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FIRST!
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I think I need to go find a shower or something.
Good. You stink! :p
It was a long walk ;_;
long walk from where? Why are you so far from a shower?
From the car to the station to work!
Ok it wasn’t all that long. Although the first part was uphill.
My mornings; shower, get dressed for work, walk to station, catch train across Brisbane, walk ten mins to work, sweating profusely, vould really do with another shower once I get to my desk
I don’t like morning showers. Too much effort.
When I walk to work I shower here. That involves effort though. A gym’s moving in downstairs in a couple of.weeks though so I can use that as the excuse to shower here. It’ll involve more effort than walking though
HELLO FRIENDS. LETS ALL BE POSITIVE ON THE INTERNET PLEASE. NOT JUST FOR MY SAKE, BUT FOR EVERYONES SAKE. GOOD TIMES AHEAD.
HELLO SHIGGY! YOU ARE A SHINING EXAMPLE OF WHAT MAKES THIS PLACE SO GOOD! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK SON! THAT IS THE POWER OF YOUTH! *gai sensei smile and thumbs up*
NOTICE ME WELBOT SENPAI
Sure thing.
TED DANSON. CHEERS. GOD DAMN.
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VIDEO GAMES KILLED A MAN.
ACTUALLY, IT’S QUITE DEPRESSING AND NOT AT ALL FUNNY, SO I’M NOT EVEN GOING TO LINK THE ARTICLE.
REMEMBER: WINNERS DON’T PLAY VIDEOGAMES.
Mate I am a fucking huge winner and I play video games. Plus I am legit as heck.
Too legit for his own good
Too legit to quit
Tell us about #gamergate!
Gamer Gate is a thing where insecure people on the internet are complaining about the fact a woman did a thing! ITS LEGIT SHIT
Hahaha this is my favourite explanation yet!!!
Dr. Who last night! SOOOOOOO GOOD!
but …
What the hell was with that chick at the end? “I have chosen well” I think she said? Is Clara gonna turn out to be evil and break my heart?! ARRRRRRR!!! NOT MY CLARA!!!!We watched half of it but.hangovers meant not enough attention being applied. It.was good though what I saw, definitely one of the better eps this season. It was the same guy who wrote the last ep as well wasn’t it as that was decent.too
apologies for fullstops instead of spaces, the spacebar on the Z3 is stupidly small and I’m hitting . more often.than notRemember in Mummy on the Orient Express when…
Clara was about to stop traveling with the Doctor and suddenly changed her mind? Seemed way out of character for her. Maybe she’s being brainwashed?I’m so glad she’s kind of over the whole leaving thing now.. as far as we can tell anyway. But that woman at the end of this weeks.. where she said “I think I have chosen well” or something to that effect.. scary stuff!! What’s happening with my lovely Clara!?!?! ARRRRHello. Hello. Follow me. Okay. *farts*
Oh man, walked right through it
*Slig gunfire*
Also.. Happy Birthday @shane!
Oh, it’s your Birthday @shane? Well, I hope you have the most awesome day my friend.
Eat all teh cake \o/
Who’s birthday? @shane ? Happy notification day
@shane Happy Birthday man!!!
Oh wow, I have lost track of time! CRAAZY! Happy birthday, Shane! One of the best guys I know!
Happy birthday @shane! Hope you have a great day and celebrate with your family!
Happy birthday @shane may this new version of you be filled with cake!
Happy birthday @shane. Remember if you are going to get him a gift make it something you like as it will be given away in 6 months time
I was just going to give him a copy of The Lesser Evil
happy shane day @shane!
The Earth has revolved around the sun at least one more time since your birth, @shane! Celebrate the day!
Howdy Buckaroos! How were your weekends?
Pretty crap for me, worked 12 hour days, but I was able to squeeze in a little bit of time with DriveClub and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel.
Day off today, should be cleaning and organizing the spare room, but to hell with it, vidya gamez \o/
Weekend? 5 oversized tequila shots and 8 ciders later, my mate’s birthday turned into a blur for me leading to the first Sunday Maccas run this year and watching Buffy and The Simpsons from the comfort of my bed
What’s TAY doing up at 7.40am??? Oh right, daylight savings that we don’t get that I forget about every single morning.
Good morning to all
good MORNING. To You!
NO CAPS SHIGGY, WHAT THE HELL!!!!!
Bollocks me he got old…*checks Google* final episode of Cheers was over 20 years ago? That can’t be right
OMG they opened singer auditions for a new Macross TV series. Excitement building.
Applying?
I don’t think I have the appropriate equipment.
Like… Microphones?
No, like a vag.
Also a lack of anything remotely approaching singing talent.
To quote the greatest philosopher of our time, YOU GOTTA BELIEVE!
EDIT: Grammar
Macros? Singing about the finer side of Microsoft Excel? Oh, Macros. Carry on
\o/
@beavwa @tech_knight @pixel_the_ferret_viking @coldcamv
As it’s getting closer to Christmas, the lost dogs home is going to be inundated with dogs and cats. I suggest that we collect a bunch of old towels and blankets that we don’t need anymore, plus any dogs toys that our dogs don’t play with, or any dog food or treats and donate them to the lost dogs home. It’s the main shelter, but they’ll share it with regional shelters as well.
People from other states, I suggest if you have the time or goods, that you do the same.
For QLD I’d recommend donating to the Animal Welfare League. They run all the pounds in Brisbane now as well as Ipswich and the Gold Coast and seem to be doing a good job of it
Not a bad idea! I’ll see what I can do
You’d also be surprised at how much the dog shelters appreciate things like office supplies, or things for their tearooms. Any money not being spent on these things can then go towards the animals.
Im pretty sure I’ve got some old stuff laying around ill see what I have
Happy Birthday @shane you decrepit old geezer.
Anyone else been sick lately, I’ve been down with a sore throat/flu like thing for over a week.
Thought it was getting better yesterday, but woke up worse again today, it just won’t die!
Did make it to the movies yesterday to see ‘Gone Girl’. Holy crap that was a tense film.
Poor Doogie Howser!I get it this time of year every year, it’s a hayfever thing. Do you get that?
I haven’t seen Gone Girl yet, but I saw Argo at last, and that’s a holy-crap-tense film too. Ben Affleck has directing chops for sure.
I think GG is directed by the guy who did Benjamin Button.
At one point everyone in the cinema had their hands up in front of their faces, cringing and barely able to look.
David Fincher! Se7en! Zodiac! Panic Room! The Social Network!
Alien 3!
Pretty sure he did Seven & Fight Club as well, so he’s got a decent resume. Gone Girl was great, the only thing i want to say about it is the less you know about it going in the better.
Absolutely. The only thing I knew was the title, so the whole thing was like “Holy SHIT!”
Yeah seeing his bloody doodle was weird.I had that for like a week. Yesterday was probably the first day I felt ok but even today my throat still feels pretty goopy.
I wonder how focused I should be on pins for PAX.
Don’t let it take over your PAX experience. I ended up trading for the rare staff pins but now I don’t even know where the pin is. So don’t waste your time.
I remember last year that I waited until Saturday afternoon when the crowds had died a bit to go look at pins and other merch. They were long sold out.
I figured it wasn’t something I’d compete with others and line up for hours just for the privilege of buying. Too much effort.
Think we grabbed our stuff late day 1 and they still had a good range of everything.
There’s only one way to get these exclusive pins!
Well… two, if you count mugging.
So you get actual physical pins for defeating the gym leaders?
Is it bad I am now considering getting a 3ds just so I can get these. Although a balaclava will probably be cheaper
Yup!
If anyone wants to join up for some Borderlands: TPS co-op just let me know, if I’m free (like I am right now) I’ll jump on.
PEE-CEE or PEE-ESS-3?
Both. Also XBox Three Seexteee.
I might be up for some PC later once I get home from work! I’ll let you know
Cool.
Speak english dammit!
What level?
Only level 5 on 360, level 2 or 3 on PC, and haven’t even started on PS3.
How much do you skip?
@piat you’re never going to guess what @jocon and myself got from our alt VoG run this week! Go on! You’ll never guess! =P
@dire_wolf and @os42 thanks for making it guys! =]
If you got Hawkmoon you’re dead to me
You know how we were discussing it’s impossible for 2 exotics to drop in one run? Yeah… Not the case =P
Yes 2 Hawkmoons =P How’s that heart of praxic fire looking now?!!Well that’s a load of crap. Pretty good still, it’s a nice vault decoration 😛
RSI?
Didn’t that get changed to OOS a few years ago?
Either way, I mostly see it as Roberts Space Industries from Star Citizen now.
It’s also the 2nd item returned if you Google it. 😉
Aw don’t gloat man, I kinda feel genuinely bad about it.
I’m sorry Jo… but all those times he got Heart of Praxic Fire… This is the universe balancing it out =P
The shards were terribly useful, anyway hawkmoon is looking less appealing with having all these secondary and heavy exotics to switch between 🙂
Yeah I’m torn. Hawkmoon is great but I love Ice Breaker and I want Plan C and Thunderlord…
Don’t worry it’ll look more appealing when you see me one-shotting everything with my 3 rounds of bonus damage and ridiculous range! =P
P.S. are you getting an alt?
The bonus dmg is pretty negligible tbh, it’s the same bonus dmg as the last shot of Thorn, which was only like 5% or something, pretty disappointing on all weapons tbh.
Unsure if I’ll finish levelling my warlock, doing the story all over again is so damn boring.
You should probably get checked by a doctor if you got what I am guessing.
Little Jealous myself, still looking for a decent hand cannon myself to use for Atheon, Auto Rifles work just fine… however Hand Cannon is just more reliable for supplicants.
Devil You Know is really good, especially for crowds of ads.
Optimally the best choice would be hard mode Hand Cannon, high clip, explosive rounds, precision reload, precision explosions.
The gun itself makes killing supplicants fun.
We need to do Hard Mode 🙁
Have not seen that, will have to look it up.
Explosive rounds suck tho, just makes you do less damage, especially precision.
You can swap it out for Field Scout I guess
Fatebringer Jo, you know the other hand cannon we all want =P it causes explosions on precision damage kills and also comes with explosive rounds.
Fucking roundabouts man, it’s a risk every time I use one.
YOU DO NOT INDICATE RIGHT IN THE LEFT LANE TO SIGNIFY GOING STRAIGHT THROUGH
People indicate at your roundabout? Wow, you’re lucky. I’ve nearly been killed multiple times on the one at the end of my street.
To be fair it’s a pretty messed up roundabout with several hundred exits.
Yup, the worst thing is there are multiple of those roundabouts in my suburb, The local council just now is realising “Oh shit, these things are causing deaths” and are slowly getting rid of them.
Some people are real dickheads in roundabouts, especially ones with two lanes because they think it’s an opportunity to overtake you because you had the audacity to do 60 in a 60 zone and they’ve REALLY got to get to the pub.
Steveo’s shouting but, and a girl from high school I totally had a crush on but She didn’t know my name was Tagged there on daveo’s ex missus’ facebook 4 hours ago she could still be there
I think you’re supposed to, in NSW at least (with the idea being that you indicate left to turn off from the roundabout).
It’s retarded and pretty much nobody actually does it. At least not on the more common tiny little things that we call roundabouts which are apparently such a huge novelty to interstaters.
You are meant to indicate on and off roundabouts, the problem is people dont understand how properly when going straight .
It’s a silly rule that mostly confuses other drivers imo
Agreed, when i did my driving test, It was the only thing i did wrong. I asked the policeman and he said he was glad nobody teaches it because it serves to confuse people most of the time and that if you are unsure just dont do it because its more likely to confuse people and cause accidents.
I don’t understand the point of indicating on though. I mean if *everyone* is indicating right when they go onto a roundabout, then there’s absolutely no point to it. It doesn’t mean anything other than “I am using the roundabout” which you already know because you can see that they’re doing just that.
I just go by standard intersection indications. Left for left, right for right, nothing for straight.
The straight man gets nothing again, AS USUAL 😛
This is true – or was still true 4-5 years ago.
Interestingly, failure to indicate on or off a roundabout correctly is/was classed as a “2nd tier” infringement of Disobeying Traffic Signals, which can attract up to $175 fine and 2 demerit points. People complain that speed traps/cameras are just for money making, but if NSW Police were really interested in revenue raising, they’d just sit a car at every roundabout and rake in the big bucks.
Trivia Question Time!
When approaching a round-about, who should you give way to?
Nobody. Rush to get on there first so they have to give way to you!
Geez, that’s the response I get to my 5,000th comment on Kotaku? 😛
The person on the round about everyone else doesn’t have right of way, iirc.
Correct.
But who does everybody usually give way to?
Santa, I don’t fucking know. Everyone stops no matter what.
The right?
Yep. Because it’s easier. So now everybody on my right have a habit of flooring it through.
Which is too fucking complicated for most people.
So is giving way to your right, I see too many people every week come close to or initiate an accident near where I work, and people wonder why I don’t want to drive heh.
Motherfucking roundabouts, man. I feel your pain. And it’s worse when over half the roundabouts are poorly designed and actually increase the odds of death.
One Christmas we had a screaming fight in my family over the correct way to use a roundabout.
Family hey.
When driving, I never had a trouble with roundabouts. It’s a pretty simple rule, but a lot of people mess up. At least less people mess up than when they are merging! Perth drivers are really bad at that for some reason.
Watched Maleficent and American Psycho last night.
Maleficent: very good overall, entertaining to watch, ending felt a bit forced and didn’t really resonate with the rest of the movie, even though it was a blast to watch. 8/10.
American Psycho: I’d already seen all the best bits of this movie via various internet memes and satires. I guess I liked the general point of the movie, I felt like it could have done with less of the gratuitous violence etc. Like cut out about 20 minutes or so of the violence and you’ve got a bit of a cerebral thriller happening. Glad I finally watched it but I was a bit disappointed. Glad the blu-ray was only ten bucks. 6/10.
Other than that my weekend was mainly devoted to playing Destiny and feeling a bit rubbish.
IS EVERYONE POSITIVE?!
Not sure, I’m still waiting for the test results.
No. And if I see everyone being only positive on the internet I’ll know we’ve all been replaced by robots, Stepford Wives style.
be positive please. for me. Shigeru Curtainmoto.
If my memory permits, I will now only address you as Mr Curtainmoto.
This brings me great honour.
ALSO WHY ARENT YOU POSITIVE?! IS EVERYTHING OK? LETS TALK WHY NOT YES
I’m not positive for the simple reason that you told me to be. I’ve never been good at doing what I’m told. 😛
I AM LEGIT WORRIED THOUGH. I thought something was up!
Nope, I’m a neutron.
MR. POSITIVE CHECKING IN.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY @SHANE
Aladeen.
NO, EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE
Nah I’m probably a -0.5 on a -5 to 5 scale.
NO MY PUPPY ATE MY GOOD SHOES AND RIPPED A HOLE IN MY FAVOURITE PJ PANTS
*looks for @35*
PUPPY! 😀
I played a bunch of pokemon on the weekend. My friend came over and we did something fun. Given a half hour time limit we caught the best pokemon we could and then battled. It was a hoot. I opted to get a shedninja with wonder guard and stall him out with toxic. He opted for a Zooraak with illusion that ended up fucking me up. But it was really really fun. We also did a wondertrade battle. Trading 6 pokemon and using those six in a battle. It was really fun.
I should stop playing pokemon soon. 😛
You should stop being so radical. I cannot keep up.
Yeah im pretty dope.
I’d say fly. Or fresh.
You would be wrong M8.
m8 don’t h8 appreci8 is this b8 gamer g8.
ILL SMASH YOU
WITH KIRBY
IN SMASH BROS
BITCH
#macattack
Oh man that sounds really awesome! I should do that with my sister, since right now my Pokemon are way better than hers (she only started about a month ago).
ANYONE WATCH THE LoL world Championsip.
Samsung white fucking demolished royal club. The Jungler for Samsung White “Dandy” is a monster. Funny because royal club has Insec and Uzi thought to be the best two players in their positions. Cray cray.
Anyway now i wanna play LoL again. :p
But I gave away my LoL account!
i wont start again. It takes too much of my time and it just serves as a tool for getting frustrated. Watching people be good at it though is cool.
Playing with strangers is poo. Playing with friends is slightly less frustrating. I’ve started playing again with @techknight and @zaps (?) a bit – you could always join us.
But yeah, don’t play solo queue – it leads to the dark side, and not the good one with cookies.
when you’re working together closely with at least one person you know it does get more enjoyable to play
Dandy’s Rengar play would be giving SHR nightmares after that, his counterganking was always so well timed to demolish almost every chance SHR had to get ahead from good ganks of their own. But my favourite player has to be Mata the MVP in Samsung White. He had some absolutely amazing clutch moves to make turning a possible disaster completely around look so simple. Was a really amazing watch, and they were apparently second seed from Korea over Samsung Blue and completely demolished them 3-0 in the Semi finals. They realy stepped up and they really deserved the win.
I completely forgot about the entire tournament. I’ll probably watch the VoDs at some point. I’m trying to avoid being spoiled on which teams actually competed in the finals. Are Lemondogs still a thing? I’ll cheer them on if they are.
So I’m heading back to Japan next year. Where do I buy the used underwear?
Vending machine!
(Un?)fortunately the vending machine thing is an urban legend. You can only buy pure, unused girls’ panties from them now.
I saw a few places in Akihabara.
You don’t have to go overseas for that, I’ll sell you mine!
See you at PAX 😉
@DC STOP UPVOTING SHIGGY HE WILL THINK HE IS WANTED.
on a secondary note i love that shiggy is back. Im no longer the most hyperactive child here WOOO
well, that’s debatable …
I’ll fucking leave. I swear.
DO AND ILL LOGON TO YOUR ACCOUNT AND SAY YOU LIKE THINGS YOU DONT .
Come on mate. I’ll let you. Don’t even tempt me.
Mr Curtainmoto likes long walks to the beach and drop punting cats from 50 yards out for a touchdown
When the wind is just right, they go even further.
“So, another monday,” You think to yourself, computer turning on. You are consuming your mediocre beverage of choice, looking out the window at I-don’t-give-a-fuck. “Maybe Saturday’ll post a ‘what’s going on in Canada’ post with the same punchline.” Then with a cold, lifeless purpose your eyes turn towards your computer screen, hoping your limpid gaze will finally reach the depths of my depraved, black heart, shielded from the world by puns and horrible jokes.
And I will stare back, and I will say “no.”
I mean, don’t get me wrong, nothing is happening in Canada still, but that’s beside the point.
Man the cold does things to a man :/
It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Happens to all of us.
Turns a man impervious to the wonders of the world. Drains all life, all purpose from one’s being. It makes the happiest of men become withered husks.
On the other hand apparently @bish has become slightly more pleasant, so there’s that.
Fuck off I have.
see? slightly more pleasant!
Never change man.
Last night I got my third Diablo 3 character to level 70. Now have Witch Doctor (Hardcore), Demon Hunter and Wizard.
Started the Crusader and my god is he boring. Also slow. This run is going to be a long one…
Got a raft of new games here and I keep playing Diablo. I may have a problem.
Is the problem that you built a raft from your new games? That seems like a silly thing to do.
Hola Tayberinos
Busy weekend. Went to Kapunda on Thursday to see the parents, out on Friday night with friends from school (went to a wine bar in the barossa), mum finished my Raz cap on Saturday so my pax costume is complete! Then went to a 30th on Saturday night. On Sunday delivered 70 pairs of shoes to a place, cleaned up a bunch of stuff pre house inspection, then pub for tea.
A Monday morning question: given enough time and budget, dream cosplay?
EASY
Levi from Attack on Titian
Fuck that guy is badass
Lulu from FFX.
Or my bandit from Dark Souls 2 actually, now that I think about it some more.
Cosplay: a really, really good FemShep. Like, with super detailed armour and weaponry.
Dream Cosplay: The King of All Cosmos. I even started planning it / putting it together at one time, started shaping my sideburns, etc. But then I fell out of the con’ scene and all progress stopped.
Cosplay: Onix.
Because it’d be fucking rad.
you win
Fully-armoured Samus would be pretty cool. Also one of those badass actually-transforming Transformer ones you see videos of. Future goal is to get a full proper Captain Falcon going, that one’s been kind of waiting on me developing sewing skills I guess. At the moment the [redacted] that I’m working on now is probably up there too 😛
Thanatos from Persona 3.
Or Londo Bell Amuro Ray with 1:1 scale Hi-Nu Gundam. *shrugs*
Elite Riot Gear from Fallout New Vegas. Literally my favourite armour made in any game.
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120621192503/fallout/images/d/dc/Elite_riot_gear.png
That is good armour I like the trench coat
Iron Man because it’s actually usable for day-to-day things.
Legion from Mass Effect 2/3 with all the cool animations on his head!
If I could I would want to do one of the strength based characters. Like a space marine or a minotaur or orc. beneath the actual cosplay having one of those exoskeleton things so you could actually have the strength of them as well.
Being able to lift up people one handed and point a bolter at their face would be awesome
Can we also assume logistics are handled as well?
http://i.imgur.com/dxqgoRn.jpg
G’morning chickadees!
So, I’ve decided. I’m finally going to do it – I’m going to join a Health Club! Not just a gym – I’ve joined one before and I ended up hating it, because I lack self-motivation. I’m going to join this pretty fancy club quite near my place (and it’s not nearly as expensive as I thought it would be), because they do class workouts, which I think I would be much better at (time would go faster and it would be led by someone), annnnnd they have a swimming pool for the days I don’t want to/can’t get to a class (I love swimming). I’d also have access to the gym if I felt that way inclined. Zumba! Bodypump! Bodyattack! HIT! All the silly aerobics names, yeah!
And to start this new get-healthier idea, I’m not going to eat chocolate today.
Bodypump… that’s those things from Sweden, right?
It’s not mine. Honestly.
Whatever you say, Senor Ding Dong.
THIS SHOULD NOT BE HERE GOD DAMMIT YOU STUPID WEBPAGE
But now that it is….. how you doin’?
Sleepy.
Swimming is the best! None of my local gyms have a swimming pool though.
Chickadees? Back in my day it was the Order of the Hooded Falcon. 😛
That’s awesome, I think there’s something pretty cool about being a member of a health club where you have a choice of all sorts of different health and wellbeing stuff. I joined up to one last month (I can’t workout where I manage, too many damn people and their questions!) and have loved it. I’m a member of Virgin Active which is pretty sweet, reciprocal rights too in case you’re flying around 😛
When I started actively trying to be not die-of-a-heart-attack-at-30-type-of-unfit, everyday I dragged myself out to go jogging, that night I rewarded myself with ice cream. Did it so often, the jog became more of a habit and didn’t need to motivate myself with ice cream.
Do what you think works, of course, but maybe an idea for later if you ever feel unmotivated.
I like classes much more than basic workouts. I am lazy but competitive so if I’m on my own I stop fairly early once it starts to hurt. If I’m in a class my pride and competitive nature keeps me pushing until I fell like I might throw up. Much more intense workout.
Even if I totally crash 10 minutes before the end you still do a lower level workout for those last 10 minutes rather than stopping.
I ran around a lake on Saturday morning, and the fact that other people were doing it at the same time meant I ran much more than I would if I was just doing it myself. Why does fitness hurt so much 🙁
But chocolate’s yum.
Butt chocolate’s yuck.
I named my chicken Azura, after the Daedric “Prince” of Dusk and Dawn from the Elder Scrolls.
One day you will tell somebody this, and they will understand where you got it from. Then you will point out it was once a winner in a fine-bred poultry contest, meaning Azura was a Star. And then you will proceed to show the many toys you have bought for your chicken, like Azura’s Toy Car, and mention that curiously for a chicken it has developed a taste for fish, where you will proceed to show them a bag labeled “Azura’s Char,” and thereafter mention you once brought your chicken with you during one rowdy night in washington DC with the president himself, leading to Azura becoming a Czar.
I have a rhyming dictionary here, I can go on for quite some time.
No, don’t name them! Chickens are stupid.
I’m pretty sure 2 out of 3 of the chickens I have are smarter than my dog.
Anyone want to buy an LG G Watch? 😛 I finally picked it up from my parents this weekend.
I kind of wanted to see John Wick as it looked like a fun silly movie to waste some time with.
I check the reviews and what the hell?! It’s sitting on 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and 9.2 on imdb.
Apparently the world building and atmosphere is just incredible and Keanu actually turns in a pretty brilliant performance.
Well now I have to see it.
Oooh is Keanu going to have a Matthew McConaughey-style resurgence? I hope so.
The trailers make it out to be a dumb actiony Keanu flick so I thought it’d be pretty average. This however, makes things interesting.
Yeah, I thought the same. I need to go and see this at the cinemas instead of “Yarrrr”-ing it.
Oh snap, it’s about his dog?! And it has Ian McShane? I am all on board!
Ian McShane is the best, loved him in Deadwood.
Good morning guys!
I had a cool weekend I think, I played a LOT of Destiny on Saturday and stumbled across my total play time. After seeing how long I’ve played I think it’s safe to say I am no longer an exerciser who games, I am a gamer whom exercises.
I took my better half to little Chinatown, we had lunch at the Shark Fin house and went to the Chinese museum in Market lane which was a lot of fun, the story of how they got the Millenium Dragon made in China which kick started the Dragon making trade in China again was pretty awesome.
Many excite for Beyond Earth, but I don’t know if I can justify a $90 game when I’m sinking so much time into Destiny and have barely played Alien Isolation lol.
Just buy a Steam Key from Ozgameshop, much cheaper.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/sid-meiers-civilization-beyond-earth-with-exoplanets-map-pack-dlc-cd-key-download-for-steam
You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar!
I did a whole lot of nothing on Saturday. Won my first raid with the help of some pals here, but @saturday died and we didn’t get some special chest? I dunno. Very un-canadian of him to not send us all sorry packages. Also doing Thorn exotic quest, and had my friend complete the PvP part. Onto the special wizard we gooo.
Sat night and Sun night I did driving to/fro my parents place. They got back from Japan again so was good to catch up and score some goodies.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEdit: I keep mixing up tags.
Do we even know what was supposedly in that chest? I know nothing about it lol.
ALL OUR HOPES AND DREAMS APPARENTLY
:'(
Haha, we did not know where it even is or if it truly exists. No biggie.
after having surgery on my right shoulder and not having much movement in my right hand i came to a depressing realization……..
im right handed and need to hands to play games with. gonna be the longest 3 weeks EVER!
so, hows everyone else? lol
Hope you feel better, friend! A break from games might rekindle your love of them! 😀
JRPG, Wii waggle, point and click adventure games
I’ve got some weird shit calcified lump in my shoulder, so I’ll join your 3 weeks of misery 🙂
It’s been eight years since Dreamfall. Seeing 1 day and 17 hours on Steam for the sequel is all kinds of exciting.
@jocon @distantdrop @piat You guys see the leaked raid gear from Crota raid? Seems we’re all going to be wearing the skins of dead hive =P
Link?
http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2jgg28/destinydb_shows_gear_from_the_2nd_dlcs_raid/
At this point we only have thumbnails but you get the idea of the theme =P
Interesting, aesthetically they look more interesting hopefully they are better utility wise, the only reason to really want current raid gear is the slight raid dmg buff and needing it to hit 30
Will there be a anti-wizard gun
Because I will get 5 of them.
EDIT: Huh. Atheon is gonna change it up and send 3 players at random through time now instead of back three once the next hotfix hits.
Yeah, gonna be a bit messy.
Bit of a gyp, the regular back three method of selection was labelled as a ‘bug’ by Bungie in their hotfix notes. Can’t imagine this serves to do anything but just make it more difficult for players for the sake of making it more difficult.
To compensate we could always have a 4th go thru the portal to pick up the slack, supplicant room is usually pretty dull with 3 in it.
It’s actually the hard mode strategy to deal with the enormous oracle health.
Easy mode won’t be an issue with our party, it’s hard mode that is going to get insane, seems like a blow to people who haven’t done it when so many people just got to cheese it for bragging rights.
s’ not too bad, our party should have enough experience/items to switch from one role to another, but the fact that everybody will have to be a jack-of-all-trades instead of a specialized role like, y’know, a normal raid is disappointing.
This is exactly why I think it’s dumb, raiding is about roles and specialisation, what they should be doing is making being outside of the portals more involved not using randomisation, it’s poor design.
I’m just genuinely pissed off about it. It’s same bloody thing they did with the Queen’s event when they realized people were farming ascendant shards from it. All they’ve done by fixing it after making a fuck up in the first place was making the people who exploited the fuck up are now further ahead than those who didn’t exploit. Bungie’s whole attitude towards bugs has been rewarding people who exploit and punishing those who don’t.
As someone’s mentioned further down all this “fix” does is make it harder for people who haven’t already completed hard mode while the rest of the world that did finish it did it on an easier difficulty basically. The templar jumping platform was a clear exploit but this amendment to the Atheon fight fixes a bug which could’ve been a legitimate mechanic. I don’t want to waste 2 hours doing a raid I’ve already completed a few times just because Bungie decide “oh whoops we missed another huge fucking glitch, lets fix it and buy ourselves some time before the next DLC”.
There are heaps of glitches that need fixing but way to focus on the shit that makes clearing and getting gear a little easier. Here’s an example, how about fixing the kill target public events so that they don’t teleport all over the bloody region? Or buffing two useless legendary weapons instead of going about debuffing various weapon classes? And lets not even talk about the Templar fight…. To date I think we’ve had one run where he didn’t glitch out on us?
Their focus seems to be on maintaining a certain scale of progression for most players so as to keep people playing until the next load of content.
Queens gear getting peeps mats too fast, teams completing vog too fast – all leads to people hitting cap sooner than they want and potentially stopping playing.
Exploits need to be fixed, but it’s moving goal posts after the fact that is damaging.
It’s a very macro view of the community that misses the impact on individual players.
I’m willing to cut them some slack as this is the first game of this type Bungie have done.
But they really need to plan ahead and think of this stuff, actually think like MMO devs instead of blindly denying that aspect of the game and just swinging a patch hammer retroactively.
Or even the most dedicated will get frustrated and leave like so many have already.
But we shall see, I’m still having fun.
But I’ve also has nothing else to play and that’s soon gonna change.
P.S. we should have a Civ: Beyond Earth weekend session!
Fuck. Yes.
But at the end of the day we are not devs and don’t have all the stats or know what is required to fix shit.
But they do care and listen and are trying to get it right. And it’s a fun enough game that I’m willing to accept that.
Especially as it has no subscription fees and shit and a long lifespan.
I hear you on all the above points, I just feel like Bungie are going about fixing things the wrong way. There’s no thought put into how it’s going to impact players, they’re more focussed on fixing their glitches and stretching out the gameplay than doing anything meaningful.
Anyways lets see how the Osiris event is… If it’s a flop as well I might just retire destiny to the 1-2 hour raids over the weekend and the weekly’s.
Yeah, same.
I probs will end up doing similar anyway with other games to mainline.
Wow that is just dumb.
I don’t mind the change. The first few times we downed Atheon, we all thought it was random anyway (likely due to some miscommunications on where people were, etc). I thought it was a nice touch, forcing people to be versatile, where they wouldn’t normally. A challenge to actually justify the raid’s reputation.
And once you’ve got it on farm, it really is a toss-up between doing something new to change things up for a bit of interest vs, ‘do it the way we always have’ out of a desire to just get it over and done with as quickly as possible, because you’re just here for the gear. I’m not surprised they wanted to encourage the former.
Yeah as it stands once you get the mechanics down that fight becomes pretty rote. Will make it more dynamic at least. But a lot harder if you have subs on your team as we often do.
Either that or add something else for supplicant team to worry about as Piat said.
It’s just a poor way of making the fight more interesting. And it’s also not the first or second time Bungie have had a glitch just sitting in the game and taken their time getting to fix it. There’s a lot of sections of this game that need fixing, I’m just annoyed they go for the ones that make our lives a little harder.
Ha, sweet.
I just found out something interesting about Fitocracy, it looks like the maximum score you can get for any one exercise is 600 points. I finally stopped being lazy and wrote up the stuff I’ve been doing over the last few weeks and entered in my new freakish leg press record which was 6 reps of 560kg which gave me a score of 600, interestingly enough the previous set I did was 6 reps of 523kg which also gave me 600.
The only 2 reasons I can think of for that is that they get to a certain level and then scores are bracketed by the 100kg or I’ve just flat out maxed the score out. The latter sounds like a lot less design work so I’m leaning towards that as being the more likely solution.
How much of a nerd am I that I’m mildly excited to have learned something like this about a system that I have nothing to do with? I really need a life…
Hi all! Hope everyone had a great weekend! I’ll not lie, I spent Saturday playing Pokemon Y… and beat the elite four (and their “plus one”)… somehow. So decided to go back and try it finish Soul Silver… and the cartridge won’t work. 🙁 Not sure if it’s dust or if it was caused by a recent update. So started Diamond. Two badges down, but I’m not really feeling it as much as I was with Y – spent most of the time playing while watching Youtube. It’s kinda nostalgic, tho – reminds me of playing Gold way back… I’ll keep at it until I can get a more diverse team and a better move selection, I guess.
Also hit the Vault of Glass up on Sunday with @pupp3tmast3r’s group, which was fun – got all but two upgrades for my new hezen gloves, and the oracle/praetorian upgrades for my epilogue and hezen vengeance, which will come in handy.
Why do I keep forgetting to use Grenades and my action skill in Borderlands?
Because guns?
There are two mature aged guys in this class, easily pushing 65 and they have the most beautiful bromance.
This has been my weekly addition to TAY.
The love that made us all believe in love.
Yesterday I completed the Around The Bay – target moving time was 9 hours, got over the line in 8h 35m. Very happy with that. Average 27.7kph for 240km.
Today I have The Day Off. I am about to fire up Destiny. 🙂
Nice one. 🙂
Congrats, I’ve never done the full round the bay. Will need to get around to it one day but I haven’t been on my bike for probably literally a year. And multiple years since I rode frequently
It’s almost summer, time to dust off the treadly. 🙂
You have a year to prepare… starting… now! 😉
Tough? I’ve been thinking about doing it, most I’ve rode is 70km but felt pretty awesome afterwards though lol.
It’s a big day out, there’s no doubt about it. (Strava Suffer Score of “Epic”). However one of my colleagues did the 210 yesterday having only done a single 100km ride months ago and having a 3 day a week 20km commute, and breezed it – made the 10am ferry and got the the end by 3pm. Brilliant effort.
It’s mostly well-organised and the rest stops are very well placed, so you can almost treat it as a series of 30kph sprints. Very flat course, only 3 significant climbs on the 210 course. The Westgate Bridge s the first, and there are two on the rolling section through Mornington to Mt Martha. There’s a bit of a rolling section out of Geelong too. Wind is a huge factor as you’ll know from Beach Road…
It’s very doable. I saw a 13 year old do his first 210 with older brothers and proud dad in their group. Lots of older riders, a few tandems, a hand-trike, and the 20 people in a perfect paired pace line on Melbourne BikeShare bikes. 210km on one of those. Mental. So anyone reasonably fit on a road bike shouldn’t have any trouble.
If you can ride to Frankston and get up Oliver’s Hill and ride home after, you’d be fine!
oh ouch, remembering the westgate, that hurt on the way back when I did the out and back
I am eating pizza with a fork.
What has the world come to?
Soon you will be eating a Snickers bar with a knife and fork.
If you’re using cutlery then it counts as a meal, right?
This makes my “chips eaten with chopsticks” a meal, as well as the “spoonful of nutella”, so I endorse this fully.
Dammit! Now I wanna go out and buy a jar of Nutella.
I ate a Big Mac with chopsticks once..it was something
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE.
Absolutely nothing.
🙂
I’m eating Pizza with my mouth 😛
Next you’ll be telling us it has pineapple on it.
Don’t be silly, no-one actually does that in real life… it’s just one of those urban myths/horror stories told to scare people into believing there are monsters walking amongst us.
Why, what’s wrong with pineapple?
Only monsters put pineapple there. It doesn’t belong on Pizza, apparently.
I am a monsterThe only time that pineapple on a pizza is wrong is when someone has ordered a Hawaiian.
Hawaiian pizza is a Victorian invention and it always had pineapple. The people who say otherwise are either trying to mislead you, or they are Canadians that try and claim the invention for themselves. I’M ON TO YOU @SATURDAY.
Oh I just mean that the pizza as a whole is wrong 😛
Turns out that you were the true monster here.
Fucking Deadlift! Talk about a bullet sponge, takes forever just to get his shields down.
You shouldn’t have called his jump pads stupid.
Still putting pieces of my Saturday night together. Oh dear, this is not looking good.
Is your name Homer by any chance?
Are you having one of those days where someone will say something innocuous and unrelated, but it’ll suddenly trigger a memory and you go “OH NO!” and remember you have to apologise/hide/never go back there again?
Yeeeep. The club I was at kicked me out 4 times but kept letting me back in. That was a terrible idea for everyone involved.
It’s only Monday and I’m already going into stabby stabby mood… must keep away from sharp objects
I can relate – I’ve just been told that our company’s marketing site is down and I need to fix it. Having never touched the site (they outsourced it to a marketing agency) I have just learned that we don’t actually host it so I cannot fix it.
Still trying to explain to the big boss that I cannot do anything, and it’s a bit shit being expected to fix something that I have had no part of what-so-ever.
All I have is a spoon though, but the stabby stabby mood is strong.
I wish I had time to clean up this piece of shit that is our 15 year old data entry system that was designed on the fly. But being a casual doing 2 people’s job (my co-worker is on leave) doesn’t help.
I can’t even mention the problems with the system to my boss because he will just tell me to fix it /o\
Hyrule Warriors MAster Quest DLC (it ate my weekend)
So I got the DLC for Hyrule Warriors on Friday, it’s pretty decent, $19.50 for the 4 DLC packs (1 a month Except December until February) seems pretty good value. In the first pack you get 5 new story missions that are all from the perspective of the villain which is always fun and the levels are pretty lengthy and interesting. You also get an adventure mode map that has a new pixel weapon for all 16 characters as well as an alternate costume for everyone (lazy colour swap costumes), what I played of the new map is pretty cool, lots of really chaotic fights with extra restrictions like “no attack items” or “no healing”. Oh and you also get alternate outfits for Lana and CIa and a new weapon for Link “Epona” which is a little weird to use. One sort of annoying thing I noticed is that they gave us the 3 new villains (Cia, Wizzro and Volgo) free of charge but to get any of their heart or heart containers you have to fork out for the DLC’s adventure mode map which would be annoying if you didn’t want to fork out for the DLC. Also got my 2 mains up to level 80, I wanna unlock Master Sword’s ability!
@powalen you kept popping up on my map so you should have a reward or two waiting for you.
Wait, the DLC is out already?
Yeah I had no idea but a dude wrote about it in the “what are you playing this weekend” thing last week and prompted my purchase.
I’ll wait until after pax. then…PLAY ALL TEH THINGS
I hope you get all the time to play all the things, you need some RnR by the sounds of things.
never?
TAY RPG Pathfinder tonight at 7:30 pm AEST, 8 pm ACDT, and 8:30 pm AEDT. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
The gala rolls on despite a rather brazen attempt at storming the estate. What other curious events will transpire this evening?
I should probably be packing for my move on Friday, but will be there.
What are we going to be doing for the subsequent session? IIRC It’ll be the Monday right after PAX.
At this stage, probably thinking we might skip that one considering people are likely to be tired after PAX. We’ll discuss it a bit tonight.
I’m also not confident I’ll have internet by then.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/10/11-awesomely-terrible-movies-you-should-watch-right-now/
I actually have a copy of Plan 9 From Outer Space, never watched it though, maybe tonight’s the night.
And holy crap, the film once described by Jerry Seinfeld as the worst movie ever made has been re-made and is in post-production.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2014319/?ref_=nv_sr_2
Oh awesome. I’ve been needing to get a list of movies like these for a while.
Also would add Lost In Time to the list. Friggen hilarious, gotta figure out where I put the rip I made of my friend’s DVD.
Just go to http://redlettermedia.com/best-of-the-worst/ and it’ll fill all your terrible movie list needs. Namely SAMURAI COP. Best terrible movie!
Toxic Avenger… I’ve been wondering what that movie was called for about 12 years. All I remembered was a deformed man ripping people’s arms off and attacking other people with them, and me being somewhat violently ill.
So stressed right now 🙁
Movingstuff?
Yeah, moving on Friday. Still have to arrange contents insurance, pack stuff, and also need to ring the water people about whether they actually got my info and stuff and are connecting my water. Filled out a form for it with the real estate agent and I assume they submitted it but I would have thought I’d get an email to say HEY MOTHERFUCKER HOW ABOUT THAT CONNECTION FEE but nothing. :\
And then to make matters worse I have to deliver a training session for our new system I’ve been working on for our research group.
Me too! Trying to hold on to whatever bits of sanity that I have left.
Some Dark Souls should relax you a bit.
maybe some Alien Isolation will help as well
*head desk*
Just got told I’m going to Sydney tomorrow for work. I’m a hermit don’t send me strange places *cries*
Edit: Maybe I can go to China Town and get some anime to comfort me, and one of them crazy coffee buns from the awesome Asian bakery near there.
Successfully spent the entire morning without really doing any work at all.
All I can think about is what needs to be done on my costume at home.
Don’t spose anyone knows of a good site for getting replacement laptop parts such as batteries?
Or is the manufacturer the only real bet?
You’re better off getting them from the manufacturer directly.
It won’t risk your warranty either, which is a plus. 🙂
Did one side mission this morning, and for the last 3 or 4 hours all I’ve been doing is try to defeat Deadlift. Such a massively hard boss right near the start of the game, it’s insane.
Oh well, that’ll teach me to try and play a 4 player co-op game solo. Back to shadow of Mordor I guess till I can get some co-op buddies.
Keep moving and injure but don’t kill the small enemies. That way, you have a bunch of easy revives.
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and Dragon Age: Origins are both $4.98 each on XBox Live right now if anyone’s interested.
Ooh, and Darksiders II free for Gold subscribers, I never did get to finish that before I traded it in.
FUUUUUUUUUUU
I just bought Darksiders 2 for the 360 a week ago! >:(
Only paid $6.95. But STILL.
MAN.
Worst birthday ever.
DUDE, you could have saved $1.97! What were you thinking?
Maths.
Free minus $6.95 = could have saved $6.95 😛
Even better! You must be kicking yourself.
Still waking up. Ugh.
Lasagne and Smokey Chipotle Coleslaw for lunch.
Argh. I wish it was possible to post CD’s in this country and guarantee they will arrive at the other end with the CD case intact..
I’ve lost count of how many jewel cases have been damaged by Aus Post before they got to me from JB HiFi. Usually it’s just a broken hinge or crack in the front of the case, but this time all the little teeth which hold the CD in place were broken off :/
Yeah, allowing the disc to move around inside the case. That’s one thing that really shits me about ordering stuff online. Aus Post really doesn’t give a shit, as long as it gets delivered (and sometimes not even that).
Yep. I swear they play frisbee with packages in the sorting room :/
So my weekend was quite eventful!
Dinners, Slumber Parties with @blaghman, Weekend Cereal, Lunches, Wicked, More Dinners, Drinks, Chocolate, Pancakes. I’ve seen enough of the TAYbies to last me a good month or so, I think.
Was pretty good!
Except as soon as Blaghs left on Sunday I realised my PS3 is now dead. Turns on for a second then turns itself off with no lights. Such a shame that the PS4 isn’t backwards compatible or I’d buy one right now. I have way more I want to play on PS3 than PS4 but it’s hard to justify buying a new PS3 at this point. Was really looking forward to playing Catherine, too…
But on the bright side, the PAX Pokemon League artists sent me my full-size leader artwork (that I already posted on Twitter this morning) which looks pretty schmick! (If way too flattering in
somemost areas… :P)EDIT: Also, people forced me to add TAYbies on my barely-used-anymore Facebook! Worlds colliding, etc! D:
If you have a 360, I’ll lend you my copy of Catherine. It’s a pretty great game, and should be played!
I do not! Was maybe thinking of buying a cheapy one to catch up on the 360 must-plays that I missed out on (which would’ve also been easily solved if the Xbone was backwards compatible as well :P)
Just a shame that I already bought Catherine on PS3 and was just waiting for a lull in new releases to start it! Ah well.
EB is selling pre-owned 360s for $99, which is actually a pretty decent price. Though if that’s the EB price, you must be able to get them even cheaper elsewhere.
Anyway, the offer stands. Also have a few other 360 console-exclusive titles, including Alan Wake and I’m sure a few others. Happy to loan.
It’d mainly be for the Halos, honestly. Was a fan of it on the original Xbox but haven’t played any since then. Most everything else is covered by PC which is good.
I’ll just keep an eye out for stock-clearing markdowns. PS3’s still seem to be pretty pricey.
I might still have a 360 stuffed in a cupboard somewhere if you want it?
I can’t remember if I already have it away or not. I’ll have to check when I finish work.
Oh, no, that’s okay. I’ll get my own one way or another. It wouldn’t be until next year or so anyway. I already have way too much to play as it is. Plus a new PS3 has higher priority than it due to my backlog.
Thanks though.
My what a huge left thigh you have, grandma!
Also you seem to have some tumorous growths on your upper arms.
Your caterpie is showing.
Woo! Weekend Cereal! Reminds me of the good ol’ days!
It’s a thing.
It’s a pretty genius idea.
In Case anyone was interested, Part 2 of my alien isolation playthrough is archived!
so if you want to see me scream, feel free to watch (35-50 is the golden area)
http://www.twitch.tv/gingerc86/profile/past_broadcasts
Also – I’m planning to play again somewhere between 6 and 8 tonight 🙂
I like how you’re just chilling out back in the chair at the start, and slowly over time you have slumped further into the couch. I don’t know if it’s fear, but it’s a nice touch lol
Urgh. Just about every review of the PSTV mentions that the PS4 streaming is decidedly on the crap side. Since that’s the only reason I wanted it I guess I’d be better off cancelling the one I ordered.
Oh well. It was a nice idea.
Haven’t read the review yet. But why is it crap? It’s got ethernet and wireless N. If streaming doesn’t work for PS TV then it doesn’t work for anything ever.
Read the review. PS Now and video streaming works, but PS4 doesn’t? I bet his network is all screwed and his PS4 isn’t communicating properly. Kotaku US reports that it works fine over wired connection.
Pretty much every review states the WiFi streaming is balls.
If I wanted wired I’d just punch a hole in the wall and run a HDMI splitter through it.
WiFi streaming on the Vita is fine if it’s direct, PS4 to Vita, terrible over anything but a high speed wireless network with no other traffic. So I imagine the TV is similar
Is it the weekend yet?
I finally started playing Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, the game that Aleph sent me with the 3DS, way back when.
Man, it’s a good game. I could listen to this music forever. So many great tracks.
(Though I’ve already cleared X and VII, and after I play through VIII and XIII, I’ll have done all the ones I know)
I’m resisting looking up Curtain Call to see how much it is. So far.
Must. Buy.
Curtain Call? It seems pretty cool, gotta say.
*checks bank balance, laughs hysterically, sells kidney*
Curtain Call is the same game with a few minor improvements and a shit tonne more songs.
Yep, my embargo on looking it up lasted about five minutes. It looks pretty rad!
Wait, there’s two versions?
Curtain Call came out this year, and it’s a separate game that incorporates (I believe) the entire original game plus an additional four times as many songs.
The original Theatrhythm came out in 2012.
Oh wow, I’ve never even seen the 2012 version in shops! Like, at all. What the hell?
Supposedly it’s kind of rare. I used to see it around a lot though. Especially at Big W, they *always* had at least one copy floating around the shelves.
Does rare mean valuable?
Could I, for instance, sell this rare copy for enough money to buy Curtain Call? 😛
Last I looked, copies of it were going for around $60 on eBay. So maybe?
Although I would first ask if your copy has an ABC rating on the cover slip rather than just as a sticker on the cover. In which case I might be interested, since I got stuck with a stickered copy when Big W sent mine through the online store 😛
@mrtaco, I will let you know.
The US release was rare, the EU a bit less so I think, but both got fairly limited print runs.
Wasn’t like trying to get hold of a US copy of Fire Emblem but it was a pain. (Fire Emblem, Nintendo didn’t anticipate demand at all, expected it to sell like previous FE games but it sold ten times that)
@benny:
It doesn’t include the original game, but it includes most of if not all of the songs from the original game. They took out the co-op multiplayer in favor of competitive MP which means you just play games against people with inhuman reflexes and insane hand-eye coordination that make you feel like you’re like eighty and can’t keep up with them young whippersnappers. People like @greenius.
They also expanded the meat of the game where you go on quests and stuff to be much more significant.
But the main thing is they expanded the music line-up. Original game had maybe 3-5 tracks from each FF from 1 through 13. Curtain Call expands that to 5-10 from each, plus adds XIII-2, Lightning Returns, FF 14, Tactics, Mystic Quest, Crisis Core, Dissidia, Advent Children, Crystal Chronicles (turns out that game had really rad music) and a bunch of other stuff. They’re even going outside FF with some of the DLC, as there is some SaGa stuff available. All up there’s like 250 songs where original had about 75.
Downside is that most of it is awful. You’ll end up spending a lot of time playing terrible quality tunes from FF1 or stuff that has absolutely no rhythm or tune or anything to play along to like FF12 or Tactics stuff. The stuff from FF7 through FF9 – especially 9 – is the best in the game. Also if you want Shuffle or Boogie from FF8 (the Triple Triad music) it’s paid DLC 🙁 Worth it though.
Oh, they also expanded the character lineup along with the game lineup. My core party right now is Y’shtola, Terra, Cloud and Lightning.
One thing I haven’t figured out about this game yet is: what is the purpose of the party? Aside from points bonuses for including title characters or keeping the team one gender, I can’t figure out what the characters bring to the game (I haven’t used, or had to use, any items/abilities yet).
They gain special abilities and stuff that you can equip that give you bonuses in BMS and FMS stuff. Also different characters as the leader in BMS have different summons if you pull off the summon bit correctly.
I use Terra because she has really powerful magic which can one-shot bosses sometimes. Y’shtola has a lot of heal spells and I use her as leader because she always summons Odin and he’ll instant-kill a boss too. Cloud’s Omnislash ability similarly hits like a truck.
Oh man, that’s in-depth. Cheers!
YES!!!! I love me some Theatrhythm. I’m pretty sure you HAVE to get Curtain Call so that you CAN and WILL multiplayer with me! (stupid @sughly)
😀
Ask away if you have any questions too! (cc @benny)
:'(
@shane – no need to get curtain call when youve just started the original, theres TONNES of time you can and should put into it really
THIS GUY doesn’t even have Curtain Call!
It would’ve been best to just jump straight into Curtain Call but you already had the original (for free) I guess :D.
It depends on what skill level you’re at though. I’d say it’s probably too much if you were to play the same songs (on the same difficulty) on Curtain Call immediately after, but it wouldn’t be too bad if you were playing Expert on Theatrhythm and then moved onto Ultimate difficulty for the same songs in Curtain Call.
There’s a SHITLOAD of songs in CC though. In the original I played most of the songs on Expert then moved onto Ultimate. And then played through each songs multiple times until I SS’d everything. The scoring is different in CC but I was comfortable (AND SKILLFUL ;D) enough to jump straight into Ultimate. It took me like… 18 hours to play each song ONCE on Ultimate. Insanity!
Oh yeah, I just remembered if you want high scores in Theatrhythm (the original) you have to de-equip (is that a word?) all items and abilities and you’ll get a “Stoic” bonus at the end of the song (which I think gives you an automatic +2mil to your points). That’s the only way to get the higher ranks all the way up to 9,999,999.
I’m nearly certain I got 9,999,999 on a song by 100% critical on every note.
That’s how it works in Curtain Call but you need to have that stoic bonus in the original Theatrhythm to even get that high.
I’m going Stoic in Theatrhythm. No items, skills, or crutches for me. I win or lose on my own merits!
Good! I dislike all the extra crap so I immediately went Stoic too 😛
Unfortunately in CC you can’t turn off summons :(. This sucks since I find that they break up the pace of the songs and there’s a whole summoning sequence which has no notes (in the original you miss out on playing extra notes!)
NegativeZero’s Anime Impressions, Bonus Round
Watching the new season so you don’t have to.
Couple of new shows aired since I wrote up my impressions of just about everything from the new anime season. Thought I’d update with them.
Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru
Kind of an odd show. Yuuna, along with sisters Fu and Itsuki, and Wheelchair-bound Mimori (who for some reason insists everyone call her by her last name) are part of a ‘hero’ club, with the charter that they basically fulfill people’s requests. But it turns out that Fu, the oldest of them, is actually an agent from some kind of religious organization (?) and their group is selected by some kind of deity to fight the ‘vertex’, some kind of strange alien monster things that suck them into an alternative dimension and if they lose, the world dies. Naturally, they get magical girl ‘hero’ transformations. I guess we’re living in a Post-Madoka world now, where it’s hip and trendy for your magical girl anime to be all dark and broody in subtext and stuff. This one’s super hard for me to get a fix on. Apparently it’s part of some kind of big multimedia project, with a Vita game to come out soon, a PC visual novel to be bundled with the blurays, a manga adaption and light novels and everything. I’m just not sure the basis here is strong enough to warrant it. No major draws in the vocal cast (at least they’re not yet – I suspect Haruka Terui is going to go places). Character design and animation is okay, but nothing that special. The music was surprisingly good in parts, giving me an Ar Tonelico vibe. Overall though, I watched two episodes and am not sure I’d watch more.Ronja the Robber’s Daughter
Way back in the mists of time, before there was a Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata both cut their teeth as directors for the ‘world masterpiece theater’ TV anime series. These were anime adaptions of classic literature like Heidi or Anne of Green Gables or Tom Sawyer or the like. This isn’t part of the World Masterpiece Theater (which was put on Hiatus in 1997, and brought back for three years from 2007-2009, but is subsequently MIA) but it’s pretty clear that, at least on some level, Miyazaki Junior is trying to emulate his Dad a fair bit.So anyway, this is a Studio Ghibli joint with Polygon Pictures who are a top-end CG animation outfit, adapting a book by Astrid Lundgren. I was initially pretty skeptical about the animation, because the whole series is 3DCG. However the quality and consistency of the work is top-notch and they’ve done the shading such that the lines aren’t too heavy and the end result is a really colorful, bright style. It lacks the stiffness or over-expressive motion I associate with 3D stuff. The movement largely looks exactly the way it would have had it been animated in the usual way by Ghibli themselves. It still looks like a CG series, but that’s okay, it just gives it a unique look and feel and it doesn’t feel odd or compromised because of it. If anything it looks like Ni no Kuni’s in-game models at higher rendering resolution.
Content-wise the show seems pretty good. The only issue so far as been the pacing is a little slow. The first episode was a double-length one and it felt a bit interminable. Basically it’s set in a remote mountain forest in Fantasy Germany somewhere (there are Harpies and stuff). Two groups of robbers inhabit the land, and the story opens as the leader of one of the bands, Mattis, aborting an attempted banditry in order to rush back to their hideout for the birth of his daughter, Ronja. Based on what I know of the book, the story’s basically going to follow Ronja as she grows up and learns her place in the world etc. Excited to see some more of this.
I watched Phantom of the Opera (2004) Saturday night with the missus; now I can’t stop singing all the damn songs here at work. It was pretty great, I must concede and I’m suddenly starting to want to indulge in musicals.. much like those other dorks I saw doing on Twitter.
The phantom of the opera is there
INSIDE MY MIND
MUSICALS ROCK
One of the opening scenes where the theme bursts in to life and the chandelier is uncovered…I get chills just thinking about that.
That was pretty damn amazing. The whole thing was amazing.
Have you heard the German band?
Will check it out.
Oooh, I saw Phantom of the Opera in New York. You’re right, the songs are catchy. 😀
I thought of something I wanted to ask TAY at the weekend, but all I can remember is that it was a really good question.
What was it?
A really good question. 🙁
Yah, that was my joke, I fear people didn’t get it. 🙁
My answer is bananas.
My question was pretty bananas too. Wish I could remember it.
GRRR
Hey here is job offer, Oh i spoke out of turn the CEO says there might be a job for you. Ill contact you soon. Sorry
Motherfucker.
I hate life. Im not getting my hopes up until the day i step into a new job and work my first day.
NO MORE JOB TALK
Aw man, sorry to hear that. Hoping you get a firm offer soon!
At this point i doubt it, im started doubting ill ever get something where i want to work. The market is just so competitive and even when i have relevant experience their is always someone with more experience or has a connection. I have been applying for stuff for like 5 months and i have heard back twice from 60 or so jobs. Out of those two only one was actually interested. ITS SUPER NOT FUN
on the brightside, i have savings and stuff so i shouldnt be too worried, its just i like to think i paid my dues at this shithole of a company and now it would be at least a little easier.
But Rocketman, if I start turning a profit on cosplays, I can hire people =P I’ve pretty much got Mum working for me.
Where do I send my application!
Um, over there.
Oh…
What a bunch of jokers. 🙁
Don’t believe anything until you’ve got the offer in writing.
i wont im sick of getting my hopes up for them to be dashed.
*Signed contract in your possession.
Hey man, no need to bring Xenoquotes into this D:
I rewatched both The World’s End (Simon Pegg/Nick Frost) and Gravity last night (seen both only the once before.)
1. I wish I saw Gravity on the big screen when it was first released.
2. Still feel that The World’s End is a massive let down. After Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, my expectations were a lot higher (especially with Martin Freeman in it.)
Gravity was pretty amazing in the cinema in 3D.
True. If there’s any film that would be worth it in 3D, Gravity may be it.
Or perhaps this.
Gravity was pretty awesome on the LARGEST SCREEN IN THE WORLD
FOR FREE
*ahem*
I need to make more use of that. Only ever been to see The Dark Knight Rises there.
It’s just a bit pricey for us poor folk that have to pay!
I only went there because they sent me a free ticket for my birthday. Lucky it was still showing then 😛
Seen a few things there though. Regular The Dark Knight was pretty awesome. Avatar, too (even if the 3D was a bit awkward sitting in the third row from the front).
Never got around to seeing The World’s End. Loved Both Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz.
Yep so did I. Well I’d say give it a go if you get the opportunity so you can decide yourself. I’ve seen people say they enjoyed it.
Personally, I just really don’t like the 5 main characters in it and the dynamic (or lack of) between them.
The World’s End is a film I actually stopped watching halfway through and never picked back up. I got the feeling that there were pauses for gags there which weren’t actually funny, but that the creators thought were. ‘Disappointing’ pretty much sums it up. The sad kind, rather than the outrage kind.
It was decent, I just had way higher expectations for it than I probably should have because Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz were so fantastic.
I liked The World’s End, it had a real heart to it. The sci-fi stuff was rather clunky in its execution, though. The protagonist in a movie is rarely an alcoholic perpetually trying to relieve his glory day when his alcoholism was something to brag about. I don’t really consider it a comedy, more like a comedic drama with an emphasis on the characters. The ending was utter toss, though.
Haven’t seen Gravity.
What you said right there, I like that film, but I just didn’t get that sense of enjoyment from when I’ve watched it. I find the characters all really annoying and there was only a couple of laugh out loud moments for me when Pegg’s genius shines through.
I like astronomy/cosmology and for that reason alone, Gravity is well worth a watch. Overall though, I get a bit bored with the story half way through.
gah 6am flight to Sydney
Sounds like I’ll have a couple of hours to kill so I’ll be wondering around near the Elizabeth Street Mall. If you see a long hair dude in business attire looking out of place and uncomfortable say Hi.
Any Sydney folk know of anything cool to see/do in that area for a couple of hours, if all else fails I’ll end up in China Town, for some reason I feel comfortable there and they have cheap anime 😀
Exciting! Enjoy your trip, friend!
exciting? I’m a hermit, going places is not what we do 😛
But… I like going to places. Sometimes.
then by definition you’re no hermit 😛
Which is a good thing, some hermits are crazy.
I’m actually freaking out a little, I really am growing an aversion to the outside worldMaybe I’ve hermited too long, but I’m like the little mermaid now…
UP WHERE THEY WALK!
UP WHERE THEY RUN!
UP WHERE THEY STAY ALL DAY IN THE SUN!
WANDERING FREE, WISH I COULD BE PART OF THAT WOOOOORLD!
But life is much better down where it’s wetter
Take it from meeee!
Well played! 😀
That’s your answer to everything, to move under the sea. It’s not gonna happen!
@evilmonkey Not with that attitude.
Is this some sort of cruel trick?! There is no Elizabeth St mall!
You’re in luck though. If it is Elizabeth St where you are hanging around (the St. James Station end), then the Noodle Markets are currently occupying Hyde Park. They may not be open until around lunch time though (if not later), but worth a trip at night if you’re still around that area.
knowing my company it’s not a trick just incompetence, I’ll just find an Elizabeth Street and walk the length of it then fly home, that’ll learn ’em.
Elizabeth St is almost 9kms long, so have fun with that 😛
Maybe they meant Pitt St Mall? It’s kinda parallel to a portion of Elizabeth St.
Ok you had me worried, I was given terrible directions and researched it myself. I’m going to the corner of Market & Castlereagh st. It’s not even a mall and isn’t even on Elizabeth street. See I told you incompetence rules at this place, I would have gotten totally lost.
Hooray!
Well the corner of Market and Castlereagh is Westfield Sydney, so it is technically a “mall”! At least it’s super easy to find. Just look for the massive spiky tower that says “Westfield” and walk towards it 😛
IT’S A TRAP. WALK AWAY FROM THE SPIKEY TOWERS!
I’ve heard that some people will go on long drives for fun.
Fuck that noise.
Just drove to Adelaide and back. The first half of the trip from Adelaide was so damned hot. The car was a sauna and the air conditioning, which put in a valiant effort, failed miserably.
Also, we’re fairly sure some people saw me naked.
After staying over at Pez’s place a year or two ago I had a shower, got out, looked out the window and an Asian couple was staring at me from another building.
Wasn’t sure what else to do so I waved, got dressed and went and had some breakfast.
Now they just think you’re an exhibitionist. 😀
Yeah, we had the curtain closed (it was dark blue) but it was the transparent inner curtain. So I may have just wandered over to the window and closed the less transparent curtain too.
Oh well.
Was that at new years? It was kind of disconcerting having that big an open window.
*glum face* Your tax dollars hard at work, the State’s best and brightest.
Excerpt from today’s joy, asking a client to send me directly a copy of an emailed request they said they’d sent us a dozen times over the last three months:
“Hm. This looks a lot like it was sent as a reply to the auto-mailer robot’s address. The one with ‘donotreply‘ in it. And the subject still says ‘DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL’. Is this the original you sent as a reply, or did you forward this to our admin address?”
(Knowing full well that this was a reply to a ‘donotreply’ address with ‘DO NOT REPLY’ in the subject in all caps with symbols either side.)
Time to go home!… To the shitload of assignments waiting at home /o\
Weekend was great. Went to a kendo comp on Saturday. Got silver for team event. Got cut across the back of my neck in during the finals.
Spent Sunday with the kendo family having BBQ. Got home in time to watch LoL worlds final match. The result was not surprising considering how Samsung performed before that
So, today I learned that there are people who thought The World’s End was anything but phenomenal.
I, uh…
I… Hm. I’m gonna need some time to process this.
Well this is awkward….
I mean, everyone has a right to their own opinion.
Even if that opinion is wrong.
It’s a pretty great movie but phenomenal?
Eehhhhhh…..
It takes Flu back to his England days!
So much more to it than that.
But yeah, that could be a contributing factor.
I thought it was a lesser film than Hot Fuzz.
But that puts it in the company of 99% of films, so that’s not much of a criticism
Hot Fuzz. I keep seeing that name dropped, even though I know nothing about it. All I know is that it’s movie two of the Cornetto trilogy, and that’s probably reason enough to see it.
So good. IMO the best of the three, Simon Pegg is great and pretty much every supporting role in it is hilarious and perfectly cast. Also, Edgar Wright can direct comedy so it’s actually filmed funny- he makes jokes with editing that no other director working today can quite pull off.
🙁 New FFXIV expansion and the 2.4 patch with the new Thief/Ninja class is making me very tempted to resubscribe. Especially if the new race and jobs they’re teasing turn out to be good. Wonder what they’re adding.
Yeah, very much so huh
How far did you play, out of interest?
I got to the first turn of the raid as a dragoon
Further than me then.
It was when it launched, end game was very bare, just grinding like 2 dungeons for marks after you got your legendary weapon (though that quest line was a lot of fun), the raid itself seemed fun,but had to quit before I made too much progress.
If the expac looks good I might get back into it.
I just couldn’t get past Garuda. The position lag issue hadn’t been fixed at that point too so some dungeons were a pain.
Yeah Garuda was a bitch, not sure if I finished it after a fix or just got lucky, Titan was the real pain though, that was tough
@piat: I actually managed to get through Titan first go. Rad fight, love the music.
Are we talking normal or hard modes lol normal titan was a push over, hard mode was… Terrible
@piat: just normal. Hard mode would have required me getting to 50 and I burned out around 48 I think. Ran out of plot due to getting stuck on Garuda and positional lag issues plus periodic lag spikes made the harder dungeons an exercise in frustration. I forget which one, but the final boss of one of them had an AoE beam attack with very short cast time that you had to move out of or be one-hit. I’d move out, but still be hit. And then get yelled at by the group for being an awful player etc. :\ That killed it for me. Dunno if they ever fixed the position lag issues.
dont remember having any major lag issues, dont remember what region I was playing on though. Yeah the last level or so needs to be grinded out, which was a tad frustrating
@piat: I was on Tonberry server which is JP region, because theoretically there was a lot of AU players on there and the ping times were ostensibly better than US or EU servers, though I never checked that for myself.
I was playing over wireless and the area had a lot of weird interference (I also have problems with cellular signal in the current place) so I think that was exacerbating the problem, but the main issue was that I was a PUG/MNK for main class and that means a lot of close range and heaps of shit to juggle. So many of the boss mechanics in the later dungeons involve move-out-of-the-AOE stuff and the game basically was polling your position every 5 seconds or so, so you’d be glued to a boss’s arse and then he’d throw out an AoE and you’d move, but if it was mis-timed relative to the last time it polled your position you’d be hit by it regardless of whether you moved.
Add to that playing with sometimes 500ms lag and that the AoEs might have a 1.5 second cast, and it was basically like even to avoid the attack I’d have needed to immediately move. Plus also, all the movement makes the Monk really bad at delivering actual damage since she’s best at sustained DPS with a fixed rotation sequence and a bunch of buffs and debuffs to manage. Like playing a kitty druid in WoW circa Burning Crusade. I actually really liked that complexity, it made me feel like there was more going on for me to do than most of the other combat classes, but it was also a bit of a pain because of how tight they made the buff timeouts and how long it would take to get restarted. I think they fixed that issue in 2.1 but I had already stopped playing by the time it came out.
The thief/ninja class really attracts me though. Would tempt me even to re-roll on another server.
I didn’t even get that far. I just found myself getting bored by how long each individual combat was taking. Healing dungeons was kind of fun, but mildly frustrating thanks to DPSers who felt it necessary to pull aggro by dropping nuclear bombs before the tank could build up threat.
So the usual MMO issues really.
Combat length really depends on the class. If you were healing I assume you were playing a conjurer / white mage, which I played a fair bit of as well in alpha/beta and also in the actual release (primarily because the white mage robes looked ultra-cute on my catlady) and yeah… pretty slow. Relies on DoTs a fair bit. Later on, Cleric Stance plus good healer gear can mean you can swap into fairly reasonable damage output for soloing but you’re not going to out-damage a pure DPS class.
Yup, that was it. I also played a bit of pugilist, which had interesting combo setups, but were completely hamstrung in FATEs, which is all about rapidly targeting mobs which get instagibbed, and the poor Pugilist simply can’t keep up with all the archers and mages who are planting their feet and vaporizing everything. And I knew I wanted to heal in dungeons and endgame, but the quirk of the levelling system is that you can only do the story quest in one class, and that exp does transfer to your other specs, so soloing DPS was never going to be a viable way to get my healer up where I wanted it.
In the end I pretty much shrugged and moved on to more compelling things. MMOs are not great venues for the ADHD gamer tourist that I am.
@transientmind: I did a lot of FATE grinding on my Monk and it gets better (you gain an AoE rotation basically), but yeah, it was mainly about rapid tab-targeting and hitting the bootshine attack. Even quest grinding in populated areas was hard because you need to do a certain amount of total health in damage to a mob or get first hit to get kill credit. Fucking archers could steal it all the time and Monk/Pugilist needs a head of steam to get the damage going.
The biggest flaw the game has is the lack of content for you to level on for secondary classes. I was deliberately leaving a lot of quest content untouched so I had content for my second one, but after that I’d be stuck again. The fact that the Levequests were limited and didn’t give enough XP was a big issue, I think they fixed the XP part but limiting the best way to level up a secondary class is pretty absurd.
On the upside once you’re high enough to do instances you could probably level using just those.
I just want to try out the Ninja. The clothes are cute and the play style looks like the illegitimate love-child of the Pugilist and a WoW rogue.
Ninja looks freakin’ awesome. When they’re done launching their expansion and when I’m done with WoW’s, I’ll probably give it a look-see.
Oh man, so bored… 🙁
Xenoblade!
Don’t have it.
Too expensive. 🙁
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness/Time is cheaper!
Oh gods.
@beeawwb won Kotaku today
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/10/a-game-where-youre-aslice-of-bread-because-sure-why-not/comment-page-1/#comment-2995693
Yaaaaay! \o/
Do I get a prize?
You got a bunch of people replying to you with puns, that’s reward enough.
It’s like getting a whole extra Page 6 for the week. 😀
Is it just me or are people getting more and more aggressive and combative in the articles lately? I mean in that Halo 20Gb article people are lamenting their internet will struggle with that big a download and getting abused for it. For real? It’s souring the entire site.
I’m going to blame the weekend crowds for that Saturday article.
Comment quality also takes a similar dip during school / uni holidays.
But if you’re having problems and I’m not, you must be a terrible person.
It’s the rise of the internet age, folks are outraged because they can be.
Feels like it’s on the rise. Everywhere, not just the site – a lot of combative attitudes, aggression and the like.
I should be helping tend the community with the responsible application of downvotes which indicate community censure, but with the increase of articles I don’t want to go anywhere even near, I’m guessing there’s all kinds of things finding places to fester and spread.
If anyone’s interested in grabbing the Inquisitors Edition Of the Dragon Age: Inquisition Prima Guide Book, I found it at Mightyape.
$120 is pretty steep for a guide book, but we wants it, must have the precious.
@freezespreston, @jimu?
https://www.mightyape.com.au/product/Dragon-Age-Inquisitor-Prima-Official-Game-Guide/22643386
I think I’m blowing enough cash on this game.
What he said, @evilmonkey 😀
I was going to just give it a glance and go about my day, but no. It had to have awesome looking bookmarks. You just cost me $125. Damn you.
😛Just bought one of these bad boys though:
http://www.biowarestore.com/inquisitor-hoody.html
COS IM A NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD
@liondrive The next time you go into the club page of DriveClub you should get a silver trophy. Our club is now at level 10 \o/
WAS EVERYONE POSITIVE TODAY?!
NO
GOD DAMMIT.
Brandon pls.
Actually I’ve been pretty positive. I’ve been having Halo 3 flashbacks since we talked about it on our super secret intimate sexy podcast 20 minutes ago.
DOWNVOTING.
THAT’S BEING NEGATIVE
#GAMERGATE
I’m … not entirely that certain.
I was positively miserable!
I was positive…
About negativity.
I WAS POSITIVELY CRAP!
Nah, I’m OK, you?
Aw yeah mate. I’m alright.
I see what you mean @liondrive. I just got a score in a Drift event that would’ve put me 5th in the world, but the stupid friggin’ leaderboard didn’t update.
Talk about frustrating.
Hey boardgame taybies…anyone played Smash Up? it seems right up your alley @trjn
Yep, he has, a bunch of us played it last PAX then a large number of people purchased it (myself included).
How much was it? Thinkgeek selling it for $30 US and it sounds fun, might need to ask you to bring it next time theres a boardgame meat
Yeah, it’s like $40 at Good Games. You really want some of the expansions 🙂
It’s OK, good fun. Don’t own it.
Yep. Is good. Expansions are worthwhile (skip the cthulu one) to add more variety.
Sounds more and more like munchkin expansion
It’s alright. My alley is a bit more windy and complicated. Smash Up is an interesting idea but the mechanics of it can be a little simple.
Still, we’re talking about a game with bear cavalry. That’s never a bad thing.
I saw card drafting and thought of you after your game plan during sentinels of the multiverse
Oh! Explanation time!
Smash Up doesn’t have drafting. It’s called a shuffle-builder (and is probably the only shuffle-builder). That means you pick two decks, shuffle them together and that’s what you play with. You can kind of draft who gets what decks though.
What I was doing during Sentinels wasn’t drafting either. A lot of card games have a very basic idea known as “card advantage”. The short version is that having more cards is more good because you have more options available to you. It means that whenever I play a game where mass drawing of cards is an option, I’m going to take it with gusto.
Drafting is the mechanic behind 7 Wonders. It’s where everyone has a hand of cards, picks one and then passes the hand on. It’s a huge part of Seasons, Sushi Go and can be used in the setup of games like Agricola and King of Tokyo. Booster drafting is also a huge part of Magic the Gathering limited play (limited is where you build the deck on the spot, constructed is where you mortgage your house to build a deck beforehand).
Drafting is the shit.
Sushi GO!
You are all great. I love you all. Peace be with you my friends. Please. Let us all join hands in this joyous occasion.
I am being serious, you guys are all great.
Can I be positive after pax? Feeling all kinds of crap atm
SCREE. BE POSITIVE. THE POWER OF US ALL WILL GUIDE AND HELP YOU. YOU ARE A FANTASTIC PERSON! POSITIVITY TO YOU!
But I stuffed up the middle of Elsa’s cape =( I spent 3 days, finished sewing up the seams and then noticed something weird had happened
That kinda blows 🙁 Don’t like when that stuff happens. BUT THERES PLENTY OF REASONS TO BE POSITIVE RIGHT NOW!!!
Best reason. Nova has said that I shouldn’t rush it for pax and to work on other people’s. I feel bad it won’t be done in time, but I know if I rush it, I’ll make mistakes and it won’t be as good as I would like or as ash deserves.
You’re alright, too.
Thank You Based Caterpillar Boy
YOU CAN’T PROVE ANYTHING!
YOU WANNA GO MATE. ILL FUCKIN HUG THE SHIT OUT OF YOU AT PAX
Its TIME! 5 ROUNDS FOR THE TAY UNDISPUTED HUGWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD!
Looks like we have another TAY appreciation page.
You guys are so awesome, I love all o’ y’all. And hopefully I’ll actually get to meet you guys one day.
Makes me sad that I can’t come to any meats, I swear if I didn’t have you guys I would go friggin’ nuts.
You’re the best bunch of people I ever had the pleasure of talking to (on the internet, and real life).
What happened to the monkey picture?
Oh… I mean… *ahem* you’re all awesome too <3
(but really, where’d it go :o?)
It’s still in my Gravatar profile, but I tried to switch to a different one when I changed my handle for Halloween and it just refuses to update, so I might just have to switch it back to the old one.
Ah, if it’s not G-rated, Kotaku will not display it.
Ah, that’d be why. Thanks man.
Edit: Sorted \o/
As in there’s someone who sits there and rates all the gravatars people upload, so that sites can filter out the ones they don’t want displayed?
Nah, when you add a new Gravatar to your account you have to give it a rating, for some stupid reason I chose PG.
No, the rating is self-selected when you upload a pic to Gravatar.
Makes me lol cos there’s f-bombs dropped in articles weekly.
Yeah, there’s a bit of a cognitive disconnect there.
@coldcamv
So how’s your FitBit Flex thingy anyway? I recall you saying you randomly bought one one day?
I’m still kinda interested in wearable fitness tech but I’m not sure how much use I’ll get out of it and it seems kinda pricey for what it does (isn’t it just mainly counting steps?)
I am curious to hear thoughts too. I’m pondering whether it’s better to get a fitbit/polar flow, or a garmin HRM Watch. Most likely I will get neither in the short term and just buy myself new running shoes for xmas…
Peddling your ministry of pain again I see
You’re going again on Sat, right?
Bloody hell, of course not
Strategic workshop next weekend then PAX. 3 weeks to recover, I might stop hurting by then. But I’ll probably go then. Thinking I might see if I can get to the stage where I can jog the whole thing. Made it half way this time round 🙂I am thinking I might squish my gear into the bag and do the Albert Park parkrun on PAX saturday. It’ll be madness but I get an interstate parkrun on my list! \o/
Really?
I remember how tired I was from PAX last year without doing the run before hand. Add a late night Saturday night and I would be a mess. More power to you if you can get it done
Its good! It measures steps and sleep pattern but I’m lazy and always forget to put it in sleep mode. It also has a built-in alarm you can set to wake you up.
All in all it depends how serious you are with your fitness best bet is to talk to luke hopewell on twitter thats what i did
Only get if you’re interested in tracking sleep too. For other fitness, something with a HRM is much better (and pricier).
Yeah, I have the Polar H7 which talks to Endomondo, but carrying the phone is awkward. I think a garmin is inevitable.
The SO has a FitBit and loves it.
God dammit, I almost got taken out on the road AGAIN. Pretty much the same spot as that girl in the new Beetle that pulled out from parked on the kerb to the second lane with no indicator, a couple of weeks ago. This time it was a guy in a car turning from the left lane at the lights, deciding that he wanted to turn into the right lane on the other side of the intersection. My lane.
Way too close.
Glad you’re okay, buddy.
AM I?
You’re kind of all right.
TAY RPG Pathfinder completed for another night. Starring:
@redartifice @tech_knight @freezespreston @sernobulus @negativezero @beeawwb @rize
GM Summary: The animal army grows, French Zapp Brannigan appears, and leviathans all over the world spontaneously develop ADD.
Yep, that happened.
YOU DON’T LOOK LIKE YOU
I can help. I’m good at helping.
I felt like I did nothing this game. Still, it was a great session.
I’m still chuckling at the call of the night by @tech_knight
“David Cattenborough”
Yeah I know it was kinda disproportionately weighted for those inside the manor however next session promises to be a bundle of excitement for everybody.
It was entertaining enough for that to not be an issue though 😀
Goodnight, TAYbies.
Dear TAY,
Kindly get hype… and then hold it for about two years.
Love it.
Did you watch with the Youtube automatic captions on? It’s quite a smart little feature, though there is some hilarity to be found as well.
Oh yeah, @morkai – did you end up finding out if your friend wanted the room or not? I’ve got another friend who’s asking about it, need to figure out how I’m altering the booking/if at all.
I did indeed, but he’s too cheap and content to commute an hour plus each way to PAX/the city, so if your friend wants it, it’s theirs.
Sweet, thanks.
Does anyone here use budgeting apps. I got pocketbook but I am not fully behind it. Anyone got any good suggestions. I would like something desktop/phone crossover if possible.
Our good friends james mags seems be fond of You Need a Budget.
It is literally the only thing I ever see him open in Steam.
PC, Android, iOS, apparently.
With the costs required to maintain Afro-Mags you’d better believe he has a great budget.
I use pocketbook. Does everything I want, good data, easy to use.
And depressing when you go “hmm how much money did I spend on…. THIS” and select that category for 12 months.
D:
Ha, disorganization reigns supreme, turns out I’m not going to Sydney, whoo.
What?! I just made expensive reservations in various restaurants and fun activities all over sydney! *grumble* Now I’ll have to cancel them all and hope I get my deposits back =@ Dammit gutsoup! =P
Gives us time to build an Elizabeth St Mall I suppose.
@dc you been watching Boardwalk>
Boardwalk Empire Season 5 spoilers (up to episode 7) Big spoilers, like seriously don’t look if you’re not up to date.
This season is painful to watch, the last one ended bad with Richard Harrow getting taken out, this season just seems to be a downward spiral, the last 3 episodes have really hit a nerve, that poor woman in Cuba, that was sudden and shocking. Chalky *cries*, I really thought he’d worked out a deal, damned Narcisse *shakes fist*. I was also sad to see Van Alden go, he added a really interesting twist to things, I did like how Capone looked genuinely scared after he was throttled. Last night’s one was another shocker, everything and everyone seems to be against Nucky, I was actually saying how surprising it was that Mickey Doyle had made it this far and he’d kinda grown on me and even more surprisingly he was just about the most loyal person left on Nucky’s side, was really sad to see him go so abruptly I’ll miss his snickering antics, also felt sorry for the bodyguard, he was psycho but cool. Really loving the back story for everyone growing up, Gillian’s as a kid is really cute the way she speaks of doing things the “proper” way. She got what she deserved really but they do well at making you sympathize with her and I almost want Nucky to go rescue her. Oh and the Governor is a monster, I mean we already knew he was and they mentioned that Gillian was really young when he picked her up, but seeing it like that really makes you hate him so much more. I don’t see this season ending well for anyone. I’ve also been avoiding any history around the era and don’t know where any of it is going. I really want Lucky Luciano and his pal to get taken down in a big way too. There really aren’t many characters left that I care about anymore now I just want to see them all go down. Such a good show.Two weeks behind alas. *shakes fist*
oh, do not click the spoiler. Catch up, I wanna talk about it 😛
Some really cool stuff in the flash backs these last 2 eps.
You really need to watch them, events occur!
Walk into work this morning and there’s a whole bunch of people lining the walkway, handing out bananas to everyone passing through.
I guess you could say they’ve gone… fruity?
Might want to workshop that one.
The Kremlings are trying to destroy the evidence! Don’t be part of their evil plot.
I just looked up Kremlings to make sure I got the spelling right, and apparently they haven’t been in a mainline DK game since 1999. I now feel properly old.
King K. Rool FTW!
Ain’t no school like the old school.
They are in the latest Smash Bros game though, so… no, yeah, you’re still pretty old.
Well to be fair, there’s kind of only been two mainline DK games since then 😛 Though I guess that depends how you define mainline. Mainline-that-would-have-usually-featured-Kremlings, anyway.
I consider the mainline DK games as
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble
Donkey Kong 64
Donkey Kong Country Returns and
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Although you could argue that the MvDK games are more “true” mainline DK games than the DKC ones. Plus Jungle Beat comes pretty close to being a DKC game too.
Was so close to buying Jungle Beat. Found it in a Cash Converters with the box and everything, no Bongos though, so no sale.
That game was surprisingly fun, I still have it somewhere, I have 2 bongos and was sad when they weren’t compatable with anything else.
@gutsoup You mean other than Donkey Konga, right? I’ve got three sets of bongos, thanks to an imported copy of Donkey Konga 2. I was so set on getting a fourth pair with DK Barrel Blast, and am still mega salty about what happened to that game. Stupid Jet Race.
Also Jungle Beat is pretty much my most favourite game on the GameCube. Both for being a totally ridiculous concept and for pulling it off so well.
Oh, and the bongos kind of are compatible with other things. Just plug them in when playing Smash Bros or something and you can fire a few different things off. No movement control though. But it was through that that I discovered there were actually two buttons in each bongo pad, leaving things open for more a complex control scheme in the Konga games requiring you to either hit the rim or the middle of each pad, instead of just asking you to do left or right. Kinda disappointed that didn’t seem to make it into the games.
Someone probably misunderstood when they were being told that there were free Special K handouts.
Did you grab one, ‘shoot’ the cute girl, wink, and tell her you’ll catch up later?
I think the presence of mind I’ve demonstrated in previous stories here should be enough to answer your question 😛
I like to be an optimist sometimes, Gooky.
New Primus Album tomorrow
Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble
gonna be f*%$ing excellent
Just unlocked the trophy “Paths Of The Dead” in Shadow Of Mordor, on first glance I read it as “Pants Of The Dead”.
I keep stalling playing that, I’m up to the last mission, but if I beat it it’s finished 🙁
Such an awesome game, can imagine I’ll be disappointed when it’s finished.
Avenged your death the other day. There’s something really satisfying about killing an Uruk captain. Haven’t even killed my first Warchief yet, some of the Uruk captains are giving me enough trouble as it is, Norsko The Relentless is giving me the shits.
I’ve spent way too much time manipulating the Uruks, all 10 warchiefs are under my control and at least half their captains, I keep intentionally raising dudes levels through death threats and by helping them clear missions so they’ll maybe drop higher level runes. Had great fun overthrowing a few of the warchiefs, got all their bodyguards on my side and keep double crossing everyone a few times I’ve just sat back and watched them slaughter each other. I like the extra mode they added in the latest patch, could really scratch the itch to play it in short bursts.
Edit: I actually made my own worst enemy too, I wanted the trophy for having an unranked Uruk kill you then get him to Warchief and kill him. I wanted to make a berserker my nemesis so I got killed by one on purpose, he got so many brutal skills, like no damage from ranged and he blocked you when you try jump over and stun them (the best way to kill a berserker) he killed me 3 times, I ended up making one of my warchiefs with 4 bodyguards go and beat him up for me then ran in for the killing blow. I love that you actually get attached to Uruks.
10!?! I thought there were only 5. Oh man, I think I’ve got a long way to go.
http://i.imgur.com/Kn0QVjC.png
What devilry is this.
My planning for PAX is fairly simple: see how many board games I can pack into my bag to be carried around.
You know how apocalypse movies and games have that one deadweight in the party?
“We’re going to need a distraction to cross that field.”
“Would fireworks work?”
“Wha- what? You have fireworks? Holy jesus, yes, that would be amazing”
“HANABI!”
“…”
Are you actually planning on bringing your own games to PAX?
I use it as a way to try out games I haven’t seen played or have some interest in
Mostly smaller ones like Coup, Hanabi, maybe even The Resistance. I’m also doing a print and play of 2 Rooms and a Boom.
The other games are more going to be a case of bringing them if it’s a good idea.
Are we still doing 40K Conquest?
I don’t think I’ll be able to find my own copy but if others bring it, I will most definitely play quite a lot of it.
This is gold, Jerry. GOLD.
those interview feels
*dying*
Some people.
Aubrey de Grey (smart guy about science and aging and owner of a truly amazing beard) believes there is a 50% chance that someone alive today will live 1000 years.
Here’s a question: would you want to? Is a thousand years too long? Not enough?
I don’t think I’d want to. 150 to 200 seems like a good number. Life’s a journey but journeys have to end at some point. 1000 years is a long time for ingrained grudges and hate to hang around. Be nice to think an extended life would change peoples perception of life but people tend to be irrational idiots.
I’m pretty sure I’ll have worn out my welcome at forty. Eleven more years.
A thousand years is a genuinely terrifying prospect.
(That said, I wouldn’t mind access to a time machine so I could see how this all ends.)
He has the precious! Nasty little thief! He stole it from us! We wants it back!
I already feel overdue at 24.
I would want to and I will. 1000 years worth of knowledge is an intriguing prospect.
It’d probably take me about that long to work through my gaming backlog. So sure, why not.
I’m also reminded of the HHGttG character who accidentally becomes immortal and spends eternity wandering time and space so he can insult every person that ever lived.
50% seems about right. Either it will happen or it will not. 50/50.
Shit no, I’m in my mid 20’s and forget things and have a sore back. Another 9875 years of this? Aww heellll nooooooo.
N.B: I can change my mind when I’m on my deathbed in 65 years rights?
Even if I live to be 1000, I’ll still never be able to make all the ideas filling my head happen. But I’d sure be making some damn good stuff after that much experience. 😀
I think by the point that 1000-yr lifespans become a possibility, it won’t be happening in the same context that we understand it today and have done for milennia.
Our perspective of Time and the purpose and events of ‘a life’ will probably undertake a pretty dramatic shift once we get heavily into the logistics of extra-solar-system travel and exploration or colonization.
Memory compression will probably become a thing, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a 1,000yr old person ends up with their various memories distributed/stored/wiped for the sake of their sanity, with only the core, ‘useful’ components retained and distilled. Such a person is unlikely to be a ‘person’ as we know it as much as a tool or a role.
Personally, I think that would be an OK memorial for myself, if myself as I know it has to ‘die’ (or ‘sacrifice’ perhaps, insofar as no longer being a ‘person’), to perform such a service. I can think of far worse afterlives.
Paid a bit of my Japan trip today and I AM HYPE MORESO. Then I bought a scratchie and won $20!!! THIS IS THE HIGH LIFE FRIENDS.
Celebraaaate good times, come on!
I received the wig that I need for my costume. Now I need to know how to cut and style it …I don’t even know how to style my own hair D:
Oh, don’t worry, I cut my own hair last week, so I can give tips.
Step One: Decide you only want to shorten things a little, so hack at hair with scissors.
Step Two: Realise that you’ve overdone it somewhere, so you have to hack further elsewhere to even it out.
Step Three: Notice that you now have your shortest hair in about 13 months.
Step Four: Since it’s all terrible, just give yourself a buzzcut. It’s okay, it’s better this way.
Step Five: Abandon people at a nerd convention without any warning.
BLAGHS WE TOTALLY LEFT NIGHTFLARER AT PAX, GEEZ WE SHOULD PROBABLY GO GET HIM
I’m sorry Rocket, I didn’t want to have to tell you this… but he’s gone now.
I’m still waiting! ;_;
I’m a bit of a novice when it comes to this whole “styling” thing but I think I could at least point you in the right direction. You start with scissors!
#helping
Cool, that’s a start! Now to touch the hair with the scissors!
If you’re just trimming a fringe, it’s not too bad if you go slowly. If you’re trying to completely change the style, that’s a lot harder to do. Research on YouTube first, either way, and use very sharp, pointed scissors.
I think I need to cut the fringe/bangs and cut the back a bit shorter but mostly I don’t want it as straight and flat. I shall do some youtube research tonight.
I would like to nominate @shiggyninty as ambassador of awesome.
Where do I send the paperwork?
I humbly accept this title. Please send $100 to me.
Processing fee.
Woah, woah, you’re not confirmed yet. There may be other nominees!
However, I figure you’re a shoe-in, so I’m willing to give you half now. I just put $50 in a letter addressed to:
Pending AoA ShiggyNinty
Awesometown
Australia
Let me know when you get it!
Australia Post appreciates your donation.
I’d like to nominate BatGuy.
Ooh. Unethical conflict of interest. Juicy.
Please follow #awesomegate and have your say!
I have a question, when do I start sending the death threats?
I dunno, all I know is I’m supporting Batguy’s Patreon so couldn’t possibly comment.
We here at #awesomegate do not condone death threats sent by extremists hijacking our cause.
We simply are concerned with the ethics and integrity of those on the Awesome Ambassadorial staff which we express by sending death threats to the pineapple farmers of the Darling Downs.
Reply fail, so: I totally disavow the death threats from awesomegate. So I will of course continue to use the hashtag
Batguy already has my backing! I met him earlier this year, and what a top bloke! Shiggy is pretty cool too though!
DOTA people. I was thinking about getting into it. Any tips/best characters to start with?
Uhhh, @trjn and @cj would probably be able to help you.
My advice would be sniper as he’s an easy character to get started on.
Also, HELLO!
Sniper is squishy, has no escape and very positioning dependent. Luckily, in low level games, everyone has terrible positioning!
There’s a limited heroes mode you can play while trying to understand what’s going on. Pretty much every hero available in that pool is a good starting point, depending on how you want to play.
Drow is a great starting choice. Really powerful hero (too powerful if you ask me) versitile with a slow and a silence. Right click on what you want to die.
I dunno… Garen? Mordekaiser?
I hope you are all ready for my PAX panel.
I’ve typed shiggyninty into the app and it’s just not working dammit
I should point out, it’s at PAX, but it’s NOT at PAX.
Be sure to drop by my booth while you’re there, too. It’s at PAX, but it’s NOT at PAX. It’s in the back corner somewhere.
That sounds rapey
(Though I will actually be working at a booth for some smallish period of time – my friend is an exhibitor with his company Aetherworks. They sell miniatures and stuff, and he’s on a panel and everything!)
And there’s that other little booth…what was it called again…Wargaming?
I hope there’s a Q&A section.
AMA!
Ooooh child, things are gonna get easier…
..and with better pay, too! Man, wouldn’t that be rad. Huh. *stares into the distance*
Now which cover are you listening too? Or are you watching Boyz n the hood?
Guardians of the Galaxy OST.
*stares at you in confusion*
Just put together a rough budget for the family. Even the near-monkish self-controlled way we’ve been living is beyond our means. Depressed now.
I’d go full monk now, except I can’t afford new robes or a haircut.
Wish I could help. Incidentally, are you on Steam?
Nope. I had a
badmildly annoying run-in with Steam in 2004 and decided to boycott it for life.I signed up briefly recently to gift a couple of games, but then immediately uninstalled it and scrubbed my hands with steel wool until they bled rivers.
Edit: the equally real reason is that I don’t want to turn my writing computer into a games machine, because of productivity.
Steam was a buggy POS well until past 2010. Still is in some ways, but the advantages far outweigh.
Gough Whitlam died. A true Titan of Australian politics. Vale.
I hereby dedicate this to him:
The Whitlams – Gough
Heeeey, are you stalking my Facebook where I did exactly the same thing? :p
LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
Kids – MGMT
Fuck Off – Panda Eyes
Hey, @dc might be a little tired but there is no need to be rude and calling him names as well
He’s a monster!
@dc knows what he did.
Dooop doo dooop doo DOOOOOO OOOooooOOOoOOOOOO
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side..
Powderfinger – Passenger
Bush – Eye Of The Storm
Do do do do do do do do do
Man that riff is great. That whole first album from MGMT is one of my fave albums ever.
So good that that british rapper dude ripped it off and made a song called Adults or something.
Wandering – Ben Folds
Got tickets to see him with the MSO on the weekend before Xmas. Will be the 5th time I’ve seen him (including Ben Folds Five). Always a good show, whether just him and a piano, a 3 piece band in a tiny venue, full rock arrangements or indeed a symphony orchestra “backing band”).
The Four Horsemen – Metallica
Howlin for you- Black keys
Blue Balls (Mega Man 3) – Sukotto42
Me likey!
Salty Dog – Flogging Molly
NRG – Peking Duck
Nightclubbing – Iggy Pop
Fuck Yeah Iggy Pop!
Ease My Mind – Skrillex
DC, I’m going to finally do this. FOR YOU.
No Church In The Wild – Kanye West, Jay-Z, Frank Ocean and The-Dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJt7gNi3Nr4
<3
Jamiroquai – High Times
Melt – Leftfield
Wasteland 2 log:
A man in a white suit named “The Provost” appeared out of nowhere and started yelling what I presume to be Latin. I don’t know much about dead languages, but I’m pretty sure he just called the developers gay when he yelled out “HOMO EST DEVS”.
This is the funniest one I’ve read yet.
sounds like a AMAZING GAME
I’m not sure if this is a game or the Canadian tundra??
what
LOL. “The man is a god”, probably, although it should be homo deus est if I remember my Latin from school…
Which reminds me of this schoolyard doggerel:
Latin’s a dead language,
As dead as dead can be.
It killed off all the Romans,
And now it’s killing me.
Well, yesterday was quite the thing.
You see, yesterday was supposed to be the last official day of school. You prove to the teachers that you did all the work, and they sign you off to show that you have completed high school. Getting signed off from a teacher rarely took longer than four minutes. However, teachers would only sign you off when you had a class with them. Which meant that you’d go to their class, get signed off, then procrastinate in the library for the next hour until your next session. Which was a great arrangement. I spent 90% of the day on TAY. Then I was called to adventure.
At recess, my water bottle was empty, so I went to a drinking fountain and filled it up. While I was filling it up, a pack of year 12 arseholes on a bench behind me provided a running commentary. I finished filling up the water bottle, and looked at the contents. Huh, I don’t remember water being white. The pack of year 12 aresholes behind me thought this was quite funny. I left, trying to find a friend to show them what happened to the water bottle. When I did find this friend, my water bottle was completely clear. Whatever was in the water had dissolved. Naturally, my friend was curious. Due to the white colour of the mysterious liquid, I christened this mission, School Trek: The Search For Spunk.
I washed the water bottle as thoroughly as I could at a sink. I decided to leave my water bottle in my bag. I went with my friend back to the water fountain. Since I was no longer using my water bottle, I didn’t have a container to fill with water to test if the white liquid was still coming out. I tried cupping my hands, but that plan worked about as well as you would expect. One of the people from the year 12 pack of arseholes had finished drinking a bottle of Powerade, and offered to give me the bottle. I graciously accepted, and started filling it up at the drinking fountain. Yep, white liquid. I stared at the liquid for 20 seconds, by which point it had completely dissolved. Since my school groups a bunch of drinking fountains together, I tried the others. The same result.
I decided to check the other drinking fountains around the school. The results were even worse. I decided to report this problem to the complaint office. (Or whatever it’s called) However, the white liquid was rapidly dissolving, so I made a mad dash to the complaints office, hoping to provided the water bottle as evidence before the white liquid dissolved.
Sadly, despite my mad dash, the white liquid had dissolved by the time I reached the complaints office, meaning I had to protest my case with no evidence. I told the lady that the water fountains were emitting a strange white liquid that quickly dissolves. I felt like the crazy person that warns the government of an alien attack in an alien invasion movie.
The complaints lady had a hard time believing it, but was trying not to show it. I offered to show her the offending taps. She agreed at first, but got cold feet at the prospect of wasting time attending to the needs of a crazy student, so she got the school gardener to do it.
My friend and I showed the gardener all the taps that churned out white liquid. He investigated, but had trouble finding the solution. Thinking that we’d done all we could, my friend and I left the gardener to do his job.
I never found out what caused the white liquid to show up. The school is undertaking building projects, so maybe that had something to do with it. Maybe a builder spilled paint in the water supply. Maybe a builder dropped a packet of soluable Panadol tablets in the water supply, causing the white liquid’s soluable quality. Maybe a builder was just feeling randy while attending to the water supply. Maybe aliens.
If it were me, I would have turfed the bottle and bought a coke.
Actually, I would have bought a can and a snag for $2 at Thursday’s lunch-time sausage sizzle. Then I would have went back to playing handball. Sweeps allowed.
Did any one watch last nights Buffy the Vampire Slayer? I hate how it’s getting later and later on Seven! *shakes fist* Angel tonight!
Sausage roll in a roll!
It’s just aeration of the water. Nothing to stress about.
This man knows his science! Somewhat! Possibly! Don’t quote me on this.
He does. He went to classes and everthing
Upvote for quality knowledge!
Anthrax. And asbestos.
Asbestax! The most feared compound of them all!
“He investigated, but had trouble finding the solution”
Ha!
Liondrives plan to get my life back on track!
(I know I said I wasn’t going to make long term plans anymore but f*** off, I can’t help it!)
After strongly considering changing my degree to something more enjoyable, I have come to realise that if I stick out this degree and take up a second, I’ll actually save a year (due to 8 units having to be from a second major / degree).
So, I’m going to apply for a degree in Creative Industries: Graphic Design, keep going with my Computer Science: Information Technologies degree, and drop my games programming major entirely.
Hopefully I get accepted 🙂
Also, I’ll finish my CS degree a year before my CI degree, so I think I’ll move over to Melbourne and finish the last year there.
Puts my plans of moving back a year, which sucks, but it seems like the best thing to do.
I always wanted to be a concept artist / graphic designer, but for some stupid reason picked Computer Science :\
Maybe you can follow in my footsteps into a Web Design degree. So proud! :’)
But seriously it might be something to consider if you ever want something halfway between CS and Graphic DesignI’m trying to figure out what I want.
I’ve always wanted to be in Concept Art / Graphic Design, but for some dumb reason thought that Computer Science was the way to go.
Now I’m thinking of just finishing my CS degree and doing a CI degree at the same time, but my stupid enrollment is telling me that I need to change my degree entirely, which I don’t want to do (since that’s a waste of 2 years).
I kind of think that part of my problem with uni, is my uni. It is horrible, and it is not run well at all.
Everything is a mess, they don’t help you, and it generally just sucks.
2 full-time degrees at the same time? Damn son, that’s not gonna be fun!
Eh, it’d be fine 😛
Didn’t end up like that anyway.
Ended up changing degree and transferring pre-existing credits.
Takes it down from a 3 year course to a 2 year course, which is great! 🙂
It took majoring in software development for a couple years to realize that I did not want to major in software development.
Besides, our professors had all drunk the kool-aid that Java was the only thing worth teaching because it was the future and no-one would ever need to be taught anything about C+/C++ because that was pointless.
I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do, and my Mum wanted me to take a Gap year. Dad wanted me to do Business and IT as a double-degree. Mum was right. But I did what Dad suggested. That’s how I know Mum was right.
Graphic Design comes with its pitfalls, by the way. It’s mostly logos and frames for corporate websites, for your bread and butter. And there are a LOT of shonky operators in the industry who take budding newbie uni-leaver designers and convince them that they’re barely worth paying. Intellectual and contract theft is pretty rampant within the industry and you wouldn’t believe the things people will do to each other for awards and their portfolio. Go in ready to kill.
…And if you ever want to hear some crazy anecdotes, I’ve stolen some from one of my mates who I went to uni with, then his experiences in the industry after leaving uni. For example, one of the jobs he got through an agency was working in porn.
Is it weird that I find the prospect of making logos and what not fun?
I love drawing!
I love designing!
I don’t care about doing menial work or whatever to begin with 😛
Obviously I’d like to move onto bigger stuff, but the idea of making logos is making me happy 🙂
It could well be the job for you! Just be very careful about making sure you have copies and proof of credit for all of your work, don’t sign anything without fully understanding what you’re signing and its ramifications, and make sure that you get paid superannuation and are taxed correctly.
Dark Souls PC fronds:
http://www.polygon.com/2014/10/20/7025071/dark-souls-pc-games-for-windows-live-gfwl-steam
Next month we will be moving from our GWFL peasantry to join the Steam master race. This might be enough to convince me to start again.
Praise the
GabenSun!\o/
The gaben has a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!”
Wait until you’re sure it works first. FROM aren’t the best at PC, and I strongly suspect that the transition will be a very messy one. Still, kudos to them for sticking with it – they’ve been saying for ages that they intended to find a solution to the GFWL issue.
Cool, means I don’t have to play on Xbox or something. My save game is roughly 15 minutes so no loss luckily.
TAY, I’m easily distracted.
How can I minimise distraction and focus on my work? (And keep TAYing)
Keep something shiny in front of your face at all times!
But then I’ll get blinded…
Hmmm… well I hope you’ve learned your lesson coming to TAY for advice on distraction! Why do you think the rest of us are all here?! =P
Incentivise!
“If I can spend 55 minutes out of the hour on TAY, the next hour I can spend 60 minutes on TAY!”
Works for me.
#Commitment
#YourTaxDollarsAtWork
@freezespreston Got your PAX pass now, my friend just dropped it off.
And you know what you have to do if you want it
Where do I send moneys to?
I don’t know yet. Hopefully will sort that out tonight (and book my flights too >_>), I’ll e-mail you with the details.
Did you want me to keep it and just give it to you down there, or would you rather have it mailed up?
I’m thinking it might save some trouble just to mail it up, saving trying to find each other outside since I won’t be in until 12 ish.
Fair point, especially if I end up in one of the talks or something.
But then there’s the horrible thought of Australia Post being their usual dick self and taking two weeks to deliver it :/
Would you be going straight to PAX, or stopping by the hotel first to drop off bags or whatever? I could maybe have them give it to you.
You’re assuming I’ve planned that much.
I want Dragon Age Inquisition NOW! Also slow TAY day…
I reeeeaaaaally need to spend some time customizing my ‘perfect’ DA1 & DA2 saves in preparation for DA3. I don’t think a month is going to be long enough to get this done. (Even with just using a savegame editor.)
Yesssss
http://www.vooks.net/donkey-kong-weeks-bring-donkey-kong-games-to-virtual-console-special-discounts/
Donkey Kong Country is coming to VC! It must have been our Kremlins discussion this morning. So, you’re welcome.
Mmm…tasty hastily-made salad…
You don’t make friends with salad.
I’ve been thinking about this for a long time now, past few months I’ve been trying to get it down into writing, so I’m going to try here.
Without trying to sound like a wanker (which I know I am most of the time), I’ve really found lately that creativity is one of the most pure and genuine things we have in the world. The idea and the ability to completely be able to express ones thoughts, ideals and emotions into something that people can absorb, think and enjoy gives me nothing but joy. I’ve always tried to channel my energy into something that can help me express myself freely and independently. I think I’ve found that in photography and the course I’ve been doing this year. I love it. And being able to share that with everyone, getting both positive and negative feedback has led me to be the happiest I’ve been in a while.
I think with the advent of the internet has helped expand the creative ideal far wider than we could have imagined. Everyone has a voice and while there’s a lot of negativity online, there’s just as much positivity. So I guess, keep being creative, express yourself without worrying about others. Just get out there and do it and do it with passion. And thank you for enjoying what I do, because it helps me become better at everything I love.
I hope that makes sense? I don’t know. I have that weird problem where I know what to say, just have trouble getting it out.
I have that problem, too. Sucks for me because I’m a writer.
Glad you’re doing well, man. I’m enjoying what I see on Facebook – keep it up! 🙂
Ooooh, what’s he doing on Facebook? WHAT ARE ALL OF YOU DOING ON FACEBOOK?
Giant love-in. With spooning.
I call big spoon!
Though little spoon is not without its charms.
ARE YOU ON FACEBOOK?!
Nah, I used to stalk people and feel sad at the state of my life compared to others. I deleted mine in 2010. No court orders required. 😀
DC GET ON FACEBOOK
GOOKY GET ON TWITTER
WHAT IF I ALREADY DID
@mrtaco I’ll need a link! 😀
It was just a junk thing I made to try and contact this person who was another of the winners at a Soul Calibur V preview event. We were supposed to be mailed a copy of the game for our chosen platform, but it never materialised and every time I tried to contact Namco about it their people didn’t seem to be there/they’d never get back to me. Hence, they made my list. But yeah, I did a googling to see if any of the others had made mentioned of it and this girl’s tumblr showed up. Left a note on there but it seemed to have not been used in a while, then a little while later her otherwise inactive twitter seemed to start being used again so I tried sending a message on there. No idea if I did it right or not though, because I don’t understand how things work. Should probably get around to nuking the two of them, though I can’t even remember what addresses they’re attached to.
And that is my story.
…And so it begins.
*wanking motion*
*Jelqing motion*
Things I’ve learnt from taking a photo a day for 294 days.
– I should really do things. Little has changed since the start of the year.
– I need to learn how to style my hair properly when it’s longer.
So does any one use product in their hair? I feel this isn’t the most manliest of questions, but I like my hair longer but it always looks terrible cause I can’t comb it properly. WHAT SHOULD I DO?
I do. More or less to hold my UNIQUE SEXY STYLE in place. Do whatever you want man!
I seriously need tips. I don’t know how to do it. Or what to do. Or what to use. Or why. D: HELP ME!
Depends really on the style. I don’t use a lot of product or gel, just a dab to keep it all in place. Obviously if you want something to say stand up you gotta use more. Just experiment a bit!
Do what I do: absolutely nothing. The only time my hair gets attention is when it gets dried after a shower. No combs, no brushes, no product, no nothing. Then shave it all off every six-to-eight months and start again.
This, but every two weeks or so.
Yeah, but yours curls and looks dreamboat-like. MINE DOES THIS. 😛
I’ve told you before that I wish my hair did that. NO SYMPATHY HERE.
Er, have you seen what my hair does when it gets even slightly long? Golliwogs point and laugh at me.
Also, at least you have a full head of hair. *stares off wistfully*
*swoonasaurus*
*envy*
Haha! I guess the grass is always greener!
Hell, even if it were brown.
Just as long as there was any grass at all.
…I got my hair cut a week ago and it was still longer than that 😛 Although the hairdresser did go on and on about how good my hair was, so long hair apparently works for me! Just gotta be diligent about the shampooing and conditioning so it doesn’t go completely flat.
Edit: Oh and I haven’t actually seen my comb in about a year, so yeah… Not much effort goes into it!
I like waiting 14 months between hair cuts. Surprises people, since they don’t quite know who you are anymore.
Have a meltdown because you can’t even.
Use Fudge Matte Head. It does a really great dry hold, as I’m not a fan of the greasy, wet look. Also, your hair looks similar to mine, wavy but not super curly. Give it a shot!
THANKS BENNY! *makes notes*
that’s one reason I haven’t cut my hair in so long, I have no idea what I’d do with it short. I went from shaved head to long hair, no stylin’ required.
Ok, with long hair it is better to get it styled professionally if you want it to look good.
Thinned, layered, styled, etc.
Pulling off the long hair look is difficult.
Obviously, shampoo AND condition daily.
You need to keep long hair extra clean.
Make sure you use shampoo and conditioner relevant to your hair (deep clean, extra shine, straightening, etc)
I’d use a tiny bit of gel in wet hair, just to help get it where you want it (I used Schwarzkopf).
For short hair use wax (only a little bit).
From your picture it also looks like your hair sits up a bit.
You should try brushing long hair (not combing).
Especially brushing after a little bit of gel to get it to stay where you want.
It really depends on the type of look you’re going for though.
Messy all you need is a bit of gel and your hands, then just go to town on your hair till it looks alright.
Tidy you’ll need a brush, gel, and a professional cut style.
Thanks man. I do the shampooing and conditioning thing and brushing. Seems like gel is the missing link? Can’t say I’m fond of professional haircuts. Maybe I should just shave it and be content. 😀
Hmm, you could try straightening, but I wouldn’t bother (plus I think it would look kinda funny, to be honest).
Don’t just shave it though 😛
Grow it out and see if you can get it under control with a bit of gel (and brushing, NOT combing).
For what it’s worth though, and I’ve said it before, trimmed hair > shaggy hair > bald
I kind of liked bald to be honest. I feel like it weirdly fit my head shape, especially with the beard.
WHO DO I HAND MY MAN CARDS TO FOR THIS CONVERSATION?
No, you were prettiest with trimmed hair! :’O
I mean, uhh, *cough*…
So how about them boobs, or whatever…
Like bags of sand.
funny, I seriously wash my hair like once a month, maybe. I usually think about it and if I can’t remember even vaguely when I last washed it then it’s probably due for one or if it’s smelly :P, because my hair is so damn thin when I wash it it weighs like 2 grams and blows around everywhere and frizzes up, I don’t like my hair clean.
Shampooing and conditioning daily is awful for your hair. Promotes oil generation in the skin, making it oilier, thus requiring more frequent washes. Even with naturally oily hair you should be able to leave it a day or two between washes with no issues, moreso if you hair’s short enough to rinse properly, and especially if it’s naturally dry.
If you’re putting gel through it though you’re gonna wanna get it all out, which requires washing it regularly.
Leaving gel in your hair for extended periods of time is arguably worse for your hair then shampooing and conditioning daily, especially since the amount of oil promotion it makes isn’t hugely noticeable.
A small amount of oil isn’t even bad for your hair.
It’s when you don’t wash excess amounts out that it gets gross 😛
Hell yeah, I use Schwarzkopf V05 I think it’s called? Little blue round tub with an opaque lid.
*makes note* Thanks buddy!
Also what I use when I had stylable hair.
What I used to do when I was a long-haired hippie was get some of the firmest, most powerful wax in the world, thin it out in my hands and push it through the inch or two of fringe I had, so that it stuck up/out, kinda spikied.
They’re called hair-clippers. Number 1 or 2.
Water is a hair product, right?
Got any big plans for the end of year pics? I was thinking a photo mosaic could be pretty cool!
Also, is Year of the Hermit being renewed for a second season in 2015? I hope so… though they need to get rid of the main character already. 😛
Thinking of stopping after 2014. Was hoping I’d use it to motivate me but it hasn’t. It’s just made me aware of the passage of time and my character flaws. Maybe when my life gets more interesting I’ll restart? I DUNNO!
Page-per-day fiction blog! That’s what it needs! *slaps forehead*
Did someone say “styling hair”?! I’ve just discovered this revolutionary method of taking scissors to hair! You’ve got to try it out DC! =O
Like this?
I said scissors not a lawnmower! =P
You gotta make it a video at the end! They are pretty cool.
I made an anti-gamergate comment on Reddit. Shortly afterwards, two comments in the same subreddit about a completely different topic (Journey) were downvoted.
I’m willing to bet that I’ve been tagged on RES by at least on GGer and they’re going to downvote me everytime they see me from now on.
Hurray!
Post here, we’ll upvote you for every downvote 😛
What’s the exchange rate between Kotaku and Reddit upvotes?
We’ll go at 2-1
Tales of a Civilisation
So Egypt has been a total dick to me all game for no reason. (Like, literally no reason, he doesn’t even covet my lands or anything) He routinely calls me to say that my military is the laughing stock of the world, and that my empire will die soon. (despite the fact I have the second-best military in the game) Seems like a nice guy.
Then all of the sudden, he requests a declaration of friendship. This doesn’t seem like a trap at all. New friend!
@pupp3tmast3r @piat @distantdrop @saturday @blaghman @direwolf etc
So, weekend raids.
Can do Saturday any time, Sunday I have a lunch on so probably only early or later.
What’s people’s schedules looking like? Would people be willing to do two raids on Saturday? Assuming the hotfix does not cause too many problems.
I’m good for Saturday, same time or earlier as last week would work best
Yeah we can run 2 on Saturday assuming we get Atheon’s new “fix” *coughBungiebeingdickscough* down pat. We’ll probably wipe on Atheon a few times this weekend guys if the patch goes live so bring oodles of patience along for the ride =P also tag at @dire_wolf
Edit: Everyone ok to start at 12 and run through till 5 like our original run times?
Also so far I’ve got piat, jocon, distantdrop and saturday registering interest to give hard mode a proper try (minimum level 29, have an alt up for the 2nd raid if you need to farm mats). Need one more person to close the group off however only register your interest if you’re dedicated to making steady progression.
We gotta get a sixth up or else Bungie’ll announce a hotfix to randomly kick players off the raid team every 15 minutes for the sake of “adding a more dynamic nature to which roles players will take during the raid.”
I’d be interested Saturday, if you run easy mode.
At this point most of us have alts so we can the raid twice on easy mode on the weekends.
Assuming my internet doesn’t kick a hissy fit again, I should be there.
I’m good all day Saturday, we’ll see how sunday goes.
I’ve had 2.5 litres of Red Bull today. In hindsight perhaps not my finest decision.
Indeed. Should have rounded up to a full 3L.
I now have images of you acting like Mike in Spaced after the “cheap speed”…
Tim: Where are you?
Mike: Uh, Sheffield.
Tim: What are you doing in Sheffield?
Mike: I fell asleep on the tube.
Tim: The tube doesn’t go to Sheffield, Mike.
Mike: Yeah, I know, I, uh, must have changed at Kings Cross.
Tim: Alright, well don’t fall asleep on the way back ok?
[Mike falls asleep on the phone]
Tim: Mike?
Try not to have a heart attack.
So, does anybody know any good universities in Melbourne, and how one finds somewhere to live in Melbourne?
Give RMIT a look.
What exactly would you be wanting to study?
Ahemm, as a member of Tertiary Education I’d like to direct you to the Good Universities Guide: http://ebook.gooduniguide.com.au/ (I think you need to sign up, but otherwise you can buy them from a newsagency).
The University sector is in a predicament where Universities are ‘specializing’ in areas and trying to improve the quality of research and teaching in those areas and not on a scattergun hire everyone good and offer every degree approach.
Based on your post before, computer sciences are offered by a few different Universities or have a similar course that has a different name (ie. Exercise Science & Sport Science, etc.). I would suggest looking at University of Melbourne, La Trobe, RMIT, Monash, Deakin and maybe Swinburne University of Technology as the first five I mentioned are Melbourne’s Big Five uni’s with Swinburne having a focus on technology.
Noooooooooo, not Computer Science!
I want to get out of that!
I want to move into Creative Industries: Graphic Design 🙂
Oh you mean arts *turns up nose*
You’ll be wanting melbourne uni then
Advice you may/may not want:
Creative is creative. Degree not explicitly essential. Portfolio definitely essential. I strongly suggest you start getting temp work (unpaid internship even) at some ‘graphic design’ place while finishing your Comp Sci. Continue this when starting your 2nd degree, and you might score a job before the halfway point even, if you’re good at it.Your portfolio for creative job is your resume, first and foremost – if you don’t have this you’re fucked.
Source: did I.T.; got job offers; fucked up; did multimedia electives; watched my friends completely and utterly fail everything they attempted with Multimedia.
This. So much this. Great advice.
Put it this way:
I have a zoology degree.I’m a computer network wrangler now.Oh gee, I must have done a man scan of your post lol.
For creative arts I know RMIT offer this course who specialize in these sorts of courses, Swinburne do it, La Trobe may and Melbourne do almost everything and do it pretty well on the whole. There are lots of little boutique tertiary education providers like the Australian Academy of Design, Melbourne Design College, etc. offer some courses around this as well.
Edit: Forgot places to live!:
You can get lots of little nice places to rent all over Melbourne, it depends on what sort of living situation you are interested in. Carlton is relatively close to inner-city tertiary providers and has all sorts of living conditions from studio apartments to little share flats. I helped a buddy move into Brunswick recently, she hooked up a place to stay on Gumtree.
And what exactly do you think the T in RMIT stands for 😛
Treats!
Find a street you like and try all the doors until you find one unlocked.
Melbourne has Melbourne, Monash, RMIT, Deakin, Swinburne, La Trobe as the big ones. Several of them operate multiple campuses and not all courses are at all campuses. You probably want to start by figuring out what course you want to do and at what universities, and then look into student housing or rooms for let or whatever that are near the appropriate campus.
There’s also the UAC guide. You find the course that you want to do, rather than picking a uni and seeing what you can do there. Then find somewhere to live where you can easily get to uni so you’re not commuting 2 hours a day.
http://www.uac.edu.au/undergraduate/
Friend of mine started dating a girl and started harassing her to lose weight, which she did. A whole 15kg in two months which is pretty god damn impressive.
He just told me he dumped her for not losing it fast enough.
I know I’ve said this before on here about this guy but why the fuck am I friends and continue to hang out with this guy?
Low self-esteem!
That’s terrible. Poor girl. Hope she feels good about herself now and doesn’t let this mofo scar her.
I think you might have met her. She was at my 30th.
I’ll level with you, Freeze. I was quite drunk. 😛
The more I think about it, the more certain I am that only Dan and Sughly were at your party!
That’s pretty fucked up man.
…There are people who are actually like that?
I hope this isn’t seen as blaming the victim or any thing, but if someone made an ultimatum like that to me I would walk straight away… I’m surprised she stuck around… :S
Just horrible. She’s better off without your buddy though.
Holy shit. That’s impressive in both senses: she lost that much weight and your friend harassed her to do it AND then dumping her.
You might be like me, you keep people you may not necessarily agree with in your life so that it is a reminder that you are only a few short steps away from being THAT guy/girl.
That’s a #MyShitMate right there.
That’s a pretty lousy thing to do.
You could be like me and slowly get rid of all your shit friends until one day you realize you’re a hermit with no friends.
Quality friends over quantity! 😀
I’m gonna go with that, jimu counts for like 5 friends right?
Atleast!
If I had a friend like Jim I wouldn’t want any more either 😛
yo, what
yo, what
WHHHHAT.
yo. That’s whack.
That’s astonishing weight-loss. Amazing effort. It’s not easy for most people to do that.
That’s also A-grade dickishness.
@SnrTaco @SnrTaco @SnrTaco @SnrTaco @SnrTaco @SnrTaco @SnrTaco @SnrTaco @SnrTaco @SnrTaco
Are you sure? That looks like an old acc.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-299/comment-page-5/#comment-2997491
Ah. Followed
What if Gooky are twittar all alung?
I THINK HIS ACCOUNT PRE-DATES MINE! I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANY MORE!
Believe in life after love.
Ugh. Have an upvote.
I really don’t think you’re strong enough, no. 😛
@SnrDingDong?
I guess I’ll have to bring that nuking forward a few months now 😛
Twitter is fun. You should commit to an account until after PAX and if you still don’t like it, leave. THAT’S TWO WEEKS. IS THAT ASKING TOO MUCH?
YES
NO TIME FOR TWITTERS, I HAVE A COSTUME TO MAKE
You could tweet your progress. I will favourite your posts. I don’t do that for everyone.
I second DeeCee. POST COSTUME UPDATES ON TWITTER!
Though two weeks is the amount of time I gave the facebook account (out of politeness) that my friend created for me, after pleading for me to at least give it a chance. I didn’t use it at all in that time though, completely forgot it was even there. Perma-nuked it the second those two weeks were up though, thanks to a reminder I set for myself 😛
LUDDITE! 😛 It’ll be handy during PAX for impromptu meats, though! Logistics planning for Scree’s thing too!
That’s ok I can just check my kotaku notifications.
WHY DO YOU HURT ME SO!
Ain’t it good to know that you have a friend when people can be so cold?
https://twitter.com/SnrTaco/followers
All I get is a page telling me to log in.
I do not know what to do with this 😛
You won’t believe what’s behind this link! Log in to see this amazing thing!
*submits resume to Buzzfeed*
You, uh, need a wet wipe or something there champ?
False alarm.
*slowly backs away*
*turns around and runs away screaming*
So I’ve sat here at work for the last 50 minutes wondering why my evening cover never showed up for the night shift at the gym.
Turns out I didn’t roster somebody in 🙁
13hr lyf!
Today was the slowest work day ever. It must be time for a sea change.
Any one else excited for Dreamfall Chapters? 10 hours to go! Sequel to Dreamfall which was the sequel to The Longest Journey. Some of the finest adventure games ever made. Ragnar Tornquist writes goooooood. Interested to see how this episodic structure will work, since often these games have a slow burn start to set the scene before shenanigans kick in. I can’t wait.
Dear Access,
When the PC I’m using has 8Gb of RAM, and the Memory Usage shows you’re using 1,600,000K of memory (Physical memory saying 60% in use) – don’t be giving me “Out of Memory” errors. I know you’ve got more. Stop holding out on me! I’m on to you.
Sincerely,
Bob
you running that on a 64bit OS?
Is anybody not running a 64bit OS these days? Doubly so for big businesses.
there are lots. Plus if it’s only a 32 bit copy of office, it’ll only have access to half your ram. Lots of business tend to implement 64bit machines, but software doesn’t keep up sometimes, so hard to know where your bottle neck is, but I’d be willing to bet money on it being something similar.
Man, that is so random
Dear B-ob-omb,
I think you must have the wrong address.
Kind regards,
Legit Sniffles
Hmmm well… I was told (by my manager) that my involvement in the Perth project would be winding down and finishing, so I assumed I was done last week. I sent off an email then thanking the relevant people and letting them know that I’m done.
Next thing I know I receive an email from the project manager saying that they’re glad to have me on board again and she wants me to come to Perth as soon as possible o_O. I assumed my message was misinterpreted or not received so my manager called her, but she never received a response.
Today I get another email saying that the project manager expected me to be in Perth last week/this week and apparently she’s talked to the CEO of my sector (Healthcare) as well 😛
SO… I might be back in Perth maybe? I dunno… just hold off on your super fun day for a week or so @phlanispo and I’ll see what happens. Maybe I’ll be back there 😛 *shudder*
Perth ;_;
You should be looking for places, Perthius. 😀
I LEGIT HAVE A ROOM TO RENT OUT!
cc @greenius
It’ll be like a sitcom!
I was thinking more like a romcom 😉
This is Greenius, a nice enough guy stuck in the rat race that is modern life. This is Liondrive, a free spirit type whose reached a crossroads in his life. A chance encounter on the internet brings them together and now nothing will be the same again. *Peter Gabriel music kicks in* From the creators of Love, Actually comes an all star cast that will make your heart swoon.
Ballistic: Liondrive Vs Greenius
That’s it!
That’s the name of this porno!
Sounds like you must be doing something right since they keep asking you to go back.
I’m pretty okay at things. (like Theatrhythm and Lumines 2)
EDIT: but my initial “help out for one week” ended up turning into 6 weeks :/
Any idea when you think you’ll be in Perth?
Well I messed up my knee playing soccer yesterday and can’t even walk properly so not any time soon!
Really? Sorry to hear that. Hope your knee gets better. Let this be a lesson to never play sports.
Stressed out last night and couldn’t sleep so ended up putting another hour or so into Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus. Still enjoying it. It’s silly and it has a lot of problems but it’s quite fun.
Did have some issues with the story bit though, where
I had already done the ‘Girl’s Heart’ missions with Asuka and Ikaruga so they had pretty high levels, and I was doing the story missions and I absolutely flattened the enemies I fought and got an A rank and stuff, and then the cutscene after they’re all OMG THAT WAS SUCH A TOUGH FIGHT I’M SO EXHAUSTED CAN’T GO ON. Which is weird.Also I should really swap schools. The Hanzo girls are all nice and everything but they’re not as interesting, and also by playing with a different group it means not playing with Hibari who I absolutely can’t stand using.
My father told me he was going angling.
Never knew he was into geometry #dadjokepagesix #hi@strangeI’m sorry. Page six has been called off due to an Ebola scare.
No, YOU have been called off due to Ebola scare!
IF WE CAN’T LAUGH THIS SPECIES DOESN’T DESERVE TO SURVIVE PLAGUES
I’m sorry. *slaps Red* You’re hysterical!
CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG
*slaps Alex* You’re hysterical, sir.
I refuse.
Maybe I can kill him with kindness!
*hugs* You’re looking especially handsome today! Have you lost weight! Your beard is so soft!
@dc
YOU’LL NEVER GET AWAY WITH THIS!
*flees*
HYSTERICAL AND CORRECT
To the mad house with you!
STOP SLAPPING PEOPLE
Also, I just watched The Knick finale, and it has parts set in a mad house that are truly distressing
Same with the new season of Boardwalk Empire! Disturbing stuff!
Survival of the fittest etc, right?
Also it’s not like the gene pool couldn’t do with a bit of a cleansing..
Yeah, nah. We’ve already well torpedoed natural selection, and as for cleansing the gene pool that is a little too eugenics for my taste.
Please remain calm. There’s no need for hysterics.
http://www.theskyfullofdust.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/18649.jpg
Without even knowing what I was planning to make for dinner both kids started asking me if they could have Mi Goreng noodles for dinner. I asked them if they were sure, they said they were. So I told them fine, they could have noodles and they cheered. And then I told them I was planning takeaway food for dinner….
*assembles townsfolk with pitchforks and torches* We’ve had a monster sighting, people!
OH GOD DAMMIT
Just got home to have my *other* friend pull out of PAX. But this is the one who I did a favour and bought a ticket for, since he was short on cash at the time. So once again I am with a ticket and a room that have no owner.
@dc. Please 🙁 I already asked another friend who has a 21st coming up, but he’s too loaded with assignments to make it. YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE LEFT!
*slaps Gooky* You’re hysterical, young man!
DC, put the man out of his misery and go. You can pay him back later. I know we’d love to have you at Pax meat!
Pretty much. Way too much on the plate already, the organisation of all this has been a gigantic pain in the arse as it is to then have this go and happen on top of it.
You hear that, DC? You’re the last resort.
Punch him.
Buddy, he asked not to be tagged about it, remember.
When exactly is PAX?
31st-2nd.
Starting Friday week
Help us @dc-wan Kanobi you’re my only hope!
So how many are in this room now?
Anywhere between zero and five.
It was you, me, Morkai and my two friends. Both of those two have dropped out now, but another is looking to come back on board. So it’s at least four people in a six-person room.
He’s not the only one left that isn’t going lol, there’s like at least 3 people lol..
Has this been reclaimed? What are the specifics?
The ticket (a three day pass) is as yet unclaimed. It turned out that my other friend was looking for two beds at the hotel, but he wants four nights for both so I have to call up and have one of the bookings extended for another night. As mentioned above, it’s a six person room so when I call up to alter the booking (which I’m aiming to do later today) I could also try and add another person if needed.
I’m getting itchy feet; I really want to be there. How much do you need from me for accommodation should I tag along? IF there’s room for me to tag along? I’m thinking I could grab a bus or train last minute to Melbourne and back.
Last I checked, the room was 63 a night for the fri/sat/sun nights, and 35 for the thursday.
I definitely won’t be there for the Thursday night, but if you could put me down for the F/S/S nights, that’d be great. I can cough up $189 for the acc and $150 for the three day pass. Will pay for all nights but can’t guarantee I’ll be there for all nights. Yet to confirm travel arrangements.
Dude, awesome. I’ll try calling up at lunch, and let you know how it goes.
DID YOU CALL
NINTENDO@BENNY ?Someone fell neck first on some piano wire, a guy died after being struck by a stray golf ball shot, and a lady suffered fatal food poisoning after her grandmother incorrectly prepared a dessert for her.
Guess they all were on the receiving end of a bad slice.*slaps Crazyguy* Hysterics have no place here. Remain calm.
Err…I think the only hysterical on this page is you.
The others probably think their puns are hysterical, though. 😛Ma’am, orders forbid any kinds of strikes against women so…
*shoots self in head*
Aw, it was just a cap gun. NOW I MUST ENDURE THE HYSTERICS!
The cowboy that got fired from his ranch job wasn’t crazy, he was just deranged.
Okay, now I’m worried about you. 😛
I think this is what happens when Shiggy hangs around.
He’s a bad influence, that man.
A hermit drove to town and was charged with recluse driving.
Also, I found the e-mail attached to the account. INUNDATED WITH MESSAGES ABOUT PEOPLE FOLLOWING ME!
This is already too creepy.
Creepily awesome!
Added another for ya! 😉
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Burt Bacharach!
This is not a filler post to make us get to page seven sooner. NOT. A. FILLER. POST.
I wanted to find out about some history so I went to the library and got “Ancient Roots Of Africa” by Earl Lee Days.
@dc
I could never hit you, Freezey! *triggers trap door below Freeze’s feet*
I’ll let Jane Jensen know you don’t appreciate her work.
An armed robber who yelled ‘freeze’ at an ice-making plant was given a cold reception by the police.
Oh god, we broke him.
Sign on a broken perfume bottle, “Out of odor”.
It was an emotional wedding. Even the cake was in tiers.
There was a ghost at the hotel, so they called for an inn spectre.
THIS ONE IS ACTUALLY REALLY, REALLY GOOD
I stole them all. D:
What do you call a thief with no hands?
Yeah no. THERE AIN’T NO PUNCHLINE HERE.Is that because someone with no hands can’t punch?They can but it will be all stumpy
If money talks, why do we need bank tellers?
“SCIENTISTS HAVE LABELLED IT ‘THE SHIGGY EFFECT’, WORLD’S NUMBER ONE KILLER AND EBOLA’S NATURAL ENEMY.”
The comedian stopped at the fabric store on his way to a comedy gig. He was looking for new material.
He said I was average – but he was just being mean.
Okay, this one is really quite good.
*distant look in eyes* I’m sorry.
You’ve changed…
A man changed a light bulb in the Empire state building and that was the highlight of his career.
Don’t you make puns to me DC! >:(
Lions always take great pride in their families.
I hate what you’ve become! >:'(
The airlines have become so cash-strapped, they charged me for my emotional baggage.
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*rips off dc’s mask, revealing @shane*
This page six is the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen. D:
He thinks octopi are creepy, and he makes no bones about it.
It’s like those anti-gay campaigners that get caught with the same sex hookers.
Or when their wife leaves them cause she realised she liked women instead of men.
@dc is an angry, angry young man.
Did you hear about that new drug that makes people angry? It’s all the rage now.
Someone fixed the Hatred trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z6hNXsldMU
I used to hate maths but then I realised decimals have a point.
Weirdly reminds me of Casey and Friends.
That is pretty great.
The union reps told management that they were going on strike.
Management scoffed at them, saying nothing they could do would affect anything…
… then they showed up at work the next morning armed with baseball bats.
Management says, “I thought you were on strike”.
Union rep replies, preparing his swing, “We are.”
Is page six over yet?
Oooops, reply fail.
Daaamn, another reply fail. I’m so stupid. Sorry guys.
Again? NOOOOO!
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure
I should probably mosey off for a while. Enjoy page six, my friends. 🙂
If you planned this post to be number 25… Bravo. Bravo!
It’s D.C., of course he planned it!
eyyyy
Hey buddy! What’s new?
That was a quick while!
I’m known for my quickness.
you’re supposed to savour page 6.. feel the love.. twas but a fleeting moment this week. All the sad.
Speak for yourself!
Mr. Strange spent his Coke Rewards points on Unfinished Swan for me.
All I’d heard about the game was that it was beautiful, so when I started it up knowing nothing about it I was very pleasantly surprised. I’m really enjoying playing it.
Such a great game!
One of my favourites from last gen!
That opening made me tear up a bit :'(
Manly tears!
The manliest of tears!
*cough*
Good game. Light enough, fun little puzzles, doesn’t out stay its welcome
Applied for another job today, polishing astronomical mirrors. It’s a job I could really see myself doing
DAD JOKE PAGE SEVEN #suckit@dcThat’s against the rules. That’s unethical.
YOU FORCED MY HAND YOU VILLAIN
It is a good thing I don’t have much hair left to lose.
Should’ve said hare and worked rabbits into it. OH GOD! D:
Hmm, all this time I assumed it was @dc that killed @shane and took his place but @shane has overplayed his hand and exposed himself as the real killer!
*throws hands up*
I’m out.
This TAY is too weird for my likings.
It’s messing with my head.
Smell ya’ tomorrow 😛
It’s over now. I did this for us. For the family.
http://tinyurl.com/l5pj7sh
I had to downvote you!
Twice!
I’ll be back tomorrow
I need time to mend my broken heart…
I’m feeling all shaken and broken myself. I can see how these things can destroy a person.
Let this be a cautionary tale.
I’ve gone from being stupidly panicked to being a little too complacent.
On the upside, I’m actually excited about Elsa’s cosplay again, instead of hating it because of the difficult deadline I had imposed on myself.
So I guess what you did with the stress was “Let it go”
The stress never bothered me anyway?
The mantle of stress has been passed on!
Well it’s given me a chance to think what I would like to fix and it’s making me excited =P strangely
With articles called Top 10 Ways To Be A Horrible Person On Social Media and Be a ‘Disgruntled Moviegoer’ To Scam Free Tickets is Lifehacker even providing good advice anymore?
It’s Evil Week. I’ve never been a fan, but that’s appropriately evil.
With all the Gamerghate crap everywhere I’d have thought no one actually needs an article telling them how to be a horrible person on the internet.
What they’re suggesting would actually be an improvement.
Yay for evil week. Although it should have been next week to coincide with my birthday.
Never mind, all of this is under the banner of “Evil Week.’ It seems this is going to be about as fun as the annual ‘Depressing Comic Week’ on Cyanide & Happiness.
ohgod that’s depressing. Just saying it made me remember one. Now I have to call my parents to tell them I love them and curl into a ball and cry.
@mrtaco I like your twitter profile picture. When did that photo get taken?
Back before I hatched.
You’ve got so many followers. People counting on you. Waiting. Hoping.
They are fools!
I miss the POW!, Pow.
Or that time your Gravatar was just your Mii. One day you even added an orange background.
What’s up with Bens and using Miis?
Hey, greenman. Come to pax? 😛
Well okay…
Wait, really? Or should I still be chasing up others?
Well I don’t want to pay for it and I’m sure there are other people who would actually want to go more :P. When is PAX anyway? I was planning on taking the 3rd off anyway (although I’m sure it’s a Fri-Sun thing?)
Yeah, it’s next Fri–Sun (as in starting Halloween).
I’m still looking around, but I guess if I don’t find anyone to take it you can have it gratis and I’ll just be sure my friend doesn’t forget that he owes me for it.
@mrtaco nah man! Money wasn’t an issue for me but I just wasn’t a fan of it last year so didn’t really want to go again. But sounds like a lot of new people will be there who I wouldn’t mind meeting! (seeing others was the best part last year)
Well if you can find any, send them my way. Because I’ve pretty much exhausted all my options 😛
Any what? New people?
YOU’RE A NEW PEOPLE
(whats ur cosplay pls)
Haha, I totally misread your comment, thought you were still talking about other people who would want the ticket.
Stop living in the past, man.
YOU DON’T SAY THAT TO SOMEONE WHO HALF LIVES IN PERTH! MONSTER!
Stop living in the past, man…
Did I ever tell you guys I used to work on Big Brother?
And lived in London!
You did???
Hmm so many questions to ask now…
It’s not POWs fault perth people still get around by horse drawn carts…..
(Says a person who lives in perth)
RIGHT IN THE KISSER!
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
@mrtaco’s on Twitter, I go to work, don’t check TAY for most of the day since lunch, and come home to find this.
Madness.
That’ll learn ya.
(And it totally doesn’t count, ftr)
Managed to get my CD copy of Sam and Max Hit The Road working on ScummVM.
Works like a charm. 🙂
EDIT: Curse of Monkey island works fine, too. 😀
Friiiiiiends? FRIIIIIIENDS?
So good. I managed to get all that working on my otherwise useless Kogan tablet. 🙂 Perfect screen for classic adventuring!
A talkie version?
I leave work after a slow page 5, run errands, and 2 hours later we’re halfway in to page 7?
You’re all monsters!
I pointed a mirror on society as a whole. It wasn’t pretty. #pagesixgate
Sorry
It’s ok. I got a bonus page 6 yesterday, after all.
NO.
Question, I am considering making beanbags to sell. Would you guys mind looking at some design mock ups on here? Also, if you could give me the price you would be willing to pay, that would be awesome. (no rest for the wicked =P)
Scree, I say this as your friend. Don’t take on any more projects until after PAX. 😀
Trust me, it’s not until after pax. Rather I’m just thinking up designs in my head. I won’t start making mock-ups until after Pax. Calm down =P
Also, Supanova is expensive D=
Not at all.
Would you mind giving me suggestions too? =P
De Blob?
I actually just thought of making pokeball beanbags. I’m considering several different varying designs. The simple patterned ones would be cheapest, the more artistic ones (so Mario world 1-1 and 1-2 and Link between worlds) would be most expensive as they would use the most paint and everything would be hand painted. I find stencils too imprecise (because I suck at it)
It’s an interesting idea, but don’t get carried away with designs – test your materials and process first. Will you be selling on etsy or at markets?
Etsy doesn’t really work because of postage from Australia. I’m terrible at pricing things too =P
Ditto Beanbag!
A difficult shape to make, so it would probably end up being a purple bag with eyes and mouth.
Chain Chomp?
I was thinking less shapes and more painting stuff on beanbags
A giant ball of yarn? Or string? Or something of that kind….
(I am tired shhh don’t tell anyone)
Giant boobs?
I don’t think that’s an option atm.
ERNIE!!!!
I would so buy a video game themed bean bag from you, but I’d only want you to make it after you have a rest from making your cosplays.
I think you pay about 30 bucks these days for a bean bag from Kmart (correct me if I’m wrong), but then these are custom jobs, so I guess anywhere up to $50.
Yeah, $30 for most plain beanbags. The pattern I have is for giant beanbags, which helps if you’re a taller person. I’m thinking I’d based price on effort and materials.
Im keen to help out, I love me a bean bag
Castle marathon continues…
I feel like Ubisoft is on the verge of pulling a Guitar Hero with Assassin’s Creed. There’s two mainline games, plus a side-scrolling spinoff due in the next few months. And they’re saying now that the side-scroller thing (which actually does look interesting) which was planned as a DLC or pack-in or something for Unity I think is probably going to be a franchise too…
Seriously, the last time I remember a games franchise being milked like this it was when we got like eight different Guitar Heroes in a two year period.
I haven’t even glanced at Unity. I’m pretty sure I’m done. It’s not that I think the games are bad or anything, just no motivation for a new one.
Yeah, Shadows of Mordor already scratched the itch for me. Also of the two, the last-gen one looks more interesting so will probs wait and get it on PC next year some time on the cheap.
And I’ve previously purchased every AC game at launch.
My wife is holding off on Shadows of Mordor because it’s too Assassin’s Creed-y and we just got done palying ACIII and Black Flag in the last couple of months. I’m going to get Unity but probably not until next year (still going hard on Destiny, Master Chief Collection is coming out next month, plus my current backlog), and Unity should tide me over until there’s a definitive answer on whether Rogue is going to have a current-gen port before I do something stupid like buy it on 360.
Assuming I play Unity in January and get around to Rogue by easter, I might be ready to pick Mordor out of a bargain bin in June. \o/
Mordor is better than recent AC. Combat for one thing is miles better (since it’s Batman) and the whole Nemesis thing adds a much more interesting layer to the gameplay, to the point that it feels like a piece that’s been missing from these sorts of games all along and everything subsequently is going to need to rip it off.
I don’t doubt that any of that is true but playing AC with better combat isn’t going to subvert possible AC-fatigue. I’m more interested than her but neither of us are hugely invested in the LotR mythos so it can wait.
What about rogue? Naval COMBAT! *flails arms wildly in the air*
I’m done. I couldn’t even be bothered finishing Black Flag.
You’re not wrong. Still I’m not going to the Test this year so now I know what I’m doing between Xmas and New Year…
There’s a higher threshold for just a game series, guitar hero’s death was hastened by the pile of plastic instruments that came with each one.
Most game series that die seem to fall to the one massive project that never delivers or performs badly. Even then they’re just in hibernation I guess.
@dc, this is the best birthday present ever. <3
Wait… Shaneday?
Yesterday, but the Festival of Shane can last for weeks if we want it to 😛
It’s the Christmas in October! Congrats! 🙂
Oh crap, I still gotta do tax too.
Me too, I keep putting it off because I “owe” according to the simple calculator. Need to go through via my historical data and re-check my deductions. 🙁
… Shit.
Haha, who hasn’t done that already?
Hahaha. >.>
Finally did mine Sunday while procrastinating over packing to move house.
Took about 5 minutes. Everything was prefilled.
Feels a bit silly that I put it off that long.
Mine didn’t have everything prefilled for some reason. Was still fairly quick I guess.
Usually I don’t get around to it til the 30th or 31st 😛
Shit, me too.
Is it cheating to send a new Diablo 3 character a few imperial rubies via the stash to bump up their damage a bit (a lot)?
Meh, I feel once you have leveled to the cap you may aswell.
I feel bad because I just one shot Maghda on Expert…
Nope. Not in the slightest. I have always used a high level to get a heap of high level gems to use on any and all the characters I make from that point.
Haha. Now I don’t feel so cheap now I know it’s a thing. Mostly just rubies for the extra damage in weapons and experience boost in helms. Just got Leoric’s Crown with a 100% boost to any socketed get effect which is giving me a 70% XP bonus which is handy. This thing will be making its way to the last two characters for certain.
I’m home studying Herculaneum villas while my fella is out having drinks. I SHOULD BE DRINKING AND FROLICKING WITH PALS.
I can’t even play anything until after PAX now. #whine
What are you guys playing right now? Let me live vicariously through you all.
Nothin’
Am I correct in saying that Batguy and Batgirl are not a thing? Last I checked, he was frolicking with Cookingmama? THE HERESY! 😛
Tales of a Civilisation
After crushing one of his cities and almost wiping him out, Caesar looks so sad. It’s okay, Caesar, there’s like two or three turns left on the peace treaty! You’re safe until then!
Hope I didn’t annoy people with page six. Won’t make a habit of spamming. One off thing.
How dare you spam puns on the page which is dedicated to puns.
This has ruined your reputation, D.C.. You’re now sixth worst on the site.
There was no pun in that post I am now disappointed.
Time to kill things in shadows of mordor to cheer myself up.
It was hilarious. The highlight of my TAYing yesterday.
So I’m watching Sword Art Online, approaching the end of the first season, and I’ve noticed some of the themes have become a little suspect, incest and rape? Not the direction I really expected
Yeah, the whole second arc of SAO is a little shit. Goes off the rails in a very bad way. I nearly stopped watching because of it, which says a lot.
Don’t watch the first episode of Cross Ange.
Oh I’m not particularly offended by it, I’ve seen much worse in the anime genre, mmuch. Worse. just really not where I thought this would be going
…. Well now I have to.
nooooo it’s not very goooooood
The promo posters for it look amazing though 🙁
Well, the art’s OK. Pretty heavy on the fan-service but not as much as some. And I guess 1st/2nd episodes are OK to watch to get a feel for things, but the incest/rape angles were pretty squicky.
The character assassination that Asuna goes through was more distressing for me than the themes. FYI Suguha is his cousin, not his sister – they do a poor job pointing that out.
Oh no I got that (I’m watching the subbed version, seemed clear enough) it’s still incest
Suspect that that’s not the case in Japan. But not sure about that.
So, apparently Angela Lansbury is to star in a new TV series written by Peter Jackson.
And it will be called
Mordor She Wrote #everypageispage6 #hi@dcThings I’m hyped for:
October
– Legend of Korra game
November
– PAX Aus
– Foo Fighters new album
– Birthday
December
– Super Smash Bros. Wii U
Needs more Bayonetta.
Mario Kart DLC?
Learned that my web hosting comes with a free account to unlimited cloud storage backup. Am currently backing up all my creative work and family photos and videos.
Total size: 295GB.
Total upload time: 150 days remaining
If I leave my computer on 24/7, this upload will complete sometime around mid-March 2015.
#WhereIsMyNBN
Make sure your ISP doesn’t count uploads, or at least monitor it. Good way to blow your bandwidth cap.
I’m reasonably sure it does. But we have a 100GB cap per month, and this will only use (even at full pelt 24/7) about half of that 😛
Edit: actually, looks like I get money for nothing and uploads for free.
That ain’t working; That’s the way you do it.
Isn’t it fantastic.
But then we only use the internet for emails and wasting time…
Is the cloud server in Australia? If not it wouldn’t make much of a difference
Everyone else gets to make poorly substantiated political statements (if Facebook is any guide). Let me have one! 😛
If you move, the plans say they’re in the process of building it in the swamp behind my old high school, while avoiding the entire town. I really wish I were joking about that…
G’night, folks.
For the first time in a while, I’m actually excited about my future.
It feels fucking fantastic 🙂
I always think you post at weird times, but you’re just in Perth lol.
How weird!
The Longest Journey’s second sequel Dreamfall Chapters is out today.
Just thought I should tell someone in case you think I’ve fallen down a well!
WHAT IF I FALL DOWN A WELL ON MY WAY TO THE GAME AND NO ONE LOOKS FOR ME BECAUSE OF THIS WARNING. ASSUME I’VE FALLEN DOWN A WELL.
To be safe, you should stream your entire playthrough, just so we know you’re all right.
This is my first play through. ARE YOU CRAZY. It’s going to take triple the time of a normal person cause of all the looking at stuff and wiping nostalgic tears from my eyes!
No, that would be too boring to watch. I think you’d better just forget that and play through normally 😛
I saw this pic last night http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s—dnac4-F–/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/yf8yf4xg6hr7aslgdyd5.jpg
which one is it from? :O
EDIT: I thought it was Xenoblade for a second 😀
That’s Dreamfall, the previous game. Dreamfall Chapters is the sequel to that. 😀
Totally Xenobladey! With better colours 😛
Well I went and saw Professor Brian Cox last night. Was a very good talk 🙂
***swoon***
Downvoted!!
I missed out on Page 6! In dedication i’ll just leave this here:
Breaking news! Energizer Bunny arrested – charged with battery.
#ILovePageSixHe’s hysterical! Someone slap him!
…
Any one?
A guy walks into a bar and sees 3 pieces of meat hanging from the ceiling. The guy asks, “What’s this about?”
The bartender replies, “Well, if you can jump up and slap the meat, you get free drinks for the rest of the night. If you miss, you pay for everyone’s drinks for the next hour. You wanna do it?”
The guy replies, “Nah, the steaks are too high.”
You’re the only crazy one around here.
*Slaps @dc*
Stop hitting everyone! It’s antisocial.
Eep, PAX is so close. I keep thinking it’s still ages away. This time next week I’ll be at the airport!
I suppose I better try and buy a luggage bag… Why are they so expensive!
*freaks out, melts down*
*hand on shoulder*
You’re worth it.
I’ll treat myself.
Yeah, in 5 days I will be on a train headed to the airport. I should probably pack or something …
Wow, you’re going down early!
Going down the Monday so @scree can get the final touches on my cosplay done.
Need a ride from the airport? I’m on leave after tomorrow.
I was planning to just catch a train but if you are offering …
Ain’t no trains at airports down here.
This comment doesn’t read well on it’s own… 😀
#DirtyMind
Eep! I get handed the keys to our new house the day before PAX!
Go to an opshop – they have TONS of suitcases and bags at low low prices
I am super excited. A trip away – no cooking! no washing! dressups! tram trips! coffee! COFFEE!!
I had to mention coffee twice because I’M GOING TO MELBOURNE AND I HEAR THE COFFEE IS GOOD THERE.
If you do end up doing park run they go to daily grind afterwards that do good coffee and breakfast
A decent bit of luggage is a good investment.
Borderlands The Pre-Sequel
Shadow Of Mordor
Civ Beyond Earth
Pick one for me to buy and justify the decision
All depends what you’re in the mood for.
To be honest, I’d choose Shadow Of Mordor. If you’ve got co-op buds Borderlands is a good choice, but if not I probably wouldn’t bother, it’s pretty hard to play solo (difficulty-wise), moreso than the first two I reckon. And I don’t like strategy games, so I wouldn’t recommend Civ, but that’s just me.
Shadow of Mordor is probably the one that jumps out at me and screams ‘play me’ right now. Borderlands is mighty fun though. I have a couple of co-op friends so it could be worth while
Mordor was a frickin’ blast and well worth the money IMO.
Civ. Because by the time you’ve realised that you should stop playing, the others will be heavily discounted.
There will also be another 5-10 games out that I want by the time I’m done with Civ 😀 the problem with Civ is that while I love the game, I rarely play to end-game. Also I wasn’t overly keen on Alpha-Centauri but Civ IV & Civ V have led me to believe that this will be awesome
I’ll be honest, it looks more like us trying to talk you out of buying Shadow of Mordor than convincing you to buy the other games.
I do want confirmation that it won’t be a complete waste of money 😀 Just dunno which to buy first. PS4 goodness might shine through though
In terms of dollars per hour of gametime, Civ wins hands down. Mind you I haven’t actually read much about how this one is tracking in terms of quality, but they’ve kinda nailed the last two, so I’m not too worried.
I’ve pumped a lot of hours into IV & V. I’m liking the idea of the tech-tree not being totally accessible in one playthrough though. There might actually be some strategy behind researching beyond how fast can your scientists work. I’m yet to read a full preview of the gameplay though so might hold out for that
Probably Mordor. I’ve never really liked Borderlands, and Civ will undoubtedly get expansions within a year and go on sale, which is the main reason I’m holding off on it. Shadow of Mordor is pretty fun, tho. Or go play Civ V – by the time you’ve finished a few games, they’ll all be on sale.
I reckon Mordor is the more “play now” out of that list. I’m skipping Borderlands myself since it’s a timesink I don’t need and just not “important” to me as a franchise) and if you’re like me and CiV, Beyond Earth is something that you’ll probably love to have in your library for years to come but only play periodically.
I bought the Pre-Sequel yesterday. If I didn’t have friencds keen on co-op, I’d have bought Civ in a heartbeat.
If you’re buying Civ, Ozgameshop has it for $50. And Jb Hi Fi has Bl:TPS for $64, which EB not ony price matched for me, they threw in the pre-order DLC and a steelbook for free (which I am going to get signed at Pax)
Feeling a bit funny in the mouth/throat.
Paranoid I’m getting sick. NO, NOT NOW!
I’m always feeling a bit funny in the mouth.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.com
You need a couple of these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OId2pVWTNJM
Time to play #SpotTheDrugs!
I don’t have time for games!
Get Olive Leaf, before it’s too late.
Oh sure, NOW you tell me!
(get the what now?)
Anybody picking up Sunset Overdrive next week?
Bayonetta 2 only!
There’s something different about you evilmonkey…. Something different indeed. I’ll come back to you as soon as I figure it out!
Ok, who’s accessed my account and changed my Gravatar? Don’t know who did it, but I’m pretty fucking pissed off about it.
Ok, it went back to what it was supposed to be on the last post, what the fuck’s going on!
I figured it out! There’s a D in front of your name! *pats self on back*
I’m getting the White Xbone + Sunset Overdrive bundle!
If I hadn’t just had to fork out for a bunch of stuff to move out of home I’d have gotten that too. The white Xbone looks so much nicer than the black one.
I would like to apologize to TAY for the daily destiny shoutouts (feel like I’ve been posting them too frequently D=)
On that note couple of items! @blaghman and @dire_wolf I have one spot free for the 12pm run and 2 spots for the 2-2.30pm run which one can you guys make?
@piat what’s a better timeframe for you on the Saturday?
@saturday how’s your alt looking and let us know if you need to do Nightfall this week with peeps from our group!
Finally we need one more person to register for hard mode VoG (They’re rebuffing Vex Mythoclast so you know you want to clear it!). We will be attempting hard mode with the idea of steady progression so minimum 29 required with 300 primary weapons. If you’d like to register but aren’t 29 the group will help you level but you need to be willing to put in the hours to catch up in level (i.e. daily stories, nightfalls, etc.).
Starting any time from 9am to midday
Shit >.< red can’t make it if it’s too early…. Will you be able to make it for that first run at 12? We’ll try to get it going earlier if people are on!
Yeah, I meant start as in starting the run so 12 is fine
HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT GAMES HERE. UGH.
Daily destiny is daily. A Destiny a day keeps the Fallen away. A Destiny in time saves nine.
Titan is now L26. Had a crack at the L22 weekly heroic last night. Got down to the Summoning Pits all by myself, but realised would need some help… @slyph (L24 titan) heeded my call, and the two of us attempted to take down Phogoth. After 5 attempts, it was clear it was not enough, we needed a third (which I think we realised at the same time…)
Might have another crack tonight if anyone is in to help out and show me strategy by example! As yet unsure whether I’m doing it wrong or I’m just a bit shit…
I can’t commit to levelling that quickly, but once I do get up close to L29 I’ll see what you’re all up to if that’s cool.
Some people suggest sitting outside the main chamber and only taking potshots at Phogoth in between wizard/knight waves and the Shreiker which appears in the antechamber but I personally find it more effective to hang out under the balcony on the left side of the chamber and just put up a solid defence against the hive trying to swarm you. Have some solar damage to keep the wizards at bay and you’re fine – Phogoth doesn’t have a lot of opportunities to catch you out of cover.
The main issue with this particular instance (the weekly heroic strike) is the “angry” modifier which prevents enemies being staggered by critical hits. I’m used to being able to interrupt Phogoth’s facebeam by sniping his weak point. Because he’s “angry” he just pours on the pain. My wife’s main and my main are a level 28 Hunter and level 27 Titan (respectively) and it definitely took us awhile to knock the dude out compared to the level 24 strike playlist version which we’re accustomed to.
I think an occasional tactical retreat out of the room when the big swarms of knights/wizards come might be sensible…
If you’re 26 you should be running the weekly heroic on 26? Higher levels give more strange coins and there’s no point in doing it at a lower level since the damage reduction you take from enemies from lower levels is negligible at best.
I’d recommend getting a group of 3 together to run the weekly heroic – run it at 26 so you can get 6 strange coins (can’t remember the exact number). Worth noting not to buy more than one piece of exotic gear for your toon as you can only equip one exotic piece of armor and one exotic weapon at a time.
Finally Phogoth is the hardest strike in Destiny. Even with a full team wiping 5 times is pretty normal on Phogoth. The current cheesing strategy for him is to dps phogoth, run all the way back into the corridor before the boss fight when his adds spawn, wait there for about 30 seconds (@distantdrop knows the exact time) and then the adds despawn. Run back in dps boss and repeat every time adds spawn.
Given you seem to be just rolling into the game now I take it you don’t have any rep with the Tower factions? If that’s the case I can’t recommend doing the daily PvE and PvP bounties enough. Bear in mind with destiny you’ve got to put in that influx of time initially so you can kick back later on. Most of our group only logs on for 1-2 hours a day now to do the daily story and any easy PvE or PvP bounties for exp needed on weapons and armor. However initially we were on every evening for a few hours grinding out the rep, the mats, the crucible and vanguard marks and not to mention the timesink the exotic bounties are.
I’m only just 26, and figured if I could complete it on 22 I’d just roll back through and go again on 26 to make up the extra coins, but if I can’t beat it on 22 there’s no point wasting time not beating it even worse… so to speak.
Good advice on Phogoth. Thanks.
I’ve been playing pretty consistently since launch (a couple or three hours most evenings) , but only really started playing with others in the last couple of weeks as I’m slowly meeting TAYbies in there (other than random assigns on the regular strikes). My progress is definitely accelerating – jumped from mid 24 to 26 last night with a nice armour drop. I need to do some farming, mainly for Fe and He. Getting there, and having fun. Yes, it’s a grind but it’s fun and I don’t feel I’m stalled, I get a it further towards a goal every night.
Couple of items to keep an eye on then – Once you’re 26 get a group of 3 going and do the daily story at level 28. 28 because at that level you get ascendant shards or energy as a reward for completing the daily story and 3 peeps because the mobs will take nerfed damage from your team if you’re all level 26.
Keep all your ascendant shards and energy aside for raid armor or your exotic helm (Helm because it’s the only raid piece that drops from hard mode VoG) and your favourite weapons. Never attempt to max out or upgrade more than one of each weapon class at a time (i.e. primary, secondary, heavy). Never use ascendant shards on armor that isn’t from the raid unless you have a large surplus of shards i.e. 50-60 and have nothing to use them on.
The most important stat in this game is Light, all the other stuff comes secondary as without a high enough light level you won’t be able to be of any use in the late game content. Finally and most importantly have fun! Due to the grindy nature of the game it’s all too easy to get burnt out on it, get a group of peeps you like running with to join in and make the experience more bearable =P
Nice. That’s good to know.
Yeah, I’ve worked out concentrating on one weapon in each class at a time – got a couple that are full on XP so if claiming bounties I’ll swap in something else so as not to waste the XP, but otherwise, focusing on the 3 legendaries I have to get them up to 300.
Part of why it’s taking me a while is I’m rationing my sessions a bit specifically not to burn-out – I’m enjoying hopping on, hooning around for a bit of farming and a public event, doing a couple of strikes and picking off a couple of bounties for vanguard rep and then grabbing whoever else is on for a strike or PvP. Slyph and xxryan seem to have similar playtime to me (around 10pm to 1am). Slowly introducing myself to others too.
Interacting with real people is scary. 😉
I don’t play on PS4 like most of you so I’m only appending my post to this one for the Destiny content.
I’d like to give a shoutout to @dogman for helping my wife and I run the level 26 Summoning Pits strike and earn Thorn – we simply could not have done it without a badass third.
Also I finished the story and hit level 20 with my Warlock last night, then went straight to level 24 because of the level 20 rare/exotic/legendary items I had set aside for it.
I also have an exotic helmet for my Hunter ready to go though he’s currently only level 15.
I expect I will now divide my time equally across all the characters to run as many bounties/unlock as much gear as possible but I think my Titan will always be my main girl <3
I’m stuck on the Earn 500 void damage kills in the crucible bit. Mainly because my kill ratio is about .5… Still on 0/500. I’m turd at this game. 🙂
I honestly nearly quit Thorn about a hundred times chasing those 500 points in void kills. It takes managing to remain fairly consistent and having the occasional lucky streak. Make a void-damage fusion rifle do all the work, keep a void-damage machine gun in reserve for when you’re fortunate enough to score some heavy ammo – try not to let the bad games make you want to jump out a window!
I believe Jocon used the following strategy – Obtain a void fusion rifle with a fast charge rate then keep queueing in PvP until you get close quarters maps or camp in close quarters sections of maps and fusion rifle people to the face. If you find you die 3-4 times in a row without any kills leave the match and re-queue. This should keep your K/D above 1.0 which basically means you’re making progress on the bounty.
Be warned as Thorn is right now it’s a rather mediocre weapon, probably easily outclassed by the likes of Hawkmoon, Devil you know and probably even Fatebringer.
Edit: Btw Trike at level 26 you should be able to attempt the raid!
Fair enough. I’m just collecting really. Although maybe this is just a waste of a bounty slot.
Great help in this thread. Thanks!
@trikeabout
Nah my strategy was void shotgun exclusively on rumble.
Quit the maps that don’t suit you or if you are getting destroyed but otherwise keep to the close quarters and bumrush people just before they come round a corner.
Even if you die as well it’s still plus points.
Will give it a go! The worst that happens is I start building Crucible reputation… 🙂
My wife has Devil You Know as well and it runs rings around Thorn atm. I’m looking forward to it and Bad Juju being buffed considering how bloody troublesome they are to obtain.
Bad Juju is completely pointless to use… without the reloading perk it’s the single most useless primary in the game. It has a small cartridge, low amounts of reserve ammo when compared to other pulse rifles. The gun you get at the start of the game when you roll a character? That’s more useful than Bad Juju. I can usually kill an enemy in the daily story in 2 rounds of shots however only if I get headshots for the whole pulse. I skipped on obtaining Thorn entirely because of how much trouble it is to get and how useless it is once you do get it.
I don’t think Bungie will buff those legendaries any time soon, they seem to be focussing on fixing their screw ups when it comes to raid oriented stuff but the rest of the game is just not a focus for them. Case in point the glitched out public events where you have to kill a target, or the increasingly unstable PvP servers. Same reason you can cheese through every strike in the game but they’re only fixing the cheesing for the raid.
If you do better in objective based games take note of the choke points on the map. They’ll experience a fair bit of activity depending on which objective is controlled by which side. In most Control matches you can usually hang off a bit from an objective and score some easy kills while legitimately defending the objectives. More importantly though watching choke points teaches you where you shouldn’t go. Often you’ll save yourself a death or three by taking the long way around rather than fighting to get through a hallway.
I’m pretty crappy at shooters but I make up for it by knowing how maps flow. By moving quickly through the safer avenues I’m able to pick off people on the outskirts of the higher traffic areas. As a general rule if you die without even damaging your opponent don’t go back there. =P
And always, always pay attention to heavy ammo. They spawn on a regular-ish timer in the same locations every time. Know when one is due and stay close to the spawn, grab the ammo, see if there’s another one that hasn’t been taken. If it has been picked up avoid that area for the map for a minute so the player who picked it up runs out of rockets. If it hasn’t been picked up head over there and try and get it. Just stay on your toes. If it looks like someone will beat you to it hold back a little then blast them when they go to pick it up.
All that said if it’s too much don’t be afraid to give up on it. Halo style jumpy shooters can take a lot of getting used to. The game sort of pressures you into getting absolutely everything you can and maxing everything out, but you don’t really need to. The only reason you need the best weapons is if you want to run the highest content, but Raiding on Hard Mode isn’t really worth it if it brings with it a mountain of stress. Exotic weapons are awesome and the Thorn convinced me to use Hand Cannons more often, but purple weapons are awesome too and you can always buy exotic weapons off Xur on the weekend with Strange Coins.
Also all good advice. Cheers.
Wax on, wax off.
Happy to help. It was a pretty smooth run too once we got moving. We only got slowed down by those damn floaty bastards. (Extremely powerful attack + high health + shields + ability to move pretty much anywhere in under a second) * 3 = suck. =(
I think the thing that turned the tide getting through the door was me switching out The Swarm for Super Good Advice. Void Damage was just a waste of bullets against those Wizards.
If there’s raiding happening at some point in the evenings I can be available. I’ve got 2 warlocks that I’m using to grind for raid gear as I’ve had no drops in 3-4 raids so far at all so level 30 is a long way away for me so far 🙁
Haha, me too.
6 raids with 4 Atheon kills and no gear for me.
Got weapons coming out of all the places tho.
I think I’ve picked up 1 weapon and the ship. Everything else so far has been energy, shards and Chatterwhite (woo). Annoying when one of my clan basically got a whole set of armour plus a weapon or two in her first couple of raids.
Yeah that’s pretty irritating.
Know someone who did it one and a half times and got all the things.
Tempting… Nearly finished upgrading my gloves last night (just need shards for the last one), so back to 29 again at last. My epilogue’s still got a couple of upgrades left, tho, so not quite 300, according to the site. Can I put myself down as a maybe?
I’m all for getting further in Hard mode, for the purpose of getting more loot every week, but I don’t feel that putting extra hours into Destiny outside of that will help my advancement much at this point.
Are you guys doing normal raid on saturday, and do you have me down for it? 🙁
There is a spot open but the time frame depends on which one blaghsy and dire choose to attend! i.e. whichever spot they decide not to take as they get first shot since they were part of the original group =]
Alright, let me know. I shoud have most of saturday free,
I can do either, whatever’s easiest. If I have to show a preference I’d say the earlier one, but doesn’t bother me.
Sounds good! I’ll lock you in for 12pm!
@dire_wolf for 2-2.30pm and @stickman?
Sounds good, let me know precise time.
Without the Atheon hotfix 2pm, with it 2.30pm =P
alt hit 23 today. It’s all about switching gear out for me when the time comes to complete the raid the second time, so I don’t think I’ll be pouring too much time into getting my alt it’s own separate gear and weapons.
Go away, heat.
🙁
What heat? BRING ME HEAT!
Go away cold 🙁
Is this enough heat? – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo
Yeah, it is warm here too.
Just followed up with my landlord re getting an air conditioner
It’s the little things that change after having a kid. I’m pretty sure I didn’t previously walk around the office singing the teddy bears picnic
I do that now, Good to know my life wont change at all.
HeLlO eVeRyOnE.
look at how edgy and cool this guy is.
lol jks he is a Loser
tune in the Hotross report for more up to the minute evaluations of Shiggy’s gradual decline into oblivion
I base my life around two things. Shadow the Hedgehog and Metallica’s St Anger album.
Really? St Anger? Man, that’s their worst and I say that with love.
My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.
You’re sadly mistaken. Lulu is their worst by far, trust me.
I’m yet to listen to that one.
I’ll send it to you with Alien. You can have it, listened to it once and wished I’d never bought it.
Thank you.
You’re Doing Caps All Wrong. As I Understand It, This Is How They Work. 5.39M Twitter Followers Can’t Be Wrong!.
That kid is a fucking idiot. What the fuck is wrong with him?
His dad is super famous. That (seriously) explains everything.
Hm. New 3DS Strategy RPG announced in Japan, “Stella Glow”. Developed by Imageepoch (who I always mis-read as Image-pooch) and the plot sounds a bit generic but the game’s director worked on Luminous Arc, the producer was a lead on Okami and 7th Dragon 2020 (which we sadly never got), and one of the contributing artists is Ideolo who I am a massive fan of. So quite intrigued.
“New 3DS” as in exclusive for the New 3DS, or just a new game for 3DS? 😛 (This is going to happen a lot)
ps. I totally read it as Image Pooch.
New game for 3DS, not for New 3DS as far as I know.
Nintendo are the fucking worst at branding, for serious.
Nintendo 64! It’s the third one.
I can’t read it as anything but Image-pooch
Today’s playtest is apparently World of Warships.
Given how good I was at World of Tanks, I can see this being a disaster. But a company sanctioned disaster!
Envy 🙁 I’m hoping to get a chance to try that at PAX.
@tigerion Tiglet’s little mat thingy is on its way. Knowing Australia Post expect it in oh…3 years or so. 😛
I put that Tarot CD in there I told you I’d give you ages ago, too. I actually was keeping it to get your address and secretly send something for the Tiglet along with it but things worked out a little differently. 😀
It seems I’m always forgetting to put notes with washing instructions on things, too. I should print off some tags to attach or something! I washed it in Omo Sensitive before posting it off so it should be good to use straight away. Cold machine wash, and dry in the sun. It has a PUV layer at its core so probably don’t put it in the dryer, things might get melty. PUV is breathable, though, and I used bamboo for the other innards(I love getting to say”innards” it’s one of my favourite words!) of it which is also breathable along with hypo-allergenic and mildew resistant.
Before I washed it, I also tipped a cup full of water over it to test how water resistant it was and nothing soaked all the way through so hopefully it will do what you want it to do. Anyway,it’s far from perfect, but it’s made with love so hopefully that makes up for some bad choices I made while quilting late at night when Mr. Strange was away. 🙂
ALL THE UPVOTES!!!!!!!
I was super hungry because I hadn’t eaten or drank anything all day, but I think heating up four of these awesome Naan breads from Costco may have been a mistake….
Naah.
because you are only heating up four?
Sounds like the best kind of mistake!
Seriously guys, my innards are about to be my outtards, I’m gonna explode! I ate all but a 4cm square-ish piece and I was full before I even started the third one. 😛
Go to an indian supermarket and get Roti Parathas. So good, and so easy. I prefer them these days to Naan.
You have not truly lived until you have had a chef make fresh stuffed naan in a tandoori oven for you. They have a guy who does it at the Melba and he’ll even do one stuffed with chocolate M&Ms if you ask.
Not that going to the Melba is something you would do more than occasionally mind you. We’ve been there a few times for work functions and I took my Grandpa there once.
Holy shit, how good is Costco Naan, but?
So… Senran Kagura: Bon Appetit (hurr) releases November 11th US/12th EU. This is the weirdo rhythm game / cooking battle spinoff for Vita. My body is ready.
Oddly, both this and Shinovi Versus are censored for the EU releases, but in the oddest possible way: there’s a ‘dressing room’ in the game where you can set characters up with different outfits and accessories and stuff (apparently unlocks and costume DLC etc. is shared between the two games which is cool) and sometimes they make various comments about things, and the subtitles for those comments (which sometimes have some innuendo I guess) were removed. No actual content cut, they still say the stuff in Japanese and the visuals are there and everything. Apparently this was to avoid the ire of some PAL-area ratings board so I’m going to assume that it’s some weirdo rule from the Australian Classification Board because who else would it be? Maybe they were afraid they’d suddenly get an R18+ for high impact sexual violence or whatever it was like the Atelier games. :\
Got Shinovi Versus, but haven’t really played it properly yet.
I’ve played a bit and it’s fairly okay. Has some flaws but quite fun.
The biggest issue is that the enemy Shinobi can sometimes back you into a corner and stun-lock you though that’s probably partially my fault for being shit at parrying. Also a few of them have poison or paralyze effects on their attacks which are very annoying. Some of the characters are really bad match-ups for other characters too.
I haven’t progressed far enough in the story or whatever I need to do to unlock the original Hebijo characters yet, haven’t tried any of Gessen girls and I briefly tried the new Hebijo group but the first mission matches Miyabi against Imu and I couldn’t beat her. 🙁 Note also: I haven’t finished the original 3DS game. I know what happens in the original game’s plot (since it’s the anime’s plot) but not the Burst scenario. Half tempted to go back and finish that but probably not – Versus is just so much better.
If theoretically someone were to want to get this where would be the best place since the normal channels don’t seem to have it.
Hypothetically.
It’s a Digital-only release so PSN.
Civ BE this week.
Freedom Wars next week.
Isaac Rebirth, self-made Cup Day long weekend and BlizzCon (Virtual ticket) week after that.
Then Warlords of Draenor on the 13th week after THAT.
Hngh.
Nothing this week. \o/
Nothing next week. \o/
Nothing the week after that. \o/
Senran Kagura and Tales of Hearts R on the 11th /o\
Dragon Age: Inquisition and Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd on the 18th /o\
Persona Q on the 25th /o\
After that I’m basically done for the year though unless I decide to grab an Assassin’s Creed.
Man, Lifehacker’s evil week seems considerably more evil this year
Ok, phonecall made. @benny, you’re in. Rate was slightly higher than what I told you, but not much – $65 a night instead of 63.
PAX STUFF SORTED! \o/
Well, except for that whole costume thing.
I get to sleep with @benny?
We all get to sleep with @benny!
Thank you! So hype! 😀
@jocon We have Civ this week!! I have to forget about all forms of free time 0,0
I might get it up and running after Saturday’s raid, session on Sat/Sun?
I will probably not be up for multi right away. With most new games I prefer to take my time and learn and play at my own pace initially.
But once I am satiated with couple of big playthroughs I’ll be down for it.
How many calories does an hour of soccer burn please say all because I am so hungry I’m going to eat your face
Depends if you were the goalie or not.
Depends also if player or spectator.
My gloves arrived AND HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS THEY FIT!!!
I don’t even care they are kind of shabby looking and low quality. Just the fact I can get my fingers into them.
What sort did you end up getting?
Cotton boxing glove inners. $20 for 10 of them.
Success!! \o/
The Les Miserables exhibition was quite good.
Highly recommended.
Where is that on?
I’m finally organised for PAX. Flights, accommodation, all that stuff.
I should probably check that I have any money left.
Oh yeah. TAY marketing!
The SMB Archive guy dropped me a line the other day to mention/remind that the Super Mario Bros Blu Ray release is coming up soon. It comes out on November 3, in the UK. I have no idea how regioning works since I don’t even have a player for the thing, but apparently it’s Region B. Whatever that means for us. There’s some info about it on the site – http://www.smbmovie.com
We are also Region B. Blu-ray is like PSN logic – Aus/NZ is in Europe. 🙂
Sweet.
Wonder if CeX would be getting any copies in. They seem to sell a whole load of UK-region stuff.
Boo – I bought some shoes online for my Unikitty outfit, but they’re just a bit too small 🙁 I can get a refund, that’s not a problem, but now I have to try and find new ones before next week – I was trying really hard to avoid last minute rushing!
You’ve got one week to drop a shoe size! You can do it!
CUT OFF A TOE!
How small? Like, half a size?
At least half a size. I bought two pairs, both size 40. One pair is fine, but the other I can *just* get my foot in and they press my heel and my toes are all jammed up the end. I’d be in agony if I tried to wear them for any length of time.
Ah, that much is no good. We stretch shoes at work but they only go up half a size at most and not really any length.
It’s ok, they didn’t cost a lot and I can return them. Just inconvenient!
Shoe problem? Troubles a foot.
#pageupsidedownsix
Hope it all works out for you in the end! I hate last minute panic things! *sending good thoughts in your direction*
Weekend with Benny! I’M GOING TO PAX! *everyone acts stupefied*
I’d like to thank my parents for having me; and Gooky and Freeze who are going to have me.. Many thanks to Gooky, who really made this happen but in case you missed all the kerfuffle, a spot pretty much opened up and I just slipped right in there!
@mrtaco please send me all the information to benbonnici at gmail dot com. I’ve organised overnight bus trips to Melb and back on the Thursday night and Sunday night, so I really only need Friday/Saturday bunkage and the 3 day pass.
😀 😀 😀
I’ll call up this afternoon and see if I can get that last night knocked off for you.
Don’t sweat it if you cannot.
Sorted!
@greenius
Overnight bus? Where are you travelling from?
Adelaide. The Firefly coaches charge $60 one way; travel time is a bit shit at 8pm-6am but if I can’t sleep I’m hoping to catch up with some 3DS games.
WOO PAX
IT’S A SA INVASION
What did you want me to do with this Saturday pass? Give it to you on Friday or do you want to trust AusPost?
I’ll grab it from you on the Friday- I’ll be on the look out for Super Saiyaman
Great Saiyaman.
Don’t think I’ll be in costume the first day. Get in a bit later and having to find hotel and what not. Might leave it for last two days.
OK, we will tweet up a meeting point. Or just yell “Red” at anyone dressed as Raz.
WHAT HAVE I DONE
made a fool of everyone, it seemed like such fun until you lose what you have won.
Yeah whoo yeah yeah whoo yeah
Who’s this guy!
Does Mrs Benny know yet? 😛
Haha, yes. That’s the first call I made at lunch. Actually it was half your doing too, Freeze. When I saw that you were suddenly coming along without your clan, I went ‘huh – boy’s night out, perhaps?’ so yeah thanks.
Let’s stay up all night, braid each others hair and rate all the taybie’s handsomeness.
[redacted] This is going to be so much fun!
oh, so you have a 3-day pass? or do you want to have the 2 saturday tickets back?
They are yours afterall 😛
I have a 3 day pass now! Enjoy the two Saturdays; they’re yours, more correctly! See you next weekend! 😀
hugs inbound, just an FYI! 😛
First ep of Dreamfall Chapters is awesome, BUT it doesn’t feel like good episodic. It feels like a game that’s just been separated into five parts. If the release schedule was shorter this wouldn’t be a bad thing, but I can’t help but think this might damage the momentum slightly. It was great, though. Loved being back in those worlds. Loved the intriguing new storyline. If I wasn’t such a fanboy I would wait until all parts were released. It does have branching pathways the other games didn’t have, which will be interesting to see unfold.
And if any one wonders if it feels loyal to The Longest Journey:
https://twitter.com/hermitdc/status/524753105657663488
*slaps deecee* You’re hysterical, man! Sort yourself out!
Things I liked: (No out right spoilers, but putting it in spoiler space anyway.)
How grown up some of the choices felt. You have valid reasons to fight with your boyfriend, but you can choose how to handle it. Act impulsively or think of the relationship and let things slide. It feels complex and nuanced. Realistic. I also liked how sprawling Stark felt in this game. Lots to see and do with the promise of more. Definitely more reminiscent of The Longest Journeys Stark than Dreamfalls.Things I didn’t like:
Still plenty of fetch quest stuff which got old fast in Dreamfall.OK, I don’t feel bad now. I forgot to order. But I may get it soon and then wait until it’s all out to play…
I will be waiting. 🙂
Wednesday afternoon game!
You’re in a zombie apocalypse, and you’re in a group of 3, consisting of you, and the last 2 TAYbies who replied / mentioned you (excluding mentions from this / these posts).
How screwed are you?
Mine are @highperformance and @dc
I think Highperformance would put up a good fight, cause he’s fit and what not, but realistically I think me and DC would kinda just hinder him.
DC would be too busy looking at urban decay, I’d want to go raid clothing stores, and I think we’re both pacifists at heart :3
On the plus side though, DC has hermit skills, so he could find us shelter, and I will always find food, so so long as Highperformance protected us, I think we’d do alright 🙂
I give us a week or two 🙂
this game falls apart when every single person has DC in their party
Sucks to be you guys.
I kind of forgot about that slight problem :3
It was a good idea for a game! :’O
*shakes fist at DC*
Well, just ignore my posts then. Geez.
Excluding Highperformance, you’re literally my last 7 replies / mentions, in a row, I might add 😛
Not my fault no one else wants to talk to you guys. 😛
<03
See that, DC?
That’s a hole in my heart.
Why must you hurt me so?
Who here is slower than me? You can be on my team.
It’s okay, You and @freezespreston are on my team. As long as both your legs aren’t broken you can run faster then me. =P
So your plan is to break our legs!?
I’ve got @dkzeitgeist and @redartifice.
I think I’m gonna be fine.
Gawd that would be a fun apocalypse. Dan might die with no pop culture to reference though
It’s OK, we’ll act out new comic book movies for him.
@strange, what’s your batman voice like?
Rocketman and Trikeabout.
So we have lasers and… well I don’t know much about Trikeabout but from what I can tell he seems to be really good at lurking in the shadows unnoticed. That could come in handy.
Dunno what I bring to the table though. I guess we’ll be ok if any girl zombies come along? Speaking of which that gives me a song to put in DC’s post below…
………………..seriously how the hell did this end up a reply to Strange. I DIDN’T EVEN TOUCH ANYWHERE NEAR THAT BUTTON!
At least until you kill me for too many puns.
So after the first one?
You know I’m one of the guys people would practice killing so that they knew what to do when a real apocalypse hit, right?
I have @Freezespreston and @benny.
If I can coax Freeze into RPing as Lundgredolph for the entire apocalypse, we’ll do OK
@phlanispo and @stickman
I know stickman has some fire in him. I reckon he could put up a good fight. I think he mentioned he’s taller than average too, which could mean he’d have a decent reach which could come in handy for zombie killing.
I don’t know too much about Phlanispo other than I believe he is a student. In my eyes, this can only be a good thing. If we can gather up some of his school yard cronies to tag along, then we could become quite a force. Also, hoping he can get us in to the science rooms so we can formulate some anti-zombie chemicals.
I’d give the three of us a 90% chance of surviving the first week, 50% over a month and 10% over a year.
*implies I have any friends outside of TAY*
Why is it always Zombie Apocalypse? So cliche and boring, ugh.
Why not you’re locked in a steam room and the last person who mentioned or replied to you is dead on the floor and the next 3 are in there with you. You’ve all just regained conciousness and don’t know what happened except the murderer. The temperature is rising to unbearable levels and you need to get out before you’re all cooked. With the people you have what are your chances of getting out and who do you suspect is the murderer?
Edit: don’t mind me. I have an irrational Hatred for zombies written into stories.
MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN GAME THEN FREEZE, GOD!
Jst jks, ily bae :*
Literally just spat out a little bit of my drink half way through reading this. Now I’m cleaning my keyboard.
Kotaku is telling me I’m the last person who replied to me.
So I’m dead?
Split personalities.
A random drifter @badger is dead
I glance around the sauna, looking at @strange, @rocketman and @mrtaco
Thankfully the the sauna door has a small window in it. A quick walk in front of it by a topless Gooky will have some ladies smashing down the door in no time.
As for Badger’s untimely death, well all I can say is Oh Rocketman
You’re not bringing me down @dc!!!!! *Opens door, runs into swarm of Zombies*
I have @powalen & @tigerion in my team, Pow and I ride bikes so we’ll take our road cycles and outrun the Zombies. I’m still learning about Tigs, I look forward to hearing what skills you can bring to the party?
I am having a good day,
I have done a bunch of repairs and i feel purpose in my job again. When its slow, it honestly feels like im paid to wait until home time. When i get to do my job i feel very happy and proud of myself. It really confirms that i do love the work i do. Wish i could keep doing it but in a bigger city where my ladyfriend can get a job.
You are building a laser death-ray aren’t you?
WHY DID I POST THAT. HAHA!
LAST PLAYED SONG GAME:
You’re never alone. *hugasaurus*
We have people posted outside your house peeping in your windows to check on you. 😛What did you say. DC man stop deleting shit.
Also if it was depressing. DOUBLE DONT DELETE IT
I LOVE YOU
THIS!
also
Last song played.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xWvRgwsOTw NSFW!
Related to above: One Night In Bayou – The Brothel Creepers
John Mayer Trio – Another Kind of Green
The Fame – Lady Gaga
I forgot how good her early stuff is!
And what’s this about being alone?
Don’t be silly, you’ll always have us!
Always 🙂
Slipknot – Killpop
Seriously digging the new album. Don’t much care if people think it’s daggy to like them these days either. They still make some fucking solid music, and Corey Taylor is fantastic. Stone Sour is also tops.
In Pieces – Linkin Park (off my favourite LP album Minutes To Midnight \o/)
Meteora is a pretty cool guy.
Absolutely. I kind of class Meteora and Hybrid Theory as one big album though. Or similarly, the early/original LP. I love pretty much all of the songs on those two albums…
But, M2M was such a brave step forward and I loved the fusion of different music styles in it. Melodic rock is probably one of my favourite genres of music (along the lines of Audioslave, Chili Peppers, Incubus) and LP seemed to going more for that whilst holding tight to their signature power choruses/vocals, distortion and electro/rap fusion. Pretty amazing stuff and really underrated IMHO.
Really liked that whole album, had a very good flow to it. In Pieces was definitely my favourite off the album, loved the buildup from the start of the track.
Agreed. Gonna give it a playthrough on my way home I think!
Hybrid Theory and Meteora literally fit on one CD, so it was ‘one album’ in the car CD player back in my early driving days.
Edit: My big problem with M2M was that it was like Mike and Chester made half an album each, then worked together for one song. Whole album seemed like it was pretty much one or the other doing vocals.
Get Away – CHVRCHES (love you @rocketman. YOU TOO DC)
people read my facebook statuses
YAAAAY
I wasn’t that fond of it the first time, but it’s definitely grown on me. So, good choice.
Yeah I’m the same. Buddiessss.
The Devil In I – Slipknot
Crazy Train – Ozzy. Strangely resonant with how I feel about the last couple of months…
Crazy, but that’s how it goes… / millions of people, living as foes. / Maybe it’s not too late / to learn how to love, and forget how to hate…
CKY – Lost in a Contraption, just reliving my teens
Austrian Death Machine – I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, and Your Motorcycle
Got some shoes for my Link cosplay.
😀
close to being done with it yet? I wanna see crazylinkguy1990!
Not yet.
Got to sew everything.
sew.. what are you waiting for? 😉
Apparently not page 6!
since page 6 went by far too quickly, I figured I’d throw in a random one for good measure!
Aaaarrrgggghhh! Why didn’t any one tell me Austrian Death Machine released a third album? And that it was awesome.
I Eat Green Berets For Breakfast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0q2GdtK4hU
Edit: nope. I give up. Every embedded link I attempt Kotaku just screws up.
Whoops! Messed up my knee again at soccer today. I can barely walk now… but maybe I can use it to get out of going to Perth? 😛 (if I have to go there again)
PAX stuff… so what’s happening outside of PAX? I wouldn’t mind meeting the new peoples. Is anyone staying for a period earlier/later than PAX itself?
What’s wrong with perth??
Ohh right I live there…
I see your point.
You live there and you won’t see your buddy Greenius :'(
I have never seen more than 1 Perth TAYbie at the same place at the same time. ARE YOU ALL ONE PERSON?!
Yes.
We are one…
We are legion…
Join us…
Become a perth citizen and part of a hive mind, you will never look back.
(Because all you memories will be wiped)
I’ll be there from Wednesday next week to the following Tuesday!
You would’ve needed a working knee to do what I had planned though…
But I’ve got a working knee!
Just one though.
Good thing I still fit the bill 😀
I should be in by Thursday lunch? Not really very far ahead, but if people want to have lunch, or grab a beer that night, or something, that could work.
Soccer man hey? Just keep moving your knee by walking and kicking it slowly in the air, restore the range of motion than start doing body weight squats and mini lunges.
You’ll be back to Messi level in no time!
I’m there from Sunday to Sunday.
THIS WEEK IN COMIC BOOK TV (so far as Arrow and Constantine haven’t aired)
3 decent showings.
GOTHAM
Best episode so far. A case of the week that’s actually interesting, less of the crazy OTT stuff but still with a heightened sense of reality, and a great nod to something I would expect at about this point in the timeline
The drug Venom. Also, a 70 year old man hulking out was hilariousLine of the week:
“What’s Altruism?”
3.5 murdered parents out of five (3 murdered, one injured)
FLASH (Ahhh-aaah, saviour of the universe)
Very case of the week- I get the sense that this is still setting up ground work. Some nice arc stuff though, with Snow’s backstory and two great scenes with both of barry’s father figures. Gas baddie a little lame, but everyone knows that all the villains will be lame until Gorilla Grodd shows up (though Captain Cold is very soon)
3.5 murdered parents out of five (realised this scale also works for The Flash) (3 Murdered, one imprisoned)
MARVEL’S AGENTS OF FUCK TYPING ALL THOSE FULL STOPS
Boom. Great episode. The Hydra stuff was cool, Raina continues to be twisty and duplicitous, progress on the carving front, great action (last week also had great action too) and
Mockingbird! That was great, and she even had the batons. Only downside for me is that by making her Hunter’s ex we likely won’t see mockingbird/Hawkeye stuff. Also, they’re totes establishing the Inhumans asF.S.O.O.F (Four stars out of five)
I watched SHIELD tonight, so I just read your spoiler for that, but your spoiler ends on a cliffhanger….
…A thing. A tag ate it
TAY SMART INTERNET PEEPLES!
I NEED ASSISTANCE CHOOSING AN ISP
Basically living in Dromana the choice’s of ISP aren’t that big and the speeds arent that crash hot either. Basically I have 3 choices!
Telstra who can confirm me ADSL 2+ with 200GB at $93/m
TPG who just built their own DSLAM last year who can confirm me ADSL 2+ with Unlimited downloads for $60/m
Internode who cant confirm with me if it’ll be ADSL2+ or just ADSL with 200GB for $70/m
I NEED THE HELP!
Internode because it’s not TPG or Telstra
Well played good sir
Internode are the cat’s pyjamas.
I dont have a cat..and I cant even look one up because I have no internet!!
To expand on my disjointed twitter ranting: TPG stole thousands out of our bank account through our credit card, admitted to it then told us to go fuck ourselves if we thought they were repaying it back. Then immediately disconnected us and took the contract payout off the card. Took a lengthy and expensive battle through the court to get it all back.
There’s people out there who haven’t had a problem. Which is great. Because the instant you have even a slight problem they are an utter nightmare.
This is what I feared as your the 5th person I’ve heard say they’ve had money stolen from them by TPG and I dont want to have money stolen, the only tempting part was the cheapness of it and the fact the neighbour swears hes never had a problem in the year hes been with them.
Also that and the Telstra DSLAM is nearly full and apparently even with ADSL2+ speeds can drop to dial up speeds during summer because of all the tourists congesting the one telstra exchange
If everyone is charging around the same price for something and one outlier is much cheaper there’s usually a reason they’re cheaper and it’s never a good one.
I pressed the upvote button on this ten times but it only says 1 but pretend it says 10
You’re a liar!
Because if you did press it ten times it would end up with no vote!
#DetectiveGreenius
I just clicked yours 10 times and it landed on green! 😮
Close enough, I wasn’t actually counting, but it seemed like around 10 😛
But I guess you still could’ve pressed it 10 times but didn’t wait for the vote to change…
#DetectiveGreeniusFindsTheFlawsInHisHimself
Been with TPG since 2010 (dial up, ADSL, ADSL2+ at 5 different addresses). Have had a few issues that require some extraordinary patience with their contact centre in the Philippines. But never had money come out of my account beyond what I was expecting or should have been debited.
TPG is good value if you’re happy completing some self diagnosis and troubleshooting prior to any calls. If you need a no fuss service Internode is easily the best option.
But is no fuss worth the extra $30 a month for not unlimited service
What are you going to be doing that will burn through more than 200gb/mo. on ADSL2+ speeds?
I’m on Cable and get maybe 80mbit and I sometimes have made it to 250gb and I’d say I’m a very heavy user.
I have a grandfathered 500GB plan and I rarely go over 100GB…except this month… I lost my… Err… TV collection… And am grabbing my back log again so currently have 300GB queued up.
Nothing at all its just the extra $30 a month is a bit daunting especially if the net is getting throttled for 4 months because of tourists
Fair enough.
Internode build their own networks & DSLAMs too, but I suspect in that case based off the price quoted that’s one of their ‘Reach’ plans which are I think on Telstra’s hardware.
@negativezero its their Easy Reach plan which is $90 a month with a home phone with another providor or $100 for their phone provider Nodephone or whatever it is so I can only assume its telstra hardware
– TPG are utter shit with crap customer service and crap actual service, which is why they charge so little for ‘unlimited’.
– Telstra are Telstra. Upside is that if you have line faults they give a shit and will fix them (especially if you also get a landline). They meter uploads so 200gb is Upload + Download. High Frequency Cable isn’t an option where you are? HFC is really the only reason you’d go Telstra IMO.
– Internode are an okay ISP run by competent people and are generally pretty good. They tend to be a bit pricier than some of the other ADSL2+ providers but you’ll get better quality service and stuff.
On balance, I’d go Internode.
I contacted telstra apparently a bunch of ADSL2+ ports got added to the DSLAM however phone line in the block of units has also only recently (in the last year) got connected as the wires were apparently wrecked at the unit for the past 5 years and no one cared.
Apparently also during summer when the tourists come down the telstra DSLAM gets congested and speeds drop to dial up speeds whereas apparently it doesn’t affect TPG as they have their own DSLAM now
@pupp3tmast3r Sorry it’s taken me a bit to get back to you. So I’m in the raid group for 2.30 on Saturday?
Yep! just check in around 2 if you’re up for it because I think the hotfix for Atheon hasn’t gone in yet so the first run shouldn’t take too long.
@negativezero I have 5 cardcaptor VHS, Canadian dub. I know they only ever released the 5 Videos before moving them all onto DVDs. I’ve heard they are worth something. Would you know more?
@negativezero Because I derped the first time
@negativezero because this feels like the anime version of Antiques Roadshow the moment VHS is brought up
@negativezero because all the cool kids are doing it.
@negativezero just to torpedo his zombie survival team.
@negativezero is the guy whose high score I beat in a game that I’ve only ever played once, and because I’m a jerk, I like reminding him every now and then
You’re a monster. 🙁
I’ve never managed to beat that score that you burned through on your first go btw. 🙁 I do play it occasionally but I usually burn out on Out of the Blue or Gouryella (usually because of mistakes I make on the horrible stretch of Celebrate Our Love, Kelly Watch the Stars and Aganju.
It’s such a rad soundtrack overall though. I used to be super into electronic stuff and Voyage mode in Electronic Symphony feels like you’re going through someone’s record collection. Pacific 707 is the highlight for me. The only one I really wish wasn’t in there is Disco Infiltrator.
I literally have no recollection of any songs or tunes from Lumines II :P. I’m tempted to play it again because it’s friggen awesome, but I love the bragging rights 😀
@greenius:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumines_Electronic_Symphony#Music
It’s a really good setlist.
Interestingly, the game didn’t start out as a trip through electronic music – when it was originally pitched, it was going to be Daft Punk Lumines. They were going to write a whole soundtrack for it and were actually pretty excited about it, but contracts got tricky and then they got involved with doing the soundtrack for Tron and they didn’t have time because the game needed to be done for Vita launch.
Yeah, I know, but only a certain number were made before they swapped to DVDs
Not about Cardcaptors Nelvana dubs, nope. They’re definitely rare – especially because Australia was the only one to get a home video VHS release of the international version – but I don’t know if that translates to value or not.
I’ve got it all on DVD and BD, but they’re US imports and it’s the subbed version.
Dammit, I’m stuck in the same position I was in before =P
https://medium.com/the-cauldron/why-gamergaters-piss-me-the-f-off-a7e4c7f6d8a6
Chris Kluwe ranting about Gamergate. It’s brilliant.
My chest is starting to hurt.
Glorious.
Also, that’s what gamergate is about? Really?
I had assumed is was some new neckbeard bs not beating the corpse of the last one.
Why is anyone with a shred of reason even still engaging in the conversation?
Anyone with a shred of reason isn’t engaging in the conversation, sadly people with a shred of reason are few and far between….
I’d play something right now, but I’m way too bored… :\
#Bumasha
#Burnasha
*crawls out from under rock*
Working sucks balls sometimes. I can’t believe it’s already Wednesday night… I’ve only just got around to reading last 2 pages of TAY…
What did I miss?
D.C. went mad.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-299/comment-page-6/#comments
*backs away slowly*
It’s like TAY slipped into an alternate dimension for a few hours…
It was glorious. I loved every minute.
Does anyone know if Dark Souls 2 supports the screenshot functionality on PS3?
It doesn’t support screenshots on PS3.
Ah. That’s unfortunate. Thanks for responding!
Hmm, I need another project in Minecraft. I’ve spent the last week doing nothing but mining. Can anyone give me ideas? My house is on an island, so digging a big hole is out of the question.
Dig a big hole anyway.
Damn, I had an awesome idea, but it can only be implemented in creative mode.
Wait, it can be implemented, I just need 500+ lapis lazuli pieces.
Yay, I just realised I could use blue wool instead!
it’s been so long since I went on Minecraft… 500 blocks of lapis is not too hard to get :Pfort3 pick all the way!
So who’s not going to PAX next week? WAGON CIRCLER ROLL CALL!
Not me!
It was all a ruse?
Definitely not.
Not not not I!
ME! We should hang out.
Cheap beers & Mario Kart at my place?
I would if I could, but I can’t :'(
Hopefully next year though 🙂
Definitely not me.
Not me. Wish I could but for reasons I can not so I will not be there.
I ain’t, but then again i’ll be in Brisbane that weekend!
Nup.
Ok, I’m not very far in, but some of the levels so far in Rayman Legends are crazy good.
Like, so so good.
Some of the most unique, thought out, original level designs I’ve seen!
And I love the charm of the art and the music 🙂
Dammit I still gotta get around to that.
Was going so good with my Wii U backlog, then the wheels fell off entirely.
Get around to it Gooky!
It’s real good ol’fashion platforming!
Full of lots of charm and character!
You won’t regret it!
I know! I specifically queue-jumped to Origins to prepare for Legends!
…but then wanted to take a break with something else so that I wouldn’t ruin the experience by having too much Rayman all at once.
Remember the days when you had like one game to last you until the next birthday/Christmas?
Remember the days when you could be perfectly happy playing the first three levels of the one game over and over because you couldn’t get any further than that but it didn’t matter at all and the one game could actually last you for that whole entire stretch? 😛
Oh wait but rentals were a thing too. That’d help break things up a bit.
Man I don’t think I’ve rented a game since… Spiderman on GameCube? So like 2002 or something. No stores near me had GameCube games for rent, the only place I saw them was up at the one near my Nanna’s place. And that was only close to launch, they got rid of them not too much later.
I used to play the same PS 1 demo discs over and over and over again.
It was one of my favourite games 🙂
Good memory actually 🙂
I once raided all my dad’s PC User magazine discs and tagged them with a note for demos that interested me. Went through and played all of them (the ones that worked, anyway), and kept the ones I liked most and would play an absolute tonne of them.
Simpler times.
I think the demo disc was my most played game as a child. I spent so much damn time in Tombi, Ghost in the Shell, and Medievil.
Now I can start on the DLC!
Impressive!
Nicely done, I like the weird Mr Vampire like enemies in the DLC.
Oooooh I just played my first musical stage!
I think I’m in love! 😀
The musical levels are fantastic. If they had released DLC with more musical levels I so would have thrown money at my monitor.
Woo reply fail.
Gave the Massive Chalice beta a whirl this morning. From the looks of things it’s going to have the usual fantastic comedy you get in a Double Fine game.
That’s the sorta-kinda SRPG like Fire Emblem and Banner Saga isn’t it?
Yup!
How solid is the game. Not sure if I should try it out or wait for the final release
All the basic stuff seems to be there. I haven’t played enough to see how far it goes yet.
Who wants to bet Double Fine will run out of money before completing it?
…it’s in beta.
Space Base DF-9 was in beta for a while. :/
*crickets*
*soccers*
*videogames*
*internet controversy*
I’ve been struck by a terrible affliction. One that I’ve never known before…
Bicycle envy.
All these people gallivanting around on these cool looking things while I’m pootling along on my cheapo. I saw one that looked really cool, took note of the website sticker on the side, looked it up… Nine hundred dollars! …I’ll pass.
In relatable news, I’ve already begun packing for PAX in my mind. “No, don’t wear this shirt, I want to take it to PAX!” 😛 I do know I have a washing machine, right?
pootling……. ha
There are 2 crazy people here who have $5000 bicycles, neither of them are professional or anything just for hobbies, $5000…………. for $5000 I want a bike that can fly or something.
My seat goes up and down now so I do the troll-pedal sometimes for lulz.
But if your bike works fine for you man, keep with it. On road bikes the only major upgrade which is semi-affordable is full carbon frame (lighter and absorbs bumps).
Hah, it’s not even about performance. I’m just an incredibly vain bike rider 😛 Everybody else’s bikes look much cooler than mine!
Luckily I’m also a cheapskate.
Put streamers on the handlebars and a playing card in the spokes!
My cousins have that fever, only they pay around $2-5k for their new racers.
I paid $120 for mine.
Avid cyclists can be crraaaaazay. A couple of the co-workers are getting into triathlon. One of the coworkers noted that since the other one didn’t have a bike, she could borrow her partner’s bike.
…Which costs $6000.
The amateur coworker paled and declined, saying she was VERY uncomfortable about riding something so expensive, and the pro cyclist coworker nodded sympathetically and suggested, after some thought, “Well, you could always ride mine… it’s nowhere near as expensive, MUCH cheaper.”
At, y’know. $3000 value.
The amateur thanked the pro and bought a $200 bike instead.
Some of the top-end stuff is crazy expensive. The reason I was so shocked that the bike I saw was $900 was because it looked cheap 😛 Just a standard (really nice looking) bike with no performance parts or anything, I was expecting something like $400, if that.
I guess you’re really just paying for the design on those type of city bikes.
My most expensive bike is actually my trike. Rare, limited build, with some factory customising. It was my home for a year so it was worth it.
Road bike is a bit under 2k in value. Law of diminishing returns after that – it’s just not worth someone like me spending thousands to save a few more grams when I could just lay off the pies.
If you ride to work everyday (unless you live 3km from work and can walk!) a $900 bike has paid for itself in well under a year. After that, it’s basically free.
True! The $900 bike I mentioned was all style though, I doubt it’s actually any ‘better’ than my current $300 ‘does-the-job’ cheapo.
Still… it just looked so pretty… 😛
Happy Thursday, guys and gals. Got any song requests?
Pure Imagination – Primus
failing that I’ll just go with “Don’t fear the reaper – Blue Oyster Cult” always worthy of a listen but might need more cow bell.
Wuthering heights- Kate Bush
Or
59th street bridge song (feeling groovy)- simon and Garfunkel
Ugh. Kate Bush. Stick with the Simon & Garfunkel and nobody gets hurt.
Good – Better Than Ezra
Baba O Riley – The Who
Wild World – Mr. Big
Multiple choice!
Macarena – Los Del Rio
REM – Losing My Religion
My Ding-A-Ling – Chuck Berry
I Feel Pretty from West Side Story.
Otherwise, hm… The Safety Dance.
any CHVRCHES song on the radio playlist. if not
toxic- Britany spears
Rocka Rolla – Judas Priest
You can take her if you want her, if you think you can.
The Chicken Dance
Failing that:
Heads, Shoulders, Knees & Toes
Paperback writer – the Beatles
Slipknot!
I have Stones fever – they’re in town!
Under My Thumb – The Rolling Stones
Since my first 2-up (I Keep Forgettin’ / Regulate) didn’t get through I’ll push my luck for another.
Queen (+ David Bowie) – Under Pressure
followed by
Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby
Requests are now closed, thanks for the song picks.
Motivation levels fading, struggling to do anything at work. I just wanna go kill some uruks or flee from a xenomorph or maybe go make weird sex noises with a Hyrulian. Come on home time *taps clock*
SE-NO SE-NO SE-NO SE-NO SE-NO SE-NO
We get it, Lana, jeez.
I’m like you! But yesterday I went home and watched random youtube videos instead of playing games or watching movies. 🙁
I almost did that but after a couple of vids I decided it was uruk hunting time, good times swiftly ensued.
@greenius and whoever else watches Survivor that I can’t remember because I am an old lady and a monster: I just watched last week’s episode.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!I seriously can’t stop laughing. This season is full of the dumbest people ever to play the game. It’s like watching a train wreck in slo-mo.How on earth could the guys not figure out that if they couldn’t agree on a single target, all it would take for one of them to go is the girls agreeing?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a923imH2F8UI went and found the tags: @sughly @powalen @f4ction @phoenix @masha2932 @mrtaco
Wow, are that many people watching it now?!
I’m not 😛
Ah, so you’re Greenius’ new @dc? 😀
Yes! Maybe? I have no idea.
I’m not sure if mum even knows that Survivor is happening. At least, if she is taping it she hasn’t started watching it yet.
We’ve gotten pretty bad with TV shows lately. I’m still yet to even get around to watching the second ep of the latest round of Dr Who :/
He actually watched it Last season though!
Yeahhh pretty much the consensus of our thoughts on it ^^ I hope youhave some people you like though! I certainly do. Usually there’s like, one person who I really want to win, but this time I could name about 3 I think.
Name them!
NO. Dammit now I have to actually think about it, it could be all lies! *sweats* errrrr…
okay maybe not necessarily win, but I think Missy and Baylor as mother and daughter still in it have good potential. Also Keith and Wes, the son and dad farmer people… maybe not to win I guess I DONT KNOW URG. I think this Kelley lass could go far too…Yeah, I’m surprisingly fond of the rednecks. 🙂
The new Malcolm!?
😛
No one will ever be as pretty as Malcolm! 😛
Those brothers were easy on the eyes at first, but the more we see of their personalities, the more horrible it is to have to look at them.
Lolol
Keith has such sad eyes, and hes always getting sent to exile and he takes it like a trooper and hes all crying being proud of his son ;___:But then he does the stupid thing with Jeremy…
oh cruds I COMPLETELY forgot about that, oops
I liked him before he did that stupid thing!
He’s still okay but not as cool 🙁
yeah pretty much this. I think it was evidence enough he cant win it
Haha such a stupid move and then he’s kinda all: “but I didn’t do anything wrong!”
Whoaaaa a Xeno reference! You sure know how to please!
Guh.
Gotta work on my costume today.
*determined face*
At least you’re sticking with it! I’m probably going as nothing. Friends never decided on a group cosplay, people going as random stuff. My number of fucks about cosplaying thusly was reduced to nil. :'(
DETERMINATION FORCE GO
I kinda accidentally stayed up til 2 last night punching out a few more things on mine. Gonna regret it come this afternoon.
Car says 38-40km fuel range. I have today, tomorrow, perhaps Saturday left before I fly to Melb. I’m sure I’ll need to duck to the shops at least once.
Can I make it?!
Ahh fuel roulette
I remember getting scared when my car was on half a tank when i first got my license. Now i dont fill up until its in the red. I have become so crazy in my old age.
also yeah you can do it. You shouldnt but i think you can
I fill;ed my car up last night despite paying 1.42/litre because it said the range remaining was only 77km. I only drive a couple of times a week and the typical round trip is 8km. But for some reason I filled the car instead of waiting til the sensible part of the cycle. /o\
Then again, when fuel is 10c/L more than “usual” and you’re putting 30 litres into a car, you’re only losing three bucks. Obviously this matters a lot more to people who drive really frequently but those few bucks aren’t a big deal to me, so I’m not really sure why I’m absorbed into this cultural consciousness of agonising about when to fill the car and when a top-up will do.
$1.42 is expensive? I haven’t paid less than $1.60 for regular unleaded for about three years :\
Stoopid Canberra.
Don’t worry. It’s generally >$1.60 here as well.
I was going to say the same thing, but figured it might be a tad disingenuous since I don’t drive.
That sucks. Does your Costco have a petrol station? We filled up at ours on the weekend for over 10c a litre less than the servo near us.
We’re actually even finding Costco more beneficial than we expected. We originally just wanted to be able to get American cheese and Dr. Pepper, but we’ve found that doing the majority of our shopping there once a month or even every two months (mostly non-perishable stuff, we’d save even more if we had a bigger freezer to store things in) has reduced our grocery spend a great deal and we’ve more than saved the original membership cost. Also not going to the supermarket a couple of times a week means less chance of impulse buying things like chocolate and desserts. 😛
But yeah, since we started buying our meat in bulk from the Super Butcher up here once a month, and getting the majority of our groceries from Costco we’ve cut our grocery costs quite a bit. And getting fuel on our monthly trip to Costco (it’s too far to go just for fuel) has really helped as well.
Our Costco is a 45 minute drive from our house, which kind of defeats the purpose a little. Though Mrs Shane did sign up there about a week ago, so we’ll see what happens.
Yeah, ours is close to that distance as well. But even a bi-monthly trip timed to coincide with a near-empty tank can help. And if you’ve already signed up, may as well take advantage.
Mine is ten minutes away and I’ve still only been twice. XD
My little car uses E10 which is cheaper (but it burns faster so you use more of it). In my particular area (western sydney) prices seem to generally fluctutate between $1.35 and $1.55 with prices around $1.42 being the most common. I’ve seen as low as $1.32 and as high as $1.60 (usually right before a holiday long weekend) but $1.60 is not the standard.
The small independents generally have the lower prices (one place I drove past after filling my car had $1.36) but I typically go to the Woolworths-owned one where my everyday rewards card gives me 4c/L discount (assuming I’ve earned a discount credit by spending $30 or more on groceries at some point in the last couple of months). Of course that only reduced my cost to $1.42 instead of $1.46 but like I said, my car is small and also only has a small tank so I pumped 30L in there and only really “lost” a couple of bucks by not going to the independent place instead.
I use 98 so I just get stuck with $1.60-80 heh. Options are limited for the good stuff.
Yeah, I use 98 in mine as well (voids the warranty on the engine if I use less than 95 and the engine’s designed to run at its best on 98) and on average it’s about $1.65/l
I think my gf is going as an evil blue minion.
Wife’s work just forced her into a training session on how to deal with an Ebola outbreak in the classroom.
For reals? All I could do was burst out laughing.
……. Is that the disease where people turn into zombies and you start rationing food/ammo/supplies and only headshots kill the zombies?
See how ridiculous that statement was? Your wife’s work isn’t far off =,= God how did the world let idiots be in charge?! >.< (My condolences to your wife)
To be fair, when you have the countries MP’s in all seriousness asking the Vice-Admiral about our defence strategies against Ebola infected suicide agents attacking us, intelligence and rationality isn’t exactly being promoted any more.
I heard about that and thought it was parody news. 🙁
(Also, I wonder if the ‘training’ Mrs Freeze is doing is some tired-looking skeptic full of resentment at being trotted out by hypochondriacs to make sure everyone washes their hands. The key to avoiding ebola is soap.)
I think people just utterly fail to grasp the level of poverty that is allowing the virus to spread so well over there.
Well considering that they seem to be doing their best to bring in that level of poverty over here…
Not just poverty, but a culture of superstition that still firmly believes in mystical causes and cures for disease (although there are plenty of people like that in Australia too, the anti-vax and anti-fluoride brigades spring to mind).
I’ve heard of anti-vax, but anti-fluoride? How could you be against fluoride? It makes the water taste so good!
I.. I don’t even… *Sigh* politics is the domain of the insane. *throws hands in air* Politics will never be effective.
Because everyone will just start melting on the spot in the classroom if they catch it? People act like it’s the fucking T-virus or something.
I’d believe it, and agree that it’s unnecessary and simply something that the dept/school board can tick of as “We Are Prepared For Ebola”. When in reality, if there was an actual outbreak, schools would be closed.
Can anyone recommend any good European RPGs aside from the Witcher series? I have a desire for something that’s challenging to play.
It’s not European and not really a traditional RPG, but I recommend Dark Souls.
One of the things I really dig about Dark Souls is its very European-feeling mythology and aesthetics. It’s always fascinating when the Japanese do a take on medieval and gothic feudalism’s cultural artifacts. Similar: Dragon’s Dogma.
Divinity: Original Sin.
On a semi-related note, @welbot I rediscovered why I enjoyed the Gothic series so much. I’m playing through number 3 atm (which is generally considered the worst one) and I love the difficulty and the challenge. I am perpetually poor and get my arse handed to me by really weak creatures but it’s really fun to not be a powerful hero right at the start.
YES YES YES! THIS! So much this! That’s what makes it so great! Granted 3 was nowhere near as good as 2/night of the raven (I think that’s what the expansion was called?) but it’s still maintains that good Gothic feel! I love the fact you get your ass kicked by low level creatures, and can’t access areas for the sole reason that there’s some high level creature in your way! It’s open world gaming done properly! None of this Oblivion stuff where creatures level up with you.. If I’m at lvl 50, i wanna know I can one hit a group of small creatures, not have my ass handed to me by them!! 🙂
I’m playing with the community patch version as well so it’s cool to see that they’ve fixed a few of the more blatant gamebreakers (ie that combat does not devolve into a spam fest any more).
I’m not going to lie though, it is depressing when I can’t even take down some simple bandits or goblins if I’m outnumbered. But they will fear me when I return in x number of levels.
You just have to take it easy to begin with. You totally can’t just spam to win early fights. have to be very strategic about them. You’ll get there though!
Also, as for european games, I forgot one of the most obvious (well to me anyway, cos I happen to be playing it atm!) Grimrock, and Grimrock 2!!
does Dragon’s Dogma count, that’s fun and challenging.
Technically no because it’s made in Japan but I’ve yet to give that a whirl. However that would require me getting a last gen console which I’ve so far avoided doing.
Risen?
Currently going through Risen 3 but it seems kind of shallow. I’m tempted to go back to the original and sequel but being a pirate is still pretty great.
Wasteland 2 is supposed to be good but haven’t gotten to it yet.
Have you done the fallout games?
Costume quest (2) is cute and fun but not challenging so maybe not
The banner saga
Kingdoms of alamaladingdong
Vampire the masquerade
Jade empire
Maybe shadowrun although again I haven’t played it
The Stalker series is pretty great, though not an RPG in terms of character progression it’s pretty immersive and the atmosphere is amazing.
In terms of full blown RPG’s not a lot really. Have you ever played Arx Fatalis? That was a super game! Two worlds and the sequel, despite being rubbished a lot by people, I found to actually be quite decent games. They are fairly massive. Arx Fatalis is probably my most loved not-so-mainstream RPG after Gothic.
Well colour me curious about Arx Fatalis. The simple fact that Arkane Studios made it immediately intrigued me. I’ll have to look into this further.
American rather than European, but Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition releases on the 30th. It’s challenging and also excellent with great atmosphere and writing and solid AD&D-based gameplay. Which I’m sure you already know since you’ve probably already played it.
I haven’t actually. I never quite got into Baldur’s Gate or Icewind Dale as I missed that boat at the time. My priorities were kinda skewed when I was younger and I played Diablo 2 religiously and I played far more console stuff. I’m pretty sure I picked up the basic games years ago but never played through them in any great length so I’ll need to check out the EEs for both of them.
I’m trying to figure out my chances of getting a PS4 by the time Bloodborne comes out, and making a mental list of stuff I have that I could sell. If I manage to offload my Wii, my chipped PS2 (along with possibly my cardboard SoTC and copies of ICO and Okami), my PS3 and all my rare Final Fantasy PSX games, that should get me about halfway there! \o/
It’s hard to stop being a collector, though. Even though I have no real intention of dragging any of these things out again, knowing that none of them would ever be replaced in my collection is kind of bringing me down a bit.
I wouldn’t sell those things. You’ll always regret it. If you wait until you’ve saved enough, or for a tax return or something, then the game and maybe even the console will be cheaper.
We won’t be saving. We’re entirely week-to-week hand-to-mouth with money for the foreseeable future. And tax returns are typically zero-sum equations (damn my work for only taking the right amount of tax). The only way I’m going to get something new is to sell something old.
I know I’ll regret getting rid of this stuff; I just need to figure out whether it’s offset by the benefits or not. Still thinking.
Well if you’re in that deep, you should definitely stop with the TAY20 discounts and the giving of stuffs away for free. Forever.
I’m sure if everyone you’ve given stuff to who can afford it chucked a few dollars into a pre-order at EB we’d have you a PS4 and Bloodbourne pretty fast.
I hate the thought of you sacrificing even more to get your much-needed alone time with a Souls game.
Best idea.
No. No, it’s really not.
Nah, I’m not crying poor so I can get a handout (though I appreciate the sentiment).
I was more interested in discussing the hold that collectability has over me, and figured that might spark a discussion from other collectors.
It wouldn’t really be a handout, more like a return on your investment of giving things away.
I’ve already had that ‘investment’ returned at least three times over.
Freeze alone has already spent hundreds of dollars on me :\
Aleph gave me a 3DS XL. Rize and Transientmind both made their previous-gen technology available to my family.
And I’ve gotten free games from a whole bunch of TAYbies, including (but not limited to) NotoriousR, Blaghman, Batguy, Benny and you! And loaners from a bunch of others, allowing me to play pretty much all the games I wanted to.
And let’s not forget the incredibly expensive and labour-intensive quilt that you made for my family!
Scales don’t need balancing… or if they do, they can only be balanced by me giving more stuff away.
On the collecting thing, regardless of the feelings your collection gives you, I’m coming to realise it’s a great investment for your kids. My kids are going through my game collection now, and my son even wants me to set up the old PSX for him to play some of those games. These older games are great experiences and very different from what will be the current games when your kids are older.
So much this. I remember when I was little, I liked the idea of some day being able to give my kids my old toys to play with. Then eventually the videogame thing happened, and it became those 😛
My first girlfriend had a really young little brother who was obsessed with his Xbox. One time I took my SNES and a whole load of games over there, and he absolutely loved it. Just sat there all night playing them, and I even felt fine leaving them with him there while we went out. Good old cartridges, never had to worry about their wellbeing at the hands of another 😛 But yeah, that was really cool to see him getting so into it, and not just scoffing at how “old” it all was before becoming completely disinterested.
I look forward to being able to do that, some day. Off in the distant future. If it ever happens >_>
I don’t have kids, but even as an adult there’s something special about being able to pull out an old console and pop in a cartridge and play something that’s super old and think about how far we’ve come.
I don’t have any vintage consoles (my console experience was Master System (which died), then PS1, Dreamcast, and from that point on I got all the platforms and I’ve kept them all) and it’s actually one of the things on my list of items to look for on the TAY Magical Mystery Tour Japan 2015 during the Akiba Pilgrimage section – I want to see if I can get a cheap JP NES, SNES and/or Turbografx-16. Experience Chrono Trigger the way it was designed.
If you really don’t use the consoles anymore, then sell them.
If you do use them still, then keep them.
I’d rather you kept them, but if you must sell them, I’m keen to buy SoTC, ICO and Okami off you.
Maybe you could do a Kickstarter, Pledge $550, get dinner with @shane.
Dutch treat. And over Skype. I’m not travelling 😛
PS: I’ll make sure you’re the first to know if I sell the games.
That’s ok, I’ll come to you 😛
All right. Bring food! 😛
I ain’t doing the cooking 😛
That’s cool, I’ll cook your food up! Don’t mind doing that.
Heck, SoTC and ICO would probably sell for quite a bit I imagine, particularly if they’re the cardboard packages.
SoTC is in the cardboard, but I don’t think it’s got the collector cards in it. ICO is just the plastic DVD case type packaging. Estimates suggest I can get somewhere around $150 for both together.
That sounds about right for a fairly rare game from about ten years ago. If you can stomach it Ebay could net you more than the regular price depending on how desperate people are for a copy.
I loaned my launch-era copy of Ico (not the re-release they did around SotC’s release) to a friend and never got it back. 🙁
I’m not sure if that is worse or if my kids getting hold of the art cards and wrecking them is!
Don’t sell! The PS4 console is not worth those things IMO.
Kind of the way I’m leaning at the moment too. But if the stuff I’ve collected has no practical value to me anymore, is it worth keeping?
If things are as tight as you say there is no point in selling them yet. If it is only getting you halfway you still need twice that amount. If your not able to get that from savings you need to consider where that extra will come from.
Otherwise you are going to have half the money sitting there and if you are anything like me it will be slowly whittled down for day to day stuff and you will end up with no cool stuffs and no shiny console.
True, this.
Is it just Bloodborne you want it for, or are there other titles you’re interested in?
Only one I’m slavering for (but even then, I’m kind of okay waiting for it).
Though as time progressed, I’d probably also use it for re-releases of games I haven’t played yet like The Last of Us HD and Beyond Two Souls HD, Journey re-release, and new games like inFamous, ArkhamNextGame, the next Uncharted, Final Fantasy, etc. It’d get a bit of a workout over the years.
But the waiting game isn’t chafing too bad at the moment, so I’m not going to take the plunge.
But… but you love those things! Don’t sell them!
Do I, though? I’ve had the PS3, PS2 and Wii in bags for the last eight months at least. I’ve never so much as touched any of the rare games I own. Do I really love them? Why do I feel like I might miss them?
Heh. I dunno. I don’t think I’ve touched my 360 in a year and I’ve often thought about taking in for trade the giant stack of games I haven’t finished and seem unlikely to. But something always holds me back. Nostalgia, ‘Collector’ tendencies, loss aversion, hoarding…
That said, I could swear I’ve seen you talking happily about the things you play on wii and PS3. You wouldn’t talk about those things if you didn’t have a wii and PS3 any more. Maybe I’m thinking of 3DS?
Either way, a Shane not talking happily about things he loves is a sad thing.
My PS3 has been near-dead for over eighteen months. I loved it before that, and played almost all the exclusives I wanted to (I lost my Souls virginity on that machine, for example, with a copy of Demon’s Souls that @strange bought for me).
I haven’t touched my Wii in at least three years (hahahaha, oh entendre).
Quite enjoying my Wii U and 3DS, though. Most games I’ve played recently have been on the 360, which (touch wood) is still going strong.
May be for fun you should get the PS3 out and play it until it dies. It might surprise you. I have one that I thought was dead but it just requires you to put the disc in a few times and send off some prayers to random deities before it decides if it will load the game or not. 😀
Gotta admit, it would be nice to see if I could finally play two of my big-regret-never-played games (MGS4 and FFIX) before it dies, maybe even fire up Demon’s Souls again.
But this thing is insanely LOUD. If I tried to play it, I’d wake up the family for sure. Which is kind of the reason I packed it away in the first place.
My family all sleep to music. I can be as noisy as I like when they’re in bed. \o/
Um, yeah sorry that’s no help to you, is it? 😛
I have three Xbox 360s and none of them have had any use in months / years, yet I don’t want to get rid of any of them. Hoarding for lief.
c.c Yooooou could probably get a memory card, transfer saves off the two ‘worse’ consoles, and move them to the primary one and sell the others? I would recommend this.
Oh, I already did that.
One is my original system, with RRoDed and then I retired. No one wants this thing because it’s a junky old 20gb launch unit and it doesn’t have HDMI etc.
One is a 60gb Japanese unit which I used to purchase and play Tales of Vesperia because Namco took a million fucking years to even confirm it for Europe. And I also used it to obtain awful, horrible, shameful things like Galgun and Idolmaster. It was also the system I most recently used, to play through Nier because my copy of that game was an Asia release (Asia release 360 stuff use Japan region locks)
The last one is the Slim version system I bought to replace the original one, and it has most of my content on it. I still have all my X360 stuff, about 80-100 games all up I think, but I haven’t felt like playing any of them.
As an alternative to accepting the generous offers of TAY, you should consider that there will likely be some aggressive bundling / price drops around Christmas for the system. Second year on shelves, after all.
Also keep in mind that the system’s region-free (for games) and has a universal power supply (100-240v, 50-60Hz) so you may be able to get it for cheaper if you import. I got mine in December last year (my 30th Birthday gift to myself) as a US import and it cost less to have it couriered here than it would have to buy locally.
Though that said, that was before the AUD took a dive against the USD.
So, there’s a rumour going around that GTA: San Andreas is going to be released on XBox 360 (possibly an HD re-make). Apparently there’s a “leaked” achievement list. R* hasn’t made an official announcement on it, and the 10 year anniversary of GTA: SA is coming up on Sunday, would be so awesome if they just dropped it on us this weekend, but I doubt it. Definitely would’ve preferred current-gen, but hey, I’ll still buy it and play the absolute shit out of it.
Woah, that’s pretty cool. SA was my favourite of the GTAIII era by far.
As I said nothing’s been confirmed by R* yet, so I’m trying to not get my hopes up.
It’s all good. A little mild hype untethered by the possibility of commitment was just what I was in the mood for this morning! 🙂
I think stealth-drops are cool. I love not having 12-6 months pre-game hype.
These days it feels kinda like my hype runs its course about 3 months before games launch, leaving me kinda ambivalent about them.
I still think that Valve will do this when they decide to release Half Life 3 (or whatever they call it). They’ll put it up on Steam, hidden away in the dark depths of the store, wait for someone to stumble across it, and then sit back and enjoy the show as the internet goes into meltdown
That would be such an awesome way to do it.
Note to self, must finish Half-Life 1 and 2 before this happens.
I reckon they will release it on April 1st. Big steam banner saying “Half Life 3 1st April” and no one will believe them.
Hahaha, yeah I could see Gabe plotting something like that too
That would be so novel and fantastic.
I mean, people will obviously complain about not having had enough advance notice to budget and be competitive or book time off work and now they’re going to get fired, but y’know. Videogames!
Give it away for free to anyone with 100+ hours of TF2 or Dota logged.
My GOD man, are you MAD? Those people are the WORST Valve customers, getting all that entertainment for free, costing server bandwidth and buying thousands of dollars of cosmeti– er… Nevermind.
Ok, it happened yesterday, and it’s happening again today. Somehow my Gravatar is changing, why? Has someone hacked my account? Is it just a glitch? I’m starting to think it’s a glitch, seeing as different posts display different Gravatars. Is it a Kotaku problem, or should I contact Gravatar?
@markserrels (The Porridge Master), @benwhite (think he left and can’t remember who replaced him)
Rather than tagging people in comments, your best bet is to click the “Report Issue” button under the ‘Contact’ button up the top of the page. It would seem more a Gravatar issue than a Kotaku one,though.
And this!
Websites that use Gravatar don’t really have much control over what happens with it beyond setting an age restriction. I’d contact Gravatar.
Your avatar looks fine to me, by the way.
EDIT: Also you can use this to check it: https://en.gravatar.com/site/check/
EDIT2: Ah, I see the issue now. Weird that it shows an old avatar for root comments and the new one for replies. Can’t hurt sending the guys an issue report via the form Strange mentioned as well. Just be descriptive so they don’t have to chase you for more info.
Thanks for the advice guys, I’ve deleted the old one to start with, I’ll give it a while to update, and if it still keeps doing it I’ll contact Gravatar.
Sons of Anarchy is really heating up, every episode goes that little bit further than you really think it would. Not sure I like that it all ends in about 6 weeks 🙁
@shane you watching it currently or waiting until the season ends to play catch up?
I’m collecting eps as they release, but still haven’t seen any of it. Have managed to entirely avoid spoilers so far (except for the trailers they released). Really looking forward to it, though! It’s gonna be HUGE.
Good to hear you’re avoiding spoilers, I saw a good one in my FB feed yesterday since I have the official page liked I sometimes see “Sons of Anarchy was mentioned in a post” kinda crap, saw one mentioning direct spoilers to the end of season 6 in the headline and spoilers to season 7 at the same time. Good work there I must say >_>
It’s so good man, I hope Kurt follows through with a mini series or tv movie about the origins of SAMCRO & JT like he has spoken about in previous years after SOA has ended.
He’s going straight to another project, I believe. But he might be able to do this miniseries concurrently. I can’t imagine FX would turn him down, given that SoA is their highest-rating show.
Oh yeah, what’s he going on to? Wouldn’t mind checking that out!
I don’t remember… and sorry, but not gonna risk Googling right now. Something ancient Roman, from very vague memory. A bit of a departure, at any rate, from what he does now.
Ah right, according to his wiki page under “Projects in development” that would be; The Bastard Executioner.
There is a prequel to Sons in the works according to that section too.
it sure is a crazy season, I really don’t care for many of the characters anymore though.
Chibs is the only main character from the gang worth caring about I reckon, other than him Nero & Álvarez are ones I quite like. Can’t really say I feel much of a care for a lot of the remaining characters, since the ones worth caring about met their demise sadly.
HOPE THAT’S NOT SPOILERS.
No, they’re all characters on the show the last few seasons, are they not?
It’s Giveaway time!
I’m going to give someone something I’ll make especially for them (you just need to give me two colours and a theme or subject).
I need to figure out how best to do it, but basically to enter you put some money (I’m thinking $5 = 1 entry?) towards Shane’s PS4. Obviously I’ll need to keep track of who enters so maybe everyone puts it into someone’s (not mine, I’m terrible with keeping track of money!) PayPal account and when there’s enough we make the order for him. Who wants to help me set this up?
Edit: seems like Shane will feel really bad if I do this. But I’ve started the giveaway now, so I can’t take it back, so who wants to think of a different way for me to give something away? 😛
NOT ME.
Seriously, though, please don’t do that. A raffle is a cool idea, but give the money to charity or something. Or use it to fund TAYquilt! 🙂
Edit: thanks for your edit. Stuff like this gives me a big old anxious knot in the gut. I know I should be humble and grateful, but I can’t help being a big old jerk instead.
But I hate charities, they keep calling me and accosting me when I shop! As far as I know, you’ve never done either of those things.
http://SHANEWSMITH.COM/SHOP TAY20
With everything you do for everyone here on Tay the best way to think about this is.
Thank you for being such an awesome person also it could be a combined Tay early Christmas presant for yourself.
I appreciate that, but I’m not doing anything that isn’t being done by everyone else!
oh me.
Green and purple colours and a theme of nappy free time 🙂
Uh oh, I think this means you won the giveaway before it even started. 😛
$5 means you’re looking at approx 100 entries to cover the cost of a PS4 bundle. How about $50 so it’s only ten entries?
Well people with more disposable income tend to like giving more, so with the entry tied to a smaller amount I figured more people could enter. That way if you can only afford five dollars, you still have an entry, but if you can afford more, then you have more entries.
Understood. Put me down for ten entries. At $5 per entry, of course. 😀
I’ll take ten entries too, at $5 a pop.
There you go @shane, we’re already 20% of the way there, you can’t make us stop now mwahahaha.
I can, actually, if I can convince Strange to redirect the money elsewhere.
But that would be misappropriation of funds. 😛
Afraid you’re locked in this now, brother.
(Haha! Not really, I know how super uncomfortable I felt when people suggested doing the same for PAX.)
Think of my contribution this way; you gifted me SSB Melee when you could have sold it for $50.
But you gifted me Pokémon Y, which has EQUIVALENT VALUE.
That was KK. It doesn’t count cause everyone was in on it.
Holy crapsticles, you really are keeping an accounting of these things! If we get you a PS4 you’ll be giving things away for eternity! 🙁
@strange: That’s why I felt compelled to put some money in his pocket after he shouted me a milk shake. I DON’T NEED THIS KIND OF GUILT! 😛
@STRANGE How else am I supposed to complete my @shane W Smith graphic novel collection? Using TAY20 codes?
I’ll take an entry.
Giggity.
Strange is so kind. And so nice. And so thoughtful. And so caring. And so friendly. And so awesome.
I’LL FIGHT ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE! THAT GOES FOR YOU TOO, STRANGE! 😛
OTHERWISE!
Come get me 😛
I might be able to throw 10 or 20 towards it. Just have to work out finances due to not having a job atm.
Will have to let you know how it goes.
Have to get ready for work… but I don’t wanna.
Started packing up all my stuff in Orange in preparation to move home. Its amazing how much crap you can accumulate over the course of two years. I also have to sort through a lot of stuff I left at my parents place when I left, since they are ripping up all the carpet and polishing up the floorboards. Trying to sort out what I can sell off and get rid of.
First thing that came to mind is my complete set of Animorphs Books. All 54 of the main series, 4 Megamorphs, the 4 Chronicles and 2 Alternamorphs. Not sure if anyone would like them, or has kids that would be interested. A few of them are a bit worse for wear, but still readable. If anyone is interested, please let me know.
Stay tuned for more stuff in the coming weeks
Good luck with the move, friend.
ANIMORPHS!
54 sounds like a small number. I feel like I want to say that the last one we got was 51? Not sure though. Also what are Alternamorphs? I think we had two Megamorphs and two Chronicles, but then got out of the series before Alternamorphs happened.
They’d go great alongside a complete set of Goosebumps.
The Alternamorphs were the “Pick your own adventure” style of book. For option A go to page 25, for option B go to page 36, that sort of thing.
In total its 64 books, but there were only 54 of the numbered main series
Out of curiosity, what are your three game of the year contenders? Not long to go until the end of the year. I expect Dragon Age: Inquisition to steal one of these spots but so far for me its:
Alien: Isolation
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Broken Age (Though it’s only half finished, so maybe Valiant Hearts?)
The Walking Dead Season 2
Dark Souls 2
Valiant HeartsMario Kart 8These are the only 2014 games I’ve played, so compiling the list was easy.
In terms of games I’ve played this year, I’d probably bump TWD and Valiant Hearts off the list, and put XCom Enemy Unknown and possibly Bioshock Infinite in their stead.
Edit: craaaaaaaaaap, I forgot the Wii U. Mario Kart’s gotta be on that list somewhere for sure.
The Wonderful 101
Wasn’t that last year?
It is the game of every year!
I wish I had finished three games this year.
I’ve done two: Pekingmon Y and Link Between Worlds.
What are you spending your gaming time doing? MADNESS! 😀
My typical M-F consists of;
06:30 Getting up
07:30 Leaving for work
17:00 Leaving work for dinner at parents/inlaws
20:30 Leaving parents/inlaws
21:30 Finally getting home
22:30 Going to bed
Sorry to disappoint but gaming time is pretty minimal.
Fake Gamer Guy! 😛
Or just a regular human with real responsibilities. Either one.
Since Reaper of Souls was released this year I’m allowed to count that right?
Was Infamous Second Son this year? That too.
And for all my complaining about Dark Souls 2 it was still fantastic.
Yeah, inFamous was February or March, I think. Good times! Reaper counts!
Shadow of Mordor
Borderlands: TPS
Transistor
Hyrule Warriors
EDIT: Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall (thanks @sernobulus!)
…there’s others but I can’t think of them right now.
I really enjoyed Sleeping Dogs Malibu Stacy edition but as a personal rule I don’t count remake of games so in not particular order
Transistor
Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall
I want to say Borderlands Pre-Sequel but it might be too early to put in the “GOTY” category.
Good rule otherwise I’d have included The Last of Us Remastered and then we’d have to resort of fisticuffs.
Games I’ve played this year:
-Pokemon HeartGold
-Advance Wars
-Advance Wars: Black Hole Rising
-Guacamelee
-Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
-Pokemon Y
-Mario Kart 8
-Far Cry Blood Dragon
-Mario 3D World
-Link Between Worlds
-Smash Bros 3DS
Games I’ve actually finished and not just played a little bit of this year:
-Advance Wars
-Guacamelee
-Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
-Pokemon Y
-Far Cry Blood Dragon
-Mario 3D World (well, mostly apart from that whole final level thing)
-Link Between Worlds
Games that were actually released this year:
-Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
I guess the decision is made for me. Though may as well throw in Smash Wii U and Bayonetta as the other two contenders 😛
I’ve only made a list of games I’ve completed this year. This is mine:
Broken Age
The Wolf Among Us
The Walking Dead 2
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
inFamous: Second Son
Botanicula
Moebius
Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Mario Kart 8
Wolfenstein: The New Order
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
The Last of Us Remastered
Diablo 3
Destiny
Transistor
LIMBO
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Costume Quest 2
Alien: Isolation
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Dreamfall Chapters: Book One
HOW COULD I FORGET MARIO KART! THAT’S DEFINITELY A CONTENDER FOR PLAY TIME ALONE!
Hey! I’ve done that too!
January– Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag
– Freedom Fall
– The Banner Saga
– Enslaved: Odyssey of the West
– Super Mario 3D World
Feburary
– Broken Age (Act 1)
– Guacamelee!
– The Witcher 2
– Disgaea D2
– Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
March
– Metal Slug 3
– Fire Emblem: Awakening
April
– Shadowrun Returns (Original Campaign)
– Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall
– Toukiden: The Age of Demons
– Hotline Miami
– Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine
– Kingdom Hearts Final Mix
– Deponia
– Chaos on Deponia*
May
– Child of Light
– Goodbye Deponia
– Transistor
June
– Mario Kart 8
– Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
– Octodad – Dadliest Catch
– Shadow Warrior
– Shovel Knight
July
– Battleblock Theatre (Normal: All A++)
– Tomb Raider (100%)
August
– Infamous: Second Sun (Heroic Route)
– Risen 2
September
– Destiny (“Finished”)
– Hyrule Warriors (Legend Mode)
October
– Shadows of Modor
– Costume Quest 1 (with DLC)
– Binding of Issac “Finished”
– Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition
Oooooh! Good list!
Oh hey I totally forgot I did Guacamelee too.
I can’t remember, but I don’t think I’ve played a new game all year. (Oh wait, just realised Dark Souls 2! But I didn’t finish it and I don’t even care so it mustn’t be my GOTY)
Been funneling all my money into my new sewing machine, and then fabrics so I can keep up the momentum I’m getting with the quilting thing. When I’m finally able to get Diablo III I’m sure it will be my GOTY but I’m not even sure if the console version of that counts because technically the game didn’t release this year, just the console ports.
I have played a surprisingly small amount of games this year :S
Like, I don’t even think I’ve played 10 games from this year know I think about it…
I guess Mario Kart 8, the Last of Us Remastered, and… Transistor?
I dunno, I haven’t had any games stand out to me this year either :S
Mario Kart is definitely up there. I think cause it’s a game you pick up and play instead of progressing through a story you forget how good it is. Keeps you coming back for more though.
I put it in because that’s the only game I’ve given significant time to this year.
Like, honestly, I’ve done so little gaming this year that it kinda bummed me out thinking about it :S
I don’t think I’ve even finished three games that came out this year. Frankly I don’t even remember what came out this year apart from Destiny which I haven’t really “completed” since it’s a work in progress and I haven’t even run the Vault of Glass.
Wolfenstein? Walking Dead season 2?
No idea. Some pretty good games have come out but it hasn’t exactly been a blockbuster year.
Infamous Second Son
Wolfenstein
ummm I don’t want to but I’ve got to say Destiny given how much time I’m spending on there…
Civ Beyond Earth possibly
Dragon Age Inquisition possibly
and… umm…yeah Walking Dead S2.
I can’t actually think of enough games that released this year that I actually played and are worthy of GOTY. But if I had to list what I did play:
– Super Smash Bros 3DS
– Risen 3
– ….. crap I can’t actually name anything else that wasn’t either a continually updated game or a cheap downloadable 3DS game.
My GOTY is SSB though simply because it does everything right for the Smash fan in me.
I was going to say “I can’t think of any” but now that I’ve looked at other people’s lists ARRRRRGGGGHHHH THERE’S TOO MANY!
Transistor, deffers. Either Alien:Isolation or The Vanishing of Ethan Carter for that mad tension.
And from a raw mechanic standpoint, it’s a toss-up between the 30 second satisfaction of Destiny (30 seconds is more than I need, ladies), The Batman fun of Shadow of Mordor, or maybe even the thrill of running around in Infamous: SS.
Dark Souls 2
Valiant Hearts
[TSILB – nothing else feels sufficiently outstanding to me]
That list is subject to change, especially as I’ve been feeling really anti- violence-for-the-sake-of-violence recently (the discussion surrounding the Hatred trailer really made me look at what games I was enjoying and why, and in some cases I really didn’t like what I saw), hence Shadow of Mordor is off the list atm – too much violence, not enough context or justification.
Kinda hoping I get over that before November, so I can properly enjoy AC:Unity and DA:I… But there’s always the new pokemon game to fall back on if needs be – it looks pretty fun.
I’ve also been growing increasingly dissatisfied with the one-note dark and gritty violent stuff everywhere. I don’t mind violence but I want there to be some reasoning behind it or some context or something that justifies it properly beyond OMG SO ANGRY.
It’s why I still haven’t bothered to get The Last of Us.
Peoples’ lists are amazing. Did all that stuff REALLY come out in 2014? This year has been fucking amazing for games.
Yeah, I genuinely think 2014’s been an amazing year for games!
I’m very much looking forward to The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter appearing on consoles. I hope that’s still going ahead!
It is for sure, early 2015. 🙂
Awesome. Can’t wait to tag you in a bunch of pretty screenshots I Twitterise!
Or, hopefully it’s more like I forget to take screenshots because I’m so immersed. *crosses everything*
You’ll be taking screenshots because you’re so immersed though. After studying something in awe for two minutes you can’t help it. 😀 I look forward to it.
I haven’t got around to playing many games released this year but that isn’t unusual, generally I’m about a year behind release date for playing stuff.
The Banner Saga
Guacamelee! (Was that this year?)
Costume Quest 2
What I think might be my GOTY when I get around to playing them
Wasteland 2
Styx: Master of Shadows
Diablo 3
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Valient hearts
Massive Chalice
– Wolfenstein: New Order because it was way better and more nuanced and interesting than a throwback to an early 90s franchise about murdering Nazis had any right to be.
– Valiant Hearts because of the feels
– I dunno, Shadows of Mordor I guess? I haven’t played many games this year that were good enough to make a top 3, though I suspect there’s a few in my backlog that could if I wasn’t so lazy and got around to playing them.
Also this will be useful for reference for people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_in_video_gaming#Game_releases
The Last of Us Remastered
Uh.. I have no idea what else has come out this year that I have played.
But I guess Warlords of Draenor & GTA V on PS4 will do for me.
I don’t know if I’ve played a single game from this year…
Oh wait! Loadout came out this year! (technically) That game is alright. Strike Vector came out, too! That game might be good. Idunno, I’ve only played 90 minutes.
Wait, I also played Titanfall! I quite liked that. So my definitive GOTY list is
3 – Strike Vector
Why I chose it: People like flight sims, right? Well this flight sim has the revolutionary mechanic of having two flying modes; slow and fast! It’s a game changer, I tell you.
2 – Loadout
The premiere gun production factory simulator. You can have a quad rocket launcher sniper rifle that sets people on fire. Yet doing this significantly reduces the damage, sadly. I named all my guns after Pokemon! My spray-and-pray minigun was called Vigoroth, my bouncing bomb gun is called Spoink, and my healing ray is called Chansey. 10/10
1 – Titanfall
It’s got mechs n’ stuff. 12/10 it’s fairly decent.
Holy shit. Chris Kluwe is completely blowing his stack on Twitter at the moment.
Add that to Serrels angry rant on Facebook it looks like people are reaching breaking point.
Oooh, Serrels had an angry rant on Facebook? WAS IT ABOUT ME? D:
Yes.
Serrels had an angry rant?
I kind of want a copy/paste of it, but on the same notion his Facebook feed isn’t public so we shouldn’t pull things from it into a public place.
Dangit.
Who?
Also, Felicia Day got doxxed. THat makes me very sad.
On the blog post where she said she hasn’t really said anything until now because she was scared no less.
This whole thing is just so ridiculous. I think I’d be really goddamned angry about it if I wasn’t so mouth-agape surprised that it’s happening at all.
I feel ashamed that way before GamerGate when Kotaku used to post feminist articles I would complain that it was unnecessary. Not all guys and all of that crap. My eyes have been opened and now I know why it’s so necessary. Feel ashamed at my initial reaction back then.
I think we’re in the same boat. Let’s go rowing together.
Twins!
To be fair, most of the feminism stuff put on Kotaku was more “This video game character’s shirt is green and therefore the developer hates women”
I’m not surprised. At all.
But I am angry. And I have been since it began as the Quinn thing. And I’ve mostly kept quiet about it in public spaces because I have things to lose now that I am just getting started on being on the inside of the quilting community, and gaining the contacts necessary to make it a career.
And I’m angry at myself for letting the terrorists (because let’s face it, that’s what these “Qinnspiracy” “Gamergaters” are) win.
Please don’t dilute the term terrorist. The term terrorist has been diluted so damn much over the years that it has lost of meaning.
…However, the more I think about it, the more I realise the parallels. Pushing agenda through fear, etc. Hmm, this have given me a bit to think about.
What’s going to end up happening is we end up with knee-jerk, poorly worded and stifling ‘anti-cyberbullying’ legislation foisted on us and the problem will be considered ‘solved’.
Also it puts ammunition behind people that call for reduced anonymity etc. on the internet. :\
I’m a tad concerned about that.
On one hand… No. Just no.
On the other hand… there’ll be a lot of useful protections lost. I’ll miss many aspects of the Digital Wild West. Just not sure this is sustainable. Change seems inevitable. It won’t all be good, but… I dunno.
I don’t think I have Mark’s personal Facebook friended, I just follow the Kotaku AU page.
I would feel super weird following a journalist or something on Facebook if I didn’t know them. Twitter feels a little different, but Facebook seems more friend/family personal territory.
This is my general rule. If I don’t know you personally (i.e. interact on a regular basis) then Twitter is Ok but FB is a no go. And I don’t add people on FB. Generally.
WTH is Twitter and FB?! Jokes aside I don’t social media any more as a rule (unless you count TAY but you guys are a civilized part of society =P). What’s being said??
It’s GamerGate frustration.Who even is he? What’s so different about other people blowing their stack about it?
FYI for others: https://twitter.com/ChrisWarcraft
He’s a football player that pretty much got blacklisted for speaking out in support of gay marriage, and has since been a social commentator. He also has serious geek cred.
Ah, thanks for info.
You know what? I’m just going to start ignoring that whole thing. It’s just like the government – every time I read or hear anything about its latest developments, I get sad, frustrated, angry, or all of the aforementioned. So tempting to just cut off from the internet entirely and go play Anno for the next month or so…
It’s pretty easy to ignore it. You really need to be actively reading tweets and clicking articles. But yeah, I get your point man.
VERY easy to avoid. I very rarely see most of the shit that upsets so many people, only the reactions to it.
It feels a lot like people saying that ‘cities are the worst, they’re full of shit,’ while standing in a sewer. I have no idea what they’re talking about, my city is awfully convenient and usually kinda pretty.
I attribute this mind-safety to not following anyone on Twitter who I don’t actually know, not even really checking the thing more than once a week, and never, ever, ever, ever visiting Reddit. (Which I understand considers itself ‘the front page of the internet’. If there was ever a reason to avoid a site, it would be that, alone.)
Much like trying to find anything useful on the Apple store, I rely on trusted sources to go diving for the pearls of useful things for me, down in the murky depths of shit I don’t ever want to have to sift through myself.
Edit: Also, @os42, this is why I don’t read meatspace news, just video game news. Because of how angry meatspace news makes me. So very, very, very angry. The safest thing for myself and others is that I simply not go looking at it.
I’d love to be able to do that but it strikes me as very head in the sand and a bit silly to ignore everything that really does indirectly affect your life. I do prefer to have some idea of what’s going on no matter how it upsets me.
Like a video I saw yesterday of a Middle Eastern man holding a dead child in tears, begging both the Arab nations and the West to please just stop. I’ll admit it took a long time for me to pull myself together after seeing that. Something about it really touched a nerve.
I don’t quite see it as burying my head in the sand. (Partly because, y’know, that sounds negative and everything I do is perfect! Ahem.) The vast majority of the angry-make stuff is not only beyond my control but beyond my influence. And that which IS even remotely able to be influenced, I wouldn’t do anything more than I already am, by just trying to be a decent human being treating everyone pretty much the same. The reason most of this makes me so angry is my impotence in affecting any of it.
But that’s the meatspace. And sometimes – maybe, just maybe – that might possibly affect me and my loved ones. So sure… that’s probably head-burying a bit. Whenever something happens that I figure I probably need to know about, I resign myself to being very angry for a bit, and go load up a news site. Like when people were asking me about the grisly murder only a suburb or two over.
But what some asshole I’ve never heard of and don’t care about is saying on twitter/4chan/reddit? That’s shit I definitely do not need. There will ALWAYS be assholes on Twitter or whatever other venue serves as a mouthpiece for anyone and everyone.
I cannot understand why so many people keep reacting to THAT shit unless they specifically go looking for it. It’s almost like they want to find something to make them mad. If you really want to crusade against immorality, the Internet practically guarantees that you will never, ever, EVER run out of assholes to infuriate and enrage you. EVER.
I just… don’t want to live like that.
Blood pressure alone would kill me inside a year.
(I’m guessing this is why Batman only patrols Gotham. Because the entire World is too big a problem to solve. You pick your community and prune where necessary. You go to Kotaku AU instead of Kotaku US – because some problems are nothing but eternal war.)
Ditto on the news front – it’s the only way I’ll stay sane (well, relatively speaking). I don’t even use twitter directly (and only browse a couple of rather insulated subreddits), but every games media site and news source I consume does, and that fact is blindingly obvious at times.
Headlines are normally enough to remind me that it’s still going – look to your right for moot sentiment in the Most Commented section that reminds me very time I go to any Kotaku AU page. I can choose not to read about it in depth, but I can’t make myself believe that it’s subsiding any time soon.
He is just having fun now
Funnily enough he’s not getting any death threats despite actively abusing them specifically.
Dear TAY,
I hope this letter finds you well. Me, I’m okay. Been better, been worse. A bit anxious right now, actually, and I’ll tell you why.
I like sorting out problems myself, figuring out solutions, working hard, and making things happen. I don’t like being given things, handed solutions, easy outs – that’s how I lived my childhood and it was spectacularly unfulfilling, and is part of what made me such a boring person.
I think one of the main reasons that I wanted a writing career is that it’s something that only I can get for myself, and that it would be pretty much impossible for other people (mainly my parents) to intervene with and exert influence over. It’s independent, daring, and risky, and I don’t have a safety net under me – all of which appeals to me. I want to know what it’s like to take pride in an achievement without a “yeah, but…” hanging over my head.
Don’t take this to mean that I intend to be an island; I’m okay with other people, and love spending time on TAY with you guys.
I tell you this so you understand that when I put up a post here lamenting my lack of money, I’m trying to make a connection, and sharing what’s on my mind at the time. Not putting up a cry for help. I like being independent, even if it’s tough sometimes. I like having to weigh up options and prioritise purchases, because it forces me to really think about what I’d appreciate having in my life.
In the past, I have been the recipient of a great deal of generosity from fellow TAYfolk. I hope I was sufficiently grateful for all these gifts, and similarly hope that I have balanced the karmic sheets in reciprocation. It’s taken me a long time to understand that people enjoy being generous and don’t always expect something in return (certainly in stark contrast to the environment I was raised in, where each gift and privilege came with strings and strings and strings), but I haven’t yet managed to curb the guilty feeling I get every time I receive a present (even on birthday-type occasions).
I can’t squash the notion that accepting a gift or bailout is like a failure of my independence, a blow to my stupid man pride, confirmation of that little self-doubting suspicion I have that I haven’t really managed to achieve independence at all and never will.
Now, that doesn’t mean that I want nothing from you. On the contrary; next week, I’ll be launching a Kickstarter campaign for Undad, and will be asking for your assistance then. But you’ll get something for that; it’ll be a business transaction, in which goods and services are exchanged for money.
Er… I guess what I’m trying to say is: don’t buy me a PS4. I’ll get one myself, when I’ve earned it.
TL;DR: I’m not ungrateful, but I am a jerk. Please don’t buy me things.
Sincerely,
Shane
Are we still allowed to buy things from you?
Yes, please, if you want to! I make a clear distinction between charity and business! 🙂
I’d recommend you wait until the Kickstarter gets launched though – you’ll be able to get all my stuff at a decent price for once!
Stop that! You’re supposed to be getting the most money possible out of people, not telling them how to get all your stuff for cheap!
That doesn’t sound right.
What incentive do they have to come back for the next book if I’m not trying to treat them right now? Gotta play the long con here.
I learned long ago to not complain much about lacks of fundage here on TAY. Doesn’t matter what the intention is when you type it, once it’s out there you’re done for. (If “done for” means you’re now the owner of a thing you were lamenting you weren’t able to get. :P)
Man, I wish I wasn’t so poor I can’t afford a Rolex…
I wish I could afford a sense of personal fulfillment. *waits for TAY’s response* 😛
I wish I could afford a sense of self-esteem but I’ll sell at any price *don’s a skirt and runs down to st kilda rd*
I need to see pictures of this before I can release said self esteem to your possession. 😛
My hairy legs say no but my heart says yes.
Stop that! >:(
Hello! We’ve been trying to give you that for a long time,but you won’t accept it. 😛
Yes, well, I’m a particularly slow learner. 😛
Were off to see the Wizard!
And my head I’d be scratchin’ as my thoughts are busy hatchin’…
“I think I’m going to miss you most of all, Scarecrow.”
Gets me every time.
Yes, well, I’m a particularly slow learner. 😛
PS: I feel bad for shutting down your generous initiative. I’m glad it’s shut down, but I’m sorry for being an ungrateful jerk.
The thing is, I understand. I understand how if you didn’t have to work for, or give something up to get something that it becomes difficult to value that thing. And I understand that if you connect gaining something with a failure on your part, then it’s extremely difficult to enjoy that thing you gained.
*reads sad wall of text, sends $50 anyway*
Speaking of which, I owe Evil Monkey a fair wad of cashish, too.
I actually logged onto Paypal to check, because I couldn’t be sure if you were joking. YOU WIN.
No hard feelings, you jerk.
Sigh. I guess I’ll have to return this new PS4 then…
(You’re alright, Shane!)
As a thought about that, you’re going to try via the Kickstarter route again, right? While that’s progressing, I suggest you add a Prefundia entry. It’ll let you prototype ideas with people, possibly resulting in a stronger campaign from the beginning (first 3-4 days seem to be very critical for crowdfunding) and also allow people to pre-register their intent to participate so that the instant the campaign launches you can notify them.
Intriguing! I have just copy pasta’d my Kickstarter page into it, and we’ll see where it goes. I launch in eight days, however, rain or shine. Halloween is the perfect day to launch the Undad campaign.
Link us to it for C&C before release?
You are a awesome person Mr Shane.
DO NOT EVER FORGET THAT.
I never liked people giving me stuff for any reason. It still makes me uncomfortable but.
After the time I lived in my car for two weeks and had no money for food, lived by myself and had no money for food.
I can to appreciate people that did offer me stuff like food or a roof over my head.
That is a little Tidbit from my past so I can relate to your stance that you have.
Sincerely PlatinimUrchin
Idependance is a false notion. We rely on other people, not just for direct contribution, but indirect contribution. That barista that smiled at you might have slightly increased your personal happiness, allowing your work to be executed better. Cause and effect is a powerful tool.
Basically, what I am trying to say is that don’t try and obtain an impossible goal like independance. Look at every situation with a Cost-Benefit Analysis. In this situation, people are throwing money at you. This situation is good for everybody. Not accepting the money is a worse situation overall. You feel bad because you have monetary problems, and everyone else feels bad because they were unable to help you with said monetary problems.
Essentially, what I am trying to say is that independence is a thing, I think? What was I saying again? I stumbled over my words so much I completely forgot what I was saying.
So, uh, heed my words.
I have a mate, she’s a dab hand with a pumpkin, a knife and a game reference: http://ceemdee.deviantart.com/art/Shovel-Knight-Pumpkin-490040840
That’s awesome
HOOOOWWWWW?
A modelling knife, a stencil and a lot of time on her hands
Time for the hourly rocket vent.
I fucked up yesterday, in the grand scheme of things it wasn’t that bad, i freighted some stuff and i accidentally missed a package. I was mad with myself a fair bit but that’s beside the point. Nobody really told me off for it because it was something anyone could do. But my god the sheer amount of condescension from the receptionist was horrible.
She’s been here 10 years, i have been here 6 she’s generally really nice but i can barely say anything about our work without her telling me that im lazy and don’t do much. She says it as a joke but it cuts and the fact that if i tell her some technical information about a Laser she will always ask another tech to verify that its right. I don’t think she is purposefully trying to be mean because on the whole she’s nice, but it is so frustrating when people talk down to you.
I’m just sick of people talking down to me. I am sensitive about my intelligence and when people question it i lose all confidence. Seriously if someone questions me on any topic i will back down for fear of being wrong.
I think its my issue not anyone elses, and i blame people for stuff that is really my frustration with myself. Hey in writing this i calmed down and realized i was being a bit moody for no real reason especially when im sarcastic all the time, its fair for others to act the same.
Thanks TAY
You should never doubt your intelligence, my kids are all SMRT!
Hey Rocket, tell me something cool about lasers!
On top of talking about whatever, I also find that talking about things I’m interested in helps a lot, the problem is that NOBODY CARES about what I’m interested in, because seriously, who cares about a simulation of chromatic aberration in games? Me, and maybe like NotoriousauR.
But lasers are cool.
All our lasers have tiny bits of ruby inside them.
So after the start of the week do you have a big production run and call it Ruby Tuesday?
If it makes you feel any better, I’ve just accidentally deleted an entire customers data-set.
We can be fuck-ups together! \o/
You wanna go to Taco Bell?
I can’t go to Taco Bell, I’m on an all carb diet! GOD, ROCKET, YOU’RE SO STUPID.
If it makes you feel any better I once shipped a new feature that had to be turned off last minute before it went out to millions of users because it didn’t work right…
I feel a little better.
I can never talk down to you.
You tall bastard.
Oh Rocket… I wish I could tell you the stories of fuckups here. I wish. I totally can’t due to concerns about what’s on the net. But oh my god.
Edit: No really. Oh. My. God. You don’t even…
Everyone screws up, and so often it’s much, much worse than that.
That aside, a little low-grade-but-sustained psychological warfare can totally have an impact. I don’t have any advice for dealing with it, but I will say that it’s not unreasonable to expect it to get to you sometimes. How you react to that is up to you, but I’d say it’s not just ‘in your head’.
Rrrrggghh!
Fucking sewing…
):
…I’m only up to the hat…
What are you making? I’ve never made a hat, by the way…they look pretty intimidating!
My cosplay for PAX Aus.
I knew that much! Is it gonna be a surprise, like @mrtaco’s?
Hmm…a hat. Are you going as Vivi from FFIX?! If you’re not, someone should.
I think he said he’s going as Link! 😀
Oh okay. So that must mean you have to cosplay as Vivi for PAX North. It’s a thing!
That went over my head! 😛
Unfinished Swan is getting better and better. I particularly love when my son is watching me play and he has the exact same reaction to something at the exact same time as the kid in the game. 😀
First play-through?
Yes. I’m not very far in, I think. I’ve just done a section where
I had to use my water balls to make a vine grow so I could climb it.Oh OK, I know. 🙂
It’s one of those games, like Journey as well, where I’m envious of those playing for the very first time. So many “ohhhh! That’s clever…” moments. Enjoy!
GRRRRRRRRRRRR Civ BE is sitting there in my steam library, all downloaded and nearly playable. HURRY THE HELL UP!!!!!
Just extended my anti-A/C cubbyhole by concertina-ing some pages from an A3 art book for rigidity and using stickytape to hold them together, then attached them to my cardboard cubbyhole. Much success!
Could probably do with another one on the far end though…
I really want to see a photo of this.
I think I put up one before, but I’ll put up one of the New And Improved version once I’m done with this last bit.
Some of my coworkers are obviously crazy and have dramatically malfunctioning body-temperature regulation, thinking that the A/C changes temperature by several degrees several times throughout the day. I bought a thermometer and put it on the wall to prove this, but they just said that was broken, too. So sanity clearly doesn’t come into it.
What we DID do to work around it was take a piece of cardboard and fold it into a channeling/funneling cap for the vent. Shaped kind of like a pull-out garbage chute.
It MIGHT have been psycho-somatic, or a placebo, but it seemed to do the trick.
I’m not the biggest fan of Assassin’s Creed but I wouldn’t go as far to build a cubbyhole just to ban the game.
No, fuck that, I don’t want Connor Kenway sneaking up on me, holding a wristblade to my neck and then whinging.
@rocketman I want to talk more about Lasers! you ever use a super powered one? My Honours thesis involved a machine that runs on lasers!
Did you ever attach them to sharks?
Not that evil.
No. The diffraction of lasers in seawater makes them singularly impractical for underwater use. Unless it’s for the LADS system.
He didn’t say the sharks would be underwater. They might be those tornado sharks from that documentary last year.
Vigilance is key! Be alert, not alarmed!
I’m only scared of sharks in the water. I’m the opposite with lions /Hedberg
Legally, because Australia is full of morons the highest class we can important is under 5mW for use on construction sites but the beam strength on most of ours is about 3mW. Still 3mW is plenty strong enough to send the beam over 300m.
also until the 3rd year of my apprenticeship i had no idea LASER was a acronym
LASER is an acronym? For serious?
Huh. Learning things! \o/
Light Amplified by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
Before Lasers we had Masers (Microwaves)
It’s not actually being amplified, just oscillated.
Well, it’s being cohered, which is really the main trick.
I just like that little bit of trivia that the original acronym would have been LOSER if they hadn’t changed it.
Scientists try out their acronyms well in advance for this very reason
They also go pew pew pew!
I’d have to look back at my old uni stuff, but I’m pretty sure the storngest one I’ve used was an around 5mW IR laser, which presents its own unique set of challenges- trying to align it on an optical table when you can’t see the beam is tricky.
The university had serious burn holes in people lasers in a couple of labs, about the sizer of a table. The beam was entirely enclosed.
Have you heard of Optical Tweezers?
I haven’t until i just googled it now. That sounds amazing.
Guy I knew wrestled with that for about 18 months for his honours. He finally had something working, after going back and forward for about 8 months with the manufacturer…when on a 45 degree day in summer the adhesive on one of the mirrors in the array melted and dropped.
poor bastard.
My thesis used an Atomic Force Microscope, which is it’s own special brand of fuck you, but the laser was always fine.
Oooo. The Lynx Anarchy spray smells pretty.
Ergo I now smell pretty.
Who wants to sniff me?
Dark Temptation 4 lyfe.
*fist-bump*
Although I do wonder whether I would actually prefer Dimension or not. Still got some kicking around somewhere at home, but dunno if it would quite work the same as it used to.
Most of the other scents annoy me (don’t get me started on Africa!) – the only other one I’ve used was … Sharp Focus? Whatever the minty one was. Chocolate + Mint. Oh yeah. I smell like dessert, bay-bee.
Oh god, Africa. Why does it still exist? Why did it ever exist? WHY DO PEOPLE ACTUALLY USE IT?
I used to wear that a lot but I get bored easy and change things pretty often.
We smell the same! 😀
Whats the purple one? i have used that for years and always liked it
Phoenix was my jam for a long time.
But all you guys were bagging Lynx and deodorantd, which is why I changed to Brute and Aftershave :’S
You guys are the most confusing rollmodels! :’O
Yeah, is what I said ‘for a long time’. 🙂 I did indeed switch to Br00t.
It’s actually relatively odorless for the underarms. Most of my scent comes from applying Nautica to ear-back, wrists and neck.
More importantly… do you also feel witty?
SONGS YOU LIKE THAT YOU DON’T EXPECT OTHERS TO UNDERSTAND GAME:
Ugly Heart – G.R.L.
Push it to the limit – Scarface theme
An oldy but a goody
YES!
This song is part of my old group of net friends’ playlist, thanks to the above link becoming an in-joke 😛
That song is on a mix that I play at the gym – Blood Bros – First Blood. Always wondered what is was from.
Don’t look down or you’ll be finnnnniiiisssshhhhheeeddddddd
Oh man, so many to choose from, even from those in immediate rotation. For now, I’ll go with:
I Can’t Help It – Andy Gibb and Olivia Newton John
One of the Brightest Stars – James Blunt
Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen From Mars – Bon Jovi
Everyone’s Waiting – Missy Higgins
Missy Higgins is amazing! There’s no shame there!
There’s no shame for any of it >:(
Well said. 😀
It’s funny, I tried so hard not to say secret shame in that first post. *shakes fist at self*
(and @shane)
You’re damn right.
You know a member for that band comitted suicide
also
I enjoy Sam Smith
he is pretty great
I do know that. Sad. 🙁
I find Sam Smith whiny and I feel bad for thinking this. 😛
Yeah it is a horrible thing. I find music to be a escape from those sort of thoughts and always find it horrible that such pain can be within people who give others happiness.
Yeah, though it’s a legacy of sorts. Being able to appreciate something even after sadness is honoring them, I guess.
M2M – Don’t Say You Love Me
..yoooou don’t even know me, baybehhhh..
If you really want me then give me some tiiiiime…
..don’t call meh baybehhhh, not before I’m read-ehhhh..
It’s not bad for bubblegum pop.
God damn it, I had the Pokemon movie soundtrack on cassette and that was one of the songs on it…
Repeat after me, ‘I need a vacation.’ 😀
http://24.media.tumblr.com/72f1025bdbc219e38ea4a491639a216b/tumblr_mo6jla4wPo1qe89guo1_1280.gif
I like that song because Pokemon.
I seem to be alone with an awful lot of my music tastes so most of it?
Fortuna Favours The Funk – djpretzel
I mean I could just say Judas Priest in general but that would be too easy.
Well, I happen to love djpretzel and spend waaayy too much time on OCRemix.
I understand Gorky. I understand. *hand on shoulder*
Although Mazedude will always be my favourite from there. His Doom stuff is fantastic.
I think my favourite’s actually Joshua Morse. I seem to like loads of his stuff. Djpretzel’s not one that I end up thinking of off the top of my head, but once mentioned I’m pretty sure I’ve ended up with a lot of his stuff. Same for Mazedude.
I used to keep up with OCRemix, checking out all the newly listed tunes to see if there was anything I wanted to add to the stash. Eventually fell out of the habit though, dunno why. Haven’t been back since probably some time in 2010/2011.
Someday We’ll Know – New Radicals
Finley Quaye – Dice
From The O.C. soundtrack (Super guilty pleasure that one)
The O.C. had amazing music selection.
I love Life is a Song from the final episode!
I don’t mind that song, plays on the radio a tonne though.
And everyone loves the music I do, because my taste in stuff is perfect.
You never understand anything I like, DeeCee!
Actually there’s a song I’ve been liking recently when it comes up in my playlist and I don;t understand why I like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZj_SOzyMbY (Black Rose by Derdian)
It’s a really lame song but I can’t help singing along.
Oh actually, if I were to mention any Judas Priest it’d be their album Turbo. Kind of a cheesy 80s synth/glam metal thing, and bit of a departure from the rest of their stuff. But I love it.
Turbo is a rad album, one of my favorites as well, though British Steel and Screaming For Vengeance are ‘better’.
Screaming for Vengeance and Defenders of the Faith were my favourites for ages, I had the two crammed on one CD that played on endless loop. But now I probably lean more towards either Ram It Down and Painkiller, or Painkiller and Angel of Retribution. Maybe. Sometimes. When I don’t feel like going the other end and picking Sin After Sin and Stained Class.
Scooter – Logical Song
Though I am aware the Supertramp version is far superior, the Scooter version was the first I heard, and it’s stuck with me.
anything by Fantomas, pure chaos but I love it so much.
CURSE YOU LINK MODERATION
Anti-moderation repost:
Ugh, photobucket.
It seems to be down for maintenance at the moment, but since they do the whole “you can’t look at pictures directly you have to view it on a webpage” redirect thingo that seems to mean that I can’t actually link any pictures from it at all (embedded images still work).
Anyway, this is supposed to be the cubbyhole thing. Assuming that my upload-by-e-mail thing worked:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/DeskShieldv2.jpg
Temp link – http://i.imgur.com/mtart6Q.jpg
I HAD THAT BACKDROP FOR THE LONGEST TIME! 😀
Yeah, we’ve got vertical blinds at home too.
Reminds me of my shed with the whole corrugated thing going on.
That looks way funnier than I imagined.
That’s what she said?
“I thought it would be bigger.”
It’s just the angle/lighting/perspective!
Aw, I’m actually a little disappointed. I kind of imagined it as a massive overhead cardboard cocoon or umbrella stretching across the ceiling with little corrugated fins.
@jocon I’m a slack arsehole but the Destiny stuff is on its way. Cost about $40 ($37.85 exact) to send mostly because stupid shape means oversized box.
Ha, fair enough.
Want me to buy you something on steam or send you moneys or pay you at Japan trip?
I remember Serrels posted this thing ages ago about how he’s never bought himself underwear. Freeze’s post makes me realize I’ve never bought my own deodorant. It’s one of those things my mum brings over from time-to-time. MESSAGE RECEIVED, MUM!
I’ve been using the same bottle of deodorant for the entire year. It’s lasted that long because I always forget to use it.
I don’t go outside enough, I can make a bottle last ages. 😀
The only time I bought some was when they stopped making Dimension and I went around to a whole bunch of stores to stock up on as much as I could to tide me over, because I’d tried all the others and *hated* them.
Oh and on that Japan trip where I ran out and needed more. And kinda struggled to find any, had to go to a chemist for it. The random little convenience stores never seemed to have it. Weird place.
Haha, I did the same with a body wash I used previously. They discontinued it and I found a whole box discounted to 50c each. Bought them all, they lasted me for years! I still actually had a couple bottles when I moved from Perth->Brisbane and figured it was finally time to ditch them.
…you all stink.
I’ve been sitting at home, by myself, for weeks and I still feel weird and sweaty without deodorant.
Clearly you are being far too active.
Hey, this typing is active work.
I don’t sweat much at all, weirdly.
I could water the crops of several small African countries with my perspiration.
Me too. If I even think about hard work it starts to rain around my feet.
I have to buy all my business shirts that are essentially white with a pattern/stripe/check on them, otherwise 10 minutes after leaving the house I look like someone completing a 10km run.
I even go the length of putting on a layer of a basic antiperspirant that just smells like soap then spray the Lynx stuff over it.
I don’t go that far, but the idea of being “the guy with BO” unnerves me.
I always wear it when I go outside but not so much when I’m home. I shower excessively and my place is cool and I hardly sweat and it’s just me any way for the majority of the day and I’ll shower before any one else gets home. XD
I sweat a lot.
To the point where if I start using different soaps, things get a bit nasty even with deodorant. I should probably get it checked out at some point.
So don’t worry, as long as you’re near me, I’ll be the BO guy. Even though I shower twice a day and deodorise appropriately.
A lot of antiperspirant just doesn’t work for me or if it does, it also irritates my skin 🙁
I use Care Plus® Anti-Insect DEET spray. Smells great PLUS it repels mosquitoes. Especially handy at gym.
There’s a mosquito infestation at your gym? D:
No, but I use it just in the very probable scenario that there will be. Also the smell is just divine!
They lay eggs in the sweat pools D:
Question for sewing people @strange @scree @cookingmama
Whats the right sort of stitch for stretchy material like a morphsuit (or even exactly a morphsuit)? The machine I have has a bunch of different ones and I don’t know what to use.
I’ll put a pic upon Twitter for a reference in a sec, but the best stitch for a morphsuit fabric is a kind of stretchy looking zigzag (06/07 in my pic. It’s the same stitch, the letters L and M just show whether the needle is in the middle or left postion). It may even be called a “stretch stitch” in your manual. 2nd best is a broken looking zig zag (10 in the picture). Failing that, a regular zigzag (like 08/09 in the pic) will work well, also.
Test them out on a scrap if you have any and pull them, to see which is the least likely to pop open at the slightest resistance.
https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/525142848635551746
Awesome. Out of those mine does 4,10 and 15 so 10 it is.
Huh. I think my one’s stretch stitch looks more like 05. Though I guess the way it moves is more like 06 and 07, doing the whole two-steps-forward-one-step-back thing.
05 would be the “triple stretch” stitch. It’s used for extra reinforcement on things like crotches.
@freezespreston – Reinforce your crotch.
There’s really no need….
Hmm. Would there be any issues in using this for all the stitching? So far I’ve only used it for the side seams on my pants and what I’ve done of the top, but the next thing I’d be doing would be stuff across the middle of the chest. Can’t remember if it had any other stretch settings, or if I’m just remembering the symbol wrong.
No issues in using it for all the stitching, unless you make a mistake because it’s even more annoying than usual to try and unpick.
But yeah, in general any zigzag can be modified to a longer, thinner zigzag with your stitch length and width settings to make a good all-purpose stitch for sewing stretchy fabrics. You just want a stitch that’s going to stretch along with your fabric which is why broken up stitches like zigzags work much better than straight stitches.
Already had the joy of unpicking one lot of stretch stitching >_>
I do not fancy doing it again 😛
The very clever @strange has given perfect answers. I’m still a novice with stretchy fabrics.
Mothers’ electrical safety switch at home wouldn’t stay on last night, yet lights worked. This morning it stayed on. That’s some dodgy shit, so she’s calling elec. D:
Could be a faulty appliance triggering the breaker. Lights might be on a different circuit.
Yeah, I had this last week. Turns out it was my toaster oven!
I’m talking the safety switch, the main one lol. Maybe my mother told me the wrong thing or I didn’t understand correctly though ..
We had this issue. A Bakelite junction in our roof from the 1950s had thrown.
We had one working powerpoint in the house so prioritised Fridge and Hot Water.
I replied above – but she told me it was the main safety switch. Weird!
We worked out our working powerpoint was on a separate circuit, just powering the Laundry, which was weird.
I also had someone use my toasted sandwich maker at uni and trip the fuses for the whole floor.
Something was up with our fuse box 2 years back, so half our house would relatively frequently lose power (thankfully lights, hot water, heating, and a coupla other things all have their own circuits).
I only noticed because it was the half of our house which our router and modem are in, so the net would drop. >.>
As an Electrician, my advice is to always unplug the appliances on the circuit you have a problem with and plug one thing in at a time. 90-99% of the time its always an appliance, rarely a problem with a RCD or breaker.
TAYlist for the 23rd of October 2014
TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by one week until I leave for MelbournePaul Kelly – To Her Door
Steve Miller Band – Abracadabra
Simon & Garfunkel – 59th Street Bridge Song (Requested by @redartifice)
Bryan Adams – Run To You
Powderfinger – Burn Your Name
Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal
Mika – Kick Ass (The Playlist generated with this song this time, I swear)
Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure (Requested by @beeawwb, Don’t worry, I didn’t play Ice Ice Baby, I care too much to punish you like that)
Rolling Stones – Under My Thumb (Requested by @benny)
Frente – Ordinary Angel
REM – Losing My Religion (Requested by @crazyguy1990)
Don Henley – All She Wants To Do Is Dance
Men Without Hats – Safety Dance (Requested by @blaghman)
Offspring – (Can’t Get My) Head Around You
The Who – Baba O’Riley (Requested by @strange)
Blue Oyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (Requested by @gutsoup)
Jessica Mauboy – Can I Get A Moment
Short Stack – We Dance To A Different Disco, Honey (Jeez, that’s a mouthful)
Now that’s a MUCH better playlist this week. Some great songs in there. Well done, sir. 🙂
I have a pretty awful headache and my usual (seemingly counter-productive) method for dealing with it is to blast it away with loud music. Everyone I know laughs at me for this but it works. Am I really the only person who does this?
Sometimes I do that. Most of my family don’t understand how the sounds of Metallica soothe my pain, though. I think it just comes down to indulging in things you love. Be it thrashing drums, rumbling bass and buzzing guitars; or flowers and fairy dust and nice walks on the beach during sunset.
Indulging in things you love to relax yourself was my point. Everyone has their own life elixir.
Or it might just be that Metal is the cure for all things. \m/
*bangs head up and down*
Not helping. 😛
Headphones or speakers? The first makes it worse for me, the second helps if I put on a mellow album (I have a personal favourite I use for the occasion)
Either works for me.
Yes. #ChugTheDrugs
Amen to that!
I don’t do that, but I used to lull myself to sleep by listening to Rock, Melodic Death Metal, or anything in between, so I can sort of understand.
I get headaches frequently enough that I generally just power through them if it’s daytime, or pop some codeine if it’s night.
Oh man, Melodeath sucks the life right out of me. So depressing! Very sleep-inducing, though.
If I’m not in bed it pumps me up, because I love it so (very selectively, admittedly), but lying in bed, it helps knock me out.
Every time I scroll past I see Megadeth.
oooh I thought you were joking about cosplaying as Link!
I thought that was Crazyguy.
IT’S YOU
I am Crazyguy?
You’re crazy, guy.
Crazybuy gifts me games, you don’t gift me games! :'(
I listen to Arvo Part for tranquility.
I usually listen to lullabies. Rockabye baby is my personal favorite *wraps himself up in blankie and rocks himself, whilst drinking warm milk*
Self massage (or your partner is even better!) on your temple, gentle but firm in a circular motion works for my girlfriend 100% of the time, every time. I’ve never had one before though so I don’t know how they feel! 😛
Protip: Uncross your legs when you have a headache, helps reduce your blood pressure!
Moving out of home tomorrow \o/
/o\
Also will have no home internet for several weeks because the Real Estate lady is taking forever to get back to me with approval to get Telstra Cable installed into my unit (the cables are all there – it’s wired for Foxtel already – but need to get one of those heavier-duty junction box thingies installed possibly)
Hope it all goes well, buddy! EXCITING TIMES! Enjoy the adventure of it!
Wow, haven’t heard that in a while.
Which Burb you moving to now?
Camberwell so I can rub shoulders with the almost-elite.
Hey that’s just up the road.
PAX HOUSEWARMING PARTY AT NEG’S PLACE YES YES!
May actually happen. Though it’ll potentially be a bit of a sad affair as I’ve got like a single 2-seater couch and a 50cm wide ikea table as my only living / dining furniture right now. But you would be able to gaze upon my collection of stupid shit I own instead of stuff people actually need.
Congratulations man! Moving out of home is the beginning of the end of the beginning! Or something philosophical and deep like that!
You know how the things you hate most about yourself are the ones that make you the most angry or annoyed when you come across them in other people? Try having a thirteen year old daughter who is turning out to be just like you. 🙁
Do you know just how much Hanson would be blaring in my house if that was the case?
And the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon
Yes, we have no bananas
Also, more seriously, this is the reason my brother and father clashed for most of my brother’s teenage years.
When I think about my parents, there are aspects I take from both of them- my father doesn’t suffer fools real well, they both have a degree of pragmatism, my mother is organised in some aspects but not others. These are all things I see in myself
With my brother and my father though, they both dig in and fight for stuff that perhaps doesn’t need to be fought over, which is something I and my mother don’t do- I’m much better at picking my battles.
FWIW, they’re better now- I think having a degree of distance between the two was sorely needed.
I get along fine with my parents as long as it’s only for a few hours at a time.
My sister and I are quite similar (only she’s more extroverted) and so we used to clash a lot as teenagers. But now we’re older we get on really well.
Did she deprive you of McDonalds too? 😀
Like those times when you said you’d watch Survivor, but didn’t?
WORST ASPECT OF STRANGE!
ASPECTS OF STRANGE will be the name of my tell all unauthorized Strange biography.
I’m watching it now, and even referenced Xenobladder just for you. What more do you want from me, Sir Greenman?!!!!
Nah, you’re alright <3
Similar to Redartifice, my sister and my mother are very similar and so used to clash all the time. Luckily, I’m like my mother’s brothers, so I don’t really clash with anyone.
I would like to say “lead by example” and remove your worst habits, hopefully inspire her to follow suit, but in practice that’s a stupid suggestion that doesn’t work.
So uhh, hugs?
Actual advice? Oh man, I didn’t know my stories were supposed to have a moral point!
I’VE BEEN TAYING WRONG THIS WHOLE TIME!
Thanks. The problem is, these are aspects of myself I thought I’d dealt with and/or grown out of. So even though I’m thinking I’m leading by example, maybe I haven’t been all this time. 😛
I think there’s something to be said for genetics. My youngest is so much like my brother was as a kid it’s scary. Like literally scary because please no. And I’m pretty hard on my eldest, overly so I feel sometimes, yet she is exactly the same as I was as a kid.
It’s weird because the eldest seems like she’s the more compliant and agreeable (if occasionally more mischievous). Whereas the younger seems more boisterous and forward, but also more openly rebellious.
(Ugh. Almost used real names on the Internet, too.)
Ah, well then.
Have you considered locking yourself away from the world, crying into your arms until your problems melt away?
No? Just my solution, then.
This man is a real troubleshooter
I see so many things that I do that are things that frustrate me in my Dad…
Rumours of a new Diablo expansion being announced at BlizzCon. Part of me says it’s too damn early for them to do that but another part points out it would only be an announcement and still be a year or two away.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee……..
It’s like the only place they seem to do announcements for their games, so seems logical. It’s good to see them support it though, it’s a good game & would be shit if they just gave up.
There were rumours for a very long time that D3 would have two expansions (the same rumours mentioned the console porting long before release). I think it’s pretty much just accepted that it will happen.
Blizzard does love some expansions.
Yeah, like look at WoW, 5 expansions on and they’re still successfully milking it and the users are lapping it up 😛
Well, if Ihad the customer base WoW does I’d milk it too.
WoW really is Blizzard’s cash cow. Pretty sure Hearthstone will be another within a year or two.
Oh yeah, the amount of people I see in game riding around on $30 digital mounts amazes me. There’s been times when they would release a new mount in the Blizzard store and would actually sell out of keys and have a back order a few hours long, kind of insane.
As long as they add new content and don’t totally fuck up, I’m pretty sure WoW players will pay for many things. And I totally get that- especially if you’re a longtime player, wow is a hobby in itself.
It’s like having a model train set- I may never understand how people get excited over an HO scale oil tanker, but if that floats your boat go nuts.
It is a hobby, you’re right.. I’m pretty proud of my main character of the shit i’ve achieved on it since I started playing all those years ago on & off. Plus it’s fun when you play with mates.
Oh, absolutely. I have as of this week probably put, no joke, about $300 into various Borderlands games for the same reason.
Weird thing I noticed while searching for something, model train enthusiasts rarely look happy on pictures on the internet. There was one that stuck in memory of a feature piece on the guy where he had the engineers hat on, a shirt that said just keep chugging, a gorgeous set up and the most sour expression you’ll ever see in a human face.
Not even Rod Stewart?
Also, there’s probably a bit of this: http://funlexia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/We-Demand-to-be-taken-Seriously-resizecrop–.jpg
This guy.
http://media.nj.com/route_45/photo/railroad1jpg-0e419b07219a357d.jpg
Seems my memory was a little fuzzy on the details.
Hrmm, think he’s just old and saggy.
He looks happy. But in an old man way.
You know what’s funny? I’ve actually developed an enthusiasm for trains since having a little boy. We look up pictures of “Real Thomas” on the internet, and I was as just as excited looking at all the model trains at hobbyco as he was 🙂 I think the train obsession is wearing off and being replaced with superheroes, but I’ve learned a lot about steam engines in the last couple of years and I love it!
I went to the Port Dock Railway museum a couple of weeks back. Pretty damn cool
To be fair, 5 expansions in ten years isn’t really milking it that hard by MMO standards.
FFXI had a smaller install base, is still running just shy of 12 years after launch, and it had 11 expansions. Everquest (still running!) is up to it’s 21st expansion this year.
Considering the content that Blizzard adds to WoW with each major patch, really they make enough material that for an average other MMO would be two expansions. They also do major work in each of the new expansion packs behind the scenes to enable new things, eg the Cataclysm patch that completely replaced the level 1-60 experience, bringing it in line with more modern content and remaking it to reflect all they’d learned after years of developing MMOs. That sort of do-over is really rare, that was almost like building a new game.
Survivor Ep 5.
Still watching at the moment but will update as I watch ;D
HAHAHHAHAHA KEITH! No! …singles are not targets ahaha! He’s so stoops!Surround and drown :D. Drew and Alec are so annoying, Malcolm was way better *swoon*.
As if Dale is seen as a bad guy now lololol
Why would they vote out the Survivor babe of this season :(. I liked her!
@sughly @powalen @phoenix @strange @f4ction
@mrtaco @masha2932 >:(
Kelly was so pretty and not a mean jerk like so many others. BOOOOO. I want Baylor gone purely because she’s hiding behind her mum as a scared little girl.I dunno why John and Jac sided with them!@sughly @phoenix @strange @f4ction
Man, I would’ve been SO annoyed going to a new tribe and finding out they’d been eating constantly while we were rationing. Ugh, the mum heaping more food into the pot. I may have yelled “What are you doing!?” at the TV 😛Also, wow the blue team is precious this season. They’ve been crawling back to Jeff so many times! I’d be embarrassed honestly 😛 Even more so after being on the ‘smart’ tribe before and then having to beg Jeff for food because the last tribe had no self control.
That tribal council was pretty funny though. How did they end up with a three-way tie? HOW? hahah It’s not that hard! Missy and Baylor must have changed their vote to Kelly, right? I don’t understand how the two couples couldn’t vote for the same person.
Everybody is dumb this season 😛
I almost thought they’d accidentally left it up to Keith to decide the vote but he was one of the ones that voted for Dale? What? I DUNNO WHAT THEY’RE THINKINGDrew’s “can I trade this flint for food” was the worst “bargain” attempt though…
@powalen @phoenix @strange @f4ction
you guyyys, you are the dummies – they talked about why they would split their vote. they thought kelley was looking for the idol! but yeah, i lost any love for baylors mum thats for sure, and baylor wasnt in a very good light… so my fave by the end of the ep was kelley noooo T_T shes the only smart person there. dangit. left with a bunch of dummies……… go keith!John Riccitiello is now the head of Unity….
Folks, prepare the torches and pitchforks…
Why?
Former EA boss
I know who he is, I’m just not sure why I’m lighting torches.
See below, basically. People jumping to conclusions (not saying crazyguy is though)
Watch it and it will make sense.
And? As I said, they went back from that, and frankly the guy is doing his job correctly.
Am I saying he’s a saint, or that EA are some paragon of decency? Gods no. In terms of big evil corporations though, EA are weak tea.
That’s got sweet fuck all to do with Unity. Unity’s an engine, it’s middleware and it doesn’t have anything to do with business models or anything, developers and publishers using it can put microtransactions in if they want or leave them out if they want.
Well, not strictly true. Plenty to do with business models and how they extract moneys out of people wanting to use the engine, could easily lock away features behind microtransactions etc. If you want to be entirely cynical about it 😛
From 2007-2013…
Right when they started to go to shit…
Microtransactions, SimCity (2013), Spore, Star Wars: The Old Republic…
Yeah, not very well-liked…
I’d not attribute that to a CEO (I’d debate the rest regardless).
A CEO of a company like EA sits well above the operational stuff, and in terms of running the company he did fine.
Now we can sit and argue over things like project ten dollar or The Sims DLC one billion, but I think it’s a bit silly to pin that on one guy.
I’ll agree Simcity was a clusterfuck, but again, he’s not a programmer. He doesn’t personally approve every game that goes out the door.
Spore had shitty DRM, and if anything EA moved away from that model under his leadership.
SW:TOR- And?
Microtransactions – sure, EA used them, but from a business perspective they’re not a bad idea. Again, under his leadership, they tried them out and dialed them back. Seems like good leadership to me.
Spore went into development well before he was involved, and the reason it was crap was that Will Wright overpromised and underdelivered, Molyneux style.
He actually brought The Old Republic over to EA with him when he took over there – he was previously the CEO of an investment group that owned Bioware. Also EA now has the exclusive license to Star Wars stuff for PC and Consoles so they’re probably not that upset about SWTOR (which apparently turns a reasonable profit now and has a stable ~2 million player base).
He’s also the guy who was behind the idea that they needed some quality franchises and greenlit stuff like Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge. And the whole Microtransactions thing is because that literally is making billions of dollars (look at the crazy money Valve and Riot are making off their games for example, or the fact that the Japanese industry is utterly dominated by F2P phone games) and EA has really been struggling to stay profitable without doing it. It’s the way things are going, unfortunately. And the CEO is beholden to the shareholders to turn a profit at any cost, it’s not fair to string the guy up for trying to make money off a model that makes lots of money – that’s business. EA are no more evil than Ubisoft or Actiblizzion or anyone else.
From what I heard and absolutely no citation on this, Will wright was pushed into a direction he didn’t really want to go with Spore. It was dumbed down for want of a better word to make it more accessible. Apparently it was publisher/company pressure the people didn’t want a realistic evolution style simulator but a more gamey, cartoonish story
Never got all the anger he got. His job was literally to maximise shareholder profits. If he didn’t they would have found someone else that would. Same with Bobby Kotick.
What, by tarnishing your company’s name through shitty business practices?
The anger seems pretty rational to me.
Again, shareholder driven. If they wanted him to look after gamers first he would have. I think you’d find the majority of EA’s shareholders would never have touched a game.
Yeah, but it’s easier to be angry at a person than a pile of faceless shareholders. 🙂
He actually seemed like a pretty reasonable guy that actually cared about games, especially if you look at the stuff he was doing early in his tenure. He improved EA’s internal developer culture a lot too, apparently.
That’s ok we have UE4 now.
@ash are you still destinying?
Also, PS3 Destinyers, you rare and exalted breed you, anyone keen to try the Vault of GLass on Saturday?
Actually, I’m playing Lightning Returns atm 😛
Once I hit lvl 20 in Destiny and finished the main story, I wasn’t quite ready to grind for light gear. I decided to take a break and play another game I’d been looking forward to getting time for. Now I’m nearly finished with Ms Farron, I’m feeling keen for Destiny again, although I don’t think I will be strong enough for Vault of Glass for a while 😛
No prob man, think we’re close to 6 now 🙂
So I put my hands up, they’re playing my song… the butterflies fly awaaaaay…
So happy you finally listened to Wrecking Ball.
I keep meaning to buy her albums, but the main songs I want are all on different albums, and buying three Miley Cyrus albums is a little embarrassing :S
(P.S. Listen to “Adore You”)
THOSE AREN’T THE NEXT LYRICS!
*sigh*
I’m noddi’n my head like yeeeeaaaah
Movin’ my hips like yeeeaaah
I’ve got my hands up, they’re playing my song… I know I’m gonna be okay…
Yeeeeeah-eaaah-eeaheah, it’s a party in the USA!
Yeeeeeah-eaaah-eeaheah, it’s a party in the USA!
You and liondrive are the worst =,= now I’m humming party in the USA at work >.
God dammit now I’m youtubing this song rather than doing assignments >:(
Ok, I need a list.
I realized I’ve hardly played any games this year, and plan on rectifying that once exams are over 🙂
What are some of the MAJOR PS4, PS3, and Wii U games preferably FROM THIS YEAR that you guys would deem as must plays that AREN’T in my below list?
List of completed games this year:
– Diablo 3– Mario Kart 8
– Transistor
– Destiny
– The Last of Us Remastered + Left Behind
List of uncompleted games this year:
– Infamous: Second Son (unfinished)– DriveClub (unfinished)
– Valiant Hearts (unfinished)
– Rayman Legends (unfinished)
– Child of Light (unfinished)
– Dark Souls 2 (unfinished)
Alien Isolation!
You can’t just complete Mario Kart, mannn…
Not on your list:
Bayonetta 2
Hyrule Warriors (you said you liked Warriors games, right?)
Smash Bros WiiU
2 of those aren’t even out, and I’m not the biggest Zelda fan :3
I think I want my first Zelda experience to be that stunning looking new Wii U Zelda 😀
Pre Sequel?
I’ve not bought many new console games this year.
DKC Tropical Freeze!
And as of Saturday, Bayonetta 2!
Not this year but did you ever play Super Mario 3D World? That was raaaaaaaaaad
…THEATRHYTHM! You’re a Final Fantasy, fan, man! Did you not see how much @shane loved it? IT HAS SHANE’S APPROVAL!
(and +1 to what Tacowalen said)
I’m trading in Fantasy Life for Theatrhythm today.
Smart man! I played and finished both because there was nothing to do in Perth 😛
PS. You’re playing Theatrhythm multi with me!
You’re getting Curtain Call, right? Might as well skip the first at this point since pretty much all the songs are in CC anyway.
Yep, just picked it up! The first one is a little difficult to find anyway.
You go gurl!
I’m a Theatrhythm MASTER.
South Park: Stick of Truth
Wolfenstein: The New Order
+1 for both of these. They’re probably the two best games not on the list already.
You finished Diablo 3?did you really? Really really?
I finished as much as I want to 😛
One playthrough is enough for me 😛
Plus it is a game that I might go back to for additional plays later on.
If you haven’t already done AC4 yet, I recommend it for PS4. It’s great piratey goodness.
Ships! Sea shanties! Swashbuckling!
Pretty much the only shanty I listened to 😀
Not the biggest fan of pirates :3
I like Assassins Creed though…
I’m torn! :O
Is it more Pirate-y, or Assassin-y?
It’s more awesome-y, that’s all you need worry about!
Equal parts, I guess. A lot of the pirate stuff is optional and can be a true time sink. But it’s all pretty awesome.
GTA V!
Well that comes out in a few weeks but yeah..
Where’s Destiny?!
I think I’ve found my new favourite Dad joke:
http://imgur.com/gallery/UwQ8ZUE
Guys, Smash Bros Wii U Nintendo Direct!
It starts at 9am our time!
@markserrels
http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/10-23-2014/
Dear TAY,
Enjoy this sneak preview of the Undad Kickstarter, one week prior to launch. As requested by @negativezero. I can’t say no to you guys 😛
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanewsmith/369065105?token=293edbde
Looks pretty good 🙂
I’d potentially bump the $40 tier up to $50, and switch with the $75 tier though (seems like a custom sketch should be less of a reward then 5 additional digital books, in my opinion).
I’m glad you didn’t include the rabbits foot as a reward, by the way.
Also, on a personal side note, I much prefer Anthony Salinas style of drawing.
Just a question though, but what’s the motive behind alternating art styles between issues? Couldn’t it make a bit of a disjoint between each issue?
Looks good though man 🙂
Sketches are expensive! Artists gotta be paid. Thanks for the feedback.
Re: different artists, there was already going to be a different artist between issue 1 and issue 2 (I did issue 1, but wanted to hand it over after that). It kind of made sense, therefore, to write each issue as episodic and kind of standalone and get a different artist for each one.
Re: $40 tier, I can’t really raise that any higher or it’ll cost backers more than it would cost them to get the books from my website! 😛
Yes, but that means the money will be used to fund the project. If backers pay less to get all your published works, how will you raise the money?
Different art between issues isn’t that uncommon in comics. I used to read Star Wars stuff where characters changed appearance all over the place due to different artists each issue.
Where’s my rabbit’s foot? I need me some luck.
To balance out the rabbit’s bad luck, presumably. The idea’s been shelved for now.
I shall have a gander once I’ve moved house.
Pretty sure I will also be backing if I can.
Thanks, man! The campaign will be running for two months, so it’ll be up until around Christmas-ish.
I must have my likeness in a book, that way I know I have made it in life. Count me in for $100 backer tier 😛
Awesome! Make sure you get in quickly – there’s only three available!
The audio quality in the video is poor, and is likely to turn people away. I’d imagine the thought process amongst customers would be “If the video is low-quality, what quality will the book be?
People live in a bubble of listening to their favourite youtuber with $2000 recording and sound equipment.
There may be no way to get over that hurdle without a pricier microphone, but accept that is a hurdle, and hope it is not too big of a barrier to entry.
I actually borrowed a microphone from @blaghman and re-recorded all the voiceover bits. If you watched the vid tonight, you saw the upgraded version. This is definitely as good as it’s going to get! Thanks for the feedback.
Much better. Although, I don’t know if rock music was the best choice.
My friend just now:
Frankly, I agree.
Eh, I think it tried a little too hard to be funny, personally.
And Shia needs to shave his beard!
He was handsome clean shaved, or with a bit of stubble, but a beard doesn’t suit him! :'(
I enjoyed it for the ever-escalating spectacle 😛
Even Stevenssssss
*yawn*
*throws popcorn in Gooky’s mouth*
IT’S FRIDAY!!!!!
Had a terrible case of fatigue during yesterday’s kendo training. My body was fine before training but after training it felt like I would pass out at any moment, which I did as soon as I got home. Hopefully it’s just because of the lack of oxygen with 30 people in a small room doing some intense stuff.
Anyone experienced something like this before?
Well it was only maybe around a dozen people in a small room doing some intense stuff, but…
nevermind!
*grabs popcorn*
Gross, I was eating that.
OH…. *grabs popcorn*
Were you drinking enough? Sounds like dehydration to me.
ermmm… maybe 5-6 mouthful? didn’t think of that because I usually just blast through training with 2 mouthful after warmup.
It could be a number of things from the sounds of things, @ash’s question about drinking enough water is a pertinent one. If you don’t have enough water and electrolytes you can have heat stroke like symptoms which you are describing a little.
Has it happened before? Did you lose consciousness or put yourself to sleep from extreme fatigue?
Never happened before. I don’t think I lost consciousness immediately but as soon as my back was on the bed my whole body just shut down and I fell asleep (didn’t even get changed).
Right after training I had a bottle of Gatorade (somehow I just felt the need to have one)
Sounds like a tough sesh. It sounds like you might not have had enough to eat before training, I used to get this sensation after playing sport where I could go straight to bed after exercise and sleep for 1-3 hours.
Think about having a banana or another med-high GI carbohydrate rich meal that will get you through training.
Source: I’m a Master of Exercise Physiology lol
Lack of sleep and poor blood-sugar management do that to me. Also, legs day. Always legs day. Pulls all the blood out of my normal places and into my legs. So light-headed and woozy from that.
(Usually it’s the blood sugar management that’s the most important, though. Glycemic Index is a thing I rarely pay attention to until it fucks me up.)
@evilmonkey http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/10/better-version-of-grand-theft-auto-san-andreas-hits-xbox-360-next-week/
I hope they put on the Xbone as well because I will be retiring my 360 next week ;_;
It doesn’t make a lot of sense that they’d only port it to a console that’s been superseded but then again we’re still waiting for a current gen port of GTAV so maybe it will follow.
GTA V is out in a little under 4 weeks…
I didn’t get very far into San Andreas, it’s my least-liked GTA game. I think I got as far as the lowrider DDR challenge before deciding it wasn’t for me? For some reason I also have a lot of issues finding my way around the city compared to my experience in GTA 3/Vice City.
Is this technically revamped at all or just a facelift on the same core? Because if the latter… pass.
Vice City is the best GTA in my opinion, then San Andreas, then V, then IV, then 3.
Vice City had the best realised setting, I think, but I preferred SA as a game. It’s my fave GTA by a long way, with Lost and Damned expansion for GTAIV coming second.
For me it’s Vice City, GTA V, Lost & The Damned, GTA IV, GTA III, The Ballad of Gay Tony then finally San Andreas.
YESSSSS!!!!!! Best birthday weekend. Thank you R*.
@os42 Hey man you mentioned you were interested in attempting hard mode Atheon with our group; if you are keen to do it there’s a couple of things I’m expecting from everyone in the hard mode group. Firstly 29 which you’ve got, 300 primary, secondary and heavy weapons and finally I think it’s essential that the group of peeps doing hard mode should also run normal together.
One of the things I’ve noticed with VoG is aside from people learning the mechanics it’s also important for the group to sync, e.g. if we’re defending confluxes during templar phase the team is aware of who’s covering what spawn points instinctually. I’d also like to be able use normal mode to practice different mechanics when Bungie hotfixes stuff (and to do phases without anyone dying).
Let me know if you’re still interested and I’ll block that last spot for you =]
Going over my weapons, I doubt I’ll be able to hit the full 300 on any but my primary before you guys want to run – currently sitting 288/267/257 on Epilogue/Ice Breaker/Hezen Vengeance. There are a couple of things making me hesitant about joining you guys properly, tho.
Firstly, I’m pretty happy running normal mode with Mawt’s group on Tuesdays, which means I’d either be running normal again with you guys for practice alone (and I agree that if we do Hard mode together, we need to do normal mode together to know what everyone needs to be doing), or I get an alt warlock up and raid-ready – which I won’t be able to do for this week, anyway. Anyone know a faster way than the hard mode story missions, then strikes?
Secondly, you all seem to be willing to put a lot more time into Destiny than I do. I don’t doubt that I’ll increase my playtime if I join you, but I won’t be able to match you guys.Just looked at your playtime, which is about the same as mine… so scratch that one – you’re all just more efficient than me, I guess… maybe it’s the PvP, maybe it’s the increased amount of coop, maybe it’s doing the weekly strikes.If you don’t feel I’d be a liability, I’ll take the time to get an alt-lock up so I can join you guys properly – I’m fine getting bugger all loot for one week, but I’ll need an alt in the long run for this to be worth it. 😛
Haha I think I’ve mentioned it before but most peeps in our group to don’t actually play all that much, usually its only a few hours on working days (around 90min avg) and then we do the raid over the weekends and stay on for co-op. However this weekend I think after the raids I’m going to get lost in Beyond Earth.
You’ve got most of the pre-req’s to join our hard mode and a week to get 1 or 2 of your weapons up to 300 (will post hints on maximising time to do that further below). So first off let’s lock that last spot out for you in the hard mode group.
Now to move on to your weapons. First off are you sure you want to fully upgrade Ice Breaker? It’s great as a back up weapon but if you’re using it as your go to secondary in VoG you might have trouble as a lot of the mobs aren’t going to die to it in one hit in hard mode. I.e. you’ll have trouble against praetorians, oracles (since you’ll run out of ammo) and if you get pulled into the timestream in Atheon Icebreaker won’t be enough to kill the adds. Final argument against Ice breaker…. Exotics take ridiculous amounts of time to level up, are you sure you want to lock your secondary slot up to a weapon that’s going to take a long time to max out? With your primary and heavy you can easily level those up if you long on for an hour a day check out the PvE daily bounties spam them and turn them in while having those weapons equipped. Off the top of my head if you do 5 bounties a day for 3-4 days you should have enough to max your weapons out or at least come pretty damn close!In regards to levelling an alt, the most efficient way of doing it is to break it up over a few days. Do the story missions get up to level 7-8, unlock daily bounties and make sure to spam the easy ones. Always make sure you’re on the same level as the story mission or higher than required. I didn’t do any strikes while levelling my alt, only story, daily missions, daily story when it was unlocked and finally I did crucible bounties. If you do 2-3 hours a day max you should have your alt to 20 in a week. Also never repeat story missions, they give reduced rewards and aren’t worth the time. If you’re under levelled for the next story and done all your bounties just resume the next day!
Now finally in regards to play time, myself, jo and distantdrop usually log on between 7pm to 10pm on weekdays grind out our daily stories (on both toons) and then just do what bounties we can. If you jump on during those times you’re welcome to join us as well! Doing stuff together makes it go a LOT faster, even farming mats since you have multiple people looking out for chests, etc. Worth noting we don’t do strikes or PvP anymore (odd skirmish runs).
Spoilered for length!
I guess I just figured you guys must play a lot from Red’s comment that he had only had his level 25 character (I think it was his titan?) a couple of days… which was kinda intimidating, having spent a week getting a hunter to 15.
First point – as far as secondaries go, the whole reason I bought Ice Breaker was because my only other option was Found Verdict (raid shotgun), which feels really unwieldy. I’ll see how I go with Verdict for a while; I’ve got 50+ ascended energy, so it’s not like I don’t have room to experiment; just need to train myself to stop using iron sights for that thing (as they block half the screen D:), and to reload at every opportunity.Second point – I got my hunter to level 15 in about 10 hours over the course of a week, doing every story on hard and getting extra levels from strikes before Venus and again before Mars – don’t think that character has even seen patrol yet… I’ll try your method this time – sounds less stressful. 😛Third – I’d love to join you guys once I get my alt up to snuff. I’m currently only hopping on maybe twice a week outside of scheduled raids to do the heroic story, and a few Tiger strikes to get XP and indirect shards; might get into the habit of dropping in for the heroic story every day, seeing as it doesn’t take long. I’ve been wanting to join people for co-op stuff, but feel awkward jumping in uninvited, especially when two people are obviously co-opping together – I always feel like a third wheel, especially as I’m generally pretty quiet and that can unnerve some people. :SSo, plan for the next week:
Create alt-lock, get the heroic story every day on my main, then swap to alt-lock to do bounties to level, then story missions until mission levels outpace me. Focus on Sunsinger first, I presume. When it gets to 20, grab my upgraded gear on whichever character and focus on bounties and upgrading my raid weapons.Watched The Rover last night. Was actually really good. Not that I was expecting otherwise, but was a nice change. Guy Pearce is downright terrifying, and Robert Pattinson was pretty decent too. Nice to see him obviously trying to branch out and broaden his horizons instead of just forever being Twlight boy. Although every interview I ever saw with him he was usually taking the piss out of Twilight – I get the feeling he hated it by the end anyway.
Got stuck into Shadow of Mordor again, and lost several hours to just running around assassinating Captains and doing side missions. Really need to get on those main story quests soon. Really enjoying it, and really haven’t unlocked that many abilities yet so imaine it will only get better.
Civ BE unlocks today, and Freedom Wars next week!
\o/
Forever dickman,
‘Nef.
EDIT: Age of Ultron trailer. Hngh. *flailing intensifies*
As I’ve been absent for a while, i was just wondering how everyone is going and what has been happening in TAY and peoples’ lives in general. Anyone care to share? There seems to be more chatter about LASERs these days…
Yes a topic i know about. WOOO
I’m only interested in Lasers when they’re attached to frickin’ Sharks.
I miss my Laser 🙁
But at least it went down in a blaze of glory, able to limp its way home from the battle while the Saab had to be towed.
Please elaborate!
Back around the end of 2011, I was driving home from the shops when a guy pulled out of a driveway in front of me. It was just starting to sprinkle so the brakes were super not effective, ploughed straight into him. Front right corner of his car went right into the middle of the front of mine, thing was written off. But I busted his tyre, and while mine was bleeding all over the place and the steering a little stiff to turn, I still managed to get it home.
Sucks to be the other guy though – it was his brother’s car he was driving 😛 And I came out of it ok, just a sore neck for the next couple of days but ended up getting nearly as much as we paid for the car in the first place from insurance, so that was rad.
What totally sucked though was being without a car for the next few months while I tried looking for one that I didn’t hate. Started to really wear after a while, being stuck having to follow whatever schedule others had with their car usage.
Oh lol, I was thinking ‘pew pew’, or ‘zap zap’, lazers, but you were tlaking the ‘voom voom’ variety – need more sound effects in TAY!
Yes, typical smartarse response 😛
Hoped mentioning the Saab would be enough to clue it in at the end.
I honestly thought you had shot a SAAB with a laser, perhaps in a uni experiment 😛
Started playing Far Cry 3 recently.
First shock – immediate failure on the first mission when I stepped off the road to pick a flower.
Went looking for quicksave during first mission – nah, you don’t get that, checkpoints will do it all, I’m told.
Spent an hour pottering around doing the needless busywork to upgrade inventory stuff to be somewhat useful. Initial restrictions on weapons, ammo, pack size seemed unnecessarily harsh just to force me to do hunting and crafting. Did lots of that. Guessing this is a similar hunting/upgrade system to AC3.
Found a tiger, got killed by tiger. Last hour of progress gone, got reset back to end of first mission. What the hell, checkpoints? Thought you had my back since I don’t get a quick save.
On that matter, 3 save slots, no save game files. Really? This IS a PC, why so restricted?
Overall, feels a little ‘console-ified’, and it’s just Far Cry 2 with lookouts, strongholds (plus friendly NPC faction) and arbitrary character progress…
That said, the soul of the game is there, it’s good, and every time I play I lose track of time and play for hours longer than I intend to. Interesting internal conflict between the master racer crying out at annoying details, and don’t care, good game anyway.
Additional: uPlay bullshit has mostly been bullshit free since first launch. Can’t complain about it too much.
since I’m on a US server at work I can access Green Man Gaming’s $37 price point for Beyond Earth on steam but I can’t redeem the code from here – I have to wait til I’m logged into steam at home.
Anyone know if this is likely to work or am I risking losing $37?
Can you log into steam through a browser?
Yes, but I can’t see where to redeem codes via the browser.
Doesn’t seem to be a feature, for these reasons: http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/864973981186004607/
Dang. I think I’lll just wait until it’s on sale then. I don’t want to piss away $37 on a code I’m not sure I can use and I’m not in a huge hurry to start playing right now anyway.
You can accept gifts through the browser but that is all internal steam stuff. They might not let you do codes from external
DARK SOULS 19 CENTS ON STEAM BUY 20 COPIES BECAUSE WHY NOT.
Meh, I’ll wait for a sale.
20 copies of Dark Souls? If that’s not proof of being a masochist I don’t know what is!
I got four! Looks like it’s normal price now. Anyone miss out and want one?
Wasn’t there some issue with Games for Windows with it? Or something?
What I’m asking is: does it actually work on PC? 😛
I’ve never played it on PC. Probably never will! But this is what I know:
You pretty much need the free third-party patch “DSFIX” to make it work well. And you should get a controller for it, rather than the keyboard/mouse default.
And the save games were tied to GFWL, which meant that it looked like saves would disappear with the GFWL platform. However, the other day, FROM announced they would be able to port the saves across to Steam.
interesting!
@dc, want a copy?
#TooSoonForJokes
An incident that TAY still reels from.
Tempting, but given my history of getting new games, then completely ignoring them to play the same 4 old games over and over again I think it’d have a better home with someone else.
I’d give it a go if you have a spare! I wanna see if it’s as hard as people make it out to be!
No worries, man. What’s your SteamID and/or email address? I’ll send it now.
PS: Happy to give hints, but it’s hardest at the start. Once you get used to the game and start finding decent gear it gets more bearable (still tough as nails, but fairer).
just welbot. you might already have me added?
I’ve heard some people compare it to Gothic in terms of difficulty, so that makes it even more tempting to me! 🙂 I love the difficulty when starting out in those games 🙂
Nah, I don’t have friends on Steam. I’m laying low so people don’t waste their money gifting me things. Just learned that I can’t send a gift to a non-friend via SteamID, so… email address, pls? 🙂
umm not sure which I registered with. hopefully dondalinger at hotmail
Sent! I’d be very surprised if Steam didn’t let you redirect the gift to a different email address if you needed to.
cheers @shane! Finally time to find out what the fuss is all about!! 🙂 *squeee
I’d like one, seeing as I wasn’t able to get on in the deal (deal only available in Australia.)
email address pls
[redacted]
Sent!
Muchas Arigato, Mon Ami.
damn shame I didn’t catch that! I have 38c in my steam wallet from selling some cards!
If the white turtleneck shirt for my costume doesn’t arrive in the mail today I might have to try and find it locally. It was pretty hard to find before I bought it online, maybe I’m not looking in the right places.
PAX is getting close! 😀
Hah, I had no end of trouble finding a green turtleneck
Where did you get it? Was there other colours?Edit: Whoops, totally misread. Did you end up getting one?
So vidya gaems
We finished off costume quest 2 last night, rather enjoyable and a few little chuckles thrown in for good measure. If you liked the first one you will like this one. If you didn’t there is nothing changed significantly enough to change your mind.
I’ve also been playing a bit of Road redemption which I think is in early access at the moment. I backed it as a current gen version of road rash but it isn’t quite there. I think a lot of the negative comments about the game are due to people expecting road rash but getting something different. The road rash DNA is certainly there but that is only part of it. It’s kinda a cross between road rash, rogue legacy and twisted metal.
Still a bit buggy and WIP but coming along nicely. Much more combat oriented than the original and mission focused rather than race focused. For me currently too many times you get taken out by crash NPC cars driving unrealistically straight across the road.
Certainly has potential but not sure I would recommend right now, I got a key from kickstarter backing. Then again I’ve had hours of fun with it so ……
Road Redemption looks pretty good from what I’ve seen over the year.
I would probably be one of the people expecting a current-gen Road Rash haha
I will wait till it’s done, I’m pretty hyped for it, we need some more aggressive bike action.
The dna is certainly there but it is a different game, not a remake. Many of the missions are takedown type missions where the goal is to take out the enemy riders within the time limit.
It is also much less realistic than road rash, with roof top races with jump jets and hurricanes causing cars to drop from the sky.
I would say the combat is tighter than road rash as it is much more prevalent. Also has the boomsticks. They are working on it as they can be a bit OP
Yeah, Ark mentioned he’d seen you in that, and we’ve both been looking at it. Him more than me. I did love Road Rash, but my experience with Early Access has taught me to trust my instincts when I think a game needs a little more time in the oven before digging in and shooting my ‘enthusiasm’ wad.
Hold off for now. I have gotten value for money but depending how upset you get about cheap shots and roguelites your mileage may vary. Balance is an issue and think the game has a long awy to go before it feels as tight as I would like. Certainly one to keep on the radar but not a must buy atm
Does the announcer for the Nintendo Direct Smash Brothers thing sound like George Takei? Or do I just desperately need a coffee…
@janexo have you played Alien: Isolation yet? I intend to have a serious crack at it tonight right before bed time!
Did someone say Alien: Isolation?
…
It’s pretty good.
Did someone say Destiny?
……..
No? Dammit.
Normally I post about Destiny but I thought I’d change my material 😛
I tried? Kinda? I played mayyyybe two hours of the main game (saw the Alien in that little cutscene, saw some people, and then freaked out.) And I played maybe like 20 minutes of the DLC. I just couldn’t do it. I’d do in strong and brave and then get freaked and have to go outside for awhile.
I suck.
You don’t suck, you worked at it which is the main thing. No need to force feed yourself a game, if your pile of shame is anything like mine you have plenty of choice.
I had such a good run in Alien: Isolation.
I really, truly, genuinely, sincerely, honestly, [insert synonym here] believed that thanks to my paranoid/cautious approach that I would somehow manage to be the first person in the entire world to make it through the game without actually getting killed by the Alien.
Didn’t happen.
Delusional, I know, but I was pretty disappointed by that. I’d been so careful!
I’m going to plug in the Kinext and try and do it silently 😛 how far did you get without dying?
I’ve only played long enough to put Ellen Ripley in a shower and get onto the ship after the rope snapped lol.
Medical. After getting into whatsisface’s office to find the code. Got pretty far ducking around looking for the pass, but one time it decided to push its head through my locker. 🙁
Man, the Medical section was intense. So good.
Hahahaha aww bless your cotton socks, you silly idiot.
The silliest of idiots! 😀
Right? I’m all like, “I’m doing so well at this, I have so much stuff and I’ve evaded everything so well, and my situational awareness is right every time, and my tactics are repeatable and I have good sense of direction for navigating the environment and if I just keep being careful and taking it slow I… why is it coming closer. Why is it looking at my locker? I DIDN’T MAKE ANY NOISE, I STAYED MOVING, WHY IS IT OH MY GOD OH GODOHGODWHATDOYOUMEANL2TOHOLDBREATHIT’SNOT–gaaaaaaah!”
Now in a certain part of my brain, I’m convinced that the story is over because Ripley died. That’s it. No more game.
I AM going to go back to it, but there’s a part of my brain which will be folding its arms and sniffing haughtily, “Oh yeah, sure, if you’re going to cheat…”
Just in case you missed it on the previous page:
One week early, a preview of UNDAD: THE KICKSTARTER.
Take a look at the perks, see what appeals. Some of the perks are modular, so you can custom-build your own pledge with your choice of rewards, too.
No dinner with @shane perk.
Disappoint 🙁
I didn’t want someone to snag it ahead of you, my friend. There’s only so much Shane to go around, after all. We can come to some arrangement.
I’ve had dinner with @shane. It’s painful watching him eat a burger.
Haha… wait, what? :\
What idiot told you to cut it up? S/He should be ashamed.
Oh, that. Yes, I am ashamed.
I don’t normally do that. What I normally do is pick the entire thing up and eat until the toothpick goes right through my lower lip.
Really? He ate dumplings fine
Okay, if we could stop dissecting my eating habits, that’d be really good. Thanks 😛
Well, I wasn’t going to bring it up, but based on my experience with you in Canberra, you simply absorb food via diffusion from the air.
It was a little odd.
What do I need to pledge to get a series of tasteful nudes of the author?
At least $11.
How about tasteless?
$11.50
Like draped in real fur? PETA will have a field day!
I thought we’d make it topical. Me, nude, eating a live animal.
$10.50
Hey, don’t undercut me. I’m trying to raise money here 🙁
…
$10.49
$11.51? #AmIDoingItRight?
More usefully, they look good. Much better than useless kitsch that no one really needs.
Personally I’m eyeing off the $100 tier nearly entirely due to vain egotism.
You and @highperformance both. There’s only three available to start with (plus 2 more at the $500 level). I really should have written way more ancillary characters into the book! 😛
See I like both the idea of getting “in” the book at $100 but then the diary at $150 is what really interests me from a story perspective. But not quite wanting to go $500 for both. :p
How’s this sound? Buy the $100 tier, pledge the extra amount for the diary, and I’ll adjust the qty of the diary tier down by one to cover it. Sound okay?
Now that I can get behind. You’ve got yourself a deal, mister.
Hey man, really appreciate the pledge! Thank you. I just wanted to clarify that what I meant was that you could add the cost of the pledges together and get both. Given the miscommunication, how about we split the difference and you can get both for $200 even? Is that okay? Really sorry about the mix-up.
Herpaderpa, I should hire a Sherpa. Pledge adjusted.
@beeawwb, sorry man. I feel bad about this. I’ll make sure you get a little something extra.
Nah, it’s all good. I just sat on the couch and said “Hey, why should Shane miss out because you’re a doofus?” and adjusted my pledge a second time. 😛
@beeawwb That was unnecessary, but thanks! (Arrgh, the guilt! She knows no bounds.)
Remember I said I’d do it first so I get to speak more than @freezespreston 😛
Edit: Tag fail
Haha, whoever pledges first gets that privilege 😛
Just personal taste / nitpicking – the intro video sound feels low quality in the voiceover. There’s a lot of static / buzz which, as a viewer, makes me less likely to back something. For a specific example, listen to the transition from backing music to mic at 1:02 (“Undad is a comic miniseries”) – which starts out as almost all static. Compare to the similar transition at 2:12 which is much better.
And your font for some of the titles… at 1:37 the serifs on “w” make it look like a Richter graph. Is it an M? A W?
All good feedback. I was using my digital camera to record my voice. It’s quite possibly the worst possible choice, but it’s all I had 😛
And interestingly, I’ve had a few comments on that font. It might be that I’m the only person who actually likes it (though w’s are problematic).
Next Kickstarter, I’ll do it right.
I might have a stereo mic lying around in my cables box, and a few other assorted microphones sitting around that I could post down to you if required? Or even my Turtle Beach XP7 headset + mic, that’s got enough bells and whistles on it that you’d be able to adjust all mic aspects (or “mistakenly” make yourself sound like a demon…) at will.
You don’t have to do that, man. Is the audio in my vid really that bad?
If it’s the same as the video I watched last time you put up the preview thing… then from what I can remember, yeah. It’s pretty bad 😛 Could probably benefit from having a nice crisp audio track.
Just an offer of assistance. Cables box is stuff lying around that I never use, XP7 hasn’t been used in months since I downgraded to a Steelseries.
Is it “that” bad, no. But subjectively the question I’m asking myself (and I’ve watched the vid a few times now) is “would I back this project if I didn’t know the creator?” and if not, why? The pitch text / layout is sound, reward tiers are clearly spelled out and that side of things is great. The project is interesting, and if somebody linked me to it or I saw it somewhere I’d consider it. The rub is that I personally put a lot of weight on the pitch video. I know of times where a project has seemed interesting and then I’ll watch the video, get 30 seconds in, then turn it off (for whatever reason) and not come back. If I got to 1:02, and the video was the only thing I was hanging on, I probably wouldn’t back the project.
I might take another run at the audio tonight, see if Premiere can clean it up. Thanks for the response!
No worries; look forward to a successful launch. 🙂
If you’d feel less bad about it, I have a mic you’re welcome to borrow if you swing by.
People with HECS/HELP loans that are repaying it – get in here! I have questions.
I did most of my tax return last night (estimate is I get $100 refund. Better than $800 fee last year!) and my HECS is fucking massive, for unknown reasons. In fact I think it’s higher than it should be to begin with, and didn’t actually lower during the last financial year. It looks like I just paid off the inflation component.
So, who know any details on how this works? I can’t find anywhere that shows you exact details of amounts owing and a transaction history. Also can’t find how much of my tax paid is tax, and how much is HECS repayment. It all seems like a load of BS to make us pay $3-4K every year for rest of our working lives, making it $180K repayment on a $20K loan.
All I know is I got next to no money back on my tax refund this year due to HECS 😛
I’m happy with $100, because it means I’m being taxed correctly. Still a fucking huge amount of money to see “tax withheld” on my return. 🙁
Found some info: gotta ring ATO to request a detailed account statement. https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Studying-and-student-debt/In-detail/HELP/Repaying-your-student-debt-2014-15/?anchor=More_information#More_information
I estimated repayment to be around 12 years on average.
I fled the country and am now under no obligation to pay back my debt whilst working overseas.
#Helping
I might do the same. Technically you’re supposed to repay it… but GL to ATO to catch you lol.
I thought the debt was wiped completely after five years abroad.Wait, what.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/224067.html
nvm, seems to be an urban myth.
That doesn’t sound right. 😛
New schedule
Monday: Purchase Lamborghini
Tuesday: Purchase jet
Wednesday: Purchase AFL team.
Thursday: Relocate to the Netherlands.
Well that said, whenever I come back, I try pay it off bit by bit.
Even though I believe money shouldn’t play such a massive factor in a good education, I’m still grateful that the Australian government has a student loan system, and costs aren’t as cut-throat as the American system. Just because I left the country for potentially greener (colder) pastures, I don’t think it should mean that I’m exempt from paying it back. It’s not fair to all the other chumps back home who have to pay it back.
I don’t think much of this will be insightful or useful but I’m going to post it anyway.
I finished paying my HECS off last year but I only ever owed about $15k since I never finished my degrees. I guess I’ve been paying them off since roughly 2005 when I started full time employment and my repayments have been creeping up over that time alongside my gradual increases in income.
Your PAYE tax is increased to account for your HECS repayment based on your income once you’ve surpassed the repayment threshold but it’s not applied until after you’ve completed your return. You never really get to see what the balance of your HECS is until they send you an assessment at EOFY which is:
Last year’s amount – repayments applied when you did your taxes to calculate your return last year + 1 year worth of interest on the remaining balance.
So let’s assume you pay an extra $100/month in taxes for HECS and your “current” balance (as at some date in June) was $10,000. When you complete your return the ATO will say “ok, this $1,200 your exployer withheld on your behalf for the last financial year goes to your HECS so now you owe $8,800* instead”.
(“*plus whatever interest we charged”)
I never had a clear idea of how much HECS I was paying month on month except by basically going “ok, this is what the basic tax calculator says I SHOULD be paying, this is what I AM paying, HECS must be that difference (it was up somewhere around $300/month as at June 2013). As at last EOFY I had a little over $600 remaining so once I had been paid in August I went and completed the tax paperwork with my employer to declare I no longer have a HECS debt and that extra went into my pocket instead. It all evened out after this year’s tax return (i.e.: the $600 return I should have gotten was retroactively applied to my outstanding debt and it zeroed out).
As far as I’m aware if your income exceeds the repayment threshold the amount being taken should be enough to make a dent in what you’re paying and offset the interest gains but I couldn’t tell you for sure. I suppose theoretically if you’re only just over the threshold the repayments might not exceed the interest but it doesn’t seem right that they’re taking money from you into perpetuity. :/
I guess my point here was the only real way to track your HECS is to see if the balance reduces when they send you an assessment every year. when they stop sending assessments, you’re free! \o/
Thanks for your info.
2.6% is inflation, repayments start at 4%, so you’ll always pay it off. I’m just feeling off about the length (10+ years) and my personal balance. The “$180K over working life” comment (as expected) turned out to be BS lol.
I guess I’ll just have to contact ATO to get the detailed sheet and make sure I’m not being ripped off.
All this information can be found on the ATO portal, usually theirs a separate Integrated client account for it however its usually poorly maintained and doesn’t always show a transaction history(Depends if your lucky? dunno), if you just want a balance a prefilling report should state it.
All I know is my tax turned really crap this year – don’t know if it’s due to HECS, would have to look through my return from last year. Last year I got $200 back, this year I owe over a grand. 0_o Something changed, and I’m more inclined to believe it’s their new browser-based lodgement system.
Wtf. So your work/income etc didn’t change over the last two financial years? That sucks, because owing means work didn’t pull enough tax out of your pay. I had to pay $800 last year because I went from a sub-threshold income to over-threshold.
Our team got officially merged into the IT department this year, but the only thing that changed was who my manager reported to – income etc stayed the same, inflation-adjustments aside. I honestly assumed I’d accidentally jumped a tax bracket, considering the size of that debt, but the ATO’s table says it’s still a fair ways off. I may have jumped a HECS threshold, but 0.5% wouldn’t result in that big a difference… *shrug*
I’ll look further into it tonight, when I can get my hands on all the data.
One of the problems with HECS/HELP is that while it very generously doesn’t charge interest like some systems… it does rise with the Consumer Price Index.
The reason this is a problem (albeit a small one) is that quite a few employers aren’t giving raises that match the CPI.
It only takes a few years of this for you to notice you’re sliding backwards.
Yeah, that definitely sucks. Luckily I have CPI+ wage increases.
Oh man, today is not going well, bring on the weekend.
Just pulled someone up on a mistake they made and they have twisted the whole situation so that I’ll take the blame, I hate this place. 🙁
what’s got ya down dudebro? ahh never mind. you updated! That sucks 🙁 Don’t suppose there’s any way you can prove the trail of what happened?
I can sort of but only to a point, then it’s my word against theirs and they suck so much ass people will believe them over me, most manipulative person I’ve ever worked with, I actually suspect a lot of things have been blamed on me without me knowing. Oh and just to throw a spanner into the works they’re also the HR person. Oh well, first opportunity I get I’ll leave, just need to create that opportunity first.
damn 😐 I hate when you have people like that around at work. Especially when they’re in positions like that. HR people are never ones to get on your bad side 🙁
Hope there isn’t too much drama going down. *brohug*
I might try and drink myself into a coma today and tomorrow. We should attempt to share our experiences afterwards.
sounds like a good idea to me, I really need to do something about my situation, I’m starting to remind myself of Dante from Clerks, I just sit around complaining but do nothing to improve mt station in life. I’m just exceptionally unmotivated lately, my brain is fatigued and it’s hard to do anything.
My situation is pretty meh, I’m currently stable. But a certain aspect of it is almost totally out of my control and it’s slowly driving me crazy. I need to intervene and fix things before my number of fucks about everything slips into dangerous levels again.
Also yeah, fatigued. Going on holiday tomorrow, flying to Melb on Sunday.
So my boss recently got promoted (or will be promoted effective 3 November) which leaves his position open. It’s about 90% certain that one particular experienced senior member of the team will move into his role, leaving his position open.
Of the non “senior” members I have the most experience and time with the company (by a wide margin) so there seems to be this buzz from people spectating that I will logically move into that role.
The problem is, I won’t. I simply don’t have the technical expertise or experience to fill those particular shoes. My current boss said (well alluded to since he didn’t want to say anything too specific) that if the obvious occurred they would need to recruit a real “heavy hitter” to bear that load. I completely agree that at this time (in spite of my strong performance here over the last four years), that person is not me, and I am completely comfortable and behind this thought process.
The thing is now when people are talking to me there’s his vibe that they have an expectation of me that I’m now expected to manage and it makes me feel like a weak link in a chain. :/
“I don’t want the job” is a face-saving answer that will serve you well.
If you really trust them to take the right way, you can say, “I couldn’t do that job,” but I wouldn’t recommend this being your go-to line for everyone.
Kudos on your self-awareness, though. I’ve seen so many people get promoted way ahead of their abilities, and it just turns into a big old fustercluck.
Lying! I like it!
The way I see it is the two current “seniors” are overworked and stretched thin. What really needs to happen is that we need three seniors to distribute the work more effectively and rely less on one person to be a powerhouse performer. This isn’t unreasonable since we went from 4 seniors to 2 in the last 6 months due to one retirement and one person moving interstate – those positions were replaced at my career band with people less experienced than me, hence why I’m the only viable candidate to move up in the eyes of outsiders.
If they opened the vacant senior position to outside recruitment and promoted me alongside them, I’d leap at that opportunity, but we’re still operating under headcount restrictions (being a US company) so recruitment budgeting is… difficult.
Say that.
*kermitron passes colleague in hallway*
COLLEAGUE:
Hey Kermy, you going to be our new boss, huh?
KERMITRON:
The way I see it is the two current “seniors” are overworked and stretched thin. What really needs to happen is that we need three seniors to distribute the work more effectively…
*colleague checks watch*
KERMITRON:
…and rely less on one person to be a powerhouse performer. This isn’t unreasonable since we went from 4 seniors to 2 in the last 6 months due to one retirement and one person moving interstate – those positions were replaced at my career band with people less experienced than me, hence why I’m the only viable candidate to move up in the eyes of outsiders. If they opened the vacant senior position to outside recruitment and promoted me alongside them, I’d leap at that opportunity, but we’re still operating under headcount restrictions (being a US company) so recruitment budgeting is… diffi…
*colleague beats in kermitron’s head with nearest frypan*
man, you shouldn’t feel like a weak link at all; knowing your limitations is a pretty fuckin’ rad show of character and integrity. And shit. If people really are banking on you taking up the spot, just outright admit “Nah, I ain’t going to take the spot.”
I’ve declined promotions for various reasons before. Maybe it’s different work cultures, but I rarely experienced any blowback from it. People sometimes look at each other funny when the new person in the role is announced and you get asked, “Why aren’t you doing that role?” and every time I’ve said, “I didn’t apply,” or, “I turned it down,” people looked puzzled, but shrugged and accepted. They know I had my reasons and usually didn’t pry.
You may not have to explain yourself as much as you might think?
When I was at McDonald’s a lifetime ago, the managers spent years trying to get me to agree to learn how to work on the counter. They didn’t understand when I said I had no interest in it, or that I didn’t care when they said my career couldn’t go forward without it. They definitely didn’t get it when I said I didn’t want to have to deal with customers.
Although this pre-dates Clerks II, Randal said it best:
Oh, it’s not that I’m being offered the role, it’s that I’m unlikely to be offered it on the current terms and happily accept the reasons behind that decision so I’m not unhappy. Other people who doesn’t grasp the situation as completely assume that my seniority = automatic promotion when there’s a vacancy. It’s slightly more complex than that.
Though now that I re-read that I guess I could play it off like it was mine for the taking but I made the decision not to take it, which goes in hand with shane’s face-saving response suggestions.
“I didn’t apply,” without explanation is a lot more face-savey than, “I didn’t apply because I didn’t think I’d get it.” 😛
So what’s some pretty cool and/or funny shit? Youtube videos, cool facts, jokes, pictures, stories. Something! Make it under 10 mins so no boredom.
Share your cool shit thread.
ever seen any of John Lajoie’s stuff http://www.youtube.com/user/jonlajoie
He does music videos with silly songs, It’s really stupid humor (dick and fart jokes sorta thing) so not for everyone. I’d recommend “Everyday regular normal guy” or “WTF collective 1” or “Show me your genitals” WTF collective is pretty great, he ripps off a whole lot of different rappers styles.
S-S-SHOW ME YOUR GENITALS. I kmow this one. 😀
MOAR!! 😀
GEN-I-TAL-IA!
My wife hates this song and I should stop including it in our foreplay but I’m not going to.
Just do a helicopter instead and land it in her.THANK YOU STICKMAN :D. He has a bunch of new ones up, I just watched some and got cheered up.
Favourite youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py_30jZGUYk (warning: 15 minutes)
Something from me:
http://shanewsmith.com/shortpieces/custard/
Will watch vid later. Read story, cool. Is that you?
I wrote it, but it’s mostly fiction.
Violins! <3
Super Mario Galaxy OST in the recording studio!
Dreamfall Chapters has busking by real world musicians in their hub world.
Hmm… probably not the best thing to google for frozen poo at work.
Heh, I’ve read and seen a couple things about that.
Alternatively, A brief history of British food.
Forgot to post this the other day, but some of you may have seen it already anyway.
Free Copy of XCOM: Enemy Unknown if you vote in the golden joystick awards!
https://goldenjoysticks.greenmangaming.com
Ooh, that’s a cool game. Still playing through it.
I played a little when it first came out (probably a demo I think). A friend of mine is always on the look out for good turn based strategy kind of games. We play a lot of Worms together, and this is sort of similar in a sense. Hoping he manages to get his copy soon so we can try it multi!
Smash Wii U has online couch co-op!\o/And you can draw in designs on your photos!And the stylus is usable to draw in freeform in stage builder! No more blocks!\o/Mewtwo can be downloaded for free if you have both the 3DS and Wii U versions (Limited Time Only)Smash Bros Wii U looks soooo good!
*throws out 3DS version*
Maybe this time people will multi with me :'(. Someone organise TAYSmash!
No, keep the 3DS version!
You’ll need it to get Mewtwo.Of course I’m keeping it 😛
But technically I’m sure I could just save the Club Ninty code and still throw out the game to get the goodies (soundtrack!)
Edit: insert something else here. Saving the original for new page repost
*inserts finger*
ewww it’s wet and squishy.
The next post better be new page!
Four more to go, why bother rushing?
Pssh, who counts!
Nup.
Colobus Monkeys.
@jocon I did some rough math yesterday to see how much of each mat I’m going to need to max out my favourite weapons in Destiny. Approximately 450 Spinmetal… As all decent exotics use Spinmetal… And apparently I also need approximately 300 Relic Iron… I hate this game =,=
How many damn weapons do you want? It’s 72 regular mats and 18 Energy to 300 one gun. So 10 – 11 more guns that you want to 300?
Also would need 180+ Energy which would potentially be your roadblock.
Sup?
CLOUDS
NOWAI.
Blue sky here however along with 35+ degree heat in the direct sun, whee!
I lied, I don’t actually see any clouds. Very hot in direct sun here too. 🙁
D=
You’re FNQ, it’s always hot there if it’s no cycloning 😛
I remembering living on the north coast for a bit as a kid and always being like, “Oh thank god, a cyclone! Finally the weather won’t be awful!” while the parents were always upset about the potential for wrack and ruin. They found it odd, but they didn’t understand how much I truly detest heat and humidity. (And my somewhat bizarre love for the awe and power of the storm.)
This is true!
Lonely nachos for lunch today? Well, I think I might just.
I had two Milky Ways! THE DC DIET!
I got the new page! Lucky number 13! On a Friday! I’m wearing my spooky t-shirt! It’s all making sense.
Let us all celebrate Bugged Page 13!
I had… salad.
At least I finally understand why I can’t make friends.
I had salad too.
*edges awkwardly away*
I tried to be healthy and have a salad last night. It was covered in pepper so I ate a calzone instead :/
I had no intention of being healthy, but I’ve eaten all my junk, so I was left with either leaving the house, or eating salad (or like, three apples in a fruitless [dear lord I’m amusing] attempt at satiating my hunger).
Giggle.
Sa… salads are supposed to be healthy?
Oh…
*packs away prosciutto, anchovies and full cream mayonnaise*
But leave in the cheese, bacon, and fried chicken pieces.
Those are the three bare essential foundations of a good salad right?
Non-negotiable.
My salad was made of green leaves, beetroot, goat’s cheese, and chickpeas.
*Cries for sixteen hours straight*
Asian salad from Woolies! \o/
Not sure if step up or down from SnV Kettle chips…
Lateral movement.
Page 13!!
Mexicana get!
I had something that was sold to me as a chicken schnitzel but I suspect it was made from some sort of processed amphibian, it was pretty gross.
I’m making burgers \o/
I wasn’t going to but now I think I need nachos for lunch.
The cafe downstairs does the most amazing calamari. It’s melt-in-your-mouth good, no rubberiness, no stringiness, just delicious crumbed heaven.
Although…
Today I discovered that there are actually people out there who consider a ‘not quite enough’ serving of tartare sauce to be ‘too much tartare sauce’.
I didn’t even know it was possible for such people to exist.
This is why our world will never know peace.
I’m in Melb from Sunday. Busy Wed & Thur night, and of course PAX. But I really wouldn’t mind to meet up with some people, go have food, maybe some bars, maybe see a show or something? Anyone wanna meet up? I’ll be there with my gf FYI.
Feeling better now? It’s posted! It’s done! You can rest!
No rest for the wicked. Or something.
Man Melbourne fucking rocks, I love that city. Can’t wait til I can afford to go back (hopefully next year for the Bowie exhibit.) Also if you like German food, I thoroughly suggest Hofbrauhaus down Market Lane, they have awesome big beers!
Have fun!
Cool, cheers for that tip. Definitely interested, saved to Gmaps. 😀
WHAT IS THIS TALK OF BOWIE?
ACMI have a Bowie exhibition on next year.
You know when you have an idea that seems great right up until the point where you’ve finished?
I just had another.
You see, I’ve reached what Freya and I like to call “Peak Hobun”. It’s when my face pubs have grown to an unsightly length and the world confirms that this man should never grow a beard.
I was in the shower, about the tackle this problem when I remembered that I’m a very sweaty guy. So I shaved my armpits instead of my face.
Now I need new deodorant because the stuff I’m using stings.
Use that Rexona stuff with the carabiner clip on the bottle. It’s “heavy duty” but smells good.
I feel like I’ve learnt far too much about you, right now! No man should know that another man has shaved his arm pits! 😛
Back in my teenage days, I once shaved just one leg.
Really, I shouldn’t be allowed near razors but if that happened then peak Hobun would be a massive problem.
I had one leg waxed for a scavenger hunt at uni.
Problem was, we were all half drunk and they put the wax in the microwave for too long.
Well then you’ll love my manscaping stories.
3:42 PM, last tuesday was when I last decided to dedicate myself to a good ol’ trim. As the fashion of the era was a normal day’s stubble on the face, I had of course not shaved since the previous Saturday, which nearly gave me enough stubble to contend with the norm. Stepping into the shower, I began contemplating why aïoli isn’t more commonly available on more foods, like as a hot dog dressing, or flavour of ice cream. After grabbing my razor, I decided that the hair growing between my buttocks had reached an untenably disgusting length. So with much stretching, vigour, and of course my trademark wit, I took to the task, and cleared the unseemly growth. Unfortunately, upon doing so, I remembered that I had not in fact shaved my face already, and since this was the last razor in the pack, I was forced to remain unshaven in the usual sense until I bought some more.
Sean, you need a life.
*screams in terror that chills the bones of everyone in a ten mile radius*
Dude, important question.
Did you shave it all off, or just trim the length?!
Buttcrack regrowth itches, and stings, and is so bad if you shave it all off.
Trimming is the way to go for, sensitive, areas.
Shave. I’ve never had a problem with that.
Though, I should clarify that this story is at least 30% fiction.
It’s going to be 70% friction without some talc!
All I can think about now is Blaghs in the shower twisted around with a razor down his butt cracking one liner puns at it.
Before it was just Blaghs in the shower.
Does this mean you can give us all a photo of your shitty facial hair? That’s the best part of failing to grow anything there!
That sounds a lot like effort.
Hey, shaved armpit bros! 😀
When I first tried to face shave with a razor in the shower, all the face hair collected in my pubes and I was itching for the whole day. Not fun, and never again.
Sounds like you don’t shave your pits all that often =P The sting goes away after the first 5-6 times! If it’s really bothering you get a after shave moisturiser from Coles (I use Gillette) and rub a little bit on your arm pits and then try your normal deo a few minutes later. The moisturiser will sting but get your skin ready for the deo!
Shut up, men need to groom to get the ladies alright?!
Sure. If you call that “men”.
*flex*
You just pulled something with that flex didnt you =P
I kid I kid!
Yes.
A woman.
Closer to me.
Because manliness.
Or something.
Been staying up til 2:30 every night this week, mostly due to costume work. Sleep is weird though. I seem to be far less tired than I usually would be if I went to bed at 12:30 or 1:30 instead.
Still, I’ve taken the opportunity to resurrect the lunchtime nap in a bid to attempt at aiding things a little 😛
Four to five hours sleep is a pretty decent routine once you’re used to it.
<– Four years and counting…
yeah, I go to bed with 5 hours till I have to get up so usually watch half or movie or so in bed and get less sleep. Been doing that for as long as I can remember (I did have a period for like 2 years where I couldn’t stay awake because I did physical work and wrecked myself daily)
It still doesn’t feel right. Like the world is half-muted. Things are just kind of slightly… off. As nice as the extra hours are I’d probably rather the proper sleep.
man if I could I wouldn’t sleep, I’d like to think I’d accomplish something with the extra time but inevitably I’d just play more games.
Same. But hey, actually playing games for once would be an accomplishment!
Okay, Mobile TAY is being weird.
In deep sea diving?
Job interview on skype at 2
I forgot my name about half a hour ago.
SHOULD BE GREAT
It’s Santino!
i should hope so. I wrote myself a name tag just in case.
It’s cool, they’ll just think you’re an International Man of Mystery who needs to escape the pressure of tracking all his aliases.
Last Song Played!
Killpop – Slipknot
Guns N’ Roses – Patience
*whistles*
Kanye- harder better faster stronger doper
BECAUSE I’M SUPER MANLY! SOMETHING FROM THE WICKED OST!
It could be worse…
Save Me Once Again – The Rasmus
Somebody Told Me – the Killers.
I hate that that guys voice is so good.
Makes singing along so much more difficult.
For some reason Tribute has popped into my head.
I do not know why.
Resurrection – Power Glove
I’m taking back my Friday with good company (TAY) and music.
Carolean’s Prayer – Sabaton
Huh… TIL the swedish part is actually the Lord’s prayer. Apparently translating something to Swedish and setting it to awesome metal can make anything sound awesome… 😛
Everybody wants to rule the world – the Assassin’s creed mix.
Until today I had never really heard the term “Peak x” used.
Today I have now seen Peak Hobun and Peak Vagina.
Something new everyday.
The more you know …
I have a spare copy of XCOM: Enemy Unknown up for grabs, and a code for 80% off the expansion “Enemy Within” via GreenMan (which makes it $10) to the first person who guesses what number I’m thinking of.
36?
Banana!
546.
I would just give it to you but you already own the game…
Give it to @sernobulus instead.
I also already own it. =D
Pi!
69
@shane pick up the enemy within thingy! You need the expac! =P
I need it on 360! I don’t PC game 🙁
Edit: also, I don’t need it at all. I’ve just about finished the campaign in Unknown, and will probably take a break from it for a while after that.
Hahaha you’re being very careful with your disclaimers lately aren’t you =P
You noticed that, huh? 😛
Someone told me you can count pretty good, so my guess is: potato.
I wonder if mobile TAY will let me post this time?
Last week I applied to nursing courses at various universities in Melborune. I’m also headed to sit a 3 hour STAT test right at this moment. I thought I was actually handling all this happening pretty well until I realised I haven’t eaten in more the 24 hours. I don’t think that’s healthy …
When you are a nurse you will KNOW that it isnt healthy.
YAY FOR STRESS AND DEVELOPMENT
mate you will be fine, you are a smart dude. I have faith 🙂
He’s gonna have so much sex in the on call rooms. *downloads latest Grey’s Anatomy*
I would prefer it to be more like Scrubs. =P
Sassy Laverne one liners?
Ive gotta work on my one liners and don’t suggest that a penny has been stuck in the door to the Janitor.
I’ve always thought you’ve had a remarkable likeness to Carla.
You’re the most Latino person I know.
You don’t know any Latino people do you? =P
I did that STAT test a whiles back. Way better than QCS.
I actually enjoyed the QCS. It had maths and science AND creative writing! A little bit of everything! Like an academic smorgasbord.
Crazed maniac!
Don’t think you need to worry about the STAT. It’s staggeringly easy. I did it a couple of years ago and ended up in the 97th percentile and I consider myself one of the lesser minds in Tay.
Go get em tiger.
If you are a lesser mind i would hate to put myself on that scale 😛
Dude. Lasers.
Redacted.
More like refracted..
I looked at the practise test and it didn’t seem to difficult. The stress isn’t so much in regards to the test more on the fact, “Oh god, I applied to better my life, oh god I have done everything wrong”.
Out of interest, you’re keeping a mind scale? Is it for a @dc style file system?
oh man, I hope not, the drivel I unload in here would put me in the realms of sub neanderthal.
Well it would be above what I would be at cause I have no idea what a STAT test is.
I got 97th percentile on the stat as well!
In 2000 though.
I’m proud of you, buddy. This is awesome news. Good luck with the exam and admission process!
Is that like some Hogwarts-style Nursing Academy where young Clerics are taught the healing arts through the use of magical runes?
Make sure you min your charisma and max your other stats.
This just happened… thanks to @freezespreston
pic.twitter.com/8jwpCeOqHX
That. Is. AMAZING.
For so many reasons.
(I actually kind of want one, too. Just to put up here at work. People will want to know, and I will place a finger on their lips and say, “Shh. Shh. Shhhhhhhh. You’ll know soon enough.”)
It’s the gift that keeps on giving!
I feel like I contributed too by taking that photo of you at Oktoberfest. You’re welcome. 😛
It’s a good thing, too! Because otherwise it’d be an out of focus pic of me at the Gabba.
Seeing that Bioware sex article reminded me that the absolute worst sex scene I’ve ever witnessed was between Morrigan and my decrepit looking Dwarf Warrior in Dragon Age. I was in a uncontrollable fit of laughing at it made worse that it was all played straight faced with an attempt at gravitas.
Discounting my wedding night of course.
Seems like a Morrigan thing to do!
Whup. Apparently Warframe’s ‘Archwing’ update lands this weekend.
And here I thought I would be leaving the house, this weekend. And/or sleeping.
TOO MUCH GAMING, OCTOBER. TOO MUCH.
Game-ober man. Game-ober!
Oh, speaking of weekend plans…
If any Tabletop/miniatures/Warhammer fans happen to be near Mt Gravatt tomorrow morning, there’s an event on: ‘Armies on Display’.
(Games Workshop @ 2120 Logan Rd, Upper Mt Gravatt, at
8-10am-4:30pm. Edit: Ooops, re: times.)My middle brother has entered a very impressive Necron army into the competition, so if you’re nearby you should totally come and help me rig the votes in favour of alien death-god-worshipping machines stomping all over the Emperor’s most overrated chapter of battle-bros.
(Hell, even if you’re not nearby, I may be able to arrange free transportation and frozen cokes for a logstics-limited number of attendees.)
Oh dang, I would like to but I’m going to be busy in the morning.
On a similar note, a friend of mine is hosting an event in early November that has a small Kill Team tournament running. I can’t remember the exact date but he’s running it under “Vault Games” at the Bridge Club. They have a Facebook page but I can’t link to it at work sorry.
I’ll take some ‘schweet pix’ of ultramarines getting disemboweled or something. 🙂
Ohhh, I am corrected. Voting BEGINS at 10, but it is an all-day thing, ending 4:30pm for vote-close. And apparently my bros and I will probably be there in the afternoon, 3pmish. Well, whatevs. Offer for a ride still stands for folks as want. 🙂
Ok. Just gotta make it through another half hour. Then there’s a meeting I think, and-
Dammit I’m going to fall asleep in that.
At least it’s not training?
I wish it were training. I totally can sleep there!
But only in the afternoon though. Can’t seem to do it on morning trains any more.
That was not a good interview.
I am sad now
oh well at least i know where to improve.
*hugs*
A lot of the time it’s not the fumbling that they’re looking for but how you handle the fact that you fumbled.
I handled fumbling, with more fumbling. I was pretty not qualified and i had to respond to stuff i didnt know in a honest way. OHHHH WELLL
Knowing where to improve is a good thing to take out of it.
Like I said on twitter though, most people will be nervous in interviews, so fumbling a bit and what not is to be expected, so don’t stress too much about that.
Employers realise that interviews are intimidating, so won’t hold nervousness against you.
Even if you don’t get the job (I sincerely hope you do), question them where you can improve, what let you down, and so forth.
Even ask if they keep resumes on file, or if it’s better to reapply for any new jobs in the future, etc.
It shows good character, and a good attitude.
Just don’t dwell on it though.
What’s done is done, and I’m sure you were fine 🙂
Yay, weekend!
I hear that, home time!!
Verrrry last minute dinner party! Good thing there’s a butcher right near me, and I’ve got fresh produce at home. My guests will arrive about 15 minutes after I get home, and will be hungry from a long trip. God, I feel like I’m in a sitcom.
I bet you don’t have that bookmarked -you just know that URL code off by heart.
Who’s coming over for dinner? Sidney Poitier?
A++ reference, top marks
I’m not that lucky. Or racist. Boyfriend’s brother and his girlfriend. I invited them two weeks ago, but they never said anything, so I assumed they couldn’t make it. They texted me half an hour ago.
Hahaha! Social etiquette fist shaking directed their way!
reply fail…how even?
Well that was depressing. I feel like I probably did more harm then good by sitting that test ..,
I find it’s pretty hard to tell how you go on one of those exams. You stress about what you definitively didn’t know and forget how much you did. Don’t worry, buddy.
I ended up running out of time and just randomly putting in answers. I’ve honestly never felt stupider after doing a test then to do right now.
🙁 It’s been a while since uni and school and all that, you’re not stupid… just out of practice…
Don’t worry about it.
Everyone focuses on what they think they got wrong, and what they didn’t do, and don’t focus on what they did do instead, and what they did well.
It’s easier to spot where you went wrong and dwell on negatives than it is you realise where you went well.
In hindsight I’m sure you did nowhere near as bad as you believe you did 🙂
I’m sure you did fine.
As for just throwing in random answers since you were out of time, that’s the best thing to do.
You don’t get points taken for wrong answers, after all, so anything is better than nothing.
Again, don’t get hung up on it.
I’m sure you did fine.
Most people always feel as though they failed, or that they could’ve done better, when they have nothing to worry about and did fine 🙂
#PepTalkPage13
But you’ll do good and move to Melbourne and we can go to all the costume exhibits!
[insert story here that’s really just fishing for a @liondrive pep talk]
Remember when you did that thing and we all laughed?
You will have to be more specific.
Avant garde.
Oh DC, if you want a pep talk you just have to speak up, assert yourself, and make yourself heard.
People respect others when they’re decisive and forward, without being rude, of course.
I’m sure you’re more assertive then you give yourself credit for, and I know that you’re capable of being direct 🙂
Don’t hide behind a veil of being meek and shy.
I’m positive that next time you want something you’ll be more direct in your approach.
I believe in you 🙂
You have far more confidence than you realise 🙂
<3
Ooh ooh do me do me!
Wait… Phrasing.
You don’t need a pep talk, Freeze.
You’ve got a lovely family, you’re studying, you’re working towards a bright future 🙂
You just need to believe in yourself 🙂
Don’t take for granted what you have right in front of you.
It’s easy to get caught up in the grand scheme of things and forget to smell the roses.
Just concentrate on you for a while, and do things that make you happy 🙂
I’m sure you’ll come to realise just how lucky you are 🙂
I have faith that you don’t need a pep talk 🙂
You should have a column or something.
What about me?
IT ISN’T FAIR
I’VE HAD ENOUGH NOW I WANT MY SHARE!
Dammit. THIS IS WHAT I WASTED COMMENT 12345 ON??
You don’t need a pep talk either, Virus.
You’re already decisive, and confident, and you’re great at living in the moment.
You just have to trust in yourself a bit more is all.
With a little bit of self belief, I can see you going far.
Many people often question themselves, or second guess their own judgement, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but if you do it too often then you’ll end up going nowhere.
Find something that you want to do, and go from there.
You don’t need a pep talk, just a bit of self-belief.
I know you’ll start believing yourself a bit more 🙂
(I’m talking outta my arse now, btw)
Haha, I just wanted to get in on what the others were doing, seemed fun 😛
Cheers!
You’re a good man, Stewie.
Sometimes the simplest pep talks are the best pep talks :’)
Right….let’s see if I can internet properly…
Shoes have been bought for my Unikitty cosplay – thankfully kmart had a suitable pair *phew*.
Whee…I’m tipsy…
I love you guys.
Don’t eves change. 😀
Neighbours is getting a web series next week. It’s about the zombie apocalypse.
LOL.
uhhh I might cop it for this, but I would totally watch that
Me too. I used to watch sometime back and the novelty of this appeals to me. XD
16 DAY WEEKEND, BEGIN!
Man I could totally do with one of those right now.
*checks calendar*
DAMN! Only 2 days 🙁
Oh my gosh! TAY working on my phone
*dies*
MORE JIMU MORE OF THE TIME?
😀
D:
PLATNUMPLATIMPLUTIMPLTMPLAATNURM
Platinum’s Bayonetta 2 comes out tomorrow! YEAHHHHHHHHHH!
Yeah, they don’t do it for me at all 🙁
You sicken me.
Did you at least like Clover?
I liked Godhand if that were any of them.
I really don’t play a wide range of games. Too much middle of the road stuff that irks me.
& it’s all about gameplay, it could have the greatest graphics, story or whatever & I’ll lose interest because I’m not having fun.
Mateeee Platinum have sick gameplay!
@greenius meh
What sorta phone you got?
HTC one m7, so the last model, not the latest
Neat! Beats my iPhone 4 😛
Why didnt it work before? have never had a problem with Kotaku on Android since the whole overhaul
Well it didn’t work on his old phone so I’m guessing it was just a really old phone that struggled with it 😛
It loaded up but wouldn’t take me to mentions & the format was so broken I couldn’t see who was responding to who.
Yeah, old phones. I never buy them outright, just so happened there was a cheap deal on a good phone plan
Ah ok, fair enough
@phlanispo so what was that song on the radio that was so catchy?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ysfHchFokT8
FIX THAT LINK SO IT’S IN CLICKABLE FORM
EDIT: I clicked it anyway because I like you!
Why isn’t it? Weird
Nope it’s a jerk link, I have no idea
misssing the wwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
I think the “m” messes with it
Worst copy & paste job EVERRRRRR
I assume you are talking about that one modern song I heard that didn’t suck? After a bit of searching, it’s Dangerous by David ‘Who’s this guy’ Guetta and Sam ‘Guy who does music’ Martin
This is one of those rare modern songs that I don’t hate. Crazy that I’ve encountered two of these in the same year.
EDIT: Despite being a modern song, I think the only reason I like it is because of how ’80s the synth is.
Got a copy of Dracula Dead and Loving It. I love this movie.
We went to see that at the drive-in that used to be near us when I was little. First was Jumanji though, which I totally don’t remember watching there. But not very long into Dracula, Mum decided it was stupid and drove us home.
Blurst.
It is stupid. All of Mel Brooks stuff is.
That’s why it’s great.
Huurrrr… *trying not to spew* so. Damn. Full.
Made tikka masala with coconut rice and pratha bread for dinner… Was a little ambitious and we ended up eating after 8pm…
Can’t move… Need more beer… Can’t move… Houston we have a problem…
Sounds delicious. I made turkish bread burgers with grilled dukkah chicken breast, avocado, cucumber, grilled red capsicum, sriracha mayonnaise and some spinach rocket salad. But we’ve run out of beer so I can’t send help.
Make up your mind, which was it Duck or Chicken 😛
Chicken stuffed with duck?
Er, no.
You know how awesome dukkah is, right?
I wish I did.
It sounds like something I need to eat.
It’s a spice mix from Egypt that’s a mixture of ground nuts, cumin, coriander, salt, pepper and sesame seeds. You can use it as a seasoning to add extra flavour to food like eggs (it’s particularly good on a boiled egg), salad or bread or when you’re cooking. You can get it at most of the supermarkets now in the spice section (it’s often in a jar or tin) or you can just mix up your own.
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/12277/dukkah
Thank you.
Page is now bookmarked.
Will have to try it.
@platinum-urchin we use it to dip bread into after dipping in extra virgin olive oil as a ‘starter’ or along side cheeses… gotta use good bread from a baker and a good quality oil though.
Sriracha Mayo is all sorts of amazing… I love shredded lettuce covered in the sauce on a beef burger.
We buy the oporto sauce and use it to make home made chicken burgers that are a bit healthier. Sriracha Mayo is a close second.
Dam that sounds like a good feed.
I have chicken strips in the oven and chips in the deep fryer.
Also no beer.
I do have scotch.
I love Scotch, Scotchy Scotch Scotch, here it goes down, down into my belly.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking
I have half a bottle of blue label sitting on the shelf.
I experience this with pad thai.
Woohoo! finished work, got a three day weekend. Only one beer in the fridge *sadface*
I do have a bottle of red wine though, and something that I thought was a cheap bottle of Vodka, but apparently isn’t Vodka =S Nothing to mix it with though, so I think I’ll stick with the wine.
*Note to self, must get beer tomorrow.
Mix it with the wine! \o/
Several beers to be sure.
Ugh, I think I cut up one of my patterns-in-the-making last night, thinking it was unused scrap. And have now been doing so many other things in the meantime that better fit into the time I had to work with that now I can’t remember how I was joining a whole bunch of pieces together or what I was doing with the back section at all and having a slight meltdown and I hate work make it go away.
Relax. Don’t panic. First figure out how you were going to join the pieces. Once you have that, then worry about the pattern.
You disappoint me yet again Xur
щ(゚Д゚щ)
It’s 14 right now?
Feels warmer… or that may just be my bed saying otherwise…
@evilmonkey
That is indeed a devil monkey!
You got the touch!
You got the pow-errrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Yeah!!
After all is said and done,
You never walk, you never run,
You’re a winner.
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/10/weirdness_if_super_smash_bros_was_a_wwe_game_itd_be_terrifying
Nightmares.
It’s superb.
Noooooo, I don’t want it to be the weekend!
Well, I do, but it just gets so lonely here :'(
Chin up there lion.
With Tay you are never alone.
(I am not good with the motivational writings like you are)
XCOM Enemy Unknown – Final Mission
Dear Strangest Itches,I wasn’t sure what to make of it when you volunteered to operate the gollop machine, or whatever it’s called. I thought it might be a little dangerous for you, and this suspicion was confirmed when the mission objectives required that you survive to the end of the mission.
And lo, you were needed for a suicide mission that only your psi-powers could accomplish. Your ultimate sacrifice saved planet Earth, and more importantly, the lives of your squadmates: D C, Freeze S PrestonIcequire, Transient Mind, Jane Not Quite XO, and Greenie US.
We salute you. May your itches always be of the very strangest variety.
Sincerely,
Mission Control
Um excuse me what I did no such thing.
Such a colossal amount of pinning ahead of me. I don’t wanna.
Chalking took forever, too.
Awake since 4am…
Want to sleep for another four hours. :/
@blaghman
By some miracle, I’ve managed to wrangle a few minutes without the kids this afternoon. Is the offer of a loaner mic still available by any chance please? I’d love to pick it up early afternoon if you’re around then…?
Yup, that should be fine.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should probably warn you that I don’t have a mic stand (I use a bent coathanger, because I am classy), and it has an XLR port, and then I have an XLR to USB cable, so you’ll have to connect it to your PC, rather than hooking it directly up to the camera or something, but I have oodles of cabling, so hopefully that shouldn’t be an issue.
@mrtaco
Well I guess there is a Johnny Depp murder song too…
http://www.polygon.com/2014/10/24/7064863/lets-listen-to-songs-celebrating-the-idea-huge-stars-may-be-cannibals
Garage Sale Trail is on today!
Bayonetta get!
Totally surprised that we ended up with the crescent moon on the cover, not the cheesewheel of doom one that seemed to be shown everywhere.
The first copy the girl brought me had a torn outer cardboard box, so I asked if she could grab another instead. She asked if that one was ok and it looked fine, but then she told me to check it to make sure. Har har 😛
Didn’t seem like they had many copies though. There weren’t even any display boxes on the shelves in the store, and I saw one that looked like a preorder pickup sitting on the shelf behind the counter. Then when she went to the drawer, it looked like there were only another two in there.
EB didn’t get enough to even completely fill preorders or so I was told. Every store within 50km of me has nil stock available. Ended up ordering a copy online. Like seriously, do they want this game to fail?
Depends on where you live I guess? when I picked up my preorder their were 6-7 special editions on display.
I guess they don’t need much stock here. There’s only 600,000 people in this backwater town.
And another 110,000 over here in Tweed..
Man, that’d sting the sack. I thought the whole idea of preorders was to guarantee yourself a copy.
Oh I didn’t preorder it. I tend only to preorder collectors editions I want. Never had an issue picking up a game on launch until this one.
I don’t even know why I’m cranky about it. Not like I was going to play it any time soon and I got it cheaper this way. Break of routine I guess.
It’s because Nintendo is stupid.
Every single time I have a gaming related drama it’s a Nintendo product.
Hey me too!
…probably because I don’t really buy any other kind of products at all.
Alien Isolation on PS4 wasn’t even on the shelves at the EB across the road from me. They had to check out back. Grabbed a copy that hadn’t even been opened to put its disc in those drawers they use. Not what I expected.
ALIEN: ISOLATION!
Pretty great.
That is all.
Gonna go and pick mine up shortly. Word on the Twitters is that copies are in short supply. Apparently @freezespreston’s local EB were 4 copies short of filling all their pre-orders, so obviously no shelf stock at all.
I actually prefer the cheese wheel 😛 But the one we got matches the first game better, so it’s all good. Glad we got two cases for the two games!
It’s the weekend! I was working from home yesterday and had a QNI while the other half went out for drinks with colleagues. Forgot I’d locked the security door and took a while to hear the front door banging over Destiny’s gunfire in my headset. Somebody nearly had to pee in the flowerbed… oops.
Today! Rugby Union! National Rugby Championship semi-final between Melbourne and Perth! Then the soccer! It’s the Melbourne derby! SATURDAY SPORTSBALL!!!
Melbourne lost the rugby. Boooo.
Had food and was a bit tired and grumpy and all the people I normally go to Victory games with are away, so decided to accompany the other half home and forgo the soccer. Dammit, what a game I missed…
Hey, WeekendTAY…. Anybody want a free copy of MASSIVE CHALICE??
Sure, why not?
oo that makes you eligible to be my Massive Chalice buddy!
(in-depth discussions are mandatory)
Giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiift copy. *does the gift copy dance*
Received! \o/
Thanks a bunch! 😀
SYDNEY FOLKS! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! Bunch of us going to Sculptures by the Sea at Bondi then movies at Newtown. It’s gonna be FUNDAY!!!! Meet up at Kinokuniya at 10am, then catch the train to Bondi. Movies at 4pm at Newtown, Seeing Tusk! Gonna be fun!
Man, I was totally with you until you said “Tusk”.
…maybe it’ll be okay 😛
WELL POWALEN YOU DON’T HAVE TO COME FOR THAT. BUT COME AND CHECK OUT WEIRD SHIT WITH US!
DONE
Posted it a few pages back, but is there anyone keen to join me and @masha2932 to Vault of GLass on PS3 today? We’ve got two spare slots and would love to knock this raid over.
Once I had loot and it was a gas. Soon turned out, had a vault of glass.
No?
Seemed like the real thing, only to find/The Cryptarch, had changed his mind
Traaavveellleer. He does something and I think it’s good?
Fighting off the Darkness because it’s bad.
Just ignore it all and find a gun and bang, bang, bang a bang and bang bang bang.
You. I like you.
(Best Blondie song, by the way. Suck it @sughly)
It’s my favourite =D
Hmmm…
http://teachbettr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/3175132-darth_vader2.jpg
Cracks…
That was amazing. Well done. 😀
What’s the deal with PS3 and PS4? If I acquired a PS3 copy so I can play with PS3 friends, will my Titan come with me?
yes, will transfer. Doesn’t go XBOX/PS3 though
Thanks! That’s not an issue – never had any form of x in a box, so to speak.
This is my 8888th comment. Or something.
Only about 29,000 more and you’ll be ahead of @dc !
Ssssssh. I might stop posting at 40,000. 😛
That’s when the @deecee account will have its time in the sun.
@stickman and @dire_wolf we’re good to go for the second raid whenever you guys want to log on =]
I am so unmotivated today. Melbourne’s weather doesn’t help. It’s hot, it’s cold, it’s hot, it’s cold. It’s been like this for the last few days.
I also think I need to make a list of what needs to be done on the cosplays. I have a bad habit of keeping it all in my head and forgetting stuff.
It occurs to me that everyone who’s been unfortunate enough to hear my voice over, say, the PS4 or over Teamspeak have probably heard it at excruciating volumes. I’m a man of, ah, shakespearian reactions, to put it lightly?
…
I’m loud.
So, uh, sorry; thanks for putting up with me.
I, hmm.
…. Didn’t exactly mean to make this a page-get.
I keep you at -80 decibels, so it’s not such a problem.
You haven’t been in the crucible with me yet to hear real rage
Spec Ops! Beyond: Two Souls! Alien: Isolation!
Xenoblade! Zelda! Final Fantasy!
Diablo 3! Theatrhythm! DARK. SOULS.
Colonial Marines! Star Trek! R.I.P.D.: the Game!
…Am I doing this right?
Hey man, if that’s what you’re into more power to you.
Oh god backfire no! I had a sudden flash of memory of being skeptical but uncomfortably wary when warned by parents that if the wind changed, my face would be stuck in the silly, poked-tongue expression I was pulling.
Sew so slow.
No one likes a pun, Gooky. Especially around these parts. >:|
I do!
MONSTER!
I can’t download Terra Battle on an HTC One?
Ho hum
Not available in Au app store
That too? Stupid mistwalker
I found it online & claimed it wasn’t compatible with my os
Yeah I tried an apk and it just said I hadn’t got it from the app store, pretty crappy
I mostly want to add to the download count so they develop that Damn console game
Might be a work around if you make a google account for a different region, never tried it myself
GUYS!
I just finished Destiny’s story! You know what that means, right?
NO MORE “PLEASE HELP ME FINISH DESTINY” POSTS! WOOOOO!
*confetti and balloons*
Now for “Please help me strike and raid?”
Nope! I was over the game a while ago and just wanted to get it out of the way 😛
Success
Story?
Just a friendly reminder that your copy of Xenoblade misses you and wants to play with you again!
I don’t have a copy of Xenoblade though 🙂
SO WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR.
I’m waiting till you’re on your death bed, and I’m going to visit you in hospital, both of us old men, and I’m going to lean in real close and whisper in your ear “I’ll never play Xenoblade”, and then I’ll finally have the last laugh 🙂
And then one day you’ll be walking along the street and see a copy of it in an antique store’s window and you’ll feel nostalgia and regret and go play it as the nerdiest form of pouring one out, ever.
Here, I’ll fix that for you.
And then one day I’ll be walking down the street and see a copy of it in an antique store’s window, and I’ll fell nostalgia and think, “Damn, I got Greenius so good”, then I’ll do a mad handspring on my walking-frame and laugh at how badly I got Greenius as I slowly hobble into the sunset 🙂
I’ll play it one day, jeez! 😛
That’s better. Mine made me very sad. 🙁
Stupid imagination…
If only there was some sort of way to avoid that situation…
😛
@greenius
Agreed.
Let us never speak of Xenoblade again.
It’s the only way.
Mine’s still in the plastic.
#toomanygames
Ever get around to getting Hyrule Warriors?
Not yet, but I plan on getting it in the not too distant future. Next WiiU game for me will be Smash Bros.
Hahaha, just ended this last long run of stitching with exactly one revolution of thread left on the reel. Perfect 😛
It’s getting exciting seeing it start to come together now. But the rate of progress is also making it infinitely clear that this isn’t going to get finished on time.
Since it won’t get finished on time you’re totally happy to show it to the public now, YEAH?
YEAH!?
*throws it all in the bin*
Also, just spent the last [time between last post and this post] trying to get it going because the stupid machine kept eating my thread and getting stuck and breaking things and I HATE EVERYTHING
Try re-threading the sewing machine. Usually if thread is breaking then there is a problem with the tension
I think you mean grab the bin with all the thrown contents in it …and throw it into a bigger bin!
Wow. That Felicia Day article on the site has around 40 comments mostly civil.
The Facebook link to it has over 500 comments and they’re fucking CRAZY.
Seems anonymity has little to do with people being ass hats. Apparently she just doxxed herself to make GamerGate look bad because they’re the real victims.
Hahaha! That’s batshit crazy! When does that start making sense over the obvious?
Honestly, I do think it’s a little suspicious. I mean, any “proper” GG supporter wouldn’t both go and respond to her blog by doxxing her, as well as proclaiming they were doing it in the name of gamergate. But to claim that she herself did it is even more stupid.
To me it seems far more likely that an anti-GGer would have done it in an effort to tarnish the other side, or failing that just some outside shit-stirrer who’s now probably having a good laugh.
Unfortunately like most things like this you get wackos coat tailing it, and they are the ones who do proclaim the movement is doing things they normally wouldn’t. Same thing happened when Anonymous were big
“False flag” is an absurdly common cry whenever something like this happens. It does nobody any favours.
For the record, I saw this comment when it was live and it was under a different name. There are multiple screenshots of it out there, many showing different names. Whoever did this changed their name multiple times.
Don’t really know what all this GamerGate stuff is about, all I know is that some people are really mad at this feminist chick for making a game or something.
Frankly I don’t really care what the deal is, I just want to stay as far away from it as possible.
Got back from the Warhammer thing. Now that was some impressive stuff.
It was funny… when he’d set it up, my brother sent me a text full of depression at seeing the one display he now realized would win first place. I checked it out when I got there and yeah. Holy crap. I didn’t know anyone could paint miniatures like that. I’d not even seen that quality in the magazines. We pretty much figured that was the first-place winner, but maybe since my brother’s thing was easily one of the better displays up, he might fluke a second, or – more likely – get third.
Ended up he didn’t place, though. The results seemed really weird, like they really had no bearing on quality. Obviously others did the same in getting friends/family to vote for them, but I had thought there’d be at least a little skewing toward quality.
Biggest surprise: The best one there didn’t even place. Barely got any votes.
I was mulling over the results with a couple regulars, wondering why the very obviously best-painted display in the building didn’t get any conscience votes, and one of the guys was like, “Oh, you must be new here… It’s because he submits that one to international comps and wins awards and stuff, and all the guys have seen it every year, so none of us are really impressed anymore and we just don’t feel like voting for it. Whereas this year John really improved his one, and it’s about time he won something, sooo.”
Ohhhhhhh. I seeee.
Kind of fascinating, really, how politics come into play in the funniest of places. I feel sorry for my brother who really got his hopes up when seeing how the quality of his work stacked up to the others, but hopefully now he can see that it’s not exactly just about quality. He should’ve realized when he invited us.
Still, some of the displays were fantastic. Really nice work.
I’ve always gotten depressed about peoples painting skills. All the stuff Loops posts on Facebook makes me cry.
I used to spray paint everything a solid colour and fill in some broad details and call it a day. I wasn’t very good at it.
I like Loopy’s stuff too, but one of my other mates puts even him to shame! He used to work for Lucasarts though, so I’m not surprised!
Yeah I’ve seen this sort of thing on the Gunpla circuits, guys who just keep entering the one dio or model and everyone gets sick of it
#Hammergate
GOD DAMMIT WHAT IS GOING ON.
Got through the first half of sewing this perfectly fine. A couple of times the thread got a little caught in the tension thingo, but nothing major. Just fished it out and kept going. Since changing the thread now, it either gets stuck in there completely and the thread snaps beneath the material, or threads end up getting all chewed and caught together under the material (while the tension thing is completely fine).
I don’t understand why all of a sudden nothing is working any more but it is wasting all my time and I am angry.
If the thread is snapping, it is a tension problem, or, something has gone wrong when you threaded it.
Sounds stupid, but have you tried re-threading it?
Yeah, a number of times. It’s like it’s just slipping too far inside the tensioner, and I have to really pull hard to get it back out again (as in unthreading the machine and pulling away from the tensioner itself).
Otherwise though the tensioner will be fine and I’ll hear/feel kind of a clunk coming from the base, then I’ll notice the material under the needle getting pulled down into the hole a little and underneath is a tangled spaghetti monster of my top thread. Gonna ring my aunt and see if I can borrow her machine, this one seems to be haunted.
I had an issue like this and it was that the needle has actually dented the bobbin case. However, it sounds to me like the clunk is possibly the thread snapping and that’s what is causing the spaghetti mess. If you pull out the bobbin case, there should be a screw that you can tighten/loosen. If the mess is on top, then the bobbin case has the wrong tension. If it’s underneath, it’s the threading that has the wrong tension.
Is your machine a drop down bobbin or a front opening one?
http://www.wikihow.com/Correct-the-Tension-on-a-Sewing-Machine
It’s a drop down bobbin. The clunk isn’t the thread snapping though, that’s the case where it doesn’t snap. Well, I guess I do get a clunk when it snaps, but it’s a different clunk 😛
I did change the needle before, so I guess maybe I could have put this one back in too low or something?
The problem is called birdnesting. I had a bout of it a while back and I understand your pain. Take a deep breath, re-thread everything and make sure you check for any bits of thread that might have been snagged around your bobbin case. Give everything a drop of oil and then cross your fingers and pray to the sewing gods.
http://www.craftsy.com/blog/2014/01/sewing-machine-thread-bunching-up/
Can’t seem to see any snags or anything. And I tried flossing the tensioner like that site mentioned, couldn’t seem to even force the thing to get stuck. Just had the thread snap on me again, and this time I noticed on the underside of my material I found that the pattern of the stitches is all screwed up.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/StupidSewing.jpg
Did you only start getting the problem with this particular combo of fabric and thread? What sort of fabric is it?
Looks to me that your tension is too tight. So tired it’s creating that weird pattern. Have you tried adjusting it? I find I sometimes get bunching at the beginning or ending of my sewing and then it rights itself.
Another trick to try is to bury the needle into the fabric (by turning the wheel by hand) and then holding the threads before you start sewing. Might prevent the bobbin thread from being dragged back underneath, especially if what you are sewing is a bit thick.
@cookingmama I think so, yeah. It might have started after using this thread actually. It’s pretty much run out though, so I’m onto a new one.
@scree I’m wondering if that thread I was using might have been too thin or something. I tried flossing the tensioner again and it actually kind of slipped through inside it, while I couldn’t get that to happen with a thicker thread. But yeah, new thread now so I guess I’ll see if that goes any better. Haven’t been able to get it stuck yet, so we’ll see.
…I think the needle is piercing its own thread??
Sounds like innuendo to me!
Ohhhhh… If it’s anything like the stitcher I use at work the needles are actually handed. There’s a little scallop on the needle that goes a certain way and if it doesn’t I get that problem a lot.
Or it may be something completely different but that’s what I’ve seen before.
Ooh, good suggestion. I didn’t even consider this because both of my machines only let the needle go in the right way.
I’ve looked at your descriptions and pictures and it’s possible your needle is the wrong type/size for your thread.
What weight is your thread (there’s usually a number like 50, or 30 and the lower the number the thicker the thread)? And what size is your needle (the larger the number of needle, the larger the eye. So the smaller numbers of thread weights will need a larger number of needle)? So if your needle is too small for your thread, you can get bunchy bits up at the tension discs, as well as on the bottom because the needle is shredding the thread as you sew.
And are you using a ballpoint needle? A ball point needle helps the thread go through stretchy fabrics properly. A stretch needle might be best for slippery shiny stretch fabrics, too.
It’s a size 70 ballpoint. I have an 80 as well which I’ve tried, but it feels like the head is too big, it gets kinda stuck in the fabric more as it goes through and sort of “pops”. There’s a stretch needle that we have which actually felt like it had trouble piercing through the fabric, and a teflon one was actually gripping onto the fabric as it went through. Can’t see any numbers on the thread, other than its length and that it’s 100% polyester. This one, anyway. The last two were just little black spools with no info on them.
And the needles only go in the one way, and have all been placed with the flat side away from me 😛
Uh…a size 70 is really small. Like a 50 weight quilting thread sometimes has trouble in a 70. A 90 is a kind of “regular” one.
And thread weight is a pretty important thing to know. Are you using “brand name” threads? Because the usual brands like Gutermann and Mettler will always have the thread weight on there, and cheap no-name thread is 99.99% of the time nasty which could even be your problem. Old thread can also be problematic.
The current thread is Guterman, but definitely can’t see anything that looks like thread weighting on it. But yeah, I think the other ones were kind of old, would have come from my Nanna’s sewing stuff when we cleaned out her place. Thankfully I’ve survived the last round of sewing with this thread ok, for now I’m just trimming seams again. Might try the larger needle when I do the next lot.
@freezespreston is right – you mentioned putting in a new needle. Is there any chance you put it in backwards? Usually the flat bit of the needle should face away from you when inserting it.
Even though I am currently suffering through a head cold, I am hyped for the Norton St Festa in Leichhardt tomorrow. Going to Eat All The Things – porchetta, cannoli, coffee, gelato, gingerbread and brittle. Italian food is too good!
I don’t think I can live in this house much longer :S
Do you know how alienating it feels not feeling comfortable or at home, in your own home?!
My house doesn’t feel lived in, kinda thing.
Everything is black and white, feels cold, and lifeless, and sad :'(
I want colour, and art, and for it to feel welcoming and happy, and like people actually live here! 🙂
The whole house smells like bleach, and cleaning products, and everything has to be 100% clean, 100% of the time :S
I left a bag on the bench for literally 10 seconds as I went to the bathroom, with full intentions to throw it out, only to get scolded for leaving a bag there.
I leave my work shoes / socks outside the front door because they smell after work, so don’t want to bring them inside, only to have my sister threaten to throw out my socks (not the shoes) if I leave them there.
The worst times were when I spilled some grated cheese on the bench when I was putting it on my dinner for her to immediately yell at me (like, my hand was still in the bag of cheese), and when her now Ex put a knife down on the cutting board only for her to yell at him (also immediately) for not washing it immediately, even though he was still using it.
It’s not even her house!
We rent, and are both listed as tenants!
Urgh, it’s not fun feeling comfortable in my own home :'(
Luckily, if I don’t move to Melbourne this / early next year, she moves out in June (shes building a house).
She thinks I’ll be moving with her.
I am not moving with her.
This is hopefully the last time I ever live with family.
I am so over it already.
Oh god, now she’s lighting scented candles!
I hate scented candles! :’O
Even more than cleaning supplies? 😀
It’s a combination of bleach. Ajax, Windex, Jiff, and three different smelling scented candles!
The smell is giving me a headache! :’O
/shudder
I had that problem at the start of the year (I can’t remember if you were around for that fiasco). I became nocturnal because I didn’t feel like I could live there so slept during the day to avoid contact as much as I could with the bitch. The only difference was I wanted the house to be more black and white and less full of Dr Who stuff EVERYWHERE including a talking fucking rubbish bin.
The day after Mr and Mrs Oliver got back from their trip (it was the 4 of us) we kicked the bitch out (which was a stressful day which became a happy day which later on in the night became a really really weird day). The only option was for her to leave or us to leave. There was no way it could have worked. If it’s not working, don’t try to make it work. Get up and leave, or get her to leave, and if any mail ever comes for her take it outside and burn it 😛
Either that or be even more authoritative than she is!
I remember that! It was pretty obvious you were crushing on her.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The month or so after that was pretty tough. Oliver fully believed it was all his fault and that there was no possible way I could forgive him and beat himself up constantly over it. It took a lot of effort from everyone to help him get over it. She, or anything that happened doesn’t get brought up at all so he can just completely forget about her. Poor guy 🙁I was here for that. I offered advice and everything!
It’s a little different when it’s just the two of us, and when she’s my sister though :\
I can’t exactly kick my sister out, just like she can’t kick me out.
We get along pretty great, to be honest, it’s just that the house has to be how she wants it.
And I can’t really be like “You’re too obsessive about being clean, get out!”.
And there is no being more authoritative than my sister, hahahahahahaha! *cries*
She will make anyone her bitch. Anyone.
Like, for real, it’s even in her job not to take shit from anyone (she works in law enforcement)
It’s not so much that I want there to be random crap everywhere (eww), just that I want my home to feel homely.
Like, a relaxed place. It’s so uptight here that it is suffocating me! :’O
Old saying. You can’t choose your family.
But you can choose to only see then on your own terms and your own turf.
I get along with her fine, it’s just living with her that’s not so fun.
She was fine in our old home (because it was family owned), but now that we’re renting she’s super rigid about cleanliness, everything being tidy 24/7, everything looking presentable at all times, etc, to the point where it’s one of the reasons that her boyfriend of 5 years and her split up (she’s way too controlling).
I get it, but real estates give you notice before a home inspection for a reason, kinda thing.
Me and her Ex were so much more relaxed when she was on holidays that we decided that if he needs a place to rent when she leaves and I’m still in WA, I’ll stay where I am and he’ll come back and roomie with me, or if he finds somewhere in the meantime and needs a roomie I’m going to go live with him.
There’s more personal things than just the dictating everything though, like, I wouldn’t want to bring a guy around with her here.
I don’t even tell her if I’m going on a date (lead to a super weird situation one time, hahaha!).
I’m just assuming you dated her ex
I am reminded of Wallace from Scott Pilgrim.
(Who was, hands-down, the best character in the movie.)
So we found out the results of the date scan the other half had on Monday and it looks like peanut is due to be born on the 8th of June.
So if peanut does come on said date it would be an awesome birthday for me then.
The eighth of June is a pretty good date to have a birthday.
It is the best date for a birthday.
And then you never get another birthday to yourself ever again
Congrats if I haven’t said it before
Have been informed by the other half that if peanut does come in that day I will never get another presant ever again for my birthday.
Oh well.
It will be a day I won’t forget that is for sure.
I had my graduation rehearsal on Friday. I’m not as terrified of it as I once was.
Graduation was boring. Best part was watching how scared people were of tripping while going up the stairs. That’s why I skipped up when I had to go, wish now I’d done that, then winked at a cute girl or something, would have been good.
It’s like 5 seconds and it’s over. There’s really nothing at all to worry about, promise.
But you get to get all teary when singing the school song with your mates!
School song? Was that ever a thing?
Definitely.
SCHOOL PRIDE, MAN
\o/
I can’t be bothered doing this assignment anymore…
Too bad I need to pa…
Oh wait!
This course isn’t relevant to my new degree!
F**K YOU ASSIGNMENTS, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! >:D
But the hippos need you! They’re going hungry, dammit!
Just finished watching the first episode of Constantine (didn’t watch the preview) seems like a great start, little slow and rushed given the amount of establishing but the tone and visuals are very nice. Looking forward to seeing more.
Hey @bdkiaf, saw you’ve been playing DriveClub and sent you a request to join the KotakuAu club.
YOU BETTER NOT BEAT MY RACE TIMES THOUGH OR I’LL POUND YOU! >:(
PHRASING!
I chose my words carefully *slow wink*
Saw Beyond: Two Souls for like $30 bucks in Target today, was so close to picking it up, but I bought Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time, Toy Story 3, and ZombiU instead.
ZombiU! \o/
Whoops! I keep forgetting I own that :3
Crashing. Crashing. Need to… nap. Not sleep. Not yet.
Watching Hostel, no idea why. But I don’t recall it ever being funny like I am finding it. I only remember it being messed up torture porn like kinda..
Late night Stewie confessions 😀
One time, I stayed over at a guy friends house (Mark), but told my sister I was at my other friends house (Ryan) (because I didn’t want her to know about Mark in case she started asking questions).
The next morning my sister needed me to sign some urgent important papers, but forgot to tell me, so called me seven times at 7am, then called Ryan (who said he hadn’t seen me in weeks), then they both started freaking out, both calling me at 7am.
Me and Mark were asleep spooning and woke up when my phone started vibrating like it was possessed by the devil, leaving us staring at my phone going, “Why won’t it shut up?!”, and “Who calls seven times and doesn’t get the message?!”. I was avoiding answering cause I though it might be my work asking me to come in.
So I finally answered the phone (while still spooning):
Me: “What is going on?!”
Sis: “Where are you?!”
Me: “I’m at Ryans!”
Sis: “Ryan said he hasn’t seen you in weeks!”
Me: “You called Ryan?”
Sis: “Yes!”
Me: “…I mean Marks…”
Sis: “Who is Mark?! Nevermind, I need you home!”
*hangup phone, explain to Mark*
My other friend calls (still while spooning):
Friend: “Where are you?! Me and your sister are really worried!”
Me: “I’M SPOONING, OK?!”
Friend: “Wha– Oh! Oooooh! Oh, I should’ve said you were here…”
Me: “YOU THINK?!”
Friend: “Next time tell me!”
Me: “Oh, hey Ryan, if my sister calls asking if I’m at yours, just say yes because I’m probably HAVING SEX WITH MARK!!!”
Friend: “Tell Mark I said hi”
Me: “I WILL. GOODBYE!”
*hangup phone, put on pants, leave Marks house*
*arrive home*
Sis: “So who’s Mark?”
Me: “He’s just a uni friend”
Sis: “I thought you said you had no uni friends?”
Me: “I made one… He’s my only uni friend…”
Sis: “Oh, ok! You need to sign these”
Me: “Umm, ok…”
Me: “Done?”
Sis: “Yup, thanks!”
Me: “You’re… welcome…?”
Oh, and on a cliche, my shirt was on inside out the entire conversation with her.
That was never bought up again by sister.
I totally got away cleanly from that situation.
Mark and Ryan couldn’t stop laughing at me though >:'(
That was a roller coaster ride from start to finish!
Truthfully, I changed one part very slightly to make it less embarrassing / awkward, because in this slightly altered version I walk away with a scrap of dignity.
You forgot your pants didn’t you?
Umm, I’d deem it worse…
This is hereby declared a judgement free zone!
Umm, well after the phone vibrated the first two times, we kinda woke up, and may have started doing more than just spooning…
I answered my phone twice, during sex, in one morning…I was on the phone to my sister, while having sex…
I was on the phone to my best friend, while having sex…
THE SHAME!!!
Haha, I had a similar kind of story. Not sure it’s repeatable in polite company though even after edits 😛
But yeah, family are pretty much the worst.
We’re polite company?! 😀
Spill spill spill! XD
Hmm. Well. Generally it serves more as the punchline to the greater story of That One Time I Picked Up, a seemingly neverending chain of hilarity and ineptitude that makes me wonder how anything even managed to happen at all. And that one’s definitely not something I’d put up out on the webernets, and far too long to go digging up right now 😛
But to take out that snippet and do a little paraphrasing…
onfvpnyyl V’q znqr n pnyphyngrq evfx gb tb ubzr orpnhfr V xarj zl cneragf jrer yrnivat gur arkg zbeavat gb tb njnl sbe gur ybat jrrxraq, naq gurl xarj V jnf tbvat gb or bhg snveyl yngr gung avtug naq jbhyq zbfg yvxryl or fyrrcvat va. V jnf abg fyrrcvat va zl ebbz ng gur gvzr, qhr gb ernfbaf. Zr naq zl arj sevraq jrer cerggl fyrrcl ohg xvaqn tbg jbxra ol gur fbhaqf bs zl cneragf trggvat nyy gurve fghss gbtrgure gb yrnir. Zbfgyl whfg tbvat hc gb gur ynhaqel naq yvara cerff naq onpx, ohg riraghnyyl vg fbhaqrq yvxr gurl jrer cerggl zhpu qbar naq fubhyq or yrnivat. Jbb. Ol guvf cbvag gur zbfgyl nfyrrcarff jnf tbar, naq fyrrcvat unq orra ercynprq ol… fcbbavat.
Ohg gura V urne n fbhaq sebz gur unyyjnl. Gur fbhaq bs fbzrbar xabpxvat ng zl orqebbz qbbe. Fhqqrayl V’z sebmra. Ab. Ab. Ab. Jul. Ab. V urne gur fbhaq bs zl qbbe orvat bcrarq. AB! Gura vg’f zl zhz’f ibvpr – “Tbbxl*…?” Fgvyy sebmra, naq fjrnevat va zl urnq, V urne gur qbbe pybfr naq gur sbbgfgrcf nccebnpuvat guvf ebbz. Snpvat njnl ng gur gvzr, V urne gur qbbe bcra oruvaq zr, naq “Tbbxl?”, sbyybjrq ol n oevrs cnhfr gura gur fbhaq bs n qbbe orvat pybfrq irrrrel dhvrgyl. Naq zl urneg whfg fvaxf :C
N yvggyr yngre gubhtu, V urne nabgure frg bs sbbgfgrcf nccebnpuvat gur qbbe. Jung ner gurl rira pbzvat va urer sbe gurer’f nofbyhgryl abguvat gurl pbhyq or arrqvat gb gnxr jvgu gurz?! Gur qbbe bcraf, gura fubegyl pybfrf ntnva naq gur sbbgfgrcf jnyx bss. Fb gung jbhyq’ir orra Qnq. Htu.
V’q ubcrq gung ol gur gvzr gurl tbg onpx vg jbhyq or bhg bs zvaq naq ab bar jbhyq rire unir gb gnyx nobhg vg ntnva. Ohg bs pbhefr abg. Yvgrenyyl gur svefg guvat Zhz fnvq gb zr jura gurl tbg onpx jnf “jurer jrer lbh ba Sevqnl zbeavat?” V’z whfg guvaxvat va zl urnq “V’z abg nafjrevat gung. Lbh xabj rknpgyl jurer V jnf.”, ohg vafgrnq whfg tvir na vaperqhybhf “V jnf urer/ng ubzr” glcr nafjre. Naq gur fhowrpg jnf arire oebnpurq ntnva.
I’m gonna go to sleep, cause I’m friggin tired…
Goodnight.
Seems like as good a reason as any to sleep.
Yes! All purple armour! L28 here I come!
Add an exotic and 29 can be yours
DON’T PRESSURE ME!!! 😉
Getting there, bit by bit. Good session last night.
GTA: San Andreas HD is supposed to be out today, I’m not seeing it on the Marketplace, why am I not seeing it? I hope we don’t have to wait for America to catch up.
*sadface*
PLEASE GIVE ME NEW REFRESH MATERIAL TO READ!
OKAY!
YES WOOO!
um, uh, here? http://listverse.com/2013/03/03/10-bizarre-junk-food-deaths/
Bizzare!
http://m.ikea.com/au/en/catalog/products/art/60268326/
Didya buy it?
I think he’s insinuating that he wants that as a house-warming present.
One from every Taybie.
Pip would kill me.
I was made to put it back yesterday.
Message received @beavwa.
Going to be your best PAX ever.
Oh well. At least I’ll die happy.
Use them as padding for a copy of child of light and you have a winner
*zombie mode*
So, after a shambolic start (due to playing 4p co-op with someone who’s never played a first person shooter before) I’m now really digging the Pre-sequel. Nisha the lawbringer is pretty sweet
I’m curious about the pre-sequel, but it feels like it would be a huge waste if I didn’t first finish BL2 and the DLC. At least the Tiny Tina one, which is apparently excellent.
BL2 is my reminder that it’s possible to get bored with something you quite like.
It’s more borderlands, for better or worse. If you have yet to finish the DLC, it’s not anything super revolutionary.
I never finished Tiny Tina’s mate and I got to a point with a boss that kept self healing and ragequit.
Don’t you hate it when you wake up from an awesome dream? I was part of a kill team sent to take down Hans Gruber and his xenomorph and living baby doll in a highrise building. The kill team had Winnie the Pooh in it for some reason.
Hans Gruber started escaping, and someone in the kill team was like “We’ll never catch him!” and another was like “we must try!” and then I woke up.
Yay for unresolved dreams!
I dreamed I was arguing Japanese case law with an envoy of lawyers. I felt out of my depth. I have no idea where this dream came from. 😛
I woke up with this song stuck in my head.
Bayonetta 2 time?
Bayonetta 2 time.
Gotta wait for my drunk-ass brother to wake up and clear out of the gaming room (carpets had been cleaned in his room, rendering it wet and uninhabitable for the night).
Then I can start on Bayo 1. Which I have never played before (demo was awesome, though).
Started on Bayo 1 yesterday, got almost as far as I did on 360, hopefully get back into it tonight.
Nah I am still playing shadow of mordor.
Lets take a look at my sister’s 3DS.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Play Time: 1152:12
Well hokay.
o.O
That’s on the scale of my WoW /played…
On my two most played toons, I have a combine /played of only ~50 days. Or ~1200 hours.
I have close to 200 days (I think 180?) played on my main >_>
Only game I gave over 1000 hours in is Dark Souls.
Also probably a few of the Final Fantasy games through the years now I think on it.
Most hours I’ve ever spent on a single game is about 195 in Red Dead Redemption, and I still haven’t 100%’d it.
Woah. I’m at a grand total of about 150 hours in Dark Souls and thought that was lots 😛
It became a Zen out game for me. Every stressful day for about 3 years I’d sit and play through. It became muscle memory.
Probably why Dark Souls 2 irked me so much. Was just different enough that the muscle memory was causing problems.
Dunno exactly but I’ve played about 4500 online multiplayer matches of Halo 3, plus lans and campaign and such.
Over 1000 hours is a good bet I’d say.
Oh yeah, Halo 3 was a massive timesink for me over the few years I played it.
Damn, I thought my friend was the craziest about AC and she’d only clocked up nearly half that (but then I guess she’s been preoccupied racking up 4.6k hours on Pokemon instead).
I don’t think I could ever dedicate that much time to a single game :/
damn I feel inadequate, I don’t think I’ve put that sort of time into any one game, maybe WoW but even then I think I might fall short. Even Monster Hunter 3 was only like 200 hours
Got 1 more road to drive down for the “Human GPS” achievement in Forza Horizon 2, scoured the map and I’ll be buggered if I can see which one I’ve missed.
So frustrating.
I don’t know why I shared that story :3
Blame it on assignment boredom 😀
I like stories.
I didn’t need to know the second part of that story. 😛
It was spoilered for a reason! XP
And who hasn’t done that anyway…
Hopefully everyone. Haha!
Everyone will have an embarrassing sex story DC 😛
Most just won’t make theirs public XP
They’re supposed to stay repressed and buried.
But then how are you supposed to laugh at them?
You can’t laugh at something that never happened. *stares out into distance* Never happened.
@dc Yes you can, that’s exactly how fictional comedies work 😛
Uh…. Yes… Never…..
Me also 😛
Ergh. People at work are jerks. I was working today and tomorrow then starting holidays on Tuesday. Last minute people decided they needed days off in next few days and threw tantrums threatening to quit or call in sick anyway until they got it. Now I get to work today, have tomorrow off and work Tuesday and Thursday.
Paint huffing shit goblins.
Wow sounds like your boss/HR need to grow some balls, those sorts of threats are acceptable grounds for written warnings possibly even dismissal depending on their history, especially if they go through with calling sick
Problem is we aren’t easily replaced. Takes 12 months to train a replacement before they can run a place by themselves and we’re just below skeleton staffing as it is. Someone follows through with quitting they’re in trouble.
Unfortunately I tend to do my job and haven’t called in sick for over a year so they keep hitting me up. I just rant online instead.
Is there that much demand for your role elsewhere? Because you might not be easily replaced but neither is a job for many people. My experience is that threats of quitting like that are empty at best.
Competing company is constantly trying to poach us since we’re better trained than their staff.
Fair enough
Time to paint a big bullseye on your head and waggle that posterior in front of the poachers.
Yeah, what’s stopping you, Freeze? Loyalty to the people who’ve screwed you over time and time again?
Because they’re a bit unstable and no one seems to stay there long. As least I have some security here.
Many times I have seen people focus too much on being that reliable guy and getting brownie points with their employers and never actually cash in on that good reputation and end up just being that guy they can push around and take for granted.
Dunno your situation to be sure but making some noise yourself on occasion can be a good thing.
New Doctor Who ep:
This season is really disappointint. Little progression with characters, the new Doctor, any form of arching plot.This episode, please only use child actors if they can act. Clara is still not winning me over, over-reactions at little things and is nowhere near as well written as previous companions and can’t act as well either. The eps and the style of Doctor just doesn’t seem to fit Capaldi. We were told he was going to be darker than Smith, I’m yet to see any of that. This whole season just seems to be dragging out Clara leaving the Doctor but as it is for me it’s so far gone on for 9 episodes too long.Yep
The knowledge that I won’t be able to finish this is actually killing my enthusiasm for PAX pretty hard :/
Telling me what it is will help motivate you! 😛
I have the understanding that it is a costume of some sorts
Ok. Pick a random number from 1 to 100 and I’ll give you a hint picture. The helpfulness of the hint depends on the number you pick, so choose wisely 😛
57
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Gooky/GreeniusHint.jpg
So how’d I do with my number guessing?
http://thewonderful101.nintendo.com/img/characters/red.png
It’s not this at all BUT I’LL PRETEND IT IS.
You got on the lower end of the scale. Though it could have been worse.
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You can do it. If I can do it, then so can you!
Haha, I appreciate the sentiment but I really can’t. Even if I stay up til 2:30 for the next four nights (and somehow don’t just collapse from sleep deprivation), I don’t think there’s any way I could possibly pump out all the stuff that’s left to be done.
Maybe if I skipped work, but i dunno that they’d appreciate that 😛
Can someone help you? Mum’s helping me
Mum asked me today if there was anything she could do, but I dunno. I sort of don’t really know what I’m doing until I’m about to do it, and haven’t fared very well in trying to explain things to her when asking for advice.
Can you show her an image? She might be able to figure out what it is? Can I help explain it? Are you on steam or twitter? I’m scree06 on both
Oh, she knows what I’m going for and everything. Just the details of how I’m doing it and everything, all the stuff that’s either sitting in my head or being calculated on the fly. Not that any of the written notes really make any sense at all, even to me most of the time 😛
Sorry, I wish I could help. If it makes you feel better, my cosplay will probably be somewhat unfinished while I work on the details of others
@scree The suffering of others is only really enjoyable when you don’t like them 😛
I’m thinking of maybe shelving this one for later, wondering if I’d be able to bring Shredder down for the trip instead. Packing would be difficult though, due to bulk and delicacy.
Sorry. D=
See what you can do and leave Shredder as a back up plan.
I’ll help!
I just need to know what it is first.
😉
😛
Why can’t Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate be out for us already?
hnghhhh
Good job! @sernobulus
Good job!
This, all the this.
Actually I’m pretty worried about this game, 3 nearly ruined my life, 3U didnt have online so I got out easy on that one.
SPOOKOY
YOKOOPS
LBXBBCF
HTU
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Yrffre-guna-guerr
1.656!
Does anyone know of a way to remove distortion from an audio recording? I tried to make a bootleg of the Stones in Adelaide last night to share with everyone but instead of using the video recorder and separating the audio and video later, I used the damn voice recorder app.
The result is terrible. It would appear that with the HTC One M7, the audio recording of the voice recorder app is inferior to the audio recording of the video recorder app. It makes no sense.
Here’s a copy of the second half of the Foo Fighter’s Adelaide Oval concert that I recorded back in 2011. Enjoy.
Gooky’s bootleg of Queen a little while ago has put me in the mood to record every damn concert I attend; without distraction to those around me, of course. I usually just hit record on a smartphone and then pop it into a pocket. Too bad I didn’t think of it the times I saw Kiss, Rage Against the Machine and Metallica. Oh, the pain; the pain. 😛
@crazyguy1990 I think you are a fan of the Fooies, no?
I am a bad influence 😛
That Queen recording is awesome; you’re the best.
Ideally you want something with at least dual mics from memory, that will help cut that down and record clearer & crisper. Zoom make some good recorders for this I am told.
Thanks but I won’t buy new hardware, smartphones are more than capable these days. It’s just a matter of recording video and using that audio for some weird reason; or using a third party app. My dilemma is whether I can fix this dodgy file I now have.
The Lumia 1020 takes awesome video & audio at concerts.. I want to invest in one solely for the camera & recording for gigs..
Woo, rich recording!
Depends on what issues you’ve got. Clipping and Clicking at the upper end is a real pain, though you can mitigate it moderately well with either a ClipFix applied to the whole track, or if you have the time, manually selecting bits and using a general repair tool (I’m using Audacity terms, because that’s what I know). If there’s a general “bassy” sound to the audio you can try clipping the audio based on Hz, or just altering the bass volume, see if that fixes stuff. If there’s some sort of wave or pulsing distortion, then in theory you could apply something that matches the wave (or is the inverse) to try and remove it, but that’d need to be precise as balls.
Haha, I have no idea what any of that means.
If you feel like it, send it to blaghman(at)gmail(dot)com, and I can take a look, but I’m pretty out of practice, and horrendously lazy, so I can’t promise anything.
Sad stuff
Well I just got told that my grandparent’s dog died. I feel pretty bad, but I imagine my grandparents feel even worse. Their dog of 10 years died last year, so they tried to repair the hole by buying a puppy. That puppy didn’t even get a chance to grow up.Awww :'(
That sucks :'(
Poor little puppy :'(
@beavwa
I’m just wondering what do you actually do when you’re mass breeding Pokemon?
Is it literally just leaving Pokemon in the daycare until there’s an egg, then just riding a bike up and down (with a magma armour ability Pokemon or something?) until they all hatch? Is there a quicker way?
Seems like it’ll be super time consuming. If that’s how it is I don’t know how you do it :o. I tried doing it for a bit when completing my Pokedex and I just barely managed to get through it while re-watching Community. I was just curious and only asking you since you’ve posted about doing it a lot recently – something like a few hundred Charmanders? D: ??!!!!
Hatching O-Power Level 3, too!
Just up to 1200 eggs on the current one.
Once I have the breeding pair I want, I bike back and forward to get 5, then arrange them vertically in an empty box. Fill 4 boxes with 25 each, then take them out horizontally in the big city, ride in circles with hatching power 3.
Repeat.
Batches of 100 like this make it easier to keep a running total, which makes it easier to stay focussed instead of giving up after a while.
PS. any chance of us Monster Huntering before 4 comes out? I still really wanna reach HR8+
Plenty of chance. I’m up for it whenever – especially once we’ve finished moving, I’ll have decent internet.
When’s that?
Just after PAX. Get the house Thursday, but no time to move until after PAX.
By the way, if that wasn’t a question about the full-crazy levels I’m doing for shinies…
Flame body (talonflame) mon with fly, collect 5 eggs, fly to lumiose, ride in circles with hatching o-power, then fly to endgame city and check their stats.
Everstone and destiny knot on the two parents to pass down nature and most of the stats. If one of the hatchlings has better stats, swap it in.
That’s about it really.
Dark Souls 2 DLC any good?
I’ve seen like… nothing on it and I had no idea it was fully out until recently.
EDIT: and where does it fit into the gameplay progression? Somewhere near the end, accessible at any time? When is it recommended to play? 😛
From memory it’s varying parts throughout the story (I could well be wrong), and I’ve heard generally pretty positive things.
Game play wise I’ve just heard “more Dark Souls”, apparently it adds to the story considerably and it unlocks during game play, but apparently it can be quite challenging if you play it at the points it unlocks
I don’t know, but reviews have been pretty positive. Apparently, it adds some pretty cool lore too! By all accounts the challenge is ramped up a bit, too.
How come no TAYbies have played it? >:P
The cost is what put me off. There’s no bundled price for the 360 version, so I decided to wait for a sale (or a Prepare-To-Die-type edition).
I’m also not all that confident about tackling the content, because my only savegame is halfway through NG++ 😛
I’ve got it!
My home is a display home!
Everything is made to look like someone lives here, rather than actually looking like someone lives here!
I’m going to get at least one person to like pop songs tonight.
Thinking About You – Calvin Harris
Clarity – Zedd ft. Foxes
Can’t Remember to Forget You – Shakira ft. Rihanna
Bad Romance – Lady Gaga
Hung Up – Madonna
Countdown – Beyonce
I’m only ever nice to you Crazyguy :'(
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Try this:
Tony Bennett – One for the Road
Tony Bennet?
Lady Gaga just released an album with him!
Try this!
The Lady is a Tramp – Lady Gaga and Tony Bennet
Okay, I’m done.
If you don’t like any of the above songs then you’re a lost cause on the pop song front.
Hooray!
Woooooo! Lost Cause club!
We should get T-shirts made up.
Leave Freeze Behind Tour 2014?
When Freeze’s Hell Is Over?
@freezespreston
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I’m with isn’t it, and what’s it seems weird and scary to me.
I just get so bored, ya’know?
At least there’s new TAY tomorrow! 😀
Time for bed.
See you all in new TAY.
I’ll see you in old TAY if I want to! >:|
Envius. 😛
So after much grandstanding and bravado, Sony finally released PS4 update 2.00 tonight….which completely fucking broke PSN. Now people all over the world can’t get onto PSN.
I can understand things like this happening with minor version revisions, but on a MAJOR update that is hyped to oblivion, the QA testing should have revealed a fuckup this huge. I’m seriously pissed off right now. Was all lined up to do Destiny’s raid for the first time with five mates tonight and this happens. Fuck you Sony, you incompetent fucks
Hi TAY friends!
I’ll be at PAX on the Friday. What things are a must see…. what should I avoid?
First time at something this big. Only there for the one day.
I’m into PC, card, table and board games.
Are the panels worth waiting around for? Which ones are the good ones?