the room, or you have a replica which I said I was going to grab.So where are we going to stash the guy? I could possibly try to sleep him but my sleep spell only lasts like 3 minutes. Which is ages in combat but not long for this.So I’m going to have to run out of the party at step 5 after being ‘found out’. Somehow giving you, the guard, the slip.
I currently need a few seconds to change appearances. It’s a standard action so you’re talking… 3-4 seconds? So somehow we need to swap back to him and have him get caught with the amulet. Or do we?
How about if I’m ‘caught’ with it (or a fake?), do a runner. Change back and then the two of us ‘catch’ the real de clammy and I ‘recover’ the amulet from him.
For that to work I’d probably need to use a different disguise to seduce him away from the party if that was the plan, otherwise it throws suspicion on me, since I’d probably be seen with him beforehand.
Could we knock him out for 10-15 mins with a sleeping drug slipped into a drink or something? We could then say that I – while patrolling out in the garden – saw him running from you and hit him with a sleep spell. It’d be his word against ours but he would have been seen with the amulet – and having come in with a forged invitation! – and had ‘run’ so we’d probably get the benefit of the doubt…
Sleeping drug is a good idea. you drug him, we stash him. You can get caught with it, and I as the guard take him to be “interrogated” which is when we do the switch. Although, doing a runner – if I’m somehow not able to detain you – also works. If we can catch him publicly it’ll humiliate him and remove him as my problem.@redartifice:
I think it’d be tricky to take him off anywhere since he is a noble and there’s a certain level of treatment expected for them even if they’re assholes like him. Whereas having him do a runner and then getting ‘caught’ means we have a reason for potentially finding him asleep or groggy plus we haven’t actually been seen to do anything untoward to his person which might also reflect back poorly on the evening’s employer and the actions are a bit less suspicious.Either way works though. Maybe rather than taking him for interrogation we’re taking him to one of the guest rooms to await the local constabulary’s arrival. A room in which we’d already stashed him previously, mind you.
I’m fine for whichever time.
Works for me. I’ll be on my comp all around then so should be all good
Alright. 7:30 pm AEST, 8:30 pm AEDT, and 8 pm ACDT should work for us during daylight savings. I hope that works for everyone.
Sounds good.
I should be okay to join at that time, hopefully nothing goes wrong at work.
So apparently Alien: Isolation broke street date and came out yesterday.
But I want the Ripley edition >:
I wont be playing til at least xmas.
But to be fair, thats by choice since Im betting Evil Within will be the game I like more and am buying that this month
Aw crap. @morkai @freezespreston Friend finally responded to say he found another place, the jerk. But now YHA’s booked out. UGH. Why did I ever try to get involved in any of this, this is the worst.
Space hotel’s still got 6-person dorms at 63 a night for the three weekend nights, so screw it I’ll just grab that tonight. I know Freeze said he just needed Friday and Saturday, but I can’t remember if you said which nights you were staying for Morkai. Not sure how it’d work with people having different nights each, guess I’d have to call them up and find out. Don’t know how the guys worked it last year.
If it makes it easier I’m happy to pay for the three nights.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday?
Is that the three you’re wanting?
Yeah I’m fine with that.
Started a Witch Doctor in Diablo 3 in Hardcore since it turned out I hated the Monk. Far too slow and not enough damage output for my liking.
Then I found out one of his main attacks is throwing jars of spiders at things. What kind of monster is he? Is he looking to destroy Diablo to take his place? I’m not sure I’m comfortable with this level of malevolence.
oo ee oo ah ah, ting, tang, walla walla bing bang
I find the witch doctor to be very much a status-effect character than anything else. Can put up a lot of area denial abilities too and a standard minion summoner is always an effective strategy.
After Red’s comment above, I started singing your comment in my head until I realised you weren’t continuing the joke 😛
After playing all of the characters now I’m fairly confident my favourite is either Demon Hunter or Wizard by a large margin.
Wizard is the most OP but the Demon Hunter is just flat out fun to play.
I’ve got a monk at plvl 80 or so, their damage output increases exponentially when you’ve got high level gems and a few set pieces. I’ll get my monk profile when I get to the office.
Here’s my Monk;
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Morkai-1933/hero/47568492
You’ve confirmed my suspicions. My Hunter is doing 480k damage albeit with much much less health and defence.
Yeah, in T2 rifts (I can solo those easy and I’m now pushing into solo’ing T3) I can largely just stand in the middle of different ground effects (or those fucking purple lasers…) and not take too much damage, as long as I’ve got Mantra Of Salvation and a few potions ready.
Great weekend. Friday night had my first Destiny fireteam with proper voicechat, and it totally didn’t suck as the other two were similar skilled and laid back. Apart from waking the Significant Other with chatter… “I thought work had called, but then couldn’t understand why you’d need to revive a colleague or “cover left”. So you’re gaming, aren’t you…”. Oopsy. 😀
Saturday was great. The SO was debilitatingly ill for a long time over the last year or so, and recently got better, and so we had our first Melbourne Random Saturday in about 18 months – pub for a mate’s b’day lunch, then randomly went to a different place to catch up with another mate for a bit… then got a text from a friend at the first pub saying he and his SO were there and why weren’t we, so went all the way back for a couple more ales. Followed by a curry. Marvellous. Got home, played Destiny some more…
Sunday did The Chores then went out for a ride to Black Rock, and wound up doing turns with a bloke who’d been all the way to Arthur’s Seat. Forgot to watch the GP. Watched Dr Who. Watched some other rubbish then the GP replay late on but went to bed before the end. Flew to Sydney today… Work work work, yes it’s a holiday here, but perfect day for network stuff.
Trike where bouts you living? You talking bout Arthurs Seat in Dromana?
I’m in the northern ‘burbs of Melbourne. Yes, that Arthur’s Seat. Done that trek in a day once myself, it’s around 180km round trip from home to go up Arthur’s Seat (and the climb itself is not to be sniffed at – it’s steep!). 🙂 Several sandwiches and a few bananas required…
Haha yeah I should know I now live 10 minutes from it, and go up it often to take photos and what not. That is a massive ride to do over one day.
Yeah it’s a fair way. Lovely part of the world though. Sounds like you’ve not been there long?
Moved in Saturday haha
Still a sea of boxes? And was the console the first thing you unpacked? 😉
The sea is slowly parting and suprisingly it wasn’t, tv was one of the first to get unboxed but console wise the ps3 came out the first night and the wii u and ps4 are still boxed up until we get a bigger entertainment unit
You’re a rider? Nice ride out to Black Rock, did it a few weeks ago with some buddies starting in Prahan. Forgot my water bottle but it was a cold day thankfull lol
Yeah, love cycling. Done it as long as I can remember. The Beach Road run to Mordialloc is one of the best flat riding routes I’ve ever discovered, it’s no surprise there are thousasnads of cyclists out there most weekends.
Slipped a disk a few months ago and that’s screwed my riding – had to bail on Amy’s Gran Fondo, and the Around The Bay is looking increasingly unlikely as I’ve only managed one 100km ride since the injury (after breezing though the 250km last year in about 9 hours riding time). But I love jumping on the bike and just heading off to wherever (Kinglake’s a favourite outside swooping season and Yarra Boulevard’s brilliant). Great way to recharge and snatch a few hours of solitude.
And it means no one ever tells me gaming is unhealthy and why don’t I go outside… 🙂 Although I’m probably in a permanent state of jetlag from watching the Grand Tours…
What are you riding?
At the moment I’m riding a TCR Zero (with a frame too large for me), feels great on the legs but even after 10km I’ve been getting a little bit of low-mid back pain which I think will only be alleviated if I switched to a smaller bike.
The longest I’ve done is 70km in the Murray to Moyne bike race this year, I am keen to give the Around the Bay a crack but inbetween soccer and gaming I don’t get much time to ride lol
Nice. Carbon is amazing. 🙂 Giant build great bikes but their geometry is a bit weird (they tend to be tall at the seat tube and short at the head tube, so fitting them can be tricky…). I have a Jamis Xenith Comp that was a tad small for me – I’m right on the cusp between two sizes and they’d sold out of the larger option but I fixed that with a laid-back seat post (that also looks cool…). Been perving on the Specialized Tarmac…
I used to get lower back pain, but I won a Retul bike fit in a random competition and it was brilliant. Some minor adjustments to my position and it was way better. Worth a look at getting a pro to check your position.
Always pleased to have company on a Beach Road run if you’re out stretching the legs.
Soccer is modified running – real no-no for me with screwed knees. Love watching though. What position are you?
Victory’s first “home” game on Friday which is nice.
Sounds good! A buddy of mine is training for an ironman so I’m helping him get his km’s up on a bike, we go with another guy so having another rider would be pretty cool as well.
This is my problem, I had a friend who’s a bike pro look me over and literally said “The bike and yourself aren’t meant to be together” but I’ll be DAMNED if I don’t get to ride the bike I paid a grand for lol.
I play center midfield at the club, not because I’m technically good but we are a new team and have a dearth of players who can last a full game in the middle so I’m stuck chasing everyone around for a game 😛 Crap the season has come on fast, Victory have a pretty impressive squad so it’ll be interesting to see if Kevin Muscat can scare them into playing well lol.
“A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.” *shudder* But good on him, it’s an incredible achievement just to finish one of those.
Bugger. Sell/swap time. 🙁
Yeah, should be interesting. Still I’m a bit distracted by the rugby union for a couple more weeks – Melbourne Rising are miles clear at the top of the NRC ladder and ought to get a home final…
Also, what’d you do to your knees?
Originally, growing pains that I never grew out of, and running (and, um, raving) buggers them, followed by a few stacks over the years that haven’t helped. Cycling seems to tighten everything up and it’s low impact (except for those unexpected times when it’s very suddenly high impact!)
Really, I’m Marvin The Paranoid Android – “I have this terrible pain all down my right side… running? don’t talk to me about running…”
Whilst there is something like 70% crossover in terms of biomechanical movements required for running and riding, you definitely stiffen up after a ride. Do you foam roll? It’s an awesome way to loosen up your fascia particularly in your ITB, Quads and Calves so you feel loose after/before a ride.
How good is stacking, I’ve not had a really good one yet even though I’ve been hit by a couple of cars lol.
Hrmmm reply limit. Tighten up in a good way, keeps my knees from slopping about which they seem to do when I’m not riding. 🙂 Running and jumping and general bouncing bad. Riding good. 🙂
Fallout NV!!
Ain’t that a kick in the head!
Only when it glitches, my PS3 does not like Marked Men 🙁
I’ll actually play that properly one day. I’m sure it’s a good game, just I couldn’t get into it like I did Fallout 3 🙁
I prefer it but they are both awesome.
I imagine if you sunk too many hours into 3 that NV would just be more of the same
Yeah, I got it when it came out, was basically only PC game I played for ages heh. I should revisit it, with mods & stuff, could be fun.
Fallout Tactics!
I scared ov PeeSee
I know it’s only an hour but holy crap, this loss of an hour for daylight savings is kicking me around right now.
It’s the worst. 🙁
I don’t mind it, I think my natural rhythm is more suited to this timeframe.
Then again I have a newborn so I have no set sleep pattern anyway
As a Western Australia, I laugh at your absurd notions of ‘daylight savings’.
Ha.
Sorry Cracks I could only read that as the following on my PC:
– …. . .-. . / .. … / -. — – …. .. -. –. / .– .-. — -. –. / .– .. – …. / — — .-. … . / -.-. — -.. .
Right? All it does is fade the blinds!
You’re forgetting upsetting the cows.
The cows as in the upset LNP voters in Queensland? 😛
http://www.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Media/images/081104-daylightsavings-8c3eff7e-c7f6-4787-bb87-d7caa757d2c5.jpg
My favourite opinions page letter about daylight savings fading the curtains.
Daylight saving is awesome. I’ve never had an issue with daylight saving, I always adjust to it rather well. All we do is turn the clocks forward an hour to so we don’t end up with sunrise being at like 4am in summer, who wants the sun being up that early anyway?!
Only thing I dislike about it all, is the fact I live on the border of NSW & QLD, so all year round I get the pleasure of seeing bait articles in the media about how Tweed should abolish DST and become one with Queensland, or South East Queensland should become one with NSW and jump to DST. How about no on both accounts!
Got Fantasy Life today!
Also got the ‘Gourmet Gumboots’ case study for my business analysis exam. I currently can’t get through it without laughing, so I’m gonna have to read it over and over until it’s not funny anymore before my exam 🙁 It’s a friggen work of art. Poor Sandy doesn’t like her co worker for putting save the orangutang stickers all over her car ever since she got scratched by a monkey in Japan.
Fantasy Life! 😀
SOmebody mentioned that humble bundle had an unclaimed keys section now. Figured I might have a look. Hmmmm 50 keys floating about there, well that wasn’t what I expected.
Ha ha that’s amazing… Love it when that happens 😛
Where does one find a place so magical?
A deathclaw just took me by suprise and I stepped backwards off an edge falling quite a height D:
I’m pulling masses of toads out of my pockets before lighting a bat on fire and throwing it in people’s faces.
All in a days work on the GC.
😮
One day I should play Fallout 3 and/or NV properly…
I’ve been playing NV for a while now. There’s so much to do, I have months long breaks and come back to it every now and then.
I was stuck in one of the DLC for over a year I think, probably should have gone in on a higher level!
From that Go Out To Real Life Article
A cursory glance at the GamerGate hash tag shows that plenty of them exist.
Ive never met a gamer who had a kid, let alone a girlfriend or even friends!
Turns out my Humble Bundle acc has some unclaimed keys, 2 on Origin & 1 on Steam, so who ever wants them feel free to take them.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising on Origin
7QUU-GHU2-CJHK-4YNH-879E
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Populous on Origin
B2LL-NCFE-2WU7-ZQB3-MMFS
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and Wildlife Park 3 on Steam, this one requires a gift link so go here.
Really annoyed at destiny. After finishing the story (or whatever that was) I decided I would do some of the grind (probably like 5 or 6 hours of it). Haven’t found anything good, only on level 21. Decided today I would start doing the daily strikes every day, shouldn’t take any more than 30 mins, and if I had more time I would continue playing. I thought that would be a good way of doing it.
So I loaded up today’s daily strike, played at least half way through before my connection dropped. So I restarted and loaded back up, didn’t save a checkpoint and put me back at the start. Get right near the end of the strike this go round and die, it respawns me at the start of the 2nd part to the mission.
Not sure when or if I will continue playing it.
pls play xenoblade 😀
Tell @jimu how amazing it is and he’s a sucker for selling it!
I have a PS4 because of that sale
I’d rather have Xenoblade.
FFXV looks Xenobladey, so best of both worlds!
If you mean it has a large open world then, yes, many game look “Xenobladey”
Don’t forget the monster murdering!
And costumes!! 😀
Xeno has no car though so FFXV wins in that department 🙁
I’d like to think a next gen game wins in many departments 😀
We dont need more of the last gen mediocrity
I am so glad I don’t live your life where everything is shit and depressing, I really am.
You remind me of me when I was a teenager, everything was shit.
Bit harsh.
Good choice playing EUIV instead! 😀
Today was a productive day:
http://instagram.com/p/tzZ3akgSYo/
MANGOES 😀
Weis Bars!
Both are very good!
Very great. Let’s fight!
In Super Smash Bros? 😀
You can play as Diddy!
True story, I hate Smash Bros !
🙁
Boo hiss.
Shulk is in it though! Shulkies <3
He’s really feeling it!
You’re just the monstrest.
BANANAS
I ate both today!
MAN GOES BANANAS
Ugh. Just realised that the new pattern I drew up was using the wrong sizes, they were all supposed to be half. TIME TO START OVER AGAIN.
Totally sucks having everyone home again. The house is too damn noisy. And sister’s probably not going for a while yet, since all the flights seem to be packed out thanks to grand final folk.
Gooky! The paint on my costume didn’t get ruined in the wash! It didn’t get ruined! :’D
*PARTY!*
Still haven’t been able to get the pants for my cosplay. 🙁
You don’t need them. You’ll be right.
That’s the second TAYbie today I’ve seen you council to not wear pants. 😛
Sage advice *nods*
It’s pretty universal advice.
I’d rather go the way that doesn’t end in a criminal conviction or a fine… 😛
Is Steam down for anyone else?
Double checked 30 mins later, and it’s working… 😐
Nope! Talking to @masha2932 on it right now 😛
Nooop
A few of us were trying to queue for a Dota match. It took a long while.
I was playing pretty much all of yesterday night from 8-10!
Just played Cards Against Humanity last night at a party.
Now I want my own copy (and more).
What’s the cheapest way to print a full set + custom expansions?
They’re officially releasing it in Australia this year at PAX apparently! Might be worth waiting until then.
*Rolls Knowledge (Bogan) check*
TAY RPG Pathfinder concluded for another night. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
GM Summary: The party rolls on and apparently the host is an Elven Zapp Branigan, Narshak is one step closer to becoming Ezio, and a plot threatens the whole festivities. *dramatic music*
Also Red’s post above happened. Along with Linguistics (Punning).
If I said you had a beautiful body, would you take your pants off and dance around a little?
Just got back from our latest staff night. This time the movie was my choice, and I picked The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Haven’t watched it for such a long time, I forgot how awesome it is.
Adventures in X-Com: Enemy Unknown
Squad Leader DC survived the tutorial mission, and did all the killing in the next mission. Boy’s got unresolved anger issues for sure.
Transient Mind wandered towards the flank and was killed instantly by a barrage of unfriendly fire.
Freeze S Preston Icequir and Strangest Itches were present but ineffective.
Still awaiting deployment:
Rocketman Hotross
Dan n Karl Zeitgeist
Senor Blaghman
#Hashtag #Harli
MarkSimon SerrelsPegg
Red Artifice
Mashaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa
Who Is Plainview?
It’s like the game knows exactly who I am.
I made the team \o/
When I eventually die I hope I go, ‘ aaaaaaaaaa’
I likes me some unresolved violence!
*cracks knuckles* When do the march of the machines come into play?
Next mission: Senor Blaghman, it feels like we hardly knew you. RIP.
Freeze is in the hospital for two weeks, but has been promoted.
Next mission is DC, Strangest Itches, and the green cadets Mashaaaa aaaaaa and DnK Zeitgeist. Here we go!
This always happens to me.
Also, reading this, I want to start playing X-Com yet again.
Final mission for tonight: DC is a killing machine. Strangest Itches is a particularly ineffective sniper. DnK Zeitgeist and Mashaaaa aaaaaaa were both wounded in battle, but no fatalities this time. DnK slayed one foe – killer humour.
Someone with strange itches is a particularly poor choice for a sniper! 😛
You playing original or Long war mod?god i regret uninstalling xcom
What comes standard in the 360 version? I’m playing Ironman mode, which means I have to live with whatever happens! \o/
Original haha, ironman is the best mode prepare to watch friends and family die oh so much.
I lend ye my name to add to the suicide squad err i mean alien killing boots to asses squad
Mr. Strange has been replaying XCom over and over for the past month. To the point where it almost feels like an intervention needs to be hosted…but I guess I’m just jealous that I still can’t afford Diablo 3. 😛
It seems pretty cool so far. I can see that it might well have some replayability, especially if I muck up this Ironman playthrough
Wait… that can’t be right! Any character named after me should be the MVP… hm. Maybe it was a nationality issue.
I have all of the disappointments.
🙂
Ohhhhh myyyy gooooooddddddd!!!
Why didn’t anyone tell me the english dub of Battle of Gods was out?
Thanks for the info!
It’s time for bed….
Goodnight.
I tried a Chicken Nugget for the first time in my life. It was even greasier, oilier, and more repulsive than I thought it would be. After eating, I felt hungrier than when I began. Then I realised that I had two more left over. Instead of being happy at the prospect, I groaned, and begrudgingly ate the rest.
What kind of chicken nugget though? Supermarket one, McDonalds one, Red Rooster, other?
Important Question that demands an answer!
Hungry Jacks. I suspect that they offer the lowest quality chicken nuggets?
You know, I’m not sure I’ve ever actually tried HJ’s ones. I didn’t even know they had them!
Maccas ones are alright I think, though they’re a little weird in being battered rather than crumbed. I like supermarket ones done in the oven better. Man I haven’t had chicken nuggets in ages. Kinda craving them now, thanks a lot 😛
Kids these days.
WHAT KIND OF LIFE HAVE YOU BEEN LEADING?!
As a kid, fast food was a bi-annual thing. Whenever I’d go, I’d only order the most basic thing they offered. Nuggets seemed like a rip-off for how much little you got for the price. I suspected I wouldn’t like it anyway.
I tried onion rings for the first time a week and a half ago. They weren’t good.So your mum never did home made chicken nuggets? Laaaaaame.
Saying that i’ve never had (to my knowledge) fast food chicken nuggets.
…you can *make* chicken nuggets?
The sarcasm is strong with this one 😛
I totally can’t tell if you mean that my comment was sarcastic or my interpretation of your sarcasm was lacking 😛
Your comment 😛
@virus__ Ok cool, just had to make sure that people didn’t actually not make chicken nuggets and I just didn’t realise that I didn’t not know that. I think.
By which I mean I have never seen or heard of home-made chicken nuggets.
Serious? All they are is chicken breast cut in to appropriate bite sized pieces, coated with plain flour, bathed in some egg & milk, coated with a liberal amount of bread crumbs and finally shallowed fried until golden brown!
@virus__ Exactly, why go to all that trouble when you can just open a packet from the freezer!
I guess you could probably describe the chicken we have with our soft tacos the same way, so we’ve pretty much had home-made “chicken nuggets” before. Just not as chicken nuggets.
Personally i’m kind of put off by a product that in some cases can be at most 10-20% chicken. Makes you question what they fill the rest with 😛
@virus__ Nugget.
Duh.
If you can find them (shouldn’t be too hard) have a look in Woolies, Coles or an Asian grocer for panko breadcrumbs, they’re the really coarse, chunky breadcrumbs, and they’re amazing on fried stuff.
I can’t reply further down this chain, so here makes the most sense…
And if you do a double coating (flour, egg, crumbs, egg, crumbs) then it’s even better.
Nothing beats home made crumbed chicken – especially when you use the japanese panko crumbs – so crispy!
But I like the ones you bake in the oven. The deep fried ones are always a bit dry and tough.
Fair enough I guess.
Also most takeaway places do crap onion rings and recently I’ve found I can’t really eat a lot of onion anyway. Tastes okay going down, but the cramps I get afterward aren’t worth it. So I kind of agree on that.
It’s possible to make good fried chicken. Takeaway nuggets are like the lowest common denominator when it comes to chicken products. If I had to pick between nuggets or, say, some karaage or some taiwan-style popcorn chicken I’d never pick nuggets. But if I had to pick between nuggets or being kicked repeatedly in the balls, I’d pick nuggets.
Did anyone catch the Star Wars: Rebels premiere?
I thought it was pretty decent! Not brilliant, but a decent start to what could be a pretty good show. I’ll keep an eye on this for sure.
Didn’t know it was a thing, will watch post haste.
Oh wow, that started?
It’s the same guys as Clone Wars and Clone Wars was great so I was pretty excited to watch it, but they never seemed to nail down a date.
Is there any legit way to obtain the series in Australia other than Foxtel? :\
Full disclosure:
I didn’t obtain it legitimately.I was forced to sail the seven seas as well. I guess it’ll be on Netflix at some point but they don’t put shows up until the season ends. 🙁
I’d actually happily pay for it if it were on iTunes or something.
I’ll pick up the DVDs, I think, out of deference to that younger-me who would have fucking loved every second of this show.
Implying you can’t enjoy it now because you’re ‘too old’? 🙁
As I said, I still enjoyed it – I just would have gone completely ape over it as a kid.
If I had kids I could actually let them watch it. Clone Wars requires letting them see the prequels and that’s basically child abuse.
@negativezero, this show, from what I’ve seen so far, feels very OT. None of the ridiculous and boring trade sanctions and hackneyed politicking of the prequels. What little I’ve seen of the Clone Wars suffered from these issues, too, and I didn’t enjoy it.
Today is my 1 year TAY anniversary 🙂
Never did I imagine that my life would be so impacted by a group of strangers over the internet, but I’m extremely thankful for stumbling into TAY all that time ago.
I’ve had the privilege of being welcomed to such an amazing community, made friendships that I hope are life-long, had the opportunity to meet some of you in person, which I hold as some of my fondest and most cherished memories (and I still plan on doing my best to meet all of you), and I am truly honoured and humbled that I have a place here.
Thanks for being some of the best friends a guy could ask for 🙂
Happy TAY Day to you! *hip hip* HOORAAAAAAAAAY!
CongratulTAYtions! 🙂
*throws streamers*
Congrats! To keep enjoying the fun you’ve had with TAY you just need to pay your yearly membership fee for all the seasoned benefits! We take all major credit cards not AMEX because eh, and we just need you to sign your life away along the dotted line and your set. Hooray!
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Heh. Impacted.
In the interest of keeping my reputation, and with crystal clear awareness of the situation at hand, all I can say is “GGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY”.
I’d turn straight for you, Blaghman 😉
Hey @dc, Costume Quest 2 unlocks in about 20 hours. Doesn’t look like it’s gonna let us pre-load though 🙁
IT’S OUT TOMORROW?!?!??!
Sure is, on Steam, not sure about consoles.
Alien! Costume Quest! *spontaneously combusts*
I should probably play the first one shouldn’t I?
Yes
You should! But just because it’s super lovely fun, not because it’d be crucial to the story.
Good morning everybody, happy Monday to you!
[whispering]
What? What do you mean it’s Tuesday?
[more whispering]
Dammit!
Hi everybody, happy … *sigh* Tuesday.
Hi Bob! How was your weekend? Did you kick ass and chew bubble gum?
Wasn’t too bad actually. Got a LOT done. Saturday was mostly sleeping in, video games, reading. So pretty typical. Sunday involved upgrading my partner’s old PC with a new GPU and PSU. I’m considering reinstalling Windows on to an SSD as the final piece of the puzzle, but that involves more effort than I really want to put in. I’m also thinking I may take the old PSU and GPU and try putting together a cheap barebones style system. Going to work out how cost effective it’d be.
Sunday / Monday also involved lots of cleaning and assisting my partner with culling wardrobe as part of prep for me moving in. There was … a significant amount put in the charity bags. Put it this way. I took a carload of stuff to a charity bin on Sunday while going to the PC shop. As a result of yesterday’s efforts I now have 3 more carloads to go. It was a little bit crazy. But it’s done.
How was your weekend?
mine was a touch on the depressing side. Can read about it on the 1st page of tay.
I also built a customer a pc. i7-4690 and gtx970. Handing that over was also depressing! 😉
If you want some bits to help construct a “cheap” pc, gimme a holler. I have several computers here that I don’t use atm, and I’d be happy to donate some bits to help you out if you want!
Upvoted to let it disappear in to oblivion. 😐
I’ll get in touch (welbot-it.com email?) re: a cheapy build, for sure. The idea is as a basic Steam gaming PC for a 9y/o, who is mostly playing Robocraft, Minecraft, Batman, Castle Crashers, etc etc. It’s all very much previous gen titles, hence an AMD 5570 was working fine for his needs.
Currently I have, PSU, GPU, HDD, so I guess all I really need to throw together is CPU, Mobo and RAM in a basic case. Have spare monitors, keyboards, mice, etc.
cool. well i have a few cpu’s and mobo’s around here. if you think one would be suitable enough, you can have em. I have no use for them. I’ll pull em apart in a bit and see what kind they are etc and let you know the details. One of them for sure is a socket 775 cpu of some description. Not sure if I have spares of anything newer, but if it’s only for stuff like that, you may get away with it for now. Anyway, at a cost of free, it’s worth a try at least!
Cheers, certainly appreciate it! Currently running on an i5-2300 so some of those 775 CPUs would just about equal that, or at least not be noticeable. And for a cost of free it’s absolutely worth a try. 🙂
One of them has a Pentium E2610 in it. the others I’ll have to rip apart. If you think that one’s worth a shot though, it’s all yours!
Good Morning
Happy Alien Isolation Day
In preparation I watched Alien last night, ’twas good.
Can’t wait to go home and try it out.
So many good games coming out so many good games i wont buy till sales so many games ill probably still not buy due to lack of money *cries*
Yep, I had a whole bunch of bills come through all at once too, gonna have about $3 to my name after I pick up Alien and Shadow of Mordor tomorrow. Who needs to eat anyway, games sustain me.
Eat the boxes the games come in..thats sustenance right there
I’m still not sure if I want to play it. It’s preloaded on my PC and ready to go, but I can’t help but worry it’ll turn into constant frustration.
I hope it’s good, I know I shouldn’t get my hopes up too high considering the last AvP game and the mess that was Colonial Marines. I just really like Xenomorphs and want them to get a game worthy of them. I’m hoping to be terrified 😀
I’m more concerned about a) not being able to game the AI (unpredictable AI implies luck-based success, which I’m not a fan of), and b) the reviews mentioning its constant presence, implying nonstop tension for hours on end, rather than having the necessary beats.
I just remember listening to Matthew Reilly at a book signing once, talking about his approach to writing as being to put the action at 11 in the first few pages, and keep it there for the entire book; and how quickly I was exhausted by reading his stuff. You need respites, you need the moments of peace, especially in an experience that takes as long as a book or a game, otherwise you run the risk of either desensitising or exhausting your audience.
Picking mine up on the way to work today. Can’t wait for tonight.
So, uhhh, Twin Peaks is coming back
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/twin-peaks-will-return-fulfilling-laura-palmers-25year-prophecy-20141007-10r3e4.html
As long as it includes this.
Brilliant! I have no idea what is going on…
Helllllllllo pumpkins and ghouls!
I had a pretty decent weekend, except that I got stung by eight wasps… or stung by a single wasp eight times, I don’t know their battle techniques. Either way, my arm and neck was all red and welty and I used it as an excuse to stay in all day Sunday and Monday.
I finished playing Wolfenstein: The New Order. I really liked that game – the character models were gorgeous. So then I started playing Alien: Isolation. The character models in this game are really ugly, and sweaty? 🙁 I’ve only played a couple of hours (my wrist got too swollen to play comfortably, hahah), and I didn’t even get to the point of seeing the Alien yet, so maybe I’ll enjoy the game more then? It just seemed kind of to throw you in the deep end (and not in such a good way). I don’t know. Fingers crossed.
Well which is it?! Eight wasps or eight stings?! I need to know dammit!! =@
I suggest carrying out a biopsy of the welts to find the genetic signature of the venom that was used and then comparing them with each other!
Well I just looked it up and wasps don’t seem to loser their stingers, so I’d say it was just one the jerk. My dog tried to eat it to defend me though, little champ.
….. I still like my biopsy plan better than using common sense =_=
Wow, they suck don’t they? I got bitten (I think?) by a wasp when I was climbing up a poison ivy covered fence as a kid, so damn painful. I hope you got your come-uppance with the little jerk!
Hi everyone. Been a while since I’ve popped in. Hope everyone is well and games are fun and PAX enthusiasm is high.
Its nearly at PAX hype boiling point! Also how ya been?
I’m looking forward to it but not hyped yet. 🙁 Don’t even know if I’m cosplaying any more, probably not.. I’ve been pretty poopy for a while – was sick and had $55 10-pill antibiotics that were used on swine flu. Awesome stuff.. Healed up now and just plodding on.
That sucks 🙁 but hooray for feeling better *highfive* atleast with pax around the corner you can come and hang out and have beers with online friends who majority might not stand in the corner \o/
Yeah, definitely looking forward to some nice bars and beers with people in Melb.
Hi all,
Mad busy weekend. Met up with @highperformance. Great guy, good banter for the 90 minutes we sunk beers together. Would be keen to meet again if down in Melbourne or vice versa!
Girlfriends parents over from NZ so lots of activities with them. Main one being a trip to Olympic Park for the NRL Grand Finals on Sunday. We got there at like 2pm though and had loads of time to doss about which resulted in me having to hide away from the giant, blazing ball of hydrogen in the sky and find comfort in the shade of a close by bar. And beer. Tasty beer.
The final itself was awesome. Our seats were right up in the gods, pretty much as high up as you can go (the view is ok from here, but the getting to and from the bar is not.) Good time, great result and Redfern is still buzzing from the win (live close by.)
Managed to get in quite a bit of Destiny yesterday. Almost finished my Exotic Pulse Rifle bounty, just need to wait for Xur and play some Crucible. Also, nearly at hole 3000 in Desert Golfing (@blaghman – soon after I had the 30 stroke hole, I stumbled across hole 2303 – now that was the devil (56 shots.))
Good weekend, but spent way more money that I’d planned to (which also meant eating and drinking more than I should have) and now I need to watch it until the end of the month. Trip to Port Douglas in November and gonna need some cash for that.
Keep on keepin’ on!
Desert Golf has pretty much ended for you now, unfortunately. But it was a pretty cool ride.
And it’s good to see that you’re considerably better at it than I am. Wait, no, the one that’s the opposite of good. Super good? Yeah, that one.
Yeah. 99c well spent in my book.
Only 8 days to go til Legend of Grimrock 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guh, I hate Spring. I very briefly lay down on some grass on Saturday afternoon, and my arms and legs are still covered in allergic red itches. Hayfever’s gonna start any day now, too. I can feel my head getting all muzzy already.
That post of Jane’s above about wasps got me thinking about allergies. Almost all my allergies have come to me in later life (i.e. not lifelong ones). Nuts, hayfever, white bread, some avocados and tomatoes, touching grass, stupidity… the only one I can think of that I’ve always had is bees/wasps.
Post-Monday question: your allergies. What are they and how long have you had them for?
Come to Canada!
Everything remotely green or pollen-y will be frozen and dead within the next two weeks!
Best thing about this place!
Hold on…. Everything isn’t frozen solid yet?
Look at Mr. “I live in the warm part of Canada” here!
That’s rich, coming from Mr “I live in a part of Canada that is exposed to actual ocean, and not just some really big filthy lake”.
Oh yeah, I can really enjoy the ocean since I’m not Mr. “I live in the part of Canada where there’s actual things to do and look at other than stare at a cold lifeless ocean for 10 hours a day.”
Well it’s great that you can actually stare out and visibly see it, Mr “I live in a part of Canada where it’s daylight for more than 7 hours of the entire day”.
Now you’ve stumbled in your argument, because NOWHERE in canada has more than 7 hours of daylight. 😛
I like this comment chain.
Severe hayfever depending on what city I’m in.
-Extremely allergic to Adelaide. Lived there 9 years, and would require lots of treatment each spring, including cortisone injections, to manage my allergies.
-Not allergic to Perth. Lived there 4 years, barely had a sniffle.
-Somewhat allergic to Brisbane. Lived here 2 years, and have had some bad points. Considering asking my Dr about cortisone again.
Allergic to Ibuprofen (Neurofen) – The last time I took it I was curled up in a corner freaking out because the shadows were attacking me. Extremely rare, but documented side effect is hallucinations. Soooo, that includes me.
That’s about it.
Note to self: For a fun party trick, spike Bob’s drink with Nurofen.
😉
You’ll have to try harder than that to discover my weakness!
I love Spring, probably because I don’t get Hayfever.
Luckily, I don’t have any. However, I didn’t realise it was that easy for them to develop later on in life…so maybe ask me again in 10 years. 🙂
I don’t know how common that is, but it’s what’s happened to me.
I’m allergic to Sharks.
Same but I am allergic to fire as well.
Aww man…
I have no allergies and I don’t get hayfever.
Worship me as your god.
I’m highly allergic to grass and cedar dust. Spring can be a pretty awful time but thankfully Telfast 180 milligram tablets fix things right up.
Hey. Don’t blame this on the seasons. It is 100% your fault for going outside.
NEVER.GO.OUTSIDE
far too many to list, my mum is allergic to everything and I seem to be picking up a lot of them as I age. I just keep adding to the list as I get older, one of my worst is hops so I can’t drink beer, I break out in a crazy rash, starts as little dots that all grow and slowly swell/ join up until I look like I’ve gained 10 kilos and have bad sunburn.
I have the dumbest allergy – pepper. I cannot eat/tolerate anything with pepper or spice. I can eat bell peppers, since they have no heat, but anything above like, a one on the Scoville scale, and to hell I go. I get very red in the face, neck and chest, my lips tingle and burn, my tongue goes numb and it’s all very uncomfortable and embarrassing.
I once ate a pizza in a Turkish restaurant that had a pepper-crusted base (even though I told the waitress like, five times, “no pepper, no spice please!”) and I had to run outside. My friends found me drinking milk on the street outside a 7-11.
Most bullshit allergy, love playing sports and I’m allergic to grass. What the actual fek.
Grass? Where in Australia did you encounter this strange phenomenon?
Weekend went by too fast. Spent Friday night checking out the new shinies in Elite, ended up mostly wasting my time flying courier missions. Built up a decent bit of cash though. Also looks like they’re doing Beta 3 at the end of the month, so guess I’ll get back into it then 😛
Saturday was Smash day. Got up early (for a weekend) and went to the shops to grab it. JB wouldn’t price match saying that Target was sold out, so went around to EB and tried there. Got a match with no call-up, awesome 😛 Played a few hours of that when I got home, til having to leave to go to EBX.
Kinda wish I didn’t bother. It was alright I guess, and good to catch up with some people I hadn’t seen in a while. Got to play Splatoon, our team got decimated in both rounds. I was the best of the worst though, top green member on the leader board at the end of each match 😛 Should be good once there’s more time to check it out properly. Also got a look at the New 3DS, though no hands-on yet. Didn’t get around to checking out the Amibos though. Had a go at their mini Smash 3DS tourney, came *so* close to winning my round but a last-minute death to a hammer rampage tipped the scores 3-2 between me and first place. Dang.
Good Game Live at the end was pretty good though. Basically a Spicks and Specks based around videogames. Hex had Dave Callan, Luke McGregor and the Giggle & Hoot guy on her team, they were pretty hilarious. Bajo was with Andrew Hansen and two other guys I hadn’t heard of.
Rest of the time was spent making a start on my PAX costume. Took measurements and drew up a two-panel pattern for the pants, pinned it up and tried it on to find that it didn’t quite fit well enough. So erased it and drew up a new one for a four-panel design… except I forgot to change the measurements for it, so had to erase that and start over yet again. Pinned up the new one and it seemed alright, so I guess I’ll go with that. I’m so not going to get this done in time…
Also, while looking for paper to draw the pattern on, I found these old TMNT posters that have apparently been sitting in our cupboard for what must be the last two decades or so. None of us had any idea they were there except for Dad, who seemed more surprised that the rest of us didn’t know about them. If we had, you can be certain they would have made their way onto our walls 😛
THE TURTLES ARE BACK!?
IN POG FORM, I HOPE
@jocon
Just to let you know I’m keen to run a Nightfall after reset if your willing.
Do you guys need a third?
because I’m probably not on by the time you two are.
…
EDIT: Also to anybody doing the exotic bounty for the fusion rifle, Blue Fusion Rifles are being sold right now at the tower. Dunno how long they’ll be there for, unfortunately.
I usually rely on jo to find a 3rd, last week piat was with us.. week before that some guy I’ve never met. just depends whoever is online at the time? unsure.
me? me? me?!! SAY ME!
OMFG gunsmith?? I need those! How much a piece? omgomgomg I need to leave work and log on now >.
Yep, 1800 at the gunsmith. 30 minutes left at the time of this post, you better get moving.
I’m at work….. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! you #^3%#%$# game!!!
Sounds like a plan.
Hooray! $1500 bonus for the month!
Aaaannnddd the government has taken $1000 of it. Woo?
They can buy another fighter jet with your valuable contribution!
Dont you mean to pay Tony? Whats up with that anyway? Tony gets paid more than both the US President and British PM thats messed up he should be paid the same as or less then we’d have more money
True enough, but him taking a $50,000 pay cut would only result in an average of $0.005 tax saving per annum for each of Australia’s 10 million (approx) participating workers. If he wants that half a cent from me so badly, it’s not even worth four seconds of my time to object 😛
I want my half a cent back from Tony (given how little tax I pay, the actual amount is nothing), and I’m willing to go demand it off him.
This. I will fight him for my half a cent.
Add in all his benefits and lifelong pension at a ridiculous rate then multiply that by every other MP and suddenly it’s not looking so insignificant.
My flippant half-joke responses don’t deserve serious answers.
Here’s my opinion: politicians are ridiculously overpaid and always have been.
“Everyone must take part in the heavy lifting to get Australia out of debt…
except us”What are you talking about, Willis. If he has a higher wage, he pays more taxes, and therefore does more of the heavy lifting.
We should be paying him millions – he could save the country single-handedly.
In case you can’t tell, I’m being sarcastic.Well, duh.I still laugh when I think back to “We’ll be taking a pay freeze”. Wow you’re really going to be struggling with the hundreds of thousands you still get per year plus more perks than any of us will ever see in our lifetimes… oh wait
Nononononono, what they actually said was, “We’ll be taking YOUR pay, @freezespreston.”
My favourite thing was when the so-called rich people tax *cough* i mean “levy”, was proposed, a friend of mine who should have been impacted was just like “I’ll talk to my accountant and he’ll make it go away.” Which is what they would all have frigging done, rich people pay accountants to make this shit go away.
But the gov was still like NAH, WE WILL TA–LEVY THE RICH, AND IT’LL SAVE ERRYONE.
(except the poor, the old, the young, the physically ill, the mentally ill, the unemployed, etc.)
…Yes, I have a lot of feelings.
Yay for getting charged to much tax. Reminds me of the stint I did at a mine site last year. So much tax paid.
At least I’ll get a lot of it back next tax return when they realise I don’t make $200k+ a year but still, I could really use it now.
That is always a good boost. Last finacial year I was doing heavy duty diesel mechanic work so I was able to clam all the tools I bought back on tax and I bought $6-7k worth of tools.
@scree
The beanbag cover arrived!
Thanks again. 😀
As long as you’re happy with it. It was far too big for me.
Happy Monday, everyone! So, despite my intention to only really start Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments if I got tired of Mordor, Destiny and Rocksmith, I started and finished it over the weekend. Holy crap, Frogware have outdone themselves this time. The new deduction system is a little more railroady than I remember the last one being, and I’m fairly certain one case doesn’t make any sense (see spoiler below), and the “you can solve the case however you feel like, but there is only one right answer” thing seems poorly thought out… but apart from that it’s a great puzzle game. The crimes to solve are all suitably convoluted, and the morality system lends a bit more to the conclusion of each case – knowing the what, how and why of what they did, do you condemn them or cover it up? I must have spent as much time mulling over that question for some cases as I spent deducing the solution…
Spoiler for the (“correct” solution to the) vanishing train case, in case I’m not the only one that loves this game:
So, for anyone that’s played this (which I feel is somewhat of a long stretch considering the series), am I the only one wondering what the hell that Mexican is doing at Doncaster station? Either Holmes is wrong and the guy really is Chilean, or Holmes is right and the conclusion makes no sense. If he’s Mexican, he’s waiting for his colleagues despite them having drowned the Chileans and left already. If he’s Chilean, he’s waiting in vain for his dead colleagues, but Holmes is wrong about his nationality, as are the constant references in the notes to “the Mexican”, which I find a bit hard to believe. What was he doing at Doncaster?@dc has played this game. Unless he was lying in his blog.
He hasn’t told the truth once since he got here.
He’s actually a 74 year old lady who’s a anti video game crusader who works for ASIO.
Makes sense. It all kind of falls into place.
That was my least favourite case I didn’t think it made sense as well. Any one else will be glad to know it’s an anomaly and the game is all good from there. If you asked me during that case if I liked the game I might have hesitated. 😛 I worked out a way to solve it that was in line with my theory, though.
Sort of. Took a lot of screwing around with the evidence. :S
You have a theory that makes sense of it? Pray, continue, for I’m at a loss…
What was your favourite case? I absolutely loved the Roman Baths case… mostly for how convoluted the path to the solution is, the number of red herrings, and how ingenious the murderer was.
When I say it made sense I mean it was the closest of the theories the game allowed that made sense in my head. So didn’t make sense at all.
I was fond of the Kew Gardens one. I loved the lush visuals and getting to lurk in all these locked places. 😀
Yea, I followed the clues, and built up this narrative of what happened, based entirely around that guy’s presence… it all made sense. I got to the conclusion of the case using that series of events, and the game was all “Oh, that’s wrong in just about every possible way”. It took so long to find the right answer…
Kew Gardens was fun
especially as early in the investigation I stumbled across a piece of evidence that stuck in my head, pointing at one person in particular while all other evidence pointed elsewhere. It was very satisfying to know my intuition was right on that one. 😀You play in third or first person? After going first person I couldn’t go back!
I much prefer first person, too – no question. Apart from the controls feeling better (no wait time for Holmes to turn, I guess), the environments are so immersive… I like feeling like I can just reach out and pick up a note to read it – it feels like I’m doing the investigating, rather than just pointing Sherlock in the right direction.
http://yearofthehermit.tumblr.com/post/99031142786/03-october-2014
I’ll never miss an opportunity to pimp my blog. I posted my thoughts here. 😀
I look forward to reading it. 😀
Good write up! I pretty much agree on all counts.
The backtracking does get old after a while, mostly due to the loading screens, but occasionally it gives you time to mull over your clues. It slows the pace a bit, gives you an opportunity to second-guess your deductions – which is something I quite like, when there’s something to mull over.
The varying length and scale of each crime also creates a sense of uncertainty in each case, when you reach an early conclusion – “is this a short case or did I miss something that would have lead me in a completely different direction?”
I kinda miss the overarching plot that wove through the other games, though – I feel like the Merry Men plotline was something that happened on the periphery, and because of that, that the choice at the end lost its gravitas and its meaning. Yes, it lends the game more variety because the cases are more free to do their own thing, but it loses something when you make that separation. One thing I loved about the Ripper game was after a certain case, you start second-guessing every solution you’ve arrived at up to that point. Or in Testament, you help someone escape from prison in exchange for information on the real villain. You don’t get that when you’re investigating disjoint cases, because each case is too short for that level of intricacy – the Kew Gardens case is about as close as it got, but Hamish’s suicide letter pointed directly at the other perpetrator, so again, no real intricacy. And because of that, I don’t feel that Holmes was ever truly tested in C&P, which also detracts from the impact of that final moral choice.Agreed. I missed an overarching story too. Thanks for reading, my friend. 🙂
Any one on the PS4 able to redeem the Crew Expendable DLC yet? Saying my code isn’t valid! D:
This is Alien Isolation. Probably worth mentioning. 😛
I’m on PC, so I’m afraid I can’t help you, but (just from opening the game):
When the 20th Century Fox logo appeared, and it was all crusty and bad, my hand actually went over my mouth in a reaction of… amazement? joy? I dunno, it was great.I DID THE SAME THING! 😀
I played pokemon battles on Sunday
out of 20 games i won like 2
heres how nearly all the games go down
Me: Ill start with my Jolteon because i should be able to outspeed most of their pokemon
Them: MEGA GARCHOMP USED EARTHQUAKE
me: well fuck
even my tankiest eveeloution can only take 2 earthquakes. So now i have to go back the the battle maison to get a air balloon for my jolteon.
I’m not that big on the whole “hardcore” Pokemon scene but if I recall correctly, Garchomp is banned in some Pokemon tournaments because he is extremely OP.
why did they give him a mega nob?? WHY????
Phrasing!
I stand by my statement.
You have been looking up some weird porn fetish-ohhhh wait, you were asking me a question…well this is awkward.
What battle format? Single, 6v6?
Singles 3v3
When would you like to collect your Friendship?
If you only need 3 for a battle, we can try sometime? I look forward to being stomped by your eevee team.
im free tonight i believe. sometime at about 7?
So 8 in whacky, less curtain fading land down here… Sounds good.
At least there isn’t an eevee evolution for the nastiest weakness in my partial team. Yet.
Guys guys, we don’t have to argue about vaccinations any more. The smoking gun proving it causes autism has been revealed by the genius luminary of the scientific and political world, Rob Schneider.
http://www.themindunleashed.org/2014/10/actor-rob-schneider-says-smoking-gun-exposing-cdc-fraud.html
….
………
Why I even still have a Facebook account is beyond me.
Maybe he swapped brains with a teenage doctor scientist??
Even though the dipshits that actually issued the vaccine causes autisim paper retracted all their findings recently due to doing some extra long-term research?
With this article I have the smoking gun that confirms Rob Schneider is a fuckhead.
Rob Schneider is… a wanker!
Rated PG-13.
Also work is boring so a update on me, because i am important
Grandpa is in hospital, he had a mild stroke and his legs dont move, the doctors confident he should be okay but it might take some time.
I emailed about my transfer to Melbourne last week and haven’t heard anything back, im going to email again today.
I discussed with my lady friend if i didnt have a job to go to and we talked about what we wanted to do. We settled on that if i dont have a job, we wanted to travel for a bit overseas because there wont be a better time.
Work is insanely boring, there is nothing to do, im afraid im looking like a lazy ass but what are you meant to do when you’ve cleaned everything and asked people if they need anything and they don’t.
Still need to get Smash Bros but I really, really want to clear Bravely Default from my pile before I buy a new 3DS game. It shouldn’t be too much longer because god dang it I really want some ROB action.
You just know that somewhere once someone looked at ROB and thought, yeah, some ROB action could work.
So many things on the 3DS tempting me. Holding out for WiiU smash though and trying to finish old DS games before buying new 3DS ones.
On a semi-related note – how good is Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time?
Answer:
Pretty good.Haven’t played it yet but it’s on my list. I’m very slowly building my collection up so that I don’t have games being left uncompleted. No pile of shame for me, thank you.
So anyone played Alien Isolation yet? What are your thoughts?
Menus made me geek out good and proper. Immediately closed the game. Will play at night. 😀
I solved the mystery as to what Fastway attempted to deliver on Friday, it was my network cable crimper & tester set, god damn it.
Which is weird since the seller stated it was being sent via standard postage, not courier…
Those crimpers are so dope. Make it really easy.
Damn right!
Sounds lame, but i’m like really excited to make some network cables >_>
Its not lame, i got some coaxial crimpers with my tools for your trade money and they are so great. They even come with a cable cutter to cut the wire to the right length. I also got some deutsch crimps that i use everyday that i love too. Makes cable making so quick and easy 🙂
The right tool makes everything so much easier. Sucks when you don’t have proper wire strippers and are attempting to strip speaker wire or similar with a pair of pliers or a pocket knife which is way too sharp and just slices straight through the copper 😛
I hate all wire strippers, i prefer to do it with snips but thats just personal preference.
My foot has been weirdly sore the last two days. Maybe strain from standing/walking around at EBX? It wasn’t that much though. Just feels like I need to lean heavily on it and flatten it out til I get a joint pop/crack, though haven’t been able to make it happen. Bleh.
I’m no expert, but I’ve been watching ‘Always Sunny In Philadelphia’ and I think the appropriate thing to do is to get a wheelchair and use your injury to play the sympathy card to get the ladies.
*Grabs bag of raw popcorn kernels* – These should cook on my way down to hell.
JB are having another massive movie sale (when don’t they?!) DVD’s under as cheap as $7 & Blu-Ray movies as cheap as $10
There seems to be some good titles amongst it all. There’s also a bunch of stuff on sale for $20 & under as well.
Wasteland 2 log:
Came across a hidden cache today.
Out buried in the middle of the desert.
It appeared to be literally thousands of copies of some interactive multimedia labelled “The Extra Terrestrial video game”.
No doubt buried for posterity.
Literally. Thousands.
Looking very much like I’m going to get the unit I applied for last week.
Which means that after 30 years living with my parents / mum, I’ll finally be out on my own. Which is kind of scary.
EDIT: This also probably means a lot less buying stupid shit and video games for a bit.
YO MAN, GETTING YOUR OWN PAD IS RAD
PIMP THAT SHIT OUT, FRAME SOME ANIMU POSTERS, GET A NICE-ASS CABINET FO YO’ NERD GOODS
NEXT THING YOU KNOW YOU’RE POURING OVER COFFEE TABLES AND YOU’RE LIKE ‘SHIT THAT IS A SWEET-ASS COFFEE TABLE GONNA GET ME SOME MOTHERFUCKING ART BOOKS AND PUT IT ON THERE.”
So what I’m saying is that soon enough you’ll be compelled to buy a lot more things. The beauty of home ownership.. ah, home rentership, whichever applies.
I perused the cushion aisles of several retailers yesterday.
Perused!
Please stop me before I start looking at water features.
So… I actually already have the posters, though I’ll go one step way better than dodgy animu stuff – I have a Tales of Monkey Island art print signed by Steve Purcell and I have #20 of 50 of this Okami ‘Path of Heaven’ print which both need framing. And I already have the cabinets for imprisoning my extensive collection of figurines behind glass, plus a fairly decent artbook collection.
Don’t have a coffee table though. Or a dining table. Or a bunch of shit like a fridge or a washing machine. Somewhere there is an appliance store manager who will be making one hell of a commission from me.
Word to the wise: estate sales are good places to pick up some of that stuff. Dining tables, if they’re even remotely-well-looked-after, can look as-new for decades.
Or be like me and don’t buy a dining table at all and force your guests to eat on the lounge/floor!
Or I could just go get something disposable from Ikea that will do the job until I can afford something nice.
EDIT: Also I have no way of transporting something as big as a dining table myself, which rules out most private sales 🙁
Yeah, I think that’s the best way to go. You’re single and have no kids and if you’re any thing like me you’ll be eating in front of television anyway. 😀 Just a smallish four seater will get the job done.
Oh yeah, you live in an IKEA city. That’s the obvious solution.
Yeah, and it’s not like Ikea stuff is bad. There’s nicer purpose-built stuff and it’s a bit on the expensive side for kitsets, but they home deliver and building the stuff is fun, it’s like grown-up Lego.
Yo, and the food! Goddamn, Ikea has cheap good food.
Half my house is IKEA. I know the benefits! 🙂
Our housewarming in the new place will definitely involve smashing those god-damn IKEA plates into smithereens.
I DO own a sledgehammer, after all.
It’s nuts, you’ll have all of these interesting items, and then when you compliment them with, say, a the coffee table, you’ll notice everything just looks a fuckton more nicer. Seriously, get some artbooks on a nice, minimalistic glass coffee table and you’ll be like “DDDDAYYYYUUUUMMMMM.”
No clue why I like coffee tables so much. Perhaps because the one I have is quite possibly the most needlessly expensive thing I own in my apartment.
Going to have to go get some shelves for my board games too.
See? the costs just keep rising.
Alternatively, make all furniture out of mini end-tables from Ikea. All the furniture.
I think furniture made from those would be a bit… Lacking.
#everypageispage6
You can finally wash the dishes growling “I’m Batman” for no specific reason without someone else walking by and overhearing and giving you inquisitive looks!
Ooh, I also saw Gone Girl at the weekend. So good. I want to read the book again now.
Hey, what’s up with your username? 😛
We’re the saaaaaaaaaaame.
My condolences.
Shane, on the other hand, congrats on moving up in the world!
I knew a pun would get me there eventually.
I really want to see that.
I’m hearing nothing but good things. And I like Ben Affleck.
But I still haven’t seen Argo, so I’ll probably somehow miss this one too.
If you don’t see it, read it! The book is ever so slightly better (simply because they could have more in it; the twists are more shocking, etc), but the film was adapted by the author herself, so that’s awesome.
People seem to be mentioning that a lot lately.
The title annoys me though. It sounds dumb.
It’s a Johnny Cash song and album!
Ungotten references are the worst 😛
It’s annoying that the title is almost the exact same as Gone Baby Gone, also starring Ben Affleck.
Someone make the street date for shadow of mordor break, kthx
*Points at Steam* MASTERRR RAAAAAAAAACEEEEE
I would of gone PC except I have a Download cap 🙁
Yeah pretty poopy decision of them to delay it. 🙁
@jocon @distantdrop @saturday @dire_wolf ? @blaghman
So through blood sweat and tears and dying a whole lot we’ve cleared the Vault of Glass!! Screw you Atheon!!
On that note can we schedule a different day for this week’s raid (2nd anniversary with the mrs this week and need to keep saturday free)? Due to Saturday’s timezone it’ll have to be in the morning so could we try for Sunday morning this weekend guys for the same time (12pm to 5pm?)? Alternatively I’m also up for pretty early on Saturday morning (i.e. 8am to 11am).
If you guys are up for it I figure we clear easy mode in 2 hours and then give hard mode a crack afterwards for an hour or 2?
Yeah man, up for whenever.
Yay =D If anyone else can’t make it for Sunday 12pm – 5pm let me know we’ll figure something out =]
Also a couple of things to keep in mind if we attempt hard mode… The mobs (i.e. oracles, praetorians, hobgoblins) spawn in higher numbers, hobgoblins kill in one hit and they’re all level 30. Finally just for the kicks if someone dies during the raid they can’t be resurrected until the particular phase is over. I.e. if you die during the control point phase of Templar you can’t come back until the oracle phase.
@saturday @distantdrop @dire_wolf
For your info =P Something to look forward to hey with the revives! I’m glad I levelled up sunsinger now…. Seems to be the only way to resurrect during hard mode is to use radiance.
That said I did find out that the chest drops only happen once across both difficulties but the boss loot happens once on each individual difficulty. So we can skip the chests during the labyrinth if we do easy mode and hard mode each week.
Also apparently Atheon comes with the Templar’s shield in hard mode, meaning you can only dps him once the relic user breaks his shield with the super….
Just incase your concerned that should only slightly change our strategy, I place dawn on the far back of the platform and we move in/out of it whenever you need to super.
I guess it all depends how quickly he rebuffs himself?
Edit: Actually after a quick youtube search looks like what I just mentioned is a preferred strategy lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD0Gr0RLuaI
I’m down for it.
I’m down for whatever times you guys want.
reply fail =/ sorry dire
I can attend the Sunday time.
However Saturday 8-11am is impossible because I won’t get off work until like 11:30 am.
I can… probably do Sunday?
Say yes dammit just say yes!
Oh my god Vib Ribbon
I’ve got maybe an hour of work to do this afternoon, but my motivation is so low that I don’t think I’ll have it done by 4:30.
#ItFeelsLikeMonday
I know, right? There’s lunch that you have to slot in there as well.
Oh right. Yeah, then there’s no hope once you factor in a 200 minute lunch.
So not having a job really sucks. But I have started a cert 3 in warehouse operations. That is going well. I am already ahead of the rest of the class after 2 days of it. Only problem is I have to drive from port kennedy out to Osborne park and that kinda sucks due to traffic each way. But I have been able to get the pool from green back blue so it is already for swimming weather.
Oh god, this is one of the most embarrassing articles I’ve ever read on ABC news: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-06/my-little-pony-attract-male-fans-known-as-bronies/5794106
I was nodding my head, smiling and trying not to judge until I read “playing pony games” and then I laughed and now I feel like a monster. XD
Bronies are huge in the comic convention world. There are a couple of Australian comics guys who prop up their entire comics careers on their MLP one-shots that they did.
It’s a little weird… but there are lots of fads I don’t understand at all. I’d get way too tired passing judgement on them, and it would get me nowhere besides.
Edit: I’d probably become a way enthusiastic bronie if I got a writing contract. Sad but true.
SELLOUT.
No different from anyone else who takes a job they don’t particularly like to pay the bills.
Haha, I know, dude. Just yankin’ your chain. I’d be the first to yell CONGRATS DUDER if you got that gig.
One-shot comic for a career? Hmmmm… *strokes beard*
NB. Not a living wage. There’s practically no-one earning a living wage from comics. In Australia, I’d be extremely surprised if there were six people earning enough money to live on from their comics.
The ‘In Australia’ qualifier is interesting and mildly depressing. I’ve thought about VA work repeatedly (preferably for anime dubs or video games, usually inspired by listening to the TERRIBLE job being done by supposed professionals) but one of the major prerequisites seems to be, ‘Live in the US’. Majority of the work done in Australia is for ads, and holy cow does that industry seem fiercely competitive with the work being 10% VA, 90% promotion.
That realization’s always enough to discourage my casual daydreams. 🙂
Yeah, that’s pretty tough. At least there’s nothing actually stopping me being picked up by a major international publisher. Except my skill. And perhaps my inability to build an extensive US audience by making public appearances and conducting book tours.
Not clicking that at work. Or at home. Or ever.
I didn’t think it was that bad. A little cringey in a late-to-the-party sense, but then that’s likely down to reading it from the perspective of one who hangs on the net too much, there’d be plenty out there who this would actually be “news” to. Seemed fairly informative without really being judgemental like I was expecting.
They’ve only just found out about this?
That was my first thought, but it seems there was recently a convention in Sydney and that’s why they did the article.
Witchcraft!
Ooh I used tags I shouldn’t have 😀
Eh, you don’t have to understand it (hell, I don’t understand it), but my motto is to let people like what they like.
It’s a little funny, admittedly, but they get no judgement from me.
I know that news media can be a bit behind the times sometimes, but this article came out 4 years too late.
EDIT: I watched the first season of the show. I enjoyed it and definitely saw the appeal, but I realised it wasn’t really my thing. I just can’t stand the characters Pinkie Pie and Rarity.
I am so close to noping out of today. Weird pit of self doubt gnawing at my stomach for some reason making me question everything I do. Not sure how to handle it.
Dude, me, too. I have been feeling really weirdly anxious all day today, and cannot figure it out.
Edit: how to handle it: nope out of today, and make a pillow fort. Only known cure.
Tea is also good.
I’ve never had tea, but isn’t it loaded with caffeine? At least the non-green/herbal stuff. Wouldn’t that just compound the jitters?
There’s a myth that tea has as much caffeine as coffee, but it’s not true. There is some caffeine in tea but much less than there is in coffee.
And yes, there is a wide range of things that are classed as tea which have literally no caffeine at all. I mean, it’s really just hot leaf juice.
More importantly, you’ve never had tea? What the diddly?
I’ve never had coffee either.
I don’t really know how it happened, but there it is.
You have a lot of living to get done.
http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/keep-calm-and-have-a-cup-of-tea-90.png
Aww. Go home and clear your head 🙂
I had something gnawing at the pit of my gut this morning, but I decided it was reflux induced by the stress of returning to work after a month’s holiday. Or possibly my half-a-can-of-coke breakfast.
It was initially a huge relief to discover that nothing was on fire and that business had been carrying on well without me.
…The realization that I am not indispensable was then a source of fresh feelings of (somewhat perverse) disappointment.
Hm. I have become distracted. What I meant to suggest was that maybe it’s the stress of returning to work after a holiday?
I got up this morning, put the kettle on, grabbed my uniform. Then proceeded to drop it where I stood, put my phone on silent and went back to bed, praying that work does not call.
One of those days it seems.
I’ve been getting that all morning too. But at least I know the reason for it.
Greater global consciousness. Somewhere in the world something terrible is brewing, I woke at 4am this morning with a feeling of dread coming over me as well.
And I won’t have people tell me it was because I had nearly a whole litre of Milk for a midnight snack.
So you, me, Freeze, NegZero, Jo and Transientmind are suddenly the main characters in a Stephen King novel.
I would have said a Shane novel? I would like full access to parts containing my likeness pre-publishing so as to make sure depictions of me are correct. Thanks in advance XD
Seriously, something must be going on. Me too. Constant rising anxiety, of the kind I used to only get at the worst of hating my job (and I definitely like my current job). Starting to calm down a bit today, but it’s still there…
Must be something about today cause I’m feeling the same! Cuddle?
Been letting the music in the car just go through everything lately, only skipping out on the usual stuff I listen to. Last week gave me the House of the Dead: Overkill soundtrack which I hadn’t listened to in a good long while, that was great. This morning though, I landed on the OC Remix stuff, which I also haven’t heard in ages. Now got Vampire Snap stuck in my head.
Joshua Morse is a pretty cool guy.
Did you write these Smash Bros trophy descriptions, @shane…
http://i.imgur.com/2hUj7Nc.jpg
>:|
YES.
…YES.
Actually, no. But I wish I had.
I liked the tip I got last night. “Dedede is already perfect, so his inhale won’t copy abilities”.
Brilliant
Why can’t I upvote multiple times?
Courier apparently tried to deliver a package this morning. Went through the online redelivery request form, where it asked me to specify a time when someone would be available to sign for the package. Oh, cool, before 10am would be great. *submit*
Got an email a few minutes later – “We can deliver sometime in this 3 hour window, or that 3 hour window. Which would you prefer?” And here I thought your open ended question “when would suit you?” actually meant you wanted to know when I’d like it delivered…
That said, props to them for their response time.
Out of deference to your tax dollars, I finished off that work. The impact on your lives will* be measurable and profound.
IN OPPOSITES LANDIn Opposites Land.. my name is Itchy Nob and I enjoy tea and coffee.
(reverse pronunciation of Bonnici is Itchy Nob and I never lived it down in school)
Any one else unable to redeem their Nostromo edition DLC for Alien Isolation yet on PS4?
Need to know if I have to hit up support or just wait it out. D:
Also, I’m so excited to play this it ain’t funny. *shakes fist at sun* Set damn, it! I want to play in dark! 😀
This is one of those games I love the idea of, but will never finish 😛
*looks at both amnesia’s and outlast in my steam library*
I’m gonna force myself through it. It will build character.
I also love being scared when my mind is in the right state. It currently is in the right state. WOOO! 😀
I haven’t been scared out of playing it, I just cannot finish the VERY FIRST encounter in the game.
I am not a smart man.
Which part is that? I wonder if I’m there yet.
I just grabbed the… errr…
You know what, I can’t remember its name. It’s like, a door unlocky thing? Not the wrench, but like, an electronic one. Then some people appear, and I die horribly (I’ve only tried it twice).Yeah, I’m just after that! And that jack-wrench thing. That you have to do the commands and watch the animation for every freakin’ time. Then the girl sees you and yells? I died a couple times there, but then snuck around (and got lost!) a bunch, then fiddled with one of those circuit boxes and made it all foggy and wanged a bunch of dudes in the head and snuck off. And now I have a gun! That doesn’t feel sci-fi at all, but it sure feels good.I just got the gun. I realised after a little while that I didn’t actually need to fight those guys right as of that moment, so after whacking two of them (in practically the same spot), I just ran away downstairs. >.>I simultaneously love and hate the idea of the alien’s AI – on the one hand, I’ll not have to memorise enemy patrol routes in order to progress; on the other hand, I can’t fall back on memorising enemy patrol routes to progress. DX
Even the people AI seems pretty good. Haven’t come across any androids yet.
Just be glad it’s not daylight savings in Queensland. You’d be waiting a lot longer.
Why do you even have those black-out curtains on all your basement windows then?
I have a basement?
Its a metaphor for butthole
*backs away slowly*
Who knew Pow was such a troubled young man?
*raises hand*
Well where else did you store all those corpses?
Ever seen the movie Looper?
you got Samuel L Jackson to hide them???
I got my PAX tickets to get delivered to my grandparents address because “they are always home”Now this week they arent and im kind of worrying that they might not get delivered. i would rather $300 not be left in the letterbox for a few days.
:/
This sounds like an excuse for a road trip.
…
A really, really boring road trip.
A 2 hour roadtrip on a school night. Eugh. Ill call grandmas neighbour and go down on the weekend.
My PAX tickets just arrived. If they can get to Dubbo after a change of address, I’m fairly sure nobody else will have issues.
Fiasco some time this week?
@redartifice @gingerchris86 @beeawwb
Can’t do tomorrow (In theory I’m going to try and photograph the eclipse) and Friday is Oktoberfest, but otherwise yeah I’m down.
OKTOBERFEST! 😀 😀 😀
I’m gonna eat so much Bratwurst! And Schnitzel! And beers! Probably will drink the beers!
So much German sausage. Are sure it’s not a euphemism? 😛
Edit: Dang you and your sneaky edits.
I thought maybe I crossed the line with that joke. Hahhahaa.
The local pub is doing something for Oktoberfest. The flyer had Becks and Heineken on it as their German beers, so my hopes are rather low.
Lowenbrau is a good one if you can get it. I’m not a huge fan of dark ales but I’ve been told German dark ales are pretty good.
Yeah, Lowenbrau is ok but I’m not a giant fan. And agree, I’m not a particular fan of dark anythings but some of the German stuff can be quite enjoyable.
Solution: Drink all the things.
I’ve been to the Lowenbraukeller. Their dunkel is definitely pretty good.
Sure. Thursday night?
Works for me, anytime after 8pm NSW time.
Coolo. Playset preference?
Done that zoo one yet?
Not yet, sounds good.
@gingerchris86 @beeawwb The Zoo if you’re in http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/downloads/index.php?cat=7#76
I’m going to say yes 🙂
Yep. What time will we be starting?
@beeawwb @gingerchris86 @trjn 8pm Sa time work for people?
Should be do-able.
Easily.
yup 🙂
God, today is so lonnnnnnnng. And borrrrrring.
I recommend doing a dance.
*dances*
yep it helps
edit: *dances badly* just for clarification
I’m gonna Little Kicks it through the kitchen http://24.media.tumblr.com/4ac9ebda0fa599233588fd03be128aff/tumblr_n1rqh6HgLW1r32wujo1_400.gif
Please don’t say that, I’ve been working since 5.30 and wont finish until 7… I need positivity!! 🙁
That gave me a massive lift, thanks DC. If there is a woman who can sing, it’s Aretha.
What on earth do you do?! Whatever it is, it is clearly a Very Important Job and you are a Good Person. So, yay!
I appreciate that Jane, I manage a couple of university fitness centres. This day was long because I had some personal training clients in the morning, then the person who was coming to work in the gym called in sick so I was stuck from 7am-7pm. When you manage though, the buck stops with you!! I was sick today too to top it off lol.
My day just got brighter.
Self important guy in a suit comes up and demands I drop everything and cut his key immediately. No no, everyone else had to wait because he is far too busy with actual important work to be done. Insists I make sure it is done right because he doesn’t trust minimum wage workers.
Total comes to $7. His card declines. He flicks me another one. It declines. Starts ranting about the cards having half million dollar limits and my machine must be broken. I tell him to wait a second while he gets a third card and put another customers through no problems. His third card declines. One more try with a fourth. Declined. He tells me he doesn’t have time to deal with this and leaves.
I haven’t had to suppress laughter that hard in ages. Sometimes just being apologetic and polite is so damn hard.
Situations like that make me miss working in retail… Working in retail makes me hate and want to avoid working in retail ever again.
How have you kept your faith in humanity for so long? So many d-bags everyday! D:
Not really. In truth it’s about 3 or 4 customers a week out of 500. Just they stick out so much it sometimes feels like they’re all you deal with.
I just went through TAYnames and added all the Battle.net tags, so if you get a request from Morkai#1933, that’s me 😀
Who’s this Morkai#1932 we’ve been playing with all this time! D:
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaait a second.
Wait. One Damn Second.
You used to play KoL, right? I swear I’ve had you on my friends list for ages.
KoL?
Kingdom of Loathing.
Otherwise, I’m not sure how, but I’m fairly certain you’ve been on my Steam list for a while. A pic of Deadpool as your avatar, yeah?
Yeah that’s me, I don’t recall ever playing anything called Kingdom of Loathing, but I’ve been around TAY for a few years (though I tend to disappear for weeks and months at a time) so I may well have added you years ago, this post was specific to Battle.net though 😀
Fuck today with a roll of razor wire. 🙁
After having my application for the new rental place get drawn out further and further I finally have approval \o/
From your parents? What a moment! :’)
congrats buddddddyCongrats!
sweet
Party at Rize’s!
TO THE PANTSMOBILE
That sounds like innuendo.
YOU SOUNDS LIKE INNUENDO
Oh no!
For my Introduction to 3D Game Programming course (the one I hate), I have to make an entire game for my second assignment!
It’s due in 4 weeks!
I think I’m gonna have to cheat / be sneaky and use that Game Maker website (or similar) to get it going rather than code from scratch, cause we haven’t been taught how to do this either :S
Luckily it just has to be a virtual board game, so I’m just going to re-make either Checkers or Chess (unless someone has en easier suggestion), cause I love Chess, and they both seem easy to code (I would totally do Hungry-Hungry Hippos if I knew how :3)
Good news is that there is heaps of time between the end of Semester and my first exam!
There is like, a whole 10 days, so I have heaps of study time! 😀
And with only three exams to study for rather than four I’m feeling pretty relaxed*!
And I’m over halfway through my uni degree! Soon I’ll be living in Melbourne!
Soon! 😀
Bring on the end of semester! 😀
*In 4 weeks prepare for Liondrive freakouts as I’ll be studying for exams and feeling like a dunce :3
May I suggest Sexy Chess?
in my sleepy state, at a glance I read sexy cheese. Oh how I laughed.
If you can’t edam, join em.
Chess: Disco Edition?
Pole Dance Edition?
No wait.
Chess: Disco STU pole dance edition!
Upvote for Hungry Hungry Hippos, not your pain.
Oh my god, actually, looking at Hungry Hungry Hippos, that might be easier to code than either Chess or Checkers…
I literally only need to code, like, four buttons to move the hippos heads, around 20 balls, and some basic collision detection and a counter…
Plus I think I’d get humour marks…
My god, I’m totally going to try and dodgily code a virtual game of hungry hungry hippos 😀
YESSSSSS. 😀 I approve that was the only board game that captured my imagination when @freya and @trjn were in town! 😛
I still own Hungry Hungry Hippos from my childhood, it’s got terrible ’80s kids pictures on the box and everything, I also have twister from like 1970something its box art features terrible moustaches and bad pants all round.
Bad pants! I think E! has found their Joan Rivers Fashion Police replacement!
I could totally stand around dissing people’s pants as a job. Better put in applications quick.
I feel like Snakes and Ladders would be easier to re-create than Chess!
It actually would be.
I always had a better time making something simple and then spending the extra time on polish/cool features rather than trying to tackle something complex! cc @liondrive
The card game War.
What are the requirements? Just ‘make a board game’? Does it have to have AI or can it be two local human players?
I suggest against chess, because you’ll have to program all the possible legal moves and handle the different types and that’s a lot of work.
If you want a good idea that isn’t hard to implement in a computer, especially if you’re not expected to build an AI for it (AI programming isn’t very easy) then Reversi isn’t very difficult. Gomoku is even easier because it’s only about placing pieces, there’s no flipping or capturing, but building an AI that’s good at it isn’t very easy (it’s often used as an AI programming course assignment). You could also implement connect-four pretty easily as it’s kind of a simpler Gomoku and as a bonus has much less possible positions for you to play each turn and a fairly small board, so an AI that just does a brute force search for the best move is viable (though is shit to play against because it will always win).
Since it’s 3D Game Programming you’re going to probably be expected to use 3D? Another reason why Reversi or Gomoku would be a good idea. Modeling is easy, you only need to make the board and one type of piece – either it’s a disc that’s white on one side and black on the other, or it’s two blobby stones, one black and one white (same model, different texture or vertex color applied).
For Reversi you’d also need to do two animations to show you know what you’re doing: a placement animation (suggest that you drop the piece in place from height) and a flip animation (rotate around one axis, easy). For gomoku or connect four you only need the placement animation.
The hardest thing is if you want to do mouse placement you’ll need to figure out a way to convert the 2D screen coordinates of the cursor into 3D on your board. Assuming your board is a plane, this isn’t very hard, it involves casting a ray through and finding the intersection on the board. In 2D it’s trivial if you set up your window and your board so that your coordinates are the same.
They said you could make AI if you want, but that you would be stupid if you did since it’s not a requirement, and that you don’t get marks for it, and that it’s better to make it 2 or more player to avoid making AI.
Being 3D isn’t much of an issue. It more just means you have to use the X, Y and Z planes, which is pretty easy. I was just going to use a top down view anyway, and make use of all the axis (thus, 3D :P).
The thing I’m liking about the Hungry Hungry Hippos idea is that I only need to make one hippo (clone it and re-colour it), one ball (clone it), and the playing field.
The nature of the game eliminates the need to code in turns, since it’s free-for-all, and the only thing I need to really code is the head movements (pretty easy), collision detection for the hippo heads and the balls (moderate), a counter for scoring (easy), and flocking for the balls to make them move (hard).
I was thinking about putting a 30-second limit on games too, in case the last ball gets stuck out of reach.
It seems like one of the easier options, and knowing my lecturer, I’d probablt get bonus marks purely for making Hungry Hungry Hippos :3
I think I’m pretty set on the idea, buuuuuuuut recommendations for good websites and what not to code it in would be great, since coding from scratch seems like it would be difficult (since we have never learned to code from scratch).
I’ve heard Game Maker mentioned before, but if there is better / easier alternatives, I’d love any suggestions 🙂
Unity isn’t too bad, and it’s in C# which is a nice language.
Back when I did 3D programming at University, OpenGL + GLUT was the only option as it had to run in Lunix. 🙁
Yeah, we’ve been using OpenGL + GLUT, and also C+ in Microsoft Visual Studios.
I figured I would make the game in a game maker, then import it in.
That way I’m not coding from scratch, have help along the way, and have it end up running in Visual Studios.
Seems like the easiest way to do it, while still coming up with the requirements 🙂
I had to make tic-tac-toe with ai for my first project!
I think AI is third year concepts, which I plan on dropping before I get that far, because Games Programming ain’t that fun 😛
4D Chess! \o/
I just read that document about modding your 3ds to use a gamecube controller. Holy balls is that cool stuff. If it wasn’t stupidly needless and impractical i would totally do that just for kicks. i love modifications like this.
Whoo, my awesome sister just called to let me know Alien: Isolation is waiting for me at home. I don’t even have to go to a shop and interact with people. WINNING!!
I’m having a terrible day at work but am refusing to let it break me, too much Alien hype.
*Stands defiantly, fists on hips, chest pushed out*
ALIEN HYPE! 😀 I’m right there with you, buddy. Sitting on my coffee table… waiting… watching…
I don’t know how you have the restraint to wait until night time, I’d have spray painted my windows by now, or closed the curtains, whichever is easier.
I expect to love it so much that life will be different from after the point I play. I’m savouring how life used to be right now. 😛
watching Alien last night got me so hyped, I really really want to enjoy this game.
Or he could knock himself out! That would make it real dark real quick!
(DC DO NOT KNOCK YOURSELF OUT.)
I tried. I woke up exactly twenty four hours from when I was knocked out. STILL DAYLIGHT. And I missed last nights TV shows.
I feel like this page is a backdoor pilot for a @rocketman/@gutsoup/@dc sitcom.
…
Needs more laugh track to make the ‘jokes’ funnier.
This will never make syndication.
*calls Chuck Lorre*
Sorry. There’s already a Two and a Half Men.
IM not a fucking half man
He’s alllll man.
Interesting you assumed it was you. What’s troubling you Rocket?
Im just a little on edge. I also have a baby face and everyone says im 12
I was more alluding to the fact that it was unfunny.
PS: Have you seen me without my beard?
being compared to Two and a half men
I think I’ve just hit rock bottom.
Having a baby face is awesome when you get to my age. 😀
I have no idea how old I look. The kids (a few 21-22yr olds) at work have said they thought I was early to mid-20s. The elders (in their 40s-50s) thought I was late 30s. Folks in their 30s thought I was late-20s/early-30s.
TAYbies who met my 4yr-younger little brother were divided on who was older.
(It’s mildly unnerving to not know how old you look.)
People say I look younger than I am, but I don’t see it. :S There’s a map of the world on my face.
Is there? Where?
Did you get it tattooed on? How have I not noticed it in the hours I spend every day staring at pictures of you?
I’ve had cab drivers think I’m 35-40; it’s sometimes unnerving to know exactly how old you look, too.
Prelude to a very special episode…
were you ever on tv talking about my little pony? cos I saw a guy last night, looked just like you, and sounded like you too!
I am laughing stupidly hard at your sound effects, D.C., just so you know.
TAY is filmed in front of a live studio audience.
It is?? Where can I get tickets??
PAX North. It’s a Thing.
Oh god. I should never have ventured into the “Why Daylight Saving Time Is Pointless” article on Gizmodo.. The comments are just rife with stupidity & complaints. Also it wasn’t even written for an Australian perspective, but a United States one, so good job of being pointless all together?
I’ve seen a fair bit of passionate debate about it, for sure. Folks around work seem to wish we had it in Qld, but that’s mostly because they have families and want to spend daylight hours with them after work for some reason. *shakes head, puzzled*
Personally, NOT doing it when the other states do is a daily irritation for me for several months a year. That’s my only stake in it – the annoyance of dealing with interstate contacts who are on it when we’re not.
Would really only benefit those in South East Queensland any way, well would only make sense for them to observe DST, given the closer you get to the equator the more equal day & night is year round etc etc, and it seems counter productive to split a state up into 2 timezones.
It’s only like 7 out 12 months of the year 😛 I sort of understand your pain there, given where I live, people assume we operate on QLD time in retail, even though we are in NSW and operate on AEDT not AEST lol.
I have to laugh at those who come over the border and get confused as to what the local time is..
More daylight hours just seems like a terrible idea in a country as hot as this one.
Less daylight = less air conditioner usage
Well even if DST was not embraced the same amount of daylight hours would still be there, it would just mean sunrise would be that hour earlier according to the clock, so where I live instead of it being a 5.30am sunrise in the height of summer with DST it would be a 4.30am sunrise without DST. Also means it’s not as hot early in the morning as it could be, i’ve had days here in summer when it’s been unbearable at 8am only to get way worse throughout the day, makes me glad. Plus I like the extra light in the evening allows me to walk the dog later which means less traffic and less people out with their dog which is a huge advantage for me 😛
Also just to add DST for someone like me is always an advantage, given I live on the border of QLD & NSW, meaning QLD is an hour behind us, always handy to take advantage of things, I loved it when I worked in QLD, meant I didn’t have to leave for work until 8.30/9am my time for an 8.30 start in QLD. I was even home before it was dark so if I wanted to walk the dog I could, I always found it an advantage over a disadvantage, but each to their own.
RUNNING THE SAME SOUND EFFECT JOKE INTO THE GROUND! WE ARE TWO AND A HALF MEN!
I’m also fairly certain I’ve stolen this line as well as sound effect joke from TAY past in classic sitcom tradition. 😛
So, a magpie fell off a branch last night.
My Dad found it last night, and we’re looking after it.
Whoa, I had a @mrtaco moment where I thought that was some sort of Page 6 Dad Joke and I didn’t get the punchline 😛
I hope the bird is aiight and it becomes your bird buddy!
…was it drunk? Magpies don’t usually tend to just fall off things.
Nope, it was really windy outside.
So Disney did a Strategy First and pumped Steam with shovelware.
But they put Split/Second on steam! That has to account for something. That game is awesome
Unfortunately, this version of Split/Second is the sub-par version. 🙁
Have a nice evening guys. See you all later. Mwahaha.
I can’t believe they dedicated an episode of Breaking Bad to a relative of yours. 😛
Impromptu salaryman special at Harajuku Gyoza because why the hell not? Post-work tipple makes up for light/no lunch, I’m sure. Also they’re playing slow jazz.
Aaaand remembering I have a raid tonight, I had to sprint down the street to catch the bus. Downside is now I am sweating tebasaki wing sauce and Kirin. Plus side, that actually felt pretty good and I got a much faster turn of speed than I expected.
What game is this raid taking place on?
Destiny. 🙂
Hard mode Atheon? I WANT THAT VEX MYTHOCLAST FOR IRON BANNER DAMMIT!
Hard mode getting-murdered-by-the-Templar. 🙂
If you guys made it to the Templar have you tried the strat where the whole team is on one of the jumping platforms to the left hand side of the battlefield? Basically everyone equips scout and sniper rifles and the relic user keeps breaking the shield for you guys to dps. Bit of an exploit but it basically guarantees you can clear the boss.
Hey @dc, how’d you go with the DLC, I got the RipleyEdition and it it let me redeem the “Last Survivor” DLC but I got error messages with the “Crew Expendable” one.
Crew Expendable is the one I can’t access either. Started the game. Creepy goodness.
yeah, really enjoying the little details, I spent ages in the first bit, when I saw the water drinking bird thing I was very happy.
I love all the low tech future stuff. CRT monitors. Huge light switches. Exposed wires. I guy could spend a lot of time moseying through this world… and then being killed… D:
yeah, I love how everything is from the “future” but looks like it’s from the ’80s. Got to just past my first Xenomorph encounter, so far pretty good, needs less humans and more alien though.
I really like Ripley’s watch, haha. And her outfit. I just really want a jumpsuit.
yeah I kept eyeing the watch, wondering if we’ll get to use it for anything later, it looks useful.
Anyone’s PAX tickets still showing not shipped? Seems like most people have got theirs already and mine haven’t moved yet.
You can check the deliver status?
https://www.showclix.com/my-tickets/
PAX Aus’s facebook page had a status today saying that tickets should arrive this week.
I think everyone has a ‘not sent yet’ status on that page. I’ve received 2/4 deliveries so far, just gotta keep checking every day.
I’m freaking out, man.
Their silly decision to send it via unregistered post. I can’t even login to the site. If mine don’t show up it’s their problem to deal with, I have a receipt. *Shrugs*
Have you ever have an experience with a video game good or bad that was straight up confronting?
I was bored at work so is tarted thinking about my current pile of unfinished games i got this year and picked out a few of note (Bravely Default, Transistor and The Walking Dead)
Then i started thinking about why i hadn’t finished these games Bravely Default and Transistor where cases of being stuck and always having another game to play respectively.
But TWD was different, i was actively playing a chapter every few weeks i got it. Before i stopped i remember playing these two chapters in one night, now i’m a real passive guy when it comes to decision making in real life and at the end of the first of these two chapters my passive decision making cost me two members of my group and one of my favourites. I was honestly a little sad this character whom i had chosen to save in one of the earlier chapters was now dead due to how i handled the events.
In the chapter after i was in another event where i was trying to talk my way through it with reason, but no matter how many times i tried i kept failing and dying. So i reluctantly try being aggressive and actually get through it despite having to break the character i was. I forget exactly how this chapter ends but i know some more of my group die.
I Don’t know if those character could have been kept alive or not but that one night it felt like TWD was punishing me for playing too passively and forcing me to play out of my comfort zone. I’ll finish it soon i hope, but yeah thinking about the my why i hadn’t finished TWD and that at some point it actually made me feel uncomfortable. I don’t really know how to describe it but you might know what i mean.
Hmm, while not so much confronting, I did feel quite guilty about mass murdering angels in Bayonetta for a while there :\
Then I figured, “hey, apparently I’m going to hell anyway, soooo…”
Other than that, nothing so much confronting for me 🙂
Pretty damn often in Heavy Rain.
I still haven’t finished it. It challenged me – ethically and emotionally – too much. I got way too into it. One of the very, very, VERY few games that has ever made me even think about pulling the trigger, let alone reluctant to.
Wolf Among Us. The Walking Dead. And oddly enough, that free game I was banging on about this weekend, Sunrider. And Katawa Shoujo. I really didn’t expect to get hit in the feels and paralyzed by certain choices and forced to choke down bitter truths.
Also, Iron Man mode in XCOM.
About Heavy Rain:
It really made me consider what I’d do for my kids in real life, and I discovered I’d harm myself for them, even kill myself for them no problem, but I’d never be able to outright murder someone for them. Killing in self-defence, when I or they were in immediate danger would be almost an instinctual reaction. But killing when you have to plan it beforehand? Nope. I also thought about whether I’d do all those things for my husband, and realised that I wouldn’t. I’d go as far as the cutting off your own finger test, but to be honest going any further than that would probably not happen. Especially if my kids were still kids, and not grown up.Yup. That’s the point that I tapped out and didn’t finish the game.
…I dunno. I have the horrible feeling that I think I’d do it. I don’t ever want to find out, even in a simulation.
You should finish the game. You have the choice of whether to do it or not. I chose not to do that task and still got a satisfactory ending.
The airport massacre in Modern Warfare 2 took me by surprise.
Oh damn, yeah, that too. And playing as the marine in the chopper in Modern Warfare 1 when the nuke goes off. That was pretty confronting.
Also, and this is probably just me, the level where you play as the gunner in the AC-130 with the overhead heat vision. There was just something really wrong about the levity and good humour of the crew giving you radio feedback, the completely callous disregard for the gravity of murder.
Totally forgot about that one. Yep, that one too for sure. Trying to think of the name off the top of my head – I know it was the second level – shit I can’t remember.
Death From Above. I think.
Looking for new book suggestions, I just finished the latest Odd Thomas story and it was extremely lack lustre in its ending, so I feel like my own choices will fail me.
I am pretty eclectic in taste, but among my favourite genres are low fantasy (non-epics preferred, and if so completed ones only), horror (William Peter Blatty, Thomas Harris, etc), cyberpunk (PKD, wWilliam Gibson, Neal Stephenson) sci-fi (Frank Herbert, other than him haven’t really found any other favourite authors). I have been reading a little bit of gritty urban fantasy (I like the Sandman Slim novels for some reason, not of my usual taste but willing to give other books a try).
Suggestions? I don’t think I’m asking too much here. Ha.
Woo Neal Stephenson
Oblig Anathem plug.
Sci fi, my stock recommendation is The Quantum Thief, by Hannu Rajaniemi (Basically an Arsene Lupin novel set in a crazy nuts sf future). If you like Cyberpunk, try The Stars my Destination, a novel from the 50s that could have been written yesterday.
Pump six and other stories is a great short story collection by Paolo Bacigalupi, sort of environmentally influenced dystopias, very cool, quite creepy.
Wool by Hugh Howey is a good little trilogy, set in a Silo (sort of like a Fallout Vault) and about what happens when the society inside breaks down.
And of course, SF tinged, read Kurt Vonnegut. Because there’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind
…Slaughterhouse-Five!
(which I haven’t read since starting it on the plane a few weeks ago 😛 – I liked it though!)
Was going to plug that, but I always plug that, so today I’ll say Cat’s Cradle.
See the Cat? See the Cradle?
I’ve been meaning to read Anathem, might like that up after my next book
Prey is Michael Cricton’s best book. I’d go as far as to say its better than Jurassic Park. Almost avoids the stumbling block that every Cricton book runs into three-quarters in. I think telling you what its about might ruin the first 50 pages, but it involves nanomachines. Cricton made a weird decision in making the protagonist a house husband, but it worked out surprisingly well.
Skulduggery Pleasant just finished. That series was awesome. Its about an Irish skeleton who solves mysteries and enjoys punching people very hard in the face. How can you say no to that premise? Like every series, the first book is a tad shaky, but it really comes into its own by the second book. Enjoyably snarky writing.
Criminal by Karin Slaughter is a pretty good crime book with an incredibly generic title. Set in 1970’s Atlanta.
Dead Space Martyr is a prequel book to Dead Space and its pretty decent. Probably not worth reading if you haven’t played a Dead Space game before.
A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones is pretty good, but you probably already knew that.
I think I’ll recommend the Inheritance Cycle series. You may know it from the terrible adaption of Eragon. I’m hesistant to recommend this, as the plot is Star Wars to a tee, I assume a lot is stolen from Lord of The Rings, and the first book is a bit shite. However, this is made up for by the depth of the world, particularly how magic works. Half of the second book is taken up by learning how magic works, and its simply fascinating.
All the books that come to mind past this point are stuff I read as a kid, so unless you like Harry Potter, Deltora Quest, or Holes, I won’t recommend them.
Woah, I almost missed an opportunity to promote Katawa Shoujo. Book, visual novel, close enough. A kid gets diagnosed with arrythmia and has to go to a school for disabled students. Has to adjust to his surroundings and come to terms with his heart condition.
Obligatory: http://shanewsmith.com/
I’ve read prey, and Jurassic Park lol I preferred Sphere over either of them heh.
Already well abreast of ASoIaF and Harry Potter lol I’ll check out your other suggestions though.
Prey is awful. Crichton is awful. How someone got so far on such shitty sf is beyond me.
That said, Prey is light years ahead of State of Fear.
Also, the Skulduggery Pleasant guy was doing a signing in the city today, had a line up around the corner.
*Begins work on the list*
Crichton was a shitty author whose plots were one note. Basically caveman science fiction: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/ except with buzzwords.
And Prey is a shitty, shitty encapsulation of Nanotechnology
Aww he wasn’t shitty. I just think of his “sci-fi” as more like fantasy. I love love looooove Jurassic Park and The Lost World.
I have recommended him to others, but Alastair Reynolds is an absolute must if you like scifi. Start with Revelation Space and work from there. His writing is such a pleasure to read.
Also, I’d suggest getting into some of the classics by HG Wells, such as The Time Machine, The Island of Dr Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of The Worlds. They’re all quite short, but have all been such a massive influence on modern scifi. You may even be able to find them as free/cheap ebooks.
Then I would also suggest tracking down John Wyndham’s books The Day of The Triffids, and The Kraken Wakes. The Day of the Triffids was the inspiration for 28 Days Later. That movie was rubbish, the book is sublime.
Michael Marshall Smith.
Iain M Banks. The Culture. Start with one of Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games (probably the “easiest” of these three) or Use of Weapons. My preference is that order, but plenty of other Banks fans disagree on which one to start with. It really doesn’t matter – there are 10 in the series but they’re all standalone books in a shared universe.
Lots of other great recommends in this thread.
Currently, after a short spate of low-brow detective fiction (just did all three Richard Castle novels back to back…), I’m reading golden/silver age SF to fill in some gaps – currently Childhood’s End by AC Clarke. A Canticle For Leibowitz next.
I’ll check it out.
What were the Castle books like? I like the show but haven’t touched the books.
Airport thrillers. Not highbrow. Good stories, with lots of amusing nods to the show and in-jokes like the ones they do in the show.
Amusingly, I can’t picture any of the characters as other than the source characters from “real-life” – Jameson Rook is Castle, his mum is Castle’s mum. The only exception is Nikki Heat who I can’t picture as Kate Beckett (Stana Katic), but stuck on Natalie Rhodes (Laura Prepon) the actress playing Nikki Heat in the movie (in the episode were she’s tagging along to see what Beckett is like…).
Funny. I’ve also just noticed there’s a 4th book out. Suppose I should go find it… Nathan Fillion turns up to the book launches in character. It’s so meta…
Random thoughts:
Hayfever 🙁
I shouldn’t have started playing so many games at once… I have to keep changing out 3DS carts!
Like, oh my gosh, guys.
It still feels weird having two mobile phones! I don’t wanna carry both 😛
I get oddly excited when it comes to Survivor :D. I was looking through my calendar/reminders and saw my weekly “Survivor” reminder on Thursday and just got happy because THURSDAY IS KINDA SOON 😀
It ain’t easy being Greenius…
I remember when having two mobile phones usually meant you were most likely up to illegal activities.
Edit: Couldn’t you totally just have one of them forward everything to the other, thus only needing one phone?
Might be security concerns. Also, keep an air gap between work and personal at all times.
Can’t do that for security reasons (like Manny said), but I could just technically use the work phone for personal use and not use my personal phone anymore.
But my personal phone was bought this year and it’s a good phone, so there’s no real point in me ditching it. I’m just running out of pocket space 😛
Buy a man bag then? 😛
Well I figured I might as well have all my thoughts in one place.
But then I had nothing to replace this with 😀
Slowly getting through the cosplays. Worked on my belt, Elsa had a break today and am finishing up on two costumes that are needed in two weeks
pikturs pls
Sure, there is some on my phone, but I’ll take more when I don’t have a wet paint sign on them.
Goddam Destiny. Got an exotic weapon bounty and i need 500 points in the crucible (+5 for void kills, -2 for deaths)…my score after 10 rounds… 2 points! yay! Only 250 more rounds to go at this rate.
I don’t actually mind being average at PvP when i’m playing, but this just rubs my face in how bad I am and massively reduces my enjoyment, but I’m too stubborn to just dump the bounty.
Exotic bounties are so shit.
So far I’ve done one, and have one going, but they’re not fun, and neither are for weapons that I actually want (got a shotgun, working on a fusion rifle) >:(
Plus, they’re not rewards! I had to buy the damn shotgun!
And breakdown 10 rare fusion rifles!
Thumbs up to @aliasalpha for his Pocket Infinity – it’s one of the very few which are PVE-only. If you ever get up to the stage where it asks you to dismantle like… ten or so rare fusion rifles, don’t give up. They’ll be on sale at the vendor one day and you’ll be set. You don’t do anything with glimmer anyway. The HARD part is getting the nightfall kills with another fusion rifle. But if you keep one aside as your baby and the nightfall has the same burn damage as your rifle, you’re set.
You know the interesting thing with the nightfall thing? It was easy and fun as all hell. It has to be done in a nightfall strike and can’t be against standard enemies so you can’t just jump into a strike and go the other way shooting low level mobs but it doesn’t have to be done in the no-respawn zones, as long as enemies are levelled, the kills will count.
In the mars strike they had this last week with the siege dancer general, there were at least 2 areas where enemies were level 26+ and counted as valid kills, they were a hell of a good challenge even with the combination of arc burn and an arc fusion rifle since you could die so damned fast if you weren’t careful but then so could they so it was fair enough. It turned what was looking to be a long grinding slog into a bloody fun afternoon, I wish they had high level patrol bounties to do that kind of thing for high rewards.
The funny thing was I spent most of my glimmer at the cryptarch yesterday hoping to get blue fusion rifles from the green special engram and this morning, the gunsmith was selling blue fusion rifles and I had no money and just over an hour left. I managed to find an incredibly profitable run, using both a black wax idol and ether seeds and patrolling the drop point on earth, running down the first set of stairs to kill the 3 level 18 yellow hive guys (with the idol they dropped 118 glimmer each time) and ran back up to the fallen at the top and killed them, checked the cave behind them for a chest and dashed back down just in time for the hive to have respawned. I ended up going the other direction upwards towards the end since it has the option of something like 4 chests on the way up even though the run is longer, not sure if it was more cost effective or not but I ended up with about 8 grand in just under an hour doing that run and got just enough to get the parts I needed. Normally it’d be quite dull to do but the tension of needing the money to get the rifles to get the exotic was keeping me on my toes.
I haven’t even had one pop yet 🙁
Got to lvl one on Iron Banner though, so that’s nice
The key to getting exotic bounties is spamming the normal bounties as much as you can. They come up as rewards when you hand in the normal bounties so the more you hand in the higher your chance of having one pop up. I didn’t have one show up for 3 weeks and then 2 popped one after the other! >.
Ahh I know that feeling all too well, I had to do the one for the Invective shotgun, get 25 more kills than deaths. In order to progress by one point, I had to kill twice as much as I died and for someone who sucks at adversarial MP, this was torture. I had a what might have been the best game I’ve ever played though and managed to get 2 kill streaks, a KD of over 2 and a suspicion that I was possessed.
One thing that might help is adopting my tactic, play control, capture a point and defend it from wherever you’re safest. I’m playing a defender titan so with a shield I can be safe pretty much anywhere so I just tuck in a corner away from long sight lines to protect against snipers and shoot anything coming near me. If you’re playing as a sniper it might be better to find somewhere a bit more out of the way and/or swap to the lowest magnification optic on your rifle so you can use it more as a battle rifle than sniper rifle. Also don’t forget that things like some warlock abilities and a few other grenades count as void damage.
It sounds like the Thorn bounty, would that be right? If so you should know the void damage part of the bounty isn’t the hardest part…. You’ve got to kill a specific wizard mob that spawns on Summoning Pits (Level 28) at the end of the bounty to finish it.
Worth noting easiest way to get points up is equipping a void shotgun or fast charge void fusion rifle and go into rumble and just make sure to kill at least one person per life. As long as you just run up to people and shotgun them to the face you’ll be making 3 points per kill =] If you end up in a match where you die more than 3 times in a row without any kills or a map with no close quarters like the moon map just exit and re-queue. Doing that bounty is all about keeping your K/D above 1.0
Can’t remember the name of it, looks like you end up with a hand cannon at the end. Might try the rumble tactic tonight.
I thinkt a large part of my problem was playing in the Iron Banner tournament. Don’t think it’s a wise move as only lvl 25. Everyone else I was against seemed to be lvl 29.
Yeah don’t go anywhere near Iron Banner unless you have exotic weapons and purple armor in all slots; since it carries all the PvE stats across. Kind of a stupid fucking event imo, basically it gives people who are already leaps and bounds ahead of people (in terms of gear and weapons) to get even further ahead.
Events are meant to even the playing board not make it even more uneven. So far Bungie 2 events and 2 fails imo.
And yeah the hand cannon is Thorn so even if you do the PvP side of it you’ll need to be level 28 minimum to do the final part (level requirement to enter the 28 summoning pits).
Yeah, didn’t realise it wasn’t an equal playing field until about 8 games in. I was averaging a K/D of 0.1-0.3.
I found that killing the Unwed was much easier than the PVP part. 😛
*shrug* I like my PvP and I hate summoning pits so I guess it comes down to personal preference =P I’ll be doing my 10000 points for Bad Juju next week so that should be fun =_=
Gah, my internet is slow…. 🙁
“You are the daughter of a famous hotelier and have been given charge of the construction of a new hotel. The project has been coming along well and the work is of an extremely high standard, you have a good working relationship with the crews and have had no disputes.
In saying this, the construction has fallen three months behind. The hotel was due to open on the 1st January and must open on time to claim huge tax breaks.”
HELP ME SOLVE IT, LATERALLY!
Paris?
Imagine if she was actually put in charge of something…
Fire all unionised workers and hire illegals.
I… won’t lose anything by including that 😛
Quit uh… stealing, um… my …uh… ideas.
Dey tuk our jerbs
Best bet? Reduce scope, change quality.
Ensure construction of the vital areas is complete: reception, and some rooms. Maybe the kitchen too. Construction can continue, especially landscaping etc, while the hotel is open… even if you are pissing off the guests.
Hire more crew and drop the build quality to compensate
Already messaged to Freeze earlier, but @morkai – hotel room secured!
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Elsewhere – Tuesday climbing because public holiday yesterday. Ended up running into a highschool mate I haven’t seen in maybe four years, apparently he’s been going for the last few months. Man, everyone goes here. Also, came SO FRIGGEN CLOSE to getting two 4Es tonight. Went back to the one from last week at the end, actually made progress and got to the second-last hold, but couldn’t pop to the last one and had to chump out and go straight up. Feel like I could call it close enough, but I really wanna nail it properly…
Also also, totally spent way too much time looking at the leggings women were wearing there. Trying to see how they were cut and how they managed to fit the form so well and wondering how to apply that to what I spent the weekend trying to make and… er, NOTHIN SUSS.
Yaaaay! OK, you want to message me your details (possibly via steam seeing as you don’t have Twitter, you monster) and I can send the cashola?
Clearly you don’t realise the extent of my monstrosity – I don’t Steam either 😛
E-mail?
He should hold the money to ransom until you become a Twitter man. 😛
@dc It’s up to you, if you don’t come to PAX then I don’t get paid apparently 😛
Damn son… ok, send me the details at **redacted** and I’ll send it ASAP.
Also, let me know when you’ve sent the email so I can remove the address from this post plzkthx.
You can take it out, I’ve got it noted down.
There’s no rush or anything, I’ll send e-mails out once I figure out how the cost needs to get split.
X-COM Enemy Unknown update
DC continues to dominate the killboard. He’s been on 5 missions and has 17 kills. WOUNDED.
Strangest Itches has taken sniper shots at just about every enemy on the map, but is yet to hit one. PROMOTED.
#hashtag #harli managed to capture two enemies, though took heavy fire in the process. She was promoted to sniper for this day’s work. WOUNDED.
Red Artifice got his first kill on his inaugural mission and was also promoted to sniper. WOUNDED.
Another successful mission. Another bloodbath.
Reporting for duty:
SORRY Scree
Cameron the Cold V
Techy Knight
ReTransient Mind
Ms Sketchbook
YAY! SECOND CHANCES!
I did the same thing when I played with the expansion, the character I named myself died and so I did a 6 million dollar man montage “We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better…stronger…faster.” few days later he was back in a exosuit
Did virtual me not do a good job? Sorry if so.
You haven’t been on a mission yet. I’ll let you know! 🙂
For a Templar, Kormac is surprisingly okay with teaming up with unholy undead abominations.
Goddamnit @shane. SwiftKey now autocorrects undead to undad.
Bucket list item: get book title into autocorrect.
Start playing Alien: Isolation
Go down into vent, ok, nope, don’t wanna do this. Climb out of vent, walk around. Crap! They’re gonna make me go in the stupid vent aren’t they, I don’t even have a friggin’ gun yet.Noises, light swinging around the corner, suspenseful music. Nope, I don’t like this.Just wait till you get the revolver – I said it yesterday, it doesn’ feel like sci-fi, but it feels good, haha.I saw a ‘teens react’ video with the kids forced to play some scary game. It was hilarious when one of the kids was like, “Oh god, a vent? They’re going to make me go into the vent, I just know it! Oh god, I have to go into the vent. I don’t want to go into the vent.”
I had a part like that in ZombiU. I spent a good long time psyching myself up to go into the vent.
Weirdest thing that’s impressed me about the game in the hour I’ve played so far, sometimes when sneaking your shoe squeaks. When you’re being hunted that is going to be fucking terrifying, especially if it can actually be detected.
It’s the tiniest of tiny things but I can see it having a giant impact at a critical time and very probably getting me killed.
I love that! It feels pretty realistic, for shoes to squeak. Her sneaks are pretty rad, too.
I love the squeaky shoe thing and the way she occasionally scuffs a shoe as she walks, it really is the little things that add to the overall experience.
TAY is really, really slow. Don’t let Phlanispam be unleashed, please!
Daylight savings means it’s after midnight now for most of us.
Spam is kept in a can for a reason, take the little key off and throw it into the sea for safekeeping.
Spamitty Spam, Wonderful Spam.
A year and one week after starting Dead Space, I started Dead Space 2. Played for an hour. Seems good so far. I’ve noticed a few changes that I don’t really like. It seems a bit more linear than before. At least Visceral masked the linearity well. I hope Dead Space 2 returns to the hub-based design of the first one. Is hub-based even the correct term? It’s the way the first Bioshock did it, where you are dropped in a big level and get objectives in random places.
I loved the backtracking in the original, and passing locked doors that would unlock later in the level. Gave a sense of scale and was good for world-building.
Dead Space 2 is just as not-scary as the first. Maintains that air of mystery, despite the fact I know everything there is to know about gur Znexre.
Curious to see how the the Marker ended up on one of Saturn’s moons. Is it the Red Marker or the original Black Marker? Probably the former, I don’t see how the Black Marker was recovered from the Chicxulub crater. Then again, Aegis whatevernumber was destroyed. Maybe we will see the Pink Marker?The fact that I only played for an hour bothers me, though. Whilst playing, my brain was bugging me to put it down and do something else. I then spent the next 90 minutes grumbling about how there was nothing to do. I’d hate to not finish this game, I really want to experience the rest of the story.
Okay, can I confess something? I think the only reason I want to play this game is that I want to get the story so I can read more of the novels. I’m too scared to read Dead Space Catalyst before I play Dead Space 2, because Dead Space 2 came out first and the book might spoil stuff. This is a bad thing, right? I shouldn’t be more excited to read the book over the video game.
EDIT: Man, so many spelling mistakes! Must correct them all!
Kids today with their book reading. Back in my day we played video games, damn it!
You should watch some of the animated stuff if you can. The animated motion comic that was tied into Dead Space 1 was really rather good. I remember it was bundled with Dead Space Extraction on Wii and it was a nice little addition.
I wouldn’t really describe Dead Space 1 as being hub-based. It was still pretty linear but it managed to hide the fact it was linear much, much better than the sequel.
Also I’m not going to spoil it but Dead Space 2 gets much more macabre later in the story. Not really scary but kind of confronting.
I’ve been trying to find a way to watch Dead Space Downfall since I finished the first Dead Space gamer a year ago. I don’t want to spend the money to buy it from Amazon, but it seems to be the only way without sailing the seven seas.
Costume Quest 2 is on Steam! WOOOO!
Also just finished fourth mission in Alien Isolation. Holy damn, creepy game. 🙂
Dammit @dc, got the feeling I’m not gonna catch up to you.
Can’t play Alien till after my son goes to bed, Costume Quest 2 downloaded aaaaaaand now I have to get ready for work.
Stupid seniors day, I wanna punch today in the face.
Edit: think I’ll take my laptop to work, on the off chance I’ll get a bit of spare time to play some CQ2.
I look forward to your reviews of both 😀
Anyone else picking up DriveClub, or am I on my own here?
I assume a few of you guys are gonna at least download the PS+ version.
PS+ fo’ sure, weighing heavily on the full version. Them Canada tracks are purty.
Guess I’ll see you on the track then, friend.
Why is every other PS+ game for october out but not driveclub?
*slumps over on desk*
Yup. *k’thud*
New 3DS: Pre-ordered!
…dammit, now I really want to wait for the black one.
Pfft. I preordered mine before it was cool.
5 battles in pokemon vs @beavwa last night and five losses
i didn’t know flygon was ground type.
BECAUSE THE WORD FLY IS IN ITS NAME
flying dragon
SHINY flying dragon. Looks so awesome.
Finally finished my replay of the story, so I can get on to breeding my team for Pax. Once its done, we’ll have to have some practice battles Rockets 🙂
looking forward to it
Have you still got the same lineup you sent me previously? I’m getting the hang of breeding now, sorry the help has been a bit slow in coming.
I’ve rejigged slightly, but from what I’ve received through trades and the ditto/charmander you gave me, I think I’ve got everything I need to breed what I need. If you have a spare ditto with 3 or 4 max IV’s I wouldn’t say no to that though 🙂
Think I’ve got some 3s in the set I’ve caught.
Q. What was The Fonz’s Catchphrase?
A.
ARGH. I want to play NBA 2K15 now dammit. Why can’t it be tomorrow already?
I want to buy it, but I bought 14 in the last steam sale, and haven’t touched it yet :S
I didn’t get 14 because I knew I wouldn’t have too long to wait until 15 came out when I got my PS4 in March. Big fan of the series though.
@negative_zero what day were you thinking of going to the Ghibli Museum?
@negativezero?
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I’m staying an extra 2 days past the end of the tour so either of those days. Tickets don’t go on sale until ~3 months beforehand. @novacascade has said he’ll help us get tickets if we want to go. I don’t want to go by myself though so if I’m the only one I’d probably skip.
The first day after is the 4th and we’re headed to Disneyland since its my birthday that day and inner child me (also adult current me) really wants to go to Disneyland so we were planning on going the second day, the 5th.
Sunday the 5th might be tricky for me, since I need to be leaving for Haneda by probably around midday since I’m flying out on a 5pm flight.
We actually have the 3rd as well – the tour ends on the 2nd and the 3rd has nothing scheduled other than ‘Get Your Ass To The Airport’. Perhaps that would work if you’ve got nothing planned?
Oh, I didn’t realise that. Yeah. The 3rd could work.
Yeah, one of those days I will probably do the Akihabara pilgrimage. Visit a maid cafe, observe the throne made of old NES cartridges (assuming it’s still there) at Superpotato, get really flustered and embarassed because I walked into the floor with all the porno manga in Toranoana, etc. I even have a shopping list while I’m there.
But we also have the afternoon of the 1st for that. We basically head into Tokyo from Hakone, check into the hotel then free time. So that might be the right timing there?
Sorry. Couldn’t help but giggle at the wording. 😛
If we have the afternoon of the 1st free that could be really good timing.
Yeah, those sentences are in unfortunate proximity. I meant I have a shopping list for stuff I can buy in Akiba. I wouldn’t even consider buying porn there because I’d probably end up being fined and/or cavity searched by Customs on the way back home. :\
Actually I was hoping to pick up used copies of all the Sakura Taisen games on Dreamcast.
So I took an extra long weekend and only just came back to work today after a terrible night’s sleep. For some reason despite having a gloriously lazy weekend with the wife and a blastp laying Destiny (whenever the servers were working anyway) I was overwhelmed with a tremendous melancholy late last night.
Maybe I just didn’t want to come to work this morning? I watch a couple of old movies and feel like I’ve really missed out by not appreciating them sooner. Bleeeh. Anyway, feeling flat right now, which is not what I expected after an impromptu four day weekend.
Do you get the ‘Sunday Night Sads’? God, I do. I used to get it at school, and I still get it now, as a “grown up”. That little feeling in the pit of your belly… boo.
But, at least it’s Wednesday! And today is practically already over, so only two more days till the weekend.
Not usually! Since starting this job, which I enjoy, I wouldn’t say I head off every Monday with a spring in my step and a song in my heart but I don’t generally dread coming in so I don’t get the “sads” on Sunday.
For some reason last night it hit me really hard though.
I think this is why I prefer going to climbing on a Monday. It gives me something I enjoy to look forward to, helps counter the ugh of beginning a new week.
Which films?
I caught part of An Affair to Remember while visiting my wife’s aunt/grandparents so I finished watching it when I got back home then followed up with North by Northwest since I guess I wanted to see more of Cary Grant in action and it had been on my “to do” list for years.
I should also get to some Bogart someday. I’ve never finished Casablanca, and I’ve been meaning for years to see The Maltese Falcon as well.
Watch those films. Like, right now.
Agreed.
I’ll try and make it happen over the weekend. My wife inherently detests any movie older than 10 years unless she’s already seen it (in which case it gets excused) so if I sat down to watch movies from the 40s and 50s she would think I’d lost my mind.
That gets a 🙁
One time she woke up from a nap and I was sparwled on the couch watching antiques roadshow. She wanted to know who I was and what I’d done with her husband.
Good thing I’m confident in my skill at hiding bodies or that conversation would have turned pretty awkward.
That gets a 🙂
I love North by Northwest. Great movie. Mind you, I love all of Hitchcock’s movies that I’ve seen, so I might be biased.
I’d have to say the same – though in that case the selection is limited to The Birds, Rear Window, Psycho, and now North by Northwest. I guess it’s a safe bet I’d enjoy most of his other work as well.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-297/comment-page-4/#comment-2977712
Seemed to be a thing yesterday.
Maybe this eclipse tonight is the apocalypse?
That must be it. I’ll never hit level 30 in Destiny by then. /o\
Priorities!
*thumbs up*
Oh man, it’s only 8.45 and I already want to go home. It’s going to be another quiet day I can tell. I like my job, but it’s way better when it’s busy. Maybe I’ll use the downtime to finally start writing that novel…
It’s beautiful and sunny out so all I want to do is go home and play Alien: Isolation, because if it gets too scary I can just go outside for a minute and be okay, haaaaa.
What do you do if you don’t mind me asking?
I work in medical software development.
NERD
Yep. Research and development. When I first got the job, my brother-in-law thought I was working for a medical research and testing facility. Like, yeah, I wish I worked at Umbrella Corp.
Noooooo why would ANYONE want to work at an Umbrella Corp? If I applied for a relatively benign position a company that does that kind of thing, video-game-evil or not, I’d be very concerned about the potential for bond villain shit going on in the background.
Just like when Homer worked at Globex Corporation.
…I think I would make an exception for Hank Scorpio.
“Sorry it’s not in packets. Do you want creamer?”
“Ye.. nnno.”
Software like a program that models prions misfolding proteins and works on curing it or like this is a database of patients poop consistency?
Since that’s how Bioware started out, I assume you’re secretly working on the next Mass Effect.
I did just dye my hair FemShep red. Uh, I mean, what are you talking about? Mass… Effect… ?
Just get someone to release a rat into the vents and pretend it’s the xeno, hearing something scuttling in the vents will be like playing Alien but being at work as well
Sometimes the lights in our hallways go out, and I get really excited about that, using it as a time to practice my stealth.
Any time the lights flicker, just remember to shout “What do you mean they cut the power? How can they cut the power man, they’re animals!”
Spent most of the last few days trying to get the rest of my cosplay stuff for PAX.
Talk about hectic… 🙁
A steak pun is a rare medium well done
#errdaypage6 #thisonesforyoumum
Dave went to a fortune teller to see his future.
After gazing into his visions, the fortune teller began laughing uncontrollably, so Dave leaned forward and punched her in the nose.
It was the first time he’d struck a happy medium.
Did you hear about the dwarf psychic who escaped from prison? Police said to be on the lookout for a small medium at large
I saw him climbing down the outer wall of the prison, actually. He had this really superior smirk on his face when he saw me, and I thought “well that’s a little con descending.”
I have latvia joke from motherland. Will tell.
Latvian try to cross river. Has dog, potatoes, and dead son’s body. Can only take two across river at one time. If he leave dog with potatoes or corpse, dog eat them. Is very sad. Also is not good boat.
I don’t get it.
is funny because no latvian has more than one potato.
But you just said he had “potatoes”? Multiple? So clearly there is one Latvian with more than one potato.
oh yes, there is latvian with more than one potato.
He was killed for his potato.
Now no latvian has more than one potato.
Two Latvian look at clouds.
One see potato. Other see impossible dream.
Is same cloud.
Yeah, he has two now. His son had one but the son is dead. Is very sad.
He can tie his son’s body to the boat and have it float across with him! Problem solved!
Have you heard about the man who wanted to print out a guide to incontinence? He just hit “control P”.
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeAs an IT douche myself, this is one of my favourites.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
I haven’t seen you in like, three TAY pages.
Your PAX tickets arrived yesterday and after much deliberation and cuddling what is essentially plastic – my goodbyes are done; I will send them out to you today. 😀
You’re a good person.
He’s paying me for them via other favours. See? Not so good..
..but also, thanks for the compliment.
Thank you so so much man… As I said, anything at all I can do to repay you, anything at all, let me know! You’re awesome!
What did the farmer say after losing his tractor?
I have a serious gambling problem and I need help.
#pagesix
I only just realised that the little black lines on @strange’s gravatar egg head thingie are its arms and legs.
This whole time I thought they were the outlines of a grey shirt, and the lower quarter of the picture was the upper torso/shoulders.
God talk about being late to the party =P
I am totally quick on the uptake.
Then it will probably surprise you to know that’s my actual face on the egg, too.
I did see mention of that one earlier!
How…Strange.
What did the diplopliatic misanthrope say after breaking up with triplets?
To hell with you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you.
The inventor of the anagram has died. May he erect a penis.
Not usually something I indulge in, but found this on twitter the other day and thought of Page 6.I like it.
Question for people who played Bravely Default (late-game focus so spoilered). I need help:
In World 6 when you go through the batte royale through Eternian High Command (against all of the bosses), what combination did you use for the fight against Ominas, Mephilia, Yulyana, and Qada? Everytime I come up against them they absolutely nuke the crap out of me in two turns due to the fire-weakness then firaga/fire summon combo. I’m trying to grind up to level max to make it past but I can’t come up with a strategy or job combo that would be effective without being nuked into the ground. Even on easy difficulty I get my arse kicked.That was a kind of hard fight but I stomped them fairly effectively IIRC.
My party toward the end was Edea in the Paladin gear (I think it’s Paladin? The one you get from Braev) where I would have her basically throwing up Rampart a lot, which gives everyone a shield that protects from damage. Had Agnes as Sage (I think – it was the one that lets you do stuff around elemental defenses) with White Magic secondary, and used the sage ability to fiddle with elemental resistances. And then I had Tiz and Ringabel as my strikers. One of them was a Pirate I think, for the guard breaks and stuff, and the other was a Ninja. But I moved them around a fair bit.However by the time I was in the 6th world I was level 99 and all jobs maxed. Maxing level isn’t that hard, you need to get enough money to buy the Exp egg which stops you gaining money and SP but doubles your XP, and you need to have everyone have the Valkyrie job high enough to get the Crescent Moon ability. There’s an area near IIRC the sage’s shack (but might have been in Florem near the area where you fought Mephilia the first time) where you always encounter like 4+ dudes, and often 6. With the right setup it’ll give maximum possible XP per battle for most battles. You basically have everyone brave once and do 2x Valkyrie’s Crescent Moon attack (costs 1 BP) and it’ll wipe out the enemies. Later on you can also use the sage’s Obliterate ability but that requires you to be high enough level to beat them with it. Anyway, the enemies all get hit by that Crescent attack so you’ll often also get bonuses for simultaneous clear and stuff. This works even better if you’ve unlocked all the stores in the streetpass town and have a ton of spare money (there’s another area to grind for money using the gald egg and the Merchant’s abilities) so you can buy some top-end spears. Basically once you do the initial battle, speed the battles up to max, put everyone on auto, and double the encounter rate, then sit infront of the TV for an hour or so hammering the A button and moving the circle pad in circles and you’ll level up to 99 super fast. That same area is effective also for job grinding.
Smash 4 log:
Was playing Little Mac, and just punched Ganondorf in the nads and knocked him off the screen.
Pfft, that wouldn’t happen if I was the one playing as Ganondorf.
I’d try to hit you, miss, and fall off the edge before you had a chance to hit me.
Smash Bros, where I die by my own hand being unable to stay on the level way more times than actually being killed by my opponents
That… is exactly what I do with Little Mac’s Forward + B. He launches himself forward for a punch… and I just launch myself off the platform.
Saw this on my walk home this morning. #PageSix #ifyoucantbeatemjoinem
https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/519644893119934465
strange
pls no
I can’t beat them unless they think I’m one of them Bishy! I’ll take them down from inside their insidious organisation.But at what cost!?You’ll return to DC and I, and you’ll say you’re fine, but we’ll notice. We’ll notice those moments where your eyes glass over and you gaze into the distance. We’ll notice when you suddenly pause before a word before speaking again. We’ll notice, and we’ll think to ourselves… “She just thought of a page 6 pun”, and we’ll shed a tear.
I saw a great Church billboard one previously; it said
REVIVAL CANCELLED
DUE TO DEATH
#projectsnapandquilt
Saw this gem pop up in my facebook feed this morning, I can’t stop laughing. The comments he made after on said status are equally as amusing.
I would love to have some auto hose turrets at my door for those guys 😛
Costume Quest has been out seven hours. I’ve played for six. WOOOO!
Good signs DC, good signs
Posted at 11am…
Been out for 7 hours…
That puts it at 4am…
I’m also willing to bet you were up till at least midnight (if not past) playing Alien Isolation…
Do you sleep?!
I don’t want to mum-out on you again, but you need sleep DC, I swear to god! 😛
No sleep! 😀
Oh my god.
You’ve slept since, right?
RIGHT?!
You need to tell me you’ve slept!
Nah, nothing wrong with an all nighter every now and then.
Ahhh, you’re making me tired thinking about staying up all night!
You’re a crazy kid DC.
He’s a wild one. He even crossed the street without looking both ways one time!
Jealous.
Playing as the Witch Doctor in Diablo 3 means I don’t get to use any spells or attacks since all the Zombie Dogs and the Gargantuan as well as the companion kill all the enemies before I get a chance to.
Also, it’s a Hardcore character so I can’t let him die. Every single elite mob I encounter is Arcane Enchanted.
Pls stahp.
Urgh arcane enchanted feels so cheap and it gets ridiculous if you fight a mob of blues. That combined with poison enchanted just creates a whole lot of nope.
Then you hit the high level blue mobs where they have Arcane Plagued Desecrater Waller Jailer Electricfied Orbiter written under their name.
Diablo 3…played when it first came out.. been so long.
I used to cry when I saw elite mob with a combo of horde fast teleport fire chain vortex extra health reflect. I was a wizard so used to aggro mobs out of screen….
I currently have a Demon hunter in Act III and I’ve played about 70% on Normal – which is easy most of the time, with a slight challenge presented by those elite mobs. I did play some on Hard but while it made the game more interesting instead of a faceroll, the elite encounters were too much of a speed bump for a first playthrough.
I have a Witch Doctor that I started playing a game on hard with my wife and a friend, which we intend to continue whenever he’s over for some couch co-op. So far Hard with three players has been far easier than Normal with one player.
The next time there’s four of us we’re going to do a Hard/Hardcore game – my wife has watched some of the Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter Let’s Play videos and I guess she believes that playing Hardcore will make it more interesting. She’s probably right.
Playing hardcore with your wife sounds like a recipe for divorce
I choose to take this statement out of context.
As you should
I’m gunning for the Platinum for it so he’s staying on Normal until he hits 70 and beaten Diablo and Maltheal.
Then I just need to get everyone else to 70.
Long way to go yet.
So cold in here today that I’m actually wearing a jacket. A JACKET!
I haven’t worn my jacket since… I can’t even remember. Some time before I even started this job I think.
You looking forward to the weekend, Ooky?
Yes.
Wait, why? Is something happening that I forgot about?
Nothing.
I was building up to a joke about you needing your jacket because you’re shivering in antici…
…pation
But then I realised the joke would suck and I don’t have an out right now that would somehow make me look good, so instead I’m over explaining the whole thing, only to walk away from the computer and eat lunch cringing to myself about this.
#pagesixfail, #pagesixstanretires
My cat was just sick on the carpet, I don’t think it’s feline well.
🙁 – I missed page 6
Images!
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/luckydogofdeath/library/Cosplay
Now back to work
Wow that fur is so realistic!
*Scratches beard*
Interesting…
http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/09/26/boba-fett-killed-who-in-star-wars-this-explains-everything-2299242?
I try not to click on clickbaity worded link as a matter of principle.
Bob navigates the Internet using this one old weird trick, you’ll never believe just what he does.
Well, in short, it argues that Boba Fett killed Luke’s Aunt and Uncle in Star Wars, then lays out the evidence as to why it makes sense in a very compelling manner.
It’s a cool theory, and I wish it was true, but I don’t think it was Lucas’ intention at all.
Well, there’s always the chance of it turning into Ascended Fanon. 🙂
I am not clicking that.
No way am I
Shit I clicked it
Help
I’m stuck in TvTropes again
That was my plan. 🙂
Pretty cool theory, and it slotted in together quite nicely
That theory’s been around for years and it’s full of shit. Boba Fett did not exist until Empire.
EDIT:
He was digitally added into the scene with Jabba in ANH’s special edition. The character was created for the Star Wars Holiday Special and had his first canonical appearance in ESB and thus could not have factored into any plot elements of that original film.
The Stormtroopers slaughtered Owen and Beru to cover their tracks. Vader had no say in what they were doing, he wasn’t even anywhere near the fucking planet at that point. He was on the Death Star with Tarkin, getting disturbed at people’s lack of faith. The Stormtroopers likely took the Lars as being rebels or rebel sympathizers and killed them. They also slaughtered an entire Sandcrawler’s worth of Jawas. Indeed these aren’t actions that are characteristic of the way they were administrating the planet, but you also notice that they pretended to be Tusken Raiders so it wouldn’t reflect back on them.
Really? Because one of the points he makes is:
“As shown in the now-canon 1997 Star Wars Special Edition, Fett was in the nearby Mos Eisley just after the Lars’ murder – and it’s not too hard to believe he’d be willing to double up on bounty’s in search of a profit.”
With a screencap of Han, Jabba and Boba.
…is this one of those things Lucas changed in the new editions that affects everything?
(EDIT: Just realised that may have come off combative, which is not my intention – it was a “Really” as in “I honestly didn’t know that, is that really the case and can you explain?”)
Boba Fett did not exist until a year after the film released. He couldn’t have factored into the script because he wasn’t even a thing.
Also with the way Lucas retconned stuff in the films, if he wanted Boba to have been responsible instead of the Stormtroopers, he’d have changed stuff to make it so.
Yeah, but the Boba theory is more fun.
Sitting at work and pumping myself up for my planned ride in the rainforest. I may do it this weekend even, if I get pressured enough. 😀
You’re sick StickMan!
#EveryPage18
Hoorah, my crimping & tester set showed up like an hour ago. First attempt at making an ethernet cable the tester says all 8 pins are correct, fuck yeah. It’s been like 10 years since I even did this, last time would’ve been in electronics or IT back in high school /o\
Now to make one to the router in my room for use with the PS3, PS4 & HTPC..
Apparently they’re having a Handheld Tourney for Animal Crossing: New Leaf at PAX.
…huh.
who has the nicest house??
Who can pick the most apples?
Who can buy the most clothes?
Who can hit the most villagers with a bug net until they grow so tired of your antics that they move out in disgust?
I wish i lived in that village. I would hit so many people. Especially Tom Nook
he is a right
cuntWHOA!
Unexpected 😛
So tired… turns out starting Alien: Isolation at 11:15pm on a weeknight, after a raid, probably wasn’t the best idea, in hindsight.
Haha, I finished playing my first session of Alien Isolation around 2am. There was no way I could sleep after that. Not because it was too scary, but because my mind was in a focused state of high alert. D:
I only played about 45 mins or so – met a guy who taught me how to avoid getting shot by bending my knees (aka. the stealth tutorial). Took another hour to get to sleep. I put it down to latent memories from the first time I saw Alien – seeing the bridge of that M-class, in particular…
Just in case any PAX people hadn’t seen, the schedule is out!
http://aus.paxsite.com/schedule
Settlers of Catan Tournament: SUNDAY 2/11 2:00PM – 4:00PM
Yes, please. 😀
I can’t make that but there is a 7 Wonders tournament on the Friday evening.
Probably the only tournament that I’ll enter.
That one’s highlighted on my schedule as well. 🙂
Someone should probably suggest that they change the abbreviation for the Kookaburra theater to ‘Koo’ instead of ‘Kook’ (which is a racial slur)
I thought it was just a word for a crazy person.
I’ve heard it used as a racial slur, at least. Though Urbandictionary suggests it’s a surfer term.
I had a classmate who had a nickname, then had a nickname that was a shorthand for their nickname, and that nickname nickname was Kook.
…What was I saying again?
Yeah, I have a nickname for a nickname, and that nickname nickname is Gook. Which is indeed also a racial slur, but that’s just coincidence.
Hopefully Karaoke doesn’t make people have to make hard decisions on Saturday on whether or not to come along if there’s something they want to see/do at PAX at that time 🙁
I’ll be missing Freezepop but oh well.
It’s a real shame, but with how PAX run things it’s unavoidable that this was going to happen, sorry man
Ow, sorry. The day and time was my call. If you need someone to blame, blame me.
Also, I can confirm this meat is bigger than last year.
I do blame you. You knew that Star Citizen was doing their thing on the Saturday. Ya used me, @Scree-ner! :'(
Noooooo…!
@scree and @tech_knight We all know the meat will be far more fun and I’m honestly not that torn about missing PAX stuff when I could be making a fool of myself in front of people from the Internets!
I’m not even changing out of my cosplay, I reckon.
Like that’s even an option 😛
No no. I’ll probably sing something.
@negativezero
What of the winter season anime are worth watching?
i downloaded fate/zero to watch because i heard good things about it and the second season. Everything else im going in blind too. What are you watching.
I feel like i can be of some help here, though not many from this season really grab my attention.
So far I’ve watched the the new Gundam: I don’t follow gundam at all but this was pretty good and there’s already 2 episodes out.
And the other is When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace, which is looking really good in my opinion. If you want something funny and light-hearted watch this.
All the other ones i plan on watching are sequels: Psycho-Pass 2, Chiaka 2 and Fate/Stay Night.
Fate/Zero is fucking incredible, I don’t think ufotable’s remake of Fate/Stay Night will be as good simply because the source material isn’t as good. I’m actually really sad they opted to do the second arc of the game (Unlimited Blade Works) instead of the third, ‘true’ arc (Heaven’s Feel) as that third arc has the best continuity from Fate/Zero as it covers many of the plot threads left from Zero and is the darkest of the arcs as well so the tone fits better.
So far I’ve watched a few new shows but nothing really has stood out as a must-watch. Amagi Brilliant Park was the best I’ve seen so far, Kyoto Animation’s show for the season. But even then I’m a bit hesistant. Actually was going to write some impressions so far later today
You just get me. Me you and @saturday need to start a anime club where you two talk about anime and i listen and eat snacks.
YO, NOW’S A GOOD TIME TO HOP UNTO THE FATE TRAIN BECAUSE FATE STAY NIGHT’S GONNA BE FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC YO
WHAT’S THAT? YOU WANTED NEGATIVEZERO’S OPINIONS AND NOT MINE? FUCK IT WE GONNA TALK THE ANIMU NOW
BY THE BY I ASSUME YOU MEAN THE FALL SEASON BECAUSE DAYUM THE WINTER SEASON IS ANOTHER BEAST ALTOGETHER
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
Denki-Gai no Honya-san
Gundam: G no Reconguista
Kiseijuu
Mushishi Zoku Shou 2
Log Horizon 2
Psycho-Pass 2
Nanatsu no Taizai
Sanzoku no Musume Ronja
Now I know what you’re thinking. “JESUS ON A POGO STICK MAN THAT’S A LOT OF JAPANESE ANIMATION TO WATCH, HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT HELP ME DECIDE WHAT TO WATCH?!” In which case I would say for you to calm down, because yelling’s my shtick, and it’s abrasive enough without the two of us yelling. I’ll ring up what I think is the most original of the lot I listed (which means I’m cutting out the sequels and the continuations of series.)
Denki-Gai no Honya-San is about a group of workers in a nerd-oriented bookstore in Japan. It’s slice-of-life, and I actually enjoy it a lot- the characters are all interesting, there’s good chemistry, there’s a nice mix of humour and a bit of romance, and it’s just simple, good stuff. Would recommend at least checking out.
Kiseijuu, or, ah, Parasyte, is a classic horror/thriller manga about aliens, and a alien attaching himself to a dude after said alien fails to eat the dude’s brain. I quite miss the old art-style, but I imagine this’ll be on a lot of people’s radar, because, well, it’s a damn good horror/thriller manga. It sticks to it’s guns and does what it does well, so I can’t really say more.
The Seven Deadly Sins are about a group of colorful cast of legendary knights branded as outlaws by the kingdom they swore to protect. It might *sound* boring, but the manga it’s based on oozes originality down to characters, their powers, the world itself. It’s shonen at it’s finest and I’m finding myself putting it next to One Piece in terms of just how *fresh* it is.
Sanzoku no Musume Ronja is a Ghibli thing. I have no clue about it and I’m just watching it because of Ghibli.
There are a few more things on my radar, but this post sums up the majority of my impressions about this season.
I love it when you talk dirty japanese anime to me
Also i wwas already looking at Denki-Gai no Honya-San because i miss golden time. Seriously in comparison to all the amazing anime that has come out this year it is garbage, but the simplicity is wonderful.
I really enjoyed Golden Time for a while, but a lot of the characters’ decisions had me seriously groaning. Knowing full-well that the eventual end-pairing was going to go against what all right-thinking people want kind of took the wind out of my sails for finishing it.
Denki-gai no Honya-san is nothing like Golden Time. Nothing at all.
It’s a slice-of-life comedy set around weirdos that work at an Akiba bookstore that specializes in selling porn. The closest comparison would be the series Working or Servant x Service.
I do enjoy porn. I mean i miss the simplicity of things, The world doesn’t always have to be in danger. Thats why i like slice of life shows. 🙂
Oh dude.
Dude.
I have the best recommendation for you. I’m actually in the middle of typing up a big thing explaining my ‘top 10 favourites’ as asked by @coldcamv but I’ll spoiler one for you: Aria. It’s super calm and uplifting and optimistic and nothing really happens and everything is beautiful.
YAY YAY YA BEAUTIFUL. I shall have a look. Thanks neg
Your list looks exactly like my list of things I’m interested in (esp. Mushishi!) except missing Chaika’s second half and I struggled to get into Psycho-pass so not on my list. And also I’m really interested in giving Akatsuki no Yona a go, because I’m a sucker for shoujo-oriented eastern fantasy stuff.
Still very much on the fence about Ronia. On the one hand, yeah, it’s Ghibli. On the other, it’s not animated by Ghibli, it’s being done by some other crowd and it’s a 3D CG thing and looks kind of awkward and stiff as most 3DCG stuff does.
Hmmm, Smash Melee tournament on the Sunday of PAX, overlapping with Smash 3DS, and no Smash Wii U tournament in sight.
The WiiU one’s not out yet though.
Playable at PAX.
It’s just the demo if it’s the same as the one playable at the EB Expo (only a handful of characters/stages). Needed resetting occasionally too because it wasn’t the finished build of the game. Wouldn’t make for a very good tournament.
That’s disappointing. I thought there’d already been a smash Wii u tournament somewhere earlier this year. Guess I better brush up some more (or at all, beyond the fact I’ve plugged the cube back in) on melee.
The version without Sonic… :'(
Oof. My bot-bot! After discovering that sprinting to race a bus last night felt really, surprisingly good (and surprisingly easy on the ankles – these boots really live up to their reputation), I somewhat idiotically decided to go do some more of it, later in the night. Because every now and then your inner animal wants to experience the rush of (non-pharmacological) speeeeeeed.
An hour or so later, I was already feeling some pretty serious soreness in the glutes and hammies. After sleeping a bit, that has become even more pronounced. And somewhat inconvenient now that I’m sitting all day.
The moral of the story is: don’t sprint for exercise, kids.
It’s bad for your bum.
…I’m pretty sure that’s the moral, anyway.
We have a really wide seat on the exercise bike, which doesn’t go very well because you’re needing to move your legs to pedal, so edges of a metal interior are digging into your pelvis, you don’t feel it until after some time and especially when you’re about to sit down for round 2.
Yes, running is a terrible idea always 😛
Speaking of exercise pain, really feeling last night’s efforts now. Also can’t tell if my elbow’s hurting from that or from slipping on the edge of the desk earlier.
Right? But at the same time, sometimes the testosterone build-up kind of makes you want to go run out into the wilds and sprint after some large herbivore so you can leap onto it and bring it down with your hands and teeth. And just in general it’s a pretty good idea to be at least faster than most people, so that they will distract the zombies, when they come. And they are coming.
Gooky and Serrels tales of rock-climbing has actually had me researching a couple places to get into climbing, too. Thinking maybe once a week or something.
I did an impromptu walk/run a couple weekends ago. Calves were so fucked that I could hardly walk for the next 2-3 days.
I was sprinting earlier this year. I kind of loved it. I loved how your legs would just buckle as soon as you stopped. You could feel it. It was satisfying. 😀
That sounds like me 24-48 hours after every decent legs session at the gym. 🙁
Sprinting makes your bum hurt…
Hmm, sprinting must be good for working on your booty!
What kind of sprinting are we talking about?
Sustained sprinting, sprint-jog, one short sprint?
I gotta know, it’s for my booties sake!
Weeeeeell, from what I remember from actual training…
If you really wanna hurt your bum, all you’ve gotta do is activate your glutes. Like when you do a step-up if you just let your body do whatever the hell it wants, it’ll rely mostly on your quads, but if you put a big hip-thrust on there and focus on activating/tensing your glutes for the initial thrust, they’ll get hit pretty hard, too. Squats are much the same – they’ll work incidentally just to get the movement done that you’re asking your body to do, but if you mentally focus on activating them intentionally, they’ll work harder and make the movement easier, allowing you to load more weight onto them on things like leg press. My Mum’s partner actually gets his mates to sit on either ends of the leg press machine because it can’t take enough weight in plates.
But basically last night I sprinted across a street and raced a bus I knew was stopping 75’ish metres down the road, and when I discovered it was much, much easier and felt better than I remembered, I went and practiced the same thing out on the street outside. Quiet streets, late night, no traffic, decent for sprinting. Just reaching the end of the road, trying to go as fast as possible, mentally pretending I was chasing down a purse-snatcher or something to go plant them into the pavement with some righteous fury. I was just after the sensation of speed, rather than training my poor bum.
(So to clarify: longer rests than the beep test, which is insane and seems to be mostly about endurance. Just enough to get the rush of speed, over and over.)
Sounds like you didn’t have a warm up! 😛 Sprints are great for strengthening and toning glutes and hamstrings, it’s a good idea to go through some warm up sets before you get started. I’d recommend 8 run throughs before hand, which are a 65% effort compared to your max speed.;
Build up so that your glutes can survive, have a crack at 8 sets of warm up and 6-10 sprints at max effort with a rest period of 1:5 (10 second sprint: 50 seconds rest for example).
You’ll be catching every bag snatcher in town if you do that!
It’s funny that despite being perpetually ready for it, hyper-vigilant for innocents to defend, wrongs to right… the only incidents of violence and crime I’ve ever seen on the street are from people who were asking for it, willing participants. Domestic disputes, pub brawlers, confused and desperate dudes trying to figure out how not to fight back against angry, tiny women trying to knock them flat.
It’s as if Hollywood has been lying to me or something.
Liondrives current top 5 songs:
Arctic Monkeys – R U Mine
Lorde – Glory and Gore
Arcade Fire – No Cars Go
Imagine Dragons – Cha-Ching
The Script – Before the Worst
Yes, yes, yes, no, no.
🙂
The script are actually quiet good, i really love that guys voice and their songs are super catchy.
Imagine dragons also have a bit of talent, i remember loving radioactive before it got massive and still enjoy the fuck outta it.
I have heard a total of 0 of those songs.
You should check them out. They are good.
Have you seen my taste in music? It’s firmly stuck in the 70s/80s and when it does venture out to more recent offerings it’s generally flitting around folk / blues.
I grew up listening to everything, but limiting your taste by “ive always liked this style only” and not giving anything else a chance is sad. Think of all the synth pop you could be dancing to.
**Moseys off bopping to synth pop
I’ve given plenty of pop a chance though incidental exposure and that’s quite enough for me. Lorde makes me want to claw my ears out.
For no particular reason other than masochism, here are my thoughts, just for you.
1: Completely the wrong kind of rock for me.
2: I literally want to punch you for making me listen to that.
3: See number 1. Are you sure they’re not the same song?
4: First 30 seconds were good. Then the song started.
5: I want it to be Ben Folds and then I’m sad that it’s not. Way too over processed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYhAEjnFqis
I prefer looking out my backdoor, because i know its not about butts but it could be.
My hero!
@beeawwb gotta cleanse the palate.
Arcade fire and Arctic monkeys aren’t the same silly.
I understand why people might not like lorde though. its kind of a unique taste thing.
I feel like she’s all the bad bits of Regina Spektor (of which there are plenty) with none of the redeeming qualities.
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I know one of those (R U Mine), but only because it’s in Rocksmith. ‘s alright, I guess.
Have Imagine Dragons dropped their ‘noisy mix’ bs?
I don’t know what that is, so I’m going to say… Yes?
I haven’t gone through their whole album yet, but I really like them so far 🙂
Cha-Ching is nothing like Radioactive or Demons. Each song seems to be its own so far 🙂
Their song that made them famous .. Radioactive. (Along with every song on that album) Was muxed with a ‘dirty’ effect, so none of the audio was clean. It sounds semi-okay through car speakers and radio, but I have even the uncompressed version and it’s near-unlistenable. 🙁
So yeah, that dirty sound. Whole previous album had it, not great.
Are these to help you sleep at night?
You’re a music snob, Freezey! Bah! 😛
They help calm the screaming in my head 🙂
That makes me sound around 10,000x crazier than intended :S
Do things crawl in your skin from wounds that dont heal??
Man I loved Linkin Park in high school.
You have no idea how much it hurt to admit that.
I dont love them but i only watch naruto videos wih linkin park in the background.
I don’t know any of those songs and I am okay with that,
I don’t know any of those bands, or any of those songs. However I think the second band had some opinion on the Occulus Rift that TAY blew up over.
Played some Alien Isolation during the day without headphones and it’s not the same. This needs to be played in the dark and you need to hear every single piece of ambient sound. Tension goes down 50% otherwise. Also @gutsoup, Crew Expendable DLC is now available to redeem properly on PS4. Phew.
whoop, glad it was just a matter of waiting. I’m keen to play more tonight, really liking the little details.
I’ve made a point not to post screenshots but couldn’t help myself when I saw this statue thingy. SO MUCH DETAIL. (No spoilers.)
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/519694948493295616
I liked how in the kitchen areas there’s always a bit of a mess on the counter or some rubbish lying around, really helps make the place feel lived in.
And how there’s labels above all the dispensers. Milk, butter, sugar, etc. Just little touches of awesome.
my sister was watching me play, she laughed at how long I spent reading all the labels and looking at all the magazines and stuff, she also laughs at how much I look behind me or how every time there’s a noise I pause, look around and then keep moving. Funny the biggest jump scare I had was because she screamed, I saw what was coming and was ready but having her scream behind me made me jump.
Hrm. This enthusiasm is starting to sell me on the idea. Also the high-quality cheap headphones I got might get a work-out. They improved my enjoyment of Destiny significantly.
I’m just using iPhone headphones and it does the job. Can’t imagine what a surround sound setup like @freezespreston’s would be like!
I highly recommend the Turtle Beach P12s from EB. Good microphone, fantastic sound quality, conveniently long cord.
Who needs long cord now you can plug it into PS4 controller! THE FUTURE! :’)
$300-500 for a good quality HT system is one of the best investments you can make, if you have decent TV (which for games is.. any). I still look over my shoulder sometimes.
I don’t have that amount in my bank account. 😛
You’re preaching to the choir though. When I worked on Big Brother we had these kick ass sound cancelling, surround sound headphones. Nothings compared to them since. 😀
Budget. 😛 PS4 was $550 lol. It really makes a big difference, and if you have good console and TV it’s the only thing missing from having ‘it all’. Plus dem blurays.
I, uh, may have spent….. a fraction more than that.
Heh. 😛 For sure. Money well-spent if you have it and the room to house it in! I have a Yamaha HTIAB, but it’s got powered sub and it’s a good match for my current living space.
I got this one.
http://www.sony.com.au/product/ht-m77
It’s probably too big but meh, I like it loud.
Ahh, the muteki! Nice choice to blow the eardrums of whole neighbourhood. 😀
Without headphones, but is that to mean just through TV speakers? What about through a stereo?
Based on tests with Elite (totally got no idea how it would translate to other games, but) absolute best would be headphones + subwoofer though.
I’m just comparing headphones vs. speakers on TV. I’m sure any sophisticated setup would be better. My neighborhood is crazy loud though. Mowing. Traffic. PIPE DOWN. *shakes fist*
The sound design in Alien is incredible, though. I swear I heard a cat before. D:
Yeah, I totally want to play it.
But, platforms.
If it was any other month I would have grabbed that game but Shadow of Mordor, Bayonetta 2 and DA:I is kind of draining my bank account.
Yeah, for sure. Remember it, though. I think you would like it. I think it would appeal to the Dark Souls fans too with the strategy to get through encounters.
Anyone with PS4 camera tried streaming? Can you turn off the self-view and comments?
Stayed up way too late last night stressing out about whether I’d made the right choice applying for the place I’m probably going to end up getting. It’s in a great location but it’s kind of small, I was looking at the floorplan and trying to figure out what I’d put where and oh god did I make a mistake etc. 🙁
If it’s just you, small can be cozy. You just have big life decision angst going on. 😀
Yep, this exactly.
Lucky you’re just renting and not tried down for 30 years. 🙂
Small is good. Larger places take a lot more cleaning/maintenance.
Keep trying to convince yourself that small is good Freeze.
We all know what you’re really talking about 😉
….ca…cars?
I have a big car and i want a small one.
Take that how you will
hehehe euphemisms are fun
Penises you dong.
This is true too. Also smaller means I have less furniture to move when I move somewhere else and I have less extra stuff I need to buy to fill the place out.
Plus going to save so much time and money by being 15-20 mins drive from work instead of 45-60 mins, won’t have to take an expensive toll road to get to the gym in the mornings, and will have the option of actually taking public transport and playing games during my commute. So the location easily trumps the fact I could probably get something a bit bigger for the same money if I were further out.
I’m going through the same sort of stress with my new place. Nothing to do with the house, it’s just general panic that everyone goes through in these situations.
Honestly, once, you’ve settled in you’ll figure out where and how everything goes, and you’ll be happy.
You should see the size of some of the places I’ve lived… but my theory has always been that with a powerful PC, sufficient bandwidth, and freedom to get the occasional yard exercise, I would probably even be fine with living in a prison cell.
I’m willing to admit that this is quite possibly not the norm.
The only concern in size of living spaces for me has been the idea of bringing people back home to them. It was a pretty big relief to discover that this is only a factor for fence-sitters or long-term prospects. If your partner’s already eager and ready (such as after a heady night out), the ‘where’ tends to rank pretty low on their priorities. Privacy and cleanliness rank much higher than space unless they’re an exhibitionist. A studio apartment beats a 4-bed sharehouse living-room. (Most of the time.)
Well… crap 😛
You’ll be fine!
Ooh, the Nordic Games Humble Bundle look good. Too bad I own every THQ game ever.
Ah I totally forgot i pre-ordered DriveClub.
*check bank balance*
Oh only $400, hmm but i have PAX in two weeks, maybe i can save some money.
*checks work roster*
Oh no work for then next two weeks…
;-;
Liondrives alternate top 5 current songs cause I forgot a bunch and felt guilty for forgetting them and oh my god there is so much new music in my life that I can’t keep up with it all and it is the best thing ever.
The Killers – Read My Mind
Arctic Monkeys – Arabella
Arcade Fire – It’s Never Over (Orpheus)
Calvin Harris – We’ll Be Coming Back
Lorde – Ribs
I’ve still heard none of these songs.
0 for 10! \o/
Dude, Killers, listen to them.
Dude.
Seriously.
Dude.
Killers are my second fave band of all time behind arcade fire.
you have good taste mr fluffy lion.
I don’t have a favourite musician.
I kinda just go through phases :3
I went through a Lady Gaga phase, then an Arcade Fire phase, then a the Killers phase, and now I’m in an Arctic Monkeys phase :3
Unpopular opinion though, but I don’t like Arcade Fires ‘Funeral’ very much so far :S
And Neon Bible is about 50/50.
Funeral is tricky, its a great album but it requires a lot of listens. I listened to the suburbs first and loved it straight away but funeral is still in my car. I guess its just got a real cohesion to the album and the vagueness of the lyrics really allow for whatever interpretation you want.
Somebody Told Me was fine, but it didn’t give me any desire to listen to more of their stuff.
All I remember about the Killers is that my mum banned me from listening to them because she didn’t like the band’s name. Then the Killers became less relevant. I forgot that band was still around.
Kids these days… So much to learn.
This is a list of all the songs I have on my work USB drive. Feel free to judge / mock me as needed.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e8vu83vhpvxiwtg/worksongs.html?dl=0
Obligatory “I hate the fucking Eagles man”.
Of course. And I’ll expect nothing less when I start crowing about them in March (when they’re touring)
You’re going? Aw man I wish I was rich enough to help fund Don Henley & Glen Freys retirement fund.
Yeah, I saw them the last time they were in Australia and it was 3 hours of amazing, and this time a couple friends are going as well so we’ve got company in the nosebleed section.
Aw man, lucky. I had no one to go with last time.. Well mum & dad are fans but they aren’t into concerts these days lol.
I can’t justify nosebleeds for concerts I always have to be up front >_> But I didn’t have a grand for the very front row sadly 😛
@virus__ I hear that. We all discussed where we’d be prepared to sit and how much we’d be prepared to pay and ended up landing on “Silver” and even then nosebleed-centre was the best we could do (all 3 of us hammering the ticketing website at the same time until we got something that wasn’t “restricted view”) at the time. Still, will be great. Eagles and Steely Dan are the only 2 bands on my “absolutely must see whenever possible” list. 🙂
Fair call! I’d be that with The Eagles if I could ever afford their ticket prices haha.
I hear ya there though with having to see x bands every time they tour, for me that has to be Slipknot & The Living End.
Oh, go get a prostate exam old man 😛
*does an birdie on one of those weird double scooter things and realises I’m falling behind trends*
Ribs is so good.
All her stuff that hasn’t been played to death on the radio are so good!
Ribs, Glory and Gore, 400Lux, White Teeth Teens and Buzzcut Season are all so much better than Royals, Tennis Court and Team (which are all still great too though).
Sounds like you’re a Triple J guy!
Edit: Triple spell fail
One of my armpits smells a little. The other one is OK.
…
I think I’m bored.
I know i am.
The old man keeps stealing all the jobs to do.
Then i watch him do it judgementally.
Because he is a asshole and does it to me. Yeah i see you not soldering that joint the way you are meant to because of your bad arthritis.
Wanna compare smells? I’m pretty bored too 😛
I must have run into a major bug in Dead Space 2. I encountered the first shop, and almost everything is free. Is this a bug or some free DLC thing? I’d rather unlock thing organically rather than have everything given to me from the start.
Also, the shop doesn’t seem to give me ammo. What? Is this an intentional design decision?
I’m not playing until I get an answer on this. I don’t want to exploit a bug.
Someone please respond. I want to play, dammit!
Haha don’t know, that might be one for the forums 😛
Ahh, I keep making spelling mistakes in my TAY posts, and not realising until the day after. It’s too late by then! Everyone will have seen my errors!
Just emprace it.
MY blog title is mispelled.
I think you mean emperor. Not emprace.
I’m bored! I should be looking at invoices and filing PO’s but blergh.. TAY I demand you enterTAYn me! See what I did there? =P
http://imgur.com/8iLPgVW
Well that was a fairly appropriate 10,000th comment.
An informative post, as per usual. So I guess.. thank you? 😀
Was it the reply to me up the page there?
Yup.
Jesus youve had 10000 comments
how long have you been here??
About a year and a half? TAY, anyway.
Has anyone not done this week’s Nightfall strike yet? =P
@jocon Time to double up on this shit! Let me know if you and red are doing a 28 weekly today as well!
I haven’t. 🙁 26 here.
I’m down. lets me know on here if/when you are up for as I probs won’t be online.
I’m on now bro, should be on till about 9.30 so log on whenever! =]
I don’t understand. I hardly ever buy clothes. How have I come to spend $150 on clothes on the internet over the past few weeks? :S Last year the only clothes I bought were a few cheap t shirts!
Oh relax, I’ve bought a single shirt that cost more than that 😛
And just under that amount on underwear.
And about that on a pair of jeans.
And oh my god I have a problem…
I suddenly don’t feel quite as bad 😛
I think the most expensive shirt I own cost like $80 that I bought for my friends wedding last year, but mum paid for it \o/ (and I haven’t worn it since :P)
And I spent $50 on 2 pairs of jeans the other week! Y’know, expensive tastes and all
Yeah, I’m trying to cut back on the unnecessary expenditure (on clothing) :S
The amount I paid for that shirt (which, in its defense, is beautiful) in hindsight was far too much :S
And the jeans (in their defense, they are Calvin Kleins, and super comfy!).
I stand by the undies though, cause I needed new undies 😛
These days I don’t buy a piece of clothing if it is over $60.
The most I’ve spent on clothes is $20 for a pair of boots I found at The Smith Family when looking for stuff for a Little Mac costume.
Unless you count the $30 ski boots for the Luigi costume.
Watching Ender’s Game (which I have no expectations for) and already I’m annoyed. Apparently Ender’s name is Andrew Ender Wiggin not Andrew “Ender” Wiggin. It was a nickname dammit. One his sister came up with because she couldn’t pronounce Andrew.
Also because of the xenocide that happens but that’s a little more on the nose.
That movie was ok, if you have never read the book and like bad movies.
That had to be one of the best short reviews I’ve ever read… I’m borrowing that!
Also accurate for World War Z.
I’ve always been of the opinion that that book is massively overrated. Also that Orson Scott Card is a gigantic asshole.
Both true but the book is still good.
Yeah he’s a prick.
books good though
Ender’s Game is an amazing read. It’s the sequels that are tosh.
It’s also the one he probably didn’t actually write himself 😛
I don’t know. Ender’s Shadow is fairly close to Ender’s Game and still feels like the same author that wrote the rest of the Ender’s Game books (Speaker for the Dead etc).
Some people have a few good ideas in them. In OSC’s, there were two and a half: Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead and Ender’s Shadow. The rest of his work sucks.
It’s just really hard to reconcile Ender’s game with the guy’s actual views in just about everything.
Xenocide and Children of the Mind are much more in line with his actual views and you can see the transition to the point through the series.
That movie crapped all over the book.
Completely missed the entire point of much of the goings-on.
So for anyone that didn’t see it last night:
this happened!… Sorry to spam it in 2 places but it’s something I’m pretty freaking proud of! My whole family (in-law) was there and it was generally a pretty amazing night
Your middle name is Bach? That’s pretty damn cool.
Also, REAL NAME ALERT.
Also, Congrats, mate.
Haha yep, full name alert AND BIRTH DATE XD… honestly I’m so ecstatic about it that I don’t care and honestly I don’t really think it matters anymore :P…
Congrats!
I shall follow your example and get around to doing that one day 😛
You did good, kid, you did good 🙂
PIXEL THE FERRET AUSTRALIAN \o/
Pixel the ferret bogan? 😛
That’s bonza, mate.
Got some cosplay stuff today, should have the sword and shield by Friday.
I’m excited! 😀
PAX flights finally booked! \o/
Also, finally heard back from Christmas casual position I applied for at Auspost. I applied for a parcel deliver / van driver. So now I’m a jolly fat guy that’s delivering Christmas presents to peoples houses. I am the modern day Santa! \o/ \o/
Also I was freaking out and thought I would have to miss out on PAX because of work but I start working in November \o/ \o/ \o/
Today is a good day!
Woo congrats! TAYs personal Santa… Please deliver lots of coal to evil children!
I wonder what the policy is for delivering coal to* (throwing coal at) small children is?
Encouraged!
Out of a high-powered gatling gun.
There is a video game on Steam that will help you prepare for the job. It’s called Postal 2, but I’m pretty sure in Europe it’s known as Postal Delivery Driver Simulator 7. Do everything from the game in real life, and thank me later when you get promoted on your first day!
Due to missing page 6 thanks to being at work, I would like to make it up to you all with a Mum joke (from a conversation I had with her on… Sunday? Ish?).
“Hmm, I’m not really happy with the stitching on this quilt, so today’s been a bit of a waste. I’ve had to do a whole lot of Frog Stitching.”
“Frog Stitching?”
“Yeah, you know, you rip-it, rip-it, rip-it.”
I’ve got Ashley’s Song from Brawl stuck in my head…
I loved that song.
Hated that version of it 😛
For anyone interested Exodus of Sol is currently going for $1.89 on indie gala https://www.indiegala.com/
Still early access and I haven’t tried it yet but from what I’ve heard it’s quite a competent space sim for all you guys with a space sim itch
I’ll get the powder.
So, who else is getting Smash Bros. for Wii U?
o/
Me!
YEP. DONT THINK I’D GET TO DO THE MULTI IF I GOT IT ON THE 3DS.
WHY ARE YOU IN ALL CAPS?
I HAVE A QUOTA TO FILL.
Who has a Wii U and isn’t! (and isn’t D.C.* :P)?!
Dunno why the US get it so earlier though 🙁
I am pure HYPE for this game, so yes.
@coldcamv Top 10 Favourite Anime. This was really hard to put together because there’s so many and I’ve been watching stuff for close to 15 years and I had to go off memory. Last few years are a bit of a blur too, I think you really need to be a few years clear of stuff to know if you’re still in the heat of the moment or not. There’s also a few that are right on the borderline here and if you’d asked me another day they might have made the list.
Also bear in mind that these aren’t recommendations. Some of them aren’t even that good, objectively. I’ve also only selected TV series or franchises that are primarily TV series and/or where the TV series is the best or most important part. Movies or short direct-to-video series are often better due to the fact they don’t have to plan to break a story up into 24-minute chunks and my list would probably end up being more than half movies as a result. I’ll do that later.
Also these aren’t really in order.
Evangelion
It’s probably the single most important TV anime of the 90s. I don’t need to describe it, I think. It wasn’t my first anime but it was my gateway show into the medium. I’ve seen parts of it dozens of times and can still go back to it and enjoy it. Dense and ambiguous and so deeply flawed yet so intriguing. The fact that I still like it so much after so many views really says a lot about it.
Mushishi
Mushishi is a bit of a weird show. I think I’ve talked about it in TAY before – earlier in the year they started a new season of it (second half this month, so excited). It’s an episodic series, where each episode is a self-contained story in which the protagonist, Ginko, a wandering ‘Mushishi’ while wandering the Japanese countryside in an indeterminate time period (setting looks to be Feudal but there are anachronistic elements) will encounter some kind of human drama which is exacerbated by Mushi, which are strange spirits that most humans can’t see. They’re incredibly varied stories that almost feel like folk tales but are original. They bulk of the time, the humans are really the origin of their own problems, which adds a fascinating touch of human drama to it. A lot of the time, these would be horror stories, except that the tone of the show is so relaxed and the resolutions are such that the horror element fades. It’s also achingly beautiful on an aesthetic level, with stunning backgrounds and one of the most unique and relaxing soundtracks ever. I absolutely loved it from the instant I watched the first episode.
Haibane Renmei
Another really artistic show which I must get around to re-watching again soon, it’s been too long. A really interesting short show by Yoshitoshi ABe (Serial Experiments Lain, Niea_7, Texhnolyze) that’s heavily influenced by Haruki Murakami’s ‘Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World’. The story revolves around a group of girls who live in a strange town surrounded by high walls. None of them remember anything from before except for a dream that they had before they hatched from a cocoon somewhere in the town – they take their names from something in that dream. The other thing is that they all have halos and wings with ash-grey feathers. Except for those who are carrying a sin, they are born with black-feathered wings instead. The plot basically follows Rakka and her companions as they live their lives and head toward their ‘Day of Flight’, when they will leave the town and go beyond the walls. It’s a really interesting show because you’re not quite sure what’s going on. The theory is that it’s basically purgatory. It really hit with me when I watched it and I used to make a habit of re-watching it every year, but have fallen away from that as I only own it on DVD and the AU DVD release had atrocious quality 🙁
Maria-sama ga Miteru
That gravatar I’ve always been using here? This is the origin. Marimite went through a period where it was super popular in some anime nerd circles in the late 00s. Including mine. Oddly the material it was adapted from was very much for girls, but it attracted a fairly large male audience for the anime. It’s also probably the last thing you’d associate with the medium. Set in a super high-class catholic girls’ school, it’s basically centered around storm-in-a-teacup drama involving girls who may possibly be more than just good friends if you catch my meaning, and the entire school is set up to facilitate that. Older students select a ‘petit soeur’ (‘little sister’, there’s a lot of French involved) in a ceremony involving passing their rosary to that younger student and there’s no end of drama surrounding that. The school council (Yamayurikai – Mountain Rose club) is an elected body of three girls, named after red, yellow and white roses (Rosa Chinensis, Rosa Foetida & Rosa Gigantea), plus their soeurs, if any, who by convention are expected to take over the following year, and then also those girls’ soeurs, should they have any. The story itself revolves around Yumi, a first-year student who through a series of circumstances finds herself the Soeur of one of the council members, and it basically follows through from there. The way I’ve described this probably sounds a bit crass, but it’s really not, though it is a bit silly since it involves a lot of lingering glances and subtle sexual tension and flower overlays and stuff. Not that it’s a comedy or a parody either. It’s hard to really elucidate what clicks for me about it, just that it really does.
Aria
I should add the disclaimer that despite it being a massive favourite I’ve not finished Aria. I’ve had it all for ages, but the second half of the final season I’ve never finished because then there’d be none left. I’ve been stashing it for a really rainy day when I feel super depressed, because Aria is one of the most chill, relaxing, uplifting, beautiful works of art I’ve experienced. The show is set on Mars in the far future. The planet has been terraformed and is regulated by technology that makes it mimic earth, and most of the surface is covered in water. Akari, the protagonist, lives in Neo-Venezia, which is basically a utopian re-building of Venice (which we’re told no longer exists). She’s a trainee gondolier, and the show is basically centered on her guiding tourists, meeting the strange and wonderful citizens of the city, interacting with her friends, discovering new and wonderful sights in the city and playing around with cats. Cats are everywhere. Also everyone’s name starts with A. It’s also filled with what can only be described as Scenery Porn, loving, detailed and lingering shots of beautiful places. Everything is bright and happy and nothing is wrong and everything is peaceful and relaxed and the world is beautiful and there are cats lazing around. It’s like the sensation of a cool breeze on a warm summer Saturday by the beach back when you were a kid with no responsibilities.
Cardcaptor Sakura
I have to admit I have a bit of a soft spot for magical girl anime. I think it’s because of early exposure in life to Sailor Moon (my sister was a fan) combined with the simplicity of the structure they use. Actually, you can often change out some of the terminology and swap some character’s bits and suddenly it’ll end up looking like a show for boys instead. But anyway, Cardcaptor Sakura was one of the first ‘shoujo’ (young girls) shows watched when I got into anime. I’ve since re-watched it end to end several times, most recently with the remastered BD set, and it’s probably the most embarassing thing to admit that I’ve purchased all of twice. I’ve subsequently watched a lot of magical girl anime, and that’s given me even more of an appreciation for how good CCS is, and also how incredibly subversive it is at the same time. It actually takes a lot of the standard tropes of the genre and flips them around. Sakura is from a single-parent family, living with just her father and brother, something that was quite progressive at the time. She stumbles into her adventure basically by chance, rather than by being ‘destined’ to fight evil or anything. She’s driven by a sense of responsibility – she accidentally released all the clow cards, so she has to recover them. The mascot animal is hilarious rather than shitty. Her rival is a boy, and they grow into a believable romantic relationship rather than love-at-first-sight bullshit. There’s no nebulous evil for her to contend against, her true opponent is herself and capturing the cards requires her to grow as a person. She isn’t bailed out constantly by her rival / romantic interest, and is in fact actually more capable than he is. She doesn’t even have a magical transformation sequence. Add to this the fact that the show is amazingly well animated with a stellar budget by a studio (Madhouse) that at the time was one of the premier animation houses in the country. It’s literally as good looking as TV anime from the late 90s will ever look. But that’s really secondary to the fact that it’s just straight up great, and has also dated really well.
Stratos 4
So now we get to the bit where I mentioned some people have accused me of shit taste. Stratos 4 is an obscure, forgettable anime from the early 00s that was pretty unremarkable. The thing is, it also manages to simultaneously press about every button my primitive lizard brain has. Aside from the T&A, which it has a bit of (not explicitly so, but definitely a fair bit of it), there are a few things which will always pique my interest. Aircraft and especially references to Space Exploration will always get me going. And Stratos 4 is a show about a group of four girls who are trainees in a special task force that is the last line of defense against asteroids. The setup is that a flurry of comets are on a collision course with the Earth, causing it to be bombarded on a regular basis with large rocks. An orbital defense system was set up to intercept most of the dangerous ones, and the four girls the series centers on are the cleanup, flying into low earth orbit via rocket-assisted takeoff on converted BAC TSR-2s to intercept any large remaining rocks. The bulk of the story revolves around them trying to uncover what the truth is behind the comets while also doing their jobs and training to become full-fledged pilots while also working on a project in their spare time to repair the Stratos 0, a scrapped prototype XF-108 Rapier. It’s got nice character designs, a solid cast, an okay plot and most importantly I think that it knew exactly what it wanted to be. It took a simple concept and executed it extremely well, and the content just clicked for me in a way I can’t explain. It’s an odd show and it’s absolutely not one I’d recommend, but it still ends up on my favourites despite that.
Saiunkoku Monogatari
Another thing that tends to be something that piques my interest is eastern fantasy stuff. Japanese folklore things are one type, but another that pops up periodically is a setting that resembles a fantastic ancient China. Three such all spring to mind, and interestingly they’re all shoujo anime, aimed at girls: Twelve Kingdoms, Fushigi Yuugi and Saiunkoku Monogatari. Honestly, I like all three of them, but for different reasons. Twelve Kingdoms is by far the best of them, but it is also the most frustrating because it simply stopped and the author of the novels it was adapted from has never gone back and written any more. Despite being the most obscure of them, what really makes Saiunkoku stand out for me ahead of Twelve Kingdoms is the focus on character drama rather than plot drama. On the face of it, it sounds like a fairly tired setup. The setting is Saiunkoku, which on the face of it looks a lot like ancient China. The land is divided into eight provinces each ruled by one of the eight houses, which are named after colors. Shuurei is the only daughter of the head of the Kou family, formerly one of the most powerful houses but since fallen on tough times. Her dream is to take the national exam and become a public official, but it’s impossible because she’s a woman, and while the country is supposedly a meritocracy, only men are allowed to take government positions. Meanwhile the current emperor is perceived as being lazy and uninterested in governing. One of the imperial advisors, recognizing Shuurei’s talent and ambition, suggests that the Emperor take her as his consort for half a year, and during that time she would whip him into shape and teach him what he needs to know to be an effective ruler. It sounds like a fairly standard setup for a trashy romance show or something, but in fact it’s the opposite. Instead you get an enormous amount of politics. Houses allying against other houses, plots, intrigue, assassination attempts… it has it all. And the unifying thread throughout it all is Shuurei, through talent, determination and sheer hard work making her way as a woman through a political structure dominated by men and changing the country for the better as a result. While the anime didn’t adapt all the material, it left at a good point. However this was one of the first times I’ve ever finished watching something and then seriously considered attempting to learn Japanese in order to read the novels. It was engrossing in a way I absolutely never expected, and easily gets into my favourites.
Rurouni Kenshin
Ah, Kenshin. This was actually one of the shows that I’m most on the fence about. On one hand, it’s a really important show to me. Evangelion introduced me to anime, but it was Kenshin that truly converted me. On the other hand, the best part of it is a four-episode direct-to-video special (‘Tsuioku-hen’ / Reminiscence, localized as ‘Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal’). The final third of the TV anime is absolutely terrible, and after producing the amazing Tsuioku-hen the producers of the anime proceeded to repeatedly shit upon the entire franchise from greater and greater heights. The story is set in post-revolution Meiji Japan toward the end of the 19th century and revolves around Kenshin, a wandering swordsman who was once the Battousai, a talented and deadly assassin who fought and killed in Kyoto during the Bakumatsu, the revolutionary war of the Meiji Restoration. To atone for his crimes, he carries a reversed blade, a katana where the outside is dull and the inside is sharp, and has adopted a rigid moral code of never killing another person. It’s basically an over-the-top action anime with impossible fights and special moves and enormous badassery and everything, and it’s great. Also had my first anime girl crush / waifu: I had a thing for Misao, the ninja girl from the second (and best) main story arc.
Mahoromatic
This was the other one I’m really on the fence about. I was really into it at the time, but that was nearly a decade ago and I haven’t been back to it. It’s also another show I never finished, because the ending is apparently the worst thing ever. And I’m not going to lie: it’s a dumb, pervy show full of bare boobies that probably appealed a fair bit more to me at 17 than it might to me at 30. Mahoro is the world’s most powerful combat android, but she’s approaching the end of her operational lifespan. Because she’s also literally the nicest person ever and everyone likes her (or something) she’s asked how she would like to spend the remainder of her time, and she opts to work as a live-in maid and basically older sister / mother figure for a seemingly random (but not random at all, there’s a reason) high school dude. Hijinks ensue, as it’s a dumb harem comedy. But at the same time, each episode ends with a counter telling you how many more days until Mahoro will cease functioning so there’s a sort of impending doom feeling. She still remains one of my favourite anime characters.
Amazing list with multiple interesting shows I must get around to seeing. On the list I’ve already watched parts of Evangelion (I couldn’t really get into it) Rurouni Kenshin (love the series its amazing especially trust &betrayal) Cardcaptor Sakura i watched as a kid and been meaning to rewatch it because i loved the premise of it.
Things missing from this list:
All da movies. (Jin Roh, Patlabor, Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Grave of the Fireflies, Ghost in the Shell, Spriggan, Tokyo Godfathers, Cowboy Bebop movie, Appleseed, Parasite Dolls, Armitage the Third, Perfect Blue, Millenium Princess, Akira, Paprika, Ninja Scroll, etc…)
Hellsing
Berserk
Cowboy Bebop
Black Lagoon
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex/2nd Gig
Elfen Lied
Full Metal Alchemist
Kaichou wa Maid-sama
Valkyria Chronicles
Gungrave
Ergo Proxy
Fruits Basket
Serial Experiments Lain
Full Metal Panic
At least one Macross series
At least one Gundam series
Last Exile
Outlaw Star
Trigun
Log Horizon
Attack on Titan
Spice & Wolf
Kill la Kill
Hyouka
World is Still Beautiful
No Game no Life
Zankyou no Terror
The Irregular at Magic High (Mahouka)
Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou
FLCL
Scrapped Princess
Blassreiter
Blue Gender
Heat Guy J
Big O
The Slayers
Oh my god so much more…
Like:
Bleach, Escaflowne, Pumpkin Scissors, Angel Beats, Jormungand, Regios, Death Note, RahXephon, Blue Exorcist, Shangri la, Ben-to, RideBack, Zetsuen no Tempest, Zero no Tsukaima, Working`, Usagi Drop, Tonari no Seki-kun, Scryed, Gantz, Clannad, Chrono Crusade, BTOOOM!, Bubblegum Crisis, To Aru Kagaku no Railgun / Index, Sword Art Online, Infinite Stratos, Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo, Robotics;Notes, Psycho Pass, Madlax/Noir, Magi, Lucky Star, Medaka Box, Kore wa Zombie desu ka, Kingdom, Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate, Kampfer, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures, Disgaea, Code Geass, Boku ha Tomodachi ga Sukunai, Darker than Black, No. 6, Suisei no Gargantia, Steins;Gate, Unbreakable Machine Doll, Strike the Blood, Sekai Seifuku – Bouryaku no Zvezda, Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizoukin, Coppelion, Locodol, Claymore, Hagure Yuusha no Estetica, Demon King at the Back of the Class, Someday Dreamers, Samurai Champloo, Air, Air Gear, Project K, Azumanga Daioh, Gasaraki, Neia Under 7, L/R, Read or Die, Witch-hunter Robin, Great Teacher Onizuka, Hamatora, Excel Saga, Campione, Drurura, Tower of Druraga, Kimi Ni Todoke…
Except that wasn’t the point. My ten favourites aren’t even necessarily ten good shows.
EDIT: Also I specifically didn’t list movies. Because I’d end up with a much more boring list if I did – at the very least Kara no Kyoukai, Princess Mononoke, Do You Remember Love? and The Place Promised In Our Early Days would knock out a big chunk of the TV stuff.
Indeed. This is why they’re ‘missing’. 🙂
Anyone looking for recommendations would be well-served watching ANYTHING on the sprawling list.
Maybe. 🙂 There’s a few in your list that I’d never recommend to anyone personally. 😛 I’d build a very different list to the original post here if I were listing recommendations / stuff that’s good.
Whaaaaaaat?! Surely you jest! OK, maybe Campione, Excel Saga, Medaka Box, Rogue Hero are a little on the strong/trashy side…
Edit: Re: the movie edit you made. Yes. I can’t imagine what percentage of an anime movie list would be just Ghibli films.
Nothing wrong with Medaka Box.
While all of those I mentioned as possible exceptions are a little over-the-top, they’re very self-aware, which earns them points with me. 🙂
My hands are blue again. But at least the skirt looks better this time around
I hope they cheer up soon.
Only one achievement to go in Spelunky:
Good Teamwork
Complete the game with at least two players alive. No shortcuts.
This one is considered relatively easy to do solo compared to the others that I’ve pulled off… but I kinda want to do it the “proper” way. With another human.
Oh well. Guess I’ll just try to knock this one out tonight.
After that, I’ll start working on the Let’s Play. I don’t think I can start putting stuff out for a month or so. Need to get some video editing software and learn to use it.
EDIT: Got it. This was definitely the easiest of the more difficult achievements.
When you say lets play, do you mean an actual let’s play or just a video walkthrough with no commentary?
EDIT: Grammar
An actual Let’s Play. Spelunky doesn’t exactly lend itself to video walkthroughs.
Something I find endlessly fascinating: Colourised old historic photos.
news.distractify.com/jake-heppner/52-colorized-historical-photos-that-give-us-a-new-look-at-the-past/?v=1&img=3c7d17
Don’t know what it is about them. Just could look at them all day.
Me too, they’re just mesmerising.
Oh wow. Is it just me or does Charlie Chaplin look a whole lot like Cillian Murphy?
And Lee Harvey Oswald looks like Ryan Gosling.
The most amazing ones I have seen are these ones
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html
They aren’t actually colourised but a russian inventor who developed a method of taking colour photos over 100 years ago
A young Clint Eastwood looks kinda like Hugh Jackman…
Helen Keller meeting Charlie Chaplin, oh god all of the feels
hey guys!
question… didnt one of you Taybies work for a travel agency??? locals arent what id call helpfull…
@novacascade
o/
What can I help with?
\o
got an email??
Sure, you want it? 😛
Send it to jones(underscore)11(underscore)is(at)hotmail(dot)com and I can always forward it on to my work one if you want me to work on something for you 🙂
will email you shortly!!!
thanks scree!
i’m sorry?
AND SO YOU SHOULD BE.
I’ve nearly reached the end of Ender’s Game and I’ve decided that the best thing about the movie is that Ben Kingsley can pull off a passable Kiwi accent. You don’t see that too often.
From a kiwi newspaper review
I’d say a Kiwi-gone-bush-in-South-Africa but oh well.
An Aussie accent surrounded by Americans sounds weird, the same is probably true for the Kiwis.
As someone from New Zealand, I’m afraid to say that no, he can’t.
Pssh, like you know what your native accent sounds like.
It’s an accent that was thoroughly and mercilessly teased out of me by Australians when I moved here. Now that I don’t have it and can clearly hear it, I understand and have forgiven them. But it’s also the accent that all of my relatives aside from my sister and my mum have. So I’d say I’m pretty familiar.
Oddly enough, Aussie and Kiwi accents sound really weird when put next to Americans. South African accents still sound like South African accents though, which is why I think so many attempts at ANZ accents end up a little South African.
HI. WHATS GOING ON OVER HERE WITH YOU LOT?
I CANT TAY AT NEW WORK. THIS MAKES SADFACE.
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCIQyCkwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7pdWAcK6Eh8&ei=FPk0VIeCLYTy8gXOq4DwDw&usg=AFQjCNG68KxMhj-DgyiqsIHNjJAd9bt2lA&sig2=7XpzINhQ3wXQKnD05qQfIA
HI FRIEND!
WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO DRINKING ON THE 18TH? I THINK C.J. WAS LOOKING AT THINGS FOR BEER WEEK OR SOMETHING, BUT I’LL BE IN TOWN SO YOU SHOULD COME OUT AND DRINK STUFF!
HI FRIEND.
PRETTY SURE I’M FREE. SO YES. WE WILL DRINK STUFF.
EXCELLENT! I SHOULD PROBABLY INCLUDE OTHER SYDNEY PEOPLE IN THIS, SO AS NOT TO BE EXCLUSIONARY, OR SOMETHING, BUT WE SEANS HAVE TO LOOK AFTER ONE ANOTHER, RIGHT?
HEY! I’M A SYDNEY PEOPLE
YOU’RE GOING TO BE AT WICKED ALREADY THAT DAY THOUGH, RIGHT? RIGHT!?
YES. I WILL THROW 1 DOLLAR BILLS AT YOU SHOUTING ‘MAKE IT RAAAAAIIIIN’ DURING INTERMISSION
By which I mean I owe you money.
I’M SYDNEY PEOPLE TOO!
Pax meat.
I’M NOT GOING TO PAX THIS YEAR 🙁
WHICH SUCKS. COZ THAT KARAOKE THING YOU ORGANISED LAST YEAR WAS RAD.
I HAD SO MANY BRUISES.
You should come down for this years pax meat. Bigger, better, bruisier.
Neat. NASA have a live stream of the luna eclipse. Beats having to go outside!
There’s a blanket of clouds in the sky where I am. D=
That’s also a good reason to look at the stream. I’m not sure if it is cloudy here, I should go check.
Same nothing but clouds where I am
*shakes fist at clouds*
I would, but internet is slow at the moment. 🙁
I was making a chicken wrap. I’d put all the ingredients in, and I thought I’d just add some salt.
*entire contents of salt shaker falls onto the wrap*
I would say that I’m… rather salty about this.
Bugger. I cooked some chops and chips for dinner
So Rooster Teeth are actually making a game. How did I not hear about this?
Reposting from earlier because no-one repsonded:
Also, the shop doesn’t seem to give me ammo. What? Is this an intentional design decision?
I’m not playing until I get an answer on this. I don’t want to exploit a bug.
I said that six hours ago and I recieved no response. I really want to play this,
Did a quick search, apparently it’s all EA’s doing.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=28510324&postcount=270
This may be of help too, did a quick skim, and I think it’s says to rename the patch so that it uses the original .exe and disables all DLC.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1780675&page=2
Thank you thank you thank you. I’ve only played this game for about 8 minutes today since I didn’t want to proceed. Might restart since I’ve already bought a few things.
That’s cool man, hope you enjoy it.
He’s back D:
Phlanispam is like the new Midnight Masha in late night TAY posters :O
By the guidelines that I made up just now, Phlanispam has only been released when there have been 4 Phlanispo posts in 30 minutes with no other original comments breaking the flow.
@jocon @blaghman @distantdrop @dire_wolf @saturday
Hey guys quick recap for raid this weekend. We’ll be gathering for 12-5 on Sunday instead of our usual Saturday time (thanks guys) and most importantly I think we can attempt hard mode this week so please make sure to reach level 28. If you’re having trouble or need a hand with stuff to hit 28 post up here and I’ll give a hand when I’m on tomorrow evening or even Saturday evening.
Couple of housekeeping items for this weekend, since we’ll be trying for hard mode can everyone come with a blue or higher level 20 Sniper Rifle and Scout Rifle (we need them for solid dps on the Templar strategy).
Same as always if you guys can confirm attendance via reply that’d be great. If you can’t make it let me know and we’ll try and find a replacement!
I will most likely be there.
You have my axe!
I’ll put some effort into upgrading my scout rifle and might buy the crucible sniper, both could come in handy anyway.
Tho I’ll be on relic for Templar as usual I assume.
Can also lend a hand/company doing whatevers with whoevers.
Yes I’m afraid you’ll be on Templar relic duty =P I got Apotheosis helm yesterday from doing the Nightfall and it’s nerfed my Intellect even more…. It’s a pure discipline helm and unfortunately it’s the BiS exotic for Sunsinger… (Light beyond Nemesis looks better on paper but it’s a pure strength helm).
Damn, nice find. BiS?
I’d prefer the skull of dire etc personaly, the heal on super on the veil is not too useful since you usual save radiance for self res anyway.
Yeah but the skull of dire ahamshamalamadingdong while giving intellect boosts the nova bomb… fricking stupidly designed items so it’s a perfect voidwalker helm. Why would a sunsinger need strength in Light beyond Nemesis?? Why would you have Apotheosis buffing your super and then giving you discipline which doesn’t impact your super’s recharge at all??!?! YOU FRICKING A$@HOLES =@
My intellect dropped from 120 to 70 with apotheosis equipped… So I don’t even know if it’s my best option for PvE because I have a feeling Radiance is going to be indispensable in hard mode. Locks are going to be the only class capable of resurrecting during fights…
(For those of you who have items that buff ressurection times, be aware it’s completely useless in end game PvE because of hard mode doing away with revives).
Yeah, Lock exotics are badly designed. All but the Skull and Heart of Praxic Fire are mostly useless. Holding out for the heart.
Intellect is not a huge deal tho in the raid, get super up more from orbs and such anyway and a singer will not be using it except to rez.
Yeah I think I’m going to pass on Skull but I’m waiting on Heart of Praxic. Hoping Xur gives us that this week… D=
All items that have a revive boost also have a additional effect of creating more orbs on supers, so its not a complete waste.
Still not optimal if that’s what your getting at.
Last time we did the raid I got the chestpiece, but I scrapped it since I already had a maxed out queen’s guard chestpiece.
Then I learned that you need raid gear to get to lvl 30.
🙁
Yeah… you do =P It’s only the raid gear and the exotic gear that give you 30 light a piece and you need 120 light to be level 30.
P.S. is Queen’s Guard really your BiS for Bladedancer? Would you consider going Gunslinger for the higher survivability super and for emergency dps against oracles in the timestreams?? From my understanding we’ll need 2 people dps-ing the oracles in hard mode since they take a lot more damage and spawn in higher numbers?
I’ve wanted to try out gunslinger for a while but it’s pretty underleveled and I wouldn’t feel too confident using it; my exotic is meant for bladedancers as well. We’ll see how it goes, I can always switch on the fly. I stuck with Queen’s Guard Vest mainly because of the extra shotty/pistol ammo, which only benefits me in PVP. 😛
I think we’ll need gunslinger for hard mode… reckon you can get it up and running by next weekend? I’d prefer keeping our timestream team as is and golden gun dps would also be great when we need to dps Atheon with Time’s Vengeance active.
Probably not, but we’ll see. I’ll probably get my Suros Regime maxed out, though, and that’ll do plenty of work on it’s own.
Gunslinger + Achlyophage Symbiote is udderly amazing and overpowered.
Heck I even got that helm from Xur last week anticipating I’ll one day need it.
I can make it on Sunday.
Still waiting on that bastard Xur to sell me a Armamentarium, rolling reruns already isn’t cool.
(cc. @jocon @distantdrop @dire_wolf @saturday )
Hey Guys, late notice, but my connection to Destiny hasn’t been working all morning, and now I can’t even connect to the PSN, so I really doubt I’ll be able to make it. I’m sorry for the short notice, but I’ve already tried rebooting everything multiple times, so I don’t think I can join in.
Give it a half hour, maybe.
Bugger.
All good blaghsy! Only downside is now the whole team’s walked away with Vex Mythoclasts except you 🙁
I’ve been killed by so many Xenomorphs it’s not funny! :'(
I’ve loved so many Xenoblades it’s not funny! :’)
TMI
😉
I haven’t been killed yet, but I’ve only finished the first 2 chapters, and I’m playing on easy.
Easy is starting to look very appealing. 😀
Lol, I wanted to enjoy my first playthrough of it, rather than be frustrated as hell. Besides, there’s so many games coming out I just don’t have the time to spend ages on each one that’s released.
Sure hope my TV’s antenna/logic board isn’t on the way out and it is just the aerial cable being shite, cause not being able to tune in a single TV station is bloody annoying when there’s that one in a million time I want to subject myself to free to air TV. Oh well at least it is still in warranty for another 2 months with Sony.
I’m gonna be that guy, you know, the one on your facebook feed? Yeah. CHECK OUT THE MOON, LOOK AT THIS MOON, IT’S SO MOON LIKE! MOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNN.
(Sorry, but I’m really not, otherwise I wouldn’t post this like the jackarse that I am)
Cool photos, Blaghs. This calls for some kind of moon song.
Sorry, but this is the only moon song for me.
Why bother taking the effort to look up when people post pictures for me to see!
Not to mention the unpleasantness of going outside.
I even talked with my family as we looked at the moon.
It smells, there’s always a draft. I mean…
But outside is the only place I am allowed to smoke
What moon. All I saw was clouds ;_;
So I’m having more trouble than I thought I would filling out the customer feedback survey for the courier I didn’t deal with today (was at home all day, suddenly got an email at 1:30 saying they somehow attempted delivery with such deftness that I didn’t notice the knock on the door)
I was all like “I’ll show them! I’ll write a sternly worded response!” But then I get here and can’t think of what to write. I need to start learning more from all these Internet controversies! #CourierGate
Write it all in sarcasm, so if they try to fight you it can be argued that you were sincere!
Dear Extremely Competent Delivery Person
…
😛
I had a courier deliver something to work at 6.15pm on Tuesday when I was interstate, the mailroom was closed so they demanded that I pay an additional $150 for a re-delivery fee to deliver it again the next day.
#CourierGate
Anyone curious as to why the PS+ version of DriveClub has been delayed, I just found out why.
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-14547-DriveClub-PS-Plus-Version-Delayed.html
@saturday
I’m fast losing interest in this game. This many delays and problems never equals a happy ending.
What do you mean!? Watch_Dogs was great and lived up to th-BAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh god, sorry. Couldn’t finish that sentence with a straight face.
They had a point where all the testers got confused because you had to press O and they all freaked out and kept hammering [ ] while crying and rocking back and forth. Took them a while to change it and they found an X event a bit later and didn’t want to give everyone strokes.
Oh you!
AND IIII
WILLL ALLLWAYYYS LOOOVEEE YOUUUU
*sobs quietly*
Time for more Alien: Isolation.
Come on you stupid Xenomorph’s, do your worst. Bring it on!
Oh man, I’m totally gonna run screaming like a little bitch. #allthenopeWoo! Destiny Strike Playlists with @masha2932!
Woo \o/
I just bought a headset. I hope it takes less than a month to get here :-p
Will you be grabbing the DLC when it comes?
I think so.
I recognise Destiny’s faults (and the’re many) but the game always seems to draw me in and it’s fun to play. I at least want to try a raid.
I hope the DLC adds some new stuff though (unlikely but I’m really hoping) so I’ll wait for TAY impressions before I buy it.
Does the season pass carry over to PS4? 😛
Yes it does.
I have to buy and redeem the DLC on PS3 before January 15th 2015 though.
seething at failed PC build… Think I’ve boiled my troubleshooting down to one of the following…
1) RAM is shot (cheapest option to test)
2) CPU is shot
3) Motherboard is shot
4) any combination of the above
Will need to replace CPU & Motherboard if either is gone as I’m using LGA1155 socket which is dead and buried now.
Long version if anyone has any ideas… Everything unplugged except for motherboard gives me nothing on power on except fans spinning up. Remove both ram sticks and I get 3 long beeps repeating. Insert either of the sticks into either slot and I get nothing again. Tripled checked all motherboard power connectors are hooked in correctly.
From the sounds of it it’s saying “Hey, you’ve got no RAM in” when you’ve removed it, but then when you put the RAM back in it’s failing to boot. So given that, it may just be the RAM. I’d maybe think it’s the RAM slots themselves but then why would they give a “missing RAM” beep, so maybe not. Do you know anybody nearby with working RAM that you could put in as test?
This is what I just tried to say on twitter, in my half awake state. I’ve never heard a 3 long beep code that I recall (on recent bios anyway. Old IBM BIOS 3 long code meant a keyboard problem), but as Bob said, when you remove the ram, and the mobo beeps, it’s usually cos the mobo is saying “FUCK! I’ve GOT NO RAM! WHAT DO?!”
Borrow some other ram if you can and try that. If you get the same result with that different ram, then maybe mobo is toast.
True story: I saw your responses on Twitter and I was thinking “Sounds like we’re giving the same advice; good to know!”
Definitely try the RAM first, RAM seems to have gotten a terrible Dead On Arrival rate over the last few years, when I built my PC 2 years ago I had to get the RAM replaced twice
What model of motherboard is it?
You’ve got fans spinning up, have you got the CPU fan plugged into the CPU fan header? Some motherboards have a specific fan header they expect the CPU fan to be plugged into and make a fuss if there isn’t something plugged in because they think the CPU doesn’t have a functional cooler. It’s pretty uncommon these days but I’ve still seen it on occasion.
Have you got any way to test the RAM in another system? Get someone else to chuck it in their computer or something?
So no idea WTF happened… But sitting dejectedly on the living room floor with cables scattered around me like some strange shrine/offering to the PC gods…
Went to call it quits and just chucked both sticks of memory in and fired it up one last time… And lo behold I get into the BIOS.
Powered down, hooked in HDD (one of 5) I thought had my OS on it, powered up and Windows booted up. \o/
Thanks for pointers @beeawwb @welbot @piat @aliasalpha
Could have been a seating issue, RAM can be a little fiddly when it comes to being seated correctly, and some times that last couple of millimeters to get it to click in properly can require more force than most are willing to give it. Congrats on getting it sorted.
So tonight I’m finding that new GPU is stopping POST too… FFS!! >.<
Last night during my attempts to fix I replaced my CMOS battery (had a spare C3023(?) lying around! Crazy I know!!) so BIOS revision has reset to 1.00… BIOS revisions finished being published by Asrock in 2012 so I’m hoping to god that an update will fix it… but now I can’t find a thumb drive anywhere. 🙁
And for reference old GPU works fine… so rules out motherboard hardware issues. If BIOS doesn’t fix it I think I have a DOA card.
Hands down has been the most troublesome build I’ve ever had!
I officially suck at video games. only on mission 3 of Alien: Isolation, and I can’t figure out what to do.
Looked up a guide to figure it out and I can’t get past this group of people. They’ve found and killed me like 5 times, and I’m playing on easy.Sucks, because I really wanted to enjoy this game, and all it’s succeeding in doing at the moment is to frustrate me. Reckon I’ll either look up some youtube walkthroughs and follow them to the letter, or just leave it and go back to Skylanders or something else that doesn’t require much thought or skill.
#imauselessidiot
The aesthetic and setting of the game keep screaming “Come play me! Nostalgia!”, while the game mechanics, insta-death and manual saves scream “All that awaits you here is suffering” (and not in a good way). That and the fact the story supposedly goes for 20 hours kinda puts me off.
I thought horror games established a while back that instant death is scary the first few times, then you realise that you’re effectively immortal and keep charging through out of frustration until you succeed or stop playing.
X-COM
This game gonna break my heart, I can tell. Ironman Mode probably wasn’t the wisest choice going in. I thought I could handle it, but the tide turned very suddenly and the world is starting to panic.
I can handle the missions just fine. Barring some dumb mistakes and occasional bad luck, I’m getting my guys through “very difficult” missions unscathed, often without even taking a hit. It’s the satellite stuff that’s mucking me around at the moment. My partially-upgraded fighters aren’t able to take down UFOs in the time limit (4 seconds). Gotta focus my energies there for a while… if it’s not too late.Rocketman Hotross is dead.
He got attacked in the alien base very suddenly by HOLY SHIT THREE MASSIVE SPIDER THINGS ALL AT ONCE and never stood a chance. Only a sustained rocket assault from DC stopped the rest of the team from following Hotross into the grave, and DC was badly wounded in the attempt, and had to bring up the rear for the remainder of the mission.Colonel DC, Major Freeze S Preston Icequir, and Major Strangest Itches are the backbone of my team. Freeze is an absolute champ at capturing enemies alive, while DC pins them down with suppressing fire. Red Artifice is a decent backup sniper, and Mashaaaa aaaaaaaaa and Jane Not Yet XO are decent medics. MarkSimon SerrelsPegg, SORRY Scree and Who Is Plainview are all trying really hard.
We need to know how the story ends!
I’m pretty sure it ends like this:
Everyone dies, the XCOM Project is shut down, and Shane discovers that he is not an Ironman at all, and is instead made from brittle tin.Never give up! Never give in! And remember..stay golden pony boy
I’ve finished X-Com twice, non-Ironman. Once pre-DLC, one post-DLC. I love it, but at the same time it’s so stressful I don’t want to play it again.
It’s amazing how a simple tool such as allowing you to name your soldiers after friends can add so much to a game.
Ahhhhhh you’ve met Chrysalids… I remember my first encounter with the skittering horror, playing on ironman since it sounded like a fun kind of challenge, my fireteam leader who I took from rookie to major was on point and breaching into a burning police station at the end of her turn. The rest of the squad was on overwatch at the base of the stairs with a mix of ballistics, lasers and the few light plasmas I’d scavenged from the thin men I’d stunned.
She hears a skittering noise and around the corner comes purple chitin plated death. A storm of fire seriously wounds one but not everyone has an angle on it and it gets in and does a hell of a lot of damage to my major, not only that but poisons her! The monster is nearly dead and I’ve got medkits, I can still salvage this. Then 2 more of the bastards round the corner and stumble into my remaining overwatch, my sniper actually hits an overwatch shot for once but still having ballistic weapons means the shots are still shit and barely scratch it. They surround my major who only had 2HP left and close in for the kill. I hope for the best but instead see a cutscene which can only be bad news. The ‘lid grabs her, lifts her up and tears her head right off, drops her corpse to the ground and triumphantly savages her corpse.
We fight a pitched battle to avenge our fallen comrade, we dropped the heavily wounded one with relative ease and had to focus fire to kill the remaining two but sustain more serious damage and poison in the process, costing us our entire reserve of medkits in the process. After another round the fight is over, the ‘lids lie as broken as our spirits and we have to try and turn our attention to the rest of the mission.
Oh what’s that moving over there where my major died? She’s getting up? Oh… she’s a fucking ZOMBIE now?? Can this get any worse? After 2 turns of incredibly shitty shooting (that I put down to psychological trauma) and finding out that zombies hit fucking hard, I find out that yes, yes it CAN get worse. The zombie convulses violently and explodes, leaving a fresh new chrysalid! Fortunately my squad gets their act together and shoots the shit out of this new one before it can move and the rest of the mission is pretty simple, just a handful of floaters and job done.
They still scare the shit out of me to this day
The only thing that makes ‘lids less scary is sectopods…
Anyone who missed out on getting Dragon Age: Origins, it’s currently free on PC/Origin. If you haven’t played it,
I suggest you take a lookI DEMAND YOU GRAB IT.https://www.origin.com/en-au/store/free-games/on-the-house?utm_campaign=origin-social-us-socom-tw-daoothorigintwannounce-img-conv&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&sourceid=origin-social-us-socom-tw-daoothorigintwannounce-img-conv&cid=28432&ts=1412791902727
Bejeweled 3 is also free atm!
I already have it but onto on Xbox… I should probably grab that!
The game is so much better on PC. Like, extremely better on PC.
EDIT: Although the CTD bugs will probably drive you insane.
When it comes to EA, the graphical glitches in my game I kept wondering if they were actual glitches (Like no textures at all on walls/floor so they’re just black) or they were DLC 😛
What do you call a fish with no eyes?
A “Fsh” #page6After a few weeks of my gf telling me how good Adventure Time is as she’s downloaded a few episodes on her iPad, I caved and watched one last night. Had some proper lol moments. Left me wanting more.
I can’t wait until my daughter is old enough to appreciate Adventure Time – Then I get to watch it all again.
I started watching a few episodes awhile back and it didn’t really “click” with me. I’ve decided that while there’s no strict narrative, it was probably because I started watching from halfway through season 1. I’ve resolved to try it again from the beginning and give it the “morning cartoon” treatment, i.e.: try and watch 1 or 2 episodes while getting ready for work. It’s a habit I’ve tried to develop because I found I was spending that time sitting on reddit or something which leaves me more pressed for time. Leaving a video to run, like on youube for instance, gives me something to do so I don’t feel bored, but still allows me to multitask.
Despite the occasionally whacked out storylines, I feel it really does work as a morning cartoon. Light-hearted enough for the young ‘uns while enough story and awesome for the bigger kids and adults.
Yeah, seems like a good show to watch on my bus ride to/from work if I’m not in a reading mood.
Adventure Time starts out as a whimsically hilarious kids show, but it has some super dark episodes. There’s more than enough there to keep an adult watching.
Great show, you won’t be disappointed. Earlier episodes are OK but it gets much better in later seasons, really good stuff!
GODDAMMIT! FUCK THIS GAME!
watched a walkthrough video, and I’m still getting caught.That’s it, I’ve had it, I’m trading it in on my way to work today.
is it the first encounter with people? I found that really annoying once I got past that they don’t seem to corner you as much.
Nope, the second, the first encounter I actually found quite easy, but this is just ridiculous. I’ve died or been caught and had to re-load my save about 12 times now. You play on easy, you expect it to be, you know… easy.
PS4 or Xbone?
Sorry Kermy, PS4.
Ah, I should probably be saving my pennies anyhow. 🙂
Had Alien Isolation and Shadow of Mordor sitting there and instead I spent all night playing Diablo 3.
It’s going to eat my life. It’s Diablo 1 and 2 all over again.
On the plus side my Witch Doctor got to 40 last night and isn’t dead yet. Waiting now for inattention to kick in and die to something stupid. Probably at level 68-69.
Only a couple of missions into Alien, and I’m wishing I never bought it. I’d rather play Diablo 3 any day.
Mordor is goooooooooood playin’!
Knifing Uruk’s all over town!
I haven’t picked up Mordor or Isolation yet because I’m not all that hyped for them, plus I know I’m not going to set aside Destiny for anything else until the Halo collection is out, and I’m trying to break the habit of buying launch titles I know I won’t spend time with until well after launch. Too many games in recent years I’ve paid full price for then not played them until well after they’ve been on sale. Not to mention all the games I’m yet to play.
Shadow of Mordor is great fun. The only condition really is that you have to enjoy the combat, which is somewhere between Arkham Asylum and Assassin’s Creed. If you don’t like that type of combat you’re out of luck, because that’s the vast majority of the game right there.
I love it though.
I’ve started playing D3 again too. Started playing my Barbarian because they got a massive buff in the recent patch.
Oooo, what have they buffed? I know the Witch Doctor’s Acid Cloud has gone from 150% weapon damage to 650% making it a screen clearing joke.
Most of his abilities got a damage buff. The biggest ones I have noticed though is Furious Charge now does 650% damage and had it’s charge range doubled and Whirlwind now doesn’t slow you down, you move at normal speeds.
Good morning, good morning!
Just found out I’m on correspondence all day at work, which is the best, and I’m eating my morning chocolate, so life is pretty good. Also my new lipstick is really nice, so, yay Thursday. That said, I do still want to go home and play Alien:Isolation.
I just had my morning muffin cuz I skipped on breakfast this morning, didn’t have enough time in my morning. White chocolate and berry. Now I sit here with my Mocha just going through firewall errors
Chocolate, new lipstick, two good mornings, I’m not sure I can handle all this cheeryness =P
Urge to kill rising.
Aww, why?
work, I used to like my job but one person has made it their life’s mission to make it the worst job I’ve ever had. Sorry to be a whinger.
Oh hush, that doesn’t make you a whinger. We’re here to listen if you need to vent! Is this horrible person a co-worker or a higher up?
Higher up, my boss pretty much and they’re the HR person, they are the biggest brown noser ever too so they’ve got all the even higher ups in their pocket.
Oh that stinks. I’ve definitely been there. I wish I could offer some advice, but I quit that job. You’re probably a better person than me though, with better resolve and a stronger work ethic.
I did have great work ethic but it has been killed, could not give a shit about the job and want to quit, I need to find another job to do so though and I’m terrible at finding work (great once I’m in a job and excel in most things I’ve tried, I just don’t have good interviewing skills and stuff)
Look!
*shows portable TV to @gutsoup*
…..fading…….fading……….RISING!
Can’t murder now… eating.
@ Pokemon people (you’re still around… right?)
I finished my PAX team yesterday! All trained up and ready to go. I had to breed a couple of them in… Gen 5 *shudder* I can’t wait until they bring back the Move Tutors to 6th Gen (hopefully with ORAS)
It’s really fun to use! I’ve just been using it in the Battle Maison and it’s been going reasonably well, so I’m hoping I’ll win at least a few times at PAX. It probably won’t stand a chance against most people (especially the competitive people) just due to being mono-type, but I guess you never know.
Because I’ve got a bit of time left, I’m considering making a second team for less experienced people. Just got to come up with a cool theme. Not going to bother too much with competitive stats/moves/etc, I’ll just use it for newbies/really young kids/people who struggle with the main team.
After seeing the effort everyone else is putting into their pokemon, I don’t think I will be winning any badges. I haven’t seen my pokemon cartridge since sometime last year, and my team plan is whatever I had beaten the Elite four(?) with.
On the other hand, if anyone needs some instant gratification*, come see me.
*winning a pokemon battle, you sickosThe end-goal of the leaders is to lose after all, so I wouldn’t be too worried! Most of us have different teams/strategies for different experience levels. Your in-game team might take you further than you think.
Mate, my team of level 3 Rattatas captained by my level 5 Chimchar will wreck you.
As long as they’re in the top percentage of Rattata.
*spams phone calls to Pow*
I’ve been getting so frustrated by moves that I want to use that are only Gen 5 tutor moves. Had to rejig what I want on my team a couple of times, and will probably have to again. Only just started breeding last night after beating the Elite 4 on my replay. I’ll be coming for you Pow.
I look forward to a fair and just fight! *scatters thumbtacks on floor*
Right, who wants a free copy of Alien: Isolation on PS4? First TAYbie to respond gets it. No lurkers, must have a PS4 and must not already own a copy.
It’s the Nostromo Edition, barely been used, so it’s pretty much mint and haven’t even used the code.
Include your e-mail in your reply so I can get your address of where to send it.
You’ve got till 12:00pm to put your hand up, or I’ll take it with me on my way to work and trade it in.
GO!
Man, you dislike that game almost as much as I disliked the Last of Us. =P
I really wanted to like it, but right now I hate it so much. Haven’t even encountered my first Xenomorph yet.
Whaaaaat?
Yeah, had enough, only 3 missions in, and it’s really pissing me off. I just want it out of my sight.
Yeah, I understand that frustration. You got rid of it in a good way, at least.
I just couldn’t like The Last of Us which is sad because it seemed like a gem of a story stuck behind a mess of gameplay.
Oh that’s a shame! Did you play/enjoy Uncharted at all (not the third one – the mechanics in that made me very sad)? Do you think you’d watch a play through online or something, just so you could see the story through?
I liked all the Uncharted games! (even 3, sure it wasn’t as good as the other 2 but it was still enjoyable). I could probably watch a play through, the person streaming it would need to be almost silent though. =P
But… but it’s the sixtine chapel of gaming! Game of the forever! The masterwhole!
o/
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It’s yours Benny, shoot me a message with your address on PSN or the Twitters, and I’ll send it off to you.
Hope you enjoy it more than I did.
Thank you, kind sir!
People like you make me love this community 🙂
Shane’s XCOM stories have got me thinking…
What’s your most table flipping XCOM moment.
Mine was losing my star assault late in the game to a bloody misfired rocket that hit him and then blew up the car next to him. The cyberdisc then went on to kill my verteran heavy that couldn’t hit the backside of a barn with a banjo.
The Etherial’s bullet deflectionThat seemed to happen to me way more times than I actually hit the frackers and just makes it frustrating
Opening up Psy testing, only to dump my whole top tier team in it (I know, I know…) and then have a crashed UFO land.
5 soldiers went in.
1 came out and got promoted two ranks, along with a fetching hospital gown for 3 weeks.
In mission? The time my sniper, elevated above the entire battlefield, failed to hit anybody. Ever. Despite 94% chances, he missed every time. He died by spider-mech-rocket, but he was dead to me quite a few turns before then.
haha, I don’t think the firaxis team ever really got the whole concept of ‘probability’… or maybe it’s just purposely designed in as one massive troll.
It’s my understanding that all probabilities are ‘rolled’ before the mission starts, to prevent reload/try-again scenarios.
Yeah, i’ve heard that, and think its a good idea. But I seriously should not have missed as many 99% shots in the game as i have.
Actually….. I’ve reloaded plenty of times before a turn happens. You’re right that the core files for probabilities are fixed but there’s a few workarounds.
One – Make sure to save at the start of each turn. If something fucked up happens start the turn over but position your troops in slightly different spots (i.e. one tile away from you tried the last time). This basically resets the probability giving you a fresh chance at the shot.
Second trick which is a little more time consuming is to reload a save file before a fucked up roll. Create a new save before taking your shot. Then reload the new save. Rinse and repeat a few times and you should change your probabilities. However I have noticed that slightly changing your starting position or your target is the more effective method, sometimes even having another soldier take a shot first resets the roll of the dice for the soldier you need to have a perfect shot for.
I have never, ever, ever managed to beat the final mission. Every time I tried I just got rofl-stomped at the last hurdle. So frustrating.
After save-scumming it a couple of times you quickly figure out you can put a sniper just inside the door of the final room and take out the boss before he powers up and summons in support.
No tips for getting through the rooms prior to that though, except make sure you’ve got cover support as you advance through. There’s a room that has at least 2 of those mofoing mech units that post DLC are LUDICROUSLY overpowered because they suddenly have 50% damage resistance in addition to 30 HP. I personally used cheatengine to just remove their HP whenever I came across them. Blatant cheating? Yes. To offset a part of the game that is frankly broken and unfair? Damn right I have no guilt about it.
I’ve restarted Enemy Within recently and the level where you
Fight off the alien’s invading X-COM command screwed me over. A commander took control over my best assault turned him against my team the resulted in just about everyone in my team getting injured for about 5-9 days. I didn’t want to kill him so I was cycling people to distract him while I killed the commander. Needless to say I had to go on with a fresh team for the next two missions.I pretty much had an area completely cleared but for some alien shuffling around in some unknown area. Making sure not to split the party too much, I began scouting out all the remaining dark places in the map because after a dozen turns of waiting none of the fucking aliens were coming to see why their friends were dead.
One unexplored tile behind a porta-potty appeared to contain clown-car levels of Mutons, who – surprised mid-gang-bang – immediately got a free move, which they used to undodgeable-grenade-spam my veteran never-missed-a-mission all-star hero unit to death.
That one aspect of XCOM pisses me off beyond anything else – a free move for the aliens when you surprise them. That’s fucked up. I should be the one getting the free move, not them.
Have I had my daily “you guys are freaking amazing” post? No? Well then!
YOU GUYS ARE FREAKING AMAZING!!!!
honestly I don’t know how I would be doing (mentally) if it wasn’t for you guys… I’m not going to pretend that I’m just fixed, I still have some very self destructive thoughts on a daily basis, but thinking back to the kindness you guys have shown me and the fact you put up with my ranting is helping so much!<3 TAY
Turn that frown upside down!
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*flip*
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wait, I can get this …
*flip*
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GODDAMMIT!
Seriously though you are a cool guy and a good friend! \o/
You too Nob \o/
We should play more games together then we do! Only problem is that unless I have organized the playtime prior I end up running to and from the computer a lot and I don’t want to annoy people 😛
I keep seeing you log into Borderlands 2 and think to myself. “Maybe I should join him … but what if I ruin all his fun. Oh god I would be a monster!”
I am literally just up to the kill domes set the moment before tackling the final quest so I never mind :P… In the same vein I keep thinking I should invite you guys but then see you’re busy with other games like More Doors and then think that I don’t want to interrupt you fun!….
…
This kind of consideration of others seems counter intuitive when its applied by both people XD
You’re awesome Pixel.
Never forget that.
We love ya man.
Thanks man, does mean alot! I’ve actually found that by me showing appreciation to other people that means alot to me, is actually helping my general state of mind as well 😛
Plus I feel the need to tell you guys how awesome you are because I never want you to forget
Forget what?
Where am I?
Seems there have been some happenings while I was away from TAY. Just want you to know man you’re a pretty cool ferret and you can get through whatever it is that’s bringing you down!
Aww yay <3 <3 <3
I haven’t had a chance to have a lot of interaction with you through TAY yet unfortunately, but I like what I see and you’re an awesome addition to an amazing community 🙂
How long have you been an active member?
Aww way to make a girl blush! Mm, I’ve been registered for forever, and used to comment like, six years ago under a different name (lost access to that account) but only really got active in the last few months, with my new job.
Here’s to our commenty future!
Hear hear! *raises glass*
If you’re coming to the karaoke meat no doubt you can witness me embarrassing myself attempting to sing “Land Downunder” because I know @cakesmith is going to try and make me again 😛
You’ll probably challenge me to sing another song after my horrible attempt at Don’t Stop Me Now last year 😛
Duet!
*hugs* your alright bud, we all here for you and your missus so never forget that! We just one big massive crazy family \o/
That is honestly the most accurate description of TAY, a family! It really does feel like that… Also thanks dude, I feel like I haven’t had nearly as much interaction with you as I should because you’re pretty awesome yourself… I need to get out of my hole more often 😛
I live near the beach now! Should have a meat down here one day if it wasn’t inconvenient to anyone
Pretty sure that had to happen regardless! I would pack every taybie in the boot of my car if I had to 😛
BEACH PARTY!
Lately I’ve been having some fun developing hideously complex conspiracy theories and treacherous plots. I get to exercise my evil mastermind brain and let loose. #RPGs4lyf
I hate taking selfies especially ones 5 minutes after I have just woken up but here is a cosplay selfie so far! I am unreasonibly excited for PAX after trying this cosplay on. Just need the armour stuff (breastplate, boots, helmet) and I am good to go! \o/
Man it’s going to look rad having seen the breast plate (WIP)! so.damn.awesome!
That was the thing I wore at Blaghs’, wasn’t it? That was really hard to sit down in?
Yep bit been altered now… @scree is doing a pretty amazing job
I’m sorry, what did I do? /o\
Good things scree, good things 😀 (Nob’s breastplate)
I’m really worried about it though. Oh well, no time to worry, Elsa time!
The bottom of your shirt looks like mine after a big night out 😛
Seriously though, looks good mang!
Well it’s actually dirt not vomit but I get what you mean. =P
I don’t know what this is from (bad nerd), but I like the sun!
Pssssst (it’s Knight Solaire of Astora from Dark Souls)
(thank you) OH YEAH, SO HOW ABOUT THOSE DARK SOULS.
(psssst this is the bit where you yell “praise the sun” very loudly)
If only I could be so grossly incandescent
Dark Souls is my all time favourite game. Which reminds me, I should really play through it again for the 20th time.
DON’T TEMPT ME NOB! I GOT SO MUCH ELSE TO PLAY! 😛
That Dark Souls guy is pretty cool!
GOD DAMMIT! 😛
Haaaaaaaahahaha I just realised that your current username is your big scary horror for Halloween, ahahahaha that is so good.
That looks amazing! Well done, @scree!
It’s exscreemly good!
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here have an upvoteSexy bed head! Costume looks awesome.
I need to get cracking on mine. Not much time left. Still need to source boots and gloves.
\o/
Praise it.
Praise the sun!
\[+]/
Praise the sun!
I’ve had an amazing morning this morning. I walked into town to pick up my copy of NBA 2K15 so I can finally play it, then went to a coffee shop and had a Nutella Mocha, which was really tasty. Went to Coles to get some stuff for lunch and tea and only spent $14, which was enough for everything I wanted. Then I went to Sanity and picked up True Detective and Banshee on Blu Ray (2 for $45). So I foresee a True Detective marathon in my near future. Also I got a free mini backboard and basketball with my pre order, so theres that too. Woot!!!!!
I hear the facial recognition in NBA is fun. Let us know how it goes =)
Don’t have a camera for my PS4, sorry.
From what I hear, it won’t make much difference if you have one or not 😉
True Detective is sooooo good.
Yes, yes it is. Wasn’t a fan of McConaughey before it, but his performance was amazing, as was Woody’s.
“Sings”
Skulking around, abandoned laboratory
Lots of weird, things abound
Test tubes, full of gunk
Why is this, machine still on
“Chorus”
And the liiiiights are all ouuuuut!
And the waaaalls, full of spiders.
As my laaaamp starts to flicker,
Whaaaat the hell is that sound?
No TAYlist Requests today, I forgot to do that whole waking up thing. But I got my PAX badge yesterday, so I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.
Mine arrived yesterday as well
Woooo! PAX! \o/
Mine still hasn’t arrived! \o/
Okay, I really don’t like this “orcs coming back from the dead” thing.
The nemesis system has apparently figured out that a level 20 dude with poison spears, who is invulnerable to stealth and ranged, deadly (thus deals higher than normal damage) and a tracker (thus shows up more often) is a good way to ruin my day – he just won’t stay dead, and keeps showing up at the worst times. Hell, I “killed” him three times last night alone while trying to take down two separate chieftains.
I haven’t read up on it too much, but from what I’ve seen, if you can get an execute kill that chops off their head, they’re more likely to ‘stay dead.’ This is rumour.
That said, Orcs ‘coming back from the dead’ is something I really like. Because if they’re just replaced by some random nobody you have no history with, after a while they all just start to blur together into this homogenous pile of same’ishness. I like to have some history, Orcs to have killed me and remember me, so there’s a little personality there when I confront one, as opposed to, “Oh yeah, another one of you faceless goons, huh?”
If it weren’t this guy, I’d probably be fine with it. It’s getting hit by a poison harpoon and getting nearly one-shot while trying to deal with another captain or chieftain, that I dislike. Reminds me of my study with genetic algorithms – the game has evolved the perfect pain in the arse, by having me weed out everything that was easy to deal with.
Maybe I should keep him around for when I unlock the ability to brand… make him a pain in someone else’s posterior, for a change.
Heh. That is exactly what I did with my enormous pains in the ass. Just gotta bear in mind that branding requires being able to grapple, so if there’s any weaknesses you can exploit, you should get those in there up front and early and take the time and effort to fuck him up good before removing him as a ‘problem’ forever.
On the plus side, the most enormous pains in the asses tend to make the most effective sleeper agents.
Helloooo, very long time no speaky!
So, Megaman 9. Awesome soundtrack, hard as balls! So far I’ve only downed Galaxy Man and Reached Splash Woman. Game Grumps make Megamans look easy!
What’s everybody been playing? Any news?
🙂
Splash Woman? Really?
And whatever the male version of Splash Woman is. Which I guess is just Splash Man. Only with semen.
I believe that’s Moneyshot Man.
Nice.
Mandatory “who’s this guy? ^^”
Just some shmuck passin’ through 😉
Mega Man is so hard, I used to manage to almost beat them as a kid (the day I beat Guts man in Mega Man 5 (Ithink) I ran around cheering like a mad man). A few years ago me and Jimu tried playing one and the only way we could beat the first boss was to have 2 of us on the one controller with one of us spamming slide/dodge and the other controlling movement, we gave up soon after.
As for what I’ve been Playing
Hyrule Warriors. It’s a lot of fun
Alien Isolation. Equal parts frustrating and nerve wracking, got pulled into a vent by a Xenomorph last night, I think it wanted to make out.
Shadow of Mordor. only played a couple of hours but so far seems pretty great, a brain damaged Uruk chased me around for a while making weird noises & grunting.
’tis a fine time for games indeed.
Haha nice! Kudos to be able to do that as a kid. I know what you mean. I first bought Megaman 9 when a friend was over a few years ago. We both considered ourselves pretty decent gamers. Maaaaan that was a humbling experience, not defeating a single boss after HOURS!
Hyrule Warriors, thats like a Dynasty Warriors Zelda game yeah? Sounds fun.
No tongue on the first date with a Xenomorph.
My room mate picked up Shadow of Mordor yesterday. I dont think he’s slept yet, haha. Looks super cool though! Definitely picking it up once I get a Ps4, next year 🙁
I started Arkham Origins yesterday. Feels like more of the same, but im not complaining. The villians seem cool enough. The cold pizza comparison rings true.
The past few nights I’ve even jumped online on Cod4. Surprisingly there are still a small amount of people playing it on Ps3. Happy days.
oh wow, CoD4 was probably my favorite, spent a lot of time on that one, surprised to hear folks are still playing it.
Succeeded in my rental application. First month’s rent paid, signing paperwork tomorrow. Can move in in two weeks.
Oh god /o\
Congrats, Negs! Exciting times!
Party at Neg’s!
I’m going to be moving in weekend before PAX so maybe?! But when I move in I’ll be missing some important things. Like a fridge.
Hey @pupp3tmast3r, I sent you an FR on PSN (finally), sorry it took so long.
Also, @janexo, what’s your PSN ID so I can send you one too.
Damn, a TAYget, and 3 pagegets, it must be my lucky week or something.
Hmmmm… have we added each other? 😛 Did you get destiny?
Yeah pretty sure I’ve added you. Been off destiny for a few weeks now, too many other games to play. Haven’t even finished the story yet.
Time to catch up =P Should’ve logged for the Queen’s event because that basically gives you a free pass to level 26.
Tried to make a perch for our magpie.
I think I may need to sand some of it before he can get a foothold.
Is this the one that fell from a tree? How is he holding up?
Sitting in a box, squawking for food when he’s hungry.
He actually sits on my Mum’s chest when he gets the chance.
I’ve always liked magpies and butcher birds when they’re a bit tamer. They are pretty adorable and generally friendly and like to hang out.
I’d love to have a pet magpie despite my red hair making me a prime swooping target as a kid and making me crazy scared of them even as an adult. They’re awesome birds.
I have red hair and have never been swooped once… \o/?
I had red hair in high school (natural), and was swooped. I have a scar about an inch off my right eye from where I was hit; I’m still scared of magpies, even all this time later 🙁
Hmmmm, 2 redheads getting swooped… maybe I’m not a ginger after all!
*Error 606 – Soul Not Found*
Crap.
They have the prettiest morning/evening warbles, in my opinion. I’d actually put a magpie’s song down as a symbol of Australia.
…Apart from the warning cries they make when you get too close to the nest. Those are… less pleasant. Which may just be a memory association thing.
I honestly expected it to be a very exotic bird when I first heard a magpie in the morning… Sounds so damn pleasant, and yes definitely quite unique to Australia
I demand pics!
“the only reason why it was still sitting on its perch was because it had been nailed there!”…
I watch too much Monty Pythonit’s not an ex-magpie, thankfully. 🙂
When I was a kid, magpies were a big deal. In class, the teachers read us books about how poor Mrs. Stevens was swooped by a magpie and you should stay away from magpie nests. My mother would lecture me constantly about magpies, and whenever I would ride my bicycle past a nest, my mother said that if I looked up, magpies would peck my eyes out. Because I’d look down, I couldn’t tell if the magpies were even swooping me. Through all of the propoganda I had been fed, I was quite scared of magpies.
I went to a park with my family. There were clear magpie nests everywhere. My dad was trying to convince my sister to play on the playground. She wasn’t having any of that, and remained stalwart at the precipice of the park with my mother and I. To prove to my sister that the magpies were harmless, my dad moved to the middle of the park.
Three magpies swooped him. He started beating at them with his hat. When the magpies ascended to swoop again, my dad threw his hat at them, Kung Lao style. This continued for about a minute before he jumped ship and ran out of the park.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I hate Collingwood.
Myst is getting a TV show and accompanying video game!
http://www.techspot.com/news/58347-myst-made-tv-drama.html
Writing the most recent Numenera recap makes me realise that I could never work on one of those daytime TV dramas. I can’t write sappy to save my life.
Goddamn it @blaghman.
HAHAHAHAHA xD
Such a hilarious session
I do what I must… *stares out window*
For the greater good. *waggles eyebrows*
If I must sacrifice myself to save you all, then it’s a cost I’m willing to spend. The dollar store ain’t for all of us. *Turns around and looks to the middle distance*
Welp, didn’t get another job. Guh.
Sorry to hear it. Hope things change soon.
Me too!
HighLow five!Don’t give up! Persistance defeats resistance!
Catchy one liners aside, getting a job these days is a war of attrition. Either the rejection wears you down or your persistences wears the employers down.
Not entirely unlike the foundation of a very healthy relationship 😛
I’d say that’s more like eating an orange.
Relationships or applying for jobs? 😛
*hugasaurus* You’ll get one eventually, and it will be the right one. Because you’re awesome.
Possible downer update, trying to keep kind of light but spoilered for heaviness just in case. Because I dunno, it never really feels like there’s a perfect time for it.
My recent month-long holiday wasn’t actually intended to be spent sitting on the couch playing Destiny.
My intention was to spend it seeing how my girl’s doing with the new environment, trying to find some kind of compromise to the current ‘house arrest’ arrangement, seeing how much of an impact health stuff would have on… having a life together. What’s left of it.
That didn’t happen. And it’s not going to, for the forseeable future. The next year at least.
I am not in control of this process or these circumstances. No matter how much I want to be. And apparently my attempts to be have directly contributed to worsening the situation.
Now… I am in love with her and crazy about her still, and she constantly reminds me of what a fantastic person she is and why I fell for her. We’ve been best friends, confidants, part-time lovers for the entirety of our adult lives; there is only one space in my life that holds that shape. But it’s been over a year since our change of circumstances and without the proximity, without the consistency of contact and updates, and without any promise of change to that, it’s starting to feel dishonest to call her my girlfriend, or my partner. It’s feeling more like the times we were apart, again. I’m not great with long-distance relationships, particularly when things can go so wrong at any moment. And so much of how we communicate is just… not an option. And the last thing either of us needs is for me to push her into another meltdown.
It’s not something I want to admit to even myself, but at this point my girlfriend isn’t really my girlfriend anymore. And maybe can’t be. I don’t want to label myself as ‘single’ – I’m not fucking ‘available’ and I can’t see a future where I will be, I have no interest in it. But any time I reference her as my partner, it feels disingenuous, not reflective of the situation everyone expects those labels to describe. We’re not together. And it’s probably time I modify how I describe the situation to reflect that. I don’t expect to treat her any differently, it’s more about other people. Because as popular as it is to say ‘fuck what other people think’, if you care about them, it is important how you interact with people.
I guess family and friends have probably been more objective (which I have had to work real hard on not thinking of as callous or insensitive) about this thing I’ve been sitting on for a while. And I’ve been working on trying to be a little less emotional, trying to feel things a bit less. But yeah. I figured I should probably… I dunno. Acknowledge how things are. Avoid any feeling of dishonesty.
Anyway. Not a solicitation for sympathy or anything, just… a clarification or update, I guess.
As you were. It’s Thursday – ‘Light at the end of the tunnel’ day.
Totally understand your dilemma. Can’t really say anything that would be useful, but feel free to come cry on my couch with me if you feel the need! 😉 I’ve been doing a lot of it lately.First of: Hugs!
Secondly long distance relationships are freaking difficult! And I completely agree that it’s hard to define it as a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship… It’s a difficult situation and I know I can’t say it do anything to help it, but of you ever need to talk/vent feel free to hit me up!
Thirdly: Hugs? Hugs!
You deserve privacy man. IMO seems like you’re worried about other people, but worry about yourself only. Don’t feel bad about mis-describing a situation to others – they don’t need to know the full details. Hang in there.Tough situation.
Sounds like you’re handling it better than most would, to be honest.
What do you want to call your relationship?
Don’t worry about technicalities.
If she is your partner, then she’s your partner, long distance or not.
Don’t worry about trying to explain to others, you know what you have, so call it what it is 🙂
I used up my *hugasaurus* already, so have some *gigantic hugs* instead.
Man, fuck today. 🙁
Yes, yes. Fuck IT. Don’t let today fuck you. Exert dominance over today and pound it till it can’t walk straight!
Anyone here ever gone on a hike into wilderness by themselves? What kinda stuff should I be packing? I’ll have the usuals like water, food, tools, knife… but I’m probably gonna YOLO it and not bother with things like thermal blanket and other emergency stuffs. Anything highly recommended?
compass in case you get lost and your gps isn’t working? something to start a fire easily
compression bandage, I carry one of them with me whenever I’m in the bush. For snake/spider bites,
Ah yes, very good point! I have two I can take, damn snakeys!
Just straight up wilderness? A bit daunting, not sure about your hiking experience and nature walks on proper paths of any kind should provide the nature/exploration you need. Also, how long are you planning to wander into the great unknown?
Because YOLOing it ain’t the wisest thing to do- always gotta prepare for a contingency. Emergency supplies aren’t really that bulky to carry around- first aid kit, waterproof matches, emergency blanket; I don’t want to say prepare for worst-case scenario, just.. maybe… third worst-case scenario.
But honestly this isn’t personal experience- just words relayed through me by people who actually do this type of thing as a hobby. Climbing mountains and wandering through forests and being stupid crazy awesome and the such.
Fighting bears, surviving in sub-negative-20 temperature with a t-shirt on, you know, just regular Canadian camping things.
T-shirt? You must know some sickly canadians.
Not really wilderness. It’s national park, I plan to ride my bike on the long distance walking trails. No idea on their condition. Also don’t know anyone who’s walked it, but it should be marked and I don’t think I’ll be veering off too far. I’ve gone straight up wildernessing before around the area, but that was onto a hill so I’d know exactly where I am.
First aid kit, a flare if the path is particularly unsafe. If you see a park ranger or the like on the way through just asking ’em how the trails are and shit are always helpful.
Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia… The giant redwood, the larch, the fir, the mighty scots pine. The smell of fresh-cut timber! The crash of mighty trees! With my best girlie by my side, we’d sing … sing … sing.
I wish I looked good in high heels, let alone had the skill to walk in ’em. TAY ladies, don’t know how you do it.
Oh Saturday, I thought you were so rugged! 🙁
Telling someone, first and foremost. I know a lot of people who go off like this, and don’t tell anyone. Idiots. Take a flare, at the very least.
Hmm… no flare.. I’m definitely telling people for sure, that’s basic courtesy I think. People usually freak out if they haven’t heard from someone in a couple hours regardless..
Is it fire ban season yet? Maybe no flares in an aussie national park coming up to summer.
A Nintendo DS and a generator for when it ruins it of power?
I don’t go outside muchHmm, I wonder if I’d get any streespasses …
Oh man, dibs on making a Streetpass horror movie trailer if we ever do another TAY Film.
Water. Water. More water. First aid kit. Sunscreen, clothing that covers you very well and is relatively rugged. I dunno about your feelings on space blankets, but you can usually get them in an insignificantly-sized square that you stuff at the bottom of your pack or in one of its pockets and promptly forget about forever… until you desperately need it and it saves your life.
More important than gear is communication. Tell people where you’re going, when you’re leaving, when you expect to be back, and when you’re going to contact them.
THAT is what saves lives.
(Edit: I’ve gone walkabout sometimes to go yell at a mountain for its role in the world being so unfair, and telling people when and where you’re going sort of defeats the purpose of spontaneously disappearing off the face of the earth, to be sure. But I really, really, really don’t recommend sudden disappearances without advice, no matter how poetic it may feel. Just because I’ve survived doing dumb, dumb, dumbdumb things doesn’t mean everyone else will. Which is one of the things that would make me the most unbearably overprotective parents ever, if I had kids.)
Carrying enough water is often a pain (if you’re going to be out for more than a coupla hours), so personally I’d recommend iodine, assuming there’s some sort of moving freshwater anywhere nearby.
I hear pee is sterile.
It’s endorsed by James Franco!
Water is incredibly heavy, it’s true. (But carrying heavy thing make human strong!) But at least having the containers can help. Oh! That’s what’s needed – plastic bags. @stickman and other people know how to generate a life-saving cupful of water from condensation traps, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensation_trap
I really hope they’re still teaching this basic bushcraft/survival shit in schools.
Hahah, teach useful things in school. You must be as old as Bish.
Did you hear they’re going to start teaching kids shit like “how to be polite to older co-workers” and “how not to make inappropriate facebook posts”? Like. What in the fuck? Why are basic common sense life skills necessary to teach in schools? This is the kind of thing your parents teach you these days, no?
Why teach your kids anything when you can just buy them an ipad to shut them up.
Yeah I know some bushcraft basics, I did air force cadets too. Planning on taking 3.5L water, plus another 0.5 on bike. Will leave another bottle in car too. Hoping the rainforest will remain thick and shade me from the sun rays.
We only ever did ‘household survival’ stuff in school.
“Okay class, what do we do when we go to use the toilet?”
*in the dull drawl of a bored student* Check under the seat for spiders first…
“And how do we lift debris from the ground outside?”
Lift the side facing away from you first so that any snakes don’t get startled…
(Though I guess it worked if I still remember that years later :P)
Oooh, the snake one’s good, I didn’t actually know that one.
I didn’t get told anything like that. It was more like “Don’t be an idiot. She’ll be right mate.”
Then again, I’m from Queensland.
Schools?
I think I got that one from scouts. Had totally forgotten about it though, I don’t really think about water much 😛
If you ever get stuck being somewhere unfamiliar, the first priority should be to find water. You can go weeks without almost any other consideration, but water trumps most things.
When I go somewhere unfamiliar, the first priority is to know where the local game stores are.
It’s a slightly guilty pleasure of mine, but I ensure my safety and contemplative, slightly dramatically depressing mood at the cost of theatrical flourish. Whenever I go wandering about for extended periods of time, I normally say to whomever, for instance, “I’m off, if I’m not back within [insert time period here] check my drawer,” in which is a note detailing my plans- nothing else is said, no mentions of where I’m going. It’s both agonizingly cryptic and informative!
Smart! S.M.R.TI meanS.M.A.R.T!
Also it is nice to know that other people also have felt the urge to be self-indulgently drama-queeny in their treks to nowheres.
I FEEL IT ALL THE TIME!
It’s why I went to Australia in the first place!Make sure your tools are fresh, be sure to have good pile of wood, stack of torches and maybe some coal too, just in case. And yeah, some food prepped too. But the most handy and important is two buckets of water and a bucket of lava. Never leave home without it.
A rape whistle. Jokes aside, perhaps a second spare mobile phone for emergencies switched off to conserve battery?
Planning on taking my sim-free phone with me, and leaving my main working phone in the car. Hopefully I can somehow drag myself back to car and drive to get signal heh…
I wear a whistle necklace; people always ask me if it’s a rape whistle, or if it actually whistles, and want me to blow it.
Weirdos. I hope I didn’t offend you with that whistle comment by the way; or anyone else for that matter.
Also, myself and others here would love it if you filled out some info on TAYnames. It’s just a spreadsheet that informs of everyone’s usernames to add each other as friends on multiple consoles and platforms, if you don’t mind of course.
Mm… okay. I relent. I will add my details. But no one should be offended when I decline invites to events! I like to play on my own 🙂
(also, no, not offended at all about the whistle thing.)
It’s not mandatory, don’t sweat it.
Haha, no no, I really should be more social/less internet afraid.
A link may help. 😀
I realised that the chest strap clip on my backpack had a whistle built into it.
My friends weren’t too fond of me shortly after that.
Take your emergency kit. Used to paddle with folks who did loads of open ocean paddling and the motto was PWEP – Plan, Weather, Equipment, People. Plan – don’t head out without deciding where you are going, how long it will take you and how you are getting in/out. Weather – check the forecast and be prepared for heat/flash rain/overnight cold. Equipment – Take a proper safety kit with you – including things like a waterproof light, compass, and some sort of phone or emergency beacon, just in case. Even a light thermal can be a good thing to pack in summer in case you are stranded without shelter overnight. People – make sure someone knows all the details before you go, so that if something goes wrong and you miss a deadline, then the search for you can start straight away.
Obviously there’s a big differnce in preparation between a three day solo in the Blue Mountains and coastal trek on sunday afteroon, but accidents happen and conditions can change and having the right gear is the difference between walking out and being airlifted.
COMPLETELY UNRELATED, BUT I JUST NOTICED YOUR HALLOWEEN NAME AND IT’S GREAT. HIGH FIVE!
Bear Grills!
Had to go out for lunch today. Sunlight is pretty rad 😛
I said yes when the girl at the cafe offered to toast the roll I ordered, though it ended up taking a while to make its way to me. Then when I went to pay for it afterwards, she told me not to worry about it. What? Said she took way too long with it, and it was on her. …What? 😛
It really wasn’t that long at all, but ok. Free lunch! \o/
*sighs and pulls the popcorn trolley out*… *ahem* We’re now open!
It’s like, do you know what flirting is?
I know right?!
And I’m one that needs spotlight-sized signals to realise it’s happening!
Funny you talk about signals, I’ve a bit of a anecdote to share. I bought a pair of signal flags (like, for nautical use; they were replicas, cheap, flimsy things that I’ve long since discarded) that was purchased for the sole usage of making a joke out of my friend’s obliviousness to flirting. Hanging about in my apartment, They’d talk about it in a dejected tone to another of my friends and so I’d march off to my room, walk back in and wave it about, and upon their slightly confused faces I’d say “WELL I’D BETTER CARRY THESE NEXT TIME WE’RE OUT BECAUSE YOU’RE THAT DAMN STUPID.”
I only did that exact thing once, but goddamn busting it out in the middle of a crowded area when my friend was flustered in female company was a highlight of my life. I kinda wish I picked up on how to properly use them, because I believe liberal usage of “I am dragging my anchor” would’ve been amusing in that situation.
Shit, looking at the list of nautical phrases you can make with the flags, I could’a made great use of “I am on fire and have dangerous cargo; keep clear;” also, “I require a tug” would’ve been fantastic to repeat during said situation. As it was, all I did was awkward arm motions with the flags and swung my hips a little.
Goddamn, such a opportunity wasted.
That’s like… the frilly edge on the bottom of a skirt or something, isn’t it?
did you check the napkin for her phone number 😛
He thought it was just the napkins reorder code.
Probably trying to encourage repeat business.
Like at my new nearby EB, I walked in yesterday arvo to cancel my Shadow of Mordor PS4 pre-order (thanks to having been playing it on PC for the last week), and the girl there who had met me exactly once was lit up with enthusiasm, all, “Oh, hey you! How’s it going, what’s been happening?” and such, like greeting a friend they hadn’t seen in a while.
Sales rapport, people.
Of course, her efforts were completely unrewarded and time largely wasted as we stood there for several minutes in front of the very sparse PS4 section, looking in vain for something I didn’t already have and/or was interested in pre-ordering and not playing on the PC. I eventually got her to hit up the list on the PC and settled on Lords of the Fallen, which totally looks like a Fisher Price My First Dark Souls. I am cautiously optimistic about it being ‘pretty OK’. 🙂
Usually I’d say it was sales, but both you and @mrtaco are kind of ridiculously good looking….
*swoons*
Yeah it’s true, when I met him at Blaghs’ place I immediately thought the guy was a real ladies man, looking all neat and playing the piano like a boss and all that.
Once I had lunch by myself with Transient. So intimidating. XD
Too scary. I’ve vowed to only hang with him when others are around now. 😛
Awh, you seemed to relax a lot more when we got into an EB and started chopping it up about games!
I’m going to have him all sweaty with a shovel on Sunday. He may even get hot and take his shirt off.
Glistening in the sun.
Taking a swig of water as a stray trickle runs down his neck and chest.
Muscles bunching and tense under strain.
Pants hanging low with the V at the bottom of the stomach.
You’re enjoying that far too much.
@thecracks Wouldn’t you?
I will probably strip down to a singlet. That’s as good as you’re getting. 🙂
The compliment is a timely pick-me-up, Strange. Thanks for that. :}
Indeed, I almost fell for that trick at an EB once legitimately thinking the gorgeous asian girl working there really liked my taste in games 😛
I went to Just Jeans two separate times with different people working there. They both said the exact same line. Exact. XD
That was just the writers slipping up.
(I re-watched The Truman Show the other day)
Dude, that’s when you respond with something like ” Well, seeing as I owe you…can I buy you dinner sometime?”.
Dating is wacky. Boys get intimidated if girls make the first move, but if a girl subtly tries to make him make the first move he misses his cue. It’s like you need to hit the guy over the head with a club. 😛
http://samdevdiary.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/futurama.jpg
Yeah… Artemis kinda did that to me back before she and I were together, not literally hitting me on the head with a club but pretty darn close despite being long distance 😛
I personally would like big ol’ neon signs, floating above people’s heads.
Well, younger me would have appreciated them. Thankfully, current me is far too repulsive for it to be an issue. 😀
Sometimes I imagine dating would be a whole lot easier if the whole Sims cartoon hearts appeared over people’s heads.
Everything would be so much easier if all your conversations were via the mass effect dialogue wheel.
“Hey Sean, haven’t seen you in ages, what have you been up to?”
*Punches person in the face*
“I’ve had enough of your disingenuous assertions! “
Dammit if you offer me a logical explanation I’m going to take the logical explanation, not search around it for secret hidden meanings. Please by all means, club away 😛
“And in other news, a man was found in a critical condition in the CBD this evening, looking at what police are currently revealing to us: the young man was found with many wounds most likely caused by a series of strikes from a club. Witnesses say he was talking to several friends separately throughout the evening, all were female. Police say that the attack may have been provoked. He is now in hospital in a stable condition, though he’s going to have quite the headache when he wakes up”
“There were several eyewitnesses to these events but none could answer any questions due to having mouths full of popcorn”
“And now to finance, strangely following the clubbing incident, popcorn profits have risen quite sharply, but what could it mean?”
I know I’d certainly appreciate the club over the head at times.
Actually this reminds of when I was young there was a guy in our group of friends I was really attracted to. We always had great conversations and I thought he might be interested in me, but he never made a move even when we slept in the same bed a couple of times so I assumed he wasn’t interested and just kept on being friends with him.
Found out a few years later that he’d been too scared to make a move even though he’d wanted to. 😛
This is part of why the friend zone doesn’t exist, too. Sometimes guys think they’ve been put there (is it really so bad to be friends with a girl, anyway? :P) but they just never attempted to make a move.
When I heard about a formerly-close high school friend of mine getting married a while ago, I reminisced wistfully to my brothers and some of our friends from there about an ‘unrequited’ crush I nursed on her throughout high school.
Everyone glared daggers at me and my brother actually started punching me, because apparently everyone else knew that she had been waiting for me to make a move for years, and everyone just thought I wasn’t interested, as opposed to being uncharacteristically nervous.
I don’t even know why I’m still so fearful to make the first move anymore yet it happens anyway 🙁
Can be hard tho. Often a guy thinks he has no chance and does not want to risk the relationship they have by making unwanted advances and maybe coming across as a sleaze or something.
And there’s also the common accusation/situation of guys misinterpreting a girl just being friendly as being interested and ends up coming across as a sleaze or something. Most dudes want to avoid that.
Can be hard to figure out what is what, especially with someone you don’t know. All it takes is a little self doubt to say “Nah, I have no chance. Not worth the risk.”
Maybe not a club but clearer signals all round would make things easier for everyone.
All of my This. Pretty much exactly what happened (or didn’t, I suppose) with Cosplay Girl, years ago. Just recounted the story to a friend last night, it was just painful to read over 😛
Keep in mind that it’s not just you guys going through that, though. Girls are having the exact same worries and problems. We’re not as different as you’d think.
Clearer signals all round would definitely make things easier!
And that’s where Tinder and Grindr come from, I wager. 😀
And then everyone gets reputations for being easy. NO ONE CAN WIN.
There is probably truth to obliviousness accusation. I think many of us read ‘subtle invitations’ as ‘women being weird’.
Having some drinks with work peeps one night we were talking about how confusing dating can be and I suggested that I’m probably pretty oblivious in general when it comes to female interest, which caused almost all of the girls to roll their eyes and groan and one to almost spit-take, saying sharply, “Yeah, no shit.”
The vehemence was so powerful I was sort of left blinking and looking around, asking, “Uh… is there something I should know?” And everyone sort of looked at each other warily and the plaintiff gave an appeasing, “No, I meant, you seem the oblivious type.” I didn’t really buy it, but I had NO IDEA who they could’ve been talking about making overtures so I resigned myself to never knowing.
But I disagree on the first point. I have never found a girl making the first move to be ‘intimidating’. Sometimes unwelcome or awkward if they’re not your type, but usually I’ve liked it. A lot. Some of my favourite memories of past flings are of frustrated girls unexpectedly grabbing me by the collar/neck-chain (it was a gift, OK?)/belt and making their intentions very clear.
Girls should totally carry around Saturday’s signal flags. I think everyone would be a lot happier.
Traffic Light party?
Yeah, the ‘guys find it intimidating” thing seems odd to me. Guys in general prefer communication to be clear cut. Depends on how and to/from whom but clearer signals at least would benefit all.
It’s seems odd, but in my experience it’s not. It all comes down to the unconscious ways gender roles are perceived. So if the girl is the aggressor a lot of guys find it emasculating. It also tends to make guys think of you as more a fling than a permanent thing. There’s always a way guys think a potential wife is supposed to act, and even though they say they want loud and clear signals, the more loud and clear you are about being attracted to them, the more they can be put off from a long-term relationship by it. They want to think they’ve been in charge. Obviously I’m being extremely general here, but in general this has always been my experience, through past relationships/one night stands, as well as countless conversations with guys about this kind of thing.
That’s an interesting point I hadn’t thought about. Whether you intend for something to be long-term or not.
I’ve… never really thought about the difference much because long-term has only ever been an occasional accident for me. (Or in one instance, a 3-month trainwreck. Where I transformed from ‘charming rogue who doesn’t need her approval’ into ‘neutered and reliably pliant ‘boyfriend’ material’, which is what I stupidly thought was what she wanted. )
I guess it depends on what you mean by first move.
Probably in general the bolder and more up front the move, the more likely it is intended/will be perceived as something short term, at least initially. And yeah, true that many guys need to feel like they are “in charge”. But I think that number is shrinking.
But I guess it also depends on who you want. Want a guy like that? He will come to you. But a dude who doesn’t need to feel like that might not. So if that’s what you want, make some moves and he who stays might fit the bill.
Not that I have any right to join this conversation really, I just like these intellectual discussions.
Hey, I’m married so I probably don’t have a right to be in this conversation, either. 😛
yeah, you know, I’m apprehensive on giving the women in my life blunt weapons to wield, but y’know, that’s just me.
…Yes. Yes, the women in your life seem to have odd ideas about how to interact with your parts.
YOU WEREN’T THERE, MAN.
*stares off into the distance with a lifeless look in my eyes*
you weren’t there.
It’s easy to make the first move if you’re just after a temporary good time, though. It’s when it’s something more long-term you’re interested in that it becomes difficult because the stakes are higher. Sometimes it’s easier to just carry on being friends with someone instead of risking the rejection.
I think that’s where my fear comes from the most, risking ruining the great friendship I currently have with the girl in question. Rejection can easily go towards awkward conversations afterwards then the friendship slowly deteriorates as a result, that’s how it usually went in my mind
I wish that happened to me, you lucky prick 😛
Still love ya Transient! \o I definitely agree with you on the whole “feels great when a girl makes a move”, the problem I get is the constant worry of whether or not it’s genuine or they just want to make fun of me. Another gift from high school’s hell.
I recommend owning it and rolling with it, “Oho, joking? I didn’t realize, I have to fend them off with a stick normally, thought you were just another groupie” even if it makes you look campy and cartoonish like some Johnny Bravo dip. Better feeling like a tool by your own design than someone else’s.
That’s quite clever. Never thought of doing that
I have read “subtle invitations” the wrong way a couple of times and got into trouble for it. And then one of the girls turned around a few months after I made a move and decided that she did actually like me. And I regret to say that I’ve done the exact same thing as well.
People are weird.
Probably not too weird if you misread a signal and act on it with romantic intent for the recipient to realize that even though they hadn’t ever thought about you in that way, now that they have… it’s not such a bad idea.
It still kinda sucks when the passion that you may have had for that person has ebbed away and refocused elsewhere that when the opportunity does come around it feels kind of weird.
That is the only thing you can be sure of in your dating life. 😀
Not going to lie, I had to stop myself from writing strange. 😛
But yeah, dating is weird.
Anyone mobile phone savvy, I can upgrade my S3. Current options are the Xperia Z3 (great for PS4 gaming), wait for the Note 4 or possibly the LG G3 which I haven’t looked at much yet
Yeah, the iPhone 6+ is probably great as well 😛I’d go LG G3. @stickman has one.
Can confirm, pretty neat phone.
I’m in love with my Xperia Z1. But it looks like you already made up your mind, anyway because you only added a bonus bracket to the Z3.
My old housemate has a Z2 and he loves it. I think I’m sold
I have G3, so you can ask Q’s on that. GF has HTC M8 – bezels too damn huge for my liking. Z3 dunno, great camera apparently. S5 probably the most popular overall (plus dat waterproofing), but I hate the pentile screen.
iPhone can suck my dick.I was considering the M8 but it’s always out at the wrong time and by the time I can upgrade there’s better options out. The G3 looks like a seriously decent piece of kit, but the lure of PS4 connectivity with the Z3 is too much. What I’ve found though is that I mostly use my phone for music and internet browsing, very little in the way of gaming. I don’t even take many pictures anymore so the Z3 trumps all the others atm I think just for the PS4 side of things (hopefully it works well)
I dunno, I have a Vita and don’t use remote play really. I personally think the PS4 remote play thing is a total flop in theory, so I have absolutely no desire to try it or base a purchase on it. But Z3 has water proofing too, I believe?
Yeah, the Z3 is waterproof as well. I’ll head off instore later today and have a quick play and see which UI I prefer. I didn’t realise the G3 was out already but it seems like LG panicked after last year and bringing the G2 out a few months after everyone else’s phone and pushed the G3 forward this year
I love my HTC One M8, it is worth checking out, solid construction and solid performance. HTC have done an awesome job at toning down their SenseUI and allowing custom launchers and locks to run with minimal fuss.
I feel like I’ve got such little care for anything at the moment… 🙁
what’s got ya down crazyguy?
CrazyGuy, I’m becoming increasingly worried about you. If you ever need anything, my email is strangeandalone at gmail.
Happens to me a lot these days too, I’m always up for a chat over steam if you need to vent, sir!
Crazyguy in all seriousness, If you need to talk to someone talk to us/me! You might feel like you don’t care for much anymore but we/i care about you!
Edit – cause the first iteration sounded way more aggressive then I intended, sorry
Upvote cause I don’t have the words.
We’re all here for you, friend.
Do you care for hugs and companionship? Every one cares for that *hugs*
Thanks, NotSoColdCamV. 🙂
LukeWarmCamV doesn’t have the same ring
I think I might need to take a break with Alien Isolation. My nerves, man. D: It’s a great game, but doesn’t let up at all. Just constant tension. Can’t play for too long without it getting to you. It’d be nice to have a you’re completely safe so explore for a moment place. XD
Must be time to calm those nerves with some Dark Souls! 😛
Oktoberfest will sooth the nerves. 😀 Also getting new PS Plus games. It’s my first month where I can do this!
I’ll be wearing a dress to Oktoberfest. I think the last time I wore a dress was at my wedding. Appropriately, I guess seeing as it’s my wedding anniversary tomorrow. 😛
I think I missed last month’s PS+ stuff. I haven’t played any games for a while.
I will be wearing pants! Look for the guy in pants!
I heard you’d be wearing lederhosen….
I never actually bought any. Or Oktoberfest tickets. D:
I’ll be wearing a pained expression from dealing with so many strangers. But an optimistic smile from hanging with my pals. And frown of worry at spilling beer on Dan. And pants.
I think after all the expectation you’ve built up, you now only need to worry about NOT spilling beer on DAN!. 😛
Happy Anniversary for tomorrow! 🙂
Thank-you!
You’ve just got to be more stern with the alien. Look it in the eyes and firmly but kindly tell it that now is quiet time.
I’ll try that tonight. Hopefully Tiglet listens
I think I love you.
Oh, shucks!
I’m not super far into it
Just started the medbay area with whatsisname and whatserfacebut I think it’s had a decent mix of tense areas and break areas. Then again, it did totally ruin what I thought was a safe area.
(not really a spoiler, but I’m a monster)
Thankfully there was some guy there who I used as a distraction so I could escape the AlienUp until there I thought the balance was good too. Now I’ve had non-stop hunting sections.
Also how are you suppose to use all these items? They all make loud noises. They all don’t give you time to get away. So you’re basically inviting a Xenomorph your way! You try to use an item to distract humans. Humans make loud noise. Humans get killed. I get killed. It’s a predicament. I think I might just stay in this locker I’m currently occupying. Or vent myself out an air lock.
You use the item, and then you SPRINT LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW STRAIGHT AT THE ALIEN! SEE IF YOUR AI CAN PREDICT THAT, BIZNATCH!
The Alien was just waiting for you to make the first move. You go out on a wonderful first date, one thing leads to another and you end up dying of old age within hours of eachother at the nursing home, surrounded by your families.
I’m going to use that line next time I’m in an uncomfortable situation with another person, “If I could, I’d vent myself out an airlock right now.”
It’s one of my favourites, ever since Battlestar Galactica. 😛
I can’t wait to check this out, no thanks to @evilmonkey. This week I was umming and arring over whether to get the game or not. Though, I’m fairly certain that when I play it I’m going to get my arse handed to me, even on easy.
Really think I need to turn it down to easy. I’m sad I wouldn’t be very good in one of these situations now. XD
I’ve always struggled to get any scares from these games. I guess it’s because I play a lot of games where failure is a key mechanic (Souls games, Trials, Rogue Legacy) that the constant threat of death doesn’t really mean anything any more.
It’s not even always scares. It’s the tension of dying and having to replay an entire section slowly too. 😀
TAYlist for the 9th of October 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by a picture of the paper version of the TAYlistMadison Avenue – Don’t Call Me Baby
REM – Orange Crush
Swingers – Counting The Beat
Living End – White Noise
Shaggy – Luv Me Luv Me
Taylor Swift – Mine
Taco – Puttin’ On The Ritz
Daryl Braithwaite – As The Days Go By
Justice Crew – Que Sera
Seal – Kiss From A Rose
Alanis Morissette – Hand In My Pocket
Colbie Caillat – Bubbly
Timomatic – Incredible
Peter Andre – Do You Wanna Dance
Michelle Brance – Everywhere
Rogue Traders – Would You Raise Your Hands
Icehouse – Great Southern Land
Matchbox 20 – 3 AM
Jessica Mauboy – What Happened To Us
Whitlams – Fall For You
What’s a Timomatic?
A robotic Minchin.
Wherein I rate each song.
Meh.Yay.
Never heard it.
Overrated.
Ok, I guess.
No. No. No.
Original is better, not bad for what it is though.
Meh.
Nope.
Ok. Strangely prefer Alanis’s version.
Good.
Never heard it.
Never heard it.
Ok, I guess.
Never heard it.
Nope.
Good.
Good. There’s a piano-acoustic version floating about that’s even better.
Never heard it.
Great Whitlams song.
I like that even without requests you managed to fulfil one for @dc and @shane.
http://mamitan.goodsmile.info/2014/10/good-smile-company-is-making-the-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/
Oh good, they’re just statues. My wallet is safe 😛
Yeah, TMNT Nendoroids would be unleashing a bomb on my wallet. Realized just before that I’m going to have to stop buying so many now that I have to worry about rent like a normal person. 🙁
I’d be able to skip the Nendoroids, but if it were Figma… although I did already pick up those articulated classic series ones the other month, but I guess Figma would be much better quality.
Also damn that’s a horrifying thought 😛
Do y’all remember the McCain TMNT pizzas they had back in the early 90s? The box was green, with the cartoon turtles on it, and maaaybe had drawings over the actual photo of the pizza, as if there was all the gnarly toppings the turtles enjoyed?
So I just officially passed my second cluster of units for my diploma, about 1/3 of the way to finished now, go me
This may be a fun TAY game! From Stephen Colbert:
“For YOUR war name, add a word that describes your grandfather to the name of the last animal you killed! Ex: Operation Racist Raccoon.”
Operation Alcoholic Rat.
Oh. Ok. Hm. Maybe not.
LAST SONG PLAYED GAME
Suicide is Painless – Ion Storm (better known as the M*A*S*H* theme song)
Operation: Kind Lizard
Operation Quiet
HumanMosquitoOperation Irritating Termite.
Operation I Never Met That Ant?
I don’t know why I upvoted this… That’s kinda sad 😛
Operation White Ant.
Now the whiteness makes sense! You got it from your grandpa!
Operation Dead Insect.
Okay…
Operation Unknown Spider
Operation African Moth
Oh man, some lady on the train the other day splatted a moth that was flying around the carriage. I didn’t think people even killed moths!
Not saying with my bare hands. Bugspray was involved.
But they’re so nice! And easy to catch in your hand and release!
They just want to be freeee
(Though the last one I let outside immediately flew into a spider web so you can’t win ’em all :P)
I’m quite skittish with bugs. It’s not the bugs themselves half the time, it’s the sudden-unexpected-movement-out-of-the-corner-of-my-eye-that-I’m-always-tensed-to-jump-away-from-like-a-coiled-watch-spring-because-it-might-be-trying-to-kill-me.
There’s people that don’t kill moths? 😛
Well, other than Sketchbook. She was bug-crazy, especially had a thing for moths.
Operation Old Headlice
Yeah, let’s just go with the last song game. 😛
Except I can’t remember. Something by either Opera Magna or Ancient Bards.
Last played song: Do They Know it’s Halloween?
Operation Calabrian Skink.
Vampire Snap – Joshua Morse
Also I totally felt awful about that lizard. Was out with the barrier spray, taking to the bins since they were were covered with spiders the other night. As I spun one bin around, I saw a tailless lizard go scurrying under the other bin. Figured it must have just run off, but later on moving that one I saw that no, it had gotten stuck. And squashed along the stomach region. Poor thing 🙁 Worst part was that I didn’t have it in me to finish it off, so I just put the bin back and went inside.
Ha, I used to be so worried that would happen back in my old place that I would smack the sides of the bins every time I went to move them as a warning 😛
Good to know that you’re living my fears I guess!
Wow, so many unexpected murderous TAY peoples!
Mine was an accident. I had an existential crisis afterwards!
That mosquito knew what it did.
At least most of them seem to be insects.
I was more worried about lizards and skinks and picturing people hunting them down like that guy hunting dogs in ‘The Leftovers’. 😛
Oh… ‘The Leftovers’ eh?
*mental notes to NEVER WATCH THAT*
It’s awesome. Depressing and uplifting at the same time. Compelling stuff.
It starts on Foxtel on Tuesday. I’m going to give it a go as The Strain and Black Sails are ending.
My cousin and I used to get a bucket and go “lizard hunting” in my Nanna’s backyard when we were little. By which I mean just trying to collect as many as we could in there, no killing or anything. I don’t even know how the hell we managed to catch so many, I remember one time there must have been at least thirty of them in there. Not sure there’s even that many hanging around there any more.
Operation Sombre Fly.
Aka Operation Zombify! It sounds like that, anyway.
Operation Alcoholic Toad
Operation Absent Fly.
Track 06 – Unknown Artist. Apparently a pretty old mp3 if it’s missing id3 data… Can’t for the life of me remember who it is, and Google is surprisingly unhelpful, for once.
Shazam might help? Siri can find songs too now!
Nm. Found it. Turns out I’d been listening to it for 12 years and singing completely the wrong lyrics. 😛
Finch – Without You Here.
Edit: And, further confusing matters, it was apparently the seventh track on the CD. Despite loving algebra, and sneaking alone time with calculus textbooks, 15yo me was apparently averse to the basics of ordinal numbers.
Came from a compilation CD maybe?
Probably.
Hum a bit for us, somebody here might know it.
*hums*
E-flat… C… G… E-flat… C… G… E-flat…
G… E-flat… B-flat… F… G… E-flat… B-flat… F… G… E-flat… B-flat… F… G… E-flat… B-flat… F…
E-flat… C… G… E-flat… C… G… E-flat…
G… E-flat… B-flat… F… G… E-flat… B-flat… F… G… E-flat… B-flat… F… G… E-flat… B-flat… F…
E-flat… B-flat… E-flat… G… E-flat… B-flat… E-flat… G…
*thinks: “Such an awesome song.”*
Man, I just pulled up a virtual piano to see if I could make something of that, which makes me a terrible nerd.
It’s just the roots of the backing chord progression. Lines are verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, and (missing) final chorus; C’s and G’s are minor.
Can’t hear absolute pitch to save my life, so transcribing the vocal melody is error-prone. That, and I don’t know the musical notation for “angsty scream.” 😛
Ahh, makes sense. Without any rhythm or tempo it meant that it mostly just sounded like a random sequence of notes played on a virtual keyboard when I tried. :p
Operation: Stubborn Butterfly
Operation: Sleepy
BystanderNecromorph.If that doesn’t become an honest-to-god military operation somewhere in the world, I will be sorely disappointed.
Also, I guess Operation Covert-Geologist Roach.
Operation: Dead Snail
I didn’t know my grandad well enough to describe him :\
Last song played:
Imagine Dragons – Cha-Ching
It’s just so good!
Operation Smiling Mosquito is GO
Operation Drunken Huntsman.
Operation Loud Cockroach
Operation funny huntsman
Wait no spiders aren’t animals they’re monsters!
Operation funny mouse
Edit – *shakes fist at reply button*
You’re a bona fide Australian now. Huntsman spiders are pets. 😛
*rips up certificate and storms out the room*
Nope nope nope nope nope
Only if you’re the avatar of some kind of Lovecraftian horror.
I don’t like them in the house, but we don’t kill them, we just catch them with paper and a bowl and take them outside. Then they can go back to work eating cockroaches.
I also found out on a recent trip to the Reptile Park that Blue Tongue Lizards EAT FUNNEL WEBS. So it’s very fortuitous to have one in your garden.
Dammit people, these things aren’t going to sew/quilt/embroider themselves! Why are you all so interesting to converse with?!
I was going to be on my laptop for five minutes while I gave myself a well-deserved chocolate break but the next thing I know it’s been an hour or so. 😛
Sorry /o\
today had been a pretty amazing TAY day! Thank you ask for making today a good day!… I probably should have been doing more actual work though 😛
An hour and a kilo of chocolate later…
I refuse to confirm or deny the veracity of this suggestion. 😛
I apologise…for……NOTHING!
*runs*
I’d offer to be more boring, but we know that that isn’t actually possible, so instead I think I’ll just laugh at you, and all the nothing you’ve been doing.
Unlike me. Since I got home I’ve… errrr…
Shit.
I didn’t really need to know that you’ve used the toilet since you got home.
Sorry, that was probably more words than I’ve posted the whole of last month, it was an interesting subject
Don’t apologise! (You either, @pixel_the_ferret_viking!) I wasn’t really complaining. It’s been fun. I miss being able to hang on TAY for half the day. 😀
On a side note I feel like I don’t talk nearly enough to you… I’m sorry for that!
On a related note, I feel like you don’t talk to me enough.
Please talk to me more. Please.
Ssshhh you and me? We’re beyond talking 😉
it’s never my intend to exclude anyone and I’ve been getting increasingly more aware that I am doing just that… I don’t like that and I’m trying to change it but that means changing 26 years of insecurities as I sometimes feel people only talk to me to polite and wooooooow I just realized you properly meant that as a joke so I’m going to spoiler tag this but still… I like you! You’re a cool dude with an amazing humor… I like that!Of course it was a joke, buddy. And I’ve long accepted that I can only interact with so many people, so lots of people get excluded. But that’s okay, because unlike you, I’m a prick, so nothing’s lost for them.I feel the same way! I always like what you say, but then feel bad I have nothing to add. 😀
If you have nothing to add must simply mean what I said was so amazing that there’s nothing else to add right? RIGHT?
*nervous laugh*
I miss posting more often on TAY, I just haven’t been good mentally for the past few months since Artemis and I put our relationship on what seems to be permanent hiatus, coupled with the years of waiting wasted for an apartment that’ll never be built and the uncertainty regarding how much longer I’ll last in my job due to outsourcing tactics being done as part of Telstra’s “global growth”.
*hugs*
I always found those times to be the best times for talking prolifically on TAY. Bad stuff doesn’t bring TAY down, TAY brings you up if you’re having bad times.
Thanks *hugs*
I had to really stop myself from lashing out at certain people in the past few weeks just out of jealousy that they’ve got it better than me. It’s not posting the depressing stuff on TAY that I’m worried about, it’s saying something to someone that I’ll regret saying later just because I’m not myself at the time.
I’ve felt that way before. You’re not alone, buddy. 🙂
It’s difficult to associate an empathize with other peoples situation when you yourself is in a crappy situation… And that’s perfectly normal and OK! But talking about things yourself can help tremendously…
Oh so much this! Do it! Vent! Get it out there and realize we are here to support and help you however we can… If you need 2 snuggle buddies I will bring my dogs to your house, trust me, it works!! XD seriously techie, anything you need, give me a shout
CHOCOLATE BREAK. I have a stash of Jarrah frothy hot chocolate and hobnobs at work. (English) bliss (it’d be even more English if I drunk tea)
Aldi had real jammie dodgers and fig rolls a while back – they were good!
I want Jaffa Cakes 😀
This week in comic book TV!
GOTHAM
Um, wow, that was weird. A guy who kills people by attaching them to a weather balloon is like a Batman concept from the 50s, and really, really friggin bizarre for a TV series that at least is attempting realism. This series is reminding me of the criticism I once levelled at Batman Forever- the good guys are playing it serious, while the baddies are playing it Adam West. PICK A TONE GOTHAM
2 and a half murdered parents out of five.
MARVEL’S AGENTS OF STUPIDLY LONG BACKRONYM
Good ep. Neat plot, got a couple of good character beats in. Spoilers for about half the episode:
The two best bits- the reveal that Simmons is a double agent inside Hydra after a jaunty montage, which adds a nice little twist to the proceedings, and the fact that Fitz was willing to suffocate a guy out of revenge- that’s some seriously dark stuff for family TV, but also a bit more mature.3.5.S.O.O.F (Three and a half SHIELDS out of Five)
THE FLASH (aah-aah, he’ll save every one of us!)
Probably the best pilot out of all of these superhero shows, and also setting up something pretty damn neat. It moves pretty quickly, establishing a LOT of stuff without ever feeling expository. Gustin is pretty good as Barry Allen, Jesse L Martin is great as his adoptive dad, and the rest of the ensemble looks pretty sharp too. Also, a nod to Gorilla Grodd, which would be the most insane thing a superhero show ever tries and I hope happens. The speed effects were nice, which if you ask me is the number one thing a FLash TV show needs to get right visually. I’m in.
4.5 Sonic Booms out of five
ARROW
Very much table setting following the end of S3. Peter Stormare is always welcome, even if he’s here playing a villain of the week, and Brandon Routh is having way too much fun as Ray Palmer (In the comics, the Atom, one of my favourites, so I hope he gets his powers). End of episode spoilers
The return and abrupt killing of Sara Lance was shocking, but I thought it may be a bit cheap- she’s there, gets two scenes, then pretty viciously offed. That said, league of shadows- Lazarus pit? Also, Felicity Smoak, ILY4 Salmon Ladders out of five.
Wait a second, Superman got demoted to The Atom?
Routh has been pretty decent in everything I’ve seen him in. Glad he’s getting decent work
I like the guy, I just didn’t like the first season of Arrow enough to keep going with it.
The only one of those I’ve seen this week is The Flash. Which I agree was the best Pilot. Although was it just me or did he seem way less mature in his manner than when he was in Arrow?
I haven’t agreed with your previous weeks’ scores of Gotham and SHIELD though so I expect to love Gotham and hate SHIELD, now. 😛
I think they probably have a better handle on the tone and characterisation now they’re writing for him full time. Also, he was out of his element on Arrow. Will be interested to see the crossover which is coming up (apparently halfway through the series). Last time I can remember a proper part 1/part 2 crossover on genre TV was Buffy/Angel (countless CSI/NCIS ones I’m not counting).
Look, I’lll keep watching Gotham, but it is a bit all over the place atm. I generally like the characters, and I think theyre doing their best with writing that’s a little rubbish. And SHIELD I think needs to embrace its comicbookness a bit more. Dealing with HYDRA is the best thing they could ever have asked for, as it’s finally given them a big shadowy evil organisation to oppose, which is a staple of spy fiction (well, at least since the Cold War).
I hated the first episode of Gotham and only watched the second because Mr. Strange made me. If I hate this third episode then I’m done.
I loved SHIELD even through its rocky beginnings. It has a really companionable feel to it that I like. But I thought that last week’s episode was completely clunky and seemed like it had been written by a high school kid. There was even a terrible, terrible pun! 😛 I’m hoping I like this week’s episode better.
I actually hope that SHIELD goes full ALIAS batshit at one stage.
Also, it still needs more of a visual style.
Okay. Just watched The Flash.
It’s pretty much as good as I’d expect a CW show to be. I’ll probably stick around for a bit with this one.
Although I think tying the Rogues’ origins in with Flash’s might be a bit odd (assuming Weather Wizard isn’t the only one). They pretty much ripped that bit wholesale from Static Shock and it does give them the potential to introduce villains of the week with very little explanation.
And I look forward to them casting a black kid as Wally West. You just know that there’s going to be fan backlash and it will be fun to watch.
How much should you have watched arrow before you start with flash
mmmm me English good.
Jump straight in or lots of back story elements
It’s standalone. He does go see Oliver, but that’s all
Thinking that I would enjoy Flash and knowing that it was tied to Arrow, I went and watched Arrow. It’s pretty terrible and I really, really enjoyed it.
Yeah completely agree with the Gotham thing, really want to like the show too, hopefully it settles into a happy medium that works
I feel like a new page. Let’s see if this starts a new page.
EDIT: nope.
#OhSaturday #HashTagsForHarli
Haaaaaa!
Well then.
@redartifice
AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
SAVIOUR OF THE UNIVERSE!
There’s no real way to make that criticism without some sort of speed related pun.
So went & did my NSW RCG today, in the hopes I can obtain work in one of the many clubs around here that have those stupid pokies.
Also might be working back at EB for Christmas too, that would be awesome if nothing else comes my way, I really liked working there!
fingers crossed,
I worked in a pokies room for a while, it was pretty fun and I got some great tips, people get really generous after having a win, my biggest tip was $200 but used to get $10 or $20 pretty often. Just be prepared to have a lot of people try and get you to sympathize with them when they spend their rent/ babies milk money on the pokies. Also if you’re liked prepare for free knock off drinks every day, nearly every time I finished a shift some customer would demand I have a drink with them.
Cheers!
Yeah, that’s the thing that was made big at the course was the whole parent just fed their weeks wages through a machine that is going to pay out no more than 95 cents to the dollar put in.. Sad to see people do that, but there’s nothing you’re legally allowed to do until they ask for help :/
Just a general question for all those who play or are familiar with Warhammer 40K.
What is your favourite part of Chaos: Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh, or Tzeentch?
Crossed between Tzeentch and Khorne personally. Nurgle is just urgh yuk, and Slaanesh, yeah I’m for the desire to have companionship but not that bloody badly 😛
Don’t make up fake names to try and trick me!
Nurgle and Tzeentch 2nd edition had the best basic troops. Noise marines and Berserkers were naff. Thematically, Khorne’s the best with runner-up Tzeentch. But personally, I preferred to go with a mark of chaos undivided under Abaddon (who had my best paint job to date) and bring a little of everything.
Then 3rd edition rolled around and I dunno, GW must’ve thought too many people were playing and enjoying Chaos and that they should be nerfed down to weaker, more easily-frightened, less-resilient space marines with inferior equipment and vehicles and some demons which were too unpredictable to use and nerfed into underpoweredness such that they could get torn apart by any blood angel assault marines. And that there should be a new Marine chapter for everyone to play with an invincible character in it.
Because y’know, people shouldn’t be playing Chaos unless they want to make a marine player feel good.
NOT BITTER.
Choose perfection through technology*, choose Necrons! \o/
*Totally not brainwashed by the C’tan
Yes! Necrons became the new Tzeentch marines. Only with much creepier backstory.
(Edit: Also, the reason why Dark Crusade is the best Dawn of War game ever made.)
I never knew of the Necrons before Dark Crusade. When I saw the space marines fighting them they were instantly my favourite. They even recycle their own fricken troops and some even GET BACK UP AFTER GETTING TAKEN DOWN! Oh yeah and also motherf@#ing monoliths – HOVERING MONOLITHS – with the green rays of death!
SPESH MEREENS are the blandest of the bland armies so it sucks that they get so much focus. The renegade or specialist marines (like Deathwatch or Carcharodons Astra, but not Grey Knights cos bleh OP) are so much more interesting and the Chaos marines add a whole other level of personality.
Yeah it’s weird how Chaos got nerfed into the ground despite probably being one of the most interesting non-xenos armies to play. But of course GW are all about the Space Marines so they don’t want the easiest paint models to be only average because then people’ll be upset.
On the plus side, at least the Men of the North were overpowered in Warhammer Fantasy for as long as I was keeping up to date with them. Nothing quite like smashing up a several-hundred-strong Bretonian army with a single unit of knights and two squads of warriors.
Yeah I heard that Fantasy Chaos was pretty overpowered at times. Makes it kinda odd with the power discrepancy between the two settings.
Mind you, apparently ‘Nids have been nerfed into the ground so they are hardly the Great Devourer any more. Maybe the Little Nibbler. 😛 Just goes to show that GW’s sense of balance is completely out of whack and tends to fly in the face of some of the lore going around.
Hehe Little Nibbler
Slaanesh. Mostly because of the Dark Eldar.
Khorne without hesitation. Blood for the Blood God.
Milk for the Khorne Flakes. 😛
Changer of Ways.
Papa Nurgle!
Though, the whole Slaanesh/Eldar thing is pretty great.
While I agree with you and @trjn about the Slaanesh and Eldar/Dark Eldar stuff being pretty great, everything else about it just seems pretty weird and I’m not a huge fan.
Yeah, which is why it’s a second to the whole cult thing Nurgle has going on. Also, his relationship with Isha.
If it wasn’t for the Dark Eldar bit, I wouldn’t care for any of them.
Why is this explaining a lot about your actions on Rogue Trader so far? 😛
Khorne is very versatile, you can make it into flour to use for breads, tortillas, chips… works great as a thickening agent in soups and stews, and can even be used to make sweet syrups of questionable nutritional value.
shaddup Gutsoup
De do, de do, do do do do de do.
Always look on the bright side ‘o life.
De do, de do, do do do do de do….
NegativeZero’s New Anime Season Impressions, Part 1 of ?
Watching the new shows so you don’t have to.
I actually watched nothing at all last night so these are impressions largely from Tuesday night that I didn’t have time to mention yet.
Cross Ange
I don’t know how many people were into trashy fantasy novels in the mid-to-late 90s, but Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman at one point shat out a trilogy called Darksaber. The premise there, as in here, is that in the weirdo fantasy land, everyone can do magic except the people that can’t. ‘Norma’ people ‘reject’ magic and so they are totes scary and horribad and we must be cast out. And because they’re all women (and because it’s anime) they need to be sent off to some prison-like spot where they wear really skimpy clothes and ride mechs and fight dragons or something. The titular (heh) protagonist is a princess who somehow never noticed that she can’t do the magic thing because her parents covered it up. If you looked up ‘inconsistent tone’ in Wikipedia this should be in the ‘see also’ section. The art is generally bright and appealing and half the episode was fairly standard and the whole illogical way they treat the ‘norma’ is almost comically absurd. And then suddenly our heroine is strapped naked to a table and on the receiving end of what looked for all the world like a good hard fisting, leaving me with this weird “what the fuck did I just watch?” feeling. I dunno, maybe the other chick was a really extreme chiropractor and it was just an emergency spinal re-alignment or something. Not sure I’ll watch any further since it was kind of shit (though not shit enough to be an instant drop), but I kind of want to know what the hell was actually going on at the end there so I guess they succeeded with whatever it was they were planning? But I guess we know why Ange is Cross, at least…
Danna ni Itteiru ga Wakaranai ken
Or “I don’t understand what my husband is saying”. 3-minute episode show about a girl who married a complete nerd and has no idea what the hell he’s talking about most of the time. Wasn’t hugely into it. Way too similar to ‘insufficient direction’ but that was actually based on real interesting people (Manga author Moyoco Anno’s stories about living with her top-shelf grade-A prime-quality Nerd husband, Hideaki Anno, i.e. the guy that directed Evangelion). Plus the 3-minute format shits me, it’s just too short to really be interesting.
Grisaia no Kajitsu
Adapted from a Visual Novel and it shows. Apparently the stuff it’s based off is extremely good and is popular enough to have spawned another three games in the series. Also apparently the ‘all-ages’ (i.e. porn removed) console version is coming to PC in English on Stream at some point. So I’m kind of on the fence about even watching this since the game will be better. So far it seemed like a fairly standard VN. Dude that seems like the very definition of a Gary Stu (he’s a fast-talking good-looking badass guy who is some kind of secret agent or something despite being a high schooler?) somehow finds himself the only guy in a special school where the rest of the students are girls. And they’re all apparently special. Hasn’t really had a chance to show if it’s got much of a hook yet. It’s nice to hear Ai Shimizu again, she hardly does any anime now. I’ve also heard that they may just be recycling the VN’s recorded dialogue, but I’m not sure if that’s the case or not. Anyway, I’ll probably give it an episode or two to see if it gets a hook in or anything, but otherwise might just wait and play the game’s localization.
Denki-gai no Honya-san
I enjoyed this one a fair bit. It’s not great – what it feels like is basically a poor man’s version of comedy anime Working (or Wagnaria in the US for some reason). It’s a gag comedy set around a bunch of misfits and weirdos who work in an Akiba manga store that appears to mainly specialize in pornography. You can already sort of see how most of the gags are going to go based on the characters nicknames, but I think that Sommelier may be the most amusing of them. He never speaks, but just by looking at someone can find them material that exactly matches them. I suspect this will end up being a regular for me for a bit but then fade away as the jokes get stale, but will see.
Inou Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka De
Aka ‘When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace’. This is Studio Trigger’s third production after Little Witch Academia and Kill la Kill and I have to say I’m not much of a fan at all so far. Part of it is likely that unlike LWA and KLK this is an adaption of a manga / light novel series, so not something they have full creative control over. The setup is basically that the literature club suddenly inherit superpowers and then are engaged in fights with said superpowers. So what it says on the label. I’m not really into any of the characters and the animation wasn’t anything that exciting so far either (most of the real animation rockstars at Trigger aren’t involved). Comedy felt flat and predictable too. But it appears to be at least fairly well made and maybe it’ll grow on me. Going to give it a couple more episodes to prove itself, but otherwise I can’t see myself watching it long-term unless it grows a decent plot hook.
Madan no Ou to Vanadis
Another trashy-seeming fantasy show. The protagonist is a duke or something, and also an amazing archer. He finds himself in battle on the losing side, with his companion forces routed due to the opposing forces being lead by a ‘War Princess’ who appears to run that country or something and is some kind of super-powered valkyrie type and she captures him because he’s pretty good and it turns out she’s totes nice and stuff. I have absolutely no idea where this will go and I’m pretty sure that it won’t be anywhere worthwhile. But I might watch a bit more and see how it goes, timing dependent.
Sora no Method
Aka Celestial Method (which sounds like some kind of yoga style or something). This is another one where I’m not sure what the heck is going on. Girl moves back to a town she lived in as a child, meets a weird clumsy girl who is all OMG YOU’RE BACK but main girl doesn’t remember her and then some stuff happens and main girl is like OMG ALL MY HATE but she realizes she’s just being a bitch and they make up and then the wierd ufo disc thing in the sky starts glowing and CUT TO CREDITS WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON. Combined with the fact that all the main girl’s former friends are around and they’ve all grown up and grown apart and stuff I can’t help make the inevitable comparison to Anohana, and this comes off looking pretty terrible in comparison to that. However on the other hand, Anohana had way too many feels for me and I dropped it, where this feels maybe like it’ll be a bit lighter in tone. But it’s also a bit hammy in terms of predictable plot and stuff. So who knows. Giving it an episode or two to establish a plot but it hasn’t hooked me at all.
Amagi Brilliant Park
Kyoto Animation always delivers. In this case, they’re delivering an adaption of a light novel series by the creator of Full Metal Panic. The story opens with the main character being invited on a date by the girl who just transferred into the school. At gunpoint. Their date takes place in Amagi Brilliant Park, a sketchy run-down amusement park which it seems the protagonist may have a history with. Stuff happens (including the surprise reintroduction of that bear thing from Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu, which is still one of the funniest anime ever made) and somehow our hero finds himself roped into taking over management of the park, tasked with turning its fortunes around and saving it from having to close down. Also magic may be involved. I really like the look of this. KyoAni doing their usual character design style, high quality animation, great direction and timing and generally entertaining. Definitely on my list.
You dropped Anohana?
Terrible Neg, terrible.
And based on this list, I guess I’ll look at… Amagi Brilliant Park.
Maybe.
It’s not like I’ve caught up on what I meant to watch from last season, or the one before that, and I still have a huge backlog…
I was going through a pretty tough spot personally at the time so yeah, I dropped it. It never really grabbed me hugely in the first place, but also I didn’t want to watch something that emotionally draining.
I’ve also never finished Clannad for similar reasons. It’s a defense mechanism. I blame the ending of Air for this. 🙁
The ending of Air was pretty traumatic for me. Angel Beats, too, although less-so. For these reasons, I also never watched more than two episodes of Clannad. My youngest brother saw me watching it and remarked, “Oh man, that series is brutal for the feels. So much sads.”
“More than Fruits Basket?”
“Ahahahahahahahaha.”
“Right. Not getting invested, then.”
I’m kind of happy that I thought Angel Beats was nonsensical trash (ask me about it some time off TAY – a lot of people here like it so I don’t want to go shitting on it here) because it meant I didn’t get another one of those sorts of endings thrown at me.
I take back what I said about inconsistent tone with one of the shows here. Fruits Basket’s ending takes the cake for that, by a mile.
The thing with Clannad is that while it has its moments, it’s at worst a sort of bitter-sweet sadness.
Clannad After Story hits you in the feels bag with a tonne of bricks. It does not hold punches in that regard, was great!
FWIW I think @transientmind really liked Inou Battle and I have some weird taste sometimes (I often watch complete shit and don’t finish stuff that’s actually good) so might be a different-strokes situation depending on how well our taste aligns or doesn’t align. That would actually be the only one that I was kind of iffy about which I think will probably improve a bit and which you should definitely try as well.
Inou Battle? Which is that? It’s not ringing any bells for me…
Edit: Oh, new. No, haven’t seen it, have no opinion. Saw the PV, not expecting it to be terribly good.
that might have been me, it may not look like it will be as good as some comedy anime, but i feel like it’s starting better than most shows this season.
Do you watch them through Crunchyroll? If so, what are the costs of such a service?
While Neg will have a better answer: Crunchyoll has both a free service, and a paid one, I think the paid one is like $7 a month, but maybe that’s limited content or something, I’m not sure. In terms of free stuff, from my experience the first episode of a new season or show is typically available immediately and in HD (can’t remember if there’s ads or not, but my memory says no), and episodes after that have ads (often placed like 3 seconds before where the ad break should be :/), are only available in relatively low quality, and will often have a delay before you’re able to watch them (like, a coupla days? Can’t remember), compared to the paying customers.
Honestly, if there wasn’t the delay, I would have been happy to keep using Crunchyroll free, but since there was, I switched to pirating like a terrible person for anything I wanted to keep up to date with.
@gutsoup: I only subscribe to anime. Live-action drama stuff costs extra and I have no interest.
Blaghs is spot on with the answer. Basically everything is available for subscribers immediately and in high quality, and comes out (restricted to IIRC SD only, but might be 720p only) for freeloaders exactly one week later, so episodes are still on the same timeslot but a week behind for non-subscribers.
Many of them are streaming on Crunchyroll, yes. Some of them are geo-blocked for AU though. CR’s fairly good value but I never actually watch stuff on there, prefer to watch rips because the selection is better, there are groups that will re-edit their subs when they are shit and/or mux with better / less censored video, and because that way I can watch everything in one place (Plex).
But I do pay for a CR subscription. I’d pay Funimation for their streams too, if they’d let me, but those guys are huge dickheads. If I were to recommend a single streaming service, CR would be the best of them for anime by far.
I’ve been a member since they first went legit (they started as a pirate streaming site, actually) when they had episodes of IIRC either Strike Witches or Druaga for purchase for a few bucks. They went over to streams and I grabbed a streaming membership way back then. It costs me $6.95 US a month which is around $8 AUD. I’ve been on that subscription plan since April 2009 when it was first offered though, their cost might be different now?
Do you use Madman’s AnimeLab? Good shows, good quality and completely free and legal.
I’ve looked at and have an account it but the selection is very limited so far based on the updates they’ve sent me, it won’t be free when they launch it completely (it’s beta right now) and there’s no device support. If they can get me a program to stream to on my PS4 or something I might be more interested. But I’d probably still use CR for a lot of that stuff since they’re just re-streaming the same material.
yeah i do recall hearing that it wont be free at launch and might not have the catalogue of CR or Funi but it’s an alright guy.
I’m assuming they’ll go for-pay and then pull an asshole move a la Foxtel and get CR to shut down all the streams they provide to Australia, then make sure their price is double what a CR subscription costs with a third of the content and lower quality. Seems to be how business is done in Australia when it comes to streaming video.
I really hope not cause already hate the way Australian TV is run and i don’t want everybody to ruin streaming any more than it is now too.
That AnimeLab works completely fine in the console browsers. Tried on both XBone and PS4. Is a little bit of a hassle to navigate the browser page, but the actual video plays to fullscreen in high quality.
Oh man. My brother and I watched some new shows last night, and oh god some of it was painful.
There is a lot of pure shit this season.
I didn’t see Log Horizon 2 in your list… have you seen the first ep of that yet? It’s kind of… cryptic and doesn’t seem to cover much, but I have a question for you after you’ve watched it:
Is it just me, or does the animation quality seem lower in the 2nd season 1st ep than the rest of the 1st season?Were you going to give ‘World Trigger’ a whirl? Let me know how many minutes you last. I think I made it to about thirteen.
I’m holding off on stuff that I know will be stuff I will watch on the regular because it’s a second season of something I like (Chaika, Log Horizon, Mushishi) or because there’s almost no way it’ll be bad (Fate/Stay Night) in order to figure out what else to watch regularly.
Regarding the World Trigger edit, I think I put that on, watched about 30 seconds and was like “I think I don’t feel like watching this” and then I noticed that final episode of Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii that I never got around to (it felt like all the major plot was resolved by the end of the previous episode so I wasn’t really compelled to watch the final one) and watched that instead. Based on general reception World Trigger’s had, I probably made the best choice.
I feel really bad for everyone involved in it. Poor animation, cliche story and characters, clumsy writing and direction… Watching it gave me the weirdest long-distance view of the medium as an industry of either worker-ants toiling without joy, or well-meaning amateurs struggling and failing to realize their vision, wilting under the shadow of far, far greater works. Either way, it made me feel sad.
Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii is one of my new favourites, a series I’m glad I watched.
I mentioned it yesterday when talking about favourites, but did you ever see Saiunkoku Monogatari? Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii reminded me of that fairly strongly.
I have not seen it, but I have a feeling I will soon. 🙂
Oh god, World Trigger is so, so, so, so mediocre. i should’ve put up a warning in my earlier post.
Oh god, you suffered through Madan AND Cross Ange? I dunno what you were expecting. Denki-gai no Honya-san actually has a lot less gags than it appears to have, but this is from my impressions of reading the manga; chances are everybody’ll be a bit flanderized for the adaptation. If it goes on long enough, though…
I’m on the fence about Amagi Brilliant Park, but it does *look* good.
Wait until I have time to update with what I watched last night. 🙁
Selector Spread WIXOSS & Trinity Seven?
I watched the first episode of like 12 shows last night…
Not *all* of it is shit. Well, most of it, but there’s shit shows and then there’s shit shows. I think we’ve already covered the top-tier of shit. I hope.
I bet a cookie this is a page get.
For you
@strange I showed my co-worker your little bee and his response was “wow, that’s impressive. It’s amazing what some of those old ducks can do with the quilting.”
So old. So, so old.
MELBOURNEEEEEEEEEE
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/10/play-nine-of-australias-most-innovative-games-at-the-freeplay-showcase/
Mark Serrels told us to go to this… so are we?
Probably not. Though I assumed it was something at PAX, and I’m interested to see it’s actually an ACMI thing.
too close to Pax. I have cosplays to finish
Alright, pets, good hustle today! Lots of love, lots of goodness. I realise it’s probably already after quittin’ time for most of you, but whatever. Time to do my end of day nonsense then get the hell outta Dodge.
Glhf 😀
10 minutes to home time for me \o/
I left work earlyish so I could download Survivor 😀
I’ve been off work for the last week and a half.
I have been off work since April…..
@blaghman
Monstrosity.
You know me so well.
Sudden burst of progress in Alien Isolation. I think I’ve snapped under the pressure and I care less now, making me accidentally stroll through a room with a Xenomorph in it and living to tell the
tailtale.Tell the tail what? WHAT DID YOU TELL THE TAIL? “Please don’t chew my face off and use my body as a host for your horrifying spawn”?
Hahaha! Oh man, that’s embarrassing. Though I did have an encounter with the Alien’s tail while hiding under a table. 😛 I KNOW HOW TO SPELL, I SWARE! 😉
Man I remember those old shareware disks, those were the days
Way to make me feel old dc, but at least I got a nice wave of nostalgia with it
And just so you don’t think I’m stupid. THAT SECOND SPELLING MISTAKE WAS THE JOKE. 😛
But what about the mistake in this post, huh?
You’re a mistake! 😛
100 Games for Windows.
Remember that Mario Kart ripoff from Apogee? WACKY WHEELS!
That was the best game ever and you take that rip off comment back or I swear to god I will cut you!
It was basically Mario Kart with different sprites, Freezey. I played it so damn much but you can’t deny it’s a Mario Kart rip-off. *prepares for stabbing*
but @dc mario cart doesn’t have a tiger now does it. No, so totally different! TIGER!
Diddy Kong Racing 2 was going to have animals in it. But someone didn’t finish it. *glares at RARE, I know you lurk here*
@dc But Diddy Kong Racing did have animals in it. Timber was a tiger!
You’re both right! It was FANTASTIC and the best Mario Kart ripoff for PC ever!
We had Skunny Kart
I remember Skunny, that’s the we had as well
It was almost as good as Big Red Racing.
Almost.
SKUNNY KART
I had 1001 Games for Windows. Beat that.
I can’t. I don’t have that many 3.5″ floppies.
I’ve got a 3.5″ floppy…… oh wait.
I had a 550 games for windows CD-ROM once. I literally tried all of them. Only about 20 actually worked. Only 5 were any good.
They were literally all shareware, but from what I played they all worked, and it’s where I found Earthworm Jim, so it wasn’t a complete waste!
Don’t knock them. Pretty much everything I am today is the result of stuff I encountered on a few ‘500 games’ CDs and magazine demo discs from the mid-90s. Not even joking.
Who’s knocking them? They were a big part of my childhood even if half the games were reskins or didn’t work.
I remember Dr.SPOC and Field General.
Two very well done DOS games.
I had a Mac so I was talking about some Mac stuff mainly.
@dc are you ready?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqL-j8LYrLo
I was born ready! *does a jig*
Do Germans jig? That seems more of an Irish thing! Either way, I’m jigging it up!
Schuhplattler.
I don’t think jigs are bound by the mere constructs like manmade borders.
@trjn @beeawwb @gingerchris86 will DM you a hangouts link on dar twitterz before 8
Man. Car had its 100k service today. Another $900 gone for this week. Good thing I’ve got that job now, hey 😛
Once cars hit 90K it’s sell time. 😛
I only got it at 85k!
o the previous owner had sell time and you had cheap purchase time? 😛
Dunno, got it from a dealer. And it was… sort of cheap? Somewhere around $8000 (maybe a little under?) for a 2000 car with 85000km on it in 2012. It took months to find and was the best thing I’d seen in all that time, and I love it and never want to lose it because I don’t think I’d be able to find anything I don’t hate to replace it 😛
Hmm, I’m a bit split on Valiant Hearts.
I love the art, I adore the music, I love that they kept the voices in French(my god how I want to learn French), and the story is just so great so far.
Also the little facts, and backstory to the war.
I knew it was bad, but not that bad. Makes me sad (particularly when I saw that body deformities fact :'( )
But the gameplay itself I’m not particularly a fan of, which is the main part. Also the music change between the menus and the game play is a bit jarring (that menu music near brings me to tears).
Overall I like it so far, and enjoy it, but the gameplay is letting it down a little for me.
I loved all of it. I made me so sad but when I finished, I found I wanted more. One for all the wars!
I loved it all except for the car chase things, and also a few of the bits toward the end where you die over and over before you manage to luck out and get through. But after reflecting on it, that was actually probably deliberate and adds to the whole narrative. That sense of frustration and hopelessness and that you only got through by luck… it was the fucking Somme, of course you’re meant to die there.
Valiant Hearts is an art game, and one which you would never expect a huge multinational publisher like Ubisoft to have made.
I quite liked it, but it didn’t quite measure up to the hype for me. Putting the hype aside, it was a solid 8/10.
Supernatural, South Park, Arrow, The Flash, American Horror Story, SVU….
What the hell are you doing to me Thursdays?
SURVIVOR!
Oh hey, it’s there an…. SEASON 29?!?
Coming up on 30 years of Survivor already? Time sure flies.
Don’t think it’s that long. Just multiple seasons a year. 🙂
That’s just one of the many reasons I avoid so called “reality” shows, they’ve been done to death, and Survivor’s one of the worst offenders.
YOU’RE DEAD TO ME! D:<
Nah brah! I agreeish and even though Survivor is still the same-y, every few years or so there will be a really good season because of an awesome gimmick or cast.
Last season was one of the best (and I’ve seen them all!) seasons and what I originally thought would be a terrible gimmick ended up being awesome because of the cast :D. This season has one of the best gimmicks too and although it may seem small it DOES change up the gameplay!
Keeps it fresh, man 😀 (TAY thoughts. strategy and prediction discussions help too)
Honestly, I still think of Survivor as being one of the best of the “reality” TV shows. For all the seasons it’s had, it still continues to maintain a pretty high quality and stay watchable. Waaaay better than trash like Big Brother or something.
Time. Sure. Flies.
Kingswood – Yeah Go Die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwkDhYwfmhY
Turns out Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition is out already? Didn’t see mention on Kotaku.
I did notice a big special on the price for already having Sleeping Dogs on Steam, so I picked it up. It was a fantastic game and I’ve bought far worse games twice for much more.
Ah, I missed that one. I have it on steam and PS3 PS+.
Over our internet quota, and it resets on Saturday… :\
I know that feeling all too well. What speed you get capped at when you go over?
0.60 Mb/s
ouch! i’m lucky. Capped atm myself, but at 1Mb/s. One of the best things about TPG. Barely notice being capped most of the time.
You’re capped at 1MB!?
Try 800kb/s at full speed 🙁 My parents have the net paid for by work, so they have the damn cheapest ADSL 1 plan out lol
yeah. much better than the 64kb cap from telstra and most other ISP’s for sure! It’s not even all that strictly enforced either. Depending where I download from, my speeds range from about 90kb/sec to around 500kb/sec. Atm I’m capped, and I have 2 torrents downloading at 250kb/sec each! As I said.. barely noticeable! So good!
I just want to give a shout out to @Popdart5. The RPG sessions he has been running are one of the highlights of my week and I’ve been having an absolute blast with them. Thank you for all the effort you’ve been putting in and for giving me a chance to be involved in it. You’re an awesome awesome guy.
Right!? I look forward to each of them!
Pathfinder is the better game but damn if I’m not having fun being am arrogant borderline Nazi jerk in 40k.
Sudden panic attack that I missed one tonight… 😛
You’re LITERALLY missing Fiasco right now.
We weren’t invited 🙁
@redartifice is probably planning a big one for you guys with strippers, and blackjack. In fact, forget the Fiasco.
Strippers? We’ll just invite Amanda and Becky
Hey, This one was Bun’s idea. WOuld be happy to run again with yourself, @rize, and @35 and @rocketman whom I’d mentioned it to at one point.
Will also be bringing the book and dice for it to PAX.
Also, my mate Dan is keen to go again
Awww shucks. Glad you’re enjoying them so much Freeze. I do aim to please.
A terrible day today, my friends. Terrible day. Mashaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa, Red Artifice and Cam the Cold V are all dead and DC and Freeze are gravely wounded.
I might go play some XCOM to take my mind off these troubles.
I’m not dead yet. I’m getting better.
I feel happy!
You’ll just have to resurrect me, right? RIGHT? I CAN SAVE THE TEAM! LET ME HELP YOU OH GOD PLEASE!
If you need more meat shields, I volunteer as tribute.
I think I just recruited you. Just gotta remind you what your real name is.
Tell me how he came to pass..the children..they need to know their father was a war hero
On his first mission, he valiantly held off some massive fucking robot thing, trying to defend his critically wounded pal, Red Artifice, while the rest of his team ran around freeing civilians. Alas, they came to his help too late.
In anger, DC fired a rocket that destroyed the robot, killed Red Artifice, and put himself and Freeze into a coma. Boy’s got issues, but he had mad love for Cam V.
I worked out the blocked rocket mechanic when harli fired a rocket into the cover the strange was using. Alas poor strange
He died doing what he loved, saving lives and lighting up enemy scum! I’m glad he died a warriors death going out in a blaze of glory!
Oh man, I feel guilty about this. Cam was by far the best fighter in this mission. I don’t think he missed a single shot, and he made some truly crucial ones.
His children would be proud *single tear* may his memory forever live on in his two children Cameron The Cold VI and Craig
AVEEEEEEEEEENGE MEEEEEEE
As that would mean taking my most senior soldier off the front lines for a court-martial… no.
@dc killed me?
OH GOD IT’S FORESHADOWING
Just to be on the safe side, I wouldn’t do any drifting for a while…
RIP Masha. RIP.
:’-(
Sorry, man. For what it’s worth, Mashaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaa died while saving SORRY Scree’s life with a medkit.
A much nobler death for Mashaaaa aaaaaaaaaa and Cam the Cold V than most others.
Heads up for anyone getting Final Fantasy XIII on Steam – the preload is available, aaaaand it’s 60GB.
O__O
On the bright side, the download is going quick as Lightning.
60 GB??!!??! What the hell…
Totally going to get it a few days before I move back home, just to mess with my current land lady 😀
You’re moving back to Sydney? :O
That I am, straight after PAX. 😀
Got offered a job with a supplier in the city. Better pay, and more scope for career progression beyond managing my own agency (which doesn’t interest me)
And just so that @freezespreston @negativezero @jocon and @transientmind don’t freak out, my current bosses are still happy for me to lead the Japan group. And the new job is actually with the same company I organised it through, so they definitely don’t have a problem with me going.
\o/ /o/ \o/ \o\ \o/
Awesome, man! Congratulations! 😀
*fistbump* Nice. 🙂
That’s excellent news, buddy. Congrats.
Fantastic!
HOLY FLURKING SCHNIT!
Yeah, I got it though GMG and my key came through just now. Wouldn’t have bothered if I’d known it was ridiculous.
PPPPFTTTTTTTTT WHAAT
Is the entire damn trilogy gonna take up half of a hard drive?!
I’ve left my PC on during today to keep the download going. Started it late last night but it was only 25GBs done by the time I woke.
Worst case: it completes by Saturday morning instead of tonight.
I won’t be surprised if my brother has bought that by the time I get home today. I told him last night not to buy it because I have a copy on the 360 which I don’t play and didn’t return because it would only be worth three bucks fifty, and there’s no improvements for the PC because it’s a straight port. And that it’s shithouse anyway and he should just try it out for the twenty-six hour tutorial to see for himself…
He acknowledged this, but I strongly suspect he’s going to get it anyway. Because god dammit, you can’t warn some people.
The funny part is that people are going to be uninstalling and reinstalling that game constantly out of anger.
SURVIVORRRRRRRRRRR
Ep: 3
WHOA John is crazyyy! I’m pretty sure he could’ve gone Brandon psycho at some point and smashed everyone’s faces in :/. Natalie is still annoying though, shhhh… I’m starting to get some favs now that I’ve seen more (Jeremy, Josh, Keith). Long hair dudebro guy is such a dumbass 😛 (his brother is less annoying though). I’m still liking the whole Blood vs. Water theme and I like the 1v1 duels they’ve got going on for rewards. Redemption Island gets annoying after a while so I’m glad it’s gone for now 😀@powalen @sughly @phoenix @masha2932 @f4ction @strange @mrtaco
@sughly @phoenix @masha2932 @f4ction @strange @mrtaco
I was kind of hoping John would stay, to be honest. I wanted them to keep antagonising him until he had a meltdown 😛 It really doesnt seem like it’d take much to make him pull an idiotic Jtia-esque stunt that would be hilarious for us to watch! Oh well.Was totally wanting the dad to win the reward challenge too, just because the son was like “yeah he’d be terrible”.
Still don’t really have favourites yet though. Just wanting to see some of the crazies start to come out 😛
Nahhhh good riddance to John, he was a butthead and I am happy to not see his face any more. The potential for a meltdown is outweighed by having to listen to himI was so relieved, my gosh. When that dang blonde girl – not Baylor but the other girl? – was talking about the group having other ideas I was thinking, shutup. SHUTUP. Also thought whats his face… the blonde guy who went to exile, thought he might flip back to all guy alliance. He hasnt seemed particularly reliable, but it worked. Phew! Also yes, long hair dudebro is a total idiot. And also Dale doesnt seem to have any strategic thought in his head beyond ‘they arent voting for me so everything is ok’Jacqueline (YES! I agree, JUST PLAY ALONG!) and Josh*. But I’m glad the plan worked out and he DIDN’T play his idol (I like it when annoying people go out like that :D).And Dale is doing alright, I was pretty sure they’d vote him out first (obligatory old guy vote) despite him making fire and errything.
Can’t help but feel like Blizzard missed a huge opportunity at the end of Act III in Diablo 3. There’s all this talk about Cydaea and her Legions of Lust but all you fight is standard demons. They had the chance to come up with some truly horrifying designs but played it safe instead.
My CD copy of Total Media Theatre arrived today.
Bit annoyed that I can’t re-download it (It stops you from re-downloading for free after 6 months), but the CD order wasn’t too expensive.
At least I’ve got it back, now. 🙂
THE ZOO FIASCO
STARRING
@trjn as Amanda Baxter, airheaded but passionate dolphin keeper at the city zoo. Her pride and joy, the dolphin Flipette, is kept in poor conditions (a kiddy pool) but Amanda does the best she can. She has an unrequited love for…
@gingerchris86 as Dave Berwin, Keeper of the Safari Expedition exhibit at the zoo. Dave is a passionate keeper of rhinoceroses, but his last one died after only 3 weeks due to illness. He’s trying to get on the Zoo’s big new expedition with…
@redartifice as Umberto Dobino, the zoo’s keeper of tropical birds who fled an unpleasant history in South America. He just wants to go on the safari and be left in peace, but he’s in debt to Jimmy-Dan over a painted bird they tried to pass off as a South American Myna Bird
@beeawwb as Jimmy-Dan Pettibone, a huckster who lives by the zoo. Jimmy Dan helped Umberto out of a tight spot, but now has a new plan- steal the Dolphin and sell her to the mob.
HIGHLIGHTS
– Umberto trying to convince his cousin Roman to pose as a Honduran gangster, only to have Roman turn up with the real deal
– Dave convincing the owner and board member of the zoo, the snowboarding layabout D. Hitchcock the fifth, that him and Umberto should be brought on Safari – even though Hitchcock keeps being distracted by Tiffany and Tiffany 2 at brunch
– Amanda failing to woo Dave after a late night Safari planning meeting – We’re going to be on Safari, Dave, maybe you could pitch a tent for me?”
Jimmy Dan attempting to rope Dave into his scheme, with the school group Dave is leading asking questions like “What’s a complice?”
– Dave really pitching a tent in an encounter with the front loaded reporter Becky Hardcastle
– Jimmy Dan convincing Amanda that the dolphin will go to a better place and that she needs to turn up to a special slumber party in her black pyjamas to shift the dolphin
– Umberto attempting to inject Jimmy Dan with an animal tranquiliser but failing and knocking himself out
– Jimmy Dan fleeing down the train tracks, pursued by the World Wildlife Fund’s enforcement agency
And the outcome…
Umberto, found and revived, hailed as a hero for attempting to stop Jimmy-Dan. His exploits spread, and the Tropical Bird exhibit gets a new lease on life, enabling him to finally get a real myna bird
Jimmy Dan was cleaned up by the union pacific special, and caught and imprisoned in traction, where his cellmate bubba is a bit of an animal lover and won’t let Jimmy-dan forget it
Amanda, too dumb to be an accomplice, finds a new zoo with a proper Dolphin pool for herself and Flipette. They have slumber parties all the time
Dave, unfortunately the receiver of bad karma, trampled by a rhino and a double amputee after a plane crash, spends his days in constant need for care… happily provided by Amanda
What a FIasco!
I hate happy endings, they’re no fun.
Given your die spread was pretty even I was surprised. That said, Amanda was too dumb to have something horrible happen too her, just like Umberto had shit luck the whole time and was trying to leave his past behind him
I was hoping to kill off Flipette.
So was Jimmy-Dan! >:D
The one I played we used all the white dice bar one in act 1.
It didn’t end well for anybody.
It was pretty even this time- though Umberto had 1 white and 3 black!
We all just wanted to see how everyones was gonna play out first then fuck over each other on the plane
It was happy for you 😛
Quote of the night had to be dolphin: the other, other, other, other white meat.
Upvote for Front Loaded reporter hahaha
Becky was @beeawb’s character from the channel six fiasco. My character, who was sleeping with her, bought them for her
I know I keep talking about Alien Isolation but I haven’t found a game I love and hate at this level in a long time. I suspect I feel like you guys feel when it comes to Dark Souls. My heart is currently pounding after an intense session. Need to unwind. D:
Somewhere mid-Chapter Eight:
Before I walked into a room. It exploded. A burning android advanced towards me. Loud noises every where. Had to find fire extinguisher. Terror.COMPLETELY OPTIONAL. I DIDN’T HAVE TO GO INTO THAT ROOM AT ALL.
It’s also extremely good that a year after an unpleasant use of the Alien IP for a game we have the polar opposite. The healing process can now begin. 😀
Oh man (chapter… four? I really haven’t advanced far beyond where we last talked).
Get into a room, searching for the pass thingy that Doctor whatsisname has. Move one way along the corridor, and he isn’t there. Alien keeps pacing outside, so I’m trying to sneak around. Get to the room with the thingy, keep setting off the alarm in the hopes that the Alien will investigate. It doesn’t. Eventually I hear it crawling in the vents, so I hop out to try and make it to the next room (this whole thing has taken at least 15 minutes). I see it pop around the corner, and start running at me, so I do the only sane thing. I throw a pipebomb at it, killing myself in the explosion. SUCK IT, ALIEN! I’M KING OF MY OWN DESTINY!That’s unfortunate, Blaghs. XD Still playing on Medium? Right when I think about turning the difficulty down I start getting better at the game. I suspect it’s more a balance issue with the game than player skill. 🙂
One of the strangest things is all the scenes have blended together in mind. It doesn’t feel like distinct areas any more. Just a hazy blur of trauma. IS THIS POST TRAUMATIC STRESS?
You haven’t had the symptoms for 30 days, so at the very worst it would be classified as Acute Stress.
I guess I’m not ‘post’ trauma yet any way. Still in the middle of it. 😀
Argh… Why am I so indecisive. Decided to redo my Pax pokemon team, because too many of the moves I wanted can only be accessed by tutors in Gen 5. Now I can’t decide on what I want to use. Too many options.
I’m trying to stay away from the really overused stuff, which also doesn’t help.
Ok… I think I’ve made a decision. Probably wake up tomorrow and want to completely redo it again :/
What was your original team, if I can ask?
Mega Absol
Goodra
Gengar
Granbull
Weezing
Empoleon
The team I’m planning on using now has only got 2 of those original 6
Seem to be missing a lot of type coverage in that initial team :\
I adore Empoleon though 🙂
Used to be my favourite starter before Greninja came along 🙂
I think staying away from overused pokemon is a cool idea too.
Lots of underused pokemon are actually really great, but get over looked.
The move sets made up for it. Or at least the moves I planned on using
That’s a really interesting team! I love seeing things that aren’t used very often.
Now I can’t wait to see your new one 😛
I just hope I can get it all bred in time
5 down, one to go for me, so I can probably crack out some good IV breeders if you give me a shout.
As far as avoiding overused stuff, I know exactly what you mean. I hope my favourites with no legendaries should be good and different enough.
I’ll send you a Twitter message with what I’m planning now. You are a true gent helping me out so much
I want to play Smash but then I’m all “nahhhh the Wii U version will be better anyway!” :P. It’s fun but all it does is make me want to play the Wii U version even more :O. I knew it would but smart move on Ninty’s end to release the 3DS version first, I wouldn’t have even bothered with it otherwise *shakes fist*
Does anyone know whether it’s confirmed that progress will carry over? I don’t really want to go trophy collecting etc. again 🙁
I don’t think there’s going to be a full ‘carry over’ save transfer as such – they’re separate games. Still intrigued how the 3DS as a controller will function.
I gave it a go last night, and yeah, smash, fun, Wii u version will be better but this one is OK once I found the ‘classic mode’.
I bought Metal dead last night for like a $1.24. I remember seeing it at pax and being really interested in it. Can’t play it though. =P
So… Reasonably sized news, looks like we’re getting our house the day after PAX. Yay for busy time of year.
Shit. Page get. I’m losing my ‘lurk at the bottom of the previous page’ touch.
Sorry
Congrats! Now you have room for all your pax swag \o/
…Party at Beavwa’s?
(Great news though!)
Apologies if I missed it, where is your new place going to be at?
3 minutes up the road from the current rental 🙂
Almost close enough that you start thinking, do I really need to rent a truck to move all our stuff, we can just carry a bunch of it with some mates.
I already calculated that if I get desperate, it would take me about 30-40min to grab a trolley and wheel the fridge from one place to the other.
We once moved 500 metres down the road. So it was a 5 minute walk from one to the other. Considered not getting a truck in but in the end glad we did. But that was very tempting not to.
A tune to usher in the weekend.
Happy Friday everyone.
Gutsoup’s Tales of Shadow of Mordor (spoiler free, only combat related)
Playing last night, decided to track down a low level captain, was feeling brave so I just charged straight in, during the fight the commotion caused about 20 other Uruk’s to join in, it turned into a mess, then all these other captains started turning up one after another, ended up locked in a grueling battle with 6 Captains and a swarm of Uruks, after a good 5 minutes of spamming the block and dodge buttons with the occasional attack thrown in where I could I managed to take one Captain out but was unable to grab the rune due to the plague of Uruks I was surrounded by, at this point I was running very low on health and decided a strategic retreat was in order. As I raced away from my pursuers I encountered a pair of Caragers who were more than happy to slow my assailants for me which gave me enough time to snatch up a very desperately needed herb, now armed with a full health bar and a stronger resolve than ever I turned my attention back to my pursuers who were now locked in battle with the two Caragers, five captains remained, feeling brave I ran headlong into the fray, between the Caragers & Uruks I was stripped of my full health bar in mere seconds & was knocked to the ground, as an Uruk went to deliver the killing blow I managed to dodge death and roll away. Once again it was time to run & run I did, tail tucked firmly between my legs, as I traversed a vast open plain the Captains began losing interest one by one until I only had a small group & a single captain hot on my heels, “This is my chance” I thought, I swiftly dispatched my foes and began back tracking, managed to track all the captains that were chasing me down and take them out one by one each kill filling me with a sense of achievement and triumph, so I took a brief moment to regain myself, seeing I was again dangerously low on health and bee lined it for the nearest herb as I approached a single Uruk fired an arrow which lodged into the back of my neck and killed me mere steps from the herb I thought was my salvation. After defeating what felt like 100 enemies being taken down by some no name Uruk felt a bit humiliating. Now the no named Uruk had made a name for himself and was promoted to Captain. I have a new nemesis and I shall not rest until his head lays at my feet.That game sounds sooooo good.
It sooooooooo is.
FYI, if you help the guy that killed you make it all the way to Warchief and then kill him, you’ll get an achievement.
oh cool, he actually had a power struggle and got promoted already, I’ll have to manipulate it so he keeps moving up.
Aw man, I can’t wait to pick up my copy today.
Right. Getting this asap.
If I have one suggestion for playing it, it would be not to try and completely clear the board of all captains. It can’t actually be done for more than a few seconds before it fills right back up again. It can have plenty of gaps, but if you go on a captain-murdering spree, new contenders will step in to fill the roles if you die or not, and their ‘unique’-feeling personalities will start to blur, killing some of the magic.
Yeah I’ve got a guy I keep intentionally not doing a finisher on, and he keeps coming back, he’s a wanderer so I see him often, beaten him 3 times now, he’s got a metal plate on his head, scars all over his face and doesn’t like me much. I want to try and keep some alive I think.
Damnit man, reading this post and @dc’s Alien Isolation posts are making this DAMN hard for me to choose!!!
I imagine Mordor is more fun in the traditional sense. Alien Isolation is a stronger and more unique experience, but also scary and tense.
I’ve played both, couldn’t tell you which one to get, Mordor is good bashy fun and the nemesis system is pretty neat. Alien can get a bit frustrating being an entirely stealth focused game but is tense as hell and the ship is filled with so much detail.
Hmm, you have taken my interest from none to hmmmm.
Is there a hard difficultly?
Hi all! Happy RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK day today. Got my ticket, I’m raring to go.
Also, Facebook has led me to believe that it’s a strangiversary today. Congratulations @strange.
But really, Indiana Jones, guys.
Yay for Indy \o/
Happy anniversary, Strangey!
Last day at work, and all I can think is “oh god we’re going to run out of money and I’ll never get a job and AH CRAP I STILL HAVE TO CLEAN THE OVEN BEFORE INSPECTION”.
aah, the feeling of uncertainty, never a good one. You seem like a capable fellow I’m sure you’ll get another job in no time. As for the oven might I suggest BBQ cleaning wipes or spray, that shit cuts through grease like a mythril blade through an Uruk’s neck.
Upvote for the Mordor reference! 😀
Yeah, I’ve coated the damned thing in a heap of oven cleaner and am leaving it till this evening, then I’ll stick some gunpowder in there and turn it on.
Money stresses suck!
6 days till The Evil Within.
Excite!
Are you sure you want to risk The Evil Within after faring badly against Aliens =P
Yes, yes I am.
I think the problem was shitty game design and not scary game design.
But apparently all the previews are saying The Evil Within has some very cheap and random game design. Be careful purchasing this one.
Things I did not need to learn on a Friday, in the office, when the wife and child are flying out to Melbourne for the weekend:
1. I have enough power points and a long enough HDMI cable to hook my computer up to the TV. With a wireless mouse and keyboard, I can now couch it while stuffing pizza into my face and Mordoring the shite out of some ugly ass uruks.
2. Hobart has an Octoberfest on this weekend with awesome beer.
I’m sure I’ll find a third or fourth one. This is shaping up to be an expensive, headache filled weekend.
I’m pretty sure these are EXCELLENT things to learn before you have household freedom.
Dammit, my cardboard cubbyhole is too small. Need to build an extension, the turned-up AC just flows right around it and into my face again.
Just block the vent with cardboard. Shove it up there.
Can’t reach 🙁
Also everyone was like no you can’t do that, something about being unsafe. Damn squares.
Just stay back one afternoon, grab a chair, shove cardboard in. No one will even know.
I think I’d have to stay around til after 6 to pull that off. No thanks 😛
Quite the pleasant night for me last night, being the sole reason my team won a LoL match thanks to a few well placed stuns that got us a hard comeback victory… or should I say Viktory!(Cuz the champion I was playing’s name is Viktor). Also got to talk to my ex last night, she’s doing much better now as she’s been trying to get extra money by running private 1-1 sessions with students, she’s now got enough private students to keep her afloat financially, and she said she’s got me to thank for my encouragement along the way. Hopefully it keeps going well for her.
Sounds like an uplifting night ask around my friend \o/
Better than most yes. The main reason she put the relationship on hiatus was cuz due her struggling so much she was unable to be online a lot. I’d only be able to speak to her once maybe twice a month if I’m lucky, and even then she was never in a happy mood, just tired, stressed and worst, depressed. She didn’t want to drag me down and take advantage of my kindness and patience anymore and of course the whole giving up on ever coming here on her own. It really sucks..
I’m really sorry to hear that…
I’m going to spoiler this cause I don’t mean to pry and feel free to ignore it or answer somewhere less public but:
how’d she reach the conclusion of giving up coming down here? Too scary?(which I can fully understand) or daunting with ask the paper work?As I said I don’t mean to pry and if you don’t want to answer that it’s completely understandable
More the former. We’re on opposite ends of the planet, so one of us would pretty much have to give up all of their family and friends so they can be with the other in the same place. She wanted to be able to prove that she can get here on her own and not be so reliant on me. The pressure got to be too much for her, with struggling to find work that pays well enough to make ends meet and also be able spare time for the two of us to spend time with one another. Her work has also been really stressful and depressing with what’s been going on there. After all that’s happened, she’s been doubting that she’d be able to make the first leap, when we talked about it initially she was telling me she needs her family too much to just leave, and being Greek, getting her parents to allow her to come over here was going to be a hard challenge in itself too. Her parents do know me and they like me quite a lot according to her, but it’s still a really big thing to make a decision on.It wasn’t just fear of actually getting here, she also kept thinking she wouldn’t be able to get a job here, which I kept saying was not true, given how great her english is she could so easily teach english as a second language or be an interpreter.
All in all though, the worst part about this is that all the negatives that she went through after I left there changed her (Well she thinks anyway, last night it was solid proof the girl I fell in love with is still very much there) and she didn’t want me to wait for her any longer as we were in this long distance relationship for 6-7 years, so almost a decade trying to get this to happen. Worst part for me is I keep thinking I let her down being unable to help her 🙁
You didn’t let anyone down mate and don’t ever think you did… I was only in a long distance relationship for 7 months and that was long enough so I can’t even begin to imagine what you guys have gone through… It is a damn tough thing to do and I don’t blame her for not being able to do it… It’s neither of your guys fault at the end of the day, just a shitty situation all around… I’m sorry for you that it wasn’t successful in the end and I wish I could offer advise or help in any way but I don’t think I can… As you said above… Really sucks 🙁Just do me a favour and don’t ever blame yourself for this okay? Of you need to talk, hit me up, even if its just to rant!
It’s really hard for me not to think it, but I’ll try… it’s just after all this, I don’t have hope anymore, I feel hollow inside now and I don’t know what to even do with myself these days. She was the main reason I tried so hard to get where I am at work, with moving out to somewhere really nice and to actually be happy.I can’t even imagine mate… Women makes you do crazy things XD… Seriously though if you ever need anything give me a holler… I know it feels like it’s bordering on near impossible to move on but I encourage you to try… You have people here who care about you and support you so don’t be afraid to pull on that… I don’t mean to sound harsh so I’m sorry if it does but I’d hate for you to get stuck focusing on a broken dream rather then live your life… You’re an amazing person and you deserve the best things in life, just remember that!Glad to hear that man! However (sorry if I’m being a negative nancy here) just be careful not to elevate your expectations too much now that you guys seem to be on comfortable footing again… Only reason I bring it up is because I remember you were pretty cut up post break up with your ex and I’d rather not see someone I consider a friend get hurt again.
I’m always going to be very close to her, as the chemistry between the two of us was never the issue at all. I know I’m going to feel like absolute crap when she tells me she’s seeing another guy, but that was inevitable regardless of what we’re doing now.
Edit: Thanks for the concern but at this point I’m already in constant mental pain anyway so…
I had forgotten just how beautiful the Tomb Raider reboot is. At the start of the game, just crawled out of the cave and spent about 5 minutes just staring at the scenery.
Hell, even the character animations are amazing, watching Lara look around nervously and flinch at imagined noises.
They did a bloody good job on this game.
Whose this guy? ^^
SKYRIM!
Hey I know you
I miss you man! Post more often! I need my buddy barbarian with an affinity for clubs and Poets of the Fall!
It’s “Who’s” or if you prefer “Who is” =P
Something I kept forgetting all about – at EBX, over towards the indie corner, there was a setup with a bunch of arcade cabinets and pinball machines. One of them was an Addams Family machine, so I thought sweet! I’ll jump on that! Only… it wasn’t so sweet. There was something strange about it.
The usual plasma dot matrix display wasn’t there. In its place seemed to be an LCD, emulating a DMD but with different coloured dots. Ok that’s kinda cool I guess. Sorta. But then I noticed the lights on the playfield were different. The machine had been modded with LEDs in place of the incandescent bulbs. I’d read about this kind of thing before, and how it was better for the machine because of less power used and less head generated, so less damage getting caused to the parts inside (my machine has some melt damage on the underside of a ramp thanks to bulb overheat in its past), but I hadn’t actually seen it in action before. Now that I have though, I can pass judgement – it’s horrible 😛
Maybe it was just because whole area over in that part of the expo was kind of in the dark but with a lot of other spotlights and stuff around, but it was really hard to see the playfield. But were mostly white LEDs in the machine, and I *hate* white LEDs. As far as I’m concerned they don’t produce any useful light at all, they hardly do anything to actually light up an area and help you see better. But on top of that, it seemed like as I was tracking the ball across the playfield, I wasn’t actually seeing it move smoothly around the place. It was strobing, like I was playing video pinball with framerate issues. I’m assuming that this was because of the LEDs too, since as far as I can remember they don’t actually emit constant light but strobe at a high frequency.
In conclusion, LED-modding is the worst thing you can do to a pinball machine and I never want to have to play one again, the end 😛
Any decent LED torch would like to have a word with you 😛
In my opinion and from my experience those LED boards you’re describing are best on a large scale and viewed from a considerable distance, they work rather well at outdoor events etc. But yeah..
If a “decent” LED torch exists, I’m yet to see one 😛 I mean yeah they’ll scorch your retina if you look into them, but light they give off is still… dark? Need dat warm light.
This one wasn’t an LED board though, just looked to be an LCD screen displaying large coloured dots to look like the typical plasma display of a pinball machine, but multicoloured.
Freeze sells some awesome ones at his work!
At a recent BBQ at a mates he had no lighting out on his back patio, so he whipped out this magnetic LED mechanics torch, that thing lit up the area quite nicely, and since it had a magnet it stuck to the colourbond roof of his back patio.
Listening to the Vib Ribbon soundtrack for the first time in over a decade. I’d forgotten how awesome it is. From back in the era when Japan still made great, weird games. Sadly couldn’t see a game like Vibri coming out of Sony now. 🙁
That, and REZ.
Don’t know why, but VR made me think of Mr. Driller for some reason…
Rez was rad too. Roughly the same sort of era as Jet Set Radio too, which also had a great soundtrack (though JSRF was better, but I think that was around 2002 or so so arguably same sort of time as well)
Day one of 3 day weekend commencing.
Just realised that between last Sunday and next Sunday I’ve had a two day work week. I usually have six day work weeks. Not entirely sure what to do. I’m freaking out man!
Its official. Have just handed over my resignation letter \o/ …. /o\
I’ve really enjoyed my job here in Orange, in particular the team of people I’ve worked with, but I’m looking forward to getting to move home to be closer to Ash. And I’ll be able to meat up with you guys and girl more often too, something I’ve been missing a lot. New job has been confirmed to start on the 4th November, straight after PAX. Which is going to be very busy, considering I’m finishing my current job on the Wednesday before PAX and flying down on the Thursday.
Now to finalise everything here at work, and pack up everything. Its surprising how much crap you accumulate in a couple of years
I just kind of assumed Ash was over there with you…
Sounds like everything has fit together perfectly for you guys!
No, she’s still back home in the mountains. I’ve been driving back to see her most weekends. Its harder for her to come to see me, because her car is ancient and probably wouldn’t survive Mt Victoria Pass, and she’s still at uni doing her Masters.
It will be so much better only being 10 mins away from her instead of 3 hours 😀
Yeah, I always thought Ash lived in Orange too 😛
Good news! We’ll have to have a ‘triumphant return’ party.
Definitely 🙂
Hey all,
don’t usually comment on here, although I am nearly always around the site (Hey, I am a back of the club kinda guy). Anywhos, I was just wondering if anyone else picked up 2k15 last night and actually got the facial scan stuff to work. I spent about an hour trying different methods to get it to work but just couldn’t get it any good. I got some that look close to my face structure but had some weird blemishes/smears on the face, or parts missing or a weird 2 mouth thing happening.
I’m not the most attractive guy, but last time I checked the mirror I didn’t have two mouths, although I do avoid mirrors so maybe I should just check that to make sure.
Wait… the rest of you guys don’t have two mouths?
I- I mean, n- neither do I. Don’t be silly…
Runs to mirror to check………ohhhhh crap !
I’ll be honest, if I were to grab that game the first thing I would do is use the facial scan thing on my butt.
Yeeessss… Butt……
Thought about scanning my……..lower regions and naming my player Richard Head, but then thought better of it. But now I think about it again maybe I was onto something.
You’re basically going to be adding Gonzo to your team if you do 😛
I laughed just a little bit to loud for work with that one………..you won this round tech Night….you won this round !
“If you don’t move we’re going to make your face look like your ass, and your ass look like your face!”
Until you try it and it generates a face that is better looking than when you scanned your actual face…
Funny you should say that, I was thinking of scanning my ass, I don’t think it could look worse than the facial scans do.
I did try and scan my dogs face, but trying to keep him still long enough for it to work was not going to happen !
That would be totally awesome, having a Cavalier King Charles head on Lebrons body… what a beast!
ha ha yeah, I have a Staffy X Rotty so it would look pretty mean. I was going to put it on a skinny guys body and call him Sniff Dogg !
This is ridiculous and I must see what this will look like.
I’ll try tonight when I get home and see if I can upload the pics for everyone to laugh at.
If anything it will at least give me a break from the frustration of trying to scan my ugly mug into the game.
You. You were the only one to mention the AotA DLC in that best DLC article.
You’re okay man. You’re okay.
Thanks mate. and yes that DLC rocked hard !
I didn’t pick up this years release. Gonna hold out til 2K16. I really want them to fix the online gameplay more than anything.
Anyway, a guy I work with is big in to the 2K series and played it last night. He scanned his and 2 of his friends faces. He showed me the pics he took and 2 of the 3 turned out pretty good, not spitting images, but pretty good. One even picked up on a scar that was on his face. The third character looked great, just little resemblance to the person. He’s playing on PS4.
Yeah im on PS4, im thinking that maybe its to do with the fact it was late at night and I had no natural light available. I had plenty of artificial light, I might try again tonight when I get home (if its still light) and see if that helps, at least I know it can work. cheers.
Update. He said he got about 3600 recognition points on his face and did it in his artificially lighted apartment last night! So I dunno what to suggest. :S have a shave?
Ha ha, have a shave is what my Mrs said when it wasn’t working (despite only sporting a 2 day growth, which isn’t much from my lack of ability to grow facial hair lol).
3600 score hey….hmmm I had one that gave me around 5000 score (above average the game says) but still turned out with a smear across the cheek and 2 mouths.
I think it must be user error if others are getting it to work. Back to the drawing board !
Thanks for the follow up man, its much appreciated.
Spam email title:
“VERIFICATION AND PAYMENT OF UNCLAIMED FUN”
I thought I’d already claimed my fun allowance for this month!
@strange, @freezespreston: What time are you guys arriving for Oktoberfest shenanigans?
I’ll make it there around 5:30 or so. Once I finish work I need to stop by the post office and then I’ll call in at home (across the road) to change shirt (probably) or something.
He didn’t ask you! or me for that matter.
We now see who he cares about and who he hats. ='(
Haha, funny story. I still get scared hanging out with both of you one-on-one. Yet I’m very comfortable with Strange and Freezey. I just didn’t want to subject you to DC alone time, so am planning my arrival to coincide with security blanket pals. 😛
I guess our train time meant nothing to you.
”””`:'(
That’s a trail of tears streaming behind me as I run away, sobbing.
It did. It was awesome. Didn’t change the fact I was crazy nervous the whole time. 😛 IT’S ME, NOT YOU! 😉
That’s fair, after that horrible first man-date we had any relationship would be awkward.
That’s what you get for not putting out! 😛
You talked me into buying The Last of Us! *shakes fist*
And you didn’t like it! *shakes fist back*
there’s an Oktoberfest meat?
I became best friends with the German sausage guy at Woodford Folk Festival a few years ago, they know how to make good meat tubes.
Yes. Tonight. Be there or be hermity! http://www.oktoberfestbrisbane.com.au/about/essentials/
ugh, I’ll be hermity. Must have missed/ forgot that it was a thing. Damn I’ve been wondering why there’s been no meats for ages.
Yeah, last time we had a meat was August 20th. XD
Was I invited to that? OH I SEE HOW IT IS.
Was a lunch time thing. Everyone was invited. Freya and Trjn were in town.
I checked my calendar. I was invited but I had meetings.
I’ll be too busy attending Oktoberfest South.
It’s not a thing.
It probably is a thing.
Planning for 5:30.
Depends how long it takes @SerNobulus to get his make up on.
You should peer pressure him to get The Last of Us: Remastered… just because…
Monster! D=
If you want to look as pretty as I do it takes some time.
Seriously though, what time do you think you will be around?
Probably about 5.
Kids are being picked up at 4:15, then I have to wait for Mr. Strange to get home, then we’ll have to drive to the city and check into our hotel. So at the earliest, I guess 5:30ish.
My sword and shield for my Link cosplay arrived! 😀
Well, you have my sword but what about my bow? And MY AXE.
Axes aren’t quick enough.
pics?!
Here:
http://imgur.com/UGtecv8
oo very cool!!
I’ll just have to paint the sword handle the right colour.
Good morning gentle folk… Iiii got nothing special to say
*sits down over in the corner*
Hey this is my corner, go find your own! *shakes fist angrily*
*hisses and scuttles for the other corner*
Hey you haven’t done your TAYpreciation post for the day! Don’t fall off the wagon now pixel! YOU CAN DO IT!! =D
You guys all rock don’t worry about that, just having kind of a crappy day at the moment so trying to not drag people down 😛
Remember Gabriel Knight? Last game was 15 years ago? Well, if you’re a fan there’s a new short story from creator Jane Jensen set six months after GK3. Spoilers for third game!
http://www.postudios.com/blog/?p=5337
Happy World Mental Health Day everyone!
Please take care of yourselves and for those who are battling any type of mental health issue, remember, you are not alone and there are always people there who care for you.
For those who would like to help me out with donations for Beyond Blue for the half-marathon I’m doing this Sunday, you can donate at the link below.
http://melbournemarathon2014.gofundraise.com.au/page/IanGielenBB
Done. Sorry I couldn’t afford more.
Thanks mate, don’t worry about the amount you donate. Anything is greatly appreciated 😀
You’re awesome!
Donated!
Thanks so much! All the appreciation on the internet goes to you 🙂
Something else really cool about playing Shadow of Mordor, the main dude’s sword fighting style is really similar to the style I was trained in, even the sound effects sound right for the clashing of blades, really makes me want to get back into training. Even in the tutorial where you’re fighting with your friend their training blades look really similar to ours.
wait wait…. you are trained in beheading and stabbing people in the face? *adds gutsoup to “must stay away from or kill” list*
I also own a blunt training blade and a very sharp real one, properly forged, they can withstand a hell of a lot of punishment. My girlfriend is actually better than me too, I can only use a single hand but the girlfriend can use single, hand and a half and bucklers and she owns more real swords than me :D.
I think the best animation in the game is when you sweep the Uruk over and stab him into the ground mid air. I just love the humming sound the sword makes when everything slows down.
My favourite animations are always the beheadings. 🙂
Edit: Sigh. It’s really depressing, the number of things I post on a regular basis which will be taken out of context at my inevitable court appearance.
TIL what Electrostep is. I always was vaguely aware of it but had no idea on the specifics.
Now I’ve spent all morning listeing to it I’m digging it.
Happy Friday friends!
I wanted to put this one to the floor as I have lived in Melbourne far too long to imagine the city through the eyes of a tourist. I have an exchange student here in Australia I’ve been asked to show around a bit, so far I’ve shown her the AFL grandfinal blowout and took a scenic tour of the city before dropping her off at her place from the airport.
I was thinking of showing her a rooftop bar or something like, but have you guys done something touristy here that you thought was cool?
I’m interested in this for the days before/after PAX, too! Last time I was in Melbourne I didn’t really do much.
Take them to Ramsey Street. Meet the British tourists! 😛
…
Probably don’t do that.
Melbourne seems to be culture and all that good stuff. Maybe some alley way cafes or something?
Ughhhh alley way coffee shops nooooo.
Last time I was in Melbourne, my boyfriend looked up this cafe he’d seen good reviews for – we trekked down alleys and lanes and then went in – it used to be a greenhouse or a drug lab or something, I don’t know, all very industrial. The coffee was meh, and they looked at me with such disdain when I asked for breakfast, despite their menu offering it. I had stale sourdough toast and it cost $14 and was terrible. I stole salt and pepper shakers on my way out to make up for their shitty service. Haha, oh I’m awful.
Lol sounds like they deserved it :p I hope you paid in cash lol
Powerhouse Museum!
(Or Melb equivalent if it doesn’t exist)
Pre google: Never heard of it!!
Post google: Yeaahhh we have something called Scienceworks :p
Oooh, show them the post apocalyptic urban decay of Fed Square! 😛
Urban decay? Explain DC 😛
I’m assuming it’s a standing ruins of a Godzilla attack. Some sort of memorial?
That’s a low blow m9, Fed square has actually won an award recently for its aesthetic appeal. I can’t link, but take me at my word 😛
Eureka is pretty great (the first time)… If she’s interested at all in motorsport a drive around Albert Park is a must… Bit out of the city but Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary was amazing, and a drive down to Lorne via the Great Ocean Road is awesome… Actually in the city you got the hugely over priced Ferris wheel and fed square and stuffs
I was hoping you’d reply! I think Lorne sounds pretty awesome, I haven’t been thre in a while so I should probably break out the surfboard and head down there and get some fish and chips. Good thinking about the Melbourne Star, it’ll probably break again when I’m there but at least it will be a good story for her to bring home lol
Hope it helps… Lorne is probably my favourite so fast because its just far enough to see some amazing scenery but close enough that you can do stuff not just drive… Plus the food is amazing 😛
*grabs popcorn*
Edit: Sorry no contributions I live in Sydney =p
Hah no popcon situation unfortunately, my very loving girlfriend would beat me to within an inch of my life if there were popcorn moments 😛
Nothing like tension and danger to add a little spice to the show
Life threatening situations only serve to add to the romantic build up!
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt from Ian Fleming’s 007 is that you are truly correct.
Do exchange students count as drifters…?
We know where to take drifters 🙂
I actually just got really scared, as I read this the security guard walked past my office like he knew that I was reading about drifting lol
Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary is amazing for international visitors so if you can do a day trip then it will be well worth it.
Eureka is cool or a nice rooftop bar can work. If you are after something really unusual then take them to the croft institute.
All of the scieneworks, the aquarium and the zoo are great if they are interested in that sort of thing.
It’s starting to get warmer so heading down to st kilda pier for some fish and chips and checking out the beach could be on the cards.
I’m actually looking for an excuse to go to Scienceworks, and I’m craving some fish and chips right now. I think you’re winning!
Anyone interested in an alpha of Evolve?
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/news/news-14568-Evolve-Alpha-Dated–Sign-Ups-Being-Accepted-Now.html
The second code worked for me so I’ve signed up and am waiting to be told I didn’t get in. Might be an idea for other TAYbies to give it a crack because I know so many of you are monsters
I think that sentence needs finishing, here are a few options :-
1. MONSTERS IN THE SACK!
2. MONSTERS COS WE STOMPED ALL OVER ATHEON!
3. MONSTARS BECAUSE SPACE JAM IS AWESOME
I’ve run out of suggestions.
SPACE JAM!
I need to rewatch that movie right now.
Man, such a downer this morning. @piat’s comment reminded me of how my friend opened my ears to new music back in 9th grade – I put everything he gave me onto minidisc, cos discmans were bulky, and mp3 players were expensive and held maybe 20 songs at a time. I went to the wikipedia article for Minidisc, and the first sentence described it as “an obsolete format”. Logically, that makes sense if you think about it… but you don’t think of these things until they’ve happened, I guess.
RIP, MiniDisc. You had a good run.
Lol minidisc barely became a thing outside of Japan before it was obsolete. I had a discman that could play CDs loaded with MP3s at that time, which was amazing.
Yea; literally the only time I’ve seen MDs referenced outside of the occasional news article was in the Nochnoj Dozor (Night Watch) books…
Nevertheless, a Hi-MD player was my music player of choice right up until 2010. MP3-CDs were indeed awesome, but 1GB Hi-MDs were the dog’s bollocks. Small enough to not be a hassle to carry a couple of extras, resilient enough to just leave them in the bottom of my bag should I need them, and at about 2k songs per disk, I had my entire library across just three discs. Only downside was Sony’s insistence on proprietary formats, and its stupid software that crashed as often as not when transferring songs to disc. 😛
Gorodetsky was big on his MDs.
I always assumed minidiscs caught on in Russia more than here
I miss my minidisc 🙁
@dire_wolf Hey bro you good for this Sunday yeah? 12-5, level 28, hard mode, all that jazz?
I’m good for that time, not sure if I can hit 28 by then though. I need ascendant shards to level my gear up, so it’s entirely up to luck whether I’ll get enough by Sunday.
Would you like to try? If you’re willing to put some time aside this weekend I’ll put a shout out to the rest of the raid to give you a hand! (myself included!)
We can do Nightfall/weekly heroic/daily stores and finally one daily event to get you ascendant shards.
I’d be down for that.
Cool dude I’ll be on tomorrow evening around 7pm so I’ll give you a hand.
If you’re busy or anything it’s cool as well as jo mentions below we can always sub you out for the hard mode run!
@pupp3tmast3r
All good if peeps can’t hit 28 by Sunday, getting the shards can be a sink of time not everyone has.
Worst case I’m sure we can find a couple other 28s to sub in for a hard mode attempt, Piat and the like ect.
But yeah, hit us up for company for daily/weeklys.
Yeah I know I just feel bad having to leave out our regular peeps because of a level restriction 🙁
That’s the nature of the game. And there is always next week.
Not like we will be clearing it, might bust up Templar if we are lucky.
@mrtaco may be of interest- podcast about the history of pinball and design in the Us http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/for-amusement-only/
Cleaning out a bunch of crap I have on my work computer to make sure I’ve got everything I wanted off it, and I found a txt file of the greatest review ever given. You know the one I mean…
Hehe… Hehehehehehe
Why are you writing reviews at work?
This is an Amazon review for Wolfenstein.
What the…? Crap, sorry that’s my fault. I forgot to switch on my sarcasm generator this morning when I logged on.
It was a TAY meme going around for a while being posted on people’s review or when somebody asked what you thought.
See above. 😛
I guess its probably a good thing I don’t have a disposable income because I have been so obsessed with Star Citizen I think I’d repeatedly throw money at it! So many things I want to get despite there being no logical reason to!
Well then you certainly won’t want to be near your PC tomorrow around 1pm AEST when CitizenCon 2 (the 2nd year anniversary of the funding campaign) is happening and both the 890 Jump and (it’s assumed) the Cutlass variants go on sale.
(Says the guy literally wearing a Star Citizen shirt at work)
I’m eyeing off the Cutlass (the idea of SAR variant had me sold) trying to come up with compelling arguments about not needing to eat for a few days so I can get one… The 890 is nice but $600? Heeelll no 😛
How the heck do they justify $600 for an ingame item? Like seriously. No game in existence is worth that much money and I’m saying that as someone who has thrown hundreds at games.
Preeeetty much… The only reason why I even consider throwing $200 at it for the Taurus Constellation is due to it essentially being a collectors edition with heaps of physical items (soundtrack, maps etc) and even still that’s an insanely high price
How do people justify spending $1250 on the Idris-P for that matter. There’s plenty of people (and orgs) out there with lots of cash to splash.
Still concerns me that the $15,000 pack is sold out 😛
That’s actually because they’re not legally allowed to have it “available” for sale as it’s over $10K and breaches money laundering laws. If you get in touch with customer service you can make arrangements to buy it.
So I’m told.
Oh wait. Are these backer reward tiers? That makes more sense in a way.
Thought people were buying these separate for those prices.
Yes and no… There are “limited” ships that just comes standalone with no other rewards
*glares at the $350 Reclaimer sale from last week*
Others are more like reward tiers… As far as I know if you paid $350 for a reclaimer you just get the ship… Which seems kinda insane to me… The idea is that they want these ships to be rare and exclusive in game hence the high price so not everyone buys one
Are these ships more powerful/useful than standard?
@freezespreston at somethings yes, the reclaimer for instance is a dedicated salvage ship with a huge foundry (the ship is massive) but once the game launches you’ll be able to buy it in game anyway, this is purely just playing for the concept of the ship because the 3d model doesn’t exist yet… I am enthralled by the idea of this game but even I am not insane enough to throw that kind of money at something that doesn’t exist yet 😛
Some of these prices are for just the ships, they come with certain insurances in game that means you don’t lose them, as opposed to buying them in game and they get blown up and its SoL you only get credited in game money for whatever insurance you had on it.
On the other hand most of the really big and expensive ships are multi-personnel ships, so it’s likely a lot of buyers are groups of people chipping in on the cost of having a carrier or big hauler etc.
I know a game where one of the purchaseable things allows you to interact with the developers and help design something that’s used in the game. The developers sell that option for $1,000 and apparently they’ve made over $500 K in the last year from that small part of the shop alone.
People are willing to pay for it. Though, the expensive ships are actually designed to be joint ventures…
Get home ready to play some Diablo but the power is out.
That’s okay, I’ll just watch something on the computer.
Wait. The power is out.
Alright how about I use my phone to play some music through the sound syste….
Goddamnit the power is out.
Fine! I’ll just g……
THE POWER IS OUT!
*curls into a ball of tears*
Drink your sorrows away at Oktoberfest! 😀
Portable consoles?
Read a book?
A boo—ok? Tell me more of these mysterious contraptions.
It’s like a text webpage on paper that you can read at full resolution on the toilet.
I’ve heard they are these mythical tablet like devices with full touch functionality and no power requirements… It’s like magic!
“Oh yeah! I’ll just grab my kindl- dammit!”
oh, you already made that joke, damn lol
Ya snooze, ya lose!
eReader is flat… THE POWER IS OUT
Just had a conversation in the kitchen here at work. I mentioned offhandedly that I was going to see the Indiana Jones movie tonight, and the girl I was talking with asked me if I was, like, a massive fan?
Instinctively, reflexively, I backpedalled and heard myself saying: “No, not a massive fan. Just thought it would be fun to see on the big screen.”
What I should have said was “Hell yeah. I’m even more excited for this than I was to see Star Wars a few months ago!” And then I should have belted out the theme music at top volume (okay, maybe I shouldn’t have quite done this).
Don’t need to worry about alienating girl. Not interested, am married.
Don’t need to feel ashamed or need to hide interests. Am adult.
Amazing how hardwired this behaviour has become – it’s basically the way I lived since I was eight. How hard I work to maintain this mask of ‘normalcy,’ and how much I fear being judged as weird or eccentric… wasn’t really clear to me until I debriefed myself just now. It was an eye-opening encounter.
I got some boots for my cosplay from a work wear store today. Sales girl asked what I was using them for and I told her I was doing some concreting…
I straight-out told the guy at Lincraft when he asked what I was buying strawberry-print fabric for. He laughed and made some quip asking if it was worth my dignity, I responded that I didn’t have any to lose 😛
This, gentlemen and ladies, is how to live. Let us sit and listen to @mrtaco’s wisdom. *grabs popcorn*
Is the popcorn in reference to how I got the girl I secretly had a huge gigantic crush on to take the pictures for me?
Because I’m not sure how wise that was at all 😛
Wait, how and when did this happen
*Grabs popcorn*
One of the guys at work asked me what videogames I liked to play and he verbally assumed I liked CoD and Battlefield and stuff like that. I defaulted to something that he might know of which was Dota because I tend to play a few different games. He had never heard of it.
I don’t generally bother trying to fit in with people at work for the simple reason that everyone is different. Also when the age range spans from early 20s to nudging 60 it’s kinda pointless.
I speak to people at work about LoL at times (I actually did at lunch today just now), and they get so shocked about the numbers in the World Championships of the professional scene, one of the girls I recently mentioned it to was going “Wow! I’m in the wrong business!”
I suppose it’s different for where you work but I’m in government in a business-focused section. Everyone else is talking about home improvements and renovations and family holidays while I stay quiet because I generally have nothing to contribute.
Well the two I mentioned just now were both Business Analysts, and the girl is a manager (Only a few years older than me, darn cute too). I actually explain to them how the game works and they seem interested enough to ask questions about it, not once do they give condescending remarks about me being a gamer and all. It’s quite soothing when that happens. I think it only works cuz they’re young, I doubt I’d have much luck with a 35+ year old.
Because as soon as you turn 35, your interest in games evaporates instantly 😛
*grabs popcorn*
It’s funny the assumptions people jump to. Went out drinking with some work-related folks a while back, getting introduced to the coworkers of a client I was friendly with, and some of the guys were trying to make conversation, seeing which sport I was following most avidly.
Queenslander, so obviously League? No? Oh, so, you’re a Union man, then? No? Er… AFL, you come from the South or something? God, surely not… one of those few weirdos who actually follow soccer? Got euro relatives or heritage or something?
I had to explain that I don’t follow any sports at all, not even ‘e-sports’. I pretty much spend my recreational time playing video games. That really lost them. When I explained that I am actually a giant nerd, a total computer geek, they couldn’t quite believe it, and said things like, “That’s weird… you don’t look like one at all! I thought geeks were like… those guys on the Big Bang Theory.”
And, to their credit, they tried to make conversation about gaming, which was probably about as awkward as any attempt I could’ve made to talk about sports. It was kind of reduced to talking about how ‘isn’t it amazing the things they can do these days, my nephew’s got one of those new xboxes and the graphics are unreal,’ but they were making an effort, which was nice of them. I salvaged things by moving back to more comfortable territory for the fellas, finding out about their interests and the like.
But the experience served to highlight that as much as this insular internet community likes to go hunting for evidence of gaming being ‘mainstream’… it’s really not as much as we probably like to think.
I don’t even know what DOTA is! =D
Dude, you’re married, stop flirting.
He’s just lucky she didn’t compliment his scarf
*grabs popcorn*
I have to admit… I downplay my interest in games and pop culture at work… I just feel labelling yourself as a gamer comes with a lot of bad stereotypes when most of the world thinks gamers are people who sit in their mom’s basement playing games all day =,=
That said I’m also one of 6 20 year olds in a company of about 350? So yeah.. that age difference makes me pretty cautious as to whom I talk to games with =\
I sit across from a fellow game enthusiast. We lend each other games, and talk games pretty regularly… and I still feel like I have to watch what I say. Not sure what that’s about, but I don’t think it’s a demographic thing in my case.
I found it easier when I know that they watch things like Big Brother or Dancing with the Stars or My Kitchen Rules, etc, then I can learn to easily ignore any sort of stereotypical comment. 😛
I still catching myself doing this for reasons I can’t even explain and it annoys the hell out of me 😛
I don’t need to impress anyone anymore yet it’s so engrained in my mind… At the same time I think its also a great of people laughing at me for liking nerdy things (which still happens) and it gives me Vietnam style flashbacks to school 😛
When I first started at my current job my boss asked me if I liked Halo and I responded with “Sure. I’m usually more of a Nintendo guy though” and he never spoke to me about games again 😛
I still haven’t told them why I’m going to Melbourne in a few weeks…
I just want to say that I’m the opposite of most people here.
So what if people judge me because of my hobbies? They’ve got a whole lot of material before then to judge me on, so if they think I’m a nerd it’s the least of my worries. This ain’t school no more, I don’t need to fail at looking cool.
o/
Nerdbros.
I managed to freak out a bunch of kids a few weeks ago at work by pointing out that one of that had the Triforce drawn on his hand incorrectly (all three triangles filled in). I think I now have a fan club.
Being weird or eccentric is boring. Being strange is the way to be! 😛
PUN PUN PUN
STRANGE MADE A PUN
*dies happy*
QUICK. SOMEONE SCREENCAP IT.
So I kind of forgot that I’m driving to Adelaide in a few days for my sister’s wedding.
Meat this week?
EDIT: Going to arrive on Wednesday but will be too beat to do anything after the drive. There are two dinners I’m meant to be going to (one for immediate family and one for extended family) before the wedding. Scheduling might be interesting but if people are free during the day on Thursday/Friday that would be rad.
@ash @banderdash @benny @jacksonwryan @jocon @lucifer9783 @redartifice @wilbur
(according to Taytags)
Oh yes, that’s a thing.
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I’m keen.
I am free during the day on Thursday
Maybe some sort of board gaming thing starting around noon?
Tag me if you end up doing someting, especially if it is during the work week – I’m always keen to sneak away from the office 🙂
Will do.
Not entirely sure on what the plans will be. We might leave on Tuesday and break up the drive a little (because we’re going to do the full drive back on Sunday and that will suck). That means that maybe Wednesday afternoon/evening is an option.
How about board games at mine Wed evening or Thurs arvo? Pity Hungry Hippo isn’t back open yet
I’ll see what our travel plans are and get back to you. I’m starting to think that driving down over Tues/Wed will be better than doing the full thing on Wed. Which means Wednesday evening would be the best option.
Just need to make sure that’s what Freya wants to do (she’s sleeping) and then book a room for Tuesday night.
YES WE SHOULD PLAY SHERLOCK
I dont want to do anything, I want to go home.
Since my work isnt transferring me all motivation has disappeared. I applied at a Laser service company in Melbourne so maybe ill hear back. Maybe i wont WHO KNOWS.
ALso i do want to do something, i want to play pokemon, and beat @Beavwa 😛
Team member #5 may struggle against your team. Still indecisive about #6.
Ahh the bastards! At least you know now and aren’t just hanging about.
As a recruiter, my advice would be if you think you are suitable for the role and don’t hear back, give them a call! Applications often go unnoticed.
Man that sucks! Unfortunately I don’t know anyone in similar fields to pull on :/… But still YAAAAAY rocket is going to be a Melbourne buddy!!!! \o/
IMTS?
Chorizo, Ham, Fried Rice, and Sweet Chili Sauce.
Now that’s a lunch. 😀
Nice.
I had a friend rice style dish as well. Chicken, carrot, water chestnut, bamboo shoots, peas and celery. All fried up with fresh ginger, soy and oyster sauce.
If I had to take a guess I would say yours was nicer
I had leftover pasta with a jar of old carbonara sauce tipped over it.
Mine was obviously the best.
I love the hell out of bacon, but carbonara is all kinds of wrong!
There is nothing wrong with combining cream and butter and egg and bacon… except for the fact that it’s socially inacceptable to sit down and eat it without pasta.
hahahahah Glad you enjoy it! Really does nothing for me though!
Chicken Maryland with gravy. …With a side of more chicken and gravy. Forget this ‘salad’ crap.
That does sound really nice actually!
I had grilled lemon and pepper fish with asian noodles from some fish joint in a nearby foodcourt. Bellissimo! *kisses fingers like an Italian*
Roasted Chicken with orange gravy on a bed of coleslaw.
I should make myself some lun… Oh wait the powers out. :’O
Time for fire!
I had a burger and chips from Flip, one of the local burger shops. So good. Much better than the other local place Burger Got Soul. Called The Gambler, it has: beef patty, double bacon, double cheese, fried onion, lettuce, house bbq sauce and herb mayo. I was so full after eating it though.
Costume half done. Pretty happy with how it’s turning out. All the fiddly stuff to be done.
https://twitter.com/FreezeSPreston/status/520409039163760640
Man I got alotta catchup to do. Don’t even have pants yet ;_;
Oh god, all the girls are going to faint at PAX…
I don’t think there’s enough popcorn in the world to satisfy the need of that happened!
I’d be more worried about the state’s ambulance supply to deal with a large population of visitors spontaneously fainting and questions to be raised about the heating of the venue
Not to talk about the birthing wards being filled to the brim in 9 months time!
Idea for a PAX costume: a guy with buttloads of popcorn.
And then you just follow @mrtaco around all day.
Dammit! Missed opportunity!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Hhjem_BJd9w/T60lwaMLP6I/AAAAAAAAEaA/N5flug5LxBU/s1600/IMG_2218.JPG
Apparently you wouldn’t have much of a costume for very long 😛
Pants are all I really need for mine still (assuming my mother finishes the sewing)
That concrete doesn’t stand a chance 😉
Are those gumboots that you typically see a butcher sporting?
http://imgur.com/gallery/s04WVHu
There was one I saw last year where you have a looping gif/movie of a heart on your iPad, then put it in your zombie chest. Occasionally, the piece of skin covering that section would just…flop out, so you’d apologise and try to fit it back in, while people could see your heart pumping.
Things I would spend money on if I won the Lotto #21
I have a steampunk piece that has a PDA or phone integrated into it.
I’d be worried about that scalding my face later on if I keep that on me.
It’s pretty cool though
Hey guys, How are you all?
Is anyone up for a destiny raid over the weekend? Looking for a group to do it with, I’ve got a level 25 warlock, just unlocked it and really wanna give it ago 😀
Which platform?
PS4
Ah, enjoy. I am a PS3 pleb
Ah, i see. No worries mate, Enjoy your gaming.
I’m on PS4, ass me if you want. 26.5 Hunter. tehSt1ckM4n. I thought you had to be 26 to run the full raid?
Stickman you kinky little perv!!!
#EveryPage18
I think you can only enter it on easy mode when you’re level 26 corafu. Might want to grind out that extra level!
And entry to hard mode is 28.
Edit: Nevermind I’m wrong, you can enter it at 25 but you do so at your own risk. Most mobs are 27-28 and you lose a massive of your dps when you attempt to dps mobs that are a higher level than you.
Might be an idea to grind up to 26 first, as many of the raid mobs are 27/28 and will hit you hard.
Xur should be arriving in the tower in a few hours, maybe buy an exotic from him for 13 strange coins?
EDIT: Also, TAYbie and Kotaku AU generally group here: http://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/Detail/100780
Based on the pic you posted a while ago @freezespreston this might be one for your girls
FFXIII download is done! Be interesting to see the total time it took. At a rough guess I started it at about 10pm last night and it finished at maybe 12pm today.
Hello Marvel PuzzleQuest People.
I somehow ended up being ranked #7 in my division for the Prodigal Sun event (on phone, not PC)
That means I got’s myself a Classic Spider-Man (3*) with Blue, Yellow and Purple powers.
But I need help – my roster is already full and I was going to sell one of my superhero’s off (Ares) at the end of the event anyway to fit in another hero.
Could somebody take a look at my roster and give me tips on who to get rid of and whether the ones I have lined up to take their place are any good?
Spoilered for those who don’t care/on mobile
Current Roster:3* lvl 40 Doc Oc
3* lvl 40 Wolverine Patch
1* lvl 36 Storm Modern (5g, 4y, 4b, max level 50)
1* lvl 36 Black Widow Modern (5p, 5b, max level 40)
1* lvl 35 Iron Man Model 35 (5r, 2y, 5b, max level 45)
2* lvl 33 Thor Marvel Now! (3r, 1y, 1g, lax level 33)
2* lvl 23 Bullseye Dark Avengers Hawkeye (2p, 1b, max level 23)
2* lvl 17 Captain America Modern (1y, 1r, 1b, max level 18)
2* lvl 17 Daken Dark Avengers Wolverine (1p, 1b, max level 17)
2* lvl 15 Ares Dark Avengers (1y, max level 15)
Waiting in the wings:
3* lvl 40 Falcon Mighty Avengers (1b)
2* lvl 15 Moonstone Dark Avengers Ms. Marvel (1p)
2x 2* lvl 15 Storm Classic (1b and 1g)
And soon to be
3* lvl 40 Spider-Man Classic (1b, 1y, 1p)
And a couple of Recruit Tokens for the current event (2* and better, mostly Dark Avengers stuff)
Halp?
Hey, I got a 3* level 40 Spiderman Classic, too! But I already have a baghead Spiderman who’s hilarious looking so I was wishing I didn’t get it because now if I manage to acquire someone else cool I’ll probably have to let the one with a paper bag on his head go.
I have no idea about who’s best, I just go on which one looks best half the time because I’m shallow. 😛 I do remember not keeping Daken though because I thought his abilities didn’t look like ones I’d use very often.
I wasn’t playing much, but now that I’m joining in on the events and multiplayer I’m playing every time I have a spare minute to myself. I’ve barely touched the story in ages.
And to be honest, I have Captain America and Thor but only use them if all my other people are dead or injured. I don’t know why, I think their abilities are okay but for some reason they’re always my last choice.
Thor is on my primary team. Once you max out his abilities it works really well.
Get red, use ability which makes yellow matches. Hit yellow ability which makes green matches.
Use green ability that hits all enemies.
At this stage the goal is to try and get all colours across your heroes so you are dealing as much damage as you can for each match.
So I would probably drop Cap, although I seem to get a lot of Daken covers so you should be able to get him back up fairly easily
I use daken quite a lot. Match green and get a red strike tile and use then blue ability to use some strike tiles to do extra damage for each strike tile consumed.
Occasionally you will get star specific events so I would recommend keeping 3 one star characters just so they are available for that. Plus you have already spent a chunk of crystal on them which you lose if you sell.
I’m not a huge fan of Cap, his abilities are ok but the cost is rather high. Can work well but depends on the rest of your team. I have always sold my Ares but have heard people who swear by him.
You should have gotten a chunk of hero points with the spidey, how far away from new slots are you? Might be worth smashing thes story mission to get the last of the points in there if you haven’t already. That’s what I did last time when I get 2 Doc Oc and had no room.
I need 500 and have 375. I’ll start attempting to smash out the story to get more Hero Points then. I’m worried that I won’t get anymore of the rare covers I need, so those heroes will just sit on 40.
And @strange, I found during this event that the combo of Bullseye/Daken works really well. Match Green = strike tile. Match Purple = protect tile. Repeat ad infinitim and bingo, Hulk is smashing you for 1 a turn while you whittle down his health.
That combo is quite good. The only problem with focussing it to much is both of them only have 2 abilities so I believe there max levels are lower than heroes with 3 abilities.
You definitely want a number of 2 * heroes in there as those are the covers you will get more often and you want to get at least a couple up towards max level if you can.
One of my friends really likes Storm Classic and I think you can get one of each of her covers as story rewards.
Bullseye has 2 abilities same as Dr Doom. But daken has 3. Green and blue are the main ones but there is also his addiction to heat that depending on how many blue tiles are on the board it will heal him or damage him. Some poopy passive ability that is
I use ares a fair amount. I only have the red and yellow skill. Does come in handy as long as you pick the right ones to join him
I will save up some coins and increase the amount of member the KotakuAU alliance can have if you wish to join.
What with the massive road trip ahead of us and all, I think I need to get my hands on some audiobooks so that Freya and I don’t strangle each other.
Suggestions?
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy! The original BBC broadcast! Love it so much 😛
As in the radio play? Might be a bit of fun to track that down.
Any radio play, really.
That’s the one… There’s the original 1970’s broadcast and the follow up from 2003… Like 26 episodes all up from memory
Why not podcasts?
8 hours of dkzeitgeist? 😀
Already loaded up on the ones that I want. Something a bit more structured would probably be a good idea though.
If you wish to, grab some of the Doctor Who audio plays. Especially those done by Big Finish.
http://www.bigfinish.com/hubs/v/doctor-who
(can’t recall if you need to pay for them or not)
Apart from Hitchhikers (and seriously, I’d go Hitchhikers) there’s 2 audiobooks that are on my “awesome” list.
First and foremost: “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”, as read by Frank Muller. If you don’t get the Frank Muller version don’t bother. If you do get the Frank Muller version you’ll never experience Shawshank more powerfully than in the 6 hours he’s weaving his tale.
And then “Odd Thomas” (Dean Koontz) as read by David Aaron Baker. Even if you’re not a fan of Dean Koontz this is so dissimilar to his other work that it’s worth reading. I’ve recommended it to numerous other people and had nothing but positive responses. It’s his best work, hands down. David Aaron Baker is a great fit, even if some of the “voice shifts” can be a bit weird.
Fun fact: I’ve read this book 3 people (i.e. 3 separate times), and I model my tone on his reading of it.
Not sure if you can get this as an audiobook https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2697098-hanson
I think I’ll just loop their Shout It Out album for a few hours.
Scar Tissue.
It’s the Anthony Kiedis Autobiography, and it’s fantastic.
Ah, this is why I’m keen for a rainforest bike ride. I put my bike in for another (not really necessary service) and took the opportunity to get some upgrades.
– Tubeless tyre conversion
– Clip in pedals
– Shoes – cleats
– Dropper seatpost.
All up around a grand. :\ But, I now have pretty much every upgrade to the mtb and so it’s kitted out very nicely.
Runs great with the shoes too – we did River 2 Reef charity ride last weekend. I’ll have gopro footage up sometime soon.
Just try not to spray mud on me when you zoom past my $400 bike 😛
Man I miss my $160 (RRP $380 yo) bike I stole off dad. 🙁 So much fun. But current bike is next level lol.
I was actually surprised my bike was that price ($300 on sale). Was expecting to have to pay a lot more because my boss is a serious cyclist and has some super diamond-encrusted bike or something ridiculous. He kept telling me all these things that I needed to check before buying which I promptly forgot as soon as the conversation ended. Just ended up going into the shop and going “One bicycle, please!” 😛
Yaaaaaaaaaay! Half way through my day \o/ and I’m on call tonight \o/
grooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaan /o\NegativeZero’s New Anime Season Impressions, Part 2 of ?
Watching the new shows so you don’t have to.
Watched a ton of stuff last night as I couldn’t sleep. Regretting it a bit right now. Anyway…
Akatsuki no Yona
Or ‘Yona of the Dawn’, so called because she has red hair I think? Like a sunrise. This was one I actually had my eye on going in, because while it’s a show pitched at girls (very obviously so, the whole central cast aside from her appear to be exquisitely-crafted manflesh) I tend to have a bit of a thing for girl-oriented eastern fantasy stuff. And that’s what this is. Yona is the only daughter of the king of a small province, and she’s basically a spoiled pampered brat. She spends most of the first episode moon-eyed around her cousin and childhood friend Soo-Won, who’s not really interested. So uninterested that her sixteenth birthday present involves him staging a bloody coup, murdering the king. And I presume the show will revolve around her escaping, wandering the country to gather a cadre of loyal and amazingly attractive men who will then assist her in retaking her kingdom. And I’m pretty fine with that. Probably going to be a regular watch and I hope it stays reasonable.
Ai Tenchi Muyo
How the mighty have fallen. What went wrong, Tenchi? You used to be one of the big, high-profile dumb harem anime. You used to be cool. You were one of the first shows I ever saw. Now you’re a daily 4-minute episode show. 🙁 Actually despite the fact that 4-min shows are utter shit for doing anything with any substance at all, this wasn’t too bad so far. Bunch of new characters and everyone’s had their art re-done a bit by Suzuhito Yasuda, who is an artist I really like. I just wish it was proper length episodes, I’d watch it without hesitation. Instead I think this will be one to do in bursts.
Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai
I wasn’t expecting much out of this. It’s a visual novel adaption, and not of a hugely good one. However I was still pretty disappointed at how awful the art was. Not just the low budget, it’s the fact that the actual designs are good (the game’s character art is by Bekkankou and I’m somewhat of a fan of his work) but the way they’ve colored things is weird. The palette is all weird and washed-out, eye lines drawn in light brown instead of the usual dark colors and generally the effect is that it feels like something that’s over-exposed or is being viewed through an amber filter. Not a fan of that. Plot-wise it’s odd too. The main character is a bookworm, but he’s also been picked out by a mysterious watcher, the ‘shepherd’ who seems to be observing everything and sending cryptic mails and stuff. The story gets going when he has a sudden premonition that there’s going to be a train accident and he rescues a girl who would have been flattened by it. Some stuff happens and he ends up joining her club, which has the vague charter of ‘making people happy’. It also seems that behind the scenes, the ‘shepherd’ is setting him up as a candidate to be his successor. Don’t really know how this is going to turn out, not sure I’ll stick with it either. It was a bit unremarkable and I think there’s other stuff I’d watch ahead of it.
Donten ni Warau
This is pretty much crap. I didn’t last the whole episode so I’m not sure what’s going on. Seems to be set in Meiji Japan and follow some family of idiots with crazy hair who may or may not be magical or something. Some bullshit about them being responsible for ferrying all the evil criminals who wouldn’t give up their swords to a prison on lake Biwa. I think I got about 8 mins in, maybe 9, before giving up on it. Not in my strike zone and not interesting either.
Gugure! Kokkuri-san
I actually got halfway into this and then stopped a few days ago. Finished off the episode. It got better as it progressed, actually. Kohina is a lonely girl who refers to herself as being a ‘doll’ that doesn’t have any emotions. While playing the traditional ‘game’ Kokkuri (which is basically an invocation or seance ritual where you summon Kokkuri, a kitsune / fox demon, to answer questions for you) she actually manages to summon an actual kitsune, who proceeds to ‘haunt’ her in the most inept way possible. Turns out no one asks Kokkuri questions any more because it’s faster to google it (‘gugure’). This is basically a kind of black comedy and at first it wasn’t really working for me, but I suspect that with some time it’ll improve especially as they add a few more characters to the mix. And honestly I was thinking of following it just because Ryou Hirohashi’s voice is so nice to listen to. But we’ll see. I can also see myself watching for a bit and dropping.
Gundam Build Fighters Try
Gundam Build Fighters had absolutely no right to be as excellent as it was. With this franchise, Sunrise basically gave up pretending that Gundam is anything but a lengthy commercial for their plastic model kits. Build Fighters is basically a battle anime aimed at 10-year-olds. Borrowing basically the entire plot of the late 90s’ Angelic Layer, kids build gundam models, then put them into a magical energy field thing that animates them so they can battle against each other. The show’s hook is compelling, it’s chock full of interesting Gundam design variations (with 35 years of shows to pull from, and a huge bunch of custom designs by people who have thrown multiple kits together) and a huge amount of references for older fans, down to the fact that there’s a random old guy that’s basically Ramba Ral wandering around. So far, Try looks like it will continue the same basic idea. It’s seven years after the first series, and the former protagonist Sei’s school’s Gunpla Battle club is about to be closed down because it only has one member – the Gunpla Builders club who don’t battle at all have poached all their members. And in a massive break from tradition, that one remaining member is a girl. I’m almost positive that this is the first time ever that a Gundam show has had a female lead. A random dude who looks a lot like the first season’s Reiji transfers into the school, and when he expresses disappointment that there’s no martial arts clubs, she introduces him to the wonder and mystery of Gunpla Battle. They’re going to go to the tournament – which apparently is now a team battle instead of individuals! – and win it and keep the Gunpla Battle club around and stuff. I’m sold. I was already sold, because I like Gundam and Build Fighters was so much fun to watch. More of the same is fine by me.
Gundam Reconguista in G
Talk about extremes. This is the first proper Gundam TV series in a while. To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Gundam, Sunrise have exhumed Tomino from whatever crypt he’s normally in and forced him to make a new show set in the Universal Century timeline of the original mainline gundam stuff. First time they’ve done this since the early 90s with Victory Gundam. So, the guy who directed Gundam back in 1979 is back in the saddle, directing a brand new one. Should be rad, right? Well… not exactly. Fuck me, this show feels archaic. It’s like something that was actually made in the 70s and just thawed out now. The direction is slipshod and inconsistent. Characters are given no characterization, I don’t even remember the names of anyone. There’s some dopey Lalah Sune ripoff who spends all the time yelling about G like she’s mentally retarded, the protagonist is an unrealistically talented shit who also appears to have zero empathy and it’s already trying some heavy handed TRAGEDY OF WAR bullshit (which the series is known for). The animation is clunky and looks roughly on par with Zeta Gundam from the 80s. The shots are all disconnected and rough. The casual misogynism (Almost all the girls are Cheerleaders. Their introduction is when they crash a training session to cheer on the boys in the hope that they can pick up a boyfriend or something. Yes, really) is utterly tone-deaf. Truth bombs: Tomino was never a good director. He used to have okay ideas, but he’s basically George Lucas. Thing is, being a mediocre director with revolutionary concepts in the 70s and 80s was absolutely fine. The medium has evolved so far from then, and it’s clear that he hasn’t at all because this show is basically looking like complete shit so far. Which is disappointing because I kind of had some hope for it. But outside of the 08th MS Team (which is fucking incredible because it’s basically to Gundam what the X-Wing novels were to Star Wars) I’ve never been into the UC timeline anyway.
Hi-Scoool! SeHa Girl
So this is… uh. Okay, so it’s a ten minute episode 3D-animated series where the characters are all personifications of Sega hardware. I don’t know if the cast will expand, but right now it’s Mega Drive, Sega Saturn and Dreamcast. They’ve all just transferred into a new school where the curriculum appears to involve reminiscing about the past back when Sega were actually a thing. Mega Drive is a blonde with glasses, the serious one. Dreamcast is a pink-haired ditz. Saturn has twintails and heterochromia and is basically the straight man for their gags. They spend most of the time animated in a form that is basically Nendoroid – Saturn even looks like a Miku Hatsune repaint. Which might be deliberate, wouldn’t be surprised if they’re using the models from Sega’s Project Mirai games which are similarly cute. Anyway the episode ended with them all being sucked into Virtua Fighter and I’m not making any of this up, it’s a real show that actually exists. Watching the shit out of it, it’s like a train wreck in slow motion.
Nanatsu no Taizai
Aka “Seven Deadly Sins”. Fairly generic (so far) shounen action anime that looks fairly enjoyable so far, though nothing that amazing. Years before, seven knights slaughtered hundreds of Holy Knights, becoming wanted throughout the land. They all disappeared and haven’t been seen since. The Holy Knights are basically super-powered one-man armies so these Seven Deadly Sins are even more powerful. Now the knights have basically staged a coup, and the princess of the royal family is attempting to track them all down and enlist their help against the knights. I’m not really sure about the art style, but the rest of it seems like it’ll be a fun watch. Protagonist might be a bit OP but that can be okay if done right. Also with Hunter X Hunter having finished, the only show like this I’m watching on the regular is Fairy Tail and I like having two, they’re great for just switching off and enjoying. So this is most likely a regular for me unless it develops badly.
Parasyte
This show is weird and gross. Ages ago I remember seeing some manga posted somewhere which I assume was from this, involving a dude’s face splitting open into like a 10-jawed mouth and biting someone’s head off. Basically the idea is that some kind of highly intelligent life form (alien?) has entered the population, consuming body parts and then posing as those parts and integrating themselves into the subject’s body. Ideally they get into the brain stem then replace a person’s entire head, working their body like a meat puppet. Grade-A horror stuff. In the protagonist’s case, he’s attacked by one of these parasites but it burrows into his hand after failing to get into his head, and instead replaces that. Because he’s retained his own brain, the protagonist and the thing in his hand are now symbiotes and have to figure things out. And his hand can change form and is super strong and stuff. So I assume he’s going to become some kind of crime-fighting superhero that goes around destroying the other parasite-infected humans or something. I dunno though. High production values but the content makes me feel a bit squicky. Might not watch more.
Rage of Bahamut
Went in with very low expectations. Anime tie-in for a shitty free to play card battle game for mobile phones. The one thing that Bahamut the game has going for it is that it has a lot of extremely pretty art. Not seeing that here. The protagonist is… well, weird. He’s got a red afro and scars and stuff. And he’s got some rivalry going with another guy with equally odd hair. And there’s an attractive devil girl. And they’re going to Helheim. I dunno. This actually reminded me strongly of Blade and Soul, the similarly unnecessary adaption of a free to play Korean MMO. That actually turned out fairly okay. I think this one won’t though. Main character is ugly and gives me the irrits. Probably dropping.
Trinity Seven
Crap. Chuunibyou as fuck, by which I mean it looks exactly like something that a 12 year old would come up with as being the most awesomest show ever. Some kind of magical dimensional rift shows up and starts sucking people up and so our hero’s childhood friend who turns out to be a mage saves him by giving him a magical grimoire which he can apparently use because he’s got the ultimate power of plot armor. And then some stuff happens and he ends up in a magic academy where all the other students are girls because apparently girls are better at magic because they’re weird. And now to rescue his childhood friend he has to get good enough at magic to collect the ‘trinity seven’ – the seven top students in the school – and add them to his harem or something. I’m hazy on the details here. Show is shit. I’ll probably watch it. 🙁 I don’t know why I do this to myself. I watched all of Blade Dance last season as well, and that was awful too. What is wrong with me.
Ushinawareta mirai o motomete
Another visual novel adaption. Was also disappointed with the art here. I wasn’t expecting them to do anything remotely approaching the quality of the game’s art (which is absolutely stunning, some of the best VN art I’ve ever seen) but I couldn’t put my finger on exactly what was annoying me but throughout the entire show, something felt ‘off’. I might have to re-watch but I suspect what was going on was that about 30-40% of the character shots were 3D models instead of hand-drawn. It could also have been that the backgrounds were CG? I’m not even sure about this, maybe the animation was just crap. It’s just that there were some movements and shots which had that distinctly stiff, uncanny valley look of keyframed 3DCG. Plot-wise this seemed super generic at first. Bunch of friends, obvious love triangle. Girl finally confesses, dude is non-committal because of course he is. Girl had previously sprained an ankle and is walking home and I go “He didn’t respond so I bet she’ll be hit by a bus or something” and fucking called it. And then all of a sudden the whole thing resets back to about 1/3 the way through the episode and the timeline seems to have been altered and suddenly there’s a naked chick passed out nearby and there was a glowing cube thing and I don’t know what’s going on. I might watch some more of this but not holding out a lot of hope for it. If I had to pick one of the VN adaptions this season to watch I’d pick this over Daitoshokan, but pick Grisaia over this, simply because it has the best quality reputation and appeared to have decent animation with a reasonable budget.
World Trigger
@Transientmind: I lasted 9 minutes. Awful show. Monsters from another dimension are attacking the town but random dudes with powers can beat them. And life continues as usual even though everyone could get eaten by a giant alien slug-thing at any moment. I don’t think this had any redeeming features at all. Bad art, bad plot, bad animation, bad designs, bad everything.
I’m kind of tempted to watch this World Trigger thing, just to see how bad it is.
It’s not even bad enough to be enjoyable because it’s bad. It’s right in the lowest point on the bell curve of terribleness.
Yeah, but see this just makes me want to see how badly they’ve done. It’s actually impressive in its own way to be at that terrible point.
You’d think that, but it’s the boring kind of terrible. Like how all kinds of b-movie crap can be hilarious when you’re drunk, but every now and then you see that one which is just the degree of bad that it’s not bad enough to actually be funny, it’s just the degree of bad that sobers you up and you stop having fun while drunk. That kind of bad.
You’re misunderstanding me, I understand exactly how bad it is, I really do, trust me in this. And I still want to watch it because it is genuinely an achievement. So bad that it’s good is easy. Bad with redeeming features is easy. Straight up good is actually pretty easy. But so bad that it’s just bad is a genuine achievement.
Alright… but it really is the tofu of anime. This degree of flavourlessness can only leave your life blander than it was! 🙂
That’s what I’m saying. It’s not impressive. It’s absolutely mediocre. All you’re doing by watching is wasting your time.
Ha, you watched the Tenchi Muyo shorts. Series got longevity, I’m almost happy this new thing is just shorts.
Gundam is inciting much emotion in me. When I first learned of it’s existence I was like “Ah fuck we’re gonna get Turn A 2014, aren’t we?” and what I received was.. uh…. woooorssee?
But yo, the hate for UC makes me sad. We’ve talked before about how pretty much Gundam is a average/slightly-above-average series, but I remain staunch in my support for UC. Ok, well, not ZZ, or Z, or a good chunk of Char’s Counterattack.
But the side stuff is great- Stardust Memories, 08th MS Team, War in the Pocket,-and, of course, OG Gundam. OG Gundam is fairly outdated but the concepts that the core series introduced, the archetypes and the concepts, they’ve been driven to the ground.
Which is I hold Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin with mad high regards; It’s quite literally one of the only examples I can cite to claim anime/manga as an actual art form. And I say this because it’s getting a pseudo-adaptation in the form of 4 episodes/mini movie-like things in the spring. Not sure if they’re just remakes of OG gundam or supplemental material. I guess what I’m saying here is that I really, really wish OG gundam had a remastering. I was about to say remake but they attempted that with Seed. 😛
Also Unicorn was allllriiiight.
Turn-A wasn’t bad though. I liked it. Everyone was all OH MY GOD THE GUNDAM HAS A MOUSTACHE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE SYD MEAD but the organic way that the Turn-A moves is awesome, Loran is a great character, and that soundtrack. ‘Moon’ is one of the best anime themes ever written. Turn-A has some of Yoko Kanno’s best work.
I’ve actually never seen 0083. Original Gundam is great if you view it with the understanding that it’s 35 years old. Zeta is fairly okay too, with similar provisos. War in the Pocket I’ve always felt was massively overrated. F-91 is a smelly turd due to being a 52-episode plot compressed into a single movie and combined with Tomino’s mediocre direction. ZZ eventually improves but by god the first half of it is awful. Opening is catchy as fuck though. Victory’s trash too and I won’t let anyone convince me otherwise. Char’s Counterattack’s only redeeming features are the mech designs – Nu Gundam and Sazabi are some of the best looking things to have come out of all of the franchise. It’s almost comical the way it introduces characters, gives them zero development, slaughters them in the bloodiest way possible and then expects you to care. I haven’t seen Unicorn. People say it’s good but these are the same people that say the rest of UC is the best thing ever and it just isn’t.
Best Gundam TV series in terms of overall execution quality and how well it’s dated since it was made is still probably Gundam Seed IMO, though it’s hard to say that after Seed Destiny fucked everything up royally. And also because I watched it when I was in my late teens so it possibly clicked with me better than stuff since. I also have a soft spot for Gundam X, it’s way better than its reception suggested.
I’m still holding out judgement on Reconguista. Hell, I still don’t know how I feel about Turn A, so a comparison by me between the two is pretty much useless. I’m judging it on it’s plot and characters by the by, what you said is correct- Loran’s good, the music’s good.
Yeeahhhh don’t watch original gundam, it has aged so badly. I’ve really no attachment to a majority of UC, although I should correct myself and say Z was alright. I like War in the Pocket but I’ve never heard of people putting it on a pedestal nor I think it deserves to. Nu Gundam and Sazabi are damn sexy, yeah. More partial to Hi-Nu. Fun fact, Unicorn is the same old gundam crap except it condenses all it’s ideals and character stereotypes to 7 episodes quite well while looking good and sounding good and having real damn nice designs.
Also Seed is.. uuuhhhhh, I appreciate it’s slick designs and a good chunk of it’s world-building and the fact that it’s themes and plot actually does translate into a remake of OG gundam quite well, but it’s characters are just bullshit and and the animation is middling and OH HEY I’VE SEEN THIS SHOT FOR THE 50TH TIME.
And y’know, Destiny, but we don’t count Destiny, no?
I feel like UC Gundam needs a complete reboot. Do it over from scratch with modern direction and production values. Not a ‘gundam for a new generation’ like Seed was supposed to be and not a compilation / re-edit and not what they did for those Zeta movies just redo the original. Something like what they’ve done with Yamato recently.
Like I said, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin is amazing. A mostly faithful retelling of 0083 with some expanded backstory. The plot is translated far easily through pen and paper, the art invokes the powerful feel of simplistic, beautiful nostalgia; The hardcover books are a magnificent sight to behold in person and are of such quality that I would refer to it as a legitimate work of art, and possibility the only series one would definitely need to pick up if they wanted to buy manga. I’m pretty much seeing it as the definitive version of Mobile Suit Gundam now.
But now that I’ve sung my praises I’m not sure if you refer to *all* of UC, which would be a daunting, daunting task. I suppose in a perfect world, all there would be would be the original series, Zeta, and then Char’s Counterattack, with a lot of the side stuff cut out. No series set past CCA would be a damn good pruning method.
Jesus man. We watched Trinity 7’s first ep last night. The whole time I was like, “Haven’t we fucking seen this already?” I had to go digging through the archives to dig up the neglected first ep of Blade Dance. All those types just tend to blur in together to me, swearing I’ve seen them all before. Why would you do that to yourself?
My brother would watch it if I let him. I suspect he’ll probably download it and watch it on the laptop in private out of well-deserved shame.
There was a show a few seasons ago, “Mahou Sensou” or Magic Wars which had almost exactly the same premise but was even more chuunibyou and even worse as well. Dude and his friends get attacked by magic dudes and then they start doing magic so they go to a magic school in the magic world and then do magic there and fight the bad mages and stuff. I lasted about 5-6 episodes.
I dunno why I watch stuff like Blade Dance. It’s straight up shit. But something about it being so generic and lacking in challenge and sophistication and being predictable and stuff just clicks for me. I always have a few shows like that, basically the anime equivalent of eating McDonalds. It’s not even good, it’s not good for you, you know you shouldn’t. But sometimes you can’t help it. Blade Dance is a poorer than average example of stuff like that though. Sometimes you don’t want something really dark and heavy or really comedic or whatever.
Sometimes when in the week stuff releases helps too. IIRC it was often coming out mid-week and clear of everything else. That helps.
That genre-or-whatever-it-is is the reason I usually recommend Campione and Aesthetic of a Rogue Hero, for lampooning it. Estetica especially, as one of the 0.5% of anime protagonists who doesn’t fucking nose-bleed from or outright avoid anything sexual.
…But yeah, I get the ‘mcdonalds of anime’ thing. I think Mangaka-san was that for me, earlier in the year. I don’t think I watched any this last season, though. I mostly watched Nozaki-kun, Locodols, and Mahouka. (Which is admittedly one of those ‘invincible, harem-owning protagonist’ types.)
You might think to yourself, “Tatsuya might be more fleshed out and less overpowered in the light novels from which the show was based on, right?”
No. Believe it or not, a large amount of character development and insight did nothing to detract his gary stu-ness.
I’m not sure where there is left to go with that series. I mean… because he’s basically God, right?
Which is a shame, because I really like the characterization of most of the characters, and the setting is something I haven’t seen done quite so thoughtfully, before.
I don’t think there are any plans to end it anytime soon. Light Novels are like that, they go on and on and on and on. A recent example is To Aru Majutsu No Index, which has a flipping dense 33 volumes worth of magic-punching-crap. And there are most certainly older examples with far more volumes to their name.
I still need to watch the second half. It got pushed aside by other shows last season due to timing.
It definitely escalates the Gary Stu’ness something absurd.
I’m happy to be on board with wish-fulfilment power-fantasies when I know what I’m getting into, but by the end of that series it gets a bit on-the-nose.
I just really hope the next season (if there is one) goes somewhere different with it.
Esthetica and Campione definitely occupied that same slot for me. Many others over the years too. Have to admit that sometimes it’s one of the monthly ‘boobs shows’. For as long as I remember following anime seasonally, there’s always been one or two trash shows in my lineup. I can’t even remember what it was season before last though.
I never have problems with stuff blurring together though. I remember most things about anything I’ve watched a decent amount of, but it’s keyed off the title. So instead what happens is that the time I watched them blurs, I have no idea when I watched certain shows.
Aw man, I got super busy (so many people called out sick today, grr) and missed so much! At least the afternoon has flown by.
I bought some Wagyu beef at lunch today! Gonna cook it up so good tomorrow night.
How are you planning to cook it. Let us live vicariously
Dash of sea salt flakes in a hot stainless steel pan – seared two minutes on each side, then in a low oven wrapped in foil for about six minutes more. Probably going to make halloumi fries, garlic butter green beans and crusty bread to go with, and maybe a salad with lime chilli dressing, and an ice cold Asahi.
Tasty. I’ll be having chicken.
No idea what but it will be chicken. Which probably means a stir fry with a ginger and soy sauce.
Chicken is great! This was the best chicken dish I made recently: http://static.squarespace.com/static/52a474b4e4b0d82de8bb5240/t/53e9af7ee4b0cb32edf82209/1407823746027/?format=750w
That’s fancy lookin
Mine generally ends up looking something like this https://twitter.com/Tigerion/status/267220370145284096
Thank you! What’s the third element on the plate?
I’m guessing you mean the curry noodles. Otherwise scotch fillet or peas and corn
Aw, I clicked on that when I was hungry.
That’s just cruel 🙁
*drooooooools*
So… When’s dinner and do we need to bring anything?
Cooking is my great pleasure – I don’t like going out or being social, but feeding people makes me feel so contented and happy and fulfilled.
Sounds like you do a good job at it too!
I’ve never invested enough time into cooking to be particularly good at it but BBQ on the other hand? Mind you that’s pretty damn easy 😛
BBQ is something I really need to get more involved with. We were given a nice barbecue a few years ago, but it was in a sort of tricky spot in the yard. At our new house though, it’s in a much better spot, so I plan on getting to know it well come Summer! What are your favourite things to barbecue?
At the moment I’m obsessed with a nicely prepared lamb roast on the spit!
Just dry rubbed with salt and pepper, tied with a few garlic cloves… So.damn.tasty! Make up some smashed potatoes and roasted vegetables (or a nice salad) yuuuuuum…
… Damn I’m hungry! 😛
I like to butterfly a whole chicken and cook that on the bbq. With corn on the cob. But it’s hard to go past a fresh bbq sausage sandwich or roll with onions and sauce.
Allow me to make you feel contented and happy and fulfilled.
I only enjoy cooking if it’s for other people.
Edit: Nope. Not leaving that as it was. 😛
boooourns at least give us more than a minute to check the post edit version
Something something pleasing yourself not as satisfying as something something…
Hey everybody @transientmind is a dirty minded pervert
Well… this is true. I should own that, more.
That sounds amazing.
And I am now hungry. 🙁
Oh yeah? Well I’m going to have pizza tonight.
…dammit, that still sounds better.
I’m having pizza as well. Pizza buddies!
I just cooked up a plate of fish fingers, potato gems and peas corn carrot mix for a hungry 3 year old. I’m so hungry I’d eat that myself, but I think I might make some korean chilli chicken for the grownup’s dinner.
“Hey, this ‘Alien Isolation’ thing is alright. Don’t see how it could be that scary-”
*Cue two hours straight of screaming*
and that was before you started actually playing it.
Sounds like the FF install
There’s a lot of green in this comment thread so I thought I’d join in.
DESTINY (PS4)
STORY/STRIKES anyone keen to help me out on the weekend? (or tonight as well I guess)
plssss
I’m up to Venus and just want to power through the missions!
ty <3
Could be tight. PS4? I’m hanging with my Dad on Saturday and tripping down to perform manual labour for Freeze on Sunday. I like having reasonable excuses to shoot things in Destiny. I ran out of reasons for myself.
:'(
I think you’re the last person I played with in Destiny :P. YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!
Ooooh, my bad, I didn’t even think we’d played together yet! The first couple weeks of holiday are a blur of, uhm… mostly camping public events for shards. Because I finished the story in the first two days. c.c
You were levelling your Hunter or something and we did explorey things and Moon stuff!
Ohhhhhhh I remember now! Yeah! And I pretty much left my hunter around that level, too.
So I guess I ruined everything for you too!
WOOOOO!
Prosobly.
Hit me up if you see me online.
Bye Taybies have a good weekennnnnnnnnnnd <3
Enjoy amazing food!!!
You can still post on weekend TAY!
What? Only sad losers with nothing better to do partake in weekend TAY!
Oh.
penis monkey
🙁
#IsThatStillAThingThatPeopleRemember
#no
I forgot I acquired Rubber until I just saw it then. I guess I’ll watch it on the weekend…
(better be good)
#yay
Are we ever going to play multi games again? (organise 4 player Smash!)
Penicle!
#longforgottenTAYthings
Penicl Pig!
#HashtagsForHarli
Blaghman up before noon?
#ThankGodThisOneWasForgotten
There was a competition held by IGN for Marvel vs Capcom 3, back in 2011 or so. Just had to dress up as one of the characters from it, the top prize was an “arcade unit” (PS3 + two sticks + TV mounted in a decorated cabinet), then something like 10 runners-up got the game. Figured the best course of action was to go for armourless Arthur.
Searched around the shops hoping to find some strawberry boxer shorts, but no such luck. Found some material though, so bought that then reverse-engineered another pair of my boxer shorts to make them. Then went down to Bunnings, found a 900mm fern hook which looked like the perfect basis for a lance, and stopped by Woolworths for a set of funnels to add to it. A whole bunch of sewing, sanding, heating, gluing and painting, and I was set. Only step left was to take a good pic 😛
I’d been playing Super Ghouls n Ghosts not too long before the whole thing came up, so had it fresh in my mind and was keeping an eye out when driving around for potentially suitable places to take some pictures. I was going to try get my sister to do it for me, but she’d gone off somewhere. Only other option I could think of was Cosplay Girl, who was also into photography but the whole costume thing wouldn’t be quite as weird for her. Hopefully 😛
Luckily she actually knew of a pretty good place near her for taking pictures, it was a former factory or bakery or something, now basically ruins in a park. Went down there and… was obviously hesitant and stripping down 😛 It was good having her there though, she just yelled at me to get on with it and had some good ideas of things to do. Photos in the end turned out pretty alright. I ended up submitting this one to the comp, though also whipped up this as an alternative/for fun as well. And found this “outtake” funny so shared it around at the time too 😛
Looking around at the competition, there was another guy there who went for a similar path as me. But nowhere near as good mine – his were taken inside, and his boxers had lovehearts on them. LOVEHEARTS! Fiercest competition was from another guy who submitted a photo of is girlfriend dressed as Phoenix. Well, “dressed”. In green body paint and a gold sash around the waist. Cheater 😛 There was some last minute scuffling in which the photo was marked as offensive or something and taken down, then it got re-uploaded, then taken down again, then re-uploaded with the nipples blacked out.
In the end though, the prize was taken out by a guy who dressed up as Felicia, stood in the middle of an outdoor shopping centre in Perth holding a sign more or less begging to win. Dangit.
Still, ended up with a copy of the game though. And they took so long in sending it out, they threw in four MvC3 t-shorts too. None of which I could wear because they were all Large except for one Medium. Which was still too big.
Can’t seem to find any trace of the competition except for these two links though, rest of it seems to have fallen off the internet.
And that is my story 😛
Asdjhfddfsdnsrtss. Reply fail to @tigerion.
You guys! Seriously!
OMG that could be my first ever page get. Killer weak sweet.
Endget get! \o/
Can’t wait… Must. freeze myself
So close.
SATAY MEAT *
@ash @banderdash @benny @jacksonwryan @jocon @lucifer9783 @redartifice @wilbur
@trjn and @freya are coming to town next wednesday, so I figured Board Games at my house wed arvo/night, rock up whenever you please and we’ll do pizza for tea. hit me up at red_artifice at the hotmails or on twitter for address details if you wish to join us.
*may conttain nuts
Also if I missed tagging you and you are a SATAYer I apologise
Damn right you’re sorry, Red!
Bah, you’re not a SATAYer!
I like to think I am however 😀
BOARD GAMES!
Any particular games people would like me to bring? Here’s a list that should cover most of my collection:
Qwirkle,The Resistance/Resistance: Avalon,
Hanabi,
Ticket to Ride+1910 expansion/TTR: Europe+1912 expansion/TTR: Marklin,
Dominion+Prosperity & Intrigue expansions,
K2,
7 Wonders+Expansions,
Village,
Agricola,
Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small,
Tzol’kin,
Shadows over Camelot,
Battlestar Galactica,
Bang!,
Arkham Horror,
Seasons,
Power Grid,
Escape: Curse of the Temple,
P.I.,
Discworld: Ankh Morpork,
Discworld: The Witches,
King of Tokyo + expansions,
Ghost Stories,
Tokaido,
Takenoko,
Space Cadets,
Formula D,
King’s Vineyard,
Pandemic + On the Brink & In the Lab expansions,
Forbidden Desert,
Forbidden Island,
Hive,
Ladies and Gentleman,
Settlers of Catan,
Smallword,
Last Night on Earth,
Alhambra (Big Box version),
Carcassonne (Big Box version),
Galaxy Trucker (Big Box version),
Sushi Go,
Wok Star,
Quarantine.
HANABI!
I don’t leave home without it. Well, if I’m going anywhere I expect to play board games.
I do have hanabi.
Resistance would be good if we get a few
You would know best on that front I imagine.
Any sort of game you’d want to play then?
Sadly my life is lacking in board games so I don’t know what most of those are. In fact Settlers of Catan is the only one I have played.
Whatever is fun and suited to 6-10 players I guess.
I’ll bring a mix. Feel free to poke around and see if anything interests you though. Much happier to show someone a game they want to play over something I choose for them.
I see Arkham Horror on that list. You played Eldritch Horror?
I did a write up of my only play of Arkham Horror. Can’t say I was a fan and from what I’ve heard, Eldritch Horror doesn’t address the player agency issues with Arkham Horror, so I can’t really say I’m too keen to try.
Dress code?
Is this a dry event?
no pants!
like every TAY meat 😛
I…
um….
I.. have several questions…
Dress code? Given it’s mah house, no need to get too fancy.
Will possily crack a bottle of red, but I won’t be hitting the bottle too hard. Board games to be played
Do you drink Scotch Red?..
Not often, but sometimes.
I’m a scotch drinker and I was thinking about bringing you a bottle…
Put me down for a maybe.
Keen.
Thanks for volunteering your house 🙂 Sounds great.
Ugh, I am never using procion MX dye again. I got worse results with it then I did with generic shopping brand. Not to mention the colour I ordered ended up being too saturated. I might try to dye over what I’ve got, or else I will bye colour stripper to remove the stronger bits.
Liondrives Lasagne Labour!
(totes winging most of this :S)
Task 01: Making the Sauce.
Brown four cloves of garlic in large saucepan with olive oil.
Once browned, remove from oil and add one whole diced onion.
Saute onion, adding red wine once sauted.
Add in 1.5 – 2 large tins of whole peeled tomatoes, one grated carrot, one thickly diced eggplant (grilled), 2 cloves crushed garlic, rosemary and thyme, and season.
Leave to simmer on low heat for 1 hour.
Next step, making Pasta sheets before I get tipsy off red wine! 😀
Will update once complete 🙂
that sounds amazing!
Fucccckkkk making pasta! Good luck with it though!
did ya make your pasta dough first? cos it needs to rest in the fridge for like 20 mins before you roll it out.
Smash Bros multi fest sometime?
Anyone…?
Theathythm? 😛
Fantasy Life?! D:
;_;
I’m busy playing the hottest new video game!
Mega Man X
>.>
@benny i received the tickets today, once again thank you so god damn much!
Yay Benny for that thing he did!
That thing being give me his Saturday PAX tickets free of charge!
seriously, whadda guy!Enjoy, my friend.
Xur is selling Ice Breaker this week on Destiny and I stupidly brought warlock gloves and a hunter helm last week =/ making me a few coins short.
I’m deeply saddened.
edit: actually nvrm probably isn’t enough time.
I bought a sweet sweet Titan helm. Also, if I shunt my strange coins to my alt I may be able to get something there
I need 3 more coins for Ice Breaker after splurging on the Voidfang Vestments, which I won’t ever really use as I’m more a Sunsinger than Voidwalker. Ah well. Public events, here I come!
I bought Ice Breaker, not even sure why as I don’t even use sniper rifles, then I got a warlock exotic chest from an engram then I got the exotic bounty for pocket infinity. Nothing I really really wanted 🙁
Man. After all that hassle and delay and everything, my friend’s decided he can’t go to PAX after all.
@dc COME TAKE HIS SPOT!
I’d come to PAX if D.C. did!
…wait, that could be a dealbreaker D:
Liondrives Pasta Pandemonium!
(still wingin’ it)
Step 02: Making Pasta Sheets
First make a mound of 2 cups of flour on your bench that your sister would get extremely mad at if she saw.
Take a sip of red wine.
Make a well in middle of flour and crqck 4 eggs into the well.
Wish eggs with a fork, gradually including in flour until it is solid enough to knead with you hands.
Take a sip of red wine.
Roll out dough through pasta (cause I forgot to rest it) until it is the thickness required.
Ask someone to bring you red wine cause you’ve been drinking and you’re now all out of red wine.
Cook pasta sheets individually.
Rinse with cold water and rest.
Oh good, I’m glad I get to rest after doing all that. It sounds tiring.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed that the pasta isn’t too tough! Sounds pretty good though! Makes me a bit sad though. My mum used to make me lasagne every year for my b’day. Either that or her swedish meatballs.
Liondrives Sauces Supreme!
(WINGIN’!!!!)
Step 03: Meat and Bechamel (cause meat and white sauce go best together 😉 HAHAHAGAGA I need more wine :’O)
Raid the pantry for more red wine (score!).
Desperately cling to your last bottle of wine.
Docs up a whole lotta Pancetta.
Brown mince meat and Pancetta.
Add to simmering tomatoes sauce and continue drinking.
Bechamel.
Melt 50g butter in saucepan.
Add 1)4 flour and mix.
Gradually add 2.5 cups o milk.
Drink your wine from the bottle.
Stir until thickened.
Put together your Lasagne in layers and bake at I dong actually know. I’m still kinda just winging it and am sitting on my kitchen floor, quite heavily tipsy: right now 😀
Put timer on so you don’t burn down your house 🙂
Next time add a little bit of nutmeg (a pinch or two, as desired) into the bechamel sauce while making it. Makes it taste so much nicer.
Liondrives Cooking Conundrum!
Step 04: the Aftermath
Realise that you’ve used every dish you own, that there is a lump of flour and egg on your bench, and that you’re too tipsy to Carr.
Then remember you have 20+ donuts in your fridge from your last cooking spree and drag yo fat ass over to to the fridge (cause you’re still on the floor), and eat donuts till you don’t even want Lasagne anyimrssg.
Realise that red wine was fo cookin’, not fo drankin’.
Gonna download Dragon Age: Origins overnight, and maybe play some Torchlight in the meantime.
Numenera: Tales of the Ninth World – Twenty-Second Session Recap (1st October 2014) starring:
– Blaghs aka @blaghman the tough Glaive who masters weaponry,
– Elandar Kintan aka @popdart5 the foolish Nano who controls gravity.
– 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.
Blaghs found himself completely surrounded by a group of robed men and women in a gloomy chamber. He had been informed that he was about to be wed to what they called a mill-wife which apparently was one of the women that he met last night in the inn. He was also completely naked. While it wasn’t the best way to wake up after a night of drunken debauchery, it wasn’t the worst experience he’d ever had by a long shot.
Read more on http://taynumenera.tumblr.com/.
And in case you were wondering, it all goes downhill from there. 😛
This session was so much fun.
Thinking of throwing in a lighter, character focused session every now and then just as a palate cleanser.
Plus they are fun to improvise
Oh god yes. Tecmo Koei confirmed they’re going to continue their run of Atelier games on Vita by releasing Atelier Ayesha Plus in January. This was the first one they did after buying Gust, and the localization was distressingly dub-only, and only about 2/3 of the JP dialogue got voiced in English too. It’s the one I always wanted to play and actually purchased twice already (JP and US PS3). It has an amazing soundtrack and an interesting plot and was generally extremely well received and I’m hyped. \o/
WOO! \o/
I still want to try an Atelier game but they’re so pricey on the PAL PSN/import sites 🙁
Yeah the Plus games from the Arland series on Vita still look to all be $40 on the AU store. Since you’re not sure I wouldn’t jump in at that price. $20 is a steal if you can get Totori (it’s the oldest of them but not the first).
Might have more luck with PS3 copies? I could loan you any of mine (have Rorona through to Escha & Logy, though you don’t want to play Rorona instead of Rorona Plus)
EDIT: Checked the US store and we are being charged 0% Australia Tax on the games. Same price in USD.
Yeeouch!
I was having a quick looksee a few months ago and the “Plus” games seem to be the way to go (enhanced versions by the looks of it?). Thanks for the offer, I’ll keep it in mind, but I’m in no rush at the moment since I have way too many games to get through (damn money!) 😛
The ‘plus’ part of Totori and Meruru is a very tiny amount of extra content (IIRC extra dungeon + some costumes) plus being on the Vita. Rorona Plus is a complete remake of the original Rorona. I believe Ayesha Plus was just extra content like Totori and Meruru but the big ‘plus’ for us will be the JP dialogue being added back in.
Any of you guys interested in joining my DriveClub club?
Not sure when the PS+ version will be up for download. The club will be called Kotaku AU, and will be invite only.
Won’t let me create the club now because of connection issues, hopefully they’ll get them sorted out over the weekend. I’ll just keep trying.
Whoever wants to join just let me know and I’ll send you an invite as soon as it lets me create the club. @saturday?
Is it like a free to play version on PS+ or something? If so, sure.
Apparently in the PS+ free version you get access to all the features (online play etc), but you only get 10 cars to choose from, and you can only race in one country.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/here-s-what-driveclub-s-free-playstation-plus-edition-includes/1100-6419359/
MAN YOU KNOW WHAT I’D LIKE TO DO IN DRIVECLUB?
PLAY DRIVECLUB.
Ill get the game eventually so add me to it
G’wan then. I’ll give the PS+ version a go.
Will probably buy the full game if it’s at least as good as GT6 (setting a nice low bar there).
Don’t know what GT6 is like, haven’t played it. As far as I know the free version of DriveClub still isn’t available for download yet.
@dkzeitgeist The latest episode of Zeitgeist can’t be downloaded for some reason. Is this an intentional decision, or a mistake on either your or Soundcloud’s end?
THAT WOULD BE ON MY END!
Sorry, bud. All fixed now!
And if you have probs in the future, best to get me on Twitter (at)dkzeitgeist. That way I’ll fix it lickity split!
Twiiter, huh? I should get me one of those some day.
Zebrahead – Check
+1 point for crazyguy
Dragon Age: Origins is a 15.58 GB download! D:
Looks like it’s Talk Amongst Crazyguy…
*gently boops nose*
Boop.
*tickle tickle tickle*
Sigh.
I got home to discover that despite my warnings about its quality, despite my offer for an existing copy on the 360, despite the size of the download, and the fact that the PC is a straight port… my brother had still bought Final Fantasy 13 on Steam.
Sometimes you can’t save people from themselves.
Teach the bird to fly by kicking it off a tree. Let him learn. Maybe he will learn to be careful around Square-Enix. However, the chances are that his “learning” will be him playing it, getting frustrated, uninstalling out of anger, then reinstalling seven months later to give it another shot, then purchasing Final Fantasy XIII-2 for PC to give the franchise another shot.
To be fair, the 360 version is pretty “meh”. I mean, multiple disk games. What is this? The 1990s?
True, but on the Steam store the reviews have been that this is a port with problems on par with the original Dark Souls port. To the point that the same guy who did the community/fan-made patches is looking into fixing the port for FF13.
Meanwhile, the discs are like… right there, in the TV cabinet. They’re right there. I am pointing at them!
It saddens me to see him waste good money on something broken (and terrible) when something working (and terrible) is just sitting a few metres away. 😛
For some reason I bought it too. This is the third time I’ve purchased it.
Smash Bros is the worst and I hate it. Stupid jerky mcjerkersons always killing me right near the end.
Also Sheik sucks. Everyone sucks. But especially Sheik. So far.
I haven’t really played much of it but I do enjoy playing Robin.
AFL Live 2 Sprotsgame stuph
Haha, I finished top of the ladder this season with 19 wins, 2 losses, and 1 draw*.
*I was beating Essendon by 30 at half time and decided to make my prime defender a full forward and my shortest player a ruckman. They caught up.
I did significantly better this season compared to last season. Last season, I got 18th, with 5 wins and 17 losses. Last season, I had ten losses in a row, yet now I finish first. It’s surprising how much better I’ve gotten. I once played a game where I kept the enemy team to only 13 points!
Now I’ve got to play finals. Should be fun.
Plenty of teams have thrown their KPD into the forward line for one reason or another.
It’s basically how Leigh Matthews trained forwards: chuck ’em in the back line for a few years.
What’s KPD?
Key position defender, typically a full back.
The term just feels a bit more accurate than the old full back/centre-half back after positions became a bit more fluid. Similarly, the other end of the ground has KPFs.
Man, Warhammer Conquest looks so good. Shame I’ll never have anyone to play it with.
Is that the card game one?
Yes.
Dear @shane,
Fuck you. Fuck you for leaving Season 1 of Fringe at my house, because it’s now 3:19AM, I just finished Season 2, and I really want to get to work on Season 3. I hate you with the burning passion of a thousand suns.
With love,
Blaghs.
The SO and I started watching Fringe via TOTALLY LEGAL METHODS *cough* a month ago. About 10 episodes in I went and bought the Blu-Ray box set of everything and we’re now about 7 or 8 episodes into S2.
How did I miss this first time round? HOW?
My only nagging fear is at the end of it there’ll still be nagging questions or something stupid will happen and jj abrams will have broken me, AGAIN.
Anytime, man. *tips hat*
Had another session of Star Citizen with @rize last night, and I was pleasantly surprised that I wasn’t completely useless with fixed weapons… I think I’m getting better at dogfighting \o/… On the technical side of things it’s amazingly pretty and polished for a pre-alpha release… And so much fun!
Maaaaan I should probably play some of that.
Also stop procrastinating on getting a cheap stick and probably should replace my dodgey ram chip so I can actually play it properly.
Yes… Yes to all of the above :P… If you’re after a cheap HOTAS, I got the Thrustmaster HOTAS X for around $65 a while back… Well worth it for that kind of money
@tech_knight
Information has been leaked to me that today marks the day of your manufacturing! Happy birthday my friend! Hope you have a great day!
Happy manufacturing Day @tech_knight! \o/
Happy day of commissioning, @tech_knight!
Celebratory greeting.
Yes oh yes indeedy! Time for a firmware upgrade! w00t! Wishing you a happy day sir @tech_knight!
@tech_knight
Woo, Happy Tech Knight day!
I wonder, did they smash a bottle of wine on your chassis when you were first activated and named?
They tried to. ONCE.
Happy birthday @tech_knight my robotic friend, hope you have an awesome day
Oktoberfest! LET’S NEVER SPEAK OF THIS AGAIN!
IT WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR ALL ETERNITY DUE TO PAGE GETNES!
Alternately, give me all the juicy details!
… POPCORN!
There was popcorn involved as Dan and Karl lovingly hand fed it to each other.
Karl lives up to the hype! He’s awesome!
he’s alright hey?!
Why? What happened?
Best Page-get
Tis on Twitter for all to see for all eternity.
PROOF THAT DC ACCEPTS HUGS!
Not only accepts them, but initiates them!
I was under the assumption it was much more incriminating, darn.
So the 1986 movie Labyrinth is getting a sequel. It could be good.
Only if David Bowie reprises his role… otherwise, not likely.
That’s what i’m thinking. No Bowie, no Labyrinth. Might watch that tonight actually.
Hey @zetrox2k I sent you an email about PAX tix, they arrived the other day, just need an address to forward them onto you buddy.
hey man, dont wait on me, looks like i wont be going either. Finances blew out, as i had a week holiday planned for my anniversary, which ive also had to alter the destination as a result of an unforseen $2k expense.
its not 100% off the cards but for the moment its not looking good…
Ah that sucks man, well let me know if anything changes and I’ll send them, I’m not overly concerned about getting rid of them just don’t want to see them go to waste.
ill let you know man… i live in melbourne so i dont have to worry about other expenses like a few other taybies, if i can get the money together for the tix i will message you… but i prob wont know till end of next week as is will all depend on how much we end up spending whilst were away…
again man dont wait for me!!!
Dude I don’t want anything for the tix, I’ll just be happy knowing that I haven’t taken a spot only to not go, I was gonna just give them to you!
wa??? your crazy man….?!?
i would owe you SO DAMN MUCH
No mate you wouldn’t owe me squat, like I said, I’d rather have someone use them over them gathering dust at home.
i will take them in that case, but damn it i need to make it up to you…. what do you game on? PC/XBO/PS4?
@zetrox2k You really don’t need to mate, seriously.
Its for research purposes…..
Im trying to work out which platform is most popular…
@zetrox2k Well in that case!
I’m on XBone, but there really isn’t much I don’t already own on it or have preordered mate.
Noted! will email you my address! 😀
Which of you guys is T.Pheonix in our Marvel Puzzle Quest alliance?
At a guess, @phoenix.
yes! that’s the one! (Couldn’t remember his tag! Cheers!)
If Mr @phoenix is about, can you help me out with some alliance shuffling in MPQ please?
If not I might have rights to do it tonight
you should have rights. I think we’re all commanders. I just want to do it while someone is about so noone gets left out of the alliance for too long. Will let you know if someone can’t help before then!
Yes I have made everyone in the alliance is commanders.
I am also in the process of saving all my coins to be able to make it so the alliance can have more members.
Mawt has coins ready to open a new slot, so I jumped out, but now he’s disappeared. Can’t re-join til he’s in and unlocks the slot!! @mawt
Sitting at work, eating beef and bacon pie from last night and watching the live stream from Citizen Con… Today is not turning out too shabby
Paid to eat and watch vids! Can I have a job too plz k thx!
Saturdays it’s purely a monitoring job, so if nothing goes wrong I have nothing to do 😛
Lucky boy! If I wanna get paid, I actually have to fix this customers computer. Sitting here looking at it isn’t gonna be enough I’m afraid! 🙁
http://www.gog.com/game/dreamfall_chapters_season_pass_special_edition
Seems Dreamfall Chapters is only ten days away! (cc. @transientmind and @strange, though from what I understand you both need to finish Dreamfall still! D:)
Grimrock 2 is only 3 days away!!!!!!!!!!! GET HYPE!!!!!!!!!!
Hm. I know what I’m doing this week!
Yeeeeep.
Weekend TAY is as quiet as usual.
*twiddles thumbs*
How’s the magpie @crazyguy1990 ?
Did you ever pass your driving test @phlanispo ?
Magpie is doing fine.
As Liondrive said, I passed my driving test. For the past week, I have been driving everyday to improve my confidence, and its going pretty well.
It’s not easy, being green!
Magpie’s doing fine.
Phlanispo passed his test first go (just got logbook and HPT to go).
If you’re still looking for someone to play Destiny with I might be free later 🙂
Are you 2 or 3 hours ahead of me now?
3!
Is that a, “Yeah I wanna play Detiny wit u!!! :D”, or is that a, “Nah, u stank, I dun wanna b ur frond :P”?
It was a “answer to your last question” ! 😀
I’d play but Destiny is low on my priority list. I should finish Theatrhythm by tonight so maybe around 9pmish my time? Just let me know when you’re free! (Twitter/DM) and I’ll do the same if you’re still keen to play.
9pm your time works well for me 🙂
I was more concerned that that is too late for you East-Siders 😛
It’s the weekend so whatevs, man! 😀
You could of come down and chilled at the beach >:(
could have. not could of!
@coldcamv could have invited me! 😛
(not so) FUN FACT: I can’t swim!
Doggie paddle along the shore like me
My “swimming” mostly consists of sinking to the bottom so I can push myself back up off the floor again.
Wait.. Really? You didn’t have swimming g lessons in school or is that something they don’t do any more?
I did in primary school and then I nearly downed when they were all “dive into the deep end!” and I was like nah man, not for me anymore 😛
But then it meant at high school everyone had to do laps and I could just chill in my own lane with flippers and a kickboard. YEAH! 😀
Are you in serious trouble if you get dumped into water, or can you doggy-paddle/float?
Don’t know, I don’t really go into the water :P.
I’m pretty sure I can do the whole backstroke/float thing but I can’t do that thing where you kind of sway your hands and legs around and stay vertically upwards.
That’s alright, neither can I.
Had swimming lessons as a kid, I just can’t do it. Nobody in my family can. I hate the water, I’d rather go to a nearby bar and have a few beers than go in the water.
I really can’t swim either – I can struggle through the water but it’s not pretty. I realised I liked paddling because I was ON the water instead of IN it (I always wore a PFD when we went out into the harbour in the outrigger canoes, but in a dragonboat we were rarely more than 20m from the shore and far less likely to capsize).
Not today welbot! Its weekend spelling and ill spell hw i lyk on da weknd
Just found out that maggie may have flown away. :\
Well, on the plus side, if it flew away, it must have been healthy enough to do so right?
AFL Live 2
Aww, I lost the Grand Final to the Eagles. The scores were 15,7 – 97 to 16,3 – 99.
Thrilling match, the Eagles scored the winning goal with 15 seconds to go. Shame. Wish there was a way I could have recorded that match. I’ll get them next season. Curious to see how this game handles recruitment and player trading. Probably terribly.
The sun will rise again!
I did very, very well in the drafting and trading section. Traded four very good players for the #1 draft pick, and I think that was the right call. I managed to grab Nathan Jones from the Demons, Ziebell from the Roos, Cornelius from the Lions, (I only got him because I liked the name) and a bunch more people that I can’t remember whether I got them from the draft or trading. Every part of my team got a boost, and I even managed to get a 6% boost in my forward line, which was my weakest part statistically.
The player trading is surprisingly complex. However, it’s awkward as hell to navigate and use. The pitfalls of playing on a console.
EDIT: Grammar
ACorn almost lost his leg recently. He had a major knee injury playing in the Tasmanian state league which had some complications that would have resulted in amputation if not for some fairly quick surgery.
Here’s hoping they don’t update the game to reflect that.
I think this game may be biased towards forwards. My full forward player received both the Coleman medal (kicking 100+ goals) and the Brownlow medal.
Why are you posting on random 3 month old /r/afl threads?
The Reddit algorithms said it was the most relevant for some reason.
Reddit’s search doesn’t really work. Either you Google under the domain: [subreddit].reddit.com or you just go to the subreddit and hope you see something relevant.
Stunning 110km ride to Kinglake today. Beautiful day. Excellent sausage roll at Pheasant Creek. Lots and lots of cyclists out. Sore legs now. 🙂
Between St Andrews and Kinglake on the climb was passed by 7 Nissan Skyline GT-Rs (one of which had a GoPro mounted on the front left wing behind the wheel… amazing what you notice). Mix of R33 and R34, I think, maybe one was an R32. Loads of other traffic too, lovely day for a drive I’m sure.
Less impressed by the muppet in a 4×4 who decided that overtaking a bicycle in the middle of a single lane roundabout was a good idea, instead of hanging back and waiting his turn for all of, oh, 3 seconds… Haven’t looked at the rear camera yet, but this is the first incident in ages I’ve seriously considered reporting to the cops. Yuck. 🙁 Home safe anyway.
Tonight, more Destiny. Tomorrow, Williamstown Cheese And Wine Festival… 🙂
Started up Shadow Of Mordor last night and played for a few hours, it’s pretty cool.
All I’ve done so far is run around killing orcs and a couple of missions.
last completed mission was
Tracking GollumDefinitely gonna play some more tonight.
I fired up Costume Quest 2 and got up to the combat tutorial.
“Press the attack button just at impact to get a strong attack”
*Presses attack button at correct time*
*The word “NICE” appears on the screen*
*Game freezes then closes to desktop*
Well, I guess that’s the end of the game. They don’t make them as long as they used to .
Lol, I haven’t played a helluva lot of it, but I got past that. Didn’t have any crashing issues at all.
Eleven chapters into Alien Isolation. Such a good game. Very System Shock 2-like. And Dead Space 1-like. And up there with KotOR and Arkham Asylum when it comes to great licensed games.
The mere mention of system shock 2 similarities had moved this up my interest list!!
Lame. The creators of Archer will not be using the name ISIS anymore in the show due to fears of being affiliated with the terrorist group of the same name. They apparently are not even going to address the drop of name either in the show, but just quietly do it, since they claim that is the Archer way..
Article about it can be found here.
So lame.
Had to happen and the way the last season ended, it doesn’t seem like it’s a narrative problem anyway.
That’s what I thought. At least with season 5’s plot it leaves it open to being easy to change. But it’s still lame 😛
I recently bought my brother an ISIS t-shirt. Woops.
Brilliant. I wanna get one >_>
Just been informed that the material I’ve drawn up and cut out stretches in one direction and not the other. And that’s not the direction I drew it out in. Good to know 😛
Tested it out beforehand, far as I could tell it stretched both ways. Oops.
Across the grain instead of along?
Yeah. I just did it the way that fit the shapes best.
Grain only really matters if there is a pattern or a one way stretch. If you’re not too bothered by the weave not being the same way each part, then don’t worry about it.
http://sewaholic.net/grainlines-and-when-can-you-ignore-them/
It does stretch along both grains, but I think it is a little less on the one I’ve now got going across the pieces, which is probably the opposite of what I would have been aiming for. Should be alright though. Hopefully 😛
As long as it fits. That’s what matters
Has anyone played Alien: Isolation that isn’t a fan of horror-y stuff and is a scaredy cat?
How bad are the scares? (are there any?). I’m cool with atmospheric stuff but hate cheap scares :P. I’m intrigued by the game though and it looks pretty!
@dc ?
Nothing but scares. Slow burn. Psychological. Jump scares. Has it all.
So probably not for frail little ol’ me :3
Yeah, it’s almost too much for me and I’ve got a higher than average tolerance for this stuff.
D:
Luckily I can’t even remember which Alien movies I’ve seen (or what happens in them) and I’ve got more than enough games at the moment. I’ll probably give it a crack when it drops to like $5 or something though :O (same with Evil Within although I’m like 100% sure that will scare me even more).
Tempted to play Silent Hills too but I wasn’t man enough to even play/watch a playthrough of the demo :D. I don’t do, ghosts/spirits, man. Nosiree…
Maybe watch a playthrough of the first chapter or something. See if it appeals to you. I’m loving it so much that I don’t like the idea that I’m talking someone out of playing it. 😛
Nah man you got me more interested!
This ain’t no Spec Ops (just kiddinggg)
They’re doing an Oculus Rift port so you can induce a panic attack in yourself.
Won’t be playing that. I don’t need that kind of terror. XD
🙁
What’s up, man? 🙁
I been asking for a couple of days now. Perhaps he’s not ready to spill the beans yet. Here for you if you need @crazyguy1990
If I had to guess, I’d say it’s his Gravatar. That would make anyone upset :p
Seriously though, hope everything’s ok @crazyguy1990. We’re here if you wanna talk. DM if you don’t wanna put it up for all and sundry to see. Just don’t bottle it up, it just makes it worse.
Or bottle it up and sell it for profit!
After about 21 hours, I’ve finally finished every song on Final Fantasy Theatrhythm Curtain Call on Ultimate (the hardest difficulty) with an S rank or higher 😀 (that’s a high score for those of you playing at home).
THERE ARE SO. MANY. SONGS. It probably took me 19 hours to just play every song at least once… insanity! The rest of the time was spent playing multi and other modes. Lotta content!
My original plan was to jump into the Medium (Expert) difficulty and then re-play the songs on the hardest (Ultimate) …but that plan went out the window when I remembered how boringly easy everything else was, so I just jumped straight into the hardest difficulty without ever hearing the song before (in or out of the game :P) 😀
*throws out cart*
Well that’s done! So what game’s next on the list? hmmmm…
I counted myself as “finishing” Theatrhythm a few weeks ago since I did enough stuff to trigger an event that make the credits roll. That made it the 52nd game I’ve finished this year :D. I’ve achieved my 52 game goal! (1 a week on average)
Full list so far:
Games finished in 2014:
1. Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag and Aveline DLC
2. Attack of the Friday Monsters
3. Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise
4. BioShock Infinite
5. BIT.TRIP Presents Runner 2
6. Bravely Default
7. Broken Age Act 1
8. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
9. Child of Light
10. Costume Quest
11. Dark Souls
12. Dark Souls II
13. Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
14. Dragon’s Crown
15. FEZ
16. Final Fantasy X HD
17. Final Fantasy X-2 HD
18. Fire Emblem: Awakening
19. Flower
20. Gears of War: Judgment
21. Guacamelee
22. Gunman Clive
23. Hyrule Warriors
24. inFAMOUS: Second Son
25. Kid Icarus: Uprising
26. La-Mulana
27. LEGO MARVEL Super Heroes
28. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
29. Mario Kart 8
30. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
31. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
32. Octodad: Dadliest Catch
33. Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright
34. Psychonauts
35. Pullblox World
36. Resogun
37. Risk of Rain
38. Rogue Legacy
39. Shovel Knight
40. South Park: The Stick of Truth
41. SteamWorld Dig
42. The Last of Us Remastered and Left Behind DLC
43. The Night of the Rabbit
44. The Walking Dead Season 2 (Episodes 2-5)
45. The Witcher
46. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call
47. Tomb Raider
48. Toukiden: Age of Demons
49. Transistor
50. Trials Fusion
51. Year Walk
52. Ys: Memories of Celceta
Woop woop
That’s a pretty mammoth effort sire! Well done!
Awesome effort. I really should get better at keeping track.
It’s all thanks to @dc !
Top this^.
That sure was…… something.
It was everything.
I will rise to the challenge.
Beat that!
I again rise to the challenge of weird Nintendo commercials with… this!
I’ll just leave this here. This was an official product at one point.
XCOM Heartbreak
Well, that’s it. I think this playthrough is officially over.
In one fell swoop, my four colonels (DC, Freeze, Strangest Itches, Jane Not Quite XO) and my two PsiGuys (SerrelsPegg and Trjn Rabbit) were all killed. It all started when DC was mind-controlled and blasted Strangest Itches into oblivion, and then half the squad panicked. Didn’t go so good after that…
I don’t think this playthrough can recover from that loss. Ironman Mode is pretty tough love.
I feel you.
I needed to get to level 70 on a Diablo 3 Hardcore character for one of the last achievements. I got to 65 before I got ambushed by a instakill elite. 22 hours gone. This just happened.
Aw man, that stinks.
Anyone remember the Australian game show Temptation? That show was the shit.
It’s no Burgo’s Catch Phrase.
Dangit, think I need to redo everything with the correct stretch direction. Also to use the stretch stich, straight seems too prone to popping. But it’s to much sloooooweeeeeer…
I am not going to get this finished.
Edit: Dupe removal.
Think it might be time to put down the keyboard (what was it doing up??) and go to bed.
Use the stretch stitch. It allows the stitches to stretch along with the garment. Straight stitch is too restrictive and will cause puckering.
Decided to finish what I’d started and check out how it all came together. And, well…
Dang guuuurl.
I still have no idea what you’re making!
But… dat ass.
imagine how the girls will be at pax
http://english.cri.cn/mmsource/images/2013/06/21/fb94ac4f3653402daac386e6df799dd3.jpg
You’re going to be a girl at PAX, you tell me! 😀
I wasn’t including myself =P
Someone who can resist the charms of Mr Taco!?
MADNESS!
http://www.njfaint.com/Images/faintIllustration.jpg
Nicki Minaj called she wants you in her next music video
This is it @greenius, you’ve made the big time now!
Ughhhh 😛
Stupid sexy Flanders.
Happy Bathurst Day everyone. Sit back, enjoy the race and drink heaps.
Go Holden! Not really since Tander & Luft had their car destroyed yesterday 🙁 But then again there is always Murphy & Courtney.
As long as Lowndes or Whincup aren’t on the podium I don’t really mind.
Yeah fuck Lowndes. He’s had his days. But also, fuck holden! I’d love to see a volvo win it! :0
Eh, that’s a bit rude. He’s a good drivers and a really nice bloke, but I really am over hearing about him & Whincup. Plus Whincup just annoys the shit out of me.
Nah, Holden have some awesome drivers, and well at least they have more than 2 teams unlike Ford who also announced they’re leaving the V8’s so GG there.
yeah that’s what I meant. I know he’s a nice guy, but it’s gotten a bit like the whole Vettel thing in F1. Hear about him far too much. Move over and let someone else have a win 😉
I miss the good old days where all manufacturers could enter the race! Was much more exciting in those days!
That wasn’t the V8 supercars though.. Saying that it seemed pretty unfair you could enter a Toyota Corolla and be up against AWD R32 Skyline 😛
I like how the V8’s bring to the table how everyone has a set of standards they have to meet to give it an equal playing field which then relies on the drivers abilities.
They had different categories though. Although they all drove the same race, they weren’t all directly competing with each other. The smaller/slower cars had their own category within the race. That’s where the excitement came from! Traffic and stuff as the faster guys go round the slow ones and such. It was a very different beast back then. Not saying the v8’s are shitty or boring, but I do miss those days. #oldmanwelbot #gitoffmelawn
Magpie has been found safe and sound! 🙂
coool! where was it? How far had it gone?
Just out in the backyard overnight.
No inmates can escape the gaol of Crazyguy!
Ubisoft claims that 30fps is better than 60fps.
…
Really?
I don’t know if you were aware, but people are stupid.
They probably still firmly believe that no human eye can even see 60fps. Which is a total croc of shit. I can easily tell the difference between 30,60,120 and 200.
Maybe if the claim was that the extra resources can be rediverted to other things like graphical integrity or gameplay complexity…
Yeah, if they straight out said 30fps > 60fps then that is stupid but if they said something like “We prefer to make our games at 30fps so we can focus on other things like textures / gameplay” I could probably understand that.
I think in this context, they were talking about how they wanted to keep resources free to emulate more complex AI crowd behaviours and such. Otherwise, yes, they’d obviously be high on something illegal and awesome.
Finished breeding my Pax Pokemon team, now just have to get the movesets I want and train it up. Decided to test it out a bit on Pokemon Online, and had 5 straight wins, against some pretty serious threats too.
I love this team 😀
Has anyone bought the Hyrule Warriors or Mario Kart 8 DLC? I’ve got my eye on em!
I’m surprised at how reasonably priced the DLC is, and how much content seems to be included in them both. KUDOS TO YOU NINTY.
What’s not cool is that the Fantasy Life DLC seems to be on-cart as well and was cut content from the Jap release. Boo 🙁
I keep forgetting to pick them up but am interested in grabbing them both. Seems weird that a company can release extremely well priced DLC. Which leads me to think that Ninty don’t know what they are doing, you are supposed to charge $20 for a hat!
Yeah I was gonna take a break from Hyrule Warriors and use its DLC as an excuse to get back into the game later, but apparently it’s out reallll soon! (Thursday :O)
I’ve barely touched Adventure Mode! D:
I’ve got the MK8 DLC. Awesome price for 16 tracks!
Yeah man! I thought the same too but aren’t the releases in like November and May? So long between them D:
I’ll probably pick it up when the first one hits since I’m guessing TAYKart will start up again! 😀 (I’m scared of you and @shane now D:)
I haven’t played in ages, man. Ages. Also the credit I got for redeeming that game with Mario Kart only made the DLC $7 for me! WOOOOO!
But that’s Pullblox World money!
I was saving it for Diddy Kong, but this is the next best thing! 😛
NegativeZero’s Anime Impressions, Part 3 of ?
Watching the new season so you don’t have to.
Probably second to last update. Most stuff has aired and been viewed. A few stragglers still. I ended up being surprised with a couple of these, didn’t expect them to be good.
Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade WorksRight off the bat, I want to admit that this was easily my most anticipated new show, as I’m a big fan of type-moon’s works. ufotable are also easily one of the best animation studios in Japan right now (up there with IG, PA Works and Kyoto Animation IMO) and more importantly, when they do type-moon stuff they absolutely nail it. A quick primer: Fate/Stay Night is a really popular visual novel with three major story arcs. Years ago, the first arc was animated into a TV anime, but the studio involved did an extremely poor job capturing the feel of type-moon’s works. Subsequently they did the second plot arc, Unlimited Blade Works, as a film. It was okay but the series has always deserved better. Ufotable got into type-moon stuff when they adapted their earlier Light Novel, Kara no Kyoukai / Garden of Sinners as a 7-part movie series and hit it out of the park, then they adapted the prequel light novels, Fate/Zero, and also did a great job with that. Now they’re re-adapting the game’s Unlimited Blade Works arc again and it looks like they’ve done a great job as expected. The first episode, Episode 00, is actually adapting the prologue of the game which is common to all three story arcs. It follows Rin, a mage and the only surviving heir of a prestigious family of mages, as she prepares for the upcoming Grail War. This war happens periodically, where seven mages will fight each other in order to obtain the Grail and have their wish granted. The mages fight each other with a summoned servant, each a great hero from one of seven classes: Saber, Rider, Lancer, Assassin, Caster, Berserker and Archer. All of the servants but Saber and Archer had been summoned, and Rin was intent on obtaining Saber, considered the strongest of the seven. However she makes a mistake and instead summons Archer. Subsequently Rin and Archer get into a fight with Lancer while investigating dangerous magical seals that have been established around her school, but their fight is witnessed by another student, who Lancer mortally wounds and leaves to die. Rin uses up one of her strongest magical talismans to save him, because he’s someone she knows and likes – Shiro, who is actually the protagonist for the games. This is absolutely a must-watch IMO, and my biggest worry, that the material wouldn’t gel as well with Fate/Zero (IMO the third route of the game, Heaven’s Feel, is more consistent with Fate/Zero’s dark tone) seems not to be much of a problem.
Garo: Honoo no Kokuin
Garo was a live-action Tokusatsu show a while back. Think Kamen Rider or Power Rangers, except it was a lot darker in style. The setup is that there are Horrors in the world who kill humans and then take their forms, and only a select group of people are able to seal them. This takes things back to a medieval setting, where the king of a small country is conducting an inquisition, unknowingly hunting down and killing ‘witches’ that are actually those with the power to seal away the Horrors. The series opens as a convicted ‘witch’ is burned at the stake. As she’s set on fire, she gives birth to a son, and that son is rescued from the flames by a knight in CG armor. That knight escapes on a horse straight out of a Final Fantasy game, and many years pass. The knight has raised the child himself, grooming him to become Garo, the Golden Knight. Not sure where the plot will go but it seems like the King’s vizier is actually a demon or something and is pulling the strings so I’m assuming he’ll be the end boss. It’s a fairly standard mid-range action anime and it’s not terrible. In a different season I might follow it, but there’s enough this season to watch without it. Additionally the action sequences are all CG and during those bits everything is all shiny and rendered and it looks quite jarring. I guess that jarring jumps between normal and fights is a tokusatsu thing. Also it has the requisite JAM Project opening, but it’s nowhere near as good as their amazing opening from the original Garo
Magic Kaito 1412
This is a spinoff from Detective Conan / Cased Closed, which I’m not a fan of at all. Never watched or read any of it. As such, I have no idea what the characters or conventions of the show are like, and I suspect that will make a huge difference to how this is received. I didn’t even finish the first episode. The main character is a complete douche, the animation’s low-budget kids stuff and the character art is ugly. Nothing at all here grabbed me. It’s probably actually not that bad if you’re into the franchise, and it’s an enormous one so it’s fair to say I’ve pissed off a lot of people by not liking it. But this one’s definitely dropped for me.
Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji
I was already kind of prepared by reading some other impressions, but holy shit. Everything that’s wrong with shoujo manga in one show. The main character is a weak-willed idiot. She’s just started high school and finds that almost everyone in her class has already grouped up, so in order to fit in she starts a complete web of lies, pretending to have an amazing boyfriend and so on so that she can fit in with a pair of complete skanks. Because yeah, they seem like great people to hang out with. They start to get suspicious when she’s constantly cagey about showing them a photo of the guy, so she just takes a photo of a random hot guy she sees and tells them he’s her boyfriend. Trouble is, he actually goes to her school. And when she explains the situation, he agrees to pretend to be her boyfriend, but it turns out he’s a massive asshole and is going to treat her like a pet. But that’s okay because he’s totally hot and he must have a deep and compassionate side to him if she looks hard enough. :\ Dropping.
Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu
This has to be one of the most daft and only-in-anime things I’ve seen in a while. The main character is a guy that is obsessed with twintails. Doesn’t matter what type, as long as a girl’s tied her hair up in two places, he’s obsessed with it. While he and his childhood friend (who has twintails…) are hanging out, they’re approached by a slightly shady girl, who informs him that the world’s twintails are in danger. An evil alien race of lizard people or something are invading, and they’re draining energy from humans. Think something along the lines of the classic magical girl anime plot, like Sailor Moon. Except they’re draining the energy of girls twintails, turning them into girls who wear their hair loose! THE HORROR. Luckily our hero is around to save the day. Using a magical bracelet he undergoes a magical girl transformation, becoming a walking stereotype: a short girl with long red twintails, Tail Red. Yes, this show is utterly stupid. It has surprisingly high production values and actually fairly nice art as well. From the opening and ending it would seem that there will eventually be three twintailed magical warriors, but I won’t be sticking around to see it because this thing’s… how was this even greenlit?
Orenchi no Furo Jijou
I’ve mentioned before that I don’t like 4 minute shows. This is one. In a nutshell, it’s a gag show about a dude with an effeminate merman living in his bathtub. It’s also not very funny or enjoyable and there’s so little here I can’t really say anything beyond the one-line summary. Not my thing for sure, won’t be watching any more.
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso
I went into this expecting a crap shoujo, but I got way, way more than I expected. The protagonist, Kousei, was a childhood prodigy. Trained extremely strictly by his mother, he was an amazing pianist. When his mother died when he was 11, he found himself unable to play and quit. To him, the world is colorless, monochrome like the keys on a piano. His childhood friend Tsubaki invites him out one day to meet up with a classmate of hers, Kaori, who has a crush on his other friend, Watari, who is the captain of the soccer team. Kaori wants to be introduced to Watari, and Kousei was invited simply so that Tsubaki wouldn’t be the awkward third wheel. However when Kousei arrives to their meeting place in the park early, he has a fateful encounter: a girl is standing on the top of the kids playground playing on melodica for a group of kids that are gathered there. It turns out that this is Kaori, and she’s an also a musical prodigy, an extremely talented violinist. He basically falls for her on the spot. This show has excellent art and despite what is a pretty simple and obvious concept (spoiler: she’s going to teach him how to feel again) I think this is really going to develop nicely. The clincher for me was that the whole introductory scene for her was a Laputa reference. She plays Pazu’s Fanfare, and one of the kids watching complains that the pigeons didn’t start flocking, while another suggests you need a trumpet instead to make that work. 😛 Definitely a regular for me.
Shirobako
Another one that I went in completely blind on. All I know is that it’s PA Works and I generally really like their productions. They have a realism and grounding to them and feel more like an animated form of a live-action drama than anime. This one is doubly interesting, because it’s a behind-the-scenes look at anime production. The five girls comprising the school’s animation club, having produced an animated short for their school cultural festival, swear that together they will form an animation company. Two years later, the protagonist, Aoi, is production assistant for a small animation company, and the episode opens as their studio’s first TV work in seven years airs its debut episode. However there’s no time to rest – one of the other assistants has screwed up, and the key animation for a major scene in the third episode, which is due to be dubbed the following day, hasn’t been completed. They have to rush around and find a key animator at short notice, and end up asking the animator who was supposed to be animation director for episode four. It’s very much an inside baseball style look at what’s really going on inside an animation studio, the first time something like this has been done since Animation Runner Kuromi back in the 90s, and it looks to be done much more accurately and at a much larger scale. PA Works are themselves a small studio and it’s an original production rather than an adaption, so I think a lot of this will be anecdotes that actually happened during production on their work. Really, really liked this. Another regular watch for me.
Terraformars
Humans started to terraform mars by seeding the planet with blue-green algae and cockroaches. Subsequently, a strange virus has begun affecting the population on earth, and the origin of the virus has been traced to Mars. The protagonist, meanwhile, is a karate champion who finds himself fighting in a cage match for prize money to pay for an organ transplant for his childhood friend, who is terminally ill with that same virus. However the whole thing is a scam, and his final bout is against a massive bear. On the verge of death, he enrages – it turns out that he’s a mutant and can summon forth superhuman strength, which he uses to kill the bear with his bare hands. The virus I mentioned can’t be cultivated on Earth to experiment and find a cure for it, it will only reproduce on Mars, so the protagonist along with several others undergoes surgery to allow him to survive in that hostile environment, and a group of a hundred men and women is sent to the planet to perform the research. However there’s another problem: the cockroaches Earth sent there have mutated into enormous, man-like monsters which have killed every team sent to the planet previously. It looks like a fairly reasonable action SF show but also fairly gory, and the big issue is that the broadcasts so far appear to have had said gore pretty heavily censored. Big areas of black fog and stuff. So while this might be a reasonable watch, I think it’d be a better idea to hold off and wait for BD releases or an uncensored release.
Hey, I can talk about fate. I like talking about fate.
Ok, so, uh, Fate/Stay Night and Fate/Zero are two completely different things. What they both share are excellent details to how everything works- lots of exploration of fate’s brand of magic in both series, lots of detail to the heroes and their abilities, cool world-building things like that. But the main characters themselves- well, hmm. Fate/Stay Night’s characters are kinda there mostly to compliment or foil Shirou’s character, and, well, his character can be grating, mainly because the philosophy behind every character is what drives them, 100%. So really, all the characters can be grating, because at times they’ll seem one-note, even when they get a lot of character development.
Which leads me to my second point; the only way the characters in Fate/Stay Night go completely through character development is by going through all three routes yourself in the game, which impacts the anime considerably- you’re getting only one third, technically. And while it’s not all black and white; development is shared between all three routes- You still miss out on the Fate route, which details Saber’s and Shirou’s relationship and how both grow from it, and Heaven’s Feel, which Neg has detailed as the most fluid continuation of Fate/Zero. I like UBW the best because while there is focus on Rin, it properly fleshes out Shirou the most at the end, which is sorely needed because as I said, he can become quite.. grating.
So I’ve detailed that the characters can be a bit iffy and that ultimately everything’s a bit gimped because of the format of the source material- but that being said, everything else about Fate/Stay Night is excellent, and that will translate into the anime perfectly. We’ve seen the one fight scene and it is amazing, the mood and tone set for the most part is excellent, plot twists, the whole shebang. It’s only the first point people should worry about; my second point is in the end, negligible. There’s going to be a Heaven’s Feel movie, after all. Also fate route is shit and I don’t care for it.
Also- Rin saves Shirou because, spoilers,
she knows Sakura likes Shirou, and she’s got mad guilt towards her. Rin says it herself- “how am I going to face her tomorrow?”I’m very familiar with the whole franchise, believe me. I know all of these things quite well. Fate/Zero is better because it was written to expand on an already interesting concept, and written by someone who’s ultimately a better author.
I’m a bit bummed they didn’t do Heaven’s Feel as the TV series though, it’s the most interesting route. Actually what really bums me out is that when they were first talking about the project, they were saying they were going to do a newly written story by Nasu that would bring together plot points of all three routes. Obviously that fell through 🙁
EDIT: Also bear in mind that Shiro wasn’t the original protagonist. For a long time it was going to be a girl instead. Many elements of her character ended up in Rin.
Post was mostly made in mind for people new to fate.
Yeah, I know the original protag was a chick way back then. You watch Fate/Prototype? I never got around to it.
I think Fate/Stay Night was always meant to be on the lighter side of things, lot more surreal and fantasy-like. A lot of interaction with Saber, Reality Marbles, Illya & Berserker. I guess that’s why parts of Fate & UBW take precedent over Heaven’s Feel for me. As you said though, definitely the most interesting.
Well, specifically as a follow-up to Zero, I think Heaven’s Feel would have been better. It’s pretty dark and brutal compared to the other two though.
Fate/Prototype is worth a look. It’s only like 5-10 mins but what it teases would have easily made a better story than what they ended up with.
Hmm. Heaven’s Feel may be the darkest out of all three routes, but it suffers from being a bit… forced. To me, the more sexual parts of Fate are out of place, as Blaghs mentions just being turned off after the sex scene; and really, what point is there to include them in Heaven’s Feel except specifically to make Sakura the punching bag? There’s plenty of pathos to focus on- Sakura’s jealously towards Rin, the thorough breakdown of a hero’s ideals, everything involving Kirei- and the latter two parts is basically what made Fate/Zero great. Man, Fate/Zero practically wrote itself. Gilgamesh, Kirei, Emiya, Saber. BOOM, ALL YOU NEED.*sigh* really truly there needs to be a ‘true’ route. Wouldn’t that be something.
I’d like to make an aside about Fate/Stay Night.
I stopped playing it right after
they said that the only way to give Saber back magic power was for whatsisface to bone her. I just couldn’t stop laughing at the absurdity.In the original TV anime there’s this really awkward scene involving a CG dragon instead. They actually made it significantly more silly.
I’m kinda torn between reading these and not, due to wanting to (in some cases) see things fresh. I’m probably going to check them AFTER I’ve seen them, and compare notes. Necroing old threads if need be.
I watched Ushinawareta mirai o motomete the other day, and I was significantly more impress with it than you were. Mostly due to the writing/direction and a little bit of the art style.
It seems like the same art as every other anime, but there is a LOT more variety in the facial structures of all the characters except the main-character girls. Noticed that right away and really liked it. Because without that tiny facet of the art, every other anime character in any other series is practically impossible to distinguish from one another outside of their hair colour/style, height, and bust size.
Also? LOVE the characters talking over each other or holding conversations on the side which overlap with what’s the focus. Things move a lot faster this way. And the characters were a lot more relateable, genre-savvy and just… believable. And oh my god, a character who actually sacks up and confesses to a crush? Such admire! I’m almost disappointed at the twist at the end. (And yes, called it, on the accident. Because of fucking COURSE.)
A lot of the reason I was a bit disappointed is that the art in the game looks like this. Obviously impossible to animate without an astronomical budget.
I didn’t mind it but it kept throwing me off by how it looked. Still not sure if it was partially 3DCG or not.
When you get around to watching Log Horizon, let me know if you are left with the impression that the animation is somehow worse than the first season.
Oh, I saw it last night. Just haven’t had a chance to write anything up yet.
It looked exactly the same to me. It looked like some of the characters had gotten a costume upgrade, perhaps those unfamiliar elements were putting you off?
I guess I’ll have to watch side-by-side or something. I could’ve sworn that the lines putting faces together were sloppier in many scenes, with worse shading/depth and inconsistent shapes for a just generally sloppier approach this season. Maybe it already had that in the last season and I had nostalgia goggles on? Guess I’ll take a peek back and see.
The first season wasn’t that great in animation quality either. S2 feels like it’s exactly the same quality to me. Hell, they even used the same OP (though a different part of it and with new animation) and had the same chick do the new ED as well.
Oh man! This is so funny for some weird reason 😀
Groot?
Oh wow, that’s totally Groot! 😛
I really need to watch Her too… 😮
It makes me uncomfortable at how much and how long they’re laughing at their own discovery.
Literally crying right now.
Forgot how happy the Vib Ribbon soundtrack is. That one in particular always sounded like a lost track from Jet Set Radio.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-36.723831,144.250023,3a,75y,201.24h,86.86t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1swwW-YVfugPQ3G4iq9caM4w!2e0
Hey who put these Mario hills here?
So, is anyone watching Star Wars Rebels?
I’ve just remembered it, and they’ve even had a pilot movie just like The Clone Wars. Thing is, I can’t find where to watch it – iTunes doesn’t have it, nor does Netflix, the “video section” on the wesbite is just trailers, and the only other legal option is Foxtel.
The movie’s on iTunes, and it has a little Channel 7 logo with a message saying you can watch it Saturdays on 7, but I can’t see anything – the only remotely Disney thing is Saturday Disney, and a quick look at wikipedia tells me that that has regular programming, and Rebels isn’t one of the episodes.
Is my only option online streaming from less-than-reliable websites?
it was on yesterday on 7mate I think at about 1pm. I watched it, and it was great!
OK. Good to know it’s good!
Now I’ll just catch up…
Idle thoughts
Things I want to do when I finish uni:
– Move to Melbourne / Sydney
– Start a career I enjoy
– Visit / meet as many TAYbies as possible
– Learn French
– Visit France
– Snigger at “Gai Paree” while in Paris
– Visit New York
– Visit Canada
– Buy a house / apartment
– Move to California
Oh, and go to the snow with friends! 🙂
– Snigger at Shafto Lane
– Take more pictures of Mexican restaurants
– Hang out car window trying to get parking ticket
– Get kicked out of Museum
– Bitch about @powalen (urgh)
You mean Poe-Allan* (Edgar)
*Poh-wah-len
Interesting. Like, LA, or San Fran? I think one hears the question “Where else would you like to live” a fair amount in one lifetime, and thus far I’ve never heard anyone express their desire to live, oddly enough, anywhere in the entire state of California. Colorado, Washington, New York are the ones I hear the most, and I’ve discussed this in length with a decent amount of people.
I’ve always wanted to live in California 🙂
I’m thinking L.A., because there is lots to see and do, I like the weather there, and it’d be an adventure 🙂
This isn’t until later in life though, so I might not want to move there down the line 😛
The only other current contender is Seattle, because Seattle looks beautiful from what I’ve seen, and I only ever hear good things about it 🙂
Other than that, places that take my interest are:
– Vancouver
– Montreal
– London
– Paris, and
– Stockholm
Though they may be more just travel destinations at some point 🙂
We should make this happen sometime.
I agree. I need a chance to show off. 😀
This
I’ve never seen snow before…
Going with friends would make it extra special 🙂
I don’t know how people like you can live.
Nothing beats the adrenaline rush of paying exorbitant amounts of money to slowly go up hills, so that you can strap yourself to some pieces of wood and point yourself downhill.
Don’t be such an arse.
No other option, that would require me to stop being me.
Waddaya mean “you people”?
Bathurst was fantastic. 😀
At one point I got enough reception to see that Moffats car had a fuck load of duct tape on it. Also wouldn’t have been a true Bathurst without Skippy causing at least one safety car.
But good work to Morris & Mostert, deserving. I laughed heartily when I heard Whincup ran out of fuel on the final corner
Last pic of cosplay progress – a pretty painted skirt to go with one of my favourite tshirts.
http://instagram.com/p/uC6dY_ASbr/
What is that? Some kind of Friendship Box?
Don’t you recognise an Aperture Science Enrichment Centre Weighted Companion Cube when you see one?
See you guys in new TAY.